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Miami Atop of CFB AP Ranking, Texans’ London Survival, and Rams’ Late Collapse · The Daily Play With Joy Taylor

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  Speaker 1: it was a wild week in college football. A lot
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  Speaker 1: going on. College football season has been incredible this year.
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  Speaker 1: Five of the top seven teams lost, which caused major
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  Speaker 1: upheaval in the AP rankings. Miami jumps up two spots
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  Speaker 1: to number one after a tough overtime win. Over in-state
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  Speaker 1: rival Florida State, the last time Miami made it from
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  Speaker 1: 3-1 in the AP was in 2002 when Ken Dorsey,
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  Speaker 1: Willis McGahee, and the fellas made a run to the
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  Speaker 1: national championship game. of the days. Well, Miami is the
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  Speaker 1: first number one team from the ACC since Clemson in 2020.
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  Speaker 1: Other than Clemson, there had not been another ACC team
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  Speaker 1: ranked number one since Florida State in 2014. So that was,
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  Speaker 1: it's a big deal. And another big mover in a
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  Speaker 1: positive way was BYU, jumping up six spots to second
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  Speaker 1: overall after a big win over Notre Dame and Provo
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  Speaker 1: in They now have their highest ranking in the AP
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  Speaker 1: rankings since their national championship season in 1982. Big droppers
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  Speaker 1: were Texas and Alabama. Texas took a bad loss to
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  Speaker 1: unranked Florida. And Steve Sarkeesian is unwilling to say that
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  Speaker 1: Arch Manning will remain the starting quarterback. Four and two
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  Speaker 1: Longhorns fell 12 spots to 19th overall. So dramatic loss.
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  Speaker 1: couple of weeks for Texas. And then Bama fell out
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  Speaker 1: of the top 10, dropping seven spots to 13th after
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  Speaker 1: losing to Tennessee. Number nine, UCLA has matched its highest
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  Speaker 1: ranking since 2022. They remain undefeated despite losing their quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: And number 14, Houston has hit its highest ranking since
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  Speaker 1: it was number 11 midseason in 2016. So the college
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  Speaker 1: football season has a lot going on. A lot of,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, LSU is a disaster. Like there's, there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot happening. Miami is it's a completely different team. creating
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  Speaker 1: a completely different energy than it was last year for
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  Speaker 1: the national title run. They want to have a different identity.
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  Speaker 1: They talk about it constantly. And you're seeing that. This
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  Speaker 1: game was a really tough rival matchup for Miami. And
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  Speaker 1: before everyone starts getting all funny, you see what's happening
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  Speaker 1: around college football. It's almost becoming NFL-like in that anyone
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  Speaker 1: can lose any time. And I think NIL has really
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  Speaker 1: leveled the playing field for college football in a way
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  Speaker 1: that has made it have a lot more parody. And
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  Speaker 1: it's really exciting for me as someone who has always
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  Speaker 1: been frustrated with the style of play that you needed
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  Speaker 1: to have in college football, because if you lost one game,
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  Speaker 1: you were essentially out of the national championship conversation, which
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  Speaker 1: to me was always insane. So I love the expansion
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  Speaker 1: and what it has allowed for college football. And I
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  Speaker 1: love the changes that NIL have allowed for college football
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  Speaker 1: because the parody is incredible. And year to year, you
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  Speaker 1: can change the course of your program with the additions
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  Speaker 1: of transfers and big time players. Now, they host unranked
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh on Saturday. Shout out to my guy, Shady McCoy.
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  Speaker 1: And again, that might not seem like a big matchup,
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  Speaker 1: but every single week we are seeing teams change. go crazy.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm really excited for what Miami is doing. The
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  Speaker 1: last time unranked teams knocked off number ones in consecutive
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  Speaker 1: weeks was 1990. I do not believe that that's going
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  Speaker 1: to happen, but it's just been a wild, wild college
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  Speaker 1: football season and I'm loving it. I'm loving all the changes.
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  Speaker 1: I'm loving the movement and it's going to mean for
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  Speaker 1: a really, really exciting college postseason. Let's move from Saturday
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  Speaker 1: to Sunday, where it took a last-second field goal, but
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  Speaker 1: the Texans kept their season alive in London with a
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  Speaker 1: huge win over the AFC South leading Jags. Speaking of
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  Speaker 1: crazy seasons, the Texans, what an incredible, wild season they
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  Speaker 1: have had. CJ Stroud threw three touchdowns for the first
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  Speaker 1: time this season and led a two-minute drill to set
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  Speaker 1: up the game-winning field goal as time expired. They started
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  Speaker 1: the season 0-4, coming in with legitimate Super Bowl hopes,
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  Speaker 1: and C.J. Stroud essentially playing for his contract. Only one
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  Speaker 1: team has ever made the playoffs from 0-4, and Houston
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  Speaker 1: is hoping to be the second. Head coach Tameka Ryans
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  Speaker 1: gave Stroud the credit for the win. He said his
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  Speaker 1: mindset was, hey, I got you, coach. Don't worry about it.
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  Speaker 1: When a player tells me that, this gives me the
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  Speaker 1: confidence I need. He responded in an outstanding way. This
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  Speaker 1: was a must-win game for the Texans, which is crazy
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  Speaker 1: to say in mid-October, but Marvin Harrison Jr. made his
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  Speaker 1: debut for the Texans, three passes for 34 yards. I
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  Speaker 1: think that's going to be a really essential addition for them.
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  Speaker 1: Travis Hunter had an incredible game. It's unfortunate that it
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  Speaker 1: was wasted by Jacksonville, but he had a ton of
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  Speaker 1: two-way impact, touchdown pass and an interception. Trevor Lawrence, 24-41,
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  Speaker 1: 306 yards, four touchdowns and an interception. Look, it's a
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  Speaker 1: division game, and it comes down to the wire, and
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  Speaker 1: that's how it goes. The Texans were just a little
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  Speaker 1: more hungry. Their next three games are the Giants, a bye,
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  Speaker 1: and then at the Chargers. So, again, the Texans have
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  Speaker 1: a real opportunity to, of course, correct the horrible start
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  Speaker 1: to their season. The Jags are at 4-2. They have
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  Speaker 1: a bye this week, and then Indy and Baltimore on
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  Speaker 1: Thursday night football. Finally, the Texans had the same record
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  Speaker 1: as the Rams, who came into the season highly touted
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  Speaker 1: as Super Bowl favorites. They lost to the Cardinals. They
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  Speaker 1: tied the game at 15 on a Matthew Stafford pass
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  Speaker 1: to Cody Parkinson with 47 seconds left in the game.
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  Speaker 1: Eight seconds is too long these days in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: But Their new kicker, Blake Rupey, had been knocked out
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  Speaker 1: of the game. So with the game on the line,
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  Speaker 1: Sean McVay had punter Ethan Evans, who's normally the holder,
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  Speaker 1: kick the point after that the Rams needed to take
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  Speaker 1: a leap. Evans drilled it, and the Rams appeared to
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  Speaker 1: have a victory. Then with 47 seconds left, Jacoby Brissett
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  Speaker 1: completed a deep pass to Jalen Brooks. who was hit
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  Speaker 1: illegally while making the catch, and that play alone got
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  Speaker 1: them into field goal range. And as it expired, they
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  Speaker 1: kick a 43-yard field goal and win the game. The
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  Speaker 1: Rams are crumbling under these expectations and injury. They have
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  Speaker 1: wins over the Giants and the Eagles, who collapsed today
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  Speaker 1: and had a really disappointing loss to the Panthers without
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts, which is a whole other conversation. And the
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  Speaker 1: NFC West is just not to be trifled with. The
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  Speaker 1: Niners are 5-0. Seattle's 3-3. Arizona obviously can beat you
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  Speaker 1: at 2-4, but the Rams are 2-4 also. They've had
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  Speaker 1: a ton of injuries that they're dealing with, and they
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  Speaker 1: can't seem to overcome it, unlike the Niners, who have
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  Speaker 1: a chance to go 6-0 tonight in Washington. they'll have
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  Speaker 1: a three game lead in the division just through six
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  Speaker 1: weeks of football. If they do that, that's crazy. And
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  Speaker 1: coming into the season, we couldn't put anybody up with
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  Speaker 1: the Rams. Like this is why I, and I fell
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  Speaker 1: victim to it too, but this is why you really
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  Speaker 1: cannot get crazy about Superbowl expectations. Just because of what
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  Speaker 1: you do in the off season, you have to see
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  Speaker 1: how things play out. And I know we all have
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  Speaker 1: to make predictions and it's fun to play the game
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  Speaker 1: of win loss, but. On paper, as soon as you
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  Speaker 1: say that term on paper to me, I start to
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  Speaker 1: get weary. And I fell for it too. And one
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