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Speaker 1: as their OC. I don't worry about that. That's a

427
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Speaker 1: non issue for me. He'll be fine with the running

428
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Speaker 1: back situation. There are two schools have thought around this program.

429
00:21:07,359 --> 00:21:09,280
Speaker 1: So they've been banged up. They lost a guy for

430
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Speaker 1: the season the other day that they thought was rounding

431
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Speaker 1: into feature back form. And there's a thought amongst people

432
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Speaker 1: who just kind of follow recruiting, but they don't really

433
00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:20,920
Speaker 1: get into the weeds of depth chart and roster that, oh,

434
00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:23,919
Speaker 1: Georgia will just pump out another guy. Well, it's not

435
00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:27,199
Speaker 1: as easy as that. Now they've got players there. I

436
00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:29,159
Speaker 1: think they've even got a couple of walk ons that

437
00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:34,080
Speaker 1: they believe could perform admirably. But you'll win national championships

438
00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:38,240
Speaker 1: with admirable play. So will they afford themselves the opportunity

439
00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:40,520
Speaker 1: to play offense the way they want to? And if

440
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Speaker 1: they can't, you know, if they have to lean a

441
00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:44,879
Speaker 1: little bit more on the pass. How does that wide

442
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Speaker 1: receiver room perform? How does Carson Beck perform. I've got

443
00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:51,000
Speaker 1: sky high expectations for that kid. Like if I were

444
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Speaker 1: to pick against Georgia this year, it wouldn't because I

445
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Speaker 1: doubt Carson Beck. Ironically enough, I know anyone else probably

446
00:21:56,920 --> 00:21:58,680
Speaker 1: would say not' picking against Georga because they got a

447
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Speaker 1: new quarterback. That wouldn't be why I did it. It

448
00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:04,080
Speaker 1: would be probably other facets of the team. But outside

449
00:22:04,119 --> 00:22:08,000
Speaker 1: of Athens you look at their schedule, hmmm at Tennessee

450
00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:10,840
Speaker 1: eleven eighteen kind of catches one's eye. All about Joe

451
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Speaker 1: Milton with the walls. Again, the entire theme in the

452
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Speaker 1: East is a who can compete with Georgia B. Don't

453
00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:20,159
Speaker 1: overthink the room. It's about Joe Milton. I can talk

454
00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:23,160
Speaker 1: about Tennessee's defensive recruiting. I can talk about the three

455
00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:26,200
Speaker 1: offensive line positions up for grabs. It's all about the quarterback.

456
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Speaker 1: That's all about that. Now there are other teams over here.

457
00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:30,639
Speaker 1: I'm going to get to them in just a second.

458
00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:35,040
Speaker 1: Over in the West, I got in a little I

459
00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:36,800
Speaker 1: don't know what you call it when you go back

460
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Speaker 1: and forth with people on the internet, but I got

461
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Speaker 1: in in a type fight the other day with someone

462
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Speaker 1: who was trying to degrade the good name of the

463
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Speaker 1: SEC West, and their exact quote was, don't tell me

464
00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:54,000
Speaker 1: playing a and m at Ole Miss and at Auburn

465
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Speaker 1: is hard. Well it is, actually it is hard. Immunity.

466
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Speaker 1: It's really really difficult because those are really good teams.

467
00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:04,520
Speaker 1: The difference is when you play in a division that's

468
00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:08,119
Speaker 1: pretty loaded, folks gotta lose. For every one game that

469
00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:11,640
Speaker 1: LSU wins, someone had to lose. Did Obama wins, Someone

470
00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:13,840
Speaker 1: had to lose. So someone's going to be seven and

471
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Speaker 1: five here and be one of the twenty five best

472
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Speaker 1: teams in the country. But you won't believe that because

473
00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:19,200
Speaker 1: you believe one of the big lies in our sport,

474
00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:22,840
Speaker 1: which is you are what your record says you are.

475
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Speaker 1: Question to you, friend, if I put Arkansas or Auburn

476
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Speaker 1: or Ole Miss in the Big ten West, what would

477
00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:34,080
Speaker 1: you call them? Answer? Contenders, that's what you'd call them.

478
00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:37,960
Speaker 1: Same team, same coach, same colors, everything that be contenders

479
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden. So yeah, it is a tough

480
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Speaker 1: stretch to play. What way, Look, I could go. I

481
00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:48,080
Speaker 1: could go Arkansas, I could go Mississippi State. For that matter,

482
00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:50,040
Speaker 1: I could go anyone in the West. In that argument,

483
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Speaker 1: Texas A and M. But look, Alabama has not missed

484
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Speaker 1: the SEC Championship game in back to back years since

485
00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:59,600
Speaker 1: twenty ten and twenty eleven, and they went ahead and

486
00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:01,960
Speaker 1: won the national title in twenty eleven. Anyway, so it

487
00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:04,359
Speaker 1: is very rare when we see Bama out of the

488
00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:06,959
Speaker 1: title picture back to back years. Well, they are not

489
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Speaker 1: favored to win the SEC Championship this year. They are

490
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Speaker 1: a plus one fifty five to make the playoff. They

491
00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:18,679
Speaker 1: are plus six hundred to make the College Football Playoff

492
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Speaker 1: Championship game. You're going to see a radical, radical shift

493
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Speaker 1: offensively there. I have continued to get the same kind

494
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Speaker 1: of intel out of Tuscaloosa, Alabama for the entirety of

495
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Speaker 1: fall camp. I'm going to share more of it with

496
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Speaker 1: you in just a second. It is it's encouraging, but

497
00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:44,600
Speaker 1: it's also scary because it's a very very fine line.

498
00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:47,960
Speaker 1: It's a very very thin needle that has to be threaded.

499
00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:50,720
Speaker 1: I think that's the right usage of the word. But

500
00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:54,320
Speaker 1: if it is threaded, it's going to be pretty violent

501
00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:57,880
Speaker 1: over there in the SEC West. LSU has a lot

502
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Speaker 1: of good on their team that they need to trans

503
00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:03,560
Speaker 1: to great last year, LSU should have gotten all the

504
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Speaker 1: praise they got, and they deserve it and we gave

505
00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:08,120
Speaker 1: it to them and everyone else should have as well.

506
00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:12,000
Speaker 1: So they also got blown out by Tennessee. They also

507
00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:14,520
Speaker 1: lost to Texas A and M again cause the expectation

508
00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:17,040
Speaker 1: was so low. I could bake that in and it's

509
00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:19,400
Speaker 1: still a really great year. We can't have that sort

510
00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:22,879
Speaker 1: of thing this year. LSU's at the party now. LSU

511
00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:24,880
Speaker 1: is not showing up as a stranger and everyone's trying

512
00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:27,480
Speaker 1: to figure out who is this now. LSU is there now,

513
00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:31,199
Speaker 1: and so offensive line and defensive line, that's what they

514
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:33,919
Speaker 1: keep talking about down there, and I think defensively in

515
00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:36,000
Speaker 1: their front seven may be the best in the conference.

516
00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:39,080
Speaker 1: They've got depth. Mason Smith in other words, being out

517
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Speaker 1: for the FSU game. That's not the kind of thing

518
00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:43,400
Speaker 1: where you look and say, what are we going to do? Now?

519
00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:47,760
Speaker 1: Roll other guys in, lean on other guys, oh, by

520
00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:50,119
Speaker 1: the way, outscore them. Like those are the sorts of

521
00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:52,400
Speaker 1: things LS you can do. You want to know who

522
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:56,280
Speaker 1: the sleeper is in the SEC pretty much everybody, But

523
00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:59,720
Speaker 1: when we talk sleepers in the SEC, I'm not necessarily

524
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Speaker 1: talking about a sleeper contender to win the conference. You

525
00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:05,439
Speaker 1: know if I circle Kentucky, which I am, Kentucky's one

526
00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:07,480
Speaker 1: of the biggest sleepers in college football. To me, I

527
00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:11,680
Speaker 1: am not circling Kentucky and saying you better watch out boy.

528
00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:14,359
Speaker 1: If they get into Atlanta and face off against LSU

529
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:18,080
Speaker 1: or Alabama, those folks got their work cutout for them.

530
00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:21,679
Speaker 1: It's not that it's Kentucky could be better than whatever

531
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:25,600
Speaker 1: their preseason over under win total is. Did you know

532
00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:29,800
Speaker 1: second McGrady stat special for the SEC. Did you know

533
00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:32,639
Speaker 1: eight of the top ten strength of schedules in the

534
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Speaker 1: country are in the SEC per Bill Connolly of the

535
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Speaker 1: S and P Plus. Just so you don't think that's

536
00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:41,400
Speaker 1: meat throwing that out there, six of the hardest six

537
00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:46,119
Speaker 1: schedules in the country or in the SEC. Now, I

538
00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:48,359
Speaker 1: know what the comment section will say, Well, that's just

539
00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:50,760
Speaker 1: because if you blindly believe in the strength of the SEC,

540
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,399
Speaker 1: then strength of schedule is going to be very incestuous

541
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Speaker 1: because they all play each other. Blah blah blah. Well,

542
00:26:57,119 --> 00:26:58,600
Speaker 1: I believe in it because I think it happens to

543
00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:02,679
Speaker 1: be true. Hucky's a sleeper offensive line I think's worked out.

544
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:05,840
Speaker 1: Devin Leary is a phenomenal pickup. The most underrated national

545
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:07,639
Speaker 1: pickup out of the portal that people are only just

546
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:10,879
Speaker 1: now starting to talk about. Good receiver talent there. Liam

547
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:16,040
Speaker 1: cohen Back is the offensive coordinator. Florida is the conundrum

548
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:18,760
Speaker 1: for me. We're gonna see them in person four days

549
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:20,800
Speaker 1: from now out in Salt Lake City. We'll fly out

550
00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:23,399
Speaker 1: there Wednesday for the once upon a Saturday tour kicking

551
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:26,639
Speaker 1: off on a Thursday. Ironically enough, Florida's gonna go out there.

552
00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:29,560
Speaker 1: They're gonna play Utah Graham. Mertz is going to start

553
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:32,800
Speaker 1: at quarterback for him. I talked to Billy Napier at

554
00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:34,960
Speaker 1: SEC Media Days, and one of the biggest things that

555
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:37,760
Speaker 1: I took away from what he said is I evaluated

556
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:40,919
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks all the same. Merz was my guy. But

557
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:44,080
Speaker 1: Paul Christ giving us as a staff the feedback that

558
00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 1: he gave us about how they misused that kid at Wisconsin.

559
00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 1: That was valuable for us. That told us maybe there's

560
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:55,440
Speaker 1: more there. And if you think about it, think about

561
00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:58,080
Speaker 1: Pennix and Nicks just on the West coast. Producer Jesse

562
00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:00,879
Speaker 1: made a good point today. He said, imagine two years

563
00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:04,840
Speaker 1: ago telling people that Bo Nicks and Michael Pennix are

564
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Speaker 1: going to be right there in the thick of the

565
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:10,200
Speaker 1: Heisman Trophy race two years later. Well they are. They

566
00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:12,880
Speaker 1: just had to go to other programs to realize their potential.

567
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:16,359
Speaker 1: What I didn't just do is say look out for

568
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:18,679
Speaker 1: Graham Mertz and the Heisman Race this year. What I

569
00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 1: did do is pump the brakes a little bit on

570
00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:24,399
Speaker 1: just selling someone down the river because they didn't perform

571
00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:27,439
Speaker 1: somewhere else, especially when that somewhere else was not a

572
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:32,320
Speaker 1: conducive passing environment, and the coaching staffs flat out admitting, yeah,

573
00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:35,200
Speaker 1: we kind of screwed up with that guy. Mississippi State.

574
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:38,320
Speaker 1: I keep calling all these teams the biggest sleeper, but

575
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Speaker 1: Mississippi State's also one where every starter is going to

576
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:45,920
Speaker 1: be an upperclassman. Eighteen plus of their starters, maybe nineteen

577
00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:49,160
Speaker 1: or twenty of them will be seniors. They get LSU

578
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:52,520
Speaker 1: at home, they get Alabama at home. They've got a

579
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Speaker 1: quarterback that people continue to doubt because they think he's

580
00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:59,640
Speaker 1: a system guy. And I ask, how many quarterbacks aren't

581
00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:02,200
Speaker 1: system quarterbacks? Although I know what you mean, your point

582
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 1: is taken. I think that coaching staff understands what they

583
00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:06,640
Speaker 1: have too. I don't think they're gonna put him in

584
00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:09,560
Speaker 1: a precarious situation this year, the one that Will Rogers

585
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:11,760
Speaker 1: can't handle. It's like twenty nine years old too, so

586
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:15,480
Speaker 1: he knows how to handle himself. But those are sleepers. Okay,

587
00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:18,840
Speaker 1: South Carolina, I could mention South Carolina's got a ridiculously

588
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:23,760
Speaker 1: tough schedule. I want to know what our conference championship

589
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:26,240
Speaker 1: matchup here is, and I don't think it's all that

590
00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:29,640
Speaker 1: difficult when the dust settles, I'm taking Alabama out of

591
00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:33,000
Speaker 1: the West. I'm taking Georgia out of the East, and

592
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,760
Speaker 1: I'm putting him in Atlanta. Hey, Colin, since we since

593
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Speaker 1: that happened, I'm just gonna state it over again because

594
00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:41,680
Speaker 1: we'll probably clip it. Yeah, thank you, sir. I'm taking

595
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Speaker 1: Alabama out of the West. I'm taking Georgia out of

596
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Speaker 1: the East. I think Alabama's gonna win the SEC Championship.

597
00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:50,320
Speaker 1: I think the Alabama team you see early on will

598
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 1: not resemble that very interesting year coming up. I actually

599
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:56,840
Speaker 1: think Georgia may look halfway wobbly out of the gates.

600
00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:59,480
Speaker 1: So these two teams, there's a half decent chance. You

601
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:03,440
Speaker 1: watch them early year, you know they're loaded. They look

602
00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:05,280
Speaker 1: like they can't get out of their own way. At

603
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:06,880
Speaker 1: least one of them is going to look like this,

604
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 1: I can assure you, and I think you'll watch them

605
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:13,880
Speaker 1: or casuals will watch them and say, oh, they've fallen off,

606
00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:17,160
Speaker 1: not realizing, well, it's Middle Tennessee State. You know, it's

607
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:19,600
Speaker 1: any of a number of teams. Georgia plays early kind

608
00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:22,760
Speaker 1: of like USC yesterday. When they round into form, they

609
00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:24,479
Speaker 1: will be the cream of the crop in the SEC.

610
00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:28,959
Speaker 1: The team Alabama becomes will be the best in the SEC.

611
00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:31,840
Speaker 1: I don't think they'll look like the best team in

612
00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:36,000
Speaker 1: the SEC to start the year. They've They've won seven

613
00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 1: of the eight SEC titles that Saban has won with

614
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:42,800
Speaker 1: a first year starter at quarterback. It's not foreign territory

615
00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:45,880
Speaker 1: for him. It just looks radically different than it has

616
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:49,000
Speaker 1: over the past few years. Here's the difference with them.

617
00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:52,120
Speaker 1: They've known it's coming, and they've known they had to

618
00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:54,440
Speaker 1: have an elite quarterback on that roster, and they know

619
00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:57,320
Speaker 1: they still don't and that hasn't snuck up on them.

620
00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:00,920
Speaker 1: And that's why everything ideologically in that pro shifted. The

621
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:04,080
Speaker 1: moment that Kansas State game ended last year, you saw

622
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:06,760
Speaker 1: coaches hit the door, you saw players hit the door.

623
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Speaker 1: And you saw an entire inversion in many cases from

624
00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:14,120
Speaker 1: strength and conditioning to nutrition to overall philosophy. They've known

625
00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 1: what they're going to have to do this year for

626
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:18,320
Speaker 1: quite a while and they're equipped to do it. I

627
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:20,960
Speaker 1: am telling you guys one more time and then we'll

628
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 1: just get to watch it, and that's up coming Saturday.

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Speaker 1: You have not seen an offensive line in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

630
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 1: play like the one you'll see this year in a

631
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:32,640
Speaker 1: long time, and that is the key behind everything. This

632
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:35,960
Speaker 1: prediction revolves around. Style is going to make you doubt

633
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 1: them early. I think it'll ultimately make you believe in

634
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:40,920
Speaker 1: them late, and I think they'll win the SEC Championship.

635
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:44,560
Speaker 1: Did you know it was a big week around here?

636
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:47,640
Speaker 1: It was a big week for us because the Peate

637
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 1: State store opened back up. Peytstatematerial dot Com is open,

638
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:54,520
Speaker 1: and your boy here fumbled things fantastically the other night

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Speaker 1: Sunday night. I said, as Peyte State Material, but don't

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Speaker 1: go there because it's not open. Well, some of you

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Speaker 1: so happens that we had soft launched during the show

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Speaker 1: unbeknownst to me. I wish I could say that was planned,

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Speaker 1: but it wasn't. But hey man, we got a very

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Speaker 1: limited selection for you right now. That once Upon a

647
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Speaker 1: Saturday shirt is so sweet because it is styled after

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Speaker 1: the Rumors album by Fleetwood Mac. We we didn't use

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Speaker 1: the same font just in case Warner Brothers is listening,

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Speaker 1: but we used similar font. But that paid state my

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Speaker 1: state handshake series. There. Some of you were asking, where's

652
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Speaker 1: the South Carolinas, where's the Clemson stuff, where's the Arkansas stuff?

653
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Speaker 1: It's all coming, guys, It's all coming. This is the

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Speaker 1: first wave of many, many, many waves that we have ahead.

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Speaker 1: So I didn't want to crash the site because those

656
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Speaker 1: of you who were real ones who were around last year,

657
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Speaker 1: remember we could only keep that show that story open

658
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Speaker 1: for like ten minutes at a time, and you kept

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Speaker 1: crashing it. So we've eased ourselves in. We had a

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Speaker 1: really really good weekend of traffic, and so it's open

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Speaker 1: now and we are going to be adding things, so

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Speaker 1: keep checking it out. Peytstatematerial dot com. I'm not going

663
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Speaker 1: to use the show to promote it and plaster it

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Speaker 1: all over the place, you know, where to find it

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666
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Speaker 1: so many ideas for that, but I'm not gonna bore

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Speaker 1: you with those right now. Just paystatematerial dot com. The

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Speaker 1: store is open. Enjoy Notre Dame beating Navy yesterday forty

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Speaker 1: two to three. Everybody. Everybody has an opinion on Notre Dame.

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Speaker 1: So I figured i'd talk about this for just a second.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to ask you, slash implore you, no matter

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Speaker 1: what your opinion is, here, be better than the lane

673
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Speaker 1: Changing Casual amongst us. You've seen the lane changing casual,

674
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:44,160
Speaker 1: he slash she. I'm fortunate to say they exist all

675
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Speaker 1: over the place. They were out in full force watching

676
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:50,800
Speaker 1: this Notre Dame game yesterday. The Lane Change Casual has

677
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:52,280
Speaker 1: had a field day with Notre Dame. So here's what

678
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Speaker 1: it sounded like. You probably heard it just like I did.

679
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:57,920
Speaker 1: It sounded like this in the pregame, give me Navy

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Speaker 1: plus twenty and a half. You know what, Sprinkle a

681
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:01,880
Speaker 1: couple of dollars on the money line. This is going

682
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Speaker 1: to be a lot closer than anyone thinks it is.

683
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Speaker 1: Fast forward to the end of the game. Well, of

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Speaker 1: course they won forty two to three, big deal, it's

685
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Speaker 1: just Navy. Same person, Same person said both things. You

686
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Speaker 1: can't do this. You can't do this. If some of

687
00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:18,879
Speaker 1: you found yourself slipping a little bit, it's okay, it's

688
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:21,439
Speaker 1: pre season for all of us. Don't be a lane

689
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Speaker 1: changing casual, have a mentality. And if you were wrong

690
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:27,279
Speaker 1: about something, say you're wrong about it. If you're right

691
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:29,319
Speaker 1: about something, by all means, say you're right about it.

692
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Speaker 1: But don't call something, have it fall flat, and then

693
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Speaker 1: just switch and say, well, of course it happened that way. Well,

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Speaker 1: that wasn't the tune you were singing four and a

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Speaker 1: half hours ago, sir, ma'am so forty two to three. Yeah,

696
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Speaker 1: it was just navy. This was dominance. I know Navy

697
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:49,880
Speaker 1: attempted like three passes. Yeah, it's Navy. This was dominance.

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Speaker 1: Quote from earlier this month, we dug in the archives

699
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Speaker 1: quote on this show, how about this? Notre Dame goes

700
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Speaker 1: as far as those truth freshman wide receivers can take them. Well,

701
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:06,000
Speaker 1: Jaden Greathhouse watched the show at least because he had

702
00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 1: three catches for sixty eight yards and a couple of scores. Yesterday,

703
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Speaker 1: I was looking at Tim Prister's final thoughts on this

704
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Speaker 1: game over on Irish Illustrated dot com. He made a

705
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:18,880
Speaker 1: great point. When is the last time you watched a

706
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Speaker 1: Notre Dame football game and a tight end wasn't even

707
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:26,839
Speaker 1: targeted forget a reception. They didn't even target the tight

708
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Speaker 1: end position and nine different guys caught passes. So either

709
00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 1: that means Notre Dame has ripped the tight end pass

710
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Speaker 1: out of the playbook unlikely, or they didn't really even

711
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Speaker 1: open the offense up a whole heck of a lot. Yesterday,

712
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Speaker 1: I would lean towards the ladder rather than the former.

713
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Speaker 1: We got a padlock stat so many things coming back

714
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Speaker 1: on the show. Yes, the padlock status back. Sam Hartman

715
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Speaker 1: led Notre Dame to touchdown drives on the first five possessions.

716
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Speaker 1: That is the first time that has happened for Notre

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Speaker 1: Dame since twenty eleven. Translation, we back, baby, We backed

718
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Speaker 1: so much. Could have looked ugly in this game, and

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Speaker 1: it didn't. So you know, on this show, it doesn't

720
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Speaker 1: matter if you're favored by ten or fifty, if you

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Speaker 1: do what you're supposed to do. In a world where

722
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Speaker 1: so many people shirk their responsibilities on a weekend week

723
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Speaker 1: out basis, we will give you credit. I'm not gonna

724
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Speaker 1: give you flowers because that statement's already very played out,

725
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Speaker 1: but I will give you credit. And Notre Dame did

726
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Speaker 1: above and beyond what they were supposed to do. They

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Speaker 1: opened the season seventeenth in the JP pole. The apop

728
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Speaker 1: pole had him higher. Maybe we had Notre Dame underrated.

729
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Speaker 1: I'm not jumping onto the playoff bandwagon. I'm not doing

730
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Speaker 1: any of that. I'm just saying Marcus Freeman had his

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Speaker 1: team ready to play. And remember they had very late

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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator turnover in this program, so if Tommy Reese

733
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Speaker 1: was there, then Sabin went and got him. So they

734
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Speaker 1: elevated Rod Parker or yeah, I always struggled with his name.

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Speaker 1: They elevated the tight ends. Coach looked really good yesterday.

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Speaker 1: One game sample size. You know who they play this week,

737
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Speaker 1: Tennessee State. Tennessee State is rolling in the South Bend

738
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Speaker 1: this week. Tennessee State is playing a game on national television.

739
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Speaker 1: And Tennessee State's right by the YMCA I work out at.

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Speaker 1: So it's good news for everyone around here. Congrats to

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Speaker 1: Marcus Freeman. Though it's not easy. It's not easy. To

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Speaker 1: have a football team look that prepared in week one.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes even if you play against air, they don't look

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Speaker 1: that prepared. Half these teams suck during warm ups and

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00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:30,200
Speaker 1: those are just drills. So congrats to Marcus Freeman one

746
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Speaker 1: and oh one and oh that's what that means. They're

747
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Speaker 1: watching us in Tokyo, Japan, by way of Mobile Alabama

748
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Speaker 1: Hoops amongst Us has another that phrase a time or two.

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Speaker 1: They're watching us in Topsham, Maine and Florence, Alabama. Thank

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Speaker 1: you guys so much. It looks like a landfill in

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Speaker 1: front of me, Colin, look at this. I got post

752
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Speaker 1: its all over the place. I haven't even taken a

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Speaker 1: sit from the chalice. And that's because we still I'm

754
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Speaker 1: trying to pace myself. This is a very very very

755
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Speaker 1: heavy packet of paper still in front of me. Right,

756
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Speaker 1: let's continue to roll on. It is prediction night. We

757
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 1: have trained for this, We've geared ourselves up for this.

758
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Speaker 1: I heard I heard by the way on the street

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Speaker 1: that a number of people are starting to inquire as

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Speaker 1: to what the mysterious liquid is in the Chalice of Supremacy.

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Speaker 1: Some of you think it's alcoholic. The rest of you

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Speaker 1: know me better than that. But I have not revealed

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Speaker 1: what this drink is, and I'm going to tell you why.

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Speaker 1: It's very simple. The company that manufactures this liquid does

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Speaker 1: not sponsor this show. This is not Academy Sports and

766
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Speaker 1: Outdoors juice in other words, and so until they do,

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Speaker 1: it's just some mysterious liquid. Chalice of choice liquid, that's

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Speaker 1: what we call it for. Now, let's go to the

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Speaker 1: Big twelve. Big twelve picks. Who is playing for the

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Speaker 1: conference title, who's winning this conference? The identity of this conference,

771
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Speaker 1: I can't stress this enough, is different than it was

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Speaker 1: last year. Last year, really the last few years, it's

773
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Speaker 1: been very competitively balanced. It's looked like the Pac twelve

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Speaker 1: looks this year. That is not it. I am telling

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00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:09,680
Speaker 1: you there is a slam dunk favorite in this conference

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00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:12,160
Speaker 1: and it's Texas. There is a slam dunk number two

777
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:15,879
Speaker 1: and that's Oklahoma. That means nothing once they kick it off,

778
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Speaker 1: But there is a separation. In my mind, there's a

779
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Speaker 1: separation of Tier one. And it may just be Texas

780
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Speaker 1: alone in Tier one, but Oklahoma's up there too. So,

781
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Speaker 1: like I said, that guarantees nothing, especially in this conference.

782
00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:31,160
Speaker 1: I know that I know that I know that how

783
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Speaker 1: competitive is Tier two though? Or am I even right

784
00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:36,000
Speaker 1: about Tier one? Or will it all just be one

785
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:39,160
Speaker 1: giant Tier two? You know what the hidden story is

786
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:41,840
Speaker 1: in the Big twelve. The depth of coaching talent is

787
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:45,280
Speaker 1: insane here. All the good coaches aren't just in two conferences.

788
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:49,400
Speaker 1: Guys go past Sark and brn venables. Frankly, we got

789
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:51,520
Speaker 1: more questions about those guys than we have about half

790
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:54,400
Speaker 1: a dozen other coaches in the conference. Chris Climbing at

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00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:57,920
Speaker 1: Kansas State is excellent. Think about what Liphole's doing at

792
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:01,040
Speaker 1: Kansas and it's gonna have the most returning production in

793
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:02,640
Speaker 1: the country this year. Let's see what he does with it.

794
00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:07,040
Speaker 1: Dave A Randa is just hanging out at Baylor. Matt

795
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:09,799
Speaker 1: Campbell's at Iowa State, and all of the sudden his

796
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:12,080
Speaker 1: program's falling off the lead pack a little bit and

797
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:16,680
Speaker 1: everyone's forgotten about him. Mike Gundy is still at Oklahoma State.

798
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:20,000
Speaker 1: Joey McGuire is doing and is in the process of

799
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Speaker 1: continuing to do great things at Texas Tech. Could really

800
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:25,360
Speaker 1: flash on the national radar this year. Gus Malson is

801
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:28,239
Speaker 1: now a Big twelve head coach, and you may be

802
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:32,320
Speaker 1: thinking to yourself. Okay, but that's it, right, Like, surely

803
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:35,120
Speaker 1: he's not just gonna keep naming names guys. I didn't

804
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Speaker 1: even list the dude who just took his team to

805
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:39,960
Speaker 1: the national title last year. Sonny Dykes is at TCU.

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00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:44,239
Speaker 1: We just got to the eighth name I listed, and oh,

807
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:46,239
Speaker 1: by the way, this guy played for a national title

808
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:49,480
Speaker 1: last year. They're really deep. They're really deep and talented

809
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Speaker 1: at the coaching position, and while those guys don't take

810
00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:56,480
Speaker 1: the field, they impact things in a big way. The

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Speaker 1: sleeper team in this conference, I think is Texas Tech,

812
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Speaker 1: And unlike the Sea in the Big twelve, if you're

813
00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:05,200
Speaker 1: a sleeper team, you could legitimately win the conference. Like

814
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:09,160
Speaker 1: Texas Tech's unranked in the AP right now, couldn't be

815
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Speaker 1: us in the jpeople we got him in the top

816
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Speaker 1: twenty five. If you're looking for a team that could

817
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Speaker 1: bottle that sort of TCU energy from last year, I

818
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:19,600
Speaker 1: think it could be Texas Tech even more than TCU

819
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Speaker 1: this year. There is a thought floating around the college

820
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:29,440
Speaker 1: football sphere, false, I might add, but it's floating nonetheless

821
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Speaker 1: that I don't like TCU, which is insane. I'll address

822
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:37,759
Speaker 1: it in a second. But Texas Tech that over under

823
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:40,520
Speaker 1: seven and a half wins. Man, if they get off

824
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:42,359
Speaker 1: to a hot start at that Oregon game in week

825
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:45,840
Speaker 1: two is so underrated because it's the same day Texas

826
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Speaker 1: plays Bama. Utah goes to Baylor that day, wild Day,

827
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 1: wild Day in the Big twelve. But don't overlook that

828
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Speaker 1: game out there in Lubbock. How many kids in Eugenian

829
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Speaker 1: Oregon you think have ever been to Lubock, Texas. How

830
00:41:57,360 --> 00:41:59,480
Speaker 1: many dudes on the coaching staff have ever been to

831
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Speaker 1: Lubbock Tech. I would love, I would love to sit

832
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:07,080
Speaker 1: that coaching staff down, no guide, no Google, take this

833
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:09,759
Speaker 1: pen and point to Lubbock, Texas on this map of

834
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Speaker 1: the state of Texas. Some folks will get exposed. Some

835
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:17,920
Speaker 1: folks will get exposed anyway. So all those coaches plus

836
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:21,200
Speaker 1: are convenables. But the sleeper team aside from Texas Tech

837
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Speaker 1: in the Big twelve, I think it's Kansas. And we

838
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:26,480
Speaker 1: were kind of going back and forth, well should we

839
00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:29,400
Speaker 1: mention Kansas? Well, of course, shame on you, Jesse. Of

840
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:33,120
Speaker 1: course we should mention Kansas because Jesse was the one

841
00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:36,480
Speaker 1: standing in the way, not me. Number one in returning production.

842
00:42:37,080 --> 00:42:41,600
Speaker 1: This is a very controversial stats. It's like returning production

843
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:45,399
Speaker 1: is the new returning starters stat. So there are people

844
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Speaker 1: who care about returning starters and there are people like

845
00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:49,879
Speaker 1: me who couldn't care less about it. Well, the people

846
00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:53,759
Speaker 1: who couldn't care less about returning starters. We lean on

847
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:57,280
Speaker 1: things like returning production, and then the stat nerd crowd

848
00:42:57,320 --> 00:42:59,560
Speaker 1: looks down on us and says, there's so many more

849
00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:02,640
Speaker 1: important things. I didn't say it was the end all

850
00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:05,960
Speaker 1: be all. I'm not going miss Cleo on you and

851
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:08,960
Speaker 1: claiming that this stat and this stat alone tells me

852
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:11,680
Speaker 1: everything I need to know. I just think it's noteworthy,

853
00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:14,400
Speaker 1: that's all. I don't see a lot of randos winning

854
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:17,040
Speaker 1: conference titles, so I like to know a few names

855
00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:20,759
Speaker 1: on the backs of the jerseys. They experienced everything last

856
00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:24,520
Speaker 1: year at Kansas. They started hot, just like Illinois. Then

857
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:26,880
Speaker 1: they cooled off and lost their quarterback in the process.

858
00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:31,160
Speaker 1: That is Big twelve preseason Player of the Year Jalen

859
00:43:31,239 --> 00:43:36,680
Speaker 1: Daniels at quarterback. By the way, So watch Kansas and TCU. Okay,

860
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:40,080
Speaker 1: so everyone claims I hate TCU now because I made

861
00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:42,680
Speaker 1: the grave mistake of saying I don't think they'll finish

862
00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:45,799
Speaker 1: top four in the conference. Well, I got news for you.

863
00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:47,879
Speaker 1: I didn't predict them to go to the national title

864
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:51,400
Speaker 1: last year either, and they did that. So hoops really cares.

865
00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:54,200
Speaker 1: But I don't think they're gonna finish top four only

866
00:43:54,239 --> 00:43:56,120
Speaker 1: because they have to hit on all these portal moves.

867
00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:59,120
Speaker 1: That's what happens when you lose what they lost player

868
00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:03,560
Speaker 1: wise and co wise. Maybe they just completely shot the moon.

869
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:09,000
Speaker 1: Maybe they did. I am in the skeptical, have to

870
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:11,200
Speaker 1: see it to believe at camp. But Chandler Moore is

871
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:15,800
Speaker 1: still there at quarterback, still there. They start off with Colorado,

872
00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:18,160
Speaker 1: They're gonna be on national TV. They're gonna win that game,

873
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:23,080
Speaker 1: spoiler alert. And so we'll see. They got a tough,

874
00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:28,120
Speaker 1: little treacherous month of November at Texas Tech, Texas, Baylor

875
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:30,640
Speaker 1: at OU. So those are sleepers. But look, we're here

876
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:34,239
Speaker 1: to talk about conference championships and conference winners, are we not?

877
00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:39,279
Speaker 1: Before I reveal it, I want to tell you, do

878
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:41,440
Speaker 1: not give up on teams in this conference when they

879
00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:43,920
Speaker 1: lose a game. Do not give up on teams in

880
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:47,280
Speaker 1: this conference when they lose two games. Ryan mcgrady's special

881
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:50,480
Speaker 1: here from stats in Info. The last three Big Twelve

882
00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:55,719
Speaker 1: champs have all had two or more conference losses, not

883
00:44:55,840 --> 00:44:59,000
Speaker 1: even out of conference guys. They are winning conferences out

884
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:03,120
Speaker 1: there with two losses in league play. So it's in

885
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:06,120
Speaker 1: some ways only just getting good once teams start losing

886
00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:10,879
Speaker 1: conference championship. I'm taking Texas, but I'm taking them over

887
00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:13,319
Speaker 1: Oklahoma State, a team I think is gonna come out

888
00:45:13,320 --> 00:45:15,719
Speaker 1: of nowhere in surprise people this year after they fell

889
00:45:15,760 --> 00:45:17,719
Speaker 1: off a cliff last year. Let me first start with

890
00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:20,840
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. So Mike Gundy's really good and Mike Gunny

891
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:23,360
Speaker 1: knows what he's doing, and it looks like his roster

892
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:26,400
Speaker 1: got gutted by the transfer portal. I think it's one

893
00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:28,840
Speaker 1: of the bigger illusions right now in the Big twelve.

894
00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:32,680
Speaker 1: I think they added some good pieces to extremely underrated

895
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:35,600
Speaker 1: on the defensive line. I would implore them to figure

896
00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:37,920
Speaker 1: out the quarterback position, but I think they will, and

897
00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:40,560
Speaker 1: I think there's a level of play that I'll get

898
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:43,120
Speaker 1: at the quarterback position out of them that's going to

899
00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:45,200
Speaker 1: have them right in the thick of things. And the

900
00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:47,600
Speaker 1: other thing you need to keep in mind is their

901
00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:51,239
Speaker 1: schedule is insanely workable. I want you to think about

902
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:53,000
Speaker 1: the sentence that's about to come out of my mouth.

903
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:58,239
Speaker 1: Oklahoma State plays in the Big Twelve. They play one

904
00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:01,839
Speaker 1: team in the state of Texas the entire year, and

905
00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:06,239
Speaker 1: it's Houston. They don't play Baylor, they don't play TCU,

906
00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:09,560
Speaker 1: they don't play Texas, they don't play Texas Tech. How

907
00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:13,200
Speaker 1: is this possible? I don't know. But if they find

908
00:46:13,239 --> 00:46:15,640
Speaker 1: their footing, and they've got time too, because the first

909
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:18,320
Speaker 1: conference games Iowa State and then they got a bye week,

910
00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:22,480
Speaker 1: they could do this. But eventually, if they make it

911
00:46:22,719 --> 00:46:25,640
Speaker 1: to the conference title game, I got Texas waiting there,

912
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:28,960
Speaker 1: and Texas will win that game, and I think Texas

913
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:32,200
Speaker 1: will win the Big Twelve championship. They've got everything I

914
00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:35,839
Speaker 1: need and then some they extend beyond just a Big

915
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:39,880
Speaker 1: Twelve favorite. In my mind, however, it's a new territory

916
00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:43,359
Speaker 1: for them if they get there. How many losses do

917
00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:46,480
Speaker 1: they have if they get there? Big difference between an

918
00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:48,600
Speaker 1: eleven and one or twelve and one in that case

919
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:52,279
Speaker 1: Big twelve champ in like an eleven and two or

920
00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:54,759
Speaker 1: or I don't know. I mean, if they could even

921
00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:58,520
Speaker 1: theoretically get there with just ten wins. If you got that,

922
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:00,000
Speaker 1: that's the peak of the mountain for you. This year

923
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:02,520
Speaker 1: still be really good, still a really good year. But

924
00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:05,880
Speaker 1: if they're a playoff contender, this will be a formality.

925
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:08,399
Speaker 1: If Texas is good enough to make the playoff, they

926
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:11,439
Speaker 1: will stand far and above out in the Big Twelve. Now,

927
00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:15,680
Speaker 1: what I didn't do is focus on Oklahoma a lot.

928
00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:18,719
Speaker 1: It's almost like I think Oklahoma's going to be pretty good,

929
00:47:19,160 --> 00:47:22,400
Speaker 1: so I don't have them as a sleeper. I also

930
00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:25,719
Speaker 1: don't see them peaking to the degree that they're in

931
00:47:25,719 --> 00:47:31,160
Speaker 1: the conference championship game. Therefore, in a conference prediction and

932
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:34,279
Speaker 1: a conference championship prediction, I didn't really have much to

933
00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:36,120
Speaker 1: say about them. I've covered Oklahoma a lot the spring

934
00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:37,480
Speaker 1: and summer, I shouldn't have a lot to say about

935
00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:41,319
Speaker 1: them there. So I got Texas over Oklahoma State, and

936
00:47:41,360 --> 00:47:43,000
Speaker 1: I'm either going to be really really right or really

937
00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:46,000
Speaker 1: really wrong there. It's a very very tough conference to predict. Hey,

938
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:47,560
Speaker 1: do me a favor. By the way, as I just

939
00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:52,839
Speaker 1: peak over here, we are less than one hundred and

940
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:57,240
Speaker 1: eighty subs away from two hundred thousand subs on the channel.

941
00:47:57,680 --> 00:48:00,839
Speaker 1: So this confirms mathematically that we can do this by

942
00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:02,640
Speaker 1: the end of the show, cause well over four hundred

943
00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:04,440
Speaker 1: or not four hundred thousand. That would be a record

944
00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:06,759
Speaker 1: well over four thousand if you were watching live. So

945
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:09,200
Speaker 1: just go ahead and make it happen. Hey, if you're

946
00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:11,200
Speaker 1: an Oklahoma State fan in here, you really better make

947
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:12,880
Speaker 1: it happen. No one else is going to do for

948
00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:15,000
Speaker 1: you what I just did for you. I promise, and

949
00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:18,680
Speaker 1: I'm not above rescinding a pick. We have a very

950
00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:21,000
Speaker 1: very good cause that we're doing on the show. We

951
00:48:21,080 --> 00:48:25,040
Speaker 1: have an auction that we're partnering with CBS to participate in.

952
00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:27,759
Speaker 1: I've always gone on the record of saying, never pay

953
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:30,680
Speaker 1: money to talk to me, never, never, never, never, terrible idea.

954
00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:33,000
Speaker 1: Whoever advises you to do that, kick him out of

955
00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:36,160
Speaker 1: your social circle. However, we partner with Saint Jude a

956
00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:39,120
Speaker 1: few times a year for cancer research for children, and

957
00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:42,759
Speaker 1: we auction off a private zoom call with me, and

958
00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:45,360
Speaker 1: on that zoom call, if you win this bid, we

959
00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:50,640
Speaker 1: go anywhere you want to and it's always very interesting conversation.

960
00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:52,760
Speaker 1: Most of you want to know behind the scenes stuff.

961
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:54,799
Speaker 1: Most of you want to know about your favorite coach.

962
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:56,480
Speaker 1: Most of you want to know about the stories that

963
00:48:56,520 --> 00:48:58,759
Speaker 1: I can't tell on Aaron. Some of you have asked

964
00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:01,239
Speaker 1: me to put Colin or Jess se On. But no

965
00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:04,120
Speaker 1: one's paid enough money for that yet, candidly, but this

966
00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:06,200
Speaker 1: is always really fun. It's for a great cause. The

967
00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:09,400
Speaker 1: link for this is in the show description right now,

968
00:49:09,760 --> 00:49:11,400
Speaker 1: so you can you can click on it right now

969
00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:13,880
Speaker 1: if you want to. The bidding is going to go

970
00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:17,200
Speaker 1: through Tuesday night. So Tuesday, I think about six pm

971
00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:20,600
Speaker 1: is when this cuts off, right before our Tuesday night show. Actually,

972
00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:23,239
Speaker 1: so that's that's out on the socials. But it's also

973
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:25,839
Speaker 1: right here in the show description. If you're listening on podcasts,

974
00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:28,640
Speaker 1: come over to YouTube. It's okay over here. No one's

975
00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:31,839
Speaker 1: gonna bite you. Subscribe while you're here, and you can

976
00:49:31,840 --> 00:49:33,839
Speaker 1: find the link there. But that's a really good cause,

977
00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:36,319
Speaker 1: and we have a really, really good time. I have

978
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:39,480
Speaker 1: never had a bad conversation with one of you. Oh

979
00:49:39,520 --> 00:49:43,399
Speaker 1: it's ACC picks time. This was This was the toughest one.

980
00:49:43,560 --> 00:49:46,480
Speaker 1: This was my holdout. The ACC was my holdout. I

981
00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:48,279
Speaker 1: settled on all the rest of these picks a little

982
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:56,719
Speaker 1: while ago. Not the ACC though. Okay, I'll tell you

983
00:49:56,800 --> 00:49:59,800
Speaker 1: where I want to start here, Okay, in the A

984
00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:03,360
Speaker 1: I have waited for this moment for so long. It's borderline.

985
00:50:03,360 --> 00:50:05,799
Speaker 1: Phil Collins lyrics here. I've waited for this moment all

986
00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:10,239
Speaker 1: of my life. Competition for Clemson, They've won the ACC

987
00:50:10,320 --> 00:50:14,200
Speaker 1: seven of the last eight years. No one has stepped

988
00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:18,080
Speaker 1: up consistently. FSU and Miami have been utter failures. The

989
00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:21,200
Speaker 1: state of Virginia is nowhere to be found. And until

990
00:50:21,239 --> 00:50:24,160
Speaker 1: recently with FSU, it didn't look like it was changing.

991
00:50:24,440 --> 00:50:27,879
Speaker 1: North Carolina maybe every now and then, Pitt maybe every

992
00:50:27,880 --> 00:50:29,560
Speaker 1: now and then. Well all of a sudden, it looks

993
00:50:29,560 --> 00:50:32,399
Speaker 1: different now, doesn't it. In fact, I got Florida State

994
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:34,759
Speaker 1: one spot ahead of Clemson in the preseason JP Pole,

995
00:50:34,840 --> 00:50:37,279
Speaker 1: and we all know how how big that factor that is.

996
00:50:37,480 --> 00:50:41,279
Speaker 1: Four months down the road, so we got that. We've

997
00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:45,960
Speaker 1: got an internal shakeup staff wise period at Clemson. I

998
00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:49,279
Speaker 1: wonder how that affects them, just the knowledge that there's

999
00:50:49,320 --> 00:50:54,239
Speaker 1: another contender in the room. To me, it's pretty clear

1000
00:50:54,280 --> 00:50:56,680
Speaker 1: where this conference is going at the end of the year.

1001
00:50:57,120 --> 00:51:00,480
Speaker 1: But Miami and North Carolina, along with Pitt, those are

1002
00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:02,359
Speaker 1: the teams that I think could have something to say

1003
00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:08,640
Speaker 1: about that. So North Carolina very very weak defensively last year.

1004
00:51:09,160 --> 00:51:12,280
Speaker 1: I gotta be honest with you, I have not bought

1005
00:51:12,280 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 1: some of the rumblings that they're going to be significantly

1006
00:51:15,080 --> 00:51:17,480
Speaker 1: improved on that side of the ball, and if they're not,

1007
00:51:17,600 --> 00:51:19,799
Speaker 1: that means they wasted the career of a really good

1008
00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:23,160
Speaker 1: quarterback in Drake May because they will have not gotten

1009
00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:27,160
Speaker 1: anything more than just flashes as a team out of him.

1010
00:51:27,640 --> 00:51:30,600
Speaker 1: Miami's gonna have a turnaround this year. Miami will be

1011
00:51:30,640 --> 00:51:33,280
Speaker 1: a better football team this year. Miami's got two new coordinators,

1012
00:51:33,320 --> 00:51:35,440
Speaker 1: and Miami's still got a lot to get back on track.

1013
00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:37,520
Speaker 1: They're going to have to rely on true freshmen and

1014
00:51:37,560 --> 00:51:42,800
Speaker 1: transfer portal guys. How big is the turnaround? You? Guys?

1015
00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:45,040
Speaker 1: Happy with eight wins down there? That's where I had

1016
00:51:45,040 --> 00:51:47,920
Speaker 1: you yet, But if they go over that nine wins

1017
00:51:47,920 --> 00:51:50,560
Speaker 1: ten wins, they could be a factor in this. Virginia

1018
00:51:50,600 --> 00:51:53,720
Speaker 1: and Virginia Tech are so disappointing to me. I should

1019
00:51:53,760 --> 00:51:57,680
Speaker 1: be talking about him every year. And the coaching staffs

1020
00:51:57,680 --> 00:51:59,799
Speaker 1: are not high enough caliber there. I'm not just talking

1021
00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:04,200
Speaker 1: head coaches. The staffs there are not good enough right now.

1022
00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:06,960
Speaker 1: They do not measure up, they don't compare. They got

1023
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:10,080
Speaker 1: to get better. There's no excuse for football at the

1024
00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:12,120
Speaker 1: college level in the state of Virginia to be bad

1025
00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:14,560
Speaker 1: for an extended period of time, no excuse for that.

1026
00:52:15,560 --> 00:52:19,759
Speaker 1: The sleepers in this conference Louisville obviously partly because of

1027
00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:22,719
Speaker 1: the pieces, partly because of schedule. But we've talked about

1028
00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:24,920
Speaker 1: them a lot, I feel like on the show, So

1029
00:52:25,200 --> 00:52:28,239
Speaker 1: let's just keep an eye on them. It could be

1030
00:52:28,280 --> 00:52:30,399
Speaker 1: a product of both, but I think that they could

1031
00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:33,120
Speaker 1: be in this thing just because of schedule alone. But Pitt,

1032
00:52:33,160 --> 00:52:35,160
Speaker 1: there's some crazy stuff going on with Pitt right now.

1033
00:52:35,640 --> 00:52:39,200
Speaker 1: Pitt just continues to climb up the odds board. So

1034
00:52:39,239 --> 00:52:42,120
Speaker 1: there is there is a lot of wildness happening in

1035
00:52:42,160 --> 00:52:46,640
Speaker 1: the betting markets with Pitt. It reeks almost like of politics,

1036
00:52:46,680 --> 00:52:50,040
Speaker 1: where someone knows something about a candidate. Is Nardoozi running

1037
00:52:50,080 --> 00:52:52,480
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four, I don't know, but he keep

1038
00:52:52,719 --> 00:52:55,719
Speaker 1: his team keeps on creeping up the odds board. And

1039
00:52:55,800 --> 00:53:00,279
Speaker 1: so Phil Drikovic, in case you didn't know of Ballston

1040
00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:04,200
Speaker 1: College Fame starting quarterback there. They're confident in their system

1041
00:53:04,239 --> 00:53:06,440
Speaker 1: and their roster. They're always putting guys in the NFL.

1042
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:09,359
Speaker 1: They're never in the top ten in recruiting. They just

1043
00:53:09,640 --> 00:53:12,960
Speaker 1: they know how to do things at Pitt Duke. Here's

1044
00:53:12,960 --> 00:53:16,920
Speaker 1: my question, what if I gave Duke Louisville's schedule because

1045
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:20,279
Speaker 1: Duke's got Riley Leonard at quarterback. They have got They

1046
00:53:20,280 --> 00:53:22,239
Speaker 1: have done a great job there. Mike Olko has done

1047
00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:25,799
Speaker 1: a great job. They've gotten the nineteenth highest level of

1048
00:53:25,800 --> 00:53:29,000
Speaker 1: returning production in college football. But they play six of

1049
00:53:29,040 --> 00:53:33,680
Speaker 1: the top six teams in the ACC plus Notre Dame.

1050
00:53:34,560 --> 00:53:36,959
Speaker 1: They can't win with that schedule. I mean, they can't

1051
00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:40,000
Speaker 1: make legitimate noise in the conference with that schedule. And

1052
00:53:40,080 --> 00:53:42,600
Speaker 1: so with that in mind, who's playing for a conference

1053
00:53:42,680 --> 00:53:47,120
Speaker 1: championship over here? I think it's pretty obvious. I mean,

1054
00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:50,400
Speaker 1: something will have to really really change drastically. But I

1055
00:53:50,440 --> 00:53:53,680
Speaker 1: got Florida State over Clemson in the ACC championship game,

1056
00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:55,840
Speaker 1: And you know what I think, And this is just

1057
00:53:55,880 --> 00:53:58,080
Speaker 1: a feel here. There's no skill in predicting this. To me.

1058
00:53:58,520 --> 00:54:00,520
Speaker 1: I think Clemson will get them the first time I'm around.

1059
00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:03,080
Speaker 1: If I had to bet right now, I'd lean Clemson

1060
00:54:03,080 --> 00:54:05,640
Speaker 1: in that first game. But I don't think there's gonna

1061
00:54:05,640 --> 00:54:08,320
Speaker 1: be much separation in those teams, And I think Florida

1062
00:54:08,320 --> 00:54:10,400
Speaker 1: State's gonna be good enough to punch a ticket to

1063
00:54:10,440 --> 00:54:13,760
Speaker 1: a rematch in Charlotte. And I think the team Florida

1064
00:54:13,760 --> 00:54:16,560
Speaker 1: State may be if they're able to stay healthy by December,

1065
00:54:17,160 --> 00:54:19,680
Speaker 1: could be a better version than the one Clemson plays

1066
00:54:19,719 --> 00:54:24,080
Speaker 1: that Saturday evening in Death Valley. I think Florida State's

1067
00:54:24,080 --> 00:54:26,719
Speaker 1: gonna end up winning a thing. And same question as

1068
00:54:26,719 --> 00:54:29,880
Speaker 1: I had with Texas if they win it, is it

1069
00:54:29,920 --> 00:54:31,680
Speaker 1: a two loss team? Is it a one loss team?

1070
00:54:31,760 --> 00:54:33,600
Speaker 1: What kind of team are we looking at? Is it

1071
00:54:33,680 --> 00:54:38,240
Speaker 1: more than just a conference champ? Because you know, right now,

1072
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:42,160
Speaker 1: to me, the ACC is right there in line with

1073
00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:45,719
Speaker 1: like the Big twelve, the Pac twelve in wondering will

1074
00:54:45,760 --> 00:54:49,560
Speaker 1: their champ be high caliber enough to be included in

1075
00:54:49,719 --> 00:54:54,040
Speaker 1: the College Football Playoff? And I've still struggled, gone back

1076
00:54:54,040 --> 00:54:57,480
Speaker 1: and forth on that. But yeah, I didn't know I

1077
00:54:57,560 --> 00:54:59,319
Speaker 1: was doing that as of like two days ago. But

1078
00:54:59,320 --> 00:55:04,360
Speaker 1: I'm taking Florida State slight, slight number two in the

1079
00:55:04,400 --> 00:55:06,960
Speaker 1: odds market right now behind Clemson to win the conference.

1080
00:55:07,320 --> 00:55:09,560
Speaker 1: I'm taking Florida State to win the conference. So there

1081
00:55:09,560 --> 00:55:11,919
Speaker 1: you go, Brian McFadden. You tried to talk me into

1082
00:55:11,920 --> 00:55:13,839
Speaker 1: it seven months ago, and I'm there for you now.

1083
00:55:15,320 --> 00:55:19,880
Speaker 1: Oh boy, you know what's become tradition around here. I

1084
00:55:19,920 --> 00:55:24,920
Speaker 1: forgot about this. I've put Chopstick on about once a

1085
00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:27,400
Speaker 1: show for the past three weeks and it served me

1086
00:55:27,520 --> 00:55:30,279
Speaker 1: very well. Don't have chapped lips, kids. We're entering that

1087
00:55:30,280 --> 00:55:33,160
Speaker 1: time of year. Humidity is only about eighty degree du

1088
00:55:33,239 --> 00:55:35,080
Speaker 1: point around here. Right now, it's getting kind of crisp.

1089
00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:38,520
Speaker 1: The Once Upon a Saturday Tour is headed to Salt

1090
00:55:38,600 --> 00:55:41,840
Speaker 1: Lake City, Utah. I'm flying there this Wednesday. It's a

1091
00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:45,279
Speaker 1: Thursday game. Do I care? No, I do not. The

1092
00:55:45,280 --> 00:55:47,560
Speaker 1: once Upon a Saturday Tour will be in a town.

1093
00:55:47,880 --> 00:55:50,160
Speaker 1: We will be at a game of our choice every

1094
00:55:50,200 --> 00:55:52,800
Speaker 1: Saturday this fall. If you're new to this show, here's

1095
00:55:52,840 --> 00:55:55,560
Speaker 1: what's up. Let me break it down for you. We

1096
00:55:55,560 --> 00:55:57,680
Speaker 1: are the most blessed people on the face of the earth.

1097
00:55:57,920 --> 00:56:02,000
Speaker 1: Number one because a major company pays me to do

1098
00:56:02,040 --> 00:56:06,120
Speaker 1: nothing but taught college football all year and then they

1099
00:56:06,239 --> 00:56:08,239
Speaker 1: let me pick whichever game I want to go to

1100
00:56:08,280 --> 00:56:12,960
Speaker 1: and just stand on the sideline and added bonus. This Thursday,

1101
00:56:13,280 --> 00:56:16,960
Speaker 1: we will do our show live from Utah. I think

1102
00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:20,480
Speaker 1: inside the stadium, I believe before the game. So our

1103
00:56:20,520 --> 00:56:22,920
Speaker 1: Thursday edition of Late Kick Live is going to be

1104
00:56:22,960 --> 00:56:26,040
Speaker 1: really early in the day. The tentative plan is three

1105
00:56:26,080 --> 00:56:30,719
Speaker 1: o'clock Eastern one o'clock Mountain time, so I'll send out

1106
00:56:30,760 --> 00:56:33,040
Speaker 1: final word on that, but anyway, yeah, it's going to

1107
00:56:33,080 --> 00:56:34,279
Speaker 1: be a load of fun. I've never been to a

1108
00:56:34,280 --> 00:56:39,480
Speaker 1: game at Utah, and there is a very strong rumor,

1109
00:56:41,120 --> 00:56:44,200
Speaker 1: very strong that we're also going to show up at

1110
00:56:44,200 --> 00:56:48,040
Speaker 1: a Saturday game, but we just haven't announced which one

1111
00:56:48,040 --> 00:56:51,720
Speaker 1: it is because I won't be alone because a couple

1112
00:56:51,760 --> 00:56:54,520
Speaker 1: of the fine gentlemen who are just in this room

1113
00:56:54,520 --> 00:56:56,960
Speaker 1: over here to my right are going to accompany me,

1114
00:56:57,360 --> 00:56:59,239
Speaker 1: which means I'm going alone because a lot of you

1115
00:56:59,280 --> 00:57:03,520
Speaker 1: think they don't exist. But yeah, well we'll probably see

1116
00:57:03,520 --> 00:57:06,080
Speaker 1: some of you guys Saturday. But on the record, first

1117
00:57:06,080 --> 00:57:08,919
Speaker 1: stop in the Once Upon a Saturday Tour is eight

1118
00:57:09,040 --> 00:57:10,799
Speaker 1: thirty one, twenty three, and that is out in Salt

1119
00:57:10,880 --> 00:57:13,360
Speaker 1: Lake City, Utah, and we're looking extra forward to that because,

1120
00:57:13,400 --> 00:57:14,879
Speaker 1: like I said, we've never been to a game there,

1121
00:57:15,160 --> 00:57:18,400
Speaker 1: and so we will announce our next destination on the

1122
00:57:18,440 --> 00:57:22,760
Speaker 1: tour every Sunday night, So our week two destination we

1123
00:57:22,800 --> 00:57:27,440
Speaker 1: will announce next Sunday night, and so on and so forth. Hey,

1124
00:57:27,480 --> 00:57:29,360
Speaker 1: I had a question on Twitter today. I wanted to

1125
00:57:29,400 --> 00:57:31,920
Speaker 1: fit this in the show. Remember we've got national championship

1126
00:57:31,920 --> 00:57:34,360
Speaker 1: predictions still coming up. Make sure you're subscribed to the

1127
00:57:34,400 --> 00:57:36,880
Speaker 1: channel if you haven't already. Let's just get a little

1128
00:57:36,960 --> 00:57:40,120
Speaker 1: updated count here. We still need about one hundred and

1129
00:57:40,160 --> 00:57:44,080
Speaker 1: fifty one hundred and fifty subs, and I know good

1130
00:57:44,080 --> 00:57:46,160
Speaker 1: and well about forty seven percent of you are not

1131
00:57:46,160 --> 00:57:48,280
Speaker 1: subscribed to the channel. And I know that you have

1132
00:57:48,360 --> 00:57:51,800
Speaker 1: it in your heart to do what's right. Me Ma

1133
00:57:51,960 --> 00:57:55,120
Speaker 1: would want it this way, yours, not mine. You already

1134
00:57:55,160 --> 00:57:57,960
Speaker 1: know how mine feels. Your mem would want it this way.

1135
00:57:59,080 --> 00:58:01,960
Speaker 1: You can let mema donight, HM, on the Lord's Day,

1136
00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:03,680
Speaker 1: you gonna let me Mo down. I don't think, so.

1137
00:58:03,880 --> 00:58:07,920
Speaker 1: Subscribe to the channel, please. Jimari hit us up from Spartanburg,

1138
00:58:07,960 --> 00:58:11,560
Speaker 1: South Carolina, and he asked which coaches would I say

1139
00:58:11,600 --> 00:58:15,440
Speaker 1: are feeling the most pressure this year? Jimbo Fisher is

1140
00:58:15,480 --> 00:58:18,440
Speaker 1: a slam dunk number one. Jimbo's feeling a ton of pressure.

1141
00:58:18,800 --> 00:58:20,600
Speaker 1: The rule on our show is there are two kinds

1142
00:58:20,600 --> 00:58:25,240
Speaker 1: of pressure. You've got competitive pressure, which means you're just

1143
00:58:25,280 --> 00:58:28,200
Speaker 1: in a high stakes environment, which to some degree everyone

1144
00:58:28,240 --> 00:58:31,920
Speaker 1: feels some more than others. But competitive pressure doesn't mean

1145
00:58:31,920 --> 00:58:33,920
Speaker 1: your jobs on the line. The other kind of pressure

1146
00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:37,960
Speaker 1: is job security. Pressure full disclosure. I'm not sure which

1147
00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:41,200
Speaker 1: one Jimbo's feeling. Maybe a little bit of both. But man,

1148
00:58:41,640 --> 00:58:43,920
Speaker 1: this is a place where every other box is checked.

1149
00:58:44,680 --> 00:58:46,760
Speaker 1: I told you guys a little while ago. I'll tell

1150
00:58:46,800 --> 00:58:48,360
Speaker 1: you once more because a lot of you have come

1151
00:58:48,400 --> 00:58:51,920
Speaker 1: back to the channel for the fall. There is a

1152
00:58:52,480 --> 00:58:55,840
Speaker 1: widely held school of thought that A and M's got

1153
00:58:55,880 --> 00:58:58,480
Speaker 1: everything else they need now. They may have the head

1154
00:58:58,480 --> 00:59:00,640
Speaker 1: coach they need too, but there is a thought that

1155
00:59:00,960 --> 00:59:03,840
Speaker 1: if they don't get it done this year, that they

1156
00:59:03,840 --> 00:59:05,960
Speaker 1: are more likely than you think to pull the trigger

1157
00:59:05,960 --> 00:59:09,440
Speaker 1: out there because they know elsewhere they've got everything. There's

1158
00:59:09,560 --> 00:59:13,240
Speaker 1: nothing they lack in that scenario where they win six

1159
00:59:13,320 --> 00:59:16,000
Speaker 1: games this year, there's nothing they lack other than the

1160
00:59:16,040 --> 00:59:19,800
Speaker 1: right head coach. So Jimbo is definitely feeling that pressure.

1161
00:59:19,920 --> 00:59:22,200
Speaker 1: I think Neil Brown at West Virginia is feeling the

1162
00:59:22,200 --> 00:59:26,000
Speaker 1: most preseason pressure for his job of any Power five

1163
00:59:26,040 --> 00:59:29,920
Speaker 1: head coach in the country. And I mean, look, I

1164
00:59:30,840 --> 00:59:33,240
Speaker 1: know some folks around that program thought they were gonna

1165
00:59:33,240 --> 00:59:36,920
Speaker 1: move on him after last year, and they didn't. Okay,

1166
00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:40,800
Speaker 1: so are we gonna find ourselves watching Neil Brown finish

1167
00:59:40,840 --> 00:59:43,280
Speaker 1: the season this year? Are they gonna have a good

1168
00:59:43,320 --> 00:59:45,360
Speaker 1: year and making a moot point, or is it gonna

1169
00:59:45,360 --> 00:59:47,360
Speaker 1: be one of those deals like it Nebraska last year,

1170
00:59:47,480 --> 00:59:50,760
Speaker 1: or like a Wisconsin where they get four games into

1171
00:59:50,760 --> 00:59:53,120
Speaker 1: the season, five games into the season, and then they

1172
00:59:53,200 --> 00:59:55,160
Speaker 1: hit the dump button and it makes you say, well,

1173
00:59:55,160 --> 00:59:57,840
Speaker 1: why did you even start the year with him, which

1174
00:59:57,880 --> 01:00:01,160
Speaker 1: is a valid question. I think lincol Riley at USC

1175
01:00:01,560 --> 01:00:06,360
Speaker 1: is feeling pressure, competitive pressure, not job security pressure. I

1176
01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:10,840
Speaker 1: go back twenty four hours where a lot of you

1177
01:00:10,880 --> 01:00:15,280
Speaker 1: guys were watching them struggle statistically on defense against San

1178
01:00:15,360 --> 01:00:18,560
Speaker 1: Jose State. I think that'll get cleaned up to a degree.

1179
01:00:18,760 --> 01:00:20,960
Speaker 1: But what if it doesn't, what if they're just not

1180
01:00:21,120 --> 01:00:23,800
Speaker 1: good again this year? Well, I'll tell you what will happen.

1181
01:00:24,640 --> 01:00:27,000
Speaker 1: There'll be some really really tough decisions that'll have to

1182
01:00:27,040 --> 01:00:31,320
Speaker 1: be made because you can't maintain that defensive staff and

1183
01:00:32,400 --> 01:00:35,120
Speaker 1: continue to think that you're going to be involved in

1184
01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:38,960
Speaker 1: like postseason consideration. They're going to the Big Ten next year,

1185
01:00:39,520 --> 01:00:42,280
Speaker 1: like you think that they're about to be subpar defensively

1186
01:00:42,320 --> 01:00:45,480
Speaker 1: in that league. Of course they're not. They can't afford

1187
01:00:45,520 --> 01:00:47,520
Speaker 1: to be that in the Pac twelve, much less the

1188
01:00:47,560 --> 01:00:50,600
Speaker 1: Big Ten. So I think that Lincoln Riley's feeling that

1189
01:00:50,680 --> 01:00:52,760
Speaker 1: kind of pressure. The bad part for him is it's

1190
01:00:52,800 --> 01:00:55,880
Speaker 1: kind of in a given season, it's out of his control.

1191
01:00:56,000 --> 01:00:58,960
Speaker 1: Now it's in his control to hire his DC, but

1192
01:00:59,000 --> 01:01:01,320
Speaker 1: he doesn't have anything to do with defense, So there's that.

1193
01:01:01,760 --> 01:01:03,920
Speaker 1: I think Billy Napier is feeling a lot of pressure

1194
01:01:03,960 --> 01:01:08,360
Speaker 1: at Florida. That's crazy. You know, it's a good idea.

1195
01:01:08,400 --> 01:01:11,680
Speaker 1: It's a good time for us to bring our friend

1196
01:01:12,080 --> 01:01:17,280
Speaker 1: the alien back to the broadcast. We do this occasionally

1197
01:01:17,280 --> 01:01:19,640
Speaker 1: from time to time when we need an outside opinion.

1198
01:01:20,280 --> 01:01:24,000
Speaker 1: Some of you use research firms, focus groups. We just

1199
01:01:24,040 --> 01:01:25,960
Speaker 1: have a hypothetical alien that we bring on in the

1200
01:01:26,000 --> 01:01:30,240
Speaker 1: show and he comes down. It's hey, alien, how have

1201
01:01:30,320 --> 01:01:34,200
Speaker 1: you been long time no talk? There's a guy that's

1202
01:01:34,200 --> 01:01:37,720
Speaker 1: had a grand total of one season at a program

1203
01:01:37,760 --> 01:01:39,680
Speaker 1: that was pretty much a tire fire when he took

1204
01:01:39,680 --> 01:01:42,200
Speaker 1: it over, and the alien would probably say something like,

1205
01:01:43,040 --> 01:01:45,240
Speaker 1: oh okay, well give him a few years, right, and

1206
01:01:45,320 --> 01:01:48,440
Speaker 1: we say not so fast. Alien. A lot of these

1207
01:01:48,520 --> 01:01:51,480
Speaker 1: people want it in a microwave, at which point you

1208
01:01:51,520 --> 01:01:56,240
Speaker 1: explained to the alien what a microwave is. And I

1209
01:01:56,280 --> 01:01:59,640
Speaker 1: think the alien, or any outsider for that perspective, would

1210
01:01:59,680 --> 01:02:02,480
Speaker 1: look in and say all we are saying is give

1211
01:02:02,480 --> 01:02:07,040
Speaker 1: Billy a chance. And those who are in the Florida

1212
01:02:07,080 --> 01:02:09,680
Speaker 1: fan base look back and say, we don't feel like

1213
01:02:10,320 --> 01:02:12,880
Speaker 1: taking time to do this. He's got the portal, he's

1214
01:02:12,920 --> 01:02:14,680
Speaker 1: got everything at his disposal. He needs to be a

1215
01:02:14,720 --> 01:02:18,040
Speaker 1: lot better this year. Now you may think that's irrational,

1216
01:02:18,720 --> 01:02:22,600
Speaker 1: but it's reality. And so here's the good thing for him.

1217
01:02:22,600 --> 01:02:24,360
Speaker 1: They're over unders five and a half in the win

1218
01:02:24,520 --> 01:02:27,800
Speaker 1: column or the win total. So if they go seven

1219
01:02:27,800 --> 01:02:31,400
Speaker 1: and five this year, we can legitimately say he overachieved.

1220
01:02:31,720 --> 01:02:33,600
Speaker 1: I think they're going over five and a half wins

1221
01:02:33,640 --> 01:02:35,600
Speaker 1: by the way, I've got him top twenty five in

1222
01:02:35,680 --> 01:02:39,439
Speaker 1: the jpeople so means nothing. He's still got to follow

1223
01:02:39,440 --> 01:02:41,520
Speaker 1: through on it. It would be very good. It'll be

1224
01:02:41,680 --> 01:02:43,560
Speaker 1: very very good for him to get that first win

1225
01:02:43,600 --> 01:02:47,840
Speaker 1: at Utah by any means necessary. This Thursday, Ryan Day

1226
01:02:48,320 --> 01:02:52,919
Speaker 1: is the one feeling the most competitive pressure because Ryan Day,

1227
01:02:53,720 --> 01:02:57,040
Speaker 1: contrary to popular belief out there runs no risk of

1228
01:02:57,080 --> 01:02:59,720
Speaker 1: losing his job this year if he loses to Michigan

1229
01:02:59,720 --> 01:03:02,480
Speaker 1: for a third time in a row. I don't believe that.

1230
01:03:03,360 --> 01:03:06,720
Speaker 1: I think it's insanity and I respect I respect the

1231
01:03:06,760 --> 01:03:11,960
Speaker 1: tradition up there. I get why you would say that. No, no, no, Now,

1232
01:03:12,000 --> 01:03:14,360
Speaker 1: this is a this is a program that makes very

1233
01:03:14,360 --> 01:03:16,960
Speaker 1: sound decisions when it comes to coaching. They're not getting

1234
01:03:17,000 --> 01:03:19,760
Speaker 1: rid of a guy if he goes eleven and one

1235
01:03:19,800 --> 01:03:22,720
Speaker 1: and loses to Michigan thirty to twenty four in the

1236
01:03:22,720 --> 01:03:28,760
Speaker 1: big House, that's not happening. But one day I'll tell you,

1237
01:03:28,960 --> 01:03:31,800
Speaker 1: and I probably won't because it was off the record.

1238
01:03:32,080 --> 01:03:33,600
Speaker 1: I had a little talk of Ryan Day about that

1239
01:03:33,720 --> 01:03:36,400
Speaker 1: last month. He gets it, man, he gets it. He

1240
01:03:36,440 --> 01:03:40,480
Speaker 1: hadn't shy away from it. He knows what time it is.

1241
01:03:41,280 --> 01:03:44,840
Speaker 1: And so if any of you had started to think

1242
01:03:44,840 --> 01:03:47,400
Speaker 1: about feeling sorry for him, don't. He doesn't need you to.

1243
01:03:47,520 --> 01:03:50,959
Speaker 1: He doesn't. No one up there does shout out Jerry

1244
01:03:50,960 --> 01:03:55,959
Speaker 1: emig there getting some FaceTime, just barely, I think, still though,

1245
01:03:56,840 --> 01:04:00,560
Speaker 1: knowing the unique dynamic of that rivalry Ohio State Michigan,

1246
01:04:00,840 --> 01:04:04,439
Speaker 1: and knowing how much they out resource everyone else up there,

1247
01:04:04,920 --> 01:04:06,920
Speaker 1: it's so weird. If the alien was still here, he

1248
01:04:06,920 --> 01:04:09,040
Speaker 1: already flew back home. If the alien was still here,

1249
01:04:09,240 --> 01:04:11,280
Speaker 1: I would try to explain to him it doesn't matter

1250
01:04:11,280 --> 01:04:12,920
Speaker 1: if you win all of them. If you lose that

1251
01:04:12,960 --> 01:04:16,840
Speaker 1: Michigan game up there. In this sport, it's considered a failure.

1252
01:04:17,280 --> 01:04:22,600
Speaker 1: Well gasp, Yeah, that's pressure. It's real pressure. Can you

1253
01:04:22,680 --> 01:04:26,600
Speaker 1: imagine how uncomfortable life is if you lose consecutive games

1254
01:04:26,640 --> 01:04:28,760
Speaker 1: to Michigan, much less three in a row, which hasn't

1255
01:04:28,760 --> 01:04:32,200
Speaker 1: happened in that series this millennium. That's pressure. He's not

1256
01:04:32,240 --> 01:04:34,360
Speaker 1: going to lose a job, but that's pressure. And Steve

1257
01:04:34,400 --> 01:04:38,680
Speaker 1: Sarkisan at Texas, you got everybody with a live microphone

1258
01:04:38,680 --> 01:04:41,560
Speaker 1: in their face from coast to coast. Me included telling

1259
01:04:41,600 --> 01:04:43,360
Speaker 1: you that this team's going to be really good this year.

1260
01:04:44,160 --> 01:04:46,600
Speaker 1: And it's easy because we don't have to coach and

1261
01:04:46,640 --> 01:04:50,000
Speaker 1: we don't have to play, So I can confidently tell you.

1262
01:04:50,040 --> 01:04:51,919
Speaker 1: It's been easy for me to say what I've said

1263
01:04:51,920 --> 01:04:55,040
Speaker 1: about them. I don't have to back it up. They do,

1264
01:04:55,720 --> 01:04:58,160
Speaker 1: and they're the ones who get hated on if it

1265
01:04:58,200 --> 01:05:01,960
Speaker 1: goes sideways. Not me. I'll just blame the model. I'll

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Speaker 1: throw the model under the bus in the second. I

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Speaker 1: just want the credit. I have no interest in the blame.

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Speaker 1: But Steve Sarkisian can't duck the blame. He's got to

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Speaker 1: take the blame. And so if they don't win ten games,

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Speaker 1: if they don't win the Big twelve, it's a failure

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Speaker 1: for them this year. I think they know it. I

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Speaker 1: think Steve Sarkisian believes the same thing. And I think

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Speaker 1: he's fully in the belief that he's got the team

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Speaker 1: to get it done. And I believe he does too.

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Speaker 1: That's why I predicted him to get the job done.

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Speaker 1: But whether it's Jimbo or Billy Napier, Sark, Ryan Day,

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Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley, Neil Brown, all those guys are feeling some

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Speaker 1: kind of pressure this year. And I could go through

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Speaker 1: the rest of the list of coaches in America, those

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Speaker 1: are just the ones that stand out in my mind.

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Speaker 1: Uh say, I had a couple more things to get

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Speaker 1: to and there was a thought in the studio that

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Speaker 1: the show may take two hours tonight, so at least

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Speaker 1: we're gonna come in under that one hundred and sixteen

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Speaker 1: subs away from two hundred thousand. What if I went

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Speaker 1: on a hunger struck. I'm not going one hundred struck

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01:05:55,160 --> 01:05:57,240
Speaker 1: because I'm really hungry, so I got to go eat

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Speaker 1: right after the show. But maybe for three hundred thousand,

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Speaker 1: I'll go on a hunger strike, all right, here's what

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Speaker 1: we're gonna do. Catch you up where we are. I

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Speaker 1: got to give you Pac twelve predictions. I've got to

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Speaker 1: make a very special betting related announcement toot, and then

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Speaker 1: we're picking the playoff. I'm gonna flat out tell you

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Speaker 1: who I think is gonna win the national championship. All

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Speaker 1: that's coming up right now. Like the video if you

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Speaker 1: haven't already, and subscribe to the pod and channel if

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Speaker 1: you haven't already. In the Pac twelve, it's anybody's ball game.

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Speaker 1: There are six teams out here. There's a six pack

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Speaker 1: of teams, and the odds say that pretty much any

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Speaker 1: of them could win the title. This conference has college

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Speaker 1: football playoff contenders. But I know a lot of you

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Speaker 1: don't believe that. That's okay. It's important for me to

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01:06:43,600 --> 01:06:45,960
Speaker 1: be right here. It's important for one or two of

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Speaker 1: them to elevate. We can't just have bumper cars out there.

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Speaker 1: I've got to have one or two of them elevate.

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Speaker 1: Who plays defense. I think in a conference full of quarterbacks,

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Speaker 1: we'll determine who wins. This Last year, listen to what

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Speaker 1: stats and info came up paper Pop. Last year, the

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Speaker 1: PAC twelve had five of the top ten scoring offenses

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Speaker 1: in the country. Yeah, pretty good, not surprising, right. Well, defensively,

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01:07:13,080 --> 01:07:16,600
Speaker 1: things weren't nearly as pretty out there. Utah as of

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Speaker 1: this moment, is the only team with a projected top

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Speaker 1: thirty defense according to S and P Plus, and they've

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Speaker 1: got big time health questions at quarterback. Now, for the record,

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Speaker 1: I disagree with the S and P plus projection. Bill

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01:07:34,120 --> 01:07:37,480
Speaker 1: Connelly pretty much invented math. But I do think that

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Speaker 1: there's gonna be at least one other team out there

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Speaker 1: that lands inside the top thirty in total defense. But anyway,

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Speaker 1: Sleepers in the Pac twelve, I don't think we have

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Speaker 1: anywhere to go out here. I don't think there's a

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Speaker 1: team outside of that top six that's gonna make legitimate

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Speaker 1: noise in the conference championship picture. So the top six,

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Speaker 1: in case you haven't been paying attention, Southern Cal Oregon, Washington, Utah,

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Speaker 1: Oregon State, and UCLA. JP Pole is very high on

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Speaker 1: both teams from Oregon. Let me spoil the ending for

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Speaker 1: you there. Do you really think that Cal, either of

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Speaker 1: the Arizona teams, Stanford, Washington State, or Colorado are going

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Speaker 1: to be a factor there? I don't. I just don't.

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Speaker 1: If you disagree, more power to you. Hopefully you're right.

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01:08:22,600 --> 01:08:24,080
Speaker 1: It's going to be very fun to watch Jade and

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01:08:24,120 --> 01:08:27,080
Speaker 1: Rashata start at quarterback for Arizona State. It's going to

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Speaker 1: be very fun to watch Travis Hunter play both ways,

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Speaker 1: probably at a really high level for Colorado. But I

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Speaker 1: don't think those teams are gonna make noise. But here's

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Speaker 1: where I differ from the ap pole. If you're asking

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Speaker 1: me for the tiers of teams in the PAC twelve,

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Speaker 1: I think it's Oregon and USC and Tier one and

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01:08:47,200 --> 01:08:50,080
Speaker 1: that's it. And then I go Tier two and I

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01:08:50,160 --> 01:08:55,680
Speaker 1: got Oregon State in Utah and UCLA and Washington. But

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01:08:55,840 --> 01:08:58,720
Speaker 1: I wonder is Tier one bigger than that? Is it

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01:08:58,880 --> 01:09:01,360
Speaker 1: smaller than that? Is there no Tier one? Is it

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01:09:01,479 --> 01:09:04,479
Speaker 1: just a bunch of above average teams in Tier two? Well,

1343
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Speaker 1: that's what we get to conference championship predictions for, right.

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01:09:08,040 --> 01:09:11,680
Speaker 1: So the conference championship picture in the PAC twelve it

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01:09:11,840 --> 01:09:14,320
Speaker 1: may not emerge until later in the year, especially with

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01:09:14,479 --> 01:09:17,719
Speaker 1: USC not even entering the meat of their schedule until

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01:09:17,840 --> 01:09:21,160
Speaker 1: mid October. But you know where I'm going with this.

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Speaker 1: I think Oregan's the most underrated team in the PAC

1349
01:09:24,479 --> 01:09:28,040
Speaker 1: twelve AP versus JP PULL. I'm putting Oregon in the

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Speaker 1: PAC twelve Championship game. I'm putting UCLA in the PAC

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Speaker 1: twelve Championship game. More on that in a second, And

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Speaker 1: I think Oregon and Dan Lanning will take it over

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01:09:38,360 --> 01:09:41,479
Speaker 1: Chip Kelly and the UCLA Bruins when the dust settles

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01:09:41,520 --> 01:09:44,120
Speaker 1: out there in Las Vegas. Ucla is going to raise

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01:09:44,160 --> 01:09:47,599
Speaker 1: some eyebrows here a couple of things. They keep getting better.

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01:09:48,000 --> 01:09:51,679
Speaker 1: They've got their quarterback situation worked out, and that doesn't

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01:09:51,760 --> 01:09:53,880
Speaker 1: mean that the guy who starts week one is going

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01:09:53,920 --> 01:09:57,639
Speaker 1: to be starting in week nine. It could be the opposite.

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Speaker 1: That's the point. They've got all the insurance they with

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01:10:00,280 --> 01:10:03,000
Speaker 1: Garber's and I think he'll probably start at the beginning

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01:10:03,000 --> 01:10:05,720
Speaker 1: of the year, and if he goes wire to wire,

1362
01:10:05,800 --> 01:10:08,080
Speaker 1: that means he played well enough, and if he doesn't,

1363
01:10:08,080 --> 01:10:10,680
Speaker 1: it means that Dante Moore had what it took to

1364
01:10:10,800 --> 01:10:13,720
Speaker 1: overtake QB one, which is all the better for them.

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Speaker 1: They have fortified their lines of scrimmage. They went and

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Speaker 1: got really really good, high level help in the portal

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Speaker 1: at the running back position. They, unlike some of these

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Speaker 1: other teams in the top tier, only play. I think

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Speaker 1: three of the other top five teams in the top

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Speaker 1: half of the league, all the rest of them play

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Speaker 1: either four of them or all five of them. And

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Speaker 1: I think that by the end of the year, you're

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Speaker 1: gonna look at UCLA and say, a lot better than

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Speaker 1: I thought they'd be. But I think Oregon's a lot

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Speaker 1: better than you think they'll be on both lines of scrimmage,

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Speaker 1: including the offensive line. Where Preview Magazine Syndrome or PMS

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Speaker 1: would lead you to believe that's going to be a

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Speaker 1: weakness for them, offensive line is not gonna be a

1379
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Speaker 1: weakness for organ Defensive line and defensive personnel and versatility

1380
01:10:59,800 --> 01:11:01,040
Speaker 1: is going to allow them to be a lot more

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01:11:01,120 --> 01:11:02,519
Speaker 1: multiple on that side of the ball than they were

1382
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Speaker 1: last year. And bo Nix is still there, and so

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01:11:05,280 --> 01:11:07,800
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna not only win the league, I

1384
01:11:07,880 --> 01:11:09,760
Speaker 1: think they're also going to be in playoff contention. I

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Speaker 1: think it's going to be a really, really good year

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Speaker 1: for Oregon in their last year in the Pac twelve.

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Speaker 1: I have got two things to tell you. I've got

1388
01:11:17,760 --> 01:11:19,760
Speaker 1: an eyelash in my eye. Okay, we took care of that,

1389
01:11:20,720 --> 01:11:25,719
Speaker 1: just that easy. You know what's back the rama Noodle

1390
01:11:25,760 --> 01:11:29,280
Speaker 1: Express is back this year. It felt so good to

1391
01:11:29,360 --> 01:11:32,200
Speaker 1: say it's been bottled up. So many people ask questions

1392
01:11:32,200 --> 01:11:36,519
Speaker 1: about it. The Rama Noodle Express is back starting forty

1393
01:11:36,560 --> 01:11:39,320
Speaker 1: eight hours from now. I will have picks for week

1394
01:11:39,400 --> 01:11:43,120
Speaker 1: one in forty eight hours. The Rama Noodle Express killed it.

1395
01:11:43,240 --> 01:11:46,280
Speaker 1: We put kids through college two years ago and then

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01:11:46,400 --> 01:11:49,400
Speaker 1: last year we treaded water and we finished just above

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Speaker 1: five hundred. And you know what, it's no way to live.

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Speaker 1: And so I punish myself. I'm that kind of kid

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01:11:55,800 --> 01:11:57,960
Speaker 1: who gives his own self a spanking. I don't need

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01:11:58,040 --> 01:12:00,439
Speaker 1: my parents to do it. It's always been a policy

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01:12:00,479 --> 01:12:06,680
Speaker 1: of mine. And so we're back. I want you to

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01:12:06,720 --> 01:12:09,160
Speaker 1: put the word out that we're back. The ram Noodle

1403
01:12:09,200 --> 01:12:12,280
Speaker 1: Express is back. And you know what else, Double Paper

1404
01:12:12,320 --> 01:12:16,320
Speaker 1: Pop Friday Night Lines is back. So if you're not

1405
01:12:16,400 --> 01:12:21,240
Speaker 1: already following on Instagram at Late kick Josh, for two reasons.

1406
01:12:21,520 --> 01:12:25,000
Speaker 1: Number one, there is so much valuable behind the scenes

1407
01:12:25,080 --> 01:12:28,679
Speaker 1: content at these games we go to in that Instagram story. Frankly,

1408
01:12:28,720 --> 01:12:30,720
Speaker 1: there's a lot of stuff in that Instagram story that

1409
01:12:31,160 --> 01:12:33,720
Speaker 1: peer appeals back the layers and the curtain to the

1410
01:12:33,760 --> 01:12:36,280
Speaker 1: degree that I don't on the show. So you're missing

1411
01:12:36,320 --> 01:12:38,720
Speaker 1: out big time if you're not following on Instagram at

1412
01:12:38,800 --> 01:12:44,439
Speaker 1: Late Kick Josh, but also on Friday Night, very laid back,

1413
01:12:44,800 --> 01:12:47,639
Speaker 1: sort of off the record, sort of an inside club

1414
01:12:47,760 --> 01:12:50,800
Speaker 1: sort of thing, not like a country club like Management's

1415
01:12:50,800 --> 01:12:53,160
Speaker 1: a part of, but sort of just an inside club.

1416
01:12:54,680 --> 01:12:58,680
Speaker 1: We get together, you and I on Instagram live and

1417
01:12:58,840 --> 01:13:00,920
Speaker 1: I put out the call about an hour before we

1418
01:13:01,040 --> 01:13:03,960
Speaker 1: do it, and it's just us. It's not even like

1419
01:13:04,000 --> 01:13:07,439
Speaker 1: a CBS production. It's just us and I have the

1420
01:13:07,560 --> 01:13:09,800
Speaker 1: model pulled up. Normally I'm in a hotel room on

1421
01:13:09,880 --> 01:13:12,439
Speaker 1: the road somewhere while everyone else is out getting in trouble.

1422
01:13:13,520 --> 01:13:17,000
Speaker 1: I'm in my hotel and I'm grinding away but on

1423
01:13:17,080 --> 01:13:20,519
Speaker 1: a computer model, and you guys toss me games and

1424
01:13:20,600 --> 01:13:22,519
Speaker 1: I tell you what the model thinks. Sometimes I hand

1425
01:13:22,560 --> 01:13:25,120
Speaker 1: out late bets. At the very least I give you

1426
01:13:25,200 --> 01:13:28,160
Speaker 1: my opinion on the board. The next day, it fun

1427
01:13:28,240 --> 01:13:32,240
Speaker 1: has had by all and we are We're full steam ahead.

1428
01:13:32,320 --> 01:13:35,200
Speaker 1: So Roma Noodle Expresses back. Friday Night Lines is back.

1429
01:13:35,320 --> 01:13:37,760
Speaker 1: Make sure you're following at Late Kick Josh if you

1430
01:13:37,880 --> 01:13:42,479
Speaker 1: haven't already. I have got one more thing on the

1431
01:13:42,560 --> 01:13:47,000
Speaker 1: docket here, Jesse. Did you see the surgeon subs there

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01:13:48,040 --> 01:13:52,080
Speaker 1: we are. We're less than eighty away. I mean, we

1433
01:13:52,160 --> 01:13:55,720
Speaker 1: got like five thousand people watching live. Hey, eighty of

1434
01:13:55,800 --> 01:13:58,680
Speaker 1: you really quick subscribe to the channel and so that

1435
01:13:58,760 --> 01:14:00,599
Speaker 1: we cannot have to worry about it. When I drive

1436
01:14:00,640 --> 01:14:02,240
Speaker 1: home tonight, I just want to drive home in peace.

1437
01:14:04,479 --> 01:14:08,040
Speaker 1: It's that time of year. It's time we have got

1438
01:14:08,120 --> 01:14:10,800
Speaker 1: to do college football playoff picks. And we got a

1439
01:14:10,840 --> 01:14:14,479
Speaker 1: crown and national champion. And this is as real as

1440
01:14:14,560 --> 01:14:16,519
Speaker 1: it gets on a show that doesn't focus on the

1441
01:14:16,560 --> 01:14:18,840
Speaker 1: playoff a lot. This is just about the last time

1442
01:14:18,880 --> 01:14:21,439
Speaker 1: you'll hear me talk about the playoff until November. Let's

1443
01:14:21,479 --> 01:14:23,720
Speaker 1: do one thing, Colin there it is right on Q.

1444
01:14:23,880 --> 01:14:27,840
Speaker 1: Let's remember our conference championship winners. I'm taking Bama over

1445
01:14:27,960 --> 01:14:31,400
Speaker 1: Georgia in the SEC, doesn't mean anything. Both of them

1446
01:14:31,439 --> 01:14:34,320
Speaker 1: could make the playoff. I'm taking Ohio State over Iowa

1447
01:14:34,439 --> 01:14:36,960
Speaker 1: in the Big Ten the Big twelve. Give me Texas

1448
01:14:37,240 --> 01:14:40,559
Speaker 1: over a surprise Oklahoma State team. I like Florida State

1449
01:14:40,600 --> 01:14:44,760
Speaker 1: over Clemson in the ACC, and I take Oregon over

1450
01:14:44,960 --> 01:14:52,720
Speaker 1: UCLA in the Pac twelve championship game. I had to

1451
01:14:52,800 --> 01:14:55,400
Speaker 1: go back and forth several times on how I think

1452
01:14:55,439 --> 01:14:58,080
Speaker 1: this playoff is going to shake out. And as I

1453
01:14:58,280 --> 01:15:02,519
Speaker 1: posted on Twitter earlier today, at WrestleMania seventeen, Vince McMahon

1454
01:15:02,560 --> 01:15:08,839
Speaker 1: told Michael Cole, you want shocking tonight, you'll get shocking.

1455
01:15:08,960 --> 01:15:13,120
Speaker 1: Then what did he say, Jesse, I guarantee it. I

1456
01:15:13,240 --> 01:15:16,280
Speaker 1: don't like following the crowd. And it's not just because

1457
01:15:16,320 --> 01:15:20,200
Speaker 1: I want to dress differently, although obviously I do. I

1458
01:15:20,439 --> 01:15:23,400
Speaker 1: just don't think the crowd's right. Very often. MEMI used

1459
01:15:23,439 --> 01:15:25,240
Speaker 1: to tell me all the time, you see the crowd

1460
01:15:25,280 --> 01:15:28,439
Speaker 1: headed somewhere, you find the fork in the road, and

1461
01:15:28,600 --> 01:15:31,160
Speaker 1: you take the deviant path. Don't be a deviant child.

1462
01:15:31,520 --> 01:15:33,920
Speaker 1: Take the deviant path, cause the deviant children are all

1463
01:15:33,960 --> 01:15:37,200
Speaker 1: hanging out together. I gotta be real. That wasn't a

1464
01:15:37,240 --> 01:15:39,559
Speaker 1: meme all quote. I just made that up. So here's

1465
01:15:39,560 --> 01:15:42,000
Speaker 1: what we're gonna do. We're gonna have Ohio State win

1466
01:15:42,080 --> 01:15:43,800
Speaker 1: the Big Ten, and we're gonna have them walk up

1467
01:15:43,800 --> 01:15:47,160
Speaker 1: the number one overall seed Ohio State in the playoff.

1468
01:15:47,560 --> 01:15:51,160
Speaker 1: I got Bama winning the SEC. I've got Bama probably

1469
01:15:51,240 --> 01:15:53,960
Speaker 1: losing a game in the regular season, and therefore I

1470
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Speaker 1: think Alabama is going to lock up the number two

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01:15:57,160 --> 01:16:00,639
Speaker 1: seed on the strength of being the SEC champ. Here's

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Speaker 1: where it gets a little muddy. I'm really high on Oregon,

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01:16:04,920 --> 01:16:07,280
Speaker 1: and so not only do I think the Oregon Ducks

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Speaker 1: are going to win the PAC twelve, I think Oregon

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01:16:10,439 --> 01:16:12,280
Speaker 1: is going to be a team that surges. I think

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Speaker 1: bo Nicks is going to have a tremendous year, not

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Speaker 1: just because of the poster in New York City. I

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01:16:17,600 --> 01:16:19,360
Speaker 1: think Oregon is going to make the playoff and I

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Speaker 1: think they're going to be the three seed. And that's

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Speaker 1: because the four seed is actually coming from the Big

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Speaker 1: Ten and it's not Michigan. I think Penn State is

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Speaker 1: going to find a way to lose one game and

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Speaker 1: no more, and they may not play in the Big

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Speaker 1: Ten championship game. But that one lost non conference champ

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Speaker 1: team that so many people will think is either Bama

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Speaker 1: or Georgia, or it's Ohio State or Michigan. I think

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Speaker 1: it's Penn State. You give me Ohio State, you gimme

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Speaker 1: Bama as the one and two. I've got Oregon three

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Speaker 1: and I got Penn State four. There are obviously glaring

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Speaker 1: omissions there, so let me address Georgia. My thought on

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Speaker 1: Georgia is I think they're going to lose a regular

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Speaker 1: season game, and I've got them losing in Atlanta and

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Speaker 1: a two lost Georgia team's not going to the playoff.

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01:17:10,080 --> 01:17:13,840
Speaker 1: It's kind of sacrileged to say right now. It's really not, guys,

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Speaker 1: It's just hard to do. It's very hard to pull

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Speaker 1: this off. There is stuff always working against you in

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01:17:20,200 --> 01:17:22,680
Speaker 1: this sport, but when you're trying to walk a tight

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01:17:22,760 --> 01:17:25,439
Speaker 1: rope one hundred floors above the road, it's really really

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Speaker 1: hard to pull off. I don't obviously love them losing

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Speaker 1: Branson Robinson, and that's before the season. It's not that

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01:17:32,360 --> 01:17:35,439
Speaker 1: they don't have capable guys in the backfield. I don't

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01:17:35,520 --> 01:17:38,479
Speaker 1: know that they've got like game changing difference makers back there.

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01:17:39,360 --> 01:17:42,040
Speaker 1: And if I also don't know that they've got the

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01:17:42,160 --> 01:17:45,240
Speaker 1: kind of pass rush they've had in years past. And

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01:17:45,520 --> 01:17:47,920
Speaker 1: I'm looking at Carson Beck as highly as I think

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01:17:48,000 --> 01:17:51,400
Speaker 1: of him and asking him to do with that receiver

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01:17:51,600 --> 01:17:53,560
Speaker 1: room what no one's done in a long time, and

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01:17:53,640 --> 01:17:56,640
Speaker 1: that's find a thousand yard receiver somewhere in there. I

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01:17:56,800 --> 01:17:58,760
Speaker 1: just think the Margins are a lot thinner than the

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01:17:58,800 --> 01:18:02,080
Speaker 1: rest of America does. Now it sounds kind of hypocritical

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01:18:02,240 --> 01:18:04,320
Speaker 1: because I got Georgia Power rated as the number one

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01:18:04,320 --> 01:18:06,320
Speaker 1: team in the country right now, and if they played

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01:18:06,360 --> 01:18:08,840
Speaker 1: the playoffs today, i'd pick them to win the national championship.

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01:18:09,160 --> 01:18:11,720
Speaker 1: I think the course of the season is going to

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01:18:11,760 --> 01:18:13,479
Speaker 1: bear out that some teams are going to get better,

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01:18:14,000 --> 01:18:16,280
Speaker 1: and I don't necessarily know that that Georgia surge that

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01:18:16,360 --> 01:18:17,960
Speaker 1: we've seen is going to happen this year. So I

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01:18:18,000 --> 01:18:20,479
Speaker 1: got them losing a regular season game. I don't know

1519
01:18:20,560 --> 01:18:23,519
Speaker 1: which one, because that's not how I choose regular season records,

1520
01:18:23,800 --> 01:18:25,280
Speaker 1: and I think they're going to lose in Atlanta. So

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01:18:25,680 --> 01:18:28,080
Speaker 1: Georgia out of the playoffs, shocking though that may be.

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01:18:28,680 --> 01:18:31,120
Speaker 1: And I got Michigan out of the playoffs too, which

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01:18:31,280 --> 01:18:34,840
Speaker 1: was very simple but also very difficult. So what I

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01:18:34,920 --> 01:18:37,680
Speaker 1: think is going to happen is I think they're going

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01:18:37,720 --> 01:18:39,840
Speaker 1: to Penn State and I've got them losing that game,

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Speaker 1: and I also favor Ohio State over them at the

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01:18:43,240 --> 01:18:46,160
Speaker 1: end of the year, And so that would mean Michigan's

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01:18:46,160 --> 01:18:48,599
Speaker 1: not in the Big Ten title game, and Michigan, certainly

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01:18:48,880 --> 01:18:51,439
Speaker 1: Michigan doesn't have probably the strength of schedule to even

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01:18:51,520 --> 01:18:53,599
Speaker 1: lose one game and make the playoff unless some other

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01:18:53,640 --> 01:18:56,320
Speaker 1: stuff goes right. But I certainly don't have them in

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01:18:56,320 --> 01:18:59,080
Speaker 1: there if they lose two games. So we got Bama

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01:18:59,640 --> 01:19:02,200
Speaker 1: or again in the two three slot. We got Ohio

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01:19:02,400 --> 01:19:06,720
Speaker 1: State versus Penn State in a rematch in the one

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01:19:06,880 --> 01:19:09,680
Speaker 1: four spot. I think Alabama's going to be in the

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01:19:09,760 --> 01:19:13,000
Speaker 1: National Championship game. I think Ohio State's going to be

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01:19:13,040 --> 01:19:15,840
Speaker 1: in the National Championship Game in a rematch of that

1538
01:19:16,000 --> 01:19:19,080
Speaker 1: twenty twenty COVID year. I don't think that Ohio State

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01:19:19,120 --> 01:19:22,160
Speaker 1: will employ the same guys at linebacker to cover Alabama's

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01:19:22,200 --> 01:19:26,240
Speaker 1: best receiver as they did that particular game. I think

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01:19:26,280 --> 01:19:28,840
Speaker 1: Alabama's going to beat Ohio State for the national championship.

1542
01:19:29,760 --> 01:19:32,960
Speaker 1: So it's obviously a phenomenal year for Ryan Day and

1543
01:19:33,000 --> 01:19:35,439
Speaker 1: the Buckeyes. It is a phenomenal year for Nick Saban

1544
01:19:35,520 --> 01:19:39,280
Speaker 1: and Alabama. They're going to look so radically different. Both

1545
01:19:39,320 --> 01:19:41,320
Speaker 1: of them are going to look so radically different. This

1546
01:19:41,520 --> 01:19:45,080
Speaker 1: prediction will sound ludicrous when you watch how shaky they

1547
01:19:45,120 --> 01:19:47,640
Speaker 1: look at times early in the year. I'm telling you,

1548
01:19:47,840 --> 01:19:50,080
Speaker 1: and I'm telling myself because it's my prediction. I'm telling

1549
01:19:50,160 --> 01:19:52,720
Speaker 1: you you're going to have to give them time and

1550
01:19:52,840 --> 01:19:55,559
Speaker 1: hopefully they don't drop a couple of games and remove

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01:19:55,640 --> 01:19:59,479
Speaker 1: themselves from contention. You give Bama time, they're going to

1552
01:19:59,560 --> 01:20:01,680
Speaker 1: round in the best team in the country. You give

1553
01:20:01,720 --> 01:20:04,639
Speaker 1: Ohio State time, they're going to round into being right

1554
01:20:04,720 --> 01:20:06,400
Speaker 1: up there with being the best team in the country.

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01:20:07,240 --> 01:20:10,400
Speaker 1: The reason I'm going with Alabama is because I don't

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01:20:10,520 --> 01:20:14,000
Speaker 1: ever think the ability to win a championship playing the

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01:20:14,080 --> 01:20:17,439
Speaker 1: style they're gonna play this year left the room. It's

1558
01:20:17,680 --> 01:20:20,600
Speaker 1: just that the team that was the best at doing it, Alabama,

1559
01:20:21,320 --> 01:20:24,439
Speaker 1: voluntarily decided to change their formula, and they did it

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01:20:24,600 --> 01:20:27,479
Speaker 1: very effectively. They're going to look so radically different this year.

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01:20:27,760 --> 01:20:30,439
Speaker 1: But I'm going to tell you one more time, and

1562
01:20:30,560 --> 01:20:33,080
Speaker 1: I've probably not been this blunt as I will right

1563
01:20:33,160 --> 01:20:35,400
Speaker 1: now because there's nothing left to hide the seasons here.

1564
01:20:36,200 --> 01:20:39,040
Speaker 1: I've never heard folks talk about an offensive line there

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01:20:39,479 --> 01:20:42,160
Speaker 1: like they've talked about in Tuscaloosa, the ones who have

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01:20:42,280 --> 01:20:46,719
Speaker 1: been there. And I am specifically telling you I look,

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01:20:47,720 --> 01:20:50,599
Speaker 1: I think they will annihilate people on the offensive line

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01:20:50,640 --> 01:20:53,080
Speaker 1: this year like you haven't seen them do in several years.

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01:20:53,280 --> 01:20:55,320
Speaker 1: I think they go about seven to eight deep with

1570
01:20:55,479 --> 01:20:58,040
Speaker 1: guys they fully trust to play the style of ball

1571
01:20:58,040 --> 01:21:00,679
Speaker 1: they're gonna play. It is not going to be high flying.

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01:21:01,000 --> 01:21:03,240
Speaker 1: It's not going to overly impress you. It's not like

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01:21:03,360 --> 01:21:07,080
Speaker 1: watching a cheetah chase down its prey. It's a boa constrictor.

1574
01:21:07,439 --> 01:21:09,160
Speaker 1: And you keep sitting there and you watch him and

1575
01:21:09,240 --> 01:21:11,200
Speaker 1: he gets tighter and tight or and tighter, and you're like,

1576
01:21:11,240 --> 01:21:13,080
Speaker 1: it's something going to happen. No, he's just going to

1577
01:21:13,120 --> 01:21:15,360
Speaker 1: crush him to death. Bama's just going to crush teams

1578
01:21:15,360 --> 01:21:16,800
Speaker 1: to death, or in this case, they're going to grind

1579
01:21:16,880 --> 01:21:18,639
Speaker 1: him to death, and it's not going to be fun.

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01:21:19,080 --> 01:21:21,439
Speaker 1: They call it murder ball for a reason. But murder

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01:21:21,479 --> 01:21:23,439
Speaker 1: ball's back this year, and I think Alabama's going to

1582
01:21:23,479 --> 01:21:25,760
Speaker 1: win a national championship because of it. And you may

1583
01:21:25,840 --> 01:21:28,439
Speaker 1: be bored to tears in the process, but that's the

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01:21:28,520 --> 01:21:31,760
Speaker 1: direction I'm going. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. Side note.

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01:21:31,840 --> 01:21:33,880
Speaker 1: If they're playing that style of ball, Jalen mill Rose

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01:21:33,920 --> 01:21:36,040
Speaker 1: the quarterback for him pretty much. Think it's been that

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01:21:36,080 --> 01:21:37,920
Speaker 1: way all fall, but I think mill Rose the guy

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01:21:38,000 --> 01:21:41,960
Speaker 1: for him. So with that in mind, not that I

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01:21:42,160 --> 01:21:44,600
Speaker 1: was wrong on any of that, but with the outside

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01:21:44,720 --> 01:21:47,640
Speaker 1: possibility that I'm wrong on a couple of things, I

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01:21:47,760 --> 01:21:53,240
Speaker 1: will welcome in the comments section. The sorry like my

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01:21:53,320 --> 01:21:55,439
Speaker 1: computer went dead for a second. The area is where

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01:21:55,479 --> 01:21:58,840
Speaker 1: you think that I am wrong. So, as I said,

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01:21:59,000 --> 01:22:03,000
Speaker 1: last is it Colin? Last summer we were at a

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01:22:03,080 --> 01:22:05,599
Speaker 1: lead eleven. I think it was last summer. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: So so quick story and then we'll wrap the show up.

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01:22:08,320 --> 01:22:12,080
Speaker 1: So last summer, we're out in Los Angeles. I'm on

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01:22:12,120 --> 01:22:15,479
Speaker 1: a football field doing the show, and I lost all

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01:22:15,720 --> 01:22:18,640
Speaker 1: track of what was going on. And we hit one

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Speaker 1: hundred thousand subs on the show live, and they let

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01:22:22,240 --> 01:22:24,880
Speaker 1: me know, like in my ear, this little thing right here,

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01:22:25,200 --> 01:22:26,600
Speaker 1: They let me know that we hit it, and I

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01:22:26,640 --> 01:22:28,240
Speaker 1: didn't even know what to do. I was taken aback

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01:22:28,280 --> 01:22:33,000
Speaker 1: by it. So I thanked everyone, and management was there

1605
01:22:33,400 --> 01:22:35,880
Speaker 1: and we went off the air and that was that.

1606
01:22:36,520 --> 01:22:39,479
Speaker 1: Well tonight we kind of knew we had a shot,

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01:22:39,720 --> 01:22:41,599
Speaker 1: and so I am happy to announce right here at

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Speaker 1: eight twenty two Central time, in the year of our

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01:22:44,320 --> 01:22:47,040
Speaker 1: lower twenty twenty three, on August twenty seventh, we have

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01:22:47,200 --> 01:22:51,400
Speaker 1: hit two hundred thousand subs live on air. Again. Whomstead

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01:22:51,400 --> 01:22:54,000
Speaker 1: of thunk it well, I would have Jesse, would have

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01:22:54,120 --> 01:22:58,439
Speaker 1: Bradley Collin, you guys, management probably punching air behind a

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01:22:58,520 --> 01:23:02,439
Speaker 1: gate somewhere down in Can you imagine the anger in

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01:23:02,520 --> 01:23:05,120
Speaker 1: the country club down there? Bad night to be a

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01:23:05,240 --> 01:23:08,400
Speaker 1: rich Man south of Franklin. Probably a new song that

1616
01:23:08,439 --> 01:23:10,800
Speaker 1: will emerge on the charts this week. Richmond north of

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01:23:10,880 --> 01:23:13,280
Speaker 1: Richmond doing pretty good. How about Richmond south of Franklin

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01:23:13,560 --> 01:23:17,920
Speaker 1: where management resides. Ah, the right people believed and we

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01:23:18,040 --> 01:23:19,920
Speaker 1: made it. So with that in mind, we can start

1620
01:23:19,960 --> 01:23:22,160
Speaker 1: the college football season. I appreciate you guys so much

1621
01:23:22,200 --> 01:23:24,760
Speaker 1: for doing this. I know there are thousands, there will

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01:23:24,760 --> 01:23:27,519
Speaker 1: be tens of thousands of new people over the next

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Speaker 1: couple of days who watch or listen to this show

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Speaker 1: because this is the week everyone searches college football podcast,

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Speaker 1: college football show, and so you'll find us for the

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Speaker 1: first time. We're not the only one out there. We

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01:23:40,320 --> 01:23:41,840
Speaker 1: try and be the best one out there. I would

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01:23:41,920 --> 01:23:43,920
Speaker 1: encourage you to check out a bunch of them, but

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Speaker 1: I don't think anyone's going to work harder to give

1630
01:23:46,200 --> 01:23:48,560
Speaker 1: you what you want than this group of people. So

1631
01:23:48,720 --> 01:23:51,719
Speaker 1: we appreciate you giving us your time. Subscribe to the channel,

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01:23:51,760 --> 01:23:54,519
Speaker 1: subscribe to the podcast. That's literally all we ask because

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Speaker 1: the rest of it's going to be free. And if

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Speaker 1: you are tired of what they don't give you else,

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01:24:00,000 --> 01:24:02,479
Speaker 1: I swear that they used to. You'll find it here,

1636
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Speaker 1: and if you don't find it, let me know and

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Speaker 1: I'll provide it for you. So for director Column, for

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Speaker 1: producer Jesse, for Bradley the Associate, I'm Josh Fate. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the two hundred K Club. We'll see the same

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Speaker 1: time Tuesday night until theyn. Take care and God bless