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Man, we got off of a week of crazy college football once
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again, because once again we have upsets running amok
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absolutely everywhere. And as somebody who I do weekly
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picks and if you ever want to catch those and if you like what
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you hear, if you don't like what you hear, definitely check me
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out on all of my social media, inside the Hoosier Mind,
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wherever you get your podcasts at.
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Anything like that, good, bad, indifferent, you know, I will
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take any and all of it. And what really sucks about it
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is when I do these picks, I get super excited and I know I'm
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probably never going to go perfect, but I still kind of
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hope that I do. And that unfortunately has not
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happened yet. I've come really close and I've
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done really well with, you know, some of the overall records and
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picks and whatnot. I haven't done it for week 5.
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I think my best technically is week one out of the Power 4
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versus Power 4 matchups. I went eight and one.
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That's probably as good as I'm going to get.
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I can maybe hope for for better, but as it stands right now,
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probably not going to be the case.
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But man, what a crazy week. And what's kind of cool and bad
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both about this is that we're learning so much more about each
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team as the season goes on. And it's still one of those.
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Now we're moving out of the there's still time, you know,
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we're now we're starting to get the identity of some of these
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teams and we've already started to see some start to separate
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themselves out. Now the other bad part though,
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is there's still some bias and there's still some kind of over
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hype for some of the teams and even 1 conference in particular
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that I'll talk to that I'll talk a little bit about throughout
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the show. And that is the SEC.
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And that's how kind of crazy some of the AP voters even go
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through. And one of them was, you know,
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Florida upset Ole Miss. So they, you know, skyrocketed
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Florida from 21 all the way up to 8.
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And then Florida has since come back down to earth a little bit
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as a result of that. And we'll look at their rankings
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real quick because I just don't have enough that pulled up in
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front of me. But I believe they're like
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they're in the teens again. I think they might be 15 if I
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remember correctly. And of course, I say that and
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watch them be on buy right now. Well, I'll do it this way then.
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Nonetheless, though, I mean, they're 16 now.
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So they went from 8 back down to 16, which I feel like you
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probably could have put them there even after the Ole Miss
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loss. But this is where like the AP
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poll gets weird because they don't want to drop Ole Miss that
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far because they still consider Ole Miss respectable.
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But then it just causes a whole caveat of chaos as far as Oh
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well then LS us, you know, loss to them doesn't look as good.
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And LSU has some quality wins against like Texas A&M and
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whatnot. So the the whole entire thing is
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weird. There was even 1 AP poll voter
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that even though our first topic that we were going to talk about
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Alabama versus Mississippi State, he actually wanted to
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vault Mississippi State up into the top 10 for what ended up
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being an absolute beat down from Alabama.
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And, and I just, I've never understood why.
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And I again, even being a fan of an SEC team, even having a
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little bit of a bias towards the SEC, I've never understood this
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whole notion and narrative of it's better to get your butt
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kicked basically in the SEC because that's a good loss.
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And, and this is where I've for majority of my time ever doing
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any type of podcasting or just talking sports in general.
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I've just, I've never understood this whole idea of like, oh,
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well, it's a good loss. Like you got your butt kicked by
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the best. Nobody ever wants that.
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But I mean, if you want to really search for the positives
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and things, yeah, you can absolutely do that.
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I don't personally see where the good is in getting your butt
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kicked. And whoa, we got our butts
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kicked by the best. That's just a weird bragging
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thing. But but nonetheless, the actual
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game itself was very surprising. And it was one that I was a
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little upset because I had actually picked Mississippi
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State for the upset. The spread was Alabama was
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favored by 5 1/2. They ended up meeting that
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extremely well. Part of the other issue is it
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just seemed like Mississippi State couldn't get going.
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There is the turnover on the 1st Dr. Alabama ends up turning it
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into points. They turn around Camaro Taylor
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immediately throws an interception.
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Then it goes all the way back for a pick six.
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And before you know it, they're down 14, nothing.
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And then they're having to try to, you know, claw their way out
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of a hole. And I mean, at least at the end
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of the first quarter, it's like, OK, it might be a little bit
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competitive. It's 14 to 7.
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They're only down a score. But then by halftime, it's 28 to
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17. And that's it.
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It's not an insurmountable lead to have to try to claw back
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from. But it just seemed like
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Mississippi State's defense just wasn't there.
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Camario Taylor, he definitely had a struggle type of day.
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I know it's only his sophomore season, his second full season
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of starting 19 at 34258, three touchdowns and two picks.
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One of the graphics I wanted to show on this, actually, he, I
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mean, he, he is solid. Like I, I can't, I can't deny
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that. And it's funny, even a couple of
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the Alabama fans that I know and I'm friends with, they, they
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were kind of giving him crap because he lost to Alabama and
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they're like, oh, he doesn't deserve to be in the same, you
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know, same conversation as Kelon Russell.
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I, I will say this, his it, it says a lot when your former
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coach and Nick Saban said that if he was in the portal right
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now, he would be going to get Kamario Taylor.
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Whatever he would have to offer, he would be going to get him.
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That says a lot about how good of an athlete Kamario Taylor is.
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So what does this really mean for both teams as we move
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forward? This is one that I, I gave
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Alabama other. I consider this Alabama's first
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true test. And that's no knock against
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Kentucky, But I mean, they Kentucky had them dead to rights
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in the first half. Now, obviously Alabama made the
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necessary adjustments they needed to do in the second-half
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to ultimately blow them out 45 to 17.
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But I I mean, they had them dead to rights.
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The the other team was Florida State.
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I mean, prior to that weird weather time out or they had
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this, you know, just, I think it was like a 2 hour delay or
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something like that. And they ended up coming back
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and beating Florida State 50 to 36.
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But it was not like that initially.
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It was like 21 to 6 Florida State and then the Tide search
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back. So this to me was really their
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first true test. Now it was on the road, it was
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in Starkville. It's against a very young
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Mississippi State team that is that is honestly and truthfully
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I, I think is kind of overachieving and which is great
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for them, it's great for the sport, but then it's kind of
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hard to almost evaluate what they look like from that point.
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Now, Alabama's tests continues to get even harder.
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But this is also where we'll see what does, what does Kaylin
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Deborne look like? What does this Crimson Tide team
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look like as we move on deeper into the season, as we and as
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SEC play continues to to move forward With that, they host
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Georgia this coming weekend. Georgia's number 2.
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I don't know what the line is off the top of my head.
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But then they also, they travel on the road to Tennessee.
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Who's ranked #15 at the current moment, they host Texas A&M now
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at the beginning of the year, this was actually a really big,
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really big match up prior to Texas A&M kind of falling off.
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And I, I don't expect it to end up being a pretty game
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nonetheless, especially for Texas A&M side because I, I
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completely see Alabama taking advantage of Marcel Reed having
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a lot of struggles. Texas A&M's wide receiver core
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is hurt. Now who knows this, this game
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isn't until the 24th of this month of October.
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So they could get healthy. They could maybe get some guys
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back and maybe find a rhythm once again.
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They did get the big win against Arkansas, maybe kind of helps
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right the ship a little bit. But I, I don't expect them to do
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anything extremely crazy. But as far as the match up
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against Georgia, ESP NS matchup predictor has Alabama about a
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53% favorite right now over the Bulldogs.
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The spread itself, according to DraftKings only has Alabama by a
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point and a half favorite. And I, I think a large part of
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that is just due to Georgia really hasn't faced anybody.
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I mean, they, they beat up on nothing but cupcakes to start
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the season. They beat up Tennessee State,
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Western Kentucky to for their first two starts.
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Then they beat up an Arkansas team that is still struggling.
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They beat up an Oklahoma team that has more or less beat
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themselves. And then a Vanderbilt team that
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again is post Diego Pavia kind of trying to figure out their
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identity, figure out how they're going to move forward post him
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being gone. So this is one that I'm like, I
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I feel this could go really either way.
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I do see why they're doing the point and a half favorite just
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because of who Alabama has faced up into this point.
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They have faced more power for competition now, albeit not the
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greatest power for competition, but they have faced it in South
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Carolina and then of course in Mississippi State.
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And that's, you know, all the respect to Mississippi State and
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Kamara Taylor. But yeah, this this will be one
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that I'm, I'm, I'm looking forward to seeing.
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I don't know how it's going to end up.
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It's one of those, you know, the last time we saw this in the
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regular season, Alabama bears, Georgia.
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But then they turn around and they, you know, Georgia
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absolutely, you know, literally and figuratively dog walks them
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in the SEC championship. So this this will be an
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interesting one to see as as the as we move into next weekend.
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One of the other games that was actually a really big surprise.
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Florida going to Mizzou and getting absolutely destroyed by
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Mizzou. This was probably one of the the
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biggest shockers of the entire weekend.
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Like I didn't know what to expect from this.
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This was one I maybe expected the Gators to kind of have one
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of those trap games like, oh, we got the big win against Ole
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Miss. Like we're rolling.
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Nobody's going to stop us. And this is a Mizzou team.
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Like, you know, they're kind of sitting here.
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No, we we need to get a quality win.
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Like we need to come out of the gate swinging.
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They did have a heartbreaking loss to Mississippi State, which
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dropped them down to 25 S, just enough to stay in the ranks.
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And then Florida comes into town on the road, and they absolutely
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took off running and they did not stop.
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And that is both literally and figuratively.
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If you if you look at the stats here, if you're able to see it
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on the graphic, Mizzou rushed for 220 yards as to compared to
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Florida's only 242. Like, yeah.
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And this is with a guy you know, in Jordan Ball that is supposed
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to be a Heisman contender. And Mizzou's defense absolutely
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shut him down with no problem. And this is what they're
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technically backup running back in Jamal Roberts since Ahmad
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Hardy is unfortunately still out due to an off the field injury
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of a gunshot wound. So I mean, this was this was
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just crazy. It was like something I hadn't
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seen. I mean, Austin Simmons, it was
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crazy too. When I watched Austin Simmons
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last year for old miss. You can just kind of see that
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something just wasn't clicking. And I don't really know what it
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was, but it seems like now that he's coming to zoo, he he's a
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completely different player. And in this game, he went 23 to
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33140 yards and two touchdowns. And that's insane.
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And the fact this game didn't have any turnovers either is
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also kind of crazy when you really sit here and look at it.
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So this was one that I was I was baffled to see how how badly
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Florida kind of stumbled against this.
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But then this also does end up, you know, bringing up the
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narrative that Brady Quinn brought up two pros in a cup of
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Joe, I believe yesterday morning.
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He said, I really don't understand this whole idea of
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when when you talk about the SEC and you talk about the SEC teams
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and he's like, oh, their their schedules are just gauntlets.
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Like, they have all these hard teams to face.
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And that is true. But you could equally say the
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same thing for the Big 10, especially with all the teams
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that are in the Big 10 that are, you know, that are playing well
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right now, that are playing pretty good football.
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And although Michigan isn't necessarily playing good
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football at the moment, you know, Michigan is one of those
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tough teams on the road. Yes, Ohio State lost to Texas,
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but they kind of lost, you know, due to their own their own
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negligence more than anything. But I mean, they took Texas down
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to the absolute wire and they're considered one of the best teams
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in the country. You know, Oregon obviously had
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the trip up against Oklahoma State, but then turned around
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and beat USC in their in their own stadium.
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So I mean, they're there, there are tough matchups.
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And and this is what I think is funny too, is that they always
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try to make this like, oh man, it's such a gauntlet.
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Like, no, you still have your quote UN quote cupcake teams in
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the SEC. Like when you really sit down
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and you really look at it, it's like, no, you, you can't sit
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here and tell me that although the SEC is a gauntlet, when you
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you still have pretty, pretty easy teams to face.
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Like if you look at the SEC standings right now, right, like
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out of all 16 teams that are in the SEC, if you look at the
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bottom part of the conference as far as you know the the records
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and even the records in SEC play as it stands right now, Auburn,
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Texas A&M, Oklahoma, Vandy, Arkansas, South Carolina, those
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are your quote UN quote bottom feeders of the SEC as it stands
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right now. And here's the crazy part, all
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the teams listed above them, Alabama, Georgia, Texas,
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Florida, Kentucky, the only one that Kentucky is the only team
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not ranked right now on the upper part of this SEC rankings,
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Mississippi State, Ole Miss, LSU, Mizzou, Tennessee.
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Now part of that a lot of them are ranked because they
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basically beat up on each other or they quote UN quote have
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quality losses. But even looking at the Big 10,
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like the Big 10 is not that far off.
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Like you have Indiana, Nebraska's undefeated both in
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the Big 10 and overall. UCLA is number 21 country right
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now. They got ranked, you know,
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they're four and O2 and O in the Big 10.
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Miss Minnesota. Now, they did lose to
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Mississippi State, but that was also a close game.
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They're four and one, two and O. The Big 10, Ohio State, 2 and O,
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They're four and one. Wisconsin is 2 and O, they're
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four and one. Oregon, USC, Iowa, Northwestern
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is good. Like they took Indiana down to
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the absolute wire and they laid a thumping on Penn State.
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And then after that, OK, you've got Purdue.
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Not really worried about Purdue, Michigan, but they play tough at
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home. Penn State little bit of a
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lackluster start. Not super surprised.
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One of the quotes that was brought up about Penn State and
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Michigan, both because they have two former Big 12 coaches, is
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the fact that, you know, they play like Big 12 coaches in the
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Big 10, like defence is not a big priority.
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They try to be a lot more of an offensive fighting team.
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Michigan, there's a quarter at controversy slash conundrum.
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So who knows what that is ultimately going to end up
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looking like in Washington. They play tough against USC now.
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Illinois has fallen off a little bit.
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Maryland definitely down to the dumps.
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Michigan State started off really hot.
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They've since kind of cooled off and fallen between, you know,
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having to, you know, deal with Notre Dame, having to deal with
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Wisconsin. I believe they also faced
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Nebraska and lost and records just sitting there at the
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bottom. So I mean, I mean, yes, you can
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you can argue that the the big 10 is a quote UN quote as deep
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as the SEC, but the the quality is still there.
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And I think people also need to realize there are still cupcake
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teams in both conferences, Like, and it doesn't mean your
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schedule still doesn't have to be a gauntlet.
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But you know, don't try to sit here and sell me on something
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that's just it's not true kind of thing, you know what I mean?
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But none the less to get off that soapbox, get off that soap
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opera box. Let's move on to the other big
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matchup as far as the ACC goes, kind of the kind of the
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conference, the we get kind of forgotten about.
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Because you know, for me and I think a lot of other people,
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when we look at aside from the power to and the SEC, the Big
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10, it's kind of up to the ACC, the Big 12 as far as who was
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left over as far as the momentum, as far as getting a
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lot of teams wanting to join and getting all of those former PAC
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12 teams in. That I think helped boosted the
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brand as well. The Big 12 is kind of like the
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the the third, third man out and then the AC CS just kind of
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sitting there hoping that they can survive and that the Big 10
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or SEC doesn't try to poach some of their teams.
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But I will say for one of the big brands that wants to leave,
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this game was not a good look for them and that's Clemson.
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This was really Miami's first Test of the entire season.
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When you looked at all the teams at Miami play, they pronounce
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the fact that there was more touchdown passes and there were
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incompletions for Dairy and Mensa, which it is still
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considerably remarkable in the fact that you had more
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touchdowns and incompletions, whether it's against cupcake
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teams or you know, non power fourteens or not like that.
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That is still impressive. But, and this is still kind of
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giving respect to Dabo Sweeney, to Clemson, kind of who they
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were in the past. This is not the same team that
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it used to be. It's not kind of the fearful,
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fearful juggernaut that they used to be back in the day.
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And they I still feel that when you look at the statistics, I'll
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be at the score doesn't say so. Clemson actually did really well
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against this Miami team, both offensively and defensively.
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And what I mean by that is I'm going to show the show the
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graphic here, you know, 350 total yards for Clemson.
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They rushed for 55. They almost threw for 303rd
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down. They're a little under 50%, but
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the biggest thing they heard was penalties.
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I mean, they had 10 penalties for 91 yards, but they also did
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a really good job as far as containing Malachi Tony.
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And I mean, he's one that has been widely considered as a as a
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Heisman favorite a good majority of the season between him.
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Jeremiah Smith, I think Trinidad Chambles was obviously in that
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conversation there for a minute. Derry Minson might even be in
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that conversation. There's a multitude of people
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and it's always going to be rotating out as the season kind
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of continues on. But I mean, you can't you can't
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ask for much more. Now, Miami did kind of have a
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benefit of, you know, they had a multitude of people running the
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ball between Mark Fletcher, between JB and Mallory, between
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dairy and mints. And even Malik, I tell he got a
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rush in there of almost 20 yards and three touchdowns as a result
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from all of them, you know, rushing for 192 lost myself
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there. That's an impressive feat.
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I mean, I don't care who you are, you know, what type of
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players you have, who you're facing, to be able to rush for
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almost 200 yards between, you know, five players is
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impressive. Even against a Clemson team,
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while yes, they are, you know, kind of in the dumps, it's still
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impressive. And here's the other unfortunate
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part, when you when you look at the stats and I don't have a
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completely up and in depth, Clemson actually did better than
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55 yards rushing. Unfortunately for Tate Reynolds,
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when it comes to sacks it it counts against their rushing.
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So he had 14 carries for -22 yards because otherwise Chris
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Johnson, junior had five carries for 32 yards.
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Gideon Davidson 7 for 25, Jarvis Green 3 for 14.
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So I mean nothing, nothing really wowing or crazy, but
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still better than what the what the statistics show.
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And I mean, they, they had, you know, 2 receivers really go off
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on this game too. I mean, Bryant Westco, he had 9
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receptions for 152 yards, no touchdowns, unfortunately.
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And then Tyler Brown, 10 receptions for 76 yards and no
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touchdowns. So I mean, they still did fairly
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well. Now, again, they didn't
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capitalize when it comes to putting points up and in the end
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zone. But I mean, overall, this was
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still a very this is still a good Clemson team.
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Now, I'm not going to sit here and say that they're that
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they're going to be the favourites to go in anything.
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Honestly, compared to Alvarez, the ACC is done this year.
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I, I don't know who is more than likely going to face Miami for
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the, for the ACC Championship 'cause it, I, I feel like
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truthfully, it's just wide open as it stands right now.
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I believe if the season ended today, you have Miami would be
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you. You would have Miami in the
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championship game for the ACC. And then Pitt is actually right
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behind them with the two and O record in the ACC 5 and O record
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overall income as as a whole. Duke is right behind them, but
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they've only played one ACC opponent.
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SMU is 2 and one. Wake Forest is 2 and one
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Louisville. Louisville and SMU both are kind
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of disappointing because I felt like Louisville, if they could
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stay healthy, Barry, anything crazy, they would be able to
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especially post the the Ole Miss game.
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And I think Louisville just kind of got a little bit a little bit
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too far ahead of themselves. Now they're sitting here at 2:00
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and 3:00 one and two in the conference.
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Virginia Tech even had a big slip up.
24:48
I mean, they lost two pit just recently, but but kind of the
24:52
same thing. They're one of those I think
24:54
they are overachieving past where a lot of people probably
24:59
figure they would be or should be.
25:02
Virginia got absolutely housed by Florida State, which is
25:05
another big surprise. And it's funny because looking
25:09
at their record right now, if, if you would have told me two
25:11
weeks ago, Florida State's going to be 3 and 1, I would be
25:15
flabbergasted. Like was not expecting that.
25:20
Yeah, it is great. Oh, they're three and two.
25:23
Sorry. I'm looking at their homework.
25:24
And I'm like, what? It's like they lose to Alabama.
25:28
And as I mean, like, how did they, how did they lose loss?
25:33
So I mean, I feel like that it really is up for grabs for
25:36
whoever wants to face Miami, But but I, I don't think that
25:41
overall kind of how this conference is done so far is a
25:45
good look for it moving forward. Like I said, when it comes to,
25:51
you know, teams now kind of scrambling to get the Big 10,
25:53
get the SEC and you've got the the four big powerhouses of the
25:58
ACC in Miami, Clemson, Florida State, North Carolina, all
26:01
wanting to leave. It's it's not a not a good look
26:08
to start with as a whole for your conference and for your
26:10
program, especially for, you know, two programs like Clemson
26:13
and Florida State, who, you know, prior to the last, you
26:17
know, three years, they were heavy continued, you know,
26:20
heavyweight contenders like they were, they were spending just as
26:24
much money putting just as much stuff out there trying to make
26:27
it happen. And they just, they just
26:28
weren't. And so it's a little bit of a
26:30
disappointment, but there is another game I wanted to talk
26:34
about that I don't think a lot of people would probably even
26:37
cover. And I wanted to because again,
26:43
I've I've posed the question on the show before.
26:46
And again, if if you like what you're hearing, please let me
26:48
know. If you don't, you know, you can
26:50
also let me know. You can find me anywhere on
26:52
social media, inside the Hoosier Miner, wherever you get your
26:55
podcasts and it's Texas Tech versus Colorado.
27:00
And there's a couple things that I took away from this game,
27:05
believe it or not. One I when when is it time to
27:12
get rid of Deion Sanders? Like, like truthfully and it and
27:15
it's nothing against Deion. Like I don't I don't have
27:17
anything against Dean as a person.
27:20
I've I did kind of like the swagger and kind of this
27:25
youthful injection and I guess a sense of hope that he brought
27:29
back to the University of Colorado.
27:33
But post his sons and Travis Hunter leaving Colorado has just
27:39
been a huge disappointment. Now, I mean, he has done a lot
27:44
for the program. I mean, he took over a program
27:46
that was one at 11 at one point. I mean, they were bad.
27:49
They were awful. If I remember correctly, he got
27:52
them three or four wins his first season there with Shidur,
27:57
with Travis, I think they started out three and one if I
28:00
remember right. I think they might have finished
28:02
four and eight and then the next year he goes 9:00 and 4:00.
28:06
So I mean, huge turn around now we get a lot of that.
28:09
Shidur had a big year. Travis Hunter wins the Heisman.
28:13
Shiloh has a pretty good year. So I mean, this was a rough
28:16
scene that was dangerous, but it was also one of those, this was
28:20
going to be short lived. Like all of them were coming up
28:23
to their time of hey, we got to go.
28:25
We we don't have any eligibility left.
28:28
And I feel like ever since then, last year it was like, OK, this
28:32
is kind of your first year. What do you look like post
28:34
Chidor? It was not a good year.
28:38
It's just not a good year. And then so far this year, it
28:44
hasn't been a good year either. Like this has been another
28:47
really bad year for Colorado and looking at their looking at
28:54
their sketch. So they started out two and O
28:55
they got the big win against Georgia Tech, which Georgia Tech
28:58
is definitely taking a step back.
29:01
They beat Weber State, not really surprising.
29:04
Then they lose to Northwestern badly.
29:07
They lose to Baylor. It would have ended up not being
29:10
a close, close game at all. They actually benched Julian
29:13
Lewis, their start, their starting quarterback to be in
29:15
the season and then they also get thumped by Texas Tech at
29:20
home. Now they do have a buy this
29:23
week. So they get a little bit of a
29:24
chance to maybe re evaluate some things, get some extra practice,
29:28
get some extra rest. Then they kind of go on another
29:31
tough, tough stretch. I mean, they they host Utah,
29:35
they go to Oklahoma State, they host Kansas State, go to Arizona
29:38
State, they host Houston, they go to Cincinnati and then they
29:43
finish the season hosting UCF. So I mean, this is like, you
29:49
know, truly looking at the Big 12 schedule, I don't know if
29:55
they get a conference win maybe against Cincinnati.
29:59
I mean, maybe and you can maybe even make an argument for UCF,
30:05
but that but I, I don't know much about Cincinnati and I
30:08
don't know enough about UCF to say, you know, those are
30:12
definitive. But this is just bad.
30:15
Like this is a bad Colorado team as a whole.
30:20
I mean, Isaac Wilson comes in, he throws 3 interceptions.
30:26
Now the offense, the offense was moving.
30:29
I will, I will give him that. He was making the offense move.
30:35
But and you know, 375 total yards, it was more than what
30:40
Texas Tech had. He was throwing the ball 297
30:42
yards, third down, a little bit of work in the in the turn off
30:46
versus what really hurts him the most.
30:49
But, and and this is where I would say more on the on the
30:53
other side than anything is this is Texas Tech like they're, you
31:00
know, they're ranked number 12 in the country.
31:02
And if you look at every single one of Texas Tech's wins, they
31:07
don't look like the number 12 team in the country right now.
31:10
And this is no hate to Texas Tech by any stretch of the
31:14
imagination. I didn't have a dog in the fight
31:16
when it came to the whole Vernon Soresby thing.
31:19
I did defend him a little bit. As far as I understand why they
31:23
were going out as as far out for him as they were.
31:27
But with the exception of the cupcake teams, I mean, they they
31:31
struggled against Oregon State, 35 to 24.
31:35
They struggled against Houston. It was 28 to 26.
31:38
And they basically stopped Connor Wegman from getting the
31:41
two point conversion in Houston to potentially send it in
31:44
overtime. And yeah, you get a, a 29 to
31:49
seven win over Colorado, but it's not a pretty game.
31:54
Like it wasn't a pretty game. It it, it doesn't, it doesn't
31:58
feel like Texas Tech of last year.
32:02
And I know they lost a lot of guys to the draft and they tried
32:05
to supplement through draft, through recruiting, they tried
32:08
to supplement through the transfer portal.
32:11
But I really just don't feel that anything Texas does or
32:16
Texas Tech does right now is is like spectacular.
32:21
Like I can look at some of the other teams like, you know,
32:24
Alabama, you know, they're their secondary is a little kind of
32:28
iffy, but I mean, they're they're leading the country in
32:30
interceptions right now. They are kind of an easy team to
32:33
run against, but they will also get after you.
32:37
Their offense is good as far as Keylon Russell because he is
32:40
definitely a scrambler. You can look at LSU, hell of a
32:44
defense. Now offensively, there's a
32:46
little bit of a question mark, but they will also ground and
32:48
pound, run the ball down your throat kind of mentality.
32:52
Ohio State, they're absolutely an electric offense between
32:56
Julian say and Jeremiah Smith. Like they will absolutely hang
33:00
points up on you. When I look at Texas Tech, it's
33:03
like, yeah, you're still the favorites to win the Big 12.
33:06
But I'll be honest, I if, if you win the Big 12 and you get into
33:11
the playoffs again this year, it it might be just as bad as it
33:16
was last year when Oregon shut you out on, you know, on their
33:20
way to face Indiana. Like this was not a good team.
33:25
And I, I have a ton of questions about the Red Raiders for for
33:30
this entire season. Now, their schedule isn't as bad
33:34
because they don't have to really face their their next
33:38
toughest opponent they have to face isn't until November 14th.
33:42
They have to go to Oklahoma State.
33:45
He was definitely called a little bit of fire.
33:47
And as of right now, they're ranked 18th in the country.
33:51
But they they, they're on a buy this week and then they host
33:55
Arizona State. It won't necessarily be easy.
33:58
They go to Cincinnati, they they host Arizona, they host West
34:01
Virginia, West Virginia kind of up and down.
34:04
I mean, they're, they're, they love to run the ball in West
34:07
Virginia, Oklahoma State game. Then they go on the road to
34:10
Baylor. And then they finish the season
34:12
hosting TCU just five days after having to go to Baylor.
34:16
So again, this, this is one of those teams that I'm sitting
34:21
here and I'm looking at like I'm like, yeah, you might win the
34:25
conference. And I'm, I'm going to pick you
34:27
to win the conference just because I, I don't trust BYU and
34:30
I've, I've never bought into the BYU hype to be fully transparent
34:34
with you. But I don't, I don't expect them
34:40
to go on like deep run. We'll put it that way.
34:42
If they do manage to win the conference and move forward, I
34:46
don't expect them to win. Just full transparency, ideal.
34:50
Now this game, Washington versus USC, this one, this was another
34:54
one that I left. I kind of left the same way I
34:58
did last week with the Oregon win against USC.
35:02
Like, I have a lot of questions, a lot of questions about this
35:07
USC team because I mean, this, it wasn't like they outright won
35:13
this one. I mean, it was 14 and 10 at
35:15
half. Washington was up.
35:16
USC kind of comes back a little bit.
35:19
You know, Washington scores again.
35:22
Then USC kicks the kicks, the field goal to kind of, you know,
35:25
help secure the lead and force Washington to have to be able to
35:29
score a touchdown. Washington was really, really
35:34
close on almost making that win come to fruition.
35:40
Again, to give you an idea, if you're able to see the graphic
35:44
up here, you know, Washington was equally doing just as well
35:50
on offense, both running the ball and passing the ball.
35:54
Now, third down, Washington was off.
35:58
They were 1 to 12 on 3rd down, but they were three and a four
36:03
on 4th down. Like when, when it really
36:08
mattered most, Washington kind of peeled their ears back and
36:11
said, OK, we're absolutely going to make this happen.
36:15
And I, I have to give credit to him.
36:19
You know, Damond Williams, he was, he was doing everything he
36:22
could, you know, 15 to 26198 passing yards.
36:26
And we'll see how much he had rushing 'cause I know he's a
36:28
runner. He had 26 yards on the ground.
36:32
Brian Bonner had 89 yards carry as far as rushing goes.
36:36
So, I mean, they were, they, they were cooking like they were
36:41
rolling. And USC just seemed like on
36:43
defense, they did not, they didn't have an answer.
36:47
And I, I don't know why, I don't know what the issue was.
36:51
Penalties for both teams really hurt 'cause you had Washington
36:57
10 penalties for 74 yards, USC 9 penalties for 94.
37:04
And, and I, I know this was an old PAC 12 rivalry, so it's not
37:08
like, you know, these teams don't face each other or don't
37:12
deal with each other a whole lot.
37:15
But again, it, it's just, there's something about this USC
37:19
team that I, I just don't understand.
37:22
I know I'm friends with a couple of USC fans, so maybe they can,
37:27
maybe they can explain it to me a little bit better because I,
37:31
I'm not understanding it. But it, it, it's just crazy that
37:35
a team with this much talent, this much lower this much
37:40
history. I mean, you think about all the
37:43
great players that have gone through USC and come through US
37:46
CS halls, all the Heisman winners, all the national title
37:49
contenders. And, and they can't get it done
37:53
in the NIL era where, you know, basically all you gotta do is
37:58
just outspend everybody and you can make a ton of money.
38:01
Like really that, that's probably the craziest part to me
38:06
is it's like, I know you guys have the financial resources.
38:08
I'm not going to sit here and say you guys are, you know, like
38:11
an open Piggy Bank. But really like really.
38:18
And in Washington, I don't expect a whole lot from I I kind
38:24
of expect them to be a good team this season, but I don't expect
38:27
them to do you know, I don't expect them to do really
38:30
anything super crazy. But USC though, I mean, USCA lot
38:35
of people are sitting here like, man, if you can get through kind
38:37
of a tough stretch of games, you know, as far as like the big
38:40
three for college football, like, hey, you, you might have a
38:44
chance if you're able to get one of those wins.
38:47
I don't think they do. Obviously, truthfully, I don't
38:50
think USC gets a big win against any of the big time opponents
38:55
that they're supposed to face this year.
38:56
And what I mean by that is, so they travel to Penn State this
39:01
week. It's a night game.
39:02
It's Penn State's whiteout game. Rough environment to try to play
39:06
it. If you're USC on the road, then
39:08
you have to go to Wisconsin towards the end of October.
39:12
So a little bit chillier, especially at North.
39:14
It's going to be cold. Ohio State comes to your house
39:18
on Halloween night more likely. As long as USC stays ranked,
39:23
that's going to be a big time game.
39:26
And with how US CS defense plays, that's going to be ugly.
39:30
That's going to be a career highlight day, if I had to bet
39:33
for Julian saying and Jeremiah Smith both.
39:37
And then you get you get another bye because you then don't have
39:41
to face Indiana until November 14th, which is great.
39:48
But you have to come here to Bloomington and Indiana gets
39:51
cold in November. It gets cold, especially around
39:55
that time. Then you're lucky you get to
39:58
host Maryland over here on the East Coast.
40:00
That should be a win. But then you have to go face
40:03
UCLA. Now, I know that's, you know,
40:05
literally right across the street.
40:06
But it's the UCLA team that even even Dan Lanning has said for
40:11
Oregon, like, hey, that's our next tough opponent.
40:13
Like we have to deal with the UUCL A-Team coming into our
40:16
house and they run the ball. And that, that's a lot of high
40:19
praise from somebody who has played as much football and has
40:23
coached as much football. As Dan Lanning has for him to
40:27
give that type of praise to to to a UCLA team that I think, you
40:34
know, a lot of people, maybe even myself included, kind of
40:37
figured we we don't expect anything too crazy from him.
40:41
That's a lot of high praise. And that says a lot about how
40:43
this UCLA team is. They have a lot of experience.
40:46
You know, Bob Chesney coming in, he took over from JMU, similar
40:51
Curt Signetti story with UCLA, USC, you have to watch out.
40:56
And I again, I don't expect crazy things from them.
40:58
I don't think they beat Ohio State and I don't think they
41:00
beat any in. I think at best they're going to
41:03
be sitting there at 9:00 to 3:00 and they're going to be sitting
41:05
on the outside looking in. But that's just me.
41:09
But let's look forward to this week's coming games.
41:14
We do have a few big games, nothing too crazy, none that
41:19
kind of make me, you know, for for kind of a lack of a better
41:25
term of phrasing, nothing that kind of, you know, tickles my
41:28
fancy. Like there's some that, you
41:30
know, they they would be interesting to watch just to
41:33
kind of see, you know, what ultimately ends up coming up of
41:37
I don't have it up here on the graphic, but there is Iowa goes
41:40
to Washington on Friday night, maybe a little interesting, kind
41:44
of the same Florida State versus Louisville also on Friday night.
41:48
Don't know how that's going to go, but it'll be, it'll be
41:50
interesting nonetheless. The big one though, you have for
41:54
on big nude kick off, you have #7 Indiana going to Lincoln to
41:58
take on Nebraska. IU is favored by 7 1/2 right
42:01
now. And, and it definitely seems
42:04
like IU is starting to they're, they're starting to get in a
42:08
role. They're starting to kind of feel
42:10
themselves a little bit more. That Northwestern team, I think
42:14
that was a combination of they had to, they had to face a big
42:18
boy team. They had to face their, you
42:19
know, first true power 4 test. But then Northwestern is also a
42:24
good team. That's one of those two truths
42:26
can be, you know, happen at the same time.
42:30
But then they thumped Rutgers like they thumped Rutgers with
42:33
no problem. Now, albeit it is Rutgers, it
42:36
it's still a powerful team. They they thumped them.
42:38
So I think kind of a combination of both of those get a little
42:42
bit of learning, get some adjustments made in there to to
42:46
face Nebraska team who has also done really well.
42:50
You know, they beat Michigan State pretty heartily and then
42:52
they they beat Maryland. Now Maryland is coming off of a
42:55
really embarrassing loss to UCLA.
42:58
So it's kind of one of those they were kind of expected to do
43:01
a little bit better 'cause it it's one of those when you have
43:04
a really bad game like that, it's OK.
43:07
We got to do better. We're going to do better than
43:10
what we did. So this is what I'm excited for.
43:14
Like I said, it's going to be on Big Noon, kick off at 12:00 PM
43:16
Eastern on Saturday the 10th. One of the other big ones we've
43:21
got, we've got the Red River rivalry, Texas versus Oklahoma.
43:28
Kind of the only thing that really sucks about this is the
43:30
fact that Oklahoma isn't ranked anymore.
43:34
And so it is still going to get like huge notoriety.
43:37
I mean, it's in the afternoon slot on ABC as far as you know,
43:42
the SC CS kind of premier match up.
43:45
You know, the first one is Texas A and versus Missouri, which
43:48
will still be good. But you know, the the Red River
43:52
rivalry is one that it's a it's a classic.
43:54
Everybody knows it, especially if you're a college football
43:56
fan. They do have Texas's 8 1/2 point
43:59
favorites. And and here's The funny thing.
44:02
I think if there is ever going to be an upset of a upset this
44:05
weekend, I could see it being this.
44:07
And the only reason is because of this rivalry.
44:11
Like any time these two teams face, I don't care who's really
44:15
good, who's not really good, these teams always come down to
44:19
the wire. I think I remember, I remember
44:22
Oklahoma being like very highly ranked.
44:24
Texas comes in, absolutely shuts them down.
44:26
I think that was last year actually, if I remember
44:28
correctly. And then even before Texas has
44:32
been really highly ranked and Oklahoma just absolutely shuts
44:34
them down with no problem. Now I don't know how this
44:39
ultimately will end up going. Like I said at the moment Texas
44:44
is an 8 1/2 point favorite, which is pretty, pretty
44:47
respectful. I mean they are considered the
44:49
number one team in the country, ESP NS matchup predictor gives
44:53
them an 85% chance of winning to Oklahoma's 15.
44:59
Now kind of the thing that is a little surprising is Texas
45:04
hasn't run the ball as well as I think a lot of people, myself
45:07
included, expected. Hollywood Smothers only has 198
45:10
rushing yards and he's their season leader.
45:13
So I'm not going to I don't I don't want to, you know,
45:16
potentially say, oh, they just can't run the ball like their
45:19
premier guy, like their number one guy doesn't even have 200
45:23
rushing yards on the season yet. So like, just just hear me out.
45:26
You know, albeit they have faced some tough teams as far as
45:30
having to face Ohio State, having to face Tennessee.
45:32
So they're not exactly going to run the ball great to start
45:35
with. Anyway, they're coming off of a
45:36
bye week after having to face a tough Tennessee team, but we'll
45:43
we'll also get to see, you know, has Oklahoma fixed things in
45:46
thereby week because they were off after getting a pretty
45:49
devastating loss to Georgia. And now do they potentially
45:52
right to ship against Texas? Does John Metier potentially
45:55
look like the job Metier that we know and that we've watched, you
45:59
know, for the last two seasons at least at Oklahoma?
46:04
Does he look like something that's reminiscent of a former
46:08
Heisman front runner? I think, I think this game will
46:11
be probably that big that that true deciding moment of whether
46:17
he is or whether he is. So this, this will be exciting
46:22
again, one that I don't think is going to get as much notoriety
46:25
as it probably should #21 UCLA does go to Oregon.
46:30
That's going to also be at the 3/30 3:30 PM time slot on CBS.
46:38
That's going to be pretty good. Now, this is also kind of crazy
46:40
because they have, they have Oregon only 11 1/2 point
46:44
favorites. And I say only, and I, I don't
46:48
mean for that to be like mean or disrespectful, but, but I'm
46:52
like, really, you're like, you're not going to make this a
46:55
little bit closer. And I, and I only say that
46:57
because of a, a combination of how poorly Oregon is played
47:03
because they, they haven't played up to expectations.
47:05
And this was something that we even saw last year, you know,
47:08
out of Clemson, out of Penn State, out of LSU.
47:11
Like they were all teams that came back very heavily
47:13
experienced, a lot of, you know, seniors and juniors coming to
47:17
have a ton of playing experience.
47:19
And they were all super underwhelming.
47:24
And so it's like I sit here and I look at that and I'm like, Are
47:28
you sure that's what you want to do?
47:30
Are you sure you you only want to give that?
47:33
And this is UCLAS kind of first true test too.
47:35
Like they haven't faced anybody, right?
47:37
They haven't faced anybody really tough.
47:40
And then they have to go to a tough Eugene OR environment to
47:43
face the Ducks, who are going to be kind of rallying.
47:46
And you know, they're they're happy that they they got the win
47:50
against USC on the road and are kind of back in the driver's
47:53
seat as far as all right, We we still have a chance.
47:55
We can still potentially go to the playoffs don't know about
47:58
the big 10 championship yet. You know, that's kind of be kind
48:01
of up in the air depending on how the rest of the season goes,
48:03
but none the less they'll like they you know they're the the
48:08
door isn't shut on them yet. So this this will be one I'm I'm
48:12
kind of excited for to be honest with you, because it'll be it's
48:16
one of the it's an interesting game more than anything, of
48:21
course, because I do have a little bit of bias.
48:23
We have LSU at Kentucky as well on at 7:00 PM.
48:28
Now this is interesting because I remember when I was making the
48:31
graphics yesterday about this, I was I was looking at the line.
48:36
So the I don't know why the match up predictor has it.
48:40
Is it this is kind of insulting really to Kentucky like
48:43
truthfully and somebody who's not a Kentucky fan.
48:46
This is insulting to Kentucky like and they have they have LSU
48:50
as a 75% favorite in the match of predictor to win the game
48:55
according to ESP and analytics and obviously analytics only
48:58
goes so far. OK, so here here it is so they
49:02
opened initially the game odds was 10 1/2 LSU.
49:06
It's now since gone up. It's now since dropped.
49:11
It's LSU is favoured by native 8 1/2.
49:13
So a little over a touchdown we which is kind of crazy because
49:20
one LSU took Alabama again to the ropes in the first half.
49:24
Now, albeit second-half was a completely totally different
49:27
story. But I mean, they they had them
49:30
dead to right to the water. Now they got cocky, they got a
49:32
little bit cute and that ultimately ended up, you know,
49:35
biting them in the butt. But that that's not something
49:39
you should really it's not something that you should
49:42
really, you know, you know, you know, kind of Slough at or, you
49:48
know, just brush off. And I do kind of feel bad for
49:52
Kentucky too, because they got, no, it did end up having to come
49:57
to the wire as far as how they face South Carolina again, a
50:00
South Carolina team that they were playing hard.
50:03
I mean, their coaches in question, the, the, the team as
50:07
itself is a mess. Lenore Sellers just hasn't
50:09
seemed to progress the way that we wanted him to, especially
50:12
considering at one point he was going to be a very highly touted
50:15
draft pick. You have the stud speed wide
50:18
receiver in Nick Harbor. You have Dylan Stewart on the
50:20
edge, who initially he was suspended, I believe
50:24
indefinitely. And then between South Carolina
50:27
and the SEC, they collaborated. They suspended him for one game,
50:29
I believe it was this game against Kentucky.
50:32
So I believe he is eligible to come back the following game.
50:36
I don't know if he will, but he is, I believe eligible.
50:41
But kind of the disrespect to Kentucky, though, is what's
50:44
really surprising me because I mean, they went down to Texas
50:47
A&M. Now again, albeit Texas Stadium
50:49
is hurt. They're they have their own
50:50
struggles. They beat them in their home.
50:55
But to have to give LSU that much credit?
50:58
Now, again, I love LSU, but I I'm a very skeptical and
51:02
cautiously optimistic LSU fan 'cause I mean, Minchi. 11
51:08
touchdowns to one pick, he's thrown about 1150 yards.
51:14
So I mean pretty damn good for five games in the season.
51:18
And then Levitt still, Oh my God, Levitt still worries me to
51:21
no end. He's thrown for over 1200 yards.
51:25
He has 8 passing touchdowns, 7 picks.
51:30
I don't know if it's eight passing touchdown.
51:31
I'm gonna double check. It says he has 8 touchdowns, 7
51:34
picks. He hasn't really thrown 8
51:36
touchdown passing. Is that really true?
51:39
I'm gonna see here that's 123, 678, OK.
51:48
Oh yeah, he has thrown 48 touchdowns.
51:51
OK. And he's rushed 46.
51:54
OK, So he's 14 total touchdowns to 7 interceptions, which Oh my
52:00
God, dude. Like I I watched the game
52:03
against McNeese State and you can still see he's in the he's
52:07
in like the calf's like the calf boot to like help us calf
52:10
because his leg was injured. I didn't even think he was going
52:13
to start it. Honestly, I figured they might
52:16
just have Landon Clark start the entire time he ended up playing.
52:21
Dude, I was so terrified of this and it's like, why?
52:26
I don't understand why, but they they have to go to Kentucky,
52:32
which I don't think will be easy.
52:34
They have to host Mississippi State won't be easy.
52:37
They go to Auburn, which you know, for all things that is
52:40
Auburn. It is a little, little weird
52:42
when it comes to them. And then the last three games,
52:47
well, three of the last four games are brutal of host
52:50
Alabama, host Texas, go to Tennessee all within three
52:53
weeks. So so this is a game they they
52:57
do have to win it, especially if they want to have potential room
53:01
for error for maybe tripping up in one of those games.
53:04
Maybe they trip up in all of it and they only end up finishing
53:07
like 8 four. It's very possible it is going
53:10
to be a better season than last year, but I think the
53:14
expectations are are very high. And it it also kind of sucks
53:18
because LSU has a few key injuries and with weeks and
53:23
trade as green, I mean, they're if they can do one thing, they
53:27
can run the ball. I mean, Dylan Jones is sitting
53:29
here 94 carries over 400 rushing yards and five touchdowns in the
53:34
five games LSU has played winning Watkins transferred over
53:38
from old miss 23 receptions, 354 yards and two touchdowns.
53:43
So, so this is one that I, I'll be watching because I'm an LSU
53:47
fan, but it this, this game definitely makes me, makes me a
53:52
little, little worried. And of course, the big marquee
53:56
match up that everybody's going to be watching that everybody's
53:58
going to want to know what's going to happen.
54:01
And I may be out with friends during this game, which may or
54:05
may not be a good thing as this happens #2 Georgia goes to
54:09
Tuscaloosa to take on Alabama. And I want to get the actual
54:14
what the line is. I believe, if I remember reading
54:17
just a just a few minutes ago, I think it's Alabama by only a
54:22
point and 1/2 it is it's only Alabama by a point and a half.
54:27
ESPNESPN is giving Alabama about a 53 percent chance of winning
54:33
according to their their analytics.
54:37
Like I said earlier, this this is one we we excuse me, we kind
54:41
of get to see what does, what does Georgia look like against
54:45
the true test. Now again, they beat Alabama
54:48
extremely badly in the SEC Championships.
54:51
Maybe Alabama tries to have a little bit of a revenge game
54:54
there. I do think one of the advantages
54:57
that Georgia might have is because Keylon Russell is
55:01
starting now as even though I'm an LSU fan and I have very known
55:06
biased against, against Alabama as a whole, Keylon Russell has
55:14
played better than what I thought he would.
55:18
He's sitting here what, five games into the season, he's
55:21
thrown for over 1400 yards, 11 touchdowns, 2 picks.
55:25
That's just passing. Rushing wise, he has, it was
55:30
quite a bit of yards. Now Kentucky, he couldn't run
55:33
the ball at all. He has 86 against ECU, 56
55:37
against Florida State, 35 against South Carolina.
55:39
Mississippi State didn't really let him scramble or run much
55:42
either. So, yeah, I mean, he's got a
55:44
little over just quick maths, maybe just under 200 yards,
55:50
maybe right at about 204 rushing touchdowns on top of the 11
55:55
passing touchdowns that he's got.
55:57
And he's completing about 71% of his passes.
55:59
So I mean, he's doing, I mean, as as well as you can say he's
56:03
doing better than what I thought.
56:06
I, I thought he struggled a lot against CCU and I'll be that was
56:10
kind of his first game kind of getting his feet underneath him.
56:14
And he, he got better against Kentucky, He got better against
56:17
Florida State. He got really good against South
56:19
Carolina and then he did really well against Mississippi State.
56:24
But but this will be his first true test.
56:25
This will be a true test against a very good, very blunted
56:29
Georgia defense. And, and this is also a defense
56:32
that when a lot of people are sitting here looking at both
56:36
Alabama and Georgia, both people were sitting here saying it, it
56:40
could really go either way as far as you know, who has, who
56:46
has the best secondary in college football as it sits
56:48
right now. So I, this is one I'm I'm
56:52
excited for. I'm always going to be pretty
56:55
against Alabama because I always want them to lose.
56:59
But I, I do want to see what ultimately how this ends up.
57:04
I think. And as much as I hate to say it,
57:08
but I unfortunately feel like I would be correct in saying it,
57:10
that if Alabama wins, this will 1000% give the AP poll voters a
57:17
reason to Volt them into Volt them into the the number one
57:23
spot in the in the rankings. Which to me will be just just
57:28
absolutely crazy in in my personal opinion.
57:31
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57:33
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