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Bama Bob, Trent & Ken make their College Football predictions & Trent's Picks presented by Circa Sports · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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Hour number two, Millery Condon, welcome back, Iowa Sports Radio
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Network. Trent Condon, Ken Miller, we
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take you until 2. Trent's plays of the day still
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to come. Circus sports sponsor those Bama
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Bob's going to join this momentarily.
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In fact, we'll bring him aboard here.
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So just stay on hold as we're going to go on record for the
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upcoming college football season.
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Here's the latest on the 1 Casey.
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OK. He still hasn't got to the
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ballpark. 25 minutes ago, he had still not made his way from Des
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Moines to the Rogers Center in downtown Toronto, and council
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says he's wedding as long as he can.
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He wants him in the lineup. He's a kid from Ontario, you
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know, pretty magical opportunity for him to A to get to the major
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leagues. But to play his first game in
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his home country in his own province and council is going to
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try and make that happen. But travel is a whole different
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story and unfortunately it doesn't.
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It may not have a happy ending, this story as we are still.
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Awaiting the game is a pitch hitter or something.
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I hope so, Trey. The first pitch is in an hour
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and 2 minutes. Does he have to be there at a
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certain time to be able to be part of the 26 man roster?
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It's a wonderful. I don't know the well Amaya went
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on the the D or the IL. Did you see him get hurt last
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night? Yeah.
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Yeah, it was gross. It was first day back.
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First day back, hustling down first baseline.
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It was safe. Never hustle.
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That's the lesson. Never hustle.
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That's the lesson, kids. Don't ever, don't ever try to
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beat anything in. This won't happen.
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Coach Condon. Yeah.
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Hey, I'm assistant now. I'm no longer a head coach.
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I can say those things. I I think Ken, to answer your
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question, I don't think he has to be present at the park.
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I think the problem would be if you put him on the roster and he
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can't show you got a short bench, yeah.
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I think that do they? Have anybody else there that
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could even be there? Probably not.
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Probably not. That's.
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A good question. Yeah, probably not.
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Well, we'll see. They still haven't posted the
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lineup, but I'm going to refreshes our conversation.
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Tommy Birch says he can come at any point.
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Any. Point yes, If he gets there even
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an hour after it starts, he's good to go.
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Thank you, Birchi. Appreciate you listening to the
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program when you're a great follow on X as we rely on you
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for so much stuff during baseball season.
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All right, let's get to it. We're going to go on record.
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We're going to come up with our power for conference
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championship. Bam.
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I don't think that you're aware of this, but this goes back to
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last year. We want to do the final four,
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the four teams that will ultimately play in the
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semifinals and then the final, etcetera.
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So we'll do that. I want a Heisman winner from
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both of you guys. I want the Group of five
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representative and I want one over under win.
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Totally go over. You can go under and I don't
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care what school it is your best bet when it comes to an over or
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an under. So looking at our numbers from a
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year ago, our. Conference I cleaned up.
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You had four. Yeah, Georgia in the title game,
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Oregon in the title game, Iowa State.
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And you also got the Group of Five.
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That was your fourth point. That was Boise, right?
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Boise. Bama, he should have been
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penalized for the Iowa State pick.
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I'm just saying, yeah. That was.
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They got there, Yeah, they got there and he got a point for
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that. Yeah, it was a couple years ago
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when they went 2 and 10 and he had them in there.
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That was the problem going back. No, every now and again, there's
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this, there's this, there's this thing about a blind squirrel.
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Bama, you also had. Them every year.
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You had four last year, Bama. You had Penn State in the
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championship, Oregon winning the championship, bonus point there,
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and Texas. Nothing else, though You missed
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on everything else. Nothing in the Big 12, nothing
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in the ACC. And your winner from a year ago,
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of course, was Trent. Condon So I didn't clean up you.
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Didn't clean up. I had the Buckeyes, I had the
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pens. So.
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You had the national champion. I did.
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I had Penn State in the championship game.
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I had Georgia, had Alabama. Didn't get any points for that.
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But I had Clemson winning the ACCI was the only one you 2
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dope. Who did we take?
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Yeah, Florida State. Well that a Goodyear Florida
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State two at 10. It's like the Iowa State year.
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Who is Ken going to have go 2 at 10 in his championship this
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year? We will find out.
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Indeed we will. I love this system.
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It's just how bad we can possibly be, right?
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We talk about this all July, all of August.
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We go on record. And Jason, what are you guys
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doing? Well, we're killing saying this
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is what we're doing. And away we go, boys.
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So let's get into a tremor to start with your favorite
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conference. Yes, the Big 10.
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No, it's the ace. God bless it.
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We going, we're going to go, we're going to start.
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We won't finish there alphabetically with the ACC this
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year, last year, SMU and Clemson have the best records.
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Who does? SMSI was looking at his schedule
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for the overrun. Oh, it's Baylor.
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Baylor has Auburn, Auburn and then SMU Week 2, I think.
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Yeah, I'll say. Playing for the skillet is.
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That what it's for I. Don't know, I think that's
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TCUSMU actually the place for the iron skillet.
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Trent, who are you going to take in the in the ACC?
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Well, I'm going to have the Clemson Tigers back in there.
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I'm going to guess all of us probably this year is going to
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have Clemson in there, but I have them being upset in the
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championship game. Players.
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For the first time in 15 years, I believe in the you give me
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Miami. I think they're going to have
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some warts by the time they get there, but they will get there
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and they will get it done. Beck finally has a place that
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makes sense for him driving around a Ferrari in Athens, GA.
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Probably not the best look that works in Miami.
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I think it's maybe to going to take a while, but Miami's going
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to play well in the back half of the year.
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Isn't he heart sick? Didn't his girlfriend dump him?
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Who's really who's going with? Different algorithm I think
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we're on. I think, well, he's in Miami.
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He's a quarterback. He should be.
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On date he was dating one of the twin bat some twins.
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Yeah, right, right, right. The Cavender Twins.
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Think he might have been? Yes, I think it was.
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But here's the. Thing I'm not saying he was
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dating both of them, I think he was just dating one of them.
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Right, it's a problem. Right.
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All right, so you've got Miami over Clemson.
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Yes. Bam.
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What do you have? I have Clemson as well in the
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title game and I'm telling you, I'm I'm really going back and
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forth. I'm going to say Louisville.
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For. Sure.
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I will say though, and I gave this, I didn't give Miami much
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consideration. I'm not a big believer in Beck.
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I'm just I'm not I think he had the talent he had around him at
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Georgia is not at Miami. And I just, I, I saw him that
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last year and he he just did some stupid stuff and he.
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Didn't have the same. Receivers.
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He did the year before either. Yeah, I'm not, I'm, I just, I'm
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not sure that South Beach is the place you want to start getting
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disciplined if you want. I mean, just, you know, finding,
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finding structure. I'm going to say Louisville.
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I gave Georgia Tech a hard work boys.
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And I, I just think, man, I love that game.
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Clemson at Georgia Tech September 13th.
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Because outside of that, you know, Tech doesn't play Miami,
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they don't play Louisville. I mean, that's a pretty, it's a
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pretty soft ACC schedule. So I really gave Tech a hard
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work. I'm going to go with Louisville,
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but I'm not very confident about it and being cleansing to win
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and be the only ACC team to make the playoffs.
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One of the multiple reasons I love having you on Bama.
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We think so alike and I went back and forth on the same two
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teams and I settled on the same damn team as you did.
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I've got Clemson winning it over Louisville.
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But it was it was. I'm a Brent Key guy.
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He's king. We'd like him.
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I wish he could stay healthy for the whole year, but I'm going to
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take bronze Louisville Cardinals to represent the ACC in the
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championship. Not winning.
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I've got Clemson winning it because I've got Clemson
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winning. But we'll get to that in just a.
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Second, well, there we go. OK all.
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Right, Trent, it's now time. No, it's not time for your
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favorite conference. It's the Big 12.
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By the way, can I say one more thing?
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I think we're going to have to pay a little more attention to
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the ACC this year. You think it's gonna be better?
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I think it's some good teams and then you have The X Factor
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sitting down in Chapel Hill. How's that going to play out?
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Poor, I mean, that is. And I was, I was.
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I've come. I've come full circle.
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I think so too. But Kenny, we talked a couple
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weeks ago when Trent was on, you know, one of those many
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sabbaticals that that Monday night game TCU at North
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Carolina, there's going to be a billion eyeballs on that.
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And but anyway, we'll get to that later.
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Yeah, North Carolina opened up as a point and a half favorite.
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They are now a three-point underdog in that game.
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By the way, yeah, give me, give me TCU on that one all day.
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And I do agree with you that the ACC is going to be better this
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year. After a couple of just futrid
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years. We shall see.
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Nobody's picking SMU, so let's move on.
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Big 12, Trent, you are up. I'm going to go with the team
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that a lot of people had a year ago when get the Utah youths.
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I believe in Dampier on the athleticism, the running
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ability, that offensive line that is going to be not just one
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of the best in the Big 12, one of the best in the country.
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I think it might be the swung sign for Winningham, but they
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finally put it together. Retirement.
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You mean because the air parents already in place?
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He's going to go out on a high note.
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He does it over the tortilla chuckers.
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Texas Tech spends all the money, gets all the way there, and then
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they fall just short in the championship.
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Chip, Utah over. Texas Tech OK, interesting pick
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there, TC. What about you, Bama, when it
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comes to the Big 12? Boy, this is just, I mean, put
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it in a popcorn pop and you know, I mean, there's, I think
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we can, we talked about there's, I think there's a legitimately 6
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teams that can win. And I think you may get into
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some just really crazy tiebreakers when you get down to
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the end of it. So it is, it is hard.
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This is another conference that I've got one representative and
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I think the reason being they're just going to, there's no clear
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cut favorite. I love Arizona State, would love
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it and what they were doing last year.
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I like Trent's pick. I really, I really do.
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That said, I didn't pick either team.
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I love Texas Tech, you know, until you do it, you haven't
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done it and I just you know, so I'm going to say Arizona State
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again. I just love what Dillingham's
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doing out there. He's got a quarterback that made
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the playoffs last year. They scared the bejesus out of
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Texas Yeah, they did they did get a top four seed.
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I I think that I think he's building something out there and
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I think we're going to get a rematch in the Big 12 title.
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You do week 4 game, oh week four OK against do you get Arizona
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State over Baylor? I really like what Baylor is
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doing. I I tell you what that that one
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of the most underrated week one games is Auburn at Baylor.
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I think Baylor is going to beat Auburn.
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That's a Friday night in Waco. I that's a tough spot for Auburn
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to go, but yeah, I could. I could see Texas Tech.
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I could CTCUI could see certainly Utah.
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I'm with you with the bounce back thing.
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I could see Texas Tech. There's so many teams that can
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win. This is the hardest conference
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for me. Yeah, me too, to pick out of all
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of them. But I want to say Arizona State
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repeats over Baylor and they will be the only Big 12 team in
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the playoffs. Get to that playoff in just a
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minute. You're right.
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I'm looking at Baylor schedule. It is back-to-back, the Auburn
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game and then at SMU well again. Most of those are non
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conference, so I think that's. True.
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You look at the conference games and it's not, it's not bad.
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I mean, you know. Arizona states at home.
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K states at home at TCU. Utah's at home.
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Utah's at home, all the big players in the Big 12 or come to
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Waco, and that's not a fun place to go.
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No, and they get they are one of the schools that only have 4 Rd.
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games in the Big 12 this year. Exactly.
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Trent, you and I see it alike. I'm going to take Utah.
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The thing about Texas Tech that scares me, and I think they're
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going to be much, much better. It's their schedule.
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Bama, it's at Utah, at Arizona State, at K State.
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They've got 5 roadies, three of them against upper echelon
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teams. I'm going to say that the
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Mcguire's got this team certainly headed in the right
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direction, but I'll have Utah to win it all Trent over Texas Tech
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I. Can't wait till we get to the
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end of November and we're trying to six way tie at six and three.
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Who's going to go to the championship game?
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This Miss Bananas, I totally agree with you.
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This is what the Big 12 is going to look like.
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Last year, Well, the ducks last year were the number one seed.
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What did that give? Let's go to the Big 10 TC.
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How do you see it this year? As a chalky.
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That's where I landed. I do not like Dante Moore.
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I don't believe in the growth that we're going to see out of
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him. So I can't go with the Ducks
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when you're kind of looking at those next tier of teams.
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I come back to Penn State and Ohio State.
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We'll see them again in the regular season this year.
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I think that Penn State gets them in the regular season, but
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not in the postseason. I'm going.
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To like last year, Ohio State or Oregon got the Buckeyes.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm going the other way.
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Buckeyes over Penn State in the Big 10 Championship.
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Buckeyes over Penn State, Bama Chalky for you.
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Nope. I've got Penn State and I've got
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them over Oregon. And the reason I'm with you, I'm
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not sold on the quarterback. I'm sold on the head coach.
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He was a hot commodity down here.
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They settled on the, I don't say they settled on the board, but
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it was between those two for sure.
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And I think Alabama fans would have been happy with either one
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of them. The the thing I like about
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Oregon, they basically have one. They don't, they play Penn
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State. They do not play Ohio State.
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They do not play Michigan. They do not play Illinois.
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They do not play Nebraska. The schedule is is pretty light,
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OK. I mean, if you want to look at
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it from a Big 10 perspective, I think that gets them into the
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game. I understand Ohio State, I get
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it. But you there's a couple of
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traps, in my opinion, on that schedule.
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You know, I know Texas isn't a conference game, but they got to
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go to Ann Arbor. I think they'll be better.
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They do get Penn State at home. Can James Franklin ever win in
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Columbus? And I'll tell you that October
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11th game, I'm with you at Illinois.
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Yep. OK.
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I think Illinois has a chance to be this year's Indiana.
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Yeah. No, they're no they're not.
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They're not going to that's. Not Indiana.
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They went nine and three last year.
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They went ten and three last year.
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That's not Indiana. But.
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A playoff team. A playoff.
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A playoff team that nobody thinks of.
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The rage. 11th in the country Bama.
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I understand, but they're Illinois.
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They're. They are, and they're.
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All right. And nobody's talking about it.
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Nobody's going to be talking. I'm just going to be, you know,
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they. Talk about the rate delivered in
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the country. Bama maybe Nobody in.
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OK, anybody outside of the state of Illinois, do they really?
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I mean, it's it's Ohio State, it's Penn State, it's Michigan,
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it's Nebraska as a sleeper, OK, it's Oregon.
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You know, Washington, Are they going to bounce back?
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You got to get down to about seventh before people start
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talking about Illinois. I just think they're, I just
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think they are a potential playoff team ally.
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Indiana. They're not going to sneak up
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maybe like Indiana did. They're certainly ranked higher
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than Indiana was. I think they're better than
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Indiana was. I love their quarterback.
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I love the running back. I do too.
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I mean, I like Bill. He's a low found.
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He's found something that Bill was a low too.
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I mean, he's found something there, right?
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Five and one, five and one in one score games last year, Bama.
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It's not going to. Happen again.
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I'm just saying, I think, I think they're a playoff team
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that nobody's nobody's really going to be talking about until
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we get later in the year. And that October 11th game,
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again, they host the Buckeyes. That's danger, danger Will
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Robinson. And outside of that, there ain't
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much on that schedule. There are no Penn State, you
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know, no Oregon again, no Michigan.
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I think it's set up for Illinois to have a big year, but I'm in
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the conference championship game.
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I'm going to go to Penn State over Oregon.
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I don't like Oregon, but I like the schedule.
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Yeah, I'm with you. I think Illinois is going to the
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play. We'll get to that in just a
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second. I'm going to take Penn State to
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win it. Penn State is my pick.
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It's got to be Ohio State. It's one of these two.
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It's these two schools again, I hope it's not.
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I hope I'm wrong on both because I need a little intrigue in this
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conference. It seems like it's set up for
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Penn State and obviously Ohio State's not going anywhere.
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All right, we're going to the SEC, boys.
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Did you have Penn State over Ohio State?
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State I did Trent Condon. SEC time, more chalk, more
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boringness. I'm taking Alabama over Georgia.
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I got Georgia winning the regular Alabama.
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No Texas, though. No, Texas.
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In fact, when we get to our playoff teams, you will not hear
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the Longhorns in my College Football Playoff, but I have
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Bama over Georgia in the SEC title tilt.
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Bama over Georgia. All right, Bama, you got Bama.
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Nope, I've got Texas over Alabama.
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I think Georgia is due for a bit of a flip and I'll let's just
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call it a reset. Maybe the schedule is again, not
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terribly tough. They do go to Tennessee.
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Do quarterback not sold on that. They do go to Auburn.
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Who knows. They get Alabama at home,
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Florida and Jacksonville. They get Texas at home.
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That Georgia Tech game end of the year, obviously not a
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conference game. That's a big one.
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I just, I don't know, I'm maybe it's more hopeful than anything
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else on Alabama year 2. I just think they are, you know,
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De Boer year 2, he's got the quarterback that Ty Simpson that
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is not great, but I think he fits his system.
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Everybody, everything out of camp, obviously we know about
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Ryan Williams, everybody out of camp is just absolutely raving
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about this defense that it is much better than last year.
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They do have the same coordinator back.
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I like the fact that Ryan Grubb is back as the boar's offensive
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coordinator after year with the Seahawks.
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I think that was something last year.
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So I don't think they're going to run through the schedule.
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I think there's a lot of pitfalls.
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We already talked about. They go to Georgia, they open in
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Tallahassee. That's kind of an unknown.
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I think a trap game for them could be October 25th, coming
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off what's going to be a very emotional rematch in Bryant,
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Danny, against Tennessee. We know what happened up there
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last year. They go to Columbia after that
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and I think South Carolina is one of those teams that they
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probably should have been in last year maybe.
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They beat South Carolina close game, right my.
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Point. Yeah.
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And and that was kind of sellers coming out party.
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And it was that was kind of what those two teams diverged at that
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point last year. South Carolina was that was the
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last game South Carolina lost. And after that, Alabama really
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started struggling a little bit. But yeah, I I'm going to go with
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them. I just think the talent is there
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and I'm going to go Texas, you know, for no other reason than
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it's just Texas. And that's probably not, you
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know, very insightful. They do have to go to Florida,
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the Oklahoma and Dallas, but you know, they they go to they go to
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Gainesville and assets, right, They get AM at home.
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Not sold on that. I don't know.
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I just, I think that there's not enough on that to scare me off.
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I'm not sold at LSU just yet. I think Nuss Meyers, good.
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I'm going to have to see it. But yeah, I'm going to go Texas
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over Alabama in the SEC Championship.
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I'm going to flip it around. Bam, I'm going to go Alabama
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over Texas in the SEC Championship game.
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All right, well, let's do the Group of Five before we go to
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break. Who is the Group of Five
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representative? Last year was Boise State.
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Do they repeat? Trent, have you got somebody
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else? I have the Memphis Tigers.
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You want to have fun, take a look over to our lads who has
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all the depth charts. Hang on a second, let me do
19:22
that. And and go to Memphis's depth
19:24
chart because it's how many? Quarterbacks today.
19:27
Well, the the thing that they have listed is in yellow, that's
19:31
where the transfers are listed. So returning guys are in blue,
19:34
the yellow guys are the transfers.
19:36
OK, hang on a second. I want to get in front of.
19:38
Me, they have anticipated 9 starters coming in from the
19:42
transfer portal on the offensive side of the football.
19:45
Oh my. God, I'm looking at it right.
19:46
That's unbelievable. It's thinkable, right?
19:48
It's everybody on defense for one dude. 10 transfers on
19:52
defense, 9 on offense, a quarterback and Brendan Lewis,
19:56
you might remember him a couple years ago at Colorado that had
19:58
some pretty good numbers himself.
20:00
I like the makeup of the team. It might take a while, but
20:03
that's OK. We're just talking about getting
20:05
there and they're going to have an opportunity.
20:07
So I got Memphis with all those, all that FedEx.
20:10
Money, macro, I don't know if I've ever seen this before. 11
20:13
guys on defense, 10 transfers. Bama, who is your Group of Five
20:16
representative? I'm going to stay in the same
20:19
conference. I like Memphis, I like the pick.
20:21
I'm going to stay in the same conference and say Tulane, I
20:24
like what they're doing. They're going to have a shot and
20:27
I do like Boise and can we talked about it and there that's
20:30
a that's a huge game and was it late October, early November?
20:35
They go to South Bend, right. They could pick that one off
20:38
somehow. That's that's one of those where
20:40
because all you got to remember in the group of five to get
20:42
there, you just got to be ranked above everybody else.
20:44
Doesn't really mean, you know, not really comparing record, you
20:47
can win your conference and not get in all that kind of thing.
20:50
I and again, I think we're going to get one representative.
20:52
Is that fair? Who knows, but I think we're
20:54
going to get one. I'm going to say Tulane.
20:56
But you look at this conference this year, they've got a chance
21:00
at some scalps this year. Tulane goes to Ole Miss week 4.
21:05
He talked about Memphis. They get Arkansas, you know, how
21:09
about Texas, San Antonio opening in College Station, You know
21:13
that's. That's there's a lot of UTSA
21:15
love out there. There is, There is, yeah.
21:18
I was close. Yeah, South Florida goes to
21:20
Gainesville, Lookout, we mentioned Tulane and and Ole
21:24
Miss. I just think I think there are,
21:26
you know, and obviously Navy goes to Notre Dame.
21:28
So I think there are some scalps to be had in this conference.
21:32
I love the conference. I listen, I think it's going to
21:36
be Memphis and Tulane in the they they play in a regular
21:39
season down that's in Memphis on a Friday night.
21:42
Thank you love that. And I think we'll get a rematch
21:46
in the conference title game and I think the winner of that will
21:49
advance to the playoff. But I think this conference is
21:52
going to be really, really good this year.
21:53
There's a lot of good teams and and you mentioned I had I had
21:56
didn't know about the the transfer portal, but you know,
22:00
that's, you know, some inside content information.
22:03
So that's good to know, but I'm just I'm going to stick with
22:06
Tulane. I just think I think they've got
22:08
a really good shot. Well, and they're good every
22:10
year. And I'm really looking forward
22:12
to that game in Oxford because that's sort of a have a trap
22:18
game, if you will, for Ole Miss. They they host Arkansas and LSU
22:21
and that game's right in the middle of it.
22:23
So stand by for you. Oh, oh, developing situation.
22:26
What have we got? Oh, and Casey has arrived at the
22:28
Rogers Center in Toronto. The Canadian will make his MLB
22:32
debut for the Cubs in his home country.
22:35
DH in bat 5th That from Zach Zademan on the Cubs Radio
22:39
Network. So Tucker's in, right?
22:43
That that's all I got. OK, good enough.
22:46
Excellent. I'm trying to find it here.
22:49
Tucker's still in right field. Your DH will bat 5th.
22:53
Where's? Where's PCA?
22:56
Not in the lineup. Day off.
22:57
He needs a few of them. He needs a few of them.
23:00
Good stuff. I'm going to break the tie.
23:02
Yep, 2 lane Tulane. Tulane over Memphis.
23:06
I think it's those two schools. I mean, Boise is going to be
23:09
good again, right? Schedule is much more difficult
23:11
this year, and not just that Notre Dame game.
23:13
The UNLV games. UNLV is good, Yeah.
23:16
Take time out. Fresno is going to be good.
23:18
Fresno is going to be good, yes. I mean always good.
23:20
We'll take a time. Go tight end coach.
23:22
They do right parents. That's right.
23:25
We've got to get our over under and our Heisman.
23:28
What else is left on our playoff, playoff team?
23:30
That's next, Miller. And we got a fired coach too,
23:33
right? That's one of those.
23:35
Sure, fired coach. Yep, we'll do that as well.
23:37
I was Sports radio network. Hi, Mallory Condon, welcome
23:56
back, Trenton. I take you until 2:00 off the
24:01
bench. Sean Roberts, Lucas Strain
24:03
coming up. Trent breaking news.
24:05
Oh, got to hit pause on this and get zabble back in here.
24:11
JJ McCarthy's been locked in this afternoon, his best day of
24:14
training camp. Who's that report from?
24:17
Dane Mazatani, St. Paul Pioneer Press.
24:19
Can't call him a crook. I wonder about his reporting
24:22
though. It's.
24:24
Funny. We'll see where this goes.
24:26
I'm not even a Vikings fan. I'm a year invested.
24:29
I am. I mean, you and I have been
24:30
fighting about it all offseason. All right, Bama Baga, welcome
24:33
back. By the way.
24:35
You're good, right? For another 10 minutes, I
24:36
forget. I should have asked you.
24:38
I got an hour and a half if you need me.
24:41
All right, we ran out of show at the top of the.
24:43
Yeah, All right, let's get to it.
24:44
Let's do the Heisman. First of all, boys.
24:46
OK. Who is going to win this year's
24:48
Heisman? Trophy Bama.
24:50
I'd lead this one off because I can't take chalk.
24:52
I I got three names I'm trying to decipher down.
24:55
So who do you got for Heisman, Bama?
24:56
Who's their Heisman winner? Bama.
25:00
I'm going to go club knit. Yeah, I, I, you know, I know
25:05
Manning's the favorite. Drew Aller.
25:07
I think it's got a shot. And State winds up being as
25:10
good. And of course, the I mean,
25:12
Jeremiah Smith at Ohio State. My God, we've talked about him
25:15
before. But can they go?
25:17
Can they go a non quarterback back-to-back years?
25:20
They should be able to, but. They should, I think 100 last
25:24
year was just a, it was just a dual threat.
25:26
That was just, you know, the, the two way, the two way guy.
25:29
So it'd be very hard. So that's why I can't really
25:31
take Smith Dark horse if you want one, I'll go sellers at
25:35
South Carolina, but I'm just going to go club.
25:37
Nick, I think I think you know, they open with they end with
25:40
South Carolina. They they open with LSU.
25:42
I think he's got a they're going to be really good.
25:44
They're going to be top five, should be top five all year.
25:48
So I'll go with club. Nick So will I make it simple?
25:52
He's my guy, Bammy. You and I've been on his back
25:55
wagon since his freshman campaign.
25:58
Probably get. Yeah, exactly, exactly this is,
26:00
if not now, when? Right, Trent.
26:03
I like to go go shopping a little bit deeper in the market
26:05
than you guys and one that I keep coming back to.
26:08
You guys know my affinity for Georgia.
26:09
I think they're going to have a tremendous year of this year,
26:12
though I have them being upset in the championship game.
26:14
That won't matter because most of the votes as Ken, you know,
26:16
will be in at that point. I'm going gunner Stockton.
26:19
You are. I'm going Stockton limited a
26:22
year ago. I love what they have now with
26:24
wide wide receiver group and that tight end group now getting
26:26
a year older after after what they lost, they invested there.
26:30
I think Gunner Stockton leads Georgia to an defeated regular
26:34
season and because of that he is your Heisman winner.
26:37
Yeah, they lost the best tight end currently in the NFL.
26:39
Do you think he is Brock Bowers? He's right there if he's not
26:42
right in the country. Is see the haircut.
26:45
The coat Well, big name coach that's going to lose his gig
26:49
this year, Trent. Go to Wisconsin.
26:52
It's Luke fickle. You think he does?
26:53
I. Don't know if he makes it to
26:54
November with that schedule, what they're going to have in
26:56
front of him. I think they're going to be
26:57
better than you think, I think. They're 3:00 and 9:00.
27:00
And if that's the case, he's certainly not going to make it
27:02
there. That's a good one, Bama you.
27:06
Yeah, I think Fickle's a good choice.
27:07
I don't know if he's a big name. He's at a big program.
27:10
I think Rent Venables is in trouble.
27:12
Oklahoma. They were terrible last year.
27:16
You know, Texas, Oh, it's an SCC transition.
27:18
Well, look what Texas did. And you go back and you look at
27:21
their schedule. I mean, that Michigan game's a
27:22
big one. Week 2, they dropped that one,
27:24
you know, then they get Auburn, they got Texas and Dallas.
27:27
They go to South Carolina, they go to Tennessee, they go to
27:30
Alabama, they finish with LSU. That's brutal.
27:33
And I think 8 and 4, seven and five again.
27:36
And he got saved a little bit by that by that egg that Alabama
27:40
laid last year. So I I will say Venables, if you
27:43
want a big name that I think's in trouble, I think Lincoln
27:45
Riley, if they really care at USC that experiments been a
27:48
disaster out there and nobody's talking about them.
27:52
You know, they were supposed to the brand going into the well,
27:56
supposed to be the brand going into the Big 10 and they've been
27:58
a disaster. He hired Rob Ryan.
28:00
I'd rather have Rex Ryan other than Rob, but you know,
28:04
whatever. I think he's in trouble if he
28:06
doesn't win 910 games and at least sniff a play.
28:08
I. Think they're going to be better
28:10
this year? This is correlated to what what
28:12
we're about to ask next and that's our favorite over under
28:15
win total. Mike Gundy's losing his gig this
28:17
year, boys that. Should, could be, should have
28:19
lost it. Last should have lost it last
28:21
year. Trench your favorite?
28:22
Well, I'll just go first. My favorite over under is
28:24
Oklahoma State under 5 1/2. I think that's a gift.
28:28
Cowboys under 5 1/2 is my favorite win total of the year.
28:31
Trent, what's yours? Oh, there's a bunch of them I
28:33
like. Well, I told you I just like
28:34
Georgia, but at that kind of price when you're talking about
28:36
over unders, can't quite get to that one.
28:41
I've gone back and forth. One that I really do like,
28:43
though, is Kentucky. They're going to be brutal.
28:46
I think so too. The number is 4 1/2 and that's
28:50
what I kept coming back to Kentucky under 4 1/2.
28:53
Bama. I like Nebraska over 7 and. 1/2
28:58
I don't know a lot of people. I mean, listen, I haven't shot
29:02
price or anything like that or value or whatever, but you're
29:05
just going straight over under. I don't see 5 losses on that
29:08
schedule. And you know, if it breaks right
29:10
for them, they get Michigan and USC at home, probably two of the
29:14
three toughest games. You know, they go, they do go to
29:18
can I went home state, but yeah, I went home.
29:21
Yeah. I mean, look, I like I like Matt
29:23
rule. I like he's got a year. 3 for
29:25
Matt rules, usually the. Year.
29:27
Yeah, if he can keep him healthy, I think that's a kind
29:30
of a gift that you're talking about.
29:32
You're going to give me 4 losses with that schedule.
29:36
I'll take it because, you know, all you got to do there is just
29:38
you win 8 and you're good. Indeed, Nebraska.
29:42
All right, it's time to go for the playoff, boys.
29:44
Are we going to name all 12? School?
29:45
How do we want to do this, Commissioner Condon?
29:48
Well, I have all 12 of mine listed.
29:49
So we talked, we talked about kind of doing it.
29:52
I have my final four also. OK, you got all 12.
29:53
Let's. Do 12 teams, so we got a point
29:56
for each playoff team. That sounds fair.
29:58
Absolutely. All right, I'll run through mine
30:01
here. I have three from the SECI, have
30:03
Alabama, Georgia and LSU in the playoff.
30:06
In the Big 10, I have 4:00. I have Penn State, I have Ohio
30:10
State. I do have Oregon.
30:13
And I have the USC Trojans, the last team in USC defense,
30:18
getting better quarterback with some experience and we know
30:22
Lincoln Riley there. There is my 4.
30:24
Both Miami and Clemson who I have in the championship game
30:28
get there from the ACC. So 2 this.
30:29
Year. So how many is that now?
30:31
Is that 9? I got 3 left.
30:33
Well, we know Memphis is one of them.
30:35
We know Utah's one of them out of the Big 12 is the champion.
30:38
And yes, I do have Notre Dame in.
30:39
So those are my 12 Bama, Georgia, LSU, Penn State, Ohio
30:43
State, USC, Oregon, Miami, Clemson, Notre Dame, Utah and
30:46
Memphis. And my Final four.
30:49
Georgia beats Alabama in the third matchup of the year.
30:53
Notre Dame over Ohio State. Your champion, the Georgia
30:56
Bulldogs over the fainting Irish of Notre Dame.
30:59
Irish get close again but come up second best.
31:02
Bama, give us your 12 give. Go slow if you can cause Trent's
31:06
right these down. OK, I as well have Notre Dame.
31:11
My group of five is Tulane. Yep, I've got only Clemson out
31:16
of the AC. Only Clemson, OK.
31:18
Yeah, I will. I'll stick with Arizona State
31:21
out of the Big 12 only team there.
31:24
So that's that's four. I'll as well have 4 out of the
31:28
SECI, have 4 out of the SECI think Trent has three.
31:31
I will go Bama, Georgia, Texas, and I'm going to say South
31:37
Carolina. You don't have Alabama or did
31:39
you? Say that I do have.
31:40
Yeah, no, yeah. Bama, Georgia, Texas, South
31:43
Carolina out of the SEC and I'll take 4 out of the Big 10.
31:48
I will say Ohio State, Penn State, Oregon, and of course the
31:54
sleeper pick is Illinois. It's.
31:59
The same thing. It's the same thing you got no
32:01
way you have the 12 exact same teams.
32:03
Texas, Georgia, Bama, South Carolina, Notre Dame, Tulane,
32:13
Utah. Does he have Utah?
32:15
No. He has Arizona.
32:17
State. Oh, you got an Arizona State,
32:18
All right. I've got Utah, Oregon, Penn
32:22
State, Ohio State, Utah. I've got them twice.
32:29
I've got Clemson. Yep.
32:32
How many do I need? You need one more do.
32:36
You have Illinois? Yep.
32:38
You do give me Illinois my final four.
32:41
You, you guys can't believe that Illinois is going to do this.
32:44
I do believe that. I really What about them?
32:46
They won so many games. I get it.
32:47
I love Bielema. I love Altmeyer, their
32:49
quarterback, their running back. Good luck bringing him to the
32:52
ground 63250 and he can run like a deer.
32:55
I got to see Derrick Henry. I got to see this Illinois
32:57
schedule. Again.
32:59
Let's do it. Let me get in front of me too.
33:00
Because I I just I can't get there you but this is a it's,
33:04
it's Indiana, it's South Carolina.
33:05
It's all these teams. I need to see it back-to-back
33:08
ears. I'm not going to be duped.
33:09
You guys are going to be duped. Here it is, Illinois, all right,
33:12
Western Illinois, they're going to lose to two.
33:13
Can we do? Toss up, toss up, toss up, but
33:16
it's tough game. Toss up.
33:17
They're not losing the Duke, I don't think.
33:19
So give me money line right now. Western Michigan.
33:21
That's a win at Indiana. Toss up USC at home.
33:25
Toss up, they win close games. They struggled to beat Purdue.
33:28
Last year, not this year, Trent. They're not beaten.
33:31
They're not beating Ohio State. No, I don't think they.
33:33
Are they don't have to beat Ohio State?
33:34
They're going to Washington. They don't lose another.
33:37
Game. They're not going to Washington
33:38
and winning. Come on, Williams.
33:39
One Washington off a bye week, that's.
33:41
Fine, they need all that time to get up to.
33:43
Seattle give me the give me. Those at Washington plays at
33:47
Michigan the week before that. I like it even more.
33:50
Give me their last four. Rutgers, Maryland at Wisconsin
33:56
Northwestern. Got them in the playoff, Trent.
33:57
I do not 8 and 4 doesn't get in the playoffs.
34:00
Ten and two gets them in. Ten and two dozen, 8 and 4
34:03
doesn't. Win over Duke.
34:04
No, I'm going 8 and 4. They're going 10 and 2. 10 and
34:06
29 and 3:10 and 2:00 nine and three.
34:08
Duke, Indiana, USC. I'm not going to be in the Penn.
34:10
State, Clemson, Texas, Alabama, OH.
34:13
Wait, what was that again? Penn State.
34:16
Penn State. Clemson, Texas, Alabama Clemson
34:20
wins it all. Wow.
34:25
Penn State, Clemson, Alabama. Who was your 14?
34:26
Don't. Remember Alabama.
34:30
Alabama. Alabama.
34:33
Yeah, I've got, I have Clemson over Georgia in the in the title
34:39
game. I also have I have Alabama and
34:42
Penn State in there as well. My final four is Alabama, Penn
34:45
State, Clemson. As I said, Georgia.
34:48
Oh. Bama, you and I are going to
34:50
look so good when this thing's over.
34:51
We're going to bears comment. Again, this is where so many
34:53
went so well for you guys throughout.
34:55
The. Year or Trent's going to win 11
34:56
to nothing because it's. Going to be a clubbing.
34:59
We we waxed them last year. Oh, I can't wait for September
35:02
6th. Those blue Double S knocking
35:04
Illinois out right away. Oh, this is good.
35:06
Is there? Is there a future line anywhere?
35:08
Up for Week 2 yet? There's got to be somewhere.
35:10
Probably somewhere, but unfortunately.
35:12
We're out of time. We're out of time.
35:13
Bama, thank you, buddy. We will talk to you on Friday of
35:16
next week. We'll do weeks #0 and then
35:20
obviously probably not Monday because there won't be much to
35:22
recap, but then it's full steam ahead and we are working Labor
35:26
Day, Bama. So just keep that in mind.
35:27
If you have plans for vacation, those plans have been denied.
35:32
Yeah, we get ready for Farmageddon in week one over in.
35:35
Week 0. Week 0.
35:36
Zero. Sorry.
35:37
Yeah. Week zero.
35:38
Yeah. By the way, how mad is Trent
35:40
that there's no late night game on that?
35:42
Why that Hawaii game at 3:00? That should be a midnight game.
35:45
Very disappointed. So what time is that in Hawaii?
35:48
It's like, yeah, like 11 AM Hawaiian like. 11 AM Kickoff in
35:52
Hawaii. That's gonna be a little warm,
35:53
does it not? Brutal.
35:55
All right, Thank you, Bama. Talk to you next Friday.
35:57
Take care guys. Appreciate it.
35:58
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36:02
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36:05
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36:07
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36:17
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36:19
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36:22
It's so much fun, at least for the hosts.
36:25
Yes. And I think for the audience.
36:26
Too and we've. Been doing our work, got the
36:29
highlighters out, now it's time to start to put the pen to paper
36:32
and see how bad it's going to look at the end of the year.
36:34
Yep, indeed. All right, let's make some
36:36
plays. Very likely can't get over
36:38
Illinois. Your guys and people tried to
36:40
say they're Indiana. They're rate 12th in the
36:41
country. No, what I think and I'm just
36:43
I'm putting words in his mouth. What I how I look at it.
36:46
The two I schools were were laughing stocks right?
36:49
Illinois, Indiana. But not really.
36:51
Illinois has at least had some Indiana's the worst program in
36:55
football history in terms of losses.
36:57
But in the last, yeah, in the last little while, both of these
36:59
teams so far down right, but Bill has turned it around and
37:03
Indiana obviously last year came from nowhere, was Signetti.
37:07
You wouldn't go off the, I mean, that's like Mississippi State,
37:10
Yeah, that's what we'd be talking about to be to be
37:13
Indiana. Yeah, right.
37:14
Completely different equations. That aside, 2 baseball players,
37:17
that's it. There are no two games.
37:19
There are no NFL pre season tonight.
37:21
We got two games that I'm going to jump at.
37:23
I'm going to take school and the Tigers minus 16196.
37:27
By the way, the big shops out there, you're laying -215.
37:31
There's some, there's some twos out.
37:33
There -220 that circa -196 we will take that price.
37:38
What? Time did the twins get home,
37:39
didn't they? Wasn't they rain delayed last?
37:41
Night. Yeah.
37:41
They didn't get started until 8:00.
37:43
Something like that. In our time, Yes.
37:45
And then the Nationals I'm going to grab tonight.
37:48
Plus 170. They got lured on the mountain
37:50
against Lizardo. Ah, pitching matchup.
37:53
Big edge and my numbers have a closer to plus 150.
37:56
I'm getting plus 170 at Circa, so we will jump aboard with that
38:00
Washington over. Philly, huh?
38:01
Well. We got to take a shot, so we
38:03
went two and two. Monday, Yeah, 2:00 and 2:00
38:05
Tuesday. Don't tell me two.
38:06
And two last night though we got juice was on our side last
38:08
night. So we we were on the positive
38:10
there only two plays tonight. So we're going to go one and
38:13
one. Let's hope that one is the plus
38:14
money one that would work a little better does.
38:17
Owen Casey get a hit in his debut.
38:19
That's a good one. I wonder if that props out there
38:22
might be too late. 'Cause he was gonna.
38:23
Yeah. He just got there.
38:25
Well, we'll see. First pitch is in 12 minutes.
38:28
Roger, Center, downtown. Prana.
38:31
All right, we're we're done. That means Lucas Strain and Sean
38:35
Roberts are coming off the bench to take you until 5:00.
38:38
Trent and I are back tomorrow. Trent and I talk sports with you
38:42
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