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The Next Round: Is LSU the Best Team in America? Andy Staples Reacts to a Wild Week 1 | Hour 2 · The Next Round

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  Speaker 1: The next round presented by Hard Rock Bets on Sport
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  Speaker 1: and State as we go to our number two here
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  Speaker 1: at LT and D & B. Reaction to what we've
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  Speaker 1: seen already in week one. One more game tonight, SMU
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  Speaker 1: and Florida State and Tallahassee. And just the point spread
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  Speaker 1: in that game makes it look like it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be interesting tonight in Tallahassee. But we've seen a lot
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  Speaker 1: of stuff already, including the beatdown of Dabo and Clemson.
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  Speaker 2: Just how good is LSU?
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  Speaker 1: And as Andy comes in here, Maybe you want to
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  Speaker 1: point out to Andy that if you were an AP
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  Speaker 1: poll voter, you'd have LSU number one in the country.
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  Speaker 2: You just did that. Andy Staples with us on three.
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  Speaker 2: Ari and Andy. I don't know if his look is
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  Speaker 2: like Brown would have LSU number one. When I voted
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  Speaker 2: in the AP poll, I voted one year. I think
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  Speaker 2: Ralph Russo was like, OK, let's don't ask this guy back.
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  Speaker 2: I had a lot of volatility in my poll, and
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  Speaker 2: one thing I did was I'd do a preseason poll, Andy,
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  Speaker 2: and then I'm like, okay, I based all that on
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  Speaker 2: what I thought was going to happen. I have now
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  Speaker 2: seen what's going to happen. I would have LSU number
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  Speaker 2: one in the country today.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I voted for five years, and I did it
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  Speaker 3: the same way. There were a lot of wild swings
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  Speaker 3: the first few weeks because I said, okay, when the
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  Speaker 3: games start, we're going to base it on the games,
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  Speaker 3: and we're going to stop basing it on our guesses
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  Speaker 3: from the preseason.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It's funny how mad that makes people. But I think
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  Speaker 3: that's the best way to do it. It actually doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 3: You end up in the same place either way. So
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  Speaker 3: I have to do a projected playoff bracket for on three,
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  Speaker 3: which obviously for entertainment purposes only after week one. But
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  Speaker 3: I had LSU as the number one seed. Of course,
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  Speaker 3: they look the best. That'll get a click or two,
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  Speaker 3: I bet.
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  Speaker 2: So the ultimate.
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  Speaker 3: Well, no, no, the best part of it, and I
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  Speaker 3: swear I didn't plan this, I didn't put Oregon in there.
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  Speaker 3: I had Oregon as the first team out because they
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  Speaker 3: looked pretty shaky against Boise State. It wasn't fluky the
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  Speaker 3: way Boise State was moving the.
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  Speaker 2: Ball on them.
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  Speaker 3: And so I didn't put Oregon in. And I was like,
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  Speaker 3: you know what? USC's looked pretty awesome so far. Like
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  Speaker 3: when their starters have been in, I don't think they've
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  Speaker 3: given up a point. And so I put USC at
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  Speaker 3: number 10. And Notre Dame, because they struggled to run
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  Speaker 3: the ball a little bit against Wisconsin last night, I
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  Speaker 3: had them at seven. Well, guess what? Guess what that
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  Speaker 3: would create?
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  Speaker 2: USC and Notre Dame in the first round. Let's do it.
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  Speaker 4: They finally play. Okay, so Andy, back to LSU-Clemson. This
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  Speaker 4: is like the ultimate knee-jerk reaction question, though. But if
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  Speaker 4: I asked you today, better chance LSU wins the national
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  Speaker 4: championship or Clemson goes 5-7 and misses a bowl?
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  Speaker 3: Why not both?
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  Speaker 2: Lance is great about asking.
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  Speaker 3: I'm the little girl in that gif.
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  Speaker 4: You can take both, but if you had to just
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  Speaker 4: go one, LSU either wins national championship year one with
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  Speaker 4: Kiffin or Dabo coming off a seven win season goes
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  Speaker 4: below 500 for the first time.
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  Speaker 3: I'd say LSU wins the national championship and still be
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  Speaker 3: more likely because if you look at Clemson's schedule, even
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  Speaker 3: though they were clearly not equipped to compete with a
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  Speaker 3: team like that, They only play one more team like that.
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  Speaker 3: And that's Miami. They should be very competitive against the
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  Speaker 3: teams they're going to play for the most part. So
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  Speaker 3: like they would have to coach them extremely poorly to
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  Speaker 3: go under 500. Now, we saw Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, I'm interested in your everybody's talking
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  Speaker 2: about it. I want to hear yours.
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  Speaker 1: In a world that there's a part of the population
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't believe we landed on the moon in the
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  Speaker 1: late 60s. Even though there's a video evidence. The Big
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  Speaker 1: Ten sends out video evidence. Where are you today on
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  Speaker 1: the Western Michigan-Michigan ending?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I believe the Big Ten. And everybody who talked about, like,
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  Speaker 3: saying there's a... So you're saying there's a secret clock?
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  Speaker 3: There's no secret clock. Don't be a dummy. The... Replay
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  Speaker 3: Center has a camera focused on a clock in the stadium.
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  Speaker 3: That's the one they used. NBC does not use a
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  Speaker 3: shot of a clock in the stadium. That's what TV
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  Speaker 3: used to use. You guys remember. We're all old here.
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  Speaker 3: When we were kids, if we watched a game, there
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  Speaker 3: was a cutout on the screen of a camera shot
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  Speaker 3: of the clock in the stadium because we didn't have
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  Speaker 3: the technology to have a clock that was synced that
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  Speaker 3: would count down.
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  Speaker 2: Well, guess what?
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  Speaker 3: We probably still don't. We probably do have that technology,
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  Speaker 3: but they probably weren't checking it regularly. And so NBC's
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  Speaker 3: graphics package has a clock on it, but it's not
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  Speaker 3: nearly a shot of the clock in the stadium. We
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  Speaker 3: don't know if it's synced completely. So there's no way
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  Speaker 3: to tell, which is why poor John Fanta had to
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  Speaker 3: get on there and say that yesterday. And everybody's just
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  Speaker 3: crushing him. And so I think everybody was acting honestly
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  Speaker 3: in this situation. It just sucked the way it worked out.
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  Speaker 3: that Western Michigan thinks they won. We're all looking at
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  Speaker 3: a shot on our televisions of a guy touching the
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  Speaker 3: ball with the clock saying zero, zero, zero. So the
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  Speaker 3: one thing I think the Big Ten could do better,
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  Speaker 3: because I appreciate them putting out the video. Three, four
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  Speaker 3: years ago, well, hell, one year ago, they just hired
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  Speaker 3: a really good PR guy. They used to have terrible PR.
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  Speaker 3: One year ago, they probably wouldn't have put that video out.
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  Speaker 3: So that's a step forward. The next step forward is,
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  Speaker 3: You need to show that to us in real time
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  Speaker 3: during the game.
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  Speaker 2: Correct.
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  Speaker 3: Because millions more people would trust what they said if
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  Speaker 3: they'd seen it in real time. Because Terry McCauley, the
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  Speaker 3: rules analyst for NBC, who used to be an NFL
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  Speaker 3: referee and a college referee, he used to be the
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  Speaker 3: Big East director of officials, he said it on the broadcast.
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  Speaker 3: He's like, you know, I don't know if our clock
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  Speaker 3: is synced up with the clock that the replay center
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  Speaker 3: is using, referring to NBC's clock. And If you saw
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  Speaker 3: that in real time, he'll hypothesize that in real time
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  Speaker 3: on the broadcast and you'll go, oh, okay, I see
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  Speaker 3: what's going on here. Now, that said, NBC, Fox, ESPN, CBS,
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  Speaker 3: y'all got to figure out how to sync it. And
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  Speaker 3: if you can't sync it, you need to go back
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  Speaker 3: to the old shot of the camera in the stadium,
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  Speaker 3: the clock in the stadium. So figure that part out.
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  Speaker 3: You need to do that. But conferences, all of you,
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  Speaker 3: Show us the replays in real time. Show us the deliberations.
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  Speaker 3: Give us the audio of the official on the field
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  Speaker 3: talking to the replay official. We know it's possible. The
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  Speaker 3: XFL did it years ago. The ACC started doing it
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  Speaker 3: last year. The Big 12 is doing it this year.
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  Speaker 3: The Pac-12 is doing it this year. Guys, even the
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  Speaker 3: Big 10 is doing it this year. They were already
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  Speaker 3: going to do it. They put out a press release
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  Speaker 3: last week saying they were going to do the replay,
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  Speaker 3: show us the deliberations on their Friday night games. They
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  Speaker 3: had three games Friday night. They just never had a
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  Speaker 3: situation where they had to do it. So they've got
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  Speaker 3: the technology. Their network partners can do it. They're agreeing
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  Speaker 3: to do it. Every league, Big Ten, SEC, Big 12, ACC,
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  Speaker 3: Mountain West, Conference USA, Sunbelt, all of you, just let
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  Speaker 3: us see it. It will make it easier for you
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  Speaker 3: in the long run.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with you completely on that. Andy Staples
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  Speaker 2: great football content from them. Last night's game, like all offseason,
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  Speaker 2: I thought, well, you know what, Ole Miss, I think
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  Speaker 2: they're going to take a step back on offense, even
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  Speaker 2: with Lacey. and Chambliss back they don't have Lane Kiffin
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  Speaker 2: and Charlie Weiss back into the first half I'm like
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  Speaker 2: all right well there's one thing I got right and
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  Speaker 2: then the second half I'm like holy crap they've taken
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  Speaker 2: a step back on defense that's not the offense anymore
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  Speaker 2: oh yeah offense is fine yeah offense just fine in
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  Speaker 2: the second half but boy I am concerned about Ole Miss's.
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  Speaker 3: Defense I am too and maybe we find it out
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  Speaker 3: that Louisville just has a pretty high power at all
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  Speaker 3: and I think they felt like Lincoln Keenholdt yeah Lincoln
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  Speaker 3: Keenholdt got got comfortable as that game went on and
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  Speaker 3: The Ohio State people said, this guy is good. We
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  Speaker 3: don't think he's as good as Julian's saying, but we
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  Speaker 3: think he's good. And he was a four-sport athlete. He's
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  Speaker 3: from one of the Dakotas. I always mix up which
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  Speaker 3: Dakota he's from.
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  Speaker 2: South.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's South Dakota. Plus, plus, plus athlete. And you
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  Speaker 3: saw it as the game went on when they said,
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  Speaker 3: you're going to have to escape some pressure and create here.
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  Speaker 3: And he started doing that. There was a stiff arm
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  Speaker 3: he had. That was just unbelievable. And he scampers away
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  Speaker 3: for like nine yards. But Trinidad Shamless picked up right
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  Speaker 3: where he left off. I mean, they played the second
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  Speaker 3: half without Ke'wan Lacy. And Ole Miss was still just
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  Speaker 3: running up and down the field, big play after big play.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, the Ole Miss defense, that's a scary thought
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  Speaker 3: when you're going to have to play that LSU offense
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  Speaker 3: we saw. Because LSU's offense looks capable of just pounding
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  Speaker 3: on you, but also... hitting huge plays on you because
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  Speaker 3: that Sam Leavitt is a running around and make some
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  Speaker 3: stuff happen kind of QB. And you saw a little
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  Speaker 3: bit of that against Clemson. They don't really need much
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  Speaker 3: of that. That's something that he's as good or better
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  Speaker 3: than Lincoln Keenholz at that. And you got to play
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  Speaker 3: him in two weeks.
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  Speaker 4: We're going on like 700 days since the last time
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  Speaker 4: Indiana lost a football game. I mean, it is absolutely crazy.
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  Speaker 3: They're never losing again.
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  Speaker 4: Apparently not. Look, they win by 36. Eight of their
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  Speaker 4: wins last year were by 34 or more. But watching, like,
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  Speaker 4: I thought Josh Hoover looked good. It's hard to get
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  Speaker 4: anything from North Texas, but the Mean Green did outgain Indiana.
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  Speaker 4: Indiana only had one sack. Indiana only forced one turnover.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, are we getting a little bit less of
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  Speaker 4: an Indiana this year? I know they're still really good, Andy.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. We're not going to find out until
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  Speaker 3: October when they actually play somebody.
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  Speaker 2: That's true.
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  Speaker 3: But I think there's a really good chance that they're
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  Speaker 3: still really good. like the thing is they controlled that
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  Speaker 3: game it i mean we're not dan mullen here saying
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  Speaker 3: but we outgained them they were in control the entire
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  Speaker 3: time there was never a doubt so i thought hoover
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  Speaker 3: was very efficient they didn't run the ball as well
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  Speaker 3: as you thought they would but the defense you know
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  Speaker 3: kept north texas out of the end zone so I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to reserve judgment on them until they hit Big
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  Speaker 3: Ten play because they clearly don't want to schedule anybody
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  Speaker 3: good in the non-conference.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, I'm approaching, I'm closer to four decades of covering
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  Speaker 1: the SEC than I am three decades. So I have
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  Speaker 1: a blind spot when it comes to national, the national scope.
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  Speaker 2: You don't. You've done the national stuff for years.
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  Speaker 1: Is there a little built-in grudge match between Boise players
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  Speaker 1: and Oregon because that always seems to be a really
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  Speaker 1: competitive game. And like Boise comes into that game with
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  Speaker 1: a lot of edge to them. And what'd you take
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  Speaker 1: away from Dan Lanning's team?
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  Speaker 3: I was a little concerned. I was concerned. And it's,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, it's a grudge match. Like, yeah, Boise state.
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  Speaker 3: Most of a lot of those guys are Pacific Northwest
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  Speaker 3: guys or, or California guys, which is most of the
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  Speaker 3: Oregon guys are Pacific Northwest or California guys. So I
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  Speaker 3: could see there being a little bit of a rivalry there,
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  Speaker 3: but I just think Boise state, is one of the
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  Speaker 3: better group of six teams. There was nothing fluky about
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  Speaker 3: the way they challenged Oregon in that game. They moved
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  Speaker 3: the ball up and down the field a few times.
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  Speaker 3: They stayed in the game. When it looked like Oregon
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  Speaker 3: had shut the door on them, they came back. So
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  Speaker 3: I think we're going to find out that Oregon beat
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  Speaker 3: a really good team and that they're fine. But I
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  Speaker 3: don't know. So I worked with George Reister, who is
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  Speaker 3: a former Oregon tight end, and he just texted me,
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  Speaker 3: Cause he saw my, my playoff graph. He's like, we
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  Speaker 3: got to talk. And I'm like, play better, play better. And,
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  Speaker 3: but now here's the thing. Two years ago, Boise state
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  Speaker 3: goes to Oregon week two, Oregon barely survives. Oregon goes
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  Speaker 3: 13 and no one wins the big 10. So it's
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  Speaker 3: not like this is the end for Oregon. It's not
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  Speaker 3: like a dumb ass, like me leaving them out. The
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  Speaker 3: projected playoff bracket week one means anything. He, they have
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  Speaker 3: a chance to be just fine. They're playing USC in
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  Speaker 3: week four. That's going to tell us a lot about
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  Speaker 3: USC and about Oregon. I think we're going to learn
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  Speaker 3: quite a bit at that point. Now, Oregon plays Oklahoma
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  Speaker 3: State this week. I thought Oklahoma State was going to
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  Speaker 3: immediately be better. Eric Morris and Drew Messermaker, all those
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  Speaker 3: guys coming from North Texas, they were awful on Saturday
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  Speaker 3: against Tulsa. I mean, awful. And I think Trey Lamb
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  Speaker 3: at Tulsa is a really good coach. He was fantastic
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  Speaker 3: at East Tennessee State before that. But there's no excuse.
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  Speaker 3: When you spent all that money to get those guys–
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  Speaker 3: They got to look more ready than that because the
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  Speaker 3: crazy thing is that wasn't even the jump up in competition.
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  Speaker 3: Like Tulsa's in the same league that North Texas is in.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 3: You've already played all like they didn't play Tulsa last year,
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  Speaker 3: but they played that level of competition all last year.
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  Speaker 3: If you can't show up for that, you're going to
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  Speaker 3: get housed by Oregon.
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  Speaker 2: Malachi Toney got lost a little bit because he got
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  Speaker 2: lost in the secondary for Stanford.
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  Speaker 3: I was going to say, Stanford still haven't found him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true. But it was Friday night, and they
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  Speaker 2: were playing Stanford. But the guy had more receiving yards
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  Speaker 2: than 66 college football teams have passing yards already. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's incredible the night he had. So fun to watch. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: he's so fun to watch. This is the best-pats-catch combo
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  Speaker 2: maybe in college football here in Mensah because Mensah was terrific, too.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this Miami team, one bad team they played,
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  Speaker 2: but it looked very legit on Friday night.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they looked like they hadn't lost a step at all.
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  Speaker 3: I think maybe they upgraded a quarterback over last year.
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  Speaker 3: Mensah looked really smooth. You got to see a Cooper
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  Speaker 3: Barcate touchdown. That's a guy who had 1,100 receiving yards
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  Speaker 3: at Duke last year. And the fact of the matter
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  Speaker 3: is there are very few defenses that they're going to
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  Speaker 3: play that could cover Cooper Barcate, let alone cover Malachi, Tony.
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  Speaker 3: They're going to struggle to cover that team. We don't
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  Speaker 3: know about Miami's defense yet. They lost so much. They
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  Speaker 3: had to replace a lot. I find it hard to
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  Speaker 3: believe that they're going to be as dominant as they
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  Speaker 3: were last year just because of the sheer amount of
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  Speaker 3: talent they lost. But I still think they're going to
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  Speaker 3: be very good. They've got a good defensive line. The
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  Speaker 3: D-tackle is like Ahmad Moten coming back. They don't play
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  Speaker 3: a lot of teams that are going to really challenge them.
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  Speaker 3: That's the biggest problem is... We don't know if Florida
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  Speaker 3: State's going to be any good. We have our suspicions
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  Speaker 3: that Clemson isn't going to be. They play Notre Dame.
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  Speaker 3: That's the game right there. But Miami does not have
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  Speaker 3: a lot of teams that are going to be similar
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  Speaker 3: talent that can challenge them. So they got to keep
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  Speaker 3: from getting bored. And that has been a problem for
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  Speaker 3: Miami over the last, however, it goes back multiple coaching staffs.
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  Speaker 3: So last year they lose to Louisville and SMU. They
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  Speaker 3: can't have that happen this year. They need to win
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  Speaker 3: the games they're supposed to win. So we'll see if
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  Speaker 3: they can stay interested as this schedule does not really
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  Speaker 3: help them get interested.
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  Speaker 4: Not great competition, but through week one, which first-year coach
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  Speaker 4: seems to have their team more improved? John Sumrall in
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  Speaker 4: Florida or Will Stein in Kentucky?
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  Speaker 3: That's a good question. It's really hard to tell. Kentucky
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  Speaker 3: was playing an FCS team. Florida very much overmatched FAU.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to find out because Alabama is going up
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  Speaker 3: to Kentucky this weekend, but, but Kentucky looked very sound.
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  Speaker 3: I I've said the whole time, I love what they
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  Speaker 3: did going out and get an offensive lineman. Like they
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  Speaker 3: clearly invested to make sure they had what they needed.
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  Speaker 3: Summerall took a really different tack taking over Florida's program
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  Speaker 3: where he, he really tried to retain as much of
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  Speaker 3: the Billy Napier guy, you know, the group of Billy
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  Speaker 3: Napier guys that he could, that he liked. Now, obviously he,
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  Speaker 3: They made a choice not to retain DJ Lagway, but
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  Speaker 3: Jaden Ball was a priority. Jaden Woods was a priority.
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  Speaker 3: Dallas Wilson was a priority. Vernell Brown III. And you
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  Speaker 3: saw those guys the other night looking like they are
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  Speaker 3: ready to play. So I'm excited to see that. I
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  Speaker 3: thought it was interesting that the new coaches, it was
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: more interesting that the coaches that ported either half a
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: team or a whole team, only one of them had
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: a really good game, and that was Matt Campbell at
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: Penn State. Alice Golish won the game for Auburn, but
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: you could see in his interview after the game, he
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: looked like, oh boy, what's going on here? This is
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: not how it's supposed to look. And then obviously Eric
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: Morris and Drew Messamaker coming to Oklahoma State and getting
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: housed by Tulsa. That was not part of the plan.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: You played at Florida and you live down there. So
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: you're closer in proximity to that program than most in
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: the national media. When Buster Faulkner's offense does not punt once,
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: it's been a minute since Florida's played a game where
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: they didn't punt one time, I would imagine.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: The Mullen years had some really good offensive explosions. The
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: 2020 team had an unbelievable offense. It's interesting. The Dan
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: Mullen erasure has been interesting. I have never criticized Florida
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: for firing him when they did. I thought, if your
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: goal is to win the national title, the way he
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: recruited was never going to get you to a national title.
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: Like you were never going to be able to, to
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: compete year in and year out with the Georgia, but
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: he still had really good offenses. This offense looked a
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: lot like those offenses. And we'll see what the defense
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: looks like. Cause again, it's FAU, but FAU is an
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: interesting one. Cause Caden belt camp is a, is a
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: pretty good QB and they brought their whole staff back.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: So I thought the whole, the whole performance was pretty
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: fun to watch. And, It's something that the Florida fans
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: over the last four years did not get to see
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: because the offense always looks stuck in mud under Billy Napier.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: It didn't seem to matter what the opponent was. It
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: didn't seem to matter what else was going on. But
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: this one, it looked like there were answers for every
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: single thing FAA wanted to do. And it's just unusual.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: That first drive, so Florida intercepts a pass. They got
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: 90-plus yards to go down the field. And it was
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: hot knife through butter. And I was surprised. it's been
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: so long since you've seen something like that. You're like, Hey,
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: that's what it's supposed to look like. So we'll see.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: They play Campbell this week. So we won't, we won't
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: know anything until they play Auburn week three.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: I'm a on three member because of Ari and Andy.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: And I see, and I see where you have Alabama
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: in your playoff discussion. When you saw Keelan Russell this weekend,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: tape on him, just give me a quick thought.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Love it. Love it.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: Because they had a first round quarterback last year and
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: Ty Simpson is a good athlete was, was mobile. And I,
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: you know, I said last year during that stretch when
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: they beat Georgia and beat Tennessee, like Ty Simpson was
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: really carrying them because they weren't able to run the ball.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: I think they're going to be able to run the
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: ball better with the backs. But the fact that Keelan
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: Russell is a threat to go 30 yards if he
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: breaks contain. And so what that means is you could
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: play it right. You could have the right call on.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: You could cover the receivers. You could get some pressure.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: and he squirts away and gains 25, 30 yards, that's
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: going to be incredibly frustrating for defenses that have to
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: play them. So I'm excited to see what he does. Now,
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: the question is, is that possible against Kentucky, against LSU,
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: against Tennessee, or is that because it was East Carolina?
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: I suspect he's going to be able to do that
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: against most teams. I think he's probably doing that against everybody.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: In your updated bracket projection, just out of curiosity, who's
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: your group of six team?
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: Boise State.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: Which I know the Oregon fans are going to be
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: really mad because I left Oregon out and put Boise
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: State in, but here's what happens. Boise State plays Western
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: Michigan and they play Memphis. Actually, Memphis this week, Western Michigan,
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: I believe week four.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: That is right.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: If they beat those two teams and then they go
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: undefeated in the Pac-12, they're going to be the playoff team.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: But if Western Michigan wins that game in Kalamazoo, Good chance.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: Well, it depends on Memphis. Because Memphis has already beaten UNLV.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: If Memphis beats Boise State and then wins the American,
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: they're in good shape.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would agree. It's fascinating. I mean, these matchups
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: we're getting, though. Memphis is playing Boise State. Boise State
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: is playing Western Michigan. For some reason, the group six
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: is playing better out of conference schedule. It's the group
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: of six playoffs.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a conscious thing. It's a conscious decision they made. Because, one, like,
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: now Oregon... it is scheduling Boise state's a good on
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: Oregon for doing that. But a lot of the power
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: programs don't want to schedule a team like that because
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: they can come beat you as it, as you saw with,
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: with Oregon really needing a great fourth quarter to win
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: that game. So the, the group of six teams have said, okay,
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: if we can't get these guys to let us come
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: play them, let's just play the best of each other.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: And then whoever emerges from the pile is an easy choice.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: And I think that's, That's what you got here because yeah,
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: you've got, so Boise state, who's the favorite in the
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: new pack 12. And then you've got Memphis, who is
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: probably the favorite in the American at this point. And
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: then Western Michigan, you're defending Mac champion, like kind of
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: all playing each other. And I think that's going to help.
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: All right. He is Andy Staples. Follow him on social
• 21:27
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• 21:31
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• 21:38
  Speaker 2: enjoy the game today. You're headed to Tallahassee, so the
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: final game of week one. Enjoy it, and we always
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: appreciate your time.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: What does the spread know that we don't on that? Lance?
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: That's a Lance question. Oh, you ought to hear Lance
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: talk about Oklahoma and Michigan if you wanted to ask
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: that question.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: I'm giving that some time to breathe.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think we should. I mean, that is the
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: ultimate knee jerk is being like, Michigan can't play football anymore.
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: We'll see.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: As Dunaway said, people will climb over dead bodies to
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: get Oklahoma minus five and a half in that game.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: And I'm one of them. Yeah, yeah. Oklahoma minus five
• 22:14
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• 22:17
  Speaker 3: I was surprised it wasn't more. I looked immediately after
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: the Michigan game ended and I was like, This is
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: going to be like Oklahoma minus eight and a half.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: It was five and a half.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: After that Michigan performance, you could have said it anywhere
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: and people were going to climb all over to the
• 22:31
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• 22:33
  Speaker 2: You could have been at 12 and a half. Yep,
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: makes sense. Absolutely, 12 and a half. Give me all
• 22:36
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• 24:05
  Speaker 2: On Sporting State. What was your new moniker for the
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: head coach at LSU?
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: Vane Kiffin.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: Vane Kiffin.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Going into the locker room at halftime, he said something
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: to Holly walking away. He knew the mic would still
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: be on him and everything. Imagine if we had NFL players.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Was that the quote? Yeah. I think he may have
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: said professional. Maybe it was NFL.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Imagine if we had the professional players, NFL players. He
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: gets asked about that in postgame. Here's what he said.
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: At halftime, when you were coming off the field and
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: you did that quick TV interview, it sounded like you
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: might have been joking a little bit, but it also
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: begs the question, what could be the future for the
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: guys that you sort of alluded to in that comment?
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: Well, I just said that to Shelly afterwards. Like, what
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: would it look like if they would have those players, too?
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: You know, so that's just my personality.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: So it is what it is.
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: And then I said, did you actually, like, put that
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: on there?
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: She said, yeah, I said, So what's the difference?
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: Everybody hates you.
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: They can't hate you that much more.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: So there you go.
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: You got another line. But I'm just really glad they
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: played the way they did. So that wouldn't have been
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: the story because I get it. That would have been
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: the whole story. Even if we won close and kind
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: of ugly, the whole story would have been, man, I
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: screwed the team up by doing this. And I said
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: it this morning. You cannot agree with it. I've been
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: criticized heavily for the last two weeks, and I get that.
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: I understand.
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: But my job is not to please you and worry
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: about what you're going to write. My job is what
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: I believe is right. And I believe we were fighting
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: for what was right for those kids. I'm not going
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: to get into all the reasons, but that's what I believe.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: And so.
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: Many people don't like that, but they don't understand that.
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: And maybe if they knew my relationship with Daquan, you'd
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: think a little different.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: I don't understand the draw that is Lane Kiffin. Like,
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: I understand the controversy. He's just not like a smooth guy, though.
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: He is so freaking awkward.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: He is.
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: And the walkout, like, Livvy Dunn and Theo Vaughn, like, why?
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: Don't forget the your mom joke in the postgame presser.
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: Did you guys see that?
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: I did not. He did a your mom joke?
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, a reporter asked him, it's like, oh, some people
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: think we look a little similar. What do you think, coach?
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: Oh, that was a few years ago, yes. Oh, well,
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: it popped up.
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: Again on my feed last night, my fault.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: I remember that one, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'm
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: kind of with you on all that. That was just like,
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: I mean, there was so much already going on, and
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: now you add in Theo Vaughn and people.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: It was just a wild thing.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: You're right, though. He is an awkward guy.
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: And, you know, Dunaway, you know how you clap your hands?
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: He does that, but him out there throwing the football,
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: and he didn't look like an ex-quarterback throwing it. I
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: know he played at Fresno State, but he was just
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: trying to be out there, but he just can't blend.
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: He is super awkward.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: I don't think Barstool Sports shot the video, but there
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: where I saw the video of him getting out of
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: the truck, Yeah. Sunday morning. I assume it's at the
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: football complex, not his house. And did he say, I
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: haven't been to sleep yet?
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: I think that's what he said, yeah.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but he looked like... He had not been to
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: sleep yet? He looked like he had not been to
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: sleep yet.
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: I mean, a grown man with flip-flops going to the.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah. With either his old clothes or changed clothes and
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: wanted up under his arm. Yeah, but I mean, that game...
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: got such a late start it didn't end until 11.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: Ish yeah i'm surprised he even left the facility unless.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: He just probably went.
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: Straight home and then was like i'll come back in the.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Morning you've seen it jim you know how it is
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: you've got recruits there so you go and you talk
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: to your team you do what he just did there
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: and i guess the recruits were still around that late
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: you go in and you deal with the recruits i
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: mean i'm sure he hadn't been asleep um as late.
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: As that game ended he is going to be unbearable
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: if he wins a national championship And a lot of.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: People today would bet on him to do that. At
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: some point? Yeah. I'm not saying this year. I'm saying
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: at some point. Just what you saw.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 28:09
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• 29:28
  Speaker 1: So I don't think the day could have played out
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: any better. You like the delay because it Pushed a
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: meaningful game back into the.
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah and it gave us three or at least for
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: me three meaningful late games.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: That's right yeah but if you're if you're promoting lsu
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: um and you were sitting there waiting for that game
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: to start to have reese joey galloway desmond and pat
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: mcafee sitting on that field for one hour after the
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: studio had done it.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: Those guys sit there for an hour. It was a
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: free commercial.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: It was an infomercial for 60 minutes. I mean, they
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: were able, Lance, to take. I don't know if you
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: were watching.
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: I could not handle the sound because Galloway, Desmond, and
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: Pat McAfee.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: No thank you. But they were able to. They played
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: Colin Baton Rouge live.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: You know, when they started singing that in the stadium,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: they were able to take that because they– They were unscripted.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: They wanted anything that was filling time.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: They were filling time, so they were handing shots as
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: the crowd was singing, calling Baton Rouge, and the crowd
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: partying in the stands and dancing.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: It was almost like the lead-up to a national championship
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: game where there was no other game going on, so
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: we got our crew sitting here on the field, and
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: we're just showing. But there were other games going on. Well,
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: there were, but not on that channel, I'm saying. But
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: there's nothing else going on, so they're just showing everything.
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: But how many people could have been watching that?
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: I was surprised, Lance, they weren't doing look-ins to other games,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: and they did a little bit of that with the
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: studio guys, but then they went basically 60 minutes on
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: the field there. And it was an LSU infomercial. And
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: I say that knowing for 17 years, Nick Saban got
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: nothing but positive press for the most part from the
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: national folks, from ESPN and from the people that broadcast
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: the Alabama games. But it looked like everybody was all
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: in on promoting this LSU program. As I sit and
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: watch that for 60 minutes and, I mean, good reason.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: The atmosphere was unbelievable.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: It was unbelievable.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: And then they were able, because they had the extra time,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: and it wasn't a game bleeding in, they were able
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: to get those guys locked behind the door with that
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: loud music playing. I was the old guy, turn that
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: music down before they say a cuss word.
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: But the atmosphere, look, I know it was different, but
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: it's always awesome.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: It is. But when you have never been there, and
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: you're a recruit, and you're able to see that, that's
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: the kind of stuff that makes you want to go there. Now, listen.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: It's all about money nowadays. I understand that.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: And that's what was pointed out to me several times
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: on social media. Jim, it's about paychecks. 17-year-olds, 16-year-olds are
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: not watching TV.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're writing them down there.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I would say that they've got the money too.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: But that's the kind of atmosphere you want to play in.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: It was a good show, man.
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: Okay, more just based on what we saw. When you
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: now look at their schedule, I think they're going to
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: be favored in every game. And that includes... Obviously, the
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: Ole Miss trip, they were a slight dog. They're going
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: to be favored now. They're going to be favored at
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: home against Bama. They're going to be favored at home
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: against Texas. They're going to be favored at Tennessee. I mean,
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: if it continues to play out like this, I don't
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: think they're going to win all their games. After one game,
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: I think that there is a different perception when it
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: comes to LSU.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: We do a lot of week one knee jerk. What
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: was the comment in Monday Morning Live with Luganville about LSU-O-Miss,
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: that LSU will send Ole Miss into oblivion or something
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: like that, punt Ole Miss into oblivion?
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: Oh, I like Ole Miss now. I liked LSU. I
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: really do.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: I like Ole Miss now. Now you're flipping the other way. Yeah,
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: I would flip the other way.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: But real quick, all three of us, Brown, what did
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: we not– Not having it when we picked our college
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: football bracket.
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: LSU.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: And if you made me do it again, I got
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: them number one in the country right now. Of course
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: I'd have them in my bracket.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: So if we did our bracket again today or this
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: week at some point, LSU would be in there.
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: Into the bracket now?
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: I mean, I think Georgia is better than LSU, but
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: LSU Alabama right now, I mean, I don't know how
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: Alabama would beat that team. I really don't.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: I don't either right now. Not through one game. And
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: especially there. Yeah. And I know the history.
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: I'll tell you how Ole Miss can do it straight
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: at that Jambliss.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: Let me just say this, though. We focus so much,
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: because Lane wants us to, on off the field Lane Kiffin,
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: that sometimes you just forget to talk about his actual coaching.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: He took a team that couldn't run the ball to
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: save their life. They were worse than Alabama running the
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: football last year. And they were a dominant run team
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: Saturday night. You've got to admit that. Only the uniforms
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: are the same. That was one heck of a flip.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: I figured that Blake Baker's defense was going to be really,
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: really good. And I think I even said this last week. Immediately,
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: you're going to see a dominant defense. But I think
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: the offense is going to take a little bit of.
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: Time to come around. But 309 yards on the ground.
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: 5.3 a carry. They're going to be able to run
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: the ball against anybody this year. And again, back to Alabama,
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: I don't think they necessarily will be. We'll see how
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: that plays out. But that shows you the impact. You
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: can't deny how good of an offensive coach Lane Kiffin is.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: No, you cannot.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: And Baker on defense, I know some of it because
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: it became a blowout, but they did not have one
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: defensive starter that played 40 snaps. So they're that deep
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: on the defensive side.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: They look like an LSU team. I mean, they look
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: like the Saban-era LSU teams and Les Miles-era LSU teams.
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: 11 tackles for loss.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: And the other side, Clemson, too. Well, Clemson's awful. That
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: was my takeaway, is that they played with aggression. They
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: were fast, but they were physical. Like Sam Leavitt was
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: a physical runner. Dylan Jones was a physical runner. 23
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: carries for that guy.
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, like I don't know how. I mean, well, I do.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: I mean, money.
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: But I give Luke Fickle credit. I thought the Joseph
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: kid looked better, although he did throw a couple of picks.
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: But Wisconsin's trying to get back to Wisconsin football, at
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: least that first half, grinding it out. How'd they let
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: that kid go, though? The Dylan Jones kid?
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know. Money. It's all about money, right? But,
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: I mean, that looked more like an LSU team that
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: used to scare you in the SEC, more so than
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: what Brian Kelly had where– you know, it's LSU. They
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: could play their A game and beat you. That looked
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: like the old LSU teams. You're like, dang, LSU's coming.
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know how good Sam Leavitt is. I
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: think he's good, but I don't know how much it matters.
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: Like if you run the football like that and his
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: ability to run the football, if he stays healthy with
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: that defense and now you start to look at the
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: schedule again, week one, overreaction, I'm sure. But boy, they
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: did look, they looked violent.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: I did want to, Andy said it, but you said
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: it all summer long. So I want to give you credit,
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: even though Andy just said it. but you said it
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: before you even saw him play, that Miami upgraded at
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: quarterback off of a team that played for the national championship.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: I know it was Stanford, but you could go out
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: and just run your routes on air. He was 27
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: of 30. I mean, you ran 30 routes in practice.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: You're going to probably drop three of them or overthrow
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: three of them or underthrow three of them. He was
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: 27 of 30.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: Even if Stanford was air, He was 27 of 30
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: for 401 yards.
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: It was funny because these games were going on at
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: the same time, so I didn't have volume up in
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: the Miami-Stanford game. There was no reason to. I was
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: watching USC and Fresno State. I had to listen to RG3,
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: my God.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: Maieva, by the way, 23 of 25. That's what I
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: was going to say. Equally competitive games, by the way.
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: But RG3 was like, you know, there was another Heisman
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: Trophy winner that had more touchdowns than incomplete passes through
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: three years.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: Oh, he did, yeah. Talking about himself.
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: Talking about himself, yeah.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: Unbelievable.
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: But so two quarterbacks were doing it at the same time.
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: But Mensah definitely, as good as Carson Beck was, the
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: experience Beck had, Mensah's got a ton of experience, too.
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: His third program. And just what they've got offensively. I
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: don't think they're as good defensively. I don't know how
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: much of that game you guys watched. I thought Stanford
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: had some chances at least between the 20s. They were
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: moving it a little bit. I think Miami without Mesador
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: and Bain, it's not going to be the same up front.
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: And it showed. I mean, when you look at Miami,
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: they had two tackles for losses and only one sack.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: But the offense is going to be virtually unstoppable. Oh,
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: I would love Shannon Dawson's job all year long. To
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: be the OC at Miami with Malachi Toney. He would
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: be my, I mean, again. A good running game. Week one,
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: if I picked a Heisman Trophy winner after week one,
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: it's Malachi Toney. I mean, the guy is just. But
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: how do you not go Mensah, who's delivering him the football?
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Tony's special. I think Mensah's really good. Mensah might
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: end up being the first quarterback taken in this draft.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: 27 of 30. It's hard to be worse than that.
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: But Tony can do absolutely everything. And, you know, going
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: back to the week one we saw him last year
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: against Notre Dame, a 17-year-old, he made it look easy
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: back then. Didn't put up these kind of numbers. But
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: where he is right now, I mean, that guy could
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: start on– he would be a one for, you know,
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: half the NFL right now.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: That guy, Tony? Yeah. Yeah.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: We're going to finish the Sporting State part of this show.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: We'll get to Alabama-Auburn at 11 Central, 12 Eastern on
• 38:22
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• 38:25
  Speaker 1: next segment to just you select a game and tell me.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: I think it's Lance's turn next. Just pick another game,
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: and we'll talk about that game, and we'll bounce around
• 38:35
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• 38:38
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• 38:40
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• 38:44
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• 38:49
  Speaker 2: Three FCS teams beat FBS teams. Citadel over Charlotte, triple overtime.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: Tarleton State won again. They beat Bowling Green. That's Eddie
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: George's team now. And Idaho State beat Utah State. Utah
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: State's first game as a Pac-12 member. Welcome in. Yeah.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: And that's three FCS wins over the FBS. And the
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: Mac beat the Big Ten UMass over Rutgers and almost
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: did it again with Western Michigan over Michigan. But the
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: SEC was 16 and 0. The first time they didn't
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: lose a game in week one since 1997. Obviously, it's
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: the first time that they were 16 and 0. they
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: were sending out some graphics and stuff, too, so.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: They're very proud of that.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: But three of those were wins over Power Forward Conference teams,
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: LSU over Clemson, Ole Miss over Louisville, and Auburn over Baylor.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: And as close as two of those games were, they're
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: still Pretty impressive win, a weekend.
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: For the SEC.
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: God, just so many ass whippings, which we thought. I mean,
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: we had some massive upsets and should have had another
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: with Western Michigan. But, you know, FBS versus FBS, there
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: was only nine one-possession games.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. It was a closer weekend, actually a more
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: entertaining weekend than I thought it was going to be, honestly.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: As the cool thing is to say, or as Joe
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: Tess said, it's just good to have ball back, isn't it?
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: I thought about Scott.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: Scott, I am so sorry. It's just good to have
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: ball back.
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: Could you even... Could he not have done any other game?
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: Could you even enjoy the final play? He went nuts
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: on that final play. Could you even enjoy it with
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: him calling it?
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: He's exhausting.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he really is.
• 40:25
  Speaker 6: He is.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: You know, I was... Everything can't be the most incredible
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: thing you've ever seen. Yeah, I know. Yeah, it's... I was.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: I was surprised on that play that it wasn't even
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: close to the goal line.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: You know, like... It looked like he was right at
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: the goal line. I thought they were going to have
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: to review this. Let's see the replay. Let's see the replay.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: But it wasn't even close. His knee is down.
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: You know, and I'm thinking in real time, I wonder
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: why he didn't reach. But it was such an awkward throw.
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: Like where his body was, like he couldn't even contort
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: around to be able to try to extend it.
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  Speaker 4: So after 15 hours straight, literally 15 hours on the
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: couch on Saturday, I was like, I got to get
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: Bullet and Chili out Sunday morning. So I took them
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: to a local park I was taking to let them
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: run around and stuff. And then I came home and
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: did a ton of notes. And I wanted to make
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: sure that I was poolside to put on the 119th
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: edition of the Apple Cup. And this Washington team, we've
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: talked about the benefit of a schedule. You know, they've
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: got four difficult. They've got the Alabama SEC version or
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: the Big Ten Alabama version of a schedule for difficult games.
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: They go to and to good chance, 10 and two
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: college football playoff. That was some of the most undisciplined
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: football that I have ever seen. I don't know what
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: you guys thought, but Jed Fish, I've never liked the guy.
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: Another one of these visor guys I don't like. But
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: it's like they tried to not dominate that game, like
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: the stupid-ass penalties.
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: The late hits.
• 43:06
  Speaker 4: The late hit after late hit, just extending drives. It's
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: funny because when Washington State would finally score, then Washington
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: would go right down and score. Like, they wanted to
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: make sure, like, we don't want this too close, but
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: let's not cover that 22 and a half. But 12
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: penalties yesterday for Washington. DeMond Williams, that final run was incredible.
• 43:25
  Speaker 4: You know, we're... I can't believe they didn't tackle him
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: seven yards short of the marker there. But I don't know.
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: Washington looked really, really undisciplined. And I think that's going
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: to bite them once they get to Big Ten play.
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: I mean, it had to be at least five dead
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: ball fouls, right?
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: Well, there were back-to-backs, you know. And it was so funny.
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: It seemed like it was always third down.
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, because I pointed it out. I was like, you know,
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: it's third and 16 now. Let's find– Let's watch and
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: seriously see how they find a way to keep Washington
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: State on the field. And then the late hit on
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: the sideline, it was like three seconds after the play.
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: And Jed Fish is just like, son of a bitch.
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: He's such a dick, too. Such a dick.
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: I've never met him, but the perception of him is
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: what you're saying.
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: The pregame, Zara, I forgot who the chick was that
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: was interviewing him. He was just a dick.
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: I was like.
• 44:15
  Speaker 4: Damn.
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: You've never liked this guy.
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: Never.
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: You've never liked him.
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: Lance, he rolled his eyes at the reporter as he
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: walked off. Like, what a dumb question, essentially, was what
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: his body language told him.
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, before his team looked like shit.
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah. They're proud of that lake there, but it does
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: look like a place I'd like to go to the game. Oh, yeah.
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: A bump shot on NBC, they showed it a thousand times.
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: I told you guys. I went in.
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: In late January last year, I was on the other
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: side of the stadium, so I didn't get to see that.
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: really cool view. Yeah. We'll talk to, uh, our, our
• 44:48
  Speaker 4: Washington resident, uh, Brock Huard tomorrow on the show at 1130.
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: Look forward to that because the aerials and the weather
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: was perfect. They kept saying that, but it was, uh,
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: it looked like a place I'd want to go. Uh,
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: the aerials at Autzen.
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: Stadium, uh, it was competitive game, but that, that was beautiful. Well,
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: let's talk about that game because we've, we've referenced it
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: a couple of times, but what did you guys think
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: about Washington overall? I mean, I'm with you. I kind
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: of thought they were a, I thought they were a
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: French Big Ten playoff contender. Not going to win the
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: Big Ten. French Big Ten playoff contender. But after watching them,
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: and I didn't get to watch that entire game. I
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: played some golf yesterday. But the part of the game
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: I watched, I'm like, hmm.
• 45:24
  Speaker 4: I just thought Devon missed some easy. They had first
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: and goal inside the five twice and didn't get points.
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: First impression is I think Penn State and Wisconsin are
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: closer to Washington than Washington is to USC.
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I would agree. I mean, USC and back to
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: Staples made this point. Gary Patterson wanted to shut out
• 45:43
  Speaker 4: Friday night.
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: Nobody's moving the ball on them. I can tell you that.
• 45:46
  Speaker 4: They've got so many 18-year-olds playing. That's the only thing
• 45:50
  Speaker 4: that scares me with USC. They're still identifying all their playmakers,
• 45:53
  Speaker 4: and they've got a bunch of them. I don't know
• 45:56
  Speaker 4: how you win with that type of youth at a
• 45:59
  Speaker 4: high level.
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: Andy Staple said this of Oregon, and he's right. Those
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: were not fluke yards by Boise State. Those were concerning
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: yards by Boise State. Maybe Boise... is just that good.
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Oregon was a 24.5-point favorite. That was
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: never even in doubt. Boise led that game for a
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: lot of the first half. I mean, Boise took the
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: fight to Oregon, and Oregon got stunned a little bit.
• 46:22
  Speaker 4: It got on the big for me for a while.
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: I don't know if.
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: I caught myself really pulling for Boise in that spot.
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: Were you guys pulling for them?
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: Just because I generally pull for chaos in college football, yes.
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: Because I generally like the chaos.
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: When they get the fourth and goal and they tie
• 46:37
  Speaker 4: it up there, you're like, damn, the pressure is all
• 46:39
  Speaker 4: on Oregon. I thought Oregon was really undisciplined. They had
• 46:42
  Speaker 4: the 10 penalties. They had a turnover. Just didn't. Again,
• 46:46
  Speaker 4: Boise plays them really good. Four and one all time
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: in five games, I think.
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy. But you're right. Dan Lanning wearing sunglasses
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: while he was coaching. I thought that was a look.
• 46:55
  Speaker 4: He put on a couple of pounds in the offseason.
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: You know, as a guy who can do that, myself,
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: he did look like he would. He was enjoying his time.
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: A little inflated?
• 47:04
  Speaker 4: It's surprising with the nutritionist you've got and the access
• 47:08
  Speaker 4: to all.
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: The— They were not as buttoned up as much as
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: I thought they would be and probably as much as
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: they'll be when they play their first meaningful game.
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: Who do they play next? Nobody this week, too, right?
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: Well, I'll tell you right now who Oregon's got next.
• 47:19
  Speaker 4: They've got Oklahoma State.
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: Their first big one's USC, right?
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, at SC, 926.
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: Which right now, you have said all offseason, SC's going
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: to win that game. Two weeks of SC plus one
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: week of Oregon. I kind of like to play there.
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: I mean, SC's defenses look that good.
• 47:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Now, I also said on the Friday Night Lance's
• 47:40
  Speaker 4: Log Show, you know, one of the questions was, what
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: team will be unrecognizable from last year to this year?
• 47:45
  Speaker 4: I was like, Oklahoma State. Like, the offense will immediately pop.
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: And boy, it did not.
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: Boy, I mean, I paid attention because Dunaway had Tulsa
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: in the upset alert. And you were... You mean Dr.
• 47:55
  Speaker 4: Picks?
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: Dr. Picks had Tulsa in the upset alert. Dr. Pix
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: is 1-0 with a very large lead after week one
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: because that was 14.5? Is that where you're playing at? 13.5.
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: 13.5?
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So you get the points plus the 13.5. It's
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: 18.5 to 0.
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: I mean, that was.
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: That was an embarrassing performance by Oklahoma State. You know,
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: the most dangerous lead in upset alert, though, is 18-and-a-half
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: to zero. Yeah. Because it's not really far enough ahead
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: to feel comfortable. That's right. That week one lead. That
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: week one lead.
• 48:23
  Speaker 4: I mean, Oregon did not look like a– I mean,
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: they did force the three turnovers, but when you're plus
• 48:28
  Speaker 4: three against a group six at home and you win
• 48:30
  Speaker 4: the game by a possession, I know it's Boise State,
• 48:33
  Speaker 4: but still, there was a lot of disturbing.
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, I left there, of all the contenders–
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: of all of them. Oregon is the one that I
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: was probably most concerned about leaving week one. Some of
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: them were just unchallenged. You know, Texas is playing Texas State,
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: teams like that. They're just unchallenged, but they do what
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: they're supposed to do. Georgia, you know, it's funny. We
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: had the stat with Kirby Smart in games where he's
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: favored by 35 or more, and he had never covered
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: one of those. He covered and then some on Saturday.
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: I don't think Kirby was doing it because of that,
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: but I just think That's how good Georgia is.
• 49:05
  Speaker 4: Georgia's really good.
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: I would say this, and we'll have all week to
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: talk about Texas and Ohio State. That's just going to
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: be a tremendous game coming up Saturday night. Both those
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: teams did what they were supposed to do to Texas
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: State and Ball State. um penn state um i don't
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: know i don't think marshall is as bad as 45
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: to nothing penn state looked uh they looked buttoned up
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: they look good.
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: They look like a mac you know we said this
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: does it look more like matt campbell coaching penn state
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: or just penn state it That looked a lot like
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: what Matt Campbell did at Iowa State. A buttoned-up team.
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: They're not going to make dumb mistakes. They're not going
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: to make dumb penalties. They're not going to turn the
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: ball over. That's how he won those games at Iowa State.
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: People talk about you've got Ames East now with all
• 49:49
  Speaker 4: of these players transferring over, and will that equate to
• 49:52
  Speaker 4: success in the Big Ten? I'll tell you what, Will
• 49:54
  Speaker 4: is really good coaching. Experienced quarterback. Rocco Beck was really good.
• 49:57
  Speaker 4: 13 of 18, four touchdowns, no picks. But this shows
• 50:01
  Speaker 4: it right here. Four penalties and zero turnovers. That's impressive.
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: Buttoned up was an excellent way of describing that. They
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: look like what Matt Campbell's Iowa State teams did that
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: won all those games over the years. And then there
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: was Tennessee. I mean, the SEC and quarterbacks right now.
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: Chase Daniels, friend of.
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: The show, said SEC quarterbacks, best quarterback conference by far
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: than anybody else. We saw spots of great quarterback play
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: in other conferences, some great quarterback play in other conferences,
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: but Everybody seems to have a quarterback in the SEC,
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: and one of them is Faison Brandon, the rookie, the
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: first-year starter, the freshman at Tennessee. He put down a
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: record performance, five touchdowns and more touchdowns than he had
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: in incomplete passes.
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: Thank you, RG3. Yeah, 13 of 17, only the four
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: incomplete passes. I think— I thought Tennessee was going to
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: be a good play because I thought they were going
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: to do exactly what they did, which is let's build
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: some confidence in Faison Brandon. Let's leave this game before
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: he has to go on the road to Georgia Tech
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: with a confident quarterback. And I think that would have
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: to be mission accomplished, the way that guy played.
• 51:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and look, the offenses are always going to be good.
• 51:12
  Speaker 4: 638 yards, but I think you identified... maybe your playmaker
• 51:16
  Speaker 4: on the perimeter in Mike Matthews. 800 yards last year,
• 51:20
  Speaker 4: but big day, four grabs, 132 yards, a couple of touchdowns.
• 51:23
  Speaker 4: We know Deshaun Bishop's going to be able to run
• 51:25
  Speaker 4: the football, which will take a lot of pressure off
• 51:27
  Speaker 4: of Brandon. Tennessee's going to be interesting moving forward.
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: By the way, when George McIntyre got in there, he
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: played well, too. It was limited duty, obviously. Your whole
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: goal was to get Faison Brandon the snaps, but McIntyre,
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: from what I saw in that game, and honestly... That
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: was one of the games where I would just check
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: it occasionally. So most of what McIntyre did, I watched
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: on replay. So I don't know where we were on
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: like ones versus ones. And I know it was mop-up duty,
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: but I thought he looked the part. Two playoff contenders
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: really quick from the Big 12. A couple minutes left here.
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: I watched a lot of Houston and Oregon State because
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: I had a little juice on them. They were underwhelming.
• 52:06
  Speaker 4: Their secondary is awful.
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: And then Texas Tech and Abilene. I don't know what
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: to make of that. It was a shaky win for
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: Texas Tech. It was only 33-10. Yeah.
• 52:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know what you're going to— I didn't
• 52:14
  Speaker 4: watch any of it, but— Well, I didn't think their
• 52:18
  Speaker 4: defense was nearly what it was from last year. You
• 52:21
  Speaker 4: lose guys like David Bailey on the edge. I don't
• 52:25
  Speaker 4: know how good Will Hammond's going to be.
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: 26-33, threw for one touchdown against Abilene. I mean, 26-33
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: is really good. Yeah. I didn't watch one second of it.
• 52:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: I didn't either.
• 52:35
  Speaker 4: I watched way too much Houston because I had them
• 52:37
  Speaker 4: as well.
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: Me too.
• 52:38
  Speaker 4: And, you know, when they scored their last touchdown, I
• 52:41
  Speaker 4: felt pretty good about Houston. But their secondary is not good.
• 52:45
  Speaker 4: I thought Wegman made some bad decisions. And I don't
• 52:47
  Speaker 4: know how good their offensive line is. And that was
• 52:49
  Speaker 4: against Jamarcus Shepard, year one, Oregon State.
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: After watching it all play out, if I'm BYU, I
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: feel really good. I'm not saying because they beat Utah Tech.
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying if I see.
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: What this version of Texas Tech looks like, this version
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: of Houston looks like. Okay, let me see the Arizonas.
• 53:11
  Speaker 4: There could be a wildcat being drawn tomorrow for me.
• 53:14
  Speaker 4: I'll just say that. And I like BYU. They're one
• 53:17
  Speaker 4: of my teams. I drafted them second in my Calcutta,
• 53:20
  Speaker 4: but There's a dangerous game coming up at 2.30. Maybe
• 53:24
  Speaker 4: the sneaky, good, dark horse game of the week in
• 53:27
  Speaker 4: week two.
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: It's got a little purple on it there. It's got
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: a little mauve or whatever color I put for the
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: interesting game.
• 53:33
  Speaker 4: You've only got two interesting games on here.
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: Outside of the SEC, yeah. There's going to be one
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: of them.
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: On our TV sheets, you can get this on social media.
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: I put the SEC in yellow because that's where we
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: originated from and then any other interesting game.
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: Is in whatever color that is, pink, I guess. And
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: it's sad when there's only two of them. Yeah, but
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: that just means all the interesting games are in the SEC.
• 53:53
  Speaker 4: Well, I think you are sleeping on one. I think
• 53:56
  Speaker 4: North Dakota State and Air Force could be.
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: I wasn't going to waste pink ink on that game.
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: We've got to dig deep on that one.
• 54:05
  Speaker 4: I'm telling you, that is a group six sleeper potential
• 54:08
  Speaker 4: team making a college football playoff.
• 54:10
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