Josh Pate Says Texas Tech Will Handle BYU + Will Compton & Taylor Lewan Ride With Dan Lanning/Oregon

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Speaker 2: Josh Bate, Yeah, good morning. How are you doing.

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Speaker 1: I'm doing well. I look at the one in four all right, Hey, you know over the weekend, it's.

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Speaker 3: Not what he's asking. He's not asking about your record.

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Speaker 2: I'm looking at you, but also through you. Do you know what's behind you? Do you know. The only need to sign that's behind you that I care about. That's that you told me last week. You told him last week, You told America last week. When we leaned in right here, we clasped hands. You were little later than me and him, but we still clasped hands, and you said, kiss your families goodbye. We may not come back. And I got to tell you, I took it seriously. And I have not seen Savannah since last week.

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Speaker 3: A man hasn't seen his wife because of the Huskers.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Look, we didn't come back Ilan Rail. It doesn't go down to the third quarter.

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Speaker 2: We win it.

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Speaker 1: We win that week.

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Speaker 3: That's not even a question.

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Speaker 1: It's not it's not. I mean, it's it's hard to play those hypotheticals. Not in my head. Uh Yeah, it was tough, man, face was paying. The boys were in there. We were all blocked out together, bringing the noise, bringing the juice. Nebraska took the fight to USC held that offense, that passing offense to I think I believe under two hundred yards secondary showed up.

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Speaker 2: Yep.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, man, it was it was tough. But I'll tell you what, it's a bad week to be a bruin. Because I don't know if you saw any of the pressers. I watch all of them, and I'm on the phones like, hey, what's how how are the boys feeling? Because this, you know, I'm telling the ball coaches. This is where you find out about your team right here. Playoff hope's kind of gone pretty much ninety nine percent gone, ninety nine point nine percent gone. There's always a chance you need you need a lot to happen.

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Speaker 3: You see pretty much gone nine nine percent gone, nine nine point nine percent. And now I'm all got that. I was like, Will is going to figure out wayoffs?

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Speaker 1: You need a lot to happen.

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Speaker 3: We're now in the We're not in the world where a ten and two team is not going to get it. Yeah it's nine, but.

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Speaker 1: These teams start losing. You truly never know. It's all the same.

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Speaker 3: And as we've seen, because our picks are never wrong, these kids can be wrong. Yeah, yeah, these kids can be wrong. A nine and three Nebraska football teams can make the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but this is where it's like the mentality shifts a little bit. You don't make the playoffs, who's gonna go out to UCLA? And it was a it was a tone setter to where, Hey, you lick your wounds for twenty four hours, but when you show up on Tuesday, you're either fucking in or you're out. If you have any doubt in your mind, you don't have to walk through those doors. Tire team shows up. Everybody's juice, the mentality. You see it in everybody's press conference. The boys are ready to rally behind TJ. Latifu's going home Compton, California and playing us in front of his family and friends. Get a get a week of prep as the starting QB. He can run around a little bit. He's dynamic with his legs. So there is an ass whoop in bruin in UCLA right now, which.

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Speaker 2: Is important because last time we saw teams hopes and dreams crushed and then went to the Rose Bowl the next week it was Penn State. Yeah remember what that looks like?

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Speaker 1: And yeah, Penn State. Now, people I feel like are just throwing away Oregon season a little bit. I know they're nine, they're still ranked, they're in the College Football Playoff right now, but I just feel like people are over I feel like the College Football Playoff has positioned Iowa twenty Oregon at nine. This game's kind of up in the air this weekend. But one slip up here by Oregon, yep, and they're pretty much out of it.

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Speaker 2: I don't know that they're pretty much out of it. I think they are on the bubble as a two loss team in a way that you didn't think they'd be on the bubble because I think the three of us have sat here. We were talking about Nebraska when we said a two lost Big ten, but it turns out we could have been talking about Oregon. But we've all agreed, Hey, a two lost Big ten team's going to be in. A two loss SEC team is going to be and you just kind of say that, you just kind of blanketly believe that. All right, Well, now we enter a world where the AP's got organ at six, but the Playoff Committe's got them all the way down at nine because they keep devaluing that Penn State. We've already gone over that here and how that may be a little stupid. So it doesn't matter because we're not on the committee this year. Maybe next year, but not this year. So if they go and they lose to Iowa, which is a game, we're gonna break down really competitive game. If they lose close to Iowa, that's their second loss. They got to count on USC being a ranked win. They got to count on Washington being a ranked win. Oh by the way, they got to go beat them, but they got to count on those being ranked wins or else They're gonna be sitting there at the end of the day. And their biggest win was supposed to be Penn State. That's supposed to be the one that can hang their hat on. The committee's going to sit there. Nobody under the age of ninety three on that committee saying ah. First off, I was asleep at halftime of that game. Secondly, the paper here says Penn State's not even ranked. That's a five loss team. That's not a quality win. I highly advise Dan Lanning, this is free. I highly advise Dan Lanning in Oregon to go ahead and try and win all their games.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're not leaving out a one loss to Oregon.

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Speaker 3: I know that what happens if Oregon wins game, but Washington beats Oregon, Michigan beats Ohio State soon now have three ten and two teams in the Big Ten. Ohio State's eleven and one Indiana's twelve and Ozer going the Big Ten Championship. Is this true or not? Like they did know, they're not valuing conference games anymore? Is that a conference title game? Conference title games?

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Speaker 2: They value them, but they don't value them in a sense that you're going to get knocked out if you lose them. Basically that's what they say. I don't know that that's true. Like you did have it.

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Speaker 1: You could have a situation that happens with with BYU.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, or in the ACC yeah. Yeah. So last year, for example, SMU was in the top twelve going into conference title Saturday. They lose on Conference Title Saturday, but the committee didn't drop them out because the thinking was, we're not going to punish you for playing in your conference.

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Speaker 3: Title game and an extra game and everybody else.

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Speaker 2: But then SMU went and got smoked in the playoff. Now that should not matter, But I don't know that it won't matter in future iterations of the playoff selection process because it really is a TV product at the end of the day. Again, not advocating for that to be the criteria. I'm just saying those are people in the room and there's a lot of money on the line, So we'll see if that carries weight this year.

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Speaker 3: So if Michigan's ten and two, Washington's ten and two, Oregon's ten and two, who's the dog that gets left out?

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Speaker 2: So you got Ohio State in, you get Indiana in. Give me the other ones.

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Speaker 3: Oregon, Oregon ten and two lose to Washington.

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Speaker 2: Lost to Washington.

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Speaker 3: Because Washington has two losses, they play Washington in the year.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so you got a head to head Washington over Oregon, yep.

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Speaker 3: And then Washington. Washington has to win out. Oregon loses to Washington, Michigan wins out.

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Speaker 2: I think Michigan would be in where they would have a win over Ohio State, right, yeah, yeah, you have so they have the best win in the country. They will have also had a loss at Oklahoma. Oklahoma's a highly ranked team right now. Who would their other loss have been to usc us C is also a ranked team and that was on the road. I think Michigan would be your playoff team.

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Speaker 3: So Washington would then be out or would Oregon be out because Washington be at Oregon?

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Speaker 2: Maybe Organ which would be nuts. It may be Organ. I'd have to look at all those fancy.

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Speaker 1: Like you said, highly advised. Just win the rest of them. Just win the rest.

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Speaker 3: We're playing hypothetical games here.

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Speaker 2: You do whatever you want to. Yeah, I'm just saying show.

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Speaker 3: Just having a little fun.

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Speaker 1: What ifs If.

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Speaker 2: I were Dan Lanning, I would win the games if I were him. But if I were him, I also wouldn't wear cotton in the pouring rain. But he did against Wisconsin. And you want to see something as we kick off? Okay, now we got to keep the sources private here. Landing played Wisconsin two weeks ago. It was pouring down rain and he wore cotton, and I was worried about hypothermia, like I was worried about health. So they're going to play Iowa this week. It's going to be in the forties. It's going to be pouring down rain. I sat on my show last night. Someone in the organ equipment room has to wise up and get Landing something to wear other than cotton. Do you want to read that out loud?

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Speaker 1: The gray I tried to talk to D. I tried to talk D line or I tried to talk D l into a jacket, and he responded with my mama didn't raise no bitch. True story three laughing emojis.

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Speaker 2: So Dan's probably going cotton again on the road this Saturday. He knows it's gonna pour, he knows it's going to be in the forties. He may not come back. Talk about us not coming back. He may not come back.

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Speaker 3: Already not back. We're gone because he joined us being gone.

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Speaker 2: We got in the fox hole at the worst possible time.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we kind of knew it too.

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Speaker 2: That's the nature of right.

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Speaker 3: It's like feary, you said the tank, Brad Pitt says he's not leaving, and I was like, fuck, I guess we gotta stay too.

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Speaker 2: Yep, you know it's probably the way we would have wanted to go out.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, there are no moral victories. I was proud of the fight.

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Speaker 3: Because Mississippi staking a moral victory versus Georgia this week. That is the question, because those two teams are playing.

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Speaker 2: It's not my hand got straight up.

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Speaker 1: Somebody who's positioned perfectly for the collegewall playoffs, in my opinion, is Utah. He get to end with the is it TCU Kansas? Who's the third? Is it this week? Baylor? I mean, they could be sitting down, they're just they're just bet down the hall in the waiting room, waiting for the chaos to you know, Texas Tech BYU whatever. It could be a rematch in the Big twelve Championship. Man, it would be brutal. Say if whoever loses this weekend they end up getting back in the Big twelve Championship. Yeah, there's gonna be a whole lot of chaos, But that's why we love this game.

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Speaker 3: Utah is like the cleaning crew in john Wick, Like there's a bunch of chaos going on outside the door, and then once it's all over, there just walking clean stuff up and there in the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, hold on, So so pick this through. All right, We got BYU Texas Tech this weekend, right, Utah is just kind of sitting there. They're already a two loss team, but they're sitting there. There were what twelve or eleven or something like that last night? Where were they ranked I somewhere somewhere in the we fast forward a month, Utah just wins out. They're tending to Briggan Young loses this weekend at Texas Tech, so they're both one loss teams. They go the rest of the way. They rematch in the Big twelve title game Texas Tech beats him again, would the committee drop a two loss Brigham Young whose second loss came in the conference title game behind Utah, who Brigham Young beat as Utah sits at home on conference championship Saturday. Now that is what we call a classic conundrum. You remember the thing we did last week about the ACC how they could get three teams and maybe it was the Big twelve the whole time.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it was it.

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Speaker 2: Game by Yeah, yeah, multiple turnover. Not that this matters, but like.

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Speaker 1: Saying the Holy War, a three point loss BYU was at home, I'd say they dropped. They they throw out b Yu, it be Utah.

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Speaker 2: And we call it college football playoff prime Evil, which.

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Speaker 3: Will be the subject of my conversation when we get at the true classic game week. Because this is the third time BYU's made it on our show.

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Speaker 1: I'm not having it. Yeah. Well, look, they've they've taken care of business man there what was there over under in the sportsbook gab before good question season was six and a half seven and somewhere around there. Yeah, they've been thinkingbody, they've been soaking their way all the way to the end, yep.

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Speaker 3: All the way how they held it for this long, that's the question.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right.

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Speaker 3: Number five Georgia. They're at Mississippi State. Georgia's favored eight and a half points team, doesn't start very fast in the first half. Total points in that game is fifty seven and a half. My question is, is Georgia slub walk through their entire season so far? Other than Alabama obviously got them a little bit, but they've started slow. They kind of just let teams hang around. They're down by four against Florida. They end up coming back, but they never seem like they're a team that's gonna be They're never just a waiver. It's always like, yeah, they're they're gonna get the point they are. We're gonna turn on Gunnar Stockton. We need you on the ground, Gunnar Stockton, we need you through the air, and anything that has Gunnar Stockton to do eventually he just does it and they end up winning that game. Mississippi State's give it up one hundred and seventy four yards on the ground per game right now, and I think with this Mississippi State team, it's like they've played a lot of these teams. Farewell, Tennessee Texas to where if you're Kirby Smart and you're in the perfect position to know you can drop one and maybe other teams do. I don't think Kirby Smart lets his team do that. I'm thinking Georgia minus eight and a half.

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Speaker 1: Georgia let me down against Florida on the one, Yeah, on the one.

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Speaker 3: Sniff.

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Speaker 1: You know Kirby watches the show. He laughed, He's like, you're up for they cover seven and a half and you're on the one yard line. You can't just I get, I understand the integrity of the game. To me, my whole thought was like, if you're outside of the five, the knee, I'm totally cool with, but you're on the fucking one yard line, just just punch it in. Yeah, yeah, just fall forward right. Save of America.

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Speaker 3: Well, you remember Saints versus the Falcons when Arthur Smith was the head coach of the Falcons. Jamis Winston was a quarterback of Saints. They were on the one yard line. Game was pretty much over it. They punched it in. Arthur Smith had a shitfit about that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but this wasn't even a play. This is a guy going into the end zone and takes a knee basically throws double barrel middle fingers up at the hard camera after he does it. Yeah, I know that hurt.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, even if you're gunner stocked and just like I know it's on the line here, Hey, fellas coaches calling a knee here.

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Speaker 2: This, Yeah, I'll take a knee two yards into the end zone.

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Speaker 3: Yeah exactly. So where we going.

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Speaker 2: This game?

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Speaker 3: So we're pissed off about it? Yeah, Georgia's eight and a half starts slow. Mississippi State, you can fly around a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Just beat Arkansas last week, first conference win for Jeff Levey, my dog of the week. Don't get any credit for it, whatever.

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Speaker 3: Georgia secretary. Are they fraudulent? People are wondering, People are saying.

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Speaker 2: Good play action game there at Mississippi State, one of the best in the league.

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Speaker 1: I'm taking Mississippi State. Oh plus a half. I'm taking Mississippi State plus a Now I don't trust either defense. Part of me wants to flirt with this fifty seven and a half on the total.

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Speaker 3: Cashay you something, look at my notes right here.

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Speaker 1: Over as in you as I thought I was gonna read it, and you're gonna be like, I love the over. No, No, you basically had the game breakdown Georgia seven.

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Speaker 3: Say over, because there's two choices when you talk about a total.

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Speaker 1: That's the one, right. Yeah, I'm taking Mississippi State. Fuck it, why not? I'm taking Mississippi State. They could easily be I mean, how many losses they had that you've been down with.

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Speaker 2: The wire, overtime against Tennessee, overtime against Texas, had Florida already won. I'm pretty sure the teams were going to the locker room and then someone just said, never mind, we don't want it. So it's three games.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm taking Mississippi State. Georgia's let me down in a couple of spots. I know they're the Bulldogs. I want to give Kirby Smart and the Bulldogs a speech right now, but I can't do it.

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Speaker 2: After you won the Old miss game for him, you won the game for them, Gosh you did.

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Speaker 3: That was a great speech too, Mississippi State. So did he follow to your trap?

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Speaker 2: No? I'm in there with him, Oh REALI states, Yeah, we're in this track together. This works so well.

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Speaker 1: So well, that's time we get these me just leaning over the fifth bound. It always ends in a loss.

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Speaker 2: Let me hit the rewind button about three and a half minutes. You said, Georgia keeps sleepwalking. Right. The implication there is that George is this great team that keeps messing around until it's time to kick it into gear like vintage Georgia. And I would agree with you. If the twenty twenty one Georgia team were on the field and they kept playing like this, I'd say, yeah, they just keep sleepwalking. They keep playing with their food until it's really trying time to eat, and then they put it away. I just kind of think this is Georgia. I kind of think this is the team they are. They're above average by Georgia standards. They're above average, they're not elite. They don't have game breakers up front. Defensively, they're wide, receiver rooms better. But I don't really think it's become the quote unquote strength of the team that they thought it may. Gunn Or Stockton has bailed them out several times now. They're better running the ball than they were last year. Yes, so they've improved the areas they need to improve. So they've won some close games. But like we were talking about with Mississippi State, George is the verse, and there's a lot of skill to being on the inverted side, where they win the close game against Tennessee. They win the close game against Florida last week, they come from the dead, come from behind and being dead against Auburn, so they could have three more losses, but they don't. But the line's not two and a half. The lines eight and a half. So they just came off the Florida game. They know they got Texas coming in next week. And sandwiched in between is this eleven am kickoff in Starkville, Mississippi. I was at SMU last week. I saw Miami sleepwalk. I see what it's like for a big favorite to have to play an eleven am game, and it's not easy. Now, George is a lot more disciplined than mentally tough than Miami is. But I just think there's not that big a gap between the teams either, So there's not a ton that has to go wrong for Georgia. It's not like a true David and Goliath type of scenario that Mississippi State has to put together. I just think they can hang with him an eight and a half too many points, So I'm gonna ride with you with like.

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Speaker 1: Mississippi State, I feel like that locker room, that team feels like they're just playing with house money. They've been in every game, bro, They've had a lot of life downe there after just I mean, they've been terrible historically, but yeah, I just yeah, George is gonna let you there're one hundred and thirty fourth at getting after the Pastor. I didn't even know there's one hundred and thirty four teams in the in the in college football. I thought it was one thirty two more than that. There's not a few more than that. All right, I feel like we got to this. By the way, Hey, are you switching?

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Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, I'm just sitting there because as you're talking, Josh, I just keep looking at that record. Are you excited for this?

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Speaker 1: Well?

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Speaker 3: Because Superior is worth playing for michelob Ultra. Yes, sir, are we five and five right now? When it comes we're playing for an Ultra five and six? I'm down one, Okay, I'm down one for a mikeel Ol Ultra, Will.

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Speaker 1: Compton Superior bragging right, Superior light beer for the Ultra.

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Speaker 3: Let's go, and we're at five hundred.

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Speaker 1: This game is stupid.

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Speaker 3: But he came back to the episode and I'm thinking to myself, OK, we're about to talk about text A and M missoo. That's also a big line. Text anem is going to missoo, their big favorite, two score favorite. I know where I'm leaning, and based on this conversation, maybe you guys are leaning the other way. So maybe this is finally as us are speaking like, maybe this is finally separation Saturday.

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Speaker 1: I'm leading.

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Speaker 4: I'm going A and M oh perfect, it's missoo all day. I'm going an M problo? Is it problo prebulah whatever Penn State transfers. He gets an achy injury that he was in a quarterback battler in the year that starting quarterback.

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Speaker 3: He gets hurt. There's a five star I don't know anything about this five star kid. Clump knows, but malars five star kid, and he couldn't say one damn good thing about him. And I know Clump is the troll of the when it comes to teams, but everyone talks about battered aggie syndrome. And I go to jiu jitsu every Tuesday night and there's always a dad there. He and I sit and talk while our kids are doing it. And he's a big Aggi fan and LSU game, he's like, this is the one where were Goeta let down. This is the one and there's like a tourney. There's you can see a shift starting with him like, maybe not this year. Maybe we're finally the team that's going to finish our season undefeated, and this is the week we finally get to go do it. Mikeel Go, friend of the Show. I think that defensive line is incredible. I think they're more Missouri is more one dimensional than ever, and I like Texas A and M. I think it's finally time somebody starts going, hey, this team's undefeated for a reason. It's not just because of their schedule. They're actually that good. So I'll be texting taking Texas A and M.

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Speaker 1: They could win this game. I'm just the line right now. Seven and a half points the total on this game forty eight and a half. We went through all we sat here and talked about with the college, will will playoff playing all these hypotheticals too long, this two loss that like what teams are in we're talking about big ten teams, SEC teams, a team that right now with two losses. Is the Missouri Tigers coming off of a bye week classic need versus one? It Yes, back against the wall at Columbia off of bye week, an emotional, tough loss against vander You look at the box score of that game, the team stats statistically missoo. Massoo just didn't take advantage of their opportunity. Uh, Prabula goes down. What do you not like about Zolars.

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Speaker 5: Clumb I saw Matt Zolers play Easton High School in Pennsylvania and he through five interceptions in that game.

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Speaker 2: Exactly live arm.

00:23:36
Speaker 1: That's all that tells me. You just need some coaching from the Missouri Tigers.

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Speaker 5: From Coast Drink, Easton had zero wins that year.

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Speaker 3: He had zero wins that year.

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Speaker 2: I wrote Easton had zero wins that year.

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Speaker 1: He paper horrible that year. Ahmad Hardy, that defensive line from Massoo, Damian Wilson, talk to your ship, son, this is gonna be this and this is a game. They're back is against the wall. They are They're not in any conversation on the College for All playoff, but they're six and two and they have them at Missou. It's A and M seven and a half point spread. It's gonna be a close game. There's gonna be a dogfight, Amatt, Hardy, hold on, just hold on.

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Speaker 3: A second's going with you?

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Speaker 1: Hold on?

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Speaker 2: You could I just ask something, not from me, like from coach Drink threw me to you. He's given me permission to speak for him. Not in the playoff conversation. Not in the playoff conversation. A and M was ranked what last night third? If you beat Texas A and M at home? Are you not right there in the top twelve.

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Speaker 1: They're talking about the bubble teams as Oh, Oklahoma and Texas. What about the Missoo Tigers.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, I'm asking you that you just eliminated them. I'm asking you about Missouri. You just said they're not really in the playoff conversation. Are you projecting a future lasses No, no, no, no, no no no.

00:24:59
Speaker 1: I'm saying if this this game is a close off, like I think this is going to be a fistfight of a game, I'm saying, nobody's talking about them. They are a tough football team with a three point loss to Alabama and a very tough loss. Not taking advantage of their opportunity here at Vanderbilt. When the stats tell you that they were the better football team that game. So I'm saying this is upset alert for Texas, A and M. Nobody's talking about the Missouri Tiers. Drink he gets in some of these head coaching conversations, but I feel like people see it and it's just they're kind of throwing at where's Lane kiffinat on the board, where's Marcus Freeman, Where's Nick Saban?

00:25:34
Speaker 3: Not Drink, He's just on the paper. I've seen him drink on a lot of coaches.

00:25:40
Speaker 1: No, you've seen him. But I'm saying just universally, I feel like the way you sit there and look at it and think about the Missouri Tigers, you think of Eli Drink and it's just a name on the paper. You're not staring at that name on the paper. This is a team that just doesn't People just don't even put them in these categories with head coaching job. They're on the paper for the College wall Playoff, but nobody's actually considering them for the college football Playoff.

00:26:01
Speaker 2: You gotta love if you're a Missouri fan watching the show, and one of the biggest talking points is Drink needs to win this so he can get a better job. Drink needs to win this so his name rises up the hot boards. Hey, I think you're gonna have a good week, though. I think you're going to have a good week because I'm buying everything that you're selling about Missouri. And let me add something if I could, like you, you made some great points already. He got us to the doorstep. Allow me to kick it down. Kick it in, brother, backup quarterback off of bye, back up quarterbacks.

00:26:33
Speaker 1: Off of Bye Taylor.

00:26:35
Speaker 2: It's a magic elixir. You don't want your starter, you don't want your starting quarterback playing. You want the backup playing. There's a reason he was on the bench. Ya weapon, hidden weapon, and Mikekelko's got no clue right not in general my GNBA.

00:26:48
Speaker 3: A couple weeks ago in Vanderbilt, you're like, we're not going to release him now. We want to do it at this eleven am kickoff, one of our seasons on the line versus tex Am. M quarterback goes down and Will Compton says, we're out of the playoffs.

00:26:58
Speaker 1: This is when we want to do it right.

00:27:00
Speaker 2: No one cares, No one cares about you. No one's going to hire you, no one's going to put you in the playoff, and Drink's just sitting there like this, and he knows what he's got on the bench. He's got.

00:27:11
Speaker 3: Five interceptions, like, you gotta be on it, you gotta be on it. He had five interceptions against.

00:27:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so Mazoler's East hat high five interceptions. Whatever, Well, he's not playing East Eastern Eastern. He's not playing the easton Saturday, Texas A and M's pretty good too, pretty good team too. You know, in all seriousness, I love backup quarterbacks in their first start. Now I don't ride them the whole year, but in their first start off the bench, I love them because of the Galvinization effect. We talked about it, Yeah, we talked about it many times on this show. But also you mentioned okay, so the box score says Missouri should have beaten Vanderbilt. Well they didn't. That's why there's a loss on their resume. But in terms of predictive nature looking forward that plus they played Bama really close, they've either won their games or they've lost close. Well, the spread here is what are we doing seven and a half, So that means they need to win. They need to lose like by eight or more. So we've got a possible Missouri upset in the cards. We have also got a possible close Missouri loss in the cards, which is all they've suffered so far this year. I just think taking Missouri plus the points is the smart play here. And I think that you're right about people writing off Missouri. You're right about people overlooking drink. You're right about battered aggie syndrome. Battered Aggie syndrome does not bite you when you're most concerned about it. It bites you the week after you sort of put it in the closet. We're not worried about battered AGGI center.

00:28:40
Speaker 3: Sharing this BJJ Dad, I was talking to you last night. He's put in the closet. Yeah, it's ready to bite.

00:28:45
Speaker 2: He didn't, Turkey. Yeah. So I'll take Missouri, Okay, close game.

00:28:51
Speaker 1: Separation Saturday, separation Saturday. All right, we have a organ going out to Iowa, Iowa City. The weather on that game, Josh Pate.

00:29:01
Speaker 2: We're gonna go forty six moderate rain and fifteen mile an hour wins. At kickoff, Dan Landing, still wearing cotton.

00:29:06
Speaker 1: Oregon favorite was six and a half points favored at six and a half points, the over runder on this game forty and a half. I kind of like the over on this what I just saw.

00:29:15
Speaker 2: That it's dropped five points.

00:29:17
Speaker 3: Don't do that to yourself in Iowa recently as a dropped one points a game.

00:29:22
Speaker 2: They scored recently thirty eight, thirty seven, twenty five, and forty one in their four Big Ten wins. But don't let that fool you into thinking their offense is turned a corner. Because they have one thousand and sixty one total receiving yards. There is a kid who plays for San Jose State that has more receiving yards than that by himself. They have not thrown for two hundred yards in a single game. No wide receiver's gone over seventy five yards in a game for them this year. Do not beled, Do not be fooled at all. Balanced one hundred and thirty second passing offense in America, lowest in power for It's abysmal. But they can play defense.

00:29:55
Speaker 1: But that's Iowa.

00:29:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's Iowa can play.

00:29:57
Speaker 3: Ganowski balanced four touchdowns, foreign receptions. That's he is balanced a balance as it gets, is it not?

00:30:04
Speaker 2: He is balanced in that way.

00:30:06
Speaker 3: Ducks they like their high power, flying offense. I know there's not the Chip Kelly offense we used to look at, but they like to rip the ball around a little bit.

00:30:14
Speaker 1: They have a good run game.

00:30:15
Speaker 3: I think it's like six points.

00:30:16
Speaker 2: Number one in explosive runs, number one explosive runs in the country. Iowa has given up.

00:30:22
Speaker 1: He's got hurt.

00:30:23
Speaker 2: I was given up one explosive run all season. Something's got to give.

00:30:28
Speaker 3: What's an unsoppable force, immovable object with bad weather going right into Iowa? This is this is what Iowa wants. They want bad weather. Fifteen mile an hour wins, which sounds like a lot, but really not that much. What's going to happen here?

00:30:42
Speaker 1: Will? I want to listen to you guys. What there ain't no fodder on parents talking about coach Lane. I am a there's no fodder out there. Coach Faris is this high character of a head coach as you get. If anything else, I might shoot him at text, say with thought some daily Laney's like I wish, well he's a great fu.

00:31:00
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's been in the game long enough to know you don't mess uh, you don't mess around with egos when it comes to pregame press conferences. I don't know where you're going. I really don't know where I'm going in this game because my heart wants to sit there and say Oregon, because Dan Lanning, because you watch the Indiana game. Ever since the Indiana game, everyone's kind of like, you know, similar to what College Football Playoff Committee's done, They've kind of like forgot about Oregon, like they're no longer they take away the Penn State win, even though you know they're the one that killed Penn State. Everyone just is reaping the benefits of what Oregon did to Penn State. So I look at this Iowa team, and every year it's the same thing, Like they have no offense, but they kind of do in their four bax ten wins, and they play great defense. They run the ball really well. You could take Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers, Joe Burrow, you can put him in an Iowa uniform. They're gonna have four touchdowns and four interceptions. That's just what happens in Iowa City. So what happens when both teams are stuck in the run game, who does better is Iowa who's usually kind of just like putts them through, taking time a possession, keeping the other offense off of the field and slowly just losing by five. But they did it's Indiana or is Oregon coming off of bye a week bad taste in their mouth? Do they just come and blow the doors off of Iowa. I think it's like one of the two options.

00:32:14
Speaker 1: Which option you're going with?

00:32:15
Speaker 3: I don't know. That's why I literally started the whole conversation with so we have to do a good job of listening. Is I don't know where I'm going to start. I don't know where I'm at. I'm lost.

00:32:24
Speaker 1: The college football world is doubting you, Dan Lanning. People are starting to say your Penn State win doesn't mean shit. They're saying you're just a West Coast team that loves the hug trees, sing Kumbayai everything else. You take your Oregon Ducks and you fly to Iowa City and you introduce the hawk gys to the duck's reproductive system. Let me educate you on the duck reproductive system. The male duck holds the hawk eye down, the rest of the boys surround him, and what do you do? You gang bang them. This is Oregon minus six and a half. That's Orgon minus six and a half. That's real because we're getting it's close. We're also getting close boys to play off football and that feeling that where Dan Lanney wakes up in a cold sweat at night remembering what the Buck guys did because the boys weren't prepared when it mattered the most. You're getting close to this and you can't afford to lose anymore. This has got to be pedaled to the metal while out the Iowa city and beat some mass This this feeling is there. They're coming off of bye week, they're getting to sit back and watch off of it, and you know, Lanning's going to have those boys motivated. Landing's gonna have those boys ready to go. So I'm going you know, I'm right with it. I almost wore my Oregon duct hoodie into this thing. But people like, hey, you guys got to kind of be unbiased. There's not a.

00:33:36
Speaker 3: Whisper in the back of your head there that goes Iowa. There's a whisper, the property theory, whatever, the thing that he talks about. Indiana beats the Brakes off of Oregon. They only beat Iowa by five when they were like, what fifteen and a half point favorites.

00:33:50
Speaker 2: Hey, fourteen point game against Wisconsin, I would beat him thirty seven to nothing.

00:33:56
Speaker 3: Transitive property, transit of property, Hello transit.

00:34:00
Speaker 1: And bringing the volume to t I had the bang coming out, and now we want to whisper.

00:34:06
Speaker 2: We want to whisper. Where are you going, Josh, Well, I'm going to love it, but I'll be watching the game. So where I grew up about forty five minutes away, there's a dirt track called East Alabama Motor Speedway. Oh his story time, It's really fun. It's out in the middle of nowhere. Dad used to go coon hunting there before I was born. Great place, you can say that, but keep going. Great people after what he just said about the duck reproductive system.

00:34:29
Speaker 1: Can see what you want. Hey, I'll encourage you to do this. When this show's done, go look up on YouTube duck reproductive system.

00:34:37
Speaker 2: Oh look, I don't doubt it happens in the wild.

00:34:39
Speaker 3: The woman duck has a bunch of canals. It's like a maze, so these ducks got to put.

00:34:43
Speaker 2: Her down in Wait a second. Sometimes I'm really good at faking, like I knew something to keep a conversation moving. I don't know anything about.

00:34:49
Speaker 1: This, so there's a they have corkscrew penises, peen ducks, pini peni ducks have corkscrewed peni And the way that they mate is they basically they gang bang a female and they're trying to f you know, they're all competing to try and get it inside.

00:35:02
Speaker 3: And so that's that's that's how still going to one area that might not be the way. So the next guy comes in and finds a different one, and there's like multiple different tunnels in order to get to the ducks.

00:35:12
Speaker 2: So it's no different than a corn maze. No different than a corn maze, absolutely no different. And you're saying that's the way you win a football game Saturday.

00:35:21
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, one where it takes everybody.

00:35:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, just give it some pass.

00:35:31
Speaker 1: I gotta get I gotta get this stuff out now. You know, we're not gonna be able to talk about one with Greenie on Thursday, right, right, Maybe I'll find a way.

00:35:38
Speaker 2: I don't know, man, October.

00:35:41
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't understand why that was such a big deal to him.

00:35:43
Speaker 2: He seemed to like it.

00:35:44
Speaker 3: And I saw you you were kind of pussy footing around cocktailer.

00:35:47
Speaker 2: Yeah. I didn't say I just don't know the rules and say and you find out what.

00:35:52
Speaker 1: Paid did it? Right? He didn't. He just did one of these. Yeah, I thought that went.

00:35:57
Speaker 3: It's the best way he could possibly go.

00:35:59
Speaker 2: It went great.

00:35:59
Speaker 3: There, I want to jump on. I'm going to say what I want where I'm gonna go using this Oh yes, true.

00:36:06
Speaker 2: So anyway, speaking of the dirt track East Alabama Motor Speedway in East Alabama, it's out in the middle of nowhere. You can hear the cars from miles away on Friday night when they're running out there. But the thing is, you got to show up with a dirt track car. And dirt track cars look way different than the cars they use in NASCAR. They look way different than street racing cars. And if you ever took a street racing car out the East Alabama Motor Speedway, that embarrass you. So the question is, and the question for Daniel Lanning and the question for everyone there in Oregon is are you a street racing car or are you a dirt track car? Because we already see the conditions. We know I'm not calling on you yet, we see the conditions. This is not a street race Saturday. This is a dirt track game.

00:36:53
Speaker 3: Okay, that was gonna be my question. What kind of track we're on?

00:36:56
Speaker 2: This is forty four degrees, this is Iowa City, this is this is wind, this isn't summer seven on seven. We're not wearing shorts, we're not wearing shells, so we're gonna have to get dirty. And I wrote on this piece of paper, here are you gonna Oregon has to make Iowa's game their game. You can run the ball too, You're number one in the country in explosive runs. There's this misconception. Folks do it with Tennessee, they do it with Oregon. They think it's just pinball on grass. They think it's just high octane throw the ball all over the place. That's not the team they've tried to build. They can throw the ball very effectively. But if it just comes time to do that, which you got to do to beat Iowa, Oregon should be able to do that.

00:37:38
Speaker 1: Now.

00:37:38
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take Oregon to win, and I'm gonna take them to cover because I believe there is a different gear to this team that they have not hit yet. I think Dan Lanning probably the biggest lesson he learned from that Ohio State game last year is that team that just smoked us in the playoff built everything about their process to peak at the right time, to peak late. Oregon went wired to wire last year, like they were good from the jump, but then they faded when it mattered most. So there's been a little vulnerability about them so far this year. I think part of that's cause it's time to do this in November, and they've built towards doing this in November. If I'm right about that, the first sign of that will be Saturday. It'll be ugly, it'll be hideous, and they'll go in there and they'll win twenty six to ten, and they'll come out of it and they will have won. They will have covered, and they will have set themselves up for a stretch run, not worried about whether they're going to get in if they lose two games, just don't lose another game. So I'll take Orgon to win and cover.

00:38:33
Speaker 1: You have me thinking you were going the other direction.

00:38:35
Speaker 3: Hey does that, And that's why I want to kind of stop the story so I could say where I was gonna go.

00:38:39
Speaker 1: But I think I'll take.

00:38:42
Speaker 2: Organ This is a dirt track game. It's a dirt track game.

00:38:45
Speaker 3: I'll take organ but I'm a little nervous about it.

00:38:48
Speaker 2: Separation Saturday, Separate, I.

00:38:50
Speaker 3: Know, and I was thinking that too, But then I don't want Ego getting the way big. I'm already opposite both times. I am fifty to fifty on this game. And this seems like you're going with the emotional side. Yeah, that's really observative you. Yeah, thanks, Yeah, I'm going to Oregon.

00:39:07
Speaker 1: But your logical sides telling the Iowa.

00:39:10
Speaker 3: Yeah, because it seems like this is a game, that this is a perfect game for Iowa to kind of like stick around and run the ball and do what Iowa does, which is just I've already said all the things make you like, make you want to mention, well, whether he's already done that their defense is really good, and make it a rock fight models fight.

00:39:26
Speaker 2: Model thinks that Oregon's being given too much respect here. By the way, if you just look at the comparative, I mean, I know, I joke about transitive property. They've got three common opponents already. They both played Penn State. Iowa lost by one. I think Oregon went to overtime. So there's that, I know, the backup quarterback thing. But there's that they've both played Wisconsin. It was a pouring rain game for Oregon, but they had him at home. It was a two possession game. Iowa went on the road and beat him thirty seven zip. And then you've got Indiana. Indiana owned Oregon in auntsin and Iowa played him to with five in kinnet. So you've got three examples there where these teams against three common opponents have played pretty similarly. Yet Organs lay in almost a touchdown in Iowas building. That's a reputation line, that's a play to the public line, because the truth of that, if you just took two generic like potato sack uniforms, and you took those resumes and you put them in this building, probably like organ minus two, Organ minus three. So a lot of respect being given.

00:40:30
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00:40:51
Speaker 1: Go down to Alabama. LSU at Alabama. The spread on this game is nine and a half points. Alabama being favored. The over under on this game forty eight and a half points.

00:41:02
Speaker 2: Gentlemen, could I go first here or sometimes we pop the paper right? I think LSU's got to wad the paper up, because here's what the paper says. The paper says, your strengths match up with their strengths. You can't expose their weaknesses. Bama's got the run defense not so great, seventy third, but LSU can't run the ball. They've been in the one hundred twenties all year, so how are you going to take advantage of it. Bama's passed defense is twelveth so ls you can throw the ball, okay, but that's Alabama's strength. They kind of mirror each other, except that when Bama can't run the ball, they still throw it okay, So they still get their points, they still get their yards, they get their production. When LSU hasn't been able to run it, they have failed to do much of anything. But then we have the backup quarterback theory, but we also have the fired head coach theory. Added bonus for LSU. You're coming out of a bye and you fired a head coach that apparently no one down there liked anyway, So there's that Galvinization effect of you want to play for Frank Wilson because Frank Wilson, you know, actually has the audacity to love LSU and to bleed purple and gold, and Brian Kelly just bled normal blood. Gross pathetic, no place in this country for that. So there's that. I also think, much like Oregon, the theory of Alabama being a national championship contender has to rest on the premise that they haven't played their best ball yet, because Alabama's been a really good team. I don't think the games they've played so far, if you get Ohio State's best, are going to beat Ohio State or maybe even Indiana's best. I don't think that may not beat Indiana. But if we see Alabama start to scale, if we see them start to work towards peaking, okay, well then that's game on. They have to be better running the ball, and they have to be better at completing explosive passes because for as good as ty Simpson's been and as good as the skill they have at wideout is They've still been kind of poor on completing deep balls, like balls over twenty yards in the air. Haven't been that great there, So I'm looking for those two things Saturday. Kaylin Debor is fifteen and two off of buye. He's as lethal as any coach in the countries, like Andy Reid circa Eagles off a Bye. It was like an auto Pey, auto bet, auto play. So I'm gonna take Alabama with an improving pass rush to expose or continue to expose LSU's vulnerability on the offensive line. Obama under Debor, they've struggled in this two possession favorite spot, but those have been mainly road games. At home, they've taken care of business. So I will take them to win. Tough game, but I think they'll pull away in the end. I'll take them to win by double digits, so I think they cover.

00:43:38
Speaker 1: I'm kind of going Nutmeyer on this one.

00:43:39
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm as you on this. This is the interim head coach, the bleeding Purple and Gold, the whole thing. Like everybody in Louisia, the state of Louisiana. They already started being having question marks about Brian Kelly and then as it just went on and on. They're like, we hate this guy. There is a weight lifted off the entire state. They all feel incredible, and there's always the energy of the interim head coach his first game coming in. I just see that playing a bit. I think Alabama wins this game, but I think it's closer than Alabama wants it to be.

00:44:10
Speaker 1: I agree, I agree, I'm going I'm going LSU to cover just basically all the things that you said. It's just galvanizing, like Brian Kelly's out of it. Kind of the weight that's lifted off of everybody, the excitement and probably the fun that's being had now to play for Frank Wilson and you're going down to Alabama. Nobody's picking you in this game. It's you're doubted everywhere. You've already lost, and I just feel like that'll be a spark enough to cover in this game. I do think Alabama wins. In my opinion. Alabama is a very good football team. Your national champion is very much alive and well. Ty Simpson love him. Do you know on that stat fifteen and two, if it's against a spread or not, or is this just after bi week straight up all right. That makes me feel a little bit better. But I'm gonna ride LSU here just solely off the fact Brian Kelly gets fired. Frank Wilson is staying in the presser saying, I like this, I like us in this spot. So LSU LSU plus nine and a half. Should we get to our True Classic Game of the week.

00:45:03
Speaker 3: We should.

00:45:04
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00:46:03
Speaker 2: I would say they were able to scale their run game against the number one statistical run defense in the country in Texas Tech. Best run D BYU has faced so far as fifty fifth. Sometimes if you just got a legit rushing attack, you can run it on anyone. But if you've got one that's just faced inferior competition, you get Crowbard when you face a top ten run D, which Texas Tech has. So the first thing I would say is they were able to run the ball against them. The second thing I would say is turnovers were an issue. Again BYU is number three in the country and turnover margin, so you keep picking them to lose games, but then they win and they're plus two plus three turnovers. There were plus two I think against Utah, there plus four against Iowa State. So you keep waiting on that to invert itself. You keep waiting for that to come crashing back to Earth. But sometimes it just doesn't. And Texas Tech all hyped up most attention that will have been on that program in well over a decade. Like you said, so sometimes you embrace that you play your best game. Sometimes you play a little tight, sometimes you play a little careless. And you know good and well what the talk is in Provo. They know just like just like drink a couple of weeks ago, all the attentions on Vanderbilt game days in town. Everybody's talking about them. We're just kind of there to play. You know what has kind of come into play well at bringing Young. No one is it BYU causing the money. No one just accidentally ends up playing it. Brigham Young, you got to go there with purpose. Bunch of people are playing at Texas Tech causing Texas Tech paid more. This is what you're saying all week in Provo. It's no different than any of a number of big underdog spots in the sport where I mean, I guarantee you, like with Michigan for the last several years, everyone's tout in Ohio State's wide receivers tout and skill and tout in this and you're like, we got the same engine. Here, we got the same formula, same blueprint. We're a bowling ball, they're the pins. That's the way it'll work. And so that's got to be the message in provo. Now here's the follow up to that. Because I'm not picking Brigham Young. I'm picking Texas Tech to win cover and play their best game of the year doing so. I think it's a misnomer that those are just a bunch of mercenaries that just went to the highest bidder. Like Texas Tech does not apologize for having purchased this roster. They're really out front about it. They embraced it. That was the only way they were going to compete. But they got guys in the building. I was there in spring. They were talking about this in spring. Joey maguire said, you'd really be shocked at how we acquired these guys, but how good our building is, because you would think it was just a bunch of me over team type guys, and it really hasn't been that, and we got really blessed and fortunate in that way. Well, this is the culture test, because you're facing the best culture team in the Big twelve in Brigham Young. So they're going to come in there, and what I think is, no one has made Brigham Young play from behind all year. No one's made that eighty eight ranked passing offense in the country. Have to keep them in a game, and I think Texas Tech can do that. And so there are a couple of paths for bringing Young to win this game. But they are about five or six paths where Tech Tech wins it, and they win it like they did against Utah, where they get some margin in the end, and you're like, WHOA. I think that's going to be one of these games. And this is a very very hostile place to play when it's cranked up, and it'll be cranked up Saturday, even with the eleven am kick looking forward to being there. Texas Tech's gonna put on a show Saturday.

00:49:18
Speaker 1: Yeah, they speaking to like the emotion this To me, it's like we saw it over the weekend the blackout game in Lincoln, Nebraska. This emotion and energy is going to be the same in Texas Tech. Like having game day there, the excitement around that place. And again, I don't think BYU hasn't faced a football team that can push it down the field the way Texas Tech can and you're right. I think they're going to play out in front of them. And then even when you speak to the rushing statistics in their front seven, the D line's really good. Remind everybody about this D line to where what was it the starters that they had last year and now depth guys, they're reaping the benefits for how much they've loaded their defensive line through the portal through the offseason.

00:49:57
Speaker 2: Yeah, they went and got a bunch of guys that made their starters from last year who didn't leave just become backups that kind of recruited over them. And so you've got guys that are providing depth for you now that were your legitimate frontline starters last year, and you don't really Georgia doesn't have that kind of depth. Alabama doesn't have that kind of depth. Texas Tech because they went and acquired a bunch of guys that are starting caliber and they hit on them and they've been pretty lucky health wise so far. They just got really good rotational depth there. But you talked about their offense and I didn't even mention this Texas. He's got the number one explosive play offense in the country. Their top twenty five run their top twenty five pass. They just put so much pressure on so many facets of you that maybe haven't been tested so far this year that if you got even a little crack in the dam somewhere, they can turn it into a flood really quick.

00:50:45
Speaker 4: Yeah, you got a BYU, keepit a close. No, you're upsetting Texas. No, No, I had Texas tech BYU. You talked about the secondary. They do a great job of like getting yours the very opportunity to take the secondary. But our favorite or at least my favorite quarterback in the entire big twelve back teethos for three hundreds against them with how dynamic the text ticket offense can be. I see them putting pressure all day by who's gonna want to run early? They're gonna find out very quickly they.

00:51:08
Speaker 3: Can't run it, and then they have to lean on that pass, that passing offense, which as you said, eighty eighth double town country. And when you get them in a position of playing from behind, which they haven't before, I see Texas tackle running away with this very similar to Utah game.

00:51:21
Speaker 4: Here we are doubt and b yu once again. Yeah, this is listen three times on this show. Two times in a row.

00:51:28
Speaker 3: I've said no to BYU and they've shoved it in my face.

00:51:30
Speaker 2: Wait, wait, their opponents screwed up by Start.

00:51:35
Speaker 3: You're absolutely right, You're absolutely right, and I just I could either, you know, if you can't beat them, join them, or I could just keep on doublin.

00:51:42
Speaker 1: Deck, just continue to doubt this. Basically, they've been just a Disney movie all.

00:51:47
Speaker 3: Right, and it's been fun to watch.

00:51:48
Speaker 1: It's awesome.

00:51:49
Speaker 3: We got super soakers. We're making all the fun jokes, making Prime evil like. We've got them all out. Let's move on.

00:51:55
Speaker 1: Onward dogs all year long. It's speaking of dogs, Let's get to our dogs.

00:51:58
Speaker 3: Wait, do we see this game again?

00:52:00
Speaker 2: To a chamionship? Yes, we do.

00:52:01
Speaker 1: You do anything changes you think?

00:52:03
Speaker 2: Venue?

00:52:04
Speaker 3: Yeah? I agree?

00:52:05
Speaker 1: Dogs of the Week, same team, same mass, whooping yep. Utah gets in there. That's how I see it.

00:52:11
Speaker 2: Be bad.

00:52:13
Speaker 3: It's good to be bad.

00:52:16
Speaker 1: Yeah, b y U zero and two lost their second one of the Big Top Championship. They get knocked out. Utah's in uh Dogs a week. It's no secret we're one and a half point dogs at U C L A T J latif. I'm taking Nebraska. That's Nebraska money line all day long. You gotta, you gotta.

00:52:34
Speaker 3: I think the thing that throws off the world, the butterfly factor, is when you go this is the Nebraska money line all day long, because I don't know what the actual stats on it are. But I feel like even going back to bet the bus, anytime you're like, this is Nebraska money line, it happens to just go to it.

00:52:48
Speaker 1: So let's just cover. Okay, Nebraska plus one and a half. Yep, And now it's like, now half as my dog of the week. I don't know where I'm going twenty seven problem. I will be ben that I'm gonna go off.

00:52:58
Speaker 2: Say twenty eight, twenty seven, no problem, no problem.

00:53:03
Speaker 3: Auburn plus six and a half versus Vanderbilt. Auburn, I think Auburn's defense the Texas showed how to get off of that offense. I don't think have the same horses and anything like that. But watching the film on the being able to see the film not just on a YouTube, but able to watch the entire film, seeing some of the misses they had, I could see Auburn keeping this game close. I think Vanderbilt still wins this game.

00:53:24
Speaker 2: But I got Auburn's gonna that's the laugh of a guy that watched Auburn Kentucky last week.

00:53:35
Speaker 1: That's not only that, but Taylor is like a position coach for Vanderbilt. He's helping the boys get better, and he's watching the film thing and yeah, I'm going on this week like he's coaching these a couple of these boys up on Vander's line and the yeah, he's sitting there it back like it's Auburn. You guys are figuring this out if it is.

00:54:05
Speaker 3: A close game. This ends up being a close game, and Turim head coach vives, I think Manny still wins this game. And then they still win this game, I think.

00:54:15
Speaker 1: But yeah, Taylor's intentions were were pure, But I'm sitting there like he just took the knife.

00:54:22
Speaker 2: He said, Hey, I know a bunch of you watched these games on TV.

00:54:25
Speaker 3: I didn't mean I was watching that film where I can see what Texas definitely found out about you guys here.

00:54:31
Speaker 2: You guys haven't seen what I've seen.

00:54:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, like Taylor's got access. People were gonna trust what I'm kind of saying here, but not knowing he's just fucking putting a knife in both the boys. He's sitting there breaking the film. No, I love.

00:54:40
Speaker 3: I think they played very well both. I think they played very well. Actually, whi's that tackle.

00:54:46
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take Kansas plus four and a half against Arizona. Now, I'd love to say Kansas money line too, and I will be betting them on the money line. But if you're gonna give me four and a half and Fanduell has agreed to give me four and a half with Kansas, I'm gonna take Kansas, just like I took Mississippi State plus four and a half last week. What did they do? They pulled an upset in Northwest Arkansas?

00:55:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, they did. You're always in the gutter with these games. We'll be watching Thursday night dreams and he's sending me screenshots.

00:55:12
Speaker 2: And Coastal Carolina, Carolina Coast. I said, how about? I said, how about this game? You're watching the Ravens no bro Coastal Coastal about to get the whim had so.

00:55:21
Speaker 1: Ro a Noodle Express was off to a hot star going into Saturday.

00:55:24
Speaker 2: Yeah, what was it?

00:55:25
Speaker 1: Two and O going in a Saturday?

00:55:26
Speaker 2: Started out seven and oh, finished seven and four, but started out seven and.

00:55:30
Speaker 3: Oh you a hell of a feeling when you're a seven o though.

00:55:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, just cut it off. And then then you get to get to the locker room every week. Every week I come in here, I have won money every week. I look at Taylor, who can see the board behind me. I go, hey, what was my record? And he looks up and he goes two and three?

00:55:46
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00:55:53
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00:55:58
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00:56:06
Speaker 3: I can't wait.

00:56:07
Speaker 2: I gotta say they're good.

00:56:08
Speaker 1: We have to get one.

00:56:08
Speaker 2: I'm not even a Christmas sweater guy, but this year I will.

00:56:11
Speaker 3: Be Christmas sweaters. I feel like there's a place for it. Yeah, there's a place in your closet for a Christmas Oh yeah, gotta have it.

00:56:17
Speaker 2: All right.

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00:56:32
Speaker 3: Back to this episode, gotta have it a weekly parlay. Washington minus eleven and a half for Wisconsin, Washington.

00:56:40
Speaker 1: I'm going USC minus fourteen and a half at home versus Northwestern.

00:56:44
Speaker 3: Can't beat him and join them.

00:56:45
Speaker 2: Clemson has no business laying points against anyone. Clemson has lost six consecutive home games at home at home against powerful competition. Florida State's gonna make that seven in a row. I'll take Florida State plus two and a half.

00:56:58
Speaker 1: Six.

00:56:59
Speaker 2: Yeah, they've lost their last six home games against P four teams.

00:57:03
Speaker 1: Damn, that's tough.

00:57:05
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:57:06
Speaker 1: I know there's been just a fire down the Clemson right now, but even here in that like, yeah, it's crazy debo sweety hot seat.

00:57:13
Speaker 2: No, no, not hot seat, but just I don't know, it's a weird feeling, any feeling saying that thing in front of the ad is nuts. Well, that's what you say when you feel like you're untouchable, and he feels like he's untouchable.

00:57:25
Speaker 3: I don't think he's I don't think he thinks that I think he was. What was said, he's in the press conference after the game, is that you want to fire me? Fire me?

00:57:32
Speaker 2: And the a d standard right there he said, there he is, if you want to fire me, maybe maybe you'll fire men.

00:57:37
Speaker 1: That's a that's he did too. And what happened He got fire Yeah, dude, it might have been a year later, but yeah, but was both laughing when he said it. No, yeah, it's more like.

00:57:52
Speaker 2: Laughing when he said it.

00:57:53
Speaker 3: I think Dabo is in a world he hasn't been in before. He doesn't know the path he wants to go down. So like every we he's like kind of changing tune and trying to figure out, Okay, where where do I want to kind of stand in this like adversity.

00:58:06
Speaker 2: Oh, he figured it out. He figured it out this way, he figured it out. So they lost to Duke. He did the postgame press conference, he marinates on it. Sunday and Monday of this week, he took the podium and he pulled out the most failed safe get out of jail free card you can out of your back pocket and he said, guys, the officiating in college football sucks right now. It's terrible. It's horrible. It's awful. You think I'm bad, look at how bad the officiating is, and everyone is like, yeah, I love what Devio said the word who did we played last week?

00:58:41
Speaker 3: Don't care.

00:58:42
Speaker 2: He's a genius. He's a genius. Gonna be there forever? Yeh, at least to the end of the season.

00:58:47
Speaker 1: Yeah. Do you have any feeling on any of these job openings right now?

00:58:55
Speaker 2: Yeah?

00:58:57
Speaker 1: Carada, off the record, do you give us some fun?

00:59:02
Speaker 2: I love John Sumrall. Think you would fit at Auburn. The ad down there keeps talking about going the offensive route if he did. Kenny Dillingham works there, Eli Drinkowitz works there. I think Lane, maybe, you know, day by day, switches his feeling. One day it's ole Miss, one day it's LSU. I don't think Florida is out of that at all. I think Florida is gonna wait to be told no by Lane before they move on. At Penn State, you know, I'm a Matt Campbell guy. For some inexplicable reason, his name hasn't gotten traction up there. Clark Lee's name may get traction up there. But I think they're casting a really wide net, really wide net. So that's gonna be one of those searches where it could be one of the names that's out there, or it could be a name that comes like from the parking lot and you never even mentioned him, and you're like, how did we not hear this name? How do we not think about this skipper? Exactly?

00:59:54
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, Coast to Coast.

00:59:56
Speaker 2: Moore Frank mcdonn, it's sweet.

01:00:02
Speaker 3: Do you think James Franklin is a head coach?

01:00:05
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I'm surprised he's not already a head coach. Honestly. I think the Virginia Tech jobs just sitting there for him. I think there's been a lot of traction between him and Arkansas. I'd love to see him at Arkansas. I think Alex Golish if it's not James, could wind up at Arkansas. You're a winner either way if you're Arkansas. If you get either of those guys, like those are upgrades over what you had. I'd love to see either one of them.

01:00:26
Speaker 1: There any vibe with Lsu.

01:00:28
Speaker 2: Look, I'm going after Freeman and now I'm gonna make him tell me no. And I think ver Jaspberry, who's now the permanent ad down there, he knows Marcus pretty well. I think He'll make Marcus tell him no. I don't know that, like they haven't told me that. That's just instinct. Like Freeman's a stud I'd make him tell me no. He told him no, but that was for the defensive coordinator position. This would be head coach. So make him tell you no, and then it's probably laying. But honestly, the LSU job if you've got alignment and the governor hadn't said anything in a good five days now, so that's great. You've got a president in place, you've got your A D in place. Now down there, you're starting to get the tumblers. You're starting to get the alignment. If you've got the alignment and you've got the investment, that's one of, if not the very best jobs in the country. And unaligned LSU is a job that many, many names who you don't think are available, would make themselves available for. So that's gonna be the most exciting secure.

01:01:20
Speaker 1: Some will come from the NFL. I've saw a couple of names. We've obviously talked about Joe Brady, but I saw another one, Kelvin Shephard. Yes, decordinator from the Lions, got a lot of success there.

01:01:29
Speaker 2: Hey, let me also just put this on your radar, put it on. I'm just gonna Can we end on this? Can we?

01:01:35
Speaker 1: Well, we do have a final bite for McDonald's. But yeah, and also should we wait? Hey, this could be this could be the take that week. Can you put the pin back in?

01:01:42
Speaker 3: What have you just pulled? That's terrifying? There you go real quick, Kenny Dillinghambill, that's the second time his name is Britain brought up by you. I've heard it multiple times over the internet. Like, my understanding is that Kenny would never leave a.

01:01:54
Speaker 2: Su Well, you got the wrong understanding.

01:01:58
Speaker 1: Face right, Oh?

01:02:00
Speaker 2: I know you surf the boards, so you're probably more well versed on this than I.

01:02:03
Speaker 3: No, but hey, when it comes to college football, there's no one that's more well versed.

01:02:07
Speaker 2: Do you believe every man has his price?

01:02:09
Speaker 3: Yes?

01:02:10
Speaker 2: Is Kenny Dillingham a man?

01:02:12
Speaker 1: Yes?

01:02:15
Speaker 2: All right?

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01:03:09
Speaker 1: I'm getting my order on right now, shout out McDonald's at nice. I mean mine's DJ latif over three hundred all purpose yards out of UCLA.

01:03:19
Speaker 2: Oh you're serious? My value?

01:03:21
Speaker 1: My bad?

01:03:22
Speaker 2: My bad? Are we going to crawl back in the foxhole? What Bowl game are we aiming for? Hey?

01:03:28
Speaker 3: You heard it? Playoffs are still real? Are still real? Right now?

01:03:32
Speaker 1: Point zero one percent chance.

01:03:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just wanted to see it like we planted the seed a point zero one percent an hour ago, how much did it grow?

01:03:39
Speaker 1: Like it's I will send you the screenshot when he has over three hundred all purpose yards out there at UCLA.

01:03:44
Speaker 3: When it comes to comptent that every seed with Nebraska grows like a weed. As long as it's a positive weed, it's a weed. My take, this is truly separations at it. We're finally going to see separation between the three of us on this show. That it's gonna beautiful for me.

01:04:02
Speaker 2: I think Dan. I think Dan's gonna wear the cotton again and get soaked and look miserable in a win at Iowa State. All right, you're ready pull the pin? All right, here we go. Let's just keep an eye on Lincoln Riley at.

01:04:13
Speaker 1: USC See you next week.

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