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Arizona State quarterback Sam Leavitt "to prove" he's better than Quinn Ewers · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: the second time Texas has played at Mercedes Benz. Second
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  Speaker 1: time this month well you know New Year's Day actually,
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  Speaker 1: so second time in two months, but about than less
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  Speaker 1: than thirty one days Texas returning back to Atlanta or
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  Speaker 1: they'll take on Arizona State. So we'll have that for
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  Speaker 1: you on Wednesday and then Thursday Friday. Weird scheduling Craig
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  Speaker 1: I think either early Thursday morning or Wednesday night. I
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  Speaker 1: against the Sooners on Thursday night, and then Friday, Craig
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  Speaker 1: Excuse me, so Friday we will not have a local
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  Speaker 1: show morning kickoff, will have it Thursday. I believe I'll
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  Speaker 1: lot to recap because hopefully Thursday's show will be celebrating
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  Speaker 1: a Texas victory against Arizona State. But again, no Craig
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  Speaker 1: But we will have Long Corton's Game Day for you Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: with kickoff right about at noon a little bit after.
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  Speaker 1: It is the first game on Wednesday with four college
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  Speaker 1: football playoff games, including one starting tomorrow night. Again this
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  Speaker 1: format with four games. We'll get one for you tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: night in the College Football Playoff, and then three games
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  Speaker 1: coming your way on New Year's Day. Super It's super exciting.
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  Speaker 1: I love this format so much. Tomorrow will be Penn
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  Speaker 1: State and Boise State six thirty pm on ESPN, the
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  Speaker 1: Fiesta Bal the six to three matchup. Who will play
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  Speaker 1: the winner of Notre Dame in Georgia. That is a
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday night matchup seven forty five pm. Of course, Texas
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  Speaker 1: at noon, and then Oregon Ohio State. I think the
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  Speaker 1: most anticipated game of the quarterfinal round four pm ESPN
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  Speaker 1: Rose Bowl, and winner of that game will face the
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  Speaker 1: winner of Texas and Arizona State. So there's a chance
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  Speaker 1: that done a chance. If Texas wins against Arizona State,
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  Speaker 1: they will play a quarterback who they've already played before,
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  Speaker 1: either Will Howard or Dylan Gabriel. They've beaten Will Howard before,
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  Speaker 1: remember that incredible goal line stand at DKR last year
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  Speaker 1: against Kansas State right Byron Murphy and Defandre Sweat. Or
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  Speaker 1: they'll play Dylan Gabriel, who left a pretty bad taste
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  Speaker 1: in Texas fans mouth at the Cotton Bowl in two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and twenty three, in which Oklahoma defeated Texas, the
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  Speaker 1: only time Brent Vnnables has defeated Steeve sar ocasion. That's
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  Speaker 1: what Dylan Gabriel, who's had a fantastic season. So let's
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  Speaker 1: go ahead and start previewing this Texas Arizona State game again.
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  Speaker 1: Craig will be joining us in about ten minutes. Get
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  Speaker 1: his thoughts on media day. He actually sat down to
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  Speaker 1: day already with Quinn Yours, Burt Auburn shot a, I
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  Speaker 1: think some others. We're gonna play that for you throughout
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  Speaker 1: the show. There's audio, of course from Steve Sarkisian from
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  Speaker 1: the day mentioned quin Yours already, stuff from Michael Taff,
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  Speaker 1: Shoddy Baron, Alfred Collins, Gunner, Heelm, the works. It's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a great show. A lot of previewing this Texas
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  Speaker 1: Arizona State and I want to start with kind of
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  Speaker 1: the back and forth between Sam Levitt and Quinn Yours
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  Speaker 1: and it's it's not so much a back and forth,
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  Speaker 1: it's just quotes. Obviously, this past weekend, both teams did
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  Speaker 1: their own separate zoom media availabilities. In Sam Levitt the
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  Speaker 1: freshman the Rechert freshman quarterback for Arizona State. He's had
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  Speaker 1: a fantastic season. He's a lot of fun to watch guys.
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  Speaker 1: He's gretty, he plays hard, dual threat quarterback. And he
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  Speaker 1: was asked about facing Quein yours. And this comes on
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  Speaker 1: December twentieth, So this is what a couple of days ago,
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  Speaker 1: this was his his thoughts on facing quin Yours in
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  Speaker 1: the Peach Bowl. Let's try this a second time. The
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  Speaker 1: second let's en mute maybe Sam Levitt's thoughts on facing
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  Speaker 1: quin Yours in the Peach Bowl. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I watched them for from out of tom Now and
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  Speaker 2: I'm just excited for the opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: You know, people keep calming me out since day one,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, I'm gonna I'm gonna go prove on
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  Speaker 2: the better quarterback, you know, And that's how I feel
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  Speaker 2: since day one.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go play everybody on the map. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: So you know been counting out since day one. I
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  Speaker 1: think we're good for at least one player singing that,
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  Speaker 1: at least in some sort of pre game or postgame interview. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Quinn Yours was asked about Sam Levi's comments today. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean I saw it, and you know, just congrets
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  Speaker 1: with them on a great year in a great season.
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  Speaker 2: I've a got to watch watch some of their games,
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  Speaker 2: and you know.
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  Speaker 3: He's a he's a he's a talented player, and uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know they're they're a fun offense to watch. And again,
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  Speaker 3: just excited to excited to be up against him.
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  Speaker 1: So Quinn Yours takes the high road. Now, Sam Levitt
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  Speaker 1: today again at media Day, I'm not sure who who
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  Speaker 1: asked this question, but Levitt again was asked about his
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  Speaker 1: comments about wanting to prove that he is the better
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  Speaker 1: quarterback in the Peach Bowl, and Levitt backed it up.
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  Speaker 4: He said, the other day, you wanted to take this
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  Speaker 4: opportunity to prove while you're the best quarterback in this game.
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  Speaker 4: And it picked up some traction. A lot of people
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  Speaker 4: kind of put headlines on that. Are you surprised by
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  Speaker 4: how much that story kind of got legs and took off.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I don't I don't really have any expectations going into
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  Speaker 3: the comment. You know, I just answering the comment, you know,
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  Speaker 3: to my fullest belief. And you know, I hope that
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  Speaker 3: every player on the field goes that they're the best.
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  Speaker 3: That's how it should be. And you put all this
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  Speaker 3: work in and get to this stage. So why would
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  Speaker 3: you not believe that yourself.
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  Speaker 4: Were you getting notifications about how the story was kind
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  Speaker 4: of blowing up?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I turned off on ocasions always, so I don't
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  Speaker 3: really have them on during the.
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  Speaker 1: Season and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 3: But when I open up that, yeah, now I see
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  Speaker 3: it gropulve it, which is cool, you know, getting my
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  Speaker 3: name out on the stage.
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  Speaker 4: A little bit more so you were okay with that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, why you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, it's just I don't feel like publicity is bad,
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  Speaker 3: especially if you're not saying anything, you know, and just
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  Speaker 3: being able to put that on the stage. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: Quen the yours is such a you know, a big
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  Speaker 3: time college football you know, so you know, and now
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  Speaker 3: that's going to be a big talk in the show
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  Speaker 3: and they can go into the game and you know,
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  Speaker 3: people are gonna be watching for stuff like that. So
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  Speaker 3: It's just opportunity for me to go prove myself.
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  Speaker 1: I have no issue with either these comments, no issue
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  Speaker 1: at all for Sam Levitt. I mean, what do you
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  Speaker 1: want him to say? You know, I want to prove
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  Speaker 1: I'm the second best quarterback in this Bowl game. No,
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  Speaker 1: I like the confidence. And if you were an Arizona
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  Speaker 1: State fan and you're Kay Dilliam, you like the comments
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  Speaker 1: as well. Now, of course you are providing maybe bulletin
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  Speaker 1: board material, but in the day and age of social media,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure that even exists anymore because we have
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  Speaker 1: everything at our hands. Everything that's said, quoted, tweeted, talked
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  Speaker 1: about is automatically, you know, posted anywhere. So I like
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  Speaker 1: his comments. You know, go ahead. You want to be
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  Speaker 1: a confident quarterback. And you know he said it in
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  Speaker 1: the second interview where I hope everyone feels the same way.
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  Speaker 1: Every player should feel like they're the best player in
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  Speaker 1: the football field, right. You need that type of confidence,
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  Speaker 1: and for quin yours response, I like it as well too.
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  Speaker 1: Just take the high road. You know, there's no point
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  Speaker 1: in getting into a back and forth because you can
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  Speaker 1: just prove who's a better quarterback on the field. On Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: starting at noon, and I think we'll see quin youwers
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  Speaker 1: do that in this game. Levit's had a fantastic season.
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  Speaker 1: A big fan of the way he plays football. He's
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  Speaker 1: a very efficient quarterback. Against Iowa State just twelve to
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  Speaker 1: seventeen two h or nineteen yards, three touchdowns does not
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  Speaker 1: turn the ball over a lot. Twenty four touchdowns to
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  Speaker 1: five interceptions this season. It's been a fantastic quarterback. But
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  Speaker 1: it also helps when you have skim Cam Skataboo, who
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  Speaker 1: has been maybe the second best running back in college
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  Speaker 1: football this season. If you ask Craig Way, he'll tell
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  Speaker 1: you that. He'll tell you that he should have won
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  Speaker 1: Big twelve Offensive Player of the Year. But Skataboo over
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  Speaker 1: two thousand yards is from scrimmage this season, fifteen hundred
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  Speaker 1: on the ground over five hundred in the year. He
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  Speaker 1: is going to be obviously the guy to watch in
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  Speaker 1: this game. But if Texas is able to take away
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  Speaker 1: the run against Arizona State, which I think they'll be
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  Speaker 1: able to do, sam Levitt will get his wish. Because
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  Speaker 1: if Sam Levitt wants to prove he is the better quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: he is going to have to play a k club
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  Speaker 1: Nick times one hundred tigh game on Wednesday, because we
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  Speaker 1: saw Texas shut down the run from Clemson Clemston team
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  Speaker 1: with Kate Clubnick and they still lost by double digits.
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  Speaker 1: Texas still covered, and that was with Kaid Koupnick maybe
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  Speaker 1: playing the best game of his college career. He was
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  Speaker 1: phenomenal in that second half against Texas and it still
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  Speaker 1: was not enough for so Sam Levitt saying, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to prove in the better quarterback. Hey, Bud, you'll have
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  Speaker 1: your shot come Wednesday, because if Texas shuts down Cam Skataby,
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  Speaker 1: which I think they'll be able to do, it'll all
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  Speaker 1: rest on the shoulders of Sam Levitt. And I'm not
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  Speaker 1: sure he's had a game like that yet this season.
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  Speaker 1: The show that he is the best player in the field,
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  Speaker 1: but we will find out on Wednesday. We are just
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  Speaker 1: getting started on this Monday here, because up next, Greg
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  Speaker 1: Way joins live from media day at the Peach Bowl
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  Speaker 1: as Texas takes on Arizona State less than forty eight
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  Speaker 1: hours away from kickoff. Well of all the preview covers
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  Speaker 1: here on today's show, We're just getting started