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Tuesday Edition of the Drive - Hour Two · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Speaker 2: excuse me, at 4.30, talking a little Southern Miss football.
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  Speaker 2: College football playoff 24 team expansion talks will continue this
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  Speaker 2: week in Chicago, courtesy of Pete Nacos, as talks around
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  Speaker 2: the college football playoff expansion are set to continue this week.
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  Speaker 2: And you know how these things go, in that they're
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  Speaker 2: going to talk, they'll have a little news, and they
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  Speaker 2: will come up with nothing. But they'll go meet. They'll
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  Speaker 2: stay in good hotels. They'll eat good food. They'll do
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  Speaker 2: all the things that's just kind of the MO of
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  Speaker 2: these management committees. It's made up of 10 FBS conference
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  Speaker 2: commissioners plus Notre Dame's athletics director and has a regularly
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  Speaker 2: scheduled meeting this Wednesday in Chicago. So I guess they're
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  Speaker 2: going in for one or two nights. The agenda will
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  Speaker 2: include further discussions on potential expansion when decision makers decided
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  Speaker 2: to stay with the 12-team field at meetings in Miami
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  Speaker 2: in January. The Big Ten backed a 24-team model. while
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  Speaker 2: the SEC and other eight conferences along with Notre Dame
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  Speaker 2: wanted a 16-team playoff. Those conversations, though, have shifted in
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  Speaker 2: the ensuing eight months. Momentum is behind a 24-team field,
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  Speaker 2: with the ACC, Big 12, and Notre Dame now supporting
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  Speaker 2: the expanded field. The SEC has expressed willingness to move
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  Speaker 2: to 24 teams, but Commissioner Greg Sankey has been open
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  Speaker 2: about wanting to see a full financial breakdown before making
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  Speaker 2: any final decisions, and I don't blame him on that
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  Speaker 2: one for sure. Steps have been taken to see those financials.
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  Speaker 2: Earlier this month, the management committee triggered a 30-day negotiating
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  Speaker 2: window between the college football playoff and ESPN to determine
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  Speaker 2: the media value of a 2014 field, which could begin
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  Speaker 2: as early as next season. That's the 2027 season. It's
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  Speaker 2: a key move as leaders try to get answers on
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  Speaker 2: financials before the December 1st deadline with ESPN. So you've
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  Speaker 2: got the ESPN deadline going on on December 1st. but
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  Speaker 2: the CFP leaders must decide if the 12-team field will
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  Speaker 2: expand for a 2027 playoff. A year ago, ESPN granted
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  Speaker 2: an extension to that deadline. Sankey wrote in a memo
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  Speaker 2: to the CFP management committee this summer that he believes
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  Speaker 2: the SEC must recruit the revenue lost from eliminating its
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  Speaker 2: conference title game. Because remember, if you go to 24 teams,
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  Speaker 2: your conference championships are going away. They have to because
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  Speaker 2: of the calendar issues and the window. So that game
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  Speaker 2: is going away if they go to 24. And Sankey says, hey,
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  Speaker 2: I want to see where we're going to recoup this money.
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  Speaker 2: And you're talking about a figure of about $ 100 million.
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  Speaker 2: To replace conference championship games, sources have said conferences are
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  Speaker 2: looking for roughly $ 200 to $ 250 million in annual combined
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  Speaker 2: value to do away with this. Sankey also outlined his
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  Speaker 2: priorities for a larger playoff field, including a requirement that
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  Speaker 2: all schools play 10 qualifying events. which are classified as
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  Speaker 2: games against power league competition or Notre Dame and conference games.
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  Speaker 2: So Sankey says, Hey, look, we'll consider this, but a
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  Speaker 2: couple of things have to happen. One you're asking us
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  Speaker 2: to do away with our championship games. Well, if we
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  Speaker 2: do that, we're going to lose a hundred million dollars.
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  Speaker 2: We want to be able to see where we can
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  Speaker 2: get somewhere between 200 and 250 in value for this.
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  Speaker 2: And then we want everybody to play 10 qualifying games.
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  Speaker 2: That means power league competition. So if you're in the,
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  Speaker 2: If you're in a conference where you play eight conference games,
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  Speaker 2: like the Big 12, and I can't remember what they play,
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  Speaker 2: but let's just say the Big 12 plays eight, well,
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  Speaker 2: then you've got to pick up two more games, not
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  Speaker 2: against Boise, not against Utah State, not against Colorado State.
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  Speaker 2: It's got to be power four teams. Big Ten Commissioner
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  Speaker 2: Tony Petitti recently told On 3's Andy and Ari that
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  Speaker 2: he agreed with Sankey Stantz trying to align schedules so
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  Speaker 2: every team plays 10 power conference opponents will take some
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  Speaker 2: tweaks as non-conference agreements are signed years into advance. Quote,
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  Speaker 2: I think Greg is right, Petitti said, his position about
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  Speaker 2: doing things to strengthen the game, and if you're saying
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  Speaker 2: the 24 unlocks this, then what's the commitment to actually
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  Speaker 2: do it? I think as a league, we're ready to
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  Speaker 2: have the conversation and try to make those commitments. To me,
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  Speaker 2: it would be a great result if we had more
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  Speaker 2: access to the playoff And at the same time, we
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  Speaker 2: also talk about playing more games that you want to
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  Speaker 2: see for the first couple of weeks of the season
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  Speaker 2: and that all fans want to see. He continues on
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  Speaker 2: and says, we've been saying it from the beginning. If
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  Speaker 2: you get to the 24 teams, we're going to put
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  Speaker 2: our money where our mouth is. We're going to do
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  Speaker 2: what we said we would do, and we're going to
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  Speaker 2: improve our schedules. I'm totally comfortable doing that as a commitment.
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  Speaker 2: Scheduling around the 24-team college football playoff remains an ongoing conversation.
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  Speaker 2: Sources told On3.
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  Speaker 3: Com.
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  Speaker 2: As On3' s Brett McMurphy reported earlier this month, the college
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  Speaker 2: football playoff executive director, Rich Clark, recently told bowl executives
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  Speaker 2: there's no appetite for either of the two first-round playoff
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  Speaker 2: games to be in the 2014 field, to be at
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  Speaker 2: a bowl site. And remember, that's another sticking point of this, too,
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  Speaker 2: is what's going to happen to the bowls? A lot
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  Speaker 2: of these bowls are going to go out of business.
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  Speaker 2: They just are. They're going to go out of business.
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  Speaker 2: Triggering the 30-day negotiating window from ESPN also means discussing
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  Speaker 2: who would own the television rights to the additional games
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  Speaker 2: that come from the 24-team field. Multiple conference commissioners have
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  Speaker 2: pointed out in recent months that ESPN would prefer to
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  Speaker 2: stay at a 12-team model and not pass the 16-team mark.
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  Speaker 2: ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips said at his league meetings this
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  Speaker 2: spring that ESPN made it clear it wants to stay
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  Speaker 2: at 12 or 14 but no more than 16. And
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  Speaker 2: probably for ESPN, some of that is going to be
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  Speaker 2: ties to the NFL, available inventory. You're getting into a big,
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  Speaker 2: big field here. And what may happen with this is
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  Speaker 2: you may see some of this negotiated out to Fox.
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  Speaker 2: Amazon may pick up a playoff game. You know how
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  Speaker 2: it goes, right? I mean, just look at the NFL model.
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  Speaker 2: It goes on to say, though, still the SEC and
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  Speaker 2: Big Ten hold authority over any format change, which would
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  Speaker 2: mean the two conferences must agree on a format for
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  Speaker 2: it to move forward. Wednesday's meetings will continue that march
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  Speaker 2: towards the possible expansion. Sankey even tamped down expectations that
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  Speaker 2: triggering a 30-day negotiating window with ESPN meant expansion was guaranteed.
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  Speaker 2: He says, quote, we've participated in that conversation, Sankey said
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  Speaker 2: earlier this month, at the Monday morning quarterback club in Birmingham, Alabama.
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  Speaker 2: That doesn't mean expansion will happen. There's a media negotiation opportunity,
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  Speaker 2: which is an important piece of the information, and we'll
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  Speaker 2: have an opportunity, it would appear, later in the fall
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  Speaker 2: to make a decision on that. So I think that
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  Speaker 2: they're going to do this. 24 seems to be, and
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  Speaker 2: there's a couple reasons behind the 24. One is money.
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  Speaker 2: The money is the big thing. More money for people
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  Speaker 2: because people are hemorrhaging money and need money. So more
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  Speaker 2: TV dollars, more money to put back in your program
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  Speaker 2: because we can't stop spending. You know, that's the thing.
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  Speaker 2: And this bill in D.C. is supposed to, quote, cap spending.
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  Speaker 2: It's not going to cap spending. Because there's no true
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  Speaker 2: players union. There's no true commissioner. This is all on paper.
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  Speaker 2: This is just a, what's going on in D.C. is
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  Speaker 2: a glorified NCAA book 2.0 that some, most will follow,
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  Speaker 2: but some will not. They're going to continue to hemorrhage money.
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  Speaker 2: So they need money to access. They want more teams
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  Speaker 2: in the playoff, even though some of these teams don't
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  Speaker 2: need to be in the playoff. They want more teams
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  Speaker 2: in the playoffs. So, we'll see. This is going to
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  Speaker 2: eventually– it will pass. We'll go to 24 teams. There's
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  Speaker 2: just too much money involved here. Now, how that works
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  Speaker 2: out with the TV windows and how that works out on,
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  Speaker 2: you know, when the season will start, will week zero
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  Speaker 2: become season– the official week one, what happens, you know. And, again,
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  Speaker 2: they've got to work around the NFL, too, especially when
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  Speaker 2: you start getting into the playoffs. I mean, you're talking
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  Speaker 2: a lot of first-round games. It's going to be happening
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  Speaker 2: during the wild-card weekends and all– So it's a mess.
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  Speaker 2: Let's look at the CBSSports.com power rankings for the SEC
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  Speaker 2: this week. This is week five on strength of an
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  Speaker 2: impressive resume, stacking resumes. They still have Texas number one
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  Speaker 2: in the SEC, and I don't particularly have a problem
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  Speaker 2: with Texas being number one. Texas just did not look
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  Speaker 2: great against Tennessee. Now, here's the plus side. They won. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, really good teams can play very marginal and
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  Speaker 2: still win. Texas isn't winning any beauty contests, but they're
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  Speaker 2: 4-0 with a pair of top 15 wins, the latest
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  Speaker 2: coming on the road against an SEC opponent. There's zero
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  Speaker 2: question about the defense. Is it championship caliber under Will Muschamp?
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  Speaker 2: Between Colin Simmons and Bo Mascu and several others, Longhorns
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  Speaker 2: have elite players at every level. The offense has tons
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  Speaker 2: of room for improvement, though. They're currently sitting number one.
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  Speaker 2: Georgia at number two. The margin was relatively thin at
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  Speaker 2: the top, largely because Georgia has looked the part of
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  Speaker 2: a national championship contender against inferior opponents. The Bulldogs haven't
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  Speaker 2: won a game by fewer than 28 points so far,
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  Speaker 2: and Gunnar Sockton and the offense have looked really, really good.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see what they do as they host Vanderbilt, and
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  Speaker 2: then they move on to take on Auburn. Florida has
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  Speaker 2: moved to number three. If you're talking about fun teams
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  Speaker 2: to watch right now, the Gators are probably the top
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  Speaker 2: on that list. Jaden Ball is a legitimate Heisman Trophy candidate.
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  Speaker 2: You look at Buster Faulkner and the offensive numbers that
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  Speaker 2: they're putting up, 53.5 points per game, which ranks second nationally.
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  Speaker 2: It took John Summerall four games to get his first
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  Speaker 2: top five win in Gainesville, and now the college football
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  Speaker 2: playoff looks like an obtainable goal at least this week
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  Speaker 2: for the Florida Gators. Alabama at number four on the CBSSports.com
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  Speaker 2: SEC Power Rankings says, with the first month of the
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  Speaker 2: season behind us, everyone has the same question about Alabama.
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  Speaker 2: How did it take so long for Keelan Russell to
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  Speaker 2: win the starting job? Russell has been every bit as
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  Speaker 2: advertised so far. And look, people are asking that question.
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  Speaker 2: Why did it take him so long to win the job?
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  Speaker 2: Probably because Kalen Dabor didn't want his other quarterback to
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  Speaker 2: jump in the transfer portal, right? I mean, that's the
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  Speaker 2: thing a lot of people forget. These are battles that
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  Speaker 2: these coaches are fighting internally. It's like, hey, when you've
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  Speaker 2: got a couple quarterbacks and you're trying to roll out
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  Speaker 2: a new quarterback for this season or next season, do
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  Speaker 2: we name a starter early? Or, you know, there was
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  Speaker 2: a coach a few years ago, and it may have
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  Speaker 2: been Dave Aranda, who named a starter at Baylor in
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  Speaker 2: the spring, and he said, hey, I did this because
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  Speaker 2: I wanted my other guy to have an opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: go play somewhere else if he wanted to. So you
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  Speaker 2: kind of, you know, you have to give, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of respect to that. But it wasn't that Keelan Russell,
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  Speaker 2: I think, was being challenged. I think it was that
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  Speaker 2: Keelan Boer just wanted to keep his second quarterback, and
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  Speaker 2: I can't say I blame him. Because a lot of times,
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  Speaker 2: as you know, if you name a quarterback in the spring, well,
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  Speaker 2: the other one's going to say, well, I'm gone. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to go somewhere else. Ole Miss at number five
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  Speaker 2: on the CBS Sports SEC Power Rankings, and, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you start getting to five, six, seven, eight, and you
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  Speaker 2: could do a lot of debating here. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: you can really debate that, you know, in whatever order
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  Speaker 2: you want to put them, Texas, Georgia, Florida, and Alabama
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  Speaker 2: are the top teams in the league The next group,
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  Speaker 2: you're talking about Ole Miss, Mississippi State, and LSU, and
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  Speaker 2: probably Tennessee. Ole Miss, of course, a big letdown over
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  Speaker 2: the past weekend against Florida down in the swap. We
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  Speaker 2: talked to Jay Thompson and our number one about Q
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  Speaker 2: and Lacey and the injuries. They need to get him
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  Speaker 2: back healthy. And then what does Ole Miss do defensively?
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  Speaker 2: Because they don't tackle well. The defense looks very lethargic
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  Speaker 2: at times. A lot of the success is spent on
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  Speaker 2: the quarterback there. At number five, Ole Miss has a
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  Speaker 2: couple games coming up after the bye week with Vanderbilt
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  Speaker 2: on the road and then Missouri where they can kind
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  Speaker 2: of get back on track before heading to Austin and
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  Speaker 2: taking on Texas. LSU at number six says there was
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  Speaker 2: no post-Kiffin Bowl hangover for LSU. The Tigers returned to
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  Speaker 2: the friendly confines of Death Valley and handled Texas A
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  Speaker 2: & M in a rivalry game. So we'll see what
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  Speaker 2: LSU does moving forward, and if you go look at
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  Speaker 2: LSU's schedule now that they're back on track after the
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  Speaker 2: Texas A & M win And make no mistake about it,
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  Speaker 2: they needed that win, big time. LSU is averaging 39
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  Speaker 2: a game, giving up 16 a game. They'll take on
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  Speaker 2: McNeese State this weekend in another snooze fest, so they
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  Speaker 2: will move to 4-1. Then they'll go to Kentucky, which,
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  Speaker 2: you know, again, Kentucky is much improved. You know, this
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  Speaker 2: Kentucky team is not a team that's going to win
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  Speaker 2: the conference, but they're averaging 35 a game, giving up
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  Speaker 2: 25 a game. And they played Alabama and Texas A
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  Speaker 2: & M, split those two. They played two inferior opponents.
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  Speaker 2: in South Alabama and Youngstown State. They'll get South Carolina
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  Speaker 2: this weekend. But back to LSU, I mean, they can't
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  Speaker 2: sleepwalk against Kentucky. They'll host Mississippi State. They'll be a
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  Speaker 2: favorite in both those games. They'll go to Auburn where
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  Speaker 2: they'll be a favorite. They'll host Alabama and Texas on
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  Speaker 2: back-to-back weeks in November. And then they'll go to Tennessee
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  Speaker 2: and then play at Arkansas. So LSU has one loss
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  Speaker 2: on the season. And you've got to think, if you
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  Speaker 2: move forward and look, they're likely going to split Alabama
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  Speaker 2: and Texas. So that's two losses. Tennessee is no joke.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Mississippi State, Auburn on the road, Kentucky on
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  Speaker 2: the road. I mean, LSU still has a lot of
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  Speaker 2: work to do. And they don't have– when you have
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  Speaker 2: one loss already in November, it puts you in somewhat
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  Speaker 2: of a pickle. Now, if we were in this 2014
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  Speaker 2: format that they're talking about, then, you know, you could
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  Speaker 2: have a little bit more flex. Mississippi State at number
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  Speaker 2: seven in the CBS SEC power rankings. It's really hard
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  Speaker 2: not to be enamored with Mississippi State. The Bulldogs play
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  Speaker 2: a fun style of offense. Kamario Taylor does something spectacular
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  Speaker 2: every weekend. There are many tougher challenges that await Mississippi
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  Speaker 2: State starting this weekend, but it's looked like a top-half
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  Speaker 2: SEC team based on what you've seen after the first month.
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  Speaker 2: And I think you're absolutely right. And again, for the
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  Speaker 2: pessimist Mississippi State fans or for other fans of other
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  Speaker 2: schools that say, well, this was a 4-0 team last
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  Speaker 2: year too. This is not the same 4-0. It's not
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  Speaker 2: even close to the same 4-0. State played inferior opponents
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  Speaker 2: outside of Arizona State who was very average last year.
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  Speaker 2: Got to 4-0 and then lost some games along the
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  Speaker 2: way that we don't have to rehash how that whole
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  Speaker 2: thing went out. State has played two road games against
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  Speaker 2: powerful opponents. They went and won. Won handily at Minnesota.
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  Speaker 2: Ended up pulling away from South Carolina and then got
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  Speaker 2: a first top 25 win against Missouri this past week.
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  Speaker 2: First one since 2014 at Davis Wade Stadium. This is
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  Speaker 2: not the same 4-0. They are not equal. So, you know,
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  Speaker 2: State now In play, when you start looking at what's
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  Speaker 2: in play for Mississippi State, obviously this weekend is huge.
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  Speaker 2: If they beat Alabama this weekend, and again, the weather
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  Speaker 2: could play a big part in this game this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: It could get really nasty. That could change the whole
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  Speaker 2: dynamic of this entire thing this weekend. But even if
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  Speaker 2: State was, now if they win this game and get
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  Speaker 2: to 5-0, then this thing gets really, really interesting for
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Mississippi State. But if they lose, even if they lose
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: the next two weeks, Alabama and LSU, I think Oklahoma
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: is well in play now. Their defense is really good,
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: one of the best in the country, but that offense
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: is lethargic. And being at Davis-Wade Stadium, I would give
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Mississippi State the edge. And if they win and loss
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: to Texas, that's three losses, I think they can beat Vanderbilt.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: I think they can beat Auburn. They'll beat Tennessee Tech.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: So you're going into the Egg Bowl, possibly, if you
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: stay healthy, looking for a ninth win, even if you
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: lose those three. And you'd have to look at that
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: schedule and you'd have to start asking questions because we're
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: going to see how many nine and three teams are
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: going to be eligible, you know, in that conversation for
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: the college football playoff. But if you win this week,
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: think about it. If you won this week and still lost,
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: LSU on the road, Texas on the road, and you
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: went into the Egg Bowl, holy wow, with a chance
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: to maybe win ten ballgames? It's crazy. It's crazy. It's
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: a big weekend this weekend at Starville. Looking at the
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: rest of this CBSSports.com poll real quickly. Tennessee at number 8.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Oklahoma at number 9. And I think that's way too
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: high for Oklahoma. I think that's way too generous. This
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: is not a good football team. Kentucky at number 10.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: Texas A & M at number 11. I think it's
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: way too high. Missouri at number 12. I'd move Missouri up.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: I'd move Auburn up at 13. Vanderbilt at 14. South
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Carolina at 15. And then Arkansas at 16. I think
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: CBS is way too generous to Oklahoma at nine. It
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: says Oklahoma put all the apples in a basket labeled
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: John Mateer and Ben Arbuckle. That's the offensive coordinator. It
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: looks like a bad bet right now. Even if Mateer
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: took care of the ball on Saturday, the Sooners probably
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: wouldn't have beaten Georgia. No, they weren't going to beat Georgia.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: It says Oklahoma was never in that game largely due
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: to Mateer's performance And a quarterback change has to be
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: on the table before taking on Texas. We'll see if
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: it is for Oklahoma. But Oklahoma is not a top
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: ten SEC team right now. They're just not. I mean,
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: they don't pass the eye test. They don't pass the
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: smell test. Texas A & M, frankly, isn't either. Both
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: of these teams are ten and down. Again, I think
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: Kentucky has warranted enough to be ten and in. I
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: think you still need to put Missouri in that ten
• 20:36
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• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Southern Miss gets ready on the 6th of October to
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: take on Troy. Heath, welcome in, brother. How are you doing?
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: I'm good, Jake. I'm a little better now that Atlanta
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: Braves pulled it out. But I'm doing well.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: How about yourself?
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was seeing that come across the wire there.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: And I know a lot of people are excited about that.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Championship baseball is here. All right, so let's recap. A
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: month into this thing, got a win over Alcorn State,
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: a close loss at Tulane, 24-21. Just kind of your
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: assessment of this Southern Miss football team a month into
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: the season.
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: I think you saw in the last game a team
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: that's starting to come together, a team that should have
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: beat Tulane, to be honest with you. Of course, Blake
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: Anderson's already said it, but two Miss field goals cost
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: the game, let's be honest. They played extremely well, I think,
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: As far as defense, you've got to work on some tackling. Offensively,
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: by the best game of the year, I thought Landry
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: Liddy was incredible. 18-29, 243, three touchdowns. Completion percentage, 62%.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: I mean, a rating of 166.6. Not too bad for
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: the first start of the year, especially down there in
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: New Orleans against Tulane. So I think you saw some growth.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: I think you saw some good things, and... They get
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: a few extra days this week to prepare for Troy
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: on Tuesday next week. Really, I thought they played a
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: great game, just didn't get the win, but you can
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: see a team of 75 newcomers finally starting together in jail.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Visiting with Heath Hinton, talking Southern Miss football. Eagles on
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: the bye week. They'll get an opportunity next week at
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Troy before two home games on the 17th and 24
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: against Arkansas State and Louisiana, formerly Lafayette. Tuesday edition of
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: the program. Heath, you had sent me something. I had
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: not seen it. Talk a little bit about what you
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: had sent me that Blake Anderson said. It's kind of
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: ruffling a little feathers, no pun intended, but I do
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: want to discuss that.
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's just sometimes things get taken out
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: of context. Somebody asked him, how do you keep from
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: play start? And he said, well, you stop scheduling teams like,
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: you know, Auburn, UConn, Tulane. And what he was meaning,
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: he didn't mean not to schedule them. He was talking
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: about when you play teams like that and they're bigger
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: and more physical than you up front, What you've got
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: to do is you've got to wear them down. You've
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: got to hope that later on that your stamina and
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: that your ability to be in shape is better than
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: theirs are, and you wear them down towards the end,
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: but you try to keep it close. And that's what
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: they did at Tulane. It actually worked. In the game,
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: they were popping six, seven, eight, nine yards a carry
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: in the fourth quarter because Tulane was tired. And so
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: that's what he was talking about. I think maybe some
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: people took it the wrong way. He clarified today that
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: that is what he said, and I think everything's fine now. But,
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: you know, sometimes people get upset, especially when their team
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: loses against a rival. And I think everything will be
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: okay now. So I don't think it's going to be
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: much of a deal anymore. But, you know, people get
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: upset when you lose. And if you don't say things
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: the right way, and Blake, you admitted, I could have
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: said it better. You could have said it better. And
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: so I think it's all water under the bridge now.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: Well, but I think there's a lot of truth in
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: what he said. I mean, when you look at this,
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: and for some reason, and you go to the college
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: football playoff committee, and you go to a lot of
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: the talking heads in college football, you know, they're talking about, hey,
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: we need more expansion. We need a bigger playoff. That
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: whole deal's going on in Chicago this week. They'll have
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: meetings tomorrow with the playoff committee. And, you know, hey,
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: we want more opportunities for teams to get in the field.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: But the field isn't even. And I think that's what,
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: and correct me if I'm wrong here, that's what Blake
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: Anderson's saying. I don't think it's an excuse. He's saying, hey, look,
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: We don't, and I don't want to speak directly for him,
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: and you've heard this from other group of six coaches,
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: we don't have the money that the schools, that Auburn's have.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: We don't have the money that the Ole Miss and
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: Mississippi States have, and you can go around the corner
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: here to Alabama and other places. We know that we're
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: basically a feeding frenzy for these other universities. We can't
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: compete any longer with these schools. And to me, again,
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: it's a shame on you moment to the NCAA team
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: and to the college football playoff committee that we continue
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: to pretend that we are all still equal when they're
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: actually not. And I think that's what, to me, that's
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: what I heard out of that.
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: That's exactly right. He's saying, look, they're being outspent. Southern
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: Miss doesn't have any of those resources. You play Auburn,
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: you're outspent 30-1. You play Tulane, you're outspent 5-1. You're
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: outspent 4-1. You're playing teams that outspend you. And, you know,
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: it is true, just like in professional sports, Usually the
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: teams that spend the most money on their rosters are
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: the teams that are going to win. And in college football,
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: that's true. You want the best players, you've got to
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: spend the most money. And how do you combat that? Well,
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: you try to find some JUCO guys. That's what JUCO
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: is for now. And high school guys and bring them
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: in and hope they can compete young. And find some
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: FCS guys that you can bring up, and that's what
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: Blake does. I think they did a really good job
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: of it, especially when you only had to consider he
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: had maybe two and a half weeks to get a
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: roster to get. after the bowl game was when Huff
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: left and took all the players with him. So, yeah,
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: it's not a level playing field. It just isn't. And
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: until they do something to put a cap on him
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: and stop all the multiple transfers, all the leverage is
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: with the players, and none of it are with the schools,
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: and it's showing right now.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: It's the wild west.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: Heath, talk a little bit about this defense. You've got
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: some guys that are playmakers on this defense. It's a
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: defense that's given up 29, almost 30 points per game,
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: but I would think those numbers would improve over the
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: next several weeks. Michael Robinson III, he's a junior defensive back.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: Mathis Haygood, a junior linebacker. Those two guys kind of
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: lead the charge here in tackles right at 29 apiece.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: And then you've got some other, I think, good pieces
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: on this defense to really build around.
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think the defense is coming together. One thing
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: they've got to work on is tackling. I think that
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: really got them in the two-lane game. Look, they had
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: those guys stop in the backfield, miss three or four tackles,
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: get through, and two-lane had some really good physical running back.
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: So you've got to give them credit, too. It's not
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: like they're tackling a dummy out there. But, yeah, I think,
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: you know, you look at Sylvie, DB, just he's turned
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: into a really, really, really good cornerback who makes it
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: play to the next level. You never know. You're right,
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: Michael Robinson, third DB, he's really a missile in the
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: defensive backfield. So I do think you're seeing some growth there.
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: So you've got to work on the tackling, but I
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: also think it's going to be a different story once
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: you get into conference play. You know, Blake was true
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: about this. Play teams that are more like you, and
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: I think things are going to be a little more even,
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: and I think these big battles they've had are going
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: to make things easier for them when they get into conference.
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: A lot of people forget that UConn team, that coach
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: came from Toledo, I believe, two years ago. That Toledo
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: team came in Mississippi State in, what, 41-17 or something
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: like that. So that guy can coach, and he brought
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: a lot of his players with him, too. It's just
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: a different day and age to live in when you're
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: trying to build it with an assistant coach as having
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: a coach that's a head coach coming in. It's different,
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: and you're seeing it. And I think they're growing. Just
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: got to work on the tackling on the defensive side.
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: But a lot of football we played this year. They're
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: one in three conference plays coming up. Who knows what
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: will happen.
• 30:37
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• 30:45
  Speaker 2: always appreciate your time. Have a great week, my friend,
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: and we appreciate you as always.
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: Hey, man.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: Thanks, Jake. God bless, buddy.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Have a good one, my friend.
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  Speaker 2: the CBSSports.com crew has done his SEC playoff bracket, because
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: that's what it is, playoff bracket for this week, and
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: he thinks that there's a chance at least for a
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: month in to get five teams into the field. I
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: would have said that that was preposterous, literally preposterous. That's
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: what it sounds like. No, all jokes aside, that was
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: not going to happen. Not five teams. I said three,
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: maybe four. Let's just see how the next month. The
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: next month is going to be telling. October is kind
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: of the call the cows home month for the SEC
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: because so many teams, all the teams are playing good teams,
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: and there's going to be a lot of attrition, and
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: there's going to be some losses that we don't see coming.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: But I think when you see what's happening in the
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: Big Ten, then Oregon may be down. Michigan is not
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: going to be a player. USC, they were kind of
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: a false pretender as well probably. After that beatdown they
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: took to Oregon, Penn State loses to Wisconsin. Indiana may
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: not be the team that we thought they were, even
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: though they're 4-0, that the SEC could possibly land up
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: to five teams in the playoff. He says if you
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: hate the SEC, you may want to close your eyes
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: for a few paragraphs. He said each week I do
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: the college football playoff bracket projections here, and a popular
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: complaint is that too many SEC schools are in the field.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: He said if you feel that way, I've got bad news.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: That could be a banner year for SEC teams, including,
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: you know, including the CFP. He says a year ago
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: the SEC put five teams into the field, Alabama, Georgia, Oklahoma,
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: Ole Miss, and Texas A & M. He said the
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: conventional wisdom headed into this season, the 26th season, is
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: that that number would go down as the SEC moved
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: to a nine-game conference slate. That may prove to be
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: true as conference play ramps up in this month. But
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: looking at it this, you know, one month in, he
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: still has Texas at number one at 4-0 He said
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: something feels a bit off about this team. Arch Manning
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: hasn't impressed in recent weeks. Players have committed some truly
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: dumb penalties in key moments, but they did get the
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: win against Ohio State. They did go get the win
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: against Tennessee. They are number one Ohio State. Number two,
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: he has them as the Big Ten champion. Texas is
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: the SEC champion. Number three, he has Miami as the
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: ACC champion. He said the Hurricanes have been utterly dominant
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: a quarter of the way through the 2026 season. As
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: Brandon Marcello pointed out earlier this week, Miami quarterback Darian
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: Mintz is the only quarterback in the last 30 years
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: to have more touchdowns, 14, than incompletions. Now, I want
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: you to think about that. I don't care who you
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: are and who you play. I don't care if it's
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: a junior high team, if it's a flag football game,
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: powder putt, whatever. Mensah through four games has more touchdowns
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: than incompletions. That is insanity in the best of ways.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: That has, I mean, that's a 30 year, that beats
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: a 30 year mark. It looks like Miami, at least early,
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: whatever they paid Darian Mensah is worth it because I
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: know we're talking about Camario Taylor, rightfully so. And I
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: know we're talking about Trinidad Chambliss, rightfully so. Darian Mensah
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: to me is the, bona fide front runner for the
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: Heisman Trophy. Now, he's got to prove it in some
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: big games, but man, the way he has played has
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: been unbelievable. Miami's looked unstoppable so far, to be honest,
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: and they've got a couple games coming up, Clemson and
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: Florida State that may be a little more challenging, but
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: he's got Miami at three, Georgia at number four, and
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: you could make a lot of arguments for Georgia at
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: number one. They have owned Texas up to this point
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: since they have walked into the SEC, but right now
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: he's got Georgia at four, Notre Dame at five, and again,
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: it's going to be hard for Notre Dame to get
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: higher than five, just because they don't play a conference championship. Now,
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: if they were to go undefeated and beat Miami in.
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: November, they're going to have a very strong say, let
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: me say it like that, a very strong say on
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: being number one in the country, but they've got to
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: go undefeated to do it.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: Indiana at number six, the Hoosiers are very fortunate to
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: have escaped a win with a win against Northwestern. Signetti
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: deserves the benefit of the doubt, but this team Phil's
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: a step or two below the one that ran through
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: the Big Ten a season ago. Now they'll have an
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: opportunity coming up against Ohio State and Michigan back-to-back weeks.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: That'll be in the middle of October. Indiana will have
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: an opportunity to prove their worth there. Alabama at number
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: seven in John Talti's playoff bracket. Florida has moved in
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: now to number eight. And again, I think everything's on
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: the table for Florida. And again, we said at the
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: beginning of the year, if A couple of teams are
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: going to move into the playoff conversation in the SEC.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: A couple teams have to move out. There's just not
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: enough room for all of them. So what has happened
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: is Oklahoma, who was a playoff team, has moved out
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: a month in. Texas A & M, who was a
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: playoff team, has moved out. That's opened the door for
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: a team like Florida, who looks really good right now,
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: to move in. And guess what? That also means a
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: team like Mississippi State, who has looked really good a
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: month in to at least move into that conversation piece.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: They're at the table. That could change over the next
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: few weeks. But you've had two teams move out, and
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: now you've had two teams move in. And it's really
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: cluttered right there because, you know, even with Tennessee, they
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: have a loss. They feel like they could have won.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: They're still in that conversation. So we've got a long
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: way to go. Texas Tech at number nine out of
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: the Big 12, and they're going to be the favorite
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: to win the Big 12 until they don't. BYU will
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: give them all they want. And there's a couple other
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: teams as well. He has Iowa at number 10 at 4-0.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: And the Hawkeyes could possibly, believe it or not, sneak
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: into this playoff conversation. They will likely get beat this
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: weekend against Ohio State. But again, that would give them
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: just one loss on the season so far. And when
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: you look at Iowa real quickly in the remaining schedule,
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: Let's see here. Where did they go? There they are.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: All right, so Iowa, they're west of the way. And
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: this is a team that beat Michigan on the Hail
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: Mary this past week. They have Ohio State this week.
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: They go to Washington and Minnesota. Washington will be a test,
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: but they should beat Minnesota. Wisconsin at Northwestern, Purdue at
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: Illinois and Nebraska. So this is a team that could
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: actually run the table, believe it or not, after this week.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: So I don't know that you're going to keep a
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: 10-1 or 11-1 defense Iowa team out of the playoff.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: And I see his rationale on putting Iowa now at
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: number 10. Number 11, he still has Ole Miss in
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: the playoffs. He said Ole Miss still has two quality wins,
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: LSU and Louisville. Multiple opportunities to add to that number.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: You know the schedule. Boise at number 12 as the
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: lone group of six team. He has Boise playing Notre
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: Dame in that 5-12 matchup. And again, that's everybody's 5-12
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: right now. Ole Miss is an 11 traveling to Indiana.
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: Iowa traveling to Alabama. And Texas Tech traveling to Florida.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: And then he has Texas taking on the, you know, Florida,
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: Texas Tech winner down the field we go. And let's
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: see here. He doesn't crown a national champion, but his
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: final four, but he doesn't even do that. So he
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: just puts the dates in there. So some interesting stuff there.
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: Let me get you, we've got a couple minutes left here.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: Some news, notes maybe that we missed. Rivals is reporting
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: that Mississippi State is pushing to flip Colorado four-star offensive
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: tackle LaMarcus Jones, courtesy of Chad Simmons. Vanderbilt and Purdue
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: are also in pursuit as well. So you're going to
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: see some of that. Mississippi State, look, winning cures a lot,
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: and you're going to see more heads turned to head
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: to Starkville. Also, Polymarket reporting the NFL has slashed ticket
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: prices for the London game between the Colts and Washington
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: due to a lack of interest. And, again, I've always
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: wondered about this. I know that a lot of these
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: games seem to have a lot of interest to them,
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: but then I'm sure there's some that don't, but they
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: are slashing ticket prices. Hey, if you want to get
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: over to London and watch a little football, they've got
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: them there as well. And let's see here. Looking at
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: a couple more things real quickly. Yeah, it's funny. College
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: Sports only puts out kind of a meme out here
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: of Mississippi State taking the place of what we said.
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: Texas A & M and Oklahoma, they've worked themselves out.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: Mississippi State, Florida, they have kind of worked themselves in. Also,
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: Nick Saban continued to get a lot of negative press
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: because of this College Sports Act. On first take, Saban
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: argued that player and coach pay are totally different markets.
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: And a lot of people giving him the business about these, saying, hey, look,
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: you were a guy that was all about the players,
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: all about the players. I mean, Saban's kind of gone
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: all over the board here. with this College Sports Act
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: that's out here. And let's see here. One more note. Again,
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: Heisman frontrunners, regardless of who you look at, Jeremiah Smith,
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: Ohio State, rightfully so, Darien Minson, Miami. Then you've got
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: Jaden Ball, Trinidad Chambliss, Kamario Taylor. That's the five guys
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: that's getting the most chatter at least one month in
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: on everything with the Heisman Trophy. I want to say
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: thanks to Jake Thompson. Also, thanks to Heath Hinton. Thanks
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: to Beave. Appreciate you guys. We're out a little bit
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: early today. We'll be back tomorrow. As we continue, we
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: get to the middle of the week. We'll start looking
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: at high school football, really dialing in on lines and
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: stuff as we move towards the middle of the week. Remember,
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: ketchup is king, bacon is a delicacy. Aloha means goodbye.
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: Be a man of increase. We have reached the crescendo
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: on a Tuesday. See you tomorrow. We'll be right back.