Latest / Mostly College Football / #307 - Why Tennessee vs Texas Could Kick Off 2026 Chaos
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- Micaiah: So good to be back. The hate is finally over. Revenge has finally been had down in Oxford. It's mostly college football. It's your host, Captain Boring. He's alongside his main man, Roberto Conqueso, Rain Man slash aka aka Simeon. He's in and out as per usual. So he is ⁓ double booked with a volleyball or something this week. I'm not too sure. I don't ask a lot of questions. All know is I am here. Robert is here, and that's all you need. That's all you need to have a great college football weekend. Robert, we were both at the beach, so we are both back and better than ever. Vic ⁓ beach was good for you. You were a little farther south than I was. Roberto Con Queso: Yep, yep. Yeah, yeah, it was good. Weather was good, water was good, football was good. Micaiah: Yeah. What well water water was ⁓ really warm. I was at ⁓ Ocean City, New Jersey, you were North Carolina. ⁓ it it was still high mid to high seventies. What was it down there? Okay, yeah, that that is very warm. ⁓ the lifeguards told me that it's that warm because there haven't been any hurricanes. By the way, first time in like I don't twelve years, no hurricanes. ⁓ Roberto Con Queso: ⁓ huh. eighty two. Micaiah: ⁓ in the Atlantic this late into the season. ⁓ so ⁓ that's kind of cool, I guess, or a fun fact. But anyway, no hurricanes stirring up the cold water. So that's why the water is still so warm. ⁓ just a fun fact for you on the day. Whether that's true or not, I don't know. But ⁓ that's just again, I trust the lifeguard, you know, because they're there to save your life. ⁓ all right. ⁓ What a weekend we had. Old Miss got their revenge, and I guess we will start there in Oxford, Mi Mississippi. you watched the game, I presume, or at least caught a good decent of replay of it. ⁓ a takeaway you have from this game. Roberto Con Queso: ⁓ I mean the only really takeaway that I kinda got from it is they're both playoff teams. That they've kind of proved that. ⁓ You just can't fall asleep at the wheel early. That was kind of the if if it wasn't for that, I think LSU probably wins the game if they don't fall down what, like twenty one? Micaiah: Yeah, something like that. Yeah. Yeah. ⁓ Trinidad Chambless, Stone Cold Killer. My biggest takeaway was my biggest question mark going into the season, old Mrs. Season specifically, is or was was it Trinidad or was it Charlie Weiss Jr. slash Lane Kiffin? And clearly it was a healthy combination of both, but Trinidad is still a dude. That is my biggest takeaway. He will keep them in every game. He, you know. They had the ball second to last. It was right down. And then it was ⁓ touchdown and go for two. What what'd you think about that go for two call? Like they had the ball, they had the game winning touchdown. And then the you decide to go for two, even though LSU's about to get the ball. Roberto Con Queso: ⁓ I mean, that's why they get paid the big bucks to make those kind of decisions. And it's a decision that if it was Dan Lanning, ⁓ we would have cursed him out over it because that's what he always does. But I mean that was kind of the big By doing that, you put all the pressure on LSU. You know, Ole Miss D they still had pressure to stop them, but it was, hey, if we don't stop them, it's not just a fuel goal away. They have to still go for two, which is a lot harder to get. Micaiah: Yeah, I think the thought process from P Pete Golding was if LSU if they score a touchdown, kick an extra point, LSU gets the ball go down and score a touchdown. Lane Kiffin's gonna go for two and end it right there. That had to be the thought. I I am also in agreement with your biggest takeaway that both these teams are playoff teams. I know I texted that sad part about this at the end of the game was LSU can still win the national championship. My concern though for LSU And let me know if you feel the same. Sam Levit at quarterback, he seems like maybe not worth what they're paying him. Roberto Con Queso: I mean, you're not wrong, 'cause he he was good at Arizona State. But even at Arizona State, like he wasn't great. Like we weren't sitting at the end of the year saying, ⁓ well, Sam Levitt had just tremendous season. When it kind of came down to it, you saw you would see the mistakes he would make, and they could just be, you know, a learning mistake. It could be, you know, just the I don't know if he's played in I mean, he's played in big games, but in the SEC they say it just means more. And Micaiah: Yeah. Roberto Con Queso: That as even as those two teams are, like that's a matchup that you can't really falter at. But I think it also lends into the fact they made a big deal about like his all his pregame workup stuff, that he sleeps like 30 hours, and so and it's like you can do all those things, but it doesn't make you a better quarterback by any means. Like what you bring to the table is what you bring to the table. Micaiah: Yeah. Yeah, and it and yeah, that was clearly I I even think for some of the SEC quarterbacks, that environment would have been their biggest environment to date. Like that was the most anticipated, hostile, maybe not at him, but at his coach, ⁓ you know, intense, just magni magnified environment, I think I have witnessed in quite some time. ⁓ the camera was vibrating on screen. You don't get that too too often. And then to your point, like he missed a wide open receiver for the game tying touchdown. The tight end was right there. And it's not like it was, ⁓ it was just open for a half second. The tight end ran a little core route and then just sat there and he and he missed him that whole time. It his legs are very good, but if you're gonna kind of turn him into a pocket passer. That I think is where most teams are gonna try to succeed when they play LSU. I I I would think. Because he had three interceptions versus LaTeX, and then he didn't perform the best in the first half, at least against Ole Miss. Roberto Con Queso: Well, and even I think they I think it was Saban. He was talking, this was like during game day, and he said LSU's offense is very good if you just come out in a base defense and don't adjust. But if at but if the defense adjusts on the fly, LSU's gonna have a hard time. And that's what La Tech did. They had a very hard time. And then Micaiah: Okay. Roberto Con Queso: Ellis I when they played Ole Miss, Ole Miss's defense looked like Bama from twenty twelve. Like it w that that was probably the best I want to say the best half because the second half they weren't that great. Probably the best half defensive football at a high caliber that you can probably watch. Micaiah: Two Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, I I I agree with you. Pete Golding definitely had a game plan and it was executed to perfection in that first half. And then Lane went in and made some adjustments, and then you had the whole count cat mounts game this second half. ⁓ Trinidad Channelists I his height's gonna keep him from being a first overall pick. He's an NFL like the the the one reel I saw today was He's better than what the Atlanta Falcons are throwing out right now, or the Miami Dolphins. So I if you're an NFL GM, he he's got what you want. He's got the Moxie, he's got the knowledge, he's got the athleticism, and he has the leadership to be able to handle whatever you throw at him. Now, he is playing with much higher talent. So if you put him on the Dolphins or Falcons where his talent isn't maybe up to par, does it? show his flaws. Well, isn't that true with any NFL quarterback? But Trinidad really, really impressed me to be in that environment and just stay at a heart rate, maintain the same heart rate all the way through was very impressive to me. Okay. We are going to go, we are both Michigan fans. So ⁓ we're gonna and we didn't really talk about the game too much, but ⁓ Biggest takeaway. Michigan routed UTEP. It was not a route early. It turned into a route they ended up covering, so I did end up winning some money on that. ⁓ shout out to Michigan. What ⁓ biggest takeaway from the Michigan UTEP game? Roberto Con Queso: ⁓ when Michigan takes care of the ball, Michigan actually is a pretty good football team. Micaiah: I I I like that. ⁓ I don't ⁓ I Michigan definitely has a fumbling problem. That's what you're alluding to. Six fumbles, first three weeks, that's just not gonna get done. My biggest takeaway for the Michigan game was I'm seeing I saw a one to two to three week now improvement on Bryce Underwood. I saw improvements from week one to week two, and then week two to week three. I that that was his best passing performance in Michigan. I understand it was UTEP. I understand receivers were open. But what they asked him to do, he was layering the ball, and ⁓ outside of the one fumble, he took care of took care of the ball. Robert, I don't know do you listen to my recap videos that I make at all or no? Roberto Con Queso: ⁓ not often. Micaiah: Okay, all right. I did call you out on my on my previous recap video, so I'll do it to your face. In the chat, you said Michigan's defense is looking soft. And from that point on until like halfway through the fourth quarter or something, UTEP had a combined total yardage of like three yards or something. So so was it just in that moment you were like because that was after the second fumble that Roberto Con Queso: Nice. Nice. Micaiah: was into a touchdown. Was that just frustrated or are you actually seeing something that can be a problem to Roberto Con Queso: Well we kind of saw it with Western Michigan. Didn't see it too much with Oklahoma. Oklahoma the defense from start to finish looked good okay, like better. But then the but then the very first half against Utep, it was almost like back to the second half against Western Michigan where I don't know if they just have never watched film. Micaiah: Yeah, yeah, it it was very good. Roberto Con Queso: Or something, but when there is a play action and the tight end takes off to the side and the quarterback is actively scrambling to that side, guess where the ball's going? To that tight end. That little sprint, like every team has run that against Michigan so far and has gotten gaggle of yardage. But then I think Michigan's defense also in that first half, like we just kept looking in the backfield. Micaiah: Mm. Roberto Con Queso: We would see the play action and it was like we're hammering the run. And that's when those just quick dump offs to the tight end just and he takes off. And Yeah. So Micaiah: That's how they scored their one long touchdown as well, eyes in the backfield and the guys running behind you. Roberto Con Queso: And it just seems like we're just not all together for a quarter or a half, but then all of a sudden, like it snaps together and we're like, hey, we're playing football. And the defense just becomes night and day a lot better. So I don't know if it's just we have to get warmed up or we just have to spot teams 14 points to kind of See if we can keep playing from behind. I mean, you can't do that all season. We're not gonna be able to do that against Iowa because they're just gonna hold the ball and punt the ball. So Micaiah: No. I I I absolutely not. And listen, Iowa can throw a little bit. We'll we'll get into that here a little later in the show. By the way, we got a great show for you today. Go ahead, like, subscribe, share, download this episode's turn on the notification so you never miss a single episode. Thank you so much for being here. We do this for you, the fans. This is mostly college football. ⁓ yeah, stick around. We got a great show for everyone today. ⁓ yeah, so ⁓ Kywood and Ham said that they were not playing with excitement and enthusiasm that they played against Oklahoma and he went in there and kind of got things situated at halftime. And it was clear, and then they came out and it was like a whole new team. As you said, they didn't turn the ball over, and it every time they touched the ball, it was points. So, ⁓ This is going to be a very frustrating team for Michigan fans to watch the rest of the season if they continue to turn the ball over because it's going to be an 80-yard drive touchdown, very impressive, and then it's going to be turnover, and then teams that shouldn't be in the game are in the game, or when we should be in the game against certain teams, we're not, because we're turning the football over. So it's going to be very interesting to just kind of hang on for a wild ride. ⁓ Robert, you watched a lot of football this past weekend. So did I. I had to act like a peasant. ⁓ the rental house we were at had Xfinity, would not let me, and I couldn't log into YouTube TV, so I to watch one game at a time. Okay. I felt like a peasant. I did not have my quad box. I had my laptop ⁓ and one screen at a time. ⁓ first world problems. Biggest overreaction you either are having yourself or you have witnessed from this past weekend. Roberto Con Queso: I think the biggest overreaction right now is Florida. ⁓ they're kind of riding hot, they're winning their games, they look like a much better Florida team. But as the recent ⁓ betting lines have come out today, that Florida is now favored over Ole Miss by three points. ⁓ I think the breaks might need to be pumped a little bit on Florida. ⁓ I mean they beat Auburn. Micaiah: Yeah. Mm, mm-hmm. ⁓ Roberto Con Queso: Awesome. But Auburn's not a top five SEC school. So y you beat one of them, then it's like, okay, now you can really start pounding your chest in in the SEC. Micaiah: My biggest overreaction ⁓ that I have witnessed personally, both online and then ⁓ at work because we work with a Texas AM fan is that Mike Elko sucks and that Texas AM sucks. I don't think that that's true at all. I think that Texas AM is still a very solid football team and they do not suck at all. I think what we are witnessing is the direct cause and effect of NIL in the transfer portal. It has really leveled out talent along two major ⁓ position groups. Number one, quarterback, and please tell me if I'm wrong. Number one, quarterback. And number two, the lines of scrimmage. Most importantly, the offensive line. And Kentucky went in there and they spent a whole bunch of money in the offseason on their offensive line and they got a quarterback. ⁓ that their that their head coach Will Stein liked and that the offensive coordinator liked and they ran the ball really well and they took care of the ball and they made all the right plays, and then it doesn't help that Texas AM had two turnovers and a turnover on down in their own territory. I don't think Texas AM like the yard Texas AM moved the ball with ease. The yards were exactly the same. ⁓ And every t and and it was a game until the very end. So I don't agree the overreaction that Texas A and ⁓ fans are freaking out. But I guess, you know, they are Texas A and ⁓ fans and that's what they do. Roberto Con Queso: Yeah. I mean, we kinda I feel like we see it every year with Texas AM, where normally it's not the beginning of the season. Normally it's a random game way at the end of the year where they kind of drop one, but then like they'll turn around, they'll beat Texas. And it's like s something's not right, but we'll take your word for it with all the money you have. ⁓ Kentucky's a weird one, 'cause You know, they started off super hot against Alabama and then that was it. And so I don't know if they just had a lot of pepped up anger and then took it out on A ⁓ but yeah, I mean I it's just kind of the same old thing with Texas A and ⁓ I think. Like I mean, even at the beginning of the season when the preseason poll comes out, our one coworker is always they're ranked too high, they're ranked too high, they're ranked too high, and it's like Micaiah: Yeah. Yeah. Roberto Con Queso: I mean, yeah, you're not wrong. Like the the their roster says that they should be this, but at the end of the year they're not. I mean it's not wrong. I think ⁓ another overreaction would be that Mississippi State's good. I'm like torn on them because of the quarterback who's very good, which means he's not going to be there at the end of he's not going to be there next season. Micaiah: I he's he he's a dude. I I don't know. His dad played at Mississippi State. His mom went to Mississippi State. He's always Yeah, he always wanted to go to Mississippi State. Yeah. So may but you are correct. Like he will get calls at least. At the very least, agents are going to be calling him, being like Yeah. Yeah. You at least gotta put some feelers out, right? Roberto Con Queso: Okay, so he's like a Like a legend. Like the legend says. All right, maybe. ⁓ hundred percent. If Lane Kiffin is not calling him by the end of the season, I would be shocked. Yeah, Oregon's gonna call ⁓ Ohio State's gonna call ⁓ Everyone's gonna call ⁓ Micaiah: ⁓ yeah. Yeah. But yeah, for ⁓ Right. So so you're out on Mississippi State or Roberto Con Queso: ⁓ I'm in that they're not gonna be the worst team of the SEC this year. Cause at the beginning of the season I was like, this team is gonna be the worst because they've been the worst for ever. But I mean Micaiah: Okay. Roberto Con Queso: We're I mean we're gonna find out how good they are when they play Alabama. But they also did not start off very hot when they played South Carolina either. Like it was a it was a fight that entire game. Yeah, they st Micaiah: What was it seventeen point hole or something? Wasn't it like when they had to come back in that game, right? Roberto Con Queso: So they were down going into the half it was twenty three fourteen, but then the third quarter they rattled off seventeen straight. So they kind of just built the lead from there. But it's not like Micaiah: Okay. Okay. People are also pointing to the Minnesota blowout as a good win. I ⁓ as as a Big Ten fan, that's not that hard with Minnesota, okay? Minnesota's okay. They're they're not great. Roberto Con Queso: I mean Not r like ⁓ that Minnesota team is not Yeah, you know. Yeah. Minnesota and Iowa generally are usually in the same ballpark where they play almost the same style of football. And it's if you control the clock, don't give ⁓ the ball, and make sure they're punting it from their own one, you're you're at least gonna start on your twenty five. Micaiah: Yeah. Yeah, right. Right. If you play their game, you're in trouble. But if you make that them play your game, ⁓ it it's you're fine. You're you're absolutely fine. ⁓ I think ⁓ a wild underreaction, and this is kind of off topic, so I'm surprising you with this, but a wild underreaction is I am truly believing that we are going to have K Roberto Con Queso: Yes. Micaiah: 2007 chaos, and I put that in quotations because I saw this coming. Again, I think the number one team in the country is going to have two losses at the end of the at the end of the season before the playoff. I just don't see how a Georgia, Alabama, whatever goes through the SEC unscathed. I don't see how Indiana, Ohio State, Oregon, Michigan, whoever USC go through the Big Ten unscathed. Texas Tech, right? Like they had one. They just got through their ranked team with Houston in a solid win, but they didn't look like gangbusters there. Miami, that was a a ⁓ hit and miss kind of second half. Wake Force stayed in striking distance. You know, Derry Menta got really cold in the second half on that. So I I'm just really not believing that we're going to have a undefeated national champion. I think we're looking at like SEC fans need to get ready that. Two losses in conference, you might still be number two or number one in conference. Like I that's a very real possibility to me ⁓ after three weeks. Roberto Con Queso: I I feel like if there's one team that can do it and it's because of the way their schedule is, it's probably Notre Dame. If if they get if they get over the Miami hurdle, they get SMU at the end of the year, so that's kind of like a wait and see kind of deal. But everyone else's schedule is brutal. I I mean ⁓ Indiana's is Micaiah: Okay, fine. Yeah. I'll concede. Gotta be why you two. Roberto Con Queso: Indiana. You know, they they at least play Ohio State and then Michigan and then USD. Micaiah: Did they get Oregon Oregon or USC? Okay. I Roberto Con Queso: USC. Which what USC, we don't know what USC team you're gonna get. Sometimes they're good, sometimes they're they're not. Micaiah: Yeah. They're giving up thirty five directors. Roberto Con Queso: Da and l who h like how? How does that happen? That that is the most USC thing to do though, because I'm pr yeah, they ⁓ no, they played so they played USC at home. So it's not like they had to go to the West Coast. If they would have gone to the West Coast, it probably would have been forty two nothing. Micaiah: Yeah. Correct. Right. Yeah. You get USC out of the Coliseum, they turn into old Lincoln Riley, Oklahoma teams that can't stop a nosebleed. Roberto Con Queso: Yeah. I mean Micaiah: But but it but again, it was Rutgers at home. UMass beat Rutgers at home. And you and your four hundred and sixty-one yards, Bob. That's what USC's defense gave up to Ruckers. And Ruckers was driving and threw a pick six that would have tied the game. Roberto Con Queso: Yeah. I just don't Micaiah: So are are you b like are you convicted about any team right now, three weeks in? Roberto Con Queso: Like just one team that's an absolute stud of a team. Micaiah: Yeah. Yeah. Roberto Con Queso: I don't think so because Notre Dame didn't even look that good against Michigan State this weekend. You know, that was kind of a closer game. It ended up being twenty seven ten. So it's you look at the scoreboard and you're like, ⁓ well, they walked away with it, but not really. Micaiah: Yeah. And in week one, ⁓ Wisconsin was a lot closer than people like, you know, they had the phone ball kickoff and Wisconsin was right there too. So Roberto Con Queso: Yeah, I mean, you still have you still have Penn State who of course they're in like the the cake part of their schedule and the rest of their schedule is not good either. They've they have USC and Michigan, which again USC giving up thirty five to Ruckers, Michigan essentially should have lost the first game, but we didn't. So it's like maybe they go undefeated. Micaiah: Yeah. Roberto Con Queso: 'Cause they look good, but because they're playing lesser talent. You know, we're not gonna know about Penn State until I don't they must not play this week, 'cause they played all their cupcakes, so ⁓ I would have to look at their schedule to be like, they play Northwestern in two weeks, which Micaiah: Yeah. I I think they pl I think they play USC like first weekend of October maybe. Roberto Con Queso: ⁓ no, they play Wisconsin this weekend. That's right. Which that would n well, Wisconsin, then Northwestern, then USC, then Michigan. So I mean, even the Wisconsin game could end up being something. You know, but I mean we'll see. Micaiah: Okay. And then they get USC. Gotcha, okay. ⁓ Northwestern's nothing to scoff at. Chip Kelly. I I understand Cal Colorado. By the way, shout out to that guy on TikTok who responded. ⁓ before the game, I said ⁓ I posted a clip of me previewing the game just real quick and from last week's episode. Go check that episode out. And it said, ⁓ I don't believe I said I don't believe in Colorado's defensive line. Chip Kelly's gonna hang 28 on everyone. So give me Northwestern. And he said Colorado's gonna push him around because they pushed Georgia Tech around, who then pushed Tennessee around a little bit, which I don't know how he got from there. But then it was 41 7 in favor of Northwestern. He came back and he said, You know what? Good on you guys. You guys were right. My bad. So so good, so good for him. All right. Yeah, no, go ahead. Roberto Con Queso: Well I also saw which happened today happened today, ⁓ that Colorado like let a bunch of their players go for they removed several players for detrimental conduct to the team. Several players laughing after last Saturday's forty one seven loss at Northwestern. Micaiah: Really? ⁓ boy. ⁓ yes, I remember Dion, I see no Dion postgame press conference rant. It i it is this going the way that we expected this to go? I think I expected Dion to be a l a little bit better before the dumpster fire started. Roberto Con Queso: I feel it. So I feel like we we figured like the first two years are always the roughest years for the new coach, especially for Dion going from like the FCS up to FBS, you know, up to Division One. And especially to Colorado, where it's kinda hard to get kids to go unless you're bringing them there or paying them a lot of money. And it was like, Okay, the first two years are gonna be gonna be rough and then he'll get it together. And minus the year with Travis and Shadur when they went to play BYU in the bowl game and got absolutely demolished. Micaiah: Yeah, the second year, yeah. Roberto Con Queso: It's been a dumpster fire the entire time, and this year looks like to be no better. So is it the kids he's bringing in aren't buying into what he wants, or is Dion just not a good coach? Because I remember saying before, yeah, he's made these bowl games and stuff like that, but he's never won. Like he has no accolades to hang other than saying, well. Travis Hunter was a Heisman. You know, other than that, Colorado hasn't done anything. Micaiah: Yeah, I mean and and and were was Shadur just so much more talented at an FCS level that that's how he had ⁓ success at Jackson State? That that's a really good question. I don't know what his buyout would be, but at some like if you're a fan base or an A D and you're having a coach come in and rebuild, you want to see improvement. Year one was a dumpster fire. Exciting, but a dumpster fire because you had Travis Hunter and Shadir Sanders. Year two, you saw that improvement. Then a backsliding year three, and he changed up how he was going to recruit and all that other stuff. So then he went. This is now year four going into it. And I would expect the ⁓ the lines of scrimmage to be improved. And you got that again, everyone's Greatest mirage is week one of college football because they have these ideas of what teams should be and that they're still old versions of themselves, and every year college football teams are new. So you thought that Georgia Tech is line of scrimmage push you around. Well, it turns out that Georgia Tech isn't that great. And Colorado pushed them around, but then you go into Northwestern, and I understand Northwestern isn't 2025 Northwestern. But it's not like Northwestern has Ohio state level talent. And they got manhandled. Like that game was not close from the get-go there in Chicago. So I I don't I don't know. I don't like there's no one for me as a fan, if I was an A D, I would have to go to Dion and be like, you're you're not it. Well, I haven't seen improvement in four years. I saw one year of improvement and ever since then it's been backslide. And that just can't happen at a college football program. Roberto Con Queso: Yeah. Now granted they are only two and one. So he only had three wins la last year. So he's getting ready to potentially tie it. But I mean, they still ran for a hundred and eighty. So Micaiah: Yeah. I mean Roberto Con Queso: It's better than what it was last year. So I guess you can look at it and s and like take the positive in that. It's just I don't know. I just Yeah. It I've just ⁓ the the me the media hyped him up so much and it was like Dion played good football unless you talk to anyone over the age of sixty who watched him and they're like, ⁓ he n you know, he wouldn't tackle right or Micaiah: You lost by thirty six, but you ran for a hundred and eighty, so Roberto Con Queso: Stuff like that. I hear that more often than anything. But you know, I he's just not just not a good coach. And I don't know if he just doesn't have the good like good enough coaches around him to really bring everything together. Micaiah: Yeah. Yeah, sure. ⁓ so Colorado will just again, that was off topic. So thank you everyone for in ⁓ indulging us there. ⁓ we're going to get into some week four preview stuff now. and what I've determined is we'll kind of preview three games and then we'll pick kind of more games and And you know, I'll I'll give just a little snippet on the games. And they won't always be the same, the games that we preview and the games that we pick, but I do want to preview maybe not the biggest games, but some games that intrigue me going into each week. I just think that's how we'll do it moving forward. So we are gonna go to Knoxville first. That is where college game day is, but we are going here because Texas is going on the road. Archmanning is going back to where Uncle Peyton ⁓ played college ball. And we have a true freshman starting. And his name is not Brandon Faison, as you might want to call him. It's Faison Brandon for Tennessee. And they and they have that place rocking and rolling to a 3-0 start and number 14 ranked in the country. Texas comes in, they beat Ohio State in week two. And then their other two games, you know, week one was okay. And then Last week UTSA was a little sleepy at start, but I think that that was to be expected, at least from my end, ⁓ coming off that big kind of comeback, come from behind win. Listen, Texas is only favored by five and a half. And the Texas offense like 42nd in points per game. The defense is really good, you know, 12th, ⁓ 17th in scoring defense. The Tennessee offense is a Josh hypel offense. They're running for 300 yards a game, which is what Hypel wants to do. They're scoring 48 points a game. They're 14th in the FPS in total yards, and they're protecting Faison Brandon. So they're only throwing at about 212 yards a game, but that is good. And they have a solid defense. Robert, what are you looking at going looking at ten Texas and Tennessee? Roberto Con Queso: ⁓ so what I'm gonna look for is this is Texas's first real matchup since the Ohio State game. And from what when we watched the Ohio State game, didn't look good in the first half, first three quarters, come from behind victory. Great. Can you keep this going? Can is is that what we're going to find every week you play a good team, or Is the standard going to be no, we're gonna jump on top of you and beat you down the whole way through. For Tennessee, I mean, this is Tennessee's only matchup. You know, they played Georgia Tech, but Georgia Tech's also one and two, and the other two teams they played are lower tier, lower talent teams. So luckily for Tennessee, this is a home game. So I thought she was chewing some. ⁓ Micaiah: ⁓ okay. Life with a lab. Roberto Con Queso: Yes. This game is going to carry a lot of hype to it. Of course, it's going to be the the you know the Manning going back and forth with ⁓ Arch Peyton. So I think it should be a very good game. She is chewing on something. I can hear it. It it's it should be a very good game. ⁓ Hypel's going to he's going to get he's gonna devise up something that's going to end up Micaiah: Right. Ha ha ha. Roberto Con Queso: Causing issues. ⁓ Texas is probably going to going to go down early. ⁓ and then we're gonna have to see if they can pull it off again. ⁓ five and a half points, that's pretty accurate. It'd probably be decided by a touchdown. ⁓ but overall, I think we're gonna find out a lot about Texas and we're gonna find out kind of the beginning of Tennessee. We're of what they might be able to do. Micaiah: If you need to go check on your dog, you can do that while I make my point. I did not love how Ohio State pushed Texas around at home, running the football, especially in that first half. They didn't really, they they did it a little bit in the second half, but in that first half, Ohio State turned around and was just guard center, guard combo right at Texas, and they were moving the ball. Tennessee, as I said, runs the ball for the Roberto Con Queso: Yep. Yep. Micaiah: For the fourth best in the nation. ⁓ my gosh. I'm gonna try to say this correctly. The fourth best rushing offense in the nation at 300 yards a game. Josh Heipel wants to run the football. And it's gonna be up tempo and it's at home at Nealin. And that is what concerns me if you're Texas going on the road. Because it's also not like Arch Manning has looked like gangbusters. So if I'm Sark, you gotta go in there and set the line of scrimmage with Hollywood Smothers, with Larie Relique Brown, and use your running game to control the tempo on your end. Use your RPOs that Arch is good with. Maybe use Arch's legs. Because if you let Hypel and Tennessee's offense get going and let him run the ball with ⁓ with sorry, with Deshaun Bishop. And he's able to protect Faison Brandon. This is just not gonna go Texas's way. And that my underreaction notion of this is 2007 chaos, this season in 2026 is gonna happen because the talent is a little more even, is gonna start. And this is a noon kickoff as well. I'm just realizing that that's not the night game, so it's gonna be hot. I mean, in on Sunday in Tennessee. That turf field, now they play on grass there in in Nealan. But that turf field there at Nissan Stadium was 157 degrees. It's gonna be hot there. Texas should be used to that. ⁓ but I'm just very interested to see who's able to set the tempo of this game. Because whoever does that better is going to win is going to win this football game. Fun fact I heard today, Robert. True freshman starting against the number one overall team. are one in sixteen. Can you name the one true freshman who beat the number one overall team? It is recent. Roberto Con Queso: it's a recent. Micaiah: ⁓ sorry, recent within the last ten years. Roberto Con Queso: ⁓ Ha. All right. That's a little different. So true freshman, beaten number one. So it had to be someone playing in SEC school. Micaiah: Yeah. I say rec I say recent like it was just yesterday. It was, and I'll narrow it down it was in a playoff game. Roberto Con Queso: It's probably Trevor. Micaiah: Trevor Lawrence against Alabama, yes, in the national championship game. All right. So that is Tennessee, Texas for you. That is the preview. Drop a comment down below. Who do you guys got in this matchup? Tennessee or Texas? ⁓ Drop a comment wherever you get. Again, we do this for you, the fans. We do this for the people, the listeners who listen and engage with us. Thank you so much. This is mostly college football. Like, subscribe, share, download the episode so you never miss one ever. Robert, I like I know that you guys don't like always talking about big games. So I kind of ch chose a game off the beaten path, but I think it is very big because I think the Big 12 is wide open. And that is Oklahoma State, West Virginia. Oklahoma State had that first week loss against Tulsa and then decided, hey, we're gonna remember how to throw the ball and play air aid offense and play our style of football and let Drew Mestimaker be Drew Mestimaker. They then beat Oregon at home and then they beat up on ⁓ some double directional school from last week. West Virginia, meanwhile, boy, they're three and ⁓ They're scoring 40 points a game. They're running the ball for 281 yards a game. It is electric. Rich Rod is back. Morgantown is back. I love it. ⁓ just like he never left. Oklahoma State, again, they found their mojo. 528 total yards of offense. They're throwing the ball for 300 yards a game. They're running for another 220. Drew Mestamaker, only four turnovers on the year. Caleb Hawkins, 261 yards rushing. Michael Hawkins of West Virginia leads them both in passing and rushing and no turnovers on the year. What are you looking at in this exciting matchup in the Big 12? Roberto Con Queso: well, this is your shootout. This is your this is the game whether you watch it or not, it and it's a 7 p.m. game, so there shouldn't be that many games on to watch. ⁓ You're gonna wa you're gonna turn it on, nothing, nothing. After a drive or two, you might be like, all right, whatever, it'd go to a different game. All you're gonna see, well, I guess you wouldn't be on the bottom ticker, it'd be up in that right hand corner at this point. Micaiah: ⁓ yeah. Don't do it. Yeah. Roberto Con Queso: Is next thing you know it's gonna be like twenty eight twenty one, thirty five twenty eight, and you're gonna like, What's going on? You're gonna check this game out and I've it's just gonna be a track meet. ⁓ It's Michael Hawkins, correct? Quarterback. Correct. Yeah. ⁓ he's a dog. You know, he's ⁓ he's he's the worry part because he is the offense. If something happens to him, calf muscle, turned ankle, whatever. Micaiah: The quarterback for West Virginia, yes. ⁓ yeah. Roberto Con Queso: I don't know how effective that West Virginia offense is. Now, Oklahoma State, you get the big win over Oregon. However, you do it is how you do it. Whether you notice that they're tel ⁓ tipping off their plays, what have you, whatever. ⁓ but you've you've kind of gotten yourself some good momentum. You're rolling now. This is kind of the game. Micaiah: ⁓ yeah, I forgot about that. I didn't even mention that. Roberto Con Queso: That ⁓ is like your this is a statement. Because it's before it was like, you know, we really didn't think we were gonna beat Oregon, but we did. And it's like, okay, first Big 12 game, undefeated West Virginia on the road. So it's definitely a road trip. You go in and you beat them at home. You know, all they want to do is sing their songs and cause there's a West Virginia song, right? Yeah, country roads. Listen, man. Micaiah: ⁓ yeah, countr country roads, bud. Country road and they like to burn they like to burn couches as well. Roberto Con Queso: Right. So you take that if you can take their fans out of this game, like you can beat this team not easily, but it's a lot more manageable. I I anticipate Oklahoma State just flinging this bane, man. Micaiah: Yeah. Yeah. is what people or the AD when they hired it's not Chad Eric Morris. I keep wanting to say Chad Morris. That's not correct. Eric Morris. ⁓ that is this is the early start outside of week one. But week two and week three specifically, this is what they hired him to do. Bring in Mesti Maker, bring in Wyatt Young, bring in Caleb Hawkins. They wanted a get back to ⁓ raid vertical shots. Let's push this offense at a high tempo up and down. And that's what they have done outside of kind of that again, that first weird week. It wasn't just weird for them, but Roberto Con Queso: This is who Wisconsin wanted to be. Micaiah: Yeah. sure, sure. Right in that first year under Luke Fickle. Yeah. Roberto Con Queso: When they decided to switch to an air raid system. This is what they wanted, and it never panned out. Oklahoma State's doing it and it's panning out pretty good. Almost perfectly. And it's keep it going. You keep it going and you are gonna put yourself in a very good position to probably win the Big Twelve because there's Texas Tech's not looking the greatest. They're kind they're hanging in there. Micaiah: So far, so far. I got wide open. Roberto Con Queso: They're winning. BYU's looking more and more like the front runner now, but even they're not looking like world beaters. Micaiah: Right. ⁓ defenses are also pretty even. The total yardage defense, Oklahoma State's a little bit better, but yards per game that they're allowing are are one point off. It's 18.3 and 19.3. So this is a very even game. The key to the game, special teams, and then of course turnover. Can I cause I don't see a lot of stops happening? What I do for who gets a fumble, who muffs a punt, who misses a field goal. Something is that is going to turn the game where and this could be very well if it's a clean game, whoever has the ball last is going for two and trying to win the game, sort of deal. So this is going to be a very exciting. So go ahead and set your calendar for this game. What'd you say? It was at 7:30. I want to get everyone. Well, I'll I'll get everyone the ⁓ the the channels later in in the pick them section. And then finally our team. ⁓ from the Big Ten. However, I want to highlight the team that they're playing, which are the Iowa Hawkeyes. This is ⁓ 330 on CBS. Michigan's defense has been very stout. When they're energized, but their defensive line, specifically Dom Nichols and John Henry Daly, have just wreaked havoc on the edges for all three teams that they have played so far. Michigan's offense, when they hang on to the ball, we touched on that. However, here is The thing. Iowa's scoring and scoring a lot. They're 47th in the country at 37 points a game right now. And Robert, they're 90th in the country in passing at 209 yards a game. Hold the phone. You basically are the number one offense in the history of Iowa. Throwing at 209 yards a game. But Iowa, what do they want to do? Play great defense, sound defense. Good punting and special teams and then take care of the ball on offense. The overunder for this game is well, Michigan's favored by four and a half. I don't know what the over under for this game is. It doesn't have it here, but I can't imagine it's any more than like 40 something. Let me see if I can't get it. Yeah. I I think that this is a ⁓ r a replica game of Oklahoma, Michigan, where it's 17 14 sort of game. Roberto Con Queso: Thirty eight and a half. Micaiah: It is going to be a slug fest. Turnovers are the key, and Michigan is losing that so far this season. But Iowa, listen, they played Iowa Satan like a 10-13 game. So it's not also like their gangbusters offensively either. They're also on the road. What are you what are you seeing in this game that I'm not? Roberto Con Queso: ⁓ the winner of this game is going to be Field position, time of possession. Iowa's gonna hold on to that ball. They're not gonna let Michigan get the ball. They're not and they're they will hold on to that thing as long as they can. And it might be they drive all the way down Michigan's defense, stops them at like the 20 field goal. And they're okay with that. Because Iowa's defense generally is very good. Micaiah: ⁓ yeah. Very sound and solid. Absolutely. Yeah. Roberto Con Queso: his historically good when playing against Michigan and other teams. And all it's gonna take is it's these turnovers, the fumbles, the interceptions. Michigan has to capitalize when they have the ball, because if they just go four and out, turn it over, what have you, and give it back, you're either that ball is going to get rocketed the other direction on fourth down for a punt, or they're just gonna hold on to that thing. It might be another game where the Mich like Michigan only gets one possession in the first quarter. Because Iowa just methodically works their way down the field and whether they get three or they get seven, you can't win if you don't have the ball. Micaiah: Yeah, yeah. I do think that Jay Hill has the better secondary, ⁓ at least at athlete-wise. And he's been running a lot of man-to-man coverage. And I think the Oklahoma win gave him a lot of confidence to run man-to-man coverage because of the three corners that they have. In Jair Hill, Smith Sod Smith Snowden, and I'm forgetting the other corner. So sorry about that dude. ⁓ but Their linebacker play definitely been a ⁓ surprise to me. ⁓ Todd Bolds' son is the green dot. He's been playing excellent. And then again, the defensive line has collapsed every single pocket. Are they gonna be awake the whole time? I don't know. But this is what we've seen from Michigan's offense, and what I was really good at historically is just screaming that this game could get ugly in favor of Iowa very quickly. If it's two turnovers and all of a sudden now you're down 17 to Iowa because they went down, kicked a field goal. It was two turnovers, boom, boom, you're down seventeen. You're not getting that many possessions and able to come back. So they this is a disciplined game. Every time you play Iowa, you you you kind of just hold your breath for sixty minutes because it's gonna be a sixty minute game. Unless if you can get this ball vertically. And that is one thing Michigan's offense has got to do a better job of. I was explaining to my wife, who's trying to learn to her credit, a little more about football. One thing Michigan's team is lacking is vertical. Either running for big explosive plays or passing, they're missing that. They got it in the second half against UTEP. So we need to see that again. ⁓ for the Wolverines if we expect them to win. But this is going to be a very hard fought game. The 65 Like this game is 50-50. I don't care what the FPI on ESPN says that it's 65 Michigan chance to win. Not seeing it. This is a 50-50 game given all the turnovers Michigan has had ⁓ these first kind of three weeks here. All right. So that was the previewing the three games for week four. We are now going to get into our fun stuff, and then we are going to pick some games. So, Robert, ⁓ last week for your ⁓ college football playoff bracket. You had Texas, Ohio State, which I really expected you dropping Ohio State only one spot from the week previous for in a close loss. You have more balls than the CFP committee does. Miami at three, Georgia, Notre Dame, Texas Tech, Indiana, LSU, Ole Miss, A and ⁓ Bama, Boise State. A lot of that's probably gonna change. So who what's your ranking this week? Roberto Con Queso: ⁓ still got Texas is one. Ohio State is two. I threw Miami at three. So it looks like I actually stayed the same there. ⁓ I flip flopped, I put Notre Dame at four. Micaiah: Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Roberto Con Queso: ⁓ for the time being, Georgia's gonna be five just because they'll be like the runner up for the SEC. Six, I have Ole Miss, seven, Indiana, eight, Alabama, nine, I have BYU, ten, LSU, eleven, Texas Tech, and my twelve is still Boise State. Micaiah: Alabama is behind Indiana. LSU at ten. Texas Tech at eleven, you said. And then who ⁓ and I'm sorry. Yes, ⁓ boy and ⁓ BYU. I'm missing BYU yet. Okay, perfect. All right. How is the mostly all college football team doing in fantasy land there? Playing the best of the best. Roberto Con Queso: Poisey. Yeah. Well ⁓ let me just Micaiah: So are we essentially just playing the same players? like yes, our team is the same, but we're also playing the same players just week after week after week. Okay. All right, great. Roberto Con Queso: Very much so. So week three surprisingly almost one Micaiah: Okay, well we didn't get an update from week two. I'm just thinking of this now 'cause you weren't on the pot. So how d did not go up. Okay. Okay. Roberto Con Queso: ⁓ yep. Okay. Week two. Bad. ⁓ it was one forty seven to eighty five. ⁓ week three was ninety-six ninety-two. So it was looking good. ⁓ so far for the season it is ⁓ the dominant team has four hundred and six and the fourth and one team has two hundred and ninety eight on the season. Micaiah: Getting closer. Yeah. Mostly college football, dude. We rebranded. I know it's been a while. It was fourth and one for a bunch, but we rebranded. We're mostly college football now. ⁓ I we had Isaac Brown, a number two running back, and their other running back with the last name Brown. Did you see what he did on Saturday? Roberto Con Queso: Who's other running ⁓ Louisville's running back? No. Micaiah: Louisville's other running back, I guess MU, he went for t ⁓ he went for 10 carries, 163 yards. Roberto Con Queso: Nice. Why is he not on our team? Micaiah: 16.3 yards a carry. Yeah, he's not on our team, unfortunately. All right, but we are getting closer, so hopefully we can eke out a win here eventually. ⁓ and then some funny names. We did add one. So we have Booby Feastern Chaz Nimrod, and then we added Hollywood Smothers and Deuce Alexander. However, this is funny. Because I think Simeon put this in here. When I got on yesterday to update this doc for today, all it said was drop a deuce Alexander. In quotations. It didn't give the name or the school or anything. So Simeon entered the what it I think happened. Simeon entered the doc, put in quotations, drop a deuce Alexander, because it'll be hilarious on the podcast that he's not even on right now. And then just left. So ⁓ how Roberto Con Queso: That checks out. Micaiah: Yeah, that checks out. The old Miss Wide receiver, Deuce Alexander, there as well. ⁓ do you have heights, highest ticket, lowest ticket? Roberto Con Queso: Highest ticket. ⁓ should be No Shock of Texas and Tennessee at three hundred and fifty three dollars. So that'll run you. That's only for one person. ⁓ cheapest Southern Mississippi versus Tulane. Seven bucks. Micaiah: Okay. Okay. Wow. ⁓ in New Orleans? Roberto Con Queso: That would be a hot game. Micaiah: Yeah, that very hot game. Yeah. ⁓ very hot game. Very muggy. I wonder what time that game is. And then we have again, ladies and gentlemen, this is what we're dealing with. We're dealing with this guy again. We move the podcast to a time that worked best for him. And then he double books himself on the night that he has set on his calendar that he's gonna be locked in at. all jokes aside, we do love the man. Roberto Con Queso: In two Elaine. Micaiah: But he put in the dock, Rain Man's games they don't want you to watch. I don't know what I'm supposed to do with this. So here are Simeon's games that they, whoever they are, don't want you to watch. Northwestern Indiana. Yeah. So I don't know if it's like they don't want you to watch them because they will be so good, or they don't want you to watch them as in you won't watch them because you know nothing about them. I I have no idea. Northwestern Indiana. Roberto Con Queso: actually pretty good games too. Micaiah: Northwestern can score a little bit. Indiana hasn't really covered. They've blown teams out, just not covered. Virginia Tech, Boston College. Boston College rebounded very nicely from a week one loss. So they're looking better. And James Franklin got that thing rolling. Iowa State, Utah. Okay. New Mexico, New Mexico State. I agree. Penn State, Wisconsin. Fair enough. Minnesota and Washington. I don't. I'd think that's a Washington blowout through and through, but I'll give him the other ones. Absolutely. Any comments on any of those? Roberto Con Queso: Yeah, the Minnesota Washington is the one that we do not want to watch. Micaiah: Yes, that is the game we don't want to watch. But the ⁓ the New Mexico shout out New Mexico, New Mexico State. By the way, Oklahoma played New Mexico this last weekend, scored 14 points. They have an offensive problem. Defense is great. They've completely flipped. They couldn't they played a whole bunch of offense, couldn't play defense. Now they can play defense and no offense. ⁓ they're also out of the top 25. Their only loss was to Michigan, so Michigan needs Oklahoma to turn that around if If they want their season to continue looking well there. All right, so games of the week to watch on your couch. Everyone knows that a college sports fan's best friend is a comfy piece of furniture, most specifically, a comfy couch to lay or sit on. Well, at Kindred Couches, they have a huge selection of couches, sectionals, things to sit, things to lay on that will fit any sports fan's need. You need something big for a lot of people. Kendrick Couches have got you. 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Clemson comes out a completely different team. ⁓ thought I had you. So you are leading the pack at 18 and five. I'm second at 15 and 8. It all it takes is one week for this to just flip on its head, by the way. And Simeon's ⁓ had a couple brought Roberto Con Queso: Yeah buddy. ⁓ yeah. Micaiah: Rough couple weeks here. He's at twelve and eleven. All right. So let's start with Kansas State Cincinnati. Hold on. I want to pull that up real quick. By the way, two three and ⁓ teams in the Big 12. Big 12 implication. This is a huge game. ESPN two, 7 PM on ⁓ ESPN two. Very solid teams both. By the way, ⁓ Scott Satterfield. Since taking over Cincinnati, they've been a very impressive program. Who you got here? Roberto Con Queso: I am taking the fifteen year senior Avery Johnson and the Kansas State Wildcats. Micaiah: I agree with you. I really like ⁓ Colin Klein. I just about called him Calvin Klein. ⁓ Colin Klein, this game is at Cincinnati. ⁓ so it's at Nippert. It's a small stadium. However, give me the experience over the inexperience in JC French of Cincinnati. ⁓ Simeon is also taking Kansas State across the board. So everyone go bet on Cincinnati and it's a free money. I JK, I only support Games of Chance if you can afford it. Nothing is guaranteed in Vegas. ⁓ OK State West Virginia, we touched on this game. Maybe take the over that I think is like 60 and it's six, the over under 60 and a half. I would definitely hammer that over. That's where I'm leading, which again means it's under, but too high price. Howard offense is in Morgantown. Whatever channel this is on, I will find it. Go ahead, Bob. Who you got? Roberto Con Queso: gonna roll with the cowboys, you know? ⁓ I just I just think they got a little bit more, little bit more in the tank. Micaiah: This game is on FS1 at 7 p.m. I am going to also, I hate piggybacking and going second. Maybe I should, maybe I should have gone first, but I'm gonna go with OK State here as well. I love Drew Mestmaker, Wyatt Young, Caleb Hawkins. It's the North Texas Cowboys coming in here. They have since found a rhythm since they upset in Oregon to let it rip. They also have the slightly better defense. So give me the slightly better defense. They've also played a real game, but this is their first big road game. So go ahead and also give me ⁓ the Cowboys of OK State. I will go first in this one. So it looks like I'm not piggybacking at all if we pick the same. This is Boise State and Western Michigan. Group of six implications. Boise State's looked real good, including their game against Oregon on the road. Western Michigan. Again, ⁓ Boise State's coach is considering Western Michigan undefeated. Whatever. I'm not doing this argument anymore. Western Michigan, real good football team. I like Western Michigan in this game because they have returned a lot of starters on offense specifically. So give me Western Michigan. I also believe that this game is at home for Western. So give me the Broncos of Western Michigan. It is at home. three thirty ESPN two. Roberto Con Queso: ⁓ I'm gonna go with the team that ⁓ I don't have a reason not to go for him. ⁓ so I'm gonna go with the Giant Killers, ⁓ Boise State. Micaiah: Yeah, that that's that's Roberto Con Queso: It's I kind of feel like they're very evenly matched. I guess I'm just gonna I'm just more leaning towards ⁓ Mad Max. So it's Micaiah: Similar. Yeah. Yeah. He's been very very efficient. Again, Western Michigan at home. Also, game day. Like I understand game day. This was a perfect opportunity. Both of the on the same week, Boise State played Oregon, Western Michigan played Michigan. Like, this was a perfect opportunity to go to this game and give some highlights to Western Michigan hearing it and give them props. But ⁓ give me the home just again, give me the home team ⁓ other than that. All right. So we go from Western Michigan down to Florida and we'll miss. You touched on this a little bit. Overreaction, Florida, real, real good. Robert, have you seen Jaden Ball run that football and Aaron Philo be very efficient in throwing that football? Offensive coordinator last year from Georgia Tech has come over. I need his name. You're not feeling the Florida hype, huh? Roberto Con Queso: You know, the last time Vegas did something like this, we were like, No way, they're crazy. And it was when Michigan was favored over Oklahoma. Micaiah: Or Oklahoma was only favored by like four or something, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Roberto Con Queso: Something like that. And I was like, no way. Something's weird. Like I'm gonna roll with Florida. And I think the assumption is going to be this is that the post-Alabama kind of hype. You play Alabama, you beat them. That next week you drop an egg. Lay an egg, however you want to say it. So I'm gonna go at Florida. Do I think that Florida is back to being this prestigious program? Not yet. But I th I'm gonna roll with them that they're going to upset Ole Miss. Micaiah: Again, I should have gone first because now it just looks like I'm piggybacking. But but I put this game on here to take Florida specifically. I'm loving John Summerall. I'm loving Jaden Ball running this football. They have been so good, ladies and gentlemen, and so balanced. Buster Faulkner's, that's his name, came over from Georgia Tech to be the OC. They also, their wide receiver in Dallas Wilson is. Roberto Con Queso: Yes. Micaiah: They they got a good group of wide receivers. They play all they play good defense or solid enough defense. They're also at home. And I think that the fans are buying in a little bit. It's going to be loud. It's going to be raucous if the game starts on time. LOL. What's with all the lightning delays here? I guess we're not getting hurricanes, so we're getting this. Simeon's taking ⁓ old miss here. And he very well could win this game because Trinidad Chambliss is a stone cold killer. And I'm very nervous, but I'm also with you. You had the high and ⁓ my goodness, the head coach of Old Miss, Pete Golding, said it was the Super Bowl, right? Right. Like this wasn't our or this wasn't our Super Bowl, or anyway, the Super Bowl got brought up, you know. That that was a big deal to Old Miss. And the fans and the players and to get back at lane. And Chris Fowler said, and Ole Miss gets their revenge, right? That's what it was. Well, Ken, once you get revenge, can you get back up again on the road in a hostile environment in a team that's playing very, very well that just went on the road last week and got a good SEC road win? Very hard to do. So I'm with you. Simeon also to catch you up, took western Michigan and took West Virginia as well. So Either he's gonna have a really good week and we're gonna have really bad weeks, or vice versa. Again, these things flip on their head on a dime. Tennessee, Texas. We went over everything. True freshman going against number one team. Only won once before. That was Trevor Lawrence. Fais on Brandon. Is he like Trevor Lawrence in special? Texas got pushed around against Ohio State running the ball early, at least in the first half. Tennessee loves to run the football. Who's gonna dictate tempo? I'm gonna go first. I'm gonna take the home team. I'm taking Tennessee to upset Texas and let two thousand and let twenty twenty six chaos begin. Robert, who you got? Roberto Con Queso: ⁓ I'm gonna go with the one true manning and I'm gonna take Texas. ⁓ I just I think I Texas to me has a little bit more firepower. And I think Sark really needs to Sark needs this. He needs this win. Micaiah: ⁓ he needs this season, yes, I agree with you. Yeah. Roberto Con Queso: So I think he's feeling the pressure and I think he's going to get Texas ready as much as they as he possibly can. So yeah, I think Texas in a close one. Micaiah: Okay. ⁓ this is not official, but who you got, ⁓ I'm this is not one of our games, so I'm not putting this on. Who you got? Michigan, Iowa. Roberto Con Queso: Iowa. Iowa close. Micaiah: Okay. I am gonna take Iowa close. Okay. Great. ⁓ I would I would take Michigan. Again, not an official pick here. Oregon, ⁓ Simeon is also taking Texas, Robert with you. I don't have his reasoning, but I'm just gonna guess that he just believes in Sark more than he does Josh Heipel. That's just my guess. I don't know. Oregon USC. Oregon's defense, supposed to be defensive line year of their defensive linemen. They was the most hype part about their team. Four returning starters, big, all NFL, first round talent around. They're getting pushed around. Portland State was not a good representation of that, so throw that game out. Oklahoma State pushed them around. Boise State pushed them around. They got a get right week. Now they get USC and that is in the Coliseum 730 NBC. USC at home is very different than USC on the road. USC puts up a lot of points, gives up a lot of points recently, and yardage. People don't want to hear it. Trojan fans don't want to hear it. Robert, I'll let you go first with this. You got the ducks or the Trojans at the Coliseum. Roberto Con Queso: ⁓ personally, I think this is where also game day probably should have gone. But I'm going I'm going to take Oregon. I think the hiccup against Oklahoma State, they're fixing what they need to fix. ⁓ I think Oregon's defense finally kind of steps up a little bit, and I think the offense just continues moving. I think USC just has a hard time stopping them. Micaiah: Fair enough. Simeon is taking USC in this. I'm going to, again, be a follower and I'm going to follow right behind and take Oregon. Nothing's wrong with their offense. I don't like what I'm seeing from USC's defense, and that's that's my argument. I know USC is better than at home than they are on the road, but Dan Lanning is not going to let Be embarrassed at least offensively again and again. This is also, I don't know what the over-under is for this, but I would also probably lean towards the over. It's 62 and a half. Yeah, I think that this is a 31-35 kind of game here. All right. And then finally, Missouri and Mississippi State. Listen. Listen, Linda. Listen good. Mississippi State's got a dude. And his Name is Comario Taylor. And they are throwing and they are running and they are very good at what they do. And Missouri's with Austin Simmons, also very good at what they do, by the way. Mississippi State, second overall offense in yards per game. Missouri, 61st, very balanced both teams. ⁓ they won both teams want to run the ball with Jeff Levy and Mississippi State and then Amon Hardy from Missouri's offense, if that's even who's running the ball for them. It's not, it's Jamal Roberts. But Austin Simmons, no turnovers. Camario Taylor, 11 touchdowns, one turnover. The completion percentage are almost identical. This is a another game I do think is up and down. It's the over-under is 58. I would bet a whole bunch of overs this weekend. I'm gonna go first. I'm believing the Camario Taylor hype and I'm gonna take the home team and take Mississippi State. Roberto Con Queso: Just to show you that I ⁓ a little backwards, but ⁓ yeah. ⁓ until they give me a reason not to pick ⁓ right now I would they're kind of like the funnest team to watch. Micaiah: Yeah, yeah, they're them in Oklahoma State, West Virginia kinda I feel like are Roberto Con Queso: Yeah. The and you know and it it's been a long time since Mississippi State's had a dude, you know, where they've just you know, it's probably been since they've had Dak, you know. But I mean the the offense is responding well to him. He's making plays. ⁓ he finally got South Carolina to start booing and yell for Beamer's job. So, you know, beamer ball might be deflated. Micaiah: Yeah. Yeah. Shame beamer. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Roberto Con Queso: But yeah, until you give me a reason, man, and Missouri's not the person who I thought would be very good this year, ⁓ Hardy, is not running the ball well at all. Micaiah: No. I ⁓ that game is 745 SEC network. So unfortunately, unless if you have like YouTube TV with the sports package or ESPN Unlimited, you're most people probably aren't gonna be able to watch Camario Taylor because ⁓ he is fun to watch. ⁓ Oregon USC is 730 ⁓ on NBC. Just to let everyone know, ⁓ ESPN two is Cincinnati. Kansas State at 7 p.m. ⁓ there was which game did I not get? Did I give times for every game? Boise State, Western Michigan was 3.30 ESPN too. ⁓ Old Miss Florida is 3.30 ABC. Do not expect that game to start on time. Given historical of the last three weeks, some sort of lightning delay, I'm gonna guess. ⁓ real quick before we go, and we'll finish on this. Roberto Con Queso: Thank you, everyone. ⁓ Micaiah: I said this in my recap video. Do you remember a year where there's the it was this many weather delays? Like this seems like an excessive amount. Roberto Con Queso: ⁓ the only the only time I think we've ever really had as many weather delays is when we had hurricanes early and it was like you were moving games from different locations. But other than that, I mean the weather's just been the weather in the northeast has been fine. A little rainy, little cool now, ⁓ but the south is just a disaster. It's lightning, rain thousand degrees, you know. Micaiah: ⁓ and and please don't get me wrong. ⁓ in delaying the game and and doing it for players at player and fan safety, all for that. I'm I'm I just can't remember a time where it was like it it was week one, mul and the multi not just thirty minutes, multiple hours in week one, week two, and week three. I'm expecting again it to be in week four just because that's how it's going right now. Roberto Con Queso: So I've never been to a game like I've been to Michigan at but the weather was fine. Been to Penn State weather was fine. Where does everyone go? Micaiah: ⁓ the con the concourse, at least at Michigan, like because we were out there for the Hawaii game a couple years ago with JJ's first start, and there was the game got delayed. It didn't even start, it got delayed. So we had to like we were in our seats and then had to go like where the concession stands were. So I mean, some no no, there's not. And it's hot because there's not a lot of ventil. Like you don't move. You basically are yeah, there's no air movement. It's hot. ⁓ Roberto Con Queso: Like the That's not a lot of room, like Yeah. There's no air movement. Micaiah: It's humid. There's a lot of bodies just radiating heat. I know in the one weather delay, and I forget which one it was, it may have been the Alabama. The fans just didn't go anywhere. They just stayed in their seats. They're just like, you know what? At this point, just strike me down with lightning. Who cares? Yeah. Yeah. But ⁓ by the way, Alabama can run the ball, Bob. You you better be careful with that with with roll tide down there. Roberto Con Queso: Yeah. We're losing we're losing to Florida State. Take me out. Yeah. Listen, it it took some time for them to develop this run game, but to me they are still they might be the worst of the top five SEC schools right now. They they have not played a full, complete, good game. So if if they start slow Micaiah: I'll I'll give you that. I I will definitely give you that point. I but but like Georgia hasn't played anybody. Roberto Con Queso: Right. But if they start slow against LSU, Ole Miss, like it's you know, and they're not it's they would be tougher to come back against than Florida State. So like I feel like once they play that first full complete game against somebody, it's like, okay, overreacted, Bama's fine. But until then, it's kind of like Micaiah: ⁓ right. That that is very true. Roberto Con Queso: You know, Georgia's taking care of business that they need to take care of against bad teams. Ole Miss comes with a big win against LSU. LSU started off very slow, but that could be the whole emotional high portion of it. So, you know, we don't know. And then they got much better. So as of right now, who do you take, Bama or LSU? Micaiah: ⁓ the I would take Bama because I believe in their offensive consistency more and Keelon Russell hasn't turned the ball over. Roberto Con Queso: I think Bama's offense is better than LSU's defense right now. Micaiah: And key and Keelon Rut, did you see that long touchdown, that 57 yard touchdown run he hit against Florida State? It's Keelon Russell is just a little bit different than Sam Levitt. ⁓ however, they got a tough matchup with South Carolina. And because South Car again, whether or not South Carolina puts it together or not, that's a whole nother question. But between Nick Harbor, Dylan Stewart, and ⁓ Lenore Sellers. Roberto Con Queso: Yeah. Micaiah: At any point in one of those three guys, quarterback, edge rusher, wide receiver, can take over a game and just wreck your whole day. Roberto Con Queso: If you are South Carolina, you fire Beamer before that game. Cause they always yes, fire him today. Because for whatever reason, when you fire a team's coach, that next game is like a totally different team and they win. It's we it's the craziest scenario. So South Carolina, do fire him for a week. Micaiah: This week? Ha ha ha. Yeah, yeah. D yeah, j just a week. Just but don't tell anyone. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Don't don't tell anyone. By the way, you Arkansas somehow a seven point favorite to Tulsa. I don't know how anyone thinks that that's a good idea in Vegas, but again, what what the Arkansas's so bad. So Roberto Con Queso: And then just hire him back at yeah. They owe a lot of people apologies for making them sit through these games. Micaiah: ⁓ dude, they're it's not and the most disrespectful thing, because they lost forty-five seventeen to Georgia and Georgia stopped trying. Did you see ⁓ during time outbreaks that their defensive linemen were doing practice drills on the field during time outbreaks because they weren't getting quote enough work. Roberto Con Queso: Like I don't there is such an how With all the money that Arkansas has, how are they not better? Micaiah: So I did see a video this week from I want to shout out the podcast, but I the name's escaping me. But they had someone on from Arkansas talking about it. The Walton family, who Walmart were our Arkansas alum, ⁓ was giving a whole bunch of money. They wanted a certain chancellor to be hired at Arkansas. The board of trustees went with another candidate. And at that point, the Walton family stopped giving as much money as they were to the University of Arkansas. So they don't have as much money as they did. Roberto Con Queso: That's hilarious. That's hilarious. Micaiah: Now they do have Tyson Foods still there 'cause that's on the field and their jersey patches, I think. And then ⁓ they have Jerry Jones still, but I Roberto Con Queso: But why would you like it's Walmart, the Walton family that literally runs the United States? Like you can buy everything there. And you're like, you know what? We don't want your money because we're good enough without it. So we're gonna choose somebody else. Micaiah: Yeah, y you you could No, the Walton the Walton family stopped giving to Arkansas. It's the other way around. okay. Roberto Con Queso: No, that's what I'm saying is Arkansas is saying we're we're good enough without your money. Micaiah: No no no. What I'm saying is Arkansas wants their money, the Walton family saying no. Roberto Con Queso: Yeah, but by them like they said instead of Right, the Chancellor, that that portion of it Yes, yes, yes. Micaiah: ⁓ yeah, instead of the Chancellor, I see what you're saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I see what you're saying. Yes. Okay. Okay. Yeah, just my dumbass here. Okay. ⁓ listen, this ⁓ podcast was supposed to end like fifteen minutes ago, but we're we just have so much fun here. Chat and one last thing. Are you staying up to watch Minnesota take on Washington eleven PM on Fox? Roberto Con Queso: Yeah. I'll tell you what, bud, ⁓ I will watch it about as much as I watched every Pac Twelve game when they ⁓ when they played. So Zippo. Micaiah: All right. Fair enough. So no Washington, Minnesota this week for Bob. Me neither, set the record straight. Go ahead and wash your hands, you filthy animals. Thank you so much for being here. We'll see you next week. And I'll see you on Sunday for the recap video. God bless you. Peace out.