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The Next Round: Texas-Tennessee, Ole Miss-Florida & Week 4 Best Bets with Todd Furman | Hour 2 · The Next Round

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Speaker 1: And we are back right here on Sporting State. And
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Speaker 1: as we do every single Friday, we turn our attention
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Speaker 1: to the desert. Our man Todd Furman, Bet the Board podcast,
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Speaker 1: at Todd Furman on Twitter. You just got me today, Furman.
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Speaker 2: It's a lot of pressure, LT. It's like when mom
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Speaker 2: and dad go on vacation, you get to throw a
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Speaker 2: house party. Let's hope you don't burn the thing to
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Speaker 2: the ground.
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Speaker 3: How were your house parties back in the day?
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Speaker 2: I never actually threw one in my own house. I
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Speaker 2: did throw a party at my uncle's house when he
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Speaker 2: went out of town. Thought we had covered our tracks perfectly.
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Speaker 2: Little did I know that a buddy had thrown up
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Speaker 2: in a strainer that he left.
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Speaker 4: In the basement.
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Speaker 2: It was in the sink. So we did not exactly
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Speaker 2: get a free pass for that level of behavior.
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Speaker 1: I totally get it. Nobody's giving Green Bay a pass
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Speaker 1: right now. This team has lost seven of eight. They're
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Speaker 1: fortunate it hadn't been eight consecutive games. Bad clock management
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Speaker 1: last week from Aaron Glenn and the Jets. Look, this
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Speaker 1: shows you, Furman, what a NFL quarterback can do. And
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Speaker 1: Michael Penix, it was more about Bijan. But I think
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Speaker 1: it's more about Green Bay. I actually had the Falcons
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Speaker 1: plus the points last night. I don't know where you
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Speaker 1: were on this one. But Green Bay's a mess.
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Speaker 2: You know, I was bummed that I didn't have the
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Speaker 2: foresight to try and grab the six and a half
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Speaker 2: with Atlanta on the open, thinking there was a better
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Speaker 2: than a non-zero chance that we were going to see
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Speaker 2: Michael Penix or even two out there under center, which
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Speaker 2: automatically would have given them an upgrade over Cooper Rush
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Speaker 2: and what he put on tape the first two games.
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Speaker 2: But I think when you look at it, to your point, LT,
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Speaker 2: it says a lot more about where Green Bay is
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Speaker 2: right now. And if you don't have an offensive line
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Speaker 2: in the National Football League, it doesn't matter what you
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Speaker 2: have at the quarterback position. It doesn't matter what you
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Speaker 2: have at the skill positions. It is damn near impossible
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Speaker 2: to win games. But the other big takeaway that we
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Speaker 2: saw last night, and it's the second time in as
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Speaker 2: many weeks, it's a situation that doesn't present itself that
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Speaker 2: often that better should file away, Teams that play overtime
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Speaker 2: on a Sunday, that play on a short week on
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Speaker 2: a Thursday over the last 33 times it's happened, now
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Speaker 2: 6-27 against the number. So it just goes to show
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Speaker 2: that the short week, even when you're playing at home,
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Speaker 2: can be tough to gear back up. The Falcons made
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Speaker 2: a statement and threw their hat in the ring that
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Speaker 2: says with Michael Penix, maybe they're not just going to
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Speaker 2: be a pushover like a lot of people expected.
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Speaker 4: In that pillow fight that is the NFC South this season.
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Speaker 1: He is part of Sporting State, Bet the Board podcast,
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Speaker 1: at Todd Furman on Twitter. We'll do a couple NFL,
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Speaker 1: and then I'm going to get to college because it's
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Speaker 1: obviously a huge card.
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Speaker 3: Six top 25 matchups there.
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't recommend this because you would have to maybe
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Speaker 1: watch it if you play it, but the Titans and
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Speaker 1: the Giants.
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Speaker 3: You talk about quarterbacks.
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Speaker 1: Jameis Winston, and thank God, I still back the Rams
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Speaker 1: on Monday going into that game. I still think with
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Speaker 1: their offense, they were going to win that game. At
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Speaker 1: least they were going to cover the six and a half.
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Speaker 1: But when Jameis came in, he looked unprepared.
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Speaker 3: He looked lost.
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Speaker 1: Now they're a favorite against the Titans coming off what
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Speaker 1: was a really, really close performance against the Eagles.
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Speaker 3: How do you play this with Jameis Winston?
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Speaker 2: I mean, Jameis looked exactly like we'd expect a World
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Speaker 2: Cup correspondent to look.
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Speaker 4: Taking snaps as an NFL quarterback. Apparently didn't have his
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Speaker 4: head buried in the playbook. I do think they'll be
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Speaker 4: a little bit sharper this week.
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Speaker 2: But not only do you have the injury to Jackson Dart,
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Speaker 2: loss for the season for the New York Giants, Malik
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Speaker 2: Neighbors was a full participant. Let's see how healthy he is.
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Speaker 2: Andrew Thomas is banged up. Brian Burns as well. And
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Speaker 2: I'll give the Tennessee Titans credit because for as badly
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Speaker 2: as they played in their opener against the Jets, They
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Speaker 2: were at least a cohesive unit that did have an
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Speaker 2: opportunity to win the game against the Philadelphia Eagles Week 2.
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Speaker 2: It was Jalen Hurts snatching victory from the jaws of defeat.
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Speaker 2: But before we even look at the X's and O's
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Speaker 2: in this game, Mother Nature is going to have her say.
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Speaker 2: A nasty weather front can impact a lot of things
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Speaker 2: up and down the East Coast. for college football on Saturday.
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Speaker 2: We've seen Major League Baseball make adjustments to their schedule,
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Speaker 2: most notably with the Red Sox and the Chicago Cubs.
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Speaker 2: But we could have some strong wins in play at
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Speaker 2: MetLife Stadium. It doesn't look like the strongest wet stuff
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Speaker 2: is going to be early on in the Giants game.
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Speaker 4: But it's a big reason this total at 41 is.
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Speaker 2: Down to 38.5 and even approaching 38 with our friends
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Speaker 2: at Hard Rock Bet. I lean the Titans plus the
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Speaker 2: 2.5 would have no problems if people wanted to back
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Speaker 2: them on the money line. I think this is a
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Speaker 2: Giants team that's going to be licking its wounds for
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Speaker 2: the next couple weeks.
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Speaker 3: Okay, you go Titans.
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Speaker 1: We're going to stick in the AFC South here because
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Speaker 1: this is a game we talked about in the first hour.
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Speaker 3: Both 0-2.
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Speaker 1: Like, I had a huge expectation for the Texans. I
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Speaker 1: understand week one. It's Josh Allen. Week two, their offense
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Speaker 1: was putrid. Where are you on the Texans laying one
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Speaker 1: and a half going to Indianapolis this weekend?
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Speaker 4: It feels like we see this every year from the
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Speaker 4: Houston Texans.
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Speaker 2: They start slow, they figure out their identity, and the
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Speaker 2: market doesn't catch up to them nearly as quickly as
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Speaker 2: it needs to. The problem in this spot, you mentioned
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Speaker 2: the offense being a little bit of a doormat, and
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Speaker 2: that was rightfully the case without Nico Collins. who I
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Speaker 2: don't think is going to play again this weekend dealing
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Speaker 2: with that soft tissue injury. So it puts the onus
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Speaker 2: on the Houston Texans defense, and I think that's the
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Speaker 2: side of the ball where the Texans can take advantage
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Speaker 2: against a Colts team that outside of Jonathan Taylor and
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Speaker 2: Josh Downs, who is average separation scorers amongst some of
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Speaker 2: the best in the league right now, that the Colts
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Speaker 2: just don't have anybody to beat you over the top.
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Speaker 4: I mean, the injury to Alex Pierce is massive.
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Speaker 2: You look at the average depth of target to Tyler
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Speaker 2: Warren since Daniel Jones returned for week one. It's been
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Speaker 2: a little bit problematic, and I feel like the Texans
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Speaker 2: are able to do enough, creating a short field, generating
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Speaker 2: a little bit of something in the ground game with
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Speaker 2: David Montgomery, that I'd be looking at the Houston Texans
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Speaker 2: at a cheap money line price tag right in that
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Speaker 2: minus $ 1.
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Speaker 4: 20 range.
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Speaker 2: I had reservations about the Colts coming into the year,
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Speaker 2: primarily because what I didn't think they had defensively. Some
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Speaker 2: of those things have reared their ugly head, albeit against
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Speaker 2: the Ravens and Chiefs, so you temper some of the expectations.
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Speaker 2: But I get the feeling the Texans go on the road,
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Speaker 2: get a big divisional win, and it puts Indianapolis even
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Speaker 2: further behind the eight ball.
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Speaker 1: Okay, two more, Furman, and then we're going to shift
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Speaker 1: to college football. Todd Furman, Bet the Board podcast, part
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Speaker 1: of Sporting State, at Todd Furman on Twitter. The Ravens,
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Speaker 1: that offense looked incredible week one. Unfortunately, I had the
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Speaker 1: Colts in that game. And then last week, with the
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Speaker 1: lack of wide receivers, the Saints got to them on
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Speaker 1: the road. Now they're playing a Cowboys team that is
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Speaker 1: difficult to figure out as well, both.
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Speaker 3: Sitting at 1-1. Ravens in Brazil, 3.5-point favorites.
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Speaker 2: Leave it to the Ravens finding ways, even with a
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Speaker 2: new coaching staff, to blow a fourth quarter lead like
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Speaker 2: they did last week against the Saints. But don't be
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Speaker 2: fooled by some of the scoreboard cosmetics there. I know
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Speaker 2: it's not salving the wound for Ravens fans, but Baltimore
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Speaker 2: was the far superior team in that football game. I
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Speaker 2: just can't figure out why in the second half against
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Speaker 2: the Pittsburgh Steelers week 18 last year and the second
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Speaker 2: half last weekend against the Saints, they completely abandoned the
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Speaker 2: ground game with Derrick Henry. And this week against that
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Speaker 2: Cowboys soft run defense, it's got to be Derrick Henry right,
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Speaker 2: Derrick Henry left, You know, mix in a little bit
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Speaker 2: of Lamar Jackson, given the crooked rushing numbers we've seen
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Speaker 2: from Jackson Dart and Gene Daniels. And I think the
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Speaker 2: Ravens are going to have some offensive success. On the
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Speaker 2: other side for the Cowboys, they're a little bit more
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Speaker 2: one-dimensional through the first couple weeks than I'd like to see.
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Speaker 2: Javante Williams, back-to-back games, averaging less than three and a
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Speaker 2: half yards per carry. And maybe that's because the Cowboys
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Speaker 2: offensive line largely unsettled with the injury that they had
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Speaker 2: early on in the season. If they're one-dimensional, I think
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Speaker 2: that plays into the hands of the Ravens. But one thing, LT,
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Speaker 2: that I'm going to be monitoring today when we start
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Speaker 2: to see a little bit more of the visuals that
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Speaker 2: come out of the American Odd down there in Rio
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Speaker 2: de Janeiro is the field conditions. I know the total
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Speaker 2: has leaked up from 52 to 53, which is massive
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Speaker 2: for an international game. But you had Brazilian soccer players
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Speaker 2: in their domestic league there complaining about field conditions going
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Speaker 2: back as far as two months. They said it's been
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Speaker 2: unseasonably wet. And if this track gets sloppy, that it
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Speaker 2: slows down the players. It's tough to look for some
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Speaker 2: of those explosives. It's one thing if we see a
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Speaker 2: Green Bay Packers-Eagles situation where it's just a little slick
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Speaker 2: and the defenders can't get their footing. It's another if
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Speaker 2: it turns into a glorified mud pit. So tough to
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Speaker 2: handicap these international games, but you will want to get
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Speaker 2: all of your best fantasy assets out there in earnest
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Speaker 2: for this potential shootout between the Ravens and Cowboys.
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Speaker 1: From questionable field conditions to an altitude game, Sunday night
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Speaker 1: Rams taking on the Broncos. Broncos get a win over
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Speaker 1: a really good Jacksonville team. Rams bounce back, albeit against
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Speaker 1: a backup quarterback after the first series there. I thought
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Speaker 1: there were some things that you can take as a positive.
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Speaker 3: Kyra Williams and Blake Corham running the football.
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Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford looked more like himself, but there were penalties,
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Speaker 1: six penalties, two turnovers, a missed 43-yard field goal. Special
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Speaker 1: teams may be still a problem. Where are you on
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Speaker 1: the Rams as a short favorite in Denver?
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Speaker 2: The big thing for me, a primary takeaway from that
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Speaker 2: Rams game, of course, them playing without Puka, and Puka
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Speaker 2: won't be out there on Sunday if he is, it
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Speaker 2: would come as a massive surprise to me. I think
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Speaker 2: the Rams are going to err on the side of
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Speaker 2: caution there, was how well the offensive line played. You
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Speaker 2: mentioned that tandem of running backs, and it really feels
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Speaker 2: like Sean McVay is comfortable and confident. with both players
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Speaker 2: providing unique skill sets. Blake Corham, a little bit more
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Speaker 2: explosive as a runner. Kyron Williams, a little bit more
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Speaker 2: well-rounded in terms of what he provides in pass protection
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Speaker 2: and as a receiver coming out of the backfield.
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Speaker 4: Why is that important in this matchup?
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Speaker 2: Because I think when you're the Rams and you're a
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Speaker 2: little bit limited with your pass catchers, you're going to
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Speaker 2: have to create that level of balance. And this is
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Speaker 2: a Denver defense without John Franklin Myers this year, without
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Speaker 2: Jonathan Cooper, that's a little bit light in the trenches.
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Speaker 2: Jacksonville didn't commit to the ground game nearly as much
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Speaker 2: as I would have liked to seen with Bashal Tutin.
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Speaker 2: But I think the Rams know they have to run
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Speaker 2: the football, shorten the game a little bit. I like
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Speaker 2: the matchup defensively for them as well against a Broncos
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Speaker 2: team that's dealing with a wealth of injuries in their
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Speaker 2: own backfield, although RJ Harvey and J.K. Dobbins did return
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Speaker 2: to practice yesterday. I'm just not sure where the points
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Speaker 2: come from in this particular matchup. It feels like the
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Speaker 2: first team to 21 gets out of Invesco Field with
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Speaker 2: a win. I like the game under the total, but
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Speaker 2: do shop around. 44.5 would kind of be my cutoff,
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Speaker 2: knowing how important 44 is as an NFL total.
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Speaker 1: Okay, Furman, before we transition to the college game, survivor
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Speaker 1: talk real quick. Albeit two small pools, I've already won two.
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Speaker 1: through two weeks in the NFL everybody's getting wiped out
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Speaker 1: I saw circa they were down from 25,000 plus entries
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Speaker 1: to 8,500 after two weeks how insane is this and
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Speaker 1: what is the big survivor play this week I would
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Speaker 1: assume it's you know fade the dolphins right.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it is absolute carnage. I have three of
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Speaker 2: those entries that were knocked out of Circus Survivor. So
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Speaker 2: rest in peace. I will not be able to repeat
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Speaker 2: as a Circus Survivor champion like I was able to
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Speaker 2: pull off back in 2020.
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Speaker 4: So a little bit of work left to be done.
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Speaker 2: We're going to have to go into the lab and
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Speaker 2: tweak the strategy going into 2027. But if your pool
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Speaker 2: really doesn't have much in the way of limitations in
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Speaker 2: terms of saving some of the elite teams, I do
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Speaker 2: think you have to consider the Chiefs. The longer we
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Speaker 2: go into the circus survivor or any survivor pool at that,
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Speaker 2: you're going to have a better grasp of who these
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Speaker 2: teams really are. And look, far be it for me
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Speaker 2: to tell someone the best strategy you may be able
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Speaker 2: to employ this year is fading Brownies Dolphins week in,
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Speaker 2: week out.
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Speaker 4: So yes, you like to save.
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Speaker 2: Some of your power brokers there, but it does feel
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Speaker 2: like using the Chiefs this week seems to be a
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Speaker 2: proverbial free space against the Miami Dolphins.
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Speaker 1: He is Todd Furman every single Friday right here on
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Speaker 1: Sporting State. The next round, he's part of Bet the
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Speaker 1: Board podcast. You can check him out at Twitter, at
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Speaker 1: Todd Furman. One game tonight before we get into that
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Speaker 1: incredible slate tomorrow. Clemson heading out west to take on
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Speaker 1: the Cal Bears. Clemson one and a half. I brought
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Speaker 1: this up early in the week. You tell me, of
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Speaker 1: the 16 SEC teams, I know Arkansas would be a
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Speaker 1: dog at Cal. But how many other teams would be
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Speaker 1: around what the Clemson number is? My point is, is
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Speaker 1: it possible that 15 teams have a better power ranking
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Speaker 1: right now than the Clemson Tigers?
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Speaker 4: I mean, that's the way it looks.
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Speaker 2: Clemson, you know, with an impressive comeback victory. I think
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Speaker 2: everybody around the Clemson program was ready to eulogize Dabo
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Speaker 2: when they were down two touchdowns against North Carolina. Mother
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Speaker 2: Nature decided she wanted to give Dabo a new lease
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Speaker 2: on life. And Clemson was able to get through the
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Speaker 2: front door covering all numbers as a, you know, three,
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Speaker 2: three and a half point favorite in that game.
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Speaker 4: Game slips over the total as well. You're right. I mean,
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Speaker 4: Arkansas would be a dog in this spot.
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Speaker 2: Vanderbilt's power rating is something that's very much in flux
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Speaker 2: for me as well with them making the change to
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Speaker 2: Jared Curtis, who I think gives them a higher ceiling,
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Speaker 2: but probably not as low of a floor given how
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Speaker 2: explosive and dynamic he can be as a thrower and
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Speaker 2: a runner. But there would be 13 to 14 teams
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Speaker 2: that would find themselves on the road favored against the
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Speaker 2: Cal Bears.
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Speaker 4: This game, though, a little bit unique.
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Speaker 2: Because sometimes a line doesn't truly pass a sniff test,
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Speaker 2: even for me power number-wise. Like, my number on this
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Speaker 2: game is Pickham, and I've talked to a number of
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Speaker 2: professional bettors this week, like I always do, go through,
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Speaker 2: and everybody seemed to be wanting to make a case
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Speaker 2: for Cal. Here we are, though, on game day with
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Speaker 2: the number continuing to leak out. I want to see
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Speaker 2: another data point with Tate Reynolds and exactly how this
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Speaker 2: Clemson offense is going to look. Short week, cross-country travel,
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Speaker 2: but it's also a Cal team that was blown out
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Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter at home by UCLA. was extremely
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Speaker 2: fortunate to win on the scoreboard at Syracuse in a
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Speaker 2: game that they lost in the box score. And I'm
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Speaker 2: not convinced blowing out the Wagner Seahawks last week has
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Speaker 2: fixed everything. So I'm curious to see how these teams
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Speaker 2: look and what we're going to get in a 60-minute
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Speaker 2: sample size of a prove-it type scenario for two teams
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Speaker 2: in the ACC.
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Speaker 1: The massive SEC schedule starts tomorrow morning in Neyland. 11
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Speaker 1: o'clock Central Time, Texas, Tennessee. Both favorite and total have dropped.
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Speaker 1: Texas opened at 7, total of 56.5. It's all the
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Speaker 1: way down to 4.5, 54.5.
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Speaker 3: I know there's a lot of sharp money on this under.
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Speaker 3: Where are you in this?
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Speaker 2: Number got as low as three and a half in
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Speaker 2: this game before you start to see some of that
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Speaker 2: Texas money show up. And this is a Longhorns team,
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Speaker 2: despite the undefeated record, the impressive comeback in the fourth
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Speaker 2: quarter against Ohio State that I have a ton of
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Speaker 2: questions about.
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Speaker 4: And I think some of them are going to get answered.
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Speaker 2: In hostile territory against Tennessee in that early kickoff slot tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: Arch Manning hasn't really looked the part in terms of
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Speaker 2: commanding the offense. I mean, nine drops for the Texas
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Speaker 2: receiver room. The only player that doesn't have a drop
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Speaker 2: right now is Cam Coleman. And when you look at
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Speaker 2: some of the injuries that Texas is dealing with, you know,
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Speaker 2: one of their leading linebackers in a walking boot. We'll
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Speaker 2: see if he's available to go and how effective he
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Speaker 2: can be. Hollywood Smothers a little bit banged up as well.
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Speaker 2: So Relique Brown may need to take over there. On
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Speaker 2: the other side for Tennessee, defensively, I'm not sure where
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Speaker 2: the Vols are just yet. I can say, having watched
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Speaker 2: this team through a couple games this year, they've tweaked
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Speaker 2: their offense a bit, and so much of what Tennessee
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Speaker 2: wants to do is contingent on them being successful running
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Speaker 2: the football. Deshaun Bishop comes into this game dealing with
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Speaker 2: a hip injury. I was stunned that Josh Heupel put
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Speaker 2: him back in the game against Kennesaw after he got
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Speaker 2: dinged up. How much do they trust a true freshman
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Speaker 2: quarterback in Faison Brandon to go out there and throw.
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Speaker 4: The ball around?
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Speaker 2: Put me in the camp of liking the under here.
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Speaker 2: I haven't gotten there just yet because I missed the 56.
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Speaker 2: There is some 55 that I may nibble on after
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Speaker 2: the show, but I think defenses are going to take
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Speaker 2: front and center stage in this spot. Both offenses have
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Speaker 2: a lot of questions they have to answer. I'd love
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Speaker 2: to see Tennessee pull off the outright upset. I'm just
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Speaker 2: not sure the Vols have the horses, but should be
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Speaker 2: a fun, fun game at Neyland with that early kickoff tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's always a red flag when people are like,
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Speaker 1: why is that number what it is? And this is
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Speaker 1: what we're getting in the swamp tomorrow with Ole Miss
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Speaker 1: and Florida. I've been waiting for this all week because
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Speaker 1: I wanted to see where you would have this number.
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Speaker 1: I told people early in the week Florida should be favored.
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Speaker 1: I would think around 1.5, 3.5 seems a little inflated.
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Speaker 3: I do like Florida in this spot, though.
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Speaker 2: So when I make my adjustment for home field here,
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Speaker 2: Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, I get to Florida minus 3.2.
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Speaker 4: So I'm kind of in line with the market.
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Speaker 2: I'm kicking myself a little bit LT for not laying
15:45
Speaker 2: a cheap money line price when this game opened or
15:48
Speaker 2: even a minus two. We look at the situational spots
15:51
Speaker 2: all year and you have to imagine it's going to
15:54
Speaker 2: be damn near impossible for Ole Miss to run back
15:57
Speaker 2: this week on the road. with the same level of
15:59
Speaker 2: emotion that we saw last week, and them beating their
16:02
Speaker 2: old head coach, winning that game outright as a three-point underdog.
16:05
Speaker 2: The other storylines to follow here, there are a couple,
16:08
Speaker 2: and I've only heard this mentioned once or twice, which
16:10
Speaker 2: I think is fascinating. Not so much the injury to
16:12
Speaker 2: Kiwan Lacy going to be a game-time decision, but the
16:14
Speaker 2: fact that John Summerall has prepped not once, but twice
16:18
Speaker 2: for Ole Miss over the last calendar year. So while
16:22
Speaker 2: Trinidad Chambliss wasn't the starting quarterback the first time around,
16:25
Speaker 2: there is a little bit of that familiarity knowing that
16:28
Speaker 2: Summerall has gone through game prep in the playoff and
16:31
Speaker 2: has a roster that is much better from a talent
16:33
Speaker 2: perspective than what he did at Tulane where Ole Miss
16:36
Speaker 2: blew them out.
16:38
Speaker 4: Look, this is a Florida team.
16:39
Speaker 2: I'll admit, I bet them under seven and a half
16:41
Speaker 2: reg season wins underestimated the strength of this coaching staff
16:46
Speaker 2: in terms of what coach Summerall can do.
16:47
Speaker 4: And maybe more importantly, what.
16:48
Speaker 2: Buster Faulkner was going to get out of Aaron Filo.
16:51
Speaker 2: That's dead sunk money. I can't let that impact any
16:53
Speaker 2: of my decisions going forward. But from a skill position standpoint,
16:57
Speaker 2: I mean, can we make the case that Florida is
16:59
Speaker 2: not just top three, top five in the SEC, but
17:02
Speaker 2: top five in.
17:03
Speaker 4: The entire country? I mean, I look at them at
17:05
Speaker 4: the running back position and wide receiver.
17:07
Speaker 2: I'd rather have what Florida has on their roster than
17:10
Speaker 2: Georgia or then Oklahoma, maybe then Texas.
17:13
Speaker 4: The list goes on and on.
17:14
Speaker 2: I think this Florida team's for real, and if they
17:16
Speaker 2: come away with a convincing win against Ole Miss tomorrow,
17:18
Speaker 2: we should be talking about this team as a legitimate
17:21
Speaker 2: playoff contender starting the year 4-0.
17:23
Speaker 1: So if you want an example of how volatile public
17:26
Speaker 1: money is, just look at Oklahoma. Two weeks ago, there
17:29
Speaker 1: was no way they could lose to Michigan. They go
17:31
Speaker 1: into the big house. They get shut down. Now they
17:34
Speaker 1: go into Athens. Georgia hasn't played anybody, but they have
17:38
Speaker 1: whipped the holy hell out of everyone. Now it's 13
17:41
Speaker 1: and a half, the Bulldogs, nobody's giving Oklahoma any shot.
17:45
Speaker 1: Am I crazy to think Oklahoma's defense will keep them
17:48
Speaker 1: in this game?
17:49
Speaker 2: They're going to have to because there is zero confidence
17:52
Speaker 2: in and around the OU program in terms of what
17:55
Speaker 2: John Mateer can do, keeping a defense honest. And I
17:58
Speaker 2: think for Oklahoma on some level, I said it jokingly
18:01
Speaker 2: on air in Oklahoma City yesterday, did they make the
18:04
Speaker 2: wrong decision? Spending the money to bring in John Mateer
18:06
Speaker 2: when we might watch Michael Hawkins go out there and
18:08
Speaker 2: lead Rich Rod's offense for West Virginia as a dynamic
18:12
Speaker 2: runner and a passer, a guy who at least has
18:14
Speaker 2: a little bit of confidence there. This OU defense from
18:17
Speaker 2: their starting 11 has some difference makers. The problem being
18:20
Speaker 2: is OU doesn't have the same depth that they had
18:23
Speaker 2: defensively last year. The big injury to monitor is a
18:25
Speaker 2: first-round draft pick in David Stone. Not sure if he's
18:28
Speaker 2: going to be available for the Sooners, but you mentioned it.
18:31
Speaker 2: You know, if people want to give Georgia their flowers
18:33
Speaker 2: right now, I mean, what are we getting excited about?
18:36
Speaker 2: You blast an FCS opponent in the opener. Western Kentucky
18:39
Speaker 2: has gone through the gauntlet and has looked absolutely lost
18:42
Speaker 2: throwing the football, trying to play defense. And then last
18:46
Speaker 2: week against Arkansas, to call them an SEC team seems
18:49
Speaker 2: to be a leap of faith. So I really believe
18:51
Speaker 2: Georgia could find this a jolt to their senses early
18:53
Speaker 2: on in the game. Oklahoma is going to have to
18:55
Speaker 2: be a little bit conservative if they can't run the
18:57
Speaker 2: football and they don't trust Mateer.
18:58
Speaker 4: I like the first half total under at 23.
19:01
Speaker 2: But would have no problems if people wanted to make
19:03
Speaker 2: a slight case buying the dip in OU plus 14.
19:06
Speaker 2: I'm just not sure I want to get there, but
19:08
Speaker 2: we've seen this story a hundred times in this business,
19:11
Speaker 2: you and I, when everybody writes a team off for dead,
19:13
Speaker 2: they put together that Herculean effort against the team that's
19:16
Speaker 2: been fattening up on Twinkies and cream puffs through the
19:19
Speaker 2: non-conference portion of their schedule.
19:20
Speaker 1: Okay, Furman, two more quickly and we'll get you out
19:23
Speaker 1: of here. One more in the SEC in Starkville.
19:25
Speaker 3: Who would have thought?
19:26
Speaker 1: Top 25 matchup, Missouri, Mississippi State. Missouri 17-0 in the
19:31
Speaker 1: months of August and September in games since 2023. That's
19:35
Speaker 1: straight up. Mississippi State second nationally in total offense. Where
19:40
Speaker 1: are you right now on the Bulldogs laying six in
19:42
Speaker 1: this spot?
19:44
Speaker 2: If the Kamario Taylor story is circulating already about what
19:48
Speaker 2: teams are going to throw at him in the transfer pool,
19:50
Speaker 2: doesn't illustrate that college football is broken.
19:52
Speaker 4: We haven't even got through the month of September.
19:54
Speaker 2: I mean, he's a local kid putting up crooked numbers
19:56
Speaker 2: that we haven't seen in Starkville since Dak Prescott was there.
19:59
Speaker 4: Let him go out there. Let him play.
20:01
Speaker 2: And hopefully when rubber meets the road at the end
20:03
Speaker 2: of the year, Camario decides that he can leave a
20:05
Speaker 2: legacy at Minnesota State. And he's already leaving a legacy
20:08
Speaker 2: through the first four games of the season. I mean,
20:10
Speaker 2: you look at his odds to win the Heisman Trophy.
20:12
Speaker 2: 125-1 to start the year. He's now in that same
20:15
Speaker 2: breath as the Arch Mannings and CJ Kars of the world.
20:19
Speaker 2: But the betting market is the ultimate model of efficiency.
20:22
Speaker 2: And last week, I'll admit, I at South Carolina laid
20:25
Speaker 2: the three, thought I was a genius. With them up
20:27
Speaker 2: 16-0 early in the game and realized they left a
20:29
Speaker 2: ton of points out there. Even at 23-14, thought I
20:32
Speaker 2: was fine. But Miss State found another gear, and Jeff
20:35
Speaker 2: Levy deserves a world of credit as well. But now
20:37
Speaker 2: you're in a little bit of uncharted territory. Mississippi State's
20:40
Speaker 2: laying nearly a touchdown against an SEC team that I
20:43
Speaker 2: don't think a whole hell of a lot of, but
20:45
Speaker 2: one that is going to be able to punch up
20:46
Speaker 2: in class. Austin Simmons kind of went through the motions
20:49
Speaker 2: 10 of 19 last week against Troy. It looked like
20:51
Speaker 2: they were extremely vanilla in their play calling. For me
20:54
Speaker 2: to get involved here, I need this number to get
20:56
Speaker 2: to seven. I'm not sure I want to step in
20:59
Speaker 2: front of Super Camario right now, LT, but numbers rule
21:02
Speaker 2: the world in this side of the business. And if
21:04
Speaker 2: it did get to a full touchdown, I'd be forced
21:06
Speaker 2: to value bet Missouri here, thinking that Mississippi State could
21:09
Speaker 2: wilt a little bit under the weight of those huge expectations.
21:13
Speaker 1: Final game in the Big Ten. Oregon heading to the
21:16
Speaker 1: Coliseum to take on USC. Oregon in a desperation spot.
21:19
Speaker 1: USC on the other side desperate for a signature Lincoln-Riley
21:24
Speaker 1: win here. USC hadn't played anybody, but they're 1-3 against
21:27
Speaker 1: the number. Lincoln Riley, 6-13 against ranked opponents while at USC. USC,
21:32
Speaker 1: this number's kind of fluctuated back and forth. It's been
21:35
Speaker 1: sitting the last few days. Oregon, a three-point short favorite
21:38
Speaker 1: on the road.
21:40
Speaker 2: Yeah, underwhelming to say the least for USC to start
21:42
Speaker 2: the season from an ATS perspective. You take out that
21:45
Speaker 2: whitewashing of Fresno State, and the resume really doesn't have
21:48
Speaker 2: much in the way of meat on the bone through
21:50
Speaker 2: the non-conference. And last week, USC did what USC seems
21:53
Speaker 2: to do every year under Lincoln Riley. They leave their
21:55
Speaker 2: own time zone, travel east, and look like they forget
21:58
Speaker 2: how to play football. I mean, allowing Rutgers to hang
22:00
Speaker 2: around for four quarters is more than a three-touchdown favorite.
22:03
Speaker 2: Trent Mosley, very doubtful. He's been USC's biggest difference maker
22:07
Speaker 2: on the outside. Corey Sims as well, a little bit
22:10
Speaker 2: banged up. This is an Oregon team, though, that I
22:13
Speaker 2: want to see him put together four full quarters. I
22:15
Speaker 2: don't think everything is suddenly fixed because you beat Portland
22:18
Speaker 2: State 84-0.
22:20
Speaker 4: Last week.
22:21
Speaker 2: But this was an Oregon team that came in with
22:23
Speaker 2: lofty expectations coming into the year. The defensive line was
22:25
Speaker 2: supposed to be the strength. This feels like a playoff
22:28
Speaker 2: elimination game, knowing that the Ducks have their hands full
22:30
Speaker 2: with a trip to Columbus later in the year.
22:33
Speaker 4: So a fun game here.
22:34
Speaker 2: But when you look at the life cycle of how
22:36
Speaker 2: this number has moved, we talk about how public perception
22:38
Speaker 2: plays such a role.
22:40
Speaker 4: During the summer, Oregon was a 5.5, 6-point favorite at USC.
22:44
Speaker 2: Going into last weekend, USC had swung all the way
22:46
Speaker 2: to a modest two-point favorite. SC looks pedestrian. Number swings
22:51
Speaker 2: back to Oregon, minus three. Wish I had a strong
22:53
Speaker 2: feeling on this game. I do think the total under
22:57
Speaker 2: makes a little bit of sense if the number starts
22:59
Speaker 2: to climb. I know it's a little bit scary. Probably
23:01
Speaker 2: won't be involved here, but no doubt a measuring stick
23:03
Speaker 2: for this contest.
23:04
Speaker 4: But one game LT, I'll throw you in the Big Ten.
23:07
Speaker 2: I feel like everybody I've talked to wants to make
23:09
Speaker 2: a case for Iowa plus the points.
23:10
Speaker 4: Or on the money line.
23:12
Speaker 2: Is this a dog with fleas, and should we be
23:13
Speaker 2: looking to lay the 5.5-6 with Michigan, hoping that we
23:16
Speaker 2: get a good version of Bryce Underwood on Saturday?
23:19
Speaker 3: I have Michigan minus the points. It is already on
23:21
Speaker 3: my card.
23:22
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be a disgusting watch because
23:24
Speaker 1: of the defenses. Iowa's defense is legitimate. Their quarterback play,
23:28
Speaker 1: say what you want about Underwood. He is 10 times
23:32
Speaker 1: better than either option right now Kirk Ferentz has got.
23:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you guys have seen enough in and
23:38
Speaker 2: around the Auburn program to know what Hank Brown is
23:40
Speaker 2: or isn't. I mean, the average depth of target is
23:42
Speaker 2: basically checkdowns, and if Kamari Moulton isn't even close to 100%,
23:46
Speaker 2: I'm not sure where Iowa goes for the big plays.
23:48
Speaker 4: And hey, last thing before I let you go.
23:50
Speaker 3: Yeah, the off the radar, I see the gear.
23:54
Speaker 1: We want to see that, but you're off the radar
23:56
Speaker 1: play if you've got one of those as well.
23:57
Speaker 3: Look at those good-looking hats.
23:59
Speaker 4: There we go.
23:59
Speaker 2: I mean, I want it approved to everybody else since
24:01
Speaker 2: they didn't get visual confirmation that Brownie and Dunaway actually delivered.
24:05
Speaker 2: I have to figure out with my official commit if
24:07
Speaker 2: I'm the old school next round live or how I'm
24:10
Speaker 2: going to try and go about it.
24:12
Speaker 4: From an off-the-radar pick.
24:13
Speaker 2: And I had a couple marked down for you guys,
24:15
Speaker 2: let's do a little bit of dumpster diving. And I'm
24:17
Speaker 2: going to take Middle Tennessee State plus the seven. This
24:20
Speaker 2: is a middle team that I think came into the
24:23
Speaker 2: year without lofty expectations, but they've gone out there and
24:26
Speaker 2: they've performed well. I mean, upset Nevada last week as
24:29
Speaker 2: a short home underdog. We're there from start to finish
24:33
Speaker 2: against Nevada. A Marshall team that's underwhelmed a little bit.
24:36
Speaker 2: But I like the upgrade in quarterback play. And I
24:39
Speaker 2: really feel like middle isn't going to be the downtrodden
24:42
Speaker 2: doormat that they've been in Conference USA over the last
24:44
Speaker 2: couple years. So give me middle Tennessee State to start
24:46
Speaker 2: conference play as a seven-point dog.
24:48
Speaker 4: I think they hang around for four quarters.
24:50
Speaker 3: There you go.
24:50
Speaker 1: The off-the-radar play always from our man Furman. Great stuff, Furman.
24:54
Speaker 1: Have a great weekend. Let's cash some tickets. I think
24:57
Speaker 1: it's turning back in our direction. I feel it this weekend.
25:01
Speaker 4: Hey, always a pleasure, my friend. Greatest time of year
25:03
Speaker 4: and a big schedule.
25:04
Speaker 2: We finally get to get a better indication of who
25:06
Speaker 2: these teams are and who we find as undervalued and
25:09
Speaker 2: overvalued commodities, both in the NFL and college.
25:11
Speaker 1: There he is, Todd Furman, Bet the Board podcast, part
25:14
Speaker 1: of our sport and state network. You can check out
25:17
Speaker 1: more of his stuff, his picks, his insight at Todd
25:21
Speaker 1: Furman right there on Twitter. The guys are down at
25:24
Speaker 1: Moe's Barbecue down on the plains getting ready for Vanderbilt-Auburn.
25:27
Speaker 1: We will rejoin them on the other side on... Also,
25:30
Speaker 1: is Alabama on potential upset alert? We will get into
25:34
Speaker 1: that game.
25:35
Speaker 3: And many more.
25:36
Speaker 1: Big college football weekend, week four, right here on Sporting State.
25:41
Speaker 5: Back down in Auburn.
25:42
Speaker 6: Alabama, as we get ready for Auburn's big home game
25:46
Speaker 6: against Vanderbilt. We're going to talk in the next round
25:49
Speaker 6: part of the show about the losing streak right now
25:53
Speaker 6: of SEC games. in Jordan-Hare Stadium for Auburn. We were
25:56
Speaker 6: talking about the magic of Jordan-Hare Stadium, but it's a
25:58
Speaker 6: pretty remarkable number now. I just saw on social media,
26:02
Speaker 6: and I think the number's correct, 671 days, something like that,
26:05
Speaker 6: in their last SEC home win inside that beautiful home
26:09
Speaker 6: field advantage building here on the Auburn campus. That's pretty
26:13
Speaker 6: crazy that we come to this place and wonder if
26:16
Speaker 6: the magic of Jordan-Hare Stadium has slipped away in the
26:19
Speaker 6: modern-day SEC era. We'll talk about that coming up. in
26:23
Speaker 6: the next round in a little bit. Speaking of home
26:25
Speaker 6: field advantage, though, Northwestern thinks they're going to have one soon.
26:29
Speaker 6: Look at the facility. The players finally got to walk
26:32
Speaker 6: around the new building up there. The locker rooms are amazing.
26:36
Speaker 6: At their new Ryan Field remodel, they've been playing on
26:39
Speaker 6: that makeshift on-campus stadium for a while. Now this building
26:43
Speaker 6: is on campus. And then you get inside the building.
26:46
Speaker 6: It's just a beautiful, great scoreboards, great sight lines. And
26:51
Speaker 6: it's just a new home for this Northwestern program. And
26:55
Speaker 6: you start to wonder, Lance and Ryan, what could Northwestern be.
26:59
Speaker 5: In an era where you pay for play?
27:02
Speaker 6: In an NIL world, the locker rooms look first class
27:05
Speaker 6: and the stadium looks like it could produce some home
27:09
Speaker 6: field advantage.
27:10
Speaker 5: What could Northwestern be someday? LT, we ask this question
27:13
Speaker 5: all the time. If Indiana can do it, why can't
27:16
Speaker 5: fill in the blank? I mean, Northwestern has produced some wealthy,
27:20
Speaker 5: wealthy alums, I would imagine. I don't know how many
27:23
Speaker 5: of them give a rip about football because for most
27:25
Speaker 5: of those wealthy alums, football sucked while they were there.
27:29
Speaker 5: If Indiana can do it, I mean, in theory, Northwestern could, right?
27:32
Speaker 1: Well, I look at three other, you know, when you
27:34
Speaker 1: look at the other academic schools, you look at Stanford.
27:37
Speaker 1: We've seen them for a time where they were a
27:39
Speaker 1: top five team. You look at Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt, by the way,
27:43
Speaker 1: is 14-3 straight up in their last 17 games. You
27:47
Speaker 1: look at Duke. Duke won the ACC last year, and
27:51
Speaker 1: they're 3-0. So if those programs can have success, I
27:55
Speaker 1: saw Northwestern 30 years ago in a Rose Bowl. So
27:58
Speaker 1: if there is money behind the program and you see
28:00
Speaker 1: the facilities right there, yeah, I think they can have success.
28:04
Speaker 5: And I know you just said Northwestern was in a
28:06
Speaker 5: Rose Bowl, which the Youngs out there are like, wait
28:08
Speaker 5: a minute, Lance must have hit his head. No, actually
28:10
Speaker 5: they were. But this really, because that was kind of
28:14
Speaker 5: a blip on the radar screen, they couldn't sustain this.
28:17
Speaker 5: I mean, this is maybe the best run Northwestern's had
28:20
Speaker 5: since then. And consistently, I know Pat Fitzgerald had them
28:23
Speaker 5: pretty good and then it fell off. But what David
28:26
Speaker 5: Braun has done is as much consistency as they've had
28:29
Speaker 5: since that Rose Bowl run.
28:31
Speaker 1: Yeah, look, 2020 was a weird year, but Fitzgerald did
28:34
Speaker 1: have them in a Big Ten championship game. and they
28:36
Speaker 1: had a halftime lead on a team that played in
28:38
Speaker 1: the semis in Ohio State. With all that said, I
28:41
Speaker 1: don't disagree. The consistency has been there. They need to
28:45
Speaker 1: go out and pay for one of these quarterbacks. I mean,
28:47
Speaker 1: Aiden Childs is okay, and they've always got these transfer
28:51
Speaker 1: guys that come in that weren't necessarily good enough to
28:55
Speaker 1: be front-line starters for these other programs.
28:58
Speaker 3: But if they would get some money behind a quarterback,
29:00
Speaker 3: that could change a lot.
29:02
Speaker 6: Northwestern's last road game before they open up that place
29:06
Speaker 6: at Indiana tonight, No.
29:08
Speaker 5: 5 Indiana.
29:09
Speaker 6: And truthfully, I think I'm right about this, Lance and Brownie.
29:12
Speaker 6: Northwestern has a better football history than Indiana did before
29:17
Speaker 6: Cignetti got there.
29:18
Speaker 5: That's correct, right?
29:19
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's 100% correct.
29:21
Speaker 4: Yeah.
29:22
Speaker 5: It's a pretty low bar, though. Oh, it is.
29:24
Speaker 6: Now we're talking about defending national champions. I promise you.
29:28
Speaker 6: A student dressed like Abe Lincoln just walked by.
29:30
Speaker 5: Oh, really?
29:31
Speaker 3: Yeah.
29:31
Speaker 6: It wasn't just a bad beard? He literally had on the...
29:34
Speaker 6: He did not have a beard. I don't think he
29:35
Speaker 6: was a bit. I think he was just going to
29:37
Speaker 6: class dressed like.
29:38
Speaker 5: He didn't have a twin? It's not like a history...
29:40
Speaker 5: He's not doing a project? I don't think so. I
29:42
Speaker 5: don't think so.
29:44
Speaker 6: I think he may be part of a band. the
29:46
Speaker 6: lincolns do the lincolns play at auburn that'd be a
29:49
Speaker 6: pretty good club down there big songs emancipation proclamation.
29:52
Speaker 1: Yeah you you remember in and like in elementary school
29:56
Speaker 1: they would make you dress up as like whoever you're
29:58
Speaker 1: doing a presentation for i don't think that's a thing in.
30:01
Speaker 6: College though yeah you don't do book reports no i
30:05
Speaker 6: don't think so he had a briefcase he was uh
30:08
Speaker 6: weirdly tall and he had a lincoln-like hat on walking
30:12
Speaker 6: to class he cannot tell a lie that's georgia washington
30:15
Speaker 6: oh yeah very good abe was on his day too
30:19
Speaker 6: he didn't lie about chopping down the cherry tree right
30:21
Speaker 6: now maybe abe didn't say i cannot tell a lie
30:24
Speaker 6: but he was honest abe i'm right right lance.
30:27
Speaker 3: Uh he was honest abe he was yeah yeah.
30:29
Speaker 6: See brown has me in the worst seat because i
30:32
Speaker 6: can people watch Through a window, but I only get
30:35
Speaker 6: 1.5 seconds of them walking by the window.
30:37
Speaker 5: I can see them coming from further away. Don't know
30:39
Speaker 5: why he gets like a flash. Yeah. Well, you spotted
30:42
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Speaker 6: weekend coming up. And one thing I wanted to ask
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Speaker 5: They're huge in college football. The guy that.
31:45
Speaker 6: We're going to see play here in Auburn tomorrow on
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Speaker 6: the CBS Sports list of top 50 quarterbacks, Byron Brown
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Speaker 6: Start with Byron Brown and then work to Sam Leavitt, guys.
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Speaker 6: Quarterbacks as we start to leave September that have disappointed
32:09
Speaker 6: you the most.
32:10
Speaker 5: That's two of them in my book.
32:13
Speaker 4: Yeah.
32:15
Speaker 5: I mean, yeah. You didn't expect more from Byron Brown, right? Well,
32:19
Speaker 5: but I expected more from Sam Levitt than I did
32:21
Speaker 5: from Byron Brown, Lance. I think if you made me
32:24
Speaker 5: say which one has disappointed me the most, it is
32:26
Speaker 5: Sam Levitt. I can't hide the fact that when Brooks
32:29
Speaker 5: got us to rank our quarterbacks, I had him number
32:31
Speaker 5: one in the SEC. Now, a lot of that was
32:33
Speaker 5: because of my faith in Lane Kiffin's development of quarterbacks.
32:36
Speaker 5: But it has not shown up so far. So I
32:39
Speaker 5: would go Sam Leavitt more so than Byron Brown. But
32:42
Speaker 5: I certainly have been disappointed in what I've seen in
32:44
Speaker 5: Byron Brown.
32:45
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree on both. But I would go Arch Manning.
32:48
Speaker 1: I mean, without that fourth quarter comeback, where is Arch
32:51
Speaker 1: Manning in this whole discussion right now? Arch is completing 61%
32:55
Speaker 1: of his passes, seven touchdowns through three games. He's turned
32:59
Speaker 1: it over twice. He doesn't have a rushing touchdown. He's
33:02
Speaker 1: only averaging four yards with his legs. He looks lost
33:06
Speaker 1: at times. And I thought that he had really found
33:08
Speaker 1: his compass last year. He had the slow start, and
33:11
Speaker 1: then he, you know, give him a lot of credit.
33:14
Speaker 1: He got into a groove at the end of the season,
33:16
Speaker 1: and he looked like he was going to be one
33:17
Speaker 1: of the best quarterbacks in college football.
33:20
Speaker 3: And where do they list him on that?
33:23
Speaker 5: I'll chase that down for you. I mean, I picked
33:25
Speaker 5: him to win the Heisman.
33:26
Speaker 6: But Tennessee's path to victory tomorrow in that big game
33:30
Speaker 6: starts with Arch Manning, right?
33:31
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would agree. Arch shitting the bed. I mean,
33:34
Speaker 1: if you're Tennessee, it is, you know, let Arch make mistakes,
33:37
Speaker 1: run the football with Deshaun Bishop, and I do think
33:40
Speaker 1: Tennessee's defense is going to give him problems.
33:43
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, especially playing on the road, again, our
33:47
Speaker 5: on-the-road Arch has been different than home Arch, so that
33:51
Speaker 5: is a factor in this game, and Tennessee is a
33:53
Speaker 5: very difficult place to play, Lance, and I know We
33:55
Speaker 5: talk about the difference in stadium atmospheres for 230 games
34:00
Speaker 5: or primetime games. The 11 o'clock games don't feel like
34:03
Speaker 5: they get as juiced, but I promise you that's going
34:06
Speaker 5: to be a juiced atmosphere that Arch is going to
34:07
Speaker 5: face tomorrow. Yeah, absolutely. We're leaving September. Tell me.
34:14
Speaker 6: Quarterbacks that have surprised you coming out of September that
34:18
Speaker 6: have stepped up. We expected Trinidad Chambliss to be good.
34:23
Speaker 6: I don't know what you guys expected of Keelan Russell
34:25
Speaker 6: at Alabama, but he's delivered, if not over-delivered for.
34:29
Speaker 5: Me so far.
34:31
Speaker 3: I would agree.
34:31
Speaker 1: I think Keelan has looked the part. I think the
34:34
Speaker 1: game is slowing down week in, week out for him. So, again,
34:40
Speaker 1: I think his potential, I mean, the ceiling is so.
34:42
Speaker 3: High for him. I mean, Camario would be one of
34:45
Speaker 3: those guys. Keinholz to me, though.
34:49
Speaker 1: I think the way he is playing right now, Keen Holtz,
34:52
Speaker 1: I should say, at Louisville, I mean, he has been
34:54
Speaker 1: unbelievable outside of that first half against Ole Miss.
34:58
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, that's been the guy that, I'm with Dunaway. Like,
35:01
Speaker 5: maybe I need to take these coaches more seriously. They just,
35:04
Speaker 5: there's so much coach speak, it's hard to believe a
35:06
Speaker 5: lot of what they say sometimes, Lance. But I don't
35:09
Speaker 5: know about you, but when Ryan Day used to try
35:12
Speaker 5: to sell us that Keen Holtz and Julian Sayen We're
35:15
Speaker 5: battling it out for the starting job. I'm kind of like, Dunaway,
35:17
Speaker 5: I thought he's just being nice to his backup because
35:20
Speaker 5: this kid may hit the portal and he's trying to
35:22
Speaker 5: help him. You watch now and you're like, boy, that
35:24
Speaker 5: must have been one heck of a battle.
35:26
Speaker 1: I think Keane Holtz is the better quarterback, at least, again,
35:29
Speaker 1: back to the upside, back to the ceiling. Julian Sayen,
35:33
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't really argue with what he did,
35:35
Speaker 1: completion percentage last year. But he has been a surprise
35:39
Speaker 1: to me.
35:40
Speaker 5: I'll tell you a guy that has surprised me, Lance,
35:42
Speaker 5: and his level of play is Nikko. At UCLA. Now, again,
35:46
Speaker 5: I don't know that UCLA has been, well, I think
35:48
Speaker 5: the other day when we went tested, not tested, we
35:50
Speaker 5: all went not tested, right, with UCLA? That's right. But
35:53
Speaker 5: it looks like Bob Chesney has been able to unlock
35:56
Speaker 5: a little bit in Nico that Deshaun Foster certainly could
36:00
Speaker 5: not unlock, but also that Josh Eipel couldn't unlock. I'd
36:06
Speaker 5: like to know what things we missed the most so
36:09
Speaker 5: far here in September. Not just quarterback play. It could
36:12
Speaker 5: be teams here, coaches, what? Because this is the third
36:16
Speaker 5: of the season that's done already. Excuse me, a fourth
36:18
Speaker 5: of the season. After this weekend, it'll be a third
36:20
Speaker 5: of the season. What do you think you missed most
36:22
Speaker 5: on so far?
36:23
Speaker 3: Probably Oregon.
36:25
Speaker 1: I mean, I think a lot of us had Oregon
36:26
Speaker 1: playing for the national championship, and look, it could still happen.
36:29
Speaker 1: But after them struggling for a full 60 minutes in
36:32
Speaker 1: Alton against Boise State, they turn around and go on
36:34
Speaker 1: the road as a 24.5-point favorite, and they lose outright
36:38
Speaker 1: to Oklahoma State. Portland State, just talking to Furman about that,
36:42
Speaker 1: you can't really get a gauge there. But if they
36:44
Speaker 1: were to go into the Coliseum and drop this game
36:47
Speaker 1: as a favorite against USC and have two losses going
36:50
Speaker 1: into October when we said this is the year that
36:53
Speaker 1: Dan Lanning's going to get it figured out, his quarterback's
36:55
Speaker 1: coming back, he's had deep runs, but he's gotten blown
37:00
Speaker 1: out the last two years in the college football playoff,
37:02
Speaker 1: this is his year. If he's already got two losses,
37:04
Speaker 1: good chance they don't make it to the college football playoff.
37:09
Speaker 5: I'm trying to think of, not that I missed all things,
37:12
Speaker 5: but I'm just.
37:13
Speaker 6: Trying to think of what I missed.
37:15
Speaker 5: I missed on Sam Leavitt, but we've already discussed that.
37:19
Speaker 5: I missed on him in September. He's got time to
37:21
Speaker 5: turn it around, obviously, but his September has not been
37:24
Speaker 5: what I thought you would get out of Sam Leavitt.
37:27
Speaker 5: I guess I missed on Arch, Lance. I picked him
37:28
Speaker 5: to win the Heisman. You win the Heisman in November?
37:34
Speaker 5: But Arch, at least at quarterback right now, Arch will
37:37
Speaker 5: probably go into this weekend in Heisman terms behind definitely
37:42
Speaker 5: Trinidad Chambliss, definitely Darian Mensah. Who else quarterback-wise do you.
37:47
Speaker 3: Think is behind? I'll go non-quarterbacks.
37:50
Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith, Malachi Toney are over him right now. Kamario
37:53
Speaker 1: Taylor's got better odds right now, or shorter odds, I
37:56
Speaker 1: should say. So there's a lot. You know who's not
37:59
Speaker 1: there is John Mateer, so I'll own Oklahoma. But I'm
38:02
Speaker 1: not ready yet because if Oklahoma was to win in
38:06
Speaker 1: Athens tomorrow, you guys can laugh out loud. It's exactly
38:10
Speaker 1: where I thought this team would be because I thought they.
38:12
Speaker 3: Were going to lose to Michigan.
38:13
Speaker 5: You're right. No, you are absolutely right. If they win
38:16
Speaker 5: this game in Athens, I do laugh out loud on
38:19
Speaker 5: that one, Lance. You know how I feel.
38:21
Speaker 6: I will say this Auburn team that plays this weekend.
38:26
Speaker 5: You missed on them?
38:27
Speaker 1: I did.
38:28
Speaker 6: I thought they would beat Florida and it's no shame
38:31
Speaker 6: losing to Florida, but for some reason with the way
38:34
Speaker 6: they've looked through the three games, I don't believe they're
38:37
Speaker 6: going to reach the pinnacle.
38:38
Speaker 5: I thought they were going to reach. I don't think
38:40
Speaker 5: they're going.
38:40
Speaker 6: To be a eight win team knocking out nine or
38:45
Speaker 6: bottom seven. I it's hard for me to see this team.
38:48
Speaker 6: Like I'm really worried about this game tomorrow against me. Oh,
38:51
Speaker 6: I think there's a lot to worry about in this
38:52
Speaker 6: game against Vanderbilt Lance. And I guess you would ask
38:55
Speaker 6: the question. Do you feel like Auburn's playing for bowl
38:59
Speaker 6: eligibility tomorrow? I mean, I know it is September, what, 25th,
39:03
Speaker 6: 26th when that game kicks. But when you start to
39:06
Speaker 6: do the math with a loss, I mean, don't you
39:08
Speaker 6: kind of feel like we may look back on the
39:11
Speaker 6: Vanderbilt game as the swing to whether Auburn goes to
39:13
Speaker 6: a bowl or not?
39:14
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, 100%.
39:15
Speaker 1: If they lose this game, and I think we might
39:17
Speaker 1: have talked about it earlier in the week, I don't
39:18
Speaker 1: know how they get bowl eligible. I mean, they're basically
39:22
Speaker 1: a double-digit favorite against Vanderbilt. Again, a team that's won
39:25
Speaker 1: 14 of the last 17. It will be Curtis' first
39:28
Speaker 1: SEC road start. But up front, you mentioned it earlier, Brown.
39:32
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a team that is 123rd nationally
39:35
Speaker 1: in sacks allowed. They've already allowed 13 sacks through three games.
39:39
Speaker 1: And on the other side, Vanderbilt, fourth nationally, 12 sacks.
39:44
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, if they lose this game, an 0-4
39:48
Speaker 5: October is absolutely on the table. Now, I'm not saying
39:51
Speaker 5: they will do that, but I am saying if they
39:53
Speaker 5: win this game, an 0-4 October is on the table.
39:56
Speaker 5: Win or lose, that October is just absolutely brutal for them.
39:59
Speaker 6: It just hasn't looked the way I thought it was
40:02
Speaker 6: going to look. They could still have the same record
40:04
Speaker 6: and have looked better. I know it was a 44-39 game,
40:08
Speaker 6: but it just didn't feel like it. It just felt different.
40:12
Speaker 6: I'm hoping tomorrow that they come out and They're buttoned
40:16
Speaker 6: up and they run the football and Byron Brown looks
40:19
Speaker 6: what we thought he was going to look like. Because
40:20
Speaker 6: right now, the one thing that everyone is saying is, oh,
40:24
Speaker 6: we were worried if what he was able to do
40:26
Speaker 6: at USF against lesser competition would translate up here. And
40:30
Speaker 6: right now, I think people are starting to question whether
40:32
Speaker 6: or not it's going to. And it's not just the quarterback.
40:34
Speaker 6: It's the offensive lineman.
40:35
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's the defense. The defense has been badly disappointing. Yeah.
40:39
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Speaker 6: Listen, I don't know if you and Furman hit on
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42:03
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42:05
Speaker 6: guess on this number for tomorrow's game between Iowa and Michigan, Lance.
42:10
Speaker 6: If I said number of punts in that game, could
42:14
Speaker 6: you give me a realistic number over under number on
42:17
Speaker 6: the number of punts in the Iowa-Michigan game?
42:22
Speaker 3: Oh, I would go nine and a half.
42:26
Speaker 5: Okay, so first of all, how many total possessions do
42:28
Speaker 5: you think will be in this game?
42:29
Speaker 3: Total possessions.
42:35
Speaker 3: That's what I was trying to figure out on the fly.
42:37
Speaker 1: I was going to say 18 total possessions.
42:42
Speaker 5: I was going to go lower than that. Well, I mean,
42:45
Speaker 5: incompletions stop the clock, and I do think you'll have
42:47
Speaker 5: a lot of incompletions. But I also think neither team
42:51
Speaker 5: trusts their quarterback that much. I think you'll have a
42:52
Speaker 5: lot of running, which will burn the clock. I was
42:55
Speaker 5: going to say 14 possessions.
42:56
Speaker 6: But if everybody gets the ball twice in each quarter,
42:59
Speaker 6: that ends up being what?
43:00
Speaker 5: So that's 16. So if you go 16, right, between
43:03
Speaker 5: nine punts, Lance, you're punting in more than half the possessions.
43:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw this the other day. I'm trying to
43:08
Speaker 1: pull it. It was forever ago. The record for punts
43:11
Speaker 1: in a college game. Oh, I saw that, Lance. It's
43:13
Speaker 1: like 77. Yeah, I thought it was 66. But yeah, 70,
43:18
Speaker 1: you're right. 1939, it was between.
43:22
Speaker 1: Centenary and Texas Tech, 77 punts, zero points.
43:28
Speaker 5: So that was back in the day, though, where you
43:29
Speaker 5: might punt on first or second down, right? That's right.
43:32
Speaker 5: That was not uncommon back in the day to punt
43:34
Speaker 5: on an early down just because you were playing a
43:36
Speaker 5: field position game, and the punt was the better way
43:38
Speaker 5: to improve field position than run your offense. Yeah, I guess.
43:41
Speaker 5: I don't know.
43:42
Speaker 3: Should Oklahoma try this?
43:46
Speaker 5: What if they did that in Athens? The old first
43:48
Speaker 5: down punt.
43:51
Speaker 3: Can you imagine?
43:52
Speaker 5: It's the best line of the day.
43:53
Speaker 1: Can you imagine November 11, 1939, being in Shreveport, Louisiana,
43:58
Speaker 1: to watch 77 punts in a scoreless game?
44:02
Speaker 5: No, I can't. No, thank you.
44:04
Speaker 6: See, that should not be the record. We should have
44:06
Speaker 6: a record book that modern day football. And I don't
44:09
Speaker 6: know when you would start that. I would say 1970.
44:12
Speaker 1: That 3-2 Auburn-Mississippi State game, how many punts did we
44:16
Speaker 1: have in that one?
44:17
Speaker 5: Okay, let's do this.
44:19
Speaker 6: Brooks, if you'll do this, I know Brooks loves it,
44:21
Speaker 6: or somebody, go and check that box score out from
44:24
Speaker 6: whatever year that was, 3-2 Auburn over Mississippi State, and
44:28
Speaker 6: see how many punts was in that game. We'll take
44:30
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Speaker 6: in Auburn, getting ready for the Vandy-Auburn weekend that is
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44:43
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44:49
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Speaker 6: interesting day yesterday, the Cubs clinched in baseball, but out
45:02
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45:07
Speaker 6: season home game with the Cubbies. And Ian Happ went
45:11
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Speaker 5: That's cool. Now $ 300 didn't go far. I don't know
45:27
Speaker 5: how many people he fed. But the intention was good, right? Yeah, yeah.
45:31
Speaker 5: That's a pretty cool thing, Lance. I don't know how
45:34
Speaker 5: many dollars you'd have to throw out there to feed
45:36
Speaker 5: the bleachers, but that was a start at least. That's
45:38
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45:39
Speaker 1: I mean, hey, you know, these GoFundMes have got to
45:42
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Speaker 1: number of punts from Auburn 3-2 over Mississippi State.
45:49
Speaker 5: Okay. Can we guess?
45:50
Speaker 3: Yeah, you guys guess. Do you remember the starting quarterbacks?
45:53
Speaker 5: Oh, God. That was going to be our buddy Ben Leard?
45:57
Speaker 3: Nope. Chris Todd.
46:00
Speaker 5: Chris Todd, yeah. Actually, a really good broadcaster, Chris Todd.
46:04
Speaker 1: Much more efficient than Wesley Carroll on the other side
46:07
Speaker 1: for Mississippi State. Chris Todd was 14-26, 154, no touchdowns,
46:12
Speaker 1: no picks.
46:13
Speaker 3: Wesley Carroll, how about this box?
46:16
Speaker 1: 10-25, 78 yards, average 3.1 per attempt, zero touchdowns and
46:23
Speaker 1: one pick.
46:24
Speaker 3: But, yeah, you guys have at it on the number
46:26
Speaker 3: of punts.
46:28
Speaker 6: I'm going to say... First time through for way more
46:30
Speaker 6: yards than I remember. Yeah, with the box score there,
46:33
Speaker 6: I'm going to go with Lance's number. I'm going to
46:35
Speaker 6: say it's under 9.5 at 9.
46:36
Speaker 5: I'll go 10. I'll say there were 10 total punts.
46:38
Speaker 3: 18 punts.
46:41
Speaker 5: Shut the door. Are you kidding me? 18 punts. I
46:43
Speaker 5: can't believe there were that many possessions.
46:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, 8 for Auburn and 10 for Blake McAdams was
46:49
Speaker 1: the punter for Mississippi State.
46:50
Speaker 3: Well, I would assume it was a bunch of 3-and-outs, right?
46:52
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was. I guess so. I looked it up. The.
46:56
Speaker 6: Through the first quarter and a half, if you look
46:59
Speaker 6: at the play-by-play here, here is the possession breakdown.
47:02
Speaker 3: Mississippi State punt. Auburn punt. Mississippi State punt. Auburn punt.
47:07
Speaker 3: State punt.
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47:08
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47:10
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Speaker 6: won't have the best quarterback in the building, right?
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Speaker 3: They will not.
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Speaker 1: Sagapula Telly will be your best quarterback. But you look
48:55
Speaker 1: at this Clemson offense. They are 128th in total offense,
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Speaker 1: 120th in scoring offense. The defense is 95th in scoring defense,
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Speaker 3: This is just not a good team. I still don't
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Speaker 3: know how, coming out.
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Speaker 1: Of that weather delay, they were able to win that
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Speaker 1: North Carolina game.
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Speaker 5: I really don't either. and i mean there was for
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Speaker 5: most of the game north carolina looked like the better
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Speaker 5: team where dabbo got booed one of the places i
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Speaker 5: think it was the first place is right before the
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Speaker 5: half when they finally get down in the red zone
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Speaker 5: and they got fourth and goal from like the two
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Speaker 5: or three and he kicks the field goal and the
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Speaker 5: crowd booed and i know they're frustrated but i'm like
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Speaker 5: that's the thing to do take the point to play
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Speaker 5: it turns out to be the to the right call
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Speaker 5: I mean Lance you got Tate Reynolds making his first
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Speaker 5: start you're really going to run a fourth and three
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Speaker 5: from the goal.
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Speaker 1: Yeah I mean do you guys have any excitement about
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Speaker 1: this game at all I mean I like the fact
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Speaker 1: that it's a late Friday night game and it is
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Speaker 1: one brand and there there is an interesting angle I
49:52
Speaker 1: mean you know Tosh's first year if he was to
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Speaker 1: lose this game and I did bring it up to
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Speaker 1: Furman I was like how many teams would be in
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Speaker 1: this position in the SEC and he was like probably
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Speaker 1: just Arkansas yeah.
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Speaker 5: I mean that is that's crazy to think about but
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Speaker 5: I mean, just the train wreck nature of it, the
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Speaker 5: Clemson train wreck nature is kind of the appeal. This
50:12
Speaker 5: is a season teetering, and I think Dabo's tenure there,
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Speaker 5: not that he's going to get fired, but at some point,
50:18
Speaker 5: do they start to have the tough discussion with him about, hey,
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Speaker 5: would you retire? We'll pay you to retire.
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Speaker 6: After Miami and Louisville and SMU, Cal was an off-season
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Speaker 6: talking point that.
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Speaker 5: Maybe with Saga Patel, Yeah, Lance got it. Yeah, Lance
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Speaker 5: nailed it.
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Speaker 6: With him at quarterback, maybe they can make a run
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Speaker 6: and be that second team in the ACC championship game,
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Speaker 6: and they have not looked at here in September. Maybe
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Speaker 6: they can turn it around tonight. By the way, just quickly,
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Speaker 6: how fate can change. North Carolina blew that game last
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Speaker 6: week with Billy Edwards at quarterback, who has passed for
50:52
Speaker 6: 611 yards and three touchdowns. Remember, Gio Lopez was the quarterback.
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Speaker 6: He's tearing it up at Wake, may not play this weekend.
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Speaker 6: But the guy that was on campus, at North Carolina
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Speaker 6: and then left last moment. He went to Purdue, was
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Speaker 6: Ryan Brown, who has passed already for over 1,000 yards
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Speaker 6: this year and seven touchdowns. He was at North Carolina
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Speaker 6: at the last moment, portaled his way to Purdue and
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Speaker 6: not to UNC.
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Speaker 1: You know, Ryan Brown, one of two FBS quarterbacks with
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Speaker 1: 1,000-plus in three games.
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Speaker 3: So congratulations.
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Speaker 5: One of two? One of two. Who's the other one?
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Mayaba's got 1,100 through four, but I don't know the
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Speaker 1: other one that's got 1,000 through three.
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Speaker 3: It's got to be Trinidad, right?
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Speaker 6: I don't know.
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Speaker 5: That's a good question. I'll look it up. We'll start
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Speaker 5: the next half of the show with that. I'll find it.
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Speaker 6: Okay, we'll roll through our time here on Sports State.
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Speaker 6: You guys have a great weekend. Clay and Buck's up next.
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