Speaker 1: Welcome to the solid verbal hell.
Speaker 2: That for me. I'm a man, I'm forty.
Speaker 1: I've heard so many players say, well, I want to
Speaker 1: be happy. You want to be happy for a day?
Speaker 1: Edo state is that woo woom?
Speaker 2: And then and Tye, welcome back to the solid rebel
Speaker 2: boys and girls. My name is ty hilden Brandt. That
Speaker 2: fine gentleman over there, the one, the only, always, the
Speaker 2: incomparable Dan Rubinstein. You will hear his voice momentarily. This
Speaker 2: is an excerpt from College Football Thursdays. It's the show
Speaker 2: we do live on Spotify every Thursday evening at five
Speaker 2: pm East two pm West. On today's excerpt, you're going
Speaker 2: to hear Tye versus the World. It is a game
Speaker 2: we like to play where I give five picks against
Speaker 2: the spread. We invite five others from the audience up
Speaker 2: onto the virtual stage to give five picks that represent
Speaker 2: the world. At the end of the week we add
Speaker 2: up the results. Right now, winning percentage is exactly sixty percent.
Speaker 2: We're trying to get that as high as possible. So
Speaker 2: fingers crossed that week seven treats me well, hope you'll
Speaker 2: stop by next Thursday, five pebs, two pm West Live
Speaker 2: on Spotify. Here's Tie versus the World. Enjoy your week
Speaker 2: seven Tie versus the World, Steve Time versus the World.
Speaker 2: All right, Dan, are you ready? Are you ready? Are
Speaker 2: you ready?
Speaker 1: Of course? I am all right.
Speaker 2: Well, I kind of gave away the game a little
Speaker 2: bit here with the first two. But Penn State plus
Speaker 2: seven at Michigan, Oklahoma minus nine at home against Kansas
Speaker 2: first two picks. Here's my thing with Penn State. I
Speaker 2: am horribly biased. Of course, I am horribly biased. This
Speaker 2: is one of those games. On some level, I am
Speaker 2: trying to speak this result into existence. Of any of
Speaker 2: the five games that I'm going to give you here,
Speaker 2: that is the one that you should bet the least
Speaker 2: amount of your actual hard earned American kishon Okay, because
Speaker 2: it is mostly a heart overhead type of scenario. I
Speaker 2: believe Penn State is good enough to win that game.
Speaker 2: I believe eventually, at some point there will be a
Speaker 2: team that forces JJ McCarthy into a scenario that he
Speaker 2: has yet to face, and that is the running game
Speaker 2: around him is not nearly as effective and he has
Speaker 2: to win it on his own right. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I want to believe is a Penn State grad is
Speaker 2: a Penn State fan that Penn State is good enough
Speaker 2: to be that team. I want to believe that. I
Speaker 2: can't say that with confidence, but I do know big
Speaker 2: road spot. Penn State's been playing pretty well. This is
Speaker 2: a big game for them. They will be up for it.
Speaker 2: I believe they will keep this one close enough to
Speaker 2: at least cover that seven point spread. So my first
Speaker 2: pick here is Penn State plus to seven.
Speaker 1: All right, fair enough.
Speaker 2: My next pick is Oklahoma minus nine. I will try
Speaker 2: to find a way to minus nine. I will try
Speaker 2: to find a way to sugarcoat this as best I can,
Speaker 2: because I love the Kansas story. Kansas is going to
Speaker 2: be starting Jason Bean. The last I saw Jalen Daniels,
Speaker 2: he of injury last week. To you know, varying degrees
Speaker 2: with severity depending who you believe on Twitter, HM, Jalen
Speaker 2: Daniels seems unlikely to play, which means we get Jason
Speaker 2: being Jason Bean was good last week. I am not
Speaker 2: a Kansas believer. I am a believer in the Kansas story.
Speaker 2: I want to root on the Jayhawks. I am not
Speaker 2: a Kansas believer. I believe Oklahoma State is tremendously undervalued
Speaker 2: in this matchup for a couple reasons. First off, obviously,
Speaker 2: just look at the optics of losing forty nine to
Speaker 2: nil against your biggest rival. That doesn't look good. People
Speaker 2: don't feel good about you if you lose by a
Speaker 2: healthy margin such as that. If you look embarrassingly poor
Speaker 2: against your hated rival, no no one wants to bet
Speaker 2: on you. That's just the way it is. The defense
Speaker 2: has looked really bad in Kansas has a good offense.
Speaker 2: I understand why people would want to go Kansas, but
Speaker 2: I don't believe Oklahoma is quite as bad as we
Speaker 2: saw last week. I also think it bears mentioning they
Speaker 2: without Dylan Gabriel for two games now, and you get
Speaker 2: him back this week at home against Kansas. I think
Speaker 2: they've got a point to prove and they're going to
Speaker 2: try and score as many points as humanly possible. This
Speaker 2: is not a good Kansas defense. All it's going to
Speaker 2: take for Oklahoma is one or two additional stops in
Speaker 2: order to get enough cover here to win this one
Speaker 2: going away. So I'm on the Sooners minus snide at home.
Speaker 1: Counterpoint, I think they tried last week and the week
Speaker 1: before that, and the week with Dylan Gabriel to score
Speaker 1: as many points as humanly possible and didn't. I couldn't.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying against me at your own perils.
Speaker 1: So what are they doing? Are they running the hell
Speaker 1: out of the ball? You think Dylan Gabriel is going
Speaker 1: to throw for a bajillion yards? Do you think they're
Speaker 1: just going to both both just huddle up and be like, guys,
Speaker 1: let's get it together, and they do.
Speaker 2: Okay, yes, all of the above, All right. Pick number
Speaker 2: three Arkansas now a pick'em over BYU kJ Jefferson's back.
Speaker 2: Arkansas needs this one badly. They need this one badly.
Speaker 2: I believe they will. They will be able to run
Speaker 2: the ball with Raheem Sanders and with kJ Jefferson, and that,
Speaker 2: from what I've seen on the BYU front, is a
Speaker 2: pretty successful formula to win. I like the fact that
Speaker 2: it's a pick them, although I was going to take
Speaker 2: Arkansas even they were when they were favored by a
Speaker 2: point and a half. So for me, yeah, for me,
Speaker 2: this one is sort of a no brainer. I've got
Speaker 2: some my own money on this one. I really like
Speaker 2: the hogs.
Speaker 1: Here disrespecting mountains again again.
Speaker 2: You know, I like mountains, though worries.
Speaker 1: No, you don't, No, you don't. You're taking the sea
Speaker 1: level team. I have no idea where Fayettella is at
Speaker 1: sea level, but you are taking this team definitely closer
Speaker 1: to sea level in Arkansas than BYU at altitude. They
Speaker 1: know this did come down. You're right. I understand why.
Speaker 2: They need this win. They need this win more than
Speaker 2: any team on this list. Arkansas, they need this win.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: North Carolina minus seven at Duke. I'm also not a
Speaker 2: Duke believer. I'm not a Duke believer. I believe Duke's better.
Speaker 2: I don't believe they're good enough to hang to score
Speaker 2: with North Carolina. I know it's a rivalry, I don't care.
Speaker 2: I think North Carolina is the better offense, the better team,
Speaker 2: and I think by the time all is said and done,
Speaker 2: we will probably be talking about North Carolina the way
Speaker 2: we talk about Kansas now, the way everybody thinks Kansas
Speaker 2: and their offense is legit.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: I think North Carolina will be the rich man's version
Speaker 2: of that come December, when, of course we know all
Speaker 2: things college football. North Carolina minus seven on the road
Speaker 2: at Duke. Now, North Carolina in a letdown spot. I
Speaker 2: don't believe they've fully cured their defensive woes because Tyler
Speaker 2: Van Dyke threw for like five hundred yards against them
Speaker 2: last week. So if there were ever a team where
Speaker 2: Sunday morning, you're gonna go, oh right, that thing that
Speaker 2: we saw weekend and week out came back, it might
Speaker 2: be North Carolina's defense leading the way to a duke
Speaker 2: win in a rivalry spot at home.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: Maybe, Okay, we'll see Clayton by the way in the Chad,
Speaker 2: thank you Clayton for half of my back here, says
Speaker 2: North Carolina by thirty final pick here, and then we're
Speaker 2: turning it over to the world. Yes, Wisconsin minus seven
Speaker 2: and a half at Michigan State.
Speaker 1: Oh ye consin minus seven and a half.
Speaker 2: Okay, I was on Wisconsin last week minus ten against Northwestern.
Speaker 2: By the way, I'm picking all like road teams again
Speaker 2: with the exception of Oklahoma, which I hate doing, but
Speaker 2: it keeps working out this way and I'm winning, so
Speaker 2: I'm going to keep doing what works. I just I'll
Speaker 2: come back to what I said earlier in the show.
Speaker 2: I think these teams are going in opposite directions, and
Speaker 2: I know it hasn't all been gravy for Wisconsin, right Obviously,
Speaker 2: they fired Paul Christ of course, last week was a
Speaker 2: net crack game for him. Last week was the kind
Speaker 2: of game that they needed to have success through the
Speaker 2: air to put up a bunch of points to build
Speaker 2: some momentum for the back half of the season. That
Speaker 2: is exactly what they needed Michigan State. I have no
Speaker 2: understanding for where that team is headed right now, because
Speaker 2: it seems a lot of what we thought might go
Speaker 2: well in the preseason has collapsed. The defense hasn't gotten better,
Speaker 2: they haven't gotten lyft from any of the transfers that
Speaker 2: they brought over, at least not enough of a lift
Speaker 2: to get this team to some higher level of efficiency.
Speaker 2: I know that there are young guys playing all across
Speaker 2: the board here along both lines and whatnot. I get
Speaker 2: all that, but I just I don't think that the
Speaker 2: feel good story of building under Meltucker for twenty twenty
Speaker 2: three is enough to sideline a Wisconsin team that I
Speaker 2: still believe has a lot to play for. So maybe
Speaker 2: not so much in terms of like a Big Ten championship,
Speaker 2: but definitely when it comes to trying to build for
Speaker 2: who you think your new coach is going to be
Speaker 2: who everybody thinks the new coach is going to be
Speaker 2: in Jim Leonard, I really like Wisconsin going away here.
Speaker 1: Sounds to me like you're saying double netcrack right to
Speaker 1: that's of Northwestern and Michigan State back to back is
Speaker 1: a nice way to sort of get into the second
Speaker 1: half of the season, which, by the way, when you
Speaker 1: look at Wisconsin's schedule, this is what we're looking at
Speaker 1: back half for Jim Leonard in his interim status with
Speaker 1: ie out presume read it out. So it's at Michigan
Speaker 1: State winnable. Purdue at home I think difficult, but ultimately
Speaker 1: like that could be a toss up because Purdue sort
Speaker 1: of is all over the place in terms of how
Speaker 1: they finish games as we saw last week and how
Speaker 1: we saw the Syracuse game end Maryland, who I think
Speaker 1: is quality, But I think that's winnable if Wisconsin is
Speaker 1: able to get back on track at Iowa. I mean
Speaker 1: another toss up like first to fourteen wins that game,
Speaker 1: Nebraska atop the Big Ten West, But I'm not a
Speaker 1: big believer when a team that needs to come back
Speaker 1: against Rutgers and Minnesota. Another like weird week to week
Speaker 1: toss up as soon as they start playing weird excuse me,
Speaker 1: as soon as they start playing real teams. So if
Speaker 1: Wisconsin they're not going to get their together, they're not
Speaker 1: going to look like the Wisconsin of old. But if
Speaker 1: they're merely competitive and merely not making mistakes, and even
Speaker 1: if they're a pickleball team in that they have to
Speaker 1: sort of dink and doink down the field and aren't
Speaker 1: generating explosive plays anymore often, these are all relatively winnable games.
Speaker 1: Now I come into this with the baggage of like, oh,
Speaker 1: of course Wisconsin has more All American linebackers, and of
Speaker 1: course Wisconsin has an efficient quarterback who's getting it to
Speaker 1: an All American caliber tight end. That's not the situation
Speaker 1: in Wisconsin right now. This is a new look Wisconsin team,
Speaker 1: not necessarily in a good way. But if they're merely
Speaker 1: a B minus Big Ten team, they can win a
Speaker 1: lot of these late just staying close, just hanging around,
Speaker 1: drafting behind the opportunity truck. I don't think they will
Speaker 1: win a majority of these games. I think it's probably
Speaker 1: going to be a split, Like they'll beat Nebraska and
Speaker 1: Iowa and Maryland but lose to Purdue in Minnesota or
Speaker 1: something like that. But I think there's potential for them
Speaker 1: to at least get their act together and be a
Speaker 1: little bit more creative in the way that they move
Speaker 1: the ball.
Speaker 2: Five picks this week, again, just to rehash, we've got
Speaker 2: Penn State plus seven, Oklahoma minus nine, the Arkansas pick'em,
Speaker 2: North Carolina minus seven, and the rivalry against Duke and
Speaker 2: Wisconsin minus seven and a half. On the road in
Speaker 2: East Lansing last week, I went three to one and one.
Speaker 2: My overall record is seventeen eleven and two, which puts
Speaker 2: me right at sixty percent winning percentage.
Speaker 1: You hear that, ladies,