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The Next Round: Alabama vs. Georgia: Todd Fuhrman's BIG Predictions, Red River Upset Alert & NFL Picks | Hour 2 · The Next Round

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  Speaker 2: Furman, welcome in, man. How are you, my friend?
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  Speaker 3: Well, gentlemen, I just want to know, are you guys
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  Speaker 3: all decked out like Jim Cantore with the yellow slickers,
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  Speaker 3: the rain hats, and proper rubber boots for the weather
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  Speaker 3: storm that is impending in that fine neck of the woods?
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  Speaker 2: Um, not yet.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, it is, I'm going to be inside for that part, Furman,
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  Speaker 1: but the, uh, the, all the reports.
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  Speaker 2: Have been positive.
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  Speaker 1: I think by the time the game gets here, the
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  Speaker 1: weather will be through Tuscaloosa for sure. They're saving saying now,
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  Speaker 1: even maybe by noon, the weather is through Tuscaloosa.
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  Speaker 2: So that's good.
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  Speaker 1: And the field should be fantastic. The sub air system,
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  Speaker 1: Alabama's got there. I don't, I really don't think weather's
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  Speaker 1: going to impact this game at all.
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  Speaker 2: Tell Furman Furman.
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  Speaker 1: I've done a couple of hits this week and they're
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  Speaker 1: all amazed by this, but Right before the 2023 season,
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  Speaker 1: Alabama dug up the grass and the dirt, their old
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  Speaker 1: drainage system, and put it in the same drainage system as?
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  Speaker 2: Augusta Nationals.
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  Speaker 1: Furman has seen it on golf courses, the sub-air system,
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  Speaker 1: and that will keep this playing surface really dry. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think the weather will have any impact on this
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  Speaker 1: game at all, Furman.
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  Speaker 3: That's a good thing, because in my opinion, when you
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  Speaker 3: look at the dynamics around these two teams, I think
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  Speaker 3: ideal weather conditions no doubt give Alabama a competitive edge,
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  Speaker 3: knowing how the deep ball has been a part of
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  Speaker 3: Keelan Russell's arsenal, at least through the early going of
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  Speaker 3: the season. And I think this is an Alabama team
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  Speaker 3: built to try and find the explosive plays, more so
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  Speaker 3: than a Georgia team that has been significantly more methodical,
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  Speaker 3: dinking and dunking the ball down the field. You look
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  Speaker 3: at the average depth of target for Gunnar Stockton, and
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  Speaker 3: while he does have the veteran pedigree and a lot
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  Speaker 3: more experience, just doesn't have the same playmakers, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 3: wearing Georgia colors as we're going to see on the
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  Speaker 3: Alabama sidelines. And when you compare strength to schedules as well,
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  Speaker 3: other than Georgia's 41-13 thrashing of Oklahoma, who have the
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  Speaker 3: Bulldogs really faced? And I'll go one step further, guys.
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  Speaker 3: They haven't faced an offense anything close to the caliber
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  Speaker 3: they're going to see tomorrow, which makes this such a
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  Speaker 3: fascinating chess match for a variety of reasons.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and where are you on this total?
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  Speaker 4: I had somebody reach out yesterday, and they're like, this
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  Speaker 4: total should be more in the 60 range, you know,
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  Speaker 4: with whether or not affecting it at all. It's opened
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  Speaker 4: up at 54 and a half. I think it's down
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  Speaker 4: to 51 and a half. I don't have a stomach
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  Speaker 4: to play the under, but I don't know if I
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  Speaker 4: really want to go over here.
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  Speaker 2: Where are you?
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  Speaker 3: I actually opened a little bit higher than that. Even
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  Speaker 3: LT 56 and a half was what I saw as
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  Speaker 3: the consensus total. You mentioned it being down to 51
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  Speaker 3: and a lot of that is weather driven. So I
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  Speaker 3: think as the forecast continues to clear up and their
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  Speaker 3: expectations that mother nature won't have her say in the
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  Speaker 3: marquee game at six 30 central tomorrow night, You are
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  Speaker 3: going to see a substantial amount of support for the
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  Speaker 3: over coming in this game. Both these teams have been
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  Speaker 3: unblemished in that department going over their total. Of course,
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  Speaker 3: Georgia just sneaking over the closing number of 51 last
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  Speaker 3: week against Vanderbilt. But I would have no problem whatsoever
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  Speaker 3: going over a total of 51 if I don't think
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  Speaker 3: weather is going.
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  Speaker 2: To play a role.
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  Speaker 3: And even if the wet stuff holds off and we're
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  Speaker 3: looking at 12 to 15 mile an hour wind gusts,
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  Speaker 3: that's not going to keep me off a total. I
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  Speaker 3: think both these offenses are going to look for some
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  Speaker 3: of those big plays and be able to find success
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  Speaker 3: against their defensive counterparts.
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  Speaker 1: Just for the record, because we were discussing this in
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  Speaker 1: the last segment and Lance says it was the national
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  Speaker 1: championship game in Indianapolis. Is that the last time Alabama
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  Speaker 1: actually went off as the favorite against Georgia Furman?
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  Speaker 2: Do you know?
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  Speaker 5: You know what?
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  Speaker 3: Don't have those numbers in front of me, but it
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  Speaker 3: has definitely been a little while since we've seen that.
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  Speaker 3: I know these teams don't have a ton of history
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  Speaker 3: against one another. If I know all the talk about, oh,
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  Speaker 3: Georgia hasn't won in Tuscaloosa since 2007. I mean, they
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  Speaker 3: haven't played that many games there. But it's definitely rare
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  Speaker 3: for Georgia to go into a football game catching points
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  Speaker 3: like this. So it's something to think about. And for
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  Speaker 3: a lot of folks, that's enough to try and get
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  Speaker 3: them across the finish line when they want to try
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  Speaker 3: and back to Bulldogs.
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  Speaker 2: Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Furman is with us here on Sporting State in the
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  Speaker 1: next round. I want to bounce around to some other
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  Speaker 1: games away from the big one here in Tuscaloosa. Let's
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  Speaker 1: go Red River. Everybody's giving Oklahoma up for dead. Texas
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  Speaker 1: and Oklahoma. Is there a path to victory to win
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  Speaker 1: the game outright for John Mateer and the Sooners?
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  Speaker 3: I think there is. And when you look at this
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  Speaker 3: Oklahoma team, the reality of it is their offense has
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  Speaker 3: left a lot to be desired. But I'm not sure
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  Speaker 3: we should be giving Texas up. We've seen from the
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  Speaker 3: Longhorns thus far, you back out the nine good minutes
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  Speaker 3: they played in the fourth quarter against Ohio State. They
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  Speaker 3: were far from dominant. Last time we saw them against
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  Speaker 3: Tennessee at Neyland Stadium against a quarterback who has since
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  Speaker 3: been benched for the Vols. And when you're looking at
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  Speaker 3: their performance, even against UTSA, Arch Manning's numbers don't jump
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  Speaker 3: off the page. So I think Texas being asked to
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  Speaker 3: go out there and win by margin is more than
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  Speaker 3: a touchdown favor. Could be a big ask. On the
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  Speaker 3: flip side, if you're Oklahoma, you know your season is
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  Speaker 3: hanging in the balance. We throw around the term desperation
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  Speaker 3: all the time in college football, but that should definitely
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  Speaker 3: resonate for the Sooners. If you lose this game, you're
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  Speaker 3: kind of just playing out the string, and the playoffs,
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  Speaker 3: in my opinion, really becomes something that becomes a long shot.
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  Speaker 3: With this number over 7.5, I have a very strong
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  Speaker 3: lean towards Oklahoma. Kind of kicking myself a bit that
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  Speaker 3: I didn't grab the 10. I haven't bet it yet, though,
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  Speaker 3: but one of the lower totals you're going to see.
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  Speaker 3: And this is a lot more like an Iowa football
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  Speaker 3: game than what we've grown accustomed to in the SEC
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  Speaker 3: at 39 and a half.
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  Speaker 4: Furman, if you would have told me three weeks ago
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  Speaker 4: that I could get Louisville only three and a half
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  Speaker 4: at home against Florida State, I would have jumped all
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  Speaker 4: over it. I don't know what that early number was,
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  Speaker 4: if there was one three weeks ago. But this Florida
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  Speaker 4: State offense, red zone offense, 21 of 21. Ashton Daniels
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  Speaker 4: is up and down. but he played well last week
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  Speaker 4: against Virginia. This defense has turned it around. Louisville back-to-back
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  Speaker 4: three-point losses, but their defense is horrendous.
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  Speaker 2: Where are you on tonight's ACC matchup?
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  Speaker 3: A Florida State record last week for Ashton Daniels with
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  Speaker 3: five rushing touchdowns against Virginia. They got down 7-0 and
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  Speaker 3: then found another gear. I do think lost in Florida
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  Speaker 3: State's dominant win against Virginia is that Bo Padula came
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  Speaker 3: into that game banged up. There wasn't much in the
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  Speaker 3: way it designed runs, but even if he was 100%,
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  Speaker 3: the way the Knowles looked, I'm not sure it changes
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  Speaker 3: the outcome all that much. Louisville has been an interesting
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  Speaker 3: team because I was high on them coming into the year.
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  Speaker 3: Love the way they played against Ole Miss in the opener.
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  Speaker 3: And since that point, they've really underwhelmed and been a
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  Speaker 3: little disappointing. They were better in the yards per play
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  Speaker 3: category last week against NC State. I think they were
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  Speaker 3: a little unfortunate to lose that football game. Outplayed for
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  Speaker 3: the better part of four quarters by Wake Forest two
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  Speaker 3: weeks ago. And the big storyline going into tonight's game
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  Speaker 3: is the health of Lincoln Kienholz, who we know was
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  Speaker 3: going to be a game time decision and kind of
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  Speaker 3: looked severely limited against the Wolfpack a week ago. If
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  Speaker 3: Keenholz is over some of those injury limitations, I think
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  Speaker 3: this is a buy low point for Louisville. But these
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  Speaker 3: two teams feel like different ships passing one another in
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  Speaker 3: the night. And I want to use this as a
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  Speaker 3: data point in terms of how I'm going to assess
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  Speaker 3: both these teams when we get into the second half
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  Speaker 3: of the schedule.
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  Speaker 1: Do you fear, Furman, a look ahead factor for BYU
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  Speaker 1: against Iowa State late game there at Lavelle Edwards Stadium?
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  Speaker 1: But next week, the late game at Lavelle Edwards Stadium
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  Speaker 1: is Notre Dame. Is there a chance BYU's got a
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  Speaker 1: little look ahead?
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  Speaker 3: I don't feel that way. And the reason for that
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  Speaker 3: is because BYU was extremely fortunate to get through TCU
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  Speaker 3: last week. I mean, they look like they were going
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  Speaker 3: through the motions. I know there was some weather that
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  Speaker 3: really slowed down what BYU could do, but it wasn't
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  Speaker 3: until they had a late drive that they were able
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  Speaker 3: to create a little bit of separation in one of
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  Speaker 3: the uglier football games we've seen. Now, BYU did learn
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  Speaker 3: this week they're going to be without star running back L.J.
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  Speaker 3: Martin for the better part of a month, dealing with
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  Speaker 3: a high ankle sprain. But I've talked to people around Provo,
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  Speaker 3: and they say the backup running back they think is
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  Speaker 3: more dynamic, he's shiftier in space, and it's a little
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  Speaker 3: bit better as a dual threat in this particular spot.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm really curious to see what this BYU offense
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  Speaker 3: looks like here. Meanwhile, for Iowa State, I mean, they
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  Speaker 3: played one of the more exciting games, not just of
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  Speaker 3: last weekend, but of the early going amongst Power 4
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  Speaker 3: Conference opponents. You know, sneaking by West Virginia, pushing as
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  Speaker 3: a three-point favorite in a game that did not lack
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  Speaker 3: for offense with both teams going north at 500 yards.
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  Speaker 3: I think Iowa State's going to have some real difficulty
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  Speaker 3: moving the football against this BYU defense. We've seen this
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  Speaker 3: total start to take down for a peak of 47.5.
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  Speaker 3: We're now looking at 46.5 at Hard Rock Bet. If
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  Speaker 3: the number did come below 10, I would be inclined
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  Speaker 3: to value bet BYU. Normally, I would be concerned about
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  Speaker 3: the look-ahead spot to Notre Dame, but I think Coach
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  Speaker 3: Sataki got the team's attention given how poor their performance
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  Speaker 3: was last week in TCU, and I think Iowa State
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  Speaker 3: struggled to get to 14 points.
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  Speaker 2: Back to God's Conference, the SEC. Texas A & M,
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  Speaker 2: Missouri tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of Oklahoma feel around the Texas A &
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  Speaker 1: M offense this year, but I like them as a
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  Speaker 1: live dog on the road.
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  Speaker 2: What about you?
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  Speaker 3: I think from a situational spot, things line up for
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  Speaker 3: A & M, figuring that Missouri can't be nearly as
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  Speaker 3: good or as sharp as what they were last week
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  Speaker 3: in that absolute throttling of the Florida Gators on homecoming.
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  Speaker 3: Shout out to Missouri for scheduling Florida on homecoming, going
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  Speaker 3: in there as a five and a half point underdog.
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  Speaker 3: and allowing the fans to really celebrate the strength of
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  Speaker 3: that victory. This game for A & M is going
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  Speaker 3: to be so interesting because I am like you. I
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  Speaker 3: do think there's a lot of Oklahoma to their offense.
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  Speaker 3: You watched last week against Arkansas, and it wasn't that
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  Speaker 3: much more dynamic throwing the football. It was a lot
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  Speaker 3: of one look, get the ball out of Marcel Reed's hands.
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  Speaker 3: But I think the element that it was good to
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  Speaker 3: see for A & M is they leaned into Marcel
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  Speaker 3: Reed's mobility. There were designed runs in there, and it
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  Speaker 3: forced Arkansas to kind of defend in a very different way.
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  Speaker 3: Unfortunately for A & M, the strength of this Missouri
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  Speaker 3: football team is what they can do up front. We
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  Speaker 3: saw their run defense on full display, kind of bottling
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  Speaker 3: up Jaden Ball and the Florida Gators last week. I'm
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  Speaker 3: not sure they'll be as buttoned up here. It's a
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  Speaker 3: slightly different run concept that they're going to face. I
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  Speaker 3: actually like this game under the total. I know the
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  Speaker 3: market has moved against me. There was a lot of
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  Speaker 3: over money that came in last night. But I think
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  Speaker 3: both of these defenses are going to be able to
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  Speaker 3: get the better part of their respective offenses they're going
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  Speaker 3: to face. And I think it's the first team to
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  Speaker 3: 24 to get out of coma with a win. I'll
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  Speaker 3: go under the total of 48 and a half here
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  Speaker 3: between A & M and Mizzou.
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  Speaker 4: Kentucky and Will Stein's first year has been a great
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  Speaker 4: story in college football.
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  Speaker 2: But this is a team.
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  Speaker 4: It was down 17 to South Carolina. I had the
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  Speaker 4: Gamecocks minus two and a half. That was a tough loss.
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  Speaker 4: With all that said, LSU rolls in right now. Eight
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  Speaker 4: and a half point favorites. I've heard a lot of
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  Speaker 4: people talking about live dog here. I like the favorite.
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  Speaker 4: Where are you on LSU, Kentucky?
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  Speaker 3: This is another game we want to monitor for weather.
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  Speaker 3: It may end up being a more heavily impacted weather
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  Speaker 3: game in Lexington than what you guys are going to
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  Speaker 3: see down there in Tuscaloosa. And if that's the case,
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  Speaker 3: it makes it tough to win by margin. But I
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  Speaker 3: do think when you look at LSU... the strength of
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  Speaker 3: their team, at least through the early going, has been
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  Speaker 3: what they've shown on the defensive side. And that could
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  Speaker 3: pose some problems for a Kentucky team that's been extremely
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  Speaker 3: efficient running the football. The passing game has kind of
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  Speaker 3: been hit or miss, but regardless of how they perform
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  Speaker 3: against LSU here, it's already been a resounding win thus
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  Speaker 3: far for Will Stein and what we've seen from the Wildcats.
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  Speaker 3: With the comeback win last week against South Carolina, as
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  Speaker 3: you alluded to, LT, and of course going on the
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  Speaker 3: road in College Station, winning that game outright as a
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  Speaker 3: 17-point dog. I am waiting to see if this number
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  Speaker 3: kicks down a little bit, much closer to backing LSU
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  Speaker 3: in the road favor role than I would be to
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  Speaker 3: backing Kentucky as a home underdog. Fun games that I
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  Speaker 3: think a lot of SEC fans won't pay nearly as
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  Speaker 3: much attention to, given the fact that Alabama and Georgia
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  Speaker 3: is the headliner. But this game is going to teach
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  Speaker 3: us an awful lot about two teams. In LSU's case,
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  Speaker 3: if they can be legitimate conference threats and they're starting
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  Speaker 3: to assert themselves, and if Kentucky can take another step
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  Speaker 3: forward and essentially what's year zero under new head coach
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  Speaker 3: Bill Stein.
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  Speaker 1: Berman, the nation's longest winning streak, travels to Lincoln, Nebraska,
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  Speaker 1: a place where Nebraska hasn't won many of these games
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  Speaker 1: of late. Indiana's got tougher games in front of them.
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  Speaker 1: I asked you about a look ahead with BYU. Indiana's
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  Speaker 1: got Ohio State next week. I got a feel right here, man.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like this is a spot for Nebraska. Am
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  Speaker 1: I absolutely crazy to think Nebraska can win this game,
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  Speaker 1: will win this game outright?
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  Speaker 2: Are you crazy? No.
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  Speaker 3: There has been very real respected money that has come
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  Speaker 3: in on the Cornhuskers in this spot. Will I be
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  Speaker 3: part of that brigade to back Matt Rule to win
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  Speaker 3: a game of this magnitude? I will not find myself
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  Speaker 3: with a Nebraska ticket in hand. Weather could play a
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  Speaker 3: role in this contest as well. It's supposed to be
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  Speaker 3: one of the windiest environments for all of the FBS tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: Sustained winds, you know, 25 to 30 miles an hour,
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  Speaker 3: which I actually think hurts Nebraska significantly. Oddly enough, because
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  Speaker 3: Indiana's strength this year has been running the football. I'm
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  Speaker 3: not sure Coach Stig has the utmost confidence just yet
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  Speaker 3: in Josh Hoover. And when I look at this Indiana team,
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  Speaker 3: the questions that I need this defense to answer are
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  Speaker 3: on the back end. And if weather plays a role here,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure Nebraska, led by Ty Calandra, is going
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  Speaker 3: to be able to throw the deep ball and take
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  Speaker 3: advantage there. One of the hidden metrics to pay attention
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  Speaker 3: to in this game that I think could plague Nebraska
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  Speaker 3: is actually how undisciplined they've been even against inferior foes
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  Speaker 3: so far. Outside the top 100 in penalty yardage allowed,
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  Speaker 3: Indiana inside the top five. It's some of those hidden
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  Speaker 3: edges when you're looking at two teams that at least
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  Speaker 3: in theory have a little bit of a class difference
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  Speaker 3: that could change the dynamic. Again, I'm not going to
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  Speaker 3: disrespect the sharp money that's come in and made Nebraska
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  Speaker 3: buy at 7.5 or better, but this feels like a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of a coaching mismatch, and maybe we'll start
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  Speaker 3: to see glimpses of an Indiana team getting themselves ready
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  Speaker 3: for arguably one of the biggest games in the Big
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  Speaker 3: Ten next week when they welcome in the Ohio State Buckeyes.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get some NFL numbers here in a second, but
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  Speaker 1: I want to ask you about one more college game
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  Speaker 1: at least because this is where I run into the
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand what we're doing part of college stuff.
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  Speaker 1: and when it comes to wagering out in Vegas. USC,
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  Speaker 1: who I think is a playoff contender, only has one
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: loss to Oregon. Penn State got embarrassed at Northwestern. But
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: all week long, Penn State's been the favorite in this game.
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: What am I not adding up here? This doesn't make
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: sense to me, Furman.
• 14:19
  Speaker 3: The fact that USC, when they leave the Western time zone,
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: has been an auto fade playing in the Central time
• 14:25
  Speaker 3: zone or out East. And we'll see if they can
• 14:28
  Speaker 3: kind of change that narrative at Beaver Stadium for the
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: whiteout on Saturday. I'm still shocked that Penn State wants
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: to call it a whiteout, given what transpired in their
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: fraternities before the season started. But I digress completely in
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: that regard. Let's see what we get from USC. I mean,
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: there is no doubt done away that if they believe
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: they're legitimate playoff contenders, this is a game that they
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: have to win knowing how much more difficult their schedule
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: gets going forward. Penn State has had to deal with
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: that level of embarrassment, not just last Friday night against
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: Northwestern where the Wildcats felt like they were treating them
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: like a small seven-on-seven high school football team with their
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: ability to run the football, but blowing a 17-0 lead
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: the week before against Wisconsin as well where they were
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: dominated on the box score. So this game, I don't
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: know if I trust either of these teams to go
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: out there and play to a high level. I wasn't
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: overly impressed with the Trojans' narrow victory last week against Washington,
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: where the Huskies found some success on the ground despite
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: being down their first, second, and third string running back.
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: So this is a game I am very intrigued to
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: see which of these teams can get right and if
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: USC can finally vanquish some of those demons traveling from
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: the West Coast across the country. And as we're talking
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: right now, numbers starting to leak out even further. Penn
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: State out to as much as a two-and-a-half point favorite
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: at some spots. But still one and a half to
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: consensus and even with our friends at Hard Rock Back.
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: Jumping to the NFL real quick, both of these guys
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: have got my Rams in their top five power rankings.
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: I don't trust them.
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: I think, you know, in the next month or so
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: when they get whole, they could be that team. But
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: right now, very shaky. Unfortunately, Josh Allen coming off a loss.
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: Rams minus three in SoFi Monday night. Where are you
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: on this one?
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: I've laid the three with the Rams in this game.
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: I still think it's a buy-low opportunity for a Rams
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: team that, while coming in at 2-2, has been absolutely
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: dominant each of the last two weeks. When you look
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: at the underlying metrics, the yards gained from a net
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: yards per play standpoint, they were unfortunate the way that
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: second half unfolded against the Denver Broncos. And while a
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: lot of people will call their comeback win against the
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: Eagles improbable in the way they did it, I mean,
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: they completely bottled up Philadelphia from start to finish. They
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: came up with the big stop when they needed it.
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: And Kyron Williams ran and caught the ball like a
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: man possessed. I think this is a game where the
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: Rams can put together four quarters. We've only had the
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: opportunity to see Matthew Stafford operate once all season in
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: pristine conditions. That of course was the Monday night game
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: against the giants. And he was able to take full
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: advantage of the Jackson dart injury. This Buffalo defense has
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: a lot of questions specifically on the back end and
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: Puka Nakua appears to be a matchup nightmare that I'm
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: not sure they can slow down. And the other thing
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: in this game that I don't know if got enough
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: buzz going into their performance against the Patriots. I mean,
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: we saw Josh Allen take the hit to the knee
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: with about eight minutes to go against the Chargers. You know,
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: wasn't really talked about, you know, what kind of it
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: was a bone bruise, an MCL sprain or anything else.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: And then you watch Josh Allen's performance last week against
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: New England. He didn't look nearly as elusive as a runner.
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: He wasn't as dynamic in the pocket, making throws on
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: the run and even forced one into double coverage late
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: in that game when Buffalo was playing. for a game-tying
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: field goal. I think the Rams are going to be
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: able to create some pressure, get Josh Allen off the spot,
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: and I think the Rams could arguably have a legitimate
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: case to be able to score every time they have
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: the ball. I like the Rams' team total over, and
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: I'm more than happy to lay to three. I think
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: this game closes three and a half or higher.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: All right, Dunaway and I both have a game in
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: the late Sunday window. I'll start with the 49ers, who
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: we all have very high in our power rankings, at
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: the Seahawks, where Seattle is minus.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: Three, Furman.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: In-depth breakdown. I did about 15, 16 minutes on this
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: game on the Bet the Board podcast to encourage all
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: the people that want to nerd out for this NFC
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: West showdown to take a listen there and find some
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: of the compelling angles that we approached. One thing that
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: has changed, though, since we broke that game down, Leonard
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: Williams logged a DNP key linchpin for the Seattle Seahawks
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: defensive line yesterday. Interested to see if he's able to
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: get a limited practice or a full practice defense in today.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: This 49ers team has been as good as advertised. Offensively,
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: I mean, they're extremely dynamic. Brock Purdy, total command of
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: Kyle Shanahan's offense. But this is going to be a
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: little bit of a different beast they're going to face
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: here against Seattle. And it's hard to ignore the fact
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: that the Niners needed injuries to not just Patrick Sertan,
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: but also Riley Moss to be able to win that
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: game by margin last week. fascinating game uh did take
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: a little bit under 47 46 and a half probably
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: out of range uh but i'll let people listen to
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: the bet the board podcast to figure out what side
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: we landed on for the game and.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: The last one for me i don't know who had
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: uh sunday october 11th on the day for sean payton
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: to take back over play calling but but he has
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: done it going in how does that make the broncos
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: different for you Look, as.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: We've learned around the National Football League, there is no
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: bigger fan of Sean Payton than Sean Payton himself. So
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure if you asked him, he could fix
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: just about everything that ails both on the football field
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: and off. But the crazy part about it is I
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: don't think Davis Webb is to blame for the problems
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: that have really been on full display for the Denver
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: Broncos offense so far. You look at Bo Nix through
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: the early going this season, he's roughly six and a
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: half points below league average and completion rate and about
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: six and a half points below in success rate on
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: throws when he's targeting receiver 10 plus yards downfield. Go
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: back and watch the all 22 from last week's game
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: against the 49ers. There were wide open receivers downfield, but
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: Nick kind of felt a little bit more comfortable checking
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: it down to Bo Nix, despite his comments and a
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: presser this week that said he was seeing the field
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: better than he had last year at any point. So
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: I have some issues there with this Broncos team. I
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: think they're a little bit banged up defensively. And I'm
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: not sure it's as simple as waving the magic wand,
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: because I think a lot of the issues that Bo
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: Nix showed a season ago were kind of swept under
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: the rug with those improbable fourth quarter comebacks, which is
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: a skill set in and of itself. But you still
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: have to make the easy throws. You have to build
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: these early in games. And right now this Denver Broncos
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: is operating at one of the worst paces in the
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: first 30 minutes in terms of a scoring margin that
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: we've seen.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: All right, we'll wrap the way we always do with
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Furman is under the radar play for a college football Saturday.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: You guys love it. Where are we going under the
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: radar today, Furman?
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: I mean, boys, it has been a legitimate struggle bus
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: in this category this season. I'm not going to dance
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: around it and sugarcoat it. I mean, when you go
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: under the total between New Mexico and UTEP and New
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: Mexico scores 61 on their own, it's tough to be
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: able to cash a ticket under 48. So we're going
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: to save people the headache and trouble of dealing with
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: totals this week. And we are going to a game
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: that I don't think anybody is going to watch. in
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: the Mountain West. And that's going to be to fade
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: the Air Force Academy traveling to DeKalb. I don't know
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: exactly if you get an Allegiant flight directly from Colorado
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: Springs to DeKalb. It's a route I don't think any
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: of the four of us have ever made or will
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: plan to make. But Air Force has the unfortunate situation
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: of now dealing with a backup quarterback. Their starter, Liam Zarko,
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: was lost for the year. and their win against Navy.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: Air Force has a massive game on deck within the
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: conference pecking order. This is an NIU team that I
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: thought was going to be one of the worst in
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: the FBS coming into the year, but they've actually been
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: a little bit better. You have two weeks to prepare
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: for the unique subtleties of what Air Force wants to
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: do on the offensive side. And while it's the definition
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: of ugly, I'm not going to sugarcoat it. I'll take
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: the NIU Huskies plus the seven and a half against
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: the Air Force Falcons traveling across the country.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: All right, you heard Furman mention breakdowns on Bet the
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Board podcast. That is part of Sporting State now, sportingstate.com.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Bet the Board podcast is where you find it, and
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: follow Furman on social media at Todd Furman.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: Enjoy the games this weekend, Furman. Thank you for the time, buddy.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Always a pleasure, gentlemen.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: You guys do the same, and hopefully everyone stays safe
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: if they find themselves in the path of the storm.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Very well said. Thank you for saying that, Furman. We
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: appreciate it, buddy. See you next Friday. That is Todd
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Furman with us on the show. We end That interview
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: was some sad news.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Our headlines coming up in the next segment for the
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: guys back in the studio to get that ready.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: But we had some breaking news while we're talking to Furman.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: The legendary coach and player, Hall of Famer Mike Ditka
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: has passed away.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, age 86.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: His family has announced that Coach Ditka passed away today.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: I did not know this until I just read it
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: from Adam Schefter that he was the first tight end
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: ever inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. I
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: knew he was a Hall of Famer, did not realize
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: he did that as a tight end, but or was
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: the first tight end, I should say, but then also
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: went on to win the Super Bowl with the famous.
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: 85 Chicago Bears. Yeah, and that's how he'll be immortalized.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: You know, it's crazy. We've lost Hulk Hogan. We've lost
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: Mike Dick. Big personalities.
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: And, you know, Dick had a couple of good years
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: when they won that championship in 85 against Patriots.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: The next year, you're like, how could they not win another? Yeah.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: And it just shows you how quick everything burns in
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: the NFL. But, man, he got a lot of equity
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: out of that. You remember the Saints, they gave him
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: that entire draft. Obviously, he takes Ricky Williams and gives
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: up all the picks. I mean, still, outside of Michael Jordan,
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: I don't know a bigger personality in Chicago.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would have to say, I mean, this is
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: a July discussion, but the Chicago sports, Mount Rushmore, he's
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: got to be on it, right?
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: I think he is. Oh, it's Jordan. Ditka's on there.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Ryan Sandberg. Sandberg was very popular. I wonder.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: I wonder if broadcaster Harry Carey at one point probably
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: made it on there. Probably not now because it's been
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: so long. But we would agree Ditka's on there. Yeah,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Ditka and MJ and then the other two is going
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: to be up for debate.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: Jamie Roenick, I mean, you know, randomly, it's such a
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: hockey town. But I agree. I think Harry Carey would
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: be there. I think Ditka would be there. I mean, sweetness.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: And obviously George. Sweetness is on there. Yeah. Murakami for
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: the White Sox. Is that I am Japanese? Is that
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: who that is? I am Japanese. Yeah.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Forrester would probably know better about the Chicago Blackhawks and
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: some of the fan base there.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Scott, are we leaving anybody off there?
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: Frank definitely deserves some love there.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: I'll tell you, Dick, though, to get to 86 with
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: the cigars, like every time I saw the guy, he
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: had a cigar.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: In his mouth.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, such a character, such a character. 1985 is a
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: long time ago, and he was a younger guy. NFL
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: coach back then, but that's 1985. We still reference that
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: team today. I mean, that shows you how dominant that
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: defense was and the characters on that team with Sweetness
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: and Jim McMahon and the fridge, Refrigerator Perry.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: We still reference that team today. You know, I was in,
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: we'll see this all day today.
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: I was at a wedding a couple of weeks ago
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: and all these young'uns They've got the mustache, all the guys.
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: I still think the mustache is an awful, awful look.
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: But Ditka was one of the guys, along with Tom
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: Selleck and Burt Reynolds that could pull the mustache off.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: It looked good on Ditka. It did. He could wear it. Well,
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: because that's the only way I ever saw Ditka. Yeah.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: I didn't really see him without it. But you'll see
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: these kids for the first time today.
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Good point.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you'll see them here at Ennis when the doors open.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: But it's fairly rare to see such a public feud.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: But that feud with he and Buddy Ryan was not fake.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: No. I mean, that was a real feud. That's what
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: tore that team apart. Yeah. That was just pure ego.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: I mean, it was.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: There wasn't enough room in that coaching staff for Ditka's
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: ego and Buddy Ryan's ego. And Buddy left and went
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: to the Philadelphia Eagles. And that was a legitimate hatred
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: rivalry right there. Ditka driving the bus in heaven today
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: as Mike Ditka has passed away. When we come back,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: it's October 9th. We'll give you the October 10th headlines,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: October 11th headlines way too early. It's our next segment
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: right here from Innisfree in Tuscaloosa. It's the next round
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: presented by Hard Rock Bet on Sporting State.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Back with you.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: From historic Innisfree. Yes, we're outside during the show. I've
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: done so many hits, including Atlanta Radio this morning. They're like,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: boots on the ground, Jim Dunaway's in Tuscaloosa. What's the
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: weather like over there with that hurricane bearing down? I
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: was like, well, actually sunny right now, no rain.
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: Berman from Vegas gave us a Jim Cantoria reference. Did
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: we have our weather boots on?
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: We're outside on the patio here at Innisfree, and we're
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: expecting to be rain-free until the end of the show
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: at 1 o'clock. Rain's going to move in, but the
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: weather for the game, if everything stays on path, is
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: going to be good. Stay safe, especially down in the
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Gulf if you're watching this right now, but if you're
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: driving to the game, be safe.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: A lot of water, a lot of.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Wind, but by the time you get to the game,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: the wind's supposed to be normal, the rain's supposed to
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: be down, but we're thinking about everybody on the Gulf Coast,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: but All good signs as far as the football game
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: is concerned, Georgia and Alabama, when it comes to the
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: weather tomorrow night. If you are coming to game day,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Coleman Coliseum for game day, normal start time at 8 o'clock.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: And also, I'll always warn you, Alabama sent out another
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: release last night. As you often see in some of
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: these big games, they've already had a couple of incidents
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: of counterfeit tickets. So be careful where you're buying.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Your tickets from.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: We always use our trusted friends. at ATICS, and they
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: make sure their tickets are real before they sell them
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: to them. But Alabama always encourages you to buy them
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: from their provider. That's island-worthy, by the way, counterfeit tickets.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: And unfortunately, as Alabama points out, if you've bought a
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: bad ticket, you don't get in, they don't give you
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: money back.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: That's just you made a bad choice. Nothing they can
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: do about it. Have you guys ever bought a counterfeit?
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: I did one time.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: I have not, but I saw a guy chase a
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: ticket scalper through an Atlanta stadium hotel lobby.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: It was Auburn. It was either the Auburn, Missouri, Auburn,
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: South Carolina.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: SEC championship game, 10 or 13. And the guy had
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: obviously sold him bad tickets, chased him through the lobby.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: And it was almost like a scene from a movie.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: He grabs him, like jumps and grabs his shirt. And
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: the guy pulls loose as he's going through the door
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: and the door closes on the other guy.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Wow. Like a cartoon. Yeah, it was like a scene
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: in a movie.
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: My time was, it was Halloween of 1999. Rams were
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: 4-0 playing in Tennessee against Titan, Steve McNair and those guys.
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: got down 21-0, ended up losing 31-28. But I guess
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: the problem was they let me in and all of
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: these other people.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: There was like 15 for the same seat. Oh, my God.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: But I give Tennessee and the Titans a lot of
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: credit because they re-sat us and they put me– I
• 28:11
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  Speaker 2: On the 35. Wow. Ended up being a great team.
• 28:18
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• 28:19
  Speaker 4: But that was really, really nice. I guess because we
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: had gotten in the stadium, they didn't want to throw
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: us out. If we had gotten turned down at the gate,
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: we probably would have. And they may not know who
• 28:26
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• 28:28
  Speaker 4: 15 of you, they're like, I don't even know who's
• 28:29
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• 28:30
  Speaker 2: It's a shock you can still counterfeit tickets with everything.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: Everything will lie.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Somehow, some way.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: There are no paper tickets, right? Nothing is a paper
• 28:37
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• 28:41
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• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Alabama basketball, I'm going to bring it up right here
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: because I'm about to have a Red Panda reference in
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: my headline. Alabama basketball, which we see Red Panda all
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: the time during basketball season, played an exhibition game last night.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: Beat Furman here.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Everyone was raving about the paint job, the new scoreboard
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: and the paint job inside Coleman Coliseum, how the place
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: looks a little better and the scoreboard's magical inside there.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: And the basketball team played really well last night, too.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: So next week, they're all in Birmingham for balling at Boutwell.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: On Wednesday and Thursday, you get Auburn and Florida State,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Alabama and Ole Miss. You can get tickets at Ballin'
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: and Batwell for that next week. So we look forward
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: to that. So I'll go first. Red Panda's a halftime
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: show basketball where she tosses and catches bowls, right?
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: My first headline from the Gridiron Gazette, Red Panda says
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: drop bowls.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: Just the opposite of what she tries to do at halftime.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay fans are barking mad after head coach Todd
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Bowles failed to kick a field goal. For a 17-point lead,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Red Panda says, drop bowls.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I see the flavor.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and of course, AI, I sent a picture, but
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: AI actually gave me a Red Panda in buccaneer gear.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Georgia's Dairy Queen's got a special. They now offer Gunner
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Stockton Sundays. Two scoops of vanilla, no toppings. He's such a,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: just a by-the-book, plain guy, a plain quarterback. D.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: Moose Stetson Bennett.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, DQ manager says, no sprinkles, no sauce, no distractions,
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: just like Gunner.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: Do you think he's T.Q. Stetson or T. Moose Stetson Bennett?
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: He is.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: He's T. Moose Stetson Bennett.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: And then off the documentary last night, I learned that,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: as you see the other headline, I learned that Saban
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: used wizardry to start his legacy. The sports psychologist guy
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: looked exactly like a wizard.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: Did he really?
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: And Saban said all the Michigan State guys just called him, hey,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: is wizard.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: Man coming to talk to us today? Wizard man. Wizard man.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: And, of course, it put a different picture in there,
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: but I'll show you. Oh, there it is. That's what
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: he looked like.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: That's the sports psychologist. That's the guy that changed Saban's career.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: He's got a lot of Ted Kaczynski in him. A
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: lot of Unabomber. So the rest of college football. That's
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: not the way he looks right now.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: He looks older.
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: That's the way he looked in the 1990s when he
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: told Saban. If he looked like that in the 90s,
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: I'd say he's a skeleton.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: Somebody drug this guy in Saban's office. He's like, who
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: is this?
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: And this guy apparently had tried to talk to other
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: coaches at Michigan State in his career.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: And none of them listened. And he thought Saban was
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: the same way.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: He said he didn't say a single word the first
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: time I met him when I was telling him about
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: what I do and that he left. And then two
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: days later, before the Ohio State game, he called him
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: back to his office. They had an hour long conversation.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: Fascinating. Yeah. Crazy. All right, Brownie, what you got, man?
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: So I'm going to go to the Red River rivalry.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: After Red River loss, Oklahoma quarterback loses all his NIL
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: money at a football toss game. Very unfortunate for John
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Mateer losing all his money at a football toss. I
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: wouldn't trust him at the football toss. You're probably not
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: going to leave with a big stuffed animal. He starts
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: hitting the stuffed animals, missing the holes.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: That's right. He lost all his NIL money there at
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: the football toss. The ball goes backwards sometimes, too.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: Page two, President Trump announces the next few stops in
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: his Don't Tread on Saturday tour.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: That's your best one of the year. Thank you.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: President Trump is stealing Josh Pate's gig. He's got to
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: go to a college football game each week, it appears.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: I mean, is he at Notre Dame BYU next week?
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: I would be. That's a great game.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: And then on page three, future October hurricanes to be
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: named after Ronald Acuna so they won't hit anything.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: Oh, that would be a great plan. Yes, it's Hurricane Acuna.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: We're safe, everybody. Well done.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Thank you. That's two-thirds good. Yeah, I might have repurposed
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: one of those, but two of them were mine. Really good,
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: really good.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: All right, LT, what do you have for us this week, man?
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: We are also going to go to Dallas, the Sooner Slate.
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: Losing Texas. Arch and Sark's offense has horns fans nauseous
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: at state fairs.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: Oklahoma pulls off the upset.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Do you really feel like that could happen in the game?
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: I do, yeah. I've listened to him all week. He's
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: got a gut. And I kind of do, too, to
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: be honest. Subset alert, I need one. You know what's crazy?
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: The last nine quarters, this Texas defense is allowing 2.6
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: points per game on average in 60 minutes.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: And now they're going against this Oklahoma offense.
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: Coming off a bye, crazy things happening in this rivalry. Tyler,
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: your side headlines are really, really good. I'll let you
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: take them.
• 34:23
  Speaker 8: All right, so on page 3A, we got Dr. Andrews
• 34:27
  Speaker 8: coming out of retirement to.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: Perform the first tightrope surgery on a bird.
• 34:32
  Speaker 8: Hopefully, Aurea can make a full recovery and get back
• 34:35
  Speaker 8: out on the field.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: I don't know if we ever brought it up in
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: the air, but Auburn's War Eagle 8 is out for
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: the season, it looks like, with a sprained talon.
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: Is that what it's called? It said a foot. It
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: just said foot injury. I thought that was weird. They
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: didn't specify it.
• 34:52
  Speaker 8: And then over on page six, you got a Birmingham
• 34:55
  Speaker 8: podcast host banned from Chicago after a landmine incident.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're not going to go to Chicago anymore, Jimmy. Wow,
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: it's one of my three favorite cities. Oh, you're banned
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: from there now. Is a podcast host? Yeah, podcast host.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: We used to be disc jockeys when we were interested. Wait,
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: you're a DJ? Natalia, you're back there. Truth serum. Forrester's
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: not blaming me for last night's game, though, is he?
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: No, I blame the White Sox for that.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: Okay, good. Okay.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: Don't become that guy where you think it's my fault
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: that maybe I changed the momentum or something in the postseason.
• 35:28
  Speaker 8: I mean, they were up two games, and then you
• 35:32
  Speaker 8: put money on them, and now they're tied 2-2.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that did happen. Tyler was right about that.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's another reason that you may find out
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: sometime next week, Forrester, why they may be on a skid.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: Oh, no. Yeah, I'll tell you. Oh, no, is that
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: what you told me yesterday?
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: Not as bad as it sounds, but yeah.
• 35:49
  Speaker 7: Well.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: It was with good intention.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, they were up 2-0 at the time
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: you did it. It was up 2-0 when I did it, yeah.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Sorry, Forrester. But maybe, maybe we get through the weekend.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Scottie, Cleveland can't beat you. No, nothing. I know what
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: he's referencing. You'll be okay with it. Not if they lose.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: There's no way y'all are going to lose three straight
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: to Cleveland, though, right, Scott?
• 36:14
  Speaker 5: Have you watched any of the previous two games?
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: No. Actually, no.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: That's why I'm asking this question. I have not watched
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: the first pitch of your series.
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: If everybody strikes out, yes, there's a way.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, yeah, that goes without saying, but that
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: can't happen twice. 19 strikeouts, right?
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: I do think the pressure is on the Guardians here.
• 36:34
  Speaker 5: I hope so. These last couple of days have been brutal.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sure they have.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: I'm with Dunaway. I think he might be better off
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: playing in Cleveland. Now, I say that as somebody who
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: has not watched a pitch of this series.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: But it feels like something you would say in this situation, Scott.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: And Bama's better in essence.
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: When I walked in this morning, I looked at Scott
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: and I was like, are you going to have Bama
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: and Georgia on the big or game five?
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: He looked at me like, eat shit. Yeah. Wasn't he
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: a fake loser? Yeah.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, War Eagle 8's on the IR. Auburn's not playing.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: The White Sox are struggling. Not the perfect weekend to
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: be at the force. Bama will have ATV. The White
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Sox will have the volume.
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: I don't blame you on that.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Well, you should know that sports karma is real. So
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: if you're over there cheering for the dogs against Alabama,
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: there's probably going to be a little payback from the
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: guardian angel.
• 37:31
  Speaker 5: It'll just be on. There will be no cheering in
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: either direction.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's both.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah. How do you cheer in that game? You just
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: need you just need. Good vibes out there, Forrester, for
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: the White Sox.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: That's our headlines. Way too early.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: We'll see if any of those come true for the weekend.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: And I can't believe we actually believe on the panel
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: here Oklahoma has a fighting chance against Texas. Well, I
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: think we're almost three across, so that's probably really bad
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: news for Oklahoma there. Because I've felt it for a
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: couple of weeks. I can sense he feels it. it's
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: your upset alert.
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: So do you send cover or do you think Oklahoma
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: could win this game out? Right. They could win the
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: game out right now. I think it will go one
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: of two ways.
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: I think you'll know early on, like Oklahoma three and
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: out three and out Texas is up 14, nothing going
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: to turn the TV off. But if this is a
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: back and forth and you get a flukish, you get
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: one of these double reverses and then you get a
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: block pun or you get a big six for March.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: That's when you know you're in it. And I think
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: it goes the full 60.
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: And I think it comes down to a final possession. I, I,
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: I mean, Oklahoma's offense has been horrible, but their defense
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: has been elite.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: You're going to need, you're absolutely going to need a
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: defensive touchdown, I think, for Oklahoma, which is possible. I mean, they've... Oh, yeah,
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: especially with the way Orch is playing. I think you
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: then also might need, and boy, I am painting a
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: difficult picture, also might need another turnover that leads to
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: at least a field goal out of the booty short
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: wearing kicker. And then maybe either a punt return by
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: Sertania for a touchdown or one that is deep enough
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: that it produces points.
• 39:00
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: I've got a feeling. I know that's a, that's a
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: lot to paint.
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: I guess the, the short, short Tate Sandell, I think
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: he's going to walk this thing off. I've just got
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: a feeling almost division on this thing, but again, it
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: could go the other way quickly. What I just said
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: is not real crazy. I mean, a defensive touchdown and
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: another turnover that leads to a field goal. And then
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: maybe a kick return that leads to a field goal.
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: So there's, You know, there's 13 points right there. And
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: you're going to have to win it 13-10.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, Georgia leads the country in points scored,
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: but some of those were given to them by no
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: doubt here i mean if you just stop giving them
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: six points the defensive give up you give the other
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: defense six points and then georgia had a couple of
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: short fields in that game because of material turnover oh
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: i think.
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: If they would have punted every possession on first down
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: i think georgia probably wins 21 nothing.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: That's right so but If you just eliminate that in
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: the game where you don't give them any short field,
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: don't give them any points, then that makes it a
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: lot harder to arch in them.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: I think that's the way.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be as extreme as Brown, you know,
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: bouncing in bank shots off the scoreboard.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: I did because they've dropped the playbook before.
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: I have heard that Venable, somebody found this, that he
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: is going to be putting on third down a lot.
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: There are times it would have been better.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, or somehow get stick them on Mateer's hands. That's
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: the 230 game tomorrow, Texas and Oklahoma. leading into Georgia
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: and Alabama on a true ABC, SEC on ABC all
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: day this.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: Week, right? That is correct, all day this week. All right.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: Game day at Coleman tomorrow.
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: All the fun here at Innisfree the rest of the afternoon.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: We've got one more segment here on Sporting State. We'll
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: do a wrap-up when we come back on some games
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: we haven't talked about. Oklahoma over Texas may not be
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: the biggest upset in some people's eyes. Does South Carolina
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: and does Vandy have a shot this weekend? And maybe
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: even Arkansas. We'll talk about those three games when we
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: come back on Sporting State.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: We're back at Dennis Free. Doors are opening here as
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: you get ready to get ready.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: You get ready to get ready for the big game
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: happening tomorrow night with Georgia in town to take on Alabama,
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: number two in the country versus number six, these rivals.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: You guys agree with me, right, that once Kirby got
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: to Georgia and end of Saban era into now, what
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: Georgia fans after 21 and 22 thought that Ohio State, Alabama, Georgia,
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: probably the only fan bases that can relate to each other,
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: that no matter what happens in the regular season or
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: into the playoffs, that if you don't win a national championship,
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: there's some emptiness left out there. There's no other fan base,
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: in my opinion, other than those three that sort of,
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: live that every year nowadays, Georgia, Alabama, and Ohio state.
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: Well, because they've done it.
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: I agree there, but I do think two teams right
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: now in Texas and Oregon believe it's national championship or
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: bust with everything that was coming back this year.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah. There's that one.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: And maybe for this one year, but it's like year
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: in year out right now for Ohio state, Georgia, and
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: still Alabama. And I think that has, that's changed the
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: relationship in my opinion, between Alabama and Georgia fans. It's
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: almost like you're able to, um, We'll be sitting in
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: the stadium tomorrow night, Alabama and Georgia. And it's almost
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: you have a new respect for each other because we're
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: sort of living through the same type of thing right
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: now where, man, no matter if we make the playoffs,
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: even if we win a game in the playoffs, we
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: got to win them all or it's just going to
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: be empty. But also they don't meet annually. So when
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: they do meet, it feels important. I mean, give me
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: the last time Alabama and Georgia have played that you didn't.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: feel like it was an important game to the landscape
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: of college football.
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: I can't even remember the last time, you know, but
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  Speaker 4: also another factor in this, you go back to like 2008,
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  Speaker 4: you guys were at the blackout in Athens. I was,
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  Speaker 4: I was over there for that. When you walked out
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  Speaker 4: of the stadium, I mean, Georgia fans felt like their
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  Speaker 4: season was over.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And I think either one of these fan bases that
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  Speaker 4: walks out, unless you have some kind of monumental injury,
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  Speaker 4: I think both are gonna be like, damn, that sucks.
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  Speaker 2: We lost, but we'll see you again.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We're probably going to play maybe twice more. Yeah.
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: And I, and, I made this point all week long
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  Speaker 1: on any platform I was on. Alabama fans would love
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  Speaker 1: We've talked about Oklahoma, Texas, maybe Oklahoma poised for an upset.
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: South Carolina is down in Florida to take on the
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: Gators this weekend. The Gators coming off of horrible offensive performance.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: Any pressure on Buster Faulkner, the wonder kid? I know
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: he's not a kid, but the inventor of offensive football.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: A little pressure on him this weekend?
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, you look at Jaden Baugh, 13 carries,
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: 12 yards last week. He's got to get it going.
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: John Summerall, more concerned about the defense. Gave up 560
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: yards to that Missouri offense last week.
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  Speaker 2: So I think they fixed the defense.
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: I think the Buster Faulkner offense is going to be fine,
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: especially against the South Carolina defense.
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: It's only got Two takeaways all year.
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  Speaker 1: I think you saw on Alabama's offense, which is one
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: of the best in the country, no doubt, was able
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: to do against South Carolina's defense. They really had no
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: answer for Alabama's offense. So if you're Florida, you hope
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: that's the case. I think for South Carolina, you know,
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: if Dylan Stewart plays in this game, he was not
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: on the availability report again last night, if I'm not mistaken.
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: If he, in fact, plays in this game, you just
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: want to see if this message has gotten to him.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: If the suspension has gotten to him and now he's
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: a factor in in this game for South Carolina. If
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: he is that, if you get a man possessed out
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: of Dylan Stewart, could be an interesting game here. I mean,
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: I could spell trouble for Florida's offense.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, they've been competitive in most spots. They blow
• 45:58
  Speaker 4: these big leads. We talk about it, but they've lost
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: eight straight SEC games. They've lost 10 of their last
• 46:03
  Speaker 4: 11 in the SEC. Very interesting to see after blowing
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: another lead how they will come out and how they'll fight.
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: That was a massive military plane that just flew a trip.
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: What is that? Is that C-130? Yeah, a C-130 that
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: just flew over us. It wasn't Air Force One, though? No,
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: but it may have the– they're bringing the Beast, I think.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Don't you think that's what it is, though? I
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: think if I– The car is the advanced team. Yeah,
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: the advanced team and the C-130. I think that's probably
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: what that is. That was a massive plane in it.
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: Blew very low over here. Sorry about that. We got
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: the tower buzzed. Cut number nine, Tyler, if you will.
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: John Summerall coming off the loss last week. They were
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: on a Cinderella roll and now they come back home
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: for a home game after a loss. Here's John Summerall
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: on just his personal feeling with what's going on in
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: the SEC this week.
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: I don't like losing.
• 47:02
  Speaker 6: I actually hate losing more than I like winning. There's
• 47:05
  Speaker 6: a lot to learn from every scenario you go through.
• 47:09
  Speaker 6: And when you lose a game, I think it forces
• 47:12
  Speaker 6: everybody to take more direct accountability to what we're doing. And,
• 47:19
  Speaker 6: you know, I think when you win a game, as
• 47:22
  Speaker 6: a coach, I see all our flaws still. But everybody externally,
• 47:27
  Speaker 6: you know, it's a party.
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: We're 4-0, woo-hoo.
• 47:30
  Speaker 6: And then I'm like being the bad guy in the
• 47:33
  Speaker 6: building every day. Right now our guys, they're hurt. Like
• 47:37
  Speaker 6: they're crushed.
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: It's not, you know, hey, it's okay to lose. It's not.
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: It's not okay to lose ever.
• 47:44
  Speaker 6: But it's also helping them understand, hey, where do we
• 47:46
  Speaker 6: have to grow?
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: Let's keep growing. Let's put our head down and go
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: back to work. Pick yourself up.
• 47:51
  Speaker 6: Nobody's going to feel sorry for you in this league.
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: Like week in, week out in this league, we're going
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: to be challenged.
• 47:56
  Speaker 6: And so we have to recalibrate, readjust, and get going
• 48:01
  Speaker 6: and move forward.
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this was a big test for them to bounce
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: back against a team they should handle. in South Carolina
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: this week. Ole Miss is at Vandy. We haven't seen
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: Ole Miss since they lost at Florida because of the
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: bye week. Trinidad had that thigh injury. He should be
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: good to go. We expect Kiwan Lacy back in this one.
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: Jared Curtis is going to play for Vandy.
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: Is there a.
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: Little pressure on Pete Golding to deliver for Ole Miss
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: this weekend? Is there a possible upset in Nashville?
• 48:29
  Speaker 4: Well, we've got to learn something about this Ole Miss defense.
• 48:32
  Speaker 4: It was one of my five disappointments when we did
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: this last week early on in the college football season.
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: They're giving up almost 31 points per game. That is
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: dead last in the SEC. If you can't get right
• 48:42
  Speaker 4: against this Vanderbilt offense with a true freshman quarterback coming
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: off an injury and Jared Curtis, something is really wrong.
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: And for Vanderbilt on the other side, Brown, Clark Lee,
• 48:51
  Speaker 4: you know, they've been winning games, and now they've lost
• 48:53
  Speaker 4: back-to-back games. Last week against Georgia was one that really
• 48:57
  Speaker 4: got away from them. If you watch the NC State game,
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: they got dominated in that game, and a fluke they
• 49:02
  Speaker 4: were able to win that game.
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: If they lose here going away... then you start to say, man,
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: are we getting back to the old Vanderbilt?
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: I just, I'm curious how injured Jared Curtis really is.
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: I think you and I share the same suspicion. I
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: don't know if you had the same thought.
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: I thought it before.
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: When I heard he wasn't playing against Georgia, I caught it.
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: The minute I heard he was out against Georgia, I
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: was like. like is he really out against georgia or
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: is he just not playing against georgia was this a
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: predetermined i'm not gonna play against georgia i just i
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: i kind of feel like that so i think you're
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: probably for what it's worth gonna get a healthy jared
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: curtis in this game no chance tennessee loses at arkansas
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying no chance.
• 49:36
  Speaker 4: I mean, Arkansas has lost 13 straight games. They're only
• 49:39
  Speaker 4: averaging 11 points per game against power fours. This is
• 49:44
  Speaker 4: a bad, bad Arkansas team. I mean, they make Texas
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: A & M look like Texas A & M of
• 49:47
  Speaker 4: last year.
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: They did. 34-7, they got doubled up on yardage.
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: It's easily the worst team in the SEC, but you're
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: going there, Jim, and you're starting a quarterback making his
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: first start. And any time a team is in the
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: place Arkansas is in, the minute they get a little
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: bit of confidence– it can trigger something in them, right?
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: So if you're Tennessee and you keep turning it over,
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: then maybe you have to go back to Faison Brandon,
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: and now he comes in and presses. The path for
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: the loss is like two or three turnovers, like Arkansas
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: will be plus three or four in turnovers.
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: I don't think.
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: Tennessee will do that, but I can't say that there's
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: no chance they will. Cut number two, Tyler, and we'll
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: circle back now to Georgia and Alabama. We've touched on
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: every game in the SEC, but None bigger than number
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: two Georgia against number six Alabama. Josh Ford, even with
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: a broken arm, is going to try to give it
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: a go. And for Kane Womack and this defense, so
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: many young players continue to grow and step up. On offense,
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: Crowell's getting a bigger part. On defense, here's Kane Womack
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: talking about the growth of Xavier Griffin.
• 50:48
  Speaker 7: I think probably the thing that I've been most impressed
• 50:50
  Speaker 7: with right now is you know, okay, we're, we've expanded
• 50:54
  Speaker 7: his role as a pass rusher, but his inside linebacker,
• 50:57
  Speaker 7: his stack linebacker reps right now are really, really good.
• 51:01
  Speaker 7: And so he's, you know, we're able to add more
• 51:04
  Speaker 7: onto him and not at the expense of what he's
• 51:06
  Speaker 7: doing as an inside linebacker right now. And so, you know, I,
• 51:10
  Speaker 7: I can't think, I mean, you know, a freshman that
• 51:14
  Speaker 7: we've been able to put this much on him, I
• 51:16
  Speaker 7: think is a real credit to the work that he's
• 51:19
  Speaker 7: put in and, and the work that Chuck Morrell has
• 51:23
  Speaker 7: done with him, I think he's in a good place
• 51:25
  Speaker 7: right now, and he's playing really physical. When the ball
• 51:28
  Speaker 7: turns over and commits, he is just playing at a
• 51:34
  Speaker 7: fever pitch and playing really physical, and it's good to see.
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: He said physical a lot there. Final three minutes of
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: the show here.
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: Georgia will be the The most physical test Alabama's had
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: this year because of their style of play, correct?
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: The most physical test they'll have on their entire schedule.
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: All year. I would imagine.
• 51:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think Kentucky's pretty physical. I mean, they like
• 51:53
  Speaker 4: to run the football. And I know it's offensive base
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: because it's Will Stein. But yes, by far the most
• 51:58
  Speaker 4: physical team they played. But on the other side, Alabama
• 52:01
  Speaker 4: didn't have, you know, the physicality of what was lacking
• 52:05
  Speaker 4: the first couple of years under Caleb Moore.
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: They've got it back. They do.
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: Xavier Griffin that he's talking about right there. Like, I
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: think Luke Metz is the breakout star of Alabama's defense.
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: But Griffin's not far behind. And by the end of
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: the season, you may look at him and say, OK,
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: of all the people I didn't know I was going
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: to love in Alabama's defense, this guy may be at.
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: The top the way he's playing. Is that sustainable, this defense?
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: I mean, the physicality of this defense, because it's looked
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: that way against Mississippi State and South Carolina and Kentucky.
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: Will it look that way against the Georges and Tennessee?
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: I think the most surprising thing to me or craziest
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: thing to me or whatever is the star of Alabama's
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: defense right now is their front seven. It's not the
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: back of the defense, which we thought Alabama is going
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: to be great at secondary. They'll get the rest right.
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: But they have started with the front seven, right? The
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: secondary has been the question.
• 52:51
  Speaker 4: I still think the secondary is going to get right.
• 52:54
  Speaker 4: It's just a big play here and there. But I
• 52:56
  Speaker 4: think they've already built the confidence. I think they think
• 52:58
  Speaker 4: that they're physical. And look, that's half the battle right now,
• 53:01
  Speaker 4: the mentality going into these games. But yeah, I think
• 53:03
  Speaker 4: they keep that edge unless, you know, Georgia was go
• 53:06
  Speaker 4: out and gas them for 250 on the ground.
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: We're at the great Innisfree historic place. If you're ever
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: in Tuscaloosa, swing by and enjoy the great drink, but
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: also food here at lunchtime. Hey, our boy finally woke up.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning. Good morning, Luke. Hey. Yeah. Oh, wow. The
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: invisible girlfriend will be here. Oh, yeah. You stay here
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: last night.
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: Wow. So you just missed all of our text this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Is that what you did? That's it for our show
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: at Innisfree. It should be a fun game. We've got
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: two more hours in the second half of the next
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• 53:40
  Speaker 1: the area, come on by. But make it a part
• 53:43
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• 53:45
  Speaker 1: Innisfree like we look here on the patio. You can
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: go inside and enjoy the beverages and the great food
• 53:50
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