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Josh Pate's College Football Show - Week 6 Reaction Show: UGA Beats Bama | Texas + LSU + Oregon Fall · Stampede of Truth

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Speaker 1: The fun thing about a Saturday like we had yesterday
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Speaker 1: is there's so many different things that happen. There's so
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Speaker 1: many different angles you could go with. None of them
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Speaker 1: are really wrong, but I was just looking over this
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Speaker 1: 30 seconds ago. It was a bad Saturday for college
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Speaker 1: football home field advantage truthers. It really was. It's Sunday night,
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Speaker 1: October 11th. The year of our Lord, 2026, we're jam-packed.
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Speaker 1: High atop a lovely downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Yeah, UCLA sort
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Speaker 1: of dispelled the myth of Autzen. And then Georgia goes
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Speaker 1: into Bryant-Denny and turns the volume down there. And then
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Speaker 1: USC mutes the whiteout. And Indiana, against all odds, comes
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Speaker 1: from behind in the fourth quarter in Lincoln, Nebraska. What
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Speaker 1: a week six we had. That's college football. That's a Saturday.
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Speaker 1: It's not some random sterile environment in early January. AP
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Speaker 1: polls out. Got a lot to say about that. Officiating
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Speaker 1: is back. Have a lot to say about that, as
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Speaker 1: do many of you. Jesse, I don't know where he went,
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Speaker 1: so I just have a direct line of sight to Mitch.
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Speaker 1: And so we're making a lot of uncomfortable eye contact
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Speaker 1: right now. Good win against Hawaii last night, by the way.
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Speaker 1: time we did this, Jesse? Crazy. I appreciate you guys, sincerely.
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Speaker 1: We were in Tuscaloosa last night for a borderline five
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Speaker 1: chow lie classic. It got 4.5 chow lie on the
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Speaker 1: one to five scale. Georgia 20, Alabama 17. Heavyweight prize fight.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what the numbers are. Who knows? Maybe
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Speaker 1: a billion people watched this. If not, it had to
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Speaker 1: be like really close. What else could you have possibly
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Speaker 1: been doing with your Saturday night other than watching just
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Speaker 1: a great regular season college football game, I think the
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Speaker 1: highest respect you can have for a college football program
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Speaker 1: is just freely admitting that you as an outsider take
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Speaker 1: for granted that they'll do the hardest things that there
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Speaker 1: are to do. And I was talking to Scott Sinclair,
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Speaker 1: who's the Georgia strength and conditioning coach, before the game
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Speaker 1: last night, and I said, you can't afford to think this.
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Speaker 1: Kirby can't afford to think this. Nobody with your program
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Speaker 1: can afford to think this, but I can. I take
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Speaker 1: for granted that you guys will always be among, if
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Speaker 1: not the most physical teams in the country. I take
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Speaker 1: for granted that you'll be among, if not the most
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Speaker 1: prepared teams in the country. Just all the tangible and
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Speaker 1: intangibles that it takes to win, the mental toughness piece,
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Speaker 1: the fortitude it takes to go on the road and
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Speaker 1: play in these kinds of places and do what they
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Speaker 1: do regularly. I just take it for granted with Georgia.
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Speaker 1: You've been able to say that about a small handful
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Speaker 1: of programs in your life at any given point. And
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Speaker 1: they're one of them. And Kirby talked about sort of
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Speaker 1: the state of their program. He was really introspective in
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Speaker 1: his post-game comments last night, by the way. You just
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Speaker 1: take it for granted with them. And that kind of
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Speaker 1: bled into how I viewed this game. You know, There
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Speaker 1: are a lot of questions, as you have in any game.
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Speaker 1: It's the beauty of playing the game. You play the
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Speaker 1: game to answer questions and to find out who's better
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Speaker 1: and determine a winner and all that. But I wondered,
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Speaker 1: as I'd watched Keelan Russell this whole season so far,
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Speaker 1: and I'd watched him have time to throw, quite simply,
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Speaker 1: will he have time to throw against Georgia? And we
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Speaker 1: went over last week a lot of the pressure rate
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Speaker 1: numbers and the havoc rate numbers, and Georgia wasn't even
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Speaker 1: top half in the country. in some of those statistics.
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Speaker 1: But yet you also knew there's a lot of design
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Speaker 1: behind the way they do things and the why behind
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Speaker 1: how they do things. And you know, like if Georgia,
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Speaker 1: if Glenn Shuman, Kirby Smart, and that kind of talent
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Speaker 1: profile goes into a game knowing they got to dial
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Speaker 1: a guy up and heat a guy up, they're going
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Speaker 1: to do whatever it takes to heat a guy up.
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Speaker 1: And they put some heat on Keelan Russell, and he
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Speaker 1: didn't have clean pockets to throw in all night. Now,
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Speaker 1: he still had an okay night, but they scaled their
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Speaker 1: pressure numbers to the point where their guy was able
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Speaker 1: to settle in Bama didn't get a ton of pressure
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Speaker 1: on Gunnar Stockton Georgia got pressure on Keelan Russell so
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Speaker 1: that was question number one answered in the affirmative for
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Speaker 1: Georgia and then the other thing was we come into
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Speaker 1: this game Alabama on this stuff right here has the
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Speaker 1: number 10 run defense in the country and you wondered
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Speaker 1: if Georgia really commits to running the ball which they
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Speaker 1: always do how much will that hold up 29 carries
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Speaker 1: for 206 yards 5.3 per carry It didn't. They gashed him. Now,
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Speaker 1: I will say, I know the headline sort of coming
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Speaker 1: out of that was, wow, man, Georgia's third string running
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Speaker 1: back did this. Technically, that's true. Georgia and BAM are
5:29
Speaker 1: kind of similar in that there are guys down the
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Speaker 1: depth chart a little ways that are actually the most
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Speaker 1: talented members of those running back rooms. Crowell is that
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Speaker 1: for Alabama. And I thought going into the game, Dwight
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Speaker 1: Phillips was that. Now the difference is they've kind of
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Speaker 1: showcased him in a little flashier manner than maybe the
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Speaker 1: other guys that you didn't see yesterday. Dwight Phillips can
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Speaker 1: run it between the tackles for you and do just fine,
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Speaker 1: and he did last night. He had 17 carries for
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Speaker 1: 120 yards. So yes, Georgia was down two tailbacks. I
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Speaker 1: don't think they were very nervous at all putting that
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Speaker 1: guy on the field, nor would Alabama be nervous or
6:06
Speaker 1: Bama fans be nervous if you found out Idre Crowell,
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Speaker 1: he's got to carry the ball 20 times tonight. In fact,
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Speaker 1: some of them would prefer that. If I'm a Georgia fan,
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Speaker 1: I wanted to see Phillips get 17 carries. I'd love
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Speaker 1: to see what he can do. And then Bo Walker
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Speaker 1: adds in. Gunnar Stockton is obviously a factor with his legs.
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Speaker 1: But the third question, Jesse, there were so many questions.
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Speaker 1: That's the nature of early season college football was, well,
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Speaker 1: what's going to happen at wide receiver for Georgia? You know,
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Speaker 1: Alabama's got Ryan Williams. They got Lottie Brooks. They got
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Speaker 1: all these dudes. Who does Georgia have? And we talked
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Speaker 1: about the Vanderbilt game, which was two weeks ago, and
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Speaker 1: how they had, what was it, eight different guys have
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Speaker 1: two or more receptions. So they had been spreading the
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Speaker 1: love around the wide receiver room. Tailbacks had been pretty
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Speaker 1: effective out of the backfield too. They had four different
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Speaker 1: pass catchers over 40 yards last night. No one guy
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Speaker 1: jumped off the stat sheet. But what was happening on
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Speaker 1: third down? When they needed to make a play, you
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Speaker 1: had one guy that was the trigger man. He's going
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Speaker 1: to be on the field every play. And you had
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Speaker 1: him just distributing. which is the beautiful thing, because a
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Speaker 1: lot of times when you have quarterbacks who are top
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Speaker 1: five in the country, when you have Julian Sayen, Jeremiah
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Speaker 1: Smith's out there. When you got Keelan Russell, Ryan Williams
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Speaker 1: is out there. Gunnar Stockton, it's whoever happens to be
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Speaker 1: out there, and he's going to take advantage because he's
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Speaker 1: a surgeon. And he was surgical last night. I don't
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Speaker 1: really know what else to say. I'm so conflicted. When
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Speaker 1: we were coming home, I was so conflicted because you're
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Speaker 1: walking out of the stadium and You run into Georgia
7:36
Speaker 1: fans and Bama fans. You run into Georgia media, Alabama media.
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Speaker 1: You run into all different sorts of people who are
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Speaker 1: just kind of vomiting out everything they think about what
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Speaker 1: they just saw. And a lot of it was about
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Speaker 1: the officiating, and I'll talk about that in a second.
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Speaker 1: And later in the show, too. But I was so
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Speaker 1: conflicted in how I came away thinking about the game
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Speaker 1: because on one hand, it's very rare... to watch a
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Speaker 1: team do what Georgia did, and that is fumble the
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Speaker 1: ball four times and recover all four of them. It's
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Speaker 1: really rare to see a game where the officiating seems
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Speaker 1: that tilted towards one side. I say that's rare. I
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Speaker 1: don't focus on that stuff all that much. But even
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Speaker 1: I walked away last night saying, man, I feel like
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Speaker 1: Bama got railed from an officiating standpoint in this game.
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Speaker 1: The reason I say I feel conflicted is because I
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Speaker 1: saw all that stuff happen, and like history says, if
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Speaker 1: this game were played again, Georgia probably doesn't recover four fumbles,
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Speaker 1: or the officiating's probably not that heavily tilted, and yet
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Speaker 1: I still felt like I watched the definitively better team
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Speaker 1: win the game. So that's the conflict. Because I watched
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Speaker 1: Georgia just own a line of scrimmage. I watched their
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Speaker 1: offensive line and their quarterback, especially on third down, be
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Speaker 1: the difference. Gunnar Stockton was 9 of 10 on third down.
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Speaker 1: I just watched... a more competitively mature team win the game.
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Speaker 1: And I don't know, man. Maybe if they played it again,
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Speaker 1: maybe they will play again down the road. And maybe Bama,
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Speaker 1: you know, they're a young team. Maybe they mature, and
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Speaker 1: maybe they even out those criticals, and maybe they win
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Speaker 1: the game. Who knows? It happened last year with these
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Speaker 1: two teams. Maybe it'll happen again. I walked away from
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Speaker 1: last night thinking, Georgia's where they need to be, and
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Speaker 1: Bama's got a little ways to go before they're where
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Speaker 1: they need to be. And the officiating piece baked into that.
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Speaker 1: And the bounce of ball fortune baked into that. I
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Speaker 1: I was shocked Georgia only had 20 on the board,
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Speaker 1: is what I'm saying. I felt like the performance that
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Speaker 1: they put on the field last night was like a
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Speaker 1: 31 to 34 point type performance. So I feel like
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Speaker 1: Georgia may have left a little bit out there as well.
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Speaker 1: Certainly Alabama did. I don't ever question play calling on
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Speaker 1: this show. People get so mad because it's like, you
9:46
Speaker 1: never question coaches. I know, they're smarter than me. They
9:49
Speaker 1: know more about what they're doing than me. So I
9:50
Speaker 1: tend to shy away from it. Also, if I was
9:53
Speaker 1: a coach myself, I still would have only limited knowledge
9:58
Speaker 1: to go on because I don't know what you call it.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what you saw. I don't know what
10:02
Speaker 1: your keys in your prep were. But I will say
10:05
Speaker 1: watching Alabama last night, even in real time, I kept
10:09
Speaker 1: on leaning over to, well, Savannah State was over here
10:12
Speaker 1: to my right. And then whoever happened to be to
10:13
Speaker 1: my left, Prez is over there trying to edit social videos.
10:16
Speaker 1: And I'm like, hey, Prez, what'd you think about what
10:18
Speaker 1: Ryan Grubb's doing? And Prez is like, who? And I said,
10:20
Speaker 1: never mind press, keep at it. I had no clue
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Speaker 1: what Alabama was doing from a play calling perspective. Jesse,
10:27
Speaker 1: how many times have you ever heard me question play calling?
10:30
Speaker 1: Let me say this. Let me question the philosophy behind
10:33
Speaker 1: the play calling, not play calls themselves. All right, how
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Speaker 1: about that? So Alabama had six drives end in Georgia
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Speaker 1: Territory with zero points last night. They had another three
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Speaker 1: that they scored on. But there were six different drives
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Speaker 1: that ended in Georgia Territory with no points last night.
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Speaker 1: And Bama's longest pass through the air was 23 yards.
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Speaker 1: So that was the kind of game that unfolded. So
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Speaker 1: it was very, very clear. Part of that's by design.
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Speaker 1: Part of the reason you started to have standard run
11:02
Speaker 1: success on Georgia was because they played to avoid getting
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Speaker 1: completely and utterly eviscerated through the air. Because you've got
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Speaker 1: a supremely talented quarterback who can do that. And I
11:14
Speaker 1: would imagine, I mean, if you ask Kirby Smart, Keelan Russell,
11:17
Speaker 1: 41 yards rushing on you. He's going to break some plays.
11:20
Speaker 1: He's going to break some contain, but what he's not
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Speaker 1: going to have is he's not going to have the
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Speaker 1: game-breaking catbuster type passes. Will you take that? I'm sure
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Speaker 1: they'd take it. Georgia felt like they did pretty much
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Speaker 1: what they wanted to defensively or got what they wanted
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Speaker 1: to defensively last night. My point is I thought Bama
11:37
Speaker 1: played into it a whole lot. The thing about your
11:39
Speaker 1: enemy is when he's playing into your hands, shut up.
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Speaker 1: and let him keep playing into your hands. I really
11:44
Speaker 1: felt like Alabama did that a lot last night. So
11:46
Speaker 1: think about the dynamics here. You're not going to beat
11:48
Speaker 1: them over the top. They've sort of dictated that defensively.
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Speaker 1: The case last year was Alabama couldn't run the ball,
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Speaker 1: constantly tackled behind the line of scrimmage on standard runs.
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Speaker 1: Last night, we went and looked at I don't remember
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Speaker 1: more than once or twice, if that, where a tailback
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Speaker 1: was tackled behind the line of scrimmage. They consistently got push.
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Speaker 1: Credit to the offensive line. Credit to the tailbacks. Consistently
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Speaker 1: got push. The runs that would have been negative two,
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Speaker 1: negative one, zero last year were six, five, seven, four.
12:24
Speaker 1: You can live with that stuff. You should lean on
12:26
Speaker 1: it is the point. Lean on it to the point
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Speaker 1: where the other guy's got to adjust something. They counted
12:33
Speaker 1: on the idea that based on your tendencies, you're not
12:37
Speaker 1: going to commit to this. And guess what? They didn't
12:40
Speaker 1: commit to it. And as a result, Alabama got put
12:44
Speaker 1: in a lot of very, very unfavorable positions and Georgia
12:47
Speaker 1: didn't nearly as much. So that kind of puzzled me
12:52
Speaker 1: a little bit. What didn't puzzle me was the overall
12:55
Speaker 1: way the game felt. So this is the kind of
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Speaker 1: game that goes either way. Credit to Georgia for winning
13:00
Speaker 1: the game. But the way it felt is kind of
13:04
Speaker 1: what I want to talk about for a second. How
13:05
Speaker 1: did it feel at home? I was standing there on
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Speaker 1: the field. You guys are either in the stadium or
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Speaker 1: you're watching at home. Some of you are Georgia fans.
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Speaker 1: Some of you are Bama fans. Many, many more of
13:13
Speaker 1: you are just college football fans who wanted to tune in.
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Speaker 1: It certainly didn't feel like it would have felt in
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Speaker 1: the four-team era or the BCS era. But did you
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Speaker 1: feel urgency watching this game? Because I did. Not as
13:26
Speaker 1: much as you would have back in the day, but
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Speaker 1: I still felt it. Number one, because it just means
13:32
Speaker 1: something when those two teams play each other, period. Independent
13:35
Speaker 1: of any postseason implication at all. That's just pride and performance.
13:39
Speaker 1: That's tradition and whatnot. The other part is, I felt
13:43
Speaker 1: like it was a showcase for the 12-team playoff format.
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Speaker 1: Because it was the perfect balance of urgency, but also
13:51
Speaker 1: knowing the loser's not out of anything, so they still
13:54
Speaker 1: have access. No matter who wins or loses this game,
13:56
Speaker 1: both of them are still going to have access. One
13:58
Speaker 1: of them's One of them's path's going to narrow a
14:01
Speaker 1: little bit. That's Alabama now. So they're going to go
14:04
Speaker 1: on the road in six days to Neyland Stadium. And
14:08
Speaker 1: they're a banged up team. Everyone's banged up now. So
14:11
Speaker 1: I'm going to kind of stop saying that. But Alabama's
14:13
Speaker 1: still got a path. Georgia's in the driver's seat now.
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Speaker 1: But I kept thinking to myself, what does a 2014
14:19
Speaker 1: playoff do to this game? I know proponents of a
14:23
Speaker 1: 2014 playoff say, oh, it's not that game. Both of
14:27
Speaker 1: those teams are going to make it. It's what it
14:28
Speaker 1: would do to other games. These right here, these environments,
14:33
Speaker 1: these spectacle-type environments featuring these kind of teams that are
14:37
Speaker 1: actually capable of winning a title down the road, I
14:39
Speaker 1: want to maintain urgency on those games. I want to
14:42
Speaker 1: maintain that balance on those games. So I'm not going
14:44
Speaker 1: down that road any further because I'm talking about a
14:47
Speaker 1: game right now, but I just thought it was such
14:50
Speaker 1: a perfect showcase game for the 12-team playoff because you
14:53
Speaker 1: had the perfect balance of both factors that you want
14:55
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15:01
Speaker 1: It feels like both sides would kind of welcome a rematch.
15:05
Speaker 1: Talk to coaches from both sides after the game last night.
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Speaker 1: George is very, very thrilled to get out of there
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Speaker 1: with a win and to do what they wanted to
15:13
Speaker 1: do in many cases. I don't think they needed validation.
15:17
Speaker 1: I think they always knew what they were. I think
15:19
Speaker 1: maybe they wanted to prove some things to other people,
15:23
Speaker 1: so certainly did that with me. And so I think
15:26
Speaker 1: they'd have no problem because I think they look at
15:28
Speaker 1: it and they say, the things that won tonight would
15:30
Speaker 1: be there again if we met you two months down
15:32
Speaker 1: the road in Atlanta. And then on the other side,
15:35
Speaker 1: I think the Bama folks look at it and think
15:37
Speaker 1: we left so much out there. There were so many
15:39
Speaker 1: things that went against us. There were so many things
15:42
Speaker 1: that are out of our control that went against us,
15:43
Speaker 1: mechanisms of the game and whatnot that we think would
15:47
Speaker 1: even out the next time. Not to mention we're a
15:49
Speaker 1: young team, so we'll continue to mature and The team, theoretically,
15:53
Speaker 1: that you would meet in December is different than now.
15:54
Speaker 1: I think both sides feel that way. These are still
15:58
Speaker 1: the number one and number two teams to win the
16:01
Speaker 1: SEC championship. The outcome in Dallas yesterday is such that
16:06
Speaker 1: Texas is now falling down the board a little bit.
16:08
Speaker 1: Then you've got Ole Miss in there. What an environment, man.
16:13
Speaker 1: I know that there are a lot of people out
16:16
Speaker 1: there who were victimized by Alabama for a long time.
16:19
Speaker 1: There are a lot of people out there who have
16:20
Speaker 1: now gotten tired of Georgia perennially being on top, but
16:23
Speaker 1: yet you still tune in, some of you begrudgingly, but
16:26
Speaker 1: just out of respect for the showcase that this kind
16:30
Speaker 1: of game is. Really amazing to watch. Really, really high-level
16:34
Speaker 1: competitive environment. Also, did you see DeBoer last night? A
16:37
Speaker 1: lot of people had some stupid takeaways, actually, from how
16:41
Speaker 1: fiery he was on the sideline. I saw some people
16:44
Speaker 1: I don't think who have ever even gotten fitted for
16:46
Speaker 1: a jockstrap in their life. have a problem with Dijon
16:50
Speaker 1: Lee committing physical error after physical error, culminating with a
16:56
Speaker 1: mental error to cap the game. I won't say that
16:59
Speaker 1: lost them the game. It cost them a chance to
17:01
Speaker 1: maybe win the game. And DeBoer jumps down his throat.
17:07
Speaker 1: I don't know how else to put this, guys. Number one,
17:10
Speaker 1: players are paid a lot of money right now. They're
17:12
Speaker 1: going to get treated like it, whether you like it
17:13
Speaker 1: or not. Number two, And anyone who's sort of been
17:17
Speaker 1: around the team environment understands this. If you've got a
17:20
Speaker 1: mentally fragile team, if you've got an immature team, if
17:23
Speaker 1: you've got a team you don't trust and there's not
17:26
Speaker 1: a lot of mutual respect with, you can't do that
17:29
Speaker 1: as a coach. When you've got the dynamic you want,
17:32
Speaker 1: you can. Saban did it all the time. Kirby does
17:35
Speaker 1: it all the time. DeBoer's got a team he actually trusts.
17:39
Speaker 1: It's actually a really, really mature group. So you can
17:42
Speaker 1: do that. That's probably what it's like there at practice
17:45
Speaker 1: all the time. That's what it's like at a Georgia
17:47
Speaker 1: practice all the time. There is a really, really high
17:50
Speaker 1: level of accountability that's demanded. And if you get it
17:55
Speaker 1: in the practice field, no one sees it. That just
17:58
Speaker 1: so happened to play out in front of a worldwide
17:59
Speaker 1: audience last night. I saw a lot of former players
18:03
Speaker 1: look at it and say, good, that's exactly the way
18:05
Speaker 1: it should play out. I saw a lot of bean
18:08
Speaker 1: counter types say, you can't let this happen. That's a
18:11
Speaker 1: terrible look. Buddy, change the channel. Go to bed. Change
18:15
Speaker 1: the channel. I feel like if I were to have
18:19
Speaker 1: shown Kalen DeBoer in 2023 at Washington, a flash forward
18:27
Speaker 1: to what he would look like in a football game
18:29
Speaker 1: three years down the road, he'd be shocked. just because
18:32
Speaker 1: of what the pressure of jobs like these and moments
18:35
Speaker 1: like these end up doing to you, if there was
18:38
Speaker 1: any question as to whether that dude was going to
18:41
Speaker 1: fit in, like adjust and settle into the role as
18:44
Speaker 1: the head coach at Alabama, I think that question is
18:47
Speaker 1: now complete. I also think the answer to the question
18:50
Speaker 1: of whether or not there's a definitive number one in
18:53
Speaker 1: the SEC has now been quieted, too. That's the University
18:56
Speaker 1: of Georgia. I'd also say that's the best team in
18:59
Speaker 1: the country. And it's crazy how out of all those teams,
19:02
Speaker 1: remember the preseason, Jesse, out of all the teams in
19:05
Speaker 1: the AP that got first place votes, Georgia opens number
19:10
Speaker 1: three in the country. Zero first place votes. Number one
19:14
Speaker 1: had them. Number two had them. Number four. Number six.
19:17
Speaker 1: Number seven. Like all those teams got first place votes.
19:21
Speaker 1: Little old Georgia. Is that the new little old? Have
19:23
Speaker 1: they adopted the Clemson mantra? I don't actually think Kirby
19:26
Speaker 1: would ever traffic in that. But they were their only team.
19:29
Speaker 1: in that top group that didn't have first place votes.
19:31
Speaker 1: They got a few this week. So we were there yesterday.
19:34
Speaker 1: We were in Lincoln, uh, the morning of yesterday, and
19:39
Speaker 1: that was a great day. Where will we go in
19:41
Speaker 1: week seven? Bloomington, Indiana is where we're going this weekend.
19:46
Speaker 1: Never been there for a game. We went there in
19:48
Speaker 1: the spring and, uh, visited with Kurt Cignetti, sat down
19:51
Speaker 1: with him, saw them yesterday, and we'll see them in
19:54
Speaker 1: person this weekend. We will be there Friday and Saturday, actually.
19:58
Speaker 1: Ohio State at Indiana. They're calling it the biggest game
20:02
Speaker 1: in the history of that campus. I agree. And so
20:06
Speaker 1: we are fueled, we are fed by Jimmy Johns, and
20:08
Speaker 1: we are headed to Ohio State, Indiana. Is that our
20:11
Speaker 1: second consecutive week with Big Noon Kickoff? Gave Clatt a
20:16
Speaker 1: bear hug from behind yesterday. It was comfortable. We're like that.
20:19
Speaker 1: It was fine. No one even batted an eye at it.
20:22
Speaker 1: The shirts are available, ladies and gentlemen. These are sure
20:25
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20:30
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20:35
Speaker 1: at patestatematerial.com, the entire Spooky Saturday line. Those are also
20:41
Speaker 1: flying off the shelves. Last night, yesterday and last night,
20:44
Speaker 1: was the first time I have seen our Spooky Saturday
20:47
Speaker 1: merch out in the wild. And it's great. I've yet
20:50
Speaker 1: to see an infant wearing one of those Don't Tread
20:53
Speaker 1: on Saturday Halloween-themed onesies, but I'm sure that's coming pretty soon.
21:01
Speaker 1: We move on. Two whale breaches in that segment. Only two.
21:07
Speaker 1: Oklahoma beat Texas yesterday. How? Judging by the halftime score?
21:11
Speaker 1: I don't know. But they pulled it off. 27-24. This
21:15
Speaker 1: has got to be a four-challi game. A four-challi Red
21:18
Speaker 1: River shootout known by no other name on this show.
21:21
Speaker 1: The reason it's not a five-challi game, despite the fact
21:24
Speaker 1: that there were some theatrics late in this contest, is
21:28
Speaker 1: that nine of the first ten drives were three and outs.
21:30
Speaker 1: So it looked like it was going to be just,
21:34
Speaker 1: that kind of gave for a little while. And then boom,
21:36
Speaker 1: you chugged several hundred milligrams of caffeine and quarterback, as
21:42
Speaker 1: everyone predicted, ended up costing someone this game. But it
21:46
Speaker 1: wasn't the quarterback that you predicted that would cost the
21:50
Speaker 1: team that you predicted the game. It was Arch Manning.
21:54
Speaker 1: John Mateer, no turnovers. I don't know that we've ever
21:59
Speaker 1: had that as a padlock stat. Just a quarterback didn't
22:01
Speaker 1: turn the ball over. But man, when you consider the
22:03
Speaker 1: track record so far this year, unbelievable. So I will admit,
22:07
Speaker 1: I thought Texas would win this game by double digits.
22:10
Speaker 1: They looked like they were on their way to for
22:11
Speaker 1: a little while. I had to see OU do it
22:14
Speaker 1: to believe it. It's not that I didn't understand the dynamic.
22:18
Speaker 1: It's not that I didn't understand the potential of this
22:21
Speaker 1: defense to wreck a game. I get all that. I
22:26
Speaker 1: just watched them not able to get out of their
22:28
Speaker 1: own way enough offensively this year. to where I thought, well,
22:32
Speaker 1: that's no longer an isolated incident. Those are trends. And
22:36
Speaker 1: I don't care if you've had a bye week, so
22:37
Speaker 1: has Texas. And I thought, hey, man, maybe even if
22:41
Speaker 1: Oklahoma patches together something offensively, judging by that logic, Texas
22:45
Speaker 1: gets two as well. They're both coming out of a
22:46
Speaker 1: bye week. So there was a very specific environment that
22:50
Speaker 1: had to exist here. And Oklahoma created it. And if
22:54
Speaker 1: you want to say Texas helped them, Colin Simmons, be
22:57
Speaker 1: my guest. But Oklahoma created it. They took advantage of it,
23:00
Speaker 1: but I got a monitor in here that shows all
23:03
Speaker 1: the critical stat categories. Y'all might as well zoom in
23:06
Speaker 1: on the turnover column. That's it. That's what I cared about.
23:10
Speaker 1: If you told me OU was not turning the ball over,
23:13
Speaker 1: then I'd know. This could be a dogfight in the
23:15
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. Avant ran it well enough. It was an
23:19
Speaker 1: explosive run there like otherwise it wasn't a banner day,
23:23
Speaker 1: but defense showed up. Special teams showed up. I don't
23:26
Speaker 1: know what Texas is going to do there, by the way.
23:28
Speaker 1: Just a pause and a moment, not of silence, but
23:32
Speaker 1: of golf clap respect for Oklahoma. I don't know what
23:35
Speaker 1: the rest of this season is going to hold. I
23:37
Speaker 1: know so far it hasn't been the most thrilling and
23:39
Speaker 1: fun thing to watch, but they can't take away that
23:43
Speaker 1: Red River shootout win. You can go 7-5, 6-6, 8-4, whatever.
23:49
Speaker 1: Every player on that team gets to say until the
23:50
Speaker 1: end of time, even at our worst, we took down
23:54
Speaker 1: the number one team in the country, and that happened
23:56
Speaker 1: to be Texas. Because a win at the Cotton Bowl
23:59
Speaker 1: and the Red River Shootout, it's an unbelievable thing. You've
24:03
Speaker 1: got to play six days later. But still, time stands
24:06
Speaker 1: still for a little while. And that's an unbelievable feel.
24:09
Speaker 1: Our buddy Freddie and the Germans, they were in Dallas.
24:12
Speaker 1: That had to be an unbelievable experience. Can you imagine
24:15
Speaker 1: plucking three tourists from Germany and dropping them into the
24:20
Speaker 1: Texas State Fair? What kind of vlog would that be?
24:24
Speaker 1: I mean, hopefully they got a lot of footage yesterday.
24:27
Speaker 1: Texas fell into the trap, and shame on them for
24:30
Speaker 1: falling into the trap. When you lead Oklahoma, when you
24:33
Speaker 1: lead an offensive team that's this bad, 17-7 at halftime,
24:37
Speaker 1: it should be over. And this should have been over.
24:40
Speaker 1: I don't care if you have to put people to sleep.
24:43
Speaker 1: I don't care if you have to play a second
24:45
Speaker 1: half that is the television equivalent of NyQuil. Do it.
24:49
Speaker 1: Put them away. I don't care how many ornaments you
24:52
Speaker 1: think you have in that playbook. It's not working. It
24:55
Speaker 1: really hasn't worked much of the year. People can't help themselves, man.
24:59
Speaker 1: They can't help themselves. Don't bother looking at the box
25:02
Speaker 1: score in this game. It'll just confuse you. Nine Oklahoma
25:06
Speaker 1: points off two fourth quarter interceptions. Inexcusably bad. McDonough's voice cracked,
25:13
Speaker 1: partly out of excitement, partly out of just stunned disbelief.
25:19
Speaker 1: And I watched, where were we? I think we were
25:21
Speaker 1: standing in the press box at Bryant-Denny Stadium. And everyone's
25:26
Speaker 1: around these muted TVs, so you can't hear Sean McDonough's
25:29
Speaker 1: voice crack. But yet everyone else's voice was cracking too.
25:31
Speaker 1: She said, how can this be real life? How can
25:34
Speaker 1: this be happening? A punt is the equivalent of a
25:37
Speaker 1: touchdown in this moment. Just don't do it. Don't do it.
25:40
Speaker 1: He did it. Again, he did it. I got no
25:45
Speaker 1: idea what Texas's identity is. That's what someone said to me.
25:49
Speaker 1: And I was confused. Like, we're six weeks in now.
25:53
Speaker 1: What do you mean you don't know what Texas' identity is?
25:56
Speaker 1: It's a defensive-oriented team. That's what their identity is. They're
26:01
Speaker 1: in Oklahoma with a lot better offensive parts. That's what
26:04
Speaker 1: their identity is. Now, if you're saying you don't know
26:07
Speaker 1: what their offensive identity is, I'm right there with you.
26:10
Speaker 1: I know what Steve Sarkeesian seems to want it to be,
26:14
Speaker 1: but it's not that. So I don't really know what
26:17
Speaker 1: the offensive identity here is. But the team identity? Special
26:20
Speaker 1: teams let him down yesterday. Offense let him down. Quarterback
26:23
Speaker 1: position let him down. Defense, that's their identity. It's just
26:28
Speaker 1: that when you pay so much money for this roster,
26:31
Speaker 1: and specifically this offensive talent roster, no one wants to
26:35
Speaker 1: admit the obvious. Guys, it could be a whole lot
26:37
Speaker 1: worse than this. Don't give up right now when you're
26:42
Speaker 1: still just a one-loss team that has everything in front
26:45
Speaker 1: of you. There are other teams out there. Your neighbors
26:48
Speaker 1: down the road in College Station, their season's shot, and
26:51
Speaker 1: they paid a lot of money. Oregon, their season's probably shot,
26:55
Speaker 1: and they paid a lot of money. Your season's not shot,
26:57
Speaker 1: but you're really going to have to recalibrate not your expectations,
27:02
Speaker 1: but your worldview. on what you are and what you
27:05
Speaker 1: could be and forget about what you want to be.
27:07
Speaker 1: It's what you can be. That's what you got to
27:09
Speaker 1: admit to this time of year. My view of Oklahoma
27:15
Speaker 1: is totally irrelevant at the moment. We can get to
27:19
Speaker 1: that Tuesday. We can get to that two weeks down
27:22
Speaker 1: the road. Like as you sort of look down the
27:24
Speaker 1: road at the rest of the Oklahoma season, just enjoy
27:28
Speaker 1: this right now. You're not a player or a coach
27:30
Speaker 1: on the team. So if you live in Chickasha, You
27:34
Speaker 1: live in Broken Arrow. You live in Enid. Our friends
27:38
Speaker 1: in Oklahoma deserve this. Just enjoy it. Just enjoy it.
27:43
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what the rest of the season's going
27:45
Speaker 1: to bring right now. That'll come. Just enjoy this, man.
27:49
Speaker 1: They can't take it from you. And as for Texas,
27:53
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I think. I don't think they're
27:55
Speaker 1: done losing. But you feel free to prove that wrong.
28:00
Speaker 1: They got Florida this week. Florida looks terrible right now. Okay?
28:04
Speaker 1: So that solves all the makings of a four-quarter game.
28:07
Speaker 1: They got Ole Miss coming in there the next week.
28:11
Speaker 1: They got Mississippi State coming in there. They still got
28:13
Speaker 1: to go to Missouri. They still got to go to LSU.
28:14
Speaker 1: LSU's a much different team at home than the road.
28:17
Speaker 1: They cap off the season at A & M. Jesse,
28:20
Speaker 1: I don't think they're done losing. That's my current stance
28:23
Speaker 1: on Texas. But man, what a thrilling finish. An unexpected finish.
28:28
Speaker 1: Not just pregame, but as of halftime of this game,
28:30
Speaker 1: what an unexpected finish. Speaking of... It happened all over
28:34
Speaker 1: the place yesterday. UCLA beat Oregon 17-15, and somehow an
28:42
Speaker 1: upset one-possession game gets one-and-a-half challah on the one-to-five scale. Jesse,
28:50
Speaker 1: if I told you UCLA was going to win a
28:52
Speaker 1: game by two points in Autzen Stadium, but it was
28:55
Speaker 1: going to get one-and-a-half challah, what would you think happened?
29:00
Speaker 1: A strike? A protest? at midfield during the game. I
29:04
Speaker 1: don't know what. The feed gets cut and we didn't
29:07
Speaker 1: get to watch it? What would have had to have happened? Well,
29:10
Speaker 1: I'll tell you. The sloppiest game in modern football history
29:14
Speaker 1: proceeded to unfold. And it was a matchup of former
29:18
Speaker 1: five-star quarterbacks. That statement technically is true. Yet Brock Thomas
29:23
Speaker 1: ends up with the best numbers out of any QB
29:25
Speaker 1: in this game. There were 10, just pop the paper,
29:29
Speaker 1: 10 total turnovers in this game. We do not apologize
29:35
Speaker 1: for winning and we acknowledge winners first on this show.
29:38
Speaker 1: Wayne Knight, the JMU transfer for UCLA. 22 carries, 103 yards,
29:44
Speaker 1: two total touchdowns. Good on him. That largely concludes the
29:50
Speaker 1: offensive highlights in this game, but you've got to credit
29:53
Speaker 1: UCLA for They've got every reason to suck this year.
29:57
Speaker 1: They got every reason to look exactly like some of
29:59
Speaker 1: these other places look with first-year coaches. Golish is dealing
30:03
Speaker 1: with it. Sumrall's dealing with it. Campbell's dealing with it.
30:05
Speaker 1: Bob Chesney's just winning. So big credit to them. And
30:09
Speaker 1: what they did do, at least, is they created a
30:12
Speaker 1: chaotic enough defensive environment and capitalized on it. It's not
30:16
Speaker 1: a bunch of world beaters. It's not a dominant defense.
30:19
Speaker 1: But a style of game started to unfold. And they
30:23
Speaker 1: put themselves in position to benefit from it. Immense credit there.
30:28
Speaker 1: Because there's another world where Oregon just wins this game
30:30
Speaker 1: running away. And instead, you could sit here and say, man,
30:33
Speaker 1: maybe UCLA should have won by more than they did.
30:38
Speaker 1: I'm looking at UCLA's schedule right now. And if you're
30:43
Speaker 1: watching on YouTube, you are as well. If you're listening
30:45
Speaker 1: on podcast, I need to talk to you about something.
30:49
Speaker 1: Two things, actually. Number one, not getting ahead of ourselves.
30:53
Speaker 1: UCLA to sort of give you an idea of where
30:56
Speaker 1: the odds makers think they are right now. They play
31:00
Speaker 1: Wisconsin Saturday at home and they're a three and a
31:03
Speaker 1: half point favorite. So clearly Vegas is still not all
31:08
Speaker 1: in on UCLA being the caliber of team that you
31:11
Speaker 1: would classically refer to as playoff caliber. But don't worry
31:17
Speaker 1: about that because we live in a post-Indiana, post-Curt Cignetti
31:21
Speaker 1: world where Vegas could be very, very far behind. They
31:25
Speaker 1: could be well, well behind the curve of something special happening.
31:30
Speaker 1: Their schedule at UCLA is Wisconsin, Michigan State, Nevada, at Minnesota, Illinois,
31:35
Speaker 1: at Michigan, USC. Keep in mind, that's a Big Ten team.
31:41
Speaker 1: So there's some wiggle room. There's some room for a
31:43
Speaker 1: loss in there. They currently have the third best odds
31:47
Speaker 1: to win the Big Ten championship. A bunch of people
31:51
Speaker 1: are shrugging. The Bob Chesney effect. Unbelievable. As for Oregon.
32:00
Speaker 1: Nothing's wrong with your feed. Your internet's not pausing. I'm
32:05
Speaker 1: just searching for the words. Sometimes you have the words, Jesse.
32:11
Speaker 1: And sometimes someone else has the words. Sometimes those words
32:15
Speaker 1: are called lyrics. And in this case, this brings me
32:19
Speaker 1: no joy whatsoever whatsoever. Oregon has become the Sarah McLachlan
32:23
Speaker 1: special of week six. Truly one of the worst games
32:29
Speaker 1: that you'll ever see in your entire life. Double-digit home favorite.
32:34
Speaker 1: Only 12 first downs. They went 1 of 12 on
32:38
Speaker 1: third down. They went 0 of 2 on fourth down.
32:42
Speaker 1: Dylan Raiola was awful in this game. 6 of 19
32:46
Speaker 1: for 43 yards. Zero touchdowns. Two interceptions. Through three quarters
32:53
Speaker 1: of this game, Oregon had been out gained at home. 296-83.
33:00
Speaker 1: And their only hope ends up being turning to their
33:04
Speaker 1: third string quarterback. They had seven total turnovers in this game.
33:10
Speaker 1: I want you to earmuff the women and children. This
33:13
Speaker 1: is a TVMA drive chart reading from Oregon yesterday. Punt.
33:20
Speaker 1: one yard touchdown set up by the defense. Punt, punt, fumble, fumble, punt, punt, interception.
33:31
Speaker 1: It is now halftime. Punt, fumble, interception, insert third string quarterback, fumble,
33:41
Speaker 1: field goal, touchdown, fumble. Oregon loses 17 to 15. in
33:48
Speaker 1: a performance that set offensive football and perhaps just football
33:53
Speaker 1: in general back decades in Eugene. And now they, with
33:57
Speaker 1: a second loss, find themselves very much behind the eight
34:01
Speaker 1: ball for any kind of preseason hope and any kind
34:05
Speaker 1: of preseason goal. It brings me no joy. Oregon is
34:09
Speaker 1: the week six Sarah McLachlan special. Jesse, I never thought
34:13
Speaker 1: I'd see the day. I never thought I'd see the day.
34:16
Speaker 1: This is brutal right now. It may just be a
34:19
Speaker 1: lost season for Oregon. Obviously, the quarterback injury situation is
34:23
Speaker 1: paramount here, and you hope that they'll get Dante Moore back.
34:27
Speaker 1: But remember, Dante Moore played when they were close with Boise,
34:32
Speaker 1: and they lost to Oklahoma State. Look, that USC win,
34:37
Speaker 1: I'm not taking anything away from them, but I don't know.
34:39
Speaker 1: I've had varying thoughts on this. It almost feels like
34:44
Speaker 1: Dylan Raiola coming off the bench out of nowhere and
34:46
Speaker 1: not knowing it was about to happen was the best
34:48
Speaker 1: thing for him in the USC game. Because this dude
34:51
Speaker 1: had two weeks to know he was about to start
34:54
Speaker 1: against UCLA. And it could not have been worse if
34:58
Speaker 1: they tried. O-line and coordinators. Those were the two biggest
35:03
Speaker 1: questions with Oregon coming into the year. And they are
35:06
Speaker 1: gigantic red X's in every column right now. This is
35:10
Speaker 1: a team that was built to win a title. That
35:13
Speaker 1: is what the roster was built to do this year. And, man,
35:19
Speaker 1: they are not remotely in the galaxy of sniffing that
35:21
Speaker 1: right now. I announced the other night we partnered with Courtyard.
35:27
Speaker 1: I am very excited about this. I dove into the
35:29
Speaker 1: Courtyard app the other night. I opened up several packs,
35:32
Speaker 1: which reminds me, Jesse, I need to show you some
35:34
Speaker 1: of the cards I kept. The Sarah McLachlan special is
35:37
Speaker 1: presented by Courtyard. It's a pretty sadistic move on their part.
35:41
Speaker 1: They want to swoop in at someone's very, very worst
35:45
Speaker 1: and say, hey, you feel terrible. We can't change the past,
35:50
Speaker 1: but we can offer you a pack to rip. You
35:52
Speaker 1: like football? You like Pokemon? You like sneakers? You like watches? Well,
35:56
Speaker 1: we do. So we're partnered with Courtyard. Also, as is
36:00
Speaker 1: usually the case when I partner with someone, I want giveaways.
36:05
Speaker 1: And in this case, like a lot of you are very,
36:07
Speaker 1: very active in this world, I have great news for you. copious, Jesse,
36:11
Speaker 1: copious amounts of giveaways coming down the road. So we've
36:15
Speaker 1: got all kinds of good ideas and fun ideas for this.
36:18
Speaker 1: We're just now diving into this partnership. I would strongly
36:21
Speaker 1: encourage you guys go grab your account over on the
36:24
Speaker 1: Courtyard app and stay tuned for future information. You can
36:30
Speaker 1: also use the promo code PAYTESTATE over there. Thank you, Jesse.
36:33
Speaker 1: I did not write that down. We continue. We roll on.
36:42
Speaker 1: Got a lot of people watching right now. Oh, we
36:45
Speaker 1: saw a spike in subs, by the way. Yeah. Sorry, Bradley.
36:48
Speaker 1: I know you had it pulled up here, and now
36:49
Speaker 1: we pulled up an Indiana box score. Subscriptions, I am
36:54
Speaker 1: happy to report, have now passed 580,000. 580,007, to be exact.
37:00
Speaker 1: I just have fun pulling that thing up every now
37:02
Speaker 1: and then. Immunity. Okay. Okay. Indiana beat Nebraska 20-17. Both
37:08
Speaker 1: of the games I was at yesterday saw the road
37:10
Speaker 1: team win 20-17. This was a Forge Ally game. This
37:14
Speaker 1: was a really fun game to be at. Beautiful weather
37:17
Speaker 1: conditions in Lincoln. This is a different feel for someone
37:21
Speaker 1: like me. Because remember, I was on almost permanently the
37:24
Speaker 1: wrong side of Indiana games last year. Very, very famously,
37:28
Speaker 1: and I don't want to get into this too much,
37:29
Speaker 1: and I'm not even having the staff pull the video,
37:32
Speaker 1: I had to own up to the fact that I
37:36
Speaker 1: was powerless to pick against Kurt Cignetti in Indiana. So
37:41
Speaker 1: I entered the season, new year, new me sort of vibes,
37:45
Speaker 1: and I knew this day was coming. I knew that
37:47
Speaker 1: this Nebraska game, they would be undefeated, and we would
37:50
Speaker 1: probably be there, and Indiana was going to roll into town,
37:53
Speaker 1: and they'd also probably be undefeated, and all of those
37:56
Speaker 1: things happened, all the tumblers fell into place. And I
37:58
Speaker 1: knew that eventually I was going to be in front
38:00
Speaker 1: of a big crowd, and I was going to have
38:03
Speaker 1: every reason to pick Nebraska, The model loved Nebraska plus 7.5.
38:07
Speaker 1: It was one of its favorite bets of the week.
38:10
Speaker 1: I ended up putting Nebraska plus 7.5 on the Ramen
38:13
Speaker 1: Noodle Express, and it hit. But games aren't decided by
38:17
Speaker 1: point spreads. Games are decided by wins and losses. And ultimately,
38:22
Speaker 1: it comes down to having to go on the record
38:25
Speaker 1: and pick a winner. And Jesse, unlike last year, I
38:29
Speaker 1: found it in myself to be on the right side
38:33
Speaker 1: of history. This was our show. on ESPN Friday. Bryant
38:37
Speaker 1: Haynes in the top five ranked Indiana Hoosiers run defense.
38:40
Speaker 1: So here's what I want to do. I want to
38:42
Speaker 1: be able to watch quarter number one tick down to
38:44
Speaker 1: zeros and look at you, unlike the Michigan game last
38:47
Speaker 1: year when we were here and say, they're for real.
38:50
Speaker 1: I couldn't quite get myself there. I couldn't quite get
38:53
Speaker 1: myself there because I am terrified of Kurt Cignetti. I
38:56
Speaker 1: went 0-5 picking against this man last year. And if
38:58
Speaker 1: I'm going to be wrong this year, I'm going to
39:00
Speaker 1: make Kurt Cignetti lose a game to prove me wrong.
39:03
Speaker 1: So I'm going to whisper it. I'll take Indiana to
39:06
Speaker 1: win the game. It brings me no joy. It brings
39:11
Speaker 1: me no joy. Untold bravery that it took to do that.
39:19
Speaker 1: And wouldn't you know it, Nebraska covers, Indiana wins. This
39:23
Speaker 1: is what we call a bad luck bowl. For those
39:25
Speaker 1: of you who are new around here, we have padlock
39:27
Speaker 1: stats and we have bad luck stats. Padlock stats are
39:30
Speaker 1: the kind of stats where if you knew them before
39:31
Speaker 1: the game, you wouldn't even need to watch the game.
39:33
Speaker 1: You would just know who won. Bad luck stats are
39:36
Speaker 1: the kind of stats that if you saw them before
39:38
Speaker 1: the game would completely throw you for a loop when
39:41
Speaker 1: you actually see who won the game. Here's how a
39:44
Speaker 1: bad luck bowl works. We've got a whole group of
39:49
Speaker 1: bad luck stats. For example, I walk up to you Friday,
39:54
Speaker 1: and I tell you Nebraska's going to have a 128-65
39:58
Speaker 1: rushing edge in this game. And then I say, hold on,
40:02
Speaker 1: don't even say anything yet. Nebraska's going to go 10-19
40:05
Speaker 1: on third down, and Indiana's going to be held to 1-10.
40:09
Speaker 1: Hold on, I'm not done. And also... Nebraska's going to
40:14
Speaker 1: run 83 plays to Indiana's 44. Okay, I'm done. What
40:19
Speaker 1: do you think's going to happen? Indiana wins. The same
40:22
Speaker 1: thing that always happens. Oklahoma last year, when they went
40:26
Speaker 1: on that run to the playoff, they kept on wearing
40:27
Speaker 1: t-shirts that said hard to kill. They ought to print
40:30
Speaker 1: those in Bloomington if they haven't already. Indiana's just really
40:34
Speaker 1: hard to kill. They went down 17-6 in this game.
40:39
Speaker 1: We were there, and I can tell you confidently, I
40:44
Speaker 1: don't know that you could have paused for a moment
40:47
Speaker 1: in time and had it any better than Nebraska had
40:51
Speaker 1: it at that very moment. And then this happens. Just
40:56
Speaker 1: explosive passes win them the game. Josh Hoover was 12
41:00
Speaker 1: of 22 and had 263 through the air and a
41:03
Speaker 1: couple of touchdowns. But four explosive passes accounted for 199
41:07
Speaker 1: of those 263. Those touchdowns were 44 and 75. And oh,
41:15
Speaker 1: the second one, the dagger touchdown, that one leaves a mark.
41:20
Speaker 1: You don't get over that. Nebraska's got two because they
41:23
Speaker 1: got another game this weekend. They play Oregon, by the way.
41:26
Speaker 1: But that one haunts you for a long, long time.
41:29
Speaker 1: I've got a quote written down on this piece of paper. Now,
41:33
Speaker 1: this is not me saying this. I kind of get
41:34
Speaker 1: to be with Indiana a And I kind of get
41:37
Speaker 1: to do the, hey guys, do you hear what the world,
41:39
Speaker 1: what society is saying about you? And the quote, Jesse, is,
41:43
Speaker 1: this isn't last year's Indiana team. You've probably heard some
41:47
Speaker 1: people saying that, right? You may even think that yourself.
41:52
Speaker 1: Nobody is last year's Indiana team, including Indiana. So I
41:58
Speaker 1: wouldn't so much worry about that. What I'd worry about is,
42:01
Speaker 1: keep improving. You got out of a Hornets' nest yesterday.
42:07
Speaker 1: You're still undefeated. You did the same thing a couple
42:09
Speaker 1: of weeks ago against Northwestern. You're still undefeated. You just
42:12
Speaker 1: keep improving. Did you hear that, Jesse? That's Ryan Day.
42:17
Speaker 1: He's coming to town in six days with Ohio State.
42:20
Speaker 1: Three-and-a-half-point favorites. Indiana, the reigning champs. Did you notice Gus
42:25
Speaker 1: Johnson didn't call them the defending champs, but the reigning champs?
42:28
Speaker 1: Thank you. It may be semantics, but it's proper because
42:32
Speaker 1: no one's defending a title. They are reigning champs. They
42:35
Speaker 1: got Ohio State this weekend. I don't know what else
42:38
Speaker 1: you could have wanted if you were Nebraska. I really, truly,
42:40
Speaker 1: 1.45 p.m. Central Standard Time, Saturday, October 10th. Freeze that
42:46
Speaker 1: moment in time. Anthony Calandria rips off a 39-yard touchdown run.
42:53
Speaker 1: Please watch close. He breaks in the open field. He
42:57
Speaker 1: points to Will Compton on the sideline. And the place
43:02
Speaker 1: goes insane. What more could you want? Home team goes
43:06
Speaker 1: up 17-6. You're owning time of possession. You've run twice
43:11
Speaker 1: as many plays as them. You're lethal on third down.
43:15
Speaker 1: Crowd is at full throat. Meemaw told me.
43:20
Speaker 2: Joshua?
43:21
Speaker 1: Joshua? You never start believing, and you'll never get hurt. No,
43:27
Speaker 1: she didn't. She didn't tell me that. She said hope
43:30
Speaker 1: is a good thing, maybe the best of things. Now,
43:32
Speaker 1: some people say that came from Shawshank Redemption, but they
43:35
Speaker 1: got it from Meemaw. The fourth and one touchdown pass
43:40
Speaker 1: from Indiana, all you can do is throw up. That's
43:43
Speaker 1: all you can do. You just throw up at that point.
43:47
Speaker 1: I felt so bad for William. I felt so bad
43:50
Speaker 1: for him. I stood next to him most of this
43:52
Speaker 1: game He was at a different level. They put him
43:55
Speaker 1: on the big screen for the pregame. They played the
43:58
Speaker 1: Will Compton hype video. They showed him on the big
44:01
Speaker 1: screen live. The crowd didn't need his help. They brought
44:06
Speaker 1: it yesterday. But he expended so much. I don't know
44:10
Speaker 1: how many years were shaved off the end of his life.
44:13
Speaker 1: I think he'll live to like 115 or 120. But
44:17
Speaker 1: so much was left on the field. And it was
44:21
Speaker 1: like watching a balloon One of those big red balloons
44:24
Speaker 1: just inflate and inflate and inflate and inflate and inflate.
44:28
Speaker 1: And you're like, all right, all right, that's enough. That's enough.
44:30
Speaker 1: That's enough. Oh no, there's will everywhere. This is terrible.
44:39
Speaker 1: This is terrible. I wanted it so bad for him.
44:45
Speaker 1: Now I picked Indiana cause I thought they'd win the game.
44:47
Speaker 1: I wanted it so bad. I wouldn't have, I wouldn't
44:49
Speaker 1: have minded at all losing this, being wrong on this
44:52
Speaker 1: game The script was followed, Jesse. You got to shrink
44:56
Speaker 1: the game. They did. You've got to bottle up their
45:00
Speaker 1: ground game. You did. Here's an added bonus. You outrushed them.
45:04
Speaker 1: You did all those things. You owned third down. And still,
45:08
Speaker 1: it's like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall. You
45:11
Speaker 1: still can't find a way. There's such skill in knowing
45:14
Speaker 1: how to win games. And Indiana knows how to. And
45:18
Speaker 1: I think Nebraska's closer to knowing how to. but they
45:21
Speaker 1: still didn't know how to. It was a really good
45:24
Speaker 1: look for them. You feel good. Certainly, this is not
45:28
Speaker 1: like a zero-sum world where you're either bad or you're terrible.
45:32
Speaker 1: That program's trending the right way. Man, when I was
45:34
Speaker 1: there last year, Michigan had a decided edge on the
45:38
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. That was not this game yesterday. Nebraska
45:42
Speaker 1: really held their own in that department. It's still a
45:46
Speaker 1: little ways to go. They've got to go to Oregon
45:47
Speaker 1: this week, so they've got to lick their wounds and
45:49
Speaker 1: regroup really quickly. Probably best thing for them to play
45:52
Speaker 1: another game really, really soon. Ohio State is a three
45:54
Speaker 1: and a half point favorite at Indiana this Saturday. We
45:57
Speaker 1: will be there. The Don't Tread on Saturday tour will
45:59
Speaker 1: be there. But man, what a weekend we had in Lincoln.
46:02
Speaker 1: We were there Friday and Saturday. I said, sitting in
46:07
Speaker 1: my hotel room Friday night, I just tweeted out, I
46:10
Speaker 1: really hope every college football fan gets to go to
46:12
Speaker 1: at least one big game, one big Saturday, one big
46:15
Speaker 1: weekend in that place. Perfect college football. They care. They're
46:21
Speaker 1: so invested. The facilities are immaculate. They let us work
46:25
Speaker 1: out there. There's the reverse bear hug on clap, by
46:27
Speaker 1: the way. Never saw it coming. You just, it's one
46:31
Speaker 1: of those places. In fact, I don't know if there's
46:34
Speaker 1: another fan base that I want success for more than
46:37
Speaker 1: Nebraska that hasn't had success lately. You know what I mean?
46:40
Speaker 1: Like some places, they're very apathetic about college football. So
46:44
Speaker 1: you don't really long for them to win. I long
46:49
Speaker 1: for Nebraska people to be able to feel what Indiana
46:52
Speaker 1: felt last year and this year. Places like Georgia, they
46:56
Speaker 1: always feel it. Ohio State always feels it. I want
47:00
Speaker 1: Nebraska to feel that. And I hope. That's what I have.
47:04
Speaker 1: I hope for Nebraska. Let's move on. Oh, Florida. Oh,
47:12
Speaker 1: Shane Beamer. Oh, Cocktober. We canceled Cocktober too early. South
47:18
Speaker 1: Carolina just beat Florida 38-19. Do we give it 1.5 Chalai? Yes.
47:25
Speaker 1: Because South Carolina pulled away. The mental resolve it takes
47:29
Speaker 1: to do this stuff, you have to appreciate when you
47:32
Speaker 1: watch South Carolina right now. Because they have every reason
47:35
Speaker 1: to totally implode on themselves. And instead, they go into
47:38
Speaker 1: a place that's very hostile. Hostile. And they do this.
47:43
Speaker 1: Lenora Sellers plays the best game of his year. Nick
47:45
Speaker 1: Harbour shows up. The More on Dylan Stewart in a second.
47:50
Speaker 1: That's its own thing to talk about. But it just...
47:54
Speaker 1: Normal people can't do this stuff is all I'm saying.
47:57
Speaker 1: Now you might say, anybody can suck so bad that
48:00
Speaker 1: one win makes you praise them. If that's the way
48:03
Speaker 1: you want to view the world, view the world that way.
48:06
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, 99 times out of 100, if anyone's
48:10
Speaker 1: feeling a fraction of the heat Beamer has felt or
48:12
Speaker 1: those players have felt, they crumble. And instead... They made
48:17
Speaker 1: someone else fold in their own building yesterday. South Carolina
48:21
Speaker 1: has got to be so confusing for a casual fan
48:24
Speaker 1: to get a glimpse of. Because you watch South Carolina,
48:29
Speaker 1: and at their best, Lenora Sellers looks insane. Like, Harbor
48:34
Speaker 1: looks like an alien. Dylan Stewart is a monster. And
48:38
Speaker 1: a casual fan has to look at that and say,
48:41
Speaker 1: how do they lose games? This team looks insane athletically.
48:45
Speaker 1: That's a top 15 payroll in the sport. How do
48:48
Speaker 1: they lose games? I don't know. They didn't lose one yesterday, though.
48:52
Speaker 1: They took a lead, and let's just pause there because
48:55
Speaker 1: they've done that before. They've taken several leads, but this
48:59
Speaker 1: time it was different because they never looked back. Finally,
49:03
Speaker 1: South Carolina grabs a lead, and they never look back.
49:07
Speaker 1: But it was 10 to 10 with four minutes to
49:10
Speaker 1: go to half. And it was 38 to 13 with
49:13
Speaker 1: eight minutes to go in the game. So I knew
49:16
Speaker 1: what happened before I rewatched this game. This was one
49:19
Speaker 1: where you're checking a score because I was on the road.
49:22
Speaker 1: So I know how the game went final wise before
49:26
Speaker 1: I get to watch the game. So that's kind of
49:28
Speaker 1: a weird way to experience this game because you, you
49:32
Speaker 1: start watching the game And you see, oh man, this
49:35
Speaker 1: is ugly early. Sellers is under pressure. He missed a
49:38
Speaker 1: wide open touchdown on a flea flicker. And Philo hits
49:41
Speaker 1: an explosive touchdown through the air. There's tackles for loss.
49:45
Speaker 1: There's a bad sack. There's nothing open deep on it.
49:49
Speaker 1: They miss a field goal. It's 7-0 Florida. It's late
49:53
Speaker 1: first quarter. Here we go again. But you already know
49:55
Speaker 1: the final. So you're watching it saying, this looks terrible.
50:00
Speaker 1: How are they going to score 38 points in this game?
50:03
Speaker 1: And then Sellers ends up with his best game of
50:06
Speaker 1: the season. He was 23 of 35, I think. He
50:09
Speaker 1: had 279, four touchdowns, had one on the ground. They
50:12
Speaker 1: were 10 of 16 on third down. They were five
50:15
Speaker 1: of seven on third and nine plus. Now, I don't
50:19
Speaker 1: think the Florida coaching staff has had any illusions of
50:22
Speaker 1: their secondary being anything other than a liability, but that
50:25
Speaker 1: is a glaring liability right there. So let's talk Dylan
50:29
Speaker 1: Stewart for a second. Dylan Stewart played yesterday. He had
50:34
Speaker 1: been suspended after his actions at the Alabama game, and
50:39
Speaker 1: he came back yesterday. And so it was announced Dylan
50:42
Speaker 1: Stewart was going to play. And then Saturday morning, I
50:45
Speaker 1: think it may have been Pete Nacos who reported Dylan
50:49
Speaker 1: Stewart will not be on a pitch count today. Because remember,
50:52
Speaker 1: he had been coming back from injury before the season,
50:55
Speaker 1: so they had played him sparingly. Now, I can't prove
50:58
Speaker 1: this is how it went, but it's pretty clear this
51:00
Speaker 1: is how it went. Stewart gets himself in the doghouse.
51:04
Speaker 1: And then Shane Beamer, when asked what will determine when
51:07
Speaker 1: he comes back, says, me. And Dylan Stewart atones and
51:13
Speaker 1: does whatever it takes to get back in the good
51:15
Speaker 1: graces of Shane Beamer. But I picture Shane Beamer telling him,
51:19
Speaker 1: all right, bud, you want to be reinstated to this team?
51:25
Speaker 1: You've shown me that you're willing to humble yourself. I'll
51:29
Speaker 1: reinstate you. You're going to play every down of this game.
51:33
Speaker 1: Dylan Stewart goes from being on a pitch count to
51:37
Speaker 1: playing 77 snaps in this game. And he showed up.
51:43
Speaker 1: And Nick Harber has four catches for 83 yards and
51:46
Speaker 1: a touchdown. And Lenora Sellers has five total touchdowns. Here's
51:50
Speaker 1: what happened. If you're wondering how this final could be
51:53
Speaker 1: what it was... South Carolina stars play like stars. That's
51:56
Speaker 1: what happened. And when their stars play like stars, they
52:01
Speaker 1: can be a top 10 caliber team. It's just that
52:03
Speaker 1: their stars don't consistently play like stars. So they haven't been.
52:08
Speaker 1: But that doesn't change the fact that if you catch
52:11
Speaker 1: them on a Saturday when those dudes are going off,
52:14
Speaker 1: they are a terror to play against. On the other side,
52:17
Speaker 1: I'm not sure I remember extremes like this in a
52:20
Speaker 1: six-week period for like any team. Florida goes to Auburn,
52:25
Speaker 1: and they play Ole Miss, and they win by a
52:27
Speaker 1: combined 96-67. And then they play at Missouri and home
52:32
Speaker 1: against South Carolina and get outscored 88-36. The run game
52:36
Speaker 1: gets taken away, and it's tough on them. Jaden Ball
52:40
Speaker 1: had 15 carries for 59 yards, and that's after the
52:44
Speaker 1: Missouri game where he had 12 carries for 13 yards
52:47
Speaker 1: and sent the text, like, I won't let this happen again. Well,
52:50
Speaker 1: it wasn't as bad as the Missouri game, but man,
52:54
Speaker 1: What a high and a low, which rhymes with Philo.
52:57
Speaker 1: So far this year for Florida, I think they'll be fine.
53:01
Speaker 1: It's just kind of the illusion of what potentially could
53:06
Speaker 1: have been this year for Florida. That's kind of by
53:08
Speaker 1: the wayside, although technically everything's still in front of them. Realistically,
53:13
Speaker 1: the FanDuel under win total for them is 7.5 right now.
53:16
Speaker 1: They are a plus 6,500 team to win the SEC,
53:20
Speaker 1: plus 700 odds to make the playoffs. So push that
53:23
Speaker 1: off to the side. for a little while. They still
53:25
Speaker 1: got to go to Texas this week. They played Georgia
53:28
Speaker 1: after the bye week in Atlanta, inexplicably. Now, here's what
53:32
Speaker 1: we did know about Florida coming into the year. If
53:35
Speaker 1: they could somehow get through this middle part, the back
53:38
Speaker 1: four games were manageable for them, but I don't know.
53:42
Speaker 1: I don't know, Jesse. The other million-dollar question, multi-million-dollar question
53:47
Speaker 1: around South Carolina is, what's the deal with Shane Beamer?
53:51
Speaker 1: Shane Beamer's been on the hot seat, validly. I think
53:54
Speaker 1: he's been on the hot seat. And then they come
53:57
Speaker 1: into this game, and the one thing you could say
53:59
Speaker 1: the whole year about that team is they haven't quit
54:01
Speaker 1: on him. At no point did anyone with a brain
54:03
Speaker 1: who's watched them say, oh, that team's quit on Shane Beamer.
54:06
Speaker 1: At no point had they done that. They just weren't
54:08
Speaker 1: playing good enough. And the heat got turned up on him,
54:11
Speaker 1: and the pressure got turned up on him. And then
54:14
Speaker 1: they go do this, and then I saw a lot
54:16
Speaker 1: of people coming out of the game saying, oh, is
54:17
Speaker 1: Shane Beamer safe? He's I don't know because I don't
54:20
Speaker 1: make those decisions. I hope he is because I think
54:22
Speaker 1: the theme here and a lot of other places around
54:26
Speaker 1: college football sort of moving forward is going to be
54:30
Speaker 1: maybe it's smarter to not be in a rush to
54:33
Speaker 1: pay tens of millions of dollars for a guy not
54:36
Speaker 1: to coach us anymore when instead we could take that
54:39
Speaker 1: money and we could invest it in upgrading whatever we
54:43
Speaker 1: think needs upgraded. Now, certainly there will be instances where
54:46
Speaker 1: you just have to fire a coach. Is South Carolina
54:49
Speaker 1: at that point? I'll tell you my personal feel is no,
54:55
Speaker 1: I wouldn't do it. But I don't run South Carolina.
54:59
Speaker 1: My feel on this also, though, is I don't think
55:03
Speaker 1: they want to fire him. It's not like there's a
55:06
Speaker 1: ton of animosity. It doesn't feel that way at all
55:08
Speaker 1: administratively between them and Shane Beamer. They're looking for every
55:12
Speaker 1: reason to keep him. If that's the climate, this stuff
55:16
Speaker 1: goes a long way in doing that. So I love
55:19
Speaker 1: Shane Beamer. So like selfishly, I hope that this gets
55:23
Speaker 1: him off of a hot seat. But yet I also
55:26
Speaker 1: came into the year disagreeing with South Carolina fans because
55:28
Speaker 1: South Carolina fans were like, no, no, no, no. You
55:30
Speaker 1: don't ever go four and eight and enter a season,
55:33
Speaker 1: not on the hot seat. My take on it was
55:36
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff's just going to happen sometimes. But
55:38
Speaker 1: that's the disconnect because I'm not emotionally invested in the
55:41
Speaker 1: program to the degree that they are. So I'll yield
55:43
Speaker 1: to them. I still will. I'll still yield to you.
55:46
Speaker 1: If you look at this and you're heavily invested in
55:48
Speaker 1: South Carolina and you still say, okay, you beat Florida.
55:51
Speaker 1: Big deal. I still want you fired. You're free to
55:54
Speaker 1: feel that way. I wouldn't feel that way if I
55:57
Speaker 1: were a South Carolina fan. That's what I'm saying. I
55:59
Speaker 1: don't think I would. A lot of big games coming
56:02
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56:05
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Speaker 1: always do. We move on. Will Stein. Will Stein is
56:44
Speaker 1: a problem, Jesse. Not for Kentucky, but for the rest
56:48
Speaker 1: of the free college football world. Will Stein is a problem.
56:53
Speaker 1: He beat LSU, he and his team. Kentucky beat LSU
56:57
Speaker 1: 35-34 last night in a five-challi classic. Very rare. Will
57:05
Speaker 1: Stein is six weeks into his career as a head coach.
57:09
Speaker 1: And he's already won a five-child like classic. And I
57:12
Speaker 1: could not help but think about the life of a
57:17
Speaker 1: Kentucky football season ticket holder as I watched them win
57:21
Speaker 1: this game. These people sat through 13 seasons of Bob Stoops.
57:26
Speaker 1: Bob Stoops was a good coach. But there was a
57:28
Speaker 1: certain brand of ball that you knew that you were
57:30
Speaker 1: getting under Bob Stoops. And then God, what? Mark Stoops.
57:37
Speaker 1: How would it have gone with Bob Stoops? do we,
57:40
Speaker 1: do we want to play that through? Um, anyway, so
57:43
Speaker 1: Mark Stoops is there for 13 years. It goes the
57:46
Speaker 1: way it goes. And then God takes the shock panels,
57:50
Speaker 1: puts them on the chest of Kentucky football and goes,
57:54
Speaker 1: and you get Will Stein and he's five and one
57:58
Speaker 1: already with a top 10 win. Stoops had three of
58:00
Speaker 1: those in the regular season, his entire tenure there. And
58:03
Speaker 1: he's had back to back walk off two point conversions. Um,
58:07
Speaker 1: It is a new day for Kentucky season ticket holders,
58:09
Speaker 1: is what I'm trying to say. I really expected them
58:12
Speaker 1: to struggle in this game. I just got this one
58:14
Speaker 1: dead wrong. My feel on this one was way off.
58:16
Speaker 1: I thought LSU would win this game comfortably. Did not
58:19
Speaker 1: like the matchup at all for Kentucky, but there's nothing
58:22
Speaker 1: hollow about this outcome. It's a brand new offensive line.
58:27
Speaker 1: It's a brand new quarterback, and yet they outrushed LSU.
58:30
Speaker 1: Kenny Menchie played a clean game. He was 23 of
58:33
Speaker 1: 36 for 246 yards. They threw... No interceptions. They took
58:39
Speaker 1: one sack against Blake Baker's defense. And I know LSU
58:42
Speaker 1: folks have had plenty to say about Blake Baker on
58:44
Speaker 1: the road. Still, this is a huge deal for Kentucky.
58:48
Speaker 1: And it really felt like it could have been worse.
58:50
Speaker 1: It really felt like Kentucky could have won more convincingly
58:52
Speaker 1: than that. They were four of seven in the red zone.
58:55
Speaker 1: They were only two of four on field goals. So
58:57
Speaker 1: you could reasonably make the argument, yeah, we won, but
59:00
Speaker 1: we left a lot on the field. Just think about
59:04
Speaker 1: where this could be headed for Kentucky. and Will Stein.
59:08
Speaker 1: And this is a guy who wants to be at Kentucky,
59:10
Speaker 1: mind you. So that's a beautiful thing when we get
59:13
Speaker 1: that sort of deal in college football, instead of this
59:15
Speaker 1: mercenary type vibe where you know a guy's just putting
59:18
Speaker 1: in his time before he moves on to greener pastures. Hey,
59:23
Speaker 1: This is 2026. Indiana can be a green pasture in
59:27
Speaker 1: college football. Kentucky can be a green pasture in college football.
59:30
Speaker 1: You don't have to move if you don't want to.
59:31
Speaker 1: You're there right now. This place you're at right now,
59:34
Speaker 1: that can be it. It is so frustrating to watch
59:37
Speaker 1: LSU in the wide receiver room not become what some
59:42
Speaker 1: of us hoped it would become. Che Dixon, I was
59:45
Speaker 1: reading some of his work over on the LSU on
59:48
Speaker 1: three site. He was talking about Eugene Wilson. That's a
59:50
Speaker 1: name that we had talked about a lot from the portal.
59:52
Speaker 1: 62 snaps he played yesterday. One reception for five yards
59:57
Speaker 1: on four targets. It's just not good enough. You can't
59:59
Speaker 1: have guys on the field that much contribute that little
1:00:02
Speaker 1: to the passing game. Tradez Green's out right now. Guys
1:00:06
Speaker 1: have to step up. You've got to get more out
1:00:08
Speaker 1: of that position group. But the defense got worked here.
1:00:14
Speaker 1: It pains me to say it. But the defense got
1:00:17
Speaker 1: worked here. Joe Sloan had to go to bed with
1:00:19
Speaker 1: a giant smile on his face last night. It had
1:00:21
Speaker 1: to be a mile wide, man. This is, this being
1:00:25
Speaker 1: Blake Baker, is the highest paid defensive coordinator in college football.
1:00:28
Speaker 1: And I love him, but you got to hold folks
1:00:30
Speaker 1: to account. That's $ 3 million a year that you're paying
1:00:35
Speaker 1: to have this kind of lack of production on the road.
1:00:38
Speaker 1: The glaring difference between home splits and road splits for
1:00:43
Speaker 1: LSU as a team and LSU defensively is pretty wild.
1:00:46
Speaker 1: That program has to learn to win on the road.
1:00:49
Speaker 1: They make you play at least four of them on
1:00:51
Speaker 1: the road every year in conference play, some years five.
1:00:54
Speaker 1: You've got to do better. This has been pre-existing or
1:00:57
Speaker 1: pre-dating Lane Kiffin. You've got to be better on the road.
1:01:00
Speaker 1: You just reassess the season now. They're 4-2, and they've
1:01:04
Speaker 1: still got Mississippi State, Bama, Texas. Those three are at home.
1:01:06
Speaker 1: They've still got to go to Knoxville and Arkansas at
1:01:10
Speaker 1: the end of the year, if we want to point
1:01:11
Speaker 1: that out. Their current over-under win total is 7.5. So
1:01:16
Speaker 1: I had LSU at 9-3 in the preseason and got
1:01:18
Speaker 1: yelled at because that's too low. I'd put them at
1:01:21
Speaker 1: 8-4 right now. I'd lean 8-4. They'll get guys back. Like,
1:01:27
Speaker 1: Whit Weeks will be back. Trey does green. Like, we
1:01:29
Speaker 1: think those guys will be back. Year one, they were
1:01:34
Speaker 1: a very, very high-variance team, very big boom-or-bust-type team. You
1:01:38
Speaker 1: take your shot. It's probably not going to work out
1:01:41
Speaker 1: the way you thought it was. Year two and beyond, like,
1:01:44
Speaker 1: that's your launch point. You've got to be in the
1:01:47
Speaker 1: mix every year. I thought it was really weird in
1:01:51
Speaker 1: the preseason. Everyone started equating payroll to odds to win.
1:01:57
Speaker 1: It's a very lazy way to look at the sport.
1:02:00
Speaker 1: I don't care if LSU paid $ 100 million. Your players
1:02:04
Speaker 1: are your players. They're either good enough or they aren't.
1:02:08
Speaker 1: Especially if you're prone to injury, if you've got depth
1:02:11
Speaker 1: concerns like they and a lot of teams do, It
1:02:15
Speaker 1: doesn't matter how much you're paying. Does it matter how
1:02:17
Speaker 1: much A & M' s paying their guys right now? Did
1:02:20
Speaker 1: it matter yesterday how much money Texas had sunk into
1:02:25
Speaker 1: their offensive personnel? If you can't do it with them,
1:02:29
Speaker 1: you can't do it with them. Conversely, there are some
1:02:32
Speaker 1: teams out there who are winning at a bargain. You've
1:02:35
Speaker 1: still got to do the same stuff you've always had
1:02:37
Speaker 1: to do. So I never looked at it as Well,
1:02:42
Speaker 1: if LSU had only paid $ 25 million for these players,
1:02:45
Speaker 1: I'd pick them to go 8-4. But since they paid
1:02:48
Speaker 1: $ 40 million, 10-2. The money's the money. It doesn't matter.
1:02:53
Speaker 1: I could pay $ 50 grand or $ 150 grand for a truck.
1:02:55
Speaker 1: It's still the same truck. So, congrats to Kentucky, though. Bradley,
1:03:00
Speaker 1: do me a favor. Show me Kentucky's schedule right quick.
1:03:03
Speaker 1: I know you put it up once. I didn't get
1:03:04
Speaker 1: a glance at it. They go to Oklahoma this week. Now,
1:03:10
Speaker 1: History says this is a double do-down spot. When you've
1:03:13
Speaker 1: played back-to-back games where you walked off on a two-point conversion,
1:03:17
Speaker 1: you're supposed to crash and burn the next week. But
1:03:20
Speaker 1: then again, is this not also a do-down spot for
1:03:23
Speaker 1: Oklahoma coming off the Red River shootout? So who knows?
1:03:26
Speaker 1: Anything's possible. But Kentucky is 5-1 right now. I would
1:03:31
Speaker 1: argue already exceeding expectations. Let us continue. Got a lot
1:03:36
Speaker 1: more to get to. It was always going to be
1:03:39
Speaker 1: a long show tonight. We don't apologize for it. We
1:03:42
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1:03:57
Speaker 1: USC 31, Penn State 23. Three and a half child
1:04:01
Speaker 1: like game. Good spectacle. 114,419 people in attendance. in State
1:04:11
Speaker 1: College last night. First off, there was a lot of
1:04:14
Speaker 1: challenge for people to show up, including on this show.
1:04:18
Speaker 1: Massive hat tip to the Penn State people for creating
1:04:21
Speaker 1: this environment. Unbelievable. You guys can't go on the field
1:04:24
Speaker 1: and play. I know you wish you could. You did
1:04:27
Speaker 1: everything that you were asked to do. Hat tip. Awesome environment.
1:04:32
Speaker 1: I can't imagine the USC folks that traveled up there
1:04:35
Speaker 1: and got to experience this. I saw Lincoln Riley didn't
1:04:38
Speaker 1: want to leave. which is not exactly what you want
1:04:40
Speaker 1: the road coach to be feeling, but still, that is special.
1:04:43
Speaker 1: Nowhere else but college football does that kind of environment exist.
1:04:50
Speaker 1: USC staff earn their paychecks in this game. I gave
1:04:53
Speaker 1: up on Lincoln Riley a couple of weeks ago, and
1:04:57
Speaker 1: yet I got to give him a major hat tip here.
1:04:59
Speaker 1: I'm sure there will be plenty of doubters still about USC,
1:05:04
Speaker 1: but who cares? You play the games, they don't. So,
1:05:08
Speaker 1: Jaden Maiava played a clean game last night. And Trent
1:05:11
Speaker 1: Mosley plugged back in. Nine catches for 111 and one touchdown.
1:05:18
Speaker 1: They worked this secondary. The 301 pass yards, and I mean,
1:05:22
Speaker 1: there's a padlock stat here. USC five for five in
1:05:27
Speaker 1: the red zone for 31 points. Penn State was four
1:05:30
Speaker 1: of four for 20 points. That's the difference, ladies and gentlemen,
1:05:33
Speaker 1: in this great sport of ours between kicking it for
1:05:36
Speaker 1: three and scoring it for seven. USC did the latter.
1:05:41
Speaker 1: Penn State had to settle for the former. And that
1:05:43
Speaker 1: was the difference in the game. It's not a blowout.
1:05:45
Speaker 1: It's 31-23 final. USC, just think about where they are
1:05:49
Speaker 1: right now versus where they were. So they're coming off
1:05:51
Speaker 1: the Oregon loss. At that point, I sold my stock.
1:05:55
Speaker 1: After five years of holding Lincoln Riley stock, I finally
1:05:58
Speaker 1: sold it. And then they were down 21-10 to a
1:06:01
Speaker 1: bad Washington team. And they stormed from behind and they won.
1:06:06
Speaker 1: At that point, a lot of people said, Yeah, but
1:06:08
Speaker 1: Washington sucks. In fact, it's an indictment on USC that
1:06:11
Speaker 1: it was a close game. But that doesn't matter because
1:06:14
Speaker 1: they won. And then they went to Penn State. I
1:06:16
Speaker 1: thought they'd lose this game. And they were down 20-17
1:06:21
Speaker 1: in the third quarter. And they come from behind and win.
1:06:25
Speaker 1: And yet again, if you want to choose to doubt USC,
1:06:29
Speaker 1: you could look at that and say Washington and Penn
1:06:31
Speaker 1: State are terrible. Oregon is off the pace and you
1:06:35
Speaker 1: still lost to them by double digits. What have you
1:06:37
Speaker 1: really proven? No, no, no. You'll have to play Ohio
1:06:40
Speaker 1: State eventually and that's where you'll lose. You'll go to Indiana.
1:06:43
Speaker 1: That's where you'll lose. Maybe you're right. I'd pick both
1:06:46
Speaker 1: those teams to beat USC right now. But here's the thing.
1:06:50
Speaker 1: I picked Penn State to beat USC and it didn't
1:06:52
Speaker 1: matter because USC won. So they're right back in the
1:06:55
Speaker 1: Big Ten title race. And I did not think I'd
1:06:58
Speaker 1: be saying that a couple of weeks ago. Now at FanDuel,
1:07:01
Speaker 1: I do want to caution you. They have the one, two, three, four,
1:07:05
Speaker 1: six best odds to win the Big Ten. Jesse, you're
1:07:09
Speaker 1: shaking your head? What problem? Oh, you don't believe in
1:07:14
Speaker 1: Luke Fickle. You don't believe in the Wisconsin Badgers, who
1:07:18
Speaker 1: are three and a half point underdogs at UCLA this weekend,
1:07:21
Speaker 1: even though they should be favored. You don't believe in them. Okay, well,
1:07:25
Speaker 1: call FanDuel Mike. Take it up with them. Don't take
1:07:27
Speaker 1: it up with me. Quarterback is fulfilling expectation for USC
1:07:31
Speaker 1: right now, The freshmen are making an impact. They got
1:07:34
Speaker 1: a big road win here, which is a big deal
1:07:36
Speaker 1: if you've looked at Lincoln Riley's two-plus time zone travel
1:07:39
Speaker 1: splits over the years, because yes, that's something that exists
1:07:42
Speaker 1: in conference play in the Big Ten now. Defense, I
1:07:47
Speaker 1: will grant you, is nothing to write home about. If
1:07:50
Speaker 1: you can just hold teams to three, if you can
1:07:52
Speaker 1: just be situational in the red zone like they were yesterday,
1:07:55
Speaker 1: that's all I can ask of USC defensively. At Wisconsin,
1:07:59
Speaker 1: Ohio State, bye. And then, of course, you've got to
1:08:03
Speaker 1: add Indiana, Maryland, and at UCLA. What is that game
1:08:11
Speaker 1: going to look like at the end of the year?
1:08:13
Speaker 1: People are drooling. Some people are already looking ahead saying,
1:08:17
Speaker 1: might that have playoff implications? Jesse, I've got to think
1:08:20
Speaker 1: for at least one team that's going to have playoff implications.
1:08:26
Speaker 1: I'm not really sure where you'd go the rest of
1:08:27
Speaker 1: the year if you're Penn State. It felt like they
1:08:30
Speaker 1: kind of emptied the tank. This was kind of a
1:08:33
Speaker 1: last stand moment. And they can't run it. 31 carries
1:08:37
Speaker 1: for 60 yards. And remember, Rutgers ran it for 168
1:08:41
Speaker 1: against USC. Jesse said, no, he picked Rutgers to win
1:08:45
Speaker 1: that game. The pass game cannot push it down the field.
1:08:49
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. Sometimes this sport's really, really difficult to understand.
1:08:53
Speaker 1: Other times it's not. This is one of those times.
1:08:57
Speaker 1: Penn State's players aren't good enough. That concludes the breakdown
1:09:02
Speaker 1: of Penn State right now. There was hope that the
1:09:06
Speaker 1: continuity of bringing over a lot of guys from Iowa
1:09:08
Speaker 1: State combined with a workable schedule would be enough where
1:09:11
Speaker 1: they could sort of smoke and mirror their way to
1:09:15
Speaker 1: 10 wins. That's not going to happen. And, um, Remember,
1:09:20
Speaker 1: you skipped a recruiting class, basically. You sort of had
1:09:23
Speaker 1: to punt on the portal because of the eight ball
1:09:26
Speaker 1: that you were behind because you took about a month
1:09:29
Speaker 1: and a half to hire a coach. It's going to
1:09:31
Speaker 1: be a process. I don't doubt Matt Campbell an ounce
1:09:36
Speaker 1: more than I did when he took the job. This
1:09:37
Speaker 1: is not a Matt Campbell thing to me. It's a
1:09:39
Speaker 1: talent deficiency thing, and they're not going to fix it overnight.
1:09:42
Speaker 1: But I do think a decision has to be made
1:09:44
Speaker 1: up there, and it's your decision to make. You've got
1:09:47
Speaker 1: to decide how much you're going to invest in football.
1:09:50
Speaker 1: Because you've got to be a big spender at Penn State.
1:09:53
Speaker 1: You just have to. And I will tell you, the
1:09:56
Speaker 1: expectation around the rest of the Big Ten, just to
1:09:59
Speaker 1: let you in on a little secret, is that Penn
1:10:01
Speaker 1: State's not going to be serious enough to financially back
1:10:04
Speaker 1: Matt Campbell and that coaching staff, but also that talent
1:10:08
Speaker 1: acquisition mechanism there. You do with that what you will.
1:10:12
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you, talking to some folks around the
1:10:14
Speaker 1: Big Ten, they flat out don't think you'll lean in
1:10:16
Speaker 1: and invest enough. Maybe they're right, maybe they're wrong. Time
1:10:19
Speaker 1: will tell on that. Other winners and losers. Tons of
1:10:23
Speaker 1: winners and losers. Sorry, Bradley. Tons of winners and losers
1:10:27
Speaker 1: from this past weekend. Texas A & M being a loser.
1:10:31
Speaker 1: Not the people of Texas A & M. Notice, not
1:10:33
Speaker 1: the cesspool over there, but rather just the football team. 27-6,
1:10:37
Speaker 1: a loser on the road at Missouri. This game was
1:10:41
Speaker 1: not a whole lot to watch. Marcel Reed threw two
1:10:43
Speaker 1: more picks. You know the drill. They had, is that real, Jesse?
1:10:48
Speaker 1: 29 yards rushing. Yeah, it's real. So a very workmanlike
1:10:55
Speaker 1: effort from Missouri. They won it, but that wasn't the
1:10:58
Speaker 1: big takeaway from the game. If this game would have
1:11:01
Speaker 1: just happened in isolation on a big Saturday and the
1:11:05
Speaker 1: postgame press conference not occurred, no one would think much
1:11:08
Speaker 1: about this. But the postgame press conference did occur. And
1:11:11
Speaker 1: Mike Elko, who I got a tremendous amount of respect for,
1:11:15
Speaker 1: put his foot in his mouth yesterday. And created or
1:11:18
Speaker 1: rather committed a massive unforced error at his post-game news conference.
1:11:23
Speaker 1: I'm going to play the sound for you, and then
1:11:25
Speaker 1: I'll talk about it on the other side.
1:11:28
Speaker 3: Yeah, again, there's a difference to me between the fan
1:11:31
Speaker 3: base and social media. And so there's one group that
1:11:35
Speaker 3: I really don't care much about. You know, Billy Sespul
1:11:37
Speaker 3: can go be Billy Sespul. Our fan base, stay with us,
1:11:42
Speaker 3: be behind us. We're going to build something that we
1:11:46
Speaker 3: told you we were going to build. We're in a
1:11:48
Speaker 3: really bad spot right now, but we'll work our way.
1:11:49
Speaker 1: Out of it. Don't go after Texags if you're the
1:11:55
Speaker 1: Texas A & M head coach. Billy Lucci runs Texags.
1:11:59
Speaker 1: I understand for casual fans, you don't know what Texags is.
1:12:03
Speaker 1: Let me explain what Texags is. I want you to
1:12:05
Speaker 1: think about a town in middle America in 1985. And
1:12:10
Speaker 1: then I want you to think about the shopping mall
1:12:12
Speaker 1: in that town. That is the center of of the
1:12:16
Speaker 1: socioeconomic scene. That is the center of the cultural scene
1:12:20
Speaker 1: in that town. That, for the Texas A & M
1:12:24
Speaker 1: fan base, is Tex-Ags. It is a massive, massive entity
1:12:30
Speaker 1: within the Texas A & M community. It's not some
1:12:33
Speaker 1: folks are on Tex-Ags. You'd have a whole lot easier
1:12:36
Speaker 1: time finding the Texas A & M supporters who aren't
1:12:39
Speaker 1: members at Tex-Ags. I am part of Billy Lucci's cesspool.
1:12:43
Speaker 1: Billy Lucci is a close personal friend of this program. Okay,
1:12:47
Speaker 1: I have spent countless hours in Billy's cesspool. There I
1:12:51
Speaker 1: am in Billy's cesspool right there. How those folks have
1:12:54
Speaker 1: these pictures, I'll never know. I hit up Kay over
1:12:56
Speaker 1: at Tex-Ax today. I said, hey, do you have a
1:12:58
Speaker 1: picture of me and Billy? She sent me like 20
1:13:00
Speaker 1: of them. I know what Mike Elko meant. I know
1:13:05
Speaker 1: what he meant. What he meant was you cannot waste
1:13:09
Speaker 1: time worrying about what toxic people say about you online.
1:13:14
Speaker 1: You could just say that. I know what he meant.
1:13:18
Speaker 1: The choice of words was very poor and a lot
1:13:21
Speaker 1: of people focused on it. Now, here's what I suspect.
1:13:24
Speaker 1: I suspect that once Mike Elko realized what it sounded
1:13:28
Speaker 1: like when he said what he said, he probably immediately
1:13:31
Speaker 1: regretted it. I'd even go as far as to think
1:13:33
Speaker 1: he'll probably publicly admit that he regrets the poorly used
1:13:38
Speaker 1: phrasing and whatnot. I would expect that to happen. Um,
1:13:42
Speaker 1: here's the bottom line. Mike Elko is a really good coach.
1:13:46
Speaker 1: Nothing in my mind has changed about that. Mike Elko
1:13:48
Speaker 1: is a fiery competitor. They're not getting what they thought
1:13:51
Speaker 1: they'd get out of this team. They spent a lot
1:13:53
Speaker 1: of money on this team and they are deficient in
1:13:56
Speaker 1: so many places. And, um, I think they'll get it fixed. Okay.
1:14:01
Speaker 1: But you need to know in this world, Mike Elko
1:14:05
Speaker 1: is paid. He's a 10 plus million dollar a year guy, right?
1:14:08
Speaker 1: You don't get paid that. because you can coach a
1:14:10
Speaker 1: sport really well. You get paid that because you're in
1:14:13
Speaker 1: the entertainment business. That's why college football coaches make what
1:14:17
Speaker 1: they make, and then lacrosse coaches make what they make,
1:14:21
Speaker 1: all due respect to lacrosse coaches. Lacrosse is not a
1:14:24
Speaker 1: multi-billion dollar entertainment industry in this country. Football is. And
1:14:30
Speaker 1: when you're a head coach, you're not paid what you're
1:14:32
Speaker 1: paid because you can diagram. You can X and O.
1:14:35
Speaker 1: You're paid what you're paid because you do something and
1:14:37
Speaker 1: you're the face of of a brand that a ton
1:14:39
Speaker 1: of people emotionally invest in. The same people that you
1:14:45
Speaker 1: may rightfully look at as toxic and as non-additive to
1:14:49
Speaker 1: your success are ironically the reason you even get to exist.
1:14:55
Speaker 1: So it's just part of what comes with the paycheck.
1:14:59
Speaker 1: And I think Mike Elko gets that, but it doesn't
1:15:02
Speaker 1: make you any less pissed off when you have to
1:15:04
Speaker 1: deal with it. So that's all that came through there.
1:15:07
Speaker 1: But just To give you an idea of what Tex-Ags
1:15:10
Speaker 1: is like, there was a thread on Tex-Ags today about
1:15:14
Speaker 1: whether it was possible for Texas A & M to
1:15:16
Speaker 1: fire Mike Elko with cause because calling out Tex-Ags could
1:15:21
Speaker 1: be a breach of his contract. Nowhere else but college
1:15:25
Speaker 1: football does this exist. It's so beautiful. Houston drug Kansas State.
1:15:29
Speaker 1: The wrong team was favored in this game. The model
1:15:32
Speaker 1: said it. I said it. And shockingly, we were right
1:15:35
Speaker 1: for once. They had already been road tested. Houston had
1:15:39
Speaker 1: already gone into Lubbock and almost come out with a win.
1:15:42
Speaker 1: They weren't going to be phased by going into Manhattan, Kansas.
1:15:44
Speaker 1: All due respect to those guys. Also, there was a
1:15:47
Speaker 1: big coaching mismatch in this game. And I think the
1:15:49
Speaker 1: world of Colin Kline, too. Look at the void he's
1:15:52
Speaker 1: left in College Station, Texas. But Willie Fritz has been
1:15:55
Speaker 1: around the block ten times, and Colin Kline just moved
1:15:58
Speaker 1: into the neighborhood. And they got worked yesterday. Total offensive
1:16:02
Speaker 1: balance for Houston. I almost dropped the paper.
1:16:04
Speaker 3: Sorry.
1:16:05
Speaker 1: Clean game for Connor Wegman. Their first seven drives in
1:16:09
Speaker 1: this game, Jesse, 75 yards, 64 yards, 75, 81, 7,
1:16:14
Speaker 1: 3 and out there, 76 and 67. It was 35
1:16:20
Speaker 1: to 9. Game was over. Then there was just some
1:16:23
Speaker 1: window dressing late. So good on Houston. I think they're
1:16:26
Speaker 1: a big, big, big factor in the Big 12 race
1:16:29
Speaker 1: and the playoff race right now. They've got the fifth
1:16:31
Speaker 1: best odds to win the league because they have a
1:16:33
Speaker 1: conference loss. But a lot of these other teams are
1:16:36
Speaker 1: going to play each other eventually. UNLV was another one
1:16:39
Speaker 1: of those games where the model thought the wrong team
1:16:42
Speaker 1: was favored. Dan Mullins somehow scored 13 points and beat
1:16:46
Speaker 1: North Dakota State in the Fargo Dome. That's tough to do.
1:16:54
Speaker 1: This was tough for Week 8 implications. I'll just be
1:16:57
Speaker 1: real with you. I think College Game Day was going
1:17:00
Speaker 1: to Albuquerque for North Dakota State, New Mexico, if North
1:17:05
Speaker 1: Dakota State would have just won this game And they didn't.
1:17:10
Speaker 1: The script writers did not get the memo, man. So
1:17:14
Speaker 1: Boise now becomes the favorite amongst G6 teams to make
1:17:17
Speaker 1: the playoff, followed by New Mexico. What does that say
1:17:20
Speaker 1: for the number three team there? I can't read it.
1:17:23
Speaker 1: That says James Madison. Oh, wow. Thank you, Prez. And
1:17:25
Speaker 1: then UTSA and Memphis. Ugly game. I mean, Jackson Arnold
1:17:29
Speaker 1: was the winning quarterback here, even though wins technically are
1:17:31
Speaker 1: not a QB stat. He was 8 of 16 for
1:17:34
Speaker 1: 77 yards. No touchdowns, one pick. And a pick six
1:17:38
Speaker 1: was the only touchdown that UNLV scored. Gross, but beautiful.
1:17:43
Speaker 1: They got the win. Purdue eviscerated Minnesota. Minnesota was coming
1:17:50
Speaker 1: off back-to-back wins, and it just turns out that it
1:17:54
Speaker 1: set them up to get Odomed. Yeah, no one's saying
1:17:59
Speaker 1: it yet, but they should be. They got Odomed. Double
1:18:02
Speaker 1: do down spot, and now we got a padlock stat.
1:18:06
Speaker 1: This is what getting Odomed feels like, Jesse. Getting outrushed
1:18:11
Speaker 1: 305 to 27. Just boom, boom, boom. They sunk the boat.
1:18:16
Speaker 1: They didn't row the boat. I have not been paid
1:18:18
Speaker 1: to say any of this, by the way. But I
1:18:21
Speaker 1: would be open to it. No, that would be unethical.
1:18:24
Speaker 1: So that's it. That's the end. When you outrush someone
1:18:26
Speaker 1: 305 to 27, that's it. Purdue's three and three. I
1:18:30
Speaker 1: don't think you need to talk to your children about
1:18:31
Speaker 1: Purdue yet, but you need to prepare to have a
1:18:33
Speaker 1: conversation about Purdue. Because they're three and three. One of
1:18:37
Speaker 1: their losses was by two points to a good Wake
1:18:39
Speaker 1: Forest team. Another one of their losses was by 14
1:18:43
Speaker 1: to UCLA on the road. Respectable. They did get thrown
1:18:47
Speaker 1: in the wood chipper against Notre Dame, but whom's to
1:18:50
Speaker 1: us hasn't. And now they're going to play a really
1:18:52
Speaker 1: bad Washington team this week, just looking for the season
1:18:54
Speaker 1: to end. And then they go to Penn State off
1:18:57
Speaker 1: a bye. You're going to get arrested, Purdue, Jesse. Are
1:19:00
Speaker 1: you ready for Barry Odom with time to prepare? Nope.
1:19:04
Speaker 1: I don't think you are. All I'm saying is I
1:19:06
Speaker 1: don't think Purdue's done winning these games. And their over-under
1:19:09
Speaker 1: win total was 3.5 to start the year. We're in
1:19:12
Speaker 1: danger of the over hitting before Halloween. Ole Miss did
1:19:17
Speaker 1: some bad, borderline unspeakable things to Vanderbilt yesterday. There was
1:19:21
Speaker 1: a splattering in Nashville. Arrested Ole Miss. Turns out that's
1:19:26
Speaker 1: nothing to mess with. 42-3 at halftime. This was one
1:19:31
Speaker 1: of those things where I looked at the score and
1:19:32
Speaker 1: thought it was a typo. You know how the scoreboard
1:19:35
Speaker 1: malfunctions on these websites every now and then. And I thought,
1:19:37
Speaker 1: surely this is not 42-3 at the half. And then
1:19:40
Speaker 1: I went to look at the drive chart. Do you
1:19:43
Speaker 1: realize that Ole Miss scored 42 points in the first
1:19:45
Speaker 1: half and they punted and had a three and out
1:19:48
Speaker 1: in the first half? That's hard to do. They also
1:19:51
Speaker 1: had touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown. They had five offensive
1:19:54
Speaker 1: touchdown drives in the first half. They scored in some
1:19:57
Speaker 1: other ways, obviously, mathematically as well. Just total body bag here.
1:20:02
Speaker 1: There's not much else to say other than Ole Miss
1:20:04
Speaker 1: is still very much a factor in Vanderbilt. It's not
1:20:06
Speaker 1: so much. And Iowa, I don't want to overlook what
1:20:08
Speaker 1: happened on Friday night in Seattle. Washington's terrible, man. Washington
1:20:12
Speaker 1: was disinterested in what Iowa brought to the table. And
1:20:15
Speaker 1: that's a bad thing. Because when Iowa comes to town,
1:20:20
Speaker 1: they are going to throw a bowling ball at you.
1:20:23
Speaker 1: And you can't flinch. You can't put up a weak wrist.
1:20:26
Speaker 1: Or you're just going to get hit in the face
1:20:27
Speaker 1: with a bowling ball. And the bad part about it
1:20:30
Speaker 1: is they make you play four quarters, and unfortunately Washington
1:20:33
Speaker 1: signed up for 60 and had no idea what they
1:20:35
Speaker 1: signed up for. I'm shocked that the score was even
1:20:38
Speaker 1: this close because there was a lot of garbage time
1:20:40
Speaker 1: scoring here. Iowa is plus 390 to make the playoff. Again,
1:20:47
Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with your internet. I'm just pausing so
1:20:49
Speaker 1: you get comfortable with the idea that a 5-1 Iowa
1:20:53
Speaker 1: with at least according to this... A very workable schedule remaining.
1:20:59
Speaker 1: I was trying to think of who's ranked and who's not.
1:21:01
Speaker 1: We'll talk about the AP in a second. Iowa's got
1:21:03
Speaker 1: a path, Jesse. A little question and answer at quarterback, too.
1:21:07
Speaker 1: Iowa's got a path. Another loss that happened this week,
1:21:12
Speaker 1: and we all suffered this one. We all lost this
1:21:15
Speaker 1: weekend because we still have to deal with college football officiating.
1:21:19
Speaker 1: I don't remember a weekend where officiating was this glaringly
1:21:22
Speaker 1: horrible in a long time. One of the worst Saturdays
1:21:25
Speaker 1: I've seen for college football officiating. The Big Ten alone
1:21:29
Speaker 1: was a disaster. I don't even mean necessarily like a
1:21:33
Speaker 1: missed holding call or a questionable PI call. I mean
1:21:36
Speaker 1: like fundamentally not understanding the mechanisms of the rulebook. They've
1:21:41
Speaker 1: already had to put out a statement about this UCLA-Oregon
1:21:45
Speaker 1: game where they misspotted the ball at the end. The
1:21:48
Speaker 1: Michigan State offsides call, very reminiscent of how the screwjob
1:21:52
Speaker 1: went down on Minnesota a couple of years ago. Go
1:21:56
Speaker 1: look at the LSU-Kentucky game. Horrible. Virginia Tech-Cal was terrible.
1:22:01
Speaker 1: I was at the Georgia-Bama game. Just like a dereliction
1:22:04
Speaker 1: of officiating duty. That's how bad it was. And guess
1:22:07
Speaker 1: what happened at the end? Not a single person had
1:22:10
Speaker 1: to answer for anything. Maybe if you're lucky, we'll tweet
1:22:14
Speaker 1: a graphic out the next day where we admit we
1:22:16
Speaker 1: got some things wrong, but that's it. Nothing's really going
1:22:19
Speaker 1: to change. And there'll be no accountability. Oh, they'll tell
1:22:23
Speaker 1: you that they hold the officials accountable behind the scenes. Yeah,
1:22:26
Speaker 1: they'll tell you that. But look, here's what you need
1:22:28
Speaker 1: to understand. We're guarding nuclear codes here in college football.
1:22:32
Speaker 1: We can't actually let these people be accountable for their decisions.
1:22:35
Speaker 1: It's just too serious. Oh, wait, never mind. We're playing games.
1:22:39
Speaker 1: We're playing football games. It's a sport. So really, we
1:22:43
Speaker 1: could be more accountable. We just don't have to be
1:22:46
Speaker 1: because no one says so because there's no central authority
1:22:49
Speaker 1: in this. And we're going to continue to do this really,
1:22:51
Speaker 1: really backwards thing where we have these various heads of
1:22:54
Speaker 1: officiating and all these conferences and there's no consistency. I
1:22:58
Speaker 1: go to a Big Ten game and the thing's done
1:23:00
Speaker 1: in two hours, 45 minutes because there are no flags thrown.
1:23:03
Speaker 1: I go to the SEC and it's a four and
1:23:04
Speaker 1: a half hour marathon because there's laundry on the field
1:23:07
Speaker 1: every other play. And I'm like, how is this even
1:23:09
Speaker 1: the same sport? How are these people even calling this
1:23:12
Speaker 1: the same sport? From a rules enforcement perspective, officiating, I
1:23:18
Speaker 1: got to watch myself. I think what they do is
1:23:21
Speaker 1: very hard. And I think officials, by and large, do
1:23:25
Speaker 1: a good job. It's just that sometimes they suck. And
1:23:29
Speaker 1: when a player sucks, they get called out and they
1:23:33
Speaker 1: even have to answer for their play. And when a
1:23:36
Speaker 1: coach is terrible, they've got to step to a podium
1:23:39
Speaker 1: and answer for their play. When officials are terrible, ghost.
1:23:43
Speaker 1: They're gone. Here's what happens. Here's what happens. There is
1:23:48
Speaker 1: this mysterious process that no one gets to be privy to,
1:23:52
Speaker 1: and they'll review it, and then there'll be grades, and
1:23:56
Speaker 1: there'll be guidance given out. And I'll tell you, I
1:23:59
Speaker 1: talk to a lot of these dudes. Weekly.
1:24:01
Speaker 3: Weekly.
1:24:02
Speaker 1: I talk to heads of officiating. I actually don't talk
1:24:04
Speaker 1: to heads of officiating at all. They don't want to
1:24:06
Speaker 1: talk to us. I talk to officials themselves. And those
1:24:09
Speaker 1: guys admit when they'll get it wrong. But also what
1:24:13
Speaker 1: they'll do is they'll make sure and let you know, look,
1:24:16
Speaker 1: there's a lot that you don't know. And sometimes it's
1:24:18
Speaker 1: kind of trying to account for themselves. And I get
1:24:21
Speaker 1: all that. But other times it's just like the whole
1:24:24
Speaker 1: thing needs to be burnt down and rebuilt from scratch.
1:24:27
Speaker 1: Like the whole mechanism needs to be. So those were
1:24:30
Speaker 1: some winners. losers this week. I got to warn you
1:24:34
Speaker 1: about something, mainly the live chat. I need to warn
1:24:37
Speaker 1: the live chat about something. You know, two weeks ago,
1:24:39
Speaker 1: we started a practice around here where the AP poll
1:24:42
Speaker 1: comes out around lunchtime on Sunday. And in the interest
1:24:45
Speaker 1: of getting a video recorded and out before the live show,
1:24:48
Speaker 1: we record like around four o'clock in the afternoon, we
1:24:51
Speaker 1: record our AP reaction video and we put it out.
1:24:54
Speaker 1: It's literally on the YouTube channel right now, if you're
1:24:56
Speaker 1: watching live or you're watching the replay. But what we
1:25:00
Speaker 1: also do because I know a lot of you just
1:25:02
Speaker 1: like watching the entire show, or you like listening to
1:25:05
Speaker 1: the entire podcast instead of just the individual clips, is
1:25:08
Speaker 1: we'll also take that segment and we'll put it at
1:25:11
Speaker 1: the end of the live show. Like right now, it's
1:25:14
Speaker 1: 824 Central. We're live right now. We're live, pal. For
1:25:19
Speaker 1: some reason, there is like a group of people who
1:25:23
Speaker 1: just kind of in a feral manner wander the live chat,
1:25:26
Speaker 1: and they get really, really bent out of shape when
1:25:28
Speaker 1: something pre-recorded plays. even though there's no discernible difference in
1:25:33
Speaker 1: the content. For some reason, if it's prerecorded, it's evil.
1:25:37
Speaker 1: I'm about to play something for you that's prerecorded that
1:25:40
Speaker 1: we did earlier today. I also want to remind you,
1:25:42
Speaker 1: if you're watching, thank you for subscribing, man. Got about 100,
1:25:45
Speaker 1: 200 of them during the show. Please continue to do
1:25:48
Speaker 1: so as the drive to 600K continues. All right, without
1:25:52
Speaker 1: further ado, and I want to be clear about this,
1:25:55
Speaker 1: some prerecorded content from a whole two hours ago. Roll it, Bradley.
1:26:02
Speaker 1: AP poll week seven's out, Jesse. The paper's still hot.
1:26:05
Speaker 1: That's how fresh it is. Presented by Ram. Show them
1:26:08
Speaker 1: the truck, Bradley. It's like the green screen thing in weather.
1:26:13
Speaker 1: I always get confused. I'm backwards. LSU's still ranked. Is
1:26:16
Speaker 1: this correct? Yes. LSU's still number 22. It's not even borderline.
1:26:21
Speaker 1: It's not even fringe. And a lot of you have
1:26:23
Speaker 1: taken exception to this because you saw Kentucky. take down
1:26:27
Speaker 1: LSU yesterday. Of course, you saw Ole Miss take down
1:26:30
Speaker 1: LSU earlier in the season. And I got to say, I'm,
1:26:33
Speaker 1: I think, kind of on board with you guys. Because
1:26:36
Speaker 1: if you look at the resume, yeah, the two losses
1:26:39
Speaker 1: are two currently presently ranked teams on the road. Kentucky's
1:26:43
Speaker 1: 15 now. Ole Miss is 9 now. So you could
1:26:47
Speaker 1: even say they're two losses, two ranked teams, top 15
1:26:50
Speaker 1: teams on the road. That's true. And I'm not saying
1:26:53
Speaker 1: LSU hasn't faced some difficult competition there. But if we're
1:26:57
Speaker 1: going to apply the criteria equally, you know, we don't
1:27:01
Speaker 1: do the selective thing. If we're an AP voter, which
1:27:03
Speaker 1: we are not here, and we're going to apply the
1:27:06
Speaker 1: same logic, don't we have to find the wins? Because
1:27:10
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you do have to
1:27:11
Speaker 1: do something of note. So what is that something of note?
1:27:15
Speaker 1: What is that win? All caps, W-I-N. What is that
1:27:18
Speaker 1: peg that you're hanging your hat on on the LSU resume?
1:27:22
Speaker 1: Is it the Clemson win? Not really. It was a splattering,
1:27:26
Speaker 1: but that's not something that you're taking special time to
1:27:29
Speaker 1: write mom at home about, and neither is the A &
1:27:32
Speaker 1: M win, because both of those teams just kind of
1:27:35
Speaker 1: look like not-so-secret garbage. So what are you hanging your
1:27:37
Speaker 1: hat on? So I agree with you guys, because a
1:27:40
Speaker 1: lot of you, I think it was by about a
1:27:42
Speaker 1: 3-to-1 ratio, were more outraged than LSU being ranked than
1:27:47
Speaker 1: anything else in this thing, so I agree with that. Also...
1:27:51
Speaker 1: You got that tweet someone sent us about UCLA? Because
1:27:54
Speaker 1: I think maybe our guy Dylan here is on to something.
1:27:58
Speaker 1: He said if UCLA had an SEC patch, they'd be
1:28:01
Speaker 1: top eight. But Dylan, I go a step further. I
1:28:04
Speaker 1: think if UCLA had a Big Ten patch, but it
1:28:08
Speaker 1: was Michigan or Penn State or some other well-established brand name,
1:28:13
Speaker 1: I think even then they'd be ranked higher than they
1:28:16
Speaker 1: are at 12. Now, there is pushback, like if you're
1:28:18
Speaker 1: an AP voter or you're just someone who disagrees with Dylan,
1:28:22
Speaker 1: you could say, yeah, but there's a reason they're not
1:28:25
Speaker 1: being treated like a premier top 10 team right now
1:28:28
Speaker 1: because they don't have a premier top 10 kind of resume.
1:28:31
Speaker 1: What shoots holes in that, obviously, is you've got Notre
1:28:35
Speaker 1: Dame number two. So you're going to have to selectively
1:28:38
Speaker 1: apply logic and craftsmanship. here. And if you just admit
1:28:42
Speaker 1: you're doing that, that's okay. The people who don't admit
1:28:44
Speaker 1: they're doing it, that's where you dig yourself into a
1:28:46
Speaker 1: little bit of a hole. Because if you look at
1:28:48
Speaker 1: UCLA being undefeated, you could pick apart this resume, but
1:28:53
Speaker 1: no more so than you could do Notre Dame's resume. So,
1:28:56
Speaker 1: so far, They got a win at Cal, San Diego
1:28:59
Speaker 1: State they took down, Purdue. Jesse may be a better
1:29:02
Speaker 1: win than we thought at the time. At Maryland, I
1:29:04
Speaker 1: think Jesse and I went and beat Maryland last week.
1:29:06
Speaker 1: And then they go to Oregon yesterday. Now that was
1:29:08
Speaker 1: supposed to be the crowning achievement, and anyone who's mad
1:29:11
Speaker 1: that UCLA's not ranked higher is going to say, you're
1:29:15
Speaker 1: only discounting our win against Oregon because we're UCLA. Because
1:29:18
Speaker 1: Indiana went up there last year, and they got a
1:29:21
Speaker 1: ton of run from that. That's true. I think people
1:29:23
Speaker 1: respected that Oregon team more. I think people respected the
1:29:26
Speaker 1: manner with which Indiana won that game thoroughly more. I'm
1:29:30
Speaker 1: talking about them. I'm not saying me. I think I'd
1:29:33
Speaker 1: probably have UCLA higher, but I don't vote in this thing.
1:29:36
Speaker 1: I put out the commissioner's poll. It comes out Thursday.
1:29:38
Speaker 1: We'll see where we have UCLA. But I think the
1:29:41
Speaker 1: Oregon win just feels hollow to a lot of the voters.
1:29:44
Speaker 1: Like at the end of the day, I think that's
1:29:45
Speaker 1: what they'd tell you. They would say something like this.
1:29:47
Speaker 1: The sentence would start with a variation of acknowledging UCLA
1:29:51
Speaker 1: won the Oregon game, but. And then they'd say, following
1:29:54
Speaker 1: the but, Oregon's not really what we thought they were.
1:29:57
Speaker 1: So they're just telling you, well, UCLA hasn't really accomplished anything. Well,
1:30:01
Speaker 1: here's the problem. If you don't already think they've accomplished anything,
1:30:04
Speaker 1: I don't really know on their schedule the rest of
1:30:07
Speaker 1: the way where they're going to convince you. Because the
1:30:10
Speaker 1: rest of the way is Wisconsin, Michigan State, Nevada, at Minnesota, Illinois,
1:30:15
Speaker 1: at Michigan, USC. Maybe we get to the tail end. Maybe.
1:30:19
Speaker 1: And Michigan's got a pulse. Or USC's. That USC game,
1:30:23
Speaker 1: by the way. That thing looks pretty interesting. Thanksgiving week.
1:30:26
Speaker 1: Rivalry week. So, UCLA's got a shot to be Indiana.
1:30:32
Speaker 1: But not Indiana last year. Indiana 2024. You remember, Kurt
1:30:36
Speaker 1: Cignetti comes on the scene. Year one. with some transfers
1:30:40
Speaker 1: from JMU, just like Bob Chesney has. They played a
1:30:43
Speaker 1: schedule people did not respect. They ran through that schedule.
1:30:46
Speaker 1: They made the playoff. And all the while, people were
1:30:49
Speaker 1: waiting for them to get there because they thought to themselves,
1:30:52
Speaker 1: you get to the Big Ten title game or you
1:30:54
Speaker 1: get to the playoff. Finally, you'll face real competition. And
1:30:58
Speaker 1: they did. And that Indiana team came up short against
1:31:00
Speaker 1: really good teams. We'll see about UCLA. They're playing Wisconsin
1:31:05
Speaker 1: this weekend. That line's three and a half. More on
1:31:08
Speaker 1: that in just a second. So Kentucky's below Tennessee. I
1:31:13
Speaker 1: have no idea why. Seth said the most overrated team
1:31:16
Speaker 1: here is Tennessee. They have no good wins, no quarterback.
1:31:19
Speaker 1: Most underrated is either Kentucky or Northwestern. I'd actually agree
1:31:24
Speaker 1: on both accounts there. So Kentucky, Tennessee, if we did
1:31:27
Speaker 1: the blind resume thing, almost certainly If you did not
1:31:31
Speaker 1: show the logos, Kentucky would be ranked ahead of Tennessee.
1:31:34
Speaker 1: I don't know by how much, but they certainly wouldn't
1:31:36
Speaker 1: be behind them. Kentucky's best wins at A & M,
1:31:39
Speaker 1: South Carolina, LSU. Tennessee's best wins, Auburn, at Georgia Tech,
1:31:43
Speaker 1: at Arkansas. Clearly the wins are better. If you're comparing losses,
1:31:48
Speaker 1: Bama beat Kentucky 45-17, whereas Tennessee played Texas to within three.
1:31:54
Speaker 1: I got to think that's what people are looking at here.
1:31:56
Speaker 1: But even so, if we're going to do the comparison
1:31:59
Speaker 1: thing in the loss category, don't we have to do
1:32:01
Speaker 1: the comparison thing in the win category? Because I would
1:32:04
Speaker 1: argue these Kentucky wins are a whole lot better than
1:32:06
Speaker 1: Tennessee's wins. And if we did nothing more than kept
1:32:09
Speaker 1: the resumes the same, but we changed the logos, I
1:32:12
Speaker 1: would bet I have nothing in my pockets right now.
1:32:15
Speaker 1: If I had money in my pockets, Jesse, you got
1:32:18
Speaker 1: any money? Yeah, I would bet Jesse's money right now
1:32:21
Speaker 1: that Tennessee would be ranked ahead of Kentucky in either event.
1:32:27
Speaker 1: Tennessee is ranked ahead of them right now because they
1:32:29
Speaker 1: have their present resume. Tennessee would also be ranked ahead
1:32:32
Speaker 1: of Kentucky if the resumes were switched. That's just how
1:32:36
Speaker 1: that works. I don't know what to tell you. It's
1:32:39
Speaker 1: not Will Stein's fault. It's the fault of Kentucky for
1:32:43
Speaker 1: not taking football more seriously back in the day, and
1:32:45
Speaker 1: they didn't get this reputation back. that matters in the
1:32:49
Speaker 1: minds of many AP voters. What are we thinking with Nebraska?
1:32:53
Speaker 1: Nebraska wasn't ranked last week in the AP, which was
1:32:56
Speaker 1: a crime they should have been. They were ranked in
1:32:58
Speaker 1: the Willie C poll. They were ranked in the commissioner's poll.
1:33:01
Speaker 1: The only poll they weren't ranked in is the AP poll,
1:33:06
Speaker 1: and they're still not ranked in the AP poll. I
1:33:10
Speaker 1: don't know where I'll have Nebraska Thursday. I will still
1:33:13
Speaker 1: have them ranked. They should have already been ranked, and
1:33:17
Speaker 1: what they did yesterday was they played the number five
1:33:20
Speaker 1: team in the country to within three. Did they lead
1:33:24
Speaker 1: them early fourth quarter? They led them in the third,
1:33:26
Speaker 1: early fourth. I couldn't remember the exact timing there. Why
1:33:30
Speaker 1: would you drop? I don't know why you would drop.
1:33:33
Speaker 1: If anything, don't you expect Indiana to more thoroughly handle
1:33:39
Speaker 1: a team that's floating in that 24 to 28 range?
1:33:43
Speaker 1: If anything, I thought Nebraska validated themselves yesterday. I think
1:33:46
Speaker 1: they should have ticked up higher. If you had them
1:33:49
Speaker 1: number 10, all right, maybe they shouldn't rise then. But
1:33:52
Speaker 1: if you had them 25, 26, 27, like that range,
1:33:55
Speaker 1: I think they should have jumped. And instead, it looks
1:33:58
Speaker 1: like Nebraska fell a couple of spots. Now, it's tough
1:34:01
Speaker 1: because if you scroll, they're in the others receiving votes category.
1:34:05
Speaker 1: So 26, 27, 28. They're 29th in the AP right now.
1:34:10
Speaker 1: What were they, Jesse? Like 26, 27, something like that.
1:34:13
Speaker 1: They were on the borderline last week. So people dropped them.
1:34:17
Speaker 1: We're so married to wins and losses. From a rankings perspective.
1:34:22
Speaker 1: In the NFL, they don't have rankings. But in the NFL,
1:34:25
Speaker 1: it's your record. That's it. Because everyone plays a pro
1:34:28
Speaker 1: team every week. In college, it does not matter how
1:34:30
Speaker 1: many statements get put out. It doesn't matter how many
1:34:34
Speaker 1: advanced analytics and how many other tools there are at
1:34:36
Speaker 1: your disposal to be able to look past just a
1:34:39
Speaker 1: raw win-loss record to more thoroughly judged teams. They're still
1:34:44
Speaker 1: riding with wins and losses. And it boggles my mind
1:34:46
Speaker 1: every week. The Big 12 feels really unsettled to me
1:34:49
Speaker 1: as I look at this poll. So, right now, You've
1:34:52
Speaker 1: got Brigham Young at 8. Texas Tech's 10. Utah is 11.
1:34:57
Speaker 1: And then you go down a little ways, and there
1:34:59
Speaker 1: is Oklahoma State at 18. And I've got to tell you, Jesse,
1:35:04
Speaker 1: Houston's at 20. Oklahoma State's 18. I know Oklahoma State
1:35:10
Speaker 1: lost to Tulsa. That's not a conference game, firstly. Secondly,
1:35:14
Speaker 1: I really think that's clouding the vision, not just of
1:35:18
Speaker 1: AP voters, but Dude, I'm talking to FanDuel Mike. I'm
1:35:22
Speaker 1: talking to the folks who are setting the numbers. Like
1:35:24
Speaker 1: the Big 12 odds right now at FanDuel still look,
1:35:29
Speaker 1: if you didn't know any better, like there's a solid
1:35:31
Speaker 1: 1-2-3 that's kind of in the order here. It's like
1:35:34
Speaker 1: the Brigham Young, Texas Tech, Utah group. And then there's
1:35:38
Speaker 1: like this secondary group where you have an Oklahoma State
1:35:42
Speaker 1: or a Houston. I don't know how you watch Big
1:35:45
Speaker 1: 12 games right now. and think that Oklahoma State's not
1:35:49
Speaker 1: right there, or that Houston's not right there. Now, the
1:35:51
Speaker 1: difference is Houston already played at Texas Tech, so they've
1:35:54
Speaker 1: got a conference loss, but they spanked Kansas State yesterday.
1:35:58
Speaker 1: But Oklahoma State doesn't have a conference loss. And correct
1:36:01
Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong, Jesse, Texas Tech's got to go
1:36:03
Speaker 1: to Stillwater, and that's coming up pretty soon. So I
1:36:08
Speaker 1: think there is a little bit of a reckoning coming
1:36:10
Speaker 1: in the Big 12. It's good that they have the
1:36:12
Speaker 1: teams ranked. I'm not arguing that There are ranked teams
1:36:16
Speaker 1: here that shouldn't be here. I guess I don't even
1:36:18
Speaker 1: have a problem maybe that Oklahoma State is where they are.
1:36:23
Speaker 1: I'm more projecting with this. And I'm just thinking to myself,
1:36:26
Speaker 1: it's funny that the odds market kind of reflects this
1:36:30
Speaker 1: right now. And I don't think it should. Now, I
1:36:32
Speaker 1: don't run a sports book. FanDuel does. So I can
1:36:35
Speaker 1: put my money where my mouth is. And I have.
1:36:38
Speaker 1: Because I'm with Oklahoma State right now. I'm with Houston.
1:36:41
Speaker 1: If not to win the league, to have much better
1:36:45
Speaker 1: shots at winning the league, respectively, than are currently reflected there.
1:36:50
Speaker 1: I mean, it sounds like I'm trashing FanDuel. I'm not.
1:36:53
Speaker 1: That's actually how a betting market works. FanDuel is the
1:36:55
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1:36:58
Speaker 1: our entire campus and university. Fictitious in nature. But right now,
1:37:05
Speaker 1: at FanDuel... Before I give you the Ramen Noodle Express,
1:37:08
Speaker 1: which went 7-4 yesterday. Good day. Could have been better.
1:37:10
Speaker 1: I feel like we were robbed. Could have been better.
1:37:12
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1:37:19
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1:37:25
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1:37:29
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1:37:42
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1:38:47
Speaker 1: But no more risky than thinking UNLV should have been
1:38:51
Speaker 1: favored over North Dakota State. No more risky than thinking
1:38:55
Speaker 1: Houston should have been favored over Kansas State. Those were
1:38:58
Speaker 1: games that we were on last week where we thought
1:39:00
Speaker 1: the wrong team was favored. The model Jesse thinks the
1:39:03
Speaker 1: wrong team may be favored in, drumroll please, Wisconsin versus UCLA.
1:39:11
Speaker 1: After that big win against Oregon, UCLA's coming home. They're
1:39:15
Speaker 1: the toast of the West Coast. Maybe the toast of
1:39:18
Speaker 1: the country. Toast of the West Coast, pretty good t-shirt.
1:39:23
Speaker 1: But Wisconsin is a three and a half point dog here.
1:39:27
Speaker 1: And the model thinks Wisconsin should be a short favorite.
1:39:31
Speaker 1: Believe it or not. So we are going to take
1:39:33
Speaker 1: Wisconsin plus three and a half. Now this is a
1:39:35
Speaker 1: do down spot also. Wisconsin, by the way, Jesse, what'd
1:39:38
Speaker 1: they do yesterday? How did they do? How did they fare?
1:39:41
Speaker 1: I don't really think we heard a whole lot about
1:39:43
Speaker 1: Wisconsin yesterday. And there's a reason for that. Do you
1:39:47
Speaker 1: know why? Yeah, they were rested. They just slept yesterday.
1:39:51
Speaker 1: So they're going out to the Rose Bowl. They may
1:39:54
Speaker 1: travel halfway decently out there, too. I know they do
1:39:56
Speaker 1: when it's an actual bowl game. So give me Wisconsin
1:39:58
Speaker 1: plus three and a half. We'll have several more best
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1:40:02
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