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Ohio State Source SURPRISED Me With Message Buckeyes NEED to HEAR Before Illinois Game! · College Football Addiction: A Show About All Things College Football

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  Speaker 1: All right, welcome back to College Football Addiction. We are
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  Speaker 1: presented by PrizePix. Talk more about them in a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Zach Smith, Menace 2 Sports on with us. Ohio state
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  Speaker 1: against Illinois. We were just, just commenting as we got
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  Speaker 1: on Illinois, really screwed this up for being a possible
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  Speaker 1: ranked matchup, right? At least in a matchup of undefeated. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I guess Ohio state lost too, but I'll give them
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  Speaker 1: a little more credit for their loss than losing to
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  Speaker 1: the Duke blue devils. But Ohio state, Illinois, this is
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  Speaker 1: at home for Ohio state. Does Illinois do anything that
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  Speaker 1: kind of gives you any pause at all?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know what? They're, they're, they're solid offensively.
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  Speaker 2: I think they're, they're not, They're going to be the
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  Speaker 2: second best offense Ohio State's played, without a doubt. So
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  Speaker 2: it'll give you some. They're kind of that perfect opponent
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  Speaker 2: where they're solid on offense. I'm not going to say
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  Speaker 2: they're good or great, but they're solid. And that's an
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  Speaker 2: opportunity for Ohio State's defense to dominate a good opponent.
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  Speaker 2: You knew they weren't going to dominate Texas for four quarters.
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  Speaker 2: They did for three. But you knew they weren't going
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  Speaker 2: to do it for four. And so you want to see,
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  Speaker 2: all right, can they do it to Illinois, who's like
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  Speaker 2: a notch below a Texas offense, who I am not
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  Speaker 2: super high on either. But I think that's going to
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  Speaker 2: be telling. And Illinois is terrible on defense. So, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you can learn things in these games. Like, can Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State stomp an opponent out when they have a clear advantage?
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  Speaker 2: And that's sometimes been a knock against Ryan Day. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he always beats the teams he's supposed to beat. But
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  Speaker 2: can you, like, really exploit them? Like, can you really,
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  Speaker 2: with this superior talent, superior performance, can you really dominate
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  Speaker 2: Illinois defense. And that's what I think I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: be looking for. I want them to look like a
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  Speaker 2: Mac defense. I think their offense is better than that.
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  Speaker 2: So it's going to be somewhat of a test for
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  Speaker 2: Matt Patricia and the silver bullets, but you're, you kind
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  Speaker 2: of want to see, all right, Duke beat you by
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  Speaker 2: four points. So that means Ohio state should beat you
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  Speaker 2: by what?
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  Speaker 3: 20.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So like, I want to see that. I want
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  Speaker 2: to see you beat them by 20.
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  Speaker 1: Then is there a, and you talk about that, like
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  Speaker 1: finding that matchup that you can exploit.
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  Speaker 3: And going to that over and over again.
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  Speaker 1: As a former coach, how do you, when you're game planning,
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  Speaker 1: and when you're looking at a game that you should
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  Speaker 1: win by quite a bit, how do you balance wanting
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  Speaker 1: to work on something that you know you need to
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  Speaker 1: personally get better at as a team, and how do
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  Speaker 1: you balance going out and just exploiting that matchup over
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  Speaker 1: and over again that's gonna get you to the win? Like,
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  Speaker 1: do you treat, do you treat games sometimes as practice
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  Speaker 1: or is it like take care of things first and
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  Speaker 1: then do that?
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  Speaker 3: Or what do you do there?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you treat it, you treat it like it
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  Speaker 2: is right. Like if Ohio state, if this game gets
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  Speaker 2: dicey or is even close, it's because Ohio state shot themselves.
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  Speaker 2: So you're, you're, you're really, it's, it's cliche as hell,
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  Speaker 2: but it's true. It's really Ohio state versus Ohio state.
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  Speaker 2: Like if they're going to go out there and they're
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  Speaker 2: going to try to improve the weaknesses in their game,
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  Speaker 2: like their run game has been averaged. They're not explosive
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  Speaker 2: on offense, which is crazy to say out loud considering
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  Speaker 2: their personnel. Defensively, they fell apart against Texas. You want
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  Speaker 2: to see if they can play a full four quarters.
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  Speaker 2: These are all things that no matter who Ohio State
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  Speaker 2: was playing Saturday, unless it was maybe like Indiana, like
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  Speaker 2: for the most part, the questions were going to stay
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  Speaker 2: the same questions, whether it was Illinois, Maryland, USC, like
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  Speaker 2: you should win the game. Now let's see if our
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  Speaker 2: run game can be a little cleaner, a little more efficient.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see if we can make a guy miss in
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  Speaker 2: the second level out of our running back room because
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  Speaker 2: they haven't been able to. I said it on my
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  Speaker 2: show today. It's like they played two MAAC teams. How
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  Speaker 2: are you ranked below 50 in anything? I think they
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  Speaker 2: have three runs over 20 yards all year. How did
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  Speaker 2: they not have three in each MAAC game? Some things
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  Speaker 2: are glaring, and you're like, all right, dude. Like Illinois,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you should beat Illinois, but Illinois would mop
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  Speaker 2: the floor with Ball State and Kent State. So let's
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  Speaker 2: be for real here. Like you want to see those
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  Speaker 2: things and you want to see them get down in
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  Speaker 2: the low red zone and have a crazy stat. TJ,
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State in the low red zone. They're like six
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  Speaker 2: for seven touchdowns. So you look at it and you're like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: that's pretty good. But it feels awful when you're watching
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  Speaker 2: the games. And I did a deep dive. Their success
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  Speaker 2: rate on first down is 0 for 7. They didn't
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  Speaker 2: get four yards on first down any of the seven
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  Speaker 2: times they went down there. And so you're looking at
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  Speaker 2: it like, dang, like that's why it feels so painful.
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  Speaker 2: We have to get to third or fourth down and
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  Speaker 2: we're on the six yard line. Like we don't just score.
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  Speaker 2: And so you're looking for that to change, right? Maybe
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  Speaker 2: open up the offense a little bit. The other thing
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking for is Ohio State's been a heavy personnel
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  Speaker 2: team to start the year, which they were last year.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's part of the reason it bit them
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  Speaker 2: and they lost both the Big Ten Championship, and the
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  Speaker 2: playoff game against Miami. I want to see them play
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  Speaker 2: more receivers. Put more receivers on the field. Ask the
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  Speaker 2: O-line to one-on-one pass block without having double teams and
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  Speaker 2: seven-man max pass pro. It's Illinois. You should be able
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  Speaker 2: to do that against them. And if you're ever going
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  Speaker 2: to do it against Indiana or in the playoffs, you
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  Speaker 2: certainly need to start doing it now against Illinois.
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  Speaker 1: Coming out of that Texas game, What do you think
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  Speaker 1: led to the second half? I mean, you've talked about it,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure, but what really led to the second half
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  Speaker 1: issues that Ohio state had?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, so it was, it was like the perfect storm, right?
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  Speaker 2: I think the defense got a little bend. Don't break
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  Speaker 2: early in the fourth quarter, Texas had a 50. So
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  Speaker 2: Ohio state went three and out to end the third quarter.
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  Speaker 2: Texas had got the ball back and they went on
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  Speaker 2: a 15 play drive and scored a touchdown. And I
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  Speaker 2: think Ohio state was a little conservative and, trying to
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  Speaker 2: keep arch in the pocket, not pressure him, do, you know,
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  Speaker 2: do things that, that was working in the first three quarters.
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  Speaker 2: And so, and Texas is good. Like Texas is not bad.
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  Speaker 2: The other thing is Sark made a decision. He said,
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  Speaker 2: all right, I was relying on arch to drive us
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  Speaker 2: down on the field, the first three quarters. And he's,
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  Speaker 2: he's not very good. So in the fourth quarter, All
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  Speaker 2: his throws are going to be little RPOs, short throws.
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  Speaker 2: We're not going to push it down the field. We're
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  Speaker 2: just going to let the run game do it. And
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  Speaker 2: Arch just has to make some singles. We don't need
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  Speaker 2: him to hit a home run. And it paid off
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  Speaker 2: because Ohio State played a little softer, put a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of zone, and Arch was able to complete some passes.
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'll be at RPOs little passes. And so
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  Speaker 2: they got that first drive done. And I do think
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  Speaker 2: the heat played a factor and I'm not an excuse maker,
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  Speaker 2: but you go 15 play drive after a three and out.
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  Speaker 2: So you were just on the field before that three
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  Speaker 2: and out, then you have 15 play drive touchdown. Then
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  Speaker 2: Ohio state immediately goes out and has another three and out.
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  Speaker 2: You're right back on the field in this 120 degree
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  Speaker 2: heat index from Ohio. It's like, damn, I'm gassed. So
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  Speaker 2: I think that played a part in it. And ultimately
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  Speaker 2: you go back and watch the film. Ohio State, I think,
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  Speaker 2: had three different plays on three different drives that if
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  Speaker 2: either Jeremiah catches it or Julian doesn't miss the wide
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  Speaker 2: open touchdown or hangs on Jeremiah too long and doesn't
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  Speaker 2: see a wide open seam for a touchdown. Like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: one of those three plays hitting and the game's over.
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  Speaker 2: And the fact that Ohio State went 0 for 3
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  Speaker 2: on those three critical plays is definitely a credit. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: not even a credit to Texas because they were there
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  Speaker 2: and they were open. It's like Julian just didn't do it.
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  Speaker 3: Lack of execution.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't like Texas was covering everyone. You're like, dude,
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  Speaker 2: there's a guy wide open about to score a touchdown,
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  Speaker 2: and you threw it to Jeremiah Smith, triple covered. What
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  Speaker 2: are you doing? What are you doing?
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  Speaker 3: Now back to Zach. The first half of that game was,
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  Speaker 3: was Ohio. I'm not trying to piss off the Ohio
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  Speaker 3: state fits.
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  Speaker 1: Was Ohio state somewhat to, I thought, I felt like
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  Speaker 1: Ohio state was playing fine in that first half. I
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  Speaker 1: also don't know that they were playing well enough to
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  Speaker 1: be up by, was it 20 at one point? I
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  Speaker 1: thought that Texas is mistakes, which were. they were mistakes
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  Speaker 1: in Ohio state capitalized. So nothing against the Buckeyes or
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  Speaker 1: from the Buckeyes there, but like the cam Coleman interception
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  Speaker 1: was like the, one of the flukiest plays you ever seen.
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  Speaker 3: The, the, the fumble at the beginning. Good, good strip.
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  Speaker 1: But also like if the guy's leg isn't there, his
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  Speaker 1: knee hits the ground. So like, it was like margins
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  Speaker 1: that Ohio state capitalized on, but also like Texas, just
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  Speaker 1: like completely screwing the pooch in the first half.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. They definitely got some unlucky bounces. I mean that,
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  Speaker 2: that there's no greater example of an unlucky bounce than
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  Speaker 2: that interception.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it was worth it by five yards.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, but you could also, and I
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  Speaker 2: know regardless of this, it still is an incredible fluke.
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  Speaker 2: Like arch missed that throw. Like he's wide open and he,
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  Speaker 2: he overthrew it. Cam Coleman tried to make a great play.
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  Speaker 2: And sometimes when you do a little too much, some
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  Speaker 2: fluky shit happens. But I mean, yeah, the, That wasn't
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State doing anything. I guess Jalen McClain caught it
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  Speaker 2: when it was like lobbed up to him from Cam Coleman.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I think they controlled the line of scrimmage
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  Speaker 2: on both for three quarters. They definitely controlled the game
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  Speaker 2: and they were doing whatever they wanted. And Texas couldn't
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  Speaker 2: really do anything. But then they got those two turnovers
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  Speaker 2: that were like, OK, this is why it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be like a blowout score. Look out.
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  Speaker 1: Next week against Iowa. Is that a game that worries
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  Speaker 1: you at all, like looking way ahead?
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  Speaker 2: Kinnick Stadium is one of the toughest places to win
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  Speaker 2: for a number of reasons. One, the crowd is passionate.
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  Speaker 2: Their brand of football is is, is usually a road
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  Speaker 2: teams brand, right? Run the football, play great defense, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of play action. That's just who Kirk Ferentz is.
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  Speaker 2: And then, you know, no one else wants to say it,
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  Speaker 2: but when you got to turn and wave, wave to
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  Speaker 2: the hospital and all the kids dying of cancer, it's
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  Speaker 2: like you turn around for the fourth quarter and you're like, well,
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  Speaker 2: this is pretty fucking meaningless. You know what I mean? Like,
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  Speaker 2: It has an emotional effect on you because you realize
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  Speaker 2: it puts it in perspective. We're just playing this dumb game.
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  Speaker 2: These kids are fighting for their lives. No one will
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  Speaker 2: talk about it. That's a home field advantage for them, though. Like,
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  Speaker 2: the wave is awesome for those kids, but it hurts
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  Speaker 2: the road team. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how you get up and keep going
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  Speaker 1: on that. I can't even think about that. Like, I'll
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  Speaker 1: turn the channel and stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Like, it is brutal.
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  Speaker 2: And it's like, it's... I mean, it's emotional standing on
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  Speaker 2: the sideline of that stadium. And by the way, we
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  Speaker 2: got our ass kicked by Iowa. They were unranked. We
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  Speaker 2: had just beat Penn state and like a, like epic comeback.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But it did, you look back at the field and
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  Speaker 2: you're like, all right, what are we doing? What down
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  Speaker 2: is it? You just got instant perspective and it's, you gotta,
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  Speaker 2: it takes a mentally strong person to be like, all right,
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  Speaker 2: lock back in. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: How far under do you like that total with Michigan
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  Speaker 1: and Iowa this week?
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  Speaker 2: I think if they put it at 10, I might
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  Speaker 2: take the under still. I don't know, 6-3 final?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, 13-9 special coming up real soon with five field
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  Speaker 1: goals in it.
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  Speaker 3: Give me a score for Ohio State-Illinois.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, gosh. I would imagine Illinois is going to be
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  Speaker 2: able to score once maybe, even if it's late. I
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  Speaker 2: think Ohio State honestly should win by 24 points. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: if they open up the offense, and Julian, Julian, after
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  Speaker 2: being the most accurate quarterback in the country last year,
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  Speaker 2: this year, he's missed some throws that is not typical
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  Speaker 2: of his game. So if he can get kind of
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  Speaker 2: his accuracy back, and I think they win, you know, 45-7, 38-7,
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  Speaker 2: something like that, I think they should be able to handle,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they should absolutely be able to score on Illinois,
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  Speaker 2: and then I'll be interested to see what our D
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  Speaker 2: what Ohio state's defense could do against Illinois offense. Cause
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  Speaker 2: they're at least decent.
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  Speaker 3: Zach Smith minutes to sports. Let's talk a little Nebraska
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  Speaker 3: in Michigan state for just a minute.
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  Speaker 1: Nebraska undefeated so far, you know, this is the first
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  Speaker 1: time I think since 2019, I don't know if that
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  Speaker 1: year is correct that they have gone undefeated in the
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  Speaker 1: non-con and I know that's not big 10 play yet.
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  Speaker 1: I know that they still have a ton of time
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  Speaker 1: to prove things or unproved things, but I will say
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  Speaker 1: they've taken care of business the way that they need
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  Speaker 1: to largely.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And so credit for that. It does start to get
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  Speaker 3: a lot more serious.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Michigan state last week against Notre Dame, like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think anybody predicted that that game would be
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  Speaker 1: as close as it was just thoughts on Nebraska, seeing
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  Speaker 1: them and maybe just big picture on Calandria and all
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  Speaker 1: those things.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, I, I don't, I just don't know
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  Speaker 2: what Nebraska is. I'd say, I'd say shout out to
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  Speaker 2: their ad for scheduling a three and O start because
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  Speaker 2: you talk about Ohio university, Bowling Green, North Dakota, like what? That's,
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  Speaker 2: That's the way to do it. That's the Penn State
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  Speaker 2: method right there. Cignetti, too. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Like Cignetti said, I ain't doing it, man.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And, like, kudos to you guys. You're all 3-0.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? You're Ohio State. We scheduled Texas. Like,
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  Speaker 2: for what? Why did we do that? Now I'm glad
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  Speaker 2: we did. But I don't know what Nebraska is. I
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  Speaker 2: was definitely surprised, though. Michigan State getting Pat Fitzgerald. Like,
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  Speaker 2: you knew that was going to be a turnaround. You
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  Speaker 2: knew they were going to be well-coached. And ultimately, we've
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  Speaker 2: never seen Pat Fitzgerald with even decent talent. So what's
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  Speaker 2: that going to look like? And Notre Dame, I think,
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  Speaker 2: is one of the best teams in the country. And
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  Speaker 2: keeping that a game, it means something. So I don't
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  Speaker 2: know what Nebraska is. Matt Rule's my boy, so I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to pick Nebraska. But I would not be surprised
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  Speaker 2: if Michigan State wins this game. I mean, you just
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  Speaker 2: gave Pat Fitzgerald like Northwestern on steroids.
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  Speaker 3: I know it's hard to evaluate. Are you a Calandria believer?
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  Speaker 3: Cause he does look, he looks pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't he? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I, I like him.
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  Speaker 2: I like what I've seen so far. I guess I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if I'm a believer. I'm a hoper.
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  Speaker 1: He's a dude, you know, um, big picture, some of
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  Speaker 1: the other games going on. And then we'll go back
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  Speaker 1: to that one in a minute, Tennessee, Texas.
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  Speaker 2: That's, That's the one. I think Texas is the most
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  Speaker 2: overrated team in the country, and I know they just
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  Speaker 2: beat Ohio State, but it's not even because of that
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  Speaker 2: game that I think that. I've done probably... 10 breakdowns
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  Speaker 2: of arch Manning. And he's the most overrated quarterback I've
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  Speaker 2: ever seen. Like the way they glaze him is amazing.
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  Speaker 2: When he doesn't make great, he doesn't make like big
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  Speaker 2: time throws. He's wildly inconsistent and inaccurate.
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  Speaker 3: The ball so much, man. And he gives you the
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  Speaker 3: ball to cam Coleman. Right.
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  Speaker 2: And he gives you five plays a game where you're like,
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  Speaker 2: just like, I'm watching the film. Like what's he doing? Like,
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  Speaker 2: it's just like, he forgot the playbook for a play
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  Speaker 2: or like, He didn't see a defender that's right there.
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: It's just wild. So I like, I also, who knows
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: what Tennessee is. I mean, I like that. I get
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: his name mixed up because he has a face on Brandon,
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: but it should be Brandon phase on. It's backwards every time.
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: I think he's looked good for a freshman, obviously pretty untested,
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: but at home in, in Rocky top, I think Texas is,
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: you know, riding the high. of being the number one
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: team in the country. And I think, I think Texas
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: might take an L to Tennessee. I that's, that's my
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: bold take this week is I think Tennessee gets them. Dude.
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: I was asked on Monday and I picked Tennessee and
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: I'm riding with it, man.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: If I'm, if I'm wrong, I'm going out with the ship,
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: but I think Texas is probably still the better team,
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: but I I'm, I'm taking Tennessee at home.
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: We'll see if I'm an idiot or not.
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: Do you know, has Texas ever went to Tennessee?
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: I don't think so.
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: Because I feel like Tennessee fans are going to be
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: juiced up for this one. Not only are they the
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: number one team in the country, but it's like Texas,
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: the horns are coming to town.
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: So they've played three times. Tennessee has played them once
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: in Neyland Stadium. It was in 1952.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: Oh, jeez. So no. Actually.
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: It says Dallas, Texas, though, but it says home is
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: the location. Maybe they played out there. Oh, it was
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: January 1st, so it had to be a bowl game. So, yeah,
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: they haven't played.
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: But I guess they were the designated home team in, again,
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: the 50s.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: You know how that is. When your school or your–
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: like Florida State for you, when they randomly schedule Alabama,
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: you're like, oh, man. Yeah. Like the crimson tides come
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: into Tallahassee.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: That's never, that never happens. It's like, it's a different
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: level of juice. Yeah, no, it's, it's going to be
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: a fun one. I'll tell you where else it'd be
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: fun in Gainesville. Oh, Florida's offense, man. Like I hate
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: to get, I hate it.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: I was going to say, how are you going to
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: go with this one?
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: But listen, but how can you not like, I mean,
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: I didn't like it when it was against my team,
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: but how can you not like watch Jaden ball around
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: the ball or Jaden.
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: Boss run the ball?
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: He's so good.
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: Gosh, he's hard to like Rudy.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: And how do they like, Georgia techs backup is kind
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: of hooping. Like what, who would have predicted that they
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: had a quarterback last year, Haynes King that couldn't throw
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: a pass. Yeah. And this kid was sitting behind him
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: and he's out here just hooping for the Gators.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: He's not been, I thought if they could just get
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: him to be a good game manager, they'd be really
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: good this year.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: He's not, he's been more than that. He's been a lot.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: Yes. There's no doubt yet.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: Vernell Brown, all those guys that said, if it's not Jeremiah, it's,
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: it might be the quarterback of the other team. That's
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: the best player in college football right now. Can, can
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: he do enough by himself to beat Florida?
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: He did it. He did enough by himself to beat LSU.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: Cause they couldn't do shit. They couldn't run the ball.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: They couldn't do it. It was just Trinidad took over.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: It's the only team that might get better.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: One dimensional.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: Literally.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: It's like, dude, don't stop the run against Ole Miss.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: Cause then Trinidad is just.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: Going to take over. Let him, let it run.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Let him run it a little bit.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: Maybe they'll run to the second level.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't, How Vegas has them as a five-and-a-half-point
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: underdog is, after what I watched on Saturday, just dismantling LSU.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: Not dismantling, but, I mean, dominating them. Offensively, they dominated LSU.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: And I don't know what Florida is on defense. I
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: think Florida's offense is really fun. You mentioned Jaden Ball, Philo,
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Vernell Brown. Junior, they got some dudes on offense. I
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: don't know what Florida is on defense. That's what I'll
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: be most curious to see. And if there's a team
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: to find out against, it's this one, right? If it's
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: just a close game and they can provide problems to
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: Trinidad Chambliss in that offense, you say, all right, Florida's
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: got a chance to be pretty damn good.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they play Missouri and South Carolina next.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: So if you go out and lose by three to
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Trinidad Chambliss, a top three team, top four team, I
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: think Ole Miss should be one or two.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: But, you know, go out and lose.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: But then you're 5-1 and your only loss is to
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: maybe the number one team in the country if Tennessee
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: does what they need to do. Like, I think that's
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: a pretty good team. So, hopefully not. Go turn around. Yeah.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: You'd be so sick if Florida's back and Miami's good.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: At the same time, bro.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: And your team's at the lowest of lows. Yeah.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: Send prayers.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: I just need a new coach to tell myself some lies.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Do you have a pick in this one? Do you
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: think Nebraska can get it done?
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Oh, I mean, I, I, this is kind of a
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: battle of, of two teams that might not, we might
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: not know who they are. And, and I, I'm going
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: to go with Nebraska just because I know Matt rule.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: I've known him for, Oh God, two decades. And he's
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: a really good football coach. And this offense is, For
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: the first time since Dylan Rayola's fat ass left town,
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: looks like it's actually cohesive. It's moving. And I know
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: they haven't played anyone, but just the operation on offense.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: feels better now that Rayola is gone and I I
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: said it before the year and I was joking because
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: I didn't know who their quarterback was going to be
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: or anything about them but I was like watch Nebraska
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: be better without five-star all everything Dylan Rayola like and
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: they right now they look like they probably are.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah No, I I've liked Calandria. I like rule a lot.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: I think he's a really good, not, not Matt, but
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: they're running back.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: Um, I think he's really good.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Um, I'm very intrigued to see what that defense looks like. I'm,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: you know, against somebody with an actual pulse because they've
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: looked fine so far. But again, it's so hard to evaluate.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: You even talked about this with Tennessee and Faison Brandon.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: At least Faison, and I know Georgia Tech stinks right now,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: but at least Faison went into a hostile road crowd
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: in Atlanta and didn't flinch.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: And so I don't think Georgia Tech's very good. I
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: know that you're better.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Than whoever the Big Ten team of the week is
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: playing this week, Bowling Green and Western Kentucky and Howard
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: and all these other schools. So yeah, that's my question
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: on Klandreau.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: I think Klandreau will be fine, though. I just want
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: to know what this defense will be.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: For them.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Um, so we'll see what do you guys got coming
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: this week? I know you've done a ton of film breakdown.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: Is all that out. Is it coming out? And then
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: talk to me about, um, what you got going.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: On the website. She texted me. We were doing so
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: much right now, trying to evolve. AI's ruined everyone's life,
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: but also made it amazing. I think, um, we have a, we're,
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: we have an app coming out in the next month
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: or two, which I'm pretty pumped about, but, um, yeah,
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: film break guys. I gotta, I haven't done Ole Miss, uh,
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: LSU yet. I'm doing that right after we get done recording.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: So I'm pumped. to break down Trinidad and watch Lane
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Kiffin's Tears. But the film breakdowns, the biggest thing we're doing.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously we do a show every day at noon,
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: but the film breakdowns are what I think any college
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: football fan would want to check out. Yeah.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Go check out Menace to Sports. Advanced analytics and stuff coming.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: A ton of stuff that you sent me this week
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: that people can go check out there as well. That's
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: being built out as well that I think people will
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: really enjoy.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: The advanced analytics are pretty cool. I went through and
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: I talked to this summer, maybe five good friends of
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: mine in college football, and just was talking about like
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: what analytics coaches actually use and look at. And so
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: we're trying to build it because I hate PFF, although
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: it's better than most things out there. Sites like CFB
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: stats are like, all right, they just, just a list
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: of receiving totals.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: Like, you know, I want some, we aggregated everybody's sports.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Thank you for doing that. You did a bunch
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: of addition. We appreciate it. So I'm, we're building out
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: a coach analytics where it's going to be kind of
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: from the mind of a coach. Like you can look
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: up like the stat I threw out, like Ohio state
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: is over six success, like 0% success rate on first
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: down in the low red zone. And that's why it's
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: been a struggle. Like you can find that information. So
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: it's going to be cool. I'm pumped for it.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: Appreciate you, Zach, for hanging out. We'll talk to you soon, bud.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Definitely. Sounds good.