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The Last Wager Standing: Indiana vs Miami Championship and Season Recap · Targeting Winners: A College Football Betting Podcast

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What's up everybody, welcome to targeting Winners, a college
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football betting podcast. We have reached the end of the
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2025 season and quite frankly, it couldn't have ended any
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better for us as fans or as betters.
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I am there, yes, was to us. I am Darren up here in Chile,
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New York, waiting on another foot of snow to come this
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weekend and joined by Tim and Pete.
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Tim, how's Florida today? Winter is over.
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I believe we were into the 30s this week and so yeah, it was.
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I think it's currently 74 right now, so we're good.
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Wow. You could add the last two high
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temperatures up here and not even get 74 but whatever. 8
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miles things South of the border.
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Warm as usual, 84, sunny, all that good stuff.
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So everything is everything is good.
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I have no complaints at all. Actually, Darren, I'm sorry, we
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just had a cold front come in. We are down to 70, so they.
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Cannot put into words how much I am jealous of both of your
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locations at the moment. All right guys.
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Anyway, as you can see there, if you're checking us out on
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YouTube or Spotify, if you're listening to us, just picture a
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lovely graphic showing the Indiana Hoosiers with more point
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score than EU 2721. Last minute interception by
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Indiana stealing the victory. Carson Beck doing Carson Beck
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things to wind up his career. Guys, we sat there, we watched
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the game. Thoughts.
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If anything surprise you, anything not surprise you?
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What did? What did you think?
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Pete will start with you. Yeah, I mean, for once, I guess
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in the playoffs, I mean, it was, it was tough.
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We talked about how tough it was to bet these games in the
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playoffs just 'cause you just didn't.
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And, and really through the bowl games, the playoffs are maybe a
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little easier than the bowl games, but the bowl games are
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tough. At least it was this one kind of
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played out the way I thought it would.
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You know, we said right out of the gate that that point spread
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was a bit long, it was a bit high, so it played into that.
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So, you know, the the game played pretty much how I thought
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it would, right? It was evenly matched through
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most of it. You know, Miami's offense
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controlled tempo for for a long time.
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You know, defenses kept everything pretty much in check,
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right? There wasn't a lot of big plays
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or anything like that going on. It was a controlled kind of
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offense game. I thought Carson Beck played
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pretty well for most of the game, right?
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He was poisoned in control for most of the game.
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You know, forget the end for a second, but you know, you're
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pressing at the end. But I, you know, I thought both
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quarterbacks, obviously Mendoza was excellent.
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So, you know, they played well. I thought, you know, Indiana's
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defense was solid. Turnovers were minimized all the
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way through for the most part. second-half was pretty much on
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script. What I thought would would be.
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I mean, it was very much what I expected.
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It was a good game. It was a close game, which I
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thought it would be. And I think the better team won.
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And we said that Indiana was likely the better team.
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I think the better team won. So it'd be hard to look back at
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this and say that you know, what happened, Is it what should have
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happened, right? The better team won the game.
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It was a good game. It was fun to watch.
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So at the end, I mean, everything played out.
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But you know, all this argument about who should be in the
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playoffs and who shouldn't have been, You could have had two
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teams in the playoffs and the same team would have won.
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So at least this time it worked out where the number one team
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was going to win anyway. They were the better team and
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that was the end of it. So still, it was good, worked
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out at least for once in terms of our betting and it was a fun
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game to watch. So those are those are my
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thoughts. All right, Tim, I know you're
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going to be completely objective here because I mean, you don't
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hate Miami in the least, but you know, if you could at least try
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and be objective for a few seconds before you you go off on
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you not being all the way back, what'd you think of the game?
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Well, on a defensive side of the wall, it was obviously a great
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effort by Indiana all the way around.
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You got Mikhail Kamara, Keenan Wyatt up front did a really good
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job in the trenches with Aiden Fisher, Hardy, Isaiah Jones at
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linebacker, they did a great job.
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DeAngelo Pons on an island out there, Jamari Sharp, the big
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interception, you know, Mari Farrell and Lewis Moore did a
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great job at safety as well. Devon Boykin was also all over
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the place, so let's not forget Mario Linder.
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And what's his name? Hosa Wheeler.
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So what are? Their jersey numbers.
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I'm confused about the jersey numbers.
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I don't even know what you're. Talking, look at the look at the
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offensive side of the ball. I mean Roman Hemby and Kelon
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Black, they did a great job. Elijah Serra, Omar, Omar Cooper
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did some great catches. Don't forget Riley Noakowski had
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tight end. He had a great game.
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It all starts in the trenches up front, you know, Carter Smith,
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Drew Evans, Pat Coogan, Bray Lynch, Zen Makowski upfront,
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really making time. The quarterback #15 I forget his
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name world to pass the ball and show why he won the Heisman.
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So that's, you know, great the breakdown.
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How'd you like guys? See what I did there That.
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Was good. You basically just read the
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Empire Indiana roster for anybody who wasn't aware, so
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that was good. We appreciate it.
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All the players names now and they're all going to change
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that. There we go.
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The only thing that kind of surprised me is like if, if you
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guys are, I mean, obviously we know, we, we all read other
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articles and, and see what other people are thinking.
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I, I don't think I heard anybody laying the points with Indiana.
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I think we all thought that anybody betting this game was
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taking, taking the 8 1/2 and obviously the kickoff went down
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to 7 1/2. So a lot of people betting on
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Miami, but there were quite a few people who were picking
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Miami and went outright and their their reasoning was this
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was, you know, to invent in the trenches.
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But Miami's offensive line outweighing Indiana's defensive
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line by like 50 lbs a guy. There was one drive in the first
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half where Miami just went like pass, pass, pass and quick three
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and out. Didn't understand that at all,
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especially since like in the first half, Miami didn't have
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the ball that often. It was pretty much time of
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possession dominated by Indiana. So I wonder if if even on that
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one drive, if they had tried to run, maybe try and wear it out
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in Indiana because they're saying Indiana really doesn't
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swap out a lot of their starters.
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I mean, those guys are playing the majority of the game for 16
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games now, but didn't even look like they really tried to to
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tire that unit out. So and you know you'll lose by
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6. You you joint the field goal
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there. Maybe Carson Beck doesn't throw
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that deep pass. He just tries.
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Maybe throw a couple more short ones to get into the field goal
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range and tie it up. But I mean, good game.
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I mean, I was nervous once Indiana settled for that field
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goal. I was like, that offensive
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lineman is going to leave school after that false penalty.
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I was like, I don't know if you heard his interview, He said
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that somebody asked him what he thought of when Shark made that
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interception. He goes, I may kiss him,
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whatever. If you're off the hook, if
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that's what you want to do, more power to you.
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But yeah, definitely an entertaining game.
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I'm not surprised at the outcome.
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And like I said, if you followed us and and went with our bets,
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we all gave out a bet. We all hit Pete gave out 8 1/2
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that hit. Tim gave out the over 47 1/2
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that hit. My dog is growling crazy and I
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gave out first quarter under 9 and 1/2.
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It was 3 nothing when the first quarter ended.
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So good way to end for us as fans.
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We got to see the you lose and as betters we all cashed our
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last ticket of the year. So a couple things did come full
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circle. I heard some tidbits after the
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game. Mendoza wanted to go to Miami
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and they didn't even recruit him.
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I guess his parents both went to Miami.
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They were a tennis player. They're moments of swimmer, I
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believe, and another one that came really full circle.
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Jamari Sharp, who made that interception at the end of the
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game His dad played for Miami and he.
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Had he got that penalty against? He had the penalty at the end of
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the game against Ohio State to set up Claret to go in and
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squirt a touch in at the end. That's talk about full circle
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there. It's like, wow.
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So I don't there was no crystal ball moment, but we did have the
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Carson Beck moment. But one or the other, I figured
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one of them was going to happen. I didn't think it, but I was
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thinking, OK, here's the time. I was probably thinking maybe a
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sack on Beck, but a fumble or something like that.
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I didn't actually say interception, but I thought if
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it was going to game was going to end the way it ended, it was
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going to be something like that. It wasn't going to be like a,
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you know, a, you know, a tackle behind the line of scrimmage on
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4th and one or anything like that.
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It was going to be a turnover by some some way of a turnover by
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Carson Beck. So but no crystal ball moment
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got to give it to him. He didn't.
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That's the key to coaching for him.
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Just don't just recall you're good.
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Yeah, he's the go at recruiting, so let him.
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Just just recruit the players and let somebody else coach
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them. Brilliant.
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And now the big question for Miami, are they going to get,
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you know, not that we're discussing portal today, but
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Darian Mensa, the Duke QB saying, forget my contract.
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I'm I'm going to enter. Apparently there's some working
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behind the scenes. Miami's going to apparently try
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and buy out whatever they need to buy out, and there's the word
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on the street he's headed to EU. Just a wild, Wild West.
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Yeah, so you might actually still be back if they get Mensa,
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which will depress me as a fan, but we'll see.
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Those guys have until what, 2 days from now, the 24th?
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Those those two teams can still have players enter the portal
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five days after their last game. So some came out on Yahoo that
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Malachi Tony was entering. I haven't seen anything
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following up on that, whether that's accurate or not.
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Something to watch if that actually happens and you will
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not be back. But those still be back.
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They got, they got more people. I mean, it's fine.
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He does recruit. I got to give him that.
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He's a great recruiter, so. All right, that puts a wrap on
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the 2025 season. Oh yes, but our offseason
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schedule just getting ready to kick off.
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Kim has mentioned this before. Mark Haines from Coaches Hot
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Seat has been on with us three or four times in the past.
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The coaching carousel is absolutely nuts.
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It's not slowing down anytime soon. 33 different coaches
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coming up this year. So if you have any questions on
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your favorite coach or least favorite coach, if you think
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Coach A is set to succeed, is Coach B set to fail, send us
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those questions cfbdudes@yahoo.com.
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Or more importantly, if you can join us February 12th, 7:00 PM.
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Eastern for the live stream. Mark's going to take an hour out
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of his day and talk with you guys about anything college
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football coaching related. So hopefully we'll see you guys
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all there. And Speaking of our offseason
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show schedule, all right, Asterisk, the topics are pretty
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much set. The dates maybe not so much.
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So any date you got you viewers on YouTube see there, that's a
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Thursday that just happened to be a great day for the three of
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us more often than not to be available and get together.
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If we do have to switch a day, we will do our best to try and
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keep it on that week. We certainly don't want to cram
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and and try and give out crappy information by rushing some
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shows. But that's the first part of the
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offseason. Again, starts with that live
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stream on the 12th. We'll do our bankroll management
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show shortly after that. Probably the least exciting show
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of the offseason, but probably the most important.
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And then we just start getting into previews.
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We're working on a guest for that March 19th show.
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Those odds are actually out. We'll we'll show you some of
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those in a second. But then, yeah, through April,
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May, June, July and August, it's just going to be previews.
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We decided that listening to us for like an hour and 45 minutes
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or longer is no way for anybody to spend their day.
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So for some of those Power 4 conferences, we've split that up
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into two shows, order of teams yet to be determined.
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Probably do something alphabetical because we all went
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to Mohammed. At least we learned the
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alphabet, but yeah, so keep an eye on that.
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That's the schedule for now. Like I said, kind of spread out
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and kind of keep the shows a little bit shorter, but I'll get
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the same quality info. Lots of futures bets.
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And there you see it. August 27th, the Week 0 preview,
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Saturday, August 29th. As for now, we've got five games
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with the ACCC. Florida State, I believe, is in
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action on Week 0, so. Oh goody, yeah.
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It's a great packet guys. All the other box.
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Start my suffering a week earlier.
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Some of the maybe the Power 4 shows we might do live.
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That's still, we're still kind of disgusting that, but we know
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for sure Mark's show will be live.
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Anything after that still up in the air, But check out the
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know there'll be some previews if we're going to do a live
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show. So you can certainly get
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notified when that's ready to go.
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But that's it for the offseason schedule air.
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Tim, what next are we talking about?
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Well. I did have some other craft once
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again, let's jump on Miami again and they still don't have an ACC
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championship, so there we go. We got very nice.
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Very nice, very nice. Some more.
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There are little signs, oddly enough.
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I can't see the numbers. I don't know who they are, but
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there we go. Here we go.
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We have our. So if you're already suffering
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from betting withdrawal for college football, which I'm not,
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I don't know about you 2 guys. I need a few days to decompress
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here. DraftKings and FanDuel have come
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out with odds for teams to win the national championship for
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next season. Yeah, what a surprise.
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All the big names, Ohio State and Indiana Co favorites on
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DraftKings at 7 to 1. Ohio State, the lone favorite,
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plus 650 on FanDuel and the usual suspects after that.
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Indiana, Notre Dame, Texas, Oregon, Georgia, LSU, basically
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anybody with money is on that list.
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Tim, we'll start with you this time.
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Anything on there that you like or anything on there that you do
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not like? Well, my initial thought is, you
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know, I ran with Texas A&M this year, got my boy Marcel Reed.
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They're at plus 1600 right now. So that's obviously I got plus
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3000 this year. They're not gonna get get up
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that high again, but I'm looking at them again.
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Why not? I mean, Reid's back.
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I have to check on the offensive line situation.
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They're always going to have good running backs and receivers
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because it's Texas and they have money.
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So, but right off the bat, Texas A and MI, like, I don't really
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like, you know, God, I'm not feeling lane kipping yet.
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I think you might have some growing pains there for one year
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before they start. I think they're spending like
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someone giving them like $25 million every year, up year over
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year to build the roster. So we'll see what he does with
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all that cash. But probably have extra yoga
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sessions. But I don't know.
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For me, it's Texas A&M off the bat, no unit play.
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Right now, here's the. Time, Peter, what are you
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thinking? Yeah, I look for the top 15 real
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quick. There's two I like and two I
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don't, right. So 2 that I think maybe finally
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ready here. I think Texas might be ready.
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I think that roster has matured. I think Steve Sarkisian's
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offense seems to be developing now.
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Obviously you have a quarterback, but I don't want a
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Steven Stark, the quarterback thing, but you know, quarterback
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that's got, you know, more of a veteran quarterback now.
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So I think that team feels more of like a grown up contender now
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and hopes and dreams of last year.
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So that feels more solid to me. Where they sit.
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Oregon, I think they're a sneaky strong contender at that level.
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So that is interesting to me. They, they tend to peak late.
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They're built to be a playoff contender.
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So it didn't obviously go back great last year, but they ran
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into a monster and and the wheels came off on them pretty
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quick in that game. So stuff happens.
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Whatever they're going to learn from that.
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So I think there's there's something positive there.
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The 2:00 on the other side. I mean, Indiana obviously is way
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up there 'cause they just won. That's not going to happen
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again. They're going to come down so
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that that I don't love in Miami, which is not on this list,
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'cause they're a little below this level.
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They're a year out, I think see what happens to the quarterback,
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but I think certainly they're loaded a lot of talent, but I
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think they're a year out from being able to kind of come back.
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So those are my thoughts real quick.
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Otherwise, as Darren said, the usual suspects who stubs their
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toe early. We got all kinds of talk coming
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up on these on these teams. So don't want to spend some too
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much time now. Those are my early thoughts.
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Yeah, I don't think anyone 12:50 or less.
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But if I'm looking at those other five there, I mean, I get
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what Tim's saying. I don't like Alabama at all.
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I think they lost a ton. I wouldn't touch them even at 22
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to one on FanDuel. Texas Tech and I don't know all
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these schedules. I took a look at some of them
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like Notre Dame and Texas Tech have really cake schedules.
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That's great to get you into the playoff, but I don't know how
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battle tested you are when it comes to playoff time.
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You know, Tim and Mitch Tech saying they had a pretty soft
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schedule. They didn't play any other top
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teams in the SEC last year. And their first game out, you
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know, they put up three against Miami.
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So I mean, I think he got to have some tough games in there
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to to make a run. Texas's schedule is kind of
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tough, but I think I kind of want higher odds.
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I have a little questions about their offensive line, but they
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did great in the portal. LSU also great in the portal.
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Before I gave these odds to Tim, they managed to snag old misses
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stack leader and I'm going to try and pronounce that dude's
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last name, but he's an LSU Tiger now as well.
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You got Sam Levitt replaced the Nussmeyer?
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No, Levitt's got some injury concerns, but if he stays
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healthy, well, the one on LSU isn't terrible.
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They do start with Clemson again, so they would need to win
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that one. I think they're going to, I
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don't know, Clemson lost a lot as well, but lean a little bit
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towards you and Texas not really liking the odds with Notre Dame
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or Texas Tech. What was the quarterback that
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the Indiana got in portal? Hoover.
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That's right. Yeah.
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TCU. Is that right?
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Yeah, Yeah. I don't know.
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You talked about Texas A and Ms. not playing a tough schedule.
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I was told there are no soft games in the SEC.
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Darren, the greatest conference I'm gonna.
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Tell you, I don't know if you were scouring Twitter, but your
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your your favorite person on the planet.
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Paul Finebaum came out and had like this minute long apology
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and I was like, is this even the same Jackass that I occasionally
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hear people complaining about all the time?
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Literally just like bowed down to the Big 10 in Indiana and
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said that he was wrong all year long.
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So I mean the the SEC is just a joke now then so.
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Don't, don't. But The thing is, you know, next
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year, come August 27th, they're all going to be right back on
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that old. Oh, they won't even wait till
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that long. You know, LSU will end up having
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a highly ranked portal class and everybody will be crowning them
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the next champ, them in them in Texas in the final.
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Mark it down. That's what's going to happen
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because that's what we're going to hear.
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But you know, I think my favorite of all time is when
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they had the 14 playoff and. I think what, yeah, it was fine
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by me. Like the top four teams, it'd be
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1 Alabama, 2 Auburn, three Ole Miss and four Mississippi State.
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This is when I guess Dan Mullen, when they were the first time
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Ole Miss was they bought all their players.
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They had DK and all them and all four of them lost in the bowl
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game. Like FSU beat Auburn, Oklahoma
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beat Alabama and I think Georgia Tech beat Ole Miss and I want to
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say TCU beat Mississippi State. It's like every all the other
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conferences all they took their turns like like kicking their
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ass. Danny Cannell had a field day
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with that with Paul Feinbaum, I'm sure, but.
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This year the SEC wasn't any good either if when they weren't
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beating each other, the only other team they beat was James
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Madison. Other than that they beat nobody
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of of real quality so. They didn't win any bowl games.
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Is that did I hear that right? They won.
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A couple. I mean, they were sub 500 in
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bowl games. Like I said, they got five teams
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in the playoffs thanks to constant whinings.
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I don't think Bama or even Oklahoma deserved to be in, but
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they played each other and knocked one out.
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Georgia played Ole Miss, so one of them was getting knocked out
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there. It's the only reason to have
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those teams advanced because they ain't each other.
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But he had to advance. But.
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Yeah, Wake Forest beat somebody from who they beat.
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They beat Missouri. Who they played, who'd they
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play? I don't know.
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Iowa played Missouri No. Iowa played Vanderbilt.
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Oh, OK. So I think Wake Forest beating
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Missouri like 45 to 22 or something like that is that.
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Missouri didn't have anybody except about Hardy, but.
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You know that's true. OK, I don't.
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Know all right, so that whet your appetite for the 2026
21:32
betting season. Also, Fanduel's got a few win
21:34
totals out there. I don't know why they put
21:36
Arkansas up. Something happened at Arkansas
21:38
that I completely knocked. They had Virginia Tech and Penn
21:43
State for the longest time, obviously with their, I'm sorry,
21:46
Virginia Tech and LSU due to the new coaches.
21:48
Then they they put Arkansas up the other day at like 4 1/2.
21:51
I'm like, why? Why is that the the third team
21:54
you're posting in total for? But that might be an under.
21:58
But anyway, all right, what's next?
22:02
Should we wrap it up? I think we have the season wrap
22:04
up. Oh gosh.
22:07
So have that. I got a call from the Justice
22:14
Department. They said for national security,
22:16
I had to be back. They said mine was.
22:19
I guess the Russians were tapping into the show.
22:22
And fair enough. And my my numbers were
22:25
coordinates. So now I won't do that.
22:26
I'll put it up. Well played Kenny, Well played
22:33
well. Thanks.
22:34
Actually you given my sucka toot at math, but it wasn't as bad as
22:38
I thought. I knew it was bad, but when I
22:39
cashed in those other bets and looking at my my account, so I
22:44
do have, you know, 23 1/2 units left to give them everything
22:49
that I was down and bets that I cashed in.
22:50
So yeah, if you bet against me this year, you did very well.
22:56
So you were up 30 some odd units.
22:58
So now I blame that dude in the offseason who said that we
23:02
weren't placing any bets. I was like, all right, I'm going
23:06
to bet on every. I think I had like 20 future
23:09
bets for the conference champions and everything.
23:12
So yeah, so I'm going to do some.
23:14
I'm going to falsely follow the bankroll management show.
23:17
Tune in for that next month. But yeah, I'm going to work on
23:21
my bankroll management here. But hey, I won my last bet.
23:26
Here we go. Building momentum.
23:28
Well, well done, Darren. Looks good.
23:31
That's good. Let's see you last, Pete.
23:33
Let's see you and then we'll finish on AI.
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Don't. Want to talk?
23:35
About me. It was, it was a tough year,
23:39
man. I said it was.
23:40
It was a very interesting year to bet it was.
23:42
I don't, I don't know, totals were far more difficult this
23:45
year than they were in past years.
23:47
I don't know why I'm going to have to go back and just do some
23:49
assessment before I start betting this coming year 'cause
23:52
something, something was different this year.
23:55
But I'm going to have to take a look at that because I was, I
23:57
was struggling more than I usually do and I'm not exactly
24:00
sure why. So I've got to take a look at
24:02
it. So yeah, it is what it is.
24:04
We'll call it a debacle of a year a bit and move forward.
24:07
We'll be all right. Yeah.
24:10
And Darren, you're on a plus side, I believe.
24:14
Just barely, you know, I was looking at that not, you know,
24:17
because 2024, I think even hitting Ohio State at 8:00 to
24:20
1:00, I was still down like 12 1/2 units for 2024, even cashing
24:24
that bet. So yeah, my 2024 was pretty much
24:28
what that picture I send you guys booty cheeks, as the kids
24:31
are saying, yeah, my 2024 was terrible.
24:34
And even the, the regular season there, when we were in our
24:38
Orlando trip in October after that, I was still down like 9
24:42
units. But like Pete said, where he's
24:44
going to kind of go back and look at some things.
24:46
I kind of did that after the trip and, and so some stuff kind
24:51
of clicked. But the the only reason that's
24:53
up a couple units, I gave out six two unit plays and went five
24:56
and one on those. If those were all just regular
24:58
one unit plays, I'm negative. So it was just a matter of
25:02
hitting a couple key bets. I'm kind of really proud of the
25:06
Bulls in playoffs because it's impossible as Bulls are, you
25:10
know, to be a couple games over and make a unit or so there.
25:14
I'm happy with that. But you know, we hopefully
25:16
figured something out. We're going to try it for a full
25:18
year. Hopefully that that that can be
25:20
a little bit better. But you know, 2024 in the first
25:23
half of 2025, not not good. But yeah, was was was happy to
25:28
bounce back and and be a little bit positive in All in all three
25:32
of those categories. So, but you know what?
25:34
That's over. That's done with.
25:36
We're going to scrap that and we're all zero and zero starting
25:41
now, so. That's right.
25:42
Thank God for the Rams. I thought I was going to have to
25:44
reload. Oh my God.
25:50
Yeah, So go Rams. I mean, well, I'm not going to
25:54
jinx it. So I'm going to say I'm betting
25:57
on them again this week 'cause I just bet on them every week.
25:59
So we'll see what happens. They'll break my heart this
26:02
week, I'm sure. Any final thoughts before we
26:05
head into the off season boys now?
26:10
It's a lot of fun, always a lot of fun doing this, so that's why
26:13
we do it. And looking forward to growing
26:15
the channel some more. We've had some success this
26:17
year, looking forward to continuing to evolve with all of
26:20
you. So thank you all for listening
26:22
this year and hanging with us and even with our crappy bets
26:25
sometimes, thank you for being here.
26:27
We do appreciate it. That was perfectly set.
26:31
What was that? I said I have nothing to add
26:35
that was perfectly set. Yes, Yep.
26:38
I think for next year we're going to have Pete host some of
26:41
these shows. Yeah.
26:47
Yeah, we got to change that. The host carousel.
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