Latest / You Don't Know Ball Podcast / Episode 120: HALLOWEEN SPECIAL! Which teams are in a spooky look ahead spot? Week 9 look ahead!
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- Isaac Rowe: What's going on? You don't know ball podcast nation. Welcome to our Halloween special. Definitely have some characters this year. We've upgraded our costume game, I feel like. Co going back to what last year was. Especially Jack. Jack's position is really upgraded. My costume last year was pretty good, dude. Yeah, I honestly yeah, Jameer Gibbs was good. I was Jameer Gibbs. Yeah, but this one's better. I like this one better. Yeah, this one's weird. It's a original character. It's original. Dr. Duray. This is from the top of the dome, original. That's what he that's what he is right now. All right, let's go around the room. Start with Alex. I'm Jason Beck on Saturday. I got my joint here and my you know, my my idea sparkers right here. Yeah, what the I don't know what I'm doing with my job. Way out of my league here. Yeah. Caleb? I'm Daredevil from season one and three of the Netflix show, so Nice, nice. I am PC principal from South Park. Leslie, shut your mouth. That's all I gotta say. Jack. And I'm Doctor Durag. Lovely. One of one not for many shows or anything. Yeah. One of one right here. Yeah, if you get his collector's card from our merch store, you're really lucky. It's one of one. We have w we're we're we have one signed auto. A piece of yeah, it's it's signed and there's a piece of the do rag in. A piece of the jersey. A piece of his jersey. It's a action shot of him pr pr doing a a wave searcher, a wave jack. But all right, so that's our costumes this year. stick around for the end of the episode where we have a r wave check at the we're talking to wait we might have two wave checks. Yeah. Dude, I I'm I'm have I have my eyes shut for this whole episode. I'm just embracing the blindness. So someone else is gonna have to do the the spread look at the spreadsheet. I'll do that. I'll do that. my god, yeah, that's Wait, hold on. dude, I can't even see the score. It's two nothing. Okay, thanks. We'll we'll talk to you. We'll we'll be your be your eyes to it. We're not gonna tell you who's winning though. We're just saying what the score is. All right, so let's go to Caleb's corner real quick. Obviously he can't see anymore because he's Well, I I remember how we all did. He could sense it though. I all I know, Alex won the week. Yes! And technically we tied, but I gave it to you because you actually made your picks. Yeah, I'm mainly pissed off 'cause I had Texas. I picked Texas to win that game. I picked Texas to win that game. Coin flip got me flipped. Luckily I got to stick with Arkansas State. and all my other picks mainly I wasn't mad going with Michigan. I just thought you guys were all gonna rock with Michigan, so I picked Indiana, but we all got that one right 'cause Spread spread was at seven when I put it down. They only won by seven. So we all got that one right. I can't remember the other one I got right. yeah, it was Arkansas State and yeah, no the Toledo one was close too. Western almost came back and won that. I was hoping so I had some money on Yeah, what hold on, what happened at that Western game? There was some spill or something that almost like there was some DC or anything like that. I just thought they were down by a lot. came back. Well they were like thinking about not even playing that game on D Ohio had a huge chemical it was like Io. a bunch of fog and stuff. Yeah, it was bad. But maybe Western caught some of it in the first half. They were down big early. We bet. And we had we ha I know when I was in Detroit, me and the boys we made we made a bet and Western was a part of it. And we had a lot of other legs that sold it as well, but Western definitely didn't help with that. But you know Toledo's good. they gave MSU a run for their money in the beginning of the year. And I kind of took that into account of it. But Western also gave Michigan a run for their money. You know, with that's Bryce Underwood at QB, the what Michigan's completely Honestly, I don't know. They're not different. We can go into it if you want. that was a that was an ugly ass game. That's all I gotta say. Imagine being there. That guy would suck. Clayton was I know Clay was there. Yeah, so was I. Yeah. Fun. Yeah. So fun. Isaac asked me that day when we we were coming home after the overtime loss. It was like, is it a fun was it a fun day? And y with all the people that were there and you know, all our friends were being there and all that things. No, it wasn't a fun thing. Because my team s does makes playing offense the hardest possible task on in D win football in football. Like I'm so I mean, I'm so over it in Poor Tommy ha I actually think I thought he had a decent game for what he did against the number six team in the country. There were plays where the there's there's people around the country saying that the benching of Bryce Underwood was pointless. And agree or disagree with what you want. But I thought if Bryce was in there, there's multiple scenarios where Bryce is just chucking the ball up, hoping for a prayer. Not like Tommy did do that occasionally. Like his fumble and his quadruple pick was quadruple crazy. But We've seen Bryce play and the and g just encounter those scenarios and he's just pissed out his leg multiple times. So I don't think this the benching of Bryce Underwood was pointless. I think Tommy got some well needed experience and I think he's gonna grow from it, obviously. But he may he gave the he gave Samasti Mosa the he gave him a chance to catch the ball on fourth and whatever it was. I mean it wasn't an uncatchable ball. It it A receiver from LSU or name anybody in the country could could have caught that. Right. And a hundred percent. And you know, it I don't think that's completely Tommy's fault for how that game ended. is totally and I will go to my I will go to the heavens thinking this that Jason Beck is the problem. A hundred per and it is it is I mean, Winningham said it's not time to panic about it, but I am panicking because we have Ructors this week and we go into a major, major r rivalry game the next week and Bishkin State comes to town. God. And who's your daddy? Right? Yeah, well I guess we'll find out. Yeah. I mean, I can't have our offensive coordinator trying to run an A rod special on the one and we have our f freshman quarterback get their frickin' shit popped. For thirteen yards and yet miss a field goal after that. that's bullshit. You you mentioned the missed field goal. Michigan should have won. Like I I I should I should have had a green win in the in the in the book for that. And I was, you know, like do I like Michigan? Not really. Do I like Indiana? I don't really care for either of So I was mainly just hoping Michigan would win so I would get that that win for myself. we all still got it right, but it would have been nice if y'all got it wrong. Yeah, it's great. You shared it with us. You're so generous, Garel. You're so generous. but I mean spread was at seven. We all tied. But like Kyle Whittingham, he he has I think Michigan, like we say they got a good roster, but they're also young. I think there's definitely things that just come with experience and time and your kicker lost you the game. I The play calling definitely could be better. But you also have a freshman quarterback out there, like Alex was saying, number six team in the country. Give this team another week. Let's see what happens, see how they respond. They almost lose to Western. They beat Oklahoma the next week. I think honestly, that these next couple of weeks for them, their college football playoff hopes are over. But they I think I think this end of the season is really gonna show us how Michigan's gonna be for next year. Yeah. I you you're mainly just looking for improvement. You have two really good weeks to try to do that before you play UCLA. Yeah. So this is Honestly, if you're sitting in Michigan's shoes, you have everything in front of you. Yeah. Yeah. You could still be a like a conversation in the playoff picture. It's that you're gonna finish nine and three, but that nine and three and you win that's what I'm saying. You you win against Ohio State, UCLA, Mich Michigan State, and I wouldn't say Michigan State's the win that's gonna be more. If you beat if you beat UCLA and Ohio State back to back, then maybe that's two top ten teams right now. And Oregon. Oregon's really that big of a win either, but I don't know. I feel like I feel like Michigan has a couple of opportunities to get themselves back into that conversation, which is shocking for how bad they've looked. Definitely in the conversation, yeah, that'd be that'd be that'd be crazy. I I mean we'll see how it all shapes out. I wouldn't put it past to do it, man. I don't think it's time to panic. I think it's time to just kind of accept. Yeah. This season is you went, what, nine and two last year or something like that? Nine and three. Nine and three last year or so you might do it again this year. For a rebuilding year, that's pretty damn impressive, honestly. Especially if with how it started and with how bad Bryce Underwoods looked and how bad the play calling's been. I think you need Kyle Winningham just I I this this job probably was maybe a little too much for him. Yeah. His first year, but we'll see. But What makes me a little frustrated is that Michigan's defense is national championship competitor defense in the country. yeah, their defense is incredible. And we're just wasting worst offense of in the country. Like Yeah. It's so sad. I mean if you get if you score in the possessions you have and when you're in a red zone, you win that game. I don't I honestly coming out of that timeout here's a thought. Coming out of that timeout, TV timeout, and we're third and goal on the one and we're about to take the lead. We have no points at this point. And it's what is it? Six to nothing. And I really thought we were gonna run it down the throat, and something inside me is like, he's gonna do a play action pass here. And what the hell did we find out is that Tommy Carr rolls out, tries literally does like the A-Rodge. Shuffle play action's like, I don't have it, but it just spins around. He had me fooled. Yeah. Dude, but it wasn't the thing isn't covered, dude. The thing is that there wasn't even a receiver. Actual skill there wasn't an actual skilled receiver there. They were literally throwing it to an offensive lineman. my God. Ninety six was the entire Don't be dogging on the lineman, bro. I'm not. But if you're gonna call that play. What do they call that formation? Is it monster? Is it I think they call it Jumbo. Jumbo. It's probably jumbo. They probably have jumbo back there. They probably do have comps in the back there. That's probably what they were throwing it to. Go get him, Ruble. god. Can we put it? Honestly. Honestly, Rubel would have called a better play there than Jason Beck. Honestly. Probably. Yeah. I mean if you would have said chuck that shit up. Yeah. Right. Goal line fade. Dude, we have the talent to do that though. That's so stupid. No, you just keep it simple. Just run the ball. That's what you gotta No, I'm not saying that we wouldn't run the ball there. But if we were gonna do anything, put if you didn't want to run it down the ball, run it down the gut, which you automatically should. Yep. We have the talent to do those fades. Like Andrew Marsh, Trav, there's a Johnson kid that's like six. six five at least. he's not a bad target either. There's we have an incredible, somewhat decent not incredible, somewhat decent tight end room if you wanted to throw it in there. And we have JJ Buchanan. Hogan Hanson's a good tight end. Yeah, and Hogan Hansen. Like if you're gonna try to throw it up, what the hell are you doing play action for? Like it's I don't know. To fool There's nobody that was fool. I'm saying I stood up from my couch didn't pass you. Dude. What? I stood up from my couch for going into pass defense. They fooled me so bad. Hm. They got my ass too. Well, if you look in earlier in the game in earlier in the game. When you know, I just got that dog in my hand. When Tommy Carr were they were going for it on fourth inches, I think on the same drive, and they're on their twenty mis Indiana's twenty. They did they did a handoff right up the middle, first down. But Tommy did the same rollout and the guy was still following him. It's because they're well coached. Nobody fooling him. Well coached. That's just good coaching. Discipline. No, I know. That's just Signetti Masterclass. Discipline on the hoosie, bro. Jason Beck, Jason Beck really thought that he could outthink Kurt Signetti. You're a odd of your. I I heard this segment on a podcast that I listened to. It's like Talking about Jason Beck and how he's trying to out out smart everybody. out w I don't know what the word he used, but he's like, Yeah, he tries to galaxy brain every single play call to make him look like the smartest guy on the field. And I watching this season like play out, I'm like, Where the hell is the galaxy? And I don't know where the brain is either. Like it's it's like watching the it's like watching what's that g book? It's like look Lenny from the like No mice and men. that guy. It's like watching him call place. And I'm pretty sure everybody wants to do that to Jason Beck right now. But the fate of Lenny at the end of that book. Dude, even the fans were spoiled for spoilers. No spoilers. Yeah, you gotta wait until ninth grade. Sorry. Yeah. Even the fans were like entering its fiftieth year. Putting they put it on the Jumbo Bron chron Jumbotron A picture that said it's simple and it's like tight end set running up the middle. It's literally halfback sting. Yeah. That's what it is. It's sting. HB sting. Sting Yeah. Shout out more. We haven't played that in a hot minute. we'll get back to it. The the Michigan's a mess right now. That's all I gotta say. Not defense wise. Defensively they're pretty solid, but offensively not great. They suck. The team that did struggle this weekend against Michigan State was UCLA a little bit. Yeah the forty eight seven what the first quarter was pretty pretty rough. I was I was definitely getting a little scared but they were down to their they were down to their third string freshman quarterback. yeah. So he's a c East Kentwood guy. He ended up having a touchdown but that was after an early fumble from one of the UCLA running backs. I think it was Anthony Woods So at the end of the first quarter, Michigan State was winning seven to nothing. And then you know, UCLA kinda locked in. You know, thankfully you have mistakes like that against you know, an inferior inferior opponent like Michigan State at home, where they've had a really bad attendance problem. it's both California schools, yeah. Yeah, I I d I just think I thought they were at East Lansing. No. No, they were in they were in Pasadena. And the reason is the Rose Bowl The Rose Bowl for w for one is too expensive. And t and two, it's thirty eight minutes from the state from their school. Is it really? Yeah. So that's another thing. So it's like students don't want to take a bus on their Saturda their Saturday in LA to go watch UCLA Michigan State. So It's the same thing for Miami. Like their ca their Hard Ro Hard Rock Stadium is not even close to their campus at all. Right. But they they kinda fill that bitch up. Now they do, but they're when they were When they were ass or mediocre. Last weekend then they were playing pit, that stadium was empty. really? yeah, a hundred percent. They yeah, because Miami fans just don't give a until actu big time opponents come in. Yeah, like for Notre Dame last year, that got game of lecture. That was packed. Yeah. And well, it is now fifteen to eleven. Who's winning? But back I tell you. Back to 15 to 11. Back to you about UCLA is I mean, they're they have a real chance of being the Big Ten ch title game right now. I don't know. Right. They they really do. They really do. I think their playoff chances are still less than fifty percent, just because like I see a lot of arguments on TikTok of it's like, they have had a cupcake schedule, and it's like, yeah, the Oregon win looks less and less impressive every week, especially with Them barely beating Nebraska. They lose to Illinois this weekend. Oregon, they need to hit the panic button. Alex you talk about Michigan need needing to panic, but Oregon really needs to hit the panel. Dante Morgan needs to not come back for the rest of the season. Yeah. That was announced today. Yeah, and then Rayola's just a shell of himself. And the their play their play calling's bad. their defensive play calling's rough. they blew a ten nothing lead to Illinois. Illinois, man. So UCLA, the rest of the way UCLA's got a really favorable schedule. I think they might be favored in every game they play. Definitely some tough ones in there, like Minnesota, Michigan. we got Nevada this week. So hopefully should win that one. But you have to go to Minnesota, you have to go to the big house, and then you have Illinois at home to finish the year off. So I think that's how I mean there's a real chance to go twelve, twelve and yeah. I mean, it's it's kind of crazy or eleven and So it's kinda crazy. They might make this they might around and make this big ten championship game, which is exciting. But I I you gotta Going to Minnesota's gonna be tough. there's a reason house is be tough. Yeah, yeah. the like we just saw Michigan lose there and PJ Fleck, he's got the vibe in Minnesota is really high right now. Iowa just lost there last week, yeah. So it's like it's not hard it's not easy playing. It's kinda like what you were saying with Texas A and a lot last year, like that's where top ten teams go to die. yeah. like Texas A and no matter what kind of season they're having. I feel like Minnesota kinda has that vibe of a program. vibe, yeah. Michigan, you could say their season died there. You could say Iowa's season died there. And UCLA could as far as I'm concerned, if they if they if UCLA loses a game, like their season's dead. Like I wouldn't say that. Well s well, I mean, realistically, who else has UCL U C L A played? Yeah, they really haven't beaten anybody except Oregon. Yeah. And it's not darn Who do they have left again? I Michigan. They have Michigan on Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada. They don't have a lot left. they can go twelve and That's what I was yeah, and that's what I'm saying. But they could easily lose to Minnesota and Michigan too. If Michigan turns the Jets on at the right time in mid November, these Cali boys have been playing at the Rose Bowl a lot or in warm enough weather. Yeah. if they get hit with a snow game, Bob Chesney might not have ready. So I yeah, you could say that. I just I don't know. I feel like UCLA's brand of football right now is Especially the Chesney, is aligns itself with the traditional Big Ten. It's smash mouth football, play good defense, run the clock, run the ball, and dominate, dominate time of possession. Yep, dominate time of possession, dominate the line of scrimmage. I got they got all the things for them to ahead of them to like go 12 and 0 and they have the right scheme. Yeah. And I don't know if how much I guess it is a question of how much weather is gonna affect that because obviously they're from California. Yeah, I I guess I mean we'll find out. three weeks here. it's crazy how th three weeks from now we'll be talking about the final games of everyone's schedule. So it feels like we're just talking about week one. Yeah. Notre Dame, did they have the bye week? They had a bye week this week. We got Navy this week though. My God. I wish it was aft I wish it was before week one still. Jesus Christ I would be I look probably look like the biggest dumbass. We we're all excited about our teams and maybe I'm I'm I'm pretty high on my team still, even though coming off the loss of BYU. Alex is down in the dumps. Jack's been up and down with Bama. He's I mean I mean UCLA's been pretty UCLA I mean feel like my vibes have been pretty high the whole year so far. So knock on wood wherever Wood's at. Yeah, Andre Drumming and number zero. Yeah. He's on the Knicks now. Also I see who was winning. I can I can see it at this angle. I'm sorry. It must be must not be canon then to what multiverse are you from? seven three six five zero. Six three six seven six seven. Universe sixty seven. Okay. all right. Let's talk about what what's we're looking forward to this week. I don't know if we want to do our game picks. we should talk about one more thing. How about them Lions? Defensive weeks back to well one before the bye week, but back to back defensive weeks. I mean, w we look completely different on defense, especially against the Packers. that was really good offense up to that point to playing the Lions and we just shut them down. Yeah. Jordan Love did not look didn't have his greatest game yet. They did have a chance to win it, but both of those receivers forgot how to catch and one of them was Josh Jacobs. So he just came back from beating his girlfriend. So that was somebody's fantasy team WW for our fantasy teams and beating the allegations. And beating the allegations good for him. Aren't they back together too? Yes. Yeah. So I saw I saw a memes like Josh Jacobs is coming back from suspension or what the commissioner's list and everybody's everybody outside of the football world. wow, he got away with beating his girlfriend allegation. Everybody in football. Hell yeah, I just got a good player for my fantasy team. I mean, I was one of those. Sure. Still lost, but it was it's just funny. But he played decently well for his first game back. They relied on him a lot more than I thought they would. But how about them Lions? Jameer Gibbs, J Mo Amon Raw, Jake off, got the job done. They just How about the play call to go for it on the f on like the five minute mark? Honestly, it was honestly Galaxy Brain with Dan Campbell. I was gonna say that that is a galaxy brain play. I was talking about it with my coworkers today 'cause one of them saw something where like analytically there's this big joke with like yeah, Kenny Atkinson, the Cavaliers head coach, when they were getting their ass beat by the Knicks last year in the playoffs. He's like, analytically, we're up 3-0 in the series right now. But analytically, Dan Campbell made the right call there. Yeah. Because you give him you punt the ball with five minutes left. Jordan Love and their offense showed flashes that they can be good enough to just kind of go down there, take the clock out, give them the ball with no time left. So might as well give them the ball at their own twenty. Yeah. If you don't get it. Get the ball back and have another chance to tie it or score. And you're given the kicker who's already missed one in the game from a chip shot and he's probably already thinking about it. Honestly, I think it was a galaxy brain call. I I don't hate it. I the mo in the moment I was like, What are we doing? But after a couple of days of It's just a classic Dan Campbell thing. He need we need to get back to that. That's what made the Lions so special the second year he coached there. Yep. Dude, I I love the Brady Durden game. Like they're not actually gonna snap it here, right? They're not gonna snap it. He was having a heart attack. Dude, are they gonna throw this? Don't tell me they're gonna throw this. They're throwing it. I like I I'm starting to like Brady as like the four thirty primetime game commentary. I think he's pretty good. He's actually pretty good at his job. He's definitely gotten better. I think I think there's last or his first year there was a couple I just remember I just remember there was a couple moments where he just wouldn't be able to f like fill the space you know, of like play to play. From play to play, his co-commentator, whoever his name is, would set him up with a question and he he just wouldn't be able to like fill the space with really enough like of an analytical view of the game or like something that puts it into a better perspective for the average Joe watching the game like us. So Tom Brady, he's he's got such a good You you just trust him and you really listen when he talks because it it's Tom Brady and he's got he's got a good voice for it. And I mean stock up for him. He's dating probably He's dating one of Gazelle's friends. Gazelle's friends. Giselle's friends. Giselle? I think it's Gazelle or Gizelle. Giselle. Giselle. Giselle. It's like one of the top Victoria Secret like supermodels. So don't stock up Tom Brady. City Boys. He's got another ring on it. City Boys up. All right. Let's get let's get into the weekly pick'ems this week. I just want to say shoutout Arch. I believed in ya. And the coin flip made me change. Shout out Arch. Jack, do you want to talk about Bama or are you good? No, I'm good. Bama Bama beat Mississippi State, right? Yep. Mm-hmm. Dude, that that South Carolina game was crazy. The amount of field storms I saw this weekend was Electric. I loved why taking down BYU. Dude, yeah, the UCF game was crazy too. And the fact that can we talk about how BYU is now ranked behind Notre Dame? Yeah, don't don't lose to UCF an unranked. They lost in double overtime. UCF backup quarterback three three. Scott Frost. Scott Frost. Let me say this again. Unranked. You're coming off an emotional win against your Super Bowl against Notre Dame, which it's now proven like That was their Super Bowl because how do you go in the UCF and drop a goose egg and not goose egg, but you know what I we got this week? Navy. Our armed forces. Okay, well. Hey, Dr. Dureg, our armed voices. Hey, I'm going I'm going to that game, bro. There's no way we lose. I'm going to that game. You don't wear the PC principle. You shut your mouth. To be honest, if you did wear that, you probably could make it. Hey Crystal Ball, stop talking. You probably could. No, that's honestly, we'll f we'll get to that game when we get to that game. But I'm I'm saying BYU's Super Bowl was Notre Dame and it showed how do you lose the UCF? That's embarrassing. Dude the way they lost too though, like I don't know if you guys watched like the field goal kick got blocked and then like The kicker recovered it and then his he helmet got thrown off and they threw a flag and then they are like then they picked it up and then they had the review like, okay, he p he he recovered the ball. Then we he gets another shot at kicking a field goal. Then they review it again and then they're like, All right, they he recovered it, ten second runoff, it's overtime. I'm like, dude, UCF almost got another shot screw deck. Yeah. Yeah. Cause of the clocks. Don't w ball don't lie, bitch. That's all I gotta say. Bear Bachmeyer looked like a shell of himself from compared to the week before, just did not look like the same guy at all. And I don't know if it's because of it, he just walking there thinking He didn't he didn't eat he didn't eat at the dishes. I don't think he soaked enough, honestly, after that game. He did not soak enough. He soaked too much. I don't know. Speaking of another Utah school, what do we think about Pat McAfee in Utah University with some beef? That was weird. I don't know. I I've never seen Pat McAfee like act like that. It was super weird. And that Field goal kicker, the the kick challenge girl is like only one million dollars. Bitch, if I had a chance to go kick for one million dollars, I'll be the last thing I say. Like, yeah. only one million? So obviously you shouldn't be sitting sitting there then. Did you see her attempt? Yeah, and they were dog shit. Like dude, she literally could didn't even get it off the ground. And Pat McAvee just flamed her in the ending of it. He's She got three attempts at a million dollars, and she ended up with 110. 10 out of 10 times untaking Houston. Thanks, Utah. I hope they never see you again. That's literally what he said. I'm like, holy shit. All I'm gonna say for that is you could have put ten million dollars out there for that girl to kick it, and she still wouldn't have been close. And I would She probably still would have complained. Only ten? It's because they only went to BYU a the week before. Yeah, that was a bad idea for doing that, but whatever. okay, anything else before we go on? I shot cade. that was Danis. That was Danis. Boy Kate. Everybody Kate. My bad, Danis. Everybody Kate up there. All right. You ready to go on our weekly pick'ems? I'm good. All right. Let's start on a hot game right now. We'll start with you, Jack. Let's go to Jacksonville State at New Mexico State. What the hell? Jacksonville State's favorite by Cade Cutting Home. Yeah, dude's favorite. Good shot, Cade. By a lot? 162. That's the odds. Give me them. All right. Jack's gonna you can't even write this down. I can't edit this. I I mean I'll listen to the episode Friday and put in. Sounds good. Alex. New Mexico State. Wait, hold on. Who? Jackson's Jacksonville State is favored. Jacksonville State. Caleb? Hmm. You know, when I was looking at this one earlier, I was thinking I'll probably I'll probably rock New Mexico here. They are the home team and I think This is Conference USA matchup, so I think also New Mexico State hasn't had a win yet. So I think this might be the the the week they get it. So yeah. Give me New Mexico State. I'll I'll tag you on that one, Caleb. I'll I'm gonna take New Mexico State here as well. I think they're gonna get their season at least in the right direction, I guess. I don't really know. I mean I always put in one little toss up game. This was the one. we haven't done a conference USA game yet. So you know Dion's not there anymore. I like the toss-up odds here for New Mexico State to win it at home. Fair enough. Fair enough. Alright, let's go to two polar opposite direction teams right now. One just fired their coach and one's coming off the biggest win in program history. Baylor at UCF. Caleb? Alright, I start this one. I forgot who I I forgot who I said I was gonna pick earlier. But Give me I think I think UCF's at home. Yep. So week to week, you just never know with these teams, man. Give me Baylor. I I think give me Baylor to get this one. Yeah, I know we're not gonna we're not gonna see a UCF team like that again. Even though this is technically going against my surprise team from the offseason. I said UCF was gonna be one of my surprise teams, especially in the Big Twelve, but I've gone against Baylor before and it's never worked. gimme give me Baylor to come in there, especially with UCF probably on tired legs and still maybe riding a high from the previous week. I think Baylor can get in there with some new motivation with a new interim coach and take over. Yeah, with the Dave Miranda getting fired, I'm not sure what Baylor team we're gonna get. Obviously they still have DJ Lagway and they have a couple of weapons out there. Yeah, you never know. Lagway might have a crazy week. Right. But also I feel like UCF Yes, they're coming off that emotional win, but they're also at home. It's probably gonna be like a mid-afternoon, maybe a night game. Bounce house. Bounce house. I I'm gonna take UCF here. Just they're gonna ride I'm gonna ride with their momentum right now. So give me UCF. I'm also going with the bounce house. So three Caleb's lone wolf in that one. So we'll see what happens. All right. Y'all know what happens when I lone wolf. Watch. Watch and find out. Spread pick. Miami, number one Miami at North Carolina. it's fourteen and a half right now. Hmm. I'm not going first. all right, I'll go first on this one. Okay. Actually I know what I'm picking. As much as I want to say North Carolina's gonna cover the spread, just because I want to see them out of sheer fate, because Nerd ain't played them and we only beat them by I think twelve and it was an eleven point game. It was it's in North Carolina, it's it's a tougher place to play. They're a they're a decent team. Thurman's a really good tight end for North Carolina. But it's it's a look ahead spot for Miami for sure. You know what? it. I'm gonna do UNC covers of fourteen and a half. I think they put up a decent fight and they're not gonna win, but they're gonna cover that spread. So Yeah. Jack Miami. Alright, Jack's taking Miami spread. Alex? I'm gonna hope that North Carolina can shut those assholes up. Alright, Caleb? Hmm. I know you were thinking about taking you no one I know you were thinking all of us were gonna take Miami, so we're gonna just throw your plans up. Yeah. I you know, I as much as I want to go against Jack, I I'm gonna s I'm gonna rock with him. I think Miami's been the most consistent team. They already had a look ahead week against Florida State that looked really scary. I I think they can store him into Chapel Hill, especially I think UNC lost a game last week too. They did, they lost thirty one thirty. There's two ways it could go. UN C could respond with playing better, but you lose, you got the number one team in the country coming to play you. I I think I think Miami can also shut some people up that maybe are doubting them this week too. So I'm gonna rock with that and trust the number one team in the country. All right. Fair enough. Alex But my original pick was gonna be UNC. Yeah, I know. I know I know. That's why I was d Yeah, it was chirping you out for a second. all right. Number twenty two Arizona at number thirteen, Texas Tech. Alex, how about you s kick us off of this one? I'm gonna go at is it at Texas Texas? Yes. Yeah. I'm gonna do Texas Tech. I Arizona had a big win last week, and I know they're they're super excited about that. But I think they had a big win. I mean they were sh they're partying like they had a big pretty big win with those shots. They're rolling teams right now. Yeah. So I know Texas Tech. just did they just lose Cincinnati. And they're at home this week. They I have the you know they they have a chip on their shoulder this week, so I think they're gonna get the, you know, pull it off somehow, but yeah. And there goes Tex Texas Tick. You know how I feel about Arizona and Noah Fafita. Isaac, you better do it. That's that's that I've every time they've come up, I've always picked Arizona. Just alone for Noah Fajita. That's that's that's he's been playing some really good football recently. Arizona's been rolling teams left and right. Texas Tech's coming off an embarrassing loss to Cincinnati. They got kinda put on fraud watch last week and I obviously their defense is legit, but their offense has nothing. And Arizona's is a pretty solid, solid team. So I'm taking Arizona here. Get the upset. I'm also taking Arizona. And I think my reasoning is Texas Tech had a game just like this last year against Houston. Houston was unranked at the time, but they were solid. but around this point last year they had a loss at home to Houston. I think this might be Texas Tech ended up making the playoffs. I think they were undefeated undefeated at the time last year, but This just really feels like a repeat of that. Hist history repeats itself, especially in college football. so I I like Arizona here. I've never picked them before either, so why not now? man, Alex is Lone Wolf and w first one for him, I feel like. No, Alex is lone wolf a lot this year. Yeah. Jason Bell. Maybe maybe more than me. I'm Jason B I'm I'm a galaxy brand in your All I g all I gotta say is that Arizona blew out Cincinnati early earlier in this season, so Probably should told you that before. But hey, Jason Jason Beck. No, Texas Tech is still a good pick here. they're home and favored, so it's like not a bad pick. No, it's not a bad p it's good it's honestly probably the smart pick. All right. Number twenty five, Wisconsin at Iowa in Connecticut. So shout out Wisconsin being ranked, man. Yeah. Strength and schedule. I forgot who I was gonna pick for this earlier. I'm taking Wisconsin just because I want to see them keep winning and keep helping that Notre Dame strength the schedule. Bump them ranks up. Yep. I think I'm gonna take I'm gonna take Wisconsin as well because they I like Colton Joseph. He's a I he's a damn good quarterback and I had him in my college football team in twenty twenty four, so on the Fairs in the role with him. I feel like I know who you're gonna pick, Jack. Let's hear yours first. I'm going Iowa 'cause I'm going Iowa too. I like Colton Joseph. I've seen what he I've seen what he does against a really, really stout defense in an away environment. And it's not great. The whole Wisconsin Badgers offense is not great when they're away from home. and in Kanick, we've talked about how tough it is to play there all throughout this season and last season. so I I think Iowa is gonna keep this game really smash mouth and close and it's gonna come down to one score. You it's just this is how big ten baby. this is how the game's gonna go. So gimme Iowa home team to pull it out. They're they're coming off a loss. You y we always see teams bounce back after a loss, I feel like. So gimme Iowa. All right. Last game of the week, probably the pr prime time game for this week. It's Number seventeen, Florida at number three. No at neutral see neutral field against Georgia. Number three. Who is coming off a bye week after they just lost to Auburn. So obviously I'm taking Georgia here to cover. It's a spread pick, sorry. So it's a spread pick. wait a minute. Thirty five points. It's eleven and a half spread. who is who are they playing again? Florida. yeah. I'm going I'm going way under. I don't think they'll beat him by eleven. I think they're pissed off. Give me the dogs. Dr. Durag. I don't know I've been Am I am I really rocking with Jack again? I don't the last time we saw Florida they beat Texas. And you know what? It's a rivalry game, guys. It's a rivalry game. I think I think my god. Caleb, you go first. I'm not gonna let you make a decision off what I did. So I I I g I know these games. I've played them before. I think I think no matter what you said I was probably gonna take Georgia to cover. All right, Cal's taking Georgia to cover. Alex, you said Geor you saw Florida. I rocked with Miami to cover. I might as well do the same with Georgia. I've already taken one risk. I'm gonna take Georgia to cover here just because I don't know what to think about that Florida defense. And you know what? I think Georgia is gonna come out pissed off 'cause that Auburn game was embarrassing. Especially for our good old boy, Gunnar Stockton. I think he I think he's gonna fix his shit. So All right. That's the that's the pick ems this week. Put together your parlay, as as well as you want. it's obviously we're not having much luck it since week one and two, I feel like. So we're gonna talk to I've been damn close some of these weeks. Caleb's been close, but I've been I've had a couple five and ones, six and ones. Yeah, for sure. Maybe this week's the week. Maybe this week yeah, maybe this week's the week, so you may as well Tag along with us. No, honestly, this is probably the week I feel the least confident in. Like even last week with the coin flips, I was like, you know what, that's that's all right. I I I might throw a bet on that, but I didn't. So I don't know. This week with the spread picks and everything, it's just they're top twenty-five matchups, I feel like they're way easier, like Jacksonville State and whoever are whoever they're playing, like New Mexico State, no no clue. So yeah. Yeah. all right, let's get into some final thoughts before we sign off from this episode. Alex, shout out JJ McCarthy, man. Just straight up ripping that thing. Stock up JJ McCarthy. Stock up JJ McCarthy. I'm loving how the Pistons are doing. Pistons starting the year 3-0. We're watching the next game right now. Well they are. I can't see it. I sensed it. I sensed it. and you know I'm excited for Halloween, you know, we're all in our fun little costumes. It's fun week. and we got Christmas and Thanksgiving coming up after this, so it should be with the NBA season going and hockey, you know, it's a perfect time for sports. So it's all rampant up. Doctor Duregons happy for JJ McCarthy. Damn right. Go Halloween. Go Halloween. Happy Halloween. all right, my final thought is just win. Beat beat navy and go lions. Let's let's beat the shit out of it. A little microaggression. A little microaggression, but Shut your buckin' mouth. Shut your mouth, Dr. Jureg. But we're gonna it's go Irish and we'll we'll see you in the next one. So remember Happy Halloween Halloween. Happy Halloween for I hope you eat a lot of candy and get really fat. Whoa, daredevil. I think I said the same that's a microaggression. You can say I think I said the same exact thing last year. I'm gonna have to look. Tell me his name again. It's fantastic. Say that again. All right, wave jack while I'm signing off. Remember we don't know ball, you don't know ball, we all don't know ball. We'll see in the next one. Peace. Go blue. Let's see it. You guys can't see that. I'm definitely blacking the screen out. That's funny.