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The Next Round: Florida-Ole Miss Showdown: Chris Doering on the Gators’ Playoff Chances & Buster Faulkner’s Offense | Hour 2 · The Next Round

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Speaker 1: We all leave at some point, Brownie. At the end
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Speaker 1: of time. Sometimes, man. Sometimes. Hey, another hour of the
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Speaker 1: next round presented by Hard Rock Bet here on Sport
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Speaker 1: and State. I saw our buddy T-Bob Hebert worried about
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Speaker 1: AI and the end of the world now. So he's
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Speaker 1: on the Lance bandwagon. Man, I got an email.
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Speaker 2: Bo forwarded it from one of our listeners who works
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Speaker 2: in AI.
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Speaker 1: Oh, no.
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Speaker 2: And he said, hey, look, man, sooner than later, none
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Speaker 2: of us are going to have to work. And we're
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Speaker 2: going to get a government stipend. And I'm like, we're
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Speaker 2: already lazy.
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Speaker 1: Enough as a society.
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Speaker 2: You're going to give us a government stipend to go
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Speaker 2: tick off?
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Speaker 1: I think that's the Elon Musk theory is that AI
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Speaker 1: is going to make things so cheap that you're going
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Speaker 1: to be able to have a basic income from the
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Speaker 1: United States, which I'm not for. I don't want to
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Speaker 1: be around. T-Bob said when these other things broke through
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Speaker 1: a firewall and started talking to each other in a
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Speaker 1: different language that we didn't understand, he says that's when
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Speaker 1: the guys who were doing it got worried. I tell
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Speaker 1: you what, T-Bob and you, Dunaway, and other people, y'all
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Speaker 1: got to quit leaving the CBS on after the NFL
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Speaker 1: games and watching 60 Minutes. That's why Jen's all this up.
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Speaker 1: Y'all would never know about this if you didn't leave
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Speaker 1: CBS on after the late game and watch 60 Minutes.
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Speaker 1: You're making it sound like I'm not well-read like Chris
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Speaker 1: Doering is. No, no, Doering ain't going to talk AI.
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Speaker 1: He's a football guy. Chris Doering joins us now, SEC Network,
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Speaker 1: at Chris Doering on social media, the Florida Great. What
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Speaker 1: is up, Doering? How are you? Hey, good morning, boys.
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Speaker 3: Good to be back with you. That's not what I needed, man.
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Speaker 4: I'm over here watching LSU tape right now. The last
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Speaker 4: thing I want to see is hear about you guys
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Speaker 4: and your fears about the end of the world here
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Speaker 4: with some Terminator-type stuff, man.
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Speaker 2: Hey, where are you on, like, Sam Leavitt's fun to watch,
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Speaker 2: but he is careless with the football.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you can't really deny that.
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Speaker 2: Can Sam Leavitt, with his inability to protect the football,
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Speaker 2: is there any way that... they can win at a
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Speaker 2: high level on a consistent basis, if that makes sense.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Lance, it's not only the concern about being careless
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Speaker 4: with the football, it's having zero pocket presence. And this
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Speaker 4: is what I was scared about. You've got a guy that.
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Speaker 3: Hadn't played since last October, comes to a new offense.
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Speaker 4: It's almost like the DJ Lagway situation where you don't
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Speaker 4: get any off-season time. You're not going through OTAs in spring,
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Speaker 4: and you're barely getting out there when you go to camp.
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Speaker 3: He doesn't have a feel for what's going on right now.
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Speaker 3: And I don't blame him. The offensive line has not
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Speaker 3: been good the last couple weeks.
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Speaker 4: We got a fake idea of what their offensive line
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Speaker 4: was going to be against Clemson. But LaTeX exposed him.
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Speaker 4: You know, what, 11 tackles for loss, five sacks in
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Speaker 4: that ballgame. And obviously, you know, Ole Miss was able
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Speaker 4: to create some pressure on him. But there are guys
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Speaker 4: open down the field. Levitt, they were only two of
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Speaker 4: eight on air throws longer than 10 yards for about
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Speaker 4: 40 yards.
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Speaker 3: One of them was a touchdown to Winnie Watkins. One
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Speaker 3: of them was a completion.
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Speaker 4: To trade as green, his best and most reliable target.
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Speaker 4: So with him being out for the foreseeable future, I
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Speaker 4: don't know how you get him to be comfortable on
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Speaker 4: the fly and see the game without His basic instinct,
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Speaker 4: as soon as he sees color flash, he's going to
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Speaker 4: put his foot in the ground and go, which I
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Speaker 4: respect his athletic ability, but from a passing game standpoint,
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Speaker 4: from a receiver standpoint, I'd be a little frustrated with that,
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Speaker 4: to be honest.
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Speaker 1: I'm interested if you think this Ole Miss team is
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Speaker 1: as good or better than last year's team. I like
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Speaker 1: this defense. I was worried about them after the Louisville game.
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Speaker 1: Turns out Louisville's pretty dang good offensively. Where are you
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Speaker 1: on Ole Miss' defense coming out of this first quarter
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Speaker 1: of the season?
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Speaker 4: I like their front seven a lot. I'm very still
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Speaker 4: skeptical about the back end. The same issues that they
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Speaker 4: had against Louisville, not being on the same page, letting
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Speaker 4: guys go in coverage was there. Levitt just wasn't able
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Speaker 4: to take advantage of it like Keen Holtz was. But
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Speaker 4: having a pass rush that's as relentless as Ole Miss
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Speaker 4: is in can certainly cover up for some of those issues.
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Speaker 4: Echols is an absolute monster up front. We know what
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Speaker 4: Centurion Perkins can do with his athleticism. Keaton Thomas was
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Speaker 4: a tremendous acquisition coming over from Baylor.
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Speaker 3: So I'm with you.
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Speaker 4: I like their defense an awful lot, and certainly Pete Golding.
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Speaker 4: I don't think Pete Golding gets the credit that he
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Speaker 4: deserves nationally. You talk to coaches around the league and
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Speaker 4: around college football. They know how good he is. He's
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Speaker 4: impressive as anybody up on the whiteboard. Done a great
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Speaker 4: job as the head coach, but still a mastermind when
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Speaker 4: it comes to creating mismatches and one-on-one opportunities for his guys.
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Speaker 1: Chris Doering is with us from the SEC Network. I
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Speaker 1: wasn't there when James Naismith hung the peach basket or
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Speaker 1: Abner Doubleday stitched up a baseball, but thank God I'm
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Speaker 1: here for Buster Faulkner to create offensive football. I finally
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Speaker 1: get to see something created. The way the guy gets
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Speaker 1: talked about, it was like on the sixth day he
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Speaker 1: created the offense. Why is this guy so good? But
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Speaker 1: I'm dumb. And he rested on Sundays? He rested on Sundays.
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Speaker 1: He only coaches on Saturdays, Jim. I mean, explain it
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Speaker 1: to me like I don't know football, why everybody is
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Speaker 1: screaming about how good Buster Faulkner is.
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Speaker 4: I'm absolutely blown away with this guy. And I talked
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Speaker 4: to Coach Summerall in the preseason. We were talking a
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Speaker 4: little bit about the concerns around the offensive line.
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Speaker 3: He goes, you know, in all.
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Speaker 4: Honesty, I minimize those concerns because of what Buster Faulkner does,
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Speaker 4: what he does with his tempo that puts pressure on defenses,
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Speaker 4: what he does with unbalanced formations and what that does
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Speaker 4: up front, what he does with his misdirection, emotion shifts,
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Speaker 4: misdirections after the snaps. I mean, there is a lot
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Speaker 4: that goes into it. I think Florida's really playing well
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Speaker 4: within that offense right now. I mentioned on Twitter, like
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Speaker 4: they scored 44 points at Auburn against a DJ Durkin defense.
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Speaker 4: And I only think they played about a C plus game.
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Speaker 4: They had some drops, they had some turnovers, they had
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Speaker 4: some missed assignments, some busts in protection. So I think
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Speaker 4: the ceiling's even higher, but he just does such a
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Speaker 4: great job of constantly putting pressure on defenses.
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Speaker 3: And how about Aaron Filo? I don't think we've talked.
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Speaker 4: Enough about what he's done so far, his understanding of
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Speaker 4: the offense, that was what they wanted him to come
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Speaker 4: over from Georgia tech, know the offense inside and out.
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Speaker 4: It just distributes the football because there are so many
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Speaker 4: weapons on that offense.
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Speaker 3: And, and, Jaden Ball, the.
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Speaker 4: One-two punch of him and what you have with the
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Speaker 4: passing game with Vernell Brown and Dallas Wilson and Micah Mays,
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Speaker 4: the tight end Amir Jackson. There's a lot of talent
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Speaker 4: that's finally being utilized. A lot of that talent's been
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Speaker 4: on the roster the last two years and criminally been underutilized.
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Speaker 3: But it's fun again in Gainesville.
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Speaker 4: And look no further than the fact what Georgia Tech's
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Speaker 4: offense has done versus what Florida's offense has done. Number
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Speaker 4: three in the country in total offense right now. So
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Speaker 4: I think that's a great testament to what Buster Faulkner
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Speaker 4: is able to do as an offensive coordinator.
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Speaker 2: I mean, we really haven't had buzz like this with
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Speaker 2: an OC since Joe Brady back in 2019. And I'm
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Speaker 2: not prepared, Doring, to say this is a 2019 version
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Speaker 2: of LSU. But how much have the expectations changed for Florida?
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Speaker 2: I mean, now they're a three and a half point
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Speaker 2: favorite against Ole Miss this week. And when you start
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Speaker 2: looking at this, is it realistic to say Florida is
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Speaker 2: a legitimate college football playoff contender?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think this week we'll tell.
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Speaker 4: If Florida is able to get this victory over Ole Miss,
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Speaker 4: you're 4-0. The schedule kind of plays out a little
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Speaker 4: more favorably for you. Oklahoma doesn't look like the team
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Speaker 4: we expected them to be. South Carolina doesn't look all
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Speaker 4: that daunting. Vanderbilt 3-0, but hasn't been all that impressive.
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Speaker 4: I could see Florida getting the nine wins now, and
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Speaker 4: I think with their schedule would have a legitimate argument
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Speaker 4: as a 9-3 SEC team to get into the college
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Speaker 4: football playoff field. The defense, to me, everybody was upset
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Speaker 4: about their performance, but they had seven sacks. They had
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Speaker 4: a ton of hurries and forced some errors with Byron Brown.
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Speaker 4: I think they'll continue to get better and better on
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Speaker 4: that side of the ball. But honestly, when you score
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Speaker 4: as many points as Florida can, they're playing defense themselves.
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Speaker 4: Like the pressure they not only put on the opposing defense,
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Speaker 4: but on the opposing offense, it's like a Grand Slam
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Speaker 4: tennis match where you have to hold serve. And Florida
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Speaker 4: scored on eight of 10 possessions, probably could have scored
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Speaker 4: more if they hadn't kicked some field goals down around
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Speaker 4: the red zone. But the pressure they put on an
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Speaker 4: opposing offense to try to keep up with them is
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Speaker 4: probably their best defense in all honesty.
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Speaker 1: You've noticed long enough now to know that I can't
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Speaker 1: handle my liquor and I am the worst gambler in
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Speaker 1: the world. This feels like such easy money with Ole
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Speaker 1: Miss getting points. Does that make you feel good or bad?
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Speaker 1: And how do you feel about this game?
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Speaker 4: Well, I talk a lot about it's not only who
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Speaker 4: you play in the SEC, it's when you play them
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Speaker 4: and where you play them. And from the get-go, this
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Speaker 4: was going to be a bad spot for Ole Miss
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Speaker 4: with as emotional a game as that LSU returned or
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Speaker 4: Lane's return to Oxford was going to be with LSU.
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Speaker 4: It was set up, win or lose, to be a
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Speaker 4: letdown spot. Great teams don't have letdowns. Great teams find
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Speaker 4: a way to turn the page and move on.
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Speaker 3: I suspect that this Ole Miss team is a great team.
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Speaker 4: But I do think, going back to what I said
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Speaker 4: before about their secondary, I think they're susceptible. And so
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Speaker 4: if Florida can protect a little bit, I think there's
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Speaker 4: big plays to be had. I honestly believe this is
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Speaker 4: going to be a bit of a shootout. But the
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Speaker 4: Swamp has a reputation for what it does for the
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Speaker 4: home team. And I think this is going to be
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Speaker 4: a tremendous environment. You saw it recently over the last
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Speaker 4: couple of years with the Swamp getting back to kind
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Speaker 4: of what it used to be. This is a massive
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Speaker 4: game for the program, not only because you want to
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Speaker 4: keep that momentum going and have a chance to keep
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Speaker 4: yourself in the playoff race, but what it could signal
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Speaker 4: for excitement and more people kind of getting back involved
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Speaker 4: and on board with the Florida football program. It's been
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Speaker 4: largely down with the exception of 2020. It's been down
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Speaker 4: for 10 years, and this has given people hope again.
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Speaker 1: Doring, there is nothing dividing the three of us more
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Speaker 1: than Oklahoma football right now. Dunaway and I think they're
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Speaker 1: lost in... the woods and they've got a really good defense,
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Speaker 1: but that offense is just trash. I get the feeling
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Speaker 1: Lance thinks they got a shot in Athens Saturday. I
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Speaker 1: think they can play them close. I have seen athletic
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Speaker 1: quarterbacks give Kirby problems before. I think their defense is elite.
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Speaker 1: It's elite. I'll give you that. Yeah, but these guys
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Speaker 1: have them the 12th best team in the SEC. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you got to have two sides, Dorian. You can't just
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Speaker 1: play defense every down.
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Speaker 4: Here's the thing, Lance, I can tell Lance and I
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Speaker 4: are on the same page. The over in the preseason
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Speaker 4: seven and a half wins look like a lock. I mean,
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Speaker 4: that was an absolute giveaway with money. And now all
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Speaker 4: of a sudden I'm starting to sweat that a little bit.
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Speaker 4: But I'm with you on the defense. I think the
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Speaker 4: defense is certainly elite. And if they waste another year
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Speaker 4: with a national championship worthy defense with a putrid offense
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Speaker 4: like we've seen so far, I'm going.
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Speaker 3: To be really frustrated. But The disappointing part for me
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Speaker 3: was that we thought the offensive line was going to
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Speaker 3: get better. We thought the run game was going to
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Speaker 3: get better. It hasn't.
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Speaker 4: We thought with Mateer being healthy, he would get back
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Speaker 4: to looking like the guy he was before the injury
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Speaker 4: last year.
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Speaker 3: He hasn't.
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Speaker 4: A lot of criticism and now pressure on Ben Arbuckle
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Speaker 4: as well as Mateer. This is a game that they
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Speaker 4: have to go out and play well on offense. And
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Speaker 4: I'm with you guys. I think Mateer can create some
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Speaker 4: problems offensively. with his legs, but it's not all him.
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Speaker 4: Like I went back and looked at that Michigan game.
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Speaker 4: There are catches that should have been made. There are
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Speaker 4: receivers that, that interception late, the receivers got to come
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Speaker 4: flat on the over route. You cannot drift up field
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Speaker 4: and let the corner undercut you in man coverage. So
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Speaker 4: this is a group effort right now, but, it has
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Speaker 4: not been what we were sold in terms of offensive
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Speaker 4: improvement in the offseason.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not saying this is good, but his completion
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Speaker 2: percentage is better than Archer's. It's better than Sam Levitt's.
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Speaker 2: It's better than Marcel Reed's. With all that said, do
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Speaker 2: you think it is more Ben Arbuckle than it is
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Speaker 2: John Mateer?
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Speaker 4: No, I think it's probably a mixture of both with
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Speaker 4: more of it going on Mateer. The thing that kind
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Speaker 4: of scared me the most was was hearing Mateer say,
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Speaker 4: I heard the crowd start to cheer and knew that
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Speaker 4: Cetania was open. To not have an awareness of that
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Speaker 4: leads me to believe either he doesn't know where his
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Speaker 4: eyes are supposed to be or don't understand the purpose
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Speaker 4: of the play call because that's something. I've been around
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Speaker 4: quarterbacks before. You ask them why they threw it.
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Speaker 3: Well, he was open. That's not the deal. In good
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Speaker 3: offenses that have.
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Speaker 4: An understanding of how to run concepts and timing, It's
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Speaker 4: anticipation and hearing a crowd roar to throw it deep,
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Speaker 4: that doesn't lead me to believe it's anticipating very well.
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Speaker 1: Listen, they're the number one team in the country, Texas is,
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Speaker 1: and they were playing Ohio State two weeks ago. But
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Speaker 1: those first three quarters were one thing, and that fourth
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Speaker 1: quarter was great. Which is the team that's going to
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Speaker 1: play Tennessee? What we saw in the first three quarters
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Speaker 1: of that fourth quarter, where are you on the Longhorns
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Speaker 1: this week?
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Speaker 4: Well, to me, it goes back to quarterback play. I
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Speaker 4: would say Arch is the exact same way. And it's
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Speaker 4: frustrating to me. I literally was just watching tape here
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Speaker 4: this morning of that Ohio State game. There are plays
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Speaker 4: to be made for the first three quarters of that ballgame.
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Speaker 4: I honestly believe that Arch is scared to some degree,
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Speaker 4: scared of making a mistake, plays tight, the checkdowns. They're
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Speaker 4: not calling these plays conservatively around the line of scrimmage.
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Speaker 4: There are shots to be had down the field, but
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Speaker 4: I think he doesn't really let it loose until he's
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Speaker 4: in a situation where he's got to bring them back
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Speaker 4: from behind. Go back to last year, played one of
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Speaker 4: his best games in the second half of that Florida
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Speaker 4: game when they're down double digits, trying to bring them back.
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Speaker 4: Last year against Mississippi State when they were down, trying
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Speaker 4: to bring them back. The fourth quarter performance against Ohio State,
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Speaker 4: trying to bring them back.
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Speaker 3: He's got to find a.
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Speaker 4: Way to not play scared and trying not to make
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Speaker 4: a mistake and just let this thing rip.
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Speaker 3: Now, with that being said, threw a great.
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Speaker 4: Ball to Cam Coleman that I thought Cam Coleman should
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Speaker 4: have run through instead of diving.
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Speaker 3: And the ball takes a weird bounce for an interception.
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Speaker 3: Ryan Wingo drops an easy touchdown.
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Speaker 4: So again, like the Oklahoma Sooner offense, it's a collective
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Speaker 4: group making errors, but Arch has got to show that
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Speaker 4: aggressiveness and play the way he does in the fourth
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Speaker 4: quarter for the other three, and I think the team
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Speaker 4: will follow. I was really impressed with how well they
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Speaker 4: ran the ball against Ohio State. Their offensive line seems
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Speaker 4: to be a lot better than last year, and certainly
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Speaker 4: the run game is too. So if they can get
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Speaker 4: Arch playing to that fourth quarter level, Texas could be dangerous.
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Speaker 1: Chris Doering, SEC Network, for a few more moments. After Saturday,
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Speaker 1: are you more encouraged by Kentucky or more worried about
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Speaker 1: Texas A & M? uh or both yeah yeah.
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Speaker 4: You said more I'm impressed with Kentucky you know I
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Speaker 4: mean Kentucky showed us a great first half against Alabama
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Speaker 4: they melted.
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Speaker 3: Down in the third quarter um.
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Speaker 4: They were outscored 18 nothing they turned the football over
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Speaker 4: a couple times and then they learned from that and
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Speaker 4: they came back in this game and dominated the third
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Speaker 4: quarter 21 nothing didn't give up a sack was able
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Speaker 4: to run the football for about 7.2 yards per carry
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Speaker 4: in that quarter, just took it to Texas A & M,
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Speaker 4: a team that we typically think about being a physical
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Speaker 4: team under Mike Elko.
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Speaker 3: They own the line of scrimmage, 54 offensive snaps for Kentucky.
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Speaker 4: They were incredibly efficient and did what they needed to
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Speaker 4: do to finish drives. And as Benjamin Watson often says,
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Speaker 4: I love the quote, Don't mistake activity for productivity.
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Speaker 3: Activity is what you see from Texas A & M.
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Speaker 4: Productivity finishing drives has not been what they've been able
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Speaker 4: to do. And Marcel Reed, going back to the quarterback discussion,
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Speaker 4: I'm embarrassed that my preseason quarterback.
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Speaker 3: List top five, I had Trinidad at the top. But
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Speaker 3: I had.
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Speaker 4: Marcel Reed in that list. Arch hasn't necessarily played his best.
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Speaker 4: Think about what Lenore Sellers has done here to this point.
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Speaker 4: It's almost a mirror image of last year where the
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Speaker 4: quarterbacks that we expected to be good have largely underachieved.
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Speaker 3: Mateer was in my number two quarterback. Like this group
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Speaker 3: has just underperformed.
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Speaker 4: And maybe Marcel Reed is just what he is, a
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Speaker 4: very inconsistent player that has a high ceiling that can't
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Speaker 4: tap into to eliminating the mistakes.
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Speaker 2: Okay, sticking with those quarterbacks, Trinidad Chambliss has got the experience.
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Speaker 2: He's got four wins over top 25 teams. With all
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Speaker 2: that said, not right now in the moment, but CD,
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Speaker 2: in the next couple of months, who will be the
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Speaker 2: better quarterback in the state of Mississippi? Will it be
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Speaker 2: Trinidad or Kamario Taylor?
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Speaker 3: Golly, that's a great question. Let me be honest with you, man.
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Speaker 4: I was really high on Mississippi State after that win
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Speaker 4: over Minnesota. Then I went back and watched the tape
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Speaker 4: and I saw the excessive number of white dudes on
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Speaker 4: Minnesota's defense.
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Speaker 3: Maybe they're not as good as what I thought they were.
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Speaker 3: But then they came out and did it against South Carolina.
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Speaker 3: So I'm all in on Mississippi State.
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Speaker 4: I think Jeff Levy's done a great job of building
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Speaker 4: around the move last year in the Egg Bowl to
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Speaker 4: go with Kamario Taylor, knowing that he was going to
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Speaker 4: be your guy this year and getting him two starts
17:01
Speaker 4: with that game in the bowl game was tremendous. Fluff
17:03
Speaker 4: Bothwell has been a workhorse as a compliment to what
17:08
Speaker 4: Camario's done. The defense, though, Zach Garnett, I thought that
17:12
Speaker 4: was the story of the ballgame. Like, they could have
17:13
Speaker 4: been down 21-24-0, but the defense forced some field goals
17:18
Speaker 4: and kept the South Carolina Gamecocks within striking distance for
17:22
Speaker 4: their offense. And once they got going, they were tough
17:24
Speaker 4: to stop. So to answer your question, I think Trinidad's
17:27
Speaker 4: the more reliable. I think he's the best quarterback in
17:30
Speaker 4: the country. But I think in terms of potential upside,
17:33
Speaker 4: I think Camario still gives you the higher ceiling.
17:35
Speaker 1: With standing room, 70,000 fans have bought Hemingway this past week.
17:40
Speaker 1: Ole Miss announces over $ 900, 000 in alcohol sales legally inside
17:46
Speaker 1: the stadium. With the size of the stadium and that
17:49
Speaker 1: legal alcohol sales, was that the most lubricated crowd in
17:53
Speaker 1: SEC football history?
17:56
Speaker 4: Extremely lubricated, but I don't know about in terms of
18:00
Speaker 4: real true ability to drink a stadium out. I go
18:03
Speaker 4: back to that LSU trip to Nashville a few years
18:05
Speaker 4: ago when they drank every drop of alcohol. Maybe that
18:08
Speaker 4: was just poor planning on Vanderbilt's part, but I think
18:11
Speaker 4: the schools are seeing the opportunities that now present themselves
18:14
Speaker 4: within stadium alcohol sales. I'm thinking, what were we doing
18:17
Speaker 4: for so long not allowing the money that they were
18:20
Speaker 4: missing out on? It's now probably having to be allocated
18:23
Speaker 4: to NIL more than facilities or anything else. That could
18:25
Speaker 4: have been building uh programs for for decades.
18:28
Speaker 1: Before you guys used to let people leave at halftime
18:31
Speaker 1: right as.
18:34
Speaker 4: A player i remember seeing the banners fly above the
18:37
Speaker 4: stadium purple porpoise half price kamikazes at halftime people would
18:41
Speaker 4: leave and come back in i thought it was a
18:43
Speaker 4: great marketing effort but yeah they shut that down uh
18:47
Speaker 4: Not too long after that, they realized it's probably not
18:49
Speaker 4: the best thing to do to let excessive drinking go
18:52
Speaker 4: on at halftime and people back in the stadium.
18:54
Speaker 2: I know you love your job, but I sit there
18:56
Speaker 2: and I see you and Peter and Ben in studio,
18:58
Speaker 2: and I'm like, man, I bet Doring would love to
19:01
Speaker 2: be in a stadium on a Saturday.
19:03
Speaker 1: Is there something about you wanting to be at this
19:06
Speaker 1: game this weekend?
19:07
Speaker 3: There's no doubt. I was jealous.
19:10
Speaker 4: PB and I were in Oxford on Wednesday last week.
19:12
Speaker 4: To have to get on a plane Thursday and go
19:14
Speaker 4: to Charlotte for our studio shows, When everybody else was arriving,
19:18
Speaker 4: it was tough. This one even more so, the number
19:21
Speaker 4: of friends that I have at Ole Miss and being
19:23
Speaker 4: a home game for me, definitely.
19:25
Speaker 3: But here's the thing, Lance. That period of time after
19:28
Speaker 3: I got done.
19:28
Speaker 4: In the NFL, before I started working for ESPN, I
19:31
Speaker 4: got in a lot of trouble around the stadium. It
19:33
Speaker 4: wasn't the best representation for me. The all-day tailgating, I
19:39
Speaker 4: don't have the off switch. And so I think the
19:41
Speaker 4: best thing for me is to be away and go
19:44
Speaker 4: do some professional work and not be tempted by all
19:47
Speaker 4: the fun that everybody's having in the parking lot.
19:49
Speaker 1: I look at you growing up. I don't have an
19:52
Speaker 1: off switch. Yeah, I know. No, we've been in Nashville.
19:55
Speaker 1: Chris Doering, SEC Network. Thank you, Doering. Enjoy the weekend.
19:58
Speaker 1: Always fun catching up. Yeah, I love you, boys.
20:01
Speaker 5: Thanks for having me.
20:01
Speaker 1: We'll see you. Chris Doering with us on the show,
20:04
Speaker 1: talking SEC football. Fun that we got enough good teams.
20:08
Speaker 1: I mean, we can just motor through teams. We didn't
20:11
Speaker 1: even get to all of them. Yeah, I know.
20:12
Speaker 2: Were you really– are you just saying this about Ole Miss,
20:15
Speaker 2: or do you really think it's easy money?
20:17
Speaker 1: Oh, how is it not easy money?
20:20
Speaker 2: Coming off that high, going into that smoltering freaking swamp.
20:25
Speaker 1: It will be. A thousand degrees. Oh, it'll be a
20:28
Speaker 1: thousand degrees. But I was just going to say as
20:29
Speaker 1: far as, is that the? 230. 230, yeah. I love Florida.
20:34
Speaker 1: It will take five and a half to six hours
20:37
Speaker 1: to play. Those four quarters, the lightning delays will be
20:42
Speaker 1: through the roof.
20:43
Speaker 2: I think Ole Miss is really good. They can't keep up, though,
20:46
Speaker 2: like right now with where they are. I think this
20:48
Speaker 2: thing plays out perfectly for Florida.
20:50
Speaker 1: I don't know the last time the Swamp will be
20:53
Speaker 1: this engaged. I mean, I can't imagine the last time
20:58
Speaker 1: they've had a– A home game where they've had this
21:01
Speaker 1: good of an opponent, but at the same time felt
21:03
Speaker 1: this good about their team.
21:04
Speaker 2: Yeah, and do you guys believe if they win this game,
21:07
Speaker 2: I mean, are you starting to put like Florida as
21:09
Speaker 2: a team that can get to a college football playoff?
21:12
Speaker 1: Let me see their defense Saturday, Lance, and I know
21:14
Speaker 1: you're going up against a good offense. Their defense against Auburn,
21:18
Speaker 1: I mean, got run pretty good. I agree. I don't
21:21
Speaker 1: know how good their defense is. And John Summerall has,
21:23
Speaker 1: in both wins, has said our defense ain't where it
21:26
Speaker 1: needs to be. Everybody can get all excited. Our defense
21:28
Speaker 1: is not where it needs to be, and it wasn't
21:30
Speaker 1: in both wins before Auburn, and it wasn't with Auburn either.
21:32
Speaker 1: And now you've got another good offense coming in. I
21:34
Speaker 1: don't know that they've got the defense to be a
21:36
Speaker 1: real SEC contender. Again, we make jokes about Buster Faulkner,
21:39
Speaker 1: but every football mind we have on this show lines
21:42
Speaker 1: up and talks about what an amazing offense he has.
21:44
Speaker 3: 100%.
21:45
Speaker 1: I was trying to get the 10-day forecast here in Gainesville.
21:49
Speaker 1: I know there's nothing we can do about it. Nothing
21:52
Speaker 1: we can do about it. The high temperature is only
21:54
Speaker 1: 83 Saturday. Oh, that's not bad at all. Yeah, in Gainesville. Yeah,
21:58
Speaker 1: and that's partly sunny. We've got a big cooling spell
22:00
Speaker 1: coming on. Thank God. Yeah, man. I'll tell you this run.
22:03
Speaker 1: Am I in Gainesville, Florida? I want to make sure
22:05
Speaker 1: I've got this right here. It could be Gainesville, Georgia. Yeah, Gainesville, Florida.
22:09
Speaker 1: I'm seeing that it's cooling off. It's 83 on Saturday.
22:13
Speaker 3: Nice.
22:14
Speaker 1: That'd be a nice day in the swamp. 5% chance
22:16
Speaker 1: of rain.
22:17
Speaker 2: Did Doreen not say that if they win this game,
22:19
Speaker 2: the schedule opens up a little bit?
22:21
Speaker 1: I didn't hear him say that. Maybe you did. Did
22:23
Speaker 1: you hear him say that? I did not hear him
22:24
Speaker 1: say that. Yeah, he did. Okay, he said it.
22:26
Speaker 2: So after this, then they got to go to Missouri,
22:30
Speaker 2: South Carolina, I'll give them, at Texas, Georgia, Oklahoma, at Kentucky.
22:35
Speaker 3: Okay.
22:36
Speaker 1: Is that open enough? I don't know. I mean, yeah.
22:38
Speaker 1: I mean, there's no open schedule in the SEC right now.
22:41
Speaker 1: I think the SEC is too good. That's right. We
22:42
Speaker 1: can pull up any schedule and you're like, my gosh.
22:44
Speaker 1: Oklahoma's 12th in the league in our books. You could
22:47
Speaker 1: be like, my gosh, at the games these teams have
22:49
Speaker 1: to play. I need to see more from Missouri. I mean,
22:54
Speaker 1: this is a crazy statement. I can't believe I'm saying it.
22:57
Speaker 1: It opens up, Brownie, for two games and you play
22:59
Speaker 1: number one and number two in the country. I know,
23:01
Speaker 1: I know. That's nuts. He said he thought they could
23:04
Speaker 1: get to nine wins. Wouldn't you think they'd be favored
23:07
Speaker 1: in five more games after beating Ole Miss? If they
23:09
Speaker 1: beat Ole Miss, they can get to nine wins. Yeah,
23:11
Speaker 1: I think they might be.
23:12
Speaker 2: Depending on what Missouri, because I pointed this game out yesterday,
23:15
Speaker 2: if Missouri beats Mississippi State and Florida wins this game
23:18
Speaker 2: against Ole Miss.
23:19
Speaker 1: You've got a really interesting game in Columbia next week.
23:21
Speaker 1: Here's the world we're living in. I was about to say,
23:24
Speaker 1: I'm not sold on Missouri quite yet. We'll find out
23:27
Speaker 1: a lot as they go to Starkville this Saturday. I
23:29
Speaker 1: can't believe I'm saying that. We're doing our upset alert
23:32
Speaker 1: in the next segment. That Missouri logo was tempting this weekend.
23:37
Speaker 1: Lance has thought about it, so we'll see where we go.
23:40
Speaker 1: But 10-2 is in play for Florida if they win
23:43
Speaker 1: this week. If they can beat Ole Miss, it's in play.
23:45
Speaker 2: To Brooks' point, the only time they're going to be underdogs–
23:48
Speaker 2: Maybe at Missouri, but definitely at Texas and Georgia.
23:51
Speaker 1: But that's it. I know we joke. Look, the Oklahoma
23:54
Speaker 1: thing I know is a bit of a running joke
23:56
Speaker 1: on the show. But having to play Texas, Georgia, Oklahoma
23:59
Speaker 1: in three consecutive weeks, that's brutal. That's a brutal, brutal stretch.
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Speaker 1: many big ones this week down in the swamp, but
24:54
Speaker 1: number four Ole Miss on the road at number 21, Florida.
24:58
Speaker 1: Here is Pete Golding getting asked if there's anything he
25:02
Speaker 1: can take away from Ole Miss's last trip to Florida
25:05
Speaker 1: where they got beaten 2024, and that cost Ole Miss
25:08
Speaker 1: a playoff spot.
25:10
Speaker 6: Obviously, every season is independent of its own, but is
25:13
Speaker 6: there anything about that experience for you in 2024 that
25:16
Speaker 6: can help you and your guys this week? No, I mean,
25:20
Speaker 6: other than obviously you can't take them lightly regardless, you know,
25:23
Speaker 6: I mean, obviously we're the underdog anyway going into the game. So,
25:25
Speaker 6: I mean, I don't know how you can take them
25:26
Speaker 6: lightly anyway, but just the mindset. I think we had
25:30
Speaker 6: some guys on that team before that hadn't played there.
25:33
Speaker 6: I think it's a unique atmosphere there. They do a
25:35
Speaker 6: really good job. It's a hard place to play. So
25:38
Speaker 6: I don't think anything independently for me, but I knew
25:41
Speaker 6: going into that game, that's a hard place to play.
25:43
Speaker 6: We were number one in the country. Alabama went over
25:45
Speaker 6: there and beat them by one possession. It was a
25:47
Speaker 6: tough-ass game to do that as well. I know it's
25:51
Speaker 6: a tough taste to play. They've got really good players.
25:54
Speaker 6: They're rolling right now. They're playing confident. If there's anybody
25:58
Speaker 6: in this building that's overlooking this game, there's something wrong
26:01
Speaker 6: with them. Hopefully our guys understand don't work this hard
26:05
Speaker 6: to put yourself in the position and then not do
26:07
Speaker 6: what it takes.
26:09
Speaker 5: We'll see.
26:10
Speaker 6: That's why we practice. That's why we coach, but No,
26:12
Speaker 6: I don't think there's anything from that game that I
26:15
Speaker 6: can really go into. I'm like, hey, I'm going to
26:16
Speaker 6: do this more than I did before.
26:18
Speaker 1: No. Don't worry, Pete. Easy game in Gainesville. I love
26:23
Speaker 1: how coaches never know the point spread until the point
26:25
Speaker 1: spread could be a motivator. And then I know we're underdogs.
26:28
Speaker 1: We're the underdogs. I wish it was four and a half.
26:30
Speaker 1: I just cursive wrote that Ole Miss down easy. Hotty
26:34
Speaker 1: toddy for you. Hotty blinking toddy. I don't think it's
26:38
Speaker 1: an easy game. It is a weird point spread, though.
26:40
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a weird point spread. Ole Miss.
26:43
Speaker 2: I would have put it at Florida one and a half.
26:45
Speaker 3: Yeah.
26:46
Speaker 2: And I do think Kiwan Lacy, look, he left the
26:49
Speaker 2: Louisville game banged up. He left the LSU game in
26:52
Speaker 2: the third quarter banged up. He's questionable. If he doesn't play,
26:55
Speaker 2: you know, he's worth a point.
26:57
Speaker 1: If Florida had won at Auburn 44-20 or 44-18, I'd
26:59
Speaker 1: be like, okay, I see it. But I thought Florida
27:05
Speaker 1: showed enough cracks at Auburn. And Keewan Lacy's a big loss,
27:08
Speaker 1: there's no doubt.
27:08
Speaker 2: I thought the penalties and some defensive mishaps. But, I mean,
27:12
Speaker 2: that game was too touchdown game.
27:14
Speaker 1: Oh, no, I'm not saying that it was an actual
27:16
Speaker 1: close game. Auburn did not have a chance to win
27:18
Speaker 1: that game. Yeah, but Auburn put up 39 points. That's
27:20
Speaker 1: my point, yeah. I'm just saying, like, in terms of
27:24
Speaker 1: points spread, if it had been 44-18, I'd be like, whew.
27:26
Speaker 1: If a guy who's getting sacked every other play, it
27:28
Speaker 1: seems like, can put up 39, what can Trinidad Chambliss do?
27:33
Speaker 2: Yeah he'll they'll put some points.
27:34
Speaker 1: That's what worries me i do think it'll be attracting
27:37
Speaker 1: me so 71 70 should be a fun game coming
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Speaker 1: identical to the College Game Day Superdog segment, Upset Alert Time.
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Speaker 1: where it's got to be four and a half. This
29:05
Speaker 1: is key as we move throughout the year because there's
29:07
Speaker 1: a lot of three and a halfs that people like.
29:09
Speaker 1: It's got to be at least a four and a
29:11
Speaker 1: half point spread. You get five points for the cover,
29:14
Speaker 1: five points plus the spread for an outright win. So
29:18
Speaker 1: sometimes it's not smart to just play four and a half,
29:20
Speaker 1: five and a half. Maybe if you see a good
29:22
Speaker 1: one That can get you 13, 15, 18 extra points.
29:25
Speaker 1: You can widen the gap in the standings as you
29:27
Speaker 1: move throughout the year. I had this thing like it
29:30
Speaker 1: was done. I had a 15.5-point underdog. They're up 28-7.
29:33
Speaker 2: Whoa, that's a winner. At halftime, you guys, I guess,
29:37
Speaker 2: weren't paying attention. Miami of Ohio on the road against Cincinnati.
29:40
Speaker 2: You know, I was not watching that game.
29:41
Speaker 1: I was going to get you 20.5 points.
29:44
Speaker 2: So I gave it out, too, at Lance's log. But
29:46
Speaker 2: watching that game of the second half, they missed two
29:49
Speaker 2: field goals. They threw an interception. They had three fumbles
29:52
Speaker 2: all in the second half. They couldn't have done anything worse.
29:56
Speaker 2: They found a way.
29:57
Speaker 1: To lose that game 35-31. Yeah, so things like that
30:01
Speaker 1: make it fun to watch these games. I will not
30:03
Speaker 1: watch mine this week, but here's the standings. Everybody got
30:07
Speaker 1: points this week except me. Forrester and I are still
30:10
Speaker 1: the only ones with the outright winner. Forrester, you got
30:12
Speaker 1: yours this weekend, correct?
30:14
Speaker 5: I did. Team Rich Rod put it on the Cavaliers.
30:17
Speaker 1: They sure did. West Virginia over Virginia. A little bit
30:19
Speaker 1: of a surprise there in your book. A little bit, yeah.
30:22
Speaker 1: I would agree. And Oklahoma State had them down. Excuse me.
30:25
Speaker 2: They play Oklahoma State this weekend. But Virginia had them
30:28
Speaker 2: down early. And then the second half, Michael Hawkins just
30:31
Speaker 2: took the game over.
30:32
Speaker 1: Michael Hawkins, who I was going to bring up, West
30:35
Speaker 1: Virginia quarterback, left Oklahoma because they brought John Mateer in. Yep.
30:40
Speaker 2: Well, they didn't think Michael Hawkins could throw it.
30:42
Speaker 1: Well, he couldn't. He couldn't. I don't think they changed anything.
30:46
Speaker 1: Michael Hawkins looks really good running that zone read rushing
30:50
Speaker 1: offense of Rich Rod.
30:51
Speaker 2: This scoreboard can change quickly. I cannot believe Miami, Ohio
30:54
Speaker 2: lost that game.
30:55
Speaker 1: Yeah, it can change quickly. Right now, LT got a cover.
30:58
Speaker 1: Brooks got a cover. Brown got his second cover. Forrester
31:02
Speaker 1: got an outright winner. I've got an outright winner. We
31:04
Speaker 1: look for covers or winners this week in our upset alert.
31:07
Speaker 1: Let's start with you, Lance. Where do you want to go, man?
31:10
Speaker 1: I am going to go to the SEC. SEC.
31:13
Speaker 3: SEC.
31:14
Speaker 1: SEC.
31:14
Speaker 2: I started drawing this yesterday. And after my second attempt,
31:21
Speaker 2: I told Luke he was back there watching. He was like,
31:22
Speaker 2: you've got no shot at this. So I just gave up.
31:24
Speaker 1: So it's shaky. But I had to go old school logo.
31:28
Speaker 1: So you went with the wagon. I like the wagon.
31:30
Speaker 1: What were you trying to do, the interlocking OU? No, no, no.
31:33
Speaker 1: He's trying to do the wagon, but the horse.
31:35
Speaker 2: Yeah, so this was like their logo in the 50s. Tyler,
31:38
Speaker 2: you can pull it real quick if you can find it.
31:41
Speaker 2: But yeah, the horses aren't great. But back to this game.
31:46
Speaker 1: Two horses? Yeah.
31:47
Speaker 2: Oklahoma's defense, good enough to keep them in it. John
31:51
Speaker 2: Mateer cannot put the ball in harm's way, though. This
31:55
Speaker 2: is going to have to be a defensive struggle back
31:57
Speaker 2: and forth. I think Oklahoma's going to play it extremely tight.
32:00
Speaker 1: Georgia has not been tested. You're not that far off. Yeah,
32:02
Speaker 1: that's pretty good. I'll give you credit on that one.
32:04
Speaker 1: Good job.
32:05
Speaker 7: It's a tough angle to interpret.
32:07
Speaker 1: It is. I thought the horse was dead. I thought
32:11
Speaker 1: we'd literally... Well, Haysky's getting there. I thought we were
32:13
Speaker 1: literally beating a dead horse. He's on the Oregon Trail.
32:15
Speaker 1: They're leaving Oklahoma. They got dysentery already? Yeah.
32:18
Speaker 2: I do think this is going to be a really
32:19
Speaker 2: good game. I don't think you guys see a path
32:22
Speaker 2: for Oklahoma.
32:23
Speaker 1: I do not see a path for Oklahoma. That's how
32:25
Speaker 1: you get 14.5 points in conference. Yeah, I just think
32:28
Speaker 1: nothing to do with Oklahoma. I just think Georgia is
32:30
Speaker 1: that good. Oh, there's something to do with Oklahoma. I
32:32
Speaker 1: think Georgia is that good, but I think this is
32:35
Speaker 1: easy money. You know what will be happening to the timeout?
32:37
Speaker 1: He doesn't care what you said. He wanted me to
32:39
Speaker 1: say it, and I said it for him. Nate Frazier
32:41
Speaker 1: is banged up.
32:43
Speaker 2: Gunner Stockton has not seen a defense like this this year.
32:46
Speaker 2: 12 sacks already, fourth in the FBS. They're only giving
32:49
Speaker 2: up 104 passing yards, so I think there's going to
32:51
Speaker 2: be a ton of pressure on Gunner. Oklahoma's already played
32:55
Speaker 2: in the big house this year, so I don't think
32:56
Speaker 2: the atmosphere is going to bother them.
32:58
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be a heck of a game.
32:59
Speaker 1: I really do. I don't know who's doing that game.
33:04
Speaker 1: I don't know who's doing the announcers. Herb Street and
33:06
Speaker 1: Fowler are doing Tennessee and Texas, but we'll be coming
33:09
Speaker 1: back from a timeout, and the play-by-play guy will say...
33:12
Speaker 1: Look at these Georgia defensive linemen doing these drills again.
33:15
Speaker 1: Apparently they're not getting enough from the Oklahoma offense again
33:18
Speaker 1: this week. I would assume it's going to be Joe
33:21
Speaker 1: Tess and Jesse Fultz. You think so? Is it the
33:23
Speaker 1: 2.30 ABC game? Yeah.
33:25
Speaker 3: Yeah.
33:26
Speaker 1: Don't tell me McIlroy and McDonough, the voice of the
33:28
Speaker 1: Crimson Tide, are they back on South Carolina-Alabama this week? No,
33:30
Speaker 1: they'll be prime time on ABC. Yeah, they'll be A & M- LSU. Oh,
33:34
Speaker 1: that's right.
33:34
Speaker 3: Yeah.
33:37
Speaker 1: Just McElroy's going to get the game. Who do we
33:38
Speaker 1: have for Oregon USC on NBC? That's Todd Blackledge and
33:42
Speaker 1: Noah Eagle. Yeah, Little Eagle. Little Eagle. Back to the
33:46
Speaker 1: upset alert. LT's got Oklahoma as his upset alert against Georgia.
33:50
Speaker 1: Let's go to Brooks on the back row with his
33:53
Speaker 1: very small teeny tiny board.
33:55
Speaker 2: Jim, can I actually defer to Scott because we have
33:58
Speaker 2: the same pick and I don't want to take away
34:00
Speaker 2: from his AI.
34:01
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's do that. Okay, well, so Brooks and Forrester.
34:04
Speaker 1: Separate picks. We never let anybody know who we're doing.
34:08
Speaker 1: So they walked in today with the same pick. So
34:10
Speaker 1: both Brooks and Forrester, give us your AI, Forrester.
34:13
Speaker 5: All right.
34:14
Speaker 8: So I hope everybody watching joins us Monday mornings with
34:20
Speaker 8: Tom Lugenbill on Monday Morning Live.
34:23
Speaker 1: I would agree with that. Great promo. Yeah. Right? I
34:26
Speaker 1: thought so. Is this a Lugenbill game that he's doing?
34:30
Speaker 5: Well, no.
34:31
Speaker 8: But one of the things that I've heard Lugenbill say
34:34
Speaker 8: recently is that nobody is safe.
34:37
Speaker 1: Nobody's safe. Nobody's safe. He's right.
34:40
Speaker 5: Nobody.
34:40
Speaker 1: Nobody is safe.
34:41
Speaker 5: Nobody, including friends of the show. Like Matt Rule.
34:45
Speaker 1: Oh, no. Don't do it. Don't do it.
34:48
Speaker 5: We're going to East Lansing. We got another mascot fight.
34:52
Speaker 6: Oh, wow.
34:52
Speaker 5: Sparty's going to put it on Herbie Husker.
34:56
Speaker 1: That Sparty could take down a lot of other mascots.
34:57
Speaker 1: He's thick.
34:58
Speaker 8: And then Matt Rule in his TNR gear is going
35:01
Speaker 8: to be incredulous on the sideline.
35:03
Speaker 1: Don't have him losing in our gear.
35:04
Speaker 5: Give me Sparty plus five and a half.
35:07
Speaker 1: His black hoodie of death not working.
35:10
Speaker 5: It's not.
35:10
Speaker 1: I'll tell you, they've been solid. They played Notre Dame
35:13
Speaker 1: about as good as you can play them. I didn't
35:15
Speaker 1: know that. I didn't think you were talking about Nebraska.
35:17
Speaker 1: Nebraska's unbeaten right now. They are, Jim.
35:19
Speaker 5: Wrong team's favored in this game.
35:22
Speaker 1: It's bad loss. God, I hate to make another good pick.
35:24
Speaker 1: Bad loss for friend of the show. I don't know
35:26
Speaker 1: who I cheer for against the most in this. It's
35:30
Speaker 1: between you and Lance. I also pick Michigan State. Wow, two.
35:38
Speaker 5: Scott looked over at me like, oh, no. And I'm like, okay,
35:41
Speaker 5: I'll let you go first so I don't ruin it.
35:42
Speaker 1: Truthfully, you're Arkansas. I don't really pay attention to you.
35:45
Speaker 5: That's all right.
35:46
Speaker 3: Wow.
35:47
Speaker 1: Okay, here's mine. You're going to think this is a
35:50
Speaker 1: Canadian Football League logo when I put it up. We
35:53
Speaker 1: don't do CFL and upset alert, Jim. No chance in hell.
35:56
Speaker 1: It's late at night, but I'll never, ever. But I
35:59
Speaker 1: feel like in their first MAAC game ever, Sacramento State
36:05
Speaker 1: is going to beat UMass. They're getting four and a
36:07
Speaker 1: half at home against unbeaten UMass. UMass is unbeaten. I
36:12
Speaker 1: don't think UMass, the Minutemen, can handle the pressure of
36:15
Speaker 1: the college football world talking about them as an unbeaten team.
36:19
Speaker 1: Sacramento State leads FBS in turnover margin. They are minus six.
36:26
Speaker 1: Nobody has turned it over more and not taken it
36:29
Speaker 1: away more than Sacramento State. They don't get turnovers, and
36:33
Speaker 1: they give it up all the time. They put it together.
36:36
Speaker 1: They've been building. They paid their way to join this league,
36:40
Speaker 1: the MAAC. They're actually paying UMass to come out to
36:43
Speaker 1: play the game in the MAAC. Even though it's a
36:45
Speaker 1: conference game, they're paying for the travel, the hotel. It's
36:49
Speaker 1: all Sacramento State this weekend. Money on the line, take
36:52
Speaker 1: the four and a half, Sac State. That logo, do
36:54
Speaker 1: you have any idea Sac State's mascot? I don't watch
36:57
Speaker 1: that football. They're the Hornets. No, I was just going
36:59
Speaker 1: to say, by that logo, there's no chance you could
37:02
Speaker 1: tell what they are. Oh, no. What are they? No,
37:04
Speaker 1: they're the Hornets. I don't even understand what the logo is.
37:09
Speaker 1: But it's a bunch of curbs.
37:11
Speaker 5: Like some kind of sea creature.
37:12
Speaker 1: Yeah.
37:13
Speaker 7: I was thinking serpents or dragons.
37:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, almost like the crack in the Seattle.
37:18
Speaker 3: Yeah.
37:18
Speaker 1: If it was the Rough Riders, you'd be like, oh,
37:22
Speaker 1: Saskatchewan's playing this weekend.
37:23
Speaker 3: Saskatchewan.
37:24
Speaker 1: Saskatchewan. Have you seen the teams that UMass has beaten
37:27
Speaker 1: to get 3-0? They beat Rutgers. Since then, Sacred Heart
37:34
Speaker 1: and Stonehill. Can you tell me where either one of
37:36
Speaker 1: those schools are? Nope, nope. Not on my TV.
37:39
Speaker 5: Sacred Heart's in Anniston, right?
37:41
Speaker 1: That's right, yeah. Stony Hill's just off 119. It's a subdivision.
37:46
Speaker 1: Here we go. Big winner for me. That'll be nine
37:48
Speaker 1: and a half more points. Put it in there, Sac State.
37:50
Speaker 1: The Bandit's back. Hey, Bandit, how are you doing? What's up, losers? Losers.
37:54
Speaker 1: You got a cover. I did get a cover. We're
37:56
Speaker 1: just warming up, Jim. You got covers two out of
37:59
Speaker 1: three weeks.
37:59
Speaker 5: We did.
37:59
Speaker 1: Now, I did not realize you guys changed the rules
38:02
Speaker 1: on me. Same rules for five years. Wait a minute. No, Dunaway,
38:07
Speaker 1: he watches game day and he changes with those guys.
38:09
Speaker 1: I know. I think the rules have changed. It's the
38:11
Speaker 1: same rule. It has not been the same rule. Three years.
38:14
Speaker 5: At least three years that I've used that same graphic.
38:17
Speaker 1: It has not changed at all. The rules have it.
38:19
Speaker 1: So we're not now picking teams that will get beat
38:21
Speaker 1: by the point spread because of Solance's drawing. Oklahoma. Burn
38:29
Speaker 1: the wagons. We're not coming back. Oklahoma. My wife's got
38:34
Speaker 1: a better offense than Oklahoma. General South. I don't know
38:37
Speaker 1: what that means. It's a lot. Hi, boys. Hi, boys.
38:41
Speaker 1: They've been so excited about this segment all week. Since yesterday. Because. Actually,
38:47
Speaker 1: since this morning. Since this morning.
38:48
Speaker 5: I'm sorry you changed your logo.
38:49
Speaker 1: This morning. Don't pull back the curtain. I had the
38:54
Speaker 1: first time ever a 30-star pick this weekend.
38:58
Speaker 5: That's a lot of stars.
38:59
Speaker 1: It is a lot of stars. I had 30 of
39:00
Speaker 1: them on it. And I told, you know, I don't
39:02
Speaker 1: take any clients that don't have a liquid net worth
39:05
Speaker 1: of $ 50 million or more. And I told them, clean
39:07
Speaker 1: out the bank account. All of it, all of it
39:10
Speaker 1: on Vandy plus three and a half. Easiest cover ever.
39:14
Speaker 1: Easy winner. Vandy minus three and a half. Easiest winner
39:16
Speaker 1: I've ever had, boy. Easy winner. So when I give
39:18
Speaker 1: you a win, I got a drink.
39:20
Speaker 5: Get you a swig there.
39:21
Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
39:22
Speaker 1: It's hard to keep this voice for three minutes. You
39:24
Speaker 1: sound parched. I know. When I make a pick, you
39:28
Speaker 1: know you can take it to the bank. Wait a second.
39:29
Speaker 1: Did we just find out that Nate Oates is the
39:31
Speaker 1: Brown Bandit? Only in basketball. Starting to sound like Christian
39:35
Speaker 1: Bell Batman.
39:36
Speaker 7: Bandit's only got one bottle of water. Nate Oates has five.
39:39
Speaker 1: At all times. You've had three in this segment by now.
39:41
Speaker 1: All right. How many points do you get in overtime
39:46
Speaker 1: on those stupid two-point conversion things? Two. Two. This game's
39:49
Speaker 1: going to be two-nothing. I got Iowa plus five and
39:53
Speaker 1: a half. It goes scoreless to overtime. They can't score
39:57
Speaker 1: on the big field overtime, so they go to the
39:59
Speaker 1: short field overtime, the short bus overtime. And then.
40:04
Speaker 1: Iowa plus five and a half. That's a really good Hawkeye.
40:06
Speaker 1: Thank you. It is a very good Hawkeye, Lance. Thank
40:08
Speaker 1: you very much.
40:09
Speaker 5: That thing's got a mullet.
40:10
Speaker 1: Iowa, it is the mullet. It's the bird with the mullet.
40:12
Speaker 1: It's the Iowa Hawkeyes. They're giving me five and a
40:15
Speaker 1: half points in the big house. Tyler Johns. We don't
40:19
Speaker 1: need him! We don't need him! Did you throw away
40:21
Speaker 1: that black Sharpie? Might as well. The old Sharpie police
40:26
Speaker 1: every week. Iowa, plus five and a half, wins outright
40:31
Speaker 1: in the big house.
40:32
Speaker 7: I mean, it looks like it's dripping a little bit, too.
40:34
Speaker 1: No points in this game. Can we get new Sharpies
40:37
Speaker 1: before next week? I don't know why this segment always
40:40
Speaker 1: has to end up with Sharpies. You don't want Sharpies.
40:43
Speaker 1: That'll stay on the board forever. That's right. I think
40:45
Speaker 1: we can get it off. We need XCO markers.
40:47
Speaker 7: With enough 409, anything's possible.
40:50
Speaker 1: Don't spray it in the back room.
40:52
Speaker 5: Brown loves that 409.
40:53
Speaker 1: We do need all new markers. Let's get new markers
40:56
Speaker 1: for next week. This was a new marker. It was.
41:01
Speaker 1: I still got it right here.
41:04
Speaker 3: Look.
41:04
Speaker 1: Some thick shading there. Those do pretty good black, by
41:07
Speaker 1: the way. That's the only one that would work. I know.
41:09
Speaker 1: They do pretty good black. Yeah. All right. Use this.
41:13
Speaker 1: You never go back. When we come back, we'll use
41:19
Speaker 1: these other dry erase boards. All right.
41:21
Speaker 4: More boards.
41:24
Speaker 1: Clay didn't know what he was getting into. What a
41:25
Speaker 1: budget this show has. Tested or not. Tested or not.
41:29
Speaker 1: Some of these names have popped up already in the show.
41:31
Speaker 1: Tested or not. Tested or not. When we come back
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43:48
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say Notre Dame a little more tested
43:56
Speaker 2: than the other three. I mean, they've played two Big
43:58
Speaker 2: Ten teams, Wisconsin and Michigan State.
44:00
Speaker 1: Wisconsin and Michigan State. So you'd put Notre Dame in
44:02
Speaker 1: the tested? I wouldn't say tested, but more tested than
44:04
Speaker 1: that group. You'd put them in a bad group. Yeah,
44:06
Speaker 1: the other three in that group have not been tested
44:08
Speaker 1: at all. Okay, can we say Texas and Ole Miss
44:15
Speaker 1: have been tested? Oh, yeah, for sure. Here's where the
44:19
Speaker 1: debate starts.
44:20
Speaker 2: I mean, Ole Miss is the only team that's beat
44:21
Speaker 2: two ranked teams in college football.
44:23
Speaker 1: It's what Pete does, man. I'm just saying it's what
44:25
Speaker 1: he does.
44:25
Speaker 5: That's all he does.
44:25
Speaker 1: I was just, for time constraints, I was trying to
44:28
Speaker 1: get the obviouses out of the way. Michigan tested? Yeah,
44:36
Speaker 1: they played an SEC team, regardless of how we feel
44:38
Speaker 1: about Oklahoma. I mean, an SEC team in the big house. Okay,
44:42
Speaker 1: I would agree. And maybe, maybe we'll see this weekend
44:45
Speaker 1: the group of six teams representative in the playoffs. I mean,
44:49
Speaker 1: Western Michigan could still do that if they can win
44:50
Speaker 1: this game this weekend against Boise. Yeah, what do you
44:52
Speaker 1: think a ticket in Kalamazoo is? I checked this. Oh, wow.
44:55
Speaker 1: How big is that stadium? It's Boise State at Western Michigan,
44:57
Speaker 1: for those that don't know. And Western Michigan, a six
45:00
Speaker 1: and a half point underdog at home? Yeah, yeah. I
45:02
Speaker 1: looked at it on Upstate. I have no idea. You
45:04
Speaker 1: can get a ticket as low as $ 38.
45:05
Speaker 3: Really?
45:06
Speaker 1: Yeah. For arguably the... Waldo Field. For arguably the biggest
45:11
Speaker 1: game in Western Michigan history. Oh, I don't think it's arguable.
45:14
Speaker 1: Go back to the P.J.
45:14
Speaker 2: Flack and maybe one of those games that Put them
45:17
Speaker 2: in the MAAC championship to get to a.
45:19
Speaker 1: Yeah, but this could get you in the playoffs. I mean,
45:21
Speaker 1: this could punch their ticket. I mean, they did play
45:23
Speaker 1: in a New Year's Six.
45:26
Speaker 3: Yeah.
45:26
Speaker 1: 35 bucks? BYU tested against Arizona, right?
45:30
Speaker 2: Yeah.
45:30
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll give them a test. That was a good win.
45:32
Speaker 3: No.
45:32
Speaker 1: That was a good win. Alabama.
45:35
Speaker 5: Alabama.
45:37
Speaker 1: Tested yet i'm gonna say tested they've played an sec
45:39
Speaker 1: road game not not a lot of teams have done
45:41
Speaker 1: that just yet.
45:42
Speaker 2: I mean it looks tricky now kentucky had them down
45:45
Speaker 2: at half and then kentucky to be able to go
45:46
Speaker 2: on the road and kyle and win that game so.
45:48
Speaker 1: Yeah i would go test i know florida state's probably
45:50
Speaker 1: going to start falling apart here and probably fire their
45:52
Speaker 1: coach mid-season so it's going to be hard to argue
45:55
Speaker 1: that but to meet kentucky down on the road at
45:58
Speaker 1: the half and having to come back i mean it's
45:59
Speaker 1: a conference road game yeah are we gonna disagree on
46:02
Speaker 1: any of these we may um Tennessee, tested yet or not? Not, no.
46:09
Speaker 1: Georgia Tech's no good. Georgia Tech's terrible. I'll put a
46:11
Speaker 1: no as well. Utah, tested yet or not? No. I mean, Arkansas.
46:18
Speaker 1: Arkansas is the best team they've played for. Worst team
46:20
Speaker 1: in the SEC. Florida, tested yet or not? Yeah, 100%.
46:25
Speaker 1: I mean, you went on, again, I'm going to say
46:27
Speaker 1: it again, a road game in the SEC.
46:28
Speaker 2: It's Kentucky-like.
46:30
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, I think Kentucky's better than Auburn right now, maybe.
46:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say Kentucky's better, but it's tougher to
46:36
Speaker 2: play in Jordan-Hare.
46:38
Speaker 3: 100%.
46:38
Speaker 1: Night game, Jordan-Hare versus early game at Commonwealth. I would
46:42
Speaker 1: go not tested yet. Penn State. You went not tested.
46:45
Speaker 1: Penn State. Tested yet or not? Oh, not tested.
46:47
Speaker 3: No.
46:48
Speaker 1: Not even close. I don't even know the best team
46:49
Speaker 1: they've played. Temple. Is it Temple? I don't know. They
46:52
Speaker 1: played them on the road. I mean, there were probably
46:53
Speaker 1: more Penn State fans there. USC, tested yet or not? No.
46:58
Speaker 1: Not at all. Fresno's, the San Jose's, the Rutgers. Yeah, Rutgers,
47:01
Speaker 1: not at all. Conference road game, it doesn't count as that. Iowa,
47:04
Speaker 1: tested yet or not?
47:07
Speaker 2: You know, I don't think Iowa State's any good. But
47:11
Speaker 2: it's a rivalry game, Cy Hall.
47:13
Speaker 1: I'm going to say not testing. Another game I looked at,
47:16
Speaker 1: the Brown Bandit told me about on Upset Alert, Iowa State's,
47:19
Speaker 1: I mean, seven and a half with Utah coming in?
47:21
Speaker 1: It's up to eight and a half. Is it up
47:22
Speaker 1: to eight and a half? Okay. When I looked at it,
47:23
Speaker 1: it was seven and a half. I mean, that seemed
47:25
Speaker 1: a little small. I mean, it could be a tricky
47:29
Speaker 1: place to play. Yeah. I think Utah's much better, though.
47:33
Speaker 1: I would agree. That's why I thought the number was
47:35
Speaker 1: kind of small. Texas Tech. Tested yet or not? I mean,
47:41
Speaker 1: I'm going to say tested. They've played a top 25.
47:43
Speaker 1: You say not? Houston's good. Are they? I think.
47:46
Speaker 2: I mean, on paper, that's their most difficult game of
47:49
Speaker 2: the entire year.
47:51
Speaker 1: I think Wegman, I mean, you can't do this because
47:56
Speaker 1: how long ago was he at Texas A & M?
47:58
Speaker 1: Two years. Two years ago? He's a better quarterback than
48:00
Speaker 1: Marcel Reed. If they had Wegman instead of Marcel Reed,
48:03
Speaker 1: Texas A & M would be a better team. I
48:06
Speaker 1: don't disagree. Mississippi State, tested yet or not? Yeah, they
48:10
Speaker 1: play in South Carolina. I'll give them tested. How good
48:12
Speaker 1: is South Carolina? I don't know. And even Minnesota.
48:14
Speaker 2: I mean, to Doering's point, it was a bunch of
48:15
Speaker 2: white guys running around.
48:16
Speaker 1: But Minnesota is still a middling team in the Big Ten. Yep.
48:21
Speaker 1: I'll give you, put those two together. I'll give you that.
48:23
Speaker 1: Kansas State.
48:25
Speaker 2: Tulane, not enough. I'm going to say not tested.
48:30
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess.
48:30
Speaker 4: I mean.
48:31
Speaker 1: Not the same Tulane. But they played Arizona State. Tulane
48:35
Speaker 1: feels different with Will Hall. Wait a minute. They played
48:37
Speaker 1: Arizona State. Kansas State did. No, Kansas played Arizona State. Yeah,
48:40
Speaker 1: in London this past weekend. Kansas. Oh, that's right. Yeah,
48:44
Speaker 1: my bad. Had the wrong team. Second time you've said that.
48:46
Speaker 1: I know. Why do I keep thinking they played Kansas State?
48:48
Speaker 1: Because Kansas State last year played in Ireland. I even
48:51
Speaker 1: watched some of that game. Nebraska. Tested yet or not?
48:56
Speaker 1: I don't know who they played. Remind me. Yes, you're
48:57
Speaker 1: going to have to remind me of your schedule. Yeah,
49:00
Speaker 1: I don't think so either. Missouri, tested yet or not
49:02
Speaker 1: for Kansas. Yeah, it's not Kansas State, but they played
49:05
Speaker 1: at Kansas. I would say they're tested. Yeah. And look,
49:10
Speaker 1: Troy's not. That was a closer game probably than some
49:13
Speaker 1: people thought, 27-17.
49:14
Speaker 2: I think Eli Drinkwitz made sure it was.
49:16
Speaker 1: A close game. You think so?
49:17
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Missouri's got something for Mississippi State this week.
49:19
Speaker 1: Interesting. I do. I just don't trust them. But, I mean,
49:21
Speaker 1: you get what I'm saying. Troy is not just a
49:23
Speaker 1: complete pushover at a conference. I mean, that's a solid team.
49:26
Speaker 1: Virginia Tech, tested, not tested. These are all unbeaten teams. Well,
49:30
Speaker 1: they are scoring a bunch of points.
49:31
Speaker 2: They went into Maryland, not a difficult place, but still,
49:35
Speaker 2: that's a road win in the Big Ten.
49:37
Speaker 1: When did we start calling it the shell? That's new
49:39
Speaker 1: to me this year. It's a shell of a program.
49:43
Speaker 1: I called it the shell this morning.
49:44
Speaker 2: I read this morning that they gave him $ 47 million. Now,
49:48
Speaker 2: I don't know what all that includes. I'm talking about
49:50
Speaker 2: Mike Loxley. They said they provided all the resources he
49:55
Speaker 2: needed this year. And this is not going to be
49:58
Speaker 2: good for Mike Loxley.
49:59
Speaker 1: No, it takes more than one year, though. I think
50:02
Speaker 1: he's been there eight. I know. I'm just saying I
50:05
Speaker 1: need $ 47 million two years, and then I should be
50:08
Speaker 1: winning a lot next year.
50:09
Speaker 2: Well, $ 47 million, again, I don't know if that's the
50:11
Speaker 2: number I read, but that should at least get you
50:13
Speaker 2: to a bowl.
50:14
Speaker 1: Do you think Pitt's been tested yet? They're unbeaten.
50:19
Speaker 2: Who was the second-week game? I'm trying to remember.
50:23
Speaker 1: I had an upset. They played Syracuse. That was this
50:25
Speaker 1: past Thursday. UCF. UCF. That's right. I had an upset alert.
50:29
Speaker 3: No, they're not tested.
50:30
Speaker 1: Last one, UCLA. Tested yet or not? Not yet. Not yet,
50:34
Speaker 1: but again, I watch them a lot because it's that
50:36
Speaker 1: latest game every week now. San Diego State ain't worth shit.
50:40
Speaker 1: San Diego State's not good. I don't know if Cal is.
50:42
Speaker 1: Cal plays Clemson Friday night. We'll maybe learn a little
50:45
Speaker 1: bit more there. Yeah, Purdue's very average. Purdue's very average,
50:47
Speaker 1: but I like the way they look. Do you like
50:48
Speaker 1: Purdue's quarterback? Huh? Ryan Brown? Yeah. He can play. 29
50:54
Speaker 1: FBS Power 4 unbeaten teams still as we go to
50:57
Speaker 1: Week 4. Is that too many? Should we be playing...
51:01
Speaker 1: Tell me how many make it to October.
51:04
Speaker 2: I mean, how many of those 29 are guaranteed to
51:07
Speaker 2: lose this week with undefeated on undefeated?
51:09
Speaker 1: I mean, a lot of them. A lot of them.
51:13
Speaker 1: You get some of those in top 25. I mean, Northwestern,
51:15
Speaker 1: Indiana just started off on Friday night. They're both undefeated, right?
51:18
Speaker 1: That's right, yep. That's a loss for one of them. Texas, Tennessee. Texas, Tennessee.
51:28
Speaker 1: I'm going to miss some of these, but... We're just
51:30
Speaker 1: going to roll with it. Ole Miss, Florida. Ole Miss, Florida. Iowa, Michigan.
51:36
Speaker 1: Boise State, Western Michigan. Western Michigan loss. Even though Spencer
51:40
Speaker 1: Danielson said, which I would too if I was playing
51:42
Speaker 1: Western Michigan, in my eyes, they beat Michigan. That was
51:45
Speaker 1: his quote. Yeah, I would play up to that as
51:48
Speaker 1: best I could. Iowa, Michigan's on there. That's a guaranteed loss.
51:55
Speaker 1: Cincy and Kansas State, I think, are both undefeated.
51:58
Speaker 2: Missouri and Mississippi State are both undefeated.
52:01
Speaker 1: Several that should be unbeaten versus unbeaten. I bring that
52:05
Speaker 1: up only because Georgia and Clemson had made that long
52:08
Speaker 1: deal that was supposed to go all the way through...
52:11
Speaker 1: I mean, what was it?
52:13
Speaker 3: 2033.
52:14
Speaker 1: They're supposed to play every year through 2033. They canceled
52:17
Speaker 1: that yesterday. So Georgia-Clemson, which... For those that don't know,
52:22
Speaker 1: Athens and Clemson, South Carolina, other than Georgia Tech, that's
52:27
Speaker 1: about as close of a rivalry game Georgia's going to get.
52:30
Speaker 1: I guess Auburn. Auburn's pretty close. Auburn's a little closer
52:34
Speaker 1: than Clemson, but Clemson's really close.
52:36
Speaker 2: I was wondering when Georgia would back off these games, though.
52:40
Speaker 1: That was every year through 2033. Don't you get the
52:43
Speaker 1: feeling that that wasn't just Georgia because the SEC went
52:45
Speaker 1: to nine games, the ACC went to nine as well,
52:48
Speaker 1: and Clemson... Clemson doesn't seem to be the Clemson of old.
52:53
Speaker 1: They probably want that easier game, too. They're a underdog
52:56
Speaker 1: at Cal.
52:57
Speaker 2: Like, literally, let me ask you guys, how many teams
52:59
Speaker 2: in the SEC right now at this moment would be
53:03
Speaker 2: underdogs in Berkeley?
53:04
Speaker 1: Arkansas. Arkansas, for sure. Is that the only one? That
53:07
Speaker 1: would be the only one. I think that's it. I mean,
53:10
Speaker 1: South Carolina? Vanderbilt, maybe. South Carolina? I don't think so. Really? Yeah.
53:16
Speaker 1: South Carolina does not seem to like some of their
53:18
Speaker 1: parts right now. I mean, you've got a good quarterback
53:19
Speaker 1: on the Norris Sellers. Nick Harbaugh was back a receiver.
53:22
Speaker 1: You've got Dylan Stewart. Yeah, potentially. This is what's going
53:26
Speaker 1: to get. Potentially three first-round draft picks. What's going to
53:28
Speaker 1: get Beamer fired? Yeah.
53:30
Speaker 2: Well, what's going to get Beamer fired is he's lost
53:32
Speaker 2: 10 of his last 12 to power four teams.
53:34
Speaker 1: But he's doing it with these guys we just mentioned.
53:36
Speaker 1: I mean, those guys play in a lot of places.
53:38
Speaker 2: But that says a lot about Clemson. I mean, there
53:40
Speaker 2: would only be for sure one SEC team that would
53:43
Speaker 2: be in their spot.
53:44
Speaker 1: That South Carolina team comes and plays Alabama this week,
53:47
Speaker 1: and there's no given win in the SEC except for Arkansas.
53:52
Speaker 1: It's a tough game. I could see that being a
53:54
Speaker 1: one-possession game. Boy, it has been the last two years.
53:57
Speaker 1: Do you think Ryan Grubb and that offense gets booted
53:59
Speaker 1: at any point on Saturday?
54:02
Speaker 2: If I'm in the crowd and they're struggling, you better
54:04
Speaker 2: believe it.
54:05
Speaker 1: You better believe it. One thing I can guarantee you,
54:07
Speaker 1: Lance will not be in that crowd. You better believe it.
54:10
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54:13
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54:15
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