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Bama Bob previews Rivalry Week, Mike Palm from Circa Sports on the lines & Football Picks presented by Circa Sports · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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  Our number 2, Melrin Condon welcome back, Iowa Sports Radio
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  Network Trenton Ken with you until the top of the hour.
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  Off the bench, Lucas Strain takes you in till 5:00 here
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  tonight as Sean has got the day off still to come.
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  Mike Palm will head to Las Vegas at the bottom of the hour.
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  Mike Pom, VP of operations at Circa Sports.
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  Here's Bama Bob, he chimes in as we take a look around college
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  football the final weekend of the regular season.
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  All right, Bama, good to speak with you.
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  Appreciate you doing this, as always.
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  Let's get right into it because I got a busy slate of games to
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  opine on. Before we get going, just your
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  thoughts, Bama on Black Friday, The Heroes game, Nebraska
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  hosting the Hawkeyes, Your thoughts on Huskers, Hawks.
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  Well, I think most of these teams would have been hoping
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  they're playing for a little bit more than than pride right now.
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  But it's I mean, I don't have to tell anybody now what this game
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  means to the people in that region.
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  Doesn't matter if it's, you know, both teams that are both
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  eligible, playoff eligible, Big 10 championship game eligible.
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  It's it's just one of those it's I like the fact that it's
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  getting its own spot. It basically kicks off Black
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  Friday, right? You've got you got that game and
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  you got the NFL game and you got Indiana, Purdue afterwards.
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  So I think. Well, the Egg bowl too, though.
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  Yeah, well, that's true. Yeah, the Egg Bowl.
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  But yeah, I I just, I like the fact that that it's played on
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  Black Friday. I don't have an idea.
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  I mean, you know what team force where they going to go with him?
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  You would like to think that I would could.
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  I mean, he wasn't good last week, was good the week before
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  UCLA wasn't good last week. You'd think that maybe I will
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  learn something from that. But Iowa, again, I mean, they've
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  been, I don't know if the father is the right word, the close
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  loss to Oregon, the close loss to Indiana, right.
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  So they're right there really with anybody in the country.
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  But the other two you look at and you go, wow, that's
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  something that if you're really that good of a team, you should
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  have won those two games. I did.
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  Again, I'm just a fan of this game from having lived there.
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  I'll be watching it. I I, you know, I would lean
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  Iowa, I think, but again, I haven't watched, unfortunately,
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  certainly not as much Hawkeye football as two you guys have
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  this year. But I don't know about the
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  spread. I would probably take him to
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  cover it. I just I don't I don't know how
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  much momentum is around Nebraska right now.
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  After that loss last week. It kind of seems like Ryola is
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  going to transfer or enter the portal at least, and usually
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  that means you're gone. So you know good luck to him if
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  that happens. But just look, I mean cloudy 31.
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  I'm looking at the weather here just.
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  Perfect, I went. Nebraska weather, right,
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  Perfect. I mean absolutely perfect.
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  No, you wanted to deal with rain or snow or anything.
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  It's just perfect weather. I like Iowa in the game.
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  I'll be rooting for Iowa. But yeah, I just I'm again, love
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  the fact that that it gets its own spot and I'll be I will
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  certainly be a pulled up on the couch.
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  He'll have an AM when this one kicks on CBS.
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  Egg Bull. Trent Condon.
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  Love this game and the extra layer was third.
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  Thanksgiving night, still, but that's just me.
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  I don't I it feels like I missed it too much.
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  I like it here. And because of that, you got
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  obviously Lane will he won't he? When are we going to find out?
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  Is it going to happen before the game kicks off?
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  Is it going to be something in the middle of the game?
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  Somebody now, Pete Theamer breaks the news that he's going
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  to LSU and then he got that and all of a sudden you hear the
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  murmurs are happening throughout the club.
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  Here's the other thing. They should be able to line up
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  Ole Miss. I just run the ball right at
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  this Mississippi State defense. They can score, they can put
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  points up, but they're awful defensively.
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  But Lane, sometimes he has a tendency to get a little too
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  cute. And with all the distractions
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  and trying to get a little too cute, could all of a sudden we
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  be getting into the fourth quarter and Mississippi State's
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  hanging around and it's 2724 and what's going on here?
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  Avoid this loss all of a sudden, What does that do?
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  What is 10 and two Ole Miss with this loss on the resume?
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  What does? I think we're going to have an
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  interesting game. And it's the extras that make
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  this even better. I'm with you.
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  I think if Ole Miss loses, they're probably on the outside
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  looking in for that reason. Although the committee said last
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  night that yes, it involves players when a player, when a
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  quarterback can't start, but they haven't gone that far as
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  far as coaches not being able to be on the sidelines.
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  Baba, I think old Mississippi State has a chance.
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  As Trent said, he's 1000% right. They can score the Egg Bowl as
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  you see it. Yeah, I love this game too, and
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  I don't know why I didn't get to the top.
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  You know, I had the Big 10 schedule pulled up.
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  But yes, underrated rivalry, guys.
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  I mean, I love this game better at night and I understand A&L in
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  Texas has to be at night. I love this game.
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  Really. I really love it in Starkville.
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  You get the cowbells and I can tell you I've been to one game
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  there. It is exhausting to listen to
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  that all for 3 1/2, four hours constant.
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  And it's just it's more the background now.
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  You, you never get used to it. So I agree with you.
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  I listen, I think we're gonna know where Ole Miss is.
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  How do you? I think Trent, I'll steal this
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  from Trent in an earlier game. Can't remember in our
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  conversations earlier in the year, but I think we'll know
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  within out of the first quarter, right?
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  Are they focused? Are they sloppy?
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  Do they just come out and pound it?
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  What's his demeanor on the sideline?
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  I think if they lose it, I do think they're in trouble.
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  If they lose, I don't know that it totally eliminates them.
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  I think I think Alabama, if they were to lose to Auburn, I think
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  Ole Miss probably sneaks back in to one of those.
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  I think it would certainly cost them a home game if they lose
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  without question, even even as a two loss team, you know, their
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  loss being to Georgia, I don't think that really hurts them.
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  The loss to Georgia in Athens. I don't think they want any part
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  of the SEC championship game because they win.
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  But yeah, I I listen this again underrated rivalry and I think
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  we'll know. I I like Ole Miss and this one
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  because I I don't there's a lot of distraction, right And and
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  Lane's got this. He's got a history, right.
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  He's got a past of of, you know, being a being someplace in one
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  year and leaving at Tennessee, whether it's the Raiders, you
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  know, the well, they have a coordinated position.
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  He basically got fired before the national championship games.
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  He was working with somebody else.
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  It's just that's just that's just what surrounds him and he's
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  earned a lot of that. I don't really know how solid
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  these rumors are. But again, I think you'll know
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  within the first quarter. And if this is a dogfight, you
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  know, no pun intended, Mississippi State has a chance.
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  I think Ole Miss has a chance to just come out and run away from
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  it. I don't know that they
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  necessarily will, but you're right, they can run.
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  It takes defense is terrible. They do.
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  They can't put up points. They've scared the bejesus out
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  of Tennessee and Texas, Starkville this year.
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  I think we got another tight one.
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  I think somehow, somehow, someway, Ole Miss figures it
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  out. And I think they do get to 11
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  and one. And listen, if we lose, we're
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  going to know within 24 hours whether he's going to stay or
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  not. If they win, it drags out
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  because then they're going to be in the playoff.
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  Yeah, you're right. But both of those games,
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  Tennessee and Texas, overtime losses at home.
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  So let's just real quick, Trent, where?
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  Where? What is he next year?
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  LSU. Where is he?
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  Bama. I think he's going to be in the
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  NFL. In the NFL, off the board, I'll
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  say, I'll say LS, I'll say LSU as well.
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  All right, let's go to. The betting favorite?
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  I'm just being constant. No, I like it.
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  I like it, yeah. I think I think somebody in the
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  NFL might take a chance. How would he fit back with
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  Jackson? Jackson Dart in New York.
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  Well, yes, yeah, yeah. I'm not sure how he'd handled in
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  New York. Anyways, let's let's move on
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  Texas A&M and Texas Trent. Take a look at A&M.
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  Yeah, OK. What is their most impressive
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  SEC win? That would be they don't have a
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  ranked opponent on their schedule that they've beaten.
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  LSU was ranked 20th, Missouri 22.
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  But not by far. I mean, but but LSU new coach
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  Drake might be on his way out of town.
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  Rivula didn't play in that game against Missouri.
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  That's true. LSU had just fired their coach.
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  That's true. Arkansas had fired their coach.
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  Florida has fired their coach. Mississippi State's defense
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  stunk as we talked about South Carolina.
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  They had to come back from 30 to nothing in that game.
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  It was. A tight game. 6010 against an
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  Aubert team that, oh, by the way, has fired their coach.
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  Yeah, Texas wins. I I like it all right.
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  Bama, I agree. I don't think it's going to help
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  them in the playoff. There's a lot of, hey, you know,
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  if we get to 9 and three, we're deserving a playoff win a bit.
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  I don't think they are. You kind of go back to the same
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  thing here. This would be by far obviously
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  Texas biggest win. I know they look good luck.
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  You know 2 good losses, right? Ohio State and Georgia.
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  Right, bad loss at Florida. I just don't.
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  And I've I've heard, you know, I'm so tired of the stuff on,
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  you know, social media. Well, it just tells you you
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  shouldn't play an out of conference game because if we
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  were nine and you know, look, if you were nine and two with a
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  loss to Ohio State and Georgia, you'd be in don't lose to
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  Florida. If you were nine and two with a
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  loss to Florida and Georgia, but a win over Ohio State, you're
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  in. OK.
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  So I don't want to hear about the non conference game and then
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  we shouldn't be playing those. We absolutely should.
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  And you can spin it any way you want like an expert witness.
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  But I agree, I am not terribly impressed.
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  I watched a lot of A&M last week.
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  I I'm not terribly impressed with them.
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  I'm sorry, two weeks ago. I'm just they do have holes.
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  I do like Marshall Reed. He's had a better season than
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  Arch Manning. And who would have thought we'd
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  be here, you know, week 12 saying that.
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  But he has he's been more efficient, hasn't played the
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  level of competition. This is the first time I think
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  A&M other than Notre Dame game in South Bend.
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  And you give them credit for that, right?
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  You credit for going up there and winning.
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  This is the first time that they will have really been punched in
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  the mouth by anybody who can line up with them athletically
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  across the board, every position, every position group
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  you want. Texas can match their
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  athleticism, their speed, their size, their power.
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  So I think this I agree. I like I like Texas in the game
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  annuals favored by two. I mean you talk about your live
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  dog here, buddy. I mean there's two of them in
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  the SEC this week, unfortunately for me, but I think I think
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  Texas flat out wins it. I think they, I don't know.
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  I just, it's an exciting game, right?
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  Big in that state. It's not going to hurt any of
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  chances, I don't think. I don't know what a loss does to
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  their SEC championship game. I haven't looked at all the
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  tiebreakers yet. I know it would depend on some
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  other issues. It brings Georgia and Ole Miss
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  back into play should that happen.
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  But yeah, I think Texas wins. I don't think it helps their
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  playoff chances, nor should it. But I think they went out right.
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  The game Trent sounds like Tate, maybe Smith.
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  Both of those NFL receivers might not play.
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  Is that what you're hearing? I heard Tate is very
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  questionable. Smith leaning to playing?
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  They need him. They need him.
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  Because if they try to do the same thing that they've done for
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  the last half decade and try to play bully ball against Michigan
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  and improve this false crap bravado that Ryan Day and his
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  fake dyed beard come out there with don't do it.
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  It is It's there's no way his hair.
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  No, you're right. It's a. 1000% right?
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  As two guys with Gray hair here people that I'm proud of it yes
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  absolutely unbelievable that aside, I don't know bam if you
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  dye your hair or not, but I. I'd be wasting money on dye.
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  OK, gotcha. You know, everything tells us
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  this is Ohio State. But we've seen it so many times.
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  And the the same conversation a year ago when we did this one's
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  in Ann Arbor and all of a sudden you look up and how was this
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  game 13 to 3? What is going on here?
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  Ohio State's the better football team, and it's not particularly
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  close. Until Ryan Day gets away from
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  the false bravado and just goes out there and gives his team the
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  best chance to win, Michigan's going to hang around.
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  What? Did Mike Palm tell us when we
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  taped Mediacom that there was some survey done amongst Ohio
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  State students and four out of five of them, when they were
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  asked which game you would what you would rather do, win the
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  national championship or beat Michigan?
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  4 out of 5 Ohio State students said beat Michigan.
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  The game, it's different, it's different.
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  Is the outcome going to be different this year, Bama?
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  I I want to say yes, this, this is the most fuddling game to
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  pick every year. And it's for exactly what Trent
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  just said. And we talked about it last
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  year. I'm pretty sure we talked about
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  it. We did, yes.
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  Right. He just has this.
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  He thinks you have to win this game a certain way to prove your
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  manhood, right. And I understand it's your
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  biggest rival. OK.
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  If you want to call it the biggest rival in the sport,
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  fine. I don't think it is, but I'm
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  biased, OK? But it's huge.
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  It means a lot. It means a lot. 360, four other
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  days of the year, the bragging rights, everything else.
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  You see Portnoy, Right. Just, you know, constantly
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  blathering. Yeah, Yeah, They won no national
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  championship, but which is crazy if you think about it.
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  They won the national championship, but but like you
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  just said, four out of five, four.
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  It's like the Trident. 4 out of five students want to beat
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  Michigan instead of win the national championship.
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  I don't know how accurate that is.
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  Again, Ohio State should win. Better team, better talent.
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  I no way, unless we've seen it. Again, you've got to prove it
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  right. He's got to prove he's not going
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  to come out and try to just play Smash Mouth line of scrimmage
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  football. If he does that, then they're in
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  trouble and that point spread is in big trouble in my opinion.
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  If he comes out and uses the talent he has and calls the game
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  that he should, Ohio State I think wins 8 to 10.
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  I would take the points in this. And again, I'm not sure it's
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  really going to cost them much if they lose.
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  I don't know about the I don't know about the big 10
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  tiebreakers. Again, should they lose and you
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  know, they get into that three-way or, you know, Oregon
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  might be a lot, you know, a live dog too.
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  Who knows this week. I don't know that it would
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  necessarily affect them should they lose on the field.
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  It might cost them a buy if it cost them a spot in the
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  championship game. But yeah, again, the following
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  toughest game on the board to pick every year.
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  Talent always with Ohio State smarts and game plan in this
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  game alone always seems to be with Michigan.
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  I'll take Michigan in the points.
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  I don't think they're going to win out, right.
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  At some point, Ryan Day has to wise up.
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  Somebody's got to slap some sense into him and just say just
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  win the game. Doesn't matter how they don't
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  ask how how many. Just you know, they don't ask
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  how you do it, just how many. So I'll take Ohio State, but I
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  will take the, I will take those 9 1/2 also.
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  Let's jump over Miami and pit boys go to Oregon, Washington.
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  Good, because I was going to say pass.
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  OK, Oregon, Washington, right? I like the Huskies here.
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  There you do. They're completely different
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  team at Husky Stadium. I think they have enough
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  firepower to hang around here. Oregon.
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  Oregon's so close, though, they can taste they.
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  Can but weird things happen at rivalry week?
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  Certainly like the points at minimum and I think the Huskies
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  are a live. Dog in the number Trent, you
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  know. 6 1/2 earlier of the week. 6 1/2 what now?
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  Your thoughts, Bama? My favorite game of the weekend
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  that's not in being played in Auburn.
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  I think it's the setting, right. I just love this setting.
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  You know, it's going to be a little rainy 50.
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  You're going to have, you know, the the lake army or whatever
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  they call it out there. You know, the the tailgating on
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  like Washington. It's just it's just a great
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  setting. I tend to agree.
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  I have probably watched more Washington football than I
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  should have this year. I think they are live for this
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  game. No.
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  Or Oregon, You know, they've got the one loss to Indiana.
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  They've got some really nice wins.
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  Again, more talented, I think probably a better coach.
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  There is a little, you know, swirling around about, you know,
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  Washington's coach leaving and going elsewhere, you know,
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  possibly to some SEC jobs or whatever.
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  That said, you know was I like Williams, I've seen him play
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  again, you know the late night more than anything else.
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  Moore's been great this year. 23 touchdowns, 6 picks.
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  He's really taking care of the football again.
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  Love the game. Oregon probably going to win,
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  should win better team can sneak their way into the Big 10
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  championship game. And I think that means something
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  to them. I really do.
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  We talked about Ole Miss not wanting any part of it.
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  I think Oregon wouldn't mind being in there if they win,
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  depending on what happens elsewhere.
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  But yeah, I think it's this is a fun game.
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  I just, I just, I just love this game when it's in Washington.
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  Big rivalry again, underrated rivalry.
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  We used to the Apple Cup. You see the Civil War.
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  These two teams really don't get along with one another.
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  I will take Oregon. I will lay the points.
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  I see or I think Oregon wins this by three or four points.
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  I think they figure out a way because I think they're on a
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  mission this year. All right, Trent, let's get to
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  the Iron Bowl. Your thoughts?
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  Emma said it earlier. I think this is another one with
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  a lot. It's just weird things happen
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  now. It's been five straight by
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  Alabama in this series. There's been some close ones.
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  There's been some nail biters, including the last two that were
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  at Auburn, Jordan Hair Stadium. Weird stuff here.
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  All the pressure. De Boer, if he loses, is he
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  going to be looking for an exit? A lot of intrigue, but I got to
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  hear Bama's thoughts. Take it away, Bama.
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  Probably it doesn't just sound crazy.
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  Maybe the second toughest game outside of the Athens that
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  Alabama's face this year. Guys, I've said it before I say
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  it every year what this game is rarely a night kickoff, right?
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  It's usually always CBS 2:30 right now it finishes in the
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  dark right. We all remember the kick 6.
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  You know, I've got I've had some therapy over that one, but it
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  rarely kicks off at night. You get, I've said it before,
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  man, when this place is is wound up, it is as tough as there
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  anywhere in the country. I don't I don't care.
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  You give me Michigan Stadium, give me wherever, LSU,
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  Tennessee, wherever it is, the get in price is about 400 bucks.
• 18:25
  Auburn is fired up for this now. They have played, they play
• 18:29
  really well at home. The quarterback situation, you
• 18:33
  could call it a mess. I think they're going to use it
• 18:35
  to their advantage. You got Arnold, you got the
• 18:39
  freshman and you've got Daniels, right?
• 18:42
  I think they're going to have packages for all three of them.
• 18:43
  I think there's going to be plays where you see a couple of
• 18:47
  them on the field at the same time to try to confuse Alabama.
• 18:52
  Ty Simpson's got to play better. He had two picks against Eastern
• 18:54
  Illinois last week. He throws 2 interceptions
• 18:56
  tomorrow. Alabama loses unless they're
• 18:59
  just kind of Hail Marys at the end of the half, but he he gives
• 19:01
  them short fields and gets that. The longer Alabama keeps this
• 19:04
  crowd in the game, the tougher it's going to be.
• 19:07
  I don't understand the line. It looks like opened at 3 1/2
• 19:10
  and now it's 6 1/2. Oh my goodness, are you kidding
• 19:12
  me? I think people they're, they're
• 19:15
  just looking at numbers and analytics.
• 19:16
  This is this is an absolute pauldron that Alabama is going
• 19:20
  to go into tomorrow. You want to if you want to be in
• 19:23
  the SEC championship game, you have to go through them.
• 19:25
  They lose this game, they're out of the playoffs and now we
• 19:28
  brought divorce future back in because of two late season
• 19:31
  collapses in a row. Man, I, I want to pick Alabama.
• 19:35
  They're better, but again, they can't run the football.
• 19:38
  They can't run it. They tried all year.
• 19:40
  They can't make it happen. DJ Durkins got that team playing
• 19:44
  well. He's got them fired up.
• 19:45
  I think Auburn is an absolute live dog in this one.
• 19:47
  I think this is a fourth quarter game that really could go either
• 19:50
  way. I have no idea who's going to
• 19:52
  win it, but this is going to be, I mean, if you're just a fan of
• 19:55
  college football, it's going to be absolutely nuts there
• 19:58
  tomorrow night. They are wound up.
• 20:01
  This is their season. They're playing for ball.
• 20:02
  They don't care about a bowl game.
• 20:04
  They want to knock Alabama out of the playoff and they've got a
• 20:06
  really good shot to do it tomorrow.
• 20:08
  Ty Simpson to me, Ty Simpson's the key.
• 20:11
  He has to play well. And these last couple of games
• 20:13
  have not been his best games of these.
• 20:15
  Not by any, no. We're out of time.
• 20:18
  Do we have time for Vandy? Tennessee Trench.
• 20:20
  I'm rooting for Vandy. Rooting for Vandy?
• 20:22
  Yeah. A lot of points.
• 20:23
  Lot of points. Bama, I'm root for Tennessee.
• 20:26
  I'd like to see Tennessee doesn't have a shot at the
• 20:30
  playoff, I don't think. Again, no quality wins.
• 20:33
  I'd like to see him take Bandy out with film.
• 20:36
  But. What is this, an Alabama guy
• 20:38
  rooting for Tennessee? What is wrong with you Bama?
• 20:41
  Well, because think about it, Alabama wins and then loses the
• 20:43
  SEC Championship. We.
• 20:45
  Don't need to be going you're. Scared of?
• 20:48
  Bandy, I don't want them in the play.
• 20:51
  Listen, I'll play in 10 anywhere in the country.
• 20:53
  I'm not scared of them. I'm scared they'll get in over a
• 20:56
  three loss Alabama team. If they win tomorrow, wouldn't
• 21:01
  that be something not out of the not out of the realm of
• 21:04
  possibility? If Alabama gets wins tomorrow,
• 21:07
  loses the SEC championship game by a couple touchdowns, you know
• 21:12
  Bandy wins in Knoxville, something you haven't done the
• 21:15
  last couple tries. Yeah, I know we got head to
• 21:18
  head, but that third loss could hurt him.
• 21:20
  Good stuff. Bam, enjoy the weekend.
• 21:21
  Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours buddy.
• 21:23
  Thanks for doing this. Talk to you Monday.
• 21:25
  Guys as well enjoy it guys. Thanks.
• 21:26
  Good to talk to you Trent and I as we go around college
• 21:30
  football. So the Iowa State Syracuse game
• 21:31
  was a one point game at the half.
• 21:33
  Iowa State is the open the 22 to six run to start the
• 21:37
  second-half. Tory just controls.
• 21:39
  Things. He's unbelievable.
• 21:40
  Trent, whoever back came up with the money to pay Jefferson, I
• 21:46
  hope you got another set of money because this Toure kid is
• 21:49
  unbelievable. He is unbelievable.
• 21:52
  So smooth and how much this is going to help Lipsy too.
• 21:56
  Yes, having another primary ball handler talked about the
• 21:59
  injuries that stacked up another.
• 22:01
  Kids hit some threes today. He's got that part of his game.
• 22:04
  He's an elite defender. You look at the defensive
• 22:06
  metrics, he is already one of the tops on the team as a
• 22:09
  freshman. As a freshman.
• 22:11
  Coming across the pond, yeah. I only don't think of French
• 22:14
  guys as good defenders. No, this is a good defender.
• 22:16
  Here's Milan. She lives with a breakaway dunk
• 22:19
  slam and it's 57 to 40. Mike Palm next, Miller and
• 22:23
  Condon on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
• 22:25
  I'm Miller and Condon. Welcome back.
• 22:26
  Iowa Sports Radio Network. Just past 130.
• 22:30
  Final half hour before we call it a week.
• 22:33
  There is no local programming, no statewide programming on
• 22:36
  Friday. All of the kicks and no shows
• 22:38
  are off on Friday. But tomorrow we do have every
• 22:41
  single NFL game courtesy of Westwood.
• 22:43
  One. If you're driving around headed
• 22:45
  to family, whatever you want to, you don't want to miss any of
• 22:47
  the game. You can hear it here.
• 22:49
  Likewise, on Black Friday, we have the Eagles and the Bears.
• 22:53
  Let's get to Mike Pom, VP of operations at Circa Sports.
• 22:56
  Mike Trenton, Ken, happy Thanksgiving to you and yours
• 22:58
  and all the great folks at Circa.
• 23:01
  I want to ask you a survivor question to start because I
• 23:04
  think a lot of people saved the Chiefs thinking that, well, for
• 23:06
  sure I'm going to use them. One of these two spots.
• 23:09
  We'll, we'll either use them Thanksgiving against Dallas or
• 23:13
  their home against Denver on Christmas night.
• 23:16
  For those people who saved Kansas City, of those two games,
• 23:19
  what's the most likely win for Kansas City?
• 23:22
  I'm not sure either one of them looked like the layup that
• 23:24
  potentially they did at some point earlier this year.
• 23:27
  Mike. Yeah, they're both very tricky
• 23:30
  spots. And happy Thanksgiving, happy
• 23:32
  drinks, giving Friendsgiving, however you're celebrating out
• 23:36
  there in the great state of Iowa, it's tough.
• 23:41
  And I think you have to look at it not so much relative.
• 23:46
  From one game to the. Other Kenny, but relative to the
• 23:50
  other choices that you have on those days.
• 23:56
  So if you still. Have the lion if you save them
• 24:03
  because they are the other team that plays on both.
• 24:08
  Well, Dale's too. But this, this Vikings team,
• 24:13
  Yeah, this Vikings team could well have packed it in by
• 24:19
  Christmas. You know, now O'Connell is, is
• 24:23
  making up brain injuries. Yeah.
• 24:25
  I mean, this is this is really bad.
• 24:27
  I mean, they had to meet with the Wills to get the sign up on
• 24:30
  the will. They're going to keep them on
• 24:32
  concussion protocol the rest of the year.
• 24:34
  Wow, and they're going to let the undrafted kid from Minnesota
• 24:37
  play? I guess.
• 24:39
  So I think the Lions is more attractive.
• 24:41
  Therefore, if you have the Chiefs, I would think you would
• 24:48
  want to use them in some way Dallas as opposed to home to the
• 24:52
  Broncos. And it's still a month.
• 24:54
  Away. I mean, think how quickly things
• 24:56
  can change in the NFL over the course of a month.
• 24:58
  And because of that, if you're sitting in a position where you
• 25:01
  can hold on, let's not even worry about the Chiefs and
• 25:03
  Cowboys game. I'll keep both of them.
• 25:05
  I got both of them. I'm going to keep both of them
• 25:06
  until I get to Christmas. And same thing with the Chiefs.
• 25:09
  So let's not worry about them this week because they got that
• 25:11
  match up. It's at home.
• 25:12
  And who knows what the Broncos look like at that time.
• 25:14
  Good, Trent. I do they.
• 25:15
  Look very good, incredible, compelling.
• 25:18
  But is the majority, the guess is I saw some of the estimates
• 25:22
  last Man Standing, a really good podcast on Circus Survivor, well
• 25:26
  north of 33% and maybe up towards 50% on the eagles.
• 25:29
  Those are some of the estimates that are out there.
• 25:31
  That's got to be the the majority, even with the Bears a
• 25:34
  lot better than we thought and the Eagles losing last week, I
• 25:38
  think. You know, I don't mind the
• 25:40
  Eagles losing if I'm using the Eagles Black Friday.
• 25:43
  I think that's a good thing to wake them up.
• 25:46
  What was the stagnant offense against Detroit?
• 25:49
  A stagnant offense against Green Bay?
• 25:51
  Maybe there's a call to action here and there's some urgency
• 25:53
  and some pace and less predictability.
• 25:56
  It's so damn predictable, this Eagles offense.
• 25:59
  So I like it. I think it's I would say 43 to
• 26:03
  46% is my guess will be on the Eagles and that's heavy.
• 26:08
  I mean that's a heavy number on the Eagles, but I think people
• 26:12
  save them for exactly this spot. And of course they are a
• 26:15
  touchdown favorite. And so I mean, if you get beat
• 26:18
  with him, you get beat with him. So as you know, I.
• 26:20
  Like listening to Gil on Visen and Gil Alexander who is part of
• 26:24
  the money. One of the morning shows Gil
• 26:26
  said he bought into an entry. He doesn't have any sway into
• 26:30
  it, but he he bought a portion of did he say how much?
• 26:33
  And he what he did is he mentioned though it's circa
• 26:38
  survivor. Yes, but it's not about
• 26:40
  surviving. It's about winning.
• 26:42
  And if it is that percentage, that may be the best play to win
• 26:45
  this thing is to play the Bears this week.
• 26:48
  Do you subscribe to that theory at all, Mike?
• 26:54
  I I think there'll. Be more separation at the end.
• 26:57
  I don't think you have to have 450 people knocked out with the
• 27:03
  Eagles in order to win this thing straight up.
• 27:06
  You still have a long road to go, including this Sunday coming
• 27:09
  up, including getting through Christmas and the Sunday after
• 27:13
  Christmas. So unless you think the Bears
• 27:16
  are really live, I think that it's pushing game theory to say
• 27:20
  that this is the correct play. I'm with you let's so we'll get
• 27:24
  back to football because I want to run time before I ask you
• 27:27
  about the players era tournament.
• 27:28
  Iowa State looks like they're they're up 20 with 10 1/2
• 27:30
  minutes left to go. So they will go 3 and O other
• 27:33
  than the format seemingly needing significant work for
• 27:36
  next year. Mike, would you call this a
• 27:38
  success from a Las Vegas perspectives from sports betting
• 27:42
  operators perspective? How's the right bin?
• 27:44
  What's the tourism been like? More people I got to believe in
• 27:47
  town Thanksgiving week early in the week than normal players
• 27:50
  era. A success.
• 27:51
  Something Vegas wants to hold on.
• 27:54
  Oh, absolutely. And the book's been you know
• 27:57
  where on Monday and Tuesday. Monday day.
• 28:01
  And Tuesday, all day at night, I mean, we're seeing, you know.
• 28:06
  Four times as many. People in the book and we're
• 28:08
  getting nice, right? I mean we wrote, I think our
• 28:11
  right was over 4,000,000 per circa yesterday on a Tuesday
• 28:15
  with only one NHL game right? I know we had Lakers, Clippers,
• 28:20
  but so that was great and all these tournaments all over the
• 28:23
  place and and basketball from morning tonight, I thought it's
• 28:26
  just terrific and you're going to have 32 teams next year.
• 28:29
  I love it this. If it does come to fruition, 32
• 28:35
  teams, the eight teams that are going to come out of the Big 12,
• 28:38
  if they need a consultant, Mike, if you run into anybody there,
• 28:40
  have them give me a call in order how to put together a
• 28:43
  bracket. How you don't have a 2 and O
• 28:45
  team play their final game against an O and two team as
• 28:47
  Iowa State's doing right now. They need a basketball guy,
• 28:50
  somebody that actually knows hoops and knows how to put
• 28:52
  together a bracket. Can you have them give me a call
• 28:54
  please because this drives me nuts.
• 28:57
  Aim right on the top of the. Speed dial for these guys.
• 29:02
  It needs tweaking in the world it does will this.
• 29:05
  Be something though, that eventually I'm concerned.
• 29:08
  I don't want Maui to go away. I don't want the other
• 29:10
  tournaments to go away. I don't want it just to be about
• 29:12
  this because even for some mid majors you get in one of those
• 29:15
  loaded fields. I remember you and I probably
• 29:17
  6-7 years ago, really good this year by the way and they.
• 29:19
  Are and they got to go down. To Atlantis and they played
• 29:21
  Louisville and played for a national championship and played
• 29:23
  them down to the wire. They got a lot of big time
• 29:25
  victories. They played LSU one year in one
• 29:27
  of these events and helped propel them to the NCAA
• 29:30
  tournaments. I just hope that it doesn't 32
• 29:32
  major conference teams and the gap widens here.
• 29:35
  What have you heard about the future of some of the other
• 29:37
  tournaments and are they going to have to start to pay as well
• 29:39
  to be in order to compete Well, I think Maui's in trouble.
• 29:44
  That that's right off the bat. I think that they have been hurt
• 29:47
  the most directly by this, but you're still going to have these
• 29:50
  one off fields of four teams and these smaller tournaments that
• 29:55
  you know, I mean this is a great opportunity for a team like Iowa
• 30:00
  or Mississippi or Grand Canyon or Utah to get 2 quality wins
• 30:04
  towards getting to the tournament in that field in Palm
• 30:07
  Springs. So you also have these little
• 30:09
  these little 14 tournaments here and there that I think can help
• 30:14
  the mid majors. Now is it going to get too
• 30:15
  concentrated is together this 32 and go to 48 and go to say I
• 30:19
  hope it doesn't. I think 32 and let's see how 32
• 30:22
  works and maybe it's contraction to 2416.
• 30:25
  I don't know. But they'll figure it out.
• 30:30
  They'll they'll get it figured out on how to run it the right
• 30:33
  way. I want to go to.
• 30:34
  Tomorrow, back to the NFL, three games tomorrow, obviously early
• 30:38
  game NFC North game, really good game, The Dallas, Kansas City
• 30:42
  game, more eyeballs on that than possibly ever.
• 30:46
  Is there a game, Mike, from personal standpoint for you?
• 30:48
  Do you like any of these games? Tomorrow we'll throw in Friday's
• 30:51
  game as well. 2:00 There's Eagles from from a betting
• 30:55
  perspective from you. Do you like any of these games
• 30:58
  tomorrow or Friday? I like the Packers.
• 31:03
  You do OK. Yeah, I do, but.
• 31:06
  Does that mean I'm going to play him?
• 31:08
  I don't know. This stretch of the year for
• 31:12
  Jordan Love, though. Every year he's incredible.
• 31:15
  It seems he rounds into shape. Remember that a couple years ago
• 31:18
  he read the MVP the last nine weeks.
• 31:21
  From weeks 12 to 17 in his career, he has 25 touchdowns in
• 31:24
  one interception. I think there's something to
• 31:27
  that so. I know the Lions have a.
• 31:32
  Double revenge here and all of that, but.
• 31:36
  If I had to pick. A quite spread on one of these
• 31:40
  three games, or four games. If you count the Bears, it would
• 31:43
  probably be the Packers on the heels of Thanksgiving.
• 31:46
  Weekend we get 2 duds on paper for the prime time games, both
• 31:49
  Broncos at the Commanders, nearly a touchdown in that one
• 31:53
  and then over a touchdown with the Patriots and the Giants.
• 31:55
  How impactful will that be? And for people long weekend
• 31:59
  getting back home, do you think it will impact you guys?
• 32:02
  And what you see with the right calving, what we anticipate are
• 32:04
  going to be two pretty ugly games in the prime time windows,
• 32:08
  well, you're always up against. It because of people having been
• 32:10
  here earlier, you're not seeing people leave Monday.
• 32:12
  You see people leave Sunday. So this just gives them reason
• 32:16
  to fly out Sunday afternoon and Monday will be bad because
• 32:21
  you're coming off the holiday week this this week here.
• 32:24
  We have to get through this December 1st for a few days and
• 32:26
  then keep your fingers crossed we'll have the rodeo mid next
• 32:30
  week. Let's talk.
• 32:31
  About the college football Black Friday begins with the Heroes
• 32:35
  Bowl. Iowa and Nebraska circus.
• 32:38
  Scott I were favored by 6. There's some 6 and a halfs in
• 32:41
  the market. How much business are you seeing
• 32:43
  so far on the Heroes game? Mike Good, good.
• 32:46
  We all. See good right on this game.
• 32:48
  You know Nebraska is a semi national brand, obviously a lot
• 32:54
  less than it was 30 years ago, but and I think Black Friday is
• 33:00
  one of the most underrated sports days of the year.
• 33:02
  I love Black Friday. I always have.
• 33:05
  I just think it's an awesome rivalry day and there's so much
• 33:09
  implications the conference championship games and now to
• 33:14
  playoffs, right because of the expanded format.
• 33:16
  So I just think it's it's awesome and you know, you got
• 33:20
  you got another great, great amount of games again starting
• 33:24
  with Iowa, Iowa, Nebraska, but Georgia, Georgia Texan important
• 33:28
  game Ole Miss is it's important for them to win Texas, Texas A
• 33:32
  and MI think it's probably the game of the weekend and unless
• 33:35
  Ohio State again goes speedal against Michigan.
• 33:39
  So I mean, it's it's just a fun weekend, but it's like to me,
• 33:42
  it's just a bonus day. It's a total bonus day out of
• 33:45
  nowhere. We're here in the West.
• 33:47
  We got great games kicking off at 9:00 AM on a Friday.
• 33:49
  That's the only time you have it all year.
• 33:52
  Love it and. Iowa, Nebraska gets the start
• 33:54
  along with Egg Bowl. That's a pretty good start to
• 33:56
  the day on Friday. Sunday I'll have a pretty good
• 33:58
  start to the day here in our state.
• 34:00
  Side Hawk on the wrestling mat. Circus Sports has wrestling
• 34:03
  lines up. Not up there currently yet.
• 34:05
  Any anticipation? Any idea when we'll see the line
• 34:08
  out for Iowa? Iowa date noon and it will be
• 34:11
  televised going up against the NFL.
• 34:13
  Little bit tough there on ESPNU, but any idea when we'll see that
• 34:16
  line out for the wrestling duel? I think they're trying.
• 34:19
  To get it. Up Friday morning early, so mid
• 34:21
  morning towards noon your time. Good stuff.
• 34:24
  Mike Pom, VP of operations at Circa Sports.
• 34:27
  Download the app if you already haven't done so.
• 34:29
  It is a significant upgrade, no doubt.
• 34:31
  When's Missouri start, Mike? Missouri starts.
• 34:36
  At midnight Sunday night into Monday morning, we fly out of
• 34:39
  Vegas at 11 AM and we'll be in Saint Louis for the launch,
• 34:44
  doing a ton of radio in Eastern Missouri.
• 34:48
  And then we'll be at the Ducks Blues game on Monday night.
• 34:51
  Fantastic. Your Ducks, I know you got some
• 34:53
  Ducks features in your pocket. They look really good.
• 34:56
  No doubt. I can't understand the NHL only
• 34:58
  one game last night, but it's a feast here today.
• 35:00
  No doubt about it. Mike Palm, happy Thanksgiving to
• 35:02
  everybody there and to you and your family.
• 35:04
  Thank you. What you for do for Trent and
• 35:06
  I'm Mike Palm. Thank you.
• 35:08
  Happy Thanksgiving. Fellas, good to talk to you.
• 35:10
  Thank you, Mike. Mike Pom, VP of operations at
• 35:13
  Circa Sports. All right, our plays of the
• 35:15
  week. They're coming up next.
• 35:16
  Miller and Condon in a tight contest.
• 35:19
  We'll tell you more about that on the other side's the Iowa
• 35:21
  Sports Radio Network Off the bench.
• 35:24
  Who knows football better? The war wages on.
• 35:28
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  on One O 6.3, KX&O and the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
• 35:37
  I'm Hillary Cotton. Welcome back.
• 35:39
  Should also remind you when we're going down the list of
• 35:41
  radio play by play. I neglected, not on purpose.
• 35:46
  I would say women play 9:30 on Black Friday.
• 35:49
  By the way, the Iowa State men is a one point game at half.
• 35:52
  They're up 35 with four minutes left.
• 35:54
  This tore is unbelievable. Now let's score them 54. 20 to
• 35:57
  this point in the second-half. It's unbelievable.
• 36:01
  All right, Trent, we are in front of the afternoon boys by 5
• 36:05
  1/2 games heading into today, so we'd like to build on that.
• 36:09
  I believe I have the tee box based on my 3 one and one week
• 36:13
  last week. Yeah, 3720.
• 36:15
  Seven and two overall. You're dominating me now.
• 36:17
  A5 game lead over me in the standings between us.
• 36:22
  All right, here we go. I'm going to start in the
• 36:23
  college game. I'm going to take Illinois.
• 36:26
  I picked Illinois to be a playoff team.
• 36:28
  They're they're not going to be a playoff team.
• 36:30
  I think they bounced back this week.
• 36:32
  A home game, Northwestern overtime game last week, big
• 36:35
  win, get bowl eligible Illinois. I think Illinois give me the
• 36:39
  line eye less than a touchdown. I will take them.
• 36:42
  I know that you see this the other way, but I'm going to take
• 36:45
  SMU. It's AACC.
• 36:48
  Yes, ACC match up against Cal, Cal fired their coach.
• 36:52
  Wilcox is out. Alex, I can pull to tell you the
• 36:54
  lefty quarterback for Cal, but so much on the line for SMU.
• 36:58
  It's a big number. Just under 2 touchdowns, 13 1/2
• 37:01
  pick #2 SMU to the pros. I'm going to take a couple of
• 37:05
  NFC West teams. Those two NFC West teams that
• 37:08
  I've been saying for a couple of weeks are the best two teams in
• 37:10
  the NFL. I'm going to grab them both.
• 37:12
  The Rams, when I got this number this morning, when I sent it to
• 37:16
  Lucas, it was 10. Gimme the Rams laying 10 as they
• 37:19
  go across the country to take on Carolina, who was across the
• 37:22
  country on Monday night. Rams -10 The Vikings and Max
• 37:27
  Brosberg take on Seattle. In Seattle, I'll lay the 10 1/2
• 37:31
  and take the Seahawks for my two NFL picks.
• 37:34
  I'm going to do it. I'm probably going to regret it.
• 37:37
  Give. Me the game give.
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  Me. The Buckeyes, 10 1/2.
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  Kate Smith, both questionable. What are you doing, Miller?
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  Are you an idiot? Well, I'm going to take him
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  regardless. Lay the 10 1/2.
• 37:51
  That's my best bet of the week. The Ohio State Buckeyes to snap
• 37:54
  the streak and do it in impressive fashion.
• 37:56
  TC, you've been winning. And you've been?
• 37:58
  Winning with favorites. We got some dogs here.
• 38:00
  We got some favorites as well. As we kick things off in college
• 38:03
  football. I'm going to jump on Arkansas.
• 38:05
  Plus the three, So many close calls throughout the course of
• 38:07
  this year. Missouri Tribula came back way
• 38:11
  too early. I think you saw that a week ago.
• 38:13
  Think Arkansas gets the win here.
• 38:14
  I'll grab the three with the Razorbacks.
• 38:16
  Pick #2 we're going to Coosa Conference USA.
• 38:20
  Love this one. Missouri State laying two
• 38:22
  against latex latex quarterbacks.
• 38:24
  Missouri State has been able to run the football.
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  They can match up well in this one.
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  Yes, the former Missouri Valley Conference.
• 38:31
  Missouri bears -2 with pick #2. Let's go to tomorrow, Turkey
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  day. I like the Lions.
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  I know what happened to week 1. I don't think it happens again
• 38:42
  even with that depleted offensive line.
• 38:43
  I just think the but Lions are the better side.
• 38:45
  Short week for Green Bay. I'll lay the 2 1/2 with the
• 38:48
  questions surrounding Jacobs after not playing a week ago.
• 38:52
  I can't believe you didn't have your Houston Texans.
• 38:54
  You love the Texans. Best team in the AFCI?
• 38:57
  Got a + 4 1/2. Here on the road at
• 38:59
  Indianapolis, I think a chance at an outright victory.
• 39:02
  We wrap it up with my best bet of the week.
• 39:04
  This is the easiest one on the board.
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  Going to come down to a field goal and I'm getting 6 1/2.
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  I've been known long time Husker lover.
• 39:12
  Yes, you have give me. The 6 1/2.
• 39:14
  No more Husker, Kenny Husker Condon over here.
• 39:19
  Good stuff. All right, happy Thanksgiving TC
• 39:21
  to you and yours. Happy Thanksgiving to all in the
• 39:24
  listening audience. That's what we're thankful for
• 39:26
  that you turn in well whenever you tune into Des Moines Sports
• 39:30
  station. One O 6.3 KXNO off the bench.
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  Coming up next, Connor and Lucas until 5 have a great
• 39:36
  Thanksgiving.