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• RAC Aaron: Welcome back to Rack. As usual, I'm Aaron, joined by my two host, Chandler. RAC Chandler: Going on, gentlemen. RAC Aaron: and Ryan. RY4N: What's up guys? RAC Aaron: And this week we wanted to dive in or this week we wanted to take a trip out to Vegas, Lay some money down on the over-under odds of total wins for 10 teams this season. We're starting off 5 SEC teams and 5 Big 10 teams. But before we put our money on the table, do some news to get to over at the Raction News Team. RAC Chandler: Before we get into the news, I just want to say Happy April to you guys. We are officially in the month where college football will be played in our stadiums again. We may have a long break after, but by golly are we going to have some football played, N-pads hitting, some fandom there. mean it's going to be good to go, so I'm glad to be in the April month or spring games right around the corner. RAC Aaron: Yeah. It really feels like Christmas in July energy where it's like we still got to waste, but we get to celebrate just a little bit. RAC Chandler: It's great, it's great. RY4N: Yeah, it looks like our SEC teams are getting ready for that though, but I don't know about your big 10. Must be a little later. Band 7 got there yet. Mm-hmm. RAC Aaron: Yeah RAC Chandler: Yeah, the stadium isn't filling up yet. It's a, we're a little early. First one's here. ⁓ we're going to take a trip to ⁓ of our alma mater's and talk about UWF over in Pensacola. They have become a D1 football program only football, but they're joining the United Athletic Conference. And this conference is designed around RY4N: ⁓ yes! First one's here, first one's here. RAC Chandler: the rebrand of the Western Athletic Conference to create a home for the up and coming FCS teams. So pretty cool. I think they're building a whole new stadium on campus. It's going to be an awesome place to tailgate. It's an awesome campus itself right next to the water. Well, I guess not right next to the water, but close enough. And it's going to be a cool little atmosphere. They used to play at the Wahoo Stadium, the baseball stadium, but now they're going to be on campus. So it'll be cool to kind of get that energy of a D1 program. ⁓ on campus and who knows if they get some big names if they have to you know take a few million dollars to play like an Alabama or something for a homecoming game at UWF that'd be pretty cool so I'm excited for that. RAC Aaron: you RY4N: Yeah, Chalor's a little older than me. Uh, the whole time I've been there, they've played on campus. I wish I got to see one at the Blue Wahoos Stadium though, cause that actually is right next to the water. But this is pretty, yeah, but this is pretty awesome. I mean, they've only been a team since 2016, so they're pretty new. They've won the national championship in 2019. And over that whole period, they have a record of, of 71 and 28. So. RAC Chandler: Yeah, guess I'm aging myself, huh? RAC Aaron: Yeah. RY4N: They've been a pretty dominant D2 football program. So it's only right that they're getting to move up now. But funny enough, I was playing intramural football last year I was talking to a kid who was like one of the student coaches and he was like an equipment manager or a student coach or something. And we played against him and after he was telling us that he helped coach ⁓ they trying to go D1, but there's a certain thing that you have to have. enough seats in your stadium and you have enough scholarship money. So they must've got the scholarship money. I've been on the campus and it seems like they're building a lot of extra stuff around the stadium. Cause right now it's just like bleacher seats, like it's in high school. And there's a front main building behind one of the end zones and they're fully just doing the whole stadium across both end zones, redoing all the seats and everything. So that'd be pretty cool. RAC Aaron: I also thrilled about this. was watching them during the championship season. I watched them for a little bit after they came in, but it did have that energy of like, they were coming in with big aspirations. They like wanted to be dominant in D2 and credit to them from that at this point, what? Seven years of program history already making it to D1. Yes, it's a, you know, group of five, group of six conference. ⁓ that they're going into, but that's still huge to make that transition. D2 to D1 is a huge hurdle. And if they made it that fast, I don't imagine with how much effort and strength of the city behind it. I don't know ⁓ everybody listening would be familiar with Pensacola, but ⁓ a fairly large city. They've had a lot of investment over it. It looks ⁓ nice. UWF is nice. So it's not. Like a poverty school that they're going into this with, and this is as high as they're going to go. I think this is something where they're going to keep climbing. They're probably going to reassess put in that same level of dominance effort that they put in into the D2 bracket. We'll see if it pays off. It is a huge jump up. So we will see that, but I hope that they do because I'd love to see them join a before conference. Like I think that would be ⁓ Hey, I just want to see easy to get to games like if we get some big games here an hour down the road, that'd be fantastic. RY4N: Yeah, like imagine one of our teams comes down and plays them. They'd probably be coming to one of us. We'd be paying them a bunch of money to come to our stadium. RAC Aaron: Yeah. RAC Chandler: That'd be a close game Auburn and UWF. That'd be like a probably an OT game. RAC Aaron: Yeah. RY4N: Yeah I know, it'd be like Mercer last year, we'd just play UWF instead, so... RAC Chandler: And Ryan, was a Harlan Hill trophy finalist there, right, too, recently? RAC Aaron: No, and I, I'll go for it. RY4N: Yeah, our quarterback Marcus Stokes, he was the Gulf South Conference, which was their conference, offensive player of the year. And yeah, the Harlan Hill Trophy finalist, which is the D2 Heisman. But I think they're going to struggle a little bit without him. He was pretty good. I think he threw for like over 3000 yards or something. He was pretty good. But he's going to Syracuse now to replace 2C since he went Telosu. RAC Chandler: you Yeah, be an interesting story to keep ⁓ Shout out our Syracuse listeners. So then on Auburn's side of the woods, the old Gus bus, Gus Malzahn is joining the college football committee this upcoming year. So now we're going to have some great wisdom from ⁓ Malzahn in college ball playoff committee. And there'll be absolutely no bias anymore towards it. RAC Aaron: Ha RY4N: I I love the GustBus. I think this is great. We need some fairness going into the playoff committee and he'll bring it. He's a great guy. RAC Chandler: He's great. He has Alabama's number. He is the guy. RAC Aaron: You know, it is something that I do think more fans need to think about. What about the SEC? We don't have enough voices pushing for the SEC to get a chance out there. You know, when it comes to playoff time, last year we only had what six schools make the 12 team playoff. You know, why wasn't it eight? And I think Gus might get us over that hump. RY4N: Mm-hmm. RAC Chandler: Why isn't it just an all 12 team SEC bracket? I mean that's what the viewers want. RAC Aaron: Yeah. Like why, why do we have other conferences? Because we have the SEC. So no, I, it is funny to me that like, we never get past it when it comes to the SEC. We know how to toot our own horn really hard. do think Gus Melzahn's a good pick. I think he was a very level-headed guy. He had a good in your, and I think he fits. But if it comes down to, or if it comes down to Alabama making another playoff that they maybe shouldn't have, it's not going to help the allegations. RY4N: Yeah, get him out of there. RAC Chandler: I mean, look at the fan turnout behind me in my little background here. And this just proves that the Big Ten does not need representation in the College Bowl playoff. I mean, if they can't even fill these seats back here for how big this game is going on behind me. RAC Aaron: Yeah. Yeah, it has nothing to do with how thin skinned some SEC people can be, even within a three man show. RY4N: Gus is smart. He's been around the game a long time. He's been a head coach. He coached him at UCF in the big 12. He coached at Auburn in the SEC. He was a coordinator at FSU. He's been all over the place. He's been in all kinds of conferences. He's, I think he's just a great guy. A lot of knowledge there, probably pretty fair. RAC Chandler: The last football related news I have coming from a fan that has watched the show that's commented a ton. So shout out to JoJo. And will be taking his He's a huge NFL guy and he's an LSU fan in college. So he wants to kind of merge those two together in some of our video ideas. And we're going to go through ⁓ and see we can't ⁓ get in lab and come up with some ideas together to kind of get the NFL fan and the college fan to kind of merge together, whether it's talking about between college football rules and NFL rules or just draft stuff ⁓ ⁓ kinds of different things we can do so we're gonna be working on that so we wanted to give a shout out to him and say we we see the comment and we're gonna we're gonna see if we can't appeal to those ⁓ RY4N: Yes, thank you, JoJo. RAC Aaron: Absolutely. Like, yes, thank you, Jojo. No, it is something I have been thinking about some of the because I do feel like the one bridge between college football and NFL fans that don't watch both the draft. But I do feel like for a lot of college people, we necessarily follow up on how our draft picks went through their rookie season. ⁓ following up on some of that. maybe just some of like who are standards that went some check-ins with them as Chandler was saying some rule differences, some things that if you are coming back in or going into the other side, you will understand some of the differences that you'll see that will trip me up. I know I've had a few games where I'm watching and it's like an NFL knee down, but without contact doesn't mean down and like my heart will stop and be like, ⁓ no, the play is blown and they can keep going. So Just so some of those things that I, gut forget. RAC Chandler: Lastly, it's not football related at all. mean, maybe it will affect the concessions a little bit over if we have those overseas games in the NFL, but 12 metric tons of KitKat were stolen in Italy, which equals about 26,000 pounds, and it was about 413,000 units of KitKat. RAC Aaron: You RAC Chandler: And I was scrolling through my feed and I was like, we got to talk about at least for like 60 seconds, two minutes, whatever. Cause it was, I like double-taked at it. whoever pulled the, the for speed or the, ⁓ fast furious heist on this KitKat truck that, know, they, they're going places with a lot of KitKat. ⁓ RY4N: I don't even know how you do this. I don't even know how you do this. The KitKat burglar? Like how do you steal 26,000 pounds of KitKats? And it's not like you can even sell them. It's not like you just have a bunch of money that you stole. Like, oh, this guy's a ton of KitKats literally on eBay. I wonder who it was, you know? RAC Chandler: And all these big brands came out and said like Domino's and all these different places were like, yeah, sorry, nothing to do with it, but we are going to debut our new chocolate pizza pretty soon. We're like all these different companies were just going in at it and making jokes about it. And then they would say in the bottom, like for legal reasons, this is a joke, but it was funny that all these different companies were, taking a stab at, know, making light in the situation. RAC Aaron: It is. I do want to help the investigators here and a potential lead is no Florida state's been having some allegations of money issues, but have we checked to see what their O line and D line has eaten because this might have been a heist to keep those boys fed. Yeah. It was ready for their training. RAC Chandler: Ha ha ha ha! They went to Italy over spring break. RY4N: Yeah, but like are those a- Yeah, yeah, they had a fun string break. But like isn't Italian KitKat that good? That you had to steal 12 tons of it? I've never even had- I can't even eat KitKats cause I'm allergic to them but the ones in Italy must be good. They must taste like pizza and spaghetti or something, I don't know. RAC Chandler: ⁓ that's hilarious. Yeah, so overseas games NFL might be lacking some KitKats in the concession stand, but you know... BYOKK. man. Yeah, so nothing do with football, but I thought I needed to get you guys reaction on that because I even my wife. was like, this real? Like, it's not April 1st. So it was pretty funny to see. RAC Aaron: Yeah. Hack your own. If you're traveling over there for one of the overseas came. RY4N: Like what a scary world we live in though, just... Someone's gonna come up and rob you of your KitKats! RAC Aaron: It's just, hey, you know, they managed to do it. RAC Chandler: Halloween's in trouble. RY4N: I'm switch to Reese's cups. It must have been the Reese's people. RAC Chandler: And as they were stealing it, they were singing the song, Bruce's Cup, Bruce's Cup. RAC Aaron: Allegedly. RY4N: You know what? RAC Chandler: ⁓ RAC Aaron: short news week here, ⁓ So this spring, the over under odds got released for each team, seeing how many wins are projected by Vegas for the season. You two for an odd change of pace here have kept yourselves away from those and I dived in. So I wanted to present this week on let's get your raw reactions. We're going to do some schedule breakdowns, kind of back up our guesses here on what we think. As I said in the intro, we're doing 10 teams. We're doing five SEC, five big 10. We're going to go through and I wanted to give you guys the over-unders first. Get your first gut prediction. We'll go through the schedules and see if you change. So. RAC Chandler: Well, let us guess and see what we think, how close we are to the actual thing. RAC Aaron: See, okay, just so I'll get guesses from both of you and see if you take it. So the first SEC team that we are gonna cover ⁓ So ⁓ do think the over under, I will say a lot of these are 0.5, so eight and a half from Chandler. Ryan, what do you think? RAC Chandler: 8 and 1 Eight and a half. RY4N: I was gonna say seven and a half or eight and a half. Somewhere in that range. No. RAC Chandler: Nope, pick one. No offense here. No. No, we don't do rain. Okay, I picked six and a half to 10 and a half. Pick a number. RAC Aaron: So eight. Yep. Hard number. RY4N: What? No! 8 and a half RAC Aaron: I will say Alabama blocking in at eight and a half. So are you, Chandler, are you taking the over under for Alabama? RAC Chandler: One for one. without looking at the schedule, am taking the over. RAC Aaron: Brian over at. RY4N: Taking that over, nine wins, barely clearing. RAC Chandler: Without looking at the schedule we're going nine, that's crazy. RY4N: Yep. RAC Aaron: That's not now it is one of those are same with our next team. Always hard to take the under for these two. Next one up is Georgia. Chandler, what do you got for Georgia's over under? RAC Chandler: nine and a half. RAC Aaron: Right? RY4N: Ten and a half. RAC Aaron: George is sitting at nine and a half. RY4N: Ooh, Hankin' has a program here. RAC Chandler: you RAC Aaron: He's over Chandler over under 9.5. RAC Chandler: without looking at their schedule, have them making a run in the playoffs. Give me the over. RAC Aaron: Ryan. RY4N: over. they got 10 or 11. RAC Aaron: that's very safe here. But like I said, those two, it always, it always feels good. Now for our third pick. We have got one that's more difficult. I think just for this season, there's a lot of unknowns. We're going with LSU. Chandler over under. RAC Chandler: Eight and half. RAC Aaron: Ryan, what you got? RY4N: promise I'm not coughing every time. I thought it was going to be seven and a half or eight and a half, but I feel like they're going to set it eight and a half. RAC Chandler: I so too. RAC Aaron: LSU is sitting at eight and a half right on the money. Three for three. That's impressive. So, but Chandler, are you taking the over or under? RAC Chandler: the LSU seven and a half or eight and a half. Again I have them in my top ten when we did the so I got to stick with it I can't be hypocritical here I think I'm gonna smash the over. RAC Aaron: Right? RY4N: I'm going over, I think they win 9 or 10. I think they win 9. RAC Aaron: Hmm. It's gonna be tough. We're gonna have to get to the schedule here. ⁓ RY4N: It will be tough, but I've said this in a previous video. I think they win nine... nine games. RAC Aaron: Yeah. Yeah. Just because I, I haven't deep dived into it, but because I knew all this, I'm not giving mine until we go into the schedule discussion since I've had a little more time to process it. But now we get into me and Ryan's schools. We'll start off with Ryan. what do we got? RY4N: think the line is six and a half. RAC Aaron: Taylor? RAC Chandler: Yeah, this is one I've already seen I'm gonna I'm lock in the old six and a half unless it changed There's no way it went up RY4N: I didn't look. I don't know. RAC Aaron: It did not. is six and a half. RAC Chandler: Yeah, I've looked at Ohio State and I've looked at Auburn. RAC Aaron: So we'll go back to Ryan here. you a true fan of betting over or are you a realist going under? Yeah. RAC Chandler: Will they make a ball game? RY4N: I am a true fan, but I'm also realistic. And last year we had the most hype going in ever. And I think our line was eight and half. We were pretty close technically, but they stripped a couple wins for us. So we won five games. Yes. This year I am going to take the over. I had a dream last night. This isn't a joke. I actually had a dream last night and I was at the game. Yep. Shout out Martin Luther. I was on the field I was watching the game on the field. RAC Aaron: You RAC Chandler: You're pretty close at five. RAC Aaron: Hahaha RAC Chandler: Shout out Martin Luther. RY4N: First play, Dave Ratkins went in, sack, stripped it, ran it back for a touchdown. Later in the game, Byron Brown came on the field, threw a touchdown. So I think we're actually might be more dominant. I think it's all up to the offensive line. But according to my dream, we're gonna be pretty good. All the stuff I've been seeing at spring has been reassuring me. Think we're gonna be better than I thought before. And I think we're gonna win more than six and a half, maybe eight. Let's say eight games. RAC Aaron: That's, that's bold. will say in your own dream, you only scored twice. It's like, that's not a lot of points. Yeah. Yeah. The most dominant 14 point team out there. So Chandler, are you going over and under outside the SEC? RY4N: When we get to the schedule, it'll not be eight. RAC Chandler: Hahaha! RY4N: We seem dominant though. Dominating twice. RAC Chandler: Be very against yourself. RY4N: Mm-hmm. RAC Chandler: That's all Kentucky needed. before I say mine, I want to make a disclaimer here that we're at the end of this year, we're going to take all of our bets that we had for this and we're going to have some kind of bet or punishment or something, but we want you guys in the comment section of across all platforms that are listening to this on to come up with some ideas and we'll read through those as well. But we want to get some kind of punishment for whoever is the worst at this over under prediction. RAC Aaron: Yep. Yep. We're not aiming to be the best. Just not the worst. RY4N: was not it. I was not informed of this until right now. RAC Chandler: You RAC Aaron: Good. RAC Chandler: Don't lose, pal. RY4N: should have taken that Auburn one back. Yeah, I should have taken that Auburn one back. RAC Chandler: I am gonna go the over as well. I think six and half is low But I don't think they're gonna get to ⁓ I Think seven is their magic number this year. I think they'll make a ball game I think they'll be bowling but I don't I don't I don't know. Yeah, sorry RAC Aaron: you're giving a point five tolerance here. Yeah. RY4N: Well, that's way off. RAC Aaron: We'll see when we get to the schedules. RY4N: So Jurassic. Such a Jurassic difference from mine. The park? RAC Chandler: Just like the park. Yep, just like the park. Jurassic Park. RAC Aaron: Jurassic Park. RY4N: Shout out Ruben Bain. RAC Aaron: Sorry Ruben, your arms aren't that short. So while we're laughing, we can keep laughing because we're covering Mississippi State next. So Chandler, back to you. What's the stat line? What's the wins you think for Mississippi State? Yep. RAC Chandler: ⁓ boy. Alright, I got four for four right now. We're gonna go... gonna go five. ⁓ RAC Aaron: Ryan. RY4N: was gonna say four and a half or five and a half. I'm gonna say five and a half as well. RAC Chandler: Give me five and a half. RAC Aaron: streak is over. Mr. B-State, it's clocking in at four and a half. So, yeah, you were, you were, yep. So. RAC Chandler: No way at six and a half. RY4N: Oh, I was close. Dude, I trusted it. Dude, I trusted it. Sorry. RAC Chandler: No, you said both though. Okay, to be fair, I lost my streak on overthinking that they would be better than they are. Thank you, Stinks. I believed in him too much. Mario is gonna shock the world. RAC Aaron: Thank you for believing in us. So thank you. It's worth it. So Chandler, do you keep that belief and are you taking the over or the under? Over. Okay. Ryan over under. RY4N: Me too, me too. I had too much optimism. RAC Chandler: Yes, over. Over on all five. RY4N: I'm gonna go over, I think they win five or six. RAC Chandler: They're definitely gonna get the five. If they don't, we might have to take that background behind you and throw it away. RAC Aaron: You boys, you boys can't do this to me. I've been on record on this show. Duncan, I've seen the schedule. So yeah. RY4N: Yeah, I'm sorry. I was trying to be too optimistic for you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. RAC Chandler: You gotta get to five, right? RY4N: Got to. Camario! Camario will win five games for you. RAC Chandler: Wait, so are these are like before we see the schedule or this is what we're going off of for the punishment? Are we going after we see the schedule ones? Okay, okay, okay. That's good. RAC Aaron: No, I'll say we can adjust because because you guys deserve the ability to say it. We don't have a lot of information. We're still free spring game. So this is raw gut. So we'll give us the best chance and I haven't done any yet. RAC Chandler: Okay. Okay. Yeah, this whole episode is all off of the old feeling. It's no, no research knowledge, anything was just the love of the game, us knowing the teams. Exactly. Exactly. RAC Aaron: No, we're doing it just like every other fan out there. Everybody else that's given their predictions right now. You might as well be doing it from the gut because we haven't seen anything yet. So first up for our big 10 contenders, we know, you know this one. We're going to go with Ohio State. RAC Chandler: Exactly. You know, I said that and then now I'm between two numbers because I think it's lower than usual because of their schedule. think it's I. I think it's nine and a half. I thought it was gonna be 10 and a half, but I think it's nine and a half. RAC Aaron: Right? RY4N: think it's nine and a half. I think it should be ten and a half though because that's disgraceful to this team. RAC Aaron: It is ⁓ RAC Chandler: I changed it. Yep. I was gonna say ten and a half. RAC Aaron: Well, you're right. So or six. I pulled it out before you got the chance to make yourself wrong. nine and a half. Chandler over. RAC Chandler: Two and a half. RAC Aaron: You're gonna give him? You're gonna give him the over? RAC Chandler: Is it was is the spread 10 and a half or not enough? ⁓ it not enough. OK, OK, OK. know the schedule. ⁓ got to be over. mean, they haven't had a less than 10 win season in a long while. So I'm to go the over just because I want them to succeed. RAC Aaron: It was nine and a half. You were right. Yeah. Yeah. Brian. RY4N: obviously going to go over for the best team in the country. or 12 wins. Off the gut feeling. RAC Aaron: Yeah think that's completely fair. up, though, we have Oregon. ⁓ Chandler, what do you got for the number? RAC Chandler: Turn it in half. RAC Aaron: Ryan, what'd you got for the number? RY4N: I'm gonna go eight and a half. Think it might be nine and a half there right in the middle, but I'm gonna go eight and a half. RAC Aaron: Organist projected, and a half. RAC Chandler: They don't have a hard string to schedule. RY4N: more than Ohio State. Ridiculous. RAC Aaron: I know it is it is a little crazy. RAC Chandler: Their schedule a lot like Ohio State's last year. RAC Aaron: D'oh! RY4N: unacceptable. RAC Aaron: Chandler. Are you going over or under? RAC Chandler: They have a loss against Ohio State at home. So that puts them right at one loss cushion. No, that's zero more. They can only lose one, right? Or is my math wrong? RY4N: Mm-hmm Yep, they can only one more. Yeah. Yeah, they can lose one more RAC Chandler: I'm gonna go over. trust the ducks. I may change that when I see the schedule, but... RAC Aaron: Yep. So, Ryan over under. RY4N: I think it will come down to the USC game. They lose Ohio State, it'll come down to USC game. In my previous prediction, I said they win that game. So I'm going to stick with that, say 11 wins over. RAC Chandler: Mm-hmm. RAC Aaron: Okay. Okay. So next up, we're cutting in to, pending the title, Indiana. what you got for the number. Brian, what do got for the number? RY4N: I think it's nine and a half or ten and a half. I will go... I'll go ten and a half. RAC Aaron: and a half. So they are, they are projected same as Oregon. Are you going over or under Chandler? RAC Chandler: it but against them going over i don't think i picked an under yet ⁓ RAC Aaron: You have not every everything has been over so far. You guys are optimistic. Better What do you got? RY4N: If you can't tell every time we've ever betted, we only do the overs. But I think that's what's contributing to Never go under. Don't. RAC Aaron: Yeah. ⁓ RAC Chandler: I bet unders. The only thing I've ever bet under on in my life is Jayden Fielding's under and field goals made. RY4N: The only person I ever went under is Riley Leonard in the national championship and I hit every leg, all five legs, even a sack I'm pretty sure for Jack Sawyer or JTT, I don't remember which one. And then he decided to throw for more than 220 yards, so lost that one. RAC Chandler: Yeah, the great house play where he broke like eight tackles. Yeah. Happens. Yep. And then he... RY4N: Yeah, and then that one to the tight end floated it over. He didn't throw a 20 yard pass the whole year. Okay, sorry. Back on track. Okay, they have a loss to OIST. That leaves on 11. I think they win every other game. Over. RAC Aaron: over so we are still all over. Next up, we're going to USC. Chandler, what do you got for the number here? RAC Chandler: and a half. RAC Aaron: Brian, what do you got for the number? RY4N: See, I was gonna say eight and a half or nine and a half. I don't know their schedule off top of my head. I'm gonna say nine and a half to be different. RAC Aaron: Chandler's the ringer so far, eight and a half. RAC Chandler: Listen man, I know some things too, you know? Though the only one I've missed is yours because I thought too much of your team. RAC Aaron: So he knows ball. You know it. It's mine because you thought too much of us. Yes. So are you going over the eight and a or under? RAC Chandler: I have them in my playoff bracket. We did our top ten. But I'm going to take the under. RAC Aaron: can't tell if it's because I pointed out how we've been entirely over, but... RAC Chandler: No, I just, ⁓ I don't know. I might change it when I see the schedule, they've just always been a little short. I see it, I'm gonna throw the under. eight and half for a reason. RAC Aaron: So we have the first under. Yeah. Ryan. RY4N: is this tricky? I don't know their schedule off the top of my head. I know they have a loss, too, of high estate, and I know that they play Oregon, and I think that's a loss. So they're at 10. They only have a two-game cushion. I think this is a really, really good line here from Vegas. RAC Chandler: one. ⁓ RAC Aaron: It is, I think all of these, will say even looking at the schedules, it is hard to find fault, yeah. RAC Chandler: ⁓ That is their job. RY4N: Yeah, not seeing the schedule, I'm going to say under eight wins. think they're going to get eight. So maybe with the schedule, I might bump that up to nine. RAC Chandler: And that's what I was kind of thinking too. I think eight wins is their magic number. RAC Aaron: So you're taking the under as well? RY4N: I'm taking the under for now, but after this schedule I might bump him up to 9 wins. RAC Aaron: Okay. RAC Chandler: Now don't get me wrong, I want to see them in the playoffs as another Big Ten representative. I think they're going have a good offense. just question marks on their defensive side of the ball. I that's why I think eight is like their magic number. I think their ceiling is like ten. RY4N: Me too. Yeah, me too. I like them. I like Lincoln Riley. I think he's a great coach, but they've got to prove something for once. RAC Chandler: but he has that number one recruiting class in 2026. So he has a lot riding on this season too. So it's a sketchy bet. RY4N: He does. RAC Aaron: Yep. So we're going to end our tour in the Big Ten. With one last name, we're going Michigan. The Chandler. know, I know where you're staying here. What's the number? And you can't pick zero. RAC Chandler: Under. This is a tough one. I think this is the hardest one on this list to guess because they have been so spotty. Like they have had highs and they've had lows and yes. And is Bryce Underwood going to be a good quarterback? Is he going to make a leap? I don't know. Give RAC Aaron: and a lot of question marks this year. RAC Chandler: Give me eight and a half. RAC Aaron: Brian, what do you got? RY4N: daily RAC Aaron: It is eight and half. So nine for 10 Chandler and Ryan, think you got what? Seven of them, something like that. ⁓ so I mean both very, very spot on. I would have been way farther off. but you know, that's just the, the love and hate I hold in my heart. So, ⁓ yeah, I you're going under. I wasn't even gonna ask you. So both y'all are under, ⁓ so. ⁓ RY4N: ⁓ Maybe I haven't counted. Damn. Seven. Not even eight wins, seven wins. RAC Chandler: Six. RAC Aaron: So. RAC Chandler: zero. RY4N: Like we're counting down a rocket ship. RAC Aaron: Michigan fans just know that this comes from a place of complete bias. when we look at the schedule, we'll have a, a stronger bias probably that will defend this. So, ⁓ RAC Chandler: We don't like you. Unsubscribe. RY4N: Go to a real estate like Ohio or Alabama. RAC Chandler: Exactly. We'll teach you how to spell. RAC Aaron: won't, but. RY4N: Give us Toledo or whatever. We own it. RAC Aaron: now ⁓ done our guesses. We've only had two teams for the under. We got Michigan, USC. So let's start off and we'll go into a little bit more long form here with schedules. I'm going to go ahead and start sharing this. RAC Chandler: Let's see it. I'm excited. RAC Aaron: So we're kicking off here with a share screen so we can cover the schedules and we'll kind of go week by week, talk about what we think. We are pulling schedules from FB schedules. We did pull the odds from CBS Sports. Just from when these were this was CBS Sports article was posted March 23rd for the Big Ten. And the SEC was March 25th. So in case they have updated before or after we've posted this. RY4N: Real quick, I've RAC Aaron: Yeah. So starting off with Alabama again, so we're to go back through it same order. So we're looking at the Alabama schedule. So we, you know, spring game, we won't count that. Of course we got our season opener. Yeah. I think we can pretty much do a quick round up here and say East Carolina pirates. Probably a win. Most teams are going to have that first win. Kentucky. RY4N: Win. RAC Chandler: Kentucky win. RY4N: Unless Mr. Beast sponsors them like he said he would. RAC Aaron: Well, Tilly sends that a hundred million dollar check. Kentucky. I think we're talk about them a few times tonight. I think they are still in a rebuild. They're going to be in a, there's still a mystery, but Alabama's Alabama's taking it here. So Florida state. RY4N: That's gonna be next year though. ⁓ RAC Chandler: when RY4N: When? RAC Chandler: win. RY4N: Win. RAC Aaron: of hey, but we got a count last year. So yeah, so I, do think with Florida state, hopefully, hopefully we're gonna see some improvement out of them this year, more back to where they were, but I don't know if it's enough to win out of it. Yeah. That's true. South Carolina. Yeah. RY4N: like two Sorry. RAC Chandler: Not a lot farther down to go. You can only go up from there. RY4N: Yep. Can only cool up. RAC Chandler: Well, you can go 0-12 as Aaron said. Good. not funny anymore. RAC Aaron: So we got South Carolina next. How we feel about South Carolina this year. RY4N: Please. RAC Chandler: win. RY4N: They're scrappy though, but that's not enough. RAC Aaron: Yeah, we're, we're going to, we'll probably, when we get to teams that aren't Alabama and Georgia, we'll, we'll have a little bit more to say about those teams and the competitiveness. Next up, how we feel about Mississippi state. Heart, my heart. But yeah, I think, I think that's, I think that's a win. ⁓ we got now the, the first, think, stop and think one would be Georgia. RAC Chandler: No. Really big win. Over by halftime. RY4N: Wait, sorry. RAC Chandler: D, here, my personal opinion, Alabama's always had George's number. Regular season. RAC Aaron: Yeah. RY4N: Mmm, okay, yeah RAC Chandler: But after I saw that post-season game last year, think Kirby's found the keys to take over the Alabama kind of hold that has on him. that's, think, Alabama's first loss of the season right there. RAC Aaron: Yeah. RY4N: I Kirby owns Caitlyn the Boar. I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say I lose that one. Yep. RAC Chandler: Hatelyn? RAC Aaron: you RAC Chandler: Not in the regular season, but yes, he does. RAC Aaron: Yeah. No, I, I, I'm going to agree here. I just think Georgia's coming back with a little bit more. Experiences the team. think they've got a lot of retaining a lot of solidified positions where I think Alabama. Yeah. I think coming in with a fresh quarterback coming off of the QB battle that we're still hearing about, which we haven't seen spring game. don't know how deep that QB battle is actually going. RAC Chandler: retaining their starting quarterback. RAC Aaron: But I think you're coming into a fairly fresh team. Alabama still has a lot of talent, still has a lot of going for it. But Georgia, think it's just going to be a little bit more that in for this one. So I also I'm to give this Georgia. think that is their first loss of the season. RY4N: Yeah, in every year Georgia is so disciplined and they play so hard and so aggressive and I think Alabama kind of has a young offense. They lost Jeremy Bernard, they're losing these weapons, they don't have Ty Simpson. I think it's going to be bad. RAC Aaron: So next up we got Tennessee. Yep. I agree. I think, you know, we're just Alabama still a dominant football team. So Texas A ⁓ next. That I think is a question. RAC Chandler: win. RY4N: Win. RAC Aaron: I, I would put Texas A at Alabama as a loss for them this year. I just think, I think A ⁓ is coming in with a little bit more confidence. I think they're coming in with a solidified team, just like Georgia, where it's like, they've still got a lot of returners. They still got a QB that's, you know, performed last year, still there. So to me, I'm going with A ⁓ as a loss for RY4N: hate it. I'd love to see him win that game. I like Marcel. I just don't know and in my gut I can't see them winning right now. But later in the in the season we might reassess after seeing the the teams play a little bit. RAC Aaron: ⁓ absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. I think, I think it is one that it will be close no matter what it goes to. think we, I think it'll be a pretty good scoring game. So they get a bi-week from there and then they're at LSU. RY4N: Mm-hmm. RAC Chandler: loss. RY4N: I'm also gonna say loss. RAC Aaron: ⁓ really? RAC Chandler: I think at LSU this is probably going to be a nighttime, primetime game. That is a tough stadium to play and that place is going to be rocking. think they're going to have, if they're going to establish a mojo with Sam Levitt and they're going to have a playoff caliber team, we'll know by November 7th. I think if all goes like everybody thinks that it's going to go. And I think they'll do well. I think they'll have an opportunity to make the playoffs if they don't stumble. RAC Aaron: It is. RAC Chandler: too many times, but I think they'll be in a flow by November 7th and I'm going to have that as a loss. RY4N: Me too. I think that's one of the hardest teams on their schedule. In this specific time, in November at night. RAC Aaron: Yeah. will say, yeah. I will say it. think it depends if they win or lose against A ⁓ I think if they beat A ⁓ well, they have maintained, you know, health in the team. There's not a lot of injuries. I think they go in very competitive to the LSU game. They've got a bi-week. They've got a lot of fresh. They're not worn out. They got a week off from ⁓ an A ⁓ battle. RAC Chandler: Yes. I will say off of bye weeks this late in the season is can be really good or can be really bad. It depends on how the injury bug, it depends on how the injury bugs going, depends on how much flow and rhythm you have so far in this, in the season. And I know this is this year, two buys or one buy. Have they already had a buy in the schedule? Okay. There's only one buy this year. Okay. So that's a deep buy. RAC Aaron: But it is going to be a hostile game. It can go either way. Yeah. No, this is I think we got one by this year. RAC Chandler: I think if they're not in a good rhythm that could create a little bit of stalling out especially going to LSU. So, ⁓ don't know with the buy and LSU gotta be an L. RAC Aaron: I think it, I think it'll also depends on who a LSU plays that week. Right. For that bi-week, the 31st week, because that could be something that if they play against an absolute, fact, we can find that out real quick. Who is LSU's? RAC Chandler: 31st they have a buy as well. They're coming up Auburn. RAC Aaron: October game 31st, they're off. So both are off. Coming off Auburn. So I think it puts it at, I think that one could go either way. I'm going to call it as a 0.5 in my book that I think LSU has the home field advantage. If they get the night bracket that works for them, that that could go one way or the other. So yeah, absolutely. RY4N: They're also off. RAC Chandler: Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, no, no, you said you had all this time to research and all this time to ponder your suggestions. So is it a win or loss? There we go. RAC Aaron: I did, I did. I'm going to go with when I'll go with, I will put a firm foot down. RY4N: I- I'm sorry and I almost think LSU might be harder than the Texas A ⁓ game and I think the both of them having the buy makes it a little bit more even but I say like if LSU didn't have a buy on Halloween they definitely win this game and I'm I'm still gonna say I think they probably win I think LSU probably wins this in my opinion RAC Chandler: I agree. RAC Aaron: We so this is first one where we, well, A ⁓ too. So these back to backs, we've got two deferring there that this is a, you guys have, this is the second loss. have this as, ⁓ or no, this is third loss for them, for you guys, right? Cause you've got A ⁓ or no, no, no second. And it's also my second cause I have them losing to A ⁓ but I give them the win here. So we're still all together at two losses. So. RAC Chandler: No, second. Second. and I'm RY4N: Yo. RAC Chandler: Yep. Yep. RY4N: Yeah, we just flipped them a little. RAC Aaron: After that we have Vanderbilt. RAC Chandler: win. RAC Aaron: I agree. I think ⁓ there's a big rebuild. Yep, next one's when Iron Bowl. RY4N: Super win. RAC Chandler: win the next one. RY4N: Gotta be a loss. Gotta be. I don't know if it is. I don't- I don't know. RAC Chandler: It's a win. It's at Alabama. RAC Aaron: to win. RAC Chandler: I hate to say it because I know that my beautiful, loving co-host and brother-in-law is a diehard Auburn fan. until I hope I'm wrong because I hope Byron Brown and those USF Auburn Tigers shock the world. I really do because it would be great TV. RAC Aaron: I do too. Yeah. And I, I do believe in the magic of the iron bull. I do think that iron bull can go any way, any year. Just think they've got a hill to climb this year. Yep. RAC Chandler: But it's at... It's at Alabama. Yeah. Give me Alabama. I'm sorry. RAC Aaron: And Ryan for the final word on it. RY4N: I'm very torn here. I'm very torn here because we haven't really shown much But we fought hard in these last few iron bowls But I'm gonna have I'm gonna have to say Auburn that's my team. I this is the only game My entire year my entire year that is the only day that counts. I'm gonna have to say they lose just for my optimism RAC Chandler: That's why I'm saying Alabama. ⁓ for sure. For sure. You can't say Alabama. RAC Aaron: Yep, I mean. That that's fair. We won't hold it against you when they do. When Auburn does least. ⁓ RAC Chandler: So we have, I have them hitting the over still. Losing two games. RAC Aaron: Yep, I think we all have them hitting the over. RY4N: have nine. RAC Chandler: The nine and a half? RAC Aaron: Yeah, they know they were eight. They were eight and a RAC Chandler: right? Eight and a Okay. RY4N: think I said previously that they win nine games. I just didn't know who. Works for me. RAC Chandler: There you go. Okay. So Georgia. RAC Aaron: The next up we got Georgia. So yeah, we all were even on over. think it and Alabama's normally a safe over, especially when they have them into the single digit wins. I think it's one of those where it's like, it's just normally a pretty good, even though I think the sec scheduling this year across the board is a little bit more difficult for all the teams. But when they do always break it down, they're like, well, Georgia and Alabama tend to have the easiest schedules in the sec. And I do think. If we really kind of take a step back and look at it, it's because Georgia and Alabama can't be on their own schedules. And when we look at that, that tends to lower their overall opponent ranks compared to the other sec schools. So, but LSU can get thrown in that boat too sometimes. Georgia. RAC Chandler: think here you got three wins off the bat. RAC Aaron: Yep. Yep. think first three Tennessee, the Hilltoppers and Arkansas or Tennessee state Tigers. Yep. RAC Chandler: I'm gonna say five wins off the bat. RAC Aaron: I will agree. I think Oklahoma is one that we could have a discussion about. I just don't know if Oklahoma is in a place to beat Georgia this year, this early in the season. I think they have been doing well. I think Oklahoma has had a positive trajectory. I think they're getting better. That's a tough opponent to have early in your schedule. And especially coming off Arkansas the week before for Georgia, Arkansas is in a huge RAC Chandler: Yep, I agree with that. RY4N: Yep. RAC Aaron: rebuild state right now. That's very early. It's unfortunate for them to be this early against Georgia. I just don't think they have much of a chance. And I think George is going to be able to play a little bit more conservatively to be ready for Oklahoma. RAC Chandler: back-to-back home games Oklahoma and Vanderbilt are both at home so that'll help that's why I think both of those are wins as well. RY4N: Yeah. RAC Aaron: Yeah. When we go to Alabama. ⁓ sorry, Ryan, go for it. RY4N: Yeah, I... ⁓ I just think they're gonna shut down Oklahoma. RAC Chandler: Their defense is going to be too experienced and proven, disciplined, you name it, Okay, Alabama, we've said loss. RAC Aaron: It's too, yeah, too put together. RY4N: Yeah. RAC Aaron: We've already kind of talked about, yeah. RY4N: Yep, loss. RAC Aaron: That Alabama beats Georgia. RAC Chandler: Didn't we just say that? RY4N: No, no, no, no, no, I think Alabama loses. RAC Aaron: No, we said Alabama loses to Georgia. RY4N: I think Alabama loses. RAC Chandler: ⁓ then yes. That's what I said. That's what I meant. RAC Aaron: Yeah, I think so too. Next up, we got Auburn. RY4N: Another one, ⁓ if Alabama's the most important thing on the schedule, this is 1.1, as my dad would say. ⁓ ugh. I mean, we beat him last year. I'm gonna say we do it again. RAC Chandler: So we have an Astric win last year. So I'm going to go Georgia wins this game too. RY4N: Mm-hmm. RAC Aaron: Yeah, I, I think if this was a little bit later, if this was November, I'd say we'd have a little bit more out of Auburn. They could sit into their season a little bit more. Kind of like it's not early enough to be completely fresh. And it's not late enough to be set in stone into your play styles. So it's a little bit early. I think George is going to just be a little bit more disciplined at this point in the season. No, it is not. RY4N: Okay, that's fair. RAC Chandler: This is not a hard schedule. RY4N: usually, I'm usually very realistic, but these are the only two exceptions. Alabama and Georgia, the only two exceptions. They have to blindlessly hope. RAC Aaron: It is not. Yep. And then we've got the Gridiron Classic, the Florida Gators. Yep. Yep. Then Ole Miss. RAC Chandler: So Florida, that's a win. Ole Miss, L. RY4N: Win. RAC Aaron: You think they lose to Ole Miss? RAC Chandler: It's at Ole Miss. I think Ole Miss is gonna be clicking this year. Trinidad has came back for his 105th year. I think they will be good. RY4N: I do too. Yeah, and they almost lost last year. And I think Ole Miss is clicking. I think they lose this game as well. RAC Aaron: I think they... Yeah. RAC Chandler: And they're running back when I have a torn hamstring. So that'll be good. RAC Aaron: Yeah. I'm still going to go with Georgia on this one. I think it's going to be a very, very close game, potentially over time. I think Georgia is going to pull it out. I think we're just, talking the difference of an established stayed together team and a new team. just think we're going to see some of those wrinkles potentially just some coaching differences that might pull it ahead for me. Seeing Georgia take it just before we've seen anything else. RY4N: Yeah, that's fair. RAC Chandler: of when's the rest of the way through this schedule. RY4N: Same, this is a really easy schedule. RAC Aaron: I, I agree. This is something where they don't have a lot of challenges. I think. RAC Chandler: Yeah. Yeah. Beat Missouri, beat South Carolina, beat Georgia Tech for everybody that's not watching the video. RAC Aaron: Yep. So it's, it is something that Ole Miss, Ole Miss is a, as a challenge point for the schedule. Alabama are really the big two, which to me makes it a very easy over. ⁓ but like, if we're looking at the strength of it, it's, we have a lot of maybes, but not a lot of definite hard games other than Alabama. Alabama is definitely going to have some heat coming their way. I think Ole Miss will throw some heat. RAC Chandler: I mean, it's really Ole Miss and Alabama. Yeah. And Oklahoma maybe. Yeah. It's always a game, yeah. RAC Aaron: But it'll be, both of those are still in the maybe bracket towards Georgia. Like I, to me, I came through this going, there's a potential undefeated run for Georgia here. But even then, I think this pre this schedule to me locks them into a playoff position. think that is something that it's like, it's going to be hard and a complete. Fumble for them to miss that just to, you know, walk away with three losses out of this would be very, very difficult. You know, bar injuries or anything like that. RAC Chandler: I think the Oklahoma fans are not going to like that if they're listening to this. So that would be the third place the loss would be if I had to pick one or Auburn. RY4N: think they lose to Oklahoma. RAC Aaron: I won't. Yeah, I don't either. I, like I said, I think I'm locked in for ⁓ maybe one loss, maybe one. So let's go back over. got them locked in. We're all set into the over. Everybody feels good about that. Like I said, Georgia, Alabama, pretty easy overs. LSU was our next one. So season opener against Clemson. I think so. RAC Chandler: two or one. Yeah, yeah. Agree. RY4N: Win. RAC Chandler: in. RAC Aaron: I think Clemson is not in the same place they were in a few years ago. think a lot of the talking head circuit Has said its piece on it. RAC Chandler: Louisiana Tech Bulldogs, triple overtime win. RAC Aaron: Yeah. So Ole Miss I think is, is one that we have been on. I agree. I think this is a loss. think, I think for Lane Kiffin's health and longevity, he has to lose this game. RAC Chandler: loss. and it's at Ole Miss. I mean... RAC Aaron: It's at all. That is the difference maker to me. They, when you were from Mississippi, there's not a lot to live for, but there's a lot to kill for and Lane Kiffin gave you enough. So they, I just think you were going at, like I said, this is the most hype game for me all season. can't wait to see this. This is going to be, there's going to be, if not a game delay from the amount of stuff thrown on the field. I can't even imagine what's going to happen, but it's going to be a mess. RAC Chandler: This isn't even a tough stretch either. RY4N: I mean, this is the game of the year. RAC Aaron: Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. RY4N: This is the game of the year. I think they lose. RAC Aaron: I did too. RAC Chandler: And I think they win Texas A ⁓ RY4N: soon. RAC Aaron: You think they win Texas A ⁓ You think LSU beats Texas A ⁓ RAC Chandler: At home, yeah. think Texas A ⁓ is... Are these the real... These aren't... What are these rankings? Where do these come from? RY4N: Yeah. RAC Aaron: I don't know if these are just last season or like yeah, it might have been last year. RAC Chandler: like ending of last year, like way too early preseason. don't know. Texas A ⁓ is going to be artificially inflated this year unless Marcel Reed makes a huge jump and that offense makes a huge jump. Really the defense, the defense sold a lot of their games last year, especially that South Carolina game they tried to sell. I mean, yeah, so I think Texas A ⁓ RY4N: Yeah, maybe last year. Yeah. And they're losing players Yeah, and they're losing guys. RAC Chandler: Did I have them on my playoff list? I don't think I did. I don't think they make the playoffs. I don't think they make the playoffs. RAC Aaron: I get it. I'm still riding A ⁓ this year. I don't think so. I think I was the only one bringing them. ⁓ I don't know if they'll make the playoffs. I had them in my top 10 for season ending, but we'll see how they come out. But I'm going to go ahead and say I preseason have faith in A ⁓ coming back strong. I think they've got a lot of wind under their sails to keep them going strong. And Elko has done a good job of keeping them. RY4N: Uh-uh. Me neither, I'm sorry. RAC Chandler: I don't, they won't. RAC Aaron: in a positive track so far and, you know, going into year three. So we'll see. We'll see. But for that, I'll say I split off here. I give LSU a lost day. RAC Chandler: So we both have one loss or all three of us have one loss. okay. So McNeese Cowboys win. Kentucky win. Mississippi State win. RAC Aaron: Yep. Yeah. Well, I also give them the loss to Ole Miss. I've got two for them. Yeah. RY4N: too. Bless you. Yep. When? Sorry. I'm sorry. RAC Aaron: Yep. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Mississippi State fans out there. hurts me to say it, but yep. RAC Chandler: Jordan here. RY4N: Why are we on everyone's schedule? Do we have the hardest schedule ever? What are we doing? RAC Aaron: I will say we're about to get to me and you. We got it rough. RAC Chandler: at Auburn loss. RY4N: I'd say this is a trap game, but I don't know if it's actually gonna have it or not. RAC Chandler: loss market right now loss defensive slug loss RY4N: I'd love that, I said that as a joke. Okay. I'll take it. Let's do it. RAC Aaron: I- I think this one could go either way. Really. I like, think it's going to depend if they lose to Ole Miss and ANM back to back. I think that might send the team reeling. They do have to kind of come back while they have three counting us, back games for it. Uh, if they lose to us, they definitely lose to Auburn. But, um, I do think Auburn might have some fight that they're not ready for. There's not a lot of film for him. There's not a lot to prepare for. So yeah, I agree. I think that that could be a win or a loss. RAC Chandler: Okay. I take back my eight second ago statement. This is a hard schedule. I didn't see the bottom half here. The bottom half is loaded. Yeah. RY4N: And now. RAC Aaron: This is the trap. I kept it scrolled up there. This is the thing that breaks this run here. RY4N: It is. RAC Aaron: They have a very easy opening with A ⁓ pretty much being the only contender. And Ole Miss, of course, Ole Miss, but I think Ole Miss is more of a blood feud game than it is like a a ⁓ real down and dirty bite. ⁓ But when we get to here. RAC Chandler: almost yeah I think Alabama and Texas is both a loss. RAC Aaron: I think that's back to back. RY4N: Really? I think they beat Alabama and lose to Texas. In my opinion. RAC Chandler: I don't hate that. think they would lose to Texas regardless. But I think they lose to Alabama too. RAC Aaron: ⁓ I think they lose to Texas. I think that's guaranteed, but I, going to put it. We put that one up in the air because they both were coming off that bi-week. You guys said it is at, it is at LSU. I gave them the win here. You guys said LSU takes this one. in our Alabama prediction. ⁓ So. RY4N: Yeah. But I think they... I'm sticking with it, I think they win. RAC Aaron: You RAC Chandler: Yep, I think LSU wins too then. I forgot. ⁓ yeah, I just had the whole spiel about the night game. Yeah, they lose. Or they win that one. Golly, look at this guy. RAC Aaron: Yep. I take, I take an Alabama loss or an Alabama win here. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. So, but if they do lose both of these, I think that makes even the next game against Tennessee harder. Uh, I don't think they necessarily are going to lose, but they should. But I think if you're coming off back to back losses and if they lose to Auburn, if they lose to Auburn, I think it's a guaranteed loss to Alabama. RY4N: They should beat him. Yeah, they should. RAC Aaron: Like I think then it's a triple digit. may crash out the rest of the season, but Tennessee, should come off a win Arkansas. should come off with a win. So. RAC Chandler: So that's Texas, Auburn, Ole Miss, live in three loss. RAC Aaron: Yep. Yep. RY4N: and Alabama. ⁓ no, they beat up. Wait, sorry. ⁓ no, sorry. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. RAC Aaron: Yeah. You guys said they beat Alabama. so you guys have them over. So you're still locked into the same because you got them at nine win. I have them under. I haven't had eight win. And like I said, I think it still could be a seven win season. think eight is their good number. That's a good season. I think with this schedule, like I think Lane Kiffin gets off the hook. There's enough there to say, let's see what he's got next season. Seven wins. He can play it. But, that, with this schedule, the LSU fandom, I think, will be coming after him pretty hard. RY4N: Yeah, and I mean this whole time I've been saying I think they can win nine games, so I think this just reinforces my thing might be a We'll see. We'll see RAC Aaron: We'll see. We'll see. RAC Chandler: Now for what all the viewers are waiting for, these two teams. Auburn and Mississippi State. Lost April 18th. RAC Aaron: First up, we got Auburn. RY4N: W-oh, I was like, what? I like, what? For all the time it was. RAC Aaron: So, so the crunch here is starting off the season with Baylor. RY4N: Yep, a home game in Georgia. That makes no sense. That's not a home game. We've got to win that game. Gotta win the game. I think we can win it. I mean, we went into one last year and they had Sawyer Robinson. He was amazing. He threw for like 400 yards. So they don't have him. So I think we could win. RAC Aaron: You RAC Chandler: win. Win, I think win the first two. Baylor and Southern Miss. Yeah, win-win. RAC Aaron: This is RY4N: Same here. Southern Miss. RAC Aaron: I think it'll depend on how Baylor comes out. Baylor has played up and down for a little while now, so they can either come out great. It's a first game of the season. That's a tough one. Like that's tough to predict. Add a neutral site. I will say the one thing that I think goes for Auburn for me to put them into a win category against Baylor ⁓ is it's neutral site closer to Alabama than it is ⁓ from. Baylor. I think you're going to have more fans in Atlanta for Auburn. And I think for a first game, that'll help. think that that'll be good for the season. RY4N: Yeah, I think we can win. And if we don't win, I think our season is over and we're losing like every single other challenging game. RAC Aaron: Yeah, unless Baylor comes out just playing absolutely phenomenal. RY4N: I think they'll be okay. I think they'll be like a good tester. I don't think they're going to be a top 25. I think there'll be a scrappy, slightly out of it or high 20s-ish. RAC Aaron: Out of the 25, but receiving votes. RY4N: Yeah, either like barely in the top 25 or just out of it. They're kind of a real team. I don't think they're gonna be serious. We kinda need to win that game. RAC Aaron: Yeah. Yeah. I agree. You guys have to win that one. Like I think that is a statement piece that's going to set the tone for the rest of the season for a new coach. And it's tough to lose your first game, but it's not game over if they do. If they do lose, you don't have a coordinator stepping in. You've got a head coach with experience. You can bounce back, but ⁓ I give them the win there. ⁓ Southern Miss of course, I think give that an easy win. ⁓ Florida, how we feeling about Florida? RAC Chandler: I have a win there. think I don't have any faith in John Somerall. I think he's talking a whole lot of game and he has a whole lot to prove. And they got rid of DJ Lagway and a new guy's coming in. I don't know if he's from the program or not, but he's not gonna have started, at least at Florida. So until John Somerall proves me wrong, I do not have them winning that game. I have Auburn winning that game. RY4N: think we win this game. RAC Aaron: I think so too. Yeah. I think that, I think that's very early for them to be on a fresh program where at least Auburn, Golis has rapport with his team. He knows his team. He knows his quarterback. Yeah. RY4N: Yeah. Yeah. RAC Chandler: And it's at Auburn. and skill players he's played with, RY4N: Yeah, we haven't played Florida in a while. We used to play them a lot. I really think we can win that game again. I also don't think Summer on Stat. I do think this will be a harder game than we think. I think it'll be a little bit competitive. But I think we can RAC Aaron: I so too. I do think Florida has a chance to come out stronger than they have shown recently. So now Vandy. RY4N: same. Win. RAC Chandler: Well, I guess their head coach is playing. Kidding, I know that's homecoming, but... Yep. I think you win that game too. Yep. RAC Aaron: Heh. Heh. RY4N: I think we win that game. I think there's gonna be a shell of them on itself. RAC Aaron: I so too. I still think they're going to be better than the Vanderbilt of yore at the one a lot of SEC fans know. ⁓ I just don't think they're going to be at Pavia levels that they have been. I think Pavia bailed out a lot of situations for them with his legs. And now if they've got a quarterback underneath of them that can do that, he'll probably need a few games. We could see they might have some growth potential. from this, I think we just see a regression of a season, but not a devastating one, just a return to where they were starting off building back. RY4N: Yeah, and they're losing Stowers. So, Stowers and Pavia were like their whole offense. Yeah. RAC Chandler: So we have, yeah, he was a key weapon. Yep. Cause he could play, he ran like swing passes out of the backfield. He ran like little quick like flats with a tight end position. Like he ran the middle of field. He ran go balls. He did everything. He was probably a safety net. Yep. Yep. RAC Aaron: Yeah. Yeah. RY4N: Yeah, you were in trouble... Mm-hmm. Yeah, you were in... Yeah. Yeah, if you were in trouble, you threw it at the stowers and you caught it. RAC Aaron: There was a lot of improv that they could do with that to bail out of things that I think added to their lethality. RAC Chandler: We have the Tigers going 4-0 going into an old Neyland Stadium. I mean, look at that. RAC Aaron: That's pretty good. Next up we got Tennessee. RAC Chandler: in there not getting out of it five and ⁓ where there for one after that RAC Aaron: Yep. I think they've got such a strong opener to a season. Like, Golish will be riding high. I think, I do think they still, I still think they keep Tennessee down. I think they beat that one. RY4N: See, I think like, Tennessee's not actually good, but I'm a little worried that if we actually go 4-0 that we're gonna think we're better than someone we actually are, that they're gonna come like kick our teeth in and we're gonna go uh-oh. But goal coach to Tennessee. You might know, what to do, you know. RAC Aaron: I still think, yeah, I think Tennessee, I think they're still coming back up. I think they've got a lot of talent. think they got a lot of, a lot of fight in them. But I think Auburn's out for blood this year. think, you know, Golis has to have this work for him first year. So I think this is something where he's very specifically able to kind of key in to the Tennessee mindset, get in there, film. And. With the schedule you guys got, you can really dedicate a lot of time to prepping for Tennessee. RY4N: It's true. RAC Aaron: So I think I think I would go with a five and ⁓ start here. And then things get worse for a little bit for you guys. We got Georgia. RAC Chandler: Yeah, I think this is three straight L's. RY4N: Okay, I'm gonna be realistic here. I think we lose Tennessee, we lose Georgia. RAC Aaron: I RY4N: I we beat LSU. I don't know if that's gonna happen. I think we have the best chance to beat LSU. I think we might lose though. I'm gonna say it just for fun though. I'm gonna say we beat LSU and lose to Tennessee and Georgia for fun. RAC Aaron: I give them three losses here. think it's back to back to back. I think it's kind of right in the middle of things right after everybody's kind of in flow. You guys are coming off five. I think you're riding high. Georgia comes in, punches you in the mouth. RAC Chandler: You know, Aaron, I think you convinced me to swap out here. The more I think about it. Ryan also made a good point. think Tennessee's... think that's an L for Tennessee. I don't think Tennessee wins that game. RAC Aaron: Really? RY4N: don't think Tennessee is any good, I'm just worried that we play a real team and then we're gonna lose. RAC Chandler: No. Yeah, I think five and ⁓ then three straight losses. So five and three coming into Arkansas, November 7th. RAC Aaron: Yep. I have in three, which if we remember, Auburn's a 6.5 over under. So when we, we do go through that brutal bloody nose three weeks, then we're into Arkansas, which I think is a win. RAC Chandler: Yeah. And then... RY4N: Yeah, lose Ole Miss. Win Arkansas. RAC Chandler: Yep, a win. Beat Mississippi State. RY4N: Yeah, sorry. Beat Samford. We've gotta beat Alabama. We've gotta beat Alabama. ⁓ RAC Aaron: Yeah, unfortunately, yes. I know. RAC Chandler: beat Samford and then lose to Alabama. So five, six, seven, eight, so it'll be eight and four. RAC Aaron: It could be an eight and four season, which honestly, I think eight and four, even if we take a shouldn't have lost loss at that point, Auburn walks away with a seven win season. think that's a great start for where they're at. If Golis can walk out with seven wins with this schedule, he should have eight wins. I think he should have eight. RAC Chandler: Being around Auburn fans and being around the inside track of that media team and the Lockdown Auburn folks, I think that if Auburn doesn't sniff eight or more wins, it's a failure of a season. RY4N: gonna say every time we lose to Alabama and Georgia we failed. Seven or eight wins would be good but if we lose to Alabama and Georgia we failed. RAC Aaron: I'll say from a non-biased SEC fan, I think if you guys walk out there, eight wins, that's an accomplished first season. think especially with some of the worries and some of the changes that have been imposed, an eight-win SEC season is a victory. I think that's a ⁓ good start. I think you have to go up next year. Like if you get eight wins this season, you have to get nine to feel like we're upward, we're making momentum. But I think for a lot of times an eight win season is a winning season. think that's a good solid season for any team. RY4N: Yeah, and for goalish eight wins great like yes, come on goal as you have so much potential But again the Alabama and Georgia have to win one or both of those games or if you lose them both you fail Gotta win one and I don't know if we will this year RAC Aaron: I mean, I think right now, yeah, I think right now they're so strong that it is tough. It's tough to have that mindset. Like, I think you have to say like, we need time to build up a program to beat Georgia and Alabama. And I think that's where Auburn gets itself in trouble. I think that's been one of y'all's Achilles heel recently is like, you're so caught up with that Alabama, Georgia win, like especially the Alabama win where it's like, we're not letting things develop. RAC Chandler: And they're both away. RAC Aaron: We want to beat them so bad that we're putting ourselves in positions where we can't. And you're talking well established programs that don't have that turnover that every other team in the SEC tries to cut doored by hiring and firing all the way down the line. RAC Chandler: I will say though, in Ryan's defense, pre-2019 Auburn was a 9, 10, 11, 12, 20 pretty consistently. They're more so than not. So it wasn't too long ago. RY4N: 2020, pre-2020. RAC Aaron: ⁓ absolutely. Yeah. RAC Chandler: To have like that completely erased from all your fans minds. Like they know where they can be. And I think it shouldn't take that kind of program five years or six years to rebuild that to get back up to that level. And I think because that's happening, that's why it's so like it's one and done every year because somebody has to be competent enough to be able to do this. And that's why there's so much turnover because they want to get back to there so fast because they were a winning program more than they are. in the past six years. RAC Aaron: Yeah. And, but I think that's one of those mindsets that a lot of very successful programs have gotten themselves into where it's like, got us, we got him. We're a 10 win program. We're an 11 win program. We're not there. We've had a coach for two, three years. We're not there. We need to fire, start the cycle over. And then you get to this point where you're allowing stability for other teams to develop and you're in this. Transfer. of coaching and everything over and over again that you lose the stability to recruit from where it's like, ⁓ well, I don't even know if I'm going to be working under the same coach. If I go there, you lose some of that recruiting favor you have, you get some instability from the boosters. I think it's one of those things that if you start getting on that train too much as a program, you can quickly find yourself bottoming back into the, into the mud in that sticks win season program or bowling is a hope. And it's back to back to back to back. It's tough to get yourself out of there once you're in the crab bucket. RY4N: Yeah, and I understand that from like an out like I don't know from anyone else is not an Auburn fan. I like totally understand that. But pre Brian Harson just absolutely nuking our football program. Like every single year for like the entire history of Auburn football, it was like every single game you could go into the game and you could say we have a really good chance of winning this game. And most of the time we would scrap it out. RAC Aaron: Mmm. Yeah. RY4N: We would win, but it was just a couple games every year you lose. Happens to everybody. But I think the thing in the last two, three years that we've really lost is instead of the beating Alabama and Georgia mindset, ⁓ no, we're playing Ole Miss. I'm so scared. That kind of thing that like, we're terrified over these games in Arkansas. We're like, ⁓ no, we're playing Arkansas. But like, I think we have to bring back the standard Alabama. Georgia have to win those games. have to bring that back. I hope Golis establishes that some way. And I know it seems crazy right now, but literally forever. RAC Aaron: Well, and I will say it is a point in Golis's favor here that he is bringing a little bit of that energy in here. He is coming in aggressive. And I think you guys need that. I don't think you have somebody that's like, well, let's temper our expectation. Let's, hey, I don't want you guys to be mad at me if I win six games this season, because that's better than you did last season. Like he's coming out here like, we might take the whole thing. And you're like, you won't, but it's like. I appreciate it. Like I do like a coach that is matching the energy of the program's expectations. We'll have to see if it's in reality or not. RY4N: Yeah, even I... Yeah, even I think he's being a little far-fetched. But like, it's gotta happen. We've gotta bring it back somehow. I don't know how it's gonna happen though. RAC Aaron: Yeah. So we still, but I still think that all of us put that in the over for Auburn. I we've got, we've got that ⁓ above 6.5. I think we're all even at a, even in a bad set is seven. RAC Chandler: Yep. Yep. RAC Aaron: So we're kicking off with Mississippi state and my air. We're coming to my neck of the woods, going with Mississippi state. We do have a season opener against ULM. I think, ⁓ you know, it's a cupcake game. We're going to go with a win here. Week two, ⁓ we the Gophers. ⁓ We got Minnesota. RAC Chandler: win. RY4N: Win. RAC Aaron: So what do you guys think? Win or loss on Minnesota? RAC Chandler: loss. I'm sorry. Minnesota is such a, let me say this nicely. Minnesota has not been a middle tier big 10 team in a while, if not ever. They're very good hockey team, but football, maybe not so much. RY4N: I'm sorry as well. RAC Aaron: I... I know, it's so tough! I-I wanna- RAC Chandler: But their coach wears a nice suit and tie and they know how to run the ball well and they can beat down a team. RAC Aaron: Yeah. And that's been our weakness. Yeah. They know how to punch down. I don't want to be too tough on the Mississippi date Bulldogs for this schedule. I have been in a lot of our shorts, but we have a lot of issues that aren't necessarily player talent. I think we have a lot of talented players on our team. We've had some issues with clock management and a lot of our second half ball game. has had a lot of trouble. They brought in a new offensive assistant coach. So it's not a coordinator. We got Zach Arnett back for defense, but there's just so many moving parts at this point where like our O line and D line are pretty much entirely new this season. Brand new. Second week to go against somebody like Minnesota. I think that's just prime for getting a loss. And I think it'd be close. but it could be a beat down that we're not really ready for and we shouldn't lose this. We should win this, but I just don't think we will. RAC Chandler: No, should 100 % should win it and I don't want like Minnesota shouldn't be talked up too much. They haven't done a whole lot to make a good track record other than their coaches always in that little that that I don't even sign in a suit. It's like a like a I don't know like a suit like the vest underneath a suit with a tie like he always looks spiffy and you know, he's looking the part out there. So it's only a matter of time before they scrap together some wins that they shouldn't win. RAC Aaron: No. No. Well, I mean, last week, last season, they had a decent season. I mean, it was not a terrible win loss. I believe it was eight games. RAC Chandler: I think they have a men's warehouse sponsorship too, but that's neither here nor there. For their coach. RAC Aaron: Yeah. RY4N: think they're gonna run all over the place, unfortunately. RAC Aaron: I think they're going to run over us. I do think our net being back will help us fix some of our run game defense issues. But I don't think it's enough to get us over this one. Next up we have South Carolina. What do you guys think about that? RAC Chandler: loss. RY4N: gets a loss. RAC Aaron: I gave this one a win. South Carolina's got a lot of injuries even this early that they're looking on the line and they had line issues last year and have injuries in the line already. I just. Yeah, I think like questionable. These and affecting injuries. RAC Chandler: that are like long-term injuries. I say geez Louise. That's always September in September. They don't play you guys still RAC Aaron: Yeah. So for all we know that speculation that could be resolved if South Carolina comes healthy this season. I think it's a loss. I'm going to give this one to us though, because I have to, I have to give this one because we've got a lot more to talk about after this. So I need this one. So, South Carolina, I give the win, you guys gave him a loss. So we're in your book one and two at this point, and I am two in one. RY4N: That's That's fair. RAC Aaron: So next up we got Missouri. RY4N: Positive. RAC Chandler: us. RY4N: Sorry. RAC Aaron: Want to be positive? RAC Chandler: uh... i mean i don't see you have another potential win and still november seventh i think that's a gauntlet RAC Aaron: Oh yeah, we got a little while. We got, we got, we got a while to go here. This is rough. So Missouri. RY4N: This feels really bad. This feels like I'm beating up your baby in front of you or something. RAC Aaron: This is so heartbreaking to open this thing up to know where we're at. Yeah. It's really tough. I will say. RAC Chandler: This is a tough schedule. This is a tough schedule. This is arguably the hardest schedule that we've seen so far. LSU is contending, but definitely, this is tough. RY4N: It's hurting me bad. It's hurting me. RAC Aaron: Absolutely. RY4N: so sorry. RAC Aaron: So Missouri, I just don't think we got it. I just don't think we're pulling it over Missouri this year. Alabama, no chance. Nothing like just might as well send in the second strings just to keep our boys healthy for this game. Cause we're not going to do much. LSU. Yeah. RAC Chandler: haha RY4N: have an idea. I have an idea for that Alabama game. You should steal Ryan Coleman Williams jersey and make him a Ryan Williams number two jersey and then he's gonna freak out in the field and it'll be closer. But it'd be funny. But it'd be funny though. It'd be funny though. You should- RAC Aaron: And they'll still hurt us. Everyone will still hurt us. Yeah, it would be. RAC Chandler: Then you go, so you go to LSU, loss. RAC Aaron: at LSU, which is the big one. That's a loss. Oklahoma. I think loss. I just, a lot of these, we just don't have a lot of answers for right now. And unless we come out and play an excellent, excellent high level ball, I, we, this is a spiral to Texas. Texas I think is another definitive loss. We were close. We should have beat Texas last year. RAC Chandler: Loss. Plus. RAC Aaron: That's where it comes down to where I keep talking about. have some coaching issues, some ball management issues. So we do get to Vanderbilt. RAC Chandler: You know what, when? RAC Aaron: I gave them, I think it's close, but I gave them the win here. RY4N: This is gross. I'll give you all the win. RAC Aaron: Yeah. I, I, I thought I was like, ⁓ this one could go either way. But I think with Camaria, if he has stayed healthy through that gauntlet, which is my only worry is when you've got one guy to kind of put it to, we don't have a lot of, ⁓ a lot of stuff staying that would be, and I do want to preface that was saying whatever Jeff Lebby did to convince these guys to stay, we did not have a huge mass exodus out of the program. I think both Mississippi State schools did a really good job with player retention this year. Ole Miss kept a lot of people after a huge change up like that, and Mississippi State did after only having seven wins for two seasons. So that's tough. So the talent that stayed, credit to them for being loyal ball. But I'll give him Vanderbilt for that. I'm giving it to the players here. think talent on the field wins. Auburn. RAC Chandler: Loss. RAC Aaron: Is a loss. I think we're going to struggle there. I think we got too much. That's new when you've got goal is coming in with at least. Familiarity with this team. I think you guys take it. I don't It's. It does. It's really tough. It's yeah. It's more heartbreaking when it's you. We do have a win for our homecoming game or. Yeah, we, we hope let's hope it's a win, but yes, I. RAC Chandler: Man, I really feel bad going through the schedule with you and I really do I mean literally the only words put on my mouth are loss Yeah, Tennessee Tech RY4N: I'm so sorry win. Tennessee Tech. didn't even know that was a school. RAC Aaron: I- yep. They're here. They're here to give us a- a wind. RY4N: And they're here to lose to Mississippi State. RAC Aaron: Yeah, hopefully. You guys don't think we could do it. You don't think the egg bowl, we can get some magic. Neither do I. I will. It'll be great to watch. I hope we're not too frustrated, but my, my looking at this season, even with my cheeriest fan glasses on, I still have to go with the under. We were only projected 4.4.5. RY4N: I will watch it though, it'll be fun. A fun watch. RAC Chandler: Was it five and a half? RY4N: Maybe y'all should steal Trinidad's jersey. RAC Aaron: Think I'm looking at. RAC Chandler: What did I just have? I had Las Olmes, Las Auburn. RAC Aaron: You had a win at ULM and you had a win at Tennessee tech and, and Randy, think you guys gave us Vanderbilt. So you had three and with my optimism, I'm really struggling. The, ⁓ that's hard. hurts. ⁓ that hurts. But no, RAC Chandler: That's it? Vanderbilt 3. Golly, yeah. Gotta be an under. That's bad. RY4N: and Vanderbilt. ⁓ that's three. I'm so sorry. RAC Chandler: I mean, four is a stretch. God, I hate saying that though. RY4N: Insert speed face. It's hard to say. RAC Chandler: It's hard to say. I'm sorry. I'm so- RAC Aaron: It really is. it is, it is, it hurts, but it is something that it's like, this was not the schedule Jeff Levy needed to stay. And I do feel that of like we had, yeah, this is something where it's like, I personally, if we lose to Vanderbilt ⁓ or Auburn, like, think both those losses, I think. RAC Chandler: No, you might as well pack it up. RAC Aaron: Not that I like to say get a coach out, but I think the program might. They know after that point, if we're not bowl eligible, because at that point we're not bowl eligible. If we lose both those games, if we're not bowl eligible for the third year in a row, you know, we're still sub like 10 wins for three years. I think they're going to get rid of them. And if they do. Zach Arnett might be the interim head coach again this season. And that would be very funny. I will say that's my silver lining of the series season is that Zach Arnett might be our head coach for the second time in four years. RY4N: hilarious. RAC Chandler: That's crazy, yeah. It's looking like it might happen. I really hope I wanna make this abundantly clear to all Mississippi State fans watching this, and especially Aaron. I want you guys to succeed. I don't wish losses to the program, but just looking at this from a, that's a hard schedule. RAC Aaron: Yeah. I did too. It's, hard to argue. Now, if we have some absolutely generational talent show up here in ball, that would be great. But I, I'm rooting for Camario. My biggest worry is when you do have a quarterback like that, who is a running throwing quarterback who makes stuff happen. And after the injury from last year, if he gets out of this season healthy, I'll be happy no matter what. RAC Chandler: Yeah. Tough. Tough. RAC Aaron: I really like him. think he's a great quarterback. think he has ton of talent. I think we have a lot of talent on our team and if they can stay healthy, this is a brutal physical schedule that they're going to go in. And if they are going to be bowl eligible, they're going to need every ounce of player health and drive. They've got to pull that off. Just bowl eligible. And I hope nobody gets hurt too bad. But that'll round up our SEC discussion on such a sad, dour note. But we're going to head over to the Big Ten. So start off our big 10 climb. do want to start with Ohio State here. I do think we have talked about this a little bit in our multiple top 10 list, our season predictions, all that. So now we're going to deep dive into the schedule a little bit and see if we do still agree with the over under. RAC Chandler: state when RY4N: Win. RAC Aaron: Yep, agree. think Paul State's a win. Starting us off in the season. RAC Chandler: Texas at Texas. RY4N: Texas, I think this is y'alls hardest game on your schedule. RAC Aaron: Easily. I like, do think as I've gone through this, think Texas is the game. That's a season definer for both programs. think Ohio state in Texas. Have their tone set for the season with this game. RY4N: Can Devin Sanchez lockdown Cam Coleman? RAC Chandler: This is a loss. RY4N: Mm-mm. Nope. You win. RAC Aaron: No, no, I think Ohio State's got it. I still think if this was later in the season, I would give it to Texas, but. RAC Chandler: I have. RY4N: high seat weights. RAC Chandler: in this game. RY4N: Nope. Bad. RAC Aaron: It's all that you just spend too much time in the Mississippi State schedule. Now you got fear in your heart. RAC Chandler: No, I just think it's at Texas. think Arch ended off on a high note in Ohio State didn't really. it's going to be. mean, Ohio State, think has like 48 new transfers, scholarship players coming in or not including transfers, but they have 48 scholarship players coming in. That's a lot of roster change there. They have a brand new OC. I would like to see a win. I just think that's going to be a tough game. RAC Aaron: It's good. I do think no matter what happens here, it's a tough game. I just think. Yeah, I just think you guys are going to be a little bit more put together. I think you guys are going to be ready for this one. I think Texas might be writing the talk again, like what happened last year. RAC Chandler: I mean, this is a within seven for sure point game. think Texas scores less than 21 points. RAC Aaron: I will agree with that easily. RY4N: Y'all have... Yeah, I think that's good. Y'all have a great defense and your offense will be better under Arthur Smith. I don't see how you lose this game. Jeremiah Smith's not gonna let that happen. Julian Sane would've won the Heisman if y'all won the Big Ten Championship. The winner of that pretty much just got the Heisman. Fernando won because... Donaldson and... ⁓ What's-his-face, Jayden Fielding, I tried to get his name out of my head, couldn't. They just... ⁓ they just sold so bad. RAC Chandler: Ohio State would have played Alabama. RY4N: I mean other than that, yeah and other than that, Julian Sane wins the Heisman. RAC Chandler: Yeah, OK, I got to stick with my gut though. think Texas beats Ohio State. I think it's a low scoring game. I think it's in the teens. I would love for Ohio State to come out and score 21 plus and show that the offense has improved. Would be great. RAC Aaron: I do too, but. RY4N: How dare you They will. They will. I don't understand who I'm talking to. RAC Aaron: Like I said, I do think we're talking to one possession game, but I'm going Ohio state. I just think you guys have been locked in. RAC Chandler: could see like a 17-14 Texas win. RY4N: 31 17 RAC Aaron: We'll have faith in Ohio State when you don't, but Kent State. RY4N: 31 17, callin' it now. I think they beat conceit. RAC Chandler: golden flashes. They beat getting state, they beat Illinois. Iowa's a sneaky one. If they're going to be a ⁓ top 20 team this year for sure. I think they win that game. But historically Ohio state struggles at Iowa. That's a weird stadium for them to play at. It's always weird games. RAC Aaron: Yep. I think that's beat Iowa. It can be. Iowa can be sneaky. RY4N: No. It is. It is, but I think you win. I you win bad. RAC Chandler: I think they win too. Maryland win. Indiana. RY4N: Win. Hard though. RAC Chandler: See, this is when things get little interesting. This is a tough little three run here. RAC Aaron: Yeah. This is the discussion point of your schedule. RAC Chandler: Well, mean really, so they have six top 20 teams they play. And then they have. RY4N: I think Indiana's RAC Aaron: Yeah. RAC Chandler: top five teams and three top ten probably so it's tough. Indiana win RAC Aaron: It is. RY4N: I mean, I know I'm saying this just blindly hoping that Kurt Signetti has another great team, but I think Indiana is better than Oregon. So in this three game stretch, I think that's your hardest game and I think y'all still win. And I think y'all still win. RAC Chandler: And it's at Indiana. Yeah. RAC Aaron: I would, I'd agree as well. I think. I do wonder if the at home Indiana is going to be a little bit different, you know, coming back off of the national championship, you're going have a very energetic crowd this year. That's there. You're going to have a very alive student section. But I just think you guys have that consistency in you this year. think you've got a lot to, a lot to prove out there to like come back into it. RAC Chandler: I think if I were to sprinkle two losses on this schedule it'd be Indiana and Texas. But I only have them losing one game to Texas. I think they win every other game this season. RAC Aaron: Yep. I would say it's, I think you guys have a one loss season, but through this schedule, I don't know if it is between Texas or Indiana. I would lean much farther towards Indiana being your, your one loss. Oregon of course could be sneaky. I think you guys do handle USC. I think you guys take care of that. Yeah. Yeah. So ⁓ Oregon, Oregon's a tough one. RAC Chandler: And so could USC depending on how they handle Oregon. RAC Aaron: I do like more at QB. RY4N: think Oregon, ⁓ sorry. RAC Chandler: you too. RY4N: I think Oregon seems good. I think Oregon seems good. I think they're overhyped though. Don't think they were too good last year. I think y'all are gonna walk them down. RAC Aaron: I think that's going to be a name we hear a lot. Yeah. If, if they didn't have more coming back, I think this would be a year. I think he's pretty good. I think we'll hear his name and talks for. For Heisman this year, but yeah. RY4N: I think he's okay. We will. We definitely will. I don't think he should be though. That's just my opinion. I just have this weird intuition about certain guys that they talk up so much. And I think he is good. Whenever he plays a real team, he falls apart. It's all against Indiana last year. He can't do it. RAC Aaron: We'll see if it pulls together. Yeah. Wow. Everybody falls apart against Indiana last year, but, like I said, out of that three stretch though, Indiana's a maybe I think you think you're walking away with one loss. Whether it's Indiana, Texas, if you beat both of them, it could be Oregon. That seems like a very Ohio state thing to happen that it would be the one that you would win in that scenario. But if you win them all, that's the one you lose. Northwestern. RY4N: I mean, yeah. RAC Chandler: And boy, oh boy, they get through this slate of games, they will be battle tested. And that's what they lacked last year. They really were only battle tested week one, like really, really well. And I mean, they have it sprinkled throughout their whole schedule this year. If they will have tests on their offensive defensive line, they will get the kinks worked out in this schedule. If they can make it through and be in the playoffs, they will be ready to go. RY4N: good opinion. Yeah. RAC Aaron: Well, and I think, I think the one thing you got working for you here is that between Indiana and USC, you do have your bi-week. Indiana being the toughest fight pre-season right now, speculative, toughest fight. If anything goes on with that, when you have a week to recover, you know, you're going into a hard, when you got time to watch tape and prep. So I do think if you didn't have your off, If you didn't have your bi-week in between those three, I think it's a harder stretch. think week to week, the bruises start piling up there. But I think having that gives you guys some breathing room. RAC Chandler: Yeah. RY4N: You're going to the organ, right? You're going to the organ game? Yeah, I was about to say, I've always wanted to go to the Coliseum for USC, but you probably can't go two weeks in a row. RAC Chandler: Yeah, I'll be at the Oregon game. RAC Aaron: Yeah. RAC Chandler: We can make it work, but I mean they play one according to this list they play one two and five And then 13 like 18 and whatever Iowa was like 20 RY4N: love you too. RAC Aaron: Yeah. RY4N: A cakewalk organ five, though. RAC Aaron: But once again, we're in preseason rankings, you know? Hold them at whatever validity you want, but... RAC Chandler: ⁓ yeah, it really... in Indiana, Oregon and Texas will hold true probably USC. RAC Aaron: I yeah, I think we these are these are all teams that we talked about having in our postseason or indices in top 10. So they're going to be strong. It's going to come out. USC, of course, has been at that door for a little while. We'll see if they do make it through this year. But I think as we go down and we're going to talk about all of these like this is the rest of the episode as we talk about those. ⁓ But I think you make it through there. You got Northwestern. RAC Chandler: Yeah. RAC Aaron: You got Nebraska. I think those are both wins for you guys. Like I think there's not even a lot of discussion room on it to just say y'all get that. But let's RAC Chandler: especially with Dylan Riola leaving Nebraska and then going to be a backup. RAC Aaron: Let's talk about Michigan though. RY4N: When they figured it out, they got through that hump. RAC Chandler: It's definitely a win, but it's never a definite win, I guess. RAC Aaron: I think so. It's not a no, I that is a game that is up in the air. It's like. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. RAC Chandler: So said that poorly. It's not a definite win, but it should be. RY4N: It's never definite, but we've got through the stages where they're cheating and then y'all have figured out Ryan Day's got a win on his belt. So I think it's gonna be a few wins here in a row. RAC Aaron: Yeah, I think you. And if you make it to play off, you've been challenged. You guys have calmer games to end the season out with, but not not too far off. Like if you got tested early in the season, got broke early in the season, then it's like you got cakewalks all the way rest of the down. It would be tough to pull back into playoff mode. I think you guys are saddled really well that if you make it to the playoffs with this schedule. RAC Chandler: I hope so and it's at home, it'll be good. RY4N: That'd be great. RAC Aaron: that there's a good chance you guys run deep again. RAC Chandler: Let's do it. Go Bucks. RAC Aaron: One of us has to do well. ⁓ she said. RY4N: 12 and 0. 12 and 0. 12 and 0. RAC Chandler: It would be great. If they can 12-0 this schedule, boy ⁓ boy, will Arthur Smith get a statue. RAC Aaron: ⁓ I, yeah. Yeah. I think that's it. RY4N: He said. gonna happen. RAC Aaron: But you know, I need two of these three teams that we support to have more than 12 games this season. So I consider that a successful season if everybody gets a bowl game or a postseason. RY4N: If y'all lose the game, I'll be disappointed. RAC Chandler: Okay. RAC Aaron: So let's carry that energy over. think you guys go pretty well. We're still in the over territory because you guys were 9.5. So yeah, I think worst case you're 10 and tail. Worst case. ⁓ But I think we're still all in the over there. RAC Chandler: Yeah, 11 and 1. That's what I got. RY4N: think of all the teams as the most disrespectful over under though, they put them at nine and a half. RAC Aaron: I agree, but I think we're going to see why here when I click over. So we're at Oregon. Let's break down the Oregon schedule, starting off with Boise State. RY4N: Win. RAC Chandler: That's a late spring game. RAC Aaron: It is a late spring game. They do have an April 25th, though it's not even for a while. So we'll actually be able to talk about that one. Kind of an isolation there. RY4N: Yeah. RAC Chandler: Yeah, I don't know what other ones on that weekend, but that's a big one. Boise State win. RAC Aaron: Yeah, but we do have Boise State out there. Now I will say I am going to throw down. Boise State has been doing well. It could be. That's true. That's true. But that could be it. I don't think it's a strong chance at upset, but it's a fun one to watch out of the cupcake. So. Next up, we got Oklahoma State. RAC Chandler: ⁓ Ash and Gentie's not coming back. RY4N: Kind of. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. RAC Chandler: I would argue that Oklahoma State is a more fun one to watch than Boise State because this is the one I just talked about with North Texas's basically whole team coming in to play for Oklahoma State. And that coach knows how to win. He was in the G5, yes, but he knows how to win games. And if you have that mentality and you get the buy-in of the staff, you can throw some upsets in the table. I don't think they upset Oregon, but it could be a good one. RAC Aaron: That's true. Yeah. It's especially if you're. They they could. I think it's in there, especially this early in the season before everybody's got. I just don't think Oregon's prepping for Oklahoma State. They might they, you know, a good program perhaps every week, but yeah, Oklahoma State's ready for this game like this is what they're focused on. This is a chance for them. And I would say Oregon would be safe from it. RAC Chandler: No. Oklahoma State already is. And it's at their house. RAC Aaron: If they didn't have ⁓ USC at the end of that, because that's where their focus has to be. RY4N: would love to see it, I don't think it's gonna happen. I don't see it happening. RAC Chandler: don't think it will either. think they'd beat Boise State and Oklahoma State. RAC Aaron: I'd love to see it as well. But yeah, I think it's a win for them, but I'd love to see it turn into an Oklahoma State victory. Nope. Yep. USC. RAC Chandler: I'm in Portland State, never heard of that team, but that's a win. USC, this is the good one that I think... RY4N: Win. RAC Chandler: I think USC beats Oregon. I do. I think they have more weapons on offense. RAC Aaron: Really? RY4N: I've said said I think Oregon wins this game like too many times to back down so I think they win but you never know that definitely is the the toss-up game RAC Aaron: It is, it is the, it is one of the tough ones they got here. But I do think Oregon takes it over USC. But USC has the talent to win this one. It's just, let's see if comes together. RAC Chandler: If they can, I mean their defense averaged 23 points a game last year, USC did. So if they can tighten that up, think they can win, especially at home. That's not a long travel though for Oregon, which helps them. RAC Aaron: Yeah, at home, does help that. Yeah, then we got UCLA. I think I think that's a win. Nebraska also think that's a win. ⁓ Illinois. Yeah, Northwestern you got they have just a four block win here. I just think this is a pretty no question. Ohio State. RAC Chandler: win. RY4N: win. Win. Win. RAC Chandler: Western when. Yep. RY4N: Lost. Bad loss too. It's gonna be a bad massacre at night. And it's gonna seem close. RAC Chandler: us. RAC Aaron: Yeah, I give him a loss there. RAC Chandler: If this game is at night, I have been to so many Ohio State games and I have never been to a night one. It's always 11 o'clock. And boy, oh boy, do I really want to beat at a night game. You just can't ever plan it because you would think like when we went to the Michigan State game, like back in what, 2021, that was a top five game. I was like, it's got to be at night. The Texas game last year. Got to be at night. No wrong. 11 o'clock. RAC Aaron: them. RY4N: Yeah, but again, two big 10 teams here, two predominant winning big 10 teams here. They have the big 10, big noon slot. But I've heard a lot of rumors that it's gonna be at night, but I think this is gonna be a massacre. I think this will be like that Michigan State game. I think it's gonna be bad. RAC Aaron: Yeah. Yeah, I just I think Ohio State comes in so strong this season. RAC Chandler: I hope it is, I hope. Come November 7th, if Ohio State's clicking, they're going to be a scary team. They have weapons everywhere. RAC Aaron: Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. On both sides of the ball. Yeah. Just there's just going to be it's going to be potentially a slaughter for everybody up there against. RY4N: Mm-hmm. Yeah, everywhere? RAC Chandler: And Kyle Parker, thank you to LSU. He looks great. He was, I think he was battling injury a lot last year. But he, and he followed Cortez Hankton over from LSU, the wide receiver coach. He looks good. Devin O'Quen looks good. They got some dogs on the offense side of the ball this year. They did a good job reloading. RY4N: Yep. And Arthur Smith is gonna let him use them. He's gonna tighten up that O-line. He's gonna use the weapons. RAC Chandler: I mean, Arthur Smith was, he was on tape when they did our first press conference. I apologize for the digression, but he said, so how do you, can you give Jeremiah Smith the ball too many times? And he looked at the reporter and said, that would be like when I was at the Titans saying that I need to give Derek Henry the ball less. Like I'm giving it to him too much. He's like, no, you want to get that guy the ball as much as you can. So that makes me feel really good that he's not just going to run the ball a lot. RAC Aaron: Yeah. Yep. RY4N: Me too, Jeremiah for Heisman. And I think he will also be able to run the ball a lot, and y'all need that. RAC Aaron: Yeah. RAC Chandler: I think so too. RAC Aaron: Now, how do we feel about Oregon at Michigan, or Oregon hosting Michigan? RY4N: loss or win win I think they're gonna be a little sad coming off the Ohio State game but I think they'll still pull it off battered and hurt and sad but they'll win RAC Chandler: win. RAC Aaron: I think so too. RAC Chandler: Michigan's. RAC Aaron: Yeah. Michigan is kind of a little bit of a wild card, but that wild card doesn't look like it's working too much in their favor this year. So we'll see how they come out. then we got Michigan. Yep. Yep. The Michigan state. RAC Chandler: They are. Then they go to Michigan and play the Little Brothers. loss I mean win sorry yeah lost for Michigan State ⁓ RAC Aaron: Yeah, I think that's a win as well. And then Washington. at home. RY4N: This is a... this is a tricky one. I this is a trap game. RAC Chandler: It definitely is a trap game. RAC Aaron: It could RAC Chandler: Damond Williams Jr. is there. RAC Aaron: Yep. RY4N: loved him on Williams. He's so good, so smart, so athletic. I think this is trap game. I think they can lose this game. RAC Chandler: I think they lose that game. RAC Aaron: think it could be a trap game. Yeah. RAC Chandler: Yep, think they have two losses. think they have Ohio State and they have Washington. RY4N: Yep, and I think that Washington's a coin flip, but I think Washington can win that game. RAC Chandler: I do too. RAC Aaron: I, I agree. And I think not a lot of other people do because they're at 10 and a half. ⁓ so, know, trending towards a one loss season, but I see two. Yeah. RY4N: What are you, 10 and a half? 10 and a half, they're seeing one or two losses. And I think that is the one or two that are there. That is like the coin flip, that's the half. RAC Aaron: Yes. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. And by putting it in. RAC Chandler: So realistically, probably 11 and 1. RAC Aaron: But I still, I think that's a very positive 11 and one for Oregon standard season. Like I see somewhere in this schedule, whether it's USC, whether it's Washington, I feel very strongly that Ohio State's a loss for them. So I feel like there is a chance for another one in there. For me that. RY4N: Mm-hmm. RAC Chandler: Wait, no, I have been losing to UCLA. mean, ⁓ USC, USC and Ohio state. So I have the under. RAC Aaron: Yeah. Yeah. I also put them in the under. I think if they were at 9.5, I'd take the over because I think that'd be safe. I think 10 and a half. I think there's a couple traps. think people are looking at this like it's an easy schedule. And for the most parts it is, but I think there's a few traps they can fall into, especially if they don't stay a hundred percent through the season. Like if they, if we have any injury, if we lose any depth, I think that could be. something where this kind of starts to fall apart. But, you know, when we're in preseason, you don't tend to use that variable as much. But I, like you said, I think Washington's a trap game. I think USC could be a trap game for them. Ohio State, feel like is a strong power game that they have to be ready for. But we also talked about Oklahoma State. I don't think they're gonna pull it off, but there's just a lot of little ones that if they aren't there playing full ball, that they could stumble. RY4N: Yeah. RAC Chandler: Yeah. So I guess I retract my over from last year or not last year, last predictions before we went over to the schedules there. I I'm hitting the under. Yeah. I hit the under. RY4N: Yeah, I think all co- RAC Aaron: Yep. This will be, I think your first change. RY4N: Yeah, I think I'm going to go 10 wins here go under. think Oklahoma State will be scrappy. They're not going to get it. And then USC is going to be hard. And I think Washington's a trap game. So I think they lose one of those and then they lost to high state. So I'm just going to say 10 wins. RAC Aaron: So actually, I take that back. You both have flipped twice now to the under Mississippi State. You guys were over in the pre predictions too, but I don't think you guys saw six wins in that. so after this, we've got Indiana. So crimson and cream bowl game or spring game, not a bowl game. Sounds like a bowl game, but so we've got North Texas. ⁓ think we can all agree. That's a, that's a pretty quick one. RAC Chandler: ⁓ yeah, now we flipped. Yeah, we flipped. and cream. RY4N: interesting. RAC Chandler: I mean, what is this schedule? RAC Aaron: Howard Bison. RAC Chandler: What are we doing here? This is... I mean this whole stretch right here is a wind. RY4N: is that? What is the Howard Byers shit? RAC Aaron: This first block. Do we just want to go ahead and just read off these teams and just say win, win, win, win, win? Yep. Howard bison win WKU Hilltoppers win Northwestern Wildcats win Rutgers win Nebraska win. I think there's not a lot of challenge here, which to to Indiana taking a back to back. This is a good get yourself in rhythm. Start of the season schedule. RAC Chandler: Yes, win. Yep. Yep. RY4N: Yes. ⁓ show me some comp. RAC Aaron: This is a good, it can be. RAC Chandler: ⁓ It's deceiving. RAC Aaron: We do pick up with Ohio state after Nebraska. RAC Chandler: Ohio State's their first test coming in middle of October. That's tough. RY4N: Hold on here, hold on here. We've been through three Big Ten schedules and we haven't seen Penn State. Who's Penn State playing? RAC Aaron: We'll have to that as a bonus right at the end and find out what Penn State's up to. RY4N: What in the world? Three of the best Big Ten teams, fifth state play, none of them. What are we doing? RAC Chandler: Yeah, how's it doesn't play Penn State against like 2028 or something. It's weird. RY4N: Yeah. But I mean, I was just thinking Indiana last year almost lost. They were a toe away from losing to Penn State. RAC Chandler: and they play them every year. That's why they took them out. RY4N: And none of them are playing. Yeah. Wow. Yep. Loss. RAC Chandler: So Ohio State loss, Michigan win, and Ann Arbor, that's gonna be tough, but that's a win. Minnesota. RY4N: Win. RAC Aaron: So it might be good at punching down, but are they gonna punch it up? Yeah, they're gonna win this. RAC Chandler: Minnesota win, USC win, Washington win, Purdue win. I mean, this is a cake schedule. RAC Aaron: When RY4N: Yep, when? When? Kickwalk. Kickwalk. RAC Aaron: This is a good schedule for them. RAC Chandler: They have a one loss season at their floor on this schedule. RAC Aaron: Yeah. Which they are at 10 and a half, but I think this is a much safer 10 and a half. Then Oregon had, there is not a lot. Like we did say there's, know, the Washington pitfall. I do think Indiana's defense doors up. That pitfall that Washington offers. I have Indiana's defense, which is so good last year. ⁓ if they play even 80 % RAC Chandler: the note organs. Yes. RAC Aaron: strength from last year. I still think that shuts down a lot of the traps that they could hit this season. Ohio State isn't going to let that happen. Purdue, as long as they're ranked not number two, they're fine. Purdue does have that history of taking down number two, but I just don't see a lot of up in the airs here. I don't see a lot of chance. So I think it's a safe over for me. I've still seen 11-1 at worst here. RY4N: You know, the more I'm seeing Washington, the more I'm like, I think they're kind of legit. Sneaky team this year, Washington. But I think, well, Indiana definitely wins, but I, I just keep seeing that like sneaky little team there. RAC Aaron: I do, I do think Washington's legit. RAC Chandler: Especially Mr. Williams Jr. Mm-hmm. Yes. They're climbing up the Big Ten kind of leaderboard here. RAC Aaron: They are, they're, they're a quiet team that does very, well. Yep. So I think that was a quick way to, break down Indiana. It just isn't too much to talk about. They're going to, they're probably going to be in the playoffs again. So. Yep. What their spring game is called. Yeah. So starting off USC, we got San Jose. Yeah. We got Fresno State. RAC Chandler: I like seeing all these names of what their spring game is. RY4N: What a schedule here. When? Win. RAC Aaron: Louisiana Rage Incasients RAC Chandler: Love the name. One of the best names in college football. RY4N: in. Me too. RAC Aaron: Rugger's again. It's a great one. Yeah, absolutely. Raging Cajuns. Phenomenal. And then, so we got Rugger's as a win. Oregon. We, I think we all, we all had that as a loss for, yeah. RAC Chandler: win. RY4N: Beep. Yep. RAC Chandler: That's going to be a tough one, but it's a win. Yeah. RY4N: I said they lose this game. I said USC loses this. Jailor said, USC wins this. RAC Aaron: I think we, I think we, yeah. RAC Chandler: ⁓ wait, I was thinking Indiana. Yes. Yes. USC loses this game. ⁓ USC wins this game. I said USC wins this game. RY4N: I think Oregon wins. I think Oregon wins. I'm giving him a loss. RAC Aaron: I, I agree. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We're, we're split on this one. I think Oregon wins this one as well. think USC loses, but it could be, Oregon could lose this one. Hey, we do see Penn State finally show up today. ⁓ RY4N: Damn. RAC Chandler: Hey look, Penn State. RY4N: ⁓ yay, loss. I mean, Pinsy lost. RAC Chandler: So Oregon, they win. Washington. RAC Aaron: That seems... that seems rough. RAC Chandler: they win. RAC Aaron: think so. I think they lose one or the other there. So I'm coming out with the one loss from that. Penn State, they win. Wisconsin, I think they win. RAC Chandler: state they win. Two bi-weeks? I mean, what are we doing? RY4N: in. RAC Aaron: Yeah. What do you guys do up here in the big 10? You know, you put Penn State in one schedule. know, Ohio, you know, you're playing everybody. So I will give you. RAC Chandler: ⁓ yes. Yeah, Penn State has one game. RY4N: You know what? I'm taking it back. They lose to Washington. RAC Aaron: They lose to Washington. All right. So I think, you're in the same boat as me. Yeah. RY4N: Come on Williams, breakout game. It's homecoming. Yep, nothing easy. RAC Chandler: Further homecoming game. Further homecoming game. RAC Aaron: Hehe. So Ohio State, think we all have as a loss for them from our earlier talk. Indiana, have a loss. Maryland. RAC Chandler: Okay. Yep. Indiana loss. RY4N: Plus, bad. Loss. RAC Chandler: when UCLA win. RAC Aaron: Alright. So we had on the betting that this was an 8.5 for over under. I think it's a safe over. I think, you know, we're, looking at probably nine wins through here. Worst case for them. It's not a, it's not a crazy schedule, but it's not as much of a cakewalk as we just watched with Indiana. So Indiana has got a great schedule to head into the season with. But yeah, well. RAC Chandler: ⁓ over for sure. RY4N: You got over? Yeah. Yeah. RAC Aaron: USC, like I said, we've talked about it before with where Lincoln Riley's at with the program, where the talent's out with the program. And it was really a year they need to come out really, really strong, I think. I don't think it should be that way, but I think the fandom's gonna expect that. RY4N: Yeah, but like they win 9-10 here. RAC Chandler: I ⁓ said ⁓ under when we did our rankings in the beginning and I it's to be an over based off looking at their schedule. Plus what you said the hype they have around them they have to win games. RAC Aaron: Yeah, I think it's an over as well. So to round out vinyl, we're going to Michigan. RAC Chandler: What a horrible way to round out. RY4N: maze what a stupid color call it yellow ⁓ RAC Chandler: loss April 18th. RAC Aaron: See how much you guys have influenced one another? What's wrong with Michigan? No, no. I can say we'll be a hostile Michigan podcast as long as we agree to be a hostile Ole Miss podcast. RY4N: Sorry. I promise I'm not a... I promise I'm not a... hi, Stephen. RAC Chandler: Everything's wrong with Michigan. Any Michigan fan listening to this podcast, turn it off. ⁓ Western Michigan Broncos when Oklahoma lost. RY4N: Sure. RAC Aaron: Yeah. So Western Michigan. RY4N: Loss RAC Aaron: Yeah. Yep. I think so. RAC Chandler: minors don't let us RY4N: Miners. Is... What's this face coaching? Is Shroom more coaching? Don't let him around him. Yeah. RAC Chandler: Sharon Moore. Don't let Sharon Moore out there for this game. RAC Aaron: It'd be fun to see that part. I'd love to watch him come in on that one. RAC Chandler: When... RY4N: We could up to see Strobel with miners. RAC Aaron: show up. Just show up to the stadium. Is it? Yeah, it's at home. So it'd just like, watch them come in. RAC Chandler: you RY4N: Sorry. Yeah. I mean, he probably, he'll probably be there like multiple weeks. Not just this week, probably a lot of weeks. RAC Aaron: He's sick that week. So I will give him a loss. Okay. I think it's spicy. RAC Chandler: KATHRYN RY4N: No! Mmm, yeah sure. I like it. RAC Chandler: I think I was a teen ranked team this year. RAC Aaron: Yeah. Yeah. I think after Oklahoma, I was going to be a tougher game. So I'll him a loss there to give him to their Minnesota. RY4N: Win. RAC Aaron: And then we got Penn State again, our second Penn State experience. RY4N: win what pinz is gonna be terrible RAC Chandler: us. care. Michigan's worse loss. RAC Aaron: Hahaha RY4N: I'm being realistic here, come on. RAC Chandler: Me too. New coach, new Penn State. RAC Aaron: I... I am... ⁓ I'm torn on this one. I'm torn. RY4N: They do have JP. RAC Aaron: I will say Penn State fans are going to say this is a shoe in win for Penn State. I will say, I think this one could go either way for both teams. So. RY4N: I think they win this game. I don't want them to win any of their games, but I think they win. RAC Chandler: us. RAC Aaron: Yeah. Indiana. We know that one. We can say that one again. Ruggers. RAC Chandler: loss. RY4N: That's all folks. game just kidding ⁓ RAC Chandler: at Shee Stadium. loss. I mean, win. Sorry. When Michigan state, when loss. RY4N: What? No! When? RAC Aaron: Michigan's, yeah. Michigan State when Oregon? RY4N: When? Oh, weird thing. When I was at Disney World one time, I heard a guy say that he went to Michigan State and one of them told the other one, go blue, and the other one said, go green. And I don't know what that interaction was about. RAC Chandler: They hate each other just as much as Ohio State Michigan do. RY4N: Yeah, I know, that's why I was so confused. Sorry. RAC Aaron: You just have to be full of hate to be a Michigan fan. Got a lot of hate to go around. So we got Organist's loss, UCLA. I think it's a win. I do, I know we get a lot of talk for UCLA, I think it's a little bit, and then of course Ohio State's a loss. So this was an 8.5. RAC Chandler: Oregon loss. Win. Loss. RY4N: Win. Loss. Loss. RAC Aaron: Do you think that this schedule puts them under? RAC Chandler: Any of the last I have for? RY4N: four or five. RAC Aaron: So we've got one, two, three, four, five in our books. RY4N: I had four, I think. RAC Chandler: I already said they under there right? I didn't say they over. I definitely s- yeah. RAC Aaron: Yeah. You did say under you started under. Yeah. RY4N: No, did I have five? Wait, go back up. I had Ohio State, Oregon, Indiana. Iowa, Oklo- Yeah, I had five. Yeah, get down there. Lose to the miners too. RAC Aaron: Oklahoma. Yeah. I think we all can see this as a five loss season. I think a five loss season is pretty, they really could, this could be just a tumble. RAC Chandler: Yep. RY4N: It's your own dude. RAC Aaron: so the rounds out are over unders. I think we, gave it a good dive through here. ⁓ You guys weren't far off. I don't think you much. You changed too. So Mississippi state changed and then. ⁓ Oregon changed. So Mississippi State and Oregon were the only two that flipped to unders. RAC Chandler: I think I changed USC to over as well. RAC Aaron: Okay, you might have had it over. I didn't take no. RAC Chandler: I think I had it under, I think I talked about it being under. Oh yeah, maybe we did, I don't know. Yeah, I think they're over. RY4N: Yeah, I think we had that over. We went over on like every single thing I thought. I don't know. I saw eight and a half and I was like, think they went nine. RAC Aaron: Yeah. So two flips out of 10 teams though, you know, that's pretty good off the gut. I think I will say this one, like going from preseason rankings to Vegas odd wins, Vegas odd wins feel locked in. Like these feel like it's hard to find a fault with these numbers other than like a few extreme cases. So. Yeah. RY4N: Like a high state. So disrespectful, I can't believe it. RAC Aaron: But even though they tried to give us like 4.5 for Mississippi State, like that felt on the money. feels mean to put them there, but it is something where it's like, when I looked through all these schedules, I was like, it is hard to, you can normally argue one or two games going on one side of the 0.5 and then the other. There was not many that I saw that anything jumped out at me as that was crazy different. than what they said. The only one was organ. And I just think that's because some of those games aren't as locked in as I think some people are viewing it as. So just have to keep waiting through this season. do have spring games. So next time you will hear us, we'll be talking spring games, possibly Mississippi State as our opener here. So let's see if our negativity lives through that. But that will be the next wave. So you should expect to hear us for about the next month covering those spring games. have a couple things lined up to talk with some fans about the spring game. If you have some expectations for your spring game or something you'd like to see us talk about for your team, feel free to shoot us over an email or leave us a comment on one of the videos or shorts that we have going out through TikTok, Instagram, YouTube. You'll find all those links in the description of our episode in our link tree, as well as our direct email address. So you can send us any kind of questions, you'd like us to discuss there. But we will be at the end of our pure speculation era this week. And next week we'll actually have some football to chew on. So until next time. RY4N: Bye bye.