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Ep. 135: Week 13 College Football Takeaways - Oregon Tops USC, Oklahoma Outlasts Mizzou, Notre Dame Fights On, and Lane Kiffin Latest · The PatteFacts: A College Football Show

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  Durant makes his move, spins in the pace turn, puts it up, puts
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  it in John Morant knocks it down.
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  Gioso. And here we go, episode 135 of
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  The Paddafax, streaming on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever
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  you get your podcasts from. It is November 25th, 2025.
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  Thank you so much for tuning in. I'm William Patterson.
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  All right, back for another week of takeaways.
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  And we are entering Week 14 now and the regular season is
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  wrapped up or is wrapping up. It is Thanksgiving week, it's
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  rivalry week. There's nothing better than
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  college football at this point in the season.
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  And I appreciate everyone listening along with me.
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  Today. We'll be doing my Week 13
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  takeaways from the big games and some other notable results.
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  We'll also talk about Lane Kiffin and the just crazy
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  storyline that we've been following for the last month or
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  so. If he's going to stay, if he's
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  going to leave, how it's affected the team.
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  There are so many different variables to Lane Kiffin at Ole
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  Miss right now. We'll talk about that and how I
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  view his current situation and where he'll end up.
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  We'll also do my top 25 teams heading into Week 14.
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  I will tell you the teams that I believe right now are legitimate
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  College Football Playoff championship contenders, not
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  just the ones that are going to make it the championship
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  contenders, because I believe there are teams that will make
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  the field that right now don't look to me as a national title
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  contender. So I'll tell you those and we'll
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  wrap it up with a very cool storyline, very cool game story,
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  whatever you want to call it, that will occur next season.
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  And I've got some friends over in Brazil that are going to help
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  me out with this one. So a lot to unpack in this
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  week's episode. Real quick, Happy Thanksgiving
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  to all. This will be the last episode I
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  get out before Thanksgiving happens on Thursday.
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  So happy Thanksgiving to everyone.
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  Hope you have a enjoyable and safe holiday, whether you may be
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  traveling or or whatever it may be.
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  Thanksgiving always one of my favorite holidays because it's a
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  lot of great food. It's a lot of great football and
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  it's always coming at a really big time in the college football
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  season. So a happy Thanksgiving to all.
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  Hope you have a great Thanksgiving.
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  Let's get into the action. We'll begin with this.
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  It's my week 13 takeaways #7 Oregon nabs a signature win over
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  #15 USC 42 to 27 on Saturday. And heading into this one, this
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  was going to be a big game regardless of if college game
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  day were there or regardless if CBS actually had a game that
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  people care to tune into. Like last week, it was like
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  Michigan State and Penn State and Iowa and USC played on the
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  Big 10 Network. Anyway, CBS had a big game.
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  Happy for those guys because they do have a really good
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  presentation. And this was going to be a big
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  game regardless of the potential College Football Playoff
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  implications. But for USC, they're fighting
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  for their playoff lives. You know, they have the loss to
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  Notre Dame earlier in the season.
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  They have, you know, losses on their resume that, you know, at
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  at at 2 losses. They could not afford another
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  one for Oregon. They dropped one at home earlier
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  in the season. It was a kind of similar spot to
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  Georgia when they hosted Texas back in week 12.
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  Georgia lost that game to Alabama earlier in the season.
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  Georgia typically doesn't lose home games.
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  Oregon loses that one to Indiana earlier in the season.
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  They typically don't lose home games and I was looking to see
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  if they could bounce back in another big game environment and
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  this one was really important for their College Football
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  Playoff lives. I know they only have one loss
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  heading into this, but they don't have the signature wins,
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  they don't have the resume that speaks to the record, so this
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  would be a big win for them on their resume.
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  And in terms of on the field, Oregon's past defense was yet to
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  really go up against a passing offense like USC that really
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  wants to get it done in the air. Jaden Maiava, Jacoby Lane and
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  Malik Lemon, like all all those guys that they've got, true pass
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  catchers, true pass oriented identity.
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  Oregon saw some of that against Indiana and Indiana's got a
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  really good passing attack as well with Elijah Sarat and
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  obviously Fernando Mendoza. But USC is a little bit more
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  oriented on their pass game with Lincoln Riley.
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  So that's what I was looking for headed into this one.
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  And you knew you were going to get 2 good offenses.
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  But Oregon's offense was just more effective in complimentary
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  football. The Ducks total 436 yards of
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  offense, 257 yards in the air, but they got 179 on the ground.
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  And that was a big differentiating factor in this
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  one because as we'll talk about here in a little bit, USC was
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  not able to get anything on the ground.
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  And we've seen Oregon over the last couple of weeks have some
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  really strong running performances against Iowa in a
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  game where they kind of had to play Iowa style.
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  They won that game because they were able to run the ball
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  really, really well. It wasn't the passing attack
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  that got it done in that one. It was the run game and we know
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  that Dante Moore is a very talented player, a very talented
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  passer, but Oregon has been banged up at receiver.
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  Decorian Moore missed this one and he's one of the best
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  freshman in the country. Last week against Minnesota,
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  when they played on Friday, they had to rely on Kenyan Sadiq and
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  was it Chris McClellan? They had to rely on those guys
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  that Josh McCoy, I think, But in this one they got it done in
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  both facets, both in the air and on the ground.
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  Really good complimentary football.
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  Dante Moore goes 22 of 30 for 257 yards and two touchdowns.
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  These next two guys are what I want to focus on, though,
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  because Noah Whittington goes 19 carries for 104 yards and a
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  touchdown. And Whittington's been a guy
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  that has been around this Oregon program for a little bit, has
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  sometimes been overshadowed by the running backs they've had in
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  the past, like a Bucky Irving, for example.
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  But Whittington's been a guy that stuck on this team and has
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  been really, really impactful. Jordan James was great last year
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  for this Ducks team. Noah Whittington, really strong
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  performance here with the 104 yards and a touchdown.
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  But a guy I also want to touchdown is Jordan Davison and
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  he's a guy that was really impactful along with Hill, the
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  other running back in the Iowa game.
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  And he had 50 yards and a touchdown Saturday against the
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  Trojans. Just having that complimentary
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  football I think is really beneficial for this Oregon team
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  as they do have a lot of injuries to their top receivers.
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  Evan Stewart, you know, a former five star who was at Texas A&M,
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  transferred over to Duke, excuse me, not Duke, the Ducks to
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  Oregon. He's been out for the whole
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  season. And then losing to Corey and
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  Moore, you are starting to get a little thin at receiver in terms
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  of reliable targets. So you needed to have a balance
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  attack and Whittington and Davison combining for 154 yards
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  and two touchdowns. Really, really impactful here.
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  And I talk about Kenyan Sadiq, and he's a guy I mentioned in
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  the offseason because in 2025 you see a lot of these tight
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  ends that can do a lot of different things.
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  And Sadiq is just a really good athlete, a really good player.
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  Like he's kind of one of these hybrid tight end wide receivers
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  that if you give him the ball, he can go and make a play.
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  And he had 6 receptions for 72 yards and a touchdown in this
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  one. Had a touchdown the week prior
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  against Minnesota. Was really impactful in that
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  one. He adds what Oregon is missing
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  without Decorian Moore and Evan Stewart as pass catchers in
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  terms of being available. So Sadiq is a really big
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  development for this team late in the season.
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  Malik Benson I thought was really good here. 4 receptions
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  for 67 yards. He had a couple of big catches
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  over the course of this game as Oregon continued to prolong
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  drives. Benson's a guy that kind of gets
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  lost a little bit and all the other stars and big names they
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  have on this team. But he was really reliable.
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  And at the end of the day, when you've got a quarterback like
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  Dante Moore and when you've got a a type of defense for Dan
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  Lanning that is going to be able to get stops, keep you in games,
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  just having reliable receivers. Kind of like Alabama, right?
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  Alabama's got Ryan Williams. He's a star, but Jeremy Bernard
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  and Isaiah Horton have been really reliable receivers, so I
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  thought Malik Benson was really big in this one.
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  Overall, just getting the balanced attack from the running
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  game, an efficient day from Dante.
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  Moore did have a bad interception, but it was right
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  after USC had just thrown 1, so it wasn't like in the course of
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  a game it was detrimental to the docs.
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  It would have given them the opportunity to go up 14 points
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  again, but USC was able to hang around.
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  But regardless, it wasn't like a game changing turnover.
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  He had a game changing turnover against Iowa when he threw a red
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  zone touchdown or it's going to be a red zone interception.
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  That type of stuff cannot happen.
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  But his lone interception in this one wasn't that big of a
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  deal. But again, complimentary
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  football big for Oregon in this one.
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  And on the other side, for a really talented offense in USC,
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  they were really one-dimensional and they lose a turnover battle.
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  Now the Trojans do have 382 yards in this one.
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  They only get 52 yards on the ground at 1.86 yards a carry.
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  That was really hurtful because now my Ava's having to drop back
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  multiple times and they tested this Oregon defense that had
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  been yet to really be tested by a true passing attack.
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  Again, that was something I was looking for, but not being able
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  to go to the ground in short yardage situations or maybe pick
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  up 3 or 4 just to get ahead of the chains, continue to put USC
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  in tough spots, continue to have to drop back my Ava.
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  And he threw the ball 43 times. And when you're on the road up
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  against a talented recruited defense, you know from Dan
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  Laning and company, they're going to get stops, they're
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  going to make plays. They're a little banged up on
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  that side of the ball as well. But when you're dropping back 43
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  times, it makes it really predictable.
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  And that's why I think US CS biggest issue has been to this
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  point this season, when you watch their games, when you look
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  at their losses, like to Notre Dame, when they get behind, they
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  can't rely on their run game to keep them involved and keep them
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  ahead of schedule offensively within their drives.
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  So they'll have to continue to throw the ball at a very high
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  rate. And they had some good plays in
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  this one. Don't get me wrong that they
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  retried that double pass they showed against Illinois earlier
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  in the season that they showed against Notre Dame earlier in
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  the season. This one paid off as I think it
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  was either Lemon or Lane delivered a touchdown pass off
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  of, you know, one of those double passes.
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  So that worked in this game. That was really big because that
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  gave USC kind of AI look at those plays as bonus plays
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  because they're not really something you can script up as a
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  defense to defend because they come out of nowhere.
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  But USC has done that twice this season. 1 of them got called
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  back for a flag. The other one against Notre Dame
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  resulted in a fumble and a turnover.
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  And this one, they were able to get one of those bonus plays
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  early. So I thought that was great for
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  no momentum, but Oregon was able to respond and the fact that USC
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  could not get anything on the ground game really hurt them.
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  The second thing I mentioned, the turnover battle, they lose
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  it 2 to one. Now you could say it was a wash
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  basically because my ABBA throws one on 4th down, it's picked off
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  and then Dante Moore throws 1, I think 2 plays later.
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  So that was kind of a wash. But they did have one in a
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  critical point as USC is trying to get back into this game, cut
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  it within one possession and, and, and stuff like that.
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  You know, losing the turnover battle and not being able to run
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  the football is going to result in the type of result it did on
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  Saturday where you lose by 15 points.
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  So I think USC is a talented team.
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  I think Maeava is a good quarterback, but they don't have
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  the type of rushing attack necessary to fully run this
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  offense the way they want to. And Maeava finishes 25 of 43 for
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  306 yards and three touchdowns, but has two bad turnovers.
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  And I, I talk about that run game being absent my Ava, who is
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  a, you know, good athlete, a guy that can run, hit more yards per
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  carry average than any other back and almost had as many
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  yards as the leading back for this USC team.
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  So I think that's an issue and it's something that USC is going
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  to have to fix moving forward if they're going to want to contend
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  on a national level, not and just let alone in the Big 10.
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  If they want to make it to a Big 10 championship, they've got to
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  be able to be more balanced in their attack on both sides of
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  the ball and in these Rd. games, they're going to have to clean
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  things up. I don't love Lincoln Riley on
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  the road and that Illinois team is good but not great.
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  And USC got down double digits and that one had to fight back.
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  This is too talented of a team in terms of the receivers and
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  personnel they have offensively to be getting behind because,
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  you know, they're making incremental mistakes on drives
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  or putting them behind the chains or not getting, you know,
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  good situational football from the run game.
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  This team is too talented for that.
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  But it seems to be a common thread with these Lincoln Riley
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  teams. Either they don't get
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  complimentary football because their defense is so bad or that
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  they can't get complimentary football within their own
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  offense in the running attacks. So a disappointing loss for USC.
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  They had their opportunities, but it's tough to go on the road
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  and win in Eugene OR. They had their chances.
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  But again, when you're 21 dimensional and turn over the
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  ball, lose the turnover battle, you're not going to be able to
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  beat a Dan Laning team. And that brings me to or back to
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  Oregon because I do want to talk about what I make of them moving
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  forward. Now, they got a big game against
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  Washington in Week 14. Don't overlook that one because
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  Damon Williams, junior at quarterback, is very, very
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  talented. Jonah Coleman, one of the best
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  backs in the country. This is going to be a big game.
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  Oregon. Washington always is a big game.
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  And now we get this one at the end of the season.
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  This is going to be a fun one. And Oregon is most definitely in
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  a tough spot here. They're going to be in trouble
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  because this is a good Washington team.
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  But I regardless of you know what I think going into this
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  game right now for week 14, I'm not so sure that Oregon is a
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  legit championship contender. I love Dan Lanning, but I just
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  like this Oregon team. And don't get me wrong, this was
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  the type of performance on Saturday that I was looking for
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  from this team. The Ducks run defense has been
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  really good over the last couple of weeks.
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  They held Iowa to 101 yards, Minnesota to 62, USC to 52.
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  Offensively, Kenyan Sadiq has become one of the toughest
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  players in the country to defend, and I thought Benson
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  looked the part on Saturday as a reliable target.
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  But when you stack this team up against some of the best
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  defenses in the country, I don't think this is a group that can
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  March all the way to the national championship.
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  There are moments when they lose composure on the offensive
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  attack. They are still really banged up
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  at a couple of those receiver spots I mentioned, Evan Stewart,
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  the Corian Moore. They've got a little bit of a
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  void there with those receivers and they have some head
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  scratching lapses in their past defense as well.
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  I think this is a good Oregon team, but they're not great and
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  that's why right now I don't view this as a championship
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  contending team. I love Dan Lanning and what he's
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  done. I think he's one of the best
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  coaches in the country. But I don't know if this Oregon
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  team in the current state that they're in is going to be a team
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  that wins two to three games, three to four games to hoist the
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  championship trophy. So we'll see what they look like
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  in this road match up against Washington.
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  Again, going to be a really fun one, a part of a great slate of
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  college football this weekend. But right now, I don't buy
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  Oregon like the record or their standing currently tells them.
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  And I love this Oregon team. Earlier in the season, I, I, I
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  had, you know, high hopes for this group because Dante Moore
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  did look the part of a Heisman Trophy quarterback, but he's
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  kind of regressed over the second-half of the season.
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  And that is an attribute to those receivers being out and
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  being banged up. But this just doesn't look like
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  a team right now that's playing their best football at this
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  point in the year. And that's why I don't have them
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  as a championship contender heading into Week 14.
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  We'll move now to the SEC where we had Oklahoma and Missouri.
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  The number 8 Sooners survive an early scare from the number 22
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  Tigers. They win 17 to 6 in this one.
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  Not your classic offensive showdown between SEC schools.
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  This was kind of ugly for a good bit.
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  And and then again, and it shows how strong this Oklahoma defense
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  is. And that will be a take away of
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  mine for sure. But really, for the first half,
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  first quarter, Missouri dominated this one.
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  And heading into it, I wanted to know, can Oklahoma's offense
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  find some sort of rhythm the way they've been winning games as of
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  late? I don't think it's a sustainable
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  method through the course of the rest of the games.
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  They had to go Missouri and LSU and also to make the College
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  Football Playoff and win a game in the playoff.
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  But, you know, John Matiers continue to get back from that
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  injury he suffered early in the season on his thumb.
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  Would this be the game? Where Oklahoma kind of wakes up
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  offensively and is able to find some rhythm for Missouri.
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  It's so crazy. And it's awesome, by the way,
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  too, for probiula's sake, that this guy was wheeled off in a
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  wheelchair a month ago against Vanderbilt and he's able to play
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  in this one. So what does Missouri look like
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  with him back in the mix? Because when he was playing,
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  this was a team that lost by three points to Alabama at home
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  and honestly could have had a chance to beat him.
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  This is a team that was neck and neck with Vanderbilt on the road
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  and in a tie game until Probula got hurt.
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  So what does Missouri look like with Probula back in the mix and
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  we get a Oklahoma win in the most unique fashion that they
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  continue to do it in. And Oklahoma was out game for
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  the four straight game Saturday. The Sooners total 276 yards of
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  total offense, 173 yards in the air.
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  But there's a little bit of an excerpt Mark there.
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  They had 87 yards on one play and it was a great play to
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  Isaiah Santanga coming across the middle of the field and
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  routes it for 87 yards. But like when you say 173 yards
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  in the air, you'd assume it was a pretty balanced attack.
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  They were able to move the ball down the field with multiple
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  passes. Not really the case because a
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  lot of that is just off one play.
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  If you exclude that one game, and I don't like playing
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  hypotheticals here, but if you exclude that one play, they're
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  under 100 yards for the game. Now.
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  They did have 103 yards rushing. You're always going to get that
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  with John Mateer. The running game is kind of been
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  hot and cold for this group throughout the season.
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  A lot of people assume that Jay Knott was going to be a bell cow
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  running back for this team as he came out of Cal in the transfer
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  portal last year, was one of the highest rated portal
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  acquisitions and he's been absolutely nothing for this
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  team. They've had to go to other guys,
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  but this is just kind of how Oklahoma wins football games
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  this year. John Mateer goes 14 to 30 for
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  173 yards and two touchdowns. Rushes for 60.
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  You like that dual threat ability?
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  I I still think he's one of the best dual threat quarterbacks in
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  the country. While he might not be as
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  efficient and as dazzling as he was in the first half of the
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  season, Mateer is still a guy that you have to key in on as a
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  defense defensive unit because he can make plays and a snap.
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  Isaiah Santango goes 3 receptions for 109 yards and a
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  touchdown. Again, he's the one that had
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  that 87 yard touchdown right before halftime.
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  Yeah, it would have been halftime.
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  Really. It wasn't really right before
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  halftime. It was kind of the middle
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  portion of the second quarter. But it was, it was interesting.
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  It was interesting in this game because Missouri came out and
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  really dominated the time of possession in the first quarter.
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  I think Oklahoma only had like a possession and a half because
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  Missouri sat on the football for a long time and they didn't take
• 23:11
  advantage of the opportunities. They miss a field goal, but
• 23:14
  Oklahoma's defense, they do their job.
• 23:16
  They get stops, but things were starting to get chippy and the
• 23:20
  crowd was starting to get a little angst right before that
• 23:23
  87 yard touchdown. You've got the fans in the in
• 23:27
  the in the, it's going to be in the stands cheering for a first
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  down like a kind of 1/2 assed cheer.
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  Like obviously they know they haven't been able to move the
• 23:35
  ball throughout the game. They get a first down, everyone
• 23:38
  kind of, you know, half assed cheers, and then 2 plays later,
• 23:43
  boom, 87 yards down the field and this thing's open wide for
• 23:47
  Oklahoma to find a way to win. Now, it was not because of their
• 23:51
  offense. They found a way to win.
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  But that touchdown gave them some momentum, put the crowds
• 23:56
  and put the crowd at ease a little bit.
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  And I thought that play was really the biggest 1 of this
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  game because it's burned all the momentum.
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  But Oklahoma's defense is the story for this team.
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  Our Mason Thomas out for the second game in a row and it's no
• 24:11
  issue. Oklahoma forces A-Team to be 1
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  dimensional for the third straight game.
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  Missouri with Ahmad Hardy, who's, you know, up for one of
• 24:19
  the best running backs in the country right now, just 70 yards
• 24:23
  and two yards per carry as a group for Missouri.
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  And Hardy went for like 300 yards the week before on 25
• 24:33
  carries. So this is a Missouri team
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  obviously that brings back Per Beulah, but still wants to get
• 24:38
  stuff done on the ground. It was eliminated and Oklahoma
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  did it against Tennessee. They did it against Alabama.
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  You cannot rush on this team. And that was evident once again
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  Saturday, which forced Beau Purbulla to have to make plays
• 24:52
  in the air and the Sooners forced 2 turnovers.
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  They win the turnover battle, they sacked Purbulla 4 times,
• 24:58
  they win the sack battle and the Tigers go just three of 15 on
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  3rd down. This is the way that Oklahoma
• 25:05
  wins games now and it's not an effective way as you move into
• 25:10
  the post season because their offense is going to have to find
• 25:13
  a way to find some sort of rhythm and and be able to hang
• 25:17
  in games where you're going to be up against really talented
• 25:20
  offenses that are just going to be able to put up points because
• 25:22
  they're that good. But Oregon just find it's going
• 25:26
  to be Oklahoma just finds ways to win.
• 25:29
  They find ways to win with their defense.
• 25:31
  They get stops, they turn you over, they win the turnover
• 25:34
  battle. They stop you on 3rd down, they
• 25:37
  force you in a third and longs. This is a really good defense.
• 25:40
  We've seen it all year long and this has just become the way
• 25:44
  this group wins games. I don't like it.
• 25:47
  I don't think it's sustainable, but you have to give credit
• 25:49
  where credit's due. Without our Mason Thomas, who I
• 25:52
  think is one of the best edge rushers slash hybrid linebackers
• 25:56
  in college football, they find a way to win and hold a Missouri
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  team that puts up a lot of points, usually an offensive
• 26:02
  minded Missouri team with Eli Drinkewitz to just six points.
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  Real quick, do you want to touch on Purbulla Because I didn't
• 26:11
  expect to see him again this season.
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  And the injury report comes out on Wednesday that he is
• 26:17
  questionable and then he's upgraded to go.
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  And this was kind of a Beau Purbulla, John Matier esque game
• 26:26
  when when Matier played Texas, just not 100%, not there.
• 26:31
  He missed on a lot of touchy throws.
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  And when I say touchy throws, I'm talking about, you know,
• 26:36
  ball placement. He had an opportunity on 1/4 and
• 26:39
  seven, I believe, to to get one to Kevin Coleman in the end
• 26:45
  zone. And just the touch on it was
• 26:47
  just a tad off. And that type of stuff is what
• 26:49
  loses you a game. And I'm not saying it's all
• 26:52
  Purbiula's fault, a fault I should say, because, you know,
• 26:56
  this is a guy that wants to play.
• 26:58
  He's a competitor. And Missouri is not in the
• 27:02
  College Football Playoff race. But heading into this, you could
• 27:05
  say maybe they you know it, it thinks could be interesting if
• 27:09
  they go on the road and get a top ten win.
• 27:11
  But Purpula goes 20 for 36231 yards and a touchdown.
• 27:16
  Just kind of a John material against Texas esque game where
• 27:19
  he just was off. And you, you credit the guy for
• 27:22
  playing, you credit the guy for battling and getting out on the
• 27:25
  field, But just not a solid performance from him.
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  We'll move to Pittsburgh and Georgia Tech.
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  The Panthers upset #16 Georgia Tech 42 to 28 on Saturday.
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  And the Panthers still have a pulse for the ACC Championship
• 27:44
  and the College Football Playoffs.
• 27:48
  The last two weeks for Pittsburgh have been very
• 27:50
  interesting because they have, well, really, you could say the
• 27:55
  last six weeks have been really interesting because they make a
• 27:58
  quarterback change. Mason Heinstoel, now the
• 28:01
  quarterback, a true freshman for Pitt, and they spurn off five
• 28:06
  wins in a row, granted against bad ACC opponents, but they spin
• 28:11
  off five wins in a row. And now they play at Notre Dame
• 28:17
  last week, go up against a really, really solid Notre Dame
• 28:21
  team that's playing with a ton of momentum.
• 28:22
  We'll talk about them here more in a minute, but Heinstoel was
• 28:27
  over his skis. Pittsburgh were was over their
• 28:30
  skis. It was just not a good game from
• 28:32
  them. And heading into this one, I was
• 28:35
  wondering, could they bounce back from that ugly performance
• 28:39
  against Notre Dame? Just put it in the back pocket,
• 28:41
  put in the rear view mirror. It doesn't count in terms of ACC
• 28:46
  scheduling and ACC standing. So they're still alive and well
• 28:49
  heading into this one. They know that.
• 28:51
  But it's tough after you get handed a really, you know, tough
• 28:55
  draw in Notre Dame at this point in the season, and you could
• 28:58
  lose your confidence, especially with a freshman quarterback.
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  And that wasn't the case because Georgia Tech's defense sucks.
• 29:07
  And I have been waiting for the opportunity for Georgia Tech to
• 29:11
  be exposed. It should have happened against
• 29:13
  Duke, but Duke got in their own way too often.
• 29:16
  It should have happened against Wake Forest, but Wake Forest
• 29:19
  decided to go for two and wasn't able to get it to go.
• 29:23
  It should have happened against NC State and it did as NC State
• 29:27
  went for 500 plus yards in that one.
• 29:31
  I just think Georgia Tech has been fraud all year.
• 29:34
  They don't play in a good schedule.
• 29:35
  They don't play in a good conference.
• 29:36
  I should say. They haven't played that tough
• 29:38
  of a schedule and they're going into this one at home on Senior
• 29:43
  Day with an opportunity to punch their ticket to the ACC
• 29:47
  Championship game. I actually, I, I, they, they
• 29:50
  play Georgia next week. So maybe they haven't seen your
• 29:52
  day then. But I mean, I, if I were having
• 29:54
  senior day, I would have it against a pit over a Georgia.
• 29:57
  But anyway, I, I, I kind of forgot the scheduling there.
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  But yes, Georgia Tech host Georgia next week.
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  So I guess senior Day will be next week there.
• 30:05
  But regardless or no, they're playing this feel like they're
• 30:10
  playing this at Mercedes-Benz. I feel I feel like they're still
• 30:13
  playing this at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
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  I'll have to double check on that.
• 30:15
  Or you can Fact Check me right now.
• 30:17
  I know I'm the pad of facts and might have missed that one.
• 30:19
  But they've had so many different scheduling changes
• 30:21
  recently where like Tennessee, Georgia Tech was going to be at
• 30:25
  Mercedes-Benz Stadium next year. Now they've moved it to Bobby
• 30:29
  Dodd. I can't remember, can't remember
• 30:34
  if they if they kept Georgia, Georgia Tech at GT, but double
• 30:39
  check me on that one. Regardless.
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  Georgia Tech at home opportunity to punch your ticket to the ACC
• 30:45
  championship game. And there were frauds, and
• 30:48
  they've been frauds, folks. Georgia Tech has always been a
• 30:51
  fraud to me. For the season, Georgia Tech's
• 30:54
  defensive numbers rank 77th in opponents points per game at
• 30:58
  27.2, a 106th in opponent yards per game at 417.8, a 113th in
• 31:06
  opponent yards per play at six point, 184th and 3rd down
• 31:10
  conversion rank at 41%, and then 123rd in fourth down conversion
• 31:16
  rank at 68th. This has never been a good
• 31:19
  defense. This has never been that good of
• 31:20
  a team. But Haines King has carried this
• 31:23
  group to a ton of wins. And when I see teams that have
• 31:27
  these type of lopsided metrics where the offense is able to
• 31:30
  produce but the defense is something you can't look at,
• 31:34
  that's a fraud. And at their record heading into
• 31:36
  this one with one loss, I've looked at this as a potential
• 31:41
  upset spot for Pittsburgh. That's why I had it on the
• 31:43
  paddle locks this past week. I like the Panthers here because
• 31:46
  it's the quintessential. You get knocked down the week
• 31:49
  before and handed it to you by a really good football team in
• 31:53
  Notre Dame, and now everyone's out on you.
• 31:56
  The public is no, we, we like Georgia Tech because we just
• 31:59
  watched the rankings every week and we get up on Saturday and
• 32:02
  look at the spreads and say Georgia Tech at 2 1/2 as a
• 32:05
  ranked team. Oh, let's take the Yellow
• 32:07
  Jackets. No, they're a fraud.
• 32:10
  They've been frauds. And I'm so glad Pittsburgh came
• 32:13
  in there and shut this thing down because them and BYU,
• 32:18
  Georgia Tech and BYU have been my fraud teams throughout the
• 32:20
  season. Thank gosh we closed the door on
• 32:23
  one of them. And give credit to Pittsburgh
• 32:26
  because they came out firing in this one and they came out with
• 32:30
  the identity of let's bounce back after last week.
• 32:33
  And they do all of this without Desmond Reed, the Panthers best
• 32:38
  playmaker ruled out for this game.
• 32:40
  He had fought so hard to get back for that Notre Dame game,
• 32:43
  but he got banged up in that one.
• 32:44
  So he's ruled out for this one. And that was a little bit of a
• 32:47
  concern for me because up against the team like Georgia
• 32:50
  Tech, that is been very high up in the luck rankings for me.
• 32:54
  You need, you know, some things to go well.
• 32:57
  I know that Georgia Tech has been really lucky, but it's just
• 33:00
  continued throughout the season. I didn't know if that was going
• 33:03
  to play into this one as well, but thankfully Desmond Reed did
• 33:07
  not matter because Pitt totals 412 yards of total offense at
• 33:12
  6.1 yards per play. That met Georgia Tech's season
• 33:16
  average and opponent yards per play, and again, I'll reiterate
• 33:20
  that ranks 113th in the country. And then Pitt gets 226 yards in
• 33:25
  the air, 186 on the ground. A very balanced attack up
• 33:30
  against a defense that is constantly on their heels.
• 33:34
  Mason Heinstel 20 of 27 for 226 yards and two touchdowns.
• 33:39
  Jakiran Turner 21 carries for 201 yards and a touchdown. 201
• 33:48
  yards and a touchdown from Jakiran Turner.
• 33:53
  Man, what a day he had constantly picking up big yards.
• 33:58
  He had one run of 56 in this one, too, just constantly
• 34:03
  getting big plays after big plays.
• 34:06
  And Pittsburgh, for a team against Notre Dame that
• 34:10
  struggled to keep drives alive, struggled to stay ahead of the
• 34:13
  chains. That was not an issue here.
• 34:16
  I mentioned USC earlier, not having a run game be an issue
• 34:20
  for Pittsburgh. They're able to stay ahead of
• 34:21
  the chains and move the ball at will because they were able to
• 34:24
  get a complimentary attacked. Kenny Johnson was a big
• 34:27
  playmaker in the air because Desmond Reed, as I mentioned
• 34:31
  out, you know, he's a kind of one of these utility knives.
• 34:35
  He's a good running back, but he's also a pass catcher.
• 34:38
  You can use them a bunch of different ways and he's usually
• 34:41
  used that way for Pitt as he was in limited action against Notre
• 34:44
  Dame. So you get the run production
• 34:46
  from Turner and then Kenny Johnson goes 6 receptions for 91
• 34:50
  yards, got really good separation, made a couple of big
• 34:52
  plays over the course of this one and all of a sudden you look
• 34:55
  up and Pitt has jumped out to a 28 to nothing lead in the first
• 34:59
  half. So after that happened, I felt
• 35:03
  pretty comfortable. But Georgia Tech, they're a
• 35:05
  fighting team and they have done this throughout the season where
• 35:08
  they have been put in tough spots, they've been trailing,
• 35:10
  they've been out gained where they find ways to win.
• 35:13
  I thought 28 points was going to be a lot and it almost wasn't
• 35:17
  enough as Georgia Tech was able to drive late in this game, had
• 35:20
  an opportunity to possibly get within either to tie it up or to
• 35:26
  get within one A1 score that is. And then Hanes King throws a
• 35:30
  pick 6. But give credit to Georgia Tech.
• 35:33
  They fought. They fought in this one.
• 35:35
  And you know, this was a, a, a game where they knew they had to
• 35:43
  had to win. They knew they had to punch a
• 35:45
  ticket to the ACC championship if they had got it done.
• 35:49
  But Pitts, a team that has battled throughout the year, has
• 35:51
  been through their fair share of ups and downs.
• 35:54
  They got on this team early. They took the crowd out.
• 35:57
  They almost let up on the gas late, but it was a great win for
• 36:00
  Pittsburgh. I do want to give credit to
• 36:02
  Haynes King because he shined and has shined all year long on
• 36:08
  FOX my my radio show from 1:00 to 3:00 every Monday through
• 36:11
  Friday, Fox Sports Knoxville. My producer is a big Haynes King
• 36:16
  fan and he believes that he should be a Heisman
• 36:19
  representative. And while I think the numbers
• 36:22
  are there, I just don't think the strength of Georgia State as
• 36:24
  a team or it's going to be Georgia Tech as a team, is good
• 36:27
  enough to get him to that point. But this guy is a baller and
• 36:31
  he's your quintessential college football quarterback. 257 yards,
• 36:36
  2 touchdowns in the air for 76 yards and a touchdown on the
• 36:39
  ground. This guy does it all.
• 36:42
  I will say I was disappointed with Jamal Haynes, who is the
• 36:46
  running back for this Yellow Jackets team.
• 36:48
  He was kind of a non factor, wasn't able to run the ball at A
• 36:52
  at a really good rate at all in this one.
• 36:54
  And Pittsburgh does have a really good rush defense.
• 36:56
  It wasn't shown against Notre Dame, but it's hard to show that
• 36:59
  when you're going up against a Heisman Trophy candidate and
• 37:03
  Jeremiah Love. But Hans King deserves a lot of
• 37:08
  credit because he is a hell of a player.
• 37:10
  I feel bad for him that he's got this bad of a defense, but he
• 37:14
  had a costly pick six turnover late and that's what kind of put
• 37:18
  the game out of reach for this Yellow Jackets team.
• 37:22
  But Haynes King do want to give him credit.
• 37:23
  He's a hell of a football player, has done it throughout
• 37:25
  his career and, you know, deserves a lot of credit for
• 37:29
  what he's been able to do for the Yellow Jackets.
• 37:32
  All right, we'll move now to other notable results.
• 37:36
  We have a sip of water and we'll continue one SEC.
• 37:45
  There we go. Also, I hope you cannot hear the
• 37:48
  construction going on in the valley above my above my
• 37:54
  apartment because I you know, I live in this apartment complex
• 37:57
  in Knoxville and there's a dip. We got this nice courtyard,
• 38:02
  really good foliage, grass. It's nice.
• 38:04
  But then up the hill, they're building like 3 apartments, so
• 38:08
  they are sewing like no one else's business.
• 38:10
  It's kind of throwing me off a couple of times in this episode,
• 38:12
  I'm not going to lie, but I hope that's not a factor in this.
• 38:17
  You're not able to hear it because I do put a silencer on
• 38:20
  it both when I record it and then when I go into post
• 38:23
  production. But I just want to double check
• 38:25
  because it is kind of annoying. So anyway, we'll continue.
• 38:29
  Other notable results #20 Tennessee swamps Florida 31 to
• 38:35
  11 in Gainesville and being someone that covers Tennessee
• 38:40
  for a living here in Knoxville, this was a big one.
• 38:44
  Josh Hypel had to have this one and he left no questions.
• 38:48
  Whether it's fair or not, Josh Hypel has faced a lot of
• 38:52
  criticism for the way that Tennessee has lost their three
• 38:55
  games this year, and a loss on Saturday against this Florida
• 38:59
  team would have started some uncomfortable conversations for
• 39:03
  Hypo and company. Instead, Tennessee goes for 452
• 39:08
  yards of total offense. They played really good
• 39:11
  complimentary football both offensively and defensively and
• 39:15
  within both units, which is not something they've done
• 39:17
  throughout the season. They get more than 200 yards on
• 39:21
  both the ground and the air. Offensively, they go 9 of 13 on
• 39:25
  3rd down as a team, and they played, I thought, their most
• 39:29
  complete game of the season on the offensive and defensive side
• 39:34
  of the football. Because early in the season
• 39:38
  against Syracuse, Tennessee came out of that one really, really
• 39:42
  good in the first half offensively.
• 39:44
  But the defense kind of let up. Against Kentucky a couple of
• 39:47
  weeks back, Tennessee's offense was firing on all cylinders for
• 39:50
  the defense to allow a lot of big plays in the SEC games.
• 39:54
  This has been the most complete Tennessee has played this season
• 39:58
  and I thought it came at a really, really good time.
• 40:00
  As I mentioned, Hypal, a lot of criticism, a lot of pressure to
• 40:04
  win this one. And look, the the I hate the
• 40:08
  SEC. People complain every week that
• 40:11
  Tennessee at 9:00 and 3:00 or or a three loss team I should say,
• 40:15
  is not deserving of being in the top 25, but walking into a
• 40:19
  place. That Tennessee is not won since
• 40:22
  2003 and doing that, that shows they more than belong.
• 40:29
  And there have been a lot of teams that have gone toe to toe
• 40:31
  with Florida this season. Ole Miss hosted the Gators a
• 40:35
  couple of weeks ago. That was a 10 point win, really
• 40:38
  should have been three because Ole Miss added in a touchdown
• 40:40
  late. Georgia went toe to toe with
• 40:43
  this Florida team, Florida beat Texas.
• 40:46
  Florida's a good football team. They're very talented, but they
• 40:50
  just are so inconsistent and, and drive to drive.
• 40:54
  They're they're just, they're just not a consistent team.
• 40:57
  But the I hate SEC people, excuse me, The I hate SEC people
• 41:02
  will complain about it and say that Tennessee shouldn't be
• 41:06
  ranked, but performances like these prove that they should.
• 41:09
  Josh Hypel knew he had to walk into Gainesville with a win, and
• 41:14
  he comes out of one with a huge performance offensively and one
• 41:18
  of the best performances for Tennessee this season.
• 41:21
  That was a statement made heading into Week 14 for another
• 41:25
  big one against Vanderbilt. And looking at the numbers here
• 41:28
  specifically, Joey Aguilar goes 17 of 22 for 204 yards and a
• 41:33
  touchdown. He continues his streak that
• 41:36
  dates back to Appalachian State where he's thrown for over 200
• 41:40
  yards. And I think it's now up to I
• 41:44
  don't even I don't even want to say the wrong number because
• 41:45
  it's a lot. It's, you know, 20 plus games
• 41:48
  he's thrown for more than 20 or 200 yards.
• 41:50
  This guy's a gunslinger. Tennessee knew that he has
• 41:53
  exceeded expectations as a guy that came over from the G5 level
• 41:58
  now starting in the SEC. And there's a chance, there's a
• 42:02
  chance he could be Tennessee starting quarterback again next
• 42:05
  season. But a guy that I've really
• 42:07
  loved, Deshawn Bishop, a Knoxville native, went to Carnes
• 42:11
  High School, walked on this Tennessee team originally
• 42:14
  because there weren't enough spots for scholarships.
• 42:17
  He goes 24 carries for 116 yards and two touchdowns in this one.
• 42:21
  He's earned a scholarship, by the way.
• 42:23
  He's on scholarship now. But it's just a cool story.
• 42:26
  A local kid that wants to play for the hometown team and now
• 42:31
  he's become running back one for this group.
• 42:33
  And this is a team that last year had Dylan Sampson, an SEC
• 42:36
  player of the year, the year before that had a Jalen Wright,
• 42:39
  who's now in the NFL. This has been a a really, really
• 42:42
  good string of running backs that Tennessee has pumped out.
• 42:46
  And Deshawn Bishop, a guy that didn't even receive a
• 42:48
  scholarship when he got here, has become the RB one for this
• 42:52
  team now * Thomas, the other running back available for this
• 42:56
  one as Payne Lewis, their their third back, their second back,
• 43:00
  whatever you want, whatever order you want to call it in, he
• 43:02
  was out * Thomas goes 9 carries for 71 yards.
• 43:06
  He's the Duke transfer. Had a really big run in the
• 43:09
  first half that gashed this thing open for Tennessee.
• 43:13
  And I thought another big development in this one was
• 43:17
  Ethan Davis at tight end. Coming into the season, Miles
• 43:20
  Kitzelman was supposed to be regarded as one of the top tight
• 43:23
  ends in the country, and it was deservedly so considering what
• 43:27
  he did in 2024. But this year he's been nagged
• 43:32
  by drop balls and, you know, not being able to bring the football
• 43:36
  in has caused a couple of bad interceptions for Joey Aguilar.
• 43:40
  Kitzelman unfortunately got banged up against New Mexico
• 43:43
  State. This opens the door for Ethan
• 43:45
  Davis, who had missed an early much of the early part of the
• 43:49
  season due to injury, but over the last couple of weeks since
• 43:52
  he has been back, he's been a focal point of this offensive
• 43:55
  passing attack. He goes 5 receptions for 72
• 43:58
  yards and a touchdown. He had the first score of the
• 44:01
  game on Josh Hypel's quintessential first drive,
• 44:06
  first scripted Dr. of the game. It was beautiful.
• 44:09
  Ethan Davis capped it off with a nice touchdown and this
• 44:12
  Tennessee team is not going to be in the College Football
• 44:14
  Playoff. They can look back at the, you
• 44:17
  know, the, the, the games behind them over the course of the
• 44:21
  season and and be upset with themselves that they didn't play
• 44:25
  in all facets for really any game in, in terms of play, good
• 44:30
  in all facets for any game this season.
• 44:32
  But they did in this one and for Vol Nation and for Josh Hypo and
• 44:37
  for this team, this was a must win game.
• 44:39
  And I feel like the morale is most certainly there as
• 44:42
  Tennessee heads into a top 25 matchup against Vanderbilt.
• 44:46
  Tennessee is a good football team.
• 44:48
  Just, you know, against Georgia, got in their own way, made
• 44:51
  mistakes. Against Alabama, made mistakes,
• 44:53
  Oklahoma made mistakes. Just haven't played all together
• 44:56
  throughout the course of the season.
• 44:58
  But against a really talented opponent in Florida in a really
• 45:04
  tough environment, one they haven't won in since 2003,
• 45:08
  Tennessee puts together a really good performance.
• 45:10
  On the other side, DJ Lagway, 11 for 17116 yards and a touchdown.
• 45:16
  This is just kind of the story of this season for him.
• 45:19
  Just a guy that you see it sometimes and a guy that you
• 45:22
  don't see it sometimes. And I like Lagway.
• 45:24
  I think he can still be something in college football,
• 45:28
  whether it's for Florida or for another team if he decides to
• 45:31
  enter the portal. But there's just too much chaos
• 45:34
  with this team period right now, and the fact that you've got 25%
• 45:38
  of your scholarship players unavailable at this point in the
• 45:40
  season tells you the type of year that Florida's had.
• 45:44
  So I'm not out on DJ Lagway. If I did it again in August and
• 45:49
  we were heading into the season knowing what we watched last
• 45:52
  year, I would still say that DJ Lagway is a guy you should
• 45:55
  consider as a top quarterback. Now, that's obviously not saying
• 45:59
  what we've seen transpire this season, but at this point last
• 46:03
  year, Lagway was playing really good football, strung off a ton
• 46:06
  of big wins. They beat Ole Miss, they beat
• 46:08
  LSU, they have big wins, and Lagway deserved the praise he
• 46:13
  got in the offseason because he is a really talented player and
• 46:16
  I know he'll be talented somewhere else.
• 46:18
  If it's not Florida. I just hate to see him having
• 46:21
  this type of year. But really, when you look at the
• 46:23
  rest of the Florida team, you see how and why it has been this
• 46:27
  type of year because there's just chaos and inconsistencies
• 46:31
  throughout this roster. And another big thing too, Jaden
• 46:34
  Ball, he goes 18 carries for 96 yards.
• 46:37
  This guy's a true sophomore and he's going to be a playmaker for
• 46:41
  someone next season. Again, whether it be for Florida
• 46:43
  or whether it be for another team.
• 46:45
  Jaden Ball is a name to know heading in the next year.
• 46:47
  I think he could be a top 10 running back heading in the next
• 46:50
  season because he is really good.
• 46:52
  And if Florida gave him the ball more often, maybe this Florida
• 46:56
  team isn't where they are right now with eight losses heading
• 47:00
  into the final week of the season.
• 47:03
  All right, Notre Dame and Syracuse, this was a game that I
• 47:07
  didn't know. I didn't need to talk about.
• 47:09
  I love talking Notre Dame. I feel like I've become Notre
• 47:12
  Dame's media, you know, media support outlet over the last
• 47:18
  couple of years because last year I really like this team.
• 47:20
  I had them in the College Football Playoff, national
• 47:22
  championship game. They went to it.
• 47:24
  And this year I see a lot of the same characteristics as last
• 47:28
  year. Notre Dame decimates Syracuse 70
• 47:32
  to 7 in this one and Notre Dame is on the exact same warpath as
• 47:38
  they were this time last year. The Fighting Irish go for 329
• 47:43
  yards on the ground at 13.7 yards per carry and had Syracuse
• 47:48
  have their worst loss, excuse me?
• 47:51
  And handed Syracuse's worst loss since 1893.
• 47:56
  Jeremiah Love 8 carries for 171 yards and three touchdowns.
• 48:02
  Chris Ashe's defense holds Syracuse to just 207 yards and
• 48:07
  forces 3 turnovers. Scores a defensive touchdown.
• 48:10
  Sack Filardi five times. Just like last year, this team
• 48:15
  is playing the best football in the country.
• 48:18
  From Week 3 on. The offense is balanced, They
• 48:22
  give the ball to Jeremiah Love, the best back in the country.
• 48:25
  Their defense shuts you down. They make plays on their own.
• 48:29
  They can score on their own as a defense, and they're on an
• 48:33
  absolute warpath for the second straight season heading into the
• 48:38
  College Football playoffs. This is a really, really good
• 48:41
  team. And I talked about them last
• 48:43
  week. I said get on the wagon while
• 48:45
  you can. And I really think the Wagon
• 48:47
  might have already left with the way they've been playing.
• 48:49
  But every Tuesday night we have the same silly conversation.
• 48:55
  Will Miami beat Notre Dame head to
• 49:15
  Has 2 ranked wins since then. They're not playing the same
• 49:19
  type of football and I'm not so sure Miami is even in the
• 49:24
  College Football Playoff conversation after this week as
• 49:27
  they travel to Pitt and Pitt wins these type of games at home
• 49:31
  when a big opponent comes to town.
• 49:33
  And Mario Cristobal doesn't win those type of games in November
• 49:38
  as he still has a losing record as the Miami Hurricanes coach at
• 49:42
  6:00 and 9:00 in November. So I I get so annoyed of the
• 49:47
  Notre Dame, Miami conversation. If you want to put them both in,
• 49:51
  that's fine if that's your way of allowing Miami to make it.
• 49:54
  But Notre Dame is playing much better football at this point in
• 49:57
  the season. Context is everything.
• 50:00
  I'm not saying head to head doesn't matter, but head to head
• 50:03
  in week one of the season when you've got a new quarterback and
• 50:06
  you've got a new defensive coordinator and you're trying to
• 50:08
  figure things out and you only lose by three points.
• 50:12
  If Notre Dame and Miami matched up right now, Notre Dame would
• 50:15
  be favored on a neutral site field.
• 50:17
  Notre Dame would probably be a short underdog at Miami or a a
• 50:23
  short favorite, I should say, at Miami.
• 50:25
  Notre Dame's just playing better football and there's nothing
• 50:27
  wrong with that, folks. But everyone just does this head
• 50:30
  to And I don't care that Miami is running off, you know,
• 50:43
  Virginia Tech and running off NC State.
• 50:46
  I don't care about that. I care about Notre Dame picking
• 50:49
  up two ranked wins since they've played Miami and decimating
• 50:55
  teams over the course of that. They're just on a different
• 50:59
  level right now. But Notre Dame, huge win on
• 51:01
  Saturday, impressive as can be. They're a really good football
• 51:05
  team. They deserve your College
• 51:07
  Football Playoff recognition. A couple of games real quick in
• 51:10
  the Big 12 #12 Utah fends off playoff elimination against
• 51:14
  Kansas State. This was an ugly one from Utah
• 51:18
  and one of these games that is not something to really be
• 51:23
  excited about as you're entering the final weeks of the season.
• 51:25
  But Kansas State, granted, they have a talented team.
• 51:28
  They've got, you know, a solid coach.
• 51:31
  This was supposed to be the Big 12 champion at the beginning of
• 51:34
  the season in terms of who the media projected, but the utes
• 51:38
  trail by 10 points with three minutes to go and they found a
• 51:41
  way to win. I'll give them credit.
• 51:42
  Devin Dampier, a guy I really liked out of the portal, out of
• 51:45
  New Mexico, has been inconsistent in some of these
• 51:49
  big games. Wasn't great in the air in this
• 51:51
  one goes 18 of 33 for 259 yards. I like the yardage, not the
• 51:56
  efficiency, but did have two touchdowns and he goes 94 yards
• 52:00
  and two touchdowns on the ground, including one at the end
• 52:03
  of the game, which ended up being the game-winning touchdown
• 52:05
  that he just put his head down and marched right through.
• 52:07
  I I like that type of tenacity and aggression from an
• 52:11
  undersized quarterback way. Sean Parker, a guy I've
• 52:14
  mentioned on here before, I think he's a very underrated
• 52:16
  back in the big 1200 yards on the ground here.
• 52:20
  Utah's offense was able to keep up.
• 52:24
  But I mean, the defense is really, you know, what you
• 52:27
  should be upset about if you're Utah right now because they've
• 52:30
  had a couple of these games where it's just like they just
• 52:33
  collapse in in some aspects. But you get 100 yards on the
• 52:36
  ground from Parker. And then the utes had four
• 52:39
  different receivers go over 50 yards receiving here.
• 52:41
  So again, they were getting it done offensively.
• 52:45
  They might have been down because they didn't take
• 52:47
  advantage of a couple of early possessions and allowed Kansas
• 52:50
  State to get a comfortable advantage early, but they were
• 52:53
  able to get back into this one and they did it in all, all
• 52:56
  facets, A complimentary football.
• 52:58
  So I'll give the Utah offense a lot of credit, but I do have
• 53:01
  questions about this Utah defense.
• 53:03
  They were gashed against BYU. They were gashed against Texas
• 53:07
  Tech. And they have beaten teams
• 53:09
  pretty handily, like a Arizona State when Arizona State,
• 53:13
  granted, was pretty banged up, but this was a bad performance
• 53:16
  on your home field. You allow Joe Jackson and this
• 53:20
  is not, you know, I don't want to take away from what Joe
• 53:22
  Jackson did, but you allow a Kansas State running back to go
• 53:26
  for 24 carries and 293 yards, 3 touchdowns for Jackson.
• 53:32
  And Jackson's a really good, you know, playmaker, really good
• 53:35
  running back. He was, you know, supposed to
• 53:37
  split time with Dylan Edwards at the beginning of this season.
• 53:39
  Edwards, the former Colorado running back that transferred
• 53:43
  over to Kansas State. And now he is in the portal not
• 53:46
  going to play any longer for this Kansas State team.
• 53:49
  Also, you might remember in Week 0, which is so long ago, Dylan
• 53:53
  Edwards was the guy that had the muff punt on the 1st punt of the
• 53:57
  season on national TV. Regardless of that, Joe Jackson
• 54:00
  has taken this role on well and was really, really good on
• 54:04
  Saturday. A lot of the same things that
• 54:06
  Kansas State lost this game for the same reasons why they're A5
• 54:10
  and six team. They they can hang around with
• 54:12
  anyone in the country. They can't finish games.
• 54:14
  That's been their issue all year long.
• 54:16
  They did it against Iowa State, they did it against Baylor.
• 54:19
  It's just who this team is. They hang around, but they can't
• 54:21
  win. But it's a concern for Utah to
• 54:24
  allow 293 to one individual player.
• 54:28
  Utah's not out of the College Football Playoff race yet.
• 54:31
  They've got no direct path to the Big 12 championship game.
• 54:36
  So life looks pretty tough for them in order to make the
• 54:40
  playoff, but maybe they could get a couple of losses from
• 54:43
  these teams ahead of them and then they maybe, maybe, maybe
• 54:46
  can sneak in. But performances like that
• 54:49
  Saturday doesn't seem deserving to to sneak in over some other
• 54:54
  teams to make all right, final recap and it's BYU.
• 55:00
  I'm so tired of watching this team.
• 55:02
  So tired of talking about this team.
• 55:04
  I am so ready for them to be frauded off the field.
• 55:07
  Thankfully Georgia Tech was frauded off.
• 55:10
  Thankfully Pitt did their part, but for BYU, the frauds win
• 55:18
  again. Give them credit.
• 55:20
  Frauds win #11 BYU defeat Cincinnati 26 to 14 on the road
• 55:27
  and Cincinnati's a team that was ranked earlier in the season.
• 55:31
  They lost in Nebraska in Week 1. They got a signature win over
• 55:36
  Iowa State. They lost to Utah on the road
• 55:39
  where they were just ran off the field.
• 55:42
  Then last week they lost to Arizona.
• 55:43
  I was hoping that Cincinnati could have kept this one close,
• 55:46
  could have come out with a win, getting Evan Pryor back at
• 55:49
  running back, giving Goldie back at wide receiver.
• 55:53
  I was hoping that Cincinnati would be up for the calls, but
• 55:57
  no BYU. The frauds win again and I am
• 56:02
  still not buying BYU. I've had two fraud teams this
• 56:05
  year and one of them was finally exposed Saturday and Georgia
• 56:08
  Tech BYU is the next in line and I will give them credit where
• 56:12
  credit is due. BYU's defense is very good.
• 56:15
  They ranked 16th and opponents points per game.
• 56:18
  The Cougars forced 2 turnovers and held Cincinnati to 4 of 13
• 56:22
  on 3rd down. The 4th ranked red zone defense
• 56:25
  held since he to just one for three in the red zone.
• 56:29
  I think this is a really good defense offensively.
• 56:32
  I have concerns and that's why they are frauds now.
• 56:35
  LJ Martin had a hell of a night Saturday.
• 56:37
  Don't get me wrong, he goes 222 and two touchdowns on 32
• 56:42
  carries. But my issue with this team and
• 56:45
  the reason why I believe there are frauds is I don't believe
• 56:47
  they have a passing attack and I don't believe in Bear Bochmeier.
• 56:50
  I don't think Bear Bochmeier is taking this team anywhere.
• 56:53
  This is an average passing attack that ranks 104th in the
• 56:56
  country in pass play percentage, meaning they're very predictable
• 57:01
  and they will be way too predictable in big games and
• 57:04
  don't have the passing attack to go up against the leads.
• 57:07
  We saw this against Texas Tech 2 weeks ago.
• 57:10
  The Red Raiders got an early lead.
• 57:12
  BYU asked to lean on the pass game.
• 57:14
  They can't get it done. LJ Martin is a great back, they
• 57:17
  can get a lot of production there, but they don't have the
• 57:20
  passing attack to get it done. And if this is a team that makes
• 57:22
  the College Football Playoff, I think they'll get run off the
• 57:25
  field. I don't buy BYU one bit at this
• 57:29
  point in the season because I think they're 21 dimensional.
• 57:31
  I think their defense is great. I think they're running a game
• 57:34
  or running rushing attack is something to keep an eye on, but
• 57:38
  Bear Bachmeier in this passing attack are non existent.
• 57:42
  This is going to be way too predictable of a team.
• 57:44
  And if BYU makes the College Football Playoff, I cannot wait
• 57:48
  to fade this team with multiple units.
• 57:51
  That is all the time BYU will get today.
• 57:55
  All right, let's move now to the college football landscape, the
• 58:00
  college football world. If you check your phone or you
• 58:03
  check Twitter, you check Instagram, whatever it may be,
• 58:06
  hopefully you're already following the pad of fax to keep
• 58:08
  up with everything at the pad of fax on Instagram, at the pad of
• 58:11
  fax on Twitter, at TP fax on sports, on TikTok.
• 58:14
  I continue. You don't you know all about
• 58:17
  Lane Kiffin in what's going on because it is the talk of the
• 58:23
  town. It's all anyone wants to bring
• 58:25
  up yet. This is a 11 and one Ole Miss
• 58:28
  team or it's going to be a 10 and one Ole Miss team that is
• 58:31
  going to be in the College Football Playoff.
• 58:33
  Very well could host. And I talked about Lane Kiffin a
• 58:37
  little bit last week when we were on doing this.
• 58:39
  I was checking my phone to make sure I'm up to date and haven't
• 58:42
  missed Lane Kiffin's announcement.
• 58:43
  Now I know that Kiffin is waiting till after the Egg Bowl
• 58:48
  to make his final decision on this and Mississippi State play
• 58:51
  on Friday and the decision will come out on Saturday.
• 58:55
  So that tells me where this is headed.
• 58:59
  But on three reports that Florida, LSU and Ole Miss are
• 59:02
  all offering around the same type of deal, the same type of
• 59:05
  money. So for a guy that said, you
• 59:09
  know, not too long ago, that money is not a factor here, he's
• 59:12
  not going to make any decisions off of money, then that would be
• 59:16
  pretty present here. So he's just going to pick where
• 59:18
  he wants to go. You know, I was told two weeks
• 59:21
  ago that Kiffin had no idea where he wanted to go.
• 59:25
  And I was, you know, told about Florida's offer.
• 59:29
  I've, you know, heard a good bit about LSU and, and where they
• 59:32
  are right now and their process. Both Florida and LSU think
• 59:36
  they're in a really good spot. That's The funny thing about
• 59:38
  this, because I'll talk to LSU people and they'll say, yeah,
• 59:42
  we, we feel like we're in a good spot.
• 59:43
  Some even call it a done deal for Florida.
• 59:46
  They feel like they're in a good spot.
• 59:47
  They met with his people on Thursday night.
• 59:50
  And there's Ole Miss. No one in Ole Miss feels like
• 59:53
  they're in a good spot right now, and Lane Kiffin watch has
• 59:57
  been truly just ridiculous to watch unfold.
• 1:00:01
  Honestly, I I've never seen something dominate the media
• 1:00:07
  like this story when the team is as good as they are.
• 1:00:13
  And here's my Lane Kiffin take away.
• 1:00:19
  Lane Kiffin is about to leave Ole Miss before he can even reap
• 1:00:23
  the rewards. Ole Miss gave Lane Kiffin a
• 1:00:26
  second chance. Lane Kiffin strive to rebuild a
• 1:00:29
  program and bring a national championship to them, and now
• 1:00:33
  he's had the opportunity to do so in Oxford.
• 1:00:36
  He has done that, but now he's about to pick up and leave just
• 1:00:41
  to go do it all over again somewhere else without even
• 1:00:45
  benefiting from all the progress he's made at his current place.
• 1:00:49
  Look, LSU and Florida are better programs.
• 1:00:53
  Anyone would want that job and I'm not denying that.
• 1:00:57
  You know, those are better opportunities for them.
• 1:01:00
  The recruiting pools are better, the history is better, the
• 1:01:03
  programs are better. That's not a diss an Ole Miss,
• 1:01:05
  but I think even if you asked Ole Miss fans they would
• 1:01:08
  understand that as well. But the timing of this and the
• 1:01:12
  way he has handled this has been extremely poor.
• 1:01:16
  Ole Miss is a one loss team and could host a College Football
• 1:01:19
  Playoff game, yet the narrative around this team is about him
• 1:01:23
  and his future. That's awful for the kids in the
• 1:01:27
  locker room that have worked their tail off to get to this
• 1:01:29
  moment. That is awful for the school
• 1:01:31
  that has given you every single resource possible and given you
• 1:01:34
  a second chance just to be on this stage.
• 1:01:38
  And that is awful for a fan base that has fully embraced you.
• 1:01:43
  Look, there's no perfect way to handle this.
• 1:01:46
  But if he knew he was leaving, he should have come out and said
• 1:01:49
  a long time ago, hey, I'm interested in other jobs, but I
• 1:01:53
  am focused on this team and finishing out this season to
• 1:01:56
  achieve the goals that this team set out in August.
• 1:02:00
  And that says, I'm going to play all the way through our season,
• 1:02:03
  and if we go to a national championship game, I'll be on
• 1:02:06
  the sidelines coaching that. That way everyone is on the same
• 1:02:10
  page and not getting dragged along like some Netflix
• 1:02:13
  documentary would write up. You know, Kiffin was frustrated
• 1:02:17
  about Quin Sean Judkins when he left for Ohio State just a year
• 1:02:21
  ago, talking about there was no more loyalty in college
• 1:02:23
  football. Well, now Lane Kiffin has turned
• 1:02:27
  into Quin Sean Kiffin by doing the same thing.
• 1:02:32
  I know a lot of old miss people. My mom went Ole Miss.
• 1:02:35
  I've always been surrounded by Ole Miss stuff and I'm very well
• 1:02:39
  aware of what's going on. And I'm not looking at this from
• 1:02:42
  the old Miss lens because that might come off that way.
• 1:02:45
  But I'm looking at it from the perspective of this is a really
• 1:02:49
  good football team that's 11 and or 10.
• 1:02:51
  It's going to be 10 and one, a 10 and one football team that is
• 1:02:55
  about to host a College Football Playoff game for the first time
• 1:02:57
  ever. They've they've achieved three
• 1:03:00
  straight 10 win seasons never been done in the school's
• 1:03:02
  history. You've built this program.
• 1:03:06
  Finish it out the right way. If you leave and go to LSU in
• 1:03:09
  Florida, no one is going to say that's the wrong move.
• 1:03:12
  Anyone. Would you know anyone in life if
• 1:03:15
  if the job opens up that you've always wanted or a job that you
• 1:03:18
  believe is a step up and pay or a step up in opportunities you
• 1:03:22
  take, I would do the same, but finish where you started at your
• 1:03:28
  current place. You know, if I were to leave my
• 1:03:31
  current job, I would finish out the season or finish out the
• 1:03:35
  time where I thought it was best to leave, not in the middle of a
• 1:03:41
  College Football Playoff push. It's unfair to all of those
• 1:03:44
  kids. I was talking to guys who have
• 1:03:47
  been in that locker room, and right now it's kind of chaotic.
• 1:03:50
  You've got guys reposting stuff on Twitter and TikTok, talking
• 1:03:54
  about how Kiffin has kind of messed things up.
• 1:03:58
  You've got Trinidad Chambliss coming out on Twitter saying
• 1:04:01
  that this team is fully focused. You know that that stuff doesn't
• 1:04:06
  happen if things are going correctly.
• 1:04:10
  I've got people inside that building telling me that the
• 1:04:13
  vibes are off and the vibes are off.
• 1:04:15
  Heading into a rivalry matchup with Mississippi State in a shot
• 1:04:21
  to go play in the College Football Playoff, a shot to go
• 1:04:23
  play in a national championship, that's a problem.
• 1:04:27
  And Lane Kiffin, for as many bad decisions as he's made
• 1:04:30
  throughout his career, I thought he had grown up.
• 1:04:33
  But he has not handled this situation like a grown up.
• 1:04:37
  And I really feel for those Ole Miss fans and really feel for
• 1:04:41
  that Ole Miss football team in that locker room that has fought
• 1:04:44
  their tail off for this point. Shame on on the way this has
• 1:04:47
  been handled. All right, getting towards the
• 1:04:51
  end here, let's get my top 25 teams in college football.
• 1:04:55
  Let me pull up this graphic real quick so I can read it out.
• 1:04:58
  I do this every week. It's not like I, you know, just
• 1:05:02
  I need something to look at for it, but I just want to make sure
• 1:05:04
  I get everything down. And then I'll tell you those 7
• 1:05:08
  contenders that I have. All right #25 Georgia Tech.
• 1:05:11
  I still threw them in there. 2 lost team.
• 1:05:14
  I'm not crazy over them, but I I thought it was too dramatic to
• 1:05:17
  knock them all the way out #24 Pit.
• 1:05:19
  They get the head to head win over Georgia Tech.
• 1:05:21
  They move to 24. SMU picks up a underrated win
• 1:05:25
  over the weekend against Louisville.
• 1:05:27
  They shredded them off the field.
• 1:05:29
  They move up to 23. They've got that win over Miami
• 1:05:31
  that carries some nice weight #22 Navy 21, Tulane 20 N Texas.
• 1:05:37
  Those teams move up as other teams dropped out #19 Virginia
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  #18 USC. I put them behind Tennessee
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  because I think Tennessee has been closer and a lot of these
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  bigger games and has lost to better opponents.
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  So 18 USC, 17 Tennessee, 16 Michigan.
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  They've got a big one this weekend against Ohio State in
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  the game. 15 Utah. I dropped the utes back a couple
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  of spots. Was unimpressed with their
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  performance Saturday. 14 Texas, The Longhorns have a little bit
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  of a scary first half, but they're able to put it on in the
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  second-half. Arch Manning with six touchdowns
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  and had three different ways he scored them, both passing,
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  rushing and as a receiver. That's right.
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  And as a receiver, he's the first SEC player to do so since
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  Pharaoh Cooper at South, excuse me, South Carolina in 2014.
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  Thirteen. Miami, the Hurricanes get a win
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  over Virginia Tech Got a little interesting late, but Miami
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  moves up #12 BYU, they're going to continue to stay at this
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  point. They'll win games, but I don't
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  have them moving up much further. 11 Vanderbilt a big
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  match up against Tennessee on Saturday.
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  They dazzled against Kentucky. Diego Pavia had 530 something
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  yards of offense and six touchdowns.
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  Really big performance for him in his final game at Vandy #10.
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  Notre Dame 9 Alabama 8 Oklahoma 7 Ole Miss 6, Oregon 5, Texas
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  Tech 4. Georgia 3 Texas A and M2 Indiana
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  1 Ohio State. Those are the same as last week,
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  so that's why I go in a little bit of a faster order.
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  So before we get to my final thoughts about what's going down
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  in Brazil here next year, I do want to talk about my contenders
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  and pretenders heading into the final couple or the final week
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  of the season, championship weekend in the College Football
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  Playoff selection day show. So we had this conversation on
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  my radio broadcast during the week on Fox Sports Knoxville.
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  We do a buy or sell segment and a contending contending question
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  segment. And one of them I did was how
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  many teams are legitimate College Football Playoff
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  contenders? And I take my the, the, the top
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  15 teams right now are the teams I'll I'll bracket in this that
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  are I'm going to compare because I think everyone outside the top
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  15 not going to make the playoff anyway, wouldn't be a contender
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  anyway. I don't think Utah's a
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  contender, but I wouldn't have them in the in the field right
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  now. I think Texas on a good day
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  could be 1. I don't have them in the field.
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  Miami know, BYU know, we'll focus on the legitimate ones
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  because the top ten teams right now, I think there are 7 teams
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  that could win the national championship.
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  Out of my top ten, there are 7 teams that can win it.
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  So I'll redo the redo that top 10 real quick so you can get on
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  the same page with me #10 Notre Dame 9, Alabama 8, Oklahoma 7,
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  Ole Miss 6 Oregon 5, Texas Tech 4, Georgia 3, Texas A and M2
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  Indiana 1. Ohio State.
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  Those are my 10 teams. Seven of them have a legitimate
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  chance to make it. My seven teams that I believe
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  that can make the College Football Playoff are as follows
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  #10 well, that's not how I wanted to do this.
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  Hold on, time out, we'll restart because I don't really want to
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  put a ranking by them too, because I'm probably going to
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  put this out on TikTok or Instagram as my team.
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  So let me restart that. Let me let me restart from the
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  top. There are 7 teams that I believe
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  can make the College Football Playoff.
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  Notre Dame playing the best football out of anyone in the
• 1:09:28
  country. They've got a defense that is
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  making plays and getting stops. They turn things around.
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  Jeremiah Love and then offense unstoppable right now 9.
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  I did it again. I did it again.
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  I don't want to put numbers in front of these teams.
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  There's an omissions that's back-to-back.
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  Alabama is a team that I still think can win the national
• 1:09:52
  championship. I think offensively they've
• 1:09:55
  taken a couple of steps back, but the defense, the personnel
• 1:09:58
  they have is there and they've got the type of star power.
• 1:10:01
  Offensively, if they're able to continue to get things moving,
• 1:10:04
  they are a championship contender.
• 1:10:07
  Texas Tech, One of the most underrated teams in college
• 1:10:10
  football because everyone outside of the SEC doesn't
• 1:10:12
  really watch them play and they are damn good.
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  Best linebacker in the country. Best defensive end in the
• 1:10:18
  country. They've got one of the best
• 1:10:19
  defenses, period. Offensively, they're a machine.
• 1:10:23
  They've got plenty of NFL caliber players on that roster.
• 1:10:26
  If Baron Morton stays healthy, this is a championship
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  contending team. Georgia.
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  Kirby Smart. Honestly, I could end the
• 1:10:37
  sentence there, but they have continued to be better
• 1:10:41
  throughout the season. Gunner Stockton has a better
• 1:10:44
  understanding of zone defenses, is able to read those better.
• 1:10:48
  This is a very talented team. I do worry about their defense,
• 1:10:51
  but they have shown the ability offensively to win them games
• 1:10:56
  despite their defense putting up a ton of yards.
• 1:10:58
  Georgia a contender, Texas A and MA contender.
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  One of the best teams in the country throughout the season.
• 1:11:04
  Defensively they smother you. Offensively, they've got so many
• 1:11:07
  weapons. Indiana, Heisman Trophy
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  quarterback, really well coached team.
• 1:11:13
  D'Angelo Pons in the secondary. They are talented at every
• 1:11:16
  position. Indiana, without a doubt.
• 1:11:18
  Ohio State, self-explanatory, another Heisman hopeful,
• 1:11:22
  Jeremiah Smith, Cornell Tate, a defense led by Arvel Reese and
• 1:11:27
  Caleb Downs. The most talented team in the
• 1:11:30
  country. They're most definitely a
• 1:11:32
  contender now out of those ten teams that I don't believe are
• 1:11:35
  contenders? Oregon, I think Oregon's too
• 1:11:39
  banged up at the receiver position.
• 1:11:41
  They're too inconsistent offensively in in certain
• 1:11:44
  moments that that dictate a game.
• 1:11:47
  Ole Miss, they play with fire too often.
• 1:11:49
  The Lane Kiffin thing has totally railed this team and I
• 1:11:52
  hate it for him. But even if Kiffin hadn't
• 1:11:54
  happened, I don't like how this team plays a lot of close games
• 1:11:57
  and number. And the third team I wouldn't
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  consider as a championship contender would be Oklahoma.
• 1:12:03
  Oklahoma offensively is not consistent enough to win a
• 1:12:07
  championship. Defensively they are.
• 1:12:09
  But when I name those three teams right there, I just see
• 1:12:12
  major consistency issues and flaws.
• 1:12:15
  So seven teams I can win it, Ohio State, Indiana, Texas A&M,
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  Georgia, Texas Tech, Alabama, and Notre Dame.
• 1:12:23
  Those are my contenders and pretenders in my top 10.
• 1:12:26
  All right, let's wrap things up with this.
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  My final thoughts today, Virginia and North Carolina
• 1:12:35
  State will play in Brazil in 2026.
• 1:12:39
  I want to give a quick shout out to Cassio at draft day in
• 1:12:44
  Brazil. He reached out to me last week
• 1:12:46
  when I made a post about this match up and wanted me to do a
• 1:12:50
  video for them. And I told him I would include
• 1:12:52
  it in the podcast so it'd make it a little bit easier, give my
• 1:12:55
  listeners an opportunity to hear about it and also his listeners
• 1:12:59
  because he wants to share this in Brazil.
• 1:13:01
  So really excited for this. So I kind of want to just
• 1:13:04
  explain the match up, what's going on, why this is impactful
• 1:13:07
  and stuff like that. But NC State and Virginia set to
• 1:13:11
  face off in the first ever Brazil game of college football
• 1:13:15
  in 2026. This will mark the first ever
• 1:13:18
  college football game played in Brazil in the first
• 1:13:21
  international game for both NC State and UVA in program
• 1:13:26
  history. We have expanded the NFL outside
• 1:13:30
  of the country before, but we continue to see college football
• 1:13:34
  start to dip their toes in out of country games.
• 1:13:38
  The ACC has played a total of five of these overseas, most
• 1:13:41
  recently Florida State and Georgia Tech and Dublin, Ireland
• 1:13:44
  last year. And they date all the way back
• 1:13:47
  to Clemson and Wake Forest playing in Tokyo, Japan in 1982.
• 1:13:52
  So we've seen some of these games expand outside the United
• 1:13:55
  States. And every year Dublin, Ireland
• 1:13:59
  host a game to kick off the season.
• 1:14:02
  And I know a lot of college football fans want to see
• 1:14:06
  football stay in the United States, want to see college
• 1:14:08
  football stay in United States. But I think you have to think
• 1:14:12
  about the other side of this. This means a lot to Brazilians.
• 1:14:16
  They are excited as can be for this opportunity.
• 1:14:19
  I made that post last week and hundreds of Brazilians began
• 1:14:23
  flooding the comment section. This means a lot to them and
• 1:14:27
  they're excited for this opportunity.
• 1:14:29
  And the good thing for them, this is an important game.
• 1:14:33
  This is going to be a conference game played on Labor Day between
• 1:14:37
  two teams that are going to have high aspirations for that
• 1:14:40
  season. Virginia coming off their best
• 1:14:43
  season they've had under Tony Elliott.
• 1:14:45
  They're going to have, you know, a quest to make it to the ACC
• 1:14:49
  Championship or make it back to the ACC Championship if they're
• 1:14:52
  able to this year for NC State. They're trying to turn things
• 1:14:56
  around because they've got a quarterback and CJ Bailey, who's
• 1:14:59
  going to be playing in the NFL here soon, a potential first
• 1:15:02
  round pick in the NFL draft, going to be making his debut for
• 1:15:07
  his new season in Brazil. This is going to be a really
• 1:15:12
  good football game between two teams that have a lot of stake
• 1:15:15
  and they're going to be some really high-powered players and
• 1:15:18
  CJ Bailey being an example that Brazilians are going to be
• 1:15:22
  really excited to see. I think this is a great
• 1:15:25
  opportunity for both these teams to travel, get to play in a very
• 1:15:29
  unique environment and it's awesome for Brazilian fans to be
• 1:15:33
  able to have the watch, be able to do, to have the opportunity
• 1:15:37
  to watch college football in a meaningful college football game
• 1:15:41
  that is in their own country. Going to be a really cool match
• 1:15:46
  up. That's going to be Labor Day
• 1:15:47
  next year. NC State and Virginia, shout out
• 1:15:50
  to Casio once again at draft day in Brazil.
• 1:15:54
  Want to make sure to shout them out.
• 1:15:56
  All right, that's going to wrap it up for episode 135 of the
• 1:16:00
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• 1:16:26
  I'm headed back to Memphis here in just a bit.
• 1:16:30
  Going to enjoy some time back at home, some good food, some good
• 1:16:33
  football. My Grizzlies aren't playing
• 1:16:35
  though, so I'm a little bummed out about that, but I appreciate
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  you listening along with me. I'm William Patterson signing
• 1:16:41
  out.