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Greg Tepper previews DeSota/Duncanview and Texas A&M's perfect start to SEC play · The Craig Way Show

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Speaker 1: And that means Greg Tapper, managing editor or Dave Campbells
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Texas Football Magazine joins us and also co host along
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with Aaron Hartigan and Yours truly in a High School
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Scoreboard live Friday nights on Ballet Sports Southwest. I have
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to start with your guys' weekend because your wife is
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out of town at a twenty year high school reunion.
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You had this great weekend set up with your boys
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and then you were gonna just can settle in and
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watch football, including your beloved alma mater, the University of Missouri,
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and you take it from there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it went great.
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Speaker 3: Luckily, the boys were a little busy in the morning
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and so I wasn't able to watch the Zoo game live,
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but I checked it at halftime and then I was like, well,
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I ready to watch that, and sure enough I didn't.
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But we had a great weekend with the boys, and
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I instilled in them a very important thing. And I'm
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sure that you have did this with your kids well,
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which is goes out of town. And you know, we
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had a great time to do whatever we want. Dad's
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letting the watch movies, got to pick out our dinner.
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We're having a great time, and then we went we
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had to you know, got the Sunday We're picking up
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Mom at the airport. And so we were eating donuts
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on Sunday morning, because again Dad's in charge, and I
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set the boys down over donuts.
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Speaker 2: I said, guys, we had a good time this weekend.
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They said, yeah, yeah, we've had a great time. I said, okay,
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would you like to do the skin something?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I said, okay, it's critical that we stick
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the landing of then okay. So it spent about ninety
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minutes cleaning up the house, making sure the house is clean.
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Hank made a sign for mommy to pick up at
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the airports and welcome home Mommy. We got flowers that
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were waiting for her at the gate. So all the
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boys like they understood the assignment of like, look, if
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we had a good time this weekend, and we ever
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want something like this to possibly happen again, we got
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to make sure that mom is having a good time too,
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that she's coming home to a clean house and feeling.
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Speaker 2: Like she can leave whenever whatever she needs to. So
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the boy understood.
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Speaker 3: The assignment there, and I'm very I'm very proud of them,
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and hopefully that will make for more more dudes weekends
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down the road.
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Speaker 1: Nice okay, all right, well done, absolutely well done. All right,
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let's let's let's discuss it from an analytical standpoint, not
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just A and M's win over Missouri, uh, but but
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also that mess that happened in Fort Worth with with
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TC and Houston, not a mess for Houston, but certainly
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for TCU uh Baylorman up Tiwa state that.
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Speaker 4: Did not go well. How about your thoughts on the review?
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Speaker 1: But SMU, of course uh got it got a nice
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road win at Louisville. So how about your review of
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college football as it relates to the teams in the
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lone star state that happened this weekend heading into this
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week's rather large weekend.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it did seem like the word would be boom
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or bust.
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Speaker 3: It's really what what the standard Texas would kind of
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defined as last week. You know, obviously, you know you
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had teams that that went out there and and did
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you know, took care of business right they you know,
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Texas A and M.
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Speaker 2: I don't think they have any notes about what about
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what they did.
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Speaker 3: They were absolutely fantastic and their win over over you know,
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Missouri and and really took it to them like, not
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fluky at all. They were the better team from from
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you know, from tip to tail. Awfully impressive from them.
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Speaker 2: Uh. You also had I think sbu their win over Louisville.
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Speaker 3: They're not five and one very I think, very quietly
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and kind of kind of I think, rounded into what
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we thought they could be.
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Speaker 2: I think they figured out that Kevin Jennings is the
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guy at.
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Speaker 3: Quarterback and that has really kind of made things a
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lot easier for them. That's one thing that I think
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it is usually I think Texas States win on Thursday
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night over over Troy represents a.
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Speaker 2: Boom for them. Sam Houston dominated UTEP.
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Speaker 3: I know UTEP's struggling right now or under their new
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coach book, but I mean you go out there and
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and certainly looked like you've made that lead there five
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and one, and then I think that obviously the best
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result under WILLI Fritz. And then you had kind of
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the other side of it, right Baylor. I thought, I
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don't want to use the word the Q word, but
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there were some I thought I saw some quit in
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the second half of that game against Iowa State. It
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was not ready there in the second half. I thought
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that they were disappointing obviously, TCU that that caught that
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national championship games now seems like a long long time ago. Uh,
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that's that's very disappointing as well, you know, And but
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you know, the only team that I would say was
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probably in the middle would be a team like Texas Tech,
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which of course kicked off ten o'clock uh od R
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thirty in Arizona. They came away with the win and
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road winds have been very hard to come by under
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the under Joey McGuire.
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Speaker 2: I don't know it's the prettiest win.
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Speaker 3: But you'll look up and they're five and one, and
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they're three in zero conference play, and you're thinking, okay,
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like in a big twelve that I think is still
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way up in the air, Texas Tech has established themselves
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as a team that that should be recordless. So I
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think that there that the weekend of college football across
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state was was really defined. You either had a great
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week or you had a week that you're you're desperate
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to forget about.
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Speaker 1: How about Sam Houston also continuing to win and doing
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their job out in UH and they'll pass so that uten, Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Kid, I think you need to give a ton of
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credit to Ksey Heeler and company. I mean, they're one
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loss on the year is the u c F, which
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is I mean it's a big twelve team. I mean
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that's that's a Power five our four team. Uh, you know,
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on the road elsewhere, they just take care of business,
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including that that remarkable win over Texas State, which I
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think is going to air is going to age particularly well.
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Speaker 2: And then by the way, you.
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Speaker 3: Know, I don't want to start you know, you know,
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writing checks that they don't intend on cashing. But like,
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look at the rest of their schedule and look at
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the rest of the conference. USA Liberty looms the end
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of the season. But like nasaf State has looked very bad,
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they still have they still have Jacksonville State on the schedule. Uh,
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they still have Louisiana Tech, who's won.
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Speaker 2: In three Uh. You know, FIU is struggling significantly.
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Speaker 3: This is a this is a Sam Houston team that
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you do not have to squint hard to see them,
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not just in a bowl at five and one, but
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very comfortably in a bowl. And I think that that
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is a credit, especially considering you take a look at
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what they did last year where they it feels like
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they just lost every close game. It does feel like
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they have kind of removed some of that doubt and
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I think really made that step towards kind of FBS legitimacy.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you went right where I was going.
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Speaker 1: Next, the fact that last year down in these parts,
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what we heard was all about how Texas State the
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goal was get to a bowl, get to a bowl,
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find a way get to a bowl for the first time.
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And they did and they won it, and it was
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and it was really cool that they were able to
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do it. And I'm hearing these exact same things for
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Sam Houston. And incidentally, here's North Texas at four and
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one and they go back to work, they go down
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to FAU this week, and they've got Temple at home,
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so they've got a chance to get to bowl eligibly,
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which and I know Eric Morris has said that it's
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really important for his program in the second season to
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establish I.
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Speaker 3: Think it's really important to recognize I think for especially
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for fans of Texas and fans of Texas A and M,
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where a bowl is just like I mean, if you
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were to go to if you were to go seven
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and five and make a bowl game, that would be
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considered you know, oh, we need to make coaching change.
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Speaker 2: I don't think you need to worry about that, you know.
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Speaker 3: You know that's something that Texas in the a M
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fans the standard is different. I think at a place
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like sam Houston, a place like Texas State, making a bowl,
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big stinking deal. And and for Sam Houston, if they
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were able to go and make a bowl for the
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first time in that program's you know, short FBS history,
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that would be a real feather in the cap of
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Casey Heeler and you you would talk about how he
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has officially transitioned to that team from from SEF to FBS,
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which is a bigger lead than I think people realize,
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and they have done it, you know, in a short
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period of time, and I think that that would be
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a reason reason to celebrate out there in Huntsville.
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Speaker 1: Talking football across the State of Texas with Greg Tepper,
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Managing editor Dave Canbi's Texas Football Magazine. Okay, let's jump
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to high school and first of all, before we get
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into some of the heavyweight matchups and things like that,
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as promised, you have reinstalled Alito as your number one
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team in the state. In five a Division one. That
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was kind of an elementary fault. You beat number one?
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What was it, Rick Clair, be the man? You got
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to beat the man, that kind of deal. And they
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did that, and then but you Adam leap frog or
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had them go from number two to number one there
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because of the win when there's plenty of other good
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contenders there that are hanging around right around them, and
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some even unbeaten.
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Speaker 3: Look, I mean Alito's loss is to Dtengeier, which is
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still a state ranked sixt eighteen. And then they go
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out there and when they are one hundred and twenty
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thirty consecutive, is your game?
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Speaker 2: You know?
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Speaker 3: And come from behind fashion against Dent Ryan? And yeah,
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I think that it's kind of new boss. Name is
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the old boss?
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Speaker 2: Right? I mean this is kind of, you know, par
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for the course for Aledo.
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Speaker 3: This is the program of record in five A Division one,
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and right now they are the team to beat there.
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That's not to say that I think they're invincible. That's
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not to say that I think that are not teams
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that could go and get them. And I would be
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interested in seeing a potential rematch with Dean Ryan. Should
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you know, should that manifest himself in five eight Division one.
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Speaker 2: What I will say though, is that when you.
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Speaker 3: Take a look at at five A Division one, you know,
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first still lone Stars look good and in Facoliity of
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course has been great.
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Speaker 2: Richland still works in their own district.
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Speaker 3: But I think that you know, Alito has got to
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be the team because then they I think they they
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showed you why on Friday Night that they are just
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so darn hard to beat.
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Speaker 2: The thing.
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Speaker 3: The thing about them is there a few teams in
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Texas high school but boys say about the way to
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beat them that you just have to keep punching. You
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have to keep throwing haymakers over and over and over
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until the clock runs out. And when you think that
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they're they're down, you better keep throwing punches because they are.
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They are just that hard to beat for any team,
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let alone five Envision one.
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Speaker 4: Hey, you're from the video game era?
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Speaker 1: Is it kind of like that Mike Tyson punch out
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thing where you just have to keep counting it over
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and over and over again?
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Speaker 4: Is that the deal? They are not.
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Speaker 2: They are not Glass Joe.
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Speaker 3: They are Mike Tyson at the end to this, they
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are there the final boss in five.
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Speaker 2: A Division one, And I think they proved it again
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on Friday night.
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Speaker 4: Complete this sentence.
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Speaker 1: For me, the most definite number one team in the state,
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regardless of classification in their classification, the most definite number
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one in their own classification right now is boy.
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Speaker 3: I could be a real hipster and I could tell
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you like Jaydon in one A Division two, but I
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might go with Solina and what they've done in four
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A Division one, as I think just the the you know,
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the record of the program that the the other six
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and zero they keep on rolling another big one over Aubrey.
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They look like the party. Especially you know, Stevenville lost
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to a team from Louisiana Russell Louisiana that would probably
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felt like the chief challenger. It's funny that probably the
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second best team I would mention in that would be
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a team like Gunner, even though they have two losses.
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But for now, if you're looking for the team to beat,
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the team that is probably most far ahead of their
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of their maybe the second or third place team, I
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would say probably Solina. Columbus might have an argument as well,
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but I do think that three and vision one has
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a depth to it at the upper tier that that
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may give Columbus in trouble at someone.
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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, So on the opposite end of that,
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let me ask you this, what state ranked team that
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you have in your top ten, in one of the
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top tens, regardless other classification, which state ranked team is
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the most overlooked yet dangerous if you can have an
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overlooked top ten ranked team.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's a good point, boy man.
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Speaker 4: All right, let me let me let me do that.
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Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, I got one.
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Speaker 3: But I think people are gonna people are gonna roll
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their eyes when I say it. Oh, it might be
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it might be Allen. Allen is five and oh, and
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I think it's one of those teams that we kind
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of forgot about, but Lee Wigginton has got them rolling
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right now.
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Speaker 2: Five and Oh they look the part.
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Speaker 3: And a team that we just have not talked about,
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I think because six A Division one has been dominated
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by Duncansville and North Shore and you added and team
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like North Crowley of the ven New Shines. Oh, it's
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has to see a look what they're doing, right and look,
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Travis think things that those were and Allen kind of
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went away from the Uppercross for a few years, but
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they're back in a big, big way.
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Speaker 2: That is a team there.
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Speaker 3: The other only team I would mention there, and I
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think it's just because of geography and because of like
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relatively recent history is Galveston Ball. Jonah Williams Texas commit
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is UH. He's just remarkable, just a remarkable player, and
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that whole team is excellent.
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Speaker 2: And for them to go out there and dominate Pork Memorial.
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Speaker 3: Last week as a team in five A Division, one
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that I think is overlooked simply because they're down in
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Galveston County. They're they're kind of off the beaten past,
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so to speak, but they are for real. And I
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would say that that those are probably the two teams
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that you want to talk about overlook one that has
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plenty of of you know, made cachet and another one in.
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Speaker 2: Ball that people may not realize plays football.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, all right, And then like I like you
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like to put it, the meanest thing we do each week,
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we give you usually three games, but really and truly,
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I really think for the second straight week we're just
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talking about one of two games that stand alone. And
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so you have a choice between them Duncan Vilde Soto
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and UH, and that that would be one of them
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and Uh. And then the the other major matchup that
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I would have you consider would be in h five
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A Division one, is it? Yeah, well it's a five
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A Division one matchup, but it's a it's a five
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A Division one team UH in a non district game
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or no. Five A Division one district game. Richland and
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Dent Ryan.
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Speaker 3: With all the respect of Dent and Ryan and Richland,
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which is a fun, really interesting game. And I don't
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see if Ryan and bounce back and not let one
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loss be to twice. That's a big question here. It's
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gotta be the Soto and Duncanville. I mean, it's gotta be.
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Speaker 2: This is the two.
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Speaker 3: This is the two back to back to fending six
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A state champion playing one another with star power out
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the wazoo. Like there's gonna be like twenty FBS players
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on the field on Friday night in DeSoto. We got
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a report from somewhere in De Soto that they've already
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got like one hundred and forty people who have requested
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credentials for this game. It is an outrageous, outrageous game
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that I think is you know, is.
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Speaker 2: Going to be a massive game.
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Speaker 3: It's become a big rivalry, you know, in a weird way,
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even though like there's no playoff implications here. DeSoto very
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comfortably going to Vision two, Duncanville very comfortably going to
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Vision one. But I think that last year's DeSoto win
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over Duncanville has kind of reignited that kind of rivalry.
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So I think Duncan's kind of sick hearing about THEODA
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because Destota was pounderful found the best team in Taxasise
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FOOTBA last year and for my money, the best team
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in America last year. And I think they're tired of
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hearing about it, and here's an opportunity to shut them up.
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But for De Soto, it's proof that, hey, like things
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have changed permanently here. And I think the other thing
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I'll just say about it, this is not for the
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faint of heart.
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Speaker 2: This is going to be a shootout.
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Speaker 3: This game is going to be in the high thirties,
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the forties, fifties. I mean, the teams are going to
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score in bunches for two reasons. One, they've got a
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ton of playmakers on the offensive side who are going
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to high power five teams.
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Speaker 2: But also, like the defenses, the weaker of the two
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units on both these teams.
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Speaker 3: So I think I'm absolutely fascinated by this ball game,
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and I think it's it's is by far the biggest
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game of Sea.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm in agreement with you.
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Speaker 1: The only wrinkle that I have to emotionally mentally get
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past is the fact that that other other than bragging
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rights and where it lands in your top ten, the
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game means nothing.
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Speaker 4: Nothing.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Because I will tell you that's the thing that
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I think Richland and Ryan has is that if we
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believe that Alito's gonna win the district, and they won
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one hundred and twenty three consecutive district game, so.
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Speaker 2: I think we have reasonably they will.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, consider this the loser of Ryan and Richland is
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on the road in the first round of playoffs.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, like that is a real thing that matters.
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Speaker 3: You're going to beat You're playing for third place then,
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And so I think I think from a stake's perspective,
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the States are the highest in Richard and Ryan, but
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it's hard to pass up to sod them.
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Speaker 1: See if you can follow me on this, this is
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how I see the Soda Duncan Hill. There's a distinct
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possibility that Army and Navy could wind up playing for
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the American Conference Championship this year. They could they could
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even possibly both be unbeaten. They're both unbeaten. They're both
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five and zero for the first time since nineteen forty
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five when Army won the National Championship, navs us to
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play Notre Dame.
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Speaker 4: So but even if they lose, you.
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Speaker 1: Could have a twelve to zero and an eleven to one,
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and they could be the top two teams of the
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American and they could wind up playing in the American
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Conference Championship game, which carries with it all the stakes
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of landing a spot in the twelve team playoff. They
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could be the highest ranked G five team and then
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the next week they play each other in the regular
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season game and it won't mean anything except that it's
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Army versus Navy. So that game, if it, if it
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happens like that is exactly like Duncan Bvildesota this week.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's actually a good a good callback.
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Speaker 3: And on that And by the way, I'll also just
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say this, if it gets to the point where it's like,
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let's just say Navy beats Notre Dame, not outside the
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Reuman possibility, Notre dame, right, I think Army and Navy
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should both be in the playoffs. I'll just say that,
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like like, I mean, if we expanded the playoff for
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the reasons that people will want to tell you that
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we spanded the playoff. And if you've got two twelve
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and no teams going to their conference championship game, and
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let's say they split the two games. Even though I
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think there's a thing that Army Navy will have no
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playoff implications, you should put a book the playoff.
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Speaker 2: Like, let's be intellectually honest here.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, you you bring up a good.
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Speaker 2: Point, That's what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Well, the first meeting, if they meet for
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the American Conference championship, that has relevance because the winner
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is going to probably be the highest rated G five
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and get in. You would have that if the if
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you do have a twelve to zero and eleven in one,
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you know, we'll see what happens with Boise, We'll see
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what happens with Liberty and so on.
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Speaker 4: All right, so that would have relevance.
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Speaker 1: Then all of a sudden, I think you have unearthed
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relevance of the next week, because then whoever loses Game
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one seeding the conference championship and a slot in the
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playoff to the winner might have a chance to grab
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it at large next week. But no, no, that they wouldn't.
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That's right, because they've already they've already set the playoff
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by then.
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Speaker 3: I will say, if let's say it's a competitive aac
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talium and yes, we turned this into you know, turns
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into service academy here. If I think Army Navy should
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both be in the playoff, that is my offic as
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the official stance, and I'll speak on behalf of Dave
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Campbell's Texas Football too.
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Speaker 2: If it's if it's if they pinched.
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Speaker 3: The regular season thirteen and oh and twelve and one
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going to Army Navy, Uh, they should be in the
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Uh they should both be in the playoffs.
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Speaker 4: Okay, I'm with you on that. All right.
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Speaker 1: He's Greg Temper, managing editor Dave Campbell's Texas Football Magazine.
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Join us weekly for Service Academy talk here on the
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program next week we'll discuss whatever happened to Air Force.
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All right, Hey, thanks, and I'll see you on Friday night.
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Speaker 2: Looking forward to my friend.
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Speaker 1: All right, that's Greg Temper there. Imagine if that happened. There,
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aren't we Navy I did two twelve and Oh's going
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into that. God couldn't happen, right, Who knows. We'll have
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