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SEC Source ADMITS Something I Did NOT Expect BEFORE Clemson Tigers vs LSU | Lane Kiffin Drama · SEC Football Addiction

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  Speaker 1: All right, welcome back to SEC Football Addiction. We are
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  Speaker 1: presented by PrizePix. I've got Chris Phillips, SEC Unfiltered. And
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  Speaker 1: before we talk about anything else, Chris, how good does
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  Speaker 1: it feel to have football back?
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  Speaker 2: Dude, I'm so grateful that we've actually got football on
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  Speaker 2: our teams. Week zero hit like crack.
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  Speaker 3: By the way. It was incredible.
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  Speaker 4: That Dublin game?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it was funny. The games don't even have
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  Speaker 3: to be that good.
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  Speaker 2: If that game's taking place in like week seven or eight,
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  Speaker 2: that Dublin game's a snooze fest, putting me to sleep.
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  Speaker 2: But just because it was kind of the first college
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  Speaker 2: football game of the season I was glued to that
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  Speaker 2: like I was watching the Super Bowl so yeah the
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  Speaker 2: fact that we get you know obviously that was the
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  Speaker 2: appetizer now we get the main course and we're off
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  Speaker 2: and running so it just you.
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  Speaker 3: Know after a long long.
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  Speaker 2: Offseason TJ full of TROs and injunctions and protect college
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  Speaker 2: sports acts and etc etc I'm so happy that we're
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  Speaker 2: just getting to football.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we were going to talk games, but I
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  Speaker 1: do want to– we're fine. You just told me how
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  Speaker 1: grateful you are that football is back, but here I
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  Speaker 1: go back down the TRO route. The SEC said that
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  Speaker 1: they're going to comply with what was said in this
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  Speaker 1: whole pro player drama that's going on, but that they
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  Speaker 1: were going to fight on Thursday, that they were not
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  Speaker 1: going to lay down.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Man, I don't, I mean, LSU certainly is, is not
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  Speaker 1: going to run guys out there that were in the
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  Speaker 1: NFL in this game.
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  Speaker 4: One, right.
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  Speaker 1: Or, or, or are they like, do they, do you
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  Speaker 1: think they want some resolution so they don't end up
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  Speaker 1: screwing themselves for later? We haven't heard from the CFP
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  Speaker 1: if they're going to do anything like, what do you
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  Speaker 1: think is going to happen this weekend? I know the
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  Speaker 1: answer to that is who the hell knows, but give
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  Speaker 1: me your take here.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think what's interesting is there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: layers to it, TJ, and you just laid them out,
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  Speaker 2: but You have to ask yourself, is the juice worth
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  Speaker 2: the squeeze here? I think that if you can remove
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  Speaker 2: the biases, whichever way you have them for Lane Kiffin,
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  Speaker 2: if you listen to the words that he said and
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  Speaker 2: you take them at face value, he has said here lately, hey,
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  Speaker 2: we've been in constant communication with the SEC. Everything that
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  Speaker 2: we're doing, essentially, they're running by them, and then that's
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  Speaker 2: how they're operating. So I would assume the moment they
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  Speaker 2: get first word that, hey, if you play these guys,
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  Speaker 2: a negative outcome is possible, meaning we just saw some news,
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  Speaker 2: as you and I were about to talk about, Maybe
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  Speaker 2: teams are going to boycott games or maybe there will
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  Speaker 2: be penalties enforced, whatever.
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  Speaker 3: Here's the deal.
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  Speaker 2: LSU fans applaud this because they say, I love that
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  Speaker 2: my head coach is doing everything possible to produce wins.
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  Speaker 2: He's doing everything possible to strengthen the roster. He's doing
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  Speaker 2: exactly what he's paid to do and what a coach
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  Speaker 2: should do. But the moment where The things that he's
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  Speaker 2: doing could potentially harm LSU football.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's when you got to pull back.
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  Speaker 2: So it feels like a situation of who is going
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  Speaker 2: to budge first necessarily, right? So I do not think,
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  Speaker 2: because again, you think for the long term, it almost
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  Speaker 2: feels like TJ, it's not even about the players anymore.
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  Speaker 2: It's almost like two sides are both peacocking and one
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  Speaker 2: just wants to kind of, you know, puff their chest
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  Speaker 2: out of the other. And I, you know, we'll see
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  Speaker 2: what happens on Thursday, what the resolution is. And I
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  Speaker 2: know it's more than an LSU thing, TJ. I can't
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  Speaker 2: stress that enough. LSU fans will come down or jump
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  Speaker 2: down your neck for saying that.
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  Speaker 3: It's all LSU.
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  Speaker 2: It's not just LSU, but they have become essentially the
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  Speaker 2: official mascots of this thing. Like they have become the
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  Speaker 2: poster child of this. Lane Kiffin has been the most outspoken.
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  Speaker 2: LSU is the biggest brand tie to this thing. But
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  Speaker 2: certainly I think there's almost, if not 300 players that
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  Speaker 2: are fighting this. So I think you have to believe
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  Speaker 2: that at the moment that Lane Kiffin and LSU stop
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  Speaker 2: and think to themselves, this could be a negative. This
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  Speaker 2: could be something that penalizes us down the stretch that
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  Speaker 2: gets in the way of our ultimate goal, which is
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  Speaker 2: making the college football playoff competing for a national championship.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's when you've got to retreat and wave
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  Speaker 2: the white flag. Cause I mean, let's face it, DJ,
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  Speaker 2: it'd be one thing if this was over Sam Leavitt,
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  Speaker 2: but it's not, it's a guy that's going to be
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  Speaker 2: in the tight end rotation and the defensive line rotation.
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  Speaker 2: It's really not going to impact their football team one
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  Speaker 2: way or another, which is why I keep thinking Is
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  Speaker 2: there more to this? Is there some LSU wants to
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  Speaker 2: stick it to the SEC type of mentality? And I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if that's the case. But, yeah, we got
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  Speaker 2: a mess on our hands. I'm curious to see who
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  Speaker 2: wins out in the end, LSU versus the SEC. Who
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  Speaker 2: knew that would be a talking point? And, TJ, you
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  Speaker 2: know as well as I do, I know we're probably
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  Speaker 2: going to talk about it, the LSU-Clemson game. If LSU
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  Speaker 2: comes out sluggish or they struggle, and even if it's
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  Speaker 2: in a win– You know as well as I do
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  Speaker 2: people are going to point to this and say, well,
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  Speaker 2: if LSU had been focused on the task at hand,
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  Speaker 2: maybe they would have played better.
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  Speaker 3: They would have looked better. You know it's coming. It's
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  Speaker 3: the inevitable.
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  Speaker 2: So, yeah, it's an absolute mess. TJ, I'm to the point,
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  Speaker 2: last thing on it, I don't even care who trots
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  Speaker 2: out there anymore. At kickoff, TJ, just hand me a roster,
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  Speaker 2: and I will gladly watch and talk about those guys
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  Speaker 2: on the field.
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  Speaker 3: Just get me to the games at this point.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was enjoying FCS football on Friday night with
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  Speaker 1: William and Mary and all that.
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  Speaker 3: For the love of the game, TJ. For the love
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  Speaker 3: of the game.
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  Speaker 1: I just want to see guys hit each other. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we all have our opinions on what's right, what's wrong.
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  Speaker 1: We all have our opinions, but just get me to Saturday.
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  Speaker 4: The SEC, I guess, on Thursday night with Missouri. But
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  Speaker 4: get me to this week's football.
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  Speaker 3: TJ, we're getting closer to the breaking point in college football.
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  Speaker 3: That is for darn sure. We are. We are.
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  Speaker 2: We're not going to go another five years with issues
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  Speaker 2: like this arising.
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  Speaker 3: It's something that's got to give at some point.
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  Speaker 1: What I think my final thought on, and we'll talk
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  Speaker 1: about the game, is exactly what you just said. And
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  Speaker 1: I know these situations are different, so I know the
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  Speaker 1: LSU fans, don't mishear me on this and think that
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  Speaker 1: these are the same situations. It's almost like you've got
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  Speaker 1: to apologize before you say something. When the Big 12
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  Speaker 1: stepped in, Texas tech kept fighting and Swordsby kept fighting.
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  Speaker 1: And when the big 12 stepped in and said, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: this ain't going to happen. You saw how quickly they
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  Speaker 1: backed off. And I almost wonder, like you just said,
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  Speaker 1: if LSU, I think it was a great point by you.
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  Speaker 1: If LSU really knows that there's a real detriment, whether
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  Speaker 1: the college football playoff committee says something or the sec
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  Speaker 1: is able to get a small winning court.
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  Speaker 4: And that's where you'll see LSU say, Hey man, we tried,
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  Speaker 4: we tried to do it for you. We're out, man.
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  Speaker 4: Like let's go be Clemson's ass.
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  Speaker 1: So Speaking of that, let's talk about actual football because
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  Speaker 1: that's coming this week too. Thankfully, the biggest week zero
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  Speaker 1: matchup was LSU versus the SEC.
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  Speaker 4: I like that. The Clemson Tigers come to town.
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  Speaker 1: So I know you kind of represent, not kind of,
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  Speaker 1: you represent the SEC side of things. Personally, I think
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  Speaker 1: Clemson is going to be a little bit better than
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  Speaker 1: people are giving them credit for. Now, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: they're a college football playoff team. I don't even know
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  Speaker 1: that I feel confident that they're going to compete for
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  Speaker 1: the ACC. To me, that feels like it's Miami's and
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  Speaker 1: then everybody else's, but we'll see. I've said that before.
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  Speaker 1: I do think they're going to be better than people think.
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  Speaker 1: They're on the ground, but if they catch these, they
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  Speaker 1: count too. I'm going to take Kiwan Lacy at Ole
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  Speaker 1: Miss to score a touchdown this weekend. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: take Cam Cook at West Virginia. I think they're going
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  Speaker 1: to be a ground-and-pound type team, and I'm.
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  Speaker 4: Going to take Mark Fletcher.
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  Speaker 1: I think Miami's going to score a ton of points
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  Speaker 1: on the road at Stanford, and he's going to get
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  Speaker 1: in the end zone without a doubt.
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  Speaker 4: Give me all three of them.
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  Speaker 1: there this season. We appreciate them for their support. And
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  Speaker 1: I do think that they're going to give LSU a
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  Speaker 1: game for as long as LSU will let them hang around.
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  Speaker 4: I think when you think about the.
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  Speaker 4: All of the new pieces.
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  Speaker 1: I don't really think too much about the off-field distraction
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  Speaker 1: stuff because we saw how well Ole Miss locked in
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  Speaker 1: with similar off-season distractions last year in the playoffs. So
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  Speaker 1: I do have a lot of faith in players to
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  Speaker 1: just block that out and go play. But I do
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  Speaker 1: think with all the new pieces and if they don't
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  Speaker 1: start the season super fast, which I know they got
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  Speaker 1: the win in week one last year, but they've historically
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  Speaker 1: not started the season super fast. I think Clemson can
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  Speaker 1: hang around and make this a game far longer than
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  Speaker 1: LSU wants them to. And I think we're in store
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  Speaker 1: for at least a good half to three quarters to
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  Speaker 1: maybe a full game on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, TJ, one quick thing I want to point out, too.
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  Speaker 2: You were mentioning what the College Football Playoff Committee does.
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  Speaker 2: I was just going to add to your point. They
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  Speaker 2: left out Notre Dame for far less. So, yeah, mess
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  Speaker 2: around and see what can happen there. But no, speaking
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  Speaker 2: on the game, I don't think you're wrong here from
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  Speaker 2: the standpoint of all the conversation and chatter has been
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  Speaker 2: around LSU and Lane Kiffin, and I totally get it. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, college game day in town, Death Valley is
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  Speaker 2: going to be completely unhinged and you know, the top's
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  Speaker 2: going to boil over when toe meets leather on this thing.
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  Speaker 2: And Elaine Kiffin era in Baton Rouge finally gets underway and,
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  Speaker 2: you know, getting to see how all these new pieces come.
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  Speaker 3: Together, especially offensively, I think is the thing that's most fascinating.
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  Speaker 2: I think the thing that gives me confidence, because I
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  Speaker 2: am picking LSU to win this football game.
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  Speaker 3: And I do think they pull away.
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  Speaker 2: I think the only question will be, does LSU cover
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  Speaker 2: a double digit point spread is Blake Baker and that
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  Speaker 2: LSU defense.
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  Speaker 3: I think I have a chance to be really, really special.
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  Speaker 2: And you're asking God for, if you're Clemson and Christopher
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  Speaker 2: Bozina to come in. I, I like the receiver room
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  Speaker 2: for Clemson. I think, like you mentioned, I think they
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  Speaker 2: could be a little bit better than people are expecting.
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  Speaker 2: I just think most people, Dabo Sweeney's no longer getting
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  Speaker 2: the benefit of the doubt, right? Like, I think most
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  Speaker 2: people are fading him. Most people are fading his program.
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  Speaker 2: But they've got some weapons on the outside. It is
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  Speaker 2: a strength for LSU, of course, that secondary. I think
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  Speaker 2: just asking Christopher Vecina against that Clemson defense to come
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  Speaker 2: in and put up big numbers.
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  Speaker 3: Is probably asking too much.
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  Speaker 2: But if it takes some time for LSU to gel offensively,
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  Speaker 2: if Clemson defensively with Sammy Brown leading the way, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: at linebacker. If they can do some things, disrupt some
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  Speaker 2: plays and make some big turnovers, if you will.
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  Speaker 3: Could turn this game on its head.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we've seen, I've been in Death Valley when
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  Speaker 2: it went from deafening to dead quiet because of the
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  Speaker 2: performance on the field. And that goes for any road atmosphere.
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  Speaker 2: And here's the other thing, too, T.J., I throw in there.
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  Speaker 2: It is so easy to look at this week one
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  Speaker 2: slate in the SEC and say the SEC is going 16-0.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it is, right?
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  Speaker 2: Like, there's a ton of Dare I say cupcake games
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  Speaker 2: or your typical week ones, if you will, just kind
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  Speaker 2: of easing your way into the season.
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  Speaker 3: And you got the LSU. game, you've got Auburn-Baylor, and
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  Speaker 3: you've got Ole Miss-Louisville.
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  Speaker 2: If we learn anything from week zero or if you've
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  Speaker 2: learned anything over your lifetime being a college football fan,
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  Speaker 2: openers don't always go the way you think they're going.
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  Speaker 3: Because here's the deal. We've never known less about these teams.
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  Speaker 3: than they do right now.
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  Speaker 2: So TJ, I do have the SEC going 16-0. I
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  Speaker 2: am fully prepared for one of the big three games
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  Speaker 2: on opening weekend to not go the way that I
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  Speaker 2: think it's going to go. And I think we need
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  Speaker 2: to imagine a world and accept the reality that there
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  Speaker 2: is a reality where that could be this game down
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  Speaker 2: in Baton Rouge. I am one that I'm not nearly
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  Speaker 2: as high on LSU with some others. I just think
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  Speaker 2: year one, Elaine Kiffin, a lot of new pieces. There
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  Speaker 2: were 50 new players in this roster, a lot of
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  Speaker 2: talented players, but it's going to take some time for
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  Speaker 2: it to gel and for it to mesh. And so
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  Speaker 2: do I think Clemson can make this a close game?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: But I just think the optics of asking Christopher Messina
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  Speaker 2: and that offense to go in there, Chad Morris, a
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  Speaker 2: Chad Morris offensive scheme. I mean, I think Blake Baker
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  Speaker 2: is going to run circles around him. So I do
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  Speaker 2: think this could be a close game into the later
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  Speaker 2: stages of the game, but maybe it's a late touchdown
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  Speaker 2: by LSU.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe it's a scoop and score. Maybe it's a pick six,
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  Speaker 3: some big play.
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  Speaker 2: They can make it look like a little bit wider
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  Speaker 2: margin than it was, but I, I have a really
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  Speaker 2: hard time.
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  Speaker 3: I said this on our show, TJ.
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  Speaker 2: I said over the offseason that Clemson had a 0% chance.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's a negative 1,000% chance that Clemson walks
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  Speaker 2: into Baton Rouge and beats LSU in Lane Kiffin's season opener.
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  Speaker 3: I have a really, really hard time picturing that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I like LSU.
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  Speaker 1: I think the Vic Burley situation is actually really big
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  Speaker 1: for this matchup. LSU is going to want to run
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  Speaker 1: the ball to take some of that pressure off of
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  Speaker 1: Levitt and just establish kind of dominance early. And Clemson's
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  Speaker 1: defensive tackle, unfortunately handed them a really good pass on
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  Speaker 1: how to do that with some off field decisions that
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  Speaker 1: will most likely keep him out of this game. I
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  Speaker 1: haven't seen anything that says he's officially out, but I
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  Speaker 1: think everything Dabo stands on and preaches, it would be
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  Speaker 1: pretty surprising if he was like, Oh yeah, he was
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  Speaker 1: suspended the last two weeks of practice and he's back
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  Speaker 1: for our biggest game of the year. I think not
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  Speaker 1: that that one piece is, is why I think LSU wins.
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  Speaker 1: I had them winning this game before he was out.
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  Speaker 1: But if you're just adding another thing on top of it,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a really tough hill to climb unless
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  Speaker 1: LSU makes mistakes and leaves them in it, which again,
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  Speaker 1: you could say that for every get every single game
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  Speaker 1: that happens this weekend. If you make enough mistakes, whatever
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  Speaker 1: that threshold is to let the other team stick around,
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  Speaker 1: then you're probably in trouble.
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  Speaker 4: So a big win. Do you have a score yet?
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  Speaker 4: Have you done that yet? This way it's early in
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  Speaker 4: the week.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't, I do.
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  Speaker 2: If I'm trying to recall, I'd have to go back
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  Speaker 2: and look. I think my score was something, and I'll
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  Speaker 2: just throw an updated score in here now. It was
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  Speaker 2: a wide margin. Again, I think LSU wins. I think
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  Speaker 2: LSU covers. I'll take LSU 31, Clemson. Oh, no, I
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  Speaker 2: know what my score was. I had them doubling them up.
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  Speaker 2: Give me LSU 34, Clemson 17. I had LSU doubling
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  Speaker 2: up Clemson in this game. Again, I could see a
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  Speaker 2: game 20-17 going into the fourth quarter, but I think
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  Speaker 2: at some point LSU will find their stride And I
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  Speaker 2: just think Clemson will get worn down. And so, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think that's Clemson's hope. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: they're going to put up a lot of points against
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  Speaker 2: Blake Baker's defense. Maybe LSU stumbles out the.
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  Speaker 3: Gate, like you mentioned. I mean, maybe it's a TCU situation.
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  Speaker 2: Double-digit penalties over 100 yards and penalty yardage. You just
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  Speaker 2: never know in week ones. But I just think there
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  Speaker 2: are too many things that would have to go right
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  Speaker 2: for Clemson to get a win. Versus LSU, I don't
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  Speaker 2: think the path to victory is as narrow. So I
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  Speaker 2: got 34-17 LSU over Clemson.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was pretty close. I think I had 27-17.
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  Speaker 1: So Clemson covering by that half point, but you're talking
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: a late touchdown could certainly change that, you know, either way.
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: I'll get right back to chatting with Chris, but first
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: I have a three pick for you. Give me three
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: players to score touchdowns.