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College Football Week #1 Preview & Predictions! Real Contenders? Darkhorse's? 24-28 Team Playoffs WTF! · The Rope A Dope Radio Podcast

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Speaker 1: College football fans, Welcome back to the college Ball Show.
0:07
Speaker 1: He's Marshall, I'm Chris, and we are back for yet
0:12
Speaker 1: another season of college ball. Man, we are pumped up.
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Speaker 1: Week zero is in the books far mcgeddon was sloppy,
0:21
Speaker 1: but then all of a sudden turned into a score fest.
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Speaker 1: Tight again, not a big you know, not a big
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Speaker 1: surprise there. Big win though for Iowa State. So we'll
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Speaker 1: you know, we'll brush upon what happened yesterday. Then we'll
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Speaker 1: get into Week one preview and predictions. Number one Texas
0:43
Speaker 1: at number three Ohio State. You got Clemson hosting LSU,
0:48
Speaker 1: you got Notre Dame in Miami, the rivalry renewed, Nebraska, Cincinnati, Utah, Ucla, Auburn, Baylor.
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Speaker 1: I mean, we got we got some games. We got
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Speaker 1: some game. So that's four ranked versus ranked within the
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Speaker 1: first week of college basically football. So that we got
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Speaker 1: a really interesting lineup. And you know, the rest of
1:12
Speaker 1: September in early October, there are some really key matchups,
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Speaker 1: whether it's in the non conference or it is a
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Speaker 1: conference game. That's what was cool about Farmageddon. You already
1:21
Speaker 1: have like somewhat pole position down the stretch. You know,
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Speaker 1: a lot of people saying that both those teams could
1:29
Speaker 1: be in the run for it. That's kind of like
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Speaker 1: a two game lead on Kansas State because you have
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Speaker 1: them up a game right now, but you also have
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Speaker 1: the tiebreakers. So we're also gonna because there's not a
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Speaker 1: lot of heavy recap, we're gonna talk about the ridiculous potential.
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Speaker 1: I don't think it'll happen. Let's hope, let's knock on
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Speaker 1: some wood, let's hope not. But the big ten thrown
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Speaker 1: around the major playoff where it's twenty four or twenty eight,
2:01
Speaker 1: you know, we'll give our thoughts on that. We'll give
2:04
Speaker 1: our thoughts on the Michigan ruling. And then you know,
2:08
Speaker 1: last year at the beginning of the year, we especially
2:11
Speaker 1: in the first episode, but really just early because you know,
2:14
Speaker 1: you can do the preseason rakings. You can say, hey,
2:17
Speaker 1: they did really good in the portal, or hey they
2:19
Speaker 1: have a lot of experience coming back, but you got
2:21
Speaker 1: to see the team's play, right, But we are going
2:25
Speaker 1: to kind of go over at on paper what both
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Speaker 1: Marshall and I our own opinions, you know, what we
2:33
Speaker 1: think of as real contenders out there, and even dark
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Speaker 1: horse teams as well, and We did this segment last
2:43
Speaker 1: year and a lot of it just had to do
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Speaker 1: with man. There is a lot there's a lot more
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Speaker 1: teams that have a chance, and it feels like there's
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Speaker 1: probably about six maybe eight going into the playoffs last
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Speaker 1: year that we felt could win it, and I think
3:00
Speaker 1: that held up pretty good. But it feels like it's
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Speaker 1: deeper this year at the beginning of the year than
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Speaker 1: it was last year. So that's always a great thing
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Speaker 1: for college football. As we know, there's a lot of
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Speaker 1: there's pros and cons to the NLI and the transfer portal,
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Speaker 1: but one thing you cannot deny is the talent is
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Speaker 1: more spread out. Thus a question mark maybe where there
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Speaker 1: wouldn't be. Quarterback is a big question mark this year,
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Speaker 1: even for a jam packed team that has a lot
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Speaker 1: is back, my friend. What's going on, Marshall?
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Speaker 2: Hey, life is good. I don't know what it was
4:54
Speaker 2: this year, but I definitely felt like this was all
4:56
Speaker 2: the longest stretches I've had to wait for for college
4:59
Speaker 2: and pro football to come back, and we're finally here.
5:02
Speaker 2: It was fun to turn on the television yesterday morning
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Speaker 2: and see Iowa State case States so and I have
5:09
Speaker 2: I have little faith in the Cowboys this year. Chris
5:11
Speaker 2: I might be more emphasized on college football this year.
5:14
Speaker 2: I'm already giving up hope on my NFL team, so
5:17
Speaker 2: I hey, more love for college I'll be Okay.
5:20
Speaker 1: You're already giving up hope in August.
5:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I am. I am. The new documentary on
5:27
Speaker 2: Netflix was really cool, but that was also the Glory
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Speaker 2: Days if I remember being I remember being a little
5:31
Speaker 2: kid watching the Michael Jackson halftime Super Bowl and that
5:34
Speaker 2: was when they won their Super Bowl ninety one and
5:36
Speaker 2: since then it's been pretty much help. So anyways, yes,
5:39
Speaker 2: it should be a lot of fun for college football
5:41
Speaker 2: this year. Man, this year, I did put in a request.
5:45
Speaker 2: I will be going. Last year I missed out on
5:47
Speaker 2: Death Valley, But this year I'll be going to my
5:49
Speaker 2: first ever SEC football game, going to go to good
5:52
Speaker 2: old Tusca Loosa, Alabama watch Oklahoma play Role Tide. So
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Speaker 2: that'll be a fun week for the show. I'll be
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Speaker 2: able to have some good footage and I'll see what
6:03
Speaker 2: I can remember from that day. I might have to
6:06
Speaker 2: I might just take notes and just send you an
6:08
Speaker 2: okaysal text message because some of that may get a
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Speaker 2: little blurry. And we got a shuttle bust there and
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Speaker 2: back from the hotel. So we'll see. But hey, it
6:17
Speaker 2: should be a fun college football season.
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Speaker 1: Man.
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Speaker 2: I don't know, we're on you're ten, eleven, twelve something,
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Speaker 2: but it's gonna be a lot of fun. I'm looking
6:24
Speaker 2: forward to the season, my friend.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I started the boxing podcast in two
6:29
Speaker 1: thousand and nine in the fall, so that following so
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Speaker 1: twenty ten, that following year. I'm almost positive that we
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Speaker 1: started that year, maybe twenty eleven. I think I think
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Speaker 1: it's ten. Yeah, so this is our fifteenth year. Man. Man,
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Speaker 1: it's great, but also like, holy shit, where's the time go?
6:54
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
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Speaker 2: I know, I know, And speaking.
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Speaker 1: Of that, when I was in July, it's like, oh yeah,
6:59
Speaker 1: we got two months of summer. We're going, oh shit,
7:01
Speaker 1: here we are, you know. And of course, you know
7:04
Speaker 1: in Minnesota, either late August or early September, there'll be
7:08
Speaker 1: some scares temperature wise. At night, it'd be like it's
7:11
Speaker 1: what degrees what? And that's actually what's happening this next week.
7:16
Speaker 1: But a lot of people are loving it because the
7:17
Speaker 1: state Fair is going on. It's it's a lot better
7:19
Speaker 1: than being in you know, the heat at the state fairs.
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Speaker 1: So sure, man, football is in the air, and you know,
7:26
Speaker 1: we'll we'll talk about this sloppy, ugly looking like a
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Speaker 1: preseason first quarter game in the NFL. Fumbaruski fumbleeruski. Now
7:37
Speaker 1: it would go figure it was raining over there, which
7:40
Speaker 1: you know they always say how it's always raining there,
7:43
Speaker 1: that's our summer, and so that played a part because
7:47
Speaker 1: you could see people slipping all over the field and
7:49
Speaker 1: all that. So, yeah, really ugly start, but the low
7:55
Speaker 1: scoring that really doesn't surprise you in this type of
7:57
Speaker 1: matchup right, it's farmageddon for as you slowly plowed the fields.
8:04
Speaker 1: But after in the second half, right one O nine
8:10
Speaker 1: to sixteen, when it comes to rushing yards in favor
8:14
Speaker 1: of Iowa State, to me, that was the key in
8:18
Speaker 1: the game. You know, Rocco looked pretty good at times.
8:23
Speaker 1: They made just enough plays there. And Avery Johnson, you know,
8:27
Speaker 1: still kind of up and down last year. I remember
8:30
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the year, he at the end
8:32
Speaker 1: of the second quarter going in a half, they had
8:35
Speaker 1: a chance to put some points on the board and
8:37
Speaker 1: he ran out of bounce enough to where there was
8:40
Speaker 1: no time on the clock. You couldn't get to the
8:42
Speaker 1: damn sidelines and you know he was up and down
8:46
Speaker 1: throughout the year. They decided because Avery Johnson had multiple
8:51
Speaker 1: years that they were gonna go with him rather than
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Speaker 1: Will Howard. What was your take on the game overall,
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Speaker 1: because it did get dramatic and it got, you know,
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Speaker 1: really into but overall, Iowa State was stood Kansas State
9:05
Speaker 1: by a hair.
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Speaker 2: My buddy, well, the the one I was just saying
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Speaker 2: about from Apple Valley, he actually bet KSE States. I
9:13
Speaker 2: was a little disappointed. I but you know, mishaps you're
9:17
Speaker 2: gonna happen. But like Case State, they did muff a
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Speaker 2: punt on the first possession of the game, which kind
9:23
Speaker 2: of led to Iowa State's first score, and then KSE
9:26
Speaker 2: State fumbled on like the ten yard line, and then
9:29
Speaker 2: they also had a turnover inside the red zone. So
9:33
Speaker 2: if you like KSE State, probably should have been up
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Speaker 2: like twenty four to seven or twenty four to ten.
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Speaker 2: But I know, first game blunders like you screwed up
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Speaker 2: and it came back to costume because I don't look
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Speaker 2: at the score like, oh, twenty four to twenty one,
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Speaker 2: probably pretty evenly played game. It's like, yeah, but when
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Speaker 2: you have what a muff punt and two red zone turnovers.
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Speaker 2: Looking back, like that could have been a case State
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Speaker 2: kind of blowout in a way, but they screwed up
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Speaker 2: and Iowa State didn't.
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Speaker 1: Even if they were all field goals, they show still
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Speaker 1: should have won the game.
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Speaker 2: You know, yeah, yeah, you can't you no matter whether
10:06
Speaker 2: it's week one or week thirteen, if you if you
10:08
Speaker 2: have red zone turnovers, you know, and you could say,
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Speaker 2: oh o, Case State man's first game of the year,
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Speaker 2: gumming mistakes. Well, Iowa State didn't have as many crucial
10:16
Speaker 2: mistakes and either no, no, no, they really didn't. Case
10:23
Speaker 2: State kind of let slip, but Iowa stated enough. And
10:25
Speaker 2: to your point, my one kind of note I took
10:28
Speaker 2: and I'm gonna try to take better notes this here,
10:29
Speaker 2: like you've been done in the past, so we can
10:31
Speaker 2: a little more informative is the linebacker play man. That
10:36
Speaker 2: was my one kind of hot button note. I was,
10:39
Speaker 2: like I was. Case State's linebackers had a bad game,
10:43
Speaker 2: like I was, stayed in throw the ball too well.
10:45
Speaker 2: They had like a two or three big passes, but
10:48
Speaker 2: the line of scrimmage really went to Iowa State. So
10:51
Speaker 2: in the second half that game, you know, you're right
10:53
Speaker 2: off the rushing yards like kse State linebackers really did
10:57
Speaker 2: get blown off the ball and they really struggled because
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Speaker 2: I was stay did just enough, but hey, you know,
11:03
Speaker 2: we're talking about a game. It was fun. Two ranked
11:05
Speaker 2: teams who you'd assume would both be contenders in the
11:08
Speaker 2: Big twelve. Both have normally for the most part, been
11:11
Speaker 2: pretty stable programs for the past uh well, i'd say
11:14
Speaker 2: probably past ten years for sure for both of them.
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Speaker 2: So tough for case State to start the year off
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Speaker 2: that way. And I got to hop on a plane
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Speaker 2: and fly back over and kind of reset, and I
11:25
Speaker 2: was staying, hey, that's a fun start to the year.
11:27
Speaker 2: And you know, I'm sure they got Iowa come up
11:29
Speaker 2: on their schedule like usually in a couple of weeks.
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Speaker 2: So it was a little bit of a crazy game
11:33
Speaker 2: with the wind in the rain, but hey, it's college football.
11:37
Speaker 2: If i'd bet I was stayed, I'd be happy right
11:39
Speaker 2: now on the show.
11:39
Speaker 1: So I went on plus three and a half. But
11:42
Speaker 1: while I was watching, I didn't feel good about it
11:44
Speaker 1: at all, and I was like, oh boy, they're not
11:47
Speaker 1: you know, And to your point, like, the funny thing
11:50
Speaker 1: is I read off that second half stat of Russian right,
11:53
Speaker 1: But when you look at it, it's only one thirty
11:56
Speaker 1: to ten, you know, so like yeah, yeah, so that
12:00
Speaker 1: shows you how Case State was doing really well there
12:04
Speaker 1: for a while. And to your point two to seventy three,
12:06
Speaker 1: twenty one of thirty. You know, I gave Avy Johnson
12:09
Speaker 1: a little shit or whatever, but he didn't. It didn't
12:12
Speaker 1: lose because of him, you know, no at all. So
12:16
Speaker 1: I guess my last point. When Case State was down ten,
12:19
Speaker 1: they they recover, they run the kickoff back boom, sixty
12:24
Speaker 1: five yard touchdown pass. Okay, now your defense makes one stop,
12:27
Speaker 1: you can come go tie the game or win the game.
12:30
Speaker 1: And the defense just got get when they needed it.
12:32
Speaker 1: Iowa State really gashed them pretty good in that last
12:36
Speaker 1: drive to kind of wrapt the wins.
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Speaker 2: So but hey, I honestly, for a big picture, I
12:41
Speaker 2: think that's gonna be the Big Twelve this year, Chris.
12:43
Speaker 2: Which maybe it won't be as strong of a conference
12:46
Speaker 2: as the SEC or Big Ten per se, but we
12:49
Speaker 2: probably have seven or eight really good football teams, and
12:52
Speaker 2: the Big Twelve should be a consistent not that the
12:54
Speaker 2: Big ten SEC won't be, but the Big Twelve should
12:57
Speaker 2: be a consistently really fun conference to talk about all
12:59
Speaker 2: year with a lot of like B plus programs that
13:02
Speaker 2: are going to provide a lot of good football games
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Speaker 2: this year.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I mean we saw how last year, you know,
13:08
Speaker 1: a lot of the uh, the expert picks at the
13:12
Speaker 1: start of the year, you know, it basically flipped. Like
13:17
Speaker 1: it basically flipped because it was like Utahs and and
13:21
Speaker 1: and the the teams you thought would do really good.
13:24
Speaker 1: Even Oklahoma State was coming off a big year and
13:27
Speaker 1: then they fell flat on their face, you know. And
13:31
Speaker 1: it's like you had Arizona State, you had car you
13:34
Speaker 1: had all these teams that were really low at the beginning,
13:37
Speaker 1: you know, picked and and it kind of kind of
13:39
Speaker 1: flipped around. So what was it four different teams that
13:43
Speaker 1: last week or was it five or six or something
13:45
Speaker 1: like that. There's at least four teams that could have
13:49
Speaker 1: if this worked, if they won and they lost ship
13:52
Speaker 1: you know, to get off its final and and that's
13:55
Speaker 1: another reason why you know, I don't I understand that
13:59
Speaker 1: college football didn't have college like the conference championship games
14:06
Speaker 1: for most of college football, right because we know it
14:09
Speaker 1: started in like eighteen ninety, you know what I mean,
14:11
Speaker 1: So it had like one hundred years without them then
14:14
Speaker 1: the SEC brought it in, and so I just think,
14:18
Speaker 1: if you're gonna have these large conferences, which I'm cool with,
14:22
Speaker 1: then you gotta be able to decide it on the field,
14:26
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, I don't I think to
14:28
Speaker 1: get rid of the conference final, you might as well
14:30
Speaker 1: start week one week zero and if you don't want
14:34
Speaker 1: the season to run as late. Because we talked about
14:36
Speaker 1: that too, how during the NFL. NFL takes up a
14:39
Speaker 1: lot of freaking space when it comes to talk and
14:43
Speaker 1: all that. So you know, but yeah, that conference, you know,
14:48
Speaker 1: i'd say, like it's kind of top heavy in the ACC,
14:53
Speaker 1: like there are some legit teams, but overall it's not
14:56
Speaker 1: that deep. And yeah, Big twelve man. And the thing
14:59
Speaker 1: about the Big Twelve, we talked about this before we
15:01
Speaker 1: hit record. They out of returning production. If you look
15:05
Speaker 1: at the top twenty teams for returning production in the country,
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Speaker 1: seven out of the top twenty come from the Big Twelve.
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Speaker 1: If you look at their quarterbacks, if you look, you know,
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Speaker 1: so it's gonna be really interesting and it's gonna be
15:21
Speaker 1: really hard for the Big Twelve though to get two teams.
15:25
Speaker 1: You know, we know in the ACC, I think they
15:27
Speaker 1: had a I think the ACC might have a better
15:30
Speaker 1: shot this year. Kind of matters what Clemson and Miami
15:33
Speaker 1: do in the non conference really because you know, if
15:36
Speaker 1: you look at Clemson, they play LSU in South Carolina
15:40
Speaker 1: in the non conference and then also Miami plays notre
15:43
Speaker 1: Game in Florida in the non conference. So if one
15:47
Speaker 1: of those two teams do really well there, that may
15:51
Speaker 1: bode well in general. You know that that freaking UNLV
15:56
Speaker 1: game with Idaho State, Holy, I wasn't looking. I did
16:00
Speaker 1: not see that coming. Kansas took over uh Freslo State.
16:05
Speaker 1: Kansas was you know, it was a game for a
16:07
Speaker 1: little bit and then they just totally took over. That
16:11
Speaker 1: Hawaii Stamford game was crazy. Hawaii ended up winning it,
16:14
Speaker 1: but that was a grind out game. I know they
16:16
Speaker 1: were a slight favorite in that game. But overall, any
16:21
Speaker 1: other items from Week one, sir.
16:25
Speaker 2: Uh, just a reminder that you know, Week one bets
16:29
Speaker 2: or Week one bets, quarterbacks can be quarterbacks. Sometimes that goods,
16:32
Speaker 2: sometimes that's bad. But with that being said, you know,
16:37
Speaker 2: do your research because it definitely has changed compared to
16:40
Speaker 2: when we first started in this podcast, where a lot
16:43
Speaker 2: of times you'd have a quarterback who's been with the
16:45
Speaker 2: same coach for three or four years. He knows the system,
16:48
Speaker 2: he's a vet, you know, et cetera, et cetera. You
16:51
Speaker 2: could have a lot of guys week one who Now,
16:53
Speaker 2: you could have a cam Ward who comes and shows
16:56
Speaker 2: out because dude's a freak. But you know, if you've
16:59
Speaker 2: been a quarterback at three different colleges now in four years,
17:02
Speaker 2: and are well, we got you know, we brought in
17:04
Speaker 2: this guy and this running back in this dude. It
17:07
Speaker 2: might take a couple of weeks or it might not
17:08
Speaker 2: develop for the whole year. You know, but a lot
17:10
Speaker 2: of times you see, well all these flashy transfers, well
17:14
Speaker 2: that might work for you, but again, be be hesitant
17:18
Speaker 2: because that Week one, it's the dude might have a
17:21
Speaker 2: great stat record, but it doesn't mean he's necessarily ready
17:23
Speaker 2: for the new system or it's just a learning experience.
17:27
Speaker 2: So Week one is always kind of dangerous, as we
17:29
Speaker 2: just saw from yesterday. You know, you might make a
17:33
Speaker 2: good bet, but you might lose or just you know,
17:36
Speaker 2: wait to see your team. If your team looks sluggish, well,
17:39
Speaker 2: it is week one in college football. These are amateur athletes,
17:42
Speaker 2: you know, they're getting paid, but they're still college kids.
17:44
Speaker 2: So it's always just kind of like, you know, get
17:47
Speaker 2: through week one or week two, especially if your goals
17:49
Speaker 2: to make the playoffs, you can't have one of those
17:52
Speaker 2: huge chickup losses, you know with you know, hopefully he doesn't
17:55
Speaker 2: bite too bad. But and but once he gets like
17:57
Speaker 2: week three or four, Chris, then we normally kind of
17:59
Speaker 2: see like who was like good and who is bad.
18:02
Speaker 2: What quarterbacks may be gotta work out for the cists
18:04
Speaker 2: or not, but just kind of have to bite your
18:06
Speaker 2: tongue and kind of maybe pour a drink to get
18:08
Speaker 2: through this first couple of weeks because crazy stuff always happens.
18:11
Speaker 1: Brother, Yeah, and even like against the spread stuff and
18:15
Speaker 1: like you said, just upsets where you're not ready for it,
18:18
Speaker 1: or like a MAC team knocks off a power team
18:20
Speaker 1: or yeah, you're right about that that you gotta tread
18:24
Speaker 1: a little lightly and you know you're right, Like if
18:30
Speaker 1: you've been at three three places, you know, I'm glad
18:33
Speaker 1: you brought up the cam Ward because at least he
18:35
Speaker 1: was like going up in levels, you know what I mean,
18:38
Speaker 1: Like he started at a very small school as we know,
18:42
Speaker 1: then went up to a packs off then went up
18:44
Speaker 1: to Miami, so you knew by the time he got
18:47
Speaker 1: to Miami, you're like, oh, this is gonna be a
18:49
Speaker 1: pretty good fit, you know, because he was a little different.
18:51
Speaker 1: But overall a lot of times guys aren't leaving because
18:55
Speaker 1: it went well, you know what I mean. Yes, yes,
18:59
Speaker 1: it seems like the CS Now, if the quarterback's really
19:03
Speaker 1: been there for a little while and pretty dominant, then
19:06
Speaker 1: the jump there. If you set up you know, stuff
19:09
Speaker 1: around him that's actually transferring pretty well. Max Max Browsner,
19:14
Speaker 1: who's gonna make the Vikings fifty three squad, fifty three
19:19
Speaker 1: man roster. He came for just one year, So you're
19:24
Speaker 1: right about that though. That's what I think Iowa was
19:27
Speaker 1: hoping this year that they got this kid that you know,
19:30
Speaker 1: was damn good at a different level, and if they
19:33
Speaker 1: can have everything kind of set up for him, we'll see.
19:37
Speaker 1: Because that's how I heard a stat. I think it's
19:40
Speaker 1: thirty one and one or thirty three and one in
19:44
Speaker 1: the last thirty some odd games for Iowa when they
19:47
Speaker 1: score twenty one points, at least twenty one points, they're
19:50
Speaker 1: like thirty one and one or something like that. You know,
19:53
Speaker 1: it's like you really don't need that many points, Iowa,
19:57
Speaker 1: if you can just somehow you know, do it and
20:01
Speaker 1: not have to rely on like a pick six or
20:04
Speaker 1: a punt return or something like that. So when you
20:10
Speaker 1: look at like contenders, you know, or actually you know
20:13
Speaker 1: before we get into that, so you know when you
20:18
Speaker 1: hear we heard that the SEC now is going to
20:22
Speaker 1: go to a nine game conference schedule, which I like
20:27
Speaker 1: a lot, and some SEC insiders are saying, you know,
20:30
Speaker 1: they bent the knee to the Big Ten because the
20:33
Speaker 1: Big Ten wouldn't agree to an expansion if in fact
20:38
Speaker 1: you didn't have nine it also, so I think that's cool.
20:44
Speaker 1: But also I think it's really cool that they made
20:46
Speaker 1: a rule that you have to face a power for
20:50
Speaker 1: conference team, right, I guess that'd be the other three conferences,
20:54
Speaker 1: which is really dope because that not that they're always
20:57
Speaker 1: going to schedule the toughest teams. But maybe that'll eventually
21:02
Speaker 1: lead to an SEC Big Ten challenge like they do
21:05
Speaker 1: in college basketball. That would be really cool and it
21:07
Speaker 1: would help setll arguments rather than arguing and debating who
21:13
Speaker 1: was you know, on the field during a bowl game.
21:16
Speaker 1: You know that type of thing. Certain bowl games where
21:18
Speaker 1: you're like well, that guy's sad or that guy's in
21:20
Speaker 1: or whatever. But when you hear stuff, and maybe the
21:26
Speaker 1: Big Ten did this purposely because look, we heard about
21:29
Speaker 1: this twenty four to twenty eight team, which is ridiculous,
21:33
Speaker 1: and then not long after there was a nine game thing.
21:36
Speaker 1: But what are your thoughts when you start to hear
21:39
Speaker 1: you know, we've heard these super conferences and I still
21:42
Speaker 1: don't call them super conferences, but they never reached the
21:46
Speaker 1: thirty five forty team stuff that we talked about years ago.
21:50
Speaker 1: But I never, in my wildest dreams Marshall would think
21:54
Speaker 1: that we'd have a super conference playoff fucking setup format.
22:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just it would really just kill the regular season,
22:05
Speaker 2: which is something that we love, Like, I really like
22:09
Speaker 2: how it is now with the system we have of
22:11
Speaker 2: college football, and obviously the the new conferences have kind
22:16
Speaker 2: of taken away rivalries I think a little more so
22:19
Speaker 2: it's home to me and basketball, even football, it still
22:21
Speaker 2: isn't quite the same.
22:23
Speaker 1: Yeah, in some of those rivalries you're gonna have to
22:26
Speaker 1: work to get them back in the future, hopefully, because
22:29
Speaker 1: they did fuck up some of them, no doubt.
22:31
Speaker 2: Yeah, And and you know, and even just like I
22:35
Speaker 2: know we're doing football here, but like there's like a
22:37
Speaker 2: couple of teams in Power cut and Power five conferences
22:41
Speaker 2: in basketball this year that don't have a single player
22:43
Speaker 2: that's on their team last year. Like so it's like,
22:47
Speaker 2: you know, are you are you still kind of like
22:49
Speaker 2: obviously a fan still gonna love their team. But even
22:52
Speaker 2: for football too, it's like it's it's getting close to
22:55
Speaker 2: the point out Chris, where it's like you're cheering for
22:57
Speaker 2: you're cheering for your logo, but don't really know your team,
23:00
Speaker 2: and that is a little more of effective college football too.
23:03
Speaker 2: Like now the overturn won't be as drafted. You never
23:05
Speaker 2: would have a full eighty two man turnover, but hey.
23:08
Speaker 1: But when someone gets fired or goes to another team,
23:11
Speaker 1: it can be sixty people that leave, you know, yeah, more.
23:15
Speaker 2: So to your point, Yeah, it's just it's like obviously,
23:19
Speaker 2: you know, like the money talks in our society, and
23:24
Speaker 2: like obviously these conferences want to make money. But if
23:29
Speaker 2: the playoff were to expand, it's like didn't like, I know, hey,
23:31
Speaker 2: money's cool and all, but you're it would really it
23:34
Speaker 2: would really hurt the sport. And obviously, you know, the
23:38
Speaker 2: SEC in the Big ten or try and do what
23:40
Speaker 2: they got to do in Big twelve and acec want
23:42
Speaker 2: to be part of the two. But to me, if
23:45
Speaker 2: the playoff ever got above like sixteen teams, it would
23:49
Speaker 2: really like okay, cool, we got your super conference, power
23:52
Speaker 2: conferences and stuff, and you're gonna have like seven teams.
23:54
Speaker 2: It's like, well, what is what is the purpose then
23:57
Speaker 2: of really competing in the regular season? And hey, Alabama
24:01
Speaker 2: lost three games? Is here Ohio s they lost three games.
24:04
Speaker 2: Notre Dame lost three games, but they're in the playoff now,
24:06
Speaker 2: So who cares? Like he could be.
24:08
Speaker 1: Four and four in your you know, five and four
24:09
Speaker 1: in your conference and you're in.
24:11
Speaker 2: You know, yeah, and the there there'd be the motivation
24:15
Speaker 2: to schedule and like to have big games like you
24:17
Speaker 2: obviously you know when oh you place Texas, who would
24:20
Speaker 2: still feel like a big game, but like all right,
24:23
Speaker 2: you lost, it's like okay, well we're still gonna make
24:26
Speaker 2: the playoffs. So cool. Like, you know, there's one thing
24:30
Speaker 2: that makes college football so fun is that losing that
24:34
Speaker 2: one game to your rival or one time you have
24:37
Speaker 2: an update can ruin your season. And that's I think
24:40
Speaker 2: why we love the sports so much. Like last year,
24:42
Speaker 2: Notre Dame, by the grace of God, had to hang
24:45
Speaker 2: on and had to have a perfect season after their
24:47
Speaker 2: Mac loss or that.
24:48
Speaker 1: We never would have guessed they would have ran off
24:50
Speaker 1: that kind of you know what I mean after losing
24:53
Speaker 1: that team.
24:53
Speaker 2: But after that one loss, Chris, there was like, dude,
24:56
Speaker 2: we gotta stay perfect in the regular season, you know.
24:59
Speaker 1: More.
25:00
Speaker 2: That's what made that Alabama Vandy game so special, ye like,
25:03
Speaker 2: oh shit, like and that was one of those punches
25:06
Speaker 2: on the resume that costumer South Carolina.
25:08
Speaker 1: You know, they couldn't go home or freaking you know,
25:11
Speaker 1: dominated Bama and we're like, they're done, dude, holy shit,
25:14
Speaker 1: they're done, you know.
25:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's what made that Georgia Tech Georgia game
25:17
Speaker 2: so much fun.
25:18
Speaker 1: Yes, that's a great example all.
25:21
Speaker 2: Those and like last year, like Alabama, my guy Lane
25:24
Speaker 2: Kiff and I'll get my quote in this week and
25:27
Speaker 2: uh and South Carolina we're all so close to making it.
25:30
Speaker 2: But didn't like that good for the sport.
25:34
Speaker 1: If it didn't for the right reasons, you know, yeah, yeah,
25:37
Speaker 1: that was what was cool about it.
25:39
Speaker 2: True. But if we were to go up to this
25:41
Speaker 2: proposed number of a bigger number, right.
25:43
Speaker 1: Well you know, we're gonna seven teams from both sides
25:46
Speaker 1: or something like that, seven from the big time, the
25:50
Speaker 1: n SEC.
25:51
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're no, like we don't need we don't need
25:54
Speaker 2: seven SEC teams like you know, it's it would really
25:57
Speaker 2: just kind of kill what makes the sports beautiful. And yeah,
26:00
Speaker 2: oh yeah, yeah, okay, so I mean pretty much. And
26:03
Speaker 2: you know, then you Alabama, then you won't see a
26:07
Speaker 2: game like Ohio State Texas because why would you want
26:11
Speaker 2: to risk play Ohio State Texas If you know, hey,
26:13
Speaker 2: as long as we lose three games, we're gonna go
26:15
Speaker 2: to the tournament. Why play a team like Texas started
26:18
Speaker 2: the year, which could be a loss that we don't
26:19
Speaker 2: really need to take, you know. So it just like
26:23
Speaker 2: we've always heard, like the the the NC double A,
26:25
Speaker 2: are they ever gonna go to seventy eight or ninety two?
26:27
Speaker 2: It's like, I hope March Maddens doesn't, but money does talk,
26:31
Speaker 2: and that's how our society can run at times. And
26:33
Speaker 2: so I'm sure within ten to fifteen years we might
26:36
Speaker 2: have a seventy eighteen March Mattess So we might have
26:39
Speaker 2: a twenty four team college football tournament, but hopefully that
26:44
Speaker 2: is not not until like twenty thirty five or something
26:47
Speaker 2: like when we're hopef I'll be living in Minnesota next year.
26:50
Speaker 2: So when hey, when we're in our sixties, Man, if
26:52
Speaker 2: we're having a beer and watching this stuff and it's
26:55
Speaker 2: twenty four and NC double A is eighty four, you know,
26:58
Speaker 2: so be it. But at least give us ten years
27:00
Speaker 2: of kind of just keeping it how it is, because
27:02
Speaker 2: it would just kind of it would the radio season
27:05
Speaker 2: just won't be as fun. I don't know. We'll see.
27:07
Speaker 2: At least we'll be good for this year and a
27:09
Speaker 2: few more. But yeah, just keep things in check a
27:11
Speaker 2: little bit, y'all.
27:12
Speaker 1: Please, Yeah, because sixteen would have worked last year. I'm
27:16
Speaker 1: pretty sure sixteen makes sense, especially if you do or fourteen.
27:21
Speaker 1: I prefer fourteen and give the top two teams a bye. Sure.
27:25
Speaker 1: I mean some of the ideas coming out of it
27:28
Speaker 1: would poll college football away from the bull system more
27:33
Speaker 1: in that scenario, which I do like. But I think
27:36
Speaker 1: you can already do that if you added sixteen. If
27:39
Speaker 1: you went to sixteen, you could have the first two
27:42
Speaker 1: rounds at home, you know, and still accomplish moving away
27:48
Speaker 1: and maybe some of those more high profile games could
27:51
Speaker 1: go to teams that are nine and three, eight and four,
27:54
Speaker 1: and that getting that ninth or tenth win would be
27:56
Speaker 1: a big deal again, you know that type of thing.
27:58
Speaker 1: But yeah, one thing I'll say about the changing is rosters,
28:05
Speaker 1: Like I think losing starters hurt. I don't think you
28:11
Speaker 1: know teams that used to build a stockpile four and
28:15
Speaker 1: five stars, especially like four and high three stars, you
28:18
Speaker 1: know on the second team. That's where a lot of
28:22
Speaker 1: them spread out as we know, which is awesome, but
28:26
Speaker 1: also just the team depth now, keeping your team and
28:29
Speaker 1: having guys that are going to develop, maybe it takes
28:32
Speaker 1: three years to develop, maybe four or the red shirt
28:36
Speaker 1: senior year they're ready to go or whatever. At least
28:39
Speaker 1: two to three years of development that revenue Athletic Department,
28:45
Speaker 1: revenue salary cap. I think that'll fix some of the
28:48
Speaker 1: stuff you're talking about as far as so much transition.
28:51
Speaker 1: You know this year they allowed for technically more scholarships
28:56
Speaker 1: now and so it's you know that that does kind
29:04
Speaker 1: of I think that'll help build to keep still have
29:08
Speaker 1: the development programs and guys on your team that you
29:12
Speaker 1: know to your point, because that isn't one official yet,
29:18
Speaker 1: but it's just a matter of things going through and
29:23
Speaker 1: they do cap out, you know, at least the caps out.
29:26
Speaker 1: You can't just spend all the money or whatever. But
29:28
Speaker 1: I think that'll help as far as the you know,
29:31
Speaker 1: the the two three in four, but really keeping your starters.
29:36
Speaker 1: If you can keep your starters, you're in pretty good shape,
29:39
Speaker 1: you know. So ultimately, I don't think they'll go to
29:45
Speaker 1: that twenty four or twenty eight. I think it'll be
29:48
Speaker 1: fourteen or sixteen, which I'm okay with now that we're
29:52
Speaker 1: here and we realize, you know, how deep the talent
29:57
Speaker 1: base is now spread out more. But yeah, that the
30:01
Speaker 1: whole thing. And I understand, like if you look at
30:05
Speaker 1: the numbers, there's I think there's one hundred and thirty
30:07
Speaker 1: six this year teams, right, okay, yeah, I'm good now,
30:11
Speaker 1: So what one hundred and thirty six teams? So and
30:16
Speaker 1: and so you could make an argument that in pro sports,
30:20
Speaker 1: you know, half or almost half the teams because what
30:23
Speaker 1: is it, fourteen teams make the NFL because it's seven
30:27
Speaker 1: on each side, right, yeah, make thirteen out of thirty
30:30
Speaker 1: two and and and you can you know when you
30:34
Speaker 1: hear in basketball hockey's even more it is half or
30:37
Speaker 1: mary half yeah, yep. And So to me, it's like,
30:41
Speaker 1: I understand those arguments, but the whole thing in college
30:44
Speaker 1: football is different. First of all, it's been a lot
30:47
Speaker 1: around a lot longer and we're used to this is
30:50
Speaker 1: how it goes, and that is the difference. For team sports.
30:53
Speaker 1: We know the regular season is by far, you know,
30:58
Speaker 1: the best shit. So to me that I agree, that
31:02
Speaker 1: would really ruin, Like, yeah, you're always gonna get pump
31:06
Speaker 1: for your arrival, but like, I'd much rather have a
31:10
Speaker 1: team like rivalry weeks awesome. The last two weeks now
31:14
Speaker 1: are anticipated majorly and a lot of that has to
31:19
Speaker 1: do is trying to be the top twelve now or
31:21
Speaker 1: sixteen or whatever. And we saw that adding like, hey dude,
31:25
Speaker 1: if your rival can knock off like it's one thing.
31:28
Speaker 1: You know last year Minnesota knocked off Wisconsin so they
31:31
Speaker 1: couldn't go to a ballgame, but imagine knocking them out
31:35
Speaker 1: of the playoffs. You know, that type of shit just
31:39
Speaker 1: you know, adds to the rivalry stuff. So that that
31:43
Speaker 1: was pretty good. That would be that's where we gotta be.
31:48
Speaker 1: So what do you think of the Michigan NCAA ruling?
31:52
Speaker 1: Because people either swing one way kind of extreme or
31:57
Speaker 1: the other. I've heard from multiple people, whether you know
32:03
Speaker 1: on podcasts or even on ESPN or a couple of
32:06
Speaker 1: friends I've talked to, and for whatever reason, they keep
32:10
Speaker 1: bringing up, well, Penn State got this, Penn State got
32:13
Speaker 1: That's like, well, hold on, dude, let's not go to
32:15
Speaker 1: the Penn State because that was a law that was
32:18
Speaker 1: broken in an extreme way. To break a law and rules,
32:24
Speaker 1: I think people have to I think there's better examples
32:28
Speaker 1: of comparing the Michigan thing. Then go right to Penn State,
32:33
Speaker 1: because Penn State was a criminal activity that broke a law. Marshall,
32:39
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. It's not NCAA rules, you know.
32:43
Speaker 1: So I think there's a lot other examples out there
32:47
Speaker 1: that you could say, well, this team got worse than
32:50
Speaker 1: Michigan or whatever, and I'm cool with that, but when
32:53
Speaker 1: you start to bring up Penn State, it's like, you're
32:56
Speaker 1: really gonna compare that to that. I think the reason
33:00
Speaker 1: why Michigan got in trouble because it was blatant. It
33:04
Speaker 1: was blatantly they cheated, you know, they blatantly cheated rather
33:08
Speaker 1: than we all know everybody you're trying to steal the
33:11
Speaker 1: signs during the game. Uh. But when you have a guy,
33:15
Speaker 1: you know, on his off week going on a max sideline,
33:19
Speaker 1: you know, that type of thing. That's where they blatantly
33:22
Speaker 1: didn't you know, they stepped the line and they made
33:26
Speaker 1: that used to be legal back in the day, but
33:28
Speaker 1: they realized not every school can afford to send people around,
33:33
Speaker 1: you know, So that's why it became, you know, illegal.
33:35
Speaker 1: But it's still a rule, not a law, and it
33:39
Speaker 1: doesn't have anything to do with like sexually abusing kids,
33:41
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So I think that's where
33:43
Speaker 1: it's like, dude, don't even bring Penn State up into this.
33:47
Speaker 1: There's so many other people that have got in trouble
33:49
Speaker 1: for stuff that you don't have to go to extreme
33:51
Speaker 1: when it comes to that, you know.
33:54
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I still think looking back, like you
33:57
Speaker 2: obviously it was so long ago, but like USC really
34:00
Speaker 2: did take the worst of it out of all, like
34:02
Speaker 2: after what you did compared to that, like, Okay, Reggie
34:05
Speaker 2: Bush you know, had a nice car in some big houses,
34:08
Speaker 2: like damn, like you know they you know. I but
34:12
Speaker 2: like for Michigan, like it goes back to the thing
34:15
Speaker 2: of you know, are you punching the school or punching
34:16
Speaker 2: the kids? Like and like the fact that there's no
34:20
Speaker 2: put Like, I don't know, I guess I was just
34:22
Speaker 2: kind of neutron the whole thing because you gave him
34:25
Speaker 2: a postseason financial revenue ban, but the team's allowed to
34:29
Speaker 2: play in the postseason. Okay, like that it's I They're
34:35
Speaker 2: they're not They're they're they're really facing no repercussion from
34:38
Speaker 2: making the playoffs. Now, if you did a playoff, then
34:41
Speaker 2: it would be like holy shit, you know. But Okay,
34:42
Speaker 2: so Michigan loses on some money, Okay, like that's a
34:46
Speaker 2: that's a financial punishment to the school, but like it's
34:51
Speaker 2: really not affecting the chances of them being a successful team.
34:57
Speaker 2: This I don't know. I I guess I just really
34:59
Speaker 2: didn't a hug feeling on it, because if you're not
35:02
Speaker 2: affecting the the playoff teams chances to be successful in tournament,
35:06
Speaker 2: you know, does it really hurt them? But on the
35:09
Speaker 2: other hand, like the players also weren't involved in it,
35:12
Speaker 2: So is it fair to punish this year's Michigan kids
35:15
Speaker 2: work that dude was doing two years ago? You know?
35:18
Speaker 2: It is that fine line to do you punish the
35:21
Speaker 2: kids who were not involved in it, but then also
35:25
Speaker 2: by not punishing the kids for the win. Last way,
35:28
Speaker 2: is it really does that really set a punishment to
35:31
Speaker 2: deterbute from doing it in the future, you know, because
35:33
Speaker 2: that's always been whether it's for basketball or football. Well,
35:36
Speaker 2: we don't want to punish the kids because those kids
35:38
Speaker 2: weren't involved in what the coaches did. Okay, but then
35:42
Speaker 2: are you really truly punching the school? Well not really,
35:45
Speaker 2: you know, so like it's just such a weird one.
35:49
Speaker 2: Like I think if they would have said, hey, postseason
35:52
Speaker 2: banded for Michigan, which I heard was on the table,
35:54
Speaker 2: it said not to like, that would have been like,
35:57
Speaker 2: oh my god, Wow, the NCAA put the foot down.
35:59
Speaker 2: But ever since really the USC than I'm a fans,
36:03
Speaker 2: I'm a bit biased here, but that probably was one
36:05
Speaker 2: of the worst suspensions they ever gave if you look
36:08
Speaker 2: back long term, how how they got punished. So Michigan, yes,
36:11
Speaker 2: it will hurt them in their pocketbooks, but are also
36:13
Speaker 2: in extremely rich university. So I thought it was well.
36:16
Speaker 1: Miami two separate times got.
36:18
Speaker 2: Well, no, you're right, Miami, Miami. Miami got the hammer
36:21
Speaker 2: dropped on to you're right. But but since since then,
36:25
Speaker 2: you know, but I really think that is the president
36:28
Speaker 2: going forward Chris of I, Well, we're gonna punish these
36:31
Speaker 2: schools financially, but we're not gonna let them affect the
36:35
Speaker 2: kids on the field, which again, I think if you
36:38
Speaker 2: really want to prove your point, you maybe should make
36:41
Speaker 2: one school the the next Miami or USC and say hey, guys,
36:45
Speaker 2: you're you're get a postseason ban, and that might maybe
36:48
Speaker 2: turn turn heads more. So. Yeah, I guess I'm just
36:52
Speaker 2: a little torn on it because it seems like in
36:55
Speaker 2: Van Cuba for basketball or football, you're afraid to punch
36:58
Speaker 2: the kids, which I get, But then are you truly
37:01
Speaker 2: doing a punishment because a school like Michigan, financially, dude,
37:04
Speaker 2: they're still gonna be printing green like crazy this year.
37:06
Speaker 2: So you're gonna maybe ding them a little bit if
37:08
Speaker 2: they make the playoffs, and you're gonna keep a couple
37:10
Speaker 2: hundred thousand out of their pocket. But well, the way
37:12
Speaker 2: that campus is, and you got one hundred thousand people
37:14
Speaker 2: going to your game every Saturday, you're not gonna be
37:17
Speaker 2: You're not gonna be bleeding money financially, I don't think.
37:22
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, you know, when I first heard about it,
37:26
Speaker 1: I was glad they didn't take away the championship because
37:29
Speaker 1: the reason why, and a lot of people called for that,
37:32
Speaker 1: but I think that's just calling for bullshit. It doesn't
37:34
Speaker 1: make any sense because they busted the guy before they
37:38
Speaker 1: made their whole run. He was already off the team,
37:41
Speaker 1: So had now had they not busted them and they
37:44
Speaker 1: went all the way won the championship, then they busted them. Well,
37:47
Speaker 1: now you're talking differently, you know. Sure, yeah, that was
37:50
Speaker 1: when they had to be Penn State, when they had
37:52
Speaker 1: to beat Ohio State, when they had to beat Alabama,
37:54
Speaker 1: when they had to be they didn't have that advantage.
37:56
Speaker 1: So I was glad about that. And then I thought,
37:59
Speaker 1: you know, I would of liked to see a scholarship reduction,
38:02
Speaker 1: but then I really and we're not used to that's
38:06
Speaker 1: my first thought. But then I thought, well, actually it
38:09
Speaker 1: is a scholarship reduction because I just talked about that
38:13
Speaker 1: house settlement that's gonna go through in that the athletic
38:17
Speaker 1: department can now spend money on whatever teams you want,
38:21
Speaker 1: and of course a lot of it's gonna be football
38:22
Speaker 1: and basketball. So if you take away some of that
38:26
Speaker 1: official revenue that actually does affect scholarships, you know, so
38:33
Speaker 1: I kind of opened up my mind. It's like, yeah,
38:35
Speaker 1: huh that they actually did take scholarships away now I
38:39
Speaker 1: think about it, but uh, and then they're on I
38:45
Speaker 1: will say they are on some you know, if if
38:47
Speaker 1: they do anything even somewhat minor, I do think there're's
38:52
Speaker 1: gonna be a bigger issue then, you know what I mean,
38:54
Speaker 1: because they are on probation and shit like that. But yeah,
38:59
Speaker 1: I mean so, I think ultimately moving forward the next
39:02
Speaker 1: two years, the NLI still exist. Not that they have
39:08
Speaker 1: the biggest nl I about everyone, but they have enough there.
39:11
Speaker 1: But the other part of the revenue thing now where
39:14
Speaker 1: you're athletic, that will it'll be interesting to see if
39:18
Speaker 1: they can keep a team around that quarterback at a
39:20
Speaker 1: high level, you know. So we'll see on that. But
39:25
Speaker 1: that that and then we're going we'll also find out
39:28
Speaker 1: and and be able to compare it to other teams
39:31
Speaker 1: in the future, you know, and see was it just
39:34
Speaker 1: the blue blood that got off or are they gonna
39:36
Speaker 1: do that to a random school? You know? So did
39:41
Speaker 1: I So, yeah, I don't know. I don't think they're
39:44
Speaker 1: gonna win the you know, go to the final four
39:47
Speaker 1: this year or nothing like that. Anyway, But you know,
39:50
Speaker 1: it is a that is an interesting point. Maybe they
39:53
Speaker 1: could have just had one year, you know. And another thing,
40:00
Speaker 1: they actually, even though we know horbon knew, they couldn't
40:04
Speaker 1: find the evidence that he actually that there's a paper
40:07
Speaker 1: trail or a text trail, right, And I know people said, well,
40:13
Speaker 1: you know, oh boy deleted Texas, but those are on
40:16
Speaker 1: the cloud.
40:16
Speaker 2: Dude, Yeah, they'll find it.
40:19
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that I think that's more of a drama.
40:24
Speaker 1: I deleted because I had to make room for photos.
40:28
Speaker 1: You know, I think that sounds really goofy, right, But
40:33
Speaker 1: ultimately I never heard a report where his phone was
40:36
Speaker 1: not on the cloud, you know what I mean. So
40:39
Speaker 1: once I hear that report, then I'd say, Okay, that's
40:41
Speaker 1: suspicions of shit. But you know, if you're deleting Texas,
40:45
Speaker 1: that doesn't do a damn thing, you know what I mean. Now,
40:48
Speaker 1: did they have I don't know, did they have a
40:51
Speaker 1: private investigator? I don't know that that. We'll see how
40:54
Speaker 1: that works out. But moving on to real contenders. Obviously Texas,
41:02
Speaker 1: I have a couple that I look at. Obviously, Texas,
41:08
Speaker 1: Penn State. Because of the combinational they brought so many
41:12
Speaker 1: people back. And then they also finally upgraded their wide receivers, which,
41:18
Speaker 1: as we know, was that was a huge struggle. What
41:21
Speaker 1: was it one catch in their final game or no
41:24
Speaker 1: catches one or no catch in their final game from
41:26
Speaker 1: the wide receivers, you know, Georgia, I think you got
41:31
Speaker 1: to put up there. Can they get a run game going?
41:33
Speaker 1: Can their old line get figured out? If so, I
41:36
Speaker 1: think that helps the young quarterback. Notre Dame will figure
41:40
Speaker 1: out if they're good enough at quarterback because their defense
41:44
Speaker 1: is going to be nasty, Their running game is gonna
41:47
Speaker 1: be nasty. They got an awesome running back, their line
41:51
Speaker 1: is crazy, their secondary, but can that quarterback you know,
41:57
Speaker 1: perform at a high level.
41:59
Speaker 2: And then.
42:01
Speaker 1: You look at Clemson right like they have so many
42:05
Speaker 1: returning starters, and if this is ever the year that
42:10
Speaker 1: Clemson's gonna do it their way, it has to be
42:13
Speaker 1: this year because they are gonna lose talent next year. Finally,
42:16
Speaker 1: because they developed a kind of old school way and
42:19
Speaker 1: they actually did add like a a portal guy here there,
42:24
Speaker 1: and we know a couple of years ago they added
42:26
Speaker 1: an outside coordinator that they normally would go within. I
42:32
Speaker 1: look at those as like real deal control and Ohio State,
42:38
Speaker 1: but the quarterback and the D line. They lost so
42:40
Speaker 1: much from that D line and then we don't know
42:43
Speaker 1: about the quarterback. I would put them in that realm
42:47
Speaker 1: just off of talent. But as far as like true
42:50
Speaker 1: contenders right now, those are those that's my list. I
42:55
Speaker 1: have a dark horse list. Would you add any more
43:00
Speaker 1: or to that list as far as real contenders or
43:04
Speaker 1: you know, because I do have several, you know, dark horses.
43:11
Speaker 2: I would never cross off Alabama. I think that looking back,
43:16
Speaker 2: de Boor had himself a pretty good first year there again,
43:19
Speaker 2: they were what you could argue the first team missed
43:22
Speaker 2: the playoff last year.
43:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely were l LS.
43:27
Speaker 2: You I think that. I think Brian Kelly's and he's
43:32
Speaker 2: got some pressure on himself this year. Whether you believe
43:34
Speaker 2: that or not, but I've been reading that. I've always
43:36
Speaker 2: kind of not been the biggest fan of him. But
43:38
Speaker 2: they also have a good quarterback coming back. So I
43:40
Speaker 2: think LSU, if the pieces fall the way they should,
43:44
Speaker 2: could have a shot at making a run. And then
43:48
Speaker 2: I think someone out of the Big twelve this year,
43:50
Speaker 2: you know, could potentially be a potential threat like Arizona
43:55
Speaker 2: State shock people last year, and there's a reason. And
43:57
Speaker 2: I know they've kind of loaded up again, and there's
43:59
Speaker 2: a reason to think why they couldn't. And I think
44:01
Speaker 2: the one name I've heard just around because they spent
44:04
Speaker 2: a ton of money, uh, would be Texas Tech. Like
44:07
Speaker 2: I think their preseason R eight twenty three, but some
44:10
Speaker 2: some oil dude down there dropped dropped a lot of bags.
44:14
Speaker 2: So could Texas Tech go to the Final four?
44:16
Speaker 1: Yeah?
44:16
Speaker 2: They probably could if you bought yourself a team like
44:18
Speaker 2: Old Mist did or Ohio State did last year, and
44:21
Speaker 2: maybe all the pieces fit. And I mean, hell, if
44:24
Speaker 2: Texas Tech runs that are gattling through the Big twelve
44:27
Speaker 2: and they're in there, they and they get maybe a
44:30
Speaker 2: top four seed, they could do it.
44:31
Speaker 1: You know, it get by their team last year. They
44:36
Speaker 1: brought a lot of that back.
44:39
Speaker 2: Or you know yeah, no, yeah, they.
44:41
Speaker 1: Sent money of course, but they didn't buy that. They
44:44
Speaker 1: didn't build it through the transfer portal. True.
44:47
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you're right? Uh what yeah you said Ohio State?
44:52
Speaker 1: Right?
44:53
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, they spent a lot of my year. Right,
44:56
Speaker 2: But now Texas Tech, like they I don't know, I
45:00
Speaker 2: I don't know if it adds any peeps, I'll state,
45:01
Speaker 2: but like if you've if you've accompany enough people to
45:04
Speaker 2: where you have, you're gonna recognize and you've got a
45:06
Speaker 2: guy that's just wanting to spend the cash. It won't
45:09
Speaker 2: surprised me. And you have an easier route to make
45:11
Speaker 2: it there than the teams in the Big ten or
45:13
Speaker 2: the SEC. So yeah, I would just add Bama, LSU,
45:17
Speaker 2: in Texas Tech. Obviously people in Lubwick are you gonna
45:20
Speaker 2: have a lot of work to do, but maybe it
45:23
Speaker 2: is that combination of everything fits and again your your
45:27
Speaker 2: war path to get there to the final four is
45:29
Speaker 2: much easier per se than in Alabama, LSU, Georgia. I
45:34
Speaker 2: won't say Clemson is Clemson as or like Ohio State
45:37
Speaker 2: or Penn State schedule.
45:39
Speaker 1: Yeah and yeah. My point was that Ohio State brought
45:44
Speaker 1: it back a bunch of talent that could have went
45:46
Speaker 1: pro and that's where they spent most of their money on.
45:49
Speaker 1: Whereas Tech Tech they did the nut. They had the
45:52
Speaker 1: number one portal. You're right, they were going nuts in
45:55
Speaker 1: the portal, so you gotta look at them like that. Now,
45:59
Speaker 1: my dark horse is include a lot of the teams
46:01
Speaker 1: you mentioned LSU. Can they have a solid defense and
46:06
Speaker 1: then can that quarterback not throw the dumb pass, you know,
46:12
Speaker 1: because the guys got talent. Like remember when they were
46:15
Speaker 1: one loss during that during last year and we're like, oh,
46:18
Speaker 1: hang on, they're starting to look the part and then
46:21
Speaker 1: they got beat up by Texas A and M I
46:23
Speaker 1: think it was. So can that QB really like get
46:29
Speaker 1: rid of all that extra stuff, you know, because the
46:32
Speaker 1: guy's talented, you know, he is talented. I have Bama too, QB.
46:38
Speaker 1: But at Bama is stacked. They got a lot whoever
46:40
Speaker 1: stayed after State and left a lot of those guys
46:44
Speaker 1: are back, you know, so they are loaded. They are
46:47
Speaker 1: really loaded. And it comes down to QB. I think
46:52
Speaker 1: I put so I got and I also oregon QB.
46:56
Speaker 1: You know they gotta. This is the first time they
46:58
Speaker 1: don't have like a fifth year scene in a while.
47:02
Speaker 1: So and the thing about More is he struggled as
47:06
Speaker 1: a true freshman at UCLA. But the thing I do
47:11
Speaker 1: like about it is he went someplace knowing he wasn't
47:14
Speaker 1: going to be the starter and he sat there you
47:17
Speaker 1: know what I mean, and learned. So that kind of
47:19
Speaker 1: makes me think we'll see maybe some of that five
47:21
Speaker 1: star talent can just fix because remember Bo Nicks when
47:24
Speaker 1: he went to Oregon. It wasn't like he was lighting
47:27
Speaker 1: things on fire in the sec right, he was struggling
47:32
Speaker 1: in the big games. So we'll see there. I also
47:35
Speaker 1: brought in South Carolina because of the quarterback. The d
47:42
Speaker 1: line's still gonna be good, but they did lose talent
47:46
Speaker 1: off of it, and you know, they closed so well,
47:53
Speaker 1: but was it just they just got it going and
47:56
Speaker 1: now they have to do it again in the tight games.
47:58
Speaker 1: We'll see. You know, I would put Florida there if
48:03
Speaker 1: their QB's healthy, because I think their defense is going
48:06
Speaker 1: to be really good. But man, that schedule, the South
48:09
Speaker 1: Carolina and Florida schedule is freaking ridiculous. So that's what
48:14
Speaker 1: that's kind of like a fringe dark horse, i'd say.
48:19
Speaker 1: And then oh, I mentioned Clemson earlier. You know Miami
48:26
Speaker 1: at defense cornerbacks especially, they brought in literally like three
48:31
Speaker 1: cornerbacks martial in a safety and they have like there
48:36
Speaker 1: was two guys that were young that's that were like
48:39
Speaker 1: the only good things of that secondary. But they also
48:43
Speaker 1: are going to play a different style because clearly that
48:46
Speaker 1: risk reward stuff wasn't working, especially as they got more injured.
48:50
Speaker 1: It's like dude, come on, but their front seven is
48:53
Speaker 1: gonna be nasty. We'll see if that secondary can go.
48:56
Speaker 1: Like we'll get into the Miami stuff a little bit
49:00
Speaker 1: more when we break down the game. But when you
49:03
Speaker 1: go this deep though, I mean we just mentioned you know,
49:06
Speaker 1: like eight, eight to ten teams.
49:09
Speaker 2: Yeah, legit.
49:10
Speaker 1: And then ASU by the way, I want to say,
49:14
Speaker 1: they got their quarterback back, they got their stud wide
49:17
Speaker 1: receiver back. I want to see, but remember when they
49:20
Speaker 1: needed him, Scattabu always came with a big game. Yes,
49:25
Speaker 1: can they have two or three guys that can be
49:28
Speaker 1: productive and then the rest of the quarterback and the
49:30
Speaker 1: wide receivers and all that takeover. I think you have
49:34
Speaker 1: to put ASU in Texas Tech, in that dark horse,
49:39
Speaker 1: just because we know they're capable, and especially with ASU,
49:42
Speaker 1: because they we know that the coach is not going
49:44
Speaker 1: to be there that much longer, unfortunately for Sun Devil fans.
49:48
Speaker 2: But why he's there. He's a hell of coach. Yeah true. Yeah. Well,
49:54
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna Florida. I was gonna say it sometime
49:58
Speaker 2: or the show, and you mentioned it. I'm gonna say now,
50:00
Speaker 2: Florida's schedule is just ungodly unfair. Their first game is
50:04
Speaker 2: Long Island win, South Florida win. Okay, then their next
50:08
Speaker 2: five out of six games, it's not even right. They
50:10
Speaker 2: go Week three, they go to LSU. Next week they
50:15
Speaker 2: go to Miami. So right now LSU is ninth, Miami's tenth,
50:19
Speaker 2: I know, preseason numbers whatever. So you go to LSU,
50:22
Speaker 2: go to Miami, then you host Texas, and then you
50:27
Speaker 2: go to Texas A and M so you have to
50:30
Speaker 2: play and two, I would say.
50:32
Speaker 1: If they're they should get in the playoffs.
50:35
Speaker 2: Two of the top five toughest environments in college football
50:37
Speaker 2: at LSU and at Texas A and M. And then
50:40
Speaker 2: springle between that, you got Miami Hurricanes at Miami and
50:43
Speaker 2: you have to play Texas at home. And then after
50:46
Speaker 2: that whole thing, you get to host Mississippi State, which
50:49
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna call a loss now because after that
50:51
Speaker 2: gotlet you probably need a breather. And then after you
50:54
Speaker 2: host Mississippi State, you host Georgia. So in a five
50:59
Speaker 2: games straight, five US the teams you gotta play LSU, Miami,
51:02
Speaker 2: Texas and m and Georgia. Dude, that that's not even fair. Now.
51:08
Speaker 2: Then compared to Missou, who I'm a fan of, Missouri.
51:11
Speaker 2: If you got bread off missou is sec schedule, you
51:14
Speaker 2: assume they're from a different planet. So you got to
51:17
Speaker 2: take advantage of your yours you get because eventually there's
51:19
Speaker 2: gonna be a year where Florida gets the Missoo type schedule.
51:22
Speaker 2: Miszoo gets to Florida, it will take turns and they
51:24
Speaker 2: have find ways to balance it out. But if you're
51:27
Speaker 2: a Florida fantas, you're compared to Missouri fantas. Here Missoo
51:30
Speaker 2: can make the playoff. Florida. I mean, if you get
51:32
Speaker 2: through that grind, you deserve it. But Galdy that that's
51:35
Speaker 2: a that's a beast of a schedule. Chris, that that's
51:38
Speaker 2: some hard good luck.
51:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, like I said it, they go nine and three.
51:43
Speaker 1: I say, we signed a petition to get him in
51:45
Speaker 1: the playoffs.
51:45
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, Well the thing of all the quality wins
51:48
Speaker 2: you would have.
51:49
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly exactly, they'd be undeniable, man, I mean that
51:54
Speaker 1: you'd have to give him in there. That is crazy, dude,
51:56
Speaker 1: that is in South Carolina's got a tough schedule. Two
52:00
Speaker 1: And it's funny because it almost ends up like a
52:05
Speaker 1: home and home like the Big Ten tried to do,
52:08
Speaker 1: because remember they had that schedule figured out, but then
52:10
Speaker 1: they added four teams and so it kind of mixed
52:13
Speaker 1: it up. So what I think they're doing is like
52:15
Speaker 1: it's kind of like a like this the schedule we
52:20
Speaker 1: had last year, we're gonna have in two years, and
52:23
Speaker 1: then this year we have our schedule in the Big ten,
52:26
Speaker 1: and then in two years we'll have that same just
52:29
Speaker 1: home and away. So I think they're doing it that way.
52:31
Speaker 1: But all I know is Florida for like next year
52:36
Speaker 1: in the year after better have a light schedule. Same
52:39
Speaker 1: with Oklahoma. Yeah, Texas a little bit. Now. Texas is
52:44
Speaker 1: a stronger schedule this year than last year, but still
52:48
Speaker 1: they don't have the run Like you're just mentioning South
52:50
Speaker 1: Carolina is crazy too. So yeah, that that is crazy, dude,
52:57
Speaker 1: that is Nuts's let's get into it week one obviously,
53:04
Speaker 1: you know, eleven am on Fox number one, Texas at
53:10
Speaker 1: number three Ohio state. You know, Texas is knocked on
53:16
Speaker 1: that door fairly strongly in the last two years, and
53:21
Speaker 1: we can now finally say that they are back as
53:24
Speaker 1: a national powerhouse. We know the arch manning height is galore.
53:34
Speaker 1: You know, we got to see him against lesser teams
53:38
Speaker 1: past the ball. We got to see him run the
53:41
Speaker 1: ball in big games near the goal line and all
53:45
Speaker 1: that stuff. The fact that he's going into his third
53:49
Speaker 1: year really is a big thing. The fact that obviously,
53:54
Speaker 1: you know, he's got a good NLI or whatever, so
53:57
Speaker 1: he stayed, which some guys maybe in his stature, would
54:01
Speaker 1: have left if they didn't get the starting job last year.
54:04
Speaker 1: So I think that bodes well. You could say they've
54:07
Speaker 1: lost a lot of talent these last couple of years,
54:10
Speaker 1: but they've also developed, and even the head coaches like, hey,
54:13
Speaker 1: these are all my guys now, you know what I mean,
54:15
Speaker 1: because he's been there for a while. So when I
54:17
Speaker 1: think about that, I'm like, yeah, I mean, you could say,
54:20
Speaker 1: like the offensive line is a bit of a question
54:23
Speaker 1: mark right now, but you know, by the end of
54:27
Speaker 1: the year, it'll probably be in good shape, you know.
54:30
Speaker 1: And you also have a run threat now, a real
54:33
Speaker 1: run threat in Manning to go along with two stud
54:36
Speaker 1: because they get one of their studs that got hurt
54:38
Speaker 1: backs to study running backs. They got outside talent. Ohio
54:43
Speaker 1: State lost a whole bunch. I don't think they'll drop
54:47
Speaker 1: off as much as Michigan did last year because of
54:53
Speaker 1: what they have still on defense, but especially like wide receiver.
54:57
Speaker 1: You know, if you look at the quarterback, it was
55:01
Speaker 1: gonna be a struggle for Michigan. But then who they
55:04
Speaker 1: have to throw to anyway, even if you could throw
55:05
Speaker 1: the ball, you know, nobody, so that I don't think
55:09
Speaker 1: they'll fall off as much. But the quarterback who's been
55:13
Speaker 1: there for a little while, a little while and developed
55:16
Speaker 1: and all that they got. You could say their defensive
55:19
Speaker 1: line is going to be let's see, because they brought
55:22
Speaker 1: they had so many guys back that have been there
55:25
Speaker 1: so long. But when you have a guy like Downs
55:28
Speaker 1: in the secondary, when you have the recruiting base, when
55:32
Speaker 1: you can go get a guy, Yeah, Like I said,
55:36
Speaker 1: I could see like a ten and two year for
55:38
Speaker 1: Ohio State. I don't. I don't, which is funny because
55:41
Speaker 1: that's what they were last year. But what are your
55:43
Speaker 1: thoughts on this matchup? Are you believing the arch Manning hype, like, hey,
55:48
Speaker 1: just hand him the Heisman right now? Or do you
55:50
Speaker 1: think there might be some bumps and bruises and as
55:53
Speaker 1: they figure this stuff out. I mean, Wells one and
55:59
Speaker 1: a half point favorite right now, something like that.
56:02
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that this is maybe some of the
56:04
Speaker 2: most type we ever had for a kid that hasn't
56:07
Speaker 2: really proven it much. Not that he can't be great,
56:08
Speaker 2: but he you know, he hasn't He hasn't had a
56:11
Speaker 2: competition like this yet, right, So obviously I think his
56:15
Speaker 2: last name has done a lot for him. But also
56:17
Speaker 2: he's crewing. He probably should be the starter, you know.
56:20
Speaker 2: But to some of those points last year, if he
56:23
Speaker 2: was that special, why did he take your spot? Because
56:26
Speaker 2: yours isn't you know, youwers isn't gonna be some NFL
56:29
Speaker 2: god on a Sunday. So in a way, maybe he.
56:31
Speaker 1: Was banged up down the stretch of the seat.
56:34
Speaker 2: So maybe Sarkisian sees something that we don't, or maybe
56:37
Speaker 2: he was getting better throughout the year. Maybe it goes
56:39
Speaker 2: and shows out. But again, if he loses this first
56:42
Speaker 2: like big start in the roder House state, is that
56:44
Speaker 2: slap in the face. Not really, No, So I I
56:48
Speaker 2: do think that it seems like what I've been hearing
56:50
Speaker 2: that maybe Texas has the a slight edge of the
56:53
Speaker 2: better players on paper for this matchup. But as we
56:57
Speaker 2: just said, just like uh Iowa State, case State or hell,
57:01
Speaker 2: I was watching that Stanford Hawaii game like Week one,
57:06
Speaker 2: people make mistakes, even even in the NFL they do.
57:08
Speaker 2: So you know, as much as you and I want
57:11
Speaker 2: to see a great game, which I think we could,
57:13
Speaker 2: someone's gonna make some bone head mistakes because it's week one,
57:16
Speaker 2: So I think I naturally kind of give the advantage
57:19
Speaker 2: to the home team And now just text, will Texas
57:22
Speaker 2: be scared to go to Ohio State? Hell no, but
57:25
Speaker 2: what reason is Ohio State I'd be scared about facing Texas. Hey,
57:28
Speaker 2: we won a national championship last year. Yes, both these
57:31
Speaker 2: schools lost talent, but hell, Texas was a slip up
57:34
Speaker 2: away from losing Arizona State. If they don't like full out,
57:38
Speaker 2: send the blitz like crazy. So I think we're in
57:41
Speaker 2: for a fun game. I do think the arch Manning
57:43
Speaker 2: hype is a little bit over the top, but that's
57:45
Speaker 2: how our media works out days. And he's got like, say,
57:47
Speaker 2: he's got the name of the prestige. Yeah, so it'll
57:51
Speaker 2: be a fun one. It'll be fun. You got Gus
57:53
Speaker 2: Johnson on the call. I think I even heard that
57:55
Speaker 2: game day is gonna ESPN is gonna be there too,
57:57
Speaker 2: with like kind of the finale for Cours. So it's
57:59
Speaker 2: not be kind of a cool touch. So I am
58:02
Speaker 2: excited to watch. I'm going to lean towards Ohio State.
58:05
Speaker 2: Just I think you got to give the advantage to
58:07
Speaker 2: the home team. I think if you were to make
58:09
Speaker 2: like a checklist of a colin b who has the advantages,
58:13
Speaker 2: I think you could probably go back and forth on
58:14
Speaker 2: which team you like more, or you can find a
58:16
Speaker 2: way to spin either way. But it is really cool
58:19
Speaker 2: that essentially, I know, we started our season yesterday, but now, brother,
58:23
Speaker 2: we get this for the first game of week one.
58:26
Speaker 2: That's a bous goods we can get for college football.
58:28
Speaker 2: And that's why I don't want to get the twenty
58:31
Speaker 2: four or twenty sixteen playoff team, because teams will be
58:34
Speaker 2: scared to do this game because I do it. If
58:36
Speaker 2: you're Texas Ohio State, we don't need to schedule games
58:39
Speaker 2: like this because we're already in like, let's cakewocket for
58:42
Speaker 2: weeks one through three, you know, and not maybe do
58:45
Speaker 2: games like this, which would hurt the fans and the
58:47
Speaker 2: players in the long run.
58:49
Speaker 1: Now, you can also make the argument that when it
58:51
Speaker 1: is twelve, fourteen or sixteen, that they're not going to
58:54
Speaker 1: schedule those games because they don't want to take an
58:56
Speaker 1: extra l whereas in this system, not that I want
59:00
Speaker 1: the twenty four teams or twenty eight teams, but in
59:02
Speaker 1: that system it's more loosey goosey. Maybe they'd be looking
59:05
Speaker 1: for a higher seed, you know. I don't know.
59:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, you flipped that way too, I don't know.
59:10
Speaker 1: You're right, it is a flip or a flip of
59:13
Speaker 1: a coin type game. I don't think we'll see because
59:16
Speaker 1: remember Florida or sorry Texas in Michigan, that big matchup
59:20
Speaker 1: early and they just they basically Michigan them. They just
59:23
Speaker 1: ran the ball on him so much. I don't think
59:26
Speaker 1: we're gonna see that. But I am gonna go Texas.
59:29
Speaker 1: I don't know if I I'm not handing the the
59:33
Speaker 1: the heisman over to him, that's for sure. I do
59:36
Speaker 1: gotta see more because even remember he went from like
59:40
Speaker 1: an FS seed progress FCS and and then he when
59:47
Speaker 1: he played was it Mississippi State or he did actually
59:49
Speaker 1: play a conference.
59:51
Speaker 2: Gametke Yeah, and he didn't.
59:53
Speaker 1: And it was like it didn't look as good, you know,
59:57
Speaker 1: and they weren't good either, you know, but they weren't
1:00:00
Speaker 1: you know, they weren't a bracket lower. But so yeah,
1:00:04
Speaker 1: I'm not. I think it's just they they've lost so
1:00:07
Speaker 1: much even though they just won the championship. You know,
1:00:13
Speaker 1: I think that I it's a picking game. I'm just
1:00:16
Speaker 1: maybe you know, Texas right near the buzzer late fourth quarter.
1:00:21
Speaker 1: I am gonna go with them to get the job done.
1:00:26
Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't have any money on it. So
1:00:31
Speaker 1: but I'm excited for that game, no doubt about it.
1:00:35
Speaker 1: Another high profile game. You know, it's the battle of
1:00:40
Speaker 1: the same name for their home crowd, their home stadium,
1:00:44
Speaker 1: right Clemson and LSU. Now we know who the real
1:00:48
Speaker 1: death value is. Yes, that's not up for debate, and
1:00:54
Speaker 1: both of this is the really I mean, we're just
1:00:56
Speaker 1: talking about these are real contenders that we got going
1:00:59
Speaker 1: and and I think my he's more of a dark horse.
1:01:01
Speaker 1: But when we get to Notre Dame Miami, Like, dude,
1:01:03
Speaker 1: this is crazy that we have these these true contenders
1:01:08
Speaker 1: are dark horses or fringe dark horse however you want
1:01:10
Speaker 1: to look at it in these matchups. But you know,
1:01:14
Speaker 1: breaking this game down, it's interesting because Clemson, man, they
1:01:20
Speaker 1: have like I mentioned, they have so much returning talent.
1:01:24
Speaker 1: They it's right around a four point advantage right now.
1:01:28
Speaker 1: You know, if you look at the line. Offensive line,
1:01:32
Speaker 1: it's stacked, defensive line stacked there. They got a guy
1:01:36
Speaker 1: who really did look better last year at quarterback, the
1:01:40
Speaker 1: wide receiver talents there, like I mentioned, they even went
1:01:44
Speaker 1: outside and got it. Seems like everybody's got a Purdue
1:01:47
Speaker 1: player this year. I noticed, you good, Hey, the Gophers
1:01:53
Speaker 1: freaking they got a Purdue guy to a tight end.
1:01:55
Speaker 1: So I'm happy. No, this is the year for Dabbo.
1:02:03
Speaker 1: I mean this, if he wants to do his system
1:02:05
Speaker 1: a certain way. If they don't get to the final four,
1:02:09
Speaker 1: he may go back to the drawing board. And I
1:02:11
Speaker 1: know that's kind of tough, but you can't have this
1:02:15
Speaker 1: much return in production and have a three year starter
1:02:18
Speaker 1: at quarterback and not make a run.
1:02:21
Speaker 2: You know.
1:02:23
Speaker 1: But then LSU we talked about it, man like if
1:02:26
Speaker 1: that defense can just be solid, if they can get
1:02:29
Speaker 1: back to a running game. They did lose a lot
1:02:32
Speaker 1: of offensive line talent, but then they brought in a
1:02:36
Speaker 1: fair amount of talent too. I think that Nessmeier. I
1:02:43
Speaker 1: think he is a guy that is going to be
1:02:46
Speaker 1: a combine Like they're gonna love him at the combine,
1:02:49
Speaker 1: right because he just looks the part. But in game decisions.
1:02:54
Speaker 1: Where's he at with that? Having another year back, he
1:02:57
Speaker 1: could have went pro last year. I'm happy came back
1:03:00
Speaker 1: because he needs to. But what are your thoughts on
1:03:03
Speaker 1: this one? I'm going Clemson to win this game just
1:03:07
Speaker 1: by the hair of their chinny chin chins. But Ellen,
1:03:09
Speaker 1: that's another thing, dude, what is it? This would be
1:03:12
Speaker 1: oh to four? I think uh to begin games for
1:03:16
Speaker 1: for LSU under Kelly right, because they the one thing
1:03:19
Speaker 1: I'll say is they generally schedule a tough ass game.
1:03:23
Speaker 1: I'll give Matt. It was USC last year that beat
1:03:26
Speaker 1: a member of that game. Yeah, in all these games
1:03:29
Speaker 1: they had a chance to. You know, it was always
1:03:31
Speaker 1: a chance to. Oh they could have, should have, would have,
1:03:34
Speaker 1: but they just can't get it done. So I mean
1:03:37
Speaker 1: it's almost a must win in that sense for LSU.
1:03:40
Speaker 2: You know, this is that I think chemistry of us
1:03:43
Speaker 2: working together for so long, like you stole my point
1:03:45
Speaker 2: and not that this is like the insider knowledge. But yeah,
1:03:49
Speaker 2: what's gonna be is that LSU always loses these opening
1:03:52
Speaker 2: games because before the before the USC one, they had
1:03:56
Speaker 2: that blunder of loss FSU, which was a pay philosopher
1:04:00
Speaker 2: my ls. Yeah, a couple of good LSU friends. So,
1:04:04
Speaker 2: and I'm not cheering for Dabbo. I maybe I've changed
1:04:08
Speaker 2: as a man this year, but I changed him too
1:04:09
Speaker 2: much of that direction. I will never support that man.
1:04:12
Speaker 2: So not a Clemson fan. But if we're talking money
1:04:15
Speaker 2: in a bet, like you know, I think he got
1:04:19
Speaker 2: a lean towards puncher, just because again, Brian Kelly, who
1:04:22
Speaker 2: you know, finds a way to get those nine to
1:04:24
Speaker 2: ten wins, He's struggled as a coach to get that
1:04:27
Speaker 2: first win of the year in a tough game. So
1:04:30
Speaker 2: your track records telling you that, you know, yeah, uh
1:04:35
Speaker 2: you should favor Clemson. I'm gonna pick LSU. But uh now,
1:04:43
Speaker 2: if you are l.
1:04:44
Speaker 1: S, you like you, you like less hate Kelly compared
1:04:49
Speaker 1: to Dabbo. Is that what's going on here? I will
1:04:54
Speaker 1: never like either of them, Yeah, but you're willing to
1:04:57
Speaker 1: at least lends the There's there's Navo and James Franklin.
1:05:02
Speaker 2: There's a a ten step drop, so you know this,
1:05:06
Speaker 2: James Franklin love, this could be a long year for me, Chris.
1:05:09
Speaker 1: If we're getting trust me, we'll get to that.
1:05:13
Speaker 2: If the Natty is Penn State Clemson, I I probably
1:05:18
Speaker 2: wouldn't watch I maybe for you for the show. But
1:05:22
Speaker 2: if it's Penn State Clemson for a national title, I'll
1:05:25
Speaker 2: just I'll just check on Twitter. I'll just I'll put
1:05:27
Speaker 2: on that that would be that'd be my worst case survived,
1:05:32
Speaker 2: which could happen this year.
1:05:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, I hope it doesn't.
1:05:35
Speaker 2: So yeah, I just think that obviously both these teams
1:05:37
Speaker 2: are talented. LSU is always LSU maybe has a couple
1:05:40
Speaker 2: more athletes. I just in general probably come more far
1:05:43
Speaker 2: four stars, five stars. But that doesn't necessarily mean you're
1:05:46
Speaker 2: the better team. But hey, it's again, are you the
1:05:50
Speaker 2: team's gonna be scared? No? But again, which team makes
1:05:53
Speaker 2: the least amount of mistakes? Last year? In LSU played
1:05:56
Speaker 2: USC and in Vegas again couped too many mishaps. Defense
1:06:00
Speaker 2: let up a little bit too much too Again Yeah,
1:06:05
Speaker 2: just like I gave the advantage to Ohio State. I
1:06:08
Speaker 2: do think now again, I think Death Valley elis you
1:06:10
Speaker 2: Trump's that fell like Clemson, but Clemson's at home. That
1:06:13
Speaker 2: that is that extra energy you get from your home crowd.
1:06:17
Speaker 1: Uh.
1:06:18
Speaker 2: But yeah, I can't I can't say those words. I
1:06:21
Speaker 2: think Brian Kelly shakes off the dust, He's ready to
1:06:24
Speaker 2: go because if they do lose this one, though, them
1:06:27
Speaker 2: LSU fans are gonna saying, dude, come on, I'll retires,
1:06:30
Speaker 2: you know, and those ls defense got really at leash.
1:06:33
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I again tellent for tell wise, if you
1:06:36
Speaker 2: make Ex's nose box, you're probably gonna you could debate
1:06:39
Speaker 2: who you want to win. It's a coin flip matchup now. Defensively,
1:06:43
Speaker 2: you probably would have to put a check in the
1:06:45
Speaker 2: box for Clemson. Yes, you know, LSU has always had
1:06:49
Speaker 2: the recruits. I think you just can't give him on
1:06:51
Speaker 2: the same game plan. So maybe maybe they've tweetded this
1:06:54
Speaker 2: or who knows. It can't be much worse. Uh Yeah,
1:06:59
Speaker 2: the Tigers gonna win, Chris Tiger's gonna win.
1:07:01
Speaker 1: Yeah, Tigers are gonna win. All right. I think that's
1:07:04
Speaker 1: a good bet. It's a win win scenario because we
1:07:08
Speaker 1: don't have any draws anymore so.
1:07:10
Speaker 2: And the cool thing is, man that the Florida the
1:07:13
Speaker 2: excuse me that Florida, Ohio State Texas is at eleven
1:07:17
Speaker 2: and the LSU Clemsons at six thirty. So you get
1:07:19
Speaker 2: you get a good little little break in the afternoon. Obviously,
1:07:23
Speaker 2: that Alabama Florida State game a couple of years ago,
1:07:25
Speaker 2: probably was gonna be like the triple header that does
1:07:27
Speaker 2: not have the same boxis that could in the past.
1:07:29
Speaker 2: But you get to watch Ohio State Texas, maybe take
1:07:33
Speaker 2: a nap, run a couple of errands in your back
1:07:35
Speaker 2: for LSU Clemson night. It really is a great Saturday
1:07:38
Speaker 2: six days from now.
1:07:39
Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's not going head to head with the
1:07:41
Speaker 1: next game. We're gonna Taco because that's on Sunday. As
1:07:44
Speaker 1: we know that first week one spreads out all the
1:07:47
Speaker 1: way to Monday. But we have Notre Dame against Miami,
1:07:54
Speaker 1: a rivalry that goes way back. I remember when I
1:07:57
Speaker 1: was a kid, you know, wondering why a certain T
1:08:04
Speaker 1: shirt was all over the stadium and especially you know
1:08:09
Speaker 1: when we talk about what kind of school it is,
1:08:12
Speaker 1: and you'd think that they wouldn't allow that, but you know,
1:08:15
Speaker 1: it is what it is. Notre Dame is stacked on defense.
1:08:23
Speaker 1: The secondary is crazy to defense. It's just it's there, man,
1:08:27
Speaker 1: And they actually like we're They were ahead of schedule
1:08:32
Speaker 1: clearly last year and it got all the way to
1:08:37
Speaker 1: the final game. Now, quarterback what is CJ. Carr? I
1:08:41
Speaker 1: think he is the grandson of Carr from Michigan the coach,
1:08:45
Speaker 1: so and there is a little bit of a surprise.
1:08:48
Speaker 1: Some people thought the other young quarterback would win the job.
1:08:56
Speaker 1: But that love is awesome at running back. So if
1:09:01
Speaker 1: you got a hell of a defense, an aggressive secondary
1:09:04
Speaker 1: and just nasty defense in general, and then you can
1:09:07
Speaker 1: run the ball, that does line up well for a
1:09:11
Speaker 1: young quarterback to take over. On the Miami side. You know,
1:09:19
Speaker 1: we talked about it like their front seven is gonna
1:09:21
Speaker 1: be nasty if it stays healthy. Can the secondary make
1:09:25
Speaker 1: just a solid jump, you know, just be not fucking sibs,
1:09:30
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, because that's what they were
1:09:31
Speaker 1: last year. And they do have actually a guy that
1:09:36
Speaker 1: coached the defense for Minnesota, and it is gonna be
1:09:42
Speaker 1: a little bit different system, not as risk reward type
1:09:47
Speaker 1: thing to where just blitz so much that yeah, you
1:09:50
Speaker 1: make tackles for losses, but you also give up a
1:09:53
Speaker 1: lot on the back end. Now, they obviously bring in
1:09:57
Speaker 1: a quarterback that heading in the last year was a
1:10:00
Speaker 1: Heisman guy. He was inconsistent. He had like two games
1:10:04
Speaker 1: especially that were like a lot of picks, a lot
1:10:07
Speaker 1: of just bad throws or whatever ended up getting hurt.
1:10:12
Speaker 1: You know, when comparing Georgia on offense to Miami on offense.
1:10:19
Speaker 1: You know, Georgia's offensive line wasn't up to par last year.
1:10:22
Speaker 1: They didn't have a running game, and I don't remember
1:10:26
Speaker 1: where they ranked if it was number one in drops
1:10:28
Speaker 1: in the nation, but I know in the league the
1:10:30
Speaker 1: SEC uh, they dropped a lot of balls too. So
1:10:35
Speaker 1: when I look at it, it's gonna be an upgrade
1:10:39
Speaker 1: on offensive line because Miami has one of the better
1:10:41
Speaker 1: offensive lines, so they already have a run game. They're
1:10:43
Speaker 1: deep at running back. Now they don't have the talent
1:10:47
Speaker 1: they had to throw to last year, whether it's in
1:10:49
Speaker 1: the pros or transferred. But I'm not comparing compared to
1:10:54
Speaker 1: what Georgia had last year. I doubt that they're gonna
1:10:58
Speaker 1: lead the you know, acc and drop balls, you know
1:11:01
Speaker 1: what I mean, the odds that that would happen. It
1:11:05
Speaker 1: could happen, but I don't think they'll be as bad
1:11:07
Speaker 1: as my point, So I think that this will help
1:11:12
Speaker 1: out the quarterback a lot more. I do like Beck
1:11:17
Speaker 1: just in this system, so I think that they're They're
1:11:20
Speaker 1: not gonna be as explosive as they were last year
1:11:23
Speaker 1: per se, that's for sure. But the big thing last
1:11:27
Speaker 1: year was defense obviously, you know that was why they
1:11:30
Speaker 1: lost those games. So he's not gonna be like Ward,
1:11:33
Speaker 1: but they still should be productive and be a top
1:11:36
Speaker 1: twenty offense or something like that, because they did lose
1:11:39
Speaker 1: a tight end to the league, but they have two young,
1:11:43
Speaker 1: really good tight ends, so we'll see. They got a
1:11:45
Speaker 1: mixture of young guys that showed a lot of potential
1:11:48
Speaker 1: on a wide receiver and then they brought in some events. Actually,
1:11:52
Speaker 1: this Daniels kid, I believe from LSU were just talking
1:11:55
Speaker 1: about them. So, you know, I want myamy to win, obviously,
1:12:02
Speaker 1: but something tells me that Notre Dame is gonna win
1:12:05
Speaker 1: by just a hair. I actually have a VET in
1:12:10
Speaker 1: minus two and a half Notre Dame, so they win
1:12:15
Speaker 1: by three. What are your thoughts on that? So I have,
1:12:19
Speaker 1: unfortunately I have Notre Dame winning the game, but I
1:12:24
Speaker 1: am wondering exactly what that young quarterback can do for
1:12:31
Speaker 1: Notre Dame. They don't have the VET like they did
1:12:34
Speaker 1: last year.
1:12:36
Speaker 2: So actually, it's kind of funny you mentioned the old
1:12:39
Speaker 2: life for Miami because one of the guys I coached
1:12:41
Speaker 2: with my school, he actually played football at ut horns
1:12:45
Speaker 2: Down and he was talking about how he's really excited
1:12:47
Speaker 2: because and he was the lineman in Texas. He talked
1:12:49
Speaker 2: about how he was excited for the lineman to watch
1:12:52
Speaker 2: them play at Miami this year, and he was talking
1:12:54
Speaker 2: about how they got to help an old line in
1:12:56
Speaker 2: that Chris Ball does a great job of coaching that up.
1:12:58
Speaker 2: So yeah, when I you're a guy, tell me I'm
1:13:01
Speaker 2: excited for an old line like that's you know, something
1:13:03
Speaker 2: you normally don't hear.
1:13:04
Speaker 1: Uh.
1:13:04
Speaker 2: But then you look at Notre Dame, Chris, and that's
1:13:06
Speaker 2: literally kind of what they build their DNA off of.
1:13:09
Speaker 2: But there literally are an old line d line team
1:13:13
Speaker 2: like and they normally Notre Dame always has a good
1:13:16
Speaker 2: uh future NFL tied end, but they normally don't have
1:13:20
Speaker 2: flashy wide receivers per se. That's something we've discussed over
1:13:23
Speaker 2: the last few years about how your passing game is
1:13:25
Speaker 2: okay at times. So with all this being said, I
1:13:30
Speaker 2: think where slight edge is the fact is that Vegas
1:13:33
Speaker 2: has Notre Dame as a favorite, which prizes me a
1:13:35
Speaker 2: little bit. I think maybe just from what they accomplished
1:13:40
Speaker 2: last year, maybe.
1:13:41
Speaker 1: I had a schedule to last year.
1:13:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Miami they didn't have a bad year last
1:13:47
Speaker 2: year by any means Miami at all, but just the
1:13:50
Speaker 2: fact that yeah made Miami has little more of an
1:13:53
Speaker 2: ex zos advantage compared to the first two games we
1:13:55
Speaker 2: discussed on the show earlier. Man, I just to me
1:14:00
Speaker 2: might and obviously I don't know the hurricane as well
1:14:02
Speaker 2: as you do, but to me, it's that lasting image
1:14:04
Speaker 2: of like Miami's defense just a couple of times last
1:14:07
Speaker 2: year just had a couple too many struggles and they
1:14:11
Speaker 2: could get in a high scoring game, but oh dude,
1:14:13
Speaker 2: cam Ward, Oh dude, he's got you. Like all right,
1:14:16
Speaker 2: our defense gave up points. Cam wore got you like
1:14:18
Speaker 2: that col game was like insane, and a lot of
1:14:21
Speaker 2: other ones were like, hey, we're gonna give up thirty eight,
1:14:23
Speaker 2: but we'll drop fifty two on your ass, so we're good.
1:14:26
Speaker 1: But then you have the Georgia Tech and Syracuse games
1:14:28
Speaker 1: where they you know, he could keep store because it's like, dude,
1:14:32
Speaker 1: at some point, you know, I'm not I'm not gonna
1:14:34
Speaker 1: store every time, you know.
1:14:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, and obviously Carson Beck is probably going to be
1:14:38
Speaker 2: cam Ward, so I would give a slight edge Notre
1:14:41
Speaker 2: Dame and just like playing like LSU, man, they on
1:14:46
Speaker 2: really do schedule themselves for a pretty hard game one
1:14:47
Speaker 2: of the year, and they kind of have to because
1:14:49
Speaker 2: they're not in a conference. But I'm with you, I'm
1:14:51
Speaker 2: gonna give a slight edge the Irish. But again, they
1:14:54
Speaker 2: got a young kid making his first big start on
1:14:56
Speaker 2: the road. That's a huge what if just like arch
1:14:58
Speaker 2: Manning's going to Ohio State, this car kid is going
1:15:01
Speaker 2: to Miami where it's maybe not death value, but it's
1:15:05
Speaker 2: still a huge environment. And you're on the road, and again,
1:15:08
Speaker 2: are you gonna have some receiver cell bail you out
1:15:11
Speaker 2: or it is just gonna be run game to death?
1:15:12
Speaker 2: Because remember last year when Notre Dame played a and
1:15:15
Speaker 2: m it was there. There weren't many wide receivers available.
1:15:20
Speaker 2: It was run, run, run through to your tight end.
1:15:23
Speaker 2: So you know, and I do realize that when I
1:15:26
Speaker 2: give some of my points, it's like, yes, college football
1:15:29
Speaker 2: change over time, but a lot of these teams like
1:15:31
Speaker 2: that DNA doesn't change like So it's fair to say
1:15:35
Speaker 2: Notre Dame is probably gonna run the shit out of
1:15:36
Speaker 2: the ball. If Miami's defense is better improved, they could
1:15:39
Speaker 2: probably win. If Notre Dame controls a lot of scrimmage.
1:15:42
Speaker 2: Irish probably, you know, like there's some of those teams
1:15:44
Speaker 2: that like Notre Dame is not gonna be a four
1:15:46
Speaker 2: wide wide receiver show next Sunday, I don't think anyway,
1:15:50
Speaker 2: So slight edge to the Irish, and hey, if your
1:15:53
Speaker 2: Carson back again, you don't try to do what cam
1:15:55
Speaker 2: Moore did, but just kind of find your own system
1:15:58
Speaker 2: and you're gonna play make Miami always has playmakers. It's
1:16:01
Speaker 2: just how does he distribute the ball and how how
1:16:04
Speaker 2: will the offense adapt to a new guy who again
1:16:07
Speaker 2: is a reliable quarterback but not the athletic virtuals that
1:16:12
Speaker 2: cam Ward had.
1:16:13
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, him, you know, getting every little bit out
1:16:18
Speaker 1: of every play, you know, like hanging out of the
1:16:21
Speaker 1: ball the last second, delivering it. You know. But yeah,
1:16:25
Speaker 1: it's kind of a win win for me because I
1:16:27
Speaker 1: either win a bet or Miami wins, you know what
1:16:30
Speaker 1: I mean. Every once in a while throughout a season,
1:16:33
Speaker 1: I'll do that and be like I'm good dude, either
1:16:35
Speaker 1: way I could. You know, it is what it is.
1:16:38
Speaker 1: You know, I either put money in my pocket or
1:16:40
Speaker 1: will be money well spent, you know. Yeah, yeah, that's
1:16:44
Speaker 1: the way I look at it. So other games that
1:16:49
Speaker 1: really strike me. Auburn, can they finally start to move
1:16:53
Speaker 1: upwards because they did hit the portal hard. They they've
1:16:58
Speaker 1: developed guys on their team. Will that quarterback, you know,
1:17:02
Speaker 1: thrive in a system that he couldn't necessarily thrive? And know,
1:17:07
Speaker 1: you know, Oklahoma also had like five or six receivers
1:17:10
Speaker 1: out in that team, you know, and their line wasn't
1:17:13
Speaker 1: that great or whatever. But I like what Baylor's building
1:17:17
Speaker 1: and so I'm gonna I'm gonna go with, you know,
1:17:19
Speaker 1: at Baylor. I'm gonna go with Baylor, but I think
1:17:21
Speaker 1: the Auburn at Baylor. I do want to see what
1:17:24
Speaker 1: Nebraska has this year. The as we know, the one
1:17:28
Speaker 1: score games has been their thing, but they got a
1:17:31
Speaker 1: returning quarterback who needs to tighten up but should be
1:17:35
Speaker 1: able to be better. Cincinnati's not great. It's a six
1:17:40
Speaker 1: and a half point, you know, favorite for Nebraska on
1:17:42
Speaker 1: the road. But if Nebraska's gonna be a top twenty
1:17:45
Speaker 1: five team the whole year, they gotta they gotta obviously
1:17:49
Speaker 1: beat this team, and we got to see how it goes.
1:17:52
Speaker 1: So I do like that Nebraska at Cincinnati. I'm going Nebraska,
1:17:56
Speaker 1: but you know, I like it Georgia Tech ad a
1:17:58
Speaker 1: rebuilding colorat We saw what that the the quarterback was
1:18:03
Speaker 1: able to do at Georgia Tech down the stretch even
1:18:06
Speaker 1: at h with Miami too, that was one of his
1:18:08
Speaker 1: first games that he started, you know, in that crazy
1:18:13
Speaker 1: game you mentioned earlier with Georgia, you know, like they
1:18:16
Speaker 1: really showed something there. Yes, and then Colorado has a
1:18:21
Speaker 1: vet quarterback and a five star young quarterback. Will they
1:18:24
Speaker 1: play both? I doubt it. Maybe there'll be a little
1:18:26
Speaker 1: package for the youngster. But if you look at wide
1:18:29
Speaker 1: receiver talent too, they lost a lot of wide receivers
1:18:33
Speaker 1: to the draft. So I think that's a good game
1:18:37
Speaker 1: though at Colorado that is a great environment now again,
1:18:41
Speaker 1: and then another one Utah. Can they bounce back and
1:18:46
Speaker 1: be the program we know they can be at UCLA
1:18:50
Speaker 1: who started to kind of turn Speaking of tough schedules,
1:18:53
Speaker 1: you at UCLA last year had a tough schedule. Nobody
1:18:57
Speaker 1: thought of them as a threat or nothing like that.
1:19:00
Speaker 1: But they are recruiting better and they you know, they're
1:19:03
Speaker 1: starting to They went and got Nico. Let's see if
1:19:05
Speaker 1: Nico can play better though in big games. But Utah
1:19:09
Speaker 1: Ucla kind of gives me that after you know, Pac
1:19:13
Speaker 1: twelve after Dart type vine.
1:19:16
Speaker 2: Well, and I didn't mention this one before. And again
1:19:18
Speaker 2: I think if we did this show three years ago,
1:19:21
Speaker 2: we it would be a bigger hype game. But if
1:19:24
Speaker 2: you're Mike norvel in Florida State, holy shit, Like I'm
1:19:27
Speaker 2: not saying you got beat Bama, but make yourself look good. Yeah,
1:19:30
Speaker 2: because they've had that opening game of the year stretch
1:19:34
Speaker 2: for the last couple of years now and it's just
1:19:36
Speaker 2: been a joke. So even I think, I think if
1:19:39
Speaker 2: you cover the spread, Florida State's a thirteen and a
1:19:42
Speaker 2: half point underdog at home. I think if for them
1:19:44
Speaker 2: to cover the spread and look respectable versus team would
1:19:48
Speaker 2: be a wine you know. And I know we had
1:19:51
Speaker 2: a couple of years ago where they missed the playoff
1:19:53
Speaker 2: because they had some bad luck with the quarterback got hurt,
1:19:55
Speaker 2: and since then the last years have been hell. So
1:19:58
Speaker 2: what what, man, if you're Mike Cornovelle, if you win
1:20:01
Speaker 2: this game, that probably feel like twenty pounds off your
1:20:03
Speaker 2: off your off your shoulders. Like I'm not saying it'll happen,
1:20:06
Speaker 2: but could it. It could well? And if you're Bama,
1:20:11
Speaker 2: of course, you know you're just gonna try to show
1:20:13
Speaker 2: show off, show off the goods. I know they I'm
1:20:15
Speaker 2: sure that kids probably like a nineteen year old receiver
1:20:18
Speaker 2: right now, that tyre what should be eighteen or nineteen?
1:20:21
Speaker 1: So he's not eighteen because he was saying, there are
1:20:23
Speaker 1: seventeen you know, no, maybe he is nineteen by now
1:20:26
Speaker 1: by the yeah, I don't remember. He's gone.
1:20:28
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but so I but that will be a
1:20:31
Speaker 2: fun game. You know, it'll be out two thirty out
1:20:34
Speaker 2: and I'll copy and paste you. I think Utah UCLA
1:20:36
Speaker 2: should be fun. Finally if you're us, if you're Utah, dude,
1:20:41
Speaker 2: Cam Rising's finally gone. Like that was kind of like
1:20:44
Speaker 2: a good solid quarterback, but also it was like a
1:20:47
Speaker 2: dark shadow over your team for so many years. That
1:20:50
Speaker 2: is he gonna play as he heard, he's gonna play again.
1:20:52
Speaker 2: That was getting so old man and Winningham must be like, dude,
1:20:55
Speaker 2: all right, you know you've you've had your run here.
1:20:57
Speaker 2: I thank you for what you did, but dude, but
1:20:59
Speaker 2: when need to move on as a as a program.
1:21:02
Speaker 2: And it feels we're saying because we're not talking NFL,
1:21:04
Speaker 2: but it felt like he was like an NFL team.
1:21:06
Speaker 2: He was there forever. So that's a new beginning. And
1:21:09
Speaker 2: U c l A that that Deshaun Foster had a
1:21:12
Speaker 2: weird press conference start off the year pretty ugly, but
1:21:15
Speaker 2: to his credit, even with a brutal travel schedule, guy
1:21:19
Speaker 2: his system going.
1:21:20
Speaker 1: So that and that's recruiting really well now, So I
1:21:24
Speaker 1: actually do kind of believe in him all of a sudden.
1:21:27
Speaker 2: And that and that's the ten o'clock kickoffs. That's one
1:21:29
Speaker 2: of those Hey, you're tired, you're you're you're either up, down,
1:21:32
Speaker 2: up or down. Money, you're sleeping, you're drinking, something's going on,
1:21:35
Speaker 2: having some gummies. I don't know, But if you're away
1:21:37
Speaker 2: for that one, hey, that'll be that'll be a great game.
1:21:41
Speaker 2: And kind of like a little bit of a quieter
1:21:43
Speaker 2: when I suppose you could say, like Syracuse, Tennessee, like
1:21:46
Speaker 2: you know, it's again thirteen half points spread. Uh, let's see, Yeah,
1:21:51
Speaker 2: now Tennessee again. Last couple of years, they've they've put
1:21:54
Speaker 2: together a hell of an offense. But there's no more Milton,
1:21:58
Speaker 2: there's no more of the the dude from last year
1:22:02
Speaker 2: with a really yeah, he's gone. So you know, Tennessee,
1:22:06
Speaker 2: they beat they beat Bama last couple of times like.
1:22:08
Speaker 1: They were more defense and running game. Remember they lost
1:22:11
Speaker 1: the running game since.
1:22:12
Speaker 2: Yeah they could they couldn't score last year, but their
1:22:15
Speaker 2: defense one for him. So is Tennessee gonna be a
1:22:18
Speaker 2: team who are right now? I think if you ask
1:22:19
Speaker 2: people in SEC, they kind of looked over. Uh, but
1:22:23
Speaker 2: I'm sure Tennis defense will love to compete for an
1:22:25
Speaker 2: SEC title or or can they make a playoff again?
1:22:28
Speaker 2: You know? Possibly? So yeah, but the fact that we
1:22:31
Speaker 2: have two huge games week one and then honestly, the
1:22:34
Speaker 2: media they'll come around to it.
1:22:36
Speaker 1: Uh.
1:22:36
Speaker 2: But on so that before your team plays. Uh actually,
1:22:42
Speaker 2: oh yeah, Monday. Monday will be the Belichick game, which
1:22:45
Speaker 2: will be fun. It's gonna be news. He'll be curious
1:22:47
Speaker 2: to see how Belichick does. He's been on the news
1:22:49
Speaker 2: a lot lately. Sound know, maybe his uh his lady
1:22:52
Speaker 2: put him like he's not allowed to talk to the media.
1:22:54
Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe maybe he's been sidelined.
1:22:56
Speaker 1: Uh.
1:22:56
Speaker 2: But the vo Tech South Carolina game, that'll be a
1:22:59
Speaker 2: fun one. Like that's at two o'clock on Sunday before
1:23:02
Speaker 2: you're irish and uh or not, excuse me, your Hurricanes
1:23:05
Speaker 2: played the Ida that that was a miss. That was
1:23:09
Speaker 2: a mistake that was on purpose. I won't even talk
1:23:12
Speaker 2: that's that's beyond talking trash uhli. But vo Tech has
1:23:16
Speaker 2: been improving of late and South Carolina they're probably their
1:23:20
Speaker 2: their goal probably is to make the playoffs this year.
1:23:23
Speaker 2: So I kind of wish it would be at vo
1:23:25
Speaker 2: Tech to hear enter Sandman Blair of the speakers. But
1:23:29
Speaker 2: Leonora sellers, Hey, last year, you all kind of surprise people,
1:23:34
Speaker 2: and can you can you be a team that's gonna
1:23:37
Speaker 2: contend for a playoff spot this year or you're gonna
1:23:40
Speaker 2: maybe a little bit short against So yeah, overall, dude,
1:23:42
Speaker 2: we're looking for a great week one which means next
1:23:45
Speaker 2: week will be a very fun uh recap week.
1:23:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's TCU, TCU. A lot of a lot of
1:23:53
Speaker 1: folks think that they're going to be on the rise
1:23:55
Speaker 1: this year. Okay, and they are a three and a
1:23:58
Speaker 1: half point favorite against North Carolina. Who knows, you know
1:24:02
Speaker 1: what the North Carolina? You know, we'll figure this out.
1:24:06
Speaker 1: You know what, we'll figure out. What you know is
1:24:08
Speaker 1: he just saying, Hey, I'm gonna be here for like
1:24:11
Speaker 1: a year or two and then I'm gonna dip back
1:24:13
Speaker 1: to you know, pros or you know what, what's his mind?
1:24:15
Speaker 2: Stay?
1:24:17
Speaker 1: Yes, And also we still got to find out how
1:24:20
Speaker 1: they met. We we don't know how they met, you know,
1:24:22
Speaker 1: she she shut that down in the interview. You know,
1:24:24
Speaker 1: they don't. That was really weird when the camera went
1:24:27
Speaker 1: to her and she's like, let's not talk about how
1:24:29
Speaker 1: we met. It's like, that's that's kind of interesting. But yeah,
1:24:35
Speaker 1: it's a great week one. And like you mentioned the
1:24:38
Speaker 1: first couple of weeks, man, don't go too crazy, you know, yeah,
1:24:42
Speaker 1: don't go off. Last year, don't go off, we'll do
1:24:46
Speaker 1: look what they did in the portal. True, but we
1:24:48
Speaker 1: still got to see it on the on on the field.
1:24:50
Speaker 1: So I'm excited for this one for sure. Man.
1:24:53
Speaker 2: All right, well, if you're new to the show, this
1:24:57
Speaker 2: is a segment that if this is your fifte we've
1:25:00
Speaker 2: been doing it for at least the last eleven years.
1:25:02
Speaker 2: It is the Crafty Crafty pick of the week. Uh.
1:25:05
Speaker 2: He got nicknamed the Crafty bet because he had a
1:25:07
Speaker 2: couple of years. I mean, he was this huge sports guy.
1:25:09
Speaker 2: So that nickname is stuck. And so we do this
1:25:12
Speaker 2: segment every week where I find a really bad football game. Uh,
1:25:15
Speaker 2: and I don't tell him the match up before and
1:25:17
Speaker 2: he picks it. Last year we had a bit of
1:25:21
Speaker 2: an actual down here, but for the probably for the
1:25:23
Speaker 2: past ten years we probably hit a sixty to seventy
1:25:26
Speaker 2: percent every year. But this just a pear random fun
1:25:30
Speaker 2: guessing a crappy situation game that with the points bread
1:25:33
Speaker 2: its close. So to start off this week one of
1:25:37
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty six Crafty Craft Pick the Week, We're
1:25:39
Speaker 2: going to Saturday. We're going at two thirty pm plus.
1:25:47
Speaker 2: Uh and these teams have been introduced to the segment before.
1:25:50
Speaker 2: It's not new. We're having the Uh. I believe John
1:25:54
Speaker 2: Cheney's gonna show up for Temple Owls and Marcus you
1:25:57
Speaker 2: mat is that Conference USA? It is? Let's see, yeah,
1:26:05
Speaker 2: Temple is the American American American Y Yeah, alright, so
1:26:10
Speaker 2: the Temple Owls are facing off versus the U Mass
1:26:13
Speaker 2: Minute men. Like I said, it is a two thirty
1:26:17
Speaker 2: kick on Saturday afternoon on ESPN plus. So if you
1:26:20
Speaker 2: if if Bama's up forty on Florida State by halftime,
1:26:24
Speaker 2: you know you can switch your television to Temple at
1:26:27
Speaker 2: U Mass Wow thirty six dollars to get in the door.
1:26:31
Speaker 2: It is that the Warren the Girk alumni statement Amherst, Massachusetts.
1:26:36
Speaker 2: The Temple Owls, despite being the road team, our favorite
1:26:41
Speaker 2: to beat the U. Mass minute men. The weather's supposed
1:26:44
Speaker 2: to be seventy five degrees and Crys will break this
1:26:47
Speaker 2: down and I'll do the alumni battle after. Are you
1:26:49
Speaker 2: good to go, my friend?
1:26:51
Speaker 1: I am good to go. It kind of freaked out
1:26:53
Speaker 1: there for a second, but I am good to go. Now,
1:26:57
Speaker 1: these stats are based off last year. You mass run that,
1:27:00
Speaker 1: you know what out of the ball one hundred and
1:27:02
Speaker 1: sixty three yards on the ground compared to ninety two.
1:27:06
Speaker 1: So that and you know the the passing is not
1:27:10
Speaker 1: that crazy. The problem you give up one hundred and
1:27:13
Speaker 1: sixty or you U mass right the rush of one
1:27:15
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty three last year. Now I don't know
1:27:18
Speaker 1: this year, but last year Temple was giving up to
1:27:23
Speaker 1: twenty five a game. Last I heard, that's not good.
1:27:27
Speaker 1: I heard in Philly they're talking about let's shut down
1:27:29
Speaker 1: the football program. And you know what, not that long
1:27:33
Speaker 1: ago Al Golden In company. They were actually a decent program.
1:27:37
Speaker 2: They were, Oh yeah, they were al golden In.
1:27:40
Speaker 1: The guy after Algona for some reason, I can't think,
1:27:42
Speaker 1: oh the he went to he's a uh he's at Nebraska.
1:27:46
Speaker 1: I think it was rule actually.
1:27:47
Speaker 2: Rule, yeah, that rules. Yeah.
1:27:49
Speaker 3: Yeah. So you know, off the bat, I was going Temple. Yep, Temple, man,
1:27:57
Speaker 3: you know, but geez.
1:28:01
Speaker 1: Like, I don't know this year obviously, but I was
1:28:05
Speaker 1: thinking Temple right off the bat. But now the more
1:28:09
Speaker 1: I think about it, and it is gonna be televised
1:28:11
Speaker 1: like you said, you know on ESPN plus, I'm gonna
1:28:16
Speaker 1: go with the home team as much as I you know,
1:28:20
Speaker 1: I think it's that Brandon Rose. He won the starting
1:28:23
Speaker 1: QB gig. That's what it says right here. I don't
1:28:25
Speaker 1: know who he is, but he beat out aj Harrison
1:28:30
Speaker 1: and Grant Jordan, So I mean, you know, that's not easy.
1:28:33
Speaker 1: That's not easy. But he he did transfer from Utah,
1:28:39
Speaker 1: so that I like the sounds of that. That's some familiarity.
1:28:43
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go with the minute men to win
1:28:47
Speaker 1: in the last minute. You see what I did there?
1:28:51
Speaker 2: Hey, the the home dog week one, I love it, sir,
1:28:54
Speaker 2: I love it. Oh and well actually and since we did,
1:28:58
Speaker 2: now this was official, but last year you kicked that's
1:29:01
Speaker 2: on this uh the over under.
1:29:05
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right.
1:29:06
Speaker 2: Because last year you went like seven to five and
1:29:09
Speaker 2: over Runners. You did great over Runners.
1:29:11
Speaker 1: I'm going under forty nine and a half.
1:29:13
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, going.
1:29:15
Speaker 1: Under sloppy, ugly game. Try to run the clock out,
1:29:20
Speaker 1: all right.
1:29:21
Speaker 2: For the alumni, battle man, I've done these schools so
1:29:24
Speaker 2: often that we I know the people. For you Mass,
1:29:28
Speaker 2: name favorite alumni obviously. Uh, that is where Calipari started.
1:29:33
Speaker 2: Richard Gear the movie actor, Natalie Cole, Julius Irving, Marcus Camby.
1:29:40
Speaker 2: Oh sorry, Rick Patino, you know that. Uh a name
1:29:46
Speaker 2: that I won't say because you know he went there.
1:29:48
Speaker 2: But he's he's he's locked up right now. Uh. Overall,
1:29:52
Speaker 2: Bridge at moynihan U MASS has a very respectable alumni.
1:29:57
Speaker 2: Famous Temple alumni. Uh John Oates from the band Man
1:30:04
Speaker 2: seriously did uh Bill Cosby went to both the colleges.
1:30:15
Speaker 1: Oh I did, I know he went to Temple, but
1:30:18
Speaker 1: I didn't know that.
1:30:19
Speaker 2: I didn't know he went to Yeah, he's on you, Mass.
1:30:24
Speaker 1: I didn't know he went to Okay.
1:30:26
Speaker 2: I mean all right, well yeah at uh yeah, I
1:30:35
Speaker 2: mean Overall I got, you know, with the basketball names,
1:30:39
Speaker 2: the coaching names, the pedigree. Uh, just kind of higher
1:30:42
Speaker 2: profile actors. I got to give my nudge to the
1:30:45
Speaker 2: U Mass. So I'm taking U Mass in the alumni battle.
1:30:49
Speaker 2: And also he's staying you mess on the field, so
1:30:51
Speaker 2: we're going for the U Mass. Minute man also did
1:30:54
Speaker 2: the point guard Chads Williams. I love watching the n
1:30:56
Speaker 2: I t it was like a five foot eleven point guard.
1:30:58
Speaker 2: That dude was a little baller.
1:31:00
Speaker 1: So now, are you gonna text yourself this information? Are
1:31:03
Speaker 1: you gonna write it down? Or what? What are you
1:31:05
Speaker 1: gonna do? You always got questions from me. I got
1:31:08
Speaker 1: a question for you. Are you gonna keep Are you
1:31:10
Speaker 1: gonna keep track of this in any form or passion?
1:31:13
Speaker 2: I think I think for the past seven years, I've
1:31:15
Speaker 2: normally always forgot this time. Indeed, I'm gonna use my
1:31:18
Speaker 2: notes app and take notes for hot tops during the
1:31:22
Speaker 2: game and for this segment so I don't have to
1:31:24
Speaker 2: ask you or replay the podcast.
1:31:27
Speaker 1: Part of the podcast. Yeah, exactly.
1:31:29
Speaker 2: You know that. You know I'm a new man, Chris
1:31:33
Speaker 2: forty years old, new life, new experiences. I'm gonna figure
1:31:37
Speaker 2: my shit out. It only takes about twelve years to
1:31:40
Speaker 2: figure this out, but I'm changing it prooved. So on
1:31:44
Speaker 2: that note, as I progress, Hey, next week man again,
1:31:47
Speaker 2: get the groceries and the errands and stuff that because
1:31:50
Speaker 2: Texas and uh ohiose stated eleven and then death vibvers
1:31:55
Speaker 2: death bellot at six thirty and maybe maybe Florida State
1:31:58
Speaker 2: shocks roll and beats Bama that that would be kind
1:31:59
Speaker 2: of fun for Norvell and just to get the bam
1:32:02
Speaker 2: of people Pissedop saying, y'all are at the playoffs already
1:32:05
Speaker 2: this year, so.
1:32:06
Speaker 1: We'll be back, even come back please.
1:32:09
Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh de Bo's gotta god. Bor's out, he sucks,
1:32:12
Speaker 2: he's trashed. Ty Simpson needs to get cut. So we'll
1:32:15
Speaker 2: be back next week to break down, which should be
1:32:17
Speaker 2: a really fun week one. And man, it's gonna be
1:32:19
Speaker 2: a fun year. We can't wait. Have a good day.
1:32:22
Speaker 2: The boys are out piece