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Chris Landry Interview · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Speaker 1: W.R.K.S. Pickett's Jackson. Where is it? Time. Time to take
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  Speaker 1: Chris, welcome in.
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  Speaker 2: We made it week one.
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  Speaker 1: How are you? I am doing good, and like you
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  Speaker 1: and like everybody, I'm just excited to have some football.
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  Speaker 1: We had, I don't know if it was an appetizer
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  Speaker 1: last week. It's just maybe some stale chips and salsa
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  Speaker 1: that was a little bit left over. There's a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm ready for a big week this week in
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  Speaker 1: college football.
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  Speaker 2: Chris, before we get to the games, we have to
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  Speaker 2: discuss the SEC as they will go to court on Thursday.
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  Speaker 2: over this NFL player rolling. It looks like the courts
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  Speaker 2: and the judges have said, no, you've got to let
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  Speaker 2: them play. There's real discussion, or at least it looks like,
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  Speaker 2: on what to do with LSU. Lane Kiffin has said
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  Speaker 2: earlier today his player leadership committee, which I didn't know
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  Speaker 2: that they had these, gave him their blessing to bring
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  Speaker 2: in players with NFL experience. Quote, everyone was emphatic that
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  Speaker 2: if they can help us win, let's bring them on. LSU,
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  Speaker 2: why are they dying on this hill, Chris?
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  Speaker 1: There's a few theories. One of them, it's coming from
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  Speaker 1: the governor, who's trying to push the big Trump guy.
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  Speaker 1: And he's trying to push Trump's agenda of save the
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  Speaker 1: College Sports Act. That's great chaos. We're all for it.
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  Speaker 1: So he sees that as a window. How much is
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  Speaker 1: there to that? I think there's something to it. Two,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, when does Lane not like the spotlight on him?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's about, look at me. You know, look,
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  Speaker 1: I think in the end, it's going to be very interesting.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to give legal renderings of what might
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  Speaker 1: or might not happen. But people that I do talk
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  Speaker 1: to in that profession believe that they're going to rule
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  Speaker 1: against the SEC on this. Then it's going to get interesting.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of fodder and talk. I
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  Speaker 1: know a reporter reported anonymously, of course, isn't it always
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  Speaker 1: that we'll, we'll find somebody else. I mean, they're not
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  Speaker 1: going to kick LSU out of the SEC. LSU is
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  Speaker 1: not going anywhere. They're not going to be able to,
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  Speaker 1: even if they wanted to pull, that's just kind of posturing.
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  Speaker 1: And it's just, to me, it's, I think it's a,
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  Speaker 1: it's a hypocritical and all the way around. I mean, it's,
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  Speaker 1: It's like in Louisiana, they're all for this, it's for LSU,
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  Speaker 1: and I say, well, let's say Lane Kiffin had taken
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  Speaker 1: the Florida job and he was doing all this. You'd
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  Speaker 1: like that, and then there's Stone Silence, of course. You'd
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  Speaker 1: hate it. And Florida fans who are now hating it
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  Speaker 1: would love it. The bottom line is, I think you
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  Speaker 1: have to look at, is this the right thing to do?
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  Speaker 1: And the answer is no. I think you've probably explained
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  Speaker 1: to your audience, knowing you, that this is unique circumstance.
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  Speaker 1: These players forget about the, you know, two or three
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  Speaker 1: that LSU might be interested in. There are 33 players
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  Speaker 1: that were told their eligibility was up only to declare
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  Speaker 1: for the draft. And, uh, only to, and even the
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  Speaker 1: NBA guys sound the same thing, only be told that
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  Speaker 1: the new rule took place after they decided that they
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  Speaker 1: were told that they had no eligibility left. So this
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  Speaker 1: is not an ongoing thing. This is a one-year thing. And, and,
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  Speaker 1: Like I have said before, you look at the lawsuit,
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  Speaker 1: the lawsuit is not by, get this today, why is
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  Speaker 1: LSU suing them? LSU has nothing to do with this.
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  Speaker 1: It's the 33 or so players that are suing, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, a lot of lawyers think that they've
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  Speaker 1: got every right, and if you think about it from
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  Speaker 1: a logical standpoint, they do. Now, the question is, just
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  Speaker 1: because they have a right to come back and play,
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  Speaker 1: does the SEC or the Big Ten or the Big
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  Speaker 1: 12 or the ACC at all have the right to say,
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  Speaker 1: as a conference, we don't want our institutions to go
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  Speaker 1: after a player that has been in the NFL for
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  Speaker 1: any period of time or declared for the draft for
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  Speaker 1: the NBA or whatever. In the end, the SEC has
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  Speaker 1: already come out and said, we don't want that. And
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  Speaker 1: We voted 16-0 that you're not going to do that. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it looks like, well, the lawsuit is, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to sue that. Hey, you're denying us a
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  Speaker 1: chance to go play at that school or the Big
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  Speaker 1: Ten or wherever, and we're going to sue you. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know where it's going to end up legally. I
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  Speaker 1: think we're not going to get it resolved on Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: but we're going to at least know. by Thursday, whether
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  Speaker 1: they're going to be active for the ones that are
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  Speaker 1: involved at LSU or any other school, whether they're going
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  Speaker 1: to be active this week or not, but I expect
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  Speaker 1: that this is going to go into some appeals process. Um,
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  Speaker 1: don't you on, on most things do. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I can have an opinion on, no, I
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  Speaker 1: don't like anything that's gone on in college athletics for
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  Speaker 1: years and years. Um, I don't like it, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't like what LSU's doing. I don't like their stance.
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  Speaker 1: I only think they're going to create enemies within the SEC.
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  Speaker 1: But that's what Lane does. And this governor has, again,
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  Speaker 1: got his own agenda, and I think LSU's just kind
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  Speaker 1: of caught him. You don't hear Wade Ruth, the president
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  Speaker 1: of LSU, saying to Pete, he can't. The governor's going
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  Speaker 1: to tell him. He's going to do what the blank
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  Speaker 1: I tell you to do because that's how he got
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  Speaker 1: the job. And the governor appointed the board. So I
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  Speaker 1: hope that gives a little bit of understanding to your audience.
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  Speaker 1: This is the governor trying to push his agenda up
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  Speaker 1: the national ladder. Maybe he can take a trip to Greenland,
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  Speaker 1: which is also part of his new assignment. And maybe
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  Speaker 1: he'll get out of this. I doubt it. And then
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  Speaker 1: you got Lane. You know, when does Lane not like
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  Speaker 1: chaos or attention? That's my best explanation of where we are.
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  Speaker 1: The other stuff, I don't know. We'll see where it
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  Speaker 1: plays out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if we've ever seen a governor
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  Speaker 2: so involved in any state. Maybe I'm missing one. In
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  Speaker 2: the state of their college athletics inside their state like
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  Speaker 2: this one is.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let me take you back to one. This is
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  Speaker 1: a great story. The great Huey P. Long, who many
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  Speaker 1: stories and movies have been written about, was once... as
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  Speaker 1: the governor, he would lead the band on the tiger stadium.
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  Speaker 1: And what do you call the person up front? That's the,
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  Speaker 1: that's the, with the little baton thing, whatever you got. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: He did that. And he wants, wanted to build a
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  Speaker 1: huge stadium called tiger stadium. And the state legislator said, no. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know what he did? You know what he didn't think?
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  Speaker 1: He said, I need the funding to build dormitories for
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  Speaker 1: ROTC athletes, for ROTC students. And guess where those dorms
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  Speaker 1: were located?
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  Speaker 2: Tiger Stadium.
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  Speaker 1: In the stadium. That's how Tiger Stadium was initially built.
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  Speaker 1: This was like the 30,000 view. This was before money
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  Speaker 1: was spent. So I would say UEP Long was probably
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  Speaker 1: more involved. But in the modern era, I know your point.
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  Speaker 1: He's very, very involved. There's no question about it.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of involvement, we're talking with Chris Landry, college football
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  Speaker 2: and the NFL. Go to LandryFootball.com. Chris, let's get a
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  Speaker 2: game in, then we'll hit the games all the way
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  Speaker 2: through the second segment. Auburn versus Baylor in Atlanta coming
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  Speaker 2: up this weekend. 2.30 Central kick on ABC. Tigers are
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  Speaker 2: a touchdown and a hook favorite. Not asking you for
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  Speaker 2: gaming advice, but for the game itself. Alex Golish, game
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  Speaker 2: number one. He's got a really good quarterback. A lot
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  Speaker 2: of players in from South Florida. Baylor, Dave Aranda, DJ Lagway,
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  Speaker 2: his first trip back to the SEC or against an
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  Speaker 2: SEC foe. Can Baylor keep this close? Can they upset
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  Speaker 2: Auburn this weekend?
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  Speaker 1: I think they can keep it close. Yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I think it'd be an upset. You know, it's just
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  Speaker 1: so much unknown with these new coaches in these places.
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  Speaker 1: I do like Auburn in the game. I think they've
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  Speaker 1: got a little bit more balance. I do think there's
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  Speaker 1: some talent on Auburn, Steve, more than Baylor. And I
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  Speaker 1: do like their chances at home. I really do. do
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  Speaker 1: like this game as this game in Ole Miss Louisville
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  Speaker 1: or I mean to me that's the most intriguing where
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  Speaker 1: there's potentially good matchup I could see both teams winning
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  Speaker 1: but I definitely like Auburn's chances here let's.
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  Speaker 2: Take a time out we come back we'll visit with
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  Speaker 2: Chris we'll get his take on several of these games
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  Speaker 2: Ole Miss versus Louisville Mississippi State, what to expect, and
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  Speaker 2: several big ones across the board. Of course, LSU and
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