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Wednesday Edition of The Drive - Hour Two · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Speaker 1: The number you have reached. W.R.K.S. Pickens Jackson. From college
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  Speaker 2: by Maristar Casino. CBS Sports does their final power rankings
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  Speaker 2: for quarterbacks and we've gone through this a million times
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  Speaker 2: and I don't want to go through this exercise to
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  Speaker 2: go through it because of the ranking. I want to
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  Speaker 2: look at guys that We could see move. Like, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about move up the list. Like, who could
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  Speaker 2: be a household name? Maybe, I mean, we know Dante Moore,
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  Speaker 2: number one at Oregon, is going to have a, should,
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  Speaker 2: if these guys, if all things are created equal and
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  Speaker 2: these guys stay healthy, they should be really good. Dante
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  Speaker 2: Moore should have a really good year at Oregon. Arch
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  Speaker 2: Manning should have a really good year in Texas. Trinidad, Chambliss,
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  Speaker 2: and Ole Miss should be really good. Darian Mintz at Miami.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going through the list. Julian Sayen, C.J. Carr at
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  Speaker 2: Notre Dame. You know, Let's pause at number seven, Jaden Mavia, USC. Now,
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  Speaker 2: USC has already had one ball game. And let me
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  Speaker 2: look right quick if this thing will pull up. You know,
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  Speaker 2: Jaden Mavia is a guy, you know, if USC is
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  Speaker 2: going to make that next step, what's the next step?
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  Speaker 2: If they're going to be a player in the Big Ten,
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  Speaker 2: like a real player in the Big Ten, if they're
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  Speaker 2: going to be right there, you know, in that race
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  Speaker 2: in November, if they're going to make that kind of stride, well,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to come down. primarily to jay mavia and
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  Speaker 2: what he does and what he looks like and can
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  Speaker 2: he be even number seven can he move himself into
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  Speaker 2: that heisman conversation because that's where you got to be
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  Speaker 2: usc scored 42 points over the weekend and gave up
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  Speaker 2: 26 they cruised against san jose state and when you
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  Speaker 2: look at jay mavia and what he did over the
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  Speaker 2: weekend he was 29 or he was 25 of 29
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  Speaker 2: for 286 yards he threw a couple touchdowns had a
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  Speaker 2: little cleanup action from jonas williams he's a freshman quarterback
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  Speaker 2: and when you look at the Trojans over the weekend,
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  Speaker 2: Jaden Moffitt not a runner. I mean, three carries for
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  Speaker 2: minus nine. I mean, he was sacked a time or two.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't have a touchdown at the goal line, and
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  Speaker 2: USC not showing a ton in the run game. King Miller,
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  Speaker 2: their leading rusher, 15 carries for 63 yards. USC needs
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  Speaker 2: him to be really big if they're going to be
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  Speaker 2: really big, and they'll take on Fresno State coming up
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  Speaker 2: this weekend. Then they'll take on Lafayette, and then at Rutgers,
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  Speaker 2: There's an opportunity for them to be 4-0 when they
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  Speaker 2: host Oregon on the 26th of this month. It's hard
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  Speaker 2: to believe that, right? The 26th of this month, September,
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  Speaker 2: Oregon will play USC. And then they'll host Oregon and
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  Speaker 2: Washington back-to-back. So old Pac-12 foes, they'll host them back-to-back.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be like a reunion. Then they'll have two straight
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  Speaker 2: road games at Penn State, at Wisconsin, before having Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State at the Coliseum. So, I mean, there's going to
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  Speaker 2: be an opportunity to pack the Coliseum You know, regardless
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  Speaker 2: of what happened with San Jose State, doubtful that they'll
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  Speaker 2: pack it against Fresno, probably a little bigger crowd versus
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  Speaker 2: San Jose State. Doubtful they pack it against Louisiana, formerly Lafayette,
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  Speaker 2: but they will pack it for Oregon, Washington, and Ohio State.
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  Speaker 2: They do play Maryland at home. All right, looking on
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  Speaker 2: down this list as you kind of go through here,
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  Speaker 2: Josh Hoover, he's one of those guys. Indiana. Indiana, because
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  Speaker 2: they are the defending national champions and because of Kurt Cignetti,
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  Speaker 2: they're going to be on your TV screen all the time. SportsCenter,
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  Speaker 2: College Game Day, all the Fox specials, wherever you're watching
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  Speaker 2: your college football, Indiana's going to be there. As long
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  Speaker 2: as they win it, they're going to be there. Josh
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  Speaker 2: Hoover is the next man up. So he's following Fernando Mendoza, who,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, is now the backup, officially the backup
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  Speaker 2: quarterback for the Raiders. The Raiders have announced their starting quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: It was not Mendoza. But obviously that's the future. But
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  Speaker 2: Hoover's got to become the next Mendoza. Kevin Jennings is one.
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  Speaker 2: For SMU, who's had a good career out there, already
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  Speaker 2: got some building or something named facility after him already,
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  Speaker 2: and you don't see that much with an active player.
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  Speaker 2: But Kevin Jennings at SMU could really elevate SMU this year.
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  Speaker 2: I'm back in that college football playoff conversation. If you remember,
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  Speaker 2: the Ponies were in the initial 12-team playoff, and Kevin
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  Speaker 2: Jennings was the quarterback. He had a bad outing against
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  Speaker 2: Penn State on the road in the first round But
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  Speaker 2: he could really be that guy. That starts this weekend
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  Speaker 2: against Florida State. And I'll give you women's winners. I'm
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  Speaker 2: picking SMU to win outright at Florida State because of
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  Speaker 2: Kevin Jennings. They're a three-and-a-half-point favorite on the road in
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  Speaker 2: Tallahassee this weekend because of Kevin Jennings. I like Kevin Jennings.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's pretty darn good. And he's a guy
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  Speaker 2: that's played a lot of college football. He's a mobile guy.
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  Speaker 2: He throws a good ball. And I'm not just talking
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  Speaker 2: about the deep ball. I mean, he's a good intermediate passer,
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  Speaker 2: reads the defense well. Kevin Jennings is one. Byron Brown
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  Speaker 2: at Auburn is another one at number 10 that really could,
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  Speaker 2: we could see him elevate his game to a different
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  Speaker 2: level at Auburn. I mean, you're talking about a guy who,
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  Speaker 2: you know, ran for 1,008 yards last year. He had
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  Speaker 2: 14 rushing touchdowns. He had another 28 touchdowns through the
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  Speaker 2: air for 3,158 yards. So, I mean, you're talking about
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  Speaker 2: a guy who had over 40 touchdowns last year And
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  Speaker 2: I know it was South Florida, but he's a guy
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  Speaker 2: at Auburn that could put, you know, if Auburn is
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  Speaker 2: going to get back in into the swing of things
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  Speaker 2: in the SEC and they're going to be somebody that
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  Speaker 2: can kind of swing the pendulum in the SEC, you know,
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  Speaker 2: win a game that maybe keeps them in the conversation
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  Speaker 2: late October, maybe knocks out a team that's in contention.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be because of Byron Brown. Same thing
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  Speaker 2: for Sam Levitt. I mean, And I guess I kind
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  Speaker 2: of fall in this instance as well. I'm assuming because
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  Speaker 2: of what we saw from Sam Levitt two years ago,
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  Speaker 2: because he led Arizona State to the college football playoff,
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  Speaker 2: and I know a lot of people give credit to
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  Speaker 2: Cam Scadaboo, and you should, but that was a really
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  Speaker 2: good combination, and Sam Levitt was really good last year
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  Speaker 2: with some injuries. Because he's paired with Lane Kiffin, it's
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  Speaker 2: immediately going to be a great marriage, and he's going
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  Speaker 2: to fly off the charts, and he very well could.
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  Speaker 2: But if LSU is going to be that team, Sam
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  Speaker 2: Levitt has to be that guy. So, you know, you're
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  Speaker 2: looking at Byron Brown, you're looking at Sam Levitt, you're
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  Speaker 2: looking at Kevin Jennings, Josh Hoover. You know, these have
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  Speaker 2: got Jaden Mavia, guys that are outside that top six
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  Speaker 2: of Chambliss, Sayen, Carr, Manning, Moore. And when you look
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  Speaker 2: at some more of these guys, you know, Gunnar Stockton's
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  Speaker 2: 12th on this list. For Georgia, I don't think Gunnar
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  Speaker 2: Stockton has to be great. He just has to be
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  Speaker 2: really good, and he is really good. And if Gunnar
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  Speaker 2: Stockton is really good, Georgia's going to be right there
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  Speaker 2: because their line of scrimmage play is as good as
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  Speaker 2: anybody in the country. They return a lot of guys
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  Speaker 2: on both interior lines, offensive and defensive fronts. They're going
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  Speaker 2: to have backers that can run. He's that guy. Noah
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  Speaker 2: Fafita is sitting here at 13th on this list for Arizona.
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  Speaker 2: How high can Arizona climb? It would be a pretty
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  Speaker 2: big story if he really popped off. He's going to
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  Speaker 2: surpass likely 10,000 career passing yards this year. And he
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  Speaker 2: had his best season of his career last year. The
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  Speaker 2: Wildcats went 9-4. But if they're going to really get
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  Speaker 2: into this race and be in that conversation piece of
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  Speaker 2: the college football playoff by virtue of winning the Big 12,
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  Speaker 2: it's got to be because of him. Marcel Reed, 14,
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  Speaker 2: we already gave you an excerpt on Marcel Reed. He
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  Speaker 2: said he hates Texas. They've got to pay, and he's
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  Speaker 2: going to make them pay. Well, if Texas A &
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  Speaker 2: M is going to get back to the college football playoff, Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: they've got to have the team to do it, and
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  Speaker 2: I think they do, but it's got to come through
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  Speaker 1: It's the Afternoon Drive with Jake Wimberly.
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  Speaker 2: Bill Bender will join us here in about 30 minutes.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get his take on several games coming up this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: WIMS winners are out. I'll get those to you as
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  Speaker 2: we move along here. First off, I'll get back into
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  Speaker 2: some of these quarterbacks, especially on down the list. The
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  Speaker 2: ESPN team of college football experts, in quotes, they have
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  Speaker 2: released all of the team's national championship picks for the
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  Speaker 2: 2026 season. So let's go through this, shall we? Some
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  Speaker 2: of these people, I don't even know who they are.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all may know who they are. I have no idea
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  Speaker 2: who some of these people are. Andrea Adelson. Andrea Adelson,
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  Speaker 2: she picks Notre Dame. Kyle Bonagura. I don't even know
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  Speaker 2: who that is. He picks Ohio State. Bill Conley picked
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  Speaker 2: Notre Dame. Heather Denich picks Texas. David Hale picked Notre Dame.
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  Speaker 2: Eli Letterman, Notre Dame. Four letters going all in on
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  Speaker 2: Notre Dame, aren't they? Max Olson, Ohio State. Adam Rittenberg,
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  Speaker 2: Notre Dame. As he said, Carr is the type of
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  Speaker 2: quarterback Notre Dame hasn't had during its nearly four-decade drought
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  Speaker 2: without a national title. And he, along with two elite lines,
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  Speaker 2: will propel the Irish to a championship. Let me Let
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  Speaker 2: me stop right there first.
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  Speaker 4: C.J. Carr.
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  Speaker 2: And again, he's listed on these lists of quarterbacks and
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  Speaker 2: top 100, top 120. He's in the top 10, and
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  Speaker 2: I think he is one of the better quarterbacks in
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  Speaker 2: the country. But what did he do last year? Let's
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  Speaker 2: just go back and look at C.J. Carr from a
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  Speaker 2: year ago. As a freshman last year, he was impressive.
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  Speaker 2: 24 touchdowns, six interceptions. He protects the ball well. Completing
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  Speaker 2: passes at a 67% completion clip, 2,741 yards. And not
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  Speaker 2: a big runner. He had three touchdowns. He had a
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  Speaker 2: total of 33 yards on 41 carries. So he's a
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  Speaker 2: true pocket passer. The questions that I have for Notre
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  Speaker 2: Dame is, you know, when you get into a game
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  Speaker 2: where maybe some of these teams that run tempo, maybe
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  Speaker 2: they can get over the top on you, Can they chase?
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  Speaker 2: That's the thing. Look, the schedule sets up well for
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  Speaker 2: Notre Dame. It really does. They have one of the
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  Speaker 2: more manageable schedules of the big teams in the country.
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  Speaker 2: And they have the most manageable schedule in the country.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, honestly, when you think about all the big
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  Speaker 2: teams' schedules. Let me get their schedule real quick. And
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  Speaker 2: we'll get back through these picks here. When you look at.
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  Speaker 2: The 2026 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football schedule. And we'll
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  Speaker 2: go to fightingirish.com. If these pop-ups, all these pop-ups, why
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  Speaker 2: do these pop-ups keep coming up? Let's see here.
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  Speaker 1: Schedule.
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  Speaker 2: There we go. So they'll open up Wisconsin this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: They're a pretty large favorite. I think 20.5 point favorite
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  Speaker 2: over Wisconsin. This is a neutral site game, Lambeau Field.
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  Speaker 2: By all accounts, they should win that game walking away. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, if I was playing the game, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to play this game. I may would take Notre
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  Speaker 2: Dame and give up the points.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe.
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  Speaker 2: Because I don't know how good Wisconsin is. They'll take
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  Speaker 2: on Rice in South Bend, Indiana, Notre Dame Stadium next week.
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  Speaker 2: Michigan State, Notre Dame Stadium. Purdue on the road. They'll
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  Speaker 2: take on North Carolina on the road. Stanford at home.
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  Speaker 2: At BYU, October 17th. That could get a little tricky. Provo, Utah,
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  Speaker 2: probably a late kick. Lavelle Edwards Stadium, that stadium has
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  Speaker 2: been unkind to a lot of teams over the years.
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  Speaker 2: Mississippi State went out there and some others in the
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  Speaker 2: SEC before and have lost over the decades of football,
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  Speaker 2: so to speak. But that's a game where you may
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  Speaker 2: want to circle that October 17th because when you get
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  Speaker 2: that middle of the season, sometimes things start to kind
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  Speaker 2: of fall apart for some teams. Navy, they'll play that
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  Speaker 2: at Gillette Stadium. Then they host the Miami Hurricanes on
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  Speaker 2: November 7th. It's the biggest game of the year for them.
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  Speaker 2: They should be undefeated going into that game against Miami.
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  Speaker 2: Boston College at home, SMU at home, they could give
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  Speaker 2: them a game. And then at Syracuse. So there's a
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  Speaker 2: couple games on the schedule that peak out. SMU at home,
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  Speaker 2: Miami at home, on the road at BYU. But that's
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  Speaker 2: the schedule. That is the Fighting Irish schedule this year.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see. Mark Slabock picks Ohio State. Jake Trotter picks
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  Speaker 2: Texas to win. This is the ESPN Talent. in quotes, picks.
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  Speaker 2: Paolo Ugatti picks Oregon. Dave Wilson, Oregon. And then they
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  Speaker 2: go to sleepers. Who's your sleeper team outside the top 25?
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  Speaker 2: Outside the top 25, one person picks the Pittsburgh Panthers.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody else picks North Dakota State. Now, this is just
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  Speaker 2: sleepers as far as teams that could make a run
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  Speaker 2: and maybe make the playoff. Bill Conley picks cow. Then
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  Speaker 2: it's picks South Carolina. Oh, there's of course she's going
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  Speaker 2: to pick South Carolina. She's going to fuck. Then it's
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  Speaker 2: will follow the leader that I figured that out. She
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  Speaker 2: follows the leader. She doesn't make a coherent thought. It's
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  Speaker 2: it's follow the leader, look pretty on camera and go.
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  Speaker 2: And I know that sounds misogynistic. It's not, it's just
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  Speaker 2: the truth. She's not real smart. I mean, South Carolina, that's,
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  Speaker 2: that's the darling of the darlings this year for dark horses.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if you, If you go into a room
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  Speaker 2: and you say, pick the dark horse, go in the closet,
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  Speaker 2: pick the dark horse. Everybody's picking South Carolina again. Somebody
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  Speaker 2: picked Auburn, Navy, Oklahoma State. I told you I'm interested
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  Speaker 2: in this Oklahoma State team. Several put Oklahoma State on here.
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  Speaker 2: Eric Morris in that offense is going to be interesting
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  Speaker 2: to watch, but that's from the ESPN crew.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of Oklahoma State, Drew Mestemaker, he is the quarterback
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  Speaker 2: this year for Oklahoma State. He led all FBS quarterbacks
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  Speaker 2: in passing yards last year, 4,379 yards, tied for second
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  Speaker 2: in touchdowns with 34, and fourth in passing efficiency. The
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  Speaker 2: formerly overlooked prospect had a myriad of options in the
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  Speaker 2: portal but opted to follow Eric Morris, the coach who
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  Speaker 2: gave him a chance. the Cowboys who also signed two
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  Speaker 2: of Mestermaker's top targets from North Texas, Wyatt Young and
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  Speaker 2: Miles Coleman. I'm really, really interested in this Oklahoma State team.
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  Speaker 2: And this is a team that won two ballgames last year.
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  Speaker 2: Could they come out of the fray, so to speak,
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  Speaker 2: and win the Big 12 in year one? You know,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people have asked, who is the next Mestermaker?
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  Speaker 2: Indiana situation. Who's the next Kurt Cignetti? And I'm not
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  Speaker 2: about to sit here and tell you Oklahoma State's going
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  Speaker 2: to win the national title. That is not what I'm
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  Speaker 2: telling you because I don't believe that's going to happen.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: But if you look at these teams and you reference
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: the two, Mestemaker plus Wyatt Young and Dorner, I mean,
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: Wyatt Young is a guy who caught 70 balls last
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: year for North Texas, 1,264 yards and 10 touchdowns. Cameron
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Dorner Caught 56 balls for 911 yards and 10 touchdowns. And,
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: you know, now both these guys sitting around 6'1, 95.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: That's Wyatt Young. He's from Katy, Texas. And it seems
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: like any time you reference a football player from Katy, Texas,
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: they're good. Like, I don't know what's in the water
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: in Katy, Texas, what they're doing over there, but it
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: seems like all football players are good. As Cameron Dorner,
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: he's 6'1, 195. So let's keep up with Drew Mestermaker.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: He's a guy that You could see getting a lot
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: more screen time if Oklahoma State does well. Jerron Cowie-Sagapatoli, California. Now,
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: a lot of people feel like Cal, under Justin Wilcox,
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: could make a run in the ACC. Could. And they'll
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: play UCLA this weekend. So, you know, you got two
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: former Pac-12 teams getting after it this weekend. Those two teams,
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: you know, UCLA wants to kind of make a push
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: in the Big Ten and kind of a splash and
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: show that they're there, that they actually have a football program.
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  Speaker 2: he's got a few words over there.
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  Speaker 5: Beeb?
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: Well, we've got some text messages here. First, from St.
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: Louis Vic.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: And then his text brings to mind something I heard
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: earlier today that I'll tell you about. But he says, Jake,
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: we'll see how it all turns out. But so far,
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: it looks like that old voodoo lady is working overtime
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: for our friends down in Baton Rouge. Falk, who is
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: extremely intelligent but comes off as arrogant, hasn't gotten off
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: to the greatest start. And Lane is being Lane. We'll
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: see how long it takes before schools begin cloning former players,
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: living or deceased.
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: Yikes.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Is that what's next? Are we about to clone people?
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: Yes, I like that. So he's got a whole new
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: theory now. That's what we're going to. These schools are
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: about to open up cloning departments.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: So who's going to be the first one to clone
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes?
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: Well, it's got to be... Oh, well, we already have
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes, right? Because Dylan Raiola at Oregon. He's basically
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes, except for the talent or the speed or
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: the arm strength or the brains. But he tries as
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: hard as he can to have the look.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: He's everything but Patrick Mahomes. That's a good point.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: And what I was saying, this reminded me of something
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: I heard earlier. So, okay, I like this.
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: St.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: Louis Vic has a new theory here. They're about to
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: start cloning players. That reminds me of another theory. And,
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: you know, we love good conspiracy theories.
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: Earlier today, someone made a comment on Matt Wyatt's show.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: And as much of this stupid, stupid Lane Kiffin and
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: LSU talk we've had to endure for.
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: Months now. I hadn't thought about this and I'm going
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: with it.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: Their theory is this was all actually Keith Carter and
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: Lane Kiffin planned all this. They got together and sent
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: Lane Kiffin to LSU to burn it down from within.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: That is, excuse me, I can't even talk. I haven't
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: even thought about this. How did Matt take this?
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: Matt did not appreciate it as much. You know, Matt doesn't,
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: unless it's like some banjo music or some lame Andy
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: Griffith rerun or something, Matt's not going to really appreciate it.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: But I did. I certainly did.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: No, I can appreciate that. That's an interesting take. Hey,
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: let's take LSU out and you get paid. But what
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: happens to Lane? Like, is there an exit strategy for
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Lane not to get burned out?
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: With the program when all this happens. Well, I'm sure there's,
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: you know, you got the money that LSU is going
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: to give him. And then I'm sure if that's the case,
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: then there was some kind of deal made where Ole
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: Miss will take care of him for the sabotage.
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: So he'll be okay.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Maybe Ole Miss will take him back.
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: Well, I don't know if they can go that far now.
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: Let's see.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: Andre with a prediction. Louisville 31. Ole Miss, 23.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Oof.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: So he's got Louisville kind of running him out of
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: the building up there. What do you think about that?
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't really call eight points running him out of
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: the building.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: It would be interesting. I mean, if that game gets
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: into the fourth quarter and Louisville has a lead, there's
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: going to be some tight rear ends around the state
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: of Mississippi for sure.
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: Possum Neck Joe.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: Says, I just sat down with a bowl of butter
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: pecan ice cream, and I'm waiting on Jake to cover
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: it with super Camario syrup.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: Hey, you know, maybe that's an NIL deal waiting to happen.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Camario syrup.
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: Camario syrup.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Will Joe tune in for the Camario show on Saturday? Oh, yeah.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: All this talk.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: Look, despite what he thinks, he's hoping this kid, he's
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: going to support this kid.
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: Let's say that. Joe's all talk.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: I mean, I know Joe works in the elements. It
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: sounds like Joe owns his own business, his own land.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: I mean, Joe's probably sitting on more money than God.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Truth be told, if Kamario Taylor really pops off and
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: moves up this list, who's to say that Joe wouldn't
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: buy a Kamario Taylor jersey and wear it? Out on
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: the tractor. I think he may do it.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: Real C literally just texted, somebody say butter pecan ice cream?
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: That does sound good right about now, doesn't it?
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it does.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: Gator Matt says, you were talking about Auburn last segment.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: He said Auburn will get smoked on week three.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: That's the Florida Gator game.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I had to look that up. I should have
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: known that's what he was talking about.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Look, I don't even know what the line is, if
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: it's been set on that game. There may be a
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: loose line out there. They'll tighten that up as the
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: games move on. But I would tell you this, whatever,
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: take the under on the total. That's a defensive ballgame
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: waiting to happen. That's a 17-10. That's a slugfest. It's
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: down on the plains. Matt, you better pucker up. It
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: could be a four-quarter ballgame down there.
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: Well, that'll catch us up on the text.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: 6-0-1, 8-8-5, 3-7-7-6. Let me go through Wim's winners. Beaver,
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: you ready for some winners? Oh, yeah.
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: JC is, too.
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: So I think I got, let's see, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: I got you 11. 11 for 11. 11 good ones.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: A lot of these are totals because it's important on
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: week one, what we saw last week. A couple of
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: these are actual lines for games. Most of these are totals, though.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: So let's go through them. Colorado versus Georgia Tech tomorrow night.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: Over 50 and a half. Over 50 and a half.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: And there's a thought process behind it. Colorado's defense has
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: not been good. Georgia Tech plays pretty darn good offensively.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: They should score in the 30s. Colorado will get some points.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: They're going to throw it around the yard. Over 50
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: and a half. Toledo versus Michigan State. Under 46 and
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: a half. Look, Michigan State's a favorite here. Toledo could
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: win this game outright. Michigan State. is a dumpster fire
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: in the Big Ten right now, along with a couple
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: other teams like Purdue. Northwestern has tried to have a
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: resurgence of sorts, but then you look at Maryland. This
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: is going to be a defensive slugfest. Go under the 46.5,
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Michigan State, Toledo. USC, Fresno State go over the 51.5.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: USC is going to score in the 40s probably. Fresno
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: will pick up a couple touchdowns. That one seems like
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: that will go cruise across the 51.5. Ohio State, Ball State,
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: same thing, over 56.5. Ohio State's going to be looking
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: for style points before they play Texas next week. They're
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: going to cakewalk to 30, 35, 40. Ball State will
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: get a couple garbage touchdowns, over 56.5. Auburn covers the
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: 7 versus Baylor this weekend. I'm not buying DJ Lagway.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: I'm not buying Dave Aranda. I think Auburn with Alex
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: Golish at home, Byron Brown, they cover the 7. Oregon
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: versus Boise State. Under 51.5. This Boise team is going
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: to give Oregon a punch in the gut.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: They are.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: They do it every time they play. These two teams,
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: kind of an off-the-beating-path, semi-rival game. Boise's going to punch
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: above their weight a little bit. Oregon will win the
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: ballgame under 51.5. Troy versus Sam Houston State. Both these
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: teams will be able to score. Phil Longo at Sam
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Houston State, formerly of North Carolina and Ole Miss and
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: some other places, over 54.5. LSU-Clemson. beaver i've got clemson
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: covering the 10 i think it's a four-quarter ball game
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: what do you think.
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: Yeah uh i'll go with you on that one i
• 30:06
  Speaker 6: hope it is.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah i'd like to see that and maybe this is
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: just my football you know fandomonium if there is a
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: word if not we just create it fandom does anybody
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: say fandomonium i don't know anybody says that But give
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: me Clemson, plus 10. UCLA, California, go under 53.5. Again,
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: old-fashioned Pac-12, slugfest, two pretty good quarterbacks. We'll see what
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Nico Amaliava does in this version of UCLA football. California,
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: we talked about their quarterback earlier. He's on that top
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: 20 list, under 53.5. Give me Ole Miss to cover
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: the 7. I think Ole Miss covers the 7 versus
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: Louisville on Sunday. And then give me SMU to cover
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: the 3.5. and win outright down at Florida State. That's
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: your WIMS winners for this week. That's 11 locks. It's
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: 11 wins. JC, get on the board. Everybody get on
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: the board. It's winners galore. You're going to win a
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: lot of football games this weekend. That's the WIMS winners.
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  Speaker 4: Now we're talking.
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  Speaker 2: of course, they'll have you covered wire to wire for
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: college football. Bill, it's here. College football, I know you're
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: on a short schedule, sir. And, of course, your schedule
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: will tell you. We're about to kick off and play ball.
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, but, hey, I like talking to you
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  Speaker 4: every week. So thanks for fitting me in. Let's get
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  Speaker 4: to it.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. All right, so, Bill, let's go tomorrow night. We're
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: not even going to talk the LSU stuff. We'll talk
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: LSU Clemson. But when you look at tomorrow night, Colorado
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: versus Georgia Tech, that's a game where Georgia Tech is
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: a pretty big favorite. That totals at 50-and-a-half. It's a
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: big year for Deion Sanders. You know, I saw a
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: stat the other day that said they had lost somewhere
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: around 60% to 65% of their, you know, collective viewing
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: eyeballs since the time he arrived in Colorado. Can they
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: make a game of this tomorrow night against Georgia Tech?
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: I think so. They need a quarterback to play the match.
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: They didn't have that last year. Colorado quarterbacks averaged 17 touchdowns,
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: 11 interceptions. The year before, Shador threw 37 touchdowns. So
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: for all of the jokes about Shador Sanders, there's no
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: doubt he was a really good college quarterback. And then
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: on the other side, looking to see how Alberto Mendoza
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: does in place of Haynes King. And then they have
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: Justin Haynes. He's a home run hitting running back. That
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: should be a fun game. The spread looks funny. I
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: think it's going to be a competitive, fun game.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: This is Bill Bender talking college football. Of course, kickoff
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: is tomorrow, Wednesday edition of the program. Bill, Fridays typically
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: in college, we always say this all the time, is weird.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: You can't really kind of put a finger on it,
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: but something happens on those Friday ballgames. Is there any
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: Friday game where there's a potential upset. Maybe Stanford taking
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: on Miami. Miami's a big favorite. Or Fresno State gives
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: USC a ballgame on those Friday night ballgames.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: You're right.
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: I mean, you always catch a Friday night home dog.
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: They get it done. I am interested to see how
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: Stanford builds on that season opening win against Miami. A
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: team with a game under their belt at home. Miami's
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: flying all the way across the country with Darian Mensah.
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: So there could be.
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: That could be fun, and I think it will be fun,
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: but Miami will win. It's really hard, Jake, this weekend
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: to find that upset. There probably will be one. It's
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: college football, but it is a brutal week in terms
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: of point spread. When you look in the average point
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: spread for top 25 teams, not even counting the FCS ones,
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: it's like 26 points per game.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and look, one that may fly under the radar.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: What about Toledo? They're getting 10 against Michigan State. Could
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Toledo maybe come out with a win against a Big
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: Ten team.
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they got a fun coach too. Mike Jacobs, their
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: new coach that replaced Jason Candle. They'll be ready to play.
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: And so Fitz, that is one that if you're looking, maybe.
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: Michigan State's made a tradition of that Friday night home opener.
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: I think Pat Fitzgerald breathed a little bit of a
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: new life into them. But Toledo's solid program, solid team.
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: So that could be interesting. You know, other than that,
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: going to watch Oklahoma on Friday night. Big game there
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: for them. Not a big game. I mean, a tune-up
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: for them. to get ready for Michigan. So we'll see
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: a healthy John McPier again.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: Auburn hosts Baylor. D.J. Lagway coming back to the SEC
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: in week one with Dave Aranda. Dave Aranda has said offseason,
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: Florida kept him in a box. They kept him in
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: a straight jacket. We're going to unleash D.J. Lagway, Byron Brown,
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: Alex Golish, Auburn. They've got the home crowd behind them.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: Any chance Baylor can keep this close?
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: I think they will.
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: I mean, they did a better team last year, right?
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: I think they did win that game, right? I'm blanking
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: right now. Pretty sure Baylor beat them last year in Waco.
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: Alex Gullish has been a really hot name for Auburn
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: this offseason. I love his press conferences. I love his personality.
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: I think he's the guy to bring that program forward.
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: back into the light a little bit, and it might
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: take some time. So that is one of those games
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: that might get lost in the shuffle a little bit,
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: but the momentum around that Auburn football program is headed
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: in the right direction.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: LSU, Clemson, with all of the drama around LSU, with
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: everything that's going on at the SEC in court tomorrow,
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: LSU is a 10-point favorite today against Clemson. Clemson's kind
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: of been written off here. This is the lowest ranking
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: we've seen in some time in the preseason for Clemson,
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: the lowest ever. odds to win the national title, lowest
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: of everything. Can Clemson get into the fourth quarter, Bill?
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: And Saturday night, all of America is now dialed in
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: outside of LSU, probably rooting for Clemson and Davo Sweeney
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: to pull that off.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: My buddies are.
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: You know, in Big Ten country, you're talking about Ohio State,
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: Notre Dame, a few Michigan and Michigan State fans sprinkled
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: in there all rooting for Davo. I mean, it's wild
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: because for years that wasn't the case up here. So, yeah,
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: I mean, they're going to have to run the football better.
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: They only had 31 rushing yards against LSU last season.
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: So they're definitely going to have to do that a
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: little bit better to have a chance to make it
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: a fourth quarter game. Could be fun, though. You know, LSU,
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: you never know how it's going to go with all
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: those transfers. Sam Levitt coming off the foot injury. Ken
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: Clemson dial up pressure, especially on the defensive line. Saul
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: Dabo's press conference this week. And, yeah, it is.
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: It's a.
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: This is the bizarre world we live in, Jake. We're
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: rooting for Dabo now up here in the north.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: There's no doubt. Ole Miss taking on Louisville on Sunday. And,
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: of course, the Rebs are a seven-point favorite. This is
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: a really good Louisville team. They won nine ballgames last year.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: They had three of the four losses that they had
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: came within less than a field goal. They can return
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: a pretty good running back. They've got a good coaching staff.
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: Can they take this game into the fourth quarter and
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: scare the daylights or even pull out a win against
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: Ole Miss?
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: I think they could, but I like that Ole Miss backfield. Sorry,
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: I almost called an LSU. I know who's coaching where.
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: Ole Miss, because I like Trinidad and Keewan so much.
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: I think they are the best battery made backfield in
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: the country. I like their defense, Carnero, good weapon in
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: a game like this, kick cup field goals. But all
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: that said, I liked Louisville too. So this is a
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: really tough game for me because I spent the summer
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: talking about what an ACC sleeper Louisville could be. So
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: I think they can make this fourth quarter game still
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: give them the advantage to Ole miss. And, uh, you know,
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: I'm a little upset. It's up against, uh, Notre Dame,
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: Wisconsin at the same time, because I want to watch
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: both of these games equally.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: No, there's no doubt.
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: One more.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: We'll get you on your way. SMU, Florida state, uh,
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: SMU is a slight favorite three and a half. I mean,
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: it's a big one. That's, that's an understatement for Mike Norvell.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: If they win the seat kind of cools, Kevin Jennings,
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: SMU come in. They've shown they're not scared of anybody
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: in the ACC. They're the favorite for, for a reason here.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: Can they, can they deliver on that being the favorite?
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: Oh, we're going to find out. Um, I'm leery of
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: this game for a couple of reasons. One, because everybody's
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: kind of ripping on Florida state. They still ran the
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: ball effectively. Uh, last time they played SMU, they got
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: worn out and they are at home at labor day.
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: And it's kind of a, back-against-the-wall moment for Mike Norvell
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: and that program and that massive buyout that we keep
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: talking about. So I think Florida State, I would not
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: be surprised if they won. But, Jake, I just can't
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: do it. I think SMU's the better team. I think
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: they've got the... the better quarterback, and that will show
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: up even in a nasty environment down there in Tallahassee.
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: Give me the Mustangs. But like I said, that's the
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: one that I'm like, you know, yeah, you have that
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: second thought in the back of your head. That's the
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: one I feel like this weekend.
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: Bill Bender, get him on X. Check him out at
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: the Sporting News as we get him on his way.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: He's got more radio to do. Bill, have a great
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: Labor Day weekend. Enjoy it, my friend. It is here,
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: and have a great Labor Day. We'll talk next week.
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: I appreciate it. I'll talk to you next week.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: Thanks so much.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: Thanks so much. Bill Bender on your radio. Get him
• 40:15
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• 40:18
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• 40:21
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• 40:24
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• 40:27
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• 40:30
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• 40:33
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