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Set 1: CFB- Aging Like Milk · Stugotz and Company

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  Speaker 1: College football with Stu Gatz and the Bear.
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  Speaker 2: And, of course, everyone knows the exact right time to
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  Speaker 2: start a college football show is week four of the
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  Speaker 2: college football season.
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  Speaker 3: There's T-Bob again.
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  Speaker 4: That's right. Special guest. Glad to be back, guys. Love
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  Speaker 4: coming to hang out with Stu Gatz and the Bear.
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  Speaker 1: College football.
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  Speaker 3: Mario Cristobal, head coach at the University of Miami. Thank
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  Speaker 3: you for joining us.
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  Speaker 4: I just don't find any value in it. Humans, like,
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  Speaker 4: just spewing.
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  Speaker 1: Diarrhea out of their mouth. With Stu Gotts. I can
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  Speaker 1: give a rat's fat ass about what he says or does.
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  Speaker 1: And the bear.
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  Speaker 4: The f * * * ing bear is awesome. You're
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  Speaker 4: listening to College Football with Stu Gotts and the bear.
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  Speaker 2: It is the College Football Show with Stu Gotts and
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  Speaker 2: the bear.
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  Speaker 3: And T-Bob is here again. Wherever we go, he goes.
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  Speaker 2: T-Bob is with us as we come off maybe the
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  Speaker 2: greatest College Football Saturday ever. of all time, and we
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  Speaker 2: head into a Saturday that shouldn't be nearly as eventful
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  Speaker 2: as last Saturday was, T-Bob.
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  Speaker 3: But take it away here.
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  Speaker 1: My man.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Stu, but, you know, as you know, as Bear knows,
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  Speaker 4: as all of our other fellow college football autists know,
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  Speaker 4: a lot of times, like what happened last week, you
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  Speaker 4: could argue that was more the exception than the rule,
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  Speaker 4: where a lot of times the hyped-up weekends can end
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  Speaker 4: up being a bit disappointing. Chalk rules today.
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  Speaker 5: It is what it is.
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  Speaker 4: These sneaky college football weekends, where it doesn't look like
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  Speaker 4: there's much on paper, tend to deliver in very unexpected ways.
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  Speaker 4: So I am very excited to see where we end
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  Speaker 4: up in that regard this weekend. Um, real quick though,
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  Speaker 4: before you did the games, I want to start with
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  Speaker 4: a piece of news and I want to let, I
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  Speaker 4: want to see how y'all are interpreting it, what it means.
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  Speaker 4: And that is the Julian saying news. So we now
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  Speaker 4: have it confirmed Julian saying out for multiple weeks, further
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  Speaker 4: reporting says that Ohio state is preparing. Like they're not
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  Speaker 4: going to have him for the rest of the season bear.
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  Speaker 1: And we kind of hinted at it the other day
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  Speaker 1: that this was probably the direction this was going to take.
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  Speaker 1: And I think it is a major shakeup. in the
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  Speaker 1: national title race. We don't know if Fahey or St.
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  Speaker 1: Clair can come in and give Ohio State a viable
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  Speaker 1: quarterback in the passing game. I think we're looking at
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  Speaker 1: the Big Ten race, the Heisman race, the national title race.
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  Speaker 1: The Sane injury changes everything. Now, did Sane have the
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  Speaker 1: type of year we thought maybe he could have? Maybe not.
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  Speaker 1: He showed some flaws, but clearly this Ohio State team
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  Speaker 1: is a much different team moving forward. This is This
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  Speaker 1: is not exactly like Florida State 2023 because the Buckeyes
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  Speaker 1: are going to have a half a dozen games or
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  Speaker 1: so to try and show what they are without saying.
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  Speaker 1: But I'd be concerned right now. The Ohio State defense
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  Speaker 1: is great, but there are a couple of teams coming
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  Speaker 1: in where defensively they're very, very good. And we could
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  Speaker 1: be seeing Ohio State involved in some games here that
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  Speaker 1: you wouldn't have thought they'd be involved in at the
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  Speaker 1: start of the year.
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  Speaker 4: Stu, I'm going to go, you know, again, I've been
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  Speaker 4: a massive fan of Stu for years and years now.
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  Speaker 4: And so I'm going to pull right from the school
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  Speaker 4: of broadcasting. Just throw it at Jeremiah Smith.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care who you are.
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  Speaker 4: It can't be that hard. It's all Julian Zayn was doing. Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Jeremiah Smith had 80% of the productions. How about you
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  Speaker 4: just shut up, you're recruited to get a quarterback, you're
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  Speaker 4: recruited to a scholarship at Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: State, just throw it to four.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: It seems like he's the type of receiver that can
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  Speaker 2: make bad quarterbacks good quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 3: He can make good quarterbacks great quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 2: I am just amazed at what it is that Bear
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  Speaker 2: is saying because I would imagine in the transfer portal era,
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  Speaker 2: where guys can go anywhere, there's money to be spent,
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  Speaker 2: that the drop-off from Ohio State's number one quarterback to
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  Speaker 2: their backup quarterback, the gulf is that big, where Bear
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  Speaker 2: has legitimate concerns about Ohio State moving forward here.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what we need to look at and appreciate.
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  Speaker 1: The St. Clair kid was thought to be a massive
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  Speaker 1: recruiting boon. He was a highly thought-of guy. And for
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  Speaker 1: him now to... probably by presumably being that Fahey came
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  Speaker 1: in and played last week for him to be number three.
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  Speaker 1: That's a problem. But, but the issue with the portal
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  Speaker 1: is when you've got someone competent at quarterback, who's a backup,
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  Speaker 1: they want to play there. They're going to go somewhere else.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't think this is a 2014 type deal
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  Speaker 1: with Ohio state where you've got a Cardale Jones on
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  Speaker 1: the bench, who's going to come in and be fine.
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  Speaker 1: And you've got an Ezekiel Elliott at running back to
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  Speaker 1: help you win the national title. This is, This isn't
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  Speaker 1: the case here.
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  Speaker 3: And fortunately, for.
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Day and Ohio State, they've got an off week
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  Speaker 1: this week.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that is interesting, T-Bob, because what he's saying, the
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  Speaker 2: talent is spread out more. It is spread out across
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  Speaker 2: the country more, where in years past, if you're, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Miami would have three great quarterbacks, right?
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  Speaker 3: And they had to stay in school. They couldn't transfer.
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  Speaker 2: But now a guy, I think it was Kyle McCord, right,
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  Speaker 2: from Ohio State, once he learned he wasn't starting, he
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  Speaker 2: transferred to Syracuse.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't want to be a backup.
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  Speaker 2: He wanted to start at Syracuse, led the country in
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  Speaker 2: passing yards that year, and he got himself drafted, you know?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I mean, it's a theme. It's actually one
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  Speaker 4: of my favorite parts about the portal era. It's one
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  Speaker 4: of the main reasons why I actually don't want something
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  Speaker 4: like the Protect College Sports Act to pass is that
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  Speaker 4: inability to hoard talent. Right. That was one of the
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  Speaker 4: worst parts. It's why you're seeing the increased parity. And
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  Speaker 4: there are interesting strategies to handle it. Like, you look
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  Speaker 4: what Lane Kiffin did last year. He goes and gets Trinidad.
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  Speaker 4: Chambliss is his backup behind Austin Simmons because it's a
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  Speaker 4: proven winner on a lower level of football. Right. So
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  Speaker 4: not as sought after as some of the other guys.
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  Speaker 4: This year at LSU, he has this cat, Landon Clark,
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  Speaker 4: from Elon. Same thing. Proven winner, lower level. Every time
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  Speaker 4: he's played, he's played well. So it's like, okay, how
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  Speaker 4: do you handle this? I'll say this for the Ohio
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  Speaker 4: State situation. I love the facts, Bear, that Luke Fahey,
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  Speaker 4: a true freshman three-star, beat out the five-star sophomore for
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  Speaker 4: the job. Because that, well, and it could be that St.
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  Speaker 4: Clair's a disaster and can't learn the playbook, I guess. Like,
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  Speaker 4: if that's the case, then everything I'm about to say
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  Speaker 4: is wrong. But there is potential that that means that
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  Speaker 4: this coaching staff is being very objective in how it's
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  Speaker 4: measuring their quarterbacks. And that, yeah, this kid was unheralded.
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  Speaker 4: This kid is undersized. but he's better, but he's playing
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  Speaker 4: better and he gives us the best chance to win.
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  Speaker 4: I think that kind of makes me a little excited
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  Speaker 4: to see what Fahey has to do when he's not
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  Speaker 4: just thrown in there at the end of a top
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  Speaker 4: five matchup. And again, you got four. Look at what
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  Speaker 4: Julian Tate did on fourth and one.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 4: The play was a bust. They'd already made the call.
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  Speaker 4: He just threw it up there and said he's going
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  Speaker 4: to go get it. And Jeremiah Smith into double coverage
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  Speaker 4: made him right. So let's see if Fahey has like
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  Speaker 4: a little Maybe like a little Stetson Bennett in them.
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  Speaker 4: That said, I'm not knocking Ohio State off of playoff status,
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  Speaker 4: but they are firmly out of my national championship status.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad you said Stetson Bennett because as you were
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  Speaker 1: saying about this whole... three-star, five-star deal. Remember the hole
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  Speaker 1: to do at Georgia. How is Jake Fromm, the starting quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: how is Justin Fields not playing and Stetson Bennett? Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: it worked out pretty well for Georgia, the couple of
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  Speaker 1: national championships they wanted to win in that area in
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  Speaker 1: that period.
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  Speaker 4: Georgia is still missing Stetson Bennett and Todd Munkin. The
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  Speaker 4: closest they've gotten here is Gunnar Stockton, but him coming
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  Speaker 4: off the bad week. Let's get into some games coming
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  Speaker 4: up this weekend. I'm going to frame this as a
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  Speaker 4: triple pack, guys. I want to know who you think
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  Speaker 4: is most in danger. You've got three ranked teams hitting
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  Speaker 4: the road in what could potentially be considered tricky spots.
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  Speaker 1: You've got No.
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  Speaker 4: 11 Tennessee heading to South Carolina. You got number 15, Iowa,
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  Speaker 4: heading to Minnesota. You got number six, Indiana, heading to Michigan. Bear,
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  Speaker 4: what's the trickiest spot there? The trickiest spot there, I think,
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  Speaker 4: is Indiana heading to Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: Oh. I'm glad I surprised you with my response.
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  Speaker 3: You did surprise us, yes.
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  Speaker 1: Well, good. Keep the listener and the viewer on their toes.
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  Speaker 1: Keep my guest host, my guest and my host, I
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  Speaker 1: should say.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Yes. How many times do you see kind
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  Speaker 1: of like that air of invincibility, like you finally lose,
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  Speaker 1: and then it's like, okay, we're not invincible, we can lose.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe there's a little of that at play with Indiana.
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  Speaker 1: I think Michigan having Tommy Carr start now, I think
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  Speaker 1: that probably shows a little bit more of a trust
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  Speaker 1: factor now with Carr. They didn't ask him to do
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  Speaker 1: much last week. I think he only threw the ball
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  Speaker 1: seven times, but Probably a good thing that he's going
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  Speaker 1: to be starting. I think there's a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: of a steadier hand there now with Carr. The Michigan
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  Speaker 1: defense is still very good, and I still am not
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  Speaker 1: sold on the Indiana offense. We've seen Hoover the last
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  Speaker 1: couple of weeks barely completing 50% of his passes. The
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  Speaker 1: running game has not gotten going. This is a spot where, again,
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  Speaker 1: the gulf between what the Michigan program and the Indiana
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  Speaker 1: program has been over the last, eternity is massive, but
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  Speaker 1: not a place that Indiana's had a ton of success.
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  Speaker 1: I think Michigan's kind of a live dog here.
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  Speaker 2: For me, it's an easy answer, T-Bob. It's got to
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  Speaker 2: be Tennessee. Just because of the letdown game, it keeps happening.
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  Speaker 2: It happens in that conference. It's been happening the entire season.
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  Speaker 2: They beat Alabama. I know South Carolina beat Florida last week.
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  Speaker 2: They look a lot better. I know they got blown
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  Speaker 2: out by Alabama earlier in the season, but Tennessee coming
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  Speaker 2: off that win against Alabama, big win for them, big
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  Speaker 2: win for Hypel and that program. And then they travel
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  Speaker 2: to a South Carolina team, which is sneaky good. Listen,
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  Speaker 2: they're not great, but it looks like they have NFL
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  Speaker 2: players all over the field.
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  Speaker 1: South Carolina. Yeah, they always do.
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  Speaker 3: It's so weird. Right. And so it's weird.
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  Speaker 2: And so I think the easy answer is Tennessee let
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  Speaker 2: down spot against South Carolina.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, look, I see a lot of merit
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  Speaker 4: in both answers. Obviously, Tennessee still kind of doesn't have
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  Speaker 4: a quarterback, which is crazy that they're as good as
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  Speaker 4: they are, but it's because they have a top-ten defense
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  Speaker 4: as dominant as anybody else in the entire country. The
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  Speaker 4: only thing about Indiana Bear where I feel pretty comfortable
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  Speaker 4: with them is I like to try to not make
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  Speaker 4: the same mistake twice, right? And going into last week's
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  Speaker 4: Indiana-Ohio State game, I was very guilty of dismissing Brian Haynes,
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  Speaker 4: the coordinator, in that Indiana front seven. And I got
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  Speaker 4: it shoved in my face. I thought they played great. Again,
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  Speaker 4: Smith had the one play. So now it's like, okay,
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  Speaker 4: last week they knew Jeremiah Smith. That's what we got
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  Speaker 4: to say. Now you're going to tell me that Haynes
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  Speaker 4: and this crew gets to look at this hapless Michigan offense?
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  Speaker 4: with a guy making his first ever start under center,
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  Speaker 4: an offense that is already discombobulated. He can't move the
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  Speaker 4: ball against anybody. And I feel you. Michigan's defense makes
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  Speaker 4: this a game because Indiana's not been good offensively. I
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  Speaker 4: think they're only averaging like 20 points in these big,
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  Speaker 4: big 10 matchups. But I really struggle to see how
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  Speaker 4: Michigan's offense is going to have any modicum of success
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  Speaker 4: come Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: You do bring up a very valid point in one
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  Speaker 1: that has been proven in a couple of instances this
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  Speaker 1: season where sometimes the backup quarterback comes in, everybody loves
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  Speaker 1: the backup quarterback, comes in, does great, win, and then
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  Speaker 1: you get the week. You get to look at him
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  Speaker 1: from a defensive standpoint. And then this Tommy Carr now
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  Speaker 1: knows he's the starter. He goes in prepping in a
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  Speaker 1: different fashion. So it could ultimately turn out the way
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  Speaker 1: it did, obviously, with Dylan Arreola. after the USC win
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  Speaker 1: was awful against UCLA. So I can totally see it
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  Speaker 1: going that way. Just a lot of faith and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of confidence, I think, in that Michigan defense right now.
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  Speaker 1: Feels like a very low-scoring game.
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  Speaker 2: Bear, you said earlier, Indiana hasn't been, they haven't been
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  Speaker 2: great in these spots. And I would maintain these are
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  Speaker 2: spots they've never been in.
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  Speaker 1: Also true.
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  Speaker 3: Every spot's a new spot for Indiana.
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  Speaker 1: What T-Bob said at the top of the show, though,
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  Speaker 1: he brought up these three games specifically. Yes. We've got
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  Speaker 1: eight ranked teams on the road against unranked teams. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to get at least two or three. No. I
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  Speaker 1: have these unranked dogs at home that are going to win.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I wish I started the show a different way because
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  Speaker 2: you guys are both right about that. When you're not
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  Speaker 2: expecting a great week in college football, that's when the
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  Speaker 2: chaos happens because you're right. There's going to be upsets
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  Speaker 2: this weekend. We know that there's so much parody in
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  Speaker 2: the sport right now. And for me to suggest, because
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  Speaker 2: the matchups aren't that sexy, it's not going to be
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  Speaker 2: a great college football weekend.
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  Speaker 3: That's usually when you have your best college football weekends,
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  Speaker 3: you know?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I'm looking around more Bayer now. There's other
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  Speaker 4: ones that I considered putting in, like BYU-UCF I didn't
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  Speaker 4: quite put in there. The obvious miss here is USC-Wisconsin
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  Speaker 4: feels very much like the three we just discussed. So
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  Speaker 4: let's do this. We've got a lot more games to
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  Speaker 4: get to. Let's take a quick break, and we'll be
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  Speaker 4: back with more College Football Show with Stu Gatz and
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  Speaker 4: the Bayer. All right, welcome back to College Football Show
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  Speaker 4: with Stu Gatz and the Bear. Stu had to go,
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  Speaker 4: which is fine because now, you know, the real college
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  Speaker 4: football nerds get to chop it up here.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 4: This is a little two bears, one show right here.
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  Speaker 4: So I hope you enjoy it. Let's start here, Bear.
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  Speaker 4: There's been a lot of hand-wringing. over BYU this week,
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  Speaker 4: because suddenly here the Cougars sit and they're ranked number
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  Speaker 4: two in the entire country. And a lot of people
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  Speaker 4: are saying, we got to look at how we do polls.
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  Speaker 4: How are they number two? They're not that, like, they're
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  Speaker 4: not the second best team. They beat underdogs on a
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  Speaker 4: neutral field against eight. Correct. Where do you fall on
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  Speaker 4: that idea, BYU number two team in the nation?
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  Speaker 1: I don't mind putting them in number two right now.
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  Speaker 1: They've got one of the best wins in the country,
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  Speaker 1: beating Notre Dame on your home field. again, this is
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  Speaker 1: the difference between polls and using resume strength of record
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  Speaker 1: quality wins, as opposed to just power ratings, which don't
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  Speaker 1: necessarily have a kind of a knee jerk, immediate reaction
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  Speaker 1: and adjust on the fly. Like, like the, the human
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  Speaker 1: mind potentially can. I don't mind putting them to, I
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  Speaker 1: think reward them for the win over Notre Dame. Would I,
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  Speaker 1: pick them to win the national title? Would I pick
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  Speaker 1: them to get to the college football playoff championship game? No,
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  Speaker 1: because there's a massive difference between the makeup of a
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  Speaker 1: team that could win one game as a 10-point home
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  Speaker 1: underdog in primetime in a great emotional spot and a
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  Speaker 1: team that can now win three or four of these
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  Speaker 1: types of games against those types of opponents on a roll.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe we'll see what happens, but maybe
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  Speaker 1: it'd be why you'll get in the playoff and do that.
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  Speaker 1: But this is a very tricky spot This week for BYU,
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  Speaker 1: having to handle one of the biggest wins in program history,
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  Speaker 1: going all the way across the country to Florida, where
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be wet and hot and humid against
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  Speaker 1: UCF team, which has some talent. Played Oklahoma State really
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  Speaker 1: tight a couple of weeks back in Stillwater. This is
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  Speaker 1: going to be a really challenging week for Kalani Satake.
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  Speaker 1: Like you said, everybody patting him on the back now. Congrats,
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  Speaker 1: big upset. You're in the mix now. Change the narrative
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  Speaker 1: for you. Change the narrative for the Big 12. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. We've seen situations where BYU has been doubted
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  Speaker 1: and they've come up with the win here. We'll see
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  Speaker 1: if they can do it again. My guess is that
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  Speaker 1: they will get out of the bounce house with the win,
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  Speaker 1: but it is not a game that they should be
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  Speaker 1: taking lightly.
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  Speaker 4: Well, okay, and first off, to go back to the
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  Speaker 4: original question, that was my overall point, people. I'm glad
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  Speaker 4: you said it. Guys, the AP poll, it's just how
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  Speaker 4: the poll works. If you win, you go up. These
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  Speaker 4: are not power ratings. That's a separate conversation. Talk to
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  Speaker 4: me a little bit more about UCF, though, Bear, because
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  Speaker 4: I'm just going to admit ignorance here. I haven't thought
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: about UCF in a long time. I don't know if
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: I've thought about UCF since... maybe getting excited about them
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: with Gus Malzahn? I mean, is Scott Frost doing things
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: there that we should be worried about?
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: Well, we're not talking like 2017 undefeated regular season fake
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: national champs of some computer ranking. We're not talking about that.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: They do need to get a little bit more out
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: of the running game, and their offense has been– A
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: bit sporadic. Oklahoma State lit them up offensively, moved the
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: ball up and down the field. But it's just kind
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: of the situation where you would expect. The atmosphere that
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: we saw, the emotion that BYU was able to generate
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: last week, it's not going to be that type of scale.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: But UCF is going to see an opportunity here to
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: get over 500, get closer to bowl eligibility. Scott Frost
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: not having the same amount of success that he had
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: in the first 10 years, but it's much better than
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: what it had been last year. So just anytime you're
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: going on the road after a big win, you need
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: to figure out different ways to push your players' buttons
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: and make sure that they are fully motivated and fully focused.
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, and to your point, and I think Stu
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: referenced it as well at one point in the show today,
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: but that's a common theme that we have seen in
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: college football this year already a lot. This year are
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: these letdown spots. Uh, let's head over then next, because
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: I think the opposite could potentially be true as well.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: Let's head over to Texas A & M and Alabama
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: A & M hitting the road, uh, to Tuscaloosa. Speaking
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: of spots here, bear, I think I hate this spot
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: for A & M. I feel like you are going
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: to have a desperate back against the wall at home, angry,
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: locked in Alabama team. for an A & M team
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: that is deeply, deeply flawed.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: I agree with you. What A & M has done
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: against ranked teams the last four games, outscored 99-32, and
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: it's 62-12 this year. Marcel Reed, those four games, no touchdowns,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: seven interceptions. He's been sacked 16 times. They have problems
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: all over the place on offense. Like I said, this
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: is not going to be a situation where Tennessee was
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: able to run Alabama last year. A & M is
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: not going to be able to handle Alabama up front
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: the way Tennessee, which is amazing to say given how
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: good the Aggies were up front on both sides of
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: the ball last year. This feels like a pretty good
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: bounce back spot for Alabama coming off of those consecutive losses.
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: All right, now let's talk about one of the only
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: recorders on ranked matchups that we have. We have a couple,
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: the one with the bigger brands though is Ole Miss
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: at Texas. And this is a tough one to parse
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: because you have two teams come in, like could not
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: be entering different teams. with more different vibes, right? Ole
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: Miss has completely righted the ship following their Florida debacle.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: They beat Mizzou 31-3, and the entire storyline there is,
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: oh my God, if they have a defense, the Rebels
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: are like national championship good with Trinidad Chambliss and Kiwan
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: Lacy and that entire offense. And here you have Texas,
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: whose offense looks completely hapless, couldn't take advantage of that
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: terrible Florida Gator pass defense. They're talking about benching Arch Manning,
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: but Texas is at home here. But there's no Colin
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: Simmons for Texas. So it's like I look at this
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: game there and I just find myself ping-ponging back and
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: forth between the different elements at play.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: I hate this game from a wagering standpoint. If we
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: had a category on this show, like the game you
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: want no part of betting, this would be it because
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: that Texas offense is deeply flawed. And while Arch has
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: taken his fair share of the blame, that offensive line
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: has not been good at all. I was shocked last
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: week defensively how Will Muschamp's unit did not respond against
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: a a Florida team with a first-time starting quarterback. I
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: do worry, though, about Ole Miss now. It kind of
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: feels a little bit like the spot the Rebels were
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: in going into that Florida game. They beat LSU, and
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: people started talking about them. Now you get another dominant wing.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: You shut down Missouri like no one has done this year,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: and now you're on the road, and you're a three-and-a-half-point dog. Like,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: I like talking about dogs with fleas, meaning everyone's going
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: to jump on and think the line looks too good
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: to be true, and ultimately those games lose. Ole Miss
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: is probably going to be a very popular underdog this
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: week because it's over a field goal. The narrative around Texas,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: we know Trinidad Chambliss is one of the more dangerous quarterbacks,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: the most dangerous quarterback in the sport. But typically Texas
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: has not been good in these games. Like under dark,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: they haven't covered any of the times they've been favored
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: at home against top 10 teams. So I am going
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: to be sitting back and watching this game on Saturday night.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: I will have no play on it. No result here
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: would surprise me, but it's going to create a narrative
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: now for the rest of the year. If you are
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: looking for a way to maybe attack this, if you
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: are looking for a wagering suggestion, like the no price
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: on Texas to make the playoff is probably, I think
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: it's only around minus 185 or so. Another loss is
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: going to find them at some point this year. So
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: I'd be looking at the Texas Dome playoff.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: You know what you could call it, Bear? You call
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: it a Grinch game. You know, there's the line in
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: the Grinch song, you know, I want to touch him
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: with a 39 and a half foot pole. It's a
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: classic Grinch game here. Do you know the name of
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: the singer? from the original Grinch cartoon.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: I've heard it. Oh, God.
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: It's the most beautiful, august-like old school. It's Thurl Ravenscroft.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: Thurl Ravenscroft. What an incredible name. Shout out, Thurl. This
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: is a Grinch game, which, though, I'm going all the
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: way back around on because you're right. This is one
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: where you'd be like, okay, I just have to bet Texas.
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: I want to bet Ole Miss so madly that I
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: have to bet Texas, but even though it seems so
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: hard to fathom Texas losing three in a row, right?
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: It's like taking a multiple choice test and you're like,
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: is the answer really C for a fourth row? I
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: think it is, but I don't know here. I'm just
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: going to choose Ole Miss. Now from a gambling perspective,
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: I'm going to choose Ole Miss to win this game
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: because I'm just going to like, I've consistently said all
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: year long, Trinidad Chambliss is the best gamer in the
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: entire country in terms of being at his best when
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: the stakes are the highest and the pressure means the most.
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: And again, I believe in that Ole Miss front seven.
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: And if Keewon Lacey's healthy, then that changes everything for
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: Ole Miss. I'm going to take Ole Miss. This sounds
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: so crazy to go on the road and beat Texas,
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: hand them a third loss in a row, and knock
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: the Longhorns out in the playoff.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Not talking about Texas, but the state of Texas, that
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Houston-Utah game has me really intrigued this week at Wilkins.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: That Houston offense, With Hughes and Sanford and Wegman and
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: the way they utilize Overmeyer and that offense with the
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: tight end, Houston's good. Houston could very easily be undefeated
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: right now, losing on that two-point conversion at Texas Tech.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Utah hasn't beaten a soul. We're in a game in
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: the second half last week with Colorado, which kind of
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: surprised me. So I have my eyes on this one, too.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: I was surprised from a handicapping standpoint to see Houston
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: that big of a dog here. Because I think Rice-Eccles
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: is a tough place to go. It's going to be
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: at night. It's going to be raucous and rowdy. But
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: I think Willie Fritz is a hell of a coach.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: It would not surprise me to see Houston go on
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: the road and get this win. This is like one
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: of the only other ranked versus ranked games of the
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: week besides that Texas Ole Miss game.
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: We all had to stay up until about 3 in
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: the morning last week for Oregon, Nebraska. Stay up late
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: on Saturday night. You won't be disappointed with this one.
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and this is a game where right now you
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: look at the Big 12 and you could argue that
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: they're a bit inflated. But again, these things are going
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: to shake out over time. This is like functionally, maybe
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: not mathematically, but in many ways, you could almost view
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: this as like a Big 12 elimination game when it
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: comes to potential playoffs. I am with you. Willie Fritz
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: is one of the more proven winners in the entire sport.
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: I got to watch him firsthand when he was down
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: there at Tulane. I was working the Louisiana beat. And,
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: you know, he's got that... Hi, man! His voice is
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: already fucked up. He can barely ever talk 24-7. Never
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: heard him with the... So, like, I love all of that.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: But this is purely just a time and stadium play
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: for me. Utah at home, 9.15 at night, Rice-Eccles.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: It's just.
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: I think it's going to be such a foreign environment
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: for Houston. I think Utah's going to pass their first
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: major test of the season this year, though I'd probably
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: feel better if they still had two first-round tackles like
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: they did last year with Caleb Lomu and Spencer Faneuil.
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: So I think this is a great opportunity, though.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Utah's been winning.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: We've all been down, and they haven't played anybody. Go
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: prove it.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Go prove it.
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: They're like, Utah, you've heard the noise. Everybody's saying you're overinflated.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: Go prove that you're good. Go take care of a
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: Houston team that just had a very impressive win over
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: Oklahoma State. Bear, a game that we referenced in passing earlier,
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: USC at Wisconsin. We are not very high on Lincoln
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: Riley or his tenure at USC as a show here.
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: I think it's fair to say it's not been good
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: for Fickle at Wisconsin, but they showed a little bit
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: of life lately. Do you think the Badgers could pull
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: the home upset here at night?
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: I was really concerned with how poor they looked offensively
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: last week. against UCLA. It was a really good spot
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: for Fickle and Wisconsin against the UCLA team that just
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: pulled it upset, broke into the rankings, talk of the town,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: and they went out there and laid an absolute egg
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: on offense. Look, I'm going to give USC a ton
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: of credit here. They went on the road into a
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: ridiculously difficult environment in that whiteout, held Penn State without
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: a touchdown in the second half, so the defense played
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: a lot better. Granted, it was against an offense that
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: can't move the ball against air. But the way the
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: schedule kind of breaks down here for USC is going
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: to be really interesting. Maybe you get a little bit
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: of a look-ahead spot because you got Ohio State coming
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: to your place, and then you got a week off
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: and you go to Indiana. That's where the rubber meets
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: the road here. You end with UCLA. That's when we'll
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: know more about the Trojans here. But I have very
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: little faith in Wisconsin, in this offense, to put up
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: a bunch of points. I know it looks like a
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: tricky spot. It feels like one of those games that
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: everybody is going to be on Wisconsin, the home dog.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: I think the Trojans go on their own and get
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: it done here. I think Maiova and the offense is
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: going to be a problem for Wisconsin, and I just
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: don't think that Wisconsin's offense is equipped enough to really
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: expose and do the things that can really hurt, uh,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: USC on the defensive side of the ball.
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: I think I'm with you bear because it looked like
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: Wisconsin had gotten maybe that first fickle signature win with
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: the comeback coming out of 17, nothing against Penn state. Uh,
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: but it's a win that is just aged like, like milk. It's, it's, it's,
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: it's not good. Um, Yeah, okay, I think the Trojans survived.
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: Even though, again, you want to talk about great stadiums,
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: Madison at night in a game like this is going
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: to be absolutely electric. Oman is going to be worth
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: tuning into this game just to get some of the
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: kind of vibes and energy from what's going to be
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: coming to your television. uh how about let's head over.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: To head over to mickey's get yourself and get yourself
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: a nice little shake mickey's dairy.
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: Barn what is mickey's oh i don't know anything about
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: them i don't know you gotta talk to big cat
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: about this go get yourself get yourself a shake get
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: yourself a burger what kind of.
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: Shit guy are you?
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Try and get there for breakfast. Yeah. Any vanilla. Vanilla
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: is fine.
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: I'm a vanilla guy too, Bear.
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. Very simple, underrated. Yes. Yeah. Mickey's is where
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: it's at. I'm glad Mikey A has my back there.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: This is the show that I want to do.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: I want to do.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: A show about travel, college football, food, where to stay,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: where to eat, airline, all the ancillary stuff. I remember
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: when Stanford Steve and I had the pod, we would
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: always do like, he would just say travel, and I
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: would always say like, Hartford mini Eugene two and a
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: half or Hartford mini Portland two plus hour death drive
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: stop it five guys stop it Nike like all of
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: the little details on there and people ate the shit up.
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: It was great okay we might need a Bears travel
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: corner because you've been all over this country like unfortunately
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: my college football experience nowadays for years now is just
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: me locked in my office on my computer watching like
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: five games at once i'm no longer out there amongst
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: the people i will say this ever since i moved
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: to midwest culver's has been a godsend oh that is
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: good fast food dude that is good fast food yeah if.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: We if we get back to uh either wisconsin or
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: we get to to indy uh yeah i'm gonna i'm
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: gonna find myself a culver's and get and get a
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: little something there. Baton Rouge, we always used to stay
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: at that Embassy Suites right off of the interstate there,
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: right next to the original Ruth Chris there.
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, hell yeah.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Hey, can I throw something out about Baton Rouge? I
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: just wanted somebody who went to LSU, somebody who's traveled.
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: I've done this, and I just want to say one word,
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: and I want to get your reaction.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Okay, Mikey. Ruffino's.
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: Oh, dude, that's all right. I, I, I, yeah. Ruffin
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: Roderick again, rest in peace. Uh, absolute legend. So I
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: actually played. So Robin played back in the day with
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: like air candle sec and some old school legendary lines.
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: he ends up coming to the face of Rafino's runs
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: that restaurant. And, and he was like the most, like
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: he was like out of a movie. One of those
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: guys welcoming you in, he would get drunk and sing
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: happy birthday. Like we would never, I proposed to my
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: wife at Rafino's like, like my, my, my, uh, yes. My, uh,
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: I have a lot of memories there. I had my
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: graduation from college, like family celebration dinner there. And then
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: like my mom surprised me with a new car outside
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: of Rafino's like the craziest day of my life. Like,
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: So I have a lot of core memories there and
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: actually played with Chase Claymore, who was Ruffin's nephew. So yeah,
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: shout out Rufino.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Cedar plank redfish. Yeah.
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I always liked the seafood.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: It was really good.
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: I used to get the, that's the only place normally
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: would steak. I'm a very basic, just salt, pepper, Pittsburgh style.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: But I did used to mess around with some Imperial topping,
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: which I think is like crab. Right. So, so, so,
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: so good. Um, all right, let's get into, I just
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: had it here. Uh, Oh, Texas tech, Cincinnati bear, Texas tech, Cincinnati.
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: How are we feeling about, I mean, I, I, I,
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: I think Texas tech is going to roll here. Uh, they're, they're,
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: they're so talented. Like, and, and I feel like they're
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: kind of rounding it for, yes, they're not. They were
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: last year. Right. Cause look at David Bailey. He's dominating
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: the NFL. Look at Jacob Rodriguez. He's dominated the NFL, uh,
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: But I still think Texas Tech's just too overwhelming for Cincinnati.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati's defense is terrible. And they offensively, are they just
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: going to be able to run the ball up and
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: down the field? I don't see it at all. Maybe
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: it's a little bit inflated of a number because of
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: what we saw Texas Tech do against a bad team.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: Arizona state team last week. You talk about a team
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: agent about with the agent, like milk coagulating and getting
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: rotten and moldy on the counter that win in London
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: over Kansas.
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: Like, Ooh, yeah.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Where, where the hell did that come from? But ASU's
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: defense is bad. So I think maybe there's a little
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: bit of an overreaction here to Texas tech. I don't
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: think Cincinnati offensively is very good. I think defensively they're bad, but,
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: Texas Tech should go there and win easily. We've seen
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati with some of these games at home in recent
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: years where they just, the BYU game was one of them.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: They had a couple other games at Nippert as well
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: that they just couldn't quite hang in there. I would
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: be in line of laying it here with Texas Tech.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: By the way, as a sneaky game at home next
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: week in Arizona could be ranked versus ranked. We're going
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: to find out more, and you mentioned it before, about
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: the Big 12 as we get on in the year.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: We're going to learn a little bit more as we
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: get more of these ranked matchups against each other, even
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: though for Texas Tech, they could be the beneficiary because
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: they don't have BYU or Utah. I mean, they got
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: the game at Oak State, but not having BYU-Utah this
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: year could be a thing where we look at the
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: conference standings, and because they missed those two, we could
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: wind up seeing Texas Tech back right there in the
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Big 12 championship game.
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, kind of an injustice that the highest payroll, most
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: talented team also lucked into the easy schedule. But I
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: love Coach McGrath, so it's all good. Oh, it's great. Bear,
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: a theme of this show has been Kirk Ferentz to
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: the playoffs, okay? And I'm a little fascinated. This is
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: the last one we'll talk about, but I'm a little
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: fascinated by their trip to Minnesota here, kind of because
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: how the season has gone for the two teams, where,
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: of course, Minnesota has... The win at Washington, into the
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: win at home against Michigan for the first time in
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: 50 or 70 years, whatever it was. And then they
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: turn around and Purdue just dominates him. Iowa, on the
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: other hand, very impressive in their own road win at Washington, 41-24.
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: I was kind of scoring points this year a little bit.
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: They both had a bye to get ready for this one.
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: Do you think Iowa keeps it going? Friendly schedule. Do
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: they go on the road to Minnesota and get a win?
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: I do.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: I think they do. I think they showed with Klinsky, right?
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: Is that how you say it? The backup quarterback who's
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: going to be the guy moving forward now. I think
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: that game that I was at with big noon, then
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: the Michigan Minnesota game was more about bad Michigan than
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: it was really good. Minnesota. obviously the home field could
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: make a bit of a difference here. But I think
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Iowa is one of those teams that just is kind
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: of unfazed by the environment. They just have their game.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: They have their game plan. They have the style of
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: play that they have. It's rinse, wash, and repeat over
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: and over again. So, yeah, I do like Iowa. I
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: don't know if I want to lay seven points here
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: or whatever. But Hawkeye– They are super alive. If they
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: get past this game, their two remaining road games are Northwestern,
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: which will be difficult. That's way more difficult than it
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: looked at the beginning, for sure. Yeah, Northwestern might even
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: be favored in that game. And Illinois, who is not
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: very good. And then you've got Nebraska at the end,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: who you've completely owned over the last 10 years or so.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: 10-2 is on the table. Iowa did the playoff.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: Still alive.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're alive.
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: Ferentz making a 12-team playoff before LSU did. Kill me now.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: You're not out of it yet.
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: No, I know we're not out of it yet, but
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: right now I see three two-loss teams in the SEC
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: that are not out of it, and I kind of
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: hate all their chances. Alabama, Texas, and LSU.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: I'm looking at LSU's schedule, and we talked on Monday
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: about The barn fire and the earthquake game and Les
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: forgetting how much time was left and throwing the fade
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: to bird and then acting, oh, yeah, that's what I
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: meant to do. Yeah, had it the entire way. The rank,
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: the difficulty of the next four games for LSU at Auburn,
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: home Alabama, home Texas at Tennessee. Because I know what
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: I think is going to be the most difficult game.
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: I mean, with a bullet bear, it's home Alabama. I mean,
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: you've beaten Alabama one time in a decade. Like, I
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: don't care about who Alabama is. I don't care about
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: who Texas, who Tennessee. Like, I do not, like, maybe
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: you could make the argument that at Tennessee is objectively it,
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: but there is such a mental block with Alabama. You've
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: beaten them one time since, I guess you won in 2019,
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: and that was your first time since 2011.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: And then since then, you only had the one Jaden
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: Daniels year. So we're talking two times in over a decade.
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: And you build it over a decade. And a weird
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: quirk of this rivalry, Bear, you never win in Baton Rouge.
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: LSU does not. Alabama owns Baton Rouge in the Bear
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: versus Charlie Mack days in the last month. Like, maybe
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: not last month. Yeah, no, even then, we would always
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: go home and win there.
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: We just, I don't know why. So I'm desperately hoping. Like,
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: I would almost, I'm so fucked up in my head
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: about Alabama. I would almost lose every other game. If
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: you meant that you could beat Alabama, I'm not, I'm
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: not fully there, but like it would, it would legitimately
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: make lane Kiffin's year amongst the fan base. If they
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: beat Alabama, but at Tennessee is probably the hardest.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: That's the one. Cause you're going to have a circus
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: just like you did against Ole Miss.
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: I forgot it. God, man. It turns out getting in
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: bed with a, a toxic partner comes with a lot
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: of crazy.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: Exes, dude.
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: Like, Relax, guys.
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: Geez, sorry he left you.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: We're hot.
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: I don't know what to tell you. All right. Oh,
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: but real quick, Mikey, if you ever find your way
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: back to Baton Rouge, spare you as well. Have you
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: ever been a superior for a superior margarita?
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: No.
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: That's a little local ball knowledge. When I go back
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: for that Alabama game in a couple of weeks, first
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: time back in Baton Rouge, year and a half, I've
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: already got a room renting out for me and like
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: 24 of my closest old friends, and we're just going
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: to go drink a ton of margaritas.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: It's the best. I forget what Stanford Steve said. Like
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: a supper club or something now? Not the Auburn.
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, supper club's the new hot thing. So the guy
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: that started Walk On's Brandon Landry, who's a Baton Rouge legend,
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: he started a very fancy, upscale restaurant called Supper Club,
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: which is a very good time as well. Very good time.
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: All right, though, guys, there it is, a little Baton
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: Rouge travel knowledge. When we get back here on the
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: College Football Show with Stu Gotsenbeer, we got Stu back,
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: and we got Bears gold, silver, and bronze medal bets.
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: You're not going to want to miss it. More College
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: Football Show with Stu Gotsenbeer. All right, guys, let's wrap
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: it up. Today's college promotion is you got to the bear,
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: which is Stu's favorite segment every single week. It is
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: time for the bear to lead us to the gold,
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: the silver, and the bronze.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: Metal picks, bear.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: Yes, I went against bear last week. I felt terrible
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: doing it, but I was right and he was wrong.
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: That's not a good way.
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: There were no medals handed out last week.
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: It's not a good way to promote the medals and
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: the picks here from the bear, but I promise you,
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: His picks, A, he's due, and his picks come with
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: far more research than mine do. I'm just shooting from
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: the hip. I have no idea what I'm talking about. Anyway,
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: with that said, Bear, take it away. The bronze medal
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: game this weekend for the Bear.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: The bronze medal bet. We talked about the Ohio State
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: injury situation at the top of the show. I am
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: going to bet a little on Oregon. at 13, 14,
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: 15 to one, whatever the number happens to be to
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: win the big tech. Wow.
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: I love that.
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: I know that seems crazy with how terrible the ducks
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: offense has been, but defensively they are playing a hell
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: of a lot of a lot, a lot better. Yep.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: They play Ohio state coming up in a couple of weeks.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: Maybe Dante Moore is back. We don't know what's going
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: to happen with that. If the ducks can somehow win
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: in Columbus, they'll hold that tie break. Over Ohio State,
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: they will hold a tiebreak over USC. Maybe we wind
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: up with the rematch of Oregon-UCLA in the Big Ten
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: Championship game. So take a little long shot flyer there.
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: I love that.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: Silver medal, you mentioned it earlier. Tennessee, South Carolina. I
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: got a better number at the start before this game
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: flipped across and made South Carolina a favorite. It's a
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: terrible spot for Tennessee. That was a game last week
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: where they manhandled Alabama in the trenches, ran the ball well,
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: made life miserable for Russell on that offense. Now you've
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: got to go on the road, handle prosperity against the
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: South Carolina team that clearly has a ton of talent
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: on the offensive side of the ball. So I like
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: South Carolina as the slight favorite now. And then gold
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: medal game, I had Virginia Tech last week, like Virginia
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: Tech again this week. getting the points at Clemson. I'm
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: not sold how good this Clemson team is. Virginia Tech,
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: that win last week, I think gets them back on
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: the right track. Big recruiting type game. It's a One
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: of the bigger games James Franklin has had so far
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: at Virginia Tech. I like the Hokies here to go
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: on the road and beat Clemson.
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: I mean, if you're telling me, bet James Franklin in
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: a big game, I'm in.
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: Big game games. That's what they call them. That's right.
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: You're sold. It was that easy to get.
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: Not the fact that he pours over the research. He
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: makes far more educated picks than anyone going. It's just
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: James Franklin, big game James.
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: I'm in, right?
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: Anytime something feels so bad in gambling, it's normally right.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: Did you realize, by the way, Clemson has lost seven
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: of their last nine home games.
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: It's powerful teams.
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 44:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: There's a similar stat, Bear, that I was shocked to realize.
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: LSU hasn't won a road SEC game in two years.
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: It's been two calendar years. And were it not for
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: Auburn beating Vandy at home earlier this year, Auburn hadn't
• 44:25
  Speaker 4: won an SEC home game in two years. With that matchup,
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: you got bad on bad, not good.
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: Bear, I want to give you something. As a gambler,
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: I want to give you something. It's going to hurt
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: you as much.
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: As it hurt me.
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: I'm going to give you something that's going to hurt
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: you because you've been here as much as it hurt me.
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: I had a three-team parlay last weekend. I had UCLA
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: minus whatever it was.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: Check.
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: Winner.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: I had Kentucky on the money line.
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: Winner.
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: I had Florida State on the money line.
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: Oh, that was probably a fatty parlay.
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: I had so many.
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: Fartisting. Oh my God.
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: I had so many cash out possibilities and I kept
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: saying no.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: Well, why would, again, I don't know what you're, but
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: why would you? Yes. Like you got an opportunity for
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: a great, ridiculous price.
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah. It was going to be over $ 7, 000 had I won.
• 45:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 45:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: Bear was, bear was, bear was down in the dump
• 45:30
  Speaker 4: Saturday night too. When we were texting him, he thought my, I.
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: Was legit nervous.
• 45:35
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: Hopefully I will not be legit nervous on Wednesday, on
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: Saturday afternoon. Hopefully we'll not, we will not have the
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: third straight week where AP number one went down to
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: an unranked team. If we do, uh, we will be
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: looking for a, uh, another co-host next week to go
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: with our guests, keep up and the other hosts.
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: Thank you for making the proper sound there because it
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: sounded like I punched you in the gut.
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: It hurt.
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: It hurt.
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: I would have rather been punched in the gut. I
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: got to tell you.
• 46:04
  Speaker 4: I mean, And that holding call. Oh my God. All
• 46:08
  Speaker 4: of a sudden, Even worse. Absolutely absurd.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: What about the face mask on Chase Smith? That really
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: wasn't a face mask. What about the goal line stands
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: at Miami-Made? Stop at Florida State on 4th Avenue?
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: I didn't mean for you to get all sensitive and defensive.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: We forget about everything that led to that point.
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: The point of me telling this story was not for
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: you to get all defensive. about your hurricane. You won
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: the game. The point of me telling you that story
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: was for you to make the sound that you made
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: once I told you the story.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: G-Bob's the one that started. Our guest that maybe started
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: talking about holding and this and that.
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's clear, you know. It fixes in. That's
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: all I'm saying. They want Miami to win. ACC knows
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: they need them. Look, you just worry about Wake Forest.
• 46:57
  Speaker 4: Wake Forest is good.
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: They are.
• 46:59
  Speaker 4: Are coming for that ass in an ACC championship rematch.
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: By the way, Taylor has told me via text here
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: that South Carolina would be his gold medal game.
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: Lock of the year, he says.
• 47:09
  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, that kind of goes to the point
• 47:11
  Speaker 4: where it feels so bad. Like, you see South Carolina's favored, and...
• 47:16
  Speaker 4: your instinct is how in the hell is that possible?
• 47:19
  Speaker 4: I have to bet it. I need to rush to
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: my phone to bet it right now.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: It's a double reverse trap. Is that what you're suggesting there?
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: Oh, I love the double reverse trap.
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: All right, guys.
• 47:35
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• 47:38
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• 47:43
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• 47:46
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• 47:49
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