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Bama Bob previews College Football, Mike Palm from Circa Sports & Football Friday Picks presented by Circa Sports · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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Our number 2, Miller and Condon welcome back.
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It's the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
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Trent Condon, Ken Miller, Des Moines Sports station one O 6.3
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KXNO You and I are off on Monday.
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Trent Condon. We are.
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We're off on Monday. I will.
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Well, I'll be working. Well, so will I, but we just
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won't be on the air. Right, we will not be on the air
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I. Will be.
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Where are you going? Going over to Coralville to call
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Little state volleyball, aren't you?
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Yes. Good for you.
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Nice. So yeah, Iowa State women play.
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So the first quarters on off the off the bench, they're good.
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Just the midday show off the air, noon to two Iowa State
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women tip at 11, so no show. So Bama will join Trent tonight.
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Did you get the voicemail that left you Bama or is this
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catching you off guard? I got it and I appreciate it.
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And we'll talk Tuesday all. Right.
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Good. Yeah. 1:30 We'll, we'll talk
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good stuff. Bama, Are you a YouTube TV
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subscribers? I would, Trent told me.
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Do not get me started on this. We'll we'll waste the entire
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segment. I mean, I'm so upset.
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And everybody, yeah, I mean, Disney, of course, you know,
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they can reach a deal with Fox, but they can't.
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I mean, YouTube can reach a deal with Fox, but they can't with
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Disney. And this is, I think this is
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just ESPN trying to force everybody to their new app.
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I think this is within three to five years anyway.
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But, you know, as usual, the consumer caught in the middle,
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right? And So what are you going to do?
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You just going to stop watching ESPN?
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If you're a sports fan, you can't do that.
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The one thing you can do is switch providers.
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So, you know, Alabama's off this week.
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I could probably get by for one week, but if not, I'll have to
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figure something else out. But, you know, it affects Monday
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Night Football. It affects the NBA, if you're
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into that. There's just there's so much
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that it affects. So again, you know, you know,
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trillionaires fighting over, you know, fighting over who gets
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more money here. Just, you know, the and the.
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As usual, the consumer is a guy that gets screwed.
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No doubt about it. Yep, Let's, let's get into this,
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Baba. Let's get into the slate of
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games. There's a whole bunch of them.
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Let's do our best to get through as many as we can.
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You're real quick, Arizona State, Leavitt is now out for
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the year. Tyson probably not going to
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play. This bodes well, I think, for
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Iowa State. Your thoughts on clones?
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Sun Devils? Yeah, this is 1 where I would
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say this is kind of, you know, reduced to the spoiler roll, I
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guess. And they, I think they will
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eliminate Arizona State from any kind of Big 12 title contention.
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They're not going to get it without, whether it happens this
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week or it happens, you know, the next week.
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I mean, they're off and they got West Virginia, Colorado.
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They don't have, Arizona State doesn't have a murderous Rd.
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schedule, but I don't think without Levitt and Tyson,
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they're not they're not going to win four games in a row.
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I don't think they win tomorrow, although I will say I don't, I
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do not know what's happened to Iowa State.
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You guys know more about that than me.
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I can't figure that out with Matt Campbell, with an
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experienced quarterback, I can't figure it out.
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But I think tomorrow, I don't know about the spread.
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You know, I'd stay away from that in this conference a little
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bit. But with the two starters, their
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two best offensive weapons out, I don't see how they're going to
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to be able to put up enough points.
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We saw it against, you know, was he out against Utah?
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I think when we saw that. So I think Iowa State wins
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tomorrow. I don't know.
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I won't say salvage their season.
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They're all they're on track. I think for, you know, eight,
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yeah, maybe nine wins. Yep, which is a good season.
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This is not going to get you the Big 12 title game.
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I think Arizona State gets tossed aside tomorrow as well.
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And then that's going to leave us probably with four, maybe
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outside 5 if you talk, you know, depending on the tiebreakers.
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Trent put Penn State, Ohio State in here.
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The look headline the summer line was was it?
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3333 and. Now it's just under 3
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touchdowns. Yes.
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Don't see that happen very often.
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I don't want. I don't have a real reason for
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it. I just have a sneaking suspicion
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Penn State's going to hang around.
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A lot of people do. And it's there's nothing that
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you can point to not win, but keep it close, right?
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Like a Workman, like 24 to 10. Ohio State's always got them in
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arm's reach away. It's never decided, but they're
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just hanging around. That's kind of how I see this
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one. It just kind of a boring,
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plotting November Big 10 game. I just have the feel of that
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one. Yeah, I I kind of feel the same
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way. Bama, how about you?
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I want to, I just, I don't know where Penn State is offensively.
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Can they, I think Ohio State's going to put up points and if
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they get, I don't know how many Penn State can really put up.
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I mean, I don't know what their individual total is for this
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game, but I can't imagine it's are they going to put up
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13/14/17? Are they going to get that high?
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If they do, I think maybe you're on to something, but I could see
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them, you know, 2 field goals. I just, I don't know where the
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offense is going to come from. I know they still have some
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weapons in the backfield and weapons on the outside, but I
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think Ohio State is going to load up and make the and make
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the backup beat them Now. You know, he's a big arm and
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they don't have a lot of film on him.
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So but I just don't know how they're going to keep up with
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Ohio State. They've just been so workmen
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like all year. They're not they haven't been to
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Indiana where they just destroy teams, but you know, they go to
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Washington and they win. They they win in Illinois.
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It's just like you said, workmen like perfect description, right?
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Just they, they just get it done.
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They know how to win. They don't care about how much
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they know if they just keep winning, they're going to get in
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the in the Big 10 championship game.
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They're going to be in the playoff probably no matter what.
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I don't think this game is overly competitive.
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I got to think Fox. Big Noon is very disappointed.
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Obviously with Franklin being fired, who I guess is going to
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take the job at Virginia Tech now, which would be, boy, that
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would be a little, I mean, probably win there.
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Yeah. This Big Noon is just, I mean,
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it's a terrible game. I think right now it started out
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like you said, you looked at the beginning of the year like, wow,
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this is going to be it. We're going to get down to here.
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And it's just the luster. It's just completely gone.
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I think Ohio State rolls. If you forced me, I would lay
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the points just because I don't know how Penn State's going to
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keep up scoring with. USC, Trent.
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I think they're a better football team than Nebraska.
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I know there's a lot of Nebraska love with Lincoln Riley coming.
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EC has to win one of these games.
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He gets on a plane, doesn't he? Or Matt Rule has to win one of
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these games as he's O and 18 as something's got to give.
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Well, and that's what it is. You can make a definitive
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argument one way or the other, Either fading Lincoln Riley in
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this spot or that Rule in this spot.
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I learn more to fading Lincoln Riley do you?
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I do. There are things that Nebraska
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can do. They can run the.
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Football, they can run the football Mary, we we can see
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Rayola make some plays from time to time, as long as he stays
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away from the dumb ones and. He does going to be there.
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But he doesn't, no, I don't think I'm going to get that
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touchdown back that was out there in the market earlier in
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the week. I think it's going to be. 4 1/2
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now. Yeah, there's some steam and I'm
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sure there'll be some buyback that'll come here before kick
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off, but I don't think it's ever getting back to seven.
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I liked it at 7. I don't like it at this price,
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but this is a fate of Lincoln Riley and bam, if you want to go
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the other way, this will be very easy.
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You can just fade that rule and one of us will be right.
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Yeah, I just I'm with you. I don't know where Nebraska is.
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And both quarterbacks have played have been good, not
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great. I guess if you want to look at
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it that way. Ryola again, I mean, he makes
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some plays. You just that just wow you.
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But then you said if he can stay away from the dumb play.
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Well, how many big games has he stayed away from the dump?
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What none of. Them not that many, none of them
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right. So look, this this is a this is
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a massive game game in my opinion, for the big 10 and the
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playoff, right? Because we've talked about who's
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the 4th team. You know, if you if you want to
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consider Indiana, Ohio State and Oregon, and I think Oregon,
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we've talked about who they've got to play.
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They got three big games here, right?
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Michigan is going to have to go to Ohio State.
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That's going to be if they lose that, that's their third loss.
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This would be US CS third loss. I mean, it's a massive game for
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the conference. So to get to try to solidify A14
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if you're Iowa, man, you're a Nebraska fan right now because
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you just, you know, you want you want that out of the way.
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I don't know where to go. I've just not I've been really
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just I've been let down by Nebraska as a lot of people have
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this year, right? We thought year 3 Matt rule, he
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just gets the, you know, other other coaches get fired and he
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gets a raise. I mean, that's just kind of how
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it goes, right? I don't I don't quite
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understand. I understand it.
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But you know, again, is that the right thing to do?
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I don't know about the spread, but I think USC figures out a
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way to come and win. I do.
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And I understand that Nebraska can run and they can.
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They can, they can do ball control.
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I'll tell you this. I think whichever quarterback
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plays a clear game, that's who's going to win.
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And that's just, it's not very insightful.
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But both these teams have a little bit of a tendency.
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Neither one's great defensively. I think both teams can score.
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It's just can I think USC will do enough.
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The weather, you know, it's 43. I don't think there's going to
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be any precipitation. I don't think that's going to
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really affect them. You know, the cold or whatever
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the night time kick off the environment might because I
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mean, it should be fired up. You know, they got their coach
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for a while and and I mean USC going to Nebraska and that that
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is that's brand name football, right.
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And so it's huge. It's on NBCI.
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Just think somehow I don't know about the point spread.
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I think USC somehow gets it done and then, you know, really, I
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guess kind of keeps their playoffs, all folks alive
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because I think they've got to win out.
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I don't know that they can drop a third one and get into the
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playoffs. Maybe so.
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But man, they're going to be up against some SEC teams if they
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do that. If there's a lot of Big 10 teams
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with three losses at the end of the year, there's going to be
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some SEC teams they're competing with.
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So massive game. This is why you're paying
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Lincoln Riley. I'll just leave it at that.
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This is why you're paying him 10 + 1,000,000 a year.
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He's been disappointing. He has to win this football
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game. And then they got Iowa, I
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believe, next week coming to their place.
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Yeah, two weeks, yeah. Two weeks, yeah.
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So it's just it's This is why you're paying this guy.
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If he can't get it done and get into the playoff, then you know,
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why are you paying him that kind of money?
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Miami and SMU trend. I thought this might be an ACC
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championship game. I don't think it will be.
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Your thoughts on this game? Look at you sneaking the ACC in
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here. Miami leaving the state of
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Florida for the first time this year.
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That's bananas. Whole game that they had at USF.
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But yeah, this is the first time outside of the state borders SM
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US looked terrible. You know who's looked terrible?
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Kevin Jennings. That guy a year ago, what we saw
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him able to do lead that team, the ACC Championship, but he has
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not been close to the same this year. 8 interceptions already on
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the season. Turnover worthy plays all over
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the place line. Did they graduate a bunch of?
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Well, you know the guy we talked about with the Chiefs.
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Oh, Smith. Yeah, yeah.
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That's been a big loss to both in the passing game and the
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running game. Yeah, all for them, but I just
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don't like this Miami team. Last week, you're down after the
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first quarter of Stanford. You're tied at half time.
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You're running the cover play up 35, seven late.
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I hate that garbage. That aside, I just can't believe
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in Mario. I think SMU keeps it snug here.
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After that Wolf will performance a week ago against Wake.
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And keeps their championship at least ACC.
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No, but keeps it keep. OK, keeps it close.
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All right, Bama. Yeah, I think this is another
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elimination game right in the ACC because if you're not, I
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just I think this is A1 bid league now.
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Miami crazy you say that they're ranked 10th.
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I know. I think that's a little bit
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overrated. I think Virginia's the overrated
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team in that conference, but I. Agree.
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I do agree with that. I think Georgia Tech's the best
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team in this conference. I think Louisville's probably
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the second, you know, like the coach there and they just went
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in and smacked Miami around on there.
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You know, is Carson Beck going to do something stupid again,
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right? We saw that in the in the
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Louisville game, the 4/4 interceptions in that game.
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If he throws a couple tomorrow, I think SMU picks them off.
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And then all this stuff like, you know, Mario and what were
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they ranked two? I think when they lost to
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Louisville, they you get as high as two and and your playoff
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hopes are probably done. I guess there's a way they could
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somehow sneak back into that. You have to make your conference
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title game. I think right now they've got
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two teams in with Georgia Tech and Miami.
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If they both keep winning, then probably they get to.
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However, if they don't, then this is a massive game for
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Miami. This is a big game for SMU too.
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They, you know, kind of came off the playoff last year and snuck
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in and got run out real quick. Just, you know, I think they
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were the first game, just kind of like the early NCAA game,
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right? The first one.
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Indiana was the first one wasn't.
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Indiana, right? Yeah, you're right.
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But they got, they got knocked out real early, right.
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So were they were you ever really there I guess is what it
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boiled down to. But I don't have a feel either
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way. I just don't trust Carson Beck
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in a big game. And this is a big game for
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Miami. They have to win.
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You mentioned going on the road first time leaving the state of
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Florida. Crazy.
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They got to go to Virginia Tech later in the year.
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I I'll go with SMU and listen. I don't really have a feeling
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the way. I don't think either one of
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these teams are great. I think Miami has better
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personnel and what they play up to their potential.
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They should win. But can you do that in a big
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game? Will you do that in a big game?
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I think SMU tries to salvage something out of their season
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tomorrow and I don't know, I don't know about the line, but
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I'll take them to win. I just think that I just don't
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trust Miami after that Louisville game.
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And you're right, you kind of, you know, you get dorked around
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with Stanford a little bit and, well, you better come and play
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for tomorrow, play 60 minutes because if you don't, you're
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going to leave home. You're going to go back home
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with two losses. Texas Tech and K State, Trent K
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State I think is still sneaky. A live team in the Big 12 now
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they are win tomorrow. Yes, and has to keep it going
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all the way through, but Dylan Edwards banged up again, looks
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like he's not going to play against Texas Tech That's
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disappointing. I'd.
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Heard on the kickoff over in Dublin.
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He did, and it's been all season long for him.
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They are completely different team when he's in there.
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Another one. I think they keep it snug.
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In fact, that might be part of the picks coming up.
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Texas Tech and K State Bama Oh man I.
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Can't go with Kansas State. It's just been so flaky this
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year. I mean, boy, would this just be
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an abject disaster for the Big 12 that they somehow make it
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into the conference championship game because you've got, you
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know, you've had teams ranked all year.
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Texas Tech has kind of been the darling, if you will.
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You know, I know they've got the one loss, but you've got, you
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know, you've got an undefeated BYU, that undefeated Cincinnati
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and you've got them, you've got Houston, one loss.
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I mean, it would just be a disaster if Kansas State,
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however, Manhattan, it's an early game.
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I think if I'm not mistaken, they're 2:30.
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So it's not at night. Weird things happen in Manhattan
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at night. We've seen that in the past.
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I think the Fox game, I think Texas Tech wins.
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I don't know if they cover. I could see this 24202723,
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something like that. I think they do enough to get
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the win and finally put everybody out of our Kansas
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State misery for this year and just, you know, get them out of
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the Big 12 picture. I mean, maybe other than
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spoiler, I don't know what the schedule is the rest of the way,
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but there's no way I can pick Kansas State.
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I think Texas Tech is a legit when they're firing on all
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cylinders, when they're when they're completely healthy, I
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think they're a legit playoff team that can get in and do some
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damage. So I'm going to take the Red
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Raiders, you know, probably proved me wrong, but I'm going
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to stick with them until they until they do prove me.
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Wrong backup quarterback out for the year.
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Will Hammond is a really nice player.
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Baron Morton is banged up. The starter's going to have to
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go the distance, Trent. Got to keep him healthy without
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a doubt. Him healthy.
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Yep. Yep, Trent Cincinnati's
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unbeaten. Your Sorsby guy.
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I give you credit. I think I picked Utah to win the
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conference. These two teams will collide.
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Is this Cincinnati's first conference loss?
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I think so. I just like the way that Utah
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and you know, even when Dave Pierre goes out, their backup
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might even be a better runner than Dave Pierre.
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Now, he's not at the thrower that Dave Pierre and he's not an
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elite thrower himself. But it does take something away
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here. A ton of steam on Utah.
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I I don't love Cincinnati. You think I would get in 10 1/2?
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I don't I could see this. You know, we kind of talked
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about just a workmanlike performance from Ohio State
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against Penn State. I can see something similar here
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for Utah. They flex their muscle and get
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out of there with a, you know, a 2313 type of win, something like
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that. I think this is going to be
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certainly more low scoring though, or a lot, lot more bully
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ball in this one. All right, Bama.
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Yeah, this. I mean, I'm looking at this and
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and I can't figure it out. I haven't seen any injuries,
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major injuries for Cincinnati. You miss, you got a quarterback
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that's got 20 touchdowns and one interception.
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The line opens at 7 1/2 and moves to 10 1/2.
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What am I? What am I missing?
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Right. And this is one of those you
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know, something, something smells.
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I will take Utah to win. I don't I'm not completely sold
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on Cincinnati. I know they've got some nice
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wins this year, some surprising wins.
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They lost in Nebraska early and haven't haven't lost in.
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But you really start looking at who they played right?
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Baylor, Oklahoma State, UCF, Iowa State was the eye opener.
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Kansas they just I think I'll go coach again tomorrow at home.
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Winningham again, Utah has to win elimination game for them.
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They win this game and all of a sudden they're right back,
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especially if Arizona State was right.
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They're kind of right back in. I don't think they control their
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own future because they they don't have they don't play any
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of the contenders ahead of them. But I will take I'll take Utah
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tomorrow. I'm I'm a believer in the
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program and a believer in the coach.
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The two losses this year have kind of been a little a little
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bit head scratching. We know the Texas Tech game, but
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we've talked about that's been and and and at BYU, right, I
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thought they were a better team there.
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So that's where we had to start believing in BYU.
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I will take Utah tomorrow. I just I think they're the
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better football team. I think they're better coach,
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they're better personnel, but you know, source people
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something out again, man. I mean, if he if he plays, he
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throws two or three touchdowns without a pick.
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I mean, it's going to get, it's going to get a little hairy in
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Salt Lake, but I'll take the utes.
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Two SEC games and they're thank you.
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Good game. We have 4 minutes total.
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Trent, Georgia, Florida. Let's have a cocktail and watch
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this one. I'm in for that one and dead
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coach bounce. I think it happens.
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A lot of people like Florida I. Like them too.
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I think getting that 7 1/2 that is out there, the market is
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important. I like them.
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A first quarter bet. George has been incredibly slow
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starter throughout the course of this year and really under
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Kirby, first quarter, first half, full game, I'm going to
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have a lot involved I think with the Gators.
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Where are you, Bama? Completely opposite.
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I'm not buying in on Florida. I understand Napier, you know I
18:49
don't I don't buy the coach bounce.
18:51
And the reason I don't buy it is I think he had a good
18:54
relationship with with Lagway. He was incredibly patient with
18:59
him. We saw the what the five picks
19:01
at LSU, He stayed with him, stayed behind him.
19:04
He's gone. He's been the only voice that
19:06
Lagway said. I just think Georgia, I think
19:08
Georgia is using this by week. You mentioned the slow starts.
19:10
I understand it cost him against Alabama, almost cost him against
19:14
Tennessee, almost cost him against Auburn, right, Almost,
19:17
almost, almost. I think they figure something
19:20
out after the buy and I don't think Georgia cares.
19:23
I really don't. It's about getting into the SEC
19:26
championship game. They keep winning.
19:28
They like somebody else Duke it out in Atlanta.
19:31
I don't think this this game might be, you know, Florida
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might try to pull something early, right?
19:35
They might try to go, you know, trick, trick play, fake punt on
19:39
sidekick, who knows, right? But I think ultimately talent
19:42
wins and I will lay the seven and a half.
19:45
I'm just not buying it with Florida this year.
19:47
I've I've seen them play too much.
19:48
I have to watch them. He's a married to an alum and
19:52
it's been ugly at times and lagways so inconsistent.
19:54
I think he throws a couple picks tomorrow and I think this one
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gets away in the second-half. Oklahoma and Tennessee, Trent.
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I think Oklahoma is a fraud. I think Tennessee might be a
20:03
fraud too. That doesn't material not being
20:05
100%. Well, it's the defense is good
20:07
for Oklahoma. The defense for Tennessee is
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brutal. I like Tennessee better.
20:11
I think they're a better team. Well, it kind of feels like it's
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trying that way. But then the Oklahoma defense,
20:16
what they do kind of matches up with what Tennessee does well.
20:19
Now I'm not played a total in this game.
20:21
I just like Tennessee better. I think the balls get the
20:23
victory here by 7. I think this is a good game,
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Bama. Yeah, I like, I like Tennessee,
20:30
too. You look at the two losses,
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right? Was it Georgia and Alabama?
20:33
Four and five. I tell you, that Alabama game
20:36
was closer than a lot of people think, guys.
20:38
I mean, it was. I still go back to that one play
20:41
at the end of the half, right? They don't, they don't throw
20:43
that just boneheaded play. All of a sudden, it's probably
20:47
1614 going into the half and it's posing the game over.
20:51
Aguilar's been great. I mean, he has been fantastic.
20:53
He does have some interceptions, right?
20:55
He's got 6. Oklahoma's defense I think is a
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bit overrated. They played some teams that that
21:01
really struggle offensively. This Tennessee's fired up,
21:06
right? And they know their playoff
21:07
hopes are on the line. I think both teams are obviously
21:10
tomorrow, losers out. I think unless you get some
21:13
crazy Big 10 scenario where a three loss team can get in and
21:16
Tennessee, they keep Tennessee keeps winning.
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I think they're going to be in the playoff.
21:21
And you know, if you want to tease a little bit, how about
21:24
Tennessee, Vanderbilt, end of the year as a playoff Olympics,
21:27
whatever. Never thought that.
21:28
But right, I think tomorrow Tennessee rolls, they're going
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to be fired up on. It's a night game on Rocky Top.
21:33
Weather's going to be in the 50s.
21:35
I just this has just got Tennessee all over it for me.
21:37
Sneaky good game, Trent. It is a battle of seven win
21:41
teams. 11:00 On the deuce, Navy goes to Denton to take on North
21:47
Texas seven O 1 Mean Green against the midshipmen and not
21:51
supremacy, but an important one in the American.
21:54
Sneaky good game, Bama. I don't know if it's, I think it
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might be sneaky good. I'm going to go, and this is
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just me, you know, with my I'm going to go Army, Air Force.
22:06
I just, I mean, neither team is very good.
22:08
High point spread, high point spread, PBS.
22:13
I just, I don't know, sometimes I just feel obligated to watch
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these. I don't know.
22:16
I mean, maybe I'll have to watch this because of freaking
22:19
YouTube, but you know, on CBS, I'll at least get that one.
22:23
So yeah, you know, depending on what happens overnight, I think
22:26
Penn State, Ohio State's going to be dull and I might not get
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to watch Vanderbilt in Texas. So I'll go, I will go with the
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service academies. Again, two teams, not very good.
22:36
Maybe it's the team for sure in that group this year, but I'll
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just go with them in Colorado Springs.
22:41
I'll go with the two leftovers from the ACT 12 or Oregon State
22:45
Wazoo. Oh, nice one.
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There you go. Bam.
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We'll talk to you on Tuesday. We're off on Monday.
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We'll talk Tuesday. Thank you buddy.
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Enjoy guys, take care. Thank.
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and Ken, good to speak with you. Let's start with the World
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Series as we get to Game 6 here tonight.
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I know that prior to the playoff starting you would like anybody
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but the Dodgers and the Dodgers are, you know, one game away
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from being obviously this thing over and the parade taking place
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in downtown Toronto. Do you feel good?
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About the Blue Jays winning this thing, Mike, I do not.
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Really. You think the Dodgers will win
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both games in Toronto? I think they'll win tonight
24:02
because all of the pass balls and the Oscar Hernandez isn't
24:05
going to, I would hope not turn a single into a triple with
24:08
Varsha letting that get to the wall.
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I thought the Dodgers hurt themselves.
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I think the rest will help Otani and then all bets are off for
24:15
tomorrow in a Game 7. But I do like the Dodgers
24:17
tonight. I agreed.
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The rest will help with Tony. I think Will Smith needed a day
24:24
off more than anybody in the history of the World Series.
24:26
The guy, in a span of 51 hours, caught 36 innings and nobody's
24:32
talking about that. I mean, how could you expect him
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to have any legs to drive the ball?
24:37
He hit the ball square in the first inning in game five.
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It didn't go anywhere, right? The left fielder came in to make
24:42
the catch. You know, they went out and they
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they paid $50 million signing voters to Yamamoto.
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They paid the Japanese team 50 million itself.
24:53
Then they give them this 13 year deal, 27,000,000 a year for
24:57
tonight, right? I mean, This is why they got the
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guy. Can he do it three times in a
25:02
row? Is this a game where it's it's
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only a Japanese pitchers? I mean, is he just trying to
25:09
get, is Davy Roberts just trying to get Yamamoto to Sasaki and
25:15
try to cut this bullpen out of it?
25:17
Gaussen pitched awfully well in Game 2 as well.
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So I've said about Yamamoto all year and I'm a huge Yamamoto
25:24
fan. You know him early because if he
25:27
doesn't have the brake on his on his curve and and and and the
25:33
split, if he's not getting that sharp break, he's very hitable
25:36
when he is and he can command those six pitches.
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You know, he just sticks to his plan.
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I think it'll be a great game tonight.
25:42
I lean Dodgers. I hate the Dodgers in game
25:44
seven. I've never been a glass now guy.
25:49
I think you get try to have Scherzer one time through the
25:52
lineup and then you come with Bieber for get as much as you
25:55
can out of him. And I'd like Toronto to win this
25:58
in seven if they don't get the job done tonight.
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Maybe something to file away. How about player props?
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What have you guys seen at Circa with the player props with Otani
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involved? You know a lot of people want to
26:09
jump aboard doing the different things both offensively and when
26:12
he's out there pitching. Have you seen an uptick in terms
26:15
of people betting props for this World Series?
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Yeah, they have. And you often see that when one
26:21
team's a hit prohibited favorite and people don't want to bet the
26:23
side. So you get the props.
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The people love to bet the pitching props.
26:27
You know, I I get the home run. Yes.
26:29
No, I like to bet the the hit, yes or no, basically over under
26:34
1/2 or 1 1/2 hit. I made some money against bets
26:38
here in this series, but the pitching in the outs, props.
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Now to tonight. Yamamoto is 18 1/2 meanings.
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You've got to get an out in the seventh inning.
26:47
I laddered your savage, but far enough.
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I laddered him in game. In game five, it was 12 1/2.
26:55
I went 12 1/2 up to 17 1/2. I could have went to 20 1/2.
26:59
I can't believe it had. I could have had a field day
27:03
there and had a small fortune. But what a story he is.
27:06
By the way, he's making $57,000 against a half a billion dollar
27:10
lineup. Yeah, and just mowing through
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him, it's unbelievable what he had.
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If Yamamoto goes 7-8 tonight, they get the win.
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Does it matter what happens tomorrow or is he the MVP?
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I mean Otani would have another opportunity or Guerrero if it's
27:28
the Jays. But if the Dodgers win tomorrow,
27:30
is Yamamoto in a good spot to be MVP?
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Yeah, only if they went to see if they win the series.
27:37
He's the MDT right now. If Toronto wins the series, it's
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likely Vlad. But if Lad does nothing in game
27:45
six and seven and Toronto somehow, you know, loses tonight
27:49
and wins a low scoring game in Game 7 and he really doesn't do
27:53
anything, I think it can make the case for you.
27:54
Savage winning two games. But Yamamoto is very interesting
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because he's still sitting out there at 15 to 1.
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He was 12 to one at Circuit before the series we started.
28:05
I mean, if he goes 7 plus and wins tonight and they went to
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seven games, there's no offensive stars.
28:11
Nope. I mean, well, if Atani hits four
28:13
home runs in the last two games or something like that, but he's
28:17
been, he's been a thief and then I'm mostly famine.
28:19
So yeah, that's an interesting play to look at to look at
28:22
Yamamoto for for MVP. I wouldn't jump over to football
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with you, Iowa this week. Iowa State against that banked
28:29
up Arizona State team. They're north of a touchdown
28:31
favorite currently at Circa. Want to go to our neighbors to
28:34
the West, though. So Nebraska seeing a lot of
28:36
steam coming in here over the last 24 hours on the Huskers
28:40
down to 4 1/2 at some spots. I figure there's going to be
28:43
some kind of buy pack. But when we talked about this
28:45
game earlier, Mike, I mean, it's super easy.
28:47
You make one either Matt Rule O and 18 against ranked teams or
28:50
Lincoln Riley traveling to the central time zone.
28:53
Both are trends that you can point to and look at here.
28:55
What do you see and what do you like in the USC Nebraska
28:58
matchup? I didn't play it.
29:00
Everybody at decent loves Nebraska, but that was when the
29:02
number was 6 1/2 and 6 and you could buy it up to 7.
29:06
It's a different story now. I'm hearing rules going to be go
29:09
to Penn State. Can you believe that this guy
29:13
taken Temple to a bowl game to get that?
29:16
I mean, what else has he done? He took Baylor to a bowl.
29:18
I mean what I mean, seriously, I don't think he's done anything
29:21
at Nebraska yet. Got him to a bowl but that's it.
29:26
They lose to Minnesota, they get they get thoroughly dominated by
29:31
a Minnesota team that, in typical PJ Fleck fashion, face
29:35
plants on national TV the next week at Kennick.
29:39
So I don't know if anybody whose stock has fallen more than
29:44
Lincoln Riley in the last four or five years.
29:46
I thought he was awful against Notre Dame to play calling.
29:50
I still think this is a pretty talented U.S. team.
29:53
The travel did catch up to him in the early morning game in
29:55
Illinois. Maybe I passed on the game.
29:59
The the the four is probably a more appropriate number than 6
30:02
1/2 ever was. Yep, I I'm with you and for that
30:04
reason, that's what I'm going to grab.
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NFLI want to ask Buffalo, Kansas City.
30:08
Such a big game, almost a stand alone.
30:10
It's the only 325 central kick. The other two in the late window
30:14
are 305 kicks. But this will have all the
30:16
eyeballs. Such a big spot for the AFC for
30:19
home field advantage. Should these teams, you know,
30:21
get together later on in the play offs.
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Any field for this one, Mike? It's hard to believe they're a
30:28
road favorite here. You know, we went from a month
30:32
ago. It's over.
30:33
It's over, Andy Reid, it's done. The dynasty's over now.
30:35
They're questionably the best team in the world and there's no
30:37
one can beat them. It's interesting to me from a
30:41
standpoint of two things. If you believe the Chiefs are
30:45
going to win on Sunday, I would bet the Colts to go to the Super
30:52
Bowl and I would bet the Patriots to win the AFC East
30:56
today. That that's all I'll say from a
30:58
betting way to look at it here. The Patriots schedule is very
31:01
manageable. They'll have it.
31:03
They'll have a game and a half lead on Buffalo and they have to
31:05
play again in New England. And this, this would put the
31:08
Colts. I think the Colts will win at
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Pittsburgh on Sunday. We'll see how they play on a
31:12
slow track, but this will give them a two game edge up over
31:16
over Buffalo and Kansas City. I know they play Kansas City in
31:19
a couple weeks, but I as as I said before, I think they're a
31:22
very dangerous team if they if they get the one seat.
31:25
So I opened up my new and improved Circus Sports Iowa app
31:28
this morning and I said I need to dabble.
31:31
Baltimore. You look at the schedule going
31:33
forward. They got a couple of Rd. games,
31:34
but it's Minnesota and Cleveland, The Jets after that,
31:37
the Bengals at home. If you're going to bet
31:39
Baltimore, I think the time is now 16 to 1 to win the Super
31:43
Bowl. Am I crazy here?
31:44
Jumping a board here? Would have got a better price a
31:46
couple weeks ago, I know, but it was isn't what they did against
31:50
Miami, it's just what's still in front of them.
31:52
Do you like Baltimore to get back in this mix in the AFC?
31:55
No, I'm not saying they can't win the North, but I'm still not
31:59
buying the defense. I mean they got out, gained 2 to
32:02
one and last night they were up 14 to 6 at half.
32:04
I know they fired the GM, but how about McDaniel?
32:07
Who does this guy have pictures of?
32:09
I mean, it's pathetic. So I'm not there yet.
32:11
And the Bears wasted their chances early taking short field
32:15
goals in that game last week. That was disappointing.
32:17
But I, I don't think that because of their defense, I, I
32:21
can't say Baltimore is at the level to compete with Kansas
32:25
City, Indianapolis, maybe Denver even I'm, you know, Knicks has
32:29
got to play good. He's got to play like he played
32:31
against Dallas OR or even Buffalo.
32:34
Who do you like in the NFC? I said it starts and ends with
32:39
the Eagles. The Packers looked good last
32:41
week. I'm not a floor guy.
32:44
You can't throw the Lions out. What about the Seahawks?
32:49
Yeah, yeah, they're good on the road.
32:51
We saw Darnold in the playoffs, though.
32:54
But in the reason he's not in Minnesota is not the money.
32:58
The reason he's not in Minnesota is because, you know, week 18,
33:01
the final game, his performance and then what he did against the
33:04
Rams, they just said we he can't take us to the next level no
33:06
matter how far above his skis he performed during the year.
33:11
I think he kept her Detroit out and I put the Rams in the mix
33:16
and you got to put Baker. Baker, such a competitor.
33:19
This guy wills a lot out of his team.
33:21
I know they're injury riddled right now, but you know they
33:23
will have a home playoff game. They're going to win that
33:25
division by three or four games, it looks like.
33:26
So I think it's it starts and ends with the Eagles and then
33:30
there's a handful of teams. My bigger question guys, is
33:32
somebody asked me earlier this week how many teams can win the
33:35
national championship. Not sure there's too many
33:38
because to me you have to be able to beat Ohio State.
33:40
And Indiana might be the second, but I don't think Indiana.
33:43
I don't think they could be Ohio State's the problem.
33:46
Who can beat Ohio State? Maybe Notre Dame could beat Ohio
33:48
State if they could get in. Notre Dame, Alabama, Ohio State,
33:54
I think that's the list. It's a list of three that can
33:56
win the whole thing. Hey, Mike, real quick, what do
33:58
you expect from JJ McCarthy against Detroit?
34:02
I expect him to be awful. I expect Detroit to win this
34:05
game by three touchdowns. The fraud that is Kevin
34:07
O'Connell is going to be exposed.
34:09
The locker room is divided. He forced all these guys to be
34:12
complicit in this great lie that McCarthy was injured when
34:15
everyone knew he wasn't. They threw wins to the wolves.
34:17
He's out for the season with injuries.
34:19
You're going to see the reason on Sunday why he didn't want to
34:22
start McCarthy after Week 2. Mike Palm, vice president of
34:25
operations at Circus Sports. Mike, final thing for me
34:29
melancholy this week. I had Cincinnati last week and
34:32
watching that fall apart was devastating.
34:34
It's been hard this week. I I got the e-mail from my
34:36
proxy. You have been eliminated.
34:38
It came in on Tuesday. Thanks Tony and Maddie for that
34:41
one. Just twisted that knife a little
34:43
bit further in. I know you've heard the story so
34:45
many times, but just to get to this point to get to the last
34:48
month in October and then when it falls, by the way, so it's
34:51
just devastated like I've struggled to look at the NFL
34:54
this week. I've been just that downtrodden
34:56
taking that loss and. You can't wait for next year.
35:00
Forget about the NFL and forget about next year.
35:02
You've got college basketball on Monday trend and that's your
35:05
bread and butter. So it's hard to let's go.
35:07
I've been doing the work here all week long, Mike stuff.
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Mike, thank you. Mike, you have a good week.
35:11
We'll talk to you next week. Thank you.
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Happy Halloween, happy All Souls day tomorrow all.
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Right. See, Bud, good to talk to you.
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Mike Paul, vice president of operations at Circus Sports,
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wanted to pass him that gas can to throw it on KC and company.
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You're not a fan, not a believer.
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Yes, and he's been saying this the whole time that they're
35:28
pulling the roof will over everybody's eyes.
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We'll try to do that with our picks next.
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Miller and Condon on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
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Then off the bench, who knows football better?
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Iowa State women tipping off at 11:00.
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Coming up top of the hour, it's the boys.
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They're at the Rally House in Ames, off the bench with Lucas
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and Sean football Friday night. So Stacy and company, they get
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underway at 6:00. All right, Trent, I believe I
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won the week last week. Let's get after it.
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Our picks of the week. They are sponsored by our
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friends at Circus Sports. Let's start in the NFL.
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Seattle on Sunday night going to Washington.
36:25
I think Seattle is one of the best teams in the NFC.
36:27
I really do. No Mclaurin for Washington this
36:31
week. I'm going to take Seattle and
36:32
lay the field goal. I think they're just a good Rd.
36:35
team. I think a good team period.
36:36
Washington had all the promise of last year, unfulfilled
36:39
expectations this year. Seahawks -3 it's Denver and it's
36:43
Houston. 2 evenly matched teams in my opinion with one
36:46
significant difference. The Denver Broncos have, if not
36:49
the best offensive line in football, the second best.
36:53
I think that Allen and Cooper and Benito and Franklin Myers
36:58
are going to heat up CJ Stroud, not give him the time to get to
37:02
his Iowa State receivers and maybe Nico Collins.
37:05
I'll get the point and a half. Take the point and a half and
37:09
the Broncos over Houston. I'm taking Washington State.
37:11
They're on the road at Oregon State.
37:13
Yes, these two PAC 12 holdovers wazoo for me.
37:16
Lay the 3 1/2 as they knock off the Beavers.
37:20
And our conversation with Bama talked me into this one.
37:23
I'm taking USCI think they're a better football team.
37:27
I know they're a better football team.
37:29
I will lay the 4 1/2. Or is there a four out there in
37:32
the market trend? Do you know, can I get a four?
37:36
Can you give me a four? Not offhand and I can't see it.
37:40
My best bet of the week, it's back to the NFL.
37:43
And like Mike Palm, I love this Colts team, the Colts and the
37:47
Pittsburgh Steelers. Yes, it's a slower track, but I
37:50
will take Indianapolis and lay the field goal.
37:53
My best bet of the. Week all right, let's go here
37:56
and rapid fire succession 2321 and one on the year 2 and three
38:00
last week Ken's got a two game lead over me in our individual
38:04
contest here for Miller and Conan.
38:06
Told you earlier, I believe in the dead couch a bump.
38:10
I'm going to grab Florida, grab the 7 1/2 against Georgia.
38:12
Slow starts Georgia very welcome.
38:14
Pull it off in the second-half, I think races out and gets the
38:17
cover at 7 1/2. Let's go to the Mountain West
38:20
where the running reps play host to New Mexico.
38:22
You know, visa fraud. Give me Eck, maybe the next
38:25
Wisconsin head coach. I'll grab the four and a half
38:27
with the Lobos. To the NFL we go.
38:30
I'm on the other side. One of us will get a win this
38:32
week. I will take the Texans.
38:34
I will lay that 1 1/2. I believe in this Houston
38:37
defense more than anything with no certain.
38:40
I think that is going to be a big difference in this game.
38:44
It's gross, but this is what you have to do in the NFL.
38:46
Hold your nose and take Atlanta. It's Halloween, Jekyll and Hyde.
38:51
I don't know which one's the ugly one.
38:52
That's Atlanta from week to week, but sometimes they're
38:54
good. I think they got a good
38:56
performance here. I'll grab the 5 1/2 in New
38:58
England. My best bet of the week comes
39:01
tonight. No, not Chapel Bill, the Rice
39:04
Owls who toot Memphis after their big win a week ago.
39:08
It's a let down spot with a still banged up Lewis.
39:12
I will grab Rice and the 14. 14 points regarding.
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I'm getting 2 touchdowns. We'll see.
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