Latest / The Craig Way Show / Who is the best 2-loss team in the country?

Transcript

Who is the best 2-loss team in the country? · The Craig Way Show

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Craig Wade, joined by the producer Cameron Parker. Glad to
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: have you with us as well. We earlier visit with
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: Greg Tepper, managing EDR Dave Campbells Texas Football Magazine to
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: talking about college football in the state of Texas. It was,
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: as he said, that was a big win for Baylor.
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: They've won three in a row now, so now they're
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: five and four, three and three in the Big Twelve.
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: And TCU, which has been slumping of late, as five
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: and four and three and three, there's going to be
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: a get well game for somebody this week, either tc
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: or Oklahoma State. And Oklahoma State, as I read that
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: story earlier, is now three and six. They've lost all
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: six Big Twelve games, and Mike Gundy took to kind
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: of finger pointing at his fans for finger pointing at
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: them for the program falling.
• 0:49
  Speaker 2: Oh boy. And so they'll play.
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: In Fort Worth on Saturday, and Oklahoma State has no
• 0:55
  Speaker 1: margin left for error left. They have to win the
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: remaining three games to get Bowl l eligible or they
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: will be non Bowl eligible for the first time in
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: like nineteen years. TCU needs one more win to get
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: Bowl eligible. There's that so anyway, there's some of those now.
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: I ran over some of this trade deadline stuff. Marcus
• 1:19
  Speaker 1: Lattimore going to the Commanders from the Saints. He's been
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: banged up, but that definitely could help them. Mike Williams
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: the receiver going to Pittsburgh. And they also got Preston
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: Smith from the Packers for help along the defensive front,
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: so I think that probably helps them. The Rams traded
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: a corner in Tredavious White who hadn't really played for
• 1:41
  Speaker 1: them this year. He'd been banged up and they picked
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: him up from Buffalo, but he hadn't really done anything
• 1:46
  Speaker 1: for them. Kitchens is the guy who's really done stuff.
• 1:49
  Speaker 1: He had the two interceptions the other including that one
• 1:52
  Speaker 1: hundred three yard pick six with the NFC West is
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: just a mess, isn't it. With the Cardinals one of
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: the Bears on Sunday, so they're leading.
• 2:02
  Speaker 3: They're five and four for the first time since twenty
• 2:06
  Speaker 3: twenty one.
• 2:06
  Speaker 1: Wow, And then you have the the Rams are four
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: and four. What the forty nine ers are four and
• 2:12
  Speaker 1: four and the Seahawks are four and five.
• 2:15
  Speaker 3: They've lost two straight and things are things are starting
• 2:18
  Speaker 3: to fall off the rails there and that one there
• 2:22
  Speaker 3: only came back for him, came out of first.
• 2:24
  Speaker 2: That's the whole point of that deal.
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: And again, we do this every week, so I'm gonna
• 2:28
  Speaker 1: do it to you right now, Cam and say, if
• 2:31
  Speaker 1: AFC Buffalo is seven and two, Jets three and six,
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: Dolphins two and six, Patriots two and seven, do you
• 2:42
  Speaker 1: see anybody other than Buffalo getting into the postseason?
• 2:45
  Speaker 3: I think I said, maybe Miami, New York. I think
• 2:48
  Speaker 3: I'm just gonna go Buffalo. Okay, all right, Buffalo.
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: In the North, Pittsburgh is six and two, Baltimore six
• 2:54
  Speaker 1: and three, Cincinnati's four and five after getting thumped by
• 2:57
  Speaker 1: the Eagles, and the Browns are two and seven.
• 2:59
  Speaker 3: I think, obviously you're gonna put Pittsburgh and Baltimore in there.
• 3:02
  Speaker 3: I think since he maybe as that seventh seed, perhaps.
• 3:06
  Speaker 2: Okay, all right.
• 3:07
  Speaker 1: In the South you have Houston six and three, the
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: Colts four and five, Titans two and six, Jacks two
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: and seven, I think just the Texans right now, okay.
• 3:15
  Speaker 1: And then in the West you have the Chiefs eight
• 3:17
  Speaker 1: and oh, Chargers five and three, Broncos five and four,
• 3:21
  Speaker 1: Raiders two and.
• 3:22
  Speaker 3: Seven, Chiefs obviously, and then you think one of those
• 3:26
  Speaker 3: Chargers of Broncos teams will make it. So I think
• 3:29
  Speaker 3: with that, you got what that would be seven if
• 3:31
  Speaker 3: you get one of those two. Yeah, so seven with
• 3:34
  Speaker 3: the Bengals. Okay, So I think I feel good about that. Okay,
• 3:36
  Speaker 3: feel good about that.
• 3:37
  Speaker 1: NFC, Hey, Commanders are seven and two, three, Eagles are
• 3:42
  Speaker 1: six and two, Cowboys three and five, and the Giants
• 3:45
  Speaker 1: two and.
• 3:45
  Speaker 3: Seven, probably the Commanders and Eagles.
• 3:48
  Speaker 1: Okay, North Lions seven and one for the first time
• 3:51
  Speaker 1: since nineteen fifty six, Vikings are six and two, Packers
• 3:55
  Speaker 1: six and three, Bears four and four.
• 3:57
  Speaker 3: You gotta go to like Lions obviously Vikings and then
• 4:00
  Speaker 3: probably the Packers. So that's that's three layoff teams right there,
• 4:03
  Speaker 3: just like the AFC North perhaps.
• 4:05
  Speaker 2: Okay, so that's five.
• 4:06
  Speaker 1: Now South Falcons are six and three, Bucks four and five,
• 4:11
  Speaker 1: Panthers two and seven, Saints.
• 4:12
  Speaker 3: Two and so you think with this three game losing
• 4:14
  Speaker 3: strenk for Tampa Bay, I mean, I think I would
• 4:18
  Speaker 3: have gone for two last night, Craig before overtime. You know,
• 4:21
  Speaker 3: when you're on the road, go for two. When you're
• 4:23
  Speaker 3: at home, pick the extra point. I think Atline is
• 4:25
  Speaker 3: gonna run away with this division and then in yeah,
• 4:28
  Speaker 3: just the Falconka and.
• 4:29
  Speaker 1: In the West Cards five and four Rams, four and
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: four Niners, four and four Seahawks.
• 4:35
  Speaker 2: For I have no idea. I really don't.
• 4:37
  Speaker 1: The division winner, we'll get the we'll get the last
• 4:40
  Speaker 1: remaining playoff spot that you're mentioning there.
• 4:42
  Speaker 3: I mean, out of those four teams, only San Francisco
• 4:45
  Speaker 3: has a positive point differential. Now the three teams negative
• 4:49
  Speaker 3: RAMS minus twenty four.
• 4:50
  Speaker 1: I didn't really they took. They took some beads earlier
• 4:54
  Speaker 1: the team.
• 4:54
  Speaker 3: If McCaffrey comes back and Deebo gets healthy, I think
• 4:57
  Speaker 3: San Francisco can do it. But if they don't, I
• 5:00
  Speaker 3: feel good about your Rams, Craig. I mean Stafford. The
• 5:03
  Speaker 3: throw Stafford made in that game were diabolical. I mean
• 5:06
  Speaker 3: that last throw when it looked like it was gonna
• 5:09
  Speaker 3: be intercepted by the Seahawks dB. I think it was
• 5:12
  Speaker 3: the Marcus Robinson or the too he's the receiver, Yeah,
• 5:14
  Speaker 3: he was a receiver. Yeah, he came in and that
• 5:17
  Speaker 3: that was a beautiful ball. And then of course the
• 5:19
  Speaker 3: game winner of the Robinson as well, also just a
• 5:21
  Speaker 3: fantastic throw.
• 5:22
  Speaker 2: So one of those are going to make that.
• 5:25
  Speaker 1: I just just want to still know that that minus
• 5:28
  Speaker 1: twenty four for the Rams thirty one. They were a
• 5:30
  Speaker 1: minus thirty. Remember they got beat by the Cardinals forty
• 5:32
  Speaker 1: one to ten in Arizona. And the Rams still ever
• 5:37
  Speaker 1: rematch with him. They still have to play in Santa
• 5:40
  Speaker 1: Clara against the forty nine ers and they have the
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: Seahawks at home, so they they think that's going to
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: go down into the last week.
• 5:45
  Speaker 2: There'll be a survivor out of that deal.
• 5:47
  Speaker 3: That last playoff spot would be like trying to figure
• 5:50
  Speaker 3: out the SEC tie breakers for the conference championship game.
• 5:54
  Speaker 2: Just good luck.
• 5:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And there's a lot of folks trying to figure
• 5:59
  Speaker 1: that out. And I've mentioned that, you know it, it
• 6:06
  Speaker 1: can change over time. I know what it looks like
• 6:10
  Speaker 1: if it were to end right now, but it can
• 6:13
  Speaker 1: change depending on how teams finish and what their strength
• 6:16
  Speaker 1: to schedule looks like, and what and what the other
• 6:19
  Speaker 1: team's common opponents did down the stretch. That's why it's
• 6:26
  Speaker 1: up in the air right now. That's why there's not
• 6:30
  Speaker 1: a you know, a clear thing. I think it's pretty
• 6:34
  Speaker 1: safe to say. I think a lot of folks figure
• 6:36
  Speaker 1: that George is going to get in there as long
• 6:38
  Speaker 1: as they don't lose it Ole Miss or lose it
• 6:39
  Speaker 1: home to Tennessee. You know, and they played Georgia Tech.
• 6:43
  Speaker 1: It's rivalry games. They should be able to handle their
• 6:45
  Speaker 1: business on that.
• 6:46
  Speaker 3: If George and LSU win this weekend, it's it's a
• 6:49
  Speaker 3: clearer picture. They're the front runners. But if Georgia loses,
• 6:52
  Speaker 3: now you got a two loss Georgia team.
• 6:54
  Speaker 2: If if l.
• 6:55
  Speaker 3: Shue loses the Bama then now you have a two
• 6:57
  Speaker 3: loss LSU team, in a two loss Alabama team, two
• 7:01
  Speaker 3: loss Georgia team, hopefully a one lost Texas team, a
• 7:05
  Speaker 3: one loss A and M team. It's gonna get crazy,
• 7:08
  Speaker 3: but we'll have a better picture after this week.
• 7:11
  Speaker 1: That's true, it'll and we post these questions that had
• 7:16
  Speaker 1: their dinnige.
• 7:16
  Speaker 2: But who's the best one loss team? You think it's
• 7:18
  Speaker 2: Ohio State? I do.
• 7:21
  Speaker 1: I think it's Georgia. Oh that's right, you said Georgia.
• 7:23
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, you think Georgia is the best one lost team. Okay?
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: And you know, and here's another question. This is this
• 7:33
  Speaker 1: is worth discussing. Where are the second best teams from
• 7:38
  Speaker 1: the ACC and the Big twelve?
• 7:40
  Speaker 2: Do they exist? Well?
• 7:42
  Speaker 1: I think the ACC is easier to figure out, because
• 7:46
  Speaker 1: I think the top two have separated themselves now because
• 7:49
  Speaker 1: of Clemson's loss to Louisville, and it's a downhill run
• 7:54
  Speaker 1: for SMU to get to Charlotte for the a SEC
• 7:57
  Speaker 1: Championship game, and I think it's a downhill run for Miami.
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: So I think that that's gonna be your top two.
• 8:02
  Speaker 1: Although not only did Heather Dinich project this, but I
• 8:07
  Speaker 1: think the athletic projected that in these first standings that
• 8:12
  Speaker 1: are gonna be released tonight, SMU will not be in
• 8:15
  Speaker 1: the top twelve.
• 8:17
  Speaker 2: For that, they still have some work to do.
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: They're gonna have to win the ACC pretty much, or
• 8:22
  Speaker 1: you know, went out and then maybe get some help
• 8:25
  Speaker 1: to be considered an at large, went out and win
• 8:27
  Speaker 1: the ACC, they're gonna get in the playoff, although if
• 8:31
  Speaker 1: that happens, there's a decent chance the Boise may be
• 8:37
  Speaker 1: rated higher than an ACC champion SMU and boys. He
• 8:41
  Speaker 1: would get a boy and then SMU would you know,
• 8:44
  Speaker 1: would be in the playoff, but they wouldn't get a
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: buy that first week. So but she asked the question,
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: second best teams in the ACC in the Big twelve,
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: and she said with with Iowa stayed in Kansas State
• 8:55
  Speaker 1: losing on Saturday, the Big Twelves chance to send multiple
• 8:59
  Speaker 1: teams to the playoff off dropped from forty eight percent
• 9:04
  Speaker 1: to twenty three percent. The ACC still has a fifty
• 9:08
  Speaker 1: five percent chance to send two teams to the playoff
• 9:11
  Speaker 1: based on a strong season so far from SMU, which
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: is helping compensate for Clemson's loss. So how impressed as
• 9:17
  Speaker 1: the committee been with SMU to this point? Or two
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: lost Colorado, which could still win the Big Twelve, Keep
• 9:24
  Speaker 1: that in mind. Remember Colorado, I think closes the regular season.
• 9:31
  Speaker 2: It's pretty favorableok I just looked. It's like Utah, they
• 9:34
  Speaker 2: don't have it, but they play in Lubbock. They do
• 9:36
  Speaker 2: play in Lubbock.
• 9:37
  Speaker 1: But I can't remember if it's the I think the
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: Utah game is the last game of the season, so
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: maybe it's it's their third out of the last four games.
• 9:44
  Speaker 1: It's their third game, yep, pull up their schedule. Okay, yeah,
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: next to last for them and at Tech this week
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: Colorado is so it's this week Okay.
• 9:55
  Speaker 3: Home for Utah at Kansas and then the end the
• 9:59
  Speaker 3: season again it's Oklahoma State.
• 10:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: The last two or should be wins so the next
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: two weeks are the tellers for Colorado.
• 10:08
  Speaker 3: Boy, what if Colorado ends up? I mean, ESPN would
• 10:12
  Speaker 3: melt down. They'd be so excited, they would they would
• 10:15
  Speaker 3: be so excited, real real quick, Craig. If you're a
• 10:18
  Speaker 3: Texas fan trying to figure out how can they get
• 10:21
  Speaker 3: into the SEC talent game, who you should be rooting
• 10:23
  Speaker 3: for this week? You are Old Miss fans and you're
• 10:26
  Speaker 3: Alabama fans. Because if Georgia or LSU loses one more
• 10:30
  Speaker 3: game the regular season, in Texas wins out, the Longhorns
• 10:33
  Speaker 3: are playing in Atlanta.
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: If one of them does, if one of them does, yeah,
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: let me also say this if Alabama does win and
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: Old Miss does win, and say Georgia beats Tennessee and
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: Texas A and M beats Texas. Oh my head spinning.
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: If those things happen. None of them were that far fetched,
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: but it would take the combination. It's got parlay right,
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: And I'm not a guy who does the wagering thing,
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: but if you went parlay on that, now, wrap your
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: mind around this. Cam Okay, Georgia wins out, okay, which
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: includes beating Tennessee, handing them a second loss, which includes
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: beating No, they don't win out they lose too, Ole
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: Miss okay. So now Georgia with two losses, Tennessee with
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: two losses, Ole Miss with two losses, Alabama beats LSU,
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: they each have two losses, and A and M beats
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: Texas and they all have two losses. Nobody has one
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: loss at that point. What a mess that would be Georgia, Alabama, Texas,
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: Ole Miss, LSU, Tennessee, a six way tie for first place.
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: Think about that for a moment. If those things happened
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: like that, a sixth way tie for first with uneven
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: amounts of head to head matchups because not everybody played
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: every Texas does not play Tennessee, they don't play Ole Miss,
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: they don't play l s U.
• 12:17
  Speaker 3: So in that scenario, to be Alabama or LU in
• 12:21
  Speaker 3: really so, there's a way where it could be seven teams. Craig,
• 12:24
  Speaker 3: Who's who's the seventh Bama, L s U, Georgia, A
• 12:27
  Speaker 3: and M, Texas, Ole Miss, Tennessee.
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: Bama, Ole Miss, Georgia, l s U, Texas, Tennessee. Who
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: I'm leaving out? That's six, that's the six.
• 12:39
  Speaker 3: Islands, Tale, Miss and Georgia, LSU, Bama, te maybe I
• 12:42
  Speaker 3: left out.
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: A and M Bama Ole, Miss Tennessee, Georgia, L s
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: U Texas Texas A and M seventh way tie. Did
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: you go to that thing? Yeah, we were doing last year.
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: What's that little uh that little motor it's his account
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: is like m red fifty three on Twitter. It's like
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: it's b ball dot not nothing dot net.
• 13:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember.
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: Okay, so you put all that stuff in there and
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: generated the seven way tie.
• 13:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's Alabama and LSU.
• 13:14
  Speaker 3: Now of course this could be okay, Okay, it's not
• 13:19
  Speaker 3: from the SEC.
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: No, But I trust that dude. He had it right
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: last year was going on. I mean, look, dude is
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: living in his mom's basement. Okay, he's just figuring this
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: stuff out, all right. He's got a big bag of
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: Cheetos down there and a big grape soda and he's
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: just diving into it. Okay, he'll figure out who's going
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: to be in the SEC Championship. We just have to
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: trust the dude in the basement with the bag of
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: Cheetos and the grape soda just saying all right, we're
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: gonna hear from start coming up on sports Radio AM
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: thirteen under the zone,