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

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  Speaker 1: W.R.K.S. Pickens-Jackson. Where it's time to take a ride.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we're back with Jake Wimberley on the afternoon drive.
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  Speaker 1: call us on the Mississippi Sports Medicine caller line, 601-897-1057. Now,
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  Speaker 1: let's get into some high school football as we head
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  Speaker 1: towards the weekend. Several high school games last night. And
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  Speaker 1: let me go back and see how many teams did
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  Speaker 1: actually play. Do we have that? There is a lot
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  Speaker 1: out here because it's been a busy week in high
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  Speaker 1: school football with our Blackwell rosters. Also, the Mississippi-Alabama rosters.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see. We got Poplarville. We got this. We got this.
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  Speaker 1: I'll see if I can find it. But anyway, we've
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  Speaker 1: got the matchups for tonight. Number two, Petal, is 5-0,
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  Speaker 1: and they're taking on West Jones 4-1. This is going
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  Speaker 1: to be a big matchup in South Mississippi. This is
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  Speaker 1: a non-region game, the last for both of these teams.
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  Speaker 1: Petal has played somewhat of a lackluster schedule. They did
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  Speaker 1: beat Gulfport in overtime. We still don't know how good.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Gulfport's good. We don't know if they're as
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  Speaker 1: good as they were last year. But Brandon Chills has
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  Speaker 1: a pedal pick to win 34-27. I'm going to go
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  Speaker 1: the other way. I think Wes Jones wins this game tonight,
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  Speaker 1: and I think they win it probably a little lower
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  Speaker 1: than that, somewhere around 24-21. South Panola is 2-2. They
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  Speaker 1: take on Lake Cormorant tonight. They head up to Lake Cormorant.
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  Speaker 1: They beat the Tigers of South Panola, Region 1-6A, a
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  Speaker 1: matchup of ranked teams in 6A as they open region play.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of teams are opening region play. Brandon and
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  Speaker 1: Northwest play here tonight at Bulldog Stadium regionally. Old Town
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  Speaker 1: Brandon versus North Brandon tonight, and that is a region
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  Speaker 1: game tonight. Shields has Cormorant winning 17-14. This is courtesy
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  Speaker 1: of Mississippi Gridiron. And, again, I'm going to go against Shields.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to say I think South Panola wins this
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  Speaker 1: game 17-14. We'll go the same score. Madison Central 2-3.
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  Speaker 1: Took it on the chin in the non-region. They travel
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  Speaker 1: to Oxford tonight. Oxford is 4-1. Their one loss was
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  Speaker 1: to Tupelo, and Tupelo ran them out of the building
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  Speaker 1: a few weeks ago. The Jags head up to Bobby
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  Speaker 1: Holcomb Field to face the sixth-ranked Chargers of Oxford, a
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  Speaker 1: 2-7-8 opener for both teams as that playoff jockeying in
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  Speaker 1: Region 2-7-8 starts, and that is such a tough region,
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  Speaker 1: maybe the toughest region in all of football and high
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  Speaker 1: school here in Mississippi. Shields has Oxford winning 31-21. I
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  Speaker 1: think that is probably right. No. 1 Tupelo will be
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  Speaker 1: in town tonight to take on Hartfield, the top-ranked Golden Wave,
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  Speaker 1: making a trip to Flowood to face the Hawks in
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  Speaker 1: the MHSA-MAIS matchup of ranked teams. Hawks come into this
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  Speaker 1: game at 3-2. It's also homecoming for Hartfield. Tupelo ranked
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  Speaker 1: number one at 7A. Offensively, he's coming into the matchup
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  Speaker 1: averaging 43.8 points per game, right at 190 yards passing,
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  Speaker 1: 173 rushing. Drew Dean has done a good job at quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: He comes over from Oxford. He has been kind of
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  Speaker 1: the missing piece there. The two runners, they have Tyson
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  Speaker 1: Hunter and Kylan Bobo, who is committed to Colorado. Then
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  Speaker 1: that happened here recently. Also several receivers. He has Tupelo
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  Speaker 1: winning 28-14. And I think that game may be a
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  Speaker 1: little more lopsided than that. And that's no disrespect to
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  Speaker 1: the Hawks. It's just Tupelo is really, really good. And
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  Speaker 1: plus you're talking about numbers, roster numbers here too. Leak
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  Speaker 1: at 4-1 travels to Cleveland Central. That's a 4-1 versus
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  Speaker 1: 3-1 matchup. Leak is favored to win 30-20. Forrest is
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  Speaker 1: down at Mendenhall tonight. Forrest 4-1 the Bearcats. Head over
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  Speaker 1: to take on Mendenhall, who is 5-0. And it's one
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  Speaker 1: of those years Mendenhall's got a really good squad. Mendenhall
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  Speaker 1: goes up and they go down. They played for a
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  Speaker 1: state championship a few years ago. Mendenhall is picked to
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  Speaker 1: win 29-22, and I think that is probably right where
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  Speaker 1: it needs to be. McComb is what was at Poplarville
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  Speaker 1: last night. Poplarville wins in a double overtime matchup, and
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  Speaker 1: they won a shootout last night. East Webster at Kemper County.
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Academy at Jackson Prep tonight. as you've got one
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  Speaker 1: of the bigger rivals in the state. Prep is 5-1.
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Academy is 6-0. Shields has Jackson Academy picked to
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  Speaker 1: win 21-17. Tri-County is at Washington School. Both teams with
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  Speaker 1: impressive records, 4-1 for Tri-County. They're only lost to Jackson Prep.
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  Speaker 1: Washington School 5-1, and he has Tri-County winning 24-10. Also,
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  Speaker 1: earlier this week, if you missed it, the rosters for
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  Speaker 1: the Mississippi-Alabama All-Star Game came out. And the Mississippi guys,
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  Speaker 1: just kind of some high-point guys here. The quarterbacks in
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  Speaker 1: the matchup, Nash Morgan from Warren Central will be a
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  Speaker 1: quarterback that will play in that game. And Caden Wade
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  Speaker 1: out of Kosciuszko. Those are your two quarterbacks. Your three
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  Speaker 1: running backs for Mississippi, Kylan Bobo out of Tupelo, who's
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  Speaker 1: headed to Colorado. Ty Keyes, Poplarville, headed to Miami. And
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  Speaker 1: Tyson Robinson out of Brandon, who's headed to Michigan. Your
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  Speaker 1: wide receivers, Deshaun Dillon, Northwest Rankin, who will be out
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  Speaker 1: here tonight in Brandon, Jacksonville. Javarius Griffin out of Cleveland Central,
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  Speaker 1: Sheldon Isaac out of Macomb, and then Ladarian McBride out
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  Speaker 1: of Kosciuszko, and Jordan Wally out of D'Iberville. Another Wally, uh,
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  Speaker 1: headed to college. Your athlete is out of Heidelberg, Chase Kraft. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you've got, let's see, several offensive linemen here coming from Oxford, Tupelo, D'Iberville, Brookhaven, Clinton, Germantown, Columbia,
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  Speaker 1: and Oak Grove. Defensive linemen, um, there's some really good
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  Speaker 1: ones here. Uh, from Poplarville, Oak Grove, Neshoba Central, and more.
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  Speaker 1: Tupelo with several players on this team. Some local flavor.
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  Speaker 1: Free safety, Jaden Thomas out of Pearl made the squad.
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  Speaker 1: And let's see here. Patrick Schooler is your head coach
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  Speaker 1: out of Pearl. Also your assistants, Alex Williams out of Aberdeen.
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  Speaker 1: Russ Mitchell out of Germantown. He'll be your offensive coordinator.
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  Speaker 1: Clint Hoots, Etiwamba AHS, is your defensive coordinator. Shannon Ruffin
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  Speaker 1: out of Neshoba Central. Devin Cooper, Northwest Rankin, outside linebackers.
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  Speaker 1: Josh Pulphus out of Quitman. Dan Brady out of Stringer.
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  Speaker 1: Brock Clay, West Lauderdale. Also Tyrone Shorter out of Louisville.
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  Speaker 1: And just for kicks, your Bernard Blackwell game rosters were selected.
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  Speaker 1: That's your old north-south game. Kingston Johnson out of Starkville
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  Speaker 1: will be your north quarterback, along with Drew Dean out
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  Speaker 1: of Tupelo. And on your south roster, Kellen Hall out
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  Speaker 1: of Oak Grove. Parrish Trevelyan out of past Christian and
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  Speaker 1: Slade and Shaq out of Brandon. And local guys here,
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  Speaker 1: let's see, looking down through the roster, you'll get Shaq
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  Speaker 1: out of Brandon and Trey Collins, defensive back, out of
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  Speaker 1: Terry here locally that will play. Let me go back
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  Speaker 1: up to the north and make sure I didn't leave
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  Speaker 1: anybody off that may be considered north, but north of 20,
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  Speaker 1: if that makes sense. Let's see here. Looking through here,
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  Speaker 1: you do have Taboris Lofton, offensive lineman out of Clinton,
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  Speaker 1: will play for the North. And is there anybody else
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  Speaker 1: on here? That looks to be it as far as
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  Speaker 1: local guys in the Bernard Blackwell game. So some big
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  Speaker 1: games tonight in high school football. A lot of, again,
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  Speaker 1: region play tonight as we're in that mix. And this
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  Speaker 1: is where the road to the championship starts for all
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  Speaker 1: these teams. It's like, hey, look, if you're going to
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  Speaker 1: be one of the top four teams in your region,
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  Speaker 1: are you going to punch a ticket to the playoffs?
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  Speaker 1: Playoff jockeying starts because you've got now about six weeks
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  Speaker 1: of region play to where we'll turn into November and
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• 10:16
  Speaker 1: it's an up-and-down road for Thomas Castellanos at Texas Tech.
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  Speaker 1: Texas Tech backup quarterback Thomas Castellanos is now ineligible again
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  Speaker 1: after an appeal court in Kentucky rolls for the NCAA
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  Speaker 1: in one of the fifth-year player cases. So he has
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  Speaker 1: been up. He has been down. It has been a
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  Speaker 1: crazy ride there for Thomas Castellanos. All right, so most
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  Speaker 1: of the picks coming in are on Alabama. over the weekend,
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  Speaker 1: a couple for state on several outlets. That Florida-Missouri matchup
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  Speaker 1: this weekend, most of them Florida, a couple on Missouri.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's in on Ohio State except one, whoever this Parker
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  Speaker 1: character is, some national media guy. He picks Iowa. He's
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  Speaker 1: probably an Iowa graduate. Kentucky-South Carolina kind of split down
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  Speaker 1: the middle. Most people are picking Penn State tonight. Three
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  Speaker 1: have Northwestern that I'm looking at. I actually like Northwestern
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  Speaker 1: winning the game. Most everybody's in on Virginia Tech. One
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh guy, some guy named Chance. He's probably Pittsburgh alone.
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  Speaker 1: Louisville at NC State. Everybody's going Louisville. Virginia at Florida State.
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  Speaker 1: Most people are picking Virginia. And what's interesting about that,
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  Speaker 1: that would be another loss for Florida State. And Virginia's
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  Speaker 1: a two-point favorite at Florida State tomorrow. And Florida State
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  Speaker 1: right now, they're averaging 32 a game, giving up 25
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  Speaker 1: a game. They're sitting at 2-2. They're on pace. to
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  Speaker 1: do that whole six and six thing. And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's not going to cut it for Mike Norvell. That
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  Speaker 1: will not cut it for Mike Norvell as, you know,
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  Speaker 1: getting back into this buyout pieces and coaches on the
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  Speaker 1: hot seat. Again, Lincoln Riley with a buyout of around
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  Speaker 1: $ 60 million. As many in the industry assumed that this
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  Speaker 1: is a make or break year for Lincoln Riley. There's
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  Speaker 1: even some chatter out there that former Washington A.D., who
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  Speaker 1: is now the athletics director at USC, may try to
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  Speaker 1: pursue Kalen DeBoer at Alabama. Shane Beamer is on the
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  Speaker 1: hot seat, there is no doubt. The way Carolina has started,
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  Speaker 1: his buyout sits between $ 22 and $ 24 million. And you
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  Speaker 1: would have to think that if this thing doesn't go
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  Speaker 1: well for him, this could be it for him. Mike
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  Speaker 1: Loxley at Maryland has a buyout of $ 8 to $ 10 million. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Maryland obviously not a power. That's the one
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  Speaker 1: we always say, hey, that's a very nice Maryland team.
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  Speaker 1: meaning very average. You know, kind of the benchmark for
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  Speaker 1: average is Maryland, at least the way we put it
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  Speaker 1: around here. Mike Loxley could be gone. Bill Belichick, North Carolina,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to get drugged tomorrow likely against Notre Dame.
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  Speaker 1: That buyout's at $ 10 million to $ 12 million for North Carolina. Norvell,
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  Speaker 1: $ 45 million to $ 50 million. This is the firing of
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  Speaker 1: your boss in this case. Athletics Director Mike Alford normally
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  Speaker 1: doesn't bode well for many coaches, but it was Alford's firing.
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  Speaker 1: But was Alford's firing a product of the university administrators
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  Speaker 1: pinning the Football issue on the AD. Is Norvell out
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  Speaker 1: of the woods? Unlikely. But some at Florida State believe
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  Speaker 1: that the coach can still survive by winning enough games
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  Speaker 1: this year. Some are saying seven. Does seven keep his job?
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  Speaker 1: The buyout figure is high enough to present a problem
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  Speaker 1: for the department to spend hundreds of millions of dollars.
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  Speaker 1: So high buyout there for Mike Norvell. And you look
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  Speaker 1: at Florida State at two and two. If they lose
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  Speaker 1: tonight to Virginia or tomorrow to Virginia, that puts them
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  Speaker 1: at 2-3. Then they have trips on the road to
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  Speaker 1: Louisville and Miami. Back-to-back, so you're looking at probably two
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  Speaker 1: losses there. That's 2-5, 3-4-5. Clemson would probably be a
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  Speaker 1: coin flip at Boston College, at Pittsburgh, NC State, and
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  Speaker 1: then Florida. They wouldn't beat Florida, so that's six losses.
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  Speaker 1: He's not going to make it. Florida State may be
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  Speaker 1: an under-500 team again. this year uh some other ones
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  Speaker 1: to watch Dave Dorian believe it or not at NC
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  Speaker 1: State and he's been there a long time but that
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  Speaker 1: program has gone backwards under Dorian uh he's won at
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  Speaker 1: least eight games in five of the last six years
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  Speaker 1: but everyone at some point has overstayed their welcome the
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  Speaker 1: game ending a disaster against Vanderbilt may linger his buyouts
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  Speaker 1: at 10 to 12 million also Sonny Dykes TCU uh
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  Speaker 1: after back-to-back nine win seasons the Horned Frogs seemed uh
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  Speaker 1: headed for a tough year. The 2022 trip to the
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  Speaker 1: national championship game. It seems light years away now. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: can they turn it around? Dykes buyout is unknown because
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  Speaker 1: TCU is a private school. It's more than likely figures
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  Speaker 1: are reporting somewhere around 25 million. Greg Shiano at Rutgers
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  Speaker 1: is another one. Uh, it has not been a fun 2.0
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  Speaker 1: at Rutgers for him. No one has more friends in
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  Speaker 1: Jersey than this guy, but Shiano Scarlet Knights are off
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  Speaker 1: to a one and three start. They went five and
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  Speaker 1: seven last year. Rutgers, uh, You have to wonder, do
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  Speaker 1: they have the money to cut a big check? His
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  Speaker 1: buyout's around $ 19 million. And how vested is Rutgers in
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  Speaker 1: football anyway? I have no idea. Deion Sanders on this list.
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  Speaker 1: The Buffaloes haven't been the same since losing Heisman winner
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  Speaker 1: Travis Hunter or Shador Sanders. Their win at Georgia Tech
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  Speaker 1: masked some real issues and popped up at Baylor Northwestern.
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  Speaker 1: His buyout is at $ 25 million. So there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of questions here in the When you start talking coaches,
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  Speaker 1: then you have to start talking what does the domino
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  Speaker 1: effect do? So let's just assume all these coaches are gone,
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  Speaker 1: just for an assumption. So Lincoln Riley and USC, and
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  Speaker 1: we already told you Florida State could project to go
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  Speaker 1: five and seven the rest of the way for the year.
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  Speaker 1: If USC, who is sitting at four and one, They
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  Speaker 1: play Washington tomorrow. Let's just say they win that. Let's
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  Speaker 1: say they split the next two, Washington and Holman at
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  Speaker 1: Penn State. So that gets them to 5-2. They go
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  Speaker 1: to Wisconsin. They'll win that 6-2. They play Ohio State.
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  Speaker 1: That's 6-3 at Indiana, 6-4. They beat Maryland 7-4 but
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  Speaker 1: then lose to what is kind of a bounce-back UCLA team.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, UCLA right now is 4-0. They're 4-0 with
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  Speaker 1: wins at Cal, at Maryland. They beat Purdue and San
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  Speaker 1: Diego State. They'll play Oregon on the road in two
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  Speaker 1: weeks or next week. Lincoln Riley's probably gone at 7-5.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's probably done, believe it or not, at 7-5.
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  Speaker 1: So where does USC go to look for a coach
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  Speaker 1: if he's out? Maybe Alabama. Maybe they pull Kalen DeBoer. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley then is available. Somebody will pick him up.
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  Speaker 1: And if Riley is out at USC... and Norvell is
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  Speaker 1: out at Florida State, then that starts that domino effect, right?
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  Speaker 1: So just play the game. DeBoer maybe leaves Alabama. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of people in Tuscaloosa may say he's not leaving
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  Speaker 1: us for USC. He's a West Coast guy. Maybe he
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  Speaker 1: wants to go back to the West Coast. They'll pay
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  Speaker 1: him handsomely. Bama's paying him handsomely. They'll pay him handsomely.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe USC has more money in the war chest
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  Speaker 1: in NIL.
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  Speaker 2: Did Bama?
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea. I would assume they probably do.
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  Speaker 1: Just where they're located and, you know, what the alumni
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  Speaker 1: do with the, you know, data centers and everything that's
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  Speaker 1: going on in California. So he goes, that opens Bama up.
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  Speaker 1: Where does Bama go? Do they go to Kirby Smart?
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  Speaker 1: Do they go, I mean, who knows where they go?
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  Speaker 1: So it just creates this domino effect. And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Beamer out at Carolina, Carolina would be down in the
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  Speaker 1: pecking order as far as national guys. Maryland would definitely
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  Speaker 1: be down, you know, the pecking order. North Carolina, if
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  Speaker 1: they got rid of Belichick, I mean, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: where they go. I mean, they've had success with Mack
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  Speaker 1: Brown twice. That's not going to be a third time.
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  Speaker 1: Florida State, where do they go? NC State's down the
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  Speaker 1: pecking order. TCU down the pecking order. Rutgers down the
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  Speaker 1: pecking order. I mean, so the two heaviest would be
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  Speaker 1: Florida State and USC. And then if they parch, say,
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  Speaker 1: DeBoer at Alabama, then Alabama's got to find a coach.
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  Speaker 1: So just some interesting stuff here as we start to
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: look towards what may happen in college football. Ole Miss, again,
• 18:36
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• 18:40
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• 18:45
  Speaker 1: There it is. Ole Miss' move to Adidas is a
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: seven-year agreement currently being finalized. The per-year figure will be
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: more than $ 20 million annually. more than the $ 20 million
• 18:57
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• 19:00
  Speaker 1: will provide significant NIL value for Ole Miss. So Ole
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Miss solidifying some money, again, through the apparel deal with Adidas.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: And also tonight's game, the money is slightly coming in
• 19:12
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• 19:14
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• 19:18
  Speaker 1: a new facility tonight, a beautiful stadium by the renderings
• 19:20
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• 19:23
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• 19:26
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  Speaker 1: As we take you to the weekend here, a couple
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: more stories to get into as, excuse me, Chris Evilhair
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: will join us at some point, probably, if he gets
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: here tonight. Well, if not, he just won't join us.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: How about that? Diego Pavia, there's news on Diego Pavia,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: as we may get into, trying to find a wife
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: with a new career on Twitch stream. It looks like
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: he might have given up on football. At least that's
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: what it looks like for Diego Pavia. All right, let
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: me get some more stories over here. If you've got predictions,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: let us know on what's going on this weekend, Mississippi
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: State and Alabama, and then also several other big games.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: I think Missouri, Florida is going to be a fun game.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: We'll see what happens with South Carolina and Kentucky. And
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: you've got Auburn and Tennessee, and we haven't talked a
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: whole lot about that. Also, this is out, if Arkansas
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: had never fired Bobby Petrino, remember we told you earlier
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: about Kevin Sumlin. If Kevin Sumlin had never been fired
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: at Texas A & M and they kept him up
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: until today and they continued on the same trajectory winning
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: 67% of their games and they gave him $ 2 million
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: on a raise every four years, They'd have two more
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: wins today than they have today. Two more wins. If
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Arkansas had never fired Bobby Petrino and they continued giving
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: him $ 2 million raises every four years and he kept
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: his 67% winning percentage, Petrino would be making $ 9. 56 million
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: today and the Razorbacks would have 46 more wins.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: 46.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Now, I know that they was in a quagmire with
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: the whole Motorcycle gate and everything that was going on.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: But think about that. If Petrino had continued to stay
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: there and on his same trajectory, 67% winning percentage, Arkansas
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: would have 46 more wins today than they have currently.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: And also, you know, when you kind of start looking
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: at this matchup between, well, let me go over here
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: because I think I did run a 10,000 simulation on
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: over here on Mississippi State and Alabama. Let me see.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Where did that go? Because I think I pulled that up.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Let's see. Where did that go? All right, the 10,000-plus
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: game iteration that I ran earlier, I meant to bring
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: this up. Win probability, Alabama 66% out of these, 34%
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: to Mississippi State. The spread is minus 5.5. Alabama covers 50.3%
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: of the time. Mississippi State 49.7.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: The total.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: And, again, this is a total I wouldn't touch. It's 60.5
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: just because you don't know about the weather. We don't
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: know when the rain is coming in there. Over 49.8%
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: of the time out of 10,000 simulation ballgames, under 50.2%. So,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's that total at 60.5, you're going to
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: butt right up to it. Typical score, Alabama 33, Mississippi
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: State 27. Mean margin plus 5.6. How the game ends.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Alabama by a point to six points, 17.4% of the time.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Alabama by seven to 13, 19.5% of the time. Alabama
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: by 14 or more, 27.9% of the time. Mississippi State
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: by a point to 7.16% of the time. State by
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: eight or more, 16.8% of the time. But the common
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: score out of the 10,000 iteration is Alabama 33, Mississippi
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: State 27. And that puts you right at 60. right
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: at 60 points is where that would put you. So
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: if you're just looking for some more nuggets. But, again,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: I think when you start tomorrow, it's all about who
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: starts fast. And can Mississippi State, you know, it's going
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: to be interesting to see what Zach Arnett does in
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: this ballgame because Alabama hasn't been great. They've been good
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: in the run game. Daniel Hill. four touchdowns, 225 yards,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: 46 attempts. Of course, he'll want to have a big
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: game tomorrow. It's kind of a homecoming for him as
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: he played, uh, high school football in Meridian. And, uh,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: it'll be a homecoming for him. So does, does Zach
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Arnett try to take away Keelan Russell in the run
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: game first, and then the pass, you know, one, a
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: one B and kind of give them some opportunities in
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: the run game. Again, it's going to be interesting to
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: have both teams play. How does Alabama play Camario Taylor? Um,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: You know, a guy that obviously could throw the deep ball.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: I would expect Taylor, you may see, run a little
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: more tomorrow. They haven't really cut him loose. We know
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: that he can get up and get down. Both quarterbacks,
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: it's going to be interesting to see how they play them.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: You know, Alabama comes into this game fourth in offensive
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: scoring efficiency in the country and ninth defensively. They do
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: have some, you know, the secondary was supposed to be
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: a big plus for Alabama this year. And it's been okay.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: It hasn't been great. They've got a couple safeties, one
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: right here from the state of Mississippi. Bray Hubbard, who
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: played at Ocean Springs, quarterback at Ocean Springs, he was
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: recruited there, converted to a safety very similar to what
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: probably Mississippi State is going to do with Nash Morgan
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: out of Warren Central. But they are, Florida State showed
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: you can get behind them. Mississippi State comes in eighth.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: offensive scoring efficiency, and 31st defensive scoring efficiency. So their
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: defensive scoring efficiency numbers are off a little bit compared
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: to Alabama at six. But then when you look at,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: you know, again, Alabama, both teams have played pretty comparable
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: schedules relative to one another. I mean, you look at
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Alabama with games against East Carolina at Kentucky, Florida State,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: and they both played South Carolina. Of course, Mississippi State
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: with a road win at Minnesota. and then a home
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: win against Louisiana Monroe and ranked Missouri. So it's very,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: very comparable schedules. You know, for Georgia, they've got to
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: turn around and play Georgia next week. So you wonder
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: if any of the Alabama players are kind of looking
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: to next week. And for Mississippi State, you know, you're
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: going to get an off week after this, which is
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: good because on the 17th of October, you go to LSU.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: before returning home to play Oklahoma and then going on
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: the road to play Texas. And I'll be interested to
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: see how Alabama plays early because, again, they're doing the
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: whole travel tomorrow thing. You know, Bama typically for years
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: and years would stay in Columbus when they played Mississippi State.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: They'd just bus over to Columbus, stay in Columbus, and
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: then come down the next morning or whenever they played
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: that night or whatever. They're coming over in the morning.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: I'm very interested in this because– You know, we've seen
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: this a few times with teams, and it didn't work
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: out well for them. You know, Mississippi State under Sylvester
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Croom his last year, they flew in the day of
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: to Louisiana Tech to Shreveport, and a lot of you
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Mississippi State fans may have been at that game, and
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: they looked a little cloudy, lethargic, just slow, not good.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Some of that could have been the team's talent. That
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: wasn't a good team, but it did not end well
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: for them on that. So you think about Alabama's schedule,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: and I know it's only an hour, and some change.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: But if you're in Columbus, you're only 20 minutes to start.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: So you can start your day a little earlier. But
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: if you're in Tuscaloosa with an 11 a.m. kick, you're
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: going to be at the stadium two hours before. That's
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: 9 o'clock. So now you've got an hour. Just give
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: yourself an hour. and a half, 9 to 8, so
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: you've got to leave at 7.30, which means if you're
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: busing at 7.30, I mean, you're going to get up
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: and you're going to eat and have a breakfast, you know, 6.35.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, you're probably talking about a wake-up call at
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: 3 o'clock, literally 3 o'clock. Because a lot of teams
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: like to get up, move around, stretch, maybe do a
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: little calisthenics, get the blood moving. Alabama's going to be up.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, in state, rightfully so. I mean, playing at home,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: they're going to be there. So, I mean, their wake-up
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: time may be at 5 o'clock. So, it's an interesting
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: play here for Alabama to get up and do everything
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: in Tuscaloosa and then hit a bus to come over
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: for an hour and 15 to 20 minutes. They'll, of course,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: have the escort from Alabama. Tennessee Highway Patrol, or excuse me,
• 30:28
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• 30:30
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• 30:37
  Speaker 1: This out of the NFL on NBC, Puka Nakua does
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: not have an injury designation and is expected to play
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Sunday versus the Eagles. Rams coach Sean McVay announced, so
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: he is on the active list.
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: And....
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Pat McAfee says, quote, it's always tough for Alabama going
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: to Mississippi State. It was one of the hardest games
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: for us in that environment, Coach Nick Saban said, as
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: the ESPN board starts to really chatter more about this game.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: And then Virginia Tech getting ready to take on Pittsburgh tonight,
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: and that should be a good one in college football.
• 31:14
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• 32:34
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• 32:39
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• 32:42
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• 32:45
  Speaker 1: It asks the House to drop the independence requirement from
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Section 205 of the Protect College Sports Act and increase
• 32:52
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• 32:55
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• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Florida State, Clemson, UNC, Miami, they don't want to have
• 33:00
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• 33:04
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• 33:10
  Speaker 1: if you leave a conference, you've got to sit in
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: independence for three years, which is so stupid. So, yeah,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: this whole house bill is not going to pass. Chris
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: Abelhair is sitting down eating some– what are you eating
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: over there?
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: Dickies.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: Dickies barbecue. So that's on the menu tonight.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: How about that?
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: There's not much left. Did you get you some?
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: No. What do you mean not much left? They just
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: brought it.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: Well, Abelhair took it all.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: No.
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: Clearly.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Let me do this segment by myself. You better go
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: get some food. Me and Beaver will do this segment. What,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: are the students eating it? You never know up here.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: You come in halftime, and it's all gone. Hey, there's
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: cookies and brownies in there, too. Oh, thank you. Appreciate that.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: No pickles. Sorry, dude.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: You're not coming anyway, so. No, he's coming to Pearl.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Pearl here in a few weeks.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: Coming to Pearl.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: All right, well, I guess I'll have to go down
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: to the unbelievable. There's still some left. Okay.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: Purvey came in here and said the same thing, that
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: we ate all his food.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: And there's plenty over there. All right.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: State Bama. I knew you were going to do it.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: Take the homer out of it. Who do you got tomorrow?
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: I knew you were going to do it.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: And I've said for the past, what, three weeks?
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: But I'm not on board. I'm going to pull our
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: tie balls out here.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: No, don't do that.
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: Go, Dawgs. Let's go.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: If you do that, they're going to lose. You know,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: if you do that, they're going to lose. And if
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: you bring back– for the love of God, please know
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: Mississippi State fans, do a We Believe sign or a
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: We Believe shirt.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: Please don't.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: Don't do the We Believe thing. I was on my
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: way back from Volkfield, Wisconsin, and I was flying up
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: front in a C-17, and Colonel Evans– or, excuse me,
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: he retired as a general, major general– General.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: Evans was flying.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Of course, he's a state grad, engineering department up there,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: and he is literally talking to air traffic control and
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: getting scoring updates because, of course, we're 30,000 feet in
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: the air, and we all had the headsets on, and
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: he was asking the air traffic control to score that game.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: It was close there for a second when we took
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: off and about halfway to Jackson.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: It's like, yep, no, we're done. What was that, 30
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: to nothing was the final, something like that?
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, pulling that up. And here's what I don't understand is,
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: you know, you can pick slogans and things that work.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: When they work, you use them, right? Like when Mullen
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: did the whole this is our state, that was pretty
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: catchy for a while.
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: You know, several years, this is our state. They did
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: the whole billboards. Well, you remember the one with the Vanderbilt.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: The guy says, Alabama, when you come to Vanderbilt, you're
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: going to know what ball we play.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: Alabama, you're next. And then Jalen Hurts goes, theoretically, we
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: are next on the schedule. And we're 59-6.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: But the we believe thing didn't work out.
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: No.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: So why would you– it would be just like this, like,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: you know, You decided you were going to change the
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: tires on your car, and they blew out. So why
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: would you go back with that brand of tire? Well,
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: it's kind of the same thing. You know, that fourth
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: quarter tradition used to be the don't stop believing. They
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: still do don't stop believing, but it's not between the
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: third and the fourth quarter. Like, that's gone away. Have
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: you been to a night game lately? I haven't. All right,
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: so that's kind of gone away. Now, they still do
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: it in the fourth quarter, but it's like five or
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: six minutes left.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: Compared to going into the fourth quarter. Like, that was
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: that tradition with.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: With mulling that was don't stop believing but you know
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: that's what the journey song yeah but that's gone yeah
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: so i mean don't don't do it's not a tradition
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: if it doesn't work no well you make it your
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: tradition you make it work well never mind we are
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: talking about so who did you pick to win the
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: game man as much as it pains me to say
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: this look i think it's going to be a game
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: and i've gone back and forth back and forth we
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: could go in there and get blown out you know
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: a couple things not go our ways but You know,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: I think this is a different Alabama team than it
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: was when Saban was there.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: Of course. You know, different type of Alabama.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: You know, they keep, it's funny, I see them keep
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: talking about the record. I think they're 0-19. The last
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: time they beat them was on Croom in 2006, maybe, 2007. But,
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: you know, I think it's a different game of football now. So,
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: I think anybody can win on any Sunday. I think
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: it all depends on Kamario Taylor.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: And the day that he has.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: And I say that to say is also offensive line,
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: how much time they give him to protect protection for
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: him and if they can get.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: The run game.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: If they jump up on Alabama quick and kind of
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: force Keelan Russell to play, I think State's got a really,
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: really good shot. I think that defense is going to
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: show up. They got the edge. They got qualified for
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: West Virginia.
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: I can't remember that guy's name.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: I can't either. I know you're talking about him. I
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: don't know if he's playing, but you got a little
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: bit more pressure if you do have him. On that,
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing as well is, you know,
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: are you going to be able to put pressure on
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: Keelan Russell? No, I think you're right.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: With that being said, I'm still taking Alabama.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: Any chance?
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: I hate to say that. Okay, fair enough.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: Any chance Missouri beats Florida? I don't think that's as
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: big as a trap game as the Ole Miss-Florida game
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: was after LSU.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: I think Missouri is going to be hungry. But until
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: somebody knocks Florida off, I mean, Florida's rolling right now.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: I just don't think that they have a shot even
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: at home.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: No, I think you're right. You know, Florida looks so
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: good right now. Now, you know, now the Bullseye is
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: kind of on their back as I'm looking at some
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: of these predictions here on some of these games. You've
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: got Ohio State, Iowa, interest you at all?
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: No. And I knew that that was going to happen.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: And, of course, they weren't going to go to the
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: game day and NSC school five weeks in a row. And,
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: of course, Kirk Herford can't stay in Mississippi State. He
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: picks against us every year. Well, you think he really
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: doesn't like State? Yes.
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: What would Starville do to him? Nothing.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: Go back to 2014 game day. After what? We beat LSU,
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: A & M. I forgot the other games we've been in.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: We went from unranked to number three in the country
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: in five weeks, and then he finally gets on board
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: when game day comes to Starville and they beat Auburn.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: He finally says Mississippi State. Right after that, he's never
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: picked State since. I think he holds a grudge because
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: the food's too good for him. He's used to that
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Ohio State food. Maybe he doesn't like the Bulldog.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: Could be.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: Because of his dog. Oh.
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: What's that, Peter?
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: That dog lives a better life than we do.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: Why, and I've asked this a million times, why did
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: ESPN make an executive decision to think that we all
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: liked his dog? Well, you know, I think it happened
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: right after his older dog passed away. So his older
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: dog passed away. That was like his best friend. And
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: then he got the new one. And the new one
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: is the one that's kind of... There's millions of people
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: that lose pets that they're best friends.
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: I lost two this year.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, it happens, but I don't fly mine around
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: on a private jet either with a headset on. Yeah,
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: I don't care about Kirk Herbstreit's dog. Did you see
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: Tony Romo's out of CBS? No.
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he is done.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, there was some stuff that happened personally
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: with him. Oh, yes, yes, I did see that. But
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: I didn't know that he was out at CBS. I
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: know he was temporarily suspended. Yeah, he put a statement
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: out today. It's officially, of course, thanking CBS for the
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: opportunity and all of that stuff.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: Nobody ever asked you, who do you got?
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: All by mistake. Um... I've got State to cover. I've
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: got Bama to win. I think it's going to be
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: a close game. I think State's got to show. Now,
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: they showed a lot at Minnesota going on the road,
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: getting a win. They showed a lot going to South Carolina,
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: getting behind and coming back. They gave up the lead
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: against Missouri. I want to see them do it at home.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: This is one of those Texas games from last year,
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: Tennessee games. I want to see them close it. I
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: think they can. I think they can. I think Kamario
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: Taylor is the best quarterback on the field tomorrow. What
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: do you think of the Alabama waking up at, Or
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: leaving Tuscaloosa at 7 o'clock to drive over there. Talked
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: about that earlier. I think that could be– that's going
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: to be interesting to watch. If Bama comes out sluggish
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: and falls behind early, I think you have to question that.
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: Does he ever give a reason why he wanted to
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: do it?
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: No, I mean, just I think because rationale– for them, rationale,
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: they're an hour and 20 minutes, whatever it is. And
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: there's no– but Alabama has always stayed in Columbus.
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: Always.
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: And drove in. So that's going to be interesting to see.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: their day will start at like 3 a.m. I was
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: about to say, because they get up, they feed them breakfast,
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: and if they're leaving at 7, get to the locker room,
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: those players are getting up at 3 a.m. So they're
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: going to be up eight hours. I mean, that's all
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: I stay up a day, and I'm in bed, man.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: I'm ready to go to bed. So, well, we appreciate
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: you today. Chris, any other games real quick? We've got
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: about 30 seconds that you're looking at tomorrow.
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: The Auburn-Tennessee?
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: Auburn-Tennessee.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: I think that's going to be a good one.
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: I think it is, too. I think Tennessee.
• 41:11
  Speaker 5: Tennessee.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: Texas you don't know.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: Really what they i mean they're so up and down
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: but i thought tennessee played well against an impact great
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: but they played well uh i.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: Think tennessee might shock a few.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: People i got auburn winning i got a one of
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: their win it's time for auburn to play a full
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: ball game and uh alex scholars to coach a full
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: ball game and and byron brown to have a game
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: real quickly is there anything else out here uh that
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: we have missed i don't think of course a big
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: big night of high school football uh we'll have uh
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: MRA football right here on 105.9. Brandon on 106.3 Northwest.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: Their opponent on 103.5. I believe Clinton is off tonight.
• 41:51
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• 41:53
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• 41:56
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• 41:59
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• 42:01
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• 42:03
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