Josh Pate, Will Compton Ride With Texas Over Georgia + Taylor Lewan Says Notre Dame Will Crush Pitt

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Speaker 1: Hey, good morning, everybody. Welcome into the locker room with myself. Will Compton. Don't laugh right now, dude, and John definitely not you. Josh don't do it. You're much more professional than that. And the Commissioner of College Football Josh pay is week twelve in the college football season. Today, we're talking Utah Baylor. Guys, it was a big twelve game there, Iowa going to usc LA. We'll talk about that roster. How they've never even seen that couple life before, Notre Dame Pitt Oh you at Bama and then Texas at Georgia last week. We called it separation Sunday. I guess you could say we had that a little bit myself three and two injured or not. We're picking games correctly at this point. Will Compton one in four. My foot doesn't work, his brain doesn't work. Together, we make a full human being. And Josh Paid is the king. We had that guy up there in October. He was mister six and a half. Josh Paid is mister two and three. He has done that five weeks in a row. Say what you want about him. He is consistent. Am I play injured today? Yes? Is it gout? No? Is it because of gout most likely. Yes, that doesn't matter. My pain doesn't matter. What matters to me is that you subscribe to this show.

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Speaker 1: Josh uh, I know we're not on this part of the show at all, but I see your weekly parlay.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't believe that's that's a huge up.

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Speaker 2: Could have gone Northwestern, but with parlay the weekly probably we'll talk about the end of the show.

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Speaker 1: I just peaked at the card of where we were all sitting, and I was like, oh, this is Oh he's got he's got it.

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Speaker 2: The Purple team. No, okay, but could have, could have, could but won't do that.

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Speaker 1: What you're saying is your computer thing. He likes it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, likes Northwestern the like just kids. Just keeps liking Michigan to win, Dog to cover. It's been on a roll. It's got Michigan pretty well nailed. Now it will not have.

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Speaker 1: Michigan Michigan to win Northwestern to cover.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because of just like a head against Purdue. And then you push back on me, and I said, follow me, that.

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Speaker 1: Is a textbook. I was not wrong. The players were.

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Speaker 2: Well, they did screw up. They did my favorite, yeah favor. The common misconception the players don't always screw up against you. It's just when they screw up in your favor, you had a little something to do with it.

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Speaker 1: And if I'm the players and I'm digesting both of these shows, obviously they've been bustling with the boys. Man, But I'm sure with the they see the Pate State Freight trained team moving, they are the acron The acronym is that what it is, and the fact that you guys might be at five hundred thousand subscribers by Thanksgiving, That's what some are saying. Some are saying that, like I would kind of want to get on that train, and so I think they kind of threw your bone there this week, though I definitely believe Michigan is going to.

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Speaker 4: Cover there was somebody not throwing you a bone over the weekend having fun online?

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Speaker 2: That does that profile ring a bell? Oh my goodness, Well, I guess we have to speak about him in past tense. Yeah, he's dead. I don't I didn't play football, but he doesn't play Twitter anymore, so he's not having fun on Did.

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Speaker 1: You see no I saw? Did you see somebody try to come after a boy? I did see somebody try to come after a boy? And I keep saying the name Brandon Walker, but no one's really responding.

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Speaker 2: So it's anyone ever responded to the name Branda Walker? Mississippi State doesn't. Yeah, there there was somebody. Can I read this? May I read this out? And this is actually Josh Pate's new introduction. The problem with Josh Pate is he has zero real pedigree. Even the smallest remote achievement is absent. Didn't play college football, didn't work as a coacher administrator in college football, didn't cut his chops building sources and getting scoops and writing about college football. Mind you, all of.

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Speaker 4: These, all these statements have exclamation points behind him.

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Speaker 2: This dude is fired up.

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Speaker 1: Hey so far level of truth?

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Speaker 2: Right, didn't sit.

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Speaker 4: Didn't sit through production meetings with coaches and players to broadcast college football.

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Speaker 2: That you're to look for?

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Speaker 4: Four Just a bald guy with a white T shirt and a microphone who likes the most rudimentary aspects of the game.

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Speaker 2: Guy went seven for seven. Yew, Will I ever make it? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: You want to know where this guy is now? He's probably six feet under in a ditch somewhere in Georgia. Yeah, by that haunted house he was talking about way back when when we used to go with his friends and try to scare each other with it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, the Korean house. Hey, think about this. The guy didn't even have his real name or face, and it still got so hot for him he had to bail on Twitter. It's still got too hot.

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Speaker 4: He started off with going private and then next thing you know, I get word, Oh, he's done. The profile no longer exists, and the profile was having fun online blue.

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Speaker 2: He bought a blue check mark and everything.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I got stated was this Josh page? Did you do this yourself?

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Speaker 2: Friday? So the state folks came after him all day and all he did was go private. But then reinforcements show up about twenty hours later. The ratio is coming for him so hot. Yeah, he had to get out of it right about sundown. You know, it's like I'm George Bush and someone leans in and goes, sir, comptent. Reinforcements have arrived, and once that response goes up, Yeah, our boy, Yeah, he's the zodiac is Yeah, yeah, yeah, Teas and p Should we have a moment of silence?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely? God speed having fun online. I hope he's heaving for everybody. Everybody.

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Speaker 2: The internet game is not for everybody. Taylor. Just going wide and seeing your boot is hilarious.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Do we even want to talk about that or should we just move on?

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Speaker 2: We almost lost another soldier. Yeah, over the weekend.

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Speaker 1: I'll be honest, for the last fourteen days've been fighting for my life, just quietly suffering in front of you guys while trying to give the people contents. I miss the days of freely walking. That's what I miss, you know, Like a healthy man wants a bunch of things, a sick man just wants one thing. Yeah, I'm the sick man. I just want to I want to. I want two feet that work. I want to be able to walk around this earth again like I used to.

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Speaker 2: So is there another as a pro bowler? Did you know that that?

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Speaker 1: You know, I was like one of the best offensive linemen in the NFL for a little bit. The image just look at me, just seeking my boy, I'm slowly just becoming a pedestrian.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 1: No, I'm past that, dude. Pedestrians look down on me.

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Speaker 2: A statistic.

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Speaker 1: I'm a statistic, statistic like you say it, like that statistic because I think I'm becoming.

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Speaker 2: One, becoming a NARP.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, non athlete, regular person. We called those muggles in Michigan. But yeah, yeah, dude, it's it's been hell. I had gout. I will say, like, I fought valiantly, and it's weird to like pat yourself on the back with that. But I started to get gout right before one of the best days of the year, Halloween. Trigger cheat with my kids met up with Will Will Goes. I didn't even know.

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Speaker 2: You were dealing with it. You didn't even sell it right.

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Speaker 1: I was just quietly limping by myself, always yeah, just being with my kids, and we walked that fucking neighborhood man when down came back. By the time we had done with a walk, I'm hurting, dude. That whole weekend I'm laid up. Is it bad? I don't know, Like I get to watch football the whole time. So it kind of worked out for me, and every time I put it up, it felt great. Starts to get a little bit better and better and better. This Monday is when I took a turn and I was like, oh, I think I'm finally getting back to me. Hit myself a little workout. Tuesday, hit a workout, and then sometime yesterday I get home. I'm walking around a little bit and playing with the kids, and my foot just starts to really hurt. And it's like, yeah, whatever, do we've been here before? This is not too bad. Go put my kids asleep. It's by the time my kids are asleep in bed and I'm walking down to my room, I am in so much pain. I'm like grabbing onto the handrailing, like going down the stairs doing the one foot gathered to my bad foot, one foot gathered my back foot. I said, there with my wife. Finished season one of land Man Incredible Body, and have you seen it?

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Speaker 2: Not only have I seen it? I spoke to the guy Saturday who the show is based on, who is loosely Cody Campbell at Texas Tech or Monty in the show John Hamm continue season two, that's awesome.

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Speaker 1: We will follow up on that. Finish that. And we're laying in bed and my foot is in so much pain. The dition in the gout and this is the gout I would be able to put up. And I only get to a position We're like, oh, I can fall asleep, there's no pain here. I was in so much pain lesson. I looked at my wife. I go, hey, I hate this. I think I'm gonna go to the hospital, like and just figure out like this foot's broken or something. Go to the hospital and there until three am. Listen to the entire week was it eleven twelve week twelve predictions from Josh Pate. Realize that like twelve o two, twelve oh three, Like holy shit, Scotty just turned one. So I got some good things out of the way that easily I could have forgotten about, especially the birthday. I mean that is textbook me to forget something like that. So some good things came out of it. Bad news. I think they think I tore ligaments in my foot because of walking with such a swollen foot. I was putting so much pressure in areas that they're usually is in pressure, and some of these ligaments torn. So we talk in surgery, buddy, if I have to have surgery because a gal like put old yell or me, take me outside, talk real nice to me where my heart rate finally gets down to like a relaxed pace and pull the trigger. That would be awful. So I don't know yet. Long story short. Here I am five hours of sleep. I'm in a boot crutches get out. I see you. You kind of do this in your cars. You're on a conference call with Lane Lane Kiffin. I just hear it will go oh, I'm going him, I'm dad. I just think where else would you rather be the one just getting out of the car.

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Speaker 2: He's handing like crutches like.

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Speaker 1: I see like slowly. My boys are just watching.

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Speaker 2: And you lean you forgot to tell me what you leaned on the car until the crutches were handed to you. You couldn't stand up. His kid got a happy birthday, I got a podcast download. You got torn ligaments out of the right. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Man, I try to lift your boys up, you know, try looked up the confidence, trying to be that uncle, that godfather, that hey fucking he was the first one at text. Here I am man in a boot thinking I gotta fly to New York tonight. We gotta wear suits tomorrow. Yeah, because we'ren't mad at Yeah. He's on the other side for a reason, because he was gonna bring up we have wear suits tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Could this just be a waste up situation?

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Speaker 1: Do you think I might have to be you know what it might have to be? Yeah, I'm not even wearing a suit that fits me. I'm looking at him. Just for a court appearance, I'm wearing you're up.

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Speaker 2: They're applying for a long three.

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Speaker 1: Ten tailor suits. That's what I'm wearing. AnyWho, we're gonna have a helvi a show today.

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Speaker 2: Boy, Let's have a hell of a show.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but who before we get into the actual show and talk to me about this valument that was based on Monty.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, So Manty is John Ham in land Man, Yes, and he's a big energy billionaire and he just sits in his office all day, flies around on private planes. Although spoiler, I don't want to spoiler alert. If you haven't seen land Man season one, check it out.

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Speaker 1: It's almost been a year the new season comes out. At this she's been given.

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Speaker 2: Twenty four hours. I don't even want to spoil the end of Twister for people, and that came out in the mid nineties, but that's based loosely on the whole West Texas oil drilling energy scene. And I was just out there. Cody Campbell is the guy who's basically well one of the main guys who's bankrolling Texas Tech right now. The legend out there has it that that show and the character of John Ham Monty is based on Cody Campbell and the Double Legal energy guys. And so when I was out there in spring, they were saying, hey, man, we're trying to get Landman on campus for season two because there's a quarterback in the show who's committed to Texas Tech. I don't know if he stays committed in season two. You know how Nila is now, Yeah, not a total could be, but we'll see if he stays committed. But I was like sucking to Joey Maguire, you guys are gonna get involved in this, and he said, we're trying. If you want to mention it on your show, it's sure could help. We're trying. So we put the call out there and this was months ago when they were filming season two. So I haven't gotten an update, but we're going to see because season two drops really soon. We sound like we're just full on promotional for the show.

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Speaker 1: Yeah this is not this is no free shot us, but there's no.

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Speaker 2: Free shotouts too. Yes, based on you know, like people who are kind of bankrolling the Texas Tech program right now. I know that's not a shock to many people, especially those of US hoops were out there and saw that place. Probably the best facilities in the country right now.

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Speaker 1: That's what people. So we had Maguire on the show and he was talking about the facilities, somebody else brought up like people think they have the facilities, It's not like everyone might have Number two, we absolutely have the best. And a kid from Arizona like Texas Tech was never on my radar right ever, as a place to even humor, Like, I don't know anything about it, but you watch a show like land Man, you see all the TT's on there, you see how they're doing this year, it's perfect storm for me. I got to see what Love with Texas is all about. This is the atmosphere this past weekending, and it's like, how.

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Speaker 4: Much better can they be than all the spots we've went around, right, Because how much better?

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Speaker 1: You Abraska friends that they just did what a tw hundred and fifty million dollar renovation?

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Speaker 2: It was something crazy and it's incredible.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, Michigan did one a couple of years ago. It's incredible. LSU's is incredible. Oregon is doing a five hundred Alabama Alabama like there, we've we've seen the pinnacle at least we thought, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Place is pretty incredible. Yeah, I gotta the only thing I can compare it to is those people who have been around Texas or if you've ever been around really really big time high schoo football. I'm talking about like six seven, eight, depending on what state you're from, the way that those towns, those towns are on a Friday night, Yeah, the way those towns are on a Friday night, where the whole thing just shuts down, like everybody, the cops are all in, the gas station attendants, they're all in for whatever that hometown team is. If you took that vibe and you turn the volume up to like two hundred, that's kind of what Lubbock is like. And you know what college towns are like. You know what Athens is like, ann Arbor's like Lincoln's, like those are college towns. Lubbock is a college town. I don't know how to describe this unless you just go there, but it feels almost like a high school town, and that everything is shut down for Texas Tech. Everything's all in for Texas Tech. It's six hours in any direction to the nearest civilization. You know, you're just on the moon and all you got is the guy next to you. You all got like Red Raider blood coursing through your veins, and oh, we got the nicest facilities in the country now, and oh we just bought ourselves a multi seven figure defensive line. Oh we may go win the Big twelve. We're all in. That's what it's like out there. God awesome. Now, did you see you see the video that I shot from the sideline of when when they were doing swag surfing, which every student body does, but they don't know it because they don't go around the country every week like we do. So but they're doing it. And they got the red smoke coming out of a little pipe there, and they got the mascot on the front row, and there's a kid holding a poster that says, I love oil money. Drill, baby Drill. That's Texas Tech.

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Speaker 1: We had to get there, Texas.

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Speaker 2: Another what the sixth BAS football playoff ranking could could could mump up to fifth? Yes, some say they could bump up inside the top four. I'm not some some people say they could bump up inside the top four.

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Speaker 1: Realistically, they go play all state Indiana, A and M Alabama. Where they have you done the FanDuel neutral site conversation?

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Speaker 2: As Memo hit the model, they would be a dog against all four of those, but not like a three touchdown dog, not like USF would be or something like that that be competitive two touchdown dog. No dog, maybe like between seven and twelve, depending on which team you're talking about. Look, here's what I think we need to do. This is a team in the Big Twelve. So what we need to do is we need to refocus our microscope. Can they win the Big twelve? And if they win the Big Twelve, to me, that's a highly successful season. Whatever happens in the playoff is whatever happens in the playoff. I said the same thing about Kenny in Arizona State last year. Yeah, this is a conference that is not operating on the same level as the Big Ten of the SEC. So to me, it's always been stupid to look at him and say, well, hey, the only way you validate yourself in my mind, is if you go win playoff games, win your conference. The Big Twelve is the most evenly pitted conference in America. You don't have the vast disparity between have and have not out there historically like you do in the SEC or the Big Ten. Purdue's not winning the Big Ten right now, Kentucky's not winning the right now, But you could really go from last to first in the Big Twelve, especially if you invest like they did, so that would be a happy story to me.

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Speaker 4: What Texas Tech, if we get in the Heisman talk, where do you have Jacob Rodriguez.

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Speaker 2: He's gotta be up there. I don't really do Heisman much. I would have him in my top five safely. How do I measure him against what Fernando Mendoz is doing, what Julian Sayin's doing, what Jeremi Love is doing, who probably ironically is not getting quite enough love right now might not be, but may after this weekend I did. It'll come down to big moments.

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Speaker 4: I feel like some of that spotlight is coming into Texas Tech now that they are, you know, handling business winning the way that they are going into as a heavy like a big time favorite for the Big twelve, and now that you know his name is getting out there once he has one of those big moments. That's how it felt like like when we were talking the last linebacker to be in the conversation with me and Titeo, like he had what seven takeaways and anytime it felt like the microscope was getting on him or he'd have an interception, we have a play.

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Speaker 1: To where you're talking about conversation.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, when Manti Taya would pick a ball, I remember watching other games on ESPN, there would be breaking news on the bottom line. Manti Tya intercepts ball in the middle of second quarter against Navy, he got breaking news treatment for the big defensive plays. Yeah, dude, that's a whole other world. If people are like eighteen years old, you don't really remember twenty twelve all that much. The Manti Teow Heisman wave was real, was very real. Now, there were some things that weren't real, but the wave was real.

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Speaker 4: The wave was real, was real, the feelings we felt were real.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Manta for that, Yeah, man.

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Speaker 4: But that's how that's what we come down to for Jacober because even statistically, that's the guy you compare him to for like this Heisman run, he averages more tackles per game, he has more takeaways. Right now, he has ten three picks and seven forced fumbles. If he continues to have those splash plays, maybe our boys getting the breaking news as this wave the amount of time, But there's only a couple more weeks, that's all take. I mean, you see the push right now with Emma Johnson accolade.

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Speaker 2: You guys obviously see it with me.

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Speaker 4: But I'm saying, like, when you have a player like that, who is ranking that well statistically across the country in every category, especially, who hasn't had a player like that right right. The school, like everybody around is going to rally around to like put these names in front of you, not because it's fake, because it's real, but to start getting you thinking because all we talk about are quarterbacks at every school for heisman for anything, and we can have a first all American, our first all Americans since like Leavonte David.

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Speaker 1: That is crazy. It's been that long.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: And even though it's it's the aim as heisman, it's like, you know, what's the saying shoot for the shoot for the star or something like that, it's one of them.

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Speaker 2: It's like that you shoot, you shoot for heisman.

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Speaker 4: You're you're laying in all these other conversations with some legitimate you talk about Jeremi Love, Emma Johnson's got them beat in a lot of categories, and when you talk about it's Jeremi Love and and Emma Johnson for uh percentage of total yards to day accumulate four for their offense, and Johnson's.

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Speaker 2: Number one right now, Jordan Love is a monster. Though. Can I say as we as we start to dive in, I assume we're going to dive into the game, we're going to can I say one thing about Nebraska.

00:21:13
Speaker 1: I thought, you're not going to dive into the games.

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Speaker 4: We're on a bye week. I was gonna it was going to cool off. You were going to But you did bring up em Johnson.

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Speaker 1: I did, and then you bought it.

00:21:23
Speaker 2: Right now, I'll get them to come.

00:21:26
Speaker 1: Don't don't worry about that. Don't worry about that.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I will push this. I thought you guys did a great job with the sit down with k on the bus earlier this week. I did watch it. I listened to it. I thought it was going to completely come off the rails. When she asked how is Nebraska doing this year? I thought it was done that. You're not going to get to the Giants or Dable, You're not going to get the NFL network and her upbringing. When she asked how is Nebraska doing this year? I thought it was over. I was in the gym listening to it, and people around me heard. I just said, oh no, oh no.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Nebraska. You talk about government shutdown, if philibuster going on, you want to keep that thing continuing, Just walk We'll compedon into that room and say Nebraska. You want to know about Nebraska, let me tell you. We might be on a bye week this week, and then seventy two hours later they're like, I don't think he's breathed yet. Well, I think he's in healed.

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Speaker 2: I bought us Chuck Schumer, that's John Thun. Hey, how's Nebraska doing. Gonna put your own speaker here? How's Nebraska's speaker here? Great win against UCLA, great win, great win against UCLA. T J Latif. We tried telling everybody coming home, coming home, it's.

00:22:37
Speaker 1: Even crazy when there's a quarterback controversy in Nebraska, that's crazy.

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Speaker 2: There's no way we were telling about that Saturday.

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Speaker 5: There's no way, no way unless unless this keeps going, it is Delan Rail's football team as of right now, right, I'll let you say that.

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Speaker 1: You absolutely should not be the person at all the sail he has to come down to the absolute wire where you know, people of college. But hey, it's gonna be PG Latif and that's when you yeah, if I know it's a real thing, that's when, right. But if that's what I would talk about that continues right now, it's not even it's not even close to a right thing.

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Speaker 4: Not even close. Is Dylan Reel was football. You'll enjoy yourself we gotta keep him with Johnson and Nebraska is what we gotta do. It might be going the league. Yeah, yeah, which you know.

00:23:20
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Speaker 2: I did think we were tied.

00:23:52
Speaker 1: On No, I'm I are injured player. That's that's what happens when you play injured. By the way, Jack has crutches on right now during this commercial breakdown, that's bad. I'm just letting you know that's a bad omen. Yeah, all right, let's get back to this episode.

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Speaker 4: Subscribe please, I want what's best for the kids.

00:24:09
Speaker 2: But also a number thirteen.

00:24:11
Speaker 1: Utah. They're at Baylor this weekend. Utah's favored minus eight and a half total points. That game is sixty and a half. I'll be quick Utah onward.

00:24:23
Speaker 4: Yeah, Utah, Baylor. I do have another question for you, Josh Yep you threw grenade last week with the head coaching jobs. Sure you hearing anything with USC and Lincoln Riley?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely? I am hit me with the follow up, what are you hearing? I cannot tell you because in no world do I want to put myself through what I went through last week. But I will look at you. I will say, yes, I'm hearing stuff and that's what I'm hearing. That's what I'm hearing. But I would never say that on air.

00:24:56
Speaker 1: He mouth that to me, let's play telephone.

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Speaker 2: O.

00:25:01
Speaker 1: I know it's gonna be a full sentence and I just got caught up in his teeth for a minute.

00:25:04
Speaker 2: I didn't see.

00:25:07
Speaker 1: That's something that can definitely wait till the end of the show to ask. You're injured right now? There's a lot of stuff happening. I injured right now, is what I'm doing?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, another question Arkansas, Arkansas.

00:25:21
Speaker 2: I think they got to wait for Auburn to make their move. Maybe gotta wait for LSU to make their move.

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Speaker 4: I don't know when there was a gentleman I was saying, they're pretty I don't know what I was seeing it on, but there was somebody talking like they had their guy they just out of respect.

00:25:34
Speaker 2: Okay, whoever that guy is respectfully to him, I'm not sure they're one hundred percent in control of that. What I mean is the guy they end up landing may also be in the running for other jobs. And so the planes are all sitting on the tarmac and they're ready to find out in which order they're gonna take off, and one may cut the other one. So like Alex Golish could be in the running for that job. Well, if Alex Golish were to get an offer from Auburn, I think he'd probably take it over Arkansas. So if you're Arkansas and you want Alex Golish, great, I think he'll do. I think he'll do great anywhere he goes. Kind of got to wait and hope Auburn hires John Summral or hires DJ Dirkin or something like that. That's what I mean by that. Now, luckily Auburn's got their ducks in a row, and so I think their search is going to move pretty fast. But I think I think Arkansas does not totally hold their hiring fate in their own hands, if that makes sense.

00:26:22
Speaker 1: Yeah, they have to wait. They know what it's in the Tonal Polly And I'll tell you this about Utah, man is the reason why I picked Utah is they're kind of on the outside looking in, like Texas Tech, Baylor, Cincinnati are right there and there's those teams have to play each other and probably out of the the Coffas Championship. They're kind of sitting in that two loss and I think, slowly but sure, they're going to ink themselves in to one of those last spots in the playoffs. And they understand that going to Baylor, and I think they take advantage of that, and I think they measure that in a big way because for them to sit in a position for them to bump themselves into that twelve eleven ten category in the playoff, they've got to win. They've also got to cover. If you look at me and say, hey, the committee doesn't look at them as they did, they did?

00:27:01
Speaker 2: They not?

00:27:02
Speaker 1: It's crazy.

00:27:02
Speaker 2: Look at what they did in Miami, right, they bummed up. They're bumped up for what they just corrected them. They heard the criticism and they corrected them. And speaking of Miami, I like Utah this week too. Yeah, I'm gonna tell you, why tell me? I think in November. If you struggle to stop the run kind of in October, you really let the floodgates open in November. Now full disclosure of the model likes Baylor this week. But the model doesn't know. It's just a computer. It's stupid. It doesn't know what I'm saying.

00:27:28
Speaker 1: It knows what you tell to know.

00:27:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't like tapping out is not a data point for the model. But I think Baylor's run defense may do that this week, and if they do, there's no limit to the amount of assault that you talk and lay on them. So eight and a half I think is a trap number because it wants the computer model crowd to take Baylor and the points, but I am not doing that.

00:27:48
Speaker 1: Yeah, it wants the nerds, yeah, to take Baylor.

00:27:50
Speaker 2: But actually, what you need to do in this game, you need to go like that. You need to pull the glasses.

00:27:53
Speaker 1: Down, yeah, and just see the world for what it is or how your body wants to see it, which is a little more fuzzy. A little more fuzzy is clearly Utah minus eight and a half.

00:28:00
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, what about James Franklin. I think James needed to make a move on Virginia Tech if he was gonna make him move. I think Virginia Tech's just sitting there saying, James, we want you, and James Franklin's kind of saying I could see it, and then they say, not, James, we really want you. Here's the piece of paper, and he's saying, I'll think about it, and then Virginia Tech says, hey, we kind of got to make a move here.

00:28:23
Speaker 4: We'd love to have you, and James is like, give me the details again.

00:28:28
Speaker 2: And Virginia Tech may just be like, yeah, never mind. Yeah.

00:28:30
Speaker 1: And on the note of James Franklin, I love how like the quarterbacks I'm playing for Utah. I love how their defense has been playing. I just think that sitting in that position, it's not like Pitt's head coach, like every game is worth fighting for them.

00:28:44
Speaker 2: Oh, it's a must win, it's.

00:28:45
Speaker 1: A must win. Everything's a must win at this point in the year for a school that takes himself seriously.

00:28:50
Speaker 2: Well, are you hearing anything about Eli Drinkwitz and the Penn State. Yeah, I'm not sure that he meshes with them. I sure that Eli Drinkwitz the persona meshes with Penn State. The program so I'd be very surprised if Eli Drinkwoit's got that job. What I wouldn't be surprised by is Utah kind of wins emphatically this week and knocks Baylor from the equation entirely. And then afterwards people are running the tiebreaker scenario math in their head and they're like, wait, we know Utah could get an at large, but what if just humor me here, what if Cincinnati beats Brigham Young hands them their second loss, and then you realize, Oh, Utah's got the head to head win over Cincinnati. Oh wait, could they make it the Dallas Oh wait? Could it be Utah versus Texas Tech? Where the model would be really put on the stand because the model is the only computer model out there that has Utah power rated above Texas Tech. Texas Tech will be favored at FanDuel I fully acknowledge that the model would pick Utah, and I'd have to sit here, mister two and three, mister twenty three here, and I would have to pick Utah.

00:30:05
Speaker 1: You would be so hypothetically speaking, all those dominants fall. We're sitting here on a championship weekend, and you're gonna take Utah over Texas Tech.

00:30:12
Speaker 2: Either that or I'm gonna buck the model which has return to me two and three results all year. So maybe I will. Yeah, maybe I won't. Kind of like James Franklin right now, will he won't?

00:30:21
Speaker 4: He?

00:30:22
Speaker 2: I don't know. Humor me about.

00:30:26
Speaker 4: Lane Kiffin and Jackson Dart with the New York Giants.

00:30:31
Speaker 2: Well, you know what I have to say to that is he's now coaching for the Giants. What conference are the New York Giants in? And don't don't give me the NFC East. Do you know what I'm asking you. I stop at midnight on Saturday, unless Hawaii's playing the football for that week. Is done for me. Saturday at midnight, and I just start watching replays. So y'all are sitting over here on Sundays and you're watching God knows what happens on Sundays in the NFL. But I don't know. Giants' job is not even open to me. It doesn't exist. If Lane Kiffin goes to the NFL, it's a great person, but he's dead to me. He doesn't exist as far as I'm concerned. Never heard of her. I don't know. Yeah, everybody's talking about New York Giants the head job. Not enough people talk about Kent State another big win last night.

00:31:19
Speaker 1: Yeah, the next game? What are you taking?

00:31:22
Speaker 4: Just real quick, so everybody does, Oh, Utah Baylor, I'm taking the over.

00:31:27
Speaker 2: I'm taking the over. Here over said sixteen and a half points.

00:31:30
Speaker 4: Both these teams, I want to say, Baylor averages like thirty three, Utah averages thirty six. They both average like north of four hundred and fifty yards Sawyer Roberto, He's got about three thousand yards twenty seven touchdowns. Defense sucks. I'm sure I know Utah's defense is good. But again, you're down in Baylor. ESPN two. Don't worry about watching the game. This is over sixteen and a half. I love points in this game, all right?

00:31:51
Speaker 2: I like that.

00:31:52
Speaker 1: How does the model feel about that? Does the model even deal with totals?

00:31:55
Speaker 2: Hey we hit that Orgon iowall last week. We were proud of that. Yeah, Orgon, I will under forty two and a half. Someone actually bet the over at the last minute. Gave me an extra point of value, Like to Iowa, it's thirty seven degrees. It's poor and rain Dan Landings were in a cotton hoodie there's no way this game's going over, and it didn't and didn't. No opinion on this one though.

00:32:12
Speaker 1: Well. On the subject of Iowa, Iowa is traveling to Los Angeles this weekend, number twenty one IOUR versus number seventeen USC Iowa dogs. USC favored minus six and a half. Total points in that game is forty nine and a half.

00:32:26
Speaker 2: Will USC's gonna hang forty on them?

00:32:28
Speaker 1: Okay, that's a little crazy.

00:32:31
Speaker 2: USC's gonna hang forty on these mois.

00:32:32
Speaker 4: I did my best to root for Iowa these past, like well, not last week, the past, the weeks prior to that, getting them in the top twenty five, trying to get them ranked, but they just remind you that they're just going to be this four or five loss, sometimes three lost football team at all times.

00:32:48
Speaker 2: It's automatic.

00:32:49
Speaker 1: Still ranked though, consists, still ranked. Yes, they're consistent, but there's no three Iowa losing.

00:32:54
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:32:55
Speaker 4: As an Iowa fan, there's no hope, Like there's no we're building, there's no we're growing. There's no you know, expectations or excitement to come to come around. Like Kirk France, he's gonna be there until he dies. They're gonna continue to be there's this above average football team and they're gonna go out to USC this weekend, out on out in La. I know there's gonna be a little bit of rain, but there's not gonna be a whole lot of wins. Maybe ten miles an hour GUS and USC is in absolute playoff mode. Their big one is gonna be Oregon, but again after coming coming off the performance they had against Northwestern, the reminder of Nebraska a couple of weeks ago. Nebraska gonna be the only team that holds this team, this offense under thirty points on the season.

00:33:33
Speaker 2: This is gonna be USC?

00:33:35
Speaker 4: Is it ja Jayden Mayava?

00:33:37
Speaker 1: Jordan my Alatta Jaden?

00:33:39
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, Jordan my Alatta, Jordan may Alatta.

00:33:43
Speaker 1: I think it's Australia?

00:33:44
Speaker 2: Is it Jaydon Mayava?

00:33:46
Speaker 4: But this week could be Jordan by a lotta, could be Jordan Jayden buy a lotta for forty plus? Yeah, and after he does, he's gonna a little much. But that what's going to happen.

00:34:00
Speaker 1: Yeah, Iowa has a way, especially the weather's falling them like a cloud. Like Iowa travels to La and all of a sudden, it's sunny. But now it's going to be a raise.

00:34:08
Speaker 2: Like pickin the cloud just follows him wherever he goes.

00:34:11
Speaker 1: Exactly. You says something on your show. Obviously, your breakdowns of college football are incredible. And you, being a weather guy, you said, monsoon season in California crazy. All of a sudden, this week, monsoon season in California, USC is covering the You got something, USC's covering this game. Monsoon season is like June till October, and it really just affects the southwest region of the country, which is Arizona and New Mexico.

00:34:35
Speaker 2: Let me ask you this go ahead. Is it winter right now? No? Sure, did get a lot of snow in Nashville the other day, a lot of snow. Things are crazy, a.

00:34:42
Speaker 1: Lot of snow or a couple of flakes that melt, they touched the ground in Arizona.

00:34:47
Speaker 2: I'm from rural Georgia. There's a lot of snow, and I'm from the West. We didn't have a single landfalling hurricane in a contiguous United States this year. Weather's been crazy this year. You know that I know that he knows that I have in my hand, mister, no monsoon season. The official Friday and Saturday forecast for the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Friday, trying to paint the field heavy rain, heavy rain, Saturday, heavy rain. The only difference between this game and the one Iowa played last week is bumping up about twenty degrees upper fifties instead of upper thirties. But you're right, the weather's following them around. Now. You would think to yourself, history would indicate this favors Iowa because I would just crowned and pound USC is all flash, no substance. We remember what USC did to Michigan.

00:35:36
Speaker 1: I know you're gonna bring that up.

00:35:38
Speaker 2: Ran it for two twenty four. They did. They ran it for two to two against Nebraska. They ran it not as great against Notre Dame, but Notre Dame is Notre Dame is different caliber team than Iowa is. I just think Iowa needs to play the game they played last week with two minor corrections. They need to be a little bit better on third down they were five or thirteen last week, and don't lose the turnover battle re minus one last week. If they can do those things, great, I think the style of game actually favors USC more than America is going to realize, like people are gonna see heavy rain. They're gonna say this is tailor made for Iowa and Lincoln Riley's gonna look at it, and USC is gonna look at it and say, no, actually, we're fully comfortable running the ball. Now. We may not score forty. Game may not be long enough for us to score forty. But I don't even need mayav It have a huge day. I need him to have a good enough day. Anything above and beyond that's a bonus. The model disagrees with me again, real infighting between me and the model this week.

00:36:35
Speaker 1: Yeah, it sounds as a hosta Biden.

00:36:37
Speaker 2: I'm taking USC to win and cover.

00:36:39
Speaker 1: I agree with that. Are you familiar with rum Springer? Do you know what that is? It's in the Amish community. These people they live the Amish life right, no technology, no Internet, and none of that stuff. By the age about like sixteen years old, the Amish youth is allowed to go out into the world and live the way for what most normal people live their life. They can use phones, they can drink, they can try different things, they can go watch a movie, they can utilize the advances in technology that we've all come to know and love. But the almost does not. Then they have to make a decision within like three months to like two years of what they're gonna do. But when they go through room storing, it's like a kid going to college for the first time freaking out. That's what this is for Iowa. I looked at the roster. There are less than five people from the West. It's full of people from Missouri, people from Illinois, people from Iowa, Nebraska, Grand Rapids, Michigan, South Dakota. These are just corn fed boys who talk with a wheat straw in their mouth the whole time. And they're going to fly to the West coast. Those lights are going to be exciting. It's me the first time in their life other than a movie or a TV show that they've seen this. They're going to be distracted, discombobulated, weather or no weather. Iowa is going to get their ass speed against USC this weekend. Us See is a much different football team at home than they are away, much different football team. And I had to when it's that firsthand you, I mean I, you and I were texting. I was, you know, I what to call the hotline during that game because they were doing things to Michigan that Michigan does to people, and I see that absolutely happening against Iowa. I don't see them putting forty up on them like an ass beating for Iowa twenty seven to nine.

00:38:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, if they'll hit thirty, they'll hit thirty. Thirty. Yeah, they'll hit thirty.

00:38:17
Speaker 1: But yeah, rum Springer, they'll put that up.

00:38:20
Speaker 4: And uh was it Jade and buy a lotta Jane Biolatto throw Benjamin on him after the game's over and tell them they go buy a Casey's pizza to take a guess, or they get back to Iowa because that's all I was got Casey's and it is good.

00:38:35
Speaker 1: Almost went to Iowa, Will Crompton.

00:38:37
Speaker 2: There's a lot of we in the breakdown. There's a lot of we. We are nothing more than average. We do this to ourselves every year. Yeah. I didn't push back because I don't disagreee.

00:38:50
Speaker 1: That Iowa makes teams be like play like their style football though.

00:38:53
Speaker 2: Yeah, but then they made it last week and the organ still beat them.

00:38:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, But I feel like with Iowa, it's not about wins and losses. Can we just allow our identity to bleed into this game and ruin for all the viewers like, that's what they want. How do we get the least amount of years?

00:39:07
Speaker 2: If we can make people miserable at hope, we will have done our job.

00:39:09
Speaker 1: Like I think, I think Iowa they put up graphics in their team and bell like you see, like Texas and Ohio State they got seventeen million people watching this.

00:39:15
Speaker 2: Don't like it?

00:39:16
Speaker 1: We got less than a million boys all right, and it went down the farther you've got into the game that they take pride in that, like, how can we have this the lowest scoring game possible? How do we compare this to soccer? As much as that's Iowa?

00:39:27
Speaker 4: And who's gonna cover lemon? Like Iowa doesn't have a white cornerback out there this year?

00:39:31
Speaker 1: That is true, but also heavy rain monsoon that doesn't exist in California.

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00:40:02
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00:40:04
Speaker 4: Notre Dame of pitt Right now, Notre Dame is favored by eleven and a half. The over under on this game is fifty five and a half. You guys sell a Pitts head coach.

00:40:13
Speaker 1: This is disgusting to me. I saw that clip. Stop studying. Obviously, Jeremiah loves a stud C. J. Carrs come along a long way. But Paton Nordoosey, that's his name for him as citizen. Not a must win game. I'd rather lose this game by one one ten to ten, which is, by the way, one o three to ten is like what they've been outscored in the last three times they played.

00:40:35
Speaker 2: Wow.

00:40:35
Speaker 1: So he's very aware of that point differential. And I just think you say that s it's a horrible message to your team.

00:40:42
Speaker 4: Yeah, because it's like, you know, the boys like players, You love to be out there, like you know, it's don't give Baltimore material.

00:40:48
Speaker 2: You love to talk shit like you love to do that, you just don't do it.

00:40:52
Speaker 1: You know you're the inferior team. However, it's like, what kind of culture are you see?

00:40:55
Speaker 4: I'm just saying players are suppressed because as much as we would love to go there, chirp a little bit, have a little fun, you know, it's not in the best interest, like for your football team, because there's more people involved. So you just have to sit back and almost just hear the clippings that you're your head coach might say, but just to hear that if you're one of the boys sitting at the lunch table, it's just like coach doesn't believe this is a muscling Yeah, you know they're saying something different in the room, but still publicly.

00:41:20
Speaker 2: I don't know. I wasn't a big fan, Like what was your takeaway? I just think about being in the locker room at the half and it's twenty to seven Notre Dame. You look around and you say, what are you supposed to tell those guys at halftime? H Coach kind of said, this game doesn't that's what it is. You know, we tried, right grass staying here and there, we tried It's okay, we got ACC play coming up though, AC because that's definitely, according to the committee, what's going to get you in the playoff. Because the ACC has such a sterling reputation right now, it doesn't matter if you lose, you're out of conference games now. The committee chair is on TV last night saying, yeah, this conference kind of has no out of conference games to hang its hat on other than Miami. Notre Dame. Ignore all that lose. It was by one hundred. If you want to, it's okay. As long as we get a good, solid winn against Georgia Tech. That's enough win in our sales. It's not. It's not Notre Dame is gonna win this game in cover. Now. I will say this, I don't think people know Pitt. I don't think people have really watched Pit. I think people think classic Pit game grounded like Iowa ground and pound ball control condensed the game. That's not them. Heinschel is the quarterback that came in for Eli Holsten. He's a true freshman. He's thrown for three hundred and four of his last five games. Notre Dame is fifteenth against the run, eighty ninth against the pass. So like theoretically, if you're gonna get Notre Dame, that's how you get them. You get them through the air. Notre Dame fans would vehemently argue, Yeah, but our defense is on now. We found ourselves, we found our stride, we're on now, and there's probably a germ of truth to that. I just think like there's some point where you kind of wad up the paper, like Pitt's got the number three run defense in the country. Do I really think they're gonna shut down Notre Dame on the ground? I don't, nor do they have to. According to patten Ardoozy, you like to, but you don't have to. It's what it is. I just think it's one of those reminder we're Notre Dame your pit, Like one of those kinds of games, and it's not a comfortable blowout win, but it's a nice solid win for Notre Dame. They cover in the end and you move on and you know they stay on track to either be the nine seed or the eight seed. Like the biggest question with Notre Dame down the stretch is do they get a home playoff game or do they have to go on the road for a playoff game, which is going to be a huge difference, by the way, because if you noticed, I think on the Playoff Committee reveal show last night, they did the hypothetical bracket and it was like Notre Dame at Oregon. So imagine the difference in them having to go to Eugene versus them hosting someone in South Bend like they did last year. So that's not a small deal. But I do think they're gonna like this is not where they get derailed. There's no way, well there's a little way they get derailed.

00:43:51
Speaker 4: Have you checked the against the spread numbers with pits since Noartoozie's been there, I haven't you, I have not.

00:44:00
Speaker 1: Ouh.

00:44:01
Speaker 2: Can I give you covers for you?

00:44:02
Speaker 1: This?

00:44:02
Speaker 4: Uh pitt as a home underdog twelve and ten, I got the spread twelve and ten against the spread against ranked opponents sixteen and sixteen as the home team against the spread thirty four and thirty six?

00:44:29
Speaker 1: Delanny Walker? What's Notre Dame minus eleven and a half? So you did, Delanney Walker?

00:44:38
Speaker 2: Me, I just read you those numbers. It does not blok mind that you did. You did do that, you did read those numbers. I have little to no idea what they really meant. But you read those numbers. You read them with.

00:44:53
Speaker 1: Eviction home dogs against the spread, oh in fifty seven or something like that. You're giving me like more line five hundred numbers. You're not three.

00:45:03
Speaker 2: What you're not seeing.

00:45:04
Speaker 4: What you boys are seeing are the numbers within the numbers, the game within the game.

00:45:10
Speaker 2: I knew it.

00:45:12
Speaker 1: He's so right. Yeah, And you know what, regardless of whether we saw the number or not, we all landed in the same place.

00:45:18
Speaker 4: Somebody out there right now they're going to comment and be like, I know what, will.

00:45:20
Speaker 2: You see what's saying? Right?

00:45:21
Speaker 1: I bet they will.

00:45:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, I get where he was going.

00:45:24
Speaker 1: I see, I see, Yeah, he sees the field. Well, yeah, he's absolutely coming out of numbers. Literally looked like you twenty five and thirty two. That's like that is pit dog at home. Your staff like this year is a statium is pit So yeah, you're seeing it. You are pitt don't you worry.

00:45:46
Speaker 2: We'll see what we'll see. Who's laughing next week on here?

00:45:48
Speaker 1: We literally all have the same picks right now. Yeah, so literally we're all laughing or crying together. There's no difference. I took over Baylor Utah. I think it's a good pick.

00:45:57
Speaker 4: But you watch Baylor Cove just like a late just like a late cover.

00:46:02
Speaker 2: Yeah, that'd be g I'm kinda sick you guys.

00:46:05
Speaker 1: Guys kind of talk to me into Oregon, Iowa last week because I was very iffy on the fence about that game. Obviously I made my own decisions, but I was sitting there at.

00:46:14
Speaker 2: We had it right up there for you.

00:46:16
Speaker 1: I know your heart, but I was surely sitting in at the fifty to fifty. I'm straddling the fence. Maybe my nuts are split in half. It's being like which way of this fence do I want to go? And obviously you got a boy with words. You start talking with the duck reproductive system or how they even have I'm like, yeah, that's like not only like true, but it's also like a tip of the cap to oj Busten. What other way could I have gone?

00:46:39
Speaker 2: Yeah? You know you'd rather lose the way you did? Yes?

00:46:43
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yeah?

00:46:45
Speaker 2: Oklahoma and Alabama. Uh.

00:46:48
Speaker 4: The spread on this game Alabama favored by five and a half at home. The over under on this game forty six and a half. Gentlemen, Yeah, who'd like to kick this thing off.

00:47:00
Speaker 2: Very confident here.

00:47:01
Speaker 1: I know I watched your prediction thing. I had my decision before your show last night, and we aligned in the same place. I think this game if it if it's gonna go Oklahoma's way. John Mattier has to have an odd of body experience and he's got to play much better. He has to play essentially I did in the first four weeks of the season.

00:47:18
Speaker 2: At his thumb has been your foot lately.

00:47:20
Speaker 1: Yes, right. He just wants to know what it's like to throw a tight spiral again, just like I want to know what it's like to walk pain free, and unfortunately that's not happening this week. Like Alabama, they're pretty unbelievable and they're great. They're great against the pass. There was you had the stat again of the run versus the run defense. It doesn't it doesn't really matter because of how Alabama's offense rolls. At the end of the day, it's this is kailing to board. This is the black sweatshirt, this is this is covering is Alabama covering them taking that next step? Like teams like this who have been in this position, regardless of who's at the helmet, the head coach, like they understand what that stake here, and for that reason, I got Alabama.

00:48:00
Speaker 4: I don't know if I like hearing him say that Alabama's unbelievable.

00:48:03
Speaker 2: They're just pretty good, aren't they. I mean, look at.

00:48:06
Speaker 4: South Carolina, like, yeah, they won what twenty to nine? Like or got the They covered at the very end against LSU, But they didn't look like they should have looked the last couple of weeks with South Carolina and LSU, Like, to me, it's like they're not playing unbelievable right now. To me, this is a the better. They better wake their ass up because they're getting it gear. It's like when you look at their schedule, they beat Georgia, look at this run right now, Georgia Vandy Maszoo Tennessee. Then they've kind of had some moments against South Carolina. How badly do you lose to Alabama? One score against.

00:48:38
Speaker 1: South Carolina Disney World during that taking place, and I actually took South Carolina that week. We were so close to looking like geniuses.

00:48:45
Speaker 4: JP famously not on the card, and even again against LSU, they're not looking the way that they should. Like Ty Simpson, you know, I love some Ty Simpson right, but misses on a couple of deep balls. Spy a little bit like he's still like he only has how many interceptions? One interception on the year. He takes care of the football. Well, I got Alabama here, but this isn't Alabama better wake their ass up? This is everybody. Look, everybody's tired, everybody's hurt. There's no time to bitch and moan. It's time to get rolling. And you got to do it this weekend against Oklahoma. Because I got them, I do have them winning and covering. But the whole Alabama looking unbelievable, Alabama being this national ti to run like they need to start showing us now at the end of the year because they've had a couple of shaky games against inferior opponents. No disrespect to the game Cocks JP, but that's that's my whole thing. I know they've had a lot, I know they've had a long stretch. They need to close it out against Oklahoma, who took down Tennessee. Who's still in the conversation, who's gonna be hungry, who's gonna try and get back in and take what's yours.

00:49:45
Speaker 2: Alabama's gotta wake up this guy.

00:49:47
Speaker 1: Let's look at the dominoes, the style, and that's taking place when it comes to Alabama. The first the first game of the year, they play against Florida State. They dropped that game. Everybody's like, this team is dead. The competition takes place on the bus about guys are getting overreach at two in the morning, girls and maybe flying around. Guys are not disciplined. You give him USA cookie, ask for a glass of milk because they're going from Nick Saban, who if your shoes are tied incorrectly, he's yelling at you versus killing the boor who's more a little more lax. Let the players be players. They wrote that ship. Who had the longest home streak in college football? Georgia Georgia did? Who broke that?

00:50:16
Speaker 2: Alabama?

00:50:17
Speaker 1: Alabama So although they weren't great against infree opponents, no disrespect to JP, they have shown in times when the adversity strikes, they have been able to write that ship. That to me is unbelievable. We're going from a Florida State situation to where they're at now. See at number four in the country, not only in the eight people but also in the college football bracket. That is unbelievable. Their weapons they have on the outside. Even Ron Williams had a couple of drop this year. Unbelievable. Ty Simpson, who no one even really knew of until this season started, that's unbelievable. The way he's still in the ball taking care of it one reception, that's incredible. The run game not so great, but they don't want to do it anyway. They have the weapons on the outside. So all that being said, Alabama cover, did you take Alabama? Oklaoma, I'm taking Alabama.

00:50:59
Speaker 4: I'm just saying I me and you were in the Alabama locker room and you're like, hey, we've played pretty unbelievable this year. To me, this is Cooper Comstocks saying we're gonna beat Northwestern the game that happened with the brasket Northwest, and they're like, no, no, no, no, we need to wake the fuck up, right and when all of these games have been a little too close for comfort, we need to wake the fuck up and play our best ball against Oklahoma.

00:51:18
Speaker 1: The big win against that is you dropped one uh in a week one and had to learn that lesson. You've been able to keep up games when there's obviously going to be a lull Ladis against the Ferry opponents. Now you're playing its Oklahoma team who you know, Bred Vannables defense. Everyone's always hooting and hauling about them. They bring up the run defense and Alabama's like, yeah, it's a great stat but it's not necessarily what we're what we're interested in. I think I am very impressed with kiln to board this year. Extremely impressive how it's handed the culture. Me sitting Max saying, unbelievable. It's like, I'm a I'm a I'm a guy with that can't walk on a TV, on on a show right now. Yeah, I'm not sitting in the locker room instantly a culture. If I am in the law, we're in the locker room. That is one percent of the conversation you're having with those players. However, I see this going. Alabama's a way big time.

00:52:00
Speaker 2: Could I say when you just sat there and said we're in the locker room, that touched me a little bit. I felt that you did not crack a smile. You shouldn't. You're serious. Do we think Alabama's a national championship contender? Yes?

00:52:12
Speaker 1: Or no?

00:52:13
Speaker 2: Start here? Yes, Okay, I picked him to win it all, so like, clearly we got three yes's. If we're right, what you're saying is accurate. This is where you got to start revving the engine, like you're running out of weeks to rev the engine. Now. I'm not counting on them to find a running game. I think they're a flawed team. I think everyone may have flaws, so a flawed team is gonna win it all. Alabama's been really good at overcoming their flaws. Like, to me, the biggest compliment you can give ty Simpson is all these other quarterbacks are doing it like Julian saying, no, he knows he's got a ground game. Fernanda min Doza knows he's got a ground game. Ty Simpson has no ground game. And he's still only throwing the ball to the other team once and they're still able to scale their offense every week. Last week against LSU was really interesting because if you watch the game, yeah, they win, they cover, they're coming out of a bye. You hope it's and instead it's like missed explosive plays by inches here and there. That was like a forty to nine game masked as a twenty to nine game. Doesn't matter if you keep tripping over yourself. My thinking on this game is this is the week where they actually find those explosive plays in Oklahoma's defense. Two different compartments here run d totally legit. It's a funny way this game works, because when you see strength matching up with weakness, you think big edge to the team with the strength. It actually works the opposite some ways. I would feel less comfortable about Alabama if more of their offense was predicated on the run this week, Like if they had run the ball a little more successfully this year, I'd be more worried about Oklahoma because Oklahoma stands a good chance of taking something away from Alabama that Alabama uses. Alabama doesn't have rushing yards anyway, like they don't run the ball effectively anyway. Lesser defenses have taken their run game away. The question is can you stop them through the air, because they're totally comfortable throwing the ball when they don't have an effective ground game to lean on. There were two teams that year that are roughly the caliber of what Alabama can put on you in the passing game that OU faced. And it was Ole Miss and it was Tennessee, and one of them threw for three point fifteen and the other one threw for three ninety three. I think the barely missed explosive passes you saw Alabama suffer from last week are hit this week. I think you see minimal crowbar effect from OU's ability to stop the run because Bama doesn't really need to run the ball anyway. I think the fact that Oklahoma's in the one teams and turnover margin and Bama's top ten really matters when you're getting them in your building. Bama's won seventeen straight at home. This is the time where they got to rev the engine. And unless I get a superhero performance from John Mattieir, which post injury, we have not gotten and I'm not going to assume that we get it now. I think Alabama's going to win cover and it's a double digit victory for Kaylin de Borr. And finally, this Saturday, you're looking at you saying, Okay, now they're locked in. Now they're ready for a stretch run.

00:54:59
Speaker 4: Well said in Aguilar, It's like you're talking about turnovers as well against these high power offenses. In great quarterbacks, Aguilar is don't about eight to the other team. Ty Simpson does a very good job of protecting the ball. And it's like, if Oklahoma's gonna find ways, is gonna be through turnovers and.

00:55:13
Speaker 2: Everything like that.

00:55:13
Speaker 4: I do Ty Simpson, go be a fucking wolf brother.

00:55:17
Speaker 2: This is a big game. I'm excited.

00:55:19
Speaker 4: I'm excited to watch Alabama play True Classic Game of the week.

00:55:23
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00:55:26
Speaker 2: We are.

00:55:27
Speaker 1: We are every single games. So this is not separation Sunday.

00:55:30
Speaker 4: Not separation.

00:55:32
Speaker 2: No separation.

00:55:34
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00:55:38
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00:56:09
Speaker 4: True classic Game of the Week. Every Saturday's got games, but only one fits just right. This is true classics game of the Week. We got Texas Georgia sargvs. Kirby Smart Arch versus Gunner Stockton Generational Talents getting after It. Georgea's favorite in this game by five and a half. The over under on this game is forty eight and a half.

00:56:29
Speaker 2: Tex Texas is eleven and three since joined in the SEC. It's a great record. Two of the three losses were to Georgia. They were both last year. They had a combined sixty rushing yards in those two games. So physically Texas should.

00:56:46
Speaker 1: Never What was that, man good just making a quick transition. Yeah, but transition like like an adult you just basically spin on the ground. It was it was honey, honey, give me your gum, the same thing fifteen minutes.

00:57:02
Speaker 4: Ago, and I just listen. I thought nobody's gonna see me.

00:57:08
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, I'm gonna saying. That was the most wild for something to be intended for no one to see. It was really theatrical. It was the mouth came wide.

00:57:19
Speaker 1: What do you do with it now? Don't put it in your pocket.

00:57:22
Speaker 2: I do it all the time. I do it all the time.

00:57:26
Speaker 1: I do it all the time.

00:57:30
Speaker 2: My apology, Sark game from Georgia sixty combined rushing yards against against Georgia last year. So let me ask you this. I got a lot of respect for Steve Sarkis and his staff. Is it unfair to say that until further notice, I don't think you can match Georgia physically? Is it unfair that until further notice I say they're gonna outstaff you, They're gonna out coach you. You haven't earned the right for me to say anything otherwise. Right, So Sark watches of the show. We all know that you at some point you got to look at him and say, guys, top to bottom, everyone in that building, that's big brother. You got to go to big brother's house. He's moved out, you're still with the parents at home. You got to go over there and you got to handle business in his house. You had two shots last year, one in your building, one in a neutral venue, although it is in Atlanta, and you didn't get the job done. So you've been given a window here. You already lost two games, but the playoff committee still saying They're like, they're hanging the dollar bill right over you, and are you gonna swipe at it and they jerk it? Or are you gonna be quick enough to grab the dollar bill? It's tough for me to say yes. I will say this though. Imagine in July, not knowing anything about the upcoming season, if I were to say, hey, come November, I've seen the future. The Georgia Texas game is gonna come down to quarterback play. Who would you have liked in July? Gunner, Stockton or arch Manning, arch Manning. I think the game comes down to quarterback play this Saturday. Who do we like in that scenario? Arch Manning, Gunner Stockton, Gunner, Stockton, arch Manning. Is it because Georgia cannot get after the quarterback in Texas can?

00:59:10
Speaker 1: Not necessarily?

00:59:11
Speaker 4: Not necessarily quarterback not necessarily because Texas can, Like they are they play. They've been inconsistent at times defensively, but they do have a very good defense that will be challenged by a good Georgia offense, and Kirby Smart they'll be preparing.

00:59:24
Speaker 2: Ready to go.

00:59:24
Speaker 4: It's it's I believe more in arch Manning right now, because you look at his last two games, is through for like three seventy six touchdowns, and again Georgia can't get after the passeror that well. So an old line that has seen, hey, we should be superior against everybody this year. We haven't necessarily seen that from this Texas old line, but just having that mindset of going in this team can't rush the passer very well. I want to say confidence level is going to be high. They're going to protect protect them long enough to where Texas is scoring points the way we've seen them do over the last few over the last few weeks. That's why I like Texas in this game. I don't know if they're going to win the game, but I do like it.

00:59:59
Speaker 2: I do like them. He's been a close covering and arch Manning having an unbelievable game. CJ. Vogel put this stat at I cannot take credit for it, but he discovered that Gunner stock In and arch Manning are number one and number two in the SEC and pass attempts behind the line of scrimmage. Makes sense. Both programs recruit superior athletes. They trust him to get the ball in space and make yards after catch happen because of that reason. I think tackles, misstackles and yards after catch are two of the most important stats in this game. But Texas think about him on the road this year. They went to Ohio State, they lost. They went to Florida, they lost. They went to Kentucky and barely got out of there with a win. They had to come from behind in shocking fashion to beat Mississippi State. They beat ou but that was in Dallas. That's a neutral field. Eventually, you got to get the job done on the road. It's a huge pride and performance moment for Texas. There's something in the back of my mind that keeps saying what you just said, and that is maybe what you thought Arch was going to be in September. Maybe he is. It's just kind of clear and late, right, and they've given They've been given the second life. There's like fresh air in their lungs. They're coming off a bye. George's played two games in a row. Maybe they go in there and they're able to press them. We're getting six and a half, right with Texas. I actually took the points. Not trust Kirby smart implicitly, but I think It's a really compacted game. George Is played a ton of close games this year. Tennessee game was close. Oh Miss game was one possession, Florida was one possession. The Auburn game feels closer than any of those, even though it was a ten point game. Their blowout was last week, Georgia handled Mississippi State. I don't know physically that you're gonna handle Texas. I just don't think you're gonna I said this last year. I don't think you're gonna run the ball in Texas like that. So I'm gonna take Texas plus the points. Josh, the line has moved to five and a half. Where you're still fine with that, the lion's moved to five and a half. That's breaking.

01:01:52
Speaker 1: It.

01:01:53
Speaker 4: It is five and a half. Okay, sure, that's on me because last night when I was in the notes, I have this spread.

01:02:00
Speaker 1: The always take in the game. I always seeking in Georgia at six and a half. I'm gonna take them at five and a half.

01:02:04
Speaker 2: Oh, I'll take I'll take Texas at five and a half. I'll take Texas as well.

01:02:07
Speaker 1: I think we talk about Kirby Smart in November, yep, and we talked about last week about Mississippi State. They're gonna make it a game, and it was just exactly what Georgia does. They just know how to beat teams. Gunner Stockton knows how to morph into whatever Kirby Smart needs him to be for that game to be successful. And it is like, I have respect Sarcus a coach. I think he's a great coach. I think if you're just looking at what both coachers have done, like one team is still figuring out their identity. There's a lot of hope and optimism because of the way arch Manning has played so far. But it's like still the Georgia Bulldogs that Gunner Stockton has been exactly what they need to be. They know what three running backs or all could be starters anywhere else in college football. And they play similar games, and I just think I'm gonna take the more proven product over one that you know, we get out of this game and Texas beats Georgia or it keeps it close, It's like, Okay, Texas, I'm really excited to keep watching them. Obviously their season is probably over now.

01:02:59
Speaker 2: I don't about that.

01:03:00
Speaker 1: We'll get to that in a second. There's I'll just finish those seasons. Is probably over now. But like the arch Manning conversation, he's down on his luck, he's turned around. Is he injured? Is he not injured? Now he's throwing the way he is, Like that would be very exciting for me to like like appreciate and love. But Sark losing two of his three games in Georgia, this being at home for Georgia and then having the longest you know, home win streak in tell Alabama broke the earlier this year. Like they've struggled on the road. Kirby Smart November Football Georgia Bulldogs, Right.

01:03:32
Speaker 4: But defensively they just don't get after that. Knowing that arch will have a cleaner pocket is where?

01:03:39
Speaker 2: Is where? That helped him hoping up.

01:03:41
Speaker 1: Tom because Texas can get after the quarterback.

01:03:44
Speaker 4: Because you know, what would you say, it's like Marcel Reid. He's been he's been kind of getting into some Heisman conversations, right.

01:03:50
Speaker 1: Someone met him earlier this week.

01:03:51
Speaker 4: Yeah, Texas A and M is undefeated. He's the quarterback of that team. Arch Manning statistically is very similar to Marcel Reid. But he said so many you know, he said those lapses earlier in the year. Yeah, yeah, their stats are their stats are.

01:04:04
Speaker 1: Similar mobility wise, Archs got I want to say, over two hundred on the ground, Marcel's what over three hundred on the ground. You know, Marshal's got more of Like I just think he's got more twitch and a little more wiggle than Arch does. So it's like getting away and stuff like that, like being able to extend play. Arch is very athletic. Even with the last name Manning. I think read like he's on a sentence. I mean, right, yeah, you're not wrong. At the end of the day, it's like, let's go with the prove. Let's let's not overthink this. Like I'm excited about Texas and what they've been able to do at this point. But Georgia is Georgia and it's November when Georgia plays their best football. Said it last week, I'll say it again.

01:04:41
Speaker 2: Fault at Love Tours in the building for this game. Wow, that's the first thing. The second thing, let's just rewind a second. You said Texas loses this game and their season is probably done. But do we really think that they're ranked I think tenth right now in the playoffs.

01:04:54
Speaker 1: Maybe nine to three.

01:04:55
Speaker 2: Correct, it would be it would be.

01:04:56
Speaker 1: If if they lose this and they will paint this picture for so.

01:05:01
Speaker 2: We just watched Iowa at number twenty play a close game against Oregon, lose and only drop one spot. My opinion is if Texas goes on the road, loses a very close competitive game twenty four to twenty one to Georgia, but then they wrap their season by beating Texas A and M to hand A and M their first loss, I think the three loss Texas is the three loss team that could make the playoff. They may need like one or two things to happen, but I think three lost Texas. I think they paved the way for him last night. I think the committee already cleared the runway and now Texas has just got to find a way. And I think the scenario is they lose this game because you're just going to get minimally punished for losing a close game on the road against the top five team. Yeah, Georgia's five or six top ten team. And then if you beat A and M at the end of the season, like that's the final data point. That's like going to the carnival and swinging the hammer and hitting the bell and it goes all the way up to the top, and that's the last image they have not to mention. The Texas logo matters in the committee room, whether they want to say it or not. So I think Texas, even if they go in there and they lose this game competitively, it's deflating because, unlike pet they are in a must win situation. Because the legit programs always think they're in a must win situation. They come out of Athens know and they still got they may still have everything in front of them. May Well said, do you think the beat in m though We'll get to that. We'll get to that Thanksgiving week. Yeah.

01:06:28
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is an all defense. It is to anybody. Well you talk about and I'm talking about Texas.

01:06:36
Speaker 2: Just saying Mississippi State hung thirty eight on them, so can they neutralize anybody then?

01:06:40
Speaker 1: Or Bell put thirty one on them? But that was like a back that was it was the game?

01:06:45
Speaker 3: Was it?

01:06:45
Speaker 1: It was Dego Pavi in the last five minutes.

01:06:47
Speaker 2: This would be future Heisman Trophy winner Marcel Reid.

01:06:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, best one hundred dollars you ever met the man?

01:06:54
Speaker 2: You think it's Marcell Reid? Plus a fifty.

01:06:56
Speaker 1: Who's had a better chance in your Marcel Reid or Emma Johnson.

01:07:15
Speaker 2: He's got money on Marceau Reed. So I don't know. I don't know. You have to see the way the season finishes.

01:07:28
Speaker 1: What they got weird about it?

01:07:32
Speaker 4: I did.

01:07:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, anytime the Brassic comes in the full of no, no trigger no.

01:07:36
Speaker 4: I'm more so saying like I'm just more so saying for a running back, you have to finish in a much different way than a quarterback does.

01:07:44
Speaker 2: Who's the final two games? Penn State and Iowa? Two pretty good teams, two pretty good defenses. Is that o?

01:07:51
Speaker 1: Those two foxhole games for us?

01:07:54
Speaker 2: Well, if anyone knows about fox holes, we know about fox holes. So if you hang two hundred on both of those teams, it's tough to do. But I think that's your purpose. Well, number one, your purpose is to win nine games. And number two, your purpose is let's win someone a trophy around here, maybe the Dope Walker Award maybe maybe bigger, maybe bigger, maybe bigger. We'll see how it goes. We'll see how it goes.

01:08:17
Speaker 4: Dogs of the Week. I'm going to Arkansas five and a half against LSU. Not my They don't know who's playing this week. Arkansas for selling boy, we got bench last week?

01:08:33
Speaker 2: Yeah he did so. Yeah. I like Arkansas against LSU.

01:08:36
Speaker 1: Great, that's also my weekly parla. But I took LSU, so my dog of the week. I'm going Virginia dropped one. Last week they played Duke everyone like three. This is the third time this year I've gone in the Fando sports of a gap and I've just seen Duke and for whatever reason, like bolds to me and I'm like, why why is a line like that? And I've been to and O in that situation. This is one of those weeks again in Virginia.

01:08:56
Speaker 2: Five and a half. I'm taking Purdue plus sixteen and a half against Washington because I keep betting Perdue because they're underrated. They're undervalued, They're a bad team, but they keep being given too many points. They keep losing and covering. So I'm gonna take Purdue plus sixteen and a half at Washington. A lot of rumors up there a by Jed Fish and his future, and I know where Barry Odom is gonna be next year. At least I think I do think he's gonna be a West Lafayete Indiana, and I think he's got an improving team. They haven't tapped out. They're not good, but at least they haven't tapped out, so probably lose by ten. I'm gonna take him to winning cover. I'm gonna take them to cover, not win, just cover.

01:09:32
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01:09:52
Speaker 4: Don't look for the parlay b YU minus four and a half against TCU.

01:09:58
Speaker 2: Penn State's gonna roll against me, Michigan State's that's a top twenty JP pole team. Penn State. Once again, I did we have been in the binning of the shill.

01:10:07
Speaker 1: I was kind of stumbing through these cards and I saw the Penn State and I thought seven and a half. Wow, yep, what a gift being given that you just snatched right up.

01:10:15
Speaker 2: Double digits.

01:10:16
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a.

01:10:18
Speaker 2: That's a great trying to get Jonathan Smith out of town, trying to probably negotiate something up there. Michigan State's done, they've tapped out for the season. Yeah, Penn State second life, Penn State finally finding out and we can throw the ball down the field. Wow, Nick Singleton, I can still run the ball. Do it against Michigan State. Could be a fun time.

01:10:39
Speaker 1: The Boys and Blue, guy, Boys and Blue are playing Northwestern at Wrigley Field in Chicago. Away home game for Michigan. I think it was twelve and a half, might be less now, away home game. Yeah, like the alumni and Michigan is very prominent in Chicago and they're playing at Wrigley Field. Got to go blue in Chicago, to go blue in Chicagar. Think about all the times we connect. We're like going to an Oregon or something like that, and we're in Chicago. How many Michigan has you see? Fair enough? Yeah, so eleven and a half this is for Michigan, dude. This is a game that's like that. I wanted the pre game to be that. I wanted the Michigan State game to be like Northwest is going to sell out to stop the run. I don't think they'll be able to do that. A lot of guys are injured on the deepest side of the ball. I think it's more like a caution, like, hey, we know what's coming up in the next couple of weeks. But I think this is a big game for Bryce to take a next step. Like there was a lot of misthrows in that per New game. He didn't he didn't play well, but receivers were open, he just didn't hit them. I think this is a big opportunity for him to take that step this week because in two weeks you've got the game.

01:11:41
Speaker 2: They are the team. Michigan is the playoff team that no one's talking about. I don't even think most of America understands. Do they control their Big Ten destiny right now? If they get Ohio State in there and they beat them, both of them are one loss in conference, you got the tiebreaker over them. It comes down to USC. Like if USC goes to Oregon and loses, that's their second conference lass, So you don't have to worry about USC because that had the head to head over you. So if if USC loses either this week or next week, they're out of the picture. It could if you take care of business between now and Thanksgiving week. That game against Ohio State is for a trip to the Big Ten Championship game. And I don't think anyone realizes that people have already just they've penciled in Ohio State, Indiana, Ohio State, Indiana.

01:12:26
Speaker 1: Handled Dude, you go down, you see you scroll down on the college football you scroll out at the bottom, it'll say Indiana, Ohio State.

01:12:32
Speaker 2: Yeah, they don't even know Michigan still bet on the game.

01:12:34
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can bet on the game. And I wasn't like as far as the Big Ten Championships go, like I'm so focused on them, like having the possibility to make against the playoffs, and it's like the line's probably gonna be ridiculous again like it was last year.

01:12:48
Speaker 2: That's your path. You've got to beat Ohio State to make the playoff one hundred percent, and in doing so, you may just pave your way to the Big Ten Championship game in the process.

01:12:58
Speaker 1: Now, a hypothetical little sua, I mean, Michigan beats a host state, which we have in the last four years. Were a better team this year than we were last year, And I would argue that Aha, State might be just like a little bit worse, a little bit maybe more complete as a full team. But I don't even want to get into that. We beat a hot state, we go to beat the championship, we'll lose to Indiana.

01:13:16
Speaker 2: You're in in, Yeah, you're in because you would have been in the top ten already. They're not going to bump if they're not.

01:13:22
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, were in the playoff right, Like fifteen sixteen.

01:13:28
Speaker 2: Win over Ohio State would be the best win anyone has all year. You would you would easily jump into the top ten. And at that point, if you're in that playoff bubble going in the conference championship Saturday. They didn't bump SMU out last year for losing a conference time game, they're certainly not going to bump you out.

01:13:44
Speaker 1: The logo too.

01:13:45
Speaker 2: Yep.

01:13:46
Speaker 1: I can't wait for that game, man, because it really is no one's no one's talking about everyone's thinking about Oklahoma the USC game, which the USC game was an indictment on our entire program, and the defense has truly turned it around and played completely differ FOOTBA since then, Blitz has gone down I think twenty five percent. They were like above fifty percent blitzing before the USC game. After the USC game, we're like twenty five percent now, so it's a much more controlled discipline defense. That game is going to be unbelievable. I got I'm out for it.

01:14:17
Speaker 4: Ocus Northwestern, no doubt. Don't look past Northwestern. I think the big one is Maryland.

01:14:23
Speaker 2: Mike Loxley is still the head coach at Maryland? Is he now? He got fired? Well on Twitter?

01:14:28
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01:15:17
Speaker 2: Let's get into this final bite segment.

01:15:18
Speaker 1: You had a nice little bull take earlier this week revolving around Nebraska.

01:15:24
Speaker 4: People know my Nebraska stuff. I'm gonna say my final bite as you're dipping in that little buffalo zesty sauce. I'm gonna say Archie Manning throws for three point fifty and three touchdowns and Texas beats the Georgia Bulldogs.

01:15:40
Speaker 1: So you're gonna take them money lot.

01:15:42
Speaker 2: No, not for the record, Oh okay, it's my final bite. We are hypothetical there.

01:15:48
Speaker 1: I like that dipping in denim boys hashtag dipping in denim bull takes.

01:15:54
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna say I didn't pick either of these things to happen outright. Oklahoma and Texas both off buys, both on the playoff bubble right now. They both go on the road to face Bama and Georgia this weekend. If they were to both go in there and win. I don't really think people understand how close we are to an absolute and utter chaos seven SEC playoff team type world. But there's a world where if just these things happen, Vandy Texas and O you went out. If just those things happen, we would have seven SEC teams with two losses or fewer, at which point the committee's going to have to look and either say, all right, seven of you are in, or they're going to have to look at a two loss SEC team and say no, we can't let you in.

01:16:43
Speaker 1: Bad optics in that situation. Does that mean no ACC team?

01:16:50
Speaker 2: There is a world now that's a real chaos scenario.

01:16:53
Speaker 1: Supercass red button.

01:16:54
Speaker 2: You got to have Duke win the ACC with four losses and be lower as a conference champ than USF and the American and James Madison in the Sun Belt, USF would be ranked higher than them, so they would get in. They would get the fifth guarantee or fourth guaranteed spot, the fifth guaranteed spot. There's a school of thought out there, and I don't know if I buy into it that says an ACC champ of any record is going to be given the nod over James Madison with a strength of schedule in the one hundreds and a double digit loss to Louisville is their only loss of the year, ironically an ACC team. I don't know if I believe that, But I don't know where the committee has James Madison because they do this little slide of hand thing where they show you their top twenty five and they let you know who their highest ranked G five team is. If there's no G five team in the twenty five, they don't let you know anything after that. So James Madison could be ranked twenty seventh, fifty seventh, no one knows, and they leave that will room so that when they get to the end of the year, if they've got this total disaster on their hands and Duke who has the second best to win the ACC Right now, by the way, if Duke wins the conference with four losses, and you're looking at the situation you thought could never happen, which is one of the power for conference champs, is not one of the five highest ranked conference champs, they can still somehow get them in. I don't know if that needs to happen for the seven SEC team, but forget about the rest of the landscape. Just imagine a world where you get to the finish line and seven SEC teams have two losses or less. Forget about whatever the rest of the field looks like, if it's crowded, if it's wide open. Just think about telling a two loss SEC team Vandy's probably a team by the way, they just went two losses. They finished with a win and Niland Stadium to end the year. Imagine telling ten and two Vanderbilt, we don't have room for you.

01:18:46
Speaker 1: Not invited to the partys.

01:18:47
Speaker 2: No one would have said in July, if any of these teams goes ten and two, they're gonna get left out. Everyone would have thought, if you go ten and two in the SEC.

01:18:55
Speaker 1: No matter what, you're going to have ten and two in any of the power forwards.

01:19:00
Speaker 2: Spot pretty much unless you just play like a really paper soft schedule. And Vanderbilt won't have the highest drength of schedule in the world, but it'll be plenty good enough, you would think. So that's the thing, Like, you gotta you gotta keep a close eye on OU in Texas this weekend, because again it's not it's not mid October. We're in mid November, so there are three weeks left. Some teams only have two games left, so we're running out of time for quote unquote things to work themselves out. Sometimes things don't work themselves out.

01:19:30
Speaker 1: I need it. This is the best year of college football so far. I need that shit, dude, just chaos. That'd be Yeah, that would be so amazing. I would love that you have a final bite. Uh yeah, my final bite will be Pit scores less than ten, Notre Dame scores more than forty.

01:19:50
Speaker 2: Oh so someone does score forty, it's just not USC, it's Notre Dame.

01:19:53
Speaker 1: Yeah. I get to see that happening. I see the first couple series Pit running to an issue and and then doubt creeps into its head. And then they remember that press conference of their head coach and they're like, well it doesn't matter.

01:20:05
Speaker 2: Yeah. There's there's like an ISO camera shot of players during the game looking at each other and going, yeah, hey, rugging, this one doesn't matter to us, and they laugh. Yeah, they laugh, check their phone. Yep.

01:20:15
Speaker 1: Oh, that'd be awesome. Yeah. Some guys have like seeds in their mouth already. It's the second quarter, but I can definitely see Notre dame just blowing the doors off them. You see that kind of press conference, man like you gotta be in the hot seating man immediately. I don't know was it Nardoozy? Yeah, I don't know him. My sample size of him is watching that sound bite press in the press conference. That's all I need to know. It's horrible for culture.

01:20:39
Speaker 2: There is twenty fifteen horrible for the first impression of him is a press conference in week twelve of the twenty five season and he saying that's not a muscle. Win this week, lose, be hundred, don't care, got Georgia tech either way. To me, it's.

01:20:54
Speaker 1: Terrible. Great show boys and man, dude, thank you.

01:20:58
Speaker 2: Get better.

01:20:59
Speaker 1: It's really These next ninety six hours for me are going to be Yeah.

01:21:03
Speaker 2: Yeah, We're brutal.

01:21:04
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01:21:09
Speaker 1: Win them all. We can wait. No, you guys dooke Georgia or yues in Texas, we can.

01:21:14
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna sit here.

01:21:16
Speaker 1: I just photo.

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