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Episode 541: College Football 2026 Kickoff | Sorsby, Bill Belichick, National Championship Futures & Best Bets · The Crazy Sheet - CFB Handicapping

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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen. Boys and girls, it's your favorite time
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: of week. You get to download the Crazy Sheet, you
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  Speaker 1: get to talk about some college football. Scottie and Mark
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  Speaker 1: are back, baby. We have not been online since literally
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  Speaker 1: the gig week before the National championship. Man, how the
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  Speaker 1: hell are you, brothers?
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  Speaker 2: Man? I'm good.
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  Speaker 3: Just perusing the latest release of the UH. I guess
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  Speaker 3: what they're hoping is going to be. Congress is fixed
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  Speaker 3: for college sports. A lot of interesting nuggets in this
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  Speaker 3: I've been going through today. Forty eight and a half
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  Speaker 3: million max they can spend UH. That's everything. That's a
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  Speaker 3: boosters private revenue sharing everything. Five million dollars is the
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  Speaker 3: cap for baseball, women's softball, and a couple of other
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  Speaker 3: sports I can't remember. Meaning that's the cap for the
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  Speaker 3: sports combined. Fascinating number there, because I guarantee you a
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  Speaker 3: couple of these schools are spending a hell of lot
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  Speaker 3: more than five million dollars on women's softball and baseball
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  Speaker 3: and volleyball, and some of.
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  Speaker 2: That, I would guess.
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  Speaker 3: I certainly know some of the SEC teams were hanging
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  Speaker 3: pretty big numbers up there in baseball. I ain't gonna
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  Speaker 3: leave a whole lot of money left for some of
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  Speaker 3: these other sports gonna be fascinating.
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  Speaker 2: Course, I will tell you.
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  Speaker 3: I've told my friends of this that are and I
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  Speaker 3: know in athletic departments and their lawyers and kind of
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  Speaker 3: involved in this. You're an idiot if you're giving any
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  Speaker 3: of these girls money. All they do is lose, and
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  Speaker 3: they don't do anything for you unless they're really hot
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  Speaker 3: and they got a huge social media presence, and that
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  Speaker 3: into be chauvinistic or anything, it's.
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  Speaker 2: Just it is what it is. It does nothing for you.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, occasionally there's gonna be a Caitlyn Clark or
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  Speaker 3: you know, somebody like that. What was the girl a
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  Speaker 3: few years ago, the softball player that oh gosh, it
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  Speaker 3: was an air zone. You know, she was the Olympian
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  Speaker 3: years ago, this twenty three. Yeahs, any pinch that you
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  Speaker 3: get girls like that, I mean there's people like that
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  Speaker 3: that are always gonna be transcendent, and but they're in
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  Speaker 3: this age. They're gonna make so much money on social media,
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  Speaker 3: does it matter. I mean, State had a girl that
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  Speaker 3: had a couple of million followers in softball a couple
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  Speaker 3: of years ago because she was cute. She did it
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  Speaker 3: all herself. I mean, how much money is the university
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  Speaker 3: really got to give them? There's some fascinating nuggets in
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  Speaker 3: this deal. Boy, forty eight million, that's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: cheese to go around. I mean they say there's thirty
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  Speaker 3: schools or so spending more than that right now. I
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  Speaker 3: can certainly believe that. You know, Texas, Ohio State, you
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  Speaker 3: know those guys are. But man's a that's a big,
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  Speaker 3: big number. I mean, that's the mac you can spend.
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  Speaker 3: But how many people are really gonna be able to
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  Speaker 3: spend forty eight and a half million dollars?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. It's gonna be an interesting space. So
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  Speaker 1: a couple of things, man, let's run through this. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna a quick show for you. We're gonna dive into
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  Speaker 1: the conference previews as we get rolling for the next
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  Speaker 1: couple of weeks. Try to get everything ready ironed out
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  Speaker 1: so that we're ready for week zero. As we get
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  Speaker 1: this thing rolling, a couple of points, I want to
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  Speaker 1: talk about college football, just in generally. You know, we've
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  Speaker 1: been doing this podcast for eighteen years now, Scott, we're
• 2:57
  Speaker 1: probably the brokest podcasters ever that have been doing this
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  Speaker 1: for eighteen years. When we told people we had a
• 3:02
  Speaker 1: podcast eighteen years ago. Most people we knew didn't even
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  Speaker 1: know what a didn't even have an iPod to begin with.
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  Speaker 1: To be bonest with you, but here we are doing
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  Speaker 1: this all again, doing it for the love of the game.
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  Speaker 1: We always enjoy hearing from the folks that were out there.
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  Speaker 1: We're too old to really understand how to operate around
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  Speaker 1: Twitter and make sure we can maximize it. But we
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  Speaker 1: do love to talk about some college football. And you
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  Speaker 1: know what has evolved since we've started doing the Scott
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  Speaker 1: is how funny things have changed. I remember a couple
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  Speaker 1: of years into this, remember that was the summer of
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  Speaker 1: Nevin Shapiro. Yeah, those of you that are too young
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  Speaker 1: to remember, he is actually in prison for running a
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  Speaker 1: Ponzi scheme for paying Miami players that nowadays he probably
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't even be in jail and he would be thanked
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  Speaker 1: for being there for Miami players to getting them paid.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think the Ponzi scheme because what got him
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  Speaker 3: in prison, but the cheese he was given away was
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  Speaker 3: to be a front runner. It was great, No, that
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't get him in trouble. That Ponzi scheme's probably still
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  Speaker 3: frowned upon.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, you got that going on. And then we
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  Speaker 1: used to laugh every summer of how many players that
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  Speaker 1: would play for the University of Georgia that would get
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  Speaker 1: arrested in the offseason, because that was before college football
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  Speaker 1: teams almost mandated that you lived on campus year round
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  Speaker 1: except for a couple of breaks to keep you out
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  Speaker 1: of trouble. And so you'd have these kids that would
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  Speaker 1: go home for the summer or whatever it may be.
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  Speaker 1: People would get arrested, all kinds of good stuff would happen.
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  Speaker 1: But now Scott Knucklehead season is not what it used
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  Speaker 1: to be. It's really everything but the players. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you've got to figure out where the hell somebody is
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  Speaker 1: before you can figure out a screw up. You've got
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  Speaker 1: boosters that you know their names of Cody Campbell, who
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  Speaker 1: more people know his name than probably anybody on Texas
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  Speaker 1: Tech roster. You've got that going on. You've got players
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  Speaker 1: moving every year, You've got rules changing. There's a kid
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  Speaker 1: at Texas right now that has a lawsuit going that
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  Speaker 1: played guard last year. Actually met him last year when
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  Speaker 1: I was at the Tech game, and he's suing. So
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  Speaker 1: he has one more year of eligibility so he can
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  Speaker 1: come back. Just saw where those there's two players that
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  Speaker 1: played basketball for Texas take a couple of years ago
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  Speaker 1: that sued and got an injunction. They're coming back to
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  Speaker 1: Tech so that they can play again after transferring away
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  Speaker 1: and coming back.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And then obviously you've got the Brandon Sowersby saga that
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  Speaker 1: went on all summer. You've got Bill Belichick just thought
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  Speaker 1: maybe that was gonna get normal. Now you've got Mike
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  Speaker 1: Lombardi on paid leave bath since and that team looks
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  Speaker 1: like they're one hundred and twenty to one to win
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  Speaker 1: the ACC. The one hundred and twenty to one to
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  Speaker 1: win the ACC that is fucking terrible, is what they.
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  Speaker 2: So terrible?
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  Speaker 3: Well, look, you got Tony Petiti in the news. You've
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  Speaker 3: got Mike Slive was never in the news. It's never
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  Speaker 3: you know, you got conference commissioners that are that are
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  Speaker 3: in the headline, which is something, it's something Ishrae. Well,
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  Speaker 3: listen to a Tony Petiti interview today and I've said
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  Speaker 3: all along the reason he's after And several people have
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  Speaker 3: commented to me privately that listened to they saw my
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  Speaker 3: interaction with Tim Brando on Twitter. The other day, and
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  Speaker 3: it is an NFL model, and listening to Tony Pettiti today,
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  Speaker 3: it's one hundred percent of NFL model. But the reason
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  Speaker 3: he's wanting to do it is, yes, to raise more
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  Speaker 3: money and expand the teams. But Tony Pettiti is wanting
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  Speaker 3: to expand because these schools and these coaches know they're
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  Speaker 3: gonna get fired if they don't make the playoffs. Like
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  Speaker 3: there's never gonna be a run like you've seen at
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  Speaker 3: Iowa where they've been really good and really solid and
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  Speaker 3: they put out some great teams, but it's been gaps
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  Speaker 3: between those teams. That guy's never gonna happen. That's because
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  Speaker 3: the fan bases just aren't gonna put up with it.
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  Speaker 3: They're not gonna handle Oh you went ten to two
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  Speaker 3: and then drop back to six and six or seven
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  Speaker 3: and five, you're fired. He's trying to get more teams
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  Speaker 3: in the playoff so they can stop firing as many coaches.
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  Speaker 3: That's what this is all about. They want to get
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  Speaker 3: to twenty four teams because this is the same reason
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  Speaker 3: in the NCAA. Everybody's oh, it's more money. Oh, you're
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  Speaker 3: gonna get more compelling games. Every person you had to
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  Speaker 3: the playoff makes it regular season less important. The SECIX
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  Speaker 3: championship meant nothing for either one of those teams.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing.
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  Speaker 3: It meant nothing for Ohio State and Indiana, none of them.
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  Speaker 3: So let's just do away with those games. If we're
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  Speaker 3: really talking that we want to expand, let's make let's
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  Speaker 3: make sure the actual regular season means something, where a
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  Speaker 3: loss means something. The only time it meant the only
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  Speaker 3: game it meant to anybody was Notre Dame first first
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  Speaker 3: week of the season. That's the only game of our
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  Speaker 3: second week, whatever, the week they played Miami.
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 3: That's the only game it really had bearing on the playoff.
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  Speaker 3: That were two teams eliminated each other, and we had
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  Speaker 3: way too many teams playing for that to be the case.
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  Speaker 3: And the reason they want to keep expanding it is, yes,
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  Speaker 3: they want more dollars in the pool, but it's because
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  Speaker 3: they're spending so many, so much money on coaches, and
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  Speaker 3: these ads can't help but being dumb ass. And I
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  Speaker 3: think I've said this multiple times, I like Greg Burn.
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  Speaker 2: He just extended Kaitlin de Boor. It's fifty to fifty.
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  Speaker 2: He's firing his ass this December.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I agree, he loses four.
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  Speaker 2: Games this year, and I guarantee you they got a fire.
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  Speaker 1: Oh man.
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  Speaker 3: So, but the conference commissioners are trying to bail out
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  Speaker 3: their dumb ass ads by expanding the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: That is what this is really about.
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  Speaker 3: They can say all the other smoke field coffee house
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  Speaker 3: crap they want to say. The truth is they're trying
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  Speaker 3: to expand this playoff because they want to have less
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  Speaker 3: coaches fired and give more coaches a chance.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, we missed the playoff by one game.
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  Speaker 3: Oh we were right there. So they don't have to
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  Speaker 3: fire this They don't have to fire this guy, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And I got one other thing. Any everybody saying Lane
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  Speaker 3: Kiffin must make the playoff, Man, I don't know about that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I look at this roster. I think it's
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  Speaker 2: a good roster. I don't think it's a great roster.
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  Speaker 3: I look at that schedule, and man, I find lights
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  Speaker 3: of ways for these dudes not to make the playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: And it ain't a big stretch. And it starts September
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  Speaker 3: nineteenth in Oxford. Because they lose that game, they still
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  Speaker 3: got the Longhorns. You know, there's a lot there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of stuff on that schedule for them to unpack.
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  Speaker 3: So anyway, this is gonna be a great season. It's
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  Speaker 3: gonna be a lot of fun. I think Texas Tech
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  Speaker 3: is gonna be great. There's a couple of teams I'm
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  Speaker 3: fascinated to get into as we do these conference breakdowns.
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  Speaker 3: I can't like Oklahoma State. You talk about a fascinating team,
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  Speaker 3: bringing in basically North Texas.
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  Speaker 2: Can they get Bowl eligible? Can they get over that
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  Speaker 2: five and a half?
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  Speaker 3: You think, oh man five and a half wins, they
• 9:39
  Speaker 3: ought to be able to do that. And then you
• 9:40
  Speaker 3: start looking at that schedule by fives where he stopped
• 9:43
  Speaker 3: because they got the Oregon Ducks week three. I mean
• 9:46
  Speaker 3: they're gonna get pounded in that game at home. So
• 9:48
  Speaker 3: I mean it's you know, there's some fascinating storylines. I
• 9:51
  Speaker 3: aink Tech is gonna be really good, even with their
• 9:54
  Speaker 3: freshman quarterback, you know, and he's not gonna be helped
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  Speaker 3: the early I still think they're gonna be really, really good.
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  Speaker 2: B Why you's got.
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  Speaker 3: Some good things going on, But can they can they
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  Speaker 3: capture the magic that they had last year? You know
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  Speaker 3: who's gonna be the Power five team? Ain't boys. He's
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  Speaker 3: gonna be really good. I don't think it's gonna be
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  Speaker 3: too lame.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 3: We saw Will Hall fell epically at Southern Miss and
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  Speaker 3: I was excited about that. His dad was a legendary
• 10:17
  Speaker 3: high school coach. And it's just because he was a
• 10:19
  Speaker 3: successful aid offensive coordinator under a great football coach doesn't
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  Speaker 3: mean he's gonna be able to continue that run. They
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  Speaker 3: Fritz and some are all two great football coaches down there,
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  Speaker 3: and is he able to continue that?
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  Speaker 2: I don't I don't know. I just don't see it.
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  Speaker 3: I think the Miami's gonna be great talking about the
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  Speaker 3: acc ain't care gonna be good again. Mensa is gonna
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  Speaker 3: be fascinating to watch there. You know, what what does
• 10:41
  Speaker 3: Duke do?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 3: With everything they lost, you know, it's what is what
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  Speaker 3: does Pat Fitz do?
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  Speaker 2: Which the most exciting hire to me? Love that hire.
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  Speaker 3: But man, you're talking about you. They're gonna they're gonna
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  Speaker 3: struggle this year because that program was a mess, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and he's just kind of getting back and and going.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm gonna tell you something.
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  Speaker 2: He's got it.
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  Speaker 3: You listen to his philosophy at Big ten Media Days,
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  Speaker 3: he was outstanding. He's a really likable guy. I think
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  Speaker 3: that's gonna translate. And much like Indiana, Michigan State's got money,
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  Speaker 3: they got a lot, they got some billionaire alumni. Do
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  Speaker 3: they get those guys motivating? Giving the way Indiana's big
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  Speaker 3: boosters have done, how long does it take fits to
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  Speaker 3: get to still fixed? So, man, there's some great storylines
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  Speaker 3: out there. I ain't even talked about Texas and cam Coleman.
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  Speaker 3: I ain't even talked about Oregon. Who might you know
• 11:32
  Speaker 3: known for all this offense in the Great Jerseys? Find
• 11:35
  Speaker 3: me four a better starting defensive linemen, then they're gonna
• 11:37
  Speaker 3: try it out on the field in eugeneus Fall. I
• 11:40
  Speaker 3: mean it's gonna be fun.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the rumor I heard that the defensive line at
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  Speaker 1: Oregon this year is an eight million dollar project.
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  Speaker 2: And what they do, I believe if.
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  Speaker 1: You look around the country, there's four, four or five
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  Speaker 1: starters when I was going through depth charts that came
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: off of that Michigan team that are starting in Power
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  Speaker 1: five programs, I mean big programs. And so I mean
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: bar Alexander, I'm just gonna point him out. Most people
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: don't know who the hell he is. That guy's been
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: everywhere and underperformed and he finally got to Oregon and
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: he's gonna end up getting paid in the NFL. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's learned how to play on the inside.
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  Speaker 1: He's got some toughness going.
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  Speaker 3: You got onto a Layla's brother on at the defensive end.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it, dude, there, I'm telling you, they're gonna
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  Speaker 3: be a fun football team to watch. But you look
• 12:21
  Speaker 3: at like top draft eligible players. Man, they don't have
• 12:24
  Speaker 3: a drift, they don't have a running back listed, they
• 12:26
  Speaker 3: don't have a wide receiver listed. Everybody's so used to
• 12:29
  Speaker 3: those guys just been electric. I still think they're gonna
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  Speaker 3: be great on offense because he's got great young talent.
• 12:33
  Speaker 3: But that defensive line and he plays, man, it travels
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  Speaker 3: and it plays. And you look in this era of
• 12:42
  Speaker 3: what we're getting to, and the defenses are what are
• 12:45
  Speaker 3: winning football games. In this era, that is what is
• 12:48
  Speaker 3: winning football games.
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  Speaker 2: You look at.
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  Speaker 3: Texas and Ohio State early in the year last year.
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  Speaker 3: Look look at that ball What won that ball game
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  Speaker 3: for Ohio State certainly won the offense, defense, defense, They
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  Speaker 3: dominated them. That Texas just couldn't do anything. And so
• 13:01
  Speaker 3: defenses matter. They're traveling. I guess what one Indiana the
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  Speaker 3: national title. As good as they were on offensive, great
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  Speaker 3: on defense, and so I think it is a tremendous,
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  Speaker 3: tremendous year, gonna be fun to watch by Jesney at U.
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  Speaker 2: C l Anna, I think I think they're gonna be
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  Speaker 2: really good. I think they're gonna be really good.
• 13:19
  Speaker 3: And so it's a and and the odd of the
• 13:22
  Speaker 3: is as bad of a situation as that kid got
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  Speaker 3: himself in when he left Tennessee trying to get more money.
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  Speaker 3: Guy has a kid landed in Clover, I mean total
• 13:32
  Speaker 3: total Clover because Chesney's a great football coach, and so
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: you know, he's brought with him a kid ran for
• 13:38
  Speaker 3: what fourteen hundred yards or something last year, the running
• 13:41
  Speaker 3: back he brought with him.
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  Speaker 2: So I mean it's a you know, he's got lots.
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  Speaker 3: I think there's some just some really really cool exciting storylines.
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  Speaker 3: What some are all do at Florida? What's DJ Onla?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, TJ Lagway do it at Baylor. I mean
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  Speaker 3: it's gonna be I mean it's gonna be fascinating.
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: So Sunbelt Billy, sun Belt Billy.
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: Sun Belt Billy's back belongs in the Sunbelts.
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  Speaker 1: Let's not go a couple more things I'll point out
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  Speaker 1: real quick, and they were actually going to try to
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  Speaker 1: give you some some actionable plays that we can get
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  Speaker 1: down here. First off, a couple of things you need
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  Speaker 1: to realize. PAC twelve is back of Oregon State and
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: Washington State carried the flag, and it is now a
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  Speaker 1: conference that every team in the conference ends in state.
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you've know that it or not,
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: but every team in there ends in state. They're also
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: doing something and so they'll be out there North Dakota State,
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  Speaker 1: who the Bison have the Kibbi Dome that they've got
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: up there in Fargo. Of course, it's an indoor stateium.
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: Never watched. It looks like you're playing football inside of
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: an aircraft hanger basically, but it's the It'll be interesting
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  Speaker 1: to see can they transition, because that's a program that's
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: historically been really good at the FCS level, but they
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: took a little bit of a step back the last
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: couple of years. And you're gonna figure and you've got
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: a rose to f don't have as many scholarships as
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: FBS programs, especially now with all the shifting that's been
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: going on, and so I'll be interesting to see if
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: their ground and pound style that they have been able
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: to manhandle folks at that level can transition up. I
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: don't think it's going too Personally, I think they're gonna
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: really run thin as the season goes on. You've got
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: the Mountain West that.
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: Northern Illinois has, Northern Illinois.
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: Greatest ship balls.
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: I mean, what are they doing? But anyway, Sack.
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: State took their place in the MAC. Imagine being a
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: kid from Central California playing at sack State who is
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: a not a good FCS program, and now you've got
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: a Tuesday night game in Toledo in November. It's gonna
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: be so cold for those guys.
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: Oh but how fascinating is it gonna be? I mean,
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: you can't. You just gotta love. You're gonna love watching
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: this stuff because look Sack State through it all around,
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: you know, through it all around the yard. I think
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: they're gonna Obviously, I think everybody's got a picked you know,
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: picked last in that league. But man, talking about look
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: at this, look at this schedule, because this is something
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: I was looking at at Eastern Michigan August twenty ninth.
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: That's how they rolled them out in that But look,
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: you talked about it.
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: They rolled.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: They go into Toledo day before they get those guys
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: at home on a Wednesday. Then they're at Central Michigan
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: the following Wednesday. Then they get an off week and
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: they got to go to Hawaii. I mean their October
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: stretch is at Bowling Green, home to Ohio, at Ball State,
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: Kent State, Toledo, and at Central Michigan.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: That rolls them through November eleventh.
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: I mean, those guys, some of these schools look into
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: September they play U Mass I don't there were some
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: of these schools. I guarantee you have the kids on
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: Sacramento have no idea where they are, couldn't find them
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: on a map. Where's Athens, Ohio. They wouldn't have any
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: of them idea. You need to hand them a magnifying glass.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: So you gotta lot of weird conference alignments. The other
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: weird thing I will put in if you want of
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: those that likes to play conference over under win totals
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: and you are going to be betting anything in the
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: Mountain West, pay attention to the book to determine how
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: they're going to grade your ticket. Because the Mountain West
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: has eleven game schedule. The twelfth game on their schedule
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: is Semantics. Those games are going to change at the
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: end of the season based on everything else, so that
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: they can try to align their team's best at the end.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: I'm not against trying unique things, so let's give it
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: a shot and see if it works. But you've got
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: some teams again. Boise State now is in the Pac twelve.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: They have dominated the Mountain West, and then in the
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Mountain West you've got upstart New Mexico, who I think
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: is going to be really good at them.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: Them and UNLV are two best teams in this league.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: I'll almost guarantee it.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: Well, and I agree with you, but I can't wait
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: to see UNLV Week one when they play Memphis. You've
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: got coach and because look, Memphis loses a coach, but
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: they got maybe a better coach that came in and
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: took over, brought some players in. It's gonna be interesting.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: They travel out to the desert and the two quarterbacks
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: you've got playing at UNLV this year, Jackson Arnold, who
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: does not throw the ball. He just sits and pats
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: it and pats it and pats it and pats it
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: and either gets his ass sacked or he tries to run,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: and then if you can't, if you don't have him,
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: you roll up my main man, Alex Orgie, who will
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: be at the backup quarterback at Michigan that you know
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: can't throw the ball, couldn't throw it in high school,
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: and he's the quarterback a U and LV.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: Now, look, Dan Mullen is a quarterback whisperer, and I
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: mean that he is a phenomenal quarterback coach. I am
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: stunned that some NFL teams have not hired him just
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: to coach quarterbacks, because I do think he's really, really good.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: His ego may be too big to work for somebody,
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: but Dan's talented when it comes to coaching quarterbacks and
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: his ability to spot talent. I'll tell you this, I
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: Jackson Arnold can't be able to throw the ball less
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: than Nicky Fitzgerald could. And Dan Mullen scored away to
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: figured it out a way to score almost forty on
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: LSU with that guy, and he had like a seventy
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: five yard touchdown passing that game.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Dan's a really good coach.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: He's gonna figure out which one of those guys gives
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: him the best ability or she could run the football
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: and was physical, and I'm gonna be stunned if both
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: these guys don't play some But I think, you know,
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: if if Arnold has remotely the ability that everybody's always
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: says he did, I can't figure out how in the
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: world that guy was as highly rated as he was.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: But I think he's also just been ruined by some
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: poor coaching. Can Dan fix him? That's a fascinating watch
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: to me. I think it's gonna be great, But I
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: think Dani, I think he'll still be able to score
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: some points, especially in that league, because he'll do some
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: things schematically that'll put them put him in a good position.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: Like I said, I've watched him with kids that couldn't
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: throw the football, I mean, help Chris Ralph. That guy
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: won nine games on fifty on Michigan in a ball
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: game with Chris Ralph at Mississippi State. For those of
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: you know who Chris Relph is, he was incapable of
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: the forward pass. I mean it is. It is truly unbelievable.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: He had some guys that probably might could have played
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: in the NFL if you could throw the football at all,
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: I mean at all.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: I'll give you I'll give you one. There's a couple more.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: I'll give you one more. Malachi Nelson, Okay, can you
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: if I will, I will give you one hundred dollars
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: if you can, and then I will put one hundred
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: dollars into your account and I will put the bet
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: down on whatever bet you want. If you can tell
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: me where he's going to school, and then I will
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: double down if you could tell me where he has
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: been at school, because I bet you didn't know he
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: was still in.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: College, did not know that he was that he was
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: still in college. I think that he's at Syracuse.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: I think because he started at SC right and that
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: where he started was sc.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Number two quarterback in the country coming out of high school.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Started it as CE. And the only reason.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: I know is at Syracuse is because I was actually
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: reading about them about three days ago and I'm like,
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: I know he was the guy that was there. I
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: can't remember where else as he.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Went to Boise State, I was gonna say was the
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: U n l V.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: But it was And then.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: He did go to a four letters school with started
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: with the U. He was at UTEP and he transferred
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: from UTEP to finish up his college career at the Q.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Oh, that is fabulous.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: Number two guy in the country has wandered and oblivion
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: at two straight stops, isn't that? While this is the
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: transfer portal, you know, this is the transfer portal in
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: a nutshell right here.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: So I'll give you one more I'll get Do you
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: know who the starting court unless you've done your unless
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: you've read the Sunbelt yet.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: I'm not done with the sun Belt yet.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Do you know who the starting quarterback is at Georgia Southern?
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: No, no, I don't, but I should because I have
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: seen this. Who is it?
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Max Johnson?
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: Did I read that? I read that the other day.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: That's right, Max Johnson's a like year nine of college football.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: I thought we were done with like nineteen with nineteen
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: year players. I mean, he's got to be twenty six.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: I think I think he actually played with his father.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: He's getting close now.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: I think his brother that was a tight end. That
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: was younger's already out of eligibility.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: You think he may be Yeah? This is He played
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: two years at A and M, two years at LSU,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: two years North Carolina and will wrap up this season
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: for the year seventy for the Fighting Clay Helton's in
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: year seven at Georgia Southern.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Love it, I love it.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: Clay Hilton has done a pretty good job at has
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: done a pretty good job at Georgia Southern.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's better. He's done much better there than I
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: I don't. I've always liked Clay Hilton personally.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, me too.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: His son's the backup quarterback actually on that team now,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: So yes, that's actually.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: See well, speaking of, it's gonna be a lot of
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: fun to get into. I have not gotten into the
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: belt yet, but it is gonna it is gonna be.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: It is gonna be fun to get into. There's just
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: so many great storylines that this is a chaotic year.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: I think we may see some crazy stuff. I mean,
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: I think the big ten I will tell you, like
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: I believe Ohio State last year was dom.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: They beat teams with great defense.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: I think that offense is gonna be equally as good
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: Man Chris Henry. If that guy's not as talented as
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: Jeremiah Smith, he's pretty damn close. I mean a dog.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: I mean, that guy's a freak. As theoid been raised
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: by pac Man Jones for the most part, that's who's
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: been working with him because you know pac Man and
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: Chris Chris Henry's dad, We're best friends on the Bengals.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: He dies and you know, starts raising the kids. Been
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: getting up working out with him five o'clock in the morning.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: For listeners that if you have not read the story
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: of how pac Man Jones just basically turned his own
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: life around because his friend died to help raise his sun.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: It's a great story. You should definitely dig into it.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: It is highly worth the time. But man, that offense
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: Julian's saying is extremely accurate. You give him those two guys. Now,
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: one thing I'm not a huge fan of. But remember
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: they brought in an NFL guy and I'm like, oh,
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: this is gonna be a disaster, and it worked great.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: Here comes Arthur Smith in offensive at the offensive coordinator spot.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: Thank god hit the road, brother, I'm glad to have
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: you out of Pittsburgh. But look, do they start throwing
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: to the tight end because they got those dudes in
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: Ohio state falling off of trees. They only throw to them,
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: and they've had what they have two or three drafted
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: last year. I mean, Arthur Smith's gonna use them. What's
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: that do for those wide outs? And of course you
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: go be able to run the football. They got four
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: out of five offensive lineman back. Ohio State's gonna be
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: damn good. I've seen teams picking them third. Yeah, they
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: may finish third in the Big Ten. They're asked me
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: one at all. They're good because they do go to Indiana.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: You know it's you know, so it's a game they
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: can lose. But man, this I'm telling you, there's gonna
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: be some good stories. I think Texas and Georgia are
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: both gonna be really, really good. I will tell you,
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: and mix in Notre Dame. That's the six best teams
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: in the country.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: If Sart doesn't make the playoffs.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: This year, you need to move on.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: It's gonna nine.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: And three he doesn't make the playoff and and man,
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: I think we may be a it's gonna say he
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: can't get it done to me. I mean, because it's
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: not like this guy's a young, first time head coach.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: He's been the head coach at USC and Washington before this.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: Those are big time jobs. You should have learned from
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: the epic mistake you made out there and be ready
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: to roll. It's either time to pee or get off
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: the pot on this deal in Austin. I mean it's
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: time to take the step and man, look, let's roll
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: another hour and a half down the road.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: What can Marcel Reid do?
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: Because I think that team's gonna I think that defense
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: is gonna be good. I think they've got talent, but
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: they're gonna go as Marcel Reid goes. He couldn't complete
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: a pass against Miami. They were significantly more talented than Miami.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: Last year, Read was awful at home, So I mean,
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: what's he do? So there's some great I'm telling you,
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: Mark great storylines. I have to say I hate the portal.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: Everybody knows that, no reason to lament it. I wish
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: we would just limit how much guys could play. Got
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: no problem with guys getting paid. Do I think the
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: money's out of control one hundred percent. But more power
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: to you, brother.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: If somebody's dumb ass enough to give you five million,
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: take the five million in run, you know it is.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: What it is. I think it's dumb.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: I think we're setting kids up for a life of failure.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: But hey, man, that's that's I'm not there. I'm not there, dad,
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: You know, So that if people can go on sooner
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: or later. They got to They gotta learn how to
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: handle success at some point. If somebody wants to give
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: you the money, take it. But I think we got
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: to do something about this transfer portal where we're talking
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: guys playing four schools four years and things like that.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: And hopefully this college deal passes because it does have
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: some restrictions on that.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Uh it had.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: And also another thing, the Lane Kiffin rule is in
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: this deal no leaving mid season. Boy at the college
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: football season also says got to finish. I think it
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: was January eighth, January eighth or ninth, man, that's early.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: They leave open the Nevada I mean the uh, the
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: Army Navy weekend. So I mean, dude, you're gonna be
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: talking about the playoffs starting first week of December if
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: they're gonna get them done.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I said, I think this. I think the
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: game is still evolving. It's like I said that, But
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: it's really hard for me because I used to dig
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: in like I mean, I.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Took Fosters memorized me too.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: I have had to completely change how I try to
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: get ready for college football season now, and it's to
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: the point where you.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: I don't even learn names anymore. I learned talent on field.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to study who's putting the most talent on
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: the field. How does that measure up against the other guy?
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: What's that do for the point spreads? Where are we
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: gonna make money? It's a much more statistical game where
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: I used to feel like like you, I knew, especially
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: early in the season. Man, this roster's really good, and
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: this team's going on the road and nobody knows who
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: the hell they are and they got a chance to win.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: It's early. You can't do that anymore. I mean, it's
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: those games don't happen. It's like, the best teams are
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: the best teams, and you know, unless you've just done
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: a poor job figuring out their transfer portal class and
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: we're getting more information on the portal and that's easier
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: to find and things like that.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: You're right, it's totally different how you evaluate.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: So I have I'm gonna we're gonna keep this one
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: short because we're gonna come back with some detailed We're
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: gonna come back with some long cast because I mean,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: you've got eighteen teams in the in the Big ten,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: and I mean it's good, I mean good, Yeah, I've
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: got three tickets in pocket to start the season that
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: I would recommend taking a look at if you like, season,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: if you like. But in the futures, we did real
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: well with futures last year. I went back and look
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: scot we picked were we were eighty percent of the
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: teams that we picked to get into the playoff got
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: into the tournament. So it created some great hedge positions.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Obviously we had a great future there on Miami that
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: we swept up right there at the end. And that's
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: all good stuff. And we are here to share and
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: to make money. I listened to a podcast the other day.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: I like their content. I won't go on who it is,
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: but the guys always talking about the you know, I
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: got two I got I got two nuggets on in nugget,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: you know, telling you how big he's betting on these things.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: I'm like, bro, be serious, You're not dropping that much
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: money on this stuff. You in media, you don't even
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: know what the fuck you're talking about. But anyway, here's
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: my point. A couple of plays. I like number one
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Texas Tech. You can still get it even money at
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: most casinos and most books to win the Big twelve.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: The reason I like that play is because they're double
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: digit favorites in every single game that they play this year.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: They've probably got the easiest schedule in the Big Twelve.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Their biggest games they're gonna have to get over is
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Week three they host Houston. I think the Houston team
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: will be improved. I do like Connor Wegman, I love
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Willie Fritz, but I think the rest of the Big
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: twelve conference is actually a a little bit. It's better
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: than it was last year. But I think Texas Tech
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: could win that conference with one loss, maybe even two
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: and get themselves in. Their defense is going to be
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: just as good, if not better than it was last year.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: You'll learn all these kids' names as you get rolling.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: They've got a really deep running back room, and they've
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: got an NFL tight end, and so I like this team.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: You can get them at even money. It sets up
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: for a great hedge position because even if they make
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: the championship game, you're gonna get whoever they're playing, probably
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: at like a plus three sixty because they're going to
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: be seven or eight point dogs, and so you can
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: easily set up a hedge where you can eat back
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: that unit and still make a profit on that, So
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: that would be play number one for me. Play number
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: two that I've got in pocket, give me the Notre
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Dame fighting Irish to win the national championship. Here's my logic.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: You can get them at some books. As high as
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: eight to one is what I've seen, but six six
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: and a half of the one is kind of what
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: you're starting to see more across the board. Notre Dame
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: schedule is not what it normally. They avoid. They don't
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: have USC on their schedule. They wiped out a couple
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: of other games that are their big rivals. The ACC
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: is not great and they don't catch the most difficult
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: parts of it. They've got the BYU game where they
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: have to go out to that. They go out to
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Utah to play in that one. It'll be the biggest
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: game that's played in Provo in forever as far as
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: I can remember. But this Notre Dame team is good
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: on paper. They've got a deep roster. I like the
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: fact that they've got a quarterback that's coming back after
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: getting all that time from last year, and Miami comes
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: up to Notre Dame this year, and so any other
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: thing too go back and look, they've changed how you
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: get into the playoffs. They have set this thing up
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: for Notre Dame to get in. I mean, the playoffs
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: structure is built to allow Notre Dame a pathway to
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: get in so as to possibly avoid what happened to
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: him last year. They want that brand. This is a
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: made for entertainment event. Let's never forget this. They want
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Notre Dame to be in there so you can get
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: them at six to one. Reason I bring that up,
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: They'll be in every game they play all season. If
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: they do make it into the tournament, they're either gonna
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: have a host, They're either gonna be home that first week,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: or they're gonna get a bye. And so even if
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: you were to play a three game rolling money line
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  Speaker 1: parlay on them, you're not gonna get six to one
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  Speaker 1: odds to win that because they're gonna be favored in
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: all those games that would be there. And so it
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: sets you up with a nice position that you can
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: build a hedge in and you can go from there.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: And then lastly, Scott, give me the Iowa Hawk guys
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: to win sober seven games. Let's skill Parker with my life.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: I don't know that offense is ever gonna do anything,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: but man, that defense can play you home field advantage
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: in Iowa. You go back and watch the one game
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Indiana really struggled in last year. Where were they They
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: were at Kinnick. That's right, it's tough to win there.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: That defense travels. It always has. If you go look
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: at that Iowa roster, it doesn't have a lot of
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: flux in it. And so I will take Iowa to
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: go over their win total. I almost bet it every
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: single year. The only thing I'm upset about this year
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: is I don't think the Iowaiwa State game is gonna
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: be very good, and that's usually one of my favorite
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: under the radar games early in the season is a
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Syhawk game. So those are my three tickets that I've
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: got in pockets so far.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: Interesting like the I like the way you think I'm
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: gonna give you one from my favorite league. Of course,
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: I ak Oklahoma sooners that you look around you can
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: and and you look at DraftKings. It's a good place
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: to bet over under win totals because they got a
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: swinging they got a swinging margin.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: And you can bet those nationwide.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: I know you can't, but this is the first place
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: I found them, but which is why I like it.
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: And I like them a lot at that seven and
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: a half number because I think, I look I like
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: them at you get plus one fifty six over eight
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: and a half.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: I like, this team's gonna be really good.
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: The reason this number is as low as it is
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: is they got at Michigan and at Georgia, and I
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: think a lot of people are chalk on those up
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: as two losses. I don't think they lose at Michigan.
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: Uh that's my that's my personal opinion. But they've also
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: gotten New Mexico sandwiched in there, which is a potential upset.
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: So I think that's the reason the schedule is. But
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: then you look the rest of the way. Of course,
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: they play Texas neutral field like always. Anchor's a lot
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: of people that think they could be two and three,
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: but they may not lose after that. The road games
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: are at Mississippi State, at Florida, and at Missouri. They
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: got they should drill all of those teams. The only
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: problem with Missouri that's eight straight to end the year,
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: and that's gonna and as we've talked about adding auseum
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: on this podcast, that's a tough way. But I like Sooners.
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: There as an over under wind to I agree we
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: would notre Dame. The schedule just sets up so fabulous.
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: How awesome is it gonna be watching the Canes roll
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: up there first week in November. Baby, it's gonna be Chili.
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: It's gonna that's gonna be a great ball game, tremendous
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: ball game. Uh that we'll get to watch. Uh we
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: get to see Fitz as I talked about earlier, play
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: them early in September. I think that's third week they play.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: Uh so some some fun stuff. I ain't Oklahoma is
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: a sleeper in the Southeastern Conference because I think that
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: defense is gonna be better.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: They need they need material to stay healthy. Have y'all
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: seen he looks like it?
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: You see Trinidad Chambla's post on on on Twitter. They
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: picture had a picture of Materir warming up and he's shredded.
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: I mean he has gotten. He is in tremendous shape.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: I mean six pack, rocked up. You know, good looking
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: kid and tread that Chadlis like bro.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: It's fabulous.
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: I mean, just a great, great quote. These kids get
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: along better. Another thing I want to tell people, we
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: love to hate the rivalries. In college sports. Camrio, Taylor
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: and Trinidad Chandler's room together at the Manning Passing Academy
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: and by his own admission, Camrio or Trinidad Champlas is
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: on admission. Camorrio was asked about it. They were sitting
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: around watching film. Chamblas is teaching him how to watch film.
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: He said, I'm really good as I'm good at watching film.
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: He was like, man, you find things out blah blah
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: blah blah. And he talks about how much Chambler's helped
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: him to understand. I got to dig in. Well, Taylor's
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: always had a very good work ethic is what everybody
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: around the program says. But I think it's fascinating we
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: chalk so much up into these rivalries. Let me tell
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: you something. They may still mean something to the fan bases,
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: they don't mean jack shit to these kids. These kids
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: are in and out their friends. The ball game's over,
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: it's over, they're hanging out. It's not like it used
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: to be. I mean, it really is. I don't I
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: think the brawls and things like that. I think you
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: want to see less and less of that because I
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: don't think these kids care. They're getting paid. They're all friends,
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: they're camps together, they know each other. I mean it's wild,
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: Like I look around at all all these kids in
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: North Texas. My son knows from playing seven on seven
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: and you know play I mean kid football.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: I mean just I mean.
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: I go back and look at all the kids that
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: have played number one quarterback in the countries at Alan
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: Chases Chason Oseck. I mean, it's known that kid for years.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: You know, I didn't even realize that played against each
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: other when they were young. You know, it's crazy what
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: all you know, how all these kids are all exposed
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: to each other. It just doesn't matter. They're friends. And
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: yeah they're out there playing hard. Doesn't mean they're not
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: playing and don't want to win their competitors. They want
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: it for bragging rights over their buddy as much as anything.
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: But all these kids are friends.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, now I agree with you. So anyway, folks
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: are we'll get this one out. We'll probably be dropping
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: a couple of these a week. I have no idea
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: what days of the week we'll be popping these out
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: as the season gets rolling. Wednesdays we'll be dropping every Wednesday.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: We'll have a podcast for twenty straight weeks getting everything
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: rolling there. We're gonna try to lay some nuggets out.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: There's a chance we might have some late time plays
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: that we'll be putting out there as well. But stick
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: with us. We love y'all, Share us with your friends.
• 37:44
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• 37:46
  Speaker 1: little bit different, but we'll have some fun along the way.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: Try to make some bucks and enjoy us some college
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: football season. Scottie, I'm excited. I'm excited.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: I'm excited.
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: If anybody can tell I'm excited, then hell, you don't
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: know me at all. You had never listened to this podcast.
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: Be fun.
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: Great to get it back. World Cup kind of got
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: my juices flowing a little bit. It's kind of fun
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: to watch.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: It just gave us a little entertainment over the summer
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: here in the States.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: It was great.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: It's interesting you say that. I'll tell you this, and
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: I'm not name dropping. I was at Circa last week
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: signing up for Circa Millions in the Survivor contest, and
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: I'm standing there at the Megabar. If you've ever been
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: to Circa, it's it's huge. Yeah, and there's nobody there
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: because it's dead summer it's the it's the only time
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: of year ago when there's nobody in Vegas and I'm
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: standing there and Doug Kazarian comes walking up and he's
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: standing next to me. You know, I'm talking about the
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: ESPN guy that did esp well randomly. He went to
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: high school and grew up with a buddy of mine.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: So I like, hey, are you Doug Kazarian? He was
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: like yeah, And I was like, I think he thought
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: I was gonna fanboy and I was like, you remember
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: such and such. He was like, yeah, go he's one
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: of my dear friends. He started laughing. So we talked
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: for a while and uh, he made an analogy I
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: had never heard before, but it made a lot of
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: sense because after just watching the World Cup, he said,
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: you know, because we were talking about what we like
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: to bet and everything, and he said, oh yeah, and
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: I said college football. He goes, Yep, he goes, that
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: is America's World Cup. He goes every well, he goes,
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: but we get it every year, and he goes. It
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: ends in January and then for the next seven months
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: all we do is think about it, get ready for it,
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: and then it starts and come August, everybody's got a
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: shot because it's like we're all in it together to
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: try to get home, and he goes, and you've got
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: these vested interest in it, just like you're cheered.
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: And every and every fan base is like their country, Yeah,
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: gets ripped out when they're team's out of it.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: And then you said, but the other thing too, that's
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: different between the college game and the pro game in
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: this sense is as the season gets rolled, these storylines
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: start developing. You've got players stories that come out, coaches
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: stories how it's all going to work and get woven together.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: But the only time of the year that's even tolerable
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: to what to be around college football for me is
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: once week zero hits and it starts, because from that
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: point on is the only time all the noise is gone.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: We're not talking about commission you know, changing conferences, we're
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: not talking about all the other things that are strange
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: in college football. Once you lock in, when you get
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: to August until let's you know, until we get to
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: the end, that's the only time that there's no noise
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: and you just get to enjoy the game, bet on
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: the game, and just laugh at some of the stuff
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: that goes on in college football because It is a
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: made for TV sport and it is fantastic all the
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: way through. Scotty, I'm looking forward to it, brother, one
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: more year. Let's keep this thing rolling.
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: Let's do it.
• 40:33
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• 40:38
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• 40:41
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