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Alabama Comes Back, Miami defense shows up, G5 Takes Heat · Winning Cures Everything | College Football

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  Speaker 1: On today's pod, Alabama comes back from the dead. Notre
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  Speaker 1: Dame hypotheticals run wild. Miami in Texas, A and M
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  Speaker 1: didn't score. The G five narrative. The anti G five
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  Speaker 1: narrative continued over the weekend. 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: deferm aplay. Gary Siegers welcome in Winning Cures Everything. It's
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  Speaker 1: a college football podcast. I'm your host, Gary Seegers at
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  Speaker 1: we still got that Gary at Winning curesorverything dot com.
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  Speaker 1: And what a weekend it was for the CFP first
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  Speaker 1: Round College Football Playoff for twenty twenty five. I began
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  Speaker 1: this weekend and boy, the Notre Dame hypotheticals were running
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  Speaker 1: wild on Friday and on Saturday. Any inkling of a
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  Speaker 1: flaw in a team and you could find the tweet
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  Speaker 1: almost verbatim every single time Notre Dame would have beaten
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  Speaker 1: these teams. Notredame would have beat this team Notre Dame
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  Speaker 1: would have lose put up a fight. It was hilarious,
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  Speaker 1: absolutely hill because you could see it coming from a
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  Speaker 1: mile away. It was the same thing last year when
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  Speaker 1: SMU didn't look very good against Penn State, all the
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  Speaker 1: Alabama fans immediately jump in. Alabama would have beaten this team.
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  Speaker 1: That's not what this is about. Once the bracket is set,
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  Speaker 1: it is what it is. These are the games that
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  Speaker 1: we got, and to me, Friday and Saturday not too bad.
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  Speaker 1: I know that the games with Tulane and James Madison
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  Speaker 1: were not great. I know that, but that's what we got.
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  Speaker 1: We got some pretty good quarterfinal matchups Alabama, Indiana, Miami,
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  Speaker 1: Ohio States that's not terrible, Georgia Old Miss and Oregon
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  Speaker 1: Texas EC. I mean, these are good, fun matchups. Like
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  Speaker 1: I am all in on seeing these games. These could now,
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  Speaker 1: they could end up being blowouts, but the build up
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  Speaker 1: to these games, I think is going to be very
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  Speaker 1: interesting and that's what we were looking for. Right you
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  Speaker 1: get through the first round, you're gonna have some duds.
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  Speaker 1: But we got two pretty good ball games in Norman
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  Speaker 1: and in College Station, So I'm good with that. Let's
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  Speaker 1: go through. Let's kind of recap it real quick. This
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  Speaker 1: won't be a long podcast because you guys have already
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  Speaker 1: heard everybody else talk about everything under the sun. Alabama
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  Speaker 1: thirty four Oklahoma twenty four. Bama was explosive in the
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  Speaker 1: second and third quarters and Oklahoma's special teams in defense
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  Speaker 1: failed them basically. I mean, it was what it was like.
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  Speaker 1: This game was almost the inverse of what happened in Tuscaloosa.
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma outgained Alabama. Alabama had less turnovers. This time. Oklahoma
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  Speaker 1: was the one that threw the pick six. Alabama had
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  Speaker 1: special teams, you know, punt problems. Oklahoma this time bobbled
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  Speaker 1: a punt, got it blocked, led to an Alabama field goal.
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  Speaker 1: Bama made both of their field goals, Oklahoma missed two
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  Speaker 1: of theirs. It was just special teams and turnovers are
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  Speaker 1: such a huge thing. I believe. Oklahoma was thirty two
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  Speaker 1: and seven at home in the past thirty nine games
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  Speaker 1: leading up to this one, and it was the first
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  Speaker 1: time that a road team had won a college football
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  Speaker 1: playoff game. Now, we only had four of them last year,
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  Speaker 1: and the matchups were not exactly perfect, but but we
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  Speaker 1: got there, so, you know, very interesting to say the least.
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  Speaker 1: When Oklahoma went up seventeen to nothing with ten minutes
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  Speaker 1: and fifty one seconds left in the second quarter, the
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  Speaker 1: yardage was Oklahoma one fifty six Alabama twelve. From that
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  Speaker 1: point until Alabama went up thirty four to twenty four,
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  Speaker 1: Alabama outgained Oklahoma two sixty to one fifty, pretty wild
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  Speaker 1: like so from the from the ten minute mark in
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  Speaker 1: the second quarter until early in the fourth quarter or
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  Speaker 1: maybe midway through the fourth quarter two sixty to one fifty.
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  Speaker 1: And that was much more in line with what happened
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  Speaker 1: in Tuscaloosa. Uh. The more surprising part about this. Alabama
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  Speaker 1: was two of twelve on third down, you know, did
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  Speaker 1: much better on fourth down and Oklahoma, you know, basically
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  Speaker 1: fifty percent on downs and it didn't matter. It was
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  Speaker 1: crazy huge catches by Brooks and Jeremy Bernard. That Jeremy
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  Speaker 1: Bernard catch at the five yard line was absolutely incredible.
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  Speaker 1: Had a thirty yard run by Daniel Hill. Alabama's backup
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  Speaker 1: running back jam Miller didn't play very much, but he
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  Speaker 1: did play, but Daniel Hill. That thirty yard run was
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  Speaker 1: the longest run for Alabama from scrimmage since Week two
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  Speaker 1: of the season against Louisiana Monroe. Just bananas that this
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  Speaker 1: team is able to do what they have done thus
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  Speaker 1: far with basically no running game. I mean they that
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  Speaker 1: was the longest run that they had on the night,
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  Speaker 1: and the longest run that they've had in three months.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's bananas. Daniel Hill is showing some promise,
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  Speaker 1: but boy, he's got to work on his pass protection.
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  Speaker 1: That's why you gotta play jam Miller. It is what
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  Speaker 1: it is. Ryan Williams, that was a big point of contention.
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  Speaker 1: He I thought it was a hamstring or a hip problem,
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  Speaker 1: something along those lines. They're playing him in the slot.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if that's exactly where he needs to be,
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  Speaker 1: but he has got to get his confidence back in
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  Speaker 1: his hands, Like I've noticed him doing this multiple times
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  Speaker 1: where he tries to catch the ball with his body
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  Speaker 1: and you know, I mean that thing just bounces right off.
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  Speaker 1: It's crazy. So I'm not sure what to think of that.
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  Speaker 1: I Mean, he's still an option, he's still out there,
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  Speaker 1: but it's very obvious that it's Brooks and Bernard and
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  Speaker 1: Koevos and Isaiah Horton and then Ryan Williams is down
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  Speaker 1: the list somewhere, which is just nuts to think about.
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma started with a brilliant game plan. Early ran some
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  Speaker 1: of the gust miles on stuff that Florida State showed
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  Speaker 1: him in week one, and it worked almost too afection,
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  Speaker 1: because you know that you don't want John Matier sitting
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  Speaker 1: back there trying to read a defense. I mean you
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  Speaker 1: saw it late in the second quarter when he threw
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  Speaker 1: that pick six. You can bait him into stuff, you
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  Speaker 1: can trick him, and I mean, really, once Obama got
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  Speaker 1: pressure on my tier, he was completely lost. So after
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  Speaker 1: the scripted stuff, like they didn't really have any answers,
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma's defense could not get pressure. And then the special teams,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the goodness gracious, the kicker, Tate Sandel that
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  Speaker 1: was something else. He misses one, and I think it
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  Speaker 1: was the wind. I really think that he missed that
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  Speaker 1: one because of the wind. And then he I think
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  Speaker 1: he kind of freaked out on the second one because
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  Speaker 1: he he wanted to make sure that he kicked it
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  Speaker 1: straight and Mike punched it, but the punch he didn't
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  Speaker 1: get enough power behind it, so he go short. So
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  Speaker 1: he missed two field goals in this game, and he'd
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  Speaker 1: only missed one field goal on the entire season, and
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  Speaker 1: that was all she wrote. Alabama kneels it out. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that was a ballgame, but that was uh. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you could tell what Brevvinnables was trying to do there. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: he missed the first one. We're gonna get this next
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  Speaker 1: one and then you know, we'll try it on sidekick
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  Speaker 1: because you had to have two scores. But man, missing
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  Speaker 1: those two field goals absolutely massive. In the first game,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Bama misses that one field goal going into
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  Speaker 1: halftime and ended up losing the game by two points.
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  Speaker 1: So Tate Sandell hit four field goals in Tuscaloosa against Alabama.
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  Speaker 1: Just bananas, Just bananas. So let's move along. Miami ten,
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  Speaker 1: Texas A and M three and Miami won the turnover
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  Speaker 1: battle three to one. They missed a bunch of field goals,
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  Speaker 1: but it was what it was like. This Miami defense
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  Speaker 1: was legit. They were awesome like that. Ruben Bain was
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  Speaker 1: an absolute terror. He had three sacks, he had four
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  Speaker 1: tackles for loss, and Malachi Tony to me, felt like
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  Speaker 1: the best player on the field. But I mean it
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  Speaker 1: took until the end for him to get into the
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  Speaker 1: end zone. The play in the second half where he
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  Speaker 1: or sorry, second quarter where he returns the punt and
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  Speaker 1: then he trips. You could almost feel like that was
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  Speaker 1: a at least a four point swing, and it ended
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  Speaker 1: up being a seven point swing because they're all the
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  Speaker 1: way down at the A and M twenty five yard line.
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  Speaker 1: They can't get into the end zone. They try field goal,
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  Speaker 1: and then they missed the field goal, and it's just bananas.
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  Speaker 1: These were two really good defenses that knew what they
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  Speaker 1: were doing, but it felt like Miami had the edge
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  Speaker 1: at the line of scrimmage basically all day. So Miami's
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  Speaker 1: running game, I mean, they were just lights out, like
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  Speaker 1: six point three yards per rush, and yeah, Fletcher had
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  Speaker 1: a fifty six yarder, but it just felt like they
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  Speaker 1: were going to spring one at some point. A and
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  Speaker 1: M only two and a half yards per rush. Just
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  Speaker 1: not good, not good, But yeah, Miami should have had
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  Speaker 1: the lead throughout this thing. Missed three field goals in
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  Speaker 1: the game. A and M did miss a twenty two
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  Speaker 1: yard field goal. I say miss I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I believe Bain got that one. But wind was a
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  Speaker 1: huge factor in this game. Neither team could throw the
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  Speaker 1: football well because the wind gusts were just outrageous, Like
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  Speaker 1: everything about this was, you know, and you would hope
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  Speaker 1: that as the home team that you would have the
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  Speaker 1: advantage for something like that, but it did not come
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  Speaker 1: to fruition. Marcel Reid kind of curious what they're going
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  Speaker 1: to do with him going forward. Colin Klein was able
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  Speaker 1: to work an offense that fit him, but he has
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  Speaker 1: had multiple multi interception games and has not thrown for
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  Speaker 1: a ton of yardage, and to be honest, it was
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  Speaker 1: always kind of boom or bust with him anyway. Like
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  Speaker 1: their passing success rate is not good, but they are
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  Speaker 1: kind of explosive, so they've got weapons and if they
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  Speaker 1: can ever get it to them, then they make huge plays.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, I said on Twitter that our ex
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  Speaker 1: excuse me, that this was the inverse Texas, A and M.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, the inverse Notre Dame because Notre Dame lost
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  Speaker 1: their first two games of the year and then went out,
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  Speaker 1: and then A and M won their first eleven games
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  Speaker 1: of the year and then lost out, like I would say,
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  Speaker 1: lost to the two best teams that they played this year.
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  Speaker 1: But then they gets into the hypothetical, you know, was
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  Speaker 1: Texas better than Notre Dame? And blah blah, blah blah blah,
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  Speaker 1: who knows, who knows? I don't feel like getting into
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  Speaker 1: that Ole Miss forty one to two lane ten and
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  Speaker 1: they're in a whole lot to say about this one.
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  Speaker 1: This was a carbon copy of the game back in September.
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  Speaker 1: That was a forty five to ten game, this one
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  Speaker 1: forty one to ten. These were not the same caliber
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  Speaker 1: of player on the field for these two teams. From
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  Speaker 1: the time that Ole Miss got up fourteen to nothing,
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  Speaker 1: it never felt like they were in any danger at all.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it was just you kind of knew it
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  Speaker 1: was going to be name your score kind of things.
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  Speaker 1: The biggest question coming out of it is how healthy
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  Speaker 1: is Gowan Lacy? Right, the running back for Old Miss.
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  Speaker 1: Big drop off from him to the backup are backups,
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  Speaker 1: I would say, like he he's a huge, huge part
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  Speaker 1: of that offense, and yes, almost does throw the ball
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  Speaker 1: a lot, but it all is kind of based on
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  Speaker 1: what he's able to do. So I'm curious. You know. Luckily,
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  Speaker 1: they've got two weeks. You know, it's January first and
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  Speaker 1: the Sugar Bowl against Georgia, so they've got plenty of
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  Speaker 1: time to get on that tu lane I didn't expect
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  Speaker 1: much out of them. I don't think anybody expected much
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  Speaker 1: out of them. I was surprised that there was anybody
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  Speaker 1: that was picking Tulane to stay close in this game.
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  Speaker 1: And I understand that with the coach leaving and all
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  Speaker 1: that kind of stuff, but I mean that happened three
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago. Like that, I'm pretty sure everybody's kind of
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  Speaker 1: over it, Like everybody knows what the situation is, and
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  Speaker 1: Lane Kiffen was not that entire team. So I had
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  Speaker 1: a feeling that it would turn this way and show
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  Speaker 1: enough basically carbon copy from that early game. So rematch
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  Speaker 1: went the same way. Imagine Oregon fifty one James Madison
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  Speaker 1: thirty four. Oregon took their foot off the gas, right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this thing was thirty four to six at
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  Speaker 1: the half. Oregon scored on their first five possessions, and
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  Speaker 1: they played mostly backups in the second half. Like this thing.
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  Speaker 1: It was forty eight to thirteen and Oregon was trying
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  Speaker 1: to get into the end zone to go up fifty
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  Speaker 1: five to thirteen and more through an interception at the
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  Speaker 1: James Madison three, and then they got outscored twenty one
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  Speaker 1: to three after that, Like it just the fact that
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  Speaker 1: James Madison covered was pretty wild. It was the perfect
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  Speaker 1: sabing game. Like I'm certain that some of you remember,
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  Speaker 1: because Dan Lanning is gonna love this. Right. You win
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  Speaker 1: the game, you advance, you get to play again, but
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  Speaker 1: you didn't look good at the end, and you get
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  Speaker 1: to harp on them for two weeks about how they
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  Speaker 1: didn't finish. So there's motivation there. You're not feeling good,
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  Speaker 1: You're feeling like this kind of feels like a loss.
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  Speaker 1: Even though we won the game by three scores, we
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  Speaker 1: still didn't play well at the end. And it is
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  Speaker 1: what it is. So yardage in this game ended up
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  Speaker 1: five fourteen to five h nine. James Madison put up
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and nine yards in the fourth quarter when
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  Speaker 1: this thing was already over. Like, it's just the fact
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  Speaker 1: that Oregon score touchdowns on the first five drives. That
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  Speaker 1: kind of lets you know everything that you need to
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  Speaker 1: know about this. The quality of competition was not close,
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  Speaker 1: not even close. So the narrative that came out of
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  Speaker 1: this is mostly about the G Five's right. I don't
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  Speaker 1: have a problem with them being in this thing. The
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  Speaker 1: rules are set up the way that they are. These
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  Speaker 1: two teams did what they were supposed to do, and
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  Speaker 1: really everybody was talking about wanting to give these teams
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  Speaker 1: a chance, right, James Madison only had one loss on
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  Speaker 1: the season, and oh, I can't believe it would have
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  Speaker 1: been a theoretical between or a hypothetical between two Lane
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  Speaker 1: and James Madison forever. But you know, you got to
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  Speaker 1: see them both against good competition. And here's the other
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  Speaker 1: part of this. If there's ever going to be a
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  Speaker 1: Cinderella thing, you would have to have Two Lane and
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  Speaker 1: James Madison play, you know, Oklahoma or Alabama or something
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  Speaker 1: like that, or Miami or Texas A and M like
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  Speaker 1: maybe the teams that were not quite as good, but
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  Speaker 1: Ole Miss and Oregon were a combined twenty two and
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  Speaker 1: two on the season. So these were the best teams
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  Speaker 1: outside of conference champions and these G five teams are
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  Speaker 1: never going to beat those teams, but they got a shot.
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  Speaker 1: I know everybody's talking about it that you're not gonna
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  Speaker 1: have two thousand and seven s and UCF, you're not
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  Speaker 1: gonna have O seven Boise like it's just that stuff's
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  Speaker 1: not gonna happen anymore. And that's okay, But you know,
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  Speaker 1: the TV we can talk about the TV schedule later.
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  Speaker 1: The best games on Friday night and Saturday morning is
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  Speaker 1: just dumb, but when you're scheduling up against the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: it is what it is. So we noticed a big
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  Speaker 1: divide in the sport this weekend. And eventually we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: get to where there's the Super Conference and everybody else.
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  Speaker 1: But we're not there yet, so we will continue to
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  Speaker 1: do these things. All right. That is gonna wrap things
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  Speaker 1: up today. I told you not a long one, but
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  Speaker 1: a good recap kind of give you an idea of
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  Speaker 1: where we are headed. I will be going over the
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  Speaker 1: CFP games in a separate podcast. Gonna have more Bowl
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  Speaker 1: games coming up this week as well, so make sure
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  Speaker 1: channel as well. With that said, let's get out of here,
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  Speaker 1: take care of yourself, take care of each other. God
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