WEBVTT - ESPN Top 100 Reaction, Ohio State vs Knowles, CFB Regular Season 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:04.000 We got to talk about the ESPN Top one hundred 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:08.440 College Football Players of this season, and surprisingly I wasn't mad, 0:00:08.800 --> 0:00:11.160 even though that there was some stuff that needed to 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:14.400 be fixed a little bit. There's some drama over at 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:18.400 Ohio State because their defensive coordinator, Jim Knowles, he got 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:22.800 left out of their national championship celebration and why he 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:25.040 left to go to Penn State, because I got two 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:29.200 reasons why. And the college football regular season it matters 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:32.400 more than it ever has, despite your favor well your 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:35.800 second and third favorite college football analysts trying to tell 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:40.599 you differently. Bill Belichick is covering all the bases at UNC, 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:44.760 and why is Dylan Ryola in the chiefs locker room? 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:47.920 The pressure is going to ramp up that much more. 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:51.519 That is more here on the College Football Show presented 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:54.680 by The Unafraid Show. Keep it locked and make sure 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:58.960 that you like subscribe, get notifications and tell a friend. 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:15.880 Getting there right now, Let's get to it before we 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:18.200 get into the Top one hundred. We gotta start with 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:22.240 the drama because Ohio State literally just won a national 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:26.319 championship and then found a way to already have some 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:30.720 drama going on this offseason because their defensive coordinator Jim Knowles, 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:33.560 who has been there for the last couple of seasons. 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:37.800 He left and is now the defensive coordinator over at 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:40.880 Penn State, and everybody's like, why would he do this? 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:41.480 Now? 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:44.200 Granted, part of it was for the money three years, 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:48.800 like over nine million dollars, the highest paid coordinator in 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:51.720 all of college football by at least three hundred and 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:55.200 fifty thousand dollars. But those aren't the two reasons why 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:58.280 he left. I believe that he left for two reasons. 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:01.800 Number one, I believe that it is the easiest path 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:05.320 to head coach that he can see of like a 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:10.440 major program, because you have had James Franklin flirting with leaving, 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:14.160 flirting with the NFL, flirting with other opportunities all the time. 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:19.000 So and he's a Pennsylvania guy who has never coached 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:22.400 in Pennsylvania, and we already know Ryan Date now that 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:25.480 he's won a national championship, there is no chance in 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:28.960 hell he's leaving Ohio State. He loves Ohio State like 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:33.880 down to his core, in his entire bones. So staying 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:37.240 at Ohio State one gonna get you there. But over 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:41.440 at Penn State you might have a different level of opportunity, 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:45.400 and with James Franklin, if he decides to leave, and 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:48.240 you don't know what them private conversations are like, because 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:50.080 I've heard some of them, and there are some of 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:53.120 your favorite college football coaches that if they get a 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:56.560 chance to go in the NFL, they're gone the problem. 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:58.920 And people are like, wholla, well, all these coaches are 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:01.720 gonna leave. They're not gonna leave. They're not gonna leave 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:04.239 because they're not getting NFL offers. But if they do, 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:07.720 and I'm talking about head coaching jobs, they out of there. 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:09.000 Uh. 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:11.720 And the second reason why I believe that Jim Knowles 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:16.080 left is because the Ohio State defense is not going 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:20.360 to be as good next year as it was this year. 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:21.799 They had a lot of seniors. 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:24.440 Yes, Ohio State is recruited well, plenty of talent, but 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:26.080 there was gonna be a little bit of a drop 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:28.520 off going into next season. 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:29.919 And he was like, yo, yo, yo. 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:32.760 What we not gonna do is sign up to get 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:36.160 blamed for that and then lower your chances of getting 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:38.600 a head coaching job. So those are the two reasons 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:41.280 why I believe that that man left. But I will 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:44.760 tell you this because it was according to Brett McMurphy 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:49.480 that Ohio State asked Knows not to attend the national 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:56.080 championship celebration. I'm like, what, the man that literally is 0:03:56.160 --> 0:04:00.720 responsible for you winning a national championship, you leave him 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:03.760 out of the celebration. He hadn't even taken the Penn 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:07.080 State job yet, and you're gonna leave him out. I 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:09.840 think that that is nasty work. I think it's dirty 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:15.040 because we see people celebrate with the teams all the time, 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:18.320 Like there are players who either have or are going 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:22.279 to go in the transfer portal that played four teams 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:23.599 in the College Football Playoff? 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:29.320 What are we doing here? Come on? 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:29.719 Man? 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:30.680 Like that? 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:34.400 That I believe, especially for a coach and a leadership position, 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:37.560 it just looks bad because on one hand, there's the 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:41.320 players who transfer, then there's the coaches who transfer. Which 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:44.760 one of those should be held to a higher standard? 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:45.800 You know what I mean? 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:48.720 I mean because the Ohio State spin on this whole 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:52.599 thing is that Ryan day that he punished Jim Knowles 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:55.719 than taking some of the autonomy away after the Oregon loss, 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:58.640 and then that was the beginning of the end. That's 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:03.000 what Ohio State spin is. But then at another Ohio 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:08.080 State faction. They believe that knows that him establishing dominance 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:11.320 and ownership over the defense, despite the protests and his 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:14.880 riff with the d line coach Larry Johnson, is actually 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:19.280 what won them the National championship. But the funny part 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:23.320 is Jim Knowles clearly doesn't have any hard feelings because 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:28.440 he was just asked about Ryan Day and there is 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:32.680 no There's not a single coach that I've ever read 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:35.159 that is spoken more highly of their head coach and 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:37.479 Ryan than Jim knows did a Ryan Day. 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:39.279 Nobody. 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:44.000 He protects the team, he insulates everybody, He loves this place, 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:46.760 he wants to be here. This is worse hard is 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:52.080 at He's a good man like everything in between. So 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:56.120 if you're going to do that even after, that means 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:59.160 that he didn't believe that this was a Ryan Day issue. 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:01.880 He felt like this was an Ohio State issue. And 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:03.800 you guys hop in the comments, do you think that 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:06.400 that was wrong or right for Ohio State to leave 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:12.320 him out of the National championship celebration while he was 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:15.760 debating whether he was going to leave or stay, and 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:20.200 they were in contract negotiations because Chip Kelly he may 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:25.040 be leaving as well, but he was invited. I'm just 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:29.200 saying something a little bit weird going on there. And 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:32.360 then that leads us to the next topic of conversation. 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:32.520 Which is. 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:38.280 How should we feel Because players get criticized by the media, 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:42.200 they get demonized by fans when they choose to hop 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:45.159 into transfer portal for whatever reason that they're hopping in. 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:48.240 They get talked about and. 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:51.279 Told that they're disloyal, they're just leaving for the money 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:55.919 and whatever. So how do you square that when coaches 0:06:56.040 --> 0:07:01.480 leave from great situations? So Jim No making two million 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:05.760 dollars at Ohio State leaves to go to Penn State 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:09.159 for three point one average over the life of the 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:13.400 contract three years. Now, Ohio State would have knew that 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:15.440 they were probably gonna have to give him a raise. 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:18.480 They may have been up to like two point five. 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:22.720 And he was like, nah, nah, So how are we 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:26.120 supposed to look at this? Because I believe that we 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:30.600 that the same energy needs to be kept for well 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:33.760 for players as it is for coaches. Because if we're 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:36.840 going to give coaches the pass for saying, oh man, 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:39.280 they're just doing what's right for their family, They're just 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:42.800 making the best decision for them professionally. Why aren't the 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:47.440 players given that same grace when these are between seventeen 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:51.280 and twenty two year olds for the most part, and 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:55.080 we're giving thirty forty fifty year old men passes. 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:57.640 Why is that? 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:01.560 Shouldn't the older people be held to a higher standard. 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:07.120 And I've tried to explain to people that it's actually 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:11.800 coached in mind you, this is not saying that coaches 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:13.400 are bad or anything like that, because I have a 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:15.320 lot of friends who are coaches, and I understand it. 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:19.000 Everybody's looking for economic stability that means you want to 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:22.280 get paid good money. They want to be somewhere geographically 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:24.960 desirable for them in their life, Like if you're a 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:27.280 Midwest person, you might want to be there close to 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:29.760 your family. If you're a West Coast you may want 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:34.440 to be closed like whatever. Geographic desirability looks like that 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:42.240 to you. And you want to be have opportunities at 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:46.160 your job, like you want to have an upward trajectory, 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:48.400 and you want to have a good job like all 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:52.000 of those things. Everybody's looking for that. So the players 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:55.239 are looking for that on some level, But the coaches, 0:08:55.880 --> 0:09:01.560 with their instability, started it, and the necessity and the 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:05.920 player's desire to want to have that freedom and flexibility 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:09.439 as well, because when you have a coach, and this 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:12.560 happened after my freshman year. I believe at the University 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:16.880 of Oregon, my tight end coach, coach Oz, who I 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:19.160 still talk to to is they have a good relationship 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:23.199 with He leaves and goes to Arizona State. So how 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:26.000 do you think that I felt as a player? This 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:30.040 man recruited me, sold me, got me to buy in 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:33.160 on what he was doing and on what he was selling. 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:35.680 I go up there because I'm going to be under 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:39.600 the coach ods Tutelage who's gotten other players tight ends 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:41.880 to go to the NFL, and then he ups and 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:43.520 bounces early in my career. 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:46.920 How do you think I felt about that? Not very good? Right? 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:52.240 So, if the transfer portal had been available, I may 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:55.439 have hopped in it to go with him because I, 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:58.680 you know, was in with his coaching. Or I may 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:00.880 have because the next guy who came in might not 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:03.439 have been feeling me like that good thing he was. 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:09.800 But that's the point is that he bounces. I feel 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:12.679 some type of way. I feel like my stable, my 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:16.160 situation is unstable, and maybe I need to look for 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:20.880 greener pastors. Now that's not I'm not in the camp 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:23.319 that this is always the right idea for players or 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:26.120 anything like that, but you have to see it from 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:30.080 that lens. So when coaches and I mean coach Coach 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:34.040 Peterson before he went to Boise State, where do you 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:38.560 think he was at Oregon? Coach Greatwood who went to 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:41.840 other places. Coach Gregory who went to you dubb and 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:45.200 other places. Like, all of these guys were on staff 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:51.880 and then they leave. There's no demonizing them for it. 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:55.880 So why should we demonize the players for it. I'm 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:58.000 just saying that's something that we need to think about 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:00.319 and consider how we look at it. But you know, 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:03.360 fans get hurt and hurt people hurt people. 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:04.640 All right. 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:08.679 Now, we got to talk about the ESPN postseason Top 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:11.800 twenty well sorry, excuse me. Now we got to talk 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:15.280 about the way we can be clear the East. The 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:21.800 ESPN postseason Top one hundred Players of the Year. And 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:26.160 it's funny because what you had in the preseason versus 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:30.000 what you had in the postseason two completely different things. 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:35.640 Because you had nineteen of the top players that were ranked, 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:42.080 nine of them were not even ranked at all. 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:43.679 They were unranked. 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:47.559 So nine of the top nineteen players were unranked in 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:52.320 the top one hundred of the preseason, including number six, 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:57.200 number five, and number four, and note was Ty Warren 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:04.320 from the Penn State tight end from Penn State. Number five, 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:07.679 you had Jeremiah Smith from Ohio State, and then number 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:13.319 four you got Cam Scattabu. Those guys weren't even ranked. 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:20.679 Think about that. And then you had also ranked very high. 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:25.000 You had Dylan Gabriel who was in there in the preseason, 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:30.880 who ended up at number nine. But this was absolutely 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:34.840 shocking to me that when I saw this list it 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:37.000 was nowhere near as bad as I thought it was 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:40.160 going to be, because I when sometimes when I go 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:43.720 into these things, I'm expecting the FPI model, which is 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:47.640 completely broken, and we've talked about that. You can go 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:50.480 on on a frame show. We've talked about ESPN's FPI 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:54.160 which is obviously separate than this ranking metric that is 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:58.640 completely broken, and you guys can go like subscribe, get notifications, 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:04.040 hopping them comments. So Travis Hunter was one, aston Gen 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:06.440 t was two. So you had the Heisman winner and 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:09.720 runner up one. Two makes sense. You had Cam Wore three, 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:19.200 who clearly transformed Miami season. He was a super hero 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:22.080 down there for them. No problem with him being number three. 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:25.679 Cam Scattable at four, loved it. He finally got some 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:29.440 of the love and appreciation that he deserved for carrying 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:32.560 that team. You had Jeremiah Smith at five. Now, he 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:36.480 didn't have the most impressive receiving stats in the whole country, 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:39.000 Like he wasn't number one or two in the country. 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:43.559 But the dude was electric. That's what he was. He 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:47.560 was a difference maker. Seventy six sketches, thirteen hundred yards 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:52.280 in fifteen touchdowns and came in in the preseason unranked. 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:56.199 Now to go backwards, though, Travis Hunter preseason ranking was three, 0:13:56.960 --> 0:14:01.040 and Aston Gent was number twenty five. Good there, and 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:05.120 like I told you already, Camp Scataboo, Jeremiah Smith and 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:09.160 number six Tyler Warren were completely unranked and the dude 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:13.360 caught one hundred and one catches. Number seven Kelvin Banks 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:17.120 from Texas, who's going to be a top first round 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:20.320 pick this year, and he had a preseason rank of nine, 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:24.720 so he excelled that. Abdul Carter from Penn State preseason 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:29.000 ranking twenty, ended up at eight. Dylan Gabriel started at sixteen, 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:32.960 ended up at number nine because he clearly helped the 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:38.600 Oregon season. And then you had Kyle Kannard from South 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:44.920 Carolina at number ten and he started out the season unranked. 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:50.320 Now here is where some of the things, like the 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:54.640 controversial things like so you had Nick Nash, the wide 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:55.840 receiver from San Jose. 0:14:55.880 --> 0:15:04.360 State, and he had a good season. And he's actually the. 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:08.840 Third Group of five player that was ranked and placed 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:14.240 ahead of Tetoroa McMillan, who was at number twenty eight. 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:18.320 Because the draft is coming up and we're going to 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:22.320 compare those things to that, because it's actually gonna be 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:25.080 interesting to see how that kid fares in the NFL, 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:29.720 because on one hand, his stats were ridiculous. He you know, 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:33.720 most yards, most touchdowns, most catches during the regular season 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:37.360 triple Crown got, but he didn't get the love because 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:40.760 a lot of it was done against you know, fcs 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:46.960 or bad teams or bad G five teams. So him 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:51.080 ranked at twenty four ahead of t mac at twenty eight, 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:55.440 that's gonna be tough to square, I'm gonna tell you, 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:57.960 unless he goes into the NFL and kills it. Because 0:15:58.080 --> 0:16:02.560 these rankings when you look at the rankings, these players 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:06.320 are like the players that were most impactful this season, 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:11.160 like Mason Graham at Michigan, big impact because they don't 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:18.240 beat Ohio State without them. Number twelve, you had another 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:22.160 FCS player. You had Harold fannin junior tight end out 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:25.640 of Bowling Green, one hundred and seventeen receptions, ten touchdowns, 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:31.520 fifteen hundred yards, preseason, unranked, And this goes to go 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:37.360 show you too, how the season, how the preseason and 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:42.160 the postseason shakeout. Just like the preseason rankings, you have 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:44.520 players that are well, you have teams that are ranked 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:47.440 very high, and then they fall down lower. So I 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:51.360 actually love this ranking. Now here is one that is 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:58.320 going to rub people the wrong way. Jalen Milroad was 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:01.760 unranked at the end the season, and I was like, 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:04.919 I'm actually not mad at that, not mad at it 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:13.560 at all, because Alabama completely underwhelmed this season and there 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:16.320 were times where he was good, but he didn't play 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:19.639 superhero ball. Now, do I believe he's probably one of 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:24.400 the best hundred college football players this year, Yes, probably, 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:29.800 But the way that his performance turned out, it just 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:33.479 didn't line up in that line in that bank. But 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:38.320 I will say the most underrated, the most underrated in 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:42.160 the ESPN Top one hundred postseason was number sixty nine, 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:45.000 Diego Pavia. And for some reason, I feel like it's 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:48.399 appropriate that he was number sixty nine, like just just 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:52.560 something that a spectacle. At that point, you all you 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:56.800 need to do is ask Alabama and ask Auburn about 0:17:56.840 --> 0:18:01.240 Diego Pavia. Now he guessed at number sixty nine, he 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:04.840 was recognized, but you have to think about the impact 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:10.840 that him and Vanderbilt had on college football. 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:11.400 This year. 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:16.119 They were no longer the bottom sellar dwellers of the SEC. 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:19.639 They beat Alabama for the first time in forty years. 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:24.960 This is not just a layup, and Diego Pavia was 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:27.880 the catalyst for that, and obviously their coach Clark leave. 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:30.919 But come on, man, the man needed to be higher 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:36.879 in terms of what his impact was. And here is 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:41.240 where another player that he still ended up ranks. But 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:46.240 think about this. Expectations can be an image killer. Because 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:50.040 you at James Pierce Junior, the kid from Tennessee. He 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:53.320 was number one in the preseason Top one hundred and 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:57.639 his eighteen point seven percent pressure rate was second best 0:18:57.680 --> 0:19:01.880 amongst all defenders in FBS. This year, and he finished 0:19:01.880 --> 0:19:06.080 the season rank number forty one. That lets you know 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:13.320 that expectations when they don't necessarily match well, when expectations 0:19:13.320 --> 0:19:18.000 are so high, and even when you play at the 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:21.159 level that you would have expected, when you have the 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:25.800 Jeremiah Smiths pop up, you have the other teams pop up, 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:31.160 the other players pop up that were not expected. Now 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:36.240 that for some reason fills more grandiose. Now Here is 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:43.000 one thing that I did agree with. Will Howard quarterback 0:19:43.080 --> 0:19:48.560 for Ohio State. He finished twenty spots behind Kyle McCord, 0:19:49.240 --> 0:19:51.760 so we got fifty seven and thirty seven. 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:53.200 Loved it. 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:58.480 The reason why I love this is because Kyle McCord 0:19:59.680 --> 0:20:03.679 was a better quarterback than Will Howard this year. And 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:06.600 I do believe that even though Ohio State won the 0:20:06.720 --> 0:20:10.080 national championship, that the team would have been better off 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:14.119 they would have They probably would have gone undefeated with 0:20:14.440 --> 0:20:18.760 Kyle McCord as their quarterback instead of Will Howard. Not 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:22.800 saying the kid is bad, but one kid is better. 0:20:24.040 --> 0:20:27.520 That's not a distawhild Will Howard. That's just a compliment 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:31.240 to Kyle McCord. But the cool part was that you 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:34.560 ended up with four freshmen on this list Leonora's Sellers 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:37.240 out of South Carolina, who we can't wait to watch 0:20:37.320 --> 0:20:41.040 him next season. You had Sam Levitt out of Arizona State, 0:20:41.119 --> 0:20:47.119 who preseason hype going into next year is crazy crazy. 0:20:48.040 --> 0:20:50.760 I mean just I think it's too much, and we'll 0:20:50.800 --> 0:20:53.280 talk about that on a later date. You got Ryan 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:57.919 Williams from Alabama, the seventeen year old wide receiver. I 0:20:57.920 --> 0:21:00.840 don't think he'll be seventeen next season, so maybe he'll 0:21:00.880 --> 0:21:03.320 just be the eighteen year old wide receiver. And then 0:21:03.359 --> 0:21:06.840 you had Jeremiah Smith. So did you guys like the list? 0:21:06.880 --> 0:21:09.040 I'll put a tag to it down there so you 0:21:09.080 --> 0:21:10.840 guys can see it in the descriptions. 0:21:10.880 --> 0:21:12.360 Will make sure that you guys check it out. 0:21:13.240 --> 0:21:18.480 Next thing up, does the college football regular season still matter? 0:21:19.600 --> 0:21:20.320 That's the question. 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:24.760 Because your second and third favorite college football media people, 0:21:25.119 --> 0:21:27.840 they will tell you that it doesn't matter as much, 0:21:27.960 --> 0:21:32.640 oh the regular season. It's watered down now and all 0:21:32.680 --> 0:21:37.159 of that wrong. They are looking at this from the 0:21:37.240 --> 0:21:44.399 complete wrong lens. Actually, more games matter than have ever mattered. 0:21:45.560 --> 0:21:45.760 Now. 0:21:45.840 --> 0:21:48.639 Where they are right is is that games like the 0:21:48.680 --> 0:21:53.480 Big Game Michigan Ohio State, the Iron Bowl, Alabama Auburn 0:21:53.840 --> 0:21:57.640 losing that game now will not tank your season. If 0:21:57.680 --> 0:22:00.920 you've done enough work up front, you will still make 0:22:00.920 --> 0:22:02.040 the college football playoff. 0:22:02.160 --> 0:22:02.560 You can. 0:22:03.400 --> 0:22:06.600 But here is where they are completely wrong is that 0:22:06.680 --> 0:22:09.760 those games, the magnitude and the impact of those games 0:22:09.800 --> 0:22:11.679 where if you lose them, you don't go to the 0:22:11.720 --> 0:22:16.200 conference championship, or that part they are right about. However, 0:22:16.560 --> 0:22:25.879 more games matter because the conference championship races without the divisions. 0:22:23.600 --> 0:22:26.960 Have been heated and they are not even decided. 0:22:27.520 --> 0:22:32.040 Only one team I believe had clinched going in of 0:22:32.080 --> 0:22:35.480 the power for conferences had clinched going into the last 0:22:35.520 --> 0:22:37.640 week of the season, and that was Oregon. 0:22:38.160 --> 0:22:39.000 That was it. 0:22:39.359 --> 0:22:43.040 So we didn't We couldn't definitively say who was playing 0:22:43.040 --> 0:22:46.480 in the Big Ten Championship, who was playing in the 0:22:46.520 --> 0:22:51.640 SEC Championship, the ACC Championship. Oh wait, hold up, SMU 0:22:51.720 --> 0:22:55.280 was still that was in that category two, So you couldn't, 0:22:55.640 --> 0:22:59.920 or the Big Twelve especially, you couldn't definitively say who 0:23:00.160 --> 0:23:03.040 was going to play it. So that means that damn 0:23:03.040 --> 0:23:07.200 near every game in the conference mattered at the end 0:23:07.240 --> 0:23:10.400 of the season, and that's not what would have typically 0:23:10.520 --> 0:23:14.600 happened in the in the normal set of world. In 0:23:14.640 --> 0:23:18.119 the four team playoffs, you really only had like six 0:23:18.240 --> 0:23:21.199 or seven teams going into the last week of the 0:23:21.240 --> 0:23:25.119 season that even had an iota of a chance to 0:23:25.160 --> 0:23:30.040 make the college football playoffs. That's the difference. So Tennessee 0:23:30.200 --> 0:23:33.680 Vandy at the end of the season actually mattered, even 0:23:33.720 --> 0:23:38.080 though Tennessee couldn't go to the SEC Championship. Minnesota, Penn 0:23:38.200 --> 0:23:46.920 State mattered, Clemson, pit mattered BYU, Arizona State mattered, Georgia Tech. 0:23:47.119 --> 0:23:50.760 Georgia actually mattered, not just the teams that were ranked 0:23:50.800 --> 0:23:54.280 from one to you know, six in the last couple 0:23:54.280 --> 0:23:57.440 of weeks of the season. No, because those buys were 0:23:57.480 --> 0:23:59.399 on the line and everything else. 0:23:59.520 --> 0:24:01.800 So if you. 0:24:02.080 --> 0:24:04.920 Love college football like we do here on another Fraid show, 0:24:05.400 --> 0:24:09.159 don't sit here and let these people bait you and 0:24:09.240 --> 0:24:12.160 try to tell you that the regular season was not 0:24:12.320 --> 0:24:15.119 as important and that the twelve team playoff and that 0:24:15.240 --> 0:24:17.080 four was the answer. They just want to be right 0:24:17.119 --> 0:24:22.240 about about four. Four was never the right answer. Expansion 0:24:22.359 --> 0:24:23.560 was always the right answer. 0:24:23.880 --> 0:24:24.680 I was an. 0:24:24.560 --> 0:24:30.040 Eighteen playoff guy, but the twelve I'm not mad at 0:24:30.119 --> 0:24:33.840 I think that sixteen is the answer only because I 0:24:33.880 --> 0:24:37.399 don't like boys. I do not believe anybody should be 0:24:37.400 --> 0:24:41.920 getting buyes, and we saw the bye problem this year, 0:24:42.880 --> 0:24:45.600 just saying told y'all that this was the problem that 0:24:45.600 --> 0:24:46.280 we were gonna have. 0:24:47.640 --> 0:24:50.879 Next thing up. I want to give Bill Belichick a 0:24:51.160 --> 0:24:51.760 shout out. 0:24:52.720 --> 0:24:56.959 Bill Belichick a shout out because and I'm assuming that 0:24:57.000 --> 0:25:01.400 this is because of him and him leaving no stone unturned. 0:25:02.240 --> 0:25:06.560 That Keenan Memorial Stadium which has since thirty which has 0:25:06.600 --> 0:25:11.800 had synthetic turf since twenty twenty. So Keenan Memorial Stadium 0:25:11.880 --> 0:25:15.680 synthetic turf since twenty twenty, that they switched from natural 0:25:15.760 --> 0:25:22.159 grass after Mike Brown was hired, and now they're athletic 0:25:22.280 --> 0:25:26.680 director Bubba Cunningham. He actually gave credit to Bill Belichick 0:25:26.720 --> 0:25:30.760