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Speaker 2: And then and Tye, welcome back to the solid rebel

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Speaker 2: fine gentleman over there, the one, the only, always, the

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Speaker 2: incomparable Dan Rubinstein. You will hear his voice momentarily. This

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Speaker 2: is an excerpt from College Football Thursdays. It's the show

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Speaker 2: we do live on Spotify every Thursday evening at five

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Speaker 2: pm East two pm West. On today's excerpt, you're going

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Speaker 2: to hear Tye versus the World. It is a game

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Speaker 2: we like to play where I give five picks against

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Speaker 2: the spread. We invite five others from the audience up

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Speaker 2: onto the virtual stage to give five picks that represent

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Speaker 2: the world. At the end of the week we add

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Speaker 2: up the results. Right now, winning percentage is exactly sixty percent.

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Speaker 2: We're trying to get that as high as possible. So

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Speaker 2: fingers crossed that week seven treats me well, hope you'll

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Speaker 2: stop by next Thursday, five pebs, two pm West Live

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Speaker 2: on Spotify. Here's Tie versus the World. Enjoy your week

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Speaker 2: seven Tie versus the World, Steve Time versus the World.

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Speaker 2: All right, Dan, are you ready? Are you ready? Are

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Speaker 1: Of course? I am all right.

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Speaker 2: Well, I kind of gave away the game a little

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Speaker 2: bit here with the first two. But Penn State plus

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Speaker 2: trying to speak this result into existence. Of any of

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Speaker 2: the five games that I'm going to give you here,

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Speaker 2: that is the one that you should bet the least

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Speaker 2: I want to believe is a Penn State grad is

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Speaker 2: road spot. Penn State's been playing pretty well. This is

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Speaker 2: a big game for them. They will be up for it.

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Speaker 2: I believe they will keep this one close enough to

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Speaker 2: at least cover that seven point spread. So my first

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Speaker 1: All right, fair enough.

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Speaker 2: My next pick is Oklahoma minus nine. I will try

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Speaker 2: to find a way to sugarcoat this as best I can,

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Speaker 2: because I love the Kansas story. Kansas is going to

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Speaker 2: being Jason Bean was good last week. I am not

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Speaker 2: a Kansas believer. I am a believer in the Kansas story.

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Speaker 2: in this matchup for a couple reasons. First off, obviously,

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Speaker 1: Counterpoint, I think they tried last week and the week

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Speaker 2: three Arkansas now a pick'em over BYU kJ Jefferson's back.

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Speaker 2: Arkansas needs this one badly. They need this one badly.

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Speaker 2: They need this win. They need this win more than

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Speaker 2: any team on this list. Arkansas, they need this win.

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Speaker 2: turning it over to the world. Yes, Wisconsin minus seven

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Speaker 2: Okay, I was on Wisconsin last week minus ten against Northwestern.

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Speaker 2: By the way, I'm picking all like road teams again

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Speaker 2: I know it hasn't all been gravy for Wisconsin, right Obviously,

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Speaker 2: in Jim Leonard, I really like Wisconsin going away here.

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Speaker 1: Sounds to me like you're saying double netcrack right to

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Speaker 1: an All American caliber tight end. That's not the situation

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Speaker 1: not necessarily in a good way. But if they're merely

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Speaker 1: the ball.

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Speaker 2: Five picks this week, again, just to rehash, we've got

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Speaker 2: Penn State plus seven, Oklahoma minus nine, the Arkansas pick'em,

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Speaker 2: North Carolina minus seven, and the rivalry against Duke and

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Speaker 2: Wisconsin minus seven and a half. On the road in

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Speaker 2: East Lansing last week, I went three to one and one.

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Speaker 2: My overall record is seventeen eleven and two, which puts

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Speaker 2: me right at sixty percent winning percentage.

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Speaker 1: You hear that, ladies,