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The Next Round: Alabama-Auburn Basketball ERUPTS! LSU on Upset Alert & Arch Manning Under Fire · The Next Round

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  Speaker 1: We are live in Auburn, Alabama. It is LSU at
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  Speaker 1: Auburn this Saturday, just down the road from us right
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  Speaker 1: here in Jordan-Hare Stadium at Auburn. He's Lance Taylor. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Brian Brown. Continuing his Irish vacation, the boys in the
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  Speaker 1: back room all in today. Tyler, Scott, Brooks all back
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  Speaker 1: there in Birmingham taking care of us as we are
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  Speaker 1: down in Auburn. We've got a packed show for you
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  Speaker 1: today as we'll talk about all the football games. We
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  Speaker 1: are at Bunkers, which if you've never been to Auburn,
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  Speaker 1: Bunkers is on West Glen, literally blocks from Jordan here.
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  Speaker 1: Like you can see Jordan here from here. So it's
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  Speaker 1: a great game day location. We're going to be here
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  Speaker 1: until one o'clock. Just hanging out, talking some football here
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  Speaker 1: at Bunkers. Yeah, I talked about this when we were
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  Speaker 1: in town. I guess it was in June for the
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  Speaker 1: friendly between Argentina. Who did Argentina play? Iceland.
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  Speaker 2: Iceland.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Tyler. It was there. I couldn't remember. Tyler doesn't.
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  Speaker 3: But I remember talking about, like, I remember the bars
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  Speaker 3: I was going to as a college kid.
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  Speaker 1: They weren't like Bunkers. Bunkers was not on the list
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  Speaker 1: at Jacksonville State, I can promise you.
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  Speaker 3: No, like, Bunkers has got, like, nice light fixtures. Like,
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  Speaker 3: everything in here, the furniture is nice. There's great TVs.
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  Speaker 1: All over the place. Would you call that a chandelier?
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  Speaker 1: It is not a chandelier. Okay. Yeah. Well, I'm from
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  Speaker 1: Calhoun County. That's a chandelier to me. Okay, okay.
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  Speaker 3: It's not a chandelier, but it is a very interesting
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  Speaker 3: light fixture, and they've got them throughout this place. But
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  Speaker 3: this is one of those bunkers, kitchen, and social clubs, like,
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  Speaker 3: I don't think I'd go to the game. I know
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people love going to the game.
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  Speaker 1: You can almost throw a football to the stadium.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so definitely at halftime, I'd be out and coming
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  Speaker 3: over here. It's just a great spot. They said they
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  Speaker 3: had their biggest Thursday night since they've been open last night.
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  Speaker 1: That's what they told us. So, I mean, does that
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  Speaker 1: show you there's a little excitement down here because of
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  Speaker 1: the Georgia win?
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I think there's a lot of excitement. Talking
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  Speaker 3: to one of the owners earlier this morning, he said,
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  Speaker 3: you know, The great thing is three-night minimums, all the
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  Speaker 3: hotels down here. So LSU fans and Auburn fans that
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  Speaker 3: came in town, they were here last night. They'll be
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  Speaker 3: here this morning. And you know how this works on
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  Speaker 3: a college game day. Like there's only so many things
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  Speaker 3: you can do. You can get up and go get
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  Speaker 3: your coffee, get you a workout. You can shop for
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  Speaker 3: a little bit, but they're all going to gravitate to
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  Speaker 3: a bar. And they're all going to be drinking and
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  Speaker 3: talking about the game tomorrow and college football on another
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  Speaker 3: big weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Especially coming off last weekend.
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  Speaker 3: But yes, there is a massive buzz in this town
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  Speaker 3: coming off that Georgia win because it went from, are
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  Speaker 3: we even going to get bowl eligible this year to, hey,
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  Speaker 3: wait a minute.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, damn, if we can beat Georgia.
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  Speaker 3: On the road and now we're sitting there only with
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  Speaker 3: two losses, why can't we believe? And if you, again,
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  Speaker 3: Alex Golish, Definitely watch the Saban documentary based on, hey, look,
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  Speaker 3: for a three-and-a-half-hour slug fight, there was no way we
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  Speaker 3: could beat this team. But I told them, you focus
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  Speaker 3: six to eight seconds per play. This is how we
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  Speaker 3: can get it done. If they can take that mentality,
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  Speaker 3: recapture it against LSU coming in here for this lazy.
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  Speaker 1: 11 o'clock game, which... We've talked about it before.
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  Speaker 3: Most 11 o'clock atmospheres, it takes them a while to
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  Speaker 3: wake up. I don't think it will take Jordan Hare
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  Speaker 3: any time to wake up. It'll be as juiced as
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  Speaker 3: you can be at 11 o'clock. Whatever your 11 o'clock
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  Speaker 3: limitation is versus 2.30 or prime time, that's the only
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  Speaker 3: thing that will limit this crowd. And I mean, I
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  Speaker 3: still think it'll be a good enough atmosphere that that's
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  Speaker 3: not going to be an issue. This is not going
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  Speaker 3: to be, yeah, crowd was kind of flat.
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  Speaker 1: We were flat.
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  Speaker 3: I think if you rolled into it, you tell me
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  Speaker 3: if I'm wrong, you would think it's a 230 kick.
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  Speaker 1: Probably.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. You know, it's not a nighttime kick because the
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  Speaker 1: sun's up. Right. Because the sun's up. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: But I do think the atmosphere is going to be
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  Speaker 3: a lot better. I do think it benefits LSU that
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  Speaker 3: it is an 11 o'clock game because if this game
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  Speaker 3: was at night, I think the point spread would reflect that.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, right now, LSU, the last I saw, seven
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  Speaker 3: and a half.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. You know, I think this thing might be six. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Well, we've got a lot to get to,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll talk about this game. We'll talk about all
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  Speaker 1: the games in the SEC throughout the next four hours.
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  Speaker 1: Todd Furman with us in a little less than an hour,
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  Speaker 1: and you know he'll talk about all the games as well.
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  Speaker 1: But what we normally do is start the day with
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  Speaker 1: what we saw last night, and I've got two options
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  Speaker 1: for you.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: One would be the NFL game we saw last night,
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  Speaker 1: and the other would be what they told me was
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  Speaker 1: an exhibition basketball game last night that almost turned into
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  Speaker 1: a prize fight. Which one would you like to start with?
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  Speaker 1: I don't care.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we can start with Alabama-Auburn if you want,
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  Speaker 3: and then we can work our way to the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: And look, it's an exhibition basketball game, so what actually
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  Speaker 1: went on in the game is somewhat irrelevant. People listening
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  Speaker 1: in Richmond right now or Tulsa, they probably don't care, but...
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  Speaker 1: It did get, you know, I don't think we've seen this.
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  Speaker 1: Like I watch, and I shouldn't say a lot.
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  Speaker 3: I'll see it. I'll have it on the background. NBA
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  Speaker 3: preseason action. You never see any of this. But last night,
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  Speaker 3: what we saw downtown Birmingham was pretty crazy.
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  Speaker 1: It's crazy. So for those that don't know, those that
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  Speaker 1: are out of the Birmingham market or you've just not
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  Speaker 1: paid attention. the SEC made an emphasis to their schools,
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  Speaker 1: or at least made a suggestion to their schools, like,
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  Speaker 1: if you're going to play preseason games, if you're going
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  Speaker 1: to play exhibition games, why not help one another out
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  Speaker 1: and play some in-conference games? So you've seen Alabama actually
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  Speaker 1: do that twice. They played Ole Miss at Ballin' and Bowel,
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  Speaker 1: and then Alabama and Auburn got together and agreed to
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  Speaker 1: do a neutral site game in Birmingham. There was an
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  Speaker 1: NIL component from the ticket sales and things like that,
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  Speaker 1: so it was beneficial to both schools to do this
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  Speaker 1: on their part. And again, if you're out of market,
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  Speaker 1: the demand for this ticket was crazy. Was it really?
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  Speaker 1: In a rarity, I was not asked for any, so
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  Speaker 1: I just.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was I was asked for quite a few.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, the demand seemed like it was there. Now,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the crowd, I guess you really couldn't tell
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  Speaker 3: on 90s YouTube channel.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to see like the upper level. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of dark up there. So it's hard to see
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  Speaker 1: if it's packed. But, you know, the lower bowl had
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  Speaker 1: a really good crowd there. Yeah. And it was a
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  Speaker 1: lively crowd from what I could tell on the on
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  Speaker 1: the broadcast there with Carl Ravitch and. Damian Fishback and
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  Speaker 1: Richard Hendricks.
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  Speaker 3: You know and it's always it shows you the the
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  Speaker 3: passion for sports in our market right because I mean
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  Speaker 3: this is the middle of college football with now both
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  Speaker 3: Auburn and Alabama being in the mix I know it
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  Speaker 3: sounds crazy for possible spots in the college football playoff
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  Speaker 3: and now you've got an exhibition game between the two
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  Speaker 3: and you've got this buzz and and what happens four
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  Speaker 3: and a half minutes into the game and how the
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  Speaker 3: game plays out I mean yeah It's pretty crazy for
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  Speaker 3: an exhibition game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you had a little bit of a scuffle
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  Speaker 1: early where both coaches came off the bench and then
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  Speaker 1: Nate Oates and Steven Pearl... Go face to face a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. Yes. There were some words exchanged between the two.
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  Speaker 1: Dowd and Bristow lock up a loose ball on the ground. Right.
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  Speaker 3: Then you got Trippi going back and forth. I think
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  Speaker 3: Kevin Overton was saying some things. I think Oates told Overton,
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  Speaker 3: get back to your bench. There was another word in there,
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  Speaker 3: I believe.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Stephen shows up and, you know, I mean, you got
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  Speaker 3: to get the back of your player.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: They start chirping a little bit, and you knew at
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  Speaker 3: that moment, hey, look, this feels like more than an
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  Speaker 3: exhibition game.
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  Speaker 1: I have not watched a lot of exhibition basketball. I
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  Speaker 1: don't remember many scuffles. But then after the game, and
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  Speaker 1: it was a tight game, two-point Alabama win, came down
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  Speaker 1: to basically free throws at the end, and Auburn had
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  Speaker 1: ball in hand, but Alabama defended it well, so they
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  Speaker 1: couldn't even advance it off the court. You're going to
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  Speaker 1: handshake lines, and another scuffle breaks out, and where this
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  Speaker 1: one almost got out of hand... was George Kimball, the
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  Speaker 1: Auburn player, from behind bodies Amari Allen, who's in the discussion. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the coaches have already stepped in, and they're playing peacemaker here.
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  Speaker 1: Amari Allen, the initial situation, was not going to lead
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  Speaker 1: to anything. Nate Oates was early on it. Stephen Pearl
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  Speaker 1: was on his way. They were going to make sure
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  Speaker 1: that didn't happen. But Kimball comes in from behind and
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  Speaker 1: absolutely bodies Amari Allen. Well, I'll tell you, if this
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  Speaker 1: would have been NBA, if this would.
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  Speaker 3: Have been regular season, it's going to be really interesting
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  Speaker 3: because I don't know, like, what kind of power does
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  Speaker 3: the SEC have for an exhibition game like this? Because
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  Speaker 3: if you see the video and you see George Kimball III,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's malicious. I don't know what was said
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  Speaker 3: between Amari Allen and George Kimball before this.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: But for Kimball to come after him, this is something
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  Speaker 3: that I think would lead to a suspension.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's not technically a league game. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how you do this in exhibition basketball because it's
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  Speaker 1: not a league game. I mean, there's two league teams playing.
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  Speaker 1: There's got to be a way to police it.
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  Speaker 3: As soon as I say that, let's say that You know,
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  Speaker 3: Auburn is playing Marathon Ole if we want to go
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  Speaker 3: back to an old school.
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  Speaker 1: What were some of the athletes in action? Athletes in action.
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  Speaker 1: You know, those were like Christian organizations. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: they were going to fight. Yeah, probably not. Although some
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  Speaker 1: of the bigger fights I've seen in softball were in
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  Speaker 1: church league.
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  Speaker 3: But, you know, if he actually bodies one of those guys,
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  Speaker 3: this is probably a non-story. But because it was SEC
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  Speaker 3: on SEC, I just wonder if this goes anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: No idea. I don't even know what you'd do if
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  Speaker 1: you're the Southeastern Conference. And Steven may take care of
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  Speaker 1: it himself. I don't know. And it may not work.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to say it may not warrant a penalty,
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  Speaker 1: but if this were a regular season Alabama-Auburn game, I
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  Speaker 1: do think something might happen there.
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  Speaker 3: Something would happen there for sure. The FTC would have
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  Speaker 3: to step in. And I think this is one of
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  Speaker 3: those that I don't care where you're listening to us
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  Speaker 3: right now. it would be on SportsCenter and all highlights everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, four guys were, you know, four players got
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  Speaker 3: technicals early on in the game, and then you saw
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  Speaker 3: that after the game, and then the game played out incredibly.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 1: People in the chat that are there saying it was
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  Speaker 1: a great atmosphere, that it was probably 80% full. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: for an exhibition game, that's pretty remarkable. That place holds
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  Speaker 1: like 15,000. That's a big arena. That's a big arena
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  Speaker 1: to go 80% for a preseason game is pretty crazy.
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  Speaker 1: So everybody was saying it was a really cool atmosphere. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, maybe we'll see it again. I don't know. Early, early,
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  Speaker 1: early in the chat, I was going to read Landmine Believer,
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  Speaker 1: who said he wants this to be an annual event.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Here's what he says. Coach Landmine, the
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  Speaker 1: feud was awesome. Got to be a yearly thing. Game
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  Speaker 1: was intense. Crowds were loud for both sides. Pretty close
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  Speaker 1: to 50 50 was just awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Well steven pearl says after the game that felt like
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  Speaker 3: a sweet 16 yeah kind of atmosphere it kind of
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  Speaker 3: came across that way on the broadcast and the way
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  Speaker 3: it played out and he was like and this is
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  Speaker 3: middle of october which is really insane when you think
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  Speaker 3: about that i don't know if the chippiness helps or
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  Speaker 3: hurts bringing back.
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  Speaker 1: The future year two i don't know Yeah. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if I'm a fan and it excites me, I think
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  Speaker 1: it's easier for a night idiot to sell tickets.
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  Speaker 3: If you get a player suspended, you're probably like, eh,
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  Speaker 3: maybe we don't do this. Yeah, so it'll be interesting
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  Speaker 3: to see how that plays out. We were on the
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  Speaker 3: call for Florida State Auburn and balling at Bowel just
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  Speaker 3: eight days ago, a week out from the feud, and
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  Speaker 3: Tahad Pettiford really, really struggled shooting the basketball, really, really
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  Speaker 3: struggled shooting the basketball again.
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  Speaker 1: And fouled out. And fouled out, yeah, with a couple
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  Speaker 1: of minutes to go.
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  Speaker 3: Kevin Overton was really, really good, led all scorers with 26,
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  Speaker 3: but You know, you just wonder, and again, it's two
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  Speaker 3: preseason games, but we've seen Pettiford really struggle as far
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  Speaker 3: as he's an electric player, but sometimes a lot of
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  Speaker 3: shots and not a lot to get out of that.
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  Speaker 1: That's exhibition basketball, which you know it's going to take
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  Speaker 1: a lot for us to discuss exhibition basketball, but that
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  Speaker 1: was a lot last night. Those two teams obviously will
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  Speaker 1: play twice in the regular season. Based on that game
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  Speaker 1: right there, I imagine they'll be hotly contested. That should
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  Speaker 1: be an interesting series this year.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and, you know, the seven-footers for Auburn, I think
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  Speaker 3: we were more interested in that last week against Florida
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  Speaker 3: State in bowling and bowel than anything. And I didn't
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  Speaker 3: think Aboye or Narcisse played that well. They looked out
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  Speaker 3: of shape. But 15 and 16 combined last night. So,
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  Speaker 3: you know, they were effective. So, you know. We talked
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  Speaker 3: about this on the broadcast. Once the conditioning comes in
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  Speaker 3: and they get their feet under them and they get
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  Speaker 3: a little more acclimated to SEC play, these guys can
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  Speaker 3: be major factors.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so it'll be interesting as basketball starting is just
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  Speaker 1: around the corner. Obviously, a lot of excitement here in
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  Speaker 1: Auburn for football, and we'll talk a lot about that.
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  Speaker 1: the total, which we had at lanceslock.com. That late field
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  Speaker 1: goal didn't push it over, did it? So the 58-yarder
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  Speaker 1: by Santos actually put it over by a half. Okay. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: a touchdown. at that point. Yeah, they would score. Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: Because at that point, it's 27 to 21. But you
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  Speaker 3: think about the field position they would have had. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: Ben Johnson, that was kind of a ballsy call.
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  Speaker 1: Caleb Williams takes the late sack there, which you cannot do.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what was he doing? Throw it away. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: got to throw it away.
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  Speaker 3: And look, he has played so well coming back from
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  Speaker 3: the hamstring injury over 300 yards in Atlanta. in the
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  Speaker 3: win over 300 yards last night, in the win over
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  Speaker 3: the Patriots. But that was almost a devastating sack that
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  Speaker 3: he takes because if Santos misses that, you help me
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  Speaker 3: do the math, it's a 58-yarder he misses.
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  Speaker 1: So the ball's on the 48, right? Yeah, the 48.
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  Speaker 1: So you've got a short field to go down and
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  Speaker 1: win the game. You get it where? Actually, where the
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  Speaker 1: spot is. Where the spot is. It could be the 48, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So at that point, you've got a short field, and
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  Speaker 3: then Drake Mays got an opportunity to get it. Outside of,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and Drake May really harped on this after
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  Speaker 3: the game. He had the early turnover in the red zone. Well,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't say it was early. It was late in
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  Speaker 3: the second half. But that was his one mistake. But,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I thought Caleb Williams played exceptionally well. Now
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  Speaker 3: the Bears are sitting at five and two. The Patriots
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  Speaker 3: snap a three-game winning streak. But that was a really
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  Speaker 3: good Thursday night game.
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• 14:20
  Speaker 1: I am not a Minnesota believer, as you have learned,
• 14:23
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• 14:25
  Speaker 1: gave it a remarkable stat defensively. That's how they're winning games, Minnesota.
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: I still think the Bears find a way to win
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: that division.
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: Caleb Williams is definitely a difference maker, and you saw
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: him in the divisional round last year, and that incredible
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: fourth down play against the Rams, where really Ben Johnson
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: should have gone for two, and they probably could have
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: walked that thing off, and they're on to the NFC
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  Speaker 3: Championship game, but He is definitely a difference maker, and
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: now Colston Loveland is starting to play. You've got a
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: weapon in Luther Burden III, obviously DeAndre Swift. I mean,
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: Ben Johnson is one of the best offensive play callers
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: in all of football, and I think the Bears are
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: a really dangerous team. But I can make arguments for
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: all four teams in the NFC North. I think it
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: is the best division from top to bottom.
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: If you power-rated the NFC North right now, you would go– Well,
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: I think you've got the worst defense in football in
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions, but you've got the best defense in
• 15:16
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• 15:19
  Speaker 1: and Minnesota and win the Super Bowl, wouldn't you? Yeah,
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: for sure.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Green Bay's not whole yet. I mean, Mike
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: is going to come back. Josh Jacobs is coming back.
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: When you get those two weapons, those are major difference
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: makers on both sides of the ball. And I give
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: Jordan Love a lot of credit, the way he has
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: played to keep Green Bay in this.
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: So I think they're a player still. You know.
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: If I had to guess on who was going to
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: win this division, I love Detroit's offense. Statistically, the worst
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: defense in the NFL is not going to win this division.
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: I'm like you on Minnesota. I'm a little more bullish
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: because I love Kevin O'Connell and his ability to really
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: have quarterbacks develop during the season under him. I would
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: go Bears or Packers. I just saw what the Bears did. Um,
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: and Packers, how that played out a couple of weeks ago. Um,
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: I would lean bears right now.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: I lean bears. I don't feel good about it. You
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: seem like you feel good about it. Yeah. As good
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: as you can in that division. I mean, I wouldn't
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: go to hard rock, got bad and put my life
• 16:23
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• 16:25
  Speaker 1: even play it. That's such an, uh, uh, unpredictable division.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying I think the Bears will end up
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: winning it. If I had to pick one, I'd pick
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: the Bears.
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: I just know the Packers limped around, and it was
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: like they were whining, we don't have Micah, and they
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: had lost seven or eight straight without Micah. And when
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: Micah comes back, I mean, the difference maker, he's going
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: to be on the defense. I mean, and again, I
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: think it will come down to Green Bay or Chicago,
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: but I slightly lean Chicago because it's Caleb Williams.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it was a fun game last night. Another
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: week of the NFL, we'll talk some about that. with
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: Furman and the college football games tonight in college football.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: Do any of these interest you? By the way, real quick,
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: James Madison no longer upset. App State pulled that upset
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: last night. Or undefeated, excuse me. App State pulled that
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: upset last night. We had the Mountaineers plus the 11
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: and a half. They win the game outright.
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: James London walks it off with that 40-yard field goal
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: in overtime after JMU missed a 47-yarder off the upright.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: That was a hell of a game.
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: JMU gets up early, 14-3, trying to quiet down that
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: crowd in Boone. And, you know, Appalachian State's able to
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: grind and grind and grind, and they get that late
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: pick with six minutes left. They take it down to
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: the 14. They get the touchdown. They take their first
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: lead of the game. They end up holding on. Now
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: only five undefeateds remain. We went through the exercise yesterday
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: ranking the five undefeateds.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: That's right. You left JMU out, I guess, for a reason.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: I only went power four, yeah. Because you knew they
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: were going to lose last night. I had foresight.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: But, yeah, that was a fun game, and now we
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: are down to five undefeated teams.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: I think we said this after Indiana went 16-0 last year.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: I don't think you will ever see that in today's
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: college football again. You might get a group of five
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: teams go undefeated.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: But then they're going to lose. But they're going to
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: lose in the playoffs right away. That's the thing. Like,
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: in the regular season... I could see Notre Dame going
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: undefeated in the regular season. They control so much of
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: their schedule. Well, and Miami's got one game.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: We talk about, you know, kind of the trap game
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: next week in Chapel Hill. But I mean, if you're
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: really looking at this in two weeks, the game in
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: South Bend is that game. And if they win that,
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: they're going to go undefeated in the regular season. But
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: you're just not going to see a lot of that.
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: So of the five undefeateds left, Miami's got a shot. OK,
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: I guess I guess the winner of. I mean, Texas
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: Tech is still away from Utah BYU. So the winner
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: of Utah BYU matching up with Texas Tech, those could
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: be undefeated to the end of the year.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: There is no way UCLA can close that. I agree
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: with you 100% on that one. And then that's it. Yeah.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: I mean, can you imagine that right now 60% of
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: our undefeateds going into the latter part of October are
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: all from the Big 12, one of the conferences that
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: we disrespected the most. I mean, again, they got three
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: top 10 teams. I didn't think– I thought they would
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: struggle to have one top 10 team. I thought it
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: would only be Texas Tech. And a lot of this
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: is scheduled.
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: It is.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: Texas Tech. It's going to work its way out. They
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: did beat Houston, but that was in the Big 12.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: You look at Utah, they have beaten no one of substance.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: And BYU did get the quality win last week against
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Notre Dame. So tonight you've got Duke, Virginia, which in
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: the preseason, you kind of looked at that and you thought, hey,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: that's going to be a sneaky good Friday night game.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Maybe a good game. It doesn't quite have on it
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: what we thought it might because we thought Virginia would
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: be bad. Yeah, I mean, a 4-2 Duke team taking
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: on a 4-3 Cavalier team.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: And Pribula has played really well at the quarterback position.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: You know, 13 touchdowns, only the one interception. They just,
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: when we saw them early on against NC State, they
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: looked so dominant up front. They've got so many 22-
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: and 23-year-olds. On the offensive and defensive lines, they look dominant.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: And then against Florida State, they were completely lost. So
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: I don't know where I am on Virginia. This is
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: the third meeting between these two in the last 12 months.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: Virginia won going away in Durham last year. And then
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: the ACC championship goes to overtime. Duke wins that, which
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: throws everything out of whack, makes Mario Cristobal a top
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: 10 coach.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, right.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: Because without that, Tony Elliott and Virginia go to the
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: college football playoffs. So the third time, very familiar. These
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: two teams are with each other. And uh should be
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: a good game virginia two and a half point favorite
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• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Oh nice you got army and tulsa as well that
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: virginia duke virginia game by the way six o'clock espn
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  Speaker 1: stanford i don't know if any of those games jump
• 20:38
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• 20:40
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• 20:42
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  Speaker 3: Do you think we'll have snow At the Wyoming game. Wow,
• 20:51
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• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Both of those can handle it, though. Air Force
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: gets plenty of snow. Wyoming gets plenty of snow. You
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: would normally say, ooh, that might be a little altitude game. Nope,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: not with Air Force in it. They're fine. And then
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: NC State at Stanford. Boy, that is the worst team
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: in the ACC. Probably Stanford is the worst team in
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: the ACC.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say they are. They're only a six-and-a-half-point
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: dog here. So this does become kind of an interesting
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: game for Dave Dern at three-and-three because– I've always thought
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: that he's done a good job there. I think it's
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: a difficult job in the ACC, but I think it's
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: gotten a little stale maybe for a lot of people,
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: and there was such hope with C.J.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Bailey coming back this year that this would be a
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: special year.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: They had that schedule that just kind of laid out
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: for them, but only a 6.5-point favorite heading to the
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: farm to take on Stanford, a total of 55.5, and
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: Michael Ford for Stanford coming off a career-best 231 total
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: scrimmage yards. And a 34-7 win over Elon. This could
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: be a tricky upset. NC State going all the way
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: across the country. Nobody's giving Stanford any shot here. This
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: thing's under that key number of seven.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So watch out for this one. Look out on
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: that one. If you're just looking for a competitive game tonight. 930.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: I think in the ACC, you've got the doubleheader right there.
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  Speaker 3: I think you've got it, you know, to start in
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Charlottesville and then to end to keep you up late
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• 22:19
  Speaker 1: I think those could be really, really good games. All right.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: We've got a lot of Saturday games to talk about, though,
• 22:23
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  Speaker 1: It is fun being in a college football town. Now,
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  Speaker 1: we got into Auburn early. Tyler, I am interested. Tyler
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  Speaker 1: both of you. And you would have to drive to
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  Speaker 1: early in the morning?
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  Speaker 5: Sometimes, yeah. I'm sure I did at some point, yeah.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Did your corneas burn the way mine did for the
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: last half hour of the drive? You're driving straight into
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: the rising sun.
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  Speaker 4: That's a rough stretch. It's just a bunch of hills
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  Speaker 4: and just empty land. And you're driving straight into the sun,
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  Speaker 4: like you said.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: Driving east has always been, that is one thing I've
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  Speaker 3: noticed because we've done this drive a few times.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Now, on the drive down, I slept the whole way.
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  Speaker 1: Lance did not burn his corneas. So you guys, I
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: want you to know Lance is saved. Um, literally we met, um,
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  Speaker 1: very close to my neighborhood out on two 80 and
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: from my neighborhood, it's probably a buck 40 to get
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: to bunkers here. And Lance gets in the car and said, Hey,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: I brought a pillow. And I was like, okay, well,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: I guess I'll see you in Auburn.
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: Translation.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Good night. That's right. Translation is you're on your own
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: on this drive.
• 25:55
  Speaker 8: He's just resting for the drive back, Brownie.
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  Speaker 9: Right.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: Well, full disclosure, I allowed that I'd never do this, really.
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  Speaker 3: I let Bullet and Chili sleep in the bed last night. And,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, they get up on my ass, and I
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: just couldn't sleep. So I finally had to kick them
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  Speaker 3: out at.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Like, 3.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: Well, I had my alarm set for 4.30 because I
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: usually get a morning workout. So I was going to
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: try to get the morning workout in before I came
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: to meet you at 6 a.m., And because they kept
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: me up all night, I couldn't get the morning work.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: I completely threw off my entire morning. So just exhausted.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: And I appreciate you letting me sleep. No, it's not
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: a problem. And, I mean, we were on 280. Lance,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: I think, made one comment about what I was listening
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: to on SiriusXM. And then the next thing Lance said
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: was 15 minutes from Auburn when he said, how far
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: we got? We're 15 minutes out, my man. You did it.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: You slept all the way.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: You know, I don't know about you guys. It's hard
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: for me to relax, like, sleeping. I can't sleep on
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: a plane. I really can't sleep in a car.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: I don't know why.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: I just can't really relax in those situations.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: You seem to do fine.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, for me to get that kind of sound sleep,
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: I was impressed with myself.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you did quite well. Now, I also, as
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: not to wake you up, bypassed on breakfast. I was
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: going to stop at Eatery on the way and get something.
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: I thought you didn't like breakfast anyway.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: I don't like breakfast, Scott, but I've got to eat something. Scott,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: if it was his favorite meal, he would have sacrificed
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: my sleep.
• 27:18
  Speaker 9: 100%.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Lance would have been awake. But I do appreciate that.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: That's really nice because if you would have pulled in,
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: I mean, you can just sense all those movements.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: That's right. You would have awakened. Yeah, I would have.
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  Speaker 1: And I probably would have gotten something to eat and
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: never gone back to sleep. That's right. I want you
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: to know. I didn't bring that up to tell you
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: I sacrificed for you, but I did sacrifice for you.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: Well, look, I sacrificed for the listeners last week when
• 27:38
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• 27:40
  Speaker 1: That is true. What are we up to today in bunkers?
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: On my Diet Cokes?
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  Speaker 4: No.
• 27:46
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• 28:03
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• 28:10
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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• 28:14
  Speaker 3: They don't have water here, but they've already got the
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: Jell-O shots like trays and trays made. And I'm like, damn,
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: how is there like not a market for water?
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: What is this, Rocco's? It's got to be on the
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: mountain though, right? It's got to be like the way
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: the bartender.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's almost gone. You got the gun. But, you know,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of music for Diet Coke. You know,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of people.
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: And especially when you've got, you know, the somewhat healthy
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: ladies that are jogging each and every morning and they
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: come into the bar and they want to. go you
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: know maybe a a seltzer and then get a water
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: well they normally want the the purified water that's.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah yeah i've got plenty of that coke if
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: you need that i can tell.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: You right where you get that i mean i i
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: just used your gun to put a little water in
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: my water okay.
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: Good ryan i was amazed last year uh the road
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: show that i went to before the wisconsin game at
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: galatz and um I think you went through five or
• 29:04
  Speaker 6: six Diet Cokes in the three hours.
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: I guess a little bit longer than that with setup,
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: but I was amazed.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Believable. I've got an addiction. I don't deny it. I'm addicted.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: I think you guys know I can drink some Bud Light.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: I can drink some Stella.
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: I think if I tried to go Bud Light slash
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: Stella with your Diet Cokes today, I would be sleeping
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: on the way home.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: I would drop you at the hospital on the way
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: home probably. No, I go heavy on the Diet Cokes.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Do not deny that. Never have. and there have been
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: all these studies about how bad it is for you,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: I only say two things to that. Number one, you've
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: got to die somehow, right? So I may as well
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: die having... had what I would like to drink.
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: What does your wife think about that comment?
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: She's got an insurance policy. She's got an insurance policy, Brooke.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: So if I go from diet coke, she's casting. That's right.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Diet coke and marker consumption, right? Yeah.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: I mean, these are things that you can kind of
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: get away with in a marriage. Like, OK, like you're
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: killing yourself. You shouldn't do this. But I have added
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: to the policy.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: That's right. I mean, it's my family's taken care of
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: the minute I kick it. So they're there. You know,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: I hope they're sad. I don't want to. I want
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: to say I hope they're sad. I hope they're fine.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: They'll be taken care of. And I recommend anybody do that.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Take care of your family. Make sure they're good. Get
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: in front of that. Yeah, it's a small monthly expense
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: for your family being taken care of. That's PSA. Second
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: part of that is if you look at those studies
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: on how many Diet Cokes you have to drink for
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: that stuff to affect you, I don't hit that number. Now,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: I've tried, but I don't hit that number. I think
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: it's like 20 cans a day you would have to drink.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: In your heyday, I don't think you drink as much
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Diet Coke as you used to. It's close. I mean,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: is it a six pack a day? If you can't.
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: So let me start my day for you.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: Because I'm just wondering, you know, if I go to
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: the if I go get my annual checkup and I'm
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: getting my physical and they make you fill out these
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: little forms and it's like, you know, drink or smoke
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: or drugs, whatever.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: And, you know, I check no on the drugs. I
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: don't know if edibles count now. I have no idea.
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: And I check on the smoking and then the alcohol.
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: And then they're like, how many drinks per week do
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: you have? And then I start adding it up. And
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: then when you write it out, you're like, oh, son
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: of a bitch, that sounds bad. Like if they did
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: that for Diet Cokes, do you think that they would
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: guilt you as much as they would guilt somebody that
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: has X amount per week of alcoholic beverages?
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Maybe.
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: Maybe.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Hang on. Furman's texting me. I got to see if
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: we got to change to the schedule.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: Uh yeah again if you're out driving down right now
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: come join us at bunkers kitchen social club we've got
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: bud light specials uh they are going to be setting
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: up on the patio so it's 9 35 ish right
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: now 10 o'clock they are going to have bartenders set
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: up on the patio uh the weather is going to
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: be beautiful today it was like really cold this morning.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: It was but it's going to be perfect today in
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: the 70s so uh So my apologies for that. I
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: had to answer a question for Furman real quick. What
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: was your question? I gave you a- No, my question was,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: you know, if you're- It's like I'm back in college.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: If I'm getting a physical, they always ask how many
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: alcoholic beverages per week. And when you write that down,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: sometimes you're like, damn, that seems like a lot. And
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: you kind of maybe pull it back a little bit.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: If you went full disclosure on your Diet Cokes, if
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: that was one of the questions, do you think your
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: primary would be like, Ryan, you've got to pull back
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: on this. Yeah, all right. So I'll ask the back room, too.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Everybody can get involved. Is this too much?
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: So the Mayo Clinic says that drinking two or more
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: diet beverages a day is linked to a higher risk
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: of stroke, heart attack, and cardiovascular complications. That 17 to
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: 20 number was a safety limit for aspartame, specifically. Okay.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Well, I've never had any of those first three things
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: you mentioned, so I think I'm good. And I've been
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: drinking Diet Coke a long time, Tyler. Yeah, but I
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: think it leads to those three things. I mean, I've
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: had it a long time. If I was going to
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: have a stroke from Diet Coke, I think it would
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: have happened. Is this the smoker in his 50s?
• 32:55
  Speaker 8: You should probably knock on that stage behind you.
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a wild thing to say on this podcast.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Knock on wood. It really is. We can't afford it.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Dunaway over on his... I'm going to die at least
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: two weeks from now when Jim's back. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: We also have a corporate insurance policy on me, though, right?
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: We do have a policy on you and Dunaway. I
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: think you guys are going to be in a better
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: spot if I go down. Hey, all right, so tell
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: me if this is– I'm not pulling for that. Tell
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: me if this is too much. So I wake up
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: in the morning. Oh, yeah, do this, and then I'm
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: going to tell you about Dunaway because I did get
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: an update.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: I wake up in the morning. First thing I do
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: is pee. Okay. That's normal. Well, that's amazing. That's pretty
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: much what everybody does. Yeah, but it's amazing you make
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: it throughout the night. You know what? Most of the
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: time I do. I rarely do I have to get
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: up and go at night. Yeah, I don't. And then
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: literally as soon as I pee and wash my hands
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: and splash some water on my face, I beeline it
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: to the basement fridge. We don't keep Diet Cokes upstairs.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Beeline it to the basement fridge and get my first
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Diet Coke of the day. Cold can that's been marinated.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: And there is a difference, by the way. There is
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: a difference in a can that you've just put in
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: the fridge and a can that's been in there for
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: a week or more. You can taste the difference. You
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: can taste the difference 100%. Do you think that you
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: have an addiction? Yes. I think I'm about to tell
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: you I do. Okay. So, yeah, straight to the fridge,
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: get a cold can. Depending on how early I wake up,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: I'll have two of those. Then on the way to
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: take my daughter to school, either we will go through
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: a local fast food restaurant. And get a Diet Coke,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: and I get the large fountain Diet Coke there. You've
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: got a problem. Lance, I'm not even at work yet. Oh,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: I know. What time is this?
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: Not even 8 o'clock yet?
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Well, I've had two cans before 6. One or two
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: before 6.
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: That's quite a pace.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: And if I don't have to take my daughter to school,
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: there's a place that I like to stop that's got
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: the best fountain Diet Coke and crushed ice. That's where
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: I stopped this morning before I met you because I
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: always had to get gassed. How are your teeth not
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: messed up? They're not. I brush my teeth.
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: I mean, these are the words of an addict. If
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: I don't have to take my daughter to school, I've
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: got this special spot. It's got the best.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just remember, you know, Dr.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: Davis, my dentist back in the day, talking about like
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: she could tell people that drink like, you know, 15
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: to 20 sodas a day because she's like their teeth
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: are destroyed.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: I'll probably brush my teeth three to four times a day. Okay. So, yeah,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: so then, so I get the fountain. This is where, Tyler,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: you're going to think this is crazy. So if I
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: take my daughter to school, we normally stop at Chick-fil-A
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: and get breakfast at the drive-thru, and I get a
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: large there. And by the time I take her to
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: school and she goes in, I've finished that. So I
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: stop at a convenience store along the way and refill that.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: So that's two large fountain Diet Cokes after I've had
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: one at the house.
• 35:55
  Speaker 6: I want to know what your monthly expenditure is on
• 35:57
  Speaker 6: Diet Cokes.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: It's substantial. And then when you get in, you raid
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: the cooler here. I only have one, if you'll notice.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: I only have one. I'm judicious about it.
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: I do notice that he does only have one during
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: the four hours. I do try to drink water in
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: the first half of the show. And when we flip
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: over to the second half of the next round, I
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: take a Diet Coke.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: That's when I drink my Diet Coke for the day
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: at 11 o'clock. And then when I get to the
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: golf course, which is most days, I walk in. And
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: if it is any of the staff that has been
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: behind the bar for any amount of time, they immediately
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: start fixing me one. Which, when my wife sold that,
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: the first time she went to Inverness with me, and
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: it was Amanda. She goes, oh, hey, Ryan. Takes a cup,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: scoops ice in it, and starts pouring Diet Coke. And
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: Jennifer goes, is that your Diet Coke? I said, yeah.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: She goes, you didn't say a word to her. I said,
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: I know. They know me here. Yeah, it is. It
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: is norm, yes. That's exactly what it is.
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: So that's it. By the time I get home, I
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: generally don't drink it at the house at night. I
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: drink Arnold Palmer there. How can you? FTF lemonade. But
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: the other thing about me is caffeine does not keep
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: me awake. Well, at least you're a functioning addict, right?
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: I am. I mean, do you think it impacts me
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: negatively in any way whatsoever? Not yet. Not yet. And
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: you've been with me a long time. Yep. Now, I
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: wonder if you were to drop it cold turkey, what
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: it would do to you.
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Daniel in the chat says next year's bracket challenge
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: should be you giving up Diet Coke for a month.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: There's no way y'all could police that, and I think
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: we're done with bracket challenges.
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: We would need some help policing it.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 37:42
  Speaker 10: From Jennifer.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: I like to get after it a little bit, but
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: you know, I, at least once a year I do
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: these sabbaticals. You know, I did two years ago, I
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: did 41 days, not a sip. Um, last year I
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: did 30 days, not a sip. So I can do
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: it with alcohol. You could definitely do it with Diet Coke,
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: couldn't you?
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: Um, I could, I don't know if the caffeine withdrawal
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: would give me a headache. It would.
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: It does for the first couple of days.
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: I went, uh, I went caffeine free at the beginning
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: of the year and I went like.
• 38:10
  Speaker 8: Two or three months without it. Um, First couple days
• 38:14
  Speaker 8: is rough, and then after that, you feel so much better.
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: Are you back, Tyler?
• 38:20
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, back on the caffeine.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: See, that's what happens.
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: It's so much better, but you know what? Yeah, that's
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: what an addict does. Pulled me back in.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you taste it one time, and you're right back in.
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, look, basically, we broadcast from our crack
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: house for you because you've got a full, like, convenience
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: store display right behind you.
• 38:38
  Speaker 8: The guys from Coca-Cola are your dealers.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: They really are. They show up like, hey, Brown, Brown,
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: you can come over here.
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, can you imagine if Charlie Sheen did
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: his podcast from a whorehouse?
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah. You wouldn't have podcast. So that's kind of the
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: equivalent of me doing this show sitting right in front
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: of a coach. You're the closest body to him. Literally, though,
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: how bad do you think it would be if they
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: only put Diet Coke in that machine? I mean, really,
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: I think I would have an issue. Well, I mean,
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: there's always Diet Coke, so I don't know if that
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: would be different. No, no, no, but if the whole
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: machine was just Diet Coke, I'm like, we need to
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: drink some more Diet Coke.
• 39:17
  Speaker 8: Yeah, right now he's rationing them, Lance.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: I am, because if I drank what I wanted to drink,
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: we would run out of Diet Coke, and I don't
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: want to do that. Bo drinks them. Jim drinks them.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: I don't know if any of the backroom guys drink them.
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: My wife likes an occasional Diet Coke. I'll take one
• 39:30
  Speaker 5: home to her.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so see, Brooks will take one home to his wife. Hey,
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: you saw my wife at the grocery store yesterday, she said, Brooks.
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: I did see her at Publix yesterday with my daughter.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: How about that? Yeah, she said your daughter's beautiful. Um, random, but, uh, no, no, no.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: So if it was full of diet Coke, I would
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: feel like I'm, I try to limit the diet Coke.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: I drink at the, at the studio because I don't
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: want to steal from Bo and Jim and Brooke's wife.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm trying to be a good, yeah.
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: Really taking one for the team there.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: I am a guy. So I'm a giver. I'm a giver.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: I'm taking one for the team. All right. Well, What's
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: your Jim story? Lance said he had something. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about Jim in Ireland. Okay, so he sent me.
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: He said, I just finished the IRA tour.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: Irish gangs are hell on wheels. Boy, they are.
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: Whitey sent money from Atlantic City to support his side.
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: And so I was just saying, yeah, that was a
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: big deal back in the. And I just said, how
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: was the flight? He said, no problem, smooth. I haven't
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: been asleep yet.
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what he said. He was going to push
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: all the way through, right? Yeah, so, boy, I bet
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: he's giddy. Yeah, I would imagine. Yeah, when Jim is
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: low on sleep, he turns into Punchy Jim, which is
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: normally really good for the show. I don't know how
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: it is to travel with him, though. But he does
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: have better– God, I hate to say it that way.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: His shows are good when he's Punchy Jim. I think
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: even he would admit that.
• 40:46
  Speaker 5: Or Tequila Jim.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: Or Tequila Jim. I've seen that, too. It's an interesting
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: show as well, Scott. All right, Todd Furman is coming
• 40:54
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• 40:55
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  Speaker 1: in the early window with Pitt, Miami, 11 o'clock ESPN.
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  Speaker 1: We live in a world of college football where a
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  Speaker 1: 20-point underdog winning outright really no longer just blows our
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  Speaker 1: socks off. I mean, even Auburn winning at Georgia, you're like, man,
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  Speaker 1: I did not see that coming. But you even then say, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: what we find with Pitt is being somewhere around a
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  Speaker 1: has a chance to win this game early? Probably a
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  Speaker 3: Well, they gave up Miami in that overtime win. The
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  Speaker 3: most points they've given up this year, the most yards
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  Speaker 3: they've given up this year, and the most yards per play,
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: almost seven yards per play for.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: Ashton Daniels in that Florida State offense.
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  Speaker 3: If Mason Heichel was starting this game for Pat Narduzzi
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: and Pitt, I would think that they've got a fighting chance.
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: But because he's not, and I don't think they've named
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: a starting quarterback.
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: Like, they can't find that guy behind him.
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  Speaker 3: And, yeah, that's been a big problem for Pitt who had,
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  Speaker 3: you know, an expectation of maybe being one of these
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: dark horses. It was preseason. I think I had them
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: at 24, 25. I thought it was going to be
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: a better than advertised Pitt team. But you lose your
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: starting quarterback. These things happen. I just think Miami too
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: much offense.
• 44:21
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: And we say this, I don't have the numbers to
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: back it up, but I do feel like it is
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: true that Pat Narduzzi seems to find a win in
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: situations maybe not as big as this, but he seems
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: like he'll pull an upset every now and then, Pat
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: Narduzzi does. Now, I don't have the numbers in front
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: of me to say, oh, he's, you know, as a
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: 14-point underdog, this is his record.
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: But you know how this normally works. We had complete
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: carnage last week.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: So this weekend, it seems like it's going to be
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: a very vanilla by-the-book weekend. Of course, we may be
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: We never get any more of those moving forward in
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: the world of college football that we live today. But
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: I think it's setting up for Halloween weekend or that
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: big weekend.
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: Of the 7th. Things could get interesting for Indiana if
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: they fall at Michigan. That's the Fox big noon kick.
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: Gus Klatt, the All-American girl on that game. Indiana obviously
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: took a loss against Ohio State last week if they
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: lose back-to-back, which they haven't done since Signetti was there, obviously.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: But if they lose back-to-back, now they've got two losses
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: against And the college football playoff becomes an issue for them, potentially.
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: Any shot, Michigan wins this game.
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: The problem is you're going against the best scoring defense
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: in the Big Ten in Indiana. And Michigan's got the
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: 17th worst scoring offense in the Big Ten. 105th nationally
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: in scoring offense. 22 points per game. Going against a
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: defense that gives up absolutely nothing. Indiana attacks a quarterback.
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: 24 sacks on the year. And Tommy Carr. getting that
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: first start, I do think it's going to ultimately be
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: an upgrade. And I think internally, Michigan is excited. And
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: those guys in that locker room are excited for Carr
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: to go out there and lead them. This would be
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: amazing because I know it doesn't look like it. Michigan's
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: only got two losses. This is kind of like an
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: Auburn situation. Like if Michigan was to upset Indiana tomorrow
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: as a seven and a half point underdog, Then all
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: of a sudden, hey, we did it with a new quarterback.
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: We saw how the offense looked last week once we
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: brought Carr in.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: Now we've got a little momentum here. How does this
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: thing play out?
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: Because games like Indiana and Ohio State seemed unwinnable a
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: couple of weeks ago. And now if you're able to
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: beat Indiana at home, Indiana coming off that physical game
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: against the Buckeyes, Ohio State is not even close to
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: being healthy.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: We once looked at their schedule for Michigan and said,
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: Kyle Whittingham, good coach. I don't know about Underwood. Schedule
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: too tough anyway. You've got to play Oklahoma at home. Well,
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: that was a win. You've got to play Penn State
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: at home. Penn State has not been what we thought
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: they were going to be. They win that game 21-18.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: You've got to play Indiana at home. All of a sudden,
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: it doesn't look as daunting as it once did. Still
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: not an easy win. You've got to go to Oregon. Well,
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: Oregon is a shell of what we thought they were
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: going to be. You've got to go to Ohio State. Well,
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: Ohio State's going to be on a backup quarterback. Oddly,
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: the one game we never brought up in the offseason
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: that they still have to play, right between Oregon and
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: Ohio State, is hosting UCLA. Now, that is November 21st.
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: I'm going to guess, they don't have time on that
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: game yet. It'll be a day game because Big Ten
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: does not like to play night games in November. Old,
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: cold game for UCLA. That screams Michigan right there.
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: Well, and you just wonder at that point with Diefenbach
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: and backup quarterback situation for Bob Chessie.
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: Has the bubble burst. Yeah, they've already taken on a
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: loss or two at that point.
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: But I will say this UCLA team is more equipped
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: for cold weather than any I've seen in the history
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: since I've been watching college football as far as.
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: A UCLA team. It's a style of play. It's a
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: style of play, man.
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: They're so physical defensively and same offensively.
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: They want to run it down your throat. So they
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: are built like an old school Big Ten team. Yeah.
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: But that schedule still just looks like too much for
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: a two loss team, doesn't it? It does. Yes. I mean,
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: when you've got to beat, they still have to beat
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: Indiana on the road at Oregon, UCLA at home and
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: at Ohio State. I just I don't know that you
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: can win much like Auburn.
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: You know, I think, you know, the expectations for both
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: Michigan and Auburn with first year coaches a little bit different.
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: I think there were Michigan fans that believe with Cal
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: Whittingham and that track record, maybe they could come in
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: and Maybe Underwood was really going to develop from year
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: one to year two, and maybe they could have a
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: special year. I think for Auburn, the expectation was a
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: little bit different, but I think both of those teams,
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: with two losses, I'm not buying into either one of
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: those teams being a realistic playoff contender.
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: But you're right. If you beat Indiana, you've at least
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: got to start including Michigan in the conversation until they
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: play their way out of the conversation.
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: Look, I think Cignetti is the best coach in today's
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: college football, but I've always said, Good coaches win, great
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: coaches cover. You know what their number is against the
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: spread this year? They're 6-1 straight up. I'm going to
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: guess against the spread they're 6-1?
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: They're 1-6. Ooh.
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so, you know, they've inflated the Indiana number a
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: little bit, and Indiana hasn't been able to get home
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: and get to the window, but it's an 11 o'clock game.
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: I'm not touching it. Very difficult game. The real team
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: we'd never talk about enough. And they've got to buy. No,
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: they're at Minnesota as Iowa. I was still a one
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: loss team. Their only loss is that game at home
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: against Ohio State. When Ohio State was whole, their remaining
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: schedule is not daunting at all. Not at all. And
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: it's Alabama like in the SEC.
• 49:31
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: They are at Minnesota Saturday, which is, you know, look,
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: I mean, what's the point spread in that game? Probably.
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: You drew Bucky for our upset alert. What did I do?
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: Seven and a half is what I did. Seven and
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: a half?
• 49:43
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: Which seems kind of like a big number.
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: Like, you know, if this thing was adjusted two or
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: three weeks ago, Iowa would be a two and a
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: half point favorite.
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: Right. So it seems like it's a little inflated. Like,
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: you know, I think this kind of. I don't know.
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: I lean Minnesota, but the number seems a little too large. Yeah,
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: and for them, homecoming with Wisconsin, the battle for the
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: Heartland game. Yeah, that's a coin flip game. Okay. At Northwestern?
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: Another coin flip game. Purdue? Not a coin flip. No,
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: they'll beat Purdue. At Iowa City? Yeah. At Illinois? I mean,
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: they should win that game, but on the road. And
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: then host Nebraska. Yeah, and they should win that game.
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, Iowa has got a path to this thing. Yeah,
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: that's actually an easier schedule in the Big Ten than
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: Alabama's got.
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: I don't know how Iowa loses more than one game.
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: I mean, more than one more game, which puts them
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: at two losses. Look, and this would be a great
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: situation for Kirk Ferentz. Maybe he gets to retire the
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: longest-tenured coach currently in the FBS. He gets to go
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: out with his first-ever college football playoff appearance.
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you, another two-loss team that is probably not
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: going to get it.
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: By the way, if they hosted it, let's say that
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: they got home with one or two losses and got
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: to host that 8-9.
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: Iowa? Yeah, Iowa City that late in the year with
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: that defense. Boy, that would be a tough ask for
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: somebody to roll in there. Yeah, terrible weather game in
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: all likelihood, playing in snow and sleet and cold. Another
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: two-loss team, and they've lost two games by six total
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: points in the Big Ten. That probably everyone has slammed
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: the door shut on right now, and they're on a
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: bye this week. But when you look at the remainder
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: of their schedule, if they can pop an upset, they'll
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: have a game to go to the playoffs, and that
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: is Nebraska. Nebraska hosts Washington coming out of the bye.
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: Washington's a mess. Nebraska will be favored in that game.
• 51:32
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: They're at Illinois. Illinois has been kind of a mess.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: Nebraska may not be favored, but it wouldn't surprise you
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: if they win that game. They're at Rutgers. Rutgers is
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: a complete mess. Then it gets real. They host Ohio State.
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: But it's a game in Lincoln against Ohio State, who, again,
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: is playing a backup quarterback. I mean, if if they
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: can figure out a way to win these next four,
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: they go to Iowa and probably the winner of that
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: game is in the college football playoff. It's hard to.
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: Believe, but I mean, you go back to Nebraska where
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: they were up 17-6 in the fourth quarter, hosting Indiana.
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: If you hold on there. And then, damn, last week.
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: I know. They lead all the way to the very
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: end at Oregon. Yeah. So they've had their opportunities.
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: And I know Matt Rule probably hasn't slept in the
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: last couple of weeks because you just get one of those.
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: You're in a really, really good spot because I do
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: think at that point an incomplete Ohio State still probably
• 52:24
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• 52:27
  Speaker 3: in the fourth quarter over Indiana, why can't you do
• 52:30
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• 52:31
  Speaker 1: With a backup quarterback.
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: But even with a loss there, if you would have
• 52:34
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• 52:36
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• 52:37
  Speaker 1: They could have closed the deal against Oregon or against Indiana.
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: It really doesn't matter.
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: Again, Nebraska, I would put them in the same category
• 52:43
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• 52:45
  Speaker 1: You've got to talk about them until they play themselves out,
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: and they'll probably play themselves out. But they've got two
• 52:51
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• 52:54
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• 56:10
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• 56:13
  Speaker 3: Again, you know, Texas Tech coming off the 53 points.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let me say this, Furman.
• 57:03
  Speaker 3: I was on with our friends V-CEN the other night,
• 57:06
  Speaker 3: and I gave them a Jimmy Landmine story because, you know,
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: I think it was Matt Yeomans. He was like, man,
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: I just, you know, Ole Miss just seems like a
• 57:14
  Speaker 3: really good play. And I think he's a contrarian like
• 57:16
  Speaker 3: we are. And I said, I just got to tell you,
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: between Clay Travis being all over Ole Miss and Jim
• 57:22
  Speaker 3: Dunaway being all over Ole Miss, I don't know how
• 57:25
  Speaker 3: Texas is going to do this and cover this number,
• 57:27
  Speaker 3: but they're going to cover the number. So just to
• 57:30
  Speaker 3: answer your question, though, he's all over Ole Miss. He's
• 57:32
  Speaker 3: all over Tennessee, of course, getting points against South Carolina.
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: And he's all over LSU laying points against Auburn. I
• 57:38
  Speaker 3: think that's his pick three. Oh, is that his pick three?
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: I think so. Oh, Forrester's actually got it. If you
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: want Forrester, he's got Dunaway's pick three. Scott, can you
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: share it with us and Todd?
• 57:49
  Speaker 4: Well, Lance just spit them out.
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: Ole Miss plus three and a half. Tennessee plus two
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: and a half.
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  Speaker 5: And LSU minus seven and a half.
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I stored it in my brain. Okay, my apologies.
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: I didn't know he had even made it that apparent.
• 58:08
  Speaker 9: The only game that I actually would agree with Dunaway
• 58:10
  Speaker 9: there is LSU. I think it's a spot that Auburn's
• 58:12
  Speaker 9: going to have to try and run it back, and
• 58:14
  Speaker 9: we know how improbable their win was last week, upsetting
• 58:18
  Speaker 9: Georgia as nearly a three-toucher and underdog. By Bill Connolly's standards,
• 58:21
  Speaker 9: it was the unlikeliest winner that we have seen in
• 58:24
  Speaker 9: a college football game. So far this season with more
• 58:26
  Speaker 9: than 300 data points, but I'm not running away points
• 58:28
  Speaker 9: with LSU on the road. Haven't seen enough consistency there. However,
• 58:32
  Speaker 9: the other two games you guys mentioned, there are no
• 58:34
  Speaker 9: doubt plenty of people that think they found free money
• 58:37
  Speaker 9: looking to back Tennessee in the wake of their dominant
• 58:39
  Speaker 9: performance against Alabama last week. This is a ball team.
• 58:43
  Speaker 9: No playing for the eighth straight week. against a rested
• 58:46
  Speaker 9: South Carolina team. And we've kind of seen the blueprint
• 58:49
  Speaker 9: that Tennessee has to deploy. It's been a good one.
• 58:51
  Speaker 9: Run the football with Deshaun Bishop, tell George McIntyre not
• 58:54
  Speaker 9: to screw things up and lean into their defense to
• 58:56
  Speaker 9: get stopped. I think South Carolina showed that they're capable
• 59:00
  Speaker 9: of stopping the run, much like they did in their
• 59:02
  Speaker 9: win against Florida, where they won that game outright as
• 59:04
  Speaker 9: a double-digit dog. So I have no problem if you're
• 59:06
  Speaker 9: looking for a cheaper money line price tag, right around
• 59:09
  Speaker 9: minus $ 1.
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: 30.
• 59:09
  Speaker 9: On South Carolina, would feel a little bit more comfortable there.
• 59:13
  Speaker 9: than even laying the two and a half. And to
• 59:15
  Speaker 9: your point LT on that Ole Miss Texas game, I mean,
• 59:18
  Speaker 9: we have seen this tale a thousand times in this business.
• 59:21
  Speaker 9: Everyone wants to eulogize a college football program because their
• 59:24
  Speaker 9: season is dead and buried. Here comes the flavor of
• 59:27
  Speaker 9: the week in Ole Miss that people were skeptical of
• 59:29
  Speaker 9: last week. And keep in mind, Ole Miss closes just
• 59:32
  Speaker 9: a three and a half point favorite against Missouri last week.
• 59:35
  Speaker 9: That game was bet by professional bettors, albeit incorrectly, from
• 59:39
  Speaker 9: six down to three and a half. It is no
• 59:41
  Speaker 9: doubt looking to make a case for Texas. To your point,
• 59:43
  Speaker 9: I'm not sure how they get it done without their
• 59:45
  Speaker 9: most dynamic defensive player either. But you feel desperation here,
• 59:49
  Speaker 9: season hanging in the balance. This is the ultimate buy
• 59:51
  Speaker 9: low spot in college football with Texas this weekend, minus
• 59:54
  Speaker 9: a three.
• 59:55
  Speaker 3: Okay, I've got to go back to last weekend because
• 59:57
  Speaker 3: Brown and I watched all these games and this carnage
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 3: up in the mountains as we did a little broadcast
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 3: getting ready for Alabama-Tennessee. Sounds like a Marshall Tucker song.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: Well, Brown had it. Carnage in the mountains. Brown had it.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: That would be a good title. A good title. Brown
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: had downloaded the Hard Rock Bet app, and so he
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: was so antsy. He's like, Georgia cannot lose this game.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: And you and I were texting, and he texted you, Furman,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, the way they have set this halftime number, like,
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: Auburn is winning this game outright.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: Auburn ends up winning the game. The same with Tennessee, Alabama.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: I saved him from that. I'm like, do not jump
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: on Alabama here. Tennessee is going to win this game.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 3: With all that said, and with all this carnage, how
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 3: did these sportsbooks, I would assume they mopped during the day.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 3: I know nighttime, that night window was probably a little rough,
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 3: but overall, how was it?
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 9: When you look at any of those marquee games, especially
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 9: when you have the big favorites going down, it's going
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 9: to be a boon for the sportsbook. The two biggest decisions,
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 9: at least that I were told, was Tennessee winning the
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 9: game outright against Alabama. Georgia was a huge public play,
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 9: but at the same time, not as nearly as much
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 9: volume given the you know, nature of the number and
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 9: how big that price was. And then the other big
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 9: one at night, you had a lot of people that
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 9: were tying Notre Dame into Moneyline parlays as well to
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 9: be able to get things done. So when you have
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 9: that level of chaos, it is typically a boon for
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 9: the sports book. And the same thing applies to the NFL.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 9: And typically on a Sunday, all they're looking for is
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 9: one of those big underdogs, not just to cover, but
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 9: to win a game outright.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: All right, Todd Furman with us, part of Sporting State,
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: Bet the Board podcast, at Todd Furman on social media.
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  Speaker 1: One of those three touchdown dogs that would shock the
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: college football world would be Pitt if they can get
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: this one home. We talked about it earlier. We don't
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: like their quarterback situation, obviously, but is there a path
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: for Pitt that you could see?
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 9: Very difficult for me to try and find a way,
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 9: only because the way Pitt has been able to find
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 9: some success defensively is stopping the run, but they are
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 9: extremely vulnerable over the top. Now, Pitt may be getting
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 9: a fortuitous bounce here from Mother Nature. When you look
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 9: at the forecast for South Florida for tomorrow's game, we
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 9: could have some pretty strong winds. If that's into the mix, look,
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 9: weather becomes the great equalizer. But on the other side
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 9: of things for Pitt and the revolving door, a quarterback,
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 9: the biggest vulnerability I've seen from Miami early on in
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 9: the season, Wake Forest was able to exploit a little bit,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 9: Florida State to a lesser extent, even in a tighter
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 9: football game, is a defensive backfield that I think has
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 9: dealt with a ton of injuries. And even getting those
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 9: players back, there just hasn't been that level of continuity.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 9: I don't think Pitt is the kind of team that
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 9: can do that. And I really believe Miami got a
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 9: wake-up call last week. So I don't think Pitt keeps
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 9: this game particularly close. And if anything, guys, I'd be
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 9: closer to laying a three-touchdown tariff on Miami than I
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 9: would be backing Pitt.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: Well, I know you dive into weather a lot.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 3: And look, BYU coming off that emotional win where we
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 3: should have seen one play from the two-yard line. We
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 3: would have seen what happens right there with Notre Dame.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 3: But now BYU goes across the country to Orlando to
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 3: the bounce house.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: To take on a UCF team that has won eight
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: of their last ten at home.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 3: The weather, supposed to be 30-mile-an-hour winds, some rain there.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 3: BYU 6-0 against the number, but it's under that key
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 3: number of seven.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: It's 6-1⁄2 right here. Do you smell this upset with UCF?
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  Speaker 9: I mean, Hard Rock Bat, one of the lowest prices
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 9: in market. You mentioned 6.5, kind of their prevailing tag there.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 9: There are plenty of 7s if people want to make
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 9: a case for the dog. Here's the interesting dynamic in
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 9: this particular game, guys. There are a lot of national
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 9: sportsbooks that will set what they call look-ahead numbers a
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 9: week in advance for people that want to try and
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 9: get ahead of it. This number, before BYU pulled off
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 9: the outright upset as a double-digit dog against Notre Dame,
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 9: the Cougars were a 9.5-point favorite. They win that game,
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 9: and here we are looking at a number that's a
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 9: full field goal lighter. This is one of the spots, though,
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 9: that you look to circle before the season right alongside
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 9: Ole Miss, Florida, figuring that regardless of result, that BYU
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 9: is not going to be able to run it back
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 9: with the same level of energy and emotion in this
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 9: particular spot that we saw last week. UCF comes in well-rested.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 9: I believe it'll be Keyon Jenkins under center. And the
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 9: one thing about UCF is they're not exactly explosive when
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 9: it comes to moving the football. They're a lot more dynamic.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 9: They can shorten the game significantly. I can't quite get
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 9: there because my numbers don't suggest that there's a whole
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 9: lot of value, even with the spot factored in for UCF.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 9: But I do think if they're the side, BYU's offense
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 9: struggles a little bit. They're flat. I'd be looking at
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 9: their team total under 25 and a half, kind of
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 9: a way to reverse engineer it, that if BYU to
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 9: win this game, say 23 to 10 or in that range,
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 9: that you're still able to cash a ticket and you're
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 9: not trusting Central Florida's offense to do a whole hell
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 9: of a lot.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: Can you find a way for Michigan? with a quarterback change,
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: to give Indiana back-to-back losses, something they have not done
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: in two years?
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 9: The biggest question is how Indiana gets themselves up off
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 9: the deck. I mean, they look pretty shell-shocked after the
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 9: 19-15 loss last weekend to Ohio State. And losing is
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 9: one thing, but losing the way the Hoosiers did, knowing
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 9: that Nick Marsh had what should have been a relatively
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 9: straightforward touchdown, arguably Josh Hoover's best thrown ball the entire day.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 9: It's a team that hadn't lost in 20-plus games. So
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 9: I'm not going to say their bubble has burst by
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 9: any stretch of the imagination, but now you get a
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 9: tenacious Michigan defense that's going to hit you in the
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 9: mouth if you're not ready to go right from the
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 9: opening kickoff. But on the other side, I have no
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 9: idea what I'm going to get with Indiana having essentially
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 9: a full week to prepare for Tommy Carr. And while
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 9: we didn't see the entire playbook on full display in
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 9: the second half against Penn State, I'm always a little
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 9: bit skeptical, but as this number has moved through seven
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 9: out to seven and a half, I'd be looking at
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 9: the underdog. And I also think this game could start
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 9: relatively slow. First half under makes a world of sense
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 9: sitting at 20 and a half.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 3: We're kind of off the radar game now, just based
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 3: on the fact that this Oklahoma offense is awful and
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 3: material just gives games away with what is still a really,
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 3: really good defense. But I think the number tells you
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 3: everything about Camario Taylor, not playing in this game, Oklahoma
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 3: road favorite here. with the 15th scoring defense in the SEC.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 3: I've made the mistake of backing Oklahoma too much. I
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 3: did have them in the Red River. They're 2-4 against
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 3: the number. They're a short favorite on the road in Starkville.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 3: Is there any play that you see here, any angle
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 3: on this game?
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 9: Oh, I had a bit of Oklahoma last week and
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 9: vowed to myself that I'm not laying points again with
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 9: that team as long as John Mateer is their starting quarterback.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 9: Thought it was a good buy-low opportunity, a chance for
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 9: them to parlay some of that momentum after the improbable
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 9: Red River win and fade Kentucky. Alas, that wasn't the
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 9: case because they couldn't even win the game outright. It's
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 9: nearly a touchdown fever. This number has been very interesting
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 9: to watch throughout the course of the week. As I
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 9: pull up the line history right now at Hard Rock Bet,
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 9: we saw Oklahoma open as a 2.5-point favorite. At one
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 9: point yesterday, OU got all the way out to a
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 9: 5.5-point favorite, and that's when you start to see some
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 9: money come in on Mississippi State. To your point, LT,
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 9: I'm going to continue to work under the assumption that
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 9: we don't get Fluff Boss while we don't get Kamario Taylor,
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 9: regardless of what the availability report suggests. but there's a
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 9: little bit of a different sentiment out there apparently with
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 9: people thinking that Oklahoma just shouldn't be that big of
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 9: a favorite, even if it is Parker Puckett under center.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 9: If those players are out with a total that has
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 9: leaked up to 47, I'm really not sure where the
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 9: offense comes from. I don't trust OU even against Miss
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 9: State's defense. And on the other side, I think a
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 9: backup quarterback will really have some problems here. So I
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 9: like the game under the total a bit at 47,
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 9: but no doubt Kamario Taylor's availability will go a long
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 9: way dictating where this number moves today and ultimately where
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 9: it closes tomorrow.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: Alabama is playing host to Texas A & M. They
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: are around a two-touchdown favorite in that game at home,
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: but this is an Alabama team that doesn't look like
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: what they did coming into the Georgia game. The difference
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: between Alabama and Starkville, Mississippi to where we find them
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: now is pretty staggering. It feels like Texas A &
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: M could be a solution to that, though, Furman. They're
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: not the same defense they've been, and they have got
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: a quarterback problem.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 9: It's pretty interesting when you look at this Alabama team,
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 9: and I don't want to create year-over-year parallels because I
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 9: believe that Ty Simpson was playing with major limitations last
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 9: year when we started to see water meet its level
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 9: for Alabama. But this season quickly taking on a little
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 9: bit of that same tenor. Alabama starts the season white hot.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 9: The win against Kentucky has aged like fine wine, dominating
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 9: that second half, given what we've seen from the Wildcats.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 9: But over the last two weeks, it almost feels like Alabama,
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 9: amongst all teams in the SEC, desperate to get to
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 9: their bye week. And asking him to go out there
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 9: and win this game by margin, not quite sure I
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 9: feel comfortable doing that. We saw Alabama open as a
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 9: 15.5 point favorite. There hasn't been much in the way
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 9: of resistance as we move down to 13.5. To your point, Brownie,
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 9: I don't love anything I've seen from Texas A & M.
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 9: I have very little confidence in Marcel Reed. But this
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 9: is more a bet against Alabama winning and doing so
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 9: comfortably for a team that I think just needs to
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 9: get to the bye, heal up and get healthy. I
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 9: worry that they come out a little bit flat again here.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 9: And at 14 or better, if the number does get
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 9: back there, I think it's A & M or pass.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 9: Although I'd love to see Alabama get home comfortably and
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 9: set up a massive showdown in two weeks against LSU.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: We have got a great late night matchup in the
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: Big 12.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 3: Houston quietly playing as well as anyone with Connor Wegman.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 3: They haven't been great against the number three and four
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 3: against the number. Now they go take on a Utah
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 3: team that is obviously undefeated, but they have yet to
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 3: beat a team with a winning record. The schedule has
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 3: been awful. They were lucky to survive Colorado last week.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 3: This number seems a little large, though, Furman, like the
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 3: way these two teams are playing. And I know Rice-Eccles
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 3: is a very difficult venue, but I would have thought
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 3: more four, four and a half in that range. And
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 3: this thing is extended out to a touchdown. What do
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 3: you think about the late night game, Houston and Salt
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 3: Lake City?
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 9: You mentioned Utah not playing anybody. And I typically, with
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 9: these unbalanced conferences, will look at conference strength to schedule
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 9: to try and level the playing field a bit. Utah
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 9: has played the worst schedule of Big 12 opponents thus
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 9: far in the entire conference. So there are no doubt
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 9: some reservations and questions that will have to be answered.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 9: Even with a home field advantage, it's probably one of
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 9: the more underrated that you're going to find in college football.
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 9: But wins at home against Arkansas, Utah State, and Kansas
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 9: road wins against Iowa State and Colorado don't exactly have
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 9: me brimming with confidence. When you compare that to a
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 9: Houston team who's actually had a step up in class,
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 9: going on the road to Lubbock, lost that game at
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 9: the very end against Texas Tech, the win early in
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 9: the year against Oregon State has looked that much better.
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 9: And even last week, while they didn't cover against Oklahoma State,
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 9: needed to find a little bit more in the tank
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 9: offensively to get that thing across the finish line as
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 9: a three-point favorite. I look at this game here, and
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 9: as the number moves towards seven, Houston becomes more and
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 9: more intriguing. The one thing I will say is Houston
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 9: defensively has left a lot to be desired, even as
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 9: good as Connor Wegman has been on the offensive side.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 9: I really believe we're in store for a track meet.
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 9: And one of the more exciting games here, I think
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 9: Utah is going to scheme things up and try and
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 9: be able to create a couple of big plays. Meanwhile,
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 9: Houston should hit some explosives in their own right. I
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 9: like this game over the total at 56 and a half.
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  Speaker 3: Ferber, let's take it to the NFL. First game on Sunday,
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 3: another international game in Paris with the Steelers and the Saints.
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  Speaker 1: Steelers are a short favorite here. It's actually up from
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: one and a half to three. How do you factor
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: in riots outside of the stadium when you're handicapping a game?
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  Speaker 9: You know, this is typically a domain that I let
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 9: Clay Travis go into around Sporting State. I only handicap
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 9: what's on the field here. In terms of overall distractions,
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 9: I am a little bit surprised that the league still
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  Speaker 9: is going to have this game go on as scheduled.
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  Speaker 9: When you look at New Orleans, though, I mean, this
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 9: is a team that I think scoreline, especially last week
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 9: against the New York Giants, was rather flattering. I mean,
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 9: they did nothing in the first half, were able to
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 9: cash in a... converted fumble off of the kickoff late
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  Speaker 9: in the half and then parlayed that into part of
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 9: a 34-0 run. Meanwhile, for the Steelers, I mean, they
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 9: had one of their biggest comebacks since 2002, erasing that
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 9: 13-point deficit in the fourth quarter against a backup quarterback
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 9: in Jalen Daniels. This game for me, I feel should
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 9: be priced at three. And I think it's part of
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 9: the reason that you're seeing folks getting ahead of it,
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 9: looking to lay the two and a half with the Steelers.
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 9: They're looking to take the three and a half with
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 9: the Saints would make a slight case for going over
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 9: the total. But where I did invest in this game, guys,
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 9: is going under Aaron Rodgers passing yardage at two thirty
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 9: six and a half. I think you're going to see
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 9: the Steelers commit to the ground game and get a
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 9: steady dose of Rico Dowdle and Jalen Warren against his
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 9: poorest Saints defense.
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  Speaker 1: I would recommend nobody watch the Dolphins play the Jets.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: It'll be a terrible game. But I don't know if
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: our audience, because they don't watch the Dolphins like I do,
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: are aware of this stat that the Dolphins are not
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: led at any point this season. That's an amazing stat, Furman. Amazing.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: It really is. They have not led at any point
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: this season. And what week are we going into in
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: the NFL? Week seven. Week seven, Furman. They have had
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: one bye week. Can you remember the longest you've seen
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: a team go without leading a game in an NFL season?
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 9: This is getting right up there, but at the same time,
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 9: the saving grace is that you look at the schedule
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 9: that the Miami Dolphins have played, and it hasn't exactly
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 9: had much in the way of soft spots for them.
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 9: So this could be the perfect cure-all. We have seen
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 9: some money come in on the underdog here, and I'm
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 9: actually in agreement. I don't think the Jets should be
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 9: more than a field goal favorite against anyone. So if
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 9: the only way I was looking to bet this game
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 9: would be Miami plus the points, I'm not sure I'm
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 9: going to step out on a limb and look to
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 9: bet them on the money line. But I really believe
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 9: you're going to get the Dolphins' most competitive effort. And
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 9: the one thing we've seen from Miami, despite being one
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 9: of the least talented rosters in the league, they've gone
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 9: out there and fought for 60 minutes each and every week.
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 9: And that's more than I can say about a lot
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 9: of teams. And I actually think the Dolphins should be
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 9: more optimistic about their future than what the Tennessee Titans
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 9: fans have to watch each and every Sunday throughout the fall.
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: I try to tell, and Furman's got to go here
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: in a couple of minutes. I try to tell people
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: that Furman, that they play hard and they've gotten better.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: It's still a bad product, but they've gotten better. So exactly.
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 9: And that's, and that's kind of what you want to see.
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 9: I mean, we know that the roster doesn't have much
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 9: in the way of firepower. They lost their most dynamic
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 9: offensive playmaker and Devin a chain early in the year,
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 9: but they're at least going out there and they're pushing things.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 9: I mean, even against the Cincinnati Bengals where they were
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 9: clearly outmatched, it's not like they mailed it in, in
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 9: the fourth quarter and at least made things competitive with
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 9: a chance to recover an onside kick and maybe pull
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 9: off a scare. They're going to jump up and bite someone.
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 9: I'm not sure how often it's going to happen, but
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 9: this team will not go winless in my estimation.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Furman, I know you've only got a couple of minutes,
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 3: so two quick ones if you can get them in.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 3: First one, the Houston-Texas rough start, but now 10.5 over
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 3: New York who will start, J.J.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: McCarthy. I don't play a lot of team totals. This
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: seems like a good spot to play that New York
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: Giants under team totals.
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  Speaker 9: I would agree with you there. I think Houston's defense
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 9: has been much maligned. This is the game that, in
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 9: my opinion, if they're going to get healthy, they should
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 9: have an opportunity to be able to do so. But
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 9: on the other side, I have no qualms about betting
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 9: Houston's offense to go out there and thrive. I think C.J. Stroud,
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 9: when you look at what he's doing, that's a story
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 9: that's kind of been, you know, flown under the radar,
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 9: I guess, for lack of a better term, while Josh
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 9: Allen and Brock Purdy put a video game numbers. I
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 9: think C.J. Stroud is a dark horse MVP candidate. That's
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 9: how well he's playing, especially with Nico Collins out there
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 9: on the field.
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 3: OK, and finally, Furman, I was supposed to fly out
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 3: after this show coming to your backyard to watch my
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 3: Rams take on the Raiders. My plans have completely fallen apart.
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 3: So have the Rams. This could be an absolute disaster.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 3: They open at seven and a half. It's down to
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 3: three and a half. They continue to be banged up.
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 3: Puka is now questionable. No Devante Adams. This is a mess.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 3: I assume we back the Raiders plus three and a
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 3: half here.
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 9: Hard for me to get behind the Raiders here, only
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 9: because it's the worst of the number, LT. I mean,
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 9: you had a chance, like you mentioned, even when the
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 9: reopen on Monday, you could have grabbed six. I know
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 9: the Rams are a different handicap now. If Puka can't go,
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 9: we know Devontae Adams won't be out there. No Kobe Turner,
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 9: no Puna Ford. The list goes on and on. Much maligned,
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 9: but maybe the wounded animal here in the Rams finds
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 9: a way to get right against this Raiders defense. I
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 9: look for Blake Corm's receiving number. I think that's set
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 9: at six and a half. I think he's going to
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 9: have an opportunity. opportunity to go out there stretch his
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 9: legs a bit would lean towards the underdog here uh
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 9: but again don't want to take the worst the number
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 9: in the nfl six down to three and a half
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 9: is a pretty big move and we know chasing those
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 9: prices oftentimes doesn't end well all.
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• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: We are live in Auburn at Bunkers, and it is
• 1:16:05
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• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: Upset of the week is that we both did a headline. Tyler,
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  Speaker 1: do you have them, or are we ready to go
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  Speaker 1: on headlines if we're doing the next segment?
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  Speaker 8: I do have both headlines.
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  Speaker 4: I just need to send Lance's to Scott's real quick
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  Speaker 4: because I just finished it up.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: It looks great. Oh, does it? He's already sent me
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  Speaker 1: the proof. I saw it, yeah. Okay, so you've seen it.
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  Speaker 1: All right. So we've got two headlines, perhaps no misspelled
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: words in these two headlines. We'll see about that when
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  Speaker 1: Bunkers on West Glen and Auburn, just a couple blocks
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: from Jordan-Hare Stadium, where LSU and Auburn do battle at
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  Speaker 1: 11 o'clock Saturday morning. It is the next round on
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• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: on the ice right now. I mean, they're ready to serve.
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  Speaker 1: I just talked to a couple of the servers, and
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  Speaker 1: they're like, hey, bring it. Bring it. All right, so
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  Speaker 1: if you're anywhere close to bunkers, let's go. Coming here.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to get.
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  Speaker 3: Their food last time. It's very good. Oh, look, everything
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  Speaker 3: here is top shelf. I'm going to wait to the
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  Speaker 3: transition hour at 11 o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: OK. And then I will probably get behind my first one.
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  Speaker 1: We'll pop a cold one at that point.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Why not? Yeah. Get that some some nice warm food.
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: Jordan here. Stadium just next door here will be packed
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: Saturday morning. We'll talk a lot more about that game.
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: You're going to hear coming up in the next half
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: of the next round. From some of the Alabama and
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: Auburn coaches, DJ Durkin, Alex Golish on the Auburn side.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: We'll hear from Ryan Grubb talking about Alabama's offense. So
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: we'll do all of that in the next half of
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: the show as we focus in a little bit more
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: on Alabama-Texas A & M and that Auburn-LSU game. I'll
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: ask this part of Alabama-Texas A & M. The question
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: I ask Furman, Alabama has struggled a little bit offensively
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: and defensively. It's not been the same team. I can't
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: believe I'm saying this based on where they were supposed
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: to be this year, but it feels like Texas A &
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: M kind of helps you there, right? They're not dynamic
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: on either side of the ball. Yeah, they're really not.
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 3: But the thing that I want to see here, can
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 3: Alabama come back out and establish the run? because what
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 3: we saw against Georgia it was kind of understandable because
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 3: Georgia's defense is so good and look Tennessee's defense is
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 3: really good too but Alabama couldn't couldn't move Tennessee up
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 3: front at all right and so you know if I'm
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 3: an Alabama fan I'm very interested to see because Alabama
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 3: look physical on that side of the.
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: Can they get it back going? Because if they want.
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 3: To make a run here and they want to be
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 3: able to go on the road and beat LSU and
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 3: Baton Rouge and maybe make some kind of a run
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 3: once we get to the postseason, they've got to be
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 3: able to get back to running the football.
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, back is against the wall for the Crimson Tide,
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: and that's the thing you've got to remember. We've talked
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: about Oklahoma, Mississippi State. That point spread is indicative of
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: the fact that Mississippi State's going to be without their
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: big playmaker, Camario Taylor, again. Boy, it's not as bad
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: as it has been in Oregon. I mean, Dante Moore,
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: it feels like he hasn't even played this season. Camario
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: Taylor at least still played against Alabama, but they've been out,
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: I think, Is it the same amount of time they've
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: been out? It just seems like it's more for Dante Moore.
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: More time for Dante Moore.
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  Speaker 3: I'm trying to go back because everything revolved around this
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 3: fall wedding I was at.
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: And it all runs together. Yeah, it really does.
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  Speaker 3: So that was Tennessee, Texas. That was obviously Oregon, USC, Alabama. No,
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 3: Alabama played South Carolina that night. Yeah, that was the
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 3: week after.
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: The week after. Okay, so Dante Moore got hurt the
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: same night Alabama played South Carolina. And then Taylor's last game.
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: was the next week, Alabama-Mississippi State. I think Taylor is
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: a bigger factor than Dante Moore. I would agree. Oregon
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: has still won games without Dante Moore. Well, you go
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: back to Oregon, too.
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 3: Look, they really struggled against Boise State, albeit a really
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 3: good Group 6 team. And then, you know, Dante Moore
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 3: loses on the road to Oklahoma State.
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 3: So, like, with Dante, he still has looked a little off.
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 3: He doesn't look as good as he looked last year.
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 3: I think a lot of this is the Will Stein effect.
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 3: On the other side, Kamario Taylor wasn't healthy against Alabama.
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 3: Not even close to being healthy. So, look, Alabama was
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 3: still going to win that game with a healthy Camario Taylor.
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 3: I think it would have looked different though. Camario Taylor,
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 3: when he's a hundred percent, I mean, they could win
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 3: every game out there. But it's been fluff Bothwell too.
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: That's been the problem is it's been your quarterback and
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: your best running back. And boy, for Jeff Levy, man,
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: that is just a tough break for him. That guy
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: had the best team he's had at state. He had
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: a legitimate shot to get to seven or eight wins
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: and really take a step forward as a head coach.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: And Now you've had to coach the middle part of
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: your season without your starting quarterback and your starting running back.
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: I hate it for Levy.
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 3: You could make an argument on all three levels. They
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 3: had at times the top quarterback with Kamario Taylor, the
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 3: top running back with Fluff, and then the top receiver
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 3: with Anthony Evans. They had, and the problem for Jeff
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 3: Levy and Mississippi State in today's landscape is they're just
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 3: not going to have, I mean, a lot of these teams,
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 3: even the You know, the Ohio States, the Alabamas, the
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 3: Georgias don't have the depth they used to. But when
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 3: Mississippi State loses key players like that, they.
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: Have no shot. But even with those key players out,
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: how confident are you in Oklahoma on the road? I'm not.
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: I'm not at all. Yeah, I'm like right there with Furman.
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 3: You and I watched Oklahoma-Kentucky with a bunch of Kentucky
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 3: fans last week. random-ass karaoke bar in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. That's
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 3: quite a story, and it is true. And I backed
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 3: John Mateer laying.
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: I mean, it looks ridiculous that I laid a touchdown
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: against Kentucky with Mateer, running it over three times. That
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 1: was at home. Yeah, and they're trying to pull me
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: back in. They are trying to pull me back in
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: on Oklahoma this week. Berman swore them off. It's taken
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: you a while to come around, but you have sworn
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: them off? I don't know.
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 3: I mean, there's a possibility that I still– I don't
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 3: know how Mississippi State is going to generate any offense.
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: You go back to LSU. Oklahoma.
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 3: LSU's got a really good defense. I still think Oklahoma's
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 3: a little bit better than LSU's defense. LSU, shut them out.
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 3: You don't see shutouts in college football. And with Puckett
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 3: and no Bothwell, I don't know how they score points
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 3: against Oklahoma. Unless Mateer hands them 14, which he might.
• 1:22:40
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  Speaker 1: That is xx-xyathletics.com. xx-xyathletics.com. All right, Tyler, who do you
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  Speaker 1: want to go with first? Who are we seeing the
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  Speaker 1: headline from first?
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  Speaker 8: Well, Scott's got them, so I'm going to let him choose.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Scott, back in Birmingham. Who are we seeing first, Scott?
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  Speaker 1: Who do you want to go first?
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  Speaker 5: Let's go Lance.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Lance Taylor, your headlines, Lance. Let me pull
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  Speaker 1: where Tyler had sent me the copy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Damn,
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: I can't find it now. Where are you? There it is. Okay.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: So we are going to Orlando, Florida. Could be some
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: bad weather. It's official. Cougars hate bounce houses. Another unbeaten
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: goes down as UCF upsets BYU. What do we have here?
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: We've got Bear Bachmeier. We've got Kalani Sataki. Busy front page.
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  Speaker 1: And Stifler's mom. Yeah, Jennifer Coolidge. That's right. Who said
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: she loves to date younger guys. Yeah, I saw that.
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: By the way. I saw that recently. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: she's pretty much close to having to make that choice
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  Speaker 1: because there aren't many older than her, right? How old
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: is she? Oh. I mean, how old is Jennifer Coolidge?
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: Coolidge has got to be early 60s, mid-60s. Yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you're getting the field is getting smaller and smaller.
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  Speaker 6: 65.
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  Speaker 1: 55? 65. Oh, 65. I was about to say, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he would be a hard-ass 55. Yeah, that's 55 right there. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: the side headlines. Give them to us, Tyler. All righty.
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  Speaker 4: So A & M loses the game and their coach
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 4: at halftime. Mike Elko said, it was already over and
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 4: I could smell the ribs. And in the picture, you
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 4: see him floating off like a cartoon.
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  Speaker 1: Just walks out.
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  Speaker 8: The smell of baby back ribs wafting into his nose.
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: It was already over and I could smell the ribs.
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  Speaker 4: And then over in entertainment, Pac McAfee announcing a new
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 4: song release with Nick Saban and his longtime producer, Rick Rubin, a.k.a.
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  Speaker 1: The Wizard. Oh, how about that? Yeah. The old kickoff riot.
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  Speaker 1: And the debut single is rumored to be Football Beats
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  Speaker 1: Hit Different. I love Saban in his tracksuit.
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  Speaker 6: The track suit looks like it would sound like one
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 6: of those British rap groups from the late 90s.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was trying to go more Beastie Boys inspired
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  Speaker 4: with this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's got some Beastie Boys flair to it. That doesn't
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: look like Saban. AI did not do a good job.
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  Speaker 3: I think the statue on campus might be better than
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 3: the AI Saban.
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  Speaker 1: Do you see the AIs?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I had to redo the image I sent you
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  Speaker 4: because I saw how it distorted his face at the bottom.
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  Speaker 8: But it improved a little bit.
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  Speaker 5: He looks very Italian. He does.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. I think the chain and the tracksuit help
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: with that. So that's what I got. Very good. Very
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  Speaker 1: well done. There's a TikTok trend where you can put
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: people singing together. I don't know what it's called. Have
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 1: you seen it?
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  Speaker 3: It was really funny early and now it's just gone.
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 3: It was kind of like the Straight Outta Compton when
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 3: the movie came out and you saw the poster and
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 3: you're like, oh, damn, that's funny. And then, you know,
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 3: seven days later after you've seen.
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  Speaker 1: A thousand of them. Yeah, that's every TikTok trend. But
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 1: one of the first ones I saw was Bear Bryant
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 1: and Nick Saban singing together, and it was kind of funny.
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  Speaker 1: The first one I saw.
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  Speaker 5: The Hotel Lobby song by Migos. Is that what you're
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 5: talking about? With the orange backdrop.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe with the mic hanging down. The first one I
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: saw was Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul from Breaking Bad,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought it was real. I got baited like Tyler.
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 1: I was like, I can see Aaron Paul and Bryan
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: Cranston doing this. Yeah, I mean, Tyler, your Steeler's Hype video,
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  Speaker 1: that's still one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: Door front window gets blown out. Got bodies being blown
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  Speaker 1: out of the street.
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  Speaker 8: I thought an intern was just getting a little wild.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's go to my headline. My headline is
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 1: going to come from the South Carolina-Tennessee game. And one
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 1: of my favorite newspapers up there in South Carolina is
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: the Game Cocker. The Game Cocker. And our main story,
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: upset Tennessee head coach kidnapped South Carolina mascot. Oh, no.
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 1: Don't know what happened, but he kidnapped the South Carolina mascot.
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 1: He looks happy. He does look happy. The old saying,
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: fat and happy. Fat and happy. Well, I tell you what,
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 1: there are no shortage of Mike Elko and Josh Eipel
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 1: food jokes as we have shown at this time. How
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: many sides does Eipel have? You want all the sides.
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  Speaker 1: When you get a full bucket of chicken, how many?
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 1: Did he just got the family meal, right? Well, I mean,
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 1: that may be South Carolina's mascot. I have no idea.
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: He's got a biscuit. It looks like some mac and cheese.
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: We've got some green beans and some coleslaw. I mean, look,
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  Speaker 1: I could tear that apart. I don't know how much
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  Speaker 1: of it I could eat.
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  Speaker 5: That is a massive basket of chicken.
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: It's a lot of chicken. That's a big mascot, guys.
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: You've got to cook the whole thing. Okay, so let's
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  Speaker 1: put it on the table.
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  Speaker 3: If Elko and Hypal went head-to-head in the eating contest,
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 3: who would you guys take? I think proportionally, Hypo is
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 3: like he's got the fatness all over from the ears
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  Speaker 3: to the nose, everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Elko just wears it all in his stomach. I think
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 1: I'm going Elko. I'm going Elko.
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  Speaker 6: I think Elko just looks like a for lack of
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 6: a better term, he just looks like a fat guy.
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 6: Heupel just looks like a guy who has kind of
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 6: let himself go over the years. Mike Elko just kind
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 6: of looks like that's who he is.
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: You're right. Heupel looks like a guy that if he
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: decided to, he could drop 40 and look normal.
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  Speaker 3: He looks like the guy you go to your 10-year
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 3: high school reunion.
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 1: And you're like, damn, Josh, you blew up, my friend.
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 1: After that Heisman deal. All right, page two. American tourist
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: upsets Irish locals after telling them all their landmarks are underwhelming.
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: That's a bad story. You just kiss the rock? That's
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: all you do?
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  Speaker 3: Do you think we've already gotten the kite? Wait, you
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 3: salted this food? Wait, this is the Guinness that I
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 3: heard about?
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: Thought it'd be greener. Not much of a castle. Yeah,
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: thought it'd be greener here.
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 6: Are we anticipating him talking about how he got sick
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 6: of the cuisine over there after 10 days?
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 1: 1,000%. 100%. Yeah. I am fully anticipating that.
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 3: He will try to condition himself to come back positive
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 3: and talk like, oh, this was the trip of the lifetime.
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 1: He's not going to be able to help himself.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he'll. You know, they don't pressure wash the
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 1: castles over there. The golf courses. I've played a lot
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: better golf courses in Birmingham. That'll be the line.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 1: You know those golf courses? I've played a lot better
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 1: golf courses in Birmingham.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 1: Page three, authorities reveal the Paris protests are actually a
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 1: result of Troy Aikman not having a new contract. That's
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 1: why they're rioting. And Paris Tyler, you couldn't figure it
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: out the other day. It's because they're pissed for Troy, too.
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 1: They're going to riot until Troy gets his contract.
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  Speaker 4: Silly me thought it was about student protests. Chat said
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  Speaker 4: it was wrong, and now you did the research.
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 1: That's right. I did the research. It's all about Troy. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't. The Game Cocker did. Page three on the
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  Speaker 1: Game Cocker. It's all about Troy Aikman's contract. That's our
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 1: headlines for the games coming up all over the weekend.
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: And I guess a Troy Aikman contract update. I do
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 1: agree that Josh Heupel is going to eat himself into
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 1: a food coma after this loss. You think they're losing?
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, you remember when he lost to South
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 3: Carolina in a pivotal game that would have gotten them
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 3: into a college football playoff. I think it's more of
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 3: the same. I think McIntyre is going to struggle. I
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 3: think it's multiple turnovers. I will have this in my
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 3: pick three today. I love me some South Carolina tomorrow.
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: Love them. Love them. Not an 11 o'clock game, by
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 1: the way. Yeah. I will be all over it.
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  Speaker 3: It's already on the card. It's still at two and
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 3: a half. It is still at two and a half
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  Speaker 3: right now. The one thing that scares me is that
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 3: Tennessee's defense. I mean, it is, I mean, maybe we
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 3: haven't talked enough about the Tennessee defense.
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: It's been spectacular. I mean, they absolutely worked Alabama, uh,
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 1: on Saturday. Yeah. Jim Knowles was so far ahead of
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 1: Ryan grub in that game. It was not even fair. Um,
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 1: So you feel that strongly about it? I do. How
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 1: high would the point spread have to go before you're like, okay,
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: that's a little too much. It's a two and a half.
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 3: I mean, I wouldn't want it to approach four, four
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 3: and a half. I mean, look, I think it's going
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 3: to be a really good game, but I just– I mean,
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 3: where that number is, where I think it should be, and,
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 3: you know, emotionally Tennessee coming off that, I just don't
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 3: have any expectation. Now, Deshaun Bishop, if he goes 150 plus.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 3: But, I mean, if you're Shane Beamer, there is one
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 3: job you've got. That is to limit what Deshaun Bishop does.
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 3: Put the game in McIntyre's hand.
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 1: This is going to be like McIntyre started at Arkansas.
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 1: that fan base is completely beat down. There's just no
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 1: excitement at that place. This will be the toughest spot
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 1: he's been in yet. Now, playing an Alabama defense was
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 1: a tough spot. I don't mean that. I just mean
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 1: as far as the crowd noise. He was at home playing.
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 1: This will be a hostile environment. As used as that
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 1: crowd was, you could hear the decibel. It was like
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 1: Between acts of a concert when Tennessee had the ball.
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: And then it was a metal concert when Alabama had
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 1: the ball. That's right. So he's been in the comfort
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: of playing at Arkansas or playing at home. He's about
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 1: to have to go to South Carolina. That is a
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 1: loud statement. I don't know if you've been to a
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 1: game there. I've been to one game there. It's a
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 1: vicious fan base. And I would assume at least they
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 1: owe this to Shane Beamer. He did have his team
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: prepared in the swamp. That's right. They have not given up.
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 3: So this really passionate fan base that has really gotten
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 3: nothing out of being passionate fans.
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 1: For decades and decades and decades. No, they have shown
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 1: up game after game after game and cheered loud for nothing.
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 3: But you paid a lot of money for your cock-booses.
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 3: There's an A in there, cock-a-boos.
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: Cock-a-boos. a kayak boost would be a little bit different.
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: I don't know how much those cost. Yeah, but you
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 1: paid a lot of money for that.
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 3: So, hey, show up, October weather, enjoy this, and I
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 3: think you're going to get a South Carolina victory out
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 3: of it.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, by the way, they've got a chance here to
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 1: maybe turn this season around a little bit. They had
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 1: the three straight losses there at 3-3. If they can
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 1: win this game at Oklahoma next week, not off the
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: table for them, right?
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 1: Host A & M. A & M' s kind of a
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 1: mess right now. At Arkansas, very winnable game. I mean,
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 1: they got a chance to go on a little five-game
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 1: win streak. Now they They have to host Georgia at
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 1: the end of that five-game run. But they're already dead
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 1: and buried. Yeah. No, no, I'm not saying get in
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 1: the playoffs. I'm saying for the future of Shane Beamer. Oh, yeah, yeah.
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 1: If Shane Beamer wants to save his job, you think
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 1: he might have done it in the swamp? I think
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 1: he's already done it because I think South Carolina's hands
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 1: are tied.
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, because they're broke. We talked about it. Yeah, they
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 3: are a broke program. When you're a broke program in
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 3: the SEC, that is a big problem.
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: Bad place to be.
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's almost like a trust fund baby who's already
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 3: blown his load and spent everything.
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 1: That's right, yeah. Yeah, they are a broke program. If
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 1: you haven't followed that story, they've got some financial concerns
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 1: coming up.
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  Speaker 3: I was told, and I don't know what the expectation
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 3: of South Carolina is. Again, everything is warped now because
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 3: of Kirk Cignetti and because of Bob Chesney and people
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 3: being able to turn these things around so quickly.
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was told by a South Carolina guy. This
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 1: was secondhand. I'll go ahead and tell you, secondhand. But
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 1: one of their power boosters had told him point blank,
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 1: and this guy would not make this up, because he's
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 1: a South Carolina guy, one of their power boosters had
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: told him point blank that going into last season, not
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: this season, they did not even have enough money raised
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: to meet their NIL commitments. They had made certain levels
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 1: of NIL commitments and didn't have the money to pay
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 1: for those. Now, they must have figured it out. Well,
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 1: you have to at that point. Now, I say that.
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 1: We had that situation early on. Who was the Florida quarterback?
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 1: They went to Arizona State and went everywhere. Oh, my gosh.
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 1: Exotic name. Exotic. Rashada? Yeah, Jaden Rashada. Jaden Rashada. Thank you, Scott.
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 1: That's kind of an exotic name. That's kind of, I guess.
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 1: Jaden Rashada is exotic, like a snake. Yeah, I mean,
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 1: he did not get what he was promised and moved on.
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 1: We had UNLV quarterback that ended up mapping out. Terrible
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 1: idea by him. I'll never remember his name because he
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 1: didn't amount to anything after that. But obviously, South Carolina
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 1: figured it out because they kept Dylan Stewart. They kept
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 1: Nick Harbour. They kept Lenore as seller. So obviously they
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 1: figured their situation out. But I just say that to
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 1: highlight kind of the financial situation they were in at
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 1: that time. You don't have enough money to buy a
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 1: coach out. You are stuck with him.
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 3: I think it's going to be interesting because South Carolina
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 3: does have the best rush offense in the SEC going
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 3: against that Jim Knowles defense. You know, can they go 125,
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 3: 150 yards on the ground if they can do that?
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 3: I think they could win this game by seven plus.
• 1:35:56
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  Speaker 1: Saturday for Arch Manning? His coach after the loss to
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  Speaker 1: But then he comes back out Monday and says, no,
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  Speaker 1: didn't just immediately, and I'm not criticizing Sargent. for this.
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  Speaker 1: I think Sark probably should have considered this. But KJ
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  Speaker 1: up in the postgame. At some point, he's got to
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  Speaker 1: turn this around. Well, I mean, you think about Sark.
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  Speaker 1: Sark's job is in jeopardy right now. Yes. Sark's got
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  Speaker 1: to turn it around. Yeah, Arch is going to be fine,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, at least in the immediate future.
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  Speaker 3: Whether it works out at Texas or not, he'll be
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  Speaker 3: able to transfer out, and he'll still probably make millions
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  Speaker 3: of dollars.
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe we're having that conversation. Yeah, somebody would
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  Speaker 1: take a chance on Arch to do that. But Sark
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  Speaker 1: is the one that's under the gun, so he's got
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  Speaker 1: still has so– much skill, talent. I am blown away
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  Speaker 1: much can this defense continue to hold up?
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  Speaker 3: I think they did a great job against Missouri, holding
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  Speaker 3: should be fine. Another concern for Texas is Colin Simmons.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, one of the best at getting after the quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: May NFL draft. You know, 10.5 of those 19 sacks, 55%
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  Speaker 3: of the sack production for Texas is going to be
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  Speaker 3: out for Will Mustamp and the Longhorns this weekend. That
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  Speaker 3: to lose this game, I still think they've got one
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  Speaker 3: more loss in them. I don't know how you feel
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  Speaker 3: think they can go 9-3 and still get in. But
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  Speaker 3: still think you find another one on the backside. So
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  Speaker 3: I think they really, really... have to win this game
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  Speaker 3: if they want to get to the college football playoff. Tyler,
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  Speaker 3: can we do cut 10? Steve Sarkeesian. Now, Scott tells
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  Speaker 3: me this is, Scott, you use the word edgy here.
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  Speaker 3: Is this, do you mean by that that we've just
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  Speaker 3: got a perturbed Steve Sarkeesian is what we're about to
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  Speaker 3: listen to?
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  Speaker 4: No, that's how Sark describes Arch's demeanor right now.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, okay. Okay, gotcha now. I see what you're saying.
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  Speaker 1: I was looking at your description. I thought you were
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  Speaker 1: telling me Steve Sarkeesian is going to be edgy in this.
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  Speaker 1: I'm still interested, don't worry, but I was just going
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  Speaker 1: to sell it differently. All right, this is Steve Sarkeesian
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  Speaker 1: talking about his quarterback, Arch Manning. How has he been
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  Speaker 1: in practice as a leader?
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  Speaker 7: Because these guys know that he's the most talked about
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  Speaker 7: player in America right now.
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  Speaker 2: I would use the word edgy, and I like it.
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  Speaker 2: He's edgy right now. And, you know, I think that
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  Speaker 2: somebody texted me today That we lost the Aw Shucks kid,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and we've created something else. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if we lost him. We created this, you know, we did.
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  Speaker 2: All of us, y'all included me, the whole thing, right?
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  Speaker 2: Everybody on ESPN, we've created this. And so we'll see
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 2: what comes out of it. But he's edgy right now.
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 2: And honestly, I appreciate that about him. At some point,
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 2: he's got to fight back. And the best way for
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 2: him to fight back is going out and playing really
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  Speaker 2: good football with his teammates and enjoy playing football with
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  Speaker 2: his teammates. And so, you know, I'm looking forward to
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  Speaker 2: watching him compete Saturday night.
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  Speaker 1: What did we do? How did we change Arch Manning?
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know I was going to get blamed for
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  Speaker 1: something at that sale.
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  Speaker 7: Of course.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, the media is always going to
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  Speaker 1: get blamed for, you know, hyping this guy up too much.
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  Speaker 1: You know, wasn't it Sark a couple of weeks ago
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  Speaker 1: that said, well, if he had a different name, we'd
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  Speaker 1: be really hyping him up. Yeah, I mean, and we
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  Speaker 1: disagreed with that. Like, if he had a different name,
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  Speaker 1: we'd be benching him. Yeah, I mean, let's go through
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 1: some former Texas quarterbacks like Jevin Sneed.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, who were some of the very, very average quarterbacks? Because,
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  Speaker 3: you know, this is not Colt McCoy. This is not
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  Speaker 3: Vince Young. I mean, I thought Quinn Ewers was a
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  Speaker 3: better quarterback. Quinn Ewers got run off for Arch Manning.
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  Speaker 1: He did. Went to the NFL too early. Got drafted
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  Speaker 1: in the seventh round by the Dolphins. Now, I think
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  Speaker 1: he's out of the league. He's out of Miami. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know where else he'd be. Yeah, I think Sark
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  Speaker 1: might have killed his career.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean. legitimately telling him to get out.
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  Speaker 3: And then he makes the decision to go to the
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  Speaker 3: NFL before the NIL money had gotten to where.
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  Speaker 1: It actually is. He could have, he made the decision
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  Speaker 1: to go to the NFL, but there would have been
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  Speaker 1: a lot of takers for Quinn Ewers.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just saying like right now, like Quinn Ewers, there's
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 3: a lot of teams that would love to have Quinn
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  Speaker 3: Ewers as their quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: It's so weird. I just stumbled across this on Twitter
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 1: as we were talking about Arch and Steve Sarkeesian. There's
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  Speaker 1: an article today in the Statesman that is in Austin.
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  Speaker 1: I think they call it the Austin American Statesman is
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 1: the name of the newspaper. And it's in their business section,
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  Speaker 1: but it's talking about how Texas football is embracing artificial intelligence,
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  Speaker 1: the robot. I want you to listen to this passage
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  Speaker 1: shared by Danny Davis, who is a writer for the Statesman.
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  Speaker 1: So this is actually shared. I don't know that he
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  Speaker 1: wrote the article, but it's shared by one of the
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 1: writers of the newspaper. Okay, so he's sharing it. So
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  Speaker 1: this is not something I'm being duped. because it sounds
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  Speaker 1: like I'm being duped. Here's the quote, or not the quote,
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  Speaker 1: but here's the passage from the article. In the fourth
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  Speaker 1: quarter of last week's game against Florida at Royal Memorial Stadium,
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  Speaker 1: the Longhorns put the new initiative to use. Down 20
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  Speaker 1: to 17, facing a fourth and two, Texas needed a spark.
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  Speaker 1: So Coach Steve Sarkeesian and his staff turned to their
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  Speaker 1: new artificial intelligence data analytics platform, BevoLab. While the Longhorns
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  Speaker 1: ultimately failed to convert after quarterback Arch Manning lost three
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  Speaker 1: yards on the play, Del Conte, that is the athletic director, said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, it updated. Del Conte said the moment was
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  Speaker 1: a pivotal embrace of the new technology. I mean, you
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 1: don't let this come out. It's wild to me.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Like, OK, the offensive genius Sark's going to lead
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  Speaker 3: on the computer now.
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  Speaker 1: It's fourth and two. What did the computer have to
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  Speaker 1: tell you?
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Like, don't you have, like, one of these fourth and
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  Speaker 1: two plays? Yeah. That's two-point conversion play.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: We've always talked about this fast, you know, sheet that
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  Speaker 3: Sark's got. And, you know, he's one of the most
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 3: creative play callers out there. And you've got to go
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 3: to the robot.
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, look. And how does this become public knowledge?
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's in the Austin American Statesman. And it
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 1: looks like there was an interview with Dale Conte, the
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 1: athletic director. Now, I didn't see, I haven't read the
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 1: whole article. I just read the part that the newspaper
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 1: writer there at the Statesman is sharing. But we know
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  Speaker 1: I'm sad Del Conte said this.
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 3: Because of the robot, we know how many people in
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 3: mainstream America have been laid off.
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 3: I mean, the robot probably would coach Texas for a
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  Speaker 3: lot cheaper. You think you could have them in the playoffs?
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 1: I mean, they wouldn't be worse than two losses right
• 1:45:03
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  Speaker 1: play calling, man. I mean, yeah. I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: was Sark using, was it just all-encompassing? Like, Sark was
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  Speaker 1: looking at, do I go for it here? If I
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 1: go for it, do I run or pass? If I run,
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• 1:45:28
  Speaker 1: just how all-encompassing it is. Like, what are you looking
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  Speaker 1: for there? Is it just a go or no go?
• 1:45:32
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I guess it is a little more complicated than we
• 1:45:38
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  Speaker 3: lean more on that. I know AI is very efficient
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, listen, we're all using it. You use it.
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• 1:45:58
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• 1:46:00
  Speaker 1: you're using it. Yeah, you're right. You're using products that
• 1:46:03
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• 1:46:06
  Speaker 1: sounds weird in the heat of a game that a
• 1:46:08
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• 1:46:11
  Speaker 1: their analytics program, you know? It just sounds weird when
• 1:46:14
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• 1:46:19
  Speaker 1: on ESPN when they go to their go or no-go analytics,
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 1: does it ever say not to go for it?
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 4: No.
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: I've never once seen ESPN's like, oh, they don't need
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  Speaker 1: to go for it.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if the robot's feeding the analytics. The
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 3: robot's very aggressive.
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 1: I think it's ESPN like, we want to create as
• 1:46:33
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  Speaker 1: when the ESPN goes to the analytics. Username. It's a
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  Speaker 1: college football. Yeah, I mean, analytics are already there, though.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying they had a computer on the sidelines
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  Speaker 3: You know, I saw a commercial earlier this year and
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Smuff says Sark is a very good O.C. when
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 1: he has superior talent. A very okay to good head coach. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's it. Yeah. And I've always said that about Sartre. Always.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he has superior talent in Tuscaloosa, and that's
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  Speaker 1: talked about him for a full year the way they
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  Speaker 1: And then it fell apart on him.
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  Speaker 3: But Sark has always been a really, really, really good
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  Speaker 3: elite offensive coordinator. But when you have to delegate and
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Username says, I thought y'all said they consulted AI.
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  Speaker 1: That's the way the article put it. I'm just saying
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  Speaker 1: but I think you're limited to what you could do
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  Speaker 1: with those. I mean, Troy says, I've never thought about it,
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