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The Next Round: College Football Playoff Bubble: Who’s In, Who’s Out & Who’s on the Hot Seat? Hour 2 · The Next Round

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Speaker 1: Back with you the next round on Sport and State here.
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Speaker 1: You know who's been out of sight, out of mind
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Speaker 1: for a while now?
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Speaker 2: Michael Jordan.
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Speaker 1: That's true. I mean, there's a lot of correct answers here. Boy,
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Speaker 1: we talked so much about Pete Golding and Ole Miss
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Speaker 1: for a while.
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Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 1: They lose a game and then get a bye week.
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Speaker 1: We haven't talked about them in a long, long time.
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Speaker 1: Pete Golding, they're back at it this weekend as Ole
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Speaker 1: Miss goes on the road to Nashville to play Vandy
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Speaker 1: as a 10-point favorite. And Pete had a chance to
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Speaker 1: talk this week before we talk bubble watch about the
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Speaker 1: grind of being in the Southeastern Conference.
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Speaker 4: And man, like you got to outwork people here. And
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Speaker 4: that's a what have you done for me lately business.
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Speaker 4: And we got to coach it better and we got
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Speaker 4: to hold them accountable to do it. But they got
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Speaker 4: to want to do it. And I've seen that, you know,
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Speaker 4: last week and I saw it last night. But it
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Speaker 4: don't matter what I say. It's what matter what product
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Speaker 4: is on the field at 230 on Saturday. So we
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Speaker 4: could talk about all we want. We could set up
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Speaker 4: whatever drills we want. We talk about what changes we made.
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Speaker 4: It ain't going to matter until you put it on
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Speaker 4: tape and you do it consistently.
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Speaker 2: And guess what?
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Speaker 4: If you do it Saturday, right, and you've got to
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Speaker 4: come back Sunday, you've got to do it the next week, too,
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Speaker 4: because you've got an awesome Missouri team coming in here.
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Speaker 4: So it's week in and week out. So, you know,
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Speaker 4: our thing is we ain't got to talk about it.
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Speaker 4: We talk about noise. We talk about the noise after
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Speaker 4: the LSU game, right, and we talk about the noise
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Speaker 4: after the Florida game.
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Speaker 2: And you can go.
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Speaker 4: Google the same buddy that you're an All-American and now
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Speaker 4: you ain't worth a shit. So, like, that's going to
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Speaker 4: be week in and week out, right? You chose this, right,
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Speaker 4: and we all did, so. You know, that piece of it, man,
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Speaker 4: we got to go to work and we got to
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Speaker 4: identify our issues.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 4: And we got to find a way to improve those
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Speaker 4: and get better. And the things that we're doing well,
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Speaker 4: we still got to continue to do well. And there's
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Speaker 4: room for improvement in all three phases. No doubt.
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Speaker 1: Starting with me. One more thing before I want you
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Speaker 1: guys to comment on Ole Miss and we talk bubbles here.
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Speaker 1: Off of that, Pete got asked if he finds players
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Speaker 1: for not doing their job. You know, everybody gets money now.
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Speaker 1: Do you actually find players for not doing their job?
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Speaker 1: Here's Pete.
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Speaker 5: In this day and age, some teams use fines to
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Speaker 5: kind of, you know, as a corrective tool. Did you
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Speaker 5: use any of that when you see, you know, law
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Speaker 5: of plays or just plays that aren't up to the
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Speaker 5: standard this week?
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Speaker 4: Well, yeah, obviously you can't make them performance-based, you know,
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Speaker 4: from that standpoint. But there's a, you know, a cycle
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Speaker 4: coming in December and January, right, when everybody wants to
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Speaker 4: renegotiate their contract that, you know, it was very black
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Speaker 4: and white based on, all right, this is good enough,
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Speaker 4: this isn't good enough.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 2: Like in all of our jobs.
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Speaker 6: Right.
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Speaker 4: You're going to have that meeting and like, hey, here's
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Speaker 4: your raise or how you're fired. Go get another job.
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Speaker 4: You know, so I think it's my responsibility before you
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Speaker 4: fire somebody to make sure you really call them in
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Speaker 4: and be like, hey, man, this is not OK.
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Speaker 7: Right.
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Speaker 4: This is the expectation. This is how we want it
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Speaker 4: done and clearly define it for them. And I think,
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Speaker 4: you know, that's the big thing coming out of it.
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Speaker 4: Nobody that's 18 or 23 wants to go and not
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Speaker 4: have success. Nobody's trying to miss the tackle. Nobody wants
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Speaker 4: to get beat deep over the top. But are you
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Speaker 4: doing the things Monday through Friday to give you your
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Speaker 4: best chance not to?
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Speaker 1: I thought that was a good answer. I can't find
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Speaker 1: them for performance every week, but I can bring them
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Speaker 1: in and say, look, there's coming a time we're going
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Speaker 1: to be renegotiating, going to get a raise, we're going
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Speaker 1: to tell you to walk, whatever. This is not acceptable.
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Speaker 1: I thought that was a good answer.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I do think what is interesting, because performance-based, as
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Speaker 2: he said, you can't do anything with NILs. But like
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Speaker 2: a Dylan Stewart situation, can you do it for disciplinary reasons?
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Speaker 1: Oh, that's interesting. I would imagine yes to that, don't you?
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Speaker 2: You should be able to.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, for instance, like Dylan Stewart is being paid by
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Speaker 1: South Carolina. Does the contract stipulate we're paying you for
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Speaker 1: a 12-game season or whatever that may be? If you
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Speaker 1: miss a game because of discipline, you don't get paid
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Speaker 1: for that game. I don't know how those contracts are worded.
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Speaker 1: So that would be interesting to know that. Yeah, so
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Speaker 1: let's talk. Go ahead. Well, just real quick, do you
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Speaker 1: feel like the honeymoon's over for him? And I'm not
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Speaker 1: saying that because I got drilled by Florida. It is crazy, though,
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Speaker 1: because they were the best thing. And we were talking
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Speaker 1: about Mike.
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Speaker 2: If they can win this game against LSU and the
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Speaker 2: way they won it, getting up 17 and then being
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Speaker 2: able to come back, but then they give up 52
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Speaker 2: the very next week.
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Speaker 1: Even in the best of marriages, the honeymoon ends at
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Speaker 1: some time. I mean, there's just a certain amount of
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Speaker 1: time where the honeymoon's over, and that's really what I'm
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Speaker 1: asking you is not because they got destroyed by Florida.
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Speaker 2: Could be this week. That's a dangerous game. I think
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Speaker 2: they win, but the way their defense is playing right now,
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Speaker 2: they're giving up a lot of yards, a lot of plays.
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Speaker 2: Vanderbilt is one of these teams. They just always, outside
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Speaker 2: of last week against Georgia, Keep it close.
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Speaker 1: And they don't... Vanderbilt usually, under Clark Lee, doesn't make
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Speaker 1: a lot of mistakes to kill themselves.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I wonder, Jared Curtis, is he going to
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Speaker 2: be back? And that's big.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Because Blaze is not the guy.
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Speaker 1: Did you almost save Jared Curtis to get him healthy
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Speaker 1: for winnable games down the road?
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Speaker 2: Well, there was a Georgia theory that he didn't play because, remember,
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Speaker 2: on the 11th hour, he decided to turn and maybe not...
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Speaker 2: cause he's already a little beat up and going into Athens.
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Speaker 2: They would have been taking maybe some extra shots at
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Speaker 2: Jerry courtesy. You want to keep him healthy. You don't
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Speaker 2: want to kill the confidence. Wouldn't be surprised at all.
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Speaker 2: If that had a little bit to do with that.
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Speaker 1: Okay. I want to talk about coaches who have coached
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Speaker 1: themselves off of the hot seat so far this year,
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Speaker 1: and it can go difference, but, um, I'm going to,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to throw out a name and you tell
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Speaker 1: me if he's coached his way off of the hot
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Speaker 1: seat or not. Um, I find this very interesting because
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Speaker 1: this is a Friday night game. Mike Norvell, Florida State,
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Speaker 1: has he coached himself off of the hot seat? I mean,
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Speaker 1: that was an under-the-radar win over Virginia because I feel
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Speaker 1: like we've just started ignoring Florida State because you assume
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Speaker 1: it's just they fired the athletic director. This is a
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Speaker 1: man that's living on borrowed time. Respectable, in my opinion,
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Speaker 1: against Alabama. Yeah, I agree. He's played Alabama as well
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Speaker 1: as anybody else.
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Speaker 2: I mean, they were up two scores.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, nobody's played Alabama better. I was literally
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Speaker 1: talking to a Florida State fan at the golf course
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Speaker 1: just yesterday about this because he was like, man, I
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Speaker 1: am so torn. He's like, I was done with Norvell,
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Speaker 1: but we've actually started to play better. And I said,
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Speaker 1: you've played Alabama better than anybody and beat the brakes
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Speaker 1: off Virginia. That wasn't A last-second field goal, Lance.
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Speaker 2: I mean, they held them to 206 yards. They had
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Speaker 2: 10 sacks. Ashton Daniels is completely erratic, but he makes, like,
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Speaker 2: electric plays here and there.
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Speaker 1: A little backyard football.
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Speaker 2: Here's what I would say, though, about Florida State. Let's
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Speaker 2: hold it because I do not think they win Friday
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Speaker 2: night at Louisville. They haven't won a road game since,
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Speaker 2: you guys want to guess?
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Speaker 1: Is it Deion? No, I'm kidding. I would not even
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Speaker 1: know where to begin.
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Speaker 2: It's 2023. It's been three seasons of football since they
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Speaker 2: won a road game. So I agree where he is
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Speaker 2: right now. It seems like he's a little off the
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Speaker 2: hot seat. And Florida State is probably like, we really
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Speaker 2: don't want to pay that buyout. But let's just wait
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Speaker 2: because the next three weeks. Are they not favored at Louisville?
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 2: At Louisville, at Miami, Clemson. They've still got to go
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Speaker 2: to Pitt. They've still got NC State. They've still got Florida.
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Speaker 2: There's a ton of losses coming up.
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Speaker 1: Keenhole's questionable in that Louisville game on Friday night.
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Speaker 2: I think he will play, though.
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Speaker 1: And Louisville played Ole Miss tough. Should have won that game.
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Speaker 1: Had that big win against SMU, and now haven't they
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Speaker 1: lost back-to-back games? Oh, yeah. Yep. So, I mean.
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Speaker 2: Jeff Brom, come on, man. But I mean, to good teams.
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Speaker 2: I mean, Wake's a good team. NC State, believe it
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Speaker 2: or not, I think they're a pretty good team.
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Speaker 1: I think Wake's the second best team in the ACC. So,
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Speaker 1: I mean, that wasn't as bad a loss as it
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Speaker 1: appears to be on the surface. Louisville went from playoff
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Speaker 1: contender to not. Other more than that in the bubble conversation.
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Speaker 1: Jeff Lebby, Mississippi State. They were 4-0 last year and
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Speaker 1: didn't win it.
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Speaker 2: If it completely imploded, I am fascinated because it is
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Speaker 2: so quiet on this Camario injury. And I think the
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Speaker 2: injury is a lot more significant than they're letting on.
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Speaker 2: And they're going into a bye week this week. But
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Speaker 2: when they come out of the bye week, they've got
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Speaker 2: to go to LSU. Do you guys see a path
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Speaker 2: to victory in Baton Rouge?
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Speaker 1: If he's 100% healthy, yes. But if he's not 100% healthy, no.
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Speaker 2: And their defense leaves a lot to be desired. I'm
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Speaker 2: surprised it played as well as it did against Missouri,
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Speaker 2: not allowing a point in the fourth quarter.
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Speaker 1: It allowed Alabama to set an all-time SEC record. So
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Speaker 1: that should tell you something.
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Speaker 2: But just think about this. These three games coming up
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Speaker 2: for Mississippi State out of the bye. At LSU, Oklahoma,
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Speaker 2: at Texas.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: But he still does have Vanderbilt, Auburn at home, Tennessee Tech,
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Speaker 2: and then, you know, at Ole Miss. Egg Bowl could
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Speaker 2: be a big.
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Speaker 1: Game for him.
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Speaker 2: He's fine.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. Dave Aranda, Baylor.
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Speaker 2: One other quick point. I could see Camario say, you're
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Speaker 2: going to do something with Jeff Lebby, I'll go somewhere else.
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Speaker 1: That's right.
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Speaker 2: Coach stays, I play.
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Speaker 1: Jimmy Chitwood. Dave Aranda, two-point conversion away against Auburn from
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Speaker 1: being what?
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Speaker 2: The Klandy man.
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Speaker 1: Being undefeated. The Klandy man's coach. I don't blame anybody
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Speaker 1: for not staying up late Saturday and watching that game.
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Speaker 1: I did. They destroyed Arizona State. I mean, dismantled them
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Speaker 1: so much so. That everybody's darling a couple of years ago,
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Speaker 1: Kenny Dillingham, who, by the way, that trajectory is falling.
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Speaker 1: And he got somebody to write those big checks as
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Speaker 1: he brought in some big portal guys. Kenny Dillingham walking
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Speaker 1: off the field past his athletic director sarcastically says, well,
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Speaker 1: that was a fun one, wasn't it? I mean, they
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Speaker 1: got destroyed Saturday night. They need to get their next four.
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Speaker 1: And I think they're.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if they'll be favored in all four.
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Speaker 2: There's a good chance they are. TCU at Kansas, at
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Speaker 2: Central Florida, and Iowa State. If you can get those four,
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Speaker 2: you've still got to go to BYU, Texas Tech, and
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Speaker 2: at Houston. But if you get those four, you're eight wins,
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Speaker 2: and I think Aranda's probably okay with eight wins.
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Speaker 1: Easy, Luke Fickle. I think so. Easy off. I mean,
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Speaker 1: that was a guy. Basically, they said, we don't have
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Speaker 1: the money to buy him out. So we're giving him
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Speaker 1: one more year. And they gave him money. They gave
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Speaker 1: him the portal rather than pay the money on the buyout.
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Speaker 1: They gave him money on the portal and he's made
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Speaker 1: the most of it to his credit.
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Speaker 2: The the only they played one bad half of football
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Speaker 2: all year and that was the second half against Notre
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Speaker 2: Dame and it's understandable because Notre Dame's really really good
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Speaker 2: that was a one score.
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Speaker 1: Game go to that was it like 14 13 or
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Speaker 1: something going to the half.
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Speaker 2: Uh I think it was a one possession game 21
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Speaker 2: 13 but you know outside of the Penn State win
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Speaker 2: I mean Michigan State was was interesting because they won
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Speaker 2: the game by four.
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Speaker 1: Scores yeah what do they have coming up.
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Speaker 2: Uh at UCLA USC, at Iowa. But then they get Rutgers,
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Speaker 2: at Maryland, at Purdue, Minnesota.
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Speaker 1: So he's got to see. That's key right there because
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Speaker 1: when you're fighting for your job, if you can finish
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Speaker 1: on a 3-0, it feels a little different. Or even
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Speaker 1: a 4-0, maybe. I mean, like an 8-4 for him.
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Speaker 2: He's fine.
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Speaker 8: Oh.
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Speaker 1: An 8-4.
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Speaker 2: 7-5, he's fine.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, 7-5, he's probably okay.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's okay.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I think Fickles coaches well.
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Speaker 2: And I would have said, you know, outside of buyouts, again,
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Speaker 2: we don't know all the numbers, much like Shane Beamer.
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Speaker 2: We discussed that yesterday. I would have said for sure
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Speaker 2: there is no way, I don't care what happens, Mike
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Speaker 2: Norvell and Luke Fickler are done.
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Speaker 1: This is when Reese on game day turns from the
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Speaker 1: panel to set up the final pick.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And he tosses to a little video montage. Everybody goes nuts.
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Speaker 1: And then comes the nation's longest win streak, Indiana, into Lincoln, Nebraska,
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Speaker 1: where Big Red is waiting. Matt Rule, I don't know
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Speaker 1: if you had him on the hot seat or not
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Speaker 1: going into the year, but where? I mean, Matt Rule's
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Speaker 1: done a heck of a job this year. He's got
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Speaker 1: them 5-0, and it's the first time they have been 5-0,
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Speaker 1: believe it or not, in quite a while.
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Speaker 2: You know the last time they were 6-0?
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Speaker 1: Tom Osborne? It had to be Tom Osborne.
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Speaker 2: No, it was 2016, but it's been a decade.
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Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 1: How bad has it gotten that we both thought it
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Speaker 1: was Tom Osborne? Well, we just go to the extremes.
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Speaker 2: Bob Devaney.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I think they're going to win this game
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Speaker 1: outright Saturday. I said it back in the summer. Oftentimes,
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Speaker 1: these win streaks end where you least expect it, and
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Speaker 1: you kind of least expect it here because of what
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Speaker 1: Indiana has after this game with Ohio State. I think
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Speaker 1: they're actually going to win this game. But what's your
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Speaker 1: reward for winning this game, Lance? You then get to
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Speaker 1: go to Oregon. Yeah. So, I mean, it's still a
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Speaker 1: difficult finish for Matt Rule, even if they win this game.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I disagree. I don't think they're going to win
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Speaker 2: the game. I look at Nebraska. The five teams they've
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Speaker 2: beaten are 0-10 against Power 14.
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Speaker 1: Oh, they're mad teams.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's Ohio, Bowling Green, North Dakota, Michigan State,
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Speaker 2: and Maryland. They've not beaten anybody with a pole. They've
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Speaker 2: beaten them soundly. They've beaten all five by at least
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Speaker 2: 18 points. And Calandria, the Mountain West— player of the
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Speaker 2: year last year is playing his ass off so i
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Speaker 2: think the quarterback position has improved i think they're playing
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Speaker 2: with a lot of confidence but they are switching gears
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Speaker 2: when they're taking on indiana i.
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Speaker 1: Think you could see this finish at eight and four
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Speaker 1: and is that enough for him is the question i
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Speaker 1: don't know the answer to because they've still they play
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Speaker 1: indiana if they lose that they're at oregon they've got
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Speaker 1: ohio state and they've got iowa those all feel like
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Speaker 1: better teams than them um and that's that's assuming you
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Speaker 1: beat washington at home you win at illinois who's been
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Speaker 1: a little disappointing and you win at rutgers if you
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Speaker 1: can't win at rutgers You're probably going to lose your
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Speaker 1: job anyway.
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Speaker 2: But I'll give you Rutgers. That's six wins. But if
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Speaker 2: they lose five of their final six. Bad landing. It's
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Speaker 2: going to feel different than it feels right now. It
13:02
Speaker 2: feels really good with Indiana coming to town this weekend.
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Speaker 2: That gets me to the bubble conversation here. And I'm
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Speaker 2: going to give you the team or teams that Heather
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Speaker 2: Denich of ESPN believed to be not locks. You can't
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Speaker 2: go locks yet, but to be playoff teams to be
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Speaker 2: in right now. And then the team from that conference
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Speaker 2: that are fighting for, you know, to be in the bubble. Miami,
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Speaker 2: playoff team, obviously. The bubble in the ACC all of
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Speaker 2: a sudden looks to be Pitt, who has lost QB1,
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Speaker 2: and the Duke Blue Devils because Louisville has fallen off.
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Speaker 2: SMU is not what we thought they were. Maybe Wake
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Speaker 2: Forest can wiggle in there, but all of a sudden
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Speaker 2: the bubble is looking very different in the ACC other
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Speaker 2: than Miami. Yeah, I think it is. Well, let me
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Speaker 2: ask you guys this question again because I think we
14:47
Speaker 2: discussed it at one point. If Miami does lose that
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Speaker 2: big matchup in South Bend and they're 11-1, but they
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Speaker 2: lose the ACC championship game, where do you put them?
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Speaker 1: So that puts them 11-2 with probably no ranked wins. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: but the perception there is that they've got a playoff roster.
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Speaker 1: So I would put Miami as a viable at-large team
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Speaker 1: at that point.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I wish you could flip some of their home-and-away games.
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Speaker 2: I know we always do this when we look at schedules.
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Speaker 2: Duke and Virginia Tech on the road would look a
15:14
Speaker 2: little different. At-Pitt would look a little different. But I
15:17
Speaker 2: think they're going to be an 11-1, so I'll give
15:19
Speaker 2: them that. There is not going to be another team
15:21
Speaker 2: in the ACC that can get in.
15:22
Speaker 1: Yeah, unless Miami loses the ACC championship game, automatic bid
15:27
Speaker 1: for the ACC. This year it's different. If you don't forget,
15:30
Speaker 1: the rules have changed. Your conference champions, regardless of where
15:34
Speaker 1: they are ranked, They get in if you're the ACC champion.
15:37
Speaker 2: Everything looks different week to week because, you know, we
15:40
Speaker 2: go back a couple of weeks ago, we'd have been
15:41
Speaker 2: like Louisville looks like a playoff team. We go back
15:44
Speaker 2: to week one or week zero, Virginia looked like a
15:47
Speaker 2: playoff team.
15:47
Speaker 3: I agree.
15:48
Speaker 2: But things quickly change. And to me, the ACC definitely
15:51
Speaker 2: one team league.
15:52
Speaker 1: One problem with getting two in for the ACC real
15:55
Speaker 1: quick is if you look at Duke and Wake, all right,
15:57
Speaker 1: so those are two teams that could finish with just
15:59
Speaker 1: one loss, but Unfortunately for them, that one loss in
16:03
Speaker 1: the regular season would be Miami, and then you would
16:05
Speaker 1: have lost to Miami twice. So there's no way you're
16:09
Speaker 1: getting in without winning the ACC championship.
16:11
Speaker 2: Yeah, I get that, and I think Wake and Duke
16:12
Speaker 2: are both good, but I don't think they're good enough
16:14
Speaker 2: to be able to go one loss.
16:15
Speaker 1: But if Miami has beaten you twice, you're like, really?
16:18
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a one-team league. The other perceived
16:21
Speaker 1: one-bid league is the Big 12, where Heather Dinnich ESPN
16:25
Speaker 1: has BYU in, and the bubble being Utah and Texas
16:29
Speaker 1: Tech right now. I personally, in my opinion, Utah looks
16:34
Speaker 1: to be the better team in that league right now.
16:36
Speaker 1: I'd have Utah as the playoff team and BYU and
16:39
Speaker 1: Texas Tech in the bubble.
16:40
Speaker 2: I think what would be fascinating, let's say that Utah
16:43
Speaker 2: and BYU, Utah, let's say they win the home game
16:45
Speaker 2: in Salt Lake, and then they rematch. Now, I don't
16:48
Speaker 2: know how that would happen because Texas Tech is going
16:49
Speaker 2: to be difficult for them to find a loss with
16:51
Speaker 2: the schedule. But if you had Utah and BYU matching
16:56
Speaker 2: up again, I think you'd get two in.
16:58
Speaker 3: Yeah.
17:00
Speaker 1: Between the AC & C and the Big 12, the
17:02
Speaker 1: Big 12 looks to be the one that has a
17:04
Speaker 1: better option at two getting in. What would help BYU
17:08
Speaker 1: tremendously is if they win this game next Saturday night.
17:11
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, against Notre Dame.
17:13
Speaker 1: If you've got a win in your pocket against Notre
17:14
Speaker 1: Dame and don't win the Big 12, you've got a shot.
17:17
Speaker 2: Okay, let me ask you a complicated question here. BYU
17:20
Speaker 2: beats Notre Dame. They lose in Salt Lake. BYU ends
17:24
Speaker 2: up going 11-1. Utah undefeated. Texas Tech undefeated. BYU's out
17:30
Speaker 2: of the conference championship game. You could get three.
17:32
Speaker 1: You've got to worry about the other conferences. They won't
17:35
Speaker 1: get three.
17:36
Speaker 2: I think they would get three in that scenario.
17:37
Speaker 1: I don't think they would. I think the loser of
17:39
Speaker 1: the Big 12. I think BYU would be in. I
17:41
Speaker 1: think the loser of the Big 12 championship game.
17:43
Speaker 2: Undefeated, undefeated?
17:44
Speaker 1: Yeah.
17:45
Speaker 3: Oh, no way.
17:46
Speaker 1: Because of the conference, the strength of schedule. Group of six.
17:50
Speaker 1: Notre Dame obviously in. Group of six. Boise State is
17:54
Speaker 1: sitting there right now. The bubble, though. unbeaten North Dakota State,
17:57
Speaker 1: unbeaten James Madison.
17:59
Speaker 2: James Madison, somebody that we will talk about in a
18:02
Speaker 2: couple of hours. You look at their schedule, James Madison
18:06
Speaker 2: more than likely is not going to lose. With that said,
18:08
Speaker 2: if Boise doesn't lose again, Boise would go in front
18:10
Speaker 2: of James Madison. I think people forget James Madison went
18:14
Speaker 2: last year with a loss. The only team they really
18:16
Speaker 2: played was Louisville, and they still got to a college
18:18
Speaker 2: football playoff. North Dakota State's got a really tricky game
18:21
Speaker 2: in Vegas this week against UNLV.
18:23
Speaker 1: Yeah, first time meeting ever between North Dakota State and UNLV.
18:27
Speaker 1: That should be a good rivalry game moving forward. He's
18:29
Speaker 1: not completing a ton of passes. But he's also not
18:32
Speaker 1: throwing interceptions, and he's being productive. Jackson Arnold, the UNLV quarterback,
18:36
Speaker 1: he's out of sight, out of mind because he's a UNLV.
18:38
Speaker 1: He got such a bad start. He did. He did.
18:41
Speaker 1: But he's playing better. It was not what we thought
18:42
Speaker 1: week zero when everybody got to watch him and everybody thought, oh,
18:46
Speaker 1: Dan Mullen, he's going to get the best play out
18:47
Speaker 1: of Jackson Arnold. It was a bad start, Lance, but
18:49
Speaker 1: he's turned it around a little bit. Now, he's still inaccurate.
18:53
Speaker 1: He's not very accurate. He's still under 60% completion percentage,
18:57
Speaker 1: but he's not turning the ball over.
18:58
Speaker 2: It is a downgraded quarterback from Calandria last year for
19:01
Speaker 2: Dan Mullins.
19:02
Speaker 7: It is.
19:02
Speaker 2: To what you're getting with Jackson Arnold. But I think
19:05
Speaker 2: that game is fascinating because if North Dakota State is
19:08
Speaker 2: going to drop a game, it's probably Saturday.
19:11
Speaker 1: But you would give me Boise State doesn't lose again.
19:14
Speaker 1: They're one loss to Oregon. Even if North Dakota State
19:17
Speaker 1: or James Madison are unbeaten, they don't deserve to be
19:20
Speaker 1: in even.
19:21
Speaker 2: I would agree. I do think Saturday night on the
19:25
Speaker 2: CW is another one of these games. We could get,
19:29
Speaker 2: nobody really cares, but we could get a lot of
19:31
Speaker 2: group six mix-up if UNLV beats North Dakota State, if
19:35
Speaker 2: Fresno State beats Boise, which I think both are in play.
19:37
Speaker 1: But didn't UNLV lose to Hawaii? They lost a bad
19:41
Speaker 1: game after they lost to, didn't they lose to Memphis?
19:43
Speaker 1: Hawaii's only got one win. Yeah. They lost to Memphis
19:47
Speaker 1: in week zero. They lost to Memphis and they lost the, opener.
19:50
Speaker 1: It seems like, does UNLV have three losses? They seem
19:53
Speaker 1: like they took a bad loss.
19:54
Speaker 2: I think they've got two losses. I'll tell you right now.
19:57
Speaker 1: UNLV. Yeah, they've got two losses. They lost at North Texas.
20:04
Speaker 1: Didn't just lose at North Texas, Jim. They lost 44-6
20:06
Speaker 1: at North Texas.
20:07
Speaker 2: Dead and buried.
20:08
Speaker 1: Beat really bad. Don't even talk about it. The Big Ten,
20:12
Speaker 1: obviously Ohio State, Indiana, Oregon look to be not locks,
20:15
Speaker 1: but close to it. The bubble in the Big Ten
20:18
Speaker 1: has sort of dissipated. I mean, there's USC still with
20:22
Speaker 1: one loss. I have them very much as a playoff contender.
20:25
Speaker 2: After that, But you think about how much it could
20:30
Speaker 2: change this week. If USC loses at Penn State, they're
20:34
Speaker 2: dead and buried. But if UCLA was able to win,
20:37
Speaker 2: I don't think they will. But if UCLA was able
20:39
Speaker 2: to go on the road and beat Oregon, at that
20:41
Speaker 2: point you're like, damn, Oregon's probably dead and UCLA all.
20:44
Speaker 1: Of a sudden. And Nebraska, if they were to beat Indiana,
20:46
Speaker 1: could become a bubble team. But right now there's not
20:49
Speaker 1: a lot of bubble. Yeah, I think we'll get separation.
20:51
Speaker 1: I think Indiana's going to win.
20:52
Speaker 2: I think Oregon's going to win. And I think what
20:54
Speaker 2: we're going to be searching for is that fourth team.
20:56
Speaker 1: I know you like Northwestern, but they've still got to
20:58
Speaker 1: go to Oregon and Ohio State.
21:01
Speaker 2: They're not a playoff team. I'm just saying they could
21:03
Speaker 2: ultimately be the fourth best team.
21:04
Speaker 1: You were making an argument. That's my point. You're making
21:05
Speaker 1: an argument for them to be the fourth best team
21:07
Speaker 1: in the conference.
21:07
Speaker 2: The ranked teams this week, I think UCLA is going
21:10
Speaker 2: to lose. I think USC is going to lose. I
21:12
Speaker 2: think Iowa is going to lose at Washington. They're only
21:15
Speaker 2: going to get three teams.
21:16
Speaker 1: USC is your best bubble bet right now, to my
21:19
Speaker 1: point here. And I was setting all this up to say,
21:23
Speaker 1: That's good for the Big 12 if it's only three
21:25
Speaker 1: Big Ten teams. That opens the door for two, and
21:28
Speaker 1: that opens the door for five SEC teams if there's
21:31
Speaker 1: only three Big Ten teams. Texas, Georgia, Alabama look to
21:35
Speaker 1: be in, but LSU, Florida, Ole Miss, I don't know
21:39
Speaker 1: how deep you go after that. Missouri. Missouri.
21:41
Speaker 2: I think you have to.
21:42
Speaker 1: Do you go Tennessee yet?
21:45
Speaker 2: I will say this, though, and this is what's going
21:47
Speaker 2: to be interesting because There's still, although the Big Ten
21:50
Speaker 2: has won three consecutive national championships, there still is the
21:53
Speaker 2: perception the media licks the SEC up and down. And
21:57
Speaker 2: can you imagine if the Big Ten got three in
21:59
Speaker 2: and they put five in the SEC? I think at
22:01
Speaker 2: this point that is deserving. I think the SEC should
22:03
Speaker 2: at least get five in and the Big Ten only
22:06
Speaker 2: deserves three. But at the end of the year, how
22:07
Speaker 2: much does that change with the committee?
22:09
Speaker 1: And that's the way it was last year, right? It
22:11
Speaker 1: was five SEC, three Big Ten last year, too, correct?
22:16
Speaker 1: I mean, you had Alabama and Oklahoma playing head-to-head in
22:20
Speaker 1: the first round. So many SEC teams, you had to
22:21
Speaker 1: play them head-to-head. Seems to be where we're trending again.
22:24
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22:28
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23:18
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Speaker 1: let's do weather and traffic again, Brownie. Give us a
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23:38
Speaker 1: The National Weather Service is updating some of the hurricane traffic.
23:42
Speaker 1: And again, when we talk about this, they all say
23:46
Speaker 1: this can change on a moment's notice. But... Based on
23:49
Speaker 1: some of the data that they're getting from the planes flying,
23:52
Speaker 1: a couple of the weather services are saying they now
23:55
Speaker 1: believe this could be a faster moving storm than they
23:58
Speaker 1: initially thought. A Friday event. Which could make it more
24:01
Speaker 1: of a Friday night, Saturday morning event and have the storm,
24:05
Speaker 1: the mass of the storm through Tuscaloosa by the time
24:08
Speaker 1: you get to the kickoff. One other option, it may
24:11
Speaker 1: have come up before I moved the game to Athens,
24:14
Speaker 1: is A later kickoff? Like if you knew, if the
24:19
Speaker 1: forecasters were like, look, there's a pretty big difference between
24:21
Speaker 1: 6.30 and 8.30 at night. No, I think 9.30 kick
24:24
Speaker 1: would be perfect for this game. Yeah, play at 12
24:27
Speaker 1: after dark time slot. But I mean, you could see
24:29
Speaker 1: that too, right? If there's like, hey, look, two hours
24:31
Speaker 1: would make a significant difference weather-wise. Well, you get that
24:34
Speaker 1: with just your natural lightning delays and stuff. Exactly. Or
24:38
Speaker 1: power outages. Yeah, so you could avoid that. But anyway,
24:41
Speaker 1: the takeaway from this is some of the early modeling
24:43
Speaker 1: is showing that this thing may move a little faster
24:45
Speaker 1: than they had initially thought, which could be perfect for
24:47
Speaker 1: a nighttime kick. But the one thing nobody's talking about
24:52
Speaker 1: that I will bring up, having done this a long,
24:53
Speaker 1: long time, if it does become some kind of a
24:56
Speaker 1: significant event on the Gulf Coast when it makes landfall,
25:01
Speaker 1: there is certain security and police paramedics and stuff that
25:10
Speaker 1: are important for game day operations that get called away
25:13
Speaker 1: to more serious events down on the Gulf Coast that
25:16
Speaker 1: could also impact the game as well. So it's not
25:19
Speaker 1: just 100% the weather. It can be the aftermath of
25:23
Speaker 1: landfall that could pull some things out of Tuscaloosa that
25:27
Speaker 1: could make the game worse. be in jeopardy as well.
25:30
Speaker 2: You guys have done night games coming back from Tuscaloosa
25:33
Speaker 2: to Birmingham, and that traffic can get you to 1 a.m.
25:37
Speaker 2: on 20. Can you imagine if they had a 9.30
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Speaker 1: I mean, the most famous one was that Bama-Ole Miss
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Speaker 2: Was that 8?
25:46
Speaker 1: Was it 8.30? It was 8.30, and I think they
25:48
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25:50
Speaker 2: Because wasn't it on ESPN 2 or something?
25:52
Speaker 1: It was ESPN or ESPN 2, and I think the
25:54
Speaker 1: game before went long, as they always do. I think
25:56
Speaker 1: they pushed it back to 8.45, and then the game
25:58
Speaker 1: took forever. Yeah, I think it was mainly ESPN. It
26:00
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Speaker 1: Red River here in just a second. But if I
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Speaker 1: had a Heisman vote, my Heisman vote would look like
27:28
Speaker 1: this today. It would be Jeremiah Smith, Keelan Russell, Mensah
27:34
Speaker 1: from Miami, and CJ Carr. from Notre Dame. That would
27:38
Speaker 1: be my four right now. What would be different for
27:41
Speaker 1: your four, LT? What would your four be?
27:43
Speaker 2: I would keep Jeremiah Smith at number one. Number two
27:48
Speaker 2: for me would still be Mensah. He did struggle a
27:51
Speaker 2: little bit more against a formidable defense. This is all
27:54
Speaker 2: going to take care of itself in a little bit.
27:56
Speaker 2: Keelan probably would be up to number three. And then
27:59
Speaker 2: number four, You know, maybe still Colin Simmons, but C.J.
28:04
Speaker 2: Carr would be right there.
28:05
Speaker 1: Camario Taylor was popular on our list last week, but
28:08
Speaker 1: the foot injury and the performance against Alabama has him
28:11
Speaker 1: slipping a little bit.
28:12
Speaker 2: It's going to be hard for Jeremiah Smith not to
28:13
Speaker 2: win this.
28:14
Speaker 1: Okay, more on that in a second. This is really
28:16
Speaker 1: hard to do as a Notre Dame player, but C.J.
28:18
Speaker 1: Carr is playing off-Broadway a little bit right now. It's
28:20
Speaker 1: part of his problem. I mean, how many Notre Dame
28:22
Speaker 1: games are you guys watching?
28:24
Speaker 2: I mean, I watch Saturday.
28:25
Speaker 1: I watch because it's 11 a.m. and it's Notre Dame
28:28
Speaker 1: against North Carolina in the rain. Yep. He looked good.
28:32
Speaker 1: The team didn't look as good as I thought they
28:33
Speaker 1: should have.
28:34
Speaker 2: But to your point, I mean, I think it was
28:36
Speaker 2: like 3 million watched that game. It was a low number.
28:38
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a low number for Notre Dame. And Notre
28:42
Speaker 1: Dame is not playing big-name games this year. Now, they'll
28:44
Speaker 1: play Miami, and three and four are both going to
28:47
Speaker 1: be in that game. And that could knock one of
28:50
Speaker 1: them out. Okay, Brett McMurphy writes that so many times
28:54
Speaker 1: September Heisman favorites, like Jeremiah Smith is, burn out by
28:58
Speaker 1: the time we get to the vote in December and
29:00
Speaker 1: give out the trophy why does that happen and why
29:03
Speaker 1: do you not think it's going to happen this year
29:05
Speaker 1: well I don't think.
29:06
Speaker 2: It's going to happen this year because we've been talking
29:07
Speaker 2: about this guy for three years and I think for
29:09
Speaker 2: the last couple of years people have considered him maybe
29:11
Speaker 2: the best player in all of college football and now
29:14
Speaker 2: he is just dominating with the numbers that are out
29:17
Speaker 2: there and I you know at this pace the targets
29:20
Speaker 2: he's getting like he wasn't getting these targets last year
29:22
Speaker 2: and he was sharing a lot of You know, his
29:23
Speaker 2: touches with Cornell Tate. But now, I mean, he's already
29:26
Speaker 2: got 44 receptions. Does that lead college football? I think
29:29
Speaker 2: it does. Yeah, it does. Duff is number two, along
29:34
Speaker 2: with Gavin Freeman from Baylor. Auburn fans will remember him.
29:37
Speaker 2: that gave Auburn hell in week one. But he's leading
29:41
Speaker 2: in yards, receptions, and touchdowns. If you win a triple crown,
29:46
Speaker 2: I don't know the last person to do that. Maybe
29:47
Speaker 2: Larry Fitzgerald or Devontae Smith. But great receiving years where
29:52
Speaker 2: Larry Fitzgerald probably should have won the Heisman. Devontae did
29:54
Speaker 2: win the Heisman. And I just think when you establish–
29:58
Speaker 2: the best player going into a season, he has this
30:01
Speaker 2: type of season on a brand like Ohio State that
30:04
Speaker 2: is going to be very much in the mix. There's
30:05
Speaker 2: no way they're missing the college football playoff. It's just
30:08
Speaker 2: going to be really difficult. Now, if Keelan goes out
30:09
Speaker 2: and slays it the rest of the way, it's different.
30:11
Speaker 1: The only major statistical category he does not lead in
30:14
Speaker 1: is yards per reception because he catches so many footballs.
30:16
Speaker 1: I mean, guys that are leading in yards per reception
30:18
Speaker 1: have 12, 13 catches this year, right?
30:21
Speaker 2: But still 19 yards.
30:22
Speaker 1: 19 yards is amazing. And he's done it with 44 receptions.
30:26
Speaker 1: That's what's crazy about it. So that's really the only
30:29
Speaker 1: thing he does not lead in. Now, it's interesting. This
30:33
Speaker 1: kid at Oregon State, we've talked about their offense a
30:35
Speaker 1: couple of times. Jesse Legree, he's tied with him in touchdowns,
30:41
Speaker 1: and he's not that far behind in yards.
30:42
Speaker 2: Wait until second half of the show when we talk
30:44
Speaker 2: about big surprises.
30:46
Speaker 1: Yeah, but when it comes to voting for the Heisman.
30:50
Speaker 6: Oh, no, no, no, no.
30:51
Speaker 1: I'm just pointing out where he stands nationally, and I
30:54
Speaker 1: just wanted to give a shout-out. to a freshman playing
30:57
Speaker 1: at Oregon State who you want to talk about playing off-Broadway,
31:00
Speaker 1: it's hard to find their game sometimes. I'd start with
31:03
Speaker 1: the CW. You've got to know where CW and USA
31:05
Speaker 1: are to watch Oregon State play. Yeah, I'd start with
31:07
Speaker 1: the CW. Let's talk Red River here for a second.
31:10
Speaker 1: If you can, Tyler, give me 14 and 15. Steve
31:15
Speaker 1: Sarkeesian is getting asked about Texas and what have they
31:21
Speaker 1: done so far in his eyes and where is Texas
31:23
Speaker 1: right now going into this battle? as number one against
31:26
Speaker 1: their rival Oklahoma. Here's Stark.
31:30
Speaker 8: Steve, I know we've talked a lot about, you know,
31:32
Speaker 8: offensive issues, special teams, etc.
31:33
Speaker 1: Just through four weeks, what do you see this team
31:36
Speaker 1: actually having done well, or at least to your liking
31:38
Speaker 1: through four weeks?
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Speaker 7: Well, I think what we've done well is we've won, right?
31:44
Speaker 7: I'd hate to be here and sit here and say, hey,
31:46
Speaker 7: we've got all these great stats and punt returns for
31:48
Speaker 7: touchdowns and all these things and be three and one
31:51
Speaker 7: or two and two. So that's the first part. We've
31:54
Speaker 7: won the games.
31:56
Speaker 1: I feel like.
31:57
Speaker 7: That we've had moments where we needed to be at
32:00
Speaker 7: our best and we've responded at our best. And it's
32:04
Speaker 7: easy to point to the fourth quarter of Ohio State
32:07
Speaker 7: or it's easy to point to.
32:09
Speaker 1: The drive.
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Speaker 7: In the fourth quarter against Tennessee to make it a
32:13
Speaker 7: two-score game or the stops we've had to get defensively
32:17
Speaker 7: in critical moments. To me, I see flashes of who
32:22
Speaker 7: we want to be, but my biggest critique of it
32:26
Speaker 7: all is the consistency of it all, right? And we
32:29
Speaker 7: have got to be a more consistent football team in
32:32
Speaker 7: general in all three phases, and I think we can be.
32:35
Speaker 7: There's room for improvement even on the defensive side of
32:37
Speaker 7: the ball. And so that's what we're pushing for. That's
32:39
Speaker 7: what we're striving for in all three phases.
32:41
Speaker 2: So I would say this. They came into this game
32:44
Speaker 2: 3-2 last year. Everybody thought Oklahoma was going to win
32:46
Speaker 2: the game. Texas wins the game going away. By the way,
32:49
Speaker 2: Mateer was really bad in that game with three turnovers.
32:51
Speaker 1: But he was injured. Yeah, well, that's what they say.
32:54
Speaker 1: That injury's lasted a long time.
32:56
Speaker 2: Ends up going 9-3. They almost get into a college
32:58
Speaker 2: football playoff. I'm not saying Oklahoma's going to be able
33:00
Speaker 2: to turn it around coming off the bye and do
33:02
Speaker 2: what Texas did last year. But this game is very unpredictable.
33:05
Speaker 2: The one thing it's very predictable in is since 2000,
33:09
Speaker 2: the team that wins the rushing battle in those 26 games,
33:12
Speaker 2: what do you think the record is?
33:13
Speaker 1: Okay, say it again.
33:16
Speaker 2: Since 2000, the team that wins the rushing battle in
33:19
Speaker 2: this game, Oklahoma-Texas, what is their record in those 26 games?
33:23
Speaker 1: So we've got 25 games. What's the record?
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Speaker 2: It's 26, actually.
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Speaker 1: 26. You count 2000. Yeah, you count 2000. 26.
33:27
Speaker 2: You need a biscuit, man.
33:28
Speaker 8: Yeah.
33:32
Speaker 1: I say the team that wins the rushing battle wins
33:34
Speaker 1: it every time. 23-3.
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Speaker 6: 24-2.
33:37
Speaker 2: And when you look at this on paper, I mean,
33:39
Speaker 2: how can Texas not win the rushing battle in this?
33:43
Speaker 2: The biggest problem is material and ball security issues. I mean,
33:47
Speaker 2: not only three turnovers in this game last year, but
33:48
Speaker 2: three turnovers in the awful turnover against Georgia, where the
33:52
Speaker 2: game should have been 14-7. Instead, it's 21-0, and they
33:55
Speaker 2: get landslided.
33:56
Speaker 1: See if this sounds familiar.
33:57
Speaker 6: Yeah.
33:58
Speaker 1: Oklahoma has to somehow create a run game for this
34:01
Speaker 1: game this weekend. That was the big headline. They've got
34:04
Speaker 1: to create a run game. To your point, statistically, but
34:07
Speaker 1: Alabama did this last year. They struggled to run, but
34:10
Speaker 1: so did Oklahoma. They're still searching. And apparently in the
34:13
Speaker 1: bye week, Bo Bentley and Witt Bauer, Bo spelled B-O-W-E
34:18
Speaker 1: and Witt. I don't know if that's your backup. I mean,
34:21
Speaker 1: if that's your future quarterback at Oklahoma, they don't sound
34:24
Speaker 1: I guess both of those sound cowboyish and Midwestern. Both
34:28
Speaker 1: more so. V-O-W-E and W-H-I-T-T. Bentley and Bauer are the backups.
34:33
Speaker 1: They got some reps with the ones. Do you make
34:35
Speaker 1: a switch at any point?
34:36
Speaker 2: I don't know if you can because much like Michigan
34:39
Speaker 2: and the money they've got invested in Bryce Underwood, Venables, Oklahoma...
34:45
Speaker 2: You know, what our buddy Jim Nagy, what they've got
34:49
Speaker 2: invested in John Mateer is a lot of money. So
34:51
Speaker 2: it'd be difficult. But if he continues to turn it
34:53
Speaker 2: over three times a game, you've got to get him
34:55
Speaker 2: out of there.
34:56
Speaker 1: I mean, Tennessee's doing this with freshmen. They're doing this
35:00
Speaker 1: with young guys, not guys that are established in the program.
35:02
Speaker 1: So there is a difference in doing it. But you
35:06
Speaker 1: almost have to applaud Heupel, right, for saying, I'm going
35:09
Speaker 1: to do this quickly. I'm not going to let this fester.
35:13
Speaker 1: I feel like Venables has let this fester so long, Lance.
35:15
Speaker 1: You're kind of in the situation you're talking about where
35:18
Speaker 1: you've almost waited too long to make a change. Like
35:20
Speaker 1: if you had done this last year when Mateer was struggling,
35:26
Speaker 1: maybe it's a little easier to do it now. You
35:28
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying? I've done it once before. It's
35:29
Speaker 1: easier to do it now. But you stuck with him
35:31
Speaker 1: and stuck with him and stuck with him and stuck
35:32
Speaker 1: with him. At some point, have you waited too long
35:34
Speaker 1: to make a change?
35:35
Speaker 2: You know the last time Oklahoma scored a touchdown in
35:37
Speaker 2: this matchup? It's kind of crazy. It was the fourth
35:42
Speaker 2: quarter of 2023. The last two games, they have not
35:45
Speaker 2: scored a touchdown against Texas in this matchup.
35:48
Speaker 1: Wow. What was the other 2023 stat you gave us
35:50
Speaker 1: a moment ago? Somebody else had not done something since 2023.
35:54
Speaker 1: Florida State, it was Florida State.
35:55
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, they hadn't won on the road.
35:56
Speaker 1: Hadn't won on the road since 2023. And Oklahoma's not
35:59
Speaker 1: scored a touchdown on Texas since then either. Oklahoma and
36:03
Speaker 1: Texas is more amazing. Well, Florida State's played a lot
36:05
Speaker 1: more road games.
36:07
Speaker 2: I also didn't realize Hollywood Smothers started his career at Oklahoma. Now,
36:12
Speaker 2: I remember him playing a ton at NC State, but
36:14
Speaker 2: he actually started at Oklahoma State. Obviously, Parker Livingstone going
36:17
Speaker 2: from Texas to Oklahoma. So you've got some storylines in this.
36:20
Speaker 2: I'm just fascinated to see if Oklahoma's offense can do anything.
36:24
Speaker 2: We say this every week, and they can't, but they're
36:26
Speaker 2: coming off a bye, and this is the moment. This
36:28
Speaker 2: thing completely implodes on Venables if they can't do anything Saturday.
36:33
Speaker 1: On the other side, here's Brent Venables talking about John Mateer.
36:41
Speaker 1: First of all, can you just punch up the screenshot here?
36:44
Speaker 1: This is what scared people about when we started saying
36:46
Speaker 1: we're going to put patches on uniforms. We thought it
36:49
Speaker 1: would be this size. Like you'd see a pilot or
36:51
Speaker 1: a Tyson logo and it'd be that big on the uniform.
36:54
Speaker 1: They love that Jumpman logo, man.
36:56
Speaker 2: I'm not a big fan of the Jumpman logo.
36:57
Speaker 1: I mean, I just, I don't get why Oklahoma features
37:00
Speaker 1: it so heavily. Like there are times where.
37:03
Speaker 2: Can't do it in basketball.
37:04
Speaker 1: Venables is only wearing a Jumpman logo. He's not even
37:06
Speaker 1: wearing an Oklahoma logo. That's a big one. I'm going
37:10
Speaker 1: to say that... I'm going to tap down my comments
37:14
Speaker 1: about Jumpman Logo, just in case one ends up being
37:17
Speaker 1: on a program near you very soon. Just in case.
37:21
Speaker 1: Just in case. Have you heard something? No, I'm just
37:23
Speaker 1: saying just in case.
37:24
Speaker 2: That's a yes.
37:26
Speaker 1: I don't want to say I'm anti-Jumpman. That was very
37:29
Speaker 1: specific for you. I just know how my world works.
37:34
Speaker 1: If I say I don't like the Jumpman logo, then
37:36
Speaker 1: all of a sudden it ends up Alabama becomes a
37:39
Speaker 1: Jumpman school next week.
37:40
Speaker 2: But you can still dislike it.
37:43
Speaker 1: If you guys think that this is a prominent display
37:46
Speaker 1: of the Jumpman logo, you should play one of these
37:48
Speaker 1: Bob Chesney sound bites in a minute. Oh, he does.
37:51
Speaker 1: They got the Jumpman too. Okay. We'll do that. He's
37:53
Speaker 1: got it around his neck. It's a gold chain. Anyway,
37:59
Speaker 1: here's Brent Venables on John Mateer.
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Speaker 3: Again, a guy that loves to compete. He cares about
38:06
Speaker 3: being a great teammate, being the leader of our football team,
38:10
Speaker 3: playing well. You know, he carries, again, a heavy weight
38:15
Speaker 3: when it comes to that great self-awareness, doesn't have his
38:18
Speaker 3: head in the sand and cares about his opportunity and
38:22
Speaker 3: certainly cares about, you know, representing a place like Oklahoma
38:26
Speaker 3: quarterback is a big deal. And nobody's more disappointed, you know,
38:31
Speaker 3: in not playing up to the standard that he wants to.
38:36
Speaker 3: He certainly is capable of and certainly what, you know,
38:39
Speaker 3: the University of Oklahoma has been used to over a
38:42
Speaker 3: long period of time. But his best football has been
38:46
Speaker 3: really good, and we've got to help him play a
38:49
Speaker 3: little more consistent. Everybody around him has.
38:50
Speaker 2: Got to play better.
38:51
Speaker 3: And again, don't press as much as anything else.
38:57
Speaker 1: I think he plays better this weekend. He's got to
39:00
Speaker 1: play better. He can't get much worse. This is the
39:03
Speaker 1: quarterback you want playing backyard ball this weekend.
39:06
Speaker 2: Oh, I agree, yeah. And look, he's going to have
39:09
Speaker 2: to improvise, make some crazy plays against a Texas defense
39:12
Speaker 2: that's really been lights out.
39:13
Speaker 1: He's got to dodge Colin Simmons once or twice.
39:17
Speaker 2: I know you already teased it in the second half
39:19
Speaker 2: of the show. We're going to do disappointments and surprises.
39:22
Speaker 2: But I've got some Oklahoma numbers that are really going
39:25
Speaker 2: to surprise you.
39:26
Speaker 1: Okay and that's in that segment yeah that'll be the
39:28
Speaker 1: first thing we do uh coming up in our next
39:31
Speaker 1: segment um i mean in our next show which starts
39:34
Speaker 1: at uh 12 eastern 11 central two hours um when
39:38
Speaker 1: we're not on sporting state uh coming up i need
39:41
Speaker 1: to name that second show the guys in the back
39:43
Speaker 1: always laugh at me when i try to explain what's
39:45
Speaker 1: your call the second half of the next round the
39:47
Speaker 1: second half of the next round okay It's not as
39:49
Speaker 1: creative as I wanted, Brown, but it's just one of
39:51
Speaker 1: those days for you.
39:51
Speaker 8: What would you like to call it? People know us
39:53
Speaker 8: as the next round.
39:54
Speaker 1: I know, but we're the next round here, too, on
39:56
Speaker 1: Sporting State.
39:58
Speaker 8: So then we're just the next round, but on the
40:01
Speaker 8: next round.
40:01
Speaker 1: Yeah, which doesn't sound good either. You see why it
40:04
Speaker 1: gets confusing. I get tongue-tied every day when I try
40:06
Speaker 1: to explain it, that there's two more hours of the
40:10
Speaker 1: next round. But it's not a separate link. It's not
40:13
Speaker 1: on this platform. It can be confusing at times. To explain,
40:18
Speaker 1: but it's not confusing to do. You just wait, set
40:20
Speaker 1: your alerts, and all of a sudden, boom, you click
40:22
Speaker 1: on it.
40:22
Speaker 8: That's right.
40:23
Speaker 2: Very easy.
40:24
Speaker 1: Brooks just buried his head. We're making it as easy
40:26
Speaker 1: as we can for you. Not confusing at all.
40:29
Speaker 8: It's complicated, but it's easy.
40:31
Speaker 6: Because Jim will start to explain, and then he'll just
40:34
Speaker 6: realize that he's at a point where he's just saying
40:37
Speaker 6: words that doesn't really attach meaning to any of them.
40:41
Speaker 6: It's like, all right, how do I just.
40:42
Speaker 1: Get through this? You know how to do it? Let's
40:44
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40:56
Speaker 1: That's right. Second half? Second half. Second half, next round.
41:03
Speaker 1: All right. The first round and the next round. How
41:06
Speaker 1: about that? The chat room is open for suggestions. That's
41:09
Speaker 1: what you want. Sometimes those people are brilliant, like Daniel Byers,
41:13
Speaker 1: by the way. In his three, his Guaranteed Friday, one
41:18
Speaker 1: of his three was football game will be delayed or canceled.
41:24
Speaker 1: Here we go. Daniel Byers right here.
41:26
Speaker 2: Bold prediction.
41:27
Speaker 1: One hurricane will change schedules for some teams. We've got
41:30
Speaker 1: a new update. I don't think that's going to happen.
41:32
Speaker 1: I don't either. Texas Tech won't make the playoffs. Trending
41:36
Speaker 1: in that direction in my heart too, Daniel. A coach
41:39
Speaker 1: who won a championship will retire. Dabo. He was afraid
41:43
Speaker 1: to write Dabo there. Dabo was one of mine. We
41:47
Speaker 1: need to.
41:47
Speaker 2: Circle that one and bring it back every year we're
41:49
Speaker 2: doing this show moving forward. If he drills all three
41:52
Speaker 2: of those.
41:53
Speaker 1: Well, I hope he's wrong about the hurricane. Save Daniel
41:56
Speaker 1: right there. Save that screenshot.
41:58
Speaker 2: It could be Appalachian State next week.
41:59
Speaker 1: It could be. Jim, are you a big ESPN classic fan?
42:03
Speaker 1: Does that still exist? I used to be.
42:04
Speaker 2: It's just not. It's been sunsetted by ESPN.
42:06
Speaker 1: Okay. Sunsetted is a fancy word. Wow, look at Brooks. Wow, sunsetted.
42:12
Speaker 1: Is that a term in the industry? Sunsetted? Or is
42:15
Speaker 1: that what you guys are about to, have y'all been
42:17
Speaker 1: discussing that in meetings about me? Let's sunset Jim.
42:21
Speaker 2: I said bullet to head and they were like, we
42:23
Speaker 2: need to go a little more subtle.
42:24
Speaker 1: We need to sunset Jim. The reason I asked that
42:27
Speaker 1: is someone said that we could call it TNR classic
42:29
Speaker 1: the last two hours. Somebody said TNR double shot. Jay
42:37
Speaker 1: says next round jump man.
42:40
Speaker 8: Zach says the jump around.
42:42
Speaker 1: Technically, I love the jump, man, by the way.
42:44
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure there's a podcast called The Jump Around
42:46
Speaker 2: in Wisconsin.
42:46
Speaker 1: No, let's not do that. When we come back, if
42:50
Speaker 1: Tyler and Forrester looked at their phones, I sent them
42:53
Speaker 1: a link. We're going to live look at the foods
42:56
Speaker 1: at the Texas State Fair, the new foods, and we'll
42:59
Speaker 1: do it live. You don't have to cut anything, prepare anything.
43:01
Speaker 1: We'll just throw it on the screen. We'll do it raw.
43:04
Speaker 1: We'll raw dog it when we come back on the
43:07
Speaker 1: next round. Next round raw dog coming up later. Back
43:11
Speaker 1: with you on the next round, presented by Hard Rock
43:14
Speaker 1: Bet on Sport and State. Tyler, just like yesterday, the
43:18
Speaker 1: power surge we had over the weekend destroyed our clock
43:21
Speaker 1: in here. So if you'll give us a one-minute left
43:24
Speaker 1: in the show music, Ben, and count us down to
43:25
Speaker 1: the end of the show, that'll help us tremendously. Hard
43:28
Speaker 1: out here for those that watch us that are behind
43:31
Speaker 1: the scenes. We want to talk about the State Fair
43:33
Speaker 1: of Texas and the new food they have there. It's a.
43:38
Speaker 1: Is the game a backdrop to the State Fair of Texas,
43:41
Speaker 1: or is the State Fair of Texas a backdrop to Oklahoma, Texas?
43:43
Speaker 2: Well, it depends if you're a kid or a grandmother
43:46
Speaker 2: who doesn't care about football. Right. I think for anybody
43:48
Speaker 2: who cares about football, I think Texas State Fair is
43:51
Speaker 2: a backdrop to that.
43:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's a great question. I don't know,
43:55
Speaker 1: because the fair lasts for a full month, I believe, there. Yeah,
43:59
Speaker 1: like they, our buddy Tom Hart sent out a video
44:04
Speaker 1: last night that a ring toss caught on fire, and
44:07
Speaker 1: you could see the smoke from driving down the interstate
44:11
Speaker 1: from wherever the state fair was.
44:12
Speaker 2: It's going to be black smoke with those rubber rings, right?
44:15
Speaker 1: It literally was black smoke. The cowboy burned one year.
44:18
Speaker 1: You remember that big cowboy out front? Like Burning Man.
44:20
Speaker 1: When you get all.
44:22
Speaker 2: This grease and people that are drinking, they're probably working it.
44:25
Speaker 2: I've always wanted to go. I cannot believe none of
44:28
Speaker 2: us have ever been to this camp.
44:29
Speaker 1: I've never been. Me either. Well, with this platform that
44:32
Speaker 1: we're on now, Sporting State, Let's just make a plan.
44:36
Speaker 1: Let's do it next year, 2027. And I love the
44:38
Speaker 1: fact that it's a 2.30 game now. Yeah, it's not
44:40
Speaker 1: the 11 a.m.
44:41
Speaker 2: I don't like the 11 o'clock.
44:42
Speaker 1: But the benefit is that it could be an 11 a.m.
44:44
Speaker 1: and then we could go camp and watch football all day.
44:48
Speaker 2: Or we could get up and do an 8 or
44:49
Speaker 2: 9 o'clock show and go to the game.
44:51
Speaker 1: Yeah, go to the game and then go watch football
44:53
Speaker 1: all day. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, there's food. Food's a
44:56
Speaker 1: part of it. And every year there's new foods. This
45:00
Speaker 1: is the website, State Fair of Texas. I think it's bigtex.com,
45:03
Speaker 1: bigtex.com if you want to go check it out. 3D
45:06
Speaker 1: Fruit Ice Cream. Yummy ice cream brings you ice cream
45:12
Speaker 1: dreams to life. Ice cream is dipped in thin chocolate
45:16
Speaker 1: shells shaped like a peach or a mango. Refreshing, delicious,
45:20
Speaker 1: escape from the summer heat for just seven coupons.
45:23
Speaker 6: The funny thing about this is it's not even unique
45:26
Speaker 6: to the Texas State Fair. If you go into any
45:29
Speaker 6: Asian supermarket, you'll see these in every flavor.
45:33
Speaker 1: You actually see some Asian writing there. Oh, thanks, Tyler.
45:39
Speaker 1: You're welcome. Go ahead, Tyler.
45:41
Speaker 2: This is kind of like mochi, right?
45:44
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's kind of like a mochi ice cream.
45:47
Speaker 2: That stuff's good.
45:48
Speaker 1: All Shook Up is the next one there.
45:50
Speaker 2: That is.
45:52
Speaker 1: A wild blend of creamy banana pudding ice cream and
45:55
Speaker 1: rich peanut butter sauce spun into the ultimate milkshake. Yeah,
45:58
Speaker 1: I'd try that. I'm not a big peanut butter guy,
46:00
Speaker 1: but that banana pudding hooked me.
46:01
Speaker 2: I bet it's incredible, but that seems like one of
46:04
Speaker 2: those you knock it out, you're done for the day.
46:07
Speaker 1: That does seem heavy. There's peanut butter cookies there, and
46:10
Speaker 1: a thick, crispy slice of bacon is in there somewhere. Interesting.
46:14
Speaker 8: It looks like they used Nutter Butters for.
46:16
Speaker 1: The top as well. They did. They did, in fact,
46:18
Speaker 1: do that. The next one over there is the Buffalo.
46:21
Speaker 1: These are all new this year. Buffalo Breaded Cheese Curds.
46:28
Speaker 1: Texapolitan Pizza. It's from Texapolitan Pizza.
46:31
Speaker 2: Looks like sesame chicken.
46:32
Speaker 1: It really does. Delicious cheese curds tossed in buffalo sauce
46:36
Speaker 1: and served fresh, making for the perfect walkable fair meal.
46:40
Speaker 1: That looks very good.
46:41
Speaker 3: Yep.
46:42
Speaker 1: Got to get your fingers dirty, so walkable I don't
46:44
Speaker 1: know about, but it looks very good. Okay, here's where
46:46
Speaker 1: it gets fun. Okay. The Butter Dip Toffee Crunch Nutty Bar. Oh, my.
46:52
Speaker 1: I love toffee. Yep.
46:53
Speaker 2: That thing looks like a nature zone. You bite it
46:55
Speaker 2: and it explodes in a thousand pieces.
46:57
Speaker 1: It's going to be a mess, but give me the
46:59
Speaker 1: rundown here, Jimmy.
46:59
Speaker 6: It looks like one of those sushi rolls where they
47:02
Speaker 6: put all the flakes and the sauce on top.
47:03
Speaker 1: The crunch rolls. I'll tell you this.
47:05
Speaker 2: If family gets this to go, a kid's going to
47:06
Speaker 2: get beaten in the backseat of the car.
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Speaker 7: Yep.
47:08
Speaker 1: This is Nevin's Famous Ice Cream, drenched in creamy salted
47:14
Speaker 1: butter and rolled in a mixture of toffee pieces and peanut,
47:18
Speaker 1: creating the perfect creamy crunch. To finish it off, the
47:22
Speaker 1: nutty bar is coated with a hefty drizzle of velvety
47:25
Speaker 1: caramel and topped with the rich-crusted Ritz crackers. Enjoy this
47:30
Speaker 1: new creation for just eight coupons.
47:32
Speaker 2: I will tell you, it looks good, but it seems
47:34
Speaker 2: like a lot of work.
47:35
Speaker 6: Yeah.
47:36
Speaker 2: Like, that's a tedious, I mean, to put on the
47:39
Speaker 2: Ritz cracker on top.
47:40
Speaker 1: That is a lot. I mean, I'd give that one
47:43
Speaker 1: a run for sure. They've got candy watermelon. It's a sweet,
47:49
Speaker 1: fruity combo. A giant ice-cold watermelon slice the size of
47:53
Speaker 1: your head, it says. Drenched in sour chamoy. Am I
47:58
Speaker 1: saying that right?
47:59
Speaker 8: Yes, you are.
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Speaker 1: And topped with a heavy sprinkle of tajin. tahini tahini
48:04
Speaker 1: tahini's very good tahini is good i like tahini um
48:07
Speaker 1: so that's a little sweet spicy i don't like candied
48:10
Speaker 1: apples though is this like candied apples you think.
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Speaker 2: You probably had tahini on a margarita before it's good
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Speaker 2: i like tahini just sprinkled on chips or on my
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Speaker 2: mexican dishes at the restaurant.
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Speaker 1: The signature faux burger is new this year uh handcrafted
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Speaker 1: beef burger infused with authentic vietnamese faux spices and topped
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Speaker 1: with fresh herbs um bun looks terrible Yeah, I don't
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Speaker 1: know about this one.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, that's a mediocre-looking bun. But I do love a
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Speaker 8: nice bowl of pho.
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Speaker 2: Hey, there's no way the presentation. First of all, the
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Speaker 2: bun does. If you're going to put this much into
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Speaker 2: the presentation, AI the bun better. But there's no way
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Speaker 2: that thing looks like that.
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Speaker 1: Tyler's gentle correction there that it's pho, not pho.
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Speaker 2: Tyler's a foodie.
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Speaker 1: It's okay. The next one's my favorite so far. Chicken
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Speaker 1: fried steak biscuits. Chicken fried steak served on a warm
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Speaker 1: buttery biscuit topped with homemade bacon gravy. Oh, yeah. What's
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Speaker 1: not to like?
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: Should have been your breakfast this morning, Brown.
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Speaker 2: So I had one of these on Sunday at the
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Speaker 2: English pub I like to go to. It was the
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Speaker 2: chicken biscuit. It had the peach jam on it, and
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Speaker 2: it had an egg on it. But it was so massive,
49:16
Speaker 2: I literally had to eat the sandwich with fork and knife.
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Speaker 1: I think you would have to with this one too
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Speaker 1: yeah I'm okay with fork and knife because I want
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Speaker 1: enough gravy do I I want to have to eat
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Speaker 1: it with a fork and knife I want to have
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Speaker 1: to sup up gravy skip skip the cotton candy cooler
49:29
Speaker 1: the Cubano flatbread okay Um, it's a, it's a Cuban
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Speaker 1: sandwich basically on a flat bread. You don't like a
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Speaker 1: Cuban sandwich. Uh, it's okay. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I had one a couple of weeks ago. It's I, I'm,
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Speaker 2: I'm not a huge fan that the bread's a little tough.
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Speaker 1: I actually think I would like that better than a
49:45
Speaker 1: Cuban sandwich because it's a flat bread. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I listen, I, I, I don't knock anybody's heritage and culture.
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Speaker 8: Uh-huh.
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Speaker 1: But isn't that just a souped-up ham and cheese sandwich?
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Speaker 1: It is, with mustard. Yeah.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Pretty much. Pretty much it. I bet, Jim, if you
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Speaker 1: go to Cuba, you don't see these on every street corner,
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Speaker 1: so I don't think you're insulting heritage. Go down to
50:05
Speaker 1: Deep Fried Bourbon Banana Bread.
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Speaker 7: Oh.
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Speaker 3: Oh, man.
50:10
Speaker 1: I love banana bread. Where are we? Let's go. Deep
50:12
Speaker 1: Fried Bourbon Banana Bread. That sounds good. Those are balls.
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Speaker 1: Is that what that is? They just do it in balls?
50:18
Speaker 1: Bourbon Banana Bread. Yeah, Deep Fried Bourbon Banana Bread.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yep. All the stuff you would expect there. Deep-fried ranch. Oh,
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Speaker 1: the next one. Is this ranch dressing? Is this ranch
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Speaker 1: inside like a wonton? This is deep-fried ranch. It's the
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Speaker 1: perfect breaded pocket-sized snack that fairgoers can easily take on
50:38
Speaker 1: the go during the fair. Stuffed with creamy ranch sauce,
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Speaker 1: then deep-fried. these bites are sure to wake up the
50:44
Speaker 1: taste buds. You guys ever get the crab angles or angels?
50:48
Speaker 1: People call them different things. Angels is what I call them.
50:51
Speaker 1: I've always called them angels.
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Speaker 6: I've seen them spelled angles at different places, and I
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Speaker 6: never know if that's just them doing a typo.
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Speaker 1: Only on Brown's headlines for Friday. That's actually a really
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Speaker 1: good line. I'll give you that. This is basically a
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Speaker 1: crab angle slash angel instead of cream cheese, it's ranch.
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Speaker 2: I'd rather have cream cheese.
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Speaker 1: I had two. Those are much better.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Uh, I cannot say this word. My son, every time
51:13
Speaker 1: I order it for breakfast, he corrects me. So it's
51:16
Speaker 1: the deep fried, uh, Thai tea. However you say, uh, cake.
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Speaker 1: How do you say? Tres leches.
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Speaker 8: Tres leches.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. You don't have to put the fake.
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Speaker 8: It's three milk.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. But you don't have to put the fake, uh,
51:29
Speaker 1: Hispanic flair on it. Tres leches. I always, always let
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Speaker 1: my son order it for me when we go to
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Speaker 1: breakfast because it's on the forever menu. That looks pretty
51:38
Speaker 1: good there.
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Speaker 8: Brooks wants to know if you can roll your R's, Brownie.
51:43
Speaker 1: The fettuccine Nutella crepe. Let's see. We've got to run
51:46
Speaker 1: through these quickly. That is a crepe. Nutella crepe slices
51:52
Speaker 1: into ribbons drizzled with Nutella, tops them with fresh seasonal
51:57
Speaker 1: fruits and whipped cream. Try the sweet and savory dish
52:00
Speaker 1: to see how it opens up the world. That's a
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Speaker 1: little bowl there. It looks like something my daughter gets
52:05
Speaker 1: at a local joint. It's like $ 15. Ridiculous. Footlong fries.
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Speaker 1: Go to that one. These are a footlong deep-fried mashed
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Speaker 1: potato-style fry, seasoned or drizzled with your choice of sauce
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Speaker 1: and seasoning. So they're fries that literally are footlong.
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Speaker 2: How big is that potato?
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Speaker 1: It's long.
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Speaker 3: My gosh.
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Speaker 1: Where did the crow go? Think about the additives they've
52:27
Speaker 1: got to put in that thing to make it a foot.
52:29
Speaker 1: Fried butter chicken is down there. Just run through the
52:33
Speaker 1: sheet there. Fried gobbler roll.
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Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
52:36
Speaker 1: Give me the gobbler roll. The gobbler roll, hand-rolled and deep-fried,
52:41
Speaker 1: cream cheese, fire-roasted corn, and a turkey leg.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. God, I'd weigh a million pounds if I went
52:50
Speaker 1: to this thing. Me too. That's why I want to
52:51
Speaker 1: go is all the food. I know. I went to
52:53
Speaker 1: the Greek Food Festival. They do have a mini smoked
52:55
Speaker 1: turkey leg that you can get. I thought this year's
52:58
Speaker 1: new thing was deep fried Reese's. Is it not on
53:01
Speaker 1: there anywhere? I saw it on a drawing yesterday. There's
53:06
Speaker 1: deep fried Twinkies. That's been there before. They've had that before.
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Speaker 4: All right.
53:10
Speaker 1: Enjoy the big Texas State Fair this year if you're
53:14
Speaker 1: going to the game down there. I hope Oklahoma wins
53:16
Speaker 1: the football game, though, down with horns. When we come back,
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Speaker 1: we do the second half. Of the next round. Raw dog.
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Speaker 1: See ya.