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Monday Edition of The Drive - Hour Three · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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Speaker 1: W.R.K.S.
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Speaker 2: Pickett's Jackson.
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Speaker 3: Where it's time to take a ride. Yes, we're back
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Speaker 3: with Jake Wimberly on the afternoon drive.
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Speaker 2: It's live, it's local, and it's on ESPN 105.9 The
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Speaker 3: at 3.30, talking Mississippi State. Looks like it's going to
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Speaker 3: be A.J. Swan, or at least that's what the feel
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Speaker 3: is for Mississippi State Saturday versus Texas. We've been trying
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Speaker 3: to come up with a good tagline for Swan. And
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Speaker 3: Mike Grace will join us to talk SEC football in
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Speaker 3: the next segment. Chris Landrieu will join us tomorrow. Text
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Speaker 3: is 601-885-3776. That is the Cowboy Maloney's text line. If
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Speaker 3: you missed it, the MHSA has dropped their reclassifications for
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Speaker 3: next year. Happens every two years. Brandon Shields, as Brandon
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Speaker 3: Shields does with the notes on this. Let me just
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Speaker 3: read through them. They're not long. This is kind of
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Speaker 3: the synopsis of the whole thing. And by the way,
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Speaker 3: JC wants to know what Shucker's mascot would be. Would
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Speaker 3: it be Cougars or the Clams? Probably Cougars. Shields notes
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Speaker 3: on the reclass, no school jumped from 6A to 7A.
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Speaker 3: So you did not have a 6A school move to 7.
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Speaker 3: Pearl drops from 7 to 6A. That's the biggest headline
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Speaker 3: in all this. Pearl Pirates will be 6A next year
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Speaker 3: in every sport. Beaver's not a fan. Cleveland Central moves
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Speaker 3: from 5A to 6A. Neshoba Central and Greenville drops from
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Speaker 3: 6A to 5A. Remember, all this is done on student pop.
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Speaker 3: How many kids you have? 9 through 12 or 10
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Speaker 3: through 12 or whatever they look at. Actually, I think
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Speaker 3: it's 9 through 11. I think I remember Tim Schrammack
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Speaker 3: telling me that. It was 9 through 11. Greenwood moves
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Speaker 3: from 5A to 4A. Summerall, Northeast Jones, and Purvis drop
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Speaker 3: back down from 4A to 5A. So they move from
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Speaker 3: 5 to 4. Summerall, Northeast Jones, Purvis. Boneville and St.
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Speaker 3: Stanislaus move from 4A to 3A. Ripley, Mendenhall, and Rosafort
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Speaker 3: go to 3A from 4A. So Mendenhall is now 3A,
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Speaker 3: along with Rosafort and Ripley. Clarkdale and Meridian moves up
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Speaker 3: to 3A from 2A. North Tippa, where's that at? You
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Speaker 3: ever been to Tippa? They'll be 3A. Aberdeen and Ruleville
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Speaker 3: dropped from 2A from 3A. Byers, Vardaman, Riverside, and Bogochitta
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Speaker 3: moved from 1A to 2A. And Hamilton, Jay-Z, George, Velma Jackson,
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Speaker 3: and Leland dropped from 1A to 2A. There you go.
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Speaker 3: There's your notes on that. 601-885-3776 is the Cowboy Maloney's
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Speaker 3: text line. 15 thoughts after week 8, courtesy of Ari
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Speaker 3: Wasserman and On3. Oregon's frustration, Texas revival, three lost CFP teams,
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Speaker 3: and more. JC sends us a picture still looking at me.
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Speaker 1: Swan.
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Speaker 3: What is that off of? Do you know? What movie
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Speaker 3: that is?
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Speaker 2: Well, that's exactly what you asked me one hour ago.
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Speaker 3: Oh, that's the same movie.
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Speaker 2: Stop looking at me, Swan.
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Speaker 3: Okay, same thing. Billy Madison.
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Speaker 1: Correct? Yeah. Okay.
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Speaker 3: And I may ask you that before the... I'm sure
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Speaker 3: you will.
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Speaker 2: There's 57 minutes left.
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Speaker 3: I may hit it one more time. All right, let's
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Speaker 3: see here. One, 15 things coming out of the weekend.
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Speaker 3: The frustration of being an Oregon fan. In each of
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Speaker 3: the past two seasons, Oregon assembled one of the best
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Speaker 3: teams in college football, only to be blown out in
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Speaker 3: the playoff by the eventual national champion. It was Ohio
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Speaker 3: State two years ago, Indiana last year. After those playoff losses,
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Speaker 3: as frustrating as they were, Duck fans could stay encouraged
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Speaker 3: about the future as long as Oregon kept amassing elite talent.
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Speaker 3: It would be eventually the best team in the country.
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Speaker 3: Or would it? Well, things have gone south for Dan Lanning,
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Speaker 3: and there is a lot of frustration in Oregon. All
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Speaker 3: Oregon had to do was stay consistent and field a
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Speaker 3: team like those from the last two years. Instead, it
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Speaker 3: has been a team that is essentially eliminated from the
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Speaker 3: playoff before November. I don't know that anybody saw that coming.
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Speaker 3: Buffalo Chris says, thanks, Keith. And he sends us a ticket.
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Speaker 3: That's a good payout. Tennessee at South Carolina. Took South
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Speaker 3: Carolina minus two and a half. BYU at Central Florida.
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Speaker 3: Took Central Florida plus eight. How about that, B? A
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Speaker 3: two-game parlay winner. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. Thank you, Chris,
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Speaker 3: for sending that over. The Big Ten. The Big Ten.
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Speaker 3: When you look at the Big Ten, Oregon is basically
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Speaker 3: out of the playoff contention. Ohio State is trying to
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Speaker 3: figure out who it is without quarterback Julian saying. Indiana
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Speaker 3: is playing Big Ten West football against an offensive-less Michigan team.
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Speaker 3: Penn State is 0-4 in the conference, and USC got
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Speaker 3: boat raced by Wisconsin. UCLA is one of the three
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Speaker 3: teams still unbeaten in the country, but this conference wants
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Speaker 3: a top-heavy conference, at least going into the season. doesn't
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Speaker 3: seem poised to extend its national championship streak to four
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Speaker 3: years straight. Ohio State and Indiana still seem like the
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Speaker 3: two best candidates to get it done, but if you
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Speaker 3: compare those teams to last year's versions, it's not even
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Speaker 3: close right now. Michigan, after Michigan repeatedly shot itself in
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Speaker 3: the foot offensively in overtime and a loss to Indiana,
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Speaker 3: the Wolverines certainly could have won. Head coach Kyle Whittingham
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Speaker 3: says this, quote, if that's the number six team in
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Speaker 3: the country, then we're pretty good at football, even though
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Speaker 3: we're still sitting here at four and three.
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Speaker 2: No, you're not.
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Speaker 3: Michigan, you're not any good. BYU got to enjoy being
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Speaker 3: ranked in the top five for seven days, a week
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Speaker 3: after beating Notre Dame and capturing one of the biggest
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Speaker 3: wins in program history, legitimizing itself and the Big 12.
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Speaker 3: It had to fly across the country to play Central Florida.
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Speaker 3: The Cougars fought hard, but was beaten. Texas Tech also
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Speaker 3: beaten over the weekend. Utah, the only undefeated team in
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Speaker 3: conference play and undefeated in the Big 12 right now.
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Speaker 3: Speaking of Big 12, the conference still has five teams
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Speaker 3: with one loss or fewer in conference play. Utah, BYU, Arizona,
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Speaker 3: Texas Tech, and Oklahoma State. If someone tells you they
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Speaker 3: don't know who will win the conference, they're a liar.
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Speaker 3: Or if they tell you they know who's going to
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Speaker 3: win it, they're going to be a liar. It'll be
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Speaker 3: a fast finish in the Big 12. Given how everyone
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Speaker 3: is beating each other up across the country, the Big
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Speaker 3: 12 realistically seems like a two-bid league this year. And
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Speaker 3: I would say that that is probably right. How about Texas?
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Speaker 3: After a big win over Ole Miss on Saturday night
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Speaker 3: in front of a big crowd, the Longhorns were able
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Speaker 3: to pull it together. Arch Manning was able to pull
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Speaker 3: it together. After losing consecutive games to Oklahoma and Florida
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Speaker 3: and putting a struggling offense on tap, The Longhorns came
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Speaker 3: out in the first half against the Rebs and looked
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Speaker 3: like they were world beaters that many thought they could be.
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Speaker 3: Arch Manning, who entered the game in the danger zone
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Speaker 3: of being benched, played with an edge, throwing for 212
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Speaker 3: yards and a touchdown, and running for two more scores.
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Speaker 3: Did you see any of his Holly Rowe interviews that
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Speaker 3: he had to do? He looked very uncomfortable. I think
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Speaker 3: he hates that lady. I think privately he can't stand her,
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Speaker 3: and I don't blame him. How about LSU? LSU and
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Speaker 3: Lane Kiffin The Tigers are still in this after LSU's
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Speaker 3: beat down of Auburn. The team that beat Georgia on
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Speaker 3: the road the previous weekend. Wasserman says he started to
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Speaker 3: think what we might have. He said it was easy
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Speaker 3: to mock Kiffin in the spring when he pleaded for patience.
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Speaker 3: Maybe that patience has taken off. Let's see. JC real
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Speaker 3: quick with an image. That is correct. And Jason in Flagstaff.
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Speaker 3: Let's see. Jason sends us a photo of his MSU gear,
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Speaker 3: and he said it's way too late for that nonsense.
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Speaker 3: I guess talking about another team, if we were going
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Speaker 3: to do that, it wouldn't be Arizona. Talking about switching teams,
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Speaker 3: it'd be BYU. So I could marry a baker's dozen
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Speaker 3: of those smoking hot Mormon chicks out here. Well, at
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Speaker 3: least he's honest. And Patrick, wait until Texas plays state.
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Speaker 3: They'll look like a national championship team. It's possible. And
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Speaker 3: more bully.
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Speaker 4: One more.
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Speaker 3: Holly Rowe broke up with Cooper. I don't know that
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Speaker 3: Holly Rowe was dating Cooper Manning, was he? Was she?
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Speaker 3: And JC, Jake, why don't we continue the Holly Rowe experiment?
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Speaker 3: She's entering Beth Moen's territory. She's awful. No, she's almost
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Speaker 3: past Beth Moen's at this point. Which one would you take?
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Speaker 3: If you had to keep one, who do you keep?
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Speaker 3: Beth Moen's or Holly Rowe?
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Speaker 2: It's still Holly Rowe.
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Speaker 4: Just because of that one week of nonsense, you're letting
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Speaker 4: that overshadow our seven years of.
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Speaker 2: Of data on Beth Moen's. You know what?
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Speaker 4: It's been so long because seven years ago is when
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Speaker 4: you started avoiding Beth Moen's games.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Therefore, you've forgotten just how bad that voice is.
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Speaker 3: That's true.
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Speaker 2: I haven't heard it. I'll still say she is worse
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Speaker 2: than Holly Rowe.
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Speaker 1: Fair enough.
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Speaker 3: All right, we'll keep Holly Rowe for the time being.
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Speaker 3: Box will join us. We'll talk SEC football coming up next.
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Speaker 3: thank you so much, brother. How you doing?
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Speaker 1: I'm doing good, man. I'm above ground. So that's a
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Speaker 1: good thing. You know what I'm saying?
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Speaker 3: There is no doubt. All right, let's talk some SEC football.
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Speaker 3: We'll start in Starkville where we visited with David Murray.
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Speaker 3: Gene's page, 247sports. com, hour one. It looks like A.J. Swan
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Speaker 3: may be the guy this weekend. Your take on everything
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Speaker 3: going on in Starkville with Kamario Taylor. I mean, we
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Speaker 3: don't know if he's going to– probably not going to
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Speaker 3: be healthy the rest of the year with the injury
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Speaker 3: he's got. Now they pivot likely to A.J.
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Speaker 1: Swan. I just think back to last year, I think
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Speaker 1: it was turf tow that cost Joe Burrow eight games
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Speaker 1: in his National Football League schedule. So if this is
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Speaker 1: turf tow, and I don't know that we've ever really
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Speaker 1: verified that, but it's what the word is, then we
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Speaker 1: really shouldn't expect Camario back. Look, I give him all
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Speaker 1: the credit in the world for wanting to play this
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Speaker 1: past week, but I really do wonder if it was
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Speaker 1: in his best interest. It was obvious he could not
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Speaker 1: move well. And just spend your time coming up with
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Speaker 1: game plans. that can benefit those other guys. I thought
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Speaker 1: the Puckett was not bad when he threw on time.
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Speaker 1: The numbers won't blow you away, 17-24 for 158 yards,
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Speaker 1: the one touchdown, the one interception. But when he threw
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Speaker 1: on time, I thought he did fine. If he had
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Speaker 1: to kind of go through his progressions, it wasn't so great.
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Speaker 1: But I know this is, again, great to have Fluff
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Speaker 1: Boswell back. And, look, A.J. Swan's a guy who battled
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Speaker 1: for a starting role at Vanderbilt, and I would think
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Speaker 1: that Jeff Levy and his offensive coaches can find a
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Speaker 1: game plan for the young man, see if he can
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Speaker 1: help out.
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Speaker 3: Visiting with Mike Gracie is the host of the Press
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Speaker 3: Box Monday edition of the program. All right, Ole Miss,
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Speaker 3: they will be back home taking on Auburn, their significant
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Speaker 3: favorite in Vegas out the gate against Auburn. Took it
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Speaker 3: on the chin to Texas. Auburn, likewise, took it on
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Speaker 3: the chin to LSU. Ole Miss in a must-win situation
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Speaker 3: now at 5-2.
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Speaker 1: Well, and I learned this afternoon, Kwon Lacey will not
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Speaker 1: play this upcoming weekend against Auburn is what I'm hearing.
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Speaker 1: He was held at just 36 yards on 16 carries
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Speaker 1: against Texas. And you know what he means to this offense.
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Speaker 1: You go back to the win over Missouri when he
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Speaker 1: came back from injury, 122 yards on just 16 totes
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Speaker 1: in that matchup. So, you know, Trinidad Chambliss might be
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Speaker 1: the best player in the country, but he's a little
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Speaker 1: bit of a different player. When Kwon Lacey's not in
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Speaker 1: that backfield with him, we'll see how that Ole Miss
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Speaker 1: offense can hold up against Auburn this weekend.
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Speaker 3: There's no doubt it's intrigue everywhere. Speaking of intrigue, let's
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Speaker 3: go around the league. Kentucky 5-1, 7-1 overall score. Mike,
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Speaker 3: there's a couple teams in the country that we didn't
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Speaker 3: see coming. UCLA's one of the Big Ten. Kentucky's one
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Speaker 3: of the SEC. How good is this Cats team?
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Speaker 1: You know, I think they're pretty good. And when you
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Speaker 1: look at what they've got left, they've still got to
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Speaker 1: go to Tennessee. They get Florida home. They've got to
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Speaker 1: go to Missouri. Okay, those are three tough games, there's
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Speaker 1: no doubt. But this Kentucky team is definitely in play
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Speaker 1: for a CFP playoff. Look, they're one loss to Bama.
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Speaker 1: And look, it was by 28. But remember... The first half,
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Speaker 1: they looked great against the tide, just had some second-half
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Speaker 1: issues that caught up with them there. You know, everybody
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Speaker 1: told me during the offseason to watch out for UCLA,
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Speaker 1: that Bob Chesney was going to make a difference and
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Speaker 1: make a quick difference out there. I don't know that
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Speaker 1: we thought Will Stein could do it. He certainly thought
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Speaker 1: he could. He stood up at SEC Football Media Days
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Speaker 1: and said the reason they're going to be better was him.
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Speaker 1: He was going to make them better, a little Kurt Cignetti-ish,
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Speaker 1: and lo and behold, he knew what he was talking about.
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Speaker 1: He's backed it up so far.
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Speaker 3: Georgia takes on Florida this weekend in the cocktail party.
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Speaker 3: 6-1 Georgia coming off a loss to Auburn. Florida, they're
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Speaker 3: coming off a win. And then when you look at
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Speaker 3: these two, Florida 5-2, Georgia 6-1. Georgia's the favorite. Can
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Speaker 3: Florida take this into the fourth quarter? Can they challenge Georgia?
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Speaker 1: Look, I think that Georgia loss to Auburn might have
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Speaker 1: been just exactly what Kirby Smart wanted for his team.
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Speaker 1: He wanted to get their attention, especially with this bye
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Speaker 1: week going on. They've been shooing on that 27-24 upset
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Speaker 1: loss at home to the Auburn Tigers. So I think
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Speaker 1: Kirby's going to have his team ready. And I really
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Speaker 1: do think they're the one team in the SEC, to me,
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Speaker 1: that is above the rest of the pack. There's a
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Speaker 1: lot of other teams that could make the CFP, but
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Speaker 1: I got a feeling Georgia's the best one of them all.
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Speaker 3: Mike, Alabama and LSU are in the clubhouse this weekend
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Speaker 3: taking a break. They'll play each other on the 7th
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Speaker 3: of November. Both sit. with two losses, is that a
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Speaker 3: de facto play-in game for the college football playoff?
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Speaker 1: You would think it's kind of got to be, although
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Speaker 1: the way things are going, Jake, we may have more
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Speaker 1: than one three-loss team in this year's field of 12.
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Speaker 1: So maybe so. I just know this. I mean, Lane
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Speaker 1: Kiffin's team is beginning to come around, man. They had
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Speaker 1: some issues early on, but Sam Levitt looks as healthy
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Speaker 1: as he's been all year. His last two outings have
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Speaker 1: been outstanding through the air. And at the same time,
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Speaker 1: Bama's still got some issues, man. They still have trouble
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Speaker 1: running the football. That's not been an issue for LSU.
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Speaker 1: They've been fantastic the last couple of weeks with their
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Speaker 1: young guy in the backfield. So I hate to say it,
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Speaker 1: but I think LSU might have the edge against the
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Speaker 1: Tide this weekend.
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Speaker 3: South Carolina upends Tennessee over the weekend, and we're visiting
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Speaker 3: with Mike Gracie as the host of the Press Box
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Speaker 3: Monday edition of the program. Stream us on thezone1059. com. Two things.
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Speaker 3: South Carolina, did Shane Beamer save his job? He's now
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Speaker 3: four and three. They've won two in a row. Tennessee
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Speaker 3: falls to six and two. Boy, it really gets tight
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Speaker 3: on the pants there for Tennessee as far as college
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Speaker 3: football playoff aspirations.
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Speaker 1: And Jake, I've asked that question to everyone we've talked
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Speaker 1: to about the South Carolina team. And the folks inside
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Speaker 1: the arena, inside that administration building, they tell me that
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Speaker 1: He's never been on the hot seat. Again, the folks
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Speaker 1: in that administrative office like Shane Beamer. They want to
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Speaker 1: keep Shane Beamer. He's never really been in jeopardy of
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Speaker 1: losing his job. It certainly looked iffy early on with
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Speaker 1: a couple of losses that team had, but now with
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Speaker 1: back-to-back wins over ranked teams, it would be a stretch.
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Speaker 1: But if these guys could run the table, and look,
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Speaker 1: they've got a ways to go, but if they somehow
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Speaker 1: end up 8-4 at the end of the year, you
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Speaker 1: look at their losses, you look at the wins they've
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Speaker 1: got over ranked teams, It'd be hard to keep them
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Speaker 1: out of a 12-team playoff.
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Speaker 3: And when you look at Texas A & M, I mean,
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Speaker 3: I don't think Mike Elko's in any danger, I don't think,
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Speaker 3: of losing his job. And we're starting to see those
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Speaker 3: jobs open up with Baylor and NC State and some others.
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Speaker 3: But Texas A & M, how do you kind of
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Speaker 3: define them this year? Boy, they have been a shell
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Speaker 3: of what they were last year.
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Speaker 1: They really have. And as far as the Elko thing,
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Speaker 1: I mean, I think the buyout is astronomical, and they've
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Speaker 1: already done that with Jimbo. So I don't know that
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Speaker 1: they're going to do it. I know there's a lot
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Speaker 1: of money in Texas. But I don't know that there's
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Speaker 1: that much we'll see. But, you know, Marcel Reed has
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Speaker 1: not been himself. I mean, that's one thing kind of
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Speaker 1: going back to South Carolina. Their renaissance here the last
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Speaker 1: couple of weeks has been precipitated by the return of
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Speaker 1: Lenore Sellers and the Lenore Sellers that we thought we
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Speaker 1: would get with South Carolina. We've yet to see that
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Speaker 1: from Marcel Reed at Texas A & M. And without him,
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Speaker 1: I don't know how they win, certainly this weekend.
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Speaker 3: A couple minutes left here with Mike Gracie as the
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Speaker 3: host of the Press Box. We're going to tell you
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Speaker 3: where you can find his show here in just a bit. Mike,
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Speaker 3: we've got the 2014 playoff. It looks like it's going
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Speaker 3: to happen. Where are you on this?
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Speaker 1: I've got to be honest, Jake. I'm coming around to it. Originally,
18:51
Speaker 1: I was not a big fan. My thought was that
18:53
Speaker 1: it would diminish the regular season. You think back to
18:56
Speaker 1: two weeks ago when we had all those teams in
18:58
Speaker 1: the top ten that lost, that that wouldn't make as
19:01
Speaker 1: big an impact next year in a 2014 playoff as
19:03
Speaker 1: it does this year with a 12-team playoff. But I'm
19:06
Speaker 1: beginning to come around. The results of these last two weeks,
19:08
Speaker 1: especially this last Saturday, look, there's going to be some
19:11
Speaker 1: three and four loss teams that deserve a chance to
19:14
Speaker 1: play for a national title. You tell me again, if
19:16
Speaker 1: I go back to South Carolina, if they could run
19:18
Speaker 1: the table and get to eight and four, they deserve
19:21
Speaker 1: a shot. In a 12-team field, it's going to be iffy.
19:23
Speaker 1: In a 24-team field, you've got to believe they're in there.
19:26
Speaker 1: And I think they deserve a chance to do it.
19:28
Speaker 1: I know the NFL loves the any given Sunday kind
19:30
Speaker 1: of deal, and it's beginning to be like that in
19:32
Speaker 1: college football, any given Saturday or Thursday or Monday or
19:36
Speaker 1: Tuesday or Friday, depending on which conference you're in. Any
19:39
Speaker 1: team can just about eat anybody, and that's what the
19:42
Speaker 1: NIL deal has done. It's what the transfer portal has done.
19:46
Speaker 1: You just don't have teams loading up on four and
19:48
Speaker 1: five stars like you used to. They're spread out, and
19:51
Speaker 1: now all teams are good, or at least there are
19:54
Speaker 1: a lot of good teams out there, that's for sure.
19:56
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Speaker 3: That's starting to become a big conversation piece because, We
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Speaker 3: just don't know how the committee is going to deal
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Speaker 3: with it. On three reports, we haven't seen yet any
22:09
Speaker 3: three lost teams make the 12-team college football playoff. That's
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Speaker 3: likely to change this season. And the last two teams
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Speaker 3: that they talked about, that we talked about before we
22:18
Speaker 3: had Mike Grace on Texas and LSU, may have the
22:21
Speaker 3: resumes needed to make that happen. College football is more
22:25
Speaker 3: frantic this year than in any other time in recent memory.
22:29
Speaker 3: It's starting to feel like 2007, especially in the SEC.
22:33
Speaker 3: If Texas reaches nine wins, including wins over Ohio State
22:37
Speaker 3: and Ole Miss, or if LSU adds wins at Tennessee
22:40
Speaker 3: and Texas, those would be CFP caliber resumes. Would either
22:47
Speaker 3: of them get in would depend largely on what the
22:51
Speaker 3: rest of the sport looks like, but it could happen
22:53
Speaker 3: this year and makes it even more likely. Unnamed text,
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Speaker 3: you're wrong. Alabama had three losses last year. Well, thank you.
23:03
Speaker 3: I'm just going off an on-three report, and you're right.
23:05
Speaker 3: Alabama did have three losses last year. Just when you
23:09
Speaker 3: thought USC was turning the corner, after a home loss
23:13
Speaker 3: at Oregon, the Trojans went to Madison, Wisconsin, and they
23:16
Speaker 3: were stuffed into a locker by Wisconsin. That loss embodies
23:20
Speaker 3: everything that has gone wrong with Lincoln Riley at USC.
23:24
Speaker 3: The Trojans were simply physically beaten by a stronger, tougher team,
23:28
Speaker 3: and it seems for the first time that most of
23:30
Speaker 3: the fan base has reached the end of its patience
23:32
Speaker 3: with their head coach. Yes, USC hosts Ohio State on
23:36
Speaker 3: Halloween night, but there aren't many people in L.A. holding
23:39
Speaker 3: their breath, even with the Buckeyes, the team that will
23:41
Speaker 3: be playing with a backup quarterback. So you have to
23:45
Speaker 3: ask the question, how much longer will USC deal with
23:50
Speaker 3: Lincoln Riley? I mean, this is a team that felt
23:53
Speaker 3: like at least coming in, they had a shot to
23:55
Speaker 3: be a CFP-type team And now this team that is
24:00
Speaker 3: averaging 33 a game, giving up 25 a game, they
24:04
Speaker 3: sit at 6-2. They have to play Ohio State and
24:07
Speaker 3: at Indiana back-to-back. They'll host Maryland and then go to
24:13
Speaker 3: USC to finish the season. Or UCLA, excuse me, to
24:16
Speaker 3: finish the season. So I don't know. I don't know
24:19
Speaker 3: what you do with Lincoln Riley. How about Baylor head
24:24
Speaker 3: coaching candidates? Dave Aranda's out. When you look at some
24:29
Speaker 3: of these guys, number one on this list is a
24:31
Speaker 3: guy that we've talked about and people have asked, why
24:34
Speaker 3: has he not gotten a job? Jeff Traylor, UTSA. Number
24:38
Speaker 3: one on the list, courtesy of On3. Traylor's name has
24:41
Speaker 3: come up in a number of coaching searches in Texas
24:43
Speaker 3: in recent years, but this could be the one that
24:46
Speaker 3: could pull him away from UTSA. The Roadrunners are having
24:49
Speaker 3: another successful season, jumping out to 7-1. He has deep
24:53
Speaker 3: connections to high schools across the state of Texas. would
24:57
Speaker 3: be key in recruiting and has proven he can be
24:59
Speaker 3: a consistent winner with a 60-27 mark at UTSA. A
25:04
Speaker 3: longtime coach at Gilmer, he made stops as an assistant
25:07
Speaker 3: at Texas, SMU, and Arkansas before heading to UTSA in 2019. G.J. Kinney,
25:14
Speaker 3: Texas State. Before Kinney arrived at Texas State, the Bobcats
25:18
Speaker 3: had not posted a winning season since 2014. He strung
25:22
Speaker 3: together two 8-5s and a 7-6 campaign last year. The
25:25
Speaker 3: Bobcats have struggled this season, In their first season in
25:29
Speaker 3: the re-innovated Pac-12, they sit four and three and two
25:34
Speaker 3: and one in the conference. His offensive background and deep
25:37
Speaker 3: Texas roots make Baylor's job, make Baylor's job's profile. Lincoln Riley,
25:44
Speaker 3: that would be, again, we just talked about Riley. That'd
25:47
Speaker 3: be a fall far back from USC to Baylor. But
25:52
Speaker 3: he is on this list. Charlie Weiss Jr., LSU offensive coordinator.
25:59
Speaker 3: He will be in the mix for some jobs this cycle.
26:01
Speaker 3: The question is, does he want to take it? Jason Eck,
26:06
Speaker 3: New Mexico. Jason Eck has reset the standard at New Mexico.
26:13
Speaker 3: In his first season with the program, he orchestrated a
26:15
Speaker 3: 9-4 season that included a win over UCLA. His nine
26:20
Speaker 3: wins were the most ever by a first-year head coach
26:21
Speaker 3: at New Mexico. A former Wisconsin offensive lineman, he's climbed
26:25
Speaker 3: the ranks of the coaching ladder. Before his move to
26:29
Speaker 3: New Mexico, he was a successful FCS head coach at
26:32
Speaker 3: Idaho with three consecutive playoff appearances. He hasn't slowed down
26:36
Speaker 3: in 26, jumping out to a 6-1 start with Saturday's
26:40
Speaker 3: win over North Dakota State. Zach Kittley, FAU. These are
26:46
Speaker 3: candidates for the Baylor job, which, hey, Baylor, Mississippi State,
26:53
Speaker 3: I'm not saying they're making a change. Some of these
26:55
Speaker 3: names might be on that list if they decided to
26:57
Speaker 3: go that route. Zach Kittley, FAU, trying to win in
27:01
Speaker 3: year one of a coaching tenure that has its challenges
27:05
Speaker 3: in college football. Kittley never really got a chance to
27:07
Speaker 3: coach the team he envisioned during the first season at FAU.
27:11
Speaker 3: Two transfer portal windows. The Owls have lost over 30 players.
27:14
Speaker 3: Starting quarterback Caden Veltkamp, who left Western Kentucky to play
27:18
Speaker 3: for Kittley, and Boca Raton battled through a shoulder injury.
27:22
Speaker 3: Despite a 4-8 season in 2025, Kittley has confidence. In
27:26
Speaker 3: the direction of the program, now in year two, his
27:28
Speaker 3: program is five and two. Shannon Dawson, Miami offensive coordinator.
27:33
Speaker 3: He has been on the radar for a lot of people.
27:36
Speaker 3: When you look at the offensive output Miami has put
27:38
Speaker 3: out there. I don't even know why this guy's on here.
27:43
Speaker 3: Mo Linguist. You know who that is? Alabama defensive backs coach.
27:48
Speaker 3: I don't know that he's really a fit for this.
27:52
Speaker 3: The former... Buffalo head coach has been an Alabama's defensive
27:55
Speaker 3: back coach and co-defensive coordinator since 2024. He was a
27:59
Speaker 3: former second-team All-Big 12 safety for the Bearcats and was
28:02
Speaker 3: a graduate assistant following his playing career. Jason in Flagstaff.
28:07
Speaker 3: Question about the end of the Ole Miss game. Was
28:09
Speaker 3: the decision to kick the field goal instead of trying
28:12
Speaker 3: to score a TD before the onside kick in one
28:15
Speaker 3: of those analytics things? Asked because I thought it was
28:19
Speaker 3: a mistake at the time and still do. They were
28:21
Speaker 3: driving the ball well before and probably score if it
28:25
Speaker 3: hadn't kicked the field goal. Well, I think you play
28:28
Speaker 3: the numbers and say, hey, you kicked the field goal,
28:30
Speaker 3: you cut the lead in half, and then you try
28:32
Speaker 3: to get the ball back and win it. Because if
28:34
Speaker 3: you go for it on fourth down and you don't
28:36
Speaker 3: get it, then you're still two possessions out. Just depends
28:40
Speaker 3: on how you want to roll the dice.
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Speaker 3: Do you think Jeff Levy will be back next year
28:44
Speaker 3: in Starville?
28:59
Speaker 2: Right now, no.
29:04
Speaker 4: It all depends on Camario Taylor.
29:08
Speaker 2: Number one, does he come back and play?
29:12
Speaker 4: And you salvage maybe a couple games because it could
29:16
Speaker 4: get real bad if they keep going with what we've
29:20
Speaker 4: seen without him there. But I think it also is
29:25
Speaker 4: depending on Okay, let's just assume Camario Taylor is going
29:33
Speaker 4: to stay there.
29:35
Speaker 2: This talk, I thought it was ridiculous.
29:38
Speaker 4: While Camario Taylor was there, playing and playing well, the
29:43
Speaker 4: talk was where's he going to play next year? He's
29:46
Speaker 4: going to take more money and go somewhere else. Now
29:49
Speaker 4: we had today, the kid's not even there. And now
29:53
Speaker 4: Gator Matt started the talk of, oh, he's going to
29:56
Speaker 4: go again. He's got to go here. He's got to
29:58
Speaker 4: go to Baton Rouge and make more money. Just assume,
30:01
Speaker 4: just go ahead and assume that this player will be
30:03
Speaker 4: there just for this argument here. I say, so even
30:07
Speaker 4: if he doesn't come back this year and they don't
30:09
Speaker 4: salvage a But, okay, let's assume that Camario Taylor does
30:18
Speaker 4: come back next year and he says, I like Levy,
30:23
Speaker 4: I'm comfortable with Levy. The entire team is obviously very
30:29
Speaker 4: dependent on Camario Taylor. So that's going to be a big, big,
30:33
Speaker 4: big deciding factor in that. So either way, it's all
30:38
Speaker 4: down to Camario Taylor whether Levy is going to be
30:41
Speaker 4: there next year or not.
30:42
Speaker 2: Whether he plays or not this year. is going to
30:45
Speaker 2: be a deciding factor.
30:47
Speaker 3: No, I agree with that. I agree with that. There's
30:49
Speaker 3: a lot of variables at play, and that's the biggest variable.
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Speaker 3: to get with you tomorrow as well. I've got a
32:57
Speaker 3: couple people on the text line talking about Ole Miss
32:58
Speaker 3: kicking it on first down. Yeah, they did. Ole Miss
33:01
Speaker 3: kicked a field goal on first and 10 from the
33:03
Speaker 3: Texas 22, a 39-yard field goal. By Lucas Carnero. Late
33:08
Speaker 3: in the fourth quarter. That cut the deficit to seven.
33:13
Speaker 3: That also stopped the clock and they set up the
33:15
Speaker 3: onside kick. So you play the percentages there. You're down
33:19
Speaker 3: by 10. You go ahead and kick. I thought it
33:23
Speaker 3: was a good play. You kick the field goal. Now
33:25
Speaker 3: you cut it to seven. You kick the onside kick.
33:29
Speaker 3: You take the points immediately. Minimize clock runoff. Also, it
33:33
Speaker 3: made it a one score game. And they recovered their
33:36
Speaker 3: onside kick, by the way. Got the ball back with
33:38
Speaker 3: 120 and no timeouts. They fell short, but I thought
33:43
Speaker 3: that was the right play. I mean, you got to
33:45
Speaker 3: get two scores somehow. So I guess you could have
33:49
Speaker 3: went and got the touchdown maybe, but then you might
33:53
Speaker 3: have exhausted the clock down to like 15 seconds. What
33:57
Speaker 3: would you do?
33:58
Speaker 1: 125 left.
33:59
Speaker 3: You have the ball in field goal range. Would you
34:00
Speaker 3: have done what Ole Miss did?
34:06
Speaker 4: Kicking on first day, it sounds so weird. It really
34:11
Speaker 4: sounds weird. That messes with the whole thing. But you've
34:13
Speaker 4: got to get both. You've got to get both. You've
34:16
Speaker 4: got to get a field goal and a touchdown. So,
34:20
Speaker 4: made sense, I guess. Yeah, it made sense at the time.
34:23
Speaker 3: Yeah, you've got to have two scores. And you have
34:26
Speaker 3: no timeouts. So, you've got to. I mean, because if
34:29
Speaker 3: you wasted another minute, now you've only got 25 seconds.
34:34
Speaker 3: They got the onside kick.
34:35
Speaker 1: What's up?
34:35
Speaker 3: Did you see that onside kick? It was beautiful. So
34:39
Speaker 3: you really didn't watch any college football?
34:40
Speaker 1: No.
34:41
Speaker 3: That's okay. Very little.
34:42
Speaker 1: Mr.
34:43
Speaker 3: DX, welcome back Camario. So is Camario playing this weekend?
34:48
Speaker 4: Mr.
34:48
Speaker 2: DX is just sending a welcome back text to everybody.
34:51
Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
34:51
Speaker 3: Remember that. That's right.
34:52
Speaker 1: Yeah.
34:55
Speaker 3: Possumic Joe, how many games has Camario even played since
34:59
Speaker 3: having the ankle injury after last year's bowl game? Maybe
35:03
Speaker 3: these football coaches should hire insurance folks to do their
35:07
Speaker 3: player vetting. Well, this is different than the ankle. This
35:11
Speaker 3: is a turf toe, and that can happen to a
35:14
Speaker 3: number of guys. So is Joe fixing to get back
35:16
Speaker 3: on the negative Camario bandwagon?
35:19
Speaker 2: I never left it.
35:19
Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
35:20
Speaker 2: Joe's the same man he's been all year.
35:23
Speaker 3: Has it changed a bit, right? Let's see here. Looking
35:28
Speaker 3: through here. I am looking. Let's see. What is this about? Oh, okay.
35:39
Speaker 3: Somebody asked me this weekend, and we hear this all
35:42
Speaker 3: the time. Has the officiating gotten worse across football? NFL, college,
35:48
Speaker 3: high school. What do you think?
35:53
Speaker 2: It seems like it.
35:55
Speaker 4: The problem we're seeing is we have so much.
36:03
Speaker 4: We have so many different ways to see everything that
36:07
Speaker 4: we are seeing on the TV. We almost have better
36:15
Speaker 4: angles a lot of times to look at than the
36:19
Speaker 4: people right there on the field. So that's causing a
36:23
Speaker 4: lot of problems.
36:24
Speaker 2: Now, you would think, though, that especially in the NFL....
36:30
Speaker 4: They could work with a new system where the refs
36:33
Speaker 4: are seeing actually replays and such. They could see exactly
36:39
Speaker 4: what we're seeing. They could tailor something, some sort of
36:44
Speaker 4: way to mirror more of what we're seeing on our
36:49
Speaker 4: television screens to make that a little bit more acceptable.
36:53
Speaker 4: But that's because all the outrage, that's the outrage there
36:56
Speaker 4: is because we're able to see it a lot better
36:57
Speaker 4: than these people on the field nowadays.
37:01
Speaker 3: I think there's a lot of cases. I think there's
37:02
Speaker 3: 1000% something to that, right? Definitely something to the access
37:07
Speaker 3: and being able to see it. SEC mics, SEC power
37:11
Speaker 3: rankings coming into this week. Michael Bratton, that SEC podcast,
37:15
Speaker 3: Georgia one. He's got LSU too. Do you think LSU
37:19
Speaker 3: should be two in the conference now?
37:22
Speaker 1: Sure.
37:22
Speaker 3: Kentucky three. Texas 4, Ole Miss 5, Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina.
37:30
Speaker 3: Boyle-Beamer's going to miss in playoffs again.
37:31
Speaker 2: Well, wait a minute.
37:32
Speaker 4: If we're going to do that, if we're going to
37:35
Speaker 4: play this game, then we're putting Kentucky behind an LSU team.
37:40
Speaker 2: That they beat. So, no.
37:44
Speaker 4: If we're going to look at it that way, I'll
37:45
Speaker 4: put Kentucky at 2, LSU 3.
37:49
Speaker 3: Missouri, Florida, Oklahoma, Auburn, Texas A & M, Arkansas, Mississippi State,
37:53
Speaker 3: and Vanderbilt. Also, national defensive explosion play rankings after week eight.
37:59
Speaker 3: We're talking about explosive defensive plays. Pick sixes, sacks, scooping scores,
38:07
Speaker 3: all that. Texas number one. They're number six in the country.
38:11
Speaker 3: Georgia number 11, followed by Oklahoma at 11, tied there.
38:17
Speaker 3: Ole Miss at 131, State at 78. I'm starting to
38:20
Speaker 3: see some State fans get on the bad side of
38:22
Speaker 3: Zach Arnett. Is that justifiable?
38:26
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's another one they seem to have completely flipped
38:29
Speaker 4: on Zach Arnett.
38:33
Speaker 3: I mean, State's given up 28 a game. Last year,
38:37
Speaker 3: they gave up 30.2. So, I mean, he's improved them
38:39
Speaker 3: by a couple points. And when you look at red
38:45
Speaker 3: zone success, teams are scoring the ball about 84% inside
38:48
Speaker 3: the red zone, which is not a bad number. Third
38:51
Speaker 3: down conversion. State has had a hard time getting off
38:53
Speaker 3: the field on third downs. 41% getting off the field
38:56
Speaker 3: on third down. Last year, about 41% getting off the
38:59
Speaker 3: field on third down. Saks, Bulldogs have 16. Last year,
39:07
Speaker 3: they had a total of 21. And when you look
39:11
Speaker 3: at interceptions this year, State has two. Two interceptions this year.
39:18
Speaker 3: They had 13 last year. So that's been a bit
39:21
Speaker 3: of a problem. Turnover margin this year for the Bulldogs.
39:25
Speaker 3: Last year was a plus three. This year, so far,
39:29
Speaker 3: they're at minus five. So that's not going well either.
39:33
Speaker 3: Any Aaron Rodgers news today before we get out of here?
39:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, yesterday was a big day for Aaron Rodgers.
39:36
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was.
39:37
Speaker 4: Moved into third place. All-time passing touchdowns. He won't go
39:41
Speaker 4: any further. He's way too far behind Drew Brees. He
39:44
Speaker 4: also outrushed Alvin Kamara. The Saints' running game was disgusting
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Speaker 4: and putrid. He outrushed Alvin Kamara and equaled that of
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Speaker 4: Kendra Miller.
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Speaker 3: So were they.
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Speaker 2: Old man running. Let's just let that sink in.
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Speaker 3: That is true. Old man running. Can they make a
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Speaker 3: playoff run?
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Speaker 4: The back half of their schedule, as we've seen all season, though,
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Speaker 4: I talked about that before the season started. The back
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Speaker 4: half is much tougher than the first half. So they
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Speaker 4: got a nice cushion right now. This offense is very
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Speaker 4: suspect at times. I still think they can. I still
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Speaker 4: think they can. But the same problem they've had for two,
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Speaker 4: three years now, the receiving game. And DK Metcalf, you
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Speaker 4: have regressed, sir. He has.
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Speaker 1: Still bad.
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Speaker 2: Still bad. So they can. They still can. But it's questionable.
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Speaker 3: And real quickly, LSU is going to be a favorite
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Speaker 3: in every game they play down the road. A 55%
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Speaker 3: chance to beat Alabama. That's going to be at home.
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Speaker 3: A 57% chance to beat Texas. At home, at Tennessee,
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Speaker 3: 65% chance. And at Arkansas, 92% chance. If you're a
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Speaker 3: Tiger fan, things are starting to turn your way here
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Speaker 3: down the stretch. Thanks to David Murray. Thanks to Mike Grace. Remember,
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Speaker 3: ketchup is king, bacon's a delicacy, aloha means goodbye. Be
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Speaker 3: a man of increase. We have reached for crescendo on
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Speaker 3: a Monday. Tomorrow will be Tuesday. We'll see you then.