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The Next Round: College Football Is BACK: Todd Fuhrman’s Best Bets + Bold CFP, Alabama & Texas Predictions | Hour 2 · The Next Round

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Speaker 1: Back with you on the next round presented by Hard
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Speaker 1: Rock Bets and Sporting State. Todd Furman joins us in
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Speaker 1: a second. I will not be the guy that says
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Speaker 1: we're already a quarter of the way through the season
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Speaker 1: after week three or any of that again this year.
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Speaker 1: But I will point out that on September 1st, which
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Speaker 1: is Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Tuesday. That's when we start getting
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Speaker 1: less sunshine. I think we go back on the other
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Speaker 1: side of 7 o'clock.
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Speaker 2: We've already gotten that. I mean, it's just slowly, slowly draining.
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Speaker 2: And speaking of, you know, you always say we're a
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Speaker 2: quarter of the way through. We're sitting on the couch
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Speaker 2: last night, me and my buddy Heath, watching Rams-Chargers. And
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Speaker 2: you see it right there, 170 days until the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 2: I don't need to see that. No, I want to
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Speaker 2: feel like the Super Bowl is eight years away.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, right. On the Power, not Power Conference, but on
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Speaker 1: College Football Division I, we've got 948 games starting tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 1: I like the sound of that. It feels like it
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Speaker 1: could take forever to watch all that. You do not
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Speaker 1: like how much they get chopped away every weekend. Don't
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Speaker 1: say it.
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Speaker 2: I told you I'm panicked because my remote went out.
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Speaker 1: It's bad timing. Todd Furman is with us. CBS Sports
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Speaker 1: had Todd Furman on social media. Former odds maker at Caesars.
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Speaker 1: He is with us now. What is up, Furman? How
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Speaker 1: are you, buddy?
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Speaker 3: I'm doing well, gentlemen.
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Speaker 4: It was good to see college football kick off, at
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Speaker 4: least in the JV variety last night, although I watched
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Speaker 4: about two quarters of SPS games and found myself glued
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Speaker 4: to NFL preseason being a better product than what I
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Speaker 4: was intreated to.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, would agree with that, Furman, 100%. Looking at this
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Speaker 2: card tomorrow, I mean, let's start early. Last year, I
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Speaker 2: did have TCU in this game against North Carolina. North
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Speaker 2: Carolina looked pretty good on their first drive, and they
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Speaker 2: completely fell apart. Lost 48-14. To me, this game a
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Speaker 2: little more difficult to handicap. You're getting a lot of
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Speaker 2: points if you back North Carolina here. I don't know
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Speaker 2: what to expect out of Jaden Craig, TCU's quarterback.
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Speaker 4: I know what you expect out of either quarterback, honestly.
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Speaker 4: Billy Edwards looks like a lot of the robot videos
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Speaker 4: we've seen circulate on social media, at least through the
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Speaker 4: first two stops of his college career. If it's a
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Speaker 4: lower body part that breaks off midway through the second quarter,
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Speaker 4: I don't think anybody will be shocked. You mentioned Jaden
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Speaker 4: Craig taking over, the FCS transfer from Harvard, and for
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Speaker 4: all those years when Bill Belichick was at the height
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Speaker 4: of his powers, We heard about rookie quarterbacks struggling to
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Speaker 4: figure out a Bill Belichick-led defense. Will that still apply
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Speaker 4: tomorrow when we look at unfamiliar surroundings? Keeping in mind
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Speaker 4: that last year, Josh Hoover had a level of experience
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Speaker 4: when he led that TCU offense after they got themselves
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Speaker 4: down early, were able to barnstorm to that 48-14 win.
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Speaker 4: North Carolina defensively last year continued to get better week
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Speaker 4: over week. And the one thing that they did exceptionally
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Speaker 4: well under Belichick's leadership, I guess a little Belichick who
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Speaker 4: won't be with the team on medical leave, was they
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Speaker 4: were great at preventing explosive plays. And I think in
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Speaker 4: college football, if you can force the team to move
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Speaker 4: the ball methodically down the field, It's going to set
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Speaker 4: you up well, especially as an underdog catching more than
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Speaker 4: a touchdown. This game opened six and a half. We've
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Speaker 4: kind of ballooned through that key number of seven and ten.
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Speaker 4: No man's land. But the angle I want to attack, guys,
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Speaker 4: is looking to go under the total in the first half.
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Speaker 4: I think it'll be a little bit of a feeling
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Speaker 4: out process for these two teams. We've seen these games
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Speaker 4: that kick off in Europe start a little slow before
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Speaker 4: they find their sea legs, so to speak, in the
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Speaker 4: second half. I'll go under 23 and a half in
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Speaker 4: the first half between UNC and TCU. And if the
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Speaker 4: game did get to 10, I would be forced to
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Speaker 4: value bet North Carolina much to my better judgment.
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Speaker 1: Okay this is gonna scare you but that's exactly where
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Speaker 1: I was gonna go on the under because I don't
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Speaker 1: know if you've checked the forecast but when I did
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Speaker 1: yesterday it's supposed to be a sloppy sloppy track I
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Speaker 1: don't know if it'll be raining during the game but
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Speaker 1: it's possible and it's gonna be a slop a slop fest.
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Speaker 4: The rain looks to be the one part of the
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Speaker 4: variable that could be up in the air, but to
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Speaker 4: your point, Dunaway, it could be steady winds, 12 to
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Speaker 4: 15 miles an hour. And for two teams that probably
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Speaker 4: want to run the football a little bit more than
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Speaker 4: we've grown accustomed to, especially on the TCU side, let's
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Speaker 4: hope slow and methodical, and maybe we can break bread
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Speaker 4: together starting the season off with a winner where you
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Speaker 4: and I actually see the game unfolding the same way.
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Speaker 1: All right, what is the story, Furman, on this injury
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Speaker 1: report for, or excuse me, this availability report for Virginia?
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Speaker 1: 18 names, I believe, is what was on this report.
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Speaker 1: What's the story on Virginia's depth and their availability of
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Speaker 1: players for this game against NC State?
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Speaker 4: Nothing like playing these shell games early on in the season,
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Speaker 4: trying to figure out who will be out there and
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Speaker 4: who won't be out there. And week zero and week
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Speaker 4: one are some of the more difficult weeks in the
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Speaker 4: college football schedule to figure out who actually got hurt
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Speaker 4: during camp, how transparent we're going to be with what
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Speaker 4: guys could be out there. And for a Virginia team
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Speaker 4: that I think will have a target on their back
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Speaker 4: after the improbable season they put together last year, you
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Speaker 4: wonder how this game will go. We can start with
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Speaker 4: the number and where it opened, or I should say reopened,
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Speaker 4: after we knew it was going to move to Scott
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Speaker 4: Stadium from the neutral site in Brazil. Virginia in that
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Speaker 4: 4-4.5 range. Number did get as high as 6 earlier
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Speaker 4: this week. Before, there was a pretty pronounced buy that
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Speaker 4: came in from professional bettors on NC State.
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Speaker 3: Part of the reason we've driven.
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Speaker 4: The number down to four, whether that was just a
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Speaker 4: power reading that was off or the injury and player
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Speaker 4: availability report you're alluding to, hard to figure out exactly
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Speaker 4: what's contributing. But the under money, very real as well,
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Speaker 4: 53 down to 51. And one of the strengths for Virginia,
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Speaker 4: at least on paper coming into this year, was the
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Speaker 4: level of experience. that they had not just along the
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Speaker 4: offensive and defensive line, but at a number of other
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Speaker 4: key positions. The biggest change for Virginia, Chandler Morris hands
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Speaker 4: it off to Bo Pribula, the starting quarterback. So you
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Speaker 4: can make the case that NC State comes in with
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Speaker 4: a higher-ceiling quarterback in C.J. Bailey. I'm not a Dave
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Speaker 4: Doran truther by any stretch, but given all the uncertainty
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Speaker 4: and some of the player availability that you mentioned, this
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Speaker 4: is a game that I think I'd rather look to
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Speaker 4: try and bet live than get involved before it kicks
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Speaker 4: off with Virginia a four-point favorite total sitting at 51.
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Speaker 2: The bison of North Dakota State, dominant for years in
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Speaker 2: the FCS. Now they go to the FBS, and they're
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Speaker 2: hosting Jacksonville State, who was a tough out the last
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Speaker 2: couple of years. And it's a big number for them.
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Speaker 2: It's six and a half.
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Speaker 4: It is, and we saw a little bit of money
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Speaker 4: finally start to come in on North Dakota State yesterday.
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Speaker 4: This number, though, was as high as the Bison, a
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Speaker 4: 10-point favorite this offseason, which I think was a big,
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Speaker 4: big price tag. We'll see what their transition looks like
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Speaker 4: from the FCS to the FBS. But in my opinion,
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Speaker 4: they're in a much better position than the other counterpart
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Speaker 4: that's going to do that in Cal State Sacramento. North
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Speaker 4: Dakota State, interestingly enough, has lost some of their depth
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Speaker 4: pieces over the last couple of years. It's not the
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Speaker 4: same juggernaut that we grew accustomed to, but oddsmakers, they
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Speaker 4: feel a little bit differently. I mean, North Dakota State's
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Speaker 4: win total sat at 9.5, and it got bet under substantially,
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Speaker 4: sitting at 8.5 kind of across the board. Wild stat
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Speaker 4: digging into this game, guys, that North Dakota State has
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Speaker 4: had more quarterbacks drafted into the NFL over the last
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Speaker 4: decade than than Alabama. So it puts things in perspective
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Speaker 4: in terms of what they've been able to build up
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Speaker 4: there in Fargo. This number, where I think you get
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Speaker 4: the difference of opinions is trying to figure out what
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Speaker 4: home field advantage will be worth in a game like this.
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Speaker 4: Playing in a dome when you don't have any of
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Speaker 4: those real reps can be a little bit louder. I'll
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Speaker 4: credit Brad Powers, one of my college football colleagues out
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Speaker 4: there saying North Dakota State's program has gotten a little
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Speaker 4: apathetic over the years. This may be the juice they
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Speaker 4: need to get them to the next step. And I
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Speaker 4: think you're going to have to try and account for
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Speaker 4: a home field advantage that arguably may be the most
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Speaker 4: electric in all of the games that we're going to
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Speaker 4: see unfold in week zero. So it's six and a
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Speaker 4: half strong, strong lean towards North Dakota State at minus
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Speaker 4: six and a half. I'm not a buyer in Jacksonville
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Speaker 4: State who's going to have to replace a high level
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Speaker 4: of production that I just don't see on the roster
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Speaker 4: after Cam Cook left campus.
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Speaker 1: Furman. The Fargo Dome is not louder than Brothers Bar
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Speaker 1: in Jacksonville. Jacksonville State players have dealt with this. You
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Speaker 1: go to Brothers on a Thursday night, Velcro pygmies in there.
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Speaker 1: That's a loud play. They've dealt with this. Fargo Dome
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Speaker 1: is going to be nothing for Jacksonville State.
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Speaker 4: Look, I've seen a lot of conference USA games played
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Speaker 4: over the last couple of years since Jacksonville State made
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Speaker 4: its transition to the FBS. And let me tell you,
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Speaker 4: there'll be a few more bodies in attendance here than
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Speaker 4: what you'll see in Murfreesboro on a Tuesday night against
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Speaker 4: Middle Tennessee.
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Speaker 1: The 3 o'clock, 2 o'clock NBC game, 3 Eastern, 2 Central,
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Speaker 1: San Jose State, USC, I think people see San Jose State,
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Speaker 1: they're familiar with that brand, like Fresno State, San Jose State,
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Speaker 1: San Diego State. But from my research, the San Jose
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Speaker 1: State team looks pretty, pretty bad. How do you play
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Speaker 1: a game like that with that many points involved with
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Speaker 1: USC and how bad I personally believe the Spartans are?
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Speaker 4: You would be correct in your assessment. I think Kenya
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Speaker 4: Matalolo has his hands full trying to get this program
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Speaker 4: back to where it was when Brett Brennan left off
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Speaker 4: for Arizona.
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Speaker 1: You lose your.
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Speaker 4: Top receiver to Colorado in Danny Scudero. Your quarterback's position
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Speaker 4: is a little bit unsettled. And the one thing we've
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Speaker 4: seen from Lincoln Riley, he loves to beat up on
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Speaker 4: cream puffs on the schedule whenever he's given the opportunity.
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Speaker 4: You look at some of the crooked numbers the Trojans
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Speaker 4: have produced. against g6 opponents and i think this could
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Speaker 4: be more of the same usc opened as a 35
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Speaker 4: and a half point favorite we're now out to that
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Speaker 4: 39 39 and a half range totals moved from as
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Speaker 4: low as 56 out to 61 and guys i wouldn't
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Speaker 4: be surprised if usc found a way to get to
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Speaker 4: 60 themselves build a little confidence for jayden mayava and
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Speaker 4: some young inexperienced wide receivers as they look to replace
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Speaker 4: lemon and lane out there as wide receiver one and
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Speaker 4: wide receiver two so i want no part of the
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Speaker 4: underdog would lean over the total though. If San Jose
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Speaker 4: State can get seven to 10 points, I think you're
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Speaker 4: comfortably talking about this game going over the total of 61.
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Speaker 1: The nightcap on Fox nine o'clock central time actually two
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Speaker 1: college football playoff contenders Memphis is facing UNLV in Vegas
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Speaker 1: um Dan Mullen is a guy listen he's coached at
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Speaker 1: a high level and he's got a quarterback that has
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Speaker 1: played at a high level but not played well at
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Speaker 1: that high level UNLV is kind of a fascinating team
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Speaker 1: this year Furman and they're in your backyard what is
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Speaker 1: the feel for the running rebs on the football field.
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Speaker 4: You mentioned all the games being the nightcap and I
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Speaker 4: claim on social media yesterday, this is the most intriguing
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Speaker 4: for just the case that you laid out there, Brownie.
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Speaker 4: I think both these teams have aspirations of being that
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Speaker 4: G6 representative in the college football playoff. And Memphis is
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Speaker 4: going to have to prove their mettle early on, not
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Speaker 4: just this week against UNLV, but they'll follow it up
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Speaker 4: against Boise State next week. So if Memphis can come
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Speaker 4: out of those two games 2-0, I think the expectations
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Speaker 4: really get ratcheted up for Charles Huff in his first
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Speaker 4: year at the helm. UNLV on the flip side, that
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Speaker 4: was a camp battle that I think lasted a lot
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Speaker 4: longer than Rebel fans would like to see because anyone
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Speaker 4: who has watched Alex Orji attempt to throw a forward pass,
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Speaker 4: whether it's at UNLV or Michigan, has to be extremely
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Speaker 4: scared that he was able to push Jackson Arnold as
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Speaker 4: much as he was. But then you talk to Auburn
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Speaker 4: fans in your neck of the woods and they go, yeah,
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Speaker 4: we saw this coming. We saw enough of Jackson Arnold
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Speaker 4: to know exactly what UNLV is going to be getting.
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Speaker 4: So I think you're going to see both quarterbacks out there.
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Speaker 4: Been interesting to watch this number move as well. The
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Speaker 4: Rebels actually opened as a three-point favorite during the summer.
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Speaker 4: Number got as high as six, six and a half
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Speaker 4: out here. And you start to see some Memphis money
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Speaker 4: show up earlier this week. The same can be said
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Speaker 4: about the total that's been bet down from 58 and
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Speaker 4: a half down to 56. It looks like Marcus Stokes
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Speaker 4: is going to get the nod for Memphis. A little
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Speaker 4: bit of a surprise to Ohio State fans that thought
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Speaker 4: it could be Aaron Nolan. I think both these teams
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Speaker 4: are going to try and establish the run. I'm not
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Speaker 4: sure either of these head coaches has the utmost confidence
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Speaker 4: in their quarterbacks basically gripping and ripping. UNLV's defense should
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Speaker 4: be improved from the group that we saw early last
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Speaker 4: year where they were kind of in a state of flux.
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Speaker 4: I think this is a Memphis program that is actually
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Speaker 4: going to see an uptick in their overall level of
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Speaker 4: on-field production this what Charles Hoffman said of what Ryan
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Speaker 4: Silverfield couldn't do there. I like this game under the
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Speaker 4: total at 56 and a half, and I will make
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Speaker 4: a rare college football appearance in person. I'm going to
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Speaker 4: head to Allegiant stadium to see this one live tonight.
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Speaker 1: Oh, that'll be exciting. One more college game for me here.
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Speaker 4: That didn't sound authentic at all. That didn't sound authentic
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Speaker 4: at all.
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Speaker 1: That'll be very exciting. That'll be tremendously exciting to capture that.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's a big game. I'm looking forward to it.
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Speaker 1: I plan my night around it. Hawaii is at Stanford.
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Speaker 1: And for the casual out there, they're going to think
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Speaker 1: Stanford is Stanford and Andrew Luck and those guys. They've
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Speaker 1: got a history. But Timmy Chang has done a job
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Speaker 1: on the island here. And this is a great opportunity
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Speaker 1: on this day to really showcase where he has this program.
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Speaker 1: Tell me what you think of Hawaii and Stanford.
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Speaker 4: So this is a game that I bet early on,
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Speaker 4: laid some 3.5 and 4 with Stanford, but I'll be
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Speaker 4: lying here, guys, if I sat 24-plus hours before the
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Speaker 4: game and said I was as optimistic about my position
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Speaker 4: on the game as I was when I bet it.
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Speaker 4: The main reason for that is that Stanford is dealing
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Speaker 4: with some injuries along the offensive line, cluster injuries at that,
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Speaker 4: especially at the left tackle position. They have a player,
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Speaker 4: and I'm not going to even try and butcher his name,
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Speaker 4: that was projected by some to be a fringe first-round pick.
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Speaker 4: His backup is out. If he can't go, it changes
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Speaker 4: some of what Stanford wants to do, especially in the
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Speaker 4: power run game against the Hawaii team that they were
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Speaker 4: able to wear down for long stretches last year before
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Speaker 4: a costly interception allowed Hawaii to pull off a de
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Speaker 4: facto upset, depending on where you captured the number. The
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Speaker 4: problem with Hawaii in this spot, and while I know
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Speaker 4: it's an offense that's extremely quarterback friendly, Mike Alohato is
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Speaker 4: going to put up big numbers here. I do think
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Speaker 4: the inexperience of wide receiver, losing Jackson Harris, who transferred
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Speaker 4: to LSU, and Pofeli Ashlock, who's dealing with a lower
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Speaker 4: body injury, expected to return this season, we'll see when,
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Speaker 4: can create a little bit of an issue when it
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Speaker 4: comes to getting quarterback and receiver on the same page timing-wise.
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Speaker 4: Stanford wants to run the ball. They want to bully
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Speaker 4: you in the trenches. So I still think Stanford is
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Speaker 4: worth a bet at that minus three and a half,
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Speaker 4: minus four threshold. I'm just not nearly as strong on
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Speaker 4: the Cardinal as I would have been. But I do
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Speaker 4: think getting Tavita Pritchard in there as a head coach,
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Speaker 4: Andrew Luck having his fingerprints all over this offense will
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Speaker 4: allow Stanford to start to build an identity that they've
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Speaker 4: really lacked since David Shaw lost his fastball at the
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Speaker 4: end of his Stanford coaching career.
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Speaker 2: You got bored last night and gravitated from the FCS
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Speaker 2: to preseason. I know you don't dabble in the preseason.
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Speaker 2: I've traditionally been good giving out preseason picks. I have
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Speaker 2: gotten dismembered this preseason. The Dogs 4-0 again last night.
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Speaker 2: The Dogs covering these preseason games first three weeks has
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Speaker 2: been insane. What's going on with the sportsbooks? I know
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Speaker 2: the handles aren't big, but I would assume the public
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Speaker 2: is just killing it.
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Speaker 4: I don't think you've been doing this how long. And
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Speaker 4: when the dogs win, the public's killing it. I think
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Speaker 4: you've lost your way over there, my friend. This is
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Speaker 4: typically a good thing for the house, especially given that
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Speaker 4: the Raiders have struggled. I talked to a local bookmaker
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Speaker 4: last night. He said, I'll be at your point, low
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Speaker 4: volume that people were betting the Raiders, knowing that you
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Speaker 4: were going to get Kirk Cousins for a couple of
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Speaker 4: drives and Fernando Mendoza against the 49ers backup. Like they
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Speaker 4: knew the outcome before the game kicked. What people fail
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Speaker 4: to realize in handicapping some of these games is that
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Speaker 4: if you don't have an offensive or defensive line that
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Speaker 4: can protect your second or third string quarterback, it's a
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Speaker 4: real problem. But I, much like you, have kind of
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Speaker 4: been blown away with the high level of success that
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Speaker 4: we've seen from underdogs. It's amazing what Sean McVay has
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Speaker 4: been able to do, a guy who has kind of
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Speaker 4: thrown away the preseason in the past. Last night marked
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Speaker 4: the ninth straight cover for the Rams. That we've seen
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Speaker 4: an exhibition football Ty Simpson looking the part. And so
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Speaker 4: the dynamics around a lot of this has changed. Some
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Speaker 4: of the games that we've seen move through the on
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Speaker 4: the board for tonight, you know, a little bit of
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Speaker 4: Falcons money come in with that number from three out
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Speaker 4: to four Kevin Stefanski talking about actual game prep. I'm
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Speaker 4: not sure that means a whole heck of a lot,
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Speaker 4: but I've cast dispersions enough at Brown so far to
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Speaker 4: talk about the corpse of two out there throwing passes
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Speaker 4: to NFL caliber wide receivers. We've seen a line flip
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Speaker 4: from Kansas City, went from a one point favorite Seattle
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Speaker 4: minus two and a half. And the numbers come back
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Speaker 4: with the announcement that Jalen Milrow is going to get
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Speaker 4: the lion's share of the reps. I think Seattle makes
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Speaker 4: a world of sense because I think they're the deeper roster,
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Speaker 4: even with Milrow. So it took a long look there.
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Speaker 4: And I also think the Minnesota Vikings, a little bit
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Speaker 4: of a live underdog catching the points along with the
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Speaker 4: New Orleans Saints. So I haven't been in these yet.
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Speaker 4: I typically wait, you know, real close to kickoff unless
15:44
Speaker 4: I know a number is going to move for the preseason.
15:46
Speaker 4: But that's kind of the games that I'm focused on.
15:49
Speaker 4: That quartet trying to zero in and see if there's
15:51
Speaker 4: a better two to be made tonight.
15:53
Speaker 1: All right, Todd Furman. He is on social media, at
15:55
Speaker 1: Todd Furman. Great follow anytime, but especially during football season.
15:58
Speaker 1: You see him on CBS as well. And he's kind
16:01
Speaker 1: with his time throughout the season with us on Fridays. Furman,
16:04
Speaker 1: toe-finely meeting leather, my friend. Enjoy the weekend.
16:07
Speaker 3: Always excited.
16:08
Speaker 4: You guys do the same. And Dunaway, if we agree
16:10
Speaker 4: too much on college football games this year, the NHL
16:12
Speaker 4: season can't get here fast enough.
16:14
Speaker 1: To salvage my bankroll, my friend. See you forever. Thank you, buddy.
16:19
Speaker 1: I'll try to keep you in the positive in your
16:20
Speaker 1: checking account there. He normally does. Bold predictions continue on
16:24
Speaker 1: the other side. One is we had to break here.
16:26
Speaker 1: Jake writes in, Texas Tech misses the college football playoffs.
16:31
Speaker 1: Indiana misses the college football playoff. We've got to have
16:34
Speaker 1: 12 teams now. That's right. Somebody's got to be there.
16:36
Speaker 1: And Georgia Tech plays in the ACC championship game for
16:39
Speaker 1: a trip to the college football playoff on the line.
16:41
Speaker 1: That's Jake's three bowl predictions. We've given you ours already.
16:45
Speaker 1: Get yours rolling in as well. Oh, here's one more.
16:49
Speaker 1: Here's Zach. Zach writes in, Shane Beamer fired at the
16:52
Speaker 1: end of October.
16:54
Speaker 2: I'd have to pull that schedule, but, I mean, he
16:56
Speaker 2: is your odds-on favorite in the SEC to get fired.
16:59
Speaker 1: I think he turns it around this year, keeps his job.
17:01
Speaker 1: Virginia will be in the ACC championship game. You sort
17:05
Speaker 1: of like that one, right?
17:06
Speaker 2: I do, yeah.
17:06
Speaker 1: They can survive tomorrow. They got no players, Lance.
17:09
Speaker 4: I know. I know.
17:09
Speaker 1: I hear that. And here's the boldest of Zachs altogether.
17:12
Speaker 1: Camario Taylor is a Heisman finalist. That'd be a top four.
17:16
Speaker 1: Got to have some wins to get to be a
17:18
Speaker 1: Heisman finalist.
17:19
Speaker 2: I think Robert— Barry Sanders, 8-4. What was our G3?
17:25
Speaker 3: 10-2. 9-3?
17:26
Speaker 1: I think it was 10-2. I thought it was 7-4. No,
17:29
Speaker 1: it was 10-2. I think they were in the Alamo Bowl, right?
17:34
Speaker 2: I don't have any more nuts to bet, but I
17:36
Speaker 2: would bet a left nut that they were 10 wins.
17:39
Speaker 1: So Camario will need to win some games to go
17:41
Speaker 1: with his wowed, wowed, athletic ability zach thank you um
17:46
Speaker 1: also jake thank you for your bold predictions more coming
17:48
Speaker 1: up on the other side this is the next round
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Speaker 1: sport and state i'm just going to completely pull the
17:59
Speaker 1: uh curtain back somebody brought us breakfast and we were
18:03
Speaker 1: all eating in the break so everyone is going to
18:05
Speaker 1: return to the studio at a various time and all
18:08
Speaker 1: of us are going to be finishing something we were
18:12
Speaker 1: eating during the break.
18:13
Speaker 3: Well, Lance was using his Yeti cup to pour water
18:17
Speaker 3: on his hands to wash the syrup from his sandwich off.
18:20
Speaker 2: I finally ate one of those waffle sandwiches with chicken
18:23
Speaker 2: and waffles. Very good, but very messy.
18:25
Speaker 1: I've had two, one every day for lunch the last
18:28
Speaker 1: two days. Spicy filet is the way to go in it,
18:30
Speaker 1: in my opinion. Have you already done Clay Travis Law?
18:33
Speaker 1: We have not. No, we just got back. I had
18:35
Speaker 1: to swallow a chicken mini so I could welcome us back.
18:39
Speaker 1: So I can't leave you guys one second to go
18:41
Speaker 1: to the bathroom during this new show? We cannot be unsupervised.
18:46
Speaker 1: There's no doubt. Hey, as we return, it's our three-guarantee show.
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19:42
Speaker 1: So did everybody get a sandwich but me? No, no, no.
19:45
Speaker 1: The minis are back there. Lance was the only one
19:47
Speaker 1: who got the sandwich. Oh, okay. You want some minis?
19:49
Speaker 1: I can read some. guarantees if you want to go
19:50
Speaker 1: get some. Don't play the victim. No, no, no.
19:53
Speaker 2: Maddie brought food for everyone.
19:54
Speaker 1: She brought food for everyone. Well, I appreciate that. I'm
19:56
Speaker 1: just not a huge mini fan. Oh, okay. The minis
20:00
Speaker 1: are fantastic. No, this waffle. I mean, they serve that
20:03
Speaker 1: 24 hours a day. If you'd have had the minis,
20:05
Speaker 1: they'd all serve those waffles. I never get the minis, ever.
20:09
Speaker 1: My daughter gets them, and she normally has, like, one left.
20:11
Speaker 1: I really like the minis.
20:12
Speaker 2: You know who gets the minis? Bullet and Chili.
20:15
Speaker 1: They love them. They get everything that's left out there.
20:17
Speaker 1: It looks like Bullet and Chili are back there eating.
20:19
Speaker 1: Somebody brings food up here during this show, and it
20:21
Speaker 1: gets just about. But there is some left, Jim. Well,
20:24
Speaker 1: there was a couple of times we had, like, cookie
20:26
Speaker 1: dough brought up here.
20:27
Speaker 2: That was nasty.
20:28
Speaker 4: Yeah.
20:31
Speaker 1: Real Cruz Ox. Did I say that right? You know
20:34
Speaker 1: who I'm talking about? Cruz Ox? Yeah, Cruz Ox. On
20:38
Speaker 1: social media, his three guarantees. Bama makes the semis. I
20:44
Speaker 1: like that. Final four. LSU misses the playoffs. And Auburn
20:49
Speaker 1: doesn't go to a bowl game this year.
20:51
Speaker 2: Oof. Of those three, what is the most bold? I
20:57
Speaker 2: don't think LSU's going to the playoff. Alabama getting to
21:00
Speaker 2: the semis would be quite the run, but I could
21:03
Speaker 2: see it.
21:03
Speaker 1: That's at least one win if you have a bye.
21:06
Speaker 1: Two wins if you don't have a bye.
21:09
Speaker 2: I think the boldest is Auburn going 5-7.
21:11
Speaker 1: Yeah, boy, that would be highly disappointing. I was talking
21:15
Speaker 1: to an Auburn fan on my way in yesterday for
21:16
Speaker 1: about 20 minutes, and Alex Golish has sold him. Auburn fans,
21:20
Speaker 1: I think, started out with Golish as cautiously optimistic. I've
21:24
Speaker 1: been burned by Horson. I've been burned by Freeze. I'm
21:26
Speaker 1: going to be cautiously optimistic with this guy. And more
21:29
Speaker 1: and more Auburn fans I'm talking to, they've dropped the cautious.
21:32
Speaker 1: He has won them over. And if he threw up
21:34
Speaker 1: a five-win season, I think Auburn fans would be like, God,
21:37
Speaker 1: I've been burned again.
21:38
Speaker 2: I was talking to our friends at Crane U, and
21:39
Speaker 2: they're kind of split. There's some Alabama, there's some Auburn.
21:41
Speaker 2: But talking to some of the Auburn fans, very optimistic
21:44
Speaker 2: as well. And they believe that he's saying all the
21:46
Speaker 2: right things. And we started talking about Nick Saban could
21:50
Speaker 2: have done anything and been successful, could have run any
21:52
Speaker 2: Fortune 500 company. The way Golish talks is like he
21:56
Speaker 2: is leading a corporation. He's building something. an organization. So
22:00
Speaker 2: it sounds great on the surface. We'll see what the
22:02
Speaker 2: results end up being, but I would be very surprised
22:04
Speaker 2: if they were five and seven.
22:05
Speaker 1: I've seen some very popular Auburn makes a bowl game and,
22:09
Speaker 1: you know, slotted for the Birmingham bowl again, like six
22:12
Speaker 1: and six in the Birmingham bowl. And I asked one
22:14
Speaker 1: fan last night, I said, bowl game, just make a
22:18
Speaker 1: bowl game. And I said, what if it's the Birmingham bowl?
22:20
Speaker 1: And he's like, it's still, it's not a losing season.
22:23
Speaker 1: I would take that. And that's how bad it has been.
22:26
Speaker 1: It's gotten bad. Cause the Birmingham bowl, here in the state,
22:29
Speaker 1: from Alabama fans to Auburn fans, has become sort of
22:32
Speaker 1: an open wound. You get to go Vestavia Bowl, people.
22:35
Speaker 1: You go bowling at Vestavia Bowl. Bradley writes in, the
22:38
Speaker 1: Big Ten will not win the natty this year. It's
22:41
Speaker 1: sad to say that that's become a bowl prediction. It
22:43
Speaker 1: really is. How times have changed. Georgia or Alabama will
22:48
Speaker 1: not be undefeated when they play each other. So both
22:51
Speaker 1: of them lose one game before they play each other.
22:54
Speaker 2: Wait, Georgia and Bama?
22:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, each losing one game before them.
22:58
Speaker 2: Oklahoma beats Georgia.
23:00
Speaker 1: Keep going.
23:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going to pull that real quick.
23:02
Speaker 1: The Bama loss is a bad one. Oklahoma beating Georgia
23:04
Speaker 1: wouldn't be an awful loss. The Bama loss would be
23:06
Speaker 1: a bad one no matter who it is. The third-string
23:09
Speaker 1: quarterback at Alabama will play by midseason. That would be
23:12
Speaker 1: Jet Tomiloff.
23:14
Speaker 2: I am going to say this is not an Alabama fan.
23:18
Speaker 1: People are high on Jet Tomlin.
23:19
Speaker 2: Yeah, Alabama's going to be at least, I don't know
23:23
Speaker 2: if they're going to be seven at Mississippi State, probably.
23:25
Speaker 2: At least touchdown favorites in every one of these games
23:28
Speaker 2: before they play Georgia.
23:29
Speaker 1: It's been a sexy offseason pick, Mississippi State beating Alabama
23:32
Speaker 1: for some reason.
23:32
Speaker 2: Yeah, it really has been. Our buddy Brad Jackson, who
23:36
Speaker 2: was there last night, he's got Mississippi State ties. He
23:39
Speaker 2: thinks that's an 11 a.m. game over there.
23:41
Speaker 1: It may have already been announced. You would want that,
23:44
Speaker 1: wouldn't you?
23:44
Speaker 2: I mean, maybe. Georgia, yeah. Oklahoma at home, that would still.
23:49
Speaker 2: I mean, Oklahoma's going to be good. I agree, but
23:51
Speaker 2: that would not be a great loss.
23:53
Speaker 1: That would be bold. Caleb writes in his bold predictions.
23:56
Speaker 1: LSU beats Ole Miss by double digits. Boy, that'd be
24:00
Speaker 1: bad for Pistol Pete.
24:01
Speaker 2: And we will definitely see things thrown in the field.
24:04
Speaker 1: Caleb has Alabama going 11-1 in the regular season, Miami
24:08
Speaker 1: missing the playoffs.
24:11
Speaker 2: I mean, they almost did last year. I don't know
24:13
Speaker 2: if this Miami team is going to be as good
24:15
Speaker 2: as it was last year.
24:16
Speaker 1: Some bold prediction. Brett is on the phones with us.
24:19
Speaker 1: Brett from New Mexico, our truck driving friend that drives
24:23
Speaker 1: all across America and keeps us in check in his cab. Brett,
24:28
Speaker 1: welcome back to the show. Your bold predictions in a second.
24:30
Speaker 1: But first of all, thanks for coming all the way
24:32
Speaker 1: down to the kickoff party last night at Walk-On's. It
24:35
Speaker 1: was great to see you. And for those that may
24:38
Speaker 1: not have recognized Brett last night, what was the big
24:40
Speaker 1: change in your life, Brett?
24:43
Speaker 3: Besides losing a lot of weight?
24:45
Speaker 1: No, I would say losing a lot of weight. I mean,
24:48
Speaker 1: you've done the marriage thing before. Yeah.
24:52
Speaker 4: Yeah.
24:53
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, too many times.
24:55
Speaker 1: But, yeah.
24:57
Speaker 3: It was great.
24:57
Speaker 1: You got a great one now, though, right?
24:59
Speaker 2: Brett's good.
24:59
Speaker 1: Brett's good at lane changes. Always give that signal of
25:02
Speaker 1: a lane change.
25:04
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've got a great one now, although she did
25:07
Speaker 3: grow up in a family that loves that gaudy orange crap.
25:11
Speaker 1: Oh, well.
25:12
Speaker 3: But anyway, it was great catching up with you guys.
25:15
Speaker 3: I told Lance last night, I said, it's been two
25:18
Speaker 3: freaking years, and that's two freaking years too long.
25:21
Speaker 2: Well, we appreciate you coming out clean-shaven, Brett. First time
25:26
Speaker 2: I've seen that.
25:26
Speaker 4: Yeah.
25:28
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, no. That first time we went and had
25:31
Speaker 3: lunch over at Superior Grill, I didn't have a mustache
25:34
Speaker 3: or beard or nothing.
25:35
Speaker 1: We don't have Superior Grill either. That was about 75
25:38
Speaker 1: pounds ago.
25:41
Speaker 3: So anyway, yeah, I told Browning when I was leaving
25:44
Speaker 3: last night, I gave him one. I gave him two,
25:46
Speaker 3: but I'm taking one of them off the table. And
25:49
Speaker 3: I wasn't going to call till 11 because I didn't
25:51
Speaker 3: know what my day was going to be like over
25:53
Speaker 3: here in Atlanta. But I've already delivered once and picked
25:55
Speaker 3: up one and I'm headed to Nashville.
25:56
Speaker 1: So I was like, me too.
25:58
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm going from hell one to hell two. I've
26:02
Speaker 3: got a public service announcement real quick since we are
26:05
Speaker 3: on the sport and state to all you listeners. And
26:10
Speaker 3: viewers that are new to the show, welcome. These guys
26:14
Speaker 3: are great. They'll make you laugh. They'll make you scratch
26:16
Speaker 3: your head. And Dunaway may even make you scratch your butt.
26:21
Speaker 3: And speaking of Dunaway, okay, Jim, you know.
26:25
Speaker 1: I love you.
26:26
Speaker 2: There we go.
26:30
Speaker 3: All you new people out there, this is your public
26:32
Speaker 3: service announcement. Do not take it personal when he landmines
26:38
Speaker 3: your team. He wears that title and that crown proudly.
26:43
Speaker 3: Sometime between now and January, he's going to say something
26:48
Speaker 3: and you're going to go, Oh, that's a good pick.
26:50
Speaker 3: And then your team loses. And you're going to go,
26:52
Speaker 3: that asshole picked my team. You'll understand why.
26:56
Speaker 1: And your quarterback's leg is going to be in three pieces.
26:59
Speaker 3: Whatever. You'll understand why Jimmy D is the walking landmine.
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Speaker 1: Okay. Your two-team parlay tomorrow. NC State plus the points.
27:09
Speaker 1: North Carolina plus the points. Hammer it.
27:10
Speaker 3: And you may hear Forrester or Brownie say on a pick, well,
27:15
Speaker 3: that's just a reverse landmine. And he's good at that crap, too.
27:19
Speaker 1: All right.
27:20
Speaker 3: So here we go. My three guarantees. Auburn and Florida
27:26
Speaker 3: will both win at least seven games this year.
27:29
Speaker 1: Good improvement. All right.
27:31
Speaker 3: Okay. LT cinched my third one for me in one
27:34
Speaker 3: of his. Ohio State will indeed go nine and three,
27:39
Speaker 3: but they will not make the playoffs.
27:41
Speaker 2: Oh, I think they make the playoffs at nine and three.
27:43
Speaker 1: Nope.
27:44
Speaker 4: Nope.
27:45
Speaker 1: Nope.
27:45
Speaker 2: Nope.
27:46
Speaker 3: Ain't going to happen. And the one I told Brownie
27:48
Speaker 3: last night, the first one I told him of the
27:50
Speaker 3: two I told him, neither Georgia nor Texas will be
27:55
Speaker 3: in the SEC championship game.
27:57
Speaker 2: Wow.
27:57
Speaker 1: So two other teams.
27:59
Speaker 2: Now that would be surprising.
28:00
Speaker 1: Yeah.
28:00
Speaker 4: Yeah.
28:01
Speaker 1: At that point, it would have to be, in my world,
28:04
Speaker 1: Alabama and Texas A & M. Yeah, Bama A & M,
28:08
Speaker 1: Bama Oklahoma, Bama Ole Miss. Oklahoma A & M. Oklahoma
28:11
Speaker 1: A & M, yeah, I mean.
28:12
Speaker 2: Y'all have not said LSU yet.
28:14
Speaker 1: LSU and somebody. LSU and somebody, yeah.
28:16
Speaker 3: I love you guys.
28:17
Speaker 1: All right, Brian, thank you, buddy. Good to see you.
28:19
Speaker 1: Dirty side down. That's right. Oh, yeah. Shiny side up,
28:21
Speaker 1: dirty side down. All right, see you, man. All right, Morgan,
28:24
Speaker 1: you want Morgans? I would love Morgan. Is this Morgan
28:26
Speaker 1: from Kentucky? This is Morgan from Kentucky in the chat,
28:29
Speaker 1: YouTube chat. um the ACC has two college football playoff
28:33
Speaker 1: teams Louisville and Miami for Morgan you know I hate
28:37
Speaker 1: to uh I hate to open the door for two
28:40
Speaker 1: uh ACC two big 12s but you know there is
28:44
Speaker 1: that there's that feeling that you could go to ACC
28:47
Speaker 1: teams this year because of Miami's preseason reputation.
28:50
Speaker 2: If the ACC or big 12 was to get two
28:52
Speaker 2: in that means there is a There's some good three loss,
28:56
Speaker 2: either Big Ten or SEC teams that are left out.
28:59
Speaker 1: With not comparable schedules.
29:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I just don't think you're doing your job. Now, again,
29:02
Speaker 2: we've got to see how this whole thing plays out.
29:03
Speaker 2: But if we're sitting here at the end of the
29:05
Speaker 2: year and we obviously think this 9-3 team is better
29:08
Speaker 2: than this 11-1 ACC team, that's a problem.
29:11
Speaker 1: But I will say this about the ACC. SMU's really good.
29:15
Speaker 1: Louisville's good. Miami's really good. And I still think, just
29:20
Speaker 1: because I talked to defensive coordinator Tom Allen's daughter last night,
29:24
Speaker 1: But I think Clemson's going to be sneaky. I'm high
29:26
Speaker 1: on Clemson.
29:26
Speaker 2: You're leaving out. I've said it all summer. The winner
29:29
Speaker 2: of the game tomorrow has got an inside track for
29:32
Speaker 2: that ACC championship.
29:33
Speaker 1: We've had a lot. We've had a lot of people.
29:35
Speaker 1: I don't know if Brooks Alston will do it in
29:37
Speaker 1: our next hour on the next round.
29:39
Speaker 4: Well.
29:40
Speaker 1: Had a lot of people bring up this NC State quarterback. C.J. Bailey.
29:43
Speaker 4: C.J. Bailey.
29:44
Speaker 1: And say, you guys are sleeping on C.J. Bailey. That
29:47
Speaker 1: has been a consistent message from the college football analyst
29:51
Speaker 1: we've had on this whole offseason. Like, there are several...
29:55
Speaker 1: big-name programs that he could have solved their quarterback issue
29:58
Speaker 1: if he had left NC State and hit the portal.
30:00
Speaker 1: You know, he was really, really good. Nobody talked about
30:04
Speaker 1: him last year. But I think Bo Prabule on the
30:06
Speaker 1: other side coming in from Missouri, I could see him
30:08
Speaker 1: outplay Bailey tomorrow. Prediction number two for Morgan, Indiana, 12-0,
30:13
Speaker 1: and they go back-to-back. 12-0 regular season and back-to-back national championships.
30:17
Speaker 2: There is.
30:18
Speaker 1: Look, there is. That is bold, bold.
30:20
Speaker 2: That would be 32 consecutive wins. That would be crazy.
30:23
Speaker 1: Not enough oxygen left in the atmosphere for Kurt Signetti
30:26
Speaker 1: at that point. If he did that, the word would
30:29
Speaker 1: just implode.
30:30
Speaker 2: I mean, what would we really say at that point?
30:32
Speaker 2: I mean, are people starting to talk about this is
30:34
Speaker 2: the next great coach in all sports?
30:36
Speaker 1: I mean, come on. We would badly overreact. That's what
30:39
Speaker 1: would happen. I can promise you that. And another consistent,
30:42
Speaker 1: LSU 8-4 does not make the college football playoffs.
30:45
Speaker 2: You see this common theme of people pulling for Texas
30:48
Speaker 2: Tech not making the playoffs, LSU not making the playoffs.
30:51
Speaker 1: Well, I told our LSU friend C. Stu last night,
30:53
Speaker 1: I said, I'm not in on your LSU program anymore.
30:58
Speaker 1: I don't like the way Kiffin left Ole Miss this
30:59
Speaker 1: whole offseason. We'll get too much of him in Fanville now, apparently.
31:03
Speaker 1: It's pretty funny, though. Did y'all watch the commercial? Yeah, yeah.
31:06
Speaker 2: I was listening to Coach Neuheisel and Chris Childers on
31:11
Speaker 2: the way in this morning, and Childers does Mad Dog Radio, too,
31:14
Speaker 2: and he was interviewing Kiffin yesterday, and it was one
31:15
Speaker 2: of those things. It was for Fanville. So he said
31:19
Speaker 2: right when they went into the interview, he got an
31:21
Speaker 2: email from the publicist saying, avoid these questions.
31:24
Speaker 1: Oh, right as the interview started?
31:26
Speaker 2: Right as the interview started. Now, it sounded like he
31:28
Speaker 2: was going to ask some of the questions. I got
31:30
Speaker 2: out of the car because I was on the phone,
31:31
Speaker 2: and so I didn't hear the rest of it. But
31:33
Speaker 2: it's just funny. Why would Kiffin even do these interviews
31:36
Speaker 2: knowing that these questions are coming?
31:39
Speaker 1: Yeah, and don't be ashamed of any question. Answer them.
31:42
Speaker 1: I wonder what the questions were.
31:44
Speaker 2: No, the questions not to ask were, No NFL players
31:47
Speaker 2: coming back from the NFL. Nothing about the number five.
31:52
Speaker 2: It was silly stuff.
31:53
Speaker 1: I mean, the number five is not even his controversy.
31:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I don't think anybody really wants to talk
31:58
Speaker 2: about that.
31:58
Speaker 1: I mean, if Kiffin came on this show today, I
32:01
Speaker 1: wouldn't even think about asking him about the number five.
32:03
Speaker 1: That's not even his controversy. Technically, Kiffin is... doing the
32:07
Speaker 1: right thing in the number five he's honoring a promise
32:09
Speaker 1: that Brian Kelly made to a kid and the kid's
32:12
Speaker 1: upset he came to LSU and he was told he.
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Speaker 2: Could wear five that's the only thing he's done right.
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Speaker 1: I know this is he's actually taking the hit right
32:18
Speaker 1: doing the right thing it's the one controversy that really
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Speaker 1: doesn't even involve.
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Speaker 2: Him hey but why I mean you think it's a
32:23
Speaker 2: good move for Vansville to put it put him in
32:25
Speaker 2: there I just don't think he's got good good enough personality.
32:27
Speaker 1: Well it's a great joke and illegal lane change I
32:30
Speaker 1: mean very good joke and he is at least recognizable
32:33
Speaker 1: yeah The AI work is at work. I sent Forrester
32:39
Speaker 1: an AI version early this morning. There's a well-endowed blonde
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Speaker 1: with a deep purple cut LSU t-shirt sitting in the
32:47
Speaker 1: passenger seat in the pullover. Why did they just not
32:50
Speaker 1: do that? He would have owned that. Sure.
32:52
Speaker 2: It should have been Kirby getting pulled over.
32:54
Speaker 1: Oh, Kirby getting pulled over. I don't think Kirby would
32:57
Speaker 1: sign off on that.
32:57
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if you'd agree with that.
32:59
Speaker 3: But it'd be good.
32:59
Speaker 1: That would be funny. Sir, you know how fast you
33:00
Speaker 1: were going?
33:01
Speaker 2: What they need to do is after a couple of
33:02
Speaker 2: these Death Valleys, let us workshop Fansville.
33:05
Speaker 1: That's right. We'll have you some good ones. More of
33:08
Speaker 1: our bold predictions continue on now. Blake, here's his three.
33:12
Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley fired. Another fairly consistent three guarantee, Lance, that
33:17
Speaker 1: your guy Lincoln doesn't make it out of the season.
33:18
Speaker 2: How do you guys feel? And, Dunaway, I know you
33:21
Speaker 2: brought up what is the passion, really, for USC football.
33:24
Speaker 2: But if he goes 9-3 and misses the college football playoff,
33:26
Speaker 2: and he does have Maiva as a Heisman finalist, what
33:30
Speaker 2: do you do with Lincoln Riley? That would be one
33:32
Speaker 2: double-digit win season. His first year, that would be five
33:35
Speaker 2: consecutive wins. Single digit.
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Speaker 1: I think your bigger question is what happened to Gary Patterson?
33:41
Speaker 1: I mean, if they've got a Heisman Trophy winning quarterback
33:43
Speaker 1: and they're 9-3, Gary Patterson's forgotten how to coach defense.
33:47
Speaker 2: You say that. I could see them lose to Ohio State, Indiana,
33:52
Speaker 2: and Oregon 23-20.
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Speaker 1: 9-3 is not bad enough for me if I'm USC
33:59
Speaker 1: to get rid of Lincoln Riley. But if I'm a
34:03
Speaker 1: USC booster, though, Jim, here's the counter to that. The
34:06
Speaker 1: man's had two Heisman Trophy winning quarterbacks, can't even make
34:09
Speaker 1: the playoffs. I mean, what's the guy going to have
34:11
Speaker 1: to do to make the playoffs? If he can't do
34:13
Speaker 1: it with Heisman Trophy winning quarterbacks, how's he going to
34:15
Speaker 1: make it?
34:15
Speaker 2: And then he had three at Oklahoma or two? Baker, Kyler,
34:18
Speaker 2: was it just two?
34:19
Speaker 1: Yeah, but at least he was making the playoffs there
34:21
Speaker 1: in a 14 playoff. They were losing every time, but
34:24
Speaker 1: they were making it. Alex Golish, Coach of the Year
34:27
Speaker 1: from Blake. That would be probably— SEC Coach of the
34:30
Speaker 1: Year is what I'm going to put. He just said
34:31
Speaker 1: Coach of the Year. Coach of the Year is SEC.
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Speaker 2: I think they're in the playoffs if that happens. I
34:35
Speaker 2: think you've got to win 10 games.
34:36
Speaker 1: He might could do it at nine. It would just
34:38
Speaker 1: be in. And I will go ahead and tell you,
34:41
Speaker 1: in my opinion, the Coach of the Year will either
34:43
Speaker 1: be Golding Summerall or— Golish. Or Golish. A new coach somewhere? Yeah.
34:53
Speaker 1: I don't know.
34:53
Speaker 2: I mean, if Venables played for the SEC Championship— Maybe.
34:58
Speaker 2: If Sark went undefeated? If Lane Kiffin went 11-1?
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Speaker 1: Who votes on it? I mean, that's a big deal
35:07
Speaker 1: for Kiffin. Who votes on it? BYU makes the playoffs.
35:11
Speaker 1: That was his third one. BYU makes the playoffs.
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Speaker 2: One more.
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Speaker 1: Gates to Adventure. Gates to Adventure on YouTube. Notre Dame
35:20
Speaker 1: catches two losses and misses the college football playoffs. If
35:23
Speaker 1: I remember, Brett said he dropped one of his that
35:26
Speaker 1: he told me last night. I think that was one
35:28
Speaker 1: of his. Now, by rule, if Notre Dame is in
35:31
Speaker 1: the college football playoff rankings at number 12 or higher,
35:35
Speaker 1: they're automatically in the playoffs.
35:36
Speaker 2: So you tell me, and I'm just going to go
35:38
Speaker 2: with the obvious losses. At BYU, middle of October, at
35:41
Speaker 2: that point, they're going into that game at 6-0. They're
35:44
Speaker 2: already number four. They could be number one at that point.
35:48
Speaker 2: Let's say they lose there, and then they lose two
35:50
Speaker 2: weeks later against Miami.
35:52
Speaker 1: BYU's in Provo too, isn't it? Yes. So road game
35:55
Speaker 1: at BYU, who is my pick to win the Big 12,
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Speaker 1: and a loss to Miami, and you win the rest
36:02
Speaker 1: of them, I don't think that gets you lower than 12, 10-2.
36:05
Speaker 1: That's two quality losses.
36:06
Speaker 2: But your problem there is SMU, if they hold on
36:09
Speaker 2: and they're a top 25 team, would be your only
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Speaker 2: top 25 win. Yeah.
36:15
Speaker 1: That's your problem. You don't have the wins. vandy makes
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Speaker 1: the college football playoffs so he's got notre dame out
36:21
Speaker 1: or they have notre dame out and vandy in gates
36:23
Speaker 1: to adventure i'll help you out here not a chance
36:26
Speaker 1: uh uh these are bold.
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Speaker 2: Yeah blaze is gonna lead them to the playoffs blaze.
36:31
Speaker 1: And uh the third one if you thought those are
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Speaker 1: crazy state gets eight wins mississippi state yep hell dear
36:36
Speaker 1: old state eight wins eight wins that's some.
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Speaker 2: Bold predictions well look the the ripple effect from that
36:43
Speaker 2: So if Mississippi State's winning eight games, there's teams that
36:45
Speaker 2: are losing games they shouldn't be losing in the SEC.
36:47
Speaker 1: If Andy's in the playoffs, there's more teams losing games
36:50
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39:07
Speaker 1: as we always do, and I do this every year,
39:09
Speaker 1: we have enough of these to do two shows. We
39:11
Speaker 1: should have started yesterday. Ashley writes in, Arizona wins the
39:16
Speaker 1: Big 12 and makes the playoffs. You're sneaky high on them.
39:19
Speaker 2: Well, Fafita, I mean, back for a fifth year, and
39:21
Speaker 2: he has got more experience than maybe any quarterback in
39:24
Speaker 2: college football coming into the season. I think Arizona's going
39:28
Speaker 2: to be good. I don't know if they're going to
39:29
Speaker 2: be good in to win the Big 12. That is
39:31
Speaker 2: a bold prediction.
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Speaker 1: Alabama wins the SEC championship and plays in the national
39:36
Speaker 1: championship game.
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Speaker 2: As an Alabama fan, I take it. But that would
39:40
Speaker 2: be great for Kalen DeBoer.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt. Indiana loses three or more regular season
39:45
Speaker 1: games and misses the playoffs.
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Speaker 2: Another Indiana hater.
39:48
Speaker 1: Yeah. So that's Ashley there, who on his Instagram socials,
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Speaker 1: He gets after it. Pretty good cook, too, according to
40:08
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40:13
Speaker 1: These are all from the YouTube chat. 17 years of this.
40:17
Speaker 1: Can I give a shout out real quick? A guy
40:18
Speaker 1: named Jason Green. Two nights ago, I went into walk-ons.
40:23
Speaker 1: I was finished playing golf. There was a massive rainstorm.
40:26
Speaker 1: Traffic was awful, so I just dove into walk-ons. I
40:29
Speaker 1: knew it was going to be back-to-back nights, but I'm
40:30
Speaker 1: fine with that. And went in and sat down. He
40:32
Speaker 1: walked up and talked to me. Used to live here
40:34
Speaker 1: in Birmingham. He now is traveling a lot through the southeast.
40:38
Speaker 1: Listens to our show every single day. Literally said the words.
40:42
Speaker 1: I don't want to get emotional saying this, but I
40:43
Speaker 1: hope you understand how much your show means to people
40:45
Speaker 1: like me. and he just stopped what he was saying.
40:48
Speaker 1: I don't even know really where he was going with that,
40:50
Speaker 1: but that means the world to us. So I just
40:51
Speaker 1: want to give him a shout out. Yeah, that's awesome.
40:53
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're traveling, sometimes it's a lonely job. Yeah,
40:56
Speaker 1: and I know I lose sight of that a lot,
40:59
Speaker 1: so I appreciate when you guys remind us how much
41:01
Speaker 1: the show means to you. It's crazy that it does.
41:04
Speaker 1: It will never stop blowing my mind, but that was cool.
41:06
Speaker 1: Jason Green, he couldn't be at our kickoff party, but
41:08
Speaker 1: he was at Walcones two nights ago, so shout out
41:10
Speaker 1: to him.
41:10
Speaker 2: I thought it was funny last night. Our buddy Brad
41:12
Speaker 2: started talking to Clay and told Clay that you blocked
41:16
Speaker 2: me nine years ago on Twitter, and he was like, well,
41:17
Speaker 2: give me your handle. I'll unblock you. He was like, no,
41:19
Speaker 2: I deserved it. I deserved it.
41:22
Speaker 1: Damien writes in, Bama goes 8-4 or worse this year?
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Speaker 3: Oof.
41:29
Speaker 1: Auburn wins nine or ten games, and a group of
41:33
Speaker 1: six teams makes the college football playoff championship game. Okay, Damien.
41:37
Speaker 2: Yeah.
41:38
Speaker 1: Come on, Damien. So a group of six teams.
41:40
Speaker 2: Damien's hit it early. Can you imagine, though, if Kalen
41:43
Speaker 2: Abor went eight and four and Golish in year one
41:45
Speaker 2: won more games and beat them in the Iron Bowl?
41:48
Speaker 1: Might get him fired. That's a lot of money to pay. Damien,
41:51
Speaker 1: the most unrealistic position here is the group of six
41:54
Speaker 1: teams makes the college football playoff championship game. Because that's
41:58
Speaker 1: going to be one, two, three wins to get there.
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Speaker 1: All away from home.
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Speaker 2: Impossible.
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Speaker 1: Jordan, Bama 8-4.
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Speaker 2: Did he turn off his PlayStation when he got done?
42:09
Speaker 1: Who's that, Jordan? Jordan said this, yes. Bama 8-4. Lane
42:15
Speaker 1: Kiffin makes the college football playoff with four NFL players.
42:20
Speaker 1: That's interesting. And here's one for you. His third bowl prediction,
42:26
Speaker 1: Sark fired before November. He's got Sark getting fired in October.
42:31
Speaker 1: That would be disastrous.
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Speaker 2: I don't know how that could happen.
42:34
Speaker 1: That would take him off the field, backsliding by Sark
42:38
Speaker 1: for that to happen. Chad, his three. Georgia and Texas
42:42
Speaker 1: will not win the SEC, so he's taking 14 other
42:46
Speaker 1: teams other than Georgia and Texas. He says Notre Dame
42:50
Speaker 1: does make the college football playoff, but they are embarrassed...
42:54
Speaker 1: In round one. That would be interesting. Like if they are,
42:59
Speaker 1: you know, maybe where they've got to go on the
43:01
Speaker 1: road and went to a Big Ten or an SEC stadium. Well,
43:04
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess you're saying that the schedule just
43:06
Speaker 1: didn't have them ready for the competition. Yeah, that's right.
43:09
Speaker 1: And then number three, Auburn wins one of five games
43:12
Speaker 1: they're quote unquote not supposed to win. So I guess
43:15
Speaker 1: the games they're not supposed to win, of course, would
43:16
Speaker 1: be Alabama, Georgia, LSU. I mean, Florida is a toss up.
43:23
Speaker 1: Do they play Ole Miss? They play at Tennessee. Tennessee,
43:25
Speaker 1: I guess, would be one. Yeah, so those are the
43:27
Speaker 1: games they're not supposed to win. All right. Jeremy Daly. Oh,
43:31
Speaker 1: all right, Jeremy. Every day, man. Jeremy Daly. Bama in
43:34
Speaker 1: the national championship game where they only lose to Ohio State.
43:39
Speaker 1: Be a huge step forward for Kalen DeBoer, though. Just kidding.
43:41
Speaker 2: That would be massive.
43:43
Speaker 1: But, of course, those in the media would say he's
43:44
Speaker 1: 0-2 in championship games. How did they get there, you
43:47
Speaker 1: might ask? His second bowl prediction, Keelan Russell is a
43:50
Speaker 1: Heisman finalist. And then he, too, has Texas 8-4 and
43:55
Speaker 1: not making the playoffs. I tell you, the one thing
43:59
Speaker 1: the guarantees does is it shows you kind of where
44:01
Speaker 1: public opinion is on some coaches. Public opinion on Sark
44:04
Speaker 1: is he cannot get this deal done.
44:06
Speaker 2: Well, I think it's some of that, but I think
44:09
Speaker 2: it's also the fact that people don't want Texas.
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Speaker 1: To do it. Living Tuscaloosa County says Texas does not
44:16
Speaker 1: make the college football playoff. That's another Sark doubter. Lane
44:20
Speaker 1: Kiffin leaves for the NFL.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if I could see that. I mean,
44:27
Speaker 2: it was a long time ago, but his stint in
44:29
Speaker 2: the NFL with the Raiders was awful.
44:32
Speaker 1: I wonder if his coaching style, aside from the Raiders,
44:38
Speaker 1: because he's matured as a coach since then and matured
44:41
Speaker 1: as a human since then. I mean, it's still some
44:43
Speaker 1: of the stuff Lane does that's crazy. He's more mature
44:46
Speaker 1: probably than he was. I wonder if his coaching style
44:49
Speaker 1: appeals to the NFL. Like, I wonder if they look
44:52
Speaker 1: at that and like, that's the guy, that's the style
44:54
Speaker 1: we want here.
44:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe.
44:55
Speaker 1: I mean, one thing, you know, he used to do
44:58
Speaker 1: at Alabama, and I doubt he's changed it now, is,
45:01
Speaker 1: you know, one of the criticisms he got as Alabama's
45:04
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator in regards to preparing a quarterback for the
45:07
Speaker 1: NFL is that Lane would frequently whistle. You could hear
45:10
Speaker 1: it on the TV. He would whistle. The quarterback looks
45:13
Speaker 1: at him. He would tell him the receiver to throw
45:14
Speaker 1: it to. That's right. Here's your open guy. And while
45:17
Speaker 1: that is great for winning college football games, it might
45:19
Speaker 1: not be best for a quarterback's NFL development. Now, Lane
45:22
Speaker 1: was getting paid to win college football games, so he
45:24
Speaker 1: should have been doing that.
45:25
Speaker 2: I do think he would love the challenge of being
45:27
Speaker 2: able to, you know, go in and dissect an NFL defense.
45:31
Speaker 2: But at the same time, he would be maddened by
45:33
Speaker 2: the fact if he had a bad quarterback.
45:35
Speaker 1: Yeah, and which generally when you get an NFL job,
45:38
Speaker 1: you've either got a bad quarterback or you've just drafted
45:40
Speaker 1: a quarterback, which could be a bad quarterback. Number three
45:43
Speaker 1: from living Tuscaloosa County, Notre Dame misses the college football playoffs.
45:47
Speaker 1: That one seems unlikely, doesn't it?
45:49
Speaker 2: It does. I think it would take three losses.
45:51
Speaker 1: All right. Another one, Brownies. Bold prediction. Friday, final few
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Speaker 1: here on Sporting State. Volfan. Heisman is not a quarterback.
46:01
Speaker 1: The Heisman winner is not a quarterback from Volfan 205.
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Speaker 2: That's become bold. We saw Devontae Smith do it. We've
46:08
Speaker 2: seen running backs do it.
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Speaker 1: You know, you would say you could see maybe Malachi
46:12
Speaker 1: Toney do it, but then how does Mensah not win it?
46:13
Speaker 1: Or you could see... Jeremiah Smith do it, but then
46:16
Speaker 1: how does say it not work? Well, here's how Malachi
46:18
Speaker 1: Toney wins it, okay? Malachi Toney wins it because he
46:22
Speaker 1: can run a touchdown in in a running play. He
46:25
Speaker 1: can catch a touchdown. can throw a touchdown and then
46:29
Speaker 1: return a touchdown. So all of a sudden, if he's
46:32
Speaker 1: scoring in four different phases of the game, that's going
46:34
Speaker 1: to lift him above just normal wide receivers.
46:37
Speaker 2: And going into the season, I might say he's the
46:39
Speaker 2: second best player in college football.
46:40
Speaker 1: Really, the only way Devontae Smith won it was Jalen
46:43
Speaker 1: Waddell got hurt, and that's unfortunate for Waddell. But with
46:46
Speaker 1: Waddell in there, Mac Jones would have won the Heisman
46:48
Speaker 1: that year because he would have spread the ball out
46:50
Speaker 1: a little bit more. But once Smith was the number one,
46:53
Speaker 1: clear number one, he got all the catches. Off of that,
46:56
Speaker 1: Patrick says the same thing. He says, look at Jimmy D.
46:58
Speaker 1: A non-quarterback wins the Heisman this year, so there's another
47:01
Speaker 1: guy with that. Auburn wins eight games, and the SEC
47:04
Speaker 1: has two teams in the semifinals of the college football playoff.
47:08
Speaker 1: And again, I'll say this. Sad that that's become a
47:11
Speaker 1: bold prediction. The SEC has two of the four teams
47:13
Speaker 1: in the semifinals.
47:14
Speaker 2: If they've got two, one of those teams needs to
47:16
Speaker 2: win the game.
47:17
Speaker 1: Yeah.
47:17
Speaker 2: But nobody will remember they have two in the semifinals
47:20
Speaker 2: if they're not playing for the national championship.
47:21
Speaker 1: Hopefully they're playing each other, so you're guaranteed a spot
47:23
Speaker 1: in the championship. The last two, because these are fairly
47:26
Speaker 1: bold from Fall Fan. He's got Heisman being a non-quarterback.
47:31
Speaker 1: Minnesota with double-digit regular season wins. Now, that is random numbers.
47:36
Speaker 1: For Minnesota, but P.J. Fleck with double-digit regular season wins.
47:40
Speaker 1: That puts them in the playoffs.
47:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think 10-2 would put them in the playoffs.
47:44
Speaker 2: I think they're going to be good this year. I
47:46
Speaker 2: think it's a really interesting Week 2 game when Mississippi
47:48
Speaker 2: State goes up to Minneapolis.
47:50
Speaker 1: I agree. Fascinating game.
47:51
Speaker 2: A game they have to win if they're going to
47:53
Speaker 2: even sniff that.
47:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, if State wins that one, that's a feather in
47:56
Speaker 1: the SEC cap because that's lower-tier SEC, mid-tier Big Ten.
48:00
Speaker 1: And then Volfan, 205, his last one. Texas A &
48:03
Speaker 1: M goes 7-5. It would be a big disappointment. Well,
48:06
Speaker 1: I mean, somebody has to go 7-5. You know what
48:09
Speaker 1: I'm saying? Yeah, by rule, somebody's going to be there, right?
48:11
Speaker 1: Or by math. But that would be very, very surprising.
48:14
Speaker 3: Yeah.
48:15
Speaker 1: I would make this point. I think his name was
48:18
Speaker 1: Meredith last night, but maybe so many names. But he's
48:21
Speaker 1: a guy that plays golf out at Ballantrae. He was
48:24
Speaker 1: by our kickoff party last night. He said, you guys
48:27
Speaker 1: always are, it seems like, are making excuses at times
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Speaker 1: for Arch Manning and then criticizing Marcel Reed. for not
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Speaker 1: winning big games at the end of the year. He goes,
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Speaker 1: look at the stats, how close Marcel and Arch are stat-wise.
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Speaker 1: And I think probably if you looked at stats, Marcel
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Speaker 1: is probably better than Arch stat-wise. Maybe we give too
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Speaker 1: much grace because of the Manning last name and criticize
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Speaker 1: Marcel a little bit. I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I was highly critical of Arch, but the way he
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Speaker 2: kind of turned the corner last year, and it went
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Speaker 2: the opposite. Arch played his best football late, by the way,
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Speaker 2: in a win against Texas A & M. and Marcel
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Speaker 2: Reed against his two top 10 teams. No touchdowns, four picks.
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Speaker 1: The reason we get on Reed is the lasting impression.
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Speaker 1: He was bad at the end of the season and
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Speaker 1: primarily in the college football playoff. Dixie Normus. Always love
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Speaker 1: hearing from Dixie. Um, Three-loss Texas team makes a run
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Speaker 1: in the college football playoff. So somehow a three-loss Texas
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Speaker 1: team gets in. An enormous run. An enormous run, yes.
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Speaker 1: Very enormous, yes. Number two, Ole Miss and A &
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Speaker 1: M both lose four-plus games. So back-to-back A & M
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Speaker 1: bad predictions. And Ole Miss in there with them. And
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Speaker 1: his third prediction, the Big Ten streak ends. Again, Jim,
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Speaker 1: as you've said many times, sad that we have to
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Speaker 1: make that a bold prediction, but that's where we are
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Speaker 1: in life. You got another one? Yeah, Keith. Texas, three
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Speaker 1: or more losses. I mean, the Sark doubt today is
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Speaker 1: incredible in this thing. It really is. Clemson wins the ACC,
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Speaker 1: Keith says.
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Speaker 2: That's amazing that's a bold prediction now, but it kind
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Speaker 2: of is.
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Speaker 1: It is. In his third bowl prediction, the national championship
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Speaker 1: game will not, will not feature Ohio State, Georgia, Texas,
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Speaker 1: or Oregon. Those four teams not in the championship. I mean,
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Speaker 1: what is.
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Speaker 2: Interesting about that is your top four seeds right now,
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Speaker 2: probably if you seeded this thing out.
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Speaker 1: You're right. Ohio State, Oregon, Texas, and who? And Oregon.
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Speaker 1: Ohio State, Oregon, Texas, and? Georgia.
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Speaker 2: You're top two from the SEC, top two from the
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Speaker 2: Big Ten.
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Speaker 1: Wow.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 1: With the TV rankings going. Crater at that point. Maybe
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Speaker 1: that group five team is in after all.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: All right. You got one more?
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Speaker 4: Sure.
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Speaker 1: Okay. Give me another one. Keelan Turner. Keelan Turner. Here
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Speaker 1: we go. Maybe Keelan. I don't know. Let's call it Keelan. Keelan.
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Speaker 1: Arch is a bust and Sark's seat is now hot.
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Speaker 1: More Sark doubt. Penn State makes the college football playoffs.
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Speaker 1: And this was interesting. LSU would make the college football playoffs,
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Speaker 1: but they are ruled ineligible. Yeah. Well, I mean, that's
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Speaker 1: the courtroom standoff right now. You play a player, I
51:04
Speaker 1: can come back and penalize not the player because that
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Speaker 1: would be a court violation, but we'll penalize the school,
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Speaker 1: the coaches, and even the college football playoff may get
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