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College Football games to watch this weekend · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: But it is to fire me up Friday, and so this,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that does kind of fire you Updnny here.
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  Speaker 2: everybody up.
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  Speaker 3: And of course it does Hill from the three h
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  Speaker 3: five Miami Florida comes to town tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: So Florida isn't the Florida Internationals Stadium? Yeah, Pitbull Stadium? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'd heard it but forgotten about it, and there it was,
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  Speaker 2: They fired me up Friday, and for Cam.
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  Speaker 1: on sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So, uh, it's an important college football weekend and it's
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  Speaker 1: already being described by many. Separation Saturday. Now I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: start in the SEC and then there's some other games
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  Speaker 1: to get to. The Texas Florida game kicks off Separation
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  Speaker 1: Saturday and kicks off a full slate in the Southeastern Conference.
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  Speaker 1: And this is the national telecast ABC, the whole bit.
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  Speaker 1: There's that, but beyond that, and certainly there's plenty to
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  Speaker 1: discuss with this game of Texas in Florida, and we
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  Speaker 1: have been doing that throughout the course of the week
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  Speaker 1: and as of today right now, DJ Lagway is listed
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  Speaker 1: as questionable for the game.
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  Speaker 2: You know it.
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  Speaker 1: In talking to long Oarnchs head coach de Starkeishan about it,
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  Speaker 1: he said, he a must be pretty much of a
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  Speaker 1: fast healer and b it is. You know, Aydon Warner
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  Speaker 1: is a little not a little, He's a different kind
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  Speaker 1: of quarterback. This is a guy who and when Sean Kelly,
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  Speaker 1: the voice of the Gators, was on with us the
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  Speaker 1: other day, described as a young man who's from Florida,
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  Speaker 1: went to Yale, played there one year, wanted to come
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  Speaker 1: back home, earn his way onto the Florida Roster's dream
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  Speaker 1: was to be a Gator. Earned his way onto the
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  Speaker 1: roster by being a walk on. Was able to do that.
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  Speaker 1: And part of the reason he was able to do
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  Speaker 1: that is because he made a highlight video of himself,
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  Speaker 1: not just in game action, but some of the other
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  Speaker 1: things and moves and stuff he made and his agility
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  Speaker 1: and speed and things like that. So he sent it
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  Speaker 1: to the coaches and like, okay, yeah, yeah, he'd be
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  Speaker 1: a good preferred walk on we'll have him in there.
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  Speaker 1: So they bring him in and then during a routine
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  Speaker 1: examination once he got in, they realized he had a
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  Speaker 1: torn acl and he had done all that without so
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  Speaker 1: then he underwent surgery and then after that came back
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  Speaker 1: and was really the third guy on the roster going
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  Speaker 1: into the season. Graham Mertz was the starter.
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  Speaker 2: EJ. Lagway was the backup.
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  Speaker 1: When Mertz and the Gators overall to be fair as
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  Speaker 1: a team, struck early, Lagway was given an opportunity and
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  Speaker 1: it did inject some some energy and enthusiasm into the
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  Speaker 1: offense and helped a little bit, but also he had
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  Speaker 1: his struggles as a true freshman would They went back
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  Speaker 1: to Graham Mertz, and then Mertz suffered a season ending
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  Speaker 1: knee injury and that was it for him. Lagway came in,
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  Speaker 1: had been playing well and really kind of had the
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  Speaker 1: Georgia defense off balance with him up in that first
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  Speaker 1: half thirteen to six, and that's when he injured the
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  Speaker 1: hamstring and it was originally and initially described as significant
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  Speaker 1: by head coach Billy Napier. Since then, however, and again,
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  Speaker 1: Sean Kelly, their play by play voice, who was on
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  Speaker 1: with a couple of days Ago said, I visited with
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  Speaker 1: DJ on Monday and he said it wasn't as bad
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  Speaker 1: as I thought it was going to be, and I
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  Speaker 1: feel better today, And that kind of prompted I think
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  Speaker 1: also some of the comments from coaching Apier and his
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  Speaker 1: news conference about how it wasn't quite as bad, and
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  Speaker 1: in Napier's words, there was a pathway for Lagway to
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  Speaker 1: return and actually play in this game tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: And you know he really wants to.
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  Speaker 1: He's a native Texan, he was a Mister Texas Football
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  Speaker 1: from Dave Campbell's Texas Football magazine with what he did
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  Speaker 1: with Willis last year, and really wants to play. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see if he's in condition to go, it may
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  Speaker 1: go all the way. He maybe listed this question. The
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  Speaker 1: thing about questionable is you can put a guy. You
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  Speaker 1: can list the guy in the SEC Student Athlete Availability
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  Speaker 1: Report as questionable. Questionable means fifty to fifty. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have to do anything more than that. You don't have
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  Speaker 1: to say it's probable, you don't have to say is doubtful.
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  Speaker 1: You can keep him at questionable and then not play
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  Speaker 1: him if you so choose, or play. So I have
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  Speaker 1: a feeling he may be questionable all the way up
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  Speaker 1: till they finally make the decision. Maybe it's after warm
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  Speaker 1: ups tomorrow, who knows. We'll keep an eye on it
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  Speaker 1: for sure, But that's just the first game Texas Florida
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  Speaker 1: then cam There are those who would say, without question,
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  Speaker 1: don't even blink the that the Alabama LSU game is
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  Speaker 1: the most important game in the Southeastern Conference, if not
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  Speaker 1: the nation this week. But there are others who will
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  Speaker 1: tell you Georgia ole Miss is pretty dog gone important
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  Speaker 1: and that's the game that follows Texas and precedes Alabama LSU.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be a, you know, quite the challenge for
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  Speaker 1: Georgia going out. Ole Miss is playing really well, I think,
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  Speaker 1: and I think that would make a big difference.
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  Speaker 3: And we have not really seen Georgia play well for
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  Speaker 3: an entire game outside of maybe they're winning against Texas, right,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, they were in a dog fight with Florida
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  Speaker 3: that came down to the second half, and if Lagway
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  Speaker 3: does not get injured, maybe Georgia loses that game. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: who knows, purely hypothetical. Obviously led the entire game against Techs,
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  Speaker 3: but in a close one against Misissippi State that came
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  Speaker 3: down to the very last possession. Auburn probably their most
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  Speaker 3: dominant victory, but then struggled against Kentucky lost to Alabama. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: the Clemson game kind of got out of hand in
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  Speaker 3: the second half. So what will happen for can Georgia
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  Speaker 3: together a four quarter game? And I think the question
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  Speaker 3: really is about Carson Back. I mean he's throwing what
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  Speaker 3: eleven interceptions or seven something ridiculous. He threw for four,
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  Speaker 3: counted for four turnovers against Florida, had three picks in
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  Speaker 3: a fumble.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, is that correct? I mean Jorge in three interceptions
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  Speaker 1: against Texas.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's awful for a quarterback that was supposed to
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  Speaker 3: be maybe the first quarterback taking off the draft.
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  Speaker 2: Board this season.
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  Speaker 3: So Georgia able to skate by, But man, if he
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  Speaker 3: throws three or four interceptions against Ole Miss or or
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  Speaker 3: Tennesse Seed, that they may end up losing one more game.
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  Speaker 1: Craig, Yeah, so we'll see how an Ole Miss of
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  Speaker 1: course has been playing better. And and speaking of courterbacks,
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Dart is playing just about as well as any
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  Speaker 1: quarterback in the SEC right now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so Ole Miss team with two losses in conference play,
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  Speaker 3: if they want to make the SEC title. I think
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  Speaker 3: everyone can except for what do you know if Florida can't.
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  Speaker 3: I think Florida is out of it. You did the algorithms,
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  Speaker 3: states all of it. I think South Carolina is out
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  Speaker 3: of it. But in uh, Oklahoma obviously one in foreign
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  Speaker 3: conference play, but Ole Miss. You know, if they can
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  Speaker 3: stack some wins here, they can beat Georgia, then they
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  Speaker 3: just have Florida and the Bulldogs left on their schedule
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  Speaker 3: Miss Sippy State. That is, they can find a way
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  Speaker 3: a pathway to Atlanta.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So does the fact that Alabama at LSU
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  Speaker 1: is described by Paul Finbaum.
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  Speaker 2: Among others, as an elimination game. But for.
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  Speaker 1: Heather Dinnich and other college football playoff analysts who do
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  Speaker 1: the number crunching and this and that and can prepare
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  Speaker 1: the probably ability, they say that Alabama wouldn't necessarily be out.
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  Speaker 1: Does that grind your gears a bout as much as
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  Speaker 1: anything else, because the way, judging from your reactions this week,
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  Speaker 1: that possibly even made a snide comment about a four
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  Speaker 1: loss Alabama four loss team is not getting in, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, a three loss she said, it doesn't necessarily
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  Speaker 1: knock them out, but it kind of puts them in
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  Speaker 1: a bad spot.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it depends on how much chaos happens, Craig. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: if Notre Dame loses, the Army BYU slips up, maybe
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  Speaker 3: Indiana gets blown out by Ohio State, Penn State, or
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  Speaker 3: Tennessee lose here or there. If you Boise State drops one,
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  Speaker 3: then all of a sudden, there is a case that
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  Speaker 3: a three loss Alabama team might be better than one
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  Speaker 3: of those teams. So a lot can happen. Now, I
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  Speaker 3: think it would take all of that for them to
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  Speaker 3: get in because if they lose to LSU, they need
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  Speaker 3: a lot of help. Then LSU theoretically would be ahead
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  Speaker 3: of them in the standing sure has a better case
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  Speaker 3: for the spot than Alabama does, unless LSU ends up
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  Speaker 3: dropping one more game the end of the season. So
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  Speaker 3: it's that doesn't really grin in my gears. I just
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  Speaker 3: think it's funny Craig. And again, this just goes back
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  Speaker 3: to what ESPN puts on their their TV screen, where
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  Speaker 3: every every game is just a massive game and has
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  Speaker 3: massive implications. You know that the world's going to end
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  Speaker 3: if this team loses or this team wins, it's over
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  Speaker 3: with that coach. He's getting fired this quarterback sucks. It's
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  Speaker 3: just there's there's a lot going on. So I'm glad
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  Speaker 3: we have the Heather Dimaches of the world to kind
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  Speaker 3: of keep people's feet on the ground and say, no,
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  Speaker 3: you know what, it's the board is not going to
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  Speaker 3: get fired. They lose this game, they just they still
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  Speaker 3: have a pathway. It's just it's harder to make the
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  Speaker 3: playoffs that they lose.
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  Speaker 1: You know who makes me crazy. It's not that it's
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  Speaker 1: not the armageddon like status of things in the SEC
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  Speaker 1: as presented in promos by ABC or ESPN. It's the
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  Speaker 1: woman on the Monday night football promos, the one who's
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  Speaker 1: just sitting there staring at her commercial stare it or
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  Speaker 1: a computer went, this is gonna be the greatest game ever,
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  Speaker 1: you know, stealers and giants, And I'm like, stop it.
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  Speaker 1: Don't make that like it's a big deal. Look I'm
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  Speaker 1: a Rams fan. Quit making the Rams and Dolphins sound
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  Speaker 1: like it's a super Bowl from the seventies, because it's not. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: stop it. Anyway to some of the other matchups. One
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  Speaker 1: thing that was written in by Bill Connelly for ESPNO
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  Speaker 1: covers college football so astuteley he said, was last week
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  Speaker 1: This is a very valid question to ask. Was last
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  Speaker 1: week a sign of things to come in the Big twelve?
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  Speaker 1: Talking about Iowa State losing at home to Texas Tech,
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  Speaker 1: Kansas State losing in Houston. So what you got are
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  Speaker 1: a couple of really big games, really three games that
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  Speaker 1: matter this week in the Big twelve, and TCU Oklahoma
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  Speaker 1: State is not one of those. B. Why you at Utah?
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  Speaker 1: The oh Holy War that thing? Although Utah is struggled.
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  Speaker 1: They're just four and four right now. B WHYU yeah,
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  Speaker 1: b YU undefeated. I Aloway stayed at Kansas. Kansas has
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  Speaker 1: got a little bit better late, but they struggled mightily
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  Speaker 1: at the beginning. And then what I think could be
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  Speaker 1: as telling is anything is Colorado at Texas Tech Tech
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  Speaker 1: one in Ames last week. They're hard to beat at home,
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  Speaker 1: but Colorado has been on a roll. And Travis Hunter
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  Speaker 1: one of the Heisman Trophy favorites, if not the Heisman
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  Speaker 1: Trophy favorite, certainly he's right up there with Ashton genty
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  Speaker 1: I think. So those are three important games in the
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  Speaker 1: Big Twelve, just as there's three important games in the
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  Speaker 1: SEC I would I would offer to you. So those
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  Speaker 1: are those are some ones to keep in mind as well,
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  Speaker 1: and then there's not that much.
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  Speaker 2: Happening really in the Big Ten.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Indiana is Indiana's playing Michigan, but Indiana's better
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  Speaker 1: in Michigan and they're playing the game in Bloomington. Washington's
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  Speaker 1: at Penn State. Eh, Washington hadn't been that good and
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  Speaker 1: Penn State will be itching to be better after losing
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  Speaker 1: at home to Ohio State last week.
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  Speaker 2: Maryland and Oregon, I don't think there's much there is
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  Speaker 2: Penn State.
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  Speaker 3: Are they locked into a playoff spot? I mean at
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  Speaker 3: number six, it's pretty high ranking after their lost to
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  Speaker 3: wiow State.
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  Speaker 1: I'd say they have a really good shot. And their
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  Speaker 1: remaining schedule is yeah, very manageable. You mentioned Purdue, Minnesota
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  Speaker 1: and Maryland, maybe Minnesota PJ Fleck, But besides that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very manageable.
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  Speaker 1: They could wind up a one loss team outside of
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  Speaker 1: the Big Ten championship game, a rematch between Oregon and
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State with a shot to get.
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  Speaker 2: In hosting a first round game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, hosting a first round or maybe they're in the
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  Speaker 1: nine spot, depending on who's winning and slotting of conference champions.
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  Speaker 2: But it's going to depend on what else is going on.
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  Speaker 1: I'm here to tell you, if Boise State wins out,
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  Speaker 1: they're not just going to be automatically slotted in the twelve.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to be higher than that, because they're you know,
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  Speaker 1: they're knocking on the door of that right now. All
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  Speaker 1: right up next, we bring you a Friday, a Florida
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