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Speaker 1: Will Howard here and he's not a concern. I would

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Speaker 1: list him more as the question will Howard's played big

427
00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:25,840
Speaker 1: in moments before. He just didn't against Michigan. That's the

428
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Speaker 1: freshest memory in everyone's mind. Mine included, Ohio State fans included,

429
00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:33,280
Speaker 1: and so a lot of that could go into how

430
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Speaker 1: they called that game. I'm willing to listen to all that,

431
00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:39,400
Speaker 1: but I'm just saying absent all that, because that same

432
00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:41,120
Speaker 1: coaching staff is going to be calling this game as well.

433
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Speaker 1: So absent all that. Tennessee's better than Michigan. I know

434
00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:46,560
Speaker 1: that's breaking news to a lot of folks, and I

435
00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:50,320
Speaker 1: know Michigan gave you ample pushback that Saturday afternoon in Columbus.

436
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Speaker 1: But this is a really, really good Tennessee team here.

437
00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:55,520
Speaker 1: They're not going to give you a lot and I

438
00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:57,719
Speaker 1: don't think that you're going to run the ball incredibly

439
00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:02,120
Speaker 1: effectively against them. So we've got a concern on offensive line.

440
00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:05,120
Speaker 1: We've got a question mark at the quarterback position. Now.

441
00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:08,440
Speaker 1: I think Ohio State's got to swerve their identity a

442
00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:11,240
Speaker 1: little bit in the way they call this game versus

443
00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:14,760
Speaker 1: the way they called the Tennessee game. They're facing the

444
00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:18,760
Speaker 1: number eight run defense in the country. They're facing the

445
00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:23,560
Speaker 1: number twelve pressure rate defense in the country. So when

446
00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:26,720
Speaker 1: I watched them, and when all of you watched Ohio

447
00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:30,560
Speaker 1: State play Michigan, you probably thought to yourself the same

448
00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:32,480
Speaker 1: thing I thought, which is man, they look like they're

449
00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:34,840
Speaker 1: just trying to lean on Michigan. They look like they

450
00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:37,760
Speaker 1: want to be the bully against Michigan. Uh. Oh, it's

451
00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:41,080
Speaker 1: not working. Why are they continuing to stick with that?

452
00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:45,560
Speaker 1: Help help pull the nose up? Oh? Done? They lose.

453
00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:49,320
Speaker 1: I do not expect a duplicate performance here. So that

454
00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:52,520
Speaker 1: means you have to look at Jeremiah Smith, you have

455
00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:54,360
Speaker 1: to look at Tate, you have to look at Agbuka.

456
00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:56,560
Speaker 1: You have to say, we recruited these guys for a reason.

457
00:23:56,920 --> 00:24:00,199
Speaker 1: It's in our best interest to utilize them much more

458
00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:02,479
Speaker 1: effectively than we than we did or even we even

459
00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:05,520
Speaker 1: tried to do against Michigan. And that's how we got

460
00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:09,640
Speaker 1: to go about things. They counted on leaning on Michigan

461
00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:12,119
Speaker 1: and it didn't work. They cannot count on leaning on

462
00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:14,720
Speaker 1: Tennessee here, nor should they. It is not the way

463
00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:16,760
Speaker 1: this roster is built. It is not the way the

464
00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:20,040
Speaker 1: current roster with the offensive line injuries are built. And

465
00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:23,240
Speaker 1: it's not what the matchup dictates. So they've got to

466
00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:26,000
Speaker 1: count on the wide receiver position here. I know that

467
00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:29,240
Speaker 1: in spring they may have fancied themselves leaning a different

468
00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:32,320
Speaker 1: way identity wise, but the reality of the situation is,

469
00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:34,720
Speaker 1: it doesn't look like you're ready to do that. And

470
00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:37,119
Speaker 1: if you're ready to do it, are you really telling

471
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Speaker 1: me that the style of offense that failed to beat

472
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Speaker 1: Michigan is about to beat Tennessee and Oregon and Texas

473
00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:49,480
Speaker 1: and Georgia. I don't think so. So we got to

474
00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:52,400
Speaker 1: be gearing up. Although we're trying to win a game here,

475
00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:54,520
Speaker 1: we got to be gearing up to make a run here.

476
00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:56,600
Speaker 1: I mean, you're Ohio State, so you're supposed to be

477
00:24:56,640 --> 00:25:01,399
Speaker 1: competing for a national championship, Tennessee. If I'm painting this

478
00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:05,600
Speaker 1: picture for you, if I'm painting the concept that you

479
00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:08,159
Speaker 1: really need to be more effective throwing the ball, You

480
00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:11,520
Speaker 1: really need to utilize those wide receivers more. Here, Tennessee

481
00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:15,879
Speaker 1: faced one really really legit passing offense this year with

482
00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:19,199
Speaker 1: pro caliber players at quarterback and you know, maybe some

483
00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:21,920
Speaker 1: late round guys at receiver. That was Georgia. Carson Beck

484
00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,000
Speaker 1: went for three P forty seven against him. I stood

485
00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:26,080
Speaker 1: on the sideline and watched it. He added some on

486
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Speaker 1: the ground as well. I do not think that Will

487
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:32,040
Speaker 1: Howard is the caliber of passer that Carson Beck is.

488
00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:36,159
Speaker 1: But for broad strokes purposes, just thinking about the skill

489
00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:38,800
Speaker 1: that you have on this team, you ought to be

490
00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:41,480
Speaker 1: able to throw the ball. You ought to be able

491
00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:44,280
Speaker 1: to have some consistency. Excuse me, You've got to be

492
00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:47,960
Speaker 1: able to have some consistency throwing the ball. Tennessee's offense

493
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:50,720
Speaker 1: in theory, to me, is the kind of offense that

494
00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:53,640
Speaker 1: could make a run and win this whole thing, as

495
00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:56,040
Speaker 1: tough as the draw is. If you think about Tennessee's

496
00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:59,920
Speaker 1: offense in theory, you got a big armed quarterback, You've

497
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:03,600
Speaker 1: got some really really good skill out wide. Dylan Sampson

498
00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:08,119
Speaker 1: Junior leads the SEC in rushing, and then complementarily, is

499
00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:10,000
Speaker 1: that a word, yeah? I think. So, you've got a

500
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:12,359
Speaker 1: really really good run defense, really good pressure defense, so

501
00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 1: that helps the offense. Tennessee's offense in theory sounds great

502
00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:17,560
Speaker 1: to me. This is also the same team that's been

503
00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:20,240
Speaker 1: shut out in multiple first halfs this year. This is

504
00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:22,840
Speaker 1: the offense that stalled after getting up ten to nothing

505
00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:29,800
Speaker 1: against Georgia. So there's sixtieth in explosive plays like they

506
00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:32,800
Speaker 1: to me. In theory, they just they bludgeing you on

507
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:35,640
Speaker 1: the ground and they kill you over the top. In reality,

508
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:40,200
Speaker 1: there's sixtieth in explosive plays. There's seventy third in explosive passes.

509
00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:42,919
Speaker 1: And I got one of the best defenses in the

510
00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:46,200
Speaker 1: country here with home field at they're back, temperature is

511
00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:48,639
Speaker 1: going to be in the twenties during this game. Is

512
00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:51,720
Speaker 1: this where I see Tennessee ceiling game? I think it's

513
00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:55,000
Speaker 1: a little discombobulated to try and predict that that's gonna

514
00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:59,760
Speaker 1: happen here. It certainly could, certainly could, But is it

515
00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:04,159
Speaker 1: realistic to expect a team that hasn't really given me

516
00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:07,720
Speaker 1: that game for four quarters all year to just pop

517
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:10,200
Speaker 1: it in Columbus, Ohio in the first round of the playoffs.

518
00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:13,119
Speaker 1: We'll see. If they do, they'll win the game. If

519
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:15,639
Speaker 1: Tennessee does that, they'll beat Ohio State. These are the

520
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:19,399
Speaker 1: number one and number three offenses in terms of touchdowns.

521
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:22,159
Speaker 1: Excuse me, number one, number three defenses in terms of

522
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:26,040
Speaker 1: offensive touchdowns allowed not a ton of opportunity in the game,

523
00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:29,760
Speaker 1: so you got to capitalize on it. Ohio State's offense

524
00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:31,399
Speaker 1: is much better than Tennessee in the red zone. I

525
00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 1: will say that it's one thing that jumps out, but

526
00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:37,439
Speaker 1: all this can be negated if Ohio State's mentality is shot.

527
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:39,760
Speaker 1: I go back to two years ago because this is

528
00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:42,200
Speaker 1: all I know to do. Ohio State loses to Michigan.

529
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:45,520
Speaker 1: Ohio State goes to the playoff. They play, in my estimation,

530
00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 1: the best game they played all year against Georgia. They lost.

531
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:51,359
Speaker 1: They missed a field goal at the end. They lost,

532
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:55,080
Speaker 1: but they played at an insanely high level. If Ryan

533
00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:56,920
Speaker 1: Day is able to pull that out of his team

534
00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:00,640
Speaker 1: this year following the gut wrenching loss to Minchig, they'll

535
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 1: win this game. I don't know if they'll win the

536
00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:04,560
Speaker 1: whole thing, but they will beat Tennessee if they're able

537
00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:08,920
Speaker 1: to do that. If Tennessee gets their ceiling game and

538
00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:12,880
Speaker 1: Ryan Day gets an A minus or better level performance

539
00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:14,879
Speaker 1: out of Ohio State, well then you could look at

540
00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:17,639
Speaker 1: the game of the year in the playoffs in round one. Colin,

541
00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:19,159
Speaker 1: let's take a look at what the model thinks on

542
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:22,840
Speaker 1: this thing. I've got a FanDuel right now. Hang in

543
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:26,399
Speaker 1: Ohio State minus seven and a half. The model is

544
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:30,520
Speaker 1: bigger on Ohio State. The model has Ohio State minus nine.

545
00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 1: I slightly disagree with the model. I think that Tennessee

546
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:39,400
Speaker 1: is very competitive here. There are there are more than

547
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:41,200
Speaker 1: a few paths where I could just pick Tennessee to

548
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 1: win this game out right, So I think desperation is

549
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:49,000
Speaker 1: very important. I trust Ohio State to handle the prep

550
00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 1: the right way. I trust Ohio State to come out

551
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 1: the right way. I trust Ohio State to utilize their

552
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 1: passing game more the right way than they did against Michigan.

553
00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:01,640
Speaker 1: But I don't trust them enough to lay those points.

554
00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:04,520
Speaker 1: So anything over a touchdown, which I'm getting right now,

555
00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:07,040
Speaker 1: I'm going to take Ohio State to win and Tennessee

556
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:09,720
Speaker 1: to cover. Some people would call that a cop out.

557
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:12,960
Speaker 1: I call it a pick on a football game. Notice

558
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:14,640
Speaker 1: I didn't bet any of my money on it. It's

559
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 1: not on the Raman Noodle Express. But that's where I'm

560
00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 1: landing on that game. I will be there in person,

561
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:24,200
Speaker 1: in living color, bundled up in seventeen layers, because, after all,

562
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:27,040
Speaker 1: I did grow up in West central Georgia to watch

563
00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:30,880
Speaker 1: it all. I grew up in the other Columbus. Quick

564
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:33,800
Speaker 1: trip will fuel us, they will fuel us there. They

565
00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:36,960
Speaker 1: will fuel us back. I am considering driving to this game.

566
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,360
Speaker 1: By the way, I hope they're listening. I don't even

567
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 1: say that for your amusement. I say it for Quick

568
00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:44,239
Speaker 1: Trip's amusement and for their information. A Quick Trip has

569
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:46,720
Speaker 1: fueled the whole New Saturday tour all year, and they

570
00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:50,040
Speaker 1: have also fueled many of your road trips this year.

571
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:53,560
Speaker 1: We gave away two more free tanks of gas Friday. Well,

572
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:56,040
Speaker 1: gave away one Friday, one Saturday. It's been going on

573
00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 1: all year. It's been a fun time all year. Also,

574
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:01,400
Speaker 1: I dropped this little nugget on the Thursday show. I

575
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 1: dropped the nugget about the cold brew on tap that

576
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:09,239
Speaker 1: they have. Some of you didn't know what coldbrew was.

577
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 1: It's just coffee. They have it on tap at most

578
00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:16,880
Speaker 1: Quick Trip locations. Now now I think you should come

579
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:20,880
Speaker 1: for the gas, but you need to go inside because frankly,

580
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:22,800
Speaker 1: I didn't just partner with Quick Trip for the gas.

581
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:25,800
Speaker 1: I partnered with them for the ambiance. But the cold

582
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:27,520
Speaker 1: brew on tap was something they told me was coming

583
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:30,440
Speaker 1: in the summer and it's there. And so when I

584
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:32,680
Speaker 1: dropped the nugget on Thursday, a lot of you took

585
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:35,040
Speaker 1: me up on it, and you went in at various

586
00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:38,920
Speaker 1: locations or loki which is the plural of locations, and

587
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:41,160
Speaker 1: you saw it for yourself. I told you I wasn't

588
00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:43,640
Speaker 1: lying about it. It's amazing. And there's a bunch of

589
00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:48,040
Speaker 1: different brands of Colbrew on tap and every handle is branded.

590
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:50,280
Speaker 1: It's no different than beer on tap, except this is

591
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:54,440
Speaker 1: coldbrew and they're all branded and very colorful, very artistic.

592
00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:58,200
Speaker 1: I continue to apply a pressure campaign to our friends

593
00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:01,720
Speaker 1: at Quick Trip Translation Joe to get us one of those,

594
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:04,880
Speaker 1: because I think it would be a great esthetic addition

595
00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 1: to the studio here. Not sure where we'd put it,

596
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:11,520
Speaker 1: but that's our problem, not yours. And there you go.

597
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:18,360
Speaker 1: My balls are in your court. All right, let's move

598
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 1: on transfer portal. There's a lot going on. Even as

599
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 1: we speak, there's a lot going on. So since we

600
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:28,160
Speaker 1: last spoke, Auburn's making moves. Hugh Freeze is making moves.

601
00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 1: Jackson Arnold is headed to Auburn. So once upon a

602
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 1: time he is the Elite eleven MVP, and then he

603
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:36,840
Speaker 1: commits to Oklahoma and he's the quarterback of the future.

604
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:39,840
Speaker 1: And then Dylan Gabriel transfers to Oregon and Oklahoma's like,

605
00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:42,840
Speaker 1: that's okay, we got Jackson Arnold. And then Jackson Arnold's

606
00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 1: era does not go as planned, and now he's out

607
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:47,760
Speaker 1: and he's on his way to Auburn. Now, as soon

608
00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:50,280
Speaker 1: as I heard this news, I thought to myself, well,

609
00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 1: that's a bow Nicks reversal. What do I mean? I mean,

610
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:57,040
Speaker 1: once upon a time bow Knicks was at Auburn and

611
00:31:57,160 --> 00:32:00,040
Speaker 1: I thought he had sky high potential. Turns out I

612
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:02,680
Speaker 1: was right on that one, but he couldn't realize it

613
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:06,560
Speaker 1: at Auburn, so we had to transfer to Oregon, and

614
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 1: there he ends up becoming a first round draft pick.

615
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 1: Never would have happened at Auburn. So we fast forward

616
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:17,160
Speaker 1: and Jackson Arnold sky high potential. I still think he

617
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:19,800
Speaker 1: has it, he just was never going to realize it

618
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:24,440
Speaker 1: at Oklahoma. So this one is transferring to Auburn to

619
00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 1: try and realize his potential. Will it happen? I don't know.

620
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:32,120
Speaker 1: I really don't have a great feel for it. I

621
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 1: do know that Auburn is working fervently to try and

622
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:41,120
Speaker 1: backfill or reload their roster elsewhere. For example, Matt Zenitz,

623
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 1: just in the past few hours has said Xavier Chaplain,

624
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:47,320
Speaker 1: who was an All American tackle in twenty twenty three

625
00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:50,480
Speaker 1: at Virginia Tech. They're expected to land him as well.

626
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:53,640
Speaker 1: I mean, Auburn understand, they understand the score. We talked

627
00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:57,600
Speaker 1: about this. When we talked about this in October, Auburn's

628
00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 1: season was largely going down the drain. I thought to myself, ooh,

629
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:04,440
Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough. But this year's team looks nothing

630
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:07,240
Speaker 1: like next year's team will look. We know the quarterback

631
00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:10,080
Speaker 1: of their futures not on the roster right now. At

632
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 1: least we thought so, and that ends up being true.

633
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 1: So these are pieces. This is not a team. These

634
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:21,400
Speaker 1: are pieces being put together. We'll see how all the

635
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:24,200
Speaker 1: pieces start to connect in the spring. We'll see how

636
00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:26,720
Speaker 1: much how much work there is to be done with

637
00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:30,960
Speaker 1: Jackson Arnold, because I mean, Auburn was a turnover prone

638
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:34,680
Speaker 1: team this year. Jackson Arnold was a turnover prone player

639
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Speaker 1: this year. Is it a double negative situation where that

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Speaker 1: equals are positive. I'm not sure that extends from the

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Speaker 1: grammar classroom to the field, hopefully, hopefully. I also think

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Speaker 1: it's a little more complicated than that. Miller Moss has

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Speaker 1: landed at Louisville. So Miller Moss. The story around Miller

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Speaker 1: Moss I think is egregiously mischaracterized. I still think he's

645
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Speaker 1: a really good player. I think he was in a

646
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Speaker 1: really bad position, ironically at the quarterback position playing for

647
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Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley this year, which is like the antithesis of

648
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Speaker 1: the way we've always told that story in the past.

649
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:09,320
Speaker 1: In the past, it's quarterbacks need to go to Lincoln

650
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Speaker 1: Riley to benefit to flourish, and just so happened this

651
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:15,319
Speaker 1: year's situation sucked and Miller Moss was right there in

652
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Speaker 1: the middle of it. I still think he's a really

653
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Speaker 1: good player, and I think Louisville is acutely aware of

654
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Speaker 1: who they have to be and what they've been doing.

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Speaker 1: This is Jeff Brom's third Portal quarterback in three years,

656
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Speaker 1: and they've figured their process out. I think Miller Moss.

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Speaker 1: I'm just telling you right now, I got a lot

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Speaker 1: of respect for what our twenty four to seven sports

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Speaker 1: folks do in their rankings. I'd have this dude alloted

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Speaker 1: higher than forty first in the Portal. Let me just

661
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Speaker 1: put it that way. So this is a top twenty

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Speaker 1: passing offense. Isaac Brown's there at running back. They know

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Speaker 1: what they're doing. I have very little doubt that whatever

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Speaker 1: Miller Moss's maximum capability is, we haven't seen it yet,

665
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Speaker 1: and whatever it is, Jeff Brohm and that staff will

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Speaker 1: get it out of him. So this was a sneaky situation.

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Speaker 1: This was probably not a headline grabber. This is one though,

668
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Speaker 1: when you're in the middle of the acccason next year,

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Speaker 1: when we're starting to figure out the playoff race and

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Speaker 1: Louisville's right there in the mix, just remember, quietly, Jeff

671
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Speaker 1: Brohm and Louisville made a move, got their guy. I

672
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Speaker 1: got a lot more to talk about. By the way,

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Speaker 1: remember if you're if you're watching and you're not subscribed,

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Speaker 1: subscribe to the channel. It's free. It's free, and it

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Speaker 1: helps us and it doesn't do anything to you. It

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Speaker 1: doesn't sign you up for anything. If you think you're

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Speaker 1: subscribed but you're not sure, you may not be, so check.

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Speaker 1: It's one button. It takes two nanoseconds. LSU is making moves.

679
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Speaker 1: So Michael van Buren, there's an interesting route being taken here.

680
00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:47,640
Speaker 1: Michael Van Buren played quarterback for Mississippi State this year

681
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:52,239
Speaker 1: bad team. He had flashes, but they're going in a

682
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Speaker 1: different direction. He's going in a different direction. So he

683
00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 1: is transferred to LSU. Now to me, this feels a

684
00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:01,439
Speaker 1: lot like Dante Moore. Dante Moore form a five star guy.

685
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 1: He commits to UCLA, he plays some as a freshman.

686
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:08,560
Speaker 1: It's really up and down, more down than up. A

687
00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:10,960
Speaker 1: lot of folks think he still has a lot of potential.

688
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Speaker 1: So what does he do. He transfers to Oregon and

689
00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:16,920
Speaker 1: sits behind Dylan Gabriel. This year, he was willing to

690
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Speaker 1: take a step back and sit and hoping that the

691
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:23,600
Speaker 1: team will be his in the future. So Garrett Nusmayer's

692
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:27,879
Speaker 1: coming back for LSU and Michael Van Buren as a result,

693
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Speaker 1: probably doesn't start for them next year. But that's okay

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Speaker 1: as long as you as long as you understand what

695
00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:34,600
Speaker 1: the deal is, you understand what the score is, you

696
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 1: understand what's best for your development. You go in u

697
00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 1: cit a year, you got yourself a taste of sec action.

698
00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:42,759
Speaker 1: Now you go sit. You're gonna play on a better team,

699
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:44,600
Speaker 1: better roster than the one you were a part of.

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Speaker 1: This past year, it was Levy's first year at Mississippi State.

701
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:50,319
Speaker 1: They were a disaster. Most of the season, so you

702
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Speaker 1: get a fresh start, you get a year to feel

703
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 1: things out, and you'll probably be better for it. That

704
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Speaker 1: is not all they've been doing. They went and got

705
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Speaker 1: Barry and Brown, number fifteen overall in the that's a

706
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Speaker 1: wide receiver out of Kentucky, Keem Jackson the corner from Florida.

707
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Speaker 1: So the big blow to LSU was Bryce Underwood decommitted.

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Speaker 1: I guess the silver lining there was you had a

709
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Speaker 1: lot of nil resources tied up in his recruitment that

710
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Speaker 1: get freed. Now, if you understand anything about how resources

711
00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:25,120
Speaker 1: are allocated, it's not as simple as we had promised

712
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:28,400
Speaker 1: a lot of money to this recruit and because he decommitted,

713
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Speaker 1: now we can just take that money. It's all in

714
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Speaker 1: one giant fund and we can go spend it on

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Speaker 1: transfer portal. Guys. No, you have in an ideal athletic department,

716
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Speaker 1: in an ideal football complex, you have sort of a

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00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:44,880
Speaker 1: tear pyramid, if you will, and you've got certain allocation

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Speaker 1: for high school recruiting, certain allocation for the portal and

719
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Speaker 1: roster retention. Now you can move that around. It's fluid,

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Speaker 1: and I'm sure they've had to do that down there.

721
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Speaker 1: But this is one of those situations where we knew

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Speaker 1: what it was going to cost to get Bryce Underwood.

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Speaker 1: We've got him, We've got him. Oh never mind, decommitted

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Speaker 1: and went to Michigan. What are we gonna do with

725
00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 1: all this money? Gotta do something with it. Let's go

726
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:09,680
Speaker 1: spend it. Ole Miss is doing it again. They picked

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Speaker 1: up three top twenty five portal kids since we last spoke,

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Speaker 1: two of them in the top six. So they went

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Speaker 1: got the number one edge, they went got the number

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Speaker 1: two interior offensive lineman, the number two tight end. It

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Speaker 1: looks like another top five portal finish is eminent here.

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Speaker 1: Could be a little higher, could be a little lower.

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Speaker 1: And this is just it's the old mess blueprint Underlain Kiffin. Now,

734
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Speaker 1: there is never, ever, ever a world where I would

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Speaker 1: forecast what happened to Florida State happening to anyone Ole Miss.

736
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Speaker 1: People think everyone who doesn't wave a blue and red

737
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 1: pomp pom hates them, including me. I don't, and I

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Speaker 1: am not predicting them to go the way of FSU,

739
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Speaker 1: not even close to it. What I am merely suggesting

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Speaker 1: here in mid December is just because you get another

741
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Speaker 1: group of highly rated portal guys, does not guarantee that

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Speaker 1: it's going to come together magically every year like it

743
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Speaker 1: came together this past year, And you could argue it

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Speaker 1: didn't magically come together this past year. They lost to Kentucky,

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Speaker 1: they lost the LSU game, they lost to Florida. It

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Speaker 1: was a very workable schedule. They beat Georgia, but they

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Speaker 1: still ultimately fell short of the playoffs, So you could

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Speaker 1: argue it didn't magically come together this past year. You

749
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Speaker 1: could argue, Hey, Josh, for all the talk about you

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Speaker 1: saying that it could dip down next year, maybe it

751
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:34,200
Speaker 1: could spike up. You are correct about that. I'm just

752
00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:37,120
Speaker 1: trying to present both sides of the coin there. It's

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Speaker 1: not one sided. It is a true two sided coin.

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Speaker 1: And so this is meant to be nothing more than

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00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:47,279
Speaker 1: a reminder that when you play Portal roulette every year,

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00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 1: they call it roulette for a reason. That's all all

757
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:54,240
Speaker 1: I'm trying to remind you of. I am monitoring Texas

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Speaker 1: A and M. They went and got Julian Humphrey from

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Speaker 1: Georgia to the corner. They've had a huge visitor's lift.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you've been following this. I have,

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Speaker 1: so you don't have to. They've had a huge visitors list.

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Speaker 1: They brought a lot of wide receivers through there, especially

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Speaker 1: Nick Anderson, I think from Oklahoma. I heard some pretty

764
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Speaker 1: good stuff on him today. It's not locked up. I

765
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:17,759
Speaker 1: just heard some pretty good stuff on him. I'm very

766
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Speaker 1: interested to watch their strategy because this is the first

767
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Speaker 1: year through the whole cycle of it with Mike Elko.

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Speaker 1: So I'm interested to see, like how many of these

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Speaker 1: guys that they actually move on, how many of them

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Speaker 1: can they get if they do move on them. That's

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Speaker 1: why I'm monitoring them. I'm watching them closely right now. Also,

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Speaker 1: as we were coming on air, Bo Pribulah, who is

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Speaker 1: the backup for Penn State, the backup quarterback announced Now, Jesse,

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Speaker 1: correct me if I'm wrong. He's expected to go in

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Speaker 1: the portal, he just announced, and he will not be

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Speaker 1: with the team for the playoff. Okay, which is I'm

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Speaker 1: not even casting a spersions on him. It's not his

778
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Speaker 1: fault that no one in the right mind understands how

779
00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:01,400
Speaker 1: to construct the college football calendar. But what I just

780
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:04,200
Speaker 1: told you is Penn State is in the playoff and

781
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Speaker 1: their backup quarterback is entering the portal, and he will

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Speaker 1: not play. He will not be with the team in

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Speaker 1: the playoff. That's correct, Jesse. Okay, so again you can

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Speaker 1: think of the kid whatever you want. It's a very

785
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 1: very weird dynamic. Hopefully one day down the road when

786
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:24,960
Speaker 1: I'm elected commissioner, the calendar makes sense. It doesn't right now.

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Speaker 1: That's one of many reasons. Like we were talking about

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Speaker 1: with Belichick the other night, Oh, Josh, college football is

789
00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:33,440
Speaker 1: just like the NFL. No, it's not. No, it's not,

790
00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:37,080
Speaker 1: because I promise you that the coaching carousel, season and

791
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:40,799
Speaker 1: the playoff and free agency and the draft don't all

792
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:42,839
Speaker 1: happen at the same time in the NFL. They do

793
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:46,400
Speaker 1: in college football because we have morons creating the calendar.

794
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 1: And so anyway, long story short, Penn State's backup quarterback

795
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Speaker 1: who had to play against Wisconsin, if you'll recall, like

796
00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:58,160
Speaker 1: he had to come in and they had to come

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00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:00,759
Speaker 1: from behind, didn't they, So he in the portal. They

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Speaker 1: don't have their backup quarterback now for the playoff. It

799
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Speaker 1: is a pretty good indication that Drew Aller is returning

800
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Speaker 1: next year. For anyone keeping track at home, they're watching

801
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Speaker 1: us in Boyce Louisiana, Alexandria, Virginia, Omaha, Nebraska, and Pine Mountain,

802
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Speaker 1: Georgia Fantasy and Lights. I've seen some of you take

803
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Speaker 1: a trip down to a pine mountain Georgia this year

804
00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:25,520
Speaker 1: for Fantasy and Lights mispronounced Fantasy and Lights by some

805
00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:29,120
Speaker 1: of the locals, myself included as a child. So if

806
00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:32,359
Speaker 1: you're that way, if you're around the southeast, head down

807
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:35,759
Speaker 1: to Pine Mountain Fantasy and Lights. Make sure you do

808
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:37,279
Speaker 1: it once. You don't need to do it twice, but

809
00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 1: make sure you do it once. Some of the best

810
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:41,960
Speaker 1: hot chocolate of the modern era is given away at

811
00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:43,520
Speaker 1: Fantasy and Lights. Well they don't give it away. You

812
00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:45,239
Speaker 1: gotta pay for it. But it's worth it. Okay, here

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00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:47,000
Speaker 1: we go, let's continue. They didn't pay for that, by

814
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Speaker 1: the way, we just I mean, it's my home county.

815
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Speaker 1: So someone has to promote them at the national level.

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Speaker 1: Clemson Texas first Round playoff game Saturday, four o'clock Eastern

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Speaker 1: on t Make sure you're not searching in vain, guys,

818
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Speaker 1: this is on TNT. This is one of those sub

819
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Speaker 1: licensing situations. So I asked, I thought a very very

820
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:15,399
Speaker 1: basic question about Clemson going into the ACC championship game,

821
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Speaker 1: and they took it and they won the game, and

822
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Speaker 1: then they put it in the hype video. So the

823
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:25,960
Speaker 1: simple question was, is Clemson still a big game program?

824
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Speaker 1: I thought it was fair to ask about a team

825
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Speaker 1: that had lost a quarter of their games in the

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Speaker 1: regular season, including against anyone with more than a pulse Louisville,

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Speaker 1: South Carolina, Georgia. Well, good for them, they went and

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Speaker 1: won the conference championship game. I'm gonna ask it again,

829
00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:45,440
Speaker 1: so you guys hit record, I'm gonna ask it one

830
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Speaker 1: more time. I'm gonna do it really, really emphatically, so

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Speaker 1: it sounds good if you pull the upset. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: ask it again, is Clemson still a big game program?

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Speaker 1: And cut? But you know what I'm gonna asking about

834
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Speaker 1: Texas as well? Is Texas a big game? Because I

835
00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:03,040
Speaker 1: watched them twice against Georgia and they didn't get the

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Speaker 1: job done. And those were basically the two really really

837
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Speaker 1: big opportunities they had this year. Now, they went to

838
00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:11,920
Speaker 1: A and M and they won. They hung seventeen, but

839
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Speaker 1: since they're so dominant defensively, they didn't need to do

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Speaker 1: anything more than that. But the two big stages they've

841
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:20,359
Speaker 1: been on. This year, they crashed, but they're still good

842
00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:22,160
Speaker 1: enough to be in the playoff, and they're still good

843
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Speaker 1: enough to be favored by OH eleven and a half

844
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Speaker 1: against dabos twenty and the Clemson Tigers. So Clemson in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, I can sum them up pretty easily.

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Speaker 1: Can they generate explosive plays offensively? If they can, they

847
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Speaker 1: can win the game. If they can't, they'll get buried.

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Speaker 1: It's been very, very crystal clear that that is their

849
00:44:41,760 --> 00:44:44,200
Speaker 1: their team profile this year. It used to be when

850
00:44:44,239 --> 00:44:46,440
Speaker 1: you saw that Tiger Paul, you expect dominant defense. Well

851
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:49,719
Speaker 1: that hasn't been the case this year. Explosive plays. It's

852
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 1: either feast or famine with them. They are top twenty

853
00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:56,919
Speaker 1: in every bucket in terms of creating explosive plays this year.

854
00:44:57,080 --> 00:44:59,640
Speaker 1: The problem is Texas's defense is number one in a

855
00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:03,920
Speaker 1: marria in preventing that. The matchup's horrible for Clemson. By

856
00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:07,080
Speaker 1: the way, Texas defense also top fifteen against the run.

857
00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:10,920
Speaker 1: So if Clemson gets limited on the ground and this

858
00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:14,200
Speaker 1: matchup is as lopsided as I think it is when

859
00:45:14,239 --> 00:45:17,000
Speaker 1: it comes to Clemson's O line versus Texas's D line,

860
00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:21,479
Speaker 1: then that puts cad Klubnik under immense pressure, and they've

861
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:24,040
Speaker 1: got to create explosive plays through the air against a

862
00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:28,799
Speaker 1: defense that never gives it up and understands that, Hey,

863
00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:32,279
Speaker 1: that's the deal. And I watched A and M try

864
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:35,080
Speaker 1: to do it and they couldn't. And Clemson is a

865
00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:37,240
Speaker 1: more effective offense than A and M. I would grant

866
00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:40,040
Speaker 1: you that, But A and M was at home. Clemson's

867
00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:43,399
Speaker 1: going to be on the road for this. Here's here's

868
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:46,640
Speaker 1: the counter to that. I think the matchup's really bad

869
00:45:46,680 --> 00:45:50,240
Speaker 1: for Clemson. But here's the counter to that. Texas doesn't

870
00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:53,200
Speaker 1: score a lot. That's the counter to that. And when

871
00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:56,200
Speaker 1: you don't score a lot, you insert a lot of variants.

872
00:45:56,280 --> 00:45:59,319
Speaker 1: Every bounce of the ball means more, every play, every drive,

873
00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:01,760
Speaker 1: it means a lot more. Now, if they go your way,

874
00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:04,120
Speaker 1: then they go your way. But if a couple of

875
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:07,080
Speaker 1: things go against you. You saw it in the Georgia game,

876
00:46:07,719 --> 00:46:09,839
Speaker 1: George's backups in the second half of the game. You've

877
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:12,480
Speaker 1: got the lead, but a couple of things go against

878
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:16,520
Speaker 1: you and you can't score. So what happens, Well, the

879
00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:21,080
Speaker 1: game gets compacted a lot more than it should on paper.

880
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:23,640
Speaker 1: Texas has scored twenty or less three of the last

881
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:26,400
Speaker 1: four games. Penalties have been a big issue for this

882
00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:30,880
Speaker 1: team this year, so I haven't loved the offensive dynamic

883
00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:33,200
Speaker 1: from them. I will say until the day I die,

884
00:46:33,239 --> 00:46:35,440
Speaker 1: hopefully about one hundred and thirteen years from now, I

885
00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:38,760
Speaker 1: will continue to say I was very surprised that Sark

886
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:42,200
Speaker 1: did not play Arch in the SEC Championship game. I'm

887
00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:44,160
Speaker 1: gonna say I expect him to play in this game.

888
00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:47,320
Speaker 1: I expect that Arch Manning has to be a pretty

889
00:46:47,360 --> 00:46:50,680
Speaker 1: significant factor for Texas if they're going to win the

890
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:53,040
Speaker 1: whole thing. Now, there is a path where he's not

891
00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:55,439
Speaker 1: and they don't. But I don't think there's a path

892
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:57,680
Speaker 1: where they do and he's not. He's got to be

893
00:46:57,680 --> 00:47:04,240
Speaker 1: a factor here. And here's the dirty secret about Clemson.

894
00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:06,680
Speaker 1: Their defense is not great this year. They're one hundred

895
00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:10,040
Speaker 1: and twenty third in the country and explosive plays allowed.

896
00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:15,080
Speaker 1: That defense does not match the profile of Georgia. That

897
00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:19,080
Speaker 1: defense does not match the profile of A and M. So, yeah,

898
00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:21,520
Speaker 1: you could sit there and give yourself some confidence that

899
00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:24,640
Speaker 1: man Texas didn't score against Georgia. Texas didn't even score

900
00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:26,479
Speaker 1: a whole lot against A and M. Yeah, but you're

901
00:47:26,520 --> 00:47:31,359
Speaker 1: not them, and they're at home now. So Texas, I'm

902
00:47:31,400 --> 00:47:33,880
Speaker 1: telling you, on paper, Texas should run a score up

903
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:36,319
Speaker 1: in this game. Eleven and a half is not a

904
00:47:36,320 --> 00:47:39,360
Speaker 1: big enough number if you believe games are played on paper.

905
00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:44,040
Speaker 1: They are not. And I will also say, because Clemson

906
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:47,920
Speaker 1: matches up so bad, that gives very little incentive for

907
00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:51,440
Speaker 1: Clemson to maintain their profile. Now, it could be that

908
00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:53,839
Speaker 1: Dabo looks and says, we're Clemson, We're just doing things

909
00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:56,359
Speaker 1: our way, Come what may. If they do that, they're

910
00:47:56,360 --> 00:47:59,879
Speaker 1: probably going to lose. I don't think they'll be comp

911
00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:02,160
Speaker 1: pecatively ignorant enough to do that. They can be a

912
00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:05,200
Speaker 1: little arrogant, but not ignorant. I don't think they will be. Now,

913
00:48:05,239 --> 00:48:08,120
Speaker 1: what I don't know is what they'll try instead. I

914
00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:10,279
Speaker 1: don't know. They've been around the block. That staff's been

915
00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:13,360
Speaker 1: around the block a long time, so they understand big games.

916
00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:16,400
Speaker 1: They understand these moments, they understand how to get the

917
00:48:16,440 --> 00:48:20,120
Speaker 1: most out of their team at the right time. Clemson

918
00:48:20,280 --> 00:48:23,400
Speaker 1: is top five, and turnover margin that's always there in

919
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:25,879
Speaker 1: these games in one four quarter scenario, that's always there.

920
00:48:26,239 --> 00:48:29,640
Speaker 1: I just think about Texas this year because Clemson has

921
00:48:29,640 --> 00:48:32,839
Speaker 1: a top ten talent roster according to the twenty four

922
00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:36,759
Speaker 1: to seven Team Talent composite, and Texas has faced a

923
00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:41,120
Speaker 1: few of those teams this year. Texas has faced Georgia twice.

924
00:48:41,719 --> 00:48:44,440
Speaker 1: They faced A and M, and then they faced Oklahoma.

925
00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:48,440
Speaker 1: Now Oklahoma was dog water this year. They played Georgia

926
00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:51,239
Speaker 1: twice and couldn't get it done against them. They played

927
00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:53,520
Speaker 1: A and M, and A and M held them to seventeen,

928
00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:57,440
Speaker 1: but they couldn't score. But those were compacted games. So

929
00:48:57,600 --> 00:49:03,480
Speaker 1: Clemson on paper qualifies as a top ten talent roster. Colin,

930
00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:04,919
Speaker 1: I think now is as good a time as any

931
00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:06,360
Speaker 1: to take a look at what the model thinks. So

932
00:49:06,640 --> 00:49:09,200
Speaker 1: the FanDuel number is Texas minus eleven and a half.

933
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:12,799
Speaker 1: The model is even bigger on Texas, of course it is.

934
00:49:12,880 --> 00:49:16,120
Speaker 1: The model has never picked Texas not to cover. I

935
00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:19,480
Speaker 1: agree with the model, and I just issue a fair

936
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:22,960
Speaker 1: warning to Texas. Do not embarrass me. Do not embarrass me,

937
00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:26,440
Speaker 1: because I could throw this model in the garbage. I

938
00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:28,880
Speaker 1: could go Ron Swanson, I could take this laptop. I

939
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:30,800
Speaker 1: could march out back and throw it in the dumpster.

940
00:49:31,600 --> 00:49:35,040
Speaker 1: Texas should win this game. They should win it with authority.

941
00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:38,040
Speaker 1: They should win it. Comfortably. They should this right here?

942
00:49:38,520 --> 00:49:41,800
Speaker 1: This is paper, okay, And I am going to believe

943
00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:44,319
Speaker 1: that all these words and all these numbers equate to

944
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:46,920
Speaker 1: a football game. And here I am thinking that the

945
00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:48,600
Speaker 1: game is going to be played on paper. I've set

946
00:49:48,640 --> 00:49:51,640
Speaker 1: myself up. I know it. Dabo's done it to me before,

947
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:55,000
Speaker 1: and I've he set the trap. I walked into it.

948
00:49:56,080 --> 00:49:59,400
Speaker 1: But here I am again. Here I am my favorite

949
00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:03,160
Speaker 1: Patty lovel song. Here I am, and I'm waiting for

950
00:50:03,239 --> 00:50:05,760
Speaker 1: Texas to let me down again. But I cannot quit.

951
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:08,560
Speaker 1: I cannot quit Texas. I just can't do it. I

952
00:50:08,560 --> 00:50:13,960
Speaker 1: can't do it. The other night, I did a segment

953
00:50:14,040 --> 00:50:17,879
Speaker 1: on sec bias, and I did a segment on why

954
00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:20,160
Speaker 1: we do this show the way we do and why

955
00:50:20,200 --> 00:50:23,040
Speaker 1: I feel the way I feel. But I said in

956
00:50:23,080 --> 00:50:26,320
Speaker 1: the segment that some of you had told me you

957
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:28,600
Speaker 1: liked parts of the show, you didn't like parts of

958
00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:30,719
Speaker 1: the show. Honestly, the segment went about four minutes too

959
00:50:30,760 --> 00:50:35,400
Speaker 1: long in retrospect, but I said that I get constructive

960
00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:37,960
Speaker 1: criticism from a lot of the viewers, and I just

961
00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:40,560
Speaker 1: wanted to share because Justin hit me up. I don't

962
00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:42,759
Speaker 1: even think I responded to him yet. Justin hit me.

963
00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:47,080
Speaker 1: I will give you an example. This is criticism of

964
00:50:47,160 --> 00:50:50,480
Speaker 1: this show that I think has a lot of merit.

965
00:50:50,680 --> 00:50:53,239
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna read it out loud because we are

966
00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:56,920
Speaker 1: going to apply this to our future plans for the show.

967
00:50:57,200 --> 00:50:59,200
Speaker 1: So justin hit me, and I'm reading this on the

968
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:02,480
Speaker 1: air because I assume it reflects what many more of

969
00:51:02,520 --> 00:51:05,200
Speaker 1: you feel, but you haven't articulated to me. He said,

970
00:51:05,239 --> 00:51:08,279
Speaker 1: I do not think sec bias is the issue. I

971
00:51:08,320 --> 00:51:10,520
Speaker 1: think the issue lies in the idea that you think

972
00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:13,000
Speaker 1: you have to cover only the teams and subjects that

973
00:51:13,120 --> 00:51:18,240
Speaker 1: give you the highest ratings. College football is the best

974
00:51:18,280 --> 00:51:21,279
Speaker 1: and most diverse sport in the world, and it's out

975
00:51:21,320 --> 00:51:24,280
Speaker 1: of our control that the sport continues to be squeezed

976
00:51:24,320 --> 00:51:26,480
Speaker 1: into something that it was not made to be by

977
00:51:26,520 --> 00:51:30,080
Speaker 1: conferences and corporations in the name of money. However, we

978
00:51:30,239 --> 00:51:32,960
Speaker 1: can control the presentation and coverage of the sport as

979
00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:35,640
Speaker 1: a whole, and it's only when we give into the

980
00:51:35,719 --> 00:51:38,799
Speaker 1: idea the sport is doomed that we really lose the

981
00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:41,920
Speaker 1: sport we enjoy. You have a bigger platform than ninety

982
00:51:41,960 --> 00:51:44,279
Speaker 1: nine percent of the people that cover the sport, and

983
00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:47,360
Speaker 1: I do not think you started what you do in

984
00:51:47,400 --> 00:51:49,800
Speaker 1: the name of covering only what gets the most views.

985
00:51:50,719 --> 00:51:53,440
Speaker 1: This shows in how you have continually had to defend

986
00:51:53,480 --> 00:51:56,520
Speaker 1: yourself against people who have criticized the show. As the

987
00:51:56,560 --> 00:51:59,960
Speaker 1: sport continues to change, we need passionate people who cover

988
00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:03,280
Speaker 1: the sport the right way so it does not become unrecognizable.

989
00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:05,759
Speaker 1: And that is something you can do and be great at.

990
00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:09,319
Speaker 1: That was from Justin. I think there's a lot of

991
00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:13,920
Speaker 1: merit to that, so I have taken it under advisement.

992
00:52:14,280 --> 00:52:16,399
Speaker 1: We will adjust accordingly. I think it was a really

993
00:52:16,400 --> 00:52:19,440
Speaker 1: good point, and I appreciate him sending that. Let's continue

994
00:52:19,960 --> 00:52:25,640
Speaker 1: on what is a playoff prediction Sunday Show Indiana at

995
00:52:25,680 --> 00:52:28,360
Speaker 1: Notre Dame. Is anyone one hundred percent sure they know

996
00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:30,560
Speaker 1: how this game is going to go? It's a Friday game,

997
00:52:30,920 --> 00:52:34,120
Speaker 1: so this is what's five days from now. It is

998
00:52:34,160 --> 00:52:36,640
Speaker 1: an eight o'clock eastern kickoff on ABC. I saw a

999
00:52:36,680 --> 00:52:39,040
Speaker 1: stat the other day. Some of you Notre Dame votes

1000
00:52:39,080 --> 00:52:40,560
Speaker 1: can tell me if this is wrong. This is the

1001
00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:44,600
Speaker 1: first time EESPN or ABC has broadcast a game in

1002
00:52:44,680 --> 00:52:48,080
Speaker 1: Notre Dame Stadium since like nineteen ninety Was that right? Wow?

1003
00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:52,440
Speaker 1: Hope the trucks, remember how to get there. So Indiana

1004
00:52:52,560 --> 00:52:55,439
Speaker 1: versus a high level opponent. We saw it against Ohio State.

1005
00:52:55,480 --> 00:52:58,640
Speaker 1: They lost thirty eight to fifteen. Notre Dame needing to

1006
00:52:58,640 --> 00:53:01,960
Speaker 1: be dynamic on offense. I don't know the last time

1007
00:53:01,960 --> 00:53:04,040
Speaker 1: I saw it. Notre Dame's been so good they haven't

1008
00:53:04,040 --> 00:53:06,520
Speaker 1: really had to throw the ball a whole lot. So this,

1009
00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:10,120
Speaker 1: if you're watching on YouTube, this is the entire portion

1010
00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:13,960
Speaker 1: of the bracket that this game is existing in Indiana

1011
00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:16,440
Speaker 1: Notre Dame round one and then you got SMU Penn

1012
00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:19,640
Speaker 1: State happening the next day. And the winner of this

1013
00:53:19,719 --> 00:53:22,080
Speaker 1: Indiana Notre Dame game they go and they play Georgia.

1014
00:53:22,360 --> 00:53:25,080
Speaker 1: But they play a Carson Beckliss Georgia. So we don't

1015
00:53:25,080 --> 00:53:27,879
Speaker 1: really know what to expect there. I have a theory,

1016
00:53:27,920 --> 00:53:29,759
Speaker 1: but we don't know what to expect there. And that

1017
00:53:29,760 --> 00:53:31,480
Speaker 1: would be down in New Orleans, by the way, it

1018
00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:35,319
Speaker 1: wouldn't be in Athens. It is a workable it is

1019
00:53:35,360 --> 00:53:39,480
Speaker 1: a navigable portion. You'd much rather be down here than

1020
00:53:39,640 --> 00:53:42,600
Speaker 1: be up in the death trap that is Oregon, or

1021
00:53:42,600 --> 00:53:45,279
Speaker 1: that is Ohio State or Tennessee and what they have

1022
00:53:45,360 --> 00:53:49,360
Speaker 1: to go through. So Indiana, here's what's exciting here. The

1023
00:53:49,400 --> 00:53:51,080
Speaker 1: temperatures are going to be in the twenties, is going

1024
00:53:51,120 --> 00:53:53,279
Speaker 1: to be miserable, all depending on your point of view.

1025
00:53:53,719 --> 00:53:55,560
Speaker 1: And it's very apropos that it's going to be that

1026
00:53:55,640 --> 00:53:57,960
Speaker 1: cold because we have something called the freeze point on

1027
00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:01,000
Speaker 1: this show, and the freeze point is just simply the

1028
00:54:01,040 --> 00:54:04,640
Speaker 1: minimum level of production, the minimum level of performance that

1029
00:54:04,680 --> 00:54:07,560
Speaker 1: you have to turn in for something to work. We

1030
00:54:07,640 --> 00:54:09,880
Speaker 1: call it the freeze point because water has to be

1031
00:54:09,920 --> 00:54:12,880
Speaker 1: thirty two point four degrees fahrenheit or lower to freeze.

1032
00:54:13,080 --> 00:54:15,839
Speaker 1: Anything above that it doesn't matter. You could put water

1033
00:54:15,880 --> 00:54:18,480
Speaker 1: in thirty five degree temperatures forever and it won't freeze.

1034
00:54:19,360 --> 00:54:22,360
Speaker 1: One degree lower or will actually few degrees lower and

1035
00:54:22,360 --> 00:54:24,080
Speaker 1: it's gonna freeze. And then it's a question of like

1036
00:54:24,160 --> 00:54:26,319
Speaker 1: how much below freezing can you get. Could you be

1037
00:54:26,320 --> 00:54:28,160
Speaker 1: twenty five, Could it be twenty, Could it be fifteen?

1038
00:54:28,200 --> 00:54:30,799
Speaker 1: The water will freeze faster, but we know thirty two

1039
00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:34,879
Speaker 1: point four is the magic number. So with Indiana, there

1040
00:54:34,960 --> 00:54:38,040
Speaker 1: was a level of play that we wondered, will they

1041
00:54:38,120 --> 00:54:41,400
Speaker 1: have it against Ohio State? They didn't, and so because

1042
00:54:41,440 --> 00:54:43,520
Speaker 1: they didn't have that, it didn't matter. None of their

1043
00:54:43,520 --> 00:54:45,960
Speaker 1: stats mattered. It mattered that there were number one in

1044
00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:49,160
Speaker 1: this number four in that it did not scale against

1045
00:54:49,200 --> 00:54:52,400
Speaker 1: a high level team. This is the next opportunity. I

1046
00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:55,040
Speaker 1: don't think Notre Dame is as high a level a

1047
00:54:55,080 --> 00:54:59,000
Speaker 1: team as Ohio State, but you know what, I could

1048
00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:02,799
Speaker 1: be wrong, and also the matchups could dictate that there

1049
00:55:02,840 --> 00:55:04,680
Speaker 1: are certain things like you don't have to be as

1050
00:55:04,719 --> 00:55:08,120
Speaker 1: good at receiver as Ohio State to be better at tailback,

1051
00:55:08,520 --> 00:55:12,680
Speaker 1: which they are. I think so Notre Dame number three

1052
00:55:12,719 --> 00:55:21,040
Speaker 1: pass defense in college football? Does that completely clamp down

1053
00:55:21,480 --> 00:55:27,080
Speaker 1: Indiana here? Because the one thing I'm remembering is the

1054
00:55:27,120 --> 00:55:30,880
Speaker 1: best passing offense that I remember Notre Dame having to

1055
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:34,279
Speaker 1: go up against this year was USC. That's when the

1056
00:55:34,600 --> 00:55:37,400
Speaker 1: backup had been put in. USC threw for three to

1057
00:55:37,480 --> 00:55:39,560
Speaker 1: sixty on them. Now it was a game where USC

1058
00:55:39,680 --> 00:55:42,000
Speaker 1: was having to keep up, so the dynamic of the

1059
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:44,560
Speaker 1: game was a little weird. But we did see one

1060
00:55:44,600 --> 00:55:48,040
Speaker 1: team throw the ball. Can Indiana do that? Big question?

1061
00:55:48,080 --> 00:55:50,920
Speaker 1: It's open ended because I don't know. I think that

1062
00:55:51,160 --> 00:55:53,560
Speaker 1: tempts in the twenties and a tough environment, Notre Dame

1063
00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:55,920
Speaker 1: does not miss a ton of tackles here. I just

1064
00:55:56,040 --> 00:55:58,520
Speaker 1: think about meeting the freeze point. I don't think you

1065
00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:00,880
Speaker 1: run the ball effectively on them, So Rort's gonna have

1066
00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:03,239
Speaker 1: to throw the ball. He's gonna throw the ball very effectively,

1067
00:56:03,480 --> 00:56:06,080
Speaker 1: and you'll probably need good yard after catching this game.

1068
00:56:07,160 --> 00:56:12,640
Speaker 1: Just it's tough. It's tough for me to buy into

1069
00:56:12,640 --> 00:56:15,040
Speaker 1: it when I haven't seen it happen all year against

1070
00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:19,480
Speaker 1: a quality of opponent to this caliber. Notre Dame, I

1071
00:56:19,640 --> 00:56:21,960
Speaker 1: believe they will never say this. They will never say

1072
00:56:21,960 --> 00:56:24,759
Speaker 1: this out loud, nor should they. I believe Notre Dame

1073
00:56:24,880 --> 00:56:29,200
Speaker 1: thinks they can do to Indiana what Ohio State thought

1074
00:56:29,200 --> 00:56:31,400
Speaker 1: they could do to Michigan. Now Ohio State was wrong.

1075
00:56:31,719 --> 00:56:35,200
Speaker 1: They couldn't do it to Michigan. Is Notre Dame right?

1076
00:56:36,600 --> 00:56:41,479
Speaker 1: Can they lean on Indiana even as Indiana is top

1077
00:56:41,520 --> 00:56:44,759
Speaker 1: ten in all these defensive categories, even as Indiana is

1078
00:56:44,800 --> 00:56:48,200
Speaker 1: elite statistically against the run. Can Notre Dame look at

1079
00:56:48,239 --> 00:56:50,960
Speaker 1: it and say, that's great and all, but you hadn't

1080
00:56:50,960 --> 00:56:54,800
Speaker 1: faced us, so we don't really care. Like all due respect,

1081
00:56:55,400 --> 00:56:57,800
Speaker 1: rip the stat profile up, throw it in the garbage.

1082
00:56:57,880 --> 00:56:59,719
Speaker 1: We're gonna lean on you all night because we think

1083
00:56:59,760 --> 00:57:02,000
Speaker 1: if we run the ball that you forty seven times,

1084
00:57:02,440 --> 00:57:05,799
Speaker 1: you cannot withstand it. I believe Notre Dame thinks that

1085
00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:09,080
Speaker 1: Do they really think that? Is that how they're gonna

1086
00:57:09,080 --> 00:57:13,120
Speaker 1: call this game? Are they right about it? And does

1087
00:57:13,200 --> 00:57:16,200
Speaker 1: Indiana's game allow them to do that? And what I

1088
00:57:16,200 --> 00:57:18,680
Speaker 1: mean by that is it's well and good, it's all

1089
00:57:18,720 --> 00:57:21,040
Speaker 1: well and good to say that. What if Indiana's up

1090
00:57:21,040 --> 00:57:24,080
Speaker 1: ten to nothing, What if they're fourteen to nothing? Are

1091
00:57:24,120 --> 00:57:26,960
Speaker 1: you still just just run run run? No you're not.

1092
00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:30,600
Speaker 1: Then Riley Leonard has to throw the ball. Or there

1093
00:57:30,600 --> 00:57:33,439
Speaker 1: could be another scenario. The other scenario is Notre Dame's

1094
00:57:33,480 --> 00:57:37,000
Speaker 1: just wrong. Notre name thinks they can lean on Indiana,

1095
00:57:37,120 --> 00:57:40,160
Speaker 1: but they can't, much like Ohio State thought they could

1096
00:57:40,200 --> 00:57:43,640
Speaker 1: lean on Michigan but they couldn't. And then they panic

1097
00:57:43,680 --> 00:57:45,560
Speaker 1: a little bit, and then they have to start doing

1098
00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:47,760
Speaker 1: things that they don't really want to do. Well, that's

1099
00:57:47,760 --> 00:57:49,240
Speaker 1: when you get them out into the deep end a

1100
00:57:49,240 --> 00:57:51,760
Speaker 1: little bit, and at the very least they're uncomfortable. You've

1101
00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:53,560
Speaker 1: got to go to their building. You're already going to

1102
00:57:53,600 --> 00:57:56,680
Speaker 1: be uncomfortable. How does Indiana make Notre Dame uncomfortable? Each

1103
00:57:56,720 --> 00:57:59,840
Speaker 1: team is excellent in the turnover department. This is the

1104
00:57:59,880 --> 00:58:02,880
Speaker 1: nonumber one and number three team in points off of turnovers.

1105
00:58:04,040 --> 00:58:07,080
Speaker 1: The two big outstanding questions as we get ready to

1106
00:58:07,120 --> 00:58:09,280
Speaker 1: take a look at what the model things. The outstanding

1107
00:58:09,360 --> 00:58:12,680
Speaker 1: questions here can Riley Leonard when if he has to

1108
00:58:12,800 --> 00:58:16,000
Speaker 1: throw the ball, because no one's really forced Notre Dame

1109
00:58:16,040 --> 00:58:18,120
Speaker 1: into that spot. The only one that did it feels

1110
00:58:18,120 --> 00:58:20,680
Speaker 1: like it was ten years ago. Northern Illinois put them

1111
00:58:20,720 --> 00:58:23,600
Speaker 1: in that spot. They couldn't do it. That's just a

1112
00:58:23,640 --> 00:58:26,400
Speaker 1: clunker of a game. I'm willing to throw it out.

1113
00:58:26,600 --> 00:58:29,200
Speaker 1: Can Indiana put them in that spot? That's the first thing.

1114
00:58:29,280 --> 00:58:33,000
Speaker 1: The second thing is can Notre Dame pressure Curtis Rourke?

1115
00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:36,640
Speaker 1: Can they get after him like Ohio State did because

1116
00:58:36,640 --> 00:58:39,400
Speaker 1: they had no time to operate. Notre Dame's probably not

1117
00:58:39,520 --> 00:58:42,320
Speaker 1: quite the pressure team that Ohio State is, but they're

1118
00:58:42,360 --> 00:58:44,320
Speaker 1: not bad, so can they get to them? All right,

1119
00:58:44,400 --> 00:58:45,880
Speaker 1: let's take a look at what the model things. Colin.

1120
00:58:46,080 --> 00:58:49,160
Speaker 1: The FanDuel number is Notre Dame minus seven and a half.

1121
00:58:50,120 --> 00:58:52,120
Speaker 1: I've got Notre Dame a little bit bigger. I got

1122
00:58:52,200 --> 00:58:54,240
Speaker 1: Notre Dame minus nine and a half. I feel like

1123
00:58:54,320 --> 00:58:57,200
Speaker 1: this program has been waiting on this moment for quite

1124
00:58:57,200 --> 00:59:01,680
Speaker 1: a while, and I think the arc if you want

1125
00:59:01,720 --> 00:59:05,280
Speaker 1: to talk about it in cinematic terms, from losing the

1126
00:59:05,320 --> 00:59:09,280
Speaker 1: Northern Illinois game to hosting a playoff game and getting

1127
00:59:09,320 --> 00:59:12,840
Speaker 1: it in your backyard and getting an opponent whose strength

1128
00:59:12,880 --> 00:59:16,400
Speaker 1: seemingly matches up against your strength. They just extended Marcus

1129
00:59:16,440 --> 00:59:18,960
Speaker 1: Freeman right before we were going on air, the contract

1130
00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:22,560
Speaker 1: extension got announced. I think it's just a tailor made

1131
00:59:22,680 --> 00:59:27,520
Speaker 1: game for Notre Dame to just have better manpower to

1132
00:59:27,720 --> 00:59:31,320
Speaker 1: just withstand a four quarter fistfight. So I think Notre

1133
00:59:31,400 --> 00:59:34,120
Speaker 1: Dame is gonna win and cover. I don't think it's

1134
00:59:34,160 --> 00:59:36,439
Speaker 1: a Notre Dame win and cover the likes of which

1135
00:59:36,480 --> 00:59:38,640
Speaker 1: they did against Army, where they ran away and hid.

1136
00:59:39,040 --> 00:59:40,840
Speaker 1: This is the kind of game where if you're favored

1137
00:59:40,880 --> 00:59:45,120
Speaker 1: by seven and a half, you could be scoreless after one.

1138
00:59:45,560 --> 00:59:47,520
Speaker 1: It could be three to three going in the half,

1139
00:59:47,840 --> 00:59:51,000
Speaker 1: it is ten to seven going into the fourth, and

1140
00:59:51,040 --> 00:59:54,120
Speaker 1: then you tackle on one more touchdown in a field

1141
00:59:54,120 --> 00:59:56,080
Speaker 1: goal twenty to seven as a win. Well, that's a

1142
00:59:56,120 --> 00:59:57,880
Speaker 1: win and a cover. That's the kind of game I

1143
00:59:57,880 --> 00:59:59,960
Speaker 1: think we're gonna get here. I just think Notre Dame

1144
01:00:00,160 --> 01:00:01,520
Speaker 1: is going to be on the plus side of it.

1145
01:00:01,720 --> 01:00:03,919
Speaker 1: So I'll take Notre Dame to win. I'll take Notre

1146
01:00:04,000 --> 01:00:07,600
Speaker 1: Dame to cover. I will tell you that's the hardest

1147
01:00:07,640 --> 01:00:11,640
Speaker 1: game I think to predict, because I think there are

1148
01:00:11,640 --> 01:00:14,560
Speaker 1: several pass where Indiana just wins the game. So I'm

1149
01:00:14,600 --> 01:00:17,040
Speaker 1: nervous about it, but I trust Notre Dame enough. I

1150
01:00:17,080 --> 01:00:20,920
Speaker 1: trust them to win and cover. Let's do two things.

1151
01:00:21,000 --> 01:00:23,280
Speaker 1: So the first thing I want to do as I

1152
01:00:23,360 --> 01:00:26,320
Speaker 1: pop open this CVA is I want to tell you

1153
01:00:27,600 --> 01:00:32,000
Speaker 1: zero sugar, by the way, oh zero Sugar. I want

1154
01:00:32,000 --> 01:00:35,520
Speaker 1: to tell you that I know a lot of you

1155
01:00:37,120 --> 01:00:41,120
Speaker 1: are turned off right now by how expensive it is

1156
01:00:41,480 --> 01:00:45,320
Speaker 1: to go to these games, and you should be because

1157
01:00:45,320 --> 01:00:48,920
Speaker 1: they didn't build this playoff for you. But it is built,

1158
01:00:49,160 --> 01:00:51,120
Speaker 1: and I know a lot of you you can't live

1159
01:00:51,120 --> 01:00:53,480
Speaker 1: if you don't go to these games. So I'm helping

1160
01:00:53,520 --> 01:00:55,240
Speaker 1: you out as much as I can. I'd love to

1161
01:00:55,280 --> 01:00:57,400
Speaker 1: just give out free tickets left and right. Who knows,

1162
01:00:57,400 --> 01:00:59,040
Speaker 1: in the future, maybe we'll be able to do that

1163
01:00:59,080 --> 01:01:01,400
Speaker 1: one more good year, and maybe we'll just go full

1164
01:01:01,480 --> 01:01:03,720
Speaker 1: robinhood and we'll just toss out free tickets left and right.

1165
01:01:04,000 --> 01:01:08,560
Speaker 1: In the meantime, we partner with seat Geek and you

1166
01:01:08,640 --> 01:01:11,200
Speaker 1: can go there right now. You don't have to buy

1167
01:01:11,240 --> 01:01:13,480
Speaker 1: football tickets. You could buy concert tickets. You coul buy

1168
01:01:13,480 --> 01:01:16,840
Speaker 1: tickets anything, Broadway show for all I care. Use the

1169
01:01:16,880 --> 01:01:19,600
Speaker 1: code paate state ten, and you're gonna get a good

1170
01:01:19,600 --> 01:01:22,360
Speaker 1: discount when you check out. A lot of you used

1171
01:01:22,440 --> 01:01:24,840
Speaker 1: this over the weekend. It's not free. It doesn't make

1172
01:01:24,840 --> 01:01:27,080
Speaker 1: your tickets free. I wish it did, but it will

1173
01:01:27,080 --> 01:01:30,280
Speaker 1: give you a good, solid, little discount at the checkout counter.

1174
01:01:30,400 --> 01:01:34,640
Speaker 1: Paiate state ten. The numbers one zero at the m

1175
01:01:35,480 --> 01:01:37,880
Speaker 1: It's tough. I know it's tough out there. That Notre

1176
01:01:37,960 --> 01:01:41,800
Speaker 1: Dame secondary ticket market right now is brutal. Think of

1177
01:01:41,840 --> 01:01:45,160
Speaker 1: it as buying a memory. That's how I always justified

1178
01:01:45,160 --> 01:01:48,200
Speaker 1: my reckless ticket purchases in the past. I am purchasing

1179
01:01:48,280 --> 01:01:53,120
Speaker 1: a memory, core memory. So fifteen twenty thirty years from now,

1180
01:01:53,360 --> 01:01:55,680
Speaker 1: if I go to this championship game, or I go

1181
01:01:55,760 --> 01:02:00,479
Speaker 1: to this rivalry game fifteen years from now, to miss

1182
01:02:00,480 --> 01:02:03,400
Speaker 1: three hundred or four hundred dollars, hopefully not, but I'm

1183
01:02:03,440 --> 01:02:06,000
Speaker 1: gonna have the memory. I'm purchasing the memory. That's how

1184
01:02:06,040 --> 01:02:09,160
Speaker 1: I always well, honestly, that's how I've convinced my parents

1185
01:02:09,160 --> 01:02:10,520
Speaker 1: to pay for tickets when I was a kid, but

1186
01:02:10,880 --> 01:02:13,520
Speaker 1: that is how I justified it in my mind. Do

1187
01:02:13,600 --> 01:02:16,880
Speaker 1: that if you can, and use peate state ten at

1188
01:02:16,920 --> 01:02:20,800
Speaker 1: seat geek upon checkout. Wow, I've popped open black cherry

1189
01:02:20,800 --> 01:02:23,880
Speaker 1: tonight because I thought we had lost all the black

1190
01:02:23,960 --> 01:02:26,280
Speaker 1: cherries ZeVA. I got on. I know I'm a cream

1191
01:02:26,320 --> 01:02:28,600
Speaker 1: soda guy, but I got on a little black cherry

1192
01:02:28,680 --> 01:02:32,360
Speaker 1: kick and uh it's not number one, but it is

1193
01:02:32,400 --> 01:02:35,280
Speaker 1: a solid number two right now on the JP pole

1194
01:02:35,320 --> 01:02:41,280
Speaker 1: of ZVA, the ZJPP if you will, so, just another

1195
01:02:41,360 --> 01:02:44,200
Speaker 1: sip there. I always get nervous when I take the

1196
01:02:44,200 --> 01:02:46,640
Speaker 1: sip of ZVA cause on the podcast it just goes silent.

1197
01:02:47,480 --> 01:02:51,560
Speaker 1: Everyone gets nervous. All right, let's roll on now this one,

1198
01:02:53,120 --> 01:02:56,000
Speaker 1: this is the one I'm ready to see. SMU at

1199
01:02:56,040 --> 01:03:01,400
Speaker 1: Penn State Saturday noon eastern kickoff on A I am

1200
01:03:01,480 --> 01:03:06,640
Speaker 1: forecasting a kickoff temperature of twenty five degree hold on

1201
01:03:07,720 --> 01:03:11,400
Speaker 1: twenty four degrees, and we're going to eventually hit a

1202
01:03:11,440 --> 01:03:16,320
Speaker 1: high around twenty eight. That's the current state forecast. Stay tuned, though,

1203
01:03:17,200 --> 01:03:23,080
Speaker 1: and I come with related atmospheric slash climatological data here.

1204
01:03:23,720 --> 01:03:28,680
Speaker 1: SMU average kickoff temperature this year seventy two degrees. We

1205
01:03:28,720 --> 01:03:32,120
Speaker 1: have confirmed that, and I am looking at mid twenties

1206
01:03:32,440 --> 01:03:35,880
Speaker 1: at kickoff here now, rhet Lashley says they're not going

1207
01:03:35,920 --> 01:03:38,400
Speaker 1: to be affected by it. I think he's lying. I

1208
01:03:38,400 --> 01:03:40,439
Speaker 1: think they're going to be affected. I think Penn State

1209
01:03:40,440 --> 01:03:43,400
Speaker 1: will be affected. I think everyone will be affected because,

1210
01:03:43,760 --> 01:03:46,360
Speaker 1: contrary to very very popular belief in that part of

1211
01:03:46,360 --> 01:03:49,520
Speaker 1: the country, this is not football weather. This is insanity.

1212
01:03:49,840 --> 01:03:51,720
Speaker 1: But we're going to do it anyway. And you have

1213
01:03:51,840 --> 01:03:54,440
Speaker 1: longed for these home playoff games, and now you get them.

1214
01:03:54,640 --> 01:03:57,200
Speaker 1: I hope you're happy. I know you are. This right

1215
01:03:57,200 --> 01:03:59,280
Speaker 1: here is the first game on Saturday. There are three

1216
01:03:59,320 --> 01:04:02,000
Speaker 1: games on Saturday. This is the first one. What did

1217
01:04:02,040 --> 01:04:06,440
Speaker 1: we see against Oregon's a really important question if you're

1218
01:04:06,440 --> 01:04:08,680
Speaker 1: a Penn State fan, and candidly, if you're in that

1219
01:04:08,720 --> 01:04:11,840
Speaker 1: part of the bracket. It's a really important question because

1220
01:04:11,840 --> 01:04:14,240
Speaker 1: I tell you what I thought I saw. I saw

1221
01:04:14,320 --> 01:04:16,720
Speaker 1: him lose, but I thought I saw him play the

1222
01:04:16,760 --> 01:04:18,600
Speaker 1: best offensive game they've played all year. Now, it was

1223
01:04:18,640 --> 01:04:21,560
Speaker 1: out of necessity because Oregon kept scoring, so you had

1224
01:04:21,560 --> 01:04:24,440
Speaker 1: to match it. But that's the thing you did. You did,

1225
01:04:24,520 --> 01:04:27,160
Speaker 1: Jesse was final score that game? How many Oregon score

1226
01:04:27,280 --> 01:04:30,400
Speaker 1: they got in the forty five thirty seven. You could

1227
01:04:30,400 --> 01:04:33,800
Speaker 1: have lost forty five to seventeen, but you kept pace

1228
01:04:33,920 --> 01:04:37,320
Speaker 1: with him and what we ended up seeing was two

1229
01:04:37,480 --> 01:04:40,600
Speaker 1: ninety two on the ground, five hundred and eighteen total.

1230
01:04:40,880 --> 01:04:44,200
Speaker 1: Drew Aler looked really good. So you lost that game.

1231
01:04:44,560 --> 01:04:48,360
Speaker 1: Did you discover something about yourself that could pay dividends

1232
01:04:48,400 --> 01:04:52,960
Speaker 1: in the playoff? I believe you did. SMU's defense fourth

1233
01:04:52,960 --> 01:04:58,920
Speaker 1: against the run, ninetieth against the pass. So Penn State's

1234
01:04:59,000 --> 01:05:01,560
Speaker 1: success through the air it needs to carry over. Tyler

1235
01:05:01,600 --> 01:05:03,720
Speaker 1: Warren was big in that game, but they had some

1236
01:05:03,760 --> 01:05:07,320
Speaker 1: receiver stuff up as well. I almost wonder to myself

1237
01:05:07,640 --> 01:05:10,800
Speaker 1: this whole cold weather thing that's supposed to affect the

1238
01:05:10,840 --> 01:05:14,600
Speaker 1: Southern road team. If I think Penn State's best path

1239
01:05:14,680 --> 01:05:17,120
Speaker 1: to victory here is going to be throwing the ball

1240
01:05:17,160 --> 01:05:19,919
Speaker 1: a little bit more, How does the weather impact them

1241
01:05:20,440 --> 01:05:23,080
Speaker 1: or are they sitting there listening to me saying, what

1242
01:05:23,240 --> 01:05:25,360
Speaker 1: a fool. We're gonna be able to run the ball

1243
01:05:25,400 --> 01:05:27,920
Speaker 1: successfully on SMU will shorten this game, We'll do it

1244
01:05:27,960 --> 01:05:30,280
Speaker 1: to Penn State way. We'll be fine. Maybe so, but

1245
01:05:30,400 --> 01:05:32,080
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna have to throw the ball a

1246
01:05:32,080 --> 01:05:34,600
Speaker 1: little bit more. And I think Drew Awler's pocket mobility

1247
01:05:34,840 --> 01:05:37,320
Speaker 1: is a big key here, so if you've watched him,

1248
01:05:37,800 --> 01:05:41,040
Speaker 1: Penn State's offensive line's done a good job of protecting him.

1249
01:05:41,200 --> 01:05:43,120
Speaker 1: But this is low key one of the best pressure

1250
01:05:43,200 --> 01:05:46,680
Speaker 1: units they'll face all year. I know you face Oregon,

1251
01:05:46,760 --> 01:05:50,040
Speaker 1: you face Ohio State, and those are really really good defenses.

1252
01:05:50,200 --> 01:05:53,800
Speaker 1: SMUs pressure rates really good, and they're really sneaky good.

1253
01:05:53,840 --> 01:05:56,560
Speaker 1: They get after the quarterback, they affect the quarterback, and

1254
01:05:56,600 --> 01:06:00,160
Speaker 1: that will probably happen here. Drew Aler's really good. He's

1255
01:06:00,160 --> 01:06:04,400
Speaker 1: got like a little mini wrothless Berger mechanism about himself

1256
01:06:04,440 --> 01:06:08,160
Speaker 1: of just subtly moving and sliding in the pocket. Little

1257
01:06:08,240 --> 01:06:10,680
Speaker 1: yard here, a couple of feet here, just by yourself,

1258
01:06:10,720 --> 01:06:13,400
Speaker 1: an extra second to a quarter, and that's the difference

1259
01:06:13,600 --> 01:06:17,000
Speaker 1: in a seventeen yard completion move the sticks versus how

1260
01:06:17,040 --> 01:06:21,160
Speaker 1: great it's third and seventeen. No way to quantify how

1261
01:06:21,240 --> 01:06:23,880
Speaker 1: much that's worth over the course of a four quarter game.

1262
01:06:24,600 --> 01:06:27,360
Speaker 1: I think it's very invaluable against a defense like this.

1263
01:06:27,520 --> 01:06:31,800
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that SMU is a fast team. SMU.

1264
01:06:32,120 --> 01:06:36,600
Speaker 1: I think many people's first time watching them may have

1265
01:06:36,760 --> 01:06:39,720
Speaker 1: been against Clemson. I don't think that was the best

1266
01:06:40,040 --> 01:06:43,440
Speaker 1: representation of them this year, although they failed to scale

1267
01:06:43,520 --> 01:06:48,760
Speaker 1: their performance congruent to quality of opponent, which is just

1268
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Speaker 1: a ridiculous, unnecessarily complicated way of saying they didn't play

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01:06:53,520 --> 01:06:56,080
Speaker 1: their best when they played against the best. Well, they

1270
01:06:56,080 --> 01:06:58,600
Speaker 1: get another shot against the best. Penn State's a better

1271
01:06:58,640 --> 01:07:01,160
Speaker 1: team than Clemson. Got to play them in their backyard,

1272
01:07:01,600 --> 01:07:03,680
Speaker 1: and they've got to play them in a freezer, so

1273
01:07:03,760 --> 01:07:06,040
Speaker 1: they got that going against them. They're a fast team.

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01:07:06,080 --> 01:07:09,800
Speaker 1: Though they're a very fast team, SMU is they're also

1275
01:07:09,920 --> 01:07:12,200
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty first in penalty yards per game.

1276
01:07:12,760 --> 01:07:15,800
Speaker 1: So if Penn State can neutralize some of the speed

1277
01:07:15,880 --> 01:07:19,080
Speaker 1: with their style of play, and if you go into

1278
01:07:19,080 --> 01:07:22,440
Speaker 1: Beaver Stadium already not being great in the penalty department,

1279
01:07:23,040 --> 01:07:26,400
Speaker 1: I've got to imagine the venue you're playing in is

1280
01:07:26,440 --> 01:07:32,040
Speaker 1: going to adversely affect you. Here, Kevin Jennings, quarterback, huge wildcard.

1281
01:07:32,640 --> 01:07:37,080
Speaker 1: SMU's offensive tackles against this pass rush a huge wildcard.

1282
01:07:37,160 --> 01:07:41,440
Speaker 1: I think advantage Penn State. But just the other way,

1283
01:07:42,200 --> 01:07:45,760
Speaker 1: maybe maybe you get a surprise stalemate there and it

1284
01:07:45,800 --> 01:07:48,960
Speaker 1: gives Jennings more time and you generate more offense and

1285
01:07:49,000 --> 01:07:51,360
Speaker 1: you put the pressure on Penn State because you get

1286
01:07:51,360 --> 01:07:54,600
Speaker 1: another shot here. Get don't fall victim to thinking all

1287
01:07:54,640 --> 01:07:56,360
Speaker 1: the way it started against Clemson, that's just the way

1288
01:07:56,400 --> 01:07:58,919
Speaker 1: to start here. Maybe maybe not. Let's take a look

1289
01:07:58,920 --> 01:08:01,880
Speaker 1: with the model thinks FanDuel's got Penn State minus eight

1290
01:08:01,920 --> 01:08:05,320
Speaker 1: and a half. Right now, we agree the model has

1291
01:08:05,320 --> 01:08:09,439
Speaker 1: Penn State minus eight. I feel kind of the same

1292
01:08:09,480 --> 01:08:11,960
Speaker 1: way in the end about this game as I do

1293
01:08:12,000 --> 01:08:14,880
Speaker 1: about the Notre Dame game. I feel like just the

1294
01:08:15,680 --> 01:08:19,240
Speaker 1: caliber of roster, the totality of the situation and the

1295
01:08:19,360 --> 01:08:22,040
Speaker 1: environment over the span of four quarters is enough to

1296
01:08:22,080 --> 01:08:25,200
Speaker 1: where it starts to lean and lean and lean. And

1297
01:08:25,200 --> 01:08:27,320
Speaker 1: the thing about it is, whether you're Indiana at Notre

1298
01:08:27,400 --> 01:08:32,519
Speaker 1: Dame or whether you're SMU at Penn State, you can't

1299
01:08:32,520 --> 01:08:34,560
Speaker 1: just play the thing heads up. So you've got to

1300
01:08:34,560 --> 01:08:36,920
Speaker 1: have some bounces go your way. You need some of

1301
01:08:36,960 --> 01:08:39,000
Speaker 1: the external dynamics to go your way. And if anything,

1302
01:08:39,000 --> 01:08:40,960
Speaker 1: I think they're working against you here. Home feel very

1303
01:08:41,040 --> 01:08:43,400
Speaker 1: much matters, very much matters. I think it's going to

1304
01:08:43,439 --> 01:08:45,599
Speaker 1: matter here to the degree that I think Penn State's

1305
01:08:45,600 --> 01:08:46,800
Speaker 1: going to win, and I think they'll find a way

1306
01:08:46,800 --> 01:08:50,599
Speaker 1: to cover the game as well. Now, just as much

1307
01:08:50,640 --> 01:08:55,120
Speaker 1: as I told you at FanDuel that numbers posted. I

1308
01:08:55,160 --> 01:08:58,280
Speaker 1: think because it's December and we're coming up on the playoffs,

1309
01:08:58,320 --> 01:09:01,639
Speaker 1: but also Christmas. This time for Uncle Joshua reminds you

1310
01:09:02,160 --> 01:09:05,840
Speaker 1: don't be stupid when you're betting on this stuff, especially

1311
01:09:06,320 --> 01:09:08,920
Speaker 1: because it's the time of year where you have other expenditures,

1312
01:09:09,000 --> 01:09:10,880
Speaker 1: Like you're coming up on a time of year where

1313
01:09:11,560 --> 01:09:14,200
Speaker 1: you need to be buying things for other people. And

1314
01:09:14,280 --> 01:09:17,599
Speaker 1: if you've tapped yourself out financially because you've been gambling

1315
01:09:17,640 --> 01:09:23,080
Speaker 1: on sports and it has affected your ability to function financially,

1316
01:09:23,400 --> 01:09:25,639
Speaker 1: you're doing it wrong and you need to step away.

1317
01:09:26,600 --> 01:09:29,120
Speaker 1: When I first partnered with FanDuel, I told you that,

1318
01:09:29,240 --> 01:09:32,679
Speaker 1: I told them that we've got to take responsible gaming seriously.

1319
01:09:33,000 --> 01:09:35,400
Speaker 1: You've got to give me room to talk about it

1320
01:09:35,439 --> 01:09:38,120
Speaker 1: on the show, And they said, we actually want you to.

1321
01:09:38,439 --> 01:09:40,840
Speaker 1: I mean, I've got language, and I got a whole

1322
01:09:40,880 --> 01:09:43,880
Speaker 1: sheet of paper in front of me right now where

1323
01:09:44,120 --> 01:09:47,559
Speaker 1: not only do they fully sign off on it, they

1324
01:09:47,600 --> 01:09:51,120
Speaker 1: have resources for you. I'm not telling you that you

1325
01:09:51,240 --> 01:09:53,200
Speaker 1: have to call ten friends and say, hey, man, i've

1326
01:09:53,200 --> 01:09:56,400
Speaker 1: got a gambling problem. You'll have to do that. It's

1327
01:09:56,439 --> 01:09:58,880
Speaker 1: great if you can be held accountable by friends but

1328
01:09:58,920 --> 01:10:01,320
Speaker 1: you don't have to do that. But you know, if

1329
01:10:01,320 --> 01:10:04,640
Speaker 1: you're in trouble, you know, so back away. If you

1330
01:10:04,720 --> 01:10:07,559
Speaker 1: can't afford to lose money, don't be betting that money.

1331
01:10:07,600 --> 01:10:10,599
Speaker 1: Don't be dumb about this. And if you need to

1332
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Speaker 1: conversations about betting dot com, that's a really good resource.

1333
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Speaker 1: FanDuel dot com, slash play, well, that's a really good source.

1334
01:10:19,320 --> 01:10:23,719
Speaker 1: I'm not just talking about literature on things like gambling addiction,

1335
01:10:23,880 --> 01:10:26,120
Speaker 1: because not all of you who have trouble are addicted

1336
01:10:26,160 --> 01:10:28,320
Speaker 1: to gambling. I know that some of you just made

1337
01:10:28,320 --> 01:10:31,320
Speaker 1: some poor decisions. But if you need self and post

1338
01:10:31,320 --> 01:10:37,640
Speaker 1: time limits, deposit limits, activity statements, spending tracking, maxing your

1339
01:10:37,680 --> 01:10:40,400
Speaker 1: wager size, that's the kind of stuff that you should

1340
01:10:40,400 --> 01:10:44,320
Speaker 1: preset for yourself. Every one of you should be doing that,

1341
01:10:44,479 --> 01:10:46,200
Speaker 1: not just the ones who were in trouble. The thing

1342
01:10:46,240 --> 01:10:48,439
Speaker 1: about trouble is you want to address it before you

1343
01:10:48,479 --> 01:10:51,559
Speaker 1: get into it. You want to take preventative action. Some

1344
01:10:51,600 --> 01:10:53,680
Speaker 1: of you are already in a little situation right now

1345
01:10:53,680 --> 01:10:57,080
Speaker 1: where it's too late for that. Back away, back away,

1346
01:10:57,560 --> 01:11:00,760
Speaker 1: and come back when things are better. But if you're

1347
01:11:00,760 --> 01:11:04,040
Speaker 1: not there yet, take proactive steps to not be there.

1348
01:11:04,120 --> 01:11:06,519
Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now. You don't want to be

1349
01:11:06,520 --> 01:11:10,840
Speaker 1: in a position where your mood is altered, where this

1350
01:11:11,120 --> 01:11:15,800
Speaker 1: season is altered, where relationships are altered because you've gotten

1351
01:11:15,800 --> 01:11:18,760
Speaker 1: yourself in trouble financially because you don't know how to

1352
01:11:18,800 --> 01:11:22,200
Speaker 1: bet responsibly. If you can't do it responsibly, do not

1353
01:11:22,240 --> 01:11:24,920
Speaker 1: do it. As much as I partner with FanDuel, as

1354
01:11:25,000 --> 01:11:27,360
Speaker 1: much as I really really enjoy weaving that content into

1355
01:11:27,400 --> 01:11:31,080
Speaker 1: this show, do not mess with this stuff if you

1356
01:11:31,120 --> 01:11:33,680
Speaker 1: can't do it responsibly. It should be no different than

1357
01:11:33,720 --> 01:11:36,000
Speaker 1: I went and saw Gladiator two the other night. I

1358
01:11:36,040 --> 01:11:38,400
Speaker 1: spent like forty dollars fifty dollars at the movie theater.

1359
01:11:38,920 --> 01:11:41,920
Speaker 1: I did that because it was entertaining to me. Now

1360
01:11:41,960 --> 01:11:44,240
Speaker 1: in that case, I knew the return I was getting

1361
01:11:44,240 --> 01:11:47,439
Speaker 1: on that fifty dollars was some overly buttered popcorn and

1362
01:11:47,479 --> 01:11:49,599
Speaker 1: a movie which I gave a B plus. I thought

1363
01:11:49,640 --> 01:11:51,160
Speaker 1: it was really good. Some of our friends in the

1364
01:11:51,160 --> 01:11:53,120
Speaker 1: community been hating on Gladiator too. I thought it was

1365
01:11:53,120 --> 01:11:56,400
Speaker 1: pretty good. But I could afford to part with that

1366
01:11:56,479 --> 01:11:58,439
Speaker 1: fifty dollars. If I couldn't, it would have been dumb

1367
01:11:58,479 --> 01:12:00,360
Speaker 1: for me to go to the movie, just like it

1368
01:12:00,360 --> 01:12:01,640
Speaker 1: would be done for me to lay two and a

1369
01:12:01,680 --> 01:12:03,960
Speaker 1: half of the steelers for fifty if I can't afford

1370
01:12:04,000 --> 01:12:06,080
Speaker 1: to lose the fifty, So if you can't afford to

1371
01:12:06,120 --> 01:12:09,879
Speaker 1: lose it, don't be betting it. That concludes our advice

1372
01:12:09,920 --> 01:12:13,160
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Speaker 1: visit Gambling Helpline M or call eight hundred three two

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Speaker 1: seven fifty to fifty for twenty four to seven support

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Speaker 1: in Massachusetts or call one eight seven seven eight hope

1387
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Speaker 1: N why or text hop E n Y in New

1388
01:13:12,920 --> 01:13:17,960
Speaker 1: York busted Bold prediction. Season is a great time of

1389
01:13:18,040 --> 01:13:20,599
Speaker 1: year for me, because, as you've noticed lately, I've been

1390
01:13:20,680 --> 01:13:23,080
Speaker 1: raked over the coals because I've missed on some predictions.

1391
01:13:23,080 --> 01:13:26,160
Speaker 1: But you know what, I'm not alone. I know I

1392
01:13:26,240 --> 01:13:28,840
Speaker 1: have the evidence right here because many, many of you,

1393
01:13:29,360 --> 01:13:31,479
Speaker 1: hundreds and hundreds of you went on the record in

1394
01:13:31,479 --> 01:13:34,040
Speaker 1: the spring and you gave me your boldest predictions of

1395
01:13:34,080 --> 01:13:35,880
Speaker 1: the season. And I said, you've got to put your

1396
01:13:35,920 --> 01:13:38,160
Speaker 1: name to this, and it's got to be something you

1397
01:13:38,200 --> 01:13:40,200
Speaker 1: really feel. Don't be messing around, you got to really

1398
01:13:40,240 --> 01:13:44,479
Speaker 1: feel this. Well, here we go. Unfortunately, things didn't go

1399
01:13:44,560 --> 01:13:48,479
Speaker 1: well for others, not just me. Bold prediction that's busted

1400
01:13:48,520 --> 01:13:55,080
Speaker 1: from Gadsden, Alabama, Clemson, Oregon, Utah, Georgia all win their conferences.

1401
01:13:55,360 --> 01:13:57,720
Speaker 1: Eh I put a nine and a half on the

1402
01:13:57,720 --> 01:14:03,800
Speaker 1: boldness scale. Clemson ends up doing it about that, Oregon

1403
01:14:04,400 --> 01:14:10,080
Speaker 1: did oh, Utah horrific dead on arrival Utah. But now

1404
01:14:10,120 --> 01:14:12,960
Speaker 1: Georgia did it too. This is why, you know, we

1405
01:14:12,960 --> 01:14:15,639
Speaker 1: were just talking about responsible wagering a little while ago.

1406
01:14:16,479 --> 01:14:19,000
Speaker 1: This right here ended up being a four leg parlay

1407
01:14:19,280 --> 01:14:22,800
Speaker 1: that our friend there submitted. And what we have here

1408
01:14:23,360 --> 01:14:26,200
Speaker 1: is we have a guy going seventy five percent on

1409
01:14:26,240 --> 01:14:29,720
Speaker 1: his picks and losing money. Now what sense does that make?

1410
01:14:30,640 --> 01:14:34,479
Speaker 1: Utah was just a black hole in the middle of

1411
01:14:34,560 --> 01:14:36,880
Speaker 1: an otherwise very very This is a donut. This is

1412
01:14:36,920 --> 01:14:47,160
Speaker 1: a donut bet because everywhere around Utah pure icing and deliciousness. Clemson, Ding, Oregon, Ding, Georgia, Ding,

1413
01:14:47,360 --> 01:14:51,759
Speaker 1: Utah hole. And Utah was the one that was supposed

1414
01:14:51,760 --> 01:14:54,439
Speaker 1: to come in and be the sure, steady hand in

1415
01:14:54,479 --> 01:14:57,280
Speaker 1: the Big twelve. And they fell off a cliff, They

1416
01:14:57,320 --> 01:15:00,559
Speaker 1: fell down into the well. They they are. They are

1417
01:15:00,680 --> 01:15:04,599
Speaker 1: Catherine down at the bottom with precious and buffalo bills

1418
01:15:04,680 --> 01:15:06,439
Speaker 1: just yelling at him to put the put the lotion

1419
01:15:06,560 --> 01:15:08,599
Speaker 1: on the skin. That's where Utah is right now. So

1420
01:15:08,800 --> 01:15:11,599
Speaker 1: no Brando on the first one. The next one, Adam

1421
01:15:11,720 --> 01:15:16,000
Speaker 1: from Hartford, Wisconsin. Other than the new G five champ,

1422
01:15:16,880 --> 01:15:19,320
Speaker 1: there will be no new teams to make the twelve

1423
01:15:19,320 --> 01:15:22,280
Speaker 1: team playoff that haven't already made the four team playoff.

1424
01:15:22,640 --> 01:15:25,559
Speaker 1: This was, of course ridiculous, and I labeled it as

1425
01:15:25,600 --> 01:15:29,479
Speaker 1: a ten when you sent it, Adam, love you, You're not ridiculous.

1426
01:15:29,560 --> 01:15:35,040
Speaker 1: The prediction was no new teams. Okay, So just so

1427
01:15:35,280 --> 01:15:38,840
Speaker 1: you know, five of the twelve teams that made it

1428
01:15:38,960 --> 01:15:41,720
Speaker 1: are new and I'm not even counting Boise, I'm not

1429
01:15:41,800 --> 01:15:44,720
Speaker 1: counting the G five team. Penn State never made it

1430
01:15:44,760 --> 01:15:48,559
Speaker 1: before until now, Indiana never made it before until now,

1431
01:15:48,640 --> 01:15:52,320
Speaker 1: Arizona State, same SMU, same Tennessee. Same We were putting

1432
01:15:52,320 --> 01:15:54,840
Speaker 1: twelve teams in this thing, minus the G five team.

1433
01:15:54,840 --> 01:15:57,080
Speaker 1: We were putting eleven teams in this thing. You didn't

1434
01:15:57,080 --> 01:16:01,080
Speaker 1: think there was going to be one newcomer, all competitive balance,

1435
01:16:01,240 --> 01:16:03,080
Speaker 1: all this parody. You didn't think there was going to

1436
01:16:03,120 --> 01:16:06,760
Speaker 1: be one newcomer, Adam, not one that one crashed and

1437
01:16:06,800 --> 01:16:10,600
Speaker 1: burned next up. This one was just sad. This is

1438
01:16:10,640 --> 01:16:16,600
Speaker 1: like a Sarah McLaughlin prediction special. Kyle from Cedar Falls.

1439
01:16:17,160 --> 01:16:20,759
Speaker 1: His prediction was that Iowa would have a top eighty

1440
01:16:20,800 --> 01:16:26,280
Speaker 1: offense this year. Here's how bad it was for Iowa.

1441
01:16:26,439 --> 01:16:29,640
Speaker 1: Predicting them to have a top eighty offense warranted a

1442
01:16:29,840 --> 01:16:33,360
Speaker 1: nine and a half on the Boldness scale. That's how

1443
01:16:33,400 --> 01:16:36,559
Speaker 1: bad they had been. And you know what, They ended

1444
01:16:36,640 --> 01:16:40,160
Speaker 1: up ninety seventh in Offensive EPA and they ended up

1445
01:16:40,160 --> 01:16:44,400
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirteenth in total yards per game, they

1446
01:16:44,560 --> 01:16:48,120
Speaker 1: still didn't do it. I will give you this points

1447
01:16:48,120 --> 01:16:50,240
Speaker 1: per game they were sixty sixth, but you and I

1448
01:16:50,320 --> 01:16:54,559
Speaker 1: both know those weren't offensive points. We know that, so

1449
01:16:54,880 --> 01:16:58,040
Speaker 1: Iowa all they needed to do is not be horrific.

1450
01:16:59,040 --> 01:17:00,439
Speaker 1: And you know what, we made a lot of money

1451
01:17:00,439 --> 01:17:02,719
Speaker 1: betting on Iowa this year, but it wasn't because of offense.

1452
01:17:03,080 --> 01:17:06,760
Speaker 1: So yet again we even had improvement this year, they

1453
01:17:06,800 --> 01:17:09,720
Speaker 1: could not improve to top eighty. So that was a

1454
01:17:09,840 --> 01:17:11,600
Speaker 1: nine and a half. That one crashes and burns. Do

1455
01:17:11,640 --> 01:17:14,800
Speaker 1: you understand the stakes here? The stakes if you're new

1456
01:17:14,840 --> 01:17:17,320
Speaker 1: to the bold prediction game. If you make a prediction

1457
01:17:17,400 --> 01:17:20,080
Speaker 1: in the preseason and I rate it nine and a

1458
01:17:20,120 --> 01:17:22,680
Speaker 1: half were higher on the boldness scale, and you hit,

1459
01:17:23,479 --> 01:17:25,960
Speaker 1: you get a chalice for supremacy. Colin, show me the

1460
01:17:25,960 --> 01:17:28,880
Speaker 1: side shot right quick. We have chili of supremacy just

1461
01:17:29,080 --> 01:17:31,600
Speaker 1: littering that there's one right down there right now that

1462
01:17:31,640 --> 01:17:34,800
Speaker 1: could be yours if you make a prediction that's bold enough,

1463
01:17:34,840 --> 01:17:37,519
Speaker 1: but it hits. And we got all these chali around here,

1464
01:17:37,560 --> 01:17:39,760
Speaker 1: which is the plural of chalice, and we can't give

1465
01:17:39,800 --> 01:17:41,679
Speaker 1: them away because you guys can't hit a bold prediction

1466
01:17:41,720 --> 01:17:43,800
Speaker 1: of nine and a half or better this next one.

1467
01:17:44,240 --> 01:17:47,440
Speaker 1: I only put an eight on this one, but it

1468
01:17:47,520 --> 01:17:51,599
Speaker 1: didn't pan out. The prediction was Florida finally fires sun

1469
01:17:51,640 --> 01:17:54,719
Speaker 1: Belt Billy. That's Billy Napier. Do you and I refuse

1470
01:17:54,800 --> 01:17:56,960
Speaker 1: to pay too much attention to the team until he's gone.

1471
01:17:57,080 --> 01:18:00,559
Speaker 1: I'm currently stuck in Atlanta, a city Billy Napier led

1472
01:18:00,640 --> 01:18:03,240
Speaker 1: Florida will never play in. Oh, I get it. Okay,

1473
01:18:03,280 --> 01:18:04,920
Speaker 1: so they're never going well, maybe they'll never go to

1474
01:18:04,960 --> 01:18:08,559
Speaker 1: the SEC Championship game. But Billy Napier is still breathing.

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Speaker 1: And it looked like two or three times this year

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Speaker 1: this prediction would be right, but nope, he's still breathing.

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Speaker 1: Dare I say they finished the season hot? Not the seat?

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Speaker 1: The seat cooled as the team got hot. DJ Lagway,

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Speaker 1: Billion Napier, Peanut Butter and Jelly, and then they started

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Speaker 1: making some recruiting moves, maybe a portal move or two.

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Speaker 1: Still got a ridiculous schedule next year, but they ended

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Speaker 1: up going seven and five. They're gonna play tu Lane

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Speaker 1: in the Gasparilla Bowl, so in they're favored in that game.

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Speaker 1: This could end up being an eight win season for

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Speaker 1: Billi Napier do you realize that? And he was fired

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Speaker 1: like half a dozen times this year, and not only

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Speaker 1: does he exit the season hot with three straight wins

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Speaker 1: during that you know murderer's row stretch where in the

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Speaker 1: preseason it looked like they wouldn't even be able to

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Speaker 1: come up for air. They beat LSU while they were ranked,

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Speaker 1: they beat Ole Miss while they were ranked, They beat FSU.

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Speaker 1: FSU wasn't even alive as a team, but they beat

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Speaker 1: FSU into a coma. That's you know what. Relatively speaking,

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Speaker 1: the coma was already upon Florida State. They just beat

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Speaker 1: them while they were in a coma. So that's a

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Speaker 1: different thing. And I apologize because Florida State's not here

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Speaker 1: to defend themselves. They're in a coma, So I apologize.

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Speaker 1: Billion Napiers not fired. So these are four busted predictions.

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Speaker 1: And am I rubbinging in your face? Yes I am,

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Speaker 1: But it's only a defense mechanism because a fair amount

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Speaker 1: of my predictions went up and smoked this year as well.

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Speaker 1: But I got to own them. So it helps me

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Speaker 1: in a very very strange twisted way for you guys

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Speaker 1: to have to own it as well. Appreciate you tonight,

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Speaker 1: what'd we go? We went an hour twenty tonight, but

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