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Tuesday Edition of the Drive - Hour One · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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Speaker 1: WRKS Pickens Jackson. Hey, what do you say we sing
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Speaker 1: a driving song? There's not going to be any singing
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Speaker 1: around here.
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Speaker 2: Just real sports. On the Afternoon Drive with Jake Wimberly.
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Speaker 3: Oh, this is going to be sweet.
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Speaker 1: And it's all right here, right now on ESPN 105.9
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Speaker 1: day of September 2026. Champ in the chair, SportsMaven on
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Speaker 1: your radio. It is Tuesday as we're back on the road. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: it's football season, so it seems like we live here,
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Speaker 1: but that's okay. We are here at least until 5
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Speaker 1: o'clock today. And, of course, we'll be a normal schedule
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Speaker 1: Jake Thompson will join us at 3.30, talking a little
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Speaker 1: Ole Miss football. Heath Hinton on Southern Miss, their head
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Speaker 1: football coach. Their fans are taking it as controversial. I
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Speaker 1: don't take it as controversial. We'll get into that. as
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Speaker 1: we'll talk a little Southern Miss football. Babe, how many
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Speaker 1: minutes today did we walk?
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Speaker 4: Well, man, I was feeling so much better than yesterday today.
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Speaker 4: I had some stomach troubles yesterday. I got out there.
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Speaker 1: I was going. I was moving.
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Speaker 4: And then that's when you and me started exchanging messages about,
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Speaker 4: you know, what we were talking about, local quote-unquote media
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Speaker 4: and how– Oh, yeah. quote-unquote media is really just super
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Speaker 4: fans these days and i got all worked up and
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Speaker 4: i was like i'm gonna go in here i'm gonna
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Speaker 4: go back to work i could not even continue out
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Speaker 4: there i was so disgusted by the conversations we were having.
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Speaker 1: Well i didn't mean to throw your work uh your your.
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Speaker 4: Walk you did at work off you messed it all
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Speaker 4: up we'll.
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Speaker 1: Have to make it up to you but hey it's
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Speaker 1: probably good you have to catch up on some things
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Speaker 1: and let your blood pressure come down.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, actually, I had some real work to do, which
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Speaker 4: is probably more important, I guess.
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Speaker 1: So it worked. Yeah, at least today, on a Tuesday. Hey,
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Speaker 1: CFB teams' chances of making the college football playoff, according
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Speaker 1: to ESPN, their predictor poll, Texas at 90%. I don't
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Speaker 1: know that Texas is a 90% shoo-in to the college
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Speaker 1: football playoff. This is a team, and let's look at
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Speaker 1: Texas' schedule. the rest of the way. Actually, I can
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Speaker 1: go over here and do it like this. Because Texas
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Speaker 1: has not looked great. I mean, yes, the Ohio State
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Speaker 1: game sticks out because of the comeback and what they
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Speaker 1: were able to do in that moment in the comeback.
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Speaker 1: But Texas looked very lethargic against Tennessee. And yeah, they won.
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Speaker 1: That's the thing. You've got to look at both sides
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Speaker 1: of the coin. Played very average to poor in some spots,
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Speaker 1: and they still won. So Texas with a 90% chance.
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Speaker 1: They have a bye week this week. They'll play Oklahoma.
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Speaker 1: in the Red River shootout on the 10th. And normally
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Speaker 1: you can kind of do the whole throw the records
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Speaker 1: out thing. If Oklahoma can't find offense, I don't know
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Speaker 1: that you're throwing anything out there. They should beat Oklahoma.
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Speaker 1: Florida's a team that will come to Austin. And, you know,
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Speaker 1: the way Florida plays, Florida beat them last year. That's
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Speaker 1: a game that's a 50-50 game. They'll host Ole Miss.
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Speaker 1: I don't think Ole Miss will have a chance. I
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Speaker 1: think Mississippi State's going to have a chance out there,
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Speaker 1: if they can stay healthy. They play at Missouri, at LSU, Arkansas,
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Speaker 1: and at Texas A & M. And to think that
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Speaker 1: this team could go unscathed, they're going to get dinged
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Speaker 1: at some point. They may get dinged twice. Notre Dame
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Speaker 1: an 85% chance to make the college football playoff, according
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Speaker 1: to ESPN's playoff predictor poll. And the Irish, I mean,
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Speaker 1: unless something happens, they will 1,000% be in the playoff. Again,
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Speaker 1: their schedule is very, very manageable. If we go look
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Speaker 1: at Notre Dame coming up this week, the Irish play
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Speaker 1: at North Carolina. They've had no problem. I mean, they
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Speaker 1: have beaten everybody easily. Wisconsin, Rice, Michigan State at Purdue,
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Speaker 1: last past week 49-10. At North Carolina, Stanford, at BYU,
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Speaker 1: that can give them some problems. Navy could give them,
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Speaker 1: you know, half a game. But the Miami game on
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Speaker 1: November 7th, that's the big one. Boston College, SMU could
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Speaker 1: give them some problems, and then at Syracuse. So Notre
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Speaker 1: Dame is going to be in the playoff. I think
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Speaker 1: we can lock them in on the 29th of September.
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Speaker 1: to be in the playoff. Georgia's going to be in
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Speaker 1: the playoff, 84% chance to be in the playoff. Georgia
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Speaker 1: has had no problems so far with their schedule, and
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Speaker 1: Georgia hasn't played the type of schedule that some of
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Speaker 1: these teams have had, but Georgia has dominated the field.
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Speaker 1: They're averaging 55 a game, and you look back at
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Speaker 1: last year, they were averaging 32 a game. They're averaging
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Speaker 1: 22 points a game more than they averaged last year.
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Speaker 1: And two years prior, they were averaging 32 points per game. 2023,
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Speaker 1: they averaged 40 points per game. In 2022, they averaged 41. So,
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Speaker 1: you know, when you get to the Kirby Smart heyday,
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Speaker 1: when Georgia was winning a couple national championships in there,
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Speaker 1: they were averaging 40 points. They were averaging 55. They're
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Speaker 1: only giving up 13. And when you look back at
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Speaker 1: some of these defenses where they won national championships, they
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Speaker 1: were averaging in the 13s and 14s, 10s. So this
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Speaker 1: team is on track at least through one month to
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Speaker 1: be that type of team. They'll play Vanderbilt on Saturday.
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Speaker 1: They'll turn around and go to Alabama on the 10th.
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Speaker 1: They'll host Auburn. They'll play Florida on the cocktail party.
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Speaker 1: They'll go to Ole Miss. They'll play Missouri at South Carolina,
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Speaker 1: Georgia Tech. And, you know, there may be a loss
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Speaker 1: in there for Georgia, maybe at Alabama, maybe at Ole Miss,
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Speaker 1: maybe Florida. I don't think Missouri or South Carolina or
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Speaker 1: Georgia Tech. I think there's some sleepwalking probably there. Alabama,
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Speaker 1: 73% chance to make the college football playoff. A month
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Speaker 1: into the season. Alabama looks like they will return to
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Speaker 1: the playoff. You know, we'll see what happens Saturday. Saturday, obviously,
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Speaker 1: a big game for Mississippi State and Alabama, and we'll
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Speaker 1: continue to cover that. You know, Kalen DeBoer's been there
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Speaker 1: two years, and this is by far the best offense
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Speaker 1: that they've had, 48 a game. They're giving up 20, though.
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Speaker 1: Their defense is a little questionable at times. They'll play
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Speaker 1: at Mississippi State, host Georgia. They'll go to Tennessee. So
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Speaker 1: they've got three really tough weeks. And then, you know,
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Speaker 1: Texas A & M is a team that has kind
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Speaker 1: of fallen off the cliff a little bit. But when
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Speaker 1: you get Texas A & M on the back end
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Speaker 1: of those four, that could get a little dicey on
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Speaker 1: the 24th of October. They'll go to LSU. They'll play
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Speaker 1: at Vanderbilt, Chattanooga, and then Auburn. So there are some
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Speaker 1: landmines for Alabama on this schedule. And it starts this
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Speaker 1: weekend in Starkville. Indiana, a 69% chance to make the
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Speaker 1: college football playoff. They have not played anybody in this
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Speaker 1: past weekend. They were very lackluster. Now, they're averaging 44
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Speaker 1: a game and giving up just 10 a game. They
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Speaker 1: squeaked by Northwestern 29-23. They'll play at Rutgers and at Nebraska,
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Speaker 1: which you would think, Rutgers game, you can cash that check. Nebraska,
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Speaker 1: you should be able to cash that one. Ohio State
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Speaker 1: at home, that's going to be. They play Ohio State
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Speaker 1: and then at Michigan back-to-back before going to play Minnesota
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Speaker 1: and then USC at Washington. So there will be some
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Speaker 1: tests for Indiana and Kirk Cignetti down the stretch. that
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Speaker 1: could put them in a little bit of a pickle.
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Speaker 1: Ohio State, 68% chance they should be in the playoff.
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Speaker 1: You look at some others. Utah at 49%. Florida at 49%.
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Speaker 1: Texas Tech, 48%. Oregon, 41%. They kind of got a
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Speaker 1: bump after beating USC and beating them mightily. LSU was
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Speaker 1: still a 40% chance. Boise, also BYU at 30% chance.
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Speaker 1: James Madison, 28% chance. But if Boise makes it, then
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Speaker 1: they're not. um surely to god the cfp is not
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Speaker 1: going to give two group of five teams another opportunity
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Speaker 1: like they did last year nebraska and mississippi state at
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Speaker 1: 25 pittsburgh 23 along with iowa and tennessee at 22
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Speaker 1: so just a little bit on the playoff predictor poll
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Speaker 1: this week again this is a fluid deal it moves
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Speaker 1: uh you know weekly with with what happens so uh
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Speaker 1: something there the uh senate is uh Fist pumping in D.C.
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Speaker 1: They're excited. They got it passed through the Protect College
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Speaker 1: Sports Act through the Senate. Now, that's just the first hurdle.
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Speaker 1: They got to pass the House, and that's probably not
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Speaker 1: going to happen. There's all kinds of people coming out
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Speaker 1: against this thing, from other political leaders to the NAACP
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Speaker 1: to this other group to this players' union. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's got a lot of people against it, and rightfully so.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot that is wrong with this bill. Stuart
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Speaker 1: Mandel says the Senate is currently– Yesterday, voting on last-minute
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Speaker 1: Protect the College Sports Act, Senator Rand Paul proposed giving
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Speaker 1: the NCAA full antitrust immunity that would allow it to
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Speaker 1: go back to pure amateurism with unpaid athletes. He says,
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Speaker 1: as of this tweet, it's at one yay in 87 days.
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Speaker 1: That's never going to happen. So, see, I mean, you
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Speaker 1: get dumb stuff like this. is where you get a
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Speaker 1: A little technical difficulty there. Sorry about that. We're going
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Speaker 1: to try to make this work here. We were talking
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Speaker 1: a little bit about Ole Miss, and we'll talk to
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Speaker 1: Jake Thompson coming up here in the next segment about
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Speaker 1: everything going on with Ole Miss with the bye week. And,
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Speaker 1: you know, you get one-handed to you like they did.
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Speaker 1: I mean, Florida handed them, you know, on the backside
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Speaker 1: just a little bit there, a little pop or two,
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Speaker 1: and you get taken to the woodshed, 52-28. You got
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Speaker 1: a week to kind of reset. And, you know, we
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Speaker 1: talked about Ole Miss. Last week was the week that
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Speaker 1: I had been saying I wanted to see how Ole
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Speaker 1: Miss played. It wasn't the LSU game. I felt like
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Speaker 1: they were going to play good against LSU. And, look,
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Speaker 1: I don't pretend to think that necessarily Ole Miss just
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Speaker 1: had their head in the clouds or they didn't take
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Speaker 1: Florida serious. I just think, you know, when you look
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Speaker 1: at Florida, that's a tough place to go play, and
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Speaker 1: that's a good football team. Now, how good is Florida?
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Speaker 1: We'll see down the stretch, but Ole Miss will get
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Speaker 1: back into action next week at Vanderbilt and then host Missouri.
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Speaker 1: Alston Simmons, you know, went to Mississippi State this past week.
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Speaker 1: He'll make his second tour back into the state of
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Speaker 1: Mississippi and take on Ole Miss. And then they go
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Speaker 1: to Texas. And, look, again, the way Texas is played,
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Speaker 1: that is a game that Ole Miss can be in
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Speaker 1: out in Austin to host Auburn. So, you know, if
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Speaker 1: Ole Miss, and they do, wants playoff aspirations, they need
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Speaker 1: to reel off at least the next two. You know,
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Speaker 1: if they lost to Texas and then beat Auburn, Oklahoma
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Speaker 1: on the road, and Wofford, and we'll table Mississippi State,
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Speaker 1: you know, they need to have at least just, you know,
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Speaker 1: two losses there. going into that Egg Bowl. And that's
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Speaker 1: going to be very tough to do, which means you've
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Speaker 1: got a little room for error, one either at Texas
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Speaker 1: or one against Georgia at home. So we'll see with
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Speaker 1: the Ole Miss Rebels. We will get into this college
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Speaker 1: football playoff 24-team expansion talk. We'll continue this week in
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Speaker 1: meetings in Chicago. Momentum is building for a 24-team field
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Speaker 1: with the ACC, Big 12, and Notre Dame supporting it
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Speaker 1: and the SEC at least open to it. So we
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Speaker 1: will– Get on to that here in a little bit. Also,
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Speaker 1: this is kind of a weird story coming out of Auburn.
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Speaker 1: Sources have provided more details on Auburn on On3 on
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Speaker 1: events leading to the arrest of former Auburn football staffer
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Speaker 1: David Jenrith, including how sensitive recruiting evaluations were distributed to
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Speaker 1: other schools. So we'll get into this. Basically, a staffer
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Speaker 1: that was there. Got let go. He took a bunch
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Speaker 1: of sensitive information and passed it on to 11 rivals
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Speaker 1: of Auburn. And if you saw a picture of this guy,
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Speaker 1: it came out today. I think Outkick put it out.
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Speaker 1: I'm not trying to be funny. He looks almost like
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Speaker 1: a Unabomber. I mean, the guy looks really weird. Very,
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Speaker 1: very weird. That's neither here nor there. Florida's John Summerall
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Speaker 1: refers to Tuesday as, quote, bloody Tuesday and his game day.
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Speaker 1: He says, quote, we got a great indoor practice facility
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Speaker 1: here on Tuesdays. We don't use it. We don't use it.
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Speaker 1: We don't even enter the dang door of the indoor.
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Speaker 1: I don't want anything going or anyone in the indoor
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Speaker 1: on Tuesday. We're going to be outside. I hope it's hot.
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Speaker 1: Tuesdays have to be physical and violent, and you've got
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Speaker 1: to strain. There's that word. We haven't heard that in
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Speaker 1: a long time. And you don't know how to play
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Speaker 1: a certain way on Saturday. I commend some of these coaches,
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Speaker 1: and not all of them do it. that have a
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Speaker 1: day that they dedicate to full physicality and practice week.
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Speaker 1: So many teams now, and I get it, they don't hit.
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Speaker 1: They just kind of hit. They're not physical at all
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Speaker 1: during the week. And again, if you wonder why tackling
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Speaker 1: is so bad in some games, even down to the
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Speaker 1: high school level, and it gets a little better as
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Speaker 1: the season goes on because guys are getting more, especially
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Speaker 1: early in the year. If you see Teams in high
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Speaker 1: school and college and the tackling is not good. Well,
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Speaker 1: they're not doing any of it. I mean, they're kind
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Speaker 1: of doing it, but they're not being physical in practice.
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Speaker 1: And I get it. You want to keep your team healthy.
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Speaker 1: You're trying to keep the physical contact to a minimum.
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Speaker 1: But somewhere along the way, we lost the whole train
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Speaker 1: of thought that football is a physical sport. It is
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Speaker 1: a physical, violent sport. And you have to practice it
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Speaker 1: at some times as such. So I commend John Summerall
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Speaker 1: for this, as he calls it, Bloody Tuesday. Meaning, hey,
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Speaker 1: this is our day that we're going to be outside.
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Speaker 1: We're not going inside. No indoor practice facility. You're going
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Speaker 1: to go outside. I hope it's hot. I hope it's nasty.
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Speaker 1: And we're going to get a little violent today. And,
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Speaker 1: you know, you have to mimic what goes on on
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Speaker 1: a game day. You have to at some point. You
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Speaker 1: can't just be, hey, we're going to lock up and
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Speaker 1: let go. We're not taking people to the ground. And
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Speaker 1: I get it. You don't want to take people to
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Speaker 1: the ground every day because of injuries and, you know,
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Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. But you have to have a
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Speaker 1: day in the middle of the week, um, The NFL's
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Speaker 1: kind of gotten away from this. Now, they will do
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Speaker 1: some of this, but I commend John Summerall for this. Also,
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Speaker 1: on X, a part of the Oxford Eagle. He is
18:56
Speaker 1: on your radio talking Ole Miss. They're on a bye
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Speaker 1: week this week. Jake, welcome here, brother. How are you doing?
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Speaker 3: I'm doing good. Thanks for having me on.
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Speaker 1: Jake, let's talk a little bit about what we saw
19:06
Speaker 1: this past weekend. And then, of course, moving forward, you've
19:08
Speaker 1: got to put this one to bed. I'm sure Ole
19:09
Speaker 1: Miss has. You know, they just could never out-chase Florida.
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Speaker 1: Down 10-0 in the first. They put six on the board.
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Speaker 1: It was 17-6 at the half. Outscored Florida by a
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Speaker 1: point in the third, and then it just got away
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Speaker 1: from Ole Miss. Just kind of your high points and
19:24
Speaker 1: what you saw. I mean, obviously, when you look at
19:26
Speaker 1: Jaden Ball, 142 yards and three touchdowns. Also, Duke Clark,
19:29
Speaker 1: 126 yards and, you know, 315. two total rushing yards.
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Speaker 1: That was kind of the story for Florida. But your
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Speaker 1: thoughts on the game as a whole?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, there weren't a lot of high points
19:41
Speaker 3: outside of, I guess, Trinidad Chambliss, you know, putting on
19:45
Speaker 3: that Superman cape. And really the sole reason they got
19:48
Speaker 3: the 28 points they got on Saturday, you know, it's
19:51
Speaker 3: just that 10 spot they gave Florida in the first
19:54
Speaker 3: six minutes was really kind of what set the tone
19:57
Speaker 3: for most of the game. They got it back to
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Speaker 3: within three when they kind of rallied in that third quarter.
20:03
Speaker 3: And then they started trading touchdowns for a minute. to
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Speaker 3: kind of keep it at a 10 point to then
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Speaker 3: late in the third. And then that, and that whole
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Speaker 3: fourth quarter, it just got away from, from Ole Miss
20:12
Speaker 3: and the defensively. I mean, there's a lot of glaring
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Speaker 3: concerns or issues from run defense to just pure tackling
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Speaker 3: inability and a lot of things. And also special teams
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Speaker 3: really kind of made everybody a little concerned, especially Lucas Carnero,
20:26
Speaker 3: who's usually not, not hitting, kicking touchbacks could barely get
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Speaker 3: it to the goal line on some of his kickoffs. And,
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Speaker 3: Pete said he noticed that he wasn't really getting the
20:36
Speaker 3: ball like he normally did post-game, but didn't hint that
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Speaker 3: anything was bothering Lucas. I guess, obviously, we'll see how
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Speaker 3: he handles kickoffs next Saturday in Nashville against Vanderbilt. But, yeah,
20:46
Speaker 3: I mean, there was a lot of issues. And, of course,
20:48
Speaker 3: you sit there and go, was this the game where
20:50
Speaker 3: they just got punched in the mouth and they needed
20:52
Speaker 3: it now after coming off that LSU game? And Florida's good,
20:56
Speaker 3: but Ole Miss can also still be good. Or is
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Speaker 3: it this is the defense Pete's got for the rest
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Speaker 3: of the season and then more questions will come from
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Speaker 3: that obviously with how the rest of these eight games go.
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Speaker 3: But it's a lot of kind of hand-wringing and a
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Speaker 3: little nervousness right now up here after how everybody felt
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Speaker 3: this time a week ago coming off the LSU win.
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Speaker 3: It's just kind of how that life is in the SEC.
21:17
Speaker 3: It can change in a week.
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Speaker 1: Jake Thompson talking Ole Miss football. Tuesday edition of the program,
21:22
Speaker 1: get him on X at Jake Thompson, Oxford Eagle. And,
21:27
Speaker 1: of course, you can also get him at the Oxford Eagle. So, Jake,
21:29
Speaker 1: the defense, that's where I want to go next is,
21:31
Speaker 1: And we just won't know, you know, until we see
21:34
Speaker 1: a few more ballgames. And you look at Ole Miss and,
21:38
Speaker 1: you know, rushing yards per game. I mean, they're giving
21:40
Speaker 1: up 4.64. A lot of that's, you know, out of
21:43
Speaker 1: that Florida game. But then you go back last year,
21:45
Speaker 1: they gave up right at 4.2. The year before that,
21:47
Speaker 1: you know, Paul Tree 2.29. I mean, that was a
21:49
Speaker 1: stingy defense in 2024. Is it a schematic thing? Is
21:54
Speaker 1: it a personnel thing? Or is it still something to
21:56
Speaker 1: be determined?
21:57
Speaker 3: Yeah, that'd be to be determined, but I think we're
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Speaker 3: getting close to obviously maybe another game or so, especially
22:02
Speaker 3: if Andy somehow has a decent day against that defense
22:05
Speaker 3: next weekend. Is it personnel? Is it not as good
22:09
Speaker 3: of a defense on paper as everybody kind of thought
22:11
Speaker 3: and said all summer and through fall camp? Were there
22:14
Speaker 3: some worry of comparing it to that defense from two
22:17
Speaker 3: years ago? And it could be that good again. And
22:19
Speaker 3: obviously a quarter of the way through the season, it's
22:21
Speaker 3: anything but in a lot of different categories. But, yeah,
22:26
Speaker 3: I know that you feel good about the guys that
22:27
Speaker 3: are brought in, but is it also a question of
22:30
Speaker 3: does Pete need to delegate responsibilities even more than he
22:33
Speaker 3: already has? I mean, is it tough being the head
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Speaker 3: coach and also the play caller on defense? Now, I
22:38
Speaker 3: don't think it's fair to say it yet, but, I mean,
22:40
Speaker 3: that's kind of one of those questions that will come
22:42
Speaker 3: if defense continues to be the biggest Achilles heel to
22:45
Speaker 3: this team and keeping them from where people thought they
22:48
Speaker 3: would be able to go come the postseason.
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Speaker 1: What about, you know, Keyron Lacey? I mean, you obviously
22:54
Speaker 1: got a week off. You get a chance to get
22:56
Speaker 1: guys healthy. Ole Miss returns to action on the 10th.
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Speaker 1: We'll talk to you next week. They'll go to Vanderbilt
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Speaker 1: and then return home against Missouri. So you got two
23:03
Speaker 1: ballgames that you feel, you know, you've got, you know,
23:05
Speaker 1: should be a favorite in both of those ballgames before
23:07
Speaker 1: you have to go on the road to Texas. And
23:09
Speaker 1: we'll get to Texas down the road. They've got problems
23:11
Speaker 1: of their own, I think. But as far as health
23:14
Speaker 1: of the team, getting Lacey back and getting ready, you know,
23:17
Speaker 1: as you got a break here.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I think, obviously, he made the trip.
23:21
Speaker 3: He was on the sideline, and it just didn't feel
23:23
Speaker 3: comfortable giving him a go. You know, Lindsey did well
23:27
Speaker 3: at times. We saw Makai Fraser a couple times, but,
23:29
Speaker 3: you know, Pete alluded last week that he's banged up
23:32
Speaker 3: coming off of the, you know, either the Charlotte or
23:35
Speaker 3: the LSU game when something happened with him. So he's
23:37
Speaker 3: not full strength, so you're down two guys. Obviously, you're
23:40
Speaker 3: down the most important piece in Lacey and what he
23:43
Speaker 3: can add and help change that offense and not put
23:45
Speaker 3: everything on Trinidad.
23:47
Speaker 2: So.
23:48
Speaker 3: You know, he didn't play. That was one game off.
23:50
Speaker 3: Gets to buy a week. And realistically, probably three weeks
23:54
Speaker 3: of him doing light work because they didn't really do
23:56
Speaker 3: much with him in practice leading up to the game
23:58
Speaker 3: against Florida either. So you hope that that's enough for
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Speaker 3: him to get over what they, you know, shoulder-wise what
24:03
Speaker 3: they felt from MRIs and x-rays was not as bad
24:06
Speaker 3: as they feared and I guess doesn't need any kind
24:08
Speaker 3: of procedure or surgery done and just rest. But they
24:11
Speaker 3: need him back desperately in whatever form that can be. But,
24:14
Speaker 3: you know, that's kind of been the problem. They even,
24:15
Speaker 3: you know, going back to last year and the Fiesta
24:18
Speaker 3: Bowl is apparently the injury proneness of Keiwan Lacey. Now,
24:21
Speaker 3: of course, they've been hard hits. It's not he's barely
24:24
Speaker 3: getting hit and being hurt, but he is taking hard shots.
24:27
Speaker 3: And they need him to probably tone that back because
24:29
Speaker 3: they need him on that field more than not, obviously.
24:32
Speaker 3: And so getting him back for Vandy. And then Mizzou,
24:35
Speaker 3: as you said, probably two teams that are winnable. They're
24:37
Speaker 3: not easy teams, but they're the easiest teams they could
24:40
Speaker 3: get coming off this game this past week.
24:44
Speaker 1: Another thing, too, last year, and it's just some of
24:48
Speaker 1: the metrics that I look at, Ole Miss was plus
24:50
Speaker 1: one in turnover margin. They're minus four in turnover margin,
24:54
Speaker 1: which obviously most people, if you don't know what that is,
24:57
Speaker 1: they're giving up the ball more than they're taking the
24:59
Speaker 1: ball away. Talk a little bit about some of the
25:02
Speaker 1: intricacies here that you want to see Ole Miss changed.
25:05
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously, you want to take the ball away
25:06
Speaker 1: more than you give it up. And, you know, you
25:08
Speaker 1: want to play a little bit better defense. But just
25:10
Speaker 1: some other places where you think the iron needs to
25:12
Speaker 1: be sharpened before they head to Nashville.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think just, you know, first and foremost, tackling.
25:18
Speaker 3: They've just got to learn how to tackle. I haven't
25:20
Speaker 3: seen guys get– end up, you know, on skates or
25:23
Speaker 3: their ankles broken this much in a long time on that,
25:26
Speaker 3: you know, on the defensive line. A lot of that
25:28
Speaker 3: is going against a running back like Jaden Vaughn and
25:31
Speaker 3: what he can do to you. But it's been noticeable
25:34
Speaker 3: against Louisville, Charlotte, and LSU too. So, I mean, tackling
25:37
Speaker 3: has got to be fixed. Trinidad, I mean, he's got
25:40
Speaker 3: a couple interceptions. That last one, you know, the one
25:43
Speaker 3: at the end of the game because Florida was just
25:45
Speaker 3: him trying to make something out of anything. And then
25:48
Speaker 3: the one against LSU, it was, you know, they did
25:51
Speaker 3: jailbreak and he just kind of bailed out and threw
25:53
Speaker 3: it to kind of save himself. And it just happened
25:55
Speaker 3: to not hit the ground and was caught by an
25:57
Speaker 3: LSU defender. But, yeah, no, takeaway is, you know, that's
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Speaker 3: Pete's bread and butter, you know, especially being a defensive
26:02
Speaker 3: guy is winning that battle, and they haven't. Now, the
26:07
Speaker 3: only way you can kind of win that battle is
26:08
Speaker 3: forcing fumbles or getting to the ball, you know, in
26:11
Speaker 3: the secondary and getting interception. But in terms of forcing fumbles,
26:14
Speaker 3: that means you've got to be actually trying to tackle
26:16
Speaker 3: a guy and making contact with him, and they're just
26:18
Speaker 3: struggling with that. So I think it's going to be
26:20
Speaker 3: a big week of back-to-basics. I wouldn't be shocked if
26:22
Speaker 3: it's a lot of back-to-basics next week mixed in with
26:25
Speaker 3: whatever Andy prep they have, too, because I feel like
26:28
Speaker 3: that's what kind of Coach Pete is. We're just going
26:30
Speaker 3: to have to take it back to football 101 in
26:32
Speaker 3: a lot of different ways.
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Speaker 1: It's interesting for you to bring up tackling. We were
26:37
Speaker 1: talking in the first or second segment today. John Summerall,
26:41
Speaker 1: head football coach at Florida, was speaking about his week,
26:44
Speaker 1: and he calls Tuesday Bloody Tuesday. to where he says, hey,
26:47
Speaker 1: we don't go into the practice facility. We go outside
26:50
Speaker 1: on the field. We don't even let the guys go indoor.
26:53
Speaker 1: And we want it to be hot. We want it
26:55
Speaker 1: to be physical. We want it to be nasty. And
26:56
Speaker 1: I'm not saying Ole Miss doesn't do this. But I
26:58
Speaker 1: know this. I know that– and you know this too.
27:00
Speaker 1: From high school to college in the NFL, we've seen
27:04
Speaker 1: a digression of sorts in tackling. And it's not just
27:08
Speaker 1: Ole Miss specific. I mean, go to a high school
27:10
Speaker 1: football game on Friday night and you'll probably see some
27:12
Speaker 1: poor tackling where you go– Teams just don't get physical,
27:16
Speaker 1: and I get it. You know, it's kind of that,
27:18
Speaker 1: you know, where do you find that middle ground? I mean,
27:21
Speaker 1: you don't want to take people to the ground every
27:23
Speaker 1: day in practice because of injury, but I still think
27:26
Speaker 1: there has to be some accountability and some physicality, and
27:29
Speaker 1: John Summerall was talking about this, or you're not going
27:32
Speaker 1: to be able to do it on Saturday.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I think that's kind of been a
27:36
Speaker 3: knock for Ole Miss overall. for a while now is
27:38
Speaker 3: we've kind of been hinted at or seen lack of
27:41
Speaker 3: tackling in fall camp, preseason when we go, or even
27:44
Speaker 3: in the spring. Now, the spring, you can probably get
27:47
Speaker 3: away with it because you're sitting there saying, well, I'm
27:48
Speaker 3: not playing a meaningful game for six more months from
27:51
Speaker 3: now or five more months from now. But in the fall,
27:54
Speaker 3: that has been a question that's been asked of whoever's
27:56
Speaker 3: the head coach, Kiffin, Pete, Matt Luke, you name it.
28:00
Speaker 3: It's been a thing where at Ole Miss, at least
28:02
Speaker 3: from what we're watching here personally, it has been a
28:05
Speaker 3: we'd rather keep the guy's bubble wrapped and go through
28:09
Speaker 3: the motions and maybe ramp it up once or twice
28:11
Speaker 3: in fall camp but then i think you're seeing where
28:13
Speaker 3: they're just not going through a day in day out
28:16
Speaker 3: and then they're just giving the effort that they've been
28:19
Speaker 3: giving in fall camp now that's not me calling them
28:20
Speaker 3: out that's just me saying that's the muscle memory for
28:23
Speaker 3: lack of a better way to say it i think
28:24
Speaker 3: there needs to be some kind of like you said
28:27
Speaker 3: middle ground of going back to those old ways of
28:29
Speaker 3: just tackling taking guys down in the practice field and
28:32
Speaker 3: being physical again. It's one thing to say be physical
28:35
Speaker 3: on Saturday when you're talking to them Tuesday and Wednesday,
28:38
Speaker 3: but I think they need to actually be physical Tuesday, Wednesday,
28:41
Speaker 3: and whatever other days to do it on Saturday. I
28:44
Speaker 3: think it's kind of just that simple.
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Speaker 1: Make sure to get him on X, and you can
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Speaker 1: covering Ole Miss and the SEC. Jake, appreciate your time.
28:55
Speaker 1: Enjoy the off week. It's probably a good week to
28:58
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Speaker 1: weekend in Mississippi, my friend. I hope you have a
29:00
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Speaker 3: I appreciate it. Talk soon, guys.
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Speaker 1: here with me, after 58 games at USC, that's the Trojans,
31:17
Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley is 39-19. That's 58 games, 39 wins and
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Speaker 1: 19 losses after the loss to Oregon this past weekend.
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Speaker 1: Clay Helton, who was at USC, who is now at
31:32
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31:42
Speaker 1: record as Clay Hilton. And they're paying him boo-coodles of money.
31:47
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31:51
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Speaker 1: The first 32 games at Alabama, Nick Saban was 24-8.
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Speaker 1: So at the exact same time in his career, Kalen
32:06
Speaker 1: DeBoer is where Nick Saban was. Now, The difference is
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32:14
Speaker 1: Shula that was kind of floundering in the wilderness in
32:18
Speaker 1: the SEC. Kalen DeBoer did not take that kind of
32:20
Speaker 1: team over. So just some interesting nuggets there, and it's
32:23
Speaker 1: weird how parallels kind of merge. Lincoln Riley, Clay Helton,
32:28
Speaker 1: 39-19 after 58 games. Kalen DeBoer, Nick Saban, 24-8 after
32:33
Speaker 1: 32 games at Alabama. All right, we're going to get
32:35
Speaker 1: to this piece probably next segment. A former Auburn staffer.
32:39
Speaker 1: has been arrested on charges of theft of trade secrets
32:42
Speaker 1: and computer tampering. Quote, an anonymous Don Julio email was
32:47
Speaker 1: sent to roughly 11 schools with 12 attachments. 10 contained
32:52
Speaker 1: Auburn recruiting evaluations and notes on the 2027 to 2029
32:56
Speaker 1: prospects for Auburn with several schools forwarding the material back
33:02
Speaker 1: to Auburn. So the staffer, for whatever reason, had an
33:06
Speaker 1: ax to grind with the the University of Auburn, may
33:10
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33:13
Speaker 1: don't know if those details are in this piece, courtesy
33:15
Speaker 1: of On3. com. But this staffer decides to send this material
33:22
Speaker 1: out to 11 different schools on recruiting profiles and recruiting
33:26
Speaker 1: strategy and all the stuff that Auburn's doing, not just
33:29
Speaker 1: this year, 2027 to 2029. Because remember, these teams build
33:33
Speaker 1: out recruiting profiles on a couple years in advance. That's
33:38
Speaker 1: why you see a lot of guys, especially if they're
33:40
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33:44
Speaker 1: and they're starting to get these offers. Well, that's the
33:47
Speaker 1: strategy for two, three years down the road for those teams. So, hey, look,
33:50
Speaker 1: we're going to go ahead and build our profile out
33:52
Speaker 1: of quarterbacks that we're looking at, running backs we're looking at, linemen, corners, safeties,
33:58
Speaker 1: whatever we're looking at, linebackers. But kudos to these schools.
34:03
Speaker 1: They sent it back to Auburn. They could have capped it,
34:06
Speaker 1: and they may have. Some probably did. But they went
34:08
Speaker 1: and said, no, no, hey, guys, y'all have got a
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Speaker 1: rogue former employee over there. So this is a very
34:13
Speaker 1: interesting story we'll get into. Also, now that basketball is here,
34:19
Speaker 1: believe it or not, it is here because teams are
34:21
Speaker 1: on the hardwood practicing. Now, we don't really turn into
34:23
Speaker 1: basketball until the SEC slate or the conference slate because
34:26
Speaker 1: football is front and center. You're starting to see now
34:29
Speaker 1: the guys trying to come back to basketball because it
34:32
Speaker 1: is that time. Florida guard Denzel Williams. Aberdeen has been
34:36
Speaker 1: granted a temporary injunction against the NCAA and Aberdeen is
34:40
Speaker 1: now eligible for a fifth season. So he's an intricate
34:43
Speaker 1: part to that Florida basketball team last year. He's going
34:45
Speaker 1: to get that fifth year. You're going to start seeing
34:47
Speaker 1: these stories populate. And Nick Saban being questioned this week
34:52
Speaker 1: on NIL because he is front and center on this
34:54
Speaker 1: deal going on in D.C. And he's kind of a
34:57
Speaker 1: face man. He's not kind of. He is one of
34:59
Speaker 1: the face men for this Protect the College Sports Act
35:02
Speaker 1: and wanting to trim this and trim that. Nick Saban
35:06
Speaker 1: says NIL wasn't the reason for retirement. Remember, a lot
35:09
Speaker 1: of people have had that theory that Saban retired because
35:14
Speaker 1: NIL happened and the transfer portal happened. Nick Saban says, quote,
35:18
Speaker 1: that's not why I got out of coaching. We had
35:20
Speaker 1: three years of this. You know, my last three years,
35:23
Speaker 1: I coached in the NFL, so I was used to
35:25
Speaker 1: managing the salary cap and that type of thing. Saban added,
35:28
Speaker 1: the one thing I didn't want to do is ride
35:31
Speaker 1: the program down. And once you get to a certain age,
35:34
Speaker 1: people start using that against you in recruiting and your
35:37
Speaker 1: ability to attract the kind of players that you want
35:39
Speaker 1: to attract. Now, I think it probably lays somewhere in
35:43
Speaker 1: the middle for Nick Saban. I think he's telling half-truths
35:47
Speaker 1: here because I don't think Nick Saban was of the age,
35:51
Speaker 1: nor do I even think he's that. I know he
35:53
Speaker 1: would be on that upper side of maybe even the
35:55
Speaker 1: oldest coach in college football. But Nick Saban still looks
35:58
Speaker 1: the part, talks the part, moves the part. that he
36:01
Speaker 1: could have still done this. So maybe it was some
36:04
Speaker 1: of that, but I do think part of it was
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Speaker 1: the NIL. And he would never say that publicly. He
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Speaker 1: Excuse me. Still fighting a little bit of this head cold,
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Speaker 1: but we're going to make it through it as we
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Speaker 1: are on the mend. All right, after the conference admitted
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Speaker 1: Tennessee's late onside kick recovery against Texas was incorrectly officiated,
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Speaker 1: the next round it said they looked back at seven
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Speaker 1: notable instances in 2020 where the SEC later acknowledged its
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Speaker 1: officials got something wrong. Touchdowns, possessions, we may go through
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Speaker 1: some of that. And then also South Carolina is the
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Speaker 1: favorite against Kentucky via polymarket. 57% of the money is
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Speaker 1: coming in on South Carolina, 43% coming in on Kentucky.
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Speaker 1: But remember this. Kentucky has owned South Carolina over the
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Speaker 1: last several years. As a matter of fact, if we
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Speaker 1: go look at this real quick, and I'll pull this
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Speaker 1: up during the break, and we'll take a look at this.
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Speaker 1: Be careful on these popularity markets like Polymarket and Cousy
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