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December 8, 2025 (Hour 2) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Writer's round Table with Rusty Berson, Robert Sesna,
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Speaker 1: and your host Chip Howard. The Writer's Round Table is
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Speaker 8: Hey, great to have everybody here. Robert Sessen is here.
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Speaker 8: Alex Miller fill again for Rusty. I said before you
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Speaker 8: got here, Alex, Rusty actually went to Arlington last night
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Speaker 8: to watch that mess of a game, and I think
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Speaker 8: he needed an extra day to recover.
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Speaker 5: That's why he's not. Oh my gosh, that was probably
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Speaker 5: the worst game that wouldn't end.
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Speaker 9: It was the worst forty seconds to end the game
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Speaker 9: that am could have possibly drawn up they had it
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Speaker 9: right in the bag and they.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, I mean it was the game was over
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Speaker 8: pretty much.
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Speaker 9: It was tough and Stinkstra and M because the thing
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Speaker 9: of the hole they dug themselves out of to get
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Speaker 9: in that position. That would have been a great win. Yeah,
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Speaker 9: that probably would have been the biggest feather in the
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Speaker 9: cap this season. And and that's that. That's probably gonna
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Speaker 9: to be in a quad one game. And look, Adam's
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Speaker 9: gonna have opportunities out the wazoo and SEC played for
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Speaker 9: quad one wins. But when you look at that NCAA tournament, right,
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Speaker 9: you need a you need a good non conference win
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Speaker 9: on there to to.
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Speaker 5: Show the committs.
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Speaker 8: The first thing I thought of is, man, this is
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Speaker 8: the kind of game that could keep you out, you know,
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Speaker 8: if it comes down to first four and that kind
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Speaker 8: of stuff.
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Speaker 5: But we got a long way to go until the
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Speaker 5: long way to get a long way to go.
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Speaker 7: I was thinking an I, but that's a.
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Speaker 9: Hey, how about that. The first thing we talked about
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Speaker 9: is basketball. When A and M's playing in the college
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Speaker 9: football playoff, Well, this.
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Speaker 8: Is the basketball community. I like to cater to the
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Speaker 8: basketball This is.
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Speaker 7: An equestrian you know, kind of you know, community along
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Speaker 7: with basketball.
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Speaker 8: So A and I'm being a seventh seed is kind
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Speaker 8: of weird. By all metrics, you would think that A
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Speaker 8: and M would be ahead of Oregon and ahead of
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Speaker 8: Old miss if you compare you know, everything, But apparently
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Speaker 8: the committee doesn't do that, and ESPN doesn't allow them
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Speaker 8: to do that, so they can get the bracket that
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Speaker 8: they want to have. So this is what you have
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Speaker 8: and you have a really really talented football team coming here.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, first of all, when they say strength to schedule
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Speaker 7: all these things that go, who determines that? I mean
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Speaker 7: a little bit. I don't know any problem with metrics.
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Speaker 7: I like computers. I think the College Football Committee couldn't
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Speaker 7: have screwed it up any worse. In the fact is
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Speaker 7: they had notre Dame ahead of Miami the whole time,
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Speaker 7: the whole time. And then oh hey, by the way,
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Speaker 7: you actually weren't that good after all.
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Speaker 10: I showed. I saw I like that. We watched the tape.
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Speaker 10: Oh my god, Miami, Miami law. It's a novel approach.
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Speaker 10: We watched the tape and I'm thinking, like, are you serious?
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Speaker 7: I mean, you come out and admit you're that stupid
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Speaker 7: and but that just shows you, you know, you really
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Speaker 7: can't mess up college football. Well you've seen so much it's.
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Speaker 8: So good, you cannot You're right, you can't kill college football.
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Speaker 5: It's it's too popular.
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Speaker 7: It's it's like it doesn't matter what you have. I mean,
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Speaker 7: it's like, and I guess that's a good bad I've
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Speaker 7: till somebody asked me today at the press cards. I said,
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Speaker 7: you know what, it's like McDonald's French fries. It don't
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Speaker 7: matter what McDonald's screws up or who works, they're not
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Speaker 7: going to mess their French fries up. I don't want
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Speaker 7: anything else if McDonald's, but they're French fries. And getting
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Speaker 7: back to what you see, I mean, unfortunately, man, you
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Speaker 7: talk about the difference between a sixth seed and a
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Speaker 7: seventh seed Julane come into town or Miami, Oh, let
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Speaker 7: me think about that one, you know, or James Madison
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Speaker 7: or James Madison, well anywhere. Anyway. It's a ten team
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Speaker 7: playoff and A and M is starting off right against
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Speaker 7: somebody that might be this year. And we talked about
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Speaker 7: this chip on the show before. If any of those
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Speaker 7: ten teams would would win the national championship, winsurprise.
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Speaker 8: And Miami may be as talented as any of the
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Speaker 8: ten teams in the playoffs.
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Speaker 7: But they also have the number ten ranked coach.
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Speaker 5: And that's what you're banking on.
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Speaker 9: Well, the two things on Miami. They've been playing a
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Speaker 9: lot better in the last month. They looked terrible against
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Speaker 9: SMU and they looked terrible against Louisville season. I actually
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Speaker 9: watched that game. That was a Friday night game. We
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Speaker 9: were where were we Arkansas?
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Speaker 7: I had Chicken put pye at that place A good place.
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Speaker 7: We need to go back there.
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Speaker 4: That place was good. That place was good.
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Speaker 9: They looked they did not look good in October. They
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Speaker 9: did not look good in October. They're playing a lot better.
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Speaker 9: They beat the breaks off pit to in the regular season, right,
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Speaker 9: But yes, Krystal Ball has done some head scratching things
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Speaker 9: at times. You think about that Georgia Tech game last
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Speaker 9: year when they when they gave that away, Yeah, and
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Speaker 9: a'em at home.
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Speaker 4: You got to like that. Miami is hoping they.
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Speaker 9: Get a few guys back, particularly the nickel Keyante Scott
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Speaker 9: who's been who was having a fantastic season before he
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Speaker 9: got that foot injury against n C State. But Aam's
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Speaker 9: also in the mix to get some guys back. They're
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Speaker 9: doing great, They're Greatoby Williams.
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Speaker 7: Okay, but Am is not played well the last three games,
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Speaker 7: that's true. They didn't play well for a half against
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Speaker 7: uh was a team South Carolina. They didn't play well
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Speaker 7: for the second half against Texas. And suddenly you look
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Speaker 7: at that and can you just block that out and
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Speaker 7: move on? Because off Caline game was here and could
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Speaker 7: Adien get get hot and win for a game? Sure?
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Speaker 7: Could they lose this game by even two scores? Yeah,
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Speaker 7: because Miami is that talented and Beck's hot and cold.
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Speaker 7: I mean I've seen him where he could throw a
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Speaker 7: ball maybe through a car wash and not get a
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Speaker 7: drops on it. He's that good at placement. But then
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Speaker 7: I saw see him miss a guy by, like oh yeah.
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Speaker 7: The Louisville game, he threw one interception after another. We
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Speaker 7: were watching that like is he color blind? You know
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Speaker 7: if you bet on that game? So who's gonna show?
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Speaker 7: And let's I looked at the numbers and all I say,
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Speaker 7: numbers don't lie. They're gonna stop the running game. They're
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Speaker 7: so good on the defensive line, and that's scary the
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Speaker 7: way Reid's had happy feet the last few games. I think.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, Tech Texas had a great game plan against A
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Speaker 9: and M. They dropped seven eight into coverage, made Reid
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Speaker 9: beat him with the arm, and Marcel just didn't deliver.
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Speaker 9: Let's be honest, he didn't have it that night. And
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Speaker 9: even late when they had a chance they were going
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Speaker 9: down the field, just two arrant throws and that's all
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Speaker 9: it took for A and M's comeback bid to go
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Speaker 9: right out the door.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: And when you get here, with the caliber of teams
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Speaker 8: you're going to see, there's just normally, from week to
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Speaker 8: week in this sport, we talk about it every week,
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Speaker 8: there's such a small little window, right of winning versus losing.
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Speaker 5: And when you get to these.
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Speaker 8: Kind of teams with that kind of talent, you don't
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Speaker 8: want to open that window. You don't want to give
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Speaker 8: that team that opportunity, right, whether it's a block pot,
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Speaker 8: a miss twenty yard field goal, which we saw at
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Speaker 8: the Big Ten Championship, you can't do it.
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Speaker 7: Here's the deal is. I think about a lot of
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Speaker 7: you'll like Dan Lanning in Oregon and I did too.
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Speaker 7: I've seen a couple of games that he does coaching moves.
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Speaker 7: I scratched my head great. And what I'm getting back
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Speaker 7: to is you're gonna have a lot of first time
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Speaker 7: college football Playoff coaches. Mike Elko is going to be
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Speaker 7: one uh mis old miss cut the defensive coordinator made, yeah,
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Speaker 7: making these million dollar decisions. And as good as Sety
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Speaker 7: has been, you know what I mean, it's like this
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Speaker 7: is what his second time, and so I think he
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Speaker 7: has advantage of that these people that have coached in
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Speaker 7: the College Football Playoff and Elko has proven he's he's
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Speaker 7: a great coach, But what about he turns arounds? He's
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Speaker 7: one hundred and ten thousand people and they expect you
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Speaker 7: win this game.
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Speaker 8: You know, Seas, it's not just the coaches. I think
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Speaker 8: it's just as much or more the players. And by
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Speaker 8: that I mean, you know, Ohio State, They're not gonna
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Speaker 8: see anything they haven't been through. Alabama's not gonna see
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Speaker 8: anything they haven't been through.
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Speaker 5: Right, Oregon has been there.
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Speaker 8: You look at the teams that have been there, right,
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Speaker 8: and you don't know how that teams that haven't are
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Speaker 8: gonna respond because it's a whole different ballgame.
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Speaker 5: It's totally different.
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Speaker 11: Now.
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Speaker 7: I'm glad you brought that up because you go back
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Speaker 7: and listen to the tape last week when after the
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Speaker 7: Texas game's about how Elka said he was a little
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Speaker 7: disappointed at all. That's why his team just didn't handle
10:19
Speaker 7: he said, did the environment environment? And I was kind
10:21
Speaker 7: of shocked by that because you think, oh, you're your rival,
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Speaker 7: You're going down to Austin. Everybody's talked about this rival
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Speaker 7: even though it hasn't been around. But they didn't handle
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Speaker 7: that well. And for him to say that, I thought
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Speaker 7: that was a little bit telling. When you say it's
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Speaker 7: not just the coaches, sain'st even the assistant coaches if
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Speaker 7: they've never been in this. And then suddenly when you
10:41
Speaker 7: see how, let's be honest, though High State game came
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Speaker 7: down to a field goal, does they ain't ever want
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Speaker 7: their game to come down to a field goal? Well?
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Speaker 9: And I get the Texas fans credit. You know, you
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Speaker 9: hear stories about it's the wine and cheese crowd. They
10:53
Speaker 9: only get loud for like two plays.
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Speaker 4: A game, YadA YadA.
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Speaker 9: No, that place was locked in and amped up the
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Speaker 9: whole time. I mean it's a it's a closed press box,
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Speaker 9: and you could in a lot of ways it felt
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Speaker 9: like we were at Kyle Field when when AM's fans
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Speaker 9: have been at their best. I was thoroughly impressed with
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Speaker 9: the energy that the Texas fans brought.
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Speaker 4: And yeah, AM didn't handle it well and it was
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Speaker 4: definitely a factory.
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Speaker 7: But the good news is, yeah, the flip side of that,
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Speaker 7: they're here, they're here.
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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, they're here.
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Speaker 12: And Kyle Field will be And I would argue Miami
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Speaker 12: hadn't played and that kind of environment since Notre Dame
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Speaker 12: and it still wasn't that environment, right, I mean it's Miami.
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Speaker 9: They might not have played in that environment since they
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Speaker 9: played here at Cayle Field in twenty two.
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Speaker 8: Correct, correct? And I don't remember, you know, I'd have
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Speaker 8: to go back, but they they haven't seen that environment either.
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Speaker 8: And A and M said a huge advantage because of that.
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Speaker 7: I agree. I agree, And it's it's like you need
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Speaker 7: to use that because, let's be honest, when this game,
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Speaker 7: you're in the top eight and then you get a
11:56
Speaker 7: little confidence, you get a little momentum gone, and you
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Speaker 7: talk about it too. At least get people healthy, uh,
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Speaker 7: Because I think it's a great advantage for those four
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Speaker 7: teams that got to buy because they are so good,
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Speaker 7: and you know they're gonna get a little more healthy.
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Speaker 8: Except for last year, none of that worked out and win.
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Speaker 7: But I think a little bit of seating you did
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Speaker 7: about that last year, well it wasn't there.
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Speaker 5: There were there were several teams in the.
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Speaker 4: Seating was So you're right, and.
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Speaker 9: It'll be a good it'll be a good interesting thing
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Speaker 9: to compare last year to this year in that regard
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Speaker 9: to see if doing the true seating really has an impact,
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Speaker 9: which I think it really will.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, because let's be honest, Uh, it's wide opened this year.
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Speaker 7: So these teams that you know got the buy, like
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Speaker 7: Ohio State, uh playing A and M. That's not like
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Speaker 7: they're playing somebody from you know, your skid by last year.
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Speaker 8: Ye.
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Speaker 9: See every projection that i've read today just initial bracket
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Speaker 9: filling out right, Like every single person i've read has Indiana,
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Speaker 9: Ohio State, and Georgia all winning their quarterfinal games, not
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Speaker 9: a single.
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Speaker 4: One of them losing upset.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: So and I mean understandably, so Indiana clearcut number one.
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Speaker 9: I don't think anybody wants to play Georgia right now.
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Speaker 9: Ohio States are defending national champions, so.
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Speaker 7: Well, I think you're right if those three uh, none
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Speaker 7: of us would be shocked if they lose. But I
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Speaker 7: think they've established themselves that these three teams are going
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Speaker 7: to be a little tough to.
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Speaker 5: Be you know.
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Speaker 8: Uh, India Indiana really impressed me Saturday night. You know,
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Speaker 8: they really impressed me, especially defensively.
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Speaker 5: I'm with you, especially the front, right.
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Speaker 8: I thought that front defensively was just outstanding. The way
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Speaker 8: they they're not and they're not beaten around a little
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Speaker 8: a little poor neighbor. They're beaten around a really good
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Speaker 8: front offensive line.
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Speaker 7: I love the way their line of screamage and the
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Speaker 7: way they attacked the ball. I mean they didn't sit
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Speaker 7: back and they got to the ball and I go, dang.
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Speaker 8: You know, they said, hey, we're going to run the
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Speaker 8: ball against you guys, right, and we're going to be physical.
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Speaker 5: And and that impressed me.
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Speaker 8: That that because Ohio Stay all year long, in my
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Speaker 8: mind was the best team, right, they were clearly the
14:04
Speaker 8: best team.
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Speaker 13: Uh.
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Speaker 8: And now after watching Indiana, I'm going, okay, and the
14:09
Speaker 8: other thing, Man, that's a well coached team. I just
14:12
Speaker 8: kept thinking to myself, this team they just don't make.
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Speaker 8: You don't see a lot of those stupid mistakes. A
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Speaker 8: lot of State made a couple of them, and I'm
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Speaker 8: not gonna say they won't, but man, I was just
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Speaker 8: so impressed with how well that team's coach.
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Speaker 7: And when Indiana lost their receiver, he's probably gone mad.
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Speaker 7: Top three team All American. I go, Indiana's in trouble. No, no,
14:37
Speaker 7: such the same thing, because I hadn't seen their defense enough,
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Speaker 7: and I go, man, I was so impressed with their defense,
14:42
Speaker 7: and I go, Ohio State is two NFL wide receivers
14:46
Speaker 7: and they got quarterback and they had trouble moving the
14:49
Speaker 7: ball because Indiana would make them have negative plays because
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Speaker 7: they had so much talent and were well coached.
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Speaker 4: Some in the water about guys in western pennsylvani you see.
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Speaker 7: I'm with you. I'm with you because you know, like
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Speaker 7: I said off the air, I mean, his dad was
15:05
Speaker 7: a big coach at iup where it's a small teacher
15:09
Speaker 7: school in Pennsylvania, and that came from that family, Penn
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Speaker 7: State guy, and you could tell the moment wasn't too big,
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Speaker 7: no way. I mean what he's done in Indiana. For
15:18
Speaker 7: Urban Meyer to say that's one of the best coaching
15:21
Speaker 7: jobs of all time, it's like Bill Snyder.
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Speaker 8: Like, you know what when they mentioned that Saturday night,
15:26
Speaker 8: I don't think you know somebody and it's always about today. Well,
15:31
Speaker 8: this is the best effort, you know, best ever And
15:34
Speaker 8: that's who I thought about. Seaside was going in and
15:37
Speaker 8: the programs were equivalent, right, Kansas State and Indiana were
15:41
Speaker 8: equivalent football programs, and Bill Snyder never quite got there
15:46
Speaker 8: a and m probably was you know the reason why.
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Speaker 8: But what he did this is very similar. And you know,
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Speaker 8: you can compare the two. But what is this guy
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Speaker 8: now twenty three and two or something in two years?
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Speaker 7: That's amazing. He did Bloomington, Indiana. Who loves it in Bloomington, Indiana,
16:08
Speaker 7: And he looks above him and he sees Michigan, Ohio
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Speaker 7: State into the He's surrounded Penn State, and he's surrounded
16:14
Speaker 7: by programs that say you're not gonna win.
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Speaker 8: Look, and I said this earlier, I don't think Oregon
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Speaker 8: is quite as good as they were a year ago.
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Speaker 8: But when they went into Oregon, which is one of
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Speaker 8: the toughest places in America to play with a really
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Speaker 8: good team at home, and did what they did, that
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Speaker 8: got my attention because I thought that was one of
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Speaker 8: the best wins.
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Speaker 5: I thought Alabama going to Georgia.
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Speaker 8: You know was was was a huge win A and
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Speaker 8: IM going to Notre Dame was ended up being a
16:44
Speaker 8: huge win. And when Indiana went to Oregon and won
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Speaker 8: that game, I went, Okay, we're gonna have to pay attention.
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Speaker 4: You got you gotta love Mendoza too.
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Speaker 9: I mean the postgame interview, Yeah, it was kind of dorky.
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Speaker 8: H I love it.
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Speaker 9: I mean, I like guy's voices cracking. He's about to
16:58
Speaker 9: start crying, he says, flipping, like.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, well, just what I love about this college football playoff.
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Speaker 7: And now more I think about it with they and
17:08
Speaker 7: him playing eleven to get to watch a couple at
17:09
Speaker 7: least the last game, if not both games. And I
17:12
Speaker 7: was looking forward to Saturday because I wasn't working, and uh,
17:15
Speaker 7: the Indiana Ohio State game with my wife, and I
17:18
Speaker 7: just love watching a game because it was so competitive,
17:20
Speaker 7: so so fiscal everything right on every play. And then
17:24
Speaker 7: just to watch what you alluded to, just Georgia just
17:27
Speaker 7: manhandle Alabama. And I knew Georgia was coming on, and
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Speaker 7: I go, man, you do not want to play Georgia
17:32
Speaker 7: because right now.
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Speaker 5: And no one wants to see them, and then you.
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Speaker 7: Think Kirby smart because then now he's figured out the
17:37
Speaker 7: difference between clapping and a timeout. I mean, you don't
17:40
Speaker 7: want to play that guy because there and he was
17:43
Speaker 7: missing a center. They were missing a couple of people.
17:45
Speaker 7: And once again, this is the time of the year
17:47
Speaker 7: where the teams that are missing a couple of people
17:50
Speaker 7: that don't miss a beat. Like I said, Indiana loses
17:53
Speaker 7: their best their stud receiver like three or four plays
17:56
Speaker 7: in it and it doesn't matter. Uh, that's what it's about.
17:59
Speaker 7: But I'm looking forward to because anyone of those ten
18:03
Speaker 7: teams and I'll be quite aweso. I'm probably gonna knock
18:06
Speaker 7: all miss out because a new coach is not got
18:09
Speaker 7: This is not basketball.
18:10
Speaker 8: I don't think Oklahoma could do it. I don't think
18:12
Speaker 8: they have their offense.
18:12
Speaker 7: They can't play four defensive games like that. They probably
18:15
Speaker 7: play two, but they can. Yeah, they're really good at home,
18:20
Speaker 7: by the way.
18:20
Speaker 9: Well, and it'll be interesting to see what Alabama does
18:23
Speaker 9: because hey, they lost to Oklahoma. Be Crimson tied after
18:28
Speaker 9: a loss. That is not a team you want to play.
18:30
Speaker 9: They're typically pretty good coming off the loss. And three,
18:33
Speaker 9: you know, one of their key sticking points of why
18:34
Speaker 9: they didn't play so well in Atlanta's because they were
18:36
Speaker 9: missing all those guys that they're expecting to get back
18:38
Speaker 9: in this first round.
18:39
Speaker 5: So well, they need them back because they do. They
18:42
Speaker 5: have not.
18:43
Speaker 8: I don't think ty Simpson has played Greg the last
18:47
Speaker 8: part of the season. You know, about halfway through, I'm
18:50
Speaker 8: glad this guy may be the Heisman winner.
18:52
Speaker 7: You're right, he looked good. This guy, he was awesome.
18:55
Speaker 7: Said he's gonna get better, but he didn't.
18:57
Speaker 9: He didn't minus three rushing yards. They need Miller back
19:00
Speaker 9: so bad.
19:01
Speaker 8: Yeah, the minus three rushing yards is its course, run
19:04
Speaker 8: the ball all year.
19:05
Speaker 7: You know they run.
19:06
Speaker 5: They have not run the ball all year.
19:08
Speaker 8: That's one of the things when I put Ryan Day
19:11
Speaker 8: on last hours, like, hey, we don't run the football.
19:13
Speaker 8: You know, our balance was off. We couldn't well, they
19:16
Speaker 8: couldn't run the football.
19:18
Speaker 4: You know.
19:18
Speaker 8: Again, going back to that defensive front that that Indiana has,
19:22
Speaker 8: you're going to stop the run, right and and A
19:26
Speaker 8: and MS needs to do that as well. A week
19:29
Speaker 8: from Saturday.
19:29
Speaker 7: I don't care who you are, second and nine, you're
19:32
Speaker 7: in trouble in these days because people will apply pressure,
19:34
Speaker 7: they'll try to make it third and thirteen. Yeah, and
19:37
Speaker 7: Miami has kind of defense can do that. A and
19:39
Speaker 7: MS kind of defenses can do that. And you've got
19:41
Speaker 7: to because people today it's it's all about pressure and.
19:45
Speaker 9: A and m has feasted off of second and nine,
19:48
Speaker 9: third and seven and longer. I mean, Elko has talked
19:50
Speaker 9: about it all along. Right, they went on first and
19:52
Speaker 9: second down. That has allowed them to be so good
19:55
Speaker 9: on that third down.
19:56
Speaker 7: But there's so much tape out there and everybody, and
19:58
Speaker 7: that's what you see. That's why I thought the going in,
20:02
Speaker 7: I thought the Indiana High Stak gave me a little
20:04
Speaker 7: more high score.
20:05
Speaker 4: Yeah.
20:05
Speaker 7: I watched the quarterbacks and I got all the let
20:08
Speaker 7: me see who's going to be the best Heisman.
20:10
Speaker 5: That's what I was doing. See, that's why I watched
20:12
Speaker 5: that game.
20:13
Speaker 4: That's exactly why I watched that game.
20:15
Speaker 8: It's like one of these quarterbacks probably going to win
20:19
Speaker 8: the Heisman tonight, right, and they didn't. And it's not
20:22
Speaker 8: saying no, well no, I mean you know, and and
20:26
Speaker 8: and Benduzu was fine.
20:27
Speaker 5: I don't want to take anything away from his effort.
20:29
Speaker 8: I mean, he he he threw some terrific passes and
20:32
Speaker 8: especially some clutch passes at clutch times, which is what
20:35
Speaker 8: you want. So he definitely earned my respect because I
20:40
Speaker 8: don't think i'd sat down and watched a full Indiana
20:43
Speaker 8: game all year. I had, I've seen partials, I've seen highlights,
20:46
Speaker 8: but I hadn't seen the full. I saw the drive
20:48
Speaker 8: against Penn State. State was pretty impressive, right, Uh, that
20:52
Speaker 8: was one of his Heisman moments.
20:54
Speaker 7: Uh, played well, Oregan, So he's played. He's played well
20:56
Speaker 7: a few.
20:57
Speaker 9: Times, and you got to get the guy credit, right, Like,
20:59
Speaker 9: even if it hasn't been pretty, he delivers the touchdown pass,
21:03
Speaker 9: he delivers the completion down the field to get the
21:06
Speaker 9: first down. Yeah, they had to scramble and beat Penn State,
21:10
Speaker 9: but they rallied.
21:11
Speaker 4: And won the game. Like at the end of the day.
21:13
Speaker 9: Correct, he did enough to win the game for them
21:16
Speaker 9: even when he wasn't playing at his best.
21:18
Speaker 4: You gotta give tip tip of the cap for that.
21:20
Speaker 7: I'm just getting back to college football, just so much
21:23
Speaker 7: to offer, so exciting right now, so many storylines.
21:27
Speaker 8: You know, I'm looking at the top four seeds and
21:30
Speaker 8: I'm looking at the quarterbacks of the top four seeded teams,
21:35
Speaker 8: and of those, the one I trust the most right
21:39
Speaker 8: now is Mendoza At Indiana, Gunner Stockton has been mostly efficient,
21:46
Speaker 8: but he can be a little erratic, saying has been
21:50
Speaker 8: great all year, like eighty percent of it.
21:52
Speaker 5: I mean, who does that, right?
21:54
Speaker 4: That's when you have Jeremiah Smith on your team too.
21:56
Speaker 5: Card gets a lot.
22:00
Speaker 7: Oh my gosh, you know.
22:01
Speaker 8: And and I watched uh and again, I've watched Texas
22:04
Speaker 8: Tech quite a bit this year, but I watched the
22:07
Speaker 8: full game Saturday, and Baron Morton looked like arch manning
22:12
Speaker 8: his first four games this season. He's all over the field.
22:15
Speaker 8: He's so inconsistent. I'm thinking, you put any of these
22:19
Speaker 8: other three quarterbacks on that team, they're going to be
22:22
Speaker 8: by b Yu by sixty.
22:24
Speaker 9: That Tech was really fortunate that Bachmeyer decided he was
22:27
Speaker 9: just going to start throwing to their defenders instead of
22:29
Speaker 9: his receivers. Yeah, yeah, because when Tech got the ball,
22:33
Speaker 9: they were just kicking field goals, and they were lucky that.
22:35
Speaker 5: They were the first time they played Byu by the way, right.
22:39
Speaker 9: Tech was lucky that they were in field goal range
22:41
Speaker 9: so many times that that really helped them get going.
22:43
Speaker 4: And then you know, b y U's it just spiraled
22:46
Speaker 4: out of control.
22:47
Speaker 8: And I have not been impressed with with Morton all
22:50
Speaker 8: your Now He's had injuries, you know, and they said
22:53
Speaker 8: this the week of practice leading up to that game
22:57
Speaker 8: was maybe the healthiest is he's been all year.
23:00
Speaker 5: And so again he will have.
23:02
Speaker 8: Time whatever and I don't even remember, but he will
23:07
Speaker 8: have time to be healthy. The man, if they want
23:10
Speaker 8: to win a couple of games, he's going to have
23:12
Speaker 8: to be a lot more consistent.
23:13
Speaker 7: But good observation, chip On, I feel watch. I watched
23:18
Speaker 7: that whole game as well, and that's the first time
23:20
Speaker 7: I saw a tech for a whole game and with
23:22
Speaker 7: him and uh Stockton, I agree with you one. But
23:27
Speaker 7: they're also on a team where they don't have to
23:30
Speaker 7: be the fifth best player, true, because those that team
23:32
Speaker 7: is so those teams are so low elsewhere. True that
23:36
Speaker 7: they can run the ball. They got a great offensive
23:38
Speaker 7: line I'm talking about Ted now on great.
23:40
Speaker 8: Defense, and a coach that's smart enough to know that
23:42
Speaker 8: coach it makes to run the.
23:44
Speaker 7: Football, calls the plays to suit his quarterback. Since once
23:48
Speaker 7: again with Kirby Smart, so you're saying, like last year
23:51
Speaker 7: Kirby Smart basically did the same thing he got there
23:53
Speaker 7: with his quarterback was not his best player, but he
23:56
Speaker 7: had the best team to bet got hurt. Yes, who
23:59
Speaker 7: knows if Beck doesn't get hurt what they do Because
24:01
Speaker 7: Beck was playing great, Back was playing great then So
24:04
Speaker 7: I agree with you. But those two teams are so
24:06
Speaker 7: strong everywhere else they are. If Stockton's hot or Morton's hot,
24:10
Speaker 7: then you're not going to touch those teams.
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Speaker 5: No, true, I mean, and that's true.
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Speaker 8: But you know what, Uh, if Marcel Reid plays like
24:18
Speaker 8: he's capable of playing, he can take that team aways too.
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Speaker 9: AM's got to figure out how to get Casey and
24:24
Speaker 9: Mario more involved in the in the in the game.
24:28
Speaker 9: Ceas and I have talked about this, but AM has
24:31
Speaker 9: relied on the big play a ton this season, and
24:34
Speaker 9: they really just haven't been able to get those guys
24:37
Speaker 9: out into space and get them downfield.
24:40
Speaker 8: Shot played the last three to four games.
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Speaker 9: No, the book, the book might be out a little
24:47
Speaker 9: bit on how to bracket those guys pretty well, considering
24:51
Speaker 9: how Texas covered well oh Man, Texas and Texas had
24:54
Speaker 9: a great game play against Read last year. Whatever their
24:58
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25:02
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Speaker 5: The basketball game last night in Arlington.
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Speaker 8: UH. News came earlier to apparently on RG three's podcast,
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Speaker 8: Marcel Reid said he's coming back.
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Speaker 7: Alex worked on that story for us. We all thought
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Speaker 7: he was coming back.
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Speaker 4: Ye did anyone think he wasn't coming down?
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Speaker 9: I didn't, but he is draft eligible, so you got
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Speaker 9: to ask the question.
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Speaker 4: And he's had it look tough end of the year.
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Speaker 9: But let's be honest, until that Texas game, Marcel was
31:22
Speaker 9: squaring the Heisman caniss one, and I think the finals
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Speaker 9: is about to be announced here pretty soon on Monday
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Speaker 9: night countdown.
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Speaker 5: Oh they are yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 7: And here's dyll Is. You got to ask the questions. Yeah,
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Speaker 7: because I never say never, because if somebody offers him
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Speaker 7: ten million dollars, is he going to go back to
31:39
Speaker 7: Tennessee for example? I mean never. In college athletics, more
31:43
Speaker 7: than ever, I never assume anything because there's so much
31:46
Speaker 7: money out there and so many things involved, and you
31:49
Speaker 7: don't know what kind of nil deals these kids work whatever.
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Speaker 7: It's just like a job. They suddenly they might want
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Speaker 9: Definitely a good thing Adam's getting Marcell. Look this guy,
32:01
Speaker 9: he's probably gonna go into twenty twenty six as a
32:03
Speaker 9: Heisman front runner, and it'll be interesting to see who
32:06
Speaker 9: aintm brings in his offensive coordinator and maybe how things.
32:10
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's another subject that the coach wasn't really gonna
32:13
Speaker 8: touch today.
32:14
Speaker 7: Yeah, you're try I'm not saying.
32:17
Speaker 9: It, but you do read some tea leaves. Gonna get
32:21
Speaker 9: somebody in who runs a similar system. That's not a
32:24
Speaker 9: shock and quite frankly, Adams should be able to attract
32:27
Speaker 9: some pretty quality candidates. When when you've got a guy
32:30
Speaker 9: like Marcel Reid coming back at quarterback, what Adam's got
32:34
Speaker 9: at receiver.
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Speaker 4: Even though they're probably gonna lose case to the draft.
32:37
Speaker 9: They'll still have Mario, They'll still have Terry Bussey, They'll
32:40
Speaker 9: still have Ashton Bethel Roman, They've got some guys at
32:43
Speaker 9: running back with Ruben Owens and Jamari and Morrow. Gonna
32:46
Speaker 9: have to do some stuff on that offensive line, probably
32:48
Speaker 9: through the portal, probably getting some guys that have been.
32:51
Speaker 8: Back upon Is there gonna be a more competitive position
32:56
Speaker 8: in college football and the portal that offensive line.
33:00
Speaker 9: Well, Amam's got to learn from Texas mistake and not
33:04
Speaker 9: attack from not attacking.
33:07
Speaker 5: Yeah, not at the end of the playoffs.
33:09
Speaker 9: But kudos to Texas. That offensive line did a great
33:11
Speaker 9: job against Ay and in it.
33:12
Speaker 8: Got better when they made the position switch right and
33:15
Speaker 8: put the guy to center and move.
33:17
Speaker 5: They got much better the last three games.
33:19
Speaker 9: But the point is they they should have gone after
33:21
Speaker 9: guys all along. Now I'm willing to bet that Aam's
33:25
Speaker 9: gonna have some capable replacements that are backups right now.
33:28
Speaker 4: But you need to get some competition in.
33:30
Speaker 9: I mean, you look at what Aam's got on their
33:33
Speaker 9: offensive line right now. Most of those guys were holdovers
33:36
Speaker 9: from the Jimbo era, from a line that was really
33:39
Speaker 9: stinking bad. But you bring in a guy like armaj
33:42
Speaker 9: Reed Adams, you bring in Coley Fayo. Think of the
33:44
Speaker 9: impact that those two guys have had on this offensive
33:47
Speaker 9: line as transfers. Aam's got to find those next two
33:49
Speaker 9: guys in the portal this year, no doubt.
33:51
Speaker 7: And I've started read between the tee leaves. I would
33:54
Speaker 7: think he's going to go outside for an offensive coordinator
33:56
Speaker 7: and keep you know, his offensive coordinator that he already
33:59
Speaker 7: has co offensive corner, even though we know those are
34:01
Speaker 7: titles to keep people. And I'm with you the money
34:05
Speaker 7: A and M now has to offer where they're at. Uh,
34:09
Speaker 7: he should have his pick of his letter. And we
34:11
Speaker 7: see it every day how important these hires are. Like
34:15
Speaker 7: the new Florida coach makes a home run behind the
34:17
Speaker 7: Vanderbilt offensive coordinator coach, there's a reason why and you
34:22
Speaker 7: touched on a chip. It's more than just the head coach.
34:25
Speaker 7: You better have really good assistance at certain levels or
34:29
Speaker 7: you're not going to have success. We saw what happens,
34:32
Speaker 7: and I'm sitting here, I have no idea how much
34:37
Speaker 7: Elko added to the defensive room. I think it was
34:39
Speaker 7: a lot with Bateman, but he touched on it. Today
34:42
Speaker 7: you need more than one or two guys these days coaching,
34:45
Speaker 7: and I think without a doubt him going back to
34:47
Speaker 7: that side with Bateman made a big difference. And who's
34:50
Speaker 7: coming in his offensive coordinator, Well that's a big that's
34:54
Speaker 7: a big step because it's you got to see it works.
34:56
Speaker 8: The Tennessee story had been that's not finalized, right, That's.
34:59
Speaker 7: Okay, Tennessee farger defensive quarter stay by the way, and
35:03
Speaker 7: what do you see when somebody gets happens when they lose.
35:06
Speaker 7: You know, it's like, oh.
35:07
Speaker 5: They're gonna go after teams that have won.
35:09
Speaker 7: They're gonna after teams want defense, and you touched on Alex,
35:12
Speaker 7: They're gonna touch you want your system, You think you
35:15
Speaker 7: have a system, and that's when coaches get a little bit.
35:18
Speaker 7: You can tell a little bit. I don't want you
35:21
Speaker 7: word like Elko pointed out, this is spas the offense
35:24
Speaker 7: he's running to do. This is what him, this is
35:27
Speaker 7: what he wants to see it in an offense as
35:29
Speaker 7: a defensive coordinator, because this is what's harder for him
35:32
Speaker 7: to deal. You gotta be able to have a running
35:35
Speaker 7: quarterback these days. You got to be able to run
35:38
Speaker 7: the football when you need to.
35:40
Speaker 9: Great great example though, of a guy with that side
35:43
Speaker 9: of the ball that needs to make a good higher
35:46
Speaker 9: right like you saw what happened after the twenty twelve
35:49
Speaker 9: season and him loses Cliff Kingsbury and a that's a
35:52
Speaker 9: perfect world where he's going home to his alma mater.
35:55
Speaker 9: Point they had Johnny Manziel coming back, they bring in
35:58
Speaker 9: Jake Spabottal. I think there were more issues beyond what
36:03
Speaker 9: Johnny did, OK, but Spabital turned out to.
36:07
Speaker 7: I would argue that go ahead. The defense cratering from
36:12
Speaker 7: two thousand throughout the twenty thirteen I get it. Jake
36:16
Speaker 7: spavatol now is a Baylor, He's been Texas state head coach.
36:20
Speaker 7: He's been, to me, the right guy at the wrong
36:23
Speaker 7: time because he followed Kingsbury's sudden he doesn't have a defense.
36:27
Speaker 7: He still has a lot of offense. Ain't remember beating
36:31
Speaker 7: Duke in the That was because they had no defense. Stavtol.
36:36
Speaker 7: They could hang whatever you look. They were hanging points
36:39
Speaker 7: after Johnny left with Heell, but they couldn't stop anybody.
36:43
Speaker 7: Getting back to what I say, you gotta have both
36:45
Speaker 7: and if you have one or the other, you're in trouble.
36:49
Speaker 8: Which we talked about all season long, is how well
36:51
Speaker 8: this team's played complimentary, very football. We've said that, and
36:56
Speaker 8: as you mentioned, ce one are the issues the last
36:59
Speaker 8: couple of games, games where they haven't played so well,
37:01
Speaker 8: we haven't seen as much of that.
37:03
Speaker 5: One side's been good the other side has.
37:05
Speaker 7: It's amazing how that works because you get back to
37:09
Speaker 7: what Chip and I like to talk about a line
37:11
Speaker 7: of scrimmage link A and M lost both lines of
37:13
Speaker 7: scrimmage against Texas. Texas run the ball, A and M didn't.
37:16
Speaker 7: It's pretty simple. But yet that everything else falls in play.
37:19
Speaker 8: Over that, and I think it's fair to say that
37:23
Speaker 8: that Miami is an SEC line of scrimmage team.
37:28
Speaker 5: Talk about the question right.
37:30
Speaker 9: Well, and okay, what is A and M capable of
37:34
Speaker 9: if say they take a performance that they had against
37:37
Speaker 9: say Auburn. Where they were lights out for most of
37:40
Speaker 9: the game, and the offense takes what they did say
37:43
Speaker 9: against LSU and puts that together, and the kicking game
37:48
Speaker 9: doesn't struggle and gets itself figured out what is a
37:52
Speaker 9: andem capable of if they can actually put it all
37:55
Speaker 9: together in a game.
37:57
Speaker 8: But now we're talking about putting it all together four
38:00
Speaker 8: times and against.
38:01
Speaker 7: A good team, and you're gonna have to do that
38:03
Speaker 7: against a good team. You're gonna probably play three quarters
38:05
Speaker 7: really good against these good teams, just as you can't.
38:08
Speaker 4: You're right.
38:08
Speaker 5: I watched be Hard to Have a halflif.
38:10
Speaker 7: I watched the Miami Notre Dame game, luckily because A
38:13
Speaker 7: and M didn't play or whatever. Now, and I go, man,
38:15
Speaker 7: both these teams have one or screamage players. Both these
38:19
Speaker 7: teams have defensive.
38:20
Speaker 5: They beat up on each other that game.
38:22
Speaker 7: And I go like, and I'm thinking, man, eight, A
38:24
Speaker 7: and M's playing that. That's we saw it. At that point.
38:27
Speaker 7: We thought that was one. It was two of the
38:28
Speaker 7: top thirteen to fourteen teams, no doubt, and they were.
38:31
Speaker 9: That was a Sunday night game. That's that's why I
38:33
Speaker 9: watched it. It was on Labor Day weekend. The Sunday
38:35
Speaker 9: night game, okay, and then Belichick made his debut the
38:38
Speaker 9: next day against TCU.
38:39
Speaker 8: And your right, you're right, cease, you you did watch
38:44
Speaker 8: that game, going, well, these these two teams probably gotta
38:48
Speaker 8: be there.
38:48
Speaker 9: The people thought Ruby Bain was gonna win the Heisman
38:51
Speaker 9: as the defensive guy after that game. I mean, the
38:53
Speaker 9: guy was incredible and he still is incredible, and he's
38:55
Speaker 9: gonna be a first round pick, maybe in the top ten.
38:58
Speaker 5: Yeah, he was.
38:59
Speaker 7: You touched on it. And I can't get emphasize enough
39:02
Speaker 7: that this committee really does a lot of bad things.
39:05
Speaker 7: But the differences been playing two lane in Miami when
39:08
Speaker 7: you look at seeing another SEC team and they probably
39:12
Speaker 7: shouldn't be playing another SEC team, And that goes back
39:15
Speaker 7: to the selection committee.
39:16
Speaker 9: There's gonna be some serious ramifications, I think with the
39:19
Speaker 9: way that everything shook out from this year's playoff bracket
39:23
Speaker 9: selection seating, YadA.
39:25
Speaker 5: YadA, we're going to sixteen.
39:27
Speaker 9: It's definitely expanding, no doubt, especially because apparently Notre Dame
39:31
Speaker 9: is going to get in if they're in the top
39:32
Speaker 9: twelve according to Ross Dellinger.
39:34
Speaker 5: So that was the agreement starting next year.
39:37
Speaker 9: Agreement starting last year and Sankie's been pushing for sixteen.
39:41
Speaker 9: The Big ten's kind of out here in Lakefield trying
39:44
Speaker 9: to do whatever they're trying to do.
39:46
Speaker 4: I think sixteen is definitely the next step.
39:50
Speaker 9: And it's kind of telling that the playoff in ESPN
39:53
Speaker 9: kind of reached that agreement to extend the deadline to
39:55
Speaker 9: figure all those details out.
39:57
Speaker 7: So you were right, Chip last year. This year they
40:02
Speaker 7: corrected the seedings, so next year they'll correct. They'll take
40:06
Speaker 7: probably some of the power out of the College Football
40:09
Speaker 7: Playoff Committee to screw up the way they did, because
40:12
Speaker 7: that's just such a bad error. If you take that away,
40:16
Speaker 7: if they matter all along, if Miami was ahead of
40:22
Speaker 7: Notre Dame, I don't think they could squawk too much.
40:24
Speaker 7: All they'll say Alabama shouldn't have gone in, But Alabama
40:27
Speaker 7: was in the title game, so they'll take to me,
40:30
Speaker 7: they'll take less power away.
40:31
Speaker 5: That do you do? You guys either whatever? See the
40:36
Speaker 5: conference championships going away.
40:38
Speaker 9: I mean, if it gets to twenty four to twenty eight,
40:41
Speaker 9: just from simply math the longevity calendar.
40:44
Speaker 4: You're gonna you're gonna have to I mean, are they gonna.
40:47
Speaker 8: I find it hard to believe you would take those
40:49
Speaker 8: extra games would replace the revenue that these conference games
40:53
Speaker 8: are generating.
40:54
Speaker 9: Yes, but you know, it's interesting the way that the
40:57
Speaker 9: ticket revenue goes down in the CFP. It's kind of
41:00
Speaker 9: interesting because the schools don't.
41:02
Speaker 4: Get a ton of that. The playoff gets all that money.
41:06
Speaker 9: And so what will be interesting is how are they
41:10
Speaker 9: going to adjust the calendar, because they're going to have
41:12
Speaker 9: to adjust the calendar somehow to fit this whole thing
41:15
Speaker 9: in the fact that this goes to January twentieth is
41:17
Speaker 9: kind of ridiculous. Like, agree, there are a lot of
41:20
Speaker 9: schools that have already started the next semester of school.
41:24
Speaker 9: And what I don't see is them cutting down regular
41:28
Speaker 9: season games from twelve to eleven because who wants to
41:31
Speaker 9: give up a home game's worth of revenue when you
41:33
Speaker 9: actually do get all the ticket sales and ticket prices
41:36
Speaker 9: only keep going up and up and up.
41:38
Speaker 4: And think about this.
41:40
Speaker 9: Town, like how much of a detriment would it be
41:42
Speaker 9: to College Station and Brian to not have another A
41:46
Speaker 9: and M home football.
41:47
Speaker 8: If you do away with the conference games and you
41:51
Speaker 8: go to sixteen, you could still have New Year's Weekend
41:57
Speaker 8: for the National championship. You don't have to or at
42:01
Speaker 8: worst the week after New Year's right with the semifinals
42:05
Speaker 8: and bowl games on New Year's.
42:07
Speaker 9: The problem becomes if you get rid of the conference
42:10
Speaker 9: championship games, think about think about having to figure out
42:15
Speaker 9: a tiebreaker between Alabama Georgia almost now.
42:18
Speaker 8: Apparently none of the conferences can figure out a tie
42:21
Speaker 8: breaking system.
42:22
Speaker 4: No.
42:23
Speaker 8: I can't understand why it's that difficult, but apparently it's real.
42:27
Speaker 8: And if you read the SEC tiebreaker we talked about
42:30
Speaker 8: this with A and M. They had to beat Texas, right,
42:32
Speaker 8: even though they were gonna be eleven to one.
42:35
Speaker 5: You had to beat Texas. And it's like, okay, but
42:38
Speaker 5: they've been you know.
42:40
Speaker 8: Fourth, fifth all year, whatever, third all year, and now
42:43
Speaker 8: you're saying they have to win, you know, one more
42:45
Speaker 8: game and this team's sitting over there with with one
42:48
Speaker 8: loss or two losses.
42:49
Speaker 5: But no, because of the tiebreaker system.
42:53
Speaker 8: SEC tiebreaker system is just as bad if you read
42:56
Speaker 8: it as the ACC tie breaker.
42:58
Speaker 9: But I guess if you think about it too, if
42:59
Speaker 9: you're basically going away with conference title games, like okay,
43:04
Speaker 9: who cares about the conference championship? Everybody's just solely focused
43:08
Speaker 9: on the playoff. You want to just get to the
43:10
Speaker 9: playoff and get to seeding.
43:11
Speaker 5: But aren't we there anyway?
43:13
Speaker 8: Well, here's my deal is I mean, the bold games,
43:15
Speaker 8: how long are they gonna last?
43:16
Speaker 7: Okay, you're saying, I get it, because the ticket revenue
43:20
Speaker 7: SEC title game. If you want to keep the conference championships,
43:25
Speaker 7: you gotta have give and take. Here's what I would do.
43:27
Speaker 7: You keep the four ones that matter, the major ones.
43:31
Speaker 7: You make it so a if you get to the
43:34
Speaker 7: conference title game, you're automatically in the College Football Playoff.
43:37
Speaker 7: That would be half the field, eight of sixteen. I
43:39
Speaker 7: will also make Notre Dame join the ACC.
43:42
Speaker 9: So that way, well, they might be going to the
43:44
Speaker 9: Big Ten after all what they said, the ACC slided
43:46
Speaker 9: them about with all their negative propaganda.
43:48
Speaker 7: What I'm saying is, so then you've got eight. That
43:51
Speaker 7: leaves eight more spots open. So how you determine those?
43:55
Speaker 7: You probably only give one to the group of five.
43:57
Speaker 7: That way you have seven more people you can get.
44:00
Speaker 7: And I get it. Everybody says, all says here, all
44:02
Speaker 7: the talking is, well, then seventeen and eighteen will complain. Okay,
44:06
Speaker 7: I agree with that, but.
44:08
Speaker 8: Hey, you got sixties eight basketball and now sixty nine
44:11
Speaker 8: and seventy and seventy one or complaint.
44:13
Speaker 7: But my point being is seventeen and eighteen won't make
44:18
Speaker 7: as much squawk as we used to do when there's
44:20
Speaker 7: only four. I can remember time the top two went
44:23
Speaker 7: in three and four complaint. So you can have less complainers.
44:27
Speaker 7: It won't be watered down. You can do a way
44:29
Speaker 7: with the buy so you end at the same time
44:31
Speaker 7: or go early because you don't have won less round.
44:34
Speaker 7: You have sixteen people. The conference championships can stay. You decide.
44:39
Speaker 7: If your top two get there, they go.
44:41
Speaker 5: I don't like playing that many games.
44:43
Speaker 8: I mean, I love I love watching the games, but
44:46
Speaker 8: at some point doesn't somebody have to step in and say, look,
44:50
Speaker 8: playing sixteen seventeen games is not real healthy for these games.
44:54
Speaker 7: But I'm not ending anymore. If A and M wins four,
44:56
Speaker 7: they're gonna be the same deal as if you went before.
44:59
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Speaker 8: Hey, thanks for joining us on the Writers round Table.
48:27
Speaker 8: Brought you my first financial bank at in Tech with
48:30
Speaker 8: Robert Sussin and Alex Miller. Besides A and M and Miami,
48:34
Speaker 8: the only other in my mind compelling game is Alabama
48:38
Speaker 8: and Oklahoma. I don't know what to expect on that game.
48:42
Speaker 8: I know Oklahoma went to Tuscaloos and won that game.
48:45
Speaker 8: I'm still not sure exactly how I watched that game.
48:48
Speaker 8: I still don't know how.
48:49
Speaker 7: Fourteen thirteen that will be the final.
48:51
Speaker 5: Probably, yeah, I mean you would think.
48:54
Speaker 7: You know, I thought the committee would try to avoid rematches,
48:58
Speaker 7: and they could have moved Alabama around, but then they
49:01
Speaker 7: wouldn't have been able to hose Notre Dame. You know
49:03
Speaker 7: what I'm saying is there's a lot of things.
49:04
Speaker 8: When you were it made no sense to keep Alabama
49:07
Speaker 8: at nine after they lost a football game and badly lost.
49:11
Speaker 4: Especially after they dropped b YU down a couple of years.
49:14
Speaker 8: And I was really surprised that Georgia wasn't the two seed,
49:18
Speaker 8: that that it wasn't one, and then George as the
49:21
Speaker 8: SEC champ.
49:22
Speaker 7: Okay, I said to myself as I watched that, I'm
49:25
Speaker 7: with you. I thought that was a coin flip. Though
49:28
Speaker 7: my ballot doesn't matter and ap but I kept I
49:31
Speaker 7: put out, oh, Haisty had only done one Okay, I
49:34
Speaker 7: thought they they had said that they're the two best teams.
49:36
Speaker 7: That was my thought, and once again I had no problem.
49:39
Speaker 7: Was as stupid as the committee, so whatever. But getting
49:41
Speaker 7: back to what you started is I am looking forward
49:43
Speaker 7: to that game because I have no idea who might
49:46
Speaker 7: win that game.
49:47
Speaker 5: I tell you as as bad.
49:50
Speaker 8: And the perception is at Oklahoma for five six, seven
49:53
Speaker 8: years hadn't been really good.
49:55
Speaker 5: But their home record.
49:57
Speaker 8: Would you look at their home record, it's as good
50:01
Speaker 8: as anybody in the country. I mean, they have not
50:04
Speaker 8: lost very many games in Norman.
50:07
Speaker 7: We've all been there. It's not been really intimidating place.
50:10
Speaker 5: No, but they just they just have a loss there.
50:13
Speaker 4: I've never been.
50:14
Speaker 9: Oh you gotta remember, I was like in eighth grade
50:18
Speaker 9: the last time I ain't and played them in the
50:20
Speaker 9: Big twelve.
50:21
Speaker 7: Thanks a lot, Alex, appreciate that.
50:23
Speaker 5: Thanks Alex.
50:25
Speaker 8: Alabama, Alabama comes in. They're just not playing very well.
50:30
Speaker 7: No, can you you know? Can you flip? I love
50:34
Speaker 7: coaches when they talk and all this coach talk how
50:37
Speaker 7: can you flip that? You know, when your team's not
50:39
Speaker 7: playing well and you're not here practicing today on whatever
50:42
Speaker 7: day is December eighth, how do you how do you
50:46
Speaker 7: fix that when you you haven't played well?
50:48
Speaker 18: Well?
50:48
Speaker 8: I don't know how you fix the quarterback because he
50:52
Speaker 8: just hasn't been quite as good. Right, He wasn't good
50:56
Speaker 8: against Auburn, but he made three throws that won the game,
50:59
Speaker 8: and he made three incredible throws. And earlier the year
51:03
Speaker 8: he was making ten to fifteen those incredible throws and
51:06
Speaker 8: now he's not.
51:07
Speaker 9: Yeah, he just hadn't been the same since that dumb injury,
51:09
Speaker 9: let's be honest.
51:10
Speaker 5: And he hasn't had a lot of protection either.
51:13
Speaker 9: Yeah, and you know, I give look, I give the
51:15
Speaker 9: guy props for getting back as quick as he did,
51:18
Speaker 9: especially with the big game against Texas.
51:21
Speaker 8: You're talking about material at Oklahoma. Yeah, I was talking
51:23
Speaker 8: about Simpson.
51:25
Speaker 4: Oh, you're talking about my bad.
51:31
Speaker 8: I still don't know how he was a Heisman favorite
51:33
Speaker 8: that third week of the season. I never saw it.
51:36
Speaker 8: I never believed it. I still don't believe it. He's
51:40
Speaker 8: been good enough for them to win close games, mostly
51:45
Speaker 8: because of defense and special teams. The defense and special
51:49
Speaker 8: teams at Oklahoma if it's just been outstanding.
51:53
Speaker 7: I'm with you because and I saw this, you know,
51:57
Speaker 7: you do advances, And I said, this material guy didn't
51:59
Speaker 7: really see him much because he was on the West Coast.
52:01
Speaker 7: Then I saw a couple of games and I go, wow,
52:03
Speaker 7: how much did Oklahoma play this guy? Because he's gonna
52:06
Speaker 7: get he's gonna get venerables.
52:08
Speaker 5: Fired, not exactly exactly, And here I am.
52:11
Speaker 7: He's one of the top, you know, the ten teams quarterbacks.
52:14
Speaker 7: He goes wins a couple of games. Uh, and then
52:18
Speaker 7: you watch the games and he seems to have a
52:21
Speaker 7: sense of confidence and this team does around him, even
52:24
Speaker 7: though they don't show that during the they look they're
52:28
Speaker 7: tough to watch because.
52:29
Speaker 8: They are hard to watch and they can't run the
52:31
Speaker 8: ball at all. They cannot run the ball at all.
52:34
Speaker 9: Looks like they're unveiling the Heisman finalists right now on ESPN.
52:37
Speaker 9: It looks like it was Jeremiah Love, Fernana Mendoza, and
52:40
Speaker 9: now they got Povey up there.
52:42
Speaker 4: Okay, I guess we'll see.
52:43
Speaker 9: They haven't gotten to the RS yet, so so that's three.
52:47
Speaker 9: It looked like they were doing it alphabetically, so they
52:50
Speaker 9: more than three saying we really.
52:54
Speaker 7: Wow, I'm not surprised impressed about that.
52:57
Speaker 9: Hey, they did open the voting before the big championship
53:00
Speaker 9: game began.
53:01
Speaker 5: So I kept that I got.
53:03
Speaker 8: I don't know how many texts I got in the
53:05
Speaker 8: last twenty hours, but I mean, I appreciate the reminders.
53:09
Speaker 5: I probably need them. But interesting, that is interesting to me.
53:14
Speaker 7: So that's it. That's it.
53:16
Speaker 4: That's the four.
53:16
Speaker 8: Jeremiah Love, Fernando Mendoza, Diego Pavia and Julian said are
53:23
Speaker 8: the four Heisman finalists?
53:26
Speaker 5: So which will be announced next Saturday night?
53:28
Speaker 8: Right?
53:28
Speaker 7: Yeah, so you got two of the guys from the
53:30
Speaker 7: play from the weekend, number one versus number two.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, And.
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Speaker 7: I guess we could talk about three three quarterback. I
53:39
Speaker 7: guess we could talk about people are not on there?
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Speaker 7: I thought, and you know, I talked for a long time. Uh,
53:45
Speaker 7: Haynes King was up there.
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Speaker 8: He was my guy at he was he lost the
53:50
Speaker 8: game against Pitt, was a Pitt.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, you say, most outstanding player to me, he definitely
53:55
Speaker 7: was up there. Considered what he did, my thoughts and
53:57
Speaker 7: I can see why he's not on there, but yes,
53:59
Speaker 7: definitely he came close. Yes, uh, you know I'm always
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Speaker 7: interested about a non quarterback. Now love made it, so
54:07
Speaker 7: kudos to him, I wondered, for example, Rodriguez the linebacker
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Speaker 7: at Texas Tech.
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Speaker 8: So I guess I can talk about this next week, right,
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Speaker 8: we all can talk about about who our votes are?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, who are votes? We can't talk right now.
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Speaker 5: I'll just say it.
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Speaker 8: I've said all year, from day one, I love Jacob Rodriguez.
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Speaker 7: How could you not?
54:28
Speaker 8: I just sought this guy, and even Saturday when his
54:32
Speaker 8: his UH linebacker mate had the two picks and they
54:35
Speaker 8: were outstanding, he ended up with thirteen taxi by the way, Yes, yeah,
54:40
Speaker 8: here's what he's phenomenal.
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Speaker 4: And he still leads the country in turnovers, forced.
54:44
Speaker 8: At forrest, interceptions, fumble recoveries. I mean, from day one,
54:48
Speaker 8: this guy has been a difference maker.
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Speaker 9: And not to mention his whole story is just phenomenal.
54:53
Speaker 9: It's an incredible story.
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Speaker 7: It is is we could talk about it. And what
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Speaker 7: I hate is like I said, I watched that Big
55:01
Speaker 7: ten games. Ye see who the best team is? Who
55:03
Speaker 7: might who I might vote for in the Heisman? And
55:05
Speaker 7: then as soon as that game was over, I don't
55:08
Speaker 7: know about you. Guys, you go to uh, you go
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Speaker 7: to social media immediately at an email and goes to
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Speaker 7: the top list.
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Speaker 5: Go, wait a minute, the game, yeah is over.
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Speaker 19: I know.
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Speaker 5: I was the same way season like, and I.
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Speaker 7: Go, can't people just enjoy games? And exactly everybody has
55:25
Speaker 7: to be on the edge. Oh, I know what's happening,
55:27
Speaker 7: you know. And and I thought, much like who might
55:30
Speaker 7: win the national championship, I thought the Heisman Trophy was
55:33
Speaker 7: wide open.
55:33
Speaker 5: Here the last couple all all.
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Speaker 4: Year fun, fun, time to be a first time voters.
55:40
Speaker 5: Hey, it's it's challenging. It is challenging.
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Speaker 8: It is a wonderful life. You really have had a
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