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Episode 17 | CFB and Week 0 Preview · Return to Glory - Nebraska

• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Go Big Red!
• 0:05
  Speaker 2: The takes, the numbers, the chaos, Hunter, Austin, Dak, talking
• 0:10
  Speaker 2: Cornhusker football, basketball, and everything Nebraska sports!
• 0:15
  Speaker 3: Welcome to the Return to Glory Podcast!
• 0:28
  Speaker 4: Welcome back to.
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  Speaker 5: August 27th.
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  Speaker 6: Another day closer to college football, but we made it
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  Speaker 6: to week zero. College football at least is back. I
• 0:44
  Speaker 6: guess NFL preseason has been back. Today we're going to
• 0:49
  Speaker 6: zoom out a little bit from Nebraska football and talk
• 0:54
  Speaker 6: more of the entire college football season and get our
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  Speaker 6: opinions and thoughts, takes on who we believe in, who's
• 1:01
  Speaker 6: winning the Heisman National Championship. and talk a little week
• 1:07
  Speaker 6: zero since that's coming up here in a couple of
• 1:10
  Speaker 6: days we got some banger of some games don't.
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  Speaker 7: We i have no idea honestly i didn't even look
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  Speaker 7: to see what the schedule was this weekend i'm gonna get.
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  Speaker 4: Some games this week austin so you better be ready.
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  Speaker 7: I know there's some games this week i didn't even
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  Speaker 7: look though oh man it doesn't.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's not fantastic but that's the That's the way
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  Speaker 3: I want it. Just tease us a little bit. Get
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  Speaker 3: us to week one.
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  Speaker 5: Sorry, I'm about to jump ahead of myself.
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  Speaker 6: Dak likes getting teased. Do you want to dive into
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  Speaker 6: that a little more, Austin?
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  Speaker 7: No, I want to stay as far away from that
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  Speaker 7: as possible.
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  Speaker 4: So let's first start here.
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  Speaker 3: This is where we're at in college football, and.
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  Speaker 6: I guess the past two decades, basically. When you talk
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  Speaker 6: about the best conference, the best teams, it all is
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  Speaker 6: around the SEC. The last couple of years, though, three years,
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  Speaker 6: I guess, we've got three straight for the Big Ten. Michigan,
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  Speaker 6: Ohio State, and then last year, Indiana. So, I guess
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  Speaker 6: I want to ask you both here, has the Big
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  Speaker 6: Ten officially pass the SEC as the best conference in college.
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  Speaker 7: Football? I feel like I need more than three years,
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  Speaker 7: but it's close. I was actually thinking about this yesterday.
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  Speaker 7: I was reading an article, you know, like, oh, who's
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  Speaker 7: going to win the SEC? And I was just like,
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  Speaker 7: I don't even know who's good in the SEC. You know,
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  Speaker 7: I'm just Georgia's probably going to be up there, but.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know. You know, you always be like, okay,
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  Speaker 5: Georgia and Alabama are favorites to win everything.
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  Speaker 7: But I didn't even think about them really like Alabama,
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  Speaker 7: not even really in my mind.
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  Speaker 1: They're probably not even the like top three favorite. Are they?
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  Speaker 7: I would guess Ole Miss, Georgia and Texas.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Texas.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I forgot there in the sec.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah. LSU.
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  Speaker 5: No, I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know if we have enough track field behind
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  Speaker 7: us to say that it's definitively changed, but it's definitely
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  Speaker 7: a 50-50 conversation now.
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  Speaker 1: I would say definitely yes.
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  Speaker 3: Especially with Indiana now being this good, I'd just say
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  Speaker 3: it's another team at the top right there. A lot
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  Speaker 3: in the Big Ten is rough, but the bottom of
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  Speaker 3: the SEC is also rough. I think definitively yes, until
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  Speaker 3: the SEC... I think three in a row. So if
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  Speaker 3: a team wins three in a row, do you guys
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  Speaker 3: count that as a dynasty?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: So there you go.
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  Speaker 1: The Big Ten is a dynasty.
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  Speaker 4: So, yes, I agree, Dak. The bottom's bad on both.
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  Speaker 6: I think where the difference is with the SEC and
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  Speaker 6: the Big Ten still is that middle. And I think
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  Speaker 6: the SEC is still, in my mind, deeper. than the
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  Speaker 6: Big Ten now, you know, is who's the better conference.
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  Speaker 6: The middle doesn't matter to me when it comes to–
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  Speaker 6: it's winning the sucker.
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  Speaker 4: Who's won it?
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  Speaker 5: It's been the Big Ten.
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  Speaker 4: So, like, we kind of hold the crown. We hold
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  Speaker 4: the trophies.
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  Speaker 6: Recently, and I think that, you know, that makes us
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  Speaker 6: a better conference. Now, I still think which conference would
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  Speaker 6: I rather play in if I was a random team.
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  Speaker 6: I'm still thinking the Big Ten because I think the
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  Speaker 6: SEC's– just deeper.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah. There's some, and there's some decent chain, like, you know,
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  Speaker 7: Penn state and USC.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, those teams are okay.
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  Speaker 6: Now I guess the counter argument to that is look
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  Speaker 6: at the bowl games the past few years and who's
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  Speaker 6: won those.
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  Speaker 4: It's the big 10 has won those games.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I think that's, that's definitely still, I would
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  Speaker 6: still rather play a, in my mind, I'd rather play
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  Speaker 6: a Iowa versus a, LSU yeah I mean I don't
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  Speaker 6: know if that's a good comparison but yeah that's about
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  Speaker 6: right Tennessee Tennessee.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah I don't know that's my take on it.
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  Speaker 3: But would you rather go to LSU or would you
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  Speaker 3: rather go to Rutgers you'd rather go to Rutgers.
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  Speaker 1: With all those black jobs in LSU like it's.
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  Speaker 6: That's definitely not the same comparison uh All right, so
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  Speaker 6: I know the rankings are out. There's preseason rankings, AP
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  Speaker 6: coaches poll. What I like about the rankings this year
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  Speaker 6: is that there were, I think, six or seven teams
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  Speaker 6: that received first place votes.
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  Speaker 4: In both polls. And that doesn't happen very often.
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  Speaker 6: I think that tells you right now.
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  Speaker 4: Where it's pretty open.
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  Speaker 6: So, you know, forget the polls, forget the rankings right now.
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  Speaker 6: You're going to pick one team to win the national title,
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  Speaker 6: and if they win, you win.
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  Speaker 8: Who are you taking? I'll go for it, Doug.
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  Speaker 1: I have a definitive one, Oregon. I think they're bringing
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  Speaker 1: back way too much talent.
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  Speaker 3: I think Dan Lanning is, if not, well, I think Mendoza,
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  Speaker 3: or not Mendoza, Jesus, Kirk Cennetti. is the best coach
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  Speaker 3: in the nation. Lanning is right behind him. They're bringing
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  Speaker 3: way too much talent back. Dante Moore is a great quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: I think Oregon's going to win it.
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  Speaker 7: I probably agree, but I also thought that last year
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  Speaker 7: and had that shake out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're known to choke.
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  Speaker 7: So since you picked Oregon, I have to pick someone
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  Speaker 7: else because I also.
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  Speaker 5: Want to win. So I am actually going to go
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  Speaker 5: with Notre Dame.
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  Speaker 7: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good pick.
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  Speaker 5: Easy schedule.
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  Speaker 7: I feel like they're going to make it to the
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  Speaker 7: playoffs and they were, they were killing teams at the
• 7:43
  Speaker 7: end of last year, even though they lost the first
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  Speaker 7: two games of the year.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Those two teams.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I've heard Oregon a lot as kind of
• 7:52
  Speaker 6: people's favorite Notre Dame actually is the odds on favorite. Um,
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  Speaker 6: I actually went to the casino.
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  Speaker 4: I think I got good value on them.
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  Speaker 6: I took Georgia as my pick. I think there's one
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  Speaker 6: that's not getting talked about a lot. They got Gunnar
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  Speaker 6: Stockton back. I think that maybe a little sleeper team.
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  Speaker 7: Which is a hilarious concept that Georgia is a sleeper team.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 6: And your other teams, obviously, I was hoping nobody would
• 8:23
  Speaker 6: pick Texas, and we didn't.
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  Speaker 5: Good job there.
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  Speaker 4: Nope.
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  Speaker 6: Obviously, Indiana, I mean, if you're a believer in Cignetti
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  Speaker 6: and full-on are locked into him, Miami's been another trendy.
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  Speaker 4: Pick this year.
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  Speaker 1: Right there would be my second team, Miami.
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  Speaker 4: I think Dak's picking the two trendy teams. That makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I'm not going to pick freaking Rutgers to
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  Speaker 1: win the national title.
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  Speaker 4: What's your deal with the Rutgers this morning?
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  Speaker 5: They announced their blackout game against Indiana.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, that's it.
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  Speaker 5: Locked in.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, it's interesting because, you know, there's the talk of, like,
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  Speaker 7: Lane Kiffin's $ 40 million LSU Tigers roster. Like, I'd have
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  Speaker 7: no idea where that's going to shake out. Same with,
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  Speaker 7: you know, Texas A & M and Texas Tech and
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  Speaker 7: the amount of money they spent on their rosters.
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  Speaker 5: Like, those teams could just be really good.
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  Speaker 7: And, you know, they're like, man, it was dumb for
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  Speaker 7: us not to take the Tigers who went 12-0.
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  Speaker 1: Which Texas Techs?
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  Speaker 3: Texas Tech just found a quarterback that I feel like
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  Speaker 3: has been in college since we were like three years
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  Speaker 3: old yesterday. Because their quarterback, I don't know if anyone
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  Speaker 3: out there doesn't know this, but he might have given
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  Speaker 3: him long games. Anyway, they got Castellanos from wherever the
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  Speaker 3: five schools have been before this.
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  Speaker 5: Florida State. No.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Florida State, Boston College, and there was one more
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  Speaker 3: before that. But, yeah, he got granted another year to play. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: he'll be the quarterback.
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  Speaker 5: Great.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, and that's what's interesting is, you know, with the
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  Speaker 6: new playoff... format, like, or the current playoff format, you know,
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  Speaker 6: 12 teams get in, they've adjusted it, and, like, you
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  Speaker 6: see at the top of the board, there's not really
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  Speaker 6: a Big 12 school or an ACC school.
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  Speaker 4: Miami, I guess, is the one.
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  Speaker 6: But you would think that, I mean, we know somebody's
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  Speaker 6: getting in, right, and if someone like Texas Tech goes
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  Speaker 6: off and it is 12-0 or 11-1, you know, where
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  Speaker 6: do they finish?
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  Speaker 4: I'm guessing they'll finish top of three or four. Are
• 10:27
  Speaker 4: they capable to then win it all?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, maybe.
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  Speaker 6: So, yeah, you throw that in there as well. And
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  Speaker 6: then also, you know, BYU's in the Big 12, another
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  Speaker 6: one that's up there.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, how much is– oh, gosh, what's his name?
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  Speaker 5: The owner of? Utah Jazz. Something Smith.
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  Speaker 7: Isn't he the one who's been, like, bankrolling BYU's talent
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  Speaker 7: acquisition the last couple of years? The AJ DeVance that
• 10:55
  Speaker 7: mostly has been in basketball, but didn't they get a
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  Speaker 7: decent amount of players this year because of just the
• 11:02
  Speaker 7: amount of money that.
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  Speaker 1: They're... You couldn't pay me enough to go to BYU.
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  Speaker 5: I bet I could.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, you probably could, but....
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  Speaker 5: Never mind.
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  Speaker 7: I was going to take a dig at you, Dak,
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  Speaker 7: but I don't need to. That's just mean.
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  Speaker 6: Let's jump over to players here in this 2026 season.
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  Speaker 6: A lot of these players are guys that are on
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  Speaker 6: these teams, obviously. If you had to pick a Heisman winner,
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  Speaker 6: give me your Heisman winner.
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  Speaker 5: Dante Moore.
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  Speaker 7: It's going to be a quarterback and it's going to
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  Speaker 7: be someone who puts up numbers on a good offense
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  Speaker 7: and they're going to, they're going to have to make,
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  Speaker 7: you know, do decent.
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  Speaker 5: And I think Oregon is going to do that.
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  Speaker 1: You jumped in too soon. That was mine.
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  Speaker 5: That's why I jumped in quick. I knew you were good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. All right.
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  Speaker 3: Then I'll go Julian saying, I think his talent wide
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  Speaker 3: receiver is going to be good. I was not massive
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  Speaker 3: on him last year. I think another year on the system,
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  Speaker 3: he will, absolutely go off this year.
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  Speaker 6: Here's what I always think with the Heisman too, like,
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  Speaker 6: especially recent years, you're, obviously if your team does well
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  Speaker 6: and you have a stud player that is on that team,
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  Speaker 6: they're going to be a very high candidate to win it.
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  Speaker 4: And that's always been that way. If you're on a
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  Speaker 4: team that maybe.
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  Speaker 6: Is more, not so I'll say balanced, but like doesn't
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  Speaker 6: really have a star that opens the door for, really
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  Speaker 6: anybody and when you're looking at heisman winners you do
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  Speaker 6: got to consider the team's.
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  Speaker 4: Uh performance too.
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  Speaker 6: Like uh even if you're really really good and you're
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  Speaker 6: leading the team i mean hell we're probably a really
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  Speaker 6: good example with calandria calandria if let's say he has
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  Speaker 6: a boom year and he goes nuts right and it's
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  Speaker 6: putting up numbers left and right but we end up
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  Speaker 6: we still end up well, if he does that, we're
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  Speaker 6: probably not going six and six. We're probably going to
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  Speaker 6: go eight and four, you know, that's, I don't think
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  Speaker 6: that's enough to win the Heisman. You're going to get
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  Speaker 6: in the conversation. Um, if you're leading a team like
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  Speaker 6: Nebraska at eight and four, nine and three, even let's
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  Speaker 6: even go nine and three. But if, if you're not,
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  Speaker 6: if you're not a top 10 team, it's going to
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  Speaker 6: be hard to win it.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, so, so you always take that into consideration.
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  Speaker 3: Um, So you were just out throwing your money around.
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  Speaker 3: What were his odds on the Heisman?
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  Speaker 4: I didn't look. They were out there, but they weren't great.
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, that would not be a bad bet to throw
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  Speaker 3: like $ 5 on.
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  Speaker 5: That'd be a bad bet.
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  Speaker 4: I just told you. Yeah, you clearly didn't just listen.
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  Speaker 7: To my bet.
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  Speaker 4: Plus $ 12, 500.
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  Speaker 5: I'm saying if they go like somehow 11-1.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, if you're drinking the Kool-Aid and want
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  Speaker 6: to go that route, yeah, I just think that what
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  Speaker 6: you want to do is find a team that's.
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  Speaker 4: Going to compete at the end of it.
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  Speaker 6: The guy that I think is maybe an under-the-radar player
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  Speaker 6: that I think could have a chance is Bear Bachmeier
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  Speaker 6: from BYU. Again, Big 12. Just got to go 11-1, right?
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  Speaker 6: And you're going to be a top 10 team. Now,
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  Speaker 6: whether you're actually a top 10 team, I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: But you're going to be getting a lot of attention.
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  Speaker 4: And could win it. I mean, going that scenario, being
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  Speaker 4: a top 10 team. I'll go my pick. Another one
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  Speaker 4: that's trendy is Trinidad Chambliss.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not big on the Ole Miss train with Lane gone.
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to go Gunner Stockton. I'll stick with my Georgia.
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  Speaker 5: My Georgia love.
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  Speaker 4: He's not rolling the favorites, but.
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  Speaker 5: Is it foolish for us all to be out on
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  Speaker 5: basically everything Indiana? No Josh Hoover?
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  Speaker 3: Let's talk about that a little bit here.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, what do we think?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not mad about Indiana.
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  Speaker 7: I genuinely don't know what to do with Indiana because
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  Speaker 7: none of us thought Fernando Mendoza was going to win
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  Speaker 7: the Heisman last year.
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  Speaker 5: We didn't think Indiana was going to go 16-0. Why
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  Speaker 5: can't they do it again?
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  Speaker 7: You know, they lost their quarterback and a couple wide receivers,
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  Speaker 7: but outside of that, I really don't know what they lost.
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  Speaker 5: That couldn't be replaced.
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  Speaker 6: They lost quite a bit of James Madison guys.
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  Speaker 4: They lost a receiver. They lost a really good corner.
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  Speaker 6: They lost quite a bit, but your Indiana belief and
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  Speaker 6: story is trust in Cignetti, and if you've really just said, yep,
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  Speaker 6: this guy is– an all-time great. He's going to, you know,
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  Speaker 6: he's going to fill those pieces in with the right
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  Speaker 6: people and it's going to look good again in 2026.
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  Speaker 5: And they have more money to spend on their roster
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  Speaker 5: this year because people are Cuban to bankroll them because
• 16:16
  Speaker 5: they were winning.
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  Speaker 3: No, I, so I mean, Hunter, we're talking, we said,
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  Speaker 3: would you rather go into the last season? Would you
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  Speaker 3: rather take a Mendoza or Hoover?
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  Speaker 1: You would take an Hoover. Like, I'm not on Indiana
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  Speaker 1: at all.
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  Speaker 3: And obviously more players are coming now to Indiana because
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  Speaker 3: they're believing in Cignetti. So I think it would be
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  Speaker 3: like a saving thing. Every year he's just going to
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: run it back and they're going to be this good again.
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  Speaker 4: You're not high in Indiana at all?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, no, I am.
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  Speaker 5: I am high in Indiana.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think– I'm playing both sides there.
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  Speaker 6: For it to be– I mean, I kind of want
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: to see it one more year. I do believe– I
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  Speaker 6: think Cignetti's a really good coach. But for me to
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  Speaker 6: put him in a– in a GOAT or all-time great.
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  Speaker 5: Of all time.
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  Speaker 6: I don't even know if he has a win one,
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  Speaker 6: but he's got to have another year of success of
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  Speaker 6: being in the top five consistently.
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  Speaker 7: He can't be a top 10 coach all time with
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  Speaker 7: only one championship. I feel pretty strongly about that one.
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  Speaker 6: So, no, I'm obviously not out, but I think I'm
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  Speaker 6: kind of where the market's at on him. You know,
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  Speaker 6: the rank sixth, I think I'm kind of there, right? Like,
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  Speaker 6: I think it's a good spot for him. It's kind
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  Speaker 6: of weird to say a defending national champion in today's world.
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  Speaker 6: You know, they are sixth.
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  Speaker 5: You know, you can see the voters.
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  Speaker 6: They received the second most first-place votes, but they're sixth.
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  Speaker 6: So that tells you, like, some people have them.
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: High.
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: Well, high, one, obviously, but then some people have them
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  Speaker 6: back in, like, the teens and 20s probably to balance
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  Speaker 6: that out to make them sixth.
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  Speaker 5: Crazy.
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  Speaker 4: Crazy.
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  Speaker 7: You look at their schedule, I don't think Michigan is
• 17:56
  Speaker 7: going to be that good this year. I don't think
• 17:58
  Speaker 7: USC is going to be that good. They're going to
• 17:59
  Speaker 7: be tough. Washington is going to be decent. Nebraska is
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  Speaker 7: going to be a pushover. But outside of that, they
• 18:05
  Speaker 7: play Ohio State.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: You look at the odds, and I would rather have
• 18:15
  Speaker 7: Indiana's odds over Texas.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know why anyone thinks Texas can win anything.
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: I've never seen them do anything.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and the quarterback blows.
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: Blows might be a strong word, but I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe he does.
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  Speaker 1: He sucks.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: Any other general college football before we get into week zero? Thoughts, takes,
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: teams you don't think that are overrated teams?
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: Let's all pick our sleeper team and then the team
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: that's overrated. okay go ahead dac i mean my sleeper
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: team boomer sooner boomer soon oklahoma get out of here
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: i i know i know you two have both saw
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: this drama tier is freaking ripped now that guy in
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: actually actually our team is supposed to have one of
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: the best events in the nation sleeper team right there
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: now most overrated michigan bryce underwood I was kind of
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: joking about Arch Manning sucking. I think Bryce Underwood does suck.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: I don't believe in that guy one bit. And they
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: play week two, so we will see. That could absolutely
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: flip right there. So, yeah, Michigan is the most overrated team.
• 19:34
  Speaker 7: Are we picking this based off of the championship odds
• 19:37
  Speaker 7: or current ranking?
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: Just whatever you want, Austin.
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: Whatever you think the definition of under or overrated is.
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: I would probably say Alabama. is a little underrated. Could be.
• 19:55
  Speaker 7: And then sleeper team. I'm going to say the sleeper
• 20:02
  Speaker 7: team is a team that you're going to.
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: Be surprised by.
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: You think Alabama is over or underrated?
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: I think they're underrated.
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: Okay, so that can be your sleeper team or you're
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: doing an additional one.
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, you're right. I was going to do, honestly,
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: I was going to make the playoffs. I'm calling it
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: right now.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: I could see that.
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  Speaker 7: Why wouldn't they? Their schedule is not that hard. Overrated team.
• 20:30
  Speaker 7: It's probably going to be Texas A & M.
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: Texas, really?
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: I really think Texas is overrated. I don't think it's
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: going to shake out that well for them, but That's what.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: I got.
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: I'll go my overrated team. I kind of mentioned earlier,
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: I'm going to go Ole Miss. I think they're going
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: to not flop, but, um, I don't know. I just
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: think obviously the sec is as a room for a
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: few teams. I'm me being high on Georgia this year. And, um,
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  Speaker 6: I guess I am taking LSU in that game against
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: Ole Miss. Um, I will say my breakout team, I'm
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: going to– another team I guess I'm putting overrated. Sorry,
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: before I go to breakout that is actually rated. I
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: can't believe they're rated, so that's why I'm counting it
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: as an overrated team is Missouri.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: I think they're going to be horrible.
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: They're 25th in both the AP and coaches, and their
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: schedule is brutal. I just– I don't know that they're
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: making a bowl game.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: I'll bet you $ 20 on the over-under right now. I'll
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: take the over-under.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: All right. I don't have a clue what it is,
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: but I'll take their over.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Deal.
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  Speaker 6: Then my breakout team, I don't mind the Alabama pick,
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: and I know they're ranked 11th.
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: I'm probably going to really regret this, but I think
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: a team that's getting overlooked that I don't know that
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: they're completely done with it yet, but it's Clemson. and
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: okay give me dabbo to to make it to the
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: acc title game potentially make it into the playoffs.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: With that uh they're not ranked right i think they're.
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: Right at the bottom they're 23rd in the coaches and
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: they are not in the ap so.
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: Give me give me clemson as my breakout team all
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: right zero um I'm just going to mention a few games.
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: There's eight games on Saturday that we're going to quickly
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: talk about. We're not going to go into too much detail.
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: If you guys want to talk about any of these,
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: let me know. I think the one game that has
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: a little bit of interest to us is USC, who's
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: the only ranked team playing San Jose State in the
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: Big Ten. I think the other games to mention are
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: Hawaii at Stanford.
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: NC State at Virginia.
• 23:05
  Speaker 7: That's how you know it's a bad weekend.
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: The other teams to mention are Hawaii.
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: Jacksonville State at North Dakota State.
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: That's the biggest one, man.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: Memphis at UNLV.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: That'll be a good.
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: Game, actually. You guys are trying to jump in and
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: interrupt me here. I'm going to get through the games
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: and let you give your thoughts.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: And then the last one, the big.
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: One, the Ireland game, is North Carolina and TCU in
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: Belichick's second year.
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: So out of those games, give me.
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: The one that you really want to watch. I'm going
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: to take the North Carolina-TCU game out of there. Give
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: me the other one that you really want to watch,
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: and we'll talk about that one a little more at
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: the end.
• 23:56
  Speaker 7: It's obviously North Dakota State, Jacksonville State. Their entrance to
• 24:00
  Speaker 7: the FBS.
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: I was just going to say that, Austin. Exactly. That
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: is the one that's got me locked in on that.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: Well, not actually locked in. I probably won't watch that.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: But anyway, that would be the one I'd watch. So
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: then if I didn't have to go to that, probably
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: Memphis UNLV. I think that's going to be a high-scoring game.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: They both love to throw the ball around.
• 24:21
  Speaker 7: Where did the UNLV quarterback go from last year who
• 24:24
  Speaker 7: sat out because he didn't get paid his NIL money? Oh.
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: Do you remember? That was a couple.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: That wasn't even last year.
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: That was two years ago. That was two years ago? Geez.
• 24:34
  Speaker 7: Sorry.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Last year was Calandra.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: Oh, you're right. It was Calandra.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: I thought you were joking.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought you were too.
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: No, no, I wasn't. Geez, you're right. That was two
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: years ago.
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: The other quarterback that UNLV has is Alex Orgy. And
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: he started game one, got hurt, and then Calandra came in.
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: And Dak, who's their other contender at UNLV. That's competing
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: with Orgy.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Well, if Orgy wins the job, that will not be
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: a high-scoring game.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: Former five-star Oklahoma quarterback.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Oh, is it Jackson Arnold? There you go. Wow. What
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: a fall-off for that guy.
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: I've heard Dan Mullen might be running some 2QB systems.
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: That's kind of why I want to watch that, because
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: Dan Mullen obviously is a is an offensive kind of like,
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: you can call him a genius, but he's creative. So
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: it could be exciting to see what that looks like. Austin,
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: you mentioned North Dakota State. I think that'll be, yeah,
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: it's at the Fargo Dome. Yeah, let's see what the heck.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: They're made of.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: And then the game that everybody's.
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: Going to want to turn on and watch at the
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: first game of the year, in Dublin, right in the morning. Uh,
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: Bill Belichick takes his team over, over the water. Last year,
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: TCU beat North Carolina. I don't know if you remember
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: the first drive.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Um, Oh yeah.
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: North Carolina goes down, scores, goes up 7-0. That place
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: is nuts. It's on Thursday night. Um, pretty, you know, awesome.
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: And then TCU then goes on a 48-7 run and
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: demolishes them. Um, So we'll see.
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: I just don't think this Bill Belichick thing is going
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: to work.
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: Come on. Jordan's running a tight ship over there.
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: Jordan?
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: Jordan. Jordan. Jordan Hudson. Yeah, Belichick's getting fired after this year.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah. Do you guys remember this name?
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: This is North Carolina's quarterback, Billy Edwards, Jr.
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: Maryland, Wisconsin. Yep.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: He didn't have any shot at Wisconsin last year.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: He got hurt very early.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: I think the Belichick train is pretty over.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: He will be sitting off in the sunset with his
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: 19-year-old girlfriend here pretty soon.
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: Sounds tough. All of his money and his accolades.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Anything else?
• 27:27
  Speaker 7: I'm looking at the odds right now on DraftKings to
• 27:30
  Speaker 7: make the college football playoffs, and I'm surprised that K-State
• 27:39
  Speaker 7: plus 750 is higher than Iowa. Sorry, that was it.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: No, that is surprising.
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: Big 12.
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: Big 12.
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: Same with Illinois. Yeah, I guess.
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: Big 12, you're going to be.
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: You're right. The chances of you winning the Big 12
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: is much higher.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Here's a little trivia for you, Austin. Who's K-State's new coach?
• 28:07
  Speaker 7: Isn't it the offensive coordinator, Klein?
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: Isn't it the son?
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: Yep.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: Ding, ding, ding.
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: Yep.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: I love that hire.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: No idea how he's going to be a side coach,
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: but man.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Was he fun to watch.
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: It's not like he's brand new. He was there last
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: year on the staff.
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: Uh, yeah, that's, I don't know. It's going to, it's
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: a weird year.
• 28:36
  Speaker 7: There's going to be a lot with all the transfers
• 28:39
  Speaker 7: and fifth year quarterbacks and it's going to be a
• 28:43
  Speaker 7: lot of familiar faces on new teams, which is, you know,
• 28:48
  Speaker 7: just something to get used to, I guess.
• 28:50
  Speaker 6: Yep.
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: Cause every year is probably going to be like that and,
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 28:53
  Speaker 6: Once, once you figure out where everybody's at, it's like, well,
• 28:56
  Speaker 6: the NBA is obviously more like that now too.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: And NFL, it's like, all right, start the new year.
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: We're going to figure out where everybody's at, what team
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: they're on.
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah. It's not quite the same pace, you know, but yeah,
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: I agree. We're moving there though. We're moving there.
• 29:09
  Speaker 7: It's well, it's just, it's always the, it's like the
• 29:12
  Speaker 7: one-year quarterback rental. There's a lot more one-year quarterback rentals.
• 29:16
  Speaker 7: You know, if it was a two-year rental, it makes
• 29:18
  Speaker 7: a little more sense, but I don't know.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: We'll see.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, hold up before we leave here. I'm going to
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: get off thoughts on this. Wait, how do you think
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: the Sixers are going to be now they got LeBron?
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: They are going to be a top three team in
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: the East. They're still old as hell, not very deep.
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: But I think if they're healthy, they can definitely make
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: a run in the playoffs. Their guards are sick. They're good.
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: They're going to be good. Well, I mean.
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: They beat the Celtics without LeBron last year, so I
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: think they'll be fine.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Beat is a strong word.
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: Beat is not a strong word, I don't think.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: And that is our NBA preview.
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: That was our NBA preview.
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: We'll be back tomorrow morning. We'll see who joins me.
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: We're going to have a conversation about referees tomorrow and officiating.
• 30:28
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• 30:30
  Speaker 3: broadcasting the Batch Football Game Friday.
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: I heard you're the new Tony Romo.
• 30:36
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• 30:37
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• 30:38
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• 30:40
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• 30:42
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• 30:44
  Speaker 6: Yep.
• 30:47
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• 30:47
  Speaker 4: Go Big Red.
• 30:49
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• 30:49
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• 30:51
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• 30:52
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• 30:53
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• 30:56
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• 31:01
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• 31:07
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• 31:12
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• 31:16
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• 31:17
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• 31:24
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• 31:27
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• 31:28
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• 31:30
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• 31:35
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• 31:39
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