Josh Pate Rides Texas OVER Ohio State, Taylor Lewan Backs LSU & Will Compton RIDES Nebraska

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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to the college football season.

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Speaker 2: Fastest of your entire lives.

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Speaker 1: I feel like a million domestic dude. This has been I think this is the first year where the dust is settled. My first year being a fan of football, Josh, you don't know this. I won a national championship with my team. Yeah, that was like my first year kind of diving into college sports.

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Speaker 2: Now a year is gone.

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Speaker 1: I had a year year of turmoil where we couldn't pass the ball at all. All Right, the only team we passed more than we're like military schools. Now I'm in this excitement. I got Bryce Underwood, I got a full slate of games.

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Speaker 2: That I'm excited for.

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Speaker 1: This is my I think the first time in my life that I've been like, I cannot wait for the football season. I called JP on Tuesday to talk about South Carolina and we're both in agreement. This is the longest week of the entire year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't believe I'm looking at these games in my hand right here, because sometimes in August you'll find this. As your fandom goes on and you mature, you'll find that sometimes you get to the week one countdown and you say, I feel like this one kind of snuck up on us a little bit. I feel like not a lots of being said about this team, that team. You missed this How Carolina. I've heard thirty different takes on Lenora Sellers. I've heard people talk about Shane biemeran whether he can backload defensive talent for it feels like a year. I feel like we have very very much saturated the preseason talk and we'll do a little bit more right now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's did the energy? Do you feel like that same thing has happened with Oklahoma?

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Speaker 3: With me?

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Speaker 2: It has.

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Speaker 3: So I was doing radio last week and I'm trying to figure out because they're asking me, hey, give it, give us an under the radar team. I've been on them for like half a year. I've been on Matier like I know him better than his parents do, so to me, they're not under the radar. But I got to think, are these folks just now talking, like if I'm doing radio in Dallas, are they just now talking college football? Because if they are, they're going to think the dude's insane. S she thinks Oklahoma could be a top ten team.

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Speaker 2: That's insane.

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Speaker 3: So maybe depends on how in the weeds you've been.

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Speaker 1: Because it seems like it like March, everyone was like Oklahoma was bad last year, they're gonna be bad this year than this Matereer guy transfers him and then in the last month and a half, Matier is going to be a Heisman candidate. He's the guy ball ball Oklahoma's back Jackson Arnold, He's gone like they just seem like everyone's now fully on the Oklahoma train.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and then they did that with Florida State last year, and then what happened like this, just to let people know how to watch the show, to let us know how to talk about the show. It was this week last year where I turn on Game Day and I'm high on Florida State. Everyone timing in Florida State, and I listen to Nick Saban, who I regard is maybe the best judge of talent out there. He says, I just went to practice. I watched Florida State. That looks like the best personnel I see in the ACC. They're gonna win the ACC. Dive bomb crater into the side of the mountain. No one knows anything.

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Speaker 2: No one knows anything. No one knows anything. Because you were saying before you you think you see the board clearly. Today I will say nobody sees anything. But nobody's seeing the field as clearly as Willy see is this weekend. Yeah, I've been doing some deep dives, deep dives, some deep dives on these teams, just to give people a little easier You guys, see your boy decked out in Nebraska gear. We're going to be talking Nebraska Cincinnati Thursday night, where a for the for the haters in the comments to say we don't touch the Big twelve. Outside of Taylor's monologue with Arizona State Josh bad he's an SEC homer, we're talking Big twelve this week, and by Big twelve, were talking Baylor Auburn, Yes, that's an SEC team. We're talking Alabama, Florida State, Notre Dame in Miami. The Convicts, the Catholics versus Convicts rivalry is kicking off our college football season. Virginia Tech, South Carolina whom I mess LSU, Clemson, and then the main event of the evening Ohio State Texas, which, by the way, there's a lot of noise around Ohio State right now. Wow, big newon kickoff. Dave Portnoy ban from Ohio State. I'm also reading that Dave Portnoy's not going to any of the Big ten schools. I feel like it's a massive wrench in the plan for Fox. Fox is also in a debate with YouTube TV.

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Speaker 3: I'm asking the Auburn Baylor games on Friday night that's on Fox, right Yeah, I have a working theory that could already be shot to death by the time this is uploaded, that they're gonna use that game as leverage, and they're gonna let that game go dark. And if you're on YouTube TV looking for Auburn Baylor, apologies to certain people standing behind me Friday night, you don't see that one. And then there's outrage, torches and pitchforks everywhere, and they get it settled just in time for Ohio State Texas Saturday. But I think Auburn and Baylor may have to suffer, at which point the committee asks, come selection Sunday, if Baylor's had a ten to two season, if we didn't see the Baylor game in week one, can we really judge Baylor on that game in Week one? Who knows? Man YouTube TV could.

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Speaker 2: Keep judge it? Future college football commissioner, how would you view that game if it wasn't on TV?

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Speaker 3: Don't you have to have multiple viewing options. Don't you have to have a buddy. Don't you have to have a backup plan you've had six months. Don't you have to have at least some kind of dude who knows the Internet and the inner workings of it enough to get you a pirated stream. That's not something we advocate for on this channel, we advocate.

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Speaker 1: For responsible, responsible gaming, responsible viewing everything.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, gotta have it. Yeah, I'm worried about it though. Should we dive in? Yes?

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Speaker 1: Do we want to quickly dive into the Dave Portnoy saga and the Ryan Day or we want to leave that alone?

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Speaker 2: We can dive into it.

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Speaker 1: We want because I get a little I get a little nervous because you and I we're trying to go to Texas, Ohio State this weekend.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the boys are trying to go. Listen to themazing evening, there's been one clearance College game Day, Big noon Kickoff, Fall Don't Lie Tour. Yeah, the Boys of Fall are the bus and boys gonna be able to get in this game. We don't know.

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Speaker 1: I know fifty percent has already been approved. No content we put in. We go to big new kickoff.

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Speaker 2: He keep saying in the main and bed at the evening. This is at noon noon.

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Speaker 1: We we sent in myself, Will Compton, JP Hovey, Jack McPherson. We want, we want to go to this game. You get approved immediately. The three of us are kind of sitting in the rafters. I think there's something that might happen where I don't know how much noise Ryan Day allows to creep into his office.

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Speaker 2: You kind of allude to it before the show started.

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Speaker 1: I'm worried if he does allow the noise to creep in a little bit, even though he is a friend of the show, because he's been on we had a good time friend of the show.

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Speaker 2: He's a friend of the show.

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Speaker 1: I have said nasty things, and I think there's a situation where will JP and Jack are getting on a plane Saturday morning, early morning, and I'm I'm back at home, hoping God the YouTube TV Fox Rights get dialed in so I can watch the game.

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Speaker 3: Don't you think a little bit? Well, let me ask you this. Do you think you'd be the same way if you were him? No, you don't think you'd be the same way. So I can't disagree with you. You know you better than me. I think a lot of the folks out there saying, man, Ryan Days soft, Ohio State soft. I think if I put them in this similar situation and they were to have just gone through, you know, watching their neighbor to the north get investigated, and then they watched their main media partner hire a guy who is on record is calling him crying day ten days out of the week. I would look at it and I could say, I can't do anything to take that guy off here. I'm a little unhappy my media partner hired him. The one thing in my control is at least I control access to our building. I think I may be that small. I think I would.

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Speaker 2: Actually go that route you think he would.

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Speaker 3: So I haven't called him soft because I actually think it would aggravate me enough to where I'd say to my sid or I would say to my director for football operations, screw that guy. I'm not letting him in here. But then I also think it's fair on the other side, like Fox has got to make a move. Fox has got to counter what's happening on the other program. You got Lee Corso's last day, and you've also got McAfee doing what he's doing on the other network, so you had to make a move. I just think a lot of times people get tied up into this is the football business, this is the foot it's the entertainment business. You get paid eight figures per year because you're in the entertainment business. That's why you make more than the lacrosse coach makes so a little bit of the trade off is, yeah, you're all about ex's nose. You kind of have to deal with with stuff in that bubble every now and then. So I actually got no problem with what Dave says about him. I got no problem with the measures they've taken. It's just fun to talk about. To me, I fare both ways.

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Speaker 2: To me, you brought up the entertainment.

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Speaker 1: You're in the entertainment industry as a head coach, like allowing people into the building. There is a path where Ryan Day can go and have fun with Dave Portnoy and said, making Dave Portnoy an enemy.

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Speaker 2: Unless in his mind he just personally hates him like he might. You know, he might just have the we were talking about before, like an assistant or somebody come up, give them the information of what's going on the internet. And Ryan Day could simply just be like, yeah, I don't like this guy, keep him out of the keep him out of the stadium, then get and then go on about his business in football. There's evidence out there that says he's got his pulse on everything.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the evidence is Notre Dame, Ohio State and South Bend Day When they get the fourth and goal.

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Speaker 2: I can't is it. Did they score? They're not way they scored, because there's ten minutes Ohio States scored and Notre Dame had nine players, all.

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Speaker 1: Hard, hard fought game, hard fought game, and he's so focused on lou Holtz. Then the flag gets planted after Michigan wins thirteen to ten, and they're so caught up in that that they're even taking away from their own national championship. And now this it's like, I understand you want to keep the noise out of your building, but this is not the way.

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Speaker 2: You're just adding more noise on that. Maybe it's a boulder on his shoulder, man, Maybe he just creates those ships and he might be thinking about it. He might not be solely focused on it. But I could see the other way, Like for myself, once you they once Dave gets suspended, it's like if I was he coach Ohio State, I could see myself just posting a selfie, just a shit eating grin, and you're like, yeah, you guys know me, I don't give a fuck, right, and that's funny, Yeah right, Dave did that right now. But I would wipe my hands like that or publicly say or publicly do something to where Hey, Dave, you you can come in. The only way you can come in is if you take a picture of me midfield with the National Rital trophy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, or all these people that come in the media they have to wear some sort of Ahio state thing, like if you're gonna be here, you're gonna report all the hollowed grounds.

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Speaker 2: At the shoes. I saw another good idea where it's like you set up their set because they're inside the stadium, but you set their set up to where the national championship, the banner and everything else framed behind them the whole time, and just have them run the show that way. But I think there's fun ways to troll.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And if I'm Fox, I'm putting Dave Dave just outside the building, like literally one foot away from the distance he's not allowed to walk into and just having like a sideline reporter type of vibe.

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Speaker 3: See, I think it's a it's a lot more personal to Fox to me with them, it's a lot more personal to Fox because they're sitting there having to play all their big games at noon, big new kickoff the name of the game.

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Speaker 2: Actually, Yeah, and I.

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Speaker 3: Think it's worn on them like it's yeah, they get a ton of money for it, like the Big tens and media right steal with Fox, and so they're already rubbing a long way by light. Yeah yeah, like so you don't have to complain.

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Speaker 2: Now what's going beyond Ohio States where saying that he can't go into the Big ten stadiums.

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Speaker 3: Which they tried to pass off as protocol, which absolutely was not protocol until about forty eight hours ago.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it's on fire in that office right now because they got to appease. It's like they yeah, they want to operate, have Dave, they're trying to compete with ESPN and stuff, but they got to appease their biggest media rights partner in the Big ten, Big ten saying.

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Speaker 3: No, this is where we're standing on it. I'm just gonna say, this is supposed to be all about Lee Corso. This week is supposed to be about him making the last headgear pick. I have not heard anyone speak about it all week. It's been all about Fox, it's been all about Big News, it's been all about Portnoy, been all about Ohio State.

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Speaker 2: So it's more guerrilla warfare. But I think it's been successful.

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Speaker 3: No.

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Speaker 2: Publicity's bad publicity and the thing that fixes everything.

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Speaker 3: Winning kickoff in this case fixes everything.

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Speaker 2: What game we want to start with? Huskers? That's the main event of the evening, the evening like that. Do you want to do that now Huskers? Yeah? Yeah, it's Thursday night. This game takes off tomorrow. This is the first game of week one. Where's the uh we have a little talking point? Is that it? Yeah, yeah, you want me to hit you?

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Speaker 1: Well, it says Taylor, and then it says Will, and then it says Taylor, Okay, want me to Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what the card is. Ryan's like, you can borrow my card and then hand it back to Okay. Hey, guys, By the way, the boys are heading the road.

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Speaker 1: We're tackling a little trip at Aarwhead Stadium to witness Will's Nebraska Cornhuskers face Cincinnati Bearcats. Of course, we're locked and loaded with our pick. We are rolling with our boy, Will Compton. We'll let get we'll get to his pick in a minute. But FanDuel said, you know what, let's make it interesting.

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Speaker 2: Will the stage is yours?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know if you guys agree. This has got Husker's written all over it. This is a big year. Just look at the optics. Stick with me here for a second, Joshua, Just look at the optics since they were of this week. That's take a will content ism lately. Stick with me. Listen to me. Listen to me, shut up, listen to me, because listen my daughter does to me at home. No dead down, I'm talking. Listen to me. Fair. I'm like, okay, all right, but just look at the optics this entire week. What superstars played at Cincinnati Jason Kelsey, Travis Kelsey, Jason Kelsey, Travis Kelsey, where we playing at? We're playing that arrowhead? What do you do to distract the public from this ass whoop and that's coming an Arrowhead on Thursday Night? Travis Kelcey coin flip you propose to Taylor switch?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, pretty selfish and make it about.

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Speaker 2: Something completely different, to act like this game's not even gonna happen. We all know the optimism that that's out there with Willie see Nebraska. I'm well aware that we are the we have the most, we have the the longest active streak of the comment this is our year. I'm not dumb into knowing that about us. I think it. This year is actually our year. This year you got Matt rule in year three. Everybody talks about the process of Matt rule. It's always year three. Joshua talks about it on his show. This is the formula Matt rule in year three, that's when it starts to shake. Dylan RelA year two with Dana Holgerson. JP knows Dana Holgerson, He's got the headset on the sideline for a full year under his belt. This is his team this year, not in the middle of the year. This year, full off season. You got Emma Johnson who is running the rock and averaging over five years of carry toward the back end of last year. We need him to stay healthy. Now we do need Emma Johnson to stay healthy because we have a young running back room. Our old line is Beefy Beefy. That Roco boy coming from Notre Dame. We got some size on the old line. We got guys on the outside. Dankey from Kentucky is Nazaiah Close. Zaia Hunter transferred to cow We got weapons on the outside. Jacory Barney one of the most electric returners in all the college football. He's in the slot shaking it up. Defensively, we have a younger deep. We have a veteran, veteran secondary. We got a young defensive line who I'm excited to see who's going through stand out on the defensive line, guys or high on this young Williams Kidd. He's a freshman that's gonna be playing. He's a black shirt. I love the Huskers. You guys know I'm going to Huskers. This is mine six and a half. I don't know why it hasn't moved up. I don't know why it's not minus thirteen and a half, but I'm taking the Huskers. I am a little nervous about Soresby, quarterback from Cincinnati. Little dual threat cat can always any dual threat quarterback you're slinging a little bit, They can always cause a little trouble. But I love the Huskers. This weekend Huskers. Scott Saderfield Huskers Scottfield.

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Speaker 3: Scott Saderfield is just sitting there. Third year. I think at Cincinnati line looks so weird. I agree with you, line looks so weird. I have pulled the entire public. Haven't found a single Cincinnati better. But they got to be out there at FanDuel somewhere. If we could see under the hood, FanDuel could probably tell us. Yeah, a few people, a couple didn't wanted to Moine one and Fresno. They bet, they bet Cincinnati. I am kind of worried that what we are getting sucked into. You know, the Nebraska contingent of the greater Nashville area is that we're taking our season predictions and we're we're kind of projecting it onto the game because this is a game, it's not a season. So they could win by three Saturday or Thursday or whenever it is. It is a night game, though, and they could technically come through, but then Cincinnati gets the back door like vulture cover and so we're out money. But there's still one to oh. I think veteran dual threat quarterback Tony White gone as DC, so like you're trying to plug and play there a little bit younger D but like you said, secondary should be good, I think you may end up needing outscore them, at which point the most underrated part of this Nebraska roster comes through, and that's the wide receiver. Because o that side of you, no one's talking about Nebraska wide receivers. And I think the Nebraska wide receiver room, even if since he has an uncomfortable number twenty four to twenty seven on the board, I think Nebraska can find thirty four. So I like Nebraska to win it and cover.

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Speaker 1: I like all the things both of you guys said, talk to them, Josh one.

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Speaker 2: One thing I disagree with this. This is not a game, this is this season.

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Speaker 1: This is every every like since Matt rule came here, Since Matt rule came here, it's been like, don't worry about year one, don't even look at year two. Year three is the time it's going to happen. You're going to say, quarterback that ends up flipping this game must win.

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Speaker 2: It's a must win.

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Speaker 1: It's a must win game for the Huskers if we're going to set the tone. And I have to sit on a fucking bus every single year and hear the same comment of this is our the year, this is our year. A couple of years ago it was the best three to nine team of all time. Last year you were thought, what was the big, more.

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Speaker 2: Bad, more bull was the national championship because we lost a lot of very close games on the back half. Saying we were in position. I'm Huskers, yep. I think minus six and a half is disrespectful. I mean, it's me wondering what do they know in Vegas that we don't know? What this fan don't know that we don't know.

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Speaker 1: What do we know that they don't know if they must cover over thirteen and a half here. I think this is a year. This is a statement game for Nebraska. This is Royola's coming out party. This is when the Nebraska cornersker fans finally go to put their hat at night and they finally have something to hang it on. It's like, we are fucking here.

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Speaker 2: So you know what this show's got the Vegas does and half what you're looking at him this brain right here, that's seeing the field as clear as day, buddy.

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Speaker 1: I would love to like I would love to have this, but this happens every single year, every single year. No, no, the can bust and fa can come and pop on by.

00:19:42
Speaker 2: That's hilarious. Will's dude, That's that's all Will's. He really is bought in.

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Speaker 1: I've seen it. I've been around it, I've lived it. You're my best friend. I see it every single day, every single day. In the fall, husters get brought up. This is the reason why it's different this week. This is the reason why it's different this year. I agree with you.

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Speaker 2: This year. Every year it has been different.

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Speaker 1: Needs Cincinnati and I'm sorry. I need Nebraska to prove it.

00:20:04
Speaker 2: I need it. Every year it's been different. I wasn't singing ten and two college playoff last year?

00:20:09
Speaker 1: Was I I think you said twelve and oh in March, I think you said twelve and oh the March before that.

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Speaker 2: Every year we look at it, you go, but you know it's a crazy thing. We can't win the Big ten this year. You know, I'm feeling a little different this year. I know that. You know that if you know me as well as you say, you know, there's just a different feeling.

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Speaker 1: I understand because there's there's a real expectation out there. It's not like a hope, it's a real like, Oh, this is something you can grab taste and feel.

00:20:31
Speaker 2: You can put your senses on the this year, if I.

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Speaker 3: If I can, if I could just insert something here, The difference this year is that I believe it. Oh that's the difference this year.

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Speaker 2: Having said that comments, yeah, we believe Will.

00:20:50
Speaker 1: Will is a bunch of papers, right Augusta Winn comes to start playing, you're the paper weight that's going to hold it down from.

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Speaker 2: My host pick.

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Speaker 3: But how about how about must win on a Thursday night? Just the must win label thrown on has to sadderfield rule. Do you want to go alt line? You know you can go alt line on this you like nine and a half, you can lay ten.

00:21:07
Speaker 2: I'll listen. I will responsibly and personally put in my bet which I will be moving the line. But for the fans out there, we want to add more a responsibility.

00:21:18
Speaker 3: Smart. It is Thursday of week one.

00:21:20
Speaker 2: It is Thursday and week one.

00:21:23
Speaker 1: I mean rules got a podcast, He's got all these transfer portal guys. He's got everyone's saying your three met rule, you feel it.

00:21:31
Speaker 2: Out of the forty out of the forty four of the two deep, over half is underclassmen. The development and the process is coming into play. Guys are making, Guys are gonna get their number called on Saturday. You look at that depth chart, there's a lot of ores that sit around because there's gonna be rotations. Nebraska's got a little bit of depth right now.

00:21:51
Speaker 1: Here's where I want to see more than anything. The third quarter ends, fourth quarter starts.

00:21:56
Speaker 2: The offense. Navasa's offense is coming in the field. Riolo's not on there.

00:22:00
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you guys are up comfortable.

00:22:02
Speaker 2: That's what I want. Would love to see that.

00:22:03
Speaker 1: That's when I would sit there wherever you and I are sitting, because I know the NFL is we're ruals, but they're staying. Will probably be sitting in a box somewhere and I'll look at you fan those box, I'll put my hand on your knee and I go, you've done it like this is this is something we can look at and on Monday we could be like, this is a real team.

00:22:18
Speaker 2: Just I'll be smiling into your so you'll set anyway. But the internal part of me, the compliment, the sentence, I will love to hear.

00:22:26
Speaker 3: The endorsement is you guys look pretty good. Nothing better.

00:22:31
Speaker 2: That's what I want to walk away a backdoor cover. It's a tight game, like.

00:22:36
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I'm thinking the entire exactly yeah.

00:22:39
Speaker 2: And god forbid it like if Nebraska doesn't cover.

00:22:42
Speaker 3: Don't talk like that, don't talk like that.

00:22:43
Speaker 1: Right, But this is a show that people are watching. There's probably thirteen Cincinnati fans that are probably tuning into the show right.

00:22:48
Speaker 2: Now, the majority ninety five percent probably when are they going to get to the next game? We know Will's going huskers?

00:22:54
Speaker 1: I think, I mean, I don't think there was were you ever not going to go Huskers in this game?

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Speaker 3: There was there was a time where I was driving over this morning that I sought out the alternative point of view because I legit wanted to know. I called a couple of buddies, like you're betting, sensey why? And they taught me through it And I said, respectfully you're wrong. So no, I was never coming off Nebraska.

00:23:11
Speaker 2: The same guy that I picked the Iowa state last week. That's true.

00:23:13
Speaker 3: I'm just saying there's a large portion of the viewing contingent that may watch this Friday when the game has already happened. Imagine that world. Imagine how we look one way or the other to the Friday crowd.

00:23:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the best looking like geniuses are looking like for the most part, idiots.

00:23:31
Speaker 3: Because that's when the comments come in, when someone has the benefit of hindsight on their side.

00:23:34
Speaker 2: Blood, that's when the flood starts and it's usually it's easy though, We'll be easy to go. Yeah, we'll be all right. LSU at Clemson number nine verse number four. LSU's uh, Clemson is favored by three and a half. The over under on this game is fifty seven and a half. I feel like there, you know, I feel like there's a couple of different sides in this in this conversation.

00:23:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, least at least too Yeah, there might be you listen, Clemson. Dad has been there in two thousand and eight. They've got a lot of their returning stars happening. Their entire offensive line comes back They got a nasty defensive, a lot of depth.

00:24:10
Speaker 2: They got TJ.

00:24:11
Speaker 1: Parker and Peter Woods, a couple of guys that can wak some havoc on the defensive line. They you look at this and you say, well, LSU's lost. They haven't won a home opener since twenty nineteen, Brian Kelly's oh and three in his home openers. You look at the history and you would say, this is a game that looks like it's going to go Clemson. Especially in Death Valley.

00:24:30
Speaker 2: You talked about a lot of great points in say Clemson, I know that. That's what I'm That's what I'm getting at.

00:24:35
Speaker 1: Now we start to flip the script a little bit. We talk about Garrett Nosmile. This cat is he is a guy that was NFL the most NFL ready college quarterback. Every year he tends to get a little bit better and better. He's a guy from Louisiana. He bleeds you know, the what is it, purple and goal, bleeds purple and gold. They go out, they get Byron Brown from from Kentucky, Nick Anderson from Oklahoma. They look at their defense, it was abysmal two years ago. Last year they get a little bit better now they finally got Wes Weeks back who had an ankle ankle injury.

00:25:08
Speaker 2: Brothers about them white linebackers. They got a couple of transfers. They got two d in transfers, one from Florida State at one from Florida. But the big one here is Harold Perkins. Harrold Perkins Junior. He's now wearing number seven for US. He's a cat that can roll around and cause cause crazy half. He tore his a c L versus ul ul u c L A last year.

00:25:27
Speaker 1: This is the year that Brian Kelly has to get over the hump. We talked about it in our futures. How they are like sitting in that third fourth in Fandor's future about winning the SEC. Something's got to give Brian Kelly his personality and LSU's culture personality they don't necessarily mix. This is the year we're going to find out if he's the guy for the job. I think this year they flip the script. I think they go in to Clemson, they finally get that monkey off their back about winning or losing their first game. I liked Lsu here, I could. I mean the biggest question marked to me is is LSU's offensive one. They lose two guys to the draft. One guy goes forth over all their left tackle to the Patriots. But at the end of the day, I think the star power. I think that what they did the transfer portal. After Bryce Underwood de committed from LSU and went to Michigan, a lot of money started flying into LSU. We got to figure out the guys we're going to get. I think this is the year that LSU flips it.

00:26:18
Speaker 2: Deep breath, so give it like a Lee corsoism to him.

00:26:23
Speaker 3: Well, the first thing I will inform you is you mentioned Harold Perkins. Are you aware of what they're doing positionally with him?

00:26:31
Speaker 2: He's like the honey Badger a little bit, right.

00:26:34
Speaker 3: Yeah. I accept that these twice his size and so they're playing him at like a star type position. So you may see Harold Perkins do some wild stuff this year and against Clemson you mentioned the offensive line. Completely agree with you. This is the fundamental disagreement I've had with LSU fans. I put him at eight and four, and you know, that's of course crazy, And I'm told that it's crazy because they portaled in a new secondary which I'll get to in a second. But their offensive line is going to be okay. Okay, If their offensive line's okay, we don't have to wait. They don't play three tune up games, so they're going into one of the toughest environments they'll play in all year. I don't believe they're settled yet, So to be very clear, my pick is based on the fact that I don't know that they'll have any semblance of balance Saturday night because they didn't run the ball well last year. Joe Brady actually loved the dude, but he is not called an offense where the rushing statistics were outside the one hundreds. And that's an unfair position to put Garrett Nusmeyer in. Like my whole question, I wrote it down this piece of paper, what is that less year require Garrett Nusmeyer to do? Because if they require him to perform well first and ten, second, five, third and two, and they stay on schedule, and he's looking to check down and he's got a complimentary tail backed tandem in the backfield and he's just asked to make good decisions.

00:27:44
Speaker 2: He can do that.

00:27:45
Speaker 3: What he can't do is third and seven all night, and that's what they ask him to do too much last year. So when I had I think twelve picks last year. So I look at that and I say, if I don't fully believe in the offensive line yet, and I do think Clemson's got NFL guys all three levels, ileank Clemson. The one hang up with Clemson is last year top twenty explosive offense. They had nine games where they had five plus explosive plays, but it didn't happen against the SEC teams. In the three games against SEC teams, they were fourteen to forty on third down. So if they get past that, if they're really improved, and they do got a wide receiver stable that I appreciate and I respect. If they do have that, I think over four quarters they affect Nusmier enough to where they force the mistakes that LSU has been so prone to in openers. Haven't won an opener period since twenty nineteen. I think that's going to continue here. So I'm taking Clemson actually lay in the three.

00:28:37
Speaker 2: And a half. I'm Clemson, I'm Clemson. You guys have talked about the O line. It's like they lose four guys on their offensive line last year. Wasn't that great of an old line. You got two guys that get drafted, and it's like, this is an old line. Last year the talent that they had that they should have been in a conversation for, like the Joe Moore Award type of talent. This year, you already mentioned the two guys, TJ. Parker and Peter Woods. Peter Woods is like a per job projected top ten pick as a d tackle. You got TJ. Parker first round protection coming off the edge, projection coming off the edge. And you look at LSU's line. They have two sophomores, a freshman, and two transfers going against a veteran group in Clemson. They got their returning basically everybody on offense. I like club Nick more than I do nes Meyer. I like Dabbo more than I do Brian Kelly. And it's like the difference difference with me of like is LSU gonna show up this year versus you know the formula is there for Clemson. It's like there's this saying, if you like something, you pick it. If you love something, you water it. I feel like at LSU they've been trying to fill holes with picking transfers and everything else. You look at Clemson, Dabbo, he was getting punished for it a couple of years back of not really utilizing the portal. He's grown his entire team and they bring back everybody this year. Yes, I think they're in a weak conference with the ACC, but I do think they beat teams like LSU. I think they're very good this year. I think Club It's gonna be really good this year. I like the talent that they have. You alluded to their wide receivers. They got it like a three headed monster. They have all the pieces. They have a very good defensive unit, and I think they I think they take Clemson or I think they take LSU down in Clemson. Your boys going Clemson Clemson. Think about the old line, bro, think about like you guys.

00:30:20
Speaker 1: I'm with the I wrote down on my Pace favor with the question mark is the offense line for sure to handle the veteran, veteran defensive line of Clemson.

00:30:26
Speaker 3: Imagine trying to figure that out on the road.

00:30:27
Speaker 2: And you just like you put yourself in them rooms like you're confident. You're trying to instill confidence, like maybe it's coming from one of the transfers. Maybe it's a second year sophomore guy that's trying to instill a little bit of confidence. But there's there's a couple in there that know the TJ. Parker, the d tackle that I alluded to, like those freaks of nature. You got Seemy Woods at the second level. Like they have elite type players, They're going to fuck up this young offensive line, especially I think in the second half. So that's why I got I just think the mentality there. The boys show up on Clemson. We interrupt this episode to bring you Form Energy. Form Energy delivers best in class taste with natural flavors and zero sugar. Form Energy has natural caffeine derived from Green Tea and then come in a variety of flavors. Your boys holding Screaming freedom right now, there's a Screaming Eagle roller coaster at the Saint Louis six Flags if you ever want to check it out. There's great smash, Blue Blitch, Orange Fury, and it's perfect for those who put in the work. Form Energy. We do the work. The boys do the work. This show does the work. Back to this episode Notre Dame at Miami and Josh Lechev.

00:31:32
Speaker 3: The four Man. This is a Sunday night game, so it's standalone, so the whole world gets to see it. I think there's going to be a lot of focus on quarterback for both sides. Got Carson Beck, Like I always picture, a lot of people are going to watch this. Some people are just coming back to the college football table. They've been gone since January, and they're probably going to be surprised to learn Carson Beck plays from Miami. Now, you were asking me earlier today who we were talking about Nusmeyer, and you were saying, Hey, give me an example of a guy who was expected to just continue to elevate and at flat line. Carson Beck. That's a really good one. This time last year, he's sure off our first round pick, Heisman favorite at Georgia, favorite to win the national title. None of that happens. He's gone, So you got a good redemption story potentially set up here. He's got probably the best offensive coordinator in the ACC, I think, in Shannon Dawson, trying to replace their top half dozen pass catchers at Miami. So that's not how they win this game. The way they win this game is they have recruited and developed monsters on the offensive line for three years now. They've got multiple NFL guys across the front. I went down there to Washington practice last year. Everyone's talking about Francis Malgoa, and Mario says, look at the stude over here seventy it's Markel Bell. He came from Juco in Mississippi. He's like six eight three sixty at that point. He said, you'll know him next year, and sure enough, he's projected to be I think they're starting to left tackle this year. My point is, for all the attrition from fifty thousand feet, I'm looking specifically at Notre Dame's defensive front. If there's a solid edge that Miami has, which I think they do over four quarters, it is running between the tackles as tail as old as time, Mark Fletcher, Jordan Lyle specifically Fletcher, are a couple of guys at tailback that if Miami wins, that's the name you circle. That's the one that ended up being ridden for twenty five twenty six carries, two hundred and eight yards something like that. You think, man, that's against Notre Dame. Yeah, I know it's eye opening, but that's what's going to have to happen, because at that point, if you do that, I can more than trust Carson Beck to make good decisions complimentary to a ground game. He didn't have a ground game at Georgia last year. He didn't have guys catching the ball for him last year. So it's not like you forgot how to play the position. If he gets that, and then conversely, you've got a first time starter going on the road in CJ. Carr. I think Notre Dame's receiving room is incredibly underrated. I don't know that its potential will be reached here because the other thing about Miami's secondary is it sucked last year so bad that they completely overhauled it. Talked to someone down there last week. They said, we low key think this could be a strength of our team this year. You feel plenty good enough about it to go to war with it. I think Miami is going to win the game out right.

00:34:04
Speaker 2: But that's what a coach would tell you about the secondary. Luly, No coaches, you're not gonna walk to do a coach all luckily.

00:34:08
Speaker 3: Yeah, Lucky, you're right. That's why I don't talk to coaches about it.

00:34:13
Speaker 1: So you like the idea of Miami having an overhaul of transfers into their secondary and be like, Okay, that's going to a jail. But you look at LSU and their transfer portal and how much they've done and you're like, I'm not so sold on that.

00:34:22
Speaker 3: Well, the difference is I'm looking at CJ. Carr trying to throw against Miami's guys on the road versus looking at Cade Club Nick throwing against LSU's guys at home. So there's a little different gap and experience level.

00:34:36
Speaker 2: There different gap. But CJ. Carr has been throwing against the number one pass defense in the country. Coming out of twenty twenty four. CJ. Car has been throwing against the number one defense when it comes to takeaways in twenty twenty four, I like, Notre Dame here, this is my iPad game. Oh wow, this is my iPad game because Miami. To me, you get excited about Miami because number one, it's Miami. You got the U, you got the documentaries that have come out, You've got a little better each year. But again, they were the number one offense in the country last year, but the majority of the a lot of that offense is now here in Nashville, Tennessee. With cam Ward and we think all of a sudden, Carson Beck is gonna be the guy that gets them over the hump. I agree with you. On the old line, they returned four out of their five guys. They got this this cat from what it homes community college. Markel Bell, Markel Bell. He's six nine, three forty unit, built like a submarine. But Miami's been the team. Miami's been the team where it's like, you know, you know how you got the the dog that barks at the gate, but the minute you step in the gate, they don't bite you.

00:35:37
Speaker 3: Oh wow.

00:35:37
Speaker 2: I feel like that's what Miami has been because they have talent. I don't doubt that they're gonna have talent at the skill position. It's Miami. They're always gonna have talent. But I think when you you're when you compare both the offense of Miami compared to the offense of Notre Dame. What I also like about Notre Dame. What is something that they did really well and was top ten of the country last year running the football. They returned four guys that have started experience on that old line. The new face is at right guard, not on the edge, not a tackle. It's a right guard and it's a freshman. Yeah, it's a freshman name Gerby Leonard. He's six This boy is six seven, three thirty five at right guard. Going on this offensive line that can run the football really well, and you already alluded to how good it and criminally underrated their wide receiver unit is. And you got your Heisman favorite Jeremiah Love running the ball of the backfield. And this is a steady operation. This isn't you know? We hit the portal. One of the fancy words that come out of every year now with all these different teams is we've revamped the room. We've overhauled the room. Not Notre Dame, this is These are top five recruiting classes year in and year out, because it starts with Marcus Freeman in the operation he's built since he got announced as a head coach in that weight room and everybody went absolutely berserk. Then you go on defense again, the number one pass defensive in the country last year, they returned five out of their seven. On the back end, you lose Xavier Woods, but is his name Jeremiah Moore. Jeremiah Moore, an up and comer cornerback who supposedly he set up to be the next star filling in for Javier Wooz who got drafted last year. But they were turned five out of their back seven. They were turned seven out of eleven of that elite defense that they had last year. They got guys up front. I agree with you when it comes to Miami's offensive line, but when you look at Carson Beck and the teams he played last year and when he performed, this is a guy who can turn the ball over. He's also a guy who can have a nice looking stat record. But when you look at who he played when he's playing Massachusetts, Tennessee Tech, Georgia Tech, Auburn, Tennessee was the one where he played against a solid defense eighteen touchdowns, zero interceptions. But when you're playing against quality defenses in Texas, Alabama, Florida, Ole, miss even Mississippi State, Kentucky, where he put up goose eggs across the board twelve touchdowns, eighteen turnovers, Carson Beck isn't even close to the player that Cam Mooreen is. And I think against an elite level pass defense that Notre Dame has, I like Notre Dame. I love Notre Dame. This is my iPad game this is the game I see as clear as day. I'm talking baptism under the water, give him a Rosary on the way home type of baptism. I love Notre Dame in this pig.

00:38:09
Speaker 1: There's not a whole lot you can more same more than that. I got some stuff that's pretty incredible. I think all the things he said about Carson back he did he lose the spring because he's a ucl the Tommy John's whatever that is. Their defense was a slow start and extremely inconsistent all last year. That's Miami. For you to think that they're going to be that much better is a little wild. I think when you look at Mike Denbrock, what does he want to do? He obviously knows he's going to have a strong run game for all the reasons you said, my heisman pig Jeremy Love. But you go and get a couple of wide receivers and then you have CJ. Carr sitting there, who's going against the best pass defense in all college football. He's the grandson of Lloyd Carr, legendary.

00:38:45
Speaker 2: Michigan football coach.

00:38:47
Speaker 3: He is.

00:38:48
Speaker 1: It's in his blood. He's done it day in and day out for his entire life. He is welcoming this opportunity. I think not only going to see a strong one game from there Dame, but I can see Denbrock getting the boys spread out a little bit love put him in the slot, have them in those third and manageable type of situations. And any time you want to be successful in football and you're going away to a place that can may or may not be allowed environment, you got to pack a defense. You gotta pack a run game. Those are the two things you got to put in your lunchbox. And those are the two things that Notre Dame has the.

00:39:19
Speaker 2: Markets run game. And by the way, it was Leonard Moore for the for the Notre Dame Irish I other tapping in.

00:39:27
Speaker 1: I like CJ Carr, I like c Do Carson back in this game. I think he's gonna have a deal.

00:39:31
Speaker 3: That's a headline.

00:39:32
Speaker 1: It's a headline. That's a headline, like we'll look at the look what's happening. All the stats you said about Georgia. He leaves Georgia for what reason sounds like because he got a little too in love. He didn't keep the main thing, the main thing and cash like you got money and he got girls. Two things that will take out your foundation from under right. He sits on a podium, He's got a chain on him with a turtleneck. He's in Miami, like he he fits the mold of Miami a little bit more. He doesn't have the team to back them up.

00:40:00
Speaker 2: CJ.

00:40:00
Speaker 1: Carr's got better pieces around him. I think he's got a stronger coaching staff around him. He's gonna he's not only gonna have a hand the ball real well to love, but he's gonna get guys outside. He's gonna have a couple of nice plays.

00:40:10
Speaker 4: To me.

00:40:10
Speaker 1: He'd go, Hey, this kid, who's this kid? And they're gonna wash the locker room and go, oh shit, I know he's the grants on the Lloyd Carr.

00:40:16
Speaker 2: Oh this kid he's got He's got to take care of the football. I trust that his arm is probably better. It's not it would be hard to beat Riley Leonard and throwing the ball around, but he's got to take care of the football and operate the same way like Riley did a very good job at that. I do want to challenge one thing on the defensive, the overhaul of U of mainly the secondary. They got six portal guys that came in that are playing defense on the back end. They're back five, they're five in the secondary. Four out of the five or transfers, and three out of those five in the secondary are also sophomores. So I don't doubt that they're that. They're very athletic. They got some youth, which could be a positive, but they're also very inexperienced, and they're gonna be working together, you know, for the first time again the word overhaul and revamped. They might the talent level might be there, but I'm interested to see this unit perform again with a lot of new phases and a lot of youth.

00:41:06
Speaker 3: So you mentioned Beck last year, how's performance level didn't scale, which you were right about. Probably a lot to do with their O line getting caved at Georgia, which it did several times last year against your texases of the world and leading the league by a mile in drops. So I would counter with your Notre Dame run game. No one needs to sell me on Notre Dame's offensive line. I watched a million of them get hurt last year and performance level never drop. Just incredible job developing and coaching. I watched the tailbacks. No one needs to sell me on the tailbacks. I would tell you in the interest of exploring scalability of performance against the better teams. They played Ohio State, Georgia, Penn State last year and yards per carry dropped to four yards little under four yards per game. So if Miami is what I think they could be defensively, then maybe that ground game doesn't click, and maybe you got to lean on a guy who did not lock down the starting quarterback position about a week and a half ago in camp a little more than you thought you'd have to lean on him in week one. That's actually how I think the game is gonna go. That's why I lean Miami.

00:42:07
Speaker 1: I like you should about bow constricter. Miami be a little boull constrict on that run game a little bit.

00:42:12
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a fun game. It's just if I'm thinking about where I'm gonna put my coin in the Fandels sportsbook. It's like you got crystal Ball, he's winning what five and seven, seven and five, ten and three?

00:42:21
Speaker 3: This is fair? The staff versus staffis.

00:42:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, Stafford. And then you got Freeman who's went what nine and four, ten and three? And then fourteen and two, coming off a national twer run like the operation over at Notre Dame, even though quarterback won a job a couple of weeks ago. Just feeling like how that culture is operating. And you mentioned the old line, like a lot of guys getting hurt the talent and not diminishing. This is a veteran group this year, and the crazy thing about the veteran group is nobody's a senior. So they they developed, they build that old line. It'll be fun though, It'll be fun. It'll be a fun game.

00:42:52
Speaker 3: So you're Miami, I am Notre Dame.

00:42:55
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00:43:12
Speaker 2: Let's get back to this episode. Alabama Florida State. Alabama at Florida State. Alabama's favorite by thirteen and a half. The over under on points here is fifteen and a half. You have to stay on this one very long.

00:43:25
Speaker 3: So I assume everyone's going Bama. Yeah, are you going Bama to Is everyone going Bama to cover?

00:43:30
Speaker 2: That's my gut tells me yes. The thing that I'm curious about with Florida State because they just they dropped off last year, they did a massive overhaul. They thought they revamped the talent room and everything else. They're kind of doing the same thing this year. What I'm curious about Tony White, Terrence Knighton and there was another coach too, left Nebraska. They go to Florida State. I think believe the special teams there are still Yeah, always goes back to the special teams coordinated there John Papooches. What was Jean Papucha's doing in twenty twelve? What was he doing the defensive coordinator at the University of Nebraska? So I got some cats down there, or I'm curious how this Florida State team is gonna be. I feel like people got them out of absolutely everything. I think they're gonna be a lot better than people anticipate. But as far to answer the question on the thirteen and a half, am I confident enough to go Alabama thirteen and a half here. I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it because of your monologue on Alabama last week and the talent and the depth, and I am a massive fan of Debor. I think ty Simpson's gonna be good and they got freaks everywhere. I think they're poised and pissed off and ready to go coming out of this year because you end the season losing the Michigan last year. And again, I think it's just the mentality is gonna be coming out of the gate set in the tone because they're not in a position of people have them as favorites everywhere like for the season, but I don't think they do in the building. And I think they're gonna be looking to prove a point coming out against Florida State. So I'm gonna take a minus to a teen and a half. But I'm very curious to see how Tony White turns around the defense because he can do it fast.

00:45:05
Speaker 1: Yeah, Alabama, when we went there for the spring practices, they were talking about how much more relaxed Calen Debor was compared to compared to the next game. And you can see there all their shoulders a kind of out. There's music being played here, allowed to keep your shirt untucked. There was a whole lot of a lot of looseness. It's kind of like one of you give an inch, they take a mile.

00:45:21
Speaker 2: Ye. I mean last year, lad, this is last year. This is last year.

00:45:24
Speaker 1: This year I think they have they have that chip on their shoulder. The way they ended the season. It's not it's not what they want. You look at Florida State. Florida State twenty twenty three, they go thirteen and no, they end up not making the playoffcause their quarterback breaks his leg.

00:45:34
Speaker 2: They take them out.

00:45:35
Speaker 1: They're real mat They have a lot of guys transfers, so they bring a lot of new players in. It's a whole new roster. In twenty twenty four they go to and ten. The next year, same thing has kind of happened. There's been twenty three transfers that have come into into Florida State. One of those transfers is Tommy Gasilanos. Gacianos. I don't know, it sounds like gonna stick with stick with Casianos. Casianos Boston College. He was at Boston College with Bill O'Brien. They wanted to run the PROS style offense. This kid's more of a backyard football type of guy who wants to run around a lot. A Malson guy, Yeah, a Mauason guy exactly. He gets benched at Boston College, ends up transferring to Florida State. And if you have so many pieces, you have twenty three new pieces across your team. Malzon who is a guy who wants it. He wants to play a little backyard football. He wants to call a game like that. They're not going to have the jilling points of this earlier. I think Alabama is a stronger team from a talent standpoint. They have more continuity. They have the same feeling of what they had last year, being like obviously that wasn't up to the Alabama standard. They lost as many games that last year as they did in Nick Saban's first year. What happened to Nick Sabans second year? They go to the National Championship Game. So I expect to see a big turnaround from Alabama being just clear and concise, you know, on special teams, offense and defense. I think they cover this game. I don't think it's close.

00:46:54
Speaker 3: I agree with you. I agree with you. What I like to do on our show when there's a favorite of double digits and everyone's on one side at least, ask could the upset happen? Is there an outside like greater than five percent chance it could happen? I would say, yeah, line's thirteen and a half at FanDuel upset could happen. Vandy happened last year, so an upset could happen. My question is always, aright, how would that happen? If you were to turn this game on and it was a dog fight in the fourth quarter. Probably what has happened is Florida State has duplicated the Vandy plan. The Vandy plan was finding out early Obama struggling with a mobile quarterback. Bama's struggling with option stuff. We went twelve of eighteen against them on third down. Wow, if we stay on the field, they can't have the ball. Malzon knows Alabama intimately got a long history with him. Caine Womack, who is Bama's DC, coached for Malzon in high school up in Arkansas. So I think if Castianos, who is the transfer here, talked a lot in the summer, if he just throws caution to the win, and frankly, I think they're going to ask him to do some stuff Saturday that you can't ask a guy to do every week because he's going to get beat to death. But in a one game scenario, like you talked off Spring and summer, everywhere there was a microphone, he talked. If I'm malsan, I look at him and I say, did you mean it? He's gonna say yeah, And I'm going to look back at him and say, all right, well, I need you to put your face really, really really in the fan Saturday, because that's the only shot we got. If that kind of stuff happens, If anything like the Vandy mobile quarterback giving Bama trouble, huge conversion rate on third down type thing happens, and Bama struggles with turnovers on the road like they did last year, struggles with penalties on the road like they did last year. They were very schizophrenic on the road last year. If that's still a problem for him, I don't think it will be. But if that's still a problem for him, that's how it's close. It took me a long time to say that the path for Alabama is you line up and you realize we're that much better than them, and you lean on them, and you offensively stay on schedule, take the crowd out of it. Play action games work in run games work, and get a lot of wide receivers involved. Early secondary smothers. Florida State makes them go on ten play drives score, which they probably can't do. There's just so many more ways where Bama's fourteen plus point winners here than I think Florida State covering. So I like Bama to win it cover.

00:49:08
Speaker 1: The example you gave of how Alabama can lose is the reason why I think.

00:49:12
Speaker 2: That they're not gonna lik They're aware of it. They're aware, right.

00:49:15
Speaker 1: They go on to Vanda last year Nick Saban right there is like he says on a college game day, the only place that's not hard to play in the SEC is Vanderbilt. They hear, they take it personal. Pavia does what Pavia can do, and so now they're no. Florida State's looking at it being like this is how you beat Alabama, and Alabama is already identified, like this is our weak spots and this is how we.

00:49:35
Speaker 2: Can fix it. I don't think this game is close. Yeah, I think if you have the fan duel app open, Josh, this is why you're great. I just want to tell you, I want to give you a compliment. I appreciate it. If I had the Fan Duel sportsbook open and I listen to what you just said about how Florida State can make this game interesting in the fourth quarter, and I paused it, like as a guy, and I know there's plenty of brains out there that will latch on any type of optimism. You could have easily sold on why Florida State would cover and potentially win this game. I think that's a great I think that's a great thing that you do, is you're able to talk about the other side and I'm like, yeah, he's making some good points here, like maybe I do get a little spicy and go Florida State plus thirteen and a half. I'm not going to No, we're not going to just the tip of the cat to where you had me for a moment here he could.

00:50:22
Speaker 3: Be dropped the yeah butt on him.

00:50:25
Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, Pava twelve to eighteen spicy quarterback that you're like, you just line up and say we're better than you. I'm like that's a good point too.

00:50:35
Speaker 1: Yeah, all those stats and then it's like they are just better than them.

00:50:38
Speaker 3: It's like, well, the problem is what you said about Miami Secondary. Florida State's trying to do with virtually their whole team right against Alabama, right.

00:50:46
Speaker 2: I truly I am. I am excited to see how Tony White does with that. It's the three three five.

00:50:52
Speaker 1: Ye JP Hovey Game of the Week, Virginia Tech versus South Carolina.

00:50:58
Speaker 2: This game is in Atlanta.

00:51:00
Speaker 1: You got Shane Biemer, the head coach of South Carolina. His father, Frank Biemer, like legendary head coach at Virginia Tech. They're probably sitting there having a couple of conversations. I'm sure his dad's Hey, I'm rooting.

00:51:10
Speaker 2: For a cent I want it. But there's a piece of theem where it's like, hey, this is a win win for me.

00:51:13
Speaker 1: In a lot of ways, this is a win win Virginia Tech. Brent pryor on or Brent probably they haven't finished in the top twenty five since what the early nineties, since I was in diapers, Like they haven't You said, no, No, Brent Pryye his stint every year he's been the head coach, they have not finished in the top twenty five. That has not happened since I was in diapers. I'm glad I got an opportunity to land that plane a little bit. But you look at South Carolina every year JP and I talked about on the phone. They start slow. They have the tools, they have the pieces. They got this kid, Rasoul Faison, who up until three days ago they didn't know if he was going to be eligible. They had the same situation as Diego Pavia. Does the junior count? Does the community collegs think count? Does it not count? He's at Houston Utah State. He runs for thirteen hundred yards. Nick Harbor, who was you know, all world everything on college football twenty five because he was a ninety nine speed, had a lot of uncharacteristic drops, couldn't run the whole entire route tree. He decides, I'm not going to do track and field during the spring anymore. I'm gonna hang up my track cleats, put my football cleats back on, and start refining my game a little bit. Lenora Sellers. A lot of people are high on it, including yourself. I believe is that your heisman.

00:52:21
Speaker 3: Guy that is right there along with my tier?

00:52:24
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah for guy.

00:52:25
Speaker 1: I blocked out when he said matterier because I was so upset about that. I think this is a game that every year South Carolina fans get upset about because they don't find a way to like step on their throat, and this is the perfect game for them to sit in a neutral site location. The head coach of South Carolina, his dad was the coach of the other team, and he's alleged he's probably got a statue out there in Virginia Tech. This is the game that South Carolina finally says, we're here, We're going to put these pieces together. Every year, South Carolina has players Like every time I got to sit around JP during the football season, it's like, oh, this guy plays South Carolina that play and you're like, it's pretty incredible. How much without the success from a team standpoint. Shane Beemer is a guy, man, He's a guy. I think he takes the next step. I think they put their throat on Virginia Tick in this game, put their throat on them.

00:53:13
Speaker 2: I was looking at my and just to put out there too with FanDuel Uh, South Carolina is favored by seven and a half.

00:53:19
Speaker 3: Seven and a half. I think it's a total sucker number. That's what I think it is I looked at my own numbers last night. My own numbers do not agree with what I'm about to say. Like the model I use that we built that's been so profitable for us over the years, screams Virginia Tech plus the points. I just think it's wrong. I think what screamed? Screamed it screamed it. The model spits out South Carolina minus five, which differential two and a half points crossing a key number at seven is a really really big it's a really big.

00:53:46
Speaker 2: I listen, I consume you show your show, Josh, like it might be like one off, never that many two and a half points swing.

00:53:52
Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's okay because the model's been wrong. It had Oklahoma number twelve last year, Like how did that work out?

00:53:58
Speaker 2: Like this out there in Holy shit?

00:54:01
Speaker 3: So every year Week one especially, there's a number out there where it's seven and a half. This is also Cincinnati only six and a half. Why is Nebraska only favored by six and a half. You either trust your preparation and you trust your knowledge of the teams, or you don't. You can't let the board override what you've invested six months of your life into learning what I've learned with South Carolina and specifically with this matchup, is Virginia Tech got gutted by the portal. First thing, Okay, kiraen Drome's big body of quarterback, he can run. I think their tailback room is probably underrated. And I think they look at South Carolina's front and they look at Dylan Stewart like man, Dylan Stewart's a stud could be a net liability in run defense. That's what separates him and maybe a Colin Simmons. Colin Simmons is a plus run defender at Texas, whereas Dylan Stewart maybe that's a little bit of a liability. Here's the problem. That's where my optimism ends with matchup wise, what could lean Virginia Tech. I know everyone thinks Leonora Sellers is really good. Most people think he's great. I truly don't know how many people have popped on tape of him last year or not tape. Just go watch games, go watch YouTube clips to remember how insanely good he is, Like he took over the Clemson game and against this defense, especially if there's wide receiver talent, which JP's vouching for above, just that of Nick Harbor, Nickel de why above just that of Nick Harbor. If they've got that, if they've got Fason eligible. Now there are so many things to me that scream South Carolina that I told you before we hit record. I'm not looking at it saying, oh, they got to cover seven and a half. I'm looking at it saying I can't believe I get South Carolina only lay in single digits because I think they're gonna win by double digits. So I'm taking South Carolina to win and cover to feel good.

00:55:51
Speaker 2: JP.

00:55:51
Speaker 3: What you said is gonna happen. What you said, the foot on the throat, they don't do it. The old Dominion game is still fresh in everyone's mind. You just sneak by teams the Bama game, you let it get away. Referee stole the LSU game from you last year. None of that happens if you don't leave the game in doubt. I don't think South Carolina's gonna leave the game in doubt, so I'll take him to win a cover.

00:56:10
Speaker 2: Yeah. I agree with all that. I agree with you boys. The one thing I have a disagreement with is it's feeling like a win win for Shane Biemer because you watch the any given Saturday documentary of the SEC and you sit there and watch Shane in his body language and the words that he's saying about like he wants to carve his own way outside of his dad's name. Because Shane, he's a Virginia Tech graduate, a hokey letterman, the son of Frank Biemer. As we all know, this game hasn't happened in thirty three years. Frank Beamer coach him in nineteen ninety one when they lost to South Carolina twenty eight to twenty one. It was Frank Biemer's fifth year as a head coach. This is now Shane's fifth year as a head coach. And I like to me, when you look at South Carolina, this is a team we gotta remember. This is a team nobody wanted to see at the end of the year last year. My question is because again they got a lot of new faces, My question is, what's the team gonna be beyond Leonora Sellers and Dylan Stewart, Because outside of them, you have two of the best players in the country. But who's gonna step up in those other rules? South Carolina is a team that you're not talking about when you hear the word revamped and overall and everything else. I think South Carolina coach Beemer has a good track record of developing transfers when they get on campus. Kyle Canard is a great example. Is it Demetrius JP Demetris Davis, Demetrius Knight linebacker? Last year? Those guys are two puzzle pieces that developed as transfers. Kyle Canard was fifteen and a half tackles for loss, eleven and a half sacks, three forced fumbles. And that's because Dylan Stewart is a freak and he's gonna get all the attention. Who's gonna step up this year? Is it gonna beat Brian Thomas Jr. On the other side? The dtackled transfer out to Alabama, his name is Minkel Goodwin. Is he gonna step up because he's got a lot of hyper coming out of training camp? But who's gonna step up when Dylan Stewart's taking on all the attention? And then Leonora Sellers he's a freak. He's one of the best, if not the best. He is my Heisman pick to win it this year. I like South Carolina. I think they build on the secondary. They were strong last year and secondary. I think they're gonna play aggressive. I think they wonte Virginia Tech. I hate that Virginia Tech has fallen the way that they have because in the two thousands with Frank Biemer I mean you can give him Frank Biemer in a block punt. In this game, South Carolina is still gonna win. But the way that the VT Tech logo has just kind of fallen, I hate it. This would this would have been a game that South Carolina back in the day would be circling. Oh, we got to get this team now. I think it's a smiley face. So I got South Carolina. I got it. Building the rest of the week, I got a minus seven and a half. I like South Carolina. I'm excited to see who's gonna step up on the defensive side. Along with Dylan Stewart, Well said, we're all South Carolina. We're all South Carolina.

00:58:54
Speaker 3: So everybody out there trying to fade the boys. People are gonna say, say curse the curse. People are gonna say fade. People are gonna look at that and say that that's a square bet. You're laying seven and a half. They got you across the key number. You're going with the big SEC brand, and I just think you're overthinking the room if you look at it that way. It's so fundamental South Carolina. Is that much talk about Virginia Tech? All the transfers, seven starters transferred out, they switched, they hired, or they fired and hired two new coordinators. I like, I pray is that his name?

00:59:23
Speaker 2: Yeah? I think he's on the hot seat. But I don't see how this ends well at all for Virginia Tech, especially neutral site, like this is.

00:59:30
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00:59:52
Speaker 2: The SEC logo with the SC.

00:59:54
Speaker 1: Logo versus the ACC logo. It's like, oh, you just assume that the SEC is gonna win. Every single time I had trouble with this game Auburn, Auburn at Baylor because you got Hugh Freeze, who's on the hot seat right now. You got Jackson Arnold, I'm with you, bro, who gets laughed out of Oklahoma, and every like every when I went to google Jackson Arnold, what's going on with him? It's like everything is about what's his confidence? Like how he is going to get back. We've seen the highest of hies and the lowest of lows, like what is this guy going to be? And then you got a head coach who's probably has a piece of anxiety himself where he's got to go see his therapist. He's got to sit down there across and say I'm having a tough time too because everyone's saying, get me the hell out of Auburn. So it's and then you look at them and it's like, yeah, they have a they have a running back storyer Robinson, he can win the ball a little bit. They have an underrated Bryson Washington who rushed over one thousand yards last year, and Baylor, like you see kind of how Baylor can win the game. And that's keeping it in third and manageable running the.

01:00:45
Speaker 2: Ball being successful that way using the RPO blackout in Waco.

01:00:51
Speaker 1: But then you got Auburn who has an outstanding wide receiver room. You have a guy who has an extremely high ceiling that had extremely low lows at the quarterback position, and a coach that's like, you know, is he confident himself? So you're dealing with like confidence issues. I think me personally, and I love to get more like a dollar in opinion of what you think. But like when I look at Auburn, I think the game is what are your top.

01:01:15
Speaker 2: Fifteen plays look like?

01:01:16
Speaker 1: Because you have an extremely good wide receiver room, You've got a good defense or do you have starters coming back in all areas defense? Line, linebacker and your secondary? Your wide receiver room is really impressive. Can you get Jackson r All to start develop a little in game confidence very very early, and that's with high percentage throws. That's your bubbles, that's your checkdowns. And then you got Coleman on the outside, maybe that fourth, fifth or sixth play, you go and throw a vert and just see if you can get him a back shoulder, just to feel out that confidence. Because if Jackson can get confident. I can see Auburn running away with this thing, but I can also see Baylor controlling the clock, playing good defense.

01:01:53
Speaker 2: And really they return a lot of production from last year, a lot of guys like Soldier Robertson, swry. Robertson's kind of nasty. I love the head coach. What's remind me of his name?

01:02:02
Speaker 3: Dave Randa.

01:02:03
Speaker 2: I love Dave Randa. Him going on the press conference last year talking about the scene from Wolf of Wall Street. You know what I'm talking about.

01:02:10
Speaker 3: Beautiful, beautiful moment in American history, not Baylor.

01:02:14
Speaker 2: History, in American history. Just comparing recruiting to throwing midgets on the wall.

01:02:20
Speaker 3: Uh, they didn't even go little people.

01:02:21
Speaker 2: Didn't even go little people midget. I didn't see the clip. So kind of fires me up though. Make him feel like they belong and they don't want you thinking you're laughing at him. He's like, that's kind of you know, that's that's recruiting.

01:02:33
Speaker 1: I got pasting in the back. He's got to cut off Baylor Bear Baylor. What was it we pair of players. Oh yeah, he's got he's got the It's just like I want to go Baylor for shirm, but I just feel like it's Auburn.

01:02:50
Speaker 2: Like it's Auburn. I'll let you go because I know you got a solid little breakdown to Auburn and how this game could play out.

01:02:58
Speaker 3: I Uh, when I looked at in the spring, you know how you know what the games are going to be week one and you know you haven't broken the game down, but you just think I'm probably going to go Baylor in that one. That's what I thought in the spring. That's what I thought in the summer. I got not glowing returns out of Auburn spring ball about Jackson Arnold. It didn't sound great. The early portions of fall camp very very hit and miss, which, by the way, I expect it to be. Early I've looked at this is get in there, crawl over broken glass. If you have to get the win, get out, regroup and get ready for conference to play down the roads. I don't think there's a choice where they pull away like I think it's Auburn when somehow, some way, best case scenario, it's a dogfight form. The more I looked at it, the more I said, which two units have takeover potential? If there is takeover in this game, and it ended up being Auburn's O line, which is the most underrated part of their team, and wide receiver gives them an opportunity. Now, I got such low confidence in that because I have low confidence in Jackson Arnold. That's a turnover prone player. Freeze. His system is turnover prone throughout his career. Even when he was good at Ole Miss, they turned the ball over at a rate that was higher than any other successful team. They turned it over chronically last year. So there's low confidence in this. The way if I try and try and close the eyes and envision the game going is all right. Neither side's having a ton of success, or either both sides are having a ton of success, but neither is pulling away. Auburn has such a good receiver room that when all else fails, you can throw it up to guys. And I really think when you watch Auburn, if they win, which I think they will, I'm gonna go Auburn to win the game very narrowly. I think it's gonna be a whole lot more just throw it up and let freaks make plays. And you watch it and you say, dude, there's no design behind this. That's just better athletes winning. That's actually why I think they're gonna win. They're gonna take better athletes into Waco. It won't so much be they're gonna scheme them to death. They're gonna out athlete them just enough to get out of there with a win. You're still gonna have questions about Auburn. You're still gonna find yourself saying they're not gonna be able to win in the SEC like that, and then Auburn's gonna say that's okay, because maybe we'll be better than this by the time we get the conference play. We got the win. Now, if the opposite were to happen, it's a nightmare for Hugh Freez. I'm just telling you, I know he doesn't have a job. There's a chance that that begins the terminal like trajectory towards him not having a job. That is a place I know very well, and that is a place that needs this game very badly.

01:05:28
Speaker 2: God, you're going to be the one that puts him on his back, on your back, I want to badly. I want to sit there and look at Peyton not so fast, my friend, and talk about the Baylor Bears in a way of returning all that production, returning a team that is very excited to open their season on a Friday night. We're talking Friday night lights. Blackout in Waco, Texas.

01:05:51
Speaker 3: Could be a blackout on YouTube TV, could be a lot of excitement because Baylor, Baylor is a contender for the Big twelve.

01:06:01
Speaker 2: I'm with you. I agree on the talent. You got it, you didn't there he is, I'm looking for the bus. I got no body over here.

01:06:12
Speaker 3: Never mind, I saw fun.

01:06:14
Speaker 2: I kind of wanted to hit a but just something tells me. I know the Pate State model can't predict turnovers, but something just tells me you're gonna try and establish the run and protect mister Jackson Arnold. But all you need is one turnover early for that place to get rocking, for them to field just a little bit of confidence. I know we can't predict turnovers, but the whole close your eyes saying, I can see it happening, and it juices up a sideline, It rallies the troops, and it puts just that little bit of pressure. It's like Jackson, oh yeah, he's got a high ceiling. You talk about with all the mental words, yet mentally but what happens to that team when they get hit in the mouth. What happens when not even hitting the mouth, but one bad thing happens over Baylor goes down the score. This is a game I want to reach in and I want to take the underdog. I want to take Auburn and that's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna ride with the Baylor Bears. And also who I want to cement this is not your man, Randy Savage coming from the back end. We got our Baylor Bear. We got Sherman Young.

01:07:18
Speaker 1: Say, I want to reach in, take Auburn, and that's what I'm gonna do. I'm taking the Baylor Bears.

01:07:26
Speaker 2: Holy shit, I'm taking Baylor. I want to reach out. I want to take Baylor. Like everything says Auburn is the better football team, but I'm gonna I'm going with that turnover early in the game.

01:07:40
Speaker 3: Let me tell you, I like the speed on the outside of Baylor.

01:07:44
Speaker 2: You start, You're starting?

01:07:46
Speaker 3: Are you sold?

01:07:47
Speaker 2: He's starting to sell me? Like?

01:07:48
Speaker 3: Are you leaning?

01:07:50
Speaker 2: Do we need the last bit of tip? Just like have you read about there's new slow receiver Fondell bro They got some talent on the outside.

01:07:58
Speaker 3: Reach in and Fondel.

01:08:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what if l.

01:08:05
Speaker 3: I just wanted to say, Fondelle really slowly would reach in. That's all I wanted to do. Hey, let me tell you something speaking of speaking of uncomfortability.

01:08:12
Speaker 2: And go ahead, make our new guests feel uncomfortable. No, he knew what was coming. Oh he knew. He knew what was coming. But I forgot make our new guests feel uncomfortable. I'm gonna reach my hand.

01:08:23
Speaker 1: In the cookie jar, get Josh.

01:08:24
Speaker 2: Wait, I'm gonna get Will Compton. Fuck, he was this close. He was this. I thought about it. Did you bite?

01:08:33
Speaker 3: You just bet on that I was gonna bite a different way though, Will, Like Will's heads turned like this.

01:08:40
Speaker 1: You say fine down he just slowly he looks at me. I'm like, oh no, that's your one.

01:08:47
Speaker 2: Josh. I forgot what we say next week? If I get you, I get you, well, you're probably gonna talk about the speed.

01:08:52
Speaker 3: No, no, I'm gonna tell you this. So you said what a turnover would do, and you said what it would do mentally to Jackson, Arnold reas was it media days and told us that he had instructed his defensive coaches to allow practice to end on a positive note for his offense and his quarterback. That's how they had scripted practice during film.

01:09:12
Speaker 1: Can I say one thing, give me Baylor Bears hearing? Give me Baylor Bears because I cannot. I can't have that. When I'm looking at Jackson oorticle, I'm seeing all the articles. Where's his confidence out? How is he meant? Blah blah blah. A lot of people are saying, you gotta worry about this kid. If he gets his confidence back, it's real. The fact that the head coach is saying, it's real. We have to finish practice on a positive note for this kid's mentals.

01:09:37
Speaker 2: I get.

01:09:37
Speaker 1: I'm all about I'm all about people taking care of himself mentally. This game doesn't care about your feelings, right, It does not care about feels. I know, damn well, everybody in Waco, tex doesn't give a fuck about Jackson Arnold's feelings.

01:09:50
Speaker 2: Give me the Baylor Bears. I'm flipping. I'm flipping. Come on, how are you feeling the not your man, Randy Savage? You get that, mic brother, Oh my god, Pete Staters, welcome to the show.

01:10:08
Speaker 3: Talk to me.

01:10:12
Speaker 5: Speaking of Pete Staters, I'm here with the Commissioner of College Football, Josh Pate. He's picking the Auburn Tigers this Friday night when they go up against those Baylor Bears down in Waco, Texas. Auburn Tigers cup of coffee, not.

01:10:32
Speaker 6: Gonna let it slip through my fingers. You know why, because the Baylor Bears are the cream that will rise to the top.

01:10:40
Speaker 7: If we're talking about Jackson Arnold and making them comfortable. Dave Randa's got blitzes more exotic than the Amazon River.

01:10:47
Speaker 5: Josh Paid, He's gonna be getting in that kid's face all night.

01:10:51
Speaker 6: But let's not talking about what's going on on the field. Let's talk about what's going on in the crowd. We gotta blackout on the bazas.

01:11:00
Speaker 2: We got the.

01:11:01
Speaker 7: Chrome domes dripping gold all night. And if you freeze once a boat race, by god, we're built on the Brezis. In a boat race, it will be fifty seven and a half is the over under?

01:11:15
Speaker 5: Correct me behind the computer if I'm wrong, smash the over bailer.

01:11:20
Speaker 6: Ain't going underneath thirty five points all night. And I'll tell you one last thing. I love that you're talking about my coach Dave Arinda. Because the cream the green tailor rises to the top. Dave Randa has put six or seven head coaches into a coffin, into a casket. Lincoln Riley came to Waco when he was coaching the Sooners and he beat that ass so bad he ran off to the back.

01:11:49
Speaker 2: Twelve.

01:11:50
Speaker 7: Steve Sarkizan came in lost to Dave Randa Mike Gundy in the Big twelve Championship.

01:11:57
Speaker 6: Dave Randa's got a body count. You know who was on that buddy count? Tell us twenty sixteen head coach of all miss you Freeze, who's the defensive coordinator at LSU that kept him to twenty one points? This guy knows what he's doing. He knows what's coming in.

01:12:16
Speaker 7: There, and the Baylor Bears are gonna be walking out with the w because the cream right just to the top.

01:12:26
Speaker 2: Thank you, not you man, do that? Thank you? Does that change your mind at all?

01:12:30
Speaker 3: Yeah? He would have changed my mind. I definitely gonna drink this cream. You know the game they beat Lincoln when he was at OU was so great. Surem you remember this. You stormed the field twice. They stormed the field twice. I was on the field. I know they stormed the field twice. It does not change my mind. But I'm in love with you. I'm in love with everything that just happened.

01:12:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought he was gonna have a heart attack halfoy through.

01:12:56
Speaker 2: Honestly, he's like fucking a green will rise to the top. Good slay of games, Great sla game, great games, great slate of games. Do we get to it? The game of the week, the True Classic game of the week. Every Saturday, It's got games, but only one fits just right. This is True Classics Game of the Week. The True Classic Game of the Week is presented by you guess that True Classic. They sent us a boatload of the new Pima shirts. They fit amazingly. If you look at Josh Paton right here, and you look at the genetics that this man has. If he doesn't have a True Classic shirt on, he looks like our boy Jared Beaman. He puts on a True Classic shirt, he looks like Josh pate Stack. Look Good, Feel Good, Play Good. You can find True Classic at Amazon and Costco, Sam's Club, Target nationwide, or online at Trueclassic dot com, slash bussing Look Good, Feel Good, Play Good. Let's get to the big game of the week, Texas at Ohio State. The Heisman favorite arch Manning takes on the defending national champions Ohio State. Ohio State is favored at home. It's two and a half. The over under on this game is forty seven and a half. Gentlemen, can I go on record saying I want Ohio State the witness game?

01:14:11
Speaker 3: You portanly everybody does I want.

01:14:14
Speaker 2: To win this game? I do.

01:14:17
Speaker 1: I just look at the turnover at the the OC and DC. I like Brian Hartline actually a lot. Not only is your great recruiter, but friend of the show, friend of the show, friend of the show, best swag in America. On the best Swag in America, guy looks absolutely fantastic. I think he'll do a great job. And plus he has aliens all over Ohio States offense. Matte Patricia, I'm not I don't want to be discribed. I'm not like completely sold on him. Like I know he was big time at the Patriots with any kind of jumped all over the place, so I didn't really see a whole big jump from him. I look at Texas. The question mark there is their offensive line they have, They're they're putting a bunch of new guys in there, but they have an elite secondary. They have a kid that's been all world everything, a manning that can run. Who would have thought that can cauction even exis He's a Heisman front warning candidate. I think Texas is like a vampire going to sleep man, and then they Ohio State put them to bet.

01:15:09
Speaker 2: It's not a casket. It's a.

01:15:12
Speaker 1: Vampire sleeping, not a casket. Coffin these nuts, dude, all right, listen, I think Texas loses to Ohio State after a team that had and complete.

01:15:25
Speaker 2: And cough in. He didn't break tribe, the bast of six and a half and a half.

01:15:44
Speaker 1: Ohio State lost their entire defense. One coffin, coffin these nuts, dude, it's you've got got mad about What are you mad? If they give you that one? Caleb downs all world safety, he's your main returner. You lose all of your production, the six the most pressures you got, your six guys, they're now gone. Matt Patricia has to now go in and reinstill confidence and have I mean, there's no debt that a HOI of State's always going to reload everything I think it takes a little bit of time. I think Texas right now, at this point, they have a more cohesive unit. From the OC standpoint, I think Sarkesan sees blood. He needs it, He's got to have it. They already held Jeremiah Smith to one reception for three yards. They understand how to neutralize him a lot of ways. I think Ohio State is going to give their licks in this game. I'm hoping this game is close. I want Ohio State to win. If the game is close, Ohio State will win this game. I can see Texas. I can see this being a disappointing Week one where we're like, man, Texas just blew the doors off of them.

01:16:45
Speaker 2: I can see that happening.

01:16:46
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily see it going the other way. That playoff game they had. Every guy who scored a touchdown is no longer on the Ohio State offense anymore. Both both their running backs are gone. The one receiving touchdown they had with the Trayvonson, he scores a seventy five yarder. I think there's a lot of turnover for Ohio State. I think Texas has been waiting for this for a long time, and this is the team they lost to last year. This is a get back game for them. If Ohio State wins, it's a good look for the Big Ten.

01:17:16
Speaker 2: So you got Ohio State minus two and a half.

01:17:18
Speaker 1: No, I got Texas. I want I've already said Texas. I want Ohio State to win. But I think Texas is gonna win this game.

01:17:25
Speaker 2: Okay. If I'm sitting here.

01:17:26
Speaker 1: And people are watching the show, they're like, I'm gonna listen to what Taylor Want says, I would say Texas.

01:17:30
Speaker 2: I can't go wrong by the fanduels people. Yeah, Okay, I got you. What's a vampire sleeping? I can't give you a cough. I look at both of these both of these schools. They all got great talent, they all got good coaching staffs. They're all gonna have good game plans. If I just focus in on how this game can play out, and if I'm leaning on the Matt Patricia side of the defense, you got arch Manning having his first big game, doesn't have a whole lot of starts and experience to where you're watching the film and it's like, this is how we're gonna attack this kid. Patricia is more of an aggressive play color, a lot of more mann and man coverage and everything else. I think when you get a good quarterback that can dice you up, you're not gonna want to sit in zone. So I think this plays into Matt Patricia wanting to implement this very aggressive style defense, especially coming out of a week one. But I think it plays into the hands of an arch of arch Manning and Sark. I think they're gonna have great counters to everything they do defensively. I think the wide receivers will get just enough separation. And I think if arch Manning is as advertised, which I think he is, I think he eats up this man to man coverage. I got Texas in this game. I'm taking Texas plus two and a half. To me, That's what it comes down to, because I think everywhere everybody's good. There's gonna be new faces on both sides of the ball. They've all recruited very well. They have everything. Each team they're ploys for a big year. You want to know who the quarterback is gonna be on Ohio State side. But again, arch Manning as advertised, and I think he has a lot of success against the man coverage that he's going to see this weekend.

01:19:06
Speaker 1: Julian's saying too, having his first start in this type of game. I mean, what is it the loudest. Oh yeah, JP's getting his third vehicles bought to him. You're right, yeah, Julian's saying like, it's like what an uphill battle he has. He has, He's lost his running backs. I mean, he has like an alien wide receiver, a guy you can just kind of go throw it up to.

01:19:25
Speaker 2: But Texas, man, like.

01:19:26
Speaker 1: You're basically inheriting, inheriting a problem from your former family. Like Ohio State win beat the breaks off of Texas this year, they haven't forgot. It doesn't matter if it's a different guy at quarterback. They have not forgotten about what the Buck guys did to him.

01:19:40
Speaker 3: I just keep hearing so many people do what you just did. You just did. I'm about to do it. I'm about to pick Texas too. And I just fixturer folks sitting at Columbus. We just won a national title. A returning or replacing a starter at Ohio State is a little different than what it is everywhere else because you're replacing a starter with another stud problem is Texas is that same way and Texas is questions I think are lesser than than Ohio States Hilasius pass rush edge Texas. I think quarterback will be an edge to Texas, but who really knows. I just guess on that there's a staff edge to Texas. I love those dudes at Ohio State, but I mean, they wouldn't be able to call me a liar with a straight face if I said, you're replacing coordinators one of them like you said with Matt Patricia, not really a lot of college experience to begin with. And then on Texas's side, I consider Stark their OC Pete Wakowski's been there forever and he's probably kept them up. In fact, I know he's kept him up late this week because I've spoken to them about staying up late this week about trying to run the ball on him. Special teams man Texas Jeff Bank's got one of the best special teams guys in the country. I just I look at it so many different ways. Like one thing is people say all the time when these number one versus number two top five matchup type games happen, is they say, well, either way, it'll be a great game. I don't know that it'll be a great game, because there's a world where you get this much talent and this much uncertainty, you throw it in a blender. It could spit out thirty eight to seventeen either way. I think it could be a blowout either way. I just trust Texas's answer is a whole lot more, I guess, than Ohio State's answers. So, like many other people, I'm going to Texas to win and cover.

01:21:10
Speaker 1: I think the public would be like understanding if Texas was a thirty eight to seventeen winner. I think the public's a little more unforgiving if Ohio State's on the winning version of that blowout, they should be, especially with arch Manning like everybody and their mother, the use of the cohesiveness of the of the DC's and the head coach like everything.

01:21:27
Speaker 2: If there's going to be a blow it's has the Longhorns written all.

01:21:30
Speaker 3: Do you think Sark or Ryan Day needs the game more.

01:21:34
Speaker 1: That see that's where iileen favored in Ohio State. I think Sark needs the game more than Ryan Dates.

01:21:39
Speaker 3: I don't think it's close. I think it's sarked by ten mints. One guy just won a national title, right Okay, one guy if he wins Saturday, great, But like do the alternate scenario if all three of us are wrong, very rare. But if all three of us are wrong and they're flying back home and Ohio State just got the win, here's what Texas fans start to say. You, Steve Sarkis, had a shot against the Boer a couple of years ago in the playoffs, you lost to a lesser roster. You had two shots against Kirby last year. You lost. Then you lost again and they put their backup quarterback in at halftime because we not the starter at you still lost. You had a shot against Ryan Day in the playoffs, you lost. You just got another shot against Ryan Day, you lost again. Do we have a big game problem? Does our guy match up in big game? We don't play one hundred and sixty two games in football, we played twelve of them, so over the span of one Saturday. The narrative, which is an overused word, but in this case it fits. The narrative a round a guy can start to shift pretty radically, So you can say it's one game. People can say it's one game. All they want to go lose the game, not even a conference game, but go lose the game on the road in the shoe against number one or two, it'll be you know.

01:22:44
Speaker 2: The eight stock market crash. Yeah, back in Texas.

01:22:47
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it turns more to a Ryan Day situation before this past year.

01:22:55
Speaker 2: Which is worse because because I think Texas fans are crazier.

01:22:58
Speaker 3: But people would look at his roster. People look at Franklin's roster. They've never said Franklin's got a roster that compares to Ohio State. They got to squeeze every drop of water out of the rag to win a game. They would look at Texas and say, you've got an embarrassment of riches. You've out recruited everyone. You guys can portal like no one else. You've got infinite resources. If you can't get it done with all the resources at your disposal, it would in a way be viewed worse than James Franklin.

01:23:24
Speaker 2: Yeah, and a lot of Ferraris in that parking lot, a ton of them, a lot of them figuratively and literally. Yeah, there it is Texas across the board. I hope we seem right. I feel really good about the weekend. We do have our dog of the week Dogs of the Week, Dog of the Week. What we're doing on Dog of the Week is we're picking an underdog with the points so that way we can talk about a different game or a different team that's out there right now. Because the thing with college football is once you get outside of the big games of the spreads are a little more marginal. Outside of that, it's all double digit spreads. My money line, it's hard to look at the viewer and go, hey, guys, listen, I'm gonna take this underdog that's you know, plus fifteen and a half. Yep, this is why you should take him, and then you.

01:24:07
Speaker 1: Lose your good heart in mind, right, talking spread is trying to give you the best opportunity you will go first.

01:24:12
Speaker 2: I like Syracuse plus thirteen and a half. I don't on Tennessee not to win. I think Tennessee wins the game. But I like Syracuse plus plus thirteen and a half. I really like Fran Brown. He was the He was the dB coach at Georgia. Syracuse hires him to be the head man. In the first year at Syracuse. Look, nobody knows that Syracuse plays football up in the Northeast. He goes ten and four.

01:24:37
Speaker 1: Tell it to Troy Nuns do what Troy Nuns, legendary Syracuse quarterback coach.

01:24:43
Speaker 2: Okay, fair, but Syracuse historically they haven't had They just went ten and four with fran Brown's first year as the head man. And this is a guy that loves the smoke. Deon talks about, Hey, let's do you know we should we should be open up and being able to practice against other teams. You know, fran Brown's on the internet being like, hey, we'll be that team. NCAA shuts it down. But this dude, like he has the swagger right now. Currently they have a top twenty five recruiting class. Like he's talking athletes in the hey, Syracuse is the best place for you to play football. He's talking transfers at Notre Dame, Alabama LSU being like, hey, this is a better spot to play because he knows how to develop and get the most out of his talent. I like fran Brown a lot against. Syracuse hasn't had a double digit win season since two thousand and two, and he does it in his very first year. Will Howard was a big part of that. But again, this is a guy who can recruit and get people in there, and he knows how to develop guys. Comiccord my fault. They're both you know they're they're quarterbacks Ohio State. But I like fran Brown. I like Syracuse. I like the thirteen and a half against the Tennessee team, who they're going to be very good defensively, but I don't know who they're going to be offensively without Nico. And they got a lot of new faces across the board, O line receivers that are placing the running back. Uh So that's why I like Syracuse plus with the points plus thirteen and a half.

01:26:05
Speaker 3: I love it.

01:26:06
Speaker 2: You like that.

01:26:06
Speaker 3: I've been on it all week. Love it. Steve Angeli. By the way, new quarterback for Syracuse transfer from Notre Dame. Good player, competitive character of that team, trusted a lot. Tennessee's not pulling.

01:26:18
Speaker 2: Away on that.

01:26:19
Speaker 3: So Syracuse is going to cover that game?

01:26:22
Speaker 2: Oh wow?

01:26:22
Speaker 3: Yeah? No, I like it. I like it a lot, You like it a lot. I've taken in a strong position on Syracuse this, okay. I would also like to take a strong position on South Florida plus five and a half. This is a either a Thursday or a Friday game.

01:26:36
Speaker 2: I want you to know. I'm taking it about this game.

01:26:38
Speaker 3: Who they playing to playing Boise, They're playing that in Tampa. They are. Alex Golish is one of the coaches that I've had circled for a couple of years, Like Alex Goldish was the OC at Tennessee, gets the South Florida job, been down there a couple of years. He's he's taken Bama to the wire twice. That's probably the only time people have really watched him. I just believe everyone's looking at Boise and they just automatically pencil him in. It's either them, like you default to them as the playoff team for the G five, and if they lose a game, it's gonna be when they play Notre Dame. They're five and a half point favorite in Week one, not fifteen or twenty five. They're five and a half point favorite. I think South Carolina could be South Florida, both of them actually, but South Florida could be very sneaky there. So I'm gonna take them plus five and a half.

01:27:21
Speaker 2: I'm taking it.

01:27:22
Speaker 1: Fandal Fandal, Yeah, I don't know nothing about that game, And to be honest with you, I forgot when they had to do this until about forty five minutes before the show started.

01:27:29
Speaker 2: I threw a drop in the bucket here. I looked at Colorado.

01:27:32
Speaker 1: I said, there's been a lot of distractions in the Sanders family, A lot of distractions going on there. Shiloh's out there throwing punches on tight end guys.

01:27:40
Speaker 2: Dion just beat cancer.

01:27:41
Speaker 1: A lot of people not talking about the program of Colorado right now. I don't know who's their starting quarterback.

01:27:46
Speaker 3: It's gonna be Kayden Salter, Caiden Salter.

01:27:48
Speaker 2: Everyone knows about Kayden Salter. I don't even have to be He's salty.

01:27:52
Speaker 1: He's salty. He's gonna be salty out there. They're playing Georgia Tech. They're dogs by four and a half. I can see them being sneaky here covering that.

01:27:58
Speaker 2: I can see him ask me how.

01:28:00
Speaker 3: I have no idea.

01:28:01
Speaker 2: Do you know either? But this is one of the situations where.

01:28:06
Speaker 1: Forty minutes before the show, we had this and I was like, I got too much going on with the other five games. I got to make sure and get something out here. I like Theon, I love Deon, I like Prime Time. I think it's actually gonna help not having his kids on the team either from a distraction standpoint, they kind of get right to ball, focus on ball, not worry so much about nepotism, no disrespect, not so worried about nepotism. So I got let me get Colorado. Here's what parlay that weekly parlay?

01:28:31
Speaker 2: Do you like that? Pick it all?

01:28:33
Speaker 3: No, man, I don't know why it's so low. That's why I stayed away from it, because I love Georgia Tech. This year. I love the spot for him.

01:28:39
Speaker 2: Hey, Josh love he loves he sees him in the Action Championship.

01:28:43
Speaker 3: Yeah, last year they did in Dublin.

01:28:47
Speaker 2: And Dublin overtime.

01:28:51
Speaker 3: Rival the window the linebacker with they got everybody. Everybody's back with that horse, color back. Actually, I don't know if he's back.

01:28:59
Speaker 2: He's he's back, Mitch. Oh yeah, he runs around, He hunts in between the tackles, hunts. Don't get him dropping them comforts.

01:29:06
Speaker 3: Never seen in thin air though, never seen him play in thin air.

01:29:09
Speaker 2: That all right? Okay? Parlay weekly parlay. Yeah, I'm just trying to give us a no brainer. You want to talk to us about You want to talk to me about ball state?

01:29:19
Speaker 3: Yeah, not much, but I want to talk to you about ball State. They're playing Purdue. They're getting eighteen and a half. Purdue has eighty two new scholarship players on the roster. It's impossible to know what they have. Barry Odoms, the head coach there, there is no way that he knows what he has. Winning by ten is a great day for them. Saturday, they are laying eighteen and a half though, so I'm taking ball State plus eighteen and a half. It is one of my favorite bets of the end. It is my favorite bet of the entire week.

01:29:44
Speaker 2: Actually, oh really yeah.

01:29:46
Speaker 1: Okay, pain State is going crazyh Purdue, Man, I feel bad for Purdue.

01:29:49
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go Montana State. They're a plus twenty seven and a half versus Oregon.

01:29:54
Speaker 1: Why you ask, I don't know, because they were in their own national championship last year and I'm going fifteen and one. They got the stamp transferred justin Lampson. Good there, dual threat quarterback guy like that. Oregon last year they started slow. They put Idaho State and they only won that game by like three points.

01:30:11
Speaker 2: Took them only get that.

01:30:12
Speaker 1: Ball rolling a little bit, get them mobile into what they were towards the end of the year before they run into the.

01:30:16
Speaker 2: Busaw of Ohio State. Montona State's sneaky.

01:30:20
Speaker 1: I think Oregon's also a team that like they know who they are as a unit.

01:30:23
Speaker 2: They're gonna get up.

01:30:24
Speaker 1: Montana State's gonna keep their starters in there because they're getting guys film whatever, and then they're gonna pull their guys back.

01:30:30
Speaker 2: They're gonna let them play their game.

01:30:31
Speaker 1: Is gonna be a twenty one point win for Oregon, and I think Montana State kind of it's like, you know, more.

01:30:36
Speaker 3: Victory, good recall, good recall from the start last year, very slow start, very slow, very slow.

01:30:41
Speaker 2: I'm gonna ride with you, yeah, I mean, look, this is our parlay. So I got right with the boy. I got to back my boy. I'm thinking Oregon is his national champion, and then he's also he's going Montana State out of the Week one of college football.

01:30:55
Speaker 1: Yeah, Oregon, who also was the number one seed, won the Big Ten and then was in a dog fight with Idaho State and two other schlups.

01:31:03
Speaker 2: Was it Boise State? Yeah, listen again, I'm backing you. Trust you.

01:31:08
Speaker 1: Take a couple take a couple of weeks. Did Dante More get him dialed? In, have a couple, Hizer's always something in week one, stay healthy, always something going on a week one.

01:31:18
Speaker 2: I love it this one, this parlay ridy or Montana state plus twenty seven and a half Ball State plus eighteen and a half in the brask and minus six and a half. That totals out to plus five sixty eight on the Fandels Sportsbook. Gentlemen, what a time to be alive. Great show, great show, great show, great show. Make sure you subscribe, You leave comments, thank you for tuning in. Yep, have will and another emoji he got got this week. We'll see you. We can get next week. I don't buy the call. Subscribe rate.

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