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Bama Bob recaps college football, Cyclones with Bill Seals & Trent's Picks presented by Circa Sports · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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Our number 2 welcome back, Miller and Condon.
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It's the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
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Trent Condon, Ken Miller with you until just before 2:00.
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At that time off the bench comes Lucas and Sean taking until 5/5
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to six. Overtime, Iowa.
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Well, as the music kind of alludes to time to talk to our
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friend Bama Bob. We recap every Monday, preview
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every Friday at this time and let's get into it.
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Bama, Trent and Ken, how are you?
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Well, I'm I just got done with the lemonade stand for the de
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Boer buyout, so. You know, what's the buyout
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67,000,000 Is that what I read? Yeah, 6770, it's too much,
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basically, if you were willing to get down to it.
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Alabama, I don't think has that kind of money.
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It's crazy money, especially when you're going to have to
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double it to buy somebody new and then you, you know, oh,
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you've got this pesky little NIL thing you have to keep forking
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up every year. So hey, look, it's just, it's
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not good down here. It was terrible Saturday.
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I'm sure we'll get into it. And there's a lot of things to
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fix. There's a lot of noise as you
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would expect down here, but it is what it is and you just, you
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got to make it better or you know, you're going to have a
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rough season. But I'm sure we'll get into all
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that as we belong. Yeah, we're going to start with
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alphabetize as we do. And no, no, no, no, no not.
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ACC. Is legit this year right but we
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are in this is the Iowa sports radio network right we have bam
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up Bob on who's in the SEC that. Guy from Spencer, he's from
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North Carolina. OK, OK.
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What I'm saying though, yeah, why do we start with the ACC?
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We can start with the Big 10, we can start with the Big 12, we
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can even start with the SEC cause of Bama eventually, right?
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But we run out of time. Leave the ACC for the end.
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So good. This year it's not going to be
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the two Florida. Nobody cares.
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Absolutely legit in comparison to the rest.
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Let's get to the meat and then if you want to have a little
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dessert ACC afterwards, that would make a lot more sense.
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You think that's the way we? Should I'm trying?
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I've been trying for years and last year you finally relented,
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no? Because the ACC was so bad.
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I got food. This is my last year.
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This is. Your show next year you can do
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whatever you that won't watch. We'll never talk about the ACC
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then all. Right, let's start with the Big
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12. It's about the audience now, you
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and me. Big 12 Bama, your thoughts?
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I don't think they were as good as the ACC.
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Was this nice? Well.
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Played. Couldn't agree with you more by
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the way. Yeah.
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You know, look, I don't think there's a whole lot that stood
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out to me in the Big 12. Baylor, you know, more credit to
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Auburn than you do for Baylor. But they couldn't stop a
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quarterback draw. Auburn ran for 300 yards on
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them. You know, there's really, I
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mean, Kansas State that that lost in Dublin almost cost them
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another against North Dakota. And I have no idea how good
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North Dakota is, right. I saw the, you know, Iowa State
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handled their Dakota handily after that game.
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But really, other than that, I mean, you go back Utah, OK, if
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you want to give them a little credit.
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And again, I don't I don't know how good they are versus just
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how putrid UCLA is. And with their new, you know,
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quarterback Nico, I'm a stealing money.
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He's. And he was terrible, Nico, I'm
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not a believer. I'm not a believer.
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I'm a thief. I mean whatever.
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I mean, tell him what you want. He's just I don't think
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Tennessee fans are sorry to see the back of him.
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And listen, he's got he doesn't have much around him.
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So let's try to be a little bit fair.
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But I watched, I watched a little bit of that game.
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I mean, it kicked off at 10. So I probably made it, you know,
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at least, you know, half of it before I, you know, started
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fading in and out. And even he showed some flashes,
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if you want to look at it that way.
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But he doesn't have much around him.
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And he just doesn't seem like the kind that is going to that
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team's going to. I don't.
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I think they're going to struggle to make a ball game.
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And you know when you want to look at an upset pick next week
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they go to Vegas to play UNLV. Who's 2 and O?
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Who's 2 and O and, you know, and I think they're going to have
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more fans in there than UCLA was, which which is crazy when
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you think about it, but they're they're kind of they're they all
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buzz around that team. So we'll see how they go.
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But I think UCLA is in for a long year.
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But yeah, other than Baylor, it's not a lot to me that that
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really stuck out about the Big 12.
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They really didn't play anybody noteworthy.
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You know, we since we last talked other than Utah and a
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nice win in LA, Yeah. Carol Colorado got beat.
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We'll get to that at the end we've praised Georgia Tech for.
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Their game plan? What?
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Who beat them? An ACC team.
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Right, exactly. We'll get to them in a second.
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Can you tell me all the time. It's about keeping an audience.
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Knock it off. Trent, your thoughts on the Big
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12? We talked a little bit about
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Utah. I I told you maybe my different
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take away than what we've talked about with the Arizona part.
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They're not great, but I think they're going to be better this
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year. They're going to be at least a
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team that can pull an upset, can do something B7 and five.
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Was Hawaii ever in the game? No.
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I am Hawaii. It was not pretty.
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So Arizona, I think that's my take away they're.
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Going to be OK. That's the first.
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Well, obviously K State was the first.
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I think it's once they get through Arkey State.
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I think Arizona's the 1st. The 27th. 27th There you go.
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So that'll be something to clip and save.
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All right, Big 10, Bama. Yeah.
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You know, I guess you want to start at the top now, probably
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the very top with Ohio State. Do we get ranking steady, by the
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way? No got one more game of.
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Course. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, you got tonight? Yeah, I guess I can't remember.
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There's a team from some conference playing tonight.
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I can't remember. But yeah, Ohio State.
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Listen, that game was a snooze fest.
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You can call it great defense, caught wherever you want.
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That game was boring and dull. Now listen, there are great,
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there are great defenders out there.
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I understand the narrative is about Arch Manning.
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Get that and get the helm too if you want.
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But yeah, I mean, Ohio State just we talked about it before
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they these two teams, my opinion are in the in the era of NIL are
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going to be the juggernauts for this foreseeable future because
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they Texas and Ohio State, they are the 2 blue blood brands with
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I think the deepest pockets and people willing to spend.
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I don't know where all the money from Ohio State's coming from,
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but man, their got it. And they they just reloaded
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again, you know, Julian saying look better.
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He didn't have to do a whole lot because the defense was so good
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and the defense was good because the offense on Texas was bad.
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I think for but and we talked about, you know, all the
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turnover on the on the line of scrimmage for them for both
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teams. And I think it showed a little
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bit. This was, I don't, I don't think
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anybody saw the, you know, 21 being a total here.
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I thought it would be lower scoring.
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But so I guess really if you if you want to look at it, we
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already hit on UCLA being really bad and stinking up the joint
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and there's not a lot outside of that opening weekend to get
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excited about. I mean, you know, Penn State
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beats Nevada, Oregon beats Montana State, Michigan beats
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New Mexico, Indiana, you know, struggled a little bit with Old
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Dominion, Maryland, Florida Atlantic, Purdue, Ball State,
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Northwestern just drilled by Tulane.
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That was unbelievable. And then and how about the
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Tulane using the bulletin board material?
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They asked to change uniforms and Northwestern wouldn't go
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along with it. I mean, the anniversary of
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Katrina and you wouldn't defer to, I don't, I mean, come on,
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That's, that's Bush league. That is Bush league and and they
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look, they paid for it and that was, that's another bad, bad,
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bad football team. But yeah, I, you know, listen,
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there just wasn't a lot to get excited about.
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I think in the Big 10, Washington, if you, you know,
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maybe I watched all of that games because again, it was late
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kick off. But I don't think you take
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anything, anything away from the Big 10 the entire week, you
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know, week one, week 0, whatever, other than we think
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Wisconsin is going to be bad. We think Nebraska might have a
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shot and Ohio State just reloaded.
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That's basically what you boils down to.
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There'll be bigger games for this conference as we move
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along. Yeah.
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I was impressed by Bryce Underwood.
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You know, I was impressed with Trent.
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As bad as Purdue is, they filled Ross Aid Stadium.
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That's exactly I was going to say the same thing and they
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probably want 50 transfers, something like that.
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Maybe they're not going to be hideous, right?
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They can be Northwestern. That's going to be Northwestern,
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but they can be a team again, kind of like not like Arizona
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bowl eligible, but that team that pulls that shocker in
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November, pulls an upset and you can see you're number one of a
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new regime. It's starting to turn a little
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bit there at Ross Aid. Did you do you take anything
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away from USC hanging 73 on Missouri State?
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I don't. Think so.
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The open Missouri State, now a FBS team.
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Remember, they're transitioning up and they're in Conference
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USA. Forgot.
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I didn't know that. No longer a Missouri Valley
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Conference team, so that counts as a yeah, a win against an FBS
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team at minimum. I don't think he can take
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anything. 73 on him. What else?
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Anything else? You know what I said earlier?
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Maryland might have a quarterback.
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It's Maryland. Nobody's going to pay attention.
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But I was impressed by Malik Washington.
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What about Indiana? Struggling with Old Dominion?
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Is Old Dominion good? No.
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I think if you take a little bit deeper, they scored.
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Old Dominion scored a late touchdown.
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It was they were in control the whole game.
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They had over 500 yards of offense.
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There wasn't anything that you look at the box score and say,
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oh, this was the score did not paint the full picture of that
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game. Let's move on to the SEC, boys.
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Let's start with you, Trent Connor.
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We'll say Bama for this one. Your thoughts on the SEC?
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So a few things that we've tucked touched on already, Ohio
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State, Texas, of course, Alabama, Florida State, I know
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it's against Illinois State, but I really like what we saw out of
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my my meteor at the quarterback spot for Oklahoma.
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That defense is going to be salty again for this is this.
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Going to be a good game this week.
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Oklahoma, Michigan. I think so.
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I think it's going to be a tremendous.
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Game number six, do you have a lean?
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When I first. Saw the number, I was all over
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the points. I mean, I bet, I don't bet
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games, but. Oklahoma, though, I think they
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got a quarterback, but Tier I wasn't exactly sure.
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And again, it's Illinois State. Did he throw well?
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He only ran the ball really well.
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What else in the SEC? Oh, Bama, I got to get your
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perspective on this one. LSU they spent in the portal.
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Nussmeyer certainly showed it. Can LSU win a national
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championship Bama? I don't know that they're quite
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there yet. Now they've Got Talent.
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And listen, that's a really good win because you go into Clemson,
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you hold that team to 10 points with Club Nick.
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And we could talk about Club Nick again came the same way
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with Arch Manning and and you know, I'm Ileva and all these
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other, you know, quarterbacks, you know, Ty Simpson that that
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didn't look the part. But still, that's a great win.
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Prime time. That place was rocking.
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You go in and listen, they got robbed.
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They got absolutely what an awful call.
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Oh my goodness. I mean death.
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I don't know what do you he should have just shut up the
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rest of the game because they got gifted 7.
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Points. And then there was another one
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yesterday, wasn't there? Yeah, there was another one.
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Probably there was. That you know even Bill Lamagna
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who was in the booth with Herbie and powers like I don't there is
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there is no scenario I'm looking at that that's not a touchdown.
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OK and you know and I think that the the announcement for this is
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stunned because it was like is it a touchdown Is it out of the
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one? And then they come back and
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they're like guys after review incomplete pass that wasn't on
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the bingo card. So it was but yeah, I I don't
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know that LSU can do it. Listen, their their schedule is
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is pretty salty as it all of them, right.
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But they're going to get, I think a little healthy here.
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They got three home games and then they go to Ole Miss.
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Now one of those home games is Florida.
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Florida all of a sudden, man, that's my state of Florida.
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They got the well, the state of Florida.
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Yeah, absolutely if you want to go there, but just Florida in
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general, you know, you start they got South Florida this week
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who pasted Boise State. Then they go to LSU.
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They go to Miami. Open date Texas at Texas AM.
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I mean, my God, that is just that ought to be unfair.
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So I don't know what they're. You know, we'll get to them as
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we move along. They didn't have much.
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They had Long Island this week. But yeah, I think I won't.
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I do not want to say LSU is back now.
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This is the first time in five years and 1st year under Kelly
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they've been want to know. But they've Got Talent and
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they've got receivers and they've got a guy who's pretty
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confident in the quarterback. You know, it can all go South
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for them. You know, we all see it when it
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does. Brian Kelly wears his emotions
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on his sleeve. He chooses players out
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everything else but LSU were they were they were one of the
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winners out of that conference and A and a bunch of as was you,
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another winner in that conference And we can get to the
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losers if you want. South Carolina man, boy, is the
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Nora Sellers good. Yeah, he's fun to watch, I mean.
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He is good. They are.
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I think they're top tier. They are a legit playoff team.
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I in my opinion, especially when you start digging into that
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schedule, but yeah, I mean, there were those two were the
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big winners for me from the SEC over the weekend out of a bunch
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of losers, Texas included, Alabama.
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And by the way, guys, just a 32nd rant.
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Is there a more insufferable announcer anywhere than Joe
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Tessito? No.
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Yeah, I might put Tim Brando on there.
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I'd take Brando over tests. Would you?
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Yeah, 10 * 10 times out of nine, I mean.
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And by the way, Joe, you're not cool, OK?
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Did you see the shots from the booth?
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No. Oh, I thought that someone's
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criticizing didn't unbuttoned a shirt or something.
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He's got the he's got the old Mr. Groovy look with the gold
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chain and the black chest hair. I'm like, come on, man, you're
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not cool. You might think you are, but
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that just makes you more uncool and you're just so the
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hyperbole. Anyway.
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I just that made that game that much more painful to watch, to
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have to listen to him as I'm watching what that debacle.
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Was if it wasn't bad that your squad got embarrassed, you had
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to listen? To my God, you had to listen to
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him for three hours. Hey, since you brought up South
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Carolina, how about Shane Beamer declining the penalty?
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I'm having them re kick and then Swain returns at what, 8090?
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Whatever it was, yards exactly. Punt return touchdown.
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Beamer balls. Beamer ball is back.
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Absolutely they are legit man. I I think they are a legit
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contender, playoff contender. Absolutely 100%.
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You could argue they should have made it last year.
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You really had no. They were in the hunt, yeah.
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They were in the hunt and they, you know, the way they finished
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last year and the way they've started this year, man, they are
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going to give, they're going to give some teams some absolute
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hell and they're listen, they're going to start fast.
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They got, they got South Carolina State this week, then
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they got Bandy at Missouri and Kentucky before an open date and
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they go to LSU. So they're going to be 5-6 and
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O, they're going to be top 10 easy.
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Trent the ACC Georgia Tech over Colorado.
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I love Haste King. Yeah, I do too.
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I hope he can. Yep.
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Stay upright? Yeah, probably not.
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Going to survive. He keeps having more games like
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that, you know? The physicality, Miami gets the
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win. Can we just put this out here
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right now and put Notre Dame in with the ACC if they lose to
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Texas A&M? Can.
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We can we not in the playoff. Are we not if they win their
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final 10 games against the rap competition that they have their
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most difficult games at Arkansas?
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Whoever. USC Maybe.
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Maybe. Yeah.
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Boise State? No.
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No, this is awful. Let's get this out there right
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now. You lose to Texas and it's not
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this week. Of course they get to set up a
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buy before they play that game. If they lose to A&M, we can't
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put this crappy Notre Dame program in there with that joke
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of his schedule. Even as good as they might look
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in the final ten games, it becomes a must win for Notre.
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Dame, they need USC to be good. If they get beat, yeah.
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And I'm not sure A&M will beat them, but they need.
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It's just another room for an ACC team is what it sounds like
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to me. Put them in over at Notre Dame
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with their ten and two. Yeah, I would agree, tend to
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agree. Caller California.
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I thought Oregon State would give him a game.
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Cal looked good. Their quarterback looked really
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good, I thought. Anything else from the ACCI?
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Think he'd hit on kind of the high.
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Wake Forest 10-9 over Kennesaw State on Friday night.
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That's all it was. Yikes, that is a scary one.
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I. Didn't realize.
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Yeah, Bama, the ACCI. Don't want to say it.
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Florida State's got something brewing down there, guys.
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I think that that quarterback, they've got Castellanos.
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I mean, he's bowled and he's good man.
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And look for everything that they did well.
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Alabama, that was an absolutely pathetic effort by Alabama.
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Ty Simpson, decent numbers, you know, over 200 yards.
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I don't know what I mean. No effort, no heart, terribly
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undisciplined. And Gus Malzahn just ate them
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alive on defense, and that's something you never used to see
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under saving all the eye candy and everything else.
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They absolutely fell for it. And of course, Malzahn is
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tweeting afterwards, you know, and chirping, I should say.
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He was literally tweeting, but he was chirping.
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Wow, feels like old times. All right, You know what, you
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got about 90 million bucks in the bank for being a mediocre
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head coach. So but listen, you when you get
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the chirp, I get it. But let's just you're not all
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that you're you're in the tessator, you know, column for
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me. But anyway, look, I think
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Florida State's, I don't want to say they're back because guys, I
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really think I really believe Alabama could be a four or five
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loss team this year. I think I think you start
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looking at that schedule. If they don't get something
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fixed fast, they're not going to win in Athens.
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OK, They've got Tennessee, who looked really good, by the way,
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Aguilar looked pretty good. I know it's Syracuse, I get it.
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But yeah, but I think Florida State's they're going to be good
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this year, guys. And that Miami game that they,
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you know, all of a sudden you start looking at this and
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they've got a couple layups here and then they go to Virginia and
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wow, all of a sudden that Miami game in Tallahassee is this you
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circle it and then they go to Clemson.
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I mean, they and they finish in Gainesville.
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I think this team is, I'm not going to put them in the playoff
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hunt yet, but I think they're going to be in the ACC hunt,
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which maybe by default puts them in the playoff hunt, yeah.
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I think the ACC is more wide open than I thought it was.
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No doubt about. It I agree.
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I agree. Yeah, I think, I think they
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found something in Tallahassee. They're not going to be.
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They're not. They did look good, really did
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look good. As bad as Alabama did.
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You've got to give them credit because they look good.
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I know you love Miller Moss. Last year obviously didn't work
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out. Did you see any of the
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Louisville highlights? Well, and.
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I didn't even really love Miller Moss.
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It was just a quarterback in the USC system.
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He's going to have a big year now.
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I didn't see anything out of that.
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All right. Takeaways from Did we miss
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anybody that an independent anybody else want?
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You want to talk UConn? Did they win?
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I have not. Yeah, they did.
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I have Army lost. How about that?
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Oh God, that is terrible. That was bad.
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Yeah, I found that one. How about?
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Vanderbilt, What about Vandy? Let's give Vandy a.
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Little. OK.
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All right. Five to three, yeah, I mean,
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probably, probably it's back. I mean that that kids going to
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be, again, they're going to be a pain in the butt to some teams
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in the SEC. I hope they play end up a game
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that's Casianos, those two quarterbacks, the week leading
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up to that game, there'd be some BS flying back and forth.
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Baba, your thoughts on tonight's game, TCU, North Carolina, the
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numbers, I think 3 1/2 when we went on the air.
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Your, your thoughts on the game, anything.
19:28
It's just must watch. I mean, it, it has listen, it's
19:31
Monday Night Football basically, right.
19:32
And and and I don't think there's I do not think there's
19:36
any coincidence that they put to this game scandal on Monday
19:38
night with Bill Belichick. Yeah, I have to.
19:41
That said, it's got the potential for a NASCAR train
19:44
wreck, right? I have no idea how they're going
19:46
to be. I'm so interested in Belichick's
19:48
motivation. You know, how's he going to look
19:49
on the sideline? Is he going to be engaged if it
19:51
goes wrong, he's going to lose games this year, right?
19:54
There's no question. And how, how invested Is he
19:57
there because he really wants to coach?
19:58
Is he there because he didn't want to sit out for two for
20:01
another year? The NFL wouldn't hire him?
20:03
They've got everybody who's ever been anybody at North Carolina.
20:08
I mean Michael Jordan. Here, Lawrence Taylor me, I am
20:11
all these right. So so if this goes horribly
20:13
wrong with Josh Hoover, I mean, who knows?
20:15
I think I think he's a great quarter, not a great.
20:18
I think he's a really good quarterback.
20:19
I think he's got a chance to put up some numbers.
20:21
Can you and I talked about it. He's and all eyes are on him.
20:24
I mean, he's got a chance, I think to to open some eyes for
20:28
for TCU, but all eyes obviously on Belichick.
20:30
And that's the story whether it's good or bad.
20:32
It's going to be well, TCU is not going to get a lot of play
20:37
because it's either going to be well, you know, listen,
20:39
Belichick that know what he's doing or wow, how about that
20:41
defense? You know the guy, that guy
20:42
hasn't lost his fastball, but it's just must watch.
20:44
I have no idea how the game is going to go.
20:47
I do think Hoover's got a chance to put up some good numbers.
20:50
Well, they got like 70 players out of the portal.
20:53
So it's basically it's a brand. It's almost like an exchange
20:55
team. It's like ridiculous.
20:58
They don't they didn't have many holdovers at all.
21:00
So you know which, hey, fine. You know, you you go in, you get
21:05
your guys and if you're that good of a coach, you coach them
21:08
up and see what happens. But the, you know, the
21:10
cohesiveness and the penalties and all that kind of stuff for
21:12
North Carolina would be interested in.
21:14
But yeah, to me, it's just must watch with him on the sideline.
21:17
It's just fascinating that you've got the greatest NFL
21:21
coach in the Super Bowl era. You can argue Halas or whatever
21:24
you want. You know, that's your own win.
21:26
But in the Super Bowl era, the greatest NFL coach in history is
21:29
coaching in Chapel Hill. Yeah, didn't see that one
21:33
coming, but here we are and we'll watch it.
21:34
Tonight, Bob, a good stuff, baby.
21:37
Talk to you on Friday. Thanks, Bama.
21:38
Bob. Yeah, take care.
21:39
Thanks guys. You have a good week, Bama, Bob,
21:41
Trent and I going around college football.
21:43
Good stuff out of Bama 3 1/2. I have them tonight in our
21:46
contest. Trent.
21:48
As you've taken a commanding lead already.
21:50
So you and Sean both got blanked.
21:53
Yeah, over. And Lucas has one on the board.
21:56
One man, I can go up three on cruising TCU.
22:03
Do you have a feel? I mean, did you, were you ever
22:05
going to put this game in your picks?
22:06
No, I'll have a pick when we get later, but no, I just want to
22:13
see, you know, I like Hoover, but we'll see the right the
22:16
defense for TCU. There's a lot of buzz around
22:20
Dark Horse, Big 12, Team TCU that goes back, you know, back
22:23
into the summer months into July.
22:25
We'll see. Got a little breaking news?
22:27
The depth chart is just been released by the Iowa Hawk guys
22:30
and Tamari Moulton is not listed on the depth chart so
22:35
anticipation that he is going to be out this week.
22:37
So what happened? Shannon Earhart from KCCI was
22:41
the first on Twitter that I saw said that she must have been on
22:46
the sidelines. He came out of the tent and he
22:48
walked down to the eye with tunnel and he had his his jersey
22:51
had been either cut open on this cut.
22:53
Yeah. Is it a shoulder?
22:54
Yes, looked like a blitz pickup is where it happened.
22:57
It was on a pass play. Did it look bad 'cause I don't
22:59
remember saying oh God, that's gotta.
23:01
Hurt. Well, yeah, 'cause he really
23:03
didn't see. Yeah.
23:04
And I tried to look again when I was rewatching the game last
23:06
night and couldn't see anything. But yeah, I believe was on
23:09
either a blitz pickup or just he was blocking, helping out block
23:11
on a pass play. Yeah.
23:12
And that's when it happened, Kirk said afterwards.
23:15
They didn't appear to be significant.
23:16
So I don't think this is going to be, you know, a season ender
23:18
by any means, but at least on the start here, not on the depth
23:21
chart. Where's Xavier?
23:22
Williams. He is number 2 behind Terrell
23:24
Washington. Junior and Jazz is third.
23:26
Yep. Yeah, man.
23:30
Well, you know what? Washington played well, too.
23:32
He was alright. Yeah, he was OK.
23:34
Williams was. I think he's just because he
23:36
kind of came out of nowhere. Washington just needs to be more
23:38
patient. That patience that you know who
23:43
Xavier Williams reminded me of, who was the guy that he tied to
23:47
the debut record? Sean Green.
23:49
Didn't he have a little Sean Green?
23:50
Young Sean Green? Look to him, big bodies.
23:53
What big bodies he's. 225 easily, right?
23:57
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Bill Seals covers Iowa State cyclonereport.com, part of on
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three media build. Just a complete effort for Iowa
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State this past weekend. I don't know what Campbell's
24:45
going to nitpick about if he's looking to, you know, to
24:47
criticize it, anything. I mean, I don't know honestly
24:50
what it possibly could be because it was a whole lot of
24:53
good. And in particular, I'm I'm
24:56
guessing that whoever's was behind the scenes and he talked
24:59
about it leading up to the week and the team did as well.
25:02
Just the the preparation that went back from once they get
25:05
back to Dublin, you know, not to have essentially what happened
25:08
to K State almost happened to them.
25:11
Iowa State was ready to play, and it showed Bill Seals.
25:14
Yeah, Yeah, they really did. I think that you you mentioned
25:17
any nitpicking. Maybe it's of the defense.
25:20
Those first two series, you know, the Coyotes came down,
25:25
they scored the first possession, Iowa State goes up
25:29
14, seven and then they're the Coyotes are marching again.
25:34
And I think it was inside, well, it was they were just on the
25:38
outside of the red zone. The pass intercept attempted,
25:41
intercepted by Jameson Patton returned at about 22 yards, I
25:46
think. And from then on out, Iowa
25:49
State's defense pitched a shutout in that game.
25:52
So, you know, maybe, I guess if you're picking any Nets, maybe
25:55
it's the first couple of possessions before they settled
25:59
in. But yeah, I mean, other than
26:01
that, gosh, South Dakota didn't stop Iowa State's offense the
26:05
entire game. It was a very balanced effort
26:08
over 300 yards passing. They also get the big finish
26:14
from Dylan Lee to put them up over well over 200 yards
26:17
rushing. Before that they were they were
26:20
kind of struggling even to get to 100 yards.
26:22
But Lee had the big finish there, 81 yards and in mop up
26:27
time for him, that was like a day's worth of work and about
26:29
1/4. So yeah, I mean, they go over
26:32
put over 500 yards up a total offense and a nice way to come
26:36
back off that K State game coming back home.
26:39
Special teams were special, of course, the Bomb 63 yarder from
26:43
Conradi, the special teams and the returns that we saw.
26:46
Special teams feel like they've been buttoned up and it was a
26:49
big topic through the 1st what, 7-8 years of the Campbell era,
26:52
just how much they struggled in that.
26:54
Is there any direction you could point us to of what the reason
26:57
that we've seen the special teams certainly make the
26:59
improvements they have the last couple of years?
27:02
Well, they've, they've brought up, I mean, they brought up
27:05
coach Grandy, Rob Grandy, who's the, the specialist coach now.
27:09
You know, how many years were we all talking about that?
27:11
They know they have a, they don't have a quote UN quote
27:13
special or a coordinator or whatnot, but they do have a
27:18
specialist coach Rob Grandy. He's gotten a lot of credit, I
27:22
think, for the work with the the kickers themselves, the punters
27:26
and what they've gotten there. You know, Tyler Perkins, he
27:31
stepped up his performance last season, a career best average
27:35
for him, and he's off to a really solid start.
27:38
You didn't see him, you didn't see him on Saturday against
27:41
South Dakota, but he was very good over in Ireland then then
27:45
Canardi, the the school record field goal is 63 yards.
27:50
You know, that speaks for itself.
27:53
It it will be interesting moving forward though, because it
27:56
appears that Jayce Gilbert's dealing with some kind of
27:59
injury. He's handled the kickoff.
28:01
So he took the first one on Saturday and then it it was
28:06
Canardi who handled it from there before Chase Smith, a true
28:10
freshman in state guy from eastern Iowa came in and handled
28:14
it down the stretch. Now, how much do they want to
28:16
put on Canardi's plate against Iowa on Saturday as far as
28:20
kickoffs go? I could see maybe Chase Smith
28:23
getting the nod there if Gilbert is is not back for this
28:28
Saturday's game. So that that's certainly
28:30
interesting. Oh, and then also, gosh, Aiden
28:32
Flora had the two huge returns. The second one he came up of a
28:37
little lame. I don't know if there's some
28:38
sort of lower. Or was he just winded?
28:40
Kind of leg injury. Well, I, I don't know if if you
28:44
watch that second that that second long returned return.
28:48
It looked like there was a little hitch in the gallop
28:50
there, maybe about 10 or. $15 before he was.
28:53
Brought down. So I don't know what he's
28:55
dealing with there at Campbell, pretty noncommittal in the post
28:59
game press conference. So, but I mean, they've got the
29:02
luxury of Xavier Townsend too, who's done it at UCF.
29:06
He got a few opportunities in this game, so to be honest, I
29:10
don't think they really miss a beat in this game.
29:12
Even going to Townsend with what?
29:14
Even with what Floor has brought so far.
29:17
Yeah, I mean, it was such a laughter that they got to play
29:19
the backup kicker and Chase Smith.
29:22
How about that? It was it was unbelievable, you
29:24
know, that had you, I mean, I'd never, there's a lot of guys I
29:27
hadn't heard of, right? But Major Cantrell comes in to
29:30
play quarterback. Who the hell is he?
29:33
I I wish he would have scored because I'm not sure how many
29:36
more opportunities he's going to get.
29:38
But of the backups, the one backup that maybe stuck with me
29:41
the most. And yes, we should share the
29:43
same last name, but dude, Easton Miller, did you see him truck
29:47
that poor? I don't know if it was a safety
29:49
or ADB that tried to bring him down in the whole fourth quarter
29:53
when he got his opportunity. This kid is big and he wants to
29:57
run clearly. I know people say this a lot,
29:59
but he I thought he was going to run right through that kid.
30:01
Easton, Miller Hill. Unbelievable.
30:03
Do you, do you know, do you know where he's from, too?
30:06
By the way, Kenny, I'll break out a little trivia.
30:09
Do you know where he's from? Well, it's got to be either
30:12
Winnipeg or Ankeny, Which. One number two.
30:15
Ladder. All right.
30:17
He's from Ankeny, yes. So, yeah, it was, it was notable
30:21
what he did in that game down the stretch.
30:23
And they emptied the emptied the bench.
30:26
So many guys played. But yeah, Miller from 4 carries,
30:29
23 yards looked really good. They and they even Flora, Flora
30:35
and this didn't get any carries. He kind of made his name last
30:39
year getting a few of these carries in these games and he
30:42
didn't get one. It was Easton Miller.
30:44
So yeah, they even Xavier Townsend had an 11 yard run and
30:48
that games well, kind of showing off his versatility.
30:51
Was he a Hawker Jaguar? He was a Centennial Jaguar, yes,
30:56
and he ran the ball pretty well for Coach Pizzette.
30:59
He's up there. Oh yeah.
31:00
And doing it now with I was caught.
31:02
My eye, I'll tell you that. So, Bill, as we flip the
31:05
calendar to Cyhawk Week, it is a year we don't see very often.
31:11
Iowa State fans in full throat, incredibly confident Iowa fans,
31:16
a disappointing start here. Do you read anything into that?
31:19
We we've had plenty of times where it's been kind of the
31:21
inverse of that. We've seen Iowa State into the
31:24
slow start. Do you take anything away with
31:26
kind of the script being flipped a little bit this week?
31:30
Well, yeah, I don't, I don't know.
31:31
I think Iowa has had the benefit of really being pretty vanilla
31:36
in one game that it's played so far.
31:39
Didn't really have to throw too much out there against the Great
31:43
Danes. Whereas Iowa State didn't really
31:46
have to show too much against the Coyotes, but the the season
31:50
opener against Kansas State. I'm sure as these two coaching
31:54
Staffs are evaluating the others, I think there's a lot
31:57
more out there maybe on what Iowa State's going to do than
32:00
what Iowa's going to do. So you've got the, I think
32:03
you've got that aspect of things.
32:05
But again, I think this is a game that's going to be settled
32:09
in the trenches and it always is.
32:12
It seems like between these two teams, it's kind of been, to be
32:16
honest, I think it's kind of been a mixed bag.
32:18
Iowa State has struggled for long stretches running the ball
32:23
and had had done so against South Dakota before Dylan Lee
32:28
had the big finish. And they had, what, 223 yards
32:31
rushing, which is a very good effort.
32:33
So, yeah, I mean, it's just it's it's it's going to, again, it's
32:36
going to come down to what team can establish the line of
32:39
scrimmage. Yeah.
32:40
Absolutely good to see Townsend getting involved, what he did.
32:44
Obviously it looks like they've got something there.
32:46
I, I just keep going back to, to Gabe Burkle and I know we sound
32:50
like a broken record that he was one of the stories of last
32:53
year's record setting wins wise teams just came out of nowhere.
32:57
When Bramer got hurt. Nobody expected Gabe Berkel to
33:00
maybe the Berkel family did, but he's just built on that.
33:03
Trent and I both believe this, that, that he's built.
33:06
He's turning himself into an NFL tight end.
33:09
I mean, I know he's got another year left, but man, oh man, what
33:12
a what a his advancement bill is something to behold.
33:18
Yeah, it really is. It's it's amazing what he's done
33:20
and, and, and who knows? And in 2024 if, if Bramer down,
33:27
if so many of those guys go down, is Berkel quite the
33:30
receiving threat that even. But yeah, I mean, we're seeing
33:35
this year with without minus Higgins, minus Noel, we're
33:40
seeing those tight ends really dominate the targets they had.
33:44
I believe it was 15 out of the 25 targets on Saturday worth the
33:49
tight ends in that game. So Bramer Berkel had eleven of
33:53
those targets. So yeah, both those guys, very
33:56
formidable. We will not get a availability
33:59
report, an injury report for Iowa State this week because
34:01
it's not a conference game. Burr listed last week, wasn't
34:05
out there. Yes.
34:06
Are we going to have any indication or we'll just have to
34:10
wait till about 11:10 AM on Saturday morning before we know
34:13
his availability? Yeah, I we won't get any big any
34:17
Big 12 availabilities and I don't think in a non conference
34:21
game like this Iowa probably not compelled to do 1 either.
34:24
They are so. They'll have to 90 minutes
34:26
before the. Game they are, yeah.
34:28
Even if it's a non conference. Game the Big 10 does it right.
34:32
Yeah, yeah, exactly. Right.
34:34
So, and we and we did not get one for Iowa State at all last
34:38
week with the South Dakota Game. So rules different between
34:41
conferences. So yeah, I, I think it's going
34:43
to be big as I can kind of watch the sidelines a little bit 9/30,
34:48
10:00-ish on Saturday morning. It'll probably be the the first
34:52
glance that we really get at who's going to be out for Iowa
34:55
State. I doubt we'll get much tomorrow
34:57
in the press conference. No, nor do I Good stuff.
35:00
Bill Seals, cyclonereport.com. You'll be all over Cyhawk as you
35:04
always are. Appreciate what you do for Trent
35:06
and I on Mondays. We'll recap the game with you on
35:09
next Monday. Bill Seals have a great week at
35:11
cyclonereport.com, part of on three media.
35:14
Bill, thank you. Appreciate you coming on.
35:17
Guys, have a good one. You do the same, Bill Seals as
35:19
we check in on Iowa State. Oh, fascinating.
35:24
So I picked I would win the game.
35:26
Yeah, before the before the year.
35:27
As did I, right? I'd love a redo.
35:31
Yeah, absolutely. Just and I know that Bill said
35:34
that, you know, I would didn't show much.
35:36
They didn't. Grouse didn't show anything,
35:39
right? Because he couldn't show
35:40
anything. He showed that he wasn't good
35:42
right throwing the football. Then that's a problem when
35:45
you're a quarterback. Do you think he's going to be I
35:48
mean. No, no.
35:51
How did he do this? And.
35:54
South Dakota Stadium, he played for championships.
35:56
Iowa has been going through this.
35:58
Look at the list of quarterbacks that have come through here the
36:00
last eight years. They don't know how to pick
36:01
them. They just don't.
36:04
Is it injury related still? Yeah, it has to be because
36:07
somebody said his mechanics are totally.
36:09
Different. Oh yeah, it was Hawkeye game
36:11
film. Was on Twitter.
36:12
Oh then I respect that because he actually watches game film.
36:15
Yes, he is a real scout and a real person involved in
36:18
football. He's where I read it OK.
36:21
His footwork was a mess. He was all over the place.
36:24
Happy feet, yes, and not willing to throw to open receivers.
36:28
That's a concerning. Oh my God, they were there.
36:31
It's not like he's a freshman. Got to let people go with the
36:34
ball. Let it go is.
36:36
That going to change in six days.
36:40
Man, I think Iowa State's going to be able to do some business
36:42
through the air. I'm not sure they're going to be
36:44
able to run the ball. I don't think they will.
36:45
I don't think they will either. No, I think, I don't think I
36:50
will will have the success that they had running the ball.
36:52
I mean, I was offensive like dominated.
36:55
There's no right. I was just saying there's no Dom
36:57
Orange, right? He'll be there Saturday.
37:00
He will be there on Saturday. I wish I could have a redo.
37:04
I think Iowa State's going to win the football based on what
37:06
we've seen. One week from Iowa, two weeks
37:08
from Iowa State. Now year at all time, teams
37:10
improve, make their biggest strides.
37:12
Week 1 to Week 2. Man, oh man, I.
37:15
Know I will pass passing get better.
37:17
I will come back Mr. Monday night.
37:18
Trent's going to make some pics before we get out of here and
37:21
turn things over off the bench. They're coming up next to Miller
37:24
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37:26
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37:28
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37:33
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TCU is a 3 1/2 point favorite over North Carolina.
37:50
Strongly medium lean. No, I'm just grabbing the 3 1/2
37:54
you're grabbing. Them.
37:55
Yeah, feels like everybody's on TCU, and I guess I'm going to
37:59
listen to your initial thoughts on Bill Belichick.
38:01
You thought this thing was going to work well, so I I guess I'll
38:03
jump on that one. I'm also going to play the
38:05
Phillies this afternoon against Mizeroski.
38:08
He knows the arrays up to almost 4 1/2.
38:11
Is it really? Yeah, since the All Star break.
38:13
Just overall in the season after that tremendous start that he
38:16
had. So taking the plus money, give
38:18
me Phillies with Taiwan Walker as you're getting plus 134 in
38:22
that one. All right, just a couple of
38:24
plays today and Cubs this. Afternoon for you.
38:26
Yeah, they're at Bray. No Braves come to Chicago.
38:30
Right. How about yesterday battle all
38:32
the way back? Well, Hap hits and finally hits
38:34
a home run in a big spot. Walk off triple.
38:36
And then walk off triple. Yeah, I don't see many of those.
38:39
No good stuff. All right, That's going to do it
38:42
for us. We appreciate you being with us
38:43
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