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Ep. 134: Week 12 College Football Takeaways - Oklahoma Rolls the Tide, Georgia Owns Texas, Notre Dame Playing Lights Out, Texas A&M Historic Comeback, and Insider Coaching Carousel News · The PatteFacts: A College Football Show

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  Durant makes his move, spins in the paint turn, puts it up, puts
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  it in John Morant knocks it down.
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  Gioso and the dollar the curls back.
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  Take it down, LeBron. Oh, look like James.
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  LeBron James with the rejection. And here we go, episode 134 of
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  The Paddafax, streaming on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and wherever
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  you get your podcast from. It is November 18th, 2025.
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  Thank you so much for tuning in. I'm William Patterson, all right
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  back for another edition of my weekly college football takes.
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  And after a big Week 12, we've got plenty to cover as we're
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  approaching the final couple of weeks of the season, folks.
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  And that means everything matters a little bit more where
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  the College Football Playoffs and, and many teams hopes are
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  still in the balance. Teams that are trying to sneak
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  in and find their way is in the balance.
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  And also you've got some teams that are you're trying to build
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  some momentum in the next season because there are some teams
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  across the country that aren't firing their coach this year and
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  aren't having a garage sale on all their players.
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  They need some momentum heading into the next season.
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  So there's a lot going on in these final weeks of the season.
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  And that's why it's really important that we come today and
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  talk about it. So I'll go over all the big
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  matchups, my takeaways from the action over the weekend.
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  I'll have some supplements, elementary takeaways from some
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  of the maybe not as big games that I still want to talk about.
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  I'll do my top 25 teams heading into Week 13.
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  And then I'll also share my Intel on what is coming up here
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  in a couple of weeks. And we've already seen it unfold
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  today as I record this. James Franklin has taken the
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  head coaching position at Virginia Tech.
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  I think that's a great move for him.
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  You saw him on college game day about a month ago.
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  We talked about wanting to get back involved in the coaching,
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  wanting to have another opportunity to win a national
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  championship elsewhere. And also a part of his buyout, a
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  part of his contract at Penn State, he had to go look for
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  another job. So now Penn State will only have
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  to pay $9,000,000 to Franklin as a part of that $56 million
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  buyout. So both parties win there.
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  I'm really excited for James Franklin.
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  I think he'll do well in Blacksburg, but there's a lot
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  that could possibly unfold here in a couple of weeks.
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  And I'll share you what I know about Lane Kiffin, what I know
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  about a possible domino effect that could take place with
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  coaches that are currently at their school, you know, haven't
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  left, haven't been fired, haven't decided to go elsewhere.
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  There could be a huge domino effect in college football.
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  I'll tell you guys about that at the very end of the episode, but
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  before we get into it, thank you so much for listening.
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  I really do appreciate it. We've had so much growth this
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  college football season, folks. It is incredible.
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  On Instagram right now, we are averaging 30 million views a
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  month. When we started doing these
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  college football top 25, my preseason top 25 back in June,
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  we were doing about 100K and now we're doing 30 million in a
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  month. And the followers continue to
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  grow coming off really one of our best weeks ever.
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  So make sure you're following at the Padifax on Instagram and at
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  the Padifax on Twitter, at TP Fax on Sports on TikTok and at
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  the Padifax on YouTube. Big things are coming in 2026,
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  folks. This is all a part of a big plan
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  to make this thing a lot bigger than it already is.
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  And again, I'm so blessed for everyone that has been a part of
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  this journey, but I've got bigger ideas, I've got bigger
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  plans than just having some fun on Instagram and, and doing this
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  podcast. And, you know, I, I want to grow
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  this. I want to make this to where
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  this is a go to destination for people that are intrigued by
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  college football 24/7 year round.
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  And I feel like we're starting to put some of the groundwork
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  in. So really do appreciate it.
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  Make sure you're following there.
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  miss an episode. All of our announcements are out
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  of the way. Let's get into the action that
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  why don't we our Week 12 takeaways and we'll kick things
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  off in Tuscaloosa, T Town as #11 Oklahoma rolls #4 Alabama 23 to
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  21 and the pregame storylines heading in this one I thought
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  were pretty simple for Oklahoma. Your College Football Playoff
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  lives are on the line. Your your hopes and dreams of
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  playing in the postseason are on the line and you can't afford
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  another loss and nine and three SEC team.
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  I think it would be difficult to make it in.
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  It'd be even more difficult for Oklahoma and we will talk about
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  another nine and three team here in a little bit that I think
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  could possibly have an opportunity with what they have
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  left on the schedule. But again, I don't want to get
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  too ahead of us. Oklahoma for the most part
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  playing for their college football lives in this one.
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  For Alabama, a big thing I talked about last week on Fox
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  Sports was does Alabama have the offense right now, at least the
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  offensive momentum to go up against a top 2 defensive unit
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  in Oklahoma? They've regressed over the last
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  couple of weeks heading into this one Saturday in terms of
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  their EPA and Ty Simpson's past depth perception and the average
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  of yards for completed pass. Everything is kind of dwindled a
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  little bit ever since they really caught fire in
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  mid-october and this is still a really good Alabama team.
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  But I had some serious questions about the Tides ability to be
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  able to facilitate enough offense up against an Oklahoma
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  defence that went into Neeland Stadium a couple of weeks ago
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  and made a couple of really, really big plays.
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  Could they do that in this one? If you followed at the pad of
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  facts, another reason why on Instagram to follow.
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  I had this is a 2 unit play for Oklahoma +6 and I had the money
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  line. I really like the spot here and
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  my intuition was correct because this Oklahoma defense force
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  critical turnovers. They forced 3 in total.
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  You had a punt return fumble. I think it was Ryan Williams
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  kind of muffed or didn't Muffet was running it out and just
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  trickled out. Oklahoma covers that.
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  You had a pick 6 from Eli Bowen. We'll talk more about the Bowens
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  here in a minute because they were really been packed full on
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  this one. But that pick 6 was big and then
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  they had another force fumble. So 3 total turnovers that they
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  cause and that's huge because you're on the road, you're up
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  against an offense that is very capable, more than capable with
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  a Heisman contending quarterback.
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  And Ty Simpson, Ryan Williams, one of the most electric wide
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  receivers in the country in a deep receiving core in general
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  with Isaiah Horton, Jeremy Bernard, this team can boom at
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  any time. And Jim Miller hasn't had that
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  great of a season. Alabama hasn't been able to
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  establish the run that well at all, but he has another back
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  that has shown that can break off some big plays.
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  So this is an offense that could boom, but Oklahoma forced
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  turnovers and they capitalized on them.
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  We'll talk about how they capitalize here in a minute, but
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  let's focus on these Bowen guys. Eli and Payton, they're
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  brothers. Eli Bowen was one of my favorite
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  cornerbacks, defensive backs headed into this season.
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  Talked about him in the offseason when we did our top 25
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  teams and he had an 87 yard touchdown off of pick six.
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  It's Ty Simpson's second interception of the season that
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  he's thrown just shows how good this guy is in terms of taking
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  care of the football. And that's been a big
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  characteristic of this Alabama offense throughout the season.
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  You know, they might have some struggles here and there their
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  their EPA numbers and and and stuff like that has dropped, but
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  they aren't turning the ball over specifically.
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  So that's been a positive. But they had a couple of really
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  key turnovers here and Eli Bowen with that pick 6 was big, gave
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  Oklahoma some early momentum and then Peyton Bowen, his brother,
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  broke up the 4th down pass where Alabama was trying to put
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  together a game-winning drive. So both the Bowens played really
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  big in this one and those are the type of plays that Oklahoma
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  had to make to win this one because they were without our
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  Mason Thomas and our Mason Thomas is one of the best edges
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  in the country. I I look at him as kind of
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  utility knife, a guy that you can use off the end, a guy that
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  you can use at linebacker. And Oklahoma has that all over
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  the roster. The the, the versatility is is
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  is great and credit to Brent Venables for the type of group
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  he has formed this season. There's been a lot of talk over
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  the last couple of seasons heading into this season about
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  Brent Venables ability to field a College Football Playoff level
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  team. And I believe that this could
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  have been the 1. And I talked about it this
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  offseason. I said I had to see some things
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  in order to fully hop on the bandwagon.
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  And they're not winning in the sexiest way possible, but
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  they're getting it done defensively, which is what
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  Venable strong suit is. So that tells me that this is a
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  guy that is doing his job correctly and the Sooners get to
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  tie Simpson four times in total without our Mason Thomas
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  playing. So defensively, Oklahoma did
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  their job. They forced critical turnovers
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  and put a lot of pressure on Simpson.
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  The thing I mentioned earlier that is really big in this one,
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  the second reason why Alabama was not able to win this one is
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  because Oklahoma capitalized on turnovers and in the red zone.
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  The Sooners only totaled 212 yards here, folks, and it was
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  very reminiscent of what they did at Tennessee.
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  Tennessee out game, 255 to 100 at halftime.
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  But they were up six points because they capitalized on
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  turnovers and they ended up winning that game.
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  And in this one, they took advantage of short fields and
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  opportunities off those interceptions, off the
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  interception from Eli Bowen goes for a touchdown off the fumble
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  return. They're able to get it into the
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  end zone, stuff like that. That's big and it helps when
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  you've got this ridiculous looking kicker that wears biker
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  shorts, but my golly, he can hit a 50 yard field goal like it's
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  nothing. So they take advantage of
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  turning you over and if you're going to be a good defense, you
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  have to do that. And Mater only goes 161 total
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  yards here in a touchdown. But he makes game-winning plays
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  and that's what I like about him the most.
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  He might not be 100% in the air, but he's still 100% in the
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  ground and as a playmaker. And I I really, really respect
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  his game and, and think he's been a big impact for this
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  Oklahoma team. And again, Venables came into
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  this season facing a ton of pressure.
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  The Sooners had two losing seasons in the last three years,
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  and those are the only two losing seasons of the century
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  mark. But this now looks like a
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  program that has gotten it together.
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  Brent Venables has done his thing defensively, has
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  identified the type of players he wants on this defense that
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  are versatile, that can play and be in a lot of different spots.
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  There, there. There's no joke about this
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  defense. Everyone can make a play and you
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  see that every week. Offensively, they might have
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  missed on a guy like Jay Knott out of the transfer portal, but
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  John Mateer has been the type of quarterback that they needed and
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  did not have last year. A guy that can take care of the
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  football and a guy that can manage the game correctly.
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  And if you're going to lean into your defense, you've got to have
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  a guy like that. But Mateer can also be big in
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  the clutch and is composed in the clutch, and that's what I
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  think is really big about this Oklahoma team.
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  So credit to them, this was a big win.
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  They needed it and they got it done.
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  For Alabama, this was a little bit of a concerning loss because
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  they got in their own way a lot here.
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  Ty Simpson goes 28 to 42 for 326 yards and a touchdown and did
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  have an interception. As I mentioned, his second on
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  the season. The running game has been an
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  issue all the year and they got a little bit of an impact from
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  Daniel Hill. He had 15 carries for 60 yards
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  and two touchdowns. I thought that was a big bonus
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  for him. But outside of that, they were
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  not able to really get Jam Miller involved.
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  So you had those turnovers which were key 3 on, on on three on
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  the day. And I felt like that's what put
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  him in the toughest spot. I felt like that gave Oklahoma
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  really good field position, the opportunity to get some free
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  points on the board and despite Alabama's defensive effort,
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  which again, I thought did a fine job, You hold the Sooners
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  to 212 yards most of the time in a top ten match up, you're going
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  to, yeah, I mean, top 15, top 11, whatever you're going to
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  call it. Most of the time in a type of
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  match up like that, you hold the opponent to 212 yards in your
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  own building, I'd imagine you'd win, but not when you get in
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  your own way. And that's what Alabama did.
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  I will give credit to Josh Cuevas at tight end.
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  I thought he played really well. Six receptions, 80 yards and a
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  touchdown. Jeremy Bernard continues to be
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  the unk of that room, but he's a reliable target and and that's
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  the type of receiver that Ty Simpson needs in this first year
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  as a full time starter. I don't look him look at him as
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  a young guy by any means anymore.
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  But you need those type of players like Bernard that are
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  reliable and that can make plays and that's what he does.
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  Overall, this was a little bit of a concerning performance from
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  Alabama's offense. The numbers are are a little bit
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  inflated because they started having to throw a little bit
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  more than they wanted to. But again, that's because of
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  that run game being axed like Oklahoma did to Tennessee where
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  they had to throw the ball a lot.
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  So a concerning loss at home for Kaylin de Bore and company.
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  And now that's two straight wins for the Sooners over Alabama.
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  I mean that that a year ago you would, I mean literally a year
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  ago, like this weekend, because Oklahoma and Alabama played in
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  the final, what, two weeks of the season last year?
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  One, it was towards the end and yeah, I guess I think it was the
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  second last week. So it would have been around
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  this time last year. You told me that Oklahoma's
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  going to be Alabama last year with the Oklahoma team that they
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  had and then again this year in Tuscaloosa.
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  I would have thought you were crazy, but William Patterson did
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  have Oklahoma +6 for 2 units and money line the paddle locks.
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  Really good weekend by the way. Plus 4.6 units.
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  How about that? My other point about Alabama
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  though, the Iron Bowl just got interesting.
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  The Iron Bowl is now going to be Alabama's last chance to make
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  the College Football Playoff. It's a win or go home game at
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  Auburn. That does not sound like a good
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  idea, but Alabama's now in this position and Auburn's got a
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  really good defense. They've only allowed one team
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  this season to score more than 24 points on them.
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  Granted, it was against Vanderbilt the last time they
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  were out, but this is a stout Auburn defense as well.
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  They're very similar to Oklahoma, just a lot of guys
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  that can play different positions.
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  Keldrick Falk is one of the best defensive players in the
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  country, period. And is Ty Simpson ready for an
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  Iron Bowl environment? He's played in some big games
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  this season. He excelled against Georgia, but
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  the Iron Bowls always got a little bit something different
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  to it, and Auburn's got nothing to play for.
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  Ashton Daniels is going to be benched on Saturday against
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  Mercer just so we can play against Alabama and not burn his
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  red shirt. That's how serious Auburn has
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  taken this game. They want it more than anything,
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  and they want to see Alabama lose their season on their home
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  field. DJ Durkin is a defensive wizard.
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  He's going to be ready for this Alabama team.
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  The Iron Bowl just got really, really interesting because
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  Alabama did not handle business in T town.
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  That's going to be a fun one in Week 14.
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  All right, we'll switch over now to #5 Georgia continues to own
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  Texas. And this Bulldogs team used a
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  big time fourth quarter surge in the fourth quarter to put away
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  #10 Texas 35 to 10. The score a little bit
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  misleading for how this game was close through most of the game,
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  at least through 3/4. But heading into this one, it's,
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  you know, Arch Manning's played well.
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  Arch Manning had put together some really good games in the
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  matchups leading up to this one to where I thought he'd start,
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  you know, started to turn things around.
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  And don't get me wrong by any means, he was not the reason why
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  Texas lost Saturday, and we'll talk about that here in a
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  minute. But could Arch perform at that
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  level where he's got 7 touchdowns to 1 interception and
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  like 700 yards in his last three games or last two games?
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  Could he do that up against Georgia on the road between the
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  hedges for Georgia? Could they handle business at
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  home in this spot because they didn't do it against Alabama and
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  this was a night time game 730 prime time.
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  Could they handle it? They didn't do it against
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  Alabama, but they did in this one.
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  And my takeaways begin with Georgia wins the most important
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  quarter and that's the 4th. The 4th is like your final act,
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  you know, and and a job interview.
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  You, you know, meet the person you get to send in your resume.
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  The final act of a job interview is sitting down face to face and
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  selling yourself. Georgia did that in the fourth
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  quarter, the most important part of the game in order to put this
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  Texas team away in order to win the job.
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  They got it done and they tallied 21 points in the fourth
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  quarter, perfectly executed an onside kick.
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  And I have a pretty good number for this, a pretty good stat.
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  I'll tell you here in a second, but it was interesting on the
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  broadcast, Herbstrey and Fowler were talking about Steve
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  Sarkisian knowing that something was coming at some point, and he
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  said it was probably going to be on special teams, that Kirby was
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  going to throw someone at him. That just shows you how smart of
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  a coach Sarkeesian is and how good these guys know each other,
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  how well these guys know each other.
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  They know in a game like this they might throw in a little bit
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  of a wrinkle. And they did.
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  And Smart did it at a time where you would not have expected.
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  I mean, fourth quarter Georgia goes up 2110, 14 minutes left in
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  the game. Why would they do an onside kick
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  and risk giving Texas the ball at the 50 yard line when Gunner
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  Stockton had just thrown an interception 2 possessions
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  prior, allowing for Texas to cut it to within 4 or maybe 3 if
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  they went for two. But that's exactly why Kirby
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  Smart did it. And, and, and the reaction from
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  him was awesome. He was jumping up and down.
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  He knew that he probably just won the game off of that play.
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  And honestly, they kind of did because they go down and score
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  and they make it an 18 point game and and with 10 minutes
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  left, it's a 3 possession game, which is too difficult.
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  And that was the first onside kick of Kirby Smart's 10 year at
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  Georgia. And that comes from the
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  Georgia's, the Georgia's communications team.
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  So I don't know what to say that either shows that they've never
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  had to been in a game, happened to be in a game like that
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  before, or he just doesn't like to be creative.
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  I don't know, but he was creative in this spot.
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  And for the game, Georgia totals 357 total yards rushes for six
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  times the amount of yards Texas does.
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  We'll talk more about that here in a minute because that's
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  obviously a big concern for Texas.
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  But Gunner Stockton has continued to improve this
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  season. I thought in the early half of
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  the year he really struggled against zone coverages, even
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  against Tennessee. And that was a, you know, in
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  Week 3. That was a really big match up
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  early in the season when Tennessee would run zone, they
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  would be able to bottle them up and Stockton wouldn't be able to
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  make a play. When Tennessee would play man,
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  Stockton would have success and that's how Georgia was able to
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  get a couple of big plays late in that game.
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  But over the course of the season, he has been much better
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  with the zone. I think he's adapted to it
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  better. You saw a little bit of both on
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  Saturday. Texas has the personnel to go up
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  against George's office. It's going to be a George's wide
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  receivers, but they also want to throw a couple different things
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  at Stockton and I thought they did, but Stockton handled it
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  well. 24 of 29 for him, 229 yards, 5 total touchdowns, 4 in
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  the air, one on the ground. Stockton, for a guy that made
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  his debut against Texas last year in the SEC Championship, I
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  was there. I mean, it was a little bit of
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  a. We'll see what this guy can do.
• 21:25
  You felt like he was more of a runner because he was a really
• 21:28
  good runner in the SEC Championship and obviously the
• 21:30
  College Football Playoff didn't go his way.
• 21:32
  But this year I think he's continued to grow.
• 21:35
  And while it's not as impressive as like what a Ty Simpson has
• 21:38
  done, Stockton is still really, really good.
• 21:41
  And it just continues the path of Georgia quarterbacks that
• 21:46
  aren't necessarily like world beaters.
• 21:48
  But if you're good enough, you can win games.
• 21:50
  And I mean, Carson back won games for him.
• 21:53
  I thought he was a turnover machine at times.
• 21:56
  Stetson Bennett, a guy that is about my height, my size, and
• 22:00
  went out to the bar every other night, won a national
• 22:02
  championship forum. If you're in the right spot, if
• 22:06
  you're a a, a quarterback, then at least has somewhat of a brain
• 22:10
  and maybe not even has a brain. I mean, instead, I don't.
• 22:13
  I don't know. But you can thrive in this
• 22:17
  Georgia offense. You can thrive under Kirby Smart
• 22:20
  and Gunner Stockton has done that to a tee.
• 22:22
  I also thought it was big here, too.
• 22:24
  Chauncey Bowens gets banged up for Georgia.
• 22:27
  Nate Frazier goes 16 carries for 72 yards.
• 22:31
  Not anything that's going to jump off the page, but Georgia
• 22:34
  also has struggled over the last two seasons to be consistent
• 22:38
  with the run game. I thought they got some nice
• 22:40
  complimentary football from Bro Stockton with his legs, but also
• 22:44
  Frazier as a runner. Let's talk about Texas because
• 22:49
  this Texas team continues to just like I, I, I see the
• 22:54
  potential with them. I really do.
• 22:55
  We'll talk about that here in a minute.
• 22:58
  But it's just like they can't put together a flawless game
• 23:05
  against really anyone. But you can tell that they're
• 23:08
  the better team. And I wouldn't per SE say they
• 23:11
  were the better team Saturday, but they're two inconsistent in
• 23:17
  different facets of the game where like they haven't been
• 23:19
  able to really establish the run all year, but when they have,
• 23:22
  they haven't been able to throw the ball that well.
• 23:25
  It's just like kind of back and forth.
• 23:26
  And it's kind of like Tennessee and Tennessee, another three
• 23:28
  loss team in the SEC. They play defense really well
• 23:31
  one game and then they can't formulate the offense the same
• 23:34
  way they used to. And then the offense is a world
• 23:36
  beater and then the defense can't stop a cold.
• 23:39
  So like you've got a couple of teams like that in the SEC that
• 23:41
  just have major flaws. And I think Texas has one of
• 23:44
  them. I don't think it's as bad as
• 23:45
  like a Tennessee where it's like 1 unit plays well, the other
• 23:49
  unit plays, you know, bad. For Texas.
• 23:52
  It's more either Arch Manning doesn't have a good game or they
• 23:57
  can't run the ball. And this was one of these games
• 23:59
  you can't, they couldn't run the ball and it was really big
• 24:01
  because you're going up against the Georgia defense.
• 24:03
  While they're not as good as they've been in years past,
• 24:05
  they're still a really talented team.
• 24:07
  And if they know you're going to have to drop back and pass time
• 24:10
  and time again, they're going to be able to adjust.
• 24:13
  And they adjusted well. Texas throws for 251 yards.
• 24:20
  They only rush for 23. That's a problem. 1.35 yards per
• 24:25
  carry. Arch Manning goes 27 to 43251
• 24:29
  and a touchdown. Those aren't bad numbers by any
• 24:31
  means. Not what you would do, you know,
• 24:33
  want from like a star quarterback.
• 24:36
  But I think Manning's still continuing to get better.
• 24:38
  But contraven Wisner goes 9 carries for 37 yards.
• 24:41
  That's a circle highlight, whatever you want to call it, 23
• 24:46
  yards as a team. Your best back goes 37 yards.
• 24:49
  Not going to be able to do that in a top 10 matchup on the road
• 24:52
  against the Georgia Kirby Smart coach team.
• 24:55
  It's not going to do it. It's not going to cut.
• 24:57
  So they were one-dimensional once again in a big game this
• 25:01
  season. Against Ohio State, it was the
• 25:04
  defense was holding there in the bark and the offense couldn't
• 25:07
  get anything done. Against Florida, it was the
• 25:11
  offense continue to turn the ball over and they couldn't
• 25:13
  establish the run, really couldn't do anything.
• 25:15
  But even against games against teams like Kentucky and
• 25:19
  Mississippi State, it's just been inconsistent.
• 25:22
  And I feel like that's the biggest concern with this team
• 25:25
  right now. They just cannot put together an
• 25:27
  all facets performance offensively and Saturday was not
• 25:31
  the time to have just 23 yards on the ground.
• 25:34
  Now we'll say it wasn't all just the run game.
• 25:37
  DeAndre Moore had a couple of significant drops.
• 25:40
  He had 7 targets, ended up with five receptions, but he did go
• 25:43
  for 75 yards. They just had a couple of really
• 25:45
  timely misses where Arch would deliver a really impressive
• 25:49
  ball, but it just would whiff, just would miss.
• 25:52
  So I thought that was key. And then Emmett Mosley, the 5th,
• 25:58
  the Stanford transfer, he goes 3 receptions for 66, getting about
• 26:02
  100. You know, 20 something yards for
• 26:04
  those guys is always important. But again, just really we're
• 26:08
  lacking that ground game. Sarkeesian now falls to one and
• 26:12
  seven against top five teams at Texas.
• 26:17
  Interesting, right? And this Georgia team really
• 26:22
  just has Sarkeesian and Texas's number beat him last year in the
• 26:27
  regular season, beat him again in the SEC championship and got
• 26:31
  him again this year. So no SEC championship for the
• 26:34
  Longhorns, but I'm not willing to rule them out of the College
• 26:39
  Football Playoff yet. William What?
• 26:41
  What Texas is still alive. I I think so.
• 26:48
  I think Texas can still make the College Football Playoff.
• 26:51
  I know it's not going to be a popular take and I know a lot of
• 26:54
  Big 10 and ACC people don't want to hear that, but Texas still
• 26:59
  has an opportunity. I think they're the 15th best
• 27:02
  team in the country right now and they're going to have the
• 27:04
  opportunity to beat Texas A&M in the final week of the season.
• 27:08
  They have the toughest schedule out of any of these bubble teams
• 27:11
  in the country. They had to go at Ohio State,
• 27:14
  they had to go at Georgia, they had to play Texas A&M.
• 27:18
  You know, the, the loss to Florida is tough, don't get me
• 27:21
  wrong. But when you look at this team
• 27:23
  on paper and you look at this team with the eye test, they
• 27:26
  belong on the field. Now the losses in in in terms of
• 27:29
  the final score or a little bit misleading because that game
• 27:33
  Saturday was not a 25 point beat down.
• 27:36
  It was more a fourth quarter barrage that Texas just couldn't
• 27:39
  stop a bleeding. But that was a 21 to 10 game
• 27:42
  with 14 minutes left to go in the fourth quarter.
• 27:46
  You know, they weren't prepared for the on side.
• 27:48
  I think Texas still has a shot. They need some help.
• 27:52
  But I think Texas at 9:00 and 3:00 with a win over Texas A&M
• 27:56
  would be right on the cusp of earning a College Football
• 27:59
  Playoff bid. You have to have a couple of
• 28:01
  teams lose ahead of you. You would need a BYU to lose to
• 28:04
  a Cincinnati. You would lose.
• 28:06
  You need a, you know, a Utah to fall out.
• 28:08
  You need Vanderbilt would have to lose to Tennessee.
• 28:10
  You'd have to have some help. Miami to a Pittsburgh as well.
• 28:14
  You'd have to have some help, but I think Texas could be that
• 28:17
  first three loss team. If there was ever a season to
• 28:19
  put a three loss team in and the teams ahead of them lost, I
• 28:24
  think Texas would have the best argument, a better argument than
• 28:27
  any of the teams last year. I know it's going to be
• 28:31
  unpopular, I know, but I think Texas could have a shot if they
• 28:36
  beat Texas A&M. All right, we'll switch now to
• 28:40
  the ACC slash non conference, no conference.
• 28:46
  We had Notre Dame and Pitt on Saturday, folks #9 Notre Dame
• 28:52
  travels to #22 Pittsburgh. This one was a Narduzzi as the
• 28:58
  Fighting Irish handle. Pittsburgh 37 to 15 in this one
• 29:03
  and pregame storylines here. Notre Dame playing for their
• 29:07
  College Football Playoff lives. Every time they step on the
• 29:10
  field again this season, do they get tripped up in a typical Pat
• 29:15
  Norduzzi Pittsburgh upset spot? That was kind of the question I
• 29:19
  had. And this is a pit team that's
• 29:21
  been playing really well. Like, they had just spun off
• 29:23
  five wins in a row after they changed the quarterback to Mason
• 29:28
  Heinstall. Mason Heinstall, I should say, a
• 29:31
  true freshman. They benched the Alabama
• 29:32
  transfer and they've been playing well.
• 29:36
  But in the fine print below, I said last week on the radio,
• 29:41
  look at the people they beat, look at the teams they beat.
• 29:45
  It's all ACC teams in the bottom, like 6 or 7.
• 29:50
  That was not intentional, by the way, not intentional 6-7, but
• 29:55
  like all in the bottom six or seven, eight teams in the ACC.
• 29:59
  So it's a little bit inflated, but they haven't playing good.
• 30:03
  But then you had Pat Narduzzi come out on Monday and said he
• 30:06
  didn't get, didn't care if this pit team lost by 100.
• 30:09
  And I'm like, oh, I don't, I don't like that answer.
• 30:12
  But then again, if you follow college football, this is just
• 30:15
  kind of how Pat Narduzzi does things.
• 30:17
  He said some stupid things and is a little quirky, but you just
• 30:20
  have to live with it. And then on Saturday on the
• 30:23
  college football game day set, or excuse me, a college game day
• 30:26
  set, I should say, he said it's Saturday, it's game day.
• 30:30
  I don't care what I said. Monday, we're ready to go.
• 30:31
  So then I felt confident. I was like, OK, we're going to
• 30:33
  get a good game. I was wrong because Notre Dame
• 30:39
  is playing really, really good football.
• 30:42
  I had Notre Dame -12 1/2 in this one.
• 30:44
  Really like that side had Georgia -6 1/2 too.
• 30:47
  We've started off with three games we covered on.
• 30:49
  So that's a good start, right? Notre Dame looked really good.
• 30:54
  Let's start on the defensive side of the ball because at the
• 30:56
  beginning of the season, if you go back to some of those
• 31:00
  original take away episodes, I know we had a little bit of a
• 31:04
  blip where we weren't doing them as often, but you know, we've
• 31:08
  we've gotten it back together. I gave a lot of strays to Chris
• 31:13
  Ash and I gave a lot of strays to Mike Denbrock, the two
• 31:16
  coordinators for this Notre Dame team.
• 31:18
  While I still have a little bit of an issue with Mike Denbrock,
• 31:22
  I might talk about it here in a minute.
• 31:24
  Chris Ash has turned things around.
• 31:26
  I, I called him Chris ass for a good bit because he was ass.
• 31:31
  This defense was ass against Miami and Texas A&M, but they've
• 31:37
  turned things around. And I get it, it's not as stiff
• 31:40
  of a competition, but they are playing good offenses like
• 31:43
  Arkansas. They played about a month ago,
• 31:46
  was a top 25, top 20 offense in the country at the time.
• 31:49
  The hell, I think it was even top ten and the defense shut
• 31:53
  them down. They shut down Boise State, they
• 31:55
  forced 3 turnovers, 4 turnovers. They shut down Navy last week, a
• 32:01
  Navy team that just beat South Florida this past weekend.
• 32:05
  Chris Ash and his defense have soundly responded from a lot of
• 32:10
  mistakes and miscues they had at the beginning of the season.
• 32:12
  So I feel like they have put the hand up and they have made-up
• 32:16
  for everything that went wrong because Pitt just did not look
• 32:20
  like they belonged on the field against this Notre Dame defense.
• 32:22
  219 yards in total, and that includes some pretty garbage
• 32:26
  time drives that Pitt was trying to put together to put up some
• 32:28
  points. 3.4 yards per play. The Panthers rushed for just 70
• 32:33
  yards at 2.8 yards a carry. Mason Heinstole, the quarterback
• 32:38
  that took over 5 or 6 weeks ago, goes 16 of 33 for 126 yards and
• 32:45
  an interception. Heinstrel just looked over his
• 32:47
  skis here. I love using that that
• 32:49
  terminology just over his skis because he was he did not look
• 32:53
  like he was comfortable out there.
• 32:55
  And granted, he's young, he's a freshman, He's played really,
• 32:58
  really well, gave him a lot of props.
• 32:59
  But this Notre Dame defense was a different beast.
• 33:02
  Desmond Reed, one of the best playmakers for this pit team,
• 33:06
  was banged up over the last month or so, but he sat out a
• 33:10
  couple of games to get healthy just for this one.
• 33:13
  He gets re injured in the third quarter in this one as well, but
• 33:17
  he goes 5 carries for just 12 yards, 6 receptions for 63 yards
• 33:21
  as a receiver. Again, King in on their best
• 33:23
  playmaker. That was big for Notre Dame, but
• 33:27
  I thought really what opened this thing up was that first
• 33:29
  pick six more like at the 836 mark in the first quarter and
• 33:35
  Notre Dame jumps 2 passes. One of them should have been an
• 33:38
  interception. The next one was a pick six.
• 33:40
  Heinstril just was not seeing the field correctly in that
• 33:43
  first half and really for the game, but I thought he settled
• 33:45
  in a little bit more as the game.
• 33:47
  It got a little bit more out of reach.
• 33:50
  But that first pick six really set set the tone, set the tone
• 33:54
  of Notre Dame's here. College game days over.
• 33:58
  The Pat McAfee field goal competition's over, Aaron Donald
• 34:03
  and Pat McAfee taking off their shirt pre.
• 34:05
  All that's over. Notre Dame has arrived.
• 34:07
  That pick 6 is what really made things settle in for me.
• 34:14
  Let's talk about this offense because I thought Notre Dame
• 34:18
  played really good ball given the circumstances because they
• 34:22
  didn't play clean per SE. They had eight penalties.
• 34:26
  They turned the ball over 2 times.
• 34:28
  Was not clean for them by any means, but given the situation I
• 34:33
  thought they played really well for for making up for those
• 34:36
  mistakes. CJ Carr, who I think is going to
• 34:39
  be a first round pick here in a couple of years.
• 34:41
  He goes 21 to 32 for 212 yards, 3 total touchdowns.
• 34:45
  Did have two interceptions, but he took advantage a couple of
• 34:48
  times of some pre snap penalties for Pittsburgh.
• 34:51
  Pitt gave up two big offsides penalties in this one.
• 34:56
  One of them resulted in a touchdown to Malachi Fields.
• 35:00
  We'll talk more about him in a minute because he was the guy I
• 35:02
  talked about this offseason that would make a big impact and he
• 35:05
  has. But they had a touchdown on one
• 35:08
  offsides penalty that they let play out.
• 35:11
  And then if I'm correct, he also had Malachi Fields also had a
• 35:14
  one handed catch on a free play as well.
• 35:18
  But CJ Carr, regardless, they had a couple of free plays and
• 35:21
  Carr made the most of it. And I think he's really good.
• 35:26
  You look at his numbers right now in terms of EPA passing
• 35:31
  percentages, PFF grades, PFF loves this kid.
• 35:35
  He's ranking second in a lot of major statistical categories.
• 35:38
  Maybe not after this week and after a couple of mistakes, but
• 35:41
  he's been damn good and is playing like the quarterback
• 35:44
  that they have talked about heading into this offseason.
• 35:47
  And it's just it's crazy watching this team right now,
• 35:51
  watching how they operate compared to what I watched in
• 35:53
  the first two games of the season forum, just how things
• 35:56
  have changed. But anyway, we'll talk about
• 35:57
  that here in a minute. And it's not even more of a
• 35:59
  thing about CJ Carr. It's more of a just how they
• 36:02
  operate. But continuing a big reason why
• 36:06
  they operate this way is Jeremiah Love.
• 36:09
  Jeremiah Love deserves your Heisman consideration.
• 36:12
  This guy is insane and he was last year too, in the offseason
• 36:17
  of so many great running backs coming into the year that you
• 36:20
  heard about Nick Singleton, K Tron Allen at Penn State were
• 36:23
  two of them. Jeremiah Love, Jerry and Bryce
• 36:25
  were some of them at Notre Dame, and they were also, you know,
• 36:28
  the Jonah Coleman's and Isaac Brown's of the world.
• 36:30
  There was some really impressive running backs, but no one has
• 36:35
  lived up to expectations and exceeded them like Jeremiah
• 36:38
  Loved. 23 carries, 147 yards and a touchdown. 6.4 yards per carry
• 36:43
  on Saturday against Pittsburgh and every single weekend he has
• 36:47
  a new highlight. Against Navy it was him bouncing
• 36:50
  off of a bunch of defenders thinking he was on the ground
• 36:53
  and then spurning A50 yard touchdown.
• 36:55
  On Saturday against Pitt it was doing a spin move that put the
• 36:58
  defender into like ANBA crossover from Allen Iverson,
• 37:02
  falling to his knees and bumping into another defender and
• 37:05
  rattling off a long touchdown run.
• 37:07
  Jeremiah Love is must CTV and is one of the main reasons why this
• 37:12
  Notre Dame offense is a well oiled machine right now.
• 37:17
  And I talk about the difference between what this group looked
• 37:21
  like in weeks 1 and and three technically their first two
• 37:24
  games of the season. They had a weird buy in Week 2.
• 37:27
  I talk about the difference from what they look like in those
• 37:29
  first two games to now. They give Jeremiah Love a lot
• 37:33
  more carries, a lot more touches.
• 37:35
  Against Miami and Texas A&M, it was let's work CJ Carr into this
• 37:39
  offense. But that's not how it worked
• 37:41
  last year and that's not how it should have worked at the
• 37:44
  beginning of this year. But Dan Brock has done a better
• 37:47
  job of realizing that and giving Love the football.
• 37:51
  And you put the ball in this guy's hands, there's going to be
• 37:54
  a big play to follow. He's tough as nails.
• 37:57
  I don't think we've seen a running back in back-to-back
• 38:00
  seasons as good as he is since like one of your favorite
• 38:05
  Alabama running backs really. I mean, I, I guess Ashton GNT is
• 38:08
  really is up there as one of the best ones, but like, it's a
• 38:13
  little bit different because Genti's going up against Fresno
• 38:16
  State and Notre Dame. I know they're not in a
• 38:18
  conference, but they play a pretty tough schedule or 30th
• 38:21
  toughest in the country. It's not like they're playing
• 38:23
  cupcakes. Jeremiah Love is just fun as
• 38:26
  hell to watch, man. One of my favorite players to
• 38:28
  watch this season and he's a big reason why this Notre Dame team
• 38:33
  is playing the way they are right now.
• 38:35
  The other thing I want to mention is Malachi Fields, the
• 38:40
  Virginia transfer. We talked about him in the
• 38:42
  offseason when we did our top 25 teams heading into the new year.
• 38:46
  I highlighted him as a potential #2 alongside Jane Greathouse.
• 38:51
  Well, we found a new number one and it's Malachi Fields 64222
• 38:58
  and this guy is every bit of that when he steps on the field.
• 39:02
  Puts that bill to work. 7 receptions for 99 yards and two
• 39:06
  touchdowns. He benefited off of one of those
• 39:09
  offsides penalties from Pittsburgh, but goes up and
• 39:12
  makes a herculean catch. Jumps up in the air, nabs it
• 39:17
  down, had an incredible 1 handed grab.
• 39:19
  Malachi Fields is exactly what Notre Dame needed this
• 39:22
  offseason. Notre Dame needed to go out into
• 39:26
  the portal and find a perimeter threat that can go make plays
• 39:29
  alongside a Jane Great House or a Faison.
• 39:32
  And Fields has been that. And he's starting to get some
• 39:34
  NFL recognition because he's that damn good and he deserves
• 39:38
  it. And Eli Rayardon as well at
• 39:42
  tight end, 6 receptions for 67 yards.
• 39:46
  He was really good, too, and he was reliable, Got a couple of
• 39:49
  his yards after catch were great Saturday.
• 39:52
  This is a really good Notre Dame team, folks.
• 39:55
  This is a really, really good Notre Dame team.
• 39:59
  And Notre Dame. Notre Dame is doing exactly what
• 40:04
  they did last season. Last year they lose to Northern
• 40:08
  Illinois in the early part of the season.
• 40:10
  Everyone writes them off. And they continue to climb
• 40:13
  throughout the year, get wins, get wins, get wins.
• 40:15
  But everyone's like, I look at that Northern Illinois loss.
• 40:18
  They don't play in a conference. Notre Dame shouldn't be in the
• 40:22
  College Football Playoff. And this year, it's a lot of the
• 40:24
  same thing. I look at how they began the
• 40:26
  season. They lost to Miami and Texas A
• 40:28
  and M2, top 15 teams in the country, by the way.
• 40:31
  And now they've won everything else.
• 40:32
  But it's like, look, look, look back.
• 40:36
  Oh, they're not a conference. Oh, it doesn't matter.
• 40:38
  Well, Pitts, not that good. Even though you had been ranked
• 40:41
  top 25 this past week. Well, USCI mean, come on there.
• 40:45
  Even though USC is going to be a top 15 team most likely this
• 40:49
  week or top, you know, 1617 in the country, Notre Dame now has
• 40:55
  two top 25 wins on the season and their two losses are two top
• 41:00
  15 teams. You go look at the SEC teams in
• 41:03
  the country right now, Alabama has two losses and one of them's
• 41:06
  the Florida State. So the discourse on Notre Dame
• 41:10
  is the same every year because people just don't like the non
• 41:14
  conference play. Not in the non conference team.
• 41:18
  It's an exhausting take at this point.
• 41:20
  This team is better than a lot of teams in the country and
• 41:23
  they're playing like it. This is a a group last year that
• 41:27
  spun off 10 games in a row and made it to the College Football
• 41:31
  Playoff championship, and they did so by double digits and
• 41:36
  almost all of them. And just like last year, no one
• 41:40
  is getting open on the secondary.
• 41:42
  Just like last year, Jeremiah Love is one of the best players
• 41:46
  in the country. And just like last year, Marcus
• 41:50
  Freeman is getting this team prepared each and every week.
• 41:54
  The difference from last year, I think they've got a better
• 41:56
  throwing quarterback. You tell me where this team
• 41:59
  goes. Notre Dame's legit folks.
• 42:02
  And this is a damn good football team.
• 42:04
  And they are doing exactly what they did last season.
• 42:07
  And you better get on the train right now before they start
• 42:10
  marching into January still playing football like they did
• 42:13
  last year. All right, let's move to chaos
• 42:19
  at Kyle Field. I didn't think I was going to
• 42:20
  have to talk about this game. And, you know, I'm, I'm sitting
• 42:23
  there Saturday. Every every Saturday.
• 42:25
  I'd chill at my place. William, you're so lame.
• 42:28
  You're 23 and you sit at your apartment every Saturday in
• 42:31
  front of the TV. Hell yeah.
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  I like it. It's fun.
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  And YouTube TV was back, so I had more of the reason to do so.
• 42:44
  Have the quad box up and do so. Always do the quad box.
• 42:47
  I've got a 75 inch TV solid, you know, slight flex.
• 42:52
  The couch, my old couch from my college house called the Brown
• 42:56
  Bear. Brown Bear parked about 6 feet
• 42:59
  away. So really it's like I've got 4
• 43:00
  big TV's. And then on my other TV, which
• 43:03
  is kind of behind me for the viewing audience, kind of behind
• 43:06
  me to the left, it's my bedroom TV that I flip around.
• 43:10
  I have a ESPN game on. It's like on the ESPN app.
• 43:14
  So I have 5 games going on at once so I can watch all the
• 43:17
  action. And I had to, I, you know, I had
• 43:21
  the South Carolina game on. But I, it's just because it was
• 43:23
  a 12:00 window. Let's throw what I think the
• 43:26
  best games are on. I had no idea what I was in for.
• 43:31
  I mean, coming into this, who would have really circled this
• 43:35
  one? Now, it is important to note
• 43:37
  South Carolina ran through A&M last year 44 to 20.
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  And that was kind of an emotional win because A&M had
• 43:45
  just come off the win against LSU in Death Valley or one in
• 43:52
  Death Valley. It was in it was in Kyle Field.
• 43:53
  Excuse me. They won that game in Kyle
• 43:56
  Field. And that's when Connor Weakman
• 43:59
  got benched, Marcel Reed got unveiled.
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  But they were coming off that win and then went to go play
• 44:04
  South Carolina. And then South Carolina drilled
• 44:07
  them 4420. They crashed the field.
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  You had South Carolina fans grabbing towels and smearing it
• 44:12
  into the center of the field trying to get a souvenir.
• 44:15
  It was weird, but it was a big win.
• 44:17
  And that's what like that's what Beamer does in in November.
• 44:22
  He gets these wins that you didn't really expect.
• 44:24
  But they, I mean, obviously South Carolina last year strung
• 44:27
  off a couple of these. They beat A&M and then beat
• 44:29
  Clemson the final week of the season.
• 44:31
  But no one was anticipating this South Carolina team to do it.
• 44:35
  And then right before kickoff, Mike Elko signs the contract
• 44:39
  extension through 2031 to keep him in College Station. 6 year
• 44:43
  deal worth up to $10 million annually, up from 7,000,000 per
• 44:47
  year. So that guy's done his job.
• 44:50
  He gets a pay raise and an upcoming crazy college football
• 44:54
  landscape. And in terms of coaches,
• 44:57
  everything's going well. Everything's sunshine and
• 44:59
  rainbows, and then a storm comes in and it almost looks like it's
• 45:02
  too much to handle. Disastrous first half for the
• 45:05
  Aggies. South Carolina out gains A&M 312
• 45:10
  to 132 at halftime. The Gamecocks average 8 yards
• 45:15
  per play to A&M's 4 and discrepancies like that this
• 45:20
  season and in which the yards per play average is between is 4
• 45:25
  points or more. The average margin of victory in
• 45:29
  those games is 44 1/2 like that. That does not have.
• 45:35
  That should not happen against A&M.
• 45:38
  Marcel Reed was a big reason why though.
• 45:40
  He goes 6 of 19 for 141 yards and three turnovers in the first
• 45:45
  half. It got to the point.
• 45:48
  Well, I'll backtrack. I've had a tough time tweeting
• 45:51
  as of late. So I ended up on freezing cold
• 45:56
  takes a week ago for my Jaguars take, thinking the Jaguars had
• 46:00
  been the Texans. Obviously that went S Saturday,
• 46:03
  hopped back on the on the phone and tweeted out, you know how
• 46:07
  impressed I was with Marcel Reed because he made it.
• 46:09
  He made a really impressive throw to KC Concepcion down the
• 46:12
  seam of the field and it was in a double coverage.
• 46:15
  Planted it perfectly and I was like, man, last year he's a
• 46:18
  little bit of A1 trick pony, a guy that was a good runner but
• 46:21
  limited in the air. This year he's established
• 46:23
  himself as a guy that is almost elite in that level.
• 46:27
  And then he spurned out the one of the worst performances I've
• 46:30
  ever seen from a quarterback and 1/2 for a top ten team maybe
• 46:34
  ever. 6 of 19141, three turnovers, horrible.
• 46:40
  They're down 30 to 3:00 at halftime in most cases.
• 46:43
  That is a loss. That is a chalk that is fans are
• 46:47
  leaving the stands and it is over.
• 46:50
  Hell, you even have the police officers getting involved in
• 46:53
  this one. I, I'm sure everyone saw that
• 46:55
  over the weekend. Nick Harbour bumping in, or
• 46:58
  excuse me, the police officer, I should say, bumping into Nick
• 47:01
  Harbour and his teammates. That was ridiculous.
• 47:04
  But everything went wrong for Texas A&M.
• 47:09
  But the Aggies showed up in the second-half.
• 47:12
  You had us in the first half, they said, as Marcel Reed then
• 47:16
  goes 16 for 20 for 298 yards and three touchdowns in that
• 47:21
  second-half. A&M was really, really good on
• 47:24
  4th down. They had two of them in that
• 47:27
  second-half to extend drives and one of them.
• 47:30
  So they come out, they score, they make it 30 to 10, and they
• 47:35
  had another fourth down on that second drive.
• 47:39
  Yeah, they had whipped on that one.
• 47:40
  Things could have gotten a little bit interesting because
• 47:42
  even at the end of this game they were running out of
• 47:44
  possessions. Like they would have had a had
• 47:46
  an opportunity to go up 3830, but that still would have been
• 47:50
  A1 possession game. So if they didn't have that,
• 47:52
  they very well could have been, excuse me, talk about these
• 47:55
  fourth down conversions. That is, if they didn't have
• 47:57
  both of those, they could have been out of this game or having
• 48:01
  to drive against the clock to win the game.
• 48:05
  But they go 2 for two on 4th down.
• 48:08
  Marcel Reid was really comfortable hit a hit a crossing
• 48:10
  route to a wide open receiver. They were able to get a first
• 48:13
  down move down the field and and get scores.
• 48:17
  I thought Reid was much more composed and much more dialed
• 48:21
  in. I, I, I really don't know what
• 48:23
  to make of the first half. It was just awful.
• 48:24
  I got to the point where I was tween up, tween out and all
• 48:26
  caps. What is Marcel Reid doing?
• 48:28
  Because what, what are they doing with 27 seconds left in
• 48:31
  the first half? Zipping it into double coverage.
• 48:33
  Just Oh my gosh, it was mind boggling, but they were really
• 48:37
  good on 4th down in the second-half.
• 48:39
  South Carolina just 76 yards in the second-half in total for the
• 48:44
  game, Texas A&M goes five O 3. And look, this was not
• 48:50
  impressive for Texas A&M to at least on the scoreboard win by
• 48:55
  one point to South Carolina. Like if you do if you're a
• 48:58
  scoreboard watcher. And this is no offense to my
• 49:01
  mother, but my mother texted me Saturday afternoon says Texas
• 49:06
  A&M beat South Carolina by one. Are they really the number three
• 49:10
  team in the country? I'm like, well, they were down
• 49:11
  30 to 3. So, you know, scoreboard
• 49:14
  watching is a little bit different than watching not a
• 49:17
  stray. Once again, I'm not getting a
• 49:18
  straight to my mom. I'm just saying you watch the
• 49:21
  game and that saw how it unfolded.
• 49:23
  You're like, whoa, but if you're at a game on Saturday and and
• 49:26
  just checked your phone, you're like 30 to 31 or you're 31 to
• 49:29
  30. And that's not an impressive
• 49:31
  win, but it was the largest comeback in Texas A&M history.
• 49:37
  And according to ESPNSEC, teams have been O and 286 in games in
• 49:42
  which they trail by 27 points since 2004.
• 49:45
  Make that one 286 now, because Texas A&M was able to do that.
• 49:52
  This is the first time the Aggies have won ten games in a
• 49:54
  season since 2012, and it's only the program's third double digit
• 49:58
  win season in the last 30 years. Mike Elko, man, give him some
• 50:03
  credit and I will because I thought this was a good hire
• 50:11
  when they got them. Elko was with this group under
• 50:15
  Jimbo Fisher not too long ago. He was a defensive coordinator
• 50:20
  and the Aggies had a top 25 defense all three years he was
• 50:23
  there. This is a guy that can coach.
• 50:24
  It was never debate about that. And at Texas A&M, when the
• 50:27
  they've got the type of resources they have and the type
• 50:30
  of money they have, you now have to field a roster but be able to
• 50:34
  coach these guys. And Elko has done that.
• 50:37
  Marcel Reed's a guy that we went up against my senior year in
• 50:40
  high school. He he played at Montgomery Bell
• 50:42
  Academy in Nashville and he was a, he was a freshman that year
• 50:45
  and he was dazzling all over the place.
• 50:46
  So there was no question this guy was going to be a * and he
• 50:50
  is. He's very good.
• 50:52
  It was not great first half, but he was really good in the
• 50:54
  second-half. And if you just contextualize
• 50:57
  it, no other team since 2004 has ever done this.
• 51:01
  What what what A&M did Saturday? They're not a lot of teams that
• 51:04
  could. I know going down 30 to 3 is
• 51:07
  embarrassing, but finding a way to win Despite that is really
• 51:13
  impressive for South Carolina. I don't know what to make of
• 51:17
  this group other than the fact that the offensive line hates
• 51:20
  Lenora Sellers. He's been sacked 37 times this
• 51:22
  season and FBS best or worst, whatever you want to call it.
• 51:26
  I don't think that's a good stat, but it it's the most in
• 51:29
  the country, we'll say most. And if you're Shane Beamer, grow
• 51:35
  up. You're a head coach of a
• 51:38
  football team in the SEC hyping up the crowd like it you're
• 51:43
  you're up in the national championship game at halftime,
• 51:47
  Brother, you are three and six in this game now, three and
• 51:51
  seven following the loss. So you're up 30 to three against
• 51:55
  the number three team in the country.
• 51:57
  There's nothing to gloat about yet.
• 51:58
  As Kobe Bryant used to say, the job's not done.
• 52:00
  Job's not finished. Well, it wasn't finished and you
• 52:03
  didn't finish the project. You know, it's it's like they
• 52:08
  it's it's like he got dressed but forgot his pants.
• 52:12
  You know, just done work. Can't show up to a company event
• 52:16
  without pants on, can you? Shane Beamer?
• 52:18
  No, this was embarrassing. And I don't think he's like a
• 52:26
  bad guy. I don't he's like quirky.
• 52:29
  He's he's interesting, like Eli drink once everyone has an
• 52:32
  opinion about that. I don't think like Beamer.
• 52:34
  I think I would like him if I were like a part of the team.
• 52:38
  I'm sure he's a team guy, but like, as a analyst and as a fan
• 52:43
  watching this, that doesn't look like a serious coach that's
• 52:49
  hyping up the crowd as he walks into the halftime locker room.
• 52:55
  That looks like a guy that you could possibly implode and it
• 52:59
  did. Why do you ever see Nick Saban
• 53:04
  hyping up the crowd? Do you ever see who's your
• 53:07
  favorite coaches? Do you ever see any of those
• 53:10
  guys do that? Kirby Smart.
• 53:11
  Is Kirby Smart hyping up the crowd up 30 to 3 1/2 time on the
• 53:14
  road? That's that's the three and six
• 53:17
  team. No, he'd never be 3 and 6.
• 53:22
  I don't know. This might be might be rock
• 53:23
  bottom for Shane Beamer. And I, I put a post out earlier
• 53:27
  or on Sunday of him walking off the field and I've got people in
• 53:31
  that in the comments section saying that, well, he's brought
• 53:35
  us to three bowls. Is that, is that the goal for
• 53:38
  South Carolina to make bowl games?
• 53:41
  I would hope not. This was a team that was in the
• 53:43
  SEC Championship a couple of times in the 20 tens.
• 53:47
  I, I don't, I hope that's not the the goal to make bowl games
• 53:52
  in 2025. We're talking about bowl games
• 53:54
  and you've got Lenora Sellers and Dylan Stewart through the
• 53:56
  best players of their own position.
• 53:58
  That surely can't be right. So Congrats to Texas A&M, big
• 54:02
  win. All right, other notable results
• 54:05
  that we won't go as in depth in, but they are still important #17
• 54:10
  USC defeats #21 Iowa and hurricane like conditions.
• 54:14
  The final was 2621. USC trailed 21 to 10 at halftime
• 54:19
  in this one. I bet USC -6 1/2.
• 54:22
  They ended up not getting the two point conversion.
• 54:25
  That's why they only won by 5 as opposed to seven.
• 54:27
  But this was an interesting game because there was horrible
• 54:32
  weather before the game. They have the tarps on the
• 54:34
  field. The crowd was it was what it
• 54:37
  was. It was it was pouring rain.
• 54:39
  Everyone was wearing ponchos. Not like it was a very
• 54:42
  redeemable opportunity for a lot of people.
• 54:46
  Like you got to go send the rain and watch Iowa football, which I
• 54:50
  don't mind sometimes. By the way, I thought Iowa,
• 54:52
  Oregon was the best game of the week last week, but not a
• 54:56
  exciting brand to see. Like USC tried to have to dip
• 54:59
  down and play that style and and Iowa did that in the first half.
• 55:02
  I thought they controlled this game and control the pace.
• 55:05
  But quickly USC got a couple of stops and they got it done in
• 55:08
  the air. Jane Mayava, 23 to 32 for 254
• 55:12
  and a touchdown gets it to his playmakers Jacoby Lane and
• 55:15
  Malachi Lemon. Like Malik Lemon, I should say
• 55:18
  two of the best receivers in the country.
• 55:20
  Both guys are going to be in the NFL.
• 55:22
  They're really good and the conditions were not great.
• 55:26
  But USC outscores Iowa, 16 to nothing in the second-half.
• 55:30
  They get things going in the air.
• 55:32
  They fend off the weather conditions a good bit.
• 55:35
  But I'd really say the big take away here outside of just
• 55:39
  finding a way to win in the second-half, I thought they ran
• 55:41
  the ball well and Iowa has been one of the best run defenses in
• 55:44
  the country throughout the season.
• 55:46
  But they allowed a ton of rushing yards to Oregon.
• 55:50
  They've never they had not allowed more than 80 yards on
• 55:52
  the season, 85 yards on the season before Oregon and they
• 55:55
  allowed Oregon to run for like 152 hundred.
• 55:58
  Something like that was a ton. And in this one, USC, not a run
• 56:02
  first team by any means, goes for over 100 yards and King
• 56:05
  Miller gets 19 carries for 83 yards.
• 56:09
  Hawkeyes now back-to-back weeks of allowing over 100 yards to a
• 56:14
  Big Ten offense. I get, I get it, they're they're
• 56:16
  better opponents. But Iowa would have played some
• 56:18
  good teams before that, Indiana being one of them, and they
• 56:21
  didn't have that type of success on the ground.
• 56:23
  So 2 concerning performances from Iowa's defense.
• 56:26
  I do like the Hawkeyes, but I wouldn't anticipating the run
• 56:32
  game being as big of a thing for USC as it was.
• 56:38
  Let's see, that's a, that's an old one.
• 56:39
  All right, the Lane Kiffin Bowl. Let's discuss that one and we'll
• 56:44
  talk Lane Kiffin as well. Actually, I'm going to check my
• 56:47
  phone and make sure we don't have any Lane Kiffin news
• 56:50
  because I never know with this guy anymore if he's going to
• 56:54
  pick up and leave. I feel like I would have gotten
• 56:59
  a couple of seconds. Let's say no, no Lane Kiffin
• 57:04
  news, no Lane Kiffin news. No Lane Kiffin goes, we're good,
• 57:06
  we're good. And I don't think easily.
• 57:10
  I mean, I'll show you what I know here in a minute, but you
• 57:14
  just never know. Like I, I knew James Franklin
• 57:16
  was going to take the Virginia Tech job, but I didn't know when
• 57:20
  per SE because they kind of put him in an ultimatum of if you
• 57:23
  don't take this job over the weekend, we'll give you till
• 57:25
  Monday. If not, we're going to move on.
• 57:27
  And Franklin was considering a possible opening at Florida
• 57:33
  State and was also having some conversations with people at
• 57:36
  Arkansas, but ultimately, they couldn't give a firm answer
• 57:39
  either side. So he's like, all right, let's
• 57:40
  just take the sure, for sure gig.
• 57:43
  And that also was a part of this buyout with Penn State.
• 57:45
  So now he gets to pay the full amount.
• 57:50
  So I don't blame him by any means.
• 57:52
  But that's all to say, coaching carousel is going to be really
• 57:55
  crazy. That's why I had to check for
• 57:57
  Lane Kiffin. But let's talk about that Kiffin
• 57:59
  Bowl, because Key 1 Lacey helps this number 7 Ole Miss team fend
• 58:06
  off a Florida team that continued their bipolar trend of
• 58:09
  football. Play really bad one week and
• 58:12
  then somehow fix everything the next week and play a lot better
• 58:15
  with a competitive team. That's what they did this week.
• 58:17
  They ended up losing 34 to 24 scores.
• 58:20
  A little bit misleading. It should have been 24 to well
• 58:25
  on 24. It should have been.
• 58:28
  It should have been 2724. Excuse me?
• 58:30
  Oma scored with like a minute 30 because Florida stalled out at
• 58:33
  the goal line. Anyway, the key one, Lacy goes
• 58:36
  224 yards and three touchdowns. The transfer from Missouri has
• 58:40
  been incredible, and he's fun, too.
• 58:43
  He's got this deal with Genteel and Oxford.
• 58:45
  Every time he scores a touchdown you get 25% off a belt B2 a
• 58:50
  really cool trend there And and and the Ole Miss fans have been
• 58:54
  really nice to the Padifax this year.
• 58:57
  Lane Kiffin hit me with a repost.
• 58:59
  Kiwan Lacey did as well. I like this crew.
• 59:01
  They're fun. So B2A Kiwan Lacey good
• 59:06
  performance Saturday. Revs total 538 yards of total
• 59:10
  offense against a good but banged up Florida defense.
• 59:13
  Trinidad Chambliss goes 26 of 35 for three O 1 and 1 touchdown.
• 59:19
  But here the the thing with this one is the Gators continue to be
• 59:21
  so bipolar. This is a good Florida team in
• 59:25
  terms of personnel, but they can't put it together and the
• 59:28
  defense really struggled over the course of this one in terms
• 59:33
  of the yardage allowed. Now they got stops specifically
• 59:37
  like they had a fourth and goal stop that was really, really big
• 59:40
  right before the half. That was great.
• 59:43
  They held them to a field goal and they had another fourth down
• 59:46
  stop a little bit later on, but the yards continue to rack up to
• 59:50
  where Ole Miss had a lot of opportunities.
• 59:53
  GGJ Lagway goes 16 of 31218. Two total touchdowns.
• 59:57
  Did have an interception. GJ Lagway just can't play a game
• 1:00:00
  without an IMT. And then Jane Ball goes 61 yards
• 1:00:03
  for a touchdown on the ground. I would have liked to see more
• 1:00:05
  of him in this one, but Florida sometimes gets really pass
• 1:00:09
  happy. And with the pace of this game,
• 1:00:11
  you, you saw a little bit of that Lagaway honestly could have
• 1:00:14
  been like 26 of 27 if they didn't, you know, have to start
• 1:00:18
  zipping out passes late. But overall, this is just what
• 1:00:22
  Florida is. They'll be competitive.
• 1:00:24
  They'll stick around in games, They'll give you a fight.
• 1:00:27
  J Michael Sturdivant had a really nice touchdown in this
• 1:00:29
  one. It was a great ball from DJ
• 1:00:31
  Lagway to one of his two touchdowns on the night, but
• 1:00:35
  ultimately this is just a better Ole Miss team defensively and
• 1:00:38
  all. And offensively playing really
• 1:00:40
  motivated as well. A great crowd at Vault,
• 1:00:43
  Hemingway Stadium and the Lane Kiffin Bowl.
• 1:00:46
  At least early goes to Ole Miss, but this could get really
• 1:00:51
  interesting. So last week got a text.
• 1:00:56
  Lane Kiffin does not know what he's going to do yet.
• 1:01:00
  And one thing that's really bothered me over the last couple
• 1:01:02
  of weeks and really the last month is everyone is everyone's
• 1:01:06
  got a source, right? I've heard this, I've heard
• 1:01:08
  that. And I'm not saying that I'm
• 1:01:13
  inevitable and I am better than everyone and I know more than
• 1:01:16
  everyone, even though some people believe that I have that
• 1:01:19
  type of personality to them, which is not true.
• 1:01:22
  And, and a lot of it is like in a joking way for the people that
• 1:01:25
  don't know me personally, but like about sports, like I give
• 1:01:30
  my opinion and I'm firm to it. And some people take that as he
• 1:01:34
  can never be wrong. I don't necessarily believe
• 1:01:37
  that, but I believe in everything I say.
• 1:01:40
  And I'll have an argument for it.
• 1:01:43
  And I say that because I'll tell you what I've heard.
• 1:01:46
  And I feel like this is pretty accurate because the people I
• 1:01:49
  get it from are pretty good too. Lane Kevin honestly doesn't know
• 1:01:54
  what he wants to do yet. And last week on the message
• 1:01:57
  boards, everyone say he's going to Florida.
• 1:01:59
  Now people are saying he's going to LSU.
• 1:02:01
  His family was in Gainesville on Sunday.
• 1:02:03
  His family was in Gainesville at LSU on Monday.
• 1:02:07
  And those are both true. They were there, they're
• 1:02:09
  touring, they're they're taking a visit.
• 1:02:11
  Kiffin's not there. But I know that Kiffin does not
• 1:02:16
  know what he wants to do yet. And that is a fact.
• 1:02:18
  He doesn't know what he wants to do yet.
• 1:02:20
  So I don't care who tells you that.
• 1:02:21
  He hasn't made a decision as of this recording on November 17th
• 1:02:26
  at 9:25. This comes out Tuesday morning.
• 1:02:29
  So maybe things have changed. But as things currently stand,
• 1:02:31
  he doesn't know what he's doing. And I do know that Florida is
• 1:02:36
  prepared to give him a very lucrative offer.
• 1:02:40
  Florida's preparing to make him one of the highest paid coaches
• 1:02:43
  in college football. The highest paid coach in
• 1:02:46
  college football, if my source and number is correct.
• 1:02:52
  And that's a lot to to to weigh on, you know, do you want to
• 1:02:56
  continue to be the guy at Ole Miss and build your own legacy,
• 1:03:01
  build a, you know, possibly build a statue there and they
• 1:03:03
  might even give them one already?
• 1:03:05
  Or do you want to go to Florida, which is the bigger program?
• 1:03:08
  A little bit of a better recruiting opportunity, a better
• 1:03:11
  recruiting pool for sure. And try to bring back a program
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  that has continued to kind of be up and down over the last, you
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  know, 15 years. They've had some really good
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  moments. They've had some really down
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  moments. But Kiffin doesn't know what he
• 1:03:27
  wants to do yet. LSU is involved with it as well.
• 1:03:29
  But I'd say there's more ties to Florida currently than there are
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  the Tigers. But there could be another
• 1:03:37
  option. I'll talk more about that at the
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  end of the show. But Kiffin does not know what he
• 1:03:41
  wants to do. And he's going to be offered a
• 1:03:43
  very lucrative amount of money from Florida.
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  I'm not going to give the exact number, but it would be to make
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  him the highest paid coach in college football if he were to
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  accept that Florida job. Couple more real quick.
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  Clemson nabs an upset win over Louisville.
• 1:03:59
  Was really impressed with this one.
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  This was another Paddafax Padda Locks play at Clemson +2 units
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  at plus 2.5 + 2 1/2 was the number I should say.
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  And then the money line too. Look, Clemson has been through a
• 1:04:13
  tough season. They're my number one team in
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  the country coming in. I know it has not gone well.
• 1:04:18
  I already put the hand up, pants down, everything.
• 1:04:20
  I got it. But this team continues to fight
• 1:04:23
  and this team continues to play like they've got something to
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  play for. Kate Klumnick, an experienced
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  veteran quarterback, not giving up on the season.
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  Dabo Sweeney, a guy that's been through the UPS of college
• 1:04:37
  football and the downs of college football, he's not
• 1:04:40
  giving up. They've got guys like Antonio
• 1:04:42
  Williams who are going to be in the NFL here soon.
• 1:04:45
  They're still playing like there's something to play for.
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  TJ Parker and all these other really talented defensive
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  players, Avion Terrell, They have still got the mindset of
• 1:04:56
  we're playing for something this season.
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  And that's that's pride, that's passion.
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  And they showed that Saturday or it's going to be Friday against
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  Louisville. Louisville's a team that was on
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  the brink of cracking. Clemson cracked them.
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  Adam Randall, a wide receiver that converted to running back,
• 1:05:12
  goes for 15 carries for 105 yards and two touchdowns, one of
• 1:05:15
  his best games of the season. And the Cardinals out gain the
• 1:05:20
  Tigers 385 to three O 8. But they got in their own way
• 1:05:24
  with some mental mistakes and Clemson had a fair share of
• 1:05:27
  their own. But they continue to fight.
• 1:05:29
  You can think whatever you want about Dabo Sweeney.
• 1:05:32
  You can think about whatever you want to believe about Clemson
• 1:05:35
  this year and how they were disappointing.
• 1:05:37
  But and the end of the day, there are a lot of teams in the
• 1:05:39
  country right now. They're in the exact same
• 1:05:41
  position as Clemson that have given up and checked out.
• 1:05:46
  LSU right now. I know they got a big win on
• 1:05:48
  Saturday for their standards. Look like a team that was a
• 1:05:51
  little bit checked out for most of that one.
• 1:05:54
  Arkansas little bit checked out. TCU kind of looks like a team
• 1:05:58
  that's checked out. They were checked out Saturday
• 1:06:01
  against BYU. Florida State for the most part,
• 1:06:03
  A-Team that's checked out. I don't give a damn if they beat
• 1:06:06
  Virginia Tech Clemson might not be in a good spot right now,
• 1:06:10
  might not have had a good season, but don't tell them that
• 1:06:13
  because they don't care. They continue to fight and they
• 1:06:17
  continue to play football. It's not the cleanest product,
• 1:06:22
  and Dabo Sweeney will tell you that.
• 1:06:23
  Kate Klumnick will tell you that.
• 1:06:25
  But they continue to find out a hell of a lot of lot of respect
• 1:06:27
  for that. Finally, Navy derails South
• 1:06:30
  Florida's College Football Playoff hopes.
• 1:06:32
  Everyone told me, Oh my gosh, Alex Golish, Alec Golish, Alex
• 1:06:36
  Golish is going to go get a powerful job.
• 1:06:39
  Alex Golish is going to go save the world somewhere.
• 1:06:42
  I like Alex Golish. I covered Tennessee for a
• 1:06:44
  living. I know all about it.
• 1:06:47
  But we got way too ahead of ourselves on saying Alex Golish
• 1:06:51
  is going to go be the next big thing in the SEC or the ACC.
• 1:06:57
  He's got to handle what's in front of him.
• 1:06:59
  And what was in front of him on Saturday is a Navy team that
• 1:07:01
  just got run off the field against Notre Dame the week
• 1:07:06
  before. I get it, Blake Horvath wasn't
• 1:07:08
  available. He played in this one, but it
• 1:07:11
  wasn't even necessarily him that was the difference maker per SE.
• 1:07:14
  Because Braxton Woodson, the guy that played against Notre Dame,
• 1:07:17
  still had 9 carries for 103 yards and two touchdowns in this
• 1:07:20
  one. Alex Tesca still had 12 carries
• 1:07:22
  for 126 yards and a touchdown in this one.
• 1:07:25
  Horvath had 207 total yards overall and a touchdown, which
• 1:07:29
  was really benefit. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:07:32
  Beneficial, I should say. Yeah, But South Carolina, South
• 1:07:36
  Florida should not have been in this type of spot, this type of
• 1:07:41
  situation. They got in their own way.
• 1:07:43
  This is a very talented team. But everyone told me this was
• 1:07:46
  going to be the Group of Five bid.
• 1:07:49
  And excuse me and this American Conference is too talented for
• 1:07:56
  us to just pinpoint one team as the winner.
• 1:07:59
  Again, I'm sorry, I don't know. Must have gotten some dust in my
• 1:08:02
  nostrils. Everyone told me that it Alex
• 1:08:06
  Goldwich was going to go get some gigs somewhere.
• 1:08:08
  I think he's a really good coach.
• 1:08:09
  I think he's a really good offensive coach specifically,
• 1:08:12
  but I don't think he's a guy that's ready to go take over a
• 1:08:14
  powerful level school. And losses like Saturday are
• 1:08:18
  examples. Why losses against, you know, a
• 1:08:22
  Memphis where you're up double digits with less than six months
• 1:08:25
  to go are reasons why South Florida's a good team.
• 1:08:29
  But we got way too of ahead of ourselves on Alex Golish having
• 1:08:33
  one really good season at South Florida.
• 1:08:38
  All right, real quick, My top 25 teams in college football
• 1:08:45
  heading into Week 13. Let's go down the list real
• 1:08:49
  quick re entering this week #25 Houston.
• 1:08:55
  The Cougars going to win over the weekend, though it was
• 1:08:58
  narrow. They are back in the top 25
• 1:09:01
  because there are a lot of teams that are losing in front of them
• 1:09:03
  #24 Navy. They jump in as South Florida
• 1:09:06
  drops. They find their first appearance
• 1:09:08
  on the William Patterson pole #23 Tulane.
• 1:09:12
  This is their third reappearance of the season.
• 1:09:14
  They've dropped out a couple of times when they find their way
• 1:09:16
  back into it #22 Missouri. Missouri re enters following
• 1:09:21
  their drop out a couple of weeks ago following the loss to Texas
• 1:09:26
  A&M. But they're back this week after
• 1:09:28
  an impressive win over Mississippi State #21 my highest
• 1:09:32
  ranked group of five team, the North Texas Mean Green.
• 1:09:36
  They are good at football, folks, and I love this offense.
• 1:09:40
  Drew Mesta Maker must see TV. Eric Morris, you need to do your
• 1:09:44
  homework on him. This guy's a quarterback guru,
• 1:09:46
  and he's doing the same at UNT this year #20 Virginia.
• 1:09:51
  They get a win over Duke, though it wasn't what I had
• 1:09:54
  anticipated. They get the win and they did it
• 1:09:56
  pretty comfortably #19 Tennessee.
• 1:09:58
  Yes, they have 3 losses, but this is a group that has lost to
• 1:10:01
  the number four team in the country, the number 8 team in
• 1:10:04
  the country, and the number 9 team in the country.
• 1:10:06
  And all of them have been relatively close throughout the
• 1:10:08
  course of the game #18 Georgia Tech.
• 1:10:11
  I don't love this one. They barely escaped Boston
• 1:10:13
  College. I'm not a big Georgia Tech fan.
• 1:10:15
  I'll have Pittsburgh beating them here in a couple of weeks,
• 1:10:18
  but for now, they only got one loss.
• 1:10:20
  They have to stick around. Michigan nearly escapes
• 1:10:23
  Northwestern at Wrigley Field on Saturday.
• 1:10:25
  Not the nicest game for them overall, but they find a way to
• 1:10:29
  win. They stick around #16 USC.
• 1:10:33
  They have the head to head win over Michigan, so they find a
• 1:10:35
  spot above #15 I dropped Texas to this spot.
• 1:10:39
  I know there are three lost team.
• 1:10:40
  I know a lot of people don't believe in them, but I think
• 1:10:43
  they're better than the teams behind them.
• 1:10:45
  And if they were, this was a neutral site game.
• 1:10:48
  A neutral site field was in play and Texas and USC lined up.
• 1:10:52
  I believe Texas would be the favorite.
• 1:10:55
  Number 14 Miami, the Hurricanes still have that loss to SMU,
• 1:11:00
  still have that loss to Louisville.
• 1:11:02
  That now looks a little bit more unimpressive.
• 1:11:05
  But they handle business this weekend against the bad NC State
• 1:11:09
  team. They stick around Utah at 13.
• 1:11:13
  Utah does have a big time win over Cincinnati, but they lose
• 1:11:16
  over the weekend. That wind does not look as
• 1:11:18
  strong. And you start to evaluate
• 1:11:20
  things. Maybe they might be a little bit
• 1:11:22
  overrated. BYU beat them at home.
• 1:11:26
  BYU won at home, that is. But Utah was a favorite.
• 1:11:29
  And Utah got run off the field by Texas Tech in their own
• 1:11:32
  building with the Red Raiders having a backup quarterback #12
• 1:11:35
  BYU. They handle business against
• 1:11:37
  TCUI. Still don't love this team in
• 1:11:39
  terms of their offense, but their defense is legit #11
• 1:11:42
  Vanderbilt. They play Kentucky and Tennessee
• 1:11:45
  to round out the season. A couple of big ones as their
• 1:11:47
  College Football Playoff hopes are still in the balance #10
• 1:11:51
  Notre Dame. Just one spot behind a team that
• 1:11:54
  I debated for with for a minute. I went with a better win.
• 1:11:58
  Notre Dame has better losses than this team ahead of them,
• 1:12:01
  but the team in front of them has the better win and that's
• 1:12:03
  Alabama. With the win on the road against
• 1:12:06
  Georgia #8 it's Oklahoma. They beat Alabama head to
• 1:12:23
  And that's number five Texas Tech who swamped UCF this
• 1:12:28
  weekend. Eric Rodgers, Me.
• 1:12:30
  Jacob Rodriguez. Jacob Rodriguez, linebacker.
• 1:12:34
  Heisman consideration, please. Had a touchdown this weekend.
• 1:12:37
  He's now up to 97 tackles on the season, 7 forced fumbles, 2
• 1:12:43
  touchdowns in total, a defensive and offensive, and four
• 1:12:46
  interceptions. This guy is a stud.
• 1:12:48
  Please get this guy to New York and the number 432 and one goes
• 1:12:53
  Georgia, Texas A&M, Indiana, Ohio State, respectively.
• 1:12:57
  My top 25 teams in the country. No, I do not have JMU.
• 1:13:01
  I'm not like the AP poll that just tries to throw the edgy
• 1:13:04
  Group of Five team in there for fun.
• 1:13:06
  JMU's best win is not impressive.
• 1:13:11
  They haven't beat anyone and their losses to Louisville and
• 1:13:15
  we saw how Louisville has rounded out this year.
• 1:13:17
  So not ranked in my book yet. We'll see if they impress me
• 1:13:21
  anymore, but like beating Marshall by like 10 points is
• 1:13:24
  not doing it for me. I don't care if you're 9 and
• 1:13:27
  one, I want to see who you are beating and their best
• 1:13:32
  opportunity to be a team with a pulse did not go well, so not
• 1:13:36
  ranked for me. Finally, let's round it out with
• 1:13:39
  my final thoughts. And that is going to be a little
• 1:13:44
  Intel on what could go down this offseason.
• 1:13:48
  I'm not going to give the specifics.
• 1:13:49
  I will hint at it right now. But I'm just saying, watch how
• 1:13:57
  college football could be shaken up if Steve Sarkisian leaves
• 1:14:02
  Texas, If Steve Sarkisian leaves to go to the NFL, which he has
• 1:14:09
  hinted at, whether it was him directly or someone from his
• 1:14:15
  camp coming out and saying something, everything comes out
• 1:14:17
  for a reason. By the way, folks, everything
• 1:14:18
  comes out for a reason. You tell me why The Athletic
• 1:14:22
  comes out with a report heading into the final month of the
• 1:14:26
  season and in November that Steve Sarkisian is possibly
• 1:14:32
  looking at NFL opportunities. Why would that come out?
• 1:14:35
  Who would put that out there? Who would have that
• 1:14:36
  conversation? Well, it's coming from Steve
• 1:14:39
  Sarkisian, most likely. So there's a possibility that
• 1:14:43
  SART takes that jump to the New York Giants or takes that jump
• 1:14:46
  to the Tennessee Titans. I think more likely the the the
• 1:14:50
  first option being New York. But if he takes that job, that
• 1:14:55
  Texas job opens up. Let's connect some dots here
• 1:14:59
  real quick. Maybe you can piece it together
• 1:15:01
  for me. I don't have to tell you Josh
• 1:15:04
  Pate, the future college football commissioner who one
• 1:15:07
  day I will have on this podcast. I promise I will have Josh Pay
• 1:15:11
  on this podcast at some point. He goes on busting with the
• 1:15:16
  boys. I don't listen to that and I
• 1:15:17
  don't really listen to podcast period.
• 1:15:19
  I like to form my own opinions. I don't listen to anyone besides
• 1:15:21
  me, but I do like Josh Pay and I listen to him from time to time.
• 1:15:25
  And Joel Klatt, but that's not important.
• 1:15:30
  He goes watch for Lincoln Riley at USC and then that was the
• 1:15:37
  last thing he said before ending his cameo on the show.
• 1:15:41
  Lincoln Riley at USC. So Steve Sarkisian leaves Texas,
• 1:15:49
  Lincoln and that USC job would become open, right?
• 1:15:56
  Well, who would take that USC job?
• 1:16:01
  Well, the former Washington AD is now at USC and the Washington
• 1:16:07
  AD was with a long time West Coast guy that is currently.
• 1:16:15
  And if that were to happen, maybe Lane Kiffin wouldn't go to
• 1:16:21
  Florida or LSU and maybe he would take the job, the only job
• 1:16:27
  that he would drop everything for.
• 1:16:31
  Things are about to get wild, folks.
• 1:16:33
  Enjoy the fun college football heading into the final couple of
• 1:16:37
  weeks of the season. Buckle up and make sure you're
• 1:16:40
  following at the pad of facts on all of your favorite outlets,
• 1:16:46
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  TikTok, YouTube, whatever it may be, make sure you're following.
• 1:16:55
  And I appreciate your sport support.
• 1:16:57
  Really doing good numbers right now and we can we we hope to
• 1:17:01
  continue it. So I appreciate it, really do.
• 1:17:04
  I'm William Patterson signing out.