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Big College Football matchups loom this weekend · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Big game tomorrow for Georgia Tech against Notre Dame, and
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  it appears as though the Yellowjacket's going to be without
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  the former Longview Lobo Haines King, their quarterback who had
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  been at Texas A and M. Of course, had a
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  broken leg and then has been really really good for
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  Georgia Tech. He's been dealing with what's called an upper
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  body injury, considered day to day by Tech coach Brent
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  Key heading into this matchup with Notre Dame, who is
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  five and one, the one lost to Northern Illinois. But
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  Haines King apparently is not going to be able to play.
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  A backup Zach Pyron will be the starter. Of course.
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  Pyron has played in sixteen career games, started twice as
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  a true freshman a couple of years ago, played situationally
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  in all seven games for Georgia Tech this season, five
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  and two, accounting for five combined touchdowns. So he, by
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  the way, is a guy that had snaps for Georgia Tech,
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  including a rushing touchdown when they beat Florida State in
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  that opener in Dublin, So he played in there. So
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  he's going to play him place a King right now.
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  And King has had a really good collegiate career, especially
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  most of it at Tech. He's thrown for nearly six
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  thousand yards, eight passing touchdowns just one interception this year.
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  With the eight touchdowns, he's also rushed for three hundred
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  and fifty three yards and six scores. So it's a
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  big game. Notre Dame is going to be without its
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  best defensive player, the corner Benjamin Morrison is out for
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  the rest of the year with a hip injury as well.
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  And it's not that Notre Dame is a G five
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  We know they're not obviously that they operate independently as
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  foot in football, although they play. They have that scheduling
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  alliance thing with the ACC that's why they play in
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  Georgia Tech. So they are doing that. But it's important
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  to watch their matchups and their games because of the
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  G five effect. With Army and Navy still to play
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  Notre Dame this season, those are going to be very
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  very important games down the stretch for G five. It's
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  kind to the point now, Cameron, because we've we've talked
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  so much about G five schools and it's come up
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  more than any other year because of the G five
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  place in the in the playoff hierarchy that I now
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  start paying attention to important G five games every week,
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  whether Army or Navy or Boise State UNLV has the
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  one loss. North Texas is playing at Memphis tomorrow night.
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  That's a big one as well. You know, from being
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  the booth spotting for us for the UTSA and the
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  ULM games, that we have like four games going on
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  simultaneously in the booth while we're calling the Texas game.
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  So there's a good century overload that's going on at
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  that time. Because we've got one overhead monitor that we
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  keep squarely on the Texas game, so we can obviously
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  view for replay. There's a monitor out front that's kind
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  of split between the TV booth and our booth, and
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  the TV booth people don't really care because they've got
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  their own individual monitors of the game. So we put
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  it on a game of interest. Then we have a
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  third monitor sitting like to the left side, and we'll
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  have that on a game of interest, be at SEC
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  or Top ten or whatever. Then I've got my iPad
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  to the left where I'll have another game. I usually
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  put a G five game on there, and to be honest,
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  sometimes if North Texas is on there. I want to
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  watch the Alma monitor. Well, it kill two Birds with
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  one Stone because it kicks off at the same time
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  as the Texas game, and it's an important G five game.
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  North Texas a membus. And then Roger Wallace has his iPad.
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  He's got that quad box thing going on, I think
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  because what he does the YouTube TV thing once there
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  was the impasse between DirecTV and UH and Disney, and
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  so he went he went cord cutting and then he
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  went to YouTube TV where he gets a quad box
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  on his So really and truly we're looking at one, two, three, four, five, six.
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  We've got eight other games going on, seven seven other
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  games plus the game that we are going on in
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  the booth at Some people say, how do you concentrate
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  on the game you're calling, Because you call the game
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  you're calling, they're just on in the background. There's just
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  background stuff. It's like if you're at a party and
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  somebody's got games on any other thing, you see what's
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  going on there. But if you're talking to a party guest,
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  you're talking to a party guest. You know, every Texas
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  game is like a party, you know, just being out
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  there and watching the game straight a hit. I don't
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  think I'll have any challenge at all maintaining my concentration
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  on Texas versus Georgia. It's just it's just good to
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  have those other games going on, right because it folds
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  into the dialogue of what we're talking about, Like, what
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  was it the Tennessee Oklahoma game? Yeah, that was on,
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  that was pertinents, what was happening, Yes, Texas, Yeah, exactly,
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  So there'll be some of that. We'll we'll we'll have
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  that on even as Texas Georgia is kind of the
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  center of the college football universe. If you will, Tomorrow
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  Tennessee Alabama gigantic game, but it's earlier in the day.
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  Speaker 2: There's on ABC ahead of Texas Georgia. So those of
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  you who will be watching not in attendance because you
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  didn't want to spend a thousand dollars on a ticket,
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  there there's a chance that that game is elongated or
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  goes to overtime, it may overlap with the kickoff of
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  Texas Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let me put it to you this way, Cameron.
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  If the if the Tennessee Alabama game overlaps the start
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  the kickoff of Texas Georgia. That is a freakishly long
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  game because it's two. It was three to three. It's
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  only two thirty. It's a two. Okay, that's four hours.
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  Should be fine, right, Yeah, And let me also say this,
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  I know for a fact the Texas Georgia game is
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  not going to kick right at six thirty. It's going
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  to be more like six forty five when it kicks,
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  So I think they'll have time to exit one game, ABC,
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  have some scoreboard in between, some scenes setting for their
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  prime time number one matchup, and and then have the
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  kickoff of it. So I think it's probably gonna be
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  about six forty five when that happens. We'll see. Hey.
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