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Speaker 1: Ed Welcome in. Lake Kick is live. It is Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: November twenty second year over Lord twenty twenty two. A

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Speaker 1: show so jam packed we may have leftovers. Tonight. We

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Speaker 1: are high at Top downtown College Station, Texas. It's bustling outside.

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Speaker 1: We've been in town to do some other things. We

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Speaker 1: call up our buddies at Tech SAgs. We need a studio, Billy,

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Speaker 1: I need a studio, and he said, well I got one.

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Speaker 1: Come on over and so here we are. We appreciate them,

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you being tuned in. We've got so many

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Speaker 1: places to go, so many things to talk about tonight.

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Speaker 1: I know it's Thanksgiving. I know a lot of you

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Speaker 1: are going to be on the road. Not the lake

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Speaker 1: Kick staff. We're grinding all the way through the week,

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Speaker 1: several games to break down. It's rivalry week. We got

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Speaker 1: all sorts of playoff implications those of you who are

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Speaker 1: familiar with the show. No, I won't spend two milliseconds

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Speaker 1: talking about the playoff itself tonight. The rankings were just released.

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Speaker 1: You can find that coverage elsewhere here. We're regular season

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Speaker 1: first and foremost. We're gonna break down all the rivalry games.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you the upset alert meter. Since we

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Speaker 1: won't be here Thursday. Maybe you know, just maybe everyone

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Speaker 1: is right about the playoff. I don't want it expanded.

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Speaker 1: You do want it expanded. Maybe we're all right because

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Speaker 1: we're gonna dive into the mailbag tonight. And there is

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Speaker 1: a suggestion that I want to at least dive into

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Speaker 1: the particulars up. We've got massive pressure in Columbus, Ohio

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Speaker 1: dive a little deeper. So we're gonna do that from

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Speaker 1: a couple of different angles. Muscle shows Alabama tuned in Luffkin, Texas,

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Speaker 1: so much. We just hit one hundred and fifty K

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Speaker 1: on the YouTube channel the other day. And now it's

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Speaker 1: up to you. Our balls are in your court. You

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Speaker 1: got to decide what we're gonna do for a prize.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you a few days. It's no rush.

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Speaker 1: I know you're busy, just like we all are around here,

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Speaker 1: but let's think on that. Is there someone you want

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Speaker 1: us to collab with? Is there a robe change. Look,

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Speaker 1: this is about as far as I go, and only

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Speaker 1: I only forego the white tea when we're on the road,

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Speaker 1: So think about that. In the meantime, the drive to

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Speaker 1: We got to dive into the show. I mean, we

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Speaker 1: got so many different places to go. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: being here. Like the video and subscribe if you haven't already. Okay,

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Speaker 1: here we go Michigan at Ohio State. We will be

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Speaker 1: there at the Horseshoe this Saturday high noon kickoff, Big

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Speaker 1: noon kickoff. I love the noon kickoff. I love Rivalry Week.

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Speaker 1: I love it like I love Oxygen and this one

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Speaker 1: is undefeated versus undefeated for the first time since two

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Speaker 1: thousand and six. I want you guys to appreciate this.

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Speaker 1: All joking aside, I don't know when it's gonna happen

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Speaker 1: if you'll ever get this full disclosure. I think that

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Speaker 1: tell your grandkids one day. There was this time, way

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Speaker 1: way way back in like twenty twenty two and beforehand,

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Speaker 1: Little Johnny, there was no safety net under these games.

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Speaker 1: Oh and by the way, then you had the added

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Speaker 1: layer of history bo versus Woody. You don't even know

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Speaker 1: who that is, Little Johnny's don't worry about that. But

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Speaker 1: That is what would be on display. You're playing for

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Speaker 1: seeding in your expanded playoff format. I'm not here to

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Speaker 1: urgency on this one Saturday. Ohio State has taken nine

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Speaker 1: This thing changed college football last year. There. I am

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Speaker 1: the off season, and the entire offseason, all they did

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Speaker 1: How do you win this thing? Ohio State? What are

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Speaker 1: that's the favorite on the Buckeys, depending on where you

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Speaker 1: may just be that I'm wrong on Michigan, and it

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Speaker 1: They played poorly, they outgained Van Deep significantly, but because

427
00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:05,000
Speaker 1: of various things that happen in a football game, they

428
00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:07,760
Speaker 1: drop the game. Okay, so does that carry over here?

429
00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:11,200
Speaker 1: The Florida players swear no. This week. FSU has lost

430
00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:15,120
Speaker 1: three straight when they're ranked and Florida's not ranked, which

431
00:21:15,119 --> 00:21:17,720
Speaker 1: makes no sense. But that's an actual stat that stats

432
00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:21,200
Speaker 1: an Info brought me today. What decides this game? Wasn't

433
00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:23,119
Speaker 1: that the million dollar question? Isn't that what we're here

434
00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:27,119
Speaker 1: to talk about. Certainly, yards per carry is always a

435
00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:31,000
Speaker 1: hint in a football game, but doubly especially when you

436
00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:33,680
Speaker 1: listen to these kind of numbers like Florida second in

437
00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:36,680
Speaker 1: FBS in yards per carry right now, Well, it would

438
00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:39,040
Speaker 1: stand to reason that could be a padlock stat, right

439
00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:43,119
Speaker 1: bookmark that hold that thought. Also, Trey Benson, Trey Shawn Ward.

440
00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:46,720
Speaker 1: They are one and two in the ACC right now

441
00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:50,040
Speaker 1: in yards per carry themselves, both teams running the ball

442
00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:52,960
Speaker 1: pretty well when they decide to. I don't think there's

443
00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:56,840
Speaker 1: a the padlock stats. I think those are faux padlock stats.

444
00:21:56,840 --> 00:21:59,120
Speaker 1: And you know how rarely I use that word. I'm

445
00:21:59,119 --> 00:22:01,880
Speaker 1: gonna give you the real hadlockstat here, and it's going

446
00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:08,680
Speaker 1: to be defensively third down Florida right now, forty eight

447
00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:12,800
Speaker 1: point three percent conversion rate. They are giving up a

448
00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:15,400
Speaker 1: forty eight point three percent conversion rate you know where.

449
00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:20,080
Speaker 1: That ranks them nationally one hundred and twenty sixth in

450
00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:24,440
Speaker 1: FBS out of one thirty one. So then you wonder

451
00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:27,200
Speaker 1: to yourself, Oh, that doesn't sound good. Is Florida State

452
00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:31,080
Speaker 1: decent on third down? Yeah, there's sixth then FBS offensively

453
00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:33,880
Speaker 1: in third down conversion rate. That's where the games won.

454
00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:36,800
Speaker 1: And that's why as we go into what the model

455
00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:41,200
Speaker 1: thinks on here, the model leans so much heavier towards

456
00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:44,560
Speaker 1: Florida State than Vegas even does. Vegas has Florida State

457
00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:46,720
Speaker 1: minus nine and a half. The model is over two

458
00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:50,280
Speaker 1: touchdowns with Florida State. We got FSU minus fourteen and

459
00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:54,600
Speaker 1: a half. Here's one question that I have. One question

460
00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:58,240
Speaker 1: is does FSU have that might not matter energy? And

461
00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:02,800
Speaker 1: by that I mean Anthony Richardson is the most dynamic

462
00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:06,119
Speaker 1: player in this game. If Anthony Richardson goes off, you

463
00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:08,720
Speaker 1: think to yourself, if you're a Florida fan, Well, if

464
00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:11,480
Speaker 1: he goes off, we win the game. Right. They're playing

465
00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:13,760
Speaker 1: a pretty good team this Saturday, and they're playing the

466
00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:18,080
Speaker 1: kind of team potentially where Richardson can go off and

467
00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:20,800
Speaker 1: they still lose. And I don't think Florida fans are

468
00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:23,359
Speaker 1: used to thinking that that's called might not matter energy.

469
00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:25,840
Speaker 1: I think Florida State's got that right now, and so

470
00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:28,320
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take him to win. I'm gonna take him

471
00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:31,600
Speaker 1: to cover. And how about this little Roman Noudle Express action.

472
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Speaker 1: Florida State minus nine and a half is a Roman

473
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Speaker 1: Noudle Express, best bet tack it on. I'm not gonna

474
00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:39,440
Speaker 1: give you many picks tonight because we're gonna do Friday

475
00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:43,320
Speaker 1: night lines from Columbus, but I'm tacking it on. FSU wins,

476
00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:45,479
Speaker 1: FSU covers. Think it's gonna be a double digit win

477
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Speaker 1: for the Knowles, and I'm sure the comment section will

478
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Speaker 1: let me know if if something otherwise happens. Let's move on.

479
00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:56,479
Speaker 1: Rivalry Week is so beautiful. There's the Romanuel Express there.

480
00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:58,399
Speaker 1: We'll get to that a lot later. I should not

481
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Speaker 1: have even mentioned it, because then that suggested that I

482
00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:04,760
Speaker 1: wanted it thrown up and I really didn't, So I'm

483
00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:07,120
Speaker 1: sorry about that. That's on me. I'll take that one

484
00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:11,640
Speaker 1: strike one here, Okay, let's continue this one. I'll be honest.

485
00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:12,840
Speaker 1: I didn't think we were going to be breaking this

486
00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:16,240
Speaker 1: one down last week, but we are now. South Carolina

487
00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:18,880
Speaker 1: at Clemson. What's the line on this thing? Oh? About

488
00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:21,480
Speaker 1: fourteen and a half. Tiger's favored by about fourteen and

489
00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:23,880
Speaker 1: a half. It's a noon kickoff, so you guys don't

490
00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:27,200
Speaker 1: have to wait too awful long Saturday morning, eleven am.

491
00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:30,160
Speaker 1: If you live in God's time zone. It's an ABC game.

492
00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:33,040
Speaker 1: Let's be very clear. I want to be crystal clear

493
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Speaker 1: on this. Everything's on the table. Like I had a

494
00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:38,439
Speaker 1: bunch of game cog fans sheepishly coming at me in

495
00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:41,600
Speaker 1: the DMS. Hey, Josh, don't tell anyone I asked this.

496
00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:45,840
Speaker 1: Can South Carolina win? Yeah? They can win. Did you

497
00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:48,639
Speaker 1: watch the Tennessee GameLine? Yeah they can win. Did you

498
00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:51,520
Speaker 1: watch Clemson a Notre Dame? Yeah they can win. Now,

499
00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:54,000
Speaker 1: how do they win? Do I expect them to win?

500
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Speaker 1: Am I betting them to win? South Carolina has not

501
00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:00,840
Speaker 1: won at Clemson since twenty twelve. A guy by the

502
00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:03,160
Speaker 1: name of Steve Spurrier was still the head coach there.

503
00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:05,120
Speaker 1: The Aggies of A and M were just coming into

504
00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:08,600
Speaker 1: the SEC. So, yeah, it's been a while, but South Carolina,

505
00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:11,200
Speaker 1: i would argue, has rarely been in a better position

506
00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:15,439
Speaker 1: to pull this thing off since then. South Carolina's offense

507
00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:17,000
Speaker 1: just utterly exploded.

508
00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:17,320
Speaker 2: There.

509
00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:19,520
Speaker 1: There's no rhyme or reason, there's no explanation for it.

510
00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:22,880
Speaker 1: They just exploded against Tennessee last week. Now, what we

511
00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:25,280
Speaker 1: have to try and figure out, and it's an unenviable

512
00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:27,199
Speaker 1: position to be in. What we have to try and

513
00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:29,760
Speaker 1: figure out is is that a one time deal. Did

514
00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:34,200
Speaker 1: Tennessee just drop the ball that fantastically defensively or did

515
00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:37,399
Speaker 1: South Carolina figure something out? Because certainly, like if you

516
00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:39,760
Speaker 1: go back and you look at breakdowns and you watch

517
00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:44,040
Speaker 1: South Carolina, they did things differently. It wasn't even October either,

518
00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:48,160
Speaker 1: We're well into November, so stands to reason we pretty

519
00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:50,119
Speaker 1: much knew what they were and then they broke that

520
00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:53,280
Speaker 1: out on us last week. And I'm not gonna play

521
00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:55,840
Speaker 1: the sound right now. I'm gonna reference something we're gonna

522
00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:58,760
Speaker 1: play later in the show. Dabo got asked about it

523
00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:00,960
Speaker 1: earlier this week. He answer interesting things to say, so,

524
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:02,880
Speaker 1: we'll get to that later. But I think a lot

525
00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:05,800
Speaker 1: of folks look at it and say, wow, that was

526
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:09,120
Speaker 1: an explosion. Okay, but they'll come back to earth this week. Right. Look,

527
00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:13,919
Speaker 1: here's the difference. Tennessee's defensive line versus Clemson's defensive line

528
00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:16,520
Speaker 1: is night and day. So I'm not saying that they

529
00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:18,639
Speaker 1: get stoned this week or anything like that. I'm just

530
00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:21,560
Speaker 1: saying it is a different chore to try and move

531
00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:24,480
Speaker 1: your way up and down the field against Clemson's defensive front.

532
00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:28,199
Speaker 1: I understand the Notre Dame game happened. You've got to

533
00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:30,800
Speaker 1: grant me every other game's happened. Then, Okay. If I'm

534
00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:33,880
Speaker 1: gonna acknowledge the one exception, you got to acknowledge the rule.

535
00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:37,359
Speaker 1: That's why yards after catch for South Carolina is gonna

536
00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:39,600
Speaker 1: be ultra important because there is not a world, at

537
00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:43,200
Speaker 1: least in my mind, this Saturday, where we watch Spencer

538
00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:45,639
Speaker 1: Rattler with a bunch of time to work in the pocket.

539
00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:48,480
Speaker 1: He is not a mobile guy. That's what hurts Clemson

540
00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:50,200
Speaker 1: more often than not. He is not a mobile guy.

541
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Speaker 1: So you're gonna have to buy him time in the

542
00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:54,879
Speaker 1: pocket if you want a bunch of those long, developing

543
00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:57,800
Speaker 1: pass routes to open up I don't think that's in

544
00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:02,760
Speaker 1: the cards. Yards after catch short stuff, underneath stuff, perimeter stuff.

545
00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:04,320
Speaker 1: That's what you gotta do, and then you got to

546
00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:07,200
Speaker 1: make your hay afterwards. That's how they got to wrack

547
00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:09,560
Speaker 1: that up. If they're gonna wrack that up, the best

548
00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:14,400
Speaker 1: bet here is getting enough wins one on one from

549
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:17,120
Speaker 1: your corners. If you think about what South Carolina has

550
00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:18,560
Speaker 1: to do, and this is how we do a lot

551
00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:20,679
Speaker 1: of these breakdowns on games where there's a big spread,

552
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:24,439
Speaker 1: how could the upset happen? You know, their best bet

553
00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:27,760
Speaker 1: is being able to single up on the outside and

554
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:30,359
Speaker 1: just looking at dj Uyangila Lay and saying, if you

555
00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 1: beat us, hass you beat us. But you're not doing

556
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:35,520
Speaker 1: it with your legs. You're not gonna just run around.

557
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:38,520
Speaker 1: You're not gonna fall forward and convert third downs. You're

558
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:41,440
Speaker 1: gonna throw the ball to beat us. And if you do,

559
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:44,040
Speaker 1: you're a heck of an athlete. We'll tip our cap

560
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:47,120
Speaker 1: to you. And at your best shot here, can you

561
00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:50,440
Speaker 1: trust your guys in one on ones? Now, over the

562
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 1: last few years, you'd say absolutely no. This Clemson receiver

563
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:56,400
Speaker 1: room is not what it's been in the last several years.

564
00:27:56,440 --> 00:28:00,240
Speaker 1: So it's a tall task. It's not insurmountable, though. If

565
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:03,840
Speaker 1: DJ's aren't beat you though, yeah that's okay, Okay, you're

566
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 1: a two touchdown dog for a reason, but make that

567
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:09,200
Speaker 1: be the way you get beat. It's an early kick.

568
00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:13,480
Speaker 1: It's at Clemson. Look, I know everyone understands what at

569
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:16,000
Speaker 1: means on the bottom of the screen. It's a big deal.

570
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:17,880
Speaker 1: It's a huge deal to go from playing at Knight

571
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:20,880
Speaker 1: and Williams Brice to plan on the road early kick here.

572
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:25,000
Speaker 1: Controlling that state is huge as a selling point for

573
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:28,239
Speaker 1: Dabo Swinny. Trust me on that. And so as we

574
00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:30,400
Speaker 1: look at what the model thinks here, and we look

575
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:33,000
Speaker 1: at what Vegas says, Vegas Clemson minus fourteen and a half.

576
00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:37,560
Speaker 1: Model thinks Clems is gonna roll Saturday. Look, I kind

577
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:39,800
Speaker 1: of calibrated a little bit to bring the number down

578
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:42,520
Speaker 1: to a more reasonable figure that is suitable for air.

579
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 1: It's still got Clemson minus seventeen and a half. So

580
00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:49,600
Speaker 1: it's still a solid three points apart from what the

581
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:53,960
Speaker 1: Vegas number is. I'm gonna trust it, you know, and look,

582
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:57,040
Speaker 1: Shane Biember, certainly it proved me so wrong last week.

583
00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,880
Speaker 1: We didn't even break the Tennessee game down. That's how

584
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:02,000
Speaker 1: thoroughly that we thought Tennessee was gonna go in there

585
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,880
Speaker 1: and win, so they could do it again. But they're

586
00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:07,440
Speaker 1: gonna have to do it again because I'm gonna roll

587
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:11,080
Speaker 1: with Clemson. I think it is a great, big feather

588
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:13,080
Speaker 1: in the cap of what some people are calling a

589
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:15,960
Speaker 1: down year for them to win this game. They're still

590
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:19,440
Speaker 1: in the playoff conversation. Guys, there's nothing lost at Clemson

591
00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:21,320
Speaker 1: right now, like they still got a bunch to play for.

592
00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:23,240
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna take them to when and I will

593
00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:26,800
Speaker 1: take Clemson to cover and let's just see how that

594
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 1: game starts out. Let's see through that feeling out process

595
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:33,160
Speaker 1: early on. I'm glad that game's happening when it is. Okay,

596
00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:35,440
Speaker 1: several more games here. I'm not gonna do the individual

597
00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:37,800
Speaker 1: breakdowns on all of them, but what we would normally

598
00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:41,920
Speaker 1: do on Thursday, I'm gonna do right now. Upset alert time,

599
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:44,160
Speaker 1: we got to break this down, and I'm gonna start

600
00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:46,720
Speaker 1: right here actually in College Station LSU at Texas A

601
00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 1: and m LSU's perfect in road games this year, at

602
00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 1: least true road games. They lost to Florida State in

603
00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:54,240
Speaker 1: New Orleans, and we are not classifying that as a

604
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:57,760
Speaker 1: true road game. A and M, I feel like has

605
00:29:57,800 --> 00:29:59,960
Speaker 1: been building to this thing for a little while, this game,

606
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:02,240
Speaker 1: because they've known they're out of contention for a while now,

607
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:04,640
Speaker 1: they're not even in bowl contention, but they've built to

608
00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:07,440
Speaker 1: this one. And here's what's interesting. I was talking to

609
00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:10,560
Speaker 1: Billy Luci about this earlier today. There's this perception that

610
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:13,560
Speaker 1: this freshman class for AMM has been a disaster. It hasn't.

611
00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:16,520
Speaker 1: The season has. The freshman class has, And in fact,

612
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:18,960
Speaker 1: every bit of juice that's being squeezed out of this

613
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,400
Speaker 1: team right now is largely because of that true freshman class.

614
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:24,720
Speaker 1: So how sweet would it be for that freshman class

615
00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:26,400
Speaker 1: still got a ton to play for because they have

616
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:29,120
Speaker 1: multiple years in front of them to play for. How

617
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:30,880
Speaker 1: sweet would it be for them if they could build

618
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:33,440
Speaker 1: to this kind of super bowl this is their bowl game,

619
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:36,040
Speaker 1: like this is A and M's bowl game, and end

620
00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:39,320
Speaker 1: up tripping up LSU, who has not exactly been flawless

621
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:42,600
Speaker 1: and blowing teams out on the road. LSU allowing red

622
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:48,200
Speaker 1: zone touchdowns thirty nine percent of the opponent's trips. Did

623
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Speaker 1: you know that LSU defensively giving up a touchdown thirty

624
00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:54,200
Speaker 1: nine percent of the time you go into the red

625
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:57,960
Speaker 1: zone against them. That's number two in FBS. That's why

626
00:30:58,000 --> 00:30:59,840
Speaker 1: I have a hard time seeing AMM win the game.

627
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,160
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put a six on this for the upset

628
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:05,480
Speaker 1: Alert Meter. But man, you could sell me on Connor

629
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:07,840
Speaker 1: Wigman in this offense working their way down the field

630
00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:09,520
Speaker 1: getting in the red zone. You gotta get in the

631
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 1: end zone. They don't give you points for getting inside

632
00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:12,880
Speaker 1: the twenty. You gotta get in the end zone. And

633
00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:18,000
Speaker 1: LSU has been fantastic at preventing better offenses from doing that.

634
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 1: I got a hard time. I could see threes Saturday.

635
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:23,040
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm gonna see enough sevens from

636
00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:25,760
Speaker 1: A and M. Still, though, still tough place to play.

637
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:28,680
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put a six on it. That can't take

638
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:31,040
Speaker 1: anything for granted. With LSU, they're too new to the party.

639
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 1: The money still smells too fresh. I cannot take it

640
00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:35,240
Speaker 1: for granted. I'm putting a six on it. How about

641
00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:37,520
Speaker 1: Oregon at Oregon State, This one's a seven on the

642
00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 1: upset Alert meter for me. Two head coaches in the

643
00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:43,600
Speaker 1: history of Oregon football have won ten plus games their

644
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:45,800
Speaker 1: first year. One of them was Chip Kelly, the other

645
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:48,560
Speaker 1: was Mark Helfrich, and that's about as good as it

646
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:51,400
Speaker 1: got for Helfridge. There. Dan Landing could be the third.

647
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:54,560
Speaker 1: They're a sitting at nine wins right now. They've got

648
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 1: a Pac twelve championship trip on the line. Here's what's

649
00:31:57,680 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 1: on the line here. By the way, Oregon either needs

650
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:02,640
Speaker 1: to win this game or have Washington lose to go

651
00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 1: to the Pac twelve Championship game. Dammian Martinez is his name.

652
00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:08,200
Speaker 1: If you're a hardcore college football fan, you probably know

653
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:11,880
Speaker 1: he's a running back for Oregon State one hundred plus

654
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:15,600
Speaker 1: yards his last five games. Oregon State is to me,

655
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:20,240
Speaker 1: the quietest, most anonymous, pretty good team in America. Plenty

656
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:23,640
Speaker 1: good enough, especially given the string of games that Oregon's

657
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 1: in the middle of right now. They had the UCLA

658
00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:28,200
Speaker 1: game a little while ago, but think about the stretch

659
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:31,080
Speaker 1: of games that they've gone through recently, and they had

660
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:33,760
Speaker 1: the loss against Washington. I thought the gut check of

661
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,920
Speaker 1: the year for them was last week when they beat Utah.

662
00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 1: They're not totally healthy yet. Just because they won last

663
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:41,400
Speaker 1: week that make them healthy. Now they got to go

664
00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:44,200
Speaker 1: on the road, and this is true super Bowl mode

665
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 1: for Oregon State. Meanwhile, there's a bunch left down the

666
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:49,560
Speaker 1: road to play for for Oregon. I think it's a

667
00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:52,280
Speaker 1: dangerous spot. It's another example of the kind of game

668
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:55,880
Speaker 1: and the kind of landmine weekend that the PAC twelve's

669
00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:58,160
Speaker 1: been offering up all year. Then you add on the

670
00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:01,280
Speaker 1: rivalry aspect, I think it's a set. I probably should

671
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:03,000
Speaker 1: put it at an eight, And since there's no rule

672
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:04,480
Speaker 1: against it, there you go. I'm going to put it

673
00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:08,479
Speaker 1: at an eight for Oregon. Be very careful, gentlemen, very careful.

674
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:11,480
Speaker 1: What about Auburn Bama. I cannot believe we live in

675
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:14,400
Speaker 1: a world where we're not even doing an individual game

676
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 1: breakdown for the Iron Bowl because it's only a three

677
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:20,560
Speaker 1: on the upset alert scale. Let's say the best were

678
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 1: to happen, and let's say defensively, Auburn's just got Bama

679
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:27,320
Speaker 1: figured out. I mean, are you really scoring on them?

680
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:30,520
Speaker 1: You've got to score twenty four? I would think minimum

681
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:34,400
Speaker 1: to beat Alabama? Minimum? Are you doing that? I'm not

682
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:38,080
Speaker 1: talking about kickoff returns, punt returns, special team defensive scores.

683
00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:40,200
Speaker 1: I can't predict that. You can't predict that are you

684
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 1: scoring twenty four offensive points? If you can predict that,

685
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:46,200
Speaker 1: come talk to me. We'll have a separate conversation. But

686
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:50,440
Speaker 1: Bama's final ride with Bryce Young probably is this Saturday.

687
00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 1: I don't think he's playing in the bowl game. I

688
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:53,520
Speaker 1: don't think Will Anderson is going to play in the

689
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:56,560
Speaker 1: bowl game. This is it. I don't think a lot

690
00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:58,000
Speaker 1: of people have had that dawn on them yet. This

691
00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 1: is it for that group of kids, and so I

692
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 1: don't think Auburt cound score enough. I don't think there's

693
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:05,680
Speaker 1: a lot of sense in it's spending a ton of

694
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:08,479
Speaker 1: time on it. I'm gonna put a three on it, because, well,

695
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:11,880
Speaker 1: I guess anything can happen, and we have seen teams

696
00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:14,080
Speaker 1: hold Baman. We've seen it be one possession at the

697
00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:16,359
Speaker 1: very end. So I'm not telling you that I think

698
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:18,919
Speaker 1: Bama's gonna pull away early. I just think eventually they will.

699
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:21,400
Speaker 1: I mean, the line on that thing is over three touchdowns.

700
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:24,240
Speaker 1: That's been the case multiple times this year, and Bama's

701
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:26,600
Speaker 1: still played close. I think you'll get a pretty good

702
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:28,520
Speaker 1: game from them. So I'm gonna put a three on it.

703
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 1: I think much more intrigue is on who the head

704
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 1: coach is at Auburn by the time that the weekend

705
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:37,040
Speaker 1: wraps up. What about TCU? TCU, who do they play?

706
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:38,719
Speaker 1: Who is out there? Who do they play? They play

707
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:41,759
Speaker 1: Iowa State And no, we at Iowa State have not

708
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:44,200
Speaker 1: had a good year, but we would love nothing more

709
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:48,360
Speaker 1: than to spoil the old Hornfrog party there in Fort Worth.

710
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:51,840
Speaker 1: This is a six for me because any team that

711
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:55,000
Speaker 1: can make games ugly has a shot, and Iowa State

712
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,279
Speaker 1: can make games ugly. Now I could offer you the

713
00:34:57,280 --> 00:34:59,480
Speaker 1: exact same question I just asked about Auburn. How are

714
00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:01,520
Speaker 1: you gonna score? Look, that's a bridge that you just

715
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:04,360
Speaker 1: cross when you come to it if you're TCU or

716
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:08,240
Speaker 1: if you're Iowa State rather but TCU limited Texas, Okay,

717
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 1: so we know easily they can limit Iowa State. So

718
00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 1: Iowa State's gonna have to have some of that magic.

719
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:17,239
Speaker 1: Iowa State's gonna have to have one of those games where, yeah,

720
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:19,560
Speaker 1: you outgained this by two hundred and thirty, but look,

721
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:21,880
Speaker 1: we're still tied in the fourth quarter. How does that happen?

722
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:24,240
Speaker 1: The ball is shaped weirdly, That's how that would happen.

723
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:28,160
Speaker 1: Non offensive points. It's sort of a tweener game. That's

724
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:30,720
Speaker 1: what has to happen here for Iowa State. I don't

725
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:33,120
Speaker 1: think it will, but I'm gonna put a six on

726
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:37,279
Speaker 1: this anyway because TCU, likewise, they're out in the deep end.

727
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:40,839
Speaker 1: You learn how long a football season is when you

728
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 1: get in the playoff mix for the first time and

729
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:47,200
Speaker 1: you find out, hey, November is actually like seventeen weeks.

730
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:51,480
Speaker 1: Like think about how long November is for TCU. Oregon

731
00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:53,239
Speaker 1: probably feels the same way. So you've been out there

732
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:55,240
Speaker 1: for a while now, and you're taking everyone's best shot.

733
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:58,359
Speaker 1: You can't look past anyone. Matt Campbell's still a heck

734
00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:00,600
Speaker 1: of a coach. Don't forget that, just because they've been

735
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:02,319
Speaker 1: down this year. So I'm putting a six on that

736
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:06,239
Speaker 1: last game I have no clue about. I think it's

737
00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:10,560
Speaker 1: an eight at least, and that's Tennessee at Vandy. I

738
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:13,120
Speaker 1: think Vegas looked at this and said, Okay, well, we're

739
00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 1: not gonna make Tennessee under a two touchdown favorite. But honestly,

740
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:19,759
Speaker 1: what do we do here? And I'm asking you the

741
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:22,880
Speaker 1: same thing, what do we do here? It's the toughest

742
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:26,399
Speaker 1: game to me to gauge because I don't know that

743
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:30,080
Speaker 1: Tennessee may not be completely and utterly gutted from last week.

744
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:33,680
Speaker 1: I mean, they go on the road, they get smashed.

745
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:38,120
Speaker 1: They got splattered by South Carolina and lost Hendon Hooker

746
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:41,520
Speaker 1: for the year. So all of your goals national title

747
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:44,480
Speaker 1: by way of the playoff, it's all out the window.

748
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:47,120
Speaker 1: Not long after you lost the ability to play for

749
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:50,920
Speaker 1: the SEC championship, and that would be That would be

750
00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:55,799
Speaker 1: bad enough. You're playing Vandy, which is so hot right

751
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:57,920
Speaker 1: now you have to put gloves on to touch the

752
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:02,439
Speaker 1: logo like Doorvember has been Doorvember for a reason. They've

753
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:05,600
Speaker 1: beaten Kentucky, they just beat Florida last week. I don't

754
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:08,560
Speaker 1: know what it means to have to go into Vanderbilt's building,

755
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:10,400
Speaker 1: but you do. At least they don't have to go

756
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:15,279
Speaker 1: into Kneelan. There may be internal issues at Tennessee if

757
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:17,759
Speaker 1: you read message boards, which obviously I don't, but I

758
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:20,160
Speaker 1: know a lot of you trafficking that this is an eight.

759
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:23,200
Speaker 1: Like I wouldn't be surprised by Tennessee winning by thirty.

760
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:25,720
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised by Bandy pulling the outright upset

761
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:29,600
Speaker 1: And how terrible would that be as an ending to

762
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:32,440
Speaker 1: the season for Tennessee after all that hope and promise

763
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:36,279
Speaker 1: to have an end so cruelly. But that's football, man,

764
00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:38,440
Speaker 1: that's the way the sport works. So I'm putting an

765
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:41,359
Speaker 1: eight on that. And that's a night game, so I'll

766
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:43,960
Speaker 1: be on the way home on a plane somewhere over

767
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:48,240
Speaker 1: or probably over Tennessee, watching that game. It's anyone's game, man, fourteen,

768
00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:51,839
Speaker 1: I get the number. It's anyone's game. All right, let's

769
00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:53,560
Speaker 1: dive into the mailbag. We got a little time here.

770
00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:57,640
Speaker 1: Let's dive into the mailbag. There are there are so

771
00:37:57,840 --> 00:38:01,319
Speaker 1: many things happening right now this week, you know this

772
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:06,120
Speaker 1: rivalry week and how it overlaps with coaching search season,

773
00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:08,680
Speaker 1: and also it just so happens the transfer portal is

774
00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:10,719
Speaker 1: going to open up big time on us. There is

775
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:13,799
Speaker 1: a lot to be discussed. So here's what I want

776
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:16,400
Speaker 1: to do. First thing I want to do is I

777
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:20,239
Speaker 1: want to make an executive decision to ban someone in

778
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:22,319
Speaker 1: the live chat. I don't know why you guys make

779
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 1: me do it. I don't want to be the heel,

780
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:26,759
Speaker 1: but I'll be the heel. Let's dive into the mailbag.

781
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:30,759
Speaker 1: We had a question about Lane Kiffen and one of

782
00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 1: you wanted to know if I happened to be on

783
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:35,959
Speaker 1: the old intro Net last night and did I see

784
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:40,399
Speaker 1: what Lane Kiffin did with this TV reporter John Sokolov. Well,

785
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:42,200
Speaker 1: of course I did what I don't have a life.

786
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:44,840
Speaker 1: What else would I be doing other than perusing Twitter?

787
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:47,080
Speaker 1: So Dan asked, what do you make of Lane kiffen

788
00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:50,200
Speaker 1: versus local TV reporters two days before the Egg Bowl

789
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:53,480
Speaker 1: from Florence, Alabama. Well, Dan, I'm glad you asked. And

790
00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:55,360
Speaker 1: for those of you unfamiliar, I know some of you

791
00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 1: are out there living your life. You may be on

792
00:38:57,160 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 1: the road for Thanksgiving and whatnot. Let me show you

793
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 1: what happened. So John Sokolov is a television anchor in

794
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:09,360
Speaker 1: the state of Mississippi, and he put the following tweet

795
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:12,320
Speaker 1: up last night, breaking Ole miss head coach Lane Kiffin

796
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:15,319
Speaker 1: plans to step down as Rebels coach Friday and head

797
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:17,680
Speaker 1: to Auburn to become the Tiger's next head coach, according

798
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:20,200
Speaker 1: to sources. Sources say the Tigers have not offered the

799
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:24,440
Speaker 1: job to anyone else, so Lane to Auburn is happening

800
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:29,200
Speaker 1: story soon. Lane Kiffin does not go ten minutes of

801
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:32,080
Speaker 1: his life without making sure he is checking that app

802
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:35,600
Speaker 1: and so he saw this, and lane Kiffin responded, that's

803
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:39,760
Speaker 1: news to me, John nice sources and then he put

804
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:43,399
Speaker 1: he put a flurry of emojis that would make your

805
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:47,080
Speaker 1: head spin. I take this to mean don't allow your

806
00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:50,719
Speaker 1: enemies at the table. And then Lane kiffen went a

807
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:54,600
Speaker 1: step further. This is really where the brilliance flies into

808
00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:58,200
Speaker 1: the equation. Lane Kiffin just basically takes John Sakolov's own

809
00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:01,919
Speaker 1: words and then refact them into a tweet of his own,

810
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:05,400
Speaker 1: wherein Lane Kiffin reported that Soakalov is heading to a

811
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:09,319
Speaker 1: competitor station and the station hasn't offered their anchor job

812
00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:12,400
Speaker 1: to anyone else. So John Sakolov too, the other station

813
00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:16,399
Speaker 1: is happening story soon. And that's really where this kind

814
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:18,200
Speaker 1: of went sideways and went into the ditch. And I

815
00:40:18,239 --> 00:40:20,120
Speaker 1: stopped checking for updates after that, so I don't know

816
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:24,320
Speaker 1: what happened after that. Uh yeah, there is a line

817
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:26,800
Speaker 1: of thought out there with all these rumors, a speculation

818
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:29,000
Speaker 1: about Lane Kiffin to Auburn, I heard a line of

819
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:31,040
Speaker 1: thought last night. Maybe you heard it too. It goes

820
00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:36,080
Speaker 1: a little something like this, Well, Lane would not say

821
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:37,960
Speaker 1: that if he was going to Auburn. Let me tell

822
00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 1: you something about Lane Kiffin. Yeah, he would because he

823
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:44,320
Speaker 1: doesn't care. So there may be some other folks out there,

824
00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:48,320
Speaker 1: you know, a normal minded person, a person who cares

825
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:51,000
Speaker 1: about what other folks think of him, would look at

826
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,200
Speaker 1: that and say, Oh, this guy's got me now he

827
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:56,160
Speaker 1: figured it out. I'm going to Auburn. I can't shoot

828
00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:58,239
Speaker 1: it down because they'll just throw those words back in

829
00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:02,879
Speaker 1: my face. No, well, this is Nick Saban. I guess

830
00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:04,760
Speaker 1: I gotta say it. I'm not gonna be the Alabama

831
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:08,000
Speaker 1: head coach. Don't care what happens in the future, because

832
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:10,319
Speaker 1: nothing that other folks say about you can really hurt

833
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:12,440
Speaker 1: you if you don't let it. The whole sticks and

834
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 1: Stones think Lane Kiffen takes it to a whole nother extreme.

835
00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:18,000
Speaker 1: He turns the volume up to eleven on that philosophy.

836
00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:21,160
Speaker 1: This dude is probably gonna be the next Auburn head coach.

837
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:23,920
Speaker 1: But that didn't stop him from having some fun last night,

838
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:26,080
Speaker 1: did it. Now. Look, there's a lot going on here.

839
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:29,719
Speaker 1: It is a widely held consensus at the moment that

840
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:31,800
Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin's going to be the next head coach at Auburn.

841
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:35,480
Speaker 1: I don't have reason to tell you that's false. I

842
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:38,439
Speaker 1: don't have reason to tell you that's decided. It may

843
00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:41,000
Speaker 1: be just because I can't tell you it doesn't mean anything.

844
00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:45,040
Speaker 1: What I will tell you, though, is if Lane Kiffen

845
00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:48,560
Speaker 1: to Auburn is decided, it has not stopped some other

846
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:52,239
Speaker 1: names from still inquiring about that job. It has not

847
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:56,440
Speaker 1: stopped Auburn from still being in conversation with other names

848
00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:59,279
Speaker 1: about that job. Now Here is the rock and the

849
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:02,440
Speaker 1: hard place that I'm between. I can't give you the names.

850
00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:06,200
Speaker 1: And that's not fun, because that is a troll tactic.

851
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:09,400
Speaker 1: And I'm well aware that there are a number of

852
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:12,160
Speaker 1: our audience. Actually those kinds of folks don't watch this show,

853
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:15,239
Speaker 1: but there are a number out there who take to

854
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 1: trying to make themselves famous this time of year by

855
00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:21,080
Speaker 1: just floating names. Well, I'm actually not floating the names.

856
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 1: I'm doing even worse than the trolls. I'm telling you, Hey,

857
00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:26,040
Speaker 1: there are a couple of mystery candidates, pretty big named

858
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:29,360
Speaker 1: mystery candidates that have some serious interest in this job.

859
00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:32,160
Speaker 1: I don't know if they'll be offered. I don't know that.

860
00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:35,160
Speaker 1: I also can't give you their names right now? How

861
00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:37,400
Speaker 1: about does that suck? Yeah, So that's where we are

862
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:39,600
Speaker 1: right now. But I will tell you this as I

863
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:41,719
Speaker 1: will reiterate because I told you for the first time

864
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:44,600
Speaker 1: last week. There is a lot of talk in the

865
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:47,799
Speaker 1: coaching world about the old Miss job. See, because the

866
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:51,719
Speaker 1: old Miss job is being viewed as open, the old

867
00:42:51,719 --> 00:42:54,240
Speaker 1: Miss job is being viewed as soon to be vacated.

868
00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:57,600
Speaker 1: In other words, the John Sokoloff protocol is an effect.

869
00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:00,480
Speaker 1: I hope I'm saying his name right, And so there's

870
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:02,200
Speaker 1: a lot of talk. While everyone else is focused on

871
00:43:02,239 --> 00:43:04,920
Speaker 1: Kiffin and Auburn, there's an assumption he's going to Auburn,

872
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:06,320
Speaker 1: and so a lot of other folks are trying to

873
00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:08,480
Speaker 1: figure out, Okay, who's going to take the old miss job,

874
00:43:08,719 --> 00:43:10,560
Speaker 1: who's going to be in contention for that job? And

875
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:13,680
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, hopefully I'll have the freedom to talk

876
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:16,719
Speaker 1: about it more Sunday. But there is a lot of

877
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:20,480
Speaker 1: chatter about some names that you probably don't think would

878
00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:22,160
Speaker 1: be on the move, and some names that you think

879
00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:25,279
Speaker 1: are pretty fixed in their current location. I'm talking about

880
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:27,880
Speaker 1: good names. I'm talking about coaches I like, and so

881
00:43:28,239 --> 00:43:32,279
Speaker 1: selfishly I'm kind of rooting for it, but I'm going

882
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:34,279
Speaker 1: to be responsible and keep my mouth shut right now,

883
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:37,799
Speaker 1: I'm just saying it's probably decided. But before before we go,

884
00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:40,799
Speaker 1: before we go off of this topic, let me remind you,

885
00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:44,680
Speaker 1: as me Mai used to say, Gosh, there are only

886
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:48,439
Speaker 1: three reasons why rumors are allowed to persist this time

887
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:51,880
Speaker 1: of year. The first possibility is they're just true. The

888
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:55,479
Speaker 1: second possibility is they're being used as a convenient smoke

889
00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:58,240
Speaker 1: screen so the real work can happen behind the scenes.

890
00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:02,360
Speaker 1: The third reason is they're being used as leverage against

891
00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:05,400
Speaker 1: someone's current employer. And that's what Mema told me, and

892
00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:07,319
Speaker 1: it was just as true then as it is now.

893
00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:10,359
Speaker 1: One of those three things is true, people, and we're

894
00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:14,480
Speaker 1: gonna figure it out sooner rather than later. Next question, Oh,

895
00:44:14,719 --> 00:44:16,560
Speaker 1: it's been a while since we went down this role

896
00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:21,440
Speaker 1: a good old SEC versus Big ten debate or is it?

897
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:25,520
Speaker 1: Because I don't think this is very debatable, So let

898
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:28,399
Speaker 1: me show you the question. First, I was perusing through

899
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:30,560
Speaker 1: the mailbag seeing which ones that we wanted to answer,

900
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:35,120
Speaker 1: and I got this one. So Jase hits us up

901
00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:37,640
Speaker 1: from Gainesville, Georgia, home of the Red Elephants by the way.

902
00:44:38,160 --> 00:44:41,720
Speaker 1: Is it possible that you and the expansionists are both

903
00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:44,719
Speaker 1: right in a way. Maybe the old model was better

904
00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:47,840
Speaker 1: the BCS model, But since the college football playoff diluted

905
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:50,920
Speaker 1: the best parts of our game, expansion could be the

906
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:57,000
Speaker 1: only way to save it moving forward. I sat there

907
00:44:57,000 --> 00:44:59,680
Speaker 1: today and I thought about this, and I thought about this,

908
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:04,319
Speaker 1: and I thought about this. He's right, like Jas's right,

909
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 1: And I don't want to admit that because what it

910
00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:11,080
Speaker 1: does is it puts us in a situation where we

911
00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:13,920
Speaker 1: have to acknowledge there are certain parts of the sport

912
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:15,560
Speaker 1: that you and I grew up on, maybe that we

913
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:19,640
Speaker 1: just can't get back. The romanticism, for example, of bowl season.

914
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:22,800
Speaker 1: You ever getting that back? Given the current state of affairs,

915
00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:24,680
Speaker 1: Are you ever getting that back? I don't know that

916
00:45:24,719 --> 00:45:27,040
Speaker 1: you are. So what Jace is saying, to be clear,

917
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:31,040
Speaker 1: is folks like me hate college football playoff expansion because

918
00:45:31,040 --> 00:45:32,680
Speaker 1: I don't care about the playoff nearly as much as

919
00:45:32,719 --> 00:45:34,879
Speaker 1: I do the regular season. And I don't care how

920
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:36,840
Speaker 1: many teams or how many folks rather look you in

921
00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:38,680
Speaker 1: the eye and say it's just gonna make the regular

922
00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:41,680
Speaker 1: season better. They're lying to you, it won't. You'll have

923
00:45:41,719 --> 00:45:44,920
Speaker 1: to learn that lesson the hard way anyway, Jace is saying, Look,

924
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:48,080
Speaker 1: even though you feel that way, if we could hit

925
00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:50,640
Speaker 1: a rewind button and go back in time and just

926
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:53,400
Speaker 1: fix the sport a different way, maybe you could maintain

927
00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:55,480
Speaker 1: all that. But you've got to acknowledge this is Jase

928
00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:57,600
Speaker 1: talking to me through me right now. You've got to

929
00:45:57,600 --> 00:46:02,360
Speaker 1: acknowledge the playoff did have We went to four teams

930
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:07,360
Speaker 1: meaningless bowl of games became a phrase that's popular, Opting

931
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:11,160
Speaker 1: out became a practice that's popular. You can't do anything

932
00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:13,640
Speaker 1: about that now. So what Jase is saying is, maybe

933
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:15,600
Speaker 1: you're right that the old model was better, But since

934
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:17,480
Speaker 1: we can't go back to the old model, could it

935
00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:19,799
Speaker 1: be true that the only way to solve this is

936
00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:23,280
Speaker 1: to expand the playoff? And there goes the pen drop,

937
00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:27,680
Speaker 1: Because I think that may kind of be true, like

938
00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 1: in light of us being able to go backwards, or

939
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:32,960
Speaker 1: in light of us adopting a bowl structure wherein there

940
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:37,200
Speaker 1: is a massive revenue sharing model that incentivizes players to

941
00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:41,439
Speaker 1: participate in it and absent people just learning to trick

942
00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:46,160
Speaker 1: themselves in an expanded playoff or a fourteen playoff into

943
00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:49,160
Speaker 1: thinking that the late season games that they've been taught

944
00:46:49,160 --> 00:46:52,120
Speaker 1: don't matter all of a sudden matter. Again, outside of

945
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:54,840
Speaker 1: that mind trickery, I think that, yeah, you could be

946
00:46:54,920 --> 00:46:57,399
Speaker 1: right on that, Jase. It pains me to admit that,

947
00:46:57,600 --> 00:47:00,560
Speaker 1: but you could be right on that. So every one's right.

948
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:03,480
Speaker 1: That's not a popular take, that's not a take that

949
00:47:03,520 --> 00:47:05,520
Speaker 1: gets a lot of clicks. But Jace, I think you're

950
00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:07,960
Speaker 1: dead on the money accurate. So that's why I've told you.

951
00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:12,680
Speaker 1: Once the playoff expands, you're not gonna hear me once

952
00:47:12,719 --> 00:47:14,960
Speaker 1: a week, sit here and wag my finger and tell

953
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:16,640
Speaker 1: you I told you so, even though we all know

954
00:47:16,680 --> 00:47:19,319
Speaker 1: I would have told you so, I'm gonna adopt it.

955
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:23,080
Speaker 1: The show will flourish because of it, and it'll be

956
00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:26,640
Speaker 1: what it'll be. So I guess I need to have

957
00:47:26,680 --> 00:47:28,759
Speaker 1: a moment of silent reflection even as we're here live,

958
00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:31,279
Speaker 1: because it depresses me to no end to admit that.

959
00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:33,000
Speaker 1: All right, next up, I don't even know what question

960
00:47:33,080 --> 00:47:35,919
Speaker 1: is next. Let's just let's just wildcard it. I'll read

961
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:38,120
Speaker 1: what they pop up on the screen here. I do

962
00:47:38,239 --> 00:47:42,400
Speaker 1: know we had some good questions. Okay, why is from Columbus, Ohio?

963
00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:47,360
Speaker 1: Why is no Why? Think about this question? By the way, Colin,

964
00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:49,160
Speaker 1: if you're watching later, this is where you can incut

965
00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:52,040
Speaker 1: it for the individual. Why is from Columbus Ohio said?

966
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:54,920
Speaker 1: Why is it no question that the SEC can get

967
00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:56,799
Speaker 1: two teams in the playoff, But when the Big Ten

968
00:47:57,160 --> 00:47:59,960
Speaker 1: has two top five teams, it's one or the other.

969
00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:04,920
Speaker 1: If it's truly the four best teams, division structures shouldn't

970
00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:08,120
Speaker 1: really be a factor. Why is this not a road

971
00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:10,040
Speaker 1: you want to go down with me, my friend? But

972
00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:13,839
Speaker 1: let's do it. So I'm getting what I expected from

973
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:16,680
Speaker 1: Ohio State and Michigan. Remember I was the one who

974
00:48:16,719 --> 00:48:19,080
Speaker 1: predicted both of them to make the playoff and got

975
00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:22,640
Speaker 1: laughed at in every corner of the SEC earlier this

976
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:26,160
Speaker 1: year in the summer. So I'm getting everything I thought

977
00:48:26,200 --> 00:48:28,520
Speaker 1: i'd get from Michigan. I'm getting everything I thought I get.

978
00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:31,279
Speaker 1: I thought they would play as undefeated teams. We're getting

979
00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:35,280
Speaker 1: exactly this Saturday what I thought we'd get. The unfortunate part,

980
00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:37,480
Speaker 1: and the part that's going to cost me my prediction

981
00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:39,680
Speaker 1: is the rest of the Big Ten didn't hold up

982
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:42,640
Speaker 1: there into the bargain. Like Wisconsin has just got to

983
00:48:42,680 --> 00:48:45,200
Speaker 1: be better, Michigan State's got to be better. Maryland, Iowa

984
00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:48,000
Speaker 1: like they've Nebraska, They've got to be better. They got

985
00:48:48,040 --> 00:48:50,800
Speaker 1: at least at least the average, if not above average.

986
00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:53,120
Speaker 1: And there's no excuse if you look at the current

987
00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:55,400
Speaker 1: Big ten standings for the West to be in the

988
00:48:55,440 --> 00:48:59,400
Speaker 1: state of disrepair it is. But I do want to

989
00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:03,279
Speaker 1: get back to this question that Wise asked. I love

990
00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:06,040
Speaker 1: this question. Actually it wasn't even a question. He just

991
00:49:06,080 --> 00:49:09,520
Speaker 1: suggested it in Man, is he so right? He said,

992
00:49:10,480 --> 00:49:14,080
Speaker 1: If it's true that we're looking for the four best teams,

993
00:49:14,840 --> 00:49:19,480
Speaker 1: division structure shouldn't really be a factor. Oh, you're so right,

994
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:22,200
Speaker 1: my friend. I'll take it a step further. I would

995
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:26,399
Speaker 1: suggest to you conference shouldn't even matter. And that's where

996
00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:28,880
Speaker 1: you step on a lot of toes. Though some people

997
00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:32,160
Speaker 1: probably nodded their head at what you said, but then

998
00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:34,320
Speaker 1: when I say what I said, they realized, Oh, I

999
00:49:34,360 --> 00:49:36,759
Speaker 1: don't want to go that far down that road. Is

1000
00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:39,440
Speaker 1: there are a lot of places around this great country

1001
00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:44,560
Speaker 1: of ours that realize, especially moving forward, they're only shot

1002
00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:48,239
Speaker 1: as a conference in getting in this playoff. Guaranteed is

1003
00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:53,239
Speaker 1: having auto bids, is having the prevailing notion that two

1004
00:49:53,360 --> 00:49:55,960
Speaker 1: or three teams from the same division shouldn't have access

1005
00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:58,640
Speaker 1: to a post season. You should have to win your division,

1006
00:49:58,719 --> 00:50:01,120
Speaker 1: you should have to win your confort, which in pro

1007
00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:03,840
Speaker 1: sports I have no problem with. I've always thought it

1008
00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:07,400
Speaker 1: was laughable in college football because you're suggesting in a

1009
00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:12,560
Speaker 1: disproportionately tilted sport towards the few. You're suggesting to me,

1010
00:50:12,600 --> 00:50:15,040
Speaker 1: it's impossible that two of the four best teams couldn't

1011
00:50:15,080 --> 00:50:18,719
Speaker 1: just so happen to reside in the same imaginary geographical

1012
00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:22,439
Speaker 1: boundary on a map, which is ludicrous, always has been,

1013
00:50:22,719 --> 00:50:25,680
Speaker 1: but in college sports especially, it's ludicrous. I would say

1014
00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:28,640
Speaker 1: conferences shouldn't even matter, but that's not the prevailing wisdom

1015
00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:30,880
Speaker 1: out there, and that's not the structure we're ever going

1016
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:33,400
Speaker 1: to have here. So here's what I would tell you wise.

1017
00:50:33,640 --> 00:50:38,560
Speaker 1: The reason why it is acceptable in many minds for

1018
00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:40,920
Speaker 1: the SEC to get two teams in the playoff and

1019
00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:43,719
Speaker 1: for the Big Ten not to is you've got to

1020
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:46,320
Speaker 1: go back several years and you've got to understand the

1021
00:50:46,360 --> 00:50:48,560
Speaker 1: equity that's been built up in the minds of most

1022
00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:51,160
Speaker 1: people when it comes to the SEC the Big Ten.

1023
00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:54,160
Speaker 1: Even though Michigan won the game in ann Arbor against

1024
00:50:54,200 --> 00:50:56,840
Speaker 1: Ohio State last year and made the playoff. The Big

1025
00:50:56,880 --> 00:50:59,759
Speaker 1: Ten is viewed by many people when it comes to

1026
00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:04,960
Speaker 1: national championship contenders as Ohio State and and then that's it.

1027
00:51:05,440 --> 00:51:08,320
Speaker 1: That's the end of the sentence. Whereas over the last

1028
00:51:08,560 --> 00:51:10,960
Speaker 1: decade or so, what have we seen Over the last

1029
00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:14,239
Speaker 1: fifteen years. We've seen LSU win multiple titles. We've seen

1030
00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:17,719
Speaker 1: Florida win a title, Bama's won several titles, Auburn's won

1031
00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:20,359
Speaker 1: a title, LSU I just mentioned them, Georgia has won

1032
00:51:20,400 --> 00:51:22,640
Speaker 1: a title. People look at the SEC and think there

1033
00:51:22,680 --> 00:51:26,040
Speaker 1: are multiple players down there. Any given year. People look

1034
00:51:26,040 --> 00:51:27,759
Speaker 1: at the Big Ten and they say, it's Ohio State,

1035
00:51:28,320 --> 00:51:30,759
Speaker 1: and good for you, Michigan for what you did last year.

1036
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:33,239
Speaker 1: You weren't winning a title though, It's just Ohio State.

1037
00:51:33,800 --> 00:51:36,160
Speaker 1: And so then they look up and down the rest

1038
00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:38,960
Speaker 1: of the list and they say, not only do we

1039
00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:41,200
Speaker 1: think that that's a one trick pony up there when

1040
00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:43,840
Speaker 1: it comes to title contenders, we also don't have respect

1041
00:51:43,880 --> 00:51:46,279
Speaker 1: for the strength of schedule they play. And that gets

1042
00:51:46,320 --> 00:51:48,919
Speaker 1: me back to that list. It is not Ohio State's fault,

1043
00:51:49,040 --> 00:51:51,439
Speaker 1: it's not Michigan's fault, it's not Penn State's fault. Really,

1044
00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:53,279
Speaker 1: Penn State's been a good team this year outside of

1045
00:51:53,320 --> 00:51:56,000
Speaker 1: playing the top two. But when Nebraska and Iowa and

1046
00:51:56,080 --> 00:51:59,480
Speaker 1: Maryland and Wisconsin and Michigan State, when they are not

1047
00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:02,040
Speaker 1: playing a higher level than they are right now, that's

1048
00:52:02,080 --> 00:52:04,200
Speaker 1: what you're stuck with. You're stuck with having to go

1049
00:52:04,360 --> 00:52:07,560
Speaker 1: undefeated or else have a lot of other dominoes fault.

1050
00:52:07,920 --> 00:52:11,920
Speaker 1: And I don't even think that's unfair. It's unfair, it's unfortunate,

1051
00:52:11,960 --> 00:52:14,239
Speaker 1: I guess, but I don't think that's even unfair. But

1052
00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:18,239
Speaker 1: here's what else I would say. This particular year, there's

1053
00:52:18,280 --> 00:52:20,640
Speaker 1: only one way the SEC is getting two in and

1054
00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:23,040
Speaker 1: that's for Georgia to fall in the SEC title game

1055
00:52:23,080 --> 00:52:27,440
Speaker 1: to LSU. So you may not like that, but if

1056
00:52:27,440 --> 00:52:31,319
Speaker 1: you were to blind resume things, you would have to acknowledge. Yeah,

1057
00:52:31,440 --> 00:52:35,160
Speaker 1: that's that's a little more fair. I mean, Michigan's schedule

1058
00:52:35,239 --> 00:52:37,480
Speaker 1: is what it is. Ohio State schedule is what it is.

1059
00:52:37,520 --> 00:52:39,680
Speaker 1: It's not their fault, guys, it's not their fault. But

1060
00:52:39,719 --> 00:52:43,000
Speaker 1: it is like, it's not LSU's fault. It's not Georgia's

1061
00:52:43,040 --> 00:52:46,440
Speaker 1: fault either. So I get the sentiment. Wise, I just

1062
00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:49,360
Speaker 1: I know it's unprofessional to say it is what it is,

1063
00:52:49,360 --> 00:52:50,759
Speaker 1: But it is what it is. That's where we are.

1064
00:52:51,200 --> 00:52:53,719
Speaker 1: They have the power to change that, and they're making

1065
00:52:53,760 --> 00:52:56,520
Speaker 1: moves in conference expansion to change that. So maybe it's

1066
00:52:56,520 --> 00:52:58,759
Speaker 1: not that way forever. Next up, where are we going?

1067
00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:00,840
Speaker 1: And then we got a couple more here on a

1068
00:53:00,840 --> 00:53:03,040
Speaker 1: good pace. Thought the show may take two hours tonight,

1069
00:53:03,200 --> 00:53:05,400
Speaker 1: as it turns out, not so much, which is a

1070
00:53:05,440 --> 00:53:08,239
Speaker 1: good thing. Uh, where are we going to go? Here?

1071
00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:12,279
Speaker 1: Which question do we have? Next? Okay? Karr asked how

1072
00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:15,600
Speaker 1: important is the game for both Harbaugh and Ryan Day

1073
00:53:15,600 --> 00:53:18,359
Speaker 1: from Dearborn, Michigan. This is one that I just want

1074
00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:20,239
Speaker 1: to take a couple of minutes on because we did

1075
00:53:20,280 --> 00:53:22,920
Speaker 1: the preview for the game, but I didn't talk about

1076
00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:28,560
Speaker 1: this angle. There is pressure in every football game you play.

1077
00:53:29,160 --> 00:53:32,600
Speaker 1: There is added pressure in every rivalry game you play.

1078
00:53:32,840 --> 00:53:35,400
Speaker 1: And then you got the added layers of pressure if

1079
00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:38,080
Speaker 1: you got conference title and play and playoff and all

1080
00:53:38,120 --> 00:53:42,279
Speaker 1: of that. But at their very core, you would see

1081
00:53:42,280 --> 00:53:45,480
Speaker 1: Ohio State fans come unraveled if they were to lose

1082
00:53:45,520 --> 00:53:48,200
Speaker 1: this game Saturday. I'm gonna say it again because i'll

1083
00:53:48,200 --> 00:53:51,040
Speaker 1: probably clip this later. At their very core, you would

1084
00:53:51,040 --> 00:53:55,040
Speaker 1: see Ohio State fans come unraveled, be unhinged Saturday. If

1085
00:53:55,040 --> 00:53:58,479
Speaker 1: they lose this game. It's not dawning on anyone yet

1086
00:53:58,520 --> 00:54:01,080
Speaker 1: what the impact of that would be because you haven't

1087
00:54:01,120 --> 00:54:04,600
Speaker 1: seen it. Just like last week, you didn't think about

1088
00:54:04,600 --> 00:54:07,520
Speaker 1: what a loss by Tennessee at South Carolina would mean

1089
00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:09,480
Speaker 1: because you didn't think it could happen. Now, this is

1090
00:54:09,480 --> 00:54:11,719
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot more competitive game, at least in

1091
00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:14,520
Speaker 1: most minds. Pregame then that one was thought to be.

1092
00:54:16,080 --> 00:54:18,319
Speaker 1: I just want you to think for a second, and

1093
00:54:18,520 --> 00:54:19,719
Speaker 1: it looked like I was staring at you. I was

1094
00:54:19,719 --> 00:54:22,280
Speaker 1: twiddling my thumbs. I want you to think for a second.

1095
00:54:23,400 --> 00:54:25,520
Speaker 1: As we get into the third quarter and it's tied,

1096
00:54:26,440 --> 00:54:27,920
Speaker 1: and then we go to the fourth quarter and you

1097
00:54:27,960 --> 00:54:30,280
Speaker 1: come back from commercial break and there's ten thirty seven

1098
00:54:30,360 --> 00:54:33,880
Speaker 1: left and Michigan's driving down one point twenty to nineteen,

1099
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:36,439
Speaker 1: and then they kick a field goal and they're up

1100
00:54:36,960 --> 00:54:39,120
Speaker 1: by a couple of points on Ohio State, and you

1101
00:54:39,239 --> 00:54:41,560
Speaker 1: know it's no longer a four quarter game. This comes

1102
00:54:41,560 --> 00:54:45,080
Speaker 1: down to a couple of possessions and Ohio State turns

1103
00:54:45,080 --> 00:54:47,280
Speaker 1: the ball over where they turn it over on downs

1104
00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:49,640
Speaker 1: where they miss a field goal and Michigan's got the

1105
00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:53,040
Speaker 1: ball with four minutes and change left, and they run

1106
00:54:53,080 --> 00:54:54,959
Speaker 1: the clock out and you never touch the ball again

1107
00:54:54,960 --> 00:54:59,879
Speaker 1: and you lose to them. Do you understand how catastrophic

1108
00:55:00,040 --> 00:55:02,160
Speaker 1: that would be for Ryan Day? Do you understand how

1109
00:55:02,160 --> 00:55:05,759
Speaker 1: catastrophic that would be, how big a failure that would

1110
00:55:05,800 --> 00:55:09,360
Speaker 1: be for Ohio State football to have had that collection

1111
00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:13,319
Speaker 1: of talent and two years in a row, be in

1112
00:55:13,360 --> 00:55:16,319
Speaker 1: a position to achieve all your goals and have it

1113
00:55:16,400 --> 00:55:18,600
Speaker 1: wrecked by a Michigan team that at one point you

1114
00:55:18,600 --> 00:55:22,200
Speaker 1: were dominating. And you got CJ. Stroud at quarterback and

1115
00:55:22,239 --> 00:55:23,719
Speaker 1: you're not even going to play for the Big Ten

1116
00:55:23,840 --> 00:55:27,919
Speaker 1: championship with him again. You got a guy like Marvin Harrison. Heaven,

1117
00:55:28,280 --> 00:55:31,680
Speaker 1: in my mind's I a blittant Akoff Award winning season

1118
00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:34,560
Speaker 1: right there with Jalen Hyatt and you're not even going

1119
00:55:34,640 --> 00:55:37,359
Speaker 1: to play for the Big Ten championship with him. Can

1120
00:55:37,400 --> 00:55:40,880
Speaker 1: you imagine those folks if they lose that game. So

1121
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:44,680
Speaker 1: there's pressure, there's always pressure, but man, there's a different

1122
00:55:44,760 --> 00:55:47,359
Speaker 1: kind of pressure on Ohio State in this game. I mean,

1123
00:55:47,520 --> 00:55:49,479
Speaker 1: Jim Harball, I don't ever want to say someone's playing

1124
00:55:49,480 --> 00:55:51,120
Speaker 1: with house money. I don't ever want to say, oh,

1125
00:55:51,120 --> 00:55:52,799
Speaker 1: they got nothing to lose. They got a ton to lose.

1126
00:55:52,840 --> 00:55:55,440
Speaker 1: They got as much to lose as Ohio State, except

1127
00:55:55,440 --> 00:55:57,920
Speaker 1: that there's just a little extra that Ohio State has

1128
00:55:57,920 --> 00:55:59,600
Speaker 1: to lose. Whether you want to admit it or not.

1129
00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:02,600
Speaker 1: They're supposed to win this game. Michigan's not supposed to

1130
00:56:02,640 --> 00:56:05,160
Speaker 1: win Saturday. Ohio State's supposed to win this game Saturday,

1131
00:56:05,600 --> 00:56:08,000
Speaker 1: and brother, if they don't, it's going to be very,

1132
00:56:08,200 --> 00:56:11,960
Speaker 1: very uncomfortable in Columbus, Ohio because close enough good enough

1133
00:56:12,040 --> 00:56:14,200
Speaker 1: is not enough for them, nor should it be. And

1134
00:56:14,280 --> 00:56:17,000
Speaker 1: I don't have any problem with the expectation level being

1135
00:56:17,040 --> 00:56:19,120
Speaker 1: that high, because when you play the kind of schedule

1136
00:56:19,120 --> 00:56:22,520
Speaker 1: they've played this year, it turns into a one game season,

1137
00:56:23,440 --> 00:56:24,960
Speaker 1: And if you want to call that unfair, you call

1138
00:56:24,960 --> 00:56:26,839
Speaker 1: it unfair all you want to. Folks who have grown

1139
00:56:26,880 --> 00:56:30,080
Speaker 1: up on this rivalry, they are perfectly at ease with

1140
00:56:30,160 --> 00:56:32,480
Speaker 1: the odds, with the stakes that are placed on this game.

1141
00:56:32,640 --> 00:56:35,120
Speaker 1: And it is maximum in every sense of the word.

1142
00:56:35,160 --> 00:56:38,120
Speaker 1: It is maximum. And that's why this thing feels bigger

1143
00:56:38,160 --> 00:56:40,279
Speaker 1: than any playoff game that either one of them will

1144
00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:43,000
Speaker 1: play in because to me, folks like me think it

1145
00:56:43,040 --> 00:56:45,560
Speaker 1: is and they feel like it is it's going to

1146
00:56:45,600 --> 00:56:47,680
Speaker 1: be incredible. It will be so tense. If that is

1147
00:56:47,719 --> 00:56:50,840
Speaker 1: a one possession game in the fourth quarter come Saturday,

1148
00:56:52,040 --> 00:56:53,880
Speaker 1: you could cut it with like one of those little

1149
00:56:53,880 --> 00:56:57,560
Speaker 1: flimsy McDonald's butter knives. It would be that thick. Okay,

1150
00:56:57,800 --> 00:57:00,160
Speaker 1: next question, I think we got one more here, and

1151
00:57:00,160 --> 00:57:01,520
Speaker 1: then I'm gonna give you a couple of best bets

1152
00:57:01,560 --> 00:57:03,759
Speaker 1: and we're gonna roll on out of here. But this

1153
00:57:03,840 --> 00:57:07,640
Speaker 1: one's good. I saved this one for last. Sergio asked,

1154
00:57:07,760 --> 00:57:11,680
Speaker 1: did you hear Dabos Swenny trashing Tennessee? Why does he

1155
00:57:11,880 --> 00:57:16,800
Speaker 1: always do this to himself from Frankfort, Kentucky, capital of Kentucky.

1156
00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:18,760
Speaker 1: By the way, that fools a lot of folks. You

1157
00:57:18,760 --> 00:57:21,880
Speaker 1: get in those state capitol quizzes and you drop Kentucky

1158
00:57:21,920 --> 00:57:24,440
Speaker 1: on them. Ninety nine out of one hundred casuals are

1159
00:57:24,440 --> 00:57:29,040
Speaker 1: saying Lexington, Oh, Louisville. Eh, Well, there's not another city

1160
00:57:29,040 --> 00:57:32,280
Speaker 1: in Kentucky. Yeah, there is, and it's called Frankfort. So anyway,

1161
00:57:32,320 --> 00:57:36,360
Speaker 1: back on Daboswenny, Dabo, I'm just gonna have them play

1162
00:57:36,400 --> 00:57:38,480
Speaker 1: you the audio. So here's what I'll do. We'll tee

1163
00:57:38,520 --> 00:57:41,320
Speaker 1: up the audio. I don't even know definitively what this was.

1164
00:57:41,360 --> 00:57:43,919
Speaker 1: Maybe it was his coaches show. At the very least

1165
00:57:43,960 --> 00:57:47,600
Speaker 1: he is speaking publicly. Okay, so Dabosweny is looking ahead

1166
00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:51,000
Speaker 1: to Clemson's game against South Carolina this week, and he

1167
00:57:51,160 --> 00:57:54,320
Speaker 1: was speaking within the context of what South Carolina just did.

1168
00:57:54,320 --> 00:57:57,880
Speaker 1: They just beat Tennessee into a coma. Here's Dabos Sweney

1169
00:57:57,960 --> 00:58:00,280
Speaker 1: and some of his comments on that game last week.

1170
00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:04,560
Speaker 2: Take a listen, and they're like, Okay, we beat South Carolina,

1171
00:58:04,600 --> 00:58:06,560
Speaker 2: we beat Bandy. They're in the playoffs. You know, they're

1172
00:58:06,560 --> 00:58:10,600
Speaker 2: flipping burgers at the house, you know, having a cold drink,

1173
00:58:11,080 --> 00:58:14,320
Speaker 2: you know, watching watching the championship weekend or what over

1174
00:58:14,360 --> 00:58:15,840
Speaker 2: you are we three or four? Where are we going?

1175
00:58:15,920 --> 00:58:18,600
Speaker 2: You know, we in Arizona or we in Atlanta? And

1176
00:58:18,800 --> 00:58:21,400
Speaker 2: next thing, you know, getting that you forget you got

1177
00:58:21,400 --> 00:58:23,800
Speaker 2: to go play? Uh huh and uh But man, I

1178
00:58:23,800 --> 00:58:25,280
Speaker 2: think we just I think you just got to give

1179
00:58:25,320 --> 00:58:27,280
Speaker 2: all the credits South Carolina. I didn't even just flat

1180
00:58:27,320 --> 00:58:28,160
Speaker 2: out kick their butt.

1181
00:58:34,720 --> 00:58:36,600
Speaker 1: Some people have a problem with this, and I really

1182
00:58:36,640 --> 00:58:39,960
Speaker 1: don't know why. First rule, you can talk all the

1183
00:58:39,960 --> 00:58:41,640
Speaker 1: trash you want to, as long as you got to

1184
00:58:41,680 --> 00:58:44,640
Speaker 1: line up against the other guy. Which he well, I

1185
00:58:44,640 --> 00:58:47,520
Speaker 1: guess he doesn't play Tennessee. But my point there is,

1186
00:58:48,960 --> 00:58:52,000
Speaker 1: forget about rule number one. Rule number two is just

1187
00:58:52,080 --> 00:58:55,240
Speaker 1: be real with me. Dabo was just being real with you.

1188
00:58:55,240 --> 00:58:58,400
Speaker 1: You know, there's this group of folks that cannot have

1189
00:58:58,480 --> 00:59:01,960
Speaker 1: it either way. I got a group of folks out here,

1190
00:59:02,480 --> 00:59:05,080
Speaker 1: not only college football fans, but like in the actual

1191
00:59:05,120 --> 00:59:09,120
Speaker 1: college football media ecosystem, who swear to you they can't

1192
00:59:09,120 --> 00:59:13,400
Speaker 1: stand coach speak. I hate these cookie cutter, generic press conferences.

1193
00:59:13,520 --> 00:59:15,840
Speaker 1: I'm wasting my time. They might as well just give

1194
00:59:15,840 --> 00:59:18,760
Speaker 1: me a press release. They say that, and I agree

1195
00:59:18,800 --> 00:59:21,080
Speaker 1: with them, But then they listen to a guy like

1196
00:59:21,160 --> 00:59:25,680
Speaker 1: Dabo Sweeney who has no filter whatsoever. He's become paranoid

1197
00:59:26,040 --> 00:59:28,200
Speaker 1: to the point where he won't even hardly do interviews.

1198
00:59:28,200 --> 00:59:30,680
Speaker 1: I love that. He is my number one wish list

1199
00:59:30,720 --> 00:59:33,280
Speaker 1: candidate to have on this show, and we can't get him.

1200
00:59:33,520 --> 00:59:36,280
Speaker 1: He won't do interviews, but when he does talk, he's

1201
00:59:36,280 --> 00:59:39,520
Speaker 1: real with you, And what are you complaining about? So

1202
00:59:39,640 --> 00:59:41,480
Speaker 1: the question there was why does he keep doing this

1203
00:59:41,520 --> 00:59:44,160
Speaker 1: to himself? What is he doing? Would you rather him

1204
00:59:44,280 --> 00:59:47,280
Speaker 1: put the muzzle on himself? Would you rather him filter himself?

1205
00:59:47,920 --> 00:59:51,720
Speaker 1: He said, what everyone else is thinking. He said Tennessee

1206
00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:54,200
Speaker 1: went in there and got scalded because they almost showed

1207
00:59:54,280 --> 00:59:55,960
Speaker 1: up forgetting they had to play a football game. Then

1208
00:59:56,000 --> 00:59:59,680
Speaker 1: he gave South Carolina credit. Like I heard that last night,

1209
01:00:00,840 --> 01:00:02,680
Speaker 1: and I did not even add it to the rundown,

1210
01:00:02,840 --> 01:00:04,840
Speaker 1: Like I told the staff, we're not going to talk

1211
01:00:04,880 --> 01:00:06,760
Speaker 1: about that. There's nothing to talk about. But then a

1212
01:00:06,800 --> 01:00:09,560
Speaker 1: lot of you asked about it, So there you go, like,

1213
01:00:09,640 --> 01:00:11,480
Speaker 1: there's the clip. I don't really get what the big

1214
01:00:11,480 --> 01:00:14,480
Speaker 1: deal is. Now. They got a game against South Carolina Saturday.

1215
01:00:14,520 --> 01:00:16,280
Speaker 1: They'll win, they'll lose. It will have nothing to do

1216
01:00:16,360 --> 01:00:18,400
Speaker 1: with that SoundBite. I'm sure it'll be played at some

1217
01:00:18,440 --> 01:00:22,520
Speaker 1: point during the broadcast there on ABC. But I am

1218
01:00:22,560 --> 01:00:27,320
Speaker 1: a fan of the way Dabos Winny carries himself. Now,

1219
01:00:27,720 --> 01:00:30,960
Speaker 1: as you well know, in politics and sports these days,

1220
01:00:31,040 --> 01:00:35,280
Speaker 1: if you say that, the standard is perfection. So if

1221
01:00:35,320 --> 01:00:38,360
Speaker 1: you say, hey, I like this guy the other side,

1222
01:00:38,520 --> 01:00:41,680
Speaker 1: unless you're talking about a literal angel who has never

1223
01:00:41,760 --> 01:00:44,720
Speaker 1: committed a single sin, they will say, well, what about this, this, this,

1224
01:00:44,760 --> 01:00:46,720
Speaker 1: and this. I ain't telling you Dabos when he's perfect.

1225
01:00:46,800 --> 01:00:49,040
Speaker 1: I'm not telling you any coach is perfect. I'm saying

1226
01:00:49,600 --> 01:00:53,600
Speaker 1: in an ocean of imperfect humans, including in the coaching industry.

1227
01:00:54,160 --> 01:00:56,080
Speaker 1: I happen to like the way he carries himself. And

1228
01:00:56,160 --> 01:00:59,880
Speaker 1: I always appreciate when coaches are real with you. Is

1229
01:01:00,080 --> 01:01:03,520
Speaker 1: especially when they know, oh man, this is gonna get

1230
01:01:03,600 --> 01:01:05,520
Speaker 1: me in trouble, this is going to cause a little stir,

1231
01:01:05,680 --> 01:01:08,040
Speaker 1: this is gonna beat the hornet's nest with a stick,

1232
01:01:08,320 --> 01:01:11,600
Speaker 1: and they say it anyway, I appreciate it. I was

1233
01:01:11,600 --> 01:01:14,520
Speaker 1: handed some breaking news, by the way, while I was

1234
01:01:14,960 --> 01:01:18,240
Speaker 1: while we were in the sat Gigi came in and

1235
01:01:18,320 --> 01:01:21,520
Speaker 1: she gave me the following. It says, some of your

1236
01:01:21,600 --> 01:01:24,400
Speaker 1: late kick. They used a pejorative. We're gonna mark that

1237
01:01:24,480 --> 01:01:27,160
Speaker 1: right out. Some of our late kick family is gathering

1238
01:01:27,200 --> 01:01:29,480
Speaker 1: outside the studio. So I don't know who's outside the

1239
01:01:29,480 --> 01:01:31,320
Speaker 1: studio right now, but hey, i'll be out there in

1240
01:01:31,320 --> 01:01:34,480
Speaker 1: a second. Guys. It's a nice evening here. It's not

1241
01:01:34,600 --> 01:01:37,720
Speaker 1: raining unlike yesterday. All right, Rominutle Express time, let's win

1242
01:01:37,760 --> 01:01:40,240
Speaker 1: some money because we've been doing it in bunches and

1243
01:01:40,280 --> 01:01:42,880
Speaker 1: bunches and bunches. If you just bet the last two weeks,

1244
01:01:42,880 --> 01:01:44,240
Speaker 1: you're kind of rich. I don't know what else to

1245
01:01:44,280 --> 01:01:46,800
Speaker 1: tell you. And we're gonna keep it rolling here. Ohio's

1246
01:01:46,800 --> 01:01:49,080
Speaker 1: playing right now, and I'm thinking they may not have

1247
01:01:49,120 --> 01:01:52,840
Speaker 1: started their quarterback. So we're not canceling the bet. Obviously

1248
01:01:52,880 --> 01:01:55,800
Speaker 1: that would be very unethical. But Ohio minus seven were

1249
01:01:55,840 --> 01:01:58,400
Speaker 1: on Coastal Carolina plus fourteen and a hook. We are

1250
01:01:58,440 --> 01:02:01,760
Speaker 1: on Rutgers plus fourteen team we're on. We added two

1251
01:02:01,840 --> 01:02:03,640
Speaker 1: games tonight. One of them you already know. The other

1252
01:02:03,680 --> 01:02:06,440
Speaker 1: one I'm about to tell you. FSU minus nine and

1253
01:02:06,480 --> 01:02:11,080
Speaker 1: a half against Florida we are on. And since they

1254
01:02:11,200 --> 01:02:14,160
Speaker 1: did not get to play last week, Akron has two

1255
01:02:14,160 --> 01:02:17,520
Speaker 1: weeks of fury and rage and anger bottled up and

1256
01:02:17,560 --> 01:02:20,800
Speaker 1: they got snowed out in Buffalo soft And so we're

1257
01:02:20,800 --> 01:02:23,960
Speaker 1: gonna roll with him this week plus ten and a half. Akron,

1258
01:02:24,240 --> 01:02:28,120
Speaker 1: you know what dare I say against Northern Illinois, Sprinkle

1259
01:02:28,120 --> 01:02:31,760
Speaker 1: a little action on the money line, So Akron, FSU, Rutgers,

1260
01:02:31,760 --> 01:02:36,240
Speaker 1: Coastal Carolina and Ohio. I want to also mention one

1261
01:02:36,240 --> 01:02:38,520
Speaker 1: other thing to you guys. So I'm all about value

1262
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Speaker 1: around here, like I'm trying to win you money there.

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Speaker 1: I think you get a little bit too much bang

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Speaker 1: so it's a good time to jump on board. What

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Speaker 1: a trip we have had. I mean I have been

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Speaker 1: in La Nashville, Houston College Station. We'll be in Columbus, Atlanta, Columbus, Ohio,

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Speaker 1: and Nashville all in the next seventy two to ninety

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Speaker 1: pleasure to do it because it beats having to sit

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Speaker 1: in a nine to five cubicle for a living. And

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Speaker 1: I appreciate so much our entire staff, Like we got

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Speaker 1: so many staffers on the road when we go and

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Speaker 1: do these things that you never get to see. Big

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Speaker 1: game Dane is like ten feet away on the other

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Speaker 1: side of the wall. Our friends at TECHSAGS made sure

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Speaker 1: making it happen. So there is an army behind the

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Speaker 1: scenes that makes it possible for just this one dude

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Speaker 1: to sit here and bring the show to you. And

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Speaker 1: believe me, we never dreamed this was possible when we

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Speaker 1: were doing this independently in Columbus, Georgia. So for our

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Speaker 1: crew back in Nashville, Fort Lauderdale, Stamford here in College State,

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Speaker 1: appreciate you guys so much. Have a happy Thanksgiving. Remember

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Speaker 1: to follow on the socials at late Kick. Josh, I

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Speaker 1: can guarantee you something big is gonna happen between now

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Speaker 1: and Saturday. We're not gonna have a Thursday show. You

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Speaker 1: will get me there and then of course Friday Night

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Speaker 1: lines from Columbus, Ohio on Instagram Live Friday Night. Until then,

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Speaker 1: take care, enjoy the fam, enjoy the friends, travel safely,

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Speaker 1: have a great holiday, enjoy the games, and godless