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Speaker 1: Welcome to the solid verbal.

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Speaker 2: Hulleh for me. I'm a man, I'm forty.

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Speaker 1: I've heard so many players say, well, I want to

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Speaker 1: be happy.

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Speaker 2: You want to be happy for day Edith State?

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Speaker 1: Is that? Whoo whoo and nod and Tye, welcome back

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Speaker 1: to the solid verbal Boys and girls, My name is

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Speaker 1: ty hilde Brand. That fine gentleman over there, the one,

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Speaker 1: the only, still, the incomparable Dan Rivenstein, sir, Yeah, how

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Speaker 1: are you.

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Speaker 2: I'm good? And something struck me about Ball Season that

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Speaker 2: I didn't fully bring into account when we did part

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Speaker 2: one of ball Season, and that is that I think

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Speaker 2: we use a pejorative term of TV show, right. The

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Speaker 2: playoff is a TV show, right, And that it is

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Speaker 2: kind of true that there is that element of we're

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Speaker 2: doing things for entertainment above all else, not necessarily for

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Speaker 2: competitive reasons or you know, national college football reasons, whatever,

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Speaker 2: that this is like the good of the sport. And

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Speaker 2: obviously there's something about the good of the sport being, hey,

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Speaker 2: the program. But Bull Season is that unabashed element or

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Speaker 2: that unabashed motivation, being TV show friendly, and I love not.

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Speaker 2: I mean, the major Bowls are fine, but there is

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Speaker 2: have no investment in any of these teams. This has

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Speaker 2: no bearing on the future of the sport, you know,

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Speaker 2: writ large anything like that. But I don't know. I

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Speaker 2: I can dedicate fifty seven minutes of my life to

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Speaker 2: watching Memphis football three hours of my life. Like it's

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Speaker 2: snowing outside, it's windy, it's blustery. Like, yeah, I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: absolutely cancel whatever workout I was gonna do or whatever

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Speaker 2: Why not? And I love this surprise factor of ball

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Speaker 2: social plans because the Bahamas ball is out of control.

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Speaker 2: It's wonderful.

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Speaker 1: It's like happening upon Major League on TNT or one

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Speaker 1: of those other movie Independence Day where you simply can't

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Speaker 1: look away. I think, especially for us, so much of

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Speaker 1: what we do from the end of August through the

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Speaker 1: beginning of December is hang on the results of these games, Yes,

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Speaker 1: so many other variables at play, with coaches leaving, with

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Speaker 1: exhibition games that are meaningful and do require context after

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Speaker 1: named after the Gasparillo Pirate Festival. Sure, Dan, that's why

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Speaker 2: think on his TV show he said, who's playing in

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Speaker 2: Something like that just ridiculous, which is disrespectful honestly to

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Speaker 2: Jimmy Kimmel La Bowl. But yeah, it while you were talking,

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Speaker 2: but it's all it's filled with you who I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: Here we are Bull Season Part two, which is filled

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Speaker 1: Time to help the weak. So to recap on the

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Speaker 1: to the Wasabi ball wes Sasabi ball? Are you are you?

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Speaker 1: It is SMU at eight and four. It is Virginia

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Speaker 2: So I'm well with Virginia to feel that electricity within

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Speaker 1: My thoughts exactly. He could not have of it, could

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Speaker 2: Area four is the move for really good looking charred pizza,

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Speaker 1: That would be where I go. Alrighty, let's go to

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Speaker 2: But this is well side. You have Pinstripe Bowl experience,

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Speaker 2: I have real as a fan. You have insight that

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Speaker 1: Real Pinstripe Bowl experience. Thank you for reminding me of

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Speaker 2: Is your hat nearby?

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Speaker 1: It is not nearby. I may have lost it. I'm

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Speaker 2: you know, turtle shell whatever. I'm not gonna just jump off.

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Speaker 2: Maryland is an elite loser when they get to the

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Speaker 2: a lot, because that's the experience we have. I'm watching

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Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the cheese at ball. They

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Speaker 1: It is Iowa State at seven and five. Iowa State favored, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Would you say it was point and a half two points?

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Speaker 2: So I think Clemson will take Iowa State seriously. I

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Speaker 2: So I just I don't think Iowa State can afford that.

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Speaker 2: I think you need to score at this point. We

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm on Clemson high confidence for pretty much all

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Speaker 1: great formula to me, going up against a very stingy

431
00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:28,800
Speaker 1: defense at Clemson. Yeah, so I'm with you. I'm with you.

432
00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:30,080
Speaker 1: I'd be inclined to go Clemson.

433
00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:33,720
Speaker 2: Plus one is that is brock Purdy our tof Beer

434
00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:36,199
Speaker 2: player of the Week, the cause and solution to all

435
00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:37,840
Speaker 2: of iowas to be problems.

436
00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:40,440
Speaker 1: He might be. Yeah, all right, all right, let's go

437
00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:42,680
Speaker 1: to the Alamo Bowl. Dan, You've got a rooting interest

438
00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:47,959
Speaker 1: in this one. I do nine fifteen play this one

439
00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:49,680
Speaker 1: in San Antonio at the Alamo Dome.

440
00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:51,920
Speaker 2: They have since I should mention, by the way, nine

441
00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:55,280
Speaker 2: oh three mills for a nice soup and sandwich combo

442
00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:57,040
Speaker 2: and some beer and wine in Orlando.

443
00:22:57,160 --> 00:22:57,760
Speaker 1: Wow, thank you.

444
00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:00,520
Speaker 2: You know like that that country bread grilled chee.

445
00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:04,800
Speaker 1: He looks very strong. Back to the Alma bole. Sorry,

446
00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:08,960
Speaker 1: it's okay. Oklahoma minus four and a half. They're ten

447
00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:12,159
Speaker 1: and three. Oregon is ten and two. Again nine to

448
00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:17,240
Speaker 1: fifteen on ESPN. Another situation where we've got new coaches

449
00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:22,360
Speaker 1: and two high profile coaches, or coach openings or interims,

450
00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:25,520
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call this matchup here between Oregon

451
00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:29,520
Speaker 1: and Oklahoma. It'll be Bob Stoops for Oklahoma, no stranger

452
00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:32,680
Speaker 1: to the program. Pull on a Barry Alvarez step it

453
00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:36,240
Speaker 1: in for the Sooners and Brian mcclennon for your Oregon Ducks.

454
00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:43,520
Speaker 1: The line shifted eleven points, eleven points from Oregon minus

455
00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:47,680
Speaker 1: six and a half two Oklahoma minus four and a half.

456
00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:50,600
Speaker 1: It may shift more. Who's to say. We also have

457
00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:55,119
Speaker 1: Kevon Thibodeaux opting out declaring for the NFL Draft. Oregon

458
00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:59,280
Speaker 1: had a corner. DJ James hit the portal. We have

459
00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:03,520
Speaker 1: Joe mooreh ed dutifully sticking around to call the plays

460
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:07,080
Speaker 1: on offense. I have not seen the status of other

461
00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:08,480
Speaker 1: assistants on the Oregon side.

462
00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:12,520
Speaker 2: Dan, what I think largely. It's very strange, by the way,

463
00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:14,360
Speaker 2: and I don't I mean, this is a broader conversation

464
00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:19,439
Speaker 2: in general about coaching continuity and guys leaving for new

465
00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:21,800
Speaker 2: jobs or whatever. Like I think they're gonna be one

466
00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:25,680
Speaker 2: two three guys, strength coach whatever leaving for Miami. Like

467
00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:29,600
Speaker 2: Mario Chris Baal's best friend is the longtime Oregon offense

468
00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:32,200
Speaker 2: or a long time four year offensive line coach, and

469
00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:34,879
Speaker 2: he's going with him to Miami, but he's still coaching

470
00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:37,960
Speaker 2: Oregon and you're just like, why is why is he

471
00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:38,440
Speaker 2: still there?

472
00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:40,280
Speaker 1: Why don't we do it? Like do we not have GA's,

473
00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:45,560
Speaker 1: do we not have some sort of contingency, And it's, uh,

474
00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:46,280
Speaker 1: it's odd.

475
00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:48,199
Speaker 2: So I think there are there are guys that are

476
00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:51,120
Speaker 2: still there that are moving on, and I really hope

477
00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:53,360
Speaker 2: I don't see a bunch of Oregon offensive lineman transferred

478
00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:57,080
Speaker 2: to Miami with this offensive line coach just hanging around. Yeah,

479
00:24:57,119 --> 00:25:00,280
Speaker 2: it's like, hey, what about warmer in Miami? That's what

480
00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:05,720
Speaker 2: he sounds like, Alex mirorwell, so, uh yeah, they have assistance.

481
00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:08,560
Speaker 2: They're practicing. Dan Lanning has been at practice. I think

482
00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:12,000
Speaker 2: he's resonated well with some players, so far. But uh, yeah,

483
00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:14,600
Speaker 2: they're being coached up for Oklahoma as I'm sure Oklahoma

484
00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:17,159
Speaker 2: with some because I know Lincoln Riley took assistance with

485
00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:19,800
Speaker 2: him to USC and they're not coaching anymore in Norman.

486
00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:24,520
Speaker 2: So I mean they'll show up, they'll wear uniforms, they'll

487
00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:28,520
Speaker 2: wear pads, helmets, the whole thing. No idea what to expect.

488
00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:30,720
Speaker 2: I just I hope both of these teams are like,

489
00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:34,280
Speaker 2: let's run thirteen to eighteen trick places.

490
00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:37,399
Speaker 1: Well there, this will this will, I think baby the

491
00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:40,639
Speaker 1: optimal game. Yeah, to do what I said earlier and

492
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:43,399
Speaker 1: just change the rules. Man, Yeah, we're gonna have a

493
00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:46,160
Speaker 1: spring game out here. Yeah, let's just throw it around,

494
00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:50,080
Speaker 1: draw to the single wing. Why not? So Joe moorehead

495
00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:51,600
Speaker 1: will be there. We don't know who else is gonna

496
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:54,879
Speaker 1: be there. Yeah, Oklahoma has also seen some turnover. Not

497
00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,320
Speaker 1: to focus too much in Oregon, but Alex Grinch and

498
00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:00,439
Speaker 1: like three or four other guys on the coach treatment

499
00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:04,520
Speaker 1: to USC. It is a weird situation, man, It's is

500
00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:05,360
Speaker 1: a weird situation.

501
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:06,440
Speaker 2: I get it.

502
00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:08,440
Speaker 1: I get why you go bob stoops, I get it.

503
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:11,720
Speaker 1: I hate that situation. I hate the situation where you

504
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:13,960
Speaker 1: bring the guy back who wasn't on the staff, he

505
00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:17,000
Speaker 1: just swoops in and takes over. And you know, Stoops

506
00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:19,400
Speaker 1: in this case, I guess it's a conduit to venabules.

507
00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:23,080
Speaker 1: They know each other, right, they obviously stop. Yeah, So

508
00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:25,159
Speaker 1: I don't think anyone on the Oklahoma side is going

509
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:28,040
Speaker 1: to dog it out there. But it's just an odd

510
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:31,560
Speaker 1: circumstance that we find ourselves in in a game like this,

511
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:34,080
Speaker 1: and frankly every Bull season when you got coach movement

512
00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:37,719
Speaker 1: and new people stepping in. Even still, I'm gonna pick

513
00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:41,560
Speaker 1: Oklahoma and I'm gonna go medium confidence. I just don't

514
00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:44,919
Speaker 1: like Oregon in the matchup. Okay, for as much as

515
00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:47,639
Speaker 1: the coaching thing kind of sticks in my craw, I

516
00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:51,119
Speaker 1: just don't like Oregon in the matchup. I think if

517
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:56,040
Speaker 1: Oklahoma wanted to, especially given circumstances where they're probably gonna

518
00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:58,840
Speaker 1: be running with like a dressed down playbook and trying

519
00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:00,280
Speaker 1: to keep it a little bit more of an NILA,

520
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:05,439
Speaker 1: I would assume then normal they can play bullyball against Oregon.

521
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:08,639
Speaker 1: They can play that same style that Utah played and

522
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:10,720
Speaker 1: had a lot of success with. That's on tape now

523
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:14,320
Speaker 1: and Stoops is going to see that. So I think

524
00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:16,119
Speaker 1: if they want to play that style football, they can,

525
00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:18,680
Speaker 1: and I think they'll win. I got medium confidence on

526
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:19,480
Speaker 1: this Oklahoma.

527
00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:23,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have no confidence at all in this game,

528
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:26,200
Speaker 2: just because I have confidence that I'm going to watch

529
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:28,119
Speaker 2: this game in a way that I haven't watched Oregon

530
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:30,119
Speaker 2: football in a long time, which is like, here's just

531
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:31,879
Speaker 2: just a crazy toss up. It was going back to

532
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:33,960
Speaker 2: like two thousand and seven when Oregon was starting like

533
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:37,159
Speaker 2: it's fifth string quarterback. We're like, I'm not expecting anything,

534
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:40,000
Speaker 2: but let's see what happens. And Oregon actually won their

535
00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:42,119
Speaker 2: bowl game doing that with Justin Roper. If you remember

536
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:46,480
Speaker 2: way back when I am I'm just excited to see

537
00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:49,240
Speaker 2: how these teams are bob stoops on the sideline, you know,

538
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:52,600
Speaker 2: interim situation at Oregon, and you know, if Joe Morehead

539
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:55,439
Speaker 2: really does throw the kitchen sink, now there are Oregon

540
00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:57,600
Speaker 2: fans that say that he was held back by Mario

541
00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:01,600
Speaker 2: Cristobal's footprint and design to play that kind of guerrilla ball.

542
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:04,440
Speaker 1: I think they're just gonna go for it.

543
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 2: I think Oregon will lose this game forty five to seven,

544
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:10,960
Speaker 2: or win this game forty eight to forty five, right, Like,

545
00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:15,080
Speaker 2: I just it's all on the table with with nothing

546
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:18,840
Speaker 2: to lose, really given the lame duck, no pun intend.

547
00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 1: They're going full Presbyterian here, not punting. Yeah, fourth downs.

548
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 1: Orgon might run a hooking ladder first play of the game.

549
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:30,240
Speaker 2: Why not. Joe Morehead's got what are the repercussions for

550
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:33,119
Speaker 2: Joe Morehead? He's going to Akron. You know the staff

551
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:34,639
Speaker 2: is going to be there and be professional. They have

552
00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:39,600
Speaker 2: their own professional reputations. But yeah, I don't love Oklahoma

553
00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:41,400
Speaker 2: in this spot, Like, I'm not all that confident in

554
00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:44,600
Speaker 2: a Bob Stoop's coach team. Guys are leaving, they're transferring

555
00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:48,920
Speaker 2: the recruiting classes up in the air. Who the hell knows?

556
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:52,160
Speaker 2: You know, Caleb Williams can be both excellent but also

557
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:55,720
Speaker 2: go four of eleven for seventy seven yards, Like that's

558
00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:57,960
Speaker 2: always on the table as well with him at this

559
00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:00,640
Speaker 2: point in his career. So y, I don't know what

560
00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:02,600
Speaker 2: the point spread is. I would take the points in

561
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:05,160
Speaker 2: weird games because there are just more opportunities to win

562
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:09,080
Speaker 2: that way, and I'm gonna go Oklahoma with medium confidence.

563
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 1: Alrighty, Well, we disagree by the way, we should point

564
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:17,600
Speaker 1: out especially as we move to this game here the

565
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:18,880
Speaker 1: Duke's Mayo Bowl.

566
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:23,360
Speaker 2: Two M Smokehouse and two M Smokehouse, two M smokehouse

567
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:26,719
Speaker 2: for what looks to be sensational barbecue with a lot

568
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:32,760
Speaker 2: of Mexican influence. Which yeah, uh, tie my hands behind

569
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:35,480
Speaker 2: my back and hog time me and keep me away

570
00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:37,240
Speaker 2: because that's singing.

571
00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:39,960
Speaker 1: My name, singing your name. Just yell out the restaurants

572
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:42,720
Speaker 1: I keep forgetting two M, two M. Thank you. I

573
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 1: appreciate that. Okay, what I was gonna say is there

574
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:49,960
Speaker 1: is some overlap between the Evluir Al Mobile and the

575
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 1: Duke's Mayo Bowl on the thirtieth because Oklahoma is playing

576
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:57,520
Speaker 1: in that Almobile and South Carolina is playing in the

577
00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:02,000
Speaker 1: Duke's Mayo Bowl, and notably Sincer Rattler, and now he's

578
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 1: going to South Carolina of all places we heard UCLA

579
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:10,320
Speaker 1: everybody wanted Spencer Ratler. Spencer Ratler. Yeah, preseason Heisman favorite,

580
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:12,920
Speaker 1: kind of one of them. Anyway, coming into the twenty

581
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:16,720
Speaker 1: one season, well and behold Spencer Ratler going to Shane

582
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:20,080
Speaker 1: Biemer biamber ball two point zero. Get a nice little

583
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:21,320
Speaker 1: boost there on offense.

584
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:25,360
Speaker 2: Shane and Spencer. Was there not a Yankee named Shane Spencer.

585
00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:29,240
Speaker 1: There was a Shane Spencer, yea utility mension mostly outfielder,

586
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:30,800
Speaker 1: played a little bit of first base here and there.

587
00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:34,760
Speaker 2: Didn't see this coming. I thought Spencer Ratler would have

588
00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:40,000
Speaker 2: opted for a more turn key offensive operation, considering his

589
00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:43,719
Speaker 2: time thus far at Oklahoma, which is, you know, obviously

590
00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:47,640
Speaker 2: was a well oiled machine under Lincoln Rally in South Carolina,

591
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:51,560
Speaker 2: very much still in developmental mode on offense, but certainly

592
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:54,480
Speaker 2: to have you know, the stage in the SEC and

593
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:59,080
Speaker 2: be the guy unquestionably which he wasn't at Oklahoma. Bringing

594
00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:00,160
Speaker 2: in a five star behind.

595
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:06,880
Speaker 1: Him, it's great. And also Austin Stogner Stoner Stagner, I

596
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:10,000
Speaker 1: say his name, the tit end four star going to

597
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,280
Speaker 1: South Carolina as well. So nice little coup there, Yeah,

598
00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 1: for Shane Biemer on the portal. As for the Duke's

599
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:20,200
Speaker 1: Mayo Bowl, Dan Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, December

600
00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 1: the thirtieth, eleven thirty a m. Eastern time on ESPN,

601
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:28,200
Speaker 1: It's North Carolina versus South Carolina tar Heels favored by

602
00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:32,120
Speaker 1: a touchdown by seven points here in this football game.

603
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:36,400
Speaker 1: Here's what I believe. I believe that Sam Howe is

604
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 1: going to play in this game. To be clear, the

605
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 1: only reason that Sam Howe plays in this game is

606
00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 1: to try and boost his draft stock. There's really no

607
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:47,720
Speaker 1: other reason. I believe he's going to play in this game. Yeah.

608
00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:50,400
Speaker 1: Everything I've seen points to that. Everything I've seen points

609
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 1: to that. For South Carolina, I think the real Bowl

610
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:57,240
Speaker 1: win is getting to the Bowl at all, just getting here,

611
00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:00,200
Speaker 1: and I think they'll want it more. I think they

612
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:03,400
Speaker 1: will be motivated. I just think North Carolina is better.

613
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:07,000
Speaker 1: Even if it's Sam Howell out there doing what he does,

614
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:10,840
Speaker 1: running around pointnet guys showing him where to run down

615
00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 1: the field. I just think they're better. I wouldn't touch

616
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 1: the point spread here because I think there is a

617
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 1: motivation factor. I could see this one being uncomfortably close.

618
00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:23,760
Speaker 1: But I am on UNC with high confidence because I

619
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 1: genuinely feel like they're the better team. Even though South

620
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:29,360
Speaker 1: Carolina got here, I still don't really think they're that good.

621
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 1: It might be better next year with Spencer Ratler. I

622
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:34,560
Speaker 1: hope they are right. The fact that they got here,

623
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:36,040
Speaker 1: the fact that they got the six and six is

624
00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:38,040
Speaker 1: an accomplishment unto itself. But give me UNC.

625
00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:43,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, I this is interesting because both of these defenses

626
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:45,240
Speaker 2: are better at one thing than another thing, So I

627
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:47,160
Speaker 2: was trying to look at who might have the advantage there.

628
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:50,040
Speaker 2: We've seen North Carolina take a giant step back in

629
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:52,640
Speaker 2: a number of areas on both sides of the ball

630
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:55,440
Speaker 2: at times, especially up front. You know, South Carolina is

631
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:57,400
Speaker 2: decent against the pass, but they allowed too many big

632
00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:00,760
Speaker 2: pass plays and North Carolina really took step back kind

633
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:03,680
Speaker 2: of as a hole on defense, but especially upfront. I'm

634
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:07,880
Speaker 2: going North Carolina here went in doubt with two questionable defenses.

635
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:10,680
Speaker 2: It seems like there's a little more continuity with how

636
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:13,200
Speaker 2: long mac Brown has now been in Chapel Hill and

637
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:16,640
Speaker 2: to have that quarterback advantage, especially with like like you mentioned,

638
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:20,000
Speaker 2: this is a showcase performance type game for Sam Howell.

639
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:22,120
Speaker 2: I'm going I'm going heels here in a bit of

640
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:24,080
Speaker 2: a shootout, medium high confidence.

641
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:29,000
Speaker 1: Let's move on to the trans Perfect Music City Bawl,

642
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:31,960
Speaker 1: a Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee.

643
00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 2: Futo Bhuta is the Roman place I've mentioned in Charlotte,

644
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 2: but also Optimist Hall is a food haul. Harriet's an

645
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:43,400
Speaker 2: amazing looking burger. They sell burgers and fries.

646
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:47,080
Speaker 1: That's it. That's my kind of place, simplicity. Just gotta

647
00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:49,360
Speaker 1: yell it out, man, just tack on. Sorry, I keep

648
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:51,400
Speaker 1: forgetting tack it on to the back end of the

649
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:52,120
Speaker 1: games or something.

650
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:55,920
Speaker 2: Now time you're the pro in this split screen, you're

651
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:56,160
Speaker 2: the pro.

652
00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:58,520
Speaker 1: Not I can watch. By the way, ad for Bowlers

653
00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 1: dot com. Oh for Bowlers dot com. Trans Perfect Music

654
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:05,280
Speaker 1: City Bowl between Nissan, No, not between Nissan. They play

655
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 1: hold on Nissan might be involved. Nissan versus Nashville No

656
00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:14,920
Speaker 1: Nissan Stadium in Nashville, three pm ESPN, Tennessee. Volunteers playing

657
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:18,320
Speaker 1: the home game. Man playing the home game seven and

658
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:21,080
Speaker 1: five their minus four and a half points. They are

659
00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:25,720
Speaker 1: squaring off against Perdue. Tasty little matchup on the surface.

660
00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:30,320
Speaker 1: Both George Carloftis and David Bell have declared for the

661
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:35,239
Speaker 1: draft for Perdue. Peace. Yeah, I am peace. I am

662
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:37,919
Speaker 1: picking this game under the assumption that those guys aren't playing.

663
00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:40,480
Speaker 2: Okay.

664
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:42,520
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's the case. I haven't seen

665
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 1: any confirmation, but I'm assuming they're out.

666
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:49,800
Speaker 2: I think that I'm looking right now. I believe Georgia

667
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:53,799
Speaker 2: Carloftis and David Bell either are or have already opted out.

668
00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I know they're going pro. You could check

669
00:34:56,520 --> 00:35:00,600
Speaker 1: on that someone else who's out as Tyon Evans four Tennessee.

670
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:03,920
Speaker 1: He's entered the portal. He's gonna go to Louisville, so

671
00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 1: he's out. Tennessee did get a boost Tendon Hooker coming

672
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:10,800
Speaker 1: back for a sixth tour of duty of college football,

673
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:12,680
Speaker 1: which is definitely good news for the Balls because he

674
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:15,600
Speaker 1: was really good down the stretch for them. Yeah. So,

675
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:18,120
Speaker 1: I don't know where you're at. Where I'm at, is

676
00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 1: Purdue great story? If they're without Carl Loftis and Bell,

677
00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:25,319
Speaker 1: there's no way you can pick them, right.

678
00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean those are the gravitational players on both

679
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:32,839
Speaker 2: sides of the ball for them. The offense was good

680
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 2: for Purdue and Tennessee's defense was improved but not amazing.

681
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:40,920
Speaker 2: I could see Purdue in this spot, but I'm also

682
00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 2: haunted by who did Purdue just get annihilated by.

683
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:50,600
Speaker 1: Two years ago? Auburn? Right right, right? I've been burned before, ty,

684
00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:54,520
Speaker 1: I will not be burned this year. I'm going balls here. Yeah,

685
00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:57,400
Speaker 1: I just I don't think you could pick against Tennessee

686
00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:00,200
Speaker 1: with the looming threat that Carl Loftis and Bell might

687
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:02,800
Speaker 1: be out because those are the two best players. So

688
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:06,600
Speaker 1: Tennessee for me, high confidence, high confidence. I feel good

689
00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:06,840
Speaker 1: about it.

690
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:11,440
Speaker 2: Great Ah in Nashville. See how I'm tacking. Baby, you're

691
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:14,279
Speaker 2: a pro, man, you're a pro. It's an attack.

692
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:15,759
Speaker 1: You know.

693
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 2: There's all the tourist places and all. You know, you

694
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:19,640
Speaker 2: go to the honky tonks, you can go to you know,

695
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:22,600
Speaker 2: get your hot chicken whatever. But I'm still gonna say Husk.

696
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:24,640
Speaker 2: I know it's not new to to Nashville, but that

697
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:27,239
Speaker 2: still remains the best burger I've ever had because of

698
00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:28,760
Speaker 2: my specific taste and burgers.

699
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:33,360
Speaker 1: The Husk Burger. It's a nicer Southern style restaurant, heritage

700
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:34,240
Speaker 1: Southern restaurant.

701
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:37,879
Speaker 2: Also the Stillery. The Stillery a popular place, good looking

702
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:40,799
Speaker 2: chicken and Southern inspired places. Beer, everything like that kind

703
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:44,040
Speaker 2: of a bar. It looks wonderful. Those are my recommendations

704
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:46,200
Speaker 2: for Nashville. But it's another place where it's hard to

705
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:48,480
Speaker 2: go wrong. You can eat very very you know, Pinewood Social,

706
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:51,040
Speaker 2: all these places, great great food place.

707
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:57,000
Speaker 1: Chick pile, a peach bowl, Mercedes ben Stadium in Hot Lanta.

708
00:36:57,719 --> 00:37:00,200
Speaker 2: Oh man, they don't like it there. They don't like

709
00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:01,799
Speaker 2: when people call it that just like people in San

710
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:04,399
Speaker 2: Francisco don't like San fran People in California, you don't

711
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 2: like Cali. I don't think Atlanta people like Hotlanta. I

712
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 2: don't think they do Mercedes Been Stadium in Atlanta.

713
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:16,120
Speaker 1: My apologies. You don't pronounce the second team seven PM

714
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:21,279
Speaker 1: ESPN Pitt at eleven and two, Michigan State at ten

715
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:24,080
Speaker 1: and two, Michigan State favored by point and a half.

716
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:25,799
Speaker 1: It's the Paton R. Doozy Bowl.

717
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:30,319
Speaker 2: Baby, Yeah, it's also just Pat Bowler because we got

718
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 2: Nick Patty. Right, that's who's starting a quarterback for Pitt.

719
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:34,520
Speaker 2: I think, right.

720
00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:38,320
Speaker 1: I don't know Kenny Pickett, so I haven't seen anything official.

721
00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:43,120
Speaker 1: But Kenny Pickett was asked if he plans on playing

722
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:47,799
Speaker 1: in this game. Yeah, and he was like coy af man.

723
00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:51,160
Speaker 1: He did not really give an answer. He's sort of

724
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:53,560
Speaker 1: waffled and he's like, well, you know, I just got home,

725
00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:57,120
Speaker 1: I got talked to my parents and again. He threw

726
00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:00,120
Speaker 1: forty two touchdown passes. He threw for over forty three

727
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:01,040
Speaker 1: hundred yards this season.

728
00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:01,680
Speaker 2: Amazing.

729
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:04,600
Speaker 1: He's gonna be a first round pick in all likelihood

730
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:08,520
Speaker 1: if Kenny Pickett doesn't play. I understand there's an emotional

731
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:11,320
Speaker 1: aspect here, and you want to do right by your teammates.

732
00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:14,399
Speaker 1: Nobody would fault him if he doesn't play in this game,

733
00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 1: and so I just interpret anything outside of a definitive yes,

734
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:21,920
Speaker 1: I'm playing. I'm psyched to be No, you gotta be

735
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 1: kidding me. I can't play in this game.

736
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:26,840
Speaker 2: Ty, if you were seventeen eighteen years old and you

737
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:29,880
Speaker 2: thought to yourself, I am asking this young lady to

738
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:34,000
Speaker 2: my senior prom and you do it and she responds with,

739
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:36,520
Speaker 2: you know, I'm gonna have to go home and kind

740
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:39,919
Speaker 2: of give it some thought, really think it through, think

741
00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:43,560
Speaker 2: about all the scenarios involved in a commitment like that.

742
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:47,680
Speaker 2: You're probably not feeling great about yourself in terms of

743
00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:50,799
Speaker 2: getting an answer like that. And so I'm operating under

744
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:52,200
Speaker 2: the assumption that this is going to be a Nick

745
00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:54,320
Speaker 2: Patty game for Pitt hope to be proven wrong and

746
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:57,000
Speaker 2: get to see Kenny Pickett one last time. Weirdly, for

747
00:38:57,120 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 2: Pitt to have a quarterback named Pickett and a former

748
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 2: kicker name Blewett who knew same school, to have unfortunate

749
00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:07,680
Speaker 2: last names for positions, and Michigan State without Kenny Walker, right.

750
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:12,320
Speaker 1: I have not seen like he may play. I know

751
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:16,040
Speaker 1: that mel Tucker was waiting to get clarity on who

752
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:18,080
Speaker 1: is going to be playing for Michigan State. I think

753
00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:20,319
Speaker 1: there's a chance that most of this team is going

754
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:24,160
Speaker 1: to be intact, and I think that's why I like

755
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:31,160
Speaker 1: Michigan State here. Low confidence, but the outcomes seems somewhat

756
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 1: obvious that you have to go Sparty if Pickett is out.

757
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:37,680
Speaker 2: Pitt also without Mark Whipple, correct without defensive coordinator moved

758
00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:40,520
Speaker 2: on to Nebraska. So they're down, Yeah, but they.

759
00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:43,239
Speaker 1: Are, and so I think, you know, it's maybe it's

760
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:46,040
Speaker 1: the underthink express to say that you have to go

761
00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:50,520
Speaker 1: Michigan State if Pickett's not playing. I don't think the

762
00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:54,400
Speaker 1: wheels totally fall off for Pitt though. Right the defense

763
00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:57,880
Speaker 1: was good enough. It's not as good as it's been

764
00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:00,560
Speaker 1: in some years, but it's good enough and it'll keep

765
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:03,279
Speaker 1: Michigan State from running away with this thing. I think

766
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:07,120
Speaker 1: it'll be close. On paper again, that pit defense looks good,

767
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:09,399
Speaker 1: but in practice there have been too many games where

768
00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:12,480
Speaker 1: they played better offenses and gave up a lot of points.

769
00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:14,640
Speaker 1: And I think Michigan State's good enough to score. So

770
00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:18,640
Speaker 1: all that being said, I'm not terribly confident in this result.

771
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:22,279
Speaker 1: But I think I favor Michigan State here. Michigan State

772
00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:26,560
Speaker 1: low to you know, very medium, low confidence level.

773
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:31,600
Speaker 2: Man, It's amazing how like blowouts change your opinion of

774
00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:33,719
Speaker 2: a team, not just losses, but the way Michigan State

775
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:36,360
Speaker 2: lost to Ohio State, and certainly Pitt without Kenny Pickett

776
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:38,359
Speaker 2: is not where Ohio State was and passing the ball

777
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:43,560
Speaker 2: anywhere near. But man, that affects me. Man, that absolutely

778
00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:46,959
Speaker 2: affects me. And Michigan State without a home run threat

779
00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:49,400
Speaker 2: in the backfield in the way that Kenny Kenneth Walker

780
00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:53,279
Speaker 2: is was, that affects me as well. I think I'm

781
00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:56,160
Speaker 2: going pit here. I think I'm going with defense. And

782
00:40:56,200 --> 00:41:00,279
Speaker 2: when Michigan States their specific pass defense, they're big play

783
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:03,560
Speaker 2: pass defense was as atrocious as it was at times.

784
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:07,200
Speaker 2: I'm going with, you know, Pitt looking to put the other.

785
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:10,400
Speaker 2: They're both trying to put exclamation points on surprise seasons.

786
00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:13,080
Speaker 2: I'm still gonna go with Pitt. I think they have

787
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 2: more ways to win, more ways to make winning plays.

788
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:19,400
Speaker 2: And if I'm wrong, I'm wrong. I'm still going medium confidence.

789
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:23,400
Speaker 2: It's in Atlanta. You should be eating at Ria's. Ria's Bluebird.

790
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:26,239
Speaker 2: I believe was where we ate great breakfast place. If

791
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:30,640
Speaker 2: I can find a great local breakfast place, it sets

792
00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:32,120
Speaker 2: the tone in such a magnificent way.

793
00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:34,120
Speaker 1: Was that the place across from the cat bar that

794
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:34,600
Speaker 1: we were at?

795
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:38,600
Speaker 2: Correct? Correct? I believe Riea is no longer with us.

796
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:43,200
Speaker 2: May she rest in peace, but a great creative breakfast spot.

797
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:47,799
Speaker 2: So I did enjoy that. Okay, Yeah, so I'm going

798
00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:51,800
Speaker 2: pit here. I'm going pit down potentially quarterback offensive coordinator.

799
00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:54,719
Speaker 2: Still I ride with Jordan Addison in a way I

800
00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:57,120
Speaker 2: don't believe I ride with anybody on Michigan State's offense.

801
00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:02,360
Speaker 1: So there's that. Here go, here's a mouthful. The SRS

802
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:06,920
Speaker 1: distribution Las Vegas, buwl. There you go. That's what he

803
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:10,600
Speaker 1: always wanted. An Allegiance stadium out there in Vegas. Ten

804
00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:14,880
Speaker 1: thirty pm Eastern Time on ESPN. Got Wisconsin at eight

805
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:16,719
Speaker 1: and four. I got Arizona State at eight and four.

806
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:20,440
Speaker 1: Was conson favored by seven points. Of note here Rashad

807
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:24,640
Speaker 1: White declared for the draft on the ASU side is

808
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:26,120
Speaker 1: not going to play in this game. He's a star

809
00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:31,960
Speaker 1: running back. Diamante. How do you say it? Traanium trainium,

810
00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:35,839
Speaker 1: I don't know he's in the portal. He's not playing either.

811
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:39,960
Speaker 1: For ASU, that's most of the offense walking out the door.

812
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:41,960
Speaker 1: More than enough, I think to tip the scales in

813
00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 1: favor of the Badgers, I will go Wisconsin here. Medium

814
00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:51,080
Speaker 1: confidence the main hesitation for me, though, you know, it's

815
00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:53,880
Speaker 1: that the Badger's still kind of stink on offense, don't they?

816
00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:59,560
Speaker 2: Dan Uh, Briyl and Allen gives me a little bit

817
00:42:59,600 --> 00:42:59,960
Speaker 2: of home.

818
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:02,080
Speaker 1: They've gotten better.

819
00:43:02,239 --> 00:43:04,920
Speaker 2: Yes, So okay, I'm gonna tell you why I like

820
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:08,279
Speaker 2: Wisconsin with high confidence. Okay, tell me please, Arizona State

821
00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:12,920
Speaker 2: without Rashad White and who Diamonte whatever the train of

822
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:15,479
Speaker 2: the backup running back. This is one of the best

823
00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:17,640
Speaker 2: absolute rushing teams in the country where they not like

824
00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:20,560
Speaker 2: top five or something in terms of how often they

825
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:23,360
Speaker 2: ran really well. Their success rate on the ground was

826
00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:27,080
Speaker 2: extremely high, elite. What my one might say, Wisconsin already

827
00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:30,279
Speaker 2: has an incredible elite maybe the best rush defense in

828
00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:33,200
Speaker 2: the country short of what Georgia or Clemson one of

829
00:43:33,239 --> 00:43:36,680
Speaker 2: those teams. So Wisconsin comes in with the effort, with carrying,

830
00:43:36,719 --> 00:43:40,920
Speaker 2: with motivation. There is a whiff of If you remember,

831
00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:44,200
Speaker 2: I don't know two three years ago, you remember im

832
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:48,520
Speaker 2: the Iowa receiver Ivory Smith Marks said something like that

833
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:52,200
Speaker 2: where Iowa played USC and the Holiday Bowl, and you

834
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 2: have this reeling Pac twelve team that was inconsistent, higher hopes, disappointed,

835
00:43:57,920 --> 00:44:01,240
Speaker 2: and then you've got a team with defense and looking

836
00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:05,520
Speaker 2: to turn around an offensive narrative in a game out

837
00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:08,640
Speaker 2: west and I alway just blew the doors off of

838
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:12,200
Speaker 2: that USC team. That's what I'm seeing for Wisconsin here.

839
00:44:12,520 --> 00:44:14,360
Speaker 2: I think they're going to force a bunch of turnovers.

840
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:17,560
Speaker 2: I think the final score is going to be something

841
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:19,080
Speaker 2: like thirty five to thirteen.

842
00:44:19,560 --> 00:44:19,759
Speaker 1: Wow.

843
00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:23,239
Speaker 2: I have high confidence in Wisconsin in Vegas the way

844
00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:25,719
Speaker 2: they finish out the season. Yes, I include the game

845
00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:28,600
Speaker 2: against Minnesota which they didn't score an offensive touchdown. I'm

846
00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:31,480
Speaker 2: right there with you, But I don't think Arizona State

847
00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:34,520
Speaker 2: is in that place defensively, especially with how quickly that

848
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:36,239
Speaker 2: offense might get off the field without a go to

849
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:40,280
Speaker 2: receiver for Jaden Daniels. I think it's and the uncertainty

850
00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:44,080
Speaker 2: surrounding Arizona States program. Still with herm Edwards, I'm gonna

851
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:49,759
Speaker 2: go with Wisconsin like high twenties thirties, Wow those confidence wise, Yeah,

852
00:44:50,160 --> 00:44:53,440
Speaker 2: I'm I'm just a little worried this could devoult defense. Baby,

853
00:44:54,239 --> 00:44:56,440
Speaker 2: I get the defense. I'm worried that this could turn

854
00:44:56,480 --> 00:45:01,680
Speaker 2: into a rock fight because it's Wisconsin and that's not

855
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:05,440
Speaker 2: beyond Wisconsin. Yeah, but what is Arizona State doing to

856
00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:08,160
Speaker 2: move the ball without their clear MVP.

857
00:45:08,719 --> 00:45:12,120
Speaker 1: I know, I know we're both on Wisconsin here. Yeah,

858
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:13,919
Speaker 1: I'm just a little less confident than you are. Where

859
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:14,880
Speaker 1: are we eating in Vegas?

860
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:19,040
Speaker 2: In Vegas, we are going to Lotus of Siam, a classic,

861
00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:21,600
Speaker 2: classic tie place that's just high level. It's in a

862
00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:24,839
Speaker 2: random strip mall and it's excellent. Go to best friend

863
00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:26,680
Speaker 2: if you want to eat somewhere really good on the strip.

864
00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:31,680
Speaker 2: Best friend Roy Choi Kogi Barbecue Fame in La It's

865
00:45:31,719 --> 00:45:34,560
Speaker 2: his sit down restaurant in Vegas. Carbone for super nice Italian.

866
00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:36,880
Speaker 2: It's a New York place that's also in Vegas. And then,

867
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:39,320
Speaker 2: if you're looking for pizza, which I always am, Pizza

868
00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:42,480
Speaker 2: Rock Tony Geminiani, who you sent me a cameo of

869
00:45:42,719 --> 00:45:45,720
Speaker 2: I did. Chef Tony Geminiani does a great job with pizza.

870
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:47,280
Speaker 2: Pizza Rock in Vegas.

871
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:51,799
Speaker 1: Let's go to Friday, December the thirty first, otherwise known

872
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:55,400
Speaker 1: as New Year's Eve is YO Year's Eve will be

873
00:45:56,040 --> 00:46:03,200
Speaker 1: so awesome. Let's start with the tax Slayer Gator ball

874
00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:08,359
Speaker 1: Dan Yeah, t I a a bank field in Jacksonville.

875
00:46:08,360 --> 00:46:10,480
Speaker 1: It will be the best game they've seen all year

876
00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:10,960
Speaker 1: down there.

877
00:46:13,719 --> 00:46:16,560
Speaker 2: I only follow the Urban Meyer stuff from AFAR. I

878
00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:19,719
Speaker 2: don't really look at NFL stuff, But since he does

879
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:24,960
Speaker 2: have that college connection, I can say who it does

880
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:30,359
Speaker 2: not seem good. Urban Meyers fora into professional football does

881
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:34,160
Speaker 2: not seem to be a long term aspect of his life.

882
00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:38,800
Speaker 1: The wheels are correct, the wheels are definitely off. The

883
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:39,760
Speaker 1: car is on fire.

884
00:46:40,680 --> 00:46:42,359
Speaker 2: I saw a tweet suggesting I think it was from

885
00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:45,240
Speaker 2: our buddy Chrispy Brown, where it was like, people should

886
00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:49,040
Speaker 2: just start asking Urban Meyer about fictional players to see

887
00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:51,960
Speaker 2: if he knows that they are fictional names, not actual

888
00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:55,560
Speaker 2: members of the Jaguars roster, and see if he responds

889
00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:57,840
Speaker 2: with something like, you know, he's really impressing this. In practice,

890
00:46:58,040 --> 00:46:59,640
Speaker 2: they do that to politicians all the time.

891
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:05,839
Speaker 1: A great prank, My god man. Yeah, anyway, Wake Forest, Yeah,

892
00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:08,920
Speaker 1: Texas A and M eleven am Eastern time in ESPN.

893
00:47:09,680 --> 00:47:11,480
Speaker 1: Wake is ten and three A and M is eight

894
00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:14,279
Speaker 1: and four A and M favored by five, they were

895
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:16,640
Speaker 1: favored by seven, and then they were down to five

896
00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:20,840
Speaker 1: after the news came out that Zach Calzada, Zach Calzada

897
00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:25,120
Speaker 1: and his lovable Armada will be setting sail for a

898
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:28,640
Speaker 1: new port before the bowl game. He is officially in

899
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:31,880
Speaker 1: the transfer portal. My hunch is that he saw the

900
00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:34,120
Speaker 1: riding on the wall that it wasn't a given he'd

901
00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:37,160
Speaker 1: be even the backup next year, because you know, A

902
00:47:37,239 --> 00:47:40,040
Speaker 1: and M recruits at a very high level, So there

903
00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:42,279
Speaker 1: is a chance here that A and M is going

904
00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:44,680
Speaker 1: to be starting a true freshman walk on named Blake

905
00:47:44,840 --> 00:47:45,840
Speaker 1: Bost or boast.

906
00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:47,760
Speaker 2: He's a lefty.

907
00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:50,279
Speaker 1: I looked a lofty Yep, he's a lefty. He's a

908
00:47:50,920 --> 00:47:55,880
Speaker 1: baseball player. I think. Formerly we've also got to Marvin

909
00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 1: Lele going pro won't be available for A and M,

910
00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:02,040
Speaker 1: so they're gonna be down a few guys here. And

911
00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:04,520
Speaker 1: I think on top of that, the other factor that

912
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:09,680
Speaker 1: worries me a bit is that there's really no doubt

913
00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:11,680
Speaker 1: to me that this game means a lot more to

914
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:13,879
Speaker 1: Wake Forest, doesn't it. Don't you think?

915
00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:18,640
Speaker 2: Does this game mean more to Wake Forest than Texas?

916
00:48:18,680 --> 00:48:19,080
Speaker 1: A and M.

917
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:24,440
Speaker 2: Probably, but that doesn't make their ability to play defense

918
00:48:24,520 --> 00:48:26,680
Speaker 2: any better. I hear you.

919
00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:30,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, true. I originally thought, as I was looking through

920
00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:34,319
Speaker 1: what Wake has done this season, that this game would

921
00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:39,360
Speaker 1: go the root of the time Wake played Clemson or

922
00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:42,680
Speaker 1: the time Wake played Pit and it's one of those

923
00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:45,480
Speaker 1: deals where Wake scores like twenty eight points and then

924
00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:48,640
Speaker 1: they lose because either the opposing defense gets more stops

925
00:48:49,440 --> 00:48:52,880
Speaker 1: or forces turnovers like in the Pit game, something like that,

926
00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:55,560
Speaker 1: but they end up losing comfortably. That was my original

927
00:48:55,640 --> 00:49:00,880
Speaker 1: thought here. But now, man, I'm getting ten seven versus

928
00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:06,080
Speaker 1: Colorado vibes all over again with this news about Calzada leaving.

929
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:09,560
Speaker 1: I hear you. It's it's weird to me out and

930
00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:12,160
Speaker 1: I still think A and M's better. They're way better

931
00:49:12,239 --> 00:49:15,680
Speaker 1: on defense, to be clear, But I'm worried about them

932
00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:20,080
Speaker 1: getting into a shootout here with Wake Forrest with Blake

933
00:49:20,239 --> 00:49:24,600
Speaker 1: Boast at quarterbacks. So I don't know. I don't have

934
00:49:24,680 --> 00:49:27,480
Speaker 1: any confidence on this game anymore. I am gonna pick

935
00:49:27,520 --> 00:49:30,759
Speaker 1: the team here. Yeah, I originally had A and M.

936
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:32,840
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go Wake because I think Wake wants it

937
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:36,080
Speaker 1: more and I think if there is a chance this

938
00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:39,440
Speaker 1: game gets to like a point where A and m's

939
00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:41,440
Speaker 1: got to score twenty eight points. I'm not sure they

940
00:49:41,480 --> 00:49:44,319
Speaker 1: can do it even against Wake's defense with a walk

941
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:49,120
Speaker 1: on freshman whatever he is, Blake Boast, I am, I'm

942
00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:51,280
Speaker 1: gonna go Wake low confidence, very low confidence.

943
00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:54,400
Speaker 2: Like for I'm going Okay, I'm going A and M

944
00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:57,760
Speaker 2: medium confidence. And I think you're totally right about motivation

945
00:49:57,960 --> 00:49:59,960
Speaker 2: right that A and M loud like their quarterback is

946
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:02,280
Speaker 2: gone the leader of this offense. I mean he's backup

947
00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:03,200
Speaker 2: quarterback to Haines King.

948
00:50:03,239 --> 00:50:03,600
Speaker 1: Hayes King.

949
00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:05,400
Speaker 2: I don't believe he's going to be healthy enough to

950
00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:08,200
Speaker 2: play in this one. As you mentioned, Blake Boast walk

951
00:50:08,320 --> 00:50:11,279
Speaker 2: on like two star like I think he had lower

952
00:50:11,360 --> 00:50:13,840
Speaker 2: offers like Arkansas State and stuff. Is what I remember

953
00:50:13,880 --> 00:50:16,200
Speaker 2: looking on I saw him. There's going to be somebody

954
00:50:16,239 --> 00:50:19,919
Speaker 2: this bowl season that's going to fit my favorite turn

955
00:50:19,960 --> 00:50:23,320
Speaker 2: of phrase of the season that fills that applies to

956
00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:25,680
Speaker 2: guys like Tyler Van Dim whatever. Like this guy was

957
00:50:25,719 --> 00:50:27,839
Speaker 2: on your bench the whole time. He was just sitting

958
00:50:27,880 --> 00:50:34,160
Speaker 2: there and against the Wake Forest defense, I nominate Blake

959
00:50:34,239 --> 00:50:37,520
Speaker 2: Boast was just on this team. He was ready to

960
00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:39,759
Speaker 2: roll this like he and he might not be good,

961
00:50:41,040 --> 00:50:43,200
Speaker 2: but he also might throw for four hundred and eight

962
00:50:43,320 --> 00:50:46,719
Speaker 2: yards against Wake Forest, and A and M fans are

963
00:50:46,760 --> 00:50:48,839
Speaker 2: going to start talking themselves into the Blake bost era.

964
00:50:49,120 --> 00:50:52,759
Speaker 2: I don't think that's likely. I just think it's on

965
00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:57,319
Speaker 2: the table. It's hospitally on the and given the skill

966
00:50:57,400 --> 00:50:59,120
Speaker 2: talent of A and M. I know there's been some

967
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:01,080
Speaker 2: shaky play column for A and M down the stretch

968
00:51:01,160 --> 00:51:04,680
Speaker 2: and some higher leverage moments. But at the same time,

969
00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:08,759
Speaker 2: somebody has to emerge. Somebody has to be the who

970
00:51:08,840 --> 00:51:12,640
Speaker 2: is the TCU quarterback who beat Organ bram Colehousen. Somebody

971
00:51:12,719 --> 00:51:15,920
Speaker 2: has to be just like has to have this moment,

972
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:19,640
Speaker 2: this bull season moment, and Blake Boast has that name

973
00:51:19,719 --> 00:51:22,880
Speaker 2: that I could I could see us, you know, rounding

974
00:51:23,760 --> 00:51:27,040
Speaker 2: or just a celebrating at the end of bowl season.

975
00:51:27,080 --> 00:51:29,080
Speaker 2: It's just being a nice story. So I'm going with

976
00:51:29,120 --> 00:51:31,320
Speaker 2: A and M here with medium confidence. Just when you

977
00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:34,520
Speaker 2: have that the combination of defense and wild card on offense,

978
00:51:35,280 --> 00:51:38,319
Speaker 2: I'm just going with it. So really impressive season from Wake,

979
00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:42,560
Speaker 2: But yeah, I think the disappointment of not making the

980
00:51:42,600 --> 00:51:45,080
Speaker 2: ACC Championship game and you know, losing the way they

981
00:51:45,120 --> 00:51:47,760
Speaker 2: did to North Carolina, I just don't see the defense

982
00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:49,000
Speaker 2: having a great day. So we'll see.

983
00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:49,840
Speaker 1: I mean they had that.

984
00:51:50,239 --> 00:51:51,640
Speaker 2: Did they not beat A and M in a bowl

985
00:51:51,719 --> 00:51:52,919
Speaker 2: game like four years ago?

986
00:51:53,239 --> 00:51:54,640
Speaker 1: They played a couple of years ago.

987
00:51:54,719 --> 00:51:56,959
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think they won like forty five forty

988
00:51:57,000 --> 00:51:59,080
Speaker 2: two in a shootout, So there is that, there is

989
00:51:59,120 --> 00:51:59,799
Speaker 2: that history there.

990
00:51:59,840 --> 00:52:01,560
Speaker 1: But no, I think it's a different A and M squad.

991
00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:04,080
Speaker 1: So I'm going with the Aggies here the Tony the

992
00:52:04,160 --> 00:52:08,279
Speaker 1: Tiger Sun Bowl. Can I give a recommendation? Oh? I

993
00:52:08,400 --> 00:52:08,799
Speaker 1: was right there.

994
00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:11,719
Speaker 2: I know I'm slow, I'm slow. Please please, Bread and

995
00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:14,480
Speaker 2: board another one of those places, red and board. Yeah,

996
00:52:14,560 --> 00:52:17,040
Speaker 2: grilled sandwiches, you know, super and sandwich.

997
00:52:17,360 --> 00:52:20,879
Speaker 1: I like that stuff. I'm in Tony the Tiger sun Bowl.

998
00:52:20,880 --> 00:52:21,239
Speaker 1: Here we go.

999
00:52:21,680 --> 00:52:23,759
Speaker 2: Okay, Ellen J how about that. I'll get it. I'll

1000
00:52:23,760 --> 00:52:26,120
Speaker 2: get it right off the bat. An old school text

1001
00:52:26,200 --> 00:52:29,880
Speaker 2: mechs place the letter l am percant j Ellen J.

1002
00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:32,799
Speaker 2: Old school text mexanel Passo. Can't go wrong, You can't

1003
00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:34,280
Speaker 2: go wrong text mexanel Passo.

1004
00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:37,160
Speaker 1: Right, No, Tony the Tiger sub ball he played at

1005
00:52:37,160 --> 00:52:39,840
Speaker 1: the Sun Bowl in l Passo high noon, Eastern Times,

1006
00:52:39,920 --> 00:52:44,279
Speaker 1: CBS again, this one on New Year's Rocking Eve, Wazoo

1007
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:46,839
Speaker 1: seven and five. They are a two and a half

1008
00:52:46,960 --> 00:52:52,719
Speaker 1: point dog against Miami. Miami also seven and five. If

1009
00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:55,680
Speaker 1: we could you could humor me for a second, I'm ready.

1010
00:52:56,160 --> 00:52:58,759
Speaker 1: Can we pull into the motivation station for just a

1011
00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:03,200
Speaker 1: hot minute too. Wazoo promoted from within, with Jake Dickert

1012
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:07,640
Speaker 1: taking over officially. This is a team that had a

1013
00:53:07,680 --> 00:53:10,600
Speaker 1: shot at the Pac twelve North down the stretch, and

1014
00:53:10,719 --> 00:53:14,560
Speaker 1: they played hard for Dickert. Remember this is a weird

1015
00:53:14,840 --> 00:53:17,960
Speaker 1: circumstance for Wazoo this year, with the whole Rolovich thing

1016
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:21,440
Speaker 1: that had to be a distraction. Dickert was able to

1017
00:53:21,520 --> 00:53:24,080
Speaker 1: circle the wagons and that's why he got the job.

1018
00:53:24,160 --> 00:53:27,200
Speaker 1: The players played hard for him. They definitely got better

1019
00:53:27,360 --> 00:53:30,759
Speaker 1: too as the season wore on, and he shifted some

1020
00:53:30,840 --> 00:53:33,280
Speaker 1: stuff around on his staff now, but it's still pretty

1021
00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:43,200
Speaker 1: much intact. Meanwhile, Miami got its guy. Yeah, but what

1022
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:49,120
Speaker 1: a freaking tire fire. What a tirefire? Yeah for the

1023
00:53:49,280 --> 00:53:53,600
Speaker 1: Knes Right now, this is a team even before all this, right,

1024
00:53:53,920 --> 00:53:56,480
Speaker 1: the reason that we even had the Manny Diaz conversation,

1025
00:53:56,800 --> 00:54:00,920
Speaker 1: as awkward as it was, was because this is a team. Granted,

1026
00:54:01,040 --> 00:54:01,960
Speaker 1: went seven and five.

1027
00:54:02,360 --> 00:54:03,239
Speaker 2: If you look at this team.

1028
00:54:03,280 --> 00:54:05,880
Speaker 1: They could have gone three and nine. They could have

1029
00:54:05,920 --> 00:54:08,719
Speaker 1: pulled a full Nebraska here had a few things go

1030
00:54:08,840 --> 00:54:10,880
Speaker 1: on the other way. There were a bunch of close

1031
00:54:10,960 --> 00:54:15,279
Speaker 1: wins here, and that's even after they discovered Tyler van Dyke.

1032
00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:19,040
Speaker 1: So I just think they are checked out. There are

1033
00:54:19,200 --> 00:54:22,680
Speaker 1: too many distractions here. The manny Ds thing was handled

1034
00:54:22,840 --> 00:54:25,759
Speaker 1: very poorly. I like Tyler van Dyke. They'll still find

1035
00:54:25,760 --> 00:54:28,560
Speaker 1: a way to score. But Wazoo just feels like they're

1036
00:54:28,840 --> 00:54:31,879
Speaker 1: much more together as a unit right now. So I'm

1037
00:54:31,960 --> 00:54:34,279
Speaker 1: with Wazoo. I feel pretty good about it. I'd say

1038
00:54:34,360 --> 00:54:37,160
Speaker 1: like medium confidence here. Wazoo in the Sun.

1039
00:54:37,080 --> 00:54:43,760
Speaker 2: Bowl, Yeah, I worry a little bit about the mistake

1040
00:54:43,920 --> 00:54:50,319
Speaker 2: prone issues of the Wazoo offense against This is Sun Bowl, right, yeah, Tony,

1041
00:54:50,640 --> 00:54:53,879
Speaker 2: I think the motivation is with Wazoo here. I'm going

1042
00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:57,480
Speaker 2: Koog's here. I'm going medium load to medium confidence because

1043
00:54:57,600 --> 00:55:01,800
Speaker 2: picking against the better quarterback is worrisome in a matchup

1044
00:55:01,920 --> 00:55:05,120
Speaker 2: like this, but nothing normal happens in the Sun Bowl.

1045
00:55:05,360 --> 00:55:09,360
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna go Wazoo ugly. And we've seen like

1046
00:55:09,560 --> 00:55:12,360
Speaker 2: stretches from Tyler van Dyke early on in games that

1047
00:55:12,480 --> 00:55:14,799
Speaker 2: have been disappointing, like he'll start out four of ten,

1048
00:55:15,120 --> 00:55:17,520
Speaker 2: he'll start out three of eleven, you know, something like that,

1049
00:55:17,640 --> 00:55:20,560
Speaker 2: and then gets into a groove. I'm gonna go with

1050
00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:24,759
Speaker 2: Wazoo here. I think you're right. I just man, amateurism

1051
00:55:24,880 --> 00:55:26,560
Speaker 2: is a silly term, but it kind of does apply

1052
00:55:26,680 --> 00:55:29,000
Speaker 2: to how Miami runs its football program right now.

1053
00:55:29,040 --> 00:55:30,200
Speaker 1: Anyway, maybe that'll.

1054
00:55:30,040 --> 00:55:34,880
Speaker 2: Change as Yeah, I just think Miami players, I don't know,

1055
00:55:35,040 --> 00:55:37,600
Speaker 2: they were sort of left tongue out to dry a

1056
00:55:37,640 --> 00:55:40,920
Speaker 2: little bit with like the way Manny Diaz situation was handled.

1057
00:55:40,960 --> 00:55:43,640
Speaker 2: And I'm sure you know they're gonna, you know, everything

1058
00:55:43,680 --> 00:55:46,279
Speaker 2: will be galvanized under Mario Cristobal sooner rather than later.

1059
00:55:46,320 --> 00:55:48,200
Speaker 2: But right now, I just think they it's, you know,

1060
00:55:48,480 --> 00:55:52,120
Speaker 2: the the desire to start that new era going outpass.

1061
00:55:52,160 --> 00:55:53,879
Speaker 2: So I don't think it is the formula. So I'm

1062
00:55:53,960 --> 00:55:57,040
Speaker 2: going with h with Wazoo here, medium load to medium confidence.

1063
00:55:57,840 --> 00:56:01,719
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the Barstools Sports Arizona Bowl. Yes,

1064
00:56:01,840 --> 00:56:05,800
Speaker 1: Barstool Sports sponsoring a bowl game played in Arizona Stadium

1065
00:56:05,880 --> 00:56:09,840
Speaker 1: in Tucson, two PM. I believe it is through barstool

1066
00:56:09,880 --> 00:56:14,120
Speaker 1: dot Com. Yeah, that's daring it digitally, is what I

1067
00:56:14,440 --> 00:56:19,440
Speaker 1: could gather Central Michigan Boise State. Boise is favored by

1068
00:56:20,360 --> 00:56:22,440
Speaker 1: ten and a half points in this game. Dan I

1069
00:56:23,440 --> 00:56:26,160
Speaker 1: went and I checked out both schools to the extent

1070
00:56:26,239 --> 00:56:29,160
Speaker 1: that I could. I've watched obviously a lot more of

1071
00:56:29,239 --> 00:56:32,240
Speaker 1: Boise than I have of Central Michigan. The single worst

1072
00:56:32,560 --> 00:56:36,040
Speaker 1: thing in this game is the Chippewas defense, correct, And

1073
00:56:36,160 --> 00:56:40,160
Speaker 1: I think that's why you take Boise State. Their offense

1074
00:56:40,239 --> 00:56:44,040
Speaker 1: is pretty good. Central Michigan I think they'll push Boise

1075
00:56:44,760 --> 00:56:47,880
Speaker 1: mm hmm. So there's that factor to keep in mind.

1076
00:56:48,640 --> 00:56:51,719
Speaker 1: I'd also say that Boise's offense wasn't really that great

1077
00:56:51,800 --> 00:56:55,720
Speaker 1: this season. You know, there's so often associated with pyrotechnical offense,

1078
00:56:55,800 --> 00:56:58,680
Speaker 1: but they weren't all that good this year. Hank Bachmeier

1079
00:56:58,719 --> 00:57:00,400
Speaker 1: has been beat up, he's dealing with I think a

1080
00:57:00,520 --> 00:57:04,239
Speaker 1: knee injury. Khalil Skinner, their top wide out, could end

1081
00:57:04,320 --> 00:57:06,520
Speaker 1: up opting out as well. So there, it's not a

1082
00:57:06,719 --> 00:57:08,880
Speaker 1: slam dunk. Ten and a half points feels like it

1083
00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:11,960
Speaker 1: might be a bit much, But I just come back

1084
00:57:12,000 --> 00:57:13,840
Speaker 1: to the fact that I don't have a great reason

1085
00:57:13,920 --> 00:57:15,160
Speaker 1: to pick Central Michigan here.

1086
00:57:16,320 --> 00:57:18,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, I am I like mac football, but and I

1087
00:57:18,960 --> 00:57:20,600
Speaker 2: don't know I don't have the numbers in front of me,

1088
00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:23,400
Speaker 2: so I can't say this with absolute certainty. But matched

1089
00:57:23,440 --> 00:57:26,040
Speaker 2: up against conferences that I feel are stronger, like the

1090
00:57:26,080 --> 00:57:28,720
Speaker 2: Mountain West, a conference in which Boise State was playing

1091
00:57:28,760 --> 00:57:29,600
Speaker 2: for the championship.

1092
00:57:29,640 --> 00:57:30,000
Speaker 1: Were they not?

1093
00:57:30,240 --> 00:57:32,040
Speaker 2: No, they weren't playing for the championship. They lost to

1094
00:57:32,080 --> 00:57:34,240
Speaker 2: San Diego State a week before they could have I believe.

1095
00:57:36,720 --> 00:57:36,919
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1096
00:57:37,320 --> 00:57:39,880
Speaker 2: It worries me and I it's I had his name,

1097
00:57:39,960 --> 00:57:41,600
Speaker 2: now I forget it. I think it's Dan something or

1098
00:57:41,680 --> 00:57:46,200
Speaker 2: Daniel something, the quarterback for Central Michigan. I am just

1099
00:57:46,400 --> 00:57:48,680
Speaker 2: not I think you're right that the defense for Central

1100
00:57:48,720 --> 00:57:50,280
Speaker 2: Michigan worries me to the point I know that the

1101
00:57:50,320 --> 00:57:52,360
Speaker 2: opt outs and the injuries are tough for Boise State.

1102
00:57:52,720 --> 00:57:56,480
Speaker 2: I'm still going Broncos here with medium confidence because of

1103
00:57:56,560 --> 00:57:59,320
Speaker 2: my lack of faith in a bad MAC defense, which

1104
00:57:59,400 --> 00:58:01,400
Speaker 2: is also why I had the issues with NIU against

1105
00:58:01,480 --> 00:58:04,080
Speaker 2: I think Coastal that's who NIU is playing in their

1106
00:58:04,160 --> 00:58:08,439
Speaker 2: bowl matchup. So I'm going with with Boise in Tucson, which,

1107
00:58:08,480 --> 00:58:13,480
Speaker 2: by the way, sometimes I come across foods that are

1108
00:58:13,600 --> 00:58:16,880
Speaker 2: within a genre of food that I know I already like,

1109
00:58:16,960 --> 00:58:19,360
Speaker 2: whether it's you know, Italian food or Japanese food, or

1110
00:58:19,400 --> 00:58:22,640
Speaker 2: Mexican food, or you know whatever. And I come across

1111
00:58:22,680 --> 00:58:26,880
Speaker 2: a new like subgenre of a food, and my ears

1112
00:58:26,960 --> 00:58:30,040
Speaker 2: tingle a new genus, right, a new genus, a new

1113
00:58:30,160 --> 00:58:35,760
Speaker 2: phylum inside of a kingdom. And there is a Sonoran

1114
00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:40,400
Speaker 2: Sonorias state of Mexico, a Sonoran specialty called a cadamelo

1115
00:58:40,600 --> 00:58:43,680
Speaker 2: catamelo to your you know, cottamelo like the candy bar almost,

1116
00:58:43,720 --> 00:58:47,120
Speaker 2: you know. And it's not quite a casadia. It's not

1117
00:58:47,320 --> 00:58:51,000
Speaker 2: quite a burrito. It's like a big or like a

1118
00:58:51,120 --> 00:58:56,200
Speaker 2: medium sized folded burrito, but it's technically a kind of

1119
00:58:56,240 --> 00:58:58,760
Speaker 2: over stuffed casadia. It sort of splits the difference. And

1120
00:58:58,760 --> 00:59:01,640
Speaker 2: it's called a cadamelo. And there's a truck and there

1121
00:59:01,680 --> 00:59:03,280
Speaker 2: they are the places you can get in La and

1122
00:59:03,440 --> 00:59:06,320
Speaker 2: you know, through various places, but Tucson, being so close

1123
00:59:06,400 --> 00:59:09,480
Speaker 2: to the Sonoran state within Mexico, they've got a couple

1124
00:59:09,520 --> 00:59:13,480
Speaker 2: of standout places. It appears caramelo cadamelo King is a

1125
00:59:13,600 --> 00:59:19,000
Speaker 2: truck that makes these cadamellos and the thin flower tortillas

1126
00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:20,720
Speaker 2: and they charm on the grill and then they you know,

1127
00:59:20,880 --> 00:59:24,760
Speaker 2: carne asada and beans and salsa. The first time I

1128
00:59:24,800 --> 00:59:26,560
Speaker 2: had one at a place called Sonora Toown, which you

1129
00:59:26,560 --> 00:59:29,760
Speaker 2: should go to in La My ears tingled like this

1130
00:59:29,840 --> 00:59:32,800
Speaker 2: speaks to me. I am dedicating as much of my

1131
00:59:32,920 --> 00:59:36,960
Speaker 2: Mexican food eating time to discovering and experimenting with cadamelos

1132
00:59:37,280 --> 00:59:39,160
Speaker 2: So Cadamelo king in Tucson area.

1133
00:59:39,280 --> 00:59:43,560
Speaker 1: Excellent. All right, Yeah, go to the first of two

1134
00:59:43,880 --> 00:59:48,280
Speaker 1: playoff semi finals again. They're playing it on New Year's Eve,

1135
00:59:49,400 --> 00:59:52,440
Speaker 1: the biggest pet peeve of mine of all time in

1136
00:59:52,520 --> 00:59:56,680
Speaker 1: college football. And look, I'm a man, I'm forty. I'm

1137
00:59:56,720 --> 00:59:58,920
Speaker 1: not necessarily going out to the bars the way I

1138
00:59:59,040 --> 01:00:03,040
Speaker 1: used to on New Year's e even still, are you

1139
01:00:03,240 --> 01:00:06,480
Speaker 1: kidding me with this? Are you kidding me with this? Well?

1140
01:00:06,480 --> 01:00:10,280
Speaker 2: What I mean, what would be your plan? I mean,

1141
01:00:10,800 --> 01:00:15,200
Speaker 2: you're forty now, you don't sleep, you're old. You center

1142
01:00:15,280 --> 01:00:18,800
Speaker 2: your life around the whims of a big, fluffy doggie.

1143
01:00:19,240 --> 01:00:21,480
Speaker 2: So what were you going to be doing otherwise if

1144
01:00:21,520 --> 01:00:23,480
Speaker 2: this game were on New Year's Day or January two

1145
01:00:23,600 --> 01:00:25,040
Speaker 2: or something like that on New Year's Eve.

1146
01:00:25,240 --> 01:00:28,080
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, Dan, It's not about me. It's about

1147
01:00:28,160 --> 01:00:32,120
Speaker 1: explaining it to the loved ones. That makes it very difficult,

1148
01:00:32,320 --> 01:00:36,320
Speaker 1: very difficult, even though this is now the job. Really mean,

1149
01:00:36,360 --> 01:00:38,280
Speaker 1: they're playing it on New Year's Eve? Really?

1150
01:00:39,040 --> 01:00:41,240
Speaker 2: I mean, did solid wife Kate have like, were you

1151
01:00:41,280 --> 01:00:43,400
Speaker 2: going to be taking a private jet to Macau? What

1152
01:00:43,520 --> 01:00:44,200
Speaker 2: were you going to be doing?

1153
01:00:44,640 --> 01:00:44,960
Speaker 1: Okay?

1154
01:00:45,000 --> 01:00:45,600
Speaker 2: Who's to say?

1155
01:00:46,120 --> 01:00:51,439
Speaker 1: Okay, probably not doing anything this year? Okay, but even still,

1156
01:00:51,760 --> 01:00:53,480
Speaker 1: it's just I hate it. I hate it. This is

1157
01:00:53,680 --> 01:00:56,200
Speaker 1: okay and this is probably the Rose bowls fault or

1158
01:00:56,240 --> 01:00:58,120
Speaker 1: the Sugar Bowl. I don't know whose Bold fault it is,

1159
01:00:58,280 --> 01:01:01,919
Speaker 1: but figure this out. Good on New Year's Day. Good

1160
01:01:01,920 --> 01:01:05,680
Speaker 1: on New Year's Day, Thank you and Rand. First of

1161
01:01:05,760 --> 01:01:08,720
Speaker 1: two games. This one's played at the Goodyear Cotton Bowl

1162
01:01:09,400 --> 01:01:12,480
Speaker 1: in Arlington at AT and T Stadium three point thirty

1163
01:01:12,920 --> 01:01:16,280
Speaker 1: New Year's Eve, ESPN number four, Cincinnati at thirteen and

1164
01:01:16,360 --> 01:01:20,880
Speaker 1: ohero number one, Alabama at twelve and one. Alabama, for

1165
01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:24,040
Speaker 1: what it's worth, favored by thirteen and a half points.

1166
01:01:24,840 --> 01:01:28,600
Speaker 1: We are going to do a much more exhaustive preview

1167
01:01:28,680 --> 01:01:32,040
Speaker 1: of the New Year's six and the playoff games as

1168
01:01:32,080 --> 01:01:34,000
Speaker 1: we get a little bit closer to those games. But

1169
01:01:34,120 --> 01:01:36,600
Speaker 1: the reason that we're doing this now is because we're

1170
01:01:36,640 --> 01:01:39,400
Speaker 1: trying to help you with your winter wonders Pool. Yeah,

1171
01:01:39,480 --> 01:01:42,720
Speaker 1: so we'll give you a brief overview here, maybe outline

1172
01:01:42,800 --> 01:01:44,800
Speaker 1: or thinking. I don't know if it's going to come

1173
01:01:44,800 --> 01:01:48,240
Speaker 1: as any great surprize, but just to make sure we

1174
01:01:48,360 --> 01:01:51,600
Speaker 1: close the loop here and cover all of our bases. Yeah,

1175
01:01:51,880 --> 01:01:55,520
Speaker 1: I'm on Bama. I'm on them with medium high confidence.

1176
01:01:55,960 --> 01:01:58,000
Speaker 1: What is medium high confidence to you? What is government

1177
01:01:58,080 --> 01:02:03,440
Speaker 1: to you? Medium high confidence? Put like thirty on Alabama.

1178
01:02:03,520 --> 01:02:05,200
Speaker 2: I mean I think that's full on high.

1179
01:02:05,160 --> 01:02:08,280
Speaker 1: Thirty, like twenty eight somewhere in that twenty five to

1180
01:02:08,360 --> 01:02:11,960
Speaker 1: thirty let's say. Okay, between the two playoff games, though,

1181
01:02:13,360 --> 01:02:15,400
Speaker 1: I would say that I am less confident in this

1182
01:02:15,560 --> 01:02:18,480
Speaker 1: one than I am the George Michigan game. Why is that.

1183
01:02:22,040 --> 01:02:25,320
Speaker 1: I think Des Richards a good quarterback. I think Cincinnati

1184
01:02:25,800 --> 01:02:29,680
Speaker 1: can attack you multiple ways on offense. They don't have

1185
01:02:30,560 --> 01:02:34,480
Speaker 1: the amount of weapons out wide that Alabama does. Nobody

1186
01:02:35,000 --> 01:02:37,800
Speaker 1: really does outside of a couple teams, you know, namely

1187
01:02:37,840 --> 01:02:41,120
Speaker 1: Ohio State. But I think they can run a varied

1188
01:02:41,200 --> 01:02:47,400
Speaker 1: enough offense that it can keep Alabama guessing. And so

1189
01:02:48,280 --> 01:02:51,160
Speaker 1: you combine that with a pretty good defense, combined with

1190
01:02:51,240 --> 01:02:53,200
Speaker 1: the fact that they've played really well in their big

1191
01:02:53,320 --> 01:02:56,480
Speaker 1: games this year. Wait, they pretty good. They played really well.

1192
01:02:57,160 --> 01:03:00,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, come on, put some respect on this cincinnat defense.

1193
01:03:00,800 --> 01:03:08,280
Speaker 2: On Sauce Gardner's name. I I just I don't think this.

1194
01:03:08,400 --> 01:03:11,280
Speaker 1: Is a slam dunk. And now I'm talking myself into

1195
01:03:11,440 --> 01:03:14,680
Speaker 1: maybe not that many confidence points, maybe maybe a little

1196
01:03:14,680 --> 01:03:15,880
Speaker 1: bit lower on the totem pole.

1197
01:03:16,040 --> 01:03:20,600
Speaker 2: You're still like Bama the case for lower confidence and

1198
01:03:20,680 --> 01:03:23,640
Speaker 2: we'll get into specific matchups and specific you know, more

1199
01:03:23,680 --> 01:03:27,360
Speaker 2: granular details about this matchup is this is a rap

1200
01:03:27,400 --> 01:03:30,960
Speaker 2: poison game for Alabama. This is the game that it

1201
01:03:30,960 --> 01:03:34,880
Speaker 2: would take so much more or so much less. I

1202
01:03:34,920 --> 01:03:38,800
Speaker 2: think convincing from Nick Saban top down to his players

1203
01:03:39,360 --> 01:03:42,320
Speaker 2: to say, look we have Michigan, Look, we have Ohio State.

1204
01:03:42,360 --> 01:03:46,480
Speaker 2: Look we have Oklahoma State. Look we have whoever from

1205
01:03:46,520 --> 01:03:51,520
Speaker 2: a major conference in this bowl game. Whereas Cincinnati he

1206
01:03:51,600 --> 01:03:53,600
Speaker 2: can say, look, they hung with Georgia last year. They

1207
01:03:53,600 --> 01:03:55,560
Speaker 2: gave Georgia everything they could handle last year in a

1208
01:03:55,560 --> 01:03:58,000
Speaker 2: New Year six game. Look they went undefeated. You guys

1209
01:03:58,000 --> 01:04:01,200
Speaker 2: didn't go undefeated. Cincinnati went undefeated. You can point to

1210
01:04:01,240 --> 01:04:03,560
Speaker 2: all these things droving forward Alabama running back. You know

1211
01:04:03,640 --> 01:04:05,880
Speaker 2: that this is a legit squad. This is not a

1212
01:04:06,000 --> 01:04:10,000
Speaker 2: cute story, but you can't change the fact that Cincinnati

1213
01:04:10,160 --> 01:04:12,560
Speaker 2: played in the American and not the Big twelve, Big

1214
01:04:12,640 --> 01:04:16,760
Speaker 2: ten Pack twelve, acc whatever. And so there is that

1215
01:04:17,840 --> 01:04:21,040
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Bama's down fourteen to three and they

1216
01:04:21,160 --> 01:04:26,360
Speaker 2: might still win this game. But that's rat poison, right.

1217
01:04:26,480 --> 01:04:26,880
Speaker 1: There is.

1218
01:04:28,360 --> 01:04:32,080
Speaker 2: More convincing needed in the lead up to this game.

1219
01:04:32,640 --> 01:04:36,320
Speaker 2: Everybody's taking Bama. Everybody's talking Bama Georgia rematch or something

1220
01:04:36,440 --> 01:04:43,840
Speaker 2: like that. The mentality thing makes it tricky, especially with

1221
01:04:44,480 --> 01:04:46,360
Speaker 2: this is not a bulletproof Alabama team. We saw him

1222
01:04:46,400 --> 01:04:49,320
Speaker 2: against LSU, we saw him against Auburn, and so against

1223
01:04:49,360 --> 01:04:54,400
Speaker 2: a speedy secondary, an opportunistic pass rush and secondary against

1224
01:04:54,520 --> 01:04:57,439
Speaker 2: a legit offense. I don't think they have the Winter

1225
01:04:57,520 --> 01:04:59,800
Speaker 2: Wonders out wide, which is why that's the big scaret

1226
01:05:00,120 --> 01:05:05,480
Speaker 2: about taking Cincinnati outright in a confidence pool situation. But man,

1227
01:05:05,600 --> 01:05:08,200
Speaker 2: I think this is a landmine of a matchup for Bama.

1228
01:05:08,480 --> 01:05:12,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's I'm gonna revise a little bit downward, Okay,

1229
01:05:13,120 --> 01:05:15,360
Speaker 1: just out of respect to what Cincinnati did this year.

1230
01:05:15,920 --> 01:05:18,800
Speaker 1: I think we both are in agreement that we're on Bama. Yeah,

1231
01:05:19,000 --> 01:05:21,000
Speaker 1: I'll say I mean, but still speak with your chest

1232
01:05:21,400 --> 01:05:25,920
Speaker 1: like twenty three points, okay, twenty three points, Okay, I

1233
01:05:26,000 --> 01:05:28,880
Speaker 1: think that's reasonable. Were you eating in Arlington?

1234
01:05:30,720 --> 01:05:33,000
Speaker 2: I mean it's DFW, I guess so you're all over

1235
01:05:33,080 --> 01:05:36,480
Speaker 2: the place. But in the greater area Norri hand Roll

1236
01:05:36,520 --> 01:05:39,400
Speaker 2: I may have mentioned that on the previous Yeah, yeah,

1237
01:05:39,440 --> 01:05:41,600
Speaker 2: I don't know if it was which which matchup we

1238
01:05:41,680 --> 01:05:45,000
Speaker 2: talked about those in Dallas, but also I also mentioned Cadillac.

1239
01:05:45,240 --> 01:05:48,880
Speaker 2: That's cattle ack if you understand, it's a barbecue place.

1240
01:05:48,920 --> 01:05:52,080
Speaker 2: But you can eat really well obviously in DFW area.

1241
01:05:52,120 --> 01:05:54,320
Speaker 2: I just like hand rolls man all right.

1242
01:05:55,240 --> 01:05:58,840
Speaker 1: Second of two playoff semi finals at seven point thirty

1243
01:05:59,280 --> 01:06:02,200
Speaker 1: at the Capitol One Orange Bowl Hard Rock Stadium in Miami,

1244
01:06:02,920 --> 01:06:07,480
Speaker 1: seven thirty pm Eastern Time on ESPN. Number three Georgia

1245
01:06:08,240 --> 01:06:10,760
Speaker 1: at twelve and one, about a seven and a half

1246
01:06:10,840 --> 01:06:16,160
Speaker 1: eight point favorite over the Michigan Wolverines, also twelve and one,

1247
01:06:16,360 --> 01:06:21,640
Speaker 1: champions of the Big Ten. Mm hm, I am on

1248
01:06:21,760 --> 01:06:27,400
Speaker 1: Georgia here, high confidence. No matter how many Michigan people

1249
01:06:27,680 --> 01:06:31,880
Speaker 1: email or tweet me and say that I'm biased, Yeah,

1250
01:06:32,480 --> 01:06:34,320
Speaker 1: I don't care. Sure.

1251
01:06:34,480 --> 01:06:36,840
Speaker 2: I am speak with your chest, stay with it.

1252
01:06:37,160 --> 01:06:40,720
Speaker 1: I am rooting for Michigan, believe it or not. Yes,

1253
01:06:41,080 --> 01:06:43,840
Speaker 1: I am rooting for Michigan. I want to see Jim

1254
01:06:43,920 --> 01:06:48,240
Speaker 1: Harbaugh get this thing. Okay, I'm still on Georgia, and

1255
01:06:48,360 --> 01:06:51,280
Speaker 1: I still don't think it's particularly close. And the reason

1256
01:06:51,400 --> 01:06:56,120
Speaker 1: for that is very simple. They sort of play similar styles,

1257
01:06:56,160 --> 01:06:59,840
Speaker 1: don't they. I bet yeah that they.

1258
01:07:00,000 --> 01:07:03,360
Speaker 2: We don't need excellent quarterback play, but it's power rushing,

1259
01:07:03,840 --> 01:07:08,920
Speaker 2: it's opportunistic defense, it's you know, the pass rush being

1260
01:07:09,760 --> 01:07:12,400
Speaker 2: a huge key and probably the strongest thing that either

1261
01:07:12,520 --> 01:07:13,800
Speaker 2: team has going in this game.

1262
01:07:13,920 --> 01:07:17,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I they play similar enough styles, and I

1263
01:07:17,720 --> 01:07:20,560
Speaker 1: just feel like the Georgia defense is good enough to

1264
01:07:20,640 --> 01:07:23,640
Speaker 1: take away that one thing that Michigan excels at, which

1265
01:07:23,680 --> 01:07:27,440
Speaker 1: is running the football right. And if this devolves to

1266
01:07:27,600 --> 01:07:31,120
Speaker 1: a game where Cade McNamara is throwing it forty times,

1267
01:07:31,120 --> 01:07:34,920
Speaker 1: which is very possible, I don't like that formula for Michigan.

1268
01:07:35,960 --> 01:07:38,600
Speaker 1: And maybe that's too simplistic, but that's how I feel

1269
01:07:38,600 --> 01:07:40,600
Speaker 1: about it. And I totally get the argument, by the way,

1270
01:07:41,280 --> 01:07:44,160
Speaker 1: that it sort of cuts both ways, right, because it's

1271
01:07:44,200 --> 01:07:49,080
Speaker 1: not like George's offense overwhelmed anybody in the SEC title game, right,

1272
01:07:49,640 --> 01:07:53,400
Speaker 1: Stetson Bennett throw in fifty times isn't exactly you know

1273
01:07:53,720 --> 01:07:57,360
Speaker 1: that that's not exactly what Kirby smart wants him, throwing

1274
01:07:57,400 --> 01:07:59,360
Speaker 1: that many times into the teeth of a good defense,

1275
01:07:59,440 --> 01:08:02,320
Speaker 1: like come on, and this is a good Michigan defense.

1276
01:08:02,400 --> 01:08:05,760
Speaker 1: To be fairer, they can cause problems for Georgia. There's

1277
01:08:05,800 --> 01:08:07,560
Speaker 1: even a chance that they're going to say enough of

1278
01:08:07,880 --> 01:08:11,000
Speaker 1: Stetson Bennett, we got to go to JT. Daniels. So

1279
01:08:11,360 --> 01:08:14,400
Speaker 1: maybe it's not a slam dunk. Obviously Vegas doesn't think

1280
01:08:14,440 --> 01:08:17,640
Speaker 1: it is. It's only a one score spread here. But

1281
01:08:17,840 --> 01:08:21,679
Speaker 1: I just feel very strongly that Georgia can do more

1282
01:08:21,800 --> 01:08:25,760
Speaker 1: damage to Michigan's offense than vice versa, which is why

1283
01:08:25,800 --> 01:08:28,320
Speaker 1: I like them handily in this game. I just think

1284
01:08:28,360 --> 01:08:30,439
Speaker 1: Michigan's gonna have a have a hard time moving the ball,

1285
01:08:31,320 --> 01:08:35,560
Speaker 1: and yeah, for me, there's a better chance here of

1286
01:08:35,680 --> 01:08:40,040
Speaker 1: Georgia taking this one into rock Fight territory, grinding it out,

1287
01:08:40,160 --> 01:08:42,200
Speaker 1: doing the crock pot thing and thing, and winning by

1288
01:08:42,280 --> 01:08:46,160
Speaker 1: like seventeen points. So again, I'm rooting for Michigan. I

1289
01:08:46,360 --> 01:08:49,080
Speaker 1: like Jim Harbaugh. He's had a great run this season.

1290
01:08:49,200 --> 01:08:50,800
Speaker 1: I want to see them do this thing. I'd love

1291
01:08:50,880 --> 01:08:52,560
Speaker 1: nothing more than for Michigan to make it into the

1292
01:08:53,240 --> 01:08:57,000
Speaker 1: end of the championship game. But I just don't see it, Dan,

1293
01:08:57,200 --> 01:08:59,479
Speaker 1: I don't see it. Yeah.

1294
01:08:59,520 --> 01:09:01,800
Speaker 2: I guess what you can point to if you are

1295
01:09:02,600 --> 01:09:06,920
Speaker 2: hesitant about Michigan is I mean the couple performances right

1296
01:09:07,000 --> 01:09:09,760
Speaker 2: the Nebraska game, the Penn State game, and Penn State

1297
01:09:09,800 --> 01:09:11,400
Speaker 2: has one of the best defenses in the country. And

1298
01:09:11,479 --> 01:09:15,040
Speaker 2: Penn State's defense isn't where Georgia's is and can be.

1299
01:09:15,600 --> 01:09:18,160
Speaker 1: So I hear you. I'm totally with you.

1300
01:09:18,280 --> 01:09:19,040
Speaker 2: I like Georgia.

1301
01:09:19,160 --> 01:09:21,800
Speaker 1: I'm not on the confidence level that you're at.

1302
01:09:22,439 --> 01:09:25,759
Speaker 2: Michigan is what a not to put this on JJ McCarthy,

1303
01:09:25,840 --> 01:09:28,479
Speaker 2: but like kind of a failed hand off away from

1304
01:09:28,520 --> 01:09:32,800
Speaker 2: being undefeated, and so that's very difficult to do.

1305
01:09:33,000 --> 01:09:34,000
Speaker 1: And they're not undefeated.

1306
01:09:34,600 --> 01:09:38,439
Speaker 2: So there's the Rutgers second half, there's Nebraska, there's Penn State,

1307
01:09:38,560 --> 01:09:39,760
Speaker 2: there are you know, there are times where they just

1308
01:09:39,840 --> 01:09:44,320
Speaker 2: didn't dominate teams like Georgia dominated teams. I don't know

1309
01:09:44,800 --> 01:09:49,480
Speaker 2: what Georgia's schedule is in your mind compared to Michigan's,

1310
01:09:49,600 --> 01:09:53,719
Speaker 2: but I'm going Georgia as well. I'm going with the defense.

1311
01:09:54,280 --> 01:09:57,840
Speaker 2: I'm going with the depth that Georgia can turn to

1312
01:09:57,960 --> 01:10:00,559
Speaker 2: on both sides of the ball at running back. Pickens

1313
01:10:00,640 --> 01:10:02,479
Speaker 2: now healthy and we saw him make a huge play

1314
01:10:02,800 --> 01:10:07,439
Speaker 2: against Bama, but in a huge game with a more

1315
01:10:07,479 --> 01:10:10,880
Speaker 2: balanced team than Iowa, to say the least, I think

1316
01:10:10,920 --> 01:10:14,400
Speaker 2: Kate McNamara will make plays. But if Kate McNamara throws

1317
01:10:14,400 --> 01:10:17,080
Speaker 2: an interception, that might be enough for Georgia to win

1318
01:10:17,160 --> 01:10:20,400
Speaker 2: this game, right, And that's you know, there are teams

1319
01:10:20,439 --> 01:10:22,880
Speaker 2: that were not able to take advantage Ohio State, you

1320
01:10:22,960 --> 01:10:27,600
Speaker 2: know that just didn't have it. But man, I just

1321
01:10:27,720 --> 01:10:31,240
Speaker 2: think the formula for beating Georgia is to have a

1322
01:10:31,360 --> 01:10:36,360
Speaker 2: potentially excellent quarterback that's short of that which Bryce Young is.

1323
01:10:36,520 --> 01:10:41,800
Speaker 2: He's a Heisman Trophy winner. It's just a little too much.

1324
01:10:42,200 --> 01:10:47,280
Speaker 2: Now if Aiden Hutchinson and Devin o'jabo, David o'jabo forced

1325
01:10:47,320 --> 01:10:51,000
Speaker 2: two strip sacks or you know, popstats in Bennett and

1326
01:10:51,080 --> 01:10:52,680
Speaker 2: then he throws it straight up into the air to

1327
01:10:52,760 --> 01:10:55,639
Speaker 2: Dax Hill or something like that, Like, yeah, I could

1328
01:10:55,720 --> 01:10:58,880
Speaker 2: see that. I just think there are more bullet points

1329
01:10:58,960 --> 01:11:01,160
Speaker 2: needed from Michigan to win this game. It's nowhere near

1330
01:11:01,200 --> 01:11:05,120
Speaker 2: impossible for Michigan to win this game. They just need this,

1331
01:11:05,520 --> 01:11:08,880
Speaker 2: that and the other thing. Whereas Georgia kind of just

1332
01:11:09,640 --> 01:11:12,320
Speaker 2: needs to play within a standard deviation of itself and

1333
01:11:12,400 --> 01:11:15,000
Speaker 2: not make, you know, killer mistakes and turnovers like they

1334
01:11:15,040 --> 01:11:15,719
Speaker 2: did against Bama.

1335
01:11:15,880 --> 01:11:17,320
Speaker 1: So it's just easier to see.

1336
01:11:17,520 --> 01:11:20,760
Speaker 2: So I have twenty eighteen to twenty two confidence points

1337
01:11:20,800 --> 01:11:21,200
Speaker 2: in Georgia.

1338
01:11:21,640 --> 01:11:24,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, I probably go a little bit higher. I'm probably

1339
01:11:24,200 --> 01:11:30,200
Speaker 1: closer to that's fine, twenty eight thirty. But I just

1340
01:11:30,240 --> 01:11:32,560
Speaker 1: don't I don't see it. I think I think this

1341
01:11:32,760 --> 01:11:36,799
Speaker 1: is the kind of game and I kind of am

1342
01:11:37,360 --> 01:11:39,360
Speaker 1: doing a little bit of revisionist history here because I

1343
01:11:39,439 --> 01:11:42,280
Speaker 1: tweeted out after that SEC title game that Georgia was

1344
01:11:42,320 --> 01:11:44,960
Speaker 1: going to destroy Michigan. Then I looked at the numbers

1345
01:11:44,960 --> 01:11:47,000
Speaker 1: and it's like, okay, Like I could see a path here.

1346
01:11:47,640 --> 01:11:48,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, I could see a path.

1347
01:11:48,560 --> 01:11:52,040
Speaker 1: From Michigan to keep this one close to, you know,

1348
01:11:52,240 --> 01:11:55,760
Speaker 1: fight Georgia again. They just similar enough in style that

1349
01:11:56,479 --> 01:11:58,679
Speaker 1: I could see them hanging around and this being close.

1350
01:11:58,760 --> 01:12:00,680
Speaker 1: I just keep coming back to the fact that I

1351
01:12:00,720 --> 01:12:04,320
Speaker 1: think Michigan's gonna gonna ultimately be forced out of its

1352
01:12:04,360 --> 01:12:05,920
Speaker 1: game plan and that's going to be their undoing.

1353
01:12:06,040 --> 01:12:08,320
Speaker 2: But no games in Miami, by the way, could be soggy.

1354
01:12:08,520 --> 01:12:10,600
Speaker 2: I don't know, if that changes any calculus for you,

1355
01:12:10,720 --> 01:12:13,400
Speaker 2: if this is a soggy game, we'll go.

1356
01:12:13,439 --> 01:12:14,120
Speaker 1: Into more detail.

1357
01:12:14,120 --> 01:12:15,800
Speaker 2: Obviously, now we're going into a lot of details about

1358
01:12:15,800 --> 01:12:17,600
Speaker 2: this game, and we said we wouldn't, but you know

1359
01:12:18,240 --> 01:12:21,080
Speaker 2: that changes a little bit of you know, is Michigan

1360
01:12:21,120 --> 01:12:23,760
Speaker 2: better prepared to win a rock fight? You know that's

1361
01:12:24,680 --> 01:12:26,519
Speaker 2: It's probably what both coaches want deep down.

1362
01:12:26,560 --> 01:12:26,880
Speaker 1: Anyway.

1363
01:12:27,000 --> 01:12:28,920
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, where do we go in Miami to eat?

1364
01:12:29,320 --> 01:12:31,560
Speaker 2: Head to win Wood. There's lots of different neighborhoods that

1365
01:12:31,560 --> 01:12:33,519
Speaker 2: are great in Miami. You a little van or whatever.

1366
01:12:33,920 --> 01:12:37,400
Speaker 2: Win Wood, cool area, a little more hipster for better

1367
01:12:37,479 --> 01:12:40,679
Speaker 2: or for worse. A lot of street art. Zach the Baker,

1368
01:12:41,200 --> 01:12:45,599
Speaker 2: great job, pastries, more savory, baked goods, Panther coffee, terrific,

1369
01:12:47,680 --> 01:12:50,280
Speaker 2: taco stand really good though it's kind of a rip

1370
01:12:50,320 --> 01:12:53,960
Speaker 2: off of Los Tacos number one in New York. Uh yeah,

1371
01:12:54,120 --> 01:12:55,000
Speaker 2: just walk around Winwood.

1372
01:12:55,000 --> 01:12:58,680
Speaker 1: It's great. Zach the Baker delicious. We don't love it

1373
01:12:59,040 --> 01:13:02,320
Speaker 1: all right, Let's go to New Year's Day. Let's do it.

1374
01:13:03,479 --> 01:13:08,960
Speaker 1: Start with the Outback Bowl mm hmm, Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, Florida,

1375
01:13:09,040 --> 01:13:12,080
Speaker 1: twelve pm, ESPN two. It's Penn State at seven and five,

1376
01:13:12,840 --> 01:13:17,120
Speaker 1: Arkansas eight and four, Penn State favored by two. We

1377
01:13:17,240 --> 01:13:21,960
Speaker 1: got Treilon Burke's opting out for Arkansas, big receiver going

1378
01:13:22,040 --> 01:13:24,160
Speaker 1: pro built like t O, He's going to be a

1379
01:13:24,200 --> 01:13:27,439
Speaker 1: force in the NFL. I agree. On the Penn State side,

1380
01:13:27,439 --> 01:13:32,080
Speaker 1: we got Brent Prye leaving four Virginia Tech their defensive coordinator.

1381
01:13:32,120 --> 01:13:35,599
Speaker 1: I have not seen if Johan Dotson is gonna opt

1382
01:13:35,640 --> 01:13:39,000
Speaker 1: out yet. I would expect that he probably would. Okay,

1383
01:13:39,760 --> 01:13:45,280
Speaker 1: I think I think this game and the rest of

1384
01:13:45,320 --> 01:13:48,799
Speaker 1: the New York New Year six, excuse me, is probably

1385
01:13:48,880 --> 01:13:53,240
Speaker 1: the best testament to the strategy that I mentioned last episode.

1386
01:13:53,320 --> 01:13:56,080
Speaker 1: Early in this episode, we have no I have no

1387
01:13:56,120 --> 01:13:58,920
Speaker 1: idea who's winning these games, any of them, and so

1388
01:14:00,400 --> 01:14:03,400
Speaker 1: rather than go with the default number of confidence points,

1389
01:14:04,400 --> 01:14:08,320
Speaker 1: just put as few points as possible in these games. Yeah.

1390
01:14:08,640 --> 01:14:09,160
Speaker 2: I don't want to.

1391
01:14:09,120 --> 01:14:10,760
Speaker 1: Put forty in this game? Are you kidding me? I

1392
01:14:10,760 --> 01:14:14,559
Speaker 1: don't know who's winning. I have no idea. I think

1393
01:14:14,600 --> 01:14:17,320
Speaker 1: I go Arkansas. I think I go Arkansas with a

1394
01:14:17,320 --> 01:14:20,479
Speaker 1: little confidence because I kind of felt like Penn State

1395
01:14:20,600 --> 01:14:22,519
Speaker 1: was checked out at the end of the year. They

1396
01:14:22,560 --> 01:14:24,760
Speaker 1: still couldn't run the ball. They never figured that part out,

1397
01:14:25,600 --> 01:14:28,000
Speaker 1: and they have not played a quarterback all year like

1398
01:14:28,120 --> 01:14:31,880
Speaker 1: kJ Jefferson and he's gonna give him fits. It's a

1399
01:14:31,920 --> 01:14:35,400
Speaker 1: good defense. I mean no, not specifically the physicality of

1400
01:14:35,479 --> 01:14:38,719
Speaker 1: kJ Jefferson, but on his level, I mean c J. Stroud,

1401
01:14:39,760 --> 01:14:44,800
Speaker 1: but just the mobile nature of KJJ not a runner. Yeah, yeah,

1402
01:14:44,800 --> 01:14:47,519
Speaker 1: they haven't played a guy like that all year, and

1403
01:14:48,280 --> 01:14:50,120
Speaker 1: it just feels like the kind of game where kJ

1404
01:14:50,240 --> 01:14:52,880
Speaker 1: gives them fits. And I don't know what Penn State's

1405
01:14:52,920 --> 01:14:54,599
Speaker 1: deal is going to be on offense. I saw Sean

1406
01:14:54,640 --> 01:14:56,880
Speaker 1: Clifford's coming back, which I hate and I'm not going

1407
01:14:56,920 --> 01:15:01,439
Speaker 1: to go into right now, but I just feel like

1408
01:15:02,240 --> 01:15:05,879
Speaker 1: I gotta go to Arkansas here. Low confidence, low confidence,

1409
01:15:05,960 --> 01:15:07,080
Speaker 1: but give me, give me the Hogs.

1410
01:15:09,640 --> 01:15:13,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, even who did penns like? They started extremely slow

1411
01:15:13,400 --> 01:15:16,120
Speaker 2: against Rutgers and they eventually won that they shut him

1412
01:15:16,160 --> 01:15:19,080
Speaker 2: out twenty seven thirty nothing. I don't know whatever it was.

1413
01:15:21,160 --> 01:15:23,240
Speaker 2: I'm just in a close game. This Penn State team

1414
01:15:23,320 --> 01:15:25,479
Speaker 2: has not performed. If we do think it's going to be,

1415
01:15:26,760 --> 01:15:30,559
Speaker 2: I just I'm going to Arkansas here, and it's very

1416
01:15:30,560 --> 01:15:33,360
Speaker 2: difficult because Penn State has the clear better defense. So

1417
01:15:33,400 --> 01:15:37,800
Speaker 2: I'm now picking against a belief system thing. But Penn

1418
01:15:37,800 --> 01:15:40,400
Speaker 2: State now without their defensive coordinator in this game, so

1419
01:15:40,520 --> 01:15:42,680
Speaker 2: that changes how I feel about their defense a little bit.

1420
01:15:42,760 --> 01:15:45,720
Speaker 2: Now their staff is good and Poindexter decided not to leave.

1421
01:15:45,880 --> 01:15:48,400
Speaker 2: Correct the codc He is coming to Penn State.

1422
01:15:48,520 --> 01:15:50,840
Speaker 1: He is coming back. He interviewed for Virginia, but he

1423
01:15:50,960 --> 01:15:52,040
Speaker 1: is back now with Penn State.

1424
01:15:52,320 --> 01:15:55,400
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, I'm going to Arkansas here. I'm going quarterback.

1425
01:15:55,479 --> 01:15:58,479
Speaker 2: I'm going motivation. You know Penn State, you know the

1426
01:15:58,560 --> 01:16:03,400
Speaker 2: close but no cigar games against Michigan and Ohio State. Yeah,

1427
01:16:03,439 --> 01:16:06,559
Speaker 2: I'm going to Arkansas here. Sam Pittman trying to By

1428
01:16:06,560 --> 01:16:07,800
Speaker 2: the way, did you see what he was asking for

1429
01:16:08,000 --> 01:16:08,719
Speaker 2: contract by.

1430
01:16:08,640 --> 01:16:10,559
Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah, woo woa.

1431
01:16:10,760 --> 01:16:12,559
Speaker 2: And you know what, I don't blame him. I don't

1432
01:16:12,600 --> 01:16:14,600
Speaker 2: blame him. Double your salary go to three and a

1433
01:16:14,640 --> 01:16:16,840
Speaker 2: half to seven million. If he gets in six point two,

1434
01:16:17,240 --> 01:16:20,559
Speaker 2: it's a win. And like, how much is it worth

1435
01:16:20,600 --> 01:16:24,560
Speaker 2: to Arkansas's administration to not plumb the depths of the

1436
01:16:24,680 --> 01:16:29,479
Speaker 2: Chad Morris experiment? Again, Yeah, it's good amount, good amount

1437
01:16:29,520 --> 01:16:31,559
Speaker 2: of money. So I'm going to Arkansas here to finish

1438
01:16:31,640 --> 01:16:35,400
Speaker 2: on a high note. And uh, when when they're Outback Bowl,

1439
01:16:35,439 --> 01:16:37,639
Speaker 2: by the way out Back Steakhouse where Dan Lanning met

1440
01:16:37,680 --> 01:16:41,120
Speaker 2: his wife, both working at Outback Steakhouse, New Oregon coach. Now,

1441
01:16:41,160 --> 01:16:43,040
Speaker 2: I have a soft spot for out Back in that

1442
01:16:43,200 --> 01:16:43,880
Speaker 2: are you going in?

1443
01:16:44,080 --> 01:16:46,599
Speaker 1: Are you going out back in Tampa? No? Rules, just right?

1444
01:16:47,240 --> 01:16:50,400
Speaker 2: No, by the way Outback created in Tampa, I believe, Yeah,

1445
01:16:50,479 --> 01:16:53,000
Speaker 2: that's founded in Tampa. No, I'm gonna go with the Adam.

1446
01:16:53,040 --> 01:16:56,480
Speaker 2: I mean burger pick and sandwich pick whatever dat's datz

1447
01:16:57,000 --> 01:16:57,479
Speaker 2: in Tampa?

1448
01:16:57,960 --> 01:17:02,400
Speaker 1: All right? PlayStation Fiesta Bowl, State, farm Field and Glendale, Arizona,

1449
01:17:02,479 --> 01:17:06,800
Speaker 1: one pm, ESPN, Notre Dame at eleven and one, Oklahoma

1450
01:17:06,880 --> 01:17:10,360
Speaker 1: State at eleven and two. The Irish are favored by two.

1451
01:17:11,160 --> 01:17:15,519
Speaker 1: Kyle Hamilton, Kyron Williams out for Notre Dame, Brian Kelly

1452
01:17:15,800 --> 01:17:19,960
Speaker 1: out for Notre Dame. Off the LSU, which means welcome

1453
01:17:20,000 --> 01:17:23,519
Speaker 1: to the show. Marcus Freeman. Yeah, how do you feel

1454
01:17:23,520 --> 01:17:25,880
Speaker 1: about this game? I need to get an outsider perspective here.

1455
01:17:26,040 --> 01:17:29,719
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm biased, but I'll get into how I feel.

1456
01:17:29,720 --> 01:17:30,320
Speaker 1: How do you feel?

1457
01:17:36,000 --> 01:17:39,760
Speaker 2: I think I like Notre Dame. So we have, you know,

1458
01:17:39,920 --> 01:17:42,280
Speaker 2: the coaching changes, of course, on both sides. Gymnall's leaving

1459
01:17:42,280 --> 01:17:47,680
Speaker 2: for Io State, I saw things from Spencer Sanders that

1460
01:17:47,960 --> 01:17:51,200
Speaker 2: make me worry about him throwing into a defense with

1461
01:17:51,400 --> 01:17:56,080
Speaker 2: or without Kyle Hamilton. I worry about that. And as

1462
01:17:56,080 --> 01:18:01,240
Speaker 2: good as Oklahoma State's defense is, I just I'm not there.

1463
01:18:01,680 --> 01:18:03,680
Speaker 2: I'm not there with the Pokes, and I understand being

1464
01:18:03,680 --> 01:18:05,960
Speaker 2: able to win a game. How many picks at Spencer

1465
01:18:06,000 --> 01:18:08,640
Speaker 2: Sanders throw against Baylor four and they almost They came

1466
01:18:08,760 --> 01:18:11,479
Speaker 2: up four and a half inches short of winning that game,

1467
01:18:11,520 --> 01:18:14,479
Speaker 2: which is impressive in its own way. I think the

1468
01:18:14,560 --> 01:18:19,160
Speaker 2: Notre Dame program has been re energized now that players

1469
01:18:19,520 --> 01:18:22,640
Speaker 2: and staffers and fans don't have to pretend to like

1470
01:18:22,760 --> 01:18:29,080
Speaker 2: Brian Kelly anymore. And so big game Marcus Freeman. Now

1471
01:18:29,080 --> 01:18:32,439
Speaker 2: there's a ton of unnecessary pressure right Everybody can't wait

1472
01:18:32,520 --> 01:18:35,800
Speaker 2: because he's technically the interim coach for this game, even

1473
01:18:35,840 --> 01:18:38,360
Speaker 2: though he has been promoted to head coach. This is

1474
01:18:38,479 --> 01:18:41,560
Speaker 2: not his program, This is not his stamp on the

1475
01:18:41,640 --> 01:18:43,920
Speaker 2: sport and on the program, because this is still a

1476
01:18:44,040 --> 01:18:46,840
Speaker 2: Brian Kelly program that Marcus Freeman happens to be coaching

1477
01:18:46,880 --> 01:18:51,400
Speaker 2: out a season that Brian Kelly started. So it's unfair

1478
01:18:51,439 --> 01:18:53,599
Speaker 2: to judge Marcus Freeman good or bad on what happens

1479
01:18:53,640 --> 01:18:57,040
Speaker 2: in this game. But I still think that the vibes

1480
01:18:57,120 --> 01:18:59,360
Speaker 2: of you know, Tommy Reese sticking around despite having the

1481
01:18:59,360 --> 01:19:01,040
Speaker 2: opportunity to go to LS. You know, they lost a

1482
01:19:01,080 --> 01:19:03,200
Speaker 2: couple guys right as Brian Polly and a strength guy

1483
01:19:03,560 --> 01:19:06,720
Speaker 2: to LSU. The offensive line coach is gone, who I

1484
01:19:06,760 --> 01:19:09,160
Speaker 2: think Notre Dame fans are happy about. I am just

1485
01:19:09,360 --> 01:19:13,640
Speaker 2: going with the feel good vibes of the Irish in

1486
01:19:13,800 --> 01:19:17,160
Speaker 2: this matchup. Despite no Kien Williams. I still think they're

1487
01:19:17,160 --> 01:19:19,439
Speaker 2: going to be able to move the ball a little bit,

1488
01:19:19,640 --> 01:19:22,960
Speaker 2: maybe early on against Oklahoma State, similar to what happened

1489
01:19:23,000 --> 01:19:25,800
Speaker 2: against Baylor. And I think that defense is still good

1490
01:19:25,880 --> 01:19:28,600
Speaker 2: enough to take advantage of Spencer Sanders' mistakes if and

1491
01:19:28,680 --> 01:19:31,080
Speaker 2: when they occur. So I'm going to Notre Dame here,

1492
01:19:31,479 --> 01:19:32,559
Speaker 2: I'm going to ride the vibes.

1493
01:19:32,720 --> 01:19:36,679
Speaker 1: I agree. I agree. I think in a situation where

1494
01:19:36,760 --> 01:19:39,759
Speaker 1: both teams would be at full strength, Notre Dame wins.

1495
01:19:42,040 --> 01:19:45,759
Speaker 1: They're not at full strength now and there is turnover

1496
01:19:45,880 --> 01:19:48,840
Speaker 1: to consider. I think, though, that there will be enough

1497
01:19:48,880 --> 01:19:52,719
Speaker 1: of an emotional lift, as you referenced, with keeping Marcus

1498
01:19:52,800 --> 01:19:55,760
Speaker 1: Freeman on board. I also think we could see an

1499
01:19:55,840 --> 01:19:59,240
Speaker 1: unfettered Tommy Reese. We heard it unfettered Tommy Reese and

1500
01:19:59,280 --> 01:20:02,400
Speaker 1: the Ryan Rasilla podcast. Yeah, he's a man's man, Dan.

1501
01:20:02,720 --> 01:20:06,600
Speaker 1: He's out there, and I think he got what he

1502
01:20:06,720 --> 01:20:08,799
Speaker 1: wanted to stay in South Bend. I think he's fired

1503
01:20:08,880 --> 01:20:11,439
Speaker 1: up about it, and I think we could see some

1504
01:20:11,640 --> 01:20:14,320
Speaker 1: more creativity. I don't know if that means Tyler Buckner.

1505
01:20:14,760 --> 01:20:16,680
Speaker 1: I don't know if it means different plays. I don't

1506
01:20:16,720 --> 01:20:19,559
Speaker 1: know what it looks like. But even with kiraen Williams

1507
01:20:19,560 --> 01:20:22,519
Speaker 1: sitting out, there's plenty of depth in the backfield. They'll

1508
01:20:22,560 --> 01:20:25,280
Speaker 1: find a way to move the ball. You know, maybe

1509
01:20:26,000 --> 01:20:28,559
Speaker 1: Reese doesn't want to give too much away because Jim Knowles,

1510
01:20:28,640 --> 01:20:31,519
Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator for Oklahoma State, is going to Ohio

1511
01:20:31,600 --> 01:20:33,720
Speaker 1: State and Notre Dame opens up with Ohio State next year,

1512
01:20:33,760 --> 01:20:38,840
Speaker 1: and that's like four dimensional chess, right. But I think

1513
01:20:38,840 --> 01:20:40,920
Speaker 1: we're going to see some zazz here on offense. I

1514
01:20:41,000 --> 01:20:44,080
Speaker 1: think the defense will be fine. I think like low

1515
01:20:44,200 --> 01:20:48,080
Speaker 1: to medium confidence in Notre Dame. I genuinely think they

1516
01:20:48,120 --> 01:20:52,560
Speaker 1: are the better team tough against a good defense, no

1517
01:20:52,680 --> 01:20:56,280
Speaker 1: doubt about it. Right. But the Spencer Sanders thing that's

1518
01:20:56,360 --> 01:20:58,479
Speaker 1: weird to me out you know how I feel about him?

1519
01:20:59,560 --> 01:21:02,679
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, okay, So I'm looking at Mike Gundy's

1520
01:21:02,680 --> 01:21:05,479
Speaker 2: bowl history, for better or for worse. He's won four

1521
01:21:05,520 --> 01:21:09,200
Speaker 2: of five bowl games, but they've been relatively minor. Alamo Bowl,

1522
01:21:09,240 --> 01:21:11,720
Speaker 2: Camping World, Liberty Cheese. It lost the Texas Bowl two

1523
01:21:11,800 --> 01:21:14,839
Speaker 2: years ago. You know, won a Fiesta Bowl in twenty eleven.

1524
01:21:15,400 --> 01:21:18,400
Speaker 2: Was that against Stanford? I want to say, yes, forty

1525
01:21:18,400 --> 01:21:22,720
Speaker 2: one thirty eight against Stanford. So largely they've come to

1526
01:21:22,840 --> 01:21:26,599
Speaker 2: play in bowl games. Oklahoma State and if I, if

1527
01:21:26,640 --> 01:21:29,960
Speaker 2: I can double back, what's the best thing in this game?

1528
01:21:30,040 --> 01:21:34,160
Speaker 2: It's Oklahoma State's defense still right, Yeah, same players, guys

1529
01:21:34,200 --> 01:21:36,160
Speaker 2: still have the same ability to make tackles in the

1530
01:21:36,200 --> 01:21:40,920
Speaker 2: open field and jump routes and rush the passer. That

1531
01:21:41,080 --> 01:21:44,000
Speaker 2: has me worried against a Notre Dame offensive line that

1532
01:21:44,120 --> 01:21:46,719
Speaker 2: has been inconsistent but improved and healthier.

1533
01:21:48,320 --> 01:21:49,519
Speaker 1: Man, I don't know, I might.

1534
01:21:49,479 --> 01:21:55,000
Speaker 2: Double like it's vibes versus actual performance to some man,

1535
01:21:55,080 --> 01:21:56,880
Speaker 2: I don't like. Notre Dame is not a bad team

1536
01:21:56,920 --> 01:22:01,519
Speaker 2: by any No, they're not. Man Jack Cone throwing into

1537
01:22:01,560 --> 01:22:04,120
Speaker 2: Oklahoma State's defense, there will be their defense.

1538
01:22:04,520 --> 01:22:06,320
Speaker 1: We will go to the Cone zone at least once

1539
01:22:06,439 --> 01:22:10,200
Speaker 1: or twice in this game, where there's a very curious throw.

1540
01:22:10,400 --> 01:22:14,320
Speaker 1: But you know, Notre Dame's gotten more vertical with the offense. Yeah,

1541
01:22:14,640 --> 01:22:16,760
Speaker 1: Jack Cone, say what you will about him, but he

1542
01:22:16,800 --> 01:22:18,479
Speaker 1: does throw a pretty nice deep ball when he has

1543
01:22:18,560 --> 01:22:21,680
Speaker 1: time to throw. Mm hmm. They are still trying to

1544
01:22:21,720 --> 01:22:24,559
Speaker 1: find their weapons. Kevin Austin came along late in the year.

1545
01:22:25,479 --> 01:22:29,040
Speaker 1: They've obviously got Michael Maherer, so they're working this out

1546
01:22:29,080 --> 01:22:30,920
Speaker 1: on the fly. I think it was always going to

1547
01:22:30,960 --> 01:22:33,360
Speaker 1: be a transition year. Going eleven and one is a

1548
01:22:33,479 --> 01:22:38,200
Speaker 1: pretty good season by any standard. Totally. I like Notre

1549
01:22:38,280 --> 01:22:40,200
Speaker 1: Dame load of medium confidence for me.

1550
01:22:41,200 --> 01:22:45,080
Speaker 2: Wow, man, I'm going to disagree. I'm gonna go back

1551
01:22:45,120 --> 01:22:48,760
Speaker 2: on myself. I'm going with the defense. Okay, I'm going

1552
01:22:48,840 --> 01:22:50,720
Speaker 2: with the strongest thing in this game. I'm going with

1553
01:22:50,720 --> 01:22:54,120
Speaker 2: Oklahoma State here because what they did was they allowed

1554
01:22:54,160 --> 01:22:56,679
Speaker 2: a backup Baylor quarterback to have an awesome first quarter

1555
01:22:56,760 --> 01:23:00,800
Speaker 2: and then completely silenced Baylor. And I think Jack cones

1556
01:23:00,880 --> 01:23:02,880
Speaker 2: better than what was Blake shaping.

1557
01:23:03,080 --> 01:23:04,280
Speaker 1: Is that the name of that? Yep?

1558
01:23:05,680 --> 01:23:07,840
Speaker 2: All right, I'm still in Oklahoma State. I was too

1559
01:23:07,880 --> 01:23:10,360
Speaker 2: in love even without Jim Knowles. Was he staying for

1560
01:23:10,439 --> 01:23:11,880
Speaker 2: this game? He stayed there for this game?

1561
01:23:11,960 --> 01:23:12,160
Speaker 1: Yeah?

1562
01:23:12,240 --> 01:23:14,400
Speaker 2: Oh he is here? Okay, Yeah, I'm going I'm going

1563
01:23:14,439 --> 01:23:18,519
Speaker 2: pokes here. I am Maybe Baylor was just especially built

1564
01:23:18,880 --> 01:23:21,519
Speaker 2: to turn Spencer Sanders over because they forced its seven

1565
01:23:21,560 --> 01:23:24,599
Speaker 2: interceptions over the course of the their two games. Yeah,

1566
01:23:24,640 --> 01:23:26,240
Speaker 2: I think with time, I'm going pokes here?

1567
01:23:26,280 --> 01:23:30,120
Speaker 1: Why not? All right? Were we eating by the way

1568
01:23:30,160 --> 01:23:30,719
Speaker 1: in Glendale?

1569
01:23:32,200 --> 01:23:35,519
Speaker 2: This is Glendale, Arizona, correct, right not?

1570
01:23:35,680 --> 01:23:35,840
Speaker 1: Yeah?

1571
01:23:35,920 --> 01:23:38,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the fiesta. Go to Pizza Aria Bianco.

1572
01:23:38,640 --> 01:23:40,479
Speaker 2: I mean, there's you can eat really well all over

1573
01:23:40,720 --> 01:23:43,920
Speaker 2: Arizona and the greater Phoenix area, but Pizzaria Bianco is

1574
01:23:44,000 --> 01:23:44,800
Speaker 2: my move when I'm there.

1575
01:23:44,880 --> 01:23:47,840
Speaker 1: I just love it. All right, Let's go over to

1576
01:23:48,120 --> 01:23:52,160
Speaker 1: the Verbo Citrus Bowl Camping World Stadium in Orlando, one

1577
01:23:52,240 --> 01:23:56,559
Speaker 1: pm ABC. Iowa ten and three, Kentucky nine and three.

1578
01:23:57,600 --> 01:24:08,559
Speaker 1: Kentucky favored by three. Okay, thank again. This game feels

1579
01:24:08,680 --> 01:24:14,240
Speaker 1: like a sixty minute coffin corner drill for the vibe. Yeah,

1580
01:24:15,360 --> 01:24:18,320
Speaker 1: Tyler Goodson is going pro. He's opting out for Iowa,

1581
01:24:19,920 --> 01:24:23,720
Speaker 1: which begs a real question here is like how is

1582
01:24:23,800 --> 01:24:28,519
Speaker 1: Iowa to score? How are they going to score. Maybe

1583
01:24:28,560 --> 01:24:30,640
Speaker 1: they could turn over Will Levis a couple times. We

1584
01:24:30,720 --> 01:24:32,080
Speaker 1: know Will Levis has that bone.

1585
01:24:33,040 --> 01:24:36,080
Speaker 2: I like that you're trying to build this Iowa, Like,

1586
01:24:36,160 --> 01:24:38,680
Speaker 2: how do they get to seventeen points? Build it for me?

1587
01:24:39,680 --> 01:24:40,599
Speaker 2: Brick by Brick.

1588
01:24:41,320 --> 01:24:47,720
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just not sure. Yeah, maybe they turnovers.

1589
01:24:47,800 --> 01:24:49,719
Speaker 2: Yeah it's turnovers. Yeah, it's pick sixes.

1590
01:24:51,800 --> 01:24:56,040
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go Kentucky here. Low confidence, low confidence, but

1591
01:24:56,240 --> 01:24:58,800
Speaker 1: let's let's let's go Kentucky. I don't have a great

1592
01:24:58,800 --> 01:25:03,200
Speaker 1: reason to pick Iowa. Yeah, I mean, previously on Iowa

1593
01:25:03,280 --> 01:25:06,240
Speaker 1: football scored three points in a game that was on

1594
01:25:06,320 --> 01:25:08,439
Speaker 1: a big stage. I'm going Kentucky here as well. I

1595
01:25:08,560 --> 01:25:09,160
Speaker 1: am going with.

1596
01:25:10,840 --> 01:25:13,839
Speaker 2: The guy I really hoped. I don't think it's happening

1597
01:25:13,920 --> 01:25:17,840
Speaker 2: that Dan lann would hired offensive coordinator Liam Cohen. I'm

1598
01:25:17,880 --> 01:25:19,800
Speaker 2: going with that offense. You know, the defense I think

1599
01:25:19,840 --> 01:25:21,800
Speaker 2: has taken a step back for Kentucky this year, but

1600
01:25:21,960 --> 01:25:25,519
Speaker 2: I think on offense, if they're able to play relatively

1601
01:25:25,600 --> 01:25:29,200
Speaker 2: mistake free, it shouldn't be the most difficult. And Tyler

1602
01:25:29,280 --> 01:25:32,040
Speaker 2: Lindenbaum's playing right that the center for Iowa very much

1603
01:25:32,040 --> 01:25:35,160
Speaker 2: playing against Kentucky. This is a good game This is

1604
01:25:35,320 --> 01:25:37,720
Speaker 2: just a full on good game. But I'm going Kentucky here.

1605
01:25:38,360 --> 01:25:40,439
Speaker 2: With the momentum of that Louisville win, I think they

1606
01:25:40,479 --> 01:25:41,680
Speaker 2: have more ways in which they can win.

1607
01:25:42,400 --> 01:25:46,160
Speaker 1: All right, Where are we eating in Orlando? Again? I

1608
01:25:46,400 --> 01:25:50,040
Speaker 1: mentioned it on an earlier Bowl game? Did I not? Yes?

1609
01:25:50,520 --> 01:25:53,799
Speaker 2: Nine oh three mills. Yeah, for a good soup and sandol,

1610
01:25:53,880 --> 01:25:55,360
Speaker 2: maybe some alcoholic beverages.

1611
01:25:55,880 --> 01:26:00,920
Speaker 1: Rose Bowl Game presented by Capitol One venture X, not

1612
01:26:01,000 --> 01:26:06,000
Speaker 1: a sponsor. Rose Bowl. The stadium in Pasadena. You know

1613
01:26:06,040 --> 01:26:07,639
Speaker 1: where they play this one. You know when they played

1614
01:26:07,680 --> 01:26:11,559
Speaker 1: this one five pm when it should be ESPN Utah,

1615
01:26:11,640 --> 01:26:13,559
Speaker 1: their first ever trip to the Rose Bowl. They're ten

1616
01:26:13,600 --> 01:26:16,519
Speaker 1: and three, Ohio State ten and two. They are favored

1617
01:26:16,560 --> 01:26:20,000
Speaker 1: by six and one half points. So I think it

1618
01:26:20,080 --> 01:26:23,360
Speaker 1: says a lot about Ohio State that both Chris Olave

1619
01:26:23,680 --> 01:26:28,920
Speaker 1: and Garrett Wilson could decide tomorrow today, five minutes from now,

1620
01:26:29,040 --> 01:26:33,280
Speaker 1: to opt out and they'd still be like loaded at White. Yeah,

1621
01:26:34,080 --> 01:26:36,960
Speaker 1: they're fine, and I think we're mostly going to get

1622
01:26:36,960 --> 01:26:39,679
Speaker 1: an Ohio State team that is all throttle, no bottle.

1623
01:26:40,760 --> 01:26:44,360
Speaker 1: The quote our good friend Guy Fieri. At time of recording,

1624
01:26:44,400 --> 01:26:46,519
Speaker 1: we're still waiting to see if anyone else is opting out,

1625
01:26:46,760 --> 01:26:48,800
Speaker 1: But I'm just gonna go ahead and assume that both

1626
01:26:48,840 --> 01:26:53,519
Speaker 1: those guys are gone for the Buckeyes. Interesting scenario here, though,

1627
01:26:54,160 --> 01:26:58,880
Speaker 1: mm hmm, because, as I said before, nobody sleep walks

1628
01:26:59,000 --> 01:27:03,240
Speaker 1: into the Rose Bowl. Both teams are going to be motivated.

1629
01:27:03,760 --> 01:27:05,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you get the sense for the game,

1630
01:27:06,040 --> 01:27:08,200
Speaker 2: right and the lead up, right, you get that sense

1631
01:27:08,240 --> 01:27:11,240
Speaker 2: that this is a big deal stage that you're going to,

1632
01:27:11,360 --> 01:27:14,040
Speaker 2: you know, the Beef Bowl, you're doing, you going to Disneyland.

1633
01:27:14,080 --> 01:27:17,040
Speaker 2: Like this is not like a oh well, we're disappointed

1634
01:27:17,040 --> 01:27:18,840
Speaker 2: we're not in the playoff, like, No, the Rose Bowl is.

1635
01:27:19,560 --> 01:27:22,760
Speaker 2: It's somewhere between a Constellation round to me, a Constellation

1636
01:27:22,880 --> 01:27:24,920
Speaker 2: round and a playoff. So I mean, you're not going

1637
01:27:25,160 --> 01:27:25,479
Speaker 2: up for it.

1638
01:27:25,800 --> 01:27:28,599
Speaker 1: You're not going and getting excited about the bomber jacket

1639
01:27:28,680 --> 01:27:30,800
Speaker 1: that you get. You're going and getting excited because you

1640
01:27:30,880 --> 01:27:34,760
Speaker 1: get to be granddaddy baby. It's the cathedral of college football. Yeah,

1641
01:27:34,760 --> 01:27:39,080
Speaker 1: granddaddy of o mall. Yeah. I am putting two confidence

1642
01:27:39,120 --> 01:27:46,120
Speaker 1: points on Utah. Okay. The reason for that is I

1643
01:27:46,720 --> 01:27:51,599
Speaker 1: saw the Michigan Ohio State game, and Michigan beat them by,

1644
01:27:52,080 --> 01:27:55,599
Speaker 1: among other things, playing bullyball. They bullied among the lines,

1645
01:27:56,800 --> 01:27:59,120
Speaker 1: and Utah has been doing that. Utah did that twice

1646
01:27:59,160 --> 01:28:02,559
Speaker 1: to your team. Yeah, they can play that same style,

1647
01:28:03,040 --> 01:28:06,040
Speaker 1: and I think they can have some success against Ohio State.

1648
01:28:06,080 --> 01:28:08,280
Speaker 1: Their defense is also very comparable. It's not quite as

1649
01:28:08,320 --> 01:28:12,760
Speaker 1: good as Michigan's, but it's comparable enough. So I think

1650
01:28:12,920 --> 01:28:16,360
Speaker 1: that factor. I think, with everything Utah has been through,

1651
01:28:16,880 --> 01:28:19,240
Speaker 1: I just want to root for him, to be honest

1652
01:28:19,280 --> 01:28:21,280
Speaker 1: with you, I want to root for him in this game.

1653
01:28:21,920 --> 01:28:24,639
Speaker 1: I'm not at all confident in it, but I could

1654
01:28:24,760 --> 01:28:27,439
Speaker 1: see a scenario in which they slow it down, they

1655
01:28:27,560 --> 01:28:29,840
Speaker 1: run the crap out of the ball, they play the

1656
01:28:29,960 --> 01:28:33,759
Speaker 1: same style that they did against Oregon, and they find

1657
01:28:33,920 --> 01:28:38,080
Speaker 1: some way to eke this one out. So let's go

1658
01:28:38,240 --> 01:28:40,200
Speaker 1: use two confidence points. Very low confidence.

1659
01:28:41,920 --> 01:28:45,400
Speaker 2: Also, the team that Utah just beat into the ground,

1660
01:28:45,720 --> 01:28:50,559
Speaker 2: the Oregon Ducks twice. They beat Ohio State. Oregon beat

1661
01:28:50,600 --> 01:28:55,280
Speaker 2: Ohio State kind of playing bullyball in the same way

1662
01:28:55,360 --> 01:29:02,760
Speaker 2: Michigan did. That said, Oregon does not have much of

1663
01:29:02,760 --> 01:29:09,519
Speaker 2: a quarterback Ohio State does. I think if one or

1664
01:29:09,520 --> 01:29:14,080
Speaker 2: both of these guys do play, I think Ohio State

1665
01:29:14,200 --> 01:29:17,560
Speaker 2: is the team here with time. I think Utah is

1666
01:29:17,600 --> 01:29:21,040
Speaker 2: a good team. But I think Ohio State with time,

1667
01:29:21,200 --> 01:29:26,320
Speaker 2: with quarterback play in the Rose Bowl. We saw, you know,

1668
01:29:26,800 --> 01:29:29,240
Speaker 2: a different quarterback, different situation last year. But we saw

1669
01:29:29,280 --> 01:29:31,559
Speaker 2: how Ohio State came to play last year against Clemson.

1670
01:29:31,600 --> 01:29:34,360
Speaker 2: Did they drop like fifty ish on Clemson?

1671
01:29:35,760 --> 01:29:36,120
Speaker 1: I don't know.

1672
01:29:36,360 --> 01:29:38,720
Speaker 2: I think the Buckeyes work it out. I really do

1673
01:29:38,840 --> 01:29:41,519
Speaker 2: think they work it out against Utah because with time,

1674
01:29:42,200 --> 01:29:45,479
Speaker 2: with that motivation, with the depth that they have on offense,

1675
01:29:46,520 --> 01:29:50,720
Speaker 2: I just don't think Ohio State has evolved to the place.

1676
01:29:50,479 --> 01:29:52,600
Speaker 1: Where Oregon was at the end of the year. I

1677
01:29:52,640 --> 01:29:56,880
Speaker 1: think they've gotten better. And so I'm going buck eyes here.

1678
01:29:57,600 --> 01:30:00,400
Speaker 1: I'm rolling with the talent here. I know Utah Utahs.

1679
01:30:00,800 --> 01:30:02,639
Speaker 2: It's gonna sound like I'm taking something away, or maybe

1680
01:30:02,640 --> 01:30:06,000
Speaker 2: I'm just bitter about them beating more whatever. Man, how

1681
01:30:06,040 --> 01:30:08,600
Speaker 2: do you pick against that those receivers?

1682
01:30:08,840 --> 01:30:10,479
Speaker 1: I know, I just I know, I get it.

1683
01:30:11,080 --> 01:30:13,519
Speaker 2: I just think Michigan's defense is at a better place

1684
01:30:13,560 --> 01:30:17,320
Speaker 2: than where Utah's defense is. And so I like the

1685
01:30:17,439 --> 01:30:20,599
Speaker 2: Utah players. They're young, they're young and hungry. I wouldn't

1686
01:30:20,600 --> 01:30:22,280
Speaker 2: be surprised if Utah won this game. But if you

1687
01:30:22,360 --> 01:30:24,519
Speaker 2: ask me to pick I would go Ohio State with

1688
01:30:24,600 --> 01:30:25,920
Speaker 2: like twelve confidence points.

1689
01:30:26,000 --> 01:30:28,880
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I can see it, obviously, I can see it.

1690
01:30:28,960 --> 01:30:29,679
Speaker 1: Ohio States.

1691
01:30:30,240 --> 01:30:34,280
Speaker 2: There's just there's no If Ohio State is seventy eight

1692
01:30:34,360 --> 01:30:36,479
Speaker 2: to eighty two percent of what they can be, what

1693
01:30:36,560 --> 01:30:41,200
Speaker 2: their ceiling is, Utah is gonna need to score thirty

1694
01:30:41,640 --> 01:30:43,880
Speaker 2: four points or something like that, which they can do.

1695
01:30:44,920 --> 01:30:46,679
Speaker 2: I just don't think they have the Winter Wonders.

1696
01:30:46,720 --> 01:30:50,720
Speaker 1: I'll due respect to Britain Covey that Ohio State has,

1697
01:30:51,360 --> 01:30:55,240
Speaker 1: all right, we disagree, but that's fun. What are you

1698
01:30:55,320 --> 01:30:58,160
Speaker 1: eat in Pasadena, oh Man? What are you not eating

1699
01:30:58,200 --> 01:30:58,519
Speaker 1: in Passa?

1700
01:30:58,640 --> 01:31:00,839
Speaker 2: You go to Lucky Boy and get great breakfast burritos.

1701
01:31:00,960 --> 01:31:03,080
Speaker 2: You can go to Glendale and go to Mini Kebab

1702
01:31:03,400 --> 01:31:07,240
Speaker 2: and you can mean get a caramelo at Sonoratown, Downtown Mariscos, Jalisco,

1703
01:31:09,040 --> 01:31:12,639
Speaker 2: U Street as in the letter you U Street pizza man.

1704
01:31:13,680 --> 01:31:16,960
Speaker 2: If you want specifics for LA food recommendations, I'm actually

1705
01:31:16,960 --> 01:31:19,639
Speaker 2: gonna be out in California from what the twenty fifth

1706
01:31:19,680 --> 01:31:21,600
Speaker 2: to the fourth. I'm not going to the game at

1707
01:31:21,680 --> 01:31:23,880
Speaker 2: least I don't have plans to at this moment. Uh,

1708
01:31:24,520 --> 01:31:26,439
Speaker 2: just like, tweet me or email me, tell me where

1709
01:31:26,479 --> 01:31:28,240
Speaker 2: you're staying, and I'll get you straight.

1710
01:31:29,000 --> 01:31:31,479
Speaker 1: The bat signal will go up, Dan will streighten you out. Okay,

1711
01:31:31,479 --> 01:31:36,640
Speaker 1: of course, final game here as per usual, the All

1712
01:31:36,680 --> 01:31:41,400
Speaker 1: Stage Sugar Bowl m HM, Caesar's Superdome in New Orleans.

1713
01:31:42,160 --> 01:31:44,240
Speaker 1: Pretty much eat anywhere in New Orleans, right, I can.

1714
01:31:44,240 --> 01:31:49,559
Speaker 2: Do this, Yeah, I said, Bevy Kashawan Kashan Butcher like.

1715
01:31:49,600 --> 01:31:51,800
Speaker 1: You just do whatever. I mean. Everywhere is good in

1716
01:31:51,840 --> 01:31:57,439
Speaker 1: New Orleans. Let's talk about Baylor. Let's talk about Old Miss. Yeah,

1717
01:31:57,520 --> 01:31:59,960
Speaker 1: Baylor eleven and two, Ole Miss ten and two, Baylor

1718
01:32:00,120 --> 01:32:02,000
Speaker 1: favored by a point in a half again eight forty

1719
01:32:02,040 --> 01:32:05,920
Speaker 1: five ESPN. Matt Carral said he's playing. Hmm, he said

1720
01:32:05,960 --> 01:32:09,200
Speaker 1: he's playing. We're still waiting on the official injury status

1721
01:32:09,920 --> 01:32:12,840
Speaker 1: of Gary Bohannon. I would assume if he's healthy, he'll

1722
01:32:12,880 --> 01:32:16,080
Speaker 1: go for Baylor. If not, it'll be Blake Shapein and

1723
01:32:16,120 --> 01:32:20,440
Speaker 1: Blake Shapin started seventeen of seventeen in the Big twelve Championship.

1724
01:32:20,479 --> 01:32:26,000
Speaker 1: He'll be just fine. This is a three confidence point

1725
01:32:26,160 --> 01:32:28,639
Speaker 1: kind of game for me, because I have no idea.

1726
01:32:28,720 --> 01:32:32,880
Speaker 1: My initial gut was Old Miss. The numbers definitely trend

1727
01:32:32,960 --> 01:32:35,920
Speaker 1: more towards Baylor. At least the ones that I looked at.

1728
01:32:36,040 --> 01:32:37,720
Speaker 1: So I think I am going to go Baylor here.

1729
01:32:38,280 --> 01:32:40,800
Speaker 1: I think I'm going to finish this thing out again.

1730
01:32:41,360 --> 01:32:43,760
Speaker 1: One last ride with the Baylor Bears. I was dead

1731
01:32:43,800 --> 01:32:46,960
Speaker 1: wrong on them to start. I warmed up to them quickly.

1732
01:32:47,160 --> 01:32:48,760
Speaker 1: They won the Big Twelve. It's been a hell of

1733
01:32:48,800 --> 01:32:53,080
Speaker 1: a season for Dave Randa. I think with time to prepare,

1734
01:32:53,800 --> 01:32:56,519
Speaker 1: I think given the fact they've got continuity, it's not

1735
01:32:56,560 --> 01:32:58,000
Speaker 1: like they're gonna have a bunch of opt outs or

1736
01:32:58,000 --> 01:33:01,200
Speaker 1: anything for that effect. I just think they're really playing

1737
01:33:01,280 --> 01:33:04,160
Speaker 1: well as a team right now, and I like Ole Miss.

1738
01:33:04,320 --> 01:33:06,719
Speaker 1: The defense is better than it's been in the past.

1739
01:33:06,800 --> 01:33:09,240
Speaker 1: It still scares me a little bit, and so I

1740
01:33:09,360 --> 01:33:12,280
Speaker 1: think this could end up being a very close game again.

1741
01:33:12,320 --> 01:33:15,120
Speaker 1: The points spreads Baylor one and a half, so Vegas

1742
01:33:15,200 --> 01:33:18,000
Speaker 1: sees it two. I'm just gonna go with my gut

1743
01:33:18,080 --> 01:33:20,439
Speaker 1: here and say that Baylor's got it a little bit

1744
01:33:20,520 --> 01:33:22,800
Speaker 1: more together, and I'm gonna stick with the Bears.

1745
01:33:23,640 --> 01:33:26,559
Speaker 2: Disagree, going All Miss I'm going with speed. I think

1746
01:33:26,600 --> 01:33:28,679
Speaker 2: All Misses defense is pretty good. The way that they

1747
01:33:28,760 --> 01:33:31,760
Speaker 2: won the uh the Egg Bowl impressed me, and so

1748
01:33:33,040 --> 01:33:35,840
Speaker 2: I am I'm on ole miss here. I worry a

1749
01:33:35,880 --> 01:33:38,599
Speaker 2: little bit about the fits and starts of Baylor's offense,

1750
01:33:38,720 --> 01:33:40,720
Speaker 2: that they can look sensational for a quarter or two

1751
01:33:40,800 --> 01:33:43,639
Speaker 2: quarters at whatever, and then kind of disappear at times.

1752
01:33:43,720 --> 01:33:45,960
Speaker 2: The turnovers scare me a little bit. With Gary Bohannon,

1753
01:33:46,000 --> 01:33:47,840
Speaker 2: if he is playing in this game, I'm won with

1754
01:33:47,880 --> 01:33:50,200
Speaker 2: the quarterback. I'm going with a decent defense. Baylor has

1755
01:33:50,240 --> 01:33:53,599
Speaker 2: a very good defense. Decent defense, and a play caller

1756
01:33:53,640 --> 01:33:57,240
Speaker 2: in Lane Kiffin who I think is going to score points.

1757
01:33:57,280 --> 01:33:58,920
Speaker 2: I really do think they're gonna score points. So I'm

1758
01:33:58,960 --> 01:33:59,680
Speaker 2: going ole miss here.

1759
01:34:01,240 --> 01:34:05,080
Speaker 1: Okay, final game here, or I should say the penultimate

1760
01:34:05,160 --> 01:34:09,920
Speaker 1: game here. Yeah. Houston, Tuesday, January fourth, the tax Act

1761
01:34:10,160 --> 01:34:15,040
Speaker 1: Texas Bowl in Houston at the nerg nine o'clock ESPN,

1762
01:34:15,240 --> 01:34:19,519
Speaker 1: LSU six and six, Kansas State seven and five. LSU

1763
01:34:19,600 --> 01:34:23,400
Speaker 1: favored by about a field goal. Here. Fun scenario unfolding

1764
01:34:23,479 --> 01:34:27,760
Speaker 1: for LSU. Both Max Johnson and Miles Brennan are in

1765
01:34:27,800 --> 01:34:32,040
Speaker 1: the transfer portal. They're not playing and Garrett Nusmeyer can't

1766
01:34:32,040 --> 01:34:35,160
Speaker 1: play anymore this season, or they burn the red shirt. Right,

1767
01:34:36,080 --> 01:34:39,560
Speaker 1: So either you take the lumps with nuss Meyer, you

1768
01:34:39,640 --> 01:34:42,280
Speaker 1: burn the red shirt, or you start a walk on

1769
01:34:42,400 --> 01:34:47,639
Speaker 1: at quarterback with Tavian Folk or Matto doubt. I don't

1770
01:34:47,640 --> 01:34:49,280
Speaker 1: know what they're gonna do. I have not seen what

1771
01:34:49,360 --> 01:34:51,920
Speaker 1: they're going to do here, but that seems like not

1772
01:34:52,040 --> 01:34:54,320
Speaker 1: a great situation, especially given the fact that there's a

1773
01:34:54,360 --> 01:34:58,560
Speaker 1: ready a fair amount of turnover here and coach O

1774
01:34:58,720 --> 01:34:59,800
Speaker 1: not coaching in this game.

1775
01:35:01,680 --> 01:35:04,559
Speaker 2: I don't believe he is. Now there's an interim situation. Yeah,

1776
01:35:04,560 --> 01:35:06,519
Speaker 2: I think it's the offensive line coach.

1777
01:35:06,720 --> 01:35:11,840
Speaker 1: Yeah. So there's that, which is weird and uncertain, and

1778
01:35:12,320 --> 01:35:15,080
Speaker 1: then there's the case State thing, which is a little

1779
01:35:15,160 --> 01:35:18,320
Speaker 1: less weird and a little less uncertain. But we just

1780
01:35:18,439 --> 01:35:19,920
Speaker 1: don't know what the deal is gonna be. With Skyler

1781
01:35:19,960 --> 01:35:22,880
Speaker 1: Thompson at quarterback. He's been dealing with injury that kept

1782
01:35:22,960 --> 01:35:26,040
Speaker 1: him out the last game of the season. The last

1783
01:35:26,120 --> 01:35:28,560
Speaker 1: update I saw was December the seventh, so about a

1784
01:35:28,640 --> 01:35:31,000
Speaker 1: week ago, and at that point in time he still

1785
01:35:31,040 --> 01:35:33,400
Speaker 1: wasn't practicing. So he's got time here. They don't play

1786
01:35:33,439 --> 01:35:36,599
Speaker 1: this game till the fourth If he's healthy, that would

1787
01:35:36,600 --> 01:35:39,719
Speaker 1: obviously be a nice boost for them. The other interesting factoid,

1788
01:35:39,720 --> 01:35:41,600
Speaker 1: and then I promise I'll get to my picks. This

1789
01:35:41,800 --> 01:35:43,760
Speaker 1: is the only game that I could find where they

1790
01:35:43,840 --> 01:35:46,759
Speaker 1: actually published what the gifts are that they're getting.

1791
01:35:47,200 --> 01:35:48,000
Speaker 2: Oh hit me.

1792
01:35:48,520 --> 01:35:51,639
Speaker 1: You get access to a gift suite, the Nike backpack,

1793
01:35:51,720 --> 01:35:56,719
Speaker 1: the Nike hat, the Nike jrawstring bag. Obviously the Texas Bowl.

1794
01:35:57,160 --> 01:35:59,840
Speaker 1: You get the belt buckle and the cowboy hat and

1795
01:36:00,120 --> 01:36:02,680
Speaker 1: also the team branded bandana, so he could really be

1796
01:36:02,720 --> 01:36:07,040
Speaker 1: a true cowboy. Great, not bad, No, not at all.

1797
01:36:07,520 --> 01:36:10,200
Speaker 1: Who do you pick? It is?

1798
01:36:10,280 --> 01:36:12,840
Speaker 2: Brad Davis. He's the offensive line coach. He is the

1799
01:36:12,920 --> 01:36:16,639
Speaker 2: interim for LSU, head of the Brian Kellierra for the Tigers.

1800
01:36:18,160 --> 01:36:22,599
Speaker 1: That's my best impression of a Northerner doing in all

1801
01:36:22,680 --> 01:36:23,440
Speaker 1: the tagles.

1802
01:36:25,680 --> 01:36:31,800
Speaker 2: I'm going to go with LSU, okay, because could have

1803
01:36:31,880 --> 01:36:33,800
Speaker 2: a wild card walk on. This guy was on the

1804
01:36:33,840 --> 01:36:37,000
Speaker 2: bench the whole time. They could have that situation. And

1805
01:36:38,120 --> 01:36:42,679
Speaker 2: I still think that if it is a Will Howard

1806
01:36:43,080 --> 01:36:49,920
Speaker 2: Kansas State team that I enjoy not siding with that option.

1807
01:36:50,520 --> 01:36:52,439
Speaker 2: So I'm going to LSU here. I'm going LSU here

1808
01:36:52,479 --> 01:36:54,439
Speaker 2: now with a lot of like eight confidence points here

1809
01:36:54,479 --> 01:36:57,000
Speaker 2: because this one there's too many different variables that could

1810
01:36:57,000 --> 01:37:01,800
Speaker 2: swing this game. But uh yeah, I'm going to LSU here.

1811
01:37:02,000 --> 01:37:04,680
Speaker 2: I think the defense might get a if it is

1812
01:37:04,720 --> 01:37:07,200
Speaker 2: Will Howard, I think they can get some short fields.

1813
01:37:07,400 --> 01:37:12,479
Speaker 2: And sometimes teams players rally around an interim situation, not

1814
01:37:12,640 --> 01:37:15,320
Speaker 2: because obviously Brad Davis is not getting the head job

1815
01:37:15,360 --> 01:37:18,000
Speaker 2: at LSU, but because they like him, because they want

1816
01:37:18,000 --> 01:37:19,880
Speaker 2: to play hard for him. So I'm going with LSU.

1817
01:37:20,520 --> 01:37:23,560
Speaker 1: I'm going k State four points. But yeah, I'm with you.

1818
01:37:24,360 --> 01:37:27,839
Speaker 2: In Houston. If you want nicer Mexican, go to Hugos.

1819
01:37:28,120 --> 01:37:28,720
Speaker 1: I've been there.

1820
01:37:29,360 --> 01:37:35,000
Speaker 2: It's insanely good Hugos for Mexican and then for via Cajun,

1821
01:37:35,160 --> 01:37:38,720
Speaker 2: which is I think at unique to Houston. So that's,

1822
01:37:38,840 --> 01:37:41,639
Speaker 2: you know, kind of a fusion between the Vietnamese influence

1823
01:37:41,680 --> 01:37:44,800
Speaker 2: of the immigrants in the seventies and the Cajun proximity

1824
01:37:44,840 --> 01:37:46,479
Speaker 2: and the Gulf and New Orleans and everything like that,

1825
01:37:46,640 --> 01:37:51,200
Speaker 2: and the movement between those two areas. Crawfish and noodles. Hey,

1826
01:37:51,479 --> 01:37:54,679
Speaker 2: Crawfish and noodles is the name of the place. Okay,

1827
01:37:55,880 --> 01:37:59,920
Speaker 2: Houston on real food City. If you're going to this game,

1828
01:38:00,439 --> 01:38:02,280
Speaker 2: I mean, if you're an LSU fan, you're probably used

1829
01:38:02,280 --> 01:38:04,160
Speaker 2: to great food. But if you're going to this game,

1830
01:38:04,560 --> 01:38:07,200
Speaker 2: get there eight days early and eat five meals a

1831
01:38:07,320 --> 01:38:10,360
Speaker 2: day because that's what you should do. If you're spending

1832
01:38:10,400 --> 01:38:11,120
Speaker 2: time in Houston.

1833
01:38:11,280 --> 01:38:11,719
Speaker 1: It's great.

1834
01:38:12,920 --> 01:38:14,879
Speaker 2: The final game Truth Truth Barbecue.

1835
01:38:14,880 --> 01:38:17,880
Speaker 1: If you're going there for barbecue, Truth Barbecue. The final

1836
01:38:17,920 --> 01:38:21,160
Speaker 1: game is on January the tenth, and that's the National Championship.

1837
01:38:21,200 --> 01:38:23,600
Speaker 1: They played at Lucas Oil Stadium. We don't know the

1838
01:38:23,680 --> 01:38:26,200
Speaker 1: matchup yet, No, we do not. We don't know the

1839
01:38:26,200 --> 01:38:28,479
Speaker 1: matchup yet. You have to pick it. And the way

1840
01:38:28,600 --> 01:38:31,560
Speaker 1: that the Winter Wonders game works is you can go

1841
01:38:31,760 --> 01:38:33,120
Speaker 1: back and you can change your pick, so you can

1842
01:38:33,120 --> 01:38:35,760
Speaker 1: move them around. You can change confidence points as the

1843
01:38:35,800 --> 01:38:39,080
Speaker 1: game is going on. Obviously, once a game is played

1844
01:38:39,680 --> 01:38:41,719
Speaker 1: and it's kicked off, you're kind of locked in place.

1845
01:38:41,880 --> 01:38:44,560
Speaker 1: But we've got like a full month of games, so

1846
01:38:44,640 --> 01:38:47,720
Speaker 1: you can move stuff around if you want to. So,

1847
01:38:48,240 --> 01:38:51,200
Speaker 1: if you feel like this matchup in the National Championship

1848
01:38:52,240 --> 01:38:55,479
Speaker 1: is something that you feel very certain of, your take

1849
01:38:55,520 --> 01:38:57,560
Speaker 1: the liberty to move it around if you want to.

1850
01:38:58,120 --> 01:39:01,080
Speaker 1: I put one point on it. I put one point

1851
01:39:01,080 --> 01:39:02,960
Speaker 1: on it, because then it sort of doesn't matter if

1852
01:39:03,040 --> 01:39:05,720
Speaker 1: you if you win or lose, if you if it

1853
01:39:05,840 --> 01:39:11,000
Speaker 1: ends up being let's say Michigan against Cincinnati, and you

1854
01:39:11,080 --> 01:39:13,960
Speaker 1: feel great about Michigan then you know, change your confidence points.

1855
01:39:14,439 --> 01:39:18,559
Speaker 1: Leave yourself that out, but you'll know soon enough you'll

1856
01:39:18,960 --> 01:39:20,160
Speaker 1: have plenty. But you have changed this.

1857
01:39:20,760 --> 01:39:24,000
Speaker 2: You have time, No, not really, I guess because the

1858
01:39:24,040 --> 01:39:26,360
Speaker 2: games are thirty first, right, So I was gonna say,

1859
01:39:26,400 --> 01:39:29,560
Speaker 2: you have time to adjust this the confidence in this

1860
01:39:29,680 --> 01:39:31,960
Speaker 2: game after the thirty first, because there's still games on

1861
01:39:32,000 --> 01:39:35,040
Speaker 2: the first. You do could swap out the confidence on

1862
01:39:35,160 --> 01:39:37,280
Speaker 2: a game the first or a little bit after the first.

1863
01:39:38,120 --> 01:39:40,479
Speaker 2: How many games are after the first just the fourth, right, LS,

1864
01:39:40,520 --> 01:39:40,960
Speaker 2: here's like.

1865
01:39:41,040 --> 01:39:44,120
Speaker 1: Six games, six games in total, so you have time

1866
01:39:44,760 --> 01:39:47,120
Speaker 1: if you want to swap things around. And yeah, the

1867
01:39:47,200 --> 01:39:49,000
Speaker 1: game is cool and that it lets you do that.

1868
01:39:49,320 --> 01:39:53,160
Speaker 1: But I think just for planning purposes, like I'm not

1869
01:39:53,240 --> 01:39:55,920
Speaker 1: going to go back in and change this, right, I'm

1870
01:39:56,000 --> 01:40:00,600
Speaker 1: probably gonna pick the Alabama Cincinnati bo that I have

1871
01:40:01,800 --> 01:40:04,120
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna put one point on it, and then

1872
01:40:04,160 --> 01:40:06,080
Speaker 1: maybe I'll change it if the matchup is different. But

1873
01:40:06,920 --> 01:40:11,160
Speaker 1: for planning purposes, go one point. I'm going to assume

1874
01:40:11,160 --> 01:40:14,560
Speaker 1: it's Bama versus Georgia. We already broke that down a

1875
01:40:14,600 --> 01:40:16,960
Speaker 1: few weeks ago. I don't know if we saw anything.

1876
01:40:17,160 --> 01:40:19,240
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll see something in the playoffs. That will change

1877
01:40:19,280 --> 01:40:21,080
Speaker 1: your mind about how version two of that would go.

1878
01:40:21,240 --> 01:40:23,439
Speaker 1: But uh, there will be a time and place to

1879
01:40:23,520 --> 01:40:25,600
Speaker 1: preview that game. I think for now the move is

1880
01:40:25,640 --> 01:40:26,080
Speaker 1: one point.

1881
01:40:27,000 --> 01:40:29,760
Speaker 2: I Uh, Indianapolis. I don't have any recommendations yet. And

1882
01:40:30,160 --> 01:40:32,439
Speaker 2: part of me was thinking like, well, you know, India

1883
01:40:32,560 --> 01:40:36,080
Speaker 2: is east of the Chicago Land area and west of PA.

1884
01:40:36,640 --> 01:40:38,040
Speaker 2: I know it's like a you know, three and a

1885
01:40:38,080 --> 01:40:40,639
Speaker 2: half four hour drive for me from the Chicago Land area.

1886
01:40:40,640 --> 01:40:41,840
Speaker 2: I was like, I wonder if it's like, you know,

1887
01:40:42,120 --> 01:40:43,840
Speaker 2: four or five hours from Tye as well, we could

1888
01:40:43,840 --> 01:40:46,720
Speaker 2: just sort of an equidistance. It's ten plus hours from me.

1889
01:40:46,880 --> 01:40:48,519
Speaker 1: It's a drive, it's a good drive. Yeah.

1890
01:40:48,800 --> 01:40:51,160
Speaker 2: I always forget how wide Pennsylvania is.

1891
01:40:51,760 --> 01:40:55,439
Speaker 1: Five hours across Yeah, yeah, and so and then it's Ohio.

1892
01:40:55,560 --> 01:40:58,479
Speaker 2: Right, it's Pennsylvania. Then Ohio is not narrow.

1893
01:40:59,560 --> 01:41:02,320
Speaker 1: You can get to indian about nine if you didn't

1894
01:41:02,360 --> 01:41:03,120
Speaker 1: hit traffic, but.

1895
01:41:03,280 --> 01:41:05,320
Speaker 2: Google Map says nine to fifty three.

1896
01:41:05,479 --> 01:41:08,519
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm to get there, get there in nine. But

1897
01:41:08,800 --> 01:41:12,120
Speaker 1: it's so it's along a long haul. You figure basically

1898
01:41:13,080 --> 01:41:16,280
Speaker 1: five five and a half to get across PA, talking

1899
01:41:16,360 --> 01:41:19,720
Speaker 1: another two to get across Ohio. And then yeah, yeah

1900
01:41:19,800 --> 01:41:24,080
Speaker 1: to get midway through Indiana an hour somewhere in that neighborhood.

1901
01:41:24,160 --> 01:41:27,080
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's yeah, it's not close. It's what I'm

1902
01:41:27,160 --> 01:41:30,600
Speaker 2: learned that the Midwest, there are things close to me,

1903
01:41:30,880 --> 01:41:34,600
Speaker 2: like Milwaukee's not terribly far, Detroit and Arbor Madison, you know,

1904
01:41:34,640 --> 01:41:37,120
Speaker 2: all these places are like within an interesting drive because

1905
01:41:37,120 --> 01:41:39,439
Speaker 2: I'm sort of right in the middle of the Midwest

1906
01:41:39,520 --> 01:41:42,120
Speaker 2: in Chicago. But yeah, you're out there, man, you are

1907
01:41:42,320 --> 01:41:46,080
Speaker 2: out there in PA. I actually did consider so because

1908
01:41:46,160 --> 01:41:49,519
Speaker 2: I'm obviously, you know, married to a Michigan fan, and

1909
01:41:49,680 --> 01:41:53,160
Speaker 2: so my extended social circle involves a lot of Michigan people.

1910
01:41:53,640 --> 01:41:56,080
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, maybe that would be fun to

1911
01:41:56,120 --> 01:41:58,040
Speaker 2: go to India if Michigan's there, and you know, maybe

1912
01:41:58,080 --> 01:42:00,320
Speaker 2: we'll just do the podcast from there and you know,

1913
01:42:00,560 --> 01:42:04,240
Speaker 2: see Michigan people I know, and like, I don't know

1914
01:42:04,240 --> 01:42:07,680
Speaker 2: if Michigan's actually going to be there, But then I

1915
01:42:07,760 --> 01:42:09,640
Speaker 2: did see that driving distance for you. I mean, you

1916
01:42:09,640 --> 01:42:12,439
Speaker 2: can fly to He's just gonna be pricey with everybody

1917
01:42:12,479 --> 01:42:16,040
Speaker 2: coming in. And I was talking to a Michigan friend

1918
01:42:16,640 --> 01:42:22,360
Speaker 2: and they're here going down to Miami for the Georgia game,

1919
01:42:22,760 --> 01:42:25,479
Speaker 2: and I was like, man, you're flying to Miami last

1920
01:42:25,600 --> 01:42:29,519
Speaker 2: second around New Year's from the Midwest where all these

1921
01:42:29,560 --> 01:42:32,280
Speaker 2: Michigan fans are coming from. I was like, are tickets

1922
01:42:32,360 --> 01:42:34,479
Speaker 2: crazy for that game? He was like he told me.

1923
01:42:34,600 --> 01:42:37,040
Speaker 2: He was like, we actually we got a suite. I

1924
01:42:37,120 --> 01:42:39,960
Speaker 2: was like, oh man, that's crazy. That's He's like, yeah,

1925
01:42:39,960 --> 01:42:43,439
Speaker 2: we're gonna try to illegally stuff like thirty people into

1926
01:42:43,640 --> 01:42:45,439
Speaker 2: like a fifteen person sweet or something.

1927
01:42:45,479 --> 01:42:47,080
Speaker 1: I'm not going to say his name or her name.

1928
01:42:47,120 --> 01:42:47,680
Speaker 1: Maybe it's a her.

1929
01:42:49,000 --> 01:42:51,360
Speaker 2: And I was like, and hotel. He's like, now I'm

1930
01:42:51,400 --> 01:42:53,400
Speaker 2: staying with a friend or sister or something like that.

1931
01:42:54,120 --> 01:42:58,240
Speaker 2: I was like, so tickets for a suite airfare and

1932
01:42:58,360 --> 01:43:01,200
Speaker 2: he was like, yeah, it's the most most expensive event

1933
01:43:01,880 --> 01:43:05,760
Speaker 2: I've ever committed myself to. It may ruin me financially.

1934
01:43:05,920 --> 01:43:09,160
Speaker 2: I'll have the Tiger King. I was like, well, uh,

1935
01:43:10,160 --> 01:43:12,840
Speaker 2: go blue, good luck, good luck with all of that.

1936
01:43:13,360 --> 01:43:16,040
Speaker 2: So I love yeah, all right, yeah, so I respect it.

1937
01:43:16,080 --> 01:43:17,640
Speaker 2: I you know, for teams that are not there in

1938
01:43:17,720 --> 01:43:20,040
Speaker 2: these big games that often it's it's very cool. Now

1939
01:43:20,120 --> 01:43:22,040
Speaker 2: I get go balls, go playoff whatever.

1940
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Speaker 1: It's cool. It's cool. All right, Well that does it.

1941
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Speaker 1: For Bolzetch number two, a long show we had a

1942
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Speaker 1: lot to cover. We appreciate you bearing with us here.

1943
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Speaker 1: Don't forget to go on out to play Winter Wonders

1944
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1945
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1946
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1947
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1948
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1949
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1950
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1951
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1952
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1953
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1954
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Speaker 1: encourage you please to going out to Apple or Spotify,

1955
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Speaker 1: anywhere you get your podcasts. Really, but those two in particular.

1956
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1957
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1958
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1959
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1960
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Speaker 1: free to get your name in the running to win

1961
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Speaker 1: assigned Desmond Howard mini helmet. We're gonna draw that on

1962
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Speaker 1: the day of the National Championship, so maybe Michigan will

1963
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Speaker 1: be there. Maybe they won't, but in any case, if

1964
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Speaker 1: you're a Michigan fan or just a Desmond Howard fan

1965
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Speaker 1: and to for your chance to win that helmet. Yeah good,

1966
01:44:45,320 --> 01:44:48,880
Speaker 1: all righty Dan Long show, fun show. Appreciate everybody's patience

1967
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Speaker 1: bearing with us here. We hope this was useful for

1968
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Speaker 1: you as you get your ballpicks ready. We will be

1969
01:44:55,040 --> 01:44:57,280
Speaker 1: back later in the week. You're gonna talk with Brandon

1970
01:44:57,320 --> 01:45:01,560
Speaker 1: Hoffman about recruiting, right, I am big recruiting.

1971
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Speaker 2: Got early signing day, We've got uh we'll do a

1972
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Speaker 2: bruin a obviously for the subscribers on verballers dot com.

1973
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Speaker 2: The fun long bonus show we do every week and

1974
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Speaker 2: uh yeah, I it's a it's a very strange early

1975
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Speaker 2: signing period. Excited to pick Brandon's brain with all the

1976
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Speaker 2: new coaches and all the movement and transfers and people

1977
01:45:19,640 --> 01:45:21,880
Speaker 2: filling in gaps that didn't realize they were gonna have Brandon,

1978
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Speaker 2: of course, best in the biz Capital B.

1979
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Speaker 1: That's all right. Thank you again for tuning in, for downloading,

1980
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Speaker 1: for listening, for supporting the show, for that guy over there,

1981
01:45:31,520 --> 01:45:34,800
Speaker 1: my good friend Dan Rubinstein, for myself, Ty Hildon Brand,

1982
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Speaker 1: thank you, so much. We'll talk to you all on Friday.

1983
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Speaker 1: In the meantime, stay solid, peace,