Latest / The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast / College Football Update with Brett McMurphy

Transcript

College Football Update with Brett McMurphy · The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast

0:08
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Favorites, the podcast from the Volume Podcast Network.
0:15
Speaker 1: I am Chadmill and we will be continuing our run
0:19
Speaker 1: through every team in every division in both conferences in
0:25
Speaker 1: the NFL UH this upcoming Thursday. But we do want
0:29
Speaker 1: to take a quick pause because College Football Week zero
0:34
Speaker 1: starts this Saturday. We got five games, five August games,
0:40
Speaker 1: five scheduled games that are happening in the COVID era
0:45
Speaker 1: that knock on would They're not being rescheduled, they're not
0:48
Speaker 1: being canceled. We got some big name teams going. Speaking
0:52
Speaker 1: of big names, the Action Network made a massive, massive
0:57
Speaker 1: higher last week. We brought in Quip pop subly, the
1:00
Speaker 1: most respected Capital J journalist in all of college football,
1:05
Speaker 1: and the first thing he did was break a story
1:08
Speaker 1: about Nebraska. I'm talking about America's college football insider, Mr
1:13
Speaker 1: Brett McMurphy, and he's gonna come on the show in
1:15
Speaker 1: a few minutes. We're gonna talk about a little bit
1:18
Speaker 1: about the situation in Nebraska and the story he broke
1:21
Speaker 1: last week. And then today it's Tuesday. It's Tuesday after
1:24
Speaker 1: nume right now today on Action Network dot com and
1:27
Speaker 1: in the Action Network app, he put out a piece
1:29
Speaker 1: that he'll be updating throughout the year, UM every single week.
1:32
Speaker 1: He is a master at projecting UH both scenarios, and
1:37
Speaker 1: so his first piece for projecting both scenarios came out today.
1:41
Speaker 1: We're gonna run through that. He's got a prediction for
1:43
Speaker 1: the College football National Championship. We've got point spreads for
1:46
Speaker 1: all those games. It's gonna be fascinating. We're gonna talk
1:48
Speaker 1: about that first. Of course, I'm gonna bring in my BFF,
1:55
Speaker 1: my companion, Mr Simon Hunter. Hello, sewing man, this is
2:04
Speaker 1: the best time of year. Like you just said, college
2:06
Speaker 1: football starts next week. That just makes a fly by
2:09
Speaker 1: two right for me too, the NFL starts. But yeah,
2:12
Speaker 1: the fans are happy, all my clients are happy. Had
2:14
Speaker 1: another undefeated weekend giving out picks on the action app
2:18
Speaker 1: UM Life is Good Man. Download it follows Stimon Simon
2:23
Speaker 1: Hunter's picks up a thousand followers in just two weeks
2:26
Speaker 1: on that app. That's how good I've been done. Man.
2:29
Speaker 1: You you know what you are. Talk to me. You're
2:33
Speaker 1: a gift. You're a gift to all of us, and
2:35
Speaker 1: you're a professional like I wish. I wish everybody who
2:41
Speaker 1: we hired and I'm not saying this for Ben McMurphy's benefit,
2:43
Speaker 1: because he is a fucking pro. I wish everyone we
2:47
Speaker 1: hired came in and was like as thoughtful about promotion
2:52
Speaker 1: of the product, about commitment, about how they drive you,
3:00
Speaker 1: because Simon, you are a goddamn gift. I tried, Chad,
3:04
Speaker 1: and I try to explain to the fans here. If um,
3:08
Speaker 1: you're betting a hundred dollars on my bets and you're
3:10
Speaker 1: betting a hundred dollars on your your random picks that
3:13
Speaker 1: you think are smart, you're either an idiot or you're
3:15
Speaker 1: a narcissist. Stop betting the same amount of my bets
3:18
Speaker 1: as you bet on your own bets. You don't know
3:20
Speaker 1: what you're doing. Listen to your professionals, listen to our advice.
3:23
Speaker 1: Bet more on my picks and your own pis. I
3:25
Speaker 1: don't know. It's I've had plenty of people hit me
3:27
Speaker 1: up there like, hey, how good do you feel about
3:29
Speaker 1: this bet? And it's like, if I put it in
3:31
Speaker 1: the app, I'm feeling pretty good about it. I don't
3:33
Speaker 1: just put it in there just to put it in
3:35
Speaker 1: there again. Someone reach out to me, Chad. They said,
3:37
Speaker 1: no more unit talk because Chad said, So listen to Chad,
3:42
Speaker 1: who are these people? From now on? I'm a units
3:44
Speaker 1: guy from now on, So I want like sacking in
3:47
Speaker 1: dollar amounts, only in units. Listen, Simon, I think you
3:51
Speaker 1: know there's no bigger narcissist on this podcast than me.
3:56
Speaker 1: And I won't even make bets that you don't make.
3:59
Speaker 1: Chad Milman is proud of himself. That's it. That's all
4:04
Speaker 1: there is to it. We do have a lot of
4:05
Speaker 1: NFL stuff to talk about. The one thing I do
4:07
Speaker 1: want to say, there are there are very early rumblings
4:11
Speaker 1: because Matt Nagy has said that Andy Dalton will be
4:14
Speaker 1: on a short lease. Dude, I'm not even talking about
4:18
Speaker 1: the second game of the preseason for the Bears. I'm
4:20
Speaker 1: not talking about Mitch Drobiski. The only thing that matters
4:23
Speaker 1: is that in Game one, Justin Fields was brilliant. And
4:26
Speaker 1: I don't care that there was now a meme of
4:29
Speaker 1: him getting his head blown off that says I thought
4:33
Speaker 1: the game really slowed down for me, and that you
4:35
Speaker 1: were making front of that. It doesn't matter Justin Fields,
4:39
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears, this is our guy, most consequential draft pick
4:45
Speaker 1: in my fifty year lifetime. I'm gonna Scott, I don't
4:49
Speaker 1: even touch them Mitch thing, because I already know. I
4:51
Speaker 1: mean that all Bear fans must have just been sitting
4:53
Speaker 1: there and saying, oh my god, if you just surround
4:56
Speaker 1: Mitch with a competent coaching staff, he might actually be
4:58
Speaker 1: pretty good. So that that is a Bearris fan and
5:01
Speaker 1: was truly a snack. I'm not even telling you. I'm
5:04
Speaker 1: not even telling you. So on Saturday, I went to
5:09
Speaker 1: the uh as you guys know, after the podcast. On Thursday,
5:12
Speaker 1: I went to the city. I was there all day.
5:13
Speaker 1: I was there Thursday night, Friday, and then Friday night,
5:16
Speaker 1: my older son who's going to college in a couple
5:18
Speaker 1: of weeks, met me in the city. We had dinner together,
5:20
Speaker 1: walked around the village. It was beautiful, great night. Got
5:22
Speaker 1: to spend twenty four hours, you know, father suntime. I
5:25
Speaker 1: loved every second of it. Saturday, during the day, We're
5:28
Speaker 1: running around the city all day, so I'm not watching
5:30
Speaker 1: the Bears game, and every two minutes my buddy Matt,
5:33
Speaker 1: whose kid who we visited in California, whose kid I
5:36
Speaker 1: was I was going to tote toe with about Mac
5:38
Speaker 1: Jones and Justin Fields. Um No, joke. Matt is calling
5:42
Speaker 1: me as we speak right now. How weird is that? Uh?
5:46
Speaker 1: He was texting me every two seconds? Can we fire
5:48
Speaker 1: a coach midway through the second game of preseason? Because
5:52
Speaker 1: that's how we're disgusting disgust today. I'm by Matt Nagy
5:55
Speaker 1: right now now. It's so hard life. I love too
5:58
Speaker 1: that me and you predicted about four months ago, no
6:00
Speaker 1: matter what, any Dalton's gonna start week one. I think
6:03
Speaker 1: Naggy just came out and said, no matter what, any
6:05
Speaker 1: Dolton starting week one. So it's crazy how simple and
6:09
Speaker 1: basic that they are really keeping it over there. But
6:11
Speaker 1: again we'll see. I have higher hopes, like as you do,
6:14
Speaker 1: for Justin Fields's upcoming season. So you know what else,
6:18
Speaker 1: I have high hopes for the level of journalism. The
6:25
Speaker 1: quality of journalism at the Action Network has been raised
6:29
Speaker 1: because when we when we got on the call and
6:31
Speaker 1: you saw Brett McMurphy, you said, it's an honor to
6:34
Speaker 1: have a professional on this podcast. Essentially, that's what you said. Essentially, Brett,
6:43
Speaker 1: you're a journalistic sensation. How does that make you feel?
6:48
Speaker 1: Hold on, I'm out into Simon to follow on my
6:50
Speaker 1: Action app. As we speak, sorry, there we go. Good
6:54
Speaker 1: jobs on early retirement, Brett. It's the smartest Chadham turning
7:00
Speaker 1: my two weeks noticed, I am super pumped. Man. I'm
7:03
Speaker 1: so excited. You know. I've only been here a short
7:06
Speaker 1: week and just everybody I've dealt with has been incredible.
7:10
Speaker 1: Still trying to figure my way around, uh around this place,
7:14
Speaker 1: but I love it and so excited and as I
7:16
Speaker 1: as I told you, um, you know in the past
7:18
Speaker 1: few weeks, I think Action is a rocket ship and
7:21
Speaker 1: I'm glad to be a part of it. We are
7:24
Speaker 1: a freaking rocket ship. You are the fuel that is
7:27
Speaker 1: going to drive us into the next universe. You come
7:32
Speaker 1: on last week, forty eight hours after starting, you break
7:37
Speaker 1: the story about Scott Frost and Nebraska. I love that.
7:40
Speaker 1: As soon as you broke it, we had three or
7:42
Speaker 1: four stories breaking down the betting implications for Nebraska this season.
7:47
Speaker 1: It's now been a week since the story broke. Tell
7:50
Speaker 1: us the latest and what's happening with Nebraska, what's happening
7:53
Speaker 1: with Scott Frost, what's happening with the investigation, and what
7:56
Speaker 1: the reper concussions? Maybe yeah, Chad, Well being investigation continues.
8:01
Speaker 1: There's been no resolution of it that you know. With
8:05
Speaker 1: the n c A one thing I've learned is never
8:06
Speaker 1: to predict what you think the outcome will be or
8:10
Speaker 1: how long it will take. So this thing could be
8:12
Speaker 1: resolved tomorrow, it could be resolved at the end of
8:15
Speaker 1: the year, and then ultimately we'll see what the penalties are. Look,
8:18
Speaker 1: I don't think the allegations are that serious. I don't
8:22
Speaker 1: think the penalties are going to be that severe. You
8:25
Speaker 1: may see Frost suspended a game or two possibly when
8:29
Speaker 1: they do finally finalize their findings. However, I think big picture,
8:34
Speaker 1: you look at it this way. Scott Frost was already
8:37
Speaker 1: on the hot seat entering this year. He's the first
8:40
Speaker 1: coach in sixty years with three consecutive losing seasons in Nebraska.
8:44
Speaker 1: In March, I reported broke the news that Frost and
8:48
Speaker 1: Nebraska we're trying to get out of the O U game,
8:51
Speaker 1: which is unheard of. It is the fifth it's the
8:53
Speaker 1: fiftieth anniversary of the nineteen seventy one Game of the
8:55
Speaker 1: Century Number one Nebraska, number two. Oh you, they tried
8:59
Speaker 1: to get out of that game game to play a
9:01
Speaker 1: home game against a group of five team. Add to that,
9:04
Speaker 1: you've got a new athletic director and Trev Alberts. So
9:07
Speaker 1: now you've got the n c A investigation. So now
9:10
Speaker 1: if Nebraska wants to make a move after the season,
9:13
Speaker 1: they don't even have to reference the losing. They don't
9:16
Speaker 1: even have to reference the Oklahoma debacle. They can they
9:19
Speaker 1: can roll the n c A allegations out there to
9:21
Speaker 1: be the easy way out. But Scott Frost went from
9:24
Speaker 1: being on the hot seat and college football too. Now
9:26
Speaker 1: I think he is on the hottest seat in college football.
9:29
Speaker 1: And it's funny to call a the first game of
9:33
Speaker 1: the year it must win, but that's a must win
9:35
Speaker 1: game against Illinois. They cannot lose that game to Illinois
9:38
Speaker 1: because I think then everything is just gonna snowball and
9:41
Speaker 1: it's gonna be impossible for Frost to dig out of that.
9:45
Speaker 1: I'm always a little bummed, and call me sentimental. I'm
9:48
Speaker 1: always a little bummed when the college hero goes back
9:50
Speaker 1: to his school and it just it fails miserably. I
9:54
Speaker 1: am a huge fan of the romanticism of people going
9:59
Speaker 1: back to where they're from, having great success, being there
10:02
Speaker 1: for as long as they want. It's sort of blossoming
10:05
Speaker 1: into this magnificent love affair that goes on for fifty years.
10:09
Speaker 1: Is anyone else as sentimental as me? Simon? Do you
10:11
Speaker 1: do you get the fields from those potential stories? I
10:15
Speaker 1: done at all, a Chad, That's what makes you so unique,
10:18
Speaker 1: It's true, Brett, do you get the fields? Can can
10:21
Speaker 1: the Capital J get the fields? Yeah? Absolutely? And you
10:24
Speaker 1: know what if you can? You know, look at Freezing
10:26
Speaker 1: Cold takes Twitter account right now, and I'm sure you
10:29
Speaker 1: can find me and probably another fifty other journalist that
10:34
Speaker 1: thought this was a great, great higher I mean, he
10:37
Speaker 1: went turned around UCFS program, he went thirteen to know
10:40
Speaker 1: a UCF Um the favorite son comes home to Nebraska.
10:44
Speaker 1: I thought everyone thought he would be a success. They're
10:48
Speaker 1: kind of like Jim harbaught Michigan. But those things don't
10:52
Speaker 1: always work out that way. Um, when you are in
10:54
Speaker 1: a LUM, I think it buys you more time at
10:57
Speaker 1: that university. I think people are willing to cut you
11:00
Speaker 1: a break if you will. They're not as eager to
11:03
Speaker 1: pull the trigger and maybe move on. Um. But certainly
11:06
Speaker 1: I think Frost is getting near the end of that
11:09
Speaker 1: grace period. Well he's certainly the honeymoon is definitely over.
11:12
Speaker 1: But you know now, they're to the point of, well,
11:14
Speaker 1: whether he's an a lum or not, we've got to
11:16
Speaker 1: turn this thing around, and if he's not the guy
11:19
Speaker 1: to do it, we'll find somebody else. What do you
11:21
Speaker 1: think happened there? What went wrong for him? You know,
11:25
Speaker 1: chat it's impossible point the finger at one specific thing.
11:29
Speaker 1: All I look back on is when Bo Pollini was
11:31
Speaker 1: coaching Nebraska. He told me this when I had a
11:35
Speaker 1: one on one interview with him, and it really struck
11:38
Speaker 1: with me, and he basically said, look, the challenge for
11:41
Speaker 1: Nebraska is their fan base, which is arguably the greatest
11:44
Speaker 1: in the country, remembers the glory days of the seventies,
11:48
Speaker 1: the eighties, the nineties. Well, back then, Nebraska was a
11:51
Speaker 1: handful of teams that were on television every week, so
11:54
Speaker 1: it was easy for them to recruit from California. It
11:57
Speaker 1: was easy for them to get Microzier to leave New
11:59
Speaker 1: Jerry and come to Nebraska. Well, what happened, ESPN happened
12:03
Speaker 1: now every team in the country is on TV. You
12:06
Speaker 1: don't have to go across the country to play for
12:08
Speaker 1: a team that's on TV every week. And the other
12:10
Speaker 1: thing is leaving the Big Twelve. When they left the
12:13
Speaker 1: Big twelve. Yes, it made sense financially to go to
12:15
Speaker 1: the Big Ten, certainly now with what's going on the
12:17
Speaker 1: conference realignment. But you know what it also did. It
12:20
Speaker 1: also cut off the pipeline to Texas. You no longer
12:24
Speaker 1: can recruit the Texas athlete because you're no longer playing
12:27
Speaker 1: the schools from Texas. So you can't go down to
12:29
Speaker 1: Texas and tell mom and dad, hey, your son is
12:32
Speaker 1: gonna play in the state two or three times a
12:34
Speaker 1: year in our conference because now you no longer play
12:37
Speaker 1: in Texas. So now they're no longer a national recruiting threat.
12:41
Speaker 1: They can no longer get kids out of the state
12:44
Speaker 1: of the Texas, one of the top three states in
12:45
Speaker 1: the country. And what bo Polini told me, Brett, this
12:50
Speaker 1: is the hardest university in the country, big time university
12:54
Speaker 1: to recruit to for those reasons, and also because in
12:57
Speaker 1: the state of Nebraska you simply don't have that many
13:00
Speaker 1: pality Division one players to chat. I think it's a
13:03
Speaker 1: combination of all those things, and it's um it's unfortunate. Again,
13:08
Speaker 1: Nebraska I think has the greatest fan base in the country,
13:12
Speaker 1: and it's hard for them to swallow. Um the losing
13:16
Speaker 1: that they've gone through in these past, you know, half
13:18
Speaker 1: dozen years. All right, Well, listen, you mentioned ESPN and
13:25
Speaker 1: in your story that was posted today projecting everything from
13:30
Speaker 1: the National Championship Game who's going to be in it
13:33
Speaker 1: throughout sort of basically every single bowl game, of which
13:38
Speaker 1: there is two bowl games. You had a really interesting comment, Simon,
13:44
Speaker 1: I bet you gotta take on this too as a
13:45
Speaker 1: sports fan and is a better You basically noted that
13:50
Speaker 1: the postseason in college football is controlled by ESPN and
13:56
Speaker 1: explain sort of the construct and how the postseason work
14:00
Speaker 1: today for people who might not really understand it, especially
14:03
Speaker 1: since we're, you know, a couple of years from moves
14:05
Speaker 1: from a regular bowl uh schedule, right, So I'll try
14:09
Speaker 1: to make this as short as possible, But basically, last
14:12
Speaker 1: year started the new six year cycle of all these
14:16
Speaker 1: bowl games and their conference high ends. Last year, obviously
14:19
Speaker 1: COVID that was everything was tossed to the side. They
14:22
Speaker 1: just want to play as many games as possible. So
14:24
Speaker 1: this basically is the first year of the new cycle.
14:27
Speaker 1: What that means is the previous conference tie ins for
14:31
Speaker 1: each bowls from before have now changed. The biggest change
14:35
Speaker 1: that you're referring to is. Now, there are at least
14:38
Speaker 1: twelve bowls that are owned, but they're actually there's sixteen
14:41
Speaker 1: bowls that are owned by ESPN. Twelve of those bowl
14:44
Speaker 1: games basically do not have conference affiliations. So if you're
14:49
Speaker 1: a fan of the MAC, if you're a fan of
14:51
Speaker 1: the Mountain West, if you're the American Conference USA, whatever,
14:55
Speaker 1: you cannot say with a certainty we are going to
14:59
Speaker 1: the Year Bowl, for example, because ESPN owns that bowl.
15:03
Speaker 1: And so what they're doing is they are determining when
15:06
Speaker 1: we get to the first Sunday in December, they will
15:09
Speaker 1: announce what two teams from those five group of five
15:12
Speaker 1: conferences will go playing that game. It doesn't matter what
15:16
Speaker 1: conference they're in. And there's twelve of those games that
15:19
Speaker 1: are all intertwined, and basically ESPN has to figure that
15:23
Speaker 1: out based on the number of bowl games per conference.
15:27
Speaker 1: So it's not gonna be the old days where you
15:29
Speaker 1: simply could say, well, we know this game is gonna
15:31
Speaker 1: be Big twelve versus SEC, or a C C versus
15:35
Speaker 1: Pack twelve. Now it's basically there's a pool of tea,
15:39
Speaker 1: a pool of conferences for those twelve games owned by ESPN.
15:43
Speaker 1: So that's basically gonna be ESPN. The puppet master will
15:48
Speaker 1: sit there and determine who goes to those games. Some
15:51
Speaker 1: fan bases will be happy, some won't be happy. But
15:55
Speaker 1: when you own sixteen of the forty two Bowl games,
15:58
Speaker 1: that's what you have the power to do. As someone
16:00
Speaker 1: like I've never met any of the Brakes News, I've
16:02
Speaker 1: always wanted these questions. There's so many questions I have
16:04
Speaker 1: for the break News. But I wonder, like, how many
16:07
Speaker 1: phones do you have? Like I have a phone that
16:09
Speaker 1: I give out for you know, I give the chat
16:11
Speaker 1: that's my regular phone number. And I have a phone
16:13
Speaker 1: that's like my burner phone, my batline, which I give
16:17
Speaker 1: out the other professional gamblers and other guys where I
16:19
Speaker 1: always keep two phones on me because if that phone
16:21
Speaker 1: is buzzing, I know that it's like I have to
16:24
Speaker 1: pick up that phone was breaking new people. The same thing,
16:27
Speaker 1: like you give out certain numbers of certain people because
16:29
Speaker 1: it's like, all right, this is more important information than
16:31
Speaker 1: just my regular phone I use every day. Starry disappoints
16:34
Speaker 1: to only I only have one phone. It's a landline.
16:37
Speaker 1: Now I'm kidding, I do just I did just have
16:41
Speaker 1: one phone. But what you say you know, it's kind
16:44
Speaker 1: of my thinking. There's literally like five people, five of
16:48
Speaker 1: my sources that I value more than anybody else. Like
16:51
Speaker 1: if they text me right now and said the world
16:53
Speaker 1: is ending, I would be tweeting the world is ending
16:56
Speaker 1: and say, hey, guys, I gotta get off this call
16:58
Speaker 1: without confirming it. That's how much I trust these guys.
17:01
Speaker 1: That's how much I know they know, they know what
17:04
Speaker 1: my job is. They're not going to give me bad information.
17:06
Speaker 1: And then and then below that, you have a you know,
17:09
Speaker 1: variet dozens and dozens of sources. They give you all
17:12
Speaker 1: kinds of tips. Some are good, some are bad. Um,
17:15
Speaker 1: and then I follow it that way. But yeah, sorry,
17:18
Speaker 1: unless chattle expense it. I'm just stuck with one phone.
17:22
Speaker 1: Have a certain ring tone, no, but show you a
17:25
Speaker 1: little inside into what I think is comedy. My ring
17:28
Speaker 1: tone is the theme song from Curb Your Enthusiast Summon.
17:33
Speaker 1: By the way, I'm so glad you asked that question
17:35
Speaker 1: because one of the things Brett and I while we
17:37
Speaker 1: both worked at ESPN, because ESPN like is so sort
17:41
Speaker 1: of strange and how it constructs its organization, even though
17:46
Speaker 1: I oversaw all of the digital and that included you know,
17:51
Speaker 1: most of the people who are doing breaking news on
17:54
Speaker 1: a day to day basis. Brett came in through the
17:57
Speaker 1: television side, and so Brett was actually not in my
18:01
Speaker 1: ORC So he and I didn't get to know each
18:02
Speaker 1: other very well when we were both at ESPN, and
18:05
Speaker 1: so I've really got to know him mostly like in
18:08
Speaker 1: a recruiting process when I was, you know, trying to
18:10
Speaker 1: woo him to come join us at Action and I
18:14
Speaker 1: was struck by the level of intensity about breaking news,
18:18
Speaker 1: about sourcing, like he is passionate about this and manic
18:23
Speaker 1: about this. And so my question is about breaking news,
18:28
Speaker 1: is it something that makes you nervous every day that
18:30
Speaker 1: you're missing something? Actually, it's weird. It's like, as I
18:35
Speaker 1: get further along in my career, went like, for instance,
18:37
Speaker 1: the Nebraska story, as I'm getting ready to push the
18:40
Speaker 1: sin button, and because i know the reaction it's going
18:43
Speaker 1: to have, you know, I can't underestimate that. And I'm
18:46
Speaker 1: not trying to make oh I'm some big guy or whatever,
18:49
Speaker 1: but I know I know the impact of that. When
18:50
Speaker 1: you're working on these things, you kind of know when
18:53
Speaker 1: you're the only one that has something. There's other times
18:56
Speaker 1: where you know everybody's gonna get this within five minutes,
19:00
Speaker 1: so I've got a hurry up. So actually sometimes I
19:02
Speaker 1: get nervous, like when I'm getting ready to push the
19:05
Speaker 1: button and think, okay, do I have everything lined up?
19:08
Speaker 1: Is there something? Did I triple check this? Did I
19:11
Speaker 1: double check this? And kind I want to make sure
19:13
Speaker 1: because and I tell you know, when I speak to
19:15
Speaker 1: young journalists, I tell him this, and it's actually something
19:19
Speaker 1: that John Calipari said something similar. He's like, you know,
19:22
Speaker 1: nobody's gonna remember the hundreds of stories I got right.
19:26
Speaker 1: They're going to remember the one you got wrong. And
19:29
Speaker 1: like Calipari said, nobody's gonna remember the year we went there,
19:32
Speaker 1: and I remember one, remember the one we lost in
19:36
Speaker 1: the n c A tournament. So that's kind of how
19:38
Speaker 1: I look at it now. And it's not that I
19:40
Speaker 1: wasn't careful before, but obviously now with the you know,
19:43
Speaker 1: a bigger platform, having been at ESPN. You know, when
19:46
Speaker 1: I was at the Tampa Tribune, I had three thousand
19:48
Speaker 1: followers on Twitter. Man, I was so impressed. I was
19:51
Speaker 1: beating my chest. Three thousand. You know, now I'm almost
19:54
Speaker 1: two d fifty thousand. That's ridiculous. But I understand, and
19:59
Speaker 1: so I don't want to put stuff out there. You know,
20:01
Speaker 1: well one, I would never put anything out there that
20:03
Speaker 1: I'm not a d accurate that it's correct. But as
20:06
Speaker 1: far as nervous, I realize I'm not gonna break every story.
20:10
Speaker 1: I realized nobody's going to break a majority of stories.
20:13
Speaker 1: There's a lot of a lot of great journalists out
20:15
Speaker 1: there that do a lot of great work. So if
20:17
Speaker 1: other people beat me, that's fine, a pet peeve of mine,
20:21
Speaker 1: which you didn't bring this up, but I will, and
20:23
Speaker 1: as when somebody breaks the story and other journalists don't
20:26
Speaker 1: credit him, And that's why I do my damnedest that
20:29
Speaker 1: if I report a story that I know someone else
20:33
Speaker 1: had first, I will put sources told Action Network first
20:37
Speaker 1: reported by x y Z because that little just that
20:41
Speaker 1: little recognition goes a long way. And I'm sure there's
20:43
Speaker 1: times where I've mistakenly didn't credit somebody that had somebody first,
20:48
Speaker 1: But I don't, you know, I only follow a thousand people,
20:51
Speaker 1: so I don't see everything that's out there. But if
20:53
Speaker 1: I see somebody had something, I am absolutely gonna give
20:56
Speaker 1: them credit because I know how it feels being on
20:59
Speaker 1: the other to that you know when I was at
21:01
Speaker 1: the Tampa Tribune and CBS Sports and all that and
21:03
Speaker 1: would break stuff and ESPN wouldn't credit me, So I
21:06
Speaker 1: certainly would have do my best to be able and
21:08
Speaker 1: credit others if they happen to break it, because I'm
21:11
Speaker 1: not I don't have the ego and one, I'm not
21:14
Speaker 1: dumb enough to think I'm gonna break everything. That's simply
21:16
Speaker 1: not gonna happen. So what's interesting is ESPN actually did
21:19
Speaker 1: a phenomenal job crediting us. They credited us in the
21:22
Speaker 1: alert better than us in on the ticker like it
21:25
Speaker 1: was all over and kudos to them, and we appreciate it.
21:29
Speaker 1: And I will say Fox Sports took the story and
21:32
Speaker 1: basically ran it on their ticker and didn't mention that
21:36
Speaker 1: took the entire story and ran on the ticker and
21:38
Speaker 1: didn't mention action network was annoying. That is annoying. Um,
21:42
Speaker 1: I don't know anyone at Fox or I would have
21:44
Speaker 1: emailed him. But there also was I don't want to
21:47
Speaker 1: name the specific website, but there was a website that
21:51
Speaker 1: covers college football that basically took my first tweet about
21:54
Speaker 1: Scott Frost and Nebraska and literally copied it word for word,
21:58
Speaker 1: except they took out told Action Network. Everything else was
22:03
Speaker 1: the same. And then they tweeted it with a link
22:06
Speaker 1: to their story on their website, which was basically what
22:10
Speaker 1: I reported, and they rewrote it, and I sent the
22:13
Speaker 1: guy a text. I'm like, hey, you didn't even attribute
22:17
Speaker 1: it to us. We broke it. And he's like, oh,
22:20
Speaker 1: I'm sorry we put it in the story. I'm like,
22:22
Speaker 1: I don't care. You tweeted it and you make it
22:24
Speaker 1: look like you you broke the story. Can you please
22:27
Speaker 1: correct it? They did delete it and put up a
22:29
Speaker 1: new tweet. But you know that goes on so often
22:32
Speaker 1: where I don't even A friend of mine actually text
22:34
Speaker 1: me and notified me, but I didn't even see it,
22:36
Speaker 1: So I'm sure that goes on more often than not.
22:39
Speaker 1: But look, I'm not gonna name name. Some people do
22:42
Speaker 1: a great job crediting others. Others won't credit others. That's
22:46
Speaker 1: just their philosophy. I don't know why, So I just
22:48
Speaker 1: tried to credit where credits. Do you know what My
22:51
Speaker 1: take is, they're gonna be bad actors out there. We're
22:54
Speaker 1: not going to be one of them. I gotta file
22:56
Speaker 1: up for bread here. When you're going through all these
22:59
Speaker 1: sources in my line of work. It's weird, like I
23:01
Speaker 1: have due to give me information I've never met in
23:03
Speaker 1: my entire life, Like i'ven't had dinner with these people,
23:06
Speaker 1: and after a couple of times, you realize the information
23:09
Speaker 1: is good you're getting from so that's why you keep
23:10
Speaker 1: trusting them and things like that. Is it the same
23:13
Speaker 1: in media where um, like, say a guy burns me,
23:16
Speaker 1: I don't cut them off, but I'll definitely I won't
23:19
Speaker 1: take his information and just run with it anymore. It's
23:21
Speaker 1: one of those things where like, are there certain people
23:23
Speaker 1: where you have to source with like three to four
23:25
Speaker 1: other people before you can even run with it because
23:26
Speaker 1: you're just like, Okay, this person has burned me before.
23:29
Speaker 1: Because like you said, it's it's very weird people's agendas.
23:31
Speaker 1: Um Like, in sports games, it's bizarre where groups will
23:35
Speaker 1: give out bad infot because they want the line to
23:37
Speaker 1: move against what they want to bet. So that happens
23:40
Speaker 1: a lot, and you know, it's one of those things
23:43
Speaker 1: where people know now, but they don't say anything because
23:45
Speaker 1: it's just like, you know, we don't trust that group
23:46
Speaker 1: in their information at getting. I wonder if it's the
23:48
Speaker 1: same in the media world where people are trying to
23:50
Speaker 1: screw you guys over to just to make their own
23:52
Speaker 1: story better. Yeah, they try to. But I'm never gonna
23:55
Speaker 1: go if you know, I get a an email that'says,
23:58
Speaker 1: you know, hey, Michigan is under investigation, I'm not just
24:01
Speaker 1: gonna you know, parrot it and report it right away. Now,
24:04
Speaker 1: I'll check and see if it's true. Whether it's true
24:07
Speaker 1: or not depends on whether I report it. But I'm
24:10
Speaker 1: not gonna go simply with what somebody tells me. And yeah,
24:13
Speaker 1: if I have an Ohio State fan tell me, oh,
24:16
Speaker 1: Michigan's under an investigation, I'll take it with a grain
24:18
Speaker 1: of salt because I get that a lot rivals will
24:21
Speaker 1: try to out their rivals and they actually think, oh wow,
24:25
Speaker 1: this guy is just gonna report what I send him.
24:27
Speaker 1: So I'll check it out. But yeah, there's other people
24:29
Speaker 1: that I know really well that give me info that
24:32
Speaker 1: they're about fifty and then there's some people that are
24:36
Speaker 1: like and then there's some that maybe you're five percent accurate.
24:41
Speaker 1: But I'll check everything out, and yeah, I'm not I'm
24:43
Speaker 1: never gonna go with anybody, go with anything unless I
24:47
Speaker 1: can confirm it myself. So I guess I I haven't
24:50
Speaker 1: been burned by that because, like I said, the five
24:52
Speaker 1: people I trust with everything, they never purposely given me
24:56
Speaker 1: any bad info. But but no, I get I check
24:59
Speaker 1: everything out because the these days, you never know, you
25:01
Speaker 1: never know what's gonna happen. And this this story I broke,
25:04
Speaker 1: you know, a couple of years ago when I was
25:06
Speaker 1: laid off from ESPN with was Zach Smith and the
25:09
Speaker 1: domestic violence going on there in urban Meyer and and
25:12
Speaker 1: all that. You know, Initially, when I got that information,
25:15
Speaker 1: I thought, yeah, there's no way, no one knows anything
25:19
Speaker 1: about this. This kid kid coached at Florita's at Ohio State.
25:22
Speaker 1: This is there's no way it's true. And then I
25:24
Speaker 1: kept looking into it, found out it was true, and
25:26
Speaker 1: then proceeded to break that. So it's weird. You know,
25:30
Speaker 1: you do have a lot of sources, but it's weird
25:32
Speaker 1: you get so much information from you just if you
25:35
Speaker 1: just talk to people. I'm sure with you with with
25:38
Speaker 1: you know, gambling and trying to get information. The more
25:42
Speaker 1: you talk to people and you just have conversations, they
25:45
Speaker 1: may offer something up that you weren't even talking to
25:47
Speaker 1: them about. And that's that's happened to me with the
25:50
Speaker 1: Penn State when they're find thirty million dollars back with
25:54
Speaker 1: the Sandusky stuff by the n c a A. I
25:56
Speaker 1: was actually talking to someone trying to ironically and trying
26:00
Speaker 1: to find out what teams we're gonna be going to
26:03
Speaker 1: specific bowl games. And this person as we're talking, said, wow,
26:08
Speaker 1: can you believe what about Penn State? And of course
26:11
Speaker 1: I said, I had no idea what he's talking about.
26:13
Speaker 1: And I said, oh, I know, can you believe that?
26:16
Speaker 1: That's crazy? So I go, what, um, what did you
26:19
Speaker 1: What did you hear? Exactly because I was heard a
26:21
Speaker 1: bunch of different things that oh, they were fine, thirty
26:23
Speaker 1: million dollars or sixty million where the number was. And
26:26
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, that's what I heard. That that's unreal. Man. Well, hey,
26:29
Speaker 1: have a good day. Thanks. I'm like, holy crap. So
26:32
Speaker 1: then I I followed through confirmed it. Whatever I broke it.
26:36
Speaker 1: I was with CBS Sports back then. But yeah, so
26:38
Speaker 1: I'm talking to this this guy about bowl bowl games
26:42
Speaker 1: and who's going to go to the you know, International
26:45
Speaker 1: Bowl or whoever. The bull is probably defunct right now,
26:48
Speaker 1: doesn't exist. And the guy ends up, oh, by the way,
26:51
Speaker 1: just dropping this huge, massive scoop, uh, you know, twenty
26:56
Speaker 1: four hours before it was released, So you never know
26:59
Speaker 1: where it's gonna come on. But I'm always gonna check
27:01
Speaker 1: it out and confirm it before I ever put it
27:03
Speaker 1: out there, the good old blockbuster bull. What's interesting, there's
27:10
Speaker 1: there's becoming very little distinction between how Simon approaches sports
27:17
Speaker 1: and information and then shares it on platforms like this
27:21
Speaker 1: podcast or on Action Network, and how Brett approaches sports
27:24
Speaker 1: and information and shares it on Action Network. You know,
27:28
Speaker 1: Simon has come on the podcast, talked about sources, talked
27:31
Speaker 1: about having information. Um it was. It was highlighted during
27:35
Speaker 1: the draft where forty eight hours before the draft, when
27:39
Speaker 1: everyone thought Mac Jones was gonna go number three, all
27:42
Speaker 1: of a sudden there were rumors, largely in the gambling space,
27:45
Speaker 1: that he wasn't going to go number three, and Simon
27:48
Speaker 1: was ahead of that, talked about it, talked about the
27:50
Speaker 1: sources that he knew to get that there's distinction, without
27:55
Speaker 1: much difference between gamblers getting information and activating on it
27:58
Speaker 1: and reporters and journalists like Brett activating on it. I
28:04
Speaker 1: saw that with COVID though too, like you even mentioned
28:07
Speaker 1: COVID last season, where like he said, he needs to
28:09
Speaker 1: vent these things. He needs to go through three or
28:11
Speaker 1: four people to confirm these stories. So Chefter might have
28:15
Speaker 1: known that Denver. I remember Denver that that COVID case.
28:18
Speaker 1: I texted you, I think on the Friday, or maybe
28:20
Speaker 1: it was a Thursday, and then the whole thing came
28:22
Speaker 1: out on a Saturday. Chefter probably the same info I did. Like,
28:25
Speaker 1: he's in tune with Denver, but he can't put it
28:27
Speaker 1: out there because there's a bunch of little things he
28:29
Speaker 1: gets to go through before you can put that information
28:31
Speaker 1: out there. Whereas where I'm gonna but I'm a sports
28:33
Speaker 1: better we run with this information if we're getting information
28:36
Speaker 1: and it's vented, where it's like, okay, a guy on
28:39
Speaker 1: Denver's team who knows who it is could have been
28:41
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks coach or someone like that. They were the
28:44
Speaker 1: first ones to leak to lead to a friend who
28:46
Speaker 1: leaked to another person. I leaked it out that the
28:48
Speaker 1: cold quarterback room of Denver Broncos had COVID. So that's
28:51
Speaker 1: again one of these things where Brett has to do
28:54
Speaker 1: these things. Where As the vent these things, where as
28:56
Speaker 1: a as a professional gambler. We put our money in first,
28:59
Speaker 1: and then we then you know that, like you can't
29:01
Speaker 1: miss this opportunity. So Brett, if he's a sports better,
29:04
Speaker 1: I'm sure he puts a bet in before he breaks
29:06
Speaker 1: the news. I mean, that's just I've even heard Shifter
29:09
Speaker 1: here talking about he he does things in fantasy football.
29:11
Speaker 1: He'll pick guys up before he tweets out that so
29:13
Speaker 1: and so has hurt. So make no mistake, people, we
29:16
Speaker 1: use this information to benefit ourselves before we give it
29:18
Speaker 1: out to the masses. I don't know how I feel
29:20
Speaker 1: about you saying that, what well you I broke the
29:24
Speaker 1: tray the tray Lands News live with you, buddy. I
29:26
Speaker 1: mean I think he cost me about so don't think
29:32
Speaker 1: I don't give you the good stuff. I gave it
29:35
Speaker 1: to you a plus three by the time I got
29:37
Speaker 1: to Atlantic City it was plus one fifties. So I
29:39
Speaker 1: love that I helped you out to do these things
29:41
Speaker 1: with you. But it's also crazy the pool that actual
29:43
Speaker 1: network has that information traveled that fast. We did one
29:47
Speaker 1: live video of me on the side of the highway
29:48
Speaker 1: on the Atlantic City Expressway. The line moved by plus
29:52
Speaker 1: a hundred fifties. So again, I love this job. But
29:55
Speaker 1: it's also interesting seeing that live like that happened in
29:57
Speaker 1: real time. That was pretty pretty crazy to experience. He's
30:00
Speaker 1: as Sigmon, so one one way, one thing I would
30:03
Speaker 1: counter with what you just said, And you're right, there
30:05
Speaker 1: are some similarities as far as you know from me
30:09
Speaker 1: and Scheft Schefter's point of view, if we put something
30:12
Speaker 1: out there and it's wrong, we can't take it back.
30:15
Speaker 1: If you put in a If you put in a
30:17
Speaker 1: bet and then you find out the guys the guy
30:20
Speaker 1: is going to play, the guy isn't playing the opposite
30:22
Speaker 1: of your information, you can come back on the other side.
30:26
Speaker 1: It's gonna offset it a little bit, and it's not
30:28
Speaker 1: going to destroy your reputation. That's what about the wording
30:32
Speaker 1: for reporters. You guys put these certain words in these reports.
30:35
Speaker 1: It kind of you know some guys, Yeah, some guys
30:39
Speaker 1: do and yeah, and I hate the people that do
30:42
Speaker 1: the and I'm probably I'm sure I'm guilty of doing this,
30:45
Speaker 1: but they said, you know, expected to maybe you know,
30:50
Speaker 1: just come out and say you don't know. But some
30:52
Speaker 1: people just want to be first and just say you know,
30:55
Speaker 1: instead of saying, look, this is gonna happen on Tuesday,
30:58
Speaker 1: Well this may have been on next week or whatever.
31:02
Speaker 1: In fact, I love it when reporters come out and say, hey,
31:05
Speaker 1: this may happen next week, this guy may be out
31:08
Speaker 1: or whatever, because you're saying you don't know. What does
31:10
Speaker 1: that to do. It tells me to go find out
31:12
Speaker 1: if they're definitely gonna play or not, or if that
31:15
Speaker 1: coach is gonna get fired, or if that meeting is
31:18
Speaker 1: gonna happen, whatever it is. So no one's gonna remember
31:21
Speaker 1: that last week that you said something may happen. They
31:24
Speaker 1: will remember if you're the one that reported and said
31:26
Speaker 1: it did happen based on whatever the information is. I
31:30
Speaker 1: right now, obviously we are recording this podcast on a zoom.
31:35
Speaker 1: I am staring at Brett mc murphy, I'm staring at
31:38
Speaker 1: Simon Hunter, and I swear to god, I am seeing
31:41
Speaker 1: the future of sports media literally this very second. This
31:46
Speaker 1: is the confluence of all the forces coming together at
31:50
Speaker 1: one time. It's starting here right now this week with
31:56
Speaker 1: this podcast. Welcome to it. This is the beginning of
32:01
Speaker 1: the next phase. Chad, one of my five guys, just
32:05
Speaker 1: texted me the world's gonna end in two hours. Sorry
32:07
Speaker 1: about it. This will be lived. We gotta go, we
32:10
Speaker 1: gotta go. It was a good run, all right. I
32:13
Speaker 1: do have I do have a bone to pick with
32:14
Speaker 1: you right now because you're predicting in the College Football
32:17
Speaker 1: Playoff national Championship. I do. We want to go through
32:19
Speaker 1: some of these things. Ohio State in Alabama, those are
32:22
Speaker 1: it's a terrible projection. Tell me why you're thinking that,
32:24
Speaker 1: because I think it's probably gonna be Georgia and Oklahoma. Okay,
32:28
Speaker 1: So this is what I'm basing it on. Is I
32:31
Speaker 1: believe Alabama. I know all the losses they've had. I
32:35
Speaker 1: understand that it happens every year. I'm not gonna bet
32:38
Speaker 1: against Nick Saban. Yeah. Bill O'Brien's a new offensive coordinator.
32:42
Speaker 1: Bryce Shawn's a new quarterback. I've seen this movie before.
32:47
Speaker 1: Until somebody beats Alabama, I'm keeping them up there. Too
32:50
Speaker 1: many times. I've tried to have been cute. I want
32:52
Speaker 1: to be I want to be the guy that picks
32:54
Speaker 1: against Alabama. I beg on my face, I'm sticking with Alabama.
32:58
Speaker 1: I look at Ohio State eight. I think they will
33:01
Speaker 1: are the I think they're the cream of the crop
33:04
Speaker 1: in the Big ten. I think with that early nonconference
33:08
Speaker 1: game against Oregon. I think that gives them additional strength
33:12
Speaker 1: of schedule. And I my other two semifinal teams actually
33:17
Speaker 1: are Georgia and Oklahoma, so I think Oklahoma will run
33:20
Speaker 1: the table. In the Big Twelve, I think Georgia upsets Clemson. Uh,
33:25
Speaker 1: you don't even Simon, you don't even need the three
33:27
Speaker 1: take the money line. I like Georgia over Clemson, and
33:30
Speaker 1: then I think Georgia takes care of business, but then
33:33
Speaker 1: they lose in the SEC title game. I think a
33:36
Speaker 1: twelve and one Georgia gets into the National title game
33:40
Speaker 1: because Clemson losing that first game, they don't have a
33:42
Speaker 1: strength of schedule to get back into the top four.
33:45
Speaker 1: In the Pact twelve, I think is probably maybe the
33:48
Speaker 1: overall the strongest top to bottom conference. The problem is
33:51
Speaker 1: they don't have an elite squad. They're gonna beat each
33:54
Speaker 1: other up. So of Georgia, Alabama, Oklahoma, and Ohio State,
33:59
Speaker 1: I think Alabama and Ohio State. Look, you know, I
34:03
Speaker 1: hate it, the same teams, but until somebody can beat him,
34:05
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna I'm not gonna go a different way.
34:11
Speaker 1: You don't even have Clemson playing in a New Year's
34:15
Speaker 1: Day Ball, Yes, I did. That's a they're they're not
34:19
Speaker 1: in the Peach Bowl. It's the it's the Chick fil
34:24
Speaker 1: A Peak Bowl on Decem right, that's the that's one
34:28
Speaker 1: of the New Year's six. It's they moved the dates
34:31
Speaker 1: around for those other non semifinal games. That's like the
34:35
Speaker 1: A p M game. Then, Uh, I don't have that
34:40
Speaker 1: in front of me, but yeah, I'm sure it is.
34:43
Speaker 1: But it's basically this year, the Cotton Bowl and the
34:47
Speaker 1: Orange Bowl have the semifinal games. Okay, the Rose Bowl
34:51
Speaker 1: and the Sugar Bowl get their conference tie ends with
34:55
Speaker 1: the Big Ten, Pack twelve, Big twelve, and SEC. Those
34:59
Speaker 1: games have to be played on January one, Rose Bowl
35:03
Speaker 1: and Sugar Bowl even though they're not the semis. So
35:06
Speaker 1: that that means they move the Peach and the Fiesta
35:10
Speaker 1: off of the first, and they moved the semifinals off
35:13
Speaker 1: off of the first. Do you have? I do have
35:17
Speaker 1: Clemson in the Peach Bowl against Oregon, who I think
35:21
Speaker 1: we'll win the Pac twelve. Yeah, it's interesting that you
35:24
Speaker 1: say the Pack twelve is the strongest top to bottom
35:27
Speaker 1: because every year that's the conference that feels like it's
35:31
Speaker 1: going to fade. They I mean, look, there's again, it's
35:37
Speaker 1: the preseason top twenty. Take it with a grain of salt.
35:39
Speaker 1: They've got five teams in the top and I think
35:42
Speaker 1: they're all deserving, and I think all five of them
35:45
Speaker 1: can win the conference. That's the good news. The bad
35:48
Speaker 1: news is um depth of your conference does not earn
35:52
Speaker 1: you a bid to the College Football Playoff. So you know,
35:56
Speaker 1: the SEC I think has has war five in the
36:00
Speaker 1: top five. But how many teams realistically can win the
36:04
Speaker 1: SEC this year? Probably to maybe two and a half
36:08
Speaker 1: for three. How many teams can win the Big ten?
36:11
Speaker 1: Maybe Ohio State and maybe somebody else who gets hot.
36:15
Speaker 1: Who can win the Big twelve? Maybe Oklahoma obviously, maybe
36:19
Speaker 1: Iowa State. So that's the big difference with the Pack twelve.
36:23
Speaker 1: And that's been their problem is that they are they
36:26
Speaker 1: are so those, so good and so solid, but they're
36:30
Speaker 1: gonna beat each other up. They're gonna end up with
36:33
Speaker 1: two or three losses, and you cannot get in the
36:35
Speaker 1: playoff that way. And look, I look back at the
36:38
Speaker 1: past seven years of the college football playoffs. There was
36:41
Speaker 1: one year if we would had a twelve team playoff,
36:43
Speaker 1: the SEC would have only got one team in a
36:47
Speaker 1: twelve team playoff. It just happened to be Alabama who
36:50
Speaker 1: won the national title that year. So nobody remembers the
36:54
Speaker 1: SEC only had one team in the final Top twelve.
36:57
Speaker 1: They remember the SEC won the national title that year,
37:00
Speaker 1: and so that's what everyone judges the PAC twelve on unfairly,
37:04
Speaker 1: I think is they haven't been to the playoff. They
37:06
Speaker 1: haven't won a playoff. Man, these guys suck when actually,
37:10
Speaker 1: if you had a challenge between the conferences and went
37:13
Speaker 1: with theird top against the other and ranked him and
37:16
Speaker 1: went down, I think the PAC twelve would hold their
37:18
Speaker 1: own with with any conference in the country. And now
37:23
Speaker 1: a word from our friends at fan Dowel. One of
37:26
Speaker 1: the things I love about betting on football is that
37:28
Speaker 1: I'm always finding new player or game props that I like.
37:32
Speaker 1: And that's what's cool about FanDuel Sports Book is I
37:35
Speaker 1: can combine these props with other bets from the same
37:39
Speaker 1: game to score an even bigger path. Right now in FanDuel,
37:43
Speaker 1: I'm getting in my final NFL and college football futures,
37:46
Speaker 1: I'll definitely start combining my straight bets with NFL player props.
37:50
Speaker 1: Now that our player projection kingpins Shawn Corner and Chris
37:54
Speaker 1: Raybon are in full swing, and after talking with Brett,
37:57
Speaker 1: I'm betting Nebraska under six way and at even money
38:01
Speaker 1: at Vanduel. I like how easy it is to deposit
38:04
Speaker 1: and find my bets, and I love how easy their
38:07
Speaker 1: live betting markets are. And there's no feeling like nailing
38:11
Speaker 1: a same game parlay bet. So lock in your bet
38:15
Speaker 1: today on fan Duel sports Book. Just download the FanDuel
38:19
Speaker 1: sports Book app today to create a same game parlay
38:22
Speaker 1: and use promo code favorites. At sign up, new users
38:26
Speaker 1: get their first bet risk free up to one thousand dollars.
38:30
Speaker 1: Vanduel will refund you up to a thousand dollars back
38:33
Speaker 1: in psyite credit if you don't win. That is promo
38:36
Speaker 1: code favorites so they know I sent you. You must
38:39
Speaker 1: be twenty one over in present in Colorado, Indiana, New Jersey, Virginia,
38:43
Speaker 1: or West Virginia. First online real money wager only site
38:46
Speaker 1: credit is non withdrawbo and expires in fourteen days. Restrictions apply.
38:51
Speaker 1: See sports book dot Vanduel dot com for details. Gambling
38:54
Speaker 1: problem called one eight hundred nine with it in Indiana
38:57
Speaker 1: one eight hundred gambler in New Jersey of Virginia, Colorado,
39:00
Speaker 1: or visit www Dot one eight zero zero gambler dot
39:03
Speaker 1: net in West Virginia. Now let's get back to the show.
39:07
Speaker 1: This is a little out there question, but I just
39:09
Speaker 1: think it's so interested in football where we see dinces
39:12
Speaker 1: eventually fall apart and turn into nothing. So we saw
39:14
Speaker 1: Miami have that great run, they fall back to nothing.
39:17
Speaker 1: We saw happen with Florida State. I mean even Bama
39:19
Speaker 1: before Nick Saban, they were kind of a nothing organization.
39:22
Speaker 1: It feels like we've had a run here where it's
39:24
Speaker 1: just Oklahoma, Ohio State, Alabama, Clemson, It's Clemson that team.
39:29
Speaker 1: It's Clemson about to fall off because if it reached
39:32
Speaker 1: many things with this power alignment, all these teams shifting
39:35
Speaker 1: all these different groups, and Clemson, you know, they're the
39:38
Speaker 1: big dogs in a CECYC. So I get why they're
39:39
Speaker 1: staying there. But is that the next team that's going
39:42
Speaker 1: to fall off like the Miami did in Florida State?
39:44
Speaker 1: Did you know? I don't think, Simon, I don't think
39:47
Speaker 1: they're gonna fall off to the extreme that the Miami
39:50
Speaker 1: and Florida State did. I still think they're they're the
39:53
Speaker 1: class of the A C C. But but you wonder,
39:57
Speaker 1: you know, look, dab but Swiney's done an incre doable
40:00
Speaker 1: job there. I mean, it's it's gotten to the point
40:02
Speaker 1: where three or four years ago everybody said he would
40:05
Speaker 1: be the successor to Nick Saban Dabo would go back
40:08
Speaker 1: to Alabama. To now the the nobody thinks that. They're like,
40:14
Speaker 1: why does he got to go to Alabama? He can
40:16
Speaker 1: do what he needs to do at Clemson. UM, but
40:18
Speaker 1: you wonder how long he can keep that keep that going.
40:21
Speaker 1: I believe last year was the first year. It ended
40:25
Speaker 1: the streak of seven consecutive years where Clemston had finished
40:30
Speaker 1: the season ranked higher than they were in the preseason
40:35
Speaker 1: a people and that included one year where they started
40:37
Speaker 1: out at number two. So it's been remarkable what Clemson
40:41
Speaker 1: has done there. You wander with conference realignment, with the
40:45
Speaker 1: SEC getting stronger, Obviously there's a larger degree of difficulty
40:50
Speaker 1: with Oklahoma moving to the SEC. UM I don't think
40:54
Speaker 1: you're gonna see them as dominant as they've been, as
40:57
Speaker 1: they were in the Big twelve. So but I don't
40:59
Speaker 1: necessarily think they're gonna fall off a cliff. Look, Alabama's
41:03
Speaker 1: until Nick Saban retires, and even then that will be
41:07
Speaker 1: twenty years from now. Even when they do, I'm sure
41:10
Speaker 1: they'll have a computer program developed by then that will
41:13
Speaker 1: just mimic Saban until the end of time and Alabama
41:17
Speaker 1: win the next fifty national titles. I don't think they're
41:21
Speaker 1: going anywhere. Ohio State with Ryan Day great young coach,
41:25
Speaker 1: unless he moves to the NFL. UM I don't see
41:29
Speaker 1: them going anywhere. So of those four, Simon, I would
41:32
Speaker 1: agree that probably Clempson's the one. But again, look, everyone
41:36
Speaker 1: complains about this. I don't like that we have the
41:38
Speaker 1: same matchups. Chad just did my Bolt projections. It's the
41:41
Speaker 1: same four teams. But look, there's one way to change that,
41:45
Speaker 1: and that's to beat those teams. Nobody's figured out how
41:48
Speaker 1: to beat him yet. S I mean, I feel like
41:50
Speaker 1: you're asking better questions on this podcast than I am.
41:54
Speaker 1: I'm just more interested in what Brett does. I like,
41:58
Speaker 1: not that I want that job, because I can't imagine
42:00
Speaker 1: the stress. Like I'm a nobody, So for me to
42:02
Speaker 1: break news like you said, it's nothing to me, but
42:05
Speaker 1: for you, I couldn't imagine it. So that's what I'm
42:07
Speaker 1: just so intrigued because like your first story. I read
42:09
Speaker 1: that and I was like, holy shit, man, this is
42:12
Speaker 1: like real, real stories being broken here. So it's just
42:15
Speaker 1: so cool to be able to talk you and ask
42:16
Speaker 1: you these kind of questions. All right, let me ask
42:18
Speaker 1: you one last question. Let me ask you one last question. Uh.
42:21
Speaker 1: In the Bowl projections, which one was the hardest projection
42:26
Speaker 1: to make? And why? It's actually the who's going to
42:31
Speaker 1: the semifinal? Chad because who you put put in the
42:34
Speaker 1: semifinal impacts everything below it. So when I don't have
42:38
Speaker 1: Clemson in the semifinal, then it impacts you know, where
42:42
Speaker 1: they go. Five Clemson in the semifinal, that totally changes
42:46
Speaker 1: that the other New Year's six games, and so it
42:48
Speaker 1: starts at the top. There's really not one that's harder
42:52
Speaker 1: than the other. What makes it very difficult. And I
42:54
Speaker 1: actually actually looked this up the non including last year,
42:59
Speaker 1: which was COVID. The bowl system was screwed up the
43:02
Speaker 1: previous three years. I actually kept practice for some stick reason.
43:06
Speaker 1: My final Bowl projections, which will run Sunday morning before
43:10
Speaker 1: they're announced Sunday afternoon, I've hit seventy five of the
43:16
Speaker 1: teams in the bowl, exact bowl that they got a
43:20
Speaker 1: bid to believe me, Week one out of the gate
43:22
Speaker 1: is not. But when we get to the end, I
43:25
Speaker 1: have a better idea. What's gonna make it difficult, which
43:28
Speaker 1: I talked about a little earlier, is these twelve Bowl
43:30
Speaker 1: games where I can't say, oh, I know a team
43:34
Speaker 1: from the American is going in that game and they're
43:37
Speaker 1: gonna play Conference USA. I no longer know that. All
43:40
Speaker 1: I know is it's gonna be one of five conferences,
43:42
Speaker 1: so that that will be literally impossible to peg because
43:46
Speaker 1: once you missed, you know, unlike a test, once you
43:49
Speaker 1: miss one, it impacts the rest of your picks because
43:53
Speaker 1: then it's a domino effect. If if the one app
43:55
Speaker 1: tops wrong, then a lot of them down below were wrong. Well, listen,
43:59
Speaker 1: everybody can and keep track of this every single week
44:03
Speaker 1: on Action network dot com, in the Action Network app,
44:07
Speaker 1: follow Brett on Twitter. We will all be sharing it.
44:10
Speaker 1: We will be updating along with a bevy of other
44:13
Speaker 1: stories related to UH the a P top Action Network
44:18
Speaker 1: Power ratings. You will be able to listen to Brett
44:21
Speaker 1: on the Big Bets on Campus podcast. He'll be doing
44:24
Speaker 1: a podcast specifically with Colin Wilson every single week. UH.
44:28
Speaker 1: He'll be on our Big Bats on Campus live pregame
44:33
Speaker 1: show on Saturday mornings that will start a week from Saturday. Uh.
44:37
Speaker 1: We have a whole host of content around college football.
44:41
Speaker 1: Bret McMurphy, Stucky, Colin Wilson probably couldn't be happier there here.
44:46
Speaker 1: I think I think Simon expressed it better than anybody.
44:49
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Action Network. Thanks, I really appreciate it.
44:52
Speaker 1: And for those folks that don't like my Bolt projections,
44:56
Speaker 1: I have good news. They'll be different next week. Check
44:58
Speaker 1: them out then on percent All right for Bret McMurphy. First,
45:02
Speaker 1: Simon hunts there. I am Chad Molman. This has been
45:04
Speaker 1: the favorite from the Volume podcast Network. We will be
45:08
Speaker 1: back on Thursday. Oh, big show on Thursday. Right, we're
45:11
Speaker 1: finally doing the AC South preview. We got Darius Butler
45:14
Speaker 1: form the NFL Player coming on. Uh. We'll talk to
45:18
Speaker 1: you then download the podcast from Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever
45:22
Speaker 1: you can get your podcasts. Until then, I love you