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Hey, everybody, it's Jeff. We wanted to let you know this podcast
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was recorded on Monday, December eighteenth, twenty twenty three. By the time
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you hear this, some things may have changed here or there, but we
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content that we have been uploading for well over a decade. We hope you
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enjoy this upcoming Table Talk discussion. As the college football bowl season is here,
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it is finally here. We've got some really great games that we're gonna
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be seeing in the near future around you know, after the Christmas holiday,
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right around the New Year's time. But we're gonna be seeing some fascinating college
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football I think, and we've got a great guest to get into it this
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week. Let's get right to it, and it is great to have back
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on the podcast, coming to us from Fan Sided. He does a lot
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of writing for college football as well as some NFL, but specifically we're gonna
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be getting into some college football today. We've got the one and only John
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Bueller. John Man, how you doing, Buddy, Doing well? Good
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to be back. Definitely happy to talk about some college football. Definitely not
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the NFL. After SG you're Atlanta Falcons. Wow. You know what an
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interesting division? Though. I know we're not here to talk about the NFL.
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We're gonna be talking college football. But man, that that NFC South
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a very very interesting division, my friend. I know, it's all over
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the place. It's really exciting, and it's like, I can't believe one
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of them is gonna have to host, hopefully the Cowboys and probably hopefully not
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your guys. And there you go. We'll see how that happens with this
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Philadelphia Eagles team after this game tonight. Again, we're recording this on Monday,
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December eighteenth. But John, I know you've got some great stuff that
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you've been doing over at fan Sided. I wanted to get that out for
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our listeners so they know where to find you. I know you've been doing
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some podcasting as well. Tell everybody where they can find you on the interwebs.
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Yeah, you can follow me on Twitter at bueler one. Eighteen b
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U h l e R one one eight. There's a link to my author
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profile on fansida dot com. I write for the flagship site. I mostly
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covered college football the NFL, and I'm also you know, I write a
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lot about the Braves, kind of have some ties there with the division and
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stuff. Writing a little bit about Otani but that's kind of my honey hoole
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here, but that's that's kind of what I write there, So all right,
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very there. Yeah. Also, also I forgot about the podcast.
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Yeah, I gotta forget that too. Yes, we've been doing a college
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football centric podcast on fansida dot com with my colleague Cody Williams. It's called
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False Start. You can find it on Apples, Spotify, I Google podcast,
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anywhere there's podcasts. It's just two dudes with long hair who liked to
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shoot the breeze about college football. It's really dumb, but it's been a
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lot of fun. And yeah, you can follow us on Twitter there at
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CFB fall Start too. We do dumb stuff constantly on this podcast, and
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we've been doing this for over ten and a half years. John, So
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everybody go listen to the dumb stuff. I'm kidding of course, let's you
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know, let's get into some college football talk here with you, John,
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because, like I you know, I reflect back on what this two thousand
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and twenty three college football season was, and it was just a unique year
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I think for college football in general. You know, we saw Ohio State,
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you know, faltering from time to time, not as maybe the the
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dominant football program that they that they have been in recent memory. Missouri,
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I mean, they were a team to be reckoned with at times. As
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well. Florida they were certainly a disappointment I think this year. When we
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reflect back on this season, West Virginia was certainly a surprise I think for
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many as well. So I'm wondering what was one of the biggest under the
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radar college football storylines during this season that you particularly followed, and how did
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that impact college football overall. Definitely the really bad offense there in Iowa City
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with the Hawkeyes. That was that tapped into the sickos for all of us
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there, Like we can't believe just how poor the Iowa offense was under Brian
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Farrence. The defense was spectacular. I mean, Males Parker won the Frank
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Broyles and this team went ten and two one, like the big tenues and
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I don't think they scored a point versus Michigan and Indy, but just the
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fact that there was a clause in there, like you need to average twenty
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five points a game, and that's kind of how everybody came up with the
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drive to three twenty five and I don't even think he got to two hundred
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before interim eighty. Beth Gatz is like, nah, dude, you're out
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right. It was the craziest thing ever. I feel so bad for their
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players, Like, really, once Kad McNamara got hurt and they had to
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put Deacon Hill in there. They couldn't move the ball, couldn't do anything
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but their points. They could kick field goals and block punts. That's about
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it. Yeah, I thought, like, in terms of just an underrated
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story, that was just weird. That was the one that immediately came to
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mind to me. I've never seen such a dichotomy in college football in terms
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of one particular program where you have absolute dominance on one side of the ball
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and defense and or offense, and then on the other side of the ball
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they could not do anything at all. It was, like you said,
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I think it was really an under the radar storyline. I mean, those
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those of us that really followed college football closely, we kind of know what
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was happening with Iowa throughout the course of the year. But my gosh,
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I mean in terms of them being a quote, you know, bigger type
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of team within the Big Ten, My gosh, how how how two polar
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opposites of offense and defense ended up working out this year for them? It
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was really really quite spectacular, John, Oh, Definitely. The thing about
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them is like they were in and around the top twenty five the whole year.
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Yeah, And I mean they didn't do so hot against Penn State and
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Michigan and other things like that. The lost in Minnesota for Floyd was really
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weird, but then they won like a ten to seven game that I actually
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predicted over Northwestern at Wigley, which was crazy. It's so interesting to look
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back on some of these storylines here. So as we're moving along, though,
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John, you know, the bowl season actually starts today with the famous
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Toastery Bowl, which is Western Kentucky versus Old Dominion. I think it's happening
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at like two thirty or something, and nobody's going to be watching this game,
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really, but I do wonder, you know, and we've talked about
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it on this podcast over the years again over the past decade number of times.
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I'm wondering, do you think the college bowl season has gotten a little
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bit ridiculous with the sheer number of bowl games that they actually are that there
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actually are, or do you think it actually kind of helps the college football
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product? What are your thoughts here? I mean, what an interesting one
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to have here on a Monday over there, not in Bank of America Stadium
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over there at where the forty nine ers play for ULC Charlotte. Hopefully it's
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not a soupy mess because that was a hailstorm, just a monsoon there in
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Charlotte yesterday. But I think with Division One expanding with so many teams,
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I think an opportunity for everybody that finishes at five hundred or better to play
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with their friends is kind of cool. Yes, the games are going to
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be like on ESPN for the most part, and you can watch them if
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you want to. But I think it's an opportunity for these guys to play
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with their their friends, their college teammates against somebody they're never really going to
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go up against. Yes, I mean came Western Kentucky play Old Dominion.
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Sure we're not that far apart, different conference and stuff. But the one
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thing that really intrigues me about what's going on with these bowl games is like
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there's opportunities for the players to get better, for everybody to kind of like
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level up there yep, and it's just it's just even more. It's just
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bad if you don't make it like I too, Like Florida that went five
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and seven, their season's done. They're not going to do anything until spring
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practice. Yep. These practices are so crucial, So anybody who follows the
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sport knows how big it is. Like maybe maybe this is like the first
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start for the quarterback taking over to the guy who's opting out and whatnot.
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Yes, it's like, I mean, I'll watch every one of them,
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but if it's on, I'll do it. Obviously the big bulls will watch
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too. But I don't hit it. But it is kind of ridiculous though,
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like some years they've had like five and seven teams playing with like come
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on, But other than that, I don't hate it. Maybe maybe I'm
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kind of in the minority there. Yeah, I think I think it has
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gotten ridiculous. Like you said, I think it's gotten ridiculous over the years,
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but I think there's the opportunity to see some good football, some genuine
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good football against teams that do have a certain amount of talent. It might
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not be the greatest talent that you're seeing again today with the famous Toastery Bowl,
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Western Kentucky and Old Dominion. They're not the greatest teams out there,
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but it's just in terms of, you know, the type of football product
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that they can produce. You know, it may be entertaining here and there.
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So I don't know, I'm coming around to it a little bit more.
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I've always been on the mindset of no, this is not good for
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college football, but you know, I'm kind of coming around to it that,
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you know what, the more football we have in our lives the better.
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So anyways, we're moving along here, John, I'm hoping we can
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get into some of the bowl games, some of the more prominent bowl games
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here that we are going to be seeing over the next couple of weeks.
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Wanted to get your thoughts on specific bowl games and what we may actually see
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and what your thoughts are going into these games. First and foremost love to
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get your thoughts on the Cotton Bowl Ohio State versus Missouri. What do you
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think is going to happen here? Because, as I mention, and you
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know at the top, Ohio State the kind of saw them falter from time
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to time. In Missouri, you know, they were a force at times
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during this season as well. How do you think the Cotton Bowl is gonna
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play out? This is the one I'm the most confident about. I'm not
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the gambling type, but Missoo is gonna slaughter Ohio State because Ohio State just
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they don't like Tom McCord's and the transfer portal who's their quarterback. Yeah,
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they're dealing with a lot of stuff with the whole fall out of Michigan Ryan
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Days falling out of favor, which I think is kind of odd because he's
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a really good coach. And Miszoo definitely maybe might be good. They've played
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my alma mater, the University of Georgia, very well. They're probably the
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third best team in the SEC behind Georgia and Bama right now right there with
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Ole miss They're gonna play really hard. This is another opportunity for Code Schrader,
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the SEC running back first Team or like he's gonna be try go pro.
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Came up from like a very small level of college. I think Miszoo
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they've been played in the New Year six Bowl since it's been the year six.
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I think the last one was like thirteen. They played Oklahoma and the
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Cotton Bowl or something like that, and then maybe the Chase Daniel team in
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O seven. But I really, I really like Missoo in this game.
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Maybe it'll be close, but I think that the urgency is more on Missouri's
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side in this game. All right, very good. Let's move on to
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the Peach Bowl. We've got Penn State against Ole Miss. And yes,
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I'm a Penn State guys, you know, but I think this is going
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to be a very interesting matchup. You know, I'm not gonna be home
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or all, like, oh yeah, Penn State's going to be taking this.
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No, not at all. What do you think in terms of this
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Peach Bowl matchup between Penn State and Old Miss. Well, this game's going
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on four miles from my apartment here, all right, yeah? Nice?
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Yes, so I saw like the signage up there on the north side yesterday
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or over the weekend and stuff. It's crazy. These two teams have never
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played right ever, which is odd because you think SEC big TAN affiliation,
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you'd have something. I think this has the chance to be the most competitive
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and interesting game and also very important for next year. The playoff expans Penn
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State is the best program that hasn't made it in yet, and he would
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probably argue in the SEC old Miss has been that in the last ten years.
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Lane Kiffin's doing a phenomenal job in the transfer portal. I think with
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Penn State having to change the coridators, it may not be in the Nittney
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Lions favor so much. But this is all about seeing what Drew Aller can
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do, see if he can kind of be what JJ McCarthy did this year
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at Michigan, And depending on how you know, you see Andy Coltenecki and
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then now with Tom Allen coming in from IU, you can be bullish on
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the Nidney Lions here next year. I think ole Miss, if ole Miss
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wins, Honestly, with the way the SEC schedule looks, ole Miss can
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win the SEC next year. They have a very they have a very easy
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schedule. It's like if they beat LSU, because I don't think they played
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Bama. I mean they got Georgia, but not having SEC West or East.
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That's good. This is going to be a fantastic game. So it
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may not draw the fanfare of some of the other bigger bowls, but like
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I think has the chance to be the best one. I got to tell
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you one of my favorites to probably end up watching is the one I want
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to talk about next, which is the Orange Bowl Florida State in Georgia.
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My gosh, John, I mean, you're a Georgia Bulldogs guy, and
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you know, you know, putting the bias aside here, what do you
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think is going to happen with this particular bowl? Because these are two powerhouse
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teams and teams that one of these teams I think should actually be in the
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in the college football playoff quite frankly, that's just my opinion. However,
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you know, Georgia a force to be reckoned with as well as you know,
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what do you think about the Orange Bowl? Here? There's there's a
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couple of outcomes that could happen. I think Florida State could be really up
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for this. You know, they may try to throw like a championship parade
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and like you see, I have to did a couple of years. So
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if they were to be Georgia, that would be really awkward and given from
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their standards. But you know, if Tay Rodimaker can play and these guys
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are charged up and fired up, they can be Georgia. There's a chance
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for Georgia can just be like a we're really not interested, kind of like
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when they played Texas in the Orange Bowl back in in eighteen. But Carson
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Back's gonna play in the game for Georgia. He hasn't decided if he's gonna
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turn Pray or not. I think he's leaning towards staying because there's like upwards
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of six first round quarterbacks. I don't think he's one of them. Yeah,
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he'd be down there with like Bo Nix and Michael Pennox junior towards like
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the back end of the first round. There's a chance Georgia could blow out
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Florida State. There's a chance Georgia could lose to Florida State, but Florida
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State's not blowing out Georgia. I think this game is gonna be very interesting.
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Probably of the New Year six, it's not the playoff, it may
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have the most entrigue because it's the two time defending national champions who aren't defending
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it, and the team they got absolutely robbed by the selection committee going at
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it. Yeah, a lot of hype. I don't know if it'll live
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up to it, but I'm gonna watch by a society because I think it'll
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be interesting. I think it's gonna be a great, great, interesting game.
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And finally, I wanted to get your opinions on the Fiesta Bowl Oregon
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versus Liberty. Man, I think this is gonna be a great, great
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game too, I really do. I'm really intrigued by it. What do
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you think is gonna be happening with this matchup? First off, I'm really
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excited that Liberty got to make the New Year six because, like CUSA hadn't
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had a team in yet. Uh. This is Jamie Chadwell's first year in
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Lynchburg, taking over for Hugh Freeze. The Flames have been outstanding. Yes,
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they may have like playing with you know, SEC caliber players in some
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positions at Conference USA, but that doesn't matter right right This is gonna be
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Bonicks's final college game, and this is very important for him because I think
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he's gonna ace the interview process in the draft. But he's got to show
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that like he could win like big games, a game that people matter,
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Like this is the biggest game in like Liberty Flames football history. It is,
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without a question, it is yep. And you know, I really
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like Dan Lanning what he's doing up there in Eugene. Obviously they're gonna get
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Dylan Gabriel coming in from Oklahoma to a place but Nicks next year. But
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like, I think Oregon's gonna win. But I don't want to know what's
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gonna happen if Liberty wins. If Liberty wins, there's definitely gonna be Wait,
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there's gonna be some shakeups. There's gonna be some shakeups for sure.
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Yeah, I'm not ruling that a hell like it's possible. Yeah, I'm
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not saying that's definitely not gonna happen. But exactly the fact I like Liberty
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boar in this game, that I like Ohio State versus Missoo says everything.
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There you go, the new year six are grade absolutely absolutely all right.
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Well, I wanted to move on to the college football Playoff with you end
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our discussion there. Frankly, I mean I cannot wait until the college football
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Playoff is going to have the expanded bracket next year. I cannot wait for
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that. I think that it's going to make for more interesting college football,
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in a more interesting college football postseason. Quite frankly, you know, I've
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really kind of just despised this four team thing for years and years at this
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point, John, and I'm not sure how you feel about it, but
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I'm wondering are you looking forward to it as well, the expanded bracket and
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why or why not? Yeah, if it was expanded now both of our
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teams are in, and that would be all there you go, Yeah,
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and it would be the way it breaks down. I think if you would
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have done the seating as it would have been, it would have been a
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rematch from the regular season. Georgia would have hosted Ole Miss and Athens,
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and I believe Penn State would be going to the Horseshoe to play Ohio State,
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which I think that's how that would have gone first round. Initially,
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I wasn't in favor of expansion just because, like I don't think in a
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season more than three teams can win a national title. But once I started
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to realize that you want to have this be a national product, you want
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the West Coast to be interested in the Midwest, the South, the southwest,
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Northeast a little bit too. You know what, the whole country engage
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in this. You got to have somebody in there. And it's not necessarily
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like is the twelve seat ever gonna win? No, right, but like
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you want to have the opportunity to have them a chance to compete, you
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know, kind of like why we like March Madness so much in college basketball.
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I was kind of apprehensive about the automatic qualifier, but with the death
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of the Pac twelve, it doesn't bother me too much. You're still going
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to get enough quality at large teams like this year that would have been you
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know at Georgia, you know at Penn State, Ohio State, and MISSOI
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like, they all would have been in there, and they all would have,
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you know, probably had the ability to win multiple games here. But
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what I'm really looking forward to is like the on campus games. Yeah,
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the five to twelve, six' eleven, all those games, because it's
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a lot of these ads don't have the stones to like schedule somebody significantly in
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the non conference. Some do, some don't, but like, oh,
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congratulations, yeah you you made the playoff. As like the ten seed you
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got to go to let's check. Oh you got to go to Annaber Michigan
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this year, congratulations, Or if it's too cold, I guess you're going
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to Detroit and you're playing with the Lions. Play right. So I think
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it took a season like this where it just had it had to be like
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this for it to become very parent if the fourteen model doesn't work, because
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we've been banking on the fact that you know, four spots five Power five
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leagues, but all every league had had at least a team that was absolutely
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deserving of getting in, and there's too much money to be had for you
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to be missing out on that. I hope they get to multiple TV partners
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besides ESPN Truth so they can like kind of advertise this on CBS, NBC,
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Fox, whatever. Yeah, kind of like the NFL does, like
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they can do it right. But there's still a few pieces left to be
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decided. But I'm in favor of it. I think it wants Ari Wasson,
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if the athletic was in favor of it, I think we all were
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there you go, there, you go. Yeah. Once he was like,
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yeah it's a go, then it's a go. So yes, yes
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again folks, we're talking to John Buehler from Fan Side It. Also check
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out he and his co hosts a podcast called False Start Great College Football Talk
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over there. Follow him on Twitter at Bueller one one eight. He is
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a great grade follow And uh, I guess to close us up here,
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you know, talking about this college football playoff and specifically talking about these four
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teams that are gonna be playing here in the semi finals, Michigan, Alabama,
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Washington, and Texas. A few questions for you here, Which team
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first and foremost? Which team do you think is gonna absolutely get blown out?
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Florida State? But I think that's why the committee went this direction,
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yecause it's really hard to answer this. Yeah, if you hadn't tell me
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one, it's probably Washington. That's what I was thinking too. Yeah,
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if Panis gets hurt, I don't know. Yeah, but I don't think
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that they're gonna get blown out, because like I can't say the same for
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like Texas, although if quinn Ewers got hurt and they put Arch out there,
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good luck, because Malik Murphy's in the portal, that's true. Alabama
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would be fine. I just I don't know, probably any Washington, although
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I don't think we're gonna get We're gonna see it blow out. Okay,
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all right, sounds good. Next one we have four here, so number
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two here, what matchup do you think is going to be the most competitive
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to start us out? What do you think that's gonna be? Oh,
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Michigan Alabama, that's gonna be must watch, that's gonna be fantastic. Yeah.
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Yeah, I think either team can win. This is this is a
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very big one from Michigan, Like they have to win because they've lost their
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last two national semifinals Boston Georgia tears Ago and the Orange Bowl then just laid
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an Egg versus TCU and the Fiesta Bowl. I'm not saying they were gonna
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beat Georgia tiears Ago, but you should have beaten TCU last year, as
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illustrated by how lobside of the National Championship was. Yeah. As for Alabama,
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like they're in and once they're in, they're dangerous and Jayla Jayala Neuro
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is a fantastic player. Uh they Alabama versus anybody. I mean it's hard.
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It's hard to beat the ol Empire that will not die. Absolutely absolutely
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well. This is an interesting question one that I didn't have for you.
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And this is something that's always kind of perplexed me a little bit, And
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maybe it's because of my love for Penn State and my disdain for certain other
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programs within the Big Ten. Is that, like, do you, because
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you know you being a Georgia Bulldog and the fact that you know it's an
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SEC team, do you root for Alabama to win? Or is it?
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Do you know, are you rooting for Michigan in a way, because like
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for me, I completely and people listen to this podcast know that I cannot
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stand Horball. I cannot stand Harriball. Therefore I cannot stand the Michigan football
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program. I'm not rooting for Michigan. I'm not necessarily rooting for Alabama,
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but it is not gonna I'm not gonna be sad if Alabama wins, do
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you know what I mean? Like, I just cannot root for Michigan.
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And people will say, yeah, but you're a Big Ten guy, I
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don't care. I hate Michigan with every fiber of my body because of Harrball
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at this point, Are you kind of like that in a way or do
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you see where I'm coming from there? It really depends on the teams obviously
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having Penn State ties, or maybe there may be different feelings versus like you
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know, Ohio State and Michigan, whereas like somebody out of the West just
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get like okay, whatever. Cool. That's kind of how it is with
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George and Alabama, although they've owned us pretty much forever, particularly in Atlanta.
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Yeah, like I don't I don't dislike Alabama as much as I dislike
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Florida or Auburn. Basically that's just kind of and then Georgia Tech whatever they're
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doing over there in the A c C. But I like Alabama because it's
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saving and it's a it's excellence, it's a national brand. They know how
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to do it well. Harbaugh is just such as such a goof ball I
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can't really I can't really do with it. Like he's just he's easy to
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make fun of, you know, he's the he's the kind of guy that
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like if he's playing like the neighborhood pick up, he's always Team Skins,
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doesn't matter what exactly, the fact that he suspended for half the season,
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it's just like, did somebody beat this same please exactly exactly? All right,
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John, as we're moving along here, just a couple more questions for
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you in terms of these semi finals here again Michigan, Alabama, Washington,
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and Texas. Which team do you think may actually surprise us? Is there
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one? The most surprising team to me is Texas. I think they have
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the highest variance of anybody. I think all four of these teams can win
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the national title. Yeah. I was apprehensive about that with Washington, but
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I saw them got it out versus Oregon State in the rain. I'm like,
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Oh, this team is mentally tough, and then they went out and
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then beat Oregon pretty good. So I'm not saying that like there's no team
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in here who can't win it. Yep, But we haven't seen the start
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game yet. I don't know if that's gonna happen yet, but it could
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happen versus Washington, you know, overlooking like, oh, let's try to
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be Bama twice in the same season and like we get all the recruits,
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or you know, overlooking them thinking oh, we gotta play Michigan and stuff.
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I mean, if Quinny Rivers is healthy, they're fantastic. They've got
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a really good defensive line, really complete football team, really dominant in the
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trenches and stuff there, but it's Texas. They might be back, but
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they're also Texas, so you never really know when Lew's he's gonna pull football
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back and Charlie Brown Sky laying on his back there you go. Absolutely all
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right, final question before I let you go, Buddy, which team you
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think comes home with the national championship? Right now? It's Alabama over Texas.
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That's how I'm feeling, right That's how I'm feeling right now, just
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because like what I because I was at the I was at the SEC Championship
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and I was walking it very closely from the end zone. There's something about
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Milroe in person that's very impressive. He didn't even like complete half of his
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balls, but he was in command of the offense against a really good,
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really style defense. We've also seen like lighted up there too. I think
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he's probably my favorite next year to win the Heisman Trophy right now, Like
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that guy is special. Tommy Reese has all the weapons he's ever wanted.
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The Nick Saban and Kevin Steele will get that defense going, yep. I
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just think it and the ability to win two games in a road that's the
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team I trust the most to do it all right, Very good again,
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folks. John Bueller from Fan Sided also the False Start podcast where they're talking
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college football. Follow him on Twitter at Bueller one one eight great great follow
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my friend. Thank you so much, John, it was great talking to
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you. Come back and join us down the road, my friend. All
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right, thanks for having me pleasure being on with you, Jeff. And
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the college football bowl season is just gonna be so interesting. I love the
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conversation with John just now because there's so much excitement and there's a lot of
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I would like to say, you know, diversity when it comes to specific
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teams being in certain positions, certain bowl games that they are in. That's
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gonna make this bull season really fascinating. Like we were talking about like Florida
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State and Georgia, My gosh, it's gonna be a fantastic bowl game,
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Penn State, Ole Miss. I think that is going to be extremely intriguing.
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And then of course the National Championship game, what that is going to
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end up being. Man, it's gonna be fascinating. It's gonna be interesting,
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and we hope you enjoyed this particular table talk show. We got a
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lot more coming your way this week. It is great to be back in
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your ears. As many of you know, I was on vacation with my
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family last week, but we're getting back to our regularly scheduled programming haha.
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said, you all take care and we'll catch you next time.