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Thursday Edition of The Drive - Hour One · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Speaker 1: WRKS Pickens Jackson. Hey, what do you say we sing
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  Speaker 1: a driving song? There's not going to be any singing
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  Speaker 1: around here. Just real sports. On the Afternoon Drive with
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  Speaker 1: Jake Wimberly. Oh, this is going to be sweet. And
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  Speaker 1: it's all right here, right now. On ESPN 105.9 The
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  Speaker 2: 29th day of October, 2026. Champ in the chair, SportsMaven,
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  Speaker 2: So we'll talk a little Auburn and SEC football. Raphael
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  Speaker 2: at 5, back at 6 for Heinz football here at
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  Speaker 2: Gene Murphy Field. Joe Renfro Stadium, the final home game
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  Speaker 2: of the regular season for Heinz. Taking on Jones. That
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  Speaker 2: kick is set for 6.30 tonight. You can hear it
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  Speaker 2: right here on The Zone. B, we get our walk-in today. Yep. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: you say we don't ever start with NFL. What do
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  Speaker 2: you think about Jeffrey Simmons being traded to Chicago?
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty big.
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  Speaker 3: Hype has already started.
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  Speaker 1: I knew immediately.
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  Speaker 3: I knew the second this happened that the Rams-style hype.
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  Speaker 3: I referred to it. I actually texted Saints Bro right
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  Speaker 3: as it happened. Rams 2.0. And sure enough, 10 minutes later,
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  Speaker 3: their Super Bowl odds shot up.
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  Speaker 2: Did they really?
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  Speaker 3: Already. We're looking at this now like a Miles Garrett-style trade,
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  Speaker 3: which that's worked out real.
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  Speaker 2: Well for the Rams. So you're saying it's a nothing burger?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: Jeffrey Simmons is actually producing this season. I'm just saying, hype-wise,
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  Speaker 3: they would start talking Bears Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: Well, to your credit, courtesy of Ameristar Casino, Penn Gaming,
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  Speaker 2: they're up to No. 5 on Super Bowl odds. 11-1
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  Speaker 2: behind the Seahawks at 10-1, Chiefs 9-1, Bills 6.5-1, and
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  Speaker 2: your 49ers at 6-1 leading in the clubhouse. So you're right,
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  Speaker 2: they have moved up. Because I think they were sitting
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  Speaker 2: around 17 or 18, maybe 15. So we'll talk that
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  Speaker 2: if you want to get into that. Of course, Mississippi State,
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  Speaker 2: you know, with two quarterbacks this weekend with Billy Puckett, A.J.
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  Speaker 2: Swan heading to Texas, Ole Miss, big ballgame in Oxford
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  Speaker 2: and more. A lot of news and notes to get
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  Speaker 2: to you today. All right, so the first thing is
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of chatter about a group of six
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  Speaker 2: playoff now. Finally, they're chattering about a group of six playoffs,
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  Speaker 2: and it needs to be. Chris Finini with The Athletic
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  Speaker 2: says the G6 will never voluntarily make their own separate
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  Speaker 2: playoff and give up the CFP access, but an NIT-like
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  Speaker 2: event for non-CFP G6 teams has been informally discussed for years.
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  Speaker 2: As Chris Finini references an article he wrote back in 2024,
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  Speaker 2: on this topic, and we've got more on this. June
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  Speaker 2: Jones has passed away. Warriors All-Access Hawaii. Since we're saddened
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  Speaker 2: to hear the passing of legendary Hawaii football coach June Jones,
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  Speaker 2: he is UH's winningest head coach with 76 wins, the
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  Speaker 2: master in the run and shoot offense, and a great
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  Speaker 2: mentor and teacher of the game. He was 73 years old.
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  Speaker 2: Rest in aloha as June Jones has passed away. And
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  Speaker 2: I remember June Jones, a very good football coach, and
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  Speaker 2: really did kind of put Hawaii on the map there
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  Speaker 2: for a number of years. He has passed away. And Beaver,
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  Speaker 2: who else did you say passed away today?
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  Speaker 1: Patrick Stewart.
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  Speaker 2: Patrick Stewart. So we've got two, and that thing runs
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  Speaker 2: in threes. All right. Brett McMurphy on this G6 playoffs
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  Speaker 2: says nearly two-thirds of a group of six coaches want
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  Speaker 2: their own playoff with one condition on three surveyed all
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  Speaker 2: 70 coaches. A G6 coach quote says, Anyone who says
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  Speaker 2: a G6 team can win a national title in today's
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  Speaker 2: NIL environment is delusional. Well, what is the one exception?
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  Speaker 2: We will get into that and get into this on
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  Speaker 2: the group of six. Majority of G6 coaches favor the
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  Speaker 2: G6 playoff as long as a G6 is still guaranteed
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  Speaker 2: a spot in the college football playoff. Now, this is
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  Speaker 2: all monetary, right? That's what this is. They want the
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  Speaker 2: money out of the college football playoff. the 12 team
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  Speaker 2: that's going to be expanded to 24, they're not going
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  Speaker 2: to get this. You can't play in both playoffs, group
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  Speaker 2: of six. You have your playoff, and then you stay
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  Speaker 2: out of the other playoff. Or you don't have your playoff,
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  Speaker 2: and you get one measly team in the 12, and
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  Speaker 2: they're going to give you one measly team in the
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  Speaker 2: 24 team. And you got one coach here that said, hey, look,
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  Speaker 2: we know the group of six can't win the big tournament.
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  Speaker 2: They're not going to be able to, but they still
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  Speaker 2: want the access. They want the access for the money.
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  Speaker 2: The Big Ten has adopted new conference rules that align
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  Speaker 2: with athletic and athlete compensation framework in the Protect College
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  Speaker 2: Sports Act, raising their cap from $ 21. 6 to $ 49 million,
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  Speaker 2: creating strict rules on school-affiliated third-party NIL and established penalties
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  Speaker 2: for exceeding the cap. Now, this was yesterday, and this
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  Speaker 2: has caused a little bit of a hornet's nest around
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  Speaker 2: college sports, if you've missed this. The cap right now
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  Speaker 2: as it sits, remember of the money that schools get
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  Speaker 2: is $ 21. 6 million. That goes up incrementally every year.
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  Speaker 4: 4%.
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  Speaker 2: I came here, I think it's 4%. It started at 20.4.
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  Speaker 2: It rose like to 21 and then at 21.6 coming up. Well,
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  Speaker 2: the big 10 has increased their cap internally to 49 million,
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  Speaker 2: but they're saying, now this isn't the cap. This is
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  Speaker 2: our NILs cap. They've created a cap. Um, And it
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  Speaker 2: says the Big Ten isn't independently raising the cap. It
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  Speaker 2: is permitting a certain amount of school-affiliated third-party NIL deals,
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  Speaker 2: around $ 27 million, which must still pass through the CSE.
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  Speaker 2: That's the College Sports Commission. It is penalizing schools for
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  Speaker 2: exceeding a set amount for school-affiliated third-party deals. The conference
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  Speaker 2: remains fully supportive of the bill. These new rules permit
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  Speaker 2: schools from operating within the bill's framework. which increases the
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  Speaker 2: athletic cap from, as we said, $ 21. 6 million to $ 49 million.
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  Speaker 2: But the problem with this is the College Sports Commission
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  Speaker 2: and the NCAA is kicking back on this because they said, hey,
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  Speaker 2: this is going to be in violation of everything that's
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  Speaker 2: set up. So there's fixing to be a court battle
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  Speaker 2: on this as the Big Ten, again. You know, the
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  Speaker 2: Big Ten, they've felt themselves over the last couple of
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  Speaker 2: years with three national championships, and they've pressed the framework.
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  Speaker 2: In every way. Wanted the SEC to play nine conference games.
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  Speaker 2: The SEC played nine games. They said, if you'll just
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  Speaker 2: do that, we'll expand the playoff to 16. They did it. Said, no,
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  Speaker 2: we want to go to 24. So they're pushing the
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  Speaker 2: envelope on a lot of stuff out there in the
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  Speaker 2: Big Ten. NFL news. Patriots wide receiver A.J. Brown not
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  Speaker 2: spotted at practice today. Is not practicing because of a
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  Speaker 2: knee injury or knee issue that has flared up. Brown
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  Speaker 2: also was listed on yesterday's injury report with an ankle.
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  Speaker 2: Knee was added. as well as his status for Sunday's game,
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  Speaker 2: is up in the air. If you've got him on
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  Speaker 2: your fantasy team and if you're a New England Patriot fan,
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  Speaker 2: that is out there. Again, it's official. Tennessee Titans send
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  Speaker 2: Jeffrey Simmons and a 2028 fifth-round pick to the Chicago Bears.
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  Speaker 2: It is officially unofficial. Rebuild time in Tennessee. For that,
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  Speaker 2: they've got a first-round pick in 2027 next year, this
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  Speaker 2: coming spring, a fourth-round pick, and a 2028 first-round pick.
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  Speaker 2: for Jeffrey Simmons. The Bears get Jeffrey Simmons. As Beef said,
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  Speaker 2: their Super Bowl odds have increased now to 11-1. Chargers
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  Speaker 2: coach Jim Harbaugh says he's sticking with the OC Mike McDaniel,
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  Speaker 2: his play caller, after a week of reflection. Quote, we're
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  Speaker 4: Ladies and gentlemen, the time.
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  Speaker 1: Has come to go back. Back to the afternoon drive
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  Speaker 2: Mike McDaniel right now safe out in Charger World. Also,
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  Speaker 2: the Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson was a full participant in
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  Speaker 2: practice yesterday. Yesterday, first time since he's had a knee
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  Speaker 2: or excuse me, his ankle injury. So he's back at practice.
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State Athletics Director Ross Bjork says the Big Ten
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  Speaker 2: is exploring a football scheduling model for 2028 based on
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  Speaker 2: the previous year's standings. Quote, so next year's schedule, we
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  Speaker 2: would not know who we're playing other than protecting the
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  Speaker 2: rivalry games. Obviously, we have the biggest one, right? Of course,
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  Speaker 2: he's referring to Ohio State and Michigan. Other than that,
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  Speaker 2: the rest of the schedule could be based on how
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  Speaker 2: we did, how did the teams finish in the previous year.
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  Speaker 2: That's how the NFL does it. So he's talking about
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  Speaker 2: kind of layer in the schedule. I mean, if you
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  Speaker 2: finish first, then you're likely going to have, you know,
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  Speaker 2: one of the harder schedules in the conference. You finish last,
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  Speaker 2: you may have one of the easier schedules in the
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  Speaker 2: Big Ten. And also, some odds out on Polymarket. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: you've got Clemson, Florida State, which used to be a
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  Speaker 2: massive ballgame. And, you know, we've talked a lot about
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  Speaker 2: several matchups over the last several weeks. You know, Michigan,
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  Speaker 2: Penn State, Georgia, Auburn, which turned out to be a classic.
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  Speaker 2: Florida State, Miami, it turned out to be a classic. Clemson,
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  Speaker 2: Florida State's another one that, you know, for years people
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  Speaker 2: tuned into when both these teams were really good and
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  Speaker 2: when Clemson kind of wrestled the baton away from Florida
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  Speaker 2: State and the ACC. But the betters, courtesy of Polymarket,
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  Speaker 2: the populous money's coming in on Florida State, 67% to 33%. Again,
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  Speaker 2: Dabo Swinney, I just don't know. I don't know how
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  Speaker 2: long they're going to hang on there. Also, Michigan has
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  Speaker 2: announced they will start quarterback Tommy Carr against Rutgers on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: So they have officially moved in a different direction at quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: The Wolverines will move on with Tommy Carr. Lane Kiffin
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  Speaker 2: on LSU Alabama, which got the 230 slot central. Instead
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  Speaker 2: of the night game, he expected, quote, if someone thinks
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  Speaker 2: the SEC wants us to win this year after what's
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  Speaker 2: been going on, they must have been on Mars the
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  Speaker 2: last four months. So I guess when I look at
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  Speaker 2: it that way, I'm not surprised. So Kiffin, not happy
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  Speaker 2: with the 230 kick. He wanted the night kick. But again,
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  Speaker 2: Lane Kiffin has spent his time in Baton Rouge doing
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  Speaker 2: an awful lot of whining, awful lot of whining. And,
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  Speaker 2: of course, Kiffin doubles down on his decision to leave
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  Speaker 2: Ole Miss for LSU. Quote, I never thought twice about
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  Speaker 2: it or about this decision, he added, to see that
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  Speaker 2: we played already as well as anybody in the country
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  Speaker 2: at times and could be a really dangerous team. We're
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  Speaker 2: able to do that in an offseason. And he continues
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  Speaker 2: that– to do that in an offseason. So as crazy
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  Speaker 2: as it sounds, we will always have better rosters than
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  Speaker 2: we did this year. He's referring, of course, to LSU saying, hey, look,
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  Speaker 2: we're playing good. And I never blinked about leaving Ole Miss,
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  Speaker 2: which kind of lied about that, right? Because, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he was talking about how hard it was. Oxford made
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  Speaker 2: him a changed man. Now, of course, he's just gone
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  Speaker 2: all in. He's gone all villain. And Perlian Kiffin, he's
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  Speaker 2: glad to be at LSU. Hey, Ohio State's taking on
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  Speaker 2: USC this weekend. Lincoln Riley could be in big trouble.
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  Speaker 2: And you have to wonder, you know, does he need
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  Speaker 2: to win this ballgame? The Populous Money, courtesy of Polymarket,
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  Speaker 2: has Ohio State winning this ballgame 69% to 31%. Also,
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  Speaker 2: LSU's Lane Kiffin, who's talking a lot this week on
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  Speaker 2: the 2014 playoff, quote, says it had to happen. He
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  Speaker 2: says the conferences are so different. They are. They're different stadiums.
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  Speaker 2: They're different environments. They're different middle to bottom of each conference.
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  Speaker 2: So you're not playing equal schedules. They're not even close.
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  Speaker 2: If you look at an SEC team and gave them
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  Speaker 2: another one of the conference's schedules, they'd average two more wins.
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  Speaker 2: He says, well, that's a big deal. So I say
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  Speaker 2: that if you're going to get more teams, you have
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  Speaker 2: to have a different system because the system is broke
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  Speaker 2: how they pick teams right now. Also, we're going to
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  Speaker 2: get into this coaching carousel. And Maryland, you know, Maryland's
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  Speaker 2: job is open. We've got a Maryland hot board as
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  Speaker 2: well as far as coaches– to kind of compare, you know,
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  Speaker 2: to see what's going on around the country with other teams. And, again,
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  Speaker 2: this coaching carousel is just getting going. Speaking of the
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  Speaker 2: coaching carousel, now that it's spinning, we could expect it
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  Speaker 2: to speed up. Courtesy of On3. com, it says, last year,
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  Speaker 2: two power conference football coaches, UCLA's Deshaun Foster and Virginia
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  Speaker 2: Tech's Brent Prye, got fired after the games of Week 3.
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  Speaker 2: What followed was a hectic and chaotic coaching carousel one
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  Speaker 2: like we haven't seen in quite a while ultimately 18
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  Speaker 2: power conference coaching jobs came open one coach lane kiffin
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  Speaker 2: left a college football playoff bound team for a new
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  Speaker 2: job five schools that had won national titles or enjoyed
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  Speaker 2: undefeated seasons since 2008 that would be auburn florida lsu
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  Speaker 2: michigan and utah all hired new coaches as the sundays
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  Speaker 2: keep passing by this season with no major announcement it
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  Speaker 2: seems this year might be significantly slower But that changed
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  Speaker 2: last week. The 2026 coaching cycle started when Maryland fired
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  Speaker 2: Mike Loxley on October 21st. NC State clipped Dave Dorian,
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  Speaker 2: who was in his 14th year for the Wolfpack, just
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  Speaker 2: days after the Wolfpack lost to Stanford on a Friday night.
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  Speaker 2: And Sunday, Baylor fired Dave Aranda. And now that the
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  Speaker 2: seal's broken, you can expect more things to happen. An
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  Speaker 2: open letter to open an open letter Open to interpretation,
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  Speaker 2: it says on three has reached out and reached a
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  Speaker 2: point in the season where they need to read between
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  Speaker 2: the lines. On Tuesday, Florida State of this week, Florida
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  Speaker 2: State President Richard McCullough released a three-panel open letter on
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  Speaker 2: social media addressing the football situation without once actually mentioning
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  Speaker 2: their football team or coach Mike Norvell. At first, on
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  Speaker 2: three says that they thought the letter was a nothing burger,
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  Speaker 2: but upon repeated readings, two sentences stuck in their ear,
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  Speaker 2: To the top, quote, we are not asking you to
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  Speaker 2: believe that everything is fine, McCullough said. We know that
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  Speaker 2: it's not. So it's interesting when an athletic director speaks
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  Speaker 2: publicly anywhere, if they don't reference the team by name,
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  Speaker 2: you know, hey, us, Florida State, Seminoles, and they sure
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  Speaker 2: don't mention the coach, but they mention we're not asking
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  Speaker 2: you to believe that everything is fine. We know that
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  Speaker 2: it is not. Well, that's not good. That's not good
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  Speaker 2: at all. On three continues, said this sounds like a
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  Speaker 2: president saying that even if the team beats Clemson on Saturday,
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  Speaker 2: everything is still not fine. That's how most people would
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  Speaker 2: read it, and that's how Norvell should read it. And,
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  Speaker 2: of course, if you're Dabo Sweeney, you'd be slightly less
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  Speaker 2: worried but still concerned because if Florida State can beat
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  Speaker 2: Clemson and still plan on firing Norvell, what does that
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• 18:28
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• 18:32
  Speaker 2: you know, Clemson was a college football playoff team just
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: two years ago, or the initial 12-team college football playoff.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Now they're nowhere close to sniffing that thing. And Wednesday,
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: another social media post left no mystery whatsoever. Cody Campbell,
• 18:47
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• 18:52
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• 18:58
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  Speaker 2: of Alabama, 12 to 2. Brett, welcome in, sir. How
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: are you?
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  Speaker 4: Jake, we're doing fine. I was telling Ben, Alabama is
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: healing with a much, much needed bye week, and Auburn
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: is praying right now that they can get through the
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: month of October.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, where you get your bye week matters
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: for sure. And, you know, with LSU and Alabama, you know,
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: both in the clubhouse, so to speak, getting ready for
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: next week, it's a much needed bye. You know, Auburn,
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: you know, a different team, and like you said, I mean,
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: you come off the big win against Georgia. Then you
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: take one on the chin to LSU, coming in at
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: 2-3 in the league, 4-3 overall. Head to Oxford to
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: take on an Ole Miss team that took it on
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: the chin to Texas, now 3-2, 5-2. I don't think Auburn,
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: publicly they may say, hey, look, we're still fighting for
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: a college football playoff spot, trying to win out. Ole
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: Miss is absolutely still there. When you look at this
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: game this weekend, what are you expected to see?
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: I expect to see a final score somewhere around 38-28.
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: Both of these defenses have struggled. Auburn beat Georgia because
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: Georgia beat themselves. Now, Georgia, again, Georgia-Florida is going to
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: be a very entertaining game. Both those teams rested. Coming
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: off a bye, but Auburn just got the biggest disappointment.
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: Every time we talk to a beat writer who covers Auburn,
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: they tell me it's the defense.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: D.J.
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: Durkin is... considered and I believe still considered to be
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: one of the most respected DCs in the SEC and
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: certainly in the nation, but they haven't been able to
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: tackle anybody. Now, they played a little bit better against Georgia,
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: but LSU came in and a lot of people thought, well,
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: they've got this incredible momentum, but I've been using the
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: word hangover a to address a lot of these games.
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: And Auburn had such a big win that, and LSU
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: just came out and hit them in the face. LSU's
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: done that to a lot of teams, and particularly the
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: ones that have won. But Auburn has not been able
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: to win the line of scrimmage. Defensively, tackling has been
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: a major issue. Sam Levitt, the LSU quarterback, just shredded
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: the Auburn secondary defense Had a key 70-yard pass, a
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: little slant that went the distance. But both of these defenses,
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: Ole Miss, as you know, they're giving up 160 yards
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: a game rushing. Now, can they tighten up a little
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: bit more? Texas, of course, won that exciting game last week.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: Brown ran wild in the fourth quarter. But Auburn is
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: just trying to get through. I do think this is
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: going to be a close game for the majority of
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: the game. But I just don't see Auburn's defense faring
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: any better against Trinidad Chambliss. If Chambliss is healthy, is
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: able to get out of the pocket, and I give
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: Texas credit for keeping him in the pocket more than
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: a lot of other teams have, I just don't see
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: an Auburn defense that's going to be able to, even
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: with Keewan Lacey not playing, and they've got some other
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: Sunday Brownie backers, I just don't see the Auburn defense
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: being able to keep up in this game. In fact,
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: I'm going to probably pick something like 35-24, 38-28 Ole Miss.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Brent Beard talking Ole Miss and Auburn. Thursday edition of
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• 24:41
  Speaker 2: when you look at Auburn at 4-3, if that does
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: come to fruition, I think most people feel like Ole
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: Miss should probably win the game. Arkansas is a winnable game.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: On the road at Mississippi State, especially with Kamario Taylor out,
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: is a winnable game. Samford's a winnable game. I mean,
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: that's three right there at seven. That would be, you know,
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: seven wins if they got all three of those headed
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: into Alabama to see what happens in the Iron Bowl.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Is the season trending in a way that would be
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: considered success in year one under Alex Golish?
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: There's no question. And, Jake, I'm so used to– talking
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: about Alabama and Georgia, you know, are they going to get,
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: not only are they going to get the playoffs, are
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: they going to make it deep into the playoffs and
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: play for a national championship game? Auburn fans are just
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: hoping for a winning season. When you haven't won in
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: five years now, you stated it pretty well, Auburn with Arkansas,
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: Mississippi State, and Sanford, they should win three consecutive games
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: Arkansas has given them some problems in Auburn for years.
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: In fact, they won there two years ago in Alabama. Again,
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: on paper, should take care of business. Listen, they would
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: roll two tumors corner if they went 6-6 and went
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: to a minor bowl. The Auburn offensive line has been
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: the issue pretty much the entire season. They've got some
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: pretty good players. Joe Simmons left and co-passed. in Stanton-Romeo,
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: but they've been beat up. They've been interchanging players. And
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: their offense, when they're not turning the ball over or
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: getting penalized, they can move the ball like they did
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: against Georgia. But, yes, to answer your question, if they
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: win six games, they would be glad. If they won
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: seven games and won a bowl game, they'd be ecstatic
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: right now.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: Brett, looking around the rest of the league, when you
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: look at Georgia obviously sitting at the top of the conference,
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: Kentucky's got to be the story right now at 5-1,
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: 7-1 overall. Your thoughts on that. Kentucky's still got a
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: slate coming up, but your thoughts on Kentucky and the
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: work they have done here in year one of a
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: new staff, new quarterback, and kind of all new pieces.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: Jake, every time we talk to a Kentucky media member,
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: But they just tell us the fan base is just ecstatic.
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: They don't do– I keep saying this. They don't do
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: a lot of things well. But, again, the sum is
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: greater than the parts. I'll tell you the reason why
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: they're ranked number nine in the nation is they don't
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: beat themselves. They are– Minchie, for example, the transfer from
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: Notre Dame, has one interception. They're plus 13 in turnovers.
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: They're one of the least penalized teams. They can run
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: the ball. The blue wall is kind of the blue
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: wall again. And winning is contagious. Now, you kind of
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: alluded to it. They've got a tough November. I don't
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: think there's any way they're going to go through Tennessee, Florida,
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: and Missouri together. and not lose one game or not
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: even lose two games. But listen, that fan base is
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: more excited right now than they've ever been. I know
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: Stoops won 10 games in 2021, but this is a
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: little bit different. This team is that they're not a
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: lot of superstars. They just simply don't beat themselves, and
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: they find a way to win a game at the
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: end of the game.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: Final minutes here with Brett Beard talking college football and
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: the SEC. Brett, you know, there's no way we're going
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: to know. I mean, you've got Kentucky and Georgia now
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: with one loss, Bama, LSU, Tennessee, Florida, Ole Miss, Missouri, Texas.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's half the league with two losses. You
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: figure half those teams are going to have three losses.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: How many teams do you anticipate the SEC gets in
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: this playoff? And I don't know that we really know
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: that because it's all based on what happens in the
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: other conferences.
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: Jake, it's just up in the air right now. The
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: two teams that play in Atlanta for the final time,
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: I think both of them have two losses. I don't
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: think people look, well, who can beat Georgia? Well, Ole Miss, Missouri,
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: South Carolina, I think Georgia gets one more loss. Jake,
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: I think this is the year to where you have
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: a couple of 9-3 teams, and we know where this
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: is going when you go to 24, but right now,
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: I would speculate for sure that the SEC gets in three,
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: maybe four. But it's going to depend upon the committee.
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: They've got to look at strength of schedule because I
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: think all the teams have got two, and it wouldn't
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: surprise me if at least one of the teams from
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: the SEC got three.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: I agree with you 100%, and I think we're going
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: to have some teams get left out that there's going
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: to be a lot of crying and gnashing of teeth
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: come that Sunday night on Selection Sunday. Make sure to
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  Speaker 2: always appreciate your time. Enjoy the weekend. It should be
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  Speaker 2: You can text 601-885-3776. NFL game tonight, 7-15 kick, Panthers-Packers
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  Speaker 2: in Green Bay. And Green Bay is a 3.5-point favorite.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: That total is at 47. Coming up tonight, NCAA football.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: You've got a couple games tonight. Florida Atlantic and North Texas.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: North Texas is a 14-point favorite. That total in that
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: game is one of the highest totals I've seen in
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: a long.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Time. 77.5.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: 77.5 for Florida Atlantic and North Texas tonight. Also, Troy
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: at James Madison. JMU is a 20-point favorite over Troy.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: That total is at 50. And looking at lines coming
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: up for this weekend, Texas Tech, who dropped their first
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: ball game of the season, they are a three-and-a-half point
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: favorite against Arizona. That is a top 25 matchup, number
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: 13 Texas Tech versus number 22 Arizona. That totals at 55. Iowa,
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: who dropped a ball game, really just got caught crossways
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: last week, now puts their college football playoff hopes in
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: jeopardy with two losses. They are a three-and-a-half point favorite
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: over Wisconsin. That totals at 37. Notre Dame, again, with
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: a kick-walk this weekend. They played Navy. They're a 31-point favorite.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: You've also got Michigan starting a new quarterback. They're a
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: 15-point favorite on the road to Rich Rutgers. Ole Miss
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: is a 12.5-point favorite against Auburn. That's an 11-45 kick
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: on Saturday. Their total is at 57.5. Also, Colorado is
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: a 1.5-point favorite over Kansas State. Total is at 47.5.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: Sean C. Memphis tagged me and Beavis something on X.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: I won't get into it because it wasn't from a
• 33:23
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• 33:26
  Speaker 2: talking about Deion's in trouble and that whole deal out
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: there is in trouble he could this could be it
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: for him out there Florida v Georgia 230 the cocktail
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: party number three Georgia versus number 17 Florida Georgia 13
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: point favorite that totals at 55 and a half Oregon
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: as a unranked team taking on a ranked team Northwestern
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: there are four point favorite remember Vegas Keith already talks
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: about this Vegas just be anytime you see a unranked
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: team as a favorite against a ranked team at home,
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: I think 60% to 65%. We won't go 70%. 65%
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: of the time that unranked team wins. Oregon a four-point
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: favorite against Northwestern, 47.5% as a total. BYU trying to
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: get back on the right side of things there, a 16.5%
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: point favorite versus Arizona State, 48.5% as the total on that. Also,
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: Southern Miss is a three-and-a-half point favorite, a rare favorite
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: for Southern Miss on the road at Louisiana Monroe. That's
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: a 230 kick. Total's at 56.5%. And you've also got
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: UCLA trying to stand beating. They take on Nevada. They're
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: a 22-and-a-half-point favorite. And that Clemson-Florida State game, Florida State
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: is a six-point favorite, six o'clock kick, 49-and-a-half. Miami, a
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: two-touchdown and a hook favorite, 14-and-a-half over North Carolina, Bill Belichick.
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: Ohio State is a six-and-a-half-point favorite on the road at USC,
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: 630 kick, 51-and-a-half. Mississippi State is a 20-and-a-half-point dog on
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: the road, 630 kick, as they get ready to swan
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: dive into Texas on Saturday night. Totals at 50.5. Missouri
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: is a 10-point favorite over Arkansas. And let's see here.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: Your latest game, if you want to stay up late,
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: Oregon State at Fresno State. That kicks at 10 o'clock,
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: 10 p.m. Five-and-a-half-point favorite is Oregon State. That total is
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: at 58.5. 601-885-3776. We were talking about the coaching carousel spinning.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: Cody Campbell says that the big money man for Texas
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: Tech said that Joey Maguire is safe. And what's interesting
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: is when you got your money guy.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Jake.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: You know, I don't like to do this at all.
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: I'm totally interrupting, but I can't see your face. Obviously,
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: you're out at the place.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: I forget where you... No, wait.
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: Brandon's tomorrow.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: You're out at Heinz.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: You're out at Heinz.
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: I can't see your face, but I.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: Got to ask, how.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: How proud of you, how proud of yourself are you
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: after dropping that they're going to swan dive into Texas line?
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: I just feel like you said that and you just
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: had a grin on your face like, oh, look what
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: I just did.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: Well, first off, I'm very happy that I know that
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: you're listening to me. Or maybe that just caught you
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: and you're like, did he really just say that?
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: I was playing my bus game over here and I
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: had to just stop immediately.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to give Mississippi State fans something to be
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: happy about. I mean, you've got to embrace the moment. And,
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: you know, you've got to be like a swan. You've
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: got to dive into it. So, I don't know. It's corny.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: It's dumb. But it could stick. It could be a T-shirt.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: And feel free to interject. I enjoy it when you
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: do that. But would you wear a swan dive into
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: a Starkville shirt if we had them printed up?
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: Actually, you know what? That one I will allow. It's
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: better than KT1?
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: Or if Mississippi State goes out there, and look, let's
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: just say Texas goes back to the Texas Ole Miss
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: didn't play, where they're just very average, and Arch Manning's
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: just bumbling around out there. If they were to win that,
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: will state fans call him AS1?
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: Oh, no.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: No.
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: Apparently that's what we're doing these days, though, so I
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: wouldn't put it past anybody to break that one out.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: Hey, if you've got any other slogans you want to
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: put out there for A.J. Swan this weekend, you've got
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: to get excited about something. I mean, that's what teams
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: and fan bases do, right? You go to the next
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: backup quarterback and you hope he's the guy. It's just
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: like you missed a parlay, so you build another parlay
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: and you hope you hit that parlay. But you know
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: college football has changed when you've got the big donors
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: coming out making public statements about the coach like Cody
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: Campbell has. I mean, Cody Campbell, he's a donor. He
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: says nothing's changing. So, I mean, he's out here flexing
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: on social media. Also, all eyes turn to Los Angeles
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: this weekend. That statement from Campbell erases any possibility of
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: USC coach Lincoln Riley landing at his alma mater should
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: the Trojans administration decide to make a change. I don't
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: know that Texas Tech would want Lincoln Riley. I mean, look,
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: Lincoln Riley is not the commodity he was five years ago.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: Doesn't mean he's not a good coach. Doesn't mean that.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: He can't coach. He's just not one of the better
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: coaches in the country. With Baylor open and TCU coach
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: Sonny Dykes in danger, speculation is rampant that Riley could
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: wind up back in the Big 12, which he won
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: four times at Oklahoma. On Tuesday, Riley pushed back on
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: the speculation and says, quote, listen, if I didn't want
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: to be at this place, I wouldn't have come here
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: in the first place. I've had plenty of opportunities to leave,
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: Riley told reporters, and I don't know that I believe that.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: That's what I would say if I was him. This
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: is where I want to be. This is the right
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: place for me. I'm the right person to be here,
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: and that's as honest and transparent as I can be
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: with you guys. I'm sure he does want to be there.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: He's getting a good paycheck. He probably likes the gig.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: I've never been on that campus. I've never been in
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: their facilities. I'm sure they're very nice. I'm sure he's
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: got a heck of a setup out there. But him saying, quote,
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: if I didn't want to be at this place, I
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: wouldn't be, Well, it's not up to you, Lincoln, if
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: we can call him by his first name. It's up
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: to the administration. And are they tired of being very
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: mediocre out in SC? So if Ohio State goes out
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: there and puts one on them, it could be problems
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: for Lincoln Riley. Riley's offense mustered one measly touchdown in
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: a 24-7 loss at Wisconsin last week. That's not acceptable
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: if they're going to be really USC. You can't go
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: to Wisconsin and drop one touchdown. This isn't Wisconsin- Barry
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: Alvarez's Wisconsin teams. This isn't Brett Bielema's Wisconsin teams that's
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: winning 10, 11 ballgames a year in the Big Ten
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: and road grading everybody. This isn't that version of Wisconsin football.
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: It's a nice Wisconsin team, like Maryland. Six and six,
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: seven and five, they're a nice team. They shouldn't hold
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: you to seven points. And it was also USC's second
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: loss of the season. The Trojans still have to play
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: Ohio State, Indiana, and undefeated UCLA. They can finish 7-5.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: And I don't care how bad Lincoln Riley wants to
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: be there, or he wouldn't. They're not paying you $ 10
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: million to annually go 7-5 and 8-4. You're in the
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: Big Ten. You're supposed to be a big player in
• 40:34
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