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Inside the Hoosier Mind -College Football for Dummies 7 · Military Broadcast Radio | MBR Talk

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It is hot. It is in about the middle of
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July, which means we are about 6 weeks away from college football
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as well as the NFL, but primarily my personal favorite
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being college football. And with that I decided to come
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up with a series of College football for dummies.
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And this is supposed to be something that if you if you
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know someone or if you're friends with someone that they
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are a just absolute college sports nut, especially when it
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comes to football and football season.
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You wonder why can't we go to any, you know, fall weddings in
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October or November on Saturdays?
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Well, it's because there's more important things like college
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football about and especially big time matchups.
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So so that's what I decided to make this series about is to
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covering all of that all the way from the very basics of as far
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as what the offense is, how the offense works, the defense, the
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special teams. And then I started to move into
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the conferences. I started alphabetically.
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So I went with the ACCI went with the big the Big 10.
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Last week I did the Big 12. And now this week for the last
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the Power 4 conferences, I'm doing the SEC, one of the other
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big boy giant program giant conferences that essentially
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runs college football. And if you're if you know
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anybody or you're friends with anybody that's a big fan of
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college football, you'll have probably heard or know the SEC
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dominated college football. Now for probably close to the
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last 20 ish years. A good majority of the national
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champions came out of the SEC. My LSU Tigers having won three
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of those. Florida won a couple, Georgia
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has won a couple. Alabama has won a ton.
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Unfortunately, as is the case, Auburn won one in there, but
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none the less, it's a fun conference.
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It's a very deep conference. It's a conference that has a ton
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of history, has a ton of tradition.
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It has a ton of rivalries that going along with it.
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And I know I live in Indiana. I live in Big 10 country.
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I grew up watching the big 10. I still enjoy the Big 10, but
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none the less I still I still I still I still enjoy it.
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Joy. I heard Johnny Contra yes,
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exactly. But none the less, though, let's
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get into, let's get into the history of the SEC.
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Where did the SEC come from? When was it first founded?
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It is not the oldest, but it is old.
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It's older. It's it is the second oldest,
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just behind the Big 10. The SEC was founded in 1932.
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So it turns 94 this year. They do have 16 teams and they
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recently, well not recently, but they did a lot of their
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expansion as far as big expansion all the way back in
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the 90s when they brought in Arkansas, as well as they also
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brought in the University of South Carolina.
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And then they didn't expand again all the way until 2012.
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So they went a long time. A lot of their founding members
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are still with the conference now.
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They did have a few that believe it or not, actually left.
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Georgia Tech was a founding member.
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They left in 1964. Swanee, the University of the
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South in Tennessee, they are also a founding member, but they
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left in 1940. And then Tulane, the Mean Green
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Wave, they left in 1966. So those are the only three.
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So that's also where, and I'll get into this a little bit later
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when I start talking about the rivalries, but This is why if
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you're ever watching an SEC game and one of the big matchups,
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it's usually one of the last games of the year is Georgia
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Tech versus Georgia. It's because technically they
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did used to be in the same conference.
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Now they do obviously share the same state.
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They've continued that rivalry ever since.
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But nonetheless, Georgia Tech was a former member that has
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left and then since then the the conference stayed pretty much
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the same. Alabama was in in 1932, so it
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was Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, my school, LSU,
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University of Mississippi AKA Ole Miss, Mississippi State, and
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then the University of Tennessee and Vanderbilt.
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So like I said, they ended up adding the University of
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Arkansas in 1991 with the Southwestern Conference was kind
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of a little bit iffy. Arkansas, I talked about this in
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the last episode of the Big 12, but to give a little bit of a
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recap, Arkansas was kind of always the odd man out in the in
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the Southwestern Conference because they were the only non
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Texas school in the conference. So they were kind of left out
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there like, yeah, we want to go somewhere else.
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They actually already had a lot of natural rivalries in in the
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SEC to start with, especially with LSU.
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They had it, they could have it with Mississippi, Alabama,
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Tennessee, all of them. So it just seemed like an
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overall natural better fit for them.
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And then one team that joined that was a little bit of
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surprise was the University of South Carolina, the Gamecocks,
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the quote UN quote, original USC because technically it is older
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than the University of Southern Southern.
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Yeah, Southern California. Just saying, just throw it out
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there. It is older than quote UN quote
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USC. For all my college football fans
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out there, Joy I know lives in in Louisiana.
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So she roots for Tigers and she said go hogs.
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I know I'm technically allowed to say it because I do have a
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degree from the University of Arkansas and I'm working on a
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degree currently from Louisiana State University LSU.
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So Joy, you got to you got to tell me the story of why you
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also say go hogs as well as go Tigers.
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So you got to you got to tell me that rivalry in comments.
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So they they didn't expand again from 91.
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They expanded again in nine in 2012.
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Now there is a few rumors as far as who they were trying to get.
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Were they trying to get a few other teams again as conferences
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started to get a little bit little bit rocky and a little
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bit iffy as they kind of do every single every few years as
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far as new media rights deals, as far as people kind of being
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unhappy with revenue distribution and whatnot from
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those media rights deals and whatnot.
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So some of these conferences get real really iffy.
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Oh, you have Arkansas Rich Joy. OK, that's awesome.
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I will say I drove through Arkansas when I was leaving DC
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getting stationed out in Texas for my medic school and it's a
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it is a pretty state, but it's very, very long to have to go
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through. But I I didn't mind Arkansas and
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I have AI have a pretty good friend.
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He's from Arkansas and I remember he's a huge fan of the
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huge fan of the pigs. But they decided to have the
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University of Missouri or Mizzou in 2012 as well as Texas A&M.
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And Texas A&M was kind of the big one because they were
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leaving the Big 12. And it was kind of that weird
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moment of do they stay in the Big 12 or do they go somewhere
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else? Because part of it, the rumor
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is, is they wanted to get rid. They wanted to get away from the
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University of Texas. Like I said, the SEC is very,
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very rooted in a lot of deep, deep hatred and deep rivalries
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with us, US talking. Appreciate you, appreciate you
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tuning in. Some parts are beautiful.
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I kind of, I kind of think that way about a lot of states.
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Like I think Arkansas could be pretty.
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I mean, I know it's a fly over flat state.
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I think parts of Indiana are very pretty.
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But again, some people might argue that.
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I know there's some people are more, more fans of like
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mountains or the ocean or beaches or stuff like that.
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So I, I definitely get it. But nonetheless, though there,
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there is a theory that Texas A&M wanted to get away from Texas,
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so they decided to join the SEC. And again, they didn't expand
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really at all from any, any point moving forward all the way
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up until 20/24/2024 is when we probably saw the biggest
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expansion and a whole lot of moves for the first time since
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about 2014. Yeah, about 2014 with a Big
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East, which is still a basketball conference in
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college, but it's no longer a Football Conference when it
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dissolved. There is another massive
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movement, but not nearly to the effect of when the PAC 12
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dissolved. Technically, the PAC 12 is still
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around, but a lot. Pretty much almost all of its
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original teams except for two left to go to other conferences.
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But in 2024, two teams decided to leave the Big 12.
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That was Texas and that was Oklahoma.
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And it was kind of a big blow to the Big 12 because that was two
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of their biggest brands. The SEC was getting really two
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major bumps. They were getting the fact that
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they were getting two big, big, big major brands that were
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almost always considered national contenders.
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They were two big brands that have never had any trouble as
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far as recruiting in high school or recruiting people to come
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play for them in the transfer portal.
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If they feel that they're not getting enough starting time.
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If they feel that, hey, I've been sitting here on the bench
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for two years at the school, when am I going to get my turn?
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They could potentially come there, fill in any spots they
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could potentially come in and be a starter.
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So they were really good brands, really good money making brands
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to come over. They got the invite and they
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ended up joining in 2024. And so with all of that, the SEC
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now has 16 teams. So they're they're not the
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biggest, but they are a pretty considerably sized conference
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and kind of the really cool thing.
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And I'll actually bring it up here on screen.
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So if you can't see unfortunately, I would
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definitely say check out YouTube because I'm going to upload this
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on YouTube shortly shortly after this is done.
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So if you look here on the map, let's see if I can blow this up
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or make this bigger. Here we go.
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OK, so if you see where all of these all of these blue dots
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are, these are all different schools that are in the SEC.
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You have Alabama, you've got Arkansas, you've got Auburn,
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you've got LSU, Texas A&M, Texas, Florida, South Carolina,
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Georgia. I believe this is Tennessee,
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Tennessee, Vandy because they're closer to Nashville, Kentucky,
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this is Ole Miss, and then this is Mississippi State, and then
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of course, LSU and Mizzou and then Oklahoma.
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So like I said, they're pretty substantial and they make a good
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amount of money and they have a lot of quality teams and they've
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produced a ton of quality players over the years.
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You might hear this again, depending on who who you know or
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who you or who you're with that potentially likes and follows
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college football a lot. The last three years, the Big 10
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has won a national champ, has won the national championship.
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Prior to that, it was almost exclusively just the SEC.
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There's a couple times where Clemson won it.
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There's a Florida State win in there.
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Ohio State did manage to win one in there, but other than that,
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it has almost exclusively been just the SEC winning national
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title here within the last 20 years.
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Now, obviously the biggest exception being within the last
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three, the the SEC has unfortunately fallen short now
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in the NIL era. Now there's a lot of rumors and
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speculations as to why. There's a lot of rumors and a
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lot of coaches and a lot of people kind of get uncomfortable
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when this is brought up. There are rumors that the SEC
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was paying players prior to the name, image and likeness or the
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NIL era that is today, now that it is legal for that to happen
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across everywhere in the country.
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And now the argument is because these Big 10 schools who have a
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ton of money, who have a lot of alumni who are successful and
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donate to their schools now that they can pay the the play, the
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playing field has now shifted to the Big 10.
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Or honestly, in my opinion, it's become just a little bit more
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even of, you know, now you don't have the Georges and the Bamas
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having, you know, 3 and 4 five star product, you know,
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prospects, you know, deep in the roster layoff 1 starter goes
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down. We have a guy that's
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ridiculously talented and good. They can just immediately come
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in and immediately fill the shoes.
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Joy Yeah, so weird. I don't like it And, and it, and
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it is kind of weird It, it's one of those that I, there's some
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people that they get uncomfortable and they don't
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like the idea of like conference pride of light.
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And, and I do get it. And I, and it is kind of weird
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because of the SC CS roots and their traditions and how deep
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some of these rivalries extend that there is a conference
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pride, you know, like, if I'm like, I'll, I'll be completely
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honest, whenever Alabama's in the playoffs, I'm like, man, I
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want you all to be a first round X.
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It's so bad. Like for, for anybody who
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doesn't know, I, I have never been a fan of the University of
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Alabama, like ever. I have friends that go to the
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University of Alabama. I have classmates that I went to
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high school with. They graduated, they went to
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Alabama, they got their degree from Bama.
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Of course they're they love Bama.
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And for me, I've just I've never been a fan.
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I've never been a fan of Bama. I've never really cared for some
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of the the crazy fanatics that come out of Alabama.
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And honestly, you could make that argument for each and every
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single fan base of any school, any team across any sport.
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The Bama just in particular, it's Roll Tide.
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It is funny, I do have one of my favorite gifts is actually
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somebody decided to take the tide laundry bottles and roll
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them and it says Roll Tide roll. That's probably my absolute
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favorite gift that I love to use to troll Alabama fans is is that
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specific gift. But it the SEC is weird with the
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whole like conference pride because I feel like more now,
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because there's such a we need to prove that we are still the
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elite conference that we can still keep up with the big 10
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that they they've like shifted to this conference pride thing
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of like, oh, well, we're still the SEC, We're still the best.
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And like, that's again, just because of some of the rivalries
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and, and how deep these rivalries go and how intertwined
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this conference is to me. It's weird.
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And I will say too, to kind of go back into the history and
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kind of the setup of the SEC. For the longest time, the SEC
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would only do 8 conference games.
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So basically they would have eight games on their schedule
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out of 12 when they moved up to 12, which means they would have
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8 SEC opponents that they would go up against and they would
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play every single year. Now when it was small enough,
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you could basically rotate through everybody pretty evenly.
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You might have a couple one offs here and there where you
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wouldn't face the entire conference.
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Then as it expanded, then as it continue to grow, that has kind
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of moved away. Now they're moving into, I
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believe if I remember correctly, the terminology they use, it's
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like groupings. So basically one SEC team will
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have 3 opponents that they will play every single year
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consistently. And that's kind of more to keep
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the idea of these bigger mainstream rivalries going.
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So it's for example, like Texas, I believe they're three are
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Texas A&M, Oklahoma, and I believe, I believe the third is
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Arkansas. But I might be 100% wrong on
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that. Like one big rivalry, for
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example, that's probably not going to happen as frequently
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anymore is LSU versus Alabama every single year.
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And even though it's not the oldest rivalry, it is a rivalry
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that has gone on for a long time.
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And it's unfortunate because it's not going to happen every
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single year. Starting next year now, they're
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going to play each other, I believe every other year as far
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as how the rotation goes. But it is just kind of
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unfortunate. And so with that, these these
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rivalries in these games have always been so tight and so
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close. And again, that's where a lot of
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the hatred comes in. It's because like, yeah, we had
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to face these guys every single year.
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And if you ever go onto social media and if you ever see them
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interview, you know who's the most annoying fans of the SEC?
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I've heard Tennessee, I've heard LSU, I've heard Bama, I've heard
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Georgia. I've heard some Texas A&M,
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depending on where you live at. I've heard some from Auburn
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there. There's probably bigger schools
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that you don't really hear anything bad about their fans.
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Like I don't really hear anything bad about Kentucky very
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often. I don't hear anything bad about
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Arkansas, South Carolina. I don't hear much about Vandy.
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Even though Vanderbilt just recently became like really,
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really good or at least another couple years, they've become
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really, really good. You just don't hear as much
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anymore about it. But nonetheless, though, we'll
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move into the rivalry portion of it, probably one of my one of my
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favorite parts of it because again, these rivalries are so
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old. They happen every single year.
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And this is what if if I had to really put into words kind of
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the magic that comes with college football.
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It's the it's kind of the pride you get of bragging rights of my
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team beat this team. And I can't stand that team.
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I can't stand that school. I can't stand the stuff that
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they do. Like I said with Alabama, I hate
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the whole Roll Tide thing. My Roll Tide roll like and it
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and it was funny. And because there used to be a
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joke that I could always hear all the time.
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It was like, Oh, I'm, it's like, oh, where are you from?
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Oh, I'm from Alabama roll time. I didn't mean to hear the roll
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time part, but OK, now, now I, that tells me everything I need
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to know about you. And honestly, probably the the,
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the best part about this and this far is the best joke is
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there's ever anything about, you know, like families doing
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inappropriate of things with like other family members
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consensually. Let me do that there
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consensually as far as like cousins, brother, sister or
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whatever you want to go into. Again, this is a joke.
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It's a joke. The first immediate reaction
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that a lot of people have, or at least that I have, is real time.
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So yeah, that's what I always find funny.
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I actually said that to my nephew one time.
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I think our uncle was telling us a story.
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This guy in a, this guy in the apartment complex that he takes
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care of, I believe he said was married to his first cousin,
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first or second cousin. Nonetheless, I was like, yeah,
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there's there's too much blood in that water for, for it to be
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uncomfortable for me in the first, first time, my mouth was
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roll tied and my, my nephew just absolutely lost it.
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He just absolutely lost it. And, and, and I'm one of those
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people, like if I can get somebody to have a really good
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laugh, it makes me laugh just as much.
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Enjoy, commented Taylon Green. He was really good at Arkansas
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last year. I liked him as one of our
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clients bought $1,000,000 home here near Dallas before he
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graduated. That's awesome.
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I remember watching him last year and I loved watching him
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play. When I found out that he was a
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senior and that he was going to have to graduate, I was like,
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man, I would love to see Taylon Green like take one more step
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forward. Like like any contender,
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honestly, like I wouldn't have been happy if he went to Alabama
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because he would probably do extremely well.
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But watching him with what he was able to do at Arkansas with
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what he had, he was extremely electric and fun to watch.
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And I it's going to sound mean. It's one of those I don't
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understand why Cleveland drafted him because of their whole
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quarterback mess. But hey, if he ends up coming
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out and winning this starting job over Shedur, over to Sean,
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over to Dylan Gabriel, I won't be upset because I watched the
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kid in college. I thought Taylor Green was
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absolutely fantastic. No, I'm not going to sit here
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and say he's like first round pick, but he's absolutely a
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great quarterback. But let's get into some of the
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SEC rivalries here. So again, these aren't all of
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them. These are a majority of them.
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They even did a ranking. CBS did, CBS Sports did back in
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2024, right when the day before Texas and Oklahoma were actually
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scheduled to join the SEC because they joined July 1st of
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2024. So a little bit over two years
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ago to the day and they decided to rank some of the biggest SEC
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rivalries and how they kind of pan out as compared to some of
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the other ones. So the first one CBS Sports had,
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they had Texas versus Oklahoma, the Red River Rivalry.
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You've even heard, you know, Red River Shootout, which kind of
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depends on on I think who more of who's broadcasting it and how
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they kind of want to portray it more than anything.
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It is a huge rivalry in college football.
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This is one of those the Red River rivalry of Texas versus
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Oklahoma that usually happens in October.
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So that's again, if you, if you have friends that are hosting a
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fall wedding and it falls on that day, your significant other
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is probably they're going to be super upset or watching their
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phone the entire time. Same with whoever is getting
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married might also be upset that they're getting married if
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they're a college football fan in October.
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Just specifically for this game, a little bit of a fun fact about
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it. And your team has won more than
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4 consecutive games in the rivalry since 2004.
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So basically, Texas hasn't won more than four times.
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Oklahoma hasn't won more than four times.
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Now again, this is also a couple years ago, but Texas does lead
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the lead the all time series currently with over 60 wins to
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Oklahoma's over 50 losses. The second one, and it's
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actually the first year on the sheet, Alabama versus Auburn,
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AKA the Iron Bowl. This is an absolute is a big one
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because one of the few teams that could truly stop the coach
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that everybody considers the GOAT or the greatest of all
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time. And Nick Saban, that was one of
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the places he used to struggle with a lot.
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And even if you watch college game day with Nick Saban as he
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talks about this, one of the things he mentions is he does
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believe that Auburn Stadium is haunted, that there's some type
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of voodoo ghost magic there because Auburn, because Alabama
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would always struggle against Auburn and it doesn't matter.
25:55
That's kind of the great thing about rivalries and especially
25:58
in the SEC when it's a big time rivalry like Alabama versus
26:01
Auburn, Texas versus Oklahoma, it doesn't matter what the
26:05
rankings are. If Alabama's ranked the number
26:08
one team in the country and Auburn's ranked, you know, the
26:11
the worst team in the country, it will be an absolute fight and
26:15
it will be absolutely close. And there could be an upset at
26:18
any point time and any given point there could be an upset at
26:23
these rivalries. And again, that's kind of the
26:24
most fun thing of think of it. And again, if you if you don't
26:31
like boxing, I'm trying to make the best comparison I can think
26:36
of it. Think of it kind of like if you
26:38
get like if you buy like a mystery box item, right?
26:40
If you purchase something from a store and they offer like, oh,
26:43
yeah, here you're going to get a free mystery item with your
26:45
order. Like, oh, what is it?
26:47
Could it be this? Could it be this, Could it be
26:48
this? You just don't know.
26:49
That's kind of the magic and the excitement of it.
26:52
That's how it is for rivalry games for college football fans.
26:55
I'm like, oh, how is this game going again?
26:57
Who is going to potentially win this game?
27:00
Because again, a lot of times depending on if the teams are
27:03
really good, if one's really good and one's really bad, it
27:05
can have a lot of implications for if the really bad team beats
27:09
the really good team or if they're both really good.
27:12
It could potentially be kind of like a knockout punch of what,
27:14
you know, if we win and you lose, you're potentially going
27:17
to be out and we're going to move forward.
27:19
And sometimes that happens too, like we're just going to play
27:21
spoiler because we don't want you to continue to move forward.
27:25
Now one that, believe it or not, I don't think gets as much
27:29
attention because neither team is they were big.
27:35
The one team was actually big last year because they were able
27:38
to make a playoff run and a pretty good one at that.
27:42
One of the first times they've been able to do that.
27:47
But it's it's a game that I feel doesn't get the attention.
27:51
I'm not going to say that maybe it deserves, but it doesn't get
27:54
the attention just because of the brands that are in it.
27:56
And that's Mississippi State versus Old Miss, AKA the Egg
27:59
Bowl. Again, it's the Battle of
28:02
Mississippi. It's one of those the
28:04
Mississippi State, not historically the greatest school
28:08
as far as competing. Old Miss, especially more
28:12
recently has been more on the up and up, but it's not exactly the
28:15
biggest, I would say sexiest, you know, draw of like, oh,
28:20
college football's on what's on. Oh, the Egg Bowl, like it's
28:24
really only big if you like have a stake in either one of those
28:28
team. Like if you're a fan of Ole Miss
28:30
or if you're a fan of Mississippi State, then you want
28:33
to watch it. Otherwise, it's kind of it's
28:35
another potentially good game. Maybe not that's on there and
28:38
we'll we'll rock with it kind of thing.
28:41
Florida versus Georgia. This is one that happens all the
28:43
time. I'm going to be honest, there is
28:45
a trophy name to this. I'm not even going to try to
28:51
unseat that because it's something or trophy.
28:55
And if I butcher this, I'm going to look like an absolute goober.
28:57
So I'm not going to do that. Apparently one of the other
29:01
names that is called those the World's largest outdoor Cocktail
29:04
party, it's typically it takes place in a neutral site in
29:08
Florida and it is one. It is an absolute, very heated
29:12
rivalry for an extremely long time and and it's kind of been
29:16
one sided year lately because Georgia has won a majority of
29:20
the matchups here lately. Another one we have Auburn
29:23
versus Georgia. It's supposed to be the South's
29:25
old Deep South's oldest rival. It says, as the nickname
29:30
suggests, there's a considerable history between the two.
29:33
It's tied with North Carolina and Virginia as the South's
29:36
oldest rivalry for the second most played series in the FBS
29:41
behind only Wisconsin and Minnesota's annual battle for
29:44
the Paul Bunyan's Axe. Not only is it old, but Auburn
29:48
versus Georgia's typically hotly contested.
29:52
Although Georgia has ruled in the modern era.
29:54
You don't have to look too far back of, you know, Auburn being
29:57
able to compete with them pretty, pretty regularly.
30:01
And Georgia does lead the series in that one that has just
30:05
recently become a rivalry again. It did stop when Texas A&M left
30:10
the Big 12 to go to the SEC, mainly because they didn't want
30:15
to schedule each other. And again, I don't know if it's
30:17
one sided or not, but Texas versus Texas A&MAK the Lone Star
30:23
showdown, we were able to get that back I believe a couple
30:27
years ago, maybe even that was it was a couple years ago.
30:30
It was like their first year back, we were able to get it
30:33
back into the fold. And Texas ended up beating Texas
30:37
A&M last year, too, and then they're going to face again this
30:39
year. So it says Texas and Texas A&M
30:44
hadn't seen each other on the field in 13 years until Texas
30:50
moved to the SEC as well. Only three rivalries in the SEC
30:53
have more than 118 games between the Longhorns and the Aggies,
30:59
and apparently the feelings are so intense that each school
31:02
mentions the other in its fight songs.
31:05
They did the comparison of college football's version of
31:08
Kendrick Lamar versus Drake beef, and Texas leads the series
31:13
by a large margin with almost eighty wins and Texas A&M's just
31:20
under 40. Joyce says Texas.
31:22
Texas A&M sucks I or is it Texas or Texas A&M?
31:26
Because I'm going to be honest with what Texas A&M did to LSU
31:31
last year and honestly even the year before that, but especially
31:34
last year, I am not a fan of the whole gigamaggies like Texas
31:38
A&M. If they lose like six games and
31:42
can't even go bowling, I'm OK with that.
31:45
Doesn't hurt my feelings. Another one that is probably
31:52
Texas. OK, gotcha.
31:55
So one that I feel is probably one of the biggest.
32:00
And to me, I feel like they've amplified it even more ever
32:04
since 2022. Now, I know that's been four
32:07
years ago, but the hidden hooker LED Tennessee Volunteers team
32:13
Alabama comes in, It is absolutely hyped on college game
32:17
day. Pat McAfee is absolutely rooting
32:20
for him. Peyton Manning and Tennessee
32:21
alumni is absolutely rooting for him.
32:25
You know, the, the, the atmosphere and everything even
32:27
on TV was absolutely crazy. But Alabama versus Tennessee the
32:32
third Saturday in October. Alabama has won a majority of
32:37
the contest stating all playback to 2007 and Nick Saban's first
32:43
season in Tuscaloosa. And but prior to that, Alabama
32:48
only held about A5 game-winning, you know, 5 game wins ahead in
32:53
the series. And Tennessee actually held a
32:57
majority of the lead from the 90s all the way to the 2000s.
33:01
But as it currently stands, Alabama leads, I believe now
33:05
with the last couple of years, they lead over 60 to I think
33:09
Tennessee's 40. If I did my, if I did my math
33:13
right, Joy. I'm a sucker for a smart Aggie
33:16
engineer. I mean, they're an engineer.
33:18
Like they're smart. I mean, that's just smart right
33:20
there as far as them being Aggie, but I do get it.
33:28
One of the other ones that again I feel is personal and then
33:31
again it just kind of adds to my dislike for Alabama, Alabama
33:35
versus LSU the first Saturday in November.
33:39
Now to also give you an idea of the SEC and a lot of these
33:43
conferences, there used to be divisions and for the for the
33:47
SEC, it was the SEC West versus the SEC East.
33:51
And geographically, for the most part, that made sense until
33:55
Mizzou and Texas A&M came in and then they made it weird.
33:58
So I'm not going to try to explain that and make it
34:00
confusing because I want to be 100% honest.
34:02
It doesn't really make sense because they didn't want to
34:04
move. They didn't want to move teams
34:05
that were already in the SEC West over to the SEC East where
34:08
it would have made more sense. So they kept one in the SEC
34:11
West, but then they moved to technically W team over into the
34:15
East and it just, it made no sense.
34:17
I'm not. I'm not going to try to confuse
34:19
anybody or do anything with that.
34:23
So to give you an idea, so the SEC West existed for over 32
34:27
years. Alabama and LSU combined to win
34:29
that division 22 times between both of them.
34:34
So you got to think there's only 10 years where another team won
34:38
the SEC West that wasn't named Alabama or LSU.
34:42
And then one of those two teams had made it to the SEC
34:45
Championship in the last few years as well.
34:48
Typically recently, it's been more either Georgia or Alabama,
34:53
but LSU has been one of the few teams that has not only been
34:55
able to sneak in there, but also been able to win it.
35:00
Both teams have been ranked in the AP Top 25 and 16 out of the
35:03
last 18 installments of the series.
35:07
And then for whatever reason, whenever they face, there's
35:09
always something big. Alabama does unfortunately hold
35:14
a hefty lead in the series with almost sixty wins.
35:18
LSU hasn't even broke the 30 mark yet.
35:20
Unfortunately. That's kind of the other thing
35:23
some people consider a very quote UN quote 1 sided rivalry
35:27
like that. Not really a rivalry.
35:30
Some do, some don't. It's it it kind of depends on
35:33
who you ask. Another one that can that can
35:37
say that concerns and contains my Tigers Florida versus LSU.
35:43
They've met only 70 times, but no one can say that they haven't
35:46
been eventful. It's hard not to route.
35:48
Love a rivalry that features a game in which Florida defensive
35:50
back Marco Wilson throws A cleat to 15, leading to a 15 yard
35:55
penalty and a 57 yard game-winning field goal for LSU
36:00
is also ridiculously competitive and has featured several clashes
36:03
between national championship caliber teams.
36:06
At the time, it was Florida versus Florida led the series 33
36:12
to 31. That was in 24.
36:14
I believe they're both one and one since then.
36:17
So if I didn't, if I'm doing my math right, I believe that would
36:20
mean Florida leads 34 to 32. And if I did my math right, my
36:28
Louisiana teams, I know, I know joy.
36:33
And then one that again, it's considered a rivalry.
36:39
It's very, very one sided. But from what I've heard and
36:44
even from what I've seen on on TV, just watching it kind of in
36:47
passing, Kentucky versus Tennessee, huge rivalry.
36:54
Kentucky historically in football has not been the
36:57
greatest. It's not like they're a
36:59
perennial powerhouse. It's not even like they've been
37:01
a perennial powerhouse in the last few years.
37:05
Tennessee unfortunately, hasn't made it to the SEC championship
37:08
game since 2007. Kentucky hasn't competed for a
37:12
title since the divisional split, but they just have an
37:16
absolute dislike for each other. One of them.
37:19
I know Tennessee typically has the orange white checkerboard,
37:22
and then Kentucky kind of copied that with the blue and white
37:25
checkerboard. And as it stands right now,
37:29
Tennessee has a very comfortable lead of again at the time, 83 to
37:35
26. I don't believe Kentucky has won
37:39
that match up against them in the last couple years.
37:42
Even if they have there, you still haven't hit the the 30
37:45
mark yet. So again, very one sided.
37:48
Tennessee, I will say is a fun fact, kind of one of the few
37:52
teams that in the SEC that I also don't mind and I kind of
37:55
root for just because of some, some good friends that we, that
38:00
I know some guys that I used to serve with in the military.
38:04
They, they either go to Tennessee or have gone to
38:06
Tennessee and they root for Tennessee having gone down to
38:09
Tennessee. I liked it.
38:10
My mom was born in Tennessee. So I have a lot of ties and
38:14
reasons to like Tennessee. And again, they're, they're kind
38:17
of one of those teams that I don't feel, I never felt like
38:21
the disrespect from Tennessee that I have from like some of
38:24
the other teams and whatnot. So Tennessee always kind of gets
38:27
a gets a pass in my book as far as SEC teams and who who I would
38:32
truly root for if LSU was out of the playoffs.
38:36
Who else I'd root for in the SEC?
38:38
It would probably be Tennessee. Another one that again, now that
38:43
Texas has joined into the SEC, it can be more of a a regular
38:48
rivalry, but it is technically an old Southwest Conference
38:50
matchup of Arkansas versus Texas.
38:55
I don't believe they have faced since.
38:57
Maybe they have since Texas joined, but Texas does leave the
39:01
series pretty comfortably. 53 to 20 or 56 to 23.
39:07
Another one, especially one, and again, if you're a significant
39:10
other who loves college football, follows it.
39:13
This is going to be an absolutely huge matchup.
39:17
Ole Miss versus LSU, the Magnolia Bowl.
39:21
Now part of the reason behind this.
39:24
LSU's new head coach Lane Kiffin was just previously the head
39:29
coach of the Ole Miss Rebels. So recently in fact, that he
39:33
left the team as they were going into their playoff run to go
39:37
coach the LSU Tigers. Now in Lane's defense, he did
39:40
want to stay at Ole Miss and continue to coach them through
39:43
the playoffs. However, the AD and the
39:47
president of Ole Miss didn't believe that one.
39:49
That was appropriate because they were afraid of Lane
39:52
poaching players to take with him to LSU, especially if they
39:56
had any eligibility and could transfer in the portal.
40:00
And old Miss kind of feels slighted because they were
40:03
willing to offer him the same amount of money that he got at
40:05
LSU. But Lane felt that the
40:08
resources, the brand power, the prestige, pretty much everything
40:12
that you would look for as far as intangibles, the log history
40:16
set up and the legacy of LSU was more attractive than Ole Miss.
40:20
Now he's since come out with some crazy stuff as to why he
40:24
left Ole Miss, why he had trouble recruiting there again.
40:28
That's it. I'll if you do the research, I
40:32
will let you be the decision of the judge of that.
40:34
I don't want to try to influence your your thoughts on it.
40:37
To me, it's just OK Lane, whatever you say like this.
40:41
This is just the beginning of the lane train.
40:46
But LSU does have a pretty comfortable lead, even though
40:50
Ole Miss did get the win last year, they've kind of traded
40:54
blows back and forth. LSU does lead the series with
40:57
over 60 wins to Ole, misses little over 40.
41:01
Another big LSU rivalry that they have is with Arkansas.
41:05
And again, they actually played long before Arkansas even joined
41:11
the SEC. They kind of played sporadically
41:14
all the through the years all the way up until 1992, when the
41:17
Razorbacks finally moved over in 91.
41:20
They the SEC even introduced a trophy, the Battle of For the
41:24
Boot, formed by the outline of Arkansas and Louisiana in 1996
41:31
to help bring some prestige in the rivalry.
41:33
Razorback fans have had plenty of animosity towards LSU, though
41:36
the feelings may not be entirely reciprocated with the Tigers
41:40
already full Ledger of sworn enemies.
41:43
And again, prior to the last couple of years, LSU leads the
41:47
series with over 40 wins to Arkansas's 20, a little over 20.
41:53
And again, another Southwest classic from the move you have
41:57
Texas A&M versus Arkansas. This one has been pretty regular
42:01
since Texas A&M joined in 2012, and they actually only put a
42:06
pause on it. And yeah, so they left for the
42:12
SEC in 91. The rivalry is officially put on
42:14
ice until 2009 when it was brought back as a Southwest
42:18
Classic. The name stuck following the
42:20
Texas A&M's move to the SEC in 2012, so it was only gone for a
42:24
few years. But since then, Arkansas
42:27
actually leads the series with a little over 40 wins to Texas
42:31
A&M's, a little over 30, and then again, another one of
42:35
these. It's a very one sided rivalry,
42:37
but it is there. Tennessee versus Vanderbilt,
42:41
there are two in state rivalries.
42:43
They've played each other for a long time.
42:46
They're right at 118 games and counting.
42:48
There are only four SEC rivalries that have actually
42:50
been played more than that. And technically, Vanderbilt did
42:55
dominate the early matchups 100 years ago, but has done well to
43:01
secure five wins since 2012. But the Tennessee's considerable
43:06
resources have created a gap in between the two schools that
43:08
might steadily grow in the NIL era.
43:11
No, I do remember, I believe last year Vandy was able to get
43:15
the win against Tennessee, but Tennessee still leads the series
43:18
by almost they're almost at eighty wins to Vandy's little
43:24
over 30. I don't have it on here on the
43:27
graphic, but it is, I guess, technically a rivalry.
43:31
This is one that, I mean, I've, I've heard of it, but it, it's
43:37
not really the, the first thing I think of when it comes to
43:42
rivalry. You have Georgia versus South
43:44
Carolina. South Carolina considers
43:47
Clemson's its biggest foe and of course the Clemson Tigers are in
43:50
the ACC. Georgia and South Carolina don't
43:54
necessarily get along. It's very one sided.
43:57
Georgia leads with over 50 wins to South Carolina, hasn't even
44:02
cracked 20 yet. So it's not exactly a big
44:04
rivalry. Another one that's on here is
44:07
Mizzou versus Oklahoma. Again, they played a lot when
44:11
they were both with the Big 12. The annual series ended in 95.
44:16
They really haven't played each other months since 2011.
44:20
Apparently there was a rivalry trophy, the Tiger Sooner Peace
44:23
Pipe, and it went missing in 1975.
44:27
The Sooners lead the series pretty easily.
44:30
Six with over 60 wins, almost 72.
44:33
Masseuse little over 20. Then you have Arkansas versus
44:37
Mizzou again, they they liked clinging to a lot of the more
44:41
geographical rivalries and whatnot.
44:42
It's conceived the battle line trophy and Mizzou has won eight
44:47
of the last 10 games and Mizzou actually leads the very kind of
44:51
actually short small series. I thought this would be a little
44:53
bit longer. Mizzou leads over ten wins to
44:57
Arkansas only has four now. Again, that might have changed
44:59
the last couple years. I don't remember off the top of
45:01
my head, but it is possible. And then one, oh, I actually
45:07
failed to put this on here, darn it, I thought I did Mizzou
45:11
versus South Carolina, the Mayor's Cup.
45:13
And again, this mainly happened because Mizzou transitioned into
45:16
the SEC. And if I, if I do remember
45:19
correctly, Mizzou was the quote UN quote western team that they
45:23
moved over to the SEC East. And then as a result, that means
45:27
they were going to face a lot of the SEC East teams like South
45:30
Carolina. It's also known as the Battle of
45:33
Columbia because there are two of the few universities that
45:36
they are named in the exact same cities, just a completely
45:39
different states. Because you have Columbia, SC
45:43
and you have Columbia, MO, where both of these schools play and
45:47
are hosted at. Apparently Mizzou needed to
45:51
manufacture some bad blood when it left the Big 12 behind and
45:54
hopefully grow some roots into the SEC transition.
45:58
And Mizzou currently leads to series 9:00 to 5:00, and that
46:01
was back in 2024. So again, the SEC is probably
46:08
one of my favorites. Don't be wrong, I like the Big
46:11
10. There are rivalries there.
46:14
But for me, the Big 10, it feels like there's only a couple
46:18
really deep hated rivalries here and there, like Michigan versus
46:21
Michigan State, Ohio State versus Michigan, Wisconsin
46:26
versus Minnesota. You have Wisconsin versus Iowa
46:29
versus Nebraska, Nebraska versus Iowa, like kind of more of
46:33
those. But then after that, you could
46:36
say Iowa or not Iowa, Indiana versus Purdue, it's like that.
46:40
That's kind of deep. But again, that's more just for
46:42
like fans here in Indiana. So the, the rivalries to me
46:48
aren't as deep in like hatred as it is for the SEC.
46:53
And that's probably what I like about it the most.
46:54
And that's what a lot of people care for the most with the SEC.
46:58
It is that it, it values more of the traditional college football
47:02
of what a lot of us have grown up with, what a lot of us
47:05
watched for. You know, the last 20 plus years
47:09
has been SEC football. It's been the SEC, it's been
47:12
more of the, the consistent kind of the the thing that when you
47:17
turn on the TV, no matter how much the world changes, the SEC
47:21
is still there and the SEC still does what the SEC does.
47:24
So that is all of the Power 4 conferences, the ACC, the Big
47:30
10, the Big 12 and the SEC. I'll be honest, I have a few
47:36
ideas of what I want to do next week to hopefully keep the
47:40
college football for dummy series going.
47:44
If you want, let me know in the comments what you think.
47:47
You're on YouTube, Facebook, Spotify, wherever you get your
47:50
podcasts. You can connect with me anywhere
47:52
on social media. Let me know what you think if
47:56
you would want me to do an episode.
47:57
As far as the group of 6 conferences, and when I say
48:02
group of 6, there's so many I'm going to try to remember all on
48:05
top of my head. There's the PAC 12, there's the
48:08
AAC, there is the Sunbelt, there is the, here's Conference USA,
48:16
there's the Mac, there is the Mountain West Conference, there
48:22
is the Mountain West AAC, PAC 12, Mac.
48:30
I definitely feel like I'm forgetting.
48:33
So no, I, I'm definitely forgetting at least one, maybe 2
48:36
conferences that, that that's very, very possible.
48:40
I'll have them all if you, if you, if you, if you want that.
48:44
I even thought about doing an episode maybe to kind of discuss
48:46
the top 25 as far as where are some of the ideologies that are
48:51
behind that. I can also talk about some of
48:53
the independence as far as Notre Dame.
48:55
I can talk about the new College Football Playoff schedule as far
48:59
as what some of the rules are for being able to get in, get
49:03
into that. A few different things.
49:06
Let me know. Otherwise, I may just kind of
49:08
end the College Football for Dummies series here.
49:12
We'll have a few few more episodes in between now and
49:14
then, of course, when the season first starts, may even take a
49:17
little bit of a break in there. We'll kind of see.
49:19
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We're heading down a trail. We're good.
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Stories dwell.