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Episode 546: Week 4 Upset Watch: Tennessee, Cal and Texas A&M · The Crazy Sheet - CFB Handicapping

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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, it's your favorite time
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Speaker 1: of week. You download the crazy sheets, you get you comfortable,
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Speaker 1: get you something to drink, and get ready to talk
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Speaker 1: some college football. I'm Mark, and I'm actually on the
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Speaker 1: road this weekend, and Scotty's at home. Brother, how the
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Speaker 1: hell are you?
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Speaker 2: Man, good.
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Speaker 3: Had I got caught up, was going to the East Coast,
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Speaker 3: got caught in that fiasco going on in Philadelphia this week.
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Speaker 3: So I was going up to play some golf, didn't
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Speaker 3: get a chance to go. So a little disappointing, but hey,
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Speaker 3: you get back to the grind when you got to
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Speaker 3: do it. Fun week last week, Mark.
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Speaker 2: Fun week.
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Speaker 3: That was LSU. Ole Miss was everything you thought it
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Speaker 3: was going to be. I love that Ole Miss fans
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Speaker 3: are acting like they are not being petty. It is fabulous.
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Speaker 3: That is pure pettiness at its finest. Good for them
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Speaker 3: for winning the game. Great atmosphere.
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Speaker 2: Game was great.
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Speaker 3: Fans got in there early. I hate to crush them,
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Speaker 3: but they don't win that game. If the big tight
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Speaker 3: end for LSU doesn't get hurt, Kiffin had taken that
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Speaker 3: game over, but the difference in that game was Sam
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Speaker 3: Leavitt in the first half. And it was exactly what
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Speaker 3: we said going into the game. I watched that guy
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Speaker 3: wilt in Starkville last year. He wilted in Oxford under
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Speaker 3: that environment. And in the first half, he simply... Did
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Speaker 3: not make the plays. I think that team realizes they
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Speaker 3: left a lot of guys open, a lot of plays
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Speaker 3: left on the field. He made some throws that were
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Speaker 3: not good to guys who were open, but Trey Desgreen
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Speaker 3: was the difference in the game. When he got hurt,
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Speaker 3: LSU just didn't have the ability to close. They almost
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Speaker 3: didn't have an answer for him. And when you combine
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Speaker 3: that with Levitt's ability And I think that was a
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Speaker 3: big part of the game. Alabama's defense, I do not
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Speaker 3: need to hear how good their defense is because it's not.
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Speaker 2: It may be talented, but it's not good. It is
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Speaker 2: not good.
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Speaker 3: You do not get gas canned the way they got gas. Hell,
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Speaker 3: FSU can't even throw.
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Speaker 2: The ball, Mark.
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Speaker 3: And they threw to one all day long. I mean,
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Speaker 3: it was wild. And, you know, look, he ran the
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Speaker 3: football on them. That defense is not good. That offense
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Speaker 3: is special when the quarterback's playing well. They're super talented.
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Speaker 3: Freshman running back's a dude.
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Speaker 2: Man, he's good.
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Speaker 3: I don't know how much longer he's not going to
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Speaker 3: be starting. I know they'll probably let Hill, you know,
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Speaker 3: play a good bit. But at the end of the day,
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Speaker 3: he's not their best back. He's not even close. Texas
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Speaker 3: A & M, let me explain something to Marcel Reed.
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Speaker 3: You're going to be in the portal whether you want
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Speaker 3: to be or not. That was abysmal. I mean, he couldn't.
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Speaker 2: Throw the ball again. I mean, I said to every
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Speaker 2: Aggie fan.
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Speaker 3: You're going to go as far as Marcel Reed can
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Speaker 3: take you, and that ain't very damn far. Because that
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Speaker 3: defense ain't as good as it was last year. They
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Speaker 3: can't do what they can do and overcome a game
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Speaker 3: where Marcel Reed can't do anything. And they could last year.
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Speaker 3: I mean, hell, they almost beat Miami with him unable
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Speaker 3: to throw a forward pass. Kudos to Kentucky. Stein's got
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Speaker 3: them playing with some energy, some heart. That was impressive.
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Speaker 3: New Mexico, how about my man Eck going up there
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Speaker 3: and giving the Sooners all they wanted. Kamario Taylor bouncing
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Speaker 3: back as well as I've ever seen any quarterback in
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Speaker 3: a long time as a young guy. I mean, this
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Speaker 3: was his fourth start. You go 0 for 4, throw
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Speaker 3: a pick, you're down 16 bullet on the road in
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Speaker 3: a tough environment, and they proceed to score 35 straight.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you don't see many young kids do that.
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Speaker 3: And look, a lot of credit goes to Mississippi State's defense.
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Speaker 3: They played significantly better in the second half. They forced
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Speaker 3: Lenore Sellers to throw the football, which, candidly, he's in
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Speaker 3: love doing. At a high rate. And that was the
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Speaker 3: difference in the ballgame there. I want to talk about,
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Speaker 3: I know we got some guys, we got a Purdue
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Speaker 3: fan that listens, your buddies with. He was making jokes
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Speaker 3: about them. You know, just take whoever Purdue's playing against.
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Speaker 3: They didn't cover last week, but they looked pretty good
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Speaker 3: for that ballgame. That ballgame was tight. Heck, I think
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Speaker 3: they had a lead. going into that ball game, going
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Speaker 3: into the fourth quarter in that game. UCLA does have
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Speaker 3: a good offense, but Purdue's making some strides because the difficulty,
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Speaker 3: and Arkansas's in this situation too, when you're bad and
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Speaker 3: you can't win, you've got to overpay for.
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Speaker 2: Kids in the portal.
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Speaker 3: So the kids you're getting are overvalued, and yet they
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Speaker 3: put in the effort like they're a superstar. It makes
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Speaker 3: it really hard to win. That's where Mississippi State was
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Speaker 3: that first year, second year really too. Thankfully, they're coming
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Speaker 3: out of it a little bit, but it's tough to win.
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Speaker 3: If you're not a head coach who transfers and brings
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Speaker 3: a great roster with you, it's a whole lot harder
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Speaker 3: to reboot a program now than I think it's ever
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Speaker 3: been because kids can bail, and it's really.
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Speaker 2: Really hard to get guys. You've got to overpay.
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Speaker 3: Man, a bunch of weather delays last week. That was crazy.
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Speaker 3: Houston and Texas Tech was a great football game. So
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Speaker 3: just a lot going on, man. It was a great week. Oh, Louisville. Great,
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Speaker 3: good football team in Louisville. They gave Ole Miss all
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Speaker 3: they wanted. Put a little woodshed to SMU. I think
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Speaker 3: that's a good football team. They got to be on
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Speaker 3: upset alert this weekend. Better look out. Better look out.
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Speaker 3: You play two big ball games in three weeks, and
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Speaker 3: here comes a better team than you think coming into Louisville.
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Speaker 2: So a lot of fun stuff to talk about this weekend, Mark.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. One thing you can't overlook last week was the
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Speaker 1: ending of the Vandy-NC State game. I don't know that
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Speaker 1: you'll ever see that again. If you didn't see it,
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Speaker 1: I'm sure you had to by now. C.J. Baxter, they punt,
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Speaker 1: they pin them deep, or they make an interception on
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Speaker 1: the goal line, pin them deep. He's trying to draw
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Speaker 1: the safety and just get out of the game. And
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Speaker 1: for whatever reason, instead of running out of the end
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Speaker 1: zone or taking a knee, he stands there and waits
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Speaker 1: to get tackled and fumbles into the end zone, which
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Speaker 1: Vandy then recovers and wins the game. Now, if you
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Speaker 1: go look at it on the, if you go look
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Speaker 1: at the data in the, in the yardage, they weren't
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Speaker 1: that far apart. And so it's not as, it's not
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Speaker 1: just quite, that was the mistake that lost in the game.
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Speaker 1: I mean, Vandy was in the game, but NC state
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Speaker 1: actually handled it should have won, but, I've never seen
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Speaker 1: that happen. The one thing that takeaway I thought that
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Speaker 1: was interesting there, and you and I talked about this
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Speaker 1: off air, but is the, you know, Doran's response to
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Speaker 1: the whole thing. And it wasn't a, you know, do better.
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Speaker 1: We made a mistake. He told him, he said he
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Speaker 1: was never supposed to get hit. His instructions were X.
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Speaker 1: And then he just kind of stood there like, I
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Speaker 1: don't know what happened. And my point to that was
7:05
Speaker 1: I saw a couple of guys coming down on him saying,
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Speaker 1: you know, you can't be throwing your players under the
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Speaker 1: bus and, Cause Mike Elko at A & M takes
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Speaker 1: the complete other response. He's always saying, I got out coached.
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Speaker 1: It was on me. He doesn't blame the players. And
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Speaker 1: I understand, I mean, there's different ways to handle things,
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Speaker 1: but when these guys are making as much money as
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Speaker 1: they're making, whether you're going to put them in front
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Speaker 1: of the media or not, it's just some sense of
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Speaker 1: accountability has got to be had. And I say, I
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Speaker 1: didn't play very well. And I think that, you know,
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Speaker 1: it gets to the point where that's what we just
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Speaker 1: need to say is just be honest. Like, And come
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Speaker 1: out and say, I didn't play very well. If it's
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Speaker 1: Elko saying, I didn't coach very well, that's great. Say,
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Speaker 1: our game plan didn't work, or our tackles got their
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Speaker 1: ass kicked all day, and Reed isn't comfortable in a
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Speaker 1: blitz pack. There's a lot of things you obviously can't say,
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Speaker 1: but it's obvious if you're watching the game that that's
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Speaker 1: what the issue is. And if you look at Reed,
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Speaker 1: and I'll use him as an example, he's just not
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Speaker 1: very accurate as a downfield passer. Now, the one thing
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Speaker 1: we talked about last week in the podcast.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, downfield, Mark. He can't throw a wide receiver screen.
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Speaker 1: Well, that either. But, you know, we talked about last
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Speaker 1: week with Kentucky. It's like, what were they going to
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Speaker 1: have to do to win? And that's what they did.
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Speaker 1: You know, they went downfield against this A & M team.
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Speaker 1: And that was the one way that they could do it.
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Speaker 1: And so I was impressed with the game plan that
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Speaker 1: Will Stein put in place. Back to your Mississippi State Bulldogs,
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Speaker 1: being down the way that they were on the road
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Speaker 1: and having the composure to come back and win showed
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Speaker 1: me a lot of mustard there. And on him, but
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Speaker 1: on the leadership of that team, I think getting that
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Speaker 1: win at Minnesota the week before was a big deal
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Speaker 1: for those guys. And then coming back home this weekend
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Speaker 1: against the Missouri team, you just got to kind of
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Speaker 1: hope they can get that home magic behind them. If
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Speaker 1: you want them to keep winning because you get two
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Speaker 1: wins like that, especially the one that last week. And
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Speaker 1: sometimes you start reading a little bit about how good
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Speaker 1: you are and, and made it, you know, may just
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Speaker 1: assume that that grind is going to carry you to
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Speaker 1: the next week. And so, It'll be interesting as we
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Speaker 1: get ready to roll it.
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Speaker 3: Mark, learning to win, you say this all the time,
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Speaker 3: some of these teams are not that far away, but
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Speaker 3: they've got to learn how to win. I think Mississippi
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Speaker 3: State's a prime example. Last year they could have easily
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Speaker 3: won seven or eight games. I mean, they had leads
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Speaker 3: in the fourth quarter against Tennessee, Texas, some really, really
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Speaker 3: good football teams, and lost those games. You've got to
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Speaker 3: learn how to win. But that goes true for learning
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Speaker 3: how to win when you're winning. Now Mississippi State's winning.
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Speaker 2: They got to learn. It's just what you said.
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Speaker 3: They got to come out and put a great, this
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Speaker 3: is a winnable game, but they are not the better
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Speaker 3: team Saturday.
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Speaker 2: I don't care what the odds says. Are they favored? Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Are they the better football team? No.
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Speaker 3: Missouri's got the better roster and Mississippi state. Again, just
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Speaker 3: what you said has got to learn to grind through that.
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Speaker 3: I think that's the biggest thing that Kiffin has got
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Speaker 3: to teach these LSU kids.
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Speaker 2: Ole Miss knows how to win.
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Speaker 3: And that ballgame was on the line, and they went
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Speaker 3: and won the football game. And I will tell you
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Speaker 3: one thing. Pete Golding out Kiffin to Kiffin. With the
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Speaker 3: two-point conversion.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I mean, look, man, if you're Ole Miss, you got.
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Speaker 3: To think, oh, that was a master stroke right there.
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Speaker 3: I think they were totally jacking with them. I don't
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Speaker 3: think they were going for two. You know, maybe they were,
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Speaker 3: but I find that hard to believe without Pete Golding
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Speaker 3: telling me, no, we were planning on going for two.
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Speaker 2: Because you're opening yourself up for the chance to lose
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Speaker 2: the ball game. and boom, they jump off sides not
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Speaker 2: once but twice.
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Speaker 3: And give it to them inside the one, and then
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Speaker 3: you know they're going to score. So just kudos to
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Speaker 3: Golding for doing that, taking advantage of that fan support,
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Speaker 3: that momentum, all of that. Trinidad Chambliss, hey, man, the
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Speaker 3: kid's a player. He just is what he is. And,
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Speaker 3: you know, is he going to be a great NFL guy?
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Speaker 2: Nope, he's not.
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Speaker 3: But, buddy, he's a great college quarterback, and we're not
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Speaker 3: playing– they don't play NFL on Saturday.
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Speaker 2: They play college football, and he's a really good one.
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Speaker 3: As long as you've got that guy back there at quarterback,
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Speaker 3: they're going to have a chance to win. Hate it
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Speaker 3: about Lacey getting the injury that I have not seen
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Speaker 3: what it is. But the– I've seen a lot of collarbones,
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Speaker 3: and that sure looked like he broke his collarbone when
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Speaker 3: he was walking off that field. That's just what it
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Speaker 3: looked like. Same thing when he was walking to the
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Speaker 3: locker room. The way he fell– how the big lineman
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Speaker 3: fell on him. Hope that's not the case because he's
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Speaker 3: a great player. This Ole Miss team is good. That
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Speaker 3: defense looked more like itself last week, and I really
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Speaker 3: mean up front. Cam Franklin and Echols really kind of
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Speaker 3: got after it and looked like the players I was
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Speaker 3: expecting them to be all season.
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Speaker 2: Did some good stuff. So it's going to be an
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Speaker 2: interesting week this week.
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Speaker 3: Going back to what you said about Baxter, I'm going
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Speaker 3: to quote the great Jackie Sherrill for you right here.
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Speaker 2: Bad players make bad plays.
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Speaker 1: Oh, boy.
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Speaker 2: That's the bottom line. There's no other way to say it.
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Speaker 2: That's dumb. It's inexcusable.
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Speaker 3: That kid's making $ 2 or $ 3 million at a minimum.
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Speaker 3: There's no way NC State's not paying him that or
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Speaker 3: he'd have left. He had too good of a year
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Speaker 3: last year to not be somewhere else. So they're at
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Speaker 3: least paying him that.
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
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Speaker 3: We're not going to make excuses with you. You want
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Speaker 3: to get paid like a big boy? You're going to
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Speaker 3: get criticized like a big boy, and you've got to
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Speaker 3: answer the bell like a big boy. I'll be honest
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Speaker 3: with you. I think he should have owned.
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Speaker 2: I blew it. I cost us the football game.
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Speaker 3: You know, a leader, that's what he does, because everybody
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Speaker 3: in that stadium and everybody in that locker room knows
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Speaker 3: he's supposed to run out of the back of the
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Speaker 3: end zone. You know, you stand there, wait. You just
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Speaker 3: run to the back of the end zone. You stand
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Speaker 3: there until you're about to get hit, and then you
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Speaker 3: step out. Even if he doesn't run out the clock, Mark,
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Speaker 3: you own side kick. Ball game's over. The ball bounces around.
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Speaker 3: and they're not going to be able to return it.
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Speaker 3: They got to recover it. The ball game runs out.
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Speaker 3: If you don't, no excuse to not run out of
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Speaker 3: the back of the end zone right there. But again,
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Speaker 3: he's going to get his coach fired, but that's Jackie.
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Speaker 3: Jackie's right.
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Speaker 2: Bad players make bad plays.
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Speaker 1: Oh, man, Scotty. We're in the middle of it. Fourth week,
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Speaker 1: college football. I love the drama that is the SEC.
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Speaker 1: It's like days of our lives on how ridiculous it
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Speaker 1: is with these guys and how they're acting. The one
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Speaker 1: thing I'm going to say, I'm going to put a
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Speaker 1: pin in this, and then we're going to move on
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Speaker 1: to this week, is I got to think that my
13:37
Speaker 1: man Kirby Smart is loving all of this rhetoric that
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Speaker 1: LSU is dealing with and Ole Miss is dealing with
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Speaker 1: and Bama, are we any good after Florida State? And
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Speaker 1: it's just real quiet. And I don't know if you've
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Speaker 1: watched Georgia play every game this year, but Gunnar Stockton,
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Speaker 1: he's not even– like 50% of his passes are behind
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Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. And last week against Arkansas, they
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Speaker 1: just line up and just ran the ball straight at
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Speaker 1: them the entire game. Nothing exciting, nothing sexy, just completely
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Speaker 1: ran straight at them. And I honestly think they're going
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Speaker 1: to keep that up until somebody proves that they can
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Speaker 1: stop them. And I don't know that we're going to
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Speaker 1: get it anytime soon. I still think Georgia's probably got
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Speaker 1: the track to make it at least a run at
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Speaker 1: the national championship there because they seem the most balanced
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Speaker 1: in what they're going to get. And I'm interested to
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Speaker 1: see if somebody does finally press them. Are they going
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Speaker 1: to be able to throw the ball downfield if they
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Speaker 1: need to? But we'll get to that, brother. I don't know, man.
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Speaker 1: I'm excited. Let's get this thing rolling here. Thursday night,
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Speaker 1: Coastal Carolina at home hosting the Liberty Flames. Haven't watched
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Speaker 1: a ton of either one of these two teams play.
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Speaker 1: Line's two and a half. Over-under's 50 and a half.
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Speaker 1: I always tend to lean to the under in these
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Speaker 1: particular games, especially at first half under if you can
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Speaker 1: get one. You have anything on Thursday nights?
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Speaker 3: Man, I do not on Thursday night. I do have
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Speaker 3: a little love for one of the games on Friday night, though. Actually,
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Speaker 3: probably two of the games on Friday night.
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Speaker 1: There's a great Friday night board if you dive into it.
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Speaker 1: You've got both the service academies are playing. Army traveling
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Speaker 1: to Philadelphia. Army's laying three on the road against this
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Speaker 1: Temple Isle team. Temple team's better. 48 and a half,
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Speaker 1: you're over under on this one. I'm betting you're going
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Speaker 1: to tell me you're taking the Black Knights. If I'm
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Speaker 1: going to play this, I would take them to win.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if I want to lay points with Army.
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Speaker 3: Man, give me Army. I think they're going to win
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Speaker 3: this ballgame.
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Speaker 2: I like this. I actually like both the academies.
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Speaker 3: This is a good slate of games, but I just
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Speaker 3: think Army's going to be able to run the football
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Speaker 3: against this team and then throw it enough that they're
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Speaker 3: able to come across it. Temple's still in the middle
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Speaker 3: of a rebuild. Watched a good bit of that Penn
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Speaker 3: State-Temple game, and it just does not make me feel
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Speaker 3: good about them being able to control this Army offense.
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Speaker 2: So I like Army here.
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Speaker 1: Do you like Navy traveling down to Birmingham in the
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Speaker 1: UAB game as well?
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Speaker 2: I do the same thing.
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Speaker 3: Like, I three-quarters want to get me a little teaser
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Speaker 3: in these ballgames. Go ahead and get you a little
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Speaker 3: Military Service Academy teaser right here. You can get Army
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Speaker 3: getting points, and you can get Navy down to basically
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Speaker 3: pick them at a half point.
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Speaker 2: So let's get it, Mark.
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Speaker 3: Let's get a little Service Academy teaser for college football.
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Speaker 1: Oh, my God, that sounds disgusting. Indiana laying 21 against Northwestern.
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Speaker 1: Northwestern woodshedded Colorado on Saturday. I don't know. I guess
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Speaker 1: the Colorado team didn't realize that those guys were playing
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Speaker 1: on a practice field. They're out there making all those
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Speaker 1: comments about how quiet it was and then just got
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Speaker 1: their asses kicked. I think he's doing a good job
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Speaker 1: at Northwestern.
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Speaker 2: Indiana, they haven't.
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Speaker 1: Covered this year yet. They're 0-3 against the spread. They've
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Speaker 1: been laying these big numbers. I'm not saying this team's
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Speaker 1: not good, but I am saying this Indiana team is gettable.
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Speaker 1: This is not last year's Indiana team by any stretch
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Speaker 1: of the imagination. When they dive into Big Ten play,
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Speaker 1: I think it's going to be interesting. I would lean
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Speaker 1: to getting 21 with Northwestern. Not involved in this one
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Speaker 1: just yet, but if I were going to make a play,
17:17
Speaker 1: that would probably be my initial lean and what we've
17:19
Speaker 1: got from there. The game I do like on Saturday
17:22
Speaker 1: night is traveling across the country, Clemson Tigers laying one
17:26
Speaker 1: and a half to play the Cal Bears. This is
17:28
Speaker 1: a late, late kick, 10.30 p.m. They're going to be
17:32
Speaker 1: playing football until way past midnight on the East Coast.
17:37
Speaker 1: Clemson obviously coming into this game on a short week.
17:40
Speaker 1: They've got to travel across the country. I think these
17:43
Speaker 1: teams are trying to get better at it. But if
17:45
Speaker 1: you looked at USC last week, they did pull the
17:47
Speaker 1: win out against Rutgers. but you've got the same travel
17:50
Speaker 1: distance trying to get from Clemson, South Carolina to Cal
17:54
Speaker 1: in this spot here. This is a Cal team that
17:56
Speaker 1: I think is still, I still don't think that they're
18:00
Speaker 1: getting their, uh, getting what they should in this spot.
18:03
Speaker 1: And so I think this Cal team, with Clemson traveling across,
18:07
Speaker 1: Clemson coming off of the seven-hour game that they had
18:10
Speaker 1: in the rain delay last week, which they should have
18:12
Speaker 1: lost that game, in my opinion, to UNC. Without that
18:15
Speaker 1: rain delay, I think UNC puts them away and wins
18:18
Speaker 1: that game. Give me the Cal Bears, plus one and
18:22
Speaker 1: a half. I think they get the upset at home
18:24
Speaker 1: against Clemson. I think it'll be tight, but I honestly
18:29
Speaker 1: think Cal's a better team, and I think they're going
18:31
Speaker 1: to win this game outright.
18:33
Speaker 2: I do, too.
18:33
Speaker 3: I think travel matters. I think it's going to be
18:35
Speaker 3: a late game. Cal's in the midst of one of
18:40
Speaker 3: those home game, cross the country, home game, cross the
18:43
Speaker 3: country deals. Nothing like a good Cal Clemson conference game.
18:47
Speaker 3: Everybody saw that coming 10 years ago. I mean, just
18:51
Speaker 3: unbelievable that these guys are in the same conference, but
18:54
Speaker 3: I do think it's a big deal. Cal's actually a
18:56
Speaker 3: pretty good team at getting better crowds out there.
18:59
Speaker 2: So it's a little bit more of a home field advantage.
19:01
Speaker 3: You've actually got people showing up in Berkeley, which is
19:04
Speaker 3: a new development. So I don't know what they've done
19:08
Speaker 3: to generate interest, but at least they've got a little bit.
19:11
Speaker 3: And I do think they get the win here. I
19:13
Speaker 3: think it's a tough spot for Clemson with everything that
19:16
Speaker 3: they've had going on early in the year.
19:20
Speaker 2: Obviously, a quarterback switch.
19:23
Speaker 3: And the other reason that I like this, don't forget,
19:29
Speaker 3: they got a home game with the Miami Hurricanes waiting
19:32
Speaker 3: on deck.
19:34
Speaker 2: So you got the Canes on deck.
19:36
Speaker 3: You can't tell me these kids aren't already thinking about
19:39
Speaker 3: that game and looking and looking a little past the
19:43
Speaker 3: Golden Bears.
19:43
Speaker 2: So I like Cal here.
19:45
Speaker 1: The other thing you've got true freshman making his first
19:48
Speaker 1: road start.
19:49
Speaker 2: That's right.
19:49
Speaker 1: And like you said, I think Cal will be hyped.
19:53
Speaker 1: That's it. The last home game they had, it was
19:56
Speaker 1: a full house there. And that's a good stadium for
19:58
Speaker 1: those guys. They've got a great fan base in there.
20:00
Speaker 1: Give me the Cal Golden Bears. I like this one
20:02
Speaker 1: a lot. Next game I want to go to, Scotty,
20:04
Speaker 1: let's get to Saturday morning. I want to go to
20:06
Speaker 1: the Texas, number one in the country, traveling across to Tennessee.
20:10
Speaker 1: And this one here, let's see line right now. Currently,
20:14
Speaker 1: as we look at it is Texas is laying four
20:16
Speaker 1: and a half on the road over under here is
20:18
Speaker 1: fifty five and a half. Texas is getting most of
20:21
Speaker 1: the tickets and fifty nine percent of the money. But
20:24
Speaker 1: you do have the discrepancy in Tennessee is getting 30
20:27
Speaker 1: percent of the tickets and 41 percent of the money
20:29
Speaker 1: is where that one is. I've dug in to look
20:31
Speaker 1: at these things and here's where I'm at with this one.
20:35
Speaker 1: It's an interesting game plan on how they're going to
20:37
Speaker 1: put everything together. If you haven't watched Tennessee play yet,
20:40
Speaker 1: they've got a true freshman playing quarterback for them, Faison Brandon.
20:43
Speaker 1: Kid's got a backward name, by the way. He's playing
20:47
Speaker 1: quarterback there. I also think that when you look at
20:50
Speaker 1: what they've tried to do this year, they want to
20:52
Speaker 1: run the ball. And Tennessee wants to run it. They
20:55
Speaker 1: want to control the game. They want to control the
20:57
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. Lean on that defense that you've got
21:00
Speaker 1: from there. This line's opened up as high as six
21:03
Speaker 1: and a half. Hard Rock's still hanging one. I like
21:05
Speaker 1: Tennessee plus four and a half here. Arch Manning has
21:08
Speaker 1: not shown me yet that he is the dominant quarterback
21:13
Speaker 1: that we thought he was going to be coming out
21:14
Speaker 1: of high school. He's had some good halves. He's had
21:17
Speaker 1: some good quarters. But he hasn't been the guy yet
21:20
Speaker 1: to come out and get it done. And now he's
21:22
Speaker 1: got even bigger bulls on his back because not only
21:24
Speaker 1: is he going out to Tennessee to play where Peyton's
21:27
Speaker 1: a legend, obviously, but he's on the road. It's going
21:31
Speaker 1: to be a crazy environment. And Texas is number one
21:34
Speaker 1: in the country. And that's some pressure that this team
21:37
Speaker 1: has never had to deal with. They've been chasing. They've
21:40
Speaker 1: been the brand, but they haven't been number one yet.
21:44
Speaker 1: I don't know how much they're going to be able
21:45
Speaker 1: to hang on to it. I like the under in
21:46
Speaker 1: this game. But what I really like more is give
21:50
Speaker 1: me the four and a half with Tennessee. I think
21:51
Speaker 1: they're a live dog in this spot.
21:53
Speaker 2: I think the Volunteers are a live dog. Couldn't agree
21:57
Speaker 2: with you more.
21:57
Speaker 3: What gives you the idea that Arch Manning hadn't been
22:01
Speaker 3: playing complete games?
22:03
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know.
22:04
Speaker 3: As bad as that Oklahoma offense has been, that everybody's
22:07
Speaker 3: John Mateer's terrible, you want to know the difference in
22:11
Speaker 3: their stats? It's 10 yards a game. on average, and
22:15
Speaker 3: he's thrown one more touchdown than John Mateer. That's the
22:19
Speaker 3: bottom line. His play's mad. If his name is Arch Denson,
22:26
Speaker 3: he may not still– he'd be getting so much hell
22:29
Speaker 3: about his play over the last 18 months, but because
22:32
Speaker 3: his last name's Manning– Everybody keeps waiting for that turn,
22:36
Speaker 3: keeps waiting for that deal. Do I think he's talented? 100%.
22:40
Speaker 3: Do I think he's a really good player?
22:41
Speaker 2: 100%.
22:42
Speaker 3: Do I think he's a good kid? 100%, even though
22:45
Speaker 3: he caught so much hell over a main, which is
22:47
Speaker 3: just ridiculous.
22:48
Speaker 2: But okay, fine. It was a domestic violent. Great.
22:51
Speaker 3: It's a joke, but whatever. He's apologized. Move on down
22:55
Speaker 3: the road. I still think the kid's a good kid.
22:57
Speaker 3: I think he's a talented player. But at the end
23:00
Speaker 3: of the day, he hasn't put forth great numbers yet.
23:03
Speaker 3: And until he does on.
23:04
Speaker 2: The road, you've got to take the road team. That's
23:08
Speaker 2: my opinion.
23:10
Speaker 1: Taking the home team, you mean?
23:12
Speaker 2: I mean, sorry. No, no, no.
23:14
Speaker 3: I'm saying home team. Until he does it on the road, yeah,
23:16
Speaker 3: you've got to take the home team.
23:19
Speaker 1: Next game I want to take a look at, Scott.
23:21
Speaker 1: I don't have a play in this one yet. Ohio
23:23
Speaker 1: State is laying 26-and-a-half. They're getting all the tickets, all
23:26
Speaker 1: the money. Over and under here is 53-and-a-half. against the
23:29
Speaker 1: fight in Burt Bielema's. I don't know if I want
23:32
Speaker 1: to get involved with this. I mean, I really want
23:34
Speaker 1: to take Burt here, but I kind of want to
23:37
Speaker 1: get to four touchdowns. I don't think we're going to
23:39
Speaker 1: get there. Illinois' defense is not what we're used to seeing,
23:43
Speaker 1: but I also, the Ohio State team, I kind of
23:46
Speaker 1: wait for them to see if they're going to explode
23:47
Speaker 1: or not. I lean to the over. You got anything
23:50
Speaker 1: in that game you like?
23:51
Speaker 3: If I'm taking it, I'm taking Illinois. I wouldn't take
23:54
Speaker 3: Ohio State just because I do think that's too many points.
23:57
Speaker 3: Ohio State's clearly a better football team, but that just
24:00
Speaker 3: seems like a ton. But, man, I guess they still
24:04
Speaker 3: got dudes. So, you know, does they go out and
24:07
Speaker 3: try to get a gas can victory?
24:09
Speaker 2: Maybe.
24:10
Speaker 3: That's the reason I would stay away from it is
24:12
Speaker 3: because if he can win by 40, he will.
24:17
Speaker 1: Another interesting game, we got Wake Forest coming into this one.
24:20
Speaker 1: Wake actually got the cover last week in that game
24:23
Speaker 1: against Miami. Kind of impressed with what they put out there.
24:26
Speaker 1: Gio Lopez, the quarterback for Wake, is pretty dynamic. He
24:29
Speaker 1: can keep them in some games. And this Wake Forest
24:31
Speaker 1: team is kind of fun to watch. Both of these
24:33
Speaker 1: teams come in here at 2-1. Market current now is
24:36
Speaker 1: laying about Louisville minus 12.5. I simulate this game kind
24:40
Speaker 1: of in that same spot. I don't know if I've
24:42
Speaker 1: got anything I want to get down on us. Do
24:44
Speaker 1: you have anything on the Louisville game? I would kind
24:46
Speaker 1: of lean Wake Forest in this spot, but I don't know.
24:49
Speaker 1: Anything there for you?
24:50
Speaker 2: Same deal.
24:50
Speaker 3: If you like this game, I'm leaning Wake Forest. But, no,
24:54
Speaker 3: there are games that I like better than this. But
24:57
Speaker 3: this does seem like too big of a number, mainly
25:00
Speaker 3: because Louisville coming off that huge game last week, Yes,
25:04
Speaker 3: they are at home, which is going to help. But
25:06
Speaker 3: sometimes that leads to a big letdown as well. I
25:10
Speaker 3: think if Ole Miss was playing at home against Florida,
25:13
Speaker 3: they'd get a bigger letdown than they're going to get
25:15
Speaker 3: in the swamp. That's my honest opinion. But because I
25:19
Speaker 3: think they would feel more comfortable, basically. I think they
25:22
Speaker 3: know they've got to go answer the bell down in
25:24
Speaker 3: the swamp. I think they may be looking past Miami.
25:27
Speaker 3: This team was better against Miami than I think Miami
25:30
Speaker 3: was expecting.
25:32
Speaker 2: Last week.
25:35
Speaker 3: It feels like with two big games in three weeks,
25:38
Speaker 3: which is what Louisville's had, it feels like this number's
25:41
Speaker 3: a little too big to me.
25:44
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would agree with you there. I'd lean Wake.
25:46
Speaker 1: We'll see how that one rolls out when we get
25:47
Speaker 1: closer to the game. A couple other games and then
25:49
Speaker 1: 11 o'clock slot I want to go. Virginia Tech at
25:51
Speaker 1: Boston College. Boston College, this team was preseason rated to
25:55
Speaker 1: be one of the worst Division I football teams in
25:57
Speaker 1: the country. They're actually 2-1. after getting that win over Rutgers,
26:02
Speaker 1: playing a little bit over their head and kind of
26:03
Speaker 1: what I was expecting there. And then James Franklin just
26:06
Speaker 1: coming in and getting it done at Vontech so far.
26:09
Speaker 1: I leaned Vontech in this one here. Going on the road,
26:13
Speaker 1: laying in almost two touchdowns. I don't know if I'm
26:15
Speaker 1: going to get involved in it yet, but I leaned
26:17
Speaker 1: Vontech in this spot. Do you have anything here?
26:21
Speaker 2: Walser to Walser, Vontech, I'll blow these guys out.
26:25
Speaker 3: That really is the deal. It's on the road. So, again,
26:28
Speaker 3: there's a couple games I like better. That's a big
26:30
Speaker 3: chalk number delay. But it seems like that Virginia Tech
26:35
Speaker 3: ought to go up there and handle business by two touchdowns.
26:40
Speaker 1: Next one I'm going to go to, Scott, is the
26:41
Speaker 1: game I will be at on Saturday, Texas Tech, Sam
26:44
Speaker 1: Houston State. I don't know if you've had a chance
26:47
Speaker 1: to watch Texas Tech yet or not, but this team
26:49
Speaker 1: is not last year's Texas Tech. Defensively, this team has
26:53
Speaker 1: not stepped up in that we've seen the pressure from–
26:57
Speaker 1: they got better last week. They got some players back.
27:00
Speaker 1: But the defensive line there is definitely not putting up
27:03
Speaker 1: what they need to after last season. Last season, we
27:07
Speaker 1: were so used to seeing that defensive front just eat
27:09
Speaker 1: up line of scrimmage. And those linebackers just running free
27:13
Speaker 1: to get things going. Sam Houston State, this team is
27:18
Speaker 1: 3-0 against the numbers. I mean, I know they beat
27:21
Speaker 1: Nichols last week. Both the games that they were in,
27:24
Speaker 1: they had a chance to win. This is a much
27:27
Speaker 1: improved team over last year's Sam Houston State team. If
27:31
Speaker 1: you can get it at 35, I would say take
27:33
Speaker 1: Sam Houston State plus the 35. This is a Tech
27:36
Speaker 1: team that I don't know that has the offense to
27:38
Speaker 1: blow the doors off of somebody. That's a five-touchdown lead.
27:41
Speaker 1: I think if you can get one touchdown out of Sam,
27:43
Speaker 1: you get the cover here. I also don't know how
27:45
Speaker 1: interested Tech is in just blowing this team out. They're
27:48
Speaker 1: coming off of a huge down after last week getting
27:53
Speaker 1: that win against G of H. They've got a trip
27:57
Speaker 1: on the road next week. They're 0-3 against the spread,
28:00
Speaker 1: laying huge numbers right here. I haven't seen anything from
28:04
Speaker 1: Will Hammond that proves to me that he's going to
28:06
Speaker 1: open this thing up and get any wider. Give me
28:09
Speaker 1: Sam Houston State plus 35 in this one. You may
28:12
Speaker 1: have to hold your nose in this one, brother, but
28:14
Speaker 1: I'm excited about it.
28:17
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's, you know, the betting numbers, their history basically
28:22
Speaker 3: says they're going to crush these guys. But I agree
28:24
Speaker 3: with you. I think it's going to be kind of
28:25
Speaker 3: a workmanlike game. We said all along there was just
28:31
Speaker 3: a game. Tech had to figure out how to win.
28:34
Speaker 3: They won it last week. They're about to start 5-0.
28:38
Speaker 3: Hammond's going to continue to get better and better the
28:41
Speaker 3: farther he gets away from that knee injury. He's a
28:44
Speaker 3: talented player. I thought it was interesting they brought out
28:47
Speaker 3: Castellanos early in the ballgame last week. I think he
28:50
Speaker 3: started the ball game.
28:52
Speaker 2: He did.
28:53
Speaker 1: Through an interception on the first play of the game.
28:54
Speaker 3: Yep. So that stunned me. But Hammond's going to continue
29:00
Speaker 3: to get better. But I think this is going to
29:01
Speaker 3: be a workmanlike win, which means Sam Houston covers, baby.
29:06
Speaker 2: I'm with you. I'm with you on this. Too big
29:08
Speaker 2: a number.
29:08
Speaker 3: There's some big numbers this week that I just don't
29:11
Speaker 3: think get– that I don't think get covered.
29:15
Speaker 1: A couple other games I got in the same spot, Scott.
29:17
Speaker 1: South Alabama, Kentucky. You got anything in this one here?
29:20
Speaker 1: I mean, do you think Kentucky's going to come back
29:22
Speaker 1: at home?
29:24
Speaker 3: Yeah, I want to take them. But, man, that Kentucky
29:27
Speaker 3: defensive line is playing pretty well. I think that's what
29:30
Speaker 3: this team is doing that's making it better. That's bad
29:35
Speaker 3: when you start getting into fun belt teams. If you're
29:38
Speaker 3: defensive line, they can kind of take it.
29:40
Speaker 2: Over.
29:40
Speaker 3: But there's no way Kentucky's not going to play flat. So, yeah, boy,
29:47
Speaker 3: it's itching for me to take it. But, no, I'm
29:49
Speaker 3: going to pass. I haven't gotten a full read because
29:53
Speaker 3: this team looked great against Alabama for a half, really
29:56
Speaker 3: probably two and a half quarters, and they got the
29:58
Speaker 3: hell beat out of them by Alabama.
30:00
Speaker 2: They looked great last week. They dominated that football game.
30:04
Speaker 2: Who are they? I'm still trying to figure out who
30:06
Speaker 2: Kentucky is.
30:10
Speaker 1: UCLA-Maryland. This is an early body clock game for UCLA.
30:14
Speaker 1: UCLA's 3-0. Maryland's 2-1. UCLA's laying one and a half
30:19
Speaker 1: on the road at Maryland. Typically, once you get out
30:22
Speaker 1: of September, we're kind of used to seeing Maryland crumble here.
30:25
Speaker 1: I don't know if I want to take a UCLA
30:27
Speaker 1: team traveling across three time zones and to play in
30:30
Speaker 1: this one here. But I don't know. What's your thought?
30:32
Speaker 1: Anything here?
30:33
Speaker 3: I think UCLA's definitely the better team. But, hell, I've
30:36
Speaker 3: told everybody for two years, take the time zone guy.
30:39
Speaker 3: But it's Mike Loxley. Man, there's no way I'm touching
30:41
Speaker 3: this game. No way I'm touching this game.
30:45
Speaker 1: Notre Dame and Purdue, in-state rival game that you've got here.
30:49
Speaker 1: Notre Dame's laying 27 and a half. I don't know
30:51
Speaker 1: if you've watched a lot of Purdue yet, folks. They're
30:54
Speaker 1: better than what I thought they were going to be.
30:56
Speaker 1: This team is playing competitively. I was impressed with what
30:59
Speaker 1: they got done. Obviously, they got the cover last week
31:01
Speaker 1: that we couldn't pull it off. They went out to
31:03
Speaker 1: the West Coast and got the cover. And so coming
31:06
Speaker 1: back here, Notre Dame, obviously way better. This is a
31:10
Speaker 1: team that should just come in and work Purdue. I
31:13
Speaker 1: think they could kind of name their score. If I
31:15
Speaker 1: were going to play this game, I would probably say
31:18
Speaker 1: Notre Dame first half minus 14, but I don't have
31:20
Speaker 1: anything in pocket yet.
31:22
Speaker 3: Man, I think that's probably a good number. I think
31:26
Speaker 3: Purdue's going to come out and play hard. I think
31:28
Speaker 3: they're going to give it all they got. They clearly
31:30
Speaker 3: don't have enough to win this ball game. But do
31:33
Speaker 3: they have enough to keep it under four touchdowns?
31:36
Speaker 2: You know, can I.
31:37
Speaker 3: See this a 45-17 game? Yeah, and that's what it's
31:42
Speaker 3: going to take for them to cover. But can I
31:44
Speaker 3: see this being an ugly 38-14? Yep, I can see
31:49
Speaker 3: that too. So, you know, I– I agree with you.
31:53
Speaker 3: How bad do they want to beat them? Yes, it's in-state.
31:58
Speaker 3: So that obviously means a lot. But, boy, I want
32:03
Speaker 3: to take Purdue so bad.
32:05
Speaker 2: I really do. But I just don't.
32:06
Speaker 3: I think Notre Dame is truly one of the best
32:09
Speaker 3: three or four teams in the country and have all year.
32:13
Speaker 1: One game I do have something in my pocket for, Scott.
32:15
Speaker 1: Iowa traveling up to the big house this weekend. Both
32:18
Speaker 1: of these teams are ranked. Michigan's laying five and a
32:21
Speaker 1: half in this one over under 38 and a half.
32:26
Speaker 1: Is that right?
32:28
Speaker 2: Yes. I love it. I love it, babe. 39.
32:32
Speaker 3: It's 39 and a half right now. 39 and a
32:34
Speaker 3: half in my book.
32:35
Speaker 1: You're going to have some great Midwestern weather up there.
32:37
Speaker 1: 66 degrees, light wind, no rain traveling in here. These
32:42
Speaker 1: two teams haven't played in a while. Last time these
32:45
Speaker 1: two teams matched up was 2023. Hank Brown took over
32:49
Speaker 1: as a starter for Iowa this last week. This will
32:52
Speaker 1: be his first road start against Bryce Underwood here. I
32:55
Speaker 1: don't know if you watched a whole lot of the Miami,
32:58
Speaker 1: excuse me, the Michigan UTEP game last week, but Michigan
33:01
Speaker 1: really was flat, struggling to get it going here. I
33:04
Speaker 1: would think that Iowa is not a team. Iowa looks
33:08
Speaker 1: flat all the time to me, so you can't ever
33:10
Speaker 1: judge with that. I like Iowa. Give me Iowa plus
33:13
Speaker 1: five and a half. I think Iowa's a live dog
33:15
Speaker 1: to get the win in this one, too.
33:17
Speaker 3: Live dog, baby. I think they are for sure a
33:21
Speaker 3: live dog. Just for a number, look, that Iowa defense
33:25
Speaker 3: is going to be, they're going to do what they do.
33:27
Speaker 3: That Michigan defense is going to be really good. They
33:29
Speaker 3: are going to fight in a phone booth. It would
33:31
Speaker 3: surprise me if this game goes over, which really means
33:35
Speaker 3: we're going to have a really close football game. You're
33:37
Speaker 3: giving me five and a half on teams that I
33:40
Speaker 3: think are equally matched and a team that I think
33:42
Speaker 3: could win this straight out. Man, give me the points
33:46
Speaker 3: and let's head on down the road.
33:47
Speaker 2: I love this game.
33:49
Speaker 1: I don't know why I like Iowa so much. I mean,
33:52
Speaker 1: I watch those guys.
33:54
Speaker 3: I told you pregame, it almost scares me how much
33:57
Speaker 3: I like this game. I'm like, God, maybe I ought
33:59
Speaker 3: to bet Michigan just to be the contrarian because I
34:01
Speaker 3: like it too much.
34:03
Speaker 1: Oh, my God. I mean, every time I look at
34:05
Speaker 1: this game, I'm like, oh, good. But, I mean, I
34:07
Speaker 1: love betting these guys. Let's go to the SEC again, Scotty.
34:10
Speaker 1: Texas A & M, LSU in this one. Lines eight
34:13
Speaker 1: and a half. I want to tell you right now,
34:17
Speaker 1: I want to take– you want to take LSU after
34:21
Speaker 1: last week. Everybody does. You watched that A & M
34:23
Speaker 1: game last week. A & M was awful. I would
34:27
Speaker 1: take A & M in the points in this game.
34:28
Speaker 1: It's too many. Because I don't know who– I don't
34:31
Speaker 1: know– LSU to me, when I've watched them play this year,
34:35
Speaker 1: I think their defense is really good. I think their
34:38
Speaker 1: defense is going to give A & M all kinds
34:40
Speaker 1: of fits. But at the same time, I think the
34:42
Speaker 1: LSU– the A & M defense is going to be
34:44
Speaker 1: able to do some things to that LSU offense. LSU's offense,
34:47
Speaker 1: they don't have a wide receiver yet that I have
34:49
Speaker 1: seen blow the top off the field. They don't have–
34:51
Speaker 1: I mean, with– because the tight end is out. I
34:54
Speaker 1: don't think he's coming back.
34:55
Speaker 2: It is. Green's done.
34:56
Speaker 3: Yeah.
34:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's done for the season. And so, I would
34:59
Speaker 1: lean A & M plus the points in this one.
35:01
Speaker 1: Do you have a play at all?
35:03
Speaker 2: Well, I love A & M here.
35:06
Speaker 3: Just because I think this game is– I think this
35:08
Speaker 3: number is way too big.
35:09
Speaker 1: Yeah.
35:11
Speaker 3: I think A & M and LSU are probably identical
35:15
Speaker 3: football teams. I think A & M' s a live dog.
35:20
Speaker 3: I really do. Because these teams are not that far apart.
35:25
Speaker 3: Neither one of them have got great quarterback play. A
35:29
Speaker 3: & M has got a significant advantage at the wide
35:31
Speaker 3: receiver spot. I mean, it's not even close how much
35:36
Speaker 3: of an advantage they've got there. I would tell you
35:38
Speaker 3: they've probably even got an advantage at the running back spot.
35:41
Speaker 3: So you're talking about– and they both have athletic quarterbacks.
35:47
Speaker 3: But I don't think he's one of the great throw
35:49
Speaker 3: in the football. I think Levitt, I'd give the quarterback edge, obviously,
35:52
Speaker 3: to Levitt. But is he going to miss open guys?
35:56
Speaker 3: What's he going to do? So let's admit he's not
36:01
Speaker 3: played great football except against Clemson. That's his best game.
36:07
Speaker 1: Clemson's terrible.
36:08
Speaker 2: And Clemson's terrible. So I think this is too many points.
36:13
Speaker 3: Look, somebody's walking out of Death Valley Saturday night 0-2
36:16
Speaker 3: in the Southeastern Conference. And you can bet your ass
36:19
Speaker 3: that neither one of those fan bases were expecting that.
36:22
Speaker 3: And somebody is coming out 0-2.
36:26
Speaker 2: I don't know who it's going to be.
36:27
Speaker 3: I think this is going to be a fight in
36:29
Speaker 3: the phone booth. I think they're going to get after
36:31
Speaker 3: each other. I think it's going to be really, really close.
36:34
Speaker 3: I just think eight and a half is too many.
36:36
Speaker 3: But if you tell me on Sunday morning, hey, did
36:38
Speaker 3: you see A & M won? Not going to surprise
36:40
Speaker 3: me at all.
36:42
Speaker 1: Other game we got in the SEC I want to
36:44
Speaker 1: dive into. We got a couple of them this week.
36:46
Speaker 1: Pretty good slate of games. Oklahoma's traveling down to Georgia.
36:50
Speaker 1: OU coming in 2-1, Georgia's 3-0. They're laying 14 in
36:53
Speaker 1: this one. I think the number's about right on what
36:56
Speaker 1: you're going to get from this standpoint. But I don't
36:59
Speaker 1: know what Oklahoma's offense is. I have no idea. John Mateer,
37:03
Speaker 1: this season, five turnovers. Defense has got zero takeaways to
37:07
Speaker 1: match with that in the last two games. Gunnar Stockton's 38-45,
37:12
Speaker 1: 85% completion rate with nine TDs. Yeah, most of his
37:14
Speaker 1: passes are coming from behind the line of scrimmage. They're
37:17
Speaker 1: literally just lining up and just running over people. They're
37:20
Speaker 1: 3-0 against the number, 3-0 to the over. OU is
37:22
Speaker 1: 1-2 against the spread, 0-3 to the under in that spot.
37:27
Speaker 1: I got nothing here on OU that tells me that
37:30
Speaker 1: they're going to have any bounce back. The other thing, too,
37:32
Speaker 1: is that's huge for OU is they lost defensive tackle
37:35
Speaker 1: David Stone. He's uncertain for this game. He's by far
37:38
Speaker 1: their best defensive tackle in this one. Nate Frazier for
37:42
Speaker 1: Georgia has been upgraded to expected to play. We'll– UGA's
37:46
Speaker 1: got some injuries that are there, but I'm not that
37:48
Speaker 1: worried about it. I would tell you I'm going to
37:50
Speaker 1: lay it with Georgia. I may lay it in the
37:52
Speaker 1: first half as well, but I just think this team
37:55
Speaker 1: is going to work Oklahoma. And I don't think Oklahoma
37:57
Speaker 1: has any– I don't think they have the offense that
37:59
Speaker 1: they can stay within 14. I mean, I could easily
38:02
Speaker 1: see this game being a 17-point difference and OU never
38:06
Speaker 1: being in the game. I don't know how OU's going
38:08
Speaker 1: to stay within this game in Georgia, especially on the road.
38:11
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think this defense is still good enough to
38:14
Speaker 3: keep Georgia close. This, again, feels like too many points.
38:23
Speaker 3: Sooner or later, somebody on that offensive staff is going
38:27
Speaker 3: to figure out how to get somebody open, but I
38:30
Speaker 3: don't think it's going to be this week.
38:32
Speaker 2: They can't get one open. I mean, they really can't.
38:35
Speaker 3: His touchdown last week against New Mexico was a busted coverage.
38:39
Speaker 2: Yeah. And they left him uncovered.
38:41
Speaker 3: And so I don't know what's going on at Oklahoma.
38:46
Speaker 3: I know this, this schedule don't get any.
38:48
Speaker 2: Easier, brother.
38:50
Speaker 3: I mean, their easiest game in the next three weeks
38:52
Speaker 3: is that our next three.
38:53
Speaker 2: Or four weeks is probably at Starkville.
38:56
Speaker 3: You let the Bulldogs win a game between now and then,
38:58
Speaker 3: and they're going to be biting nails when OU comes
39:01
Speaker 3: in there.
39:01
Speaker 2: So I, I think this is a tough road to hoe.
39:05
Speaker 3: I think I said this before the season started, that
39:10
Speaker 3: I was expecting them to surprise some people because of
39:13
Speaker 3: how good that defense is.
39:15
Speaker 2: They're beat up.
39:16
Speaker 3: They lost their linebacker, although I don't think he's out
39:19
Speaker 3: for the year in that Michigan game, who's their best linebacker.
39:23
Speaker 3: And now they've got a defensive lineman. Their best defensive
39:26
Speaker 3: lineman is down. They're starting to get banged up. If
39:29
Speaker 3: that defense can't give up 20 or less a game,
39:33
Speaker 3: then OU's out of the ballgame because they're not going
39:35
Speaker 3: to be able to score on good football teams.
39:37
Speaker 2: This is a really good football team. They're not going
39:39
Speaker 2: to be able to score.
39:40
Speaker 3: What this tells me is it's going to be low scoring,
39:42
Speaker 3: and I think the under is probably as good of
39:45
Speaker 3: a play as anything.
39:48
Speaker 1: I would agree with that. It's probably going to be tight. But, yeah,
39:53
Speaker 1: I'm going to lean this. I haven't gotten involved yet,
39:54
Speaker 1: but I like the under. A couple quick ones we'll
39:56
Speaker 1: run down. We've got a couple big ones left. Tulsa
39:58
Speaker 1: traveling to Arkansas. These teams aren't that far apart. The
40:01
Speaker 1: fact that Arkansas is only laying seven points to Tulsa,
40:04
Speaker 1: I lean Tulsa. The only reason I haven't gotten involved
40:06
Speaker 1: yet is Tulsa lost their quarterback, Baylor Haynes, last week.
40:09
Speaker 1: I don't think he's going to play this week. They're
40:11
Speaker 1: going to come back with a backup, Dexter Williams. This
40:13
Speaker 1: Arkansas team is bad, and their fan base is not
40:16
Speaker 1: behind them at all. They're showing up with bags on
40:18
Speaker 1: their head, and they're already starting to boo everything that's
40:21
Speaker 1: going on here. I think Tulsa's a live dog, but
40:23
Speaker 1: give me Tulsa plus seven. I like them in that spot. Scotty,
40:27
Speaker 1: let's get to one of your games that you've got.
40:29
Speaker 1: Missouri traveling to Mississippi State. Mississippi State coming back after
40:32
Speaker 1: two games on the road here. Mississippi State laying four
40:36
Speaker 1: and a half.
40:37
Speaker 2: That seems a little rich to me.
40:39
Speaker 1: What are you thinking?
40:40
Speaker 2: Hell, Mark, it's six. I've seen it as high as
40:43
Speaker 2: six and a half this week.
40:44
Speaker 1: Yeah, it opened at six.
40:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it seems like way too many points.
40:52
Speaker 3: You know, the thing is, the running back for Mizzou,
40:55
Speaker 3: I think, is still out. I don't think he's going
40:57
Speaker 3: to play Armand Hardy, who is a Mississippi kid who
41:01
Speaker 3: was totally, totally pissed off, and he just– He gashed
41:06
Speaker 3: the Bulldogs last year. Totally pissed off that he never
41:09
Speaker 3: got an offer from Mississippi State. Coming out of high school,
41:13
Speaker 3: he was a really good player. Hell, I think he
41:14
Speaker 3: was the MVP of the Mississippi-Alabama All-Star Game, if I
41:17
Speaker 3: remember right. So it's not like he was unknown and
41:20
Speaker 3: goes to Ulamo and then bounces up to Mizzou. So
41:23
Speaker 3: I think not having him, I think, really, really hurts him.
41:28
Speaker 3: I want to see Austin Simmons. I still ain't figured
41:31
Speaker 3: out how he beat out Chambliss. to start the year
41:35
Speaker 3: last year in Oxford. But he's not Trinidad Chambliss, but
41:41
Speaker 3: I still think this roster is better than Mississippi State's.
41:46
Speaker 3: The keys to Mario Taylor, when does he come to earth?
41:48
Speaker 3: When does he look like a kid who started four games?
41:52
Speaker 3: When does he look human? Because I was having this
41:55
Speaker 3: conversation with a friend this week. You expect a guy
41:58
Speaker 3: who's played this little football at some point to just
42:01
Speaker 3: look lost.
42:03
Speaker 2: Just a time or two, even if it's a play
42:05
Speaker 2: or two. He hasn't looked lost.
42:07
Speaker 3: I mean, his pick to start the game was just
42:09
Speaker 3: a communication deal.
42:11
Speaker 2: Wide receiver comes back to him.
42:12
Speaker 3: He thought the wide receiver is going to float into him,
42:15
Speaker 3: bounces off his hands. Boom, it's an interception to the linebacker.
42:18
Speaker 3: You know, the wide receiver probably read that right, seeing
42:21
Speaker 3: that the coverage was right. But it's still not like
42:24
Speaker 3: a lost. I mean, where you're where they're in zone
42:27
Speaker 3: and he thinks they're in man or they're in man
42:30
Speaker 3: and they're in zone. And he just does something idiotic
42:33
Speaker 3: that gets run back for a touchdown or whatever. That
42:36
Speaker 3: happens to young quarterbacks. It happens to really good young quarterbacks. Hell,
42:40
Speaker 3: it happens to really good old quarterbacks. He hadn't done
42:43
Speaker 3: that yet. At some point, you think that's going to happen,
42:47
Speaker 3: and it.
42:49
Speaker 2: Just doesn't.
42:50
Speaker 3: Night game, Davis Wade, Cowbells. Man, I think it's going
42:55
Speaker 3: to be a great game. I think Mizzou's the better roster.
42:59
Speaker 3: Wish the Bulldogs were getting points, and I'd be more
43:03
Speaker 3: in line with taking them.
43:04
Speaker 2: But if you're going to make me, I'd take Missouri
43:06
Speaker 2: plus four and a half.
43:09
Speaker 1: I wondered where you were going to go on that
43:10
Speaker 1: because you know that's a big line swing from early on.
43:14
Speaker 1: It's like a couple more games we got, Scotty. Oregon
43:18
Speaker 1: at USC. This is a great Saturday night game. If
43:22
Speaker 1: you haven't watched these two teams, I love USC this season.
43:25
Speaker 1: They're 4-0. I know they didn't cover last week, but
43:28
Speaker 1: they won. And you know what? Take it and move
43:32
Speaker 1: on down the road.
43:33
Speaker 2: Oregon.
43:34
Speaker 1: I still haven't quite figured out what this team is.
43:36
Speaker 1: They've looked like shit in two different appearances on field.
43:39
Speaker 1: And then they go out and lay 80 some odd
43:42
Speaker 1: points on a terrible FCS team in Portland state. I
43:45
Speaker 1: have no idea what that's going to get you. Um,
43:49
Speaker 1: A couple injuries that you got there, Jeremiah McClellan, he's
43:52
Speaker 1: out with a broken foot. They lost their left tackle,
43:55
Speaker 1: Trent Ferguson. That was one thing that I thought was
43:57
Speaker 1: interesting is that the– and then a lot of the
44:00
Speaker 1: wide receivers also out for Oregon. But one thing I
44:03
Speaker 1: thought was interesting with Oregon was I went into the
44:05
Speaker 1: season very high on this team, and I thought the
44:07
Speaker 1: offensive line, even though they lost, some guys would step up.
44:10
Speaker 1: We had heard about this defensive line and what it
44:13
Speaker 1: was going to do and all the money that they'd spent.
44:17
Speaker 1: I haven't seen a whole lot of it. I don't
44:20
Speaker 1: know what's going to go on here. I like the
44:22
Speaker 1: over in this one. I like USC getting points, and
44:27
Speaker 1: I like the over. And I think the only way
44:29
Speaker 1: USC can win is to go over. I think Jay
44:31
Speaker 1: Mob is probably going to play off his ass in
44:34
Speaker 1: this one. He's leading the country with 12 touchdowns with
44:36
Speaker 1: only one interception. Dante Moore hasn't done anything to me
44:40
Speaker 1: that's proven that he's going to– he's actually cost himself
44:42
Speaker 1: money this season by coming back. I like the over
44:46
Speaker 1: all the way through in this game, over at halftime,
44:48
Speaker 1: over in the game. I like USC to win. I'm
44:51
Speaker 1: going to take the upset in this one here. I
44:53
Speaker 1: think the defensive line for USC is going to cause
44:56
Speaker 1: problems to that Oregon front. And I don't think– and
45:00
Speaker 1: Dante Moore under pressure is about a 25% difference in
45:04
Speaker 1: how comfortable he is back there as far as getting
45:06
Speaker 1: the ball down the field. I think he still has
45:08
Speaker 1: better wide receivers than what USC has on the field.
45:11
Speaker 1: But under pressure, the kids had problems. I'm going to
45:15
Speaker 1: go with fat Gary P, sweaty P, getting it done.
45:18
Speaker 1: But give me the men of Troy plus three. Give
45:21
Speaker 1: me the over in this one.
45:23
Speaker 2: Wow.
45:24
Speaker 3: I was not expecting you to take the men of
45:27
Speaker 3: Troy at home, although they look at they need if
45:31
Speaker 3: they're going to take the step. And let's talk about Oregon.
45:37
Speaker 3: If they do lose this ballgame, who the hell would
45:39
Speaker 3: thought they were going to be two and two?
45:42
Speaker 1: I mean, it's an elimination game for them.
45:44
Speaker 2: It's an elimination game for them.
45:46
Speaker 3: That's why I like the over. A, this USC defense
45:50
Speaker 3: is terrible. And Sweaty P, I think they did a
45:56
Speaker 3: great job recruiting. I've mentioned this on a previous podcast.
45:59
Speaker 3: I think those freshmen that they've got are really, really good.
46:02
Speaker 3: They're going to continue to get better. Hell, that defensive end,
46:05
Speaker 3: the pass rusher, and I know he's the number one
46:08
Speaker 3: pass rusher guy in the country.
46:10
Speaker 2: That dude's a freak. I mean, he's a dude.
46:13
Speaker 3: And he can get after the quarterback. But this defense
46:17
Speaker 3: is just bad. I think Oregon's going to be able
46:19
Speaker 3: to expose it. I think if SC's going to win
46:22
Speaker 3: this game, it's going to take a lot of points
46:24
Speaker 3: because there's no way their defense is going to hold
46:26
Speaker 3: these guys under 30. Give me the over. I like
46:29
Speaker 3: the over a little bit more. I don't know that
46:31
Speaker 3: I'm ready to crown SC yet.
46:36
Speaker 1: Come on, baby.
46:37
Speaker 2: They should win this ballgame.
46:38
Speaker 1: They should win this ballgame. Love these guys. I mean,
46:41
Speaker 1: I got this cross-country love fest going with USC and
46:44
Speaker 1: Rich Rod at West Virginia currently. So, we'll see how
46:46
Speaker 1: it's going to go. A couple other games.
46:49
Speaker 3: Just a quality Big Ten matchup, Mark. Just a quality
46:51
Speaker 3: Big Ten matchup.
46:53
Speaker 1: Of course it is, Scott. You know, we got the
46:56
Speaker 1: ACC-Clemson-Cow game. You know, they didn't write. They can just
47:01
Speaker 1: go south.
47:02
Speaker 2: Yeah.
47:02
Speaker 1: And you can go to the USC game if you
47:04
Speaker 1: want to. You know? I mean, why not? It's right
47:07
Speaker 1: there for you. I'm telling you. A couple other games
47:10
Speaker 1: I got that I like that are kind of off
47:12
Speaker 1: the beaten path. Oregon State travels to El Paso to
47:15
Speaker 1: play UTEP, playing 10.5 here. I'm not going to do
47:18
Speaker 1: too deep of a dive in this one, but Oregon State,
47:21
Speaker 1: to me, played two teams and two ranked teams, Texas
47:26
Speaker 1: and Houston. They covered in both of those, had chances
47:29
Speaker 1: to win in the Tech game, hung around in the
47:31
Speaker 1: U of H game for a long time. UTEP, Hung
47:35
Speaker 1: around with Michigan. I think obviously Michigan was in a
47:38
Speaker 1: massive flat spot in that one. Still doesn't have a
47:40
Speaker 1: whole lot of offense there, but I've been impressed with
47:42
Speaker 1: this Oregon State team. First-year coach, quarterback transferred in from Mercer,
47:47
Speaker 1: Brandon Atkinson. He's doing really well. They had a huge
47:50
Speaker 1: win last week over Montana, which is a good FCS program,
47:53
Speaker 1: but I think it was good for them to get
47:54
Speaker 1: the win. I'm not really worried about them going out
47:56
Speaker 1: on the road. It's about a four-hour, three-hour flight due
47:59
Speaker 1: south to get them down there. They're not traveling but
48:02
Speaker 1: across one time zone. Oregon State, to me, Much better team.
48:06
Speaker 1: Biggest upgrade I've got so far in my power rankings.
48:09
Speaker 1: I think Oregon State woodsheds UTEP here and gets back
48:12
Speaker 1: to 2-2. I like what I've seen here. Give me
48:14
Speaker 1: the Beavers to cover. It's one of my favorite games
48:17
Speaker 1: of the weekend. What you got next for you, Scotty?
48:20
Speaker 2: Man, I love it.
48:21
Speaker 3: Look, I can't not talk about this game going on
48:28
Speaker 3: in Gainesville. I think that that I mentioned it earlier.
48:36
Speaker 3: I think Ole Miss, I'm stunned they're underdogs. I think
48:41
Speaker 3: that's probably offensive to the sixth-ranked team, and aren't they
48:44
Speaker 3: sixth in the polls this week? I think that probably
48:46
Speaker 3: pisses them off. They got a fifth-year quarterback or a
48:50
Speaker 3: sixth-year quarterback, whatever Jambliss is. They got a dude who
48:53
Speaker 3: can make– that's got to piss them off. I mean,
48:55
Speaker 3: it really does. While I think John Summerall is awesome–
49:01
Speaker 3: I think the Swamp is going to be rocking. I
49:04
Speaker 3: think Sumrall is going to have them back competing for
49:06
Speaker 3: national championships very, very soon. I think he's the guy
49:10
Speaker 3: that Auburn should have hired, as they showed last week.
49:15
Speaker 3: I think three and a half points is too much
49:17
Speaker 3: for the Rebels. I think they're going to answer the bell.
49:20
Speaker 3: I think they're pissed off. I think they're going to
49:23
Speaker 3: see this line. It's going to drive them absolutely bonkers
49:28
Speaker 3: that they are the underdog. And, hey, man, who can
49:32
Speaker 3: blame them? I mean, look, they got an off week
49:36
Speaker 3: waiting after this. I ain't Ole Miss answers the bell.
49:41
Speaker 3: Give me the Rebels as the upset special, baby. We
49:44
Speaker 3: ain't got to go any farther than that. Rebels going
49:47
Speaker 3: to win in Florida. They're the better football team. You
49:49
Speaker 3: got Trinidad Chambliss. I think this line's flipped and it's
49:53
Speaker 3: three and a half. and I might be on the
49:55
Speaker 3: opposite side of this. I think they saw this line,
49:58
Speaker 3: and it pissed them off. And don't think kids ain't
50:01
Speaker 3: looking at lines. They've been looking at them since I
50:03
Speaker 3: was in college, and they're dang sure looking at them now.
50:06
Speaker 2: Give me the Rebels. There's no way they're not going
50:08
Speaker 2: to cover this number.
50:10
Speaker 1: I like Florida. Give me Florida to win. I'll go
50:12
Speaker 1: oppo on you on that one. I love it. I
50:15
Speaker 1: like the new offensive coordinator at Florida. I like what
50:17
Speaker 1: they're getting done there.
50:18
Speaker 3: I love the whole staff. Love everything going on at Florida.
50:20
Speaker 3: I just think they're not the better team.
50:22
Speaker 1: I don't– we'll see. We'll see. A couple other games
50:25
Speaker 1: we'll just rapid fire through. Give me Sunbelt Billy. 3-0
50:31
Speaker 1: playing against Old Domino this weekend. Lions here is at 6.
50:35
Speaker 1: I would grab it before it heads over 7. I
50:38
Speaker 1: like Sunbelt Billy in this one. Ricky Ronnie.
50:42
Speaker 3: Is at 2. This is not a bad pick here.
50:45
Speaker 3: I kind of like this number 2.
50:48
Speaker 1: Give me James Madison laying it with that one. Another
50:50
Speaker 1: game I liked. It's probably off the beat. Most of
50:52
Speaker 1: the games I'm going to bet this week are not
50:54
Speaker 1: your big games.
50:55
Speaker 2: Give me ULL.
50:57
Speaker 1: We have not been on the La La train in
50:59
Speaker 1: a while. Charlotte is a fucking disaster. I mean, and
51:04
Speaker 1: I like the coach at Charlotte a lot. But, man,
51:07
Speaker 1: this team is terrible. If you haven't watched them play,
51:10
Speaker 1: if you haven't watched Louisiana play yet, get ready to
51:12
Speaker 1: meet my man Lunch Winfield. Getting it done. Plays quarterback
51:16
Speaker 1: for ULL. Like this team to go to three and one.
51:20
Speaker 1: Give me the give me the raging Cajuns on the
51:23
Speaker 1: road in Charlotte. I don't think this team's going to
51:25
Speaker 1: have any trouble covering this game.
51:27
Speaker 2: I like this number two. I like where I like
51:29
Speaker 2: where you're going here.
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Speaker 1: What else you got this week?
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Speaker 2: Anything? No, that's that's about it.
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Speaker 3: There's a couple of a couple of couple of things
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Speaker 3: off grid late night. I am fascinated to watch this
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Speaker 3: Minnesota-Washington game. I would love Minnesota plus nine and a half,
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Speaker 3: but Mississippi State made them look so slow that it
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Speaker 3: concerns me. But Washington is a flawed team. They just
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Speaker 3: are not clicking and not coming together well. You let
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Speaker 3: me be having a good day Saturday and I'm going
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Speaker 3: to be on the gophers baby plus nine and a half.
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Speaker 3: That's probably, that's probably my late night or I'll give you,
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Speaker 3: I'll give you one more too. I think Boise is
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Speaker 3: going to go to Western Michigan, lay six and a
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Speaker 3: half and put wood on them. If Boise is the
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Speaker 3: team they've showed me so far. And look, I love
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Speaker 3: Taylor and I love Western Michigan. Can't say enough about
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Speaker 3: great things about them, but on my Mac play, I'm
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Speaker 3: going Boise. I think they're going to go over there
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Speaker 3: and put wood to them. I just think they're a
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Speaker 3: better football team. And this team is used to traveling,
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Speaker 3: used to having to make, because some of these trips
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Speaker 3: are pretty big that what we're in the mountain West,
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Speaker 3: this is not going to be that big of a deal. Again,
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Speaker 3: love Western Michigan. Think they're the best team in the Mac.
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Speaker 3: I love the coach thinks this is his last year,
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Speaker 3: not at a big job, but I think Boise is
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Speaker 3: too talented for this number. I don't think that number
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Speaker 3: is big enough to get in love off that Michigan number.
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Speaker 3: I think six and a half Boise covers pretty easy.
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Speaker 1: Love it. Love it. Scotty, great board this week. We'll
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Speaker 1: sum everything up in the notes. Oh, one more game
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Speaker 1: I want to throw out there, Scotty. I want to
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Speaker 1: talk about the battle of the land of enchantment. I
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Speaker 1: told you I was going off the board this week.
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Speaker 2: Love it.
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Speaker 1: New Mexico at New Mexico State. Both of these teams
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Speaker 1: are improved, okay? I plan on playing some New Mexico
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Speaker 1: State probably some more this season. New Mexico was on
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Speaker 1: the board last week. We took them plus 21 to
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Speaker 1: get the cover. I think this week they come back.
53:29
Speaker 1: These two teams don't like each other. I mean, and
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Speaker 1: this New Mexico team is two and one with their
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Speaker 1: only loss being last week to Oklahoma. I think New
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Speaker 1: Mexico is a far better team. Laying 11 and a half.
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Speaker 1: Give me New Mexico to win big in this one.
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Speaker 1: I like the Lobos in this spot.
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Speaker 2: I do, too. Look, man, first off, I love Eck.
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Speaker 2: I think he's a great coach.
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Speaker 3: If he's not coaching a powerful program next season, it's
53:57
Speaker 3: only because he's a big dude.
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Speaker 2: That's the bottom line.
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Speaker 3: It's just because some dumbass athletic director doesn't want a
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Speaker 3: football coach. He wants a guy that looks good in
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Speaker 3: front of a TV. Eric is a great football coach.
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Speaker 3: And let me tell you something. I love the way
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Speaker 3: that I love their run schemes. I love this offense,
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Speaker 3: even though it's a very run based offense. I think
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Speaker 3: these guys are good, but they played really, really good
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Speaker 3: defense last week as a whole and in a tough environment.
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Speaker 2: And in Norman, I think this is a good team.
54:31
Speaker 2: I agree with you.
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Speaker 3: Normally, this would be way too many points in it
54:34
Speaker 3: because this is a pretty heated rivalry that nobody knows
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Speaker 3: anything about outside of the state of New Mexico. But
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Speaker 3: I think this is going to they're going to kind
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Speaker 3: of get after it. I like the Lobos here.
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Speaker 2: I think this team's the best team in their in
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Speaker 2: their league.
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Speaker 3: I think they're better. We said it was them and UNLV.
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Speaker 3: I think they're it. I think we figured that out already.
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Speaker 3: I think they're going to win the Mountain West. I
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Speaker 3: like this football team. Give me New Mexico. I'm with
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Speaker 3: you on this.
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Speaker 1: Anything else you want to throw out there or are
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Speaker 1: you good?
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Speaker 2: Nope, that is good, man.
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Speaker 3: We got a huge board, some great games. We covered
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Speaker 3: a bunch of stuff, but it is, man, it's going
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Speaker 3: to be great. Look, somebody's reading off all the great
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Speaker 3: games that you can sit down and plop down and
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Speaker 3: start watching at 11 o'clock in the morning, and it.
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Speaker 2: Goes all the way till late.
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Speaker 3: You're going to get to finish off with many in
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Speaker 3: Washington and Clemson and Cal late night, but you got Tennessee, Texas, State, Missouri,
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Speaker 3: you look at all the top. You got Florida, Ole Miss.
55:37
Speaker 3: There's some great games in the Southeastern Conference this week.
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Speaker 2: Georgia, Oklahoma. I mean, man, there's some great games. I
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Speaker 2: think that game, there's some great games in the Big
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Speaker 2: Ten with Oregon, USC. This is a highly.
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Speaker 3: Underrated weekend of really, really good games here week four
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Speaker 3: of the.
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Speaker 2: College football season. Let's get it, baby. This is going
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Speaker 2: to be great.
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