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College Football Week 7 CHAOS: Georgia, Notre Dame & Texas Fall! · Game Day Collective

• Ecamm Recording on 2026 10 18 at 14.04.51: Week seven brought us more chaos than I think I can recall in a very long time. Five of the top ten teams go down, of course, one of them being Indiana, so we won't quite count them in the same category. Somebody had to go down in that matchup. But we've got a lot of upsets, a lot of craziness that went on. We're gonna talk about it all and so much more here on the Game Day Collective college football show. And we're gonna be recapping, breaking down everything that we saw yesterday. Here in week seven, just a crazy week seven. And I'm joined as always by my co-host, Wyatt Zhang. Wyatt, it was a an absolute fun one. But before we dive into it, want to just mention that today's sponsor is Everydaydose. check out the link down in the description below. It should be everydaydose.com/slash GDC. Check it out and go check out everything that they've got. They've got creamers. I saw that they got a pumpkin spice creamer. 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But why looking at it, man, I I guess starting off, what what what what results do you feel like really changed the outcome of of the landscape of college football so far? What what was something that was just like the most shocking to you out of anything in in week seven? you gotta look at the SEC right now. The SEC went down. they they are like the Titanic that hit the iceberg. Texas is down, Alabama is down, you have Missouri go down, Georgia goes down. I think if you're gonna talk about one result that was the most shocking, you have to go Auburn and Georgia. I think Auburn winning that game, no one expected them to win the game. We didn't even really break it down that much. I think Auburn winning that game in the style that they won at Georgia Stadium in Athens between the hedges. That was the most impressive and most chaotic and unexpected outcome I have seen this week. Because I gotta tell you, Auburn looked really good. They played how, they should have played with the way Byron Brown ran the football. But I gotta say, that was the most shocking upset of the week. Yeah, no doubt. That one caught me by surprise because it was one that I was like I saw that it was on, was like, nah, it's not even worth tuning into this one. And funny enough, I I was saw Josh Pates. Yeah, Ramanoodle Express, he actually had Auburn covering the spread, which I thought was crazy. But I was also talking to someone about this game because you and I didn't even get to break this one down. We just didn't really think it was worthy of it. And I was I was talking to somebody and I was like, I don't know though. That's one game that I think could be like a sneaky good one where because Auburn always plays Georgia close and they're on a completely down year right now, and and what started off what felt like could be a little bit of a bounce back for Auburn, and they're going on the road to a Georgia team who I mean, even Kirby's smart, man, like the amount of excitement and and happiness that he got from beating Alabama on the road, I just don't know. Good good teams have letdown games too. Great teams never have them. And I think that Georgia's just a really good team. And I think that proved itself yesterday. And I I said to somebody when I was talking about this this matchup, I was like, I don't know. I feel like Auburn could really come in there and put a scare in him, and then Georgia's just gonna pull away, though. And then I see there late in the the game. Auburn's still hanging around with them, and I was like, wow, what the heck is going on? And sure enough, they end up taking down the new number one team. So I forget what the stat was too. It's like the first time in a really long time that the number one team has gone down two weeks in a row to an unranked opponent. and then of course, Texas getting upset by Georgia. We'll talk about that as well. But let's dive into it, man. First, starting off with one that I don't think really took anyone by surprise. I I do want to kind of tease you a little bit and say Told you so. but no, it was a defensive battle nonetheless. And you know, I I I even told you too. I was like, I could see it going that way. I could see it being an just offense battling it out, but this just felt like the kind of the kind of game that Indiana, the way that they are on defense, they're gonna suffocate you and they're they're going to be able to get back there. And we talked about it. I said, I think they limit Jeremiah Smith, not that they're able to shut him down, but they limit him by getting back there and disrupting Julian Sayan. First half, Julian Saiyan did not look like himself until that last drive where they got down the field, finally went out ahead. And this one was just a really fun one. Of it it proved something as well, because I don't think Indiana really came out this year and said, We're for real this year. They beat Nebraska on the road, and everyone was like, Okay, but Nebraska does that to good teams, and we'll talk about them later on as well. But Nebraska does that to good teams. It was also like, I don't know, is Indiana just on a Downish year compared to last year. And I think that's totally okay to admit, but they're not. And I think that this game proved it. It really came down to that last play where Nick Marsh just lost his footing. Anyone who says that that ball wasn't a good placed ball, that it shouldn't have been placed that far out, you just don't know football and and I don't respect your opinion. The ball was a beautifully placed ball as he's getting hit and the ball gets down there. Nick Marsh just has to know where he's at on the field. and pull that in with his feet in bounds. He knew immediately that he didn't have it. And just a heartbreaking way to lose, especially for a guy that has been on fire here in the last few weeks now. And again had another really good one. But for for Ohio State going over to the winner, man, they held Indiana to 73 rushing yards, did really good on defense, stopping and slowing down the run. Turbo Richard had forty six yards. But you know, again, like you just look at what they did on defense And they were good. They were st they were stout. and it was a defensive battle nonetheless. And Julian Saiyan really turned things around there in the second half. Now it sounds like he might be out for a few weeks, but I think they have a bye week coming up this week. So good news for them that at least they can they can hold on to that for now. And it's it's gonna come down to it, whoever it is that ends up stepping in for them to to really kind of take the reins and help Ohio State. but nonetheless, this was a matchup of of two juggernaut teams this year. And I think this proved personally, and we'll get to this later on, I think this proved how serious both of these teams are. And I think it also was a statement for Indiana to be able to hang hang in there all the way to the end as well. Yeah, I think when you look at the Ohio State side, the thing that, really popped out at me was the fact that they won this game with Jeremiah Smith having under 70 yards. That is the most massive thing that I took away from this game. Ohio State can win without the best player in college football. future Hall of Famer. People are throwing around that he might be the greatest receiver to to be in the NFL eventually. I they won without him basically. Like if you think about how much Indiana limited him, which is all due respect to Indiana, that was amazing. For them to limit him in that game and still like not let anyone else really go off was amazing to me. They found a scheme and Bryant Haynes, probably the best, if not the second best, defensive coordinator in college football. The guy's incredible. He's like a mad scientist over there in Bloomington. And I think his scheme worked so well. And that's one of the reasons that I think Indiana's going to be a contender this year is because they can win not having the team they had last year. They have a really good football team, but they don't have the team they had last year. It's similar to Texas Tech in the Big Twelve. They're not as good as they were last year, but they're winning games like they were last year. And this was a close loss. I would actually fight back against that just a little bit and say, I think this Indiana team is just as good as last year, just in a different way. I think their defense is better round all around. they're they're just I think they've got veterans. They know what they're doing, they play sound fundamental football. Their offense just isn't quite as explosive, and that's okay. I yeah, I mean you could say I mean I see what you're looking at, but I think when you look at it in totality, you had a Heisman winner on you had the first overall draft pick last year. You had, you know, a a running game that, you know, similar to this year, you have Turbo Richards still, but you had black who went to the NFL. So, you're losing a lot of pieces and you also had Elijah Surrat, you had Omar Cooper, you have a lot of guys that left. So I do think that the depth of this team maybe isn't the best, but the top end talent is still there. the guys that were behind those starters are coming up and now playing. But I think what's behind these guys is maybe more in question. I yeah yeah and and everyone you just named off is on the offensive side too. I I do think that this offense has taken a step back. And I agree with you. I think that there's there's some there it there's something there that just doesn't make this Indiana team feel as good. But as a defensive guy, I look at their defense and I think that defense is is what makes them just as good as last year. just because the defense is better. So I think they kind of pick up the slack of where the offense is and two interceptions on the day yesterday and both of them were just really good placed at just defense being on top of it, slowing Jeremiah Smith down. But again, more so putting pressure on Julian Saiyan and making sure that he was uncomfortable. So no, I I yeah yeah, not not to completely derail you on your thoughts there, but I would say this Indiana team is like just as good just because the defense feels better. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I think one of the biggest things that I saw in this game was the fact that Ohio State won with Ohio with Jeremiah Smith under 70 yards and a rushing game that had 73 yards. That is like it's like honestly I look at this game I'm like, how did Ohio State win? How did they get 19 points? where are those points coming from? And I think that's just a testament to what Ryan Day can do offensively with a good defense. Because Ohio State in the past has been offense. they Jeremiah or Marvin Harrison, CJ Stroud, Justin Fields, those teams were all offense and no defense because they would outscore you no matter how many points you would put up. They would put up 20 more than you. Now you see Ohio State these past few years. take on a defensive oriented, they still have great offenses, though they're wide receiver university, they have great offenses, but Ohio State has evolved into a team and a program that has good defense. And I think this is something that makes Ohio State probably the best looking team in the country. Are they going to get the number one spot? Maybe not, but they're the best looking team. They're the most sound football team. They lost to Texas because they let up in the fourth quarter. If you keep the pedal on the metal They win that game probably 31 10. it that game's not close. They let up, they lost the game. They'd be sitting here in number one team in the country, no question. Two top ten wins. But now they're sitting there at six and one, probably the best looking team. They bounce back from that Texas win. I think Ohio State getting this win proves that they are a legit national championship team, maybe the best in the country. And it it answered a lot of questions on the defensive side of the ball for Ohio State too, where we just we just weren't sure where we were with their defense. They hadn't had the the type of competition like in Indiana. And it it really proved itself because they were forcing the same on their side. They were forcing Josh Hoover to kind of make some bad throws. He had some like really close calls. I I will say one thing, the last couple of weeks, especially. and and and specifically with Indiana, it's been this way against Nebraska and against Ohio State now, where the refs just aren't calling pass interference on either side of the ball. and it I I say the same thing about holding all the time because people always say, Well, there's holding on every play. What do you expect them to do? I expect the referees to call it on every single play then. If there's a holding call, then guess what? You you call the play. I don't care how minor or how major it is. The more you call it, the more they're gonna be aware of I can't get away with this. And it's gonna force players to either stop or hurt their team. And the same with pass interference. I felt like that was really bad across the country. you really in this entire season it's felt felt that way. But in this Indiana game, the past couple of weeks, where it just it really does affect big plays and big moments. And I I just feel like it's gotta gotta be stopped. If you look at the Florida State game, which we'll talk about later, that was probably the game of the year for me. That was the most entertaining game I've watched all year. And Florida State got screwed out of winning because they called a holding penalty to where you watch the replay and I just see an offensive lineman just manhandling somebody. There was zero holding and then they do it again. They throw the ball up. Deuce Robinson catches the football. It shows on film that defender took his hands off the ball. So obviously Deuce Robinson has it, he puts his hands back on. And it's like, how many times does Florida State have to do this to try to, tie the game? So Florida State gets screwed twice in one game. You saw it with the Michigan game. You saw it in the Alabama game. You see it in the BYU game. You see it in this game. There's really just no end to how bad the refing or the referees have been and the officiating has been this year. It's been a a problem that needs to get fixed because we are going to have outcomes decided by referees and they're screwing the outcomes. Yeah. And and we should we should have a longer discussion about this sometime too. Just to I I this is one that I will never get off my soapbox over. I just I hate terrible officiating. and You know what? I'm getting to the point where I'm on board with the MLB. let's go to let's go to more computerized stuff and make sure that stuff gets called properly and that ball spots, that's been another thing that I'm just dumbfounded by sometimes. And there's there's a lot of things like that. But you know, I do think that this Indiana Ohio State game for sure dealt with a lot of it on both sides of the ball too. And so it's not like it yeah it made it uneven one way or the other. I don't think that was the case. I think they missed calls. all over the place on both sides of the ball. And it just affects the game in a way that rules are set in place for a reason. I don't like how soft some rules have gotten. There was some roughing the passer calls on both sides of the ball that I don't like. I don't like the one called on Indiana. I don't like the one called on Ohio State. but you know there's there's things like that where this game just really felt like the officiating caused this game to be just a much different flow, a much different feel than what it really should have been. And it it even felt like Listening to the the officials it with the the new where you can hear them calling up to the to the the command center, it it's just like sometimes you hear the officials and in that game specifically, it just felt like they didn't know what they were talking about. Like they they were like, Well, what do I do here? What do I do there? and that that seemed like a really bad one. But nonetheless, I think that this proved two things. Starting off with the winner, Ohio State played a really good game with a ton of mistakes, with a ton of things that they could fix. And that's a really good feeling to come away with. that, hey, we have so much, we can treat this game like a loss because it felt like a loss. I mean, Nick Marsh is two feet away, and not probably not even that far. He's like a foot away from ending that game the other way. So for Ohio State, you get to go into this this bye week feeling like you just lost a game with y being being marked up in the win column. and for Indiana, you walk away feeling like, hey, we t we had a lot of really good things to take away from this. And it's only your first loss of the season. Go on and win the rest as I think they should and could. And like this for both teams, I I I learned a lot about both teams and I actually felt a lot better about both teams in this game. I agree with you. I I think that, you think about Michigan last year, losing or early in the year, losing to Western Michigan, going into that week against Oklahoma, you lost that game. That was a loss on your resume. It came out And they won. They beat Oklahoma. I think that's something that Ohio State has to do and and losing Julian Sain is is a big blow. But you have Luke Fah, I think is his last name. You have him against it's gonna be a bye week. Give him the most amount of reps you can. You got USC, you're gonna go to the Coliseum. You gotta win that game. But they have a terrible defense, so it sets up perfectly. Jeremiah Smith, that run game, takes over. And then you got Oregon in three weeks, which I think Julian Sain should be back for that game, but both teams Still got everything ahead of them. Hopefully he's back for the Oregon game because I I don't have a lot of faith in in Fehey. just not from what I saw yesterday. I I don't know, I haven't seen any other tape. So don't don't roast me on that Ohio State fans, but I I I feel like I've I felt the same from some Ohio State fans that I was seeing online as well. But nonetheless, they also have Tavian St. Clair who could come in and play if he had to. True. Yeah. And they I I I always trust that Ohio State's got guys in the depths that that can rise up too. They're always that kind of a team. Going on to the next upset of the week, one that I know you were really high on. I I didn't think that Florida had it in them to to pull this off or or to keep it close. I did see a scenario where they keep it close. I just didn't have a whole lot of faith in them after the way that they performed the last couple of weeks. They'd bounce back in a very big way, go into DKR and take down the Texas Longhorns. this was the first time, man. I don't have that written down in my notes. but you know, for for Ohio State. To go down. this is now two weeks in a row after being ranked number one. So yes, yeah, I'll I'll pull it up real quick. So it was the first time since 1961 for a number one team to to lose its next two games in a row against unranked opponents. That's insane. and so yeah, so for Texas, I don't know, this this felt like you have really got to fix some things. I think I saw the numbers something like they had a 98% chance or 96% chance to make the college football playoffs before this game and only a forty eight percent chance after the game, according to the all the ESPN numbers and everything. So take that with for what it for what it's worth. They they can win out, make the playoffs easily, no problems. But you're coming down to another year for for Texas where you lose to Florida and this could be the deciding factor. and not only that, but Oklahoma just made your loss in the Red River look even worse. So yeah, it's it's it's one of these these games where Texas is going down a a a spiral, but to look over at the at the winners, just really good performance for for Florida. They were able to sustain possessions in a way that I thought was incredible with their backup quarterback in, which was even better. and they were able to get points up on the board when it mattered the most. you know, I I think when when you look at just how composed this offense looked, how really the entire team just felt like they were comfortable They they never went went into it in a in into a a drive where it just felt like they were out of place. They started off in the first half, 0 for 8 on third downs, turned things around in that second half felt like a totally different floor Florida team going eight for 11 after halftime. So really impressive. you look at that that opening second half touchdown that they had. Last that one lasted 15 plays and they took over eight minutes off the clock in that drive alone. So just looking at this Florida team, really impressive. The way that they were able to go into DKR, do what they did. And on the other side, Texas has a lot of a lot of questions that they need to answer for sure. Yeah, I I think Florida winning this game is a huge testament to how good John Somerl coaching there because you come off of two back to back blowout losses against two teams you should beat. And this is a spot where you think Florida's just gonna get stomped by number seven Texas, and they don't. They beat them. there was really not a I I know the first probably half, Texas was looking like they were gonna beat him pretty good. And then Florida came back and won this game in Tremel Jones' first collegiate start ever to have a hundred and fifty five yards, not a lot, but two touchdowns and zero picks. Zero picks in your first career start against Texas on Austin. A really good defense is incredible. And I think that when you look at it, the biggest question that I have is is Tremel Jones going to start the rest of the year because him beating Texas shows that plus if you think about Aaron Filo, this is his last year in college, most likely. He's going to the NFL or the NFL draft after this. So if you start Tremel Jones, he's your future. He's your guy the next two years. So if you get him experience now, I mean let's be honest, Florida, you're probably not going to make the college football playoff because you lose one more game, nine and three, you're not going to make it. But I think Tremel Jones might even give you the best chance to win. I would play Tremel Jones And let him continue this momentum instead of making a start. You know, even if you start an Aaron Philo, he's gonna be cold. He hasn't played in a few weeks. So for me, I would keep Tremel Jones in there. And for to winning this game, I think for the Texas side, that just as Steve Sarkeesian said, he has to reevaluate everything, everything in that program because to not win with this roster, I I know this is on paper, like this is paper and games aren't played on paper, but when you look at this team, it's like Oregon, incredible team, they're not doing anything right now. Texas, incredible team, they're not doing anything right now. LSU, incredible team, two losses. these teams that have so much talent aren't winning. And Steve Sarkeesian's been there. He's had so many chances with so many good teams to where it's like, is he ever going to do it? that's the question. if he can't do it now with this football team, is he ever going to do it? And I think that if I'm Steve Sarkeesian, first off, I bench Arch Manning. I say, okay, I get it. Peyton Manning, you're gonna kill me. you know, Cooper Manning, Archie Manning, I get it, you guys are gonna hate me, but I'm gonna do what's best for my program. You have KJ Lacey, who is a incredible, I believe, five star freshman. Play him. Let him play. Cause Arch Manning, he's not my quarterback next year. If Arch Manning says, Hey, I'm coming back to college, I'd be like, All right, audio, see ya, transfer portal. I wouldn't want you. I would I'm you're Texas. Go out and you can get whoever you want. Go out and get Kamario Taylor. Like, do not play Arch Manning because he's he's average at best. his best performances are average. He has yet to have he's yet to play four quarters, first off. You look at the Ohio State game, he played one quarter. You look at the Tennessee game, he was just very average. And this game, it was bad. I and he had the late turnover against Oklahoma. He had the late turnover in this game. He is not winning you games. He's actually losing you games. And if when a quarterback is losing you football games, It's time to go. I I I know Steve Sarkeesian will sit there and defend Arch Manning until he's blue in the face, but it's like it's time to let him go. It's not working. You've had him there for three years. You were better Ku and Ewers. Make a change. Make a change. You got nothing else to lose. I don't think Texas is a playoff team. I don't think they're in the playoff. I I could do a playoff projection right now, and they're not in it because they still gotta play Ole Miss. And I don't think they're beating Ole Miss. They still gotta play other quality teams, they still gotta play LSU. They're not beating both these teams. I don't even know if they'll beat Texas AM at the end of the year. they have to go to Kyle Field. It's gonna be two very average football teams playing each other. Texas is a average football team with a really good defense, but they're average at best everywhere else. And I think you have to make a change because if you're Steve Sarkeesian and you play Arts Manning, that just shows that you like almost it's not that you don't care, but you're like, hey, everything's fine. If you play KJ Lacey, you show that you're trying to make changes. So I think that that's the route they have to go, especially after this loss. it's two in a row, and you lose one more, you're not making the college ball playoff. And at that point, it's a talk about Steve Sarkeesian, whether he's the guy for Texas. What we learned from this is that Wyatt's pissed at Texas for w for what they've done this year. But no, no, I I agree with you, man. I think Arch Manning is just not performing well. He he's not. I I think that he's got the capabilities, I think he's got the tools there. it's it's a lot like a lot a lot of quarterbacks that I've seen in the past. you you look at DJ Lagway, I think he's one of those quarterbacks. You've got the tools. John Matier, you've got the tools. Arch Manning, you've got the tools, you've got the stature, you've got everything. I mean, even it it even comes down to the brain, the the the genetics. and we just can't get it done there. I agree. I think that's the their biggest issue. But congrats to Florida. Really big win. and yeah, you know. executing on the road like this in a big big SEC matchup against a good defense too. I think that's that's a really good win for Florida. going on, another SEC upset, one that you and I you and I were just talking about, one that I don't think anyone really saw coming. Like I said, I thought you know, Auburn can keep themselves in this game and make this one interesting. I don't see a scenario where Auburn comes away and wins this one, but yeah here we are talking about this game with a totally different light and Auburn comes away with it a shocker in Athens, Georgia. And just by the way that they were able to do this one as well, forcing three turnovers in this game, making Gunner Stockton look very suspect and probably dropping them out of a lot of people's Heisman contention lists as well. But looking at this game, walking it off with the 34-yard field goal as time expires, what better way to do it? Byron Brown looking really good yesterday and and and managing the game extremely well. I think his best performance yet of the season, especially when you consider who it's going against, and I don't think that's even a hot take. Two hundred and sixty-five total yards, two touchdowns, and you know, it's it snaps a nine-game losing streak against Georgia for Auburn. So really big. The way that you felt about Kirby Smart finally getting his win over Alabama on the road, I think you feel similar about Auburn finally breaking that and being able to get a win. Over Georgia just in general, not even on the road. But the fact that it's on the road makes it even more impressive. This is one that, like I said, if if you weren't paying attention to it, you looked at the outcome and you said, What the heck happened? W where where did we go wrong here? How did the number one team in Georgia and and it seemed like Georgia by a mile, how did they go down to to Auburn? and and here we are talking about it on the day after. And man, I don't know. That the top of this, the the the top of the rankings, and especially in the SEC. Is looking extremely suspect and very questionable at this point. Yeah, I I think that you look at Auburn and you're like you watch Byron Brown play in this play call and you're like, that is the the USF offense. where has that been? Why are we playing like this weird, Byron Brown stay-in-the-pocket type style of offense? Byron Brown had a thousand rushing yards, three thousand passing yards last year. Why are we not doing that? this is exactly what I thought Auburn was gonna do this year. And they didn't do it up until now. Alex Golish, the play call in this game, spot on. That is what Alex Golish's teams look like. Byron Brown 115 on the ground. That is what Byron Brown does. When you let him play, that is what he does. And look at the result. You beat the number one team in the country, 27 24, in their home stadium. That is incredi or incredible by Auburn. But I think for the Georgia side, a lot of overreactions going on with Georgia right now. People saying, Gunnar Stockton, not a Heisman contender anymore. Gunnar Stockton's bad. Guys, Gunnar Stockton had one bad game. Arch Manning has had 10, and people still consider Arch Manning a first round draft pick. Still boggles my mind. Gunnar Stockton had one bad game. He threw more picks in this game than he's thrown all year, which is two, which is not horrendous. Julian Saiyan threw two, and people probably still think Julian Saiyan's really good. I think people just refuse to accept that Gunnar Stockton's a good quarterback, and he had one bad game. Gunner Stockton's still in the Heisman top 10. he's he won bad game. If you can't have a bad game, look at Fernando Mendoza. He had bad games. The Penn State game wasn't great. Now I know he won it in the end, and that was a great ending. The Iowa game, not great. The James Madison game in week one was not great. Or the old dominion game for him last year. So you look at these performances by Heisman winners, and it's like to say that Gunnar Stockton's not a Heisman contender after one bad game, Trent Chandless had a bad game. And then he comes out and has a dominant game against Missouri and people are like, he's back in the Heisner race. No, he was always in the Heisner race. He just had one bad game. So for me, Gutter Stockton's still a really good quarterback. Georgia just played C plus. And to lose by three points in a C plus game means that you're a good football team because it's an SEC team. people really hate it when people go, but you lost to an SEC team. There's a difference between an SEC loss and a loss in the Big 12. Or even a loss in the Big Ten. you look at the lower half of the Big Ten, or even the middle, and it's like a a Washington team that's not good. It's a often on Iowa team. It's a Purdue team that's good sometimes, horrible others. It's Minnesota who will blow someone out and get blown out. And then you have the middle of the SEC, and it's like a bunch of teams that could beat you in any moment. Arkansas just beat Vanderbilt. People and Vanderbilt almost beat Tennessee. Tennessee just beat Alabama. Which means Arkansas and Alabama aren't that far apart. it's just the parity in the sport right now, especially in the SEC, is so just even. And I think a lot of people are are don't want to accept that fact. And they're just like, Georgia losing out of the top twenty five. Georgia's a good football team. Not that anyone said that, but Georgia's a good football team. They just had one mishap. They're gonna get back on the horse. They're gonna go again. It's Kirby Smart. They have Ole Miss coming to town very soon. So I think that Georgia's fine. Auburn, hey, you got a boost. You got a heck of a schedule, coming up. You gotta play LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Alabama, all ranked matchups. It's gonna be tough. But if you're Auburn, even if you go seven and five this year, you beat the number one team in the country and and you broke the curse, which is great. Yeah. Yeah, it's an impressive win for Auburn, no doubt. And you know, I I think this is this is a good one to build upon too. Just keep on going. I saw some people even kind of teasing and and and mocking the way that Alex Golish reacted after the game. I th I love that in in him, like how he's he's emotional because he knows how much this means. And I think if you're an Auburn fan, you have to get behind your guy that's that's trying to win because he knows how important it is for the fan base. And overall would they rather him not win? It's like that's what I was wondering. Yeah, like w would they rather him just be like, yeah, another win. Who cares? On to the next one and just like treat it as if the this wasn't a huge game. Like yeah, this was your Super Bowl this year. That's okay. Like that treat it that way. I don't understand college football. Yeah. Yeah. you you you just beat the the team that I think a lot of people were picking to win the national championship with ease. So, be be proud of it. Be happy about it. Celebrate it for a little while. Go back on Monday and start the grind again and and work on to your next week. But let's go on to another one. Another one that I I just I don't think many people really called this one. I don't know if anyone really called it. I know we didn't Looking at this one, man, I I knew that Tennessee had it in them from the beginning of the season, but then they started showing me reasons why I didn't believe in Tennessee. And then then Josh Heppel comes out. He weren't even talking about switching up your quarterbacks and how this could be a bad thing for teams. And somehow it proves both of us wrong in this game. I thought Alabama getting pissed off going on to the next week and and firing back against their rival, who they usually own. And I j I I didn't see the same Alabama team at all. Completely outgained, two 347 to 201. Tennessee was able to to hold Alabama down and to only fifty-four rushing yards. they couldn't do anything on offense, which is not the way that this Alabama team has been this year. and so I don't know what went wrong with Alabama completely. I just know that Tennessee exploited everything that they could find. and and any any crack, any any kind of weakness that Alabama had, Tennessee was able to find it and and break them down, ends up winning 26 to 10, really big win for the volunteers. And this is one of those too where you look at these these top ten teams that went down, I think Tennessee's one of those teams that gained a tremendous amount by winning this game just because of of the timing of it all and what this could do for the rest of your season going forward. I don't have Tennessee's schedule pulled up in front of me, but a a win like this could really really boost you and and and propel you for the rest of the season, to to help. And Tennessee's only got one loss. You still got one in the chamber that you could you could struggle in, not not to say that you want to, but you still have a little bit of wiggle room there to still make the playoffs. And this is a Tennessee team that if they're able to Yeah, yeah, go for it. 'cause this could prove to your point of being a playoff contender. They got At South Carolina, which is winnable. You got Kentucky, that's winnable. You got at Texas AM, that's winnable. You got LSU, even if you drop that, you're ten and two. And you Vanderbilt. I I think they could win out realistically. If they play like this, they could win out. And you got LSU at home. Yeah, and and take take one of those. I think Kentucky and LSU are probably the two most compelling to to upset them. now. Do I do I have a lot of faith in Tennessee that they will do this? No, but I I think if they play like they did yesterday, Deshaun Bishop Bishop destroying a strong front in Alabama, who I don't even know if that's even fair to say anymore because Alabama's gotten exposed up front two weeks in a row now. I understand that it was against two good rushing offenses, but one had their top two running backs out in in Georgia, and this one you knew what you were getting in Deshaun Bishop and Tennessee's offense. You knew that they were gonna rely on him to be the the workhorse and you couldn't slow him down. at the very least. I know you're not going to shut them down, but you've got to find a way to to slow them down. They weren't able to do that. So very impressive for Tennessee. And I said, why I think that this was a huge boost to the the remainder of their season. Yeah. we just talked about, I think they're a college football playoff team. I I think you lose one more game. You have the win against Alabama. That is a a resume booster. You have the close loss against Texas I think that this team is a college football playoff team and they certainly play like it. One of things that I really loved for Tennessee is that a lot of people were putting in question Josh Heipel's offense and whether or not he it would work in the SEC and work for Tennessee and whether he's the guy. I told you in the in the breakdown, Josh Heipel's your guy. Like even if you lose this game, he's your guy. And they won this game and Josh Heipel coached and and you know called an exceptional game and the defense for Tennessee, Jim Knowles. Finally figured it out at Tennessee. And that is a great defense. That's what a gym knows defense is like. And I think if you continue to help or continue to play like this defensively, you have so much potential. So much potential. And I and I love the way that this team has played in this game, in these spots, because you play an Alabama team who is really good coming off of a loss against Georgia. This is a classic spot where Alabama wants to get back on the horse and I gotta say I I am shocked that Tennessee won. I I could not find a way to justify picking Tennessee. And they showed me every single way that I should have thought that they could do in this game, that I should have picked them to do. And then and I was wrong. I thought Alabama would run away with this game. I thought that they would win this comfortably by ten or more. And I was totally wrong. Totally wrong. And Keon Russell in that Alabama offense played bad, but it's similar to Gunnar Stockton's performance. I don't think you need to throw him in the trash can after this game. I think you need to realize he's a redshirt freshman, and you need to say that, he's going to be okay. He's going to bounce back. And for Alabama's remaining schedule, they got Texas AM. I think you win that. It's a home game. You have at LSU, which at LSU is a playoff elimination game. You have two, two lost teams. That game right there, the winner of that game, goes, has a good chance to go to the college wall playoff, because I mean, if you look at The remaining schedule for Alabama after LSU. It's at Bandy, Chattanooga, and Auburn. You probably go undefeated if you beat LSU. And if you lose, you're nine and three. You're probably out. So that's a playoff elimination game. You have to get ready to play LSU in Death Valley, probably at prime time at night. But for Alabama, I think that you need to just fix some things, not a wholesale changes. Again, people calling Galen DeBoer, you West Coast guy can't coach in the SEC. He can coach in the SEC. but he just needs to fix some things and and make this team an SEC team, which I think he can do. I've I've heard people calling him the Brian Harson of of Alabama. So but I I don't think that's accurate. I I like Keelan De Boer and we've we've talked high about this Alabama team. I do think that this is the most talented team and they've got a lot of young guys that they could build on and and be even stronger next year. So some mistakes in this game, some things that you've got to find ways to be better at adjusting. And that's really where Alabama fell fell short. And you know what sucks too is that we talked about the past interference call there against them you know, late in that Georgia game. Let's say that Georgia game turns around. Now you're sitting there with your first loss in the season rather than your second in this game. And so it's just crazy how how one little thing can really change the outcome of your season. and not to get too much on a soapbox on that anymore. But nonetheless, Tennessee looking like a very serious contender at this point now. with the rest of the the season ahead of them. All right, let's go on to our last full breakdown real quick. And one that you know what, Wyatt, you and I both had some where we could kind of flaunt that we were like, hey, I was right on this. We both had some that we were like, man, we were very wrong, both of us wrong on that Alabama game. I was very wrong on on Texas, Florida. I think you were a little bit more right and you had some flaunting power there. I felt very good about about my gut feeling in this one. And I told you I said I there's nothing I can point to on paper. Because you're right. They're out their their star running back, they're out their star line linebacker. There's not a whole lot that I can point to on paper and say, I feel like BYU can exploit this over Notre Dame. But my gut was telling me Notre Dame has these kinds of games, it seems like every year, where there's no reason why they shouldn't be able to to win this one. There's no reason why they shouldn't be able to exploit injuries on BYU. I didn't think BYU B BYU would win this game. And so even if Notre Dame comes back and they score as I think they should have been given, then then this this game played out very much how I thought it would. And just looking at Bear Bachmeyer, doing what he needed to do, and not even as a runner, which I thought was extremely impressive for BYU. He ended up going twenty-three of thirty th yeah, twenty three of thirty-six. He had a touchdown on the the day. He did throw an interception, which could have costed them the game, but the defense played really lights out overall. Over this really tough Notre Dame offense. just Bear Bachmeyer, just doing whatever he needs to do. And he did have two rushing touchdowns on the day. but yeah, just looking at it, I I look over at the other side to to the Uluwave had a really big game, had nine total tackles, really stepping up on that defense when they needed somebody to step up and have a big game if they were gonna beat the number two team in the nation. and they were they held CJ Carr. to right around that 55% mark in completions. just they didn't allow any passing touchdowns. They did what they needed to do to hold down what I would say like one of the one of the top Heisman contenders, they held him down and and and limited him limited him to absolutely nothing in this game. So Notre Dame, that was BYU's highest ranked victim since its victory against number one Miami in nineteen ninety. So it's been a very long time since BYU has had a big win like this, being able to pull it off. Now, I do want to take note of the the late part of this game because we were talking about officiating. We have got to f figure out what it is. And again, if we have to go to computers to start officiating games for us, by all means, let's do something to fix this. Because we come out the day after, not only was it an ag an an egregious pass interference that should have been called. There's no doubt about that. You've got to call that, especially in that kind of a moment in the game. You've got to call pass interference. That's bad enough. But then the officiating crew comes out that later on that night, I think it was last night, saying, we actually screwed up and there should have actually been one second left on the clock as well. So we we dropped the ball there. And how how is all of this getting through? How do we have it seems like every week this season where officiating has either screwed something up tremendously? And it just has been embarrassing or and or it's been officiating crews having to come out the or the conference coming out the next week saying we screwed up yesterday, there's nothing we can do about it. Sorry, sucks to lose, but I guess there you go. Because I think no matter how that turns out, I think based on how Notre Dame was performing there in that last drive, I think if you give them one more play, whether it was from the pass interference or putting one second left up on the clock, I think CJ Carr has a Heisman moment. And wins that game for them. I that's all ifs and buts, candies and nuts, but nonetheless, I I just I look at that and it just ticks me off to no end that we've got officiating screwing games over, like the Michigan, Michigan's the Michigan Western Michigan early on in the year. there was one a little while back where the Big Ten had to make a big deal about Nebraska missing a field goal and they should have been given an extra attempt. there was another one where I think that in that UCLA game where Oregon should have actually been spotted up a whole yard and a half closer than what they were on the two-point conversion, which could have won the game for them. then we've got, we've got all of these. It just seems like every week, oops, sorry guys, you lost the game because our officiating crews screwed up. Officiating, for one, we have to unionize it, do whatever we have to do to make it more of a national thing, stop making it per conference. We have to we have to have rules set in place. There's all kinds of things broken in college football right now. We don't need to add officiating on top of it. So games like this really are irritating where this could hurt Notre Dame very badly in the rest of their season because we saw that last year, where they if they would have had one less one less loss, they make it into the playoffs. And here we are, where they've got another tough game against Miami coming up this year. If they were to lose that game, we look back at at this officiating crew and we we wonder, was that what was holding them out? And I hate that for Notre Dame. No, regardless of that though, BYU does need a lot of credit for how they played in this game without some star players. And so I I hate that about the officiating, but BYU, very good game and and very big win for them, regardless of of all of that. Because you can't blame the the school, you can't blame BYU for for the refs officiating, you know, like the officiating screwing things up. You can't blame them. They did what they needed to do and they won the game. and and honestly, for Notre Dame. It sucks that that happened to you, but you've got to out outplay your opponent in the way that the officiating can't affect that. And and this is one of those games where you should have been able to. So hats off to BYU, big win for them, and and a bummer. I'm I'm off my suit my soapbox there for the officiating. Yeah, I I mean it's a it's a c very correct rant to have because I think that there's easy fixes in the world of college football. I mean, you if you have a college football commissioner, first off, that protects from 2014 playoff that literally's never met a college football fan that wants a 2014 playoff protects against that. You nationalize officiating where you don't have a Big Ten official, you have a college football official. And two, you hire them as full-time employees. So that's their job. They study the roles, they study the game, they study what they did wrong, they study how to get better. And if they mess up, then guess what? Maybe you get fined. Maybe you lose money of your salary because then It's less of, it's whatever, and more of, hey, no, we gotta figure this out. We gotta take five minutes in the middle of this game to figure this call out, to watch every angle, to figure this out, because that's what it needs to be, because there's people's jobs on the line. If Notre Dame loses this game, Marcus Freeman, like people are gonna be like, like there's people's jobs online, not necessarily in this particular game, but there's games where people's jobs are on the line. There is college football coaches who could potentially be fired because of outcomes. Think of Mike Norvell. If they give them that catch, which it was, no holding, n I've never heard anyone that said that was holding. So if you take away that holding call and they go to a third overtime and somehow win the game, people say Mike Norvell's job is safe. That's probably what people are saying. But right now people are saying you lost. And people are probably like, hey, we need we're calling for your job. So people's jobs are on the line. You can't just make a decision just because you you think you saw something or you might have seen something. No, you gotta look at it and say there was no holding or or no pass interference or you know, whatever. There there's things that have to change in college football. And I agree with you. That is definitely one of them. Yeah. So again, real really happy for BYU. They proved me right in this game. I had a gut feeling. That's that's all I was going off of. I can't even say like, see, look, guys, I'm better at looking at stats than you are. These are just one of those games where it it it proves that Predictions like I I think it's funny how the the internet is so toxic when you get into this space and you you shrug it off. but they they they criticize you so much. We had a clip out on social media, it might have been on Instagram or Facebook, you know, like and so many comments on it just like ridiculing that I would even pick BYU to to cover the spread. I wasn't even picking them to win the game. And guess what? Regardless of how you feel about how that game ended, they still covered the spread. And and it it just goes to show that for one, put your money where your mouth is. If you want to be 100% correct on everything, then put it out there beforehand and show us how how perfectly correct you are every single time. But for two, I just think it's funny to criticize it. I've I've seen a lot of hate over a lot of guys in the space, Josh Pate probably being one of the biggest ones. But everyone's entitled to their own opinion on these these predictions. And this just goes to show where sometimes you don't need to have any kind of like anything to back it up. You just have to have a gut feeling. And and it just kind of goes to show that no one's really wrong in their predictions until after the fact. And and you can't you can't predict that. That's why it's predictions. it's what it's what makes this industry so fun too, games like this and kind of coming away with like, man, like I don't know what it was that that caused me to think that BYU stood a chance in this game. I guess I've seen some night games in BY in Provo. but yeah nonetheless really good game for BYU. Pulling it off without some star players as well. Let's get to some quick reactions, Wyatt. Starting off with LSU, Mississippi State. This one went exactly how you called it. you said, hey, this is at home. Look at their home record. I feel like they're gonna have a really big game. I said, yeah, but Mississippi State's got a really good offense. I don't care if Kamario Taylor's out. I still trust in their offense. They've still got dudes. And so I I thought, you know, I don't know. I feel like Mississippi State could still hang in there. But Mississippi's offense. They laid up a complete goo a goose egg. just Sam Levitt, I think arguably the best best performance of the season. Is that wrong to say? up there, up there with the Clemson performance. and and in some ways, I think even better just because no turnovers, really clean game, and just almost perfect. 31 of 38, 289 yards, four touchdowns, no interceptions, really efficient offense, shutout on defense, looked really good. How much trust does LSU earn back with the the way that they were able to win this one? Not necessarily that they won because it's Mississippi State. It looks like they're not the same Mississippi State as the beginning of the season, but they the way that they were able to win this one, a complete shutout. How much trust do they get back? I don't feel like it changes a ton because I look at Mississippi State and they're without Camario Taylor, their best player, and they're without Fluff Bothwell, who's probably their second best player. Yeah. So I expected this, maybe not. 31 0, but I expected LSU to win and cover pretty easily. they're a a different team at home, but what I need to see is them go on the road and win a football game that's a somewhat equal matchup. I have to see it. I I have to see it. We haven't seen it yet this year. They're 0 for 2 in terms of playing quality football teams on the road in Kentucky and in Ole Miss. I want to see them do it on the road. But hey, you got Alabama at home in the playoff elimination game. Your biggest advantage is home field. So I I have a lot of confidence in LSU because I think that they're still a good football team, but I I don't careful because if I just all of a sudden throw them in my playoff predictions, it's like all they have to do is lose one game and they're out. I I'm not super confident in this team. Do I think they're gonna be in the playoff the end of the year? Probably not. I they have a tough road. They got Alabama, they got Texas. I don't think you win both of those. So I think LSU is a very good football team, but they're not a great football team. There is zero great football team in college football this year. There is no elite team. There is a very there's a lot of very good teams, but there's zero elite teams in college football. And I think you're just gonna have a mix of 10 and two football. You're gonna have like 10, 10 and two football teams this year, and it's gonna be a big mix for the committee and their mind's gonna explode. But that's what's great about the sport is when you expand your 2014 playoff and everyone that deserves to get in gets in. It's like, well, that's no fun. Like, it's like Oprah handing out cars. You get a playoff, you get a playoff, you get a playoff. You're eight and four you get a playoff. Congratulations. Good job. It's like, no, if you go ten and two, but you have a bad season, you don't have many wins, be left out of the playoff. you're s there's fans and fan bases and teams that should be mad at the end of a playoff. that means that you have a perfect playoff. But I I think for LSU in this game, I think they they prove that they're still definitely in the mix. Yeah. I think they they earn a little bit of trust back. I do agree with you though. I'm not giving like I'm not giving them the keys to the car just yet. they gotta they gotta prove it just a little bit more. Let's go on to the next one. Ole Miss. I think that this is a win worth saying you get a a bit of trust back for sure. the way that they were able to perform against Ole Miss, this is basically the same as the LSU win, but over, I think, a more impressive Missouri team, considering the fact that you know Mississippi State had some guys out, Missouri, pretty much full full full strength. And they were able to completely outrush them. 257 to 39. Trinidad Chambless with four total touchdowns on the day. I I think with this one I don't know, when I look across the country, I think Ole Miss might have actually had the most complete perform performance and and winning against a a pretty good Mizzou team and taking them down the way that they did. Thirty one to three, like what I saw from the Ole Miss team there here this weekend. Yeah, I I think I agree with you. And the fact that Missouri on that graphic, thirty nine rushing yards, having, you know, Jamal Roberts, like that's kind of old or Missouri's thing. I think I gained a lot of confidence with Ms. Ole Miss, I think Kwan Lacey was back for this game, correct? I believe so, yeah. Yeah. I was like, I watched this game, but for some reason I don't know, I don't remember whether he was back or not. It's like I watch a lot of my games too where they I don't have the commentary on, so I don't really pay attention too much in in the middle of of the games on who's in and everything. But yeah, I I I know what you mean. Yeah, I believe he was back, but just looking at this game as a whole, Ole Miss, I think you gain a lot of confidence from them because They showed that that was a good Missouri team and they took them behind the woodshed. So I think Ole Miss is still a very competitive team this year. And having one loss, I still think they're in the SCC championship race and the playoff race. Yeah. Yeah. Kwan Lacey was back and he had 122 rushing yards on sixteen carries. Yeah. I was like, I think I saw five. I was pretty sure I saw I just, like I said, I don't really usually watch with commentary. So I just for teams that I'm not as familiar with their roster on, yeah, I just didn't didn't know for sure. But Yeah. Yeah, I have four boxed, so you can only have one audio. And I didn't have Ole Miss's audio on the whole time because I'm like, it's a blowout. I don't need to audio that one. That's why I love FUBO. if you do if you do Fubo on I know the on the Apple TV whatever that is, the little Apple TV box, whatever that's called, it allows you to select whatever games you want. So I swap them in and out and everything. So a lot of fun. This was a really, really good win. I agree with you. I think I I I don't know, I just I think I just gained more trust for Ole Miss. The way that they handled the rushing attack on on defense. Austin Simmons also had a really good game overall and and yardage. Just couldn't couldn't get any points on the board. So interested to see won't miss the rest of season for sure. Let's go on to the next one. UCLA proving that they're still around. And I thought it was funny seeing so many people pick against UCLA in this game, thinking that, you had a big win against Oregon and blah, blah, blah. I I I don't really care. And I understand Nico's out, but really. The reason why I felt good about this UCLA team was their defense. They only allowed seven points against Wisconsin. And I think that that's just that's what this recipe for this UCLA team is going to be the rest of the way out. Rushing offense and rushing defense. performed really well. And I think that I think a lot of a lot of people are undervaluing UCLA and what they've got in their team this year. And so they pulled off I think one of the games that you and I were saying, here's two games. If you can split one of them, I don't remember what the other one was, but if you can split one of a or come away with both of you've got a really good eleven and one, possibly a twelve and season here for UCLA. And they pulled it off against Wisconsin. Yeah, they have I think Michigan and USC are their last two games of the year. And to be honest with you, UCLA losing Nico, I a lot of people around the the world of college football said, that probably drops them back in terms of their what they're they can do this year. Their backup is really good and To be honest with you, their offense was never passing. It was rushing. It was, Wayne Knight. It was that backfield. And I am I'm confident that they won this game. That's a good Missouri team or a good Wisconsin team that was right outside the top 25. I believe I had them at 25 in my poll. They beat Penn State. It's a really good team, and they beat them by 10 points. I I picked Ms. I picked UCLA to win this game, and I think that they are still. A very good team and I think they're gonna make the college football playoff this year, especially with all the parity. Them going ten and two, if you lose both of those games, having the win over Oregon and this win gives you benefit of the doubt versus a n a ten and two, a ten and two Missouri team or something like that, you get benefit of the doubt. And even if I think they'll win either Michigan or USC, so I think this is eleven and one football team. Yeah, if they're eleven and one, there's no doubt they're in. I think at ten and two, just because of recency bias and because of the bias against that logo. I think it'd be tough to put them in. It's similar to how BYU didn't make it in last year. you know, so it's like or yeah, I just I I think looking around at it, I'm I'm not sure. It kinda comes down to the scenarios, right? But no, I totally see where you're coming from though. And and they do have a couple a couple games that, you know, I think just split And you're you're happy with that. I think you gotta be happy with your season regardless, because you've outperformed what I think anyone really would have predicted. So really like what I'm seeing from UCLA this season. They've been A fun one. have to keep our eye on because they're gonna sneak up and and shock the world here if that if they keep on doing what they're doing. on the next one. Another team that is undervalued and overlooked. Northwestern pulls off a tough win, has to do it in the last drive in order to do it. They improve to five and one. Their only loss on the season coming to the reigning national champs in Indiana. So this is a Northwestern team. I I again I think when you've got Chip Kelly calling the offense and doing the right things over there, they're they're tough enough on defense. They've got some dudes. this was a a good win on the road and able to pull it off. I think that if Northwestern finishes it out, that's it's another one of these teams, man. That's just really fun to watch, really fun to see what they're gonna be able to do the rest of the season. Yeah, I think Northwestern's a team that's still in the top twenty five for me. they're a very solid football team. They're not great, but they're not bad. The, Aiden Childs at quarterback, not doing too much, but doing enough. That wing T offense looks great. Chip Kelly there, that's the offensive coordinator as you said. His offense is working. I think Northwestern's a sneaky football team this year that can, pull off some wins that maybe they weren't supposed to have and be competitive in a lot of games. Are they gonna make the college ball playoff? Probably not. But not every team has to to consider a success. Northwestern exceeded expectations already this year. And I hope that they continue to roll on this season. They do have a tough stretch coming up, Oregon, Iowa, and at Ohio State. So tough, tough stretch there. I'm sure they'll probably drop two of those if I had to make my predictions. But let's say they were able to pull it off at Oregon and and against Iowa and they're rolling in. That eleven that November fourteenth game at Ohio State would be a lot of fun to watch and pretty interesting. So yeah, we'll we'll keep our eye on Northwestern for sure as they continue an impressive season, nonetheless. All right, Miami, Florida State. I know you were chomping at the bit to get to this one. Malachi Tony caught a touchdown, threw that two point conversion to win the game there in double overtime. do you think that Miami showed champions championship resilience? Do you think that they're one of those teams that's like, yeah, they're number one because they won this game? Or do you look at this game a little bit differently because you actually watched the game? I watched the game and I'll tell you what I saw. First off, I saw a robbery. We already talked about that. Second off, I saw a Miami team that won in a tough football game. You saw Georgia fold against Auburn. You saw these teams like Texas lose against Florida. You saw these teams lose these close games. Miami found a way to win. And I think that that is something people are missing is that Miami won the game. They found a way to win. Whether it was a a weird ending or not, they won this game. Darren Mensa was incredible. Malachi Tony was incredible. That's maybe the best duo in college football right now. That offense is amazing. you had Mowery, the running back, who came in instead of Mark Fletcher, and he played great. You have two amazing running backs. You have Cooper Barcade still at receiver. This is a really good Miami team, and I see a very competitive football team. So, in terms of me being confident in them, I think that this team is a 12 0 football team. I think they're better than Notre Dame. I think that. If they keep their head on straight and they continue to win games and just focus on week to week and not get too ahead of themselves and don't drop one of those weird games that they're, tend to drop, I think that this is a playoff team and a really good team, a national championship caliber team. But to touch on Florida State, Florida State threw everything in the kitchen sink at Miami and they played incredible. I think that was the best game that Florida State has played under Mike Norvell in the last three years, if I'm being honest with you. That was incredible. That was that is Florida State football. This is this rivalry at its finest. It's aggressive. It is dirty. It is two teams that wish they could just, beat each other up in the middle of the game. And I think that it's great. This is what college football rivalries are. And I love it. And and I think Florida State played phenomenal. Ashton Daniels was amazing. They did it without Chroma in the second half. That guy's an NFL running back. Deuce Robinson, that guy's an NFL receiver. Like Florida State has talent. I think just the the storylines around the team has gotten to them a little bit. But man, if Florida State played like this all year, I think we're looking at a playoff potential Florida State. if 'cause I think they beat Alabama if they play like this. And I think that they're probably one loss, and that one loss is this game. I think Florida State probably makes the playoff if they play like this the entire year. But they're three and four. So, Can they get eight and four? Yeah, 100% they can get eight and four. Continue to play like this, but I think it's gonna be all about the response for Florida State. But before I end my predictor reaction to this game, this was my best, my this is my favorite game of the entire year. This was the most entertaining game. Like I said, I had the four-screen going. I'm gonna be honest, I clicked off the four screen. I was like, I gotta make this thing a full screen. It was this game was amazing. This was my game of the year. This was two rivals going at it and the fact that there was what close to eighty points in this game was just also incredible. The back and forth, the Miami, started the game hot. Florida State gets the lead in the third quarter. This was a twenty one and a half point spread. Vegas said we think Miami's gonna win by four scores. Miami won by one score and they barely won. So yeah, this was my favorite game of the year, that's for sure. I felt that way about the Notre Dame BYU game. So It's funny. I the we had a c a couple of really fun ones this week. yeah. And I I think it was the most exciting week just overall, without the without the upsets, I guess the the upsets add to it, but just the games themselves were just really fun this week. I I feel like there was a lot of really good back and forth games and and yeah, this was one hundred percent one of All right. they you gotta be addicted if you see this as your first college football game or it's your first college football weekend of watching the sport. But the sad part is is there's gonna be weeks where it's like northwestern Ohio State's like the best game. But it's like it this is like the peak of college football right here. Yeah, yeah. I and I think the parody in the sport right now is at an all time high. Let's get to our last one. And I I just have one question. When are you going to start to believe in Houston and Connor Wegman, man? I told you you have to jump on the train with me, but you you just refuse to. I think you look at at Houston's offense and and what they're able to do in this. Connor Wegman, 343 to total yards and and five touchdowns. Man, Oklahoma State, they tr they came back. They they fought really hard. and they were they were trailing 14 to 3 at one point, made this a really close game. It came down to the wire, but Houston pulls it off. And I think both these teams, man, it's it's I I I I was in a group chat and some guy was like, How in the heck did did this Oklahoma State team lose to Tulsa? And if you just take that Tulsa game away, man, think of what what the possibilities are in the Big 12 with Texas Tech, BYU, Houston. Oklahoma State, this is a really fun top of the Big 12 this year. And I don't know how it really piles up and how it compares to maybe the the top of the SEC or the Big Ten, but the top of the Big 12 is really fun to watch right now. And this was a game that I think was extremely indicative of of how fun it is with with you know Thomas. He had seven receptions, 126 yards, and a couple touchdowns. But man, Houston pulls it off. and it was a really fun one to to watch Houston pull this out and and to be able to win this game. Yeah, I think you're right. In the Tulsa thing, it's like as much as that sucks, Oklahoma State only has one loss in the Big Twelve, and that's one of the biggest things is them and Houston have the same like record in the Big Twelve right now. So I think like you said, you got that like mix of like five, six teams that either one of them can win it all, and I'd be like, I'm not shocked at all. Like Oklahoma State played well, but Houston played just a little bit better. I think both those teams are really good. I honestly wouldn't be shocked if you s if that's the Big Twelve Championship. But I think BYU is, flying at a level that is insane right now. I think, BYU plays Houston, I believe next week. I think that's when that game is. So that's going to be an electric game. That game will tell us who's going to the Big Ten or Big Twelve Championship. I think the winner of that matchup is set up beautifully. But yeah, Oklahoma State, Drew Mastermaker, still a great quarterback, still a great offense. Year one. under Eric Morris is promising and I think they're only going to get better. But for Houston, maybe I'll I I might, hey, you know what? I might have to pick against BYU or I'll pick against them and I'll be wrong again. Maybe I'll just like Josh Pay does with Texas Tech, I'll just keep picking against you to put more wood on the fire for Houston to continue to do well. So Houston and BYU do not play. but BYU Utah Coming up on November seventh. That would be That's what it is. It's BYU. I wonder who Houston plays. I keep on getting Houston and they play a good team, I think, soon. I keep on getting Houston and Utah mixed up all the time because UHU U is like i identical. Same colors, everything. That's where I think they play them. yeah, no, we we've we've gotta fix that. but no, I I do think that that one's gonna be a really fun one to watch. you're here coming up on on November seventh too. But man, Yeah, this this was a fun one. And again, Utah is another team in the Big Twelve, so that's that's five teams, top of the Big Twelve, that are really fun to watch right now. And let's see, Texas Tech, BYU, and Utah are the three undefeated set in the Big Twelve. The SEC doesn't have an undefeated anymore, do they? no. The Big Ten only has UCLA undefeated, I think. yes. UCLA is the only undefeated team. And so I guess you have BYU, Texas Tech. Miami and Miami and UCLA. Wow, who would have thought? That's crazy. Yeah, you so Utah, Texas Tech, BYU, Miami and UCLA. That's it's only five teams undefeated right now up there in the power. So random too. Yeah. So yeah, this is this is a fun, fun year in college football to watch. If you're just an a an a a a bystander and watching the game for the love of the game, it is a fun year to watch. But let's get into Some of our national polls questions, real quick. I'll ask you these questions. You fire off an answer for me. Wyatt starting off, who really should be number one? Because I think this year, this is actually the toughest one. When we get to the top four, too, I think that's going to be another really tough question. This is the toughest week to say who is really number one. Who's your number one team? right now I was between BYU Miami, but I think I'm gonna go Miami. I think BYU's really good and they have a case for it. But when I look at Miami, them already being at three, I think that they just move up to because I think what was it? Georgia and Notre Dame lost. I think they just move up. I think BYU goes to two. But if you want to put BYU at one, Miami at two, I don't have a issue at all. I am fifty fifty, flip of the coin. I think Miami just for me gets a slight edge because I think that they, look better. And and I don't like to go by the eye test. I like to go by what you've done. But in this case, I do think Miami will go ahead. But man, if you want to put BYU one, I would have no issue with it. I I I I'm I'll I'm a little shocked. I do think that those are are two to be considered. I I actually feel Ohio State at number one right now, just because I think they they they did things in a an unconventional way to win against Indiana. Your your starting quarterback goes out, you still fa find a way to win. I know it really the the sucky thing is. The winners there at the top, I think you would go between Miami, BYU, and Ohio State right now. I think those are the three teams. And all three of them were like a fluke way to win. Ohio State, Indiana, Nick Marsh doesn't keep his foot in bounds on an easy catch. If if you're a D one wide receiver, okay, I don't care what anyone says. If you're a D one wide receiver, that is as easy as they come. BYU, very controversial. Miami, very controversial. So it's like you look at the top right now, that's why it's so tough. And we'll get to the the top four here in a little bit too. But let's go on to our second question. Which loss really changes the outlook of a certain team's ceiling? so when you look at at these top losses, and it doesn't have to be one of them that's that's on the graphic either, but what loss do you look at that you're like, man, that really changes this team and and the the ceiling of their season? I think Notre Dame, because Notre Dame has a two game season, you have BYU and Miami. If you lose both those games, you're not making a college football playoff because you have nothing to hang your hat on except SMU, which is a good win, but that's not enough. So I think Notre Dame losing this game changes their entire ceiling because Miami looks like a shredder right now. And Notre Dame has to play them. It's gonna be tough. I know you get them at home, but man, I Notre Dame has zero room for error. I know most of the time it's like, you lose three games, you're out. Notre Dame, if you lose two games, you're out because you're not in the conference. You have a two game schedule. If you have USC on the schedule, which they should be, maybe that's a different story. But for Notre Dame, I think if you lose one more game, you're probably out. So, I think their ceiling changes a lot. Yeah, yeah, no doubt. I I think again, that's another tough question to answer too. But I think it's I think it's fun looking at at the top right now and just how kind of crazy it's it it is. all right. Last question before we get to our top four. Who gained the most from this week? you have some really big wins, some ones that I think you can take away and change as your ceiling the other way. Who had the biggest win? Who gained the most from their their big win this this week? Who gained the most? I think I'm gonna go with BYU. I feel like BYU gained the most because when you look at what BYU did, getting a top ten win against two Notre Dame, you knocked off a giant and now you have one more game that, against a team that's gonna be a close spread. You have Utah. If you beat Utah, I think BYU goes undefeated. So BYU gained a lot. They also gained the respect of the world of college football because they're sh if if there's a poll that doesn't have BYU top three, I can't even look at it. So you know BYU is a top three team in college football, and I think that they gain the most this week. I like it. Yeah, I th I think it's a tough one because there's so many big wins this week. Again, all these questions I felt like this was the toughest week. To answer them and here's the toughest one for you. Who is your top four? if you have to look at it right now, who's like I feel confident that this is the top four? You don't have to put them in order, but these are your are my top four teams. I'm gonna put them in order. This is what my top twenty five will be. And I'm gonna start at one to four because the number four team probably going to be a little shocking, but I'm gonna explain why. So one for me is Miami. I think they're the best team in the country, best looking. Two is BYU. BYU Deserved it, beat the number two team in the country. I just think they take their spot. They Notre Dame probably goes eight. I think they just switch, honestly. For me, three is Ohio State. I think they move up a spot, beat number five Indiana. That's a huge win. I think they're going to continue to rise and they're a very good team. And number four, this is a little shocking, but I think if you really look into it, it makes sense. I have UCLA at four. Wow. A lot of people probably are like didn't go the direction I thought you were. A lot of people are probably like, well, that's that's stupid. UCLA four. You look, UCLA has a win against Oregon, have a win against Wisconsin, they have wins. They are one of the only undefeated teams, and they're undefeated in a power two conference, one of the hardest conferences to be undefeated in. They're undefeated in. And you look at how they're playing, they're winning games with a backup quarterback. and they're beating good teams. Wisconsin was good team on the road, and they beat them. So for me, I think UCLA is a top four team because there's no other, I think, undefeated team that is playing better than them. you can make a case Texas Tech is playing better, but I think UCLA has played better competition. So UCLA at four for me, I I was between them and Indiana. So I would put probably Indiana at five. But I think that not them not having a loss really, really puts the, puts UCLA ahead. I like UCLA at four. I think they're a great football team right now. Yeah, they are. there's there's no doubt. you know, I think that you you look at these teams, I I think you could mix it up anyway right now, just because there's such an argument for anyone, and especially with all the upsets that we had from this week. But man, I you you look at what we had here in week seven, what an exciting time to be a college football fan. But nonetheless, this'll do it for our episode here on College Game Day. we appreciate everybody so much for tuning in for for checking out what we've gotten for spending some time here on on game day collective but of course make sure to subscribe to this channel subscribe on on YouTube hit the like button on this video and turn on your notifications so you can catch us anytime we do live shows and so much more. 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