WEBVTT - Week 10 Recap: Part 2 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:05.040 Welcome to the solid verbal hull. 0:00:05.080 --> 0:00:08.079 That for me, I'm a man, I'm for it. 0:00:08.240 --> 0:00:10.119 I've heard so many players say, well, I want to 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:12.080 be happy. You want to be happy for a day? 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:14.440 Edith Steak is that woo woom? 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:20.640 And then and tie Dan Rubinstein back in the home 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:25.880 studio after a long weekend away and beautiful and arbor Michigan, 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:28.960 my friend watching your Oregon Ducks take it to the 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:32.720 Michigan Wolverines. We had a weird setup in the hotel 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:37.320 room to pull off something of a recap episode on 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:39.680 Saturday night. But alas, as you can see from the 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:42.559 background for those of you watching the video back where 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:45.320 it all started, my friend, how goes it? 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:47.839 It's it's very good time. Life is very good. Not 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:50.879 my first time, probably won't be my last time hauling 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:55.200 production lights into a hotel room and getting a few 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:57.520 looks in the lobby're like, what's about to go down 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:01.400 in a room two three one tonight? As I'm looking around, like. 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:04.600 Everything's cool, guys, this is just college football and we're 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:07.600 not talking ring lights. We're talking the big light with 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:10.440 the umbrella, like full on production. I said, we use 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:14.200 for what we do. Yeah, and a few kind of 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:18.120 stray glances, like what's what's going on up in that room? Yeah? 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:20.640 Like like, are we going to be interviewing somebody on 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:22.760 camera saying you ever done something like this before? 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:23.960 No? 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:28.640 No, huh, I mean you're a natural. That's that's the 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:32.000 vibe that I picked up on from people's eyeballs looking 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:35.080 at me hauling a light stand and a giant light 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:39.440 dome in the Hilton Garden, Detroit, Marriott. Yeah, that's the 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:40.039 life we lead. 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:43.360 Welcome back to the show, one and all. Thank you 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:45.600 for your patients this past weekend as we did our 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:48.000 best to put a show out there. This show now 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:50.160 is going to be a continuation of what we did 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:53.240 on Saturday. So yeah, because we were at the Oregon 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:55.720 Michigan game, we did not have a chance to do 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:58.800 our normal bit of football consumption. This gave us an 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:02.760 opportunity to go back and rewatch games, formulate some thoughts. 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:06.600 We did not talk a whole lot about what transpired 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:09.960 in the nightcap because we recorded the show earlier. This 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:11.520 episode is going to give us a chance to go 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:14.919 through some of those games and also take a stroll 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:18.720 back down memory lane talk through what happened at other 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:21.480 points throughout the day in Week ten. 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:24.880 Yes, I have a lot of thoughts, a lot of opinions. 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:28.040 We have rankings, reverbs. It's a jam pack show. Yes, 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:30.840 it is a jam pack show. Hit follow, hit subscribe. 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:34.000 You don't want to miss any of our episodes moving forward, 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:37.839 because as we will discuss on today's show, as I'm 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:41.320 pretty sure I am going to discuss at nauseum on 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:44.560 the Thursday preview show, there is a lot that's going 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:47.639 to go down in November. Oh my god, Yes, a 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:49.840 lot is going to go down in November with respect 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:55.280 to conference standings. So if you are ever so inclined, folks, 0:02:55.680 --> 0:03:00.200 for the next forty five minutes, sixty minutes, what whatever 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:03.359 time you choose to spend with us to distract yourself 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:07.280 from the healthscape of American politics which is going on today. 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:10.360 As we released this episode, thank you for joining us 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:11.280 here in the Rebowler hood. 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:12.560 Dan thrilled your hair. 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:18.040 So look. Week ten featured seven teams of the AP 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:22.120 Top twenty five going down. Yes, we had Penn State, 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:25.000 we had Texas A and M. We had Iowa State, Clemson, 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:30.520 Kansas State, Pitt and Illinois. Of those teams, Texas A 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:35.400 and M Clemson and pitt All lost at night while 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:39.440 we were recording. I would also add Iowa State lost 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:42.760 while we were in the car, Kansas State lost while 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:45.280 we were in the car. Illinois happened a little bit 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:46.960 earlier in the day. That was one that we had 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:51.440 telegraphed as part of my locks yep on our previous 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:57.120 preview episode. But definitely an active week with respect to rankings, 0:03:57.520 --> 0:04:00.120 which leads me to where we are right now with 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:03.040 Harvard Baller top twelve. Got a new one that is 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:07.360 out there, number twelve, Boise State crack in the top twelve, 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:11.720 number eleven, SMU welcome to the dance, my friends, number ten, 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:16.080 notere Dame now firmly in our top twelve. They hadn't 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:20.800 been there before. Peeking back in Tennessee at nine, BYU 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:23.480 at eight. Penn State drops all the way down to 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:25.599 number seven, but still very much in the thick of 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:29.880 things here. Indiana all the way up to number six. 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:34.320 Dan Rubinstein, wooh, finally getting a little bit of love 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:38.600 for the Hoosiers. Top five is Texas at five, Miami 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:44.400 at four, Georgia at three, Ohio State at two, Oregon, 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:50.000 Your Oregon Ducks a comfortable first place in this poll. 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:53.800 Also add before I get your comments, Alabama is thirteen, Ole, 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:59.080 Missus fourteen, Army fifteen, Texas A, and m sixteen in 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:04.200 LSU at seventeen. Any reactions, any thoughts to that top twelve? 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:10.760 Uh? Yeah, I mean the conversation around number three is fascinating, 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:13.599 though it's hard for me to put Texas there, obviously 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:15.680 losing to Georgia the way that they did, hard for 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:17.640 me to put Miami there in terms of strength of 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:21.279 performance that you know, there's no good answer for number 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:24.920 three in this moment. Georgia won an absolute clunker given 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:29.599 Carson Beck's interception issues against Florida, and it's difficult to 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:32.680 say Indiana, even with an undefeated record in a power 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:36.480 conference like a slam dunket number three, given who they've played. 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:38.760 Now you can say they've performed like a number three 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:42.960 team should with a weirdly weak schedule. And I understand 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:45.760 why they scheduled down in the non conference, because Indiana 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:48.960 has been long a program scheduling to get to a ballgame, 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:53.640 and so they weren't even thinking about like style, points 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:55.760 and record and any of that kind of stuff, because 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:58.560 why would you given the history of Indiana football. So 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:01.000 that's sort of defensible that they're sort of not in 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:03.120 that number three conversation. And I don't think, what are 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:03.640 they in the eight. 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:08.080 People yet there's somewhere in that vicinity. Yes, six, seven, eight, Yeah, 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:10.280 they've now cracked the top ten, which good for them. 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:12.760 They should be there given the way they've played. Definitely, 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:16.440 and to your point, this schedule definitely predates Kurt Signetti 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:18.880 and all this renewed optimism around the program. Like you said, 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:21.000 they're trying to get too a bowl game that was 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:23.719 kind of seen as the stepping stone, but never in 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:27.239 their wildest dreams did we did they did we expect 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:29.239 that they'd be in the thick of this thing come 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:30.240 mid November. 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:34.080 In terms of if we are once again just looking 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:36.880 at this poll, is it a poll that combines who 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:39.480 we think are the twelve best teams or the twelve 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:43.640 best resumes or everything you know that goes into a ranking, 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:46.479 like I happen to think Ole Miss is probably one 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:48.320 of the best dozen teams in the country right now. 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:51.440 Even with the injuries. Trey Harris didn't play against Arkansas, 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:53.400 you know, a little bit thin at running back at 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:57.000 the moment. Set in records. The defense I think might 0:06:57.040 --> 0:07:01.440 be leading the nation in sacks. They're playing at their best, 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:06.120 as complete a football game as most, if not all, 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:08.839 of the sport, and so that's an O mission And 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:10.960 I get it because of the loss to Kentucky. Totally 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:13.320 defensible why you would leave them out. But if we're 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:15.840 just having that conversation about who are the twelve best 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:18.840 teams in the country, I think you're doing a little 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:21.080 bit of an injustice leaving will miss out. 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:25.160 We opened up this poll to all of our Patreon members, 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:27.920 so those who are certified in Premium for Ballers, also 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:30.360 those who join on the free tier, just to get 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:33.800 more opinions because things are starting to heat up now, 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:37.040 I think again with respect to how these teams sack up. 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:40.160 We're going to see the first round of playoff rankings 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:42.680 on Tuesday evening for those who care to pay attention. 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:45.920 We a little distraction. Yeah yeah, nice distraction. 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:49.240 We'll see how it compares to this for ball Oer 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:51.760 Top twelve poll. Again, this is voted on by our 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:54.720 community and everybody kind of has their own measure for it. 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:57.320 We have some folks that want to put Vandy in 0:07:57.360 --> 0:08:00.200 the top twelve. We have others that take it. You know, 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:02.480 I think from your standpoint of well, I don't care 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:04.280 what the records are. I'm just looking at this in 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:07.000 terms of who I think the best teams are, right, 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:09.280 I've tried to take something of a hybrid approach, though 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:12.920 not including Vandy, I would add, and I find it 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:15.000 interesting that we've now got some new teams that are 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:17.840 that are peeking their way into this thing. It took 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:20.080 a while for people to get comfortable again with putting 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:23.960 Notre Dame in their top twelve. That' SMU finally getting 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:27.080 something of a boost after playing really good football, progressively 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:29.680 better football after that loss earlier in the year, to BYU, 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:33.040 even BYU. I feel like our voters have struggled with 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:35.360 where do we put BYU. If you take the poll 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:38.320 points the way I calculate them, you can use that 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:40.839 to figure out where the decision points are. Right now, 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:43.840 Oregon is a clear number one, Yes, Ohio State and 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:47.880 Georgia damn near tied for that second spot. All right, So, 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:50.200 even though Georgia did have a bit of a clunker 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:53.559 this past weekend against Florida, it stands to reason that 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:57.600 at least our for baller hood still feels pretty confident 0:08:57.600 --> 0:09:01.600 in Georgia. Miami a very comfortable fourth in front of Texas. 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:04.440 Texas are very comfortable fifth in front of Indiana. Once 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:07.120 you get to six, this is when things start to 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:10.400 get interesting. There's still a nice gap between Indiana and 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:15.440 Penn State, but after you get to seven, seven, eight, nine, 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:18.959 like the whole way down, it's very very tight. How 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:21.240 the committee kind of susses all this out would be 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:23.439 really interesting to see. I don't know what to expect there. 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:26.760 I don't take the first round of polling that seriously, 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:29.439 of course, but it will be interesting just to get 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:32.400 kind of like a check as for how the Committe 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:33.719 feels about what it's seen so far. 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:36.400 I'm not so sure I understand why Penn State is 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:39.440 where they are on this list. You play in a 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:42.360 big game, a top ten matchup at home and score 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:46.319 how many offensive touchdowns tie once exactly zero, exactly zero. 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:48.400 Now we don't know what b y you would do 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:50.480 at home against Ohio State. We don't know what Indiana 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:51.920 would do. We don't know what Tennessee would do, we 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:54.200 don't know what Notre Dame would do. But we know 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:56.319 what Penn State would do, and that is not all 0:09:56.360 --> 0:10:00.720 that much, and so I'm with them in like that 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:03.800 ten to eleven range instead and having to prove themselves 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:05.920 to be a top ten team given that the results 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:07.760 this year to that point, as we talked about on 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:11.120 the preview show, little to no throttle on offense all 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:13.480 year long, that they are just in general, you know, 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:17.280 distancing themselves from clearly lesser teams. That's that's not the 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:20.320 Penn state of twenty twenty four, and it feels like 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:22.520 they're in that spot, whether it's the A People Coaches 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:25.840 Poll or even more important for Ballerpol that they're getting 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:30.000 a benefit of the doubt for an unclear reason right now. 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:32.880 Well, I think this week will help us sort things 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:35.600 out a little bit further agreat. We've got Georgia on 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:37.920 the road at ol Miss, We've got Alabama on the 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:40.240 road at LSU, We've got BYU on the road at 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:43.360 Utah and the Holy War. Even games like Colorado Texas 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:47.839 Tech have a lot of intrigue associated with them. There 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:51.800 are suddenly real conference implications for some of these games 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:54.559 that we couldn't have dreamt up weeks ago. So we'll 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:59.160 get into that and much much more either on today's 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:02.320 episode or as we get into the preview, but as 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:06.439 we have advertised this show as sort of our opportunity 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:11.680 to take a look back at what we missed. Let's 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:14.920 talk week ten again. Dan, Let's what did you have 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:18.000 the pleasure of going back and watching where did your 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:21.520 where did your attention go? First? When you look at 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:25.200 the sheet, realize what we still had to cover, and 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:31.080 decided to fire up the nefarious YouTube streams and watch 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:35.240 a game. I think Texas Tech won their game in 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:39.280 such a losing effort that I cannot believe Iowa State 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:42.320 lost that game. I cannot believe Baron Morton threw two 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:45.520 picks in the opening part of the middle eight within 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:49.959 like a minute and a half of time, want first opportunity. 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:53.040 Iowa State went three and out in like twenty seconds. 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:55.920 And then they score a touchdown right before halftime, get 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:59.480 the ball back after halftime, and lose their first fumble 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:00.480 I think of season. 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:03.040 I think that's what I saw. Their tight end got 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:06.400 it punched out from behind as they were driving. It 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:09.480 starts raining like crazy near the end of the game, 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:13.800 and somehow Texas Tech. Texas Tech puts together like a 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:19.480 twelve play buck forty two long drive down the field 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:23.440 in the rain, surviving a third and fifteen, a fourth 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:26.240 and seven, and are able to punch it in with 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:29.360 I don't know, twenty seconds left something like that, and 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:32.719 somehow hold on to win that game. I don't it was. 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:35.200 It was a cocktail. It was a losing cocktail that 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:38.720 somehow came together for Texas Tech. I could not believe 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:41.760 watching that game back, and they had the performances right. 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:44.079 Josh Kelly was very good and was an absolute dude, 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:46.599 especially early on in that game. TODJ. Brooks continues to 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:49.600 be a dude. Baron Morton did make plays. I just 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:54.280 can't believe the stolen possessions and the freak fumble loss 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:58.520 all added up to losing this game for Iowa State 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:00.680 in the rain, Right, it was going to be so 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:02.719 difficult for Texas Tech to move the ball down the 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:05.360 field against the quality Iowa State defense. And credit to 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:08.400 Texas tack of course, of course, credit to Texas Tech. 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:10.360 Win your clunkers, of course, of course, of course, win 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:12.240 is a win. I can't believe Iowa State. 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:14.920 Lost this game and Texas Tech now finds itself in 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:17.320 a position of real consequence. That's not to say that 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:19.840 they have a great chance of winning the Big Twelve. 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:21.760 I don't think they have much chance at all of 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:23.440 winning the Big Twelve, if I'm being honest with you, 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:27.080 But they definitely have a chance to impact the way 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:29.920 that that conference shakes out, not the least of which 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:31.640 is this game this weekend against Colorado. 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:32.880 I cannot believe it. 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:35.800 I was curious what happened in that one. I put 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:38.959 the call out on our discord, and people were just like, 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:43.960 Iowa State kept stalling out. They kept stalling out, they 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:49.480 had some mistakes. It was totally unfounding that they would 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:51.640 lose that game, because it felt like they were good 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:54.439 enough to win. But we know the way that sometimes 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:56.360 these games go, especially in the Big Twelve. 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:59.120 It was twenty two to seventeen Iowa State with two 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:02.440 minutes left with I think a long field right seventy 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:06.960 one yard drive, so yeah, a not insignificant amount of 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:10.240 yardage to cover in the rain. I can't believe. I 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:12.400 just I watched that game and I knew what had happened. 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:14.520 It had happened twenty four hours early, and I was like, 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:17.000 I must have seen the results wrong here. This is 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:19.120 an impossible game for Iowa State to lose. Yes, the 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:21.080 offense was not on track at all and they couldn't 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:24.280 generate bigger plays consistently ied the touchdom pass of Jaden 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:25.880 Higgins the lone touchdown pass. 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:30.360 Its great, But man, I first went to the South 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:32.000 Carolina win over Texas A and M. 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:32.160 Oh. 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:34.400 Yeah, you and I were watching this one a little 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:36.320 bit in the car as we were stuck in Michigan 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:37.400 stadium traffic. 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:38.120 Yeah. 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:41.560 South Carolina ended up winning forty four to twenty. A 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:44.720 game was at home and Williams Brice over Texas A 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:46.960 and M. A and M was fine high right and 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:50.120 was the only unbeaten team in the SEC. That obviously 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:53.480 is no longer the case. I was really struck. First off, 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:58.280 South Carolina came out like a ball on fire, Yes, 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:01.120 a ball on fire away, jumped on A and M, 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:03.520 had a long drive, scored a touchdown like right away, 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:06.840 right away. South Carolina was in this one to win it. 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:10.240 Over the course of this game, though, for them to 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:13.880 amass two hundred and eighty six yards and three touchdowns 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:19.880 on the ground, that I think speaks volumes about how 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:22.880 they were able to control the line of scrimmage, and 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:26.040 that is not something that we saw coming at least 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:29.280 I didn't. I expected at Carolina would give them a game. 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:32.800 I didn't expect that they would bully a really good 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:36.440 A and M front Lenora's sellers over one hundred yards 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:41.160 rushing Rocket Sanders one for four rushing two touchdowns. You 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:43.720 combine that, by the way, with what Lenora's sellers also 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:45.800 did through the air, which was close to two fifty 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:49.560 had two touchdowns. Didn't make the killer interception, right, didn't 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:53.920 make that killer mistake. This is a really really interesting 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:56.960 spot now for Texas A and M, which in effect 0:15:57.040 --> 0:16:02.160 still controls its own destiny in the SEC. If they 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:04.320 went out, they owned the tiebreaker over LSU, who's got 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:06.800 a big game this week, and they beat LSU earlier 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:09.120 this season, and I believe they would make it in 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:12.800 over Tennessee due to their own win over Arkansas earlier 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:14.680 in the year. Go to like the second tiebreaker or 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:17.320 something of that nature. So and I'm still in a 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:20.720 pretty good spot. But like we have seen elsewhere in 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:25.520 the SEC, losing a game in this capacity, it gives 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:30.080 you more questions than answers about their viability longer term. Right, Truly, 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:33.760 nobody in this conference is bulletproof and that is such 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:35.800 a departure from where I feel like we have been 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:39.320 over the last decade. There's always been a bulletproof team 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:42.000 in the SEC, somebody that you can count on getting 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:44.000 to the playoff feeling good that they're going to win 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:46.400 a game and get into the championship. I don't know 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:49.240 if that's the cases here, I really don't. We have 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:51.560 gone from a point in time where the SEC was, 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:56.000 in some respects one of the least interesting conferences, because 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:58.840 all too often it felt like a foregone conclusion, to 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:01.560 where we're at now, where there is a true log jam. 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:04.600 We have a log jam dan of five one loss 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:06.680 teams with Georgia and A and M and Tennessee and 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:09.600 Texas and LSU, and there are all sorts of different 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:12.199 combinations that are possible as a result of this loss. 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:16.520 So I was blown away by how well South Carolina 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:19.320 controlled that point of attack. I'm even more impressed that 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:22.240 they were able to win this one going away in 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:25.359 the way that they did. I at one point, you recall, 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:27.800 thought about trying to throw some money on the live 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:30.000 line on A and M. I was like, there's no 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:32.000 way this is going to continue on this path. A 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:33.479 and M is gonna find their way to call back 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:37.119 into this thing, right They didn't. They didn't. It was 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:38.840 a professional win by South Carolina. 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:43.840 Yeah, it felt going in as somebody who had happened 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:45.560 to have a very good week picking games. I'm a 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:48.879 big data guy, Ty, you're a little data guy. It 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:51.960 felt like a scheduled loss for A and M. I 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:54.719 told you I'm a low information pick low information. I'm 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:59.040 a high information Yeah. Non better. It felt like South 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:02.680 Carolina or excuse me, Texts A and M received specific 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:07.359 directions don't go swimming in. There are definitely alligators lagoon 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:10.159 and texts A and M said, I don't know. I 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:12.600 think the title's misleading. And then guess what the lagoon 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:16.600 was full of. In Williams Brice, they both of their 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:22.440 lines got beat up. They play surprisingly undisciplined football on defense, 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:27.919 like they're using the crowd energy to try and motivate themselves. 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:31.000 I think it was Shamar Turner is playing like not 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:33.000 an inch out of control, but a couple feet out 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:37.520 of control, and that the A and M defense, for 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:40.280 as strong as they've gotten over the course of these games, 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:44.240 South Carolina got under their skin. Whether it was on 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:46.919 the ground, whether it was when they got pressure that 0:18:47.080 --> 0:18:49.399 Leonoris Sellers was lofting it into the end zone. I 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:51.119 think was Josh Simon who had the big game for 0:18:51.240 --> 0:18:53.800 South Carolina through the air and honestly beside it was 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:57.399 one long run from was it Daniels who spelled Levon 0:18:57.480 --> 0:19:00.199 Moss for texts? A and M couldn't run the ball 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:04.040 at all against the South Carolina front. Marcel Reid looked overwhelmed, 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:07.160 not fully his fault, for sure. The offensive line themselves 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:08.680 were overwhelmed in this one. 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:10.440 But this was. 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:15.440 Texas A and M entering the lagoon and making those 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:18.359 mistakes early on that they you just can't come back from. 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:22.439 If South Carolina's offense with even short little dump offs, 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:25.960 the tackling was awful for Texas A and M uncharacteristically so, 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:29.880 and so it was just maybe it was the letdown 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:32.399 moment after the nice win over LSU. Nice is probably 0:19:32.440 --> 0:19:34.920 under selling it. Really impressive win over LSU, the way 0:19:34.960 --> 0:19:37.600 that they came back, but it was just a tough spot. 0:19:37.760 --> 0:19:40.840 And so I'm not down on A and M. I 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:44.200 think that was just an impossible task, a near impossible 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:48.600 task to ask of them going into again. Definitely Alligator 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:53.960 Lagoon and so really really interesting conversation we had about 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:57.240 South Carolina and what their ceiling might be when fully 0:19:57.240 --> 0:19:59.520 healthy Lenora Sells is in there and they're playing at home. 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:03.240 They are really fun. I wish there were more to 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:06.159 their offensive line in terms of consistency. I wish there 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:08.000 were more in terms of the back end of that 0:20:08.040 --> 0:20:12.000 defense in terms of consistency. But there's a lot there. 0:20:12.080 --> 0:20:14.640 There's a really solid foundation. If they can keep recruiting 0:20:14.680 --> 0:20:17.040 like this and finding those guys up front. I don't know, man, 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:17.880 They're awfully fun. 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:21.600 They are fun. And look, this has been by any measure, 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:26.480 and incredibly successful season so far. Yeah, because I recall, 0:20:26.800 --> 0:20:28.840 as is ever the case with South Carolina, at the 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:30.399 start of the year, you look at the schedule and 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:34.480 you say, there's no chance, right, there's no chance. I 0:20:34.520 --> 0:20:36.000 think I even said if they make it to a 0:20:36.000 --> 0:20:38.760 bowl game, there's just like no chance of them making 0:20:38.800 --> 0:20:41.000 a bowl game. They're five and three right now, they 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:44.240 are five and three. They close out the year with Vandy, Mazoo, Wafford, 0:20:44.280 --> 0:20:44.960 and Clemson. 0:20:46.119 --> 0:20:48.400 That's just a fun TV show, right, That's a fun 0:20:48.480 --> 0:20:50.800