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CFP Chaos and Playoff Quarterfinal Takeaways · Winning Cures Everything | College Football

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  Speaker 1: Today we got to roll through a recap of what
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  Speaker 1: happened in the college football playoff game yesterday and what
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  Speaker 1: might happen in the next round. It's football. I've been
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  Speaker 1: it is now official. Teams with a college football Playoff
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  Speaker 1: by are one and seven, so I would imagine we
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  Speaker 1: are definitely going to see sixteen teams next year, which
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  Speaker 1: who knows if all of the MOUs still hold up.
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  Speaker 1: If they do expand to sixteen as opposed to fourteen,
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  Speaker 1: because I think all of those memorandum of understandings were
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  Speaker 1: all about a potential fourteen team playoff. But I would
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  Speaker 1: imagine we're going to sixteen because a bunch of these
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  Speaker 1: teams don't want to buy. They just want to play.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know how they're going to change championship
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  Speaker 1: week because championship week, like, it doesn't make any sense
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  Speaker 1: if you are like, why would you play in a
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  Speaker 1: conference championship game? That's an extra game for some of
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  Speaker 1: your guys to get hurt, et cetera. It can change seating,
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  Speaker 1: it can change all these things. If the regular season
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  Speaker 1: is what we're worried about, then they'll have to do
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  Speaker 1: something with that. But either way, either way, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: talk a little bit about each one of these games.
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  Speaker 1: So let's get into well, you know, you know what
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  Speaker 1: the matchups are. If you like college football, if you're
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  Speaker 1: listening to this show, you probably know what's going on
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  Speaker 1: right now. We have got in the Fiesta Bowl Miami
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  Speaker 1: against ole Miss, and who knows what's going to happen
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  Speaker 1: there because it looks like some of the well the
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  Speaker 1: some of the six that coaches that are coaching for
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  Speaker 1: ole Miss but are moving to LSU. Some of them
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  Speaker 1: may not be available for this game, so who they'll knows.
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  Speaker 1: And then on the other side in the Peach Bowl
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  Speaker 1: Indiana and Oregon, we've got another rematch. In the SEC.
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  Speaker 1: There were three rematches this year, and the loser of
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  Speaker 1: the first game won the rematch in all of those
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  Speaker 1: different rematches, So who knows if that is going to
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  Speaker 1: be the case in the Big Ten or not. But
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  Speaker 1: it's fun matchups. So let's talk about what actually happened.
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  Speaker 1: And let's start it off with Wednesday night's game, which
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  Speaker 1: was of course Miami twenty four in Ohio State fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State outgained Miami five points sixty yards per play
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  Speaker 1: to four point six. The problem in the Cotton Bowl
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  Speaker 1: was that Ohio State only ran fifty nine plays and
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  Speaker 1: they were thirty percent on third down. Miami was fifty percent.
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  Speaker 1: And then the pick six that saying through just absolute killer,
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  Speaker 1: absolute killer. At the end when it all came down
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  Speaker 1: to it, Ohio State could not stop Miami from running
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  Speaker 1: the football. They couldn't get them off the field. The
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  Speaker 1: line of scrimmage was a huge difference in this game,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought it would at least be comparable. But
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  Speaker 1: I mean it just goes to show I mean, if
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  Speaker 1: you've got a line of scrimmage advantage, it's you can
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  Speaker 1: win a lot of ball games. And Miami certainly showed that.
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  Speaker 1: So that was that was not a beating, but Miami
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  Speaker 1: just showed a little bit of dominance in that game
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  Speaker 1: that I don't feel like we had seen. Even with
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  Speaker 1: the Ohio State lost to Indiana. You thought they held
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  Speaker 1: on to the football for a long time, they didn't
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  Speaker 1: finish drives they could have, you know, is what it is,
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  Speaker 1: could have gotten there. But in this game, it did not.
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  Speaker 1: It did not feel like they were going to get there.
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  Speaker 1: It did not feel like Ohio State had any chance
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  Speaker 1: because Miami came out and immediately jumped on them. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that was a great opening drive, not opening drive, but
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  Speaker 1: one of the early drives from Miami that went what
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  Speaker 1: was it eight minutes? It was what sixteen plays and
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  Speaker 1: they scored a touchdown. I mean it was just you know,
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  Speaker 1: textbook stuff right down the field. Took a long time
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  Speaker 1: to get there and just showed them, all right, we
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  Speaker 1: are here to play, and Ohio State could do nothing
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  Speaker 1: about it, nothing about it. So Miami advances then we
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  Speaker 1: get to Saturday morning and we've got the Orange Bowl
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  Speaker 1: where Oregon and Texas Tech, and obviously the Orange Bowl
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  Speaker 1: was not completely full, felt like there were more Texas
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  Speaker 1: Tech fans there by far. That did not help their
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  Speaker 1: offense in any stretch of the imagination for turnovers for
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  Speaker 1: the offense is not good. The defense played well, but
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  Speaker 1: they got gassed. I mean, Oregon was more physical than
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  Speaker 1: I think Texas Tech had seen any team be thus
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  Speaker 1: far this season. And that's the problem when you have
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  Speaker 1: a week non conference schedule and you play in the
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  Speaker 1: Big Twelve. And this is not crapping on the Big Twelve,
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  Speaker 1: this is just the level of competition is not the same.
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  Speaker 1: It is not close. And Oregon has been through the
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  Speaker 1: ringer with several of their opponents this year. They did
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  Speaker 1: play some easy teams too. It is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: But they were four of eight on fourth down. And
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  Speaker 1: the reason why they went well, I think the reason
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  Speaker 1: why they went four on fourth down so many times,
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  Speaker 1: I mean eight times in one game, it's pretty nuts,
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  Speaker 1: but it's because they never respected Texas Texas offense. They said,
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  Speaker 1: whatever position we are put in our defense is better
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  Speaker 1: than their offense. So there is nothing they can do
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  Speaker 1: from anywhere on the field that would make us regret
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  Speaker 1: going forward on fourth down and getting another opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: keep the football. They kept the ball what thirty seven minutes?
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  Speaker 1: Thirty eight minutes? I mean, it was just it was
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  Speaker 1: a women. This was a beating of epic proportions. I
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  Speaker 1: would say didn't run the ball very well. Oregon did not,
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  Speaker 1: but they ran it well enough, which is to be
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  Speaker 1: expected against the Texas Tate defensive front. So now Oregon
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  Speaker 1: moves on to the Beach Bowl Saturday afternoon. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you might as well have been watching The Stranger Things
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  Speaker 1: for Nale like you would have gotten more entertainment out
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  Speaker 1: of that, unless you are an Alabama hater, in which case,
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  Speaker 1: this is what teams used to feel like when vintage
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  Speaker 1: Nick Saban teams would come to town, right when they
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  Speaker 1: would have to play against Nick Saban in you know,
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  Speaker 1: the twenty tens. This is what it was like. It
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  Speaker 1: was a beating Indiana thirty eight Alabama three. In the
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  Speaker 1: Rose Bowl. Indiana ran the ball fifty times in Alabama
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  Speaker 1: could not stop. Now when you look at what Alabama
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  Speaker 1: has done over their last three games, they went down
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  Speaker 1: twenty one to nothing against Georgia and the SEC championship,
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  Speaker 1: went down seventeen to nothing against Oklahoma in the playoff
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  Speaker 1: first round in Norman, and then went down twenty four
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  Speaker 1: to nothing to start this game, and it was seventeen
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  Speaker 1: to nothing at the half. Alabama is slash was a
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  Speaker 1: severely flawed team, and Indiana does not beat themselves. So
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  Speaker 1: if you don't give Alabama anything to work with, they
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  Speaker 1: are not going to be able to beat you. And
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  Speaker 1: we can talk about certain points when the game was over,
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  Speaker 1: because there's nothing that cracked me up more than in
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  Speaker 1: the second half when who was it? Somebody tweeted out, like, up,
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  Speaker 1: that's a ballgame, and it's like, no, now it's twenty
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  Speaker 1: four to nothing. It was ballgame. When Indiana went sixteen
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  Speaker 1: plays and took nine minutes off the clock and kicked
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  Speaker 1: a field goal, and then Bama went four and out
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  Speaker 1: because they went for it on fourth and one from
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  Speaker 1: their own thirty five. That was immediately waving the white
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  Speaker 1: flag in that Oh, we already know that we can't
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  Speaker 1: stop you, so we have to try and keep the football.
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  Speaker 1: And instead of just running the football to get fourth
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  Speaker 1: and one, trusting your offensive line to go and push
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  Speaker 1: somebody else off the line of scrimmage. They ran a
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  Speaker 1: reverse jet sweep thing to try and get a yard
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  Speaker 1: and couldn't get it. Like that's when the game ended,
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  Speaker 1: Like it wasn't when this thing got to twenty four
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  Speaker 1: to nothing or whatever, or when Indiana scored right before
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  Speaker 1: the half. Now this thing was over. Like you could
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  Speaker 1: tell immediately. Indiana scored on five of their first seven
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  Speaker 1: possessions and only through thirteen completions. It was a whipping.
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  Speaker 1: Shanahan absolutely schooled Kane Wamick on national television, like it
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  Speaker 1: was so it was so disgusting to watch because you
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  Speaker 1: could see Alabama could get stops with the running game
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  Speaker 1: when they would line up with four down linemen. As
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  Speaker 1: soon as they would show a three man front, Indiana
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  Speaker 1: would bust off long run Indiana would get. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it was like clockwork. Oh, it was ridiculous. Ty Simpson
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  Speaker 1: with the broken ribs. And then of course afterwards, it's
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  Speaker 1: so I love how all of the accounts. Oh, Alabama
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  Speaker 1: benched their starting quarterback. It's like, no, the sunbitch got hurt.
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  Speaker 1: Like why are we jumping on things so quickly? Why
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  Speaker 1: does everybody have to be first? I don't understand. I
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  Speaker 1: did find it interesting that ty Simpson talked after the
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  Speaker 1: game about it basically did not dispel any rumors that
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  Speaker 1: he had been injured. And the latest thing is that
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  Speaker 1: he had been dealing with an ebo problem or something
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  Speaker 1: to do with his elbow. Whatever it was, it didn't
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  Speaker 1: matter because, like Austin Mack went through the same problems.
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  Speaker 1: Indiana had to simulate a lot of pressure. They had
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  Speaker 1: to force pressure in some cases, but it didn't matter
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  Speaker 1: because the offensive line kept missing assignments and they have
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  Speaker 1: missed asignments all year. I talked about the fact on Twitter.
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  Speaker 1: I talked about the fact that Indiana transferred in three
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  Speaker 1: upperclassmen offensive linemen, but they all jelled. Alabama has multiple
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  Speaker 1: transfers on the offensive line and they did not gel.
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  Speaker 1: And Ryan Grubb has tried so many different lineups and
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  Speaker 1: so many different things, but there's only so much that
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  Speaker 1: you can do with an offensive line that's not good,
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  Speaker 1: and this Alabama offensive line is not good by any stretch.
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  Speaker 1: So Indiana puts a whipon on him thirty eight to three,
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  Speaker 1: and it was even uglier than that, if you can
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  Speaker 1: believe it. I'm certain that all of you watched that game,
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  Speaker 1: beat Georgia in the Sugar Bowl thirty nine to thirty four,
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  Speaker 1: and I I almost can't believe it. Just I'm kind
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  Speaker 1: of shocked. I didn't have that one on the bingo card.
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  Speaker 1: I'll admit it did not have that one. Ole Miss
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  Speaker 1: out gained Georgia four to seventy three to three forty four.
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  Speaker 1: Both teams ran over seventy plays. Charlie Weiss and Trinidad
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  Speaker 1: Chambliss just carved up that Georgia secondary three hundred and
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  Speaker 1: sixty two yards. N Yes, I know, starting safety for
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  Speaker 1: Georgia went out due to the targeting call, which is
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  Speaker 1: just like targeting is so brand. There's only so many
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  Speaker 1: times you said right like it's this is ridiculous either way.
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  Speaker 1: The rebel kicker Lucas Carnero, I believe it was. He
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  Speaker 1: had a forty seven yard game winner, and before that
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  Speaker 1: he hit two fifty plus yarders. And I saw a
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  Speaker 1: Twitter account say that Ole Miss hit two from fifty
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  Speaker 1: plus in this game. And the last time Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: hit a fifty plus yardfield goal was in twenty nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: And not to make this about Ohio State, but that
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  Speaker 1: is mind blowing. I could not believe that could not
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  Speaker 1: believe that. But either way, ole Miss, I mean they
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  Speaker 1: got that kid. He transferred him from Western Kentucky a
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  Speaker 1: couple of years ago and he is awesome, like he
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  Speaker 1: really like they counted on those points. So the Georgia
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  Speaker 1: thing like, when you are getting into a game like that,
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  Speaker 1: you know. Don't get me wrong, Gunner Stockton was great
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  Speaker 1: when this game was in Athens. They had over five
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  Speaker 1: hundred yards of total offense when they were in Athens
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  Speaker 1: against ole Miss. The problem is your defense, which we
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  Speaker 1: all thought had gotten better. The defense couldn't do anything
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  Speaker 1: to stop ole Miss today, Like it looked like those
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  Speaker 1: vintage Saban defenses that don't know what to do when
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback gets out of the pocket and just makes
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  Speaker 1: something happen. It looks like they had no idea what
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  Speaker 1: to do with that, because well, this play is completely
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  Speaker 1: out of structure. What the hell am I supposed to
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  Speaker 1: do here? And they had no answer and Trinidad Chambliss
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  Speaker 1: hit those receivers over and over and over again, and
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  Speaker 1: it was mind blowing to watch. The end of the
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  Speaker 1: game was insane as well. Obviously you've got uh the
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  Speaker 1: on side kick, which why you wouldn't like I did not.
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  Speaker 1: So that's where some of the Pete Golding not being
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  Speaker 1: a head coach stuff comes in because like he typically
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have to worry about it, but Joe Judge is
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  Speaker 1: especially names coordinator, and he's acting as the associate head
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  Speaker 1: coach or assistant head coach whatever it is, he should
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  Speaker 1: have known like, yes, that was a safety, so yes
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  Speaker 1: it's thirty nine to thirty four, and yes they still
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  Speaker 1: have one more play because there's one second on the clock,
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  Speaker 1: but no, time doesn't run off the clock if they
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  Speaker 1: recover an onside kick, So just touch it, like, just
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  Speaker 1: get on the football, Like what are we doing it?
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  Speaker 1: It's just it's insane. What a wild game. And now,
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  Speaker 1: of course nobody knows if all six of the coaches
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  Speaker 1: are going to stay with ole Miss through the semi
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  Speaker 1: final game in the Fiesta Bowl, because LSU is doing
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  Speaker 1: the portal stuff now and it's almost like ole Miss
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  Speaker 1: even the coaches didn't expect them to win this game.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's a weird thing to come out the
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  Speaker 1: day after the game and be like, eh, it's unclear
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  Speaker 1: whether or not all six coaches are going to stay
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  Speaker 1: with the Rebel Football program through Ta Dah da da da.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, then, what was the purpose of even coaching
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  Speaker 1: in the first one and then allowing them to coach
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  Speaker 1: in the second one? I mean, what the hell is
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. It's pretty mind blowing. So now we
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  Speaker 1: got ole Miss in Miami. Miami is favored by about
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  Speaker 1: a field goal in the Fiesta Bowl, and you've got
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  Speaker 1: Oregon in Indiana in the Peach Bowl. Oregon is a
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  Speaker 1: four point dog to the Hoosiers there, And if Oregon
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  Speaker 1: or Indiana wins the national championship, it will be the
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  Speaker 1: first time since nineteen ninety six that we have had
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  Speaker 1: a first time national champion. That's pretty wild. So neither
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  Speaker 1: one of those has ever won a national title. Ole
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  Speaker 1: Miss last won one in the sixties, so I don't
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  Speaker 1: even know if that really counts. And Miami, of course
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  Speaker 1: was two thousand and one with Larry Kocher, who was
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  Speaker 1: who had Butcher Davis's bunch and Butch Davis like that's
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  Speaker 1: back when you could recruit a team and you didn't
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  Speaker 1: have to worry about the portal. Like if he had
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  Speaker 1: that team today and then he left, there wouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: a team for Larry Coker to take over and win
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  Speaker 1: a title with so different times, different things, different everything,
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  Speaker 1: just nuts. All right. We will be going over these
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  Speaker 1: early next week. I believe I'm gonna run some numbers
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  Speaker 1: and whatnot and see. But I mean, my goodness, how
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  Speaker 1: do you even begin to handicap the ole miss thing
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  Speaker 1: if you don't know which coaches are going to be
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  Speaker 1: there and all that. I mean, it's a whole it's
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  Speaker 1: a whole thing. The portal opens today. We'll talk about
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  Speaker 1: some of that next week, but man, what a weird
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  Speaker 1: couple of days of football. Just insane. You guys are phenomenal.
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  Speaker 1: And with that said, we're going to get out of here.
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  Speaker 1: Take care of yourself, take care of each other. God
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