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Episode 121: BEST WEEK OF CFB THIS YEAR! CATHOLICS V CONVICTS, THE HOLY WAR AND MORE! · You Don't Know Ball Podcast

• Isaac Rowe: What's going on? You don't know ball podcast nation. Welcome back to the show. another electric week of sports in the books, but nothing bigger than this all season long. This is the this is the week that everybody's had circled on their calendar, especially me and a a few other a lot of other teams. So we got The Holy War, we got Nerd in Miami, we got Battle for Paul, Michigan, Michigan State. we got a couple other games. I can't remember off the top of my head. Well you left. It's a big game. It's a big game. It's like only on Peacock. It's only on Peacock? Yes. Really? But you're going to it, so it doesn't matter. Yeah, it doesn't matter in real. It matters for everybody else. But only on Peacock. It's definitely going to be a where the big games are at now. It's definitely gonna be a weekend for sure. So I'm I'm I'm I'm excited for all this. But I'm excited. Yeah, I don't know if you want to start with your Caleb's corner, but let's go to the pickups, see the results. I I don't think Yeah, I d I did pretty good. We can we can start with that. Isaac, how'd you do? I don't want to talk about it. Don't want to talk about it. Do you actually not know how he did it? I have no idea. Me and Jack did pretty great this weekend. Pretty great. Okay, we will start with Isaac two for five. Or no, two and five. So technically two for seven. Your record is now worse. Your record is now standing at a crisp thirty-nine and thirty-three. So close to forty. Someone who did reach forty. Someone who did reach forty also went two and five. Damn. Jack Witt, congratulations. Your most impressive pick doesn't feel congratulated. Your your most impressive pick, probably going to Iowa with me. You're you're I tailed you there, so thank you. What'd you say my most impressive pick was? The UNC one? Notable. Yeah, yeah. Yours that was definitely UNC. but Jack, you've reached forty wins. You're forty and thirty-two. Congratulations. yeah. Alex comes in second for the week, three and four. Damn. You are now only six games back of third place. Yeah, that's not bad. your most impressive pick. I'll give you Texas Tech because you lone wolfed that one, but you also did predict UNC keeping that game close. So pretty good now. It's a pretty good week for you. And then me, I went four and three. So I my timing left. Nothing nothing crazy. Forty six and twenty six. I'm leading the league. that's my fifth week one. So yeah, they said random's debt. I mean, yeah. Alex has won three weeks and weeks have I won? One. And you wanna know what week it was? Week one. Week two. No, it was actually yeah, week one. Yeah. The one you coin flipped on. Yeah, the one the one I wasn't even here. Awesome. But that's where we You ain't gotta win every week, okay? Yeah, just look. All it takes is the week where I put eleven games down and Jack wins eight of them and then that would be great. Yeah. No, we put we only got seven. I think seven's like the sweet spot. Because you can't go five hundred. So it's like I don't know. It's really like It's at a point now where I'm six games above Jack, so I could really just cheese it and just agree with him on everything. Yeah. But I'm not gonna do that. And then Isaac ends up winning. Yeah, right. You intentionally sabotage me so Isaac wins. That would be that'd be pretty great, guys. You guys should consider that. Yeah, we're right. But no Alex and Jack and I have some work to do to catch the leader and Caleb and obviously we have a couple of weeks left. We have four weeks left to do that. So yeah. Yeah it's it's coming again. Are we doing bowl season? No. No? Are we doing Army Navy? Doing Army Navy. Are we doing playoffs? we'll do that'll be its own separate thing. I think last year how we did it, the award was given to Jack because he by the end of week twelve or whatever however many friggin' weeks there are, I mean he had the best record by one game, mind you. Yeah. And It was all just regular season games. So I I don't think I'm gonna count bowls just because last year we didn't do it, so I'm not gonna change it. I think what we should do the pr the playoffs is each kind of like March Mattis, we each have our own bracket. Should we do only the top two make it? I'm just kidding. Yeah. It means No, it'd be a good chance of redemption. We all can make it. Yeah. No, but I think. There we go. that'd be that's a good idea. Dude, yeah. No, I was talking we should do we actually predict the bracket once it comes out. yeah, we can't. We should do that. Whoever has the best bracket kinda gets the post year this year, isn't It's twelve this year. Twenty four next year possibly. Jeez. So yeah. U L A's gotta make it that. Yeah, I mean they're pretty much a guarantee to make it. Yeah. Michigan, I don't know. But depends on the rest of the season. Obviously we had some games to get into this weekend. UCLA beat Nevada twenty seven nothing. Michigan beat. We don't gotta talk about it. It was a boring game. Yeah. Michigan beat Rutgers twenty-eight, twenty-one. That's sketchy. Nordame had a struggled first half but pulled away in the second half. They won thirty-five two thirteen. And then I think Alabama had a a bye week this week. So it's good info. But yeah. And I think Virginia I don't know how your boys in Virginia are doing. So I don't either. Well, their season's over, bro. they they had a couple great weeks of clout, but after that Bo Pravilo was actually kinda sweet to watch. Yeah, he was fun to watch, I'm not gonna lie. But didn't he get hurt? I think he got hurt. Yeah. Dude, that everyone's getting hurt nowadays. even in the NBA, there's been a really bad injury problem. fifteen percent of the league is hurt or something like that. I feel like I get a notification every day. Yeah, who was it that surprised me that was out for so long. I forgot what star it was. No, not H star, An Anthony Williams. Anthony Williams? that's his name. What's his name? The mi the Timberwolves guy. Anthony Edwards. Yeah. He's out for eight to ten weeks. Yeah. So that duo we were all so excited to watch. we're gonna have to wait until the new year to really wa like watch a lot of them. So this is good for the Pistons though. Their guys don't get hurt. Dude, whoever that lefty is is cooking y'all. But Yeah, speaking of injuries, I think we gotta address Jack Campbell's injury. So yeah, that was prayers out to him and his family. That's a s very scary injury for sure to see. Not much has come out about it, so that's not overly promising, but they did say that the print positive direction. Yeah. Positive results. So we're hoping for the best on this, on especially for Jack and his family. But like everybody said, like the inju N NFL College football and NBA are like a whole lot of injuries right now. Yeah. So it's kinda it's because of the extended seasons. Yeah. I wouldn't say that. It just started. But we can get into what do you want what do you guys want start with? I mean, what games last week really interested y'all. I guess we kinda always start with Michigan. They pull out a close one again r against Rutgers, you know. It's kind of like a weekly topic at this point, Alex. Alex, how about you kick us off there? honestly I was a pr I was kinda excited for Tommy Carr and how the offense finally looked today, this week. But So you thought they looked good? but then again we've looked really bad against Rutgers. So defensive wise I think that a few plays got away from them of the two two lucky. Lucky as hell, beat down the field and whatever with the two touchdowns. Smith Soden needs Yeah, Smith Snowden kinda cost us those, but honestly Michigan's kicking game has been a c atrocious and honestly it was overall we would win the we won the game, but Michigan I think the quarterback position is in the right direction with three hundred and twenty total yards from C G Tommy Carr and offense just looked a lot better than it did prior weeks. If we had Bryce Underwood in that game we would have lost. So for sure. For sure I think I think that a hundred percent. I think Tommy actually came out and played rec actually really well. If when he's not playing the number one not number one best defense in the Big Ten, but elite defense in Indiana, he actually looks like a the pretty good quarterback and he proved that he just looks so twenty seven baby there's moments in that game where he just looks so much more poised than like Underwood ever looked his entire career. You look at his first rushing touchdown and his second rushing touch touchdown, he was trying to throw it and then he had he ran out got out of the pocket and made something out of nothing. I mean it's pretty much Underwood couldn't do that. I mean he's Not as he's not as shifty as Tommy, I feel like. So Tommy Do you think do we think now that Bryce is for sure like out of there? yeah You know, like if he's benched, you know, 'cause he's gonna be benched next year unless he shows unless he really commits to it and is like coachable or whatever. But at this point you have a freshman that's made your team look so much better and like twenty eight points is they put up twenty eight, right? Yeah, sorry. I mean that's something I thought I would never see against against someone who's not UTEP or like 'cause we kinda saw that y Michigan scored a decent bit against UTEP, but twenty eight points, man, against Big Ten opponent. Sure it's Rutgers, but they were at Rutgers, so you know. that definitely incorporates a little bit into it. But I mean, do we all think Bryce Underwood is official transfer now? Yes, I think a hundred percent fifty percent of Michigan's roster is entering the portal. really? Really? Okay. Well so what what big names do you think are entered the portal? Marsh. Underwood. I don't think Buchanan will. 'cause he's only a sophomore, right? Yeah. Yeah, he's pretty good. Marshall probably will. I mean, yeah, he w he was like talking shit about the coaching, wasn't he? Yeah, Zach Marshall definitely is. Bri I think and then I think Jordan Marshall but then depending on how that rest of the season goes, I think he might as well. 'Cause Hyder's Hyder's bad Hu Hyder and Kusdall have been really, really good this year. Michigan's offensive line needs some help. defensive wise, I don't know. I think a lot needs to happen for the defense to stay there, I feel like. So Well, I feel like maybe this is a s like you said, a step in the right direction. As long as they see their offense producing. Right. Mm-hmm. Then who knows? I think this will be a really big week just for culture wise, especially against MSU. If they can go out there and just kick their ass in a rivalry game, like yeah, that'd be awesome for them. So I mean If we see that, who knows? Maybe maybe that transfer amount drops. Well, yeah, and again, Michigan's defense for the second game in a row didn't let a completion in the second half. And pretty nice. And that's crazy. honestly that's really hard for a defense to do, but then again, Brockers was still having a chance to win the game or tie the game. Yep. So I mean I don't really know what to feel about this Michigan team. Michigan obviously hasn't Jesus crime. Wow. Michigan hasn't played a really amazing away this year. They've only had two away games, believe it or not. Really? we know they only got three. Three away games, right? they I think they go to Oregon and Ohio State. I think those are the last two last two away games. They have five home games, four away games. I do all right, let me put this let me put this hypothetical in your head. If Michigan were to win out, so they would beat UCLA, they would beat Oregon, they would beat Ohio State, which are all And Michigan State. I don't I'm not I'm not gonna say Michigan State's not a pushover. No, I know, I'm not saying that. That's sorry, I was just listening to their three biggest games and I left. If they were to win out and which are all starting to look pretty winnable at this point, 'cause Ohio State's coming off that pretty embarrassing loss to USC. Oregon's not been Oregon this year. I think everybody thought they were gonna be UCLA has UCLA third string or second string? Second. Second string. I think the biggest problem for them is just UCLA just had three straight games at home. Yeah. So and it's really starting to get I'm not saying it's getting cold here quite yet, but I've really noticed it today. yeah. Especially with not we had no sun today, at all. No. So when you start getting like when UCLA comes to town, like two weeks from now, like Dude, we might have thirty five degree weather and I I don't know, people say, look, you gotta go and play in it or it might be rainy, it might be snowing for all we know. So it's like sixty percent chance of raining. I I got Michigan winning that weather mentality battle every time. Yeah. I d I don't know. It's definitely nerve wracking though, 'cause also this game against Minnesota for UCLA will definitely show what this team is really about. for sure. 'cause I'll be honest, like we've there's been there's been issues. Purdue, they passed for like four hundred yards on us and then You have a game against Cal where it takes until mid fourth quarter for UCLA to really figure it out. Michigan's defense is also just incredible. we've talked about it all year. are we gonna be able to run the ball against them effectively? 'Cause that's what UCLA loves to do. Ty Diffenbach in at the big house. Do I think he's passive for two hundred yards? No. So yeah. I think so going back to my question, I think does Michigan one keep some of that roster retention if they win out and go to the playoffs and two. Do they make the playoffs? cause with how shaky the Big Ten's been like Indiana's not elite like last year. Ohio State's injured and not elite like last year. UCLA is the probably the best team in the Big Ten right now. And then who's next? they're Oregon's bad at when they when they travel. Well, obviously Michigan's not going to make it the Big Ten championship game. Northwestern just lost to Oregon. I was not a pushover. Minnesota's not a pushover. Dude, we might see a Northwestern and UCLA Big Ten champions. That's it's a it's a r real thing. What do we think the odds were of that, plus a million? you could turn a dollar into a million if you bet that yeah. Yeah, no, that's not that high, but it's like a fifteen percent chance that actually happens. Yeah. In my opinion. But it's we're still like I don't know who the third or fourth or who who even is the best. Sorry. The best team in the Big Ten right now is UCLA. But who is the second, third, fourth, fifth best team in the Big Ten at this point? And I couldn't give you a straight answer. Well, like what I I was telling Jack before the podcast, like it's just it's it really is just week to week. These teams aren't consistent at all. And do I really am I confident in UCLA finishing the year eleven and Maybe. To be honest, like, yeah, they can definitely do it, but like we've said, week to week We see different versions of every single team. And that's why probably later I'm probably gonna pick Minnesota the cover because I think just week to week you just really never know with college football. So seriously though. I think this week will tell us a lot. Well then again, does does UCLA have to go eleven eleven and No, they can probably lose one. Yeah. Like and the as long as they lose one, they beat Illinois, they beat USC is gonna be a big game. USC might be ranked again by the time they play Yeah, well, USC I think is ranked right now and I don't know what their schedule looks like the rest of the way. But that's last game is UCLA. So that might be huge. Yeah. Implication wise. All of a sudden US C doesn't look like a pushover anymore. They went from being laughed at against Wisconsin and then they go they come home and they kick the shit out of Ohio State and Wisconsin gets thirty pumped by Iowa. Like we don't know anything. No, we don't this college football season at all. And it it's this is d hands down the most exciting, like unpredictable college football season that anybody has ever seen, especially in our lifetime. Yes. Even Miami's not the dominant. Like Miami's team better Miami's team last year was better. for sure. Miami team Miami should have lost last week. They should have lost twice this season. They they Florida State got robbed, which by the way Rest in peace, Michael Norvell. He just got fired this week. Sixty Hey, he has the best job ever. Fifty million dollar football coach, fifty million dollar buyout. Fifty million dollars nothing better than being a fired football college football coach. Like Jimbo Fisher. Jimbo might come back. Jimbo might be coming back. That's like Monty Williams. Tom Gores is paying eighty million to him out of pocket over like four years for the Pistons. But thank God they did it, man. Yeah. But yeah, it's in the unpredictable. What was I just saying before we if he hits another one? okay. I was you were saying like how nobody's consistent. No one no one's consistent. And Miami, I feel like they sh they l they beat I was talking about Miami. Miami should have beat should have lost to Florida State and then they should have lost to North Carolina 'cause North Carolina had three straight onside kicks and they recovered two of them. my God. North Carolina recovered two of them and they called it back for some penalty that was pretty controversial and then Miami got the last one and they escaped with the win. So I'm not gonna say that that's the same Miami team that's gonna come out on this Saturday in South Bend because Yeah, you could say they were looking ahead. Yeah. Yeah, it's a look at South for sure. And I think Nerd Aim did the same thing as Navy. I hope Michigan did the same thing. Michigan did the same thing. But I guarantee we don't see that defense performance like that again the rest of the season. For U of For U of yeah. But Nerd Aim wise Struggle in the first half. We got bullied that first half against Davies O line for sure. they were getting us off the ball. They were getting five yards a carry at most. It was pretty ugly. Yeah. In that first half. We went to halftime four fourteen, thirteen and then we made the adjustments, we we focused on our job because playing that Navy offense, it's all about eyes and your job. And if you don't do your job, you aren't in the right spot to succeed and It showed in that s the difference between the first half and the second half it showed 'cause we didn't let score I don't even think we let cross the fifty after that. No, and it it it just shows you like that playing navy is no like easy tasks, especially with the unconventional offense they run in Plainville Pride office. Right. Well it is Edwardsburg. Edwardsburg offense. Also you're also playing the our armed forces, so they're never they're not gonna give up anyways. So the most the most I'm not saying that Notre Dame should have made it a close game in the first half, but like Yeah no. It they're the definition of a I would love to see Michigan would probably lose to a team like that. No, I'm not even kidding. No, honestly I I think if Michigan played against them they'd be out physical for sure. I knew that was getting blocked, bro. Well, I looked and saw Notre Dame was losing like thirteen zero or something when I was at work. Yeah, it was about that. They were getting bullied and I was like, I sure hope Navy wins this game. Well, sorry to disappoint you. And then I looked and they lost by a pretty big margin. So I was upset. Yeah. It's all right. I mean that that's what good teams do though. They they might look bad in a half and then they'll they'll lock in. Tail of two halves. That's kinda what you that's kinda like UCLA. Like they've had so many games where they just look so like dead and not ready in the first half. Like Oregon's one of this Nevada game, first quarter. Michigan State was another one. they they look terrible in the first quarter and then they go up they go into the half fourteen to seven. Michigan State can't get a first down the rest of the game. So that was nice to see. But it's good coaching adjustments. Yeah, this honestly this Minnesota UCLA game is gonna be such a good defensive battle. 'cause both teams are great defensively. Like min or UCLA just they they bend but they don't break. Like I'm not gonna lie. Like Th they they give up a lot of first downs, constantly teams are getting past the the midfield into their territory and they'll they'll get one third one sack and then on third down they're so good at forcing picks. But this might be the best quarterback we've played in a minute since week one, honestly. You'd say Dylan Rayola, but he played so bad that against them. Drake Drake Lindsay, is that his name for the quarterback? He's got a turnover problem for sure. So I mean it UCLA is gonna force some turnovers, but that defense that UCLA that sorry, Minnesota has, that's gonna keep him in it. Mm-hmm. And it proved against Indiana and Indiana's got their own problems right now. Like they're offense isn't like super stellar right now. And Hoover got benched on Saturday for A seventh year senior who's a backup. A seventh year senior is a backup quarterback. So it's like Noah Kim on Eastern. Yeah. Get a job. No, not even Noah Kim. He's not even playing. Get a job, bro. Hey, watch it watch out for that Eastern Central game. Yeah, shout out. Noah Kim Legacy game incoming. But yeah, I mean it's I There was a p plenty of look ahead spots, but the only team that I think that actually looked really solid was Utah. And they they might be the most dominant team this year. They pumped Cincinnati after Cincinnati had that big one against Texas. Texas Tech. Yeah. Which is another thing. Then Texas Tech responds, of course. Damn it, Noah. Damn it, Noah. Come on, man. Good game though. Tommy Castellano's starting was not on my bingo card this year. No this week. Not at all. I thought he was I didn't do it. He was he was he was on he was in, then he was out, then he was in, now he's out, now he's back in. You never know. But Let's see what else happened. I I I think the Lions picked up a big win. that was huge But at what cost? Yeah, I know. But why happened to Brian Branch? Do you get like actually hurt? Or is he I think he was in concussion protocol or something. Well that's fine. But the yeah, like were saying, the Lions got four defensive starters or injured from one one game. Of course. At least it's happening around the whole league though. I mean to be honest, like you everyone practice squad is just gonna become more and more important. throughout as time goes on. Your depth on your team is gonna be huge as you even Kyler Murray was hurt after that. Yeah Kyler Murray did not look great. Vikings didn't look great at all. Did that game Jack? Or did that work? Damn it. Damn Jack. Did did I forgot what I was gonna say. Damn tough. So that's tough. Lions obviously big win. Big win for the Lions. Not much to go look at that spot. I mean, Jameer Gibbs play out of his mind again. Jared Goff. And that was that's a Super Bowl elite defense r in the Vikings. They just Vikings can't score Yeah, Vikings just can't figure out a way to like score points. And if they actually had a competent offense They're probably looking at the Super Bowl favorites right now, but they just haven't put up I think they I don't think they've put over twenty points a game, like offensively. Like that first game they played against Green Bay, they put up thirty seven points but twenty one of were the defense. Yeah. So yeah. I don't know what to think. And that's when Carson Wentz was playing starting too. Yeah, Carson Wentz played start, but he played he still played decent though. Yeah. But yeah, I don't know what to think about the NFL right now. It's it's definitely gonna get interesting. Enjoyable to watch. Hey the Chiefs sold my pick ems this week on NFL and pissed me off. But whatever. I should never no you should never bet against Bo Nicks at home in the fourth quarter. That kid's got more fourth quarter comebacks than anybody else in the league. Yeah, but it's not even that it's him. It's literally everybody else. Denver's Denver reminds me a lot of Michigan. okay. Because Bronco's defense is stellar. And then you just have Bo Nick. Bo Nick's like they use him like Underwood. I'm not gonna lie. Like he's his only completions are screens, it seems like. Like I have Jalen Waddell on fantasy. He scores like a solid like nine to nine to like ten points a week for me. And he I took him with like my fourth pick overall, and it's just Not the fourth overall pick, but my fourth round pick. Holy shit. No. I got put all my chicks on it. I got Gibbs at two. Nice. My team put up a hundred and sixty seven this week. I would've loved that. I got one fifty one fifty forty seven and then I'm Charbonnet tonight, I'm hoping for my he's on my bench. I'm gonna see how he does. Hey, wait, wait till you hear this. My team put up 79 and then 56. I'm at 79. You know, for Jack and I being like two pretty good fantasy players, this has been a rough season for us. Dude. It's been a brutal season. I had five guys. I had five guys put up twenty plus this week. That's nice. I had maybe one. Drake London put up one point eight points. That dude needs to re-evaluate playing football. They were playing in a damn like tsunami. There's a hurricane in Florida right now. Yeah, so I should and then Mecca and Buca was hurt for Dude, Bucky put up so many that game for me. He had a hundred and seventy yards. Jerem Jeremiah Love got two point eight points and I traded Bucky away earlier this season because I was pissed off. I hated him. I was like, I get rid of you. Worst decision. Dude, he's had so many good weeks in a row now finally. Yeah, so Jeremiah Love had two point three points last night, last yesterday. And then window. Yeah, yeah, whatever. Lily Lily I played Lily and she beat me with two people on her team. No, one person not even playing. that's crazy. Yeah, I'm our Omar Cooper Jr. for the Jets had zero receptions and zero yards. That's who you started, guys. Omar. Yeah. I I cause he's had 20 the last two games. I'm like, yeah. Who are they playing? Raiders start. Yeah. Zero points. my God. So it goes sometimes. It's just brutal, man. But how how is our college football fantasy dude, I haven't looked at that since I've I haven't looked at that since I signed up for it. No shit. Yeah. I think you are like yeah, I think you only won one game. Yeah, unfortunately. Isaac we played each other this week. Yeah, I think we did. Hey, Trey McKinney with that three. Don't tell me that I They don't call him Trey for nothing. Don't tell me that I actually lost you last week. Nope, I won. No. No way, I lost. Yes. No, I won, I think. No. Alright, so here's a standing. So Sam's in first and two. I'm in second at six and three. Alex is in third at five and four. Managerless team at four and five. And that's like AI. Caleb's two and six. Grace is three and six and Caleb's two and seven. No. I'm good. I don't I think I auto drafted my whole team, unfortunately. Everybody did. okay. Everybody did, yeah. No, I saw you had like ha the one time I looked, I saw you had like half Notre Dame's team. I went through and like picked them up over the waivers. Somehow I got Trinidad Chambless on my team. Tough. Yeah, Drew Bestermaker dropped me thirty three points. Damn. Yeah. Damn. Yeah. Yeah, they'd be going crazy in college. What's CJ Carr draw at me? Sixteen point eight. Zero. Yeah, pretty much. But yeah, it's gonna be it's been a pretty fun football season for sure at this point. It's just fantasy sucks. So Hey for you. But you know what did start this week weekend. College basketball is back on the stage and the NBA is back too, man. Congrats to the Milwaukee Brewers. Dude, what a lame World Series though. Raids versus Brewers, it's not lame. but it w it was four to one. It wasn't even lame. Yeah, okay. I thought you talking the WNBA Finals had more aura than the Yeah. How many people do you think stayed in to watch that game on Halloween? Probably zero, but to be honest, like every clip I've seen way more clips of WNBA Finals gameplay than I guess it is. I've seen zero WMBA. Dude, they went to game seven. It was back and forth the whole series. I was locked in. The only time I saw anything about the WNBA was on what's that girl's name? Brittany. Angel Reese. No, Angel Reese. Brittany Ground. Angel Reese leaving the court after she lost game seven. Yeah. I've just seen Sophia Cunning Cunningham like whooping girls' ass. She's got the I she boxing in the off season. Is that what she's doing? I saw she was like a ring girl for I think she's got like FBI like protection on her for right. all her controvers controversial comments or something. I I guess I don't really know. But I saw some Instagram posts about it. this is the most random person that ev FBI like Secret Service protection on. So I think it's probably valid. I know she's a really popular WNBA player. There's definitely some creeps that are probably like who going around. Sophie Cunningham. She's Caitlyn Clark's teammate. On the f on the fever. She's her enforcer. is she the that did this? Yeah. Yeah. No, that wasn't See yeah, I don't know. But yeah, NBA and bac basketball season and a whole is in f full swing. I all I gotta say, Notre Dame basketball, buy stock now. Buy stock now. Did you watch the whole game? I watched the whole game. I actually I watched the first a lot of the first half and then I had to go to church for an hour and then I watched the rest of the game every day You didn't watch it at church? I was I was ch I like checking if I just watched. It was like It was like we were down sixty six, sixty three. I'm like, shit. It's like a close game. And then we won seven run to end it. Dude, Caleb, you won this week against Grayson's team. I did. You got your second win this week. Take that Grayson. I know he ain't looking at that either. Kicks off today. tips off today. Yeah, I'm gonna I'm about to be pissed off if UCLA loses, but it's all right. That's a that's a honestly after that they don't play anybody tough until the Big Ten schedule starts in December. So it's gonna be a very boring month of UCLA just probably beating all the California teams that they schedule every year, like Cal Poly and UC Irvine and stuff like that. so yeah, it should be a good test. Good game. all like ball knower fans of the You Don't Know Ball podcast put February thirteenth in your calendars. Yeah. Might be might be going live for that game. It this is a matter between these two, all right. I mean might be. It you don't I know you don't care much for college basketball. You don't really root for Bama, but would you consider Virginia your team? Probably Michigan, but okay. Yeah, sure. Virginia's definitely my team. Virginia's your A C C team, we can say that. Because if I had an A C C team I'm putting California. Fair. Mine's in our dame. If you had an A C C team, which one are you picking? Syracuse? Okay. you. I gotta think about that. That's a tough one. Probably the bluest blue blood of all. Jack, what's going on, what's going on in the NHL? Jack. You're our NHL guy with you. No clue, dude. No clue? damn. I'm trying to get you out of here. Have they started? Have they started? Yeah. Do you know anything about this Larkin like issue or no? Yeah, he's not playing until he gets traded. shoot. Is that what do you what do you think about that? him. Aren't we better with like without him or something like that? No, they he's a pretty good player. Isn't he the longest tenured wing? Yeah, right now. Yeah. I mean if we haven't been a we've blown what, three playoff berths the past three years, right? So it's like Check him with the red. Yeah, he hasn't made the playoffs since twenty sixteen. my god. Yeah. Get out of here, bro. Go go somewhere else and go get your bag. Go go make the playoffs. Do your thing. Honestly, I'd do the same thing. Like Red Wings were what were six five and three? That's not terrible. We're above five hundred. Yeah. Yes. honestly I might say SMU maybe for basketball for AC. Snow Mountain Universe. Maybe Syracuse. Maybe Syracuse. Is SMU in the ACC? I thought they were in the They're in the A C A C. okay. Yeah, they joined it last year. Okay. I I remember watching that game on I was like lifting outside it, it was cold and shit. And I watched Notre Dame come out and sh shoot O for ten. And we got our ass Bro's cold. Bro's watching his team lose. Bro's probably having a terrible lift 'cause it's cold. It's terrible as cold. I just never felt like comfortable at all. for Big Twelve I'd say Kansas though. A hundred percent. I'm trying to I'm trying to think of like I guess my Big Ten team would be Michigan for sure, but No, dude we can't all ha we can't have two people on the same team. All right bro. Big ten team for basketball. buy low with Oregon. They'll be good in like five years. Yeah, I'm a buy low with Oregon. No, I don't I couldn't really say anything for Big Ten. I don't really know. I always liked Michigan State. Nah, God no. I okay, I'm not gonna do Big Ten. I'm not doing Big Ten because obviously I'm gonna be a Michigan fan. So Big Twelve. Let's think. There's Oklahoma State. I always liked I like Oklahoma State when ca when Cunningham and the Boy Caden them there. Yeah. I like Oklahoma State. Caden new. I still like Oklahoma too, I guess, but I s I I I like I like still Kentucky and the SEC. I like Kentucky a lot. And then SCC wise is probably Kentucky's my team, honestly. Okay. Johnny Juz ain't used to play there all out. I know. I like I like when Cal Party was there, but you know, it's all right. I go attack. St. John's is lit with him. I like St. John's a lot too. I like Patino. that is Patino, you're right. St. Calpari's at Arkansas. Arkansas's so lit, dude. Their home environment's awesome. Well, that's all they got. Their football team sucks. I don't know. they protest they're starting to protest not going to games. Arkansas fans. yeah. 'Cause they want Eurochek. They got the Hunter Eurochek, who is like a prime factor for Nerdame not missing making the playoffs last year. you still. And the whole athletic department to be fired along with their head coach Ryan Silverfield. He's in his first year and they already want his head. So Damn. That's gotta be tough. big news, college football playoff rankings come out on Tuesday, so obviously we're not gonna have now 'cause we're recording on Monday but keep an eye out for that. That'll tell us a a pretty good big picture of what to look for and what they're thinking for the bracket at least. So that'd be a big deal. And then if we could finally put the A P pool to to risk. So Thank God. Yeah, it causes so much it's caused way more controversy than it did last year. yeah. I feel like every weekend I it's just every week it's like the argument of this team bit beat this team, but they lost to this team who then beat that team who then that was a crazy everybody keeps talking about the BYU seating, which is yes, their name did get beat by BYU, but then BYU went and lost to three and four UCF it and they look terrible doing it. And then UCF goes and loses to forty. It's a baylor. DJ Lagway. DJ Lagway masterclass. That's what I predicted too. I told y'all. At this point, yeah, you. At this point, I I don't know how the college football playoff committee is. Yeah, that t-shirt's probably fifty bucks. I'm sure everybody on that committee is pulling their hair out right now. Trying to figure out what they're how they're gonna do their job. Well they're they they posted some corny ass leaving their hats at the door at the door You guys half you guys don't even know what ball is. I don't think any of them watch it. No. A P definitely doesn't. There there was a comment in there, so did all the people who were putting their hats at the door and there were two women in there. And I looked at the comments and said, We just let women get into anything, don't we? I'm like, God damn it. That's bad. And I'm like, can we move on? Hey, Holly wrote Yeah. Dude, a a lot of these YouTubers and TikTokers that, I I I like watching have way better arguments and better systems for this. there's so much recency bias with from week to week we're not seeing the same teams. We're just not. So I think you have to it's a good balance of resume plus just general talent. Strength of schedule, yeah. Who who's available off the injury list, best wins, sca yeah, like what you said. I don't know how they're gonna do it it's gonna it's been a crazy season. Well I'm hoping Ohio State doesn't make it after what they looked like last week there's no way but And I have no problem with women being in that committee. Just let me be clear about that. Sure sounded like Yeah, no, no, I just thought the comment was all right, all right, that was kinda funny. Well the commenter had a problem with it. The commenter had a real problem. It's like dude don't you that's a hat that should have been left at the door. That was just the same comment, you liked it. Okay. No, there was I looked at Wait, you liked it too. There was there was forty seven replies on that comment. yeah. I was like, Yep, this guy Four of them were mine. Just thumbs up, laughing. Let's get the pick'ems going here. we got a lot of great top twenty-five matchups this week. We're gonna start with a noon game, a big noon game, I would say, for my team, UCLA number five at Minnesota. The spread right now is UCLA is favored by six and a half. I'll start just because they're my team, and you know what? I've bet against UCLA time and time again. I'm gonna rock with them this week and I I'm gonna take UCLA to cover. No matter what happens here, I know what I'm doing and I accept any of the consequences. But fair enough. I think vibes wise, I just I I I I just like I I like our odds. You know, I think vibe vibes wise, I'm feeling good going into this week. Nine's my favorite single digit number. Let's get there. Nine. appear. I'll pick I'll pick who goes next. Jack. They're playing Minnesota, are they at home? No. Minnesota's at home. Spread six and a half. UCLA has to go to Minnesota. Yeah. I think Minnesota covers. Okay. My heart says I knew this is gonna be a lone wolf pick. I knew it. My heart says Minnesota. My head says UCLA. And you know what? Yes, UCLA's offense isn't looked Stellar, but I think UCLA's defense has been pretty elite all season, so I think UCLA covers. Or lone wolf. I hate Minnesota. Go UCLA, baby. I'm lone wolf. Really? Dang. All right. Crazy. okay, next game. We got BYU at Utah. Utah this is a spread pick. Utah's favored by five and a half. boy. Are they at Utah? Are they at Utah? They're at Utah Utah. Utah's gonna cover that game. I don't think Utah covers that game. This is a spread pick? Mm-hmm. What's the spread? Five and a half. So this could this could be just like the Notre Dame game where it came down to like you know, how much did they lose by? Three. What are you which one you talking about? The BYU game? Yeah. they lost by four. They lost by four. Hmm. Utah, there's probably gonna be a lot of BYU fans there too, though. So I mean I God know there won't be. really? Okay. No. Utah won't even let BYU enter the state. It might be like there might be like a few hundred, but there's no way that Utah's just a bunch of haters. A thousand BYU fans getting. They hated on my boy Pat McAfee. They hating everybody. You know, there's so much more hate in this real in this game than I think a lot of people realize. Like this these teams like hate each other. You wanna talk about hate? I know I know, but like I'm just saying this is like a top three like hatred game. I would I agree to that. I'm gonna take BYU to cover. Alright, kill. I'm gonna take the bear too. Yep. my god, I'm lone wolfing this. So you guys took DYU the cover and then I took a BYU. Every time I pick BYU, they don't do me wrong. Alright, fair enough. I think bear we're Alex is Mr. BYU. Alex. Jack's Jack might as well be Mrs. BYU at this point. Yeah. Jack and Alex are Mrs. and Mr. BYU. All right. Stepdaddy. I guess I'm lone wolf in this one. I'm glad we're all not going with the same pick, but I I just think that's a ten AM start for them, by the way. Yeah, that's not a night game too. Okay, Texas, Texas at Missouri, money line. Texas is favored, but it's it's a coin flip game at this point. And it's at Missouri. Give me Arch three thirty game or a night game? I don't know. I think it's a noon or a three thirty one, but I think Texas gets it done. Yeah, give me Arch. Give me Texas. Okay, I'll move on with this. Hard to bet for them. Yeah. I think I like Missouri though. I think it was always gonna be them 'cause at home they're a completely different team. And Texas, we've seen we've just seen them mess up, so I think this could be a week where it happens or so back and forth. I think this is a weekend where maybe they go on the downswing. I don't really know what's going on with Missouri right now, but they're ranked at nineteen, I think, vibes wise. It's just Kinda how I'm feeling. Everyone's lone wolf once at least. Let me get mine on this one. I like my odds here. Austin Simmons is a good quarterback to ro lone wolf with. So now Alabama number nine at LSU number fifteen. We're doing the spread pick here. LSU is favored by five and a half. Who boy. It'll be Bama. It's a spread pick. Yeah, I took I'll go first this time. I took LSU to cover last time and it didn't fail me, so let me get them again. And I'm gonna I'm gonna give Alabama the same the same thing I just gave Texas. This could be a weekend where they're on the downswing, especially with LSU being at home. This is a night game. I think they can win by six points. This is a night game in that room. I don't think so. I think that LSU can cover. Alright. I'm gonna go with Bama. I think Bama's gonna cover this one. Hell yeah. I think I think Keelan Russell's gonna bounce back after the two struggled winks he had. Keelan Russell. Keelan Russell. Keelan pie. Keelan pie. Keeline pie russell. my calf is cramping so bad. We're playing injured today, boys. next game. Kentucky at Tennessee, eight versus sixteen. first on this one. Okay. It's a money line. No. Spread. Tennessee six Tennessee's favorite beside. Kentucky Kentucky a hundred percent is gonna cover that. Okay. We'll s they might even win that. We'll stein that guy. Kenny Minchie that guy. I think Kentucky can do it. Who are they playing again? Tennessee. Tennessee? Give me Tennessee to cover. I'm gonna say Tennessee too. Tennessee can win by seven, man. Let's do it. next game, Georgia at Ole Miss. We're doing money line here. Georgia's the favored one. And you know what? Give me Georgia to win. Give me Georgia to go in there. They're the number two team in the country. They took a loss to Auburn on a look ahead game. They're not doing that again. I think their defense can figure Trinidad out. So give me Georgia. The two times we saw Trinidad play Georgia last year. He won one, he lost one. The one he won was in the playoffs, and he was Superman. I if Olmus is gonna beat Georgia again, he's gotta go Superman again. And you know what? I think after what I saw last week in the Bulldogs, I can't really pick to win this game. So I'm gonna take Georgia to win it. Wait, are they at Georgia? they're at Olmus. Yeah. I was originally gonna pick Ole Miss, but I just switched last second there. I hate betting against Trinidad because I know he's a dude, but at the same time, there's no way You I also hate betting against Georgia. It's such a pick where I'm like, damn. Give me Trinidad. Give me Trinidad. Yeah. I I kind of figured that's how this was gonna go. All right. Last one. Miami at Notre Dame. The game we've been circling this podcast. It's finally here. And I'm gonna give Isaac the same we're doing the spread pick here, by the way. Notre Dame's favored by five and a half. That's what that's what it is. That's what it showed on ESPN. So, you know My head, I think Notre Dame's gonna win this game for sure. But I'm gonna pick Miami just as a safety valve. So just in case they do somehow win. I'm gonna pick I'm I'm gonna pick Miami to cover this spread. So You know what, Caleb? I I can't But I do think Notre Dame's gonna win. I I mean no that's it's that's Fair 'cause that's what I'm at too. I'm just playing the game now. I that's I'm at that I'm at that point too, 'cause I do think it's gonna be a close game and I think the spread of five and a half is a little much, but you know what? I'd be damned if I let Miami show up on my spreadsheet this week. So give me Northern the cover and win. Get a huge win and we're looking probably number one. No, I'm not gonna say that. We're just gonna win. Just win, baby. Just win. Well, if they beat Miami, they're gonna jump up to number one, I bet. They would they would give a good case, but we're gonna UCLA dude, okay, there's our mindset on Miami. There's a world where Utah loses, Miami loses, and UCLA wins and they're the number one team in the country. Wouldn't that be crazy? my god. Who's four right now? Georgia would probably do it. Georgia would have to lose too. That it's still a world that can happen. Yeah. I mean, there's no other choice but to put Notre Dame there or UCLA. They'd probably put Notre Dame there and make UCLA too. No, they put the undefeated team up there. But that's not what we're worried about. Just win. Win, win, win. And you know what? You don't know ball podcast, what is it? The beer trailer or the Natty Light trailer. We're going there. We'll be there. So find them. Come find me. Guy that gets hated on the most. Yeah, they'll they'll be in Ann Arbor as well. Go find there too. with all that being said, you haven't changed my mind. I think Miami's gonna keep Notre Dame from covering that shit, and I think Miami's gonna win. I'd be shocked if you said otherwise, Jedi. Yeah, honestly, the something's wrong with you if you didn't say that. If you didn't pick it give me Mensa Melcut. Day one hater. Okay, belt to ass. Got it. So I'm curious what Alex picks here then. Forty one ten. my god. Fifty three three Notre Dame gets a blowout with fifty three. I like that. I like that. No, that's just crazy. Same guy that said forty one ten. That that's where he draws the line. Well with that, that's all the pickems. Yeah, that's all. Ride ride with whoever you want to do with you wanna put it together, parlay or do some singles. I mean you never know what can happen. I I've given up betting for like the last two weeks, so Need to hop back on the training. Yeah. I put mine in last week, but four and three. Wasn't I think the Whatever the second game was ruined. yeah, no, New Mexico State ruined it for me. I should have I really wish that I went b I g if I was going to go back to week one, I wish I'd put something in after I saw that. Yeah. Coin flips, dude? my god. You never know where I could have been. So you know what? That's a rule. If you if you if you get coin flips you gotta put something on 'cause you never know. It might be helping you. I gotta put a hundred on it. I ha I don't even have a gambling app. that's probably good. Neither do I. You wanna be introduced to it? No. Both of you? This guy's always trying to send out the friend codes. You did get me twenty bo or like five twenty dollar bonus bets. That was sick. Yeah. Shout out. Hard rock bets. Not not a sponsor, but could be. Honestly, yeah. Rock bets. Yep. Goaded I will say goaded you know, friend referral thing they got going there. That's very nice. I never I gained like one leg from winning all of those. every single bet I did with those twenty dollar at one leg me. Same hair, dude. Use use What's the Novig referral bonuses? What? The what? The company that did the sports crew. yeah, the the just sports one. I don't know if get into that. I'll have to watch the ad again. Yeah, I hear We have a promo code for you for just sports. It's you don't know ball twenty. Yeah. You don't know about Sweeney. Do not take that seriously. How did they even get through that commercial? never mind. Never mind. But it's just AI. A really comfortable director. Yeah. And sweat paint. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, yeah, Sydney, that looks great. So gross, bro. But I had to think of like what you were talking about there for a second. Thank you for reminding me I got you. That was that's funny. I might have to check in what the bonus bets are. Do you think that'll be do you think that'll be a Super Bowl commercial? I don't know. That was just a random Tuesday commercial. I can't imagine what they have for the Super Bowl. It's just the it's just the men version. They might have like they might LeBron. They might hire everybody from OnlyFans to come out. Do you guys remember the Chris Paul Chris Pole? Chris Paul commercial where he had the ball over his nuts and stuff. yeah, dude. Dude had the ball over his junk. He's totally totally just butt naked, dude. So funny. You know, speaking of people who have are doing some questionable things, what happened to Hero Antonio Brown man. Do you know what he's getting down to? No. god. Take a look at his TikTok page if you are curious. It's not interesting, but just no. What happened to my superstar? It's not NFL anymore. Yeah, it's not NFL anymore. What is he doing? Something that's starts with a P and rhymes of horn? Yeah. yeah. What kind of pizza is that? Born? Biorn? Bior Bijorn? What kind of pizza is that? Yeah. But that's if you're selling stock, sell everything you had on him coming back to being I thought he was in jail. Him and Kanye are probably good friends, honestly. Kanye? Yeah, him and Kanye. Don't be dogging on my boy Kanye. Nah, I love Kanye. I love You made graduation. You may graduate. Gotta revert back to that. All right. Let's wrap this up. That's how quickly you can we can go off off track there. I am not a gay fish. Last five minutes of that show is just complete bullshit. Alex, final thought. hey, go blue. I hope Michigan gets it done this week. I'm gonna be there. I'm hoping that the Wolverines can show up and show out and you know, don't give them any. any hope because the one thing that Michigan State thrives on is hope and if then once they're in it, they're in it. And I don't I don't expect anything different coming up from Pat Fitzgerald's team after a bye week. I think they're gonna be ready to go. hopefully their quarterback is still out but yeah I'm hoping Michigan just turns it around. And defense defensively, keep on dominating offensively. Tommy Carr, rock it out, baby. Lead us to the promised land. Kaleb. I think it's a big week for UCLA sports, basketball, and football. big six days. You got Arizona, the number five team tonight in Vegas. So I mean, I'm mainly just looking for them to keep it competitive. They don't have to win, but I'm just hoping to to see that this new team that Cronin's put together is Ready to go and you know, big game in in Minnesota. I'll definitely be watching it, looking forward to it. And yeah, that's about it. Jack. Go blue, go to you. And roll tide. I like the first part. That was fire. The first the first and last part I agree with. It was like you lost me. you had me, and then you lost me, and then you got me back up again. But for me, just win, man. Just win. Just do it for Lou. Do it for Lou. Do it for the fan base, do it for do it for me. Do it for the I'm gonna be in that game. Don't break my heart again like the Ohio State game and AM game. Just win and let's And do it for Bill Belichick. You know what? Do it for Bill. Do it for everybody in the country. Because you know what? Miami's escaped one, but I don't want to say that karma exists, but karma exists. But so go Irish and let's get this done. Remember, we don't know ball, you don't know ball, we all don't know ball. We'll see you in the next one. Peace. boy.