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MS State & Kentucky College Football Projections for the 2024-2025 season · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Wildly different reactions. Because you got Kentucky six and six. I think their
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  fans would be just over it. Ready for basketball, we all know the
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  jokes there. While Mississippi State again I realized the standard is not six and
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  six. It's stortful. But I think year one, Jeff Levy all the
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  uncertainty. If they went six and six, I think State fans will be
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  pretty fired up heading into twenty twenty five. What's your thoughts on these two
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  teams that your models got predicted to go five hundred. Yeah, Kentucky,
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  I mean, we know, look, Mark Toops has gotten more with less
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  with Kentucky, and they've done a great job recruiting. We'll see what you
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  know, Brock Vandergrift does for them at quarterback. If you look at Kentucky
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  even last year, you look at the Kentucky Walkers, I'm trying to find
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  over here. You know, thirty third and total offense and forty second in
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  defense. You know, it's kind of middle of the pack, which is
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  what we kind of expect for Kentucky. Their schedule sets up where you know
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  they play Southern Mists in South Carolina, should be two wins for them.
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  We'll see what happens with South Carolina and how good they're really going to be.
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  I've got them at four and eighth this year, but they could populate
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  out of five and seven or six and six Georgia. Kentucky has just shown
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  they just they're not likely. There's not going to beat Georgia Ohio. So
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  they should be at three and one before they take on Ole miss on the
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  road. That's gonna be a tough place to go play. Have them with
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  a close loss vander Built win after the buy at Florida. You know,
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  Mark Stoops knows how to beat Florida. This goes back into that Florida conversation.
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  This is one of those games where Florida could grab it another win or
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  maybe this sins Kentucky, you know, backwards with a loss Auburn at home
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  and of course at Tennessee, Murray State, at Texas and Louisville. So
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  I just think that back half for Kentucky is just too much to ask for.
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  When you know about Florida, Auburn, Tennessee, Sandwich, Maine in
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  there, Texas and Louisville from Missippi State and Jeff Levy, it's gonna be
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  one of the younger teams in the conference. Not totally at the back end,
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  but a lot of youth is going to be expected to step up.
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  They're gonna play a different brand of football. They're gonna they're gonna go wide
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  open, They're going to try to be planning exciting brand. You know,
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  we'll see what happens. Misisispi State the way they play, but Eastern Kentucky
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  should be a gift. On Game one at Arizona State is a game that
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  I call a close win. Bulldogs, regardless of what has happened, are
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  a more talented team. Arizona State on the road should be a four quarterball
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  game. If Missispi State can get that, they should beat Toledo and be
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  three and oer with Florida coming in. I have a close win against Florida,
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  lost to Texas at Georgia, Texas A and M, and then a
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  close win against Arkansas in the middle of the season, just because I think
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  Arkansas is another team that's kind of dead men walking this year. UMass a
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  win and then lost to Tennessee Missouri and Ole miss to finish the season.
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  So you know, for Mississippi State, if you look at Kentucky, go
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  back to them. Everyone told in Vegas is seven. I have them right
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  under six. For Missippi State, you know, THEIRS is at five,
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  and I have them won over at six. But there is no room for
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  ara for Missippi State to get the six. And for Kentucky, I mean,
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  you know, look, they can get to seven, they can get
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  to eight, but they've got to do the right things.