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Bama Bob previews the College Football Playoff, Matt Postins talks Big 12 & Football Picks presented by Circa Sports · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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  I'm Miller Condon, our number 2. Welcome back to it with you
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  until 2:00. Bottom of the hour, Matt post
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  since Heartland College Sports on the Big 12.
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  We'll make our picks before we get out of here at 2:00 and then
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  we are off on Wednesday. We are off on Thursday.
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  We'll be back. All the shows are back on
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  Friday. The only local programming
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  tomorrow is the first quarter with Heather and Alec from six
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  until 9. Let's get Bama Bob in here as we
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  take a look at some of these games, the four playoff games
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  and a couple of the other Bulls sprinkled in.
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  Bama, how are you? Doing good, Ken.
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  We're getting into the meat of it.
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  Next three days are good. No, they really are.
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  No doubt about that. Hey, before we get into the
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  games, one of the games I didn't put on the list to talk about
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  because I just don't see it very, I mean, Trent and I are
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  going to be watching. I win Vandy the Sun, the Sun
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  Bowl won't get a lot of our eyeballs, but that's Gary
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  Danielson swan song. So we should at least because I
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  thought he was really good, whether he's working with Verne
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  or whether he was working with Nestler.
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  Obviously Bama, that 230 CBS time slot for the longest time
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  was appointment TV. I mean, if if I were I was state
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  weren't playing in that window, I would be there without fail.
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  I just love listening to those two.
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  Danielson had a heck of a career and it comes to an end tomorrow.
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  Yeah, I think Ken, and I mean you correct me if if I'm wrong,
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  but I think that 230 CBS is kind of what drew you into the sport,
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  wasn't it? A.
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  Lot of times, yeah, for sure. With the SEC and go, you know,
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  and really got you into but I agree, Danielson.
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  I, I, I think I said it before, right?
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  I, I think the, the, the way he can point to it that he's doing
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  a good job is back when he was the league guy for the SEC,
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  every fan base thought he hated their team.
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  Every one of them, right? LSU, Alabama, Auburn, Tennessee,
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  they all think, oh, he hates, you know, he hates.
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  And I think he was, I think he was pretty fair and balanced and
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  biased or whatever. Now, yes, did he heap praise on
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  Nick Saban in Alabama? Sure.
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  But kind of a big run they had there.
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  You know, there was a lot of praise to be heaped.
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  But I always, I always admired as well his appreciation for the
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  Army Navy game. He's called a lot of those and
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  he kind of, you know, went off, you know, on that one, you know,
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  this last one, you know, kind of gave his thoughts on the game
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  and knew what a privilege it's been.
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  But yeah, you're right. It's it's a little bit of a
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  shame that this is the only ball game CBS has and not many are
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  going to be watching it. I've always enjoyed the sun
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  Ball. But I mean, I thought, I think
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  the setting is nice and they always, you know, have a pretty
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  compelling game generally. But we all know ball games have
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  changed. But I agree, I think he deserves
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  a little bit of a mention. I don't know.
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  I'm sure he'll do a tribute to him as well and, you know, try
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  to get some tears or whatnot. I don't know what else they'll
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  do. Anybody else will be beyond that
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  if there's any media pieces or the athletic or wherever.
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  But he he has been good. And I don't know who I haven't
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  seen. Maybe I have, I haven't.
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  No, I haven't. Either play some yet.
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  I don't know if he's been named, replacement's been named, but
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  they got some big shoes to fill. No doubt, Trent.
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  Let's get into the quarterfinals.
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  We're calling it out of the of the playoff game.
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  Let's start tomorrow night with Miami and Ohio State.
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  Miami's getting 9 1/2 points. That's a lot of points.
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  You made a point earlier. I agree with you.
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  How are they gonna score? Yeah, right.
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  How are they gonna score? How do you see the game?
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  That's how I lay it out. I think this is going to be
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  another ugly game. Maybe not ten seven like we saw
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  the last time we saw Miami, but probably something pretty
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  similar. The Miami defense is playing it
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  at elite level. Ohio State I don't love
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  offensively and I don't know if I love Ryan Day back calling
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  plays because we see that's a guy that his butt hole puckers
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  when things get a little tight. We see that plenty of times in
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  the past. However, I just don't believe
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  enough in this Miami offense that they can generate enough.
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  Then they get a short field. Can they get a pick six?
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  Can they do something like that? Sure.
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  And I think that's about the only path to victory.
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  I think it's going to be just a slow, methodical Ohio State's
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  better. Miami can't do anything
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  offensively and they get the win.
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  Bama, Ohio State's been the favorite throughout the duration
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  of this. They finally lost the game.
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  There's just something about this team I think is missing.
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  They've got great receivers. They got a terrific defense.
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  Julian Saints had a nice campaign.
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  I don't know what it is, but I think Miami's going to make this
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  a game. Bama.
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  Yeah, I think it all come, all is going to come down to Carson
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  Beck. This is why you brought him in.
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  We've talked about it a few times this year.
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  He's a guy that can win you a game.
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  He's also a guy that can throw you out of a game and which he
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  did against Louisville with the four interceptions had, you
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  know, if they don't win that game, they'd, you know, probably
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  been in the ACC championship game, maybe a chance to get a
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  higher receipt, a buy, who knows?
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  I agree with you on Ohio State. It doesn't Have they just been
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  kind of strolling through the regular season?
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  That's that's the question. Now they've now they've got 3,
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  they're going to have three solid opponents back-to-back to
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  back. You don't generally get that in
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  the Big 10. You don't have to generally run
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  a three-week or three opponent gauntlet, maybe back-to-back,
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  but rarely 3. Look, we know what Ohio State's
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  going to do, right? If I'm, if I'm Ohio State, I'm
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  going to I'm not going to let Fletcher run for 170, OK?
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  He's just not going to do that against me and Malachi.
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  Tony is kind of The X Factor for Miami, but Ohio State has
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  athletes that can run him down, right?
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  So he might get loose, but in instead of taking it 70 on a
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  punt return or, you know, one of these, you know, flare screens
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  or whatever, bubble screens, some some kind of way to design
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  him to to, you know, get him into space.
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  Maybe he takes it for 20 or 25 yards instead of 70 and a
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  touchdown. So I just think that their
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  offense, I'm with you. I haven't seen enough out of the
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  Miami offense to think, wow, they're going to they're going
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  to put up the 21 to 24 points against Ohio State.
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  I think at a minimum that they're going to need to win.
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  I agree on their defense and I think they're going to pressure
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  the crap out of sailing those. Those ends are NFL defensive
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  ends. They are, they are Sunday guys
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  playing on Saturday or Thursday in this case.
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  You get the point. They're going to be high first
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  round draft picks. They're difference makers.
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  You know, they're they're Michael Parsons type players.
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  Is that going to be enough? You know, to get pressure on
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  him? They're going to have to I think
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  stop the running game and somebody's got to shut down
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  Jeremiah Smith and those receivers and I Miami's got a
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  good secondary. I don't think they're great.
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  They're great up front. But if you give him time to
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  throw, I think saying can make enough plays.
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  I I think Miami, I'm sorry, I think Ohio State wins.
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  They probably cover. I'm going to say, you know,
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  2717, something like that. I could see that.
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  Again, Miami is going to need some help.
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  Like you said, short field. If they when they get in the red
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  zone, they're going to have to score touchdowns, I think maybe
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  not every time, but a couple of times.
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  They they can't just settle for field goals.
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  They'll need something in the kicking game, whatever.
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  I think if they if Ohio State helps them, I think they're
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  going to have a shot to keep it close.
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  If Ohio State does it, they're just the better team, more
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  talented. In my mind, they've been the
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  best team all year, even though they've lost the game and
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  Indiana has it. So I think Ohio State wins and
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  moves on, and I think they cover the 9 1/2 barely.
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  Oregon, Texas Tech Trent, I can't wait for this game.
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  It's the best match up and it's I.
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  Think it is right? I mean.
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  One's got defensive issues. They do well.
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  James Madison ran up and down the field in the second-half, in
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  fourth quarter, fourth quarter, second-half, right?
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  I mean they they covered and Oregon still had their dudes out
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  there. Not all of them.
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  Some of them, some of them. I'm not concerned about that at
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  all. I think this comes down to the
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  Oregon run game against that front, Rodriguez in the middle
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  of it defensively of Texas Tech Obviously what they have on the
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  outside with the guys coming off the edge with Bailey, who's an
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  absolute stud in the middle with Hunter who's just a behemoth in
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  there. The Oregon offensive line
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  though, for my money is the best in college football.
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  I know Iowa won the Joe Moore Award and maybe it's just that
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  game that we saw in Kennick Stadium that taints it there.
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  The way that they move a very good Iowa defensive line is eye
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  opening. If they run the ball, I think
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  this is game over. I don't think they will.
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  I go back and forth. It comes down to this for me
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  though, eventually. Barry Morton, he was obviously
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  injured throughout the back half of the season.
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  He's had a lot of time off. If we see close to 100% Baron
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  Morton, I think Texas Tech wins. I think he has to win the game
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  for Texas Tech to pull it off. That's what I anticipate is
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  going to be the difference in this one, and this is one I'm
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  probably going to sit out. This is a live betting
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  opportunity. I'm not going to play this one
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  likely preflop. I'm going to have to wait to see
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  exactly how Morton looks before I'm willing to jump in and
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  invest on this game. Yeah, I'm with you.
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  I think it's a great match up for a lot of reasons.
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  The offensive line, Texas Tech's defense, absolutely elite on
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  both sides of the football. And that is the early game on
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  New Year's Day. Well, let's get Bama's thoughts
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  on this one. Bama.
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  Well, the the my biggest thought is I'm glad that we're going to
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  get that Rodriguez is going to get the nation's eyeballs on him
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  because let's face it, you play in Lubbock.
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  I understand the Big 12 championship game, but that was
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  against BYU. They don't they've gotten a lot
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  of eyeballs this year. I'm not saying that they've been
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  anonymous, but let's face it, he doesn't play in Columbus, he
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  doesn't play in Athens, he doesn't play in Tuscaloosa, any
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  of these big you know Austin, wherever.
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  I think he's going to have just the game of his life tomorrow.
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  I do and I think this is I agree with you and I don't bet but
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  because I can't is the only reason.
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  But the. Wrong state.
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  Wrong state, right? I just don't think I have no
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  feel for this. I have a feel that it's going to
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  be just just a war in the trenches.
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  I'll put it that way. I I tend to agree that I don't
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  take a whole lot from that JMU kind of running up down the
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  field a little bit. Oregon was never in danger of
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  losing that game. So I think it's when you get
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  into that type of an opponent and that type of a situation, we
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  have such a big lead. You know, your coaches are
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  always preaching play to the standard, play to the standard
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  and it's just hard sometimes to do that against the team that
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  you know you're better than them.
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  I don't think they they probably think they're better than Texas
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  Tech, but I think they know what they're facing.
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  This is just going to be, I think it's going to be a line of
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  scrimmage game. I know there's weapons all over
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  the field, but I think this is a line of scrimmage and whoever
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  wins it is going to win the game.
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  I think turnovers, they're always critical, right?
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  It's just it's a cliche, but in this one, you give one of those
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  two teams extra possessions and that's where you're going to get
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  in trouble because I think they're so this is a great
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  matchup. I think, you know, and I don't
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  really think it's a contrast to styles.
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  I think they both have offenses that can put up points and
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  they're both physical at the line of scrimmage on both sides.
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  This is you're right, this is going to be fun.
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  It's probably maybe the least ballyhooed of all of them,
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  right, But I think it's going to be the best game you might be.
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  And I think it's a great lead in to, you know, to the Rose Bowl
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  and I don't have a feel for it. I kind of agree with Trent on
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  that. I just I think it's going to be
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  fun to watch. I think we're going to get a
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  little bit of old school football here, you know,
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  defense, special teams, field position, they'll score, but I
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  don't think this is nothing down the field game.
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  And I just I can't wait to watch Rodriguez play a truly elite
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  opponent, which I don't think they've done yet this year.
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  And I know the Big 12 is, you know, they're good.
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  They're not great. But this this best team Tech
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  Tech has faced by far. And maybe Oregon as well, though
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  they did play Indiana. So I'll give him that.
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  But I can't wait for this when I'm with you.
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  This is going to be fun and. Lanning said the right thing.
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  This game should be played in Lubbock.
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  Yes, he would be playing a road game.
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  Yeah, this is garbage. Get rid of this crap.
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  Why is this game being played in Miami?
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  And there's still two more travel games in front of it.
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  Stupid. Get us to a 16 team playoff.
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  First two rounds at home I think.
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  We're heading in that direction. I really do just.
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  Just think about this real quick, right?
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  Let's say that Miami was going to Columbus tomorrow or or
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  Wednesday, right? Great.
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  We talked about the game in in Lubbock.
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  That would be fantastic. That and Can you imagine Alabama
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  and Bloomington IN on Thursday? Yeah.
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  I mean, you know, Ole Miss in Georgia, that's an SEC game,
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  right? It'd be fun.
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  But I mean, yeah. We've seen that.
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  I understand you have to play the Rose Bowl, I get it.
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  But could you imagine again, Alabama, with all the talk with
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  Sick Daddy about the SEC and all this kind of stuff, rolling in
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  to Bloomington tomorrow. How crazy that environment.
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  Would be. That would be off to.
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  Charge. It's simple.
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  You play the first round when conference championships are
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  now. Yep.
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  Take a week off. You play the quarterfinals. 18th
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  and 19th weekend next year. Semifinals are on the 1st with
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  the Rose in the Sugar Bowl every single year.
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  That's the semifinals. Your championship the Monday
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  afterwards. Next year would be Monday,
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  January 11th, right after the NFL season concludes.
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  On that Sunday you go to the national championship.
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  You stay away from the playoffs. It's a simple fix.
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  Who cares about the Orange Bowl and the Gator Bowl and all the
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  other? No move on.
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  Do the best thing for your sport.
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  They won't cuz they're idiots. I've got nothing to add.
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  I wish I had an opinion on this. You know, I really wish one of
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  these days, one of these days, what's your opinion?
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  Let it out all. Right, let's let's go to that
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  Rose Bowl that we talked about. No, it won't be in Bloomington.
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  It'll be in Pasadena, perhaps under the rain.
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  There was forecast Alabama Indiana tread Condon numbers
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  about a touchdown most places 6 1/2 you can find.
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  Bam. I haven't said it to you.
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  I've said it to our audience a couple of different times.
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  If you took away the emblems, you took away Alabama versus
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  Indiana. This is Big 10 champion versus
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  6th place SEC team. Indiana's favored by two
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  touchdowns, not one. I think this thing could get out
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  of hand. I think it get ugly.
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  Alabama, great comeback, nice win on the road against
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  Oklahoma. They're just not playing very
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  good football. Indiana, they remember all the
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  crap that was spewed by SEC wonks, including your boy down
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  there in Alabama. They are going to be ready for
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  this one and I think Indiana cruises.
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  I think it could get that way. I don't believe it will.
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  Yeah. Listen, this is what this is who
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  Indiana wanted, right? This is who they've wanted.
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  They say they wanted last, not just an SEC team.
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  They want Alabama. Now, Georgia has probably taken
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  the man on. By the way, I'd argue that
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  Alabama is the 2nd place team in the SEC, not this second, but
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  we'll just that's a different day.
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  Georgia's kind of taken the mantle from saving, right?
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  Even before he retired. They won the back-to-back
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  national championships. You know, they're #3 this year
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  with the one loss. So Georgia is now the standard
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  in the SEC. In the last three to five years,
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  Alabama was it for 10 to 15 years, right?
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  And everybody got tired of them. Everything else.
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  This is who Indiana wants. I think they've got it.
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  I think they're going to have to try to control their emotion a
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  little bit because they're going to be so amped up to finally get
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  them. I think they're going to be a
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  little bit surprised at how good they are up front.
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  But this, this is where and I've seen all the numbers, everybody
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  down here trying to say, well, look at Mendoza's numbers
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  against good teams and against Oregon, against Iowa and how
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  he's Penn State, how he struggle and he racks up all the numbers,
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  you know, against the the mutts of the big 10.
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  Ain't buying that, right? The guy he's he's and yes, the
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  numbers are the numbers. I understand this is a complete
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  football team that Signetti has that he's built there.
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  And I've said it a couple of times.
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  The most impressive thing to me was how they beat Ohio State in
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  the Big 10 championship game. They didn't have to go up and
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  down the field 45 to 44, whatever it was to beat them,
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  they out they out slugged them. And I didn't think you could do
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  that to Ohio State and they did it.
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  Alabama, the absolute. There's two keys for them.
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  Obviously turnovers again, right, You can't.
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  They're going to have to generate momentum.
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  They are going to have to run the ball and I don't know how
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  they're going to do it because they haven't been able to do it
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  all season. This is what you are right now
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  if you're if Ty Simpson throws the ball 30 to 35 times, they do
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  get blown out. I think look, there's I don't
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  know of a weakness at Indiana has and we're going to find out
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  tomorrow and unless Indiana's they have earned that number one
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  seed. They earned it from last year
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  and then again this year. They followed it up right.
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  It's kind of like a skins game. They validated it.
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  They've beaten they've beaten Ohio State, they've beaten
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  Oregon. Alabama had the nice run in the
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  middle. The best I ain't the best win of
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  the season. The regular season was going
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  into Athens and beaten Georgia about for anybody.
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  You're not going to find a better win at the time.
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  But look, they're going to have to figure something out.
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  And I think India is going to have to help them a little bit.
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  If this game gets, if it's, you know, 10 to nothing, 13,
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  nothing, 14, gosh forbid if it's 17 to nothing like it was in
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  Oklahoma, it's over. Indiana's not going to hand
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  them, you know, a dropped punt, a stupid play, a pick 6.
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  I don't think they're going to get that, but I think Alabama
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  will hang around. Indiana is a better team.
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  Alabama has some players that can hurt you.
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  Ryan Williams is another guy. He has got to catch the freaking
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  football. If they had.
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  A bad year, Bama. He has had a bad year with drops
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  and it has infected the entire team all season.
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  Jeremy Bernard's got to play better.
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  They're going to have to figure out ways to get these guys open
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  and protect Ty Simpson. And they've struggled to do
• 17:38
  that. And he gets happy feet in the
• 17:40
  last five or six weeks. You can look at it.
• 17:43
  Herbstreak broke it down. He gets happy feet back there.
• 17:46
  I think Indiana wins. I think they cut.
• 17:48
  I don't know what the line is. You said about a touchdown.
• 17:50
  I think they probably, yeah, I think they're going to cover
• 17:53
  that. It wouldn't stun me if Alabama
• 17:56
  were to win, but it would, it would surprise me a lot.
• 17:58
  Indiana's a better team. Never thought I'd say that when
• 18:00
  Indiana and Alabama play line up in the Rose Bowl that that
• 18:04
  Indiana will be the better team. But they are, and now's their
• 18:07
  chance. All the talk and everything
• 18:08
  else, shut up, go out and prove it.
• 18:10
  I'll tell you, when they looked looked to me like that, I was
• 18:14
  dead wrong on this team. Remember when they beat Illinois
• 18:16
  and I loved Illinois? Yeah, And they beat him 63 to
• 18:20
  10. Oh, yeah.
• 18:21
  Yoi, let's go to the the Nightcaps, the Sugar Bowl TC.
• 18:25
  Yeah, I mean, just because it's a a game that we already saw,
• 18:29
  it's an all SEC matchup. It just OK, it doesn't feel like
• 18:32
  a playoff game. And Chambliss was so good during
• 18:35
  the beginning of that game going back to was October 18th when
• 18:39
  these two teams faced off until the fourth quarter.
• 18:41
  He went one of 10 for one yard in the fourth quarter.
• 18:44
  Felt like Georgia salt him. And this Georgia defense is a
• 18:47
  whole lot better than it was in the middle of October.
• 18:49
  I think Georgia cruises. That's the game that Kirby Smart
• 18:53
  got the time out or what? There was a time.
• 18:55
  That was the Auburn game. That was the Auburn game, Yeah.
• 18:57
  That was in, yeah, where he said he was.
• 19:01
  That was in Jordan Hair. OK, All right.
• 19:03
  Well, this game. Your thoughts on this rematch?
• 19:07
  Hard for me to get excited. If Lane Kiffin were there, I
• 19:10
  would give. I understand why Cesarean is
• 19:14
  going to call place. His time's got to be being split
• 19:17
  right now. Golding is trying to and maybe
• 19:20
  he can tighten up the defense a little bit.
• 19:22
  This is all about experience for me.
• 19:25
  It's all about coaching staff. For me, it's in, it's in New
• 19:28
  Orleans. I think both teams are going to
• 19:30
  have a good turn out there. I don't know that it'll be 5050,
• 19:34
  maybe 6040 Georgia. But listen again, this, this is
• 19:39
  where I think the loss of Kiffin really shows up and bites them.
• 19:42
  Again, hard for me to get excited about it because we have
• 19:45
  seen it. They can never get over the big
• 19:49
  the the real Ole Miss with Kiffin can never get over the
• 19:51
  hump of, you know, an Alabama or Georgia are really a good good
• 19:55
  team, top five team and I don't think it's going to happen
• 19:58
  tomorrow without him. Could be surprised Gunner
• 20:02
  Stockton just he just wins. He just goes out and does what
• 20:04
  you have to do to win And and I think they just move on and.
• 20:08
  And set up a really nice match up for the semi final with Ohio.
• 20:12
  State and we will talk. About that big time.
• 20:14
  Yeah, we'll talk about that next week.
• 20:16
  We'll recap these games. Oh well then our final minute.
• 20:19
  Is there one other game, Trent, that you're looking at one of
• 20:21
  the non playoff game? I would love to get Bama's
• 20:24
  perspective on Vanderbilt. Iowa.
• 20:25
  All right, Fire away, Bama. Yeah, I think it's going to be
• 20:28
  exciting. I mean, Bobby is going to play.
• 20:30
  I don't know if he's going to play the whole game.
• 20:31
  That's going to be interesting to me, OK?
• 20:34
  He's going to bring some excitement to this game.
• 20:35
  He's going to bring eyeballs to this game that nobody would have
• 20:37
  paid attention to otherwise. Stowers is missing.
• 20:41
  That's going to hurt him. He's he's a safety blanket and
• 20:44
  for good reason. He's a top.
• 20:46
  He's probably a top ten pick in the draft.
• 20:48
  But listen, you're going to you're going to see him.
• 20:52
  The Iowa fans are getting an up close view of what everybody in
• 20:54
  the SEC has seen with this guy. He's tough, he's brash.
• 20:59
  He will, you know, he'll, he'll hand you the ball a couple
• 21:01
  times. You know, he'll fumble.
• 21:03
  He'll he'll make a dumb play, but he will frustrate the crap
• 21:07
  out of you too. They're going to have to be
• 21:08
  disciplined. But I think it's just it's a
• 21:10
  fun, exciting game for Iowa fans to get to see this guy up close.
• 21:15
  He's not an NFL quarterback, but boy, he's really good in college
• 21:17
  and he will frustrate the crap out of you and do not let him go
• 21:21
  off because you will hate him because he'll start, you'll
• 21:24
  start yapping and everything else.
• 21:27
  But it's it's it's he's going to bring a lot of excitement to
• 21:29
  what could otherwise just be a dull ball game.
• 21:32
  Any you? Guys, have an opinion on
• 21:34
  Michigan Texas at all? Not really.
• 21:36
  It's hard. So many of these games, it's
• 21:38
  just. Hard Yeah, tonight we've got.
• 21:40
  To bring, I like the quarterbacks right.
• 21:42
  You got Underwood and Manning right.
• 21:43
  Both of them were that's an angle, maybe the maybe the best
• 21:47
  quarterback matchup in the bowl season, you know, outside the
• 21:50
  playoffs, right, of two guys who were Heisman guys going in.
• 21:54
  Underwood never approached it. Manning had a, you know, poor
• 21:57
  season, I think by his standards.
• 21:59
  But yeah, they're both coming back.
• 22:01
  So let them face off with each other and, and see where we go.
• 22:04
  So I think that's, that's probably the and they're just, I
• 22:07
  mean, they're two brands, right? I mean two of the top, what, 567
• 22:11
  brands in in the sport. So I think Michigan's going to
• 22:14
  just welcome the distraction for everything that's going on there
• 22:17
  in the last three. Weeks.
• 22:18
  Isn't that the truth? Bam.
• 22:19
  We'll talk to you on Friday. Thank you buddy.
• 22:21
  Enjoy it guys, happy. New Year, take care, Thank.
• 22:23
  You thank you all. Right Bam and Bob.
• 22:25
  As we check in on college football, we'll check on the Big
• 22:28
  12 with Matt Poston's. He will join Trenton I, Nexus,
• 22:31
  Miller and Condon on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
• 22:35
  All right, Mallory Condon just passed 130.
• 22:36
  Our pick's still to come. Top of the hour off the bench.
• 22:39
  Sean Roberts, Connor Ferguson, I believe Lucas still off.
• 22:44
  One more day. Let's get to Matt Post.
• 22:47
  He's snowboarding. That's what he's doing in Iowa,
• 22:50
  no? Colorado.
• 22:52
  Good for him. Matt Post is Heartland College
• 22:55
  Sports. He knows that we have to have
• 22:57
  his picks in right. Yes, good.
• 22:59
  Hello Matt Postons, how are you? Happy new year Heartland College
• 23:02
  Sports recovers the Big 12. How are you, Matt?
• 23:05
  I'm good. I'm not snowboarding.
• 23:07
  Well, we're we're grateful for that because we get to spend
• 23:09
  some time with you and a lot of ground to cover with you.
• 23:11
  I want to get to Texas Tech, obviously, and what lies ahead
• 23:15
  is they're going to face Oregon. But I just got to get your take
• 23:17
  on the uncharted territory that we're in, quite honestly, when
• 23:21
  it comes to the portal. I mean, two teams that you and
• 23:24
  the staff over at Heartland College Sports in Oklahoma State
• 23:26
  and Iowa State have a combined, but we've got to be approaching
• 23:29
  90 between those two schools that are in the portal.
• 23:32
  Never heard of anything like this before.
• 23:34
  I'm not saying we won't again, but that's where we're at, Matt.
• 23:38
  Yeah, I mean, this is part and parcel of coaching changes now
• 23:41
  in college football. You know, when you when you
• 23:44
  change over your head coach and you change over your staff, you
• 23:46
  know, the expectation is that you're probably going to turn
• 23:49
  over at least half your roster. I remember when Dion took over
• 23:52
  in Colorado, I want to say they probably turned over about 2/3
• 23:56
  of the roster. This is this is this is quite a
• 24:00
  bit. But you know, with Oklahoma
• 24:02
  State, it's been a slow bleed because they fired Gundy before
• 24:05
  the conference, you know, even started play with Campbell.
• 24:09
  You know, it's just they built such a great culture there with
• 24:12
  him as the head coach. And you know, nothing against
• 24:15
  Jimmy Rogers. I'm sure it's not really about
• 24:17
  him at this point. It's about the fact that they
• 24:19
  know they can go into the portal and they know that they can
• 24:22
  probably make more money than other school.
• 24:24
  Maybe some of them want to follow Campbell at Penn State.
• 24:26
  The portal opens on Friday. So we'll get a better sense of
• 24:29
  where everybody wants at that point.
• 24:31
  But it's, it's, it's pretty crazy to see that many players
• 24:35
  from two programs in the portal that they are heading for the
• 24:37
  portal at the same time. And I think that's one thing we
• 24:39
  got to clear up. You know, the portal opens on
• 24:41
  Friday. Everything that everybody's done
• 24:43
  at this point is like, I'm going in the portal on Friday, it
• 24:46
  opens. That's when the free for all
• 24:48
  begins. It's going to be like an
• 24:49
  Oklahoma land rush this year because a, you have teams in the
• 24:53
  playoff who have proven that you can use the portal to flip your
• 24:55
  program in the year and make it to the, you know, quarterfinals
• 24:58
  of the, of the playoff. And plus there's, there's clear
• 25:02
  evidence that the cap is not working.
• 25:04
  You know, there, I mean, there may be a cap on revenue sharing,
• 25:06
  but there's not a cap in the amount of money that teams are
• 25:08
  going to spend to get their rosters where they think they
• 25:11
  need to need them to be. We Fast forward to Thursday and
• 25:15
  the lid lifter on the January 1st games.
• 25:18
  Oregon, Texas Tech, Texas Tech Big 12 champion has gone very
• 25:23
  well for the Big 12, though in this new era of the playoff.
• 25:25
  What just one victory it was TCU over Michigan, The only time the
• 25:28
  Big 12 has got one for the conference as a whole.
• 25:32
  Can we overstate the importance of this game for just the way
• 25:36
  people look at this conference? Look at it in comparison, not
• 25:39
  even to the SEC and the Big 10 and what they do monetize, but
• 25:42
  just on the football field because it does feel like this
• 25:45
  Texas Tech team, they're built like the upper echelon squads.
• 25:49
  Yeah, yeah, Go back to something Bill Fennelly said it media day
• 25:52
  in October. I was asking him about the fact
• 25:54
  that, you know, there were 20 women's basketball games on
• 25:56
  national TV this year, and that was the most that the conference
• 25:59
  has had seven years. And that's a that's a good
• 26:01
  thing. He agreed that was a good thing.
• 26:03
  And I said, well, how do you get more of that because you've got
• 26:05
  so many more men's games on national TV than women's games.
• 26:08
  And he said we've got to win. We've got to win tournament
• 26:11
  games, we've got to win championships.
• 26:13
  We've got to do those kinds of things in order to get our, you
• 26:16
  know, to get our status up, so to speak.
• 26:19
  You know, the Big 12 football kind of needs to do the same
• 26:22
  thing. You know, you mentioned TCU is
• 26:23
  the only school in the conference, so there's a lot of
• 26:25
  playoff game. Part of the reason the SEC is so
• 26:28
  well respected is because in these situations, time and
• 26:32
  again, they have won more often than not.
• 26:35
  You know, you turn 2 games on New Year's Day that feature SEC
• 26:39
  teams. Those will invariably be higher
• 26:43
  rated games from a viewership standpoint and Tech and and
• 26:46
  that's unfortunate, but it's also a a part of that, you know,
• 26:50
  narrative of the Big 12 was a good conference, but it's not a
• 26:53
  great conference because it doesn't win a lot of playoff
• 26:56
  games. Tech winning a playoff game or
• 26:58
  two this time around can help. It doesn't solve the problem,
• 27:02
  but it can help because what's going to help the Big 12 is save
• 27:06
  Tech winning a couple of games, maybe getting to the national
• 27:09
  championship game and then the conference as a whole building
• 27:12
  on that next year and getting multiple teams in the playoff.
• 27:15
  This is what your mark talked about at media day in July,
• 27:18
  getting multiple teams in the playoffs because it gives you
• 27:21
  more opportunities to win a national championship.
• 27:23
  It enhances your national reputation.
• 27:26
  It's not it's not like the SEC got here overnight.
• 27:29
  They've been getting to this point for 25 years because
• 27:31
  they've been so successful in this spot.
• 27:33
  For the Big 12 to get, you have to make up that ground.
• 27:37
  I feel like they've got to start winning more of these games.
• 27:40
  And it does start with Texas Tech because they're the only
• 27:42
  Big 12 team in the playoffs. And they're probably, you know,
• 27:46
  maybe aside from that Baker Mayfield, Oklahoma team, that
• 27:49
  might be the best Big 12 team that's ever been in the
• 27:51
  playoffs. Fairpoint Matt Poston's
• 27:53
  Heartland College Sports So what's it going to take for
• 27:55
  Texas Tech to to win on Thursday?
• 27:58
  How do you see the? Game well when you get to games
• 28:01
  like this, and I feel like the Oregon Texas Tech games pretty
• 28:05
  evenly matched. It's really just about one doing
• 28:08
  what you do well. And for Tech, that is playing
• 28:11
  incredibly good defense, getting to the quarterback, getting the
• 28:14
  opponent off the field on 3rd down and then, you know, just
• 28:17
  letting your offense go to work. It's about limiting turnovers.
• 28:21
  It's about creating turnovers. All those little things we
• 28:24
  talked about that kind of add up over the course of the season,
• 28:26
  they get magnified in a game like this.
• 28:29
  So for me, if I'm Joey McGuire and I'm thinking about this game
• 28:32
  on on Thursday, it's all about just do what we do well, create
• 28:36
  a couple of turnovers, flip the fields on them and just, you
• 28:40
  know, limit our mistakes. You know, that's that's one
• 28:44
  thing that tech has been really, really good at that they haven't
• 28:46
  always been good at it limiting their own mistakes, whether it
• 28:49
  be turnovers, whether it be drives stuttering on on 3rd down
• 28:53
  and things like that. They've done a really good job
• 28:55
  of limiting that this year. They're going to have to do
• 28:57
  those same things on Thursday. But it's not, you know,
• 29:01
  cataclysmic change in terms of what they're trying to do on the
• 29:04
  field. You're just trying to do it
• 29:05
  better, more efficiently and make those one or two plays that
• 29:09
  that put the other team on their heels, you know, flip the field,
• 29:12
  create a turnover and and put yourself in control of the game.
• 29:17
  Basketball time, finally. Yes, yeah.
• 29:20
  It is here conference play and you know, we see many
• 29:24
  conferences that have sprinkled in a couple during December.
• 29:28
  Even those feel a little bit weird.
• 29:29
  But here we go. This race to the 18 game
• 29:31
  schedule. Arizona the betting favorite,
• 29:34
  Iowa State, the second choice. It's just weird after what we
• 29:37
  see out see these first couple of seasons with Houston, who
• 29:40
  returned a lot of dudes to see them.
• 29:41
  The third betting choice. It hasn't gone well, even with
• 29:44
  just one loss on the resume for Houston.
• 29:46
  What's wrong with the? Cougars, I don't think there's
• 29:50
  really anything inherently wrong with them.
• 29:51
  I just think they're young and when you have a young team you
• 29:55
  don't. You can't really put a clock on
• 29:57
  how well they develop. Arizona really, by and large, is
• 30:01
  the young team. They've got two or three
• 30:02
  freshmen. They play on a pretty, pretty
• 30:05
  regular basis, starting with Coapit, but they just seem to
• 30:08
  have come together quickly and coalesce more quickly than some
• 30:11
  of the other teams that have young players on their team.
• 30:13
  Nationally. It's worked for BYU because
• 30:15
  really they only have the one freshman in Debonce and they've
• 30:18
  got a lot of veteran guys to mix around them.
• 30:21
  Houston has three really good veteran guys, but they're
• 30:23
  leaning on two or three, not just freshmen, but sophomores
• 30:27
  who didn't play a lot last year because they had so many
• 30:29
  veterans on their team. So I feel like Houston, yeah,
• 30:32
  maybe they're the number 3 betting team right now, but I
• 30:34
  really feel like they're a team that come February, come March,
• 30:39
  they're going to be right there. Kingston Flemings is a really
• 30:41
  good player and he's going to get even better as the course of
• 30:43
  the season goes on. But they've got two or three
• 30:45
  other guys in their team that by mid February, I think they're
• 30:48
  going to be in really good position.
• 30:49
  I don't think they're going to be as dominant as they had been
• 30:51
  the last two years, but I wouldn't put anything past
• 30:54
  Kelvin Sampson. That team, come late February,
• 30:56
  early March, I think they're going to be right there.
• 30:59
  Final minute with you here, Matt, you just show your
• 31:02
  thoughts on Iowa State. They're unbeaten.
• 31:03
  They're 13 and O Trent and I look at the schedule very
• 31:06
  favorable with the exception having to go to Lawrence and we
• 31:09
  I mean, that's a winnable basketball game.
• 31:11
  Not saying it won't happen, but we can make a we can find a path
• 31:14
  that this team gets to February unbeaten, which is crazy to
• 31:18
  think, but it's it's not without the realm of possibility.
• 31:20
  Your thoughts on the clones? Yeah, I like him.
• 31:23
  I mean, they're they're playing defense the way they always play
• 31:26
  defense. I think that Joshua Jefferson's
• 31:28
  gotten better as a player from year to year, which, you know,
• 31:31
  for a guy like him, you know, he's going to have to face off
• 31:34
  with guys like JT topping inside.
• 31:36
  The fact that he's gotten so much better over the course of
• 31:38
  the last year really bodes well for them.
• 31:40
  I think they're I think they're about as deep as they were last
• 31:44
  year. But I think right now, to me,
• 31:46
  mom still wish feels like The X Factor.
• 31:48
  He's shooting stillwell right now over the course of this,
• 31:52
  these first 13 games and he was kind of banged up last year.
• 31:55
  He really didn't give them what they were hoping for, especially
• 31:59
  from distance. He's in a much better place
• 32:01
  physically. I think he's playing much better
• 32:03
  now. I think that if they make a deep
• 32:05
  run in March, I think he's going to be a big reason why.
• 32:07
  But there's to me there's no reason why they can't not only
• 32:11
  win the conference, but win a national championship.
• 32:13
  In fact, I think I think there are five teams in this
• 32:16
  conference that have the ability to win a national championship
• 32:18
  right now, Arizona, Iowa State, Texas Tech, BYU and.
• 32:24
  Houston. Houston, Yeah, those five teams.
• 32:26
  I won't include Kansas yet because I'm with you.
• 32:28
  We don't know what's happening with Darren Peterson.
• 32:30
  If Darren Peterson plays, I got a chance.
• 32:32
  But right now, I can't include Kansas.
• 32:34
  I'm not sure he's going through fascinating stuff.
• 32:36
  Matt, happy new year. Thank you.
• 32:37
  What to do for Trent and I? We will impose on you a whole
• 32:40
  bunch here in the weeks ahead. Thank you, Matt.
• 32:42
  Hey, you bet I'll see you guys next week and I'm coming up for
• 32:45
  a couple games. Nice, I'm.
• 32:47
  Finally going to get to see some Hilton match finally in person.
• 32:50
  Well, that's great. You know, let's reach home.
• 32:52
  If you're where are you going to stay?
• 32:53
  You can stay in Ames, stay in Des Moines.
• 32:54
  I. Think I'm going to be in Des
• 32:56
  Moines? Well, good.
• 32:57
  And if it's one of our days, we're on the air.
• 32:58
  I'd love to see the whites of your eyes here in studio with
• 33:01
  us. Matt, I'll reach out.
• 33:02
  Thank you buddy. All right, man, Thanks.
• 33:04
  Yep. Good to talk to you, Matt
• 33:05
  Poston's Heartland College Sports.
• 33:07
  All right, our picks are next. I just came across something you
• 33:11
  might enjoy. OK, so here's there are 5
• 33:16
  quarterbacks, Trent, in the history of the NFL, in the
• 33:19
  history of the NFL, yes, that have back-to-back 13 win
• 33:23
  seasons. Peyton Manning, yes, Tom Brady,
• 33:26
  Aaron Rodgers, Brett Favre, absolutely.
• 33:29
  And. Jim McMahon.
• 33:33
  Sam Darnold, your guy in the same category with Rodgers,
• 33:40
  Manning, Brady and Farve. He also has the most turnovers
• 33:44
  in the NFL this year. Well.
• 33:45
  That's a different topic. Good luck.
• 33:47
  I know you got a lot of pending wagers in your accounts with the
• 33:50
  Seahawks behind him. Yeah, I will say good luck and I
• 33:53
  will not be joining you. Yeah.
• 33:54
  I don't think you will be. It's just so damn wide open.
• 33:58
  Our picks are next. We were both 2 and 3.
• 34:01
  Yes. The NFL is impossible this week.
• 34:05
  It feels that way, it really is. So does that lead you to have
• 34:07
  three college games on your? Side yes it does.
• 34:09
  You have 3 likewise. I got 3 in the NFL.
• 34:12
  Do you? I do.
• 34:13
  Implications with any of them? Are you both meaningless?
• 34:17
  2/2 of the three have implications amongst them.
• 34:21
  That's next. Miller and Condon Circus Sports
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• 34:27
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• 34:31
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• 34:34
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• 34:44
  Hi, Miller Condon, welcome back. Final couple of minutes of our
• 34:47
  program. You and I are gasping for air
• 34:50
  with about a furlong to run. We're up by three, up 3.
• 34:54
  Lucas has caught me. I've LED since week 1.
• 34:57
  Half game leads now for Lucas. Over you, my God, it's a
• 35:01
  marathon, not a Sprint. I get it.
• 35:03
  But again, here they come in our rearview mirror.
• 35:06
  By the way, before we get into our picks, if you're a Hawkeye
• 35:09
  fan, you want to go see UCLA and Iowa 5:00 on Saturday.
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  And if you can go, If you can go, I'll give you the tickets.
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  Caller number one, you have to pick them up at the Carver box
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  office. All right?
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  You have to go and you have to have ID.
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  I'm not going to send them in advance.
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  You're going to have to go to Iowa City, get them
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  515-284-5966. Please don't get them and then
• 35:30
  not show up. I don't want to waste these
• 35:32
  things. Fuller Dental 2 locations E 29th
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  St. in Des Moines and of course, South 8th St.
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  SE in Altoona. Trent.
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  You have the T box Sir. Thank you very much and let's
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  kick things off 2 college, 2 pro and a best bet.
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  That's the way that we do things week after week.
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  And this will conclude our season at the Super Bowl.
• 35:52
  Let's open things up and let's go to Friday.
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  Yes, the day after January 1st. Navy, a team that I like
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  certainly before the news and this Navy squad just in general,
• 36:02
  armed force teams excellent in bowl games.
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  I think it continues here. Big number, get away the
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  touchdown against Cincinnati in the Liberty Bowl.
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  Navy with pick number one. Pick #2 we go to the Rose Bowl.
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  Mentioned it earlier when we were talking to Bama.
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  Bob, I think this more than anything, just watch the games.
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  You watch the games. Indiana is a lot better than
• 36:22
  Alabama. Yes, in football, Indiana a lot
• 36:25
  better. And Bama, we'll lay a touchdown
• 36:26
  here, give you the Hoosiers with pick #2.
• 36:29
  We go to the NFL next. Kansas City, we saw an inspired
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  effort, but they are so limited offensively, obviously with no
• 36:37
  Mahomes. I think it continues here.
• 36:39
  I think Vegas hangs around. I'm going to grab the five and a
• 36:41
  half and take the Raiders against Kansas City in Vegas
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  with pick #3, pick #4. Maybe it's just years of scar
• 36:50
  tissue that is creeping in. Taking the Lions plus the three
• 36:54
  in Chicago. Yes, it's golf and cold weather.
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  Prove it to me by. The way was he awful against
• 37:00
  Minnesota or what? Ugly.
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  Ugly performance. In that one, not a lot to play
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  for. We know that doesn't matter in
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  the NFL. I'm going to grab the Lions plus
• 37:09
  the three Rep things up with the NFC South affair.
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  I'm grabbing the points here. Give me the Panthers plus the
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  three. Tampa.
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  It is a lost season. I think it ends on Saturday
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  night. Panthers, I'll grab the field
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  goal. I think they win it outright.
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  My best bet of the week. All right.
• 37:23
  David Bellis has claimed the UCLA tickets, so he's going to
• 37:26
  go see the Hawks and UCLA, courtesy of fullerdental.net.
• 37:30
  All right, here we go. Trent.
• 37:31
  Let's get into it. I'm going to start with the NFL.
• 37:34
  Two meaningless football games, Cincinnati and Cleveland.
• 37:37
  I think Garrett's going to get the record, the sack record.
• 37:39
  I don't think they're going to win the football game.
• 37:40
  Cincinnati, there's a 7 out there.
• 37:42
  I'll lay the seven with Cincinnati.
• 37:45
  Pick #1 the Cowboys are on the road against the Giants.
• 37:49
  That number is now 3 1/2 at DraftKings.
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  Cowboys laying 3 1/2. I will do so for my two NFL
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  picks, Cincinnati and Dallas, then to go to the college game
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  coming up tomorrow, Texas and Michigan.
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  Texas now down to under a touchdown. 6 1/2 is the number
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  there. With everything that's gone on
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  at Michigan, are they ready to play a football game?
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  I think not. Give me Texas -6 1/2, I like
• 38:14
  Miami, I'm going to take the 9 1/2 point.
• 38:16
  That's a lot of points. Ohio State has looked good but
• 38:19
  not great. I will take Miami in that
• 38:22
  football game and the 9 1/2. My best bet of the week is the
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  Georgia Bulldogs laying only six against Ole Miss Give me
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  Georgia, Miami, Texas and the NFL, Dallas and Cincinnati.
• 38:35
  What are you doing New Year's Eve?
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  Get together with friends. That's what we do every year.
• 38:39
  Going to have the kids involved. They a lot of couples that have
• 38:42
  kids about the same age. So they'll run around, they'll
• 38:45
  do the thing. I I'm sure you got a big night.
• 38:47
  Huge. Party at our house?
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  Yeah, you're all invited. I'll see 10. 30 You want me to
• 38:52
  give the address right now to everybody?
• 38:53
  No. I'm good.
• 38:54
  I'll see 11:00 probably. You're not even going to make it
• 38:57
  to. Midnight.
• 38:58
  I haven't, and I can't tell you. Last time I did.
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  Well, I know one year you did when it was when Ohio State was
• 39:03
  playing and it went past midnight.
• 39:05
  Oh, is that right? Yes.
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  Was that Ohio State? It was when the kid missed the
• 39:09
  field goal a couple years ago. The only reason I remember that
• 39:12
  is because my brother-in-law is an Ohio State grad and a huge
• 39:14
  Buckeye fan, and it hit midnight and he's still watching.
• 39:18
  And then the missed field goal and the Buckeyes lose.
• 39:22
  It's not a great way to ring in the new year for your squad.
• 39:24
  Is there a favorite that gets beat in the four in the four
• 39:28
  quarterfinals? Favorite that gets beat the most
• 39:32
  likely Tech Oregon. Yeah, I guess that would be the
• 39:35
  one that I point to, but that's kind of the easy one I think.
• 39:40
  I don't think so either outside of that.
• 39:43
  We'll see off THE bench coming up next.
• 39:46
  We'll talk to you on Friday. Happy new year.
• 39:48
  Be safe. Talk to you in 2026.
• 39:51
  Miller and Condon, noon to two.