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Week Zero Chaos: UNC, Memphis and Virginia Break Out · Winning Cures Everything | College Football

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  Speaker 1: 231 days. That's how long it's been since we had
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  Speaker 1: real college football to actually argue about. 231 days of
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  Speaker 1: transfer portal takes and coach speak of somebody's cousin's barber
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  Speaker 1: telling you the depth chart. And on Saturday, the whole
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  Speaker 1: thing cranked back up in a rainstorm in Ireland at
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  Speaker 1: 11 o'clock in the morning central. And by midnight, we
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  Speaker 1: had a 74-year-old man in a hoodie beating a Big
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  Speaker 1: start in Ireland. Game number one, North Carolina 15, TCU 10.
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  Speaker 1: And this is the game that everybody's going to be
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  Speaker 1: talking about all week, right? North Carolina went four and
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  Speaker 1: eight last year, laughingstock of the sport for 12 straight months.
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  Speaker 1: Open last season, just getting run out of their own
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  Speaker 1: stadium by these same horned frogs, 48 to 14. They
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  Speaker 1: go to Dublin as a 7.5 to 8.5 point dog,
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  Speaker 1: depending on where you got it at close. And they
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  Speaker 1: win the football game 15-10. The stat that tells you
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  Speaker 1: how strange this was, TCU had scored at least 28
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  Speaker 1: points in 30 consecutive non-conference regular season games. That was
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  Speaker 1: the second longest streak in the country. 30 games of
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  Speaker 1: we're going to hang four on somebody in September. And
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  Speaker 1: they got 10 points. They got zero after the first
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  Speaker 1: quarter and change. And then Carolina held them scoreless for
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  Speaker 1: the final 49 minutes. And we can talk about how
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  Speaker 1: it happened. I do find it interesting because there was
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  Speaker 1: no Steve Belichick, the defensive coordinator. He's out on medical
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  Speaker 1: leave right now. But the two ways that it happened,
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  Speaker 1: number one, the Carolina defense looks pretty real. Xavier Lewis,
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  Speaker 1: number 90. Go ahead and write that name down. Seven tackles,
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  Speaker 1: four and a half tackles for loss, two sacks. He's
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  Speaker 1: a sophomore linebacker, lived in the TCU backfield all afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: And the part that'll make you sit up, Bill said
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  Speaker 1: the defensive staff would handle it collectively. That collective pitched
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  Speaker 1: a 49-minute shutout against a Big 12 team. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: sure what to do with that information yet, but I
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  Speaker 1: feel like it's pretty interesting. Number two, and I want
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  Speaker 1: y'all to appreciate this, the biggest swing play the first
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  Speaker 1: game of the Football season was a bad snap, right?
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  Speaker 1: TCU's punter, John Hoyt Chance, he had a snap sail
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  Speaker 1: over his head late in that second quarter, kicked it
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  Speaker 1: out of the back of the end zone. Safety, two points.
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  Speaker 1: Carolina goes up 12-10 at the break. That was North
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  Speaker 1: Carolina's first halftime lead over a powerful opponent in the
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  Speaker 1: Bill Belichick era. That was their first one, and it
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  Speaker 1: came off a botched punt in the rain in a
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  Speaker 1: foreign country. Like, it's just weird. The other thing that
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  Speaker 1: jumps at me is the first quarter. Bobby Petrino's new
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  Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, or Bobby Petrino is the new offensive coordinator.
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  Speaker 1: Carolina put up 10 points, uh, 141 yards in the
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  Speaker 1: opening quarter. Now for context last year, they hit 10
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  Speaker 1: first quarter points exactly one time all season. They never
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  Speaker 1: had that many yards. Billy Edwards jr. You know, came
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  Speaker 1: in from Wisconsin. He was at Maryland before that. And
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  Speaker 1: people forget that he was pretty good at Maryland. I mean, he,
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  Speaker 1: he led that fourth quarter comeback against USC, however long
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  Speaker 1: ago that was. Um, He went 16 of 28, 232,
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  Speaker 1: no touchdowns, but also no interceptions. And in a game
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  Speaker 1: like that, in that weather, that is the job. Kind
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  Speaker 1: of a game manager, but the experienced hand that you
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  Speaker 1: needed in that spot. Now, TCU, I mean, Sonny Dyches
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  Speaker 1: has got to be sick, right? Jaden Craig, the Harvard transfer,
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  Speaker 1: guy set passing records in the Ivy League. He was
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  Speaker 1: 20 of 32 for 175 yesterday. Jeremy Payne ran for
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  Speaker 1: 142 yards. It did not matter because the Frogs got
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  Speaker 1: stopped on fourth and short deep in Carolina territory on
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  Speaker 1: both of their last two drives. Payne got stuffed for
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  Speaker 1: a one-yard loss on fourth and one from the five.
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  Speaker 1: And then Craig rolls left on fourth and two from
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  Speaker 1: the ten, throws it in the dirt with 4.05 to go.
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  Speaker 1: And the running game for TCU looked pretty good so
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  Speaker 1: long as they were shifting. As long as they didn't
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  Speaker 1: run between the tackles. You try and run between the
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  Speaker 1: guards and there was just nothing there But if they
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  Speaker 1: got those defensive linemen out of alignment or to start moving,
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  Speaker 1: Carolina is so young they don't fully understand leverage yet,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think. But either way, the game ended on
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  Speaker 1: TCU's 11th penalty. 11 penalties. And they were worse than
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  Speaker 1: the Big 12 at that last year. They jumped off
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  Speaker 1: sides on 4th and 1, handed Carolina the first down
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  Speaker 1: that iced the game. 11 flags and a season opener
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  Speaker 1: is going to beat you 9 times out of 10.
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  Speaker 1: They were without Jordan Dwyer, their top returning receiver, 54
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  Speaker 1: catches last year. He's got a foot injury. That's a
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  Speaker 1: real absence. I'm not going to pretend like it isn't. Now,
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  Speaker 1: as far as the honest take from it, I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: crown anybody from this. It's one game in a monsoon
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  Speaker 1: on a neutral field 3,500 miles from home, and Carolina
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  Speaker 1: scored 15 points. We have seen what this Ireland game
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  Speaker 1: does to teams. And again, this is the fourth time
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  Speaker 1: in the last five years that that the underdog has
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  Speaker 1: won outright. Carolina's win total was 4.5. TCU's was 6.5.
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  Speaker 1: Those numbers got a lot more interesting. Both teams are
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  Speaker 1: off next week before September 12th, home openers. Carolina gets
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  Speaker 1: East Tennessee State. TCU gets Grambling, so they both should
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  Speaker 1: win those. The noise around the program off the field
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  Speaker 1: is still pretty loud for North Carolina. GM Michael Lombardi
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  Speaker 1: still out on paid administrative leave over an HR complaint.
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  Speaker 1: And The university has outside counsel investigating the program. That
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  Speaker 1: doesn't go away just because you won this ballgame. But
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  Speaker 1: winning does buy you some quiet. And, I mean, for
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  Speaker 1: the first time in a while, Chapel Hill has gotten quiet. Now,
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  Speaker 1: to be fair, this whole offseason, they have been pretty quiet.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's certainly a noticeable change from last year.
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  Speaker 1: You're not hearing about Jordan Hudson. You're not hearing about
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  Speaker 1: Belichick and how they're the 33rd NFL team and all this.
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  Speaker 1: They have brought in young players, and they are working
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  Speaker 1: to develop them, and they certainly look like they're doing
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  Speaker 1: that on the defensive side. So let me take 30 seconds.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Let's go to Vegas. Memphis 27, UNLV 21.
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  Speaker 1: This one is personal for me because I live about
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  Speaker 1: 20 minutes from campus, and I felt good about this
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  Speaker 1: all week. Memphis went to Allegiant Stadium. They were getting
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  Speaker 1: five and a half points at close. They beat UNLV
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  Speaker 1: 27 to 21 in Charles Huff's first game as head coach.
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  Speaker 1: This box score is one of the strangest winning box
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  Speaker 1: scores you're going to see all year. UNLV outgained Memphis
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  Speaker 1: 460 to 418. UNLV held the football for 35 minutes
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  Speaker 1: and 9 seconds. That is a 10 and a half
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  Speaker 1: minute edge in time of possession. UNLV turned it over
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  Speaker 1: zero times. Memphis turned it over once. Yards, clock, turnovers,
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  Speaker 1: UNLV won all three and they lost the game by six.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm sure you're asking how? Well, I will tell
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  Speaker 1: you how. The trenches. Memphis' defensive front just ate all night.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it was ridiculous. And I thought that I
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  Speaker 1: saw that based on the rosters, but Memphis, their front
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  Speaker 1: put up 11 tackles for loss and six sacks on
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Arnold. Over the final six drives of the football game, UNLV,
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  Speaker 1: who had been moving it at will in the second quarter,
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  Speaker 1: they gained 113 total yards. That's it. And the sequence
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  Speaker 1: that decided it, UNLV drove down to the Memphis 18
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  Speaker 1: with about six and a half to go, down six.
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  Speaker 1: They go forward on fourth and seven. Arnold gets sacked.
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  Speaker 1: Turnover on downs. Next possession, Arnold gets sacked again on
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  Speaker 1: third down from his own 31. The game's over, right?
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  Speaker 1: The ending matters twice over because UNLV had won 11
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  Speaker 1: straight games when leading at halftime. Their last loss with
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  Speaker 1: a halftime lead was against Syracuse in 2024. They led
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  Speaker 1: 14-7 at the break Saturday. They got outscored 20-7 the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the way. New Memphis quarterback Marcus Stokes, he
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  Speaker 1: went 15-26, zero turnovers. That's the whole ballgame for a
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  Speaker 1: first-year system. Jalen Carter, transfer in from Southern Miss, 97
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  Speaker 1: yards rushing and a touchdown on 15 carries. Had a
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  Speaker 1: 36-yard house call to tie it at 21. Felipe LaForge
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  Speaker 1: kicked two field goals, um, 32 and 36 yards, that's
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  Speaker 1: your final margin. UNLV missed from 39 at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the first half. That would have made it 17-7
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  Speaker 1: going into the break. Memphis came out, scored, is what
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  Speaker 1: it is. Like, it's awesome. So why this game mattered?
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  Speaker 1: The highest-ranked group of six team gets the playoff spot.
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  Speaker 1: UNLV was the preseason Mountain West favorite. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: folks picked to be that team. And Memphis walked into
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  Speaker 1: their building and took the ballgame. Now, the American now
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  Speaker 1: has the head-to-head with Mountain West. If Memphis runs the
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  Speaker 1: table in that league, it's kind of hard to argue
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  Speaker 1: anybody else in that bracket. Now, they've still got to
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  Speaker 1: play at Boise State in Week 2. Charles Huff added
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  Speaker 1: something like 70 players to that roster this offseason. Nobody
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  Speaker 1: knew what this team was. That includes me. The roster
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  Speaker 1: looked really good. But now we've got a data point.
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  Speaker 1: The data point is they can win in a fight. Also,
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  Speaker 1: interesting nugget. first Memphis head coach to ever win a
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  Speaker 1: road debut. I thought that was intriguing. They've had some
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  Speaker 1: good coaches there, but he's the first one to win
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  Speaker 1: a road debut, so cheers to Charles Huff for that.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of holding up under a beating, let's talk about joints.
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  Speaker 1: spend Saturdays on your feet. 10 in the morning until
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  Speaker 1: the West Coast games kick off. And by Sunday, you know,
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  Speaker 1: your legs are barking at you like you ran a marathon, right?
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  Speaker 1: Or maybe, you know, you're actually out there doing work. Lifting, running,
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  Speaker 1: back to it. Game number three, Virginia 34, NC State 8.
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  Speaker 1: This was the most complete performance of the weekend. It
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  Speaker 1: was not particularly close at all. Virginia smoked them in
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  Speaker 1: Charlottesville in front of over 62,000 people. It was the
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  Speaker 1: eighth largest crowd in the history of Scott Stadium. And
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  Speaker 1: here's a shocking number that I didn't realize before. Virginia
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  Speaker 1: had not beaten NC State at home since 2006. 20 years.
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  Speaker 1: And that was over and done in about 90 minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Bo Pribula was at Penn State, went to Missouri, now
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  Speaker 1: he's at Virginia. 9 of 11 for two touchdowns and
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  Speaker 1: 155 yards. He goes out, he runs for 110 yards
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  Speaker 1: on 15 carries. First Virginia quarterback to run for over
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  Speaker 1: 100 yards in a game since Brendan Armstrong in 2022. 14.1
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  Speaker 1: yards per attempt through the air. That is a video
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  Speaker 1: game line. The total yards overall, 413 to 168. On
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  Speaker 1: the ground, Virginia had 258. And that's why they were
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  Speaker 1: able to throw the ball the way that they were.
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  Speaker 1: Because that offensive line for Virginia, like I had read
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  Speaker 1: all about it, you know, fifth-year grad student, two sixth-year
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  Speaker 1: grad students, two seventh-year grad students, they got experienced offensively. dudes,
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  Speaker 1: and good gracious. Third quarter into the fourth quarter, Virginia
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  Speaker 1: had a 23-play, 75-yard, 12-minute and 15-second drive. That was
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  Speaker 1: a school record for plays in a drive. Had multiple
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  Speaker 1: fourth-down conversions. Finished it with a one-yard Zay Davis touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is service academy stuff. NC State's side
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  Speaker 1: of this is ugly. C.J. Bailey, uh, He was a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people's breakout ACC quarterback. He was 12 of
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  Speaker 1: 23 for 84 yards. That is a career low, plus
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  Speaker 1: an interception, lost a fumble in the red zone, 5-3
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  Speaker 1: and outs on 12 drives. Average possession length was only
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  Speaker 1: 1 minute and 48 seconds. This is the first season
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  Speaker 1: opening loss for the Pack since 2017. And... I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this is an ACC road game beatdown for NC State. Like,
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  Speaker 1: that's rough. Let me throw this out there. Virginia only
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  Speaker 1: got two sacks despite playing with a lead the entire game.
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  Speaker 1: That's pretty low for a unit that should be teeing off.
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  Speaker 1: And Pribula took some shots on those 15 carries. He
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  Speaker 1: got up slow more than one time. But that is
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  Speaker 1: the offense, right? A quarterback running 15 times a game.
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  Speaker 1: And if he goes down, you know, okay, let's see
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  Speaker 1: about Eli Holstein. Let's see what happens there. But look,
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  Speaker 1: Virginia went to the ACC title game last year. They
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  Speaker 1: opened conference play 1-0 with a 26-point win. Like, I
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  Speaker 1: Let's do the lightning round right quick. Rapid fire. Five games.
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  Speaker 1: There's something worth knowing on all of these. Stanford 37,
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  Speaker 1: Hawaii 27. It was the most entertaining game of the day.
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  Speaker 1: Damn near broke a lot of tickets, right? Stanford's up
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  Speaker 1: 16 in the fourth quarter. Hawaii scores three straight touchdowns,
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  Speaker 1: takes a 27-23 lead with four minutes left. And then,
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  Speaker 1: of course, what everybody expected, I'm sure, the Michigan transfer
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  Speaker 1: Davis Warren playing his first football in almost 20 months
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  Speaker 1: after tearing his ACL. He drove him 62 yards. Micah
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  Speaker 1: Ford punches in the third touchdown of the night with
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  Speaker 1: 141 to go, 30-27. And then 29 seconds later, all
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  Speaker 1: of the Stanford backers that had minus three and a
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  Speaker 1: half all the way up to whatever, uh, They all
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  Speaker 1: get gifted a late score that covers all the numbers.
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  Speaker 1: The over hit because of that. Yeah. I mean, Micah
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  Speaker 1: Alohado got strip sacked. Tafiti, I think is the guy's name,
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  Speaker 1: scooped it up, ran 31 yards for the score, 37-27.
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  Speaker 1: Warren went 22 of 34 for 310 yards in his debut.
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  Speaker 1: The new head coach, Tavita Pritchard, gets a win. Andrew
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  Speaker 1: Luck upstairs is GM. He's feeling good. Stanford turns around.
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  Speaker 1: They play No. 7 Miami on Friday. Short week after
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  Speaker 1: an emotional escape. That is going to be rough. That
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  Speaker 1: number is like 24.5 right now in favor of Miami.
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  Speaker 1: Curious to see how that's going to go. Florida State 34,
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  Speaker 1: New Mexico State 17. Seminoles were laying 31.5. They won
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  Speaker 1: by 17 here and it really was a lot closer
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  Speaker 1: than that. Ashton Daniels Third school in three years, he
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  Speaker 1: went from Stanford to Auburn to Tallahassee. Now, he was 17-27,
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  Speaker 1: passing 202 yards with a touchdown and a pick, plus
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  Speaker 1: a rushing score. Yeah. Yeah. Croma had 115 yards and
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  Speaker 1: had a 52-yard run, but New Mexico State threw for
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  Speaker 1: 272 yards. They went 10-17 on third down. Norvell's postgame was... Miscommunications, penalties,
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  Speaker 1: a touchdown called back, a blown coverage. He's coming off
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  Speaker 1: back-to-back losing seasons, and he's got four losing seasons in
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  Speaker 1: six years in Tallahassee. Next up is SMU and then
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  Speaker 1: a trip to Alabama. If that performance repeats, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to be having a pretty serious conversation about Mike Norvell
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  Speaker 1: before October gets here. So we'll see what the Knowles,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, maybe this was just a look ahead. Like
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  Speaker 1: they've got SMU on Monday night, Labor Day night. I'm curious.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they don't look very good right now. New
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  Speaker 1: Mexico State should not be in that ballgame with you.
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  Speaker 1: And they were able to move the football on them.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of scary. Curious what Rhett Lashley is going
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  Speaker 1: to do to them. USC 42, San Jose State 26.
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  Speaker 1: The Trojans led 35-3, 33 quarters. And then they let
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  Speaker 1: San Jose State hang 23 in the fourth, which is
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  Speaker 1: how a 39-point favorite loses. only wins by 16, right?
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  Speaker 1: Jade Maiva was surgical. 25-29, 286, two touchdowns. Had a
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  Speaker 1: rushing score on the opening drive. Trent Mosley had seven
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  Speaker 1: for 118 and a touchdown in his debut. Six of
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  Speaker 1: the 10 Trojans who caught a pass were making their
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  Speaker 1: USC debut. Uh, And remember, they lost Makai Lemon and
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  Speaker 1: Jacoby Lane to the NFL. The replacements looked fine. They
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  Speaker 1: were missing their defensive tackle, Jakeem Stewart. Two projected starting
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  Speaker 1: receivers had apparent injuries. You know, we're going to see
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  Speaker 1: what this looks like. USC hosts Fresno State Friday. Fresno
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  Speaker 1: has more of a pulse than San Jose State, I think,
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  Speaker 1: but curious about that defense. And it might just be
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  Speaker 1: the USC defense backups, right? Second and third teamers. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: that's what we saw. They USC doesn't care about these games.
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  Speaker 1: Their season starts when Oregon comes to town. North Dakota
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: State 33, Jacksonville State 7. The Bison walked into the FBS.
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  Speaker 1: They acted like they'd been there. 7-7 game, and then
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  Speaker 1: they had 26 unanswered, and it wasn't even that close.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the Fargo Dome was packed. Since 2010, Notre Dame,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: not Notre Dame, excuse me, North Dakota State North Dakota
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  Speaker 1: State has the best winning percentage in all of D1 football,
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  Speaker 1: like 88.6% winning percentage. Alabama is at 86.9%. North Dakota
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  Speaker 1: State also won their 28th straight home opener. Jacksonville State,
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  Speaker 1: 2 of 10 on third down. Mountain West is going
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  Speaker 1: to be interesting this year. Very, very interesting. And finally,
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  Speaker 1: the game that was on ESPN +. I did get
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  Speaker 1: eyes on this a little bit. I had it on
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  Speaker 1: my iPad. Jacksonville State. Sacramento State's FBS debut was a
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  Speaker 1: weird one. Every point in this game came in the
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: second and fourth quarters. Eastern Michigan hung 21 in the
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: second quarter. Sacramento State's first FBS touchdown was a scoop
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  Speaker 1: and score. Xavier Williams picking up Noah Kim's strip-zack fumble,
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  Speaker 1: taking to 29 yards. Eastern Michigan hosts San Jose State Friday.
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  Speaker 1: That's going to be interesting. I don't know that the
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  Speaker 1: line moves at all. It was Eastern Michigan opening three
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  Speaker 1: and a half. I'm curious... If that'll change at all,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it will. Both of these teams performed
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  Speaker 1: just about how we expected, except San Jose State looked
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  Speaker 1: just a little bit better. Just a little bit better.
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  Speaker 1: As far as the betting wrap-up, here's where the money went.
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  Speaker 1: There's two patterns you needed to file away. The under
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: went 6-2. And the two overs were both pretty fraudulent.
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  Speaker 1: USC San Jose State needed a 30-point fourth quarter after
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  Speaker 1: the Trojans led 35-3. And Stanford Hawaii needed a defensive
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  Speaker 1: touchdown with 1-12 left. So take that for what it's
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  Speaker 1: worth in week one. Early season offenses in the new
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: systems are usually slower than the market thinks. And the
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  Speaker 1: market kept moving toward the under all week, and it
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: still wasn't low enough. Number two, the favorites went four
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  Speaker 1: and four against number six and two straight up. The
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: two dogs that went out right were the two that, well,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: North Carolina I think you would least expect. Memphis got
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: a lot of love. But Carolina was getting eight and
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: a half. Memphis was getting five and a half. Both
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: road or neutral dogs. Both won with defense. Yeah. A
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: couple more notes for the sharps in the room. TCU
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  Speaker 1: took about 78% of the money line handle, 74% of
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: the spread handle, 83% of the tickets were on the over,
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  Speaker 1: and the books swept the game about as clean as
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: you can sweep one. Memphis UNLV opened at 60, got
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: bet down to 56.5, the under hit. When a total
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  Speaker 1: moves that far, that far in advance, somebody usually knows something.
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  Speaker 1: And as far as live betting goes, Stanford was up
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  Speaker 1: 30-27 with 112 left, which is not a cover at
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: minus 4. That fumble return touchdown flipped the whole side.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: If you had Hawaii plus the points, you watched the
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: defensive touchdown mug you in the last minute of the
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: season opener. So, welcome back to college football. That's the
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: way these things happen sometimes. Alright, so week zero was
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: the appetizer. As far as what's on the table for
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: next week, I mean, we got a lot of fun things.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: I'm going to be going over a lot of games
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: this week for week one. I will be on VSIN
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: on Monday night about 11 p.m. with Dustin. So, go
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: ahead and make sure you were ready for that. Friday night,
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  Speaker 1: we got Miami Stanford, uh, Indiana, you know, the defending
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: national champs. They open against North Texas on Saturday, Oregon
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  Speaker 1: gets Boise, LSU, Clemson. Of course, Sunday night, we get
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Notre Dame, Wisconsin, Ole Miss, LSU. I mean, uh, Ole
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Miss Louisville, not LSU, excuse me. Uh, Monday SMU goes
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: to Tallahassee. So there's a lot on the slate. It's,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: it's not the best slate in the world, but it's
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: all right. It's all right. Um, The AP poll does
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: not update until Tuesday, September 8th, after week one wraps.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: So no new rankings this week. I'm not going to
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: be doing an AP poll reaction. Three quick things, and
• 24:43
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• 25:17
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• 25:21
  Speaker 1: My feelings are fragile right now. All right. Uh, with
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: that said, I mean, we got, we got a lot
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: to get into. It's going to be a fun year.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: I am so ready for it. As far as, uh,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: The official plays over on the... We were up after
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: this weekend. Let's say that. We were up. I don't
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: have it in front of me. I probably should have.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Next week, I will do a better job. But I'm
• 25:45
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• 25:47
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• 25:50
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