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Emergency Pod! Malachi Toney OUT · College Football with Stugotz & The Bear

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  Speaker 1: College football with Stu Gatz and the Bear.
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  Speaker 2: And, of course, everyone knows the exact right time to
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  Speaker 2: start a college football show is week four of the
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  Speaker 2: college football season.
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  Speaker 3: There's T-Bob again.
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  Speaker 4: coming to hang out with Stu Gatz and the Bear.
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  Speaker 4: College football.
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  Speaker 2: Mario Cristobal, head coach at the University of Miami. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you for joining us.
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  Speaker 1: I just don't find any value in it.
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  Speaker 1: Bear is awesome. You're listening to College Football with Stu
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  Speaker 1: Gatz and the bear.
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  Speaker 3: What is going on, everyone?
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  Speaker 4: Welcome in to an emergency episode of the College Football
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  Speaker 4: Show with Stu Gatz and the bear.
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  Speaker 3: Now, unfortunately.
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  Speaker 4: Stu could not convene for this emergency meeting, meaning I
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  Speaker 4: will be stepping in to guest hosts here. Uh, T-Bob,
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  Speaker 4: maybe a pleasure to be with you. We got the
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  Speaker 4: bear Chris Lika. We got Mikey a with us producing, uh,
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  Speaker 4: the reason for this.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: A little sausage-making, generally, because, you know, Bears, on big noon,
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  Speaker 3: he travels, and everybody's got stuff going on. No, no,
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  Speaker 3: I don't mean that.
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  Speaker 1: No, we record our previews.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, we record our previews on Wednesday also because it
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  Speaker 4: gives everybody, like, a couple.
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  Speaker 3: Days to listen and get ready and whatnot.
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  Speaker 4: But every now and then, a piece of news happens
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  Speaker 4: that is so seismic And how it shifts the conversation
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  Speaker 4: that it has to be addressed and bear, that is
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  Speaker 4: Malachi Toney. As we have now learned, we heard about him.
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  Speaker 3: Dealing with an injury.
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  Speaker 4: Now confirmed as a high ankle sprain. Confirmed he will
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  Speaker 4: have surgery. I'm imagining that is the tightrope surgery, which
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  Speaker 4: gets you back in about a month. So reports look
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  Speaker 4: like Toney's season's not done.
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  Speaker 3: But he will not play Saturday night in South Bend.
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  Speaker 1: Right, all reports are that I have heard. We are
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  Speaker 1: recording this Thursday morning. I have heard that surgery was
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  Speaker 1: planned for this morning, so he may be in surgery
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  Speaker 1: right as we are recording this. I do think anybody
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  Speaker 1: that has followed Miami and watched Miami is kind to see.
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  Speaker 1: He got hurt, I think, initially against Wake Forest earlier
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  Speaker 1: in the year, and he's kind of been playing through it.
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  Speaker 1: There's a video that someone had sent me earlier this morning,
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  Speaker 1: like post Carolina game, and he's kind of hobbling around, like,
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  Speaker 1: because he heads to the team bus. So I think
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  Speaker 1: this is something he's been dealing with. And then whatever
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  Speaker 1: happened to practice to make it worse, ultimately resulted, I think,
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  Speaker 1: in a couple of torn ligaments. I can't confirm that.
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  Speaker 1: But that's what the word is from me. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think It sucks. I mean, it was a big
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  Speaker 1: mope fest for a lot of us on our big
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  Speaker 1: group yesterday. So we're allowed to mope for a bit,
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  Speaker 1: and then we got to kind of– I think the
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  Speaker 1: reason for it is for the first time in 20-something years,
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  Speaker 1: they got a number one next to their name in
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  Speaker 1: the ranking. They came so close to winning a national
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  Speaker 1: championship last year. You're there. You're in the pole position
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  Speaker 1: to get the number one seed, get a first-round buy.
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  Speaker 1: Have a route where you're going to play a semifinal
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  Speaker 1: game in the Orange Bowl in your hometown to get
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  Speaker 1: back to the championship game. You've got Malley, who could
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  Speaker 1: have ultimately won the Heisman Trophy, the most dynamic offensive
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  Speaker 1: player in the sport. In fact, he's a kid. So
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  Speaker 1: I think all of us are kind of taking this
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  Speaker 1: a little harder. You got the Notre Dame this week,
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  Speaker 1: massive rivalry game. You never want to see anybody get hurt.
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  Speaker 1: The timing of it sucks, and we'll see ultimately what the–
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  Speaker 1: hopefully surgery will go well, and hopefully he can be
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  Speaker 1: back for the college football playoff, if indeed they get there.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, so I want to go micro, then macro. Let's
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  Speaker 4: look at this weekend alone. Already, this was going to
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  Speaker 4: be a tough game going into South Bend for Miami.
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  Speaker 4: But certainly, anytime you have Tony Aminza, you're going to
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  Speaker 4: have a great chance of winning any game. Does this
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  Speaker 4: push you to firmly believe that Notre Dame.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, we'll win on Saturday night.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they should. I mean, in a weird kind of way,
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  Speaker 1: there is now even more pressure on Notre Dame. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: No, without a doubt there is dude. They have to now.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Like if you lose this game in Miami, doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: its best player. Like there's no way the community is
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  Speaker 1: going to give you a benefit of that. If you
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  Speaker 1: have losses to Miami, who was ahead of you and whoever, uh, and,
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  Speaker 1: and BYU, uh, I think Notre Dame should win. However,
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  Speaker 1: I will say this. If you want the optimist point
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  Speaker 1: of view, the contrarian point of view, the okay where
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  Speaker 1: the sky isn't completely falling point of view for this weekend,
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  Speaker 1: you've got a team that is kind of built up
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  Speaker 1: front on the offensive line. We saw late in the year,
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  Speaker 1: last year, and in the playoff, they relied a lot
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  Speaker 1: out of Fletcher and the other backs out of a
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  Speaker 1: pistol formation, kind of ran over people. And we've seen
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  Speaker 1: Fletcher and JV and Mallory do that. You've got Barkay,
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  Speaker 1: who Darian Mintz is familiar with from his time at Duke.
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  Speaker 1: Elijah Lofton is emerging as well as kind of a
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  Speaker 1: gadget type, big play threat in terms of like a
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  Speaker 1: trick play kind of deal. You got Dre Jacobs, who
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  Speaker 1: had a great year at South Carolina last year. You
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  Speaker 1: got Upshaw, who's going to take, I'm sure, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of the routes that Malley had. So I think if
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  Speaker 1: you're looking at that from a personnel standpoint, they feel
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  Speaker 1: like they have guys and schemes that can get through this.
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  Speaker 1: And remember, too, I forget what year it was, 2019
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  Speaker 1: it might have been. Remember when Oregon... Went to Ohio State,
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  Speaker 1: did not have Cam Bontempo playing, and they wound up
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  Speaker 1: upsetting Ohio State. So, like, there's kind of this, like,
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  Speaker 1: galvanization-type thing maybe going on a little bit right now
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  Speaker 1: as well. So we'll see. When the lights go on
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  Speaker 1: Saturday night in South Bend, that's a great plan. It's
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  Speaker 1: a great idea to have. But then if Mensah goes
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  Speaker 1: out and struggles and the offensive line can't block, then
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  Speaker 1: it all goes to shit.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it is a great point by you that this
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  Speaker 4: is a situation where, like, if we have Hunter Jurczyk
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  Speaker 4: up there talking about how yeah, Ohio State beat Indiana,
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  Speaker 4: but they could have lost by inches. I mean, this
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  Speaker 4: has to make this an elimination game for Notre Dame
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  Speaker 4: if they were to lose without Tony. That sounds crazy,
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  Speaker 4: but I think it's actually completely accurate. It's a huge
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  Speaker 4: bummer we're not going to get to see Leonard Moore
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  Speaker 4: versus Tony. I mean, you were talking about the best
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  Speaker 4: cornerback in the entire country, the best receiver in the
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  Speaker 4: entire country. So we're kind of cheated out of that battle,
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  Speaker 4: which maybe could come in a, potential playoff scenario down
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  Speaker 4: the road.
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  Speaker 3: So I said micro. Now let's look macro for Miami.
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  Speaker 4: You seem pretty confident that even without him for the
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  Speaker 4: remainder of this schedule that Miami should probably be fine.
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  Speaker 1: Probably be fine is, I think, the best way to
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  Speaker 1: put it. Obviously, you have Duke remaining. You have Boston
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  Speaker 1: College remaining, where they should be. And then you've got
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  Speaker 1: Virginia Tech, who I think that is a dangerous type
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  Speaker 1: of game with the narrative around James Franklin not being
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  Speaker 1: able to win a big game. But that could be
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  Speaker 1: a matchup nightmare for Miami with a great tight end
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  Speaker 1: and the linebackers having to contain him. The importance macro,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, for Miami– they need a buy in
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  Speaker 1: the worst way in the college football playoff. And they
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  Speaker 1: need to get that number one seed because I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you say a month, but you don't know
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  Speaker 1: until after he gets out of surgery and how he heals. Now, like,
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  Speaker 1: If he had to play December 19th in a first-round game,
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  Speaker 1: could he? Maybe. But if you could hold off until
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  Speaker 1: the 29th or whenever the quarterfinal is, that would make
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  Speaker 1: a world of difference. And to be able to get
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  Speaker 1: to the ACC championship game and kind of maybe have
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  Speaker 1: zero or one loss, if they could somehow either get
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  Speaker 1: a win here and maybe if you get upset or
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  Speaker 1: you lose here and then you win out, it's macro–
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  Speaker 1: It's there. There are a couple of us who were
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  Speaker 1: a little uneasy right now, knowing that the margin of
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  Speaker 1: error gets so much smaller. We don't know what the
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  Speaker 1: offense is going to look. We saw the offense when
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  Speaker 1: he went out against Wake, really, really struggled to got
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  Speaker 1: popped out. Now we're stepping games on from that. So
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  Speaker 1: maybe things have gotten better. I think the emergence of Mallory,
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  Speaker 1: the amazing thing now is they're going to have to
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  Speaker 1: win these games and probably win a couple more games
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  Speaker 1: with their defense. I would expect their defense to come
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  Speaker 1: out with their frigging hair on fire and just spitting
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  Speaker 1: nails out with how shitty they played the last couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks. So you got Justin Scott's a Chicago guy,
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  Speaker 1: Lightfoot's an Illinois guy. So it's kind of a homecoming
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  Speaker 1: kind of game for them. So we'll see. They're going
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  Speaker 1: to have to win, I think, with Mario Murderball running
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  Speaker 1: the ball defense playing well and big picture. They're going
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  Speaker 1: to have to figure out a way to, uh, to
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  Speaker 1: get to the ACC championship game at 11 and one
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  Speaker 1: win it. And hopefully that'll, that'll be good enough for
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  Speaker 1: a top four seat. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And look selfishly as somebody without a dog in the fight, um.
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  Speaker 4: The, the, uh, I, I need Miami to finish this.
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  Speaker 3: I need Miami to make the playoff.
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  Speaker 4: Like I, I, I need to get to see Malachi
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  Speaker 4: Tony on that stage once again, He was fantastic last year.
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  Speaker 4: I think maybe the last thing to note with this,
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  Speaker 4: a pretty shocking impact on the Heisman race.
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  Speaker 3: As you're knocking over a couple of diamonds.
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  Speaker 1: Here.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, there was a big argument Malachi. Tony should
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  Speaker 4: have been the odds on favor to win the Heisman himself.
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  Speaker 4: If he wasn't winning it, it was probably Darian Mensah
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  Speaker 4: winning it, right? So now this eliminates Tony just because
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  Speaker 4: if you miss games, we don't give you the Heisman.
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  Speaker 3: That's generally what we do.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 4: And it remains to be seen the impact that this
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  Speaker 4: has on Minter. It's kind of like Jeremiah Smith losing
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  Speaker 4: Julian Zanning. Go either way. If Minter steps up and dominates,
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  Speaker 4: he probably further solidifies his case. If he struggles, then
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  Speaker 4: he gets eliminated with the ankle as well. So a
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  Speaker 4: lot to look at. It changes for me how I
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  Speaker 4: viewed Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: I agree with you.
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  Speaker 4: The most interesting perspective is narratively. Like, you've been on it, Bear,
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  Speaker 4: with Marcus Freeman and kind of the lack of, like,
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  Speaker 4: signature bid wins are in these, in these massive moments
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  Speaker 4: and obviously falling short twice last year cannot happen again.
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  Speaker 3: They have to win. I do think they will win now.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, Miami's kind of been playing with fire here and
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  Speaker 4: their saving grace has been Tony just being the best
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  Speaker 4: player on the football field at any given time. And
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  Speaker 4: it's not just the, the, the functional, uh, impact uh
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  Speaker 4: or you know the very tangible impact of losing a
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  Speaker 4: player like that you know you're losing uh nine catches
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  Speaker 4: a game which leads the country you're losing 13 touchdowns
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  Speaker 4: it's only second to agree losing over a thousand or
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  Speaker 4: two that's all very tangible but the psychological impact is
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  Speaker 4: going to be something i'm very intrigued to see and
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  Speaker 4: and how coach christopher handles that because watching your your
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  Speaker 4: superhero go down essentially, you know, that's like watching the
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  Speaker 4: field or that's like watching Julius Caesar get cut down
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  Speaker 4: in front of you. It has an impact on the,
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  Speaker 4: on the, on the psychology of the team.
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  Speaker 3: And so I, I'm, I'm intrigued.
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  Speaker 4: See, but, but the one thing that I do like
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  Speaker 4: for Miami, you're playing with house money now, like all
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  Speaker 4: burden of expectation and pressure, which sounds crazy. Cause you're
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  Speaker 4: number one in the country with a perfect season, but,
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  Speaker 4: But with this injury, in my mind at least, all
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  Speaker 4: burden of expectation and pressure and must-win feeling has firmly
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  Speaker 4: gone all the way over Notre Dame.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe the Canes take advantage.
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  Speaker 1: You know what's interesting? Go ahead, Bear. I was going
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  Speaker 1: to say, it's interesting as well. BYU beat Notre Dame
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  Speaker 1: without its best offensive player. So it's kind of interesting
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  Speaker 1: that kind of now a similar type of situation and
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  Speaker 1: If you're looking maybe to make a Heisman bet, you
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  Speaker 1: might want to maybe bet CJ Carr to win the
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  Speaker 1: Heisman because if Miami were to lose and Mensah doesn't
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  Speaker 1: look great without Tony. You're going to look at Notre
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  Speaker 1: Dame finishing 11-1, and the narrative will be there. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: Tony can't win. We'll see what happens with Jeremiah Smith.
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  Speaker 1: So there might be some nice phrases still available right
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  Speaker 1: now with C.J. Carp. We're looking to make kind of
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  Speaker 1: a Heisman bet reacting off of this news.
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  Speaker 3: All right, coming up next here on College Football Show
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  Speaker 3: with Sue Gotts and.
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  Speaker 4: The Bear, there's actually some other major injuries that play
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  Speaker 4: into this massive weekend as well that I want to
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  Speaker 4: get into, and some final notes on the weekend.
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  Speaker 3: More coming up next. All right, welcome back to the
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  Speaker 3: College Football Show with Sue Gotts and the Bear.
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  Speaker 4: It's a weird show because it's going to be an
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  Speaker 4: injury-themed show because we don't always get to get this
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  Speaker 4: granular necessarily. Real quick before we move out of South Bend,
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  Speaker 4: Notre Dame's defense, Bear, dealing with a lot as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they got defensive linemen injured. They got McKinney is
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  Speaker 1: out when their best cover guy is out. So that
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  Speaker 1: will be a big deal, like a linebacker injury. So
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  Speaker 1: they are. decimated by injuries at defense too. So maybe,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you don't want to say that the injuries
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  Speaker 1: negate each other, but I think if you're a Miami fan,
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  Speaker 1: maybe you're hopeful that some of those injuries up front
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  Speaker 1: on the line of scrimmage and the linebacker maybe means
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  Speaker 1: that your, your offensive line might be able to, uh,
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  Speaker 1: impose its will a little bit in control. This feels
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  Speaker 1: to me like an under type game. And everyone thought
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  Speaker 1: we were going to get a shootout, but I think
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  Speaker 1: with the injuries now to Miami's best offensive player and
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  Speaker 1: the way that game, I see the flow of the
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  Speaker 1: game going. This feels like it's a, like a 24-17
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  Speaker 1: type of game somewhere around there. I don't think either
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  Speaker 1: team's going to wind up getting a 30.
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  Speaker 4: So you mentioned how tough it is to win without
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  Speaker 4: your best player, referencing L.J. Martin being out for BYU,
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  Speaker 4: and they still managed to beat Notre Dame. If you
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  Speaker 4: don't know who L.J. Martin is, Big 12 Offensive Player
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  Speaker 4: of the Year last year, absolutely fantastic, dominant running back,
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  Speaker 4: captain of the team.
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  Speaker 3: L.J.
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  Speaker 4: Martin, Holy War this weekend, Bear, listed as questionable. He's
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  Speaker 4: been cleared to practice. I think he's been somewhat practicing.
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  Speaker 4: If he does play, he's definitely not going.
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  Speaker 3: To be 100%.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Do you think there's any hope that Cougar fans could
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  Speaker 4: watch their best offensive player make his glorious return at Rice-Eccles?
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't sound it, does it? Usually you can kind of
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  Speaker 1: read between the lines, but if it's just practicing now,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, he can watch the game plan. You
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  Speaker 1: can study the game plan. but to be a part
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  Speaker 1: of it in practice or not be a part of
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  Speaker 1: it in practice. I would not expect to see him
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  Speaker 1: out there on Saturday. This feels like one of those
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  Speaker 1: gamesmanship type of reports. It'll be interesting to see if
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  Speaker 1: their offense has become really Bear Buckmeyer dependent and Glasker dependent,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll see if they can go to Rice Eccles
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  Speaker 1: down the road and get a win. Yeah, he'd be
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  Speaker 1: pretty good. injuries there. The Texas injuries are a mess
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  Speaker 1: as well. Going to Como is this week too. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, hold on, hold on.
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  Speaker 1: Watch this. Watch this.
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  Speaker 3: Cause we're going to get to Texas, but watch this.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go. Okay. So, okay.
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  Speaker 4: So LJ Martin, one great running back still question about
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  Speaker 4: how did a great running back that's not going to
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  Speaker 4: play key one Lacey.
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  Speaker 3: Out for Ole Miss.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, I I've had a theme this week
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  Speaker 4: where it's like, there's so many tough games to choose.
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  Speaker 4: that instead of going into paralysis by analysis, I'm just
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  Speaker 4: dialing things back.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just being dumb and reductive. Like I look at BYU-Utah,
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  Speaker 3: Utah's at home, Utah wins.
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  Speaker 4: I look at Georgia-Ole Miss, okay, Ole Miss doesn't have
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  Speaker 4: Kiwan Lacy, Georgia wins.
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  Speaker 3: Because these two teams have been so close to one another.
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  Speaker 4: But if you watched Ole Miss this year, it is
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  Speaker 4: a different offense when Kiwan Lacy is on the field
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  Speaker 4: versus off the field.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you saw that in the Florida game
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  Speaker 1: as well when they went on the road and fell behind.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so glad you said that because– hi, Jeff. Jeff
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  Speaker 1: Schwartz back in the room, by the way.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Jeff Schwartz, what's up, dude?
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  Speaker 1: We're getting ready to do pair bets after I get
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  Speaker 1: done doing this. We were just having this conversation in
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  Speaker 1: here how we have like so few– big plays this
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  Speaker 1: weekend on these big games because you just don't know.
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  Speaker 1: The Ole Miss-Georgia injury deal, the injuries, Texas-Missouri, Alabama-LSU, I
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: could make a case for both. In the betting world,
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: the handicapping world, the numbers, the great equalizer. I'm looking
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: elsewhere in some of these big games. I'm going to
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: watch them. I'm going to love them. But I sure
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: as hell ain't going to have a whole lot of
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: plays on it. But I do think Georgia goes there
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: and wins. I think their linebacking core, It's so much
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: better this year. I think that will help them both
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: against the run, whoever's coming in there for Lacey, or
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: help the front get some pressure and the secondary not
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: having to.
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and if you think about where Georgia struggled against
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: Ole Miss last year, well, certainly defensively, Trinidad-Chambers and Kiwan
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: unlocked them.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: We'll see if they can do that a third time
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: in a row. But Georgia's offense was not explosive last year.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: They are this year.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: You don't think of them as being, but if you
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: look at the numbers, you look like 20-yard plays, 30-yard plays,
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: the top 10 in the entire country. And the bottom
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: line is, if Gunnar Stockton plays on the road in
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: Oxford like he did on the road in Tuscaloosa, there
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: is a 0% chance of Georgia losing this game.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: He was perfect.
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: Gunner, if he plays like he did against Alabama, he
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: was perfect on third down. I think he finished 10
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: of 11, over 100 yards, one touchdown, no picks. He
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: converted six first downs. You think about some of the
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: throws that he made out of his own end zone
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: at the end of that game and some of the windows.
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: Gunner Stockton rarely gets the credit for being an NFL-level
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: passer of the ball. But if you look at that
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: Alabama game, he was that that night. If he can
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: repeat that performance in Oxford, Georgia wins. We've talked Texas injuries,
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: kind of danced around it.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: We've alluded to it. What's the word on Colin Simmons?
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: Let me do a little. I think we're getting the
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: questionable type of report, but we know Cam Coleman probably
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: know Okay, here's the report.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: So, Hollywood Smothers out.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: They're running back out. Trevor Goosby, their first-round left tackle out.
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: They got a tight end in Townsend out, and then
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: Wesley's hurt as well. The big names that are questionable,
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: Colin Simmons, still dealing with that injury from the games ago,
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: Ryan Wingo, Cam Coleman, and then on the defensive side
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: of the ball, Kate Phillips.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a lot.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: And this comes at a time when Mizzou's getting Ahmad
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: Hardy back from injury. He came back last week. Should
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: be better week by week. Everything is pointing Mizzou here, Bear,
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: it seems like, from an outside-looking-in standpoint.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with you. And Missouri was one of
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: those two lost teams. They were a little bit further
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: down the college football playoff standings. But if they get
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: a win here, I mean, they got Kentucky, I believe,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: coming up as well. They could be a little bit
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: of a dark horse to potentially run the table and
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: get maybe in the playoff at 10-2. But yeah, the
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: diversity of this offense– It's amazing how in a year
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: where there was so much talk about quarterback play and
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: we expected Arch, Dante Moore, Mensah, CJ Carr, go on
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: and Stockton, go on and on, and there have been
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: a lot of cases where they haven't necessarily performed up
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: to the level that we thought they would. Austin Simmons
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: is great. He has been really, really good this year,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: and I think he might still be living a little
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: bit in the shadow of the, okay, well, Trinidad Jambles
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: has been so great at Ole Miss. It's old school.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: We haven't been giving him as much of a credit
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: now since he transferred, but Simmons and Lee have been fantastic.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: I always worry about Missouri in a game like this
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: up front. Are they going to get bullied? We saw
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: them get bullied and pushed around by Echols and Ole
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Miss a couple of weeks back. Is that going to
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: happen again against Texas? But if Texas is down, Simmons–
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: And a couple of the guys here up front, that's
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: a massive game changer.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, you mentioned Simmons and Lee, but I mean,
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: you got Jamal Roberts leading the SEC in rushing. The
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: only back in the conference over 1,000 yards right now.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: And then you get Ahmad Hardy back. This is the
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: only one. Okay, I'm going to speed run this. I'm
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: going to give you, again, the reductive takes here. Miami,
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: Notre Dame, no Tony, Notre Dame wins. Kentucky and Tennessee,
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: Tennessee at home, Tennessee wins. Georgia, Ole Miss, no Kiwan Lacy,
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: Ole Miss wins. BYU, Utah, Utah at home, Utah wins.
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: And then I get to Mizzou.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: And I don't know. I don't know.
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: I haven't been able to reduce this one down. The
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: dumbest part of me, my instinct, if I wanted to
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: stick with my women's intuition here, everything is pointing Mizzou.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: Which is telling me to go Texas.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Okay. I like everything.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: Everything is in Texas has been good in big games.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: They've been good in big. People don't want to admit that,
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: but they have been.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: Yep. And when everybody starts to count them out, I
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: feel like that's what Texas pulls it out.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: I like Texas in a nail biter.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Okay. I love the simple– sometimes the simple handicap, the
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: first impression, the first thought is like the best one,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: and that's the one ultimately before you start taking in
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: all these additional stats and thoughts and things, you take
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: everything in. I like Missouri as well, so we are
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: oppo here. But you're right. It's not been the big
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: game that's gotten Texas lately. It's been where they've kind
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: of been either a big favorite and a big favorite
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: and getting out– The Florida game, how the hell do
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: they lose that game if they're getting a couple of scores? Oklahoma,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: you just kind of self-destructed against a bad Oklahoma offense. Yeah,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: and that's kind of, to take it back to the
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Miami and Mario Cristobal, that's the people, like, Every big
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: game Miami has had under Mario Cristobal, they have absolutely
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: showed up and been ready to play. It was the
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Louisville game or the SMU game or the Florida State
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: game when they were 20 points. Those are the games
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: where they kind of found themselves in a war. So
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: you may have talked me off of betting Missouri. How
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: about that? I might not be in Texas. I mean, how.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: Could you argue with my balls there? You know, my
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: cojones are telling me longhorns.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: These nuts are saying, Texas, you gotta listen. Megan, there
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: it is. Those guys, little emergency pod, Tony news breaks.
• 23:33
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• 23:34
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• 23:37
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• 23:41
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• 23:45
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• 23:48
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