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Ep. 132: College Football Week Eight Takeaways · The PatteFacts: A College Football Show

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  Durant makes his move, spins in the paint turn, puts it up, puts
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  it in John Morant, knocks it down.
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  Chioza. And.
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  Here we go, episode 130. Two of the Paddafax streaming on
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  Apple Podcast, Spotify, and wherever you get your podcast
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  from. It is October 21st, 2025.
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  Thank you so much for tuning in. I'm William Patterson, all
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  right, back for another week of takeaways, this time following
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  Week 8 of the college football season.
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  And we've got plenty to cover as this was a monster slate, plenty
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  of action that even begun on Friday.
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  As Miami gets upset by Louisville, we'll talk about
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  that one. We'll talk about the action on
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  Saturday as well. Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and
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  Ole Miss, just so much to get to.
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  And we'll also talk about Billy Napier being fired from Florida.
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  Also, my final thoughts, I'll talk about why Tim Skipper, the
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  UCLA interim head coach, needs a little bit more praise than what
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  for today's episode. Let's get into the action.
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  I want to begin with this and it's my week 8 takeaways for the
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  college football season and. It is.
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  Crazy how fast this season has flown by.
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  It feels like yesterday I was sitting here talking about Week
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  1 and we were doing, you know, my top 25 teams heading into the
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  season, the top ten players and, and top 10 quarterbacks and all
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  this stuff. And now you bat an eye and it's
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  October, about to be November. Halloween's in 10 days.
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  Oh my gosh, folks. Oh my gosh.
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  But hey, that's what college football is all about.
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  It just flies by because you're having so much fun.
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  And I've had so much fun covering it this season.
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  We'll begin with Tennessee Alabama, and then we'll go down
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  the list. I'll talk about some games a
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  little bit longer than others, and then we'll kind of dive into
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  some smaller takeaways. But if you've listened before,
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  you know how this rolls. Let's begin with Tennessee
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  Alabama as the 11th ranked Tennessee Volunteers travel to
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  Tuscaloosa to take on #6 Alabama, One of the hottest
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  teams in the country are the Tide.
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  And this was the classic third Saturday in October, one of the
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  most anticipated matchups in the SEC every season.
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  And when Tennessee and Alabama are both ranked, it adds a lot
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  of intensity to it. And at least pre game, there was
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  a lot of intensity and, and the score is a little bit more
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  lopsiding than the game actually was, as Tennessee did have their
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  fair amount of opportunities. But Alabama wins 37 to 20 and
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  this one and Alabama came out early, had a 10 play, 78 yard
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  scoring drive. Or excuse me, the the Vols had
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  that in response to Alabama's first score of the game, I
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  should say. So Alabama takes the lead and
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  then Tennessee goes 10 plays, 78 yards.
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  Joey Aguilar finds Braylon Staley.
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  We're knotted up at 7 apiece. It kind of feels like we're
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  going to be in for a good one. And then Alabama is able to make
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  a couple of big plays down the stretch of this one.
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  They get a safety on Joey Aguilar and the end zone.
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  They go down and score and capitalize on that mistake for
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  the Volunteers at 16-7. And then Tennessee drives down
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  the field, gets into the red zone, and Xavion Brown makes one
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  of the craziest plays of the season.
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  There have not been many moments in my life or my jaw has just
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  naturally dropped and like I haven't even like noticed what
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  happened. Like just naturally the jaw
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  drops, right? That was that play.
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  I I really can't think of that many times that it's happened.
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  But it was just was so just so sudden.
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  So just you're in that spot and and you and you believe that
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  Tennessee's going to either punch it in or incomplete settle
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  for a field goal. But no, it goes 99 yards the
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  other way. Sabian Brown makes a big time
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  play. This is 23, seven at halftime
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  and that's when it kind of fell out of reach for the balls.
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  Tennessee's able to kind of fight their way back in the
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  second-half. They get a couple of stops,
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  They're get a, they get a score. But just the deficit of 16
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  points was a little bit too much to come back from an overall.
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  Alabama gets another win, their four straight top 25 win over an
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  SEC opponent. They they are rolling right now
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  folks, and it's very difficult to do what they're doing, but
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  they've done it. Georgia, Missouri, Vanderbilt,
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  now Tennessee, this is a team that right now is playing with a
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  ton of confidence and has a great identity.
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  So let me talk about Alabama real quick before I get into a
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  slew of things about Tennessee. Obviously many of you know I
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  cover Tennessee here in Knoxville for Fox Sports
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  Knoxville and I do a daily radio show.
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  I talk about this team every day.
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  I listen to the press conferences.
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  I do it all. So I do know a good bit about
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  this Tennessee team and I'll dive into it here in a second.
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  But let me give credit to Alabama because their turn
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  around since Week 0 almost unbelievable.
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  Florida State loses this weekend to Stanford and Alabama beats
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  Tennessee at home. The type of changes and
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  trajectories these two teams have been on since Week 1 is
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  truly astonishing, but Alabama has really fed into their
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  identity with Ryan Grubb. Now Ryan Grubbs, the offensive
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  coordinator, came over with why I guess last year he's in
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  Seattle. I should say he was with the
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  Seattle Seahawks last year, comes over and rejoins with
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  Caitlin De Boer. The two of them were together in
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  Washington when Michael Pennix and company were able to March
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  to the national championship. Ryan Grubb is a really good
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  offensive coordinator and he's done a really great job with
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  this team and formalizing an identity of how they want to
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  play. Heading to this one, Alabama was
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  7th in the country in time of possession.
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  They like to sit on the football, they like to wear you
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  out and they're really disciplined to where they're not
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  turning the football over. So heading into this one, it was
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  going to be tough for Tennessee to be able to cause those
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  turnovers and you knew that. But you know, Alabama does give
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  a turnover up in this one. But it doesn't matter because
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  they dominated the time of possession still in the
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  important parts of this game and they were able to play how they
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  wanted to offensively credit Tennessee.
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  They get a couple of stops, but Alabama had 299 yard drives.
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  Methodical dicing Tennessee up, causing a a couple of penalties
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  here and there, pass interference, couple of those
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  really costly for the Volunteers.
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  But even with jam Miller kind of being a Jello Head coming into
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  this one as he got knocked out against Missouri, they decided
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  to play him Saturday. I I didn't think it was a great
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  idea, but Miller was fine. But the rest of the running back
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  room did their job as well, and their time of possession is a.
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  Really, really big. Key of this team.
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  The second is Ty Simpson and I'll admit when I'm wrong.
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  I was not a fan of Ty Simpson heading into the season.
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  If you remember my top 25 episode before the year began, I
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  said I can't rank this team any higher because I don't know
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  about Ty Simpson. I I just haven't seen it.
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  He's been there for years and I haven't really seen anything
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  good or heard anything good about him, so I couldn't trust
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  him. But now I can because he's an
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  efficient, effective quarterback that takes care of the football.
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  And in the SEC, when you're going up against all these top
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  25 teams, that's exactly what you need.
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  And Ty Simpson has been really, really good.
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  And it helps that you have a Jeremy Bernard and Isaiah Horton
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  and Ryan Williams. I thought Williams had a really
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  impressive performance Saturday after a little bit of a quiet
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  start to the season. But when you've got this cast of
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  really talented weapons and you've got a good offensive line
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  and you've got a really, really good offensive coordinator and
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  Ryan Grubb that knows what he's doing.
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  Ty Simpson's already going to be in a good situation.
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  And all he has to do is play the the, the piece of the puzzle,
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  right? He has to fit in with everything
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  else. And he's done exactly that.
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  So I I will say I was wrong about Ty Simpson.
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  He deserves to be right up there in the Heisman Trophy
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  contention. Fernando Mendoza and Diego
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  Pavia, the guy we'll talk about more here in a little bit, I
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  think are up there with them. But Ty Simpson does what he's
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  told to do, follows the system, doesn't make mistakes.
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  And when you've got a roster like Alabama has, you're going
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  to win a lot of football games. And credit to Alabama.
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  They stepped up, made some big plays when they needed it and
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  the offense was able to do their get to their game plan and do
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  exactly what they wanted to do. So credit to Alabama, man, They,
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  they, they played their game and now this is the hottest team in
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  college football or if not one of the hottest teams in college
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  football. So Alabama I was impressed with.
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  I will say I think there is a little bit of concern about the
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  way they are winning because I I do think the opposing teams have
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  made a lot of mistakes on the way.
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  Missouri makes a couple of critical mistakes late game.
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  Vanderbilt has 2 red zone turnovers.
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  Tennessee continues to shoot themselves in the foot.
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  I'll go into depth about that here in a second.
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  Even Georgia, they were really, really bad defensively on 3rd
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  down and that shouldn't be a negative for Alabama because
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  they were able to execute on those plays.
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  But I will say Alabama has been in some arms distance games over
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  this last month. They're winning it.
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  I think that's a great trait for them to be able to win those
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  games. But I will say I'm interested to
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  see if they don't get the benefit of the turnovers or
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  don't get the benefit of executing on 3rd down, if
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  they're able to still stay in an arms race up against, you know,
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  another really good SEC team. That's my only critique and only
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  concern about this team at the moment.
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  Let's go to Tennessee. Tennessee continues to get in
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  their own way, and that's the definition of this team right
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  now. I think Tennessee looked the
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  part offensively Saturday against Alabama, but
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  defensively, this is not a group that's a national championship
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  level team. This is not a national
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  championship level defense. They're way too undisciplined.
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  The tackling and technique is really, really bad, and they
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  continue to put themselves in really tight positions to where
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  the margin of error is really, really slim.
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  And you saw that Saturday to where Alabama's able to drive
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  down the field to begin the game, get in the end zone.
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  Now the pressure's on the offense to get in the end zone,
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  and Tennessee's able to do that. But you have a safety and
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  Alabama marches down. You go up 16, seven.
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  Now you're in a position where you have to respond.
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  And this brings us to one of the most talked about plays this
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  weekend, and that's that final play of the first half.
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  Now, personally, I thought that, you know, I think that
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  situational football's really key in a moment like this.
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  Obviously, it's easy to go back and just dissect one play and
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  say, well, I would have ran it or I would have kicked a field
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  goal. Yeah, yeah.
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  I think situationally you Josh Hypel kind of showed what he
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  makes of his defense in that moment because obviously you
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  want to get some points on the board before half.
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  But if Tennessee was to receive in the second-half, you
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  obviously would have taken the field goal there.
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  But if Josh Hypel had enough, enough trust in his defense to
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  get a stop to begin the second-half, I feel like he
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  would have settled for three there and you would have run the
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  clock down to about 3 seconds, call time out and just settle
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  for the field goal, maybe taking a shot at the end zone one time.
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  And maybe that's what they were trying to do if that play didn't
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  work. But it it completely blew up in
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  their face and going jumbo package.
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  I didn't think it was the smartest idea.
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  I would have spreaded them out and and put guys like Chris
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  Brazil and Mike Matthews and Bramon Staley out there.
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  Take your shot at a couple of slant routes or a zig and just
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  try to get something quick. See if you can get man to man
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  coverage. If not, you know, just throw the
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  ball away live to see another down.
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  But the play you run is jumbo. Alabama calls time out.
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  Josh Hypo after the game said they switched the play call
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  following the time out. So now you're in that same
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  formation. And Alabama has still already
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  kind of made-up their mind of how they're going to defend it.
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  So changing the play call really didn't matter because whether it
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  was a run or something different, they stayed in the
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  same formation. So Tennessee runs it.
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  And I didn't think the play in itself was that bad.
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  I just thought the look you gave before the time out was
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  revealing and then you don't execute the play correctly.
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  Joey Aguilar has had a great season.
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  I, I think he's been one of the most impressive stories of the
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  season in college football, but had a really bad ball in this
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  one. Alligator armed it by about, you
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  know, 5 yards of where it should have been in terms of distance
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  to the sideline and he miss. He just missed on this.
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  And Xavier Brown makes a great play. 99 yard touchdown that
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  totally swings this one. Credit to Alabama's defense.
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  They were ready. They were in.
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  Position, but Joey Aguilar should have put this ball a
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  little bit to the outside and I feel like Miles Kitzelman could
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  have caught it and brought it in for a touchdown.
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  And this is a totally different game if that happens.
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  But in that kind of moment, there's one thing you cannot
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  afford an under throw and a turnover.
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  You know you can't either or you know, either an under throw or
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  or a turnover. You can't afford that.
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  You can afford an overthrow, or an incomplete pass, or just
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  mailing it and under an under throw on a on a route that's
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  going far outside. It is just a recipe for
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  disaster, and it was. So that's what I made of that,
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  that the specific play. But as the game went on,
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  Tennessee comes back in the second-half, has an opportunity
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  to respond, and they do. They March down the field.
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  It's 2314. This is a ball game.
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  Actually, 2313, they go for two and miss.
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  But the other really boneheaded play that I was just mind
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  boggled by was the fumble by Ty Simpson.
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  It was kind of an awkward throw and it gets batted behind him.
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  I think it was Joshua Josephs. The defensive end bats it and Ty
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  Simpson still throws it and has a throw in motion but it goes
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  forward. But he didn't have control so
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  they ruled it a fumble. And the crazy thing about?
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  You know, NFL, college, whatever you want to call it like.
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  They'll be the most obvious dead ball possible, but a defender
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  will pick it up and start running like it's a live ball
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  and a touchdown, like everyone in the stadium knows it's a dead
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  ball. Like it happens all the time.
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  You know what I'm referring to. But in this instance, Jaden
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  Perlotti, a freshman linebacker for Tennessee, just bats the
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  ball down. Just bats it.
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  If he picks it up and runs it, it's a touchdown.
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  It's a 3 point game with like 7 minutes left in the third
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  quarter. Totally different ball game if
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  you make that play. Keep in mind.
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  Alabama gets that big pick 6 right before halftime.
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  Totally spurns the way this game goes.
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  Tennessee needed to have a play like that.
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  And I'm not, you know, I'm not saying.
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  That Jane Perlotti is the reason why Tennessee lost.
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  There is a a culmination of a ton of things of of why
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  Tennessee lost this game, but I just don't get a defender not
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  playing a live ball play through the whistle and Tennessee ends
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  up recovering it, but they don't score because they're at the 50
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  yard line and only gain about 7 yards and they have to punt.
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  Jane Perlotti picks that thing up.
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  It's a touchdown. And I like Perlotti a lot.
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  I think he's got great speed. I think he should honestly be
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  playing more, especially over Jeremiah T Lander, a guy that I
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  think is really, really limited in pass coverage.
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  But in that type of moment, like you can't have that stuff
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  happen. You've got to play through the
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  whistle and I, I thought that was a really significant play.
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  Now, as the game went on, you know, Tennessee had their
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  opportunities to maybe get things close, but Alabama has
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  another really long drive and the tackling is poor.
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  The technique is. Bad and boom, you're done.
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  I think Tennessee is a top 15 team in the country.
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  I think Tennessee is a really, really good football team, but
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  they are just so undisciplined. Defensively, in terms of
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  technique and tackling and tackling angles, and they just
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  fall in their own way. Like Tennessee under Josh Hypel
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  in these moments just falls in its own way time and time again.
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  Penalties, really costly ones, bad ones in specific moments,
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  you know, having that interception to end in the first
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  half, not picking it up when it's a live football, just stuff
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  like that. If you want to win in the SEC,
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  if you want to beat Georgia and Alabama.
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  You have got to. Be really, really good at the
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  little things, and that's where Tennessee drops the ball in all
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  these games. Go back to that Georgia game,
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  right? Tennessee's in a position to win
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  that game and you get your kicker in a position.
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  To, you know, knock in what would have been like a 3840.
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  Yard field goal, you back them up because you get a, a false
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  start. You put them in a tougher
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  situation because you have three really vanilla bland run calls
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  like you're not helping out your kicker and kicking a, you know,
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  45 yard field goal is really, really difficult.
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  That's a tough spot for anyone. You know everyone says after
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  that game oh if if Max Gilbert hit this one.
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  No. One play doesn't define a game.
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  You had the football after a big time turnover and and did not
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  move at all early in the fourth quarter and you settle for a
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  field goal. Thank gosh Max Gilbert hit that
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  one because that made it 35. 30 so like you can pin the you know
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  kicker all you want, but the kicker hit a big time field goal
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  earlier in this one so. I thought that was a a ludicrous
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  take because it's just, you know.
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  Bashing the guy that made the play.
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  You know the. The most recent play, keep in
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  mind he had won in overtime as well as the Tennessee tackling.
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  That was terrible in overtime and throughout the course of
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  that Georgia game. But again, you're in a
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  game-winning position and you don't execute correctly, you
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  don't control the controllables correctly, and you back your
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  team up right before you're about to go.
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  Kick. Tennessee continues to get in
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  their own way and if they don't change that, this will be a team
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  that is a three or four loss team this season.
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  And the schedule? Gets pretty difficult.
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  Oklahoma at home here in two weeks at Florida, a place that
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  Tennessee hasn't won since 2003. Then he got Vanderbilt.
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  Oh yeah, Vanderbilt is now a big game and likely could be a play
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  in game for the College Football Playoff.
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  But maybe Tennessee doesn't even get to that point because they
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  drop at Florida. So if Tennessee wants to be a
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  College Football Playoff team this season, I think they have
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  the offense to do it. But the defense is so ungodly
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  and disciplined it makes you throw your hair out.
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  And they continue to not control the controllables and the little
• 20:47
  things and the pivotal moments. So that's where I currently
• 20:50
  stand with Tennessee. Credit to Alabama for another
• 20:52
  big time win. I really like what they do
• 20:54
  offensively. But my bigger take away from
• 20:56
  this one is that Tennessee continues to get in its own way.
• 21:00
  Let's move now to Ole Miss and Georgia, as Georgia survives
• 21:05
  again is what I've got for this one.
• 21:07
  Number 9 Georgia defeats Ole Miss 43 to 35.
• 21:12
  And the 5th ranked Rebels gave a really, really good fight in
• 21:15
  this one, but we're not able to finish it out.
• 21:18
  The pre game storylines for me here we're Ole Miss, you know,
• 21:22
  hits the road after a big time win over LSUA couple of weeks
• 21:25
  ago. But last week in week 7, a
• 21:29
  three-point win over Washington State.
• 21:31
  That was disgusting. Maybe it was a look ahead spot
• 21:34
  and I was hoping so. And it seemed that way for much
• 21:37
  of this game. His Ole Miss was really, really
• 21:38
  solid up until the fourth quarter.
• 21:41
  But does Ole Miss, you know, bounce back and and what do they
• 21:45
  look like under, you know, on the road under Lane Kiffin?
• 21:47
  That's always been the Achilles heel of this team.
• 21:50
  And then can Georgia avoid back-to-back top 25 losses at
• 21:54
  home as the last time they were out up against the top 25
• 21:57
  opponent there was Alabama and they continued to get in their
• 21:59
  own way of that one. But my, my big take away here is
• 22:03
  that, you know, Georgia finds a way once again.
• 22:07
  The Bulldogs totaled 510 yards of offense at 6.4 yards per play
• 22:12
  at complimentary football, 221 rushing yards and 289 yards in
• 22:17
  the air and they had 17 fourth quarter points.
• 22:21
  They were trailing by 9 heading into this one.
• 22:24
  Georgia offense was able to get in rhythm and I don't think the
• 22:27
  offense has been at all a concern this season.
• 22:30
  I think if anything, it's the defense and the inconsistencies
• 22:32
  you see there. I do have some concern about
• 22:35
  Gunner Stockton up against zone defenses, but on Saturday he had
• 22:38
  some success against that. So maybe that's something he's
• 22:41
  grown from early in the season as Alabama threw a lot of zone
• 22:44
  at him and that earlier match up and and kind of rattled him.
• 22:48
  But I thought in this one he looked a little bit more
• 22:51
  comfortable. Missed a couple of progressions
• 22:52
  and reads. But this is still a guy that's
• 22:54
  learning, making his first full season as a starter.
• 22:57
  So you have to, you know, live and learn with the growing pains
• 23:00
  here, but. Overall, he goes 26 of 31.
• 23:04
  Really, really strong number there, 289 for four touchdowns
• 23:07
  in the year, was really solid in this one.
• 23:10
  And then 59 rushing yards and a touchdown on the ground.
• 23:14
  And let's talk about these two running backs.
• 23:16
  Nate Frazier, 72 yards. Chauncey Bowens, a guy that was
• 23:19
  really, really impressive in the G Day game back in in in the
• 23:24
  spring. And he goes for 61 yards.
• 23:26
  I thought they had a really balanced attack and.
• 23:29
  We'll talk about these pitiful defenses here in a second as
• 23:32
  both were horrible Saturday, but I think a a big trait of a
• 23:36
  championship level team is can you find ways to win?
• 23:39
  And Alabama has done that so far this season.
• 23:42
  Georgia has now done it twice, really three times.
• 23:46
  And I do think it's a concern that they are in these positions
• 23:49
  in the 1st place. Like last week, Auburn having to
• 23:51
  go through a fire drill to beat Jackson Arnold and company is
• 23:54
  not a good sign. But Georgia was able to find a
• 23:57
  way to win. Winning in the SEC is difficult,
• 24:00
  I'll give credit for it, but Georgia does it against
• 24:03
  Tennessee earlier in the season. They're down by double digits in
• 24:06
  that one and they March back, find a way to win here once
• 24:10
  again. They're down 9 points heading
• 24:11
  into the fourth quarter, and George is able to execute and
• 24:15
  make the plays necessary. So I don't love this Georgia
• 24:18
  team. I think defensively there are a.
• 24:21
  Lot of concerns. This is not the Georgia of old,
• 24:25
  but they find ways to win and that is an attribute of a
• 24:28
  really, really good coach and that's Kirby Smart.
• 24:30
  Kirby Smart second-half adjustments are always some of
• 24:33
  the best in the country. Ole Miss swallowed them in the
• 24:36
  first half offensively and Georgia was able to be much
• 24:41
  better in the fourth quarter, the money quarter against the
• 24:44
  Rebels defensively. But a big part of that is
• 24:46
  because the offense played complementary football, put them
• 24:49
  in a good positions to be successful and really marched
• 24:54
  down the field at ease. I thought this Ole Miss defense
• 24:56
  was pretty good against LSU. Now we see what LSU looks like
• 25:00
  after a full body of work, seven weeks of of work of offense.
• 25:04
  They're not as strong as we'd anticipated.
• 25:07
  But give credit to Georgia, man. They made some really big plays.
• 25:11
  Zechariah Branch, Noah Thomas, all those Cats were big.
• 25:14
  I hate that Colby Young went down with an injury.
• 25:16
  That was a really, really good player for this group.
• 25:19
  He's out for the season now, so going to have to a little bit of
• 25:22
  a pivot for the Bulldogs there. But Georgia finds a way and I
• 25:27
  think that's an A tribute to their coach and the type of
• 25:30
  roster they have. Now for Ole Miss.
• 25:32
  I thought they were impressive. But they stall in the crunch
• 25:36
  time and for Lane Kiffin, the Achilles heel with the Rebels
• 25:40
  has been performing on the road and this was almost a signature
• 25:44
  Rd. win for him. Originally, for me, it was Lane
• 25:47
  Kiffin's Achilles heel was the big game, and he got one against
• 25:51
  Penn State in the Peach Bowl a couple years ago.
• 25:53
  Last year he beat Georgia at home.
• 25:55
  But the road games have been a bit of a problem.
• 25:58
  I mean, last year against LSU, that was a game they probably
• 26:00
  should have won but lost. Florida last year was a. 0
• 26:05
  tolerance loss. I don't know, like I don't know
• 26:07
  how you stumble in there and lose that one, especially with
• 26:10
  what Florida look like throughout that season.
• 26:13
  Granted, they had some momentum, but still.
• 26:15
  That's not a that's not a loss that Ole Miss could have
• 26:17
  afforded that cost him a College Football Playoff spot.
• 26:21
  And in this one, I thought Ole Miss was a better team for 3/4,
• 26:26
  but offensively they were really, really bad in the 4th
• 26:29
  and couldn't get anything to go. Going into that final drive for
• 26:32
  the Rebels, Ole Miss only had one yard in the fourth quarter.
• 26:35
  And I mean, basically just giving Georgia really quick, you
• 26:38
  know, quick 3 and outs, having the opportunity to get back on
• 26:42
  the offensive side of the ball. And that's why.
• 26:45
  Georgia was able to put up 17 points in this fourth quarter.
• 26:48
  They just kept on getting gifted opportunities.
• 26:51
  So I do think Ole Miss is evolving with Lane Kiffin.
• 26:55
  I, I think they are growing. I think they're getting more
• 26:56
  comfortable in these big games. And I thought Lane Kiffin
• 26:59
  actually coached a, a really good game on on Saturday.
• 27:01
  Offensively, he, he recognizes when there's a, a, a, a player
• 27:06
  open or when he likes a match up.
• 27:08
  Stribbling had a couple of really big plays in this one
• 27:11
  because Kiffin is jumping up and down saying get the ball, get
• 27:14
  the ball, get the ball to. Him What is it?
• 27:17
  A Harrison Wallace, I don't know.
• 27:20
  I don't know if it's a Harrison Wall.
• 27:21
  So there, there are a lot of names I've got to know folks.
• 27:23
  So I'm sorry I don't have them exactly in front of me.
• 27:26
  But Kiffin was really good on the sidelines saying, hey,
• 27:30
  Trinidad, right over here. Right over here, let's get it to
• 27:33
  this guy because we got one-on-one coverage, had a big
• 27:35
  touchdown from it. So I think Kiffin is getting
• 27:38
  better in these games, but he's got to finish it and was not
• 27:41
  able to do that Saturday. Looking at the specific numbers,
• 27:44
  the players I do have in front of me, Trinidad Chambliss goes
• 27:47
  19 of 36, a little bit inflated because they had to throw the
• 27:50
  ball a lot. And those final possessions, he
• 27:52
  goes for 263 yards and a touchdown in the air, 9 carries,
• 27:56
  42 rushing yards, 2 touchdowns on the ground.
• 27:59
  A big number right here though, Kiwan Lacy, 12 carries for 31
• 28:04
  yards and two touchdowns and that gets us into that final
• 28:08
  take away here. Both defenses struggle, but
• 28:11
  Georgia halts the run. Ole Miss runs for just 88 yards
• 28:15
  at 3.67 yards per carry here. That's really tough on the road
• 28:20
  when when you're trying to play, you know, complimentary
• 28:24
  football, your offense is able to get a ton of production in in
• 28:28
  the passing game. You need to be able to balance
• 28:30
  it out and Kiwan Lacy's been really, really good this year.
• 28:32
  I I like him a lot but was a non factor really outside of the red
• 28:36
  zone and. I thought that really hurt on
• 28:39
  this in this one, not being able to establish the run and and
• 28:42
  kind of a secondary option to, you know, Georgia playing, you
• 28:46
  know, farther back, farther into the passing, you know, passing
• 28:50
  game, passing defense. So that was big.
• 28:53
  But this game featured 861 yards between the two teams.
• 28:57
  It's not like either defense was really impressive.
• 28:59
  And maybe this is just one of these juggernaut games where two
• 29:01
  offenses are really In Sync and you're able to get a, you know,
• 29:06
  high flying offensive performance for a viewer.
• 29:08
  That's great. This was a fun game to watch.
• 29:10
  One of the more fun ones from Saturday.
• 29:12
  But Georgia, I still have deep concerns with defensively.
• 29:17
  This is just not the same unit as we've known in the past, an
• 29:19
  Ole Miss, like they're getting a lot of credit right now for that
• 29:23
  LSU win. But you've seen that LSU offense
• 29:26
  over the last couple of weeks. It's just not that strong.
• 29:28
  And Arkansas comes in and puts up 35 points.
• 29:32
  Wazoo, A-Team, that's garbage. Puts up 21 points.
• 29:36
  I don't know, maybe, maybe a little bit of a concern with Ole
• 29:38
  Miss offense or excuse me, Ole Miss defensively.
• 29:42
  But again, Georgia finds a way. They stop the run and Ole Miss
• 29:47
  was. Impressive, but cannot come up
• 29:49
  clutch in the crunch time when they really needed it.
• 29:52
  All. Right, let's move to Nashville
• 29:59
  where we got LSU and Vanderbilt. And folks, the Fighting Pavias
• 30:05
  are legit. As #17 Vanderbilt notches a
• 30:09
  signature win over #10 LSU 31 to 24 and the pre game storylines
• 30:16
  in this one for me. Can Vanderbilt rebound from
• 30:18
  their loss against Alabama? I felt like The Commodores
• 30:21
  played a pretty good football game there.
• 30:23
  They. Just had two.
• 30:23
  Crucial turnovers in the red zone cannot allow for that to
• 30:27
  happen. But for the most part of that
• 30:30
  game, I thought they held their own for LSU.
• 30:33
  Does this offense finally arrive?
• 30:35
  Please give us something. This is too talented of a team
• 30:38
  to continue to stall. And maybe we got an answer, but
• 30:42
  it wasn't enough as Diego Pavia was the difference maker in this
• 30:47
  one. Diego Pavia, whether you like
• 30:50
  him or you don't, and I know there's a lot of people that
• 30:53
  don't. But he's a really good player.
• 30:56
  He's a dog. Last year it was kind of like
• 30:58
  the. The edgy tik.
• 30:59
  T.O.K trend like Diego Pavia, he's pretty, you know, he's a
• 31:03
  college quarterback. You know he's fun because you
• 31:07
  know he's always in the camera. He says a couple of things and
• 31:10
  this offseason turning to damn near a celebrity, he was talking
• 31:12
  all on every podcast possible. Put some podcast equipment in
• 31:16
  front of him and he's saying the most ludicrous thing ever.
• 31:19
  And that's what I thought. And now we're in headed into
• 31:22
  week nine of the season. And Vanderbilt, 6:00 and 1:00.
• 31:26
  What kind of world do we? Live in Vanderbilt is 6 and one
• 31:31
  in 2020. Five with a top. 25 win over LSU
• 31:37
  and this is a good. Team This is a good team and
• 31:41
  Diego. Pavi is the difference maker.
• 31:43
  He's backed everything he set up.
• 31:46
  That Alabama game was close. They very well could have won it
• 31:48
  if Pavia played a little bit better.
• 31:50
  But when Pavia is on, this Vanderbilt team is dangerous.
• 31:55
  He goes 14 of 22 for 160 yards and a touchdown in the air, 17
• 32:00
  carries for 86 yards and two touchdowns on the ground.
• 32:03
  And as a team, Vanderbilt notches 21st downs 399 yards of
• 32:07
  offense and 239 yards on the ground.
• 32:11
  Couple of the big. Moments in this one and we'll
• 32:12
  talk about it more in these high pressure situations.
• 32:15
  But. Pavia and his ability to read
• 32:18
  the defense and react really quickly is a really, really big
• 32:22
  trade of his because LSU does have a good defense.
• 32:26
  Now, Witweeks was not available for this one, and I thought that
• 32:29
  would be significant. But they still got Harold
• 32:32
  Perkins, they've still got Weeks's brother, they've got
• 32:36
  Monsoor Delane, they've got all these really good players.
• 32:39
  This is still a good LSU defense and Harold Perkins, one of the
• 32:43
  fastest players in college football and one of the best
• 32:46
  linebackers in the SEC, couldn't stop Diego Pavia on a lot of
• 32:51
  these rushes. Like, he was coming in guns a
• 32:53
  blazing into the backfield and Diego Pavia kind of looked to
• 32:58
  his left. Have a quick twitch and get out
• 32:59
  of it couple. Of times he did this.
• 33:02
  Extending drives and playing smart.
• 33:04
  Didn't turn the ball over, didn't put Vanderbilt in harm's
• 33:07
  way. Played his style.
• 33:09
  And when he gets going, he gets going.
• 33:11
  He. He get he.
• 33:12
  Feeds off the crowd. He feels the energy.
• 33:15
  And he's got swag. And Vanderbilt needs that.
• 33:19
  Vanderbilt needs that chip on your shoulder, that boost of
• 33:22
  confidence. This is a Vanderbilt team that
• 33:23
  is known for, you know, being terrible and and and and and the
• 33:28
  the main priority at University of Vanderbilt and I guess that.
• 33:31
  Should be at every. School is is academics.
• 33:33
  Right. Academics is big, but at
• 33:34
  Vanderbilt it's like really, really big.
• 33:37
  But. Pavi has changed that to where
• 33:39
  like, yeah, we're Vanderbilt. We usually have half the other
• 33:43
  teams fan base in our stadium, but we don't give a damn.
• 33:46
  We're still playing our type of football and we're going to wear
• 33:50
  you down with, you know, a pretty good offense.
• 33:55
  Like this is a good offense and they were money in high pressure
• 33:59
  situations. That's my second take away here.
• 34:01
  Pavia is great and he made some great plays on Saturday and a
• 34:04
  bunch of them were on 4th down and in high pressure situations.
• 34:08
  Vanderbilt goes 3 for four in the red zone, 6 for 13 on on 3rd
• 34:12
  down and two for three on 4th down.
• 34:14
  And that play I was talking about earlier where Pavia spins
• 34:16
  out of it. And and is able to pick up 10,
• 34:19
  you know, 10 something yards is that Harold Perkins rush and
• 34:23
  Perkins is a hell of a player, but I thought he was kind of
• 34:25
  going too quick and was getting too deep inside of the pocket to
• 34:29
  to. Allow for Pavia to to roll out.
• 34:31
  So Vanderbilt understood the assignment here.
• 34:35
  They knew that LSU was going to give him a good fight and that
• 34:37
  this was a good LSU defense. And Clark Lee kind of shares
• 34:41
  that same sentiment as Diego Pavia.
• 34:44
  I don't really care. 4th down second quarter, we're going for
• 34:48
  it. 4th down late in the game could possibly give Vanderbilt
• 34:52
  the ball back. We're going for it.
• 34:55
  So that tells me he's got trust in his team, he's got trust in
• 34:58
  his quarterback, and Diego Pavia is no longer the the fun guy
• 35:03
  from New Mexico State. He's a really good quarterback
• 35:06
  and one of the best in the country right now, and that's
• 35:08
  why I believe he should be in Heisman conversations.
• 35:11
  He's not as. You know, schematically grounded
• 35:16
  as like a Fernando Mendoza or Ty Simpson.
• 35:18
  Like those are more your prototypical quarterbacks.
• 35:21
  Papia literally is like a Johnny Manziel.
• 35:23
  Just like a guy. That just makes plays.
• 35:26
  It's not always pretty, but when it is, when it is, you know, a
• 35:31
  successful play, it, it is really, really impressive to
• 35:34
  watch. I thought he was the reason why
• 35:35
  Vanderbilt won this game and. I think he dictates the ceiling
• 35:40
  for this team, obviously. I mean, as long as he's able to
• 35:43
  play at this level, then the Sky's the limit for Vanderbilt.
• 35:46
  They've got a couple of tough games coming up.
• 35:48
  They're going to have their shot at Texas on the road.
• 35:51
  We'll have Kentucky and Auburn at home.
• 35:53
  We'll have a match up with Tennessee on the road.
• 35:55
  But I mean, I, I, I give Vanderbilt a lot of credit, man,
• 35:59
  this is a good football team. And, and Clark Lee's done a hell
• 36:02
  of a job and that they're talented too.
• 36:04
  I mean, Alexander running backs, really good back.
• 36:07
  Eli Stowers is one of the best tight ends in the country.
• 36:09
  They've got weapons. And it's not just all Pavia, but
• 36:12
  Pavia makes this team roll. And it's very reminiscent of
• 36:14
  what Johnny Manziel did at Texas A&M.
• 36:18
  And I know that's like his idol and they wear the same number,
• 36:21
  but it, it, it's true. Like Manziel had some really
• 36:25
  good targets around him, really good players around him.
• 36:27
  And, and so does Pavia. I think Manziel had better ones,
• 36:29
  but they both elevate the guys around them by making these type
• 36:34
  of plays. So Diego Pavia, the difference
• 36:36
  maker, Commodores money on on pressure situations.
• 36:40
  Let's talk about LSU because this is now adding to a laundry
• 36:45
  list of really disappointing teams.
• 36:48
  And I had Garrett Nussmeyer right up there is my one of my,
• 36:51
  you know, favorite quarterbacks heading into the season.
• 36:53
  I don't know what his deal. Is.
• 36:56
  But he hasn't been consistent over the last month or, you
• 36:59
  know, month or two. I, I get it, he's got the
• 37:01
  injury, but at some point the injuries got to, you know, that
• 37:04
  that that card's got to be put back in the pocket.
• 37:08
  If you're playing, you're playing like Michael Van
• 37:10
  Buren's, the backup for this team.
• 37:11
  He was a starter for Mississippi State last season.
• 37:13
  If it's that bad for Nuss Meyer and he can't play and can't
• 37:16
  perform, then start Van Buren. Not that difficult.
• 37:19
  And I I thought LSU was better. On Saturday, But this is still
• 37:23
  not the potential the offense should be reaching.
• 37:26
  They had 325 yards at 6.6 yards of play and Nosmeyer goes 19 of
• 37:30
  28 for 225 yards and two touchdowns.
• 37:33
  I thought he had a really nice decision a couple of times.
• 37:36
  One of them was on a delayed crossing route to trade as
• 37:39
  Green, who I still think is one of the X factors of this team
• 37:42
  and if he continues to perform at a high level, this offense
• 37:46
  could turn things around. I didn't think Nosmeyer played
• 37:49
  bad Saturday, but I just still expect more from this offense.
• 37:53
  And you can't get a consistent performance from them.
• 37:55
  Sometimes you'll get a solid running performance.
• 37:57
  Other times you'll get, you know, Garrett Nussmeyer not
• 38:00
  being great. And this one, they just didn't
• 38:02
  have enough possessions. They they weren't able to take
• 38:04
  advantage of their opportunities because if you're playing Diego
• 38:08
  Pavia and Vanderbilt, they're going to put up points.
• 38:10
  They've done it all season. You have to know you're going to
• 38:12
  be in a shootout type of game. And instead, LSU had to, you
• 38:17
  know, settle for for, you know, punts and did not have the same
• 38:20
  type of 4th down energy as Vanderbilt did.
• 38:25
  So they settled for punts. And maybe they should have gone
• 38:28
  for it more. I don't know.
• 38:29
  But it's just it's underwhelming.
• 38:32
  Like when you look at the numbers straight up, they, they
• 38:35
  aren't that, you know, they aren't that bad.
• 38:38
  But if you watch the game, it's like, OK, one team has a lot
• 38:41
  more juice here offensively and it's not LSU.
• 38:44
  Kaden Durham and Harlem Berry combine for seven yards of
• 38:47
  carry. I thought they were solid.
• 38:50
  Even though you're not getting a ton of production on the ground
• 38:52
  from them, I thought they were solid.
• 38:53
  At least you're getting a combined 7 yards.
• 38:56
  Durham went for 8.4, Barry goes for five, but that's still, you
• 39:00
  know, 2 plays and a first down for both of them.
• 39:02
  Trade as Green goes 5 receptions for 74 yards and a touchdown.
• 39:06
  I thought his touchdown was one of the biggest ones for LSU on
• 39:09
  the day in terms of trying to find an offensive identity and
• 39:12
  momentum. But obviously was not enough as
• 39:15
  Vanderbilt just was able to hold on to the football longer,
• 39:18
  executing bigger possessions, bigger plays, and Diego Pavia
• 39:22
  was the better quarterback here. I feel for Garrett Nussmeyer
• 39:25
  because, you know, they show him after the game and he's crying
• 39:28
  in a towel. Like, I get it.
• 39:29
  It's it's tough. Like you came back to win a
• 39:31
  national championship, but you're not playing like it.
• 39:34
  And neither is this offense like that's been the the story of
• 39:38
  this team all year. Like you put up 20 points
• 39:40
  against South Carolina. You put up 20 points against
• 39:42
  Florida. And seven of them didn't even
• 39:44
  come from you against Clemson, a team that we now know is not
• 39:48
  that good of a football team. You put up 17.
• 39:52
  It's just like this offense is just so underwhelming.
• 39:55
  It's like a great movie that has all these great trailers come
• 39:58
  out and then you go in the the theater to see it and it's like
• 40:01
  that was that was like a sex, you know?
• 40:04
  Like it's all the hype. Run tomatoes.
• 40:06
  Oh, there's going. To be good, they're going to be
• 40:08
  good. And it's like 06, just one that
• 40:13
  thrilling or acting wasn't that good.
• 40:16
  That's what LSU is right now. And I've been holding out hope
• 40:20
  that they can turn things around.
• 40:22
  But at this point, I think you are what you are remembering.
• 40:24
  We're seven games in the season. If you're still struggling
• 40:27
  offensively, still underwhelming offensively, it's probably what
• 40:30
  you're going to be the rest of the season.
• 40:31
  And it's mind boggling because I thought they did a really good
• 40:33
  job on the portal. You keep Aaron Anderson, who was
• 40:37
  your leading receiver last year. You bring in Barrien Brown and
• 40:40
  Nick Anderson, 2 veteran receivers trade as Green at tied
• 40:43
  in at 6-7 is in is ridiculous. A 6-7 tight end.
• 40:49
  I mean, that's that's a basketball player, that's LeBron
• 40:52
  James out there playing, playing football.
• 40:54
  So and not to mention Garrett Nussmeyer was one of the top
• 40:59
  quarterbacks heading into the season.
• 41:01
  Kaden Durham, Harlem Berry, Harlem Berry's a five star last
• 41:04
  year out of recruiting cycle. Kaden Duran's the guy that
• 41:06
  returns. There's no excuse for this team,
• 41:09
  but they continue to underwhelm. Brian Kelly, I think is about to
• 41:13
  officially be on the hot seat here.
• 41:15
  So those are my takeaways from Vandy and LSU.
• 41:19
  How about those Commodores? Really, the fighting Pavi is
• 41:22
  man, they're. Fun.
• 41:26
  And you know, I get those gave those Instagram tags earlier.
• 41:34
  Had a a post boom this weekend, Diego, Diego Papia because he
• 41:40
  was unable to do the press conference following the game
• 41:45
  that they literally tweeted out he's unable.
• 41:46
  Pete Naco Savant 3 did. And I was like, well, if he's
• 41:50
  unable, it probably means he started the party a little too
• 41:53
  early. So I put that out there and it's
• 41:55
  got like 2 million views. I'll take it.
• 42:00
  Everyone's everyone. You know, here's the thing.
• 42:04
  I know I haven't done a ton of these podcasts and I would love
• 42:06
  to do them every every week, but I do have a lot going on.
• 42:10
  And everyone's like, well, what do you do on a Saturday where
• 42:13
  Tennessee's not playing or like, not a big game here in
• 42:15
  Knoxville? And I'm like, well, sit on my
• 42:16
  couch, but that's what I'm doing.
• 42:19
  I'm just cranking out content, like cranking out fun stuff like
• 42:21
  that. So it it, it, it's rewarding to
• 42:23
  have like a stupid post like Diego Pavia got hammered at the
• 42:26
  game. I do well.
• 42:28
  So that was fun. But what was not fun was
• 42:34
  watching Miami crumble offensively.
• 42:37
  I'm not that I'm a Miami fan, but I guess if you were a Miami
• 42:40
  fan or like Miami or bet on Miami, you do not have fun
• 42:43
  watching Carson Beck revert back to the 2024 version of himself.
• 42:48
  Let's talk about Louisville and Miami, Mario, Cristobal and
• 42:52
  Carson. Beck.
• 42:53
  Just couldn't help themselves in this one.
• 42:55
  They just couldn't help themselves to revert back to all
• 42:59
  the things that have been talked so down about Miami over the
• 43:02
  last couple of years under Cristobal and all the things
• 43:05
  that people weren't so high on about Carson Beck.
• 43:08
  They just couldn't help themselves.
• 43:09
  They said we've done a really good job.
• 43:11
  Let's mess something up real quick.
• 43:13
  As #2 Miami falls to Louisville 24 to 21 on Friday night.
• 43:18
  The pregame storylines here. Does Miami continue their
• 43:21
  dominant run through the 2025 season?
• 43:24
  I thought they were the best team in the country heading into
• 43:26
  this weekend. I had the number one and they
• 43:29
  had proven it. I mean, wins over Notre Dame,
• 43:31
  South Florida, they absolutely waxed.
• 43:33
  Florida State in a tough rivalry environment, they've been
• 43:36
  really, really good. They, you know, beat Florida as
• 43:38
  well. But that was not the case Friday
• 43:43
  for Louisville. Do they find a way to make
• 43:45
  things interesting and that? Was really the storyline.
• 43:47
  Here it is. I mean, does anyone?
• 43:48
  Trip up this. Miami team that's been a
• 43:50
  gauntlet through the season. Like they've played some really
• 43:53
  big games already and they have impressed in every single one of
• 43:55
  them. What is Louisville going to do?
• 43:57
  The Louisville team that, you know, trashed away a game
• 44:00
  against Virginia at home a couple of weeks ago.
• 44:03
  That's why I wanted to know part of this game, everyone was like,
• 44:05
  William, what's your side? I was like Miller Moss.
• 44:10
  I, I don't want any part of that.
• 44:12
  But instead, Miller Moss played pretty well.
• 44:15
  I gave him credit. Let's talk about Carson back
• 44:18
  because he reverts right back to what he was in 2024.
• 44:22
  And the decision making was just so questionable Friday.
• 44:27
  There's 4 interceptions. Obviously that's a horrible
• 44:29
  number, but the decision making on these throws was really
• 44:32
  puzzling. Now the first one of the game he
• 44:35
  throws Malachi Tony, the wide receiver for Miami, one of the
• 44:38
  best freshman in the country, 510 former three star should be
• 44:41
  in high school still. He reclassified it this year.
• 44:45
  He's been. Really, really good.
• 44:46
  But he's 510 and Carson Beck tries to zip it 40 yards down
• 44:50
  the field to a 510 receiver and triple coverage.
• 44:54
  How do you think that ended up? Obviously intercepted, he
• 44:57
  overthrows the CJ Daniels on the left sideline, that's
• 45:00
  intercepted. And then in the fourth quarter
• 45:03
  he's just doing whatever it takes to try and March down the
• 45:06
  field and get an opportunity. So 4 interceptions was really
• 45:10
  brutal. He finishes 25 of 35 for 271
• 45:14
  yards and those 4 Imts. And it marks the fourth time
• 45:18
  since the start of the 2024 season he's thrown at least
• 45:20
  three interceptions in a game. He's gone away from all of that
• 45:24
  this season and that's what I praised him for.
• 45:25
  He's looked like an NFL level quarterback.
• 45:29
  He's looked like a guy that understands Shannon Dawson's Air
• 45:32
  Raid offense. He looks like a guy that should
• 45:34
  be considered one of the best quarterbacks in college
• 45:36
  football. He has been all of that this
• 45:39
  season. Up until Friday when it just
• 45:42
  like. I don't know.
• 45:43
  I don't know if you've ever seen the movie Thunderstruck with
• 45:45
  Kevin Durant and the, you know, high school kid that sucks at
• 45:48
  basketball and they switched powers.
• 45:50
  I don't know if Carson Beck shook hands with the older
• 45:52
  version of himself, but Friday was an abomination.
• 45:56
  The numbers like 25 to 35 isn't. Bad and it's kind of on par for
• 46:01
  what he's been this season he's the ACC leader right now and
• 46:03
  completion percentage at like 73% heading into the game, but
• 46:08
  continuing to throw into double coverage in harm's way.
• 46:11
  It was just so I'm, I'm watching the game on, on the Stairmaster.
• 46:16
  I'm like what? What?
• 46:16
  What is? What is he?
• 46:17
  Doing this is This is not the version that Carson Beck has
• 46:21
  been throughout this season. Why is he doing it now?
• 46:24
  So. Carson Beck reverting back to
• 46:27
  what he was in 2024, a big thing in this one.
• 46:29
  But I also think over the last couple of weeks watching this
• 46:33
  Miami team, obviously they've had some really big wins and
• 46:35
  they've been impressive. But I have noticed some cracks
• 46:38
  here and there. I didn't think it was going to
• 46:40
  be anything big. But they have a bye week before
• 46:42
  this one and they've played a ton of games all in in the state
• 46:46
  of Florida. They haven't had to travel out
• 46:47
  of the state yet this season. I was just wondering, you know,
• 46:50
  riding all this momentum coming off a bye, do they respond well
• 46:54
  or do they kind of LAX into this one?
• 46:56
  And they laxed into it And those cracks of kind of have an
• 47:01
  inconsistent run game, an an inconsistent run game earlier in
• 47:04
  the season and then having an inconsistent pass game at some
• 47:07
  points. Like it's been in pockets.
• 47:10
  There hadn't been anything big for a full game.
• 47:12
  And that's why they're, you know, can.
• 47:13
  That's why they had continued to be undefeated.
• 47:16
  But in this one, it felt like everything kind of culminated
• 47:18
  together, where at times they've been elite at complementary
• 47:23
  football, offensively, in the passing game, in the running
• 47:25
  game. But on Friday, they weren't.
• 47:27
  They only rushed for 63 yards at 2.6 yards a pop.
• 47:31
  That's not going to. You know, be very successful,
• 47:33
  kind of eliminated the run game. Early on and enforce Miami have
• 47:37
  to throw a lot, but Miami has had a ton of success throwing
• 47:40
  it. It shouldn't be a bad thing.
• 47:42
  They should be able to be able to work around it.
• 47:44
  But instead without that complimentary run game,
• 47:46
  Louisville played a lot of guys back and Carson Beck continued
• 47:49
  to throw into double coverage resulting in a ton of turnovers.
• 47:52
  So I think Miami has looked. This good this.
• 47:56
  Season because they've been able to stay on pace and in rhythm
• 47:59
  but in this one they fall down early and they haven't been in
• 48:01
  that type of situation yet and they did not respond well so
• 48:06
  Carson Beck was not good reverts back to his old self the cracks
• 48:10
  were exposed and ends up in a loss that's a that's a recipe
• 48:15
  for a loss at home but I do want to give Louisville credit here
• 48:20
  because I think one of the best things about Miami is their
• 48:22
  defense in particular defensive front Hakeem mesedor and Ruben
• 48:26
  Bain junior are two NFL first round picks right now but they
• 48:30
  were eliminated in this one because.
• 48:32
  Louisville got the ball out quick.
• 48:34
  Miller Moss I'm not a fan of. I, I I.
• 48:37
  Will not bet on him. I'm not going to I'm I'm not a
• 48:39
  Miller Moss guy. I don't think he's that good of
• 48:40
  a quarterback. But Louisville had a good game
• 48:43
  plan here. They said let's get it out quick
• 48:46
  and let's do intermediate stuff and we'll see if we can turn
• 48:48
  them in a chunk place and when you've got a wide receiver like
• 48:50
  Chris. Bell and a playmaker like Isaac
• 48:53
  Brown in the backfield. You can find ways to have some
• 48:56
  success if your offensive line is able to hold up and they did.
• 49:01
  Hurricanes only sacked Miller Moss just once.
• 49:03
  That's been a big part of Miami's DNA.
• 49:05
  That pressure in the backfield and then having these kind of
• 49:08
  battering ram secondary guys come up and make big time hits.
• 49:12
  There's still some big time hits in this one, but Miami wasn't
• 49:15
  able to get the type of pressure they've had in weeks past.
• 49:19
  So Miller Moss finishes this 123 of 37248 yards, 2 touchdowns.
• 49:24
  Isaac Brown, one of the best running backs in the country,
• 49:28
  had 15 carries for 113 yards, then have a costly turnover.
• 49:31
  Was a little bit banged up, so maybe that was part of it.
• 49:33
  But big storyline here, at least in terms of Louisville's
• 49:37
  offense, is Chris Bell. This guy is going to be an NFL
• 49:39
  player. Led the Cardinals with 9 catches
• 49:41
  for 136 yards and two touchdowns and as a team.
• 49:45
  They totaled 367 yards of total offense.
• 49:49
  They had a really good identity here.
• 49:51
  We're going to run the ball, but we're going to keep you balanced
• 49:53
  by having some, you know, quick pass plays to where you can't
• 49:56
  just bull rush every time. If you bull rush every time,
• 49:59
  we're going to hit you quick and we're going to pick up some
• 50:01
  chunk yards after that. So credit Jeff Brahm and company
• 50:04
  for a really good game plan here.
• 50:06
  This was not Miami all buttoned up off.
• 50:09
  Obviously offensively they were bad, but defensively they cannot
• 50:12
  play the one the way they wanted to with Corey Heatherman as
• 50:16
  their defensive coordinator, a guy that is predicated on
• 50:19
  pressure and and kind of being violent in terms of the hits and
• 50:24
  you know, kind of being that that intimidating group and they
• 50:27
  are. But when you're able to get it
• 50:29
  out quick and when you're able to stay on pace like Louisville
• 50:31
  was, it kind of gets exiled and and axed.
• 50:34
  So credit for Louisville for that.
• 50:37
  I also want to give credit to Jeff Brahm.
• 50:39
  Some cool stats here. No coach has won games in the
• 50:43
  Atlantic Coast Conference or excuse me, no coach has won more
• 50:47
  games. I should say there have been
• 50:49
  people that have won games. No coach has won more games in
• 50:52
  the ACC since the start of the 2023 season than Louisville's
• 50:56
  Jeff Bromm in Friday night, possibly the biggest.
• 50:59
  His Cardinals were 3 1/2 point under.
• 51:01
  It's going to be 13 1/2 point underdogs.
• 51:04
  And now Bromm's career record against Associated Press top
• 51:10
  five ranked teams is four and two.
• 51:13
  You might be saying William, who's Jeff Bromm?
• 51:15
  Well, he's coach for Louisville now.
• 51:16
  We know that. But he was also the coach at
• 51:18
  Purdue when the Boilermakers knocked off Ohio State in 2018.
• 51:23
  You might, might remember that one is that was one of the most
• 51:26
  incredible upsets we've ever seen, at least in the last 10
• 51:29
  years. Little old Purdue knocking off
• 51:31
  big dog Ohio State. That was Jeff Brom.
• 51:34
  And Jeff Brom has had a number of these games where he has been
• 51:37
  the underdog. He's been up against the top
• 51:39
  team and he's broken them down. So give credit to Jeff Brom,
• 51:42
  give credit to this Louisville offense for getting the ball out
• 51:45
  quick and just a bad night to be really bad for Carson Beck.
• 51:52
  All right, final big game that we'll cover.
• 51:55
  Then we'll get into some other notable takeaways, Utah and BYU,
• 52:00
  the holy war. Some of you might not have
• 52:02
  caught this one as it was late 8:00 kick on FOX out in Provo.
• 52:09
  But #15 BYU defeats #23 Utah 24 to 21 in this one.
• 52:15
  My pregame thoughts. Here was, I think, BYU's Fool's
• 52:19
  gold once again. I thought they were last year
• 52:22
  and it took a match. Up like this to prove it as I
• 52:25
  had Kansas in a late night spot and obviously Kansas was a
• 52:29
  surging team in the second-half of the season.
• 52:31
  They weren't as. Good.
• 52:34
  As they were in the beginning of the season or seem they they
• 52:36
  were much better than they were in the beginning of the season.
• 52:38
  But Utah is a team that is coming off a loss a couple of
• 52:42
  weeks ago to Texas Tech, a good Texas Tech team.
• 52:45
  So I didn't overreact to it, but I thought Utah would get it done
• 52:49
  here. They were 3 1/2 point favorites
• 52:50
  when I got them. They closed at 4 1/2.
• 52:52
  I thought this was going to be a ute's win.
• 52:55
  I thought BYU. Was fool's gold.
• 52:57
  And it hasn't necessarily changed, but I was expecting
• 53:02
  Utah to get that signature win and bounce back after that home
• 53:06
  loss to to Texas Tech instead. Like Tennessee, Texas, excuse
• 53:11
  me, Utah does not take advantage of opportunities.
• 53:15
  And when you look at the numbers.
• 53:17
  It is even more mind numbing Utah out game BYU 393 to 228.
• 53:23
  Utah averaged more yards per play 7 to 4.9.
• 53:27
  Utah was better on 3rd down 5 out of 10 compared to one out of
• 53:31
  nine for the Cougars. And you might be saying, well.
• 53:36
  How the hell did they lose this? Game two things, red zone and
• 53:40
  4th down. Utah goes one for three in the
• 53:43
  red zone and O for three. On 4th down, that right there is
• 53:48
  your culprit. They had multiple instances with
• 53:51
  inside the 15 yard line in the red.
• 53:55
  Zone to put points up on the board or get in the end zone.
• 53:58
  And BYU. Credit to their defense, they
• 54:00
  make stops, but Utah is a good. Football team I love Devin Dam
• 54:05
  pure but the last two times. He's been in these spots.
• 54:09
  He's not the same player as he is in some of these other more
• 54:13
  marginal games. And I get it.
• 54:15
  BYU is a good team. Texas Tech is a good team, or at
• 54:18
  least on paper they are in terms of BYUI think Texas Tech is a
• 54:22
  good team. By the way, we'll talk more
• 54:23
  about that game here in a minute, but I feel like BYU.
• 54:26
  Is still a little bit of fool's gold.
• 54:29
  But Dampier just it. I don't.
• 54:32
  It's just like. He's not the same quarterback.
• 54:36
  In the big games like 2 last week hit. 120 yards on the
• 54:39
  ground and three touchdowns. Wasn't able to really maneuver
• 54:43
  in in this game. Wasn't able to run around and be
• 54:45
  that type of player. Utah had a number of
• 54:48
  opportunities to put. Points on the board and and they
• 54:50
  just don't execute in the red zone.
• 54:53
  That's that's what's going to lose you a game in a rivalry
• 54:55
  match up. So I'm more upset here with
• 54:59
  Utah, and my bigger take away is that Utah just did not take
• 55:03
  advantage of opportunities and let this one go.
• 55:05
  Away. Not taken away from what BYU
• 55:08
  did. But BYU was knocked off the
• 55:11
  field 8 times by this Utah defense.
• 55:14
  They benefited from a couple of turnovers on downs and, and a
• 55:17
  turnover from Dampier as well. I mean, I, I just, I, I really
• 55:24
  still don't think BYU is that level of a team, but I have to
• 55:27
  continue to rank them high because they're undefeated and
• 55:29
  they get a win over to Utah, a team that I believe was good.
• 55:33
  I mean, these numbers, folks, this aren't great.
• 55:35
  Bear Bachmeier goes 9 of 17 for 111 yards and a touchdown.
• 55:38
  LJ Martin, who I really like at running back for the Cougars, 18
• 55:41
  carries, 80 yards. That, that, that right there is
• 55:45
  like a, you know, 13 to 10 win type numbers.
• 55:50
  Utah lost this game. And if you're Kyle Winningham,
• 55:55
  I'm, I'm really frustrated because I've had two games now
• 55:59
  where I've shot myself in the foot and taken myself out of it.
• 56:04
  Utah, I thought was the the I mean.
• 56:07
  How gaining by the 100? And 70 yards, they were the
• 56:10
  better team. And that's the type of stuff
• 56:13
  that's just frustrating for a team like a Utah or a Tennessee.
• 56:17
  You know that you are in the right spot.
• 56:19
  You know that you are in a competitive situation to win
• 56:23
  this game outright. And instead you lose by, you
• 56:26
  know, what should have been double digits.
• 56:28
  Utah scored late and and made this one a three-point decision,
• 56:32
  but it was, you know, 24 to 2414 with about, you know, a minute
• 56:39
  left. So I still think BYU has to
• 56:43
  prove something to me. And I know you might be saying,
• 56:45
  well, William, they just beat the number 23 team in the
• 56:47
  country. Is that not enough for you in a
• 56:49
  rivalry game? I just want to impress.
• 56:51
  With the way they did it. BYU plays Iowa State this
• 56:55
  weekend. Talk about two teams that I do
• 56:59
  not want to bet on. I probably won't bet on that
• 57:02
  game. Iowa State to like Iowa State
• 57:05
  was one of those teams I was waiting to fade and I faded them
• 57:07
  in the right spot when they had Cincinnati and then they turn
• 57:10
  around and lost that game and lost to Colorado.
• 57:13
  But it's a pick em this week. I should tell you a lot about
• 57:17
  BYU, right? I mean, Bachmar goes 111 yards
• 57:21
  in touchdown for 9:00 and 9:00 and 17.
• 57:23
  That's not that's not impressive.
• 57:25
  Dude, I don't. I'm not for BYU.
• 57:29
  All right, no, no other notable takeaways as we wind things
• 57:33
  down. Notre Dame runs the damn ball.
• 57:37
  They took on USC. What a rivalry matchup.
• 57:39
  This is really underrated, but heading into this one, I talked
• 57:43
  about it on Fox Sports throughout the week.
• 57:45
  I really like Notre Dame on the 9 1/2.
• 57:47
  They ended up covering and winning outright, but there was
• 57:51
  there was supposed to be some rain in this one.
• 57:54
  And I, I knew that and I said that this is going to play
• 57:56
  really well for Notre Dame. And that's exactly what
• 57:58
  happened. Fighting Irish outrush USC 271
• 58:02
  to 59. Good golly, that's a lot of
• 58:05
  rushing. And in a rainy game, let's rely
• 58:10
  on Jeremiah Love and Jadarian Price to make plays.
• 58:12
  That's what Notre Dame did. Thank gosh they did this and
• 58:16
  this one. Remember at the beginning of the
• 58:17
  season when we were sitting here talking about why the hell is CJ
• 58:21
  Carr throwing it as many times as he did?
• 58:23
  Give the ball to Love and Price. And they found a better balance.
• 58:26
  As the season. Has gone on, but Love and Price
• 58:29
  really, really good. Jeremiah Love goes 22 carries
• 58:32
  for 197 yards and a touchdown. Jerry and Price has 100 yard
• 58:36
  kick off return, which really, really turned the momentum of
• 58:40
  this game on its head. I like both these guys and I
• 58:44
  like this Notre Dame team. It kind of feels like a little
• 58:46
  bit of last year and you might be saying, William, what is you
• 58:52
  know, what do you mean there? Remember last year they lose to
• 58:55
  Northern Illinois and they kind of go on this big rampage after
• 58:58
  where they cover every game the rest of the season.
• 59:01
  They look really, really good and that's kind of what they've
• 59:05
  been on ever since that second loss of the season of Texas A&M
• 59:07
  at home. Tex A&M is a good football team,
• 59:09
  by the way. Really, really good.
• 59:11
  Top three in the country. But what's the game Notre Dame
• 59:14
  should win at home? You know, Notre Dame hosting
• 59:17
  A-Team traveling. That's a game Notre Dame should
• 59:20
  have won, but they didn't. But they've done a really good
• 59:23
  job responding since 4/4 interceptions against Maddox,
• 59:26
  Madison and Boise State a week ago.
• 59:30
  I I think defensively they've improved.
• 59:31
  They had two takeaways in this one and also Lincoln Riley on
• 59:35
  the road. I wasn't really a big fan of
• 59:37
  I'll pass and I pass in this situation as Jane Maiava, who I
• 59:42
  think is a solid quarterback. A little bit of a tick down
• 59:45
  after his performance this weekend.
• 59:46
  He threw an interception. But Lincoln Riley also got 2
• 59:49
  cute Malik Lemon, really, really good wide receiver.
• 59:53
  He's going to be good on Sundays quarterback in high school.
• 59:57
  And Lincoln Riley does like a double pass play where Lemon's
• 1:00:01
  like running out to the right and.
• 1:00:04
  It's raining and he fumbles it and the Notre Dame recovers,
• 1:00:07
  ends up scoring. This game's over.
• 1:00:08
  Like, just why? Why a double like a reverse pass
• 1:00:15
  play with your wide receiver in the rain?
• 1:00:16
  That I mean, come on now, that that that just doesn't work.
• 1:00:19
  So credit to Marcus Freeman, still one of my favorite coaches
• 1:00:23
  in college football. Good win for the Fighting Irish.
• 1:00:26
  We talked about BYU and teams. I'm not buying.
• 1:00:30
  Can I interest you in Georgia Tech?
• 1:00:33
  This one was so frustrating to watch in the 12 O clock window.
• 1:00:37
  As always on Saturdays I sit here at my place with my 75 inch
• 1:00:42
  TV. I'm about 5 feet away from it
• 1:00:44
  and I'll do the quad box. So it's basically like I've got
• 1:00:47
  4 big TV's and I had Duke Georgia Tech on the whole time
• 1:00:51
  because I had Duke 2 1/2 for 2 units and I thought this was the
• 1:00:55
  right spot to fade Georgia Tech, a team that barely beat Wake
• 1:00:58
  Forest two weeks ago before they're by and Duke out gains
• 1:01:03
  Georgia Tech 441 to 376. And the Blue Devils, like Utah,
• 1:01:09
  had multiple chances in the red zone to score.
• 1:01:13
  Instead, we get a fumble that results in a 95 yard scoop and
• 1:01:18
  score for the Yellow Jackets, a mishandled field goal the next
• 1:01:21
  possession, and then multiple penalties in the red zone in the
• 1:01:25
  second-half, leading for them to settle for 3 instead of 7.
• 1:01:30
  This game was close and Georgia Tech kind of busted it open.
• 1:01:34
  They ended up winning 2718. It was a lot closer than it
• 1:01:37
  actually was, as Georgia Tech scored late and kind of rubbed
• 1:01:41
  it in. But I mean, Duke's a solid.
• 1:01:45
  Team in the ACCI think Darren Mensa.
• 1:01:47
  Is a good quarterback and I thought Duke's offense really
• 1:01:49
  was able to have a ton of success against this Georgia
• 1:01:51
  Tech defense. I mean, those numbers are
• 1:01:54
  inflated too. Like Georgia Tech did have some
• 1:01:56
  drives late in this one that were just because Duke is Duke
• 1:02:00
  had kind of given up. But 400 and. 41 yards to 376
• 1:02:05
  Duke out gained this team and lost nearly by double digits.
• 1:02:10
  That's. A Blue Devils issue, not Georgia
• 1:02:12
  Tech just being really, really good.
• 1:02:14
  The problem is I don't know I'm going to fade this team.
• 1:02:16
  I don't know when they get tripped up because look at their
• 1:02:18
  schedule and this just might be the team of destiny and like
• 1:02:21
  last year with Indiana, like at least they had a big time game
• 1:02:24
  on their schedule like at. Least they had to play Ohio.
• 1:02:26
  State. Georgia Tech don't have to play
• 1:02:28
  a damn team until the ACC Championship, so unless they
• 1:02:31
  trip up and lose. Georgia Tech's going to be in a
• 1:02:35
  prime position to make the College Football Playoff, and
• 1:02:37
  that is gross to think about. I do like Haines King.
• 1:02:41
  I do like players on the same Eric Rivers was a good player at
• 1:02:44
  the transfer portal, came over from FIU originally at Memphis.
• 1:02:48
  Talk about a guy that's made a lot of progressions to get to
• 1:02:51
  this point. I mean, was a walk on defensive
• 1:02:53
  back at Memphis, transfers to FIU, turns into a wider saver
• 1:02:57
  and now there's a really, really good football player.
• 1:02:59
  Like I like players on this Georgia Tech team, but I just
• 1:03:02
  don't think they're the the level they're getting propped up
• 1:03:06
  to me right now. Like I still had them like
• 1:03:09
  outside my top 10 this week. I actually have to pull that up
• 1:03:12
  because we're about to talk about that.
• 1:03:14
  I had them outside my top 10. Because I just, I don't believe.
• 1:03:18
  That this is actually, you know, a top ten team, but you've got
• 1:03:22
  they people saying, Oh yeah, there's a top, top ten team.
• 1:03:25
  I just, I mean, what's their resume?
• 1:03:27
  What's the what? Are their wins Colorado,
• 1:03:31
  Colorado a close win over Wake Forest?
• 1:03:33
  Is Duke now a really good win? It's just like.
• 1:03:36
  It's tough to they they've just benefited from the schedule
• 1:03:39
  they've been given. I mean, really, no another no
• 1:03:43
  other way to work around it. I, I don't buy Georgia Tech.
• 1:03:47
  I thought this weekend against Duke was just Duke fumbling, no
• 1:03:51
  pun intended, fumbling away multiple opportunities.
• 1:03:54
  This thing should have been 17-7 at halftime and in favor of the
• 1:03:57
  Blue Devils. Instead, they F around and find
• 1:04:01
  out Arizona. State How about the Sun Devils?
• 1:04:06
  They grab a big time win in the Big 12 over Texas Tech, who I
• 1:04:10
  believed was one of the best teams in the country.
• 1:04:12
  Their defense was stout stout heading into this one, allowing
• 1:04:17
  just 12.6 points per game to power 4 opponents heading into
• 1:04:21
  Saturday. This Red Raiders defense, but
• 1:04:23
  Arizona State said here, here's a Jordan Tyson and here's a Sam
• 1:04:29
  Levitt for you because these guys were all over the place.
• 1:04:32
  Arizona State goes for 394 yards of total offense, 319 yards in
• 1:04:37
  the air. Sam Levitt I really liked
• 1:04:40
  heading into the season, he was a top ten quarterback for me.
• 1:04:43
  He was out last week and Arizona State takes a a brutal loss, one
• 1:04:49
  they could not afford. But he's back.
• 1:04:54
  They get a win. So.
• 1:04:57
  I still hold out hope for this. Arizona State team, they only
• 1:04:59
  have one loss in conference play.
• 1:05:01
  The other loss was the Mississippi State.
• 1:05:02
  Don't even get me started on that one because they had an
• 1:05:05
  opportunity to score late in that one and they settle for a
• 1:05:07
  field goal instead. Whatever, we'll let it be.
• 1:05:10
  But Sam Levitt goes 28 to 47 for 319 yards and a touchdown.
• 1:05:15
  Jordan Tyson If you're an NFL fan, start getting familiar with
• 1:05:19
  that name. Jordan Tyson, 10 receptions for
• 1:05:21
  105 yards and a touchdown. He was pulling a Greg Jennings
• 1:05:25
  and, and, and Matting Madden 11 in this one.
• 1:05:27
  He's playing with like one leg on those final drives.
• 1:05:30
  He's a stud. And while it might not be the
• 1:05:33
  most sustainable practice for a quarterback, but like Sam Levitt
• 1:05:36
  will just literally get in situations where like the
• 1:05:39
  pressure's coming and he'll just look up and, and look for Jordan
• 1:05:41
  Tyson somewhere down the field and just chunk it.
• 1:05:43
  Not the most sustainable method of winning, but Jordan Tyson is
• 1:05:46
  that good of a player where you can go make those plays.
• 1:05:49
  So offensively, I just saw Arizona State overwhelmed here.
• 1:05:52
  They continue to get a momentum. Kenning Gillingham, one of my
• 1:05:54
  favorite coaches in CFB at home, they needed this one.
• 1:05:58
  They get it done. But my big thing here, I think
• 1:06:01
  an underrated part of Arizona State as a team as their
• 1:06:05
  defense. I thought guys like CJ fight and
• 1:06:10
  what's can't remember the linebacker's name.
• 1:06:14
  Oh gosh, OK, you just have to trust me.
• 1:06:18
  I like their linebacker play as well.
• 1:06:20
  I really can't remember the name.
• 1:06:22
  Oh no, it was Avian. Alford's in the secondary.
• 1:06:25
  Whatever. They do have a good defense and
• 1:06:28
  I thought they showed up Saturday in a big spot.
• 1:06:30
  Texas Tech only 109 yards on the ground.
• 1:06:34
  Last week against Kansas, the Red Raiders ran for 372 yards,
• 1:06:39
  Totally neutralized the run game.
• 1:06:41
  Ttu's got a backup quarterback in who is kind of on the same
• 1:06:46
  level as Baron Morton, but I think Baron Morton is a much
• 1:06:48
  better passer and much more established.
• 1:06:51
  I'd much rather have him out there.
• 1:06:52
  But Texas Tech doesn't play him. They don't feel like they needed
• 1:06:55
  him. He was an emergency guy, ends up
• 1:06:57
  coming up to bite him because the run game got neutralized and
• 1:07:01
  they had no one to get it to a guy like CJ Daniels.
• 1:07:03
  So credit for Arizona State, get a win.
• 1:07:06
  That's a big one. They needed it.
• 1:07:07
  They're still in the Big 12 hunt.
• 1:07:10
  I still think Texas Tech is a really good football team.
• 1:07:13
  Defensively. This is a strong group, and
• 1:07:15
  Jacob Rodriguez is one of, you know, one of the best defensive
• 1:07:18
  players in the country at linebacker.
• 1:07:20
  They're going to be fine, but they need Barrymore back in the
• 1:07:23
  mix. They need to be at full health.
• 1:07:25
  All right, final take away from this weekend, get Lenoris
• 1:07:29
  Sellers some help. That's going to be a brief one,
• 1:07:32
  but Oklahoma defeats South Carolina 26 to 7.
• 1:07:36
  And I briefly watched this game in that 330 window, actually
• 1:07:40
  that 12:00 window, because this kicked at 12:45.
• 1:07:44
  But Lenora Sellers was sacked 6 times in this one, and he's now
• 1:07:47
  been sacked 25 times this season.
• 1:07:51
  South Carolina is a disaster. I think the offensive weapons
• 1:07:55
  are not as good as they should have been, but also the
• 1:08:01
  offensive lines is terrible. No way around it.
• 1:08:03
  Lenora Sellers is a generational quarterback for South Carolina.
• 1:08:06
  They've never had a guy like this or haven't had a guy like
• 1:08:08
  this in a very, very long time, I feel.
• 1:08:12
  I mean, I, I, I, you know, I posted it out on Saturday and
• 1:08:15
  I've got a bunch of South Carolina people in my mentions.
• 1:08:17
  They're like, I'm a South Carolina fan.
• 1:08:19
  I wouldn't blame him one bit if he transferred.
• 1:08:22
  That's a bad sign. Shane Beamer's got to be better
• 1:08:24
  than that. If you knew your offensive line
• 1:08:27
  was that bad, like you've got to, there's no way Shane Beamer
• 1:08:31
  saw this offensive line in the offseason, said, Yep, let's roll
• 1:08:34
  with this. They're horrible, one of the
• 1:08:37
  worst offensive lines in the in power for football.
• 1:08:39
  Nebraska's got 25 sacks as well. And Dylan Rayola, I think some
• 1:08:42
  of that's on him for Sellers. He should have like damn near 30
• 1:08:47
  because like 5 of them, almost five of them a game, he's able
• 1:08:51
  to just score, you know, squeal out and and find yards in front
• 1:08:54
  of them. So I feel terrible for Lenora
• 1:08:56
  Sellers. I really had high hopes for him
• 1:08:58
  heading into the season, but he just can't do anything because
• 1:09:00
  of how bad that offensive line is.
• 1:09:02
  So please get Lenora Sellers some help.
• 1:09:06
  I think it'll be a pretty good transfer portal acquisition for
• 1:09:08
  some team. Maybe you should have taken that
• 1:09:09
  $4 million. You know, we talked about that
• 1:09:11
  this offseason or his dad did that.
• 1:09:13
  He got offered $4 million. Maybe he should have taken it.
• 1:09:16
  Maybe they had an offensive line.
• 1:09:19
  All right, real quick as we wrap things up, let me give my Week 9
• 1:09:22
  William Patterson poll #25 Illinois re enters.
• 1:09:26
  It's starting to get tough these early spots because a lot of
• 1:09:31
  teams are losing and it's tough to compare resumes.
• 1:09:33
  I could have had Michigan here, but I gave Illinois the
• 1:09:37
  advantage because Illinois beat USCUSC, beat Michigan.
• 1:09:40
  I go Illinois here at 25, Houston at 24.
• 1:09:44
  They get a nice win over Arizona over the weekend.
• 1:09:47
  One loss on the season to Texas Tech.
• 1:09:49
  Give the Cougar some credit. 23 Arizona State back in the mix
• 1:09:54
  for the third time this season that they have entered and re
• 1:09:57
  entered. We'll see if they stick around
• 1:09:58
  this time, but Arizona State finds themselves back in the top
• 1:10:01
  25 #22 Texas. A narrow win over Kentucky.
• 1:10:05
  Not impressive. Arch Manning continues to be
• 1:10:07
  more bipolar than, you know, the weather.
• 1:10:11
  I mean, good gosh, I I credit for the win against an SEC team
• 1:10:18
  on the road, but March Manning's got to be better #21 Cincinnati.
• 1:10:23
  Vernon Soresby and company get a win over the weekend 20.
• 1:10:27
  South Florida. The Bulls defeat Florida
• 1:10:31
  Atlantic over the weekend, and Alex Golish was cussing out his
• 1:10:34
  offensive players. When they're up 30 points, that
• 1:10:37
  shows you a guy that cares #19 LSU.
• 1:10:40
  They drop after the loss to Vanderbilt.
• 1:10:43
  Still don't see anything offensively, but the defense is
• 1:10:45
  still good. 18 Louisville they enter in this.
• 1:10:48
  Week get a big. Boost after beating what was my
• 1:10:50
  number one team in college football, here come the cards at
• 1:10:54
  17. It's Virginia.
• 1:10:55
  Virginia remains a a threat in the ACC, they have the head to
• 1:10:59
  head win over Louisville so they get a spot above them at 16.
• 1:11:03
  It's Tennessee. I think this is a really good
• 1:11:05
  offense, one of the best in the country, but they continue to
• 1:11:07
  get in their own way defensively. 15 Missouri.
• 1:11:11
  It wasn't pretty this weekend but they find a way to beat
• 1:11:13
  Auburn. Hugh Freeze and company is so
• 1:11:16
  hard betting on them. They are now on my no bet list
• 1:11:19
  as I had Auburn +2 this weekend, but Missouri finds a way to win.
• 1:11:23
  Congrats any of the teams in front of them.
• 1:11:25
  So that's why they are where they are.
• 1:11:27
  Texas Tech at 13. I think their defense is still
• 1:11:29
  good. I'd like to see Baron Morton
• 1:11:31
  return 12BYU. I know they're undefeated but I
• 1:11:35
  still don't think they are completely legit.
• 1:11:38
  I'll have to see more. As the season.
• 1:11:41
  Goes on number. 11 Notre Dame I think Notre Dame's been playing
• 1:11:44
  really good football over the last couple of weeks.
• 1:11:46
  I think they're a better football team than BYU, despite
• 1:11:48
  the two losses. Assuming #10 The Commodores, the
• 1:11:52
  fighting Diego Pavia is at #10 this is a damn good football
• 1:11:56
  team, folks #9 Oklahoma. Their defense was really good
• 1:12:00
  this weekend. John Metier goes 18 of 26 for
• 1:12:02
  150 yards and a touchdown. Not the full John Metier effect
• 1:12:07
  that we. Want, But I think he's getting
• 1:12:09
  healthier. Good to have a good, you know,
• 1:12:11
  solid performance under him this weekend.
• 1:12:14
  At 8:00, it's Ole Miss. The Rebels fall at Georgia Tech.
• 1:12:16
  We dove into that one. Right before them is number 7
• 1:12:20
  and it's Georgia and the Bulldogs.
• 1:12:23
  I'm still not thrilled with their defense, but they're.
• 1:12:25
  Finding ways to win #6 Miami and, and some people might be
• 1:12:28
  saying William, they should have dropped behind Ole Miss in
• 1:12:31
  Georgia, But I still think Miami's resume is one of the
• 1:12:34
  strongest in the country with wins over Notre Dame and Florida
• 1:12:37
  and South Florida and Florida State on the road.
• 1:12:40
  They've looked the part in all those games.
• 1:12:41
  I know last weekend was a disaster, but this is still a
• 1:12:44
  really good team with a great body of work. 6 Miami, 5 Oregon.
• 1:12:49
  Oregon gets a win over Rutgers. Kind of an expected game for
• 1:12:53
  them. Doing a really cool tribute to
• 1:12:56
  Grateful Dead this weekend with their jerseys.
• 1:12:58
  Pretty cool stuff #4 Alabama playing really, really good
• 1:13:02
  football. It is crazy that.
• 1:13:04
  Seven weeks ago we were talking about this team losing to
• 1:13:07
  Florida. State they flipped.
• 1:13:08
  The flipped the script. Credit to Kaylin De Boer for
• 1:13:10
  getting this team in line #3 the best team in the SEC, It's Texas
• 1:13:14
  A&M, the Aggies. Did.
• 1:13:15
  Give up a lot of points this weekend, but their offense is
• 1:13:19
  able to help them out. This is a really, really strong
• 1:13:21
  football team. They're 7 and O for the first
• 1:13:23
  time since the 1990s. Good start for them.
• 1:13:27
  Finally #2 it's Indiana. Fernando Mendoza and company
• 1:13:31
  continue to dazzle Kirks and Nettie makes quick work of
• 1:13:35
  Michigan State. Even though Michigan State did
• 1:13:38
  cover late in this one. Significant to some.
• 1:13:41
  Ohio State #1 the best team in the country.
• 1:13:44
  They continue to just expose and dispose of the.
• 1:13:49
  Teams in their way, so. That's my top 25 for this week.
• 1:13:53
  Rounding out with some final thoughts, we need to give credit
• 1:13:57
  to Tim Skipper at UCLA. Jerry Neuheisel is a great story
• 1:14:02
  and I think he's really funny. He's like, you know, looks like
• 1:14:05
  he's 18. They call him Sunshine.
• 1:14:06
  He's done a great job calling the plays for this UCLA offense.
• 1:14:10
  But Tim Skipper is the interim head coach.
• 1:14:12
  I I can't tell you how many. Conversations I've had with
• 1:14:14
  people. That believe Jerry Neuheisel is
• 1:14:18
  the interim coach for this team. He's not.
• 1:14:21
  He's the offensive coordinator. He's.
• 1:14:22
  Done a great job and I'm not griping and complaining because
• 1:14:25
  he's getting the credit. But Tim Skipper deserves the
• 1:14:27
  credit here or deserves some of it.
• 1:14:30
  Deserves to be recognized. At least you have UCLA even
• 1:14:33
  posting out videos of Neuheisel. After the game.
• 1:14:36
  Like, where the hell is Tim Skipper?
• 1:14:38
  He's interim head coach of this team.
• 1:14:40
  Give the guy some credit. So.
• 1:14:43
  Also credit to UCLA for the win this weekend.
• 1:14:45
  They'd be a Maryland team that. Two weeks ago I thought could
• 1:14:47
  have been ranked a tough slide for them back-to-back losses.
• 1:14:52
  UCLA. Has not lost.
• 1:14:54
  A game since they beat Penn State.
• 1:14:55
  Pretty impressive. Nico Imaliaba got banged up,
• 1:14:58
  seems like he is good to go. They've got a big time match up
• 1:15:01
  with Indiana coming up. Then, finally, Florida fires
• 1:15:04
  Billy Napier. Not a surprise.
• 1:15:06
  This was the talk of the town last week.
• 1:15:09
  Credit to Florida for sticking to their guns and saying, well,
• 1:15:12
  you beat Mississippi State, but you're still getting fired.
• 1:15:16
  I I I think Napier is a good football coach.
• 1:15:19
  I. Just don't think he's equipped
• 1:15:20
  to be. The coach of Florida and if I'm
• 1:15:22
  the Gators, I don't go back the power for assuming the Group of
• 1:15:25
  Five route again. Go get a big time coach.
• 1:15:28
  I don't think Lane Kiffin will come, but I don't think James.
• 1:15:31
  Franklin's A. Bad option.
• 1:15:32
  I know he was a, you know, not a disaster, but very he had a
• 1:15:36
  tough end to Penn State and people got very tired of the
• 1:15:39
  repetitiveness of going 10 and two and being right there but
• 1:15:42
  not in it. I feel like Florida would take
• 1:15:45
  that right now. And what's the type of
• 1:15:46
  recruiting that you can do in Florida and the type of
• 1:15:50
  resources you have at the University of Florida?
• 1:15:53
  10 and two with opportunities can get you somewhere.
• 1:15:56
  So I feel like Florida should hire James Franklin.
• 1:16:00
  I would not go the Alex Golish. Route.
• 1:16:01
  I've had a couple of people say that I think Golish is a good
• 1:16:04
  coach, but Florida just went the Group of Five route with Billy
• 1:16:07
  Napier. I don't think Golish is ready to
• 1:16:09
  be. At the University of Florida.
• 1:16:11
  One of the best jobs in the country.
• 1:16:13
  I think. Golish will be more fit for a,
• 1:16:15
  you know, Virginia Tech somewhere intermediate and power
• 1:16:18
  for football. Let's see that unfold before we
• 1:16:20
  go and hire a, you know, a guy that is a really good offense
• 1:16:25
  coordinator, was great at Tennessee, has done a great job
• 1:16:27
  with USF, but I'm not ready to say he's.
• 1:16:32
  The guy for a big time job like. That that's going to wrap it up
• 1:16:35
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• 1:16:41
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