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July 29, 2026 (Hour 2) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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  Speaker 1: It's seen you.
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  Speaker 2: I never knew how much you meant to me.
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  Speaker 3: I need you.
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  Speaker 2: And when you go, go, go go, I know.
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  Speaker 4: You never end.
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  Speaker 3: Never.
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  Speaker 2: All the things that I used to say, all the
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  Speaker 2: words that got in the way, all the things.
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  Speaker 5: That I used to know have gone out the window.
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  Speaker 2: All the things that she used to bring, all the
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  Speaker 2: songs that she used to say, all the pay TV
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  Speaker 2: shows have gone. You never said you were pretending.
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  Speaker 6: I'm wi she knew. Can you feel the.
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  Speaker 5: Same and just come back to me.
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  Speaker 4: I need you?
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  Speaker 3: And when you.
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  Speaker 6: Go go.
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  Speaker 8: It's Quentin time here on the Zone Tippowered Sports Talk
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  Speaker 8: Caleb Rapley filling in for Chip the final week of
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  Speaker 8: the summer edition of this show. As Chip, We'll be
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  Speaker 8: back on Monday. Believe the rumors they are true. He
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  Speaker 8: will return with his SEC previews, and we're gonna do
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  Speaker 8: a little SEC preview of our own co hosting with
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  Speaker 8: me today across the table in the studio Andrew Rapsilver.
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  Speaker 8: We will get into some of our SEC predictions, and
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  Speaker 8: there are a lot of storylines coming into this twenty
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  Speaker 8: twenty six college football season in the Southeastern Conference and beyond.
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  Speaker 8: But we've got some first time coaches, are some new
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  Speaker 8: coaches that is, and some coaches who are a little
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  Speaker 8: bit on the hot seat. So we're gonna get into it.
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  Speaker 8: First of all, Andrew, who is your pick to win
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  Speaker 8: it all in the SEC? I just want to know
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  Speaker 8: you're conference champion off the bat.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, this is very boring by Georgia Bulldogs.
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  Speaker 5: So we agree with this. We agree there.
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  Speaker 9: It's too much to not think otherwise. I think the
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  Speaker 9: dominance that they've had the schedule is pretty favorable, consistent,
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  Speaker 9: proven success. It just didn't no one wants, no one
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  Speaker 9: sniffs them. I believe in my opinion for the SEC,
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  Speaker 9: is that a bulldog pun.
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  Speaker 10: It is now?
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  Speaker 6: I did not even think of that.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I guess yeah.
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  Speaker 8: I have Georgia winning as well. I just think, you know,
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  Speaker 8: they're pretty high on the returning production chart, and I
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  Speaker 8: think this is FPI's returning production that I that I
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  Speaker 8: have in front of me here. Georgia is fourth in
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  Speaker 8: the SEC sixty eight percent returning production, that's ninth in
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  Speaker 8: the country, so they're in a really good spot. I
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  Speaker 8: think this is Gunner Stockton's senior year. Kirby Smart, you
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  Speaker 8: know a lot of people have him as the best
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  Speaker 8: coach in college football.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 8: I think he probably is the most proven for sure,
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  Speaker 8: but you know, we haven't really seen him have quite
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  Speaker 8: as much success in this nil era of college football
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  Speaker 8: and college sports in general, So that's going to be
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  Speaker 8: kind of the next next box to check for him
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  Speaker 8: as far as you know, becoming one of the legends
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  Speaker 8: of the sport in the coaching ranks, is showing the
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  Speaker 8: ability to win in this in this changing era of
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  Speaker 8: the game. Because we've seen Kurt Signetti kind of come
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  Speaker 8: out of nowhere and win a national championship with Indiana
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  Speaker 8: of all schools last year. So a lot of people
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  Speaker 8: have Signetti as their number one coach, a lot of
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  Speaker 8: people have Kirby, but I think it's you know, definitely
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  Speaker 8: those two that are in the discussion for sure.
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  Speaker 9: Well, there is a game to this, really and it
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  Speaker 9: is interesting. You tell Krby Smart twenty years ago that
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  Speaker 9: you'd be you know, part of winning a championship is
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  Speaker 9: winning the nil game, and that's some of that's quite bizarre,
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  Speaker 9: but you think about it, some of that files way
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  Speaker 9: back to where to even the donors and things like
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  Speaker 9: that of the school because I hate to transition to
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  Speaker 9: college basketball. You know, Kelvin Sampson is one of the
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  Speaker 9: best coaches in college basketball and he's going to be
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  Speaker 9: a Hall of Famer in seven hundred wins in college basketball.
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  Speaker 9: But you Age is one of the poorest schools when
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  Speaker 9: it comes to nil giveouts. Yeah, and so some of
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  Speaker 9: that matters. You've got to have that in Georgia as well.
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  Speaker 9: You've got to still win the nil game regardless of
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  Speaker 9: how good or not good you are. And so that
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  Speaker 9: is a very interesting aspect when it comes to Kirby
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  Speaker 9: Smart in Georgia.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: So I think Georgia is definitely one of the two
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  Speaker 8: teams in kind of everybody's view is a contender for
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  Speaker 8: the SEC title.
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  Speaker 5: And then the other.
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  Speaker 8: Team that is right up there with them is unfortunately
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  Speaker 8: the Texas Longhorns. I know that Aggies hate to hear that,
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  Speaker 8: but that is that is the perception anyway, If you
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  Speaker 8: go by the SEC preseason media poll, they had the
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  Speaker 8: second most champion votes with fifty seven, and they were
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  Speaker 8: second overall in the predicted order of finish, So Georgia one,
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  Speaker 8: Texas two for the media poll that they did at
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  Speaker 8: SEC Media Day's last week. So, I, as much as
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  Speaker 8: I hate to say it, I agree I have Texas
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  Speaker 8: second in my predicted order of finish. I don't think
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  Speaker 8: they're going to go undefeated by by any means. They
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  Speaker 8: have I think the number one toughest schedule in the
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  Speaker 8: nation and obviously the SEC as well, so they definitely
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  Speaker 8: will not have a cakewalk to get to get to
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  Speaker 8: the SEC championship game. They have to play some heavyweight teams.
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  Speaker 5: They do have.
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  Speaker 8: Obviously Ohio State in Week one is their toughest game
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  Speaker 8: of the year. But the Red River shootout against Oklahoma,
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  Speaker 8: I think this will be one of the best versions
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  Speaker 8: of that game that we will ever see. I'm really
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  Speaker 8: high on Oklahoma as well. They're They're one of those
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  Speaker 8: teams that's in content tension for me. But I do,
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  Speaker 8: I mean, I do think Texas is the better team probably,
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  Speaker 8: but that's gonna be a great game, and obviously the
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  Speaker 8: end of the season for the Longhorns will also be
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  Speaker 8: tough playing Ole Miss LSU and of course Week thirteen
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  Speaker 8: the lone Star showdown against our Texas A and m
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  Speaker 8: Aggie's So, Andrew, where do you have the Longhorns? Are
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  Speaker 8: they your second team as well?
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  Speaker 9: I had them at three? Okay, so I put Ole
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  Speaker 9: Miss at two, all right. So that's that's kind of
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  Speaker 9: where I'm feeling here. And partially, you know, there's some games,
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  Speaker 9: sometimes for good reason or not, that leave a bad
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  Speaker 9: taste in your mouth. And you look at trying to
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  Speaker 9: see the oath of Arch Manning, and you look at
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  Speaker 9: last year at Florida for Texas one of those that
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  Speaker 9: was just you had to have that, and sure they didn't.
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  Speaker 9: And I you know, there's so much development you got
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  Speaker 9: to see out of Arch as well that you know,
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  Speaker 9: there's a lot of unknowns.
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  Speaker 6: There's too many unknowns.
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  Speaker 9: And I understand you the bringing in Cam Coleman and
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  Speaker 9: the off season on the offensive side of the ball,
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  Speaker 9: Rashene Biles on the defensive end. But I look at
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  Speaker 9: Ole Miss and why I have them at second that's
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  Speaker 9: still I understand. It's the peak Golden era. We heard
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  Speaker 9: that from Marty Smith as soon as he covered the
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  Speaker 9: Lane kiff and departure that everyone came out of the
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  Speaker 9: meeting room. This is this is a Pete Golden era,
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  Speaker 9: this is the Pete Golden area. Well, it's still mostly
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  Speaker 9: Lane's team, still Trinidad Chambliss. Comparing schedules, Old Miss does
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  Speaker 9: not have as rough a go as Texas by any means.
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  Speaker 9: I look at October twenty fourth, Ole Miss at Texas
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  Speaker 9: to be the deciding factor in that one, Okay, And
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  Speaker 9: I think you know, because Ole Miss, they do have
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  Speaker 9: the game at Texas, they host Georgia, they are at Oklahoma,
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  Speaker 9: they host LSU, which is essentially gonna be one of
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  Speaker 9: the that could get some one of the higher rated
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  Speaker 9: TV ratings games in the entire year. That's there, that's
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  Speaker 9: their super Bowl. I think you've given all that. You
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  Speaker 9: still got the core there and Ole Miss, and that
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  Speaker 9: the run they had in the CFP. Still I still
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  Speaker 9: think they're gonna be very good. It's sort of a
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  Speaker 9: you know, Barry Switcher taking over the nineties Cowboys.
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  Speaker 6: Were's still the same core, still the same core. So
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  Speaker 6: but it's gonna it's not gonna be that way forever.
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  Speaker 9: But I think the uh ole Miss will will be
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  Speaker 9: that second spot up there in Texas will be third.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, So.
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  Speaker 8: I don't have an issue with that. I do think
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  Speaker 8: that Ole Miss they will be very solid. They actually
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  Speaker 8: are third on the SEC media's predicted order of finish Georgia, Texas,
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  Speaker 8: ole Miss, and I kind of I see it. Trinidad
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  Speaker 8: Chamberlass is probably the number one quarterback in the nation
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  Speaker 8: right now, definitely the most experience of anybody. Now, a
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  Speaker 8: lot of that was at the lower levels of college football,
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  Speaker 8: but still one of the best talents that will be
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  Speaker 8: in this class of quarterbacks that we have in twenty
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  Speaker 8: twenty six. I think if arch Manning takes that next step,
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  Speaker 8: that probably will be the deciding factor of whether or
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  Speaker 8: not Texas is the number one team or number two
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  Speaker 8: team in the SEC. I think that he's going to
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  Speaker 8: decide whether or not they are a upper echelon national
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  Speaker 8: championship contender or if they're just, you know, a very
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  Speaker 8: good team.
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  Speaker 9: When I put this list together, that was the exact
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  Speaker 9: thing I sat and wrestled with, is okay, so you
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  Speaker 9: go with there's potential there with arch Manning to even
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  Speaker 9: jump to number one, you know, or could really contend
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  Speaker 9: with Georgia dependent if he really takes that next step.
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  Speaker 6: But there's so much unknown there.
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  Speaker 9: I'm going to go with the comfortable where what I
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  Speaker 9: feel most comfortable with.
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  Speaker 6: And that's why that's why I.
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  Speaker 9: Lean ole Miss for sure, because there definitely can be
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  Speaker 9: a lot of potential with Texas and it would not
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  Speaker 9: shock me one bit if they were two and ole
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  Speaker 9: Miss was not. I just still think the lane exit
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  Speaker 9: towards right by the CFP. You had the run of
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  Speaker 9: the CFP. I don't think the clock is necessarily struck
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  Speaker 9: midnight on this Pete Golding Ole Miss Cinderella story type
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  Speaker 9: thing before whether this works out or not, that this
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  Speaker 9: is now going to be Pete Golding's team for the while.
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  Speaker 9: They're they're very committed and all into that, but there's,
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  Speaker 9: you know, there's still some of the natural abilities to
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  Speaker 9: that that Neil Lane was a big reason they got
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  Speaker 9: to where they were and does that hold up in
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  Speaker 9: a full season. We don't know, And there's so many
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  Speaker 9: trials and tribulations of a college football season and we
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  Speaker 9: have That's that's.
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  Speaker 6: The unknown for all Miss.
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  Speaker 9: We don't know how how the whole system with Pete
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  Speaker 9: Golding will look under under an entire season. But I
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  Speaker 9: just felt more comfortable when looking at that on paper
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  Speaker 9: as there's just more questions than I had answers with
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  Speaker 9: with Texas.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's fair.
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  Speaker 8: Now, we did see Pete Golden leave the Rebel lead
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  Speaker 8: the Rebels to a win against Georgia in the College
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  Speaker 8: Football Playoff, so there we've seen it happen. But right that,
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  Speaker 8: at that point, it was one hundred percent still Lane's
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  Speaker 8: team because you know, he left in the middle of
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  Speaker 8: the season.
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  Speaker 5: But we know that at least.
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  Speaker 8: Golding has the capability to not screw it up in
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  Speaker 8: game at least. Uh, So we'll see, you know, how
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  Speaker 8: John David Baker play his play calling.
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  Speaker 5: Is on the offensive side of the football.
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  Speaker 8: Offensive coordinator for the Rebels this year after being the
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  Speaker 8: offensive coordinator at East Carolina the last two seasons.
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  Speaker 5: So there's a lot of.
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  Speaker 8: Changing, changing things, a lot of moving parts for ole Miss,
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  Speaker 8: but they will definitely be very solid. My number three team,
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  Speaker 8: and this is probably where the uh, this is kind
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  Speaker 8: of the point of divergence, I would say between me
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  Speaker 8: and you and the SEC media poll as well.
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  Speaker 5: I have Alabama. Wow, I like it.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, I'm very high on them coming into this season.
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  Speaker 8: I know they still haven't named a quarterback. I know
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  Speaker 8: that Kaylen de Boor might be on a little bit
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  Speaker 8: of a hot seat here, but they do still have
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  Speaker 8: one of the best wide receivers in college football that
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  Speaker 8: people kind of forget about because he didn't didn't show
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  Speaker 8: it as much last year, but Ryan Coleman Williams is
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  Speaker 8: one of the most electric players in the game. I
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  Speaker 8: think that Alabama has has the experience. As much as
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  Speaker 8: people like to hate on Kaylen de Boor, he knows
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  Speaker 8: how to win football games. And I think that they
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  Speaker 8: have one of the more favorable schedules, which I know
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  Speaker 8: in the nine game conference schedule of the SEC, there
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  Speaker 8: are no favorable schedules that they are all extremely difficult,
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  Speaker 8: But I think Alabama has one of the better draws.
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  Speaker 8: They're two toughest games of the year, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 8: are against Georgia and Texas A and M, and those
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  Speaker 8: are both home games. They do have to go on
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  Speaker 8: the road to play Tennessee in LSU, but getting your
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  Speaker 8: two toughest games at home is a big advantage.
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  Speaker 6: I agree.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, No, I see the vision of exactly what you're saying,
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  Speaker 9: for sure.
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  Speaker 8: That's that's my main that's kind of my main point
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  Speaker 8: in putting them third. I don't even I don't know
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  Speaker 8: if I would say they're the third best team, but
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  Speaker 8: I was trying to look at this and and I
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  Speaker 8: did use playoff predictors dot Com to kind of use
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  Speaker 8: the u how the conference records like could actually exist
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  Speaker 8: just because of who plays who. You know, you don't
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  Speaker 8: play every team in the league every season, so like
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  Speaker 8: you know, Alabama and Texas don't play, Alabama and Ole
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  Speaker 8: Miss don't play, so we don't necessarily get to see
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  Speaker 8: those head to head matchups. But just based on Alabama schedule,
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  Speaker 8: I think they will finish with a good enough conference
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  Speaker 8: record to be third in the league. Don't know that
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  Speaker 8: I would say they're the third best team, but I
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  Speaker 8: think they will be. I have them going ten and two,
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  Speaker 8: both of those conference losses. But like I said, getting
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  Speaker 8: your two toughest home games or toughest games of the
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  Speaker 8: year at home is a huge advantage.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I agree.
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  Speaker 9: When when you can make it work like that ass
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  Speaker 9: in the schedule and that's that's out will be for Bama,
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  Speaker 9: that certainly plays an advantage.
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  Speaker 6: I don't think going into l s U is going
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  Speaker 6: to be the cakewalk.
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  Speaker 5: It definitely will not.
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  Speaker 9: Be you know, Kaylen to Boor, you have the whole
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  Speaker 9: hot seat factor there that there's to me when when
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  Speaker 9: I always when I when I see Kaylen de Boor
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  Speaker 9: and I've seen Alabama under him, it's you need to
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  Speaker 9: be great, and I see them as pretty good. I've
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  Speaker 9: just not felt to them to be great like ye
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  Speaker 9: the Powerhouse of Georgia or or someone like that, or
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  Speaker 9: even you see like an Ohio state. It just has
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  Speaker 9: not felt great. It's felt pretty good. So that that's
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  Speaker 9: kind of where I'm that's fair. But still, you know,
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  Speaker 9: and sometimes the hot seat factor is very real when
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  Speaker 9: you kind of know, you know, there's sometimes those conversations
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  Speaker 9: could be had of all right, calin this this year
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  Speaker 9: or that's it, you know, and what kind of fired
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  Speaker 9: is that light?
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  Speaker 5: You know?
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  Speaker 6: You really you really never know.
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  Speaker 9: So I I it can definitely play some good dividends.
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  Speaker 9: I don't think that's that's what's gonna happen, but I
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  Speaker 9: definitely could see it being a possibility.
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  Speaker 8: The SEC Media poll has Alabama number six, uh so
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  Speaker 8: number four. Moving on, this is where I have my
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  Speaker 8: Texas A and m Maggie's and I think that this is.
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  Speaker 5: Chalky. This is where the SEC media has a M
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  Speaker 5: as well at number four.
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  Speaker 8: Who's your number four team? Andrew Sex's a and m Okay, okay,
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  Speaker 8: so we're all on the same page here, And this
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  Speaker 8: is the year that I think Mike Elco has put
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  Speaker 8: the most pressure on himself just because of how exciting
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  Speaker 8: and surprise, not surprising, but how good last year was
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  Speaker 8: with eleven wins in the SEC, even you know before
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  Speaker 8: the nine game conference schedule and eleven win team from
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  Speaker 8: the SEC is one of the best teams in the country, but.
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  Speaker 5: They did have a pretty favorable schedule.
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  Speaker 8: They did not end up on the way I keep
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  Speaker 8: saying they We did not end up having to play
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  Speaker 8: really any of the great teams in the SEC last year.
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  Speaker 8: Our one loss in the regular season was to Texas,
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  Speaker 8: and Texas was not as good as they were supposed
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  Speaker 8: to be. We should not have lost that game. But
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  Speaker 8: eleven wins, and I think it was mostly because we
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  Speaker 8: kind of got to dodge Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Ole, Miss Like,
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  Speaker 8: we didn't play any of those teams. Pretty insane. Now
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  Speaker 8: you still have to go win SEC games. It's not easy.
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  Speaker 8: It doesn't matter who the team is in the SEC,
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  Speaker 8: it's not easy to win that game, so it's still impressive.
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  Speaker 8: But the schedule this year is much much.
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  Speaker 5: More difficult than it was last year.
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  Speaker 8: Two very tough road games, well really okay, three road
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  Speaker 8: games that would not be surprised if we ended up
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  Speaker 8: taking a loss Week four against LSU, Week eight against Alabama,
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  Speaker 8: and Week twelve against Oklahoma. Those are all teams that
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  Speaker 8: are in most people's top five in the conference. If
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  Speaker 8: you go by Bill Connolly's sp plus projections, that's the
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  Speaker 8: number four team in the SEC, LSU, the number five
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  Speaker 8: team Alabama, and the number six team Oklahoma. So all
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  Speaker 8: of those road games are going to be very crucial.
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  Speaker 8: And then our home schedule is also tough, not quite
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  Speaker 8: as tough, but still a couple good teams. I think
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  Speaker 8: the main highlights are Tennessee in week eleven and Texas
• 17:45
  Speaker 8: in week thirteen. So just because of how difficult our
• 17:48
  Speaker 8: schedule is, I do think we're going to end up
• 17:51
  Speaker 8: with probably two conference losses. So I think this will
• 17:55
  Speaker 8: be one of those kind of similar to last year
• 17:56
  Speaker 8: where we had a lot of ten win teams but
• 17:59
  Speaker 8: no extremely dominant teams. I think it's gonna be like
• 18:02
  Speaker 8: that again. And that is a product of the nine
• 18:04
  Speaker 8: game conference schedule.
• 18:06
  Speaker 9: I so probably about three minutes before we came back
• 18:10
  Speaker 9: from from commercial, I had Texas A and M at three. Okay,
• 18:17
  Speaker 9: I really did, And right before we came back, I
• 18:20
  Speaker 9: had swapped it in simply because of the Texas A
• 18:23
  Speaker 9: and M schedule. Yeah, that's kind of what at the
• 18:26
  Speaker 9: last second throw me off of it. There are the
• 18:28
  Speaker 9: question marks with Arch and everything that we just talked about.
• 18:31
  Speaker 9: But you look at you know, you go to Alabama.
• 18:36
  Speaker 9: I'm not as really concerned with that game. I do
• 18:39
  Speaker 9: think the Oklahoma game is pretty difficult Alabama. You know,
• 18:44
  Speaker 9: there's there's a lot of familiarity there. I don't think
• 18:47
  Speaker 9: A and M will have any trouble with Tennessee coming
• 18:49
  Speaker 9: to College Station. The one thing I do look at though,
• 18:54
  Speaker 9: is Columbia South Carolina. That is a a one of
• 18:58
  Speaker 9: those stadium and environments and colleges. I it's the best
• 19:03
  Speaker 9: word to describe as pesky. You don't talk about it
• 19:06
  Speaker 9: very much or sometimes as much as you should. That
• 19:09
  Speaker 9: is a tough place to play, and you know it's
• 19:12
  Speaker 9: it's like Nick Saban used to say about Auburn, that
• 19:15
  Speaker 9: place is haunted. I believe that sometimes with Columbia that
• 19:18
  Speaker 9: place is haunted.
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: It just is.
• 19:20
  Speaker 9: I don't know any other logical reason behind it, but
• 19:24
  Speaker 9: it's just a tougher place to play, So it can't
• 19:26
  Speaker 9: discount that, you know. Of course, I do think a
• 19:29
  Speaker 9: lot of the season, as it always does, hinges on
• 19:32
  Speaker 9: whether Texas A and M can beat Texas or not.
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: That's a huge, huge factor.
• 19:37
  Speaker 9: In it, and I think that's sort of been one
• 19:41
  Speaker 9: of this university's hurdles that I think if you can
• 19:44
  Speaker 9: get past that, and obviously I think it's going to
• 19:47
  Speaker 9: be extremely crucial in the SEC standings. It could be
• 19:51
  Speaker 9: what it's been, like the deciding factor of whether you
• 19:53
  Speaker 9: make an SEC championship game or not, or.
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: Whether you know, you know for.
• 19:58
  Speaker 9: The sake or like last year wasn't necessar sssarily that case.
• 20:01
  Speaker 9: But I do think because of the schedule, that's why
• 20:06
  Speaker 9: I've got I'm gonna have Texas A and M at
• 20:09
  Speaker 9: fourth and it's all so much at the end, it
• 20:12
  Speaker 9: is all that that first half of the schedule. I
• 20:15
  Speaker 9: don't see them losing a game. I don't see them
• 20:18
  Speaker 9: going into LSU and losing. I really don't You look
• 20:22
  Speaker 9: at the other games, you know, Arizona State, Kentucky, of course, Arkansas.
• 20:27
  Speaker 9: I don't it's not an issue going to Missouri, they'll
• 20:30
  Speaker 9: be fine. Then the Citadel, but then that's where you
• 20:34
  Speaker 9: get to Alabama, South Carolina both on the road and
• 20:37
  Speaker 9: then home against Tennessee, on the road against Oklahoma, home
• 20:41
  Speaker 9: against Texas. In those last five games, I still I
• 20:45
  Speaker 9: see them going three and five.
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: So so you have us going nine and three.
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, So I think that's a simply simply because
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: of that schedule.
• 20:58
  Speaker 9: I think it's a it's a gauntlet towards the end.
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: That's that's that's a tough draw.
• 21:04
  Speaker 9: Sometimes you'd love to see Missouri be thrown in the
• 21:07
  Speaker 9: middle of that, in that middle of that run or
• 21:10
  Speaker 9: something to that effect, as opposed to or Kentucky thrown
• 21:13
  Speaker 9: in the middle of that. But that's that's a gauntlet
• 21:17
  Speaker 9: of the schedulety end for sure.
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 21:19
  Speaker 8: No, it's good that the buy is mixed in there
• 21:23
  Speaker 8: because Alabama Week eight, bye week and then the one
• 21:27
  Speaker 8: of the tougher four game stretches that you'll see for sure,
• 21:33
  Speaker 8: And it's also going to come down to.
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: This offense.
• 21:37
  Speaker 8: I don't have any concerns at all about the defensive
• 21:39
  Speaker 8: I'm being honest, which is probably.
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: Gonna come back to bite me.
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: But now that you've said it, yeah.
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: Now that I've said it out loud.
• 21:45
  Speaker 8: But the offense, I think is what this team is
• 21:48
  Speaker 8: going to determine this team's ceiling. Holmand Wiggins first time
• 21:52
  Speaker 8: play color offensive coordinator Marcel Reid in you know, kind
• 21:56
  Speaker 8: of year two and a half as the starting quarterback
• 22:01
  Speaker 8: and possibly his last year, who knows, I mean the term,
• 22:05
  Speaker 8: It depends on his performance this year. But that is
• 22:08
  Speaker 8: what's gonna either propel us to the top of the
• 22:11
  Speaker 8: sport or keep us, you know, kind of in the middle.
• 22:15
  Speaker 8: Is how that offense performs, and specifically how I really
• 22:19
  Speaker 8: think the passing game, because the running game should be
• 22:21
  Speaker 8: solid as long as the offensive line is decent. The
• 22:24
  Speaker 8: running game should be pretty solid with the amount of
• 22:27
  Speaker 8: depth that we have in the running back room with
• 22:28
  Speaker 8: Ruben Owens, Jimerian Moro and kJ Edwards. So it's really
• 22:32
  Speaker 8: going to depend on if Marcel can take advantage of
• 22:36
  Speaker 8: this extremely talented wide receiver corps that he has and
• 22:39
  Speaker 8: if Holman Wiggins can call the right place. So we
• 22:41
  Speaker 8: both have a and m fourth, we'll just do We'll
• 22:45
  Speaker 8: do a fifth team before we go to break here,
• 22:47
  Speaker 8: and then we'll probably do a little more sec discussion
• 22:49
  Speaker 8: on the other side. But number five, for me, this
• 22:52
  Speaker 8: is where I have ole Miss, and this is where
• 22:57
  Speaker 8: I have my last of the ten win teams that
• 23:00
  Speaker 8: in my projections anyway, which these are, you know, the
• 23:03
  Speaker 8: win total projections are kind of rough around the edges,
• 23:06
  Speaker 8: but I have ale Miss going ten and two two
• 23:10
  Speaker 8: losses in conference play. I think that I think they're
• 23:14
  Speaker 8: going to get it done at home against LSU in
• 23:16
  Speaker 8: Week three, and I think that's going to take.
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: All the wind out of the Tigers sales.
• 23:21
  Speaker 8: And I'm very glad that A and M gets to
• 23:23
  Speaker 8: play LSU right after that game, even though it's on
• 23:26
  Speaker 8: the road. I think that bodes very well for the
• 23:28
  Speaker 8: Aggies and I'm going to be there, so I'm excited
• 23:30
  Speaker 8: for that.
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: But this is where I have ole Miss.
• 23:34
  Speaker 8: I think that, you know, with a little bit of
• 23:37
  Speaker 8: an easier schedule, they could be in contention for the
• 23:39
  Speaker 8: conference championship, but they have to play arguably three of
• 23:44
  Speaker 8: the five or six best teams in the conference, or
• 23:49
  Speaker 8: four of the six, seven, eight best teams if you
• 23:52
  Speaker 8: count LSU in there. LSU Week three, Texas on the road,
• 23:56
  Speaker 8: Week eight, Georgia at home Week ten, and then Oklahoma
• 24:00
  Speaker 8: on the road Week eleven. So they're going to lose
• 24:03
  Speaker 8: at least two of those games, maybe more, maybe less,
• 24:06
  Speaker 8: but I think it's going to be two or three
• 24:09
  Speaker 8: games that they lose, and that week eleven matchup against Oklahoma,
• 24:15
  Speaker 8: in my personal opinion, that game is going to determine
• 24:20
  Speaker 8: who is the fifth and final SEC team that gets
• 24:23
  Speaker 8: in the playoff and who gets left out.
• 24:25
  Speaker 9: Yeah, that's one hundred percent. I certainly agree with that.
• 24:29
  Speaker 9: So you had ole Miss at five, I went LSU.
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: Oh okay high on Lane Kiffin.
• 24:36
  Speaker 9: I do think there is no reason you bring in
• 24:40
  Speaker 9: Lane Kiffin to have a severe rebuilding gear. Yeah, LSU
• 24:45
  Speaker 9: it does not ever have that kind of patience. It's
• 24:48
  Speaker 9: it's go time now. They will not win a national
• 24:51
  Speaker 9: championship this year. I feel very comfortable.
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: About saying that.
• 24:55
  Speaker 9: But if you didn't see some sort of large movement
• 25:00
  Speaker 9: right away in year one, like you with with LSU
• 25:03
  Speaker 9: and the noted credibility of we want to win now,
• 25:07
  Speaker 9: and I know, as as bad as shape as things were,
• 25:10
  Speaker 9: it's not going to be immediate, but you've got to
• 25:12
  Speaker 9: have something, and I think they will.
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: I think.
• 25:17
  Speaker 9: I look at of course September nineteenth, LSU Old Miss.
• 25:20
  Speaker 9: I think there's there's a grandiose possibility that Ole Miss
• 25:27
  Speaker 9: that is the game that they have prepared for, and
• 25:29
  Speaker 9: they have put almost too much weight and too much
• 25:32
  Speaker 9: pressure and too much hype and energy around that game
• 25:35
  Speaker 9: where LSU could come in and just take care of business.
• 25:38
  Speaker 9: They start off with Clemson, then LA Tech and you know,
• 25:41
  Speaker 9: just they're just it's business. It's first, first big test,
• 25:45
  Speaker 9: and you get going. I think Lane is going to
• 25:49
  Speaker 9: have zero problems with the environment that he walks into
• 25:53
  Speaker 9: into Ole Miss in that that night. I think he's
• 25:55
  Speaker 9: he's going to be more than prepared of what he's
• 25:57
  Speaker 9: what he's going to face. I think that's going to
• 25:59
  Speaker 9: be you you talk about playoff games, and you talk
• 26:01
  Speaker 9: about high energy games and the home team and the
• 26:04
  Speaker 9: environment that you walk into and there's so much anticipation
• 26:08
  Speaker 9: and energy around it that it's almost easier for the
• 26:12
  Speaker 9: road team to come in and.
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: Just be like, all right, it's road game, take care
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: of business. What do we need to do?
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: That's fair?
• 26:16
  Speaker 9: So I wouldn't be stunned if they if they took
• 26:18
  Speaker 9: that game against ole Miss. I do think A and
• 26:22
  Speaker 9: M as I mentioned, will beat LSU. But then in
• 26:25
  Speaker 9: the remainding greater portion of the schedule, you know, there
• 26:30
  Speaker 9: is Alabama, there is Texas. There there is a few
• 26:33
  Speaker 9: question marks though in three week stretch they play, they
• 26:36
  Speaker 9: host Alabama, host Texas, and then go on the road
• 26:39
  Speaker 9: to play Tennessee. Tennessee not one of the easier places
• 26:42
  Speaker 9: to play. I don't think the the I don't think
• 26:45
  Speaker 9: they'll lose all three necessarily, but it's very possible. But
• 26:50
  Speaker 9: I do think that they're they're going to have a
• 26:53
  Speaker 9: stronger run than people think. And I look at that
• 26:57
  Speaker 9: Old Miss game specifically, is a great, great opportunity for them,
• 27:01
  Speaker 9: to quote I guess the best word is to steal
• 27:04
  Speaker 9: a win. I you know, I think Ole Miss is
• 27:09
  Speaker 9: gonna be pretty favored in that, but I think it's
• 27:11
  Speaker 9: a great opportunity, with all the noise and all the chaos,
• 27:15
  Speaker 9: to just walk in and get a gritty win on
• 27:19
  Speaker 9: the road. So that that's kind of where I have LSU.
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 27:23
  Speaker 8: I think that Week three game against LSU Ole Mess
• 27:26
  Speaker 8: is going to determine the course of the season right
• 27:30
  Speaker 8: for whichever team, whichever team wins that game, will be
• 27:32
  Speaker 8: in a great position. I think the winner of that
• 27:34
  Speaker 8: game went makes the College Football Playoff and the loser doesn't.
• 27:37
  Speaker 8: That's and I know Week three is a very early
• 27:40
  Speaker 8: time to say that, but that's just the way that
• 27:42
  Speaker 8: I think this is going to shake out with. You know,
• 27:44
  Speaker 8: with the nine game conference schedule in the SEC, you
• 27:47
  Speaker 8: got to start on the right foot. So if LSU
• 27:49
  Speaker 8: does get that done, there the sky's the limit for them.
• 27:52
  Speaker 8: Even though they do have to play Bama and Texas,
• 27:55
  Speaker 8: LSU gets three of their four toughest games at home.
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: Just like who was I talking about earlier? Was it Bama?
• 28:03
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I think it was Bama that was saying that
• 28:04
  Speaker 8: gets their tough games at home. Same thing with LSU.
• 28:08
  Speaker 8: They get to play Texas, A and m Alabama and
• 28:12
  Speaker 8: Texas all at home. The only road game that I
• 28:17
  Speaker 8: think is gonna give them trouble is Ole Miss and
• 28:21
  Speaker 8: Tennessee a little bit to a lesser extent, but that's
• 28:23
  Speaker 8: still that's still a tough team. But their other road
• 28:25
  Speaker 8: games are Arkansas, Auburn, and Kentucky. So if they can
• 28:30
  Speaker 8: take business at home, and like you said, still one
• 28:33
  Speaker 8: of those wins are still that win on the road.
• 28:37
  Speaker 8: They definitely can be the number five team, and I
• 28:39
  Speaker 8: think that's where. Yeah, the SEC media poll has them
• 28:42
  Speaker 8: number five as well. I have them just outside kind
• 28:48
  Speaker 8: of my next group of teams, which is just just
• 28:51
  Speaker 8: two teams on the outside looking in of the of
• 28:53
  Speaker 8: the top five, and that's Oklahoma LSU. I think either
• 28:56
  Speaker 8: of those teams could end up, you know, jumping up
• 28:59
  Speaker 8: in and I think it's five teams in the playoff
• 29:02
  Speaker 8: for the SEC in case I hadn't already said that.
• 29:04
  Speaker 8: So I have Georgia, Texas, Alabama, Texas A and m
• 29:08
  Speaker 8: ole Miss, and then Oklahoma LSU right there on the
• 29:10
  Speaker 8: outside looking in. Can you go ahead and read your
• 29:13
  Speaker 8: list your top five and full real quick, just to
• 29:15
  Speaker 8: cap off this segment.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, So I had Georgia, then Ole Miss, followed by Texas,
• 29:20
  Speaker 9: then Texas A and m and then LSU in.
• 29:23
  Speaker 8: The top five for the SEC, so fairly similar four.
• 29:28
  Speaker 8: I think of the five teams we had the same
• 29:30
  Speaker 8: or at least in the top five, right, So LSU
• 29:33
  Speaker 8: and Alabama where we disagree, which I think is kind
• 29:37
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• 29:41
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• 29:42
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• 29:46
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  Speaker 8: Andrew Rapsilver, and we are going to continue some of
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  Speaker 8: teams in the SEC. Now I kind of want to
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  Speaker 8: get into some of our predictions for these middle of
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  Speaker 8: the road teams. So there's you know, kind of three
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  Speaker 8: maybe really okay. So there's four teams outside of the
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  Speaker 8: top five that I think, you know, kind of have
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  Speaker 8: that that ability to jump up there, maybe five if
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  Speaker 8: you want to stretch it. Oklahoma, LSU, Tennessee, Missouri, and
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  Speaker 8: then maybe a Florida, maybe an Auburn, you know, maybe
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  Speaker 8: a Vandy. If Vandy can they've seen the success now
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  Speaker 8: they've tasted it. Clark Lee is a great coach. Can
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  Speaker 8: they continue their success without Diego Pavia. There's there's a
• 35:27
  Speaker 8: lot of different options there. So of the teams that
• 35:32
  Speaker 8: we haven't talked about, Andrew, who who do you like?
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  Speaker 8: Who do you think is going to jump up and
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  Speaker 8: exceed expectations this.
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  Speaker 6: Year for a lot of reasons, And so bear with me.
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  Speaker 9: I think the Florida Gators with John Sumrall first year,
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  Speaker 9: I think I think this is going to be great.
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  Speaker 9: So I come from a unique experience here with this
• 35:54
  Speaker 9: because going with Tulane and John Sumrall in the year's there. Yeah,
• 35:59
  Speaker 9: my brother attends University of North Texas, same conference, and
• 36:05
  Speaker 9: so as you and t had their great run last
• 36:08
  Speaker 9: year all the way to the conference title game. Tulane
• 36:12
  Speaker 9: was right there in the standings as well. So we're
• 36:14
  Speaker 9: watching both of them consistently. And the great program that
• 36:17
  Speaker 9: Eric Morris ran at U and T last year, and
• 36:19
  Speaker 9: I think he's going to go on to do great
• 36:20
  Speaker 9: things at Oklahoma State, Tulane is has. God, there's the grittiness,
• 36:26
  Speaker 9: the nastiness, the explosiveness, high energy football, and that played
• 36:31
  Speaker 9: prominent into how they won that conference title game. And
• 36:35
  Speaker 9: when you talk about going into the swamp, you there's
• 36:39
  Speaker 9: a like I've said the word before earlier in the
• 36:41
  Speaker 9: in the show, but the gravitas of going into the swamp,
• 36:44
  Speaker 9: you are going in for a fight. And you need,
• 36:47
  Speaker 9: you know, for Florida Gators to get that back, to
• 36:50
  Speaker 9: get that intensity, that that high energy football again. And
• 36:53
  Speaker 9: I think some raw is is going to be tremendous
• 36:57
  Speaker 9: for that. And they've got an opportunit unity to shake
• 37:00
  Speaker 9: some things up. You know that they're gonna host Vanderbilt
• 37:03
  Speaker 9: and you talk about being you know, you listed Vanderbilt
• 37:06
  Speaker 9: as one of those teams just now that what does
• 37:08
  Speaker 9: it look like with Clark Lee, What does it look
• 37:11
  Speaker 9: like going into the Swamp against a John Sumrall team,
• 37:14
  Speaker 9: there's opportunities here to really pull off some good wins.
• 37:19
  Speaker 9: I don't think they're gonna go crazy or anything, because
• 37:22
  Speaker 9: you still got to play Texas, Ole, Miss Georgia, even Oklahoma.
• 37:27
  Speaker 6: But I'm just bear with me on that.
• 37:29
  Speaker 9: I think I think they're gonna make more noise than
• 37:32
  Speaker 9: than people anticipate in the first.
• 37:33
  Speaker 6: Year system with John Sumral so I.
• 37:36
  Speaker 8: See, I see your vision there. My biggest question with
• 37:41
  Speaker 8: Florida in year one, you know, like Pete golding Man,
• 37:46
  Speaker 8: when we talked about year one coaches a minute ago,
• 37:49
  Speaker 8: I didn't even fully remember that Pete golding was the
• 37:52
  Speaker 8: first year coach and so was Lane Kiffen.
• 37:54
  Speaker 5: But for the for the coaches that are new to the.
• 37:59
  Speaker 8: SEC, yeah, which are John Sumrall at Florida, Alex Golish
• 38:03
  Speaker 8: at Auburn, Ryan Silverfield at Arkansas, and Will Stein at Kentucky.
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: It's when you're moving to when you're moving up.
• 38:14
  Speaker 8: In conferences like Somerrell's doing, I think it's always very
• 38:19
  Speaker 8: helpful for that transition to have a true experienced number
• 38:24
  Speaker 8: one quarterback, and the Gators don't really have that. So
• 38:29
  Speaker 8: Tremelle Jones is a red shirt freshman, was the primary
• 38:33
  Speaker 8: backup for DJ Lagway last year at Florida, stuck around
• 38:37
  Speaker 8: with the new coaching staff, and then the favorite for
• 38:40
  Speaker 8: the job as of right now anyway is Aaron Filo,
• 38:44
  Speaker 8: who was Haynes King's backup at Georgia Tech last year
• 38:48
  Speaker 8: and the year prior and comes over alongside his offensive
• 38:53
  Speaker 8: coordinator with the Yellow Jackets, Buster Faulkner. So there's some
• 38:58
  Speaker 8: there's some ties there. So he's definitely the favorite for
• 39:01
  Speaker 8: the job, and if he ends up winning it, I
• 39:03
  Speaker 8: think that probably will be the right decision at least
• 39:06
  Speaker 8: for I think he's the safe option for sure. But
• 39:11
  Speaker 8: he's not one of those guys like like a Trinidad
• 39:14
  Speaker 8: chamberliss at Ole miss last year that transferred in. He's
• 39:17
  Speaker 8: not one of those big name transfers that you expect
• 39:20
  Speaker 8: the world of. So he could end up being great.
• 39:23
  Speaker 8: But that's kind of.
• 39:23
  Speaker 5: My main hang up with the Gators in year one
• 39:26
  Speaker 5: for me anyway.
• 39:27
  Speaker 9: So when I when I let off with that, I
• 39:31
  Speaker 9: use the phrase bear with me. I really mean bear
• 39:34
  Speaker 9: with me for you know, a bear, but essentially because yeah,
• 39:38
  Speaker 9: the quarterback is a huge question. But I think I
• 39:42
  Speaker 9: think the bigger step that will be taken. I do
• 39:44
  Speaker 9: not anticipate them to you know, shock the world. But okay,
• 39:48
  Speaker 9: you win a game against me, there's I think there's
• 39:50
  Speaker 9: gonna be a couple of wins. You like, Oh, you know,
• 39:52
  Speaker 9: that's a it's a nice story. That's a nice, you know,
• 39:55
  Speaker 9: nice win. I think they're gonna return more to the
• 39:58
  Speaker 9: Gator brand of foot ball that they're looking for that
• 40:02
  Speaker 9: they may have not had previously. I think there's gonna
• 40:05
  Speaker 9: be more more of that. Quarterbacks obviously big question. There's
• 40:07
  Speaker 9: a lot of questions there. You're very unsteady about the
• 40:10
  Speaker 9: quarterback first year system with some raw Does it all
• 40:13
  Speaker 9: shake out like you wanted? Yeah, I really stress the
• 40:16
  Speaker 9: bear with me. I do think there's gonna be.
• 40:20
  Speaker 5: Some noise.
• 40:21
  Speaker 6: I don't even have Like I said, I don't even
• 40:23
  Speaker 6: have them in the top five.
• 40:24
  Speaker 9: But I'm not I'm not saying that they're going to.
• 40:27
  Speaker 9: But I just think when when you look at things
• 40:29
  Speaker 9: on paper and you look at Auburn, you look at
• 40:31
  Speaker 9: all of the new situation first year SEC coaches, this
• 40:34
  Speaker 9: one to me, and it may be slightly biased because
• 40:38
  Speaker 9: I've watched some more two lane football than most casual
• 40:43
  Speaker 9: or even heavy SEC football watchers or whatever the case is.
• 40:48
  Speaker 9: It just you like what they had going on, And
• 40:51
  Speaker 9: maybe it is just the recency bias of watching that,
• 40:54
  Speaker 9: but that to me jumped out on paper quite a
• 40:57
  Speaker 9: bit of you know, you could have something there, You
• 41:00
  Speaker 9: really could, yeah, over overtime put something together. So that's
• 41:04
  Speaker 9: out of the teams you listed, that's kind of where
• 41:06
  Speaker 9: I that's where I sit.
• 41:07
  Speaker 8: Yeah, So for that that middle tier. I like the
• 41:11
  Speaker 8: Missouri Tigers, especially if Ahmad Hardy is healthy early enough
• 41:17
  Speaker 8: in the season. You know, he's recovering from some off
• 41:21
  Speaker 8: the field unfortunate activities there, but very glad that he's
• 41:27
  Speaker 8: okay after that gunshot wound and he will be ready
• 41:31
  Speaker 8: for the season. I'm not exactly sure if I don't
• 41:33
  Speaker 8: think he'll be one hundred percent to start the year,
• 41:35
  Speaker 8: but you know, they have a few of their easier
• 41:38
  Speaker 8: games early in the year, so that bodes well if
• 41:40
  Speaker 8: he's healthy soon. And they also are bringing in Austin
• 41:43
  Speaker 8: Simmons from Ole, miss who has seen a solid amount
• 41:46
  Speaker 8: of playing time with the Rebels. I think he's a
• 41:47
  Speaker 8: pretty solid player, and I like coach coach Drinkwitz with Missouri,
• 41:52
  Speaker 8: but as far as first year new to the SEC coaches.
• 41:56
  Speaker 8: So basically, when I say new to the SEC, I'm
• 41:58
  Speaker 8: just not counting Lane Kiffin and Pete Golding. I really
• 42:01
  Speaker 8: like Alex Golish with the Auburn Tigers. I think that
• 42:05
  Speaker 8: at least in year one, they're set up to be
• 42:08
  Speaker 8: a pretty pretty solid team. And the number one reason
• 42:12
  Speaker 8: for that outside of coach Golish, I think he's I
• 42:18
  Speaker 8: think he's a great coach, and he's a really cool story.
• 42:19
  Speaker 8: I talked about it, I think it was last week.
• 42:21
  Speaker 8: He was born in Russia and moved to America when
• 42:24
  Speaker 8: he was seven years old, didn't know anything about football,
• 42:28
  Speaker 8: didn't speak English, and now he's a head coach in
• 42:31
  Speaker 8: the SEC. That's that's just a really cool story. But
• 42:33
  Speaker 8: outside of that, he's has a lot of experience at
• 42:37
  Speaker 8: a lot of big programs and now gets the opportunity at,
• 42:42
  Speaker 8: you know, arguably the highest level of college football as
• 42:45
  Speaker 8: an SEC head coach, and he brings along one of
• 42:50
  Speaker 8: the best players in the sport, Byron Brown, his quarterback
• 42:54
  Speaker 8: who last season at South Florida led the Bulls to
• 42:59
  Speaker 8: a nine to three record in twelve starts and fifty
• 43:04
  Speaker 8: eight passing yards, twenty eight touchdowns, just seven interceptions while
• 43:08
  Speaker 8: rushing for one thousand yards and fourteen touchdowns. He is
• 43:12
  Speaker 8: going to have a big opportunity to prove himself at
• 43:14
  Speaker 8: the SEC level. And I think that's that's my biggest
• 43:19
  Speaker 8: factor in why I think.
• 43:20
  Speaker 5: Auburn will be pretty solid in year one.
• 43:23
  Speaker 8: Now, when I say solid, I don't know that they're
• 43:24
  Speaker 8: going to be much better than just qualifying for a Bowl,
• 43:27
  Speaker 8: but as a for a first year at a program
• 43:31
  Speaker 8: like Auburn that's had some rough seasons as of late,
• 43:33
  Speaker 8: I think that would definitely be success for coach Golish.
• 43:36
  Speaker 9: Do you know who's probably the most excited that it's
• 43:39
  Speaker 9: on this particular of the two years that Golish comes
• 43:44
  Speaker 9: in to be the coach of Auburn is probably Kaitlin
• 43:47
  Speaker 9: de Boor, because if the Iron Bowl is in Auburn
• 43:51
  Speaker 9: with the new system and with Golish and the new
• 43:54
  Speaker 9: team there, that team is hard enough to beat in
• 43:57
  Speaker 9: that in the Iron Bowl, in that stadium, regardless of
• 44:00
  Speaker 9: how good or bad they are. But thankfully enough for
• 44:03
  Speaker 9: Debor that's in Alabama this year. But I do think
• 44:07
  Speaker 9: Golish Golish like will make some noise and could still
• 44:11
  Speaker 9: potentially have an interesting iron ball. That's always when you
• 44:14
  Speaker 9: when you look at Auburn football, and until they can
• 44:16
  Speaker 9: really grow and get back into the heavy contention, that's
• 44:19
  Speaker 9: the one game they've really made some noise in his
• 44:22
  Speaker 9: rivalry week, which is where teams do it. And I
• 44:26
  Speaker 9: do see some growth there for sure. I think I
• 44:30
  Speaker 9: think I love the Golish story, like you mentioned, and
• 44:34
  Speaker 9: but it's again it's it's one of those there there
• 44:36
  Speaker 9: there are caveats now, but there's pieces there and yeah,
• 44:40
  Speaker 9: that's that's the that's where you try to grow. I
• 44:42
  Speaker 9: think they're there definitely can be that growth.
• 44:44
  Speaker 8: Yeah, So we agree that the kind of the top
• 44:46
  Speaker 8: two names of those new coaches.
• 44:48
  Speaker 5: Are some aer All and Golish.
• 44:51
  Speaker 8: So between Silverfield and Stein at Arkansas and Kentucky respectively,
• 44:56
  Speaker 8: who who do you think is in a better situation
• 44:58
  Speaker 8: to compete this year? Because I think it's it's really
• 45:03
  Speaker 8: close and.
• 45:04
  Speaker 9: I yeah, man, that's so difficult because I don't, to
• 45:09
  Speaker 9: be truthful, I don't think either one of them are
• 45:11
  Speaker 9: going to compete very much.
• 45:12
  Speaker 5: That's fair.
• 45:14
  Speaker 8: Yeah, they both they both have which everybody has tough
• 45:17
  Speaker 8: schedules and when you're at the bottom of the league.
• 45:19
  Speaker 5: Your schedule looks a lot tougher.
• 45:21
  Speaker 8: It is so unfortunate that that Kentucky has to play
• 45:24
  Speaker 8: Alabama in week two.
• 45:26
  Speaker 9: Yeah that then for maybe simply that Arkansas might have
• 45:30
  Speaker 9: the better edge.
• 45:31
  Speaker 8: Yeah, well they have at least a little bit more
• 45:33
  Speaker 8: time before they played Georgia in week three.
• 45:35
  Speaker 9: So yeah, yeah, I to be truthful, I don't think
• 45:39
  Speaker 9: either one of them are going to bode very well.
• 45:41
  Speaker 8: All right, last last question that I want an answer
• 45:45
  Speaker 8: to before we go to break here and wrap up
• 45:47
  Speaker 8: our SEC discussion in twenty twenty seven to Shane Bieber.
• 45:52
  Speaker 8: Is Shane Biemer still the coach of the South Carolina
• 45:54
  Speaker 8: game Cocks.
• 45:57
  Speaker 5: What do you think? Yes, Okay, I disagree. I think
• 46:03
  Speaker 5: I think South Carolina.
• 46:05
  Speaker 8: Just because they have, you know, and it's really not
• 46:11
  Speaker 8: that tough on paper early in the season. You know,
• 46:13
  Speaker 8: they have Mississippi State, Bama, Kentucky, Florida as their first
• 46:16
  Speaker 8: four SEC games. You know, those are winnable, winnable games
• 46:20
  Speaker 8: except for Alabama on the road. I don't think they
• 46:22
  Speaker 8: really have much of a shot in that one. I
• 46:26
  Speaker 8: just don't think they're gonna be able to get it
• 46:27
  Speaker 8: done early and by after week six, maybe week eight
• 46:32
  Speaker 8: when they play Tennessee. I think that Beamer is going
• 46:35
  Speaker 8: to be gone.
• 46:36
  Speaker 9: Steal one of those Columbia home games. Yeah, you say
• 46:41
  Speaker 9: A and M comes to town. I hate to use
• 46:42
  Speaker 9: A and M as the example, but you win one
• 46:45
  Speaker 9: of those big ones when you may be unranked, and
• 46:49
  Speaker 9: then you start to second guess, you know, and who
• 46:51
  Speaker 9: knows after after this season, it still may not be
• 46:54
  Speaker 9: the the train may completely fall off, but then you
• 46:57
  Speaker 9: start to wonder, hey, you know, you get a couple
• 46:59
  Speaker 9: of those big wins.
• 47:00
  Speaker 6: They've done it before. Is there still something here could be?
• 47:06
  Speaker 9: I've sort of am still optimistic, but I'm I guess
• 47:12
  Speaker 9: optimistic is as far as I'll go.
• 47:13
  Speaker 6: But yep, for sake of debate.
• 47:15
  Speaker 8: I'll say yes, Okay, I think so of those first
• 47:18
  Speaker 8: four games, I think they need to win. If they
• 47:21
  Speaker 8: can win or you know what, I'll expand it to
• 47:22
  Speaker 8: five because they played Tennessee week eight. If they can
• 47:25
  Speaker 8: win three of those five games, I think he gets
• 47:28
  Speaker 8: to hold onto his job at least through the season.
• 47:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and then we'll kind of see where they're at
• 47:33
  Speaker 5: after that.
• 47:33
  Speaker 8: But that's going to wrap up our sec discussion. When
• 47:36
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  Speaker 8: Caleb Rapoli here in the host chair alongside Andrew Rapsolver,
• 51:03
  Speaker 8: the play by play broadcaster for the Brasses Valley Bombers
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  Speaker 8: here on the zone, and last night we had game
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  Speaker 8: one of the TCL playoffs. Unfortunately Bombers coming up short
• 51:18
  Speaker 8: in that one at home, and it was it was
• 51:22
  Speaker 8: an exciting game and the Bombers, you know, we're on
• 51:24
  Speaker 8: top for a lot of it and then kind of
• 51:27
  Speaker 8: all fell apart at the end, ended up taking the loss.
• 51:33
  Speaker 8: So in eight to four, eight to four loss at home.
• 51:36
  Speaker 8: Now they have to go on the road and win
• 51:38
  Speaker 8: two against the Victoria Generals. So you know, kind of
• 51:42
  Speaker 8: what are your thoughts coming out of out of the
• 51:44
  Speaker 8: game last night, and maybe how do you think they're
• 51:49
  Speaker 8: going to bounce back tonight?
• 51:51
  Speaker 9: Well, I thought last night it started off really really
• 51:55
  Speaker 9: well in terms of the pitching for both sides. Austin
• 52:01
  Speaker 9: Ford through for the Bombers and Jacob Rees through for Victoria,
• 52:06
  Speaker 9: and you go through the first five innings of the
• 52:07
  Speaker 9: game and only believe it was two or three hits
• 52:11
  Speaker 9: allowed combined by both by both pitchers, and then you
• 52:15
  Speaker 9: get into the sixth inning and the Bombers put up
• 52:17
  Speaker 9: four runs, including a multi run home run by Tanner Cooper,
• 52:21
  Speaker 9: who's been pretty much the best player consistently all season
• 52:26
  Speaker 9: for them, and he tied the single season Bombers record
• 52:28
  Speaker 9: for home runs. To match that at seven last night,
• 52:32
  Speaker 9: he has an opportunity to break that. All the playoff
• 52:34
  Speaker 9: stats go count as well for the regular season, and
• 52:38
  Speaker 9: it really looked it looked good. There were some times
• 52:42
  Speaker 9: earlier in the season where the wind blew out of
• 52:44
  Speaker 9: the sail in late innings where you could let up
• 52:48
  Speaker 9: a lot of runs and then it just bit them
• 52:50
  Speaker 9: at the worst time. We went into it and laybel
• 52:52
  Speaker 9: all the offensive stats in Victoria. There's so many categories
• 52:56
  Speaker 9: with tied first for home runs and RBIs extra base hits,
• 53:01
  Speaker 9: a total of plate appearances, and it has so many
• 53:04
  Speaker 9: offensive categories where they're at the top. And we talked
• 53:07
  Speaker 9: about it in the pregame show about it was going
• 53:09
  Speaker 9: to take eight or ten runs to even think about winning.
• 53:14
  Speaker 9: We're going into the sixth inning it won nothing, and
• 53:17
  Speaker 9: I'm starting to think, well, we were totally totally wrong
• 53:20
  Speaker 9: on that, and then final score is eight to four.
• 53:22
  Speaker 9: The Victoria is so potent and so dangerous and they
• 53:26
  Speaker 9: could beat you a lot of ways, and they did
• 53:28
  Speaker 9: just that. It was a great environment out in Avisota
• 53:31
  Speaker 9: and a great crowd on hand for game one. I
• 53:34
  Speaker 9: think starting strong is going to be the key to
• 53:36
  Speaker 9: win game two. But you go to you have a
• 53:38
  Speaker 9: three game series, and the job is simple. When when
• 53:41
  Speaker 9: it comes down to something like this in playoffs, you're
• 53:44
  Speaker 9: trying to whether it for baseball, trying to force a
• 53:46
  Speaker 9: game five or game seven, in this potential, this area,
• 53:49
  Speaker 9: game three, win one game. Anything can happen in game three.
• 53:53
  Speaker 9: We've seen crazy things happen before. Just go win tonight,
• 53:56
  Speaker 9: don't you don't have don't worry about winning two. Yeah,
• 53:58
  Speaker 9: so that's the big thing. Start strong, get early runs.
• 54:01
  Speaker 6: I think.
• 54:04
  Speaker 9: Not having it beat till the sixth inning when your
• 54:07
  Speaker 9: first offensive outburst is I think that's going to be
• 54:10
  Speaker 9: to try to be the message is start stronger earlier.
• 54:13
  Speaker 9: I think that'll be the key to winning game two.
• 54:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and it's it was just a very unfortunate way
• 54:18
  Speaker 5: to lose.
• 54:18
  Speaker 17: Yeh.
• 54:19
  Speaker 5: Top of the eighth, they.
• 54:20
  Speaker 8: Were up four to two, got the first two outs
• 54:23
  Speaker 8: by way of strikeout, and then a walk, a wild pitch,
• 54:27
  Speaker 8: an error, another walk, another walk, hit, and then a
• 54:32
  Speaker 8: home run and five run eighth inning for the Generals
• 54:35
  Speaker 8: just kind of took all the wind out of the Sales.
• 54:38
  Speaker 9: The only thing more painful than you just reading that now,
• 54:41
  Speaker 9: was when I wrote it in my score book last night. Okay, strikeout, strikeout,
• 54:45
  Speaker 9: and then it's a walk, okay, okay, then home run.
• 54:48
  Speaker 6: It's like, oh man. So it was.
• 54:51
  Speaker 9: It was a frustrating into that one. Great energy by
• 54:56
  Speaker 9: both teams, though you know, all of these guys go
• 55:00
  Speaker 9: to the play for their respective colleges and this is
• 55:03
  Speaker 9: about growth and this is about exposure for summer league.
• 55:07
  Speaker 9: But the environment between those two teams last night, you
• 55:11
  Speaker 9: tell them, this is a league you've been playing in
• 55:13
  Speaker 9: all summer, and this is a playoff game. They treated
• 55:15
  Speaker 9: it like a playoff game, and they were fully fully
• 55:19
  Speaker 9: you you could hear both dug outs the loudest you
• 55:22
  Speaker 9: had all season, and it was it was a fun
• 55:24
  Speaker 9: environment to be a part of. And we certainly hope
• 55:27
  Speaker 9: they can go down the go down the road to
• 55:30
  Speaker 9: Victoria and win a game too, and for the force
• 55:33
  Speaker 9: the game three, which would be there again tomorrow night,
• 55:35
  Speaker 9: and that those games are on TCL TV and they'll
• 55:37
  Speaker 9: be covered by the great broadcast crew of the Victoria Generals,
• 55:42
  Speaker 9: and we hope, we hope we can maybe still see
• 55:46
  Speaker 9: some baseball after that. See championship game Saturday, right, hope, Right?
• 55:50
  Speaker 8: All right, Well, you can catch that game at seven
• 55:53
  Speaker 8: o'clock tonight and we will react to it tomorrow. Andrew
• 55:57
  Speaker 8: and I will be back on sports Talk tomorrow at four.
• 55:59
  Speaker 8: But that's about all the time we have. We'll take
• 56:01
  Speaker 8: one more break and then we'll get you out of here.
• 56:04
  Speaker 8: This is Chip Howard, Sports Talk on the Zone.