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Steve Sarkisian on the strengths of the Florida Gators. · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: I commend, I really do.
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  Speaker 2: I commend the ESPN guys for I think properly explaining
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  Speaker 2: the difference between being ranked and we the slot you
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  Speaker 2: would go into into the bracket, at least in the
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  Speaker 2: early stages anyway, I think those who haven't picked it
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  Speaker 2: up will figure it out over time. But like, for example,
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State is number two in the rankings, but based
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  Speaker 2: on where things are today, if the playoff were to
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  Speaker 2: start this week, they'd be in the five position because
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  Speaker 2: Oregon would be higher than them and would be the
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  Speaker 2: Big Ten champ at this point. But again, there's more
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  Speaker 2: football to be played there. The same thing holds down
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  Speaker 2: and slide down, and I know it gets a little confusing.
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  Speaker 2: If folks were to look at their bracket, they put
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  Speaker 2: their AP ranking right beside their name, but they put
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  Speaker 2: where they would be in the bracket out on the
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  Speaker 2: left edge, which is a little easier to see anyway.
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  Speaker 2: But according to their bracket, the Loghorns, Texas was five
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  Speaker 2: in the College Football Playoff rankings, but because there were
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  Speaker 2: two Big Ten schools ahead of them, one that would
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  Speaker 2: be Ohio State, would slot into number five. In Oregon
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  Speaker 2: of course number four, so that would push Texas down
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  Speaker 2: one slot to six, where in the first bracket they'd
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  Speaker 2: face Alabama in Austin the eleven seed.
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  Speaker 3: Talk about an electric opening round on the College Football Playoff.
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  Speaker 3: I'm okay, rather not face Jilling Milroe in Alabama the
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  Speaker 3: first round if.
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  Speaker 1: You could avoid that, Yeah, be all right.
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  Speaker 2: That's why I say, you know, for all the people
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  Speaker 2: say maybe it's a better idea just to go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and play.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: I understand the sentiment about saying being in the five slot,
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  Speaker 2: you played the weakest. Probably a G five, although if
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  Speaker 2: you've seen boys he play, if they wind up as
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  Speaker 2: the twelve seed, you know, or Oregon, Yeah, and even
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  Speaker 2: if it's not them, maybe it's a b YU. Ever,
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  Speaker 2: what you wish for that's a home game, and then
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  Speaker 2: you would slot into playing the number four team in
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  Speaker 2: a bowl game in a neutral site. So those are
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  Speaker 2: some thoughts about that, but we'll see where it goes forward.
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  Speaker 2: If you win your conference and you're one of the
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  Speaker 2: power forwards, chances are you going to have a buye. Definitely,
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  Speaker 2: i'd say in the case of the SEC and the
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  Speaker 2: Big Ten, and definitely the AEC if it's Miami. Beyond that,
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  Speaker 2: no guarantees yet, with regard to the Big Twelve or
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  Speaker 2: the ACC depending on what happens with the rest of
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  Speaker 2: their regular seasons and how Boyse State finishes the season
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  Speaker 2: as well. I think it's important to keep all of
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  Speaker 2: that in mind. All right, let's hear some more from
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  Speaker 2: long Warts head coach Steve Sarkesian ask for injury updates
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  Speaker 2: now on Isaiah Bond and Andrew mccoba's this week progresses.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they both have had a good week so far.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So that means that they would you would project
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  Speaker 2: that they would be able to play. Jermaine Lelay is
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  Speaker 2: probably going to make his first collegiate start. He's going
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  Speaker 2: to have to start or he's going to have to
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  Speaker 2: play more snaps, let's put it that way in the
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  Speaker 2: first half. Because Vernon Broughton, due to the targeting call
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  Speaker 2: in the second half and the fourth quarter against Vanderbilt,
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  Speaker 2: is gonna have to sit out the first half of
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  Speaker 2: the game. So uh, sark was asked what Germaine Lila
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  Speaker 2: brings to the table with Broughton do to sit out
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  Speaker 2: the first half.
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  Speaker 5: Well, we're gonna need, you know, the complete player in Germaine.
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  Speaker 5: You know, the Floria has got a really physical offensive line,
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  Speaker 5: their physical running football team. So first and foremost, you know,
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  Speaker 5: our ability to stop the run is going to be
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  Speaker 5: critical Saturday, and he's got to play a big part
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  Speaker 5: in that.
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  Speaker 2: He is expecting, obviously Vernon Broughton to be ready to
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  Speaker 2: go the second half. And wasn't it Monday at the
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  Speaker 2: press conference cam where Sark was asked?
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  Speaker 1: I think it was I'm trying, I'm trying to remember
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  Speaker 1: who it was to ask.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was anwar Richardson who asked Sark, I'm curious,
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  Speaker 2: does he go through like regular practice reps and warm
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  Speaker 2: up reps and all that other kind of stuff when
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  Speaker 2: you're when he has to sit out the first half
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  Speaker 2: of the game. Was it Danny Davis? I mean we
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  Speaker 2: were in Las Vegas. I could Delfrid sure was listening.
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  Speaker 2: Whoever was that asked him? It's a good question, and
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  Speaker 2: Sark even said it was a good question, but he said,
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  Speaker 2: Vernon's going through regular work, so lolay will would step
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  Speaker 2: into that slot at least for a lot of the snaps.
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  Speaker 2: I do have regular rotation in the interior part of
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  Speaker 2: the defensive line. Remember when Velton Gardner transferred in from
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  Speaker 2: s MU was listed as a fourth running back and
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  Speaker 2: got some carries Hurning this season. Then he got hurned
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  Speaker 2: and we had heard from him he hadn't been available.
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  Speaker 1: So Sark was asked if Velton Gardner was out for
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  Speaker 1: the season.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's out for the season. He had an eye injury.
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  Speaker 2: So eye injury takes him out, So he's out for
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  Speaker 2: the year. The requisite Arch Manning question. There's always going
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  Speaker 2: to be this, especially by the way, and again I
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  Speaker 2: did not have a chance to actually listen to the
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  Speaker 2: questions coming from the reporters. Would I be right in
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  Speaker 2: guessing that it was not a local reporter that asked
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  Speaker 2: about Arch's development? Uh, Then that sound like something from
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  Speaker 2: an out of town media source on an SEC teleconference
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  Speaker 2: would ask, hey, can you bring us update?
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  Speaker 1: How's how's Arch Banning? Look? I believe so, okay, you're right, Well,
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  Speaker 1: you're right, okay. Uh. So Sark was asked, how has
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  Speaker 1: Arch developed over the course of the season.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think Arch is doing a really nice job.
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  Speaker 5: You know, Gosh, we were fortunate to have him step
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  Speaker 5: in the way that he did, uh for those for
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  Speaker 5: those two and a half games and got some some
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  Speaker 5: starts under his belt. You know, I think he continues
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  Speaker 5: to work at his you know, overall understanding of what
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  Speaker 5: we're doing schematically and then working on some of the
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  Speaker 5: fundamentals and details that we're asking.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, And then there was one other question, uh about
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  Speaker 2: uh Florida, and this had to do with the Gators
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  Speaker 2: being really good in terms of getting turnovers. Don't we
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  Speaker 2: talked about to Vanderbilt was good in the turnover department
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  Speaker 2: as well, But they're actually even in turnover ratio the
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  Speaker 2: offense the defense. What they've been able to get, uh,
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  Speaker 2: in terms of fumbles lost and recovered, in the interceptions
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  Speaker 2: and things like that. But they've been very aggressive. And
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  Speaker 2: Sark was asked not only about that about but also
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  Speaker 2: about the offensive line allowing during the course of the season,
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  Speaker 2: allowing twelve sacks this season, the offensive line allowing that,
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  Speaker 2: and asked about Florida's ability to force turnovers.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, So, you know, I think one thing is they've
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  Speaker 5: they've got a good scheme that you could see their
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  Speaker 5: players have gained confidence in.
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  Speaker 4: As the year has gone on.
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  Speaker 5: You know, they're really physical at the line of scrimmage,
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  Speaker 5: and so because of that, you know, I think they
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  Speaker 5: can deploy people in the secondary from a coverage perspective
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  Speaker 5: and mixed coverages and disguise coverages. But on the flip side,
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  Speaker 5: they will be aggressive at times and they'll they'll pressure
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  Speaker 5: you and they'll force the quarterback into some poor decisions.
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  Speaker 4: And so I think they just do a good job
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  Speaker 4: of of all that.
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  Speaker 5: They've got quality players, they've got a good scheme that
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  Speaker 5: the players have gained confidence in. But then it's them
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  Speaker 5: mixing all that they do uh to force some some
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  Speaker 5: some poor decisions from the quarterbacks perspective.
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  Speaker 4: You know, on the offensive side of the ball.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I think Billy and I are kind of
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  Speaker 5: cut from a similar cloth, and that you know, he
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  Speaker 5: believes in running the ball and when you when you
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  Speaker 5: run it, and then you can utilize the play action
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  Speaker 5: pass and you know, give your offensive line put them
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  Speaker 5: in a little better positioning that that that helps you
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  Speaker 5: know that they they really haven't been in games where
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  Speaker 5: they've just been behind, where they've had to drop back,
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  Speaker 5: drop back, drop back. You know, they've been able to
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  Speaker 5: maintain some balance and again that that forces you know,
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  Speaker 5: defenses to not just pin the ears back and rush
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  Speaker 5: the passer, but have to defend the run and and
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  Speaker 5: then they can run placks past. They can run bootlegs
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  Speaker 5: and keepers and spread outs and so the launch point
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  Speaker 5: can change. And so you know, I think that's you know, one,
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  Speaker 5: they've got some pretty good players and big guys up front,
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  Speaker 5: but two, I think, you know, because of their ability
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  Speaker 5: to run the football and allows them to take some
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  Speaker 5: of the pressure off that offensive line with the style
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  Speaker 5: of play.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, there's some comments from Sarka.
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  Speaker 2: I want to go back to the college football playoff
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  Speaker 2: talk a little bit. I mentioned earlier we were discussing
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  Speaker 2: the possibility of of you know where teams from the
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  Speaker 2: Big Ten and the SEC might fall in this, and
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  Speaker 2: folks talking about the respect or lack thereof with regard.
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  Speaker 1: To by you.
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  Speaker 2: You're pretty much saying that's what balder dash, poppycock, horse feathers,
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  Speaker 2: all that other kind of stuff, based on the fact
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  Speaker 2: that they are in the bracket, and right now they'd
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  Speaker 2: be number four bracket.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you could rank them twenty five and they're
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  Speaker 3: still going to be the four seed because if they're
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  Speaker 3: their conference champion.
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  Speaker 2: As long as they're not behind a boy see, but
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  Speaker 2: it'll be the top four conference champions, true, regardless of
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  Speaker 2: whether you're power for or not that's that's one thing
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  Speaker 2: that is kind of interesting about this. The other reason
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  Speaker 2: I bring this up is because when I was talking
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  Speaker 2: about one of the things about Heather Dnisch pointing out,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Colorado may be in a good position this
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  Speaker 2: sort of thing. She also points out and this gets
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  Speaker 2: to what you were talking about earlier to loss Alabama,
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  Speaker 2: and she said, the fact that Alabama is ranked ahead
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  Speaker 2: of these schools Iowa State, Kansas State, and Colorado is
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  Speaker 2: not a good sign for the loser of the Big
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  Speaker 2: Twelve Championship game two loss A and M and LS.
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  Speaker 2: You were also ranked ahead of the Big twelve secondary teams,
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  Speaker 2: which indicates the Big Twelve champion is trending to be
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  Speaker 2: its loan representative. The same can be said for the
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  Speaker 2: ACC runner up. The ACC is in slightly better position
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  Speaker 2: because SMU is right on the bubble at number thirteen.
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  Speaker 2: That indicates that if Alabama were to lose Saturday to LSU,
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  Speaker 2: SMU will still be lurking, though probably behind the two
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  Speaker 2: loss LSU. If SMU runs the table but loses in
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  Speaker 2: the ACC Championship game, it could be a debate in
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  Speaker 2: the committee meeting room, depending on what happens elsewhere with
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  Speaker 2: the conference runner ups, but the fact that two loss
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  Speaker 2: SEC teams already have an edge should be concerning to
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  Speaker 2: those leagues. And that's what I think a lot of
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  Speaker 2: folks thought might happen with the expansion of the playoff
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  Speaker 2: that while we refer to them as power for conferences,
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  Speaker 2: at least in the case of this season so far,
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  Speaker 2: it's really pretty much power too. Given what the first
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  Speaker 2: reveal is. Doesn't mean it's going to finish that way
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  Speaker 2: for sure, but I.
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  Speaker 3: Don't see how a second ACC or a second Big
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  Speaker 3: twelve team isn't a playoff r how deep the SEC
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  Speaker 3: is plus Notre Dame and Le Norden has to lose
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  Speaker 3: the Army, I think, and then that opens up maybe
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  Speaker 3: another spot. But with how deep the SEC and Big
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  Speaker 3: ten is, Craig, I think one from the Big twelve
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  Speaker 3: and one from the ACC gets in.
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  Speaker 2: One final note, she pointed out, because Boys he stayed
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  Speaker 2: his ranked number twelve, if that continues through selection day,
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  Speaker 2: the Broncos would earn that same seed and they wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: have to displace a committee twelfth ranked team to make
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  Speaker 2: room for the fifth highest conference champion. With Army all
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  Speaker 2: the way down at number twenty five almost certainly because
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  Speaker 2: of the poor schedule strength. There's a huge gap between
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  Speaker 2: the Broncos and the next Group of five leader. That
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  Speaker 2: could change, though, as the American Conference gets deeper into
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  Speaker 2: the heart of conference play. All right, coming up, we'll
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  Speaker 2: talk some more some NFL football and log worn basketball
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  Speaker 2: when we continue on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone.