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Friday Edition of the Drive - Hour One · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Speaker 1: WRKS Pickens Jackson. Hey, what do you say we sing
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  Speaker 1: a driving song? There's not going to be any singing
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  Speaker 1: around here. Just real sports. On the Afternoon Drive with
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  Speaker 1: Jake Wimberly. Oh, this is going to be sweet. And
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  Speaker 1: it's all right here, right now. On ESPN 105.9 The
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  Speaker 2: It is the second day of October 2026. Champion of
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  Speaker 2: the Chair Sports, Maven on your radio. Glad to be
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  Speaker 2: with you on a Friday as we take you into
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  Speaker 2: the weekend. We're glad to be back with you. It
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  Speaker 2: was a travel day yesterday. We're on the road again today.
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  Speaker 2: High school football out at Brandon for Northwest Rankin. Region
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  Speaker 2: play begins and has begun around the state of Mississippi.
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  Speaker 2: Several high school games last night trying to dodge the weather,
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  Speaker 2: but it looks like the weather dodged everybody because there's
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be a fairly dry track around the state.
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  Speaker 2: Make it a little rain tonight as we'll get into
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  Speaker 2: we'll get a final preview of Mississippi State and Alabama
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  Speaker 2: as they are less than 24 hours to kick off
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  Speaker 2: in Starkville as Alabama will travel over in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: They will not come over this afternoon. They're going to
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  Speaker 2: just make the day trip. And I've got some thoughts
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  Speaker 2: on that because we have seen teams try to do that,
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  Speaker 2: and sometimes it doesn't work out too well on the
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  Speaker 2: day trips. And one of those was Mississippi State. And
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  Speaker 2: we'll have Rafael Esparza coming in at four. And who
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  Speaker 2: knows who else may roll in here. Beeb, I know
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  Speaker 2: that you've got to work tonight, so you've got a
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  Speaker 2: long day ahead of you. Did we walk today? We'll
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  Speaker 2: say Beeb didn't walk today. Maybe he's walking right now.
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  Speaker 2: Let's walk on over here to the notes. All right.
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  Speaker 2: Note from yesterday. Reminder, now that football kicked off last night,
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  Speaker 2: There's a college football or NFL game every single day
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  Speaker 2: for the next 61 days, and that started yesterday. The
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  Speaker 2: fun kicks off with yesterday or kicked off with Western
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  Speaker 2: Kentucky and New Mexico State, North Texas, and Tulsa. So
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  Speaker 2: get up as you got football every day. NFL, college, Maction,
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  Speaker 2: all the things. Now all the way for the next
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  Speaker 2: 60 days, 61 as of yesterday. College football television ratings
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  Speaker 2: are down 11% for the first month of the 2025 season, but.
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  Speaker 2: A source with knowledge of Disney's viewership data tells Andy
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  Speaker 2: Staples the SEC minutes watched are up 41% year over year.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get into this story and kind of dive into
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  Speaker 2: some of these TV numbers on why maybe they're down,
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  Speaker 2: but they're up in some other places as well. 4-0
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  Speaker 2: UMass has sold out. Can you believe UMass is 4-0?
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  Speaker 2: Remember they got that week one win over Rutgers? They
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  Speaker 2: were like a 23 or 31 point underdog. They're 4-0.
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  Speaker 2: They have sold out its football game against Eastern Michigan
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  Speaker 2: this weekend. It's the first sellout in 12 years for
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  Speaker 2: the Minutemen, who are chasing their first ever bowl game.
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  Speaker 2: So UMass trying to get bowl eligible for the first
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  Speaker 2: time in the history of the program. Also, earlier today,
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  Speaker 2: CBS and Tony Romo have officially parted ways. So Tony
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  Speaker 2: Romo out at CBS, and there is a statement here
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  Speaker 2: from Romo that says, quote, I'm proud of what I
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  Speaker 2: accomplished at CBS sports over the last nine years. I
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  Speaker 2: approached my role as a game analyst, the way I've
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  Speaker 2: approached everything in my life with a desire to win
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  Speaker 2: and to be the best that I can be. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to use this time to take a break, something
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  Speaker 2: I've never done before and focused on my health and
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  Speaker 2: my family before moving on to my next opportunity. I
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  Speaker 2: am grateful for my time with CBS sports and for
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  Speaker 2: the continued support of my family and friends as well
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  Speaker 2: as the NFL community and fans. So Tony Romo, uh,
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  Speaker 2: out at CBS. Also, the Patriots in the NFL will
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  Speaker 2: play the Bills on Sunday without standout defenders, cornerback Christian
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  Speaker 2: Gonzalez and defensive tackle Christian Barmore, who have both been
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  Speaker 2: ruled out this weekend in a big game in the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: Brooks Austin of On3 put the SEC in tiers, as
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  Speaker 2: he calls it, SEC tier talk. Tier one is teams
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  Speaker 2: he feels like can get to around 10-2. He calls
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  Speaker 2: it 10-2+. I don't know if there's a plus 10-2,
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  Speaker 2: meaning getting 11 or 12. There's a tier 2, 8,
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  Speaker 2: and 4, kind of where he's projecting the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the way out. Tier 3 is 6 and 6. And
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  Speaker 2: tier 4 is 4 and 8. That tier 4, 4
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  Speaker 2: and 8, he has, no surprise, Arkansas in that tier 4.
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  Speaker 2: He has Vanderbilt in that tier 4, 4 and 8 plus.
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  Speaker 2: And you've got South Carolina. And, you know, I think
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  Speaker 2: that's fair. I mean, Arkansas definitely is a shoe-in for
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  Speaker 2: that tier, if you want to put them in these tiers.
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  Speaker 2: Vanderbilt is likely trending back to, you know, he says
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  Speaker 2: 4 and 8 plus, so we're talking, you know, 4
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  Speaker 2: and 8, 5 and 6, or 5 and 7, somewhere
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  Speaker 2: in that neck of the woods. Vanderbilt, you know, is
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  Speaker 2: going to trend backwards to that from, you know, last year.
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  Speaker 2: And then South Carolina will probably be there as well.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go to the phones. Let's go to the, I
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  Speaker 2: was told to capitalize every letter, the Gator Matt. Matt,
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  Speaker 2: happy Friday.
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  Speaker 4: That's right. You knew?
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  Speaker 3: Yep. Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 4: Have the phone calls been kind of light from the
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  Speaker 4: Mississippi folks this week?
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't say light. They've been about the same.
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  Speaker 4: But, you know, I mean, Florida's not a very good program.
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  Speaker 4: There has been. LSU is a way better job than Florida.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, Florida's just a bunch of hype, you know,
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  Speaker 4: off of something they did in a 10-year stretch, you know,
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  Speaker 4: 20 years ago that It's just an overrated program. The
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  Speaker 4: school's not great. But what happened, Jake? You get somebody
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  Speaker 4: that has half a brain, and look what happened. That's
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  Speaker 4: what happened. So, you know, are we going to win
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  Speaker 4: all the games this year? Probably not. But you know what, Jake?
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  Speaker 4: And I don't think you can argue with this. Is
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  Speaker 4: it possible that we can win the rest of the
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  Speaker 4: games this year? You're damn right it is. But with
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  Speaker 4: all that being said, I did have us losing tomorrow
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  Speaker 4: to Missouri. I got us losing to Texas. And I
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  Speaker 4: think I have us losing to Oklahoma being nine and three.
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  Speaker 4: I think that's what I originally predicted because I know
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  Speaker 4: what I'm talking about, Jake, unlike you and some of
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  Speaker 4: the other people that call in. Also, what else did
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  Speaker 4: I say? I had Mississippi State at what? Eight and four.
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  Speaker 4: And look at me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, hey, Matt's pegged it so far.
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  Speaker 3: He has.
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  Speaker 2: Now, look, I do believe that this weekend, and we'll
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  Speaker 2: get more into this Missouri-Florida game coming up this weekend,
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  Speaker 2: as I do think Missouri could win this football game,
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  Speaker 2: or at least I think they'll take it into quarter
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  Speaker 2: number four. And, look, if Florida goes 9-3, there's going
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  Speaker 2: to be questions. Again, we don't know until we get
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  Speaker 2: there and where it's there, what the playoff committee is
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  Speaker 2: going to do with several 9-3 teams. because I don't
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  Speaker 2: know that you're going to have enough 10-2s to 12-0s
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  Speaker 2: that's going to circumvent the college football playoff. You're going
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  Speaker 2: to have to have some 9-3s in there. So what
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  Speaker 2: does a 9-3 Florida resume, if they go to 9-3,
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  Speaker 2: look like versus, let's just say, an Iowa team who, yes, Iowa,
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  Speaker 2: who is undefeated so far. Let's say they beat Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State this weekend, but then maybe lose two more down
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  Speaker 2: the stretch, or they lose a close one to Ohio State,
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  Speaker 2: and they lose a couple more down the stretch. What
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  Speaker 2: does that look like? So And that's just two examples
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  Speaker 2: of two teams. There's likely going to be three or
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  Speaker 2: four teams that end up in that 9-3 range. And
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  Speaker 2: we'll continue on with this tier because one of these
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  Speaker 2: tiers coming up is 8-4 plus in the SEC, courtesy
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  Speaker 2: of On3 Sports. But, yeah, Florida's got a tough one tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get into Mississippi State and Alabama, and we'll carry on.
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  Speaker 2: Hour 2. We'll see what happens after that. Looking at
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  Speaker 2: these tiers, projected tiers moving forward by On 3 after
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  Speaker 2: a month. They have Arkansas, Vandy, and South Carolina in
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  Speaker 2: Tier 4, which is 4-8. That's 4 wins, 8 losses plus.
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  Speaker 2: They can go 4-8, 5-7. Tier 3, 6-6 plus. They'll
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  Speaker 2: be 6-6, 7-5. They have Kentucky at 6-6 or 7-5.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's fair, the way they've played. Auburn,
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  Speaker 2: Texas A & M, Oklahoma, and Missouri. I think all
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  Speaker 2: of those are fair. In Tier 2, 8-4 plus. That
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  Speaker 2: would be 8-4, 9-3. They have LSU at 8-4, 9-3.
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  Speaker 2: They have Tennessee at 8-4, 9-3. And I think Tennessee
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  Speaker 2: could be in that 8-4 conversation. Ole Miss and Mississippi
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  Speaker 2: State in that 8-4 slash 9-3. That's Tier 2, and
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  Speaker 2: then we'll get into Tier 1 here in just a bit.
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  Speaker 2: But first, let's go to Rebel Red and Blue on
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  Speaker 2: the Mississippi Sports Medicine call line. Rebel Red and Blue,
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  Speaker 2: welcome in, sir. How are you?
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  Speaker 6: Good afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, brother.
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  Speaker 7: So I want to throw something out at you.
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  Speaker 6: So their Ole Miss Rebel defense hasn't really showed up much.
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  Speaker 6: And most of the players are transfers. Pete Golding and
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  Speaker 6: staff recruited most of your players under Kiffin, and they're
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  Speaker 6: still recruiting players. But let me ask you this question.
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  Speaker 6: You know, when you bring transfers in, it's kind of
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  Speaker 6: like bringing the old days of going heavy on JUCO players.
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  Speaker 7: You get them there for one, maybe two years, but.
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  Speaker 6: They got to mesh. They got to jail. They got
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  Speaker 6: to be able to play together. Well, what if one
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  Speaker 6: of Kiffin's.
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  Speaker 7: Superpowers was the fact that he was able to take
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  Speaker 7: a bunch of transfers, first-year players, and make them jail
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  Speaker 7: together and play together, and maybe that's just really the
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  Speaker 7: only thing we really lost with Kiffin going to LSU
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  Speaker 7: is we're seeing that maybe no one on the staff
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  Speaker 7: can actually make them jail as fast.
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  Speaker 2: I'm out. Thank you, brother. Appreciate it. We'll never know.
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  Speaker 2: if that is true, as it pertains to Lane Kiffin,
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  Speaker 2: but I do think there is some credence to what
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  Speaker 2: Rebel Red and Blue just said. And I'm not saying
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  Speaker 2: Pete Golding and his staff can't do this. It takes
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  Speaker 2: a special group of people to take 30, 40 guys
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  Speaker 2: and put them all together in about seven to eight
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  Speaker 2: months and then get them ready to go. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: think about this. You guys, everybody listening has been a
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  Speaker 2: part or you know, as a parent or as a
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  Speaker 2: coach of some kind of a travel ball team, a
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  Speaker 2: youth team, and you know how hard it is, a
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  Speaker 2: cheerleading squad, whatever, you know, a Boy Scout group, a
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  Speaker 2: Girl Scout group, just, you know, a group of people. Heck,
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  Speaker 2: your work. Maybe you have, you know, a company that
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  Speaker 2: you're running and you got five or six employees or
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  Speaker 2: 20 employees, whatever. And to try to get everybody on
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  Speaker 2: the same page, I mean, you know how hard it
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  Speaker 2: is for a tournament ball team. And the good ones,
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  Speaker 2: excuse me, Now, obviously, if they have more talent than
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  Speaker 2: the others, then that's one thing. But then to get
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  Speaker 2: them to play in a cohesive way, it takes a
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  Speaker 2: lot of work. It's on steroids with college football because
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  Speaker 2: you've got now 40 new players, 30 new players, whatever
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  Speaker 2: that may be. And I'll get you the average, like
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  Speaker 2: the average top and bottoms of what these teams, because
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  Speaker 2: I think this is a great topic and a great
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  Speaker 2: conversation piece, is that some coaches can do it and
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  Speaker 2: then some coaches are not so good at it. And
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  Speaker 2: Lane Kiffin has shown, I mean, look at LSU. They're
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  Speaker 2: getting better. They're getting better. They weren't that bad against
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  Speaker 2: Ole Miss. I mean, they came back from a 24-7 deficit.
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  Speaker 2: So I think there is something to that. Now, can
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  Speaker 2: Pete Golding and that staff do that? We'll see. And
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  Speaker 2: there's another side of this coin, too. Maybe the evaluation
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  Speaker 2: isn't as good on some of these players. And that's
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  Speaker 2: not just at Ole Miss. That's anywhere. Because remember, the
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  Speaker 2: evaluation process has to be pretty darn quick. Now, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: you've got staffers that are evaluating players constantly. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that's why you have so many staffers, not just to
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  Speaker 2: have them on game day but to have them do
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  Speaker 2: other things, break down film, look at players, recruit players,
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  Speaker 2: any kind of internal management stuff that may be going
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  Speaker 2: on in the building. There's a lot of boxes to check, staffs.
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  Speaker 2: But maybe the evaluation is not as good because it's
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  Speaker 2: very quick. When we were in Oxford before the season
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  Speaker 2: and we met with Mississippi Sports Medicine, talking to their
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  Speaker 2: team up there, they were talking about, you know, how
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  Speaker 2: quickly the evaluation process has to happen medically. Because, you know,
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  Speaker 2: once you, you know, identify a player, identify Beave as
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  Speaker 2: a guy that I want to go get, we reach
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  Speaker 2: out to him. We talk money with him and his agent. Well,
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  Speaker 2: then we got to make this thing work quick because
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  Speaker 2: other teams are coming in on him and we've got,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a deadline to get. Now he's committed to us.
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  Speaker 2: Now we got to get him medically clear. There's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of, and you're doing this over multiple people. And
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  Speaker 2: then you're trying to also identify guys that are good
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  Speaker 2: character guys, guys that have high motors, guys that have
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  Speaker 2: good work ethic. And sometimes you miss. You know, I've
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  Speaker 2: said this before. Mike Norvell hit the lottery in 2021
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  Speaker 2: or 2022, whenever that was, with Jordan Travis and that group.
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  Speaker 2: That was a really good group of transfers. And it
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  Speaker 2: worked for them. They won 13 games that year. But
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  Speaker 2: since then, they have not hit the lottery anymore. in
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  Speaker 2: the transfer portal. And they've gotten almost the same number
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  Speaker 2: of transfers, plus or minus five or six, every year.
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  Speaker 2: And it hasn't worked out. So you're seeing this around
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  Speaker 2: the country. Some coaches are better suited for this fast-paced,
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  Speaker 2: pull them all together. And then, look, if you take
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  Speaker 2: a shot on a quarterback and he doesn't work out,
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  Speaker 2: then that can lose you a couple ballgames. If you
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  Speaker 2: take a shot on a quarterback and he works out,
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  Speaker 2: That can win you a couple ballgames. So I do
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  Speaker 2: think it's something to think about in terms of the
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  Speaker 2: transfer portal and the era. Tier number one on on three,
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  Speaker 2: they have 10 and two plus. I don't know that
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  Speaker 2: any– well, maybe Georgia. Georgia may win 11 games, but
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  Speaker 2: it's Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Texas. So I bring this
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  Speaker 2: up because of what Gator Matt had said, and I
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  Speaker 2: wasn't planning this on Gator Matt's call, but it was
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  Speaker 2: part of what I wanted to talk about at least
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  Speaker 2: early is We're going to have several 9-3 teams because
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: what if Georgia goes 11-1 and let's say Bamar, Texas
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: goes 10-2 and then the other two plus Florida or
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: the other one plus Florida go 9-3 and then LSU's
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: at 9-3 and Ole Miss and State's at 9-3 and
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: you've got like four teams at 9-3. But then you've
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: got two or three teams in the Big Ten that
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: are 9-3. A team in the ACC that's 9-3. A
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: team in the Big 12 that's 9-3. And you've got
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: like nine teams around the country that's sitting at 9-3.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: you're going to have four or five that's going to
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: be left out. And so I will be interested to
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: see how the college football playoff committee looks at this
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: as we move forward. Speaking of Ole Miss, Ole Miss
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: is finalizing an agreement to make Adidas. It's a new
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: apparel partner beginning in 2027. This is reported on by
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: On3 and others and the Ole Miss spirit. And we'll
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: get into this. It's a big deal for Ole Miss.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: It is a large sum of money as Adidas comes
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: in as the new apparel partner starting next year. for
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: the Ole Miss Rebels. And again, we're going to get
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: back into this. 2024, or excuse me, 24 SEC-controlled games
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: on TV. The rest of college football had 129. SEC
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: put this out today, said we, as in the SEC,
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: still took 41% of the minutes watched. And looking at
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: some of these TV numbers over the last little bit,
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: I mean, the SEC, as far as TV top 10,
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: this is the first four weeks of Ohio State, Texas,
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: number one, 14 million eyeballs. LSU, Ole Miss, number two
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: at 10.9. Texas, Tennessee at number three, 9.7. Ole Miss,
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: Florida last week had 8.3 million. Oklahoma, Michigan, 8.2 million.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: The one game in the middle of this that had more,
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: that wasn't an SEC, because seven, eight, nine, and ten
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: are all SEC games or teams, like Alabama, Kentucky, 7.3.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Florida State, Alabama, 7 million. Clemson, LSU, 5.8. Texas A
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: & M, LSU, 5.7. Was Wisconsin, Notre Dame, drew 7.4
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: million people. So the SEC is getting the... lion's share
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: of the eyeballs in college football and that should be
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  Speaker 2: call as Mississippi State and Alabama. It's been a long
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  Speaker 2: time since Mississippi State has beaten Alabama. Let me look
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  Speaker 2: at something real quick. Sean C. Memphis hit me up
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: on X about this. He said he didn't realize that
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: it was such a lopsided affair between the two. And
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: it is absolutely that. When you look at the history
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: between these two schools that are the closest in the SEC,
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: 86 wins for Alabama, 18 for Mississippi State, and three ties.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: So you're talking about um, 94, 97 times. This will
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: be the 98th meeting between the two, uh, coming up
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: this weekend. And they started playing football against each other
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: in 1896, 1896, Mississippi state and Alabama played their first
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: football game. Alabama won that ball game 20 to nothing.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: And they had a couple of years where they didn't
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: play and got back at it in 1901, just the
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: turn of the century. And Alabama won in Tuscaloosa again,
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: 45 to nothing. Um, They played in Tuscaloosa for the
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: first few years. They played in Columbus, Mississippi in 1903.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Mississippi State got an 11-0 win and played in Columbus
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: for the next year. And Alabama got a 10-5 win.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: And it wasn't baseball. That was football, 10-5. And played
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: a few times in Birmingham in the early 1900s. Actually
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: played in Birmingham several times. Played in Meridian in 1926. And,
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: of course, that's going to be at the historic stadium
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: there at Ray stadium. And, uh, because remember they used
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: to play the egg bowl down there and the Ray stadium.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: If you, if you've been, you know what I'm talking about,
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: but if you have it, it's, it's a, it's a
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: pretty big space, you know, for, for a high school stadium.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's, it's a, it's a decent sized facility. Uh,
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Alabama won that game in 1926, 26 to seven. And
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: of course they, then they went back to Tuscaloosa and
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: a couple in Starkville. When you get into the, you know,
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: 1940s kind of back and forth, uh, between the two places.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: And then, uh, In 1958 forward, they played just about
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: every year. You've got to go all the way back
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: to 2007 for Mississippi State with a 17-12 win, and
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: it's been all Alabama since then. This is a big
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: opportunity for Mississippi State. It's a big opportunity for Alabama.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Largest margin of victory, 59 points. 59-0 victory in 1922
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: for Alabama. Longest winning streak in the series for Alabama
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: is 22 games 1958 to 1979 for Mississippi State the
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: largest margin of victory in 2000 was a 29-7 Bulldog
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: victory their longest win streak three games 1912 to 1914
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: so you know you really kind of throw all that
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: out the window though especially as you move into the
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: transfer portal era because teams are built differently they look
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: differently um you know A lot of the guys that
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: are on both rosters, you know, I dare say there's
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: guys on Alabama's roster that didn't even know who Mississippi
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: State was before they got there, nor did they care.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: And the same for Mississippi State. They knew who Alabama was,
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: but probably didn't understand or know the history between the
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: two versus 10 years ago or 20 years ago when
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: guys are coming through and know that, hey, if I
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: go to Starkville, we're going to play Bama every year.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: And it hadn't gone well. Maybe we can be the
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: first team to, you know, have some success. Or if
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: you go to Tuscaloosa, you say, hey, we beat this
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: team typically every year. It's an automatic W. But I
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: think the matchup is really good. Mississippi State is going
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: to have to cut down on penalties. That has been
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: a problem. If you want to look for a negative,
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: that has been a problem. For Alabama, they have been
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: a slow starter on the road, and they have played
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: very lethargic at times on the road. And if you're
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: Mississippi State, I think you hope for that tomorrow, that
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Zach Arnett has put some defensive packages together to really
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: try to confuse Keelan Russell. and you try to get
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: up on Alabama, and then you make them chase. I
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: don't know that State can chase. Look, there's one thing
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: about Jeff Levy's offense. It is built to move, meaning
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: it is built to score points. And so, you know,
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: you fall down a couple touchdowns, you can come back.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: But you don't want to do that against this Alabama team.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: This is a team in Alabama that, you know, when
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: you kind of look through the numbers here on what
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: they've done, averaging 48, giving up 20 a game, You know,
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: week one against East Carolina, a snoozer game, 48-10. Kentucky,
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: that was a game for a half, and then they
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: pulled away 45-17. Florida State did the most damage offensively
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: with 36 points against them. And, you know, Bama scored
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: a couple touchdowns there in the fourth quarter to make
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: that a 50-36 ballgame. South Carolina, and again, South Carolina's
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: got problems. They got a lot of problems. And, yeah.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: You know, Shane Beamer's got problems. They've just got problems. And,
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: you know, they've started to dovetail here. But Alabama, really
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: good football team. Mississippi State, really good football team. So
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: it should be a good one in Starville. If you've
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: got any predictions, you can text us, 601-885-3776. We'll get
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: into Brett McMurphy's Week 5 predictions. Speaking of the SEC,
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: SEC's Greg Sankey told whoever– oh, John Arand– sports journalist,
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: that the SEC was approached by a West Coast school, quote,
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: I don't even have that conversation, talking about conference expansion.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: He said, I'm the one person who didn't take away
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: from the Pac-12. Talking about expanding, the SEC did not
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: take a team from the Pac-12. You know, obviously four
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: teams went to the Big Ten, several went to the
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: Big 12. You had now a couple that's in the
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: revised Pac-12 2.0. He said, if you play any sport
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: in the SEC, you have to at most have a
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: two-hour plane ride from point A to point B. And
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: I think if you look at the landscape, that's kind
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: of what it is. You know, if you went from
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Texas at Austin all the way to Florida or South Carolina, that's,
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: you know, you could probably without a, you know, it's
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: a direct flight probably about two hours. So Greg Sankey said, hey, look,
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: we're not going to expand if we expand and bring
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: anybody in that's going to have– they're not doing what
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: the Big Ten is doing. You know, it's two totally
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: different models on expansion. The Big Ten has– decided they
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: want to be a coast-to-coast league, which is fine. That's
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: what they want to do. There's some positives to that from,
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: you know, television coverage and television dollars, and there's some
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: negatives for, and we know that, the cost to go
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: play from the East Coast to the West Coast or
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: back and forth. The SEC says, hey, we're going to
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: stay in our footprint, relatively speaking, you know, not the
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: old traditional SEC footprint. We've expanded that out a little
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: bit into the state of Texas, into the state of Missouri,
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: maybe up into the Carolinas. but we're going to be
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: within two hours. Sankey also said on a proposed 2014 playoff,
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: our concerns relate to how you manage the economics. Is
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: there value? I don't think people understand the difficulty of
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: going week to week to week to week to week
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: in December. He said, we've looked at it and said
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: CFP selection decisions are negatively impacting regular season scheduling, particularly
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: big non-conference games. That needs to be addressed first, and
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: also the economics. What we do with conference championship games
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: and the games fit in understanding the impact. So what
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: he's saying is this. There's several layers to just doing
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: the 2014 playoff. One is the grind. He said, I
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: don't think people understand the difficulty of going. He mentioned one, two, three,
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: four weeks in December after a season. And then he
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: looked at the selection committee because nobody trusts the selection committee.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: Not that they're trying to be underhanded. Nobody trusts what
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: the selection committee is doing. By default, they'll get right
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: most of the field. But then what about the last four, five,
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: or six? If you're in a 24-team playoff, or what
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: about the last two, three, four in a 12-team playoff?
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: He said their decisions are negatively impacting regular season scheduling.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: And what he means by that is teams now are
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: starting to say, well, I don't know that I want
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: to play a big-time non-conference game if it's going to
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: penalize me with this playoff committee when we don't really
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: know what the criteria is. So, you know, you take
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: a team like Ohio State that lost to Texas or
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: last year Texas who lost to Ohio State, they finished 9-3.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Had they scheduled Texas State or Louisiana Tech and finished 10-2,
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: would they have made the playoffs? Maybe. Probably. So are
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: you penalized for those kind of games? So, you know,
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: there needs to be some kind of criteria for the
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: schedule that you play, much like college basketball. You know,
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: when you start talking about, you know, the way the
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: pod system and all the scheduling and things of that nature,
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: I think that's where Sankey's at. And then the financials
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: as well. You know, we need to see on paper
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: that we're assured if we get rid of the conference championships,
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: how are we going to get our money back? Because
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: that's $ 100 million loss by saying no more SEC championship game,
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: no more Big Ten championship, no more ACC championship. Now,
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: they've floated out, yes, we're going to, you know, there's
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: an opportunity to get $ 250 million. But they need to
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: see that before they just cut the cord on the
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: championship games. Also, Lincoln Riley, head football coach at USC,
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: had some interesting words that we'll get into. And this
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: is just kind of a precursor to that. He says, quote,
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: talking about their loss to Oregon, he said, we didn't
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: get run out of the stadium. All right, let me
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: stop right there. That was his first quote. We didn't
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: get run out of the stadium. So if we go
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: back over here and look at last week for USC,
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: USC lost 41-27. Now, I didn't watch that game. But
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: if I see that score, 41-27, now maybe Oregon tacked
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: on a late touchdown. But 41-27 has kind of run
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: out of the building, hasn't it? I mean, 41-27, that's
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: a lot of points. But he goes on to say,
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: we didn't get run out of the stadium. There's a
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: lot of good things on that tape. He says, you
• 31:25
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• 31:28
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• 31:30
  Speaker 2: I need to bring this box score up. I don't
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: know what Lincoln Riley is talking about here. He's just talking.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: As Brett McMurphy says, don't think the playoff committee considers that, quote,
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: we didn't get run out of the stadium. So, yeah,
• 31:42
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• 34:15
  Speaker 2: There were some games last night in high school football.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: McComb was all over Poplarville last night, if you missed it.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: And Poplarville came back and won 49-48 in double overtime.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: I obviously didn't see the game. I was in North
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: Mississippi for the Hines game. But, man, that game kept
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: popping across on the wire. And Poplarville was just so talented.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: If you haven't watched Poplarville ever play– If they get
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: to the state championship, you ought to turn them on,
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: and I think they will. Ty Keyes is a uber,
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: uber talented running back, committed to the University of Miami,
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: and he and Tyson Robinson at Brandon are the two
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: top running backs in the state. Both made the Mississippi-Alabama
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: All-Star Game, along with Demarius Bobo, the third guy in
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: the state. He's the running back at Tupelo. I don't
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: know if he's committed yet or not, but Ty Keyes
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: and Popperville are fun to watch, even though they run
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: the wing tee, and I say even though because a
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: lot of people don't like to watch that style of
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: football anymore. They run it with precision. They run it
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: with speed. And, boy, it is fun to watch. Also,
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: Gulfport has no problem last night with Ocean Springs, 42-3.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: All right, looking at this box score, trying to see
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: if Lincoln Riley is lying to us or not. I mean,
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: USC put up some numbers. They were out yardage 504-446
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: because Lincoln Riley says, hey, look, again, if you're just
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: joining us, he says, we didn't get run out of
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: the stadium. He said there's a lot of good things
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: on that tape, talking about the reviewing the tape of
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: USC and Oregon. He said, you don't have a chance
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: to win a game like that if you don't do
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: some things pretty well. Well, this game was 3-0 Oregon
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: after one. It was 13-10 at the half. It was
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: 27-20 after three, and then Oregon dropped 14-7 in the fourth.
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: So they might have had a puncher's chance. Maybe they
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: didn't get run out of the building, but by most
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: statistical measures, They were beaten. Now, the only thing USC
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: did better than Oregon, they had 26 first downs versus 23.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: And USC was awful on third down last week. They
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: were two for 11. Two for 11 on third downs.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: They were four or five on fourth downs. So, you know,
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: Lincoln Riley's just, I mean, he's trying to save his job.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: I mean, there's a lot of stuff out there on
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: Lincoln Riley with his job. And there was something I
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: saw yesterday. Speaking of, jobs and buyouts and things of
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: that nature. Let me go back and find this. Somebody
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: posted something on Texas A & M that I thought
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: was pretty darn fascinating. Let me see if I can
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: find this real quick. As it pertains to Kevin Sumlin
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: and Texas A & M. There it is. So, yeah,
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: Kyle Umlang, on exit Kyle Umlang. He is a data scientist,
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: and he's been in sports for a long time, and
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: we've referenced some of his stuff over the years. He's
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: really good. normally he kind of stays in the lane
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: of Texas and Texas A & M. He's a Texas grad.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: But he put this out about Kevin Sumlin. He said
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: if Texas A & M had never fired Kevin Sumlin,
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: if Kevin Sumlin was still there today, and he was
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: still a 7-5 coach, and they continued giving him $ 2
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: million raises every four years, and he kept his 66.2%
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: winning percentage, the Aggies today would have saved $ 102 million
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: and had two more wins. Now, what do you think
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: about that? What he's saying is if you had kept
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: Kevin Sumlin, who was money 7-5, 8-4 every year, wanted
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: a clip of 66.2%, you get rid of Kevin Sumlin,
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: you get Jimbo Fisher. You had the Jimbo Fisher experiment,
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: you had the big buyout. Now you've got the coaching
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: staff that's there now. If they had kept Kevin Sumlin
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: and he continued at that same clip project it to
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: the future, and gave him a raise, $ 2 million every
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: four years, they'd have saved $ 102 million, and they would
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: have two more wins today than they have today, which
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: is crazy to think about. And, you know, it's just
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: crazy to think about. I thought that was a staggering
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: number there by own lane. All right, Ross Dillinger reporting
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: more than 300 NCAA Division I schools distributed $ 1. 7 billion
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: in revenue share today. Pool payments to athletes last year,
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: plus $ 200 million more in Alstons and new scholarships per
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: this data set that they have. The NCAA filed in
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: the House case about 60 to 65 schools distributed more
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: than $ 17. 9 million in revenue shares. So just some numbers there.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: But 300 NCAA Division I schools, $ 1. 7 billion in revenue share.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: Most of the schools that distributed at least $ 17. 9 million
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: are believed to have met the full rev share cap
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: of $ 20. 5 million, as up to $ 2. 5 million of new
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: scholarships was reduced, and a school's cap, many programs added scholarships.
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: House members, remember this bill on D.C. 's, you know,
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: the front doorstep of D.C., it passed the Senate. Well,
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: now it's got to pass the House. The House ain't
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: having it. The House is already cutting this thing, cutting
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: the legs out from underneath it. House members have not
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: received the Protect College Sports Act with open arms. White
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: House isn't happy either. Neither is the Senate. It's part
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: of the Senate. The Senate passed it, but there's still
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: people in the Senate that didn't like it. In the
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: middle of a fight, a group of ACC schools wanting
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: an easier exit from the league. So what you're getting
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: now is.
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: There's so much going on with this. That's why it's
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: not going to pass. But you've got Miami and Florida
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: State that are wanting an easier exit out of the ACC.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: They want out. Make no mistake about it. They want
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: out of the ACC. And now they're trying to use
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: this bill as part of that. Also, we'll get into this.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: We didn't get into it when we mentioned it yesterday
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: or two days ago. Buyouts for fired head coaches, what
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: that would look like, as we could hit close to
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: that $ 220 million buyout. or that top point that we
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: hit last year, we could hit it this year. And
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: NFL News 49ers principal owner Jed York has been suspended
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: for six regular season games and fined $ 500, 000 for violating
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: the NFL's personal conduct policy the NFL announced today. During
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: the time the league's investigation had been proceeding, York has
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: stayed away from the 49ers' first three regular season games
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: as well as the NFL League meetings. Those three missed
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: games are counted towards his suspension, and he may return
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: on Tuesday, October 20th. So a little news there on
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: the front office of the San Francisco 49ers. Polymarket, Ohio
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: State getting the bulk of the money, and the public,
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: 84% in on the Buckeyes, 16% on Iowa. And again,
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: game day, there's a lot of groaning about this. Game
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: day is going to Iowa, Ohio State tomorrow. Most people
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: expect this to be a blowout. I would say that
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: eight of ten times it probably will be a blowout.
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: You know, if you go look at, let me go
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: do this real quick, if we can pull this in.
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: Much like Mississippi State and Alabama, Ohio State and Iowa
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: have a very lopsided rivalry. Ohio State has won 48 times,
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: Iowa 15 times, three ties. And, you know, they haven't
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: played a whole lot over the last, 25 years, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: only 10 times, uh, over the last 25 years, 2024,
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: Ohio state won 35 to seven. They won 54 to 10, 2022.
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: Iowa actually got a win in 2017, 55 to 24. Um,
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: and then a couple other times it was a close one, 34, 24,
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: back in 2010, Ohio state won 20 to 17, but
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: they vacated that that was going to be shoegate or
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: no tattoo gate, tattoo gate. And then, uh, Ohio State
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: won 27-24. I mean, I guess it could be a
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: close game, maybe. But a lot of people not happy
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: that game day is going there, as most people, you know,
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: even polymarket, the money's coming in on Iowa. Florida, Missouri,
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: most of the money's coming in on Florida, 66% on Florida,
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: 34% on Missouri. And college football player buyouts are about
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: to take center stage as retention talks begin in earnest
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: over the next two weeks, two to four weeks, reports
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: Pete Nacos. Quote, half of the people Think the buyouts
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: aren't legally enforceable. The other half don't report them. The
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: other half fight them. How many halves do they have?
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: If you really need a player bad enough, you're not
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: going to let a buyout hold you back, an SEC
• 42:58
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• 43:04
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• 43:14
  Speaker 2: with the MHSAA. We're going to take a timeout. Rafael
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: Esparza will kick off Hour 2.
• 43:19
  Speaker 8: Back in a minute.
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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