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The Next Round: Texas vs. Ohio State: Is This Steve Sarkisian’s Must-Win Game? | Hour 2 · The Next Round

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  Speaker 1: We're about to talk to the great Chip Brown a
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  Speaker 1: little bit about Texas and Ohio State. I will tell
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  Speaker 1: of ours. And we always love talking football with him.
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  Speaker 1: What is up, Chip? How you doing, buddy?
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  Speaker 2: What's going on, fellas?
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  Speaker 1: Not a whole lot. Big week. Yeah, big week. Biggest
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  Speaker 1: week in Texas football since when? Let me ask it
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  Speaker 1: this way. Biggest Texas home game. Biggest game in Austin
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  Speaker 1: since when?
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  Speaker 3: Alabama. Well, it's probably the biggest non-conference home game since
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  Speaker 3: Ohio State in 06.
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  Speaker 2: But Alabama, Georgia coming in here in.
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  Speaker 3: The last few years, those were pretty anticipated as well.
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  Speaker 4: So where are we on the expectation for this team?
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  Speaker 4: I would assume it's, I, is it the only team
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  Speaker 4: in the sec where it is national championship or bust?
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  Speaker 2: I'd say national championship game or bus. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: That's close.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That's real close. Cause they've been to the semifinals twice.
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  Speaker 3: And so this is the most talented roster. Steve Sarkeesian
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  Speaker 3: has had, um, you know, they may not be as
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  Speaker 3: strong in a couple of positions, but across the board,
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  Speaker 3: this is as talented a roster as they've had, certainly
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  Speaker 3: on offense, you know, but they've got to, they still
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  Speaker 3: couldn't run the ball up the middle against Texas state.
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  Speaker 3: And I thought they would be better in that area.
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  Speaker 3: It was 102, Sark said it was 160 degrees on
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  Speaker 3: the field with.
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  Speaker 2: The rubber pellets, but they gotta be better. They gotta
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  Speaker 2: be better.
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  Speaker 3: I thought Ohio state struggled to run the ball at times.
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  Speaker 3: They had six explosive runs for what? 173 yards. Ohio
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  Speaker 3: state did the other 29 carries went for 64 yards,
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  Speaker 3: which is 2.2 yards per carry. So These teams may
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  Speaker 3: be mirror images of each other. And, you know, it's
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  Speaker 3: going to be interesting to see how Will Muschamp impacts
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  Speaker 3: this game because the previous defensive coordinator, Pete Kwiatkowski, was
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  Speaker 3: really good against Ohio State. You know, Ohio State averaged
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  Speaker 3: just 79 yards rushing, three yards per carry, 17 and
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  Speaker 3: a half points. And Jeremiah Smith, seven catches for 46
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  Speaker 3: yards in two games.
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  Speaker 2: Against Texas.
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  Speaker 3: So, you know, Steve Sarkeesian made a big, bold move
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  Speaker 3: going to get Will Muschamp.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see how he defends the Buckeyes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, very confusing history with Will Muschamp defensively. He can
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  Speaker 1: confuse young quarterbacks. Sayan's got a lot of seed time,
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  Speaker 1: but I love Muschamp and what he'll be able to
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  Speaker 1: throw out there. Listen, not getting lost in the stats,
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  Speaker 1: but I actually love the way Hollywood Smothers looked in
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  Speaker 1: his debut. Tell me what you thought of him Everybody's
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  Speaker 1: talking about that receiving core, and when it's 59-7, you've
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  Speaker 1: got to let Arch sling it around a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: But I thought Smothers is going to be, you're worried
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  Speaker 1: about Arch, you're worried about the receivers. Oh, here's a
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  Speaker 1: little guy that can run it and catch it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Smothers is electric. He's got another gear.
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  Speaker 3: When he sees that crease, there's a turbo boost, a
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  Speaker 3: bullet speed to him. And great hands. I mean, had
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  Speaker 3: a one-handed catch out of the backfield that was like, whoa, okay.
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  Speaker 2: So, yeah, I think Hollywood Smothers is going to be
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  Speaker 2: a big deal. And they ran, you know, Sarkeesian loves
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  Speaker 2: to run outside.
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  Speaker 3: He loves the outside zone. He loves to run outside.
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  Speaker 3: And they ran Smothers outside on the first play. He
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  Speaker 3: picked up 45 yards. And then they just ran it
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  Speaker 3: inside the rest of the game, like to prove a point.
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  Speaker 2: Um, didn't go well, but.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Smothers is, he's an, he's a weapon they did
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  Speaker 3: not have a year ago.
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  Speaker 1: Chip Brown is with us. 247horns247. com, add Chip Brown 247
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  Speaker 1: on Twitter. This in my head even sounds like a
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  Speaker 1: dumb question as I'm about to ask it. So I
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  Speaker 1: hope you're kind to me, Chip, if it's a dumb question.
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  Speaker 1: But Arthur Smith hasn't called a lot of plays on
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  Speaker 1: the college level, like one game. All his work has
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  Speaker 1: been in the NFL. So I'm curious if Will Muschamp
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  Speaker 1: has even hinted at this or if you know from
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  Speaker 1: your sources, I mean, how much NFL tape has he
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  Speaker 1: had to watch just to try to find tendencies in
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  Speaker 1: Arthur Smith that you wouldn't necessarily pick up in just
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  Speaker 1: one game film of a college game? Yeah, a lot,
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  Speaker 1: a lot.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the book on Arthur Smith is he wants
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  Speaker 3: to run the ball, play action. And, you know, they've
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  Speaker 3: got a new cast of, running backs. I mean, Bo Jackson, um,
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  Speaker 3: you know, legend Bay, this guy, the freshman, he looks like,
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  Speaker 3: he looks like trouble.
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  Speaker 2: Um, but you know, Texas recruited the heck out of
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  Speaker 2: that guy. Um, so yeah, it's going to be fun.
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  Speaker 3: Their offensive line looks a little, I think there's some,
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  Speaker 3: there's some little holes in that offensive line. I think
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  Speaker 3: the right tackle Phillip Daniels, he didn't look, he didn't
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  Speaker 3: look great last week. Um, You know, I'd have Colin
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  Speaker 3: Simmons spending a lot of quality time with him. And yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I'm real intrigued because I, listen, as a Lions fan,
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  Speaker 3: I was like Matt Patricia, whatever. And Matt Patricia handed
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  Speaker 3: it to Steve Sarkeesian last year. So I'm not overly
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  Speaker 3: impressed with Arthur Smith, but I'm sure he'll do something
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  Speaker 3: to prove me wrong here.
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  Speaker 4: How much more exciting is November 14th, Texas at LSU,
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  Speaker 4: after watching LSU this past weekend?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I have Texas going 11-1, and that's the loss
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  Speaker 2: I have in Baton Rouge. I thought LSU would start
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  Speaker 2: slow and build.
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  Speaker 1: Good God.
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  Speaker 2: Forget that. They came out with a flamethrower. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's going to be exciting. that's going to be an
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  Speaker 2: incredible night there in Baton Rouge.
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  Speaker 3: And, you know, it's funny, the sec is clearly sending
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  Speaker 3: a message to lame Kiffin and LSU when you're trying
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  Speaker 3: to make sure you can expel them from the conference.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that has ended up affecting Texas too,
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  Speaker 3: because they had a kid Cole Hudson who went undrafted.
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  Speaker 3: He went to a couple of rookie camps where, you know,
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  Speaker 3: he never signed a contract and he is a grad
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  Speaker 3: student and, right now in the McComb school of business.
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  Speaker 3: And Steve Sarkeesian came out and said, he's ineligible, um, until,
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  Speaker 3: you know, he gets some things clarified with the NCAA and,
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  Speaker 3: and then Sarkeesian said, and then we'll check with the sec.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that Texas is gun shy now about
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  Speaker 3: playing Cole Hudson because, you know, he's on the fringe
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  Speaker 3: of that, uh, pro you know pro players coming back
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  Speaker 3: to college and and so um you know they could
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  Speaker 3: probably use a guy who has 1959 snaps in college football.
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  Speaker 4: I i don't think any of us believed that lsu
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  Speaker 4: was ever going to get expelled from the sec but
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  Speaker 4: we also kind of talked about yesterday chip if they
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  Speaker 4: did you know would they become an independent would they
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  Speaker 4: go to the big 12 and then we talked about
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  Speaker 4: other teams outside of notre dame that possibly could have
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  Speaker 4: become independents was there ever a conversation Because you were
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  Speaker 4: so close to the power brokers at Texas, especially over
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  Speaker 4: the last 20 years, of Texas ever becoming an independent
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  Speaker 4: before they went to the SEC.
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  Speaker 3: No. That was not the mindset of the powers that be.
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  Speaker 3: DeLoss Dodds, the 32-year athletic director, never seriously entertained that
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  Speaker 3: or took it up to the president, Bill Powers.
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  Speaker 2: And then same– for you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, Texas, their big priority was sticking with OU, you
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  Speaker 3: know that they, they wanted that rivalry to continue the
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  Speaker 3: special game at the cotton bowl. And so, you know,
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  Speaker 3: they worked very closely with OU and, and of course
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  Speaker 3: the SEC said, yeah, we'll take you. And, and so
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  Speaker 3: that was the you know, that's how it played out. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's what somebody texted me. We discussed that on the
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  Speaker 1: show yesterday. and somebody said there was a better chance
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  Speaker 1: of texas leaving the united states and forming its own
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  Speaker 1: country than it was for them to go independent in
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  Speaker 1: sports uh can you make a case that texas needs
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  Speaker 1: this game this win over ohio state more than ohio
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  Speaker 1: state needs it over texas is there more pressure on
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  Speaker 1: texas to win this game Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think there's pressure on Steve Sarkeesian because
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  Speaker 3: it's his offense that had goal to go in two
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  Speaker 3: straight games against Ohio State and came away with no points,
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  Speaker 3: including first and goal from the one with just under
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  Speaker 3: four minutes left in that 2024 college football playoff with
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  Speaker 3: a chance to tie or take the lead. And it
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  Speaker 3: ends up going backwards and then turning into a strip
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  Speaker 3: sack that Ohio.
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  Speaker 2: State takes 83 yards for a touchdown.
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  Speaker 3: And then last year they have first, you know, goal
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  Speaker 3: to go from the not first and goal from the nine.
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  Speaker 3: They end up with fourth and goal from the one.
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  Speaker 3: They try to rush a quarterback sneak and arch gets
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  Speaker 3: blown up. And that was at the beginning of the
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  Speaker 3: third quarter when Texas needed some juice. And, and those are,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Steve Sarkeesian, I asked him about those sequences
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  Speaker 3: and he said, if you look at them, it's probably
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  Speaker 3: the reason we lost both games. So, I think Steve
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  Speaker 3: Sarkeesian needs to show he can get this offense into
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  Speaker 3: the end zone when it appears it's not a layup,
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  Speaker 3: but when you have goal to go. Now look, not
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  Speaker 3: having Caleb Downs on the field is going to help.
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  Speaker 3: That guy's unbelievable. Same with Arvel Reese. I know Riley
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  Speaker 3: Pettijohn is a really good linebacker.
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  Speaker 2: Texas recruited the heck out of him. I'm just not sure.
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  Speaker 2: you know, if they have the playmakers that they had
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  Speaker 2: a year ago.
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  Speaker 1: Before you go, we ask the tough questions here. So
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  Speaker 1: your beautiful young daughter been a freshman in college for
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  Speaker 1: just a couple of weeks. Her first football game is
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  Speaker 1: a memorable one. Was she among those that stormed the
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  Speaker 1: field at Michigan?
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  Speaker 3: She was not storming the field. She said the brick
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  Speaker 3: wall was too high. I said, spoken like a true
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  Speaker 3: music composition.
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  Speaker 1: Major did not want to climb the wall uh.
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  Speaker 3: She she's been texting me all week saying we're getting
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  Speaker 3: grilled over this like this is embarrassing i'm like don't
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  Speaker 3: worry about it they'll they'll move on to some other
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  Speaker 3: subject in a week or two.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah that's right maybe even uh maybe even saturday a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people think oklahoma goes up there and works
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  Speaker 1: michigan so we'll we'll see if that happens yeah she'll
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  Speaker 1: be there okay good so wait so with her With
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: her Texas background and now at Michigan, the first supposedly
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  Speaker 1: meaningful home game she gets is Oklahoma. That's ironic. She's
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: probably hated Oklahoma for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. She's getting indoctrinated, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Very quickly. Chip, enjoy the game this weekend. I know
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  Speaker 1: it'll be a fun one when Ohio State comes to town.
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  Speaker 1: We always appreciate the time.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Lance, who you got?
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  Speaker 4: I'm still working. That's a tough game. Really, really tough game.
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  Speaker 4: I was on the right side last year with Ohio State,
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  Speaker 4: but I don't know. I said in the offseason that
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  Speaker 4: Texas would win the game, but I'm not sure. Tough game, Joe.
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  Speaker 2: Tough game. I think they win by 10.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Texas by 10. And Brown and I are not offended
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: you didn't ask us. I understand. I wouldn't ask me either.
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  Speaker 1: I agree with you. I like Texas as well. We
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: do an upset alert every Tuesday, Chip. My upset alert
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: last week was Clemson upsetting LSU. Hey, you know, week one.
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  Speaker 2: We're all learning.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 4: Week one.
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  Speaker 1: Who knows? Week one. Dudley had Tulsa, though, to his credit.
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  Speaker 1: Tulsa over Oak State. How about that? Thank you. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: And I like Texas by 10 as well. So we're
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  Speaker 1: right on. Hook them. Thank you, Chip. Good to see you, buddy.
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  Speaker 2: See you guys.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: Chip Brown with us. Horns247. com. At ChipBrown247 on social media.
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: I don't even know if I do that right. Is
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  Speaker 1: that all you do to hook them?
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  Speaker 4: I always thought it was just that.
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  Speaker 1: Do you stick the thumb out? Maybe.
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  Speaker 5: Do you?
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  Speaker 1: For those? That's I love you. Yeah, I guess.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Or do you tuck it in like that? You don't
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: tuck it in. That's too close to... I know you
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  Speaker 1: just do this. 15-yard penalty if you horn down.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I feel like I'm at a concert, though,
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  Speaker 1: when I'm doing that. I grew up in that age.
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  Speaker 1: Rock on.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: You can't do that to Taylor Swift.
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  Speaker 4: Olivia Rodrigo.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go. Let's go. All right. So that's a big game.
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  Speaker 1: Back to the questions I was asking coming out of
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  Speaker 1: week one. Worst team that you saw in week one?
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  Speaker 4: The Clemson I mean really I mean if you want
• 14:46
  Speaker 4: to go away from that I mean that's kind of
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  Speaker 4: obvious though right like they did nothing right.
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: Um not I guess there was not a lot expected
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: of Oklahoma State but that was a terrible performance and
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: I also wrote down Rutgers but I figured y'all were
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: gonna say Rutgers so I went Oklahoma State I mean
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: you can't well worst teams an overstatement I I thought
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: Cal would be better than Cal was. I can't call
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  Speaker 1: them worse team.
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  Speaker 4: They were good in the first quarter and the third quarters.
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  Speaker 4: They just couldn't finish the half or the game.
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  Speaker 1: I know. That's a weird way of putting it, but
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  Speaker 1: you're right. I just did not think Cal looked as
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  Speaker 1: good as I thought they would. I thought UCLA was
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  Speaker 1: going to be a little better. Maybe so. Maybe UCLA
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  Speaker 1: is that much better. Contemporable. You're one under Bob Chesney.
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  Speaker 4: But Sagapulatelli.
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  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 4: He throws an unbelievable pass. I don't know if you
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: guys were watching. It was tied up in the fourth
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  Speaker 4: quarter with about nine and a half to go. And
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: the receiver, his point of view got turned around. It
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: hit him in the hands, but it bounces off. And
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  Speaker 4: then it's returned for like 30 yards and they score.
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  Speaker 4: And that kind of like opened the floodgates. If he
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  Speaker 4: catches that, I think he goes for six. And I
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  Speaker 4: think the game flips.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe I'm too critical on Cal. You're right. I
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: just do. I watched a lot of that game.
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  Speaker 4: The moment looked really big for Taj.
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: It did.
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  Speaker 1: It was a fun game, but it did look like
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: Bob Chesney had the better coach team. They did a
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  Speaker 1: really good job of packing that stadium. It was a
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  Speaker 1: fun atmosphere. It was. But a lot of UCLA fans there.
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  Speaker 1: Did you notice when UCLA had a big play how
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: loud it was? I was surprised that many UCLA fans
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  Speaker 1: were there. It's my honorable mention for best games of
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: the weekend. Give me the best game of the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: It's got to be Ole Miss and Louisville.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Ole Miss and Louisville.
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  Speaker 1: It was Ole Miss and Louisville. I mean, if I
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: needed to go for a second one.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, just for the entertainment value, Oregon and Boise,
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  Speaker 4: just because it was– you look up and you're like, damn,
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  Speaker 4: they won't go away.
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  Speaker 1: And I wrote that down, too, because, you know, you–
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  Speaker 1: You watch that game and you think to yourself, God,
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: Oregon must not be that good. But I think you
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: have to take the other side of it, that Boise
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: State probably is that good. And we'll learn more this
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: week against Memphis. But I was really impressed with Boise
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  Speaker 1: State and Western Michigan both. Neither one of those felt like,
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  Speaker 1: It was a flukish thing that was happening. They both
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: looked like they were toe-for-toe with the team they were playing.
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  Speaker 4: If I would have told you guys that Boise's going
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: into Alton and they're going to be minus three in turnovers,
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  Speaker 4: what do you think that– 54 to 10, something like that.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I would have gotten everything possible because I
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: was already looking. I was like, damn, this 24.5 is
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: a big number. Oregon's going to come out, probably try
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: to make a statement out of this, ended up staying
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: away from the game. But to be minus three for
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: Oregon to have ten freaking penalties– And to be plus
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: three in turnovers and still barely win that game, I
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: don't know. I mean, I think Oregon's going to be
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: really good. And I do give Boise a lot of
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: credit because when they're minus three on the road in
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: that environment and they still play it within a possession,
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: that was impressive.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: SMU-FSU was crazy fun.
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, it was a sloppy game, but you had
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: just a lot of craziness in there. I mean, and
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: LSU-Clemson was entertaining for a different reason. I mean, just
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: to see the atmosphere, and then just the beatdown. It
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: never made it back to my main after halftime. I
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: don't know about you guys. I couldn't take it off
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: because of the train wreck. I had it on the
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: side TV, but I was more dialed in on UCLA
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: and Clemson. Excuse me, UCLA and Cal.
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: Ole Miss and Louisville probably was the most entertaining game.
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: The other game that was kind of like, The JV
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: version was Auburn and Baylor. Aesthetically, it was a terrible
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: game to watch. And really watching those four teams, you
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: could see how different spots those teams are in right now.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I think we were so hungry for close
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: games in Week 1 that anything that was close was entertaining.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: And that's why Western Michigan-Michigan was up there.
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: Great ending.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: There was just a lot of tension in that game, though,
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: because you're like, God, Western Michigan's played so well, but
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: Michigan's going to break a play here and the game's over.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: And just play after play after play, you thought that
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: was going to be the play, and they never, until
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: the very end, broke that one play. If I take...
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Michigan off the table because by far they were the
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: most overrated team who else was overrated I want to
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: give you Houston here oh yeah they barely beat James
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Shepard remember Alabama's wide receiver coach Jamarcus Shepard is the
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: uh is the head coach at Oregon State and you
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: know who Oregon State gets this week they get Texas
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Tech at home well Texas Tech you could argue was
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: overrated I mean I hate to do that on a
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: game over Abilene but My anticipation was Texas Tech beats
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Abilene something like Clemson got beat by LSU 52-10. And
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: it was 31-10.
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, you would think even their threes and
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: fours can do whatever they want on Abilene.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Is that game in Lubbock?
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: No, it's in Corvallis.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: So Texas Tech goes to Corvallis, goes to Marcus Shepard
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: and Oregon State. You know how I always do two
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: or three when I'm doing my upset alert? Then I
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: probably narrow it down sometimes in what I can draw
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: and not. I can't draw that beaver at Oregon State.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: I don't know if Oregon State can do it back-to-back week,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: but Houston and Texas Tech play each other next week.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Primetime CBS is Texas Tech and Oregon State. That used
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: to be reserved for Alabama LSU and Florida Tennessee. It
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: could end up being a really good game. out there.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: I mean, it doesn't matter. It's going against Ohio State, Texas.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: My gosh, Mississippi State and Minnesota is the 230 CBS game.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: I forgot about that. State was barely on CBS when
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: they had the SEC package. Now they're showing a play
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: at Minnesota. That has to be CBS Sports Network. You're
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: talking about Tech State, Oregon State?
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: You got it on CBS.
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think it.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: It's not CBS. You've got it both places. No, you don't. No,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: you don't. He doesn't have it primetime. It's got to
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: be CBS Sports Network. You've got Southern Utah, Colorado State
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: on CBS Sports Network primetime. What's on NBC? Iowa State, Iowa.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: Oh, it's CBS.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: What what brooks yeah it's cbs 630 kickoff on cbs
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: i mean literally used to reserve that spot for alabama lsu.
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: Wow that would be my third option in that window
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: they have a cbs double header think about when the
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: sec on cbs had.
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: A double header it's mississippi state minnesota Texas Tech, Oregon State.
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: We've got the Seahawks at night. I can't remember the
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: last time we had the Seahawks at night. That's almost
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: always the 11 o'clock game.
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: I think we had a top 15 day one time
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: where we had Auburn at Texas A & M and
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: then Alabama LSU.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Look what CBS has become. All right. Let's continue the
• 21:06
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• 22:53
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• 22:56
  Speaker 7: I don't think I need to really like spend so
• 22:59
  Speaker 7: much energy and time on what does this game mean, right?
• 23:06
  Speaker 7: I think as a competitor, it's like, hey, we get
• 23:09
  Speaker 7: an opportunity to play the number one team in the country,
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: a team we've had two battles with the last two years,
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: and we know what that takes. I'm not so consumed
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: with what the end result might be, you know, four
• 23:23
  Speaker 7: months down the road. We've got other games to go
• 23:25
  Speaker 7: play that can contribute one way or the other to
• 23:29
  Speaker 7: our success that we have in the season. What I
• 23:33
  Speaker 7: am excited about is as a competitor, And for our team,
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: the locker room and building full of competitors that we
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: have is that we get an opportunity to go against
• 23:41
  Speaker 7: the best. And how are we going to perform against
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: the best? Because our best is going to be needed.
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: This is about the life of a competitor and putting
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: yourself in the arena and performing under what would deem
• 23:55
  Speaker 7: stressful conditions, right? Because if you're wrong, they can hurt you.
• 23:59
  Speaker 7: But if we're right, we can hurt them.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: And so.
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: That's the exciting part of preparing for that at DKR
• 24:07
  Speaker 7: in front of our crowd with I bet there's close
• 24:10
  Speaker 7: to 20 million people that watch this game. And so,
• 24:13
  Speaker 7: you know, that's that's pretty cool when you think about
• 24:15
  Speaker 7: that way.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Back to the matter is, though, Ohio State's eliminated Texas,
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: so to speak, the last two years, one technically in
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: the playoffs and in the last year. A win, and
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: they would have been in. A loss, isn't why they
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: were kept out, but.
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: I mean, it kind of was. I mean, we talked
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: about if they had an Indiana-like schedule, if they didn't play...
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: Ohio State, if they would have played a directional Texas school,
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: they would have been 10-2 and they would have gotten in.
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: You know, it was just a tough start because you
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: had Arch and all of this offseason hype. I mean,
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: it was LeBron James-like. It was Tim Tebow-like. It was
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: to a level you just don't see maybe every decade
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: or so. And he went out and he didn't play well.
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: He was 17-30, 170 yards, and they scored one touchdown
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: in the fourth quarter. They were awful in the first half.
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: they were able to at least keep it tight and
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: lose 14-7. It just seemed like those programs when you
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: were watching the game were in different spots. Ohio State
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: coming off a national championship in front of their fans,
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: going against a first-ever starting quarterback in Arch Manning. So
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: I think it's a little more balanced this year. I
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: don't know who's got the more talented roster. Obviously, these
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: are two of the most talented five rosters in college football.
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: But I think the circumstances are definitely different this year.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: It was interesting when you asked Chip, hey, who's this
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: game bigger for? More pressure, Texas or Ohio State? And
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: he said Sark. Yeah. He didn't even say Texas. He
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: just said Sark. I mean, this is... I guess at
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: some point Texas fans think you've got to beat Ohio
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: State to win a national championship, and he hasn't done it. Well,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: if you're an offensive genius, which I believe Sark is, you've,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: as he said, twice in the red zone come away
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: with no points. That odd play call against Ohio State
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: in the playoffs where it ended up going backwards, and
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: then last year they get to the red zone I
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: think a couple of times and come away with no points,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: 14-7 with Arch. The key here is Arch Manning. How
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: much has he grown since that game? Here's Ryan Day
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: yesterday on Arch Manning's improvement since they played last year
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: at the SHU.
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you think about that game last year between Julian
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: and Arch, really their first starts. And I know maybe
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: Arch had played a little bit before, but that was
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: really their first games. And to where they are now,
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: two totally different players, in my opinion. Um, you watched
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: it last year as Arch played, he got better and
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: better and better. I thought he was playing some really
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: good football at the end of the season, you know,
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: and did some really good things in the first game
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: of the year. Um, you know, this past Saturday, um,
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: you know, he, he can beat you with his legs.
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: He can be downfield. He can make the throws when
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: he needs to. Um, you know, he's, he's really improved and,
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: you know, give him a lot of credit for putting
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: the work in and also give Sark and his staff
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: credit for continuing to develop them, you know, and, um, So,
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: you know, he's going to have a great season and
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: he's going to be a great challenge for our defense.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Who's the better quarterback in the game?
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: I mean, I think where they are right now, probably
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: saying just more efficient. I think the upside is definitely arched.
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: You forget that it was Sayan's first game, and he
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: didn't play bad last year. But Jeremiah Smith, I mean,
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: two things to look at. He was not a factor
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: last year. Smith had six grabs, 43 yards.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Probably the last game he was not a factor in. Yeah,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: probably so.
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: And then on the other side, like Texas, you mentioned
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: to Chip Brown, Hollywood Smothers were Leak Brown. Their running
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: backs are better this year, and they had success against
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: that Matt Patricia defense running the football. They had 166 yards,
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: four and a half yards. yards per carry they would
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: take that number right now.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: And and their edge and arch's ability to get the
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: ball to the receivers downfield now has only improved with
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: cam coleman and what wingo is i mean texas has
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: weapons that you've got to defend down the field that's
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: only going to open up that texas run game yeah
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: i mean cam coleman only had three catches saturday against
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: texas state but there were two of them were touchdowns
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: and they were all big plays.
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: I would say both of these teams, very, very vanilla
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: against ball state and Texas state last week. Do you guys,
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: I mean, what is that number going to be? Sark
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: said 20 million. That seems a little aggressive.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: You got competition.
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: Like, I mean, not a lot.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: You don't have a lot.
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: Do you think it's 15 million?
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: I'm sure looking at the other primetime games. Oh, Texas
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Tech and Oregon State and CBS. Iowa State and Iowa.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Iowa State and Iowa and NBC. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: everybody will watch it.
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: Little old Dabo's playing at 630.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Oh, are they? I think it'll go over 20. Do
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: you really? I don't know, Jim. What's the big game?
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Ohio State-Michigan at the end. Well, let me ask you this.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: I'll find it. There's a difference between a Wednesday and
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: a Saturday night.
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: But tonight... With what you've got with the Patriots in Seattle,
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: Super Bowl 60 rematch.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: $ 45 million.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I got standalone NBC NFL.
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: You think Netflix will hurt the number tomorrow night?
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll be a smaller number than what that will be,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: but it'll still be a big number. It'll be a
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: huge number. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if it did. Thanks,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: first of all, for reminding me that's on Netflix. I mean,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: could that be that I've been searching to find that
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: freaking game?
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: I'm trying to think of other events because, you know,
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: Netflix has live stream things, but could this be the
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: biggest Netflix audience for one event ever?
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: I guess their Christmas game was the largest until right now, right?
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: So that's what you're trying to beat. $ 45 million tonight.
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: God, that's massive.
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: It is.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: And I'd say 21. It's going to get 21 Saturday night.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: You think so?
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: Texas and Ohio State. 15% of our country is going
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: to be watching the game tonight.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah. 21 is just, I mean, that is a big number, man.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: I make big picks. I've seen you do it.
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I talked to Buddy today, and his daughter's got
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: her engagement party Saturday night.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: I was just like, damn.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: It's not even a wedding? No, it's an engagement party.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: It's an engagement party.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Our buddy Brad. Fall weddings, that's frequently debated on all
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: digital platforms.
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: I've got one coming up in a couple of weeks.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: But, I mean, not even discussion, engagement parties.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: That's crazy.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Unless it's a viewing party of watching a football game.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, we can celebrate during halftime, the couple, if
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: you want to.
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: Now, they are Mississippi State fans, for whatever that's worth.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: So they're not football fans. That's a big 230 game
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: for them.
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: It really is.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Road game, though, so they're not having to worry about Starkville.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: It's going to be such a big game. And I
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: don't think it disappoints. I think it's going to be
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: a really, really good game. But in the olden days,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: it could have playoff implications. Today's day, of the way
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: we do a 12-team playoff, more on that in a second,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Both of these teams can absorb not only this loss,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: but probably even two more. One more easily. Two more probably.
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: I still think the loser of this game is behind
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: the eight ball just based on their schedules, both of them,
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: because just look at what Ohio State's got coming up.
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: They've got to go to Iowa. Again, I don't know
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: how Iowa's going to score, but really good defense. At Indiana,
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: at USC, Oregon, and Michigan. Now Michigan probably doesn't matter.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: We've talked all year. Yeah, Michigan looks less daunting than
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: it did. But they've owned that rivalry.
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: Texas, if they were to lose this game, they've still
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: got to go to Tennessee, neutral side against Oklahoma. Florida,
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: Ole Miss, at Missouri, at LSU, at A & M.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: And you skipped over state. And I understand why you did.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: I understand why you did. But do that stretch again
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: right there. Where does it– go post-Oklahoma. Do that stretch again.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Now that you've watched one week of football, listen to
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: this stretch of games for Texas.
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: So post-Oklahoma because before– We'll start with Oklahoma.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: Well, let's start with Tennessee. At Tennessee. At Tennessee, now
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: that you've watched a week.
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: And then Oklahoma neutral site.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Neutral site, all right.
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: Both of those games are really, really difficult.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Very losable games.
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: Then you've got Florida. At least it's in Austin.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but now the– It's a losable game. But Florida
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: popped them.
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: In the head last year.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: You know what everybody's talking about right now is Buster
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Faulkner's offense. I mean, it is one of the biggest
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: talking points in the country.
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: Then you've got Ole Miss.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: That's right. Now that you've watched Ole Miss once. I
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: think they're– Trinidad and Chambliss can actually win a game.
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and if they clean it up defensively, I think
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: Ole Miss is going to be fine. But Ke'wan Lacy
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: needs to come back 100%. Mississippi State.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: State, I mean, that's your layup in this whole thing.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Your easiest game is State. And how difficult was that
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: game last year? Yeah, exactly. They almost lost it in
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Starkville last year, and State's better.
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: At Missouri. I mean, you know, I don't know. It's
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: still a dangerous game. At LSU, they're going to be underdogs.
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: That's harder than you thought it was in the preseason.
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: Arkansas will give them a layup. And then at A & M.
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: I mean, where everything is going to be on the line.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: You've watched a week of football now. That Texas schedule
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: feels a little different than it did in the offseason.
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: To your point, I understand you can absorb a couple
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: of losses, but the team... that gets an out-of-conference loss
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: with what they've got coming up in the Big Ten
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: and the SEC, it's going to be difficult for them
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: to not lose three games.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: My point being, 9-3 Ohio State. And listen, I go
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: by the belief that the Big Ten will always get
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: three in, the SEC will always get three in, in
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: this 12-team playoff that we're in right now. Truthfully, I
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: think four and four, but I know we've had three
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: at times. So I'll say at least three teams in.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: Even at 9-3, Ohio State's in a conversation for that
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: third team, definitely in the conversation for that fourth team
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: out of the Big Ten. So for Texas, though, 9-3,
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: I think with everybody else in the SEC, I think
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: they would be, if four is in from the Big Ten,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: four is in from the SEC, 9-3 Ohio State is
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: the fourth team in the Big Ten. 9-3 Texas won't
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: be the fourth team in the SEC, in my opinion.
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: My bold prediction two weeks ago was the loser of
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: this game will become the first three-loss team to ever
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: get to a college football playoff. That could very easily happen.
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: I just think their schedules are that difficult.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Just to quickly close the circle here, Texas-Ohio State last
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: year had 16 million viewers on Fox. That was a
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: big noon kickoff that day.
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: At 11 o'clock.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: There were only two games that were 20 million or
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: more in college football last year. It was Bama-Indiana in
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: the Rose Bowl and the national championship game of Miami
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: in Indiana. A regular season Ohio State-Michigan game, which is
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: the highest rated regular season game every year, was $ 18. 4
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: million on the Fox Big Noon. So $ 20 million would
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: be a hefty audience for this game if that's what
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: it is. No offense, but that is Fox Big Noon.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: This is primetime. It's ABC slash ESPN. And the competition
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: is not there that is there with Michigan and Ohio State.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: with all the rivalry stuff going on, if Michigan and
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Ohio state were playing in this, in this, uh, on
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: this window, this window, 25 million viewers. Yeah. It would be,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: it would be closer to 25 million.
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: But I think, you know, where Michigan is and where
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: Texas is, you're going to get big game, like Michigan,
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: Ohio state, like numbers. I mean, Texas is a big state,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: a lot of, a lot of big TV markets. Oh yeah. No,
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: you're absolutely right. It's going to be a big number. Yeah.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: I don't deny that. San Antonio. I mean, you get
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: a lot of metered markets there and, A lot of
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: Texas fans everywhere. Same for Ohio State with Columbus and
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati and Cleveland and all that. And that's just in the.
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: States with these.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: And there'll be people hate watching.
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: Both sides.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: Who are they hating?
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: I don't know who's more hated right now. Probably Ohio
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: State because of the success. But hate watching is real. Hey,
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: more on that 12-team playoff because something got triggered yesterday.
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: And usually it's me, but something legally got triggered yesterday
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: involving the college football playoff.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: We'll talk about that and a couple of more games
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: to look ahead to. And a little bit more on
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: tonight's NFL kickoff, New England and Seattle, when we continue
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: on the next round presented by Hard Rock Bets right
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: here on Sporting State. Before LT tells you about Clay
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Travis Law, just a couple of things that were big
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: yesterday and last night.
• 35:54
  Speaker 7: LSU.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Has moved on from the NFL players Daquan Wright and
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Zavian Harris. They finished their 105-man roster last night, completed that.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: We'll see if the SEC still has their Thursday meeting
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: to discuss expulsion and other penalties against LSU with the
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: league presidents. But LSU backed down on playing those NFL players.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: They filled out their 105-man roster. Daquan Wright and Zavian Harris,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: are exploring their legal options now against LSU, holding them
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: in contempt of court. Offered that TRO last week. Something
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: to keep an eye on. The other story yesterday afternoon
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: was the MAAC appealing the ending of the Western Michigan-Michigan game.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: They wanted the NCAA and the FBS Oversight Committee to
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: change the outcome of the game because of replay protocol.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: Rule 1-1-3B, though, Brownie, that's different than the SEC's rule 3-1-5.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: But the rule that the NCAA is citing, because the
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: game ended, there's very little they could do, right? That's right.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: But basically what the NCAA is saying, and they've sent
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: out a memo to all the schools now, and what
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: they're saying is what Mike Pereira said with CLAD, which was,
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: we were always taught in the NFL, if there is
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: a timing issue, Go with the time that the TV
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: audience can see. Always default to that. That millions of
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: people can see. That's right. I think his quote was,
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: you got to go with what 10 million people can see,
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: not three people. That's right. So basically what they're saying
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: is if there is an embedded clock on the TV copy,
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: which is what everybody's going crazy about, not the NBC
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: clock on the scoreboard. The one everybody's going crazy about
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: is the one you're actually showing me, the stadium clock embedded.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: It touches the dude's hands after the clock hits zero.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: That's right. Everybody can see that. And everybody in the world.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: To your point again, this is, it's an embedded shot
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: of the stadium clock. And what the NCAA is saying
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: is even if that is not in sync, you got
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: to go by it because it's what the viewing public
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: can see. Yeah. And, and that's gotta be your, that's
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: gotta be your default.
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: So much for you guys theory though on, uh, the
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: mac not wanting it.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: To upset no i mean i was a little surprised
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: by this i really was.
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: I mean because it's it's not like this can happen
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: yeah it's not like they're going to overturn the game
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: why even air the grievance yeah because it's it's done.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: Because i that was one of the most surprising things
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: to me is the mac got this aggressive about it
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: that's right and for people that don't know the mac
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: and the big 10 i don't know if it's an
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: official schedule and agreement because of travel and everything though
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: but Just look at Michigan. They play Western Michigan and
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: they play the teams in the state of Michigan. In
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: our state, Alabama doesn't play UAB, Troy, Jacksonville State. That's right.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: But Michigan plays Western Michigan. It's what keeps those programs
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: afloat or their games versus Big Ten games and Big
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: Ten teams in football. So basically NCAA said, when it
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: comes down to a timing issue, use the clocks everyone
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: can see. And they even said, if you don't have
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: the embedded game clock, use the scoreboard clock. It may
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: be off, but it's the one everybody can see. That's
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: the one you go with.
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: Do not.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: do what Michigan did or the Big Ten did and
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: go to a clock that, you know, is only on
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: the screen that the guy's looking through the hood at, right?
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: I think two things could come of this. Live replay
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: on the major television broadcast or all of them, like
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: the ACC and the Big 12 do now. But also
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: because in basketball for years, we would have the old
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: uh the clock says zero but the horn didn't go
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: off that's right right so they were saying the clock
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: says zero but the horn didn't go off so that
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: means there is less than a second still left and
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: that's when we started getting the 59.6 seconds, 48.2 seconds.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: And I wonder if we'll see that on scoreboards now
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: moving forward if we start going to the 10th of
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: a second scoreboard. Which, ironically, they have at Thompson High School. Oh,
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: they run it at Thompson, do they?
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: That's weird. I get it in basketball.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: But see, the whole thing in basketball is the clock
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: is not what matters, as you said. Like, the clock
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: is what matters in football. But in basketball, everybody in
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: the arena... It's the light, right? It's the light on
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: the backboard. Everybody knows it. That's right. I mean, there
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: is no... The horn can sound, but if that light
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: hasn't gone off, everybody in the arena knows it's the
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: light that matters. I wonder if we get lights on goalposts.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: Again, this would be knee-jerk, but this is A &
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: M and LSU all over again.
• 40:31
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yesterday, according to Ross Dellinger... The college football playoff,
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: which is all the commissioners of the conferences and Notre Dame,
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: triggered a 30-day window, Brownie, where this doesn't mean we're
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: going to a 2014 playoff next week or it's going
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: to be announced in 30 days or next year, but
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: there's a 30-day window now that ESPN has 30 days
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: to put out a financial statement proposal of what they
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: would pay for a 16 team or a 24 team
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: or 20 team playoff and it's a 30-day window here
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: where the college football playoff committee can get a feel
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: on maybe the television partners desire appetite for more playoff
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: football interesting here that they triggered this window now before
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: we get to December because December 1 is sort of
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: when we have always drew that sort of imaginary line
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: that we've got to be decided by December 1 on
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: what playoff format we'll use next year. Seems like we
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: could come up in February, March, April for me and
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: we'd be okay. But December is sort of that deadline.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: They've triggered this window now, according to Ross Dellinger, to
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: sort of see ESPN, who has first right of refusal,
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: what their appetite is for possible expansion. Well, so the
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: last time this was up for bid, what did Fox
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: bid on it?
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: Zero.
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: What did CBS bid on it?
• 43:02
  Speaker 6: Zero.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: So if I'm ESPN, why would I throw a number
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: out there? Right? You don't. I mean, until I know
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: if Fox or CBS is going to bid on this thing.
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: Or throw out a dollar.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, if I'm ESPN, what are we paying right now? Well,
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: you're paying whatever it is. I don't even know what
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: it is. $ 200 million. All right, we'll pay $ 201 million.
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't understand what it benefits.
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: There's no more demand for it.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know what it benefits ESPN to throw
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: out any sort of number here. And the NFL doesn't
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: go away. So, you know, there are some games that
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: ESPN is selling off already to, is it Turner TNT
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: they sell it off to? That they're selling off games
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: already that are going opposite of the NFL. That's right.
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: So those games aren't going away. So there are going
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: to be, you know, possibly some more games going against
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: the NFL window that you're going to sell off anyway.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: It's fascinating they've done this. Well, yeah, it is because, again,
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: when I saw this, I'm like, why would ESPN throw
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: a number out there? First of all, they've got the
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: current contract and they were the only ones that bid
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: on it. I mean, honestly, ESPN overbid already, didn't they?
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: Because they were the ones bidding on it. I think
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: the way it works, and I may be wrong on this,
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: but if you read Ross's, maybe they do have to
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: put a bid out. It's their right of first refusal,
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: the 30-day window. So it opens up after that if
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: they choose not to do it. Because here's what we
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: talked about. Depending on how they do this, they could
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: be paying for more crappy games. Now, we've looked at
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: what it would be last year, and the games were
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: more entertaining than I thought they would be. But if
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: you're just adding a bunch of– well, let me back
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: this up. I think it was the 24 we looked
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: at and we're like, man, look at some of these
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: crappy games. They're not going to pay that much more
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: for those. Now a 16 where everybody plays in the
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: first round, now you got my attention. If you only
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: have one G6 and then basically the 15 other best teams,
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: 16 seems to be the number to me.
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: Oh, I agree. I mean, 24 is ridiculous.
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: 24 seems ridiculous. But if you just went 16 right now– Well,
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: I mean, 16 is clean.
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: You don't have any buys.
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: No buys.
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: You do that first round on college campuses. I mean, look,
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: we've seen 12. I mean, 12 got better from year
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: one to year two.
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I hate to be that guy, but I
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: would be. Be that guy. This is one of those
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: we can cut out and send to Clay, joke on
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: the text last night. I would be 16, and I
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: would be the only way the G6 gets in is
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: if they're one of the top 16 teams. And that
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: would be it.
• 45:31
  Speaker 4: I don't have a problem with that. I mean, if
• 45:32
  Speaker 4: you're not a top 16 team, you don't belong in this.
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: I mean, you've got no shot at really making that wrong.
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: Well, your highest G6 right now is Boise at 26. Now,
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: Boise's not bad. No, Boise's good, actually. They could be
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: 16 by the end of the year. But for sure,
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: if you can throw up yesterday's AP poll. And that's
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: what I was going by.
• 45:49
  Speaker 4: Well, let me ask you this. Would Western Michigan have
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: been ranked if they would have won that game?
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: It sounds like a knee jerk.
• 45:57
  Speaker 4: Boise, it's almost the perception is they won.
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: They got 12 votes. Boise was 26, by the way.
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: They were the first team out. Boise probably should have
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: been in there for me. Boise was at 86 points.
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: Western Michigan was at 12, to show you the gap there.
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: 86 was first team out. Only by three points. Only
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: Virginia and Boise were only separated by three. But to
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: everyone's point, if we just went by that, And it's
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: a 16 team on campus for the first round or two,
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: whatever it has to be. 16 Penn State at Ohio
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: State for a playoff game. Yes, thank you. Right? BYU
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: at Georgia for a playoff game. USC at Notre Dame
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: for a playoff game. They finally play. Texas Tech at
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: Texas for a playoff game. Alabama at Indiana, 12-5 matchup.
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: We know what happens in March. Oklahoma at Oregon. Okay.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: Texas A & M at Miami. Ole Miss at LSU.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: It's phenomenal. I mean, that's the playoffs. That's the playoffs, man.
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: If I'm ESPN and you want me to bid on that, yeah,
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: I'll give you more money for that. Yeah. That's the playoffs.
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: I'll give you more money for that.
• 47:04
  Speaker 4: I think everybody would probably jump into that.
• 47:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, you're right. Fox and CBS all of
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: a sudden are like, well, wait a minute. It's not
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: zero this year.
• 47:10
  Speaker 4: That number being $ 25 million tonight. I mean, what are
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: these numbers?
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Because all those games will be, a lot of
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: them will be standalone. And look. And go Thursday night.
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: Go Friday night. Go all day Saturday. And maybe the
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: games are so big you just throw some of them
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: away against the NFL like we have to do. But
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: that's the playoff I want. You know what I'm saying?
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: That's the playoff I want. I'm with you. But if
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: Boise works its way in number 16, then that feels
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: better if Boise has to go play Ohio State. Because
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: we're like, well, Boise's the 16th best team in the country. Yes,
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: they're G6s. but they're the 16th best team in the country.
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: And at that point, we can stop saying G6 and
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: Power 4, in my opinion. At that point, we'll just
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: call them conferences. Yeah. And if you're the top 16 teams,
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: you're the top 16 teams. No, I'm with you. Why
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: even divide up what the conferences are? If you're being
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: the top 16, you're being the top 16. This is
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: in the chat, and I did not realize this was
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: a thing, but it's from Dave. who is an Ohio
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: State fan based on the helmet next to his name
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: in the chat. Dave, welcome in, man. Hello, Dave. Hook him.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, wait. I don't know what the Buckeyes say.
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  Speaker 1: He says that Michigan had the biggest drop in the
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  Speaker 1: history of the poll for a team that actually won
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  Speaker 1: their game.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I believe that. I believe that, too. To Dave's point,
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  Speaker 1: I tweeted it out yesterday when it first broke. I
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: was like, Michigan will become, if this gets overturned, Michigan
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: would become the first school to storm their field after
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: a loss since Kentucky did it against LSU in the
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: Bluegrass Miracle.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's true.
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  Speaker 1: From the AP article, Michigan went from 16 to out
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  Speaker 1: of the top 25 the first time since at least
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: 2008 it has happened. Kansas State went from 17 to
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: unranked after holding off North Dakota.
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  Speaker 4: I thought they lost that game.
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  Speaker 1: Did they? That's from the AP article.
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  Speaker 4: I think it came down to a goal line stand.
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: Maybe so. That's from the AP article. You would think
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: they would know. They have to say this is at
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: least 2008. You literally have the poll in the records.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: You think you could tell that. So it could be
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: the biggest fall of all time after a win, just
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  Speaker 1: to show you how little people think they won that game.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: It's fascinating that that window is open now, see what
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: becomes of that, and then what we decide to do
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: in the playoffs. But we got games on the field
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: and some good ones happening this weekend. We'll talk more
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: about that coming up tomorrow, but we start the NFL
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: tonight and then tomorrow night we get the Rams and
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: the 49ers in Australia. First off, where are they playing
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: the game?
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  Speaker 4: In Melbourne.
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  Speaker 1: In Melbourne. What facility?
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  Speaker 4: It is one of their rugby Australian rules facilities.
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: When I've seen those stadiums, they seem to have a
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: lot of space on the sidelines. Has anybody seen a
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: view of it? I haven't. Can somebody find me a picture?
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: Can you Google whatever the name of the stadium is
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: and Let me see an aerial of the Melbourne Stadium.
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  Speaker 4: I've seen a lot of the different things around Melbourne
• 50:15
  Speaker 4: as far as trying to make the Rams feel like
• 50:17
  Speaker 4: the home team. They've got different murals up, and they've
• 50:22
  Speaker 4: decorated buses and lights and all this kind of stuff.
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: I saw Kyle Shanahan explaining about the time difference when
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: he was trying to check in with his family.
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  Speaker 4: You know, the Rams aren't there yet.
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: No, shut up. Y'all play tomorrow night.
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: I know, yeah. I mean, they're probably three hours outside
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  Speaker 4: of Melbourne, four hours outside.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: They're in Australia.
• 50:41
  Speaker 5: No, no.
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  Speaker 4: They're on a flight right now.
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  Speaker 5: No way.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. You haven't heard about this?
• 50:46
  Speaker 5: No.
• 50:46
  Speaker 4: So they left L.A.
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  Speaker 1: Last night?
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  Speaker 4: This was the plan for the last couple of months.
• 50:49
  Speaker 4: So San Francisco went last week.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. Last week.
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  Speaker 4: The Rams will land tonight and have 24 hours in
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  Speaker 4: Australia and then fly back directly.
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: So they're going to get reacquainted to the time. Basically,
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: they're going to stay on L.A. time for the season plan.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: They're almost... So they're not throwing away this first game,
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: but they're... One of these guys is going to get
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: dogged out, either Shanahan or McVay. Either you were there
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: too long or you were there too little. That's not
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: as bad as I would have thought where the field
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  Speaker 1: is there. You know what the name of this place is?
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: I don't. Go ahead. The Melbourne Cricket Ground. Oh, there
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: you go.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, cricket.
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: Cricket Stadium.
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  Speaker 4: It's silly.
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: It's... I mean, it gives me old Oakland, Alameda County
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: stadium vibes. I agree. For the youngs out there that
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: don't remember when NFL teams used to have to share
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: a baseball stadium with a baseball franchise, you got a
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: lot of these.
• 51:40
  Speaker 4: Can you imagine the Rams who play at SoFi walking
• 51:43
  Speaker 4: into this shithole?
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: I know. Yeah, the 49ers are like, well, thank God
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: it's not next to an electrical facility. It's crappy stadium, but.
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  Speaker 4: At least they haven't landed.
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: I mean, they're literally, I had not, I think you talked,
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: you told me they were doing this back in the summer.
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: Now that it's starting to dawn on me, they were
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: approaching it two different ways.
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  Speaker 4: They made it. And I think the decision has always
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  Speaker 4: been with this. Like there was a little bit leaked
• 52:05
  Speaker 4: out that Aaron Donald was going to travel with the team.
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  Speaker 4: I think the smart play is to give him 12
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  Speaker 4: extra days to get ready for that Monday night game
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  Speaker 4: against New York in SoFi instead of rushing him to
• 52:16
  Speaker 4: play 10 or 15 plays this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: I would tell you this. I listened to Joey McGuire
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: yesterday on SiriusXM driving back from the golf course. It
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: was a replay. And by the way, after listening to him,
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: I love the guy. Do you? So the Texas Tech coach,
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: you're on him. The Texas Tech coach.
• 52:29
  Speaker 4: The guy that drives the Corvette.
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: He does. And he smokes cigars on his deck in
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: his wind down time and he He says, I will
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: watch as much football as I can, the big plays,
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: and former high school coach. So they're going to Corvallis. Now,
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: it's not going to Australia, but he's like, I've talked
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: to sports psychologists, our trainers and everything. We're going to
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: stay on our clock as we go out there, and
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: then when we come back, we're going to push our
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: clock three hours later as we prepare for a Friday
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: night game against Houston, a big game for them in
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: the Big 12 and rivalry. And that's the way McVay's
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: doing it. They're going to try to think long-term and
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: rehab and get rehabilitated on the way back.
• 53:13
  Speaker 4: I think you're more affected going backwards than forwards.
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: That's our show today. See you tomorrow.