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- 2:15Speaker 1: with you as we roll along, I'd like for you
- 2:19Speaker 1: to rank your top five teams in the SEC for
- 2:22Speaker 1: twenty twenty six one through five. Who are the best team?
- 2:27Speaker 1: I mean, I know Mississippi States. I can be in
- 2:28Speaker 1: this Arkansas or South Carolina or Kentucky or all Burner Vanderbilt.
- 2:38Speaker 1: But but you know you're gonna have a You're gonna
- 2:41Speaker 1: have some like clusters of teams, you know. And so
- 2:45Speaker 1: the question is, can anybody go ten and two? How
- 2:52Speaker 1: many nine and threes will you have? And how many
- 2:54Speaker 1: eight and fours will you have from the top teams
- 2:58Speaker 1: because with the added conference game and the mandate mandated
- 3:04Speaker 1: non conference power for game, it's about to get dicey
- 3:09Speaker 1: and crazy for for everybody. But yeah, who who do
- 3:14Speaker 1: you have as far as your top five teams in
- 3:20Speaker 1: the SEC this year? You know, Georgia one for me,
- 3:26Speaker 1: l s U two for me, then it gets blurry
- 3:30Speaker 1: between Old Miss Bama and Texas, and I think you
- 3:34Speaker 1: could go either way three four five, Uh, shuffle them
- 3:38Speaker 1: in and out. You know, Bama's d is going to
- 3:43Speaker 1: be significantly better. Uh, Texas will take a back seat.
- 3:48Speaker 1: I'm sorry to step back on defense.
- 3:51Speaker 2: Uh.
- 3:51Speaker 1: And again that doesn't mean that they can't be good. Uh,
- 3:53Speaker 1: they just won't be what they have been. And then
- 3:57Speaker 1: Ole Miss lost their greatest head coach of all time
- 4:01Speaker 1: in football. So while Kiffen stockpiled talent and built the
- 4:07Speaker 1: model and has left left the program super healthy, you know,
- 4:13Speaker 1: John David Baker is not laying Kiffen, and nor will
- 4:17Speaker 1: he ever be. But yeah, so that's that's what we're
- 4:23Speaker 1: we're looking at. And and we've seen, you know, the
- 4:28Speaker 1: last couple of years, if you had an easy schedule,
- 4:31Speaker 1: I mean you were in the catbird seat and and
- 4:34Speaker 1: all the teams really are opening up with cupcakes except
- 4:40Speaker 1: Old Miss and l s U. Is that is that fair?
- 4:47Speaker 1: I mean Auburn's playing Baylor, Yeah, Uh may be a
- 4:52Speaker 1: game for them. It may be. I mean Auburn's got
- 4:57Speaker 1: some players, I can promise you that. And they were
- 5:01Speaker 1: they were within a whisker of winning the last two years,
- 5:04Speaker 1: all those games they gave up in the second half.
- 5:06Speaker 1: Some of them they were up double digits. Weird. So
- 5:09Speaker 1: it's not like they were blown out in the first
- 5:12Speaker 1: eight minutes of the game and not competitive those two
- 5:16Speaker 1: years with Freeze. I know, they didn't get the wins,
- 5:18Speaker 1: but I mean they were they they couldn't generate anything
- 5:22Speaker 1: at times on offense, and yet Darken and the defense
- 5:24Speaker 1: would keep them in.
- 5:25Speaker 2: But did they lose like seven ball games by one possession?
- 5:28Speaker 1: I think so?
- 5:29Speaker 2: Something crazy. Yeah, it was a couple of years back.
- 5:32Speaker 1: And that's where Kiffen made Hey this past year, he
- 5:35Speaker 1: you know, he won all his close games and those
- 5:40Speaker 1: that were that close game against Arkansas, close game against Kentucky,
- 5:44Speaker 1: close game against Florida. You know, he was just you
- 5:49Speaker 1: rip off those those wins and you you all of
- 5:55Speaker 1: a sudden end up in the college football player all
- 5:59Speaker 1: great that Auburn Baylor game is and Auburn six and
- 6:02Speaker 1: a half open spread. That sounds about right, isn't it
- 6:07Speaker 1: in It isn't that in Atlanta? I think it is.
- 6:13Speaker 1: And that's you know, Auburn will still go even though
- 6:20Speaker 1: they haven't won. I know, war Eagle Rich was like,
- 6:24Speaker 1: you know, hey, it's been five six miserable seasons since
- 6:28Speaker 1: Gus Malzin. You know, you get cute and you run
- 6:32Speaker 1: a coach who's beat Saban three times and played for
- 6:35Speaker 1: a national championship and lost with you know, fifteen seconds
- 6:40Speaker 1: on the clock and things like that. And now we'll
- 6:43Speaker 1: see what Alex golish, what's crazy is they don't ever
- 6:46Speaker 1: stop recruiting. Well, I mean they've still ripped through a
- 6:51Speaker 1: transfer class and a high school class and so on.
- 6:55Speaker 1: I mean again, the will power and commitment that they
- 6:59Speaker 1: have win or lose is is impressive, which got I
- 7:06Speaker 1: got taken them back, but a bout one by our text,
- 7:08Speaker 1: which I actually like. Like his rankings, Oh you forgot
- 7:12Speaker 1: you've got to have A and M. You don't have
- 7:13Speaker 1: A and M in your top five? Mm hmmm playoff team.
- 7:19Speaker 1: I don't think so, No, I don't. I don't think
- 7:24Speaker 1: I do. But let me look at their schedule, uh
- 7:26Speaker 1: and see how if it looks delicious? Oh that's that's
- 7:32Speaker 1: it's not that is it's pretty manageable. It is pretty manageable. Okay,
- 7:38Speaker 1: as manageable as these schedules are going to get. Right
- 7:40Speaker 1: with the ninth conference game. So let's jump into A
- 7:43Speaker 1: and M first second, and uh do they play? Oh
- 7:49Speaker 1: they're weird. They don't play either one of our teams
- 7:51Speaker 1: this year. Yeah, that's that's pretty darn manageable. Those first
- 7:55Speaker 1: three games they should be three and oh and then
- 7:57Speaker 1: they should win four or five. I don't think they
- 7:59Speaker 1: go to LS you and whim. But before we get
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- 8:59Speaker 1: and M real quick, because Mississippi State Ole miss did
- 9:02Speaker 1: play them a lot when they joined the league. Because
- 9:03Speaker 1: they were in the West. We went through the whole
- 9:06Speaker 1: Johnny manziel Manziell Mania, and then Mississippi State kept them
- 9:11Speaker 1: the last couple of years. So they go Missouri State,
- 9:16Speaker 1: Arizona State, Kentucky, all at home to start the year.
- 9:23Speaker 1: I don't leave Texas for a while, and yeah, not
- 9:27Speaker 1: until the fourth game when they go to LSU. Then
- 9:30Speaker 1: they come back home against Arkansas at Missouri's manageable the
- 9:34Speaker 1: Citadel at home. So I mean, at this point you
- 9:39Speaker 1: could be six and one if you win at Missouri.
- 9:42Speaker 1: I don't think you're winning at LSU. Now You've got
- 9:47Speaker 1: either the same amount of talent or damn near than LSU.
- 9:52Speaker 1: So it's not like it's this big disparity, you know,
- 9:57Speaker 1: talent disparity between A and M. And but I don't
- 10:01Speaker 1: love what Elko did as far as replacing his coordinators,
- 10:05Speaker 1: but he's a good coach. And then after the Citadel
- 10:10Speaker 1: they go to Bawn. It gets a little tougher. They
- 10:12Speaker 1: go to BBAMA at South Carolina, Tennessee at home, at Oklahoma,
- 10:21Speaker 1: Texas at home on that Friday of Thanksgiving. That'll be
- 10:26Speaker 1: a big one. So eight and a half wins in Vegas,
- 10:31Speaker 1: one two, three, four, five, six. Let me go through
- 10:37Speaker 1: that again. One two, three, four, five six seven. So
- 10:44Speaker 1: they've got a path to nine and then they've got
- 10:48Speaker 1: a path to seven or eight. Yeah, at LSU, at Bama,
- 10:55Speaker 1: at Oklahoma, Texas at home. But then some of the
- 10:59Speaker 1: other spots are really good. They got to make a
- 11:02Speaker 1: early Like I said, they got to win six or seven.
- 11:05Speaker 1: You win six or seven, you'll be ranked in the
- 11:07Speaker 1: top five and you could be going into Alabamaabama may
- 11:12Speaker 1: have one loss, maybe two top five matchup. Yeah, it
- 11:19Speaker 1: could be or top ten. Yeah sure. Yeah, that Bama
- 11:23Speaker 1: A and M game October twenty fourth could be wild.
- 11:28Speaker 1: And Bama will have not had a they will have
- 11:33Speaker 1: played eight games that will be their eighth game in
- 11:38Speaker 1: a row before having their week off, and they will
- 11:42Speaker 1: have played Georgia at home and at Tennessee. Going into
- 11:47Speaker 1: the A and M game being their eighth game without
- 11:51Speaker 1: a by that kind of lines up for him. Then, Yeah,
- 11:54Speaker 1: that's not bad. Yeah, and A and M will have Oh,
- 11:59Speaker 1: they will not have are that will be their eighth game.
- 12:02Speaker 1: They don't have a bye, like Texas has an early
- 12:05Speaker 1: buye Oklahoma Old miss Yeah, those are the first buyes
- 12:16Speaker 1: that I see in game week five, Old Miss week five,
- 12:21Speaker 1: Oklahoma week five, Texas week five. Bar two says, you
- 12:27Speaker 1: want to hold it as long as you can, So
- 12:29Speaker 1: that's not ideal. You'd rather have it at least week seven.
- 12:34Speaker 1: Who would be like South Carolina Mississippi State's week six,
- 12:39Speaker 1: So they're a week after Old Miss and Oklahoma and Texas.
- 12:43Speaker 1: A lot of them are late. October twenty fourth and
- 12:46Speaker 1: October thirty first, it looks like to me are the
- 12:50Speaker 1: bulk of the buys teams getting eight and nine games
- 12:55Speaker 1: into the season before before getting a bye time. Yeah,
- 13:00Speaker 1: and then you get healthy and try to make your
- 13:02Speaker 1: four game well, you try to get healthy and try
- 13:06Speaker 1: to make your four game run. And this is just
- 13:08Speaker 1: another repercussion from the ninth game. No, I think, you know,
- 13:14Speaker 1: I don't know how. I don't think it has anything
- 13:16Speaker 1: to do with the ninth game because buys or buys, sure,
- 13:19Speaker 1: But I was talking about them being that late. Well,
- 13:22Speaker 1: you know, I don't know how that's done. I just
- 13:24Speaker 1: I know I'm looking here. Nobody has one until week five,
- 13:28Speaker 1: and that's Ole Miss, Oklahoma, and Texas because Oklahoma and
- 13:35Speaker 1: Texas played that next week in the whole fair and
- 13:39Speaker 1: Dallas and Cotton Bowl and all of that. So that's interesting.
- 13:44Speaker 1: You got Texas for the first time in a while
- 13:47Speaker 1: playing Oklahoma and A and M in the same season,
- 13:51Speaker 1: and A and M playing Oklahoma and Texas and they'll
- 13:55Speaker 1: play them back to back at the end of the season. So,
- 13:59Speaker 1: like I said, A and M schedule is front loaded,
- 14:05Speaker 1: the back ends brutal. Yeah, you gotta win six or seven,
- 14:11Speaker 1: if not seven of eight to get where you want
- 14:18Speaker 1: to go. Damn, Bandy's gonna start well. In C State
- 14:23Speaker 1: has CJ. Wilson, they like him at quarterback. Bandy's gonna
- 14:27Speaker 1: take a step back because even Mississippi State, I mean,
- 14:31Speaker 1: that's that's probably their best opportunity to win a home
- 14:34Speaker 1: game conference and then Auburn, Yeah, Bandy, then Auburn. How
- 14:41Speaker 1: about Vanderbilt playing Austin, p Delaware and then n C
- 14:45Speaker 1: State to start the year. Ole miss is the one
- 14:49Speaker 1: that plays three tough teams in the first four weeks,
- 14:52Speaker 1: Louisville neutral field. But they pull a quarterback who's never
- 14:57Speaker 1: He's from Ohio State, was you know, highly thought of,
- 15:03Speaker 1: maybe good, but hadn't played any they he transferred into.
- 15:06Speaker 1: Because Julian's saying is this the starter at Ohio State.
- 15:10Speaker 1: So when you look at Lincoln con Holts, he's a
- 15:17Speaker 1: transfer from Ohio State who it looks like will will
- 15:22Speaker 1: get the job at Louisville. But they also added this
- 15:28Speaker 1: kid from West Georgia who's played more. It looks like
- 15:33Speaker 1: and I think that's it Widener. So I don't know
- 15:40Speaker 1: who Old Miss will face. They think it's gonna be
- 15:44Speaker 1: cond Holts. But David Widener, David Widner played better in
- 15:53Speaker 1: the spring game con Holts. Is he six ft five
- 16:00Speaker 1: good looking quarterback? David Widner. How many years did he
- 16:06Speaker 1: play it? Or how many games did he play and
- 16:09Speaker 1: or start at West Georgia. Oh he was, he was,
- 16:13Speaker 1: he did it. Let's see the majority. Oh really Yeah,
- 16:16Speaker 1: he's played a lot of ball. Okay, he played every
- 16:19Speaker 1: game in twenty five regular season. Yeah, oh yeah, so
- 16:22Speaker 1: he said me he played a lot of ball. They
- 16:23Speaker 1: didn't throw it a whole whole lot. He's a runner,
- 16:27Speaker 1: maybe take off with his leg. He does like to run.
- 16:30Speaker 1: Good God, he's a runner. Wow. This guy on the
- 16:33Speaker 1: text line has Old Miss number one okay six to
- 16:37Speaker 1: oh one area code uh Old Miss one Texas two
- 16:43Speaker 1: Georgia three A and M four, l s U five. Okay,
- 16:50Speaker 1: I think LSU is low. I don't have Old Miss
- 16:53Speaker 1: at number one above Georgia or l s U. No, No,
- 17:00Speaker 1: I got Georgia one and LSU two. Now are you
- 17:06Speaker 1: oh he doesn't have Baman here? Okay?
- 17:08Speaker 2: Are you assuming that LSU wins that ball game in Oxford?
- 17:14Speaker 1: Yeah? Because if not, then Ole Miss.
- 17:16Speaker 2: Wouldn't need to be flipped in some of these rankings.
- 17:18Speaker 1: Right. Well, I mean that one game may decide, but
- 17:21Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that the winner is going to finish
- 17:23Speaker 1: above whoever loses. It's sure it you know in that day, right,
- 17:31Speaker 1: you're better Ole Miss or LSU. But that I don't
- 17:34Speaker 1: know that what you're going to look like as far
- 17:36Speaker 1: as look non conference games six and three is going
- 17:39Speaker 1: to be incredible, six and three is going to be unbelievable.
- 17:45Speaker 1: You're gonna have some teams finished two and seven and
- 17:49Speaker 1: three and six. How many commerce games? Can a team
- 17:54Speaker 1: go seven and two in the league this year? Can can?
- 18:00Speaker 1: Is there a team with the non conference games? Now?
- 18:04Speaker 1: Can you go seven and two? I mean that's staying clean,
- 18:12Speaker 1: not losing anybody really significant to injury. Can you go
- 18:18Speaker 1: and better? Yet? How many teams can go seven and two?
- 18:22Speaker 1: Can a team go eight and one? I doubt it,
- 18:26Speaker 1: but it maybe. So Georgia has a good run until
- 18:34Speaker 1: they go to Bama. Really good run. Okay, Tennessee stayed
- 18:38Speaker 1: at home, Western Kentucky at home, so they get they
- 18:41Speaker 1: get two warm up weeks, even though Gunner Stockton's actually
- 18:44Speaker 1: played some. Last year was his first year. Then well,
- 18:51Speaker 1: I feel like he's been there forever. No, last year
- 18:54Speaker 1: was his first year and and I mean first year
- 18:58Speaker 1: to play, right. And then they go to Arkansas. Ryan
- 19:04Speaker 1: Silverfield for our listeners, won a bunch of games at Memphis,
- 19:09Speaker 1: took the Arkansas job, all right. Then they got Oklahoma
- 19:14Speaker 1: at home. I'm talking about Georgia stay with me, Vanderbilt
- 19:17Speaker 1: at home, step back without Diego Pavia, and then they
- 19:21Speaker 1: go to Bama. Man, it ain't too shabby if you're
- 19:24Speaker 1: looking for the eight and one. Yeah, so you can
- 19:27Speaker 1: drive me in. Georgia's toughest game is at bamat at Ole, Miss. Right, wow,
- 19:33Speaker 1: at Bama at Ole Miss.
- 19:35Speaker 2: So.
- 19:36Speaker 1: Gunner stock And is twenty two years old, see twenty two.
- 19:40Speaker 1: Twenty two years old, and he's been at Georgia Bulldog
- 19:43Speaker 1: since twenty two. He's waited his time. Well, so, yeah,
- 19:50Speaker 1: because what's his name transferred to Miami, right, Dorsey? What's
- 19:56Speaker 1: his name? Bet Carson bat I like Ndorsey Ken Dorsey
- 20:01Speaker 1: was like nineteen ninety eight or something, or two thousand
- 20:04Speaker 1: and one or whatever. It was, nineteen ninety four, McGahee,
- 20:10Speaker 1: McGahee love that guy. Yeah, godly. They were one of
- 20:13Speaker 1: the first teams I got to really play with on
- 20:15Speaker 1: video games. Well that was a great team talking about
- 20:18Speaker 1: the one team. Yeah, okay, yeah, Winslow junior. Yeah, the
- 20:25Speaker 1: defense was all right. I guess that was when they
- 20:29Speaker 1: got host in the in the National Championship ninety one.
- 20:33Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, okay.
- 20:34Speaker 2: Rice Clare may have got hurt in that and McGahee
- 20:37Speaker 2: got hurt in the Championship games.
- 20:38Speaker 1: What it was? Yeah, Clarette was several years later. Oh man,
- 20:44Speaker 1: I remember living that. That was like a big deal
- 20:47Speaker 1: where people got hot and bothered on that on that story.
- 20:50Speaker 1: Yeah you were, you were on air for that, right,
- 20:51Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah.
- 20:54Speaker 2: That's a layered deal.
- 20:58Speaker 1: I hadn't.
- 20:59Speaker 2: We went way of my head when I was that age.
- 21:01Speaker 1: So you kind of take this thing and you know,
- 21:03Speaker 1: what can you do in September? Right, I mean, you know, what,
- 21:06Speaker 1: what what can we Can we go four? And? Oh?
- 21:10Speaker 1: Can we go three and one? You know, everybody's looking
- 21:13Speaker 1: at I'm talking about whoever, Georgia, Florida, Ole, Miss Oklahoma.
- 21:17Speaker 1: People are looking going can we go four? And oh?
- 21:20Speaker 1: Can we go three and one? Because you know, you
- 21:24Speaker 1: manage September and then you turn the page. October third
- 21:27Speaker 1: will be your first game in October and then all
- 21:30Speaker 1: of a sudden, I mean we're loaded up with conference
- 21:33Speaker 1: games right.
- 21:35Speaker 2: Now.
- 21:35Speaker 1: How many conference games do they play in the COVID year? Ten?
- 21:39Speaker 2: And this is how many?
- 21:40Speaker 1: Nine? Okay? I know, well usually, I mean because you know,
- 21:44Speaker 1: we say COVID year with an asterisk, no doubt because
- 21:46Speaker 1: of the ten conference game, no question. I see where
- 21:48Speaker 1: you're going. You make a good point. Yeah, that was
- 21:51Speaker 1: ten conference games. It was absolutely brutal, brutal. Now I'm
- 21:57Speaker 1: glad they played. They should have played, nobody should have
- 22:00Speaker 1: not played. And they it was fun. I mean, like
- 22:04Speaker 1: we got into it. I think we actually started September
- 22:07Speaker 1: twenty sixth if I'm somewhere in there so they remember.
- 22:10Speaker 1: They moved it back several weeks getting their ducks in
- 22:13Speaker 1: a row, and then we played ten conference games. Well,
- 22:17Speaker 1: not everybody, but most there were some nine conference game
- 22:22Speaker 1: teams that year. Remember everybody thought that Jim Bow and
- 22:28Speaker 1: A and M got screwed. They went eight and one.
- 22:32Speaker 1: They had a game called I don't remember exactly what
- 22:36Speaker 1: went down COVID COVID. Remember Leech wouldn't cancel the game.
- 22:42Speaker 1: He got down to forty five or forty six players
- 22:46Speaker 1: throughout that season, and you know they wouldn't. They would
- 22:52Speaker 1: knocked out of any of them. They were that low. Yeah, yep.
- 22:59Speaker 1: He went to g Orgia and that was a one
- 23:02Speaker 1: possession game all night in twenty twenty against and this
- 23:06Speaker 1: is when Kirby had you know, that kind of era,
- 23:11Speaker 1: no doubt talent. Okay, this is not the last couple
- 23:14Speaker 1: of years where everybody's been decimated. And it was a
- 23:18Speaker 1: one possession game in the fourth quarter, crazy forty five play.
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