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Week 2 Reaction: Texas Stuns Ohio State, Oklahoma State Shocks Oregon & more · Winning Cures Everything | College Football

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  Speaker 1: Down by 20 points in the fourth quarter against the
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  Speaker 1: number one team in the country in Austin on a
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  Speaker 1: Saturday night where the sport just absolutely lost its mind.
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma State, a team that had not beaten an FBS
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  Speaker 1: opponent since September of 2024, a team that lost to
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  Speaker 1: Tulsa just last week, put 554 yards on the Oregon
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  Speaker 1: Ducks and had folks pouring out of the stands in Stillwater.
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  Speaker 1: And then Michigan... who spent the entire week as the
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  Speaker 1: punchline of American sports, walked into the big house. They
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  Speaker 1: punched Oklahoma square in the mouth. Mississippi State went up
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  Speaker 1: to Minneapolis, treated a Big Ten team like a Tuesday scrimmage.
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  Speaker 1: Week two was phenomenal. Absolutely phenomenal. Let's get into it.
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  Speaker 1: Can you believe it? It's football. I've been watching it
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  Speaker 1: for 40 years. Are you kidding me? You're listening to
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  Speaker 1: Here's your host. A confident young man. A superb athlete.
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  Speaker 1: Gary Segers. Welcome in. This is Winning Cures Everything. It's
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  Speaker 1: if you would so kindly. All right, let's get after it.
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State led this football game 23-3 at the start
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  Speaker 1: of the fourth quarter, and they lost the game. So
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  Speaker 1: let's walk through, you know, when the wheels came off.
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  Speaker 1: The wagon, because I think that matters. First play from
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  Speaker 1: scrimmage for Texas was a swing pass to Relique Brown.
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  Speaker 1: And a true freshman named Jay Timmons just flies up
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  Speaker 1: the field, forced the fumble, recovers it himself. Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: starts in the red zone before anybody even found their seats.
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  Speaker 1: Two series later, Arch Manning drops an absolute dime on
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  Speaker 1: Cam Coleman down the field. Coleman goes to the ground
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  Speaker 1: to make the catch. Ball bounces off his hands. And
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  Speaker 1: it pops straight up in the air like a hot potato.
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  Speaker 1: And Jalen McClain reels it in. That's two takeaways in
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  Speaker 1: two defensive series. Jeremiah Smith goes up for a leaping
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  Speaker 1: 19-yard touchdown run or grab right before halftime. It's 20-3
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  Speaker 1: at the break. I mean, it looked like Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: was just about to roll them on their own field.
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  Speaker 1: And after that moment, Ohio State scored exactly one field
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  Speaker 1: goal in the entire second half. So the Texas defense
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  Speaker 1: showed up to play. Manning found Ryan Wingo early in
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  Speaker 1: the fourth. Hollywood smothers, punches in a one-yard touchdown with 7.14
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  Speaker 1: to play. Now it's 23-17, and we've got a ballgame.
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  Speaker 1: But Ohio State drove it down inside the Texas 30
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  Speaker 1: for what should have been the dagger, right? And Connor Hawkins,
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  Speaker 1: who had already made three field goals in the night,
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  Speaker 1: misses wide left from 45. So Manning, afterward, and this
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  Speaker 1: is awesome, he said, when that happened, I knew it
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  Speaker 1: was our time. And it makes sense. There is such
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  Speaker 1: a thing as destiny, as fate. Like, there's been no
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  Speaker 1: problems with what Texas is doing in the second half.
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  Speaker 1: So then 72 yards later, Smothers is in the end
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  Speaker 1: zone again with 25 seconds left on the clock. Texas
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  Speaker 1: has a lead. Julian Sand heaves it on the last play.
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  Speaker 1: It's picked off. And the field gets covered with all
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  Speaker 1: the Texas players. I love that they didn't storm the field.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. Now here's why this one goes in
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  Speaker 1: the book and not just on the highlight reel. Like,
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  Speaker 1: per sport radar, this is the largest fourth quarter comeback
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  Speaker 1: to beat an AP No. 1 team in the history
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  Speaker 1: of college football. Simultaneously, it is the biggest comeback of
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  Speaker 1: Steve Sarkeesian's coaching career and the biggest blown lead of
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Day's. That is... There's a lot of work going
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  Speaker 1: on in that sentence there. And let's talk numbers, because
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  Speaker 1: I think this is where it gets fun for me.
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  Speaker 1: Texas closed minus one and a half. They won by one.
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  Speaker 1: So Texas wins the football game. Ohio State covers the spread.
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  Speaker 1: The total closed at 49.5 after opening at 47.5. Sharp
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  Speaker 1: money hammered the over all week. Final score comes up
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  Speaker 1: to 47. The undercash is every number. So if you
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  Speaker 1: played the game the way the market told you to
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  Speaker 1: play it, you got absolutely nothing out of a classic.
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  Speaker 1: The Moneyline ticket on Texas was basically a coin flip.
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  Speaker 1: That was the bet of the night. Now, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to put Steve Sarkeesian on Mount Rushmore this morning.
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  Speaker 1: His team got outplayed for 45 minutes in this game.
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  Speaker 1: Receivers gave Manning nothing early. The question is still, or
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  Speaker 1: I guess it's not anymore, the question of whether or
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  Speaker 1: not Sark can win the big one, it's dead. That
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  Speaker 1: one's dead, because when you get a win over the
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  Speaker 1: number one team, that's what you got. And on the
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  Speaker 1: other side, Ohio State, 1-1 in September, Their margin for
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  Speaker 1: error is already gone. We kind of expected one of
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  Speaker 1: these teams was going to end up like maybe 9-3
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  Speaker 1: because both of them have insanely difficult schedules. So, Ryan
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  Speaker 1: Day's framing after the game was that they had Texas
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  Speaker 1: on the ropes and they didn't finish. And it's a
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  Speaker 1: very dangerous sentence, especially this time of year because it
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  Speaker 1: means it's not a talent problem. It's a tape problem.
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  Speaker 1: He's already talking about a rematch in the playoffs. This
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  Speaker 1: is the third straight year these two have played. And
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  Speaker 1: it might not be the last time this season. But, whew,
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  Speaker 1: the way that game ended, that was not what you
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  Speaker 1: want to see. Not what you want to see at all.
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  Speaker 1: Let's move on. Let's talk about another huge game. And
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  Speaker 1: that would be, well, look at last year's result. Oregon
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  Speaker 1: beat Oklahoma State 69-3 last year. Like 69-3. This year,
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys hung 554 yards on them in Stillwater and
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  Speaker 1: took the field apart. Let me give you the numbers.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think people have fully processed how absurd this is.
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma State had lost 21 straight games to FBS opponents.
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  Speaker 1: Their last win over an FBS team was September 14, 2024.
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  Speaker 1: Twelve straight losses overall, because they did win an FCS
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  Speaker 1: game last year. They went 1-11 last year. It cost
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  Speaker 1: Mike Gundy his job. They were coming off a 24-10
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  Speaker 1: loss at Tulsa. in Eric Morris' debut. They are the
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  Speaker 1: first team in the history of the sport to snap
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  Speaker 1: a double-digit losing streak by beating an AP Top 10 team.
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  Speaker 1: Dan Lanning came into Saturday 35-0 against unranked opponents. Oregon
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  Speaker 1: had not lost to a team outside of the AP
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  Speaker 1: Top 25 since 2021. They were 42-0 when leading after
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  Speaker 1: the first quarter. And, according to ESPN research, Oregon had
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  Speaker 1: won 57 consecutive games when they were favored by 24
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  Speaker 1: or more, going all the way back to the FBS-FCS
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  Speaker 1: split in 1978. This is the biggest upset of an
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  Speaker 1: Oregon team in that entire window. And the guy who
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  Speaker 1: did it is Drew Mestemaker, who some people were completely
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  Speaker 1: sold on in the offseason. Some people thought maybe he
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  Speaker 1: was a little overhyped. It certainly looked like it after
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  Speaker 1: week one when they lost at Tulsa. He came over
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  Speaker 1: from North Texas with Eric Morris. And, I mean, there's
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  Speaker 1: 88 new players on the Oklahoma State roster. This ain't
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  Speaker 1: the same roster that lost to Oregon last year. So,
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  Speaker 1: the guy, Messamaker went 26 of 43 for 317 yards,
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  Speaker 1: two touchdowns, two picks, ran for 100, well, 109, and
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  Speaker 1: he ran for the go-ahead score. 426 total yards for Mestermaker.
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  Speaker 1: Very first snap of the game was a 75-yard read
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  Speaker 1: option keeper. He stepped out of the three. They settled
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  Speaker 1: for a field goal, but I think at that exact moment,
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  Speaker 1: that's what kind of changed things and made Oklahoma State
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  Speaker 1: believe that, hey, we got these dudes on the rope already. Like,
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  Speaker 1: we got them on the rope, so we can do this.
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  Speaker 1: The final yardage was 554 to 281. In the first
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  Speaker 1: half alone, it was 353 to 101. 25 first downs
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  Speaker 1: to 12. It should have never been close. The only
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  Speaker 1: reason it was is because they threw a pick six.
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  Speaker 1: That was a 93-yard touchdown for Oregon that kept them
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  Speaker 1: in the game. Dante Moore went 14 of 29 for
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  Speaker 1: 191 yards. Both Oregon touchdowns in the first half came
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  Speaker 1: off tipped interceptions. So they were being outplayed by four touchdowns,
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  Speaker 1: and they were still leading the game. And then in
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, like, Lanning went forward on fourth and
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  Speaker 1: eight from his own 33 down five with under seven
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  Speaker 1: minutes to go. Incompletion. Cowboys kick their fourth field goal.
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  Speaker 1: Two plays later, Oregon commits two delay of game penalties
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  Speaker 1: and four snaps. One of them when they were lining
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  Speaker 1: up to punt, and with a minute 55 left, they
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  Speaker 1: needed a touchdown and a two-point conversion. De'Ari Hill Jr.
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  Speaker 1: straight up drops a pitch. Oklahoma State recovers it, and
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  Speaker 1: that's the ballgame. Like, Lanning, after he told everybody, we
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  Speaker 1: got our ass kicked in a lot of areas. He
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  Speaker 1: also said the score was closer than the game was.
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  Speaker 1: which is the rare coach quote that's actually true. On
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  Speaker 1: the betting side, Oregon closed minus 23.5. It opened somewhere
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  Speaker 1: around 18.5 to 21, depending on when you got it.
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  Speaker 1: And the public bet it up as high as 24.5.
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  Speaker 1: And I get it because Oklahoma State looked terrible against
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  Speaker 1: Tulsa last week. And Oregon didn't look good against Boise,
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  Speaker 1: but they got their mess together in enough time to
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  Speaker 1: be able to get the win over Boise. The final
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  Speaker 1: score landed on 70 points, so the overcast, Oklahoma State
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  Speaker 1: wins outright as a 23.5 point dog. And the thing that...
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  Speaker 1: The system that everybody was quoting going into Saturday, since 2021...
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  Speaker 1: Top 25 teams that fail to cover in week one
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  Speaker 1: go 16-29-1 against the spread the following week. 13-25-1 when
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  Speaker 1: they're favored. Oregon failed to cover as a 24.5 point
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  Speaker 1: favorite against Boise in week one. And in this, the
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  Speaker 1: system hit on this one. Now, we gotta talk about
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  Speaker 1: the fact that there was a 90 minute lightning delay
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  Speaker 1: before kickoff. Like a soggy field, sloppy road favorite, uh,
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  Speaker 1: Body clock, which I mentioned in the Winning Cures Everything video. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's a situational spot. We're just going to have to
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  Speaker 1: relearn every September until we die. But the body clock game,
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  Speaker 1: it was supposed to start at 9 a.m. Oregon time.
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  Speaker 1: It ended up starting at about 10.30 Oregon time. Eric Morris,
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma State's coach, said after the game, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if I can top this. The bigger question is Oregon
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  Speaker 1: was the preseason number two team. They needed to rally
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  Speaker 1: to beat Boise at home, and now they've lost to
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  Speaker 1: a team that lost to Tulsa. You stack that on Indiana,
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  Speaker 1: hanging 56 on them in the playoffs semifinal last year,
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  Speaker 1: two out of the last three games have been humiliating.
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  Speaker 1: We still got a long way to go this season,
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  Speaker 1: but this just kind of proves that it is more difficult...
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  Speaker 1: than people think, to replace coordinators. Because both of their coordinators,
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  Speaker 1: offensive and defensive, left to be head coaches after last season.
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  Speaker 1: Tosh Lapoi at Cal, who got his first win this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: And Will Stein, who lost his first SEC game this
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  Speaker 1: weekend at Kentucky. This is, you know, what is landing ceiling?
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  Speaker 1: Because this year, right now, it don't look like a
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  Speaker 1: national championship. It really don't look like that at all.
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  Speaker 1: Another big game. Michigan spent seven days as the joke
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  Speaker 1: of the sport. They beat Western Michigan 13-12 as a 27.5
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  Speaker 1: point favorite. And it was on a Hail Mary after
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: the officials put a second back on the clock. And
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  Speaker 1: everybody has been talking about the one second. They fell
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  Speaker 1: all the way out of the top 25 after a win.
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  Speaker 1: And then Kyle Whittingham's crew held John Mateer to 189
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  Speaker 1: yards and they sent Oklahoma home with a loss. 17-10,
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  Speaker 1: Michigan wins. Bryce Underwood's line is going to confuse a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people. 9 of 17 for 111 yards, 2
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  Speaker 1: of 4 for 15 yards in the entire second half,
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  Speaker 1: but he had 18 carries, 87 yards, and a 38-yard
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  Speaker 1: touchdown run that capped a 91-yard drive starting in his
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  Speaker 1: own nine. Michigan won this with legs and a defensive front,
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  Speaker 1: not with a quarterback. Jordan Marshall punched in the go-ahead
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  Speaker 1: one-yarder midway through the fourth. It was set up by
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  Speaker 1: an interception, and Nate Marshall's sack ended. Oklahoma had the
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  Speaker 1: ball at their own 15 with a minute six, no timeouts.
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  Speaker 1: Mateer scrambled, and Chase Taylor broke up the deep shot, sack,
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  Speaker 1: clock reads triple zero. Mateer, 17 of 33 for 189 yards,
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  Speaker 1: one touchdown, one pick. Oklahoma needed 29 carries to scrape
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  Speaker 1: past 100 rushing yards. And the Sooner defense played well
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  Speaker 1: enough to win on the road. The offense just didn't
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  Speaker 1: show up, which we saw that happen last year. And
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  Speaker 1: we thought maybe it had to do with Mateer's injury,
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  Speaker 1: but he appears to be healthy and just couldn't do
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  Speaker 1: anything against this defense. The thing that actually matters, Kip Lewis,
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma's linebacker, fifth-year senior, preseason second-team All-SEC, he went down
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  Speaker 1: in the first quarter with a non-contact right knee injury.
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  Speaker 1: Tried to come back, got hurt again, slammed his helmet
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  Speaker 1: on the sideline, sat down. Venable said after the game
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  Speaker 1: he's going to miss some time. Oklahoma's got New Mexico
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  Speaker 1: this week, which is not an easy game Jason Eck's
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  Speaker 1: doing things out there. But then they've got Georgia and
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  Speaker 1: they've got Texas. The most college football thing ever would
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  Speaker 1: be for this Oklahoma team to beat Texas. Oklahoma closed
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  Speaker 1: minus 4.5. Total was around 43.5 to 44. You've got
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  Speaker 1: 27 combined points. The undercash is pretty easy. Michigan wins outright.
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  Speaker 1: Roughly 71% of spread tickets were on Oklahoma, and the
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  Speaker 1: number was still climbing as of Thursday. Public money on
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  Speaker 1: a road favorite, fading a team. Everybody was laughing at it.
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  Speaker 1: We all know how that story ends, and we saw
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  Speaker 1: it again. Absolutely. You never know what to believe from
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  Speaker 1: week one. This is just proof. This is why I
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  Speaker 1: didn't have any wagers this week, because you can't tell
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  Speaker 1: from week one. Let's go over to Lexington. For 30 minutes,
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  Speaker 1: Kroger Field thought it was happening, right? Kentucky led 17-13
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  Speaker 1: on Alabama at the half. And the second half was
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  Speaker 1: just an absolute beating. Bama won the second half 32-0.
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  Speaker 1: Both quarterbacks threw pick sixes in this thing. Humphrey Grace
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  Speaker 1: from Kentucky batted a Keelan Russell pass, caught his own bat,
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  Speaker 1: took it to the house. Alabama's Luke Metz answered with
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  Speaker 1: a 34-yard pick six off Kenny Benchie. Three turnovers for
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  Speaker 1: each team. In Kentucky's second half, they had three first downs,
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  Speaker 1: 62 total yards. They were one of 14 on third
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  Speaker 1: down for the game, which I believe, I didn't write
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  Speaker 1: this down, Alabama's defense has allowed teams to go one
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  Speaker 1: of 23 on third down so far this season through
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  Speaker 1: two games. Kentucky had a failed fake punch. That was
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  Speaker 1: the hinge. After that, it was over. But don't let
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  Speaker 1: 45-17 tell you on Alabama, right? Total yards were 343-209.
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  Speaker 1: The first six drives produced 140 yards. Two of those
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  Speaker 1: third-quarter touchdowns came after the defense handed the offense the
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  Speaker 1: ball in scoring range. Keelan Russell is a first-year starter,
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  Speaker 1: and it showed for a half. I mean, Daniel Hill
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  Speaker 1: did get 104 and a score on 18 carries, so
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  Speaker 1: there's that. Second half rushing was much better for Alabama.
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  Speaker 1: They did not look good in that first half at all. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't believe this means Alabama is great.
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  Speaker 1: It just means they've got significantly more talent. Good gracious.
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  Speaker 1: They have significantly more talent than Kentucky. As far as
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  Speaker 1: the odds go, Bama closed minus 10, total around 49.
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  Speaker 1: Tide covered comfortably at the end, though, for cash, but
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  Speaker 1: almost entirely on that 32-point second half run. If you
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  Speaker 1: had Kentucky plus 10.5, I mean, you were feeling great
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  Speaker 1: at the break. And then you were dead by the
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter. Like, live betting? Bama was available at a
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  Speaker 1: way better price at halftime than they closed at. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they were down by four at the half,
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  Speaker 1: is what it is. Let's talk a couple more big games,
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  Speaker 1: then we'll do a lightning round. Hale State, right? First
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  Speaker 1: SEC team to ever set foot in Huntington Bank Stadium
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  Speaker 1: in Minneapolis. They played... They stayed about as long as
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: a bad house guest. 38-13, Mississippi State beats Minnesota. They
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  Speaker 1: had touchdowns on their first four possessions. 33 plays, 12
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  Speaker 1: minutes and 5 seconds a game clock. Drives of 75, 75, 72,
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  Speaker 1: and 76 yards. 8.6 yards to play in the first half.
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  Speaker 1: No huddle the whole time. Kamario Taylor... 16 of 22, uh, 227,
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  Speaker 1: three first half touchdowns, no picks, 13 carries for, uh,
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  Speaker 1: let's see, 86 yards, four third down conversions, uh, with
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  Speaker 1: his legs on those. Fluff Bothwell added 113 and two scores.
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Evans, uh, had seven catches for 121 yards and
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  Speaker 1: a touchdown. Minnesota scored zero offensive touchdowns. Their only touchdown
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  Speaker 1: was a defensive score. Um, Taylor got sacked in the
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  Speaker 1: end zone, forced to fumble, Aiden West fell on it.
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  Speaker 1: Like 12 penalties for 115 yards, 4 of 13 on
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  Speaker 1: third down, 13 total rushing yards. That's the scary thing.
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  Speaker 1: Mississippi State allowed 13 rushing yards to Minnesota. I mean,
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: that's crazy. They closed a minus one, or minus one
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  Speaker 1: and a half, Mississippi State did. They covered that in
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  Speaker 1: the first quarter. 51 combined points, the undercashed, because the
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Bulldogs just went into cruise control. like state has not
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  Speaker 1: cracked the AP top 25 or had a winning season
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: since 2022. That was the year that Mike Leach passed away.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: This is year three for Jeff Lebby. He's got himself
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: a quarterback. They play at South Carolina next week. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm waiting to see about that number because I don't
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: know if the market has caught up to Camario Taylor
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  Speaker 1: or not, but we also don't know a whole lot. Um,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: We don't know much about Lenore Sellers. I'll say that.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Let's talk Group of Six playoff. This was interesting. Blue turf,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Memphis led 17-3. It was 20-17 at the break, Memphis.
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  Speaker 1: And Boise ended up closing the game on a 35.
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  Speaker 1: They won the second half 21-0. I mean, just bananas.
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  Speaker 1: Looking at some of these numbers. So the turning point
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: in this was Maddox Madsen. Uh, To Akeem Wright, like
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  Speaker 1: 37 yards on fourth down, backbreaker. Well, the real backbreaker
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  Speaker 1: was Cam Bates taking a punt 72 yards to the house.
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  Speaker 1: It was Boise's first punt return score since 2022. And
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  Speaker 1: then they just ran it down Memphis' throat. 578 total,
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  Speaker 1: had 357 on the ground. Dylan Riley went for 206
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  Speaker 1: rushing yards. Time of possession was 39-56 to 20-04. And
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  Speaker 1: Memphis was not bad either. I mean, Marcus Stokes threw
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: for 384, included an 87-yard touchdown to Hunter Tipton. And
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  Speaker 1: they finished with 519 yards. They had just 163 of
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  Speaker 1: it in the second half. Boise closed minus 8.5. I
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: thought that was too much. Total was 55.5. Broncos covered.
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  Speaker 1: The overcash is late. And... The new playoff rule is
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  Speaker 1: that the fifth auto bid goes to the highest ranked
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  Speaker 1: team from the American Conference USA, the group of six.
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  Speaker 1: Conference champ or not, the highest ranked team. Boise was
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  Speaker 1: the first team out of the AP poll. Memphis was
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: the fifth team out. Boise owns the head-to-head. And that's
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: a season-long swing that was decided in week two. Boise
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  Speaker 1: will have to lose probably two more times because I
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: don't think Memphis is just going to win out from here.
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  Speaker 1: So it looks like Boise is probably going to be
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  Speaker 1: the playoff representative. All right, so let's do some rapid
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  Speaker 1: fire right quick. Go through some of these other things that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, some of these games that were interesting. Stuff
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  Speaker 1: that moves the number this week. Tennessee 45, Georgia Tech 24.
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  Speaker 1: Vols won the second quarter 17-0. They got a pick six.
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  Speaker 1: Covered the 11.5, the over cashed. The thing that we
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: should probably pay attention to, Jalen and Bachwey. was placed
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  Speaker 1: on a stretcher and carted off. He was Georgia Tech's corner.
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  Speaker 1: That's the one to track this week. Iowa 16, Iowa
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  Speaker 1: State 13. Apparently, it is illegal for this game to
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  Speaker 1: be decided by more than one scorer, regardless of the
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  Speaker 1: coach or the rosters. Yeah, it's crazy. Caden Burr's field
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  Speaker 1: goal with 15 seconds left. Iowa closed minus 14, so
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  Speaker 1: the Cyclones covered easily. 29 points goes way under a
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  Speaker 1: 41-point total. Texas Tech 35, Oregon State 24. Red Raiders
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  Speaker 1: laid 25.5. Didn't come close to covering. This was a close,
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  Speaker 1: close ballgame. And if you were watching the game and
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  Speaker 1: realized that Thomas Castellanos is a quarterback for Texas Tech now, yeah,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: that's what's... Welcome to college football. Texas A & M 48,
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  Speaker 1: Arizona State 20. A & M got outgained by 114 yards,
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  Speaker 1: won by 28. Three fourth-quarter turnovers. Two of them were
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: pick sixes. They cover the 14. That's what plus three
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: in turnovers will do. BYU, 28. Arizona, 17. They covered
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  Speaker 1: seven and a half. They got a fourth down stop
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  Speaker 1: by inches in that one, so Arizona probably would have
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  Speaker 1: covered there. Washington, 16. Utah State, 14. Huskies laid 26
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  Speaker 1: and a half. They needed a dropped pass to survive.
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  Speaker 1: That's two straight ugly wins for Washington. Uh, but Utah state,
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  Speaker 1: you know, lost to Idaho state last week. And this is,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: this is what Broncos boys do. Like they, they cover
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  Speaker 1: after they don't look good. LSU 45, Louisiana tech 14.
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  Speaker 1: This was 10 to seven at the half. Sam Levitt
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  Speaker 1: threw three picks that included a hundred yard pick six, uh,
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  Speaker 1: before the end of the half Ole Miss is next up.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe they were just fired up for that one. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's worth paying attention to Penn state, 27
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  Speaker 1: temple nine, uh, Trail three to nothing in the second quarter.
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  Speaker 1: Late 23 and a half. No cover, no under. Or
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: no cover and an under. Excuse me. Notre Dame 52,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Rice nothing. Covered 44 and a half. Georgia 70, Western
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  Speaker 1: Kentucky 20. 49 first half points. That was a school
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: record for Georgia. Miami on Thursday night, 77. Florida A
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: & M 7, and that one probably should have been
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: called early because they had 70 points on them in
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: the third quarter. It was ridiculous. Indiana 55, Howard nothing.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Josh Hoover threw four touchdowns on six completions. Missouri handled
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Kansas 38-21 on Friday night. They covered a little more G6,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: a little more Maction. Ohio beat Jacksonville State in four overtimes.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: James Madison beat Wagner, I mean, just. Good grace, 87-3.
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  Speaker 1: Tied the NCAA record for punt return touchdowns in a game.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: I ain't got a bet for you there. I just
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: needed you to know that because that's crazy. As far
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: as what moves next week, like books are re-rating power
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: numbers as we speak. Four places I think the market's
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: going to be slow. Oklahoma without Kip Lewis. New Mexico,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: I don't know if they are going to tell us
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  Speaker 1: a bunch, but Georgia and Texas are right behind them.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: If he's out multiple weeks, the defense loses his best player.
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  Speaker 1: I would take a hard look at the Sooner season
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: win total under now. Oregon's power rating is going to
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: get cut. They host Portland State this week. Spread is
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: meaningless there, conference or playoff futures or not. Buy low
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: or stay away, I think that's the debate right now.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Alabama hosts Florida State. Michael Carroll was ruled out for
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: the Kentucky game for Alabama. The front is why that
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: offense stalled for a half. Watch the offensive line's availability
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: for this week against Florida State. And then number four,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: maybe the most interesting game of the weekend, Mississippi State
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: at South Carolina. We got to see you about that one. Well,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: so we had a 20-point comeback against the number one
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: team in America. A 21-game FBS losing streak snapped against
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: the top 10 club. Mississippi State went up to the
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Big Ten and took somebody's lunch money. September is supposed
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: to be the boring part. Nobody told them this season.
• 26:07
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• 26:19
  Speaker 1: to get out of here. I think we're going to
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: get out of here. With that said, take care of yourself,
• 26:23
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• 26:25
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