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The Next Round: Clay Travis on Lincoln Riley’s USC Future, College Football Playoff Expansion & the SEC | Hour 2 · The Next Round

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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, it was weird yesterday. The Braves and
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  Speaker 1: Phillies were having to sit around. I assume they had
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  Speaker 1: to wait until the end of the Red Sox-Yankees. Apparently Padres, too,
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  Speaker 1: from what I've read. That the Padres could have ended
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  Speaker 1: up being primetime? That's what I have read. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if that is factual, but I saw that on
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  Speaker 1: social media. I know Red Sox-Yankees for sure. Yeah, I've
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  Speaker 1: finished what I was saying, waiting to find out what
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  Speaker 1: their start time was for today's game. They obviously want
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  Speaker 1: the best game in primetime. There ends up only being one.
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  Speaker 1: So I thought it was just Red Sox-Yankees. You're telling me.
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  Speaker 1: They possibly were waiting on the end of the very
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  Speaker 1: popular Cubs and Padres series. That's right. I think they
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  Speaker 1: were going to keep the Braves early and show that
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  Speaker 1: in primetime if the Cubs were able to extend that series.
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  Speaker 1: But that was late night when you found out the
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  Speaker 1: result of that one. So the Braves go primetime tonight.
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  Speaker 1: I would imagine maybe some of them went to bed
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  Speaker 1: or the coaches went to bed thinking that we're prepared
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  Speaker 1: for a day game, but wake up and have a
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  Speaker 1: little extra hour. So it's primetime tonight for the Braves.
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  Speaker 1: Braves a slight betting favorite at minus 102, minus 118
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  Speaker 1: for the Phillies. So that's virtually even, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, virtually.
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  Speaker 1: the story on three. You can go read his story.
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  Speaker 1: He has a lot more categories, but I pulled out six.
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  Speaker 2: I'll take any color.
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  Speaker 1: Any color at all. All right. The best story in
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  Speaker 1: college football so far. What has been the best story
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  Speaker 1: in college football so far for you guys? I am
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  Speaker 1: going to go with Mississippi State quarterback Kamario Taylor. I
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  Speaker 1: just think it's such a cool story that he is
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  Speaker 1: a local kid. Oh, sorry, Scott. He is a local kid.
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  Speaker 1: Grew up going to Mississippi State games. Loves the Bulldogs.
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  Speaker 1: Wanted to play for his hometown team. Could have played
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  Speaker 1: for a lot of teams, obviously, this kid. Wants to
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  Speaker 1: play for his hometown team and wants to shut down
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  Speaker 1: any discussion that he's not going to keep playing for
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  Speaker 1: his hometown team.
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  Speaker 2: I agree with you.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, boy.
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  Speaker 1: Super Kamario Taylor. the best story in college football right now.
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  Speaker 1: Chris Lowe said UMass being 4-0, and they're going to
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  Speaker 1: sell out their stadium for the first time since Doug
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  Speaker 1: Flutie came to play at UMass this weekend. The stadium
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  Speaker 1: holds 17,000. Yeah, well, I mean, they had lost 16
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  Speaker 1: consecutive games. Now they're 4-0, probably 5-0 after this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to go to the Florida Gators.
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  Speaker 2: Just because this Florida brand, there is something that has
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  Speaker 2: been missing, and it automatically has been infused with John Summerall,
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  Speaker 2: this offense with Buster Faulkner. I think Florida has been
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  Speaker 2: an incredible story and they're all the way up to
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  Speaker 2: number eight. If I would have told you guys before
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  Speaker 2: the season, when we hit October, Florida will be a
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  Speaker 2: top 10 team. You would have said, I'm crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Who has been the best coach so far in September,
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  Speaker 1: in your opinion? Um, I'll go first to make it
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  Speaker 1: look like Lance is not in the Gator radio network,
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  Speaker 1: but I'll go John Summerall, uh, for everything Lance just said,
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  Speaker 1: I'll put, um, ditto and quotation marks all around what
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  Speaker 1: Lance said. John Summerall has, uh, has changed the way
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  Speaker 1: I look at Florida. And I'll be honest. I'll go
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  Speaker 1: ahead and say this. I've never liked the Florida Gators.
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  Speaker 1: Not one time in my life. I didn't like Steve
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  Speaker 1: Spurrier's Florida Gators. I hated Urban Meyer's Florida Gators. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't like Galen Hall. Is that his name? No, it's
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  Speaker 1: his name. I didn't like the guy before him, the
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  Speaker 1: guy called Cheating with the Florida Gators. Charlie Pell? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I never liked the Florida Gators in anything, really.
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  Speaker 2: I would agree.
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  Speaker 1: But I like the Florida Gators now with John Summerall.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to go Bob Chesney at UCLA. Again, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: both of these guys, because you went Summerall, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to go Chesney. but UCLA, it's been a doormat. There
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  Speaker 2: has been zero buzz around the program, and when you
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  Speaker 2: watch them, they don't turn the football over. They run
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  Speaker 2: at a high rate. I just think he's done a
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  Speaker 2: hell of a job at least four games in.
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  Speaker 1: And let me tell you, I had no emotions for
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  Speaker 1: Bob Chesney, and I'm a, of that rivalry, UCLA-USC, I'm
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  Speaker 1: a UCLA guy, but he's done nothing yet that has
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  Speaker 1: sort of moved the meter for me until the story
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  Speaker 1: that Dan Lanning told, and Brown, you've heard this too,
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  Speaker 1: so Do you want to tell the story? Well, here
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  Speaker 1: we go, because I'm also going Bob Chesney. And this
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  Speaker 1: was such a cool thing Chesney did. You thought that
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  Speaker 1: tractor was sexy at James Madison. Look how sexy it
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  Speaker 1: is at UCLA. That's the other Chesney. I did walk
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  Speaker 1: in and say, Lance, did you see what Chesney did?
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  Speaker 1: And he goes, Kenny?
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  Speaker 2: Kenny?
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  Speaker 1: So Bob Chesney apparently calls Dan Lanning Saturday night. Now,
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  Speaker 1: keep in mind, UCLA had to fly halfway around the
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  Speaker 1: globe to play a Big Ten game. They're on their
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  Speaker 1: way back from College Park, Maryland. And he calls Dan Lanning, says, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I just saw what happened to Dante and I know
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  Speaker 1: he's got to stay back. And you guys are going
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  Speaker 1: back to Eugene. If there's anything I can do to help,
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  Speaker 1: you just let me know. If I need to go
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  Speaker 1: see him, if I need to accommodate his family, you know,
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  Speaker 1: if there's anything I can do to help, you just
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  Speaker 1: let me know. And Lanning was sincerely moved by it.
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  Speaker 1: He was like, man, that. This guy is coaching his
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  Speaker 1: own season. He's got a team full of players to
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  Speaker 1: worry about, and he's worried about one of mine.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for Lanning to actually come out with that and
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  Speaker 2: not to be leaked, you would think that it was
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  Speaker 2: a little manufactured on UCLA and Bob Chesney's part, but
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  Speaker 2: for that to actually come from Dan Lanning, it means
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  Speaker 2: a lot more.
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  Speaker 1: Best game in September. I mean, I almost put Florida
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  Speaker 1: Ole Miss because I thought that was an entertaining game
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  Speaker 1: last week, but I'm going to go Ole Miss-LSU. That's
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that was such a good football game in
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  Speaker 1: that atmosphere. It's hard not to.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what our final three categories are, so
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  Speaker 2: I might be jumping the script on mine, but I'm
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  Speaker 2: going Oak State 39, Oregon 31. I thought that was
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  Speaker 2: such a fun game based on the fact that Oak
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  Speaker 2: State virtually threw two pick sixes, one for a pick six,
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  Speaker 2: the other first and goal at the two, gave them
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  Speaker 2: 14 points. But Drew Mestemaker continued to make play after
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  Speaker 2: play after play. And there was drama for the full
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  Speaker 2: 60 minutes.
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  Speaker 1: And it was a huge upset. Yeah, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: go Ole Miss-Louisville. That was just such a fun game
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  Speaker 1: that first weekend of football. We did not get a
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  Speaker 1: lot of great games the first weekend of football, so
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  Speaker 1: it was just tasteful. Made it a little better. The
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  Speaker 1: best win so far in college football, in your opinion.
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  Speaker 1: The best win so far, in your opinion, in college football.
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  Speaker 4: Um.
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  Speaker 1: Look, I'm just going to steal one lance just at
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma State beating Oregon. I mean, when you think back
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  Speaker 1: on it, honestly, Oklahoma State losing to Tulsa and turning
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  Speaker 1: around and beating Oregon is probably the most shocking. I
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  Speaker 1: could never have sold you on that in the offseason.
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  Speaker 1: You could not. Not a minute. Hell, I couldn't have
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  Speaker 1: sold you on them beating Tulsa and then beating Oregon.
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  Speaker 1: If they would.
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  Speaker 2: Have beat Tulsa like they would beat them right now
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  Speaker 2: by 21... That number is probably Oregon 19 instead of 24.5,
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  Speaker 2: and it still is an impossibility. I'm going to go
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  Speaker 2: Texas over Ohio State. Very, very obvious, but such a
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  Speaker 2: big matchup in the fourth quarter comeback. You talk about drama.
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  Speaker 2: Everything had to go right for Texas in that fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 2: It's the only really good quarter we've seen Arch play in,
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  Speaker 2: but that was a hell of a win.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to go Florida over Ole Miss. That was
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  Speaker 1: an entertaining game, and I think it has now set
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  Speaker 1: the table on what Florida could be. Ole Miss was
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  Speaker 1: up to number four. Trinidad was trending to win the Heisman.
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  Speaker 1: And a Florida win sort of flipped the script, not
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  Speaker 1: only in the SEC, but I think nationally on what
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  Speaker 1: the Gators could be this year. So Florida over Ole
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  Speaker 1: Miss for me. The biggest surprise so far in college football.
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  Speaker 1: Like player, coach, anything? It could be player, team, coach, anything.
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  Speaker 1: And some of it's a little duplication earlier, but. The
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  Speaker 1: biggest surprise, and the other one so you can be
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  Speaker 1: thinking ahead, is the biggest disappointment so far in college football.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to write this down because I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: to be able to do it again this year. But
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  Speaker 2: for me.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm having a tough time on this one, honestly.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to go Kentucky. I mean, Kentucky to be
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  Speaker 2: ranked Will Stein's first year and sitting at 3-1, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to take Kentucky on that.
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  Speaker 1: I liked the way you said you couldn't do it anymore.
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  Speaker 1: They're about to fall out.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they're about to lose.
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  Speaker 1: They are.
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  Speaker 2: So this will be the only time I can do Kentucky.
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  Speaker 2: But you think about the offense. The offense for Kentucky
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  Speaker 2: has been really, really good. I mean, 567 yards coming
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  Speaker 2: off that performance, their most since 2021 in any game.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a fun product.
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  Speaker 1: To watch, finally.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Brown, you still thinking?
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  Speaker 4: I am.
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  Speaker 1: Biggest surprise? Biggest surprise to me so far has been
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  Speaker 1: just how Texas Tech has not looked better than they've
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  Speaker 1: looked so far. And I thought BYU would win that league,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm not sure if Texas Tech finishes even in
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  Speaker 1: the Big 12 championship.
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  Speaker 2: Now, you know they're still undefeated at four.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I do. But that's why it's been a surprise
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  Speaker 1: to me that they have not looked better than they've looked. I...
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  Speaker 1: honest to goodness, think that we could play a Big
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  Speaker 1: 12 championship game without the highest paid roster in the
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  Speaker 1: Big 12. That's a surprise to me. I thought they
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  Speaker 1: were a given. You know, I want to say Western
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  Speaker 1: Michigan here, but they got drilled by Boise. But the
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  Speaker 1: fact that they were ever on the stage was a
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  Speaker 1: huge surprise. I know they've got two losses. One of
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  Speaker 1: those has an asterisk, though. You've got to grant me that.
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  Speaker 1: That's a tough one on me, man. I'm going to go. Jim,
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  Speaker 1: there have been no surprises for me this college football season.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to surprise him. It's like trying to buy
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  Speaker 1: a gift for your Christmas. You've got everything. Yeah, I've
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  Speaker 1: got everything I need. But I do know my biggest disappointment.
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  Speaker 1: I can go negative if you want me to. Go
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  Speaker 1: biggest disappointment. Yeah, it's going to be, for me, and
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  Speaker 1: it's not a surprise, Gary Patterson. Now, the reason I
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  Speaker 1: say it's not a surprise, I respect his coaching, but
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  Speaker 1: it's not a surprise that Lincoln Riley has gone out
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  Speaker 1: and hired a big-name defensive coordinator that's got a great pedigree,
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  Speaker 1: and it's supposed to finally fix their defense, and it
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  Speaker 1: has not worked. That has been a huge disappointment. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, for me, I'm going to go Oklahoma. You guys
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  Speaker 2: know this. I mean, over their last three games, they've
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  Speaker 2: scored 27 total points. They're two and two. I thought
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  Speaker 2: they would lose to Michigan. I thought they'd be competitive
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  Speaker 2: against Georgia. They weren't. Now, I will say after I
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  Speaker 2: put this up, they're about to win their next four.
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  Speaker 2: So they're going to be six and two. before they
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  Speaker 2: go to Florida because they're going to beat Texas. They're
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  Speaker 2: going to beat Kentucky. They're going to go into state and.
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  Speaker 1: Beat Mississippi State. I thought you gave up on John Mateer.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I don't think the season is going
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  Speaker 2: to be nearly what I thought it was. But coming
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  Speaker 2: off this bye, I think they'll go on a little roll.
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  Speaker 2: They'll end up still– they'll still lose four games. Eight
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  Speaker 2: and four, very, very disappointing year coming off. Double-digit win
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  Speaker 2: hosting a playoff game last year.
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  Speaker 1: I just picked one because I thought you– it shows
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  Speaker 1: you where the media is. So many more negatives than
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: there are positives. No, it was so much easier for
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  Speaker 1: me to find the disappointment. Like, I had Michigan last year.
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  Speaker 1: Like to his Oklahoma, I had Michigan. There you go.
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  Speaker 1: And Texas A & M are disappointed. I had to
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  Speaker 1: pick Gary Patterson over all those. What was your expectation
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  Speaker 1: for Michigan, though? I thought they'd be a playoff team.
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  Speaker 1: They've lost two games. I know the record says one,
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  Speaker 1: but they lost that. I don't know if I thought
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  Speaker 1: they'd be a playoff team. I thought they would look
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  Speaker 1: better than this under him. They just haven't looked.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 1: Their only quality win is against the team that you
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  Speaker 1: have as your biggest disappointment.
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  Speaker 2: But this played out. The win against Western Michigan was
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  Speaker 2: complete horseshit, but the loss against Iowa was complete horseshit.
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  Speaker 1: That's true. Don't lie.
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  Speaker 2: They are 3-1, and we'll see if they get better.
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  Speaker 2: This is a big game. I can't believe I'm saying this.
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  Speaker 2: They haven't lost on the road since 1987 to Minnesota,
• 12:27
  Speaker 2: but this is a big game against Minnesota.
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  Speaker 1: That was in the Metrodome last time they lost to Minnesota.
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: Fleck is 0-4 in the battle for the Little Brown Jug,
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: which we don't play every year anymore. Oh, was that
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: a we lost the Little Brown Jug to expansion? Conferences
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  Speaker 1: get so big.
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  Speaker 2: It does not affect me at all. I was more
• 12:42
  Speaker 2: upset when Taco Bell put the Mexican pizza off the
• 12:45
  Speaker 2: menu when Superior Grill shut down. But now we know that.
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  Speaker 1: Now the Brown Juggers. It comes in threes, they say.
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  Speaker 1: From Chris Lowe on three, best story, UMass. Best team,
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  Speaker 1: he had that category, Georgia. Best player, he had that category.
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  Speaker 1: And I can't read my own Mensa, Darian Mensa. Best coach,
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  Speaker 1: he went John Summerall. Best game, Ole Miss, LSU. Best win,
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  Speaker 1: he had Texas over Ohio State. Biggest surprise, he had
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  Speaker 1: UCLA so far. And biggest disappointment, he had Texas A & M.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, I'm going to play it on the Braves, uh,
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  Speaker 5: because I have a soul, uh, but, uh, that was
• 14:30
  Speaker 5: a tough one yesterday. Uh, the Travis boys, all three
• 14:33
  Speaker 5: of my kids are big Braves fans too. Uh, we
• 14:36
  Speaker 5: took that one on the chin back-to-back pitches for home runs, uh,
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  Speaker 5: his head to allow the Braves to take the lead
• 15:05
  Speaker 5: like they did. And if you haven't, it's worth watching
• 15:09
  Speaker 5: because I think it's a good illustration of probably the
• 15:13
  Speaker 5: most important lesson we've learned in sports, which is everybody fails.
• 15:18
  Speaker 6: And it's hard to fail.
• 15:19
  Speaker 5: The bigger the stage you're on, the tougher it is
• 15:22
  Speaker 5: to fail because so many more.
• 15:23
  Speaker 6: People see you.
• 15:25
  Speaker 5: But the way that you respond to it is the,
• 15:28
  Speaker 5: I think, ultimate lesson. of sports that transcends, uh, long
• 15:32
  Speaker 5: after most of our playing careers are over. Um, and, uh,
• 15:37
  Speaker 5: I thought it was really well said, even though I
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: hope the Braves beat the Phillies brains out later today.
• 15:41
  Speaker 6: Uh, not bad, uh, by Bryce Harper.
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: I feel like a, uh, an important lesson in life.
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: I tell my daughter plays soccer clay and, uh, she
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: had a soccer game last night. Scoreless tie is going
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: to shock you last night. Was she in the gold?
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: She's not. the goalie no she does not play goalie
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: more she plays striker now so anybody flop any red
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: cards I mean they outplayed the other team but it
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: was a scoreless tie that other team had a great
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: goalie but I tell her all the time you're going
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: to make mistakes all we expect of you is to
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: make them at full speed as long as you make
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: mistakes at full speed I can I love that I
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: can live with any mistake you make at full speed.
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: I love that um you know um and uh Again,
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: sports are important in that way for youth, I think,
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: because you can learn life lessons in a relatively protected environment, right?
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: And you hope that they're going to be applied in
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: a significant way in the years ahead. So I thought
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: that Bryce Harper statement was a good one. I'm excited
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: to watch the Braves-Phillies tonight. It's an obviously huge game.
• 16:42
  Speaker 6: And we will see.
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: 164 games played, and it all comes down to this
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: to see whose season gets to continue.
• 16:50
  Speaker 6: We'll be watching.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: Okay, so we switch to college football. Speaking of failures,
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: big one in the Coliseum on Saturday night with Lincoln Riley,
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: USC up 7-3. Dante Moore goes out. Raiola takes over.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: They lose by 14. When you look at this five-year
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: window for Lincoln Riley, 11 wins in year one. Caleb
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: Williams wins. a Heisman Trophy since then. Eight wins, seven wins,
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: nine wins, probably eight wins this year is what I'm projecting.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: If you're Jen Cohen, a really well-respected AD at USC,
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: you've got a $ 70 million buyout. Let's say that you're
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: the athletic director. What do you do now with Lincoln Riley?
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: Five years is a massive sample size in today's college football.
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: I think the question becomes it's a financial decision because
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: I think you know that he hasn't performed at a
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: level that would make you believe that he's going to
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: win championships there.
• 17:41
  Speaker 6: And so then it becomes a financial question, right?
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: Because the reason coaches want big buyouts like this is
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: so they don't end up getting fired on the tarmac
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: like Lane Kiffin did. And if they're going to get fired,
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: that they're going to get that generational payout. So A
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: lot of times we don't know the particulars. Is there
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: offset language in that contract? In other words, if he
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: gets another job, how much of that do you end
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: up having to pay? How much of it is due
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: up front immediately? I mean, honestly, that to me is
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: what I would be looking at if I were the
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: athletic director at USC.
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: I would know.
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: That Lincoln Riley is not the right choice and that
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: he's unlikely to win championships, and that's what we're paying
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: him to do. And then it would move into, OK,
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: what are the financial requirements? Is there some monster donor
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: out there, right, that is worth seven, eight, nine billion
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: dollars that can stroke a check to to pay that
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: buyout to help you out? Because you're probably going to
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: have to pay in addition to that 70 million dollar buyout,
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: all the terms associated with it. You know, you're going
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: to have to pay somebody eight, nine, 10 million dollars
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: probably to come in and take over that job. So
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: it's really, to me, when you look at it, it's
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: more akin to a $ 150 million decision than it even
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: is a $ 70 million decision, right? And then you get
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: into some of you have renovated houses. Some of you
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: have had stocks that went down. You get into the
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: sunk cost fallacy where you look at all the money
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: that you've spent and all the money you're going to
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: continue to spend. And you may make decisions that are
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: not in the best interest of you because you're continuing
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: to make the same bad decision that you made before.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: That is very interesting. It's ironic. It's funny that the
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: AD at USC also is the AD that hired Kalen
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: DeBoer at Washington. So if you were interested in a
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: guy like Kalen DeBoer, there's a huge buyout. I believe
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: they'd have to pay Alabama, too. So that price keeps
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: going up.
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: So you add another layer of complexity associated with the decision.
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: I just think at a minimum, it's probably a $ 150
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: million decision, and it could extend. all the way up
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: to $ 200 million.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Or USC and Alabama could just switch coaches.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Alabama fans will love that. Hey, Front Office Sports this morning,
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: I believe these numbers, I want your opinion, I believe
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: these numbers are going to show that people are only
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: watching the big brands now in college football, but they
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: reported college football viewership is down 11% through September compared
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: to last season. But I feel like the numbers are
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: up for the brands. I think this is just bad
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: for the teams around the edges. I think you're 100% right.
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: And this is my big thesis on media in general.
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: What you're seeing in an attention economy, and I had
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: mentioned this to you guys before, but it's one of
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: my favorite quotes. Reed Hastings says, we're not competing with others.
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: We're competing with sleep. We have never had more media opportunities, availabilities,
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: every movie under the sun available instantaneously. Netflix, brand new
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: top 10 every day. There's always something new out there.
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: What typically happens is the biggest brands get bigger.
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: Everybody else suffers.
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: And I think what you're seeing is Greg Sankey's decision
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: to expand and add Texas and Oklahoma and also A &
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: M and Missouri compared to the Big Ten's decision to
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: add Maryland, Rutgers. That created an overall strengthening of the
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: SEC brand.
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: And then, guys, everybody bullied the SEC. to go to
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: nine conference games.
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: Oh, you've got to go to nine. Oh, you've got
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: to go to nine. And finally, the SEC said, okay.
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: And what it actually did was it kneecapped the Big 12,
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: the ACC, everybody else. Because it took, first of all,
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: a lot of the ACC games against the SEC away.
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: You heard Dabo talking about that with Clemson. But it
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: then has created so much big brand conflict. I mean,
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: Texas-Tennessee conflict. was the most watched noon kickoff game in
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: 10 years for ESPN. That nearly 10 million people, it's
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: the most watched game of the day. Now, you can argue, well,
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: that's why it never should have been on at noon.
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: But then you combine it with, I watched all day.
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: I closed it out with Mississippi State Mizzou at midnight
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: on the East Coast up in Knoxville. And I think
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: the beneficiary is going to be the SEC. I think
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: the Big Ten at the top of the Big Ten
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: will also benefit. But I think what you're seeing is
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: a flight to brand. And on the margins, the smaller
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: things suffer. And I think that's true across all of entertainment.
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: And I think you're seeing it in sports in a
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: big way.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: And college football will regret their scheduling philosophy if they
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: don't fix it. They've got time to fix this problem.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: But they have created this situation, Dunaway, by this horrible
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: scheduling that we've had the first three weeks. This has
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: been the worst scheduled, and I've watched it all, but
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: the worst scheduled first three weeks we've ever seen. You're
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: fixed to this, in my opinion. Every conference plays the
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: same amount of conference games, Clay. So now every conference
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: has the same amount of non-conference games, and you play
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: them all at the start of the season, and you
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: allow the networks to schedule those games. So Fox gets
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: first pick, and Fox says, we want Ohio State-Alabama. Great
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: ESPN is your pick. Alabama's back on the board, but
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: they've got to play a home game. You can't put
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: them on the road because they're having to go to
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Ohio State. You could fix this in a heartbeat if
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: you let the networks do your out-of-conference schedules.
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: Really, what you're speaking of, too, is the NFL doesn't
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: do this. They set their best games in their biggest windows.
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: I think what you will see in the years ahead
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: is the SEC and the Big Ten are going to
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: do a challenge. And I think it will be wildly popular.
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: But basically what you're creating is the SEC and the
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: Big Ten to a certain extent, you know, the six
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: or seven brands at the absolute top of the Big
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: Ten are going to be playing a different sport than
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: everybody else. And typically what follows viewership is money. And
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: so I suspect that what you're seeing is the SEC
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: starting to distance itself from everyone else. because the culture
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: of the conference is supreme across all areas, right? You know,
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: it's harder to get into Vanderbilt now than it is
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: Columbia and Yale.
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: You guys know this. I mean, Nick.
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: Saban made people who are growing up in L.A. and
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: New York City want to go to Alabama for college.
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: Twenty years ago, your mom would have strangled you if
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: you were in Westchester and you said, hey, I want
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: to go to Bama, dad or mom. Same thing would
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: have happened if you're in Santa Monica or Manhattan Beach
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: out in the L.A.
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: Area. Mom and dad are sitting around. They're like, there's
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: no way you're going to Alabama.
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: That's how much the brand has grown and skyrocketed, and
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: I think it's translating across all fronts right now.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: You mentioned Texas, Tennessee. You were in Neyland for that game.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: After watching Texas in person, Arch Manning, very, very pedestrian
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: once again. Do you think this offense is finally going
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: to come together at some point, and is Arch good
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: enough to win a national championship?
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: That game, to me, I think will be an interesting
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: test going forward. Whatever Texas ended up with 10 sacks,
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: I thought that Faison Brandon looked like what he was,
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: a true freshman quarterback, which we don't see very often
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: in major college football, that was overwhelmed by what he
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: was seeing in front of him. Tennessee's defense was way
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: better against Texas than I thought they would be. And
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: I thought they would be pretty good. If you had
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: told me Texas is only going to score 20 points,
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: I would have bet a lot of money that Tennessee
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: would have won that game. So I think the question
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: that comes out of that game to me on both
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: fronts is just how good is the Texas defense?
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: Just how good is the Tennessee defense?
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: If both defenses are going to be top 10, 15
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: caliber in the nation, then I think that you will
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: start to see Arch put up big numbers later in
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: the season. I mean, I think we know Ohio State's
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: pretty good and that they're not showing a lot of
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: wrinkles with other teams. What I saw the way Arch
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: finished the season last year, he certainly was good enough
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: to win a national championship. What we have seen so
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: far on the road against Tennessee and against Ohio State,
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: he's shown flashes. I tend to think that those are
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: two of the toughest games that Texas will have. And
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: so I really kind of want to see what.
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: Happens as we move into October and November.
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: I think your answer is to be determined more so
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: than anything else.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Sometimes I think good business decisions are forced upon you
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: or they happen by happenstance. Last week, because of President
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Trump being in Knoxville, they opened the gates an hour
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: early at Neyland and took 50 percent off of all
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: alcohol sales. and Danny White comes out now and he says, hey,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: we're going to keep that going. Happy hour, open three
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: hours instead of two hours before kickoff, 50% all alcohol
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: sales starting this weekend for the Auburn game. It's going
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: to be the policy moving forward at Neyland. Sounds like
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: a moneymaker to me.
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it will be.
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: I think also not only is it a smart moneymaker,
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: I haven't heard a lot of people talk about this,
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: it also makes getting in the stadium way easier. Because
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: what it does, let's say that there's only 15,000 people
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: that decide to go in early. The 15,000 that do
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: decide to go in early make it way easier for
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: the crush that you're going to get come closer to
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: game time. I got in an hour before that game,
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: right after big noon, and I waited 30 seconds to
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: get into Neyland Stadium. So I suspect they looked at
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: the flow of traffic and said, hey, we don't know
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: how many people we're going to get. But happy hour
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: in the stadium is a great revenue producer, but it
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: also makes it far easier to get everybody into the
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: actual stadium. So I see it kind of as a no-brainer.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: All right, Clay on his way to do Fox News.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: And then Clay and Buck follow us here on Sport
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: and State coming up at the top of the hour,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: about half an hour from right now. Clay, have a
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: great weekend. We always appreciate the time.
• 28:05
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  Speaker 5: I think Nebraska is going to obliterate Maryland feels to
• 28:12
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• 28:35
  Speaker 2: I would not touch Maryland.
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• 28:50
  Speaker 2: I've seen two episodes, yeah, because it's with Walton Goggins
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: and Danny McBride. It was pretty funny.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: It is so good. I love Walton Goggins. Yeah, Walton Goggins.
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  Speaker 6: He is amazing. And that Vice Principals is really, really
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  Speaker 1: You would enjoy it. All right. See you, Clay. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: only half joking, but I really do like Maryland to
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: cover in that game, guys. one reason, I mean, did
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: you see the injury report? I believe Nebraska is going
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: to be without Jamal Rule running back in that game.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: That's a big impact.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: Well, I just, I don't know if they've quit.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: I think Nebraska's with Michael Oxley, which seems like a
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: big impact.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's hard to say that a team has quit
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: with Maryland being 2-2 through four games, but the way
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: they played against UCLA, and I was an idiot. I
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: backed them against Virginia Tech in that nine-point loss, and
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: then I had them in the 51-point loss last week.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: I will not touch Maryland again this year.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: At least you didn't have to watch the whole thing.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: You knew that was over in a hurry.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: I just thought Malik Washington was going to have a
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: really good year, and it just hasn't really worked out
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: like that.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, if you guys will promise to not steal
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: the Brown Bandits' plays two weeks in advance, hear me straight.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Nebraska beats Indiana next week. That's the time you want
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: to be all over Nebraska is next week. What's going
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: to be Brown Bandits' point spread in that one? What's
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: it going to need to cover?
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: Where is that game?
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: That is in Lincoln, Lance.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: Indiana at Nebraska.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Indiana at Nebraska.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: If Nebraska covers this week, I will say that Indiana
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: is an 8.5 to 10-point favorite.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: That low? That's all? Nebraska. Nebraska next week, Jim. Don't
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: touch this game this week. What if they're coming off
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: a loss to Maryland, though? I don't think Maryland wins
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: the game.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's going to be difficult. Calandria's played well, though.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: I actually think that's why Maryland might not be a
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: bad place because Indiana looms next week. And Matt Rule
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: probably put in the UCLA Maryland tape and said, guys,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: let's move on to Indiana. I don't even think we
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: have to watch this one. Hey, by the way, you
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: mentioned Calandria, the quarterback for Nebraska. The folks at Pro
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Football Focus ranking through four games the best quarterbacks in
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: college football. Darian Mensah with their rating system is one.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Julian Sayen, two. Calandria, number three in the country so far.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: Keelan Russell is fourth.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: Well, it's good Coandrea's playing at that level because you
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: know Nebraska fans would be like, how in the hell
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: did Dylan Raiola get out of here the way he
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: played last week?
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: I thought about that when he came in, and Nebraska's undefeated,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: but I thought about that the minute he came in
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: and played the way he did against Oregon. I was like, boy,
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: I bet Matt Rule's going to hear about this in Lincoln. Hey,
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: and another reason why that North Carolina hosting Notre Dame
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: game could be interesting, C.J. Carr is fifth in that,
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: but they're putting a lot of pressure on him to
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: throw the football. Can Bill Belichick confuse... C.J. Carr a
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: little bit with the Notre Dame offense that's struggling to
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: run the ball. Can Belichick throw a little something at C.J.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Carr to make it a little tougher? But he's fifth
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: in that pro football focus ranking of quarterbacks right now.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: So that's a little bit. A couple other injury notes. Vandy,
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: Georgia in Athens. Jared Curtis, the freshman quarterback, showed up
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: as questionable last night. He, you know, running the football,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: getting some hits in that Auburn game, but It's crucial
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: for him to make it competitive as they travel to Athens,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: but he is questionable.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: I think he'll play. He seems like a tough kid
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: that's going to be a little nicked up. You saw
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: that a little bit from Diego Pavia. I've seen really
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: good flashes from Jerry Curtis. Now, not good enough to
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: go in and beat this Georgia team. They haven't beaten
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: Georgia since Kirby's first year in 2016. And Vanderbilt, not
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: nearly as good as they were last year, but still...
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: you got to give Clark Lee credit. I mean, look,
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: they didn't win last week at Auburn, but they were competitive.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Clark Lee has brought us to the point in
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: our life where what is Vanderbilt's record right now?
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: Three and one.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: Three and one.
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: And we're like, yeah, Vanderbilt, they're not as good as
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: they have been. I mean, any other time in our life,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: a three and one Vanderbilt team. A down three and
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: one for Vanderbilt. I know. A three and one Vanderbilt
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: team that went on the road to Auburn and only
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: lost by one possession. You'd have been like, my Lord,
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: Clark Lee coach of the year already.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: But they've won 14 of their last 17 games.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. I'm saying he's changed the way we
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: think about Vanderbilt to his credit, to his immense credit.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: College football playoff folks met yesterday. Um, October 9th is
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: within the window for ESPN to sort of throw their
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: financials at them. No decision made yesterday. Notre Dame, the
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: big 10, the big 12 and the ACC are all
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: in on the 2014 model. Now the SEC, according to
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: Ross Dellinger, Pete Thamel and those covering it are open
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: to the idea. October 9th, no decision made yet. They've
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: got to have a decision December one for next year.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: It is looking like we're going to 24 teams. Um,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: The way that would lay out, the discussion in the
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: room would be a buy on what is considered to
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: be championship weekend now. That's when we would get the
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: Army-Navy game and the Heisman Trophy presentation and all that.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: And then we would start the playoffs the week after.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: So conference championship games are done in this model. If
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: we go start next year.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: It's amazing. The older I get, one thing I think
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: I've really worked well on is my patience. And I
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: think my patience has gotten to a point where I
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: don't explode over stupid things anymore. But we are the
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: most impatient society ever. We just got to 12 two
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: years ago.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: And it seems like it's working because there's meaning in
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: these games. You can lose one. You can lose two.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: You better not lose three. If you do lose three,
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: there's a path. but there's still some urgency in these games.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: When you lose, it feels like it means something. Last
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: week felt like it meant something to USC.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: Texas A & M very much still alive at 2-2.
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: We talked about their percentage right now, according to the
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: FBI or whatever, is like 6% to make the college
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: football playoff. But if we were in a 2014 playoff,
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: you can go 8-4 in the SEC and you're in.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: To Lance's point, we've had the 12-team playoff for two years.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: We only had the seating right for one year. In
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: the year we got the seating right, one of our
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: conferences was so incredibly bad, it impacted the field, and
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: we had to let two Group 5 teams in. They
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: have not even played a 12-team playoff in its proper
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: form yet. The proper form of the 12-team playoff is
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: not James Madison and Tulane being in. It would have
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: been Notre Dame and Miami being in. And the way
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: it's going to happen, Brown, is This year, they will
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: announce on December 1st. By December 1st, we're going to 24,
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: and then this will be the year we've got the
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: 12-team perfect to your point. Just right, and it's going
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: to be a great playoff. It'll be fabulous, and we're
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: going to be like, hmm, maybe we should stay here.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: So what do you think it looks like? Because in
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: the current 12, four SEC, four Big Ten, probably one ACC,
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: one Big 12, your group six, and maybe Notre Dame.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: But how many are they projecting from every conference?
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: First, let me give you the bracket. Nine through 16,
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: is that eight? Is that eight teams? Would be first
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: round on-campus host against the teams that are down to 24.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: And there would be eight teams with buys. And then
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: the next week, on-campus again, those eight teams that had
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: buys would host the winners of the games before that.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: That's a positive. Two on-campus games is a positive. I
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: would agree.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: I don't like buys at all.
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Well, those byes allows you to at least get a
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: bye and you don't miss a home on-campus game. And
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: nobody gets two home games.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: But if you're getting that bye, if we don't have
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: conference championship games, how far is that gap?
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: It's not. It's boom, boom. They're going to play those
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: back-to-back weeks.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: So the first round would be the weekend of conference championships.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: They're debating on whether that's going to be a bye
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: week to keep Army-Navy on our day by itself and
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: have the Heisman Trophy. which I would just go ahead
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: and conference championship start the tournament. But we'll see how
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: they play that out. To your point, there are minimums
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: for the Big 12 to the ACC to the SEC.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: And the Big 10, I think, were minimums of four
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: getting in. And then the rest would be wild cards.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: Notre Dame is obviously in if they're in the top 44.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: I mean, you start to force two ACC's. Go back
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: to last year.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: It would have been Duke. The ACC was so bad
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: last year, you let in two group of five. So
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: last year you would have had Miami and Duke. Yeah.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: If we do this, I would. Which is better than
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: James Madison, honestly. I would be okay with wiping out
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: the auto for the group of six. I would too.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: You've got to be in the top 24. I mean,
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: if you can't be in the top 24, you don't
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: deserve to be there.
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: Of course, now they're never going to do it if
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: we expand to 24.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Is there a group of five in the top 24
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: right now?
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: No.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: I don't think so. Jim, you've got the rankings over there.
• 39:07
  Speaker 7: By the end of the year. Boise is in the
• 39:09
  Speaker 7: top 25 right now.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: They are? Where are they ranked? Is that AP or coaches?
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: That's AP. Where are they, Brooks? In the 20s. Yeah, 22.
• 39:16
  Speaker 6: 22?
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: All right, so see, Boise's in.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: Not in the coaches, but 22 in the AP.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: Then Boise's in. And again, keep in mind, the playoff
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: committee is who does the ranking. So if they are like, hey, listen,
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: this Duke team, they are no good. This Boise team,
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: we need a group five in there. Let's drop Duke
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: out and let's put Boise in. They can control that.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: I mean, if a team's good enough, they're going to
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: be in the top 24. I don't worry about that.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: I'm with you. Let's don't make it a mandated one
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: has to be in there. If we've got a year
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: where they all suck in the group of whatever that
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: is now, group of six. I guess the goal then
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: would be playing for the The first round by on-campus
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: round two game. That'd be your urgency in the regular season.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: The way you're presenting this, two weeks off. I mean,
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: I guess in college football that's okay. Yeah, well, maybe
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: it's only one week off. Could be. If they play
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: the championship Saturday. I mean, this feels like you're trampling
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: on holy ground here for some people when you say this.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: I think we don't need to worry about Army-Navy, and
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: I certainly don't care about the Heisman Trophy presentation. I mean,
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: let's do what's best for the college football playoff, and Army-Navy,
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you'll find them.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: You'll figure it out. Heisman folks actually said yesterday, as
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: this was breaking, there's no good solution for us with
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: a 2014 playoff. The last thing I care about is
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: the Heisman Trophy presentation. Back in the old days, they
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: used to— They'll do it in January. They made the announcement—
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: sometimes for the regular seasons, who won the Heisman, and
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: then they had a banquet in January in New York.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: You'll figure it out. Heisman will figure it out. All right,
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: one more break. One more thing to go. Winning streaks
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: going on right now since 2000. Brooks sent a graphic
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: out earlier at Next Round Live. We'll talk about that
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: when we come back on the next round presented by
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: Sporting State. Boy, there's a lot of great stories told
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: by SEC story to our 30 and 30. If you're
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: a Tennessee fan, T. Martin's story, 17, is going to
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: be released on tonight at 8 o'clock, 9 Eastern, 8
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: o'clock tonight on the SEC Network. This T. Martin story,
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: growing up, I believe, in the Mobile area in Alabama
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: and then going to Tennessee and waiting behind Peyton Manning
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: and then bringing Tennessee a national championship. So that's happening
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: tonight on the SEC Network. Since 2000, there have been
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: uh some massive win streaks in college football do you
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: guys know if there are any current ones that make
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: that list right now the best win streak since 2000
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: in college football yeah i.
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: Mean indiana is 20 straight and then uh notre dame's
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: not four off they've won 16.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: Straight indiana is on the list right now brooks sent
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: out the graphic earlier at next round live for sure
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: is going to give it a show for us here
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: and it's Indiana is on that list of great win
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: streaks since 2000 with 20 straight but look at how
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: many 20 plus win streaks we've had since 2000 Miami
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: with a record of 34 SC 34 now there are
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: longer win streaks in college football I believe was it
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: Oklahoma 55 Florida State 29 Clemson 29 on that run
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: That Dabo and them went on with Trevor Lawrence and
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: them there.
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: Now, can you tell me who they lost to on
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: these current streaks?
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: Oh, Miami, I think, was Washington. Miami was Ohio State
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: in the national championship game, right? Yeah, this is since 2000.
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: You're going, Lance, the Washington one was back in the 90s, right?
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess that was Ohio State.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: So it's Ohio State. It's Texas, I believe. Southern Cal.
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: Florida State lost to Oregon in the Rose Bowl. Clemson
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: lost to LSU. Nope. Pitt?
• 43:02
  Speaker 7: That's right.
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 43:02
  Speaker 7: Joe Burrow in LSU.
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: Okay. Georgia lost to... Probably Alabama, if I had to guess.
• 43:07
  Speaker 7: Nick Saban in Alabama, the SEC champion.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: That's going to be the story of Georgia's life. Alabama
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: lost to... Clemson, national championship. No, Central Florida. That was
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: the pick play, Jim. Rubber out or pick play, depending
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: on which color you're on.
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: Who knows Central Florida?
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Central Florida. I could spend the rest of the
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: show guessing. That would be Joe Burrow in LSU. Okay.
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: Joe got two, huh?
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: Boise, I think it was Nevada.
• 43:28
  Speaker 5: Nevada?
• 43:30
  Speaker 7: That actually is probably right. Colin Kaepernick in Nevada, I think, was.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: Responsible for that. The first one, the 24, is 2010.
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: Boise's on there twice. The other one was 2004.
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: Can't tell you that one at all. I'm pretty sure
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: Nevada's right, though, for the 09 through 10 one.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: Back-to-back Ohio State. Who are those, Brooks? Do you know? 2013.
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: One's Virginia Tech.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: That's the 2014-15.
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: No, no, no.
• 44:01
  Speaker 7: 15 was Michigan State.
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, 13 was the Virginia Tech one, right? No.
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: They lost in 2014, the second week of the season
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: to Virginia Tech and then went on to win the
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: national championship running the table and then were undefeated all
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: the way up until November of next year and got
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: beat on a field goal at home in the horseshoe
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: by Michigan State who wound up winning the Big Ten
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: that year.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: Florida was Alabama.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: Correct.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: Because that was the Tim Tebow Ole Miss loss and
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: then they won them all until they lost to Bama.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: Texas in 06.
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: I think that was a road game with freshman quarterback
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: Colt McCoy starting at Ohio State.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: Wow. Washington on there. How about Washington?
• 44:43
  Speaker 7: That's Kalen DeBoer's Washington.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Michigan. Michigan. And the national championship came. How about that?
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: Kalen DeBoer rings the bell. Well, I did not remember
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: them winning 22 consecutive games prior to that national championship. 21,
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: but yes. 21.
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: West Coast, man.
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: You were asleep.
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: I won 11-2 the first year and then started 14-0
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: the next year.
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: Bob Stoops, Oklahoma. I'll take a wild guess and go Texas? Nope.
• 45:10
  Speaker 7: I don't know if that's right. I'd have to look
• 45:12
  Speaker 7: it up, actually.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: And then Indiana gets to 21 and it's Matt Rule
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: in Nebraska next week. And that's when you think it ends.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: I do.
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: At number three, Nebraska, who went to the national championship
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: that year.
• 45:23
  Speaker 7: So Eric Crouch.
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: See, Nebraska's going to get these last two here. I
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: said this in the offseason. If you'll remember, Lance was out.
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: You and I did a show, and I mentioned that
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: oftentimes win streaks don't end where you expect them. They
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: end where you least expect them. Pull up Indiana's schedule.
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: Your point is Nebraska, back in the summer, you would think, okay,
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: Indiana wins that one. But they have an Ohio State.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: They have Ohio State right after that, and then I
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: think Michigan right after Ohio State. Let me look real quick. Yeah,
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: they've got Ohio State at home and then at Michigan.
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: And my point was, like, if you're going to end
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: Indiana's win streak, you're going to say, oh, it's Ohio
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: State or Michigan. It's often not the– as we just
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: did with this exercise, listen how often you set a
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: team and you're like, oh, that's who they lost to?
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: That's interesting. I mean, now sometimes it's Bama beating Georgia.
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, those do happen. I'm not saying they don't.
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: But I am saying oftentimes those long win streaks end
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: where you least expect them. Put that list back up
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: if you can, Forrester. Actually, Brown– just the opposite on
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: this list since the 2000s. Well, I went historic before 2000.
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: I'm a pre-2000 guy. Before 2000, like Alabama's was at
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: Mississippi State in the 70s. I'm King James version. But look,
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: this Miami was a national championship game, national championship game, playoffs, playoffs.
• 46:31
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: And, I guess an SEC championship game, national championship. Yeah,
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: regular season, regular season, regular season, regular season. UCF was
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: New Year's Six Bowl. New Year's Six Bowl.
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: I mean, how deep?
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: Hey, does anybody else want to ask? Scott, do you
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: agree with me? Do you want to blow this up too, Scott?
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: How do you feel? Well, uh....
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: Before Jim called for that back, I was getting ready
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: to pop.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: You mean Kirk Cignetti's concert tour? Is that what that is?
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: You're putting up Cignetti's head with a few teams named
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: beside him.
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: I had to blow it up that big just so
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: you could read the games that they're going to play.
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: Is that where Kirk is at concert? Is he a
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: country cover band, Kirk Cignetti?
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you, if they get passed.
• 47:13
  Speaker 7: We already called him a Nick Saban cover band.
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: We did. We did do that. Jim did.
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: If they get passed to Ohio State, I know you're
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: saying Nebraska next weekend in Lincoln. I'm not feeling that yet.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: They're going to lose a game this year, though. I agree.
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: But if they get past Ohio State, now it doesn't
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: look as difficult as it did.
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: But you think they're going to lose a game. So
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: if you take Ohio State off the board, where is it?
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: I mean, it could be at Michigan. It could be USC.
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: It could be at Washington. The way they played against Northwestern, 1-2-3.
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: You could see them losing possibly four games. If they
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: play that same game that they played against Northwestern, yes.
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: I remember us coming in after North Texas, and I
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: remember talking about they just don't look the same. Now
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: it was a one-game sample, but that's kind of continued.
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: And I do think, I mean, the good news is
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: they've only turned the football over one time in four games.
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: I mean, if they continue to do that, they're going
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: to win a lot of games.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: So that's the long win streak. Indiana, no sweat. Did
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: somebody say it was going to be Nebraska that did it? Ryan? Ryan.
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: You do know that Nebraska is 2-34 versus ranked opponents
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: since joining the Big Ten.
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: You know what that means? They're due. They are due.
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: They're 2-34.
• 48:22
  Speaker 7: 0-8 under Matt Roll.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm well aware of the records, guys. When I
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: make this pick, I know I'm going against the norm.
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: That's what makes them an upset. If we knew it
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: was going to happen, it would be an upset. Do
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: I need to put the mask on to go ahead
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: and do this, or can I wait until Tuesday? Give
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: me a new kick, too. Give me cut 14 if
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: you can, Tyler. One of the biggest stars, and I'm
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: surprised it did not make anybody's biggest surprise list so far,
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: is Buster Faulkner. Buster Faulkner is now the most popular
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: buster in the United States, right?
• 48:58
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: Don't disrespect buster only but probably so i love buster
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: only buster is always gonna be my favorite buster buster's
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: ice cream and brewsters again twice you've messed that one up.
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: Brewsters buster douglas was big for a moment dave.
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: And busters buster posey buster posey buster keaton buster faulkner
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: buster keaton it's all buster faulkner right now.
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: You got buster the uh bunny from the arthur pbs show.
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah still still buster faulkner buster faulkner dave and busters
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: am i right about that is that restaurant that is
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: a arcade slash restaurant i have never eaten it at
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: dave and buster i've never.
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: Stepped foot i've stepped foot in one like three or
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: four times i've eaten one time yeah It's about what
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: you'd think.
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: I was about to say that was not a ring
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: of few words, but I ate there one time. Did
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: their food taste like we had animatronic people singing country
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: hip-hop songs?
• 49:45
  Speaker 6: Slightly better.
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: Slightly better? Microwave or deep fry, take your pick.
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: Animatronic.
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: Or freezer burned. Yeah, or freezer burned with fries.
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: Buster Faulkner here gets asked about Florida's offensive identity. Is
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: there a chance it says, it's me?
• 50:02
  Speaker 5: Two games in a row, 50-plus attempts, if you include,
• 50:05
  Speaker 5: I guess, Aaron's performance.
• 50:06
  Speaker 4: Scrambles.
• 50:07
  Speaker 6: Is that the identity you think of this offense?
• 50:09
  Speaker 5: You want to be able to impose your will on
• 50:13
  Speaker 5: the ground first and foremost.
• 50:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's important. Imposing your will in all
• 50:18
  Speaker 4: of football. Was our plan to run it 50 times?
• 50:23
  Speaker 5: No.
• 50:23
  Speaker 4: One thing is, and you've heard me say it multiple
• 50:25
  Speaker 4: times since I've been here, is we have a lot
• 50:26
  Speaker 4: of volume in our offense. We practice it from the
• 50:30
  Speaker 4: time we get here all the way through fall camp.
• 50:33
  Speaker 4: Then we put together a game plan You know, we
• 50:35
  Speaker 4: had a couple guys go down, so some things change
• 50:38
  Speaker 4: throughout the course of the game. And then sometimes it's
• 50:41
  Speaker 4: the flow of the game, and you can just feel
• 50:43
  Speaker 4: it kind of led to that, right, for multiple reasons. So,
• 50:51
  Speaker 4: you know, it's good to be able to do that.
• 50:53
  Speaker 4: You know, we want to be an offense that can
• 50:55
  Speaker 4: beat you in really any facet. If we've got to
• 50:57
  Speaker 4: drop back, if we've got to play action, screen game,
• 51:00
  Speaker 4: you know, all the different things, you know– when the
• 51:03
  Speaker 4: time arises, we've got to be able to beat you
• 51:05
  Speaker 4: in those cases.
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: Okay, stop sign is up here for a reason because
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: I want to ask the question. First of all, by
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: a show of hands, how many people heard him for
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: the first time there? Never heard him before. Not what
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: I thought he'd sound like. Okay, secondly? Do you still
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: think he could be the coach of the USC Trojans
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: after hearing him?
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: Well, Clay Helton was.
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: That's a good point. Lance makes a good point.
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: This guy is country as corn.
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: He's from Valdosta, Georgia. I know he played quarterback at Valdosta.
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: That does not blow me away when I hear him talk.
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: I heard Shannon Dawson for the first time yesterday.
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: Did not sound like I thought he was Shannon.
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: Very, very strange. Sounded like he had been at the
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: dentist and had a couple of cavities filled um but
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: that is very interesting yeah now i saw you all
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: of a sudden you you very quickly went southeastern conference
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: on his future yeah but you know jimbo fisher i
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: mean you did you did no i mean florida state
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: jimbo stayed in that that that footprint but i think
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: there was a point where there were a lot of
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: schools that would have taken.
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: Jim i mean i think if i'm florida state before
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: i go jimbo fisher i'm like what's it take to
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: get this guy he already lives in our state He's
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: already enrolled in the retirement system in our state. I mean,
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: it's very easy for us. I mean, but he, when you,
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: and it's, I love the Southern accent. I am from
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: the South. I grew up here. I've lived here my
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: entire life. Never lived outside of the SEC.
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: Oh, you can see if he's strong. If he, if
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: Buster was in the same situation five years deep as
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: Lincoln with the same The same record. I mean, can
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: you imagine the L.A. Times, what they'd be saying about
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: this guy?
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: Fogg Allen in the chat says, guys, there's a Jim
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: Bob Cooter with NFL coaching experience. Oh, I know.
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: Never got a head job.
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: He did not get a head coaching job, but he
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: coached for the Lions. He's a Detroit named Jim Bob Cooter.
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: You don't see... A guy that talks like that usually
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: with a USC logo behind him, a Michigan logo behind him,
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: an Ohio State logo behind him. I did see somebody
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: in the college football media world that I follow, Andy
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: Staples or someone like that, of that ilk, said Florida
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: should never make him available to the media again because
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: he sounds just like a head coach.
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: Might I remind you that we did see Ed Ogeron
• 53:09
  Speaker 3: as the interim USC head coach.
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: We did. Interim was the key there. Did not get
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: the job.
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: First of all, SC, I don't believe, is going to
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: hire a coordinator.
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: Right. I know. But you mentioned earlier that you thought
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: Buster would be a guy you'd be interested in. He's
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: going to be a hot name. That's it for today
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: on Sporting State. We continue this conversation and a lot
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: more on Alabama-Mississippi State coming up on the next round
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: at Next Round Live on our YouTube channel. Have a
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: great day.