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NCAAF Playoff Bracket + Bowls Special · Toadstool Sports

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Speaker 1: OWN seven run over the last two days after tonight
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Speaker 1: it was just complete bullshit. So that's that's I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: start off this show horrible Sunday one and five. I
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Speaker 1: don't even know what to tell you about that. I
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Speaker 1: just don't want to do this anymore. I have never
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Speaker 1: seen anything like this. Man with the slump continuing, two
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Speaker 1: straight losses, not a good day at all. Own four
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Speaker 1: that have not had a good season. Man with wookends
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Speaker 1: the slump that I'm on, and the slump continues. I've
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Speaker 1: with the Bruins arch hape? Is that what it is?
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Speaker 1: I don't even know it's March ninth, I think who
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Speaker 1: even knows? Man, I don't know what day is anymore.
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Speaker 1: But I don't even know what data is anymore. Man,
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Speaker 1: back with you after the worst day that I could
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Speaker 1: possibly have with you, as I always am until I die,
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Speaker 1: at least oh and two. Yesterday and yesterday it did
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Speaker 1: not go well for me. Own five. The worst month
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Speaker 1: that I've ever had in my eighteen years doing this.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what to even tell you about this anymore.
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Speaker 1: The Slump series, the Slump disconvenius, the slump continues. Somebody
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Speaker 1: fucking kill me, please. I don't even know what I
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Speaker 1: should do at this point other than potentially end it all.
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Speaker 1: What's up? Everybody's towed back with you yet again, Toad
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Speaker 1: still sports. This is going to be the college football
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Speaker 1: Bracket Special, where I already filled out a bracket, like tentatively.
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Speaker 1: I mean, there's not a whole lot to it. If
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Speaker 1: you watched my show last year, it's a small twelve
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Speaker 1: team bracket with buys, so it's it's not really a
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Speaker 1: whole lot to analyze here. But we'll break it down
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Speaker 1: and maybe I will briefly mention all the bowl games, which,
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Speaker 1: of course, BC they're not in a this year. Usually
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Speaker 1: they do make one. Seemingly most of the time they're
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Speaker 1: in some crap bowl, the Fenway Bowl, the Yankee Bowl,
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Speaker 1: whatever the hell one of those pinstripe balls with that
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Speaker 1: one is whatever the bulls change every year. We'll make
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Speaker 1: fun of the bowl names. I'll give maybe my initial
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Speaker 1: opinions on them. Of course, we can talk about, you know,
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Speaker 1: the elephant in the room mirror, which is the college
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Speaker 1: Football Playoff Committee. Dude, they suck. Like something has to
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Speaker 1: be done about this format. I know this is the
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Speaker 1: only I think the second year that they've done this,
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Speaker 1: But there is obviously a huge problem when you have
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Speaker 1: Notre Dame. Like all the people that are making fun
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Speaker 1: of Notre Dame, they're wrong. Like I I'm not even
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Speaker 1: a fan of Notre Dame. If anything, I may detract
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Speaker 1: or I'm a hater of Notre Dame. I don't like them.
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Speaker 1: Never have their rival of BC there. They're the bad
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Speaker 1: Catholic school over there. BC is the good one, the
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Speaker 1: Boston Irish Catholics. Notre Dame should absolutely be in this
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Speaker 1: thing like they If you look at the power ratings,
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Speaker 1: they would be favored over every team in college football
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Speaker 1: except for Ohio State, Indiana and maybe Oregon. Like Notre
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Speaker 1: Dame is like the third or fourth best team and
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Speaker 1: they don't even get to play in the playoffs. So
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Speaker 1: it's ridiculous. The fact that the committee has to like
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Speaker 1: they're forced to have I don't even know exactly how
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Speaker 1: it works. They have to have four conference winners in
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Speaker 1: the field. Is that what the deal is? Something like that,
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Speaker 1: because they obviously they put the SEC winner in. I mean,
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Speaker 1: obviously they deserve to be in in this case. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: they put the Big twelve winner in, obviously another deserving candidate. Sure,
3:35
Speaker 1: they put the Big ten winner in. That's great, So
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Speaker 1: they must they must have to have five then, because
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Speaker 1: they put the Sunbelts and the American winners both in
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Speaker 1: Tulane and JMU. And you know, I mean, everybody's gonna
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Speaker 1: be saying it, but it's probably gonna be the same
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Speaker 1: as last year where you have these teams like last
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Speaker 1: year it was Boise and I mean, I guess SMU
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Speaker 1: even though they're an acc team. But you just have
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Speaker 1: these teams that just really aren't good enough to be
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Speaker 1: in this field. They're not actually anywhere close to the
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Speaker 1: top twelve, and they just go in and they're gonna
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Speaker 1: be a huge underdog and most likely get embarrassed because
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Speaker 1: a lot of times people are like, no, man, it's
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Speaker 1: gonna be cool. It's gonna be like that Fiesta Bowl
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Speaker 1: potentially where Boise beat Oklahoma. No. The reason why Boise
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Speaker 1: beat Oklahoma in that game is because Oklahoma was a
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Speaker 1: bit of a disappointed team that year because they had
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Speaker 1: higher aspiration. I'm pretty sure if I remember correctly, they
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Speaker 1: had higher aspirations and being in the Fiesta Bowl because
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Speaker 1: they missed out in the championship game that year. So
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Speaker 1: and Boise was super excited to be in that high
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Speaker 1: profile of a BAWL. So you're not gonna get that here.
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Speaker 1: On the playoff, when every team is motivated, usually the
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Speaker 1: better team is gonna win. I'm not gonna say they're
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Speaker 1: gonna cover. Maybe there is some value because everybody's saying
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Speaker 1: these teams don't belong and when that happens, yeah, we'll
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Speaker 1: talk about the spreads when the game's actually happened. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: maybe there is gonna be value taking those teams to cover.
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Speaker 1: But I don't think they're gonna win. I mean, at
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Speaker 1: some point, if they continue with this format, it will,
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Speaker 1: I guess happen at some point. I mean, statistically, the
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Speaker 1: odds say that. But I mean, it's just ridiculous to
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Speaker 1: think that those teams belong over Notre Dame. It doesn't
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Speaker 1: even make sense, and Miami doesn't. Everybody's like, no, man,
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Speaker 1: it's because of the head to head. Well, if you
5:15
Speaker 1: watch my show, you remember I gave out Miami as
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Speaker 1: a play in that game. And I still don't think
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Speaker 1: they're the better team. It was just the right spot
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Speaker 1: to take them. It was Week one. Notre Dame had
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Speaker 1: an inexperienced quarterback at that point. Car He's now played
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Speaker 1: an entire season, and Miami won by three, okay, and
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Speaker 1: then Notre Dame lost to Texas A and m by
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Speaker 1: one or whatever, and that's the other That was their
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Speaker 1: other loss, and they won every other game since then. Yeah,
5:41
Speaker 1: they had a somewhat weak schedule shore last year. That
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Speaker 1: was the case too when they got in which I
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Speaker 1: think last year they had won loss but whatever, or
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Speaker 1: maybe not even any I don't remember. But they're better
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Speaker 1: than Miami. Yeah, Miami beat them once. But that was
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Speaker 1: one single game where Notre Dame had to go on
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Speaker 1: the road with an inexperienced quarterback in week one and
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Speaker 1: try to win. I mean, that's that was my handicap
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Speaker 1: in that game. Notre Dame was favored on the road.
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Speaker 1: Notre Dame would be favored by probably a touchdown over
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Speaker 1: Miami on a neutral So and the thing that makes
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Speaker 1: even less sense is that Notre Dame was ranked ninth
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Speaker 1: in the country going into this week and they didn't
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Speaker 1: play and Miami was ranked tenth or eleventh and they
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Speaker 1: also didn't play, So if both teams didn't play, then
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Speaker 1: how the hell do they flip? So the committee has
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Speaker 1: has to explain that if those two teams didn't give
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Speaker 1: you another data point, how they how did they switch
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Speaker 1: those two teams? Like at least they could justify this
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Speaker 1: more if they already had the teams ranked in that order,
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Speaker 1: but neither team played this week, so it makes no sense.
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Speaker 1: And again, yeah, I'm a Notre Dame hater, but now
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Speaker 1: Notre Dame is not accepting their bowl bid, So now
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Speaker 1: that I'm I think rightfully, so I don't blame them
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Speaker 1: at all, but this is dude, I hope that this
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Speaker 1: makes like the NCAAA, the Committee, ESPN forced them all
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Speaker 1: to rethink this completely, Like that's what I think Notre
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Speaker 1: Dame is doing. If you want Notre Dame to be
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Speaker 1: in one of your high profile bowls, whatever, then you
7:11
Speaker 1: got to change something here, man, because they don't want
7:14
Speaker 1: to be in this bowl. And if they were gonna
7:16
Speaker 1: if they had to play in this Bowl, their players
7:19
Speaker 1: would just opt out of it anyway. And people were like, oh,
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Speaker 1: but this is so bad for the players they want
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Speaker 1: to play in it. No, they don't. The players actually
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Speaker 1: voted on it and voted not to play. This isn't
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Speaker 1: like Notre Dame or their coach doing this on their own.
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Speaker 1: That's not what's going on here. And if they were
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Speaker 1: going to still play in this Bowl, if Notre Dame
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Speaker 1: was gonna play in this Bowl, they'd be playing with
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Speaker 1: all backups, like most of their players would just be gone,
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Speaker 1: because that's the new structure of this. So these bulls
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Speaker 1: suck now all of a sudden because of the way
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Speaker 1: the playoffs are. But this is way worse than last year.
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Speaker 1: I thought Alabama should get in last year, you know,
7:53
Speaker 1: there was kind of a debate over that. This year
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Speaker 1: it's way more noticeable. Like Notre Dame is one of
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Speaker 1: the top five teams in the country, without a doubt,
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Speaker 1: and they're not in like they I don't think they
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Speaker 1: were gonna win it all, but they at least had
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Speaker 1: a chance to They should have had a chance to
8:07
Speaker 1: do so. So it is ridiculous. Zach, what's up man? Yep? Yeah,
8:14
Speaker 1: join the Sunbelt. Yeah, they would beat everybody in the
8:17
Speaker 1: Sun Belts, including JMU, even though JAMU had a good season.
8:20
Speaker 1: But Jim, you didn't like really play anybody good, or
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Speaker 1: if they did, that was their one loss or whatever. Right, Yeah,
8:29
Speaker 1: Notre Dame was rained higher than them for the last month,
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Speaker 1: including coming into this week when neither of them played. Yeah,
8:35
Speaker 1: I'm pissed, but it might mean that we should play
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Speaker 1: Miami and they're game against Texas A and M To
8:42
Speaker 1: be honest, because when you get a tournament like this,
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Speaker 1: it's the same with March Madness, when there's a team
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Speaker 1: that everybody's like, this team shouldn't even be here. We'll
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Speaker 1: talk about it when the game happens, but there you
8:52
Speaker 1: actually kind of want to bet on that team because
8:54
Speaker 1: they're playing with a chip on their shoulder because they
8:57
Speaker 1: really have to prove something. But you can get into
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Speaker 1: the bracket here. I mean, I don't want to be
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Speaker 1: labored this too much, but we can see the odds here.
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Speaker 1: So I've got the odds up to win. And then
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Speaker 1: here's why you can already see my bracket. I don't
9:10
Speaker 1: know if I'm gonna change this or not, but I
9:12
Speaker 1: know I've already spoiled it. I apologize, but I mean
9:15
Speaker 1: it's only a twelve team bracket here, and maybe I'm
9:17
Speaker 1: not gonna leave it this way. But what we also
9:20
Speaker 1: want to do, though, is we want to see the
9:23
Speaker 1: Hold on a second, we want to see Wait a minute,
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Speaker 1: I thought I had this open somewhere in another tab
9:29
Speaker 1: or something, the who picked whom? Or the people's bracket?
9:32
Speaker 1: What is it called? Let me see here? Yeah, the
9:37
Speaker 1: people all right, I got it, the people's bracket. I
9:39
Speaker 1: found it. What has happened? What? I don't even know
9:45
Speaker 1: what just happened. I'm trying to shift tabs around here.
9:50
Speaker 1: Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Man, I apologize, Yeah,
9:56
Speaker 1: all right, I don't know what just happened there, But
9:58
Speaker 1: all right, let me just I'll just bring it up.
10:00
Speaker 1: Hang on a second, we'll go to here. Although you're
10:02
Speaker 1: gonna see my name if I do it this way
10:04
Speaker 1: unless I scroll really quickly. Ooh, I think I got
10:07
Speaker 1: it people's bracket here? It is all right, all right,
10:11
Speaker 1: So this is what the people are picking here. Georgia
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Speaker 1: is being the most is the most picked team right now,
10:19
Speaker 1: uh in the field. And actually I probably want to
10:21
Speaker 1: do the I gotta do this again because I probably
10:24
Speaker 1: want to do the the all pick champs as well.
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Speaker 1: So Georgia is getting picked the most here as we
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Speaker 1: can see here, twenty seven point six percent. And already,
10:35
Speaker 1: if you want to pick a champion, if you look
10:37
Speaker 1: at the odds, you should not pick them because they're
10:39
Speaker 1: at six to one. So you know, if you want
10:42
Speaker 1: to do the implied probability with one of these calculators, yeah,
10:44
Speaker 1: that's a fourteen point nine percent implied and this is
10:47
Speaker 1: you know, not factory in the veig or whatever, but
10:49
Speaker 1: it's close enough to kind of gauge this like their
10:53
Speaker 1: negative leverage. Absolutely, so you should not pick Georgia. The
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Speaker 1: team with the best odds to win it as Ohio
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Speaker 1: State at plus forty, so they're at twenty nine point
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Speaker 1: four to one percent implied probability. They're being picked at
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Speaker 1: twenty seven point two So Ohio State, I do think
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Speaker 1: they're still the best team in the country. They have
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Speaker 1: positive leverage of like two percent, so it does make
11:16
Speaker 1: sense if you want to pick Ohio State. I'm fine
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Speaker 1: with that. But I think the move is actually Indiana
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Speaker 1: because they're barely behind them at plus two fifty. As
11:25
Speaker 1: crazy as it sounds, man, and when you're looking at
11:27
Speaker 1: these teams this year, it's like you basically have quarterbacks
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Speaker 1: on all these teams that don't have experience, so the
11:34
Speaker 1: experience kind of just is a wash to some extent
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Speaker 1: where you've got Ohio State, but Ohio State's quarterback is
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Speaker 1: a freshman, so maybe you shouldn't be picking them to
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Speaker 1: win the whole thing for that reason. At least Indiana
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Speaker 1: has a quarterback who has played multiple seasons in then
11:48
Speaker 1: doza Ohio State as saying, who's believe a true freshman
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Speaker 1: or red shirt freshman. Georgia has gunner stocked and he
11:55
Speaker 1: played a little bit last year, and he did play
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Speaker 1: in the playoff last year, so he does have a
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Speaker 1: little bit more experience, but too many people are picking them.
12:04
Speaker 1: He's still fairly in experience. Then I can't even tell
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Speaker 1: you who Oregon's quarterback is. I apologize. Somebody could let
12:11
Speaker 1: me know, but whatever, Once we get past those teams,
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Speaker 1: I think you're you're really taking a long shot if
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Speaker 1: you want any of these other teams to win. So
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Speaker 1: I would pick amongst those four to be honest, Ohio State, Indiana, Georgia,
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Speaker 1: and Oregon. I think they are indeed the best four
12:24
Speaker 1: teams that are in the field. But I think the
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Speaker 1: move is to go with Indiana because they're plus two
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Speaker 1: point fifty, which is still twenty eight point five to
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Speaker 1: seven percent implied probability, which gives them about plus four
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Speaker 1: percent leverage there, so I think they might be the play.
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Speaker 1: And then Oregon is actually next at seven point fifty,
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Speaker 1: so there is positive leverage on them to eleven point
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Speaker 1: seven to six implied probability and they're only being picked
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Speaker 1: three point seven percent, so they have a lot of
12:54
Speaker 1: leverage if you do want to take a little bit
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Speaker 1: of a longer shot and go with Oregon. So I
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Speaker 1: think you got to pick between probably those three if
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Speaker 1: you want to try to win your pool here with
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Speaker 1: game theory, basically I would pick between Ohio State, Indiana, Oregon.
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Speaker 1: Texas Tech probably does have positive leverage as well. They're
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Speaker 1: being picks six point five percent. I think they're eight
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Speaker 1: to one, so yeah, eleven point one one, so they're
13:17
Speaker 1: positive leverage as well. So it's basically like pick against
13:21
Speaker 1: Georgia is kind of the name of the game here.
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Speaker 1: But you know, I like to pick the team it
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Speaker 1: has the best positive leverage, like the combination of positive
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Speaker 1: leverage and like highest probability to win, you know what
13:31
Speaker 1: I mean, which I think we get out of Indiana,
13:35
Speaker 1: although My worry is that if Indiana does get to
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Speaker 1: the final, if they have to face Ohio State, Ohio
13:42
Speaker 1: State's gonna be the team that may have the you know,
13:47
Speaker 1: they may have the adjustments to make to beat Indiana
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Speaker 1: this time, you know what I mean. And then you
13:51
Speaker 1: do have to look at where these games are gonna
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Speaker 1: be played. It's just good to know. So the championship
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Speaker 1: is gonna be in Miami, although I don't think Miami
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Speaker 1: is gonna be getting through this field to the championship,
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Speaker 1: So I don't think we have to worry about a
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Speaker 1: team having a real home field advantage in that one,
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Speaker 1: although I guess it would be somewhat advantageous to Georgia,
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Speaker 1: but not huge if they do get there. But we
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Speaker 1: already decided we're picking against them anyway. On the top
14:15
Speaker 1: side of the bracket here, the Peach Bowl in Atlanta
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Speaker 1: is there, but Georgia, probably on purpose, Georgia is down
14:21
Speaker 1: on the other side of the brackets, so they don't
14:24
Speaker 1: get to play in the Peach Bowl because they don't
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Speaker 1: get the advantage of playing in Atlanta, where they literally
14:28
Speaker 1: just I think they literally just played in that stadium
14:32
Speaker 1: in the in the sec championship game as well, and
14:37
Speaker 1: then the Fiesta Bowl is gonna be this side here
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Speaker 1: with Georgia, Ohio State whatever. So that's in Arizona, so
14:43
Speaker 1: there's not gonna be much of an advantage to any
14:45
Speaker 1: particular team there. Maybe if Texas A and M somehow
14:48
Speaker 1: gets there, maybe a slight edge there. The Sugar Bowl
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Speaker 1: is gonna be one of the quarterfinal games, which is
14:56
Speaker 1: looking like it's likely to be ole Miss and Georgia
14:59
Speaker 1: we already know is in it. So that's in Louisiana
15:02
Speaker 1: at New Orleans, I believe. So maybe if ole Miss
15:09
Speaker 1: gets there, which they probably will, maybe there actually is
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Speaker 1: maybe a slight edge uh, location wise for ole Miss
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Speaker 1: in that one, uh, because they're gonna be closer to Louisiana.
15:18
Speaker 1: I believe that's in Louisiana, right. No, it's not what
15:22
Speaker 1: I wanted to do. And what Oh yeah, I don't know.
15:24
Speaker 1: I wanted to look at the preview for the game here.
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Speaker 1: It's not letting me do it though. Oh, it does
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Speaker 1: bring it up a new tab if I do it.
15:32
Speaker 1: Oh that was the Rose Bowl that Why did that happen?
15:35
Speaker 1: I don't know. ESPN's is all messed up right now,
15:37
Speaker 1: and then if Texas A and M does beat Miami,
15:40
Speaker 1: they're gonna be playing in Texas in the Cotton Bowl though,
15:42
Speaker 1: so that's that is something interesting of notewhere. I believe
15:46
Speaker 1: Texas got to play there last year in one of
15:48
Speaker 1: their games as well, so that is something interesting there
15:53
Speaker 1: where If Texas A and M is in that one,
15:56
Speaker 1: they might have a little bit of an edge for
15:57
Speaker 1: the location. And again, for these locations are have to
16:00
Speaker 1: worry about like warm weather teams having to play a
16:02
Speaker 1: cold weather as well. The Rose Bow in Pasadena, California
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Speaker 1: is not really gonna have an edge for any team
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Speaker 1: in that one. It's gonna be Alabama Oklahoma one of
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Speaker 1: those two teams against Indiana. And then the Orange Bowl,
16:17
Speaker 1: which is gonna be in somewhere in Florida. Right, is
16:20
Speaker 1: that in Miami? I forget. I think that one was
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Speaker 1: also in Miami, and that's gonna be likely or gonna
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Speaker 1: gainst Texas Texa. No real location edge there, and then
16:27
Speaker 1: the first round games are gonna be hosted by the
16:31
Speaker 1: home team, like the better seeded team actually hosts the
16:34
Speaker 1: opening round games, so something of note. Their liberty vault.
16:37
Speaker 1: What's up man? Thanks for hanging out, So we're deciding
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Speaker 1: on Indiana winning the whole thing because I think that's
16:45
Speaker 1: just the leverage play. Although I think you do worry
16:48
Speaker 1: a little bit about Again, the inexperience is kind of
16:51
Speaker 1: all over the place, So but you do worry about
16:53
Speaker 1: the fact that Indiana just as a program, they're kind
16:55
Speaker 1: of a newcomer. But at least they did play a
16:57
Speaker 1: playoff game last year. But if you're kind of worried
17:00
Speaker 1: about oh this program needs to have done better in
17:04
Speaker 1: the playoff than maybe Ohio State does make sense Oregon,
17:08
Speaker 1: something like that does make sense. We got to figure
17:12
Speaker 1: out who we want to put in the championship game
17:14
Speaker 1: against Indiana, And even though well, because people are picking
17:18
Speaker 1: Georgia way too much, I think we just throw Ohio
17:20
Speaker 1: State there because Ohio State's gonna have to get through
17:23
Speaker 1: Georgia and they have better odds anyway to do it.
17:25
Speaker 1: So that would actually be a fade of the public
17:28
Speaker 1: pickers that are just pick Ohio State to beat Georgia.
17:31
Speaker 1: So I think we do have to put Ohio State
17:33
Speaker 1: in the final. So that's what I'm gonna do. So
17:36
Speaker 1: it is gonna be boring the one versus the two.
17:39
Speaker 1: We'll see if it actually happens. And I don't know
17:41
Speaker 1: if I'm gonna change my bracket, but this is how
17:43
Speaker 1: I'm filling it out for now. Then for the semi
17:45
Speaker 1: final games, you gotta figure out what we want to
17:47
Speaker 1: do with that. So the way that I determined that
17:50
Speaker 1: is basically like who's gonna face Indiana, It's basically gonna
17:54
Speaker 1: be Oregon or Texas Tech. I mean, JMU, I don't
17:57
Speaker 1: think they're gonna win as a twenty point underdog against Oregon,
18:00
Speaker 1: and so I think we could safely say that Oregon's
18:02
Speaker 1: gonna beat them in Oregon. James Madison is gonna have
18:06
Speaker 1: to go out for a night game to the Pacific
18:08
Speaker 1: Coast too. Even if people are saying jammw doesn't belong here,
18:12
Speaker 1: maybe they have a chance to cover that, but I
18:13
Speaker 1: don't even think I would want to have money on
18:16
Speaker 1: them in that game. Man. Oregon should win the game,
18:18
Speaker 1: so they'll be facing Texas Tech in the Orange Bowl.
18:21
Speaker 1: But if you look at the people's bracket, more people
18:24
Speaker 1: are picking Texas Tech than Oregon here because yeah, Texas
18:27
Speaker 1: Tech had a great season, but there's still gonna be
18:29
Speaker 1: the team that's less used to being here. Man, kind
18:32
Speaker 1: of the fish out of water, like they haven't been
18:34
Speaker 1: to this to the playoff at all. They kind of
18:37
Speaker 1: just put all the oil money into the program this year.
18:41
Speaker 1: So I would pick Oregon just because that's a little
18:43
Speaker 1: bit of a public fade there. And Oregon, of course
18:45
Speaker 1: was in this round last year and lost, So I
18:49
Speaker 1: would have Oregon getting past Texas Tech to face Indiana there.
18:52
Speaker 1: So that would be my decision in that one. And
18:54
Speaker 1: then as far as who's gonna face Ohio State, I
18:58
Speaker 1: think it's still got to be Georgia. I mean, you
19:00
Speaker 1: could maybe take a little bit of a long shot,
19:03
Speaker 1: but the teams that might be able to get by
19:06
Speaker 1: like they would Ole Miss would be the team that
19:08
Speaker 1: would have to get by them basically, and I just
19:10
Speaker 1: don't see that happening. Ole Miss did. I think lose
19:13
Speaker 1: to them in a close game at Georgia though, if
19:15
Speaker 1: I if I recall correctly during the regular season, but
19:18
Speaker 1: I think Georgia just I don't know what they did
19:21
Speaker 1: in that game. They made a huge comeback late in
19:23
Speaker 1: that game to win that game. But I think if
19:24
Speaker 1: they replayed a game against each other, you know, Georgia
19:27
Speaker 1: would be a favorite in the game and I think
19:29
Speaker 1: they should win. So I would have Georgia still getting
19:32
Speaker 1: through to this round to play against Ohio State and
19:36
Speaker 1: as far as yeah, the first round games here ole
19:39
Speaker 1: Miss against Tulane again. Ole Miss is like a sixteen
19:42
Speaker 1: to seventeen point favorite here. People are gonna be saying
19:44
Speaker 1: Tulane doesn't belong. The venue isn't gonna be that bad
19:48
Speaker 1: for Tulane. I mean it is at ole Miss, though,
19:50
Speaker 1: but at least it's gonna be somewhere in the south
19:53
Speaker 1: close to Tulane. You know, I could see Tulane potentially
19:57
Speaker 1: covering that they actually played ol Miss earlier this year
20:01
Speaker 1: and ole Miss blew them out forty five to ten
20:04
Speaker 1: at ole Miss. But maybe Tulane would make some changes.
20:08
Speaker 1: The interesting thing about Tulane, of course, this is actually
20:11
Speaker 1: the this is the the lame duck coach battle potentially
20:16
Speaker 1: here where Tulane's coach has announced that he's leaving. That's
20:20
Speaker 1: some roll. I think it is his name, John Somerall.
20:23
Speaker 1: He's leaving. I forget where he said he's going. I
20:26
Speaker 1: want to say University of Florida. Is that where he's going.
20:30
Speaker 1: I forget He's going somewhere, but he is coaching this game.
20:33
Speaker 1: So he coached this week in the in the American Championship.
20:37
Speaker 1: He said he's gonna continue coaching for as long as
20:39
Speaker 1: they're here, is so he'll be there. Whereas for ole
20:42
Speaker 1: Miss that's not the case. For ole Miss. We know
20:45
Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin left, so there's gonna be that interim coach there.
20:47
Speaker 1: Which the is it Jim Moore Junior? Really, dude, I
20:53
Speaker 1: think Jim Moore Junior is the interim coach there. Playoffs.
20:58
Speaker 1: Don't talk about playoff you kidding me? Playoffs? I just
21:03
Speaker 1: hope we can win a game another game. That's Jim
21:07
Speaker 1: Morris senior for you there. Who's he's still alive By
21:10
Speaker 1: the way, Jim Moore as senior. But I think Jim
21:12
Speaker 1: Moore Junior, if I'm not mistaken, he is gonna be
21:14
Speaker 1: coaching ole Miss here, you know. I mean I could
21:17
Speaker 1: see maybe taking a shot with Tulane to cover that
21:20
Speaker 1: because people are saying that they shouldn't be here like
21:22
Speaker 1: people are saying that more so for Tulaye than James Madison,
21:26
Speaker 1: I think, and with the Lane Kifvin situation, to me,
21:29
Speaker 1: I think Ole Miss is not long for this playoff
21:32
Speaker 1: to be honest, So I could see maybe Tulane covering
21:36
Speaker 1: in that game, but we will see and then yeah,
21:41
Speaker 1: and then as far as which teams are gonna win
21:43
Speaker 1: these other two matchups, they are the closer matchups. Alabama
21:47
Speaker 1: at Oklahoma. Oklahoma beat Alabama during the regular season. I
21:50
Speaker 1: believe that was at Oklahoma. I think I don't remember.
21:53
Speaker 1: But Alabama, I think they're the better team. I think
21:57
Speaker 1: they're actually the favorite in this game. If you see
21:59
Speaker 1: the line are already posted. I think Alabama's actually favored
22:02
Speaker 1: on the road in this game. And I think Alabama
22:05
Speaker 1: might have a little bit of a chip on their
22:06
Speaker 1: shoulder because they're a team that people are kind of saying, well,
22:09
Speaker 1: maybe they shouldn't be here because they have three losses, Like, oh,
22:13
Speaker 1: the SEC gets away with everything. Why is Alabama here.
22:16
Speaker 1: People are probably gonna see that Oklahoma was one of
22:18
Speaker 1: the teams that beat Alabama and maybe think they could
22:21
Speaker 1: do it again. I don't think so. I think Alabama
22:23
Speaker 1: would make the adjustments here. Oklahoma, their offense has really
22:28
Speaker 1: been bad since Matier came back from injury. He just
22:31
Speaker 1: hasn't been right. It looks like even though I believe
22:33
Speaker 1: they beat Alabama after that, But Alabama is the more
22:36
Speaker 1: balanced team. I mean, we'll talk about it more when
22:38
Speaker 1: the game happens, but Alabama has the better offense and
22:42
Speaker 1: the defenses are comparable. I think even though Oklahoma's defense
22:45
Speaker 1: maybe a little bit better, it is a really good defense.
22:48
Speaker 1: But even though it's on the road, I would actually
22:50
Speaker 1: probably go with Alabama in that one, maybe barring the
22:53
Speaker 1: weather being like ridiculously cold in Oklahoma or something like that,
22:57
Speaker 1: which is I'm guessing probably not gonna be the case.
23:01
Speaker 1: If you look at the people's bracket here, Yeah, fifty
23:05
Speaker 1: four percent pickers are picking Alabama, so a slight amount
23:09
Speaker 1: of the public majority on Alabama. But I think I'm
23:12
Speaker 1: fine with that one. At least that would be my
23:13
Speaker 1: lean for now. We'll see if I wind up changing
23:15
Speaker 1: anything there. And then Miami in Texas A and M
23:18
Speaker 1: Texas A and M is a favorite and at home
23:20
Speaker 1: in College Station by four or four and a half
23:24
Speaker 1: or so here, so I would still pick them to
23:25
Speaker 1: get through that one game. But and then yes, we're
23:29
Speaker 1: picking against them in the Cotton Bowl after that, But
23:32
Speaker 1: it's a dicey matchup man for Texas A and M
23:34
Speaker 1: against Miami. Again, I could see Miami potentially coming in
23:37
Speaker 1: that game and playing with a chip on their shoulder
23:40
Speaker 1: because people are saying Miami shouldn't be here. They got
23:42
Speaker 1: in over Notre Dame. Miami's gonna be that team where
23:45
Speaker 1: people are saying they don't belong and the spread's not
23:48
Speaker 1: that big, so it's expected to be competitive. And Miami
23:51
Speaker 1: does have an experienced quarterback with Carson Beck there. I mean,
23:54
Speaker 1: both these teams actually do have some decent amount of
23:57
Speaker 1: experience with A and M. Other quarterback I think has
24:00
Speaker 1: been there for a while as well, so we'll see
24:04
Speaker 1: what happens A and M. They've had a lot of
24:06
Speaker 1: injuries on this team this season, though, but they've just
24:08
Speaker 1: been playing through it anyway, and people might be looking
24:11
Speaker 1: at well, I don't know. I don't know if people
24:14
Speaker 1: are probably not putting much weight into Texas A and
24:17
Speaker 1: M losing a Texas probably even though Texas is not
24:20
Speaker 1: in the field at all. Maybe people give Texas A
24:23
Speaker 1: and M a little bit of a pass for that,
24:25
Speaker 1: and they are gonna knock Miami for being in the ACC.
24:28
Speaker 1: They're the one ACC team in this thing. But anyway,
24:32
Speaker 1: this is my bracket. You can see it here. I
24:33
Speaker 1: do have Indiana over Ohio State in the final. I
24:36
Speaker 1: have Oregon and Georgia being in the semifinals against those
24:41
Speaker 1: teams for now at least, but I do think it's
24:46
Speaker 1: kind of it is kind of a format where the
24:47
Speaker 1: cream does kind of rise to the top as well,
24:50
Speaker 1: So we'll see what winds up happening with it. Let's
24:53
Speaker 1: talk about the bowls before I get out of because
24:55
Speaker 1: it's gonna be I was gonna say, it's gonna be
24:56
Speaker 1: a short show here, which although I do like short shows,
24:59
Speaker 1: and I don't want to know what's happening with my
25:02
Speaker 1: final play here of the day with the Chiefs because
25:04
Speaker 1: that and I don't know. I don't want to know
25:06
Speaker 1: what happened with the Bulls either, because I was winning
25:08
Speaker 1: on the day, and if I lose both of those,
25:10
Speaker 1: it might be a losing day, which I would not
25:12
Speaker 1: be happy. I think I would still win a four
25:14
Speaker 1: to three, but I don't know, I would be a
25:18
Speaker 1: little bit pissed. Let's look at the rest of the
25:20
Speaker 1: bowls that we have going on here, man. So these
25:23
Speaker 1: are all the finals, semi finals, quarterfinals. We already talked
25:26
Speaker 1: about that. So the non playoff bowls, which start December
25:30
Speaker 1: thirteenth in less than a week Man with the Cricket
25:35
Speaker 1: Celebration Bowl. That's for some reason they always do this.
25:38
Speaker 1: I don't know why, and I don't know how they
25:39
Speaker 1: determine which teams get into this. It seems like it's
25:42
Speaker 1: always like MIAC against SWACK. I don't know why these
25:45
Speaker 1: are not FBS teams. I don't know when or I
25:49
Speaker 1: do kind of remember when this game started. It's been
25:52
Speaker 1: probably a decade at least with this game. This game,
25:55
Speaker 1: I mean, it's very hard to predict because we just
25:57
Speaker 1: don't know who these teams really are. I mean, self
26:00
Speaker 1: a lone of States seems to always be in this
26:02
Speaker 1: bowl though we're almost always. Prairie View A and M
26:05
Speaker 1: seems to have come from out of nowhere to be
26:07
Speaker 1: in this thing. So it might be a situation where
26:11
Speaker 1: you have a program that has more experience being here
26:13
Speaker 1: in South Carolina State versus a new armer that might
26:16
Speaker 1: at least be excited to play in it, like Prairie
26:19
Speaker 1: View A and M. You get a nationally televised game
26:21
Speaker 1: like that, so I could see arguments for both sides
26:24
Speaker 1: in that game. So probably not gonna be anything that
26:27
Speaker 1: I care about on that same day, we're gonna have
26:29
Speaker 1: the Bucked Up LA Ball. I've the fucked Up LA Ball.
26:34
Speaker 1: I know it was more fucked up. The LA Bowl
26:36
Speaker 1: was the Jimmy Kimmel LA Ball. I think for a
26:39
Speaker 1: little while, I don't know, they might have had a
26:41
Speaker 1: different sponsor last year. I'd have to go back and
26:43
Speaker 1: see what all the sponsors are, because they're all ridiculous.
26:45
Speaker 1: I don't even know what bucked Up is. I'm assuming
26:48
Speaker 1: it's a company. No clue what it is, but whatever
26:51
Speaker 1: it is, it's better than Jimmy Kimmel. Jimmy Kimble. He's
26:55
Speaker 1: he's got a showback, but he at least has bounced
26:57
Speaker 1: from this LA Bowl. And it's gonna be Boise State
27:00
Speaker 1: in Washington. I feel like Washington has been in this
27:04
Speaker 1: Bowl at some point in the last couple of years.
27:07
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's an energy drink. That does make sense.
27:10
Speaker 1: I guess I'm not up on all the energy drinks.
27:12
Speaker 1: I haven't really done much with energy drinks since college.
27:17
Speaker 1: I drank too much of it in college, although I
27:19
Speaker 1: was also a coffee drinker, and I still drink black coffee,
27:22
Speaker 1: which at least is more healthy. But the energy drinks
27:25
Speaker 1: I think they're just totally unhealthy, man. I mean, maybe
27:28
Speaker 1: some of these, like maybe there are some more natural
27:30
Speaker 1: ones out there now, probably like ones that don't have
27:34
Speaker 1: like high fruit dose crap. For this game, I mean,
27:40
Speaker 1: I would probably be leaning towards Washington. I mean, we'll
27:42
Speaker 1: talk about these balls more than we actually get to them.
27:44
Speaker 1: I don't even know what the lines are gonna be
27:46
Speaker 1: on some of these games right now that we could
27:47
Speaker 1: probably actually see what the lines are here, the lines
27:52
Speaker 1: are probably mostly out. Yeah, Washington's an eight and a
27:54
Speaker 1: half point favored of this game, and probably that has
27:56
Speaker 1: something to do with the fact that, well, Washington is
27:59
Speaker 1: the better team pretty under the radar. But Boise, they
28:04
Speaker 1: might be a little bit disappointed because they came into
28:06
Speaker 1: this thing thinking, hey, if we run the table in
28:08
Speaker 1: the Mountain West, we can get into the playoff again
28:11
Speaker 1: like we did last year. So I think Boise fell
28:13
Speaker 1: short of their aspirations this year. So people are probably
28:17
Speaker 1: gonna think laying the eight and a half looks crazy
28:20
Speaker 1: with Washington, but it being on the Pacific Coast, I
28:23
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean I would my first instinct in
28:26
Speaker 1: that game might be a kind of lean towards Washington.
28:29
Speaker 1: Then on the next the following Tuesday, we have the
28:32
Speaker 1: is four S Salute to Veterans Ball. I assume is
28:36
Speaker 1: four S is some military contractor which you get them
28:39
Speaker 1: out of here man. And the LA Bowl is that
28:43
Speaker 1: where the Chargers and maybe the ram The Chargers and
28:46
Speaker 1: Rims both play in that stadium, by the way, I forget,
28:49
Speaker 1: but it's at SOFI Stadium. This Salute to Veterans Bowl
28:53
Speaker 1: is four S military contractor pro war bullshit, whatever this
28:58
Speaker 1: is is gonna be. That's in Montgomery, Alabama on that
29:02
Speaker 1: Tuesday between Troy and Jacksonville State. Pretty interesting the bowl scheduling.
29:09
Speaker 1: The bowl schedules did this because, first of all, these
29:13
Speaker 1: two teams both lost their conference championships. Troy lost the
29:16
Speaker 1: Sun Belt, which was expected against James Madison. They weren't
29:19
Speaker 1: really even expected to get to that game. Jacksonville State
29:23
Speaker 1: got to their conference championship I think for the next
29:25
Speaker 1: year again and they lost to Kenness I believe. So
29:28
Speaker 1: they're both conference losers. So in that case, in that way,
29:32
Speaker 1: they both kind of have the same motivation here. They
29:34
Speaker 1: both lost their conference games. I think both teams have
29:37
Speaker 1: been in bowls recently too, so It's not like we
29:39
Speaker 1: have a team that's going to be super excited to
29:42
Speaker 1: be in a bowl because I think both programs have
29:44
Speaker 1: been to them. Jacksonville State is a newer program though,
29:48
Speaker 1: so they haven't been to that many bowls, so maybe
29:50
Speaker 1: there will be some excitement there. They have won one now,
29:54
Speaker 1: though I think they they might only have won in
29:56
Speaker 1: program history, so maybe they will be somewhat more excited
29:59
Speaker 1: for that. What is interesting though, is this game is
30:01
Speaker 1: in Montgomery, Alabama. Both schools are in Alabama, and I
30:05
Speaker 1: could see that going both ways too. So like when
30:09
Speaker 1: a team is in a bowl and the bull is
30:11
Speaker 1: really close to their home, I think if it's a
30:13
Speaker 1: bigger school having to play closer to their home, like yeah,
30:16
Speaker 1: the fans will show up. But I think if it's
30:17
Speaker 1: a team that's used to being in bowls, I think
30:19
Speaker 1: they don't get excited about it because it's like, oh,
30:23
Speaker 1: we don't get to do anything cool and go somewhere
30:25
Speaker 1: for the bowl. But if it's a small team that
30:28
Speaker 1: isn't in a lot of bulls, like maybe these two teams,
30:31
Speaker 1: then I think they get more excited for playing close
30:33
Speaker 1: to their home because their home crowd will show up.
30:35
Speaker 1: And I think it's better for them. So I think
30:37
Speaker 1: it does still kind of come down to does this
30:39
Speaker 1: team want to be here the Wednesday? The next day
30:42
Speaker 1: after that the Staff DNA Cure Bowl, which is in
30:46
Speaker 1: Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida. I'm assuming that's some
30:52
Speaker 1: I don't know, some company where you give them your DNA.
30:54
Speaker 1: I would never do that. So I don't like a
30:56
Speaker 1: lot of these sponsors. Man. And this is Old Dominion
30:59
Speaker 1: and SOUF Florida, South Florida getting to play in Florida.
31:03
Speaker 1: But like I've been saying, man, South Florida, I mean
31:06
Speaker 1: they tend to get to bowls more often than not,
31:09
Speaker 1: I think, and they might not be excited that, oh,
31:10
Speaker 1: we're playing in a bowl in Florida. Hear. And South
31:13
Speaker 1: Florida late pretty late in the season, they thought they
31:16
Speaker 1: might be able to make the playoff. Man, So I
31:18
Speaker 1: think South Florida may be a disappointed team here. Old Dominion.
31:22
Speaker 1: I would have to look to see when the last
31:24
Speaker 1: time they were in a bowl was. I know it
31:25
Speaker 1: was not that long ago, but I think OGU might
31:27
Speaker 1: be a little bit more excited about that. So that's
31:30
Speaker 1: what I have to say about that one and by
31:34
Speaker 1: the way, I will also point out that when a
31:36
Speaker 1: Bowl is in like a place that's like a more
31:38
Speaker 1: tropical location where there's you know, events going on, you know,
31:42
Speaker 1: Orlando or in the Caribbean Islands, Miami, whatever, in Las Vegas,
31:46
Speaker 1: sometimes these big teams that just especially if they don't
31:51
Speaker 1: really care about it, those teams will just get really
31:53
Speaker 1: distracted and just want to party, you know what I mean.
31:55
Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens. Although nowadays these big teams
31:58
Speaker 1: just say we're not even gonna up in this Bowl,
32:00
Speaker 1: we don't even want to be here, which, by the way,
32:03
Speaker 1: is gonna let teams in like Delaware in the sixty
32:06
Speaker 1: eight Ventures Bowl don't know what company that is either
32:09
Speaker 1: in Mobile Alabama. Between Louisiana and Delaware, Delaware, this is
32:16
Speaker 1: their first year in FBS and they're in a ball,
32:19
Speaker 1: So I do think they'll be excited because they already
32:22
Speaker 1: they have a chance to get their first first win,
32:27
Speaker 1: first Bowl win in program history. Man, that is a
32:29
Speaker 1: big deal to them. For Louisiana, they're in bowls somewhat often.
32:35
Speaker 1: It will be a closer venue for them in Mobile Alabama,
32:38
Speaker 1: But I think Delaware gets more excited for it. Oh,
32:40
Speaker 1: and I haven't looked at the odds for the other
32:42
Speaker 1: games of my apologies, So for the Troy game, Jacksonville,
32:47
Speaker 1: Troy is a three point favorite in that game. That
32:50
Speaker 1: game I don't really have much of an opinion on
32:52
Speaker 1: highly unlikely them giving out a play on that one.
32:54
Speaker 1: Old dominion, you're getting seven points on that one. So
32:57
Speaker 1: and again these lines are gonna start moving, man. So
33:00
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't love giving out early Bowl
33:02
Speaker 1: plays though, Like before, I know all the information before
33:05
Speaker 1: I listen to like analysis and whatever. But I think
33:08
Speaker 1: my opinion in that get would be taking the points
33:10
Speaker 1: of the old dominion in that one. And then Louisiana Delaware.
33:15
Speaker 1: We have a three point line here on this game
33:19
Speaker 1: with Louisiana being the favorite. But again I think if
33:21
Speaker 1: Delaware is more excited about this and they're the underdog,
33:24
Speaker 1: that might be an opinion for me there. I'm closing
33:29
Speaker 1: a bunch of my tabs here, man. Yeah, so that
33:32
Speaker 1: might be an opinion getting Delaware is the underdog there.
33:36
Speaker 1: The next day, Thursday, the eighteenth, has the Xbox Bowl,
33:40
Speaker 1: which is in Frisco, Texas. I think this at one
33:43
Speaker 1: point was just called the Frisco Bowl. If this is
33:45
Speaker 1: the same one, I don't know. Maybe it did have
33:47
Speaker 1: a different sponsor at some point too. I'd have to
33:50
Speaker 1: look it up again. But now it's the Xbox Bowl.
33:53
Speaker 1: Maybe the winner, the winning team they all get Xboxes. Man,
33:56
Speaker 1: I don't know. These these bowls need to do something.
34:00
Speaker 1: I mean, bulls are getting ridiculously crazy, man, with these
34:02
Speaker 1: gimmicks that they have in the Bulls. It's becoming like
34:05
Speaker 1: a weird like humiliation ritual. But it is entertaining at
34:09
Speaker 1: the very least. You get to make fun of it
34:10
Speaker 1: and you get to point out that these things are
34:12
Speaker 1: getting like super demonic, and it's I don't want to
34:16
Speaker 1: get at Channel nuked or anything, but it is like
34:18
Speaker 1: a humiliation ritual. But anyway, the Xbox BWLE is Missouri
34:21
Speaker 1: State and Arkansas State. Shout out to Justin our friend.
34:25
Speaker 1: I don't know where he is right now, but Missouri
34:27
Speaker 1: State is his thing. Man. He's a cameraman or whatever
34:31
Speaker 1: for Missouri State. They're in a bowl, and they're in
34:33
Speaker 1: their first FBS season and they get into a bowl,
34:36
Speaker 1: so I think they're going to be excited about this. Man.
34:38
Speaker 1: The venue, I don't think really is beneficial really necessarily
34:42
Speaker 1: to one team or the other. Arkansas State, they're usually
34:45
Speaker 1: they seem to usually get into bowls. I like Missouri
34:48
Speaker 1: State in that one as well, so maybe I'm gonna
34:50
Speaker 1: have some place you can kind of tell what my
34:52
Speaker 1: opinions are going to be on this. Arkansas State's only
34:54
Speaker 1: a two and a half point favor in that one,
34:56
Speaker 1: so yeah, I mean now when I think Missouri State
34:59
Speaker 1: might get a bit more excited for it, but I
35:01
Speaker 1: need to like listen to some professionals about it, you know,
35:05
Speaker 1: x's and o's really get my thoughts in order. But
35:06
Speaker 1: these are my first reads on these games. Friday, December nineteenth,
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Speaker 1: the Myrtle Beach Bowl, which is obviously in Myrtle Beach,
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Speaker 1: South Carolina, real close to it, I think basically hosted
35:18
Speaker 1: by Coastal Carolina. That's gonna be Kanisas State and Western Michigan.
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Speaker 1: And again we have a not a first year FBS team,
35:26
Speaker 1: but I think KNNISAU is only in their second year
35:28
Speaker 1: maybe FBS, maybe third, so they're really new to FBS,
35:31
Speaker 1: so I think this is their first bowl, so I
35:33
Speaker 1: think they're going to be really excited. Although they're up
35:36
Speaker 1: against Western Michigan, who is the winner of the MAC
35:40
Speaker 1: And I don't know, man, like Western Michigan, are they
35:43
Speaker 1: going to be that excited because you win the MAC
35:46
Speaker 1: and then your prizes you get to play at eleven
35:49
Speaker 1: am in Myrtle Beach. I mean, I don't know, man,
35:52
Speaker 1: Western Michigan, they're cold weather. Maybe they will treat this
35:54
Speaker 1: as a vacation because Western Michigan, I mean, they're a
35:57
Speaker 1: program that is pretty used to getting into bowl and stuff.
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Speaker 1: So I don't know. I kind of see Kennasaw being
36:02
Speaker 1: more excited about that one. There. They're not as far
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Speaker 1: away because they're in Georgia, so maybe the venue helps them.
36:09
Speaker 1: They're a four point underdog in that one. By the way,
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Speaker 1: Kennisaw is so another really interesting one. There a lot
36:15
Speaker 1: of interesting early bowls here. That same day we get
36:19
Speaker 1: the Union Home Mortgage Gasparia Bowl, which Gasparria is some
36:26
Speaker 1: reference to some pirate I don't know. This is at
36:28
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Stadium Raymond James Stadium in Tampa,
36:33
Speaker 1: whatever that is. I don't know. This is gonna be
36:35
Speaker 1: Memphis and NC State. I mean, I don't even know
36:38
Speaker 1: about these two teams men, I mean NC State. They
36:41
Speaker 1: did lose a bowl last year, so maybe they will
36:43
Speaker 1: actually be the more excited team here. I know they
36:46
Speaker 1: lost pretty ugly to East Carolina in their bowl last year,
36:50
Speaker 1: so they might want to redeem themselves from that. Whereas Memphis.
36:54
Speaker 1: They usually get to bowls as well, and Memphis might
36:56
Speaker 1: be pretty disappointed right now because they fairly late in
36:59
Speaker 1: this season they looked like they might be getting a
37:02
Speaker 1: chance to be in the playoffs. So maybe a slight
37:06
Speaker 1: opinion for me on NC State early on seeing what
37:09
Speaker 1: this matchup is here, so that one obvious see NC State,
37:14
Speaker 1: where are we at? I was gonna say they're gonna
37:16
Speaker 1: be a favorite. They're five and a half point favorite.
37:19
Speaker 1: Doesn't seem like that big of a line there, so
37:23
Speaker 1: that would be my opinion in that one. The famous
37:25
Speaker 1: Idaho Potato Bowl on Monday the twenty second, a long
37:29
Speaker 1: standing bowl here which usually has some Western teams in it.
37:33
Speaker 1: This is gonna be in Boise, Idaho, on the blue
37:36
Speaker 1: turf at Boise State. The venue, I mean, the venue
37:41
Speaker 1: is not that bad for either team. It's Washington State
37:43
Speaker 1: in Utah State in this one. Washington State coming out
37:47
Speaker 1: of the pack too. They were in a bowl last year,
37:49
Speaker 1: and I think they got kind of smoked by syracusing
37:52
Speaker 1: their ball. I think they kind of put up a
37:54
Speaker 1: fight in that game. A Utah State another team, Well, actually,
37:57
Speaker 1: I think Utah State might be more excited here because
37:59
Speaker 1: I do you think Utah State hasn't been to a
38:01
Speaker 1: bowl for a couple of years, so again you got
38:03
Speaker 1: to look it up, like when was this team last
38:05
Speaker 1: in a bowl? Sometimes the team that hasn't been to
38:08
Speaker 1: a bowl recently gets more excited about it. In Utah State,
38:11
Speaker 1: they're familiar with this venue because they're in the Mountain
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Speaker 1: West with Boise States, so they're not going to be
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Speaker 1: intimidated or whatever playing in this stadium. They've been there before.
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Speaker 1: Washington State, they're not that far away, obviously, They're just
38:24
Speaker 1: slightly over the border from Idaho, so they don't really
38:27
Speaker 1: have to travel that far from Pullman, Washington. But I
38:30
Speaker 1: think if Utah State's more excited because they haven't been
38:32
Speaker 1: to a bowl recently and they get to play a
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Speaker 1: former Pac twelve team here, Utah State might be the
38:37
Speaker 1: way to lean in this game. Utah State's a one
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Speaker 1: and a half point favorite in that one, so you know,
38:44
Speaker 1: just I feel like I have opinions on a lot
38:46
Speaker 1: of these games that we'll see Tuesday, December twenty third.
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Speaker 1: We have the Bush's Boca Raton Bowl Boker its own
38:55
Speaker 1: the Mouth of the rat which is hosted by I
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Speaker 1: believe that's what is that Florida Atlantic plays Boger Raton.
39:04
Speaker 1: Am I right about that? I don't even know, man.
39:07
Speaker 1: This is Toledo versus Louisville. Is it Bush's Baked Beans,
39:11
Speaker 1: because if it was, it should be the Bush's Bake
39:13
Speaker 1: Beans Boker Ratona Bowl. Maybe it's the George W. Bush's
39:17
Speaker 1: Boca Ratona Bowl, and you get all the all the
39:21
Speaker 1: politically connected people hanging out in the rich areas of
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Speaker 1: Florida here. I don't know this game. I mean, I
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Speaker 1: don't know which of these teams is going to be
39:32
Speaker 1: more excited to be here, man, I mean Toledo. I mean,
39:35
Speaker 1: I think Toledo at the very least thought they were
39:37
Speaker 1: going to be right in the mix to win the
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Speaker 1: MAC this year, and they basically were, but they had
39:41
Speaker 1: a couple of losses that kind of knock them out,
39:44
Speaker 1: and then they didn't win whatever the tie breakers were,
39:46
Speaker 1: and they didn't make the MAC final. They're usually in
39:49
Speaker 1: Bowls as well, So I think this Bowl is kind
39:51
Speaker 1: of a whatever Bowl for them, although maybe they do
39:54
Speaker 1: get excited because they do get to face an ACC
39:56
Speaker 1: team here, so maybe that will get them focusing off Louisville.
40:01
Speaker 1: They got to be disappointed, man, because Louisville came into
40:03
Speaker 1: the season thinking they might vie for the ACC title,
40:07
Speaker 1: maybe have an outside shot to get into the playoff
40:09
Speaker 1: or something like that. They were ranked for a while
40:12
Speaker 1: so and then now they get to play a MAC team,
40:14
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I probably would say Louisville is
40:16
Speaker 1: probably the more disappointed team. They're nine and a half
40:18
Speaker 1: away favorite here, so maybe there is some value taking
40:21
Speaker 1: the points of Toledo. Toledo. Again, I have been talking
40:24
Speaker 1: to all season about how Toledo is actually better than
40:26
Speaker 1: their record looks, and I thought they were probably actually
40:29
Speaker 1: the best team in the MAC. The New Orleans Bowl
40:33
Speaker 1: which used to be the R and L Carriers New
40:35
Speaker 1: Orleans Bowl, and it looks like they just don't have
40:37
Speaker 1: a sponsor anymore. Obviously, this one is in the super Dome.
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Speaker 1: Well maybe not obviously, but it is on that same
40:45
Speaker 1: day between Western Kentucky and Southern miss. I mean, both
40:48
Speaker 1: of these teams are usually in bowls, but Southern Miss
40:51
Speaker 1: might be more excited for this, and they're probably gonna
40:53
Speaker 1: get a home crowd here because they're not that far
40:55
Speaker 1: from New Orleans. But they might be excited about it
40:59
Speaker 1: because Southern Miss. You remember this team is Marshall from
41:02
Speaker 1: last year, and Marshall they all quit like they got
41:05
Speaker 1: into a bowl last year and they said, we're not
41:07
Speaker 1: going to play in this bowl. We're all like their
41:09
Speaker 1: coach and a bunch of the players all went to
41:11
Speaker 1: Southern Miss. So these guys mostly they're players that didn't
41:14
Speaker 1: get to play in a bowl last year, so I
41:16
Speaker 1: think they will be excited to play in this one
41:18
Speaker 1: against Western Kentucky, who I think kind of fell short
41:22
Speaker 1: of their goals because Western Kentucky was trying to win
41:24
Speaker 1: the Conference USA fell short of doing that, kind of
41:28
Speaker 1: like Southern Miss in this one. They're a three point
41:30
Speaker 1: dog in that one. So another opinion there. Scooter's Coffee
41:36
Speaker 1: Frisco Ball, So this is the Frisco Ball. So we
41:38
Speaker 1: have two bowls in Frisco, Texas. Now also on that
41:42
Speaker 1: same day, that twenty third whatever, also in Frisco, Texas.
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Speaker 1: This is UNLV in Ohio. This game. I mean, UNLV,
41:52
Speaker 1: you got to think they're a bit disappointed, man. I mean, well,
41:55
Speaker 1: I don't know, because UNLV is well, I don't know.
41:56
Speaker 1: I can see it going both ways because UNLV is
41:58
Speaker 1: in a rebuild, and you know, I was making fun
42:01
Speaker 1: of them all year and saying they're a fraud. Dan
42:03
Speaker 1: Mullins don't think he's good whatever, Dan Mullen, I forget
42:06
Speaker 1: if he as an S on his name. They had
42:08
Speaker 1: a chance to potentially win the Mountain I mean they
42:10
Speaker 1: were in the Mountain West Championship again, lost again to
42:12
Speaker 1: bois Ing. Maybe at some points they felt like, hey,
42:15
Speaker 1: maybe because they were like a two loss team, at
42:18
Speaker 1: some points that maybe they thought, hey, maybe we could
42:21
Speaker 1: potentially get into the playoff if we win the Mountain
42:24
Speaker 1: West whatever. So maybe they will be the more disappointed
42:27
Speaker 1: team here. I mean, no team really gets gets excited
42:30
Speaker 1: to play a MAC team. I mean that is just
42:32
Speaker 1: the way that it is of the Ohio is usually
42:34
Speaker 1: in bowls as well, So maybe I don't know if
42:37
Speaker 1: they really get totally excited about UNLV or not. Ohio
42:41
Speaker 1: is a four and a half point underdog in that one.
42:44
Speaker 1: That one. I don't really have that much of an
42:45
Speaker 1: opinion on December twenty fourth. Of course, we have the
42:50
Speaker 1: as is a tradition. There is a bowl on on
42:54
Speaker 1: Christmas Eve, the Sheridan Hawaii Ball, and as seems to
42:58
Speaker 1: be traditioned, a lot of times, Hawaii is in that
43:01
Speaker 1: bowl and they're the home They're literally playing in their
43:04
Speaker 1: home stadium, and that does happen sometimes. Now, how excited
43:09
Speaker 1: is Hawaii gonna be for this? I forget when the
43:11
Speaker 1: last time Hawaii was in a bowl. So they might
43:13
Speaker 1: be excited, man, because if they haven't been to a
43:15
Speaker 1: bowl for a couple of years, even though they're literally
43:18
Speaker 1: playing in their home stadium, they might get excited about it. Man,
43:21
Speaker 1: you gotta worry about distractions because it's on Christmas Eves.
43:25
Speaker 1: You do have to worry about the home team maybe
43:27
Speaker 1: being distracted. But here's the thing, Like how many of
43:30
Speaker 1: these players on Hawaii, Like how many of them do
43:32
Speaker 1: you think live elsewhere? And like the fact that they
43:36
Speaker 1: are playing in Hawaii means they won't be actually distracted
43:39
Speaker 1: because they won't be like home yet for the holiday festivities.
43:42
Speaker 1: And then you got to ask, this is against Cal.
43:44
Speaker 1: How excited is Cal gonna be to go out to
43:46
Speaker 1: Hawaii when maybe they want to be celebrating Christmas and
43:50
Speaker 1: they have to go out to Hawaii. Weird things happen
43:52
Speaker 1: in this Bowl. Man, This is one of the harder
43:54
Speaker 1: bowls to predict. Usually, like a lot of times, you
43:57
Speaker 1: see big favorites go down in this game because they
44:00
Speaker 1: just don't show up, because they just wish they were
44:04
Speaker 1: somewhere else, like with family, or maybe they just oh,
44:07
Speaker 1: it's a cold weather, let's go to Hawaii and let's
44:09
Speaker 1: just you know, they're just not focused on the game.
44:12
Speaker 1: They treat it like a vacation out in Hawaii. Is
44:15
Speaker 1: Cal gonna do that? I don't know, Man, Cal's not
44:17
Speaker 1: a cold weather team. At least hard game for me
44:20
Speaker 1: to gauge. Hawaii is at one and a half point
44:22
Speaker 1: underdog in that game, we'll see, I mean, maybe a
44:26
Speaker 1: slight opinion towards Hawaii in that one. But you can
44:28
Speaker 1: kind of tell where I'm leaning already in a lot
44:30
Speaker 1: of these games. Friday December twenty six, because of course,
44:33
Speaker 1: at least no teams have to play on Christmas Day,
44:36
Speaker 1: and I think there have been a few years where
44:39
Speaker 1: maybe because of the day of the week that it was,
44:41
Speaker 1: the Hawaii Bowl has been on like a different day
44:44
Speaker 1: of the week occasionally. Friday, December twenty sixth, the game
44:49
Speaker 1: above Sports Bowl, which I forget what what's the game above?
44:53
Speaker 1: I don't even know. It's something to do with gambling
44:57
Speaker 1: and there was I should know, but I still don't know.
44:59
Speaker 1: This is in fields, so this if this is the
45:03
Speaker 1: game that I think it is so Ford Field and Detroit.
45:06
Speaker 1: This game has changed names a lot, man like I
45:10
Speaker 1: forget what some of the other like. Usually I think
45:12
Speaker 1: it's the Oh god, what are like the motor City Bowl?
45:17
Speaker 1: Is that? Like? I don't know, I forget, like I'm old,
45:20
Speaker 1: like I remember this having a bunch of different names.
45:22
Speaker 1: This is going to be Central Michigan in Northwestern. Central
45:26
Speaker 1: Michigan might have a decent home crowd for this one
45:28
Speaker 1: because it's in their home state, and because I think
45:31
Speaker 1: Central Michigan doesn't get to bowls that often. I have
45:34
Speaker 1: to check, but I think they didn't get to a
45:36
Speaker 1: bowl last year. Don't know when the last time they
45:38
Speaker 1: were in one was. They might get excited because they
45:40
Speaker 1: get to play a Big ten team in Northwestern here Northwestern,
45:43
Speaker 1: I mean they're not too far away from where they
45:45
Speaker 1: are Chicago. But do they really get excited about get
45:48
Speaker 1: going to the game above Sports Bowl and getting to
45:51
Speaker 1: play a MAC team. Probably not so I kind of
45:54
Speaker 1: like Central Michigan at least to cover this one. They're
45:57
Speaker 1: twelve and a half point dogs and it's a really
45:59
Speaker 1: low total forty four and a half to Northwestern, not
46:02
Speaker 1: really a prolific offense. So I could see Central Michigan
46:06
Speaker 1: covering that number. On the same day the Rate Bowl,
46:11
Speaker 1: which is I think it used to be Guaranteed Rate
46:14
Speaker 1: to Guaranteed Rate change their name to just Rate. That's
46:17
Speaker 1: a great company named Rate. They must have great seo great.
46:22
Speaker 1: This game is gonna be in Phoenix at Chase Field,
46:27
Speaker 1: so the Diamondbacks Stadium, I guess. And this is between
46:30
Speaker 1: New Mexico and Minnesota. I do like New Mexico in
46:34
Speaker 1: this one, man. I mean New Mexico home crowd is
46:36
Speaker 1: probably gonna show up for them because it's in Phoenix,
46:39
Speaker 1: so not that far from New Mexico and New Mexico.
46:42
Speaker 1: They were expected to do nothing this year. I mean
46:44
Speaker 1: they're in rebuild. They weren't expected to be good at all,
46:47
Speaker 1: and they were quite good. They almost made the Mountain
46:50
Speaker 1: West Championship. They got to a Bowl. They haven't been
46:53
Speaker 1: to a bowl in years, I think, so. I think
46:55
Speaker 1: New Mexico is gonna be the excited team here and
46:58
Speaker 1: they're up against minnesot And if you're Minnesota, you're in
47:03
Speaker 1: a bowl like basically every year you're playing, you know,
47:06
Speaker 1: a Mountain West team here. Do you really get excited
47:08
Speaker 1: for that? If you're Minnesota, I don't know about that,
47:11
Speaker 1: And maybe they get distracted by whatever is going on
47:14
Speaker 1: in Phoenix. I don't know. I kind of like New Mexico.
47:16
Speaker 1: New Mexico's only a three point dog in that game too, though,
47:19
Speaker 1: so it looks really really easy to lay the points
47:22
Speaker 1: with Minnesota. But I could definitely see New Mexico winning
47:26
Speaker 1: that game O the way that I read that game
47:28
Speaker 1: right now. Again, weird things happen in these bowls, man
47:31
Speaker 1: based you really it's all about trying to gauge motivation
47:35
Speaker 1: in these bowls, like the bulls are where you most
47:40
Speaker 1: commonly see underdogs just completely go down. It happens more
47:43
Speaker 1: often in bowls than anywhere else because some teams just
47:46
Speaker 1: have no motivation. The bulls are stupid. The Serve Pro
47:50
Speaker 1: First responderble is also that same day, which is in Dallas, Texas.
47:57
Speaker 1: Between FIU and UTSA, I forget what serve pro is
48:02
Speaker 1: something to do with that EMTs maybe, so I won't
48:05
Speaker 1: knock them too much if that's what it is. FIU,
48:09
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be the excited team, man, because
48:11
Speaker 1: they have not been to a bowl in quite a while,
48:14
Speaker 1: so it does mean something for that program to get
48:16
Speaker 1: back to a bowl. So I expect them to be excited.
48:19
Speaker 1: UTSA they're in bowls like every year recently, although the
48:22
Speaker 1: game is in Dallas, so UTSA doesn't have to travel
48:26
Speaker 1: too far. They're still gonna be in the state of Texas.
48:28
Speaker 1: But maybe they just feel like it isn't that much
48:30
Speaker 1: of a reward, you know, for FIU. Again, like when
48:34
Speaker 1: these teams don't have to travel that far, sometimes it
48:36
Speaker 1: just doesn't feel like a reward if you're staying close
48:38
Speaker 1: to home. And again when you're staying close to home,
48:41
Speaker 1: I think the teams that get excited are the teams
48:43
Speaker 1: that are like never in bowls, because then their people
48:46
Speaker 1: can just show up at the bowl even if like
48:48
Speaker 1: if it's close by. It helps that out and they
48:50
Speaker 1: can be more excited about it. I like FIU in
48:53
Speaker 1: this one the way that I read it right now.
48:56
Speaker 1: They're nine and a half point underdog in that one.
48:58
Speaker 1: I mean, UTSA is a prolific rushing team, though definitely
49:03
Speaker 1: the better team, but again, it's all about motivation. Saturday,
49:07
Speaker 1: December twenty seventh the Go Bowling Military Bowl. I don't
49:12
Speaker 1: know why a bowling company, which I assume is what
49:14
Speaker 1: that is, is sponsoring the you know, doing something related
49:19
Speaker 1: to the military. This Military Bowl is hosted by Navy.
49:23
Speaker 1: It's in Annapolis, Maryland. This is between Pitt and East Carolina.
49:27
Speaker 1: As I mentioned, East Carolina did win a bowl last
49:29
Speaker 1: year against their in state, bigger brother in C State,
49:33
Speaker 1: so they did get excited about that. For this game,
49:37
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe they get less. Do they get
49:39
Speaker 1: less excited? They are playing an ACC team in Pitt,
49:42
Speaker 1: so maybe East Carolina is still excited about this game.
49:45
Speaker 1: Pitt maybe not so. I mean Pitt like up Swords.
49:48
Speaker 1: I think the end of the season, Pitt thought they
49:50
Speaker 1: might be able to get into the ACC Championship pretty
49:53
Speaker 1: late in the season, so they might be the more
49:54
Speaker 1: disappointed team here. Being in Annapolis, it's kind of between
49:58
Speaker 1: where the two schools are, so I don't know if
50:00
Speaker 1: the location really helps either team. Maybe East Carolina will
50:04
Speaker 1: be the more motivated team there. They're a six point
50:06
Speaker 1: dog in that one to Pittsburgh, at least as the
50:09
Speaker 1: numbers are now, these numbers are gonna move though, Like
50:11
Speaker 1: I said, So if you are gonna be if you're
50:14
Speaker 1: gonna start throwing bets down on my early opinions here,
50:17
Speaker 1: I mean you can and if I'm right, you're gonna
50:19
Speaker 1: get a good number on it. So at least there's that.
50:22
Speaker 1: Then we have the bad Boy Mower's Pinstripe Bowl. I
50:26
Speaker 1: might call this the Disappointment Bawl Man, because these are
50:29
Speaker 1: two teams that I would be looking to fade in
50:31
Speaker 1: their bowls and there and they play each other. So
50:34
Speaker 1: thanks a lot to the schedule makers for this one.
50:36
Speaker 1: This is in Yankee Stadium. It's one of the newer
50:39
Speaker 1: bowls at noon. I mean it's Penn State and Clemson.
50:45
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're Clemson, you had like both these
50:49
Speaker 1: teams at national title aspirations this year. So both teams
50:52
Speaker 1: are gonna be really disappointed. I mean they both had
50:54
Speaker 1: awful seasons. Clemson. I mean, for Clemson, you gotta see,
50:59
Speaker 1: like how many of their players are gonna opt out? Man,
51:01
Speaker 1: Like is Club Nick gonna play in this game? Their quarterback?
51:04
Speaker 1: Like are there? Like are their main players gonna even
51:07
Speaker 1: play in this game? I mean that's something you gotta know,
51:09
Speaker 1: I think, like if you're gonna actually put money on this.
51:11
Speaker 1: So that's why I don't like these bulls at this
51:13
Speaker 1: point to try to like gauge at early at least
51:16
Speaker 1: with these if you're betting on these small teams, at
51:18
Speaker 1: least you kind of know they're like they're gonna have
51:21
Speaker 1: their team there and they're gonna show up on it,
51:23
Speaker 1: like these teams that want to win these bowls, you
51:25
Speaker 1: know what I mean. But for a game like this,
51:28
Speaker 1: you have no clue. For Penn State, maybe they will
51:31
Speaker 1: actually be more excited because they want to kind of
51:34
Speaker 1: prove something after their season went so haywire and they
51:37
Speaker 1: fired James Franklin and now everybody's making fun. Oh, Penn
51:40
Speaker 1: State has horrible recruiting now and whatever. And I forget
51:43
Speaker 1: who they hired as the new coach. They did hire somebody.
51:46
Speaker 1: He won't be there yet, it'll be the interim coach
51:49
Speaker 1: will continue coaching for them. Clemson, I mean, they obviously
51:53
Speaker 1: have a lot of experience. Sweeny is still there whatever
51:55
Speaker 1: club Nick might still play in this game, But how
51:58
Speaker 1: excited you really get to go up to the Bronx
52:01
Speaker 1: and play it? Potentially cold weather? A lot of times
52:03
Speaker 1: these games are like cold rainy. If you're clemsy, do
52:06
Speaker 1: you really want to go up there and play that game?
52:08
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, you get to play Penn State. I
52:10
Speaker 1: mean that is a big name. But I don't know,
52:12
Speaker 1: I see Penn State maybe adapting to the circumstances better
52:16
Speaker 1: in maybe actually having more of a chip on their
52:18
Speaker 1: shoulder than Clemson, because Penn State has been the laughing
52:21
Speaker 1: stock basically after what happened to them this season. So
52:24
Speaker 1: somewhat of an opinion on Penn State. They're a one
52:26
Speaker 1: and a half point favorite in that game, which again
52:30
Speaker 1: is kind of interesting. I think both of these teams
52:33
Speaker 1: massively underperform what their talent levels are this year, So
52:36
Speaker 1: both teams are a lot better than they looked this
52:38
Speaker 1: season at least, But I do think Penn State is
52:42
Speaker 1: probably the better of the two teams, and they're only
52:44
Speaker 1: laying one and a half in that one. The was
52:48
Speaker 1: Sabi Fenway Bowl, which I should know, but I forget
52:51
Speaker 1: what was Sabi is as a company. I don't think
52:53
Speaker 1: it's a Wassabi company. This is at Fenway Park. Obviously,
52:57
Speaker 1: I've never been to it. It's usually at like eleven am,
53:00
Speaker 1: but this time it's at two point fifteen pm, which
53:02
Speaker 1: is a little bit more enticing than eleven am. But
53:06
Speaker 1: I usually just I'm like, why would I want to
53:07
Speaker 1: go to the Fenway Bowl and it's cold and whatever.
53:10
Speaker 1: I mean, I kind of considered it. I think one
53:12
Speaker 1: year BC was in it, and I think they actually
53:14
Speaker 1: upset SMU in that game, if I remember correct, and
53:17
Speaker 1: I consider going, but I've never been to this one.
53:20
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Penn State got Mike Matt Campbell. Yes, excuse yes,
53:23
Speaker 1: correct from Iowa State. Yeah, Matt Campbell. Uh, he was
53:27
Speaker 1: a pit prior to that. I believe. How good is
53:29
Speaker 1: he really though? I mean he hasn't brought like a
53:31
Speaker 1: team into like title contention, and Iowa State really fell
53:34
Speaker 1: apart this year, so I don't know. Man, he might
53:38
Speaker 1: be a little bit overrated, but we'll see. Maybe he
53:41
Speaker 1: could do something with that program. The fact that he
53:43
Speaker 1: hired him, that's gonna help their recruiting though, because he's
53:45
Speaker 1: a he's a well known coaching name, so that should
53:49
Speaker 1: help them with recruit. And although Fenway Bowl is Yukon
53:52
Speaker 1: against Army, Yukon had a really good season, man, and
53:56
Speaker 1: people are all they're all talking about Fanano, however you
54:00
Speaker 1: pronounce his name, the Italian god, who is their quarterback
54:03
Speaker 1: who might wind up in the NFL, excusing Yukon had
54:07
Speaker 1: a really good season, man, and maybe they'll be excited
54:10
Speaker 1: to play in Boston. I mean Yukon and New England School.
54:15
Speaker 1: But I mean Yukon's been in bowls recently too though,
54:18
Speaker 1: so I will see. I think they might have won
54:20
Speaker 1: a Bowl last year as well, but they might be
54:21
Speaker 1: excited to play in Famway Park because Yukon is in
54:24
Speaker 1: New England School. Army. The thing about Army is you
54:30
Speaker 1: got to kind of gauge, like do they care about
54:32
Speaker 1: their bowl more? Do they care about the Army Navy
54:34
Speaker 1: game more? Because the Army Navy game gets in the way, right,
54:38
Speaker 1: because there is the Army Navy game which is before
54:41
Speaker 1: the bowls. Now, I like that better because I think
54:43
Speaker 1: sometimes it was after the Bulls. So I think, well,
54:47
Speaker 1: to really gauge what you think about this Army ball,
54:49
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to see what they do in the
54:51
Speaker 1: game against Navy. Which is on Saturday the thirteenth. The
54:55
Speaker 1: Army Navy game is being played on the day where
54:58
Speaker 1: the First Bowl also happens, so Army Navy does happen
55:01
Speaker 1: before a bowl season kicks off. Now, if Army is
55:06
Speaker 1: a six point underdog to Navy, Navy is the better team.
55:08
Speaker 1: But if Army is able to pull off that upset,
55:11
Speaker 1: I really don't like them here. Like, if Army plays
55:14
Speaker 1: really well against Navy, like they make that their game,
55:16
Speaker 1: it's a huge rivalry game, they might not have that
55:19
Speaker 1: much left, although they won't play Yukon until two weeks
55:22
Speaker 1: later at least, so that's'll have some rest there. But
55:25
Speaker 1: if Army plays really well, if they win that game,
55:27
Speaker 1: maybe that week off will be disruptive to them. That's
55:30
Speaker 1: another thing you kind of have to gauge, Like is
55:32
Speaker 1: the extra time off gonna disrupt some of these teams?
55:36
Speaker 1: So you have to kind of gauge how these teams
55:37
Speaker 1: finished as well, like the having a bunch of time
55:40
Speaker 1: off might actually help teams that finish poorly, you know
55:43
Speaker 1: what I mean? Though I don't put that much weighted
55:45
Speaker 1: to that in bowl season though, because in bowl season
55:47
Speaker 1: it's really more about are you motivated for this specific
55:50
Speaker 1: game and that's really it. So we'll see. But yeah,
55:54
Speaker 1: I mean, Yukon might be the right side here. They're
55:56
Speaker 1: actually a two and a half point dog. But I mean,
55:59
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yukon got a little bit maybe to
56:01
Speaker 1: hype for my liking with their quarterback play this year.
56:05
Speaker 1: Then oh yes, that day we have the famed pop
56:08
Speaker 1: Tart Bowl pop Tarts Bowl in Orlando, Florida, Camping World Stadium,
56:13
Speaker 1: Amazing Bowl obviously where they have killed multiple anthropomorphic pop
56:17
Speaker 1: tarts at this point. This will be pop Tart Bowl
56:20
Speaker 1: three where if you're keeping track, they the winning team
56:24
Speaker 1: gets to choose a pop tart out of the three
56:28
Speaker 1: anthropomorphic pop tarts on this year, I think they actually
56:30
Speaker 1: have five anthropomorphic pop tarts. They're gonna run out of
56:33
Speaker 1: different flavors. Man pop Tarts is gonna to start making
56:37
Speaker 1: new pop tarts because because once you kill one of
56:40
Speaker 1: them off, you can't bring them back, right, although they tried.
56:43
Speaker 1: If you know all the lore here, the first pop
56:45
Speaker 1: Tart Bowl, the winning team chose Strawberry, which I believe
56:50
Speaker 1: was Kansas State. I want to say won the first
56:53
Speaker 1: pop Tart Bowl against who is it against? I don't
56:56
Speaker 1: even remember, I forget, but they won, I believe, and
57:01
Speaker 1: they ate the frosted strawberry, so they killed the frosted
57:04
Speaker 1: strawberry pop Tart. Then in Pop Tart Bowl too last year,
57:08
Speaker 1: they actually resurrected frosted strawberry for this big dude. It's
57:13
Speaker 1: totally demonic. I'm telling you. It is one of the creepiest,
57:16
Speaker 1: weirdest things that you'll ever see. If you haven't seen
57:17
Speaker 1: all of this, it sounds like I'm making this up
57:19
Speaker 1: if you haven't heard about this, but I'm not. This
57:23
Speaker 1: is a new Bowl as of two years ago, and
57:25
Speaker 1: already it's like the most well known Bowl because of
57:28
Speaker 1: all these shenanigans. So they brought back the frosted strawberry,
57:32
Speaker 1: and frosted strawberry still had like one eye and was
57:34
Speaker 1: like a corpse of a pop tart. It was one
57:37
Speaker 1: of the most bizarre spectacles you'll ever see. And then
57:41
Speaker 1: the winning team last year was Iowa State I believe,
57:45
Speaker 1: beat Miami in that weird game where Kim Ward played
57:48
Speaker 1: half of the game or something and then benched himself
57:51
Speaker 1: for the rest of the game. It was a crazy
57:53
Speaker 1: high scoring game, and I believe Iowa State one and
57:57
Speaker 1: then they I believe they ate was it brown sugar cinnamon, which,
58:02
Speaker 1: by the way, that's the best Pop Dart. Brown sugar
58:04
Speaker 1: cinnamon is the best flavor. I don't even think there's
58:07
Speaker 1: much of a debate. I like a bunch of different
58:09
Speaker 1: pop Dart flavors, but that is the best. I think
58:11
Speaker 1: that is what they chose last year. But I might
58:13
Speaker 1: be wrong. I should know the lore by now, but
58:16
Speaker 1: I'll have to refresh my memory on that. It's just ridiculous.
58:21
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens on this one. Yes, Matt Campbell
58:24
Speaker 1: won the pop Tart Ball, that's why he's Penn State's higher.
58:27
Speaker 1: Now this pop Dard Ball is between Georgia Tech and
58:31
Speaker 1: byu Man and this is another disappointment Ball. And would
58:37
Speaker 1: this have been where Notre Dame was gonna be? I mean,
58:40
Speaker 1: oh god, that seems ridiculous because Notre Dame they, as
58:44
Speaker 1: I said at the top of the show, they rejected
58:46
Speaker 1: their Bowl bid. I don't know if it was this
58:48
Speaker 1: game or not, but this is a disappointment Bowl. Both
58:52
Speaker 1: these teams were potentially on the verge of being able
58:55
Speaker 1: to win their conference. Georgia Tech was rolling along and
58:58
Speaker 1: they were undefeated and until deep into the season, and
59:01
Speaker 1: then they didn't even make the ACC Championship game. BYU
59:04
Speaker 1: made the Big twelve Championship and got pretty much embarrassed
59:07
Speaker 1: again by Texas Tech. So which one of these teams
59:10
Speaker 1: is gonna be more likely to show up? I don't know, man,
59:12
Speaker 1: I mean BYU having to come from Utah all the
59:17
Speaker 1: way out here and maybe get distracted by Disney and
59:20
Speaker 1: all the stuff universal, all the stuff is going on
59:22
Speaker 1: in Orlando. Georgia Tech maybe more used to this type
59:26
Speaker 1: of thing, playing, you know, a team from the South.
59:30
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I I can't gauge this game.
59:33
Speaker 1: I mean, this is not gonna be one that's gonna
59:35
Speaker 1: be on my card. But BYU is a two and
59:37
Speaker 1: a half point favorite in that game. For what it's worth.
59:41
Speaker 1: BYU does play physical, though, so they if both teams
59:44
Speaker 1: show up, b YU could give Georgia Tech some problems
59:47
Speaker 1: with their physicality. Georgia Tech, I mean they're gonna be
59:51
Speaker 1: an experienced team though BYU. Of course, the other quarterback
59:54
Speaker 1: from last year is now on Tulane, So I don't know.
59:58
Speaker 1: I forget who BYU is a quarterback is this year already?
1:00:01
Speaker 1: But yeah. I mean, we'll see what happens now with BYU.
1:00:04
Speaker 1: I believe won their bowl last year in the Alamo
1:00:06
Speaker 1: Bowl against Colorado. They had to play a divisional rival
1:00:10
Speaker 1: last year. And I forget where Georgia Tech was in
1:00:12
Speaker 1: their bowl last year. They I assume they were in
1:00:17
Speaker 1: some bowl, but I can't remember what it was. Then. Oh, yes,
1:00:21
Speaker 1: we have the Snoop Dog Arizona Bowl, which used to
1:00:24
Speaker 1: be called something else. I forget what it was. This
1:00:28
Speaker 1: is in Tucson, Arizona, which I believe is actually is this?
1:00:33
Speaker 1: This is hosted by who? Is this hosted by University
1:00:37
Speaker 1: of Arizona? I forget. I forget which team hosts this
1:00:40
Speaker 1: or if it's one of the it's not. It's not
1:00:41
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals because they play in is it? I
1:00:45
Speaker 1: don't even know, man, I mean you somebody could tell me.
1:00:48
Speaker 1: This is Miami Ohio against Fresno State. Miami Ohio just
1:00:52
Speaker 1: lost the MAC Championship game. They get to face Fresno.
1:00:57
Speaker 1: I mean Fresno was in the Mountain West. Fresno had
1:00:59
Speaker 1: a decent run in the Mountain West this year. Fresnoe
1:01:02
Speaker 1: might be more excited because I don't remember when the
1:01:04
Speaker 1: last time they were in a bowl was Man, and
1:01:06
Speaker 1: they might have their crowds show up because they're not
1:01:09
Speaker 1: that far from home here. Maybe Miami Ohio was a
1:01:12
Speaker 1: cold weather team. Maybe they get a little bit distracted
1:01:14
Speaker 1: playing in warmth here, and maybe they're a little bit
1:01:17
Speaker 1: less excited here because Miami Ohio seems to always be
1:01:20
Speaker 1: in bowls. Man, They're like always in the MAC Championship.
1:01:23
Speaker 1: They're always in some bowl. Fresno, I believe, has not
1:01:25
Speaker 1: been in a bowl for a while, so they might
1:01:27
Speaker 1: be more excited. Fresno's a three and a half way
1:01:29
Speaker 1: favorite there, all right, continuing, where are we at here?
1:01:35
Speaker 1: So we're on Saturday December twenty seventh. Where I think
1:01:40
Speaker 1: Saturday December twenty seventh is gonna be loaded, man, because
1:01:43
Speaker 1: I think there are some I don't know. I forget
1:01:45
Speaker 1: which games the like the playoff games are on which
1:01:48
Speaker 1: days have the playoffs because the playoffs usually get their
1:01:51
Speaker 1: own billing though they don't have to compete with the Bulls.
1:01:53
Speaker 1: Saturday of the twenty seventh is the most loaded bowl
1:01:56
Speaker 1: slate though, eight bowls that day or something. Then we
1:02:04
Speaker 1: have the is led On New Mexico Bowl or is
1:02:07
Speaker 1: it I leta. I don't even know this game is
1:02:09
Speaker 1: in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This has been a bowl that's
1:02:12
Speaker 1: been around for a while. It's changed sponsors over the years,
1:02:16
Speaker 1: but it is the New Mexico Bowl. This is North
1:02:19
Speaker 1: Texas and San Diego State in this one, a couple
1:02:22
Speaker 1: of teams that are probably somewhat disappointed as well. But
1:02:27
Speaker 1: I believe this is at University in New Mexico. I
1:02:29
Speaker 1: believe host this one. So San Diego State is more
1:02:32
Speaker 1: used to playing here because they're in the Mountain West.
1:02:34
Speaker 1: And I think San Diego State because they had been
1:02:38
Speaker 1: a nice league. They had been a good football program
1:02:40
Speaker 1: for a while and then they had some down years
1:02:41
Speaker 1: and I think they haven't made a bowl the last
1:02:43
Speaker 1: year or two. So San Diego State probably is more
1:02:46
Speaker 1: excited for this and the location is more beneficial for them,
1:02:49
Speaker 1: whereas North Texas is not going to be happy. I
1:02:51
Speaker 1: don't think to be here because they were in the
1:02:54
Speaker 1: American Championship and if they had won the American Championship,
1:02:57
Speaker 1: they might be in the playoff right now instead of
1:03:00
Speaker 1: Tune Lane. So they're probably pretty disappointed here man. And yeah,
1:03:05
Speaker 1: maybe you argue, well, that means they have something to
1:03:07
Speaker 1: prove here, but I don't know. I tend to think
1:03:08
Speaker 1: the opposite happens, and you just get disappointed by it.
1:03:11
Speaker 1: You just really don't want to be here. So I
1:03:15
Speaker 1: kind of like San Diego State in that game. They're
1:03:17
Speaker 1: six point dog as well. The public of course continues
1:03:21
Speaker 1: to love North Texas's offense too. So we'll talk about
1:03:24
Speaker 1: these again the day of and then to finish off
1:03:27
Speaker 1: that day. Oh, two more bowls. The tax Slayer Gator
1:03:30
Speaker 1: Bowl is that day. Sometimes that Bowl I think is
1:03:33
Speaker 1: on a different day. That's in Jacksonville, Florida, even though
1:03:37
Speaker 1: it's the Gator Bowl, so you think, well, it would
1:03:40
Speaker 1: be hosted by University of Florida, but it's not in Gainesville,
1:03:43
Speaker 1: it's in Jacksonville. This is Virginia and Missouri. You gotta
1:03:47
Speaker 1: think Virginia is the more disappointed team here, man, because
1:03:51
Speaker 1: Virginia just made the a SEC Championship game and they
1:03:54
Speaker 1: were the favorite, and if they won that game, they
1:03:56
Speaker 1: think they would be in the playoff. So one of those,
1:04:00
Speaker 1: either Tulane or I guess James Madison would actually be out.
1:04:03
Speaker 1: If Virginia had won, they would be in. So they're
1:04:06
Speaker 1: gonna be pretty disappointed. I think, here man, and they're
1:04:08
Speaker 1: gonna have to face this Missouri team that likes to
1:04:10
Speaker 1: play deepfense and likes to play physical. How disappointed is Missouri?
1:04:15
Speaker 1: I don't know, because they knew fairly early on that
1:04:17
Speaker 1: they weren't really gonna be vying for a playoff bid
1:04:21
Speaker 1: or anything like that playoff berth, So I don't know.
1:04:23
Speaker 1: Will Missouri get distracted by being in Jacksonville? I don't
1:04:27
Speaker 1: know what is there to do in Jacksonville. I don't know.
1:04:29
Speaker 1: I kind of like Missouri and that one. They're a
1:04:31
Speaker 1: seven point favorite in that one. The ACC isn't good,
1:04:34
Speaker 1: so I mean, if Missouri does show up, they should
1:04:36
Speaker 1: be able to win that one. But I don't know.
1:04:38
Speaker 1: I see Virginia being pretty disappointed in that one. And
1:04:41
Speaker 1: then we have to finish off that day. The largest
1:04:44
Speaker 1: day of bowls, the Kinders Texas Bowl. The kind of
1:04:48
Speaker 1: Texas Bowl or is it Kinders? I don't know. I
1:04:50
Speaker 1: don't know what that company is either. That's hosted by
1:04:54
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans. It's at NRG Stadium in Houston. I
1:04:57
Speaker 1: know that's the Texans Stadium. And Houston is in this
1:05:01
Speaker 1: Bowl too, playing against LSU this game. I mean, which
1:05:07
Speaker 1: of these teams is gonna be more likely to not
1:05:09
Speaker 1: show up is kind of the question, man, As LSU
1:05:13
Speaker 1: they thought they were gonna be contending for a championship
1:05:16
Speaker 1: this year, man, and now they're playing in the Texas Bowl.
1:05:20
Speaker 1: Seems like they're gonna be disappointed here, man, against a
1:05:22
Speaker 1: Houston team that is new to the Big Twelve and
1:05:25
Speaker 1: probably is still kind of seen as one of the
1:05:27
Speaker 1: little boys. Don't know that LSU is gonna be really
1:05:29
Speaker 1: pumped about this, man, likely not. And now LSU will.
1:05:35
Speaker 1: They are getting Lane Kiffin now, but he's not gonna
1:05:37
Speaker 1: be there yet. They're gonna have whoever their interim is here.
1:05:40
Speaker 1: So I just don't know, man, I don't know if
1:05:42
Speaker 1: I see them getting up for this game, even though
1:05:44
Speaker 1: they're fairly close to Houston. But Houston is of course
1:05:47
Speaker 1: in Houston. But how much of a reward is that
1:05:50
Speaker 1: for Houston. If Houston they were ranked, they thought they
1:05:52
Speaker 1: might make the Big Twelve championship game as the season
1:05:55
Speaker 1: went along with the way, I don't think they really
1:05:57
Speaker 1: had those aspirations to begin the season, though, I don't
1:06:00
Speaker 1: know will they be that disappointed? I actually don't know, though,
1:06:04
Speaker 1: they should have a bit of a crowd for this game,
1:06:06
Speaker 1: at least because in Houston. And maybe the thing that
1:06:10
Speaker 1: might get Houston more excited is that they get to
1:06:12
Speaker 1: face LSU, So they get to face like a premier
1:06:15
Speaker 1: football program here, you know what I mean. So maybe
1:06:18
Speaker 1: Houston will be excited just for that reason. That's another
1:06:21
Speaker 1: way to try to gauge these things. Houston is actually
1:06:23
Speaker 1: a three point favorite in this game against LSU. Oh
1:06:27
Speaker 1: my god, LSU is fallen. That is probably factory in
1:06:32
Speaker 1: the disappointment factor there. But the public is the public
1:06:36
Speaker 1: is probably not gonna be on Houston in this one. Man.
1:06:40
Speaker 1: Like I'm trying to gauge where I think the public
1:06:41
Speaker 1: is gonna be in these games. I think they're gonna
1:06:44
Speaker 1: think getting three with LSU looks crazy, but I might
1:06:47
Speaker 1: lean towards Houston someone in that game. Then we have Monday,
1:06:52
Speaker 1: December twenty ninth, the j LAB Birmingham Ball. What is
1:06:57
Speaker 1: the j LAB. That's not like the Jet Propulsion and
1:07:00
Speaker 1: LA that's JPLM familiar with some of the rocket science
1:07:03
Speaker 1: that going up that's going on there. No, Jay Lab
1:07:06
Speaker 1: doesn't sound good, man. I don't want to get my
1:07:10
Speaker 1: show nuked. Here. I don't know. This Birmingham Bowl definitely
1:07:15
Speaker 1: had some other sponsors prior to this year. Man, this
1:07:17
Speaker 1: is obviously in Birmingham, Alabama, and this game actually we
1:07:21
Speaker 1: haven't They haven't even decided who's in this bowl yet.
1:07:26
Speaker 1: So this bowl is actually not listed yet, so we
1:07:28
Speaker 1: don't even know who's in it yet, which is interesting.
1:07:33
Speaker 1: I guess we'll see what happens. So some teams still
1:07:36
Speaker 1: have to be decided. So when this happens, because teams
1:07:40
Speaker 1: like drop out of balls and what, I don't know
1:07:41
Speaker 1: who else may have dropped out besides Notre Dame. But
1:07:45
Speaker 1: what happens is teams that are like five win teams
1:07:49
Speaker 1: and teams that are new to FBS get to petition
1:07:51
Speaker 1: to get into these Although we already saw Delawares already
1:07:54
Speaker 1: in a bowl. Who else do we see Missouri State's
1:07:58
Speaker 1: already in one? So those teams are already in and
1:08:00
Speaker 1: so I don't know who's gonna wind up in this
1:08:02
Speaker 1: bowl or maybe the bowl gets canceled. I don't know,
1:08:05
Speaker 1: but we'll say. Then December thirtieth, the Radiance Technologies Independence
1:08:10
Speaker 1: Bowl and Independence Stadium at Shreveport, Louisiana is going to
1:08:16
Speaker 1: be Coastal Carolina and Louisiana Tack. Louisiana Tech gets to
1:08:20
Speaker 1: play right near home, but are they going to be
1:08:22
Speaker 1: that excited for this? I don't know. I feel like
1:08:24
Speaker 1: Louisiana Tech plays in this bowl somewhat often, which means
1:08:28
Speaker 1: they're used to it. But for a lot of Tech,
1:08:30
Speaker 1: I would have to go back and see, like when
1:08:32
Speaker 1: the last time they were in a bowl was, because
1:08:34
Speaker 1: I don't remember. They will have a home crowd for
1:08:37
Speaker 1: this at least Coastal Carolina. I mean, Coastal Carolina overperformed
1:08:42
Speaker 1: this year, so I don't really think they legitimately thought
1:08:44
Speaker 1: they could win the Sun Belt this year or anything
1:08:46
Speaker 1: like that. They're usually usually in bowls too. I don't know.
1:08:50
Speaker 1: This game is really hard for me to read. I mean,
1:08:51
Speaker 1: if if Louisiana Tack hasn't been in a bowl for
1:08:54
Speaker 1: a while, I would probably start leaning in their direction
1:08:56
Speaker 1: because they'd be more excited about it. They're a seven
1:08:59
Speaker 1: point favorite here. And Coastal Carolina, I mean, they're not good.
1:09:03
Speaker 1: Like their record this year looked a lot better than
1:09:05
Speaker 1: they actually are. They had some games where they won
1:09:08
Speaker 1: as underdogs that were just kind of ridiculous, So those
1:09:11
Speaker 1: are kind of my thoughts on that for now. Yes,
1:09:14
Speaker 1: the Liberty Mutual Music City Bowl, which used to be
1:09:16
Speaker 1: the Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl, so they've changed banks.
1:09:21
Speaker 1: This is Tennessee and Illinois in Nashville, which I believe
1:09:25
Speaker 1: is at the Tennessee Titans Stadium. I believe Nissan Stadium
1:09:30
Speaker 1: is what this is. Tennessee is gonna be right near home.
1:09:33
Speaker 1: But you gotta think that Tennessee doesn't really consider this
1:09:36
Speaker 1: to me much of a reward man. I mean, Tennessee,
1:09:38
Speaker 1: they're a program that's got high aspirations. They thought they
1:09:41
Speaker 1: could make the playoff. They were in the playoffs last year.
1:09:44
Speaker 1: I don't think they're really gonna care about being here,
1:09:46
Speaker 1: and they don't get to go anywhere for this bowl.
1:09:48
Speaker 1: I mean, sure, maybe their crowd will come to this,
1:09:51
Speaker 1: but I don't think they're gonna be too excited about this.
1:09:53
Speaker 1: In Illinois, they were like way overrated to start the
1:09:56
Speaker 1: season with this Illinois team. I don't know really where
1:09:58
Speaker 1: they're aspirations live this year, and Illinois at least does
1:10:01
Speaker 1: have a lot of experience if their players are actually
1:10:04
Speaker 1: gonna show up for this. Illinois is a five and
1:10:06
Speaker 1: a half point dog in this one. I don't know.
1:10:08
Speaker 1: I would probably somewhat lean towards taking the points in
1:10:11
Speaker 1: that one. Then, of course we have the Valero Alamobile,
1:10:15
Speaker 1: which has been that for a while at the Alamodome
1:10:18
Speaker 1: where UTSA plays. This is gonna be between USC and TCU.
1:10:25
Speaker 1: I think TCU is probably the way to be looking
1:10:27
Speaker 1: in this one, man. I mean, USC they had high
1:10:30
Speaker 1: aspirations this year. They thought they could make the playoff
1:10:32
Speaker 1: this year. Man. They were a ranked team, and they're
1:10:35
Speaker 1: a team that's they always have those lofty goals, man,
1:10:38
Speaker 1: and they definitely did. They did not accomplish them. They
1:10:42
Speaker 1: fell short. So are they're really gonna be that excited
1:10:44
Speaker 1: about playing in the Alamobile? Probably not. Whereas a TCU,
1:10:48
Speaker 1: I mean, they have been kind of a weak program reasaly.
1:10:50
Speaker 1: I think TCU did get back to a bowl last year.
1:10:53
Speaker 1: But TCU might be more excited about it, man, because
1:10:55
Speaker 1: they do get to face kind of a premier football
1:10:58
Speaker 1: program in USC. TCU gets to play somewhat close to
1:11:02
Speaker 1: home as well, in Texas at least, so probably have
1:11:05
Speaker 1: more of a crowd maybe showing up for this one.
1:11:07
Speaker 1: Of the USC does have a lot of fans, but
1:11:09
Speaker 1: I think TCU might be the way to look in
1:11:11
Speaker 1: that when they're a six and a half point dog
1:11:13
Speaker 1: in that one as it stands right now. Then on
1:11:17
Speaker 1: New Year's Eve, we have the rely Aquest Bowl. Because
1:11:21
Speaker 1: of course the New Year's Bowls are like the big
1:11:25
Speaker 1: New Year's Six Bowls are all the playoff games now,
1:11:28
Speaker 1: and some of them get played a little bit earlier now.
1:11:32
Speaker 1: But yes, we have the relya Quest Bowl on December
1:11:34
Speaker 1: thirty first, so we get early afternoon games before the
1:11:39
Speaker 1: big boys get to play in the playoff games after this,
1:11:41
Speaker 1: but rely a Quest is gonna be Iowa and Vandy
1:11:44
Speaker 1: at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, so another game hosted
1:11:48
Speaker 1: by the Buccaneers here that stadium. This game, I think
1:11:54
Speaker 1: both these teams are pretty disappointed, to Iowa and Vandy,
1:11:58
Speaker 1: maybe more so Vandy because I think Vandy later in
1:12:01
Speaker 1: the season really thought they might have a chance to
1:12:03
Speaker 1: make the playoff. Iowa, once they lost to Oregon, they
1:12:06
Speaker 1: kind of knew they weren't going to and Iowa didn't
1:12:08
Speaker 1: really have those aspirations to start the season. You're also
1:12:12
Speaker 1: looking at Iowa like a punishing defense against a Vandy
1:12:15
Speaker 1: team it's more offense, even though they do face punishing
1:12:19
Speaker 1: defenses in the SEC. But you know, I like defenses, man,
1:12:22
Speaker 1: I was getting four points in that one. I think
1:12:24
Speaker 1: the public is gonna be on the Vandy side in
1:12:26
Speaker 1: that one because they liked their offense, So I would
1:12:28
Speaker 1: somewhat lean towards Iowa in that game. Then we have
1:12:32
Speaker 1: the Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl, which is in El
1:12:34
Speaker 1: Paso at the sun Bowl Stadium, which is gonna be
1:12:39
Speaker 1: Arizona State and Duke. Which one of these teams is
1:12:43
Speaker 1: more disappointed? I mean probably Duke. Duke fairly late in
1:12:47
Speaker 1: the season thought they could well win the Well, obviously
1:12:50
Speaker 1: they thought they could win. They did win the a CC.
1:12:52
Speaker 1: What am I saying? They won the ACC championship, but
1:12:55
Speaker 1: they did not get into the playoff. I mean, I
1:12:57
Speaker 1: think that was already determine that even if they won
1:12:59
Speaker 1: the ACC, then weren't going to be able to make
1:13:02
Speaker 1: the playoffs. So Duke, I don't even know what they're
1:13:04
Speaker 1: gonna have in this game, and they're gonna go out
1:13:07
Speaker 1: to El Paso. I don't know they're gonna be really
1:13:09
Speaker 1: excited about going to play in the Desert. Arizona State
1:13:12
Speaker 1: at the very least is in more familiar a more
1:13:17
Speaker 1: familiar area of the country here, at least Arizona State.
1:13:20
Speaker 1: I'm assuming they still won't have Levitt because I think
1:13:23
Speaker 1: he's their quarterback. He got hurt more than halfway through
1:13:27
Speaker 1: the season. He's he's out, so I assume he's not
1:13:30
Speaker 1: gonna be there. So maybe it'll be a chance for
1:13:32
Speaker 1: Arizona State's backup to get in there and get excited
1:13:35
Speaker 1: about playing in a bowl. The game seems to it
1:13:40
Speaker 1: seems to be a game where you want to look
1:13:41
Speaker 1: more towards Arizona State in my opinion, either a one
1:13:45
Speaker 1: and a half point dog to Duke in that game.
1:13:49
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think the public, based on what
1:13:50
Speaker 1: they last saw, they might be on the Duke side
1:13:53
Speaker 1: of the Arizona might be a little bit. Arizona State
1:13:56
Speaker 1: might be a little bit disappointed because they won the
1:14:00
Speaker 1: Big Twelve championship last year, so they definitely fell short
1:14:03
Speaker 1: of that this year, and they thought they could do
1:14:04
Speaker 1: that again. The cheese It Citrus Bowl, which by the way,
1:14:08
Speaker 1: they used to be a cheese It Bowl that I
1:14:10
Speaker 1: think was a different bowl, and now cheese It they're traders, man.
1:14:14
Speaker 1: They switched sponsors to the Citrus Bowl, which is in Orlando, Florida,
1:14:19
Speaker 1: on that same day, on December thirty. First, I guess
1:14:24
Speaker 1: this is a Michigan in Texas. Now, which one of
1:14:29
Speaker 1: these teams is more disappointed? Probably Texas because Texas. They
1:14:33
Speaker 1: were in like the semifinals last year. Man Texas, and
1:14:35
Speaker 1: they started off the season ranked number one in the country,
1:14:38
Speaker 1: and now they're in the cheese a Citrus Bowl. I mean,
1:14:41
Speaker 1: they're probably not that excited about that, even though they
1:14:44
Speaker 1: do get to face Michigan, who is, you know, a
1:14:47
Speaker 1: premier name here in Michigan. But Michigan didn't have aspirations
1:14:51
Speaker 1: as lofty as that this year. Man, they were maybe
1:14:54
Speaker 1: expected to maybe an outside chance to get to the
1:14:56
Speaker 1: Big Ten championship game. Michigan they have less experience though,
1:15:01
Speaker 1: because they do have a freshman quarterback here, but they're
1:15:04
Speaker 1: probably gonna be the team it's at least more excited
1:15:06
Speaker 1: to be here. Although Michigan, I mean it seems like
1:15:09
Speaker 1: deja vous, right, because they think Michigan that was the
1:15:11
Speaker 1: case last year or two with Michigan, Right, they beat
1:15:14
Speaker 1: Alabama in their bowl last year and kind of what
1:15:17
Speaker 1: was kind of a similar setup to this one, getting
1:15:19
Speaker 1: an SEC team that thought they could win the championship
1:15:22
Speaker 1: and that fell way short of that mission. Michigan just
1:15:25
Speaker 1: gets to clean up against those teams. Michigan probably the
1:15:28
Speaker 1: right side and that when they're four and a half
1:15:30
Speaker 1: point dog. Texas not as good as a favorite man
1:15:35
Speaker 1: because Texas they have pretty questionable offense and their defense
1:15:38
Speaker 1: is really good laying points maybe not great with them.
1:15:40
Speaker 1: Michigan also plays really good defense. It's a low total,
1:15:45
Speaker 1: pretty low forty six and a half. Then we have
1:15:48
Speaker 1: the SRS distribution Las Vegas ball on that same day
1:15:52
Speaker 1: at Allegiance Stadium, which is the Raiders Stadium in Las Vegas.
1:15:56
Speaker 1: That's Nebraska and Utah. Utah probably the more disappointed team
1:16:02
Speaker 1: because they did have higher aspirations and I think they
1:16:05
Speaker 1: thought they could contend for the Big Twelve championship and
1:16:07
Speaker 1: maybe get to the playoff this year. They weren't able
1:16:10
Speaker 1: to do it. Although I like Utah as a team,
1:16:13
Speaker 1: I mean they were a physical defense, They're good. Nebraska,
1:16:16
Speaker 1: I believe, will still be without Dylan Ryola, so they
1:16:19
Speaker 1: will be going with Latif or whatever I soume their
1:16:22
Speaker 1: backup quarterback here. Maybe Nebraska will be more excited for
1:16:26
Speaker 1: that though, because Latif is from southern California that's close
1:16:29
Speaker 1: to Las Vegas. I know Nebraska isn't that close to
1:16:32
Speaker 1: it though. Utah probably a little bit more familiar with
1:16:36
Speaker 1: playing in Las Vegas and able to put those distractions
1:16:39
Speaker 1: aside because they play they used to be in the
1:16:42
Speaker 1: Mountain West and whatever, so they played in Las Vegas
1:16:44
Speaker 1: more often. But maybe there'll be some latif you know,
1:16:49
Speaker 1: family and friends showing up for that one. For Nebraska,
1:16:52
Speaker 1: Nebraska didn't have goals that were was lofty this year.
1:16:55
Speaker 1: Nebraska is a huge underdog here. Fourteen point underdog. Yeah,
1:17:00
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, I don't have a huge
1:17:02
Speaker 1: opinion on that, but maybe Nebraska could cover that. A
1:17:07
Speaker 1: lot of times you don't want to lay these huge
1:17:09
Speaker 1: prices in bowls because a lot of times you're going
1:17:12
Speaker 1: to be asking a team that doesn't even care about
1:17:14
Speaker 1: the game to not only win, but cover a huge number.
1:17:17
Speaker 1: Then after New Year's Day, where I think New Year's
1:17:20
Speaker 1: Day is dedicated to just the the big boys, unless
1:17:24
Speaker 1: it's a Sunday, I'm not really sure we will have
1:17:27
Speaker 1: on January tewod the Lockheed Martin Boo Armed Forces Bowl
1:17:33
Speaker 1: which is in Fort Worth, Texas. This Bowl has been
1:17:37
Speaker 1: around for a while and it's gonna be two Texas
1:17:39
Speaker 1: teams in this one, between Rice and Texas State. I
1:17:43
Speaker 1: think Rice probably gets more excited about this though, because
1:17:45
Speaker 1: Rice I don't think they've been to a bowl that recently.
1:17:49
Speaker 1: And for Texas State, I mean, I don't know. You
1:17:52
Speaker 1: have to see if Texas State has faced any triple
1:17:54
Speaker 1: option at Texas Year, because that's what Rice is gonna
1:17:57
Speaker 1: throw at You're the triple options. By the way, I
1:17:59
Speaker 1: should have mentioned that about Army as well. Army is
1:18:01
Speaker 1: going to be throwing the triple option out there in
1:18:04
Speaker 1: their bowl because that's what they do against. Who's Army
1:18:07
Speaker 1: playing again? I forget already. Yukon so a Yukon. I
1:18:13
Speaker 1: mean Yukon did face Rice this year, although they lost
1:18:15
Speaker 1: the game to Rice, and Army's triple option is better
1:18:18
Speaker 1: than Rice. But we'll see what happens with Yukon there.
1:18:22
Speaker 1: Texas State I would look at their schedule to see
1:18:24
Speaker 1: if they face the triple option attack, because that is
1:18:26
Speaker 1: what Rice is doing. Texas State massively underperformed this year, though,
1:18:31
Speaker 1: like they are a way better team than what their
1:18:33
Speaker 1: record looks like, how excited will they be? I don't know,
1:18:35
Speaker 1: because under recent years under their current coach, they've been
1:18:38
Speaker 1: pretty good and they've made a bunch of bulls recently,
1:18:41
Speaker 1: and I think they've won at least one of those bowls.
1:18:42
Speaker 1: So maybe Rice will be the more excited team. You're
1:18:45
Speaker 1: getting ten and a half points with Rice in that one,
1:18:48
Speaker 1: so maybe the way to look as taking the points there.
1:18:51
Speaker 1: Then we get the Auto Zone Liberty Bowl on that
1:18:56
Speaker 1: same day, which is in Memphis, Tennessee between I think
1:19:00
Speaker 1: hosted by Memphis University of Memphis, I believe. I'm not
1:19:03
Speaker 1: sure Navy against Cincinnati and that one Navy, of course
1:19:06
Speaker 1: running the triple option, so you gotta worry about how
1:19:09
Speaker 1: will Cincinnati do against the triple option? Cincinnati their defense
1:19:13
Speaker 1: is not very good. They're mostly a good passing attack,
1:19:18
Speaker 1: so maybe there're gonna be some points score to this one.
1:19:20
Speaker 1: Navy will Again, We're gonna have to see what Navy
1:19:22
Speaker 1: does in their Army Navy game because Army Navy is
1:19:26
Speaker 1: a big game. Man. I mean, yeah, maybe Navy will
1:19:28
Speaker 1: get up for facing Cincinnati because they're a big twelve team,
1:19:31
Speaker 1: fairly big name. But we'll see again, it's gonna somewhat
1:19:36
Speaker 1: depend on what Navy does in their in their Army
1:19:41
Speaker 1: Navy game, because again I think they treat that game
1:19:43
Speaker 1: as maybe a bigger game sometimes than the bowl that
1:19:45
Speaker 1: they're in. And then yeah, I mean, I don't know
1:19:49
Speaker 1: what else to say about this game. Really. Cincinnati is
1:19:53
Speaker 1: not a huge favor here. They're only two and a
1:19:54
Speaker 1: half point favor the total is pretty high at fifty
1:19:56
Speaker 1: six and a half. I mean, I could definitely see
1:19:58
Speaker 1: this game being an over type of game here with
1:20:01
Speaker 1: two teams that don't play very good defense. Cincinnati might
1:20:04
Speaker 1: not know how to defend the triple option, and Navy
1:20:07
Speaker 1: probably won't be able to stop Cincinnati's passing attack either.
1:20:12
Speaker 1: Cincinnati only a two and a half way favorite looks
1:20:14
Speaker 1: kind of crazy, though, So maybe taking the points with
1:20:17
Speaker 1: a team that's gonna run the football is a decent
1:20:19
Speaker 1: idea there, But I don't have much of an opinion
1:20:21
Speaker 1: on that at all. And again depending on like, I
1:20:25
Speaker 1: don't know, will Navy beat Army and like celebrate that
1:20:28
Speaker 1: too much? I don't know. Then we have oh, the
1:20:31
Speaker 1: very infamous Duke's Mayo Bowl that was doing gimmicks before
1:20:35
Speaker 1: the pop Tar bowls around I think the Duke's Mayo Bowl.
1:20:38
Speaker 1: This is gonna be the fifth or sixth iteration of this.
1:20:41
Speaker 1: And if you don't know, this is in Charlotte, North Carolina,
1:20:44
Speaker 1: and this used to be like the Belk Bowl, and
1:20:46
Speaker 1: it was some other things. I think it was some
1:20:49
Speaker 1: tire company bowl prior to I forget, It's been a
1:20:51
Speaker 1: bunch of different sponsors. But now, if you're not familiar
1:20:55
Speaker 1: with this, the winner of this game, the winning coach,
1:20:59
Speaker 1: gets Duke's Mayo dumped onto their head. I'm not joking.
1:21:04
Speaker 1: They take a mayo bath. It's unbelievably disgusting. Like I said,
1:21:08
Speaker 1: humiliation ritual. You can go see the you can go
1:21:12
Speaker 1: see the instances where it's happened. Man, it's ridiculous. I
1:21:17
Speaker 1: think it's happened now to four or five different coaches
1:21:20
Speaker 1: have done it. So that might actually be an incentive
1:21:22
Speaker 1: to lose. Like if you had a coach in this
1:21:24
Speaker 1: game that had already won this bowl before, they might
1:21:27
Speaker 1: not even want to win the game because they might
1:21:29
Speaker 1: want to avoid the mayo bath. This game is Wake
1:21:33
Speaker 1: Fours against Mississippi State. Wake is getting to play in
1:21:36
Speaker 1: their home state. But I actually think they'll get excited
1:21:39
Speaker 1: about this because Wake I don't know when the last
1:21:41
Speaker 1: time they were at a ball was Man, So I think
1:21:43
Speaker 1: Wake had a pretty good season. I think they will
1:21:45
Speaker 1: be excited out of face an SEC team. But the
1:21:48
Speaker 1: problem is Mississippi State is in it here and Mississippi
1:21:52
Speaker 1: State I don't even think they won six games, So
1:21:55
Speaker 1: that's how few teams are in these bowls. Mississippi State's
1:21:58
Speaker 1: a five win team, but they have to petition to
1:22:00
Speaker 1: get in, So I liked the five win teams though. Man,
1:22:03
Speaker 1: I'm gonna five win team petitions to get in. That's
1:22:06
Speaker 1: telling you that they want to be in that bowl,
1:22:09
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, because why would they petition
1:22:11
Speaker 1: to get in otherwise? And I agree Mississippi State does
1:22:13
Speaker 1: want to show does want to play here because they
1:22:17
Speaker 1: haven't been to a bowl for years. So I think
1:22:19
Speaker 1: both of these teams are actually gonna be excited. So
1:22:21
Speaker 1: it's not one that I really want to get get
1:22:23
Speaker 1: involved in. From a side perspective, Mississippi State's a three
1:22:27
Speaker 1: point favorite in this one. I think both teams are
1:22:29
Speaker 1: gonna be pumped up for this game. To be honest, Yeah,
1:22:34
Speaker 1: I could see both teams being excited for it. So
1:22:37
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens there. And then we have Arizona
1:22:39
Speaker 1: and SMU in the Trust and Will Holiday Bowl, which
1:22:44
Speaker 1: is in San Diego. At I don't know if this
1:22:48
Speaker 1: is San Diego State Stadium or this is in where
1:22:53
Speaker 1: the Chargers used to play. I have no idea, dude,
1:22:55
Speaker 1: but I think this stadium used to host two of
1:23:00
Speaker 1: the Bulls because there used to be the San Diego
1:23:02
Speaker 1: County Credit Union Point Setia Bowl. What happened to that one? Man?
1:23:07
Speaker 1: This game is the last bowl in the schedule and
1:23:09
Speaker 1: it's Arizona and SMU. Now, I think Arizona is going
1:23:13
Speaker 1: to be excited because they haven't been to a bowl
1:23:15
Speaker 1: for I think a year or two, So I think
1:23:16
Speaker 1: Arizona is going to be pumped up to be in
1:23:19
Speaker 1: a bowl game again. Man. Whereas SMU, they're going to
1:23:22
Speaker 1: be pretty disappointed because up until late in the season
1:23:25
Speaker 1: they were potentially gonna get into the ACC Championship and
1:23:29
Speaker 1: they had aspirations to get back into the playoff because
1:23:32
Speaker 1: that's where they were last year. So I kind of
1:23:34
Speaker 1: like Arizona and this one in Arizona a little bit
1:23:36
Speaker 1: closer to home as well in San Diego, but not
1:23:39
Speaker 1: so close that it's not going to feel like a
1:23:41
Speaker 1: reward or anything. Plus, Arizona hasn't been to a Bowl recently.
1:23:45
Speaker 1: Like I said, Arizona's actually favored in this game minus
1:23:48
Speaker 1: one and a half, where I think the public might
1:23:49
Speaker 1: look at this and come in on the SMU side,
1:23:52
Speaker 1: although Arizona maybe not because Arizona actually is the better
1:23:55
Speaker 1: record and finished ranked, which is crazy. But I kind
1:23:59
Speaker 1: of lean towards Arizona on that one, and I think
1:24:04
Speaker 1: that's it, man, that's gonna do it. So that's that's
1:24:07
Speaker 1: the whole bracket and bowl special. I gave it. I
1:24:11
Speaker 1: gave it all to you, man. I said I wasn't
1:24:13
Speaker 1: gonna do all the bulls, but I did. And we're
1:24:17
Speaker 1: gonna talk about each one again when the Bowl actually happens,
1:24:20
Speaker 1: and hopefully these lines don't move that much, but I
1:24:23
Speaker 1: want to like kind of solidify my opinions on them.
1:24:25
Speaker 1: I usually don't have that many Bowl plays, but I
1:24:27
Speaker 1: usually will have like I would say, around five or
1:24:30
Speaker 1: so throughout the entire Bowl season. So we will see
1:24:32
Speaker 1: what happens. I think I wound up slightly up in
1:24:35
Speaker 1: them last year. We'll see, and I'll probably have at
1:24:40
Speaker 1: least a couple during the actual playoff as well, which
1:24:43
Speaker 1: last year I definitely did and I did well. I
1:24:46
Speaker 1: think I had three. I think I might have gone
1:24:48
Speaker 1: three and oh with my plays in the playoff last year,
1:24:51
Speaker 1: I know I had Ohio State over Oregon was the
1:24:54
Speaker 1: one that I remember because that was an easy, easy
1:24:57
Speaker 1: win in the rose ball, I gave that one out,
1:24:59
Speaker 1: and then I definitely have I had Ohio State laying
1:25:03
Speaker 1: the points against Tennessee as well, so that was another
1:25:05
Speaker 1: one that I had, and then I think I had
1:25:07
Speaker 1: one other one in one of the early games. I
1:25:08
Speaker 1: forget what it was though, but that's gonna do it.
1:25:12
Speaker 1: Peace out for now, guys, and I'll be back in
1:25:14
Speaker 1: the morning. Hopefully it's a small board tomorrow so I
1:25:17
Speaker 1: can relax a little bit for Monday. But peace out
1:25:20
Speaker 1: for now, guys. Thanks for hanging out.