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Does Texas have the easiest path in the College Football Playoff? · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: On a Thursday afternoon. As we draw closer yet closer
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  Speaker 1: to the weekend, we are still nine days away from
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  Speaker 1: the college Football Playoff beginning. Yeah, I don't know about you, Cam,
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  Speaker 1: but I've detected a little uptick just going around the
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  Speaker 1: city and visiting with the merchants and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: At this time of year, this holiday shopping time of season.
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  Speaker 1: That's sorts of folks are getting little jazzed up. They're
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  Speaker 1: geting a little fired up about all this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's fun. The expansion of the College Football Playoff,
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  Speaker 2: the first time we have home field games for College
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  Speaker 2: Football Playoff teams. That always adds more interest. And if
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  Speaker 2: you're the home city for one of the hosts, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the interest for this game is probably maybe not the
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  Speaker 2: same as it was for the Georgia game, but it's
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  Speaker 2: up there.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: It's probably the second biggest home game for Texas this season.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, they had a you know, a pretty week
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  Speaker 2: home schedule this year with A and M and College
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  Speaker 2: Station and Oklahoma always up at the Cotton. So this
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  Speaker 2: is a fun event. I think everyone's excited. And also
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  Speaker 2: you have the the sudden death nature to it, right,
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  Speaker 2: you win, you advance you lose, you go home. And
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  Speaker 2: but we do know win or lose, it is the
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  Speaker 2: final home game for Textas, no matter what.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, And you know you brought this up
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  Speaker 1: about the home game thing, and we went over the
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five schedule for the Longhorns earlier in the
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  Speaker 1: program this afternoon. But it does bear some repeating on
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  Speaker 1: this and that. And I know some folks have grumbled
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  Speaker 1: about said, wow, this home schedule is not so much. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be what it's gonna be the next two years.
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  Speaker 1: After twenty five, you're gonna have Ohio State at home,
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  Speaker 1: and you're gonna have Michigan at home. Michigan maybe back
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  Speaker 1: up and full throttle again by then. If you ask
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State, people will say they were full throttle a
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  Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago. They took care of business on that.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, we'll find out, certainly. But you know that, yes,
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  Speaker 1: San Jose State and UTEP is not gonna exactly jazz
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  Speaker 1: you up that sort of thing, but you're going to have,
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  Speaker 1: you know, some some teams at home. You're gonna have
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  Speaker 1: to deal with the Aggies at home. You're gonna play
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  Speaker 1: Arkansas at home. You're gonna have that. So, yeah, there's
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  Speaker 1: there's something to that for twenty twenty five. But as
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  Speaker 1: you point out this, I want to get Georgia. It's
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  Speaker 1: kind of weird to say this, but I see where
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  Speaker 1: you're going with it, that it's the quote unquote second
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  Speaker 1: biggest home game of the season. Now, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 1: it's a playoff. Playoff. Yeah, playoff. If you don't win,
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  Speaker 1: the season's over. So that in itself should probably indicate
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  Speaker 1: that it's the most important game. But I get what
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  Speaker 1: you mean and what others would think as well, because
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  Speaker 1: at the time, remember Texas was number one when they
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  Speaker 1: we're playing Georgia and then fell off of the off
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  Speaker 1: of the pedestal with Georgia's thirty to fifteen win back
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  Speaker 1: on October nineteenth. And there are those who are saying that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, maybe who knows, maybe down the road they
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  Speaker 1: meet one more time. If they did, that would be
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  Speaker 1: once more back in Atlanta Mercedes Benz Station Stadium. It
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  Speaker 1: would once more be Texas and Georgia, and this time
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  Speaker 1: it would be for a national championship if it happened.
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  Speaker 1: But there's a lot of hay to go into the barn. First,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know about you. Cam. Also the other thing,
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  Speaker 1: what is quickly becoming I think one of the most
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  Speaker 1: oft asked questions, not questions, one of the most off
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  Speaker 1: repeated phrases that I've heard of the past five days.
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  Speaker 1: And I quote this is the quote from talking to
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  Speaker 1: lots of different long worn fans. The quote is I
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  Speaker 1: like our path. That's I've heard that quite a bit.
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  Speaker 1: If I'll be I'll be honest with you, if I
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  Speaker 1: had a dollar for every time I heard somebody say
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  Speaker 1: I like our path or I like the path, because
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  Speaker 1: I've heard both, I like the path or I like
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  Speaker 1: our path. In terms of Texas, if if if I
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  Speaker 1: had a dollar for, I could probably get us like
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  Speaker 1: lunch at Sonic or something or you know someplace you know,
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  Speaker 1: who knows, maybe we'd see uh. But a lot of
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  Speaker 1: long worn fans like it. But long worn fans, like
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  Speaker 1: most fans of big college football programs, tend to get
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  Speaker 1: a little cart before Horsey. There are games we played,
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  Speaker 1: starting with this Clemson game, and then if you win that, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you got to go to Atlanta and a second time,
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  Speaker 1: and you've got to beat an Arizona State team that
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  Speaker 1: people have been counting out all season long, that was
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  Speaker 1: picked to finish in dead last in the Big Twelve Conference,
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  Speaker 1: and they he won the Big Twelve Conference. And they
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  Speaker 1: have a talented quarterback in Sam Levitt, and they have
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  Speaker 1: one of the best running backs in the nation. And
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  Speaker 1: Cam Skataboo in fact, and I'm on record as saying this,
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  Speaker 1: I get Travis Hunter. He's gonna win the Heisman Trophy.
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  Speaker 1: He's gonna win. He was named the AP Player of
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  Speaker 1: the Year today and he'll win other like water Camp
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  Speaker 1: and other awards, probably today tonight at the College Football
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  Speaker 1: Award Show. He'll do that. But I don't think he
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  Speaker 1: was and I certainly don't think Shaduur Sanders was the
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  Speaker 1: best offensive player in the Big Twelve this year. I
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  Speaker 1: think it was Cam Skataboo, the running back, and he's
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  Speaker 1: got the numbers to back it up, so they'd have
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  Speaker 1: to deal with them. Yes, Texas has done well against
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  Speaker 1: the run this year, but my point is that sometimes
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  Speaker 1: folks get a little cart before Horsey on this kind
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  Speaker 1: of thing. So you got to deal with those two
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  Speaker 1: and then even after that, if you win those two games,
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  Speaker 1: in all probability, you're in Jerry World. You're in Arlington
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  Speaker 1: in the Cotton Bowl game in the semi finals. And oh,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, it's Oregon number one team in the country,
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  Speaker 1: the only unbeaten team left in college football if if
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  Speaker 1: you handle your business in those first two games. So
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  Speaker 1: things are far from a sure, but it is cool
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  Speaker 1: that they're getting to participate in this twelve team playoff
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  Speaker 1: for the first time. It is cool also that they
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  Speaker 1: get to host a playoff game first time ever in
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  Speaker 1: the twelve team field for in first time ever to
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  Speaker 1: have home playoff games. So I think that's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 2: For sure. It is And I think what Texas fans
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  Speaker 2: and even the narrative from the media about having the
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  Speaker 2: best path the College Football Playoff Championship is that you
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  Speaker 2: avoid Oregon or Georgia in the second round. And I
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  Speaker 2: think that's huge. Whether it's Arizona State or Boise State.
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  Speaker 2: I think you'd rather play a Boise State than Arizona State.
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  Speaker 2: But you still get Arizona State, who, for all the
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  Speaker 2: reasons you mentioned Craig a good football team, but they're
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  Speaker 2: not in the same level as Oregon or a Georgia
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  Speaker 2: team that has beaten Texas twice. You know, Georgia just
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  Speaker 2: appears to be the a Killes Seal for Texas, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure they would love to see them one more
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  Speaker 2: time in Atlanta. You know, it's hard to beat a
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  Speaker 2: team twice, certainly hard to beat him three times in
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  Speaker 2: one season. But for Texas, a Clemson team that I
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  Speaker 2: think a lot of people don't believe they should be
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  Speaker 2: in there now. They won their ACC championship, and a
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  Speaker 2: lot of that has to do with, you know, Miami
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  Speaker 2: falling apart in their secondary. But it's a Clemson team
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  Speaker 2: that has struggled this season. But they do have Kaid Klebnick,
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  Speaker 2: who's got the Austin ties. Of course, you have Ian
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  Speaker 2: Reed who has the Austin ties. In Dabo Sweeney, he
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  Speaker 2: understands the underdog narrative. And it's a Clemson team or
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  Speaker 2: a Clemson program that is upset Alabama twice, right, and
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  Speaker 2: they won of those games as underdog. So you know
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  Speaker 2: DABA will be preaching the underdog sentiment. I mean, SMU
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  Speaker 2: was favored I think over Clemson. I'm sure he went
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  Speaker 2: with that underdog narrative and he'll be using it again
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  Speaker 2: next week.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I agree with all of that, and it's a
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  Speaker 1: good enough football team to beat you if you're not
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  Speaker 1: on your game. Any of these teams that are in
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  Speaker 1: the twelve team playoff, any of them are good enough
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  Speaker 1: to beat any of the other teams. Look at Boise,
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  Speaker 1: he State in Oregon. It was a three point game
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  Speaker 1: in Eugene at the start. Any of these teams are
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  Speaker 1: good enough to beat any other of the teams in
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  Speaker 1: the field. Ohio State, Georgia, Oregon. No matter what you
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  Speaker 1: say a notre dame, that these teams are all good
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  Speaker 1: enough to beat one another if the other team is
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  Speaker 1: not completely on its game. That's the point. That's the
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  Speaker 1: point I'm making about this. Having said all that, I
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  Speaker 1: understand and don't necessarily disagree. In fact, I don't disagree
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  Speaker 1: with those who say they like the path that Texas has.
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  Speaker 1: It's a workable path to get to the semifinals if
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  Speaker 1: you handle your business and play as was right. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm also curious to see how the guys kind of
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  Speaker 1: heal up. You know, quin yours is not one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 1: We know that hasn't been. And he's on the mend.
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  Speaker 1: Having a bye week this week helps. He's on the
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  Speaker 1: mend with the ankle and the over league. And then
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  Speaker 1: you worry about Kevin Banks won the Lombardi last night.
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  Speaker 1: Great for him. He's you know, he's working toward being ready.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he did go through warm ups before the
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  Speaker 1: Georgia game and then they just deemed he could not go.
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  Speaker 1: So one would imagine if he was good enough to
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  Speaker 1: go through warmups probably two weeks later, that he might
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  Speaker 1: be ready to roll. I would imagine he probably would
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  Speaker 1: be ready to roll against Clemson. So we'll find out,
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  Speaker 1: all right. Up next, we're going to hear the second
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  Speaker 1: part of Rodney Terry's meeting with the media from yesterday
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  Speaker 1: previewing tonight's matchup on the floor at Moody Center between
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  Speaker 1: Texas and New Mexico State. So we'll hear more of
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  Speaker 1: that coming up from RT, and we'll continue here in
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  Speaker 1: this four o'clock hour. Of course, you can hear the
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  Speaker 1: we'll hear more from Rodney Terry coming up next here
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