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Mac & Bone Show - Chris Fallica Interview · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Right now, though, we got we got to do.
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  Speaker 2: Make sure we do a bunch of college football with
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  Speaker 2: our next guest, big college football guy.
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  Speaker 1: I would think you first.
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  Speaker 2: He first came across your world as a sports fan,
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  Speaker 2: being known as the Bear as a part of the
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  Speaker 2: College Game Day crew.
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  Speaker 1: He is with Fox.
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  Speaker 3: I use I use his betting advice every day during
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  Speaker 3: the World Cup. There you go, Ben, I act like
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  Speaker 3: it's my own but that's what I do around here. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: now I'm just kidding. Now the secrets you've been acting.
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  Speaker 1: Like you like? You know, do you think I'm winning
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  Speaker 1: so much? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: He is a soccer guy too, so yeah, we could
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  Speaker 2: definitely ask for for betting angles on the World Cup
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  Speaker 2: in college football. He is Chris Felika, the Bear with
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  Speaker 2: Fox Sports, and he joins us on the Mack and
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  Speaker 2: Bone Show in Charlotte. Chris, thank you so much for
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  Speaker 2: coming on.
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  Speaker 1: Man. How you doing.
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  Speaker 4: I'm doing well. No, I appreciate the appreciate the shout out.
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  Speaker 4: I'm glad to hear that you're digging with you. I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 4: I'm just hearing myself when Ray my year, So it's
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  Speaker 4: very very weird, So I apologize for that. But yeah, no,
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  Speaker 4: I'm glad. They glad to picture winning and it should
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  Speaker 4: be a fun nights to night.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, let's try to reset this for Chris. And we
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  Speaker 3: know the phone lines good in his ear? What try
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  Speaker 3: to reset him? Call him back the money?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh you want to Okay, you want to call Okay,
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  Speaker 2: we'll call you back at a second. Bear, we'll call
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  Speaker 2: you back. Thanks, Bear. All Right, it's tough. There is
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  Speaker 2: this like an every other day thing where something's I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, we aren't good enough to overcome this, but
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  Speaker 2: with everything going, with everything going great around us, our
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  Speaker 2: show is really mid. We are not good enough to
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  Speaker 2: overcome this.
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  Speaker 3: You know what it sounds like we get that could
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  Speaker 3: also be a great excuse, guys, use that day.
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  Speaker 1: I can't hear myself. I gotta go there. You're trying
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  Speaker 1: to get out of this right now.
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  Speaker 2: I do want to ask him about France, though I
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  Speaker 2: want to we should do like a ton of college
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  Speaker 2: football with him.
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  Speaker 1: But I do want to ask him if West he
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  Speaker 1: was having that issue as well. West.
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  Speaker 2: He seemed a little like off it, you know what
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  Speaker 2: I mean, like a little dwait in response. But you
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  Speaker 2: know what, he's still got two shots in if the
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  Speaker 2: missus though, you know just that what doesn't matter what's
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  Speaker 2: going on in Westy's ear. He will still get a
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  Speaker 2: couple of shots in and his wife.
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  Speaker 3: But as long as he's not here and you twise,
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  Speaker 3: I think it'll be okay hears or me twise, that's
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  Speaker 3: the problem.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's bring bring him back, Chris de bear FeliCa.
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  Speaker 2: All right, you got us now, man, No, that was weird.
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  Speaker 4: I'm still getting it. But we'll work for it.
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  Speaker 1: Fine, let's try to battle through.
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  Speaker 2: We apologize, let's battle through before we get to all
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  Speaker 2: this different college football convo because we're jonesing for it.
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  Speaker 2: France looks ridiculous at the World Cup. Would you advise
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  Speaker 2: people to try to bet anybody else other than France now?
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  Speaker 2: Or is it just is it inevitable? Chris?
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  Speaker 4: It's not inevitable because they still have Spain on that
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  Speaker 4: side of the drawing. Spain did beat them at the
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  Speaker 4: End of the Earth a couple of years ago. But
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  Speaker 4: it looks like it's gonna take a very off night
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  Speaker 4: from France for them not to at least get to
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  Speaker 4: the final. Like it looks like we're gonna get a
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  Speaker 4: repeat of the twenty twenty two final between Argentina and France.
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  Speaker 4: Argentina that they have a much easier side of the draw,
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  Speaker 4: and obviously they're good defensively. But now that you have
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  Speaker 4: the Baba scoring, you've got Barkola scoring, you've got jim
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  Speaker 4: bell A scoring, you've got Lise leading. The tournament is
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  Speaker 4: just they are so deep and so potent. It looked.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, they are the best team, but as we've
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  Speaker 4: seen so far in this tournament a couple of times,
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  Speaker 4: with some massive upsets, the best team doesn't always win.
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  Speaker 4: But I do think France is a clear favorite, and
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  Speaker 4: you can still find some France Argentina named the finalists
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  Speaker 4: propositions out there around six to one or so, and
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  Speaker 4: that might be a really good bet to make at
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  Speaker 4: this point.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to assume the US moves on there,
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  Speaker 3: but if they do against Bosnia, Belgium Senegal, to mean,
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  Speaker 3: is a fascinating matchup today that seems like one of
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  Speaker 3: those ones that could end up in pks. Who do
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  Speaker 3: you say the US would match up better with Belgium
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  Speaker 3: or Senegal.
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  Speaker 4: I think they would match up better with Belgium, and
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  Speaker 4: I say it's weird. I say that because Belgium obviously
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  Speaker 4: has some world class players in Docu and Tressard and
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  Speaker 4: de Bruyna, and you bring in big Romanlo Locaco and
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  Speaker 4: you got Courtois who can steal a game off the bench.
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  Speaker 4: But but the athleticism of Senegal and the waves that
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  Speaker 4: they can come at you at that I think that
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  Speaker 4: would be a problem and they would be favored against Senegal,
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  Speaker 4: so you have that mentality as well. I keep going
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  Speaker 4: back and forth on that match between Belgium and Senagale
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  Speaker 4: because neither team really looked great until they needed to
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  Speaker 4: win against the bottom team and the group to get through.
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  Speaker 4: Senegal has had a lot of problems in their camp
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  Speaker 4: with accommodations and issues with the federation. In Belgium's the
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  Speaker 4: team I have not necessarily been super high on, but
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  Speaker 4: I wonder if maybe this kind of they kind of
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  Speaker 4: finally played themselves into shape in that match against New
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  Speaker 4: Zealand and they are super dangerous. But you think back
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  Speaker 4: to the friendly that they had with Belgium a couple
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  Speaker 4: of months back. The game was closed in the first
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  Speaker 4: half and then the second half of all the changes came.
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  Speaker 4: So I would think the US would rather face Belgium
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  Speaker 4: other than they would Senegal. It's gonna be tough.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting, all right, Let's uh, Chris, the bear Forlika Fox
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  Speaker 2: Sports is with us, all right, Chris. I know you're
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  Speaker 2: pulling for the US tonight, but I know you're also
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  Speaker 2: a Miami guy. You're a Hurricane, you went you went
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  Speaker 2: to college there. I find myself and this might not
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  Speaker 2: be good news for you, Chris, because unlike you, I'm
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  Speaker 2: a terrible better and I'm a I am, I'm a
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  Speaker 2: jinx and a curse. But I find myself really converted
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  Speaker 2: on Mario Cristo Ball in this Canes program, and I
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  Speaker 2: you know, and there's obviously a ton of money back
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  Speaker 2: in it. I just feel like they're gonna get the
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  Speaker 2: that they're gonna get a title at some point, and
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  Speaker 2: I think there's a good chance it happens this year.
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  Speaker 2: Would you tell me to slow down a little bitter?
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  Speaker 2: Do you embrace that kind of talk?
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  Speaker 4: Both, which I guess is the truth, but we live
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  Speaker 4: a little of them between. I think what we saw
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  Speaker 4: last year was the building process that Maria crist Ball
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  Speaker 4: has had with that program getting to the championship game.
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  Speaker 4: They were always a little I think under it. Remember
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  Speaker 4: the beginning of the season, it was like, who's the
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  Speaker 4: best team in the country, Iami Ohio State, And then
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  Speaker 4: Miami had a couple of slip ups during the during
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  Speaker 4: the middle of the season, and by the end of
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  Speaker 4: the year they were playing as well as anybody in
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  Speaker 4: the country. I think the one thing that I would
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  Speaker 4: pump the brakes on for this year is, you know,
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  Speaker 4: a lot of times you lose a bunch of team
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  Speaker 4: guys who had suffered through the program and it just
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  Speaker 4: kind of led. You lose a Ruben Dane, You're losing
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  Speaker 4: a Keen Message, or you lose a king Ante Scott.
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  Speaker 4: You'll lose a CJ. Daniels, You'll lose a Keen and
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  Speaker 4: Marian guys who were like the locker room alpha guys
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  Speaker 4: of the team and that kind of self police and
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  Speaker 4: just the culture like oozed through them. Like those guys
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  Speaker 4: are gone, it's going to take a Mark Fletcher or
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  Speaker 4: maybe Malachai Toni or someone else on the Lawrence Motain,
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  Speaker 4: like one of those guys on the other side of
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  Speaker 4: the ball too, to kind of step up and be
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  Speaker 4: that guy. But talent wise, there's a really good chance
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  Speaker 4: that this team is more talented than the team that
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  Speaker 4: they had last year that got to the College Football
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  Speaker 4: Playoff final. And I did make a little Bowl prediction
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  Speaker 4: in one of my Fox Sports columns earlier this spring
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  Speaker 4: that I do think the winner of the Miami Notre
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  Speaker 4: Name game in November will finish the regular season undefeated
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  Speaker 4: and be the number one seed going into the college
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  Speaker 4: football playoffs. So yeah, I can definitely optimism is high,
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  Speaker 4: and it should be high.
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  Speaker 3: Find that at Fox sports dot com. Bear is kind
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  Speaker 3: enough to doing it right now. Chris Flika working through
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  Speaker 3: some phone issues that we're having. Bear, If you decide
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  Speaker 3: that you don't want to answer this question and pretend
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  Speaker 3: like you can't hear because the phone, I understand.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to.
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  Speaker 3: Ask you, now, who do you project as the second best.
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  Speaker 1: Team in the a SEC right now?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, that's a good question, it is. I know SMU
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  Speaker 4: has a lot of hype and a lot of Pcatson
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  Speaker 4: back and Ret's done a really good job there, and
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  Speaker 4: that beat Miami last year. I still it's hard to
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  Speaker 4: quit Clemson just because of the run and the sustained
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  Speaker 4: run that they've had it and they still despite not
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  Speaker 4: really acquiring a bunch of guys in the portal, they
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  Speaker 4: still have really good recruiting classes, and they a bunch
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  Speaker 4: of picks in the NFL last year, and at some
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  Speaker 4: point you just have to kind of respect what they've
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  Speaker 4: done over the last what ten twelve years now even
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  Speaker 4: longer than that. Under Dabbla, they get Miami at home.
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  Speaker 4: There's probably a little bit more or know, there were
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  Speaker 4: some changes on the coaching staff. Club Nick is gone now,
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  Speaker 4: so maybe that's a good thing for Clemson to get
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  Speaker 4: to move on from him. But I think talent wise,
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  Speaker 4: I think it still ultimately is Clemson, although I would
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  Speaker 4: accept SMU, I would accept the Louisville as an answer.
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  Speaker 2: They're obviously one of the storylines in college football, and
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  Speaker 2: we don't hate it. N ACC country is that the SEC
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  Speaker 2: has not even been in its title game for three years.
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  Speaker 1: The horror, the horror.
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  Speaker 2: So SEC haters love that, and obviously the Big Tennis
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  Speaker 2: stepped up as the conference that's winning a championship. Do
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  Speaker 2: you feel like it's going to shift backed or do
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  Speaker 2: you feel like NIL has kind of changed the balance
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  Speaker 2: of power and kind of hurt the SEC? Like do
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  Speaker 2: you think they reclaim their throne? How do you feel
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  Speaker 2: about that?
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  Speaker 4: It's made it totally more wide open, and I had
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  Speaker 4: my initially thought that it was going to make just
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  Speaker 4: make the rich get richer in the player, and obviously
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  Speaker 4: that hasn't happened. It's hard to say because I know
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  Speaker 4: the battle of the conferences and everyone loves to hate
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  Speaker 4: on the SEC and love that they have they won
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  Speaker 4: a title in the last three years and gotten a
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  Speaker 4: team to the Talian Game. But it's both things can
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  Speaker 4: be true. The best teams in the Indiana, Ohio State, Oregon,
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  Speaker 4: those can be the top three teams in that lead
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  Speaker 4: can be better than the top three teams in the SEC.
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  Speaker 4: But still like the SEC from one to ten or whatever,
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  Speaker 4: it's better than like one to ten for the Big ten.
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  Speaker 4: So it's not like the SEC is total garbage now,
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  Speaker 4: but it's it's good for college football. It's great for
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  Speaker 4: college football. Like I think Georgia is gonna be really good.
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  Speaker 4: I think Texas is going to be really good. LSU
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  Speaker 4: obviously is going to be an interesting story. Alabama can
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  Speaker 4: they make a step back up this year. It'll be
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  Speaker 4: interesting to see. But I love the fact that you've
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  Speaker 4: got now we're talking about Miami is a national title contender,
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  Speaker 4: where we're talking about Texas Tech, regardless of what your
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  Speaker 4: opinion is on how they handle the Brendan soursby a
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  Speaker 4: situation that they are making moves. You've got teams in
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  Speaker 4: the Big Ten. You've got a bunch of teams, and
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  Speaker 4: it's a Notre Dame is a national title contender. Again, like,
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  Speaker 4: it's good the way that the pay for player has
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  Speaker 4: kind of stepped up and now it is a little
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  Speaker 4: bit more spread out and where we'll see how sustainable
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  Speaker 4: it is in a lot of places. But you could,
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  Speaker 4: like I said, you can make a case like going
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  Speaker 4: into the year, you could say, Devin, probably seven different
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  Speaker 4: teams are gonna win the national title and you wouldn't
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  Speaker 4: get a lot of pushback. I don't think for many people.
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  Speaker 3: All Right, bear one more question for you, as one
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  Speaker 3: of college football's foremost authorities on gambling with Bear bettsfoxports
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  Speaker 3: dot com, give us a from a national view, not
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  Speaker 3: just acc SEC. What's a good over win total bet
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  Speaker 3: this year and what's an under?
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  Speaker 4: In your mind?
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  Speaker 1: Give us an over under this year.
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  Speaker 4: I have not found too many overs. I love playing
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  Speaker 4: unders in the beginning of the year. I think Michigan
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  Speaker 4: is a really good under at eight and a half.
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  Speaker 4: I think if you look at the player, the teams
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  Speaker 4: that they played last year, they want a finishing rank.
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  Speaker 4: They lost to all of them by the double digits.
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  Speaker 4: And I think while with Kyle Wenningham moved long term
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  Speaker 4: is going to pay off, I think the schedule, the
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  Speaker 4: way that breaks down is going to be very difficult
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  Speaker 4: for them this year. I think Michigan State as well
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  Speaker 4: in the Big Ten, is another under team. Arkansas, I
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  Speaker 4: would say is certainly an under team. I have a
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  Speaker 4: long sec losing street to begin with new coach and
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  Speaker 4: whatever else. That's a That's a team that I would
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  Speaker 4: go under as well. In Florida State I think obviously
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  Speaker 4: is down as well. So that though those are four
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  Speaker 4: teams that I've bet a season win totals under on
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  Speaker 4: and anyway, when I find it over, I'll let you know.
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  Speaker 4: My mister positivity, my mister sunlight, I don't know. I
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  Speaker 4: don't have my fun glasses on data to be positive
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  Speaker 4: going into the season on many teams right now.
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  Speaker 3: He says, we had a Florida State fan Bear asked
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  Speaker 3: before you said that, say, hey, How'm good Florida States
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  Speaker 3: some while boy, he just did put.
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  Speaker 1: Him on the under that'sious. Yeah, it's hard.
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  Speaker 4: I know. I'm a Miami guy. I'd like Florida State
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  Speaker 4: to be to be competitive and bring back the eraror
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  Speaker 4: that I had. I grew up with it with the
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  Speaker 4: school with in the nineties where it was one versus two,
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  Speaker 4: and one versus three and top five matchup every time.
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  Speaker 4: But they are having problems in the portal. That quarterback
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  Speaker 4: situation is up in the air, fruiting classes are done.
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  Speaker 4: There's a lot a lot of negativity right now. Uh
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  Speaker 4: and I don't want to say apathy, but a lot
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  Speaker 4: of questions surrounding Michael Roll in that program. If they
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  Speaker 4: loosed SMU out of the.
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  Speaker 1: Gate, look out, no doubt.
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  Speaker 2: And the ACC needs them to be good, right like
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  Speaker 2: we used to all the time talk here about your Canes.
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  Speaker 1: ACC needs the Canes to be back.
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  Speaker 2: Well, now they're on the way back. Clemson's another one,
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  Speaker 2: like they could really use Clemson getting back. So anyway,
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  Speaker 2: your tech wal health though, right.
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  Speaker 4: Frank, Yeah, Yes, they're they're a team. They're a team
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  Speaker 4: that I would consider. I mean, they're trendy and it's
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  Speaker 4: probably taxed him and baked it on the number a
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  Speaker 4: little bit, but he James brought in some guys from
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  Speaker 4: Penn State. The recruiting is going to do well. That
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  Speaker 4: that was. That's a for people who are for UVA fans,
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  Speaker 4: for Miami fans have to whoever in the a SEC
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  Speaker 4: like you're on that level. That's a dangerous higher because
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  Speaker 4: he could get that place going again and get them
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  Speaker 4: up to the level that that Frank teamer had the mascaus.
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  Speaker 4: He is a really, really good coach, regardless of the oh,
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  Speaker 4: we can't beat the top five team? Gee? What what
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  Speaker 4: a what a? What an indictment? You can't beat Oregon
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  Speaker 4: or Ohio state teams that are making the college football
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  Speaker 4: playoffs in the semi finals and winning the title. Gosh,
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  Speaker 4: gosh forbid.
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  Speaker 2: I gotta be honest. I like the I love the
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  Speaker 2: a C. But there ain't gonna be as many top
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  Speaker 2: five opponents for him in the a c S. Just
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  Speaker 2: just real talk the best man, all right, thanks for
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  Speaker 2: bearing with our phone issues.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know what I did there bearing with our
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  Speaker 1: phone issues.
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  Speaker 2: The bear Chris Filica, Fox Sports, thank you brother, keeping
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  Speaker 2: joining the World Cup and.
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  Speaker 1: College football will be here soon. Brother, Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 4: We take care, guys,