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Bama Bob recaps College Football, Cyclone talk with Bill Seals & Mr. Monday Night presented by Circa Sports · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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Hour number two welcome back Miller and Condon the Iowa
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sports radio network on Des Moines sports station one O 6.3
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KXO Trent and I with you until the top of the hour Off the
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bench come Lucas and Sean at that time.
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Still to come bottom of the hour, Bill Seals covers Iowa
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State for cyclonereport.com, part of the on three network.
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Mr. Monday night with an appearance Detroit on the road
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getting about four and a half five against the Ravens.
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That's still to come as well. Well, fellas, good to talk to
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you, Bama. Thanks for coming on.
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Just when I learned how to say Sagapulla Telly's name, my
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Golden bears go on and get spanked by San Diego State.
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But that was unbelievable. What a great weekend.
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Next weekend promises to be even better, but we'll see.
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They're all great. What they at the end of the day,
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but we're in conference play now.
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So it kind of ratchets things up, does it not, fellas?
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It certainly does seem to. I mean, yeah, we'll still have
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the odds I guess, or toward the end of the year, you know, the
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rivalry games that are kind of the the non conference.
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But yeah, I mean, we're I guess for the what next 8-9 weeks,
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it's kind of full bore conference matchups, which is
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what you love. Yep, absolutely.
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Well, Trent, let's get into it. Let's start with the Big 12
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Friday night. TCU, Arizona.
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No, that was last. That was the past week.
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Who did we watch on Friday night?
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Oklahoma. State, Oklahoma State going down
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in flames. I think I had Gundy as the first
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coach to walk the plank, if memory serves.
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I'm not sure he will prior to the end of the season, but boy
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oh boy, that's not good. Your thoughts on what you saw
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this past weekend from the Big. 12 So what are the big
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takeaways? I think is what we saw from
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Kansas and just the dismantling of West Virginia, the Jayhawk
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team, they were the sheet pick a year ago going into the season,
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didn't work, lost a lot of close games, didn't click, had some
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injuries. It comes down to Jalen Daniels
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health, right? Could have been the hangover
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from the brawl maybe the week before against Pitt.
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Maybe. Oh yeah, for them, West
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Virginia's not very good. I mean, yeah, they they played
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well in a rivalry game, but they're not very good.
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But this Kansas team, I think at minimum we need to look at them
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A. Little bit deeper, yeah.
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That Missouri team's good and they were up, what was it, 15
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points on them? Whatever it was early in that
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football game. I don't think Kansas can get to
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the conference championship game, but can they win eight
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games? Can they pull a big upset?
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Maybe that derails somebody's titles hopes.
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I think The Jayhawks are a team we have to look at, at least in
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that kind of. Light Yeah, I I don't disagree.
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I think that's I think that's accurate on all counts.
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Bama, what did you take away from the Big 12?
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Obviously, Texas Tech pounding Utah.
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Yeah, that was that. You know, that game got away
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late, man. It was.
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That was a tough walk first half, there's no question about
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it. Was it 10?
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Three, I think. Yeah, 10, three.
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And, you know, was a good defense, was a bad offense, was
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a, you know, early kickoff. What was it?
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I think it was a combination of a lot of factors.
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And then Texas Tech just, you know, the last I'd seen because
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I was flipping around. I, you know, I'm, you know, I
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had a Ken Miller week, you know, flipping around able to, you
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know, watch whatever I want to. And then all of a sudden I just
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look at what, 34 to 10? It just got away from them.
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But but Texas Tech is really good.
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We talked about it going in and nothing really, nothing really
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changed my opinion. I think they're right now.
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You have to consider them the favorite, I guess, in the Big
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12. I don't know.
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I don't know how you couldn't. You know, they've got a bye week
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this week. They still have big games down
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the road. They got to go to Houston, they
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got to go to Arizona State. And between those you just
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mentioned Kansas, a sandwich right in there.
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You know they so those are I think that's really their
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stretch right there, you know, at Houston, Kansas, at Arizona
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State, after that it's Oklahoma State who's putrid.
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You talked about that. I mean, there's just nothing in
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that program at Oklahoma State. I don't, I don't know, I guess
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maybe they're just going to hang on this year and, you know,
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maybe reduce the buyout a little bit.
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I don't know how that's going to work with Gundy.
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But there's just nothing there He doesn't like, he cares.
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You know, he's doesn't look excited about it anymore.
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And there's the worst thing that can happen to any, any sports
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team. And I sat in Nashville
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yesterday. Watch it.
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Watch it with the apathy 100%, you know, anger.
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You'd much rather have anger than apathy.
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When you get apathy, there's just no getting out of it.
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So I don't know where they go, but there, that's a pathetic
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team. TCU really good win you.
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Know TCU is a team that we got to start talking.
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I'm with you. I think Trent, right on Kansas
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and I think we should put TCU in that conversation too. 100% and
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you know they've got a Friday night game this week, I believe,
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if I'm reading this right. Is that the Arizona State Friday
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night? I mean, that's a good one if it
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is. Yeah, let me, let me.
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Yes, Fox. Wow 8:00.
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Excellent Friday night game. Yeah, it.
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Really. Is yeah, they Yeah.
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So Hoover's playing, you know, I don't want to say the Heisman
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level, but he's certainly putting it all Big 12 level, I
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think, along with, you know, a couple other guys.
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But yeah, PCU is a is a team. You know, we watched in the
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week, week one, they kind of dismantled North Carolina and we
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thought, well, North Carolina is just going to be bad and they
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are bad. But yeah, I think that's a team.
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You know, I'm going to give a little credit here and I'll, you
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know, lead a little crow. Colorado's better than I thought
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they were going to be this year. Guys are two and two.
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Listen, they haven't really. I don't I don't know that
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they're a bowl team. They might could get there, but
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they're they're I'm not saying they're better without Hunter
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and Sanders, but they're playing pretty well right now.
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You know, Salter played pretty well.
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Not very good. He did They're not very good.
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So, but I think right now the two teams, if you made me pick a
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championship game, it probably TCU and Texas Tech, but a lot of
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teams are still gonna have. Say in that I watched.
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In Oklahoma State, again, just horrible.
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I watched Indiana, Illinois for the first half and it was
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getting out of hand, so I switched over and I watched the
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entire second-half of Arizona State and Baylor as a hell of a
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football game. Yeah, it was a really good game,
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it was. A hell of a football game.
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Arizona State, they're they're defending champ, I don't think.
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They're going to get back there. I agree they're going to go down
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with the fight, but but as Trent said, you got to put Kansas in
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the mix. As you said, Bama, TCU, don't
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sleep on them. We're all talking about Texas
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Tech and obviously Iowa State, where we.
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Kind of what we thought it was, isn't it?
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I mean, you know, you're going to have 5-16.
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Yeah, in the middle. It's just going to.
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Be and maybe BYU out of it and maybe BYU.
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We'll see where it goes. That's a weird game, yeah.
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Big 10 Condon. USC is a title contender.
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Oh, they can score with anyone. Oh, hello, Yeah.
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I mean, now I know I like this team coming into the year, kind
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of that dark horse team I watched start to finish.
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I had it on. Did you until 2:00 AM Ten O?
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Clock at 10 O clock kick. Off Yep.
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And I was there all the way to the end.
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I walked away. Now, Michigan State was making
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plays, and that's the thing. USC is not did.
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Charles play well. It was Childs, yeah, he played
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well and he also played like garbage because that's what you
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get every single game out of that guy.
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He's going to look like the best quarterback in the Big 10 and
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maybe the 15th best quarterback in the Big 10 inside of a 60
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minute football game. That's what he did.
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Again, they scored US. CS got some problems
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defensively, However, they can score with anybody.
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Lemon, their top receiver, but he is not alone.
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They're running the football. This team is going to be a.
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Problem. Have a good game.
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Yeah, he was excellent. The whole team offensively, this
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team is elite. Again, don't know if they have
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the the defense, but they're in a shootout against Ohio.
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State the Big 10 for right now. Ohio State, Oregon, Penn State,
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USC. USC right there on.
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Indiana might needs to be in their table.
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I think they do, yeah. I'd have to think about it a
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little bit more, yeah. That's good, I'm glad you
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watched that game. Your thoughts on the Big 10
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Bama? You know, Trent might be on to
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something a little bit and I'm not going to say that they are
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elite yet, but you really look at, you know, you just mentioned
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the top teams, right? What do you got?
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Ohio State. Oregon.
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Penn State. State, USC, Indiana.
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USC, the USC only plays one of those teams.
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They go to Oregon. They do not play Penn State.
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They do not play Ohio State. They do not play Indiana.
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They've got a they go to Illinois this week.
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Tricky spot. They got a bye week.
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Yeah, a little tricky. They got a bye week and they
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host Michigan, who looked a lot better against Nebraska.
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They go to Notre Dame. I understand, you know, Notre
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Dame, maybe not what they were, but that's still a tough trip
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back east again. And they got to buy wheat and
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they go to Nebraska, They got to play Iowa and they go to Oregon.
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So look, they they avoid the two top dogs, if you will, to the
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three top dogs in the Big 10. And then, you know, if you want
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to throw Indiana in there, I'm not I'm going to have to see a
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little bit more from Indiana. OK, Was that are they that good?
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Is Illinois overrated? Maybe a combination of both.
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The problem with that game, I think, was just Illinois is not
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built to come back. You know, they get down two or
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three scores. They're not coming back and that
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you know, from a from a deficit like that.
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But boy, Signetti, just man, he just kept the hammer down.
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Then he was not he was not letting up.
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He doesn't care, right. He really doesn't care if you're
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I get the feeling and I don't think he would complain if if
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this roles were reversed. You know you beat him, didn't.
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And your score. Had no problem, no.
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Absolutely. I mean, and you know what,
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that's so refreshing. It's like, you know, it's our
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job to stop them. You know, if they're out,
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whoever they've got out there, it's hard to have to stop them.
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So do with what you. I thought the Michigan Nebraska
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game was really a good game. I think Nebraska, I don't think
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it was as close. No, it wasn't because they had
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the Nebraska had the Hail Mary. The problem was, yeah, they
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really couldn't run the ball very well and and that and
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Michigan did. I mean, you know, Underwood
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wasn't great. No, you know, it was really
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good. Was, was Hayne, remember,
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Remember Trent, when Sip was on with us?
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He says. My biggest fear is #22 yeah, for
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Michigan Haynes, the running back.
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And look what he did. Sip also told us that they have
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a better offensive line than Iowa.
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He. Might have gone one for 2.
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I know one team in the SEC that which is they still had him.
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Yeah. And that's Alabama.
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Yeah. You know, he came from there.
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So he did, yeah. One more thing on the Big 10 for
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me, and I said it after Week 1, I don't remember where they
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play, but I really like Maryland's quarterback.
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And Bammy, you sent the picture of of of the same.
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Yeah, yeah. Again.
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And you mentioned apathy. Yes, exactly.
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Yes. It's it's it's hitting, it's
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hitting Wisconsin. There's going to be a job
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vacancy. We shall see where that goes or
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let's us go to the SEC. And Trent, your take away from
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the SEC this past weekend was? There were a couple of things
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that I thought that were the Memphis poor officiating an Oak
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well, Auburn. That was definitely one of them.
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We got we got the split though in the Group of Five games,
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Memphis got the win. Tulane got run out of the
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building that. Surprised me, Tulane.
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Yeah, just a a complete no show against old miss and and Vandy
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scored 70. I mean, come on, 70 and he put
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up 70 points against the Georgia State team that that sucks the
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air out of the football. I mean, they weren't playing
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another high tempo team. Look at the look at Vandye
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record to start the year. They're.
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They're four, no? Huh, Vandy?
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Vanderbilt in the SEC championship game.
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Shall we start the breaks a little bit?
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Shall we start talking about it? But a fun weekend.
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And I would just. I'm always so sad to see Sam
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Pitman. Yeah, when they lose, when they
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lose like that. I wonder.
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Apparently Petrino's politicking behind the scenes to be the
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interim coach. Is Pitman going to make it to
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October Bama? I don't think so.
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I don't know what the buyout is. It listen, it's the same thing,
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right? Everybody likes him.
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Good guy. Yep.
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They just keep finding creative ways to lose.
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And that was a absolutely brutal loss against Memphis because
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they were driving. You can call it bad luck,
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whatever you want to call it. They were, I don't know what
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they're on the 1015 yard line, whatever it was driving in for a
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chip shop field goal to win the game.
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The quarter pack is lunging forward and the defender makes a
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tremendous play, punches it out. You couldn't even tell it on,
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you know, until you really went to the ISO on the replay.
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Clear fumble and that's it. I don't know what the buyout is.
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I don't know what the, the finding.
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You would think Arkansas, I got a little money up there with
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Walmart, but I I don't, I don't know that.
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And the and the Tyson chicken guy, isn't he in Arkansas?
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Guy, yeah, he's up there too, absolutely so.
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But again, I don't, I don't know what I don't know what the
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current situation is. I think it's obvious Bob Petrino
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is going to be the next coach up there.
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I mean, you know, you mentioned him politic.
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And I don't think he's going to have to.
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First of all, it's not a shock with him because he's done that
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before. You know, I mean, remember back
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when he was at other places, he would flirt with jobs, you know,
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left and right. But yeah, I think I don't think
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he's going to survive the year. You know, South Carolina is that
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was a Missouri's good. Yeah, they are Missouri.
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Missouri might be better. And I thought, and you really
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look at it and what's really stood out to me, they had 285
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yards on the ground. South Carolina is not a bad
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defensive team. They're not elite, but they're
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not bad. 285 yards on the ground, you know, for Bullo and
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say his name, you know, through only through 471 yards.
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Sellers was OK. He.
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Took a lot of hits. He didn't take a lot of hits,
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302 yards, you know, 2 touchdowns.
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But yeah, I think 567 sacks, which, you know, would have
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been, you know, noteworthy had it not been for what Oklahoma
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did to Auburn. And Speaking of that, that that
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was look, that was one of the most poorly efficient games that
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I have seen in a while. I still don't know the the the
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stupid score that Auburn had. I don't know.
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I still don't know how they had enough to overturn that.
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I don't know how they didn't just uphold what was on there on
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the field. You mentioned the play where
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they you know you're running off and.
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It's the sleeper play in in 8th grade football.
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You might think it's a dumb rule and that they should be paying
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attention, but it's a rule and they're not and they're trained
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to not look for anymore, right? You know defenders are not
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trained for that anymore by rule because it's it's breaking rule.
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The past interference that didn't get called on time,
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right? Yes.
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And it's Cam Coleman down on the goal line jumping up in the air
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the the gate and the referee is turned running the other
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direction. That is as bad as it gets right
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there. And listen, I'm giving that guy
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a 10% pass because it was it wasn't a quarterback pass.
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It was a double pass to a wide receiver.
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So he's trying to get out of the way.
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My question is where? My question is, where's his
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help? OK, you've got six other guys
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out there. I'm how many times on API do you
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see five flags coming in, right? Yeah.
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What were the other guys looking at on that plate?
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It was it was awful. Now that said, Auburn again,
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what is it 1011 sacks, whatever it was, They give up school
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record to Oklahoma when that's a pretty stout defenses they've
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had in the past. Two, you mentioned Vanderbilt,
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I'm just going to say it real quick.
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I don't know that they're going to make it to the SEC
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championship game, but that is a scary football team.
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And I'm going to tell you somebody who ought to be scared.
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Alabama goes to Georgia this week, two weeks for three weeks
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they go to Missouri. You know what's handled
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sandwiched in between those two? What's that?
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Alabama, Vandy, Vanderbilt, Oh my God, at Georgia, Vandy at
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home at Missouri, you and then Tennessee, right.
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So you want to tell me they're overlooking Vanderbilt and
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Vanderbilt can be 9 and oh, nobody's going to care.
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They're still Vanderbilt. That is a really good.
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Football team, you know why they won't overlook in Bama last
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year? I would hope not.
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Right. But, you know, again, Ken, it's
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just so ingrained down here, you know, that it's it's.
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It's a. It's put it in the win column,
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right? Exactly.
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It's Vanderbilt. Well, this is not your, your,
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your, you know, fathers or your grandfathers or your great
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grandfathers. Vanderbilt.
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This is a really good football team.
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And they've got A1 stud at quarterback.
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Yeah, they did. So that's going to be tough.
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But yeah, you know, Florida, again, just just cutred.
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Miami's good. But Florida had one first down
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and 32 yards in the first half. So it's just the watch is on for
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Billy Napier. When's it going to happen?
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They're going to buy week this week.
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You kind of thought maybe it happened now because, you know,
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coming out of the body. Oh, look, it's Texas.
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You know, it's it's just I'm sorry, they don't have a Yeah,
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they are open this week. So yeah.
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And and again, it just gets harder down the line.
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But you know, we're going to really an Ole Miss.
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You mentioned the Tulane game. We might be sleeping on Ole Miss
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just a little bit. You know, they lost Jackson
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guard. You thought, well, it's a reset
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year for Lane Kiffin. They struggled at Kentucky and I
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couldn't get past that. Yeah, yeah.
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But boy, they stumped Tulane. That was never with the backup
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quarterback. Yeah, Well, yeah.
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Maybe we'll see. Trent, the ACC, obviously
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Clemson. Yeah, yeah.
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I mean, that's the storyline certainly of the week.
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We might be pretty soon having to change this to the AAC
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instead of the ACC. You know what, that's a
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fairpoint because I think the group of five participant is
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coming from. Do you have your notebook in
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front of you? I do.
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Who did we pick as our group of five?
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I don't add Memphis. You're in a good spot.
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I'm feeling very good about those Tigers started.
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To come on, I, I, I, I've shuddered to ask Bama.
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I don't want to be embarrassed. I think I had two.
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Lanes all right? You're still alive.
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They play each other. Yeah.
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Looking through the notebook scene where I wrote it in here
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and through this mess of notes says that we had about 6000
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things in there can and not seeing where I wrote it down,
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I'd have to look a little. Deeper good.
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We didn't go on record because I think I picked Boise.
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I'm sure. I think you had Clemson as your
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national. I did.
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Woof. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And I had Bill Belichick a success in North Carolina.
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We killed a lot of segments in the spring over that.
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Yeah, that's that's turning ugly quick.
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I don't know that that's going to last the second year down
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there. Why why does he need that job
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again? I keep going back up.
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Why are you there? But I mean, the did you see the
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UCF tweet? That was just next level.
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That was awesome. What did they say?
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So they had their mascot. He was doing the pose.
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Yes. Just like the yoga pose.
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Yes. Bill checked in with his
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girlfriend. Yeah, that.
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That was they also, they also have somebody put out a meme of,
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what's her name, Jordan Hudson, kind of, yeah, kind of standing
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silhouetted behind Scott Frost, like she's checking him out.
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I mean that was. Pretty good too.
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I don't want to get ahead of ourselves, but what?
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What? Potentially because Georgia Tech
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looked really good. I think so too.
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What does this game against Georgia at the end of the year
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mean? I mean, let's, let's put them in
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the let's put Georgia Tech in the ACC Championship game.
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I mean, I, I win over Georgia late in the year.
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If Georgia Tech loses a couple, might they be a playoff team?
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I guess is where I would go. Might this mean that?
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It could be, yeah. I mean, where it comes down to
18:59
then they have to win the ACC Championship in order to get in.
19:01
If they lose to Georgia, yeah, there's still a lot of.
19:04
Football. No, there is, but they're off to
19:05
a remember. Last year you had Wazoo in the
19:06
playoff. Well, look, no.
19:09
I wanted to make a case for it. I didn't have them in, they got
19:14
they got Remind me they did get in though didn't.
19:16
They they just missed, just missed.
19:17
Just missed that's what it was. Yeah, Georgia Tech plays at
19:21
White Forest. That's a win.
19:23
You think yeah, they're going to buy a week.
19:25
They got Virginia Tech. That's a win.
19:27
Terrible. They go to Duke.
19:30
Yeah. You know, share, win Hughes.
19:32
Yeah, yeah, Syracuse, tough game, tougher than maybe you
19:35
think at NC State, at Boston College, PIT, that's their ACC
19:41
schedule, guys. No Miami, no Florida State,
19:46
there's a path. Yeah, there is to get Georgia at
19:48
the end of the year. So yeah, I mean, if they can
19:50
stay healthy, again, you always worry about attrition and
19:52
injuries with a team like Delmar Vanderbilt, right?
19:55
Because they might not have too deep at every position.
19:58
So they can keep they can keep the things king upright.
20:02
They're they're going to be around for sure, I think.
20:05
Trent is is Memphis the best Group of Five team right now?
20:10
Who worries you? I still can't get there.
20:12
I mean, Tulane's still going to be a fat.
20:13
They play each other on a Friday night.
20:15
Yeah, I don't think that there's a big gap between them and
20:18
everybody else or anything like that, that when it gets Arkansas
20:20
is going to go a long way and certainly help them.
20:23
But I think there's just too many good teams in the AAC.
20:26
A couple it with no you get weird game.
20:28
Texas is good. This is good.
20:30
You got Navy. I mean you got those weird games
20:32
that are USF. They haven't fallen off the map.
20:34
I mean, that's still a team that can definitely win.
20:36
Great start. Yeah.
20:38
East Carolina didn't play very well against BYU, but they got
20:41
a. Good game coming up I think.
20:42
They play in the week. It's either Thursday or Friday
20:43
coming up this week. I think maybe against Army, but
20:46
regardless too many good teams in the to say that definitive.
20:50
So is, but is the Group of Five coming from the AAC Jakes?
20:53
I do too, yeah. Yeah, absolutely.
20:55
Has to be, I think. I mean, what's the other option,
20:57
Boy, man, San Diego State? Well, the Big Cal.
21:01
Yeah, Big. Cal, I mean, you know, Big 10,
21:04
well, where do they ACC whoever the hell they're in now, you
21:07
know, But nobody saw it because it was at midnight again.
21:11
But I don't know. I mean, can San Diego State get
21:14
there if they win the Mountain West?
21:15
Are they going to, could they get jump over an AAC team,
21:19
especially because, you know, Tulane and Tulane and Memphis, I
21:23
believe, play in the regular season.
21:24
So then they would have to meet again.
21:25
Yeah. They play in late November, I
21:27
mean no early November on a Friday night.
21:30
Yeah. So if they if they if they
21:32
played in and then they meet again and they split it, is that
21:35
going to leave an opening for, you know, San Diego State to
21:38
sneak in something? So I don't know.
21:40
But yeah, I think right now if he had to, if you're if you're
21:42
given odds, I'm taking them for the that it comes out of the AC
21:45
for the Group 5. Hey, boys, Notre Dame won a
21:48
football game, and Peacock took a long time to get through it.
21:51
Yeah, boy, they. Yeah.
21:53
Bama, I know you're off on Friday.
21:56
We'll talk a week from today, have fun with the family.
21:59
I know it's not the best occasions that you're going for,
22:01
but we will. We'll talk to you in a weeks
22:04
time. All right, brother.
22:05
I appreciate it, guys. Take care.
22:06
I'll, I'll miss you, but I'll. We'll be watching.
22:08
We'll talk. We'll talk Monday.
22:10
You got to see you, pal. Good to talk to you.
22:11
Bama, Bob, Trent and I recapping the week in college football.
22:15
All right, we'll take your time out.
22:17
We'll come back. Bill Seals covers Iowa State
22:19
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22:23
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22:24
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22:27
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22:30
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22:34
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22:37
covers Iowa State cyclonereport.com part of on
22:40
three media. Bill Trenton Ken thanks for
22:42
coming on back to work for you and the Iowa State media here
22:46
this week. I guess I want to start with
22:48
review with Kyle Conradi, who apparently his girlfriend, I'm
22:52
not on Instagram, but I have this for a couple of people say
22:55
it's legit. She apparently posted that
22:58
Conradi's going to miss, I think that she said four to six weeks
23:02
with an injury. Do you buy that?
23:04
Is this the first time is, I mean, does she do this all the
23:08
time? And if so, how is Matt Campbell
23:10
not pulled Conradi in and said, you know, tap the brakes on this
23:13
a little bit? Well, yeah, that's a that's a
23:16
good question. That it, it sounds like it's
23:19
been corroborated though, by his dad that he was going to be out
23:23
for a while. So probably not what the
23:27
coaching staff wanted to see out on social media over a a bye
23:32
week. But I, I think kind of what we
23:34
saw against Arkansas State, it LED everyone to believe he was
23:38
he was going to miss some time. And even with the bye week and
23:41
I, I think it, it's wise to just get him some rest really.
23:46
It's a long season. They've got 3 by weeks, just had
23:49
their first. So I think still, if they think
23:53
time will be a a big factor here, I think get him off his
23:57
feet and and see if they can get him back for the what would be
24:01
probably what, the last third or fourth of the regular season.
24:05
And Gilbert's hurt as well, correct?
24:07
Yeah, yeah. We haven't seen him.
24:09
He had that first kick off against South Dakota, the home
24:14
opener, and you know, he spent the second-half of that game in
24:17
street clothes and we haven't seen the guy since.
24:20
So I I would imagine we'll get some clarification on both of
24:24
those kickers from Campbell tomorrow.
24:26
And then of course, we're back in the Big 12 action.
24:29
So starting on Wednesday night around 9:00, we'll start getting
24:32
the player availability reports on that too.
24:37
Chase Smith looks to be the guy. Didn't appear to have maybe the
24:42
longest leg. He's still a young guy out
24:44
there, but we'll hear, I'm sure, more about Jay Smith kind of
24:48
going forward. What can you tell us about him,
24:50
what we know? Because I mean, it would make
24:52
sense with another bye week coming up here in three weeks
24:55
for Conradie, off this week, obviously with the bye, three
24:59
weeks of games and then another bye maybe after that.
25:01
What can you tell us, though, about Jay Smith?
25:04
Well, he was, he was one of those kind of interesting.
25:07
I'll I'll always remember talking to this kid because he
25:10
committed while we were all down in Orlando for the Pop Tarts
25:16
Bowl week. So this commitment comes through
25:19
in late December. Obviously it's not a time that's
25:23
a heavy football recruiting time for that the class, but he was
25:28
good kind of like a kid that did everything for that North Scott
25:32
team. If you'll remember, North Scott
25:34
was the home of the Peterson brothers that that came through
25:39
Iowa State. So I would imagine a good
25:42
connection there between the North Scott coaching staff and
25:45
the Iowa State coaches. So they they steered him onto
25:49
him. He was a late walk on addition
25:51
in that 2025 class. The quarterback for his team as
25:56
well. So true for almost 2400 yards
25:59
and and 28 touchdowns last year. So also a pretty good QB in his
26:04
own right at that level of football in in Iowa.
26:07
So we're we're going to find out a lot more about him, though.
26:10
And and as you mentioned, you know, maybe the leg strength on
26:13
kickoffs not quite there just yet, but the the coverage teams
26:18
are going to be need to be on their game as they as the
26:21
Cyclones move forward here and cover what looks to be, you
26:25
know, kicks probably to the 1520 yard line.
26:28
And they're going to need to come through and, you know,
26:30
haven't been tested a whole lot. They with guys like Gilbert
26:34
doing kickoffs and a lot of them have gone for touchbacks.
26:37
So that's about to change probably.
26:39
Yeah, what? One more in the kick and we'll
26:41
get to other physicians on the field.
26:42
But, I mean, and I don't, yeah, I know the answer to this and
26:45
probably feel dumb even asking Campbell wouldn't be
26:49
forthcoming. I mean, if you were to ask him
26:51
tomorrow, you know, from what you've seen of Chase Smith, what
26:53
do you feel comfortable sending him out on the field to kick a
26:56
40 to 49? I mean, what do you think his
26:59
distance is? Do you have any idea, Bill?
27:01
And would Campbell even, you know, offer an answer on that if
27:04
he was asked? You know, probably not just
27:08
because it probably ends up on Brent Brennan's desk, the
27:13
Arizona head coach and others moving forward.
27:16
Probably something we're just going to have to find out.
27:19
And the media is not allowed into any practices before or
27:23
during spring ball or before in in like training camps.
27:26
So we really haven't seen Chase Smith kick.
27:29
Has he? Did he kick it north, Scott?
27:33
He did, yeah. Yeah, he did.
27:35
He did kick for North Scott as far as like the high school, but
27:38
that's on that, you know, that's fine.
27:40
I think that's still off of a. Tee.
27:42
Trent yeah, in high school he was, he was 4 of so with a long
27:48
of 42 yards and in high school, so you never know, the only four
27:53
O 6 with a long of 42, maybe they did.
27:55
There were some opportunities to go for longer ones and the the
27:59
coach just didn't feel comfortable doing it.
28:02
We jump over there and you've been doing a lot of work during
28:04
the bye week. Really enjoyed the rundown of
28:07
all the grades for all the players to this point in the
28:09
season from Pro Football Focus. Give us a guy on each side of
28:12
the football. Maybe this surprise you either
28:14
good or bad on each side because it was a good rundown of
28:17
everybody and I thought there were a couple of eye openers
28:19
myself. As you were unearthing the
28:21
numbers, what came out to you? Well, I was really impressed
28:26
with the the offensive line and graded out a little better than
28:30
I than I thought maybe just because at times this has been a
28:33
team that struggled to run the ball.
28:35
They've done it well in in spurts.
28:37
But you know, Jim Boniface, what was that guy?
28:40
She's well and I should say James Neal too.
28:43
I'm not going to slight James Neal.
28:44
He's been the highest graded of all 5 offensive lineman and, and
28:49
was a guy they got out of the JUCO ranks earlier in his career
28:53
had played basketball. So he's only really in like his
28:56
what 4th year maybe a playing actual football.
29:00
So he's been a revelation though for this offensive line so far,
29:05
a 72.6 run blocking the machine so far he's been over a 70 there
29:13
and, and just doing a great job across the board.
29:15
And then, you know, Jim Boniface, everybody wondered
29:18
while Trevor Bohr was out if if maybe they would shuffle things
29:22
around and like a Dylan Barrett or a Brendan Black might end up
29:26
at center. But I think Jim Boniface is
29:30
taking hold of this job and it's going to be his here in his
29:33
senior year. And seems like maybe Dylan
29:36
Barrett might be the odd man out here as as they get into a game
29:40
week again, I would imagine Trevor Borg going to make the
29:42
start on Saturday. And we've seen Brendan Black's
29:46
performance up up several ticks here this season as well.
29:50
So I think that that sums up kind of my thoughts on the
29:53
offensive side, maybe some surprises to me.
29:57
And then, you know, you flip over to defense a couple things.
30:02
I think Dominique Orange at a 68.6 probably could be a little
30:06
bit higher. I've always, I've always thought
30:09
that a little bit with him too. Maybe in that 335 he gets
30:12
underrated quite a bit And, and what his responsibilities are.
30:16
He's got two guys on the ends that are that are new.
30:20
So I, I, he's with, with McDonough and with Eziago.
30:25
I mean, they're throwing two or three guys blockers at, at
30:29
orange on every place. So I think he's build his own
30:31
and then gosh, Marcus Neal, let's praise the work he's done
30:36
an 86.1. He is just been an absolute
30:40
stand out this year as a sophomore and played the most
30:43
snaps of anybody on that side of the ball this season.
30:47
Fascinating to see how this works out and the good numbers
30:51
on both sides. And I would not have known that.
30:54
So let's let's look at at this Arizona team.
30:57
This was the team that, you know, didn't get a lot of
31:00
attention maybe prior to the season when the schedule comes
31:03
on and it's Arizona coming off a bad year.
31:06
But they've played pretty well. Bill, this, this should mean
31:09
United States got more talent, I think.
31:11
But this game may be a little bit deeper waters than we
31:14
originally thought. Yeah, Well, I I think we we've
31:18
even talked about Fafida, I think in the past, Kenny and and
31:22
I think he's really done a good job here so far this season.
31:26
And I put up that over the noon hour, a kind of a deeper dive
31:30
into the PFF grades for both of these teams through the early
31:35
stretch of the season. Obviously Arizona had the bye
31:37
week last week as well coming out of that K State win.
31:41
But Fafida is remarkable. You you could like what their
31:47
grades are on the offensive side.
31:50
Arizona not doing a real good job in in pass blocking here so
31:55
far 94th in the country. So I but yet they're passing
32:00
grade with the feet at 23rd nationally.
32:03
So I think he's really come into his own 712 yards passing
32:08
through three games. You know, I I thought he was
32:10
solid against Kansas State. They got that nice win going
32:14
into the bye week and then with with Fafida as well.
32:18
He's one that you you factor with the the legs as well.
32:22
He's got 3 rushing touchdowns and obviously, you know the sack
32:26
number that the sacks negatively impact like his rushing impact.
32:31
So he's down to 37 on the season there.
32:34
But the three rushing touchdowns, I think he's a guy
32:37
that Iowa State going to need to be on on its keys defensively
32:41
and and not let him go pick up those 6-7 yard gains on 3rd down
32:45
and and move the change Arkansas State 7 to 16 on 3rd down.
32:49
And then we obviously saw what how much of an impact Rainer had
32:53
on that game for them. What about the other side of the
32:56
ball? Arizona, of course.
32:57
Rafito always the top of the conversation there, but this
33:00
Arizona defense also looks much improved.
33:03
Right. Yeah, Genesis Smith, the highest
33:06
graded out of any of the defensive players for them
33:11
defensive back, so out of Chandler, AZ, hometown guy.
33:15
So yeah, he's really stood out so far, I think, and I think
33:21
they're the kind of similar to Iowa State.
33:24
They've got three of their top five graded guys on defense are
33:29
DBS. You look at Iowa State, it's a
33:31
similar story. The coverage grade for the
33:35
Wildcats really good. So, you know, this is 1.
33:38
I think the Cyclone's really going to be tested with that
33:41
Arizona defense and and then the the back end where that's been
33:45
their strength. And, you know, obviously with
33:47
Iowa State, Rocco Beck coming in that passing game, it's it's
33:51
going to be tested this weekend, no doubt.
33:53
No doubt. I wonder if there's any Cyclone
33:57
fans out there that wish Eli Sanders was still an an option
34:00
at the running back position. Putting up big numbers at USC
34:04
but can't keep everybody I guess.
34:06
Bill Seals, cyclonereport.com Bill, great stuff.
34:09
Press conference tomorrow. Campbell speaks at what time?
34:13
It'll be a little afternoon, usually the whole thing.
34:17
The whole thing starts around 11:30 with players, then we'll
34:20
get Mauser after the players 11:50-ish and then Campbell will
34:26
follow shortly thereafter. Good stuff.
34:29
We'll see you on Twitter. Thank you, Bill Seals,
34:31
appreciate you doing this. As always, cyclonereport.com,
34:35
part of On Three Media. Thanks, Bill.
34:36
Have a great week. You as well.
34:38
Thanks guys. Thanks, good to talk to you Bill
34:40
Seals again, it's a whiteout. If you're headed to Jack Trice
34:43
on Saturday night for the six O clock kick, it is a whiteout.
34:47
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34:52
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34:56
All right, we'll take the time out.
34:57
Come back Mr. Monday night got a good one tonight.
35:00
Double header next week and they're not spread out.
35:04
They're going back to that Bing bang right off the right, almost
35:07
right on top of each other. 15 and 7. 15, right?
35:10
The late game is Cincinnati, Denver.
35:11
Do you remember who the early game is?
35:13
I don't. Remember Jets, Dolphins PU Yes,
35:16
you're be itching to get over to here, Bronco God.
35:19
I hope Buck and Aikman are in Denver.
35:21
What do you think? New York team.
35:24
Why do we keep betting fed New York teams?
35:26
New York teams suck. You want to watch the Giants in
35:29
prime time? No, I haven't wanted to watch
35:31
the Giants in prime time. Why not watch The Jets in prime?
35:33
Time Bill Parcells. Is there even the good teams?
35:35
Yeah, they're just something about that team.
35:37
Yeah, Eli Manning. No Yuck.
35:40
And I like Tom Coughlin, but. This this his.
35:44
His players didn't. No, I wonder how the players
35:48
like Russell Wilson, what a washed quarterback.
35:52
You know, I'm glad that the rest of the country see what how bad
35:55
this guy is. He's awful.
35:56
He just threw for 450 yards two weeks against the freaking
35:59
Cowboys. He can't be that.
36:03
Washed. He's washed.
36:05
He's that good. No.
36:06
And he has. A lot of that for.
36:07
Four years and he's probably #32.
36:10
I think everybody knows that though.
36:12
He's terrible. I mean, why do you want to?
36:14
I get why in this market you want to watch The Jets, right?
36:17
Like watching Breece Hall. Will McDonald, by the way, he's.
36:20
My God it's clicking isn't. It Mr. Monday night's been
36:23
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Of course tomorrow morning at six O clock the first quarter,
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Heather and Alec get going at 6:00 AM.
36:48
Well, the week 3 concludes. Are you still alive in Survivor?
36:52
By the way, who did you have? The Bills, that was a free
36:56
square well. You made a sweat for it.
36:58
It was. A little bit, yeah.
36:59
It was a little that Seattle was a free square yesterday.
37:02
It turned out to be. Yeah, it turned out to be.
37:05
It was 45 three. Wasn't.
37:06
Well, yeah, I mean it's easy to say in hindsight.
37:09
You thought last year that there were a lot of free squares and
37:11
there weren't. They're never free squares, are
37:13
we? It's.
37:13
Dangerously close to seeing October for the first time.
37:17
Well, you just jinxed it, so no. I feel pretty good.
37:21
You're 1. I did that was the only.
37:23
Year. That was the only year, yeah.
37:25
You never have, though. Never have.
37:27
If The Jets would have held on. If, if, if what was that number,
37:32
like 3400? More people would have been
37:34
knocked out. God, I was pulling for that to
37:36
happen. I do not have the bills this
37:38
week against the aforementioned Saints.
37:40
You're not going. To use them, I just used them.
37:42
Oh, you. Can't.
37:42
Yeah, you can't use them. Can't go back to the well again.
37:45
We have one Bills. I think.
37:47
Well, I don't want to speak for the rest of my group.
37:49
Who else do you like? Is looks as like a Survivor
37:53
candidate. Maybe the Packers?
37:55
Where do they go? Dallas with maybe no CD Lamb.
37:59
Yeah, who do they, who do the Giants play?
38:02
The. Giants host of Chargers.
38:04
They are a home for the Chargers.
38:06
By the way. Cross country early body clock.
38:09
Nick Bosa out for the year, Torres ACL for the Niners, saw
38:13
that. And then the other one that I'm
38:14
looking at maybe is Monday night.
38:17
Monday night going with the Broncos.
38:20
They're not losing three in a row.
38:22
I use them a weak one against the Titans.
38:23
You can't use them. Who are you?
38:25
Who's Mr. Monday Night using tonight?
38:27
Lions. He's all about the Lions in the
38:29
four and a half reverse line movement in this one.
38:32
Better public all over the Ravens, yet that point spread
38:35
trickling down. In fact, down to four at circa 4
38:38
1/2 at DraftKings. I'm going to grab the points
38:40
here and give me the Lion. I hope we get a good game.
38:43
I believe we will. We'll talk about it tomorrow.
38:45
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