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Speaker 1: other people feel. I'll get into the difference between how

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Speaker 1: I would love to cover college football versus the way

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Speaker 1: our audience wants it covered. But first, let me tell you,

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Speaker 1: let me tell you why we do it this way.

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Speaker 1: So I had Jesse waste a lot of time today

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Speaker 1: going and looking at how often we really have talked

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Speaker 1: about the Big Twelve spoiler alert. Pretty fair amount, pretty

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Speaker 1: fair amount. We have not talked about the Big Twelve

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Speaker 1: as much as the SEC or the Big Ten because

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Speaker 1: our numbers completely and utterly overwhelmingly suggest that our audience

436
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Speaker 1: doesn't want that to the degree that we talk about

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Speaker 1: the SEC and the Big Ten. So what have we

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Speaker 1: said from day one? We have said from day one

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Speaker 1: one that we don't stack the show for us. We've

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Speaker 1: got to stack the show for the audience. And then

441
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Speaker 1: when we do stuff occasionally, maybe even recently, that feedback

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Speaker 1: indicates the audience didn't want Then we got to regroup,

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Speaker 1: and then we got to move on, and we got

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Speaker 1: to make changes moving forward. Right, So we learned quite

445
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Speaker 1: a while ago what really moves the needle, what kind

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Speaker 1: of moves the needle, what doesn't move the needle, And

447
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Speaker 1: what's tough is there's some things that don't move the

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Speaker 1: needle to a large degree that I wish moved the needle.

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Speaker 1: This gets to the part where I tell you how

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Speaker 1: I wish it was. Here's how I wish it was.

451
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Speaker 1: I wish that anytime we talked about the Big Twelve

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Speaker 1: on the show it just went bonkers. But it doesn't.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't. So if I did the show for me,

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Speaker 1: that's kind of how it would be. In fact, if

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Speaker 1: I did the show for me, I would just talk

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Speaker 1: about the Big twelve every bit as much. I would

457
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Speaker 1: talk about the acc every bit as much, because in

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Speaker 1: a perfect world, all the conferences matter equally, all the

459
00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:04,600
Speaker 1: interest is spread like peanut butter over toast, and everybody

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Speaker 1: cares equally about all the conferences. Also, why not let's

461
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Speaker 1: just make the Pac ten come back. I'd love to

462
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Speaker 1: have the Southwest Conference back. I would love to not

463
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Speaker 1: have conferences with eighteen teams in them. I'd love all that,

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Speaker 1: But we don't live in a fairy tale world. We

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Speaker 1: live in a real world, and the world we live

466
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Speaker 1: in right now doesn't necessarily operate the way that I

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Speaker 1: wanted it to. So Chad, that was his name, right, Bradley,

468
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Speaker 1: So Chad. I don't know what else to say other

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Speaker 1: than to tell you you're the reason that we do

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Speaker 1: the show the way we do. It's not the way

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Speaker 1: I prefer it, but it's the way it is. I

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Speaker 1: happen to think the Big Twelve up until last year

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Speaker 1: has been the most entertaining conference to watch in America

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Speaker 1: because it was so fraught with parody, with competitive balance.

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Speaker 1: And I also said the reason it wasn't a joke

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Speaker 1: when I started calling it America's college football conference. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: we do stuff joking around on the show. When I

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Speaker 1: said that two years ago, I thought the Big Twelve

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Speaker 1: should adopt it as a marketing slogan, because I thought

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Speaker 1: that if you took everything that America and college football

481
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Speaker 1: fans were claiming they loved, and you took the things

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Speaker 1: that they claimed they didn't like, I thought the best

483
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Speaker 1: ratio of things we like to things we didn't like

484
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Speaker 1: out of any conference existed in the Big Twelve. And

485
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Speaker 1: you also had this stretch where teams were finishing like

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Speaker 1: second to last one year and then winning the conference

487
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Speaker 1: the next year. It was a total pinball game out

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Speaker 1: there every year. And now Texas Tech may have messed

489
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Speaker 1: it up. Now, Joey McGuire may have messed it up.

490
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Speaker 1: Now we're only a couple of years into this new

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Speaker 1: era where Texas Tech is a massive spender out there,

492
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Speaker 1: but Texas Tech pretty well dominated the conference last year.

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Speaker 1: Texas Tech at FanDuel right now, overwhelming best odds to

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Speaker 1: win the conference this upcoming year. And then maybe maybe

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Speaker 1: you're making the argument Brigham Young is like one B,

496
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Speaker 1: but they weren't on their level last year. They got

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Speaker 1: smoked twice. And so if we're entering this period now

498
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Speaker 1: where the Big Twelve doesn't have the cachet maybe that

499
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Speaker 1: the other two conferences do, and they're losing their moniker

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Speaker 1: as the conference that any team could win any given year,

501
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Speaker 1: well that's not great. It's great for Texas Tech, but

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Speaker 1: that's not necessarily great for my claim that it's America's

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Speaker 1: college Football Conference. But Chad, I'd love to talk about

504
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Speaker 1: it more. Man, I'm just telling you we do big.

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Speaker 1: I'll put it to you like this. If we work

506
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Speaker 1: for a network, we'd have to cover the Big twelve

507
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Speaker 1: less than we do. Fortunately, we don't work for anyone.

508
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Speaker 1: We own the show, so we get to kind of

509
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Speaker 1: dictate the way we do it. But there's you know,

510
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Speaker 1: there's a certain balance that, hey, we're not getting dictated

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Speaker 1: to what we can and can't talk about, or how

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Speaker 1: often we talk about one thing or another thing. But

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Speaker 1: there are only so many times that you can do

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Speaker 1: what we think are really really good, really entertaining segments

515
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Speaker 1: on the Big Twelve. And it does like a fifth

516
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Speaker 1: of the traffic that a Texas A and M video does,

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Speaker 1: to the point where you have to look and say,

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Speaker 1: all right, they've spoken. The audience has spoken. Whether I

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Speaker 1: like it or not, the audience has spoken. No knock

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00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:11,440
Speaker 1: on Texas A and M. Of course we love the Aggies.

521
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Speaker 1: So right now, you know, I was going to say

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Speaker 1: it's a fact that everyone watching the show is wearing clothing,

523
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:23,480
Speaker 1: but I can't prove that. I can't prove that. It's

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Speaker 1: probably a fact that if you left the house today. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I still can't prove that they were wearing clothing. Studies

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Speaker 1: show that a majority of our audience that leaves the

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Speaker 1: house wears clothing. At least something is in your closet.

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Speaker 1: Whether you choose to wear it or not, that's your

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Speaker 1: business and we're not trying to change your lifestyle at all.

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Speaker 1: What I am saying is, if you are one of

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Speaker 1: those people who does wear shirts, or does wear pullovers,

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Speaker 1: or does wear hats, humbly Paystatemateial dot com is there

533
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Speaker 1: for you. Got new items over there that I didn't

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Speaker 1: even know about. I was perusing last week because I

535
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Speaker 1: was about to send someone something. Yes, I buy stuff

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Speaker 1: out of our own store. No freebies here, and it's

537
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:09,920
Speaker 1: all like five shirts that I knew, we conceptualized them.

538
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Speaker 1: I didn't know that they had uploaded him into the store.

539
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Speaker 1: But that's Alex for you. She never sleeps. So peytstatematerial

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Speaker 1: dot com is there for your convenience and it No

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Speaker 1: wardrobe is complete without it. That's what some people are

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Speaker 1: saying at least. All right, let's move on. So we

543
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Speaker 1: did something the other night. Oh my bad, I didn't

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Speaker 1: tell the live chat. Hello, there we go. Me and

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Speaker 1: Jesse back to back just posted there. I'm the one

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Speaker 1: that didn't type in all caps, if anyone's trying to

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Speaker 1: pick me out. The other day, we did biggest questions

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Speaker 1: in the SEC and then someone said, what about the

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Speaker 1: Big Ten? So I'm gonna do biggest questions in the

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Speaker 1: Big Ten right now. Now keep in mind it's February,

551
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Speaker 1: so if you're watching this in the summer, I may

552
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Speaker 1: have changed my mind, but right now I got to

553
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Speaker 1: think about the Big Ten in terms of tiers. I

554
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Speaker 1: always kind of think that way. That's how my mind

555
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Speaker 1: processes a conference. Is it still tier one? The same

556
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Speaker 1: as we ended last year? And then nobody else? So

557
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Speaker 1: the way we ended last year, the Big Ten had

558
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Speaker 1: pretty clearly organized itself to where Indiana and Oregon and

559
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Speaker 1: Ohio State that was tier one, And I'm wondering, is

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Speaker 1: that how we start twenty twenty six or has anyone

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Speaker 1: else joined that equation like Ohio States can have Julian

562
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Speaker 1: saying Jeremiah Smith a breakout running back potential, got four

563
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Speaker 1: or five back on the O line, they're in. They're

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Speaker 1: Tier one. Indiana, the staff, the culture, what they just

565
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Speaker 1: did landed the number one portal class got Josh Hoover

566
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Speaker 1: from TCU. Really good skill pickups. Yes, Tier one Oregon

567
00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:51,840
Speaker 1: talent acquirer every year at the top level. Dante Moore's back,

568
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:56,400
Speaker 1: entire defensive line is back. Really good skill players there. Yes,

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Speaker 1: they're in Tier one. Does anyone else crack that rotation?

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Speaker 1: Because right now, if you think about tier two in

571
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Speaker 1: the Big ten, at least as we would sit and

572
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Speaker 1: you would have Michigan there, like you got a new staff,

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Speaker 1: Bryce Underwood's still there, could have a really really good

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Speaker 1: running back room, probably a notch below perceptionally. Can they elevate?

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Speaker 1: Can USC elevate? You got Mayava entering year three, Lincoln

576
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Speaker 1: Riley with a third year quarterback. I like the roster advancement,

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Speaker 1: and I know they're really high on their positioning there.

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Speaker 1: The big question is going to be line of scrimmage play.

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Speaker 1: And I don't mind withholding a little doubt or maintaining

580
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Speaker 1: a little doubt there. It's okay to be a little skeptical.

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Speaker 1: USC has not earned benefit of the doubt. USC is

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Speaker 1: not like Ohio State, where even if they're replacing everybody,

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Speaker 1: I just know it's Ohio State. Man, They'll get it

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Speaker 1: done on the line of scrimmage in their worst of

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Speaker 1: worst years. How bad is Ohio State going to be

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Speaker 1: on the line of scrimmage? Well, us, he's not there yet,

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Speaker 1: So that's why we're asking. Are they still in Tier two?

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Speaker 1: Can they elevate Tier one? Penn State brought over a

589
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Speaker 1: critical portion of the top of the Iowa State roster,

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Speaker 1: decent retention on the Penn State end the roster that

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Speaker 1: that staff inherited, pretty soft schedule. Are they able to

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Speaker 1: elevate year one under Matt Campbell? Does Iowa do anything

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Speaker 1: different than they've normally been doing? Can Washington elevate? Don't know?

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Speaker 1: Big questions in Tier two? And then man, we got

595
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Speaker 1: to looking at this today. The bottom of the Big

596
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Speaker 1: ten was horrible last year, terrible, So the questions in

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Speaker 1: a new day. Is the bottom six in the Big

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Speaker 1: ten any better than they were last year? So let

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Speaker 1: me rattle this off to you right quick. Perdue to

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Speaker 1: nine Maryland. This is conference conference records perdue to nine

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Speaker 1: Maryland and Michigan State one in eight Wisconsin and Rutgers

602
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Speaker 1: two and seven, UCLA three and six. Now that group

603
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:08,359
Speaker 1: of teams Purdue Maryland, Michigan State, Wisconsin, Rutgers, Ucla they

604
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Speaker 1: played Ohio State, Oregon, and Indiana a combined twelve times

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Speaker 1: last year. The average margin of defeat was thirty four points.

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Speaker 1: Those are not out of conference Cupcake Week results, people,

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Speaker 1: Those are a dozen conference matchups. There was no one

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Speaker 1: possession game out of those dozen, and the average margin

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Speaker 1: of defeat was five touchdowns in conference play. So suffice

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Speaker 1: it to say, there's nowhere to go of it up

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Speaker 1: for the bottom of the Big Ten. And then what

612
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Speaker 1: happens with Nebraska? I gave Nebraska their own little block

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Speaker 1: on my sheet here because Matt rule in year three

614
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Speaker 1: it was supposed to explode. Why because just a lot

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Speaker 1: of us said so the rule rule as we trademarked

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Speaker 1: it to be. And they went seven and six, and

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00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 1: there were four and five in league play. And now

618
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Speaker 1: Dylan Ryol is gone. And now Kenny minshe just kind

619
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Speaker 1: of hung out in town for a day and now

620
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Speaker 1: he's gone. And so it's Anthony Calandria coming there from

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Speaker 1: UNLV and they've got to play Indiana, they got to

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Speaker 1: play Oregon, they got to play Ohio State. What happens

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Speaker 1: is the rule rule just delayed until year four? Or

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Speaker 1: do we look at it and say I don't know. Man,

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00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 1: is the juice ever gonna be there? That's where my

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00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:26,200
Speaker 1: head's at. With the Big ten. They're watching us in

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Speaker 1: Winston Salem, North Carolina. Bogata, Columbia is tuned down, and Brunswick, Georgia,

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Speaker 1: it's tuned in. Thank you so much, Thank you so

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Speaker 1: very much. We had a question earlier today, a lot

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Speaker 1: of whale breaches on the show tonight. Should I explain? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'll explain the whale breach. We have enough new viewers.

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Speaker 1: I don't think I have keep it up, brarely. I

633
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Speaker 1: don't think I have a sinus infection. I don't have

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Speaker 1: sinus issues or anything like that. However, what we have

635
00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:59,640
Speaker 1: found in the Fall in the Spring is sometimes I

636
00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:03,200
Speaker 1: get a little congested during the show. I don't know.

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00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:06,080
Speaker 1: It's just kind of like a drainy feeling a little bit.

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Speaker 1: It's not terrible. I'm not asking people to feel sorry

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Speaker 1: for me. But what happens is, in lieu of taking

640
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:16,680
Speaker 1: ten second pauses, which is like death in podcast world

641
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:19,719
Speaker 1: and in content production world, in lieu of doing that,

642
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:22,759
Speaker 1: I just kind of go so I can clear my

643
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:26,160
Speaker 1: nasal passages. For a long time, I thought no one

644
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 1: could hear it, and then some guy came in the

645
00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:33,160
Speaker 1: live chat one day and said, why are you making

646
00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:35,880
Speaker 1: the sound of a whale breaching the surface of the ocean,

647
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:40,160
Speaker 1: which I thought was a little extreme, and now everybody

648
00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:42,400
Speaker 1: calls it that. It's become one of the worst inside

649
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:45,759
Speaker 1: jokes on the show. And unfortunately tonight, I think we're

650
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:48,839
Speaker 1: about a dozen whale breaches deep, no end in sight.

651
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:51,879
Speaker 1: And that has nothing to do with the question that's

652
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 1: about to be asked by Jimmy. I just wanted to

653
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:56,680
Speaker 1: explain if you're listening on a podcast, or maybe like

654
00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:59,000
Speaker 1: your husband or boyfriend is listening and you just happen

655
00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:00,800
Speaker 1: to be along for the ride, think something's wrong with

656
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:04,720
Speaker 1: the audio. No, no, Mitch didn't screw up the podcast feed.

657
00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 1: That's just your boy breaching whale breach. Jimmy from Oklahoma

658
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 1: City said, how did the idea of doing a show

659
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:16,200
Speaker 1: with Busting with the Boys even come together? Did you

660
00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:19,520
Speaker 1: guys know each other already? Will the show continue in

661
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:23,760
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six? Good question. I didn't know anyone cared.

662
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:30,480
Speaker 1: I knew of Will and Taylor for a while. You know,

663
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:32,600
Speaker 1: they did play in the National Football League, after all,

664
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:35,279
Speaker 1: they did play in Michigan and Nebraska respectively. I'm not

665
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:37,520
Speaker 1: a savage. I knew who they were, I didn't know

666
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:41,920
Speaker 1: them personally until I think we met in Eugene, Oregon

667
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:44,759
Speaker 1: at the Ohio State Oregon game two years ago. It's

668
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:48,120
Speaker 1: a great game, awesome atmosphere. Now I had, you know,

669
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:52,680
Speaker 1: like me and Will had talked digitally. Ran into Taylor

670
00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:55,000
Speaker 1: one time at the airport and there, nothing happened there.

671
00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:57,560
Speaker 1: Nothing happened there. So Compton and I talked for a

672
00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:00,439
Speaker 1: little while. But then we met each other two years

673
00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:04,800
Speaker 1: ago up in Eugene. Hit it off immediately, and we're

674
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 1: both FANDUL partners, and so FanDuel would ask constantly, why

675
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:12,600
Speaker 1: don't you guys do anything together? And we're like, well,

676
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:15,680
Speaker 1: say no. More like it's a very very easy concept

677
00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 1: to sell us on. So the concept of doing the

678
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:21,120
Speaker 1: Wednesday locker room show came together. It was we were

679
00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:23,040
Speaker 1: kind of looking for a reason to do something, and

680
00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:26,000
Speaker 1: there's the reason, Voila. So what you want to do

681
00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:27,279
Speaker 1: in life is you want to come up with good

682
00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:29,680
Speaker 1: ideas and get someone else to pay for it. It's

683
00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:32,600
Speaker 1: the whole strategy of pretty much everything we do. So

684
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:36,759
Speaker 1: we did it every Wednesday, It was awesome. It was

685
00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:39,319
Speaker 1: like the most fun that we had all week. At

686
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:41,799
Speaker 1: least I can speak for myself. They seem to have

687
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:44,319
Speaker 1: enjoyed it, and that kind of grew and grew and

688
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 1: grew throughout the year. As for whether it will continue

689
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:52,880
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six, oh yes, oh yeah, yeah, maybe

690
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:56,239
Speaker 1: even bigger and better. There are rumors, after all, and

691
00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 1: whomstami to confirm or deny. I can confirm that the

692
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:02,839
Speaker 1: rumor exists. That's what I can confirm. But let me

693
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:05,080
Speaker 1: tell you so for those of you who watch the show,

694
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:07,600
Speaker 1: you kind of picked up on this. There's a weird

695
00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:10,319
Speaker 1: thing that happens in media. And I've been in it

696
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:13,960
Speaker 1: in some shape form or fashion for like not quite

697
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:17,359
Speaker 1: fifteen years, but closer to fifteen years than ten years,

698
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:20,560
Speaker 1: like thirteen years. And I've done it with no one

699
00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:22,560
Speaker 1: listening and no one watching. I've done it with a

700
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:24,560
Speaker 1: few people listening and watching. I've done it with a

701
00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:27,040
Speaker 1: lot of people listening and watching. We've done TV, We've

702
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:29,320
Speaker 1: done podcasts, We've done radio, We've done all that stuff.

703
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:34,319
Speaker 1: And I've done local news, I've done local sports. I've

704
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:37,120
Speaker 1: worked with a lot of people. Here's what's crazy, about

705
00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 1: media that you would never know until you work in it.

706
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:43,680
Speaker 1: The people you get along with, the people you like,

707
00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:49,640
Speaker 1: you don't automatically have chemistry with. Sometimes you love a

708
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:52,720
Speaker 1: dude and then you're on air with him and there's

709
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:55,040
Speaker 1: no chemistry. It's like oil and water. And then here's

710
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:57,879
Speaker 1: what really will blow your mind. There'll be another dude

711
00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:01,800
Speaker 1: you can't stand. You're on air and you just click.

712
00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:05,480
Speaker 1: So what you want to find is the sweet spot,

713
00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:09,719
Speaker 1: which is obviously find people you love who you click

714
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:13,040
Speaker 1: with on air. That is an extremely rare and extremely

715
00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:17,319
Speaker 1: valuable commodity in our line of work, and like, I

716
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:19,719
Speaker 1: got it with those guys. So you just want to

717
00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:23,080
Speaker 1: build a fence around that and maintain it as long

718
00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:26,000
Speaker 1: as possible and grow it as big as you can.

719
00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:29,680
Speaker 1: And ESPN gave us the opportunity to do that this year,

720
00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:33,520
Speaker 1: and we're really, really really excited about what we could

721
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:36,399
Speaker 1: do with it in this year and years to come.

722
00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:38,640
Speaker 1: But that was really fun because I'm just telling you,

723
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:41,399
Speaker 1: I've been in both positions. I've been in positions where

724
00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:44,120
Speaker 1: I want to have on air chemistry with someone and

725
00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 1: it's just not there. And then there's another person you

726
00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:49,760
Speaker 1: almost hate that you have chemistry with them. But then

727
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:53,560
Speaker 1: every so often you just you get put in a room.

728
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:55,600
Speaker 1: You don't ever have to rehearse it. You don't ever

729
00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:57,360
Speaker 1: have to get to know them. You don't ever have

730
00:40:57,440 --> 00:41:00,440
Speaker 1: to practice it. Truthfully, you can't practice ca mystery. You

731
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:04,400
Speaker 1: there have it or you don't. And it flows so freely,

732
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:07,239
Speaker 1: and it's like you go from a salmon swimming up

733
00:41:07,239 --> 00:41:10,160
Speaker 1: stream to just that salmon just hits the reverse button.

734
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 1: He just turns it around one eighties and he just flows.

735
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:15,920
Speaker 1: That's kind of how it feels. So yeah, I don't

736
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:19,080
Speaker 1: think you've seen the last of that show. Let's continue.

737
00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:22,080
Speaker 1: Have we seen the last of Oklahoma? In the playoff?

738
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:27,040
Speaker 1: Chicken Joe, who only identifies as an OU fan living

739
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:31,399
Speaker 1: deep behind enemy lines, horns down via emoji. He said,

740
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:34,080
Speaker 1: Brent Venables didn't lose a single starter to the portal,

741
00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:36,840
Speaker 1: only to the NFL back to back playoff runs and

742
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:40,880
Speaker 1: some serious noise feel very realistic. What are the odds

743
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:44,640
Speaker 1: on back to back playoff appearances higher than Longhorn fans

744
00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:48,000
Speaker 1: want to admit? So he editorialized a little bit there

745
00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:50,600
Speaker 1: at the end. So we did consult with fan duel

746
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:55,319
Speaker 1: to give the boring official answer here, Oklahoma has the

747
00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:58,200
Speaker 1: twelve best odds to win the national title this upcoming year.

748
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:00,960
Speaker 1: But I don't think Chick and Joe deep in enemy

749
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:03,360
Speaker 1: territory hit us up just to find out what the

750
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:08,040
Speaker 1: FanDuel odds are, respectfully. So they got a tough schedule

751
00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:09,920
Speaker 1: this year, but they had one last year. We had

752
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:11,800
Speaker 1: him with the number two toughest schedule in the country

753
00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:13,960
Speaker 1: last year and they still made the playoffs. So it

754
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:17,480
Speaker 1: doesn't really matter necessarily or it's not a barrier to

755
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:20,280
Speaker 1: entry for Oklahoma that they have a tough schedule. Here's

756
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:24,680
Speaker 1: the question. Now, I'm very very very careful asking this

757
00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:27,399
Speaker 1: because I want to not talk myself into or out

758
00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 1: of anything in February, but I wrote it down right here.

759
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:34,680
Speaker 1: Did we see Oklahoma's full potential last year? Because remember

760
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:38,200
Speaker 1: they started off good and Matier was hot. They beat

761
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:41,920
Speaker 1: Michigan in Week two and things are just ascending ascending.

762
00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:46,520
Speaker 1: Then he gets hurt and then they eventually got him back,

763
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:49,040
Speaker 1: but the offense was never the same, and there ended

764
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:51,320
Speaker 1: up being two schools of thought. One school of thought

765
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:55,640
Speaker 1: was his injury derailed what could have been a Heisman

766
00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:59,040
Speaker 1: caliber season. The offense was off to the races. There

767
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:01,160
Speaker 1: was that school of thought. Then there was another school

768
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:04,160
Speaker 1: of thought that now he always had vulnerabilities and flaws

769
00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:07,080
Speaker 1: in his game, and he was going to get exposed anyway.

770
00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:11,080
Speaker 1: The injury just happened to be an excuse for explaining

771
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:13,600
Speaker 1: away what would have happened even without the injury. Now,

772
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:18,600
Speaker 1: usually when there are two like diametrically opposite schools of thought,

773
00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:22,600
Speaker 1: the truth is somewhere in between. Usually, so we'll see.

774
00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:26,120
Speaker 1: But what if Mateir was ascending and he was only

775
00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:28,880
Speaker 1: cut down by that injury, because remember, they couldn't run

776
00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:30,399
Speaker 1: the ball to save their lives. Last year they were

777
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:32,560
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirteenth in rush yards per game. There

778
00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:36,440
Speaker 1: were ninety ninth in explosive runs. So they did it

779
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:39,160
Speaker 1: without a running game. They made the playoff without a

780
00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:44,239
Speaker 1: running game. Here's the question, what is that offense this year?

781
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:48,600
Speaker 1: Do they do what Georgia did? Georgia wasn't good running

782
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:50,359
Speaker 1: the ball, and then they got pretty good running the ball.

783
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:53,960
Speaker 1: They had a little dip and then they picked themselves

784
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:56,759
Speaker 1: back up and they ran the ball very respectively last year.

785
00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:59,919
Speaker 1: Can Oklahoma do that this year? There's no excuse why

786
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:02,680
Speaker 1: they can't. And then you got Matier back again, and

787
00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:06,200
Speaker 1: he's got some good weaponry around him. What about the

788
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:08,200
Speaker 1: other side of the ball. Have we gotten to the

789
00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:11,040
Speaker 1: point where we can just blindly trust that Brent Vinibles

790
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:15,040
Speaker 1: is going to toss an excellent defense out there. Hey,

791
00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:17,279
Speaker 1: I kind of am there, but I don't know if

792
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:19,560
Speaker 1: they're gonna be number six in the country. So they

793
00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:21,720
Speaker 1: lost four of the top six on the d line,

794
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:24,439
Speaker 1: four or five linebackers. Now they got good players still.

795
00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:26,480
Speaker 1: So like Kip Lewis is still there. He led them

796
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:28,879
Speaker 1: in tackles last year. He led him in tackles, right, Jesse, Yeah,

797
00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:31,359
Speaker 1: Kip Lewis let him in tackles. David Stone's still there.

798
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:34,919
Speaker 1: They both Bowen kids are still there. So they've got

799
00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:39,239
Speaker 1: good players. It's just up front like that is that

800
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:42,000
Speaker 1: nuclear is gonna be there to where it seems almost

801
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:44,680
Speaker 1: impossible to be able to run on them, like was

802
00:44:44,719 --> 00:44:47,640
Speaker 1: the case last year. Number three run defense in the

803
00:44:47,680 --> 00:44:50,520
Speaker 1: country last year. So here's what I'm gonna do. I'm

804
00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:53,200
Speaker 1: gonna assume a little drop off and if it doesn't happen,

805
00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:56,399
Speaker 1: that's just all the better. I'm gonna assume. Let's say

806
00:44:56,440 --> 00:44:59,080
Speaker 1: they have the number twenty defense in the country. They'll

807
00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:01,480
Speaker 1: think that's disrespect, but I'm trying to be conservative here.

808
00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:03,200
Speaker 1: So let's say they have the number twenty defense in

809
00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:06,400
Speaker 1: the country. If I get Mateer equal to her better

810
00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:08,640
Speaker 1: than he was at his best last year, and I

811
00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:12,120
Speaker 1: get an improved ground game, which has to be a

812
00:45:12,239 --> 00:45:17,040
Speaker 1: laser sharp focus for them this spring, then that schedule.

813
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:20,919
Speaker 1: It's tough, but it's navigable because they did it last year.

814
00:45:21,719 --> 00:45:25,480
Speaker 1: They got seven of the top nineteen teams in the

815
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:28,640
Speaker 1: playoff odds at FanDuel on their schedule, so it gets

816
00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:31,200
Speaker 1: no easier for them. But it's hard to ignore the

817
00:45:31,239 --> 00:45:34,960
Speaker 1: competitive character that that group showed last year. And I

818
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:37,040
Speaker 1: do want to take this opportunity to say, when we

819
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:42,160
Speaker 1: put out our program rankings the other day, yes, yes, begrudgingly,

820
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:44,600
Speaker 1: I will admit it was an oversight that we left

821
00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:46,759
Speaker 1: ou out. They were supposed to be above Tennessee and

822
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:50,400
Speaker 1: Texas Tech. We're not perfect, we never claimed to be.

823
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:53,719
Speaker 1: So we're looking at a top ten program in America

824
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 1: looking to go back to back to the playoffs. I

825
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:58,920
Speaker 1: do agree, Yeah, I could easily see it happening. Luckily

826
00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:00,840
Speaker 1: it's February, so I don't have to make my predictions

827
00:46:00,840 --> 00:46:03,600
Speaker 1: for like another half a year. Basically, I'll probably hit

828
00:46:03,640 --> 00:46:06,520
Speaker 1: it around July. FanDuel right now, as you see, the

829
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:10,879
Speaker 1: exclusive odds provider of the show, FanDuel equips us with, well,

830
00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:14,520
Speaker 1: that information's publicly available, but FanDuel also equips us with

831
00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:18,520
Speaker 1: a lot of context that helps you know, during very

832
00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:21,360
Speaker 1: very interesting times during the college football season, when so

833
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:24,160
Speaker 1: and so would be favored on the neutral field, and

834
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:26,600
Speaker 1: then we get called out for it, and then FanDuel says, no, actually,

835
00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:30,080
Speaker 1: they're right, they would be favored. And then the dude

836
00:46:30,120 --> 00:46:32,879
Speaker 1: who was criticizing us and calling us a liar just says, well,

837
00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:35,839
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. Games aren't played on point spreads. They're

838
00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:37,799
Speaker 1: played on the field, And I'm like, we know, we

839
00:46:37,880 --> 00:46:41,239
Speaker 1: never suggested anything other than that. Anyway, FanDuel keeps their

840
00:46:41,239 --> 00:46:44,120
Speaker 1: hands clean on that. That's us. We traffic. We traffic

841
00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:46,560
Speaker 1: in the mud on those sorts of arguments. But right now,

842
00:46:47,360 --> 00:46:49,600
Speaker 1: new sign ups over there, of course you're a new

843
00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:52,359
Speaker 1: sign up, you bet five dollars. If you win your

844
00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:54,279
Speaker 1: first bet over there, you get one hundred dollars in

845
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:59,480
Speaker 1: bonus bets. Jesse suggested maybe some baseball futures today, you know,

846
00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:02,160
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh pirate settle now what the win total is this year? No,

847
00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:04,960
Speaker 1: it's just under apparently just under. Don't even know what

848
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:07,640
Speaker 1: the number is. It's really responsible. But you got March

849
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:09,560
Speaker 1: Madness coming up, you got conference tournaments coming up, you

850
00:47:09,600 --> 00:47:11,759
Speaker 1: got the college football futures you can hit right now.

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Speaker 1: Lastly, on the old program tonight, thank you guys so

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Speaker 1: Mood Tracker time. We're just weaving our way all throughout

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Speaker 1: the country. Tonight. We spun the wheel. It landed on

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Speaker 1: Notre Dame. The mood of the Notre Dame fan base

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00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:34,640
Speaker 1: right now. I'm just going to assume the role of

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00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:36,319
Speaker 1: a Notre Dame fan tonight because I have some things

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00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:39,120
Speaker 1: I want to say. I'm in pure gold rush mode

881
00:48:39,239 --> 00:48:43,680
Speaker 1: right now, which I know, yes, seems a little hokey

882
00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:45,880
Speaker 1: because it is Notre Dame. But I would kind of

883
00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:47,960
Speaker 1: say this even if this was Virginia Tech and they

884
00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:50,319
Speaker 1: were in the exact same position. Notre Dame is just

885
00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:55,160
Speaker 1: pure on gold rush, just full steam ahead, get out

886
00:48:55,160 --> 00:48:58,040
Speaker 1: of the way, or get run over. This is our time. Now.

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00:48:58,080 --> 00:49:02,759
Speaker 1: The haters will say, dude, Notre Dame, they're losing love,

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00:49:02,840 --> 00:49:05,680
Speaker 1: they're losing price. Yes, yes they are. But here's the

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00:49:05,680 --> 00:49:09,560
Speaker 1: thing about college football. If you lose players, you get

890
00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:13,200
Speaker 1: to replace them. So, yeah, they're losing two very very

891
00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:18,560
Speaker 1: good tailbags. But Williams and Young probably combine to make

892
00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:21,319
Speaker 1: a top ten tailback room for them this upcoming year,

893
00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:23,959
Speaker 1: which doesn't mean there's not a little bit of drop

894
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:26,759
Speaker 1: off there. It's just not off a cliff. And in

895
00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:30,120
Speaker 1: the aggregate, the rest of that team is loaded. Who

896
00:49:30,239 --> 00:49:33,399
Speaker 1: has this? Listen to this, all right, and you tell

897
00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:35,320
Speaker 1: me who else has this, because it's a very unique

898
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:38,120
Speaker 1: position that Notre Dame finds themselves in. You're looking at

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Speaker 1: the FanDuel odds to win it all this year, that's

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Speaker 1: not a typo. Notre Dame has the best odds in

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00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:46,120
Speaker 1: the entire country, and the reason is because the end

902
00:49:46,120 --> 00:49:48,719
Speaker 1: of the season last year winning ten straight. But they

903
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:51,840
Speaker 1: feel like they still got shafted out of a playoff spot,

904
00:49:53,719 --> 00:49:55,920
Speaker 1: and so they have this massive chip on their shoulder.

905
00:49:56,239 --> 00:49:58,879
Speaker 1: They've got a bolt majority of that roster back, they

906
00:49:58,880 --> 00:50:03,000
Speaker 1: got a loaded staff. CJ. Carr is now an experienced quarterback.

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00:50:03,280 --> 00:50:05,560
Speaker 1: They're probably in about as good a position in terms

908
00:50:05,560 --> 00:50:08,440
Speaker 1: of weaponry around him as they've been at any point

909
00:50:08,680 --> 00:50:11,799
Speaker 1: during Marcus Freeman's tenure there. And I would think this

910
00:50:11,920 --> 00:50:13,920
Speaker 1: is one of very few spots in the country this

911
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:16,319
Speaker 1: year where you look at the team it's fair to

912
00:50:16,320 --> 00:50:19,160
Speaker 1: say title or bust. And by title or bust, on

913
00:50:19,160 --> 00:50:22,120
Speaker 1: this show, we mean go play for the national title.

914
00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:24,040
Speaker 1: You know, That's how we hedge the bed a little bit,

915
00:50:24,120 --> 00:50:26,760
Speaker 1: because obviously, if Notre Dame plays for a national title

916
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:29,600
Speaker 1: and they lose in the final minute, it's not a bust.

917
00:50:30,239 --> 00:50:31,759
Speaker 1: But they got to be right in that mix for

918
00:50:31,880 --> 00:50:34,799
Speaker 1: the national title this year. And as for, you know,

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Speaker 1: the Notre Dame fan viewpoint on all this, Notre Dame

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00:50:38,920 --> 00:50:41,560
Speaker 1: fans always have to deal with folks hating on a

921
00:50:41,600 --> 00:50:45,040
Speaker 1: couple of different things. One any given year, there's a

922
00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:47,920
Speaker 1: large contingent of the college football public that thinks Notre

923
00:50:47,960 --> 00:50:50,360
Speaker 1: Dame's overrat him. And then number two, a lot of

924
00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:53,440
Speaker 1: people pissed off that you maintain your independence. And if

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Speaker 1: I'm a Notre Dame fan, like I think I'm well

926
00:50:55,440 --> 00:50:57,640
Speaker 1: cut out to be one because I'm well cut out

927
00:50:57,640 --> 00:50:59,680
Speaker 1: to look at all that and just smile at it.

928
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:03,200
Speaker 1: Love it. I would love it. I particularly love that

929
00:51:03,320 --> 00:51:06,280
Speaker 1: I get this team this year. But then in general,

930
00:51:06,719 --> 00:51:10,840
Speaker 1: the whole independence argument. You've never heard me on this show,

931
00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:13,560
Speaker 1: so I'm removing myself. I'm me again for a second.

932
00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:15,920
Speaker 1: You've never heard me yell for Notre name to join

933
00:51:15,960 --> 00:51:19,479
Speaker 1: a conference ever, because I know if I were Notre Dame,

934
00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:22,560
Speaker 1: I would do exactly what Notre Dame's done. Okay, sometime

935
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Speaker 1: I'm hopping back into the shoes of a Notre Dame vam.

936
00:51:25,880 --> 00:51:29,200
Speaker 1: I'd look around and I'd make the very simple retort

937
00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:31,680
Speaker 1: to anyone yelling that I need to join a conference,

938
00:51:31,719 --> 00:51:34,200
Speaker 1: that you'd do the exact same thing if you were us,

939
00:51:34,239 --> 00:51:36,919
Speaker 1: if you could do it. But you can't. So you're

940
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:41,080
Speaker 1: not actually upset about principle. You're upset out of envy,

941
00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:44,160
Speaker 1: out of jealousy. And by the way, some of you

942
00:51:44,320 --> 00:51:47,400
Speaker 1: used to be independent and you sold out. It's not

943
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:50,080
Speaker 1: our fault that we defined what matters to us, and

944
00:51:50,080 --> 00:51:52,120
Speaker 1: then we define what we believe in and then we

945
00:51:52,200 --> 00:51:55,000
Speaker 1: adhere to it. You know, we committed the cardinal sin

946
00:51:55,520 --> 00:51:59,600
Speaker 1: of maintaining who we are and what we claim we are,

947
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Speaker 1: while the rest of you jumped into conference boats to

948
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Speaker 1: save you left and right. We didn't need saving. We're

949
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:08,880
Speaker 1: Notre Dame. I would relish in just shouting that in

950
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Speaker 1: people's faces. So I'd be a good Notre Dame fan.

951
00:52:11,520 --> 00:52:14,000
Speaker 1: I think i'd be very good at it. Schedule is

952
00:52:14,040 --> 00:52:16,920
Speaker 1: what it is this year. It's very soft. There's no

953
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:19,719
Speaker 1: defending that. They don't need me to defend it. It

954
00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:21,759
Speaker 1: kind of is what it is. You had USC on there,

955
00:52:21,960 --> 00:52:24,719
Speaker 1: and now the USC matchup got scrapped. So what you're

956
00:52:24,800 --> 00:52:28,120
Speaker 1: left with is your left with Miami really being the

957
00:52:28,120 --> 00:52:30,200
Speaker 1: only top twenty caliber team they're going to play this year.

958
00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:33,600
Speaker 1: What does that mean? It means you got very low

959
00:52:33,640 --> 00:52:36,240
Speaker 1: margin for error, kind of like last year, only worse.

960
00:52:37,120 --> 00:52:40,080
Speaker 1: You can afford to probably lose one game here, and

961
00:52:40,120 --> 00:52:42,279
Speaker 1: then if you lose another one, you'll probably be out

962
00:52:42,320 --> 00:52:44,560
Speaker 1: of the playoffs, as you should be. It's worth the

963
00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:47,239
Speaker 1: trade off, totally fair trade off. You got this kind

964
00:52:47,239 --> 00:52:50,360
Speaker 1: of squad, you got this kind of opportunity. You've got

965
00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:53,160
Speaker 1: the most recent example in your rearview mirror of what

966
00:52:53,239 --> 00:52:57,040
Speaker 1: can happen if you don't maximize on your regular season opportunities.

967
00:52:57,560 --> 00:52:59,799
Speaker 1: You gotta win them all. You gotta win them all.

968
00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:03,680
Speaker 1: Should go undefeated this year, or at the very worst

969
00:53:03,760 --> 00:53:06,520
Speaker 1: eleven and one, they should be a top four seed.

970
00:53:07,040 --> 00:53:10,399
Speaker 1: And that's what it should be. We'll see what it is.

971
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:13,840
Speaker 1: But that mood man that this is going to be

972
00:53:13,880 --> 00:53:17,680
Speaker 1: the slowest spring in summer in the history of any

973
00:53:17,760 --> 00:53:20,480
Speaker 1: kind of Notre Dame fans lives, especially if you're like

974
00:53:20,600 --> 00:53:22,680
Speaker 1: twenty five years old or younger. Now, if you're a

975
00:53:22,719 --> 00:53:25,279
Speaker 1: sixty eight year old Notre Dame fan, you've lived a

976
00:53:25,280 --> 00:53:28,720
Speaker 1: lot of life and you've learned don't try and speed

977
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:32,520
Speaker 1: up the off season. It'll get here soon enough. But

978
00:53:32,560 --> 00:53:35,560
Speaker 1: if you're twenty three year old Notre Dame fan, this

979
00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:38,800
Speaker 1: is going to crawl by. But that's okay. It'll eventually

980
00:53:38,800 --> 00:53:43,160
Speaker 1: get here. Okay. I have got to go home and eat.

981
00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:47,360
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm hungry, so I appreciate you guys watching

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00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:50,200
Speaker 1: the show. We'll be back Sunday night. We've got speaker

983
00:53:50,280 --> 00:53:53,120
Speaker 1: series stuff coming up, you know, actual head coaches, and

984
00:53:53,280 --> 00:53:55,920
Speaker 1: we will I'll let you know when that's gonna start.

985
00:53:55,960 --> 00:53:57,480
Speaker 1: It's not going to start next week, at least as

986
00:53:57,520 --> 00:53:59,000
Speaker 1: far as I know right now. But it's going to

987
00:53:59,080 --> 00:54:02,640
Speaker 1: start very soon trying to pull some things off that

988
00:54:02,640 --> 00:54:04,960
Speaker 1: we've never done before. We're trying to pull some sit

989
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:07,280
Speaker 1: downs with some head coaches off that we've never done before.

990
00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:09,560
Speaker 1: I got one. No one would ever guess the head

991
00:54:09,600 --> 00:54:11,279
Speaker 1: coach way off the radar, but I can't wait to

992
00:54:11,480 --> 00:54:13,200
Speaker 1: He doesn't even know that we're gonna interview him. Yeah,

993
00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:16,400
Speaker 1: I haven't even let him know. So we technically haven't

994
00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:17,839
Speaker 1: hit the green line on that one, but I think

995
00:54:17,880 --> 00:54:19,920
Speaker 1: we will anyway. We're looking forward to that this spring.

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Speaker 1: Until Sunday Night. Appreciate all of you for director Bradley,

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