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Honey, it's Week 7... FULL PREVIEW, TOP 25 POLL, & MORE · Honey, It's Saturday

• Honey It's Saturday: Hey y'all, welcome back to the Honey It Saturday show. I'm Mitch Williams and I'm here with Sam Grant. We're coming back to you. This is our week seven preview. College football is in full swing. I'm on the injury report. If you cannot tell, those of you listening on podcast, you won't be able to see this. But I am currently in a sling on the IR, had my labrum repaired on Monday. Feeling good. I got off the pain meds today, so my mind is clear. I'm not in Sam: Okay. Honey It's Saturday: a ton of pain. The swelling is low. I think I'm ready for this, Sam. Sam, what's your assessment? You you were hanging around me last night. What was your assessment of the situation? Sam: Yeah, of the situation. I think everything with the surgery being on Monday to where we're at now on Wednesday, recovery seems to already be off to a great start. honestly looks a little bit better than I thought he would, feels up more, a little more energy than I thought. and I just wanted to just express my gratitude to you for clarifying right there that you are in a very clear and stable state of mind off the pain medications, because anything and everything that happens tonight from a pick perspective. Is the full and complete Mitchell Williams. Honey It's Saturday: Yeah, I'll take full accountability. That's me. Yeah, I I I appreciate that. Sam: I I was just thinking in my head, I was like, Hey, th there could be a little bit of a hesitation of hey man, I'm still on the paid meds. Like I totally would have picked Indiana for this game. Honey It's Saturday: I might pick Indiana anyways. We'll see. We'll have to get there. but yeah, Sam: Ha ha. Honey It's Saturday: yeah, that's a good clarification. We're happy to be back with you guys. Obviously, we have a ton to talk about. We're going to go through the full slate of games we're going to pick for the week. It's loaded. We're going to go through our pick seven as we always do on these preview shows. We're also going to go through our top 25. The Honey It Saturday poll, week seven, has been, or week six, I guess, through week six has been released. Sam and I put our composite poll together. this week and we've got it for you. Before we get into it, I want you guys to double check, see if you're subscribed, whatever platform you listen on or watch, please make sure you subscribe, interact with us, hit us up on our social medias. We really appreciate you guys. And again, there's always a segment, especially at the end of these shows, where we go through our social media engagement and do a little bit of mailbag content. So your interaction doesn't just mean something to us. You actually can land a spot on these shows. So we we appreciate it. But Sam, Sam: That's all right. Honey It's Saturday: I think we should tackle this top twenty five five spots at a time. Sam: all right, so here is the the top five teams that we got in the Honey It's Saturday poll. just as a reminder, this is Mitch and I's rankings, both separate, combined together and put together as this this poll itself. So we have the Georgia Bulldogs number one, Miami's two, Indiana's three, Notre Dame is four, and the Alabama Crimson Tide are the five. Honey It's Saturday: Yeah, so we have some pretty significant movement from last week. Obviously, we had a different number one. Texas was riding up there. They were sitting off of, you know, that Ohio State win and the Tennessee Tennessee win on the road. There really wasn't anything you could do to take them off it. It wasn't fully convincing, but there was no reason for them not to be in that spot. And then clearly with everything that went down this past weekend, there's a lot of shakeup. I think for me, because we both do these polls individually and then combine them, like Sam said, I I think for me, the first thing sticks out to me really is Indiana seems like three might be a little bit high. What what do you think about that? Sam: Yeah, I mean Indiana at three man, I think I think they've honestly, for me, gotten a little bumped up based off that Northwestern win. I know that was kind of their first marquee matchup and you and I looked at that as like, okay, Northwestern kept it close. But I I think Northwestern's proved to look like a really good football team this year. much better than I expected. I think the Nebraska team is really good too. I think they deserve to be in the top twenty five. I don't think they snuck into the actual A P poll itself. But a little bit of a teaser. They are our twenty fifth ranked team in the Honey of Saturday poll. so they got a big one this week in Oregon. And I I think they're gonna continue to go up in the Big Ten ranking. So I think honestly it's just their quality of competition has escalated a little bit more than like what we would have thought of those teams. Honey It's Saturday: Yeah, and I mean they haven't lost. So it's Sam: That too, yeah. Honey It's Saturday: at the end of the day, they haven't lost. And so we'll just continue to see what happens. Obviously, they have a huge one this week at home against Ohio State that we'll talk about plenty today. Speaking Sam: Yeah. Honey It's Saturday: of Ohio State, you may have noticed they were left out of our top five. Don't worry, we've got a six through ten, and that looks like six Ohio State, and then we've got BYU at seven, Texas falling from one to eight, Ole Miss at nine, and Texas Tech at ten. Anything here that you want to discuss, Sam? Sam: no, not necessarily. I mean, I think Ohio State's just they're they're kind of on the outside looking in just because of that one loss to Texas. And it'll be interesting to see how that Texas loss looks as the year goes on. 'cause Texas has a gauntlet of a schedule. but they got they got a big chance this week to kinda I think jump some of these teams if they get a big win in Bloomington this weekend. But everything else here I'm I'm honestly okay with. There's nothing that really is like Nothing that's really huge for me that I would be like, Yeah, that's kinda seems egregious. Honey It's Saturday: No, I agree with you. And another team that's got a prove it point this week is BYU. And they've got Notre Dame at home. So they have an opportunity to make a statement. There's a lot of very interesting statement opportunities this weekend that we'll talk about. But I think as of right now, I'm fine with these rankings. Ole Miss at nine, their resume is solid. The loss to Florida does look a little bit worse each week. So we'll see what happens with them. But again, all of these teams are gonna have to continue to prove it on the field. So I have no issue putting Ole Miss at nine right now and then letting them play it out and see what happens. We've got eleven through fifteen. Sam, you want to read those out? Sam: Yeah, so we got UCLA at eleven, Utah at twelve, Missouri at thirteen, Kentucky at fourteen, and Mississippi State at fifteen. Honey It's Saturday: UCLA jumping all the way to eleven. I think they were twenty five in our poll last week, if I'm not mistaken. So Sam: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah, it's UCLA is a hard one for me because I agree based off their play against Oregon, they should be up here. I just don't necessarily know what to expect from them for the rest of the season. And obviously I can't, I'm not gonna judge them based on what what to look for without Nico at quarterback and kind of some of the changes that are coming around there. But based off these first six weeks, I think they deserve to be at that spot. Honey It's Saturday: Yeah, I think they definitely deserve to be somewhere in this range. And I really wouldn't have a problem wherever you put So I'm not going to argue too much. I just think eleven's a pretty significant jump, especially for an ugly it was a great win on the road at Oregon against a physical and talented team, but also an Oregon team that has struggled. So I wonder if we're maybe giving them a little bit too much credit, but who knows? they look good. Missouri's at thirteen. They've looked like a really good football team. Kentucky continues to grind out those games. So this is where you get to that middle of the pack and it gets very interesting. And then Sam: Mm-hmm. Honey It's Saturday: speaking of that, sixteen through twenty, Tennessee is sitting at sixteen, Iowa seventeen, Oklahoma State is at eighteen, Wake Forest is at nineteen, and Houston is at twenty. That Oklahoma State Houston ranking is actually, I think, in complete alignment with the AP poll. It's a really interesting top twenty matchup this week too that we're gonna go over today. Sam: Yeah, I think honestly, again, I know I've had my my doubts with Houston, but I am a little bit surprised Houston is as high as they are. in our poll and and honestly I think I probably had them probably about this height. But kind of looking at it now, seeing our combined just quality of loss from Houston compared to Oklahoma State. I think Houston should probably be in front of Oklahoma State. maybe even up there with Iowa, 'cause their only losses to a top ten Texas Tech. Honey It's Saturday: And it was a very close competitive game at Texas Tech too. So Sam: Mm-hmm. Honey It's Saturday: yeah, I I could see that. And I mean at the end of the day, they're gonna play it out. But yeah, I could see that as well. Sam: Yeah, we'll find out this weekend. Honey It's Saturday: I actually think in my rankings, we'll go through some of the discrepancies we had, but I think in my rankings I did have Houston above Oklahoma State, which I'm sure anyone who listens to this podcast won't be shocked by, just based off my Houston stance the past couple weeks. and then to round out our top 25, we've got USC at 21, Boise State is 22, LSU stays in the rankings with those two losses at 23, and then SMU is at twenty-four. Anything there for you, Sam? Sam: Nebraska's at twenty five. Honey It's Saturday: sorry, we did mention Nebraska being at twenty five earlier. I did not intentionally leave that out. Sam: Yes, this is a top 25 poll, not top 24. Honey It's Saturday: Thank you. Thank you. Well you did hey, you did you did give them the sneak peek earlier, so they already knew. Sam: That's fair. Yeah, man, I think the thing for me is I really didn't know what to do with LSU. I I I there was no teams that were kind of left out of the poll that I would have put in over them. but I I just think with their injuries and already having two losses, I mean, they're the only two loss teams that's in this poll. or any poll just throughout. So It was kinda hard to figure out who maybe jumps them just with two losses, but they were they were one that I've struggled with on kind of how to how to organize them within Honey It's Saturday: Yeah. Sam: the rest of the pack. Honey It's Saturday: Yeah. I mean, there was one team you've already mentioned earlier that I actually I think I did have ranked over LSU in this poll. Because I did not include LSU in my top twenty five rankings, and that was Northwestern. I felt okay with putting Northwestern at that twenty five spot in my rankings, I believe. I would have Sam: Yeah. Honey It's Saturday: to go back and look at exactly what I did, but I mean again, either way, we we're gonna see these teams play the rest of the season out and see what happens. Sam: Yeah, definitely. and so there Honey It's Saturday: So just to to Sam: you go. Go ahead. Honey It's Saturday: To just to recap the major major changes from our first Honey at Saturday poll last week into what we did this week, the biggest changes. So UCLA rose from twenty-five to eleven. They went up fourteen spots. Kentucky went from twenty-three to fourteen. They rose nine spots in one week. Wake Forest, five spots from twenty-four to nineteen. And then Indiana rose from seven to three. So th those are our biggest risers. Sam, you can talk about our biggest fallers a little bit and then we can have a brief discussion about what we disagree on the most. Sam: Yeah, so LSU dropped ten spots. They were thirteen last week and are now at twenty three. Texas was obviously number one, dropped to eight in our poll. I think that's where they're at in the A P poll as well. Oregon was number fourteen and they were out of the top twenty five for the Honey and Saturday poll. Florida, fifteen, same thing. And Pittsburgh was a twenty last week and they were out of the poll as well. and some of the newcomers this week are Boise State, SMU, and Nebraska. Honey It's Saturday: Yeah, there's a lot of movement going on, which I I love. I appreciate it we can be reactionary. It's a it's a poll. We're supposed to do this based off these teams' resumes, and the resumes change week to week. So we can be reactionary. And I I think we've I would say done a pretty good job this week. And I'll I'll take feedback from the Peanut Gallery and the comments and everything else. But you know, as far as I'm concerned, again, we've talked about this before. We have a flawless poll. We're better than the AP. When we do our breakdowns of our our games to watch this week, by the way. We'll include the A P ranking. We're also going to include what the Honey It Saturday poll rankings would be for the matchups. Cause I just I prefer to look at it that way through the Honey It Saturday lens on the Honey It Saturday podcast. I don't know how you feel, Sam. Sam: Yeah, I mean, if you're not looking at the Honey It Saturday poll, I really don't know what you're doing. That's the only true, completely accurate poll that you're gonna find out here. Honey It's Saturday: Yeah. Yeah, I I think so. And I mean, we talked about what we do agree on and what we disagree on a little bit. We've already talked about LSU, so I don't want to talk about that much more. I want to talk about SMU. I have SMU ranked twenty two in my individual poll, and you have them just outside of your top twenty five. They ended up at, I believe, twenty four in our poll, if I'm not mistaken. And I have Sam: Mm-hmm. Honey It's Saturday: no issues with you leaving them out of your top twenty five. It's not like they're solidly in my rankings in the first place, but I just want to hear why you have a one loss SMU team outside of your top twenty-five. Sam: Yeah. I mean, I think for me, Kevin Jennings just turnover wise to continue, I think will he's I think he's a really good quarterback, but those kind of continue to be issues to where you play the right defense and the right offense to kind of combat with them, it's it's gonna kind of line up to be a disaster. their one loss is Louisville and Louisville is kinda fallen off a cliff here recently. defensively, I think they're getting better as time's gone on, just kind of with the new staff over there. But there's just nothing that I've seen from them at this point. that I would compare it to like Nebraska or somebody like that, like who I think would probably has shown more on tape to deserve Honey It's Saturday: Mm-hmm. Sam: to be in that top twenty five. So again, I think SMU's a good team. I think they still have a chance in the ACC, but outside of Louisville, they've kind of in Old Miss obviously there's been a little bit of a lack of competition to where it's hard for me to kind of really want to skyrocket them into the top twenty five or I'm kind of feel comfortable with where they're at right now. Honey It's Saturday: Yeah, they haven't blown me away either. Only reason I didn't drop them out is because I've already kind of had them in my top twenty five, and I'm not gonna drop out until they, you know, stumble again and maybe drop that second game and who knows, maybe a third game this year. Their schedule's relatively favorable. They have, I believe, Virginia this week, which Virginia we all thought after weeks one and two were gonna be a pretty solid team. And then who knows what's happening over there. So That'll be an interesting one. But yeah, they have plenty of opportunity. I have no problem with you not having them in your top twenty-five. I just haven't found a reason to drop them out yet. Sam: Yeah, and that's fair. And that's why they're at twenty four for us. Twenty four, yeah. Honey It's Saturday: Twenty four. Yeah. Yeah. No major no major beef in this conversation. Just just something to elaborate on a little bit. Sam: Good middle ground. I like it. Honey It's Saturday: Yeah. Yeah. I think it's about time for us to get into our pick seven preview. So we we've done our recap. I'm still in the lead by, you know, just under a hundred points over Sam, but this thing fluctuates week to week very significantly. So you never know. It's been very competitive. We're gonna discuss who our seven teams have on the slate on the calendar for this weekend, how we feel about it. Sam, I'm gonna let you walk through yours first. Sam: Yeah, so Tennessee plays Alabama, which will be a I think a great matchup. Very highly anticipated game. Alabama is ranked high Honey It's Saturday: They're doing the color rush. Sam: they are, which is awesome. That's like the traditional like third Saturday and October color rush that I think they went away from. I can't remember exactly when it was, but I'll tell you what, the third Saturday in October actually, you know what? I'll save that for the preview. Virginia Virginia Tech plays Georgia Tech, which Georgia Tech beat Duke last week. So I really don't know what to expect from this team. but Virginia Tech's a nine and a half point favorite. USF played Honey It's Saturday: The only you don't have to worry about that. The only reason they beat Duke is cause I picked Duke as my lock of the week for the honey it's in the budget segment. I take full responsibility for that. I think I just have that effect sometimes, but don't worry. I won't I won't pick it again this week for you. Sam: Okay. Thank you. I appreciate it. USF is a twenty and a half point favorite over Kent State, which I need a big margin of victory from USF after two back to back losing weeks. Oklahoma State has a big matchup against Hooch Houston, which we'll dive into a little bit later, but Houston's currently favored by four points. Wake Forest goes two cal, and Wake is currently a 10 point favorite. Michigan State is a seven and a half point over underdog to Northwestern, which that line seems a little low to me. I would have thought kind of based off their plays it would be a little bit higher, but Vegas Honey It's Saturday: Mm-hmm. Sam: always knows something. And then Colorado State is a fourteen and a half point dog at Texas State. So some some pretty some pretty tough matchups for me. I think I'm underdogs and one, two, four out of my seven. Yeah. Which Honey It's Saturday: Four out of seven. Yeah. Sam: could be some good opportunities for some point point gains for me if my guys can have some good weeks. But it's it's a tough slate for on in week seven. Honey It's Saturday: I think it's a pretty tough slate in general because I'm about to get into mine and yeah, I'm sitting at a total of six hundred and forty-one points right now. Sam, I don't know if we went over your total five hundred and sixty-four. So there's some separation, but not much. It's about eighty points. And I I don't know. I think the slate for me this week is not super favorable either. So I'll go ahead and and jump into it. We've got Oregon who has been on the struggle bus a little bit for me. And they've got Nebraska coming to Eugene. So they've just dropped a big one at home to UCLA. They've got another sneaky Big Ten team and offense that's looking pretty good and a defense, actually, that's been good as well. Coming to Eugene this week in Oregon's favor by seven and a half. And I think that's probably baking in a Dante Moore return. I have not been able to find anything definitive as of today, including from Dan Lanning's press conference about his availability for this week. I just have to assume. If he can go and his head is cleared from concussion protocol, he will be on the field because the ducks are gonna need him. I and and regardless of the situation, it's gonna be all hands on deck. I think seven and a half, honestly, for me, is a little bit high of a point spread for this game, especially after what I saw from Nebraska this past week. I just I think this Nebraska team is pretty gritty. I think they're good. So I think Oregon's gonna have to fight this one out. It's gonna be another test. And you don't want them to drop a third game there. that would not be good for Dan Lanning and the boys, but Oregon's got Nebraska, Indiana, another tough Big Ten test. They've got Ohio State this week at home. They're three and a half point underdogs in this one. We'll we'll talk about these plenty when we get to our previews. North Dakota State has Nevada this week. They need a bounce back. They had a tough one against UNLV. It was close last week. They lost their first FPS level game. 14 and a half point favorites in this one. So hopefully they can get back on the right track. Cal, 10-point underdogs to Wake. That one, who who knows what's going to happen there? Cal actually has surprised me a little bit. After I had high expect high expectations for them going into the year, they surprised me with a couple of sneaky wins, but I don't know. Wake looks like a very good football team. Delaware actually has already played this week. How about this? midweek conference USA. They've already played. They played last night and they lost to Middle Tennessee 33 to three or thirty-three to thirty. So I did lose 13 points from that, but they only lost by three points. They fought hard. I'll take it. Oregon State, 17 and a half point favorites against Washington State. I've loved the Beavers. They are one of my favorite picks on my set. That offense I could watch all day long. JC LeGree, Atkinson, the whole I mean the whole squad, it's been electric. And then Sam Houston State is basically a pick game against Western Kentucky this week at home. So we'll see if they can get a win. That would be huge. But that's that's kind Sam: Yeah. Honey It's Saturday: of what I'm looking at. It's a tough slate, Sam. Sam: It is. I but I think you can win every single game that you have on here. Like, there's nothing on your seven that would besides maybe Yeah, with Honey It's Saturday: With the exception of the Delaware loss that's already in place. Sam: the exception of Delaware and honestly Cal, I don't think they can be wake, but everybody else I feel like is kind of a toss up. Who are kind of the poor the more closer point spreads. So you have some chance for some points this week. Honey It's Saturday: Yeah, well there would be some like like Indiana and Oregon have big chances, obviously. Because those Sam: Mm-hmm. Honey It's Saturday: are those are big games and Indiana, if they get that win, that's a ranked win for me. so you know, who knows what happens there. But yeah, I I don't know. It's just we're at that point in the season, Sam, it's kind of like you're trudging through the mud a little bit and you you just really Sam: Mm-hmm. Honey It's Saturday: gotta fight for it. Sam: Yeah, you really kind of find out who your team is made of or who your seven are made of. This is where it gets tough. Injuries are starting to rattle up a little bit. What's the what's the character? What's the culture? What's the what's the offseason program that's led them to this point to be able to kind of grind out these next couple weeks? So we'll we'll see where some of these teams are made of. Honey It's Saturday: Exactly. Exactly. Well, that gets through our preview of our pick seven. And before we get into our full slate and our pick-ems for this week and the eight games we're going to walk through, we have our overrated or underrated segment, our buy-sell hold of three top twenty-five teams in the AP poll. Sam, do you have it pulled up? Sam: So I have it pulled up, but I have three teams from the Honey It's Saturday poll. I feel like this is an appropriate time to make that shift. Honey It's Saturday: We can do that. We can do buy sell hold. I don't want to do overrated, underrated with the Honey It Saturday poll because we've already discussed this plenty. That poll is Sam: Mm-hmm. Honey It's Saturday: perfect. There's no overrated, underrated. So but we can do Sam: That's right. Honey It's Saturday: buy sell hold though. Sam: Yes. Buy sell hold. I think that's a good way to do it. So the three teams we got here are Alabama, currently is the number five team in the Hunter Honey of Saturday poll, Oklahoma State, who's the number 18 team in the Honey of Saturday poll, and the Kentucky Wildcats, who are the number 14 team in the Honey of Saturday. Honey It's Saturday: Okay. I like the three. I like the three. I'll tell you right off the bat, I am going to buy Alabama. Buy. Instant buy. I I think yes, they just dropped that one at home to Georgia. It was a great game. I think both teams showcased a lot. I think b both teams left a little bit to be desired as well. But I think Bama has proven to this point to be an incredibly talented team. I think they're going to continue to get better throughout the season. I don't think it's going to be Be a team where you get to the end of the year and you're like, man, I regret buying them in week seven. So I'm gonna buy Alabama confidently. I'm gonna hold Oklahoma State because again, I just think the upside in the Big 12 with what they can be, even though they've got a huge test this week with Houston. We'll find out a lot more. I just I love Mesti Maker. I love the offense. I think that they can get on the right track and they could finish really strong. I think it could be a strong hold. And Kentucky, it's hard to sell a team. That has just won back to back tough SEC overtime games. Like I've been very impressed with what Stein has been doing over there, with what Minchy has been able to do, their defense, what they've been able to do. I just think if I'm taking one of these top three and I'm I'm having to pick a Kentucky in the SEC or a Bama in the SEC or maybe an Oklahoma State, the Big Twelve, I just don't feel quite as confident in the longevity of Kentucky's season this year as I do in the other two. It doesn't mean the trajectory of Will Stein and the boys doesn't continue to go up and up and up over the next couple of years. I just don't think for this season I'm gonna buy Kentucky. So I'm gonna have to sell Kentucky. What what do you think, Sam: Okay. Honey It's Saturday: Sam? Sam: Yeah, it's a hard three because they're all teams that I'm I'm pretty fairly high on. but man, I I I as much as I hate to do it, I think I'm gonna have to sell sell Kentucky for me. I just think their stretch of games that they have from an SEC standpoint the rest of the way is really tough. They're gonna have to win Honey It's Saturday: Mm-hmm. Sam: some of these games and I I I think I think they're still gonna be really competitive, but they just they it's a hard stretch for a first year coach and a lot of just roster turnover and first year with the strength staff. So I'll just be curious to see kind of what that looks like. but I'm a South Kentucky. I am going to hold Alabama. I'm gonna keep them right where they're at, kind of at that five spot. I mean, they have one loss, but their schedule is pretty manageable the rest of the way. So I I'm pr for for the team that they are right now, honestly besides Tennessee this week, obviously you have a rivalry game with LSU and rivalry game with Auburn, but those teams up to this point do not look like they could compete with with Alabama. So I think I'll keep Alabama with where they're at and then I'm gonna buy Oklahoma State. I think they have Honey It's Saturday: Yeah. Sam: some some some good matchups coming up for them. Obviously a huge one this week against Houston. There's a really good chance for them to make a statement win this weekend and kind of continue to work their way up the ladder in the Big 12. but if I mean if you watch them play, they just continue to look better and better every single week at a rapid pace. So they're a team that I'm really excited to continue to follow, partially because they're in my pick seven, but they're also just a really fun team to watch. And they have a quarterback who's going to be a first round draft pick, who is just the way he plays, he he almost reminds me of Josh Allen a little bit. Honey It's Saturday: I could see that. I could see that. Yeah, I think the the hype around his draft stock has continued to climb. I think it was already kind of getting there after last year and what we were able to see from him. So I don't think that's a ridiculous comparison. Josh Allen had a pretty good performance this week, by the way. Sam: He did. Not not a not too shabby. Honey It's Saturday: Not too shy, but we're not an NFL show. So that's that's all I'm gonna say about that. I I like Sam: Yes. Honey It's Saturday: it. I think honestly, we're not too far apart on our opinions there. I can understand holding Alabama since they're already sitting up there at that number five spot and then buying the stock in Oklahoma State while you can get it. So I I definitely can understand that. I think that's probably a smart move. Sam: Yeah. But who knows? I mean, it i it's a week to week league or week to week college football landscape right now. it has been an amazing season and so many different kind of ups and downs. So you really don't know, which which just makes Honey It's Saturday: No. Sam: it so exciting that any g any given any any given Saturday, you have no idea who's gonna fall. Honey It's Saturday: You have no idea. And it makes these picks that we're about to do so much more difficult, does it not? Sam: Yeah, I did I there a lot of these picks I've gone back and forth with. I've lost a little bit of sleep over some of these picks. This is a fantastic slate, but man, some of these games are hard to navigate. Honey It's Saturday: Man, they're difficult. And before we get into it, we are about to go through our week seven slate and we're going to give you our full breakdown of all of these games. We're going to pick each of these games. And because of that, I do have to pay up. So my wife, Keaton, for the first time, outpicked me last week. I believe she went four and four. She may have gone five and three. Doesn't matter because I went three and five on my picks last week. It was not good, not a good week for the Mitchell Williams segment of this podcast. And so I'm going to go ahead and turn this hat around while we go through our picks. says my wife is always right. Sam's had to donate a couple of times. This is my first time having to break it out on the show. I I got no excuses for my performance last week. I just have to I just have to get better. I have to hit the lab and get better. And full full credit to Keaton for outpicking me. Good job. Sam: Yeah. The props to you though for making it this long without having to wear that hat. Honey It's Saturday: y it was bound to happen eventually. It was bound to happen eventually. So it might as well happen now. Hopefully I can avoid it moving forward, but you never know. You never know. Sam: Yeah. You never know. This and this is a week where there could be some turnover depending on how our wives pick. So we'll have to see. But Honey It's Saturday: Certainly can. Sam: we'll start off with our getting into this slate. The first game, the big noon kickoff. have Ohio State, who's the fourth ranked team and the AP poll in Indiana, who's number five. Honey It's Saturday, this is the Ohio State six, and Indiana's the number three ranked team. This is in Bloomington, Indiana. This is where I mean, this is just this is what it's all about. These are your top two Big Ten teams from last year. They're back to being the top two Big Ten teams this year. Mitch, take it away. Honey It's Saturday: I mean, what more could you ask for? You got a twenty-two game winning streak for Indiana on the line. You got a Big Ten title game rematch from last year, which was a very close one, thirteen ten in Indianapolis. I just there's so much that has changed on both these teams that it's almost hard to look at it as like that Big Ten rematch. But that at the end of the day, that's what we've got. It's these two top Sam: Mm. Honey It's Saturday: programs in the Big Ten going head to head. I think both have looked vulnerable at times this year. So I I I don't think either of these teams look to be unbeatable. And clearly Ohio State's not. They've already got that one loss on the road in Austin, but they've looked really good since then. Their offense is electric. How do you defend Jeremiah Smith? I don't I don't think you do. I think you do your best to contain them. I don't think you do defend them. And then for Indiana, you know, their six-no at this point in the year. Their offense to me still feels like it's searching for an identity. Because the run game was their staple up to last week. And then last week they go and play Nebraska and they run for 65 yards, but they still find a way to win the game, which to me was impressive because I thought it was their identity and they still found a way to win a game on the road against a really good Nebraska team. But at the same time, can you get away with a performance like that against Ohio State? I don't know. I think it'll be a lot more difficult. I think Nick Marsh running free like that, like he did on Nebraska. It'll be a little tougher for him to find space. He's a very good receiver in his own right, though. If we're going to talk about Jeremiah Smith, Nick Morris is very good receiver on this Indiana side as well. Hoover's looked great. He has not turned the ball over this year. Does that become a story? Does he finally, you know, do those interceptions that people talk about from TCU and him being a little bit reckless? Do those start to leak in at this point in the year in this type of matchup? It's going to be very interesting. I think at the at the end of the day with this one, I have to go. With my gut, and I'm gonna postpone telling you who my gut is gonna tell me until I hear Sam give his breakdown because maybe he can sway me one way or another. So, Sam, what what's your read here? Sam: Whoa. Yeah, this is a I I think this is probably the biggest matchup Indiana, the football program as a whole has ever had. Like biggest game ever coming to that campus. These are two very well coached football teams. Honey It's Saturday: On campus, you mean? Like not including national championship and all that from last year. Okay, okay. Okay, okay. Sam: Yeah, yeah, on on campus, like physically in Bloomington, Indiana. but y I mean, these are two of the most well coached teams in all of college football. Defensively for Indiana, dude, I d I don't know what they're gonna do with Jeremiah Smith. If anything you even do with Jeremiah Smith, if you completely bracket if you double team him the entire game, Ohio State has way too many athletes that are still gonna make you pay. and and I'm sure Jeremiah Smith has had multiple different teams kind of come at him with different ways and he still finds a way to get the football. Honey It's Saturday: Mm-hmm. Sam: Julian Saiyan has been very good with the football. He's very protective. Their run game's been pretty solid too. Indiana, it Hoover hasn't blown me away with kind of how he lit it up at TCU last year. I don't know if there's a little bit of some growing pains there that are kind of preventing him from taking that next step necessarily. But it's hard because I I have a lean in this matchup, but I there's my heart's telling me something different. So I I just don't know what the best way to approach this game. I think these are two excellent football teams. I think these are two teams that are going to make the playoff. I would be shocked if one of these two teams didn't make the playoff. but I I I kinda wanna circle back to you to see who you pick since you l since you led this segment. Honey It's Saturday: Fine, throw it back to me. I I'll just let you know. I just as an Indiana pick seven guy and I've got him in my set. I just haven't been super blown away by what they've been able to do. Yes, they've won every game. That's great. But I just I'm not confident in it. And I think this is probably I think they're gonna stumble at some point this year. I don't think this is a team that's gonna run the table again like they did last year, although I think it's a very good team. I think this is probably where they take that first loss. So I think they do go down at home. I think it's a close game. They're one and five against the spread. We've talked about it consistently the past couple episodes. I don't think this is the one where they correct that. I don't think they correct it against Ohio State. So I'm just gonna I'm gonna take Ohio State and I'll say they win by like a field goal or a touchdown or somewhere in there. Sam: Yeah. Yeah, that's fair. see, I I love your prediction. I love your pick with Ohio State. I honestly kind of share that same sentiment, but there's a part of me that I think this is where my my heart's gonna lead me with this. But I Signeti at this point, man, I can't doubt him. Like we we've seen everything that we've seen these past couple weeks and we've looked at it as like, okay, there's some vulnerabilities there. Ohio State has them too, granted. But there's some things that kind of seem like a little bit more like little bit more bright red when it comes to the Indiana Honey It's Saturday: Mm-hmm. Sam: Hoosier's football team. But Signetti, again, these guys are incredibly well coached. It's going to be a rocking environment. There's just a level of level of confidence and composure when these games come down to the wire that I've seen that we've seen with Indiana this year and last year. So I I'm going to have to roll with Indiana. I think this is honestly truly a pick'em game. Ohio State being four four point favorite is kind of interesting to me. But I I think Indiana sneaks this one out here at the end. Honey It's Saturday: I am a little surprised you went that way, but it is a pick game. I don't know why I'm surprised. I I just I can't wait to watch it. Big noon. I it is what it is. I feel like that's one that would be a great night game environment. But either way, that's gonna be a huge contest. I can't wait to watch it. We'll we'll just have to see how it plays out on the field. And our our next matchup is is very interesting. Very interesting. It's a little bit of a different dynamic here. There's some injury status that's in question at quarterback position for Mississippi State, but we've got Number sixteen, Mississippi State, going to play at number twenty two LSU. And again, in the Honey Saturday poll, that would be number fifteen, Mississippi, at number twenty three LSU. So that's just what we're looking at, just to clarify that. Sam, what are your initial thoughts on this matchup? Sam: Yeah, I mean, I think you look at this point spread right off the rip. It it this I think it really comes down to Kamario Taylor. I think he is part of the reason why that spread is so incredibly high right now. it doesn't seem like he's gonna play. There hasn't been anything official that's come out up to this point. Honey It's Saturday: Mm-hmm. Sam: but I think I think Vegas knows a little something when it comes to that. And I think that's why it is what it is. But for me, Mississippi State I don't think has enough offensively. without Camario Taylor to be able to keep this in this keep them in this game. I think they have a they have an improved defense at Mississippi State, but I think for how much and I could be completely wrong in Mississippi State's backup quarterback. Maybe he comes in, he's he's the next great Mississippi State quarterback. But there hasn't been enough of me for me to see him. And I I haven't watched a ton of his film to see what kind of his level of kind of where he's at in his career. So I I just don't think there's enough for Mississippi State if Camario Taylor doesn't play. And that's how I'm making this prediction right now. is if he is not playing. If he was playing, this would probably be a different answer for me. LSU, this has got to be a get back spot for them. They have to play with the sense of urgency with Hardy having two losses. This game's in Death Valley, granted, it's not a night game. But I think they're gonna be able to bounce back back this week on an in off an injured Mississippi State team. So I'm gonna go L S U on this one. Honey It's Saturday: Yeah, that's the thing, man. LSU, the the combination of factors in this one just don't bode well for Mississippi for me. You're uncertain about Camario Taylor, who is one of the group one of the best quarterbacks in the entire country. And LSU has their back against the wall with their two losses they've already got. They're coming off that overtime loss in Kentucky, and you're playing in Baton Rouge. I just think even though it is an early kick, it's going to be an 11 a.m. kick down there. I think even with with that, you're playing on the road in Death Valley. All those factors. I just don't think it it bodes well for Mississippi State in this one. I think their defense is really gonna have to step up. And I think Levit, this is an opportunity for him to make a little bit of a statement, say, I can beat you with my arm and I'm gonna go do it. Watch. So I think I think Levitt and LSU with their backs against the wall. I think they probably get this one done. Sam: Yeah. Yeah, I agree. And maybe this is something where Wednesday or I guess tonight is Wednesday when the availability comes out, or if we kinda get a more firm decision on Mario Taylor, we can do an emergency podcast just to kind of maybe revisit this game. But right now I I think you and I are both on the same page that that LSU is kinda gonna be the the way to go unless there's some big big adjustment with Mississippi State. Now we're kind of transitioning to one of the most historic rivalries in all of college football. The third Saturday in October, Riley Green and Peyton Manning made a song called Tennessee versus Alabama, which is wild. I would have never guessed that on my bingo card. that was something that very much caught me off guard this week. But this game's at 3 30 in Nealan Stadium. I wish I could say this was on CBS, but it's not. It's on ABC. Would love to hear that theme music again. But Alabama currently is sitting as a seven and a half point favorite. I believe this game started at eight and a half. So it's come down a little bit, but Mitch did I mean Alabama it's in the AP poll, Tennessee is fourteen, Alabama is six. In the Honey It's Saturday poll, Alabama is five, and Tennessee is sixteen. Honey It's Saturday: I think you're not gonna like me very much for my take on this game. I really do, and that's okay. I can live with that for for a little bit. I think the the really one of the only things Tennessee's got going for him here is that it's at Nealand. And I do think that matters. I think it matters a lot, especially in these type of rivalry games with so much tradition and history. And look, I never will write Tennessee off in this matchup. It's the third Sat Saturday in October for a reason. I've seen those goalposts end up in some crazy places. I just you never write it off. I just don't see it at this point in the year for Tennessee. I'd I'd need to see something on offense that I just can't see. Their defense, I don't have many questions. Tennessee's defense has looked great. Offensively, the pass game is an issue. And I think it's more than an issue. I think if you're going up against an opponent like Alabama, who was just tested by Georgia, yes, they lost that game, but they were tested. I don't think they look like a bad football team whatsoever. I think Keelan Russell's only gonna learn from that and get better. I just I don't like the spot for Tennessee. This is you may maybe it's one where all of a sudden you just completely break out the offense and all those question marks go away. I just have a really hard time seeing that. Really hard time seeing that with Tennessee right now. I don't the spread is seven and a half for Bama. I think that's a little bit low based off what I think is gonna happen here. I mean, Alabama Sam: Wow. Honey It's Saturday: Their games have gone, they've hit the over five out of six times. It hasn't really mattered who they've played. Tennessee, I know their games have been the complete opposite because their defense is so good. I just don't think Tennessee has played an offense like Alabama yet. And I think it's gonna be it's gonna be a tough scene in Knoxville. I think Bama's gonna get this one done. Sam: Okay. That's fair. I mean, I I I'm not a lot of what you said I think I'm kind of on on board with. I think Tennessee, they have won this game the last two times they've been in Nealan Stadium, and they've been two very different games. The f tw four years ago was an absolute shootout with Hindenhooker, and Bryce Young. Two years ago when we won, it was Nico Ilamal Ema Elamal Ilama my gosh, Iamaliava. That was wild. Honey It's Saturday: We're gonna have to mix that one, turn it in. Yeah, we're gonna have to sample that one. Sam: And Jalen Yeah. And Jalen Milro. And that was a very low scoring, like, defense just played great. I think that's one thing about Hypel is that he hasn't had the year where both his offense and defense are both fantastic at the same time, but he always finds a way to kind of counterbalance based on what the strength is. I think Tennessee's a really good defense. I think they are very similar to me in in regards to Georgia's defense. I think they gave a good blueprint for them on how to contain Keelan Russell, kind of get him flustered. This is a this is a game in Neeland. Like this is gonna be a f really big environment for Keelan Russell to be in. I'm uneasy just because of Tennessee I don't even know who Tennessee starting quarterback's gonna be this Saturday. Honey It's Saturday: I was about to ask you, it's a lot of talk. We haven't even talked about who Tennessee is gonna start at quarterback, and I think that's a Sam: No. Honey It's Saturday: pretty major question going into this game. Sam: It is. And I think I honestly wouldn't be surprised if we get a little bit of a two quarterback system. I think McIntyre's looked a little bit more confident in the pocket and kind of wants to be a little bit more not risky with the football, but not as hesitant with kind of letting it rock. but Fais on it just has the leg threat and hope maybe he'll it'll get comfortable. I mean, he's still 18 years old. Like he's he's adjusting, but at this point in the season, it kind of makes me uneasy that we don't have a starting quarterback. But we have Deshaun Bishop, who's a great running back. We continue to find ways to be able to run the football. Our defensive line, I don't know if you've watched Xavier Gilliam. He has he was a Penn State transfer. He is one of the fastest, has one of the fastest get offs from when the ball is snapped to engaging with the center, which is huge to me. Alabama doesn't have their starting center for this game. I think it's gonna be their backup, Honey It's Saturday: Mm-hmm. Sam: which I think little matchups like that can go a long way. Ryan Williams isn't gonna play either. I think this is Honey It's Saturday: Yeah, that's true. Sam: I think this will be a competitive football game. But I just there, I don't know if there's going to be quite enough from Tennessee offensively. I think it'll honestly be very similar to the Texas Tennessee game, to where defensively, like we they keep them in the game. Special teams plays a big role. But until I see something from Tennessee offensively, it's kind of hard for me to want to ride or have full confidence in picking Tennessee in this game. And Keelan Russell, he's gonna have some growing pains in this game. He hasn't been in an environment like this. But I think they do just enough to get it done. So I I I am on board with you. I think it's closer than what you said, but I think Alabama gets the one. Honey It's Saturday: Yeah, I mean we'll see. And I think too, Tennessee, the one thing I have liked about their offense that you pointed out is Deshaun Bishop Bishop in that run game. Bama's run defense, though, has looked so good. They're holding opponents under a hundred yards rushing per game. I don't and and I know Georgia was able to move the ball on the ground on them a little bit last week. So maybe Tennessee can do the same thing, but I just I don't know if it's something they're gonna be able to lean on to too much. That's another reason why I feel like I favor the tide. But you're right. Ryan Coleman Will Williams being out for this game and center being out for this game could make could make a difference. We'll see how much of a difference it will make. Sam: Yeah, definitely. And and one one thing I'll add is just I think with Tennessee, the quarterback play has to be there. Like Gunnar Stockton was efficient on Saturday. Like he did everything he needed Honey It's Saturday: Mm-hmm. Sam: to do. They they ran the football a lot, but when they needed a pass play to be able to open it back up and not have them just fully commit to the run, they did that. So if there's some of those throws, there's I mean, there's a chance for Cennessee to win this game, but again, I I have to see it right now and Alabama's the team I'm I think that this is this is your three thirty on ABC kickoff. This is one that's the next next game is on the SEC network, which I think this has the potential to be the best game of the entire weekend. Honey It's Saturday: It's crazy that this game is on SEC network. It really is. Sam: Yeah. Like why why can't this be spe spread out? Like this would be a fantastic game that's not buried down the list in this week's slate, but too much depth. Honey It's Saturday: There's too much depth. Too much depth to the slate. Sam: That's right. But it's the number 13 Missouri Tigers against the number nine Ole Miss Rebels. and honey is Saturday poll. It's the same exact thing as the AP. So our rankings for AP poll are the exact same. this is a fantastic matchup. Austin Simmons returns to Oxford, Mississippi. he's playing really good football. Olmus just destroyed Vanderbilt this past weekend. So I mean, what are your thoughts on this one? I think this is truly gonna be one of the best matchups of the entire weekend. Honey It's Saturday: This one's really hard for me to get a read on. It really is. Cause I my opinion on Missouri has steadily climbed week to week. I really think that Missouri team is a solid football team. I think their offense has an identity. They can run the ball. And I think Austin Simmons looks better and better too. He looks great. You just don't want to mess with them. And defensively, they're all over the field. They fly around. Their run defense is incredible. And Ole Miss, obviously, you've got Trinidad Chambliss. We don't we we talk about him nonstop for good reason. Incredible. Arguably the best quarterback in the country. And I I think their defense is the side of the football that you've got some questions about for Ole Miss, but they're at home in this one. And I I don't know. I don't know. It's really tough. I think if this were a neutral side or if this were at Missouri, I would feel a lot more confident. I do think I'm a little surprised that the spread is six points in favor of Ole Miss for this one. I find Sam: Yeah. Honey It's Saturday: it to be closer than that. For me, this is a true pick'em game. and I you know, I think I am gonna lean that these are also two quarterbacks that have shared a quarterback room. Like Trinidad Chandless lost a quarterback job to Austin Simmons, which is very interesting. And so I I don't know, there's just so many dynamics in this game. I I think I'm gonna roll with Missouri. I really do. I think I'm confident in what Drinkowitz is doing. I'm confident in what Austin Simmons and the offense have been able to do. And and and really the reason why I lean Missouri in this game is because they have a defense that I feel like I can trust. Whereas when I point out Ole Miss, I can't say the same thing. Now, it may not matter at all. This game may end up being a shootout. And if you get in a shootout with Trinidad Chambliss, I don't want to bet against you in any situation. But I'm just gonna go out on a limb and guess that it doesn't go that direction. And if it doesn't, then I'm gonna take the Tigers. Sam: Wow, you went a direction I did not think you were gonna go. And I'm partially shocked by that because I share that same pick. I have Missouri winning this game. I think you look at how Missouri played Florida defensively, fully was able to shut down the run game from Jaden Ball. Like this was Florida coming off a huge win against Old Miss. defense has been rough. Florida torched them on the ground. Honey It's Saturday: Mm-hmm. Sam: Jaden Ball went crazy. And there's one team, or not one, there's a couple of teams, but there's a team that really won runs the stretch offensively, the run play very well, like Florida, and it's Missouri. And they are going to be fully capable to be able to run the football this game. I think Austin Simmons comes into Oxford, Mississippi with a little bit of like kind of a swagger on his back of like, hey, like I Trinidad Chambless is a really good football player. Like obviously we were both in the same quarterback room, but I'm pretty good too. Like there was a reason I started the season over Trinidad Chambliss. defensively I trust I I trust Corey Batoon at the DC for them a little bit more. I just haven't seen it Ole Miss. I think there's gonna be some scoring in this game to be a little bit of a shootout, but I think when it comes down to who can make a little bit more of the stops right now, it's Missouri. So I I'm gonna take Missouri in this one as well. Honey It's Saturday: Yeah, we have a pretty similar thought process on this. And also, this is a little bit of a fun fact. Obviously, these are all SEC East versus West. And then Missouri is really not an original SEC team, regardless. So there's not a ton of familiarity between the two programs. But Missouri leads this all-time series seven to one overall Sam: Whoa, really. Honey It's Saturday: miss, which is pretty shocking to me. That's just an interesting fact. I would not have guessed, I would have thought it would be a little closer than that. But yeah, they've played eight times, and Missouri has won seven of them. Sam: Wow. Do you know how many times it's been while they've been in the SEC, off the top of your head? Honey It's Saturday: I'm not sure, but the last time Ole Miss beat Missouri was nineteen seventy four. Sam: Holy smokes. Okay. Honey It's Saturday: So it's been a while. Sam: Yeah. I i I I mean but yeah, that's crazy. I didn't realize that that was that heavily favored. You would think they've kinda have Honey It's Saturday: I know. Sam: pretty consistent teams throughout the years, but you would think it'd be a little more even, but Honey It's Saturday: I know that's why I wanted to bring it up too. I thought that was an interesting fun fact. So maybe maybe Ole Miss gets them this year, but both of us are leaning Missouri. So we'll see what happens there. This one, Sam: Yeah. I hope they don't. Honey It's Saturday: we're gonna go, we're gonna get into the night slate and we're gonna go to the ACC. We're gonna pivot. This is one that may not be on as many people's radar as I think maybe should be. It's not a game that necessarily we think is gonna be really close, but it's an in-state rivalry. It's a night game. We've got Florida State, the Seminoles, Mike Norvell. Bringing those boys in to try and compete with number three, Miami. It's at Miami. In our poll, we've got Miami at number two, number two, number three, regardless, one of the top three teams in the country. Do you think there's a chance Florida State makes this game entertaining, Sam? Sam: Honestly, I think with the way Ashton Daniels has been playing, I think there's a chance. Like he has been very impressive to me. I think this Florida state team as a whole has been more consistent and has grown week to week a little bit more than I thought they would have, just with all the drama with not drama, but Norvell on the hot seat, Honey It's Saturday: Yeah. Sam: just a lot of turnover and stuff like that. So I I think if Daniels plays the way maybe he plays against Alabama. Like there's a chance that they can keep in this game. And it wouldn't surprise me if it comes down to that. But in my head, I there's no way Miami's gonna lose this football game. I mean, defensively, I think they're the better defense, they're the better offense. Darian Mensa is about as efficient as you can get at the quarterback position. Again, something to keep in mind with Miami is they've had some injury issues with some of their just offensive linemen, some some some loss in the secondary, to where that may catch up with them at some point, but it doesn't catch up to them this weekend. So I I think Miami wins. I wouldn't be surprised if Florida State covers, but I mean, it it Honey It's Saturday: Yeah. Sam: it's I feel like it's kind of a everybody's good knows the result of this and it's just a matter of how how Honey It's Saturday: It's a three Sam: much Miami gets beat or how much Florida State gets beat by. Honey It's Saturday: Yeah, it's a three touchdown spread. I don't think anyone's expecting Florida State to go in and win this game. Now, rivalries, college football, we've already talked about how much it could flip flop each week. Anything could happen. I would be shocked if Florida State won this game. I'm obviously going to take Miami to win this game. And really the the main reason for that is Florida State's defense. Like offensively, I've seen more out of Florida State this year than I expected to. And to your point, I have been a little bit impressed there with the way Daniels has been able to move the ball, especially on the ground. I mean, he's just a gritty guy. And I I love Sam: Yeah. Honey It's Saturday: that. I think I've seen a lot of fight out of Ashton Daniels. So that's huge. But I have not seen a lot of fight out of the defensive side of the ball. They're giving up 410 yards a game, which is a hundred s 122nd in the country. And if you're going to play at Miami and against Mensah and Tony in that offense, I just don't see that going well. They've allowed 50 points to Bama. They've allowed 44 points to Louisville this year. I just don't think that they're going to be able to slow down this Miami offense. Maybe their their only hope is to run the ball really effectively and keep them off the field. Maybe they can keep the score down a little bit. I just don't think they'll be able to manage it enough. So I'm I'm gonna take the hurricanes. Sam: Yeah, it'll be an interesting game to see. I think this will kind of be buried in the slate for most people, but I mean, for for how Miami's schedule really is, besides Notre Dame when they play a little bit later, you kinda have to take Honey It's Saturday: Mm-hmm. Sam: these games from Miami and just really assess them for truly what they are and how they play, because they I mean, their competition week to week isn't what you're kinda getting in the SEC. So you really have to take advantage of these games and really kind of give them good good tests for what to look forward to the rest of the season. Honey It's Saturday: Definitely. And look, by the eye test to me, thus far in the year, I think Miami is a very good football team. I just wanna see continue to prove it. And yeah, we're looking forward to those matchups, but you gotta take week to week. So we'll we'll have to tune in and see how they look against the Seminoles this weekend. Sam: Yeah, absolutely. I mean this transitions into probably the marquee game of the late slate. This is college game day. This is number two Notre Dame versus number eight BYU in Utah. the Honey of Saturday poll number Notre Dame is number four and BYU is number seven. I think this is gonna be a great matchup. I think there's gonna be a lot of excitement on Brigham Young's campus. I think just this matchup is honestly something that probably should be played every year. Like these are two of the kind of the Honey It's Saturday: I would not be mad at that. I like that take. Sam: Yeah, I think that'll that could be like a great rivalry matchup that comes about. again, Catholics versus Mormons. Honey It's Saturday: Catholics versus Mormons? Yeah. Sam: Yeah. I mean, I remember when when I was at Liberty, we played BYU and as Baptists versus Mormons. So all those kind of like big time religious schools, I think that would be fun to kind of create like the almost like the commander's cup for for the military academies, with its army, navy and air force. Just just something fun like that to be a a fun thing to do every single year with those kind of different institutions. But Man, for me, I I don't think there's enough for BYU to stay in this game. LJ Martin, their starting running back, is out for the next I think four to six weeks is what they came out with. that's gonna mean a lot more relying on Hank Bachmeyer to be able to throw the football and also running the ball as well. I Honey It's Saturday: Bear Bear Bachmeyer. No disrespect to my my man Bear. Sam: What I say. Honey It's Saturday: Hey, I think you were getting him confused with Hank Brown. I know I know what you're thinking. Sam: Did I say Hank Bachmeyer? okay. We we we move on. Bear Honey It's Saturday: Yeah, but that's okay. It's okay. We we we live and we learn. Yeah. Sam: Bachmeyer. but it's just gonna be a fully reliant on them. I think Notre Dame offensively is gonna be able to. I think this may be a little bit more low scoring than people think of. I don't know what the overunder is off the top of my head. But I think Notre Dame offensively and defensively is gonna overpower BYU. I think this may be a game that's close in the first half, but I think Notre Dame puts on just a show in the second half and runs away with it. I think for me this is just kind of a a sediment that I've got or something I've talked about recently with Big 12 teams or good Big 12 teams. But I think when you play a matchup like this against Notre Dame is one of the best teams in the country, I think they show it. I think the talent drop off shows here as well. I think Notre Dame pulls away in the second half. So I'm gonna take Notre Dame in this one. Honey It's Saturday: Yeah. I I'm with you on your pick. I'll just go ahead and lead with the fact that I am gonna take the Irish in this game. I think this is gonna be honestly a pretty ugly football game. I think Notre Dame is a very good football team, and I actually think BYU is a pretty solid team as well, but they're so ground game dependent that that LJ Martin injury is really gonna put a damper on what this matchup could have been. I mean, they're Sam: Mm. Honey It's Saturday: facing up they're facing Notre Dame's run defense, which is averaging giving up less than 60 rush yards per game. And they're an offense that relies on the ground and their bell cow is not going to be active. So I just that's really unfortunate that we don't get to see that head to head the same way that we probably should and deserve to see. Maybe we'll get to see it again this year. Who knows? but I think because of that, I lean Notre Dame. I just I think BYU's defense is very good as well. And I Sam: Yeah. Honey It's Saturday: I Well, I think Notre Dame has a solid offense and I really like CJ Carr. He's over seventy percent completions this year. He's only thrown one interception. I think he's kind of flying under the radar a little bit as far as the quarterback com conversation goes in the country. I thought he was great last year. He was young. I think he's only going to continue to get better. I think this will be an opportunity for him to show the rest of the country like, hey, I'm still here and I'm that guy. Like, I think Notre Dame wins this game. I just don't think there will be a bunch of firewalls. So I think they kind of scrap it out. It's a 10-point spread. Maybe they do win by 10, but maybe it's more like a 23 to 13 type of 10-point spread. Sam: Yeah. Honey It's Saturday: so I that's the type of game I see. I also think that environment and provo is going to be electric. I think it will have an impact on the game, especially in the first half, like you're saying. So I don't know. It'll be very entertaining, but I do have the Irish taking it. Sam: Yeah, I I think you and I both share that. There's just I think there's too much for the Irish right now to match up with the Cougars. To where if it turns into a great Honey It's Saturday: Mm-hmm. Sam: game, maybe I just need to reassess kind of what I've watched with BYU and maybe their level of competition, but we'll just kinda have to see how Honey It's Saturday: Bear Sam: s Honey It's Saturday: the one question mark I had with Bear was can he do it through the air if he needs to? And with the injuries in the backfield, he's gonna have to prove it. And he I will say to his credit, in their last timeout, he threw for over 300 yards. He looked really sharp. And I mean look, there's Notre Dame secondary in the front that he's gonna face. No judge I don't think he's gonna throw for 300 yards, but he's gonna have to make plays. And if he can do that, they can stay in this game. I just I don't know. I I have a hard time seeing the Cougars come out on top. Sam: Yeah. Yeah, I agree. And I I think that's a a good transition into what could shake up the Honey It's Saturday poll, AP poll, just from a Big Twelve perspective, with number eighteen Oklahoma State going to number twenty Houston Saturday night at seven thirty Eastern time. the rankings are the same in the Honey It's Saturday poll. This is a a more consistent Houston team that I I have doubted admittedly throughout the year, and they've continued to prove me wrong every single time and against a storming Raging hot Oklahoma State football team right now. again, this this for me kind of fits in that category with Old Miss Missouri, to where it's a little bit more of the underrated games within the slate. But this one could be game of the weekend kind of stuff as well. I mean, I I think you probably know where I'm gonna lean in this one, but I'll let you go ahead and start this one off. Honey It's Saturday: Yeah, I actually wanted to start this off with a shout out that we failed to mention last week when we were recapping Houston's win at Kansas State. We talked about it a lot. It was a it was a great win for the program. We talked about the Colin Klein, Connor Wigman dynamic. What we didn't talk about was tight end Patrick Overmeyer tying the NCAA single game touchdown record for tight ends. He had four touchdowns in that game. Shout Sam: wow. Honey It's Saturday: out tight end Patrick Overmeyer. I I mean clearly he was Wigman's favorite target on that day. Wigman, I know, has favored him. In a couple matchups this year. He's a great tight end to have. He's great in the open field. but four touchdowns for a tight end in one game. I mean, that's that's something else. So I just had to mention that. And I will get into it. I think this is a very interesting matchup. I think Houston's run defense. Well, at times this year, I think they kind of had to grow into themselves in that Texas tech game. It was like I couldn't really figure out what to think. I think they've grown into themselves. I mean, they're giving up less than 75 yards a game on the ground. as a defense, Houston is. I think that's great. But I think the problem is you're going up against the Oklahoma State offense that can just throw the ball all over the field. And Houston's secondary has gotten torn up a couple times this year. I think that's a question mark. Now, on the Oklahoma State side of the ball, their secondary is also vulnerable. And Connor Wigman in the Houston offense has proven to be able to take advantage of opponent's secondaries this year as well. I think this game is going to be so interesting. I think and what I hope for this game is it is a classic Big 12 shootout. I hope we get a throwback. There's another matchup this week that kind of brings me back to it as well. But I hope this is kind of like a vintage 2013. You flip on Fox and you're watching these Big 12 teams just the score keeps going up and up and up. It's sixty to fifty. It's seventy to sixty-three. I don't think we're gonna get there. But I just think you're gonna get Sam: Ha ha Honey It's Saturday: one of those vintage shootouts. I think this game is going to be high scoring. And because Houston's at home, although they have not gotten a ton of great support recently, I think their fan base has to rally this week. I've seen a lot of Oklahoma State fans saying we're going to stripe out Houston Stadium, try to take it over. I don't think Houston's going to let that happen. I think they're going to show up and show out tonight game. It's our top 20 matchup. I think Houston's going to win this one. I think it's going to be close. I I'm very excited for this matchup. Sam: Yeah, this is I mean, this is a fantastic matchup. I I kinda love your take of like your traditional Big Twelve kind of shootout. 'cause I think both these teams are capable of doing that. so I it'll be really interesting to see kind of what they look like. for me, I l I think I think Houston's gonna be there's gonna be a lot of orange in the crowd. I don't know if you've seen some of these photos when they played like UCF two weeks ago, like it was empty. Honey It's Saturday: I saw it. That's what I was referencing. Yeah. They have not turned out Sam: And it's like you're a top twenty-five team. Like I don't understand what more those guys need to do to be able to fill the stadium. I don't I don't I don't know what Houston's like from a college perspective or kind of why there wouldn't be any really. Okay. Honey It's Saturday: It's a little bit of a commuter school vibe. Mm-hmm. A little bit. Sam: And maybe maybe that's the case, but I think this is the game for Houston where they I'm sorry, for Oklahoma State where they kind of make their point in the Big Twelve, they're here to stay. they're hot. I think they know what Is for the taking right now in a very wide open Big 12. honestly, I just think Oklahoma State offensively just has a little bit more firepower. I think Connor Wigman is a good quarterback. He's proved me wrong a lot this season. Houston's proved me long wrong a lot this season. but I think they operate at a much slower pace offensively than Oklahoma State does. And I I think there's just going to be a couple drives here and there where Oklahoma State just is just going to continue to be able to score and maybe. Wigman throws a turnover or something like that. But I honestly just think from a talent perspective, I think that Oklahoma State has too much right now. And they just a much more put together like team that has very much continued to improve every single week to where Houston I feel like has like they had a great week last week, but they've had some up and ups and downs as the season's gone on. So I I I'm gonna take Oklahoma State to win this football game. Honey It's Saturday: Yeah, the one thing I do want to touch on there, because I think turnovers could be huge in this one as well, is Houston is plus four turnover margin this year. Wigman's only thrown one interception. Now anything can happen. Oklahoma State is minus three and Mesta Maker's thrown about five. I think he's thrown five. I don't have it right in front of me, but th five interceptions this point in the year, which is not a horrible number either, especially with the volume that they have in that pass game. I just think The turnovers could be a big story and I will be curious to see which side that falls on. Cause I think going into the game that would favor Houston, but you never really know. Sam: Yeah, that's true. I think for me, my point of reference for Houston is that UCF game two weeks ago, where I think they fumbled the ball like three or four times in the red zone, just couldn't capitalize. to where if they can't do that, Oklahoma State's gonna take advantage of that. But if they play like they did last week against in Manhattan against Kansas State on the road, they're gonna they're gonna come up ready. I think it's gonna be a great football game, but I th it's g it kinda Honey It's Saturday: Fully agree. Sam: makes it kinda makes it fun that we're on different sides of this one. Honey It's Saturday: Fully agree. And Houston has the number one third down offense in the country right now, which is just a fun fact that I love. I find that to be very interesting. I think that also means they're winning on first and second down a lot more, but very, very interesting. And we do have more games to talk about. So we're going to go ahead and go on to another night game this week. 7:30. Wisconsin, unranked Wisconsin, but sneaky Wisconsin is going to UCLA. Is this a little bit of a hangover letdown spot for UCLA? Nico's not playing. There's a lot that goes into this. What do you think? Sam: Yeah, I think with Wisconsin, I mean, I think they were they were pretty pretty close outside of our Honey at Saturday poll was kind of like those receiving votes as well. Honey It's Saturday: They were close. Sam: they were close. I think they're a team that's improving a lot. That Notre Dame game, obviously that first week was something that I mean, everybody kind of knew it was gonna happen. But after that, they've really improved every single week after the fact. UCLA, i I don't know what to expect from quarterback. I mean, obviously their backup came back in. when Nico got hurt last week and did enough to be able to win the football game. I think this will be a good game. I think the spread's pretty accurate with what it's gonna be. But honestly, I think UCLA coming off that win last week, for how physical of a game that was, having a big marquee victory in the Bob Chesney area already, at home, kind of returning to just kind of continue to build on that season. I think UCLA physically is just gonna be a little bit too much for Wisconsin. I think this will be a close game, but I think UCLA outside of the quarterback situation, defensively they were impressive. Running the football, they were impressive. Like they they they blew me away a little bit the other day from for a first year coach and a lot of transfers, just how physical they were in getting off the football. so I think that overwhelms Wisconsin a little bit. So I'm gonna go U C L A. Honey It's Saturday: I agree with you. I think UCLA's run game is so good. It's so tough. I loved watching Wayne Knight run last week. I think even with the Nico injury and the quarterback situation, I think they're going to be able to lean on that ground game a little bit. I I love their defense too. I mean, I just I don't see a lot of opportunity in this one for Wisconsin. I think Wisconsin's a great football team, though. I think Colton Joseph's got some flashes. I think that, like you said, that Notre Dame game, week one, that's a tough spot to come out and kind of show the country who you are. And it honestly might have helped them a little bit to fly under the radar in those next few weeks. They have looked like a very good, much improved football team. So I think that they will be a test for UCLA. And we're we're about to find out how does UCLA handle success. Big time win at Oregon. I mean that was huge. You know they poured so much into it physically, mentally, every aspect. Do they have a little bit of a letdown spot here? There's an opportunity for it. And Wisconsin is a sneaky opponent. I just think he's gonna have ready. I think UCLA is gonna take take this one. Sam: Yeah, I agree. I think this will be definitely one of those games on the later slate where it's like, all right, let's let's let's kind of keep our eye on this one. Honey It's Saturday: absolutely. Absolutely. That's our that's our eight that we're gonna pick for this week. But we don't wanna leave you guys without these honorable mentions because the slate is incredibly deep. We've got a couple rivalry games that we did not go through just because they didn't make quite above that line of the matches we wanted to talk about. But North Carolina plays at Duke this week. Duke's in a bounce back spot, huge rivalry. Bill Belichick, can he get it done? And then TCU at Baylor. That's that, you know, classic Big 12 matchup that I was referencing earlier today. If you're thinking back to 2013 and those high flying offenses, I don't think that's what you're going to get this week. But Baylor looks to be headed on the right trajectory. TCU, maybe not. It's a rivalry dynamic, the revivalry, if I may, the revivalry down there in Waco this week. It's going to be a blackout for the Bears. So that'll be interesting. And then Kentucky, who we've got at number 14 in our Honey at Saturday poll, AP's got him at 15, goes to Oklahoma. who's still sitting there unranked with those losses, but coming off that Texas win. So it'll be very interesting to see how those games go. What are your thoughts, like main thought on any of those three matchups, Sam, before we move on? Sam: Yeah, I think UNC Duke's gonna be fascinating. I think Duke big rivalry game as is always, but Duke coming off a really bad loss to to Georgia Tech and UNC getting a big win against Pitt. UNC has looked a lot better this year. I think Honey It's Saturday: Mm-hmm. Sam: Belichick is kinda with all the turnover with the staff and kind of those guys kind of getting leave leaving during the middle of the season, I think they're playing a lot better, much left much more improved than I thought they would. so I think that'll be a good rivalry game. Kentucky Honey It's Saturday: I think the players I think he's got the locker room behind him this year. I think Sam: Yeah. Honey It's Saturday: the players are really riding with Bill Belichick this year and that can make a huge difference. I'm not sure that was the case a year ago. Sam: Yeah, I agree. I think he has the buy-in, which is huge, especially in college. TCU Baylor, excited to Baylor. Baylor continues to look really good. they're a team that we really haven't talked about a ton in the Big Twelve. And I know we got a lot of Baylor supporters that watch us, so Honey It's Saturday: They were actually our first team out of our Honey It Saturday top twenty five this week, by the way. They were our first team out. Sam: Yeah, they're they're close. I mean, I think they win a game like this and some of the turnover that may happen in the top twenty five, like there's I think that Auburn loss kind of hurts just for the way Auburn has looked. And like granted it was week one and all that kind of stuff, but I mean they they've looked a lot better as the week as the weeks have gone on. In Kentucky, Oklahoma, Honey It's Saturday: Mm-hmm. Sam: a huge game for Oklahoma after just a a big time win against again big against Texas. Kentucky big win against LSU, like That's a that's another game that's crazy to think that we didn't even talk about. And there's another game that's not even on here. Or there's two of them actually. Florida versus Texas. That's a matchup this Honey It's Saturday: Yeah. Sam: weekend, too. Like, imagine two weeks ago when we were talking how Florida was like, that was probably a top five matchup. And to where Florida's dropped off side of a cliff and Texas just had a really bad loss to Oklahoma. And then Penn State, Michigan. Like that's a rivalry game. Those two teams haven't played as great. as they've kind of their legacy l has been, so to speak. But just again, that's a that's a big time rivalry game that a lot of people care about. So I think it it's just it it Honey It's Saturday: a hundred percent. Sam: goes to show just what this slate is this weekend and just how great this this slate is. Like it's hard it's not it's gonna be hard to beat this slate the rest of the season. Honey It's Saturday: Absolutely. That Texas Florida game is so interesting because you know, Florida, they were going through some struggles last year, obviously, with Napier going out, but they still were able to, you know, handle Texas a loss down in the swamp. And it'll be interesting to see what happens this year. I Texas offense still has those question marks. I don't know if Florida's gonna be able to expose them quite as much this year, but I mean we'll see. And we know Florida's offense has the capability to put some points together. We haven't seen that consistently either, especially not the last couple of weeks, but we know it's in there somewhere. So you never Sam: Yeah. Honey It's Saturday: know. Penn State in Michigan. Yeah, I just it's hard to put everything on here this week. There's so much to dive into. That's why it's gonna be such a fun weekend. Sam: Yeah, there's gonna be a lot of multi multi TV setups going on around around the country this Saturday, and that's right. Honey It's Saturday: I'll have the quad box going. Yeah. Sam: I'm right there with you. Honey It's Saturday: Yeah. And we do want to go over because obviously I'm wearing this hat for a reason. I lost my wife last week. We got stakes every single week. We're gonna go over and just let you know who our wives picked this week. We gotta take accountability. Next week, hopefully, neither Sam or I will be wearing these hats, but you never know. Keaton, my wife, picked Ohio State, LSU, Alabama, Missouri, Miami, Notre Dame, Oklahoma State, and UCLA. So We share a couple picks like we share Ohio State, Missouri. we differ on Houston, Oklahoma State. It it's gonna be it's gonna be an interesting weekend. We'll see. Sam: Yeah, and so my wife Cameron reading these picks is the first time I've seen them. I'm really nervous. she picked Indiana to beat Ohio State, LSU to beat Mississippi State, Alabama, Ole Miss, Miami, Notre Dame, Houston, and Wisconsin. So she picked Honey It's Saturday: Yeah. Sam: Ohio State, Indiana different. She picked Ole Miss versus Missouri different. She picked Houston versus Oklahoma State different. And she picked Wisconsin versus UCLA different. So this could either be a really big week for me to be able to kind of climb up the leaderboard and kind of make sure I don't wear the hat. But this could also be a really bad week for me if a lot of these games Honey It's Saturday: Well, Sam: don't play out. Honey It's Saturday: you you picked Indiana, so you got that one the same. Sam: that's right. Sorry, I was reading Keaton's, my bad. Honey It's Saturday: No, you're good. You're good. But I just had to clarify just for the podcast world. I wanted to make Sam: Yes, thank you. Honey It's Saturday: sure that they understand you you did pick Indiana. But yeah, that's you definitely have some opportunity. Both of us do to stumble a little bit this week. Sam: Yeah, definitely. So I feel a little bit better now. I was like, holy smokes, that's four games different. Honey It's Saturday: Yeah, yeah, I totally understand that. And we do have to go through now with our honey to the budget lock of the week. Unfortunately, I believe both of us are one and two on these lock of the week so far. I I believe that that is the case, but I do have to continue riding. I'm gonna work and and try to get better for you guys every week. I've already talked about how I think Oklahoma State Houston is gonna be a shootout. I'm taking the over in that game as the lock of the week. The over officially according to ESPN today is 60 and a half. So I'm taking it at 60 and a half. That's what I'll lock it in on. If you get it at an alternate line, don't come at me. Sixty and a half is what I'm taking it. And that's going to be my lock of the week. Sam, what do you Sam: Hmm. Honey It's Saturday: got? Sam: It's funny you did the over because I I'm I'm taking an under this week. I'm going to Notre Dame versus BYU. It is currently over under forty six and a half. I think this game is under. So I'm taking the under under forty six and a half for Baylor. I'm sorry, for BYU versus Notre Dame. Honey It's Saturday: I like that. I definitely can see that. I think that's very fair. Sam: Yeah. I I love I love how we were very in sync 'cause we didn't talk about our picks. Like we've always just Honey It's Saturday: Mm-hmm. Sam: kind of done point spread. So the fact that we both came in with over under, we decided to switch it up a little bit this week and kinda get our money in other places or our b our betting drinks in other places, so to speak. Honey It's Saturday: Yeah. Yeah, we'll see what happens. I need I need a good week here. Sam, I have I have a mailbag question that I need to address with you before Sam: gosh. Okay. Honey It's Saturday: we close off today. It's not bad. It's nothing bad. We've just got some Texas fans that are, you know, following, watching the show. They have some thoughts. It's it's light. They just want to know what your opinion on the Texas Longhorns right now at this very second is. Sam: Yeah, I I think offensively they just don't really have a a big identity. It's something to where every single week, like there are some really big flashes offensively of what they can do. I mean, there's some throws last week that Arch Manning made that were unbelievable. Like you see the potential there and I I don't know what it is to why it just can't be fully put together 'cause there was no reason they should have lost that Oklahoma football game. I think they've got to establish the run a little bit better with Dylan Smithers. I mean, he's a great running back. They've got to be able to just get something going. I think their defense is going to keep them in every single football game. those guys are wreckers up front. They have a great linebacker core and secondary. One thing for Texas that I don't know if many people are talking about that's kind of been a really big issue is special teams. They Honey It's Saturday: It has Sam: had they had a blocked punt against Oklahoma. Tennessee returned a punt from them two weeks ago. There there's some liability with with that special teams unit. I don't know if that's a coaching change or I don't I I think I've seen a little bit of like some hot seat stuff with their special teams guy. and I and I could be wrong there, but they have not played well at all. and it it's truly you gotta play well in all three phases of the game to where I mean last week offensive offensively they didn't play great offensively, but special teams like part that was part of the reason they lost the game. Like if you can just execute if Honey It's Saturday: definitely. Sam: you can execute on special teams, especially in the punt game. Like you cannot have a punt block and then a punt return touchdown and back to back weeks. Like that's a special teams coach's nightmare. to where if that if that changes, like they win that football game. So I think it's just truly having all three phases play well together, or even just two phases out of out of the three play well together, they're gonna be a hard team to beat. But when you have a week like last week, a big rivalry game, one out of your three phases plays really well, it's it's gonna loss. And and they're their their schedule is really, really tough. I mean, they have Honey It's Saturday: Yeah. Sam: they have a gauntlet. Let me let me pull it up real quick. I was looking at it a little bit earlier before we started the podcast. But Texas plays Florida this week. They then play Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Missouri, LSU, Arkansas, and Texas AM. So they they have four straight ranked matchups against very high quality SEC teams to where if they don't come prepared and offensively, they don't figure something out and special teams, th there's some other losses that are coming down the pipeline. Honey It's Saturday: Yeah, that's a story that they definitely don't want to be telling come the end of the year. So yeah, if you're a Texas fan, you hope you can get some of that stuff figured out. my my last question, Sam, before we sign off. Texas AM, we didn't talk about them this week. They played the Citadel. And I'm glad we didn't talk about them. But I am gonna bring it up. They're playing the Citadel. Is this a week where you give Brady Hart some reps? And do you consider making a quarterback change? Sam: I mean I th you're definitely giving him reps. Like, I don't if if he doesn't get any reps this game, there's a serious problem. Either it is way too Honey It's Saturday: I mean, I guarantee you he'll get he'll get reps, but like I'm saying a concerted effort. I'm not talking you start Marcel for the, you know, first two quarters, three quarters, whatever and then bring Brady in. I'm talking like, do you have a set plan where you guys are gonna alternate drives and we're really gonna see this battle? Sam: No, I don't think so. I don't think there's anything that Elko has given off that makes him him makes anybody feel confident that that's a change that's gonna happen. as much as the A and N fan base, yes. Honey It's Saturday: If you were in Mike Elko's if you were in Mike Elko's chair, would you be doing that? Sam: yes, a thousand percent. That would have already happened. Like I get Marcel Reed has done a lot for the school. Like he had a great year last year. He's put up some really good numbers. But at the end of the day, you gotta win. Like that's what it comes down to. Like you're the headball coach, like yes, you're kind of in a CEO and touch a lot of different things. But at the end of the day, you have to win football games and offensively they have not no. Honey It's Saturday: And he's not himself, like very clearly not himself either. So Sam: No. And I will say one comment about that game. I'm glad you brought that up. Yesterday, I was at the Citadel Career Fair, right? Citadel's here in Charleston, South Carolina. They're making the travel down to college station this weekend. There's some sneaky confidence on that campus right now about this game coming up on Saturday. The Citadel just played the number one team in the country in the FCS and went into their place and beat them. I'm not gonna say they're beating them, but this trip a triple option team is hard to to prep for it's a hard hard game to kind of just get your mind around, so I'm not saying anything's gonna happen, but it it's just it's a sneaky sneaky spot for A and right now. Honey It's Saturday: That's the last thing I need. Sam: The spread's forty-six and a half. So I'm that's that's the point. Honey It's Saturday: Yeah. Sam: That's my point of reference for sneaky is like, all right, they could probably cover the forty-six and a half. Honey It's Saturday: It's really the battle of whose core of cadets is better. So I guess we'll find out. Sam: On Saturday at seven forty five Honey It's Saturday: Yeah. Sam: on the SEC network, I think. Honey It's Saturday: We'll find out it's that on Saturday. Yeah, on SC Network Plus. It's not even going to get the signature. So that's that's it for this week's preview. Obviously, we've got a loaded slate. We appreciate you guys tuning in. Hit up our socials, subscribe, tell your friends about us. We appreciate you guys. And we'll see you next time on the recap. Honey, it's Saturday, signing off.