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Speaker 1: Well, hopefully wherever this finds you, it is in good spirits,
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Speaker 1: We're going to start though, by doing a bunch of
Speaker 1: bowl recaps, because where we left it a week ago
Speaker 1: was with the Myrtle Beach Bowl, and a bunch of
Speaker 1: games have gone on. There's been some cancelations, what sucks,
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Speaker 2: Everything I have, why don't we dive into bowl recaps
Speaker 2: Dan Let's bawl recaps.
Speaker 1: So we've got a bunch of games here. We also
Speaker 1: had five games that were canceled, either because one of
Speaker 1: the teams or both of the teams were dealing with
Speaker 1: COVID issues. In the case of the Arizona Bowl, Central
Speaker 1: Michigan just decided we're gonna go to the Sun Bowl instead.
Speaker 2: We're gonna they opted in to another bowl.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're gonna chase that Tony the Tiger money and
Speaker 1: no offense barstool, but we're going to play in the
Speaker 1: Sun Bowl instead, So right, Those were the Military Bowl
Speaker 1: between Boston College and ECU, the Holiday Bowl between NC
Speaker 1: State and UCLA, the Holliday Bowl. Tried feverishly to find
Speaker 1: somebody else that could play NC State instead of UCLA,
Speaker 1: but that was not gonna happen, The Wasabi Fenway Bowl,
Speaker 1: which is a bummer because a game in Fenway Park.
Speaker 3: Would have been cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it would have been cool to say SMU and UVA
Speaker 1: is off. The Hawaii Bowl between Memphis and Hawaii is
Speaker 1: also off. And then the aforementioned barstool Arizona Bowl that
Speaker 1: was previously scheduled between Boise and Central Michigan. Central Michigan
Speaker 1: going to greener pastures to play Wazoo in the Sun
Speaker 1: Bowl and said, so, those are the five games that
Speaker 1: are off. Hopefully there won't be more after we hit
Speaker 1: the stop button of this recording, but at least at present,
Speaker 1: it seems as if the remainder of the bowl lineup
Speaker 1: will remain intact.
Speaker 2: Yes, I saw a lot of emotion out there, said
Speaker 2: especially about the cancelation of the Hawaii Bowl on I
Speaker 2: think it was Christmas Eve right that there was. It
Speaker 2: was a day without a lot of other sporting act
Speaker 2: and Hawaii is very closely aligned. The state of Hawaii
Speaker 2: is very closely aligned with the holidays. And you know,
Speaker 2: you're you're sitting around with your family and there's just
Speaker 2: a college football game to enjoy when nothing else is competing,
Speaker 2: and we lost it. That that kind of.
Speaker 1: Sucked absolutely, So hopefully this will not continue to be
Speaker 1: a thing throughout the Remainner Bowl season at time of recording.
Speaker 1: Isn't At time of recording, We've got the bowl game
Speaker 1: going on between North Carolina and South Carolina, the New
Speaker 1: Border War if you will, the Duke's Mayo Bowl. Yep,
Speaker 1: we will update you if we find out who is
Speaker 1: getting the Duke's Mayo Bath. Wow, do we need? Must?
Speaker 1: We must? We update, we will paint that in as
Speaker 1: detailed in audio way as we can. If and when
Speaker 1: it goes down during the course of this recording, Oh.
Speaker 2: My god, I just I know they watered down the mayo.
Speaker 2: I wondered the viscosity, how quickly it slides and ooz
Speaker 2: is out of the giant Okay, the giant kerraf or
Speaker 2: whatever it's in the gatorade cooler that it's in. I
Speaker 2: wonder if but like it has, is it a slow like, Oh,
Speaker 2: this is awkward, it's coming out so slowly? Or is
Speaker 2: it going to be a slushy mayo?
Speaker 1: Man? Water down mayo sounds brutally terrible. Yeah, that sounds awful.
Speaker 2: A weirdly accurate description of Mac Brown at times, though.
Speaker 1: Water down mayo, Yeah, a little bit, a little bit.
Speaker 1: You're not wrong, Okay. Tropical Smoothie Cafe Frisco Bowl, San
Speaker 1: Diego State thirty eight utsa twenty four back and forth
Speaker 1: game for a half, San Diego State pulled away in
Speaker 1: the second half nearly five hundred yards of offense for
Speaker 1: the Aztecs, which is not at all what we've grown
Speaker 1: accustomed to seeing throughout the course of the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: one season, but they're led by Lucas Johnson, who threw
Speaker 1: for three thirty three and three touchdowns. He also ran
Speaker 1: for a score. UTSA had an op doubt from Sincere McCormick.
Speaker 1: Your boy, right, so they're a bit shorthanded. They end
Speaker 1: up losing this one thirty eight twenty four.
Speaker 2: I believe Lucas Johnson in the transfer portal after winning
Speaker 2: that game?
Speaker 1: Is he not? I don't believe.
Speaker 2: I believe so, yeah, yeah, I think it's a similar case. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Lucas Johnson enters the transfer portal. Matta Rise of the
Speaker 2: records setting punter entered the NFL draft through his name
Speaker 2: into the NFL Draft mix. And I want to say
Speaker 2: Wyoming's quarterback did the same thing, which prompted Craig Bowl
Speaker 2: to announce that Wyoming is open for business. Right quarterbacks
Speaker 2: interested in playing for Wyoming after they won their bowl game.
Speaker 2: Levi Williams, I believe is the name of there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Levi Williams. But you're right, That's what I was
Speaker 1: going to talk about. Next the famous Idaho Potato Bowl.
Speaker 1: Wyoming won fifty two to twenty eight over Kent State.
Speaker 1: This game was a ton of fun. I don't know
Speaker 1: if he had a chance to catch it. But a
Speaker 1: ton of fun. Ninety points, close to twelve hundred yards
Speaker 1: of total offense, no turnovers, so just all offense, no defense.
Speaker 1: Kent State, which plays at a breaknecking pace, had over
Speaker 1: three hundred yards through the air and on the ground,
Speaker 1: which is crazy because they lost. Well the last time
Speaker 1: a team did that and lost. I don't have the
Speaker 1: Elias Sports Bureau on speed dial, but I got to
Speaker 1: imagine that's a pretty deadly combination. Four hundred and eleven
Speaker 1: yards on the ground for Wyoming and their rushing offense,
Speaker 1: which ultimately proved victorious. You mentioned Levi Williams in the
Speaker 1: transfer portal set a record sixteen rushes, two hundred yards
Speaker 1: and four touchdowns on the ground here for the famous
Speaker 1: side of hope Potato Bowl win dedicated the game to
Speaker 1: his grandmother who passed away. So that's a nice gesture
Speaker 1: for Levi. We hope he's doing okay, and we know
Speaker 1: he did okay in this game statistically speaking, in for
Speaker 1: his team as they won fifty two to twenty eight
Speaker 1: over Kent State.
Speaker 2: Yeah, penalty is a bit of a killer at times
Speaker 2: for Kent State in this one. Twelve for ninety five
Speaker 2: yards is what I'm seeing here. But this was Yeah,
Speaker 2: there were playmakers in this game. I enjoyed when I
Speaker 2: saw this.
Speaker 1: The Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl Army twenty four MISSOO
Speaker 1: twenty two. This was a nail bier. Indeed, came down
Speaker 1: to the wire. Army wanted on a forty one yard
Speaker 1: field goal at the gun. Here is the way this
Speaker 1: thing shook out. Brady Cook, who was Missouri's quarterback a
Speaker 1: red shirt freshman, tossed a short touchdown pass with just
Speaker 1: over a minute left, one to eleven to be exact.
Speaker 1: That makes it twenty two to twenty one. They failed
Speaker 1: on the two point conversion. They go into those final
Speaker 1: seventy one ticks with a narrow one point lead. It's
Speaker 1: at that point in time where Jeff Monkin reaches within
Speaker 1: and he says, you know what, why don't we just
Speaker 1: bring in our third string quarterback called off the bench? Yep,
Speaker 1: what is Jabbari laws doing right now? He started for
Speaker 1: us in twenty nineteen, Maybe he'd be interested in going
Speaker 1: out as a senior on high note here. So he
Speaker 1: brings him in and Jabbari Loss freaking does it? He
Speaker 1: freaking does it? He leads the Black Knights down the
Speaker 1: field for that forty one yarder at the gun to
Speaker 1: win it. Army, in doing so wins the game twenty
Speaker 1: four to twenty two. They snap a seven game losing
Speaker 1: streak against Power five opponents in as you would expect
Speaker 1: the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces ball because of course it's
Speaker 1: the United States Army. Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, a terrific performance getting creative in the bowl game
Speaker 2: against an SEC team. And I don't know how you
Speaker 2: feel about the narrative, like, oh, the SEC is ohing whatever, overrated.
Speaker 2: I don't know how you feel about that. But Army
Speaker 2: winning a bowl game, winning, how they have beating some
Speaker 2: of the teams they have along the way, or hanging
Speaker 2: with the teams almost beating the teams along the way
Speaker 2: these past two three, four years or whatever. It's an
Speaker 2: amazing reflection on Jeff Monkins. So yeah, miszoo down. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's down, guys. They were playing a lot of young guys,
Speaker 2: but either way, this was this was Army's win for sure.
Speaker 1: Over at the Frisco Football Classic. Remember this is the
Speaker 1: game they just invented. Correct, Miami, Ohio twenty seven, North
Speaker 1: Texas fourteen, Brett Gabert. He is the younger brother of
Speaker 1: Blaine Gabbertt. You remember that crazy guy. Of course, Brett
Speaker 1: Gabert named the MVP for Miami Ohio the game. Listen
Speaker 1: to this. This is the most impressive thing to me
Speaker 1: about this game. This game ended a streak of one
Speaker 1: hundred and forty one consecutive RedHawks games played on artificial turf.
Speaker 1: It dates all the way back to twenty ten, when
Speaker 1: Miami Ohio opened at Florida one hundred and forty one
Speaker 1: straight games. That record is snapped because of the Frisco
Speaker 1: Football Classic, which apparently was not played an artificial turf.
Speaker 1: For what it's worth, Seth Latrelle now zero to five
Speaker 1: in bowl games in six seasons at North Texas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Miami defense came to play via turnovers by
Speaker 2: I think they shut them out in the second half,
Speaker 2: did they not?
Speaker 1: Yep?
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so came to play. Good for taking advantage of
Speaker 2: a situation where you get seen by a bunch of
Speaker 2: eyeballs and come out and get to They came in
Speaker 2: five hundred, finished the season seven and six. Brett Gabbert
Speaker 2: had a nice day. Good job for the RedHawks.
Speaker 1: The Union home mortgage Gasparia Bowl Dan, I like it.
Speaker 1: We go with the Spanish pronunciation here on the solid verbal.
Speaker 1: UCF winning the state championship of Florida twenty nine to
Speaker 1: seventeen over those Florida Gators. This one continued after the
Speaker 1: final bell. We had a bit of a scrum at midfield.
Speaker 1: I guess the good news is that Florida finally showed
Speaker 1: a little bit of fight, but they did lose the game.
Speaker 1: They had a bunch of penalties. They couldn't really extend drives.
Speaker 1: They were two of thirteen something like that on thirteen.
Speaker 1: That was really bad. Yep. Emery Jones also played, despite
Speaker 1: throwing his name in the transfer portal just four point
Speaker 1: eight yards per attempt, he was fourteen of thirty six
Speaker 1: for one hundred and seventy one yards. Meanwhile, UCF had
Speaker 1: two to eighty eight on the ground. Perhaps I was
Speaker 1: distracted by mikey Keene backup quarterback and underestimated the motivation
Speaker 1: factor for UCF in this game, because clearly they were
Speaker 1: fired up. They had a guy throw a punch like
Speaker 1: they were ready, rearing and psyched to go for this
Speaker 1: one here, and they ended up winning by twelve twenty
Speaker 1: nine to seventeen. Next year, perhaps I'll put together the
Speaker 1: Motivation Task Force among our Patrion folks and make sure
Speaker 1: that nothing like this gets missed. But big win for
Speaker 1: UCF man Gus Mels. I was all fired up after
Speaker 1: this one.
Speaker 2: Saw him on a private plane. I was not on
Speaker 2: the plane. I saw a picture of him on a
Speaker 2: private plan with his wife celebraton the Bowl win over Florida.
Speaker 2: Isaiah Bowser ran well. And it's not as if you
Speaker 2: 's offense was amazing. They just were able to take
Speaker 2: advantage and keep drives moving. They were like something five
Speaker 2: of twelve, five of thirteen on third down, so they
Speaker 2: were off the field as well. Flora is able to
Speaker 2: make some plays, especially on the ground, but yeah, if
Speaker 2: the offense isn't on the field, it's really hard to
Speaker 2: score points.
Speaker 1: The Tax Act chamellea Bowl Dan Georgia State, Ball State.
Speaker 1: Ball State had a big play early and that was it.
Speaker 1: That was That was pretty much the game. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: rest of the way, it was all Darren Granger, the
Speaker 1: quarterback for Georgia State. He dominated this game at four
Speaker 1: total touchdowns. I think we called this one beforehand that
Speaker 1: Ball State was pretty much just a bad team this
Speaker 1: year despite a really successful twenty twenty campaign, and we
Speaker 1: were all in. I was all in on Ball State
Speaker 1: being a trap game early for Penn State. Remember that
Speaker 1: uh fifty one to twenty. Here Georgia State wins in
Speaker 1: resounding fashion.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my defense wins ball games largely. You know, you
Speaker 2: have to deal with the context of coaches leaving, and
Speaker 2: there's other context of these Bowl games now opt outs
Speaker 2: and COVID stuff and transfers, but just taken in a
Speaker 2: vacuum which doesn't exist. It did really well once again,
Speaker 2: like it did, It's done very very well. Now there
Speaker 2: are exceptions, right Western Kentucky beating app State. Mississippi State
Speaker 2: will get into it losing the way they did to
Speaker 2: Texas Tech. For sure. There are exceptions, but by and large,
Speaker 2: especially if you're not betting against the spread and you're
Speaker 2: in a confidence tight pool, you could do some serious
Speaker 2: damage wagering against below average defenses to bad defenses, especially
Speaker 2: if they're coming from the MAC early on. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: did well.
Speaker 1: I've made a ton of money this Bowl season. To
Speaker 1: your point, how do you feel about opt outs?
Speaker 2: I mean every case is different. In the bigger games.
Speaker 2: I you know, it's on a certain level, you get
Speaker 2: it and are protecting a future, and one game stands
Speaker 2: between some bigger names and NFL money, And you know,
Speaker 2: if the game isn't a playoff game, if the game
Speaker 2: isn't a huge game, you're like, okay, well, especially if
Speaker 2: you're say a running back, where you're getting hit every
Speaker 2: time you touch the ball. But on another level, I
Speaker 2: think Kenny Pickett has good reason to play in a
Speaker 2: New Year's six game, especially with a lot of people watching,
Speaker 2: and this to punctuate the season that he's had as
Speaker 2: a Heisman finalist and maybe the best quarterback outside of
Speaker 2: Bryce Young in the country. And it you know, it
Speaker 2: sucks in the Ohio State players. I mean, maybe I
Speaker 2: come at it from a biased point of view as
Speaker 2: a West Coast human, but I think the Rose Bowl
Speaker 2: is a big game. I think it's an important game
Speaker 2: for the sport, and these guys aren't being paid by
Speaker 2: the sport. So I understand why you're saying, what a
Speaker 2: more do I have to prove if I'm Chris o'lave
Speaker 2: or Garrett Wilson or something like that. But I guess
Speaker 2: it's just a statement on even the Rose Bowl, something
Speaker 2: I consider to be a big game that maybe other
Speaker 2: people don't where it's just like, Eh, you know, I'm good.
Speaker 2: I'm going to pass. I've played all year to get
Speaker 2: Ohio State into a really great bowl game and have
Speaker 2: an amazing offense, and you know, I think that's gonna be.
Speaker 1: It for me.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna dip out. I you know. At the same time,
Speaker 2: I can both understand their point of view with one
Speaker 2: game separating themselves from their future, and also say, hey,
Speaker 2: not an amazing thing for the sport.
Speaker 1: Kind of sucks. It absolutely sucks, man. It's a huge bummer.
Speaker 1: If you're we'll use Ohio State as an example, if
Speaker 1: you're losing some of those targets out wide, if you're
Speaker 1: losing some of those gravitational forces on your defense, that sucks.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: I get why they're doing it. They're in particularly good
Speaker 1: shape given how deep they are receiver, sure, but those
Speaker 1: are also like it's difficult to become a nationally known
Speaker 1: name in college football with a number of teams, with
Speaker 1: how many players and coaches move around, it's difficult to
Speaker 1: entrench yourself as a star name. Chris Olivey and Garrett
Speaker 1: Wilson are star names, and the Rose Bowl and college
Speaker 1: football took a hit without them this season. It's such
Speaker 1: a bummer, and you know, just using Ohio State as
Speaker 1: an example, it sucks if you're a Buckeyes fan that
Speaker 1: you don't get to see those guys in the Rose Bowl.
Speaker 2: I get why they're maybe why they're doing it.
Speaker 1: I get it, totally get it. But we had a conversation,
Speaker 1: as you know, on our bruinne which we publish exclusively
Speaker 1: on Patreon, about are there any things that can be
Speaker 1: done to entice players to continue playing, to not opt
Speaker 1: out of bowl games? And outside of there being like
Speaker 1: a big ball of money that hangs above midfield, i e.
Speaker 1: Squid game style or any kind of hooks that nil
Speaker 1: deals can build into the equation to keep guys out
Speaker 1: there for big games like the Rose Bowl. I don't
Speaker 1: know what you can do, and it sucks. It sucks
Speaker 1: that the sport has gone this way. I'm immensely bummed
Speaker 1: out about it. I want to see Kyen Williams out there.
Speaker 1: I just don't know what you can do at this point.
Speaker 1: I think we're so far down that path and money
Speaker 1: has taken hold of college football especially this is like
Speaker 1: an underrepresented historically workforce the fact that they have a
Speaker 1: little bit of power back on their side now, Like
Speaker 1: we're all in favor of that to some extent. But
Speaker 1: I just hope that somebody can come up with a
Speaker 1: way to keep more of these guys playing, because it
Speaker 1: is a bummer to not have them out there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want. I mean, I wonder what the playoff's
Speaker 2: role is that, oh, we're not in the playoff. The
Speaker 2: playoff is so important. We worked so hard because we
Speaker 2: had playoff expectations as Ohio State, and now that we've
Speaker 2: fallen short of the playoff and it's only the Rose Bowl,
Speaker 2: And I don't want to single out Ohio State. Again,
Speaker 2: I understand from a certain perspective why they're doing this,
Speaker 2: like it's, you know, to each their own, and I
Speaker 2: don't have the full context, neither do you to my knowledge.
Speaker 2: So I don't mean to single out Ohio State because
Speaker 2: I still Thinkkenny Pickett, if he's healthy, should be playing
Speaker 2: in that game against Michigan State. But yeah, I don't
Speaker 2: does expanding the playoff make the playoff that much more
Speaker 2: important that if you don't make the twelve team playoff,
Speaker 2: we're going to see even more opt outs out of
Speaker 2: the non playoff games because it's that much more important
Speaker 2: and that much If it's so easy to get into
Speaker 2: the playoff and our team didn't make the playoff, why
Speaker 2: am I hanging around? I don't know. I hope that's
Speaker 2: not the case. I hope this is a something that
Speaker 2: can be rectified somehow, But I don't know. The toothpast
Speaker 2: kind of seems out of the tube in terms of
Speaker 2: opt outs, and we just have to accept it and
Speaker 2: move on.
Speaker 1: We'll bring on a player agent in the offseason and
Speaker 1: talk more about it.
Speaker 2: The player agents are definitely the one saying I don't.
Speaker 1: Think you should be plowing those guys. We'll bring We'll
Speaker 1: bring those dudes on. Yeah, in the off season, see
Speaker 1: what we can come up with together. Okay, go over.
Speaker 1: The Quick Lane Bowl. Western Michigan ran one up on Nevada.
Speaker 1: Speaking of opt outs, Carson Strong, the noted quarterback for Nevada,
Speaker 1: did not play in this one. Nevada was also without
Speaker 1: Jay Norvell, who went to Colorado State, so they were
Speaker 1: really shorthanded. We also forgot to mention this was an
Speaker 1: eleven am kickoff. This is a bodyclock game for Nevada,
Speaker 1: that's true. So they had a triple whammy working against them.
Speaker 1: Sean Tyler for Western Michigan one hundred and twenty eight
Speaker 1: yards in the return game. He had one hundred and
Speaker 1: forty six on the ground to compliment that effort. This
Speaker 1: one was never close. Western Michigan won by twenty eight
Speaker 1: fifty two to twenty four, and in typical fashion, they
Speaker 1: dumped a big vat of motor oil over Western Michigan's
Speaker 1: coach crazy always Yeah, who would have seen that coming?
Speaker 1: The ticket smarter Birmingham Bowl Houston seventeen, Auburn thirteen. Did
Speaker 1: you watch this game at all? Do you see anything?
Speaker 1: A little bit?
Speaker 2: A little bit, I saw Dana Holgerson on a plane
Speaker 2: and at a hotel table with the trophy, the ridiculously
Speaker 2: amazing Birmingham Bull Trophy. I did see things like that,
Speaker 2: and he was upset at Brian Harson for taking too
Speaker 2: long in his postgame losing presser. But yeah, I saw some.
Speaker 2: I think I've sort of seen enough of Auburn this
Speaker 2: year where I didn't really mark this game as must watch.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it was fine, good win for Houston.
Speaker 1: So here's the deal, right, They catch a touchdown pass
Speaker 1: Jake Hurslow for Houston catches a twenty six yarder with
Speaker 1: three and a half left to.
Speaker 3: Give them the lead. Ultimately they end up winning.
Speaker 1: This is probably a game, though, that Auburn should want,
Speaker 1: because they had so many chances to grab this one
Speaker 1: and put it on ice, and they kept stalling out
Speaker 1: or making mistakes. As such, they finished the year for
Speaker 1: the first time in seventy one years with five straight losses.
Speaker 1: I get that they had Bownicks get hurt and that
Speaker 1: was a bit of a step back, and that obviously
Speaker 1: the Birmingham Bowl wasn't a high stakes Bowl situation for them.
Speaker 1: I am curious though, to see which direction this.
Speaker 3: Thing goes now moving forward.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because this is a bit of a whimper to
Speaker 1: close out a season for Auburn that started on a
Speaker 1: great foot that Penn State game, and you know, they
Speaker 1: had opportunities to knock off Alabama. Auburn was in some
Speaker 1: of these games. No, the way they played against Ole
Speaker 1: Miss Mississippi State, even in a losing effort, the way
Speaker 1: they beat Arkansas, they were for sure highs for there
Speaker 1: were moments there were a season, yeah for Brian Harson,
Speaker 1: but the fact that they closed out the way that
Speaker 1: they did I don't. I don't think you could put
Speaker 1: it all on the quarterback position. So I'm curious now
Speaker 1: as we go into twenty two which direction this thing
Speaker 1: goes for him? I really am.
Speaker 2: They've made a change at offensive coordinator, so there's gonna
Speaker 2: be new look elements to this team for sure.
Speaker 1: Houston wins seventeen thirteen, big win for them, twelve wins
Speaker 1: on the season. Huge the Serve Pro first Responderble, air
Speaker 1: Force and Louisville. It's not that air Force didn't run
Speaker 1: dan they still ran it fifty times, right. It's that
Speaker 1: Hazik Daniels went nine of ten throwing for two point
Speaker 1: fifty two and two long touchdowns.
Speaker 2: I don't throw it often, but when I do.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Louisville was playing from behind the whole game. Again,
Speaker 1: it was Malik Cunningham trying to will the team to victory.
Speaker 1: In the end, he did score late. They did have
Speaker 1: a crack at an on side kick, but that did
Speaker 1: not work. Air Force gets its third straight Bowl win
Speaker 1: and they cap off a ten win season, mostly because
Speaker 1: they threw the ball for two hundred and fifty yards,
Speaker 1: which was totally unexpected and a pleasant story here in bolseason.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: It was great. And Louisville they start slow, they have
Speaker 2: that shot as you mentioned, but air Force with just
Speaker 2: that monster second quarter dominating Louisville up front, It's it's
Speaker 2: hard to come back from when the team is running
Speaker 2: like they're running, and Air Force was able to make
Speaker 2: plays and air Force was the stronger defense in this game.
Speaker 2: So this worked out there. They got the stops that
Speaker 2: they needed for my whole defense theory. So awesome, awesome
Speaker 2: way to get to ten wins. Let's get in the
Speaker 2: zone and go to the Liberty bull Dan, what happened here?
Speaker 1: What happened?
Speaker 2: What happened to Mississippi State? I think when we said
Speaker 2: that we wanted to give Texas Tech fans a defense,
Speaker 2: it happened sooner than you know. Putting that out into
Speaker 2: the universe on a show a couple couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Did we speak it into existence?
Speaker 2: I think we may have. I think Oprah has done
Speaker 2: an episode or two about this where you just need
Speaker 2: to speak your future into existence. And Texas Tech, especially
Speaker 2: with what they were able to do against Mississippi State
Speaker 2: on the ground. Now, obviously they succeeded against the air
Speaker 2: raid through the air and kept a lot of what
Speaker 2: the Bulldogs were trying to do in front of them,
Speaker 2: but what they were able to do up front on
Speaker 2: the ground and take advantage of these situations and play
Speaker 2: relatively mistake free football. It was they ran the ball well.
Speaker 2: Donovan Smith made plays. He wasn't the most accurate dude
Speaker 2: the world, but made plays. This was kind of out
Speaker 2: of nowhere to me. This was the biggest shocker of
Speaker 2: a score. You watch the game, You're like, Oh, Texas
Speaker 2: Tech playing hard, playing with fire. Maybe Mississippi State just
Speaker 2: didn't have that fire, but I figured they'd be a
Speaker 2: little more into, you know, Mike Leach's interest, But you
Speaker 2: can only do so much from the sideline Mike Leach's
Speaker 2: interest in beating Texas Tech, which he claim still owes
Speaker 2: him money. But either way, either way, awesome way to
Speaker 2: head into the Joey McGuire era. I'm I'm a big
Speaker 2: proponent of bulls mean little to nothing, but at the
Speaker 2: same time, there's nothing wrong with some of the feel goods.
Speaker 2: So heading into heading into the final stretch of recruiting,
Speaker 2: heading into the transfer part of the year, heading into
Speaker 2: building a staff, like Joey McGuire didn't have anything to
Speaker 2: do with this win. But the vibes are good in
Speaker 2: Lubbock right now. In you know, I don't know how
Speaker 2: long that the shadow of the tail of this bowlwin lasts,
Speaker 2: but you know it never hurts, so yeah, good for
Speaker 2: the Red Raiders.
Speaker 1: Joey mc may have run through a wall of an
Speaker 1: auto zone after this. He's that kind of guy. He's
Speaker 1: got a lot of enthusiasm and energy. He got in
Speaker 1: the zone, he did get he probably did get in
Speaker 1: the zone. Yeah, guaranteed rate Bowl. WHOA, This was a snoozer.
Speaker 1: This was eighteen to six. Minnesota one dominated the trenches,
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty rushing guards. West Virginia could not
Speaker 1: get any kind of momentum going. And I am kicking
Speaker 1: myself because I felt really good. We both felt really
Speaker 1: good about that Minnesota minus five line. Mm hmm. We
Speaker 1: talked about it. You were into it, stronger defense, YEP.
Speaker 1: I was gonna place the bet, and then I got
Speaker 1: cold feet because as you know, I have not bet
Speaker 1: a Minnesota game right in at least two years, true,
Speaker 1: and so you know, you kind of second guess it,
Speaker 1: and I did, and I didn't pull the trigger, and
Speaker 1: I would have won because even though this game wasn't
Speaker 1: a total blowout, it was kind of a blowout. Minnesota
Speaker 1: wins by twelve, eighteen to six, and the guaranteed Rate Bowl.
Speaker 2: I think West Virginia might be the answer to the question.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you listened to the Bruinet show
Speaker 2: I did with Bill Connolly, but I asked them who
Speaker 2: the most nappable decent teams games are and he gave
Speaker 2: a couple of different answers, and like you could say Stanford.
Speaker 2: Obviously Stanford doesn't have a big crowd, but they were
Speaker 2: not a competitive decent team this year. West Virginia as
Speaker 2: a Bowl team might be the most easily napped through
Speaker 2: competitive team in America. This Neil Brown version. It's more
Speaker 2: Era more so than Iowa. Yeah, I was interesting, at
Speaker 2: least a little bit more interesting. The offense is for
Speaker 2: sure nappable, but the turnovers make the games competitive, and
Speaker 2: you start turning teams over and the other team's defense
Speaker 2: gets tired and Tyler Goodson gets loose. I can understand
Speaker 2: that Iowa was merely somewhat nappable West Virginia, even with
Speaker 2: their couple of interesting, bigger wins this year or competitive
Speaker 2: games they were like, they're just good enough to be interesting,
Speaker 2: but they're just nappable. Would just be like, I don't know,
Speaker 2: I'm just going to drift off for a little bit.
Speaker 2: I think I think West Virginia is my answer about
Speaker 2: the most easily napped through competitive team in America. The
Speaker 2: guaranteed NAT Bowl goes to Yeah, Minnesota, Okay, the Larry
Speaker 2: I'll say so, Alamobile, Oklahoma forty seven, Your Oregon Ducks
Speaker 2: thirty two. Oklahoma was up thirty to three at half.
Speaker 2: Oregon didn't mount something of a charge in the second half,
Speaker 2: but couldn't really stop Cable Williams or Kennedy Brooks really
Speaker 2: get the upper hand. What was your read on this game?
Speaker 2: It looked I didn't watch a lot of it. The
Speaker 2: little that I saw in the first half was a
Speaker 2: tire fire.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Two thin teams, both from a coaching perspective and a
Speaker 2: player perspective, on both sides of the ball. Especially, I
Speaker 2: don't even say especially. Both these teams were down key dudes,
Speaker 2: you know, Jaydon Hazelwood transfers to our and saw cave
Speaker 2: On Thibodeau ops out. I think Oregon's defense was probably
Speaker 2: a specially hard hit and they were just crazy thing.
Speaker 2: I actually thought they played relatively hard all things considered.
Speaker 2: They had a disastrous second quarter. Anthony Brown threw a
Speaker 2: bad pick early on in this one that changed the
Speaker 2: complexion early on with the score. But I actually came
Speaker 2: away pretty impressed with the fight and the sort of
Speaker 2: almost throwback Joe Morehead e fitt let's go deep part
Speaker 2: of the Oregon offense because Oregon's had talented receivers all
Speaker 2: season long. They're actually especially deep at receiver, but with
Speaker 2: Mario Christaball at the helm, they were especially run heavy,
Speaker 2: like they just wanted to squeeze the life out of
Speaker 2: teams and sort of be a winning python. And now
Speaker 2: Anthony Brown, even with the sort of down moments he
Speaker 2: had in the first half, especially that second quarter, I
Speaker 2: only came out like, screw at Oklahoma's defense, isn't that great?
Speaker 2: Why can't we score a bunch of points? And whether
Speaker 2: it was Dante Thornton, Troy Franklin, Chris Hudson, like this
Speaker 2: is a really interesting strong receiving corps moving forward into
Speaker 2: the Dan Lanning era, especially if they can get something
Speaker 2: out of I don't know, Bo Nix or Ty Thompson, whoever,
Speaker 2: ends up starting at quarterback for Oregon moving forward. But
Speaker 2: good to see some fight, good to see some yards
Speaker 2: and some action in an otherwise dreary back and forth
Speaker 2: of the first half with it just going one way
Speaker 2: with Oklahoma. And good for Caleb Williams for making plays
Speaker 2: after he kind of slowed down in the back half
Speaker 2: of the season after a kind of electrifying start. Good
Speaker 2: for this Oklahoma offense with all the changes they've been
Speaker 2: going through. Bunch of speed, bunch of playmakers. Easy to
Speaker 2: look at this game and say, my man, Travis Die
Speaker 2: averaged eight and a half yards of carry and they lost,
Speaker 2: And then you look at what Kennedy Brooks and Eric
Speaker 2: Gray were able to do, like, oh, ten and a
Speaker 2: half yards each. Okay, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. So awesome way
Speaker 2: to close out the year for Oklahoma. Some ups and downs,
Speaker 2: and at least nice to see some fight from the
Speaker 2: Oregon offense given the status. I think I saw something
Speaker 2: like thirty five scholarship players that started the season for
Speaker 2: Oregon were not involved in this game, So you know,
Speaker 2: it's a tough job. But that's college football these days.
Speaker 2: And tip of the cap to Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: At one point in time, I was wondering, can they
Speaker 1: just rehire Bob Stoops? Is it too too late to
Speaker 1: just bring a touchdown? Yeah? He looked like he never left. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: big win for Oklahoma. Nice win for them by fifteen
Speaker 1: over the Oregon Ducks. Let's go to the cheese at
Speaker 1: bowl Man. What a glorious bowl game Above all else.
Speaker 1: It was sort of a microcosm for both these teams,
Speaker 1: wasn't it?
Speaker 2: It absolutely was. Wasn't it the twenties plenty?
Speaker 1: What was that?
Speaker 2: My line for Clemson more than twenty against Clemson comes
Speaker 2: back twenty to thirteen?
Speaker 1: Was the final score here? So a couple weird moments
Speaker 1: in this game that I need to call out, A
Speaker 1: couple weird plays. The first was one of those deals
Speaker 1: I think in the early part of the second half
Speaker 1: where Dju is about to get sacked.
Speaker 3: He's running for his life.
Speaker 1: He wants to throw it out of bounds, but he
Speaker 1: doesn't quite have enough oomph and so inadvertently it goes
Speaker 1: into quadruple coverage. That can happens to the best of us,
Speaker 1: and somehow his guy comes down with it. That was
Speaker 1: the first of like just kind of weird moments. Then
Speaker 1: Brock Purty happened. Brock Purty was on full display here
Speaker 1: in this Bowl game. I have never seen anything quite
Speaker 1: like this wild moment. Later in the second half, brock
Speaker 1: Purty as a pass tipped back.
Speaker 3: To him at the line.
Speaker 1: So you've seen this before where Lyman puts his hands up,
Speaker 1: it bounces back to the quarterback to either catch it
Speaker 1: and run with it. I think they're told to try
Speaker 1: and bat it down.
Speaker 3: If they can't.
Speaker 2: Rock Perty can only throw one forward pass per play, right,
Speaker 2: so you can only attempt one forward pass play. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So brock Purty tries the volleyball thing where he tries
Speaker 2: to bat it down, except he bats it right to
Speaker 2: Mario good Rich or Clemson, who catches it and runs
Speaker 2: eighteen yards for a pick six to make it twenty
Speaker 2: to six in the second half. I've never seen that before.
Speaker 2: Was it rule to pick six or a fumble?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: I think a pick six? Oh?
Speaker 1: All right, okay, either way, touchdown Mario Goodrich the senior
Speaker 1: good way for him to go out. And then later
Speaker 1: on in the game, Rock Purty regroups threw a touchdown
Speaker 1: past the chas Cohler made it twenty to thirteen. Iowa
Speaker 1: State it has a shot back to get back in
Speaker 1: this thing. It's fourth and two. He runs for a
Speaker 1: first down, scrambles for first down, nice play, gets past
Speaker 1: the chains and has the ball knocked out of his
Speaker 1: hand and backwards. Oh yeah, he jumps on and he
Speaker 1: recovers it. But because the ball had left his possession,
Speaker 1: because he re established possession short of the chains, it's
Speaker 1: a turnover on talent. Clems against the ball. They end
Speaker 1: up winning, and in the end it's Dabbo who gets
Speaker 1: the big barrel of cheese. It's stumped over his head, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, should not be undersold because that was
Speaker 1: freaking awesome. Clemson wins weird game twenty to thirteen. I
Speaker 1: did see somebody on Twitter trying to make the case
Speaker 1: that the Cheese At Bowl should be a New Year
Speaker 1: six game. I'd be fine with that, Dan, I'm told,
Speaker 1: first of all, I learned so much during this game,
Speaker 1: and there was so much that I had already learned.
Speaker 1: It was just, you know, a weird game, and that
Speaker 1: last play kind of sums up a lot of the
Speaker 1: Iowa State experience.
Speaker 2: Maybe this year. Maybe it's unfair to say the whole
Speaker 2: Brock Party experience, because there were some absolute highs, but
Speaker 2: uniquely losing after looking like something good was going to
Speaker 2: happen kind of is a microcosm for the broader Iowa
Speaker 2: State story. There is that have you ever seen that
Speaker 2: mixtape of the like electrical wiring YouTuber And there is
Speaker 2: like a compilation of him just confidently getting shocked. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: where he's just like and all you have to do
Speaker 2: is when you remove the circuits and he's like, Ah.
Speaker 1: There is.
Speaker 2: If you wanted to come up with a like a
Speaker 2: compilation video to describe some of where Iowa State has
Speaker 2: been recently, it would be intersplicing Iowa State moments with
Speaker 2: the like and be careful you don't plug it.
Speaker 1: There is that. There is that part of.
Speaker 2: The cyclone football experience that.
Speaker 1: Feels very real, absolutely all right? Yeah, and what else
Speaker 1: do we got here? I think we have one more game,
Speaker 1: the New era Pinstripe Bowl between Maryland and Virginia Tech.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got this one wrong. I called Maryland an
Speaker 2: elite loser, maybe one too many times for the universe's liking.
Speaker 1: Fifty four to ten is your final. Maryland wins this one.
Speaker 1: It was a runaway train. Tech got it to one
Speaker 1: to ten shortly before half, but Marylynd ripped off thirty
Speaker 1: three unanswered to close it. Tech did not give a
Speaker 1: flying you know what about this game. They were they
Speaker 1: might have been the one two three Cancun team of
Speaker 1: Bowl season, Dan, they were yep, totally checked out here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Virginia Tech started because Braxton Burmeister entered the portal.
Speaker 2: Connor Blumrick is that correct?
Speaker 1: Yes? Correct?
Speaker 2: An all time computer generated recruiting name that I don't
Speaker 2: fully believe is a real person until I see with
Speaker 2: my own eyes. I apologies to the Blumrick family, but
Speaker 2: that that was the the energy I got from watching
Speaker 2: Virginia Tech's offense for the limited time that I did, and.
Speaker 1: That does it. At time of recording, we've got the
Speaker 1: Duke's Mayo Bowl in progress. It looks like Shane Biember
Speaker 1: is going to get the big vat of Duke's Mayo
Speaker 1: dumped on him. They're up thirty five to twenty one
Speaker 1: late into the fourth quarter. I like these live updates
Speaker 1: for a record show. Yeah that people are waiting for
Speaker 1: our recap of the game to fully understand what happened
Speaker 1: in it. Yeah, I mean, it's all things considered, we
Speaker 1: just got to make the best of a very strange
Speaker 1: Bowl season and having mayonnaise dumped on a coach, or
Speaker 1: fries or cheese. It's I learned that extra toasty cheese
Speaker 1: its are one of the varieties available. Oh really, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's good. I like most items on the
Speaker 1: well done side, not steak, not not meat necessarily, but
Speaker 1: and not to a gym nance level.
Speaker 2: Let's be clear. The toast, Yeah, French French fries and toasts,
Speaker 2: and I like actually like my eggs over easy, but cookies,
Speaker 2: like a good crispy cookie. So that we have extra
Speaker 2: toasty cheese it's available, I'm with So yeah, I guess
Speaker 2: good for Shane Biemer if that comes to pass. Did
Speaker 2: you want to do it? Do you have Are you
Speaker 2: a believer in New Year's resolutions? And do you have
Speaker 2: any resolutions in addition to any of the resolutions our
Speaker 2: listeners have given for their teams.
Speaker 3: I believe in New Year's resolutions?
Speaker 1: Yeah, same, so do I I think it's I think
Speaker 1: it's a good way to start off the year. I
Speaker 1: think it's it's good to have some goals going into
Speaker 1: the new year. Yeah, oh of course. But my problem
Speaker 1: is that most of my New Year's resolutions are pretty boring,
Speaker 1: you know that's okay. We put out a call here
Speaker 1: on Twitter asking folks what are your New Year's resolutions?
Speaker 1: And some folks want to run a marathon or a
Speaker 1: thousand miles, devote more energy to the diet or physical fitness,
Speaker 1: that type of thing. I think that's common. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: with you. I don't want to run a thousand miles.
Speaker 3: I hate running.
Speaker 1: But as for getting back in shape and doing more
Speaker 1: physical activity, it's not lost on anybody that I sit.
Speaker 3: In front of a microphone most of mine.
Speaker 2: Have you Have you come up with anything any option?
Speaker 2: Are you going to get involved with like a rower?
Speaker 2: Are you going to do more strength training? Are you
Speaker 2: going to play in like some kind like a kickball league?
Speaker 1: What are you going to do? I haven't decided yet.
Speaker 1: It's it's still an open question, but I am actively
Speaker 1: looking for solutions on that front.
Speaker 2: You get them, well, look, you could get one of those.
Speaker 2: Were they ever a sponsor for US Peloton? Not a
Speaker 2: sponsor of this show?
Speaker 1: For sure? They they're ay, they may have sponsored this show,
Speaker 1: and I have looked into it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there are leaderboards right there are there is like
Speaker 2: a competitive element and you could compete against your friends.
Speaker 2: I know there's a college football media group that rides
Speaker 2: together in classes. So if you want to take down
Speaker 2: Cole Kublick or Jeff Schwartz or anybody Mike Golick junior,
Speaker 2: whatever you can, ty, I might have to do it
Speaker 2: just for that.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I was not aware of this group.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, there's a group of guys. I'll introduce you.
Speaker 2: I don't do it, but you could definitely. You know,
Speaker 2: I haven't a ard a problem with competition. You know,
Speaker 2: you have a wet field, you have shoulder issues, so
Speaker 2: that's not a problem.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 2: You've got a connectivity, a digital subscription component.
Speaker 1: I don't know time. I might have to do it
Speaker 1: solely for content.
Speaker 2: Yeah, why not?
Speaker 1: That is the life now anyway. Yeah, I think that's
Speaker 1: one of the big ones for me, just on the
Speaker 1: personal level. I also want to jump back in on
Speaker 1: the cooking front, and not to the listen listen, not
Speaker 1: to the extent of you knuckleheads who are really into
Speaker 1: it and obsessing over each and every spice. I admire
Speaker 1: that quality, I very much do. I just don't think
Speaker 1: I can keep pace with that because I'm a little
Speaker 1: too impatient.
Speaker 2: I need to think you need mastery. I think that's
Speaker 2: the like you're a dork about researching and experimenting. It
Speaker 2: doesn't have to be pizza. It doesn't have to be barbecue.
Speaker 2: It could be you could just be like, I'm going
Speaker 2: to become the soup king of Eastern Pa and I
Speaker 2: just want to master a bunch or the salad dressing
Speaker 2: king or the Macadamian nut cookie king. I don't know
Speaker 2: what it is. See, I really think you need mastery
Speaker 2: in your life.
Speaker 1: I've mastered the omelet right, and now I've mastered it
Speaker 1: to the point where I've gotten bored of it and
Speaker 1: have actually stopped eating them, and so I need to
Speaker 1: try and find what's next.
Speaker 2: You had homemade pizza a few weeks ago, and you
Speaker 2: said this, I can see why people get into this.
Speaker 1: I can't, but pizza is your thing.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter. We can pivot as a duo.
Speaker 1: I don't I need it. I'm open to making my
Speaker 1: own pizza, but I feel like I need to find something.
Speaker 1: I need to carve out my corner of the universe.
Speaker 2: What about pasta? Handmade pasta?
Speaker 3: Too many carbs?
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't know, if you do the peloton, it's
Speaker 2: not if you combine. If we combine, that's not a
Speaker 2: bad idea. Yeah, I don't know, how about you. I
Speaker 2: just want to be better about scheduling and procrastinating and
Speaker 2: just making sure like I do things a certain number
Speaker 2: of days a week and I check things off off
Speaker 2: making lists. I want to be more organized in the
Speaker 2: way I spend my time, whether it's working out, whether
Speaker 2: it's cooking, whether it's stuff with the kiddos. I just
Speaker 2: want to, like, I want to lock in a little
Speaker 2: bit better, and I want to I want to explore more.
Speaker 2: I guess I don't know micro accomplishments, curiosities. Like I
Speaker 2: was just like, you know what, I think language is interesting.
Speaker 2: I always like learning language and words and everything, grammar
Speaker 2: and tenses, whatever, And so I just downloaded an app
Speaker 2: and I was like, I'm going to take five minutes
Speaker 2: a day and learn more French. And it's awesome. It's
Speaker 2: just something that's uniquely my activity. It has nothing to
Speaker 2: do with my job or my family or my house whatever.
Speaker 2: It's just something new. And so I try to do
Speaker 2: crossword puzzles sometimes. I try to do that. I've been
Speaker 2: playing a lot of tennis, and that's been awesome. More
Speaker 2: strength training involved, I would say in my workouts would
Speaker 2: be nice. I want to eat a lot less sugar,
Speaker 2: but otherwise nothing too new. I just want to stick
Speaker 2: to stuff more often. You know, I should be reading
Speaker 2: thirty pages a night or something like that. I thought
Speaker 2: Nicole Auerback read fifty two books in twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: Oh there's no way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean she, I believe her. I'm just saying
Speaker 1: there's no way I could ever do that.
Speaker 2: No, she logged and locked it all in. It's true.
Speaker 2: But to me, that's what I want to do. I
Speaker 2: want to be more locked in with scheduling and experimenting
Speaker 2: with things I'm curious about, be it cooking, reading, activities, whatever.
Speaker 2: I want to try new stuff as often as I can.
Speaker 1: All right, So what we did is we put a
Speaker 1: call out, yeah to the verballer hood, and I read
Speaker 1: off some of the personal goals. But here are some
Speaker 1: of the team I'm resolutions. Right, make a New Year's
Speaker 1: resolution on behalf of your favorite team. Jordan, who was
Speaker 1: the gentleman who wrote Run one Thousand Miles, says that
Speaker 1: he has the same hope for BYU. Actually, yeah, he
Speaker 1: was a round one thousand miles, so that's cool. Will
Speaker 1: says that for Clemson, the resolution should be to adapt
Speaker 1: their recruiting strategy and to embrace the current environment. Use
Speaker 1: the portal, use nil, use things like that better. Well
Speaker 1: they did that.
Speaker 2: I mean dju is in a doctor Pepper commercial, so
Speaker 2: there was you know, it's not like Dabbo is like
Speaker 2: this is ruining everything. I'm not letting my players do it.
Speaker 2: They did have some of that.
Speaker 1: But the transfer portal is interesting on the Clemson front,
Speaker 1: isn't it.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I think just the big thing is just
Speaker 2: make Dabbo less stubborn. That's the resolution. It's just like adapt,
Speaker 2: look outside the program when need be. I mean, both
Speaker 2: the coordinators were internal hires, and you know, Clemson has
Speaker 2: been at its best when Dabbo has had the stones
Speaker 2: to shake things up. So I don't think that's an
Speaker 2: unrealistic one, but it might be more of a long
Speaker 2: term than a twenty twenty one to one.
Speaker 1: It does seem like he's having trouble with the transfer
Speaker 1: portal though, because we had now we know he's taken
Speaker 1: a pretty contentious stance against it in recent years, and
Speaker 1: there was some commentary from him on signing day about
Speaker 1: how there are adults that are manipulative and maybe not
Speaker 1: having transfer his best interests at heart when it comes
Speaker 1: to all things transfer portal. So it seems like it's
Speaker 1: been an ongoing process for him to not only process
Speaker 1: the transfer portal but come to grips with it and
Speaker 1: understand it and want to use it on behalf of Clemson. Eventually,
Speaker 1: he's going to get there. Eventually, he's gonna get there.
Speaker 1: He's going to have to get there if he wants
Speaker 1: to compete and if he wants to evolve with some
Speaker 1: of the other teams around college football. But and we'll
Speaker 1: probably see that sooner than later. It does seem though,
Speaker 1: like he's having a really hard time with it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's basically are you going to participate
Speaker 2: in judo or not? And Clemson's in a unique position
Speaker 2: where they can use the transfer portal to their advantage
Speaker 2: instead of scrambling to phill holes, they can and attract
Speaker 2: huge names to an amazing program, much in the way
Speaker 2: that Alabama, Ohio, State, Oklahoma schools like that have been
Speaker 2: able to do the judo references. Because I believe as
Speaker 2: a non expert judo is heavily involved in using people's
Speaker 2: actions against them, right, going with the flow of the
Speaker 2: combat and to use your your opponent's actions against them.
Speaker 2: And I think that's a good resolution. I think that's
Speaker 2: that's worthwhile for.
Speaker 1: Sure for Josh. He says, for Penn State, I'd like
Speaker 1: to have a running back eclipse one hundred yards rushing
Speaker 1: at least once at least once, and secondarily, watch tape
Speaker 1: of good offensive lines. So Josh zeroing in on some
Speaker 1: of Penn state struggles upfront this year with the rushing game.
Speaker 1: I know, I'm not sure how much of the rushing
Speaker 1: issue at Penn State was due to the offensive line
Speaker 1: or if it was schematic, But I think we can
Speaker 1: agree broadly, Josh that having a resolution that Penn State
Speaker 1: get better, get more balanced on that offensive line and
Speaker 1: with the rushing attack, that would be nice. It would
Speaker 1: take some of the heat off of Sean Clifford, who's
Speaker 1: coming back for year seventeen in twenty twenty two, and
Speaker 1: definitely make the offense tougher to defense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I looked at Penn State and I said, Okay, look,
Speaker 2: the running backs are obviously talented. There are guys that
Speaker 2: are decent along the offensive line, and they protected Shan
Speaker 2: Clifford relatively well. They just didn't open up a ton
Speaker 2: of lanes. I think it's probably a holistic type thing
Speaker 2: that it's a little bit of everything. And if Penn
Speaker 2: State were passing it as much as they were and
Speaker 2: finished as like a top thirty offense in the country,
Speaker 2: I don't think anybody would really care about balance because
Speaker 2: they're probably winning more games with the top thirty offense.
Speaker 2: They're probably beating Michigan in Illinois, and we're not having
Speaker 2: in Michigan State at the end of the year. We're
Speaker 2: not having this conversation. So I get the running thing
Speaker 2: and the frustrating thing, and it's probably better in short
Speaker 2: yarded situations to have that at least option to go to.
Speaker 2: But yeah, Penn State just kind of seemed off this year,
Speaker 2: and which is I know it's it's it kind of
Speaker 2: sucks because that defense was really strong at times. And
Speaker 2: I don't know if I don't know if it's any
Speaker 2: specific one person's fault, but I think it's it should
Speaker 2: be back to the drawing board for Penn State.
Speaker 3: I agree.
Speaker 1: Okay, John whose team is Auburn, He says Auburn needs
Speaker 1: to be developing just average quarterback play for next season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's been a minute since an Auburn quarterback
Speaker 2: has really captured our attention for a full seat, Like
Speaker 2: I guess the best of Jarrett Stidham, right right, probably,
Speaker 2: And even then there were games that were really confounding.
Speaker 2: I guess to be nice during that era of Auburn's
Speaker 2: offense and the shuffling of the offensive coordinators every year
Speaker 2: and his gust calling the plays is game planning? Was
Speaker 2: he not calling plays? Why did they slow down in
Speaker 2: the second half? Why are they becoming so predictable? And so, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's a new era, a new coach, a new now
Speaker 2: new offensive coordinator. You know, receiver has not been as
Speaker 2: exciting as it has been this past I don't know,
Speaker 2: six seven, eight years at times with the current roster
Speaker 2: being where it was being where it is, but still
Speaker 2: there's talented running back. I don't know. I'm okay with
Speaker 2: with this as a request for Auburn football, and I'm
Speaker 2: okay with thinking I think it can get better. I
Speaker 2: absolutely think it can get better with a full off
Speaker 2: season of Brian harsonball. I'm even if he doesn't seem
Speaker 2: like he fully wants to be there. At times, I
Speaker 2: think this is I think it is a totally fairy quest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it has been a minute. You got to go
Speaker 1: back to like Nick Marshall outside Jaredy.
Speaker 2: I mean again, the best of Jared's Didham was was
Speaker 2: really fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah all right.
Speaker 1: Rev writes in to say that his team's twenty twenty
Speaker 1: two New Year's resolution, his team, by the ways, Northwestern,
Speaker 1: oh oh, just become fun to watch again and do
Speaker 1: that either by fixing the defense or doing anything fun
Speaker 1: on offense.
Speaker 2: Northwestern was a rough watch this year. Dan rougher than usual.
Speaker 2: I don't care who it is. I don't care if
Speaker 2: it's Northwestern or Stanford or Vanderbilt, but I don't want
Speaker 2: all of these sort of academic reputation first type schools.
Speaker 2: I know there are other schools that have good academics
Speaker 2: that win football games, Notre Dame, USC somewhat, the cal UCLA, whatever,
Speaker 2: But man, I want one of these teams to be
Speaker 2: just like sneaky interesting with talent that's not on par
Speaker 2: with some of their opponents. And Northwestern was that team
Speaker 2: that they were. You know, Rashaun Slater's a great offensive lineman.
Speaker 2: They get players drafted. They feel these like top five
Speaker 2: national defenses, top ten national defenses, but when they're off,
Speaker 2: it's fully unwatched. Any of these teams fully unwatchable, And
Speaker 2: so I think he's right for Northwestern. I don't know
Speaker 2: if I don't know if Northwestern is more fun with
Speaker 2: a below average offense and a killer defense, or when
Speaker 2: you go back twenty years and they're one of the
Speaker 2: pioneers with like the spread option, zone read stuff with
Speaker 2: Randy Walker, I don't know if that's a more fun
Speaker 2: version of one of these schools winning with lesser talent.
Speaker 2: But I man, I just I can't take another two
Speaker 2: to ten year from all of these places at the
Speaker 2: same time. Oh, I hate it.
Speaker 1: It's tough. By the way, Rev's personal resolution, write something
Speaker 1: purely for me, like journaling or for fun at least
Speaker 1: four times a week smart, which is nice. I like that.
Speaker 1: And by the way, John whose team is Auburn, who
Speaker 1: I mentioned, I forgot to call out his New Year's resolution,
Speaker 1: which I thought was good. Do a better job of
Speaker 1: separating work and personal time. Focus entirely on work when
Speaker 1: I'm working, and don't let work distract me or prevent
Speaker 1: me from family time. Important I think there's an Apple
Speaker 1: TV Plus show about this, is there not? I'm almost
Speaker 1: positive with Scott. With Adam Scott not a sponsor could be.
Speaker 1: And it's a show similar to like the Eternal Sunshine
Speaker 1: way of storytelling, where you have some sort of surgery
Speaker 1: or operation in which your work life is completely erased
Speaker 1: when you're home, and your home life is completely erased
Speaker 1: when you're at work because I think they're working on
Speaker 1: highly sensitive stuff or something. But that's a show, if
Speaker 1: I've summarized it in a suggesting Adam Scott personally sponsored
Speaker 1: the show.
Speaker 2: This show, of course, he's terrific and everything he does.
Speaker 2: I'd be fully on board with that.
Speaker 1: All right, Tom. Tom's resolution for Michigan is just that
Speaker 1: they beat Ohio State again. I think that's a good one. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I would say if I were to come up with
Speaker 2: a resolution for Michigan, I would want what would I want?
Speaker 2: I would I would want a quarterback beyond a game manager,
Speaker 2: which is where I feel like they've been for some
Speaker 2: time right now, where they just like they have one
Speaker 2: of the best six quarterbacks in the country. That's what
Speaker 2: I want. That's where I would be selfish as a
Speaker 2: Michigan fans like, it's our turn. It's our turn to
Speaker 2: get that guy. Yeah, that's what I would want. I
Speaker 2: don't think that's asking too much.
Speaker 1: No, if I were to make a resolution for my
Speaker 1: team for Notre Dame, it wouldn't be all that different. Honestly,
Speaker 1: it would be start Tyler Buckner best. You're just ready,
Speaker 1: you're all in, all the center, I'm all in. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm all in. Start Tyler Buckner unless you've got a
Speaker 1: huge transfer quarterback in the bag. Mm hmm. Let's go
Speaker 1: to Tyler Buckner and let's see what he's got, what
Speaker 1: he can provide, and if he's not the guy, move on,
Speaker 1: work the transfer. See if you can get somebody else.
Speaker 1: But I'm just dying to know what they've got with
Speaker 1: Tyler Buckner. That would be my resolution for Notre Dame,
Speaker 1: plain and simple.
Speaker 2: And we have the double tie offense with Notre Dame
Speaker 2: in Oregon. At the same time, if ty Thompson beats
Speaker 2: out bo Nicks and it's just electric, that's, you know,
Speaker 2: the year of tie. Who knows what's happening in your life?
Speaker 2: What do you want for Oregon offense? A passing game?
Speaker 2: It's it was a rough year. This year. I think
Speaker 2: they're going to recruit well. I think the program is
Speaker 2: gonna be in a good shape. I think they're gonna
Speaker 2: win a bunch of games. I know they open with Georgia,
Speaker 2: which will be a challenge. I want a top twenty
Speaker 2: offense that's fun to watch. I talked about this when
Speaker 2: Mario Cristobal moved on to Miami. I just want I
Speaker 2: don't need as a fan Oregon to go to the
Speaker 2: playoff or to win the Pac twelve, but I want
Speaker 2: there to be creativity and fun and electricity on offense
Speaker 2: because that's what's familiar to me as an Oregon fan.
Speaker 2: Don't win every game, you don't win all the huge games,
Speaker 2: but an entertaining brand of football ten out of twelve,
Speaker 2: eleven out of twelve weeks I think would go a
Speaker 2: long way for me.
Speaker 1: On the Penn State side, I also want to see
Speaker 1: Drew a layer are our Yeah, top flight quarterback, tough
Speaker 1: light quarterback. I want to see what somebody else outside
Speaker 1: of Sean Clifford to do. Now. Look, Sean Clifford, before
Speaker 1: he got hurt, was having a better season. He was
Speaker 1: having a better season. I've been hard on Sean Clifford
Speaker 1: but he was having a better season. We talked on
Speaker 1: our show time and again it's a new Cliff, new
Speaker 1: Cliff this year. He looks different, he looks more comfortable.
Speaker 1: He got hurt in that Iowa game. He wasn't the
Speaker 1: same afterwards. I want to see if they can get
Speaker 1: more from one of these new quarterbacks if it's not
Speaker 1: going to be Clifford, right, I have never been a
Speaker 1: huge Clifford fan.
Speaker 3: He did look better.
Speaker 1: I would really like to see if somebody else can
Speaker 1: give them more because he still has a couple plays
Speaker 1: in him each game where you leaves scratch in your head.
Speaker 1: So I'd like to see them move on and go
Speaker 1: in a different direction. But he's coming back for year
Speaker 1: eighty two and a half, so they're probably stuck with
Speaker 1: him as a starting quarterback for at least some period
Speaker 1: of time to start out next season. Maybe that'll change,
Speaker 1: but we'll see.
Speaker 2: I'm with you, you man, you are just you are
Speaker 2: like the quintessential college football fan where you're just like,
Speaker 2: I don't know, play the young guy, yeah, I don't know,
Speaker 2: play the look at these four star five stars.
Speaker 1: I would be a horrible coach, a whole horror art coach.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're on the who sang next? Who sang thank
Speaker 2: you next? Are on a grande on a grande.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you're you're in the the grande line of.
Speaker 3: Thinking here, thank you next?
Speaker 1: Absolutely, yeah, Okay, I agree, we agree.
Speaker 2: It's fun. That's what college football is. College football is
Speaker 2: the quintessential message board sport, and the quintessential message board
Speaker 2: post is let's see what we have with the young guy. So, Ty,
Speaker 2: you are speaking, You are speaking to the people.
Speaker 1: On that note, Dan, With thirty seven seconds left in
Speaker 1: the Duke's Male Bowl. Now nine seconds left, South Carolina
Speaker 1: is gonna win thirty eight to twenty one. Unbelievable. Huge
Speaker 1: win for Shane Beemer, Huge game for Kevin Harris who
Speaker 1: for one two and a touchdown on the ground. This
Speaker 1: has been a charm season for the game Cocks. As
Speaker 1: they win by seventeen, Shane Beemer about to get that
Speaker 1: Duke's may have dumped all over him.
Speaker 3: Good win for them in the Duke's Mail Bowl.
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