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The Next Round: Todd Furman’s Week 1 Picks: LSU-Clemson, Ole Miss-Louisville & College Football Best Bets | Hour 2 · The Next Round

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Speaker 2: what is up, my man?
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Speaker 1: How are you?
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Speaker 3: I'm doing well this morning, gentlemen.
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Speaker 4: And this was almost the breaking point as part of
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Speaker 4: you guys every Friday morning throughout the season, be able
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Speaker 4: who knows where it'll take us over the next couple
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Speaker 4: of years.
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Speaker 1: Don't hate them. Who's the nice dog in the background
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Speaker 1: that's watching your six, that's looking out the window, making
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Speaker 3: He'll walk back and forth throughout the course of the show.
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Speaker 4: Milo kind of marches to the beat of his own
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Speaker 4: drummer around these parts. And as anybody who owns a
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Speaker 2: Todd's been part of our family for a long time.
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Speaker 2: It's great to have him as a teammate with Sporting State.
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Speaker 2: We are super excited about that. Add Todd Furman on
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Speaker 2: social media. You guys love him. I will start by asking,
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Speaker 2: Did we see the biggest upset point spread-wise last night
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Speaker 2: that we'll see all season?
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Speaker 4: I mean, it's the biggest one that we've seen since 2021.
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Speaker 4: We all remember the Kansas Jayhawks back on November 13th
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Speaker 4: upsetting the Texas Longhorns, catching 29.5 points. Pretty wild to
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Speaker 4: watch that game unfold because sometimes you need a bounce
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Speaker 4: here or a bounce.
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Speaker 3: There to be able to pull off an upset of
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Speaker 3: that magnitude.
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Speaker 4: Anyone who watched that football game, especially in the first half,
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Speaker 4: you could make the case that UMass was the more
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Speaker 4: talented team at the quarterback position. They were more physical
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Speaker 4: in the trenches, and they basically took it to Rutgers
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Speaker 4: right from the opening kickoff. Full marks to a team
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Speaker 4: that has not beaten a power four opponent since the
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Speaker 4: late 70s in the form of the Minutemen. And you
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Speaker 4: begin to wonder if this is Greg Sciano's swan song
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Speaker 4: during his second stint at Rutgers for a team that's
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Speaker 4: going to find their schedule getting significantly more difficult when
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Speaker 4: they step up in class against the Big Ten. And
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Speaker 4: I have to imagine any folks that had Rutgers under
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Speaker 4: five and a half reg season wins were not counting
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Speaker 4: on UMass helping that ledger get there a little bit quicker.
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Speaker 5: So I gave out the under six and a half
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Speaker 5: wins for Georgia Tech. I feel much better about that
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Speaker 5: after the game last night, Furman. I thought it was
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Speaker 5: going to be a rough year for Brent Key going
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Speaker 5: into this. But watching that, I don't know if you
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Speaker 5: back Colorado or not. I just knew that it was
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Speaker 5: going to be another backdoor cover, much like Hawaii Stanford
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Speaker 5: last week.
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Speaker 1: I was just waiting for that pick six.
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Speaker 5: I would assume the books probably cleaned up last night,
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Speaker 5: at least on Colorado winning that game outright.
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Speaker 4: It definitely helped LT because you had folks that were
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Speaker 4: looking to lay the six and a half at Georgia
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Speaker 4: tech where that number closed. They were trying to back
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Speaker 4: Georgia tech in a variety of ways from exotics and
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Speaker 4: money line parlays, including them in some of the limited
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Speaker 4: slate that was there only for FBS matchups.
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Speaker 3: But to your point, I mean, I was right there
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Speaker 3: with you with Georgia tech.
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Speaker 4: They were a sell for me coming into the year,
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Speaker 4: thought this was a little bit of a coin flip
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Speaker 4: game in terms of their wind total. But I think
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Speaker 4: what we saw yesterday on full display from Georgia tech
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Speaker 4: was what the adjustment is going to be without Haynes
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Speaker 4: King and who was a college football cheat code when
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Speaker 4: plays broke down around him, his athleticism and his physicality.
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Speaker 4: This is a tech team that doesn't have much in
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Speaker 4: the way of wide receiver talent. And there were plenty
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Speaker 4: of big plays that Colorado didn't connect on early in
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Speaker 4: that game with Julian Lewis missing his receivers. So I
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Speaker 4: have to give CU a world of credit. They were
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Speaker 4: able to rally the troops and march down the field successfully.
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Speaker 4: to get that improbable game-winning score and come up with
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Speaker 4: a big special teams play. But what this does do
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Speaker 4: for me, it probably takes Tennessee out of range. I
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Speaker 4: was hoping to be able to lay 11.5 or 12
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Speaker 4: with the Vols next week on the road in Atlanta,
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Speaker 4: but I have to imagine that number is going to
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Speaker 4: open north of two touchdowns plus, given how lethargic Georgia
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Speaker 4: Tech looked and the fact they couldn't muster a single
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Speaker 4: offensive touchdown in defeat.
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Speaker 1: That's a great point about next week's Tennessee and Tech game. Tonight,
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Speaker 1: we've got a lot of double-digit Point spreads again. A
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Speaker 1: very close one is Toledo at Michigan State. A lot
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Speaker 1: of change over there in East Lansing. Here's your first chance.
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Speaker 1: First chance to cut me to shreds looking into my eyes.
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Speaker 1: I sort of like Toledo on the money line tonight.
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Speaker 4: You know, honestly, Donaway, I'd want to tell you you
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Speaker 4: were wrong, but I'm not going to tell you you
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Speaker 4: were right here. I just don't really have a strong
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Speaker 4: opinion on this particular game. Toledo is going to look
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Speaker 4: significantly different. with head coach for Mercer taking over. Jason Candle,
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Speaker 4: you talk to people around the Toledo program, some of
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Speaker 4: them believe it's addition by subtraction with him taking the
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Speaker 4: job at UConn. One of the things that Candle did
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Speaker 4: so well during his time in the Glass Bowl as
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Speaker 4: head coach at Toledo was winning games outright as an underdog.
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Speaker 4: He just typically stubbed his toes in games. that they
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Speaker 4: should have gone out there and won. Michigan State, for me,
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Speaker 4: remains one of the bigger enigmas. And I'll fully admit
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Speaker 4: that when they hired Jonathan Smith away from Corvallis and
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Speaker 4: Oregon State, I thought that was going to be a
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Speaker 4: slam dunk hire.
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Speaker 3: Clearly, I was wrong, and it didn't quite work out.
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Speaker 4: The Aiden Childs experience crashed and burned, and it's why
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Speaker 4: he's taking snaps as a starting quarterback today.
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Speaker 3: Under Chip Kelly's leadership at Northwestern.
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Speaker 4: But I'm not sure Pat Fitzgerald would have been the
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Speaker 4: top of my list. I really felt like the game
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Speaker 4: had kind of passed him by in the last.
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Speaker 3: Couple of seasons at Northwestern.
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Speaker 4: And that's really before we factor in all the off-field
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Speaker 4: baggage that'll carry with him to East Lansing. I lean
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Speaker 4: ever so slightly towards Toledo plus the points. What I
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Speaker 4: can tell you about this game, though, is you've had
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Speaker 4: a real battle in the market on the total. This
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Speaker 4: number was as high as 48.5, 49 where it opened,
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Speaker 4: dipped down to 45.5 when we've started to see some
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Speaker 4: over money come in right now.
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Speaker 2: and sport and state For Auburn, this is going to
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Speaker 2: be a home crowd, but it's not exactly like playing
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Speaker 2: in Jordan-Hare Stadium, a little more of a neutral side fill.
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Speaker 2: Seven and a half points seems to me to be
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Speaker 2: a little bit of a hefty number for a team
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Speaker 2: that has so many transfers, so many unknowns, first-time head coach.
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Speaker 2: What do you feel about Auburn and Baylor now as
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Speaker 2: we are about 24 to 48 hours away?
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Speaker 4: So we're looking at all of these college football teams,
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Speaker 4: whether it's a UMass who really exceeded oddsmakers expectations yesterday
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Speaker 4: or a team like Baylor and Auburn that will get
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Speaker 4: an interesting non-conference showdown and a good data point for
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Speaker 4: both these teams. I was a seller of Baylor in
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Speaker 4: terms of the macro market, have a little bit of
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Speaker 4: exposure to them going under their win total before the
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Speaker 4: year starts. Meanwhile, for Auburn, it's not a team that
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Speaker 4: I was looking to buy or sell. It was more
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Speaker 4: of a holding pattern to see how Alex Golish's offense
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Speaker 4: would translate to a step up in class and competition.
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Speaker 4: Of course, we saw USF last year get their first
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Speaker 4: look at DJ Lagway, and that announced their presence with
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Speaker 4: a bit of authority and maybe the demise of Billy
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Speaker 4: Napier's final season in Gainesville. So some revenge working for
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Speaker 4: Lagway and company. But I'm not sure I want to
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Speaker 4: buy into Dave Aranda in any capacity. One of the
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Speaker 4: hottest hot seats in any of the power floor conferences.
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Speaker 4: It's a guy who's really lost his fastball in terms
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Speaker 4: of being a defensive mind. And Baylor has been anything
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Speaker 4: but a defensive juggernaut. Now, on the flip side of things,
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Speaker 4: Auburn has taken some money. They opened up right around
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Speaker 4: a touchdown favorite route to seven and a half, as
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Speaker 4: you kind of alluded to. but I want to see
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Speaker 4: what this offense will look like even against a much
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Speaker 4: maligned Baylor side where I can tell you, we've seen
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Speaker 4: a decent amount of sharp money that should probably be
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Speaker 4: respected is on the total. This game opened in that
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Speaker 4: 60 and a half 61 range. We're now down to
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Speaker 4: 59 and a half, but I'll fully admit I'm not
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Speaker 4: part of that move myself. And I do think it's
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Speaker 4: pretty high variance, that if this auburn offense gets playing
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Speaker 4: downhill and baylor's defense is as bad as advertised uh
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Speaker 4: that this game could be a little bit higher scoring
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Speaker 4: but uh We have seen professional bettors take a stance
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Speaker 4: on this game coming in under, thinking that it could
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Speaker 4: start slowly with two first-year quarterbacks with new programs.
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Speaker 5: Hey, and Furman, sticking with totals, Baylor last year third
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Speaker 5: nationally in plays per game. South Florida under goal is
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Speaker 5: 17th nationally in plays per game. But when I look
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Speaker 5: around the board, and I know there's some hefty favorites over,
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Speaker 5: there's teams that are minus 40-plus, but there's only a
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Speaker 5: handful of totals in the 60s.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of low totals out there this weekend.
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Speaker 4: So the trend that we have seen LT over the
10:39
Speaker 4: last couple of years in college football has been interesting
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Speaker 4: because that hyper pace and tempo era has seems to
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Speaker 4: have gone away. There are of course, a couple of
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Speaker 4: programs and you mentioned two of them that want to
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Speaker 4: play real fast, but what you've seen with the big
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Speaker 4: boys is they're getting to be more efficient from a
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Speaker 4: points per drive standpoint. They're just not getting nearly as
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Speaker 4: many drives. So it's always a balancing act, especially what
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Speaker 4: you're going to get early in the season. If these
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Speaker 4: teams come out, and they can hum on all cylinders.
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Speaker 4: Because if you're not getting that pace and tempo and
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Speaker 4: running nearly enough offensive plays as the college game kind
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Speaker 4: of gravitates towards the NFL pace and cadence, then it's
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Speaker 4: tougher to get over some of these bigger totals that
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Speaker 4: are there. So it creates a unique situation that unfolds.
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Speaker 4: And we've seen a lot of these totals take some
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Speaker 4: under money. It's always interesting to see where the market
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Speaker 4: has moved too far, and professional bettors like to jump in.
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Speaker 4: But last night, you have a game between Colorado and
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Speaker 4: Georgia Tech. They might have been able to play 12 quarters,
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Speaker 4: much like TCU North Carolina the week before. and still
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Speaker 4: not go over the closing number but once you start
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Speaker 4: to get some of those defensive touchdowns factored in and
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Speaker 4: some of the explosives then it changes the dynamic especially
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Speaker 4: when you have such a huge margin at least expected
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Speaker 4: with some of those 30 40 or in the case
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Speaker 4: of ohio state a 50 point number.
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Speaker 1: Um i i see where iowa is a huge favorite
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Speaker 1: what's the point what's your point spread on iowa this
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Speaker 1: weekend i saw somebody had it at 31 and a
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Speaker 1: half when's the last time iowa actually scored 31 and
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Speaker 1: a half points that seems like i should take the
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Speaker 1: other team right I mean, look.
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Speaker 4: Dunaway, you're not extremely intrigued by the quarterback battle that's
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Speaker 4: unfolding in Iowa City, where one of Auburn's very own
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Speaker 4: Hank Brown is fighting to try and be QB1, to
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Speaker 4: hand off right, hand off left, because that's what Iowa
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Speaker 4: Hawkeyes football is all about. This number is massive for Iowa,
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Speaker 4: but at the same time, anyone who has looked into
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Speaker 4: the Northern Illinois program and realized some of the turmoil
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Speaker 4: they faced I mean, they lost their head coach, Thomas Hammock,
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Speaker 4: after the portal had closed. He took the job as
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Speaker 4: the running backs coach with the Seattle Seahawks. So you
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Speaker 4: have an interim head coach there with NIU. You have
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Speaker 4: a program that's making a jump up, so to speak,
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Speaker 4: from the MAC to the Mountain West. Their win total
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Speaker 4: has been bet under quite a bit. I mean, we're
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Speaker 4: now looking at three and a half, heavily shaded to
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Speaker 4: the under for the Huskies. And you may get Iowa's
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Speaker 4: defense or special teams contributing seven to 14 points. So
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Speaker 4: a scary proposition when you're laying a big number with
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Speaker 4: the Iowa Hawkeyes. But the only way for me to
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Speaker 4: look would be gravitating towards the favorite. I think Northern Illinois,
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Speaker 4: while it's mathematically impossible, could end up with negative points
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Speaker 4: on the scoreboard.
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Speaker 2: Furman, I mean, the gut reaction after watching Florida State
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Speaker 2: not play well in week one is, boy, SMU will
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Speaker 2: come in there Monday night and run them out of
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Speaker 2: the stadium.
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Speaker 1: Normally, when you think like that, that's when Florida State
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Speaker 1: covers the three and a half. After digesting Florida State's
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Speaker 1: performance against New Mexico State, how do you feel about
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Speaker 1: that FSU-SMU game?
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Speaker 4: Alabama fans should be careful writing off Florida state in
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Speaker 4: a de facto home opener at their own peril. Given
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Speaker 4: what we saw last year, Florida state beat the Crimson
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Speaker 4: tide outright as a two touchdown dog. There's no doubt
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Speaker 4: Brownie that they were extremely vanilla in their offensive approach.
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Speaker 3: New Mexico state. Yes.
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Speaker 4: If you look at the counting stats, They had a
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Speaker 4: massive advantage when it came to running the football north
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Speaker 4: of 200 yards there, held New Mexico State below 50.
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Speaker 3: But the thing that stood out.
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Speaker 4: For me watching that game on Sunday a day late
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Speaker 4: was that Florida State didn't look like they were able
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Speaker 4: to dominate on either the offensive or defensive line. And
13:53
Speaker 4: we talk about familiar faces. Auburn fans have seen the
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Speaker 4: Ashton Daniels experience, albeit in a limited sample size. And
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Speaker 4: there are some legitimate concerns. But on the flip side
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Speaker 4: of things, this number has already kind of corrected itself.
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Speaker 4: We're already out to a full field goal. SMU breaking
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Speaker 4: in a lot of brand new faces defensively. The good
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Speaker 4: thing for the Mustangs is that Kevin Jennings should be 100%
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Speaker 4: this year. It was clearly hobbled late in the year
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Speaker 4: a season ago. And SMU has to be chomping at
14:17
Speaker 4: the bit to get back out there, knowing that the
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Speaker 4: last time we saw them in an ACC game, I mean,
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Speaker 4: they stubbed their toe and then some against Cal with
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Speaker 4: a chance to get to the conference championship game.
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Speaker 3: I want no part of SMU.
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Speaker 4: I think the home field advantage is going to be
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Speaker 4: pronounced at Doe Campbell. And one of the bigger games
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Speaker 4: that Mike Norvell is going to coach to try and
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Speaker 4: keep some of those boo birds at bay. But I
14:36
Speaker 4: just worry about that talent level from top to bottom
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Speaker 4: of Florida State. And again, a good data point for
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Speaker 4: both these teams going forward. Fun game to watch in
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Speaker 4: a standalone time slot on the holiday, but not something
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Speaker 4: that I'm running to bat side or total.
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Speaker 1: My favorite play on the board, SMU. I mean, look
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Speaker 1: at that point spread, LT. They're giving you money on
14:54
Speaker 1: a Monday night. Just free money. On a Monday night.
14:56
Speaker 1: All you have to do is listen to this show.
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Speaker 4: You know, Dunaway, they're just giving it away at Hard
15:01
Speaker 4: Rock Pet throughout the state of Florida.
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Speaker 3: They're just giving it away.
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Speaker 1: Yesterday, he said.
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Speaker 3: Promotions on a Monday night. You know how those things go.
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Speaker 1: He said Georgia Tech easy yesterday for him. But this
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Speaker 1: is Monday night. This is like the sports folks are saying, hey,
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Speaker 1: you may have had a bad Saturday and Sunday. We
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Speaker 1: feel bad. Here you go. Here's a Monday SMU so easy.
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Speaker 1: We don't want all the money.
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Speaker 4: The next sports book that feels bad about their players losing.
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Speaker 3: Will be the first sports book to adopt that type
15:26
Speaker 3: of sentiment.
15:27
Speaker 1: So we're all three big Pete Golding fans.
15:29
Speaker 5: I don't know how anybody's not a Pete Golding fan.
15:31
Speaker 5: Terrified for Pete on Sunday night would be an awful
15:35
Speaker 5: loss for Ole Miss, but Louisville is a damn good team.
15:38
Speaker 5: Three consecutive nine-win campaigns for Jeff Brom. He'll be starting
15:41
Speaker 5: his fourth quarterback in four years. But Ole Miss minus
15:45
Speaker 5: six and a half, it seems like there's a little
15:47
Speaker 5: public love backing the Rebels with where their ranking is
15:50
Speaker 5: coming into the season.
15:52
Speaker 1: This seems like a really dangerous game for them.
15:55
Speaker 4: Ole Miss fans should be very afraid of this game
15:58
Speaker 4: Sunday night in Nashville because I think it's a program
16:00
Speaker 4: that comes into this season hoping that they can go
16:03
Speaker 4: out there and prove that some of the parts are
16:05
Speaker 4: greater than any individual. And, of course, that individual coaching
16:08
Speaker 4: on the sidelines in Baton Rouge. And while Pete Golding
16:11
Speaker 4: did a tremendous job rallying the troops last year in
16:13
Speaker 4: the college football playoff, the dominant win against Tulane, the
16:16
Speaker 4: upset of Georgia, and the near miss against Miami, I'm
16:19
Speaker 4: a little bit skeptical of how this Ole Miss operation
16:22
Speaker 4: is going to look going forward because you can run
16:25
Speaker 4: on the us against the world mentality and on vibes
16:27
Speaker 4: for a short sample size. But when you have an
16:29
Speaker 4: entire off season and you have to figure out exactly
16:32
Speaker 4: what you have from a roster construction standpoint, the weight
16:34
Speaker 4: of expectations can get cranked up pretty quickly. And while
16:38
Speaker 4: I love the battery of Kiwan Lacey and Trinidad Chambliss
16:41
Speaker 4: in the backfield, I have some major concerns about what
16:44
Speaker 4: this Ole Miss passing attack is going to look like
16:46
Speaker 4: from a skill position player perspective. and how the offensive
16:48
Speaker 4: and defensive lines will look. Louisville, as you kind of
16:51
Speaker 4: alluded to LT, a team that has really thrived in
16:54
Speaker 4: the underdog role under coach Brom, the fourth quarterback in
16:57
Speaker 4: four years. And you have to hope if you're a
16:59
Speaker 4: Louisville fan that Lincoln Keenholz will be a better answer
17:01
Speaker 4: to run that attack than what they got at a
17:03
Speaker 4: Miller Moss. But Louisville has the luxury of continuity in
17:06
Speaker 4: the backfield, a one, two running back punch that may
17:08
Speaker 4: be as good as any in the country. an offensive
17:10
Speaker 4: line that returns a ton of experience. And I think
17:13
Speaker 4: the element of surprise could work in their favor here.
17:16
Speaker 4: I personally grabbed a little bit of the seven, still
17:18
Speaker 4: show value right now in that six and a half.
17:21
Speaker 4: And I think this is a four-quarter fight, one that's
17:23
Speaker 4: going to go a long way in us determining how.
17:25
Speaker 3: Good that second tier of the ACC and SEC. are
17:28
Speaker 3: going to look going forward.
17:29
Speaker 1: Hey, listen, man, my off-season reporting tells me Oregon is
17:33
Speaker 1: supposed to be really, really good. Now, Boise has a reputation,
17:37
Speaker 1: but last I saw, 24, 24 and a half. Seems
17:42
Speaker 1: like an easy Oregon win. They seem to be stacked
17:44
Speaker 1: with a lot of production, great quarterback back. How do
17:47
Speaker 1: you see Boise, Oregon playing? It looks like it should
17:51
Speaker 1: be a good game with some brands there, but talent
17:54
Speaker 1: level is all Oregon, right?
17:56
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, Boise is the favorite in the new
17:58
Speaker 3: look Pac-12.
17:59
Speaker 4: And when you try and go through the schedule, you
18:01
Speaker 4: can make a legitimate case outside of the conference games.
18:04
Speaker 4: This one is nice, but the big one for Boise
18:06
Speaker 4: will be beating Memphis if they want to be the
18:08
Speaker 4: G6 representative and get that proverbial huge win to try
18:13
Speaker 4: and bolster their status with the committee going forward. This
18:17
Speaker 4: is a Boise team that is down a bit. I'm
18:19
Speaker 4: not overly optimistic about how they're going to match up
18:22
Speaker 4: against Oregon here. Oregon should have a massive advantage along
18:25
Speaker 4: the offensive and defensive line. You give the nod to
18:28
Speaker 4: them pretty much everywhere from a skill position, talent standpoint.
18:31
Speaker 4: And unlike the last meeting between these teams a couple
18:33
Speaker 4: of years ago, Boise State has good running backs, but
18:35
Speaker 4: they don't have NFL caliber like they did in Ashton Gentry.
18:38
Speaker 4: The one thing that was interesting digging into this game,
18:41
Speaker 4: and I'm pretty close to market with this number sitting
18:43
Speaker 4: at 24, is that Dan Lanning mentioned the first meeting
18:46
Speaker 4: between these two teams. So I don't think anybody on
18:48
Speaker 4: the Oregon roster is going to get caught looking past
18:50
Speaker 4: Boise in this particular spot.
18:53
Speaker 3: If Boise finds themselves.
18:54
Speaker 4: Behind the eight ball and is throwing the ball around
18:55
Speaker 4: the yard, not a great recipe for Maddox Madsen. So
18:58
Speaker 4: even if Oregon starts slow, I think they can pile
19:00
Speaker 4: up the points late, would be much closer to backing
19:03
Speaker 4: the favorite here than I would be that plucky Broncos
19:06
Speaker 4: squad that doesn't look quite like some of the glory
19:09
Speaker 4: days that we have seen up there in the Smurf turf.
19:11
Speaker 5: In this space, Furman, we try to thread a lot
19:13
Speaker 5: of needles, and I'm doing it here because I like
19:16
Speaker 5: LSU's under for the season but i like clemson's over
19:20
Speaker 5: i think clemson gets 10 wins but i think they
19:23
Speaker 5: might i don't want to say get run off the
19:24
Speaker 5: field but i do like lsu in this spot is
19:27
Speaker 5: there too much hype too much exterior noise going on
19:31
Speaker 5: for lsu to lay the 10 and a half in
19:32
Speaker 5: this spot can.
19:34
Speaker 4: We ever say there's too much exterior noise around a
19:36
Speaker 4: late kiffin type program if we've learned one thing he
19:39
Speaker 4: has at least been consistent in that particular regard. I
19:43
Speaker 4: think I'm as fascinated, guys, as everyone else is to
19:45
Speaker 4: see this LSU team the first time when they're facing
19:48
Speaker 4: live bullets. I mean, Sam Leavitt, if he can be
19:50
Speaker 4: the quarterback he was a couple of seasons ago leading
19:53
Speaker 4: Arizona State to that improbable run to the college football playoff,
19:56
Speaker 4: will insert himself in not only discussion for being one
19:58
Speaker 4: of the best quarterbacks in the SEC, but a legitimate
20:01
Speaker 4: contender to win the Heisman Trophy, knowing how Lane Kiffin
20:04
Speaker 4: coaches up that particular position.
20:06
Speaker 3: But will it all.
20:07
Speaker 4: Gel right out of the gates, allowing LSU to win
20:10
Speaker 4: this game by margin? You know, we've seen Clemson against
20:13
Speaker 4: SEC foes in their opener each of the last couple
20:15
Speaker 4: of years not quite look the part. Maybe this is
20:18
Speaker 4: where Dabo feels a little bit more comfortable with that
20:21
Speaker 4: underdog approach and a new starting quarterback in Chris Vizina.
20:25
Speaker 4: But I think there's some correlation going on in this
20:27
Speaker 4: game that if you like LSU, you make a case
20:29
Speaker 4: for this game going over the total. because LSU starts
20:31
Speaker 4: to play downhill and Clemson just doesn't have the firepower.
20:34
Speaker 4: And on the flip side of things, if Clemson is
20:36
Speaker 4: going to be competitive and a live underdog that they
20:38
Speaker 4: need to try and put together long time consuming drives,
20:41
Speaker 4: win the battles at the line of scrimmage, most notably
20:43
Speaker 4: along the offensive line.
20:44
Speaker 3: And I'll make a slight case to go under the
20:46
Speaker 3: total in the first half.
20:47
Speaker 4: If the LSU operation doesn't look crisp out of the gates,
20:50
Speaker 4: And Clemson is able to try and put together some
20:52
Speaker 4: longer drives, but 10, 10 and a half, very fair number.
20:56
Speaker 4: This has really been a battle. We saw this price
20:57
Speaker 4: get as high as 12 this off season. There was
21:00
Speaker 4: a buy on the underdog. I am going to be
21:02
Speaker 4: fascinated to see the next move we get on this game.
21:04
Speaker 4: And our friends at hard rock bet, drop it below
21:06
Speaker 4: the 10 to nine and a half, or the next
21:08
Speaker 4: move takes it from 10 out to 10 and a
21:10
Speaker 4: half kind of across the board.
21:11
Speaker 1: My, my parlay to start this, start the morning off tomorrow.
21:15
Speaker 4: I think your connection's breaking up done away. I think
21:19
Speaker 4: the connection's breaking up around here.
21:20
Speaker 1: Is Alabama minus the points and over their team total?
21:25
Speaker 1: How do you like Alabama against East Carolina?
21:28
Speaker 4: I mean, look, this is where my man Keelan Russell
21:30
Speaker 4: decides to announce his Heisman Trophy campaign.
21:33
Speaker 1: With a 40.
21:34
Speaker 4: So I'm expecting him to go out there, throw for 300,
21:36
Speaker 4: run for 200, have six touchdowns in what should be
21:40
Speaker 4: 117-degree heat or whatever they're forecasting down there at Bryant-Denny Stadium.
21:45
Speaker 4: But I would lean much more towards the Alabama side.
21:49
Speaker 4: I do wonder how they're going to distribute some of
21:51
Speaker 4: the reps late in the game if they're outside the number.
21:53
Speaker 4: But ECU is a sell for me. this year have
21:55
Speaker 4: some under 7.5 in their win total and think Alabama
21:58
Speaker 4: can go out there and put up a crooked number.
22:00
Speaker 4: But I'm very curious to see Keelan Russell lead this
22:02
Speaker 4: offensive attack. I'm just glad, guys, that some of my
22:05
Speaker 4: sources didn't let me down because I had a number
22:07
Speaker 4: of Alabama fans telling me that I was completely wrong,
22:10
Speaker 4: that Austin Mack was going to win the job. I
22:12
Speaker 4: like to think the guys I talk to are right 90%
22:14
Speaker 4: to 95% of the time when it comes to their information.
22:16
Speaker 5: Okay, Furman, before we get you out of here, we
22:18
Speaker 5: won't talk to you again until next Friday. We will
22:20
Speaker 5: have two NFL games by then. The defending champions, I
22:24
Speaker 5: hate to say it out loud, Seattle hosts New England.
22:27
Speaker 5: More importantly, in Melbourne next Thursday night. I just find
22:31
Speaker 5: it amazing right now that people are anointing my Rams,
22:34
Speaker 5: a team that will.
22:35
Speaker 1: Go out for sure win the Super Bowl.
22:36
Speaker 5: We know the shortest favorite out there typically ever wins
22:40
Speaker 5: the Super Bowl. But people are like, I can't believe
22:42
Speaker 5: they're only a three-and-a-half point favorite. This is a 12-win
22:45
Speaker 5: 49ers team that, you know this, backing them when they
22:48
Speaker 5: go on the road to SoFi, and this is technically
22:50
Speaker 5: a home game for the Rams tonight. is always free money.
22:54
Speaker 5: I'm terrified the Rams are going to drop to 0-1 immediately.
22:58
Speaker 3: You know, a couple things to unpack here.
23:00
Speaker 4: Lance, I want to know why you haven't been in
23:01
Speaker 4: that Rams front office telling them it's rat poison, listening
23:04
Speaker 4: to all the buzz around them and how they have
23:07
Speaker 4: to stay true to some of their on-field obligations and such.
23:10
Speaker 4: And you mentioned, you know, how close these two teams
23:13
Speaker 4: have been in the past. I mean, Kyle Shanahan always
23:16
Speaker 4: seems to have a knack when he has a healthy
23:18
Speaker 4: defense for being able to slow down some of Sean
23:20
Speaker 4: McVay's offensive schemes. Should be a great chess match on
23:23
Speaker 4: a variety of fronts. A little disappointed you weren't able
23:25
Speaker 4: to negotiate usage of the sport and state private jet
23:28
Speaker 4: to get you.
23:29
Speaker 1: Down to Melbourne or.
23:30
Speaker 4: Fly with the Rams team. But in terms of trying
23:33
Speaker 4: to pick a winner here, I'm at the Rams minus four.
23:36
Speaker 4: So I don't see a lot of wiggle room. The angle, though,
23:38
Speaker 4: that I do think makes a world of sense is
23:40
Speaker 4: looking to go under that first half total at twenty
23:43
Speaker 4: four and a half. We know the Rams have typically
23:45
Speaker 4: started slow because their first team doesn't get a lot
23:48
Speaker 4: of reps in camp. And on the flip side of things,
23:50
Speaker 4: I'm not sure what the 49ers are going to have
23:52
Speaker 4: at their disposal in terms of playmakers offensively. CMC may
23:56
Speaker 4: take a little while to ramp up. We're not sure
23:57
Speaker 4: if George Kittle is even going to make the trip.
24:00
Speaker 4: And when your number one receiver, at least potentially, could
24:02
Speaker 4: be DeJuan Stribling out of Ole Miss, against this Rams
24:05
Speaker 4: defense could be problematic. So I like the first half
24:08
Speaker 4: total in that game under 24.5 quite a bit. And
24:11
Speaker 4: since nobody else out there is paying attention to some
24:13
Speaker 4: of the injury reports, if you happen to have access
24:15
Speaker 4: to Ramondre Stevenson over under receptions, sitting at two and
24:18
Speaker 4: a half, you do have to lay a price. Would
24:20
Speaker 4: not be surprised, gentlemen, if Travion Henderson was not available
24:24
Speaker 4: for the New England Patriots in their opener, meaning Ramondre
24:26
Speaker 4: is going to get a bigger workload than advertised, especially
24:28
Speaker 4: in the betting market.
24:29
Speaker 1: All right, I promise we'll let you go. Do you
24:30
Speaker 1: still have that hit after us? Do you need to
24:32
Speaker 1: go right now? Nope.
24:33
Speaker 4: I do not have to hit after you, but I
24:35
Speaker 4: am worried that that's going to mean that I'm here
24:37
Speaker 4: with you guys for like 45 minutes.
24:38
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no.
24:39
Speaker 4: That's problematic than anything else. I can only handle Dunaway
24:42
Speaker 4: in such small doses.
24:44
Speaker 1: I've got one more parlay for you before you get
24:46
Speaker 1: out of here. No, everybody loves your under the radar
24:50
Speaker 1: play in a, in a week where Lance told us
24:52
Speaker 1: there are 40, 40 games that are three touchdowns or more.
24:56
Speaker 1: Everything seems under the radar. Do you, do you have
24:58
Speaker 1: one that we can watch?
25:00
Speaker 3: So there was a game that I was going to
25:01
Speaker 3: give out. The number has moved quite a bit.
25:03
Speaker 4: And that was going to be Nevada as a three
25:05
Speaker 4: point dog against Western Kentucky. So I had to dig
25:07
Speaker 4: a little bit more this morning to try and find something.
25:11
Speaker 4: And I'll go to a game that I think is
25:12
Speaker 4: going to be a great watch for those folks that
25:14
Speaker 4: are fans of G6 football. And that's between JMU and Liberty.
25:18
Speaker 4: I'm going to take Liberty plus the points. I know
25:20
Speaker 4: Liberty over the last couple of years has done nothing
25:22
Speaker 4: but burn money at the betting window. I think at
25:25
Speaker 4: last check six and 18 against the spread. the last
25:28
Speaker 4: 24 games for the Flames. But this is going to
25:30
Speaker 4: be a completely new look JMU team. And I think
25:32
Speaker 4: Billy Napier will end up being a good hire for
25:34
Speaker 4: them to keep them at the top of the Sunbelt
25:36
Speaker 4: pecking order. But I'm just a buyer in Liberty from
25:39
Speaker 4: top to bottom. I know people will go, wait a second,
25:41
Speaker 4: Liberty hasn't even named a starting quarterback. I think Kanye Udo,
25:44
Speaker 4: the transfer from Army to Arizona State in the backfield
25:47
Speaker 4: will be their bell cow back and really believe the
25:49
Speaker 4: Flames have an excellent opportunity to win this game outright.
25:52
Speaker 3: So give me Liberty. on the money line.
25:54
Speaker 4: If you can shop around and find them at six,
25:56
Speaker 4: I have no problem with the points, but I personally
25:58
Speaker 4: grabbed some seven, but did back them on the money
26:00
Speaker 4: line at numbers that are currently available.
26:01
Speaker 1: All right, there you go. There's your under the radar play.
26:03
Speaker 1: You want my seven teamer?
26:05
Speaker 4: I always want your seven teamer, because the greatest part
26:08
Speaker 4: is I can close out of this window and I
26:10
Speaker 4: won't have to listen or see you when you.
26:11
Speaker 1: Give it up. My 17er teamer, Toledo plus the points,
26:20
Speaker 1: Marshall plus the points, Arkansas State plus the points. Louisville
26:25
Speaker 1: plus the points. Houston giving the points. Oregon giving the points.
26:30
Speaker 1: Wisconsin getting the points.
26:33
Speaker 3: So here's the thing.
26:34
Speaker 4: The silver lining is I actually like a couple of
26:35
Speaker 4: those legs that you've included, but I'm not going to
26:38
Speaker 4: actually tell you which ones I do like because the
26:41
Speaker 4: last thing I want to do is jinx myself going
26:43
Speaker 4: into week one of the college football season. I will
26:46
Speaker 4: hope you cash all seven because I am not against you,
26:49
Speaker 4: at least on any of those.
26:50
Speaker 1: Lance gets mad at me because I bet it is
26:52
Speaker 1: a parlay. I don't bet him individually. He's the king
26:55
Speaker 1: of going like.
26:56
Speaker 5: Six, like I'm 6-1 today, but I lost money.
27:00
Speaker 1: You know what, Lance?
27:00
Speaker 4: Then we should both feel better then because if Dunaway
27:03
Speaker 4: will lose a leg that we're not a part of,
27:04
Speaker 4: all the other ones can win, and we'll be able
27:07
Speaker 4: to try and reap a little bit of a windfall
27:09
Speaker 4: on opening weekend while Dunaway comes away down a position.
27:11
Speaker 5: Yeah, he did name one of my big plays tomorrow
27:14
Speaker 5: in that seven-teamer.
27:16
Speaker 1: You and Furman. Hey, Lance and Furman, they got some
27:18
Speaker 1: of your legs there, don't they? I'd play that thing, man. No,
27:20
Speaker 1: I've already played it.
27:22
Speaker 5: Hey, and I love your– I think we have a
27:26
Speaker 5: live dog in Liberty tomorrow.
27:27
Speaker 1: Now, the only thing that scares me, early game, yeah. Yeah,
27:30
Speaker 1: early game? That could be bad for JMU. BYOG, man,
27:33
Speaker 1: you got to bring your own guts. Bring your own guts, yeah.
27:36
Speaker 4: We'll see jamie chadwell's got to go out there and
27:38
Speaker 4: produce and i think uh i know there were some
27:40
Speaker 4: off the field stuff and some locker room chemistry issues
27:42
Speaker 4: over the last couple years for liberty but uh i
27:45
Speaker 4: really believe this is a year they can raise their
27:47
Speaker 4: level of play win conference usa and if they're able
27:49
Speaker 4: to win the game tomorrow uh against jmu look crazier
27:54
Speaker 4: things have happened if there's chaos all over the g6
27:56
Speaker 4: you know maybe liberty is able to get into the
27:59
Speaker 4: discussion for the college football playoff uh an exact to
28:02
Speaker 4: measure revenge for the bad taste that fiesta bowl a
28:04
Speaker 4: couple of years ago against Oregon left in that entire program.
28:07
Speaker 1: I got off to my best start last weekend and
28:09
Speaker 1: week zero of college football since the pandemic, I was
28:11
Speaker 1: one in two.
28:12
Speaker 4: So only one way to go, but that's the way
28:17
Speaker 4: I see it.
28:18
Speaker 3: All right.
28:20
Speaker 2: Bet the board podcast is back, baby. Go follow their
28:22
Speaker 2: YouTube channel. Just follow Furman on social media at Todd Furman.
28:25
Speaker 2: He'll make it super easy on you. Also sport and
28:27
Speaker 2: state sport in state, the letter N on social media,
28:30
Speaker 2: it'll all be sent out from their sport state.com. That's
28:33
Speaker 2: where you'll get all that information, those of you that
28:35
Speaker 2: love Furman's work, and why would you not? Furman, it's
28:38
Speaker 2: good to have you as a teammate, man, and we
28:39
Speaker 2: mean that sincerely. We love you, and have a great weekend.
28:43
Speaker 3: Looking forward to it, guys.
28:44
Speaker 4: Couldn't be more excited about this football season, everything it'll
28:46
Speaker 4: bring with it. And Dunaway, I heard the tease before
28:48
Speaker 4: I came on. The hat on my head is indeed
28:50
Speaker 4: for an ECHL team. Here, look, I would love to
28:54
Speaker 4: be wearing some of the next round live gear, but
28:56
Speaker 4: none of it has seemed to make its way to
28:58
Speaker 4: me over all these years.
28:58
Speaker 1: So I'm waiting for that, Dunaway. Six years, six football seasons.
29:01
Speaker 1: We've never sat firm in one t-shirt. We don't see him.
29:05
Speaker 1: Now that we see him, it's worth us getting to
29:07
Speaker 1: fly the flag. That's right. It's on the way. Send
29:09
Speaker 1: us an address. We got it.
29:10
Speaker 4: Yep.
29:11
Speaker 1: Text me the address. I'll do what I can, boys.
29:13
Speaker 1: Text me the address and sizes. Thank you, buddy. Take care.
29:15
Speaker 2: All right, Todd Furman with us at Todd Furman on
29:18
Speaker 2: social media, Bet the Board Podcast.
29:19
Speaker 1: Should be noted, 28 minutes is his limit for us.
29:22
Speaker 1: That's right.
29:23
Speaker 6: Out.
29:23
Speaker 1: He gets tired of us at 25 minutes, I think.
29:26
Speaker 1: 28 minutes is too much. That's a long time, though.
29:28
Speaker 1: It is.
29:29
Speaker 5: I don't know when you do hits, but I was
29:31
Speaker 5: doing one the other day, and I'm like, damn, I've
29:32
Speaker 5: been on here for 30 minutes.
29:33
Speaker 1: How long did I sign up for? I've done that, too. Yeah,
29:36
Speaker 1: I've agreed to do it. They never tell me how long,
29:38
Speaker 1: and then I realized, it's a whole podcast. You don't
29:41
Speaker 1: have commercial breaks on here?
29:43
Speaker 2: Lance is like, where are your sponsors, man?
29:45
Speaker 1: You can't read an ad? Where are your sponsors? Let
29:47
Speaker 1: me take a sip of something here. All right, when
29:50
Speaker 1: we come back, more college football as we get rolling.
29:53
Speaker 1: What's the best viewing experience tonight? We'll talk about some
29:56
Speaker 1: more of the big game down in the bayou with
29:59
Speaker 1: Clemson and LSU, the marquee game of the weekend. And
30:03
Speaker 1: one scary thing in the NFL that would really make
30:07
Speaker 1: me wonder, How much I'd pay this guy going forward.
30:10
Speaker 1: All that still to come on the show when we
30:12
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30:15
Speaker 1: right here on Sporting State. Did you guys know this?
30:19
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30:25
Speaker 1: volleyball at Wrigley Field. Not sand volleyball on the court.
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Speaker 1: Volleyball apparently is one of the fastest growing most watched sports.
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Speaker 1: College volleyball on ESPN. I don't know how percentages work.
30:41
Speaker 1: If nobody's watching and all of a sudden 10 people
30:43
Speaker 1: are watching, it's grown a lot. But this will be
30:46
Speaker 1: the third unique venue that they've played volleyball at in
30:51
Speaker 1: these preseason tournaments. They played a tournament where the sort
30:56
Speaker 1: of an heiress tournament for volleyball out where the Predators,
30:59
Speaker 1: I mean, not the Predators, the Golden Knights play in
31:01
Speaker 1: Las Vegas. They played a big volleyball tournament in Jerry's
31:06
Speaker 1: World in Arlington. And now they're playing outdoor at Wrigley
31:10
Speaker 1: Field this weekend, No. 3 Kentucky against No. 13 Penn
31:13
Speaker 1: State at Wrigley Field.
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Speaker 2: All right, so Scott would be our volleyball expert. May
31:17
Speaker 2: I ask Scott a question real quick? Because Scott's daughter,
31:19
Speaker 2: for those of you new to the show, is a
31:21
Speaker 2: college scholarship to volleyball player.
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Speaker 1: Correct. One thing that Wrigley Field is known most for
31:27
Speaker 1: is what? Uh, I'd be on the walls. Baseball.
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Okay. Wind. Would this not be a pretty big factor?
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Speaker 1: Volleyball is, is very heavy Brown. I don't know.
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Speaker 3: If that's going to be much of an issue. The
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Speaker 3: ball doesn't spend that much time in the air.
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Speaker 1: It's a wind blowing out. But I disagree with you, Scott.
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Speaker 1: I know your daughter plays, and unlike me to tell
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Speaker 1: somebody who actually has knowledge of this. I'm not saying
31:54
Speaker 1: no factor. But a beach volleyball is different than an
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Speaker 1: indoor volleyball for that reason. It is heavier. The beach
32:00
Speaker 1: volleyball is. That's also on the oceanfront.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: But Chicago is as windy as any oceanfront.
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Speaker 5: When the wind is blowing in or out of Wrigley,
32:09
Speaker 5: I mean, it affects— You can go from a 7.5
32:13
Speaker 5: total to an 11.5 total. I mean, it does definitely
32:16
Speaker 5: affect what's going on as far as baseball.
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Speaker 1: My thing is, at Wrigley Field, it seems like they
32:23
Speaker 1: do everything but play late-season baseball games. That's true.
32:29
Speaker 3: I recently went to a concert there.
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Speaker 1: They're going to make the playoffs. They do concerts all
32:33
Speaker 1: the time. They play football there. They're doing volleyball there.
32:36
Speaker 1: They play hockey and that– Only in one end zone. Yeah,
32:39
Speaker 1: the outdoor hockey, they play that there. It's a stadium series.
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Speaker 5: You know, Brown's daughter and my daughter, Leighton, played volleyball
32:46
Speaker 5: together years ago, and we enjoy going to those games.
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Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, it was indoors, air conditioning, a lot of action,
32:52
Speaker 1: and they move quick.
32:52
Speaker 5: But I cannot imagine watching somebody that's not a relative
32:56
Speaker 5: of mine play volleyball.
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Speaker 3: Oh, I completely disagree. I watched the game on ESPN
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Speaker 3: Plus yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Fast-moving sport. It is.
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Speaker 5: You guys have taken it from 1,000 to 1,100 people now.
33:04
Speaker 1: By the way, by the way.
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Speaker 3: They literally filled Nebraska's football stadium.
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Speaker 1: They didn't do that.
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Speaker 5: I mean, because they're not feeling it for football.
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Speaker 1: $ 30, 000 at the Georgia game this year. That was soccer.
33:18
Speaker 1: Never mind. By the way. And by the way, name
33:20
Speaker 1: one volleyball player in the world. Karch Karai. And you
33:24
Speaker 1: can't go with the two chicks that played. Haley Forrester.
33:26
Speaker 1: Haley Forrester. Freed Hardeman. Don't go with the two chicks
33:29
Speaker 1: that played. Sand Volleyball. I can't remember their names. And
33:32
Speaker 1: two back-to-back Olympics.
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Speaker 2: No, hey, I was going to tell you, last night,
33:37
Speaker 2: was my first run through on the ESPN stuff being in.
33:40
Speaker 1: My YouTube TV feed.
33:42
Speaker 2: And the way I know that is without paying attention,
33:45
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33:47
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33:52
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33:55
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33:58
Speaker 1: So as soon as the interview's over, it's all in Spanish.
34:00
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34:02
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34:04
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34:09
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34:12
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34:15
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35:39
Speaker 1: He was unbelievable in college. And he was off to
35:43
Speaker 1: a great start with the Giants. But wake up, Kay.
35:47
Speaker 1: Kay Adams had Cam Scadaboo on this week. And Cam
35:51
Speaker 1: Scadaboo said he considered retirement last year. That he had
35:57
Speaker 1: one rule as he was going to the NFL. Don't
35:59
Speaker 1: break your leg. That if I ever have a major injury,
36:02
Speaker 1: I'm shutting it down. And he had a fractured tibia,
36:07
Speaker 1: a ruptured deltoid, and a dislocated right ankle just after
36:13
Speaker 1: seven games, and he was off to a great start.
36:16
Speaker 1: And for the rest of the season, he thought he
36:19
Speaker 1: was retiring, and he said it was week 18 is
36:22
Speaker 1: when he decided in the rehab process that he wasn't
36:25
Speaker 1: going to shut it down. He's going to be full
36:28
Speaker 1: go week one against the Cowboys. He's coming back. I
36:32
Speaker 1: think he's a baller. But if you're in the front
36:35
Speaker 1: office and you hear that, Does that raise any red flags? Well,
36:40
Speaker 1: it raised a red flag.
36:41
Speaker 5: I mean, you got him late, so you got a
36:43
Speaker 5: great value player right now. But look, when this rookie
36:47
Speaker 5: contract ends and when you're playing for your rookie contract
36:49
Speaker 5: in that fourth year going into the fifth year, I
36:52
Speaker 5: don't care how productive he's been.
36:54
Speaker 1: That's got to be something that.
36:55
Speaker 5: You really, really have to process and figure out long-term.
36:59
Speaker 5: I mean, it's difficult for those running backs to get
37:01
Speaker 5: that second contract to begin with. But when you hear that,
37:05
Speaker 5: and that's surprising because he seems like one of those
37:07
Speaker 5: guys that– I mean, you literally would have to. You
37:10
Speaker 5: could dismember him before you take him off the field.
37:12
Speaker 1: The way he plays, it's like football is life. He
37:15
Speaker 1: would run through razor blades for you. I mean, it
37:19
Speaker 1: is a bit. I kind of lived through a little.
37:24
Speaker 2: Bit of this with Tua as the Dolphins quarterback because
37:26
Speaker 2: after so many concussions, there was always this discussion that
37:29
Speaker 2: people were trying to get him to walk away. And
37:32
Speaker 2: then you're like, Miami decided to give him a long-term contract,
37:35
Speaker 2: which they're now greatly regretting because they're paying for him
37:38
Speaker 2: to be a Falcon, paying him very handsomely to be.
37:40
Speaker 1: A Falcon, in fact. So you do start to worry
37:44
Speaker 1: about that. I mean, that's one year in, though, right?
37:47
Speaker 2: Tua at least had played, what, four or five years
37:50
Speaker 2: before any of that really started to be a true discussion.
37:53
Speaker 1: And listen, there's nothing more lonely in sports than rehab,
37:57
Speaker 1: especially during the season, because everyone else is practicing, They're
38:01
Speaker 1: playing games. They're getting the reward for their hard work.
38:03
Speaker 1: And in rehab, you're just up every day doing the painful,
38:07
Speaker 1: hard work to get back. So I know how dark
38:11
Speaker 1: it can be sometimes. But for somebody year one in
38:14
Speaker 1: a sport that just ravages your body, and for him
38:17
Speaker 1: to admit on a very popular podcast with Kay Adams
38:22
Speaker 1: that my rule going in to the NFL was if
38:25
Speaker 1: I had a major injury, I was going to shut
38:27
Speaker 1: it down. And he has had one. And he said,
38:30
Speaker 1: I thought about shutting it down, but I'm back and
38:32
Speaker 1: I'm full, ready to go. I don't know if I,
38:36
Speaker 1: with my organization, I don't know if I give him
38:37
Speaker 1: that next contract. He's young. He's going to learn.
38:41
Speaker 5: I mean, how many guys that were driving in and
38:43
Speaker 5: their favorite part of their day was stopping at Dunkin'
38:45
Speaker 5: Donuts and getting a coffee hearing this. And like, I'm
38:48
Speaker 5: going to this job that I've been working for 25
38:50
Speaker 5: years and I absolutely hate it. So like, you know,
38:54
Speaker 5: the option is, you know, rehab would suck. But at
38:58
Speaker 5: the same time, you're playing professional football and making millions
39:01
Speaker 5: of dollars.
39:01
Speaker 7: Yeah.
39:02
Speaker 2: I mean, it does seem like you almost want to
39:06
Speaker 2: say to the guy, you know, like pretty much what
39:10
Speaker 2: Lance is saying. Do you know how many people trade
39:11
Speaker 2: spaces with you right now?
39:12
Speaker 7: Yes.
39:13
Speaker 2: And they would play through any rehab and they would
39:15
Speaker 2: put their body right back out on the line for
39:18
Speaker 2: any injury.
39:20
Speaker 1: For that kind of money.
39:20
Speaker 5: Oh, that would step over your dead carcass to make 20%
39:24
Speaker 5: of what you're making.
39:25
Speaker 2: Yeah.
39:25
Speaker 1: I just, I'm with you. Like, if I'm the Giants,
39:28
Speaker 1: I want to see through the rest of this.
39:30
Speaker 2: This rookie contract that this guy is 100% dedicated to
39:32
Speaker 2: being a New York Giant.
39:33
Speaker 5: And I am fascinated to see the Giants this year
39:35
Speaker 5: because I think Jackson Dart surprised all of us with
39:37
Speaker 5: the impact he made immediately. But if Scadaboo can come
39:40
Speaker 5: back and play at that level, Malik Nabors coming off
39:43
Speaker 5: a major injury as well, The New York Giants, with
39:46
Speaker 5: a proven head coach, and we've talked about this before,
39:48
Speaker 5: and what you've got defensively attacking the quarterback, they could
39:52
Speaker 5: be a big surprise. I think it could start this
39:54
Speaker 5: weekend against Dallas. Is Najee Harris second on that depth chart?
39:57
Speaker 5: Is he the actual backup?
39:58
Speaker 1: I think he is.
39:59
Speaker 2: I know he made the 53, man. I think he's
40:01
Speaker 2: the backup to Skadaboo. If Skadaboo's out, it's going to
40:05
Speaker 2: be Najee Harris time.
40:06
Speaker 1: That's in a division that is known for flipping around
40:10
Speaker 1: and having different champions all the time. There is no
40:12
Speaker 1: consistency in the NFC East. We'll do more of our
40:15
Speaker 1: predictions on the NFL standings coming up Monday Tuesday and
40:18
Speaker 1: Wednesday before we crank up the Wednesday opener next week
40:23
Speaker 1: New England Seattle and then Thursday next week you get
40:26
Speaker 1: a little Los Angeles and San Francisco Rams and Niners
40:29
Speaker 1: down in Australia one more thing before we take our
40:32
Speaker 1: break and we'll talk about the big games in college
40:34
Speaker 1: football in our final segment the this is non-sports do
40:38
Speaker 1: you guys know what the fastest growing demographic is in
40:41
Speaker 1: the United States The fastest growing demographic in the United States.
40:44
Speaker 1: So what are you asking, age, nationality?
40:47
Speaker 5: I would go non-drinkers under the age of 25.
40:51
Speaker 1: Non-drinking is way down. Men who have no kids and
40:58
Speaker 1: no marriage plans. They plan to spend their whole life
41:00
Speaker 1: not married and have no kids.
41:02
Speaker 5: Oh, there's a lot of women like that too. I've
41:05
Speaker 5: seen this discussion before because there's so many people and
41:08
Speaker 5: this This sounds like a selfish discussion, like, hey, I
41:11
Speaker 5: want to keep all my money and be able to
41:13
Speaker 5: travel when I want. I mean, you know, once you're
41:15
Speaker 5: an empty nester, you can kind of get that to
41:17
Speaker 5: a degree.
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Speaker 1: Finance was the number one reason why they said they
41:21
Speaker 1: were choosing that lifestyle.
41:22
Speaker 5: Now, this is old man on the lawn, get off
41:24
Speaker 5: my lawn. But the world is different. Like, I know
41:27
Speaker 5: we heard it back in the day, like, oh, this
41:29
Speaker 5: place is.
41:29
Speaker 1: Burning and going to hell.
41:31
Speaker 5: But raising a kid in today's world is completely different.
41:35
Speaker 1: I'm a little older than you guys, but I truly
41:37
Speaker 1: believe that Every generation says that. And they've always said that. Oh,
41:42
Speaker 1: they've all said it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. For years. The
41:44
Speaker 1: older you get, the more you feel that way, I'm sure.
41:45
Speaker 1: But I've seen like somewhere on the beach in North Carolina,
41:48
Speaker 1: there was an old man saying, these Wright brothers, the
41:52
Speaker 1: world's going to hell. You guys give me the robots, though.
41:55
Speaker 1: That's true.
41:55
Speaker 5: No, and that's that's that's one of them. You look
41:58
Speaker 5: at the pandemic we went through. That has become a
42:00
Speaker 5: big time reality. Look, I mean, I've been an immature
42:04
Speaker 5: adult for decades now, so I feel like I've seen
42:07
Speaker 5: enough life and how much things have changed with technology.
42:11
Speaker 2: But if you think about it, the younger you are,
42:14
Speaker 2: the world you live in is the only world you've known,
42:16
Speaker 2: so you don't– necessarily saying i was going to hell
42:20
Speaker 2: the older you get as it changes you're like but
42:22
Speaker 2: i remember the one i used to live in and
42:24
Speaker 2: i enjoyed that one way.
42:25
Speaker 8: Better every time i see a video of like a
42:29
Speaker 8: 50s or 60s appliance like one of those stoves where
42:33
Speaker 8: you can like flip it up and you can like
42:35
Speaker 8: cook eggs on this side and grill pancakes on the
42:37
Speaker 8: other side i think Yeah, the world is.
42:40
Speaker 1: Going to hell.
42:41
Speaker 8: We don't have anything that would last remotely that long now.
42:45
Speaker 1: No, you're right. Stuff lasted longer back then, yeah. But
42:47
Speaker 1: I also think people are shittier than they used to be.
42:49
Speaker 1: But they said the same thing in the 60s. We
42:51
Speaker 1: love the show Mad Men. They said the same thing
42:53
Speaker 1: in the 60s. They say it in the 70s and
42:55
Speaker 1: the 80s and the 90s. It's just life. When you
42:59
Speaker 1: get older, you look back and you're like, man, it
43:00
Speaker 1: was simpler when I was in my 20s. Yeah.
43:04
Speaker 5: I would really hesitate with bringing– I mean, there is
43:07
Speaker 5: nothing better than family.
43:09
Speaker 1: There's nothing better than kids if they're yours. But I
43:13
Speaker 1: would really hesitate on bringing a kid into this world.
43:15
Speaker 1: My opinion. The good news is medically you cannot, I believe.
43:18
Speaker 1: But I think people said that in the 80s about God,
43:21
Speaker 1: you know, with the Russians and this Cold War. I
43:24
Speaker 1: wouldn't bring a kid into this world. They're just going
43:26
Speaker 1: to die in a nuclear attack. So college football when
43:30
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43:33
Speaker 1: rather have a marquee opener or, I don't know, an
43:37
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43:40
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43:45
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43:51
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Speaker 1: North Carolina story with Lombardi resigning the general manager. And
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45:02
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Speaker 6: I think it has, I think, uh, coaching wise and
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Speaker 1: Is there a chance this is the most entertaining game
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Speaker 5: I think there's more knowns for Louisville. I mean, look,
47:40
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47:43
Speaker 5: He's done it every single year with a different starting quarterback,
47:45
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Speaker 1: Kynholtz should be a really good quarterback.
47:49
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47:51
Speaker 5: per carry.
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Speaker 1: That's the key to the game to me. Can Ole Miss,
47:54
Speaker 1: with Pete Golden, great defense, Can they match up? Can
47:56
Speaker 1: they run gap against those Louisville running back and limit
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Speaker 1: explosive plays?
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Speaker 5: Isaac Brown, 8.8 yards per carry lead power for in
48:04
Speaker 5: that number.
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Speaker 1: And on the other side, like Ole Miss, what are
48:07
Speaker 1: we going to get offensively?
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Speaker 5: You know, you've got, you know, you've got Kiwan Lacey,
48:11
Speaker 5: you got Trinidad Chambliss, but how good overall is the
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Speaker 5: play calling going to be in the fluidity of that
48:17
Speaker 5: Ole Miss offense? I, I like Louisville in this game
48:21
Speaker 5: and I think it's going to be really tough.
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Speaker 2: I like Louisville in this game too. Um, I worry
48:25
Speaker 2: about the same thing Lance worries about. Trinidad Chambliss, world
48:28
Speaker 2: beater last year. Even with Charlie Weiss and Lane Kiffin back,
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Speaker 2: it was going to be tough for Trinidad Chambliss to
48:34
Speaker 2: match that.
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Speaker 1: Even with those two guys back. Yeah, I would agree.
48:36
Speaker 2: But now you take those two guys out, you change
48:39
Speaker 2: play callers, offensive philosophies. Can Trinidad Chambliss be the guy
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Speaker 2: he was last year? I don't think he can. And
48:47
Speaker 2: I think Ole Miss is going to take a little
48:48
Speaker 2: bit of a step back as much as I like Golding.
48:50
Speaker 2: I think it's a tight game that Ole Miss wins,
48:51
Speaker 2: but I think this, to your point, entertaining, close, however
48:54
Speaker 2: you want to label this. It's going to be tough
48:56
Speaker 2: to be closer than last night, but I think this
48:58
Speaker 2: will be one of the most entertaining games of the weekend.
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Speaker 5: Speaking of last night, I could see this be better
49:04
Speaker 5: versions of teams, but kind of the way last night
49:07
Speaker 5: played out.
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Speaker 1: Like Colorado-Georgia Tech. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 5: But, I mean, these teams are going to be much
49:11
Speaker 5: better than those two teams, but I could see a
49:13
Speaker 5: play on special teams be the difference in this game.
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Speaker 2: Weird scheduling for Louisville. You know they play Friday night,
49:19
Speaker 2: so they got a Sunday announced Villanova, who had a terrible...
49:22
Speaker 2: loss in week zero, but they play Friday night. So
49:24
Speaker 2: a Sunday night, Friday night game. You don't see, you
49:26
Speaker 2: don't see that turnaround very often.
49:27
Speaker 1: Probably the only way Brom signed off was it being Villanova.
49:30
Speaker 1: Because check to see who they play week three. SMU.
49:33
Speaker 1: That's right. It's a meaningful game. So they play on
49:35
Speaker 1: that Friday against nobody to give them a long week.
49:38
Speaker 1: And they could play on Wednesday.
49:39
Speaker 5: Villanova still has their head in their ass from the
49:41
Speaker 5: way they lost the game last week.
49:43
Speaker 1: Absolutely. Here is John Summerall of Florida. on what the
49:48
Speaker 1: expectations are, in his opinion, for his football team. And
49:52
Speaker 1: I want your thoughts on what the expectations are for
49:54
Speaker 1: the Gators as well after you hear the head coach.
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Speaker 7: You know, it's great for fans, maybe media, I don't know,
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Speaker 7: to go, well, this would be a good year. I
50:06
Speaker 7: don't have time to, you know, it's a good year
50:09
Speaker 7: to me whenever a game you play.
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Speaker 1: Win them all. It's a good year.
50:13
Speaker 7: Win a championship.
50:13
Speaker 1: That's a great year.
50:15
Speaker 7: But, like, I'm not, I think you can limit what
50:18
Speaker 7: you can accomplish when you start to go, well, this
50:20
Speaker 7: would be good enough. And I think you start to
50:22
Speaker 7: put maybe some undue pressure on yourself when you're like, well,
50:25
Speaker 7: this is what the benchmark needs to be. I think
50:28
Speaker 7: when you have really high standards, the word I use
50:31
Speaker 7: a lot of standards, when you have really high standards,
50:35
Speaker 7: then things work out usually for you. But the expectation
50:39
Speaker 7: of Florida is championships in every sport, not just football.
50:42
Speaker 7: That's part of what drew me here. I know there's certain–
50:47
Speaker 7: Certain scoreboard outcomes that people would love to go, well,
50:50
Speaker 7: that's what a success is. Success to me is 1-0
50:53
Speaker 7: every week. And we go 1-0 every week, I think
50:55
Speaker 7: everybody would be really damn happy.
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Speaker 1: Love it. So what are the real expectations? Without him
51:01
Speaker 1: listening to our show right now, what do we think
51:03
Speaker 1: Florida is?
51:04
Speaker 5: So this is a guy in four years, two at Troy,
51:06
Speaker 5: two at Tulane, averaged right at 11 wins per season.
51:09
Speaker 1: That's right. In four years. Is that three championships? Three
51:12
Speaker 1: championships in four years.
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Speaker 5: The thing about Summerall is, and you hear this from
51:16
Speaker 5: all coaches, and it's not about the coaches, it's about
51:18
Speaker 5: the players.
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Speaker 1: They've got some players.
51:21
Speaker 5: And I think culture can flip two or three wins
51:25
Speaker 5: going from losses to wins. He is going to build
51:28
Speaker 5: an incredible culture there. I don't know what the offense
51:30
Speaker 5: is going to look like with Aaron Filo, but I
51:33
Speaker 5: did see a big difference in the Georgia Tech offense
51:36
Speaker 5: from Buster Faulkner leaving there, now at Florida with Aaron Filo.
51:41
Speaker 5: I think they're going to be one of the surprise teams.
51:43
Speaker 5: They've got a difficult schedule, but I kind of think
51:45
Speaker 5: the floor is seven wins. I think they could, if
51:48
Speaker 5: things break right, this could be like a crazy 10-2 team.
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Speaker 1: I really do. I think, I hate to say it. Yeah.
51:58
Speaker 1: But they could be what Indiana was the first year
52:01
Speaker 1: for Signetti, except that was a crappy schedule. Florida would
52:05
Speaker 1: have to be a lot of good teams. Well, the
52:06
Speaker 1: difference there was culture. It really was. The players got
52:10
Speaker 1: better because the coaching was so good. And 25 transfers.
52:13
Speaker 1: And 25 transfers. But, you know, they've all got transfers
52:16
Speaker 1: at this point. I would.
52:19
Speaker 1: I mean, 10 wins seems really, really bold. I said
52:21
Speaker 1: everything breaks right.
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Speaker 2: Everything breaks right. I mean, that would be one. You're
52:25
Speaker 2: talking Coach of the Year at that point now for
52:26
Speaker 2: that turnaround.
52:27
Speaker 5: Make your point because I just want to give you
52:28
Speaker 5: the games that are unwinnable right now with Florida.
52:31
Speaker 2: My point is going to be, I think for both coaches,
52:34
Speaker 2: though one of them is not in this conversation currently,
52:36
Speaker 2: that Florida at Auburn game is almost a fulcrum game. Yeah.
52:42
Speaker 1: If I could. Week three. Week three for both of
52:45
Speaker 1: those seasons. Jordan-Hare Stadium and Auburn. You let me know
52:48
Speaker 1: who wins that game, and I'll tell you, do I
52:51
Speaker 1: think they can get to ten wins? Do I think
52:53
Speaker 1: Alex Skolish and Auburn could get to eight or nine wins?
52:54
Speaker 1: I may be able to let you know that tomorrow
52:56
Speaker 1: about 630. Yeah, I'd feel a lot better.
52:58
Speaker 5: These are all swing games to me for Florida, so
53:00
Speaker 5: they could go either way. We start with at Auburn
53:03
Speaker 5: on September 19th. Ole Miss coming into the Swamp. That
53:06
Speaker 5: is a swing game.
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Speaker 1: It's a winnable game. Very winnable. At Missouri. At Missouri.
53:10
Speaker 5: Very winnable game. South Carolina at home, a game they
53:13
Speaker 5: should win.
53:13
Speaker 1: They go to Texas, I'll give them a loss there. Although, physically,
53:17
Speaker 1: they beat Texas around last year. I'll even say they're
53:20
Speaker 1: a loss to Georgia, neutral site.
53:22
Speaker 5: But then they host Oklahoma, they go to Kentucky, they
53:24
Speaker 5: host Vanderbilt, they go to Florida State. All these swing
53:27
Speaker 5: games have got to go their way, but if they do,
53:29
Speaker 5: I think they're 10-2.
53:30
Speaker 2: Again, Week 3 and Auburn, that is such a massive
53:34
Speaker 2: game for both those new staffs.
53:35
Speaker 1: That would be a.
53:39
Speaker 1: An unbelievable season but that is doable all those toss-up
53:42
Speaker 1: games are doable i mean there's flaws and uh even
53:46
Speaker 1: in texas that you put down as a loss there
53:49
Speaker 1: and i don't think.
53:50
Speaker 5: Like i you go on the road to missouri and
53:53
Speaker 5: auburn i'll say they split there so that's one more
53:55
Speaker 5: loss that makes three and then i'll say that they
53:58
Speaker 5: split um what was it home games with old miss
54:02
Speaker 5: and oklahoma so you know i i think seven or
54:06
Speaker 5: eight wins is probably the number but again if everything breaks.
54:08
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