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Rivalry Week | The Game, Lone Star Showdown, Clean Old-Fashioned Hate, and more · The Extra Point

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What's up y'all? You're listening to the Extra
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Point college football podcast. I'm your host Jacob Carne is
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joined as always by my Co host Daniel Hammock.
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Daniel it is. I think both of us have said
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this is our favorite week of the year.
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It is rivalry week. Thanksgiving as a whole is not
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one of my favorite holidays, but because of the week that it is,
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you get a short work week, you get like family and friends and
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good food on Thanksgiving. A lot to be thankful for.
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If you're like super into good deals, I guess you got good
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deals all week. Yeah.
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But then I mean, most importantly, you you get
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football on Thanksgiving. Lions always play at noon,
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Cowboys at 4:00. I wish we were getting Texas,
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Texas AM at night like we used to.
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You know, pre 2012, that was the best way to end the day.
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We had the Egg Bowl on Thanksgiving night sometime.
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That was nice where we lost that.
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But Friday, Saturday, rivalry week in college football.
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It is the best week for college football of the year.
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Rivalries are still what makes it.
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It's the greatest thing in our sport is rivalries.
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There's nothing like it in the world.
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It's here, man. We made it yeah, this is this
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week is number 1 and #2 is opening weekend of of Labor Day
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for college football. I agree with you, short work
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week definitely does it for me. And then there's just something
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about like meaningful football, like the week 1 ones are
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awesome, but this is like especially now with 12 team
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playoff, you're punching your ticket, you're stopping
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somebody, you're ruining their chance.
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So it's just a great time. I love it, Daniel.
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We're going to mix things up a little bit today, but on today's
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episode 2 questions we've got as we head into rivalry week.
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We are going to pause the XPR until after rivalry week for
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this week. We've scheduled with
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Thanksgiving, still waiting on data to come in, so we'll have
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that again next week. We're going to talk about three
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games. We're not picking that.
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We're excited to watch 3U matchups to watch this weekend,
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which again, I think best week of the year for uniform matchups
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and I'll explain why later. We'll pick four games against
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the spread. We're going to pick the Invesco
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QQQ and I'm just kidding the the clean old fashioned hate Lone
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Star showdown, Texas and Texas A&M, the game Michigan and Ohio
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State. I don't know what we're calling
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Tennessee Vandy, but it's in the state rivalry and that one means
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a lot more than it usually does this year.
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And then we got. Three stars.
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Maybe I'll look this up before we get to it.
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It's not a shot at their player personnel anyways.
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Keep going. No.
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No, no, it's the flag. I actually, I like the Tennessee
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State flag, by the way, good state flag.
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It's a good one. And then our college, our
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updated College Football Playoff predictions.
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And Daniel, I'm going to dive into I I've got 2 here.
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I've got my my one that, you know, if we're projecting the
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way games will play out, what I think should be the 12.
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But I had trouble with this because then I thought about
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what I think will be the 12. And if this is a prediction,
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that's what I should pick. So we'll address that as well.
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Daniel, as we as we head into Rivalry Week, what's your first
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question you've got heading into Rivalry Week this weekend?
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For what it's worth, there is no official name for Tennessee
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versus Vanderbilt. The names that have been
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suggested is the Audi Bowl and the Vol Bowl.
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I don't know how. Van der Vany would never agree.
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The Vol Bowl but anyways, yeah, so my first question is
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pertaining to Texas A&N and Alabama.
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What, Jacob? What's more likely to happen,
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Auburn beating Alabama or Texas being Texas?
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A&NII mean, I it seems obvious if you look at how terrible
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maybe a team has been this year that Texas has actually been
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favored for most of the year and now A&M has been favored on the
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road slightly. You know, it's a 2 1/2 point
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line for A and Alabama. You would think this is more
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than a touchdown. You'd think it's 10 points, 5
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1/2 points Jacob. Got up a little.
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Bit yeah, so that's a I, I don't like to be Mr. OK.
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I do like to be Mr. Conspiracy Theorist for those who know me.
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But Alabama playing at Auburn at night for the first time since
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2003, I think, or 2004. It's just it doesn't happen very
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often. Most of the time they're playing
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at 3:30. And I don't know, man.
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Auburn has nothing to lose. I don't think they usually ever
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have anything to lose playing Alabama.
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This is a lot of pressure for Alabama right here.
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It's a pressure spot. Auburn played really good
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defense this year, so they're not just going to let Alabama
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down the field. It's going to be a dogfight.
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So I'm certainly interested to see this game.
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New quarterback for Auburn, Deuce Knight. 6 touchdowns
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against Mercer. I know it was Mercer.
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This is this is going to go one of two ways I think.
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I think this is going to be either a crazy 4 overtime game
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to either Auburn wins outright or just crazy 4 overtime game or
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Bama blows him out. I don't think anything in
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between is going to happen in this game like Auburn wins or
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Bama blows him out. I think that's my 2 outcomes in
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this game. It's funny for for all the
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mystique that's talked about with Jordan Hare and Auburn, it
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seemed it's funny because it seems to creep up on Alabama
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specifically because other teams have had no problem winning in
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Jordan Air. But you know, it's an odd year.
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And I said Saban lost more than once at Auburn.
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So excited to watch that one. It it the the point spread.
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Honestly, Daniel makes me want to swap out one of our games
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because I was like, yeah, let's pick games with consequence this
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week. You know, all all of our games
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are ranked to be ranked AP games.
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But yeah, that one, the point spreads, making me think we
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should have picked that one. That should be a good one.
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All right, my first one, Daniel, what match up this week will
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have the largest impact of the season, an Iron Bowl.
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I wrote as one of them. You've got the clean old
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fashioned hate, which we're going to talk about.
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Lone Star Showdown. You've got the game, vanity,
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Tennessee. We're going to pick Oklahoma,
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LSU. Is that just my mystique with
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LSU saying they've got a shot in this?
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Oklahoma's defense is going to keep them in any game.
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I think LSU's defense is pretty good if they're going to
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actually, you know, show up and play the game on Saturday.
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I don't think, you know, that's going to be another Missouri,
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Oklahoma game of no scoring in that one.
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But yeah, I think that's my I'm excited to watch and see.
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It's rivalry weekend. I know the tropes of, you know,
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throw, throw the, you know, throw the season out the window,
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throw the point spread out the window.
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It's rivalry week. I don't know about that.
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That's not, you know, that that hasn't always correlated to the
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tropes of that. But I am excited to see if half,
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if one of these teams upsets the other one and maybe one of these
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games where it's the Super Bowl for the other team, right?
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Like it's maybe one team has everything on the line.
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The other team has nothing to lose and and it's their Super
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Bowl, like, right. So you get you get that if
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you're going to get someone's best effort of the season where,
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yeah, you know, it's it might be, Oh, well, they're, you know,
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playing for a bowl game. They haven't played like this
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all season. And now they give their best
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effort in a game like the Iron Bowl.
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So excited to see which matchup will have the largest impact on
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the season. Because you could have the
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outcome of some of these games impact like multiple playoff
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teams. If, you know, if someone gets
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out and a couple more teams get in as a result or someone's
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resume gets worse. So excited to see the impact of
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that this weekend. Daniel, what's your second
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question? Yeah, my second one still, Of
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course, we're right here talking about the playoffs.
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So what conference is more likely to get a second College
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Football Playoff team in? Is it the Big 12?
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Is the ACC? You're not both put these on
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notice as being, you know, single, single team
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representation in the CFP single team conferences.
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So will the ACC get somebody in? I guess you're looking at Miami.
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If that's possibility. Is Miami good enough with a win
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versus PIT? Because they have to beat PIT
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versus, you know, the Big 12 with a couple of folks still in
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that, you know, obviously A&M or excuse me, Texas Tech is in
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there as the top dog. But Utah stayed alive last week.
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BYU is technically still alive. So, you know, there's definitely
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some some opportunities there. That Utah game was unbelievable.
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I was like, they were. Dead 5 different times.
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Man, that was crazy. Five different ways.
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Yeah. I am intrigued by the ACC.
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You got a team like Virginia that is just like, hey, you
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control your own destiny, win and you're in the ACC
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Championship. All you have to do is checks
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notes, beat the one team you can't beat.
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So that should that should be really, that should be really
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easy. Who's on interim coach?
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Right. It's like, hey, you just have to
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beat this team. That, you know, is what I'm
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saying. I'm looking at the record here.
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Are they three wins, three and eight?
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Something like that. Three and eight.
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Yeah, they're three and eight. They fired their head coach.
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You're a 10 1/2 point favorite. All you have to do is win this
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game and you're in. And Daniel, I'm like, again, I'm
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like at the Wikipedia and I'm like, since 2000, that's so many
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times. They've won twice.
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So. Oh.
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My gosh, I did not realize it was that bad.
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Both in Charlottesville, Games in Charlottesville, for what
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it's worth. Yeah, this is.
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We'll see. We will see.
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That's fun. All right, Dan, my last
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question, when and if will head to
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I understand the logic, but I still don't like the result in
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that. The playoff committee compares
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these teams in pods of three and six, right?
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So basically they like each of the members will make a 1 to 25
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ranking, or 1 to 30 or something like that.
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And basically then they'll start at the bottom or they'll start
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at the top and say, OK, like the average of our ranking is, you
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know, these three teams get the highest number of points, right?
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Let's discuss these three and figure out how do we need to
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rank 1-2 and three based on this?
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But they're only looking at those three teams.
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OK, now they go to the next pod of three, six teams.
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Then they'll look at those teams and say, OK, rank those in
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order. So there's they said the reason
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like Notre Dame, Miami, right? It's the biggest talking point
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right now is that they've not been in the same pod yet.
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So if you're a Miami fan, you're watching Miami creep up because
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it's like head to head will be considered within those pods,
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right? So are we are we going to get to
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a point even after this week where Notre Dame and Miami are
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finally, you know, they're 8 and 11 or something where it's like,
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OK, you're in the same like pod now.
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And now does head to head matter?
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I'm, I'm really curious about it because I also heard someone say
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you can't sit here and tell me you honestly think like Miami's
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a better team than Notre Dame, right?
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Or Notre Dame's a you know, you think Miami's a better team than
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Notre Dame right now. And I'm like, no, I don't think
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that. But I also think it's foolish to
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be like the game in week 1 should not matter at all.
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I think that's flawed logic because because to me, it was
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the same people that are saying we need to settle those in the
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field that are also the ones saying Notre Dame should
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definitely be ranked ahead of Miami.
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And it makes no sense. It makes no sense.
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They're both tended to. They've both played extremely
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comparable schedules. Miami has a way better win than
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Notre Dame. It does.
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But Miami also has a way worse loss than Notre Dame has.
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So to me, it cancels it out. There's other ones, right?
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Are we going to get to the point where Oklahoma, Michigan are
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both tended to and fighting for a playoff spot, Alabama and
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Georgia? Can that matter for seeding at
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the end of the year, even though they're they're one loss record
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might be a little bit different. Oklahoma and Alabama, you know,
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if maybe their record's different at the end of the year
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and they're playing for for seeding.
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So I'm curious when and if head to head results are going to
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matter because they should. Again, if if we're going to say
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it, you know, what happened in the field matters, then it
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absolutely has to like 10 and two between Notre Dame and
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Miami. This isn't, with all due
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respect, this isn't North Texas and Notre Dame both attended to,
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right? Like, these are two Power four
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teams who've played extremely comparable schedules, who have a
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head to And I think if you're excusing
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that, I don't think it's flawed logic, that's all.
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So I'm curious if it's going to matter for the committee.
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I mean, Speaking of flawed logic, you've got to like take
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into consider like the we, we only hear from the chairman now
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we like to all throw. I know I like to get after, you
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know, the CFP committee because I feel like it does not sound
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like they care. It does not look like they love
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ball. It's just a bunch of people
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going and punching a clock it seems like and doing a job that
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they have to do. Just cuz this job doesn't mean
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you have to hate it. But I would love to hear like
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you're talking about these conversations they're having.
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I would love to hear like if there is a voice of truth, a
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voice of reason in there that is speaking logically about
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everything, you know, and like they are hamstrung by the
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numbers of well, this is how we do it.
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We do it in these pods. And like, you know, we have to
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let the process play out. But there is someone saying,
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guys, this doesn't make any sense.
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You've got like, I just if if I knew there's someone in there
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that is logical, I would feel, I guess better about it.
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But in general, I mean, how much money would they make, Jacob, if
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they just streamed that, if they just streamed those meetings and
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had, you know, you didn't have to have Heather Dennich waiting
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outside with like a glass against the door hoping she
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hears something. You could just say, hey, if you
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want to pay this extra subscription, you know, whatever
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pay-per-view to watch, you know, them.
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I I mean, everybody, every college football fan would buy
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that, you know, and. How about this?
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ESPN is already paying for an hour time slot for our rankings
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revealed. That is pointless.
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Why don't we actually show some of the process, show us cut up
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clips from them discussing it. You know, how many more viewers
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you'd get and how many, how much more that advertising budget
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could be, you know, through the roof?
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Yeah, I'm with you. It's ridiculous.
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OK, Daniel, what are three games we're not picking that you're
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excited to watch this week? And I imagine it's probably more
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than three. But what are what are the games
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we've got our eye on? I did narrow them down, but
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first quick team of the week for this past week is Pittsburgh.
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Congratulations to the Pittsburgh Panthers.
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You and I both called that game. As far as picking George them to
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win over George Tech, it was a difficult one for me to pick.
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That was the WTF Game of the week.
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I should have said that on the podcast.
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We said it after the fact, but wrong team Favorite WTF game of
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the week. Yeah, we were all over that one.
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Yeah, 2 1/2 point spread. And I think it was just like
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felt dirty not taking like I just was like, I have to take
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them. They're going to win this game.
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It just was kind of in the fashion that they did.
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Jacob, they wanted a couple ways.
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The first way was they just scored 28 unanswered points at
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the beginning of the game. And so you and I fulfilling
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really good about our pick at that point.
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But they took the counterpunch. George Tech did not go away.
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They came back. And then at a moment at the end
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of the game, they had a, you know, opportunity to not
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necessarily good tie or anything like that, but to draw this into
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another close game. And Pittsburgh had to answer.
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You know, they were only a touchdown up if they gave the
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ball back. Georgia Tech had the momentum.
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They went down and scored. So anyways, kudos, Pittsburgh in
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the driver's seat somewhere, but they are they're hitching a ride
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for potentially the ACC championship.
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They do have to play Miami. Huge game this week.
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So good. Good game by Pittsburgh this
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past week. Maybe Naruzi knew what he was
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doing when he did not declare Notre Dame a must win.
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With that, the three games we're watching, always the Egg Bowl,
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this one was on the cutting room floor.
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We were trying to put this one on the picks.
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There just were some other games that were just a little bit
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above it in relevance and a little bit closer spread.
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This is only 7 half point spread.
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Ole Miss is favored. But I mean, Jacob, this still
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feels like the most drama game. It's always got the most drama.
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But now you add the Lane Kiffin like he's going to make his a
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mysterious announcement the next day.
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What if he makes an announcement at halftime?
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What I, I don't think he's going to get off the field if I don't
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know who The Who the broadcast crew is, but there may be a
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chance that he's walking off the field and he just tells him I'm
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not leaving, I'm staying or something like that.
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Or tries to drop a hint of, you know, the weather in Baton Rouge
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is, you know, 60° sounds like a nice day.
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He's going to say something crazy pit in Miami.
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I just mentioned it, obviously with Pittsburgh being my team of
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the week, pit in Miami, that one I think has the most consequence
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for the playoff in the ACC this week and Miami has a very small
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chance of even making the ACC championship.
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So it's Miami shot to maybe being at large team.
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They have to finish it out and go 10 and two to be considered.
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And then on the flip side, obviously pit trying to make the
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ACC championship and last but not least, the iron ball.
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We how are we not picking the Iron Bowl?
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Well, again, we've got some games we have to pick and Iron
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Bowl is just not one of them. And it's Auburn's fault.
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Maybe, maybe it won't be like this next year.
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I hope so. But even with Auburn, with an
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interim coach, they're at home at night with a, you know, only,
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you know, so 5 1/2 point spread for for Alabama.
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So that's going to be a fun one. So I definitely, I'm, I'm
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looking at that one, I'm going to have all eyes on that,
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especially since all the other games we're picking are either
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Friday or early Saturday, so my eyes will be glued to the Iron
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Bowl in the nightcap on Saturday night.
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Yeah, obviously my humble too love rivalry weekend, Daniel,
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the uniform matchup of the week surprised me.
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Penn State and Nebraska is what won it for me.
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I something about those NBC cameras, too.
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They just look a lot better. That broadcast is so crisp.
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Always. Yeah, the red pants, it worked a
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lot better than I thought it was going to the blue versus red
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that night. It just looked like I had
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another quad box on TV and I was like, yeah, that one just like
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it sticks out with the with the match up, right?
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Very simple but very clean colors Pop.
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I loved it. Excellent game.
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Daniel This is the best weekend for uniforms of the college
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football season because a lot of rivals have opposite colors.
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And so you get a lot of heavy contrast this week in rivalry
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week because usually always one school was started before the
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other. And so when you start another,
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like especially in state school, you typically go some form of
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opposite colors. So Iron Bowl is a good example.
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And that's one of the ones that's making the list this week
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for uniform matchups. To watch the Iron Bowl, you've
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got the blue and orange against the the Crimson in white of
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Alabama. So that one always looks good,
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especially when it's at Auburn. I think it's the best version of
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the uniform matchup in this rivalry.
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That one's excellent. Two more that I think might be
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the uniform matchup of the year on the game.
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And again, I'll say this, this is on Michigan.
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For the love of God, Daniel, this game is in Ann Arbor.
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What do we want? We want maze pants.
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We want. We want maze pants.
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Shirts and their normal helmet. We want maze pants.
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This is the important part. I don't know why Michigan's been
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all, you know, big game, all Blues.
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It's horrific. They should be arrested.
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The people making these decisions should be should be
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held accountable. Straight jail.
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I mean, the here's my thing is, if you don't want to punish them
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with the Connor Stallion stuff, fine.
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But can we get some vacated wins for wearing blue pants at home?
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I mean, for the for the love of God, someone's got to be
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punished. This is a real issue.
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This is something, yeah. They can't just.
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It's really important to me. Getting away with it is what
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you're saying they can't keep. Getting away with it.
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We need Naze pants. The other one, Daniel.
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Only a few rivalries have wear color V color and some have done
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it. Sometimes one does it every
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year. Do you know where I'm going?
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Feel like you've got a curveball?
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It's probably something. Not a curveball, just a Big 10
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game. OK, that might confuse you.
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And there's my hand. OK, you're going to sunny
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California, aren't you? Bingo.
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USC versus UCLA. Yeah, they do color V color and
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it's awesome. And usually I'll say if you've
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got same color pants, sometimes it's like I like, it's a little,
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you know, it's two different shades of gold.
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Don't love that. But dude, that powder blue
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against that, what do they officially call US CS red?
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Is it scarlet, Crimson, maroon? I don't know.
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It's really good looking on the field.
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So that's always one of my favorite ones to see is USC
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versus UCLA color V color. Excellent, excellent, excellent.
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Golden Cardinal. Thank you, Cardinal and Gold,
22:03
there you go. So very much looking forward to
22:06
that one on. Are they playing Friday or
22:10
Saturday? I think it's Saturday.
22:12
They're Saturday. That one looked great on TVI did
22:14
have some bonus ones because again, it's just it's a great
22:16
week for uniforms, Daniel. So if you'll permit me, I have
22:19
four more to mention. Do it.
22:22
Texas versus Texas A&M will be excellent, especially in Austin.
22:25
That'll be really good. The burnt orange and the white
22:29
and the maroon for Texas A&M. Washington and Oregon should be
22:33
a good one. That'll that'll fight under the
22:35
radar. But Washington has some good
22:37
home uniforms and depending on what Oregon wears, that could be
22:39
a really good one. Oklahoma and LSU, I need really
22:43
good Yeah, I almost that that almost made the made the cut.
22:47
It's up to Oklahoma as long as they don't wear something weird
22:49
like they did last year. Yeah, goodness, you're.
22:51
Right, not I. Horrific.
22:53
Yeah, yeah. Vacated wins.
22:55
You know, we got to start punishing these teams.
22:58
NCAA do something. They have no power.
23:00
Florida and Florida State is my last one.
23:03
This one it has looked good but I think it's usually better in
23:07
Gainesville because Florida status can get away uniforms and
23:10
they can wear either colored pants and it look really good as
23:13
long as Florida doesn't go. I just don't like Florida's
23:15
orange white orange combo. But even when it's in
23:18
Tallahassee the orange white blue combo looks really good.
23:22
But that one could be really good I.
23:23
Think it's going to look great on Cartoon Network, You know,
23:26
where I think they're broadcasting or Nickelodeon, I
23:28
can't remember. It's on PBS Public Service.
23:31
OK, Daniel, we've got. State playing to get into a bowl
23:34
game. By the way, Florida could do the
23:37
funniest thing ever and win a meaningless game that ruins
23:41
Florida states. I mean, this didn't ruin Florida
23:44
states here. They're going to try to get to
23:45
the Music City Bowl, but. What's the I'm looking at the
23:47
spread here. What's the spread on this game?
23:49
Florida -2 1/2. So they're favorite.
23:52
Yeah. I'm like, I was like.
23:54
It's that one. Of your favorites, Yeah.
23:55
Yeah, they are. OK, so yeah, that that one
23:58
should be a good uniform matchup.
23:59
Daniel 4 picks against the spread and we'll end with our
24:03
updated playoff predictions. We, we flipped it up a little
24:05
bit order wise because our our playoff projection will have
24:09
some game results baked in that we're picking this week.
24:11
So had to get the picks done first.
24:14
Let's start on Friday at 3:30. The extra point will be on the
24:19
scene in Mercedes-Benz Stadium for the Invesco QQQ Atlanta
24:24
Gridiron Classic. Some people are asking, is this
24:27
the best ever match up in the Invesco QQQ Atlanta Gridiron
24:31
Classic? The answer is yes.
24:34
It's the only match up so far. Georgia is a 13 1/2 point
24:41
favorite in the clean old fashioned hate joke about the
24:44
name of the game because it's horrible and because Georgia
24:47
Tech sold a home game in one of the I I really do believe this.
24:51
You and I have both been to games about with that stadium.
24:53
I think it's one of the greatest venues in college football
24:55
because dude, it's I love college football because of for
24:58
a lot of reasons, old stadiums that you can tell it's like it
25:02
started one way and it just got added on to you Got one of the
25:05
oldest stadiums in college football in an urban downtown
25:09
Atlanta. It's a gorgeous place to watch a
25:11
football game. Really not a bad seat in the
25:13
house. It stinks that this game is not
25:14
on campus, but Georgia, a 13 1/2 point favorite.
25:18
I do have a question. Is this a like true neutral site
25:20
game? Like I know Georgia Tech like
25:21
gave up a home game, but. Ticket Tech is considered the
25:26
home team because they got the initial ticket allotment and
25:31
everything. This is still Georgia Tech's
25:32
home game. They're just they've done this
25:35
with Mercedes-Benz for other teams.
25:37
And so I think that they've been able to have that as some sort
25:41
of a deal. Like is Georgia going to have an
25:43
end zone painted with their name on it or is Georgia Tech going
25:45
to be in both end? Zones.
25:47
No. Yeah, they're going to have both
25:48
end zones. It's going to be a Georgia Tech
25:50
home game at MBS. Yeah, so.
25:55
Because Georgia Tech usually has a lot more fans than Georgia
25:57
fans whenever they play this game.
25:58
So definitely a home game for sure more Georgia Tech fans.
26:01
Daniel, where, where are you going in this one?
26:03
Georgia favored by 13 1/2. Tech could not knock Georgia out
26:07
of the playoff, but at least make it.
26:10
I don't know, I think Georgia's in, but they could at least get
26:13
a Super Bowl win. And this 113 1/2 the spread this
26:16
game had a lot more consequence before the pick game last week.
26:20
Georgia Tech had at least make a case for the playoff with a win.
26:23
Where are you going to this game in Atlanta?
26:25
Yeah, you're right about that, and you're right about Bobby
26:28
Dodd. It's a great place to watch a
26:30
game. I've seen nearly 50 games there,
26:33
which is crazy to think. Mercedes-Benz is very nice.
26:37
It will have a big game atmosphere.
26:39
Personally, I'm excited going because I feel like it'll be the
26:43
more easy in and out, right? All that easy to get food, easy
26:49
to get food, the bathroom, it's more comfortable.
26:52
It's new, Bobby. Dad is old.
26:53
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's definitely bad luck for the
26:56
Falcons. We're not going to get into
26:57
that. OK, So this game, Jacob, I mean,
27:01
you've got two teams that are kind of going in different
27:04
directions. You've got Georgia, who's
27:06
hitting their stride. And you know, if you look 4
27:10
weeks ago, 5 weeks ago, I think he had stake Shapiro out of
27:13
Atlanta saying if they played today, George Tech would be
27:16
favored. No, they wouldn't have.
27:19
For what? It's they would not have.
27:20
For what it's worth, he, you know, may have not known Ball
27:23
ever in his life, but he's he's saying that.
27:27
And it was mostly public perception because Georgia was
27:29
playing a lot of close games. And at that time, Georgia Tech
27:32
was not well, I guess they'd, you know, played some close
27:35
games that they'd come out on top.
27:37
Georgia at least had one loss as we hit November.
27:40
Georgia has definitely seemed like they've hit their stride
27:43
defensively. Offensively, they've been pretty
27:45
solid all year, but they're starting to find some of those
27:47
explosive plays that were looting them early in the year.
27:50
So they can kind of go on those death marches.
27:52
They can also, you know, have a big play here, big play there.
27:55
Noah Thomas surprisingly has been very good after the catch.
27:58
He seems like a big body guy that's just going to go up and
28:00
get it, but he's had multiple long touchdown runs where he
28:04
catches the ball and runs for it.
28:05
So how about these quarterbacks in this game last year, it was a
28:10
complete dichotomy. You had Hans King versus Carson
28:14
Beck statue in in the pocket versus, you know, Hans King
28:17
who's going to do everything he can try to get in 15 car wrecks
28:20
during the game minimum. Now you got both these guys that
28:23
both about 2500 yards passing. Hans King almost 900 yards
28:29
rushing so far this year, you know, with big game against
28:31
Georgia and then bowl game, I mean, he could eclipse 1000
28:34
yards on the ground, which would not be a small feat.
28:37
Hanes Kings had a great year. Some of their their receivers
28:40
have not been what they were last year, which I think has
28:44
been their biggest issue. Downfield, throwing, things like
28:48
that. As far as my my take on the game
28:50
is 13 1/2 point spread. I think George is winning this
28:53
game. If there's one thing George does
28:55
well defensively, it is stop the run.
28:58
And I think the teams that have given Georgia the most trouble
29:01
this year have been the ones that can light you up in the air
29:05
and get first downs through the air specifically.
29:08
So who has that been? That's been Tennessee, that's
29:11
been Alabama, that's been Ole Miss Georgia still won two out
29:14
of three of those games. But they you know, it was it was
29:19
high processor at quarterback that was giving them issues
29:22
could scramble and get a first down hangs King can absolutely
29:24
run for first downs. But I think that, you know, it'd
29:27
be there's there's multiple times that he's missed downfield
29:30
players in the past game. I also think Georgia has a
29:33
better run 1-2 punch running the ball offensively now and looks
29:37
like Chauncey Bones probably going to be back for this game.
29:39
But seeing Nate Frazier hit, yeah, seeing Nate Frazier hit
29:43
his stride regardless has given me confidence in them.
29:46
See what Bo Walker did last week.
29:47
I mean, I know it was against nobody, but three touchdowns and
29:51
and then Gunnar Stockton just seems like he's made for this
29:53
moment. It just seems like it's in his
29:54
DNA. He's not scared of this.
29:57
He doesn't run from it. I know a lot of people are going
30:00
to look at the past two years, which has been great job by
30:03
Brent Key and and Co having closer games.
30:06
Two years ago, I believe it was a nine point victory for Georgia
30:09
or 8 point something. It was much closer than normal.
30:12
And then last year, of course, the 8 overtime, the great innate
30:15
call by Joe Tess, which again is calling this game again, which
30:19
that's fun, but an 8 overtime game think has a lot of people,
30:23
you know, thinking Georgia Tech or it's going to be a close
30:26
game. I'm not saying it's not, but I'm
30:29
going to lay the points. How about that -13 1/2 give me
30:33
Georgia. I think this is a team that's,
30:37
you know, ready for this, this situation there have nothing
30:42
look forward to because they don't even know if they're going
30:44
to be in the SEC Championship. There's no look ahead spot for
30:47
Georgia. It is simply the team in front
30:50
of you and I just think they're the better team.
30:52
So I don't think it's going to be like smoke and mirrors,
30:54
anything like that. I think Georgia's just going to
30:56
beat them at their own game. I think Georgia Tech will have
30:59
some success against Georgia. I'm certainly don't think that
31:02
it's going to be a blowout, but it's all it's less than two
31:06
touchdowns and I feel good about that.
31:07
So give me Georgia, lay the points.
31:09
Daniel, how many points do you think Georgia Tech needs to win
31:12
this game? 3637.
31:15
Right. I think the same.
31:18
I think Georgia's, I think Georgia's getting at least 35
31:21
because here's the thing, like they their defense, and that's
31:25
what we've tried to sell years. Georgia Tech deserves to be
31:28
ranked highly, although I'm not going to rank them highly in my
31:30
ballot. Their their defense has just
31:33
been susceptible to being scored on all year.
31:35
It has never played an offense that could do it.
31:39
I just and look, Georgia Tech's going to, I think they're going
31:41
to get give their best effort against Georgia.
31:43
I think you're going to see Georgia Tech's best game of the
31:45
year against Georgia. This is their Super Bowl.
31:47
So I think that you're going to get Georgia Tech's best effort.
31:51
But I watch two things specifically that Pitt was able
31:54
to do last week. That scares me from Georgia
31:56
Tech. It's 1.
31:57
Pitt ran the ball at will against Georgia Tech, which
32:00
opened up the pass game. You're going from that to a
32:03
Georgia offense that has been elite this year, especially as
32:06
gunner Stockton has gotten more comfortable both with with his
32:10
own game and within the offense. He's doing everything and more
32:13
that Mike Bobo's asking to. The Georgia running game's been
32:16
elite. The offensive line is healthy.
32:18
They're they're moving people that that scares me from Georgia
32:20
Tech. The the other thing is Daniel, I
32:22
saw the pressure that Pitt was able to get rushing 3 and four
32:26
guys against this Tech offensive line.
32:28
And this is a Georgia pass rush that has come on since the
32:31
second by week. They've gotten better and
32:33
better. They played a lot of young guys
32:35
early and Daniel, they're starting to get home against
32:39
Florida, against Mississippi State, against Texas, playing
32:42
nobody last week, but they're they're starting to get home
32:45
rushing four and five guys. To me, if you're Tech like how
32:50
you win this game is Hans King is Superman, which he has been
32:56
both against Georgia and this season.
33:00
I think last year Daniel, he rushed for 110 yards in this
33:03
game. He led the team in rushing and
33:05
he had 303 yards in the air. The problem is Daniel, they
33:08
don't have the receivers they had last year that I can think
33:11
can be a threat in this game through the air.
33:14
The Georgia front 7 has been the defense has not been up to a
33:17
Georgia standard, especially the first half of the year, but
33:19
they've been a lead at stopping the run.
33:21
Daniel, I, I have a feeling this is a blowout.
33:24
You you, you said it. These are two teams going two
33:26
different directions. Georgia Tech started 8 and O
33:28
they're now nine and two heading into this game.
33:31
Georgia looks like they turned a corner.
33:33
And I think that I, I think Georgia Tech can get to 20
33:36
points. I don't think they're stopping
33:38
Georgia from scoring 40. I think this is like a 4520
33:42
game. I think Georgia wins going away
33:45
and this one, I think Georgia, specifically Georgia's offense
33:48
is going to be too much. And Georgia's defence is plenty
33:51
good enough to, you know, limit scoring to half the possessions.
33:55
I'll say another glaring thing to watch in this game is
33:58
Georgia's been one of the best teams in the country in red
34:01
zone, like points per red zone possession.
34:04
They're scoring touchdowns in the red zone and Georgia Tech's
34:07
defence is a 28th in that category.
34:09
They're they're letting teams score at will in the red zone.
34:12
You're going to need a lot of touchdowns to win this game.
34:14
Georgia has an excellent red zone defense on the other side.
34:18
I don't think it's close in this one.
34:20
So lay the 13 1/2. Give me the dogs and the clean
34:22
old fashioned hate. Friday night.
34:25
For the second time in the last 15 years, we're going to get
34:29
Texas and Texas A&M. We've got horns up versus horns
34:33
down, maroon versus burnt orange.
34:35
This game in Austin, TX won last year and a very, I say boring
34:41
game because Texas kind of knew A&M's just not scoring the night
34:46
and we're just going to sit on them then.
34:49
Pretty boring game if you're just casual fan watching.
34:51
I liked it because I like watching elite defense, but I
34:55
get why it was boring. I don't think this one's going
34:57
to be boring. Daniel Texas, a 2 1/2 point dog
35:01
at home to Tex A&M, Tex A and M11 and O pretty much locked
35:06
into the playoff. Texas has, I think A they need a
35:10
lot of help. You're probably going to hate me
35:12
saying this if you're an average fan.
35:15
Texas is not out out of the playoff yet, so they still have
35:19
everything to play for. I think as well as what makes
35:22
college football great. You can beat your rival and be
35:25
able to talk trash all year. That's what college football is
35:27
all about. Be your rival.
35:29
Sell some T-shirts. Come.
35:31
On that's right, 2 1/2 points Daniel ANM favored.
35:35
Who do you like in this game in Austin?
35:36
Yeah, Last year it did kind of have the feel of like the Big
35:39
Brother putting his hand on the little brother's head and he
35:42
can't reach him, you know? And he was just like, I could
35:45
stay here all day. That's kind of the vibe I got
35:47
this year. That was at Kyle Field this year
35:52
at DKR at home at night. This is just, this is going to
35:57
be so fun, man. I love this and I think you're
36:00
right. I'm with you.
36:02
I think this game is different. I think this one's going to be a
36:05
high scoring affair. I think both teams can play good
36:08
defense in situations and I think that's what's going to
36:11
make this game exciting. I think you're going to see two
36:14
offenses that can move the ball that have elite players and then
36:19
you're going to see moments where they have to do it.
36:21
And I think you're going to see that go both ways.
36:23
You've seen Marcel Reed get down to South Carolina and come all
36:27
the way back. Did last week Texas playing
36:30
Fiddlesticks with Arkansas. They it was the worst sandwich
36:35
game they could have ever been in.
36:36
They just lost to Georgia, had their hearts basically ripped
36:39
out, you know, and and that having to get back up off the
36:43
mat and then they're looking ahead to this game.
36:46
I mean, everybody in their right mind would be doing that, and
36:49
they had to play Arkansas. And it's this lowly Arkansas
36:53
that's, you know, got Bobby Petrino interim head coach.
36:55
And Arkansas would not go away even at the end of the game.
36:59
But what it showed me was, yes, Arkansas's bad defense, but 52
37:04
points is important against anybody, I'll put that, you
37:08
know, whether you're playing an FCS school or a powerful
37:12
program. And they did it out of necessity
37:15
because Arkansas had them figured out a couple times.
37:19
For that reason, I think that A&M is going to be able to
37:22
score. And I just like this rivalry,
37:24
man. I think you got a couple of
37:25
teams that got some good pass rush.
37:27
And so you're going to see collapsing pockets.
37:29
You're going to see guys get sacked.
37:31
I think it's going to be one of these where they kept both teams
37:33
kind of go on a run or maybe, you know, A&M goes up 10 and
37:39
then you've got maybe the reverse of that happening for
37:43
Texas. I just like when the dust is
37:47
settled in a game like this Lone Star Showdown.
37:49
I think couple things you can count on an experienced head
37:53
coach like Steve Sarkisian, I think you can count on being at
37:59
home. And it's just it's one of these
38:02
things that are a better they, I don't say they're a better team.
38:08
They're the Big Brother is what I meant to say.
38:10
So those are the three things that I'm really looking at head
38:13
coach at home. And it's a psychological thing
38:16
for Texas. They are playing on a slanted
38:19
field against Texas and they're it's even more slanted because
38:24
it's that DKR. So I think they're playing
38:27
against too much. And I think also the safety net
38:31
behind them of if we lose, we're still in the playoffs and they
38:35
could potentially still either they would miss the SEC
38:37
championship game. So not saying they're going to
38:40
throw the game, but it's not the worst thing If they lose, they
38:43
get the by, you know, the time to take before the playoffs.
38:47
So I think there's a lot of factors that just have me
38:50
feeling like a Texas win. So it's only it's a 2 1/2 point
38:55
line for Texas A and MI think Texas wins outright, but I'll
38:58
take those 2 1/2 points as well. So give me Longhorns Horns up
39:02
for this 1 + 2 and. 1/2 I'm with you.
39:04
I, I think Texas wins outright. So it's hard to go undefeated.
39:10
It's very hard to go undefeated. Here's where I think Texas can
39:14
take advantage here in this game.
39:15
One like Texas A&M's had a very good offense.
39:18
Can they stop the Texas A&M offense?
39:20
Well, I mean, the Texas defense, again, I said it against
39:23
Georgia, I thought it was the best unit on the field.
39:25
Georgia took advantage of it with a very dynamic offense.
39:28
Texas A&M has the ability to do that.
39:30
Can Texas shut down the run game?
39:33
I think the Georgia has a more dynamic run game than Texas A&M.
39:36
If they can shut down the run game, can you then limit
39:39
explosives? Texas tackles very, very well in
39:41
the secondary, so can they limit the explosive pass plays?
39:45
A&M has broken a lot of tackles this year and had a lot of, you
39:49
know, 40 yard plus pass plays because of broken tackles in the
39:53
secondary and Marcel Reed hitting guys.
39:55
They're open and they've done a really good job to take
39:58
advantage of that. On the other side, Texas A and
40:02
Ms. had a very good defense. I don't think Texas can be able
40:05
to run the ball much in this game.
40:07
So can can Texas throw the ball to win against Texas A and MI
40:13
thought I'm going to ask you, Daniel, like who's who's the
40:16
best passing offense that Texas A&M has faced this year?
40:20
Is it Notre Dame in Week 3 before CJ Carr took off?
40:26
Was it was it Auburn, was it Mississippi State, Florida, was
40:33
it Arkansas, Daniel, LSU stop when you heard a good Pat
40:37
Missouri, South Carolina. So you're telling me they
40:40
haven't played a very good passing game yet.
40:42
So maybe these passing stats are a little inflated.
40:45
I think Texas is going to have some success throwing the ball
40:48
against Texas A and MI think it's going to be a high scoring
40:50
game. I think it's hard to go
40:52
undefeated. Daniel, you're in a rivalry
40:54
game. I do think there is something I
40:57
don't know, I don't know how to account for this in points.
41:00
I think there's something to be said for like being the little
41:04
brother in the rivalry. And I know you don't want to be
41:07
little brother in the rivalry. You want to start to be Big
41:09
Brother. You have an opportunity to do
41:11
that, to win this one and win several more.
41:14
But until and you know, until I see it, give me the Longhorns in
41:18
this one to win outright to ruin Texas A&M's undefeated season
41:23
here in a rivalry game in Austin.
41:24
We go to the game, 11 AM Central noon, Eastern Michigan hosting
41:33
Ohio State in Ann Arbor. Daniel.
41:36
It's been since 2019 since Ohio State beat the Michigan
41:41
Wolverines. They won the national
41:43
championship last year and they still could not beat Michigan.
41:47
Does Ryan Day have a Michigan problem?
41:49
I don't know. Evidence would point to yes, he
41:53
has a Michigan problem. It might not matter for their
41:55
season, Daniel, but it matters in this game.
41:58
They're a 12 1/2 point favorite on the road in Ann Arbor.
42:01
Everything points to Ohio State being able to win this game
42:04
finally and breakthrough. Who do you like in this game?
42:08
In the game in Ann Arbor, MI. Yes, Jacob, this one's always
42:11
going to be tough because I have continued to pick Michigan past
42:14
couple years because of this. I was definitely duped to the
42:18
first year and then I was like, I'm just going to take Michigan
42:21
from here on out. You're a noted Ohio State lover,
42:24
except to the Ohio State folks. They've called you Southern
42:27
Fried Clown before, but all to be fair, I mean, Ohio State's a
42:33
better team. They should win this.
42:36
It should. But that also should have been
42:38
true the past few years a couple of times.
42:40
Even the year that Michigan won the national championship.
42:44
I mean, that year, OK, Michigan was better.
42:46
I guess. Ohio State was really good that
42:49
year 2. They're good every year.
42:51
Julian saying having a Heisman esque type season as a Richard
42:56
freshman, I mean, JJ Smith just doing JJ Smith things, He's
43:02
hitting his stride. 10th receiving touchdowns on the year
43:05
is just stupid, man. I do know I'm taking Michigan
43:08
out of principle. All right, Justice Haynes is
43:12
out. I'll say he's out.
43:15
I think he's out there. They're being ambiguous about
43:17
his status. I don't know if they've
43:19
officially said he's out or not, but he's been injured.
43:22
The Jordan Marshall freshman running back has been really
43:24
good this year. 10 rushing touchdowns, almost 900 rushing
43:28
yards. This is a run the football kind
43:32
of a team. They have played close with a
43:34
couple of teams they should not have recently.
43:37
I don't know if it's a focus issue.
43:39
If it's so they're not that good issue.
43:41
They're not good enough to really you know, but this is one
43:45
of those games you do throw it all out.
43:47
If the teams are close enough and equal enough as far as
43:50
program wise, you can do that. You can't do that with every
43:56
rivalry game because there's always one Big Brother, 1 little
43:58
brother. This is the game for a reason.
44:00
Both of them have gotten theirs, and Michigan's gotten it more
44:03
than Ohio State. So it's a 12 1/2 point spread.
44:06
I'm taking Michigan plus 12 1/2, but I'm taking Michigan
44:10
outright. Bryce Underwood has the
44:12
legendary game. He's going to take that next
44:16
step and he's going to be in the game lore forever that he won
44:21
this game as a freshman against Big Bad Ohio State, keeps Ohio
44:25
State out of the Big 10 championship and for for all
44:29
intents and purposes, I mean, cements himself as a Wolverine
44:34
legend at that point. But yeah, I just think I think
44:37
Ohio State, until they prove otherwise, are going to have to
44:40
show that they can play this game without psyching themselves
44:43
out. And Michigan's going to try to
44:45
shorten the game. They're going to try to shorten
44:46
the game, running the ball, playing keep away and clamping
44:49
down on defense. So even if Ohio State wins, I
44:53
feel good about 12 1/2. So give me Michigan and the
44:56
points. Then I said last year, I think
44:59
I've picked Ohio State to win this game.
45:02
Every year we've done the podcast, I think I've picked
45:04
Ohio State to win we. Started in 2019 for Otis Worth
45:07
so. And then they won that year.
45:10
That was the first year. That was it.
45:11
I went to an Ohio State game that year.
45:13
I drank the kool-aid. I loved it.
45:16
Like this is an elite program. You know, we both grew up in the
45:19
South and think of the SEC was the best.
45:21
I was like Daniel. No man.
45:22
Like they, they do it right. Yes, I've been an Ohio State
45:26
fanboy. Drake the Kool-aid Man.
45:28
Ever since you saw them dot the I, it was been love at first
45:32
dot. That's a good one.
45:34
Yeah, dude, I had a we've talked about this, but I had a field
45:37
pass for that game and it's the first time, it's the first time
45:40
I've been on the field for like a like a big college football
45:45
game. So seeing college athletes warm
45:48
up for me to you, you know, like, and I just remember seeing
45:52
Chase Young and he had his jersey like tucked under his
45:57
shoulder pads to like show off his eight pack.
46:00
And I'm like looking at the roster at his size being like,
46:03
oh, he's almost 300 lbs. And I'm like, I can count his
46:06
eight pack that like, you look like the Predator, You know what
46:09
I mean? Like, he just looks like an
46:11
alien. He, I mean, you could argue he
46:14
could have won the Heisman Trophy that year.
46:16
Anyway, I've drank the Ohio State kool-aid and I told you, I
46:19
said, hey, like until they do it on this podcast, I'm going to
46:24
pick Michigan. You got to hold me to it.
46:26
I've stayed true to it in my playoff picks.
46:29
I keep showing you that Michigan.
46:31
I have that as a win. And then I go to break the game
46:33
down, Daniel, and here I am again.
46:36
Here I am again. Ohio State's offense, number one
46:39
in the country, an EPA per drop back.
46:42
I mean, obviously the pass offense has been elite, so much
46:44
so that they sat there number one and two wide receivers last
46:47
week in a conference game in what must have been, you know, I
46:51
was calling it cupcake week in the Big 10.
46:52
You know, because Ohio State was playing Rutgers and, you know,
46:56
must, must have been cupcake week in the Big 10.
46:58
They had the number one quality drive rate in the country #5 in
47:02
points per quality drive, excellent in scoring touchdowns
47:05
in the red zone #9 in EPA per rush.
47:08
They're #4 in early down DPA #3 in 3rd and 4th down success rate
47:13
Daniel. Their their defense.
47:15
They don't let teams score in the red zone.
47:18
They're allowing more field goals than touchdowns.
47:20
Their past defense has been unbelievable.
47:22
Their front sevens been stout #2 in the country in 3rd and 4th
47:26
down success rate on defense. But Michigan's going to beat
47:28
Ohio State on Saturday. That's just it's, it's what's
47:31
going to happen. It's science.
47:33
Hail to the victors. Go blue.
47:36
They're going to win straight up.
47:37
This, this is this is one of those games where it's not made
47:41
sense. Eventually Ohio State's going to
47:43
win. But Daniel, I will not, you
47:45
know, I will be picking Michigan and be on the wrong side of it
47:48
the next time Ohio State does win.
47:50
And then I can start picking Ohio State again.
47:52
But I'm not going to let. And look, maybe if you're Ohio
47:54
State, you love this because I've picked you to win the six
47:57
years in a row. It's the first time I've picked
47:59
Michigan. Maybe you finally get it done
48:01
and you can thank me and. You're like the Corso headgear
48:04
curse or whatever that's you've been.
48:07
Yeah, it's the Southern fried clown curse picking on high.
48:09
State, yeah, I get 12 1/2 points, but I'm not going to
48:12
need them because Michigan went straight up.
48:14
I do think you hit the nail on the head how Michigan wins this
48:17
game is Bryce Underwood plays like he was the number one
48:20
player in the country. He's not a freshman anymore.
48:24
He is, you know, 13 or 11 games into his college career.
48:27
No no longer a, you know, I say by by November, you're not a
48:31
first year player anymore. You know, like you've got plenty
48:33
of reps under under your belt. I also think their defense has
48:38
done some really unique stuff to hold Ohio State in these games
48:42
in the past. And again, this is a defense,
48:44
Daniel, that's been a top 15 rushed defense in the country
48:47
still, top 15 past defense in the country still.
48:51
I think it's the utter shower they're going to have to win the
48:53
game. Can they throw the ball to win?
48:56
And can Bryce Young be Superman in this game and become a
48:59
Michigan legend as a true freshman to beat Ohio State?
49:02
I think he does it. I think Michigan wins this game
49:04
straight up. Give me The Wolverine.
49:07
And have you looked at the weather at this game?
49:11
And then how's 30° with snow shower sound for our Michigan
49:15
pick? Beautiful.
49:16
Doesn't that just get you excited?
49:18
Yes, like her on the right side. Uniform match up.
49:21
In the snow. Oh yeah, that gets that'll get
49:24
you going. As long as there's Mace pants.
49:27
Michigan I I will change my pick.
49:32
I will change my quick. Pants so passed.
49:35
Yeah, give me the Wolverines to win this game straight up.
49:38
All right, Lastly, Daniel, there is a playoff game on the line in
49:43
Tennessee, Vanderbilt and Vandy's the one with the playoff
49:47
game on the line. If they win, I do think they are
49:50
in and you're the playoff committee's going to have a
49:52
tough time with a lot of two loss teams.
49:53
And I'll tell you what Daniel, I pretty confident believe A2 loss
49:57
SEC team is not getting left out of the playoff.
50:00
So Vandy going on the road to Knoxville, TN 3 1/2 point
50:05
favorites. Who do you like in the nameless
50:09
rivalry game in Knoxville? I-40 Bowl I-40.
50:13
I-40 Bowl. Yeah, it's in what they call
50:19
this. They call it Nash Vegas, right?
50:21
And I've heard Nasty Knoxville, Knox Vegas.
50:24
I don't know what we're calling it.
50:25
So that's from a Tennessee fan, by the way.
50:28
I'm not throwing shade. They said it.
50:30
Not me. Oh, my gosh.
50:32
Is this just not dude, if you don't love college, what are you
50:35
doing? If you don't love college
50:36
football, this is amazing. This game is going to be so
50:39
perfect. Tennessee is Big Brother
50:43
Vanderbilt is having the season that everybody has, you know,
50:47
waited for in that, you know, in that community.
50:50
Diego Pavi is everything they could have ever imagined at
50:52
quarterback. Tennessee though, is favored in
50:56
the game, the at home 3 1/2 point line, which tells you that
51:01
in neutral site this would be a a pick em Joey Aguilar having a
51:06
great year. I mean, Jacob take like dude,
51:09
let's just go back to pre season.
51:10
Let's think about it. Everybody was like, man, I don't
51:13
know. Is Joey Aguilar going to be the
51:14
guy? Is he going to?
51:16
He's been phenomenal for them. I know they've got 3 losses, but
51:20
the expectation for them before the year was man, they'd be
51:23
lucky to go 8 and 4, you know, because they lost Nico is this
51:27
whole thing, you know, I forgot Nico existed.
51:30
Joey Aguilar made me completely forget he existed.
51:32
He is doing so much with this offense.
51:36
Like I said, it's a Big Brother type of rivalry, their Big
51:39
Brother in this one. But Diego Pavia has no older
51:43
brothers. This man is 30 years old.
51:45
OK. So I like Diego Pavia to go in
51:49
here with 3 1/2 points. I appreciate those.
51:53
And he's going to go in here and he's going to get the W on the
51:56
road in Knoxville at Neyland Stadium and ruin all of these
52:02
fans. Their Thanksgiving holiday is
52:03
going to be terrible. They're you know, Christmas will
52:06
be cancelled. Tennessee will ultimately go 8
52:09
and four after this. And they'll see not just their
52:12
worst night like Alabama is their biggest rival, but they'll
52:15
see their their worst nightmare come to fruition as Vanderbilt
52:20
beats them in route to going to the College Football Playoff.
52:24
This is the year Vanderbilt set after last week.
52:27
Man, I was picking and then the, you know, kind of just trying to
52:31
exist and get to the finish line against Kentucky did that blew
52:35
up in my face. They blew Kentucky out.
52:37
I know it's Kentucky, but it's tough to win games that big.
52:41
It's tough to put teams away in November.
52:44
That's absolutely what they did. They're playing good on the
52:46
defensive side. Offensively, these receivers are
52:49
getting open. Diego Pavia is playing his best
52:52
ball, dude. Let's just believe for a minute,
52:55
man. You know, we go doors, whether
52:58
they do anchor down, you know, shout out Nate Bargatze, Shout
53:02
out Barton Simmons, all the people.
53:04
Shout out Theo Von, who's apparently dating Diego Pavia's
53:07
mom. So yeah, shout out.
53:11
Yeah, OK, You said we were. You said before the podcast
53:13
we're going to go 4 for four here.
53:16
We're not going to go 4 for four.
53:18
Tennessee's going to win and cover this week.
53:23
I'll play the same game I played with with A&M.
53:26
Daniel who who are the best teams, who are the best offenses
53:29
Vanderbilt has faced this year that could go toe to toe with
53:31
them? And I'll give you a hint is this
53:34
the two that beat them are the best two.
53:36
It's Texas and Alabama as far as like who has the athletes to go
53:40
toe to toe with them? I think this is a higher scoring
53:42
game, but I don't like in a higher scoring game, I'm going
53:47
to trust that Tennessee can get one more score at home and that
53:51
with 105,000 or whatever it is at Kneeland behind, they can get
53:55
the one stop they need to win this game.
53:57
I, I think both defense are going to give up points in this
53:59
one, but if I trust one defense more to get one stop in this
54:03
game, it's Tennessee's and all I need is one stop with a 3 1/2
54:06
point spread. I think this is like a 3834 kind
54:09
of game. I think this number is on the
54:11
money. I think, you know, I, I by no
54:13
means think either team's going to blow the other one out.
54:15
I think Vanderbilt absolutely deserves to be in a close game
54:19
with Tennessee. They are as good of a team as
54:21
Tennessee is, but I think at home Tennessees defense can get
54:27
the one stop they need. You know what, it's probably
54:28
going to be Daniel. It's probably going to be a Yolo
54:31
ball from Diego Pavia. We saw this in the Alabama game
54:33
and honestly, the difference in the game were the two early
54:36
turnovers he had because they stayed in that game.
54:38
They stayed in the Texas game, They came back in the Texas game
54:42
even after being out of it early.
54:43
Vanderbilt's not going to give up.
54:44
But does he get them in a hole even early where Neil and his
54:48
then a factor the whole game because, you know, or maybe it's
54:52
early in the third quarter, he's trying to roll out of the pocket
54:55
and force a ball and a Yolo ball goes back for a pick 6.
54:59
And I think that's what could be the difference in this game is,
55:02
look, win or lose, Pavi is going to do what he does and he's
55:06
going to throw a lot of touchdowns.
55:07
And sometimes it's going to be the other way.
55:09
And I'm not rooting for this, but it could be a pick like that
55:12
that cost him a chance to go to New York in this big of a
55:15
rivalry game. So a lot on the line for
55:17
Vanderbilt this week. Are they ready for the pressure
55:21
of if you win, you're in the playoff on the road in Neon
55:25
Stadium against your biggest rival?
55:28
I'm going to say not yet. Give me Tennessee to win and
55:32
cover. Give me the balls in the
55:34
nameless rivalry in Tennessee, the three star, the three star
55:39
shootout. I don't know.
55:40
We get we we we got to come up with some names of these
55:42
nameless rivalries here in the offseason.
55:44
Maybe that'll be an offseason pod and that could be a fun one
55:48
for us. Yeah.
55:49
I love it. All right, That's rivalry week,
55:51
Daniel. We're not done yet.
55:53
Playoff prediction. Do you have your 12?
55:56
I'm going to be honest with you, Jacob, based off of what?
55:58
Yes, I do. I'm going to spare some drama.
56:03
I'm going to I'm going to cut to your drama, but I have the same
56:07
12 because. Same 12.
56:10
What I had from last week held, so I don't want to be coward.
56:16
No, no, change my affair. Pittsburgh is still set up as my
56:21
ACC champ. They obviously want to stay in
56:24
the running. Tulane still in the running, all
56:27
the other teams they won as far as to keep, keep position, keep
56:30
pace. I will say, if you're
56:33
technically holding my feet to the fire, I just picked Michigan
56:37
to beat Ohio State. I still have Ohio State #1 sue
56:40
me, OK? But if you know, I'll make some
56:45
amendments at that point. But now it's it's the same.
56:47
So Ohio State one, Indiana 2, Alabama 3, Georgia 4, 8th, Texas
56:55
Tech 6, Oregon 7, Ole Miss 8. Notre Dame 9.
57:00
Vanderbilt 10A, Pittsburgh 11 to Lane 12 All.
57:04
Right. You need some help with Pitt.
57:05
That's the one. You need some help.
57:07
You need Virginia to lose the team they've lost 223 times in
57:10
the last 25 years. So that's that's all you need
57:13
there. That's it.
57:15
OK, Daniel, I've got a couple of changes I did.
57:18
I kept my ACC champ as SMUI think they they they control
57:22
their own destiny. They win, they're in.
57:24
I like that. I'm looking at that one from
57:25
last week now. Made a couple changes.
57:28
I kept Michigan over Ohio State, obviously my one seed, Daniel,
57:33
my one seed is Georgia. I've got the 12 in one SEC
57:36
champ, Georgia Bulldogs, my one seed, two seed, 12 in one Oregon
57:43
Big 10 champ. Here's where I flip-flopped.
57:46
I put my feet to the fire and I said, are you really going to
57:48
pick what you think is going to happen or just based off of
57:52
priors? And I was picking off of priors.
57:54
I think if Georgia gets a rematch right now, I take the
57:58
dogs against Alabama. If we actually have to pick this
58:01
game next week, I'm picking Alabama.
58:03
I'm just telling you, but and then Oregon, Indiana, I think I
58:06
would pick Oregon. They're they're starting to get
58:09
again if they get healthy, Daniel, that's a team I don't
58:11
want to face in the playoffs. 3 Indiana 12 and one Big 10 runner
58:14
up for Texas Tech Big 12 champ. 5 Ole Miss 6 Ohio State, 7 Texas
58:20
A and M8 Oklahoma 10 into I'll get on the 12.
58:25
I put 2 lanes head North Texas. As long as Summerall doesn't
58:30
like bounce early and cause some stress, yeah, at 11, SMU.
58:35
But come down to the 910 conundrum again.
58:39
I think that if Alabama is in the top 12 at 10:00 and 2:00 and
58:44
they play for the SEC championship, that committee,
58:47
regardless of what happens if they lose 41, nothing, which
58:50
won't happen, they're in. So I have them at 10.
58:54
At 10 and three, that leaves one spot for 3-10 and two teams,
58:58
Notre Dame, Miami and Michigan. Now, if I'm on the committee,
59:04
I'm putting Michigan and the playoff attended to and then you
59:09
don't have to worry about head to
59:22
And so that's my projection is Notre Dame and attended to.
59:26
And again, that's a team I I like them and pretty much any
59:28
first round match up like I wouldn't want to play Notre Dame
59:31
at this point in the season. Hilarious stat if you didn't see
59:33
it. They were up 21 nothing before
59:36
their offense had their first snap on Saturday against
59:38
Syracuse. That's that's crazy.
59:40
They had like 50 something plays and 70 points.
59:45
That is nuts. I think we can we can get a
59:50
pretty good projection after this weekend heading in the
59:53
conference championship week. We'll see how much chaos happens
59:56
and like if Michigan doesn't win, that gives us some clarity
1:00:00
right, but they're going to we picked it.
1:00:02
It's going to happen. You're welcome to high state
1:00:04
wins for for that one. All right, be sure to follow us
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1:00:24
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