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Week 8 Reaction: BYU Falls, USC Flops, Texas Survives · Winning Cures Everything | College Football

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  Speaker 1: Week 7 was definitely the craziest weekend in modern memory
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  Speaker 1: in college football, but Week 8 certainly gave it a
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  Speaker 1: run for its money. I mean, here's what you need
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  Speaker 1: to know. This is the first time since 1977 that
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  Speaker 1: three or fewer teams are left undefeated at this point
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  Speaker 1: in the season. That is bananas. Absolutely bananas. We got
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  Speaker 1: a lot to talk about. A lot to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: We had the number two team that lost outright as
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  Speaker 1: a big favorite to an unranked team with a backup quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, just a lot happening. Let's get into it.
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  Speaker 1: BYU got beat. Lincoln Riley still don't know how to
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  Speaker 1: travel to the East Coast unless he's playing a really
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  Speaker 1: bad team. Texas found a way to get off the schneid, right?
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  Speaker 1: There's just a lot that happened in this past week.
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  Speaker 1: We got a lot that we got to get into.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and start it off. Because, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we like to keep these things relatively short, right? I
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  Speaker 1: think so. I think so. All right. UCF 39, number two,
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  Speaker 1: BYU 31 in double overtime. This was the game of
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  Speaker 1: the week. A week after beating Notre Dame, BYU goes
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  Speaker 1: down in Orlando. It's their first loss of the year. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: UCF backup quarterback, Keon Jenkins, who was at FIU last year,
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  Speaker 1: 293 yards, three touchdowns. He had the game winner in
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  Speaker 1: double overtime. UCF's first ever win over an AP top
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  Speaker 1: five team, which also big talking point. Scott Frost has
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  Speaker 1: a ranked win at UCF before Matt ruled us at Nebraska.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of fun with that one. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: fun with that one. Good gracious. Um, UCF, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this thing was tied 24-24 at the end of regulation.
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  Speaker 1: A BYU personal foul after the play moved UCF into
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  Speaker 1: field goal range late. Very self-inflicted. Kind of dumb. It
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  Speaker 1: was a classic letdown spot, right? Road trip, cross country
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  Speaker 1: after the biggest win of the season. Everybody could see
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  Speaker 1: it coming a mile away. This was an easy bet. Like,
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  Speaker 1: very early on. And that's why it sat at 6.5
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  Speaker 1: for forever. You could have gotten this thing at 7.5.
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  Speaker 1: It wouldn't have mattered. UCF went out right. But... My goodness,
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  Speaker 1: what an absolutely incredible emotional ballgame. Because UCF was coming
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  Speaker 1: off a bye. BYU, biggest win, at least in their
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  Speaker 1: home stadium, ever. But a massive win there. And sometimes
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  Speaker 1: you just ain't got anything left after something like that.
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  Speaker 1: We saw it with Alabama and Georgia the week after
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  Speaker 1: their game. Tennessee... put everything into the Alabama game, they
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  Speaker 1: go to South Carolina, they end up getting beat. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's just, it's a common thing. Ole Miss, after the
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  Speaker 1: LSU game, they go to Florida, they get walloped. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we have seen it time and time again this season.
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  Speaker 1: In years where there's only one bye, it's incredibly tough.
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  Speaker 1: Incredibly tough to keep going, week in, week out, with,
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  Speaker 1: you know, these somewhat diminished lineups. Diminished may be a
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  Speaker 1: strong word there, But what we're saying is the backups
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  Speaker 1: are not as good as the starters. For the better teams,
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  Speaker 1: they used to be. And it was not that long ago,
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  Speaker 1: probably five years ago, that it was like that. So
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  Speaker 1: you're going to see it in other spots. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know exactly what the schedule spots are. I did work
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  Speaker 1: on a situational awareness rating that is going to kind
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  Speaker 1: of help me through some of these. Because... It's tough.
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  Speaker 1: When you are trying to handicap every FBS versus FBS game,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes it falls through the cracks that, oh, such and
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  Speaker 1: such is playing their eighth straight game and such and
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  Speaker 1: such is coming off of a bye. You know, like
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  Speaker 1: all those different, or a look ahead spot, something like that, right?
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  Speaker 1: USC went to Wisconsin. I knew that they were looking
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  Speaker 1: ahead to the Ohio State game because Wisconsin went to
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  Speaker 1: UCLA last week and kind of got beat up a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. But Wisconsin at home at night, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that was a pretty easy call. So, let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: this one, which was another situational spot. Cincinnati 37, undefeated No.
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  Speaker 1: 8 Texas Tech 24. This was revenge game energy, right?
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  Speaker 1: Because Cincinnati and Tech, there was the whole Brendan Swordsby thing,
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  Speaker 1: although Swordsby is not playing right now. But there was
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  Speaker 1: a lot of talk, especially between the administrative types in
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  Speaker 1: the offseason. Apparently, and I had forgotten about this, but
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  Speaker 1: it appears that the Cincinnati bunch did not. But I've
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  Speaker 1: already forgotten his name. Good gracious. The billionaire guy, Cody Gamble.
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  Speaker 1: There we go. Cody Gamble had tweeted something about we're
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  Speaker 1: not going to show any mercy when we're up by
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  Speaker 1: 40 on them in the fourth quarter. Talking about Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 1: Because of all the stuff that was going on with
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  Speaker 1: the gambling, etc. stuff with Brendan Sorsby. That was a
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  Speaker 1: long time ago. That was like in the offseason. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't remember it. But Cincy, certainly in their postgame, they
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  Speaker 1: troll tagged Cody Campbell on Twitter. And I get it.
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  Speaker 1: I absolutely get it. This was a revenge game. And
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  Speaker 1: it was also like a situational spot. Because Texas Tech
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  Speaker 1: had a revenge game last week at home against Arizona State.
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  Speaker 1: They kind of put everything into that one. And then
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  Speaker 1: you had to travel, not necessarily cross-country, but Lubbock to
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  Speaker 1: Cincinnati is not exactly the easiest trip. And then you
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  Speaker 1: had to play at 11 a.m. That's Central Time, God's
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  Speaker 1: time zone, of course. But you get the point. Cole Tabb,
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  Speaker 1: since he ran for 173 yards, Tech gave up 6.4
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  Speaker 1: yards per carry. They went 3 for 15 on third down.
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  Speaker 1: It's the most points that Tech has allowed since 2024.
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  Speaker 1: It's the first time that that defense really got gashed.
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  Speaker 1: Houston did some stuff to them. Oregon State did some
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  Speaker 1: stuff to him, but the defense was able to eventually
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  Speaker 1: take a hold of the ballgame and win it for him.
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  Speaker 1: Not this case. Not this time. There was a two-minute
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  Speaker 1: span in that second quarter going into halftime. It was
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  Speaker 1: a 10-6 ballgame, and by the time they got to
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  Speaker 1: the break, it was 24-6. And then Cincy held on
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  Speaker 1: for dear life, right? Ended up winning the game 37-24,
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  Speaker 1: but man. What an upset. What a big win for
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  Speaker 1: Scott Satterfield. He has got this team looking legit right now.
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  Speaker 1: And that J.J. French kid. Played at Georgia Southern. Kind
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  Speaker 1: of a turnover machine. Wasn't the greatest quarterback out there.
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  Speaker 1: But since he was like, all right, we see some
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  Speaker 1: good things. He is a dog. Love watching him play.
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  Speaker 1: Love watching him play. I mean, he got walloped on
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  Speaker 1: a run late second quarter. and just popped right back up,
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  Speaker 1: and I feel like almost any other quarterback would have
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  Speaker 1: laid there for a while because he got demolished by
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  Speaker 1: that safety. So, moving on, Wisconsin 24, USC 7. Again,
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  Speaker 1: this is one of those that we could see coming.
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  Speaker 1: USC entered averaging 36 points per game, and they scored
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  Speaker 1: 7 points. It's the fewest ever by a Lincoln-Riley team.
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  Speaker 1: The Trojans finished with negative 17 rushing yards. I would
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  Speaker 1: have never expected that. I knew Wisconsin's rush defense was good, but, oh,
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  Speaker 1: that was rough. Wisconsin, their quarterback, Colton Joseph, only had
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  Speaker 1: to throw for 58 yards. It was just defense and
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  Speaker 1: a ground game. Old school Big Ten, baby. That's what
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  Speaker 1: that was. It was awesome. South Carolina beat number 11, Tennessee,
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  Speaker 1: on the last second field goal, 27-24. And Lenore Sellers,
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  Speaker 1: especially early. I mean, South Carolina jumped on them 14-0
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  Speaker 1: right off the bat. And then you get into the
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  Speaker 1: second quarter, and it's 21-14, Tennessee. It kind of felt
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  Speaker 1: like this game was wrapped up. Come out in the
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  Speaker 1: third quarter, game's 21-21, and from there, the defense has
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  Speaker 1: won out. And South Carolina found a way to get
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  Speaker 1: down the field. And again, this was another one of
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  Speaker 1: those situational spots, right? Tennessee put everything into a rivalry
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  Speaker 1: game last week at home against Alabama. Now you've got
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  Speaker 1: to travel, like, eighth straight game. Like, this is the spot.
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  Speaker 1: Scheduled spot for Iowa. Iowa. Minnesota beat number 15, Iowa.
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  Speaker 1: Low-scoring rock fight game. This was a big 10 game
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  Speaker 1: to the nth degree. Iowa's dark horse CFP path is
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  Speaker 1: pretty much done, but it was 13 to 10 minnesota
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  Speaker 1: and now minnesota gets game day like their game day
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  Speaker 1: is going to indiana but minnesota has done enough this
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  Speaker 1: isn't this minnesota team they've got floyd of rosedale they
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  Speaker 1: got the little brown jug at the end of the
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  Speaker 1: year they've got a chance for the first time since
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  Speaker 1: 1978 to hold all three in the same season um
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  Speaker 1: That would be Paul Bunyan's axe against Wisconsin. I'm excited
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  Speaker 1: about this. Do I think that Minnesota is going to
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  Speaker 1: be able to beat Indiana? Absolutely not. But this Indiana
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  Speaker 1: team isn't exactly unbeatable. But they are at home coming
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  Speaker 1: off a big Michigan game. There's a lot going on here.
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  Speaker 1: Hoover's not 100%. Indiana did survive Michigan 13-6 in overtime.
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  Speaker 1: Just an ugly, ugly football game. It wasn't great. But
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  Speaker 1: the Minnesota thing, you know, this was a rivalry game.
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  Speaker 1: This was a scheduling spot. This was a, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Iowa was coming off of a bye. But, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Iowa had to go on the road. This was not
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  Speaker 1: as much of a situational spot. Hank Brown at quarterback
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  Speaker 1: was certainly not the answer. I think I would have
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  Speaker 1: probably stuck with Helinski or Heklinski. I think that's how
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  Speaker 1: you say it. But either way, you get the point.
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  Speaker 1: Late night. Late night. Late night games. New Mexico covered
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  Speaker 1: barely if you got four and a half. If you
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  Speaker 1: got five and a half like me, then you got
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  Speaker 1: North Dakota State that covered. But New Mexico kind of
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  Speaker 1: set themselves up to potentially, if there is a falling
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  Speaker 1: off by Boise State, maybe New Mexico can grab that
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  Speaker 1: G5 or G6 spot in the playoff, potentially. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see. We'll see. There's a lot. to that, but
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  Speaker 1: New Mexico certainly appears to be the best of the
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  Speaker 1: Mountain West. They've still got a couple of spots left,
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  Speaker 1: but they won that one. 21-16 on that one. Utah, 21-13.
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  Speaker 1: Utes needed a 14-0 fourth quarter to get it done.
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  Speaker 1: Devin Dampier ran for 150, had two touchdowns. Utah still
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  Speaker 1: owns the nation's longest winning streak at this point, but
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  Speaker 1: Houston seemed like they were in positions. And late turnover
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  Speaker 1: by Houston gave Utah enough to get the cover because
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  Speaker 1: the turnover turned into a one, I think it was
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  Speaker 1: a one-play touchdown, one-play touchdown drive, which at that point,
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  Speaker 1: with the timeout situation and everything else, all you had
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  Speaker 1: to do was run clock. Like, you're at the two-minute timeout.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't fully understand. Of course, it was late, late,
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  Speaker 1: and I was exhausted, so. But yeah, very interesting. Michigan
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  Speaker 1: State came out, jumped on UCLA early 7-0, and then
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  Speaker 1: their defense held Michigan State to 156 total yards with
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  Speaker 1: three takeaways. 28-10 was the final there. Just a beating
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  Speaker 1: by UCLA. UCLA is so good. I think the Diefenbach kid,
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  Speaker 1: he's going to be just fine running that offense. It
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  Speaker 1: is very much a system offense, and I think they're
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  Speaker 1: going to be just fine. Miami hammered Pitt 52-23, like
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  Speaker 1: business as usual. That just went along the way that
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  Speaker 1: you would think. Alabama pulled away from Texas A & M,
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  Speaker 1: had two fourth-quarter touchdowns. Alabama was playing their eighth straight game,
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  Speaker 1: and my God, the injury report for the Tide. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they were down to third-string starters at a lot of
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  Speaker 1: positions on defense and on offense. Like, it was... It
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  Speaker 1: was rough. So you've got to, just for the sake
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  Speaker 1: of a good game, you've got to hope that Alabama
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  Speaker 1: finds a way to get as many healthy pieces as
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  Speaker 1: possible going into Baton Rouge here in two weeks. Because
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: they are going into a bye week. LSU also going
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: into a bye week. You would imagine that that's going
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  Speaker 1: to be a better game now that both of those
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  Speaker 1: guys get a bunch of guys back healthy. Kentucky erased
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  Speaker 1: a 10-point hole against Vandy. They ended up winning that
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  Speaker 1: one 34-17. Man, Kentucky is now 7-1. That is just mayhem.
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  Speaker 1: 17 outright upsets in Week 8. I mean, this is–
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  Speaker 1: we had bad beats and just betting carnage all over
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  Speaker 1: the place. Unranked teams beat five ranked teams. Dogs of
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  Speaker 1: three plus went outright 14 times. The biggest ones by
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  Speaker 1: the number, Sensity plus 10.5 over Tech, UCF plus 7.5
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  Speaker 1: over BYU. Those both paid big. I mean, if you
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  Speaker 1: had a two-teamer on those two, I mean, just you
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  Speaker 1: can go ahead and retire out to the lake house.
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  Speaker 1: You can go out and watch the ducks shit in
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  Speaker 1: the yard, right? How many times have we seen that
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: clip on game day and everywhere else here lately with
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  Speaker 1: the Wake Forest offensive coordinator Rob Eazell, who used to
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: play at Alabama under Nick Saban. That's the way it goes.
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  Speaker 1: Paying for the favorite bettors, right? Indiana minus six up
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  Speaker 1: to minus nine and a half at Michigan. They end
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  Speaker 1: up winning by seven. You lay the number You got
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  Speaker 1: a field goal plus nothing. Right? The Hoosier backers just
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  Speaker 1: got to be irritated about that because they did not
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  Speaker 1: look very good. Did not look very good. The total
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  Speaker 1: in that game as well, 19 points to the under. Like,
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  Speaker 1: just bananas. USC backers, I mean, there was nothing you
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  Speaker 1: could do about that game. That was ridiculous. The sweat
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  Speaker 1: of the week probably was Texas. Minus three, minus three
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  Speaker 1: and a half against Ole Miss. Like, they were up
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  Speaker 1: 21 in the first half, 24-3. Gave it all back.
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  Speaker 1: And then won by seven. Like, they covered. But, man,
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  Speaker 1: Ole Miss had the ball, you know, around the 20-yard line,
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  Speaker 1: between the 20 and 25, whatever it was, with a
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  Speaker 1: couple of throws at the end zone at the end
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  Speaker 1: that would have tied it and sent it to overtime.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, could you imagine if Texas only won that
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  Speaker 1: game by two? Like, their sportsbooks would have been devastated.
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  Speaker 1: There were so many Ole Miss backers. Good gracious. That's
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  Speaker 1: so wild. Let's see. You had two straight weeks of
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: top 10 road favorites getting clipped. Let down spots after
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: signature wins. That's where the market got caught. I don't
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: think it was anything too crazy. As far as the
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: new AP Top 25, does anybody care about this thing anymore?
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: Because it's all mayhem. It's complete and total anarchy. in
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: these college football streets right now. Miami is still number one.
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State is number two. But remember, Ohio State does
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: not have their starting quarterback for maybe the rest of
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: the season. Like, we don't know for sure exactly when
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: Julian San is going to come back, but it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be a long, long time. Like, I know that much.
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  Speaker 1: And they've got to go to USC this week. Very
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  Speaker 1: interesting spot there. Georgia at number three, Indiana four, Notre
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  Speaker 1: Dame five. Utah 6, UCLA 7, BYU 8, Kentucky 9,
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  Speaker 1: Alabama 10. And then Texas jumped all the way up
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  Speaker 1: to 11. Ole Miss is back at 12. Texas Tech
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  Speaker 1: is at 13. And Wake Forest, look at Wake Forest
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  Speaker 1: at number 14 with LSU at number 15. I mean,
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: you want to talk about a power ratings difference there. Like,
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: LSU would be favored by, what, two touchdowns over Wake Forest?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it would be ridiculous. So, either way. Either way,
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Iowa dropped out. They were 15. USC dropped out. They
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  Speaker 1: were 16. Oklahoma State and Wisconsin both jumped in. So
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  Speaker 1: Texas was the biggest mover at plus eight. BYU minus
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  Speaker 1: six was the second biggest mover. Ole Miss minus five
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  Speaker 1: was a big mover. You know, Tennessee was minus five.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Texas Tech was minus five as well. Pretty crazy. And
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  Speaker 1: we finally have gotten to a point where like everybody
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  Speaker 1: just kind of agrees that the The number one team
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  Speaker 1: in the country is Miami. They got 59 first place votes.
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State got 10. Utah won. I mean, that's pretty wild.
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  Speaker 1: This weekend was terrible for the Big 12. They are
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: in serious trouble if they want to get multiple bids
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  Speaker 1: to the playoff. BYU and Tech losing on the same
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  Speaker 1: day was a wrecking ball. Utah is now the conference's
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  Speaker 1: lone unbeaten. But man, Utah's got to play BYU here
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  Speaker 1: in a couple weeks. That's going to be interesting. Tech
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  Speaker 1: doesn't play anybody good all year. So Tech probably going
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  Speaker 1: to get to the Big 12 title game, we think.
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  Speaker 1: Not if they show up like they did Saturday, but man.
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  Speaker 1: UCLA should be unbeaten going into the first CFP rankings.
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  Speaker 1: They've got Nevada next week. Utah, they keep winning ugly.
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  Speaker 1: They barely beat Colorado. They needed that late surge against Houston.
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  Speaker 1: Miami looks dominant. They are killing everybody, but they've got
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Notre Dame on November 7th. We'll see what that looks like.
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State, I'm real curious about because saying out indefinitely,
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  Speaker 1: it's throwing arm or shoulder, whatever you want to call it.
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State has not named Luke Fahey or Tavian St.
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  Speaker 1: Clair as the starter. They opened as a seven-point favorite
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  Speaker 1: at USC this week. I don't know what to make
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  Speaker 1: of that. I don't think Josh Hoover is 100%. Reports
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  Speaker 1: point to a throwing arm issue. Maybe not an injury
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  Speaker 1: per se, but you know, game day is heading to
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  Speaker 1: Bloomington for Indiana and Minnesota, so I'm curious about that. Florida,
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Philo is still questionable against Georgia Georgia opened minus
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  Speaker 1: ten and a half like games in Atlanta this year
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be in a dome so we ain't
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  Speaker 1: got to worry about weather or anything like that Oregon
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  Speaker 1: got beat yesterday I didn't even put it on the
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  Speaker 1: card I didn't even think about it like their offensive
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  Speaker 1: coordinator got fired Drew Merringer Merringer however you want to
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: say it Dave Aranda got fired. Mike Loxley got fired.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see what that means as far as betting goes,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: as far as what it means for those teams going forward.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: NC State fired their coach, Dave Doran. So you've got
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: some interesting spots for potential G6 coaches or coordinators to
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: move into with NC State, Maryland, and Baylor. And Baylor wants,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: you know, would it surprise anybody if Lincoln Riley took
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: the Baylor head coaching job? Because it I don't know
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: that he's going to survive this. I think they can
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  Speaker 1: beat Ohio State because I don't know what Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: is with a backup quarterback. But it wouldn't surprise me
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: to see Lincoln Riley go and take that Baylor job.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: That'd be pretty crazy. Unless maybe Texas Tech wants to
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: get rid of Joey McGuire and then Tech decides that
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: they want to hire Lincoln Riley. And that's entirely possible.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: We could totally see that happening. As far as weather
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: going into week nine, it's too early for any reliable
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  Speaker 1: Halloween weekend forecasts. So we're going to recheck those later
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: on in the week. On the YouTube videos, I will
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: give you what we're looking at right now, but there's
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: nothing super reliable as of this moment on Sunday. So
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: I'm just not going to worry about it here. Man.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: We got some interesting. Interesting. Stuff coming up this week.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Auburn at Ole Miss. Like, Wisconsin at Iowa is coming
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  Speaker 1: up soon. Like, this ought to be fun. This ought
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: to be fun. Again, three unbeatens at this point in
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: the season. It's the fewest since 1977. Oh, I'm excited
• 21:59
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  Speaker 1: against the spread. So, you know, you got to get
• 22:23
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• 22:27
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• 22:31
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• 22:35
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• 22:37
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• 22:41
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• 23:26
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