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CFP Predictions, Saban vs G5s & Ohio coaching mess · Winning Cures Everything | College Football

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Speaker 1: Who is going to advance through the CFP bracket. We're
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Speaker 1: not just talking first round, We're talking the entire bracket.
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Speaker 1: We got to discuss Ohio coach Brian Smith being fired
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Speaker 1: and the rumors that circulated him what actually happened. We're
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Speaker 1: gonna talk Nick Saban saying that G fives don't need
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Speaker 1: to be in the playoffs and Memphis is making a
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Speaker 1: higher for an offensive coordinator. It's football. I've been watching
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Speaker 1: it for forty years. Are you kidding me? You're listening
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Speaker 1: to Winning Cures Everything? Game Day, baby, Wake up or
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Speaker 1: get out. Here's your host, my confident young man, a
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Speaker 1: defirm appley, Gary Siegers. Welcome in Winning Cures Everything. It's
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Speaker 1: a college football podcast. I'm your host, Gary Siegers at
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Speaker 1: Gary WCE on all the different socials. Hopefully everybody is
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Speaker 1: having a wonderful, wonderful week thus far. It is the
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Speaker 1: week before Christmas. But the college football calendar never stops. Literally,
1:06
Speaker 1: it never stops. There's always something going on. Ralph Russo
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Speaker 1: said on the latest episode of The Audible that he
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Speaker 1: has talked to a coach that said that they've already
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Speaker 1: got there their lineup in place for the transfer portal
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Speaker 1: once it actually opens. Yes, so even though the portal
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Speaker 1: doesn't open until January second, stuff is still being done
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Speaker 1: behind the scenes. We all know how this works. It's
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Speaker 1: like NBA free agency. Now, how could you get a
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Speaker 1: deal done at twelve oh one? And this was years
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Speaker 1: ago because now they do the free agency stuff at
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Speaker 1: like five in the afternoon or whatever it is. But uh,
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Speaker 1: but how could you get deals done that quickly? You can't,
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Speaker 1: not without going ahead and talking about stuff and whatnot.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, there's already players that have decided they're going
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Speaker 1: elsewhere and they will announce when the time is right,
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Speaker 1: all that good stuff. So some people go in and
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Speaker 1: put it on Twitter like I am going to be
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Speaker 1: entering the transfer portal on January second, and okay, there
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Speaker 1: you go. So that's the way that this thing rolls.
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Speaker 1: We'll start out with a little bit of news. Memphis
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Speaker 1: is making an offensive coordinator higher and you may be
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Speaker 1: wondering who cares about that? Get well, first off, Memphis
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Speaker 1: fans care. The second, Old Dominion fans are going to
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Speaker 1: care because it's Kevin Decker, the Old Dominion offensive coordinator
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Speaker 1: that had an absolutely stellar year. So the quarterback is transferring.
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Speaker 1: He is going to enter the portal, so he did
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Speaker 1: not play the bowl game, which was a good Old
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Speaker 1: Dominion win over South Florida. But yes, so the quarterback
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Speaker 1: is going to transfer somewhere. Will he follow his offensive coordinator?
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Speaker 1: Who knows? But Charles Huff saw a chance here and
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Speaker 1: they had. It's not fully done yet, but when Pete
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Speaker 1: Nokos reports it, I feel pretty good about it. But
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Speaker 1: the rumors circulating were that he was going to go
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Speaker 1: and replace Buster Faulkner at Georgia Tech. And that is
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Speaker 1: kind of surprising that Georgia Tech would lose out on
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Speaker 1: an OC to Memphis. So I guess either Memphis is
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Speaker 1: getting serious about football, really really serious, as in, we
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Speaker 1: are going to pay a quota. And now we'll tell
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Speaker 1: you that Charles Huff, the new coach, is making about
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Speaker 1: six hundred thousand dollars less than what Ryan Silverfield was making.
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Speaker 1: I think he was at like two point six or
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Speaker 1: maybe two point seven, and Huff is coming in at two.
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Speaker 1: So maybe you were taking some of that money and
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Speaker 1: giving it to a new offensive coordinator. That is that
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Speaker 1: is possible, But it is interesting when a G five
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Speaker 1: school beats out a P four school for a coordinator
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Speaker 1: higher just simply based on the fact that the p
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Speaker 1: fours have a lot more money. Now, Memphis does have
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Speaker 1: quite a bit of not community support, corporate support for
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Speaker 1: their football program, so I guess that would make sense.
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Speaker 1: But either way, good Higher for Memphis if in fact
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Speaker 1: it does come to fruition and it gets finalized and
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Speaker 1: all that good stuff. Ohio fired their head coach, Brian Smith.
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Speaker 1: He's been on leave for weeks at this point, and
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Speaker 1: you heard all the rumblings. Eighty went in, called off
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Speaker 1: a meeting that was going on, a coach's meeting, had
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Speaker 1: an interaction with Brian Smith. He was placed on leave,
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Speaker 1: and then you got the news yesterday I believe that
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Speaker 1: he had been fired or two days ago that he
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Speaker 1: had been fired, And of course everybody's wondering. There were
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Speaker 1: all the rumors about him and maybe a nursing student
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Speaker 1: or something along those lines, and there was nothing that
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Speaker 1: came out as far as he's in the middle of
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Speaker 1: a divorce as well. There's just a lot going on,
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Speaker 1: right so there were tons of rumors, nothing substantiated until
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Speaker 1: at first last night last night, which was Wednesday night,
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Speaker 1: we started getting rumblings that he had violated the alcohol
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Speaker 1: policy of the university that he had admitted to storing
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Speaker 1: alcohol in his desk in his office and at or
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Speaker 1: admitted to and these were stored in his personnel file.
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Speaker 1: He had admitted to having drinks with assistant coaches after games.
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Speaker 1: And if that was really something that you were going
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Speaker 1: to fire coaches over, there are going to be a
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Speaker 1: lot of coaches that get fired. I mean, that's not
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Speaker 1: there are high school coaches that do this, So it
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Speaker 1: seemed a little outlandish that that was actually going to
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Speaker 1: be the issue. Well, Brian Smith and his attorney disputed
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Speaker 1: the firing for a cause because he obviously he would
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Speaker 1: like to have his buyout, which is not huge. But still,
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Speaker 1: if you're getting fired, it may be a little while
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Speaker 1: before you can get some more work. You would probably
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Speaker 1: like the money that has owed you on your contract.
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Speaker 1: That makes sense. Well, the issue, it appears, is an
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Speaker 1: extramarital affair, which again there were tons of rumors that
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Speaker 1: were going around about him and a student at Ohio University,
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Speaker 1: so that is not crazy or anything whatever, but there
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Speaker 1: was and it depends on how the contract is written.
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Speaker 1: But the school president in the attorneys for the school
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Speaker 1: came back and basically told him, Yo, you admitted to
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Speaker 1: the extra marital affair. It is with a student, and
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Speaker 1: you were going to the hotel that is owned by
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Speaker 1: the university, so it was on campus. And at that point,
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Speaker 1: I don't know how you could really fight the four
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Speaker 1: cause thing because there is the chance that people saw it,
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Speaker 1: not the actual act, but you saw you potentially entering
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Speaker 1: a hotel with somebody that's not your wife, and it
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Speaker 1: could look bad on the university. So they decided, all right,
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Speaker 1: we're done here. I was a little shocked, but when
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Speaker 1: you really dive into it. The AD was hired in September.
7:53
Speaker 1: The coach was hired late last year when Tim Alban
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Speaker 1: left to go take the Charlotte job. This is somebody
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Speaker 1: that had been on staff here for a long time.
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Speaker 1: It's it's messy, but the chances are that the AD
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Speaker 1: would have liked somebody else to have been in the
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Speaker 1: position in Ohio. I mean, they went eight and four, Like,
8:18
Speaker 1: this was a good G five team this year. This
8:21
Speaker 1: was a good MAC team. They were in contention for
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Speaker 1: the MAC. The whole thing just sucks, Like why do
8:30
Speaker 1: we keep having these is years? Just keep it in
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Speaker 1: your pants, guys, like that's I mean, Cheryl Moore should
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Speaker 1: know this, Brent Smith should know this. What are we doing?
8:42
Speaker 1: What are we doing? Nick Saban, he was quoted and
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Speaker 1: I won't give the full quotes, but basically he said
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Speaker 1: the G five's shouldn't be in the playoffs, that we
8:56
Speaker 1: don't need James Madison against Oregon because we already know
9:02
Speaker 1: what that's going to look like. And his solution was
9:08
Speaker 1: just give them the money, because every CFP first rounder
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Speaker 1: gets four million dollars, Just give them the four million
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Speaker 1: dollars and instead give us a matchup like Notre Dame
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Speaker 1: in Oregon, which would not have been the matchup, but
9:22
Speaker 1: still at this point, if Notre Dame had gotten the
9:26
Speaker 1: eleventh slot, it would have been Notre Dame at Ole Miss,
9:32
Speaker 1: so Tulane would have been playing at Oregon. You are
9:34
Speaker 1: never going to get G fives out of the CFP
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Speaker 1: unless it has agreed upon that the G fives have
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Speaker 1: their own championship, and at that point, you're really just
9:47
Speaker 1: breaking up FBS, so you're potentially just going to the
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Speaker 1: Super League. But if you're going to do that, they're
9:55
Speaker 1: gonna want more money and the whole thing could get
9:59
Speaker 1: it's our messy. It's already a disaster. He compared the
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Speaker 1: G five being in the playoff to having Triple A
10:06
Speaker 1: teams in the Major League Baseball playoffs. We're talking apples
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Speaker 1: to oranges here. But everybody seems to be having this
10:18
Speaker 1: issue and isn't one of the perks of being one
10:23
Speaker 1: of the higher seeded teams to get to play easier competition,
10:28
Speaker 1: Like would fans prefer to see Oregon in Notre Dame
10:31
Speaker 1: or ole Miss and Notre Dame? Yes, would ol Miss
10:35
Speaker 1: rather play a Notre Dame or would almost rather play
10:37
Speaker 1: tu Lane or James Madison. So that's that's kind of
10:42
Speaker 1: the way that this thing goes. It's if you're trying
10:44
Speaker 1: to compare it to another bracket. The NCAA tournament is
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Speaker 1: a good You're wanting the higher seeds so that you
10:49
Speaker 1: get to play easier competition so that you can advance
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Speaker 1: in the bracket. Ole Miss is probably going to get
10:54
Speaker 1: to go to the Sugar Bowl, Oregon is probably going
10:58
Speaker 1: to get to go to the Fiesta Bowl. And it's
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Speaker 1: not because it's bowl games. It's that they get too
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Speaker 1: advanced in the bracket. You get to play longer, you
11:05
Speaker 1: get a shot at a National Championship. So if you're
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Speaker 1: going to do that, like I think those teams would
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Speaker 1: rather play G five teams. It's still a playoff game.
11:19
Speaker 1: They're still high stakes. You still have to prepare. But
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Speaker 1: it is interesting to say the least. All Right, we're
11:27
Speaker 1: gonna go through quickly. I have not given my prediction
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Speaker 1: on who is actually going to win the National Championship,
11:34
Speaker 1: and I'm back and forth on it several different ways.
11:37
Speaker 1: I feel like anybody could win it this year. So
11:40
Speaker 1: I am gonna try and toss out some surprises. I
11:42
Speaker 1: am gonna I may be a little biased on some
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Speaker 1: of this, but let's go ahead and see what we got.
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Speaker 1: Oregon and James Madison. I am going to take Oregon
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Speaker 1: to win the game. Surprise surprise, right. I don't think
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Speaker 1: anybody's got anything different other than maybe James Madison. Fans
12:01
Speaker 1: like this is just a mismatch, especially when it comes
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Speaker 1: to a playoff game. Number nine seed Alabama against number
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Speaker 1: eight seed Oklahoma. I am going to take Alabama. I
12:09
Speaker 1: think they are healed up as much as they can be.
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Speaker 1: But I mean the game against Georgia, they had eight
12:19
Speaker 1: starters out for that game. For most of that game.
12:21
Speaker 1: If not more starters. You had a lot of depth
12:25
Speaker 1: pieces that were missing in that game, and it appears
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Speaker 1: that ninety percent of those are going to be back
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Speaker 1: for this game against Oklahoma. I understand it's on the road.
12:35
Speaker 1: I understand it's tonight. I understand that Kaln de Worr
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Speaker 1: has not fared well. But I saw these two teams
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Speaker 1: play and without turnovers. I don't know that Oklahoma is
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Speaker 1: going to be able to move the ball a lot
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Speaker 1: on this Alabama defense. So with that said, I'm going
12:55
Speaker 1: to take Alabama to win the game. I think they
12:57
Speaker 1: will be the first road team to win a conference
12:59
Speaker 1: or a college football playoff game. So Alabama goes on
13:03
Speaker 1: to face Indiana. By the way, Oregon with their win,
13:06
Speaker 1: would go on to face Texas Tech. Staying in the
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Speaker 1: first round, I'm taking ole Miss over two Lane. Yes,
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Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin is gone, the offensive staff is there, so
13:17
Speaker 1: you're missing your play caller. But two Lane is really
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Speaker 1: bad against the pass and Ole Miss is really good
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Speaker 1: at throwing the football. So I'm going to take ole
13:27
Speaker 1: Miss here. There's not a lot that needs to be
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Speaker 1: explained there. So they will go on two face Georgia again.
13:35
Speaker 1: Miami at Texas A and M. That's the ten seed
13:38
Speaker 1: against the seven seed. This one is at Kyle Field,
13:42
Speaker 1: it's in College Station, it's eleven AM. I do think
13:48
Speaker 1: that the eleven am kick is going to hurt the
13:50
Speaker 1: home field advantage a little bit. And we've talked about
13:53
Speaker 1: this with Big Noon Kick and some of those. Obviously,
13:57
Speaker 1: it is a playoff game. Texas A and M fans
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Speaker 1: are going to be fired up for this. However, I'm
14:03
Speaker 1: gonna go with the upset again. I will take Miami
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Speaker 1: to win this game. Carson Beck has been in spots
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Speaker 1: like this before. Yes, on the road, he is not
14:13
Speaker 1: as good as he has been at home. But you
14:19
Speaker 1: are talking about senior leadership. You're talking about somebody that's
14:22
Speaker 1: been there before. And with Texas A and M, nobody
14:28
Speaker 1: owned that roster has been in a situation like this.
14:33
Speaker 1: They get to play at home. They do have the
14:35
Speaker 1: better running game, but when it comes to athlete for athlete,
14:42
Speaker 1: it's a pretty even matchup. And I've never seen Mike
14:47
Speaker 1: Oko in a situation like this other than they had
14:51
Speaker 1: to win the Texas game in order to make the
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Speaker 1: playoff or not make the playoffs, but to make the
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Speaker 1: SEC Championship game and they didn't look Notre Dame. They
15:03
Speaker 1: caught at the exact right time. And even that game
15:07
Speaker 1: it was on the road, but even that game came
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Speaker 1: down to a missed point after touchdown, and yeah, they
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Speaker 1: threw the ball down the field. But Notre Dame's defense
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Speaker 1: was a mess early in the season. So do I
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Speaker 1: think that they're going to be able to do some
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Speaker 1: things here? Yes? Do I think that Miami is a
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Speaker 1: better team than they have played for most of the season, also, yes,
15:34
Speaker 1: So I think that Miami and also Miami has not
15:36
Speaker 1: exactly played stellar competition either. But you know, I like
15:43
Speaker 1: I like the dogs every now and then. So I'm
15:45
Speaker 1: going to take Miami to win the game in Kyle Field,
15:49
Speaker 1: and you will have Miami against Ohio State. All right,
15:52
Speaker 1: So let's go back up to the top of the bracket,
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Speaker 1: Ore Agon in Texas Tech. Two really stingy defenses, one
16:00
Speaker 1: offense that had some trouble throughout the season, and that
16:05
Speaker 1: would be Texas Tech. Baron Morton, I believe the quarterback
16:10
Speaker 1: battle is going to go to Dante More it's in Miami.
16:13
Speaker 1: I don't think you're gonna have to worry a whole
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Speaker 1: lot about whether I do think the two defenses are
16:19
Speaker 1: going to be awesome. But I also think that I
16:22
Speaker 1: trust Oregon to be able to score and I don't
16:24
Speaker 1: know that I trust Texas Tech too, So I will
16:27
Speaker 1: take Oregon to win that game. Alabama in Indiana interesting matchup.
16:32
Speaker 1: FanDuel already has the line out for that game. Indiana
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Speaker 1: would be favored by nine and a half over Oklahoma.
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Speaker 1: They would be favored by six and a half over Alabama.
16:42
Speaker 1: I find that interesting considering the line in the Alabama
16:44
Speaker 1: Oklahoma game. Regardless, I want to take Alabama here because
16:54
Speaker 1: I think sometimes in the playoffs, this is the one
16:57
Speaker 1: team that could have a an Ohio State kind of
16:59
Speaker 1: thing if you would after the Michigan game last year,
17:03
Speaker 1: you didn't exactly have a lot of people picking Ohio
17:05
Speaker 1: State until you got to a point where you saw
17:10
Speaker 1: them come out in just boat Race Tennessee early, and
17:13
Speaker 1: at that point it was, Oh, they're geared in, They're
17:16
Speaker 1: ready to go. I don't know if Alabama can do that,
17:21
Speaker 1: but if there was a team in the playoff this
17:23
Speaker 1: year that could do it, it would be this Alabama team.
17:26
Speaker 1: They have weapons, they have a good defense, they have
17:30
Speaker 1: everything that you need to make a run. Like that.
17:35
Speaker 1: So with Indiana losing one of their key pieces on
17:40
Speaker 1: the defensive line and the fact that Indiana has skated
17:44
Speaker 1: by some competition. The Ohio State game, numerous chances for
17:50
Speaker 1: Ohio State to win that game, Iowa, numerous chances for
17:54
Speaker 1: Iowa to win that game. Oregon, Indiana played really really
17:58
Speaker 1: well there. Penn State pence to any one play goes
18:03
Speaker 1: the opposite direction, and Penn State wins that game over Indiana.
18:08
Speaker 1: If Indiana had lost to Penn State but still won
18:11
Speaker 1: the Big Ten, are we still talking about them the
18:14
Speaker 1: same way? And I don't know if we are, But
18:19
Speaker 1: the talent differential certainly goes towards Alabama. It has for
18:23
Speaker 1: multiple teams this year that Indiana has beaten. But that's
18:27
Speaker 1: a big stage. And in that situation, I mean, you
18:32
Speaker 1: want to talk about a fun coaching matchup Kaylen to
18:34
Speaker 1: Boord and Kurt Signetti. Yeah, but I will take Alabama.
18:37
Speaker 1: I'll be the one that goes out on the limb.
18:39
Speaker 1: And of course, this whole bracket goes coput if Alabama
18:43
Speaker 1: loses to Oklahoma. But we'll see, we'll see what happens,
18:48
Speaker 1: all right. So in the next round, we've got Oregon
18:50
Speaker 1: and Alabama. All right, now we will stay in the
18:54
Speaker 1: semi or the quarterfinals. Ole Miss against Georgia. This is
18:58
Speaker 1: where I think not having Lane Kiffin comes into play
19:00
Speaker 1: because Lane Kevin against Kirby Smart and Glenn Schuman was
19:05
Speaker 1: a fun matchup. You want to talk about play calling
19:08
Speaker 1: like out the Wazoo. That was a that was a game.
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Speaker 1: And I think at that point, Georgia is going to
19:17
Speaker 1: be fired up. They're going to be ready. I'm sure
19:19
Speaker 1: some of you have seen the clip that has gone
19:20
Speaker 1: around of you know, early practices for the ECFP where
19:27
Speaker 1: Kirby Smart is just absolutely dog cussing his offense, absolutely
19:32
Speaker 1: eating them alive. And you can hear it all across
19:37
Speaker 1: campus because he's miked up and he doesn't care. He
19:40
Speaker 1: is dog cussing them. That's what Kirby Smart does. That's Georgia.
19:46
Speaker 1: They will be fired up for this. I know they've
19:48
Speaker 1: already played almost once, but I will take Georgia. I'll
19:52
Speaker 1: take the team that is keeping or that has their coach.
19:56
Speaker 1: How's that good Year Cotton Bowl and everybody has been
20:02
Speaker 1: talking about, I have Texas A and M beat Miami.
20:06
Speaker 1: Then you know Texas A and M basically with the
20:09
Speaker 1: home game against Ohio State. First, Ohio State fans travel
20:12
Speaker 1: regardless of where the game is, but Ohio State fans
20:16
Speaker 1: already know that they're in the game, so they will
20:20
Speaker 1: already have at least half of the tickets bought. That
20:23
Speaker 1: won't be a problem Texas A and m I don't
20:28
Speaker 1: think it's going to be there, because when we get
20:31
Speaker 1: too early on stuff like this, it doesn't always come
20:34
Speaker 1: to fruition. So Miami and Ohio State playing in Dallas
20:38
Speaker 1: or Arlington, excuse me in Jerry world, That's what I'm
20:42
Speaker 1: curious about. And that's at this point. I think Ohio
20:47
Speaker 1: State is the play. I think they're going to be
20:49
Speaker 1: fired up because of the Big Ten Championship game loss
20:53
Speaker 1: and Miami. You know, playing Texas A and m is
20:57
Speaker 1: one thing, but playing Ohio State is something entirely different.
21:02
Speaker 1: I think Matt Patricia will be in his bag for
21:04
Speaker 1: this one and he will be confusing. And don't get
21:07
Speaker 1: me wrong, it's not like Mikelcho can't do this, but
21:10
Speaker 1: I think he can confuse Carson Beck easier than Mike
21:15
Speaker 1: Elko and his defense can. So I will take Ohio
21:20
Speaker 1: State over Miami. So our semi final matchups Oregon and
21:23
Speaker 1: Alabama playing in the Peach Bowl and Georgia and Ohio
21:29
Speaker 1: State playing in the Verbo Fiesta Bowl feels like that
21:34
Speaker 1: should be backwards. But at least Georgia won't be playing
21:38
Speaker 1: Ohio State in Atlanta like they did a few years ago,
21:41
Speaker 1: so that's certainly something. So Oregon and Alabama, I am
21:47
Speaker 1: going to go with Oregon much better team. I think
21:50
Speaker 1: Dan Lanning and company are healthier. Alabama will be healthier
21:54
Speaker 1: as well, But I do feel like Oregon is just
21:58
Speaker 1: a better overall team. If it were not for the
22:01
Speaker 1: loss to Indiana, we could be talking about Oregon as
22:04
Speaker 1: the number one seed, and in that case, I think
22:09
Speaker 1: things would be a whole lot different. So Oregon's going
22:11
Speaker 1: at it a different route than they did last year
22:12
Speaker 1: when they were to the number one seed overall and
22:14
Speaker 1: they got beat by Ohio State. But I will take
22:18
Speaker 1: Oregon to make the National championship game. Georgia and Ohio State.
22:24
Speaker 1: Everybody's been talking about Ohio State and how great this
22:27
Speaker 1: defense has been all season and all this they've averaged
22:32
Speaker 1: or nobody has scored more than seventeen points on them,
22:34
Speaker 1: and et cetera, etc. And we'll talk about the fact
22:37
Speaker 1: that Ohio State is beaten what three or four straight
22:41
Speaker 1: SEC teams. I think Georgia is peaking at the right time.
22:47
Speaker 1: I don't think it's necessarily the offense that's going to
22:51
Speaker 1: do it. I think the defense is lights out. And
22:53
Speaker 1: when you are going with a quarterback that, yeah, this
22:58
Speaker 1: was his first year starting, but he's a little bit older.
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Speaker 1: He's not Stetson by any stretch of the imagination. But
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Speaker 1: Gunner Stockton is a pretty good quarterback, and Julian saying
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Speaker 1: when he has faced tougher defenses, it has not been great.
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Speaker 1: He's not overwhelming by any stretch of the imagination. And
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Speaker 1: if you have trouble with Indiana, I certainly think you're
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Speaker 1: going to have trouble with Georgia. So I will take
23:23
Speaker 1: Georgia to beat Ohio State. So we will have a
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Speaker 1: rematch of Dan Lanning's first game as head coach with
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Speaker 1: Georgia and Oregon facing off in hard Rock Stadium in
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Speaker 1: Miami for the National Championship, which is interesting to say
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Speaker 1: the least. And it's right here that I really get
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Speaker 1: to like, I can't figure out who I would think
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Speaker 1: is going to be the better team. I think I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna be a bit contrarian, but I'm gonna take Oregon
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Speaker 1: to win their first national championship. I trust that Oregon team,
24:15
Speaker 1: and you've got coaches that are leaving. Obviously, both coordinators
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Speaker 1: are gonna be gone, and I don't know that that's
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Speaker 1: going to be as big of a distraction as you
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Speaker 1: might think with tosh Lapoi and will Stein right, both
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Speaker 1: of them leaving for the cow and Kentucky jobs. But
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Speaker 1: I do think Oregon has a real chance to go
24:40
Speaker 1: on a run here do some really big things. And
24:45
Speaker 1: they've done kind of the same thing that Georgia did,
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Speaker 1: where yeah, you brought in some transfer pieces, but for
24:51
Speaker 1: the most part of this roster was built through high
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Speaker 1: school recruiting and Dan Lanning and Kirby Smart. Of course,
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Speaker 1: Landing used to be Herby Smart, Stephen's coordinator. They're both ferocious.
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Speaker 1: So if I think it's going to be a coin
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Speaker 1: flip game, I'll go with the team that I think
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Speaker 1: has the better quarterback, and I think that's Dante Moore.
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Speaker 1: So you're national champion for the twenty twenty five College
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Speaker 1: Football Playoff, I believe will be the Oregon Ducks. So
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Speaker 1: I've got some fun knockouts here. If the number one
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Speaker 1: seed gets knocked out in the Rose Bowl for the
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Speaker 1: second short year, I have a feeling that teams are
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Speaker 1: not going to want to be that number one seed
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Speaker 1: in the Rose Bowl. So we'll see. But we've already
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Speaker 1: seen it once. We might as well, so I'm trying
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Speaker 1: to be a little different, trying to go with some fun,
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Speaker 1: not pick favorites, all that good stuff. I do think
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Speaker 1: it is. It is going to be a lot of fun.
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Speaker 1: Who knows what to expect because we have got a crazy,
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Speaker 1: crazy college football playoff coming up. All right. With that said,
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