Latest / The Next Round / The Next Round: Alabama EXPOSED by Tennessee? Auburn's SEC Upset Shakes Up College Football Playoff Race

Transcript

The Next Round: Alabama EXPOSED by Tennessee? Auburn's SEC Upset Shakes Up College Football Playoff Race · The Next Round

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: We'll get to what we saw last night here in
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: the opening segment and then turn our attention to college football,
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: where we have conversations about handling big wins, something that
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: some teams have struggled to.
• 0:13
  Speaker 2: Do this year.
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: They get a big win one week and then have
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: a letdown the next week. That's part of parity in
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: college football. And we'll get to the conversation about the
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: 2014 college football playoff. It was last weekend a wonderful
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: time to have chaos there. for those that are trying
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: to push 24 teams through the finish line here. As
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: we get going today on Sporting State, we're the next round.
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: Jim Dunaway, Lance Taylor, Ryan Brown, the guys behind the glass, Forrester, Brooks,
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: and Tyler back there giving you all the X's and
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: O's and the bells and whistles we need to make
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: our show successful here. A little personal note first. Congratulations
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: to the Tampa Bay Rays. They are the American League
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: champions for the third time. Didn't come into existence until 1998.
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: And now since 98, they've got three AL championships. Small market,
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: $ 98 million is their roster. They do more with less. Basically,
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: they're a AAA team. Our stars end up going to
• 1:11
  Speaker 1: be big stars for other teams. But they put it
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: together this year. Really exciting team. And now it's them
• 1:17
  Speaker 1: and the Brewers in the World Series, too. Two teams
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: that sort of play old school small ball baseball sometimes.
• 1:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, look, both these teams are red hot. Obviously,
• 1:27
  Speaker 2: that's how you get to a World Series. But this
• 1:29
  Speaker 2: is the first World Series matchup since 1980 Royals-Phillies that
• 1:33
  Speaker 2: neither team has won a World Series. So both seeking
• 1:36
  Speaker 2: their first ever World Series championship. I think the Brewers
• 1:40
  Speaker 2: have obviously got the momentum. They're going to be the
• 1:42
  Speaker 2: favorite here. I haven't checked what that number is right now.
• 1:45
  Speaker 2: I would say they're probably minus 140, minus 150 for
• 1:47
  Speaker 2: the series. But your Rays played well. Cameron Arrow's had
• 1:52
  Speaker 2: a hell of a year. He really has.
• 1:54
  Speaker 1: The 23-year-old had a home run off of the short
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: porch in left field last night.
• 1:59
  Speaker 2: Took him a minute to get around the bases. He
• 2:01
  Speaker 2: likes to celebrate. 38.7 seconds. Is that too much? I
• 2:06
  Speaker 2: read it. Is that too much? I don't know why
• 2:09
  Speaker 2: we tracked this. Just a bit.
• 2:10
  Speaker 3: I read that it was the second slowest in the
• 2:12
  Speaker 3: stat cast history, I believe. I'm not sure why we're
• 2:15
  Speaker 3: tracking laps around the base. When did we roll stat cast?
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: That is what I don't know. Well, what's the longest one?
• 2:21
  Speaker 1: Because I cannot imagine it being longer. Because he stopped
• 2:24
  Speaker 1: the trot to walk out because is it fair, is
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: it foul? But then he stops right before he gets
• 2:29
  Speaker 1: first base and turns around. screams at the Rays dugout
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: and celebrates.
• 2:34
  Speaker 2: But that was the moment you knew they had clinched
• 2:36
  Speaker 2: a pennant, pretty much. Well, that made it 5-1.
• 2:38
  Speaker 1: They brought the guy who doesn't look at home plate
• 2:42
  Speaker 1: when he throws from the bullpen and he walks with
• 2:45
  Speaker 1: the bases loaded and then he hits a guy and
• 2:47
  Speaker 1: it's 5-3 again. Then Diaz, Yandy hits a home run.
• 2:50
  Speaker 1: That's when I knew. In the bottom of the eighth.
• 2:55
  Speaker 1: He comes around and slow trots it and then he
• 2:57
  Speaker 1: gets home and before he touches home plate, he turns
• 2:59
  Speaker 1: to Randy O'Reilly.
• 3:03
  Speaker 4: Rosarino.
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: Rosarino now plays somewhere else, but he used to be
• 3:07
  Speaker 1: a raise, and he's in the stands for some reason,
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: and he's behind the backstop, and they sit there and
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: they do this to each other before he even touches
• 3:14
  Speaker 1: home plate.
• 3:15
  Speaker 2: It was a lot there.
• 3:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 3:18
  Speaker 1: If I'd been the Guardians pitcher, I'd have drilled the
• 3:21
  Speaker 1: next guy, even though it's not regular season baseball.
• 3:23
  Speaker 2: Or drill him when he's celebrating.
• 3:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that would have been good. Yeah, I mean, it's
• 3:26
  Speaker 3: not a moving target, Lance. You could easily hit him
• 3:29
  Speaker 3: if you're a major league pitcher. But I used to say,
• 3:32
  Speaker 3: you know, because it was my friend Dirty in college
• 3:36
  Speaker 3: that made me become a Tampa Bay Rays fan because
• 3:38
  Speaker 3: I was a Buccaneers fan. And he had this rule
• 3:41
  Speaker 3: you couldn't pick and choose that if you were going
• 3:43
  Speaker 3: to be a Bucs fan, you couldn't be like a
• 3:45
  Speaker 3: Cincinnati Reds fan. Like I was when I was a kid.
• 3:48
  Speaker 3: I love how he's got these rules.
• 3:50
  Speaker 2: I lined up like that. I didn't know the rule,
• 3:52
  Speaker 2: but I just, I picked all LA.
• 3:54
  Speaker 1: He's a big Houston fan. So he's like, so he
• 3:57
  Speaker 1: was a Houston Oilers fan. So he's like, I've got
• 3:59
  Speaker 1: to be the Rockets and I got to be the Astros.
• 4:01
  Speaker 2: So I was like, well, you better pick it. You
• 4:03
  Speaker 2: better pick carefully.
• 4:04
  Speaker 1: I was like, well, Tampa Bay just has the Buccaneers.
• 4:07
  Speaker 1: And then they became the lightning and the rays. And,
• 4:10
  Speaker 1: I jumped on board with them. So since 1998, I've
• 4:13
  Speaker 1: been a Rays fan.
• 4:14
  Speaker 2: God, I hate to have to be a Marlins and
• 4:15
  Speaker 2: Heat fan.
• 4:16
  Speaker 1: Well, the Rays have been equally horrible to start with.
• 4:18
  Speaker 1: They never were above 500 until Madden got there.
• 4:21
  Speaker 2: When they were wearing the uniforms they wore last night.
• 4:23
  Speaker 1: And I used to tell you all the time, I
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: was like, if they could just be around 500 until
• 4:27
  Speaker 1: college football starts, that's a win for me.
• 4:29
  Speaker 2: That's all I care about.
• 4:31
  Speaker 1: And now, as we're back to our third World Series,
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: what is happening in my world?
• 4:35
  Speaker 2: College football.
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: No, college football, yes. But I leave to go to Ireland.
• 4:39
  Speaker 1: And the entire series is played. I mean, we'll stretch
• 4:43
  Speaker 1: out the NBA Finals for, it seems like, a whole month.
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: They will play the entire seven-game World Series. And there'll
• 4:51
  Speaker 1: be no rainouts because both of these are domed stadiums
• 4:53
  Speaker 1: or retractable roofs. And the entire time I am in Ireland,
• 4:57
  Speaker 1: they'll play the entire seven.
• 4:58
  Speaker 2: Well, I think that shows you the power of football.
• 5:01
  Speaker 2: Why would we extend this out when we're having to
• 5:03
  Speaker 2: go up against these heavyweights? So those will be morning games?
• 5:06
  Speaker 2: I checked last night. In the sixth inning, it's two
• 5:09
  Speaker 2: in the morning in Dublin. You'll be fine. I mean,
• 5:11
  Speaker 2: I got up for the NFL draft when I was over.
• 5:14
  Speaker 2: We set alarm and was up until 536 in the
• 5:17
  Speaker 2: morning watching the draft.
• 5:19
  Speaker 1: One buddy who's going with me and his wife, and
• 5:22
  Speaker 1: he's one of my golfing buddies as well, Ben, He's
• 5:25
  Speaker 1: a night owl. Like, he's the kind of guy that
• 5:28
  Speaker 1: I wake up in the morning, and I will have
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: texts or DMs about some funny video he's seen, you know,
• 5:35
  Speaker 1: some of the stuff I.
• 5:35
  Speaker 2: Forward to you. Trash. You're like at 2 in the morning.
• 5:37
  Speaker 2: Actually come from Ben. When I'm asleep, he's awake.
• 5:40
  Speaker 1: I got those friends. And he's a nice drinker, too.
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: So he's already told me. He's like, I guess we're
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: staying up while the girls are asleep watching.
• 5:45
  Speaker 2: The World Series. That's fun. Yeah, you've got to plan
• 5:47
  Speaker 2: it out pretty good, though. Like, we went and took, like,
• 5:51
  Speaker 2: I think it was like a— maybe 10 or 11 o'clock,
• 5:54
  Speaker 2: went to sleep, woke up. Your rhythm's going to be
• 5:57
  Speaker 2: thrown off over there anyway. Yeah, yeah.
• 6:00
  Speaker 1: So as our skipper likes to say, Kevin Cash, nobody sleeps.
• 6:05
  Speaker 2: We'll sleep when it's all over. We'll sleep in November.
• 6:08
  Speaker 3: Here's that John Rothstein cat that does that in basketball season. Hey,
• 6:11
  Speaker 3: so there's one thing I can get behind your team on.
• 6:14
  Speaker 3: I did not know this until today. And Lance may
• 6:16
  Speaker 3: not know this either.
• 6:17
  Speaker 2: They are a no meat, no meal team. I know that.
• 6:20
  Speaker 3: They celebrate with a freaking steak. They celebrate with a tomahawk.
• 6:24
  Speaker 3: There's no bigger ripoff in a restaurant than a tomahawk steak.
• 6:27
  Speaker 3: But for purposes of business.
• 6:29
  Speaker 2: I don't think I've ever ordered one. You shouldn't. I
• 6:31
  Speaker 2: think a lot of people do it to share, though, right? Yeah,
• 6:34
  Speaker 2: but you're paying money for bone. I like a bone-in.
• 6:37
  Speaker 2: Don't get me wrong. I like a bone-in steak, but
• 6:38
  Speaker 2: the tomahawk has the extended bone, and you're just paying
• 6:41
  Speaker 2: for that. Technically, you could get a tomahawk for an
• 6:44
  Speaker 2: appetizer for people to share if people aren't getting steak.
• 6:46
  Speaker 1: Before our man went to Oak House— We used to
• 6:51
  Speaker 1: go to his old place.
• 6:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. And they would have tomahawk Tuesdays. That's right.
• 6:56
  Speaker 2: And I would occasionally go by for tomahawk Tuesday. Yeah.
• 7:00
  Speaker 2: It was just a good deal.
• 7:01
  Speaker 1: I assume they were cleaning out the fridge of tomahawks
• 7:04
  Speaker 1: that were about to go bad.
• 7:05
  Speaker 3: I love a bone-in ribeye, bone-in filet, but... the tomahawk,
• 7:09
  Speaker 3: it's got that much extra bone, and that's part of
• 7:12
  Speaker 3: the weight of the steak, so you're getting less steak,
• 7:13
  Speaker 3: more bone. But the fact that they do that in
• 7:16
  Speaker 3: the locker room, I could get behind that team right there.
• 7:18
  Speaker 2: Well, you wouldn't like Yandy. Yandy Diaz, pictured here. He
• 7:22
  Speaker 2: likes his medium well. Wait, so do they have a
• 7:24
  Speaker 2: clubhouse attendance on the grill during the game?
• 7:27
  Speaker 1: Somebody's cooking them because that's been our playoff motto, one
• 7:30
  Speaker 1: more bite. Let's get one more bite. Let's get one
• 7:32
  Speaker 1: more bite. You need four more bites. Yeah, four more wins.
• 7:36
  Speaker 2: Well, that's a big steak. You've got plenty.
• 7:37
  Speaker 1: American League champions for the third time in Tampa. And,
• 7:41
  Speaker 1: you know, it's so funny. This happens with Coleman Coliseum.
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: Those nationally, that's the basketball arena that Alabama plays in.
• 7:48
  Speaker 1: When Alabama basketball is not good, that arena gets trashed
• 7:53
  Speaker 1: all the time. When Alabama basketball is good and the
• 7:56
  Speaker 1: place is sold out and it's rocking, everybody's like, You know,
• 7:58
  Speaker 1: Coleman Coliseum.
• 7:59
  Speaker 2: Isn't that bad. It's not bad. Yeah, you watch the
• 8:02
  Speaker 2: playoffs with Tropicana Field at 40,000 strong as it was
• 8:06
  Speaker 2: last night.
• 8:06
  Speaker 1: You're watching and you're like, man, why are they so
• 8:09
  Speaker 1: beat up about this place? It's not that bad.
• 8:11
  Speaker 2: Have you ever been to a game there? I've never
• 8:12
  Speaker 2: been to a game there. I've been to like five
• 8:14
  Speaker 2: or six games. I'm not exaggerating. It's crazy you've been
• 8:17
  Speaker 2: to that many games there. Yeah, I know. Well, there
• 8:18
  Speaker 2: was a couple of reasons. Okay. I won't ask. Well, no,
• 8:21
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's, it's not like a scandalous story. I
• 8:25
  Speaker 2: had to go down there on business a couple of
• 8:27
  Speaker 2: times and, and the client gave me some tickets. And
• 8:30
  Speaker 2: then I had a buddy that played professional baseball. But
• 8:33
  Speaker 2: it is the biggest shithole by far that I've ever
• 8:36
  Speaker 2: been to as far as like a professional venue. Yeah.
• 8:38
  Speaker 1: Well, anytime they slanted the roof, I forgot why they,
• 8:42
  Speaker 1: when they built it, they slanted the roof. It was
• 8:44
  Speaker 1: not built for baseball. They thought they were going to
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: get an NFL team or they were going to move
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: the bucks there or something. They, They slanted the roof
• 8:52
  Speaker 1: for some reason. I don't know if it was cooling
• 8:54
  Speaker 1: for the hurricane to try to prevent the wind resistance.
• 8:56
  Speaker 2: It didn't work, by the way. It was sad. They
• 8:58
  Speaker 2: had on their, it's like the third level, they had
• 9:00
  Speaker 2: like the beach club or whatever. And like, you know,
• 9:03
  Speaker 2: they had the miserable employees walking around with like a
• 9:06
  Speaker 2: parrot on their shoulder, you know, like didn't want to
• 9:08
  Speaker 2: be there. And there's like one bum sitting up there drinking.
• 9:11
  Speaker 2: I mean, like it was just, it was a sad place.
• 9:13
  Speaker 1: And any place is sort of sad when it's, you know,
• 9:17
  Speaker 1: I mean, some attendance nights, they've had 7,000 before. We
• 9:21
  Speaker 1: used to do the stat back in the day that
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: our local AA team would outdraw the Tampa Bay Rays
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: on any given night.
• 9:27
  Speaker 2: But when it was full during the playoffs.
• 9:29
  Speaker 1: You're like, you know, that place isn't so bad. That
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: place isn't so bad. New arena, new stadium coming in 2029,
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: they say. They've been saying that for years.
• 9:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they've been saying that for a long time. That's right.
• 9:39
  Speaker 2: I always thought Tampa would be Nashville's team. I really did.
• 9:42
  Speaker 1: I thought they'd move to Nashville, and they never did.
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: I always thought the Tampa Bay Rays would move to
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: Nashville and be Nashville, whatever they would name it.
• 9:49
  Speaker 3: I hope you win it. I got zero rooting interest
• 9:51
  Speaker 3: in this other than my friendship with you. So, and
• 9:54
  Speaker 3: I may watch a game or two in the middle
• 9:55
  Speaker 3: of the week. So I hope you guys want it.
• 9:57
  Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
• 9:57
  Speaker 3: I'm not going to give you a weekend game. If
• 9:59
  Speaker 3: you win it on the weekend, you'll have to let
• 10:00
  Speaker 3: me know. Yeah, I'm not going to give it a
• 10:01
  Speaker 3: weekend game.
• 10:01
  Speaker 2: But in the middle of the week, I'll watch you
• 10:03
  Speaker 2: guys play in the World Series.
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: I will say this. I think as far as number
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: of players that need interpreters to do interviews, I think
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: we lead the major leagues.
• 10:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Who is the I Am Japanese? Who do
• 10:16
  Speaker 2: you play for? He's a White Sox. I was more
• 10:18
  Speaker 2: a comment. I like that guy. He don't even need
• 10:20
  Speaker 2: a translator. Just let him roll. He just goes with it.
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: But, you know, Peralta, the pitcher that the Rays picked up,
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: won the MVP last night. And I learned something that
• 10:32
  Speaker 1: I did not know, that the Dominican Republic flag is
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: the only flag, national flag in the world, That has
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: the Holy Bible on it.
• 10:41
  Speaker 2: Did you know that? The DR flag has the Holy
• 10:42
  Speaker 2: Bible on it?
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's part of its crest of arms right in
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: the middle of the flag. It is the only national
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: flag in the world that has the Holy Bible.
• 10:50
  Speaker 2: Dude, we just have a picture of a book. Like,
• 10:52
  Speaker 2: how do we know it's the Holy Bible? I think
• 10:53
  Speaker 2: it says Holy Bible on it. Okay, well, that would
• 10:55
  Speaker 2: settle it. Tyler's about to pull it up for us.
• 10:57
  Speaker 2: They talked about it in the postgame.
• 10:59
  Speaker 4: Oh, really?
• 11:00
  Speaker 2: Yep, they talked about it.
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: Pedro Martinez and Peralta talked about it in the postgame,
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: that the Bible is part of their coat of arms there.
• 11:07
  Speaker 2: Man, Fox is feeding Pedro well. They are. There it is.
• 11:11
  Speaker 2: It's actually opened up to John. There's a verse in
• 11:13
  Speaker 2: John that it's opened up to. Can you zoom in, Tyler?
• 11:15
  Speaker 2: Can you zoom in and we see what verse it is? Boy,
• 11:18
  Speaker 2: I tell you, this is intricate. You have to get
• 11:19
  Speaker 2: my Michelson pulled up on this. Look at Tyler. You're
• 11:23
  Speaker 2: not going to see it there. I don't think so.
• 11:25
  Speaker 2: I'm curious to the verse now, John. It's John something, something, something.
• 11:30
  Speaker 2: John something, something, something? Look at it up there. It'll
• 11:32
  Speaker 2: be under that. I had it written down last night.
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: I didn't know that until I was watching the postgame
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: last night.
• 11:37
  Speaker 2: Hats off to the DR. I mean, look at that.
• 11:40
  Speaker 2: They're supporting the Holy Bible.
• 11:42
  Speaker 3: The Bible is traditionally open to John 8, 22, and
• 11:44
  Speaker 3: the truth shall make you free.
• 11:46
  Speaker 2: I like that. There you go. How about that? I
• 11:49
  Speaker 2: never knew that, Jim. Until last night. I'm one day old. Again,
• 11:54
  Speaker 2: you learn something new every day, right? Yeah, you really do. Yeah,
• 11:56
  Speaker 2: I'm surprised the Vatican flag does not, Vatican City flag
• 11:59
  Speaker 2: does not have the Holy Bible on it. That's a
• 12:01
  Speaker 2: very religious city there. You're questioning my stats that I
• 12:04
  Speaker 2: threw out? No, no, no. I think the Vatican goes
• 12:06
  Speaker 2: without saying. I've never seen the Vatican flag. Well, there
• 12:09
  Speaker 2: it is. Yeah. Vatican flag. A lot of stuff on there.
• 12:12
  Speaker 2: Watch there be a Bible on here. We got an
• 12:13
  Speaker 2: upset alert coming up. Those will be tough to draw.
• 12:16
  Speaker 2: What is that? You got some keys and the Pope hat. Yeah.
• 12:20
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 12:21
  Speaker 2: Pope's pretty big there from what I'm told. Big push
• 12:24
  Speaker 2: to get the Popemobile put on there. Does he have
• 12:25
  Speaker 2: full access? Does he have a key to the city?
• 12:27
  Speaker 7: Can't use that, though, because the Pope's a White Sox fan.
• 12:30
  Speaker 2: That's right. Did you guys ever think, I remember we
• 12:32
  Speaker 2: had a custodian, his name was Shaq, at Edgewood Elementary
• 12:35
  Speaker 2: School over in Homewood. Shaq was his name? Shaq was
• 12:37
  Speaker 2: his name. And he did everything. And we had Shaq Day,
• 12:40
  Speaker 2: and he got a key to the city. And I
• 12:41
  Speaker 2: remember the mayor came in, because Shaq had been our custodian.
• 12:44
  Speaker 2: You know, this is back in the 70s. He had
• 12:46
  Speaker 2: been our custodian probably since the opening of that school.
• 12:49
  Speaker 2: And so he was retiring, and they gave him a
• 12:50
  Speaker 2: key to the city. And Man, I was blown away.
• 12:52
  Speaker 2: I was like, man, that son of a bitch can
• 12:53
  Speaker 2: go anywhere now. I really believe the key to the
• 12:56
  Speaker 2: city would get you anywhere. Did you guys ever think that?
• 13:00
  Speaker 2: I did not. I really did. I was like, man,
• 13:02
  Speaker 2: he can go to Aladdin's Castle today. He wants to
• 13:05
  Speaker 2: go walk around Brookwood Mall. He's got the key. I
• 13:08
  Speaker 2: was just blown away. I was like, Shaq is the man. Shaq,
• 13:11
  Speaker 2: can we go to Baskin-Robbins? Shaq, let us in. Let
• 13:13
  Speaker 2: us in. That's hilarious.
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: All right, Monday Night Football last night brought to you
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: by our friends at Hard Rock Pet. I don't know
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: what side you were on last night, LT.
• 13:22
  Speaker 2: The winning side. 5-0 this week in the NFL. Hard
• 13:25
  Speaker 2: Rock Bets, you can make your plays there.
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: Hard Rock Bets, Florida's only legal sports book, and therefore
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: the most trustworthy option in the market. Hard Rock Bet
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: available in Florida, also the great state of Tennessee. These
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: guys experienced that last week when they traveled up to
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: Tennessee and jumped on the Hard Rock Bet app. You
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: can do that in Florida, Tennessee, also in Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan,
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: New Jersey, Ohio, and Virginia. We tell you, If you're traveling,
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: if you're from our area and you're traveling and you
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: travel into a state, help us out by downloading the
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: Hard Rock bet, hardrock.bet backslash clay, hardrock.bet backslash clay, and
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: use the promo code. Well, you don't even have to
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: use the promo code. It's right there, hardrock.bet backslash clay.
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: Bet $ 5, you get up to $ 500 in no-sweat bets.
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: And tonight, you've got a trio of college football games,
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: South Alabama and Marshall. South Alabama, three-point favorites. MTSU and
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: FIU tonight. FIU a 10-point favorite. And Missouri State and Delaware.
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: Delaware a three-point favorite. All that in college football tonight
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: with our friends at Hard Rock Bet. We will unveil
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: our weekly NFL Power Ranking tomorrow on the show. But
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: San Francisco was across the board number one for us.
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: last week and they won again last night 23 17
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: holding off the commanders who tried to come back and
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: win the game yeah.
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: I mean it was pretty crazy up 23 3 in
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: the second half and i was kicking myself i was
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: like oh my god why did i go against the
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: best team in the nfl the 49ers and jayden daniels
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: started playing in the second half and they were creeping
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: back They had two opportunities late. I don't know how
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: much of that game you guys watched.
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: I watched to the end because I gave up on
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: it and went over to Dunaway's Rays. And I'm like, crap,
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: Washington came back.
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: In this thing. That Traylon Burks throw to the pylon,
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: I thought he was going to come down with it.
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: It was a great defensive play by Mustafa.
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, made a great play there. But then they get
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: the ball back with 52 seconds left. They get down
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: to the 28 and the worst two plays you can imagine.
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: You get a grounding. And then you get a sack
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: to end the game. Yeah. Just Jaden Daniels on the grounding.
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: Dan Quinn seems lost. I don't know if you guys
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: have seen the.
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: Wait, this guy? Yeah, but he had his hat turned
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: back around. I know. Last night.
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: Why do you think he did that? Do you think
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: he finally realized we can't be this bad and not wear.
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: A backers hat?
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: I think it was because he had the hat turned
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: around and he was so bad at the end of
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: the game. It was the most embarrassing part of his
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: coaching life. He was turning it around, hiding his face
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: in shame.
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: It could just be superstition, like finally, like this, this,
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: turn the hat around, it ain't going to work.
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: It ain't working, but I'm not calling it controversy, but
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: he got caught on camera, apparently not realizing it was
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: fourth down.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: I don't know if you guys saw this. Last night?
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: Last night. Oh, no.
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: So they go for a fourth down, which Jaden Daniels
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: throws the ball away. Again, you're an NFL quarterback. Daniels
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: continues to make weird decisions. You're an NFL quarterback. You're
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: throwing the ball in the end zone. Buddy, it's fourth down.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: Put the ball in play. See if your guy can
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: get lucky and make a catch.
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: Or a pass interference.
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: Or a pass interference. If it gets intercepted, it doesn't matter.
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: The one thing you don't do is throw it away.
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: On fourth down.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: Not as egregious as the final play of overtime against
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: the New York Giants. No. But the situational awareness. It's
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: just not great. It doesn't make any sense. Like, you
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: are a NFL quarterback. It's not like he's a rookie either.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: He's in year three now.
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: But they cut to the sideline and you see Dan Quinn.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: You can read his lips, say, field goal into the headset.
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: And then, oh, it was fourth down. And it looks
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: bad for an NFL coach. Now, in the postgame, he
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: tried to save it, and I don't think he did
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: himself any favors in the postgame. But he said there
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: was an illegal shift penalty, so somebody thought they had
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: another down and asked if they wanted to kick a
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: field goal instead of goal for it. And he was saying,
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: field goal, no, it's fourth down. It was kind of
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: a weird conversation. I don't know if that's the way
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: it went, but just a really bad look at the
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: end of the game for Washington altogether.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: A couple of other notes from the NFL college football
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: in our next segment.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: McLaren carted off in that game. Yeah, and they're saying
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: it's a significant knee injury.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: For the Rams, and I don't know where they'll be
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: in anybody's NFL ranking coming up, but they are trending down.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: Word yesterday that Adams is out six to ten weeks.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: Six to ten weeks. They're going to do a procedure
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: on the hamstring. I mean, I don't know. I mean,
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: I'm looking at the injury report right now. I was
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: telling you guys for the show. Puna Ford out for
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: the season. Blake Grupe comes in placed on IR because
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: he tears his ACL trying to make a tackle. Kobe
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: Turner placed on IR. Miles Garrett will not practice this week.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: So we still don't know the status there. What a
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: waste of Miles Garrett. To give up who you gave
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: up to get Miles Garrett. It's just been... You know,
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: and that's why you've got to be able to close
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: the deal when you have your window. The NFL, and
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: that was what was so amazing about the Patriots, they
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: were able to have this, you know, almost two-decade window. But, man,
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: when you've got it, last year, in my opinion, I
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: know they didn't win it. The Rams were the best team,
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: and they had every opportunity to win it. Special teams
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: cost them, and now this super team is two and four. Like, massive,
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: massive players. are going to be out for a long time,
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: and this is obviously going to end up being a
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: disaster year.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: Trending in a bad direction. And then the final thing
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: from the NFL I wanted to bring up, because last
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: week we talked about Troy Aikman, and I played that
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: for you guys on Friday, Troy Aikman on Dallas Radio
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: saying that he and Joe Buck have gotten on the
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: wrong side of each other after a 25-year friendship in
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: the booth. ESPN and ABC have signed Joe Buck to
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: a long-term contract. Troy, they have not really broached the
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: subject of his new contract out. Word has leaked out
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: that ABC ESPN, the producers of Money on Football, asked
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Pat McAfee to do an audition in the booth.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: That's a good one. And McAfee turned them down. Oh, really? Well,
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: I mean, my God, the guy's doing everything.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: McAfee said, I wouldn't be a horrible fit to be
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: in a quiet broadcast booth restricted up there, not walking
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: around on the sidelines. It's a no-go for him.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: That's pretty good self-awareness. Yeah, I'm glad he recognized that
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: because it's true. Yeah, it's true.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: So my question is, you already have the Manning cast
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: on another channel on most games.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: They do that. Do you think.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: ABC, ESPN is looking after this Super Bowl that they've
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: got to be buttoned up for with Troy and Buck?
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Do you think they're looking for some kind of alternative
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: channel out of the box thinking because aren't they the
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: people that brought us Rush Limbaugh to Monday Night Football?
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: And Dennis Miller. And Dennis Miller. Yeah, I mean, last
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: time they tried to go, quote-unquote, out-of-the-box, it was a disaster. Yeah,
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: I mean, out-of-the-box is the Manning cast. You know, really, hey.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: But those numbers have declined. Yeah, well, I was going
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: to say, you don't want to pay money. You don't
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: want to spend money. Don't renew Joe Buck. Just have
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: the Manning cast out there. I mean, I know it
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: would be untraditional. Older people wouldn't like it. I've watched
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: it less and less. I used to watch the Manning
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: cast some. I haven't watched it in a year and
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: a half. I've watched it less and less, and the
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: numbers are declining.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: And that's my point is, do you think the Manning
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: cast goes away and they let Troy walk and they
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: end up going Joe Buck, Peyton Manning?
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Or Joe, Peyton, and Eli?
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm in the booth.
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: I mean, you can do it. If those guys want
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: to travel, but I mean, Peyton and Eli are stationary.
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: I mean, they're doing that from their basement, which is
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: a huge plus for them. I'm sure. I mean, I guess.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: I guess that would be appealing to Peyton Manning. He's
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: got a lot of money. I don't know that he
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: needs the money. I don't know that Eli needs the money. But,
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: I mean, Troy Aikman probably didn't either. He doesn't.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: I mean, a lot of these guys like being on
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: the road. I mean, it keeps them close to the game.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: You've got that feel, travel, excitement, all that kind of stuff.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: That's not a bad idea.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: You're certainly visible. I think that's what kills a lot
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: of pro athletes is when they lose their visibility.
• 21:02
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: And then the other side is that the belief is
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: that Herbstreet is the backup plan for for the Thursday
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Night Football prime.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: I forget who they're going after. McVay is the rumor. Oh,
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: that's right. McVay is the rumor.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: In fact, it got reported that Herb Street just signed
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: his contract, and there was a quote-unquote McVay out in
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: that contract.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I wonder if Herb Street on Monday Night Football,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: that would tighten up his week a little bit to
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: do all the stuff he does for ESPN. He would
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: go in for game day then straight, do game day,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: the Saturday night game, and then Sunday move to Monday
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: night football, do Monday night football home on Tuesday.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: It would tighten up his weeks and make it a
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: little bit better for him.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: So what's interesting about that is this is about the
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: time of year where this happens every year for him.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: He's starting to catch criticism that he's working too much
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: because of a gaffe he made at the end of
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: the BYU-Notre Dame game. Now, I think when a guy
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: makes a mistake and people are like, oh, see, he's
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: working too much. You can't pay attention. But When Notre
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: Dame is driving, Herb Street, I think twice, at least once,
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: said they're going to try to win this thing in regulation. Well,
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: they were down four.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: They had no other choice but to try to win
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: it in regulation, and Fowler had to gently correct him.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: And that's when people say he's too busy. He can't
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: even keep up with the game he's doing because he's
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: working so much. Well, technically, they were trying to win
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: it in regulation. Yeah, Kirk was not wrong about that.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: So I don't know, Lance. I don't know if he
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: works too much. I like Herb Street. I think he
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: does great in college. That Thursday night product is pretty
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: stale to me. The games aren't great. Al Michaels is way, way, way,
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: way past his prime. He's one of the best to
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: ever do it. And Herbstreet is just, I get a
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: lot of Herbstreet, you know?
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: I don't know. It doesn't excite me much. But I
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: don't know who you could put in the Monday Night
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Football booth that would excite me. Yeah, I'm right there
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: with you. I mean, it's just the game. Troy Aikman. Yeah.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: And I'd love it for our guy Orlovsky. Would love
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: it for Orlovsky. I don't know if it will happen
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: for him. It's what he desperately wants. Dan has been
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: open about that, and I would love it for him.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: But I'm either going to watch the game or not,
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: depending on who's playing, right? I mean, Troy Aikman does
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: not suck me into Monday Night Football. He's good at
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: what he does.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: You put up with a lot of bad announcers to
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: watch the games you want to watch. Correct, yeah.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: All right, that's our NFL for the week, or for
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: the day. We'll get to college football when we come back.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Is there something to a big win, and then you
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: have to turn around and get your feet on the
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: ground and get right? Before you play another game, especially
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: this year in the SEC, we'll talk about teams that
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: have to do that, Auburn. This week as LSU comes
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: to town, that's on the other side on the next
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: round presented by Hard Rock Bet here on Sporting State.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: This is Coach's chair.
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: What?
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: We protect Coach's chair the way Hard Rock Bet protects
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Coach's account.
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: Hard Rock Bet keeps Coach's info safe. Hard Rock Bet
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: keeps Coach's money safe. And we keep Coach safe.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Hey, fellas. Coach. How about that protection? Can I grab
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: a wing? Coach's wings. I guess I'll sit on the ground.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: That's where Coach puts his feet. Safe and secure betting
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: from the very first tap. Great to meet you, Coach.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: It was Coach's pleasure.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Back with you on the Sporting State next round today.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Brought to you by our friends at Hard Rock Bet there.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: We're going to get to our upset alert in our
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: next segment right before we get to the top of
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: the hour. Jeff Collins will join the show coming up
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: at 1120 Eastern, 1020 Central. The former coach, defensive coordinator
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: around the SEC, he has some thoughts about what he
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: saw both in Georgia with Auburn's upset, but also what
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: he saw with Alabama going down to Tennessee. So we'll
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: talk to Jeff Collins about that coming up in just
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: under one hour here on the show. Before we jump
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: into our college football conversation and look at new contender
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Auburn and some others in the SEC, our friends at
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Perfect 10 Mortgage.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Bringing you the show. They are indeed.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: The name says it all. You can apply in as
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: little as 10 minutes. Close in 10 days with our
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: friends at Perfect 10 Mortgage. That's the whole idea. Mortgage
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: that is simple, fast, and fair. 10 minutes start to
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: finish right from your phone. No stack of paperwork, no
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: sitting across a desk from a banker that talks down
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: to you. When you check your options, it will not
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: deem your credit score. You find out where you actually
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: stand before you commit to anything. They allow you to
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: date the rates and marry the house. Get the house
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: you want now. Refinance when rates come down. Are you
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: buying new construction? Ask about the builder program. Builder funded
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: rate buy downs that can get you a rate the
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: bank simply cannot print. That's at Perfect 10 Mortgage. 855-789-1010, 855-789-1010,
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: or Perfect10Mortgage. com. Perfect 10 Mortgage is.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: A DBA of Network Funding LP and MLS 2297 Equal
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Housing Lender. All borrowers must qualify. This advertisement is not
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: a promise to make alone. Perfect10Mortgage. com or 855-789-1010, Perfect 10 Mortgage,
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: and Pursuit. of a more perfect mortgage.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Lane kiffin lsu they come to play auburn this week
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: they're about an eight and a half point favor down
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: to jordan hair stadium i think i saw it dip
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: down to seven and a half last night lane kiffin
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: gets asked about relief syndrome is this a real thing
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: uh around the sec and in college football and is
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: there a chance that auburn has to deal with it
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: this week here's lane.
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: It'll be a big talking point all week about a
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: letdown spot for Auburn after winning on the road. I'm
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: curious in your experience, NFL or college, is that something
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: that we all talk about or is that a real
• 26:29
  Speaker 6: thing internally at either level where you protect against a
• 26:33
  Speaker 6: letdown after a big win?
• 26:35
  Speaker 9: No, that's a real thing. Relief syndrome is real and
• 26:39
  Speaker 9: doesn't mean we're going to win this week and they're
• 26:41
  Speaker 9: going to lose, but that is a real thing. That's
• 26:43
  Speaker 9: a real challenge. And Especially now, I say all the time,
• 26:48
  Speaker 9: I think it's a harder challenge now because of all
• 26:50
  Speaker 9: the access on their phones of people and media and
• 26:54
  Speaker 9: all the stuff they see in social media. You start
• 26:58
  Speaker 9: to be told how great you are when you have
• 27:00
  Speaker 9: those ones. I was rooting for them at the end
• 27:02
  Speaker 9: of the game to win when we were playing the
• 27:03
  Speaker 9: next week just because that makes it more challenging.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: So he was rooting for Auburn against his friend Kirby
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: at the end. But he's got a point. No, that
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: makes sense. I mean, it really does. And it's as
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: unpredictable as everything is right now in college football. Some
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: of these things are somewhat predictable. And I think they're
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: in a better spot with Auburn coming off the win.
• 27:24
  Speaker 8: I really do.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: And I'm not, I can't say what I'm about to say.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: And it sounds anything other than I'm trying to diminish
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: Auburn's win at Georgia. But please hear me. I'm not
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: doing that. But guys, you watched the game. Georgia got
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: up 14 to nothing and something changed there. Now, Auburn changed, right?
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: Auburn definitely changed. They played better when it was 14-0.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: But I think if you're stepping back and being realistic,
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: you've got to say something changed with Georgia too, didn't it?
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: Like you moved to number one. You get the biggest
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: win in the nation. You go up 14-0 on Auburn.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: The human nature in you, which is we hear this
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: all the time from Nick Saban, and I'm sure you
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: hear it from Kirby as well and other coaches. The
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: human nature in you is to say, All right, we're
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: up 14-0. Boy, we got this one, too, man. Who
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: we got next week? Oh, we got a bye next week.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Don't we? Then we play Florida in the cocktail party.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: Cocktail party. Yeah, yeah. Man, all right.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: We got a bye coming up. I get a little rest.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: Maybe go see my girl. You know, I mean, that's
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: just human nature.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: Well, and it's almost like you saw two ships passing
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: in the night at 2.30 this past weekend when Auburn
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: got a little momentum.
• 28:21
  Speaker 10: Yep.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: And Georgia got fat and happy, and it just started
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: to go like this. And once Auburn started to believe, then,
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: you know, they get a little tight. They turn the
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: ball over. They end up turning it over three times.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: And when the margins are that small– If you let
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: the engine die, it is hard to get it cranked
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: back to the level you need to win a game
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: like that.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: You're talking relief syndrome in the middle of a game.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: You're not even talking after a big win.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: It's hard to explain otherwise, Jim. How does Georgia get
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: up 14-0? They're just controlling the game, and then both
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: switches flip at the same time.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: I also believe going into that game, much like us,
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: Georgia thought, hey, we go through the motions, we win
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: this game. We're not going to lose this game. There's
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: no doubt. And again, that's human nature. 14-0 did nothing
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: to water that down. Exactly. It only fueled the fire.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: And I do think LSU catches a break. I know
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: LSU fans probably disagree. Another 11 o'clock game. But Jordan
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: here at 11 o'clock is going to be much different
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: than if you got Jordan here at 6 o'clock.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: Boy, this is a juiced up fan base. It's going
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: to be as good at 11 o'clock as it possibly
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: could be.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: I believe that.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: But if that were a night game, that would be bonkers.
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: It would be bonkers right now because this is as
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: fired up as Auburn fans have been.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: In an extremely long time. Six years. And your path
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: to victory is exactly what happened last week. Byron Brown's
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: got to be a warrior again, and you've got to
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: force the turnovers. Sam Leavitt is the guy that will
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: turn it over. So if you're D.J. Durkin, this is
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: what we've got to do going into this game. Because LSU,
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: I know they're sitting at 5-2. We've kind of pushed
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: them to the back burner, and we're not considering them
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: really a playoff team. But the two losses, one possession
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: to Ole Miss, and one point in overtime to Kentucky.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: I mean... LSU is really, really close.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: You know what has also happened with Auburn, and I
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: don't know, Scott, if Alex Golish was asked about this.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: I know Scott watches all the press conference, but I
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: hope this does not become a storyline because it was
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: exhausting with both Hugh Freeze and Gus Malzahn. But, Scott,
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: I don't know if Golish was asked about this, but
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: a lot of people are speculating he took over play-calling.
• 30:16
  Speaker 11: I did not catch that.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: And I don't know. I don't know. Right. But, I mean,
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: a lot of people.
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: Joel Gordon, the Auburn offensive coordinator, was under fire from fans.
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: A lot of fans were upset with him. And there
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: has been speculation. And, again, this is fan speculation. I
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: want to be clear about that. That Alex Golish called
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: more plays or took over the play calling during the
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: Georgia game.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Here is Alex Golish talking about having to get his
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: guys back down now that they are showing up. And
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: all the bubble discussions as a playoff contender after knocking
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: off number one, really the best win, best resume win
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: in college football right now belongs to this guy.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: Good win, bad loss.
• 30:57
  Speaker 8: It has to be the same. And if I've learned
• 30:59
  Speaker 8: anything in this conference, like you are just good enough
• 31:03
  Speaker 8: to get your ass beat every Saturday if it ain't right.
• 31:06
  Speaker 8: Now they all got everybody telling them how good they are.
• 31:10
  Speaker 8: You know, and I still have 500 some unread texts
• 31:13
  Speaker 8: on Twitter one phone and God knows how many on
• 31:15
  Speaker 8: the other, like, like after the Florida game, I only
• 31:18
  Speaker 8: had like three and two of them said, I suck.
• 31:22
  Speaker 8: And one of them was my wife that said, man, like,
• 31:25
  Speaker 8: like maybe you don't suck as bad as everybody says,
• 31:27
  Speaker 8: but we suck.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 31:29
  Speaker 8: So like, so there's now 497 more people that just
• 31:33
  Speaker 8: said how good we are. Like somewhere in the middle
• 31:36
  Speaker 8: is probably the truth. I don't suck, but probably not
• 31:38
  Speaker 8: a genius either. Like somewhere in the middle, you know,
• 31:41
  Speaker 8: I can humble myself. Can we all humble ourself on that?
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: And there's the most difficult part about being a head coach.
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: And it's why Nick Saban is the best that's ever
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: done it. And even he couldn't do it all the time,
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: but he was the king of taking the team that
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: had just been up here and make them realize, if
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: you think being up here is the goal, you're going
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: to get beat. That was the first thing I ever
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: shared with you guys about doing the Saban show was
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: after the big wins, when it was a blowout, he
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: was in the pissiest mood afterwards, always angry. And in
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: the tough losses, he was in the kindest, nicest mood.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: Because it got their attention.
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, the good news for Auburn is that
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: you can show, hey, look, you might be getting all
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: this right now, but let's just go back this season
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: and let's look at these two losses. Yeah. You know,
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: how bad the defense was against Florida, how bad the
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: offense was against Tennessee.
• 32:30
  Speaker 10: That's right.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: You guys are far from perfect, and you have no
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: margin of error moving forward. That's right.
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: And if somehow Alex Gillish can't get this team back down– Um,
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: the LSU will beat them. I mean, LSU is the
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: favorite to beat him, even if he gets them down. So,
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: you know, this is not like you're playing an underdog
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: in LSU. You're, you're expected to lose this game. But
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: if you think you're, you know, you've arrived now, that's,
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: that's the difficult part about Alex Golis is all right.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: We won, we celebrated, we rolled tumors corner. Everybody's telling
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: us we hadn't felt this way in five years, six
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: years or whatever. But now you've got to bust them
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: back down and make them realize you're one week away
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: from sucking still.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: Best win in college football up until this point. But
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: I guarantee you none of the five of us will
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: have Auburn as our upset alert. Nobody's believing this team's
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: going to win back-to-back. I forgot they were even eligible.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: I don't think it's an amazing thing. Do you guys
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: feel like Auburn's going to win this game? I mean,
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: I know we did this last week. I think it's
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: in play. Oh, it's definitely in play. Almost anything's in
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: play now. But again, like, wow. I mean, if they
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: go from what we saw, how bad that offense was
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: against Tennessee, and look, Bama looked about the same. But
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: if you go from beating Georgia in Athens and then
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: beating LSU in back-to-back weeks from where they were, we
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: projected not even getting to a bowl game.
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: Well, and I know they survived without Xavier Atkins last week. Well,
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: he's permanently dismissed now. He's gone from the team now. And,
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: you know, I credit Alex Golish for doing this. This
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: was the best player on Auburn's roster, the best player
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: on Auburn's roster. And I credit Alex Golish, whatever happened
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: that caused him to get outside the team rules to
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: make a, make a point with the best player. And
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: this will benefit Alex Golish down the road. It may
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: not benefit him against LSU. You know, Atkins was a
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: starter for a reason and he was the best player
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: on the roster. So You know, Auburn's defense may take
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: a step backwards because of this, but this will benefit
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: Alex Gillish for years down the road. This is how
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: you instill your culture in a football team.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: Okay, so, by the way, even Forrester last week, Auburn guy,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: didn't believe they were going to win, right?
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: Oh, he didn't. It wasn't close. It wasn't just people.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: And I've noticed back-to-back rowback hoodie days.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so even Forrester last week, Auburn grad had no
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: faith in his team last week.
• 34:45
  Speaker 6: None.
• 34:45
  Speaker 12: None.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: Upset alert coming up in the next segment. But the
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: playoff bubble right now, Auburn's name now connected to the
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: bubble because they were just a two-loss team. In the SEC,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: according to Heather Denich, who is with the playoff committee,
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: she's embedded with them all the time, Georgia, Ole Miss, Kentucky, Tennessee,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: four SEC teams if the playoff started today in her opinion,
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: with Alabama, Texas, Florida, LSU, and now Auburn as bubble teams. Well,
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, no, she's got too early to tell Auburn, Missouri,
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: Mississippi State.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: But Auburn is a bubble team.
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: There are two lost teams, so you've got to do it.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think anybody's considering that. I don't think
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: anybody thinks both Tennessee and Kentucky are going to be
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: in this thing either. What's more amazing would be in today,
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: I mean, Georgia, Ole Miss, you can understand that before
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: the season. Kentucky, Tennessee would blow people away, and on
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: the wrong side of the bubble— All of them. Well,
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: Florida maybe not. Texas, Alabama, and LSU. That's right.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Other end teams, bubble teams, Miami in, Wake Forest on
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: the bubble.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: Surprising.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: BYU, Utah in, Texas Tech, Houston on the bubble. Ohio State, UCLA,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Indiana in, USC on the bubble. Notre Dame, Boise State
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: with JMU on the bubble. That's Heather Dinich there. I've
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: got some halfway point questions for you guys in the SEC.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Halfway point coach of the year right now because we're
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: at the midway point of the season. Coach of the
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: year in the SEC is?
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: Will Stein. You don't even have to think twice. Yeah,
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: it is Will Stein. No John Summerall. No. No, Will Stein. No,
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: Will Stein. You don't even have to think about it twice. Yeah,
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: I mean, again, Florida. I've seen Florida holding up crystal
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: trophies before. I've never seen anything with Kentucky.
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: This guy took over one of the worst programs in
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: the SEC and has them five and one through six weeks.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: And he's winning on the road.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: Biggest surprise so far.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: So it would be Kentucky. Will Stein, Kentucky. Yeah, probably Kentucky.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: I mean, well, on the other side of that, I
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: don't want to say Texas. Well, I'll tell you. I
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: got disappointment. Okay, well, I've got that one too. Well,
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think A & M might even be
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: more disappointing than Texas.
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: But you could also make an argument for Vandy. I mean,
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: how quickly Vandy went from periphery of the college football
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: playoff back to the worst team in the SEC is
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: pretty astounding.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: And you know what I continued to hear last year
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: without Pavi, and we thought it was maybe this great player,
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: but a lot of people were like, man, there's commitment now, NIL.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: Vanderbilt's not going to go away. Clark Lee's got this
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: thing steady.
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: They're right back where they were for 50 years. It's
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: pretty crazy how quickly they got back there, too.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: Who is the SEC's MVP here at the midway point? Man,
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: that's tough. You could have made an argument for Gunner
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: last week. You can now make an argument again for
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: Trinidad Chambliss. Jaden Baugh was there. I don't want to
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: keep going Kentucky, but Kenny Minchie's got to be mentioned.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, they've been so bad at quarterback over the years. Yeah,
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: Austin Simmons, you could have made an argument for him
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: last week. I don't know, man. Maybe Trinidad. Jaden Baugh
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: at one point was a conversation.
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: I mean, Colin Simmons is in the discussion now.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: He's hurt, obviously.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Out this week as Ole Miss and Texas play Simmons
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: as an ankle. That's a huge injury, by the way,
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: and that's two weeks they've lost, so it's kind of
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: hard to make an argument for Colin Simmons.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: Glad these awards aren't given out right now because that
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: would be really, really difficult. I would mean Trinidad, but
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's... Very, very close.
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: It just feels like, for whatever reason, I don't know
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: if it's the networks they've been on, that Ole Miss
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: has been playing way off the radar since that LSU game.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: Since the Florida loss, yeah. Nobody's even talked about the
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: dismantling of Missouri.
• 38:11
  Speaker 6: I know.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: I mean, that was the most impressive win. Well, no,
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: it wasn't.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: Well, remember, it was stuck in a window where Alabama
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: was losing and Auburn was beating number one Georgia.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: That's exactly what happened. And it was a 31-3 beatdown,
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: so you quit watching. And that's good news for Pete
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: Golden going into this Texas game because that would be
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: another thing. Everybody says, you guys are back, and you
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: guys are in a college football playoff. Now you've got
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: to go to Texas to take on this team. So
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: that was actually a great spot for Pete Gold.
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: Troy's probably got the best answer for MVP for me anyway.
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: He says Deshaun Bishop, Tennessee. I think that's probably where
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: I'd go.
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, maybe. Yeah.
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's a one-loss team, and their quarterback play's
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: been so bad they've had to change quarterback, and they're
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: still a one-loss team because they can run the ball
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: so well.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: Not a bad choice. Having a good couple of weeks.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: Not a bad guess there for Troy. I'd probably go
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: Trinidad right now, but I understand. Best game so far.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: Halfway through the season. Best game so far in the SEC.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: Involving an SEC team. Let me put it that way.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: You know, Ole Miss-Louisville so long ago. That was a
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: fun game. Ole Miss-LSU. I mean, I know it was
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: a lot of peaks and valleys. You know, up 17
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: and then coming back. Bama-Georgia was really tight throughout. Bama-Georgia
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: felt like it was a heavyweight boxing match. It really did.
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: And it was never any more than what 10-0 was
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: the biggest lead anybody had, right?
• 39:25
  Speaker 6: I mean.
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: Oklahoma, Texas was ugly, but fun to watch.
• 39:29
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: Make sense? Yeah.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: Not looking through orange and blue glasses, but that Auburn
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: comeback down 14-0 to beat number one.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: That was very entertaining. That was very entertaining.
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: Well, you just kept watching and thinking, okay, Georgia's about
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: to explode. Georgia's about to explode. And they just never did. But,
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: I mean, Oklahoma, Texas had so many messy games. Terrible plays,
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: but there was something fun about watching that.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: I don't know what it was.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: First half, Kentucky-Alabama was really fun up there.
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: Alabama was a mess. Yeah, but the atmosphere there at
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: Kroger was really interesting.
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: I mean, for the absurd college football nature of it,
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: NC State versus Vanderbilt, It was a close game all
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: the way through and just the absurd ending.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: Florida Ole Miss was fun at Gainesville. Ole Miss coming down,
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: and it was pretty much a beatdown, but there was
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: a lot of exciting plays.
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: But, yeah, that was a beatdown. It just got away
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: in the second half. Interesting.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: Midway point of the SEC. Upset alert when we come back.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: Jeff Collins coming up at 11.20 Eastern time. This is
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: the next round presented by Hard Rock Bet right here
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: on Sporting State.
• 40:29
  Speaker 13: This year, the biggest sportsbook party's getting even bigger.
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: Hey, there's J-Boy.
• 40:34
  Speaker 13: Whether you just getting here or you been here, you're
• 40:37
  Speaker 13: not leaving here empty-handed.
• 40:39
  Speaker 8: Hey, J.
• 40:40
  Speaker 11: Jimmy Johnson.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: Kevin, they know me?
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: Of course.
• 40:44
  Speaker 13: In this party, everybody's somebody. This season, Hard Rock Bet
• 40:48
  Speaker 13: has something for everyone.
• 40:49
  Speaker 5: Plus, new customers bet $ 5 and get up to $ 500
• 40:52
  Speaker 5: in no-sweat bets.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: Hey, that's Fat Joe. Forget him. That's J-Boy.
• 40:56
  Speaker 8: Hey, J-Boy.
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: My name's J-Boy.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: I got that. I got that.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: Back with you on the next round, presented by our
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: friends at Sport & State and Hard Rock Bet.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: Glad to be with you.
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: Show number 1,308 on this platform. And a lot of
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: those over the years have been our upset alert. We're
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: about to get to those right after LT tells you
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: about our friends at Clay Travis Law.
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: Accidents do not wait for a good time. One bad moment,
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: a wreck, a fall, a doctor who wasn't paying attention,
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: and suddenly you're fighting an insurance company that does this
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: every single day. That's why Clay started Clay Travis Law,
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: built a firm around one idea– People deserve someone willing
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: to pay attention, ask the hard questions, and push back
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: when things don't add up. Experienced trial attorneys who bring
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: the fight to corporations and insurers based in Nashville, trusted
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: across the country. They lead negotiations with honesty, determination, and
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: southern grit. Car and truck wrecks, ride-share accidents, medical malpractice,
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: premises liability, product liability. If you were wrong, they want
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: to hear about it. Here's what they promise. Honesty. They're
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: not going to sugarcoat your case. You're going to hear
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: what it's actually worth, not what you want to hear.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: Case evaluation is free. No charge, no pressure, no hassle.
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: Just tell them your story. Go to ClayTravisLaw.com. Call 877-222-4444.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: That's ClayTravisLaw.com. No case too big or too small. Upset
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: alert time.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: Forrester throws up the siren here where we give you
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: an upset alert. We have been really good as a
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: show the last two weeks. A week before last, we
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: all gave you some form of a winner, outright winners.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: This week, we go back-to-back for a couple of guys here.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: Let's see the rules.
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: This is the rules that we do.
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: Minimum spread plus 4.5, so you've got to be more
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: than a 4.5-point underdog to be eligible to be selected.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: You get five points for a cover. You get five
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: points plus the spread for the outright win. And we
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: had two outright winners last week from Lance Taylor and
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: Ryan Brown, which jumbles up the standings. And it puts
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: Brown on top and LT now with three outright winners
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: at number two. First of all, just LT as the
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: first runner up here. If Brown can't fulfill his duties
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: as the leader here.
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: You'll take over. Three outright winners now. That's pretty good. Yeah, again,
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: I'm still kicking myself. That Mindful Ohio catching 16.5, up
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: 28 on Cincinnati. This thing would be in a really
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: good spot for me. But I'll take the three straight
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: up winners. TCU played a hell of a game against
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: shaky Baylor last week. Baylor had a little momentum going
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: into that game, but I've got another outright winner this week. Oh,
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: so LT is believing.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: The Brown Bandit, when he gets in here, how's he feeling?
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: Well, he had Arkansas. I mean, who takes Arkansas on
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: the road? What an absurd pick that was, right? Arkansas
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: Last week was the worst team in the SEC going
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: on the road to a hostile environment like Vanderbilt?
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: I mean, who takes that? What an idiotic pick. But, man,
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: that's what the Brown Bandit does, Jim. He takes the
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: picks nobody else is thinking about. Nobody was thinking about
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: the pick he'll have this week. Not one person in here.
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: Not one person on this table had that same pick.
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: I promise you that.
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: Brooks, you have found your normal home down at the
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: bottom of the standings.
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: You're Vanderbilt. You're back to where you belong. Or some
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: people think. I mean, damn, Jim. Yeah. So you start
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: us off this week. Upset alert. Where are you going?
• 44:19
  Speaker 10: I will say I almost have more points to this
• 44:22
  Speaker 10: point in the year than I had the whole season
• 44:23
  Speaker 10: last year.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: Baby steps.
• 44:25
  Speaker 11: The basement is coming up a little bit here.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: I would tell you, you and I had the same
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: pick last week, and I knew it was a loser
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: as soon as we ended up on the same page.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: And I'm hating myself right now for not asking you
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: who you have because I feel like we're going to
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: be the same again.
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: Go ahead.
• 44:39
  Speaker 11: I'm going really off the radar here, so... I'm going
• 44:42
  Speaker 11: to go to the Mountain West.
• 44:43
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 44:45
  Speaker 11: I'm excited already. I've got an absolute just turd ball
• 44:48
  Speaker 11: of a game.
• 44:49
  Speaker 10: I've got 0-6 Northern Illinois hosting 1-6 Hawaii. 9-30 body
• 44:56
  Speaker 10: clock game for Hawaii traveling to Illinois. The Huskies are
• 45:01
  Speaker 10: catching at 4.5. So 9-30 a.m. body clock game for Hawaii.
• 45:06
  Speaker 10: Five-hour time zone difference.
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: That's tough. That sounds like a good place.
• 45:11
  Speaker 10: And it's going to be about 60 degrees at kickoff.
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 45:16
  Speaker 11: Kind of cold for Hawaii.
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: That's right.
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: Are you going to tune in for that one? Which
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: is 32 degrees.
• 45:19
  Speaker 11: It is on Mountain West Plus.
• 45:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: Wow. And shockingly, it's not on the sheet. Yeah. Jim,
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: you left that one off. Yeah. Sometimes you have to
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: go to the other side to get somebody. But it's
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: still not on there. It's still not on there. I
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: try not to give you MW Plus games. Occasionally they
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: make it. It is not on there.
• 45:36
  Speaker 11: Can you get that on Uzi?
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: I bet you can on the Uzi. All right. I
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: guess next up. I mean, if they were raising money
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: for my kid's school, I wouldn't go to that game.
• 45:46
  Speaker 11: You know what's crazy, though? So I'm looking at the ticket.
• 45:48
  Speaker 10: You know how they list the ticket prices on ESPN
• 45:50
  Speaker 10: and whatever beside games? $ 51 is the get-in price.
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: Are you kidding me? Wow. Yeah, I think it includes
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: parking and a meal for farmers.
• 46:00
  Speaker 11: If they were paying.
• 46:01
  Speaker 10: You that, you couldn't pay me $ 51.
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: Not $ 51, no. You get to call plays with that
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: $ 51 purchase. Scotty, there is a number, but it ain't $ 51.
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: I promise you that. All right, let's do your animation now, Forrester.
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: Are you in fourth place now? Is that where you are?
• 46:15
  Speaker 11: Uh, yeah, me and, uh, me and Brooks bring, bringing
• 46:18
  Speaker 11: up the, uh, the rear there.
• 46:20
  Speaker 10: It's okay.
• 46:20
  Speaker 11: We're on top of the pick three.
• 46:22
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 46:22
  Speaker 11: Back rooms in the front, in the pick three and
• 46:24
  Speaker 11: in the basement.
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: This isn't Friday though. I'm checking my calendar. Is this Friday? No,
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: it's Tuesday. Save that. Save that smack talk for Friday.
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: What do you got this week for us, sir?
• 46:33
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 46:35
  Speaker 7: Just like Lance said, nobody. Nobody's picking Auburn this week.
• 46:41
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: We're going to Jordan Harris.
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: Look out.
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: Look at him. Man, what a difference one game made.
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: Alex Golich is going to throw a boiling hot bowl
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: of borscht at A.I.
• 46:51
  Speaker 7: Lane Kiffin.
• 46:52
  Speaker 4: Borscht?
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: Borscht.
• 46:55
  Speaker 11: Oh, he's got on our shirt. Gus is going to celebrate.
• 46:58
  Speaker 4: At Waffle House.
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: Gus at Waffle House.
• 47:01
  Speaker 7: Matt Moscona is going to cry into his hash browns.
• 47:05
  Speaker 7: Give me Auburn plus seven and a half.
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: Oh, you know who's going to love this is Moscona. Oh, man.
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: I watched another documentary on the robot last night. Watch
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: the Aubie tell.
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: Oh, no.
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: Oh, no. Don't do it, Aubie. Don't do it, Aubie.
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: Don't slap him, Aubie. Don't do it, Aubie. This AI
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: is getting too much. This is fantastic. One of your
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: best works, Scott. Gus and Christy. I saw Gus with
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: that tweet.
• 47:29
  Speaker 4: What's going on?
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: So, Forrester, is the entire Auburn family, are they jumping
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: on board now like you? Yeah, is this a popular pick,
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: you think?
• 47:38
  Speaker 11: I doubt it.
• 47:39
  Speaker 7: I'm not even sure how much I believe in it. But,
• 47:42
  Speaker 7: you know, if it happens, I want to. I want
• 47:45
  Speaker 7: a piece of it.
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay. He was going to get kicked out of
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: the family. Remember last week, no chance.
• 47:51
  Speaker 11: I had no belief, no faith at all.
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: So he had to believe this week or he was
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: going to get kicked out of the family. He wouldn't
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: be allowed back on campus to take his degree.
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: You got to believe.
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: Forster, do you guys know, is next week when we
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: get our first college football playoff ranking?
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: Two weeks. Two weeks?
• 48:07
  Speaker 11: First week in November.
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: First week in November.
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: My pick is a team that, surely they eventually are
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: going to start melting under the pressure. They've lost their
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: starting quarterback now for the season with a knee injury.
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: They're playing a guy from Cal Poly at quarterback. Eventually
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: somebody will stop the run game. So I'm going to
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: go Michigan State, who's done okay against the number, against
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: the spread. UCLA has covered every game.
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: But has Michigan State lost five straight now, right?
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: They are on a five-game losing skid. And they dropped
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: a close one to Northwestern, 24-21, which I think Northwestern
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: plays a lot of similar football to UCLA. And they
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: got a freshman quarterback that's playing better, Alessio. I want
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: him to try Milo Vickich.
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: So give me Michigan State in the Rose Bowl, pulling
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: the upset. I'll take the 13 and a half. But
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: I feel like it's going to be an outright win.
• 49:03
  Speaker 4: UCLA.
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: They're going to lose at some point. Runs in the wall.
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: Michigan State's defense gives up 140 yards a game rushing.
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: If you can just ever catch Wayne Knight.
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: Is that his name? Wayne Knight on a bad night. Well,
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: he had a bad night last week. Yeah. Just catch
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: him down a little bit. Force this.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: Into a low scoring game 13 and a half so
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: a lot of points for the way ucla hasn't been
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: scored yeah i.
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: Mean i would lean michigan state plus points here an
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: outright win would be difficult but you're just looking for
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: a cover here right something to get me right uh
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: this is the team that i had after the first
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: week being the rep for the group six North Dakota State,
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: the Bison. They are going out west. I guess they're
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: already out west, but they're going to Albuquerque to take
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: on New Mexico. They're catching four and a half. I
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: just got this on the borderline of the number. Nine
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: o'clock CW game. This is a really, really good group
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: six game, unlike Brooks' back there. Honestly, I did not
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: draw the Bison the last couple of weeks. I don't know.
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: My artistic skill has fallen apart, but I had a
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: pinch hitter. Our man Bo, the president. It's pretty good
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: the president can draw something like this, right? So there
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: we go. I got the Bison.
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: This is actually a highlighted game on our TV sheet.
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: I think it's that good of a game. And really
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: with sneaky playoff implications if something happened to Boise State.
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: Well, Boise and James Madison, those are the two you're
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: looking at right now. And, you know, unfortunately for all
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: of these other teams that are much better than JMU probably,
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: JMU's not going to lose.
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: But I really do believe the playoff committee– will not
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: put them back in because of strength of schedule.
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: But you've got to put somebody in from the group
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: of six.
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: I think they will go with a Mountain West Pac-12
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: American team.
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: It would make more sense.
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: That has played a more difficult schedule. But I like
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: that game. I'll be watching. Can't wait to watch that one.
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: North Dakota State, New Mexico. And I was surprised a
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: little bit that New Mexico was four and a half.
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: That seemed closer to a one and a half game
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: to me. And New Mexico didn't play great on the island.
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: This past weekend.
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: All right, that gets us to the Brown Bandit. Welcome
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: in after your winter, man.
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, rest in peace, Green Marker. Get out in front
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: of this one. Ironically, because you blew the load out
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: of all the other Green Markers, I had to go
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: to the closet to get a new Green Marker.
• 51:19
  Speaker 10: We've got a lot of blow the load statements on
• 51:22
  Speaker 10: the show this week.
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no. It's only Tuesday, too. Mine was
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: empty the load yesterday. Correct. Which is what you do.
• 51:28
  Speaker 11: All over Alex Golish. On Alex Golish is what you
• 51:31
  Speaker 11: said following that.
• 51:32
  Speaker 4: That's true.
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: I was watching. That's what you do when you unload
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: your truck. I don't know what you guys are thinking about,
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: but if you are a trucker in America, you occasionally
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: empty your load at somebody's house. Okay.
• 51:44
  Speaker 7: Like they said, it's only Tuesday.
• 51:46
  Speaker 11: We got to reload, guys.
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: How are you boys doing? Doing great. Good. How are
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: the pancakes? You know what? Ironically, I never got a pancake.
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: You didn't go to Flapjack's Pancake House? I walked past
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: them all. You went to Gatlinburg and had zero pancakes?
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: What a loser. Did you take a shot? Uh, maybe
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: a couple. I think I had pancake-flavored shots. Yeah, I
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: would imagine. Shot of maple syrup? Yeah, shot of maple syrup.
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: Did you see a fat woman with a tattoo? I
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: saw plenty of fat women. The average BMI in the
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: city of Gatlinburg is 53.
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's lines at every pancake restaurant.
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: Is that good? 53, is that good? Depending on what
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: you're looking for. If you're looking to break a seesaw
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: in half, yes. I'm at the top of the standings again,
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: my rightful home here on the Upset Alert. This is
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: where the Brown Bandit lives.
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: It's where you stay on the clock. Yeah, you know,
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: I went in to a bank was asking for a
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: loan from me. First American called you up. Yeah, they said,
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: where do we send the paperwork? I said, send it
• 52:47
  Speaker 3: to my address, the top of the Upset Alert standings.
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: That's my address. That's where I live this time of year.
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: We're going to go to the Big Ten this week, boys.
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: Big Ten, Big Ten. One team we never talk about
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: in the Big Ten. I do not like their coach.
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: But I like the way they play. They're playing a
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: team we've talked too much about in the Big Ten.
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: That's the Iowa Hawkeyes. Yuck.
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: The only thing worse than the Iowa Hawkeyes style of
• 53:10
  Speaker 3: play is that game Brooks just picked. Boy, you put
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: Iowa in that game, Brooks, and it would be absolutely unwatchable.
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: They're going to get their boat rowed because they're playing
• 53:20
  Speaker 3: Goldie the Gopher.
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: They're playing Buckeyes. That's what I was going to say.
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: We should let the legal team at Buckeyes know this
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: is not a resemblance to Buckeyes at all. This is
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: a Gopher.
• 53:29
  Speaker 11: Are they sensitive about that kind of thing?
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, cease and desist, a thousand percent. It's already on
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: the way. This is a gopher, not a beaver.
• 53:36
  Speaker 3: As Lance said, there's a new Buc-ee's right off the
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: exit of I-40 when you're going to Gatlinburg. And as
• 53:42
  Speaker 3: Lance said, isn't Gatlinburg just one big Buc-ee's? You could
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: just save your time and go to Buc-ee's, right? That's
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: not even a novelty anymore.
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: I mean, you can get, you know, horse teeth and
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: scorpion magnets and all kinds of stuff all over the
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: city in the saltwater taffy. So what is Buc-ee's good for?
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: Buc-ee's only has beaver stuff, though. What if I wanted
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: like a black bear themed thing? Got to go to Gatlinburg.
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: I forgot to send Scott that video. We met some
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: black bears. I need to send that video.
• 54:09
  Speaker 8: Oh, yeah.
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: I forgot to send that. There were black bears.
• 54:12
  Speaker 3: When I'm back out of character, I'll explain the whole thing.
• 54:16
  Speaker 3: I don't want people to think I'm Ryan Brown by
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: any stretch of the imagination. Goldie the gopher plus the
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: seven and a half as they take on. They're going
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: to row that boat on the Iowa Hawkeyes there in
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: the Twin Cities.
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: Seven and a half points. That's a touchdown and a
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: half a point right there. I don't know why I'm
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: going President Trump all of a sudden. Do gophers have
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: beaver teeth? Goldie does. If you'll go look at the logo,
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: this is about as good as you're going to do.
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: He's got some buck teeth. He does. Very large teeth.
• 54:44
  Speaker 11: I hope they have gopher teeth, Jim.
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: I think a gopher is a beaver with less jokes
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: made about him. No, it's almost like a beaver and
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: a guinea pig had a kid. Yeah.
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: Or is a beaver like the gopher's version of the
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: Navy that they take to the water? They do their
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: fighting on the water. I don't guess the gopher goes
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: in the water, right? So the gopher's the Army and
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: the beaver's the Navy?
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: That's what I figure, and the squirrel is the Air Force. Yes,
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: who's the Marines?
• 55:14
  Speaker 11: What makes him golden, though, is what I want to know.
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: That's a great question. I don't know. Do you think
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: the Minnesota accent could be the worst accent? Minnesota?
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: That's a pretty good drawing. If you'll open what Tyler's
• 55:25
  Speaker 3: got right there, you guys will see it. Damn, that
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: one looks like bullet. That one gopher needs to eat
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: a mill. He is a little skinny.
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: What year was that? Depression. Yeah, it has to be.
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: The 1920s. Definitely the 20s. Where did we have a
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: famine in Minnesota? That's our upset alert today.
• 55:41
  Speaker 4: Wait a minute. Tyler, seven and a half points.
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: We don't need them. We don't need them. Another outright winner. Sorry,
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: forgot about that part. Minnesota. Minnesota.
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: The Bison of North Dakota State. Michigan State. Then on
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: the back row, Northern Illinois.
• 55:58
  Speaker 4: All Yankees.
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: And then there's defending the South, the Auburn Tigers. And
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: Scott Forrester.
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: No landmines. Scott picked him. He's a graduate.
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: When we come back, Kalen DeBoer backing his offensive coordinator,
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: Ryan Grubb. But from the news conference in Tuscaloosa yesterday,
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: Alabama's defensive coordinator having to answer the question about Tennessee saying, quote,
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: they knew Bama was going to play soft coverage the
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: whole game.
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: They knew it. What did Kane Womack say about that?
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: We tell you next on the next round.
• 56:33
  Speaker 14: You're sitting in my seat.
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: Hey, Jimmy, we gave you a seat to my new buddy.
• 56:37
  Speaker 4: What's your name?
• 56:38
  Speaker 12: Bill.
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: My new buddy, Bill.
• 56:39
  Speaker 11: Bill here bet $ 5 to him.
• 56:41
  Speaker 7: And won $ 3, 300 on hard luck bet.
• 56:43
  Speaker 11: It's Bill's seat now, Jimmy.
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: Maybe I'll come back later. If you do, bring a water, Jim.
• 56:52
  Speaker 4: And a hot dog.
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: You want a hot dog? Yeah, I'll take a hot dog.
• 56:54
  Speaker 4: Bill wants a hot dog.
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: Hot dog for Bill. Millions of winners and counting. Don't
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: forget to relish.
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: Back with you on the next round, presented by our
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: friends at Hard Rock Bet, as you saw there, here
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: on Sporting State. We will get to Jeff Collins coming
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: up here in our next segment to talk some X's
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: and O's about what he saw in college football. this
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: past weekend. By the way, yesterday, Arch is still the
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: starter at Texas, as Steve Sarkeesian made that known. As
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: we mentioned in our upset alert, Nico Amelieva is now
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: out for the season. Knee surgery there for that one
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: for UCLA. We mentioned earlier, Colin Simmons will not play
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: in the Ole Miss-Texas game. He is out at least
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: this week with an ankle injury. In Florida State, unfortunately
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: lost their big running back in chroma um he is
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: done for the rest of the season and that tough
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: loss uh to miami.
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: Am i seeing this wrong if you combine what's going
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: on in college football in the nfl it seems like
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: we have more season ending injuries this year i mean
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: it is early for all of these.
• 57:59
  Speaker 3: It feels like targeting and concussions are down maybe i'm
• 58:03
  Speaker 3: wrong about that i don't know if you guys feel
• 58:05
  Speaker 3: the same now i say this is dante moore still
• 58:07
  Speaker 3: has not returned for oregon so Obviously, he's dealing with
• 58:11
  Speaker 3: a really bad situation, but I think overall, targetings and
• 58:15
  Speaker 3: concussions seem down, but other injuries seem up. I'm with you,
• 58:18
  Speaker 3: and it feels like we've got a spate of season-ending
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: injuries over the last couple of weeks.
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: We'll continue to talk about the race towards the playoffs
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: and Alabama, where they are now, because they are a
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: little bit of an enigma where they are. going into
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: a tough stretch with Texas A & M and LSU
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: coming off of back-to-back losses. That, after I remind you,
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: the show brought to you by our friends at Hard
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: Rock Bet, Florida's only legal sports book, therefore the most
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: trustworthy option in the market. So it's available in Florida,
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: but it's also available in Tennessee if you're watching or
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: listening to us there. Also around the country in Virginia, Ohio,
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: New Jersey, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Colorado, and Arizona. Hard Rock
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: Bet has new features. They've updated their app and they
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: got promos like the new customer promo right there where
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: you bet five dollars you get up to five hundred
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: dollars in no sweat bets just go to hard rock
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: dot bet backslash clay hard rock dot bet backslash clay
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: download that now and enjoy all the fun football continues
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: tonight with three more college football games right there at
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: hardrock.bet backslash clay. Coming out of the Alabama loss at Tennessee,
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: a lot of discussion about Ryan Grubb as a play caller.
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: Kaitlin DeBoer defending him and backing him up yesterday on
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: the show. Kane Womack's defense, though, who really kept Alabama
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: in the game early when the offense was going nowhere,
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: holding Tennessee to three field goals.
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: It could have easily been 21-0. Instead, it was 9-0.
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: But Kane Womack gets asked yesterday about Tennessee's quarterback, George McIntyre,
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: saying that Tennessee knew that Alabama was going to play
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: soft coverage all day long.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 7: How do you respond when Tennessee's quarterback said they knew
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 7: you were going to play some soft coverage and then
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 7: they have so much success in that short to medium
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 7: portion of the field?
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: Well, I think.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 12: I think when you look at the things that you're doing,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 12: we played a good bit of man against them and
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 12: it was effective for us. You know, certainly we are
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 12: a zone structure team and a number of base downs.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 12: So I think that's probably an obvious statement for any
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 12: quarterback to make. But ultimately, right, you just got to
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 12: go execute, whether it's zone, whether it's man, we've got
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 12: to continue to mix those things up and execute at
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 12: a high level. So I've always got to find, you know,
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 12: I try to look at myself first. What are the
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 12: things that I can do to put our guys in
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 12: a better position? And then what are the things that
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 12: we didn't do a good enough job from an execution standpoint?
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: That's Kane Womack yesterday on the, quote-unquote, soft coverage on
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: the edge there throughout that contest.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, I mean, you look at George McIntyre.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: He didn't blow you away, didn't wow you with the numbers,
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: 197 passing yards. The problem was they got gashed on
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: the ground, the Sean Bishops. Massive game.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 3: Well, and I'm not a defensive guy or coach by
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 3: any stretch of the imagination, but it's almost like you
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: were allowing the short pass and also allowing the run.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 3: I know that's not what they were trying to do,
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 3: but when you look at the way the game played out,
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 3: it's like we're going to let them dink and dunk
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 3: and run the football. We're not going to get beat deep.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 3: That's one thing we're not going to do. You're not
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 3: going to beat us deep, which they never did. To
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 3: their credit, Tennessee never beat them deep.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: But were they going to be able to anyway, you know? Yeah,
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's what I'm saying is like, You would
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 3: like to think one of the two gets taken away.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 3: The short pass for a quarterback basically making his first
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 3: real start. He had started at Arkansas, but his first
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 3: real start. Or the run game, one of the two,
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 3: and they allowed both.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: I was going to, it just felt like it was
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: a day where Alabama almost needed the defense to jumpstart them.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: They needed a game-changing, game-flipping play that would have, I mean,
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: it happened at Kentucky.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, you've got a team that's got four
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: pick sixes this year.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: They needed, not necessarily all the way to the house,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: but they needed something to get Tennessee off script, something
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: to sort of change the momentum of that game, and
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: it just never happened. And I guess the fan perception
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: is the scheme was not designed. They were not being
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: as aggressive as they were even against Georgia. to try
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: to force the issue.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: But, I mean, the fact of the matter is the
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: defense did a pretty good job holding them to 12
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: in the first half. Now, the second half was much different,
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 2: and you guys brought up the fact when I talked
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: about the 15-play, nine-and-a-half-minute drive. Backbreaker. You know, they were
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: gassed at that point. They had to be, yeah. But,
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: you know, the offense lost Alabama this game.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: Speaking of which, here's Ryan Grubb, cut to, getting asked about. Now,
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: yesterday we had him and Kalen DeBoer talking. about, you know,
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: the play calling and Kalen supporting him as a play caller.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: Here's Grubb now on Keelan Russell and what he has
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: to do moving forward to make sure the quarterback's in
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: a good situation.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 15: You know, especially for Key, you know, my first thing
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 15: was like, okay, how do I get this guy to
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 15: play faster, you know, deal better with some of these
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 15: pressure situations? Because he's a great player. I think, I mean,
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 15: I'll say it, I'll go on record. I think Keelan
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 15: Russell's the best quarterback in America, period. And I know
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 15: that's not what showed up on Saturday. And again, I
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 15: can only take accountability for myself and getting Keelan in
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 15: a better spot because I know he is that kind
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 15: of player. So going back to the game plan, what's
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 15: easy for Keelan? And it's not that Keelan is incapable
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 15: of handling tough things or difficult concepts and things like that.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 15: It's just in those type of environments in the first
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 15: time against.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 14: A really good defense, you got you got to make
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 14: it as clean as possible and so going back I
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 14: think everything would go back to is this clean enough
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 14: for the guys and so clearly it wasn't we just
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 14: got better answers two weeks in a row you know
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 14: with no points in the second half's pathetic you know
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 14: and and so for us it just starts with me
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 14: and the staff and especially me and just finding ways
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 14: to get guys in better positions.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: Better positions was the talking point from both coordinators yesterday
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: in Tuscaloosa.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: Got to put the guys in better position. I mean,
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: the last six quarters, they've scored 13 points. That's right.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: And I don't know where I am on Alabama right now.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: You know, a couple of weeks ago, we were coming
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: off the Georgia. A week ago, we were like, damn,
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 2: you know, this might be the second best team in
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: college football. But after watching this back-to-back, and I know
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: Tennessee's got a really good defense, I don't know. How
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: do you guys feel about Alabama moving forward? Well, that's funny.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: This gets us to a segment I want to call
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: true or false. And my first question was, Alabama is
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: a college football playoff team.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: True or false? I mean, I'll go true right now
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: because they've got the benefit of the easiest schedule for
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: all of the remaining contenders moving forward. I mean, the
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: only game they're going to be an underdog at is
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 2: at LSU. So they're going to be favored in four
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: of their next five. They're going to be a short
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: dog in Baton Rouge. So, you know, they win that
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: game they're in. I don't know how good they are, though.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 3: As bad as Kalen DeBoer has been against Tennessee, he's
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 3: been that good against LSU for whatever that's worth. It's
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 3: a different LSU coach now. He's not had to coach
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 3: against Kiffin. But for whatever it's worth, he has been
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 3: really good against LSU, and Alabama historically has been good there.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 3: So that's a benefit, and it's coming off a bye,
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 3: so that will help. I would say right now I'm
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 3: not going to pull the chute. I will say true
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 3: Alabama makes the playoffs.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll stay with it. I don't feel as good
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: about it after Saturday's performance. Let me say, though, Jim,
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: if they lose again, I'm going to be full. I'm
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: going to go false.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: It just seems like that's a long way to go
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: the second half of the season without dropping another one
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: with the questions they've had on offense.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: What game scares you, though, outside of LSU?
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, a little bit this week because you've
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: lost two in a row. And Texas A & M
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: had a virtual bye last week.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: Who did they play? Charlotte? They played Charlotte.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, to get the right game that could get their
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: offense into a little rhythm. But really, the trip to LSU.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: And now, you know, if Auburn was at Jordan-Hare, that
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: would be tremendously scary. But there are things Auburn does
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: that could be a little scary.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: With that said, true or false? False. We end up
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: with five SEC teams, nine and three at the end.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 4: Of the year.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: I'm going to go true. I mean, right now you've
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, eight
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 2: with two losses. That's right. Yeah.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: I'll say true.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know who they're going to be.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 3: I can't sit here and count and make sure the
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 3: math works, but yeah, if you had five, nine and
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 3: three teams, that wouldn't blow me away.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 2: And the SEC is the only conference right now that
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: does not have an undefeated. That's right. That's right. Um,
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 2: UCLA is the unbeaten team in the Big Ten. Very,
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: very strange. Because people were going to say, wait, the
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: Big Ten. UCLA is unbeaten there. The Big 12 gets
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: at least two bids. True or false? That's true. The
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: perception of the Big 12 has completely changed. You know, interesting,
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 2: back to the bubble talk with Heather Denich. I saw
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 2: that Texas Tech's on the wrong side of the bubble
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: right now. They had BYU and Utah in. Now, obviously,
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: they've got to play in the Holy War next week
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: or in two weeks, but Yeah, I think they get
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: two in for sure.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 3: It's going to be wild, though, if they get two
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 3: in and one of them is not Texas Tech, which
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 3: is entirely possible.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: Right. Yeah. Again, that's when we might– I don't know
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: the relationship between Cody Campbell and Joey McGuire. Boy. was
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: anybody close to picking Houston in their upset alert? I
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: thought about it. I actually thought that's where Lance was
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: going to go. Yeah, the reason I didn't, I mean, look,
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: Utah has played no one. They played the 115th weakest
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: schedule right now in college football. You know, they have
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 2: not beaten a team with a winning record yet. I
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: think Utah was good, but I still want to watch
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: a little bit more of that, especially against Houston. And
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: Houston coming off one of these big wins against Oklahoma State.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: So it's one of those that the number's probably right.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: I think it maybe should be a little shorter, but
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: I stayed away.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and Utah's at home, and that's a great home-field advantage.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: That'll be an interesting game coming up this week, and
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: that's the 9-15 ESPN game, so a good late-night slate
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: there for that one, Houston and Utah. True or false,
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: Bob Chesney is your national coach of the year when
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: it's all said and done.
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: True.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 3: I mean, I think they can make the playoffs, and
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 3: if he takes UCLA from A job it seemed like
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 3: nobody wanted to the playoffs.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: In one year.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 3: I don't know how you deny him national coach of
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 3: the year. Unless Will Stein also gets Kentucky in the playoffs.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 3: And then I don't know who you vote for.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: Well, unless Kalani Sataki goes undefeated in the regular season
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 2: and wins the Big 12. You know, that might be
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: a career achievement award for Kalani Sataki. Like, Bob Chesney,
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: you've got plenty of time to do this. I agree. Like,
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: the path of difficulty, the degree of difficulty is much
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: more UCLA oriented. and I do think the more you
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: look at this wow I mean I don't know how
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 2: I mean they do have a backup quarterback they've got
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: to find two losses they got to find two losses
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: but it is a backup quarterback Diefenbach wasn't bad I
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: mean technically they got to find three yeah you're right
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 2: I mean they really do It's crazy. I mean, you've
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 2: got them possibly losing this weekend. I don't see that.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: But at Minnesota, at Michigan, USC, those are all potential losses.
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 3: But keep in mind now, they could be hard. I
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 3: don't know how the tiebreakers are going to work. Could
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 3: be a two-loss Big Ten championship game team, which puts
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 3: them in no matter what.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: But if you were ranking that, Chesney, Satake... Stein, that
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: would be your betting favorite right now, or Sataki Chesney?
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: I think it's going to be Sataki just because he's
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: been doing it for so long. And I think you'll
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 2: get more and more buzz. National writers and different podcasts
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: are going to be talking about, man, Sataki's been doing
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: this behind the scenes. Nobody's giving him credit. He's finally,
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: you know, people are talking about this team. So I
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: think it would be Sataki right now, but it would
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: be close with the other two.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: Notre Dame loses two games. but still in the college
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: football playoffs.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 2: True or false? False. I would go true. I don't
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: think they're going to lose two games, but even if
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: they lose two games, they are in the college football
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: playoff based on what happened last year. I would agree.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: That resume.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 3: SMU is going to be, and I don't know if
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 3: they'll be ranked at the end of the year.
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: That'd be your only remotely ranked win. Such a bad resume.
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: This sounds nuts. I mean, I guess North Carolina's got
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: a chance of being ranked. They do. They do. But
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: I guess Wisconsin couldn't find their way in, could they?
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 2: I don't think so.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: Bryce Underwood is a starting quarterback somewhere else in 2027.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: True or false?
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 2: True, but I don't think it'll be power four. I
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: think he'll go the Jackson-Arnold route. True. I wonder if
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: his ego can handle that. I just don't know if
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: it can. I don't know what the– I mean, somebody
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 2: will take a flyer on him. I mean, he was
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: the highest rated guy coming out. He hadn't played like it, obviously,
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 2: but there's going to be an offensive coordinator out there
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 2: that's like, I see how raw this guy is. I
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: can bring him in. I can make him an elite player.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: True is the answer. I'm going to disagree with that.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 2: I'm going to say he will be a power four.
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 2: I don't know where the fit is.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 3: It would be funny, though, if it was like Tua
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 3: in the NFL. Well, we've got him, but Michigan's paying
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 3: most of his salary. We're not having to pay to play.
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: That's the question, Brown. What was that contract? That $ 13
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: million contract, is that guaranteed no matter how long?
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: I'm going to guess yes. If you kick me off
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 2: the team and force me to go somewhere else, do
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: I still get my $ 13 million? I don't know. I'm
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 2: going to guess yes. And, you know, that was almost
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: the albatross for LSU. LSU tried, you know, that was
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: like number one a couple of years ago, and then
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: it was DeMond Williams, and now you've got Sam Leavitt.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: I don't even know if they got that right. Yeah,
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 2: is Sam Leavitt the best.
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 4: Of the three?
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: I guess at this point.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: And then Steve Sarkeesian. is not the coach at Texas
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: in 2027.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: True or false?
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 3: I'm going to go true here, Lance. I don't know
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 3: how it's going to go down, but I think they're
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 3: going to miss the playoffs. And I just don't know
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 3: coaching Arch Manning, missing the playoffs back-to-back years. I don't
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 3: know how he survives that.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: I can't remember what my bold predictions were, but I
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: believe one of mine was Sark was not back as coach.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 2: If they lose this weekend three consecutive losses and they're
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 2: basically already done before we get to the month of November,
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 2: then I think behind the scenes, that board of trustees
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 2: and all of the big money guys start chopping it up. Like,
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: what's this look like and who are we going to target?
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: That is what is more fascinating to me. Like, what
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: direction does Texas go? Is it Bob Chesney or Will Stein?
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 8: I don't know.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: Well, he got to leave Kentucky. I know it's his
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: alma mater. It'd be so hard to say no to Texas.
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 2: He would have to take it. I think Chessie would
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 2: be more in mix, though. What about Dan Lanning? Where's
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 2: his stock right now? I mean, is it to shine
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 2: off him a little bit? A little bit. Yeah, because,
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 2: I mean, the knock was big games before.
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 2: It's a bit unfair.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 3: He's playing without a starting quarterback, and they keep winning
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 3: very close, ugly game. Well, they didn't get to choose L.A.,
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 3: but they did against Nebraska. So I don't know that
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 3: he's being properly judged right now, but Shines.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: Off of them a little bit. Yeah, I think it
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 2: would be knee-jerk, but I think people are going to
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 2: be like, Bob Chesney's doing this at UCLA. Kurt Cignetti
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 2: did it at Indiana. There's something in the water at JMU.
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: There's your guarantee. That's interesting.
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: So mine was Texas misses the college football playoffs. Sark
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: bought out. College first-timers, Navy, BYU, USC.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: Wow. I got two of three. You might get one
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 2: of three. Come on, USC. It's not done yet. Purdue
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 2: goes winless in the Big Ten for third straight season.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 2: That's already done. Purdue's pretty good. No, but the Texas
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 2: misses and Sargbot out would be pretty bold.
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: Hey, do you have LTs and Browns since we're at
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: the halfway point? See if you can pull those up
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: while we do that. So those were some midway point
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: true or falses there.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 2: Jeff Collins.
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: Coming up on the other side, and we'll check in
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: on their bold predictions after that.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: This is the next.
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: Round presented by Sport & State and Hard Rock Bet.
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 2: Stay tuned.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 4: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: This is Coach's chair. We protect Coach's chair the way
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 2: Hard Rock Bet protects Coach's account.
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 5: Hard Rock Bet keeps Coach's info safe. Hard Rock Bet
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 5: keeps Coach's money safe.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 2: And we keep Coach safe. Hey, fellas. Coach.
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 5: Coach.
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 2: How about that protection? Can I grab a wing? Coach's wings.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 11: I guess I'll sit on the ground. That's where Coach
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 11: puts his feet.
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 2: Safe and secure betting from the very first tap. Great
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: to meet you, Coach. It was Coach's pleasure.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: Back with you on the next round presented by Hard
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: Rock Bet on Sporting State. By the way, as we
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: bring Jeff Collins in here in just a second, I'll
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: tell you that Xavier Atkins did send this out on
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: his social media platform. The dismissed Auburn linebacker said, I
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: have nothing but respect. for Auburn University and will continue
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: to support my teammates this season. My focus is on
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: my health, my family, and I'm finishing up the academic
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: semester strong, and I'll be entering the transfer portal at
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: the appropriate time.
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 2: He also is an NFL guy, too. It'll be interesting
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 2: to see what his NFL stock is. Yeah, I don't
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 2: know what that stock is, and maybe our next guest
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 2: can tell you, because he's undersized. He's built more like
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 2: a safety guy. You know, they list him at 6 feet,
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 2: 210 pounds. He might be 5'11, 200 pounds. Yeah. And
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: so he's just one of those tweens. Great college player.
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 2: And I think his best bet is to now, unfortunately,
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: he's put himself in a dilemma, a situation where you're
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: not going to be able to maximize what you could
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 2: get in an NIL based on the fact that he
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 2: got kicked off a team.
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: I think Mark Barron back in the day at Alabama
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: got caught in between positions, right, size-wise.
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 2: Was he? Was he a DB? Was he a linebacker?
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: Was he this? Was he that? He played some time
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 2: in the NFL. Yeah, played for the Rams.
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 3: I know a guy that coached him, I think. Jeff
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 3: Collins is with us now. Jeff Collins remembers Mark Barron.
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 4: What's up, Coach?
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: How you doing?
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 4: I'm doing great, man. I list myself as 6'2. My
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 4: wife on the daily reminds me that I'm 5'10.
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Boy, you and I have a lot in common.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: I'm the same way, man. I walk around with a
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: 6'1 attitude and a 5'10 body.
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 4: Same.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 3: When you're starting a program like Alex Gillespie is and
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 3: you're trying to instill your culture, it is hard to
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 3: suspend the best player on your roster and now dismiss him.
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 3: But sometimes you're one coach, you've got to do those
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 3: things to get attention, don't you? And to say, listen,
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 3: I've got some non-negotiables and I don't know what they are.
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 3: I've got some non-negotiables and I'm not going to budge
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 3: on those. I don't care how big a player you are.
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely. And I go back to, like, I'm binge-watching
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 4: the Saban documentary and I lived it firsthand in the building,
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 4: so I have residual trauma from that experience and some
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 4: great times too. But Coach Saban had to do that
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 4: when we first got there. So sometimes you've got to
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 4: make sure that regardless how much of a player you are,
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 4: if you're not upholding the rules and the guidelines and
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 4: the standard of the organization– The team is much bigger
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 4: than one person.
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 2: So let's go.
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 4: Sometimes you got to do it.
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 2: Let's go back, Jeff, to Tennessee, Alabama, this past weekend.
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: And we just heard from Kane Womack before we get
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 2: to the offensive side of things for Ryan Grubb. Kane
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 2: Womack's defense, you know, in the first half, they played
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 2: their asses off and then they tired out in the
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 2: second half. And, you know, George McIntyre kind of, you know,
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 2: picked him apart a little bit there. But the problem was,
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 2: back-to-back weeks, they have been gashed. Deshaun Bishop was fantastic.
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 2: You go back last week, Georgia, the week before, Georgia
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 2: was really good on the ground. Right now, where is
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: Alabama's defense?
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 4: Yes, and I spend a lot more time watching Tennessee's
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 4: defense and Alabama's offense. But I think the phenomenon, and
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 4: I've seen it this entire, my 30-year career, is a
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 4: lot of times that lift can become so heavy that
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 4: for a defense or an offense if your defense isn't
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 4: playing well, that you can sustain that for a half,
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 4: three quarters. But at some point, the psychological disposition of
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 4: carrying that weight of keeping the team in the game,
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 4: sometimes it gets too much. And it kind of looked
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 4: like that happened Saturday up in Knoxville.
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: So what was happening for Alabama's defense as you broke
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: it down? Because McElroy brought it up on the broadcast
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: for the fans who were watching multiple times. At some point,
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: they've got to walk up and press those receivers and
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: take away those easy throws for three or four yards
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: out in the flats.
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 2: What did you see? What were they trying to attack?
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: How did you break down that game?
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 4: The early part of the year, the first four or
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 4: five games, I thought Kane was doing a great job
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 4: playing very tight coverage. It reminded me of the way
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 4: Coach Saban and Kirby always coach defense, where everything was challenged,
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 4: everything was aggressive, everything was press. You would pass things
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 4: off in zones, but it was tight. tight coverage instead
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 4: of spot dropping and loose coverage. And maybe in the
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 4: second half, there were some times that that didn't happen
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 4: and they got hurt doing it.
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 3: It's so easy to say Alabama struggled offensively, but as
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 3: you mentioned, you watched the defensive side for Tennessee and
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 3: Jim Knowles. I mean, that defense just looked like they
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 3: knew every answer. They knew the answer to all the
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 3: test questions on Saturday.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 4: And it's crazy. Like I went into it. because I've
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 4: watched Coach Knoll's defense even from when he was at
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 4: Oklahoma State and the variance and multiplicity and all the
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 4: things that he's always done. But it looked like on Saturday,
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 4: I mean, for the most part, they were playing some
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 4: version of Tampa 2 60% to 70% of the time,
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 4: and they were just not letting Alabama run up the middle,
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 4: and they would just make everything spill to the outside
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 4: with their coach. They've got some great defensive tackles. Like
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 4: it reminded me of Fletcher Cox, Chris Jones, like dominant
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 4: defensive tackles can take over a game in this league.
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 4: And Jim Knowles defense has it. And they just played
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 4: too high and made everything go sideways. Keep everything in
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 4: front of them. And they just Alabama just couldn't breathe
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 4: at all and get anything going.
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 3: I will never forget Brock Huard, who comes on with
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 3: us on Tuesdays as well. one time was talking about
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 3: the Tampa 2, and this statement stuck with me. He's like,
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 3: first time I ever played the Tampa 2, I'm like, oh, man,
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 3: there are open receivers everywhere.
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 2: Everywhere.
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 3: It's completion on completion on completion. He said, get behind
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 3: the sticks on first down and then see what happens.
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 3: It was like, once you're behind the sticks against the
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 3: Tampa 2, it is a different story.
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 4: And that DeJuan Lane, number 10, that's a good player, too.
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 4: He's the one that makes that entire system work because
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 4: he has to– patrol the deep middle of the field,
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 4: but then they've got him being a primary run fitter
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 4: in the run game, and those two things are mutually exclusive.
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 4: But he plays it in a way that he can
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 4: defend the deep part of the field, but in the
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 4: run game, that kid's making tackles for loss. I did
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 4: a long segment breaking down the film, but then I
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 4: did one of those little shorts, whatever those are, and
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 4: little TikToks. And DeJuan Lane is three yards in the
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 4: backfield tackling a dude when he's the deep middle part
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 4: of the defense. It's crazy.
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 2: So go back a week ago, most of us thought
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 2: Georgia was the best team in college football. Then we
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 2: go back to Saturday, there are three touchdown favorite hosting
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 2: Auburn that look to be going nowhere. Auburn springs the upset.
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 2: So when you watch this game and you break it down,
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 2: moving forward, is there something you see about Georgia that
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 2: could be a big-time problem as far as going on
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 2: to accomplish the ultimate goal, which is winning a national championship?
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 2: And is there something on the other side for Auburn
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 2: where you're like, damn, this team has got this and
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 2: this and this, and they might be able to make
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 2: a little bit of a run.
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 4: Well, I just went on y'all boys' Conor Guerra, the
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 4: OG kickoff, and I talked about, and he thought it
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 4: was good, so I'll say it again with you guys,
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 4: is it reminds me of the SEC right now reminds
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 4: me of the old ACC Coastal, where everybody just eats
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 4: up on everybody, and if you're not mentally, physically, emotionally
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 4: prepared every single week, Any single team, like there's probably
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 4: three teams in the SEC that aren't in the category.
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 4: But if you're in one of those other whatever 14,
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 4: 15 teams, any of them can beat any of them
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 4: on any given Saturday. And, you know, I just don't
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 4: know that, you know, that game, college game day in Tuscaloosa.
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 4: I mean, that was a classic college football game of
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 4: two great teams. And then after that, the next week,
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 4: both of them, you know, laid eggs. It's tough, man,
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 4: to keep outcoaching that league at four different places. If
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 4: you aren't ready, every single part of you and your
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 4: team is clicking, you run a chance to get beat,
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 4: and that's exactly what happened.
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 1: Some of that chaos is being caused by some new coaches.
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: One of them is Will Stein, who's known... as a
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 1: great offensive mind, offensive play caller.
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 2: He's a pain. When you look at what he's trying
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 2: to do, how would you defend him? What does he
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 2: do so well offensively?
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 4: I said this earlier, but the first couple weeks, and
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 4: I'm going to kind of tell myself, I didn't really
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 4: pay attention to Kentucky. I just assumed it was just
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 4: going to be same old Kentucky, and they were winning
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 4: some games, whatever. Well, I did a full breakdown on
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 4: their offense today, against beating Oklahoma, which has a great defense.
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 4: They are a complete pain to deal with, with all
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 4: the formations, all the personnel groupings, all the unbalanced that
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 4: they do. One of the things when I was with
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 4: Coach Saban, the hardest thing is when you're playing pass coverage,
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 4: defending four guys to one side. Most past concepts, there's
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 4: three guys to one side, there's two to another. But
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 4: when you get four guys to one side, it makes
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 4: it very, very hard to defend. This Will Stein dude,
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 4: he gets five guys out to a side with unbalanced,
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 4: and it's just a complete pain and a terror. And
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 4: somebody needs to stop this dude. He's getting out of control.
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 2: So it's not fluky. No.
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 4: Physical, they've got really good players. I gave Jim McIlwain's son,
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 4: he's the director of player personnel, some love. He's done
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 4: a great job, and Will Stein obviously has too, with
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 4: the roster and building it very SEC style. They've got
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 4: players that Kentucky has never had before, but they're using
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 4: them within their system correctly. A lot of coaches can
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 4: get great players, but they don't use their talents to
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 4: the better good. Will Stein is doing that at a
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 4: very high level, and it's a pain. Jay Bateman's doing
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 4: a good job, too, the defense coordinator.
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 2: But, Coach, you can also see the drop-off with Oregon's offense.
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 14: 100%.
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 4: Yep. Same thing, you look at Buster Faulkner, the job
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 4: he's doing at the school that he's at and the
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 4: school that he left, not doing as well.
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 3: Uh coach collins show is where you find it on
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 3: youtube coach collins show um one of the videos you
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 3: dropped yesterday compares trinidad chambliss to a quarterback i've never
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 3: heard him compared to and it is a it is
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 3: a it is a high compliment but i've never heard
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 3: this comparison so the video is 30 minutes if you
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 3: want to go watch it now we highly recommend you
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 3: do that but you compare trinidad chambliss to who.
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 4: To johnny football that's a heck of a comparison And
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 4: that's how he was having to play last year in
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 4: Lane Kiffin and, you know, Charlie Weiss Jr. 's offense.
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 4: This year, the way John David Baker's calling it, he
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 4: is just sitting in the pocket and dicing people up.
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 4: But I think teams are overplaying the fact that he
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 4: is so mobile like Johnny Football. And they're overplaying it
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 4: and being conservative in their rushes. And he's just dicing
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 4: them up. It's crazy. Now, the other thing that's nuts
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 4: to me is like the Tennessee video I posted has
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 4: like 70,000 views. The Kentucky video has like 40-something thousand views.
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 4: The Ole Miss fan base needs to wake up because
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 4: that one only has got 10,000 views. challenge the Ole
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 4: Miss fans, like, let's stop drinking hotty toddies and let's
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 4: watch some ball.
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 3: Welcome to our world. You'll put one out and you're like,
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 3: this is a killer right here. And you're like, yeah,
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 3: it didn't do as well as I thought. And then
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 3: we'll talk about, you know, something completely meaningless and it
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 3: gets a billion views.
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 2: And you're like, I don't even know. I want to
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 2: ask you this.
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 1: You coach in a lot of places. Officiating is on
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 1: everyone's mind after another week of some interesting calls. Away
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: from the controversial call at the end of Miami, Florida State,
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: or BYU, Notre Dame, can you tell me that league
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 1: to league, did you find that officials, like I remember
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: Coach Saban one time, back in the day, had said,
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: I was in the room with him, that he felt
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: like the SEC officials let DBs and wide receivers play
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 1: a little bit more like they.
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 2: Do in the NFL. than other leagues did.
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: And when they got to the playoffs, they were concerned
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 1: about maybe having a Big Ten officiating crew or a
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 1: Pac-12 officiating crew. Did you find in your coaching years
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 1: that each league refereed things differently?
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 4: So I will temper this knowing that I could possibly
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 4: go back into coaching. So I've got to kind of
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 4: be a little bit politically correct on this one. But
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 4: I will say this. There was one great referee in
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 4: the ACC. He is now in the SEC. So there
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 4: is a difference and a discrepancy between the quality and
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 4: the judiciousness that they use to officiate things. One's a
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 4: big boy league and they let them play big boy football.
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 4: The other one, ticky tack, and they call a bunch
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 4: of ticky tack things.
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 9: Yep.
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 2: And I'd always believed that.
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: And I say it on the show, and I know
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 1: the SEC is not perfect, but when it comes to officiating,
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 1: compared to other leagues, they still are the gold standard
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 1: in college football, in my opinion. Do you sometimes see
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 1: that as well as a coach?
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 7: Absolutely.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 4: A million percent. I still remember in the eight, the American,
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 4: when I was the head coach at Temple, the American
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 4: used the ACC. They were kind of interchangeable. So I
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 4: had a bunch of years in that experience. But then
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 4: the SEC, I do feel like they let the guys
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 4: play more free and let them just, you know, go
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 4: play big boy football. And I still remember like one
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 4: of the big things you do on Sundays is when
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 4: you watch the tape and some games it's worse than others,
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 4: but there would be like eight to 10 game changing
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 4: calls that were, I could argue and I would send in.
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 4: And at the time I couldn't talk about them publicly,
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 4: but they'd be like, yeah, we got that wrong. Yeah,
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 4: that should. And I'm like, Those are game-changing plays. One
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 4: of them, I can live with. But when there's eight
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 4: that have a direct impact on the game, that's when
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 4: you're like, you know. And then there's no transparency. The
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 4: media doesn't know. They can have conjecture and show all
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 4: the videos and the one second, all those kind of things.
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 4: But there's no consequences or, you know, my bad, we
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 4: got it wrong.
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 2: Yep, you were right.
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 12: Yep.
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 4: That doesn't help in the win-loss record there, boys.
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 1: There's a good chance Mike Norvell probably got one of
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: those messages this week, right?
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 4: Yep. We missed it. We had it wrong. Well, you
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 4: know what? All that goes in the L column, whenever
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 4: they want to move on from you, that L counts
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 4: just as much as the other ones. There are no asterisks.
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 2: Somewhat good news for Texas. They've only got two losses,
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 2: so they do control their own destiny to get to
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 2: a college football playoff. But the bad news is they've
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 2: only played one good quarter of football that fourth quarter
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 2: against Ohio State. I mean, that's kind of fact when
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 2: you watch them week in, week out. They've got a
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 2: borderline elite defense, it looks like, but now they're taking
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 2: on an elite offense in Ole Miss. How does Texas
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 2: get the swagger back? I don't even know if they've
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 2: had the swagger all year, but we know they've got
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 2: a ton of talent. What is missing right now?
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 4: The thing that frustrates me when I watch them offensively
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 4: is I just don't see them playing loose and playing
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 4: with any kind of fun or joy, or they're just
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 4: always playing within themselves, and it's just frustrating to watch Like,
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 4: I mean, you know they're great players. You know, they're
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 4: all four and five stars and the best of the best. But,
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 4: you know, it's almost like, you know, kind of like
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 4: when we were little and we'd play on the playground
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 4: at recess and you would just go out there and
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 4: just play and cut it loose. And then now they're
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 4: in front of 100,000 people and they're playing tight. They're
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 4: playing conservative. It's just not, you know, it's kind of
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 4: not fun to watch. And then back to my point earlier,
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 4: when you have an elite defense– And an offense that's
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 4: not playing well, you have a mental calculator in your mind.
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 4: If we give up over 14, we've got no chance
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 4: to win this game. And that creates a lot of
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 4: pressure on the defensive guys. And then at some point,
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 4: it's going to fracture and implode. I hope it doesn't.
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 4: But it's just human nature that that kind of pressure
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 4: and stress to always have to be perfect and get
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 4: shutouts to have a chance to win the game is
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 4: a lot. I've lived it in the past, and I
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 4: know exactly when I see it.
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 3: At Coach Collins Show on YouTube is where you find
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 3: his work. Kentucky's offense is up right now. Texas Tech
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 3: linebacker U is up right now. You can go see that,
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 3: how they're actually scheming pick sixes, believe it or not.
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 1: And he is giving you pages of the Saban book
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 1: with the Saban documentary out.
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 2: He did.
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 1: Dude, the book behind him right there, he showed page
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 1: one of the process.
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 2: Trinidad Chambliss.
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 4: At 2 o'clock this morning, I was watching episode whatever
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 4: four when Nick was going through his treasure trove of binders.
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 4: These are the exact ones that he's going through in
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 4: the documentary. It kind of gave me chills watching him
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 4: relive those things. I'll do that in the offseason a
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 4: little bit more.
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 2: You were not there in 2011, were you? You had
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 2: moved on.
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 4: So I was always in there in spirit there, buddy.
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 2: I know you were.
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 4: I still remember I would get calls. I was the
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 4: defense coordinator at Mississippi State. So after I left Nick,
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 4: it would be three, four, eight times a year that
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 4: I would get a call, hey, would you tell this
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 4: guy how to do this, this, and this? And I
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 4: was the defense coordinator at Mississippi State and still having
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 4: to do that in 2011.
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 3: So the thing that jumped out at me from episode four,
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 3: and I hate to ruin it for those that haven't
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 3: watched it, but this is just a small part of it,
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 3: When Oklahoma State got upset by Iowa State and Coach
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 3: Saban's uncle that was always standing on the sidelines.
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 6: Sid.
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 4: Sid.
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 3: Uncle Sid told Scott Cochran, you should have seen Coach
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 3: last night. He was dancing in.
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 2: A chair after that upset. I'm like, Nick freaking Saban
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 2: was watching that game dancing in a chair.
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 4: I love it. Yeah.
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 3: And Scott Cochran was like, don't you tell anybody else that.
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 3: Keep that one quiet. That was right before Georgia Southern.
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 3: That was the old 10-horn game for Alabama.
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 4: Great memories, man.
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 2: Coach, as always, thank you for the time. We appreciate it.
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 2: We encourage everyone to go check out the videos.
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 4: You guys are the best, and once I get that hat,
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 4: I will rock it proudly.
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 2: It is on the way. I've got to turn in
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 2: your address to Bo right now. Thanks, guys. We're going
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 2: to send you a hoodie, too. Thank you, Coach. A
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 2: bonus hoodie. We're throwing a bonus hoodie in there. Coach
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 2: Jeff Collins.
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 3: He's been a head coach and coordinator throughout the Southeastern
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 3: Conference at Coach Collins Show. It's where you find his
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 3: work on YouTube, at Coach Collins Show.
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 2: It's really good stuff.
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 1: Was last weekend perfect for the expansionists in college football,
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 1: the guys that really want the 24, whoever they are?
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 1: XXXY bringing you part of the show today.
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 3: Jennifer Say, national champion, gymnast, Levi's brand president, decided to
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 3: leave a job there rather than just say something she
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 3: didn't believe in. And when she left that job, she
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 3: started XXXY Athletics instead. Here is their motto, their mission.
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 3: Empower female athletes to take a stand for fair competition.
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 3: So they had the T that launched a movement. You
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 3: can also get the official Nashville Balls gear there, Clay Travis'
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 3: future WNBA franchise. XXXY is their official apparel. It is
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 3: real athletic apparel, not just a slogan on a shirt.
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 3: Performance tops, tanks, sports bras, leggings, shorts, training sets, hoodies, hats,
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 3: graphic tees, men's and women's clothing. It's worn by athletes
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 3: that have put something on the line. XXXYathletics.com. That is XX-XYathletics.com.
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 3: New customers get 20% off your first order. When you
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 3: sign up, free shipping over $ 100.
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 2: XX-XYathletics.com.
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 13: This year, the biggest sportsbook party's getting even bigger.
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 2: Hey, there's J-Boy.
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 13: Whether you just getting here or you been here, you're
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 13: not leaving here empty-handed.
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 8: Hey, J.
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 11: Jimmy Johnson.
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 2: Kevin, they know me?
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 8: Of course.
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 13: In this party, everybody's somebody. This season, Hard Rock Bet
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 13: has something for everyone.
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 5: Plus, new customers bet $ 5 and get up to $ 500
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 5: in no-sweat bets.
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 2: Hey, that's Fat Joe.
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 4: Forget him.
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 2: That's J-Boy. Hey, J-Boy.
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 4: My name's J-Boy.
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 2: I got that. I got that.
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 1: Fat Joe and J-Boy. Hey, that's Fat Joe. Brought to
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 1: you by our friends at Hard Rock Bet. We're the
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 1: next round back with you on Sporting State. If you
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 1: were with us on Friday while Lance was taking a
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 1: shot or 30 on the show from the Tennessee Shine Company,
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 1: he made a bet with Forrester that Forrester was going
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 1: to pay thousands of dollars if he could do number
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 1: one on the back of a black bear. Is that
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 1: what the bet was?
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 2: Was going to piss on the back of a black bear. Yes.
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 2: I don't recall taking that bet. I think it was
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 2: me that took the bet. I believe it was indeed Brown.
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 2: It was Brown, not Forrester.
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 10: Okay.
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 2: Okay, Brown. Did you guys see any black bears?
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 4: Well, not.
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 2: We did not, honestly. You didn't see another one, did you?
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 2: Other than this we're about to show.
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 5: Oh, no.
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 2: This was the first that I saw. So we're staying
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 2: up in the mountains.
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 3: Our house, a very, very nice house up in the
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 3: mountains that the good people at Tennessee Shine Company put
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 3: us up in. And we were leaving Sunday morning. I
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 3: think we were rolling out at 9 o'clock Eastern. That
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 3: was our leave time. And Lance, right on time. I
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 3: had a sleeve of Diet Cokes. And I put them
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 3: in the back of my car. And I went back
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 3: in to get my luggage. And as I'm coming to
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 3: get my luggage, I hear Lance coming down the stairs.
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 3: So I stopped for a moment to speak to him.
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 3: I probably wasn't in the house anymore in two minutes.
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 3: And I hear the Diet Cokes hitting the ground on
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 3: the driveway. And I'm like, how did those things fall
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 3: out of there, man? I thought those things were in
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 3: there nice. And I walk out and this is what
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 3: I see. Three little baby black bears chasing a Diet
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 3: Coke down the hill.
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 2: It's rolling down the hill.
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 3: I'll pan back right in a moment when... Mama shows up.
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 3: And Lance was like, you know, if you got those
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 3: baby bears, mama's there too. You might get to see
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 3: the Diet Coke sleeve on the ground.
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 2: And I'll tell you, if you would have left the
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 2: car open, somebody was telling me like the day before
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 2: somebody was in somebody's car in Gatlinburg and Black Bear
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 2: destroyed the whole interior. Yeah. Trying to get food. The
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 2: back was open, but I had no... We've had that
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 2: a few times on trash before. Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 2: That's as close as.
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 1: I mean, I wasn't with you guys, but it's as
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 1: close as I've ever been to a wild black bear.
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 4: Four of them.
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, look at that. Three babies in a mile. You
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 2: think if I would have gone and tried to scoop
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 2: up one of those babies, I would have been in trouble?
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 9: Yep.
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 2: I mean, but how much? What was the bet? $ 10, 000?
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 2: But let me.
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 3: Go ahead and tell you, with $ 10, 000 on the line,
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 3: Lance didn't necessarily run over there and try to pee
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 3: on one of those babies. He didn't try to get
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 3: on top of the car.
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 2: I'll go ahead and tell you. It was a different
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 2: moment in time, you know, from Friday when we were
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 2: doing Around the World to Sunday morning when, you know,
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 2: it's time to get in the car and get back
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 2: to reality. It didn't seem like a great idea. And
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 2: I didn't want to embarrass, you know, the mom in
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 2: front of her.
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah. You want to do that to a mom. Yeah. Yeah. Well,
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 2: I wasn't going to piss on a cub.
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 6: No.
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 2: It was a mom or nothing. It was mom or nothing. And,
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 2: you know, I didn't want to, you know, They'd be
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 2: laying on leather couches for the rest of their life.
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 2: Oh, wow. So anyway, I was chasing a Diet Coke.
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 2: Beautiful animals.
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 12: They are.
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 2: They really, really are.
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, for our sponsors, it would have been nice
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 1: if you'd caught a video of them popping it open
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 1: and drinking it.
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 2: Well, he bit into one.
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 3: That's what I heard. It was rolling down the driveway.
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 3: So he got a little taste.
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 2: I'm glad he got a Diet Coke and not some
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 2: of the other stuff. Cocaine beer. Not that we had cocaine.
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 2: Let me make that abundantly clear. There was no cocaine.
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 2: Guy's trip.
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 2: I told you it's snow in Gatlinburg. We did have
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 2: Mushroom Dan up there, though. Yeah, Mushroom Dan was with us.
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 2: Our friends at Crockett Coffee, they bring you part of
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 2: the show. We'll talk 2014 playoff and what this past
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 2: weekend may have done to change your mind. Clay, Travis, Buck, Saxon,
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 2: Buck's brother Mason, they came up with Davey Crockett's coffee,
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 2: Crockett coffee. 100% Arapica bean, high altitude bean, small roasted
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 2: right here in America.
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 1: It's shipped fresh, roasted, done sitting in a warehouse. You
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 1: can get it any way you want it. I do
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 1: mine medium roast. You can get them K-cups as well.
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 1: We do the whole beans and ground it ourselves. Set
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 1: up a subscription, $ 59 or more. Those orders are free shipping.
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 1: And Crockett partners with Tunnel to Towers. It builds mortgage-free
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 1: homes for families of fallen service members. So if you're
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 1: drinking coffee anyway, why don't you drink Crockett coffee and
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 1: do some good for the veterans of the families of
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 1: fallen service members. It's good coffee made in America doing
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: some good. CrockettCoffee.com, CrockettCoffee.com. All right, 12-team playoff with the
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 1: chaos that we've seen in the first half of the season.
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 1: The SEC sitting here with no undefeated teams. Only one
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 1: undefeated team, and that's UCLA and the Big Ten. The
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 1: Big 12 looking to be more than a one-bid league.
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 1: Can you make a case for a 2014 playoff? Is
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 1: there a slither of, okay, this is going to be
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 1: okay with the way college football looked this past Saturday?
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 1: Is there part of you that's like, okay, 24 is needed,
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 1: it's going to be okay?
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 2: I think it diminishes regular season because some of these
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 2: incredible losses, you're like, damn, there's no more The margin
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 2: of error has gone for a couple of these teams,
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 2: but it's really not now.
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 1: Again, I'm a 12 guy, but if I was an expansionist,
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 1: am I using that word right?
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 1: If I believed in the expansion, expansionist, can I not
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 1: tell you, okay, Alabama has lost, but now that felt
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 1: like a big loss, but the window is still open
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 1: that makes Texas A & M and LSU and Auburn
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 1: feel like bigger games?
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 12: Yes.
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 2: For Auburn with two losses, they went over Georgia. It
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 2: has them in the conversation. I mean, look, you can
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 2: spin anything the way you want to spin it. But
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 2: I think the reality of the situation is we are
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 2: getting closer and closer to the NFL. The regular season
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 2: is not going to mean as much. It's still going
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 2: to mean something. But, you know, a bunch of eight
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 2: and fours and, like, how deep do we get? Now, look,
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 2: maybe it is different because we just saw Auburn beat Georgia.
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 2: But are we really going to get a team that
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 2: is anywhere between 18 to 24 that's going to come
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 2: in and win this thing? That just seems impossible.
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 3: Well, I don't know when it, but I think this
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 3: weekend showed you, the longer we go down the path
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 3: we're in in college football, that these first-round upsets are
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 3: more in play now.
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 2: Yes, I would agree with that. I mean, if you
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 2: just take the rankings right now, and it's not going
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 2: to work out this way, but for the purposes of
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 2: this discussion, I mean, Northwestern will be at UCLA, 24-9.
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 2: I gave it to you yesterday, Forrest. I don't know
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 2: if you can still pull it up, a 24-team bracket. Yeah.
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 2: That on three had put together.
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 3: I'm willing to use anybody's bracket. So walk us through
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 3: that one. I mean, you tell me. That is on three.
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 3: Not point spreads, but I mean, you could see these
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 3: games happening.
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 2: What we got? Okay.
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 1: You have a Wake Forest at USC. Winner gets Miami.
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 1: That's a losable game for USC, for sure.
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, for sure. Northwestern at UCLA. That's another coin flip.
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 2: We've got some conference game there, obviously. Florida at Alabama. Same.
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 2: I mean, Florida just won at Texas. You're telling me
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 2: they can't win at Alabama? Boise State at Kentucky. That's
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 2: a fantastic game. Oh, yeah. Kentucky only plays close games.
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 2: LSU at Iowa. I mean.
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 3: Contrasting styles, contrasting head coaches, a tough game for LSU.
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 3: It'll be an outdoor cold weather game. SMU at Utah.
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 2: The way Utah's playing right now, Lance, SMU, that's an
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 2: extremely wonderful game. Texas at Houston. I mean, if we
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 2: got that at Houston right now, I might think Houston.
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 2: You like the Cougars?
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 9: Maybe.
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 2: They got the better quarterback. Texas probably a four-point favorite.
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 2: Missouri at Tennessee.
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 3: There again, the way Missouri played Saturday, it's hard to
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 3: make the statement right now, but they could be. But
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 3: to LT's point, what he's talking about, Brown, is, okay,
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 3: those are first-round good games, but can anybody from that
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 3: first day, first weekend of games, win a national championship?
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 2: No, maybe not, but move the favorites on. SC at Miami.
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 2: SC at Miami. Could SC beat Miami?
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 1: Okay, so now you've got a first day that's a
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 1: contender at that point. You would have– UCLA at Texas Tech.
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 1: UCLA at Texas Tech.
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 2: Yes. They could win that game. Yeah. Bama at Notre Dame.
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 2: Bama at Notre Dame.
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 2: Yep. Kentucky or Boise at Georgia. I don't think so. Okay.
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm with you, but, I mean, I just
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 3: saw Auburn win at Georgia, so, you know, you can't
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 3: convince me Kentucky.
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 2: Can't do it. LSU at BYU. 100%. Utah at Ole Miss.
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 2: I don't know about that. Yeah.
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 2: Texas or Houston at Ohio State. Texas already beat Ohio State. Yeah,
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 2: they have, but at Ohio State feels like an uphill climb.
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 2: And Tennessee or Missouri at Indiana. I don't see that. Okay.
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 2: But still, we've got half that maybe could possibly still
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 2: be alive. I guess the best way to do it
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 2: is outside of the top ten, Alabama, LSU, Texas, Florida,
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 2: any of those teams you could see, outside of the
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 2: top 10 that could win the national championship still, as
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 2: we said here? I mean, we thought Alabama could a
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 2: week ago. And LSU, I mean. Again, they've lost two
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 2: really tight games to two really good opponents.
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 1: It's hard to imagine Texas with the way they look now,
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 1: but they did beat Ohio State.
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 3: I just think we're seeing now that upsets are more
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 3: plentiful and big underdog upsets, so I take away from that. Again,
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 3: I don't want a 24 team either. But if we're
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 3: going to get these kinds of upsets, it's not the
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 3: world anymore where Alabama and Ohio State and Georgia can
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 3: hoard the talent and just dominate college football. It's a
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 3: world now where everybody's on a more even playing field.
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 1: But I would tell you another thing that we're seeing
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 1: happening that's NFL-like is quarterback injuries and the concerns of
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 1: quarterback health, right? Because all of a sudden UCLA is
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 1: to a backup quarterback, and that weakens them a little bit.
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 1: Arch is having some problems, whatever it is. They may
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 1: be making a quarterback change. You know, Josh Hoover didn't
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 1: look healthy at the end of that game. Gunnar Stockton
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 1: and Keelan Russell both at times look like they had
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 1: concussions in the middle of their.
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 2: Game this past week. They look lost, yes.
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 1: I mean, it looks very NFL-like when it comes to
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 1: quarterbacks and how big of a factor that could play
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 1: in the chase for a championship.
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 3: Again, this is fan discussion. But there's a lot of
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 3: fan discussion about that concussion thing that Jim just brought up.
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 3: Two quarterbacks playing uncharacteristically. And I just go back as
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 3: a Dolphins fan. I'll never forget that Christmas game where
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 3: Tua is playing the Packers. And Tua was fantastic first half.
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 3: Dolphins get a big lead. And Tua got concussed and
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 3: they didn't catch it. And he was a different quarterback
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 3: the second half. Started turning the ball over. And then
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 3: lo and behold, after the game, they're like, we missed
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 3: a concussion. And you could just tell it in his play.
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 3: It was just uncharacteristic of him at that time in
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 3: his career. And in the Alabama game, it was Keelan
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 3: Russell at the end of a tackle. He didn't slide,
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 3: but it wasn't a hit. He sort of got driven
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 3: into the ground. Right, not a dirty hit, not a penalty.
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 1: Just normal going into the ground, just the way he landed.
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 1: And then the play sequences to where the next couple
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 1: of plays... It doesn't look like he spun the wrong
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 1: way on a handoff, which could just be normal miscommunication.
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 3: Well, are you talking about the fourth down where he
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 3: spun the wrong way? No, no, it was a different play.
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 3: It was a different play before that. Yeah, the fourth
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 3: down is because he got his foot stepped on, obviously.
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 3: He didn't really turn the wrong way. They just couldn't
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 3: get the handoff on. I'm telling you, on the NFL side,
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 3: this Jalen Hurts situation is going to be really interesting
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 3: to see how this unfolds. To see if the blood
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 3: clocks are caused by contact? No, the fact that... they
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 3: knowingly played him with clots and knowingly flew him home,
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 3: which actually is the more dangerous thing.
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, you, you get, I mean, unfortunately people
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 2: die from that situation. I know a guy that almost
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 2: did that had clots in his leg and it almost
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 2: killed him. Serena or Venus Williams. I think it's, I
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 2: think it's Serena in one of the legs and you know,
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 2: wasn't supposed to fly, but did. I think somebody I
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 2: know passed away, uh, from that as well i didn't
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 2: know somebody died but i know somebody that almost did
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 2: and they just had a clot in their leg and
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 2: it shot to their lungs because of the pressurized cabin
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 2: and that's the scary part about herds and you know
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 2: there's there's just a lot of talk about that right
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 2: now and the nfl is going to have to look
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 2: into that because boy that is if you knowingly played
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 2: him with clots and knowingly flew him back from london
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 2: an eight-hour flight with those clients i i just i
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 2: can't imagine what a penalty for that would be.
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah all right um Interesting time in college football at
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 1: the halfway point of the season. We continue the conversation
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 1: coming up in the second half of the next round.
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 1: If you are leaving us now for Clay and Buck,
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 1: we understand that. But you can always circle back when
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 1: you're done with Clay and Buck and catch us on
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 1: our podcast platform, Spotify, and wherever you get your podcast
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 1: always in our YouTube channel 24 hours a day at
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 1: next round live there and all of our social platforms
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 1: we'll talk about what is Alabama's identity right now do
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 1: they have one and if it is is it what
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 1: you want them to be can Auburn seize the moment
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 1: right now.
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 2: No unbeatens in the SEC. What does that mean for
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 2: the SEC? Does it mean we're mid or does it
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 2: mean we're that good? That's just part of the conversation
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 2: as we continue on on the next round right here
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 2: on Sporting State presented by our friends at Hard Rock Bet.
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 2: You guys have a great day.