Speaker 1: Check it down, man, now down, Man. It's the Beating
Speaker 1: the Books Podcast, you know, and Nander listen. I don't
Speaker 1: know if college football is gonna get played this year,
Speaker 1: No one does, none amongst us do. But yesterday Caesar's
Speaker 1: put out college football season wind totals, and so with
Speaker 1: a hundred and thirty of those two stew over, we
Speaker 1: bring in Chris Felika the Bear from ESPN's College Game Day,
Speaker 1: the Daily Wager Show, and of course Stanford Stephen the
Speaker 1: Bear Podcast to give us his finest picks, his value
Speaker 1: picks in terms of conference futures and count them. Six
Speaker 1: season wind totals, seven conference futures, six season win totals.
Speaker 1: And before all that, look into the past. How the
Speaker 1: Bear became the Bear? How do you get to ESPN?
Speaker 1: How do you become the man? And better that he
Speaker 1: is on the way right now on the Beating the
Speaker 1: Book Podcast, enjoy It's a numbers game with your host
Speaker 1: Jil Alexander wants to believe in analytics. It is our
Speaker 1: number two of the numbers game right here at Visa
Speaker 1: the Sports Betting Network, serious XM Channel two or four,
Speaker 1: Visa dot Com, the Visa Half Bubo Sling Game plus
Speaker 1: on down the line. We appreciate it, uh, and a
Speaker 1: special treat today. I know it's all hypothetical. We don't
Speaker 1: know if any of this is going to happen, but
Speaker 1: we got a whole bunch of time on our hands,
Speaker 1: and it's fun to talk about hypothetical football. So we
Speaker 1: bring in the man that I enjoy talking about it
Speaker 1: most with from ESPN's College Game Day. Of course, you
Speaker 1: know him as the Bear. You can also find him
Speaker 1: on Daily Wager and of course the Stanford Stephen the
Speaker 1: Bear podcast with that kind of music in the background,
Speaker 1: that doomsday sound. Ladies and gentlemen, it's Chris Blaka. How
Speaker 1: you doing, Chris. I'm doing well. I'm just passing the
Speaker 1: time and just taking a day by day kind of
Speaker 1: like everybody else right now. And yeah, yeah, it seases
Speaker 1: to put a bunch of stuff up and my uh,
Speaker 1: we're we're we're looking for content at ESPN. A lot
Speaker 1: of people, based on the reaction on my Twitter timeline
Speaker 1: from yesterday, are pretty starved for something to talk about
Speaker 1: and anticipating the hopefulness and potentially they're being some some
Speaker 1: college football to people played either in the fall of
Speaker 1: the winter or even the spring fill up put together
Speaker 1: from some of my favorite potential wind totals in conference,
Speaker 1: and it felt good to do. It was almost like
Speaker 1: a little therapeutic, just because it did give a little
Speaker 1: bit of normal sea to kind of play it, play
Speaker 1: on what hypothetically if the season distant place. Uh here here,
Speaker 1: here are some things that I like to look forward
Speaker 1: to and and uh at some point sports is going
Speaker 1: to be back, and when they are, we're gonna be ready.
Speaker 1: I felt that way to going through like you know,
Speaker 1: the likes of Coastal Carolina's schedule and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Last night. I'm serious, it was it was like, oh wow,
Speaker 1: I forgot like this is fun, so much fun. I
Speaker 1: hope we can get back to this soon before we
Speaker 1: do all that. Because along the lines of what you're saying,
Speaker 1: we also don't get a chance when sports are in
Speaker 1: full steam, you know, full bore, playing them every day
Speaker 1: from sport to sport. We never get a chance to
Speaker 1: just stop and sort of talk about what made the man,
Speaker 1: what made the better that you are today, what were
Speaker 1: the factors that took place? And we don't have to
Speaker 1: spend a great deal of time on this because I
Speaker 1: know people are interested in your your thoughts on season
Speaker 1: wins and on conference futures. But just take us real
Speaker 1: you know, quickly, I don't have to be that quick,
Speaker 1: but just take your time and telling us what were
Speaker 1: the factors? How did you grow up? What was your
Speaker 1: first exposure to betting? Like how did Chris Flieck become
Speaker 1: the bear Man. It's interesting because I think like a
Speaker 1: lot of people. I shouldn't say I think like a
Speaker 1: lot of people because you don't know, but I would
Speaker 1: imagine like many people. Uh, my first really my first
Speaker 1: couple I would of introductions cam to sports gaming. Obviously,
Speaker 1: we're through horse racing. My dad, my dad's uncle H
Speaker 1: used to write for a racing publication, so we would
Speaker 1: go to the track quite a bit, so that that
Speaker 1: was something that I was always around and actually that
Speaker 1: that's kind of like how you and I always joke about,
Speaker 1: I if this one sport left it, it would be
Speaker 1: horse racing me. That was kind of my first real introduction.
Speaker 1: And then in terms of sports, uh, it was the
Speaker 1: silly little parlay cards that everyone's dad would bring home
Speaker 1: from work the body shop or the deli or wherever
Speaker 1: you might have gotten them from H you'd throw together
Speaker 1: a few little team parlay on a couple of those cards,
Speaker 1: and you'd watch the games, maybe an age can or whatever.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't fully understand what what what what getting ten
Speaker 1: points or laying ten points, but but you got it
Speaker 1: pretty quick. So that those are the first reel things
Speaker 1: that introduced me into a into wagering that obviously as
Speaker 1: you get older you understand more. And uh, it's funny.
Speaker 1: My evolution really was more of and and I'll be
Speaker 1: fully transparent here, like I came when I started working
Speaker 1: on Gameberry. I was always a little hesitant to bet
Speaker 1: on games when it technically wasn't legal. Um, I didn't
Speaker 1: want to put myself in a position where, oh, you're
Speaker 1: working at ESPN and you're working on a college football
Speaker 1: show and you're betting on games. It's it's and And
Speaker 1: I was always very GUYF I was in Vegas or
Speaker 1: it's had no no issues. Also, I was always more
Speaker 1: on their people. Obviously you do, but I was always
Speaker 1: into it more from a numbers and angle, a research
Speaker 1: type standpoint, looking at games, looking teams and figuring out
Speaker 1: the number in staller and are we talk about like
Speaker 1: the spread a lot, and because we understood that people
Speaker 1: wanted to know this type of information. So I was
Speaker 1: always I did it more for a an educational type
Speaker 1: uh exercise for for for fans and viewers, more than
Speaker 1: I did it for myself. Like oh wow, on a
Speaker 1: numbers game with with Michael Alexander right here on Visa
Speaker 1: and I'm sorry, Chris, go ahead, Yeah, I guess I
Speaker 1: did more for an entertainment, uh an educational type standpoint
Speaker 1: for uh for for for viewers and listeners, and like
Speaker 1: you look at the number and I oh yeah, and
Speaker 1: I'm saying, I thank you do, but you can touch
Speaker 1: only laying four and a half against whatever. And boy,
Speaker 1: this Michael Vick guy is going to be really good.
Speaker 1: And that's and I can remember that year, uh doing
Speaker 1: my Buddies radio show weekly in Birmingham, Alabama, and I
Speaker 1: probably had one of the most ridiculous runs against the
Speaker 1: spread that I've ever had, and uh, it was crazy.
Speaker 1: And then and then he went up moving on to
Speaker 1: Columbus and the guy who became one of my big friends,
Speaker 1: he was a listener of ian show, and I had
Speaker 1: another great run and he actually like somehow tracked me
Speaker 1: down and set me like a couple of bottles of
Speaker 1: praying and stuff like that for going well. But but yeah,
Speaker 1: it was more from the for the for the viewer
Speaker 1: at first, and then as it became more commonly accepted
Speaker 1: in stuff, you would you would figure out ways to write.
Speaker 1: You know what people are doing it. Everyone knows we're
Speaker 1: doing it and don't don't be so so it so
Speaker 1: gunshy about it when when you're not necessarily in Vegas.
Speaker 1: But I used to like, I mean, we would go
Speaker 1: every year and I'd play a bunch of futures and
Speaker 1: such and uh. But it's crazy to see how really
Speaker 1: widely accepted is right now when it's kind of turned
Speaker 1: into I mean, look on at the FPN right now,
Speaker 1: we have a daily wager show. I talked about sports,
Speaker 1: gambling and college game. So that's one of the better
Speaker 1: shows on our network is openly talking about and giving
Speaker 1: me a platform to to talk about points, breads and games.
Speaker 1: So it's uh, it's pretty darn cool. Um. I missed
Speaker 1: the detail, by the way, if you said your dad's
Speaker 1: uncle wrote for and for a horse racing publication, that's interesting.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that about you back. So you grew
Speaker 1: up in in in New York out in Suffer County
Speaker 1: Online Island. Yeah, and we had a quarter horse. We
Speaker 1: had a quarter horse track out about fifteen ten minutes
Speaker 1: from our house. Obviously we had Belmont and and Roosevelt
Speaker 1: Raceway was there at the time as well, so aqueductly
Speaker 1: was there. So I mean it was a very uh,
Speaker 1: horse racing centric and everybody like, like horses matter. The
Speaker 1: New York the Daily News and Newsday and the Post
Speaker 1: would have like, I mean, they had dedicated racing writers,
Speaker 1: uh doing articles and write ups every day, so I
Speaker 1: would I would always read those to look at those,
Speaker 1: and I just I just started to fascinating And that
Speaker 1: was really how I started really becoming interested in racing
Speaker 1: and running most columns and then looking at the form
Speaker 1: to try and like figure out what they were talking about.
Speaker 1: And I've always few like the Daily Racing Form. The
Speaker 1: amount of information you could find in that publication on
Speaker 1: one little running line just through some some numbers is
Speaker 1: pretty incredible. Talking to Chris Felika from ESPN, of course
Speaker 1: at Chris Felika f A L L I C A
Speaker 1: on Twitter. Last thing, how did you get to the
Speaker 1: University of Miami and then how did you get to ESPN?
Speaker 1: Because I think there's a lot of people listening who
Speaker 1: would love to walk in your footsteps one day, and
Speaker 1: they would love to hear how that path was for you.
Speaker 1: I always knew that I wanted to be involved in sports,
Speaker 1: and I was the kid sitting it's six seven years
Speaker 1: old and my seventy at eighteen seventy nine, getting my
Speaker 1: my easeball scoreshie now keeping track of AH keep the
Speaker 1: score of the Yankees and Angels game and UH in
Speaker 1: the middle of June. So I always knew that I
Speaker 1: wanted to be involved in sports, and I knew I
Speaker 1: wasn't going to be a a Division one college football
Speaker 1: player and anything on baseball player I think al on
Speaker 1: most lines. So I actually in researching colleges, I looked
Speaker 1: for schools and that were a in a big media
Speaker 1: market or had really good media programs, and be also
Speaker 1: that had a very good UH athletic program with its teams,
Speaker 1: or was in a city that had a lot of
Speaker 1: sports teams and I could potentially be involved in. So
Speaker 1: I landed on Miami. I actually got an early admission
Speaker 1: into Miami. So I knew going into my senior year
Speaker 1: of high school that I was going to Miami, and
Speaker 1: it worked out really well because I was able to
Speaker 1: get a really good scholarship and I knew going into
Speaker 1: that year, um I was. I had an internship lined up,
Speaker 1: the student assistant role lined up in the sports infumation department.
Speaker 1: I actually had written a letter and put together some
Speaker 1: of the things that I had done in high school. Uh.
Speaker 1: We had a high school TV show, we had a
Speaker 1: high school newspaper. I would keep statistics her the her
Speaker 1: the basketball team and in the baseball team that after
Speaker 1: playing and such. I would send them all these examples
Speaker 1: of things that I had done. And they got packed
Speaker 1: to me saying, um, you obviously you you are one
Speaker 1: of us. When you get here, come see us. You
Speaker 1: will have a job lined up in the in the
Speaker 1: sports information department. Uh. The guy a little rich Dalrymple,
Speaker 1: who I believe he is still with the the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1: And when I got to Miami and met everybody else,
Speaker 1: they would tell all the stories about how they were
Speaker 1: sitting there and I got my pack of my envelope,
Speaker 1: my resume, I guess I could say at the time
Speaker 1: of all the information and they're are like, Wow, this
Speaker 1: kid is like unbelievable like like laughing at like how
Speaker 1: how like bucked up I was and have serious I yeah,
Speaker 1: but but it worked out. It worked out because then yeah,
Speaker 1: seguent down I got to ESPN. It was because of that.
Speaker 1: Um well, I don't know how many people are familiar
Speaker 1: if it still works out this way at the time.
Speaker 1: But when the Dolphins or the Heat or the Kings, Kings,
Speaker 1: the Dolphins and the Heat of the Marlins and the
Speaker 1: Panthers would have home games, visiting radio, visiting TV would
Speaker 1: need local hires to do stats for a night, UH
Speaker 1: talent stats, broadcast stats for night and for a college
Speaker 1: kid that was great, like they would reach out to
Speaker 1: like the home teams would reach out to us because
Speaker 1: they knew we were capable of doing it and we
Speaker 1: didn't have obligations specifically working for the protein. So here
Speaker 1: I am a college kid making like at the time,
Speaker 1: fifty bucks at night is seventy five bucks at night
Speaker 1: doing stats for for a game and getting to go
Speaker 1: to a game, getting press box food and meeting all
Speaker 1: these people. It was unbelievable. But one night in UH,
Speaker 1: I guess it would have been and the three winter
Speaker 1: of nine three, I had a duty of doing stats
Speaker 1: for w f a N for a Nick Seat game
Speaker 1: and Breen, Mike Breen and Clide Frasier. We were obviously
Speaker 1: the the on air presonalities. And I remember doing the
Speaker 1: game and after the game, I felt I had a
Speaker 1: good game. I felt comfortable and up and my brain
Speaker 1: was awesome. And I said, hey, just I live out
Speaker 1: in Long Island. I'm gonna be going into my senior
Speaker 1: year next year. Are there any internships available at w
Speaker 1: f a N. And like, without hesitations, like absolutely called me.
Speaker 1: Whill we get back from the road trip. I'll set
Speaker 1: you up with who you need to talk to and
Speaker 1: you're good, And I'm like, all right, So did that?
Speaker 1: Followed through, got my internship at w f a N
Speaker 1: for the in between my junior and senior year at Miami,
Speaker 1: and then after I had graduated, I mean, in the
Speaker 1: the internship was great. It was the heyday of w
Speaker 1: f a N with Mike and the Mad Dog and
Speaker 1: Wren Berman and I MS and Drainage still behind and
Speaker 1: it was awesome. And then Jody McKie and Eagle and
Speaker 1: after graduating, one of the producers I got there with
Speaker 1: Bill Rodman who was there at the time. Um he
Speaker 1: ran moving up to ESPN Radio, which was just getting
Speaker 1: picked off the ground. He had gotten win that I
Speaker 1: had just graduated, was looking for a job and at
Speaker 1: the time ESPN Radio was weekends only. He's I said,
Speaker 1: we can't pay you much, but I know you're looking
Speaker 1: for a job. It's the door. And I was literally
Speaker 1: commuting from my parents house on an island where I
Speaker 1: was standing in time as I still had by regular
Speaker 1: like summer job that got me through high school. Um,
Speaker 1: but I want up to I was probably losing money
Speaker 1: in the commute between gas money or ferry money and
Speaker 1: tolls uh to go up to ESPM. But it got
Speaker 1: me in the door. It got my name known. And
Speaker 1: then that spring during the n C Double A tournament
Speaker 1: by the research manager had gotten aimed of radio's got
Speaker 1: some some kids who's like dialed in on college hoops.
Speaker 1: So I got hired. It's like a part time n
Speaker 1: C Double A research tournament researcher. So I think this
Speaker 1: was like nineties, would have been nineties five, it would
Speaker 1: have been, and so so I hired part time. Then
Speaker 1: we kind of figured out some things to do to
Speaker 1: keep me around. And then in nineties, same same thing.
Speaker 1: Basketball researcher, and then in college football game day job
Speaker 1: had opened up and I wind up getting that, and
Speaker 1: then the rest has kind of been uh, sisters, So
Speaker 1: it really worked out. Everything kind of aligned perfectly for me.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, I was willing to go
Speaker 1: out there and not necessarily take to take a paying
Speaker 1: job and just do what I had to do in
Speaker 1: order to be seen. And if I had to do
Speaker 1: it over again, it probably wouldn't have been much that
Speaker 1: I would have changed for this experiences and the things
Speaker 1: I've done and the people I've met, Uh to get
Speaker 1: me to worry now that we've been pretty amazing. I
Speaker 1: appreciate you sharing that because I'm sure there's more than
Speaker 1: a few people out there listening who will be inspired
Speaker 1: by that. UM. You know, you and I were a
Speaker 1: type right where that kid that was obsessed with sports
Speaker 1: and and could see us doing nothing else but this, UM.
Speaker 1: And it's a great story, and look, a lot of
Speaker 1: it is good fortune. But as the saying goes, you know,
Speaker 1: luck is where preparation meets opportunity, and you were always
Speaker 1: prepared for that opportunity to come and and you know,
Speaker 1: fast forward to you go in the final fours, and
Speaker 1: Masters and getting in ain texts all day long for
Speaker 1: me and it's fabulous. I should be I should be
Speaker 1: on I should be on my way to Augusta right now.
Speaker 1: You should be that. I should be on the imustting today.
Speaker 1: I head down to us right now after watching the
Speaker 1: the National Championship Team courts that was by Alan McDonough.
Speaker 1: But here we are. I'm talking to you, and that's
Speaker 1: not too bad. And I'm healthy, I have a job,
Speaker 1: I'm good. Whatever it's gonna happen, we're going to get
Speaker 1: through this. And that the goal right now is to
Speaker 1: just listen to the medical people and in do your
Speaker 1: part to get us through this. As quod please we
Speaker 1: can totally well said um. And with that as a
Speaker 1: backdrop again knowing that I can't in good conscience say
Speaker 1: to folks, hey, go out and bet these because if
Speaker 1: I don't know a season is going to happen, that's
Speaker 1: sort of not my instinct. As I was talking with
Speaker 1: Las Vegas Chris about yesterday, it's not our instincts is
Speaker 1: better to go as better as to go out and
Speaker 1: bet things that we don't know it's going to happen.
Speaker 1: But um, I still love the process. Of going through these,
Speaker 1: because in the event that it does happen, Uh, this
Speaker 1: is great insight to have. So without further ado, sir,
Speaker 1: and we will be interrupted by commercials. But um, without
Speaker 1: further ado, let's get into some of these. You just
Speaker 1: wrote a piece at ESPN dot com, your what I
Speaker 1: like to call your manifesto of college football season wins
Speaker 1: and conference futures. Let's begin with one. How do you
Speaker 1: want to do this? You want me to just sort
Speaker 1: of say what they are, say a few words and
Speaker 1: then throw it to you to flesh them out. Whatever
Speaker 1: you want to do. All right, Let's let's start with
Speaker 1: a Let's start with a pretty uh what would be
Speaker 1: obvious to some and his heavy chalk, Uh, the A
Speaker 1: C C. You've got Clemson to win the A C C.
Speaker 1: And I believe the numbers like minus six hundred or
Speaker 1: something like that. But it's one of these bets that
Speaker 1: minus six hundred just isn't high enough for. Is it? Basically?
Speaker 1: What you're saying here, because if you look at their
Speaker 1: schedule and again with all these and all of these
Speaker 1: people should know, is there's a I say this with
Speaker 1: my baseball season win totals too, there's a best case
Speaker 1: scenario for teams, there's a worst case scenario, and then
Speaker 1: there's the spectrum of everything that could happen in between.
Speaker 1: Right if everything breaks right, if everything goes bad. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: if you're Clemson, what's the break? I mean you look
Speaker 1: at their schedule. Okay, you lose it, Notre Dame, not
Speaker 1: a conference game, um, and then what you play the
Speaker 1: one game where you're messing around and you end up
Speaker 1: winning by a point, like that's Clemson's thing. But they're
Speaker 1: winning the A C C for goodness sake, Yeah they are.
Speaker 1: And you mentioned that the way the SEC schedule shakes
Speaker 1: down for them. They go to Florida State, who you
Speaker 1: would assume it is going to be improved with Norvell
Speaker 1: in his first years and coach. But so this is
Speaker 1: a team that the last two years is lost fifty nine,
Speaker 1: ten and ten uh to Clemson, And you go back
Speaker 1: to the stuffing loss on that Friday night at Syracuse.
Speaker 1: You're looking at Clemson who has won twenty straight ACC
Speaker 1: games thirty three points a game, when three of those
Speaker 1: games have been decided by fewer than two touchdowns. But
Speaker 1: they've got more wings by seven touchdowns five than they
Speaker 1: do by wins by fewer than two touchdowns in that's matches.
Speaker 1: It's been utterly dominant. Um, you can't even really say
Speaker 1: for sure who's going to come out of the coastal
Speaker 1: that potentially play them in the SEC Championship. Are you
Speaker 1: Are you sure it's going to be North Carolina? I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't want to heck of a lot better than
Speaker 1: seven to one on North Carolina to win the SEC
Speaker 1: and they're gonna get a change of them. And sure,
Speaker 1: it looks like Miami has their quarterback now and they've
Speaker 1: got a good defensive line and we show but they
Speaker 1: still they have issues in the offensive line. Uh, they're
Speaker 1: they're they're still is going to be retold from So
Speaker 1: I can't say for certain you would be Miami getting
Speaker 1: to the SEC game on the other side until further
Speaker 1: notice the CCS clumbs into the you've got to lock
Speaker 1: up money for a long time and maybe you wait
Speaker 1: a little bit that. I don't know what the ligas
Speaker 1: are a caesers or what they're taking on the app
Speaker 1: or how you can do this, but I I just
Speaker 1: I just don't see any way around clumps in the
Speaker 1: a SEC. Yeah, No, I'm glad you. You put that
Speaker 1: caveat in there too. By the way, again, for those
Speaker 1: who missed it, the reason that we're going through these
Speaker 1: is because Caesar's released a hundred thirty college football season
Speaker 1: win totals yesterday. And you're right, Chris, Before we get
Speaker 1: tweets from people who who you know, are convinced they
Speaker 1: know more than we do. We don't know what the
Speaker 1: limits are, right, so we we don't expect it. We
Speaker 1: don't expect it to be big. Um, but we got
Speaker 1: about what we got about thirteen of these to get through,
Speaker 1: and the insight is what we're after. Uh. For those
Speaker 1: who do want to bet on these things, we got
Speaker 1: six more season wind totals coming up, excuse me, six
Speaker 1: more futures conference futures that is that we're starting with,
Speaker 1: and then six season win totals on the way with
Speaker 1: Chris Felika. Um, I want to I'm tempted to get
Speaker 1: into one now, but we have to get to a
Speaker 1: commercial here in a second, so I don't want to
Speaker 1: break it up, but I'll tease it by saying Big
Speaker 1: twelve on the way. People will like a pretty sexy,
Speaker 1: uh longest shot in the Big twelve. You won't be
Speaker 1: so surprised by the big ten play a absolutely not
Speaker 1: absolutely not play a team not to play in the
Speaker 1: back twelve uh sec thoughts, I believe we've got the
Speaker 1: mac coming up the mountain west and then again a
Speaker 1: handful let's count them. Six season win totals all over
Speaker 1: the country, uh Sun, Bell, Elton and Conference USA teams included.
Speaker 1: On the way with Chris Felika, the bear from ESPNS
Speaker 1: College Game Day College Football, we hope we'll talk about
Speaker 1: it all hour long right here on the Numbers Game
Speaker 1: at Visa the Sports Betting Network. Oh, I got to
Speaker 1: talk about a family feud. Champion of the Ages. On
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Speaker 1: Ben mgm app. Chris Felika joining us for the hour
Speaker 1: to talk college football season wins and conference futures. Chris,
Speaker 1: before we resume, please tell everybody how annoying all of
Speaker 1: my family feud texts were last night. You can be honest,
Speaker 1: no not. You had given me equality scouting report about
Speaker 1: ten days or two weeks ago. On the be on
Speaker 1: the lookout for Meg Laslap is the greatest family Feud
Speaker 1: player of all time and she would get a cold
Speaker 1: blooded assassin. Last night. She was great. However, that that
Speaker 1: that episode was preceded by one of the great performances
Speaker 1: Carla Daily. Maybe I don't know what what Daily as her last,
Speaker 1: but Carla from The Daily Daily's Emily one. I mean
Speaker 1: it nearly got the two bills by herself and Fast
Speaker 1: Money five number one answers. It was. It was an
Speaker 1: unbloodable performance. And the funny thing is that her teammate
Speaker 1: stepped up to the plate and got a bagel on
Speaker 1: the first answer, so it was kind of funny, and
Speaker 1: then obviously that they got on the second up. But
Speaker 1: but it was the best Fast Money performance that I
Speaker 1: have ever seen. Well, it's amazing. It's amazing. It's amazing
Speaker 1: what you watch these days and sit there and I
Speaker 1: got back and forth with a with actually not not
Speaker 1: not out Eric, but another buddy of mine, Eric, and uh,
Speaker 1: we'll like set hypothetical lines like after like the my
Speaker 1: mine is two seventy five to get to you plus
Speaker 1: plus four, and it's kind of stimple, like we're like
Speaker 1: making hypothetical fund that's what There's nothing else going on
Speaker 1: right now, But it's kind of funny and just almost
Speaker 1: like therapeutic to to watch some of these old episodes
Speaker 1: right now and just uh, it's a mindless it's mindless,
Speaker 1: thankfless television. So you can sit there and just have
Speaker 1: that one really loud belly laugh. It's some of the
Speaker 1: ridiculous answers that goad and I'd like to throw it out,
Speaker 1: but but but that's usually usually my wife. She gets
Speaker 1: up a little earlier though, But I do now the
Speaker 1: reason that it came up. Yeah, the reason that it
Speaker 1: came up, by the way, is because I was in
Speaker 1: Terse and Keikos. Chris subsequently went to ters and Keikos
Speaker 1: that's your spot. I went on on your recommendation, and
Speaker 1: you casually had mentioned to me, Yeah, Molly and I
Speaker 1: we spent so much time watching family feud over and over,
Speaker 1: and I go, oh my god, that's what I never
Speaker 1: songs fashion stylist. And I did, and I felt myself
Speaker 1: getting progressively dumber with each with each viewing. But I
Speaker 1: said to you, as you said at the time, I go,
Speaker 1: but you know, I watched this one family, the Lathrops,
Speaker 1: and their captain Meg Lathrop. She's the greatest family feud
Speaker 1: player that I've ever seen. And last night, sure enough
Speaker 1: on Game Show Network, the rerun of a game on
Speaker 1: And let's just put it this way. When when the
Speaker 1: Lathrop family got knocked out, Steve Harvey and I quote
Speaker 1: Steve Harvey says as he's shaking their hands, he goes,
Speaker 1: let me tell you something. Your family was an absolute pleasure.
Speaker 1: You were a great family man. You all were great TV.
Speaker 1: You were great TV. You broke a record. Baby. Basically,
Speaker 1: meg Lather was just number one answers left it right. Anyway,
Speaker 1: if you can YouTube the Lathrop family on Family Feud,
Speaker 1: there's your recommendation. Can we do? Can we do the
Speaker 1: Big Ten? Because that's obviously somewhat similar to the A
Speaker 1: C C although not similar because for Clemson it's sort
Speaker 1: of a free ride. But if we could just jump
Speaker 1: over to uh, your pick of Ohio State? Um, this
Speaker 1: is what is it? Plus Swan fifty? Is that right
Speaker 1: on Ohio State to win the Big Ten? Um? You know,
Speaker 1: I think it was minus forty. I'm sorry for you.
Speaker 1: I had that wrong. I apologize minus one forty. But
Speaker 1: in two minutes here explain you're thinking on Ohio State.
Speaker 1: I guess there's not much. I mean there's Look, there's
Speaker 1: at Michigan State, at Penn State mid season that could
Speaker 1: always be a trip up. There's Michigan at the end.
Speaker 1: Hardball hasn't solved that puzzle yet. Um yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: there's at Oregon early, but that doesn't really scare me.
Speaker 1: I guess it doesn't scare you either. But this is
Speaker 1: the big ten we're talking about for Ohio State. Mine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I canna say the Origon game is really a non
Speaker 1: starter in terms of the Big ten the result there,
Speaker 1: but I can't Michigan State. I think it's going to
Speaker 1: be really talent avoid uh this year. They they they
Speaker 1: don't have a time at all coming back, and you
Speaker 1: get a coaching change, so pretty much what's gonna happen. Though,
Speaker 1: I think this is gonna be a very long first
Speaker 1: year for Melt, Tucker and Spark. And so I don't
Speaker 1: know if I did it with you or if I
Speaker 1: did it with somebody else last year, but we talked
Speaker 1: about how the work concern a lot of people had
Speaker 1: about Ohio State last year. There was always seemed to
Speaker 1: have that one game under Erbic Buyer where they were
Speaker 1: a big favorite and they slip up and struggling, and
Speaker 1: I had thrown out there. I'm like, you know what,
Speaker 1: maybe that's gonna change this year. Sometimes a little bit
Speaker 1: of change a different Maybe the message wasn't getting through
Speaker 1: now maybe it will. And they annihilated everybody last year,
Speaker 1: so I'm not concerned about them going on the road
Speaker 1: and maybe struggling with Michigan State, Like maybe that would
Speaker 1: have been in the past. You've got Michigan at home.
Speaker 1: They haven't been closed. I cannot see that the talent
Speaker 1: gap between High State is slowly turning into a little
Speaker 1: bit of a Clemson Uh in the AE. Seeing how
Speaker 1: the game of Penn State would be the one that
Speaker 1: concerns me. The lost there four years ago, two years ago,
Speaker 1: they had a big fourth quarter to come back, so
Speaker 1: I think they could still. I gotta jump in here,
Speaker 1: and Chris, I gotta jump in here. Break. Most importantly,
Speaker 1: no Minnesota, No Wisconsin will come back. Sexy or Picks
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Speaker 1: if you've missed it so far. Clemson to win the
Speaker 1: a C C minus six hundred we know, but justified
Speaker 1: nonetheless in Ohio State minus one forty to win the
Speaker 1: Big tenant I mentioned going to break. One of the
Speaker 1: breaks if you will, that Ohio State gets is breaks
Speaker 1: and quotes because it's Ohio State. But it doesn't hurt
Speaker 1: that they don't have to play the likes of Wisconsin
Speaker 1: or Minnesota. That helps along the way as well. Let's
Speaker 1: do some of the sexier ones here. Let's get to
Speaker 1: the big twelve. Iowa State Chris at ten to one. Now,
Speaker 1: I talked earlier about how there's a good case scenario, great,
Speaker 1: a best case, and there's a worst case. Uh, and
Speaker 1: that applies to every single team. But in some teams cases,
Speaker 1: there's no question that that gap is pretty dramatic, and
Speaker 1: I would consider the cyclones one of them. I mean,
Speaker 1: if I look at the best case, and I guess,
Speaker 1: if you're taking a ten to one, you're you're leaning
Speaker 1: this way. If I look at the best case before
Speaker 1: they're open date in mid August, I don't know, Maybe
Speaker 1: they you know, maybe they go to Iowa and they win,
Speaker 1: and let's say they split Oklahoma State in Oklahoma. Maybe
Speaker 1: they split at TCU and at Texas later, but they
Speaker 1: went all their home games, it's a two lost season.
Speaker 1: I could also see that schedule going really bad for them,
Speaker 1: and then losing half of their games too, but you
Speaker 1: clearly uh lean towards the former, you could I just yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're they're one of those teams that really can't shake
Speaker 1: because you view the upside of you see last year
Speaker 1: they were really young and a lot of positions, uh,
Speaker 1: running back and receiver on in certain spots on defense,
Speaker 1: you got block Purty back at quarterback. And you think
Speaker 1: at some point they're gonna get a little positive regression,
Speaker 1: uh in some of these close games and some of
Speaker 1: these turnovers if you go back as as you go
Speaker 1: about the last four years or so in games decided
Speaker 1: by a field goal or less of foreign so you
Speaker 1: would think at some point they're going to get a
Speaker 1: little bit better luck. Again, this is I don't think
Speaker 1: the Big Twelve is as easy as Oklahoma and everybody
Speaker 1: else this year. In fact, I would love to see
Speaker 1: a promp that out there. I yes, no prop will
Speaker 1: Oklahoma make the Big Twelve championship game, because I don't
Speaker 1: think it's a lot that they do it all this year.
Speaker 1: I think I always State, I think Texas, I think
Speaker 1: Oklahoma State. Uh, certainly those teams all have I think
Speaker 1: pretty good cases to potentially get there. But but I
Speaker 1: think if you look if you look at Iowa State, UM,
Speaker 1: I think this year with pretty coming back and the
Speaker 1: experience they had last year, but they very easily could
Speaker 1: have won a Norman last year. Uh, they very easily
Speaker 1: could have won against Iowa in that weird game that
Speaker 1: had a hour hours long weather delay, and they blew
Speaker 1: a game at Baylor. This is a team that last
Speaker 1: year very easily could have been tended to. So I
Speaker 1: think they're really really close, and I think it tends
Speaker 1: to one. I think it's like going to work the shop. Alright,
Speaker 1: This one is not a play on. This is just
Speaker 1: a note from you. Don't play usc at plus two
Speaker 1: fifty uh to win the pack twelve. Forget about Alabama
Speaker 1: and Notre Dame as book ends. Those are hard enough,
Speaker 1: but we're talking pack twelve here. I'm with you. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of road games that they could trip up
Speaker 1: here on Stanford is I know people are like, oh, Stafford,
Speaker 1: it's always gonna be trouble at Stanford, at Utah, at Oregon,
Speaker 1: at u c l A. Uh, don't play usc at
Speaker 1: plus two fifty to win the pack twelve, is what
Speaker 1: you're saying. Yeah, the price just doesn't justify because in
Speaker 1: the month, I know its South is not a great division,
Speaker 1: and the sc has got slogans and a bunch of
Speaker 1: guys coming back. But but at the same time, is
Speaker 1: it worth really taking plus two fifty on a team
Speaker 1: that you're not necessarily sure is going to get there?
Speaker 1: When it they get to the Patrols Championship Game, probably
Speaker 1: gonna be it won't maybe be plus two fifty, but
Speaker 1: they'll probably be for the playing Wagon. They'll probably still
Speaker 1: be a small dog. So I just don't think the
Speaker 1: risk reward is worth it at that at at short
Speaker 1: of a number. I still think Oregon is the best
Speaker 1: team in the Pac twelves, but again there um there
Speaker 1: are a short plus two hundreds, So again I don't
Speaker 1: think that the risk award there is more than forgan
Speaker 1: in the Pac twelve. It's interesting one team that you
Speaker 1: and I have talked about in the past is Stanford.
Speaker 1: It's amazing to look at the Caesar's Conference title features,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if any of the other ones
Speaker 1: are out there, but the only two teams with shorter
Speaker 1: rods or should it say longer rods to win the
Speaker 1: past twelve with Stanford for Arizona in Colorado. I mean, wow,
Speaker 1: have the mighty of fall. Wow, no kidding, Let's go
Speaker 1: to the SEC. You've got Georgia at plus three fifty
Speaker 1: to win the SEC. I look at their conference schedule. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there is at Bama, that's for sure. There they do
Speaker 1: avoid l s U, but they get Auburn at home.
Speaker 1: They got Florida of course in Jacksonville. Uh, you're all
Speaker 1: about Jamie Newman and the Bulldogs. I am, and I'm
Speaker 1: really all about their defense. I think this defense I've
Speaker 1: been told that Kirby thinks that this could be, uh
Speaker 1: among the right there with the best defensive units he's had,
Speaker 1: which includes but once he's had and the ones he's
Speaker 1: had at Alabama that one national championship. So I think
Speaker 1: we all got a little bit of a steek peaked
Speaker 1: last year in the Sugar Bowl. How good, uh this
Speaker 1: defense can be. I think Newman is gonna be a
Speaker 1: difference maker a quarterback this year. His ability to run
Speaker 1: and throw the deep ball to picking some of the
Speaker 1: other young guys they have. I think his legs will
Speaker 1: be a big factor this year because they the Dogs
Speaker 1: do lose a couple of people on the offensive line
Speaker 1: so so I think a mobile quarterback will be able
Speaker 1: to help there. And even if you mentioned the game
Speaker 1: in Alabama, if they go to Alabama and lose, all
Speaker 1: they really need to do is be Florida in the
Speaker 1: cocktail party and they're going to get that to the
Speaker 1: SEC championship game with the chance to avenge that locks
Speaker 1: against Alabama or A and M or l s U
Speaker 1: or Albert who who never ultimate leasing on the other side.
Speaker 1: But if if I were holding George plus money in
Speaker 1: Alabama plus money, I would feel pretty good about that position. Uls.
Speaker 1: You would be a team that I wouldn't really be
Speaker 1: looking at a player. I think at eight one, UH,
Speaker 1: you'll lose Joe Brady, you leave Stave Randah, You'll you'll
Speaker 1: all lose Joe Burrow, You'll lose Edwards, and you'll you'll
Speaker 1: lose Queen and Daddy and way too many and justin Jefferson,
Speaker 1: you'll lose way too many guys for my liking to
Speaker 1: be able to repeat that title. Run for last You
Speaker 1: all right, Chris Dan, But we got a lot to
Speaker 1: get to, including the your bets for conference champion UH
Speaker 1: in the MAC in the Mountain West and then six
Speaker 1: season win totals coming back. Chris Flika on a numbers
Speaker 1: game at vast in these sports betting Now welcome back
Speaker 1: to a number game with Jill Alexander. All Right, more
Speaker 1: with my man, Chris Felika at Chris Felika f A
Speaker 1: L L I C A on Twitter. Alright, last two
Speaker 1: conference futures that you like, Let's go to the mac
Speaker 1: ball state, which you can get at eight to one.
Speaker 1: I would imagine this will come down to forget at
Speaker 1: Michigan at Indiana. Those are big ten games, those tough enough.
Speaker 1: But in the conference, I would imagine it comes down
Speaker 1: to at Buffalo, at Miami and at Toledo. Those are
Speaker 1: probably where it uh where it turns, and that this
Speaker 1: is a team that when all win three last year
Speaker 1: in games st of a four point so less against
Speaker 1: some of the better teams. Uh in the back, but
Speaker 1: I think the Sea there were the ingredients for a
Speaker 1: breakthrough season or there. Uh. Quarterback to a pittis back
Speaker 1: in a punt meeting, the leading runnerings back basically the
Speaker 1: entire office of line and the leading one. See we
Speaker 1: are back the back seven, the linebacker and defensive back
Speaker 1: units should be really really good. Among the backs best,
Speaker 1: and I think this could be a year where ball
Speaker 1: State eclipse as their win total. You could make a
Speaker 1: run towards the back title. Alright, last conference future in
Speaker 1: the Mountain West. You like Boise State, UM, just looking
Speaker 1: at their schedule, what a what an interesting start to
Speaker 1: their schedule with two strange offenses in Georgia Southern and
Speaker 1: at air Force. They also then have the Florida State
Speaker 1: game rematch up an amazing game last year. Only air
Speaker 1: Force counts about regarding the conference among those three games.
Speaker 1: But how do you see Boise States path here? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: and this is minus five and I think it should
Speaker 1: be higher the Mountain West's it's a lead. This guy
Speaker 1: thinking a little bit of flux right now between your
Speaker 1: coaches that are gone from San Diego State, probably like
Speaker 1: Jordan lug has gone air Force. He's tied up retooling
Speaker 1: this year. Uh boy, she wasn't gonna be had last
Speaker 1: year with a freshman quarterback, a frustrating back, each us
Speaker 1: a quarterback and all the turnover there. When are we
Speaker 1: when are we get gonna happen time? I think boys,
Speaker 1: and it probably should be higher. And they get b
Speaker 1: YU at home. That certainly doesn't hurt either. Alright, season wins.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the the sun Belt, the coastal Carolina
Speaker 1: four and a half? Which way going over? Under? I'm
Speaker 1: going I'm going over. There were five and seven last year.
Speaker 1: Uh they beat Kansas last year that lost four four
Speaker 1: one score games, including a triple overtime game leading rush receive.
Speaker 1: You Marable was back when of the better defensive players
Speaker 1: turned Jackson and a double jud tax last year is back.
Speaker 1: I mean a repeat of five and seven to get enough.
Speaker 1: And I think you look at up games like Jaqueine,
Speaker 1: South Alabama, Arkansas State, Georgia, Southern Texas State, Eastern Michigan, Kansas.
Speaker 1: All those games are potentially winna bull. So I think
Speaker 1: this could be the year that the Shots break through
Speaker 1: and go to a bowl. Yeah that before they're open date.
Speaker 1: They have an open date October tenth. But as you said,
Speaker 1: besides South Carolina at Eastern Michigan win a bull, Duquesne
Speaker 1: certainly got to win that. Kansas win a bull, Arkansas State,
Speaker 1: you can win that. You could have three wins perhaps
Speaker 1: can servatively before the open day if all goes well.
Speaker 1: I like this one more than any of your season
Speaker 1: win totals. Arizona in the pack twelve under four and
Speaker 1: a half plus one thirty five. I'm which you explain,
Speaker 1: I don't see where five wins are coming from. Uh,
Speaker 1: your defense was one of but was was one of
Speaker 1: the worst of the country last year in terms of
Speaker 1: expected points hundreds and third, you'll lose two little tight
Speaker 1: You'll lose J. J. Taylor when you won four games
Speaker 1: last year and that included d D. Texas Tech and
Speaker 1: U C. L A at home. You go to both
Speaker 1: Lubbock and Pasadena this year, and both of those teams
Speaker 1: should be better, uh than they were last year. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think there's a good chance they go over the
Speaker 1: road on their park Swall slate and you get USC
Speaker 1: Oregon on Arizona State three. You the better teams in
Speaker 1: the parks Wall at home, so there's certainly no lock
Speaker 1: that they're going to beat the multiple wins at home
Speaker 1: over those teams. YEA would probably be Hawaii im Portland
Speaker 1: State at home to Toba in the ear even though
Speaker 1: Todd Graham former or the state coach might want to
Speaker 1: have a little something to say about that with away
Speaker 1: in the in the early season game. But yeah, even
Speaker 1: if they do start too and oh, I don't know
Speaker 1: if there's three wins more on that schedule. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean another otherwise put before their open date, which is
Speaker 1: at the end of September. It's Hawaii at home forget
Speaker 1: Portland's state for a minute, but then it's Stanford and
Speaker 1: at Texas Tech. I mean, there's a scenario there where
Speaker 1: Kevin Sumlin is on the hottest of hot seats before
Speaker 1: they even get to their hardest half dozen football games.
Speaker 1: So I'm completely with you on that. Let's go to
Speaker 1: Conference USA. Oh, du Old Dominion the Monarchs. How do
Speaker 1: you see them? Their number, by the way, is three. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's three plus one twenty and I'll the six it
Speaker 1: up putting the call, which is probably the least favorite.
Speaker 1: But but I think there's things can look at there.
Speaker 1: I mean, they were one of the worst offensive teams
Speaker 1: in the country last year. Enter forward pennch date offensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: are Ricky Annie as their head coach and as bad
Speaker 1: as things we are, five parks down passes there, leading
Speaker 1: rusher had like three hundred and fifty yards. They lost
Speaker 1: three one score games. The defense hung in there for
Speaker 1: most of the year, and now with Ronnie coming in,
Speaker 1: I can't help, but think that they will improve. And
Speaker 1: we had one and eleven last year. But there's a
Speaker 1: chance that you talked to we talked about Arizona and
Speaker 1: they're having a bunch of Coast of Carolina A bout
Speaker 1: your winds. Rather early on you get Hampton, f I
Speaker 1: U Middle Tennessee Yukon in E T s A about
Speaker 1: good October. So there's certainly a chance that could win
Speaker 1: three of those games. Yeah, if if you figure Hampton,
Speaker 1: Yukon and U T s A, which are played by
Speaker 1: mid October. And I know U T s A some
Speaker 1: fans are going to object to this, but if you
Speaker 1: if if that's your handicap, then it's a free role
Speaker 1: from that point forward. Right at three, it's plus money.
Speaker 1: So I get it's your least favorite, but I get
Speaker 1: why you would include it. I'll talking to CHRISTALLNK. Of course,
Speaker 1: let's go to the big tent and we got three
Speaker 1: more of these per do uh? Their season win total
Speaker 1: is set at at five and you like the over
Speaker 1: here at minus one oh five. I like you over
Speaker 1: a lot. I'd be shocked as Jeff Bromstein didn't win
Speaker 1: six games this year. I mean they did there weren't
Speaker 1: many teams nationally that we're bit by the injury bug
Speaker 1: as bad as the Boiler Beakers were last year. You
Speaker 1: have David Bell and rogdal Moore on your offense, and
Speaker 1: that's a pretty dam good place to start. All of
Speaker 1: the injuries and inexperience of last year, that all the
Speaker 1: pain of last year will they'll be better off for that,
Speaker 1: uh this year on the field. And and I don't sure.
Speaker 1: I don't think they will start six and oh, but
Speaker 1: it's certainly possible. And I also have a game against
Speaker 1: its Western at home. Minnesota will probably regress a little
Speaker 1: bit with all those one score games and that last year,
Speaker 1: and the least your offensive coordinator, and you still have
Speaker 1: Wisconsin and IOW will come into West Lafayette. So I
Speaker 1: would be shocked if Perdue you not win six games. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you you hit on exactly what I would have there,
Speaker 1: which is the schedule is easier early, right, And so
Speaker 1: there is a scenario where they go six and o
Speaker 1: or five and one, and of course they avoid Michigan State,
Speaker 1: they avoid Ohio State, they avoid Penn State, none of
Speaker 1: whom are on their schedules. So you could have a
Speaker 1: pretty pleasant bet if Perdue gets off to a good start,
Speaker 1: or maybe it's the sweat of a lifetime down the
Speaker 1: stretch a sec wake Forest. You are not as bullish
Speaker 1: on their number there at seven. The under is a
Speaker 1: dog at plus one forty five. But you don't You
Speaker 1: don't see them getting to seven, do you. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't see you getting seven, and I certainly don't see
Speaker 1: them getting to eight to lose. An any awakens the
Speaker 1: team that I've been high on lately. I've had them
Speaker 1: over a couple of times in the last few years.
Speaker 1: They've cashed tickets for me. But you lose Jamie Neom
Speaker 1: in your quarterback, you lose your leading rush for kay Karneie.
Speaker 1: You gose three year top four wide receivers. Uh, you're
Speaker 1: not gonna eat Clemson. You've got a game against Notre Dame,
Speaker 1: but you'll probably lose. You've got road games at Florida
Speaker 1: State and Losable. So if you lose those four games,
Speaker 1: which I think you're four topas games, you've got to
Speaker 1: run the table to you. I don't. I don't see
Speaker 1: that's happening. I think push at seven is as white
Speaker 1: is a really good possibility, But I just don't see
Speaker 1: eight and the loss agree Clemson, Notre Dame in Charlotte,
Speaker 1: at Florida State, Miami at home at Louisville, at NC
Speaker 1: State at Duke. Yeah, where are you getting seven wins?
Speaker 1: I mean, even if you give them a couple of
Speaker 1: those right at seven at best, it would seem I'm
Speaker 1: with you there. And finally, and we hate to pick
Speaker 1: on this team perennially, but somehow we do. The Kansas Jayhawks, Chris, Uh,
Speaker 1: they are they are set. Um, you didn't get a
Speaker 1: chance to avy for a national championship in college basketball
Speaker 1: this year. Um, guess what. It's not gonna happen in
Speaker 1: football either. Three and a half got the under Yeah,
Speaker 1: I I do. Look, they were a pleasant surprise last
Speaker 1: year and winning three games, nearly beating Texas and Austin
Speaker 1: last year. But uh, people talking about canvas football on
Speaker 1: a positive light and excitement with left miles. But now
Speaker 1: comes the hard part repeating that building on it and again,
Speaker 1: I just don't see where where the Wings are coming from. Defensively,
Speaker 1: they lose a ton and they really weren't great productive defensively.
Speaker 1: Led you you're basically starting over at quarterback. I think
Speaker 1: both sides of the ball on the line, you're you're
Speaker 1: you're kind of thin, and yeah, maybe you start three
Speaker 1: in one if you happen to beat your Hamsford BC
Speaker 1: and winning Coastal Carolina who you lost that. But you're
Speaker 1: at Bailey or at Kansas State, You're at West Virginia
Speaker 1: who you lost through last year. You're at Texas Tech,
Speaker 1: you're at Oklahoma. You're not winning any of those games.
Speaker 1: Iowa State, Oklahoma State, Texas in PC you were your
Speaker 1: home games. I mean, I think there's a chance, certainly
Speaker 1: a better than a miniscule chance that they don't win
Speaker 1: a big twelve game. And if if that happens, you're
Speaker 1: certainly gonna when you're getting Even if they win one
Speaker 1: game as a chance, I'll though, uh, they'll only manage
Speaker 1: tune on conference wins and they will give you brill
Speaker 1: in mind. So hopefully think the future is brighter for real.
Speaker 1: I think this is like a step that type of
Speaker 1: year for Kansas potentially took a couple of steps calling
Speaker 1: potentially next year. Yeah, um, there have been hiccups, but
Speaker 1: certainly perennially we don't uh, we don't think great things
Speaker 1: about Kansas. If there was a prop I don't know
Speaker 1: how much I would lay how high I would lay
Speaker 1: to to have Kansas win exactly two games. Just feels
Speaker 1: like a two win season if in fact we get
Speaker 1: this off. Let's review him, Chris. We'll put them up
Speaker 1: on the screen at Visa dot Com and the Visa app.
Speaker 1: You said that you like Old Dominion the least of
Speaker 1: your season win totals. What do you think you like
Speaker 1: the best of those? I would say to do and
Speaker 1: then Ari Sauna would be the cue that I drank it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm sorry, sorry, go ahead, no, No. As far
Speaker 1: as the conference futures, he's it's it's obvious. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's got to be Clemson. I mean, if you're willing
Speaker 1: to you're willing to tie up that money for a
Speaker 1: couple of months, pick to get your return on it
Speaker 1: in know we December potentially if you've got that guy
Speaker 1: had I don't like a limit to ay, but what
Speaker 1: what makes it working to you? But it's got to
Speaker 1: be Clemson as the UH as the best, and then
Speaker 1: it probably I think I think Georgia. I think Boys
Speaker 1: would be the one after that then Georgia. Okay, all right, Chris,
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Chris, fa Leika, Thank you so much. Man
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