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Ep. 133: College Football Week Ten Takeaways · The PatteFacts: A College Football Show

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  Durant makes. His move spins in the pace turn
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  puts it up and puts it in. John Morant knocks it down,
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  Chioza. And here we go, episode 133 of
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  The Paddafax, streaming on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever
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  you get your podcasts from. It is November 4th, 2025.
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  Thank you so much for tuning in. I'm William Patterson, all right
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  back for another edition of my Weekly Takeaways and College
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  Football. And this week we are back for
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  Week 10 as we had a lot go down over the weekend.
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  And as we head into the final month of the season, all of
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  these games continue to get more and more important.
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  And we've got so much to cover On today's episode.
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  We'll talk about #18 Oklahoma defeating #14 Tennessee on the
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  road, A big time win for the Sooners and a very, very costly
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  loss for the Volunteers. We'll talk about our takeaways
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  from that one. Also talk about Vanderbilt and
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  Texas. Arch Manning looks the part.
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  Diego and, and, and the dogs that I call them give up a
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  fight. They put up a fight in the
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  fourth quarter, but it wasn't enough.
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  I'll tell you what I make of Arch Manning and also where I
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  see this Vanderbilt team going the rest of the way.
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  Then we'll talk about Miami. the Hurricanes have seemed to lost a
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  lot of the wind that they had at the beginning of the season, and
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  this is becoming a yearly occurrence under Mario
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  Cristobal. A really, really inexcusable
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  loss on the road to SMU. And then we'll head to the Big
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  12 where Utah finally performs in a big time spot, a top 25
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  matchup up against Cincinnati. And this time they made sure
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  they got out of there with a win.
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  And this time they left no doubt and, and, and it was a very,
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  very impressive win late in the night in the Big 12.
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  We'll talk about that one. We'll also wrap up with some
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  other takeaways. Georgia Tech shows that there
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  are frauds, as I have been talking about for the last
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  couple of weeks. Georgia escapes Florida.
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  Ohio State fends off a impressive first half from Penn
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  State. But my bigger take away from
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  this one is Julian saying And the receivers come up big up
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  against a Penn State defense that obviously has been reeling
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  but is still talented. Now we'll talk about that big
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  match up in the Big 10. Also talk about some notable
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  injuries across college football.
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  And I'll wrap it up with my final thoughts as Hugh Freeze
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  becomes just the newest head coach to get canned in the
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  middle of the season. So plenty to cover on this
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  All of our announcements now out of the way, had the opportunity
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  to go to Tennessee and Oklahoma this weekend.
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  We'll open it up with that one. I want to begin with this, and
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  it's the Sooners turn the lights out on Tennessee and dark mode
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  is number 18. Oklahoma defeats #14 Tennessee
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  33 to 27 in this one. And heading into it, this was a
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  really big game for both sides. It was a playoff elimination
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  game in my eyes. And really, when you look at the
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  rest of the schedule for both teams and knowing that three
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  losses probably is not going to get you in the College Football
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  Playoff in any normal year, even though college football can get
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  pretty crazy in any normal year, 3 losses isn't going to cut it
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  and I don't think it will this year either.
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  This was a playoff elimination game and matchup wise you had an
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  Oklahoma defense that it struggled the prior week against
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  Ole Miss, but they're still a top ranked unit.
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  They've been impressive all year long, and they match up against
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  the Tennessee offense that was coming off 56 points, 504 yards
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  of total offense and seven different players scoring A
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  touchdown the prior week against Kentucky, a high-powered
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  Tennessee group. Which side of the football
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  would? Win and then also John Metier, a
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  guy that was a spectacle in the first part of the season has
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  kind of been inconsistent and has not been the same player
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  ever since he returned from injury.
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  What did he look like in this big time matchup in prime time?
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  And we'll get into my takeaways, and I'm going to be pretty
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  brutal and pretty honest about this Tennessee team over the
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  next, you know, 20 minutes that. We talk about.
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  It and my big take away is that Tennessee fails to play
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  complimentary football once again in a big time spot.
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  Go back to the beginning of the season where Tennessee took on a
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  Georgia football team that you know is a is a top five team in
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  the country right now and has obviously improved since that
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  match up. But Tennessee continued to get
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  in their own way down the stretch of that one and ended up
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  costing them a big time win early in the season.
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  They lose that game in overtime, but tennis had an opportunity to
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  win the game and regulation and in that fourth quarter you force
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  a turnover and instead of being aggressive, you sputter out and
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  have to settle for a field goal to go up 3830 and George is able
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  to March down the field and tie it up.
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  And you get in field goal position again and this time you
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  have a false start right before you're about to go have a you're
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  about to go attempt a game-winning kick.
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  You put your kicker back 10 yards and he ends up missing it.
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  And that's not timely. That's not complimentary
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  football. That's not helping out your
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  special teams. You had an abundance of
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  penalties in that one. Complimentary football was
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  absent in the crucial moments in that Georgia game.
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  Go back to Alabama. Tennessee has a very costly
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  interception to end the first half.
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  Xavion Brown picks it off, goes 99 yards for a touchdown.
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  You trail 23 to 7, Tennessee's defense that has struggled
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  throughout the season gets 4 stops in a row and you're only
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  going to get only able to get points on two of those.
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  So complimentary football has been an issue for this team all
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  year long, and it was again Saturday.
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  Tennessee outgains Oklahoma 255 to 100 in the first half, but
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  trail 16 to 10, that's an issue, huge issue.
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  And half time I was like, yeah, this is not good, but hopefully
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  that is an indication that if you play another half like that,
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  you'll be able to come out with a win.
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  Tennessee goes up 7. Nothing early.
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  You get a stop, you have an opportunity to really put
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  Oklahoma in a tough position. David Sanders misses a block on
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  the left side or excuse me, right side, or Mason Thomas, one
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  of the best defensive edges in the country, comes off, makes a
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  big time play, strip sack, fumble return for a touchdown
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  and this thing's 7/7. That right there is not
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  complimentary football because Tennessee's defense did their
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  job. Tennessee's defense has
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  struggled technique wise all year long, has struggled with
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  the elementary stuff, making tackles, having good tackle
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  angle, stuff like that. You needed a performance like
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  this from your defense up against a very, very talented
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  dual threat quarterback and John Metier.
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  You got that from them. But it was the offense this time
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  that could not play complimentary football.
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  Joey Aguilar throws an interception late in the first
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  half. It allows for Oklahoma to get in
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  field goal position. And I mean, their kicker was the
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  star of the show. I mean, he looks like he's in
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  biker shorts out there. But my golly, this guy can kick
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  field goals. Hit 250 yarders in this one and
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  you allow Oklahoma to get 3 free points right before the half.
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  That's not complimentary football.
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  For the game, Tennessee has three total turnovers.
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  You had a crucial failed 4th down conversion and a missed
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  field goal in the first half. It just was so inconsistent and
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  that has been the common issue for this Tennessee team all year
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  long. Tennessee does not play
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  complimentary football. There's always something that
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  comes into these games that Tennessee does not play
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  correctly. Tennessee is yet to play a
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  perfect game in all three phases up against a good opponent, and
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  that goes back to Week 1 when Tennessee played Syracuse.
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  Tennessee's offense was rolling, but their defense was horrible
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  in the second-half against the run.
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  Syracuse absolutely gashed them. Against Georgia.
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  I mentioned those penalties and the crucial mistakes in the flow
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  of a game. Game Management.
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  Was really poor. Against Mississippi State, your
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  defense scores 14 points, but your offense continue to turn
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  the football over and not take advantages of good field
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  position. Against Alabama, it was getting
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  4 stops in a row and only getting points off of two of
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  those and having a really, really brutal pick 6 right
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  before the half. Against Arkansas, it was your
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  defense that made Arkansas look like the 2019 Kansas City
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  Chiefs. And granted, Arkansas had a good
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  offense and you made some plays, but Tennessee's offense also did
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  not take advantage of the times Tennessee's defense got
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  turnovers. And in this game against
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  Oklahoma, it was the same type of things where you're not able
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  to play in unison on the offense and defensive side, The
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  football. And I'll say this too, because
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  the discourse on this Tennessee team throughout the season has
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  been, well, the the defense is horrible.
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  The offense is really good. The defense is weighing this
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  group down. And I don't entirely agree with
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  that because there are times that Tennessee's defense gets a
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  stop and the offense doesn't respond.
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  You saw that a lot on Saturday night in Newland Stadium.
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  But the defense shouldn't have that type of pressure to finally
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  get a stop and then the offense has to score and it vice versa.
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  Like the offense shouldn't have to put up 42 points just to get
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  a win, but this team is so inconsistent to where you don't
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  have these groups in unison to where you get to this point
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  where you have to have the offense score if the defense
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  gets a stop, and you have to have the defense get a stop if
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  the offense isn't able to score. And I know you might be saying,
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  well, William, that's how football works.
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  But it's not like Tennessee is really, really good on the
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  defensive side of the football very often.
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  They create a lot of big plays heading into this game.
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  Lead the. FBS in touchdowns.
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  Defensively, but that's not a sustainable method of winning.
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  They get a lot of takeaways, but that's not a sustainable method
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  of winning if you continue to, you know, allow an Oklahoma to
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  run for 192 yards when they've struggled, you know, offense to
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  running the ball all year long. Complimentary football continues
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  to get this team in tough positions and continues to be
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  the Achilles heel for this group.
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  Tennessee has yet to play a perfect game in all three phases
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  to this point this season. And I talk about complimentary
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  football and we'll take it to the offensive side now because
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  not only do you have 3 turnovers, Joey Aguilar has 2
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  picks, has the fumble, you also only run the ball for 63 yards
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  at 1.8 yards per carry. Give Oklahoma credit, a very
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  versatile defensive unit. Brent Venables takes over the
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  defensive side this year full time, no longer splitting his
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  time of OF, you know, doing other things during the game.
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  He's focused on the defense, which is what he should have
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  been doing over the last couple of years, but goes back to the
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  defensive side of football. And this has been one of the
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  best units in the country. Our Mason Thomas, a guy that
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  looks like a linebacker but comes off the edge and is one of
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  the best in the country. Luke Heinecke was all over the
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  field in this one at linebacker. I like a couple of a couple
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  other DBS like Eli Bowen. This is a very talented team,
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  don't get me wrong, but Tennessee has always been
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  predicated offensively on being able to have the balance between
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  running the ball and getting it done in the air. 63 yards at 1.8
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  yards per carry is not going to get this, not going to get that
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  done. So not only did they not play
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  complimentary football within the grand scheme of the game,
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  but they also didn't do it on their best side of the football.
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  So this was a really, really tough situation for Tennessee to
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  overcome and I think those two reasons, not being able to play
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  complimentary on both sides and not being able to run the ball
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  were really, really hurtful for Tennessee.
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  You can dive into the specifics of the game and go to that 4th
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  down play with about 8 minutes left where Tennessee goes to
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  Jack Van Dorslaur, a guy that only has two receptions on the
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  season, and say that was the moment.
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  That's what define the game. You could say that Max Gilbert
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  missing a field goal in the first half was the defining
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  moment. You could say Joey Aguilar going
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  to interceptions, was it a fining moment?
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  The The Fumble 6 for more Mason Thomas was a defining moment.
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  But as you go down the list, it's just a collection of
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  different things that go wrong over the course of the game.
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  As someone that covers Tennessee for a living, I hear Josh Heibel
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  speak every Monday. Every Wednesday.
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  I, I I. Hear everything that is talked
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  about with this team and every week it's the same thing.
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  Control the controllables. We have to execute.
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  But the problem is Tennessee is not executing and they're not
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  controlling the controllables and actions speak louder than
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  words. And if Tennessee wanted to be an
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  elite team this year, they would have cleaned that up in the
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  middle of the season. But the problem is we're
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  entering November and we're talking about the same things
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  that were wrong in Week 1. Joey Aguilar has been very
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  impressive this season. Who would have thought a guy
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  from Appalachian State that got there two months before the
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  season would have been this good?
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  The wide receiver room was a big question mark.
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  The running backroom was a big question mark.
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  Everyone thought the defense was going to be really strong.
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  This Tennessee team has overcome a lot to get to this point, but
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  the problem is they're still having the same issues that they
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  had in Week 1. They don't play complimentary
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  football and it comes up in the critical moments.
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  There's always a different aspect of the game that goes
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  wrong for Tennessee that results in a loss in these big time
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  match ups and running the ball. A big reason why not playing
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  complimentary football between your offense and defense a big
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  reason why. Let me give credit to Oklahoma
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  because I know I spent a lot of time on Tennessee, but Oklahoma
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  does deserve credit. I thought John Metier and this
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  Oklahoma run game came alive in the second-half after a tough
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  first half outing, 67 yards with about 5 minutes to go in the
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  first half. They were able to get to 100.
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  But still, that's not going to win you many games in the SEC on
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  the road against the Tennessee team that is, you know, very
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  inconsistent and complimentary football.
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  It will work, but John Metier, a guy that's been heavily
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  criticized over the last couple of weeks ever since he had that
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  injury, has been, you know, waiting for a moment like this.
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  And when you look at the numbers, they're not going to
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  jump off the page. 19 of 29 for 159 yards in the air, 80 rushing
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  yards and a touchdown. It's not going to jump off the
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  page. But a lot of that was in the
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  second-half. And a couple of really big plays
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  in the second-half were made by John Mateer.
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  One of them, a third and 16 where Tennessee's trying to get
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  the ball back after scoring a touchdown. 1716 game you need to
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  stop. John Mateer extends the play
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  with his legs big time. Third down conversion.
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  This Tennessee defense has struggled with it all year long.
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  They were better with it on Saturday night.
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  That one was one that you cannot afford.
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  And Arian Carter, a linebacker that's been so great for
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  Tennessee this season, he's banged up with two turf toes,
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  was no match at full speed for John Mateer.
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  Xavier Robinson, let's talk about him. 16 carries for 115
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  yards and a touchdown at 7.2 yards per carry.
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  He was really impactful in this one.
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  This is an Oklahoma run game that has been very inconsistent
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  this season. They've had a ton of injuries on
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  that side and Jayden OTT, the transfer from California was
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  supposed to be one of the best in the portal has been a no show
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  this season. Xavier Robinson showed up on
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  Saturday. Really big performance from him
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  and Oklahoma needed it and that way they were able to milk the
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  clock, They were able to play at their pace and they're able to
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  continue to March down into opponents territory and they
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  executed when they made it to the red zone.
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  Not only they have a really good kicker, but they were able to
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  control the game in the second-half after being pretty
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  much manhandled in yards per play.
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  And total yards in the first half.
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  So credit to Oklahoma, they needed this one.
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  This is a big time win for Brent Venables and company.
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  Look at the rest of schedule for them, it doesn't get much
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  easier. LSU, Alabama, Missouri, some
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  tough games coming up, but this is a big time win for Brent
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  Vetables, a guy that could have very well been on the hot seat
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  if he had lost this one. It would have marked three out
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  of four games that they had lost.
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  Now you pick up a signature win on the road, a top 25 win.
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  Congratulations to Oklahoma, they really needed it.
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  John Matier I still am a little bit concerned about.
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  Didn't have to throw a ton of big plays in this one, but I
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  thought over the course of the the second-half he delivered on
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  a couple of critical intermediate passes that were
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  timely and accurate and and that goes a long way in a match up
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  like this. But we're not done talking about
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  this game yet because I do want to talk about Josh Heiple and
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  talk about if he's the guy for this Tennessee team, is he the
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  guy that takes Tennessee to the next level?
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  Look, covering Tennessee, I hear all the opinions.
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  I see all the opinions. But covering this team, I've
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  watched them for five years with Josh Hypel and I continue to see
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  the same things kind of come up. I do not think Josh Hypel
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  coached a great game Saturday. I thought game management.
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  Was a big issue. Especially having a blow a time
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  out. Right before that 4th and two
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  play that then allows Oklahoma to get set up, bring in the
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  correct personnel. You burn that time out that
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  could have been used later in the game to stop the clock, puts
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  you in a different situation and then obviously you don't convert
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  on that 4th and two. Josh Hypo was asked after the
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  game why he called that time out.
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  Because we were behind. We were not in the correct spot
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  to be able to, you know, dial up a play and get in position, have
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  the pre snap reads and and go through with it.
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  So I had to call a time out and game management has been an
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  issue throughout the season for Tennessee.
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  I I talk about complimentary football.
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  Game management's a big reason and a big part of that.
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  You have to be a good game manager of the flow of the game
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  in order to play complimentary football.
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  And Tennessee has yet to do that in a big game this season.
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  That Georgia game, you get really conservative all of a
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  sudden with six minutes left to go, instead of punching it in
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  and going for the kill shot, you have to settle for three.
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  That keeps Georgia alive. Georgia ends up scoring and
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  comes back and wins that game. Alabama, in those final moments,
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  you're on the goal line with 30 seconds left in the first half.
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  You don't really handle your timeouts correctly.
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  You have to dial up a jumbo package play that's very
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  predictable. Everyone in the building knew it
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  was going to be a. Pass.
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  Even that Mississippi State game, it went to overtime
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  because you did not appropriately use your timeouts.
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  Game management has been an issue for Josh Hypo this season,
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  and the big game has consistently been an issue for
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  Josh Hypo at Tennessee. Yes, he has wins over Alabama
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  twice, both in 2022 and 2024. But outside of that, there isn't
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  another signature win per SE. He beat LSU in 2022 on the road.
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  Granted, that was a noon kick off and that LSU team was a four
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  loss team that season. Yeah, you beat.
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  Oklahoma on the road earlier in the year last year, but that
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  ended up being a six loss team, seven loss team, something like
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  that and no six loss team. They they might have lost in the
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  bowl game. You, you, you.
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  Get what I'm saying here? I think it's important to
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  remember what Josh Hypel has done for this program.
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  Tennessee was nothing before Josh Hypel came back or came, I
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  mean, before he started coaching this team.
• 22:50
  I should say Tennessee. Had gone through multiple
• 22:55
  different coaches that had had flamed out, not worked.
• 22:58
  Josh Hypel has given you stability.
• 23:02
  But if the expectation is to win national championships, I don't
• 23:06
  know if Josh Hypel is that guy. I don't because nine and ten
• 23:15
  wins is really good, and that's really difficult to do in the
• 23:19
  SEC and that's difficult to do in this day and age in college
• 23:23
  football. But the 12?
• 23:26
  Team Playoff now allows for a lot more teams to make it and
• 23:31
  you can afford 2 losses on a season and still have the
• 23:34
  opportunity to play for the College Football Playoffs.
• 23:38
  Play in the College Football Playoff I should say.
• 23:42
  And Tennessee made it last year even though they might as well
• 23:44
  not even shown up. They got ran off the stage
• 23:47
  against Ohio State. They still made it.
• 23:52
  But if you're trying to win national championships, which I
• 23:54
  feel like the Tennessee program standard is, or at least in the
• 23:59
  fans eyes is, I don't know if hypo's that guy, Josh Hypo.
• 24:05
  To me it is very similar to Mark Richt at Georgia.
• 24:09
  Georgia was struggling before Mark Richt arrived.
• 24:13
  Mark Richt brought that program back to a winning.
• 24:16
  Culture, winning 910 games a season, being in the
• 24:20
  conversation for BCS bowl games and stuff like that.
• 24:24
  He brought that program back. But there came a point in time
• 24:29
  where Georgia was like. We're not moving forward with
• 24:32
  this guy. We're continuing to be the same
• 24:35
  team we've been for 5-6 seven seasons.
• 24:38
  They decided to move on. Dan Mullen at Florida brought
• 24:43
  that program back, put them in New Year's 6 polls, put them in
• 24:47
  contention to win a college football or or make a College
• 24:50
  Football Playoff. But he wouldn't hire.
• 24:54
  He wouldn't fire his friends. His coordinators, Todd Grantham,
• 24:57
  continue to stick around. He ended up losing his job for
• 25:00
  it. Josh Hypel's kind of in the same
• 25:03
  boat right now. You've brought Tennessee back,
• 25:07
  but is this a coach that can get you to win a game in the College
• 25:10
  Football Playoff? Is this a coach that can win you
• 25:14
  a national championship? Is this a coach that can move on
• 25:18
  from his coordinators if he doesn't like what he's seeing?
• 25:21
  Something that Josh Hypel is never done as a coach, whether
• 25:24
  it's Central Florida or Tennessee, he's never fired
• 25:27
  anyone. He's had guys leave and take
• 25:30
  other jobs, but he's never fired anyone.
• 25:34
  I think this is a pivotal moment for Josh Hypel following this
• 25:37
  season and I get it. He had to deal with one of the
• 25:40
  most tumultuous off seasons we've ever seen in college
• 25:42
  football history. His quarterback got up and left
• 25:45
  right before the spring game. He had to go dash in the portal
• 25:48
  and find a guy in Joey Aguilar. That has been a huge success and
• 25:52
  he has elevated multiple different quarterbacks during
• 25:55
  his time. Henan Hooker an example.
• 25:57
  Guy that got. Casted away from Virginia Tech,
• 26:00
  Joe Milton an example, a guy that got casted away at
• 26:02
  Michigan. He does have success and he's
• 26:05
  had success at Tennessee. But is he a guy that can get get
• 26:09
  you to the College Football Playoff consistently and win you
• 26:13
  games in December and January? That's the question and right
• 26:18
  now my answer is probably no. And if fans are excited about
• 26:25
  910 wins a season being in the conversation, then keep them.
• 26:29
  And I'm not saying you should fire him right now.
• 26:31
  I think he's got 2 to 3-4 years with this upcoming class and
• 26:36
  Faison, Brandon Gabriel, Ascenda, Tristan Keys, all five
• 26:39
  star players, your blue chip ratio is going to be around 60%.
• 26:43
  That's going to be the highest Tennessee has had, and that's
• 26:45
  the level you have to have to win the national championship.
• 26:50
  But the same characteristics that we've talked about for
• 26:53
  years now continue to come up in the big games.
• 26:56
  And as a coach, you are defined by your performance in big
• 27:00
  games. Why is James Franklin looking
• 27:02
  for a job right now? Because he's defined by winning
• 27:06
  those big. Games.
• 27:08
  I think Josh Hypo has brought back this program.
• 27:11
  I think he's an excellent offensive minded coach, but I
• 27:14
  still have questions about his performance as a head.
• 27:17
  Coach and his ability to move on from coordinators that don't
• 27:21
  work and his ability to manage situations in a big game and his
• 27:26
  ability to go get the big one when necessary and losing at
• 27:31
  home in your own building to an Oklahoma team that I think is
• 27:35
  good but not a world beater is a really tough pill to swallow for
• 27:39
  Josh Hypo and this team. I'm not saying he's going to be
• 27:43
  fired. I'm not saying he should be
• 27:44
  fired. I think he'll have two to three,
• 27:46
  Four Seasons left, as he should. He's bought himself some time.
• 27:52
  But I feel like he's a Mark Richt.
• 27:54
  I feel like he's a Dan Mullen, a guy that can get you in the
• 27:57
  area, but not a guy that can. Hoist the trophy.
• 28:02
  We'll move now to. Vanderbilt in Texas in the SEC.
• 28:07
  Another big SEC matchup this weekend.
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  Arch Manning. Dazzles on Diego and the dogs as
• 28:14
  #20 Texas defeats #9 Vanderbilt 34 to 31 and the pregame
• 28:20
  storylines for this one were can Vanderbilt.
• 28:23
  Get to the level where they can win on the road in the SEC in a
• 28:27
  big time match up. Now obviously Vanderbilt has a
• 28:31
  win over Missouri over LSU, strung together a couple of
• 28:34
  really impressive wins. They lose to Alabama, but I
• 28:37
  thought they put up a great. Fight and if they don't have two
• 28:41
  red zone turnovers, who knows where that game goes.
• 28:45
  But heading into this one last week, I was like, I don't think
• 28:47
  Vanderbilt's at that level yet at that level to go in to Texas
• 28:53
  and get a win. We'd have to see.
• 28:56
  The other thing was what version of Texas shows up?
• 28:59
  Is it going to be the version that goes to Oklahoma or it's
• 29:02
  going to be? Overtime with Texas or it's
• 29:03
  going to be overtime with Kentucky is.
• 29:06
  This going to be the version that narrowly escapes
• 29:08
  Mississippi State, or is this going to be the one that crushes
• 29:12
  Oklahoma on a neutral site field?
• 29:15
  That's what I was intrigued by heading into this one, and we
• 29:18
  got our answer very, very quickly.
• 29:21
  Arch Manning plays like a Manning in this 125 for 33328
• 29:27
  yards and three touchdowns. They open the game with a 75
• 29:31
  yard touchdown to Ryan Wingo. This Texas team got out of the
• 29:36
  gates quick. And this has been a group that's
• 29:39
  been on the road for the last month.
• 29:41
  Steve Sarkisian said that this was the healthiest his team has
• 29:44
  been. And this is a pivotal game to be
• 29:48
  back to full health as Vanderbilt's been on a roll.
• 29:50
  A top ten team coming in your own building.
• 29:52
  You've got to be, you know, on your game for this one.
• 29:56
  And I thought they were. I thought this was a really,
• 29:59
  really good performance from Texas.
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  And Arch Manning is taking a ton of Flack, and deservedly so.
• 30:04
  He's had a very inconsistent season, but this was the Arch
• 30:08
  Manning that everyone talked about this offseason.
• 30:12
  He was accurate. He was on time, he was poised.
• 30:15
  He had a little bit of swagger to him.
• 30:18
  Even before the game. You see the camera pan to him
• 30:20
  and he's screaming in the tunnel.
• 30:22
  I like that energy from him. You know, there were a lot of
• 30:25
  people that didn't like. The standing over the Sam
• 30:29
  Houston State player a couple of months back.
• 30:31
  I loved it. This is a guy that's hurt at all
• 30:34
  and he might not actually hear it as he says that, you know, he
• 30:38
  doesn't listen to the noise or doesn't read anything, which I
• 30:41
  think again shows how good of APR trained player he is.
• 30:45
  But he needs some of that. He needs some of that fire.
• 30:48
  He needs some of that confidence and I think he got that in this
• 30:51
  one. Connecting with Wingo early put
• 30:53
  him in rhythm. He found Emmett Mosley the 5th 7
• 30:57
  times in this one for 69 yards and a touchdown.
• 31:00
  Arch Manning was poised and and dialed in here in a big time
• 31:04
  spot and that's exactly what we were looking for heading into
• 31:08
  the season from him. I think this was his best
• 31:11
  performance of the season and he looked good against Oklahoma,
• 31:15
  but struggled against Kentucky, was really strong against
• 31:19
  Mississippi State. It's hurt.
• 31:21
  Didn't even know if he was going to be able to play this one, but
• 31:25
  he looked really good back-to-back.
• 31:27
  Solid performances from Arch Manning, playing like the player
• 31:30
  that we had anticipated heading into the season.
• 31:34
  The second big thing here is I thought Texas got a big boost
• 31:37
  from the running game. Complimentary football is a
• 31:40
  really big thing in 2025 in my eyes because you've got so many
• 31:45
  different players coming in each season.
• 31:48
  The rosters are totally different each year.
• 31:51
  You need to be able to find balance in a chaotic college
• 31:55
  football world and complimentary football in the SECI think is a
• 32:00
  big trait of why you see teams have success.
• 32:04
  And sure, Texas rushes for 100 yards, isn't it?
• 32:07
  That isn't a huge number. But Contravian Weisner goes 75
• 32:11
  yards in a touchdown. That's what you need.
• 32:14
  And Weisner and Baxter have both been banged up over the last
• 32:17
  month. Those guys are back healthy, and
• 32:19
  they showed up torn. Now Arch has a little bit of a a
• 32:23
  breath to take. He.
• 32:24
  Doesn't have to get it all done in the air.
• 32:26
  He can rely on a couple of veteran backs and Weisner and
• 32:29
  Baxter, and you can get production there.
• 32:32
  That helps a young quarterback, that helps a guy that is trying
• 32:35
  to find his momentum and rhythm. Texas gave him that on Saturday.
• 32:40
  So a really strong performance from this Texas offense, I
• 32:43
  thought. That was a a big reason why they
• 32:46
  were able to get a big time win. It's that running game.
• 32:50
  I know it's not a huge number, 100 yards and Manning at 328 is
• 32:55
  a more impressive, flashier number, but it goes a long way.
• 32:59
  And the games that Texas has not been able to establish the run
• 33:02
  like that Florida match up a month ago, Texas has struggled.
• 33:06
  They got it in this one, and it was at a complementary level,
• 33:10
  this Texas. Defense, a really, really
• 33:14
  impressive performance for I'd say 3 1/2 quarters.
• 33:18
  They did let up, but Texas defense holds Vanderbilt to 58
• 33:22
  rushing yards and causes a turnover.
• 33:25
  Vanderbilt has not been the best team in the SEC and running the
• 33:29
  football when. But when Diego Pavia is able to
• 33:32
  roll outside of the outside of the pocket and make plays,
• 33:37
  that's how this Vanderbilt team is extended drives.
• 33:40
  That's how this. Team was able to beat LSUA
• 33:42
  couple of weeks back because Pavia continue to get big plays
• 33:46
  through the run game. That's how Alabama was kind of
• 33:50
  on the ropes for a minute against this Vanderbilt team
• 33:52
  because. Vanderbilt had success running
• 33:54
  the football on that one, so I thought Texas's defense that
• 33:59
  struggled last week against Mississippi State had a nice
• 34:02
  bounce back performance here in the majority of the game.
• 34:06
  Obviously they let up late as they allow 21 fourth quarter
• 34:10
  points, but shutting down that run game, making Vanderbilt
• 34:14
  one-dimensional, having to get it done all in the air, I
• 34:17
  thought made things really difficult for a Vanderbilt team
• 34:20
  already up against it, heading on the road in a rocking
• 34:23
  environment up against a really well coached, good football
• 34:26
  team. So making Vanderbilt
• 34:29
  one-dimensional was really important, this one.
• 34:33
  But I got to give Diego and the dogs credit.
• 34:35
  There's a lot of fight in this team.
• 34:37
  And I know a lot of people might not like Diego Pavia, and I know
• 34:41
  a lot of people think this Vanderbilt team is fraudulent,
• 34:44
  but they fight and they're not going away without a fight and
• 34:48
  almost literally. Without a fight as this thing
• 34:51
  got a little bit chippy late, but Pavia goes 27 for 38365
• 34:56
  yards and three touchdowns in the air.
• 34:57
  One of his best passing performances of the season.
• 35:00
  Gets 14 carries and 43 yards on the ground.
• 35:03
  Also punches in a touchdown using his legs.
• 35:06
  Talk about extending those plays.
• 35:07
  He did that on that touchdown down the right sideline in the
• 35:10
  fourth quarter. And then Eli Staffers, one of
• 35:14
  the best tight ends in the country coming into the season.
• 35:17
  That season he goes 7 receptions, 146 yards and two
• 35:20
  touchdowns. This team doesn't quit and
• 35:25
  Vanderbilt needs to have that identity.
• 35:29
  They're the bottom feeder of the SEC.
• 35:31
  Historically. They barely have enough people
• 35:35
  to cheer on, cheer on the team at their at their games because
• 35:38
  it's always filled with the other team, the opposing teams
• 35:42
  fans. But they have that.
• 35:44
  Chip on their shoulder and they wear it on their sleeve and they
• 35:47
  continue to fight through games no matter what the score is.
• 35:52
  And that's a big reason why this team is a two loss team in the
• 35:55
  Seca very competitive SEC. So think of what you want of
• 36:00
  Diego Pavia and think of what you want of Vanderbilt.
• 36:02
  But this is a good team and Diego Pavia, who was a little
• 36:05
  bit of a circus puppet last. Year has turned into a really
• 36:09
  good quarterback, really good college quarterback.
• 36:12
  I'm not saying he's going to be some NFL guy, but 27 for 38365
• 36:17
  yards, 3 touchdowns, 4 total against a really good Texas
• 36:21
  defense. Very talented Texas team on the
• 36:24
  road. That's an impressive performance
• 36:28
  for Vanderbilt. I know they come out with a
• 36:29
  loss. I know the score was a little
• 36:31
  bit misleading with the way that one went through 3/4.
• 36:35
  They got down early in this one and didn't give up.
• 36:37
  That's a big testament to the type of leadership this team has
• 36:41
  and the type of team that Clarkly and company have.
• 36:44
  So I still like Vanderbilt and I still think they can make the
• 36:47
  College Football Playoff. Look at their upcoming schedule.
• 36:51
  Auburn and Kentucky at home. Auburn just fired their coach.
• 36:55
  Kentucky's had a little bit of a, you know, a little bit of a
• 36:59
  spark with Cutter boldly at quarterback.
• 37:03
  And then they'll travel to Tennessee.
• 37:06
  It'd be interesting to see what version of Tennessee they get in
• 37:09
  that one. But I think Vanderbilt's got 3
• 37:12
  winnable games ahead of them, two losses to Texas and Alabama.
• 37:17
  I think this is still a College Football Playoff team, so I'm
• 37:20
  not counting them out just yet. They've got to handle business,
• 37:24
  but that chip on their shoulder is going to play big the rest of
• 37:27
  the way as they're kind of being doubted now.
• 37:30
  Can Vanderbilt actually make it? Are they legit?
• 37:34
  Diego Pavi and company? I bet we'll have something to
• 37:36
  say about that. And then for Texas, it's already
• 37:43
  a two loss. Team back against the wall
• 37:46
  cannot afford another loss. And you look at their schedule
• 37:51
  and you already see two of them at Georgia.
• 37:54
  Week 12 off a by is going to be difficult.
• 37:58
  George has already lost at home this season.
• 38:02
  Georgia doesn't lose at home very often.
• 38:05
  Now they've only got one one loss.
• 38:07
  So they're not as back against the wall as Texas will be.
• 38:14
  But is Arch Manning going to play like that at 7:30 at night?
• 38:17
  And what's going to be a rocking crowd at Sanford Stadium?
• 38:21
  We'll have to see. He's played well the last two
• 38:23
  weeks. Can he continue that momentum in
• 38:26
  the final week of the season? Arkansas, a very talented
• 38:29
  offense. They don't have much to play
• 38:31
  for. So they'll be playing for pride.
• 38:33
  Texas gets gets that one in their own building.
• 38:37
  I think that'd be a win. And then Texas A&M at home, I
• 38:41
  think could be a win because A&M will most likely be undefeated.
• 38:45
  Obviously, they want to finish the season undefeated.
• 38:48
  But Texas, where they're back against the wall, I think will
• 38:50
  play a little bit more aggressive than an A&M team that
• 38:52
  already knows they're going to be in the College Football
• 38:54
  Playoff and doesn't want to get a little, doesn't want to get
• 38:56
  too risky, per SE. So Texas has a path.
• 39:02
  Vanderbilt has a path. Yeah, three games to go.
• 39:05
  You got to handle the business in front of you.
• 39:08
  But that that Georgia game, I think could get really difficult
• 39:11
  for Texas. Obviously as a gunner.
• 39:14
  Stockton and company have really seemed to hit their stride
• 39:16
  offensively. I know that this past weekend
• 39:19
  wasn't the cleanest performance. We'll talk more about that one
• 39:22
  here in a minute. But I think they've continued to
• 39:26
  improve as a unit throughout the season.
• 39:29
  And that is a good Florida defense they went up against.
• 39:32
  So winnable games for Texas, but back against the wall, you've
• 39:36
  got to be damn near perfect. Margin of error, very thin in
• 39:39
  the SEC. We'll move to the ACC.
• 39:45
  And it feels like we do this every year, feels like we do
• 39:48
  this every year with this team. And this one came a little bit
• 39:52
  earlier because this team. Usually.
• 39:54
  Loses in the final two weeks of the season like they did last
• 39:59
  year. It's the Miami Hurricanes #10
• 40:02
  team in the country. Travels to SMU.
• 40:06
  Surely SMU is not going to upset Miami, right?
• 40:10
  Miami's got to be a little bit woken up after losing at home to
• 40:13
  Louisville, no? the Hurricanes have gotten lost
• 40:19
  in the wind as the Hurricanes fall at SMU 26 to 20 in
• 40:25
  overtime. This was SMU's first win against
• 40:29
  an AP Top Ten team since January 1st, 1983 in the Sugar Bowl
• 40:34
  against Pitt, as well as the program's first home win over a
• 40:37
  top ten team since 1974 when the Mustangs defeated Texas A&M.
• 40:46
  Pregame storylines for this one. Can Miami fend off a well
• 40:50
  coached SMU team on the road and get back on track?
• 40:54
  Everyone knows what went down a couple of weeks ago against
• 40:57
  Louisville. That was a Friday night game
• 40:59
  coming off a bye. Louisville does have a couple of
• 41:03
  really talented players. You know, Chris Bell played
• 41:06
  really, really well in that one. Miller Moss did a good job
• 41:09
  getting it out. Jeff Brahm a a notorious coach
• 41:15
  and in those type of spots, a notorious winning coach in those
• 41:19
  type of spots, I should say. But you felt like that was just
• 41:23
  a one off because Miami for the most part of this season has
• 41:26
  looked like the best team in the country.
• 41:30
  Defensively, they've been one of the best groups in the country
• 41:32
  all season long. Hakeem Mazador, Ruben Bayne,
• 41:36
  junior. So the best defensive lineman in
• 41:39
  the country. I love what I've seen from
• 41:42
  Jacoby Thomas, a hard hitting safety offensively.
• 41:46
  You've. Gotten for the most part, really
• 41:51
  good play out of Carson Beck. You've gotten really good play
• 41:55
  out of guys like Malachi Tony and CJ Daniels and Keelan
• 41:59
  Marion. This is a good Miami team.
• 42:03
  This is a really good Miami roster.
• 42:07
  But Mario Cristobal and Carson Beck just said no, We're, we, we
• 42:12
  can't control ourselves. We're, we're going to mess this
• 42:14
  up somehow. First take away as the Carson
• 42:17
  Beck experience continues. He goes 26 for 38 for 274 yards
• 42:23
  and two touchdowns but had two costly interceptions and one of
• 42:26
  them was an overtime that sealed the deal.
• 42:30
  They got the ball first throws, the pick SMU is able to end up,
• 42:35
  they end up scoring A touchdown. They didn't really necessarily
• 42:37
  have to. But the Carson Beck experience
• 42:41
  continues. Now, Miami played really
• 42:44
  undisciplined and sloppy. I'll talk about that here in a
• 42:46
  second. But Carson Beck was glazed for
• 42:50
  much of this season because he. Didn't look like the player he
• 42:54
  did last year where he continued to turn the ball over in
• 42:57
  critical spots and. Make really poor decisions,
• 43:00
  force the ball into tight windows, force it into double
• 43:03
  coverage. He went away from that, but that
• 43:07
  Louisville game was a very concerning performance as he
• 43:10
  would throw it 60 yards down the field to a 510 Malachi Tony and
• 43:15
  triple coverage. He would misplace the ball on
• 43:19
  those on the sideline trying to hit, you know, hit ACJ Daniels
• 43:22
  throwing interception. He threw 5 interceptions in that
• 43:24
  one. Four of them counted.
• 43:27
  That was a really rough performance.
• 43:29
  And Miami played Stanford last week and they got back on track.
• 43:33
  But this version of Carson Beck that we've seen in two out of
• 43:38
  the last three games is not the same one we saw to begin the
• 43:41
  season. Not the same one we saw against
• 43:43
  Notre Dame, Not the same one we saw against Florida, not the
• 43:47
  same one we saw against Florida State.
• 43:51
  It just is mind boggling how this guy continues to make so
• 43:54
  much progress and then regress. All of a sudden two years ago,
• 43:59
  Carson Beck was a really good quarterback.
• 44:02
  Last year he was a disaster. He regressed.
• 44:06
  This season alone, he's kind of a microcosm of that.
• 44:08
  First half of the season he was strong. second-half of the
• 44:11
  season, it's a disaster. Continues to make poor
• 44:15
  decisions, continues to be often communication with his receivers
• 44:19
  on some pivotal plays. It's the Carson Beck experience
• 44:23
  we saw last year at Georgia and why the Bulldogs said yeah,
• 44:27
  we'll, we'll be good. We'll pass, we'll pass.
• 44:30
  Probably best for you to enter the transfer portal.
• 44:34
  And Shannon Dawson's offense is is predicated on being being
• 44:39
  aggressive. And.
• 44:41
  Attacking down the field and getting those big chunk plays.
• 44:44
  Also having that complimentary football, being able to run the
• 44:46
  ball, that's been inconsistent at times.
• 44:49
  The passing offense hasn't been, you know, hasn't been perfect by
• 44:54
  any means. They've had some cracks here and
• 44:57
  there and they were shown early in the season, but it wasn't
• 44:59
  enough because they'd able they'd be able to get back and
• 45:02
  and and and figure things out when these two losses, they
• 45:05
  continue to get in their own way and Beck's a part of that.
• 45:10
  But Miami was really undisciplined.
• 45:12
  And that's my second take away here.
• 45:14
  It was Miami's first game played outside of the state of Florida
• 45:17
  this season, and just the Kane 2nd Rd. game.
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  And how much of a factor should that take in?
• 45:24
  Well, I mean, there's not used to playing on the road, but when
• 45:27
  you factor in a rainy, chilly first half, you get 8 penalties
• 45:33
  and a slew of other errors. You get an interception in its
• 45:37
  own in your own territory. You get an ill advised kick
• 45:40
  return and then you fail to return a A.
• 45:43
  You're down a long punt. Just just simple things, you
• 45:46
  know, stuff that has to happen over the course of a game to
• 45:50
  continue to be on track for a win.
• 45:52
  And all of that happened and Miami was still up 10/7 and 1/2
• 45:56
  time. Now, the box score said they
• 46:00
  dominated everywhere else, but they're only up 10, seven, kind
• 46:05
  of similar to Tennessee, Oklahoma.
• 46:08
  The score should have been a lot different.
• 46:12
  Like you dominated in a lot of the major facets.
• 46:15
  You made a lot of mistakes, but you dominated for the most part.
• 46:19
  But you allowed. SMU to hang around for the game.
• 46:22
  You have 12 penalties for 96 yards.
• 46:26
  They played sloppy, undisciplined and when you play
• 46:30
  a team like SMU that's well coached and has a guy in Kevin
• 46:35
  Jennings that was in the College Football Playoff last year, turn
• 46:39
  that team around at the Week 3 point last season, they benched
• 46:44
  Preston Stone. They moved to a Jennings that
• 46:46
  was hobbled in this one. We'll talk more about him here
• 46:49
  in a minute, because I do want to give SMU credit.
• 46:52
  But you allow A-Team like that to hang around in their own
• 46:54
  building and it's going to catch up to you, especially when you
• 46:59
  don't have the same aggressive level.
• 47:01
  There's going to be aggression level as you did in big time
• 47:06
  games early in the season, and you continue to get in your own
• 47:08
  way. And it's a new year.
• 47:12
  Same narrative for Miami under Mario Cristobal.
• 47:16
  I I I bang. On Carson Beck, but and Mario
• 47:21
  Cristobal in the second-half of the season with a good football
• 47:24
  team is the worst thing ever for that team's fan base.
• 47:29
  All four of Miami's losses over the past two years have come as
• 47:33
  multi score touchdown favorites, multi score betting favorites.
• 47:39
  Cristobal is now 4 and 9 in November as Miami's head coach.
• 47:44
  Including two and three over the last two years were one of the
• 47:47
  most talented offenses in the country and one of the most
• 47:49
  talented teams in the country. New Year.
• 47:53
  Same narrative for Miami. And it's it's it's mind boggling
• 47:57
  because Miami was so good at the beginning of the season and you
• 48:01
  watch this game Saturday and you're like, what is this?
• 48:05
  12 penalties, 96 yards. Continuing to make mistakes. 2.
• 48:09
  Turnovers, not Downing the football on a nice on really
• 48:14
  nice punt, a really bad kick return that puts Miami in a
• 48:17
  tough situation. Just the little.
• 48:19
  Things that this Miami team continues to struggle with in
• 48:23
  the second-half of the season under Mario Cristobal.
• 48:28
  If I'm a Miami fan, I'm putting my hands up and saying what the
• 48:30
  hell happened over the last three weeks because I don't have
• 48:33
  an answer. For it, some of those things we
• 48:36
  saw in the first couple of weeks were emphasized in that.
• 48:38
  Louisville. Game.
• 48:39
  But this one was just plain laziness and and plain
• 48:43
  undisciplined football. So for his talent as a team that
• 48:48
  that that this Miami team has, this is really frustrating.
• 48:52
  And now I don't know if this is a College Football Playoff.
• 48:56
  Team that's a bad loss on the road.
• 48:59
  SMU is not a great team, but they're not a good team.
• 49:04
  Like they're just middle of the pack.
• 49:06
  That's a bad loss and it doesn't get much easier.
• 49:10
  Like if if SMU is causing issues what does this Pitt?
• 49:15
  Panthers team look like in November on a field that's going
• 49:19
  to be really yucky. Pittsburgh's field in November
• 49:23
  is gross slipping turnovers and Pitts playing pretty good
• 49:28
  football. Right now, that might be the
• 49:32
  third loss of the season for this Miami team.
• 49:34
  They're going to need some help if they want to make the College
• 49:36
  Football Playoff, for the fact that this team continues to have
• 49:39
  these type of blunders at this point in the season is
• 49:42
  ridiculous. Now, let me give credit to SMU.
• 49:45
  The Canes were playing up against a hobbled Kevin
• 49:49
  Jennings, a guy that I think is a little bit of a spinner wheel
• 49:52
  in terms of what you get from him.
• 49:54
  He came out at one point in this game.
• 49:56
  He had an ankle injury, got aggravated and sometimes appear
• 50:01
  to be on one foot, but no matter that, he still completed 66% of
• 50:06
  his passes for 365 yards and was able to overcome those injuries.
• 50:12
  And this is an overlooked SMU team.
• 50:15
  They come in at 4:00 and 3:00. They very easily could have been
• 50:18
  Baylor. They very easily have racked up
• 50:21
  a couple more wins throughout this season.
• 50:23
  They're really 2 plays away from being 7 and 1.
• 50:26
  And Rhett Lashley just got that contract extension.
• 50:29
  He's going to get a ton of eyeballs in the coaching
• 50:31
  carousel, but this is not a loss.
• 50:34
  That the University of Miami should suffer SMU Stadium.
• 50:40
  It is not like it's going into Death Valley.
• 50:44
  It's a 12:00 kick. That's not a tough environment
• 50:47
  to play in. The conditions weren't ideal,
• 50:51
  but that's a game that Miami has to win.
• 50:55
  And SMU is a good football team. They're not great.
• 51:00
  They're not. I mean, I, I, they're just
• 51:01
  average. I won't even say they're a good
• 51:03
  football team because those those two plays that could have
• 51:07
  made them seven and one or against teams like Baylor that
• 51:09
  are really inconsistent themselves.
• 51:13
  But again, credit to SMU, Rhett Lashley, a really good coach.
• 51:17
  I think this is just a roster that lost a lot from last year.
• 51:20
  It's been tough to rebuild and they've had some injury issues.
• 51:24
  But I I just don't understand how Miami continues to do this
• 51:29
  every year. I really don't, but I just come
• 51:31
  to expect it now. Circle that pit game late in the
• 51:34
  season too. I, I think Pitt could beat this
• 51:36
  Miami team and that would spark a really interesting
• 51:41
  conversation about Mario Cristobal.
• 51:43
  But the way they looked in the first half of the season, end
• 51:45
  out the way they did and end out the way they have the last
• 51:48
  couple of years would be really, really disappointing.
• 51:51
  And maybe start questioning Mario Cristobal's ability to be
• 51:55
  their head coach. Let's move now to the Big 12
• 52:05
  we've got #24 Utah taking on #17 Cincinnati.
• 52:09
  Utah look the part in this top 25 matchup as they whip up on
• 52:16
  Cincinnati 45 to 14 in this one. And college game day was here,
• 52:22
  they bullied or got bullied enough and to not going to an
• 52:26
  SEC matchup. They go to a top 25 match up in
• 52:29
  the Big 12. I'm not griping about it, but it
• 52:33
  kind of felt like they they were forced to go to this one because
• 52:38
  of all the discourse lately about the SEC.
• 52:41
  Real quick, who gives a crap? People are just complaining
• 52:45
  because they want to complain. Name me a Big 10 game that they
• 52:48
  should have gone to over the last couple of weeks.
• 52:51
  Name me a Big 12 match up outside of this one that they
• 52:53
  should have gone to over the last couple weeks.
• 52:55
  Maybe BYU and Utah, but Big noon kick off was there and there
• 53:01
  have been a ton of big games in the SEC.
• 53:03
  The SEC is the most watched conference in in college
• 53:06
  football. They're the most watched teams
• 53:09
  night in and night out. And you know, you want to bring
• 53:12
  that type of environment to your pre game show, you go to the
• 53:17
  SEC. So that was a stupid argument
• 53:19
  that people made and always make every year.
• 53:21
  But nevertheless, let's talk about what we thought about this
• 53:24
  one heading into it. Utah has frustrated me at times
• 53:28
  this season because I do like Devin Dampier, I do like Kyle
• 53:32
  Winningham in big spots, but Utah is O and two to this point
• 53:37
  against top 25 teams. Remember in week 4 they played
• 53:41
  Texas Tech at home and they got ran off the field.
• 53:44
  They played BYU out game the Cougars but went one of three on
• 53:50
  on red zone trips and one of three on 4th down.
• 53:54
  Could they finally put it together against the Cincinnati
• 53:57
  team that I thought was quietly A1 loss team?
• 54:04
  They lose the Nebraska in the first week of the season.
• 54:06
  They rattle off a lot of impressive wins since then, but
• 54:09
  is this truly a top 25 team? We'd have to see.
• 54:12
  And Cincinnati is a group that is predicated on on on.
• 54:15
  Excuse me on RPO. Got some stuck in my throat
• 54:19
  there. Here we go.
• 54:21
  Will continue. Cincinnati is a team that is
• 54:23
  predicated on RPO. You don't have running back Evan
• 54:28
  Pryor in this one. How big of a factor does that
• 54:30
  play in? And what does Brendan Sorsby
• 54:33
  look like against probably the best defense he'll face this
• 54:36
  season out of Iowa State earlier in the year.
• 54:39
  But Iowa State in that matchup had two of their top DBS down,
• 54:43
  and Utah's defense made life difficult for Cincinnati's
• 54:47
  passing attack. That's the main take away here.
• 54:51
  Brennan Sorsby has his worst game of the season, 11 for 3311
• 54:56
  for 33 in this one for 221 yards and a touchdown.
• 55:00
  Had an interception and a fumble.
• 55:01
  Lost just to not look in rhythm. Utah had a really good passing
• 55:07
  attack and that they were able to get in the backfield multiple
• 55:10
  times. Put pressure on Sores B and a
• 55:12
  lot of his throws were either behind too high or in too in
• 55:15
  front. Just was not accurate.
• 55:18
  And Sores B is a good quarterback, but he's a better
• 55:21
  quarterback when he's able to play in rhythm and is able to be
• 55:26
  a factor in the run game, be a factor in the RPO, but be able
• 55:30
  to deliver on those throws out of those run pass option plays.
• 55:34
  Was not able to do that in this one.
• 55:37
  And the Bearcats turned the ball over three times and they
• 55:39
  finished six for 14 on 3rd down. They were consistently in 3rd
• 55:43
  and long situations, could not execute because of the pass rush
• 55:48
  and the time that Soresby had. But then you mix in that he was
• 55:51
  inaccurate and not in rhythm and not on time, not on schedule.
• 55:56
  It just was kind of a disaster for Cincinnati.
• 55:58
  They never really found a rhythm offensively and they were able
• 56:03
  to force a couple of turnovers but weren't able to capitalize
• 56:06
  many times. So it just, you got to give
• 56:09
  credit to the Utah defense here. This was a big performance for
• 56:12
  them, especially after allowing BYU to convert on a couple of
• 56:16
  big third down conversions and 4th down conversions a couple of
• 56:19
  weeks ago and that top 25 matchup on the road.
• 56:23
  They were much better on those critical downs in this one.
• 56:25
  Brendan Sorsby, just a really tough outing for him and this
• 56:30
  Utah offense I thought played really, really, really good
• 56:35
  complimentary football. I I put in the notes tremendous
• 56:38
  complimentary football because they've out gained teams
• 56:41
  multiple times this season. I I guess I should I should back
• 56:46
  backtrack. Obviously they've out gained a
• 56:48
  lot of teams this season. They're a top 25 team and
• 56:50
  they've got seven wins. But or six wins I should say,
• 56:55
  but against BYU they out game the Cougars, but we're not able
• 56:59
  to play complimentary football in those critical moments like
• 57:02
  third down and 4th down. And they didn't have as great of
• 57:05
  a rushing attack as they've had in other games like when they
• 57:08
  play Colorado, they ran all over the Buffs.
• 57:12
  They didn't really have that against BYU.
• 57:14
  Devin Dam Pure wasn't able to get as activated in the run game
• 57:17
  in that one. But against Cincinnati, Utah's
• 57:21
  offense look the part and look the way that they have up
• 57:24
  against some of these more inferior opponents they've gone
• 57:27
  up against not these top level defenses in Texas Tech and BYU.
• 57:31
  Cincinnati doesn't have a bad defense by any means, but they
• 57:34
  more so lean on the offensive side of the football and the
• 57:37
  game plan that they have. But Utah on this one goes for
• 57:41
  480 yards of total offense and not just 29 first downs, 213
• 57:47
  passing yards, 267 rushing yards.
• 57:50
  And quarterback Devin Damper, a guy I loved heading into the
• 57:54
  season, a transfer from New Mexico, disappointed me in that
• 57:57
  Texas Tech game. Turn the ball over a couple of
• 57:59
  times, forced the ball a couple of times against BYU.
• 58:03
  Again, a non factor as a runner. But in this one you got a really
• 58:07
  balanced attack from him. 16 for 31 for 213 yards, 2 touchdowns
• 58:12
  in the air and 78 yards on the ground.
• 58:15
  That's the Devon Dam pier that you needed in this match up.
• 58:19
  Wide receiver Ryan Davis, 8 receptions for 132 yards and a
• 58:23
  touchdown. He had his best game of the
• 58:26
  season. He's put together a couple of
• 58:28
  strong performances over the last couple of weeks and another
• 58:31
  guy that put together a really impressive performance was
• 58:34
  running back way Sean Parker. 104 yards and a touchdown.
• 58:38
  Now back-to-back 100 yard plus yard performances as he had 145
• 58:43
  against Colorado. I think this is a good Utah
• 58:46
  team, but they've been inconsistent in these top 25
• 58:51
  matchups in these big time games.
• 58:54
  They've been blowing the doors off of the West Virginia's and
• 58:57
  Colorado's of the Big 12, but they haven't been as consistent
• 59:00
  and haven't been the same against the Texas Tech and a
• 59:03
  BYU. As I mentioned earlier, BYU,
• 59:06
  Texas Tech, 2 top 20 defenses in the country.
• 59:09
  It's not going to be perfect, but in this one you needed to
• 59:13
  get a win and you needed to be an impressive 1 because I think
• 59:16
  Cincinnati was a little bit propped up with their win over
• 59:20
  Iowa State. Obviously Iowa State isn't the
• 59:23
  team that many people thought they were going to be pre
• 59:25
  season, but Utah needed this one.
• 59:27
  And damn, pure played the way that he has throughout the
• 59:31
  course of the season and sneeze inferior matchups on a little
• 59:35
  bit of a lower level. But again, you're playing a
• 59:37
  Cincinnati team that only has one loss in the season.
• 59:39
  They've been doing something right defensively and how
• 59:43
  Winningham and company needed this one to stay alive in the
• 59:45
  Big 12 title race. So look at the Big 12 right now.
• 59:50
  You've got BYU as the front runner, Texas Tech right behind
• 59:54
  them. Arizona State is hanging around
• 59:57
  as well, though they have a couple losses and in Big 12
• 1:00:00
  play, so does Utah. It's going to be very
• 1:00:03
  interesting to see how this this conference plays out because BYU
• 1:00:06
  is about to have some big time matchups coming up.
• 1:00:10
  We'll see how they handle the course of the season.
• 1:00:12
  They play Texas Tech this weekend.
• 1:00:14
  That's going to be a hell of a game.
• 1:00:16
  I feel like this Texas Tech team is not playing their best
• 1:00:19
  football right now, but that's going to be a big game in terms
• 1:00:23
  of the Big 12 landscape. Utah with an outside chance
• 1:00:26
  right now, but need some help to make a push for that Big 12
• 1:00:30
  championship spot and possibly earn a berth for the College
• 1:00:34
  Football Playoff. So those are the big games that
• 1:00:38
  I wanted to cover. Obviously this week, only three
• 1:00:40
  top 25 matchups. Week 10 originally was supposed
• 1:00:45
  to feature 7 top 25 matchups, at least according to the APAP poll
• 1:00:50
  pre season. But obviously things have
• 1:00:54
  changed. Penn State not as good.
• 1:00:56
  Clemson not as good. Arizona State and Iowa State
• 1:01:00
  have not been as impressive. South Carolina took a big time
• 1:01:04
  dip. Florida.
• 1:01:05
  Georgia would have been a top 25 matchup, but the Gators
• 1:01:07
  obviously have not played to that level this season
• 1:01:10
  consistently. But it was still a notable week
• 1:01:14
  because you had an upset like SMU over Miami.
• 1:01:17
  You got a big time matchup in the SEC between Tennessee and
• 1:01:20
  Oklahoma and Texas and Vanderbilt and the Big 12
• 1:01:25
  delivered some offensive fireworks from Utah late night.
• 1:01:28
  So those are the big game takeaways.
• 1:01:31
  We'll now go into the other notable takeaways.
• 1:01:34
  And it kind of brings a smile on my face to talk about this one
• 1:01:39
  because Georgia Tech shows that they're frauds.
• 1:01:42
  They fall to a four and four NC State team, 48 to 36 on the
• 1:01:46
  road. And these numbers I'm about to
• 1:01:49
  read off are jaw-dropping. The Wolfpack put up 583 yards of
• 1:01:55
  total offense, including 243 yards on the ground, and they go
• 1:01:59
  7 for 11 on 3rd down. CJ Bailey, a a really underrated
• 1:02:05
  quarterback in the ACC. He goes 24 for 32340 yards, 2
• 1:02:10
  touchdowns, 1 rushing touchdown in this one.
• 1:02:13
  Jaden Scott, 196 yards and a touchdown.
• 1:02:18
  He was really, really impressive.
• 1:02:19
  I mean, really, anytime you go for 583 yards of total offense,
• 1:02:24
  it's going to be an impressive performance.
• 1:02:26
  But Scott and Bailey were cooking in this one.
• 1:02:29
  And NC State's so weird because they have two wins over top 25
• 1:02:34
  teams right now. They beat Virginia early in the
• 1:02:37
  season. They beat Georgia Tech.
• 1:02:39
  Now obviously this is a group that has an embarrassing loss to
• 1:02:43
  Virginia Tech not too long ago, but they've got some pretty
• 1:02:48
  impressive wins. I I don't think this is a good
• 1:02:50
  football team by any means, but offensively they do have some
• 1:02:53
  firepower and they just out offensed Haines King and
• 1:02:57
  company. And that's saying something
• 1:02:59
  because Haines King had 511 yards of total offense and four
• 1:03:02
  touchdowns. But Georgia Tech's defense has
• 1:03:06
  continued to be a concern of mine throughout the season
• 1:03:09
  against Duke. The Blue Devils out gained them
• 1:03:12
  big time in the first half, but Georgia Tech was able to profit
• 1:03:16
  off of a couple of key turnovers and and key mishaps for Duke in
• 1:03:19
  that game. And I thought that was a game
• 1:03:21
  the Blue Devils should have won. Wake Forest takes this Georgia
• 1:03:25
  Tech team to overtime, double overtime that is.
• 1:03:29
  I thought they were a little bit fraudulent and I wasn't buying
• 1:03:32
  them. That's why I continue to have
• 1:03:34
  them outside of my top ten over the last couple of weeks though
• 1:03:37
  they were undefeated. I just didn't see it with them
• 1:03:40
  and now I feel like they are frauds.
• 1:03:42
  And while they still have an inside track to go to the ACC
• 1:03:46
  Championship with Miami losing another game this weekend, I
• 1:03:50
  still don't buy this team as a legitimate contender in the
• 1:03:54
  College Football Playoff race. And I feel like they could
• 1:03:57
  possibly get tripped up again. But when you look at that
• 1:03:59
  schedule, it leaves it at least set up to be a.
• 1:04:03
  Little bit of a waltz. Into that ACC Championship game,
• 1:04:07
  obviously Georgia Tech will wrap up with Georgia to end the
• 1:04:10
  season. They'll probably get a loss and
• 1:04:11
  that one be a two loss team, but I just didn't buy that this
• 1:04:15
  Georgia Tech team was a legit undefeated group.
• 1:04:20
  Let's talk about that team that we'll face at the end of the
• 1:04:23
  season, and that's Georgia as they take on the Gators and they
• 1:04:26
  escape 24 to 20. In the World's Greatest Cocktail
• 1:04:30
  party, the World's Largest Cocktail Party, Connor Stockton
• 1:04:34
  goes 20 for 29233 yards and two touchdowns.
• 1:04:38
  I think his progression throughout the season has been
• 1:04:41
  pretty interesting. At the beginning of the year, I
• 1:04:43
  did not think he was good against zone coverage, wasn't
• 1:04:46
  great in this one, did have a turnover.
• 1:04:49
  But I feel like he's gotten more comfortable throughout the
• 1:04:52
  season going up against different looks and different
• 1:04:55
  coverages, particularly zone coverage.
• 1:04:57
  Florida played a little bit of that in this one, and it threw
• 1:04:59
  him off a couple of times, but I think he's continued to grow in
• 1:05:03
  that realm. And Georgia continues to ride a
• 1:05:06
  lot of momentum following that loss to Alabama.
• 1:05:09
  A Chauncey Bowens, a former Florida running back commit,
• 1:05:13
  goes 70 yards and a touchdown in this one.
• 1:05:18
  I thought Georgia, you know, played fine offensively.
• 1:05:20
  I think Florida deserves more credit than they get.
• 1:05:22
  Obviously, this is a team that doesn't have the sexiest record,
• 1:05:26
  but I still think Florida is a good football team.
• 1:05:28
  And I say that and some people might say, William, what are you
• 1:05:31
  talking about? Actually, a couple hours ago I
• 1:05:33
  was having a conversation with my friends and they said I was
• 1:05:36
  an idiot, that I was baiting. No, I think Florida is a good
• 1:05:39
  football team. They just continue to get in
• 1:05:42
  their own way. And in this one, it wasn't
• 1:05:46
  necessarily them that was getting them in their own way.
• 1:05:49
  It was a couple of really controversial calls that went
• 1:05:52
  against them. DJ Lagway steps up in the pocket
• 1:05:55
  and zips one about 40-50 yards down the field of J Michael
• 1:05:59
  Sturdivant. And it looked like a catch.
• 1:06:02
  I thought it was a catch and I thought it was a bad call that
• 1:06:04
  they ruled incomplete that would have given 4 to the ball at the
• 1:06:09
  40 yard line with three minutes to go and that would have at
• 1:06:12
  least put them in field goal range.
• 1:06:13
  And that the opportunity to tie this one or maybe not tie this
• 1:06:17
  one but send it to overtime. No O for two.
• 1:06:20
  We'll try again, possibly win this game.
• 1:06:22
  I should say. They could have sat on the
• 1:06:25
  football and got inside the Redstone and you know, killed
• 1:06:28
  the game with a minute left. So when I look at Florida season
• 1:06:33
  back due to penalties and then you spit on a player and they
• 1:06:35
  get an automatic first down 15 yards, they extend the drive,
• 1:06:38
  get the field goal, win that one against Miami.
• 1:06:41
  I thought this team competed, had multiple opportunities to
• 1:06:45
  keep within arm's distance of that one and they did, but they
• 1:06:48
  could not execute offensively. Against LSU, you throw 5.
• 1:06:53
  Interceptions on the road. And only lose by 10.
• 1:06:56
  I think this is a good defense. I think this is a good team.
• 1:07:00
  They manhandled Texas and that went a couple of weeks.
• 1:07:03
  Ago about a month ago. But the problem is this team
• 1:07:06
  just cannot stand out of their own way, and that's why the
• 1:07:08
  record is the way it is. But I still think they're a good
• 1:07:11
  football team that deserves respect.
• 1:07:14
  This is a good defense and Georgia had a tough time with
• 1:07:17
  them so. Florida's going to be a team to
• 1:07:22
  watch for in the. SEC To.
• 1:07:23
  End out the season because. They could be a team that, you
• 1:07:27
  know, messes someone up. They can mess whole mess up as
• 1:07:31
  they travel to the take on the Rebels here in a couple of
• 1:07:33
  weeks. That's an interesting match up.
• 1:07:35
  Florida and Tennessee is an interesting one in the swamp
• 1:07:38
  here in Week 13. Obviously, Tennessee doesn't
• 1:07:44
  have College Football Playoff aspirations anymore.
• 1:07:46
  But that could be a big one in terms of the momentum for
• 1:07:49
  Tennessee's. Program heading.
• 1:07:50
  Into the final weeks of the season, I think Florida is a
• 1:07:54
  good football team. And I know that sounds really
• 1:07:56
  stupid, but you go back and look at the track record of these
• 1:08:00
  games and what's transpired. If they don't get their own way
• 1:08:03
  and they're a little bit more disciplined, Billy Napier might
• 1:08:07
  be still be coaching this team in Florida.
• 1:08:08
  Could be in the college football.
• 1:08:09
  Playoff race. Instead, they continue to get in
• 1:08:12
  their own way. Saturday was more so a crucial
• 1:08:15
  call that goes against them. One more game I want to hit on.
• 1:08:20
  #1 Ohio State. Defeats Penn State 30. 8 to 14.
• 1:08:24
  Behind 480 yards of total offense for the Buckeyes, they
• 1:08:28
  hold Penn State to just 200. And obviously Penn State is a
• 1:08:32
  disaster offensively. They don't have a quarterback,
• 1:08:34
  and K Tron Allen is really the only focal point they have at
• 1:08:37
  this point in the season. But that's still really
• 1:08:40
  impressive for a Penn State team that is very talented in terms
• 1:08:43
  of who they have on that roster. But let's talk about quarterback
• 1:08:47
  Julian saying, man, 20 of 23 for 316 yards and four touchdowns.
• 1:08:52
  He was really good in this one and continues to be one of the
• 1:08:55
  most impressive players of the season.
• 1:08:58
  This is a guy that I did not know a whole lot about heading
• 1:09:00
  into the year because we hadn't seen him play.
• 1:09:03
  And he started off at Alabama split time with Ty Simpson and.
• 1:09:06
  Was a. Practice.
• 1:09:07
  You know, practice quarterback of third Stringer, 4th Stringer
• 1:09:10
  on a very loaded depth chart decides to transfer.
• 1:09:14
  Out goes to Ohio. State backs up.
• 1:09:17
  Walker Howard last year doesn't really get an opportunity to
• 1:09:20
  play. Didn't really know what to make
• 1:09:22
  of him and he was heading into that match up with Texas up
• 1:09:26
  against Arch Manning. I said that I have more
• 1:09:29
  confidence with Manning heading into that one saying has been
• 1:09:32
  the more consistent guy throughout the season and it
• 1:09:34
  helps. We have Cornell Tate to throw to
• 1:09:37
  and Jeremiah Smith to throw to. Tate goes 5 receptions for 124
• 1:09:41
  yards and a touchdown. Smith goes 6 receptions for 123.
• 1:09:46
  Ohio State's playing really good football and I know their
• 1:09:49
  schedule is not as strong as you would have hoped and maybe
• 1:09:53
  thought of at the beginning of the season.
• 1:09:56
  Penn State was supposed to be a big time matchup.
• 1:09:58
  It's not anymore. That Texas win is still a good
• 1:10:01
  one and it'll help if Texas continues to win games.
• 1:10:04
  But the Big 10 just not that strong and Ohio State doesn't
• 1:10:08
  have to play a lot of these big time matchups they had to play
• 1:10:10
  last season. So I think Ohio State is still
• 1:10:14
  the number one team in the country.
• 1:10:16
  They deserve a ton of respect. But I think Indiana's knocking
• 1:10:19
  on the door and that 12 and O versus 12 and O matchup in the
• 1:10:22
  Big 10 championship game should be a fun one.
• 1:10:26
  Notable injuries real quick. From the weekend, Dilla Rayola.
• 1:10:30
  Quarterback for Nebraska suffers a broken fibula.
• 1:10:33
  He'll be out for the rest of the year.
• 1:10:34
  He suffers that in the. Cornhuskers lost to USC 21 to 17
• 1:10:39
  at home on Saturday. The Trojans stay alive in the
• 1:10:43
  College Football Playoff race. Nebraska continues to be a team
• 1:10:49
  you talk about in the before the season begins and you hype
• 1:10:53
  yourself up about them and then you see them play and you're
• 1:10:56
  like, this offensive line is terrible and probably going to
• 1:10:58
  get Rayola hurt. And that's exactly what
• 1:11:01
  happened. Hate it for Rayola.
• 1:11:02
  He'll be back next year, but Nebraska has to have some life
• 1:11:07
  here soon. I, I know they gave rule an
• 1:11:10
  extension just to keep them from going from Penn State to Penn
• 1:11:13
  State, I should say. But I'm kind of disappointed
• 1:11:16
  with what I see from Nebraska year in and year out.
• 1:11:19
  Another player, Dallas Wilson, a freshman wide receiver for
• 1:11:23
  Florida who had a very impressive performance against
• 1:11:25
  Texas. He's going to miss the red rest
• 1:11:27
  of the season. He's going to red shirt and
• 1:11:30
  maybe that gives him an extra year of eligibility.
• 1:11:32
  Maybe he won't need that as I think he could be an NFL player
• 1:11:36
  in two seasons. But a big loss for the Gators as
• 1:11:40
  they finish out the season. Maybe Dallas Wilson transfers
• 1:11:43
  and finds another place. I don't know what to make of
• 1:11:44
  Florida heading into this offseason yet.
• 1:11:47
  They need to lock down a coach here soon because with all these
• 1:11:52
  coaching hirings and firings happening, or really firings
• 1:11:56
  more so than hirings, they've got the upper hand to get a head
• 1:12:00
  start and and lock down a coach. I'd say they need to do that
• 1:12:04
  sooner rather than later to get that opportunity to start
• 1:12:07
  recruiting and, you know, formulating your roster ahead of
• 1:12:11
  everyone else who might be waiting for some coaches that
• 1:12:14
  could be contending for the College Football Playoff.
• 1:12:17
  All right, my top 25 real quick before we get into my final
• 1:12:21
  thoughts #25 making the first appearance this season is the
• 1:12:25
  Pitt Panthers. They got a 35 to 21 over
• 1:12:27
  Stanford this weekend. They switched to Heinstell,
• 1:12:31
  their quarterback, a freshman a couple of weeks ago.
• 1:12:35
  They played really good football over the last month ever since
• 1:12:39
  then. And Pittsburgh is going to be a
• 1:12:41
  team to watch for the rest of the way.
• 1:12:44
  They've got an opportunity to knock some some teams off
• 1:12:47
  Georgia Tech, Miami and Notre Dame, all three teams still in
• 1:12:51
  the hunt for the College Football Playoffs.
• 1:12:53
  Watch out for Pitt. Panthers being spoilers.
• 1:12:56
  Washington at 24. I think this is a good football
• 1:12:59
  team. I think that they put up a fight
• 1:13:03
  against Ohio State. I think that's Ohio State's best
• 1:13:05
  win this season outside of what they did against Texas.
• 1:13:08
  Washington's a good team. They're good offensively.
• 1:13:11
  Jonah Coleman, a really, really good running back.
• 1:13:13
  Damon Williams, I think is an underrated quarterback.
• 1:13:16
  But they need a signature win to get a little bit more
• 1:13:19
  credibility. But I don't know if they have
• 1:13:21
  that many opportunities left to go.
• 1:13:23
  But Washington ranked 24 this week.
• 1:13:25
  Cincinnati drops to 23. For me.
• 1:13:27
  They lose to Utah. We talked about that one
• 1:13:29
  earlier. Georgia Tech drops to 22.
• 1:13:33
  I had them at 13 last week. You lose to a. 4:00 and 4:00.
• 1:13:36
  NC State team. I hate it.
• 1:13:39
  It's a one loss team, but they haven't been many teams this
• 1:13:42
  season. I don't have a whole lot of
• 1:13:43
  confidence in them #21 Memphis moves just a spot.
• 1:13:48
  They get a win over the weekend against Rice on Friday.
• 1:13:51
  Right now that's my group of five bid.
• 1:13:53
  But North Texas knocking on the door.
• 1:13:55
  They got a win over Navy this weekend.
• 1:13:57
  They're on the outside looking in #20 Michigan #19 USC, the
• 1:14:04
  Trojans have that head to head win over Michigan.
• 1:14:06
  So I put them a spot ahead. Miami at 18, I still respect
• 1:14:10
  what they did at the at the beginning of the season, but
• 1:14:12
  they're starting to lose me a little bit #17 Utah put together
• 1:14:16
  a really strong performance against Cincinnati.
• 1:14:19
  A a double digit almost, I mean 31 point.
• 1:14:24
  Win over a top 25. Team they move up to 17
• 1:14:28
  Missouri. They were idle this past
• 1:14:29
  weekend, but Matt. Zahlers.
• 1:14:31
  The freshman quarterback that came in relief for Beau Propula
• 1:14:35
  in that Vanderbilt game was impressive.
• 1:14:38
  I know they're missing their starter, but Zellers was solid
• 1:14:41
  and Missouri has some opportunities left to go.
• 1:14:44
  I still think this rushing attack and their defense
• 1:14:47
  warrants a top 16 spot. Vanderbilt has the head to
• 1:14:57
  Virginia has a head to head win over Louisville #12 Oklahoma.
• 1:15:02
  They move up a. Couple of spots.
• 1:15:03
  After the win over Tennessee and a rocking environment inside
• 1:15:07
  Neeland Stadium, right ahead of them is Texas at #11 they've got
• 1:15:11
  that. Head to head.
• 1:15:12
  Win on a neutral site field at #10 Texas Tech, a team that is
• 1:15:17
  going to have a big time matchup this weekend up against BYU.
• 1:15:20
  If they get that win. This is a legit Texas Tech team.
• 1:15:25
  Baron Morton is the only option now at quarterback.
• 1:15:28
  That does worry me just a little bit.
• 1:15:30
  Hammond out for the season, they're a little bit thin at
• 1:15:33
  that position now. And Morton?
• 1:15:35
  Has. A history of getting hurt.
• 1:15:37
  They need Morton to stay healthy #9BYU I don't love this BYU team
• 1:15:43
  because I do think they have been susceptive to kind of
• 1:15:46
  getting away from some of these games like that.
• 1:15:50
  Utah won. They were out gained by.
• 1:15:52
  About 100. Yards, They still found a way to
• 1:15:53
  win. I guess I'll give them credit.
• 1:15:55
  This is a top 15 defense. We'll see what they look like
• 1:15:58
  against the Red Raiders #8 Notre Dame.
• 1:16:01
  A lot of people don't have Notre Dame this high.
• 1:16:03
  But my thing is this is still a really good football team.
• 1:16:07
  And their two losses on the season are at Miami on the road.
• 1:16:10
  And they lose to a Texas A&M team that I think is the third
• 1:16:13
  best team in the country. They lose by 1.
• 1:16:16
  Notre Dame's still a good group. CJ Carr has played really good
• 1:16:19
  football. Jeremiah Love rattled off a 94
• 1:16:22
  yard touchdown on Saturday against Boston College.
• 1:16:24
  Not the cleanest performance for the Fighting Irish, but I still
• 1:16:27
  think this is a really, really solid roster #7 Ole Miss, the
• 1:16:32
  Rebels get AB2AB2A win over South Carolina.
• 1:16:37
  Shout out to Lane Kiffin for reposting the Paddifax on
• 1:16:40
  Monday. That was pretty cool.
• 1:16:42
  Thank you. Lane Kiffin, 6th Georgia.
• 1:16:45
  They've got the head to head win over the Rebels. #5 Oregon
• 1:16:49
  getting a little concerned. About this team, not going to
• 1:16:51
  lie, but they're going to have their opportunities ahead of
• 1:16:55
  them. That USC match up in a couple of
• 1:16:57
  weeks will be a good win for them if they can get that done.
• 1:17:00
  Oregon at #5 #4 it's Alabama. The Crimson Tide continue to
• 1:17:06
  play good football and they deserve the spot once again this
• 1:17:10
  week. Texas A&M at 3:00.
• 1:17:12
  They've got a couple of tough games coming up to end the
• 1:17:15
  season. They face Missouri on the road
• 1:17:17
  this upcoming weekend and that'll be a test for them.
• 1:17:20
  Maybe Matt Zahlers and company has something on her sleeve, but
• 1:17:23
  Tex A&M the still the best team in the SEC in my eyes.
• 1:17:27
  We rounded out with #2 Indiana and #1 Ohio State, my top 25
• 1:17:32
  heading into Week 11. All right, we'll wrap things up
• 1:17:37
  with my. Final thoughts and.
• 1:17:39
  We have another head coaching firing and the SEC.
• 1:17:42
  This time it's Hugh Freeze and. They lose Saturday to Kentucky.
• 1:17:49
  2:50 And that was the cherry on top, because I.
• 1:17:53
  Have argued that. Auburn, kind of like Florida, is
• 1:17:57
  not that bad of a team. Defensively, they're really,
• 1:17:59
  really good. Guys like Keldrick Falk, who are
• 1:18:01
  going to be a first round pick, have been very impressive
• 1:18:04
  defensively. They've yet to allow more than
• 1:18:06
  24 points this season. There are only two other teams
• 1:18:09
  in the country that can say the same thing, That's Ohio State
• 1:18:12
  and Indiana. The fact that Auburn is where
• 1:18:15
  they are with those numbers is pretty telling of their offense.
• 1:18:20
  They move. To.
• 1:18:21
  Ashton Daniels. This weekend.
• 1:18:23
  But I've argued Ashton Daniels is just like a diet version of
• 1:18:26
  Jackson Arnold. I wasn't very impressed with
• 1:18:28
  Daniels at Stanford. I didn't think it was a great
• 1:18:31
  portal acquisition, and it hasn't turned out that way.
• 1:18:34
  They only put up three points against a Kentucky team that
• 1:18:38
  doesn't have that good of a defense.
• 1:18:41
  So Hugh Freeze goes, another SEC coach is gone.
• 1:18:45
  And right now in college football, I think you're about
• 1:18:48
  as good as your quarterback is. And when you look at the best
• 1:18:52
  teams in the country right now, they're quarterbacks playing at
• 1:18:55
  an elite level. Julian saying, Fernando Mendoza,
• 1:18:58
  Marcel Reed, Ty Simpson, Dante Moore, Gunner Stockton, Trinidad
• 1:19:03
  Chambliss. I think it stops at BYU because
• 1:19:07
  I'm not a head over heels for Bachmeier, but they have a
• 1:19:09
  really good defense and they don't play as tough of a
• 1:19:12
  schedule as an SEC team does each week.
• 1:19:15
  But for Freeze, he's whipped on the quarterback time and time
• 1:19:20
  again. Peyton Thorne was a disaster.
• 1:19:22
  Jackson Arnold looked really good against Baylor.
• 1:19:24
  But when you start playing SEC defenses that have the type of
• 1:19:27
  guys that can contain and catch up to you, you can't run around
• 1:19:30
  like a chicken with your head cut off.
• 1:19:32
  And they've learned that in SEC play.
• 1:19:35
  I thought that Kiffin should have excuse me, not Kiffin.
• 1:19:38
  I thought that freeze should have switched to Deuce Knight,
• 1:19:41
  who was a five star last year, kind of taking the DJ Lagway
• 1:19:45
  Billy Napier route where you're like, hey, this is this is what
• 1:19:48
  we're showing. This is what we could be if you
• 1:19:50
  keep me around. He decides to go with Ashton
• 1:19:53
  Daniels. He was very.
• 1:19:55
  Bleak. And I think you're just now
• 1:19:58
  seeing teams in college football understand the opportunity at
• 1:20:03
  hand to make a 12 team playoff. And if you're not able to
• 1:20:06
  deliver in a couple of seasons in the SEC, you fall behind.
• 1:20:10
  And when you continue to whiff on your quarterback?
• 1:20:14
  That's what. You're going to be in.
• 1:20:15
  You're going to be in that realm of Hugh Freeze is known for an
• 1:20:17
  offensive guy. The defense has been the best
• 1:20:20
  part of this team this season. DJ Durkins done a hell of a job.
• 1:20:23
  He might not be a hell of a guy or a hell of a person, but he is
• 1:20:26
  a hell of a defensive coordinator and that defense has
• 1:20:29
  done their job. The offense has not.
• 1:20:32
  They've been able to stay in games because of that defense.
• 1:20:35
  The quarterback situation continues to be an issue.
• 1:20:38
  And in 2025, you're as good as your quarterback and that's why
• 1:20:42
  you see James Franklin get the can.
• 1:20:45
  Drew Allergist wasn't the part, and I know he got hurt, but I
• 1:20:49
  mean, that UCLA game, he did not make any big plays.
• 1:20:52
  In the Oregon game, he made a pivotal, crucial interception
• 1:20:57
  and overtime. Garrett Nussmeyer has been.
• 1:20:59
  Inconsistent. Throughout the season is
• 1:21:01
  underwhelmed. DJ Lagway has not been the
• 1:21:05
  player that we had anticipated heading into the season.
• 1:21:09
  Mike Gundy hasn't had a good quarterback since Spencer.
• 1:21:12
  Sanders in 20. 21 Like it's just the reality.
• 1:21:15
  If you don't have a good quarterback in 2025, you're not.
• 1:21:18
  Going to stick around. And that's why a lot of these
• 1:21:21
  coaches are getting the can right now.
• 1:21:23
  So if you want to stick around, you got to nail the quarterback.
• 1:21:26
  Hugh Freeze, an offensive minded guy, couldn't do so.
• 1:21:31
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