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Episode 544: Week 2 Best Bets: Live Underdogs, Defensive Mismatches and Our First Championship Future · The Crazy Sheet - CFB Handicapping

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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, it's your favorite time
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: of week. You download the crazy sheet and you get
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  Speaker 1: ready to talk some college football with Mark and Scott. Brother,
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  Speaker 1: I am here in the college football podcasting studio. You
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  Speaker 1: are out on the road. We got week one behind us.
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  Speaker 1: What are your takeaways from week one on a big level?
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  Speaker 2: That the Big Ten will fuck you if you're an
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  Speaker 2: in-state small school kid.
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  Speaker 3: And you're about to win. They won that football game.
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  Speaker 2: And everybody is thinking, oh, yeah, well, they shouldn't have
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  Speaker 2: gotten another play. First off, it's total bullshit. Those cameras
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  Speaker 2: aren't synced. The only clock that fucking matters is that
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  Speaker 2: game clock. When that son of a bitch hits double zeros,
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  Speaker 2: the ball game's over.
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  Speaker 3: Period. End of story.
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  Speaker 2: As Mike Pereira said, that's what they're supposed to default to.
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  Speaker 3: They didn't.
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  Speaker 2: But what I'm a bit pissed off about, they didn't
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  Speaker 2: call the face mask. It should have been an automatic
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  Speaker 2: first down. It was a blatant face mask. Officials standing
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  Speaker 2: right there. They should have never had a chance to
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  Speaker 2: throw the Hail Mary because Western Michigan should have had
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  Speaker 2: another set of downs.
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  Speaker 3: Totally fucked those guys. It sucks.
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  Speaker 2: If the Big Ten had any character, they'd come back
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  Speaker 2: and say, we fucked this up. And at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the day, Western Michigan is going to be claimed
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  Speaker 2: the victor. I don't think Michigan... is probably as bad.
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  Speaker 2: I think there was a lot of looking forward, but
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  Speaker 2: they got Bryce Underwood problems. That guy's not getting better,
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  Speaker 2: so that's going to be fascinating. I was expecting Oregon
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  Speaker 2: to be much better than they were. You know, Boise
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  Speaker 2: I knew was good, but I really did think this
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  Speaker 2: Oregon defense was going to be great. Boise was able
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  Speaker 2: to move the football. Love the Boise coaching staff. Just
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  Speaker 2: as a in general, just the way he conducts his business.
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  Speaker 2: Also want to comment about Taylor's at Lance Taylor.
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  Speaker 3: It's at Western Michigan. Let me tell you something.
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  Speaker 2: That guy handled that post game as well as you
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  Speaker 2: can handle it.
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  Speaker 3: Kudos to that man. If you're a big school, you
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  Speaker 3: need to be looking at that dude. That, that guy
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  Speaker 3: handles his business.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, they're probably the best team in the Mac,
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  Speaker 2: but at the end of the day, under great pressure,
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  Speaker 2: you can't tell me that guy didn't want to say
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  Speaker 2: we got F'd. But he but he handled it with
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  Speaker 2: complete professionalism. You could teach a class in a tough
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  Speaker 2: environment off of the way he handled that thought that
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  Speaker 2: was outstanding. Alabama, Ron Williams can still drop a ball
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  Speaker 2: better than anybody.
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  Speaker 3: Put some damn gloves on. Holy shit. Did you watch
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  Speaker 3: that game?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he dropped balls that seventh graders get embarrassed about.
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  Speaker 3: That one ball got picked off in the end zone.
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  Speaker 3: They're lucky that the kid jumped off sides, and they just.
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  Speaker 2: Got an auto first down and got to do it
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  Speaker 2: over again because the kid jumped off sides. He drops
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  Speaker 2: a ball that hits him dead in the hands, and
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  Speaker 2: then it gets picked off. You know, he's got to
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  Speaker 2: be able to make the easy catch. The guy can
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  Speaker 2: make circus catches. Watch the damn ball into your hands.
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  Speaker 3: And he got rocked. It's obviously that he's not scared
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  Speaker 3: to get hit. He got rocked.
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  Speaker 2: And held on to a ball. But you could tell
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  Speaker 2: it was in his head, man. And one or two
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  Speaker 2: more of those and it may stay in his head.
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  Speaker 2: Bama's good. The freshman running back for Bama is legit.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that kid is legit. I mean, like always,
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  Speaker 2: they've got running backs that are highly rated. But that
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  Speaker 2: freshman back is legit and going to be a player.
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  Speaker 2: For those guys, really impressed there. LSU made Clemson.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my.
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  Speaker 1: So, a question here is, LSU looked really good. And
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  Speaker 1: you could tell, like, you and I talked about it,
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  Speaker 1: I think, off air, but about Lane. and the games
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  Speaker 1: he plays. And I went all the way back to
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  Speaker 1: when he was at Tennessee and he was sending the
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  Speaker 1: girls up for high school recruiting trips and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: The guy plays the game differently. And I don't think
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  Speaker 1: he gives two shits if people like what he's doing
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  Speaker 1: or not, because whoever he works for, he has to
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  Speaker 1: have the endorsement of what they're doing before he starts rolling.
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  Speaker 1: I think the last time he didn't have the endorsement
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  Speaker 1: of this, was when Nick Saban left him off the
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  Speaker 1: bus when he was playing for Bama and fired him
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  Speaker 1: when he ended up taking the job at FAU, which
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  Speaker 1: that's beside the point.
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  Speaker 2: I think he fired him because they were tired of
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  Speaker 2: getting him out of Innisfree, but that's a whole other story.
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  Speaker 1: But the point is that, like, with all the distractions
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  Speaker 1: that were going on around the LSU program because of
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  Speaker 1: this and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and, like,
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  Speaker 1: they came out and absolutely woodshed at Clemson. And I
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  Speaker 1: mean– And you and I have watched the default of
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  Speaker 1: Clemson over the last several years. And I honestly think
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  Speaker 1: you've got to realize that team has not been relevant
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  Speaker 1: since 2019 when they played for the national championship and
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  Speaker 1: got trucked. Now, they did make the playoffs again once
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  Speaker 1: after that in 2020. But that team hasn't been good.
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  Speaker 1: And they're hanging on to this national title. You know
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  Speaker 1: what it reminds me of, Scott? It reminds me of
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  Speaker 1: the end of the Bobby Bowden experience. where you took
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  Speaker 1: a coach that took the program and took it to
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  Speaker 1: the highest of high levels that it could be in
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  Speaker 1: and ended up having to fire him because he wasn't
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  Speaker 1: going to walk off the stage himself. And it was fine,
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  Speaker 1: but I kind of feel like that's where we're at
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  Speaker 1: with Dabo. That team had no separation from the wide receivers,
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  Speaker 1: nothing athletically looking. Defensively, if they don't score in the
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter on that 78-yard drive, however many plays it was,
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  Speaker 1: that team would have finished the game with less than
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  Speaker 1: 100 yards total offense, 100 yards. And I'm not talking
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  Speaker 1: about in week eight or nine when you've got tape
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  Speaker 1: and you've got, you know, scheme, everything. We're talking about
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  Speaker 1: week one. You have to come out with a game
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  Speaker 1: plan that you're going to run and just got housed
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  Speaker 1: the whole way through. And so if you're a Clemson fan,
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure you've got to be thinking this has
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  Speaker 1: got to be the end for him, but I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Flipping around, staying in the ACC real quick with Miami
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  Speaker 1: going out to Stanford, traveling all the way across the country. And,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that Miami team, you know, I know last year, Malachi, Tony,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if Stanford was like, look, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to keep running, man, because we're going to get some tape,
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  Speaker 1: but because we're not going to double team or rock
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  Speaker 1: into a zone. Malachi, Tony was open like it was
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  Speaker 1: an intramural game. The dude was running just post routes
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  Speaker 1: and flag routes. I mean, everything was open all day long.
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  Speaker 1: It was crazy. I mean, set a school record, 263
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  Speaker 1: yards or something like that receiving in one game. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm not talking about like he went to Wisconsin. He's
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  Speaker 1: at Miami. I mean, there's Hall of Famers that played
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  Speaker 1: wide receiver there. And so, yeah, that team is going
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  Speaker 1: to be really good.
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  Speaker 2: Mensa looked great, too. I think people– because Tony was great, man,
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  Speaker 2: he was fabulous. I mean, he looked really, really good.
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  Speaker 2: I think they're good. They did not run the football
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  Speaker 2: nearly as well as I thought, especially when it mattered.
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  Speaker 2: as well as I thought they would be able to,
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  Speaker 2: but I think that will come. Crystal ball being an
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  Speaker 2: offensive guy, offensive line guy, I think that'll get solved.
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  Speaker 3: But I agree with you.
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  Speaker 2: Miami's a legit national title team. They keep Coney, Fletcher,
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  Speaker 2: and Mensah healthy, and that's a legit national title team.
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  Speaker 1: I would agree with that completely. It's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a good team. I mean, it really is.
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  Speaker 2: Notre Dame, I want to talk about that for a sec,
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  Speaker 2: because I do think Wisconsin came out and played well,
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  Speaker 2: but man, That second half, Notre Dame, boy, they look good.
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  Speaker 3: That's a good football team, too. I love C.J. Carr,
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  Speaker 3: always have. Told you that preseason.
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  Speaker 2: Think he's a really, really good quarterback, and I love
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  Speaker 2: the coaching, everything that goes on about Notre Dame. As
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  Speaker 2: a program that I grew up hating my whole life,
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  Speaker 2: it is odd for me to find myself cheering for them. Um, but, but,
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  Speaker 2: but here I am, um, it is just cause I
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  Speaker 2: liked the program.
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  Speaker 3: I really do.
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  Speaker 2: And car is everything you want in a quarterback. He
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  Speaker 2: has got all the pedigree. I mean, you know, son
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  Speaker 2: of coaches, you know, I guess grandson of a really
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  Speaker 2: famous coach.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you gotta be, you gotta be excited.
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  Speaker 2: If you're Notre Dame with that schedule, you know, you're
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  Speaker 2: pretty much in the playoff, you know, it. And especially
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  Speaker 2: after winning that game, that, That pretty much puts you in.
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  Speaker 2: And so you got to get– you got to be
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  Speaker 2: really excited if you're Notre Dame. Ole Miss, defense not
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  Speaker 2: nearly as good as I thought it was going to be.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, I will tell you that I think both
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  Speaker 2: those defenses are garbage. I don't think the offenses were
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  Speaker 2: nearly as good as the defenses were bad. Too many
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  Speaker 2: busted coverages, too many busted plays. I did not– I
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  Speaker 2: was completely unimpressed with both defensive sides of the football team.
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  Speaker 3: In that ball game.
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  Speaker 2: So that game was a little bit of.
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  Speaker 3: A shocker to me. Fascinated to get going this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Camario Taylor, we took the Bulldogs.
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  Speaker 3: Man, that kid is different. I mean, he is different.
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  Speaker 2: I still don't know how good that offensive line is
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  Speaker 2: because it couldn't run it when it mattered. State's got
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  Speaker 2: a couple of really good young backs as well that
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  Speaker 2: are freshmen that I think are going to be really,
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  Speaker 2: really good. The Hill kids are going to be I
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  Speaker 2: think he's going to get a chance to be a
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  Speaker 2: superstar for Mississippi State, which is a fascinating story with
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  Speaker 2: his– I believe it is his uncle that is the
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  Speaker 2: running back at Alabama.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, that is correct.
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  Speaker 2: I said uncle. That is his age, basically. This is
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  Speaker 2: a great story. I don't want to go too much
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  Speaker 2: into it. But Demetrius Hill, an ex-Mississippi State football player,
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  Speaker 2: his son slash– And then his son has obviously has
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  Speaker 2: a son. So anyway, it's an interesting it's an interesting dynamic.
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  Speaker 3: But Kamario Taylor's a real deal.
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  Speaker 2: He is the real deal. The state have enough pieces
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  Speaker 2: around him to A, keep him healthy. And can that
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  Speaker 2: line give him the time.
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  Speaker 3: To be aggressive?
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  Speaker 2: They clearly talked to him about getting down, which may
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  Speaker 2: keep him healthy. This weekend's a fascinating game. That line's
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  Speaker 2: down to one and a half. We'll talk about it,
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  Speaker 2: but I thought Kamario Taylor was really good. So Some
• 10:18
  Speaker 2: interesting games this weekend. Oklahoma State, got to talk about that.
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  Speaker 2: They looked awful, got completely dominated by Tulsa. That was a,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that I was not expecting. I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: knew they might could lose that game. Tulsa was going
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  Speaker 2: to be a pretty good football team. Did not expect
• 10:36
  Speaker 2: them to get dominated at the line of scrimmage the
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  Speaker 2: way they did. So I was expecting them to be
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  Speaker 2: able to move the football better.
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  Speaker 3: Couldn't at all. That was interesting. Georgia going and just
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  Speaker 3: putting wood.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they're showing all the stats about them not covering,
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  Speaker 2: and Georgia just comes out and hangs a 60 ball
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  Speaker 2: on them. So going to be a lot going on.
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  Speaker 2: Burt has got an offense. I don't know what the
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  Speaker 2: hell to think. That was unexpected. So, you know, a
• 11:04
  Speaker 2: lot of good football. Glad to have it back.
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  Speaker 3: But, man, excited about week two, Mark.
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  Speaker 1: So I want to start one thing. We're going to
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: do this podcast. I'm going to do it this year.
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  Speaker 1: Every game, every week, you pick. We're going to take
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: a $ 100 unit. and we can either cut it in
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: half or we can put it all in. And every
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: week we're going to bet a future. We'll have to
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: use calci or draft kings or something like that on
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  Speaker 1: a– based on what we saw this week, what team
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: do you think could play for the national– or could
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  Speaker 1: win the national championship? And if it's– if the two
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: teams that I was most impressed with walking off the
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  Speaker 1: field week one would probably be– after week one, I
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  Speaker 1: got to put– I'm going to nominate the LSU Tigers.
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  Speaker 1: I thought they looked very complete for game one. You know,
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  Speaker 1: everybody talked about that roster looked really good. I think
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  Speaker 1: the Miami hurricanes looked really good in that space. I
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  Speaker 1: think Notre Dame still looks pretty good, but they've got,
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  Speaker 1: you know, some work to do, I think, to improve there. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: if I were going to put 100– if you were
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: going to put 100 bucks down on one team to
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  Speaker 1: win the Natty, based on what you saw just last week,
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: and it could change for next week because we're trying
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: to set some positions up here, how would you allocate
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  Speaker 1: that money?
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  Speaker 3: I would still take Miami.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Because I think– because I trust Mensah more than I
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  Speaker 2: trust Sam Leavitt. let's see what Levitt can do when
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  Speaker 2: he's actually getting pressure and somebody's actually getting after his ass.
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  Speaker 1: Sure.
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  Speaker 2: And he's in a tough environment. Let's see what he
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  Speaker 2: can do. I'm telling you, he's got a– I'm never
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  Speaker 2: going to believe they can win the national title until
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  Speaker 2: he proves to me he can do it in a
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  Speaker 2: big road game in a Southeastern Conference environment. And we're
• 12:47
  Speaker 2: going to find out next week. I mean, they go
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  Speaker 2: to Oxford. You're going to get to that place. It's
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  Speaker 2: going to be Zeus for that game. So he gets
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  Speaker 2: a chance to prove it next week. But after watching
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  Speaker 2: how ineffective he was in Starkville last year in a
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  Speaker 2: tough environment while he was under pressure, I got to
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  Speaker 2: see him do it. So before I do it, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to trust Mensah more. I would go the Hurricanes.
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  Speaker 1: I agree. But right now, looks like on DraftKings, we
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  Speaker 1: can get the Miami Hurricanes at 9-1 to win the
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  Speaker 1: national championship, putting that bet in. We're going to do
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  Speaker 1: it each week, Scott. We're going to have a pretty
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  Speaker 1: fat portfolio. And knowing you and I's luck, we'll end
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  Speaker 1: up and they'll be matched up in the second round
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  Speaker 1: while we get to the end of this thing. But
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: that's all right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what's going to be hilarious is when three or
• 13:33
  Speaker 2: four teams just keep doing it every week and we
• 13:35
  Speaker 2: got four or five hundred bucks on them.
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  Speaker 3: I really need you to keep winning.
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: You got to keep doing this, man. You got to
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: keep doing this stuff here. But, yeah, I agree with you.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, my takeaway was Miami and LSU were the
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  Speaker 1: two teams I thought looked the best. Like eyeball test
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  Speaker 1: on the field looked the best. The most surprised I was, Clemson,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't think, I mean, I've got Clemson at eight
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  Speaker 1: and four. I wasn't overly surprised, but I was surprised
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  Speaker 1: how bad they got beat. Oregon, to me, has a
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: Boise State problem. I would never schedule Boise State again
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  Speaker 1: if I were them. Just don't do it. I don't
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: know what it is, but it's something about playing Boise.
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  Speaker 1: They cannot come out and do what you think they're
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  Speaker 1: going to do against that team. If Curry and Moore
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  Speaker 1: doesn't fucking break that dude's ankle, those two defensive backs'
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  Speaker 1: ankles and take that one to the house to kind
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: of open that thing up a little bit, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that could have been a much different game than you
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  Speaker 1: got from there.
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  Speaker 3: Mark, how good? I mean, you just watched Alabama's quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: How good was that fucking Duncanville team?
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  Speaker 1: Well, we played them. So keep in mind that high
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  Speaker 1: school team. You had Caden Durham, who's the backup running
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  Speaker 1: back at LSU now. He started last year. You had Moore.
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  Speaker 1: who was the wide receiver one at Oregon. You had
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback at Alabama.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Colin Simmons, Russian pass rusher at Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's on the other side. There's four kids on
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  Speaker 1: that roster that will probably all get drafted, and a
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  Speaker 1: couple of them may be first-day drafts. De'Corey Moore and
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: Colin Simmons could be first-day drafts off that Duncanville team.
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  Speaker 3: Colin Simmons is going to be a first-day. He's going
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: to be a first-day.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, man. Diving in, Scotty. Big week, week two. Pretty
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  Speaker 1: good slate. Much better than last week, which is great.
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: When you start looking at these games, obviously the NFL
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: starts tonight. We're recording this on Wednesday morning. NFL game
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  Speaker 1: this afternoon or this evening, and then you've got Thursday
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: night games. In the NFL, the only Friday weekday game.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: Can I ask you something about the NFL?
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: What in the hell is the Australia game not tonight?
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: Instead of tomorrow night. And give them another day to
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: get home. What the hell is that about? You flew
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: them halfway across the damn country. If you're going to
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: play on Wednesday night, why wouldn't you play that game?
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  Speaker 1: Across the world. It's 17 hours.
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  Speaker 3: It's like good gravy.
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  Speaker 1: And that was an interesting one too. You've got the
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: Niners that have been over there for a week, getting
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: acclimated to it. And then the Rams left yesterday. And
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: so they're pulling the 17 hour, take a nap, play
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: a game, come home again. I don't know. A lot
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: of smart guys in the room in the NFL. What
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: you've got from that.
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: I think the Rams play better next week.
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: I think the 49ers may suck next week, you know,
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: because body clock is going to affect them. But, you know,
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: I'd also think the 49ers are going to be more
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: prepared for Thursday night, but, We digress.
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: That's the NFL.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: Oh, only game you got Thursday night, Scott. Miami Hurricanes
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: will be at home laying 56-and-a-half to the Florida A
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: & M Rattlers. You could probably lay 56. If they
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: want to score 56 against Florida A & M, they're
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: going to. I don't know if they're going to want
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: to hang that on them. You get into Friday's slate.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: You got a couple games Friday. Nova and Bill play.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: Louisville's laying 36-and-a-half. I was– Lincoln Keenholz looked pretty good there.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: I think they'll come back and get the win. NC
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: State plays Richmond. I got no interest there. The Cavaliers,
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: and let me say this, not to go too far,
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: but let me back up on that Clemson thing. You
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: go look at Clemson's downfall, and it started when Tony
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: Elliott and Brent Venables left that program, and it hasn't
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: been the same ever since. Elliott's done a heck of
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: a good job at UVA, and I don't know what
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: kind of pay structure he gets there, but in my opinion,
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: if you're looking around at coaches– And you're still in
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: the ACC, but I would tell you, you've got to
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: look at him. You've got to look at the guy
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: at New Mexico and Eck. And then I like the
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: guy at Western Michigan. If you're looking for a replacement
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: at Wisconsin next year, if Luke Fickle doesn't do it,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: I would tell you that's a good fit there. So
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: there are still some really good young coaches that are
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: out there. But, yeah, that's kind of what my thought
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: is on Clemson. I didn't mean to get sideways on
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: that one. A couple games Friday night that are interesting–
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: Rutgers getting three against Boston College, having to go up
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: to Beacon Hill. Is Rutgers going to get swept by
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: the state of Massachusetts this year? I mean, this is
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: a huge line move. This line's moved like eight points
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: since the summertime when they put it out there. But
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know how you can get behind Rutgers on
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: this one.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: You can if you watched any of that game last Saturday.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: They didn't get beat. They got the shit beat out
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: of them by UMass. And let me tell you, I
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: don't know if the UMass quarterback's got any more eligibility,
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: but I can tell you where he's not going to be,
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: and that's in Amherst next year if he does.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: He played pretty well, actually.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Absolutely thought he played well. The game you got Friday
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: night is a throwback to the old Big 8. Kansas
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: at home. I think this is the week. Are they
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: opening their new arena, or did they do that last year? No,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: I think they did that last year. So Kansas is
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: opening up at home. You're getting five and a half
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: here against this Missouri team that's laying five and a half.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: In a huge rivalry game.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Big game. Big game. And, you know, and Kola Nikki,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator that came in with Leopold and then
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: left to go to Penn State, is back at Kansas
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: this year. I don't think the running back, Ahmad Hardy
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: from Missouri, I don't think he's cleared to play yet
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: after he got shot this summer. And so he doesn't
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: get down there. Kansas plus five and a half. Give
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: it to me, baby. I like this play here. Give
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: me five and a half in a big time rivalry game.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: Mizzou's ranked 23rd. I know they've had some, you know,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: last week there wasn't much of a game there for them.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: But I can get down with some Kansas plus five
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: and a half on a Friday night. You got any
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: love for that one?
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: I do.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Look, man, home dogs tend to do it, especially midweeks.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: This is a rivalry game. I think it's going to
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: be a tight game. We took this game last year.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Missouri ended up covering pretty late, but I just think
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: the home game, I like this opportunity. What I think
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: is that Kansas may actually be a little bit better.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: They had the quarterback who was there forever, and they
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: built everything around him. It looks like they're just kind
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: of getting back to trying to be a football team
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: now instead of just really focusing on him. And so
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: I agree with you. I think Kansas comes out and
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: gets the cover and got a real chance for a
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: straight-up win.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with you. I think they're a live dog,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: and this is a big one to go with. Next
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: game I like Saturday morning, Scott. Army at home laying
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: three and a half here. They got South Florida traveling up.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: I haven't gotten involved yet. If I can catch Army
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: at a flat three, I think I'm going to get
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: in on this one. This Army team has vastly improved
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: over last season. I like the direction that they're going
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: with this one. South Florida is a complete reboot from
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: last year. You know, Golish left and took that job
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: over at Auburn. And I like Army here. If you
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: can get Army laying a flat three, I could probably
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: get involved. South Florida last weekend played Bryant, you know,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: and got the big win there, 59-3. That's the team
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: that's not even that good in the FCS level. I
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: would lay it with the Service Academy. They're always a
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: problem in that one. And so if you're looking for
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: something to get involved with there, I would probably go
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: into that space. Scott, big games. Let's get them all
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: out there real quick. Oklahoma traveling to the big house
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: to play Michigan in this one. Oklahoma's laying five and
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: a half. Michigan over under 43 and a half. After
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: you watch that game last week with your own eyes,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: how hard is it going to be to back Michigan
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: getting five and a half in this one? And they're
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: taking money like people know. I mean, and they're not
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: taking a fucking lick of money right now. So you
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: know the Sharps are going to probably line up on
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: this thing come Saturday.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no way I would take Michigan.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Simply because Bryce Underwood does not look good, does not
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: look good throwing the football. but man, they couldn't run
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: the football. How the hell are they going to do
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: it against this Sooner front? I think the strength of
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: this football team is not John Mateer. I think it's
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: the defense. I think this defense for Oklahoma is going
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: to turn out to be a really, really good unit,
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: and I think that's the difference in the football game.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: I think they're going to go to the big house.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: I think they win by 10 or 12. I think
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: they win what I would call pretty easy in a
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: huge game because these are two of the marquee programs
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: in America. I mean, two of the best Best ten
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: programs in America, you know, especially traditionally. Hell, you talk
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: about traditionally, and it's probably two of the best five
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: or six teams in college football history. So I think
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: this is going to be a big game. It's going
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: to be a great unit. I think Michigan's better than
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: they showed, but not enough to stay within five and
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: a half.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: I like Oklahoma.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Give me Oklahoma in the same one. I'll lay it.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: I'll go out. I'll make the square play in this one.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: That's fine. I'll get down with it. Let's stay in
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: the state of Oklahoma. Oregon traveling down to Stillwater to
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: play this one. Lines at 22.5 is where it's currently sitting.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: You've got an Oregon team, national TV. Anybody who was
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: a fan last week got to watch. They came out.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: They got the win, but they did not look impressive
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: one way or the other. Oklahoma State lost to Tulsa
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: for the second time in a row. I don't think
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: they've done that in, like, almost 100 years is the
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: blurb that I heard on that. But what I was
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: more shocked about with the Oklahoma State game was that
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: they just couldn't move the ball. Now, Tulsa invested in
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: their defensive line. They got some dogs on that defensive line,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: guys that are going to play on Sunday. But they
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: absolutely shut down that offense. And I think that they
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: never– he never, ever thought that was going to be
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: a problem. And you've got an Oklahoma State– or you've
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: got an Oregon team that's going to come in here
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: after last week And I guarantee you they are going
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: to see a massive improvement from week one to week two.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: And again, most of this roster from Oklahoma State, maybe
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: the reason it wasn't that good against Tulsa is because
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: it's all from North Texas. It's a big step up.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: And I know that we saw Cignetti do it with
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: JMU and moving those guys over, but it's still a
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: big step up. And JMU was a much better program
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: than North Texas was when Cignetti took over to Indiana.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: I think Oregon's going to lay wood to this Oklahoma
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: State team. I don't think the Oklahoma State's going to
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: have any chance of slowing this team down. Do you
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: have any opinion on this one? You know what?
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: I like this game, but I don't love this game
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: just simply because I need one more.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: Data point from Oklahoma State.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: And what I mean by that is, I know this
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: sounds crazy because they're playing Tulsa, which is right up
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: the road. I think they were completely overlooking those guys.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: What are we going to get when the game matters?
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: I think the coaching staff at Oklahoma State is good.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: I think the quarterback's better than he looked last week,
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: although there's a reason he had one offer coming out
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: of high school.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: I mean, there's a reason.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: And just because he had a phenomenal year last year
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: playing Tulsa, And that league doesn't necessarily mean you're going
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: to do it in this league, but I want one
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: more data point before I lay another big number on Oregon.
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: But if I'm taking it, I'm taking Oregon.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Wake Forest, Purdue. This one's at West Lafayette. Purdue's taking
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: in a lot of money in early week at plus three.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: I can't back Purdue. I think it's one of the worst,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: if not the worst, power program in the country. Wake
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: going on the road I think gets the win. I'm
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: not sure I want to lay it. A game of
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: interest to me is Arizona State traveling to Texas A
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: & M. A & M' s laying 14 and a half.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: This game's in College Station. I think it's an early start.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Where's your thought on this process? I mean, how good
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: do you think A & M' s going to be this season?
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is a team that went to the
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: playoffs last year, and people just have kind of forgotten.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: And so you think A & M' s able to lay
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: 10 and a half and get it done against this
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Arizona State team?
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: Well, this number at 10 and a half is down.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: It's 14 and a half down.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay. Because when I was looking at it, it
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: was 14 and a half. I think that– I think
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: this team, and I've said it all along, goes as
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: Marcel Reed goes.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: Is he better?
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: Can he be something other than a guy who's athletic?
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Can he actually throw the football when he's got to
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: throw the football?
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah. That I just don't know.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: I do not think that Arizona State is going to
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: be very good this year. When I say very good,
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying they're going three and nine, but I
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: also don't think this is on the verge of a
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: playoff team. Like I think they're on down in the
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Big 12 a little bit. So I think A &
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: M covers this. But again, I need to see more
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: from Marcel Reed. But next weekend at Kentucky, you're going
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: to get a real data point on Kentucky at home.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: And then you've got A & M at home again
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: against Kentucky. That's a game that I may have circled
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: in my book that I may like the Aggies. If
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: I see what I'm expecting to see, and the same
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: thing I see what I'm expecting to see from Alabama
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: up in Lexington.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Next one I like, Scotty. This is an official play
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: for me. Virginia Tech at home laying 19 and a half,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: playing an old domino. These are two guys that know
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: each other. Ricky Ronnie coached at Penn State with James Franklin.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: This is a team that everything they had last year
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: ran through their super athletic quarterback that's now the quarterback
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: at Wisconsin. Last week they played Mike Vick's Norfolk State team.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: They won. They didn't cover. They beat them 31-7 or
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: something like that. Didn't look overly impressive. Virginia Tech, I
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: think he's taking receipts, man. And I really do think
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: he wants to make it known that this team's going somewhere.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: And the other thing, too, is Virginia Tech has lost
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: this game as recently as last year, I believe. And
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: then they lost it again a couple years ago. And
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: so I think he's going to be replaying that all
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: week long to these guys so they don't overlook it.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Give me Va Tech and the Hokies laying 19 and
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: a half. Big number. I like it. Give me the
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: fight in James Franklin's. To get it done at Virginia Tech.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Why do I like this guy now that he's at
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Virginia Tech? Because I couldn't stand him at Penn State.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: I think it's a better job for him.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: I think it kind of fits more of the same
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: feel as when he was at Vanderbilt. And so I
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: think this job may be more on par for him.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I need to see a little more
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: of them, too. I know you love this game.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: I think 19 and a half may be a touch
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: too much for my blood because I don't know how
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: good these guys are, and I mean that. I don't
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: know how good they are. And I know Old Dominion's
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: not very good, but 19 and a half's a lot.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: I could see some emotion getting into this. So, for me,
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: I'll probably pass on this game because I want to
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: see a little bit more of Virginia Tech.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Next one I've got that I'll– next game up is
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: an interesting one, Scotty. Arizona– BYU, you know why this
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: game's interesting, Scott? Because both their quarterbacks are 5'9. Both
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: of these guys don't total 12 feet together playing quarterback.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Interesting game here at home. BYU laying 7.5 against an
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Arizona team. Both of these are heavy, heavy run games.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: BYU's pretty one-dimensional. I don't know who they're going to
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: throw the ball to this season, but they can run
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: the rock. Do you got any love for the boys
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: in special underwear up from Provo this week, or are
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: you going to pass on that one?
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: You know, the quarterback of Arizona is– I mean, he's–
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, man, he's been electric for, what, three years now?
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Heck, he took over– I guess he took, I guess,
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: really four years, three and a half years.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: You know, he took over in that ball game and
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: played pretty well when he took over. I guess that was, what, second,
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: third week of the season when he took over three
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: years ago? Has been a really, really good player for him.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: So I think you're right. The quarterbacks are both going
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: to be fun to watch in this game. This does
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: have the earmarks of a very, very close game to me.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Um, yeah, I, I would lean to Arizona. I don't
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: have any play here. I want to watch these guys
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: get into it a little bit. We'll go from there. Uh, Duke, Illinois,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: you're going to play Duke in the flight and Burt's.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Are you going to sit back and watch this one?
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Duke is taking a lot of money, big lopsided, taking
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: almost 91% of the money on the bets at plus six,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: but getting 48% of the tickets. You got any love
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: for this game on either side?
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: You know, I wouldn't say I love it, but I
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: think Burt covers five and a half. I think he
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: covers five and a half. His team's better than I
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: thought they were. The only reason I'm not, because I
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: think Duke's getting a lot of love, and I'm going
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: to talk about this in a minute in my upset special.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: I think they're getting way too much love for that
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: win over Tulane. That's my honest opinion. I think Illinois
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: gets five and a half. I think they cover that
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: at home. Remember, they went down on the road and
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: they dismantled Duke last year.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Well, you know, but did they end up
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: covering that game last year? They did end up covering
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: that game last year, didn't they?
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they did. Oh, yeah, they did.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Bama, Kentucky, first road game we're going to see for
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: this new young quarterback. Alabama's laying ten and a half
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: in this one. Kentucky's taking on 66% of the bets
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: or 66% of the money as far as we record this.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Are you getting involved in the Will Stein era right here,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: or are you going to lay out and watch this
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: from the sidelines?
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: I'm expecting Bama to go take care of business. I
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: know I'm not buying into Will Stein yet. Do I
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: think he's going to do a great job? 100%. I
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: just think that program had a long way to go,
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: and I don't know that he can turn it around
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: that fast.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Next one we got, Scotty. Mississippi State traveling to Minnesota.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: You've been talking about this one since the summer. Minnesota's
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: laying one and a half at home, taking all the
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: money in this one. You think they're going to cover
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: the line against your Mississippi State Bulldogs?
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: 100% I do. Got a ticket at five, and I
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: think they do. They got a great pass rusher. That
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: state couldn't run the football when it mattered last week.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: And even early in that game, I think they're really
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: going to struggle. I think this offensive line is a
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: pretty darn good offensive line for Minnesota. I think it's
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: just a tough spot to go play. Marquee game, 230.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: You know, first big road game for Kamario Taylor. While
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: I think he is super talented and a good player,
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: don't know that they're good enough to close this deal out.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: State's good enough to do this. I think they're a
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: good football team. But, no, I'm going to double up
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: on my bet. Take the additional points. Take the points,
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: take the three, I guess it's four really, three and
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: a half that I've gained and double up my bet.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: I think Minnesota wins it. I think they win it
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: by a touchdown to ten points.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: Cal traveling completely across the country after last week's game
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: against UCLA. JKS, the quarterback, got a little nicked up
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: at the end of that one. I haven't seen anything
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: on the injury reports. Playing Syracuse in this one. Syracuse
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: current lines at three and a half. Syracuse is taking
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: the majority of the tickets and the money in this one.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: You going to roll with the Qs, baby, or are
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: you coming back with your Cal Bears?
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: Man, come on. You know, I've already told you I
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: like the Qs here.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: I think this is a tough spot for Cal. Look,
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: UCLA was good last week. They were good on offense
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: last week. And that was a pretty fun game to watch.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: Both those teams kind of moved the football for a
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: pretty good bit of that ball game. But I think
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: it's a tough spot to go make the travel. And
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: I think when healthy, Syracuse's quarterback, when he plays, they're
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: a different football team. That team fell apart when he
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: got hurt last year. Remember, they won at Clemson, and
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: then he got hurt in that ballgame and had to
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: hold on to win that game.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: And then they just fell apart after that.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: I think they play– I think you see a different
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: football team than what everybody's been expecting. I like the
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: Qs minus three and a half at home to get
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: the W against Cal.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: I'll go correlated with you here. I think this is
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: going to go over. Over-under is currently at 56 and
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: a half. I think Cal offensively can put up some points.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: That's going to keep them in games all year. But
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: that defense is not very good. And you saw it
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: kind of fall apart last week in the UCLA game.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: I think they, again, struggle in this spot here. Syracuse
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: likes to run a little bit of tempo. I think
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: the over is taking in all the bets, all the
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: tickets at 56 and a half. Go ahead and give
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: me the over in that one as well, 56 and
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: a half in that one. Moving on down the food chain, Scotty.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: UNLV traveling right up the road from you at Denton, Texas, baby.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: Over under here is 56 and a half, lines three
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: and a half, fighting Dan Mullins, laying points on the
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: road after coming back from the island, nonetheless. North Texas
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: last week slowed the game down to an absolute crawl
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: and hung around for a long time with that Indiana
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: team before they finally just couldn't do it anymore. Did
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: they bounce back this week and get the three? And
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: then do they win the game at home? Does UNLV cover?
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: How are we playing this one?
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to call for them to win, but
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: I am going to call for North Texas to cover.
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: I like Neil Brown as a football coach.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: I think he did a better job putting that roster
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: together than people think. I mean, they had to bring
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: in like 50 people because, obviously, that whole team went
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: to Oklahoma State. So he's come in and done a
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: pretty good job of putting the pieces back together. Again,
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: big travel, big travel, only a two-hour time span, but, man,
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: they're still coming back from Hawaii. And that was a
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: that was a that's a big trip for UNLV. And
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: then coming back, I just think North Texas is hanging on.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to call for the upset, but I
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: am going to call for him to cover the three
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: and a half. I think this is a close football game.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: It's all going to get down to how slow North
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: Texas wants to play.
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: But then.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: Dan doesn't have anybody to throw the football. They got
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: to run the football. And that makes them a one-dimensional
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: football team. They have not been, and we talked about this,
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: as good without the center injury. So I think North
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: Texas is going to be able to.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: Keep this game tight. Memphis Tigers traveling up to Boise,
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: getting eight and a half over-unders at 54 in this one. Boise,
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: after what you saw on TV last week, will be
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: the biggest public play, if I had to guess. Got
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: to be one of the biggest public plays that you're
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: going to see this week. I have a feeling you're
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: going contrarian. Talk to me about it.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: I do. I like Memphis here.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: Eight and a half exactly because of that. That was
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: such a huge game for Boise. I mean, they laid
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: it on the line. And I just think this Memphis
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: defense is going to be good enough to keep this
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: game close. They're going to be able to keep it
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: around a touchdown. The hook is a big number for me.
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: Can I see this being a 24-17 game? You bet you.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: You know, can I see this being a 21-13 game? Yeah,
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: I can. Can I see it being, I think if
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: they start scoring a bunch of points, that may hurt Memphis,
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: and that would.
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: Be where they cover us.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: But I think that defense is going to be able
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: to keep them in ballgames, keep them in this ballgame,
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: and keep it under eight and a half.
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: I like Memphis at Boise and the points.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: Get you some there, boy. I like Memphis, too. I
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: think Memphis is live dog this week. I think they
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: absolutely can get the win here. I think they're a
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: very well-coached team. I like everything about what you've got
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: going on there. Next one I want to go to, Scotty,
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: University of Tennessee playing Georgia Tech. Line here is 12-and-a-half.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: Over-under is 55-and-a-half. Haven't quite gotten involved yet, but I
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: would lean heavily on Tennessee. Georgia Tech last week, you know,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: they lost both their offensive and their defensive coordinator, and
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: I think that shined through in that Colorado game. Their
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: best player is Alberto Mendoza. He doesn't really have anybody
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: to throw the ball to. They couldn't run the ball
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: at all last week against that Colorado defensive front. And
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: I still don't think Colorado's that good. I would lean
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: to lay in the points anything under two touchdowns with Tennessee.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: I think the defense is going to cause all sorts
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: of problems for this Georgia Tech team. But that's my
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: two cents. If I get involved, that's where I'll be
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: going with that one. I don't know how you feel
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: about it.
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: Mark going with the freshman quarterback for the Vols on
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: the road who looked good is a very, very talented player.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Another game I kind of liked, it's super gross. Nebraska
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: hosting Bowling Green. Bowling Green lost to Tarleton last week.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Tarleton has made it known they want to move up
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: into the bigger division of football. They've got a running
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: back that's probably going to play on Sundays. But Bowling Green,
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: I went back and watched the All-22 on that. They
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: look soft. which I was really surprised with an Eddie
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: George coach team. And you got this Nebraska team. I
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: don't know how many wins they've got in there. Matt
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: rules laid some wood to some folks. I don't really
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: like laying 29 and a half. If you're going to
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: do it, I would probably lay it with Nebraska there.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: I just haven't quite gotten there on that one yet.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Let's get down South, baby. Let's go all the way
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: to new Orleans, South Alabama Jaguars headed down to play
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: the two Green Wave. Tulane's laying nine and a half
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: in this one. Over-under is 49 and a half. See
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: a lot of money coming in on Tulane on this one, Scotty.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: What are you going to do?
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: Man, give me South Alabama. And it's not really loving
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: South Alabama. I thought Tulane looked bad last week against Tulane.
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: Against Duke.
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: I don't think it had nearly as much to do
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: with Duke as it did, that this Tulane team's not
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: very good. I was stunned. Will Hall got the job
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: at Tulane after what went on at Southern Miss. And
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: after week one, I look like I'm pretty confident in my,
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: in my choice that this isn't going to work out
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: well at Tulane either. Give me South Alabama and the
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: fighting major Apple whites. I think they get it done.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: Quarterbacks back for major. So he's got an experienced guy
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: going on the road. I just think they're able to
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: keep this game close. That's really what it gets down
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: to me about. This game was 33-31 last year, right,
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: at South Alabama. It was a barn burner. That's a
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: hell of a lot better football team Tulane had than
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: they did here. And I think you're going to see
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: South Alabama give them all they want.
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: I'm going live dog for South Alabama. I think they
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: may win this football game.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: I like where you're going with this all the way around.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: A couple others we got here. San Diego State, UCLA
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: lines 12 and a half. Over-under is 54-and-a-half. If I
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: were to go anywhere with this, I would probably go
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: to the over at 54-and-a-half. San Diego State has finally
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: started to implement some tempo. Remember, this is the coach
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: that came over a number of years ago from what,
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: Kent State? I can't remember which one. Came over from
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: the Mac. Yeah, Kent State.
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he was the offensive coordinator for Deion, and Deion
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: fired him.
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: Because he didn't like what he was doing with his kid. Yeah.
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: But they run tempo now. And so they've picked it
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: up there. UCLA, again, I don't know if they're gonna
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: be able to cover 12 and a half. This could
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: be kind of an overlook spot for them based on
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: their schedule. But give me over 54 and a half.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: I like what you're getting involved with there. Moving on, Scott,
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: a Seahawks game for the first time that I can
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: remember will be played in primetime. Lions 14 in this one,
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: Overs 40.5. Iowa State team obviously decimated by the disappearance
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: of their coach as he took the Penn State job.
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: Brought back in a defensive-minded coach at Iowa State that's
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: very familiar with the Iowa program. And obviously the Iowa
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: program lives on the defense, but they put some points
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: up last week. Covered a big number here. I don't
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: know if I want to get involved anymore. laying 14,
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: but I do think Iowa trucks these guys over under
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: 40 and a half could be tight. Iowa States won
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: this game the last two years in a row after
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: being dominated by Iowa. I don't have a play here yet,
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: but I would probably leave Iowa gets the win and
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: maybe the cover, but I hadn't gotten involved yet.
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: It just seems like a big number and I know
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: everybody's down on them and maybe it's just history coming
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: back to me, but I think this game, I think
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: this game's closer than that's what it feels, but I
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: think I was certainly the better football team.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: Let's get to a couple of big games that you
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: got here. Ohio State travels down to Austin. Lines one
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: and a half, over-unders 49 and a half. Game breakdown, Scott.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: Let's go through some theory on this. If you're Texas,
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: this Texas team is loaded. Cam Coleman looked good last week,
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: but Arch looked pretty good. They've got a stable full
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: of running backs on this team. O-line seemed to look
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: pretty good here. Ohio State's the number one team in
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: the country. Obviously, this is a rematch that they've got
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: from last week. You and I were talking off air.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: If I am Will Muschamp, I go in and I say, look, man,
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: if you're going to beat me, you know, it's like
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: I'm going to take Jeremiah Smith out of the game.
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: I will double cover him every single play. And y'all
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: are going to have to figure out a different way
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: to beat me and see if you can beat me
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: on the ground or with your secondary receivers and let
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: Julian say and figure it out from there. You don't
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: think Will Muschamp's that smart to do that and just
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: to be arrogant enough to make his own game plan
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: in place. Maybe that's true. But I also think if
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: you're Arch Manning in Texas, last year this was the
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: game that he came out and everybody's like, whoa, maybe
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: Arch isn't that good. And nobody really paid that close
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: attention to him on a national front the rest of
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: the season. He did get better as the season went on.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: Texas got better, whether they're going to get done or not.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: To me, this is the game. If you're Arch and
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: if you're Texas and if you're going to say we
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: are here, to try to win a natty, this is
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: a game they have to win at home. That being said,
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: Texas is probably the worst 100,000-seat home field advantage stadium
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: in the country. It is not loud. It is not
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: a hard place to go play and win. You can't
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: convince me otherwise. Ohio State's going to roll in here
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: ready to rock and roll. I am excited about this game.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: I have no idea who's going to win.
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: I have bounced back and forth and back and forth,
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: but I think ultimately– I think this is the Chris
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: Henry coming out party. Because I think they are going
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: to focus so much on Jeremiah Smith. I mean, look,
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: first play of the ballgame, that first touchdown pass they threw,
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: I guess it wasn't first play, but first pass they
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: threw was a 50-something yard touchdown to Jeremiah Smith last week.
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: Chris Henry was the guy flanking him on the other side.
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: Kid's a stud. He is going to be a complete
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: freakazoid in the long line of freakazoid Ohio statewide receivers,
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: the kid can get it done. I think this is
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: a big coming out party, but I'm going to give
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: you one other name to talk about. Remember saying complete
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: 70% of his passes. The guy is accurate and is really,
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: really good. And I'm going to give you a, I'm
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: going to give you a name, Devin McEwen, the transfer
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: from the beep beeps right down the road from Austin
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: to transferring up is that slot wide receiver for Ohio State.
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: I think you may see him have a coming out
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: party this week. So you're going to have a guy
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: who this is his chance to make a big, to
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: make on the big stage, make a splash. This Ohio
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: State team's got more players than just Smith. And look,
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: Bo Jackson's a really good back, you know? So it's a,
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: I think you've got a lot going on at the
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: end of the day. And this is going to sound
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: so nuts because Ryan Day has gagged. so many football games,
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: but I don't know that he's gagged more than Steve Sarkeesian.
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: So I think Ohio State's probably going to go on
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: the road and win this football game. The whole reason
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: I feel that way is I'm not, I'm not, I don't,
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: I'm not, I like Will Muschamp. When I say I
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: don't like, I don't mean as a, as a guy
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: or anything like that. I'm saying I just, I, I
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: just don't love him as a defensive coordinator. I think
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: he takes too many risks. And I think a guy
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: like saying is going to capitalize on that with the,
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: with the players they've got.
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: And, and are they going to break down.
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: On offense and just say, you know what, let's get,
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: let's get our playmakers to football on the outside. You know, does,
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: do they finally take advantage of cam and what is,
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: what is their defensive staff do at Ohio state to
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: take him out of the ball game at the end
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: of the day? I think Ohio State is going to
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: figure out how to get it done just like they
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: got it done last year. I think Texas was the
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: more talented team last year. And I know obviously Arch
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: is a year older, but I mean this. That guy's
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: got the world on his shoulders this week because at
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: the end of the day, he's got to win this
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: football game. Can he do it? The pressure's all on him.
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: I don't think there's any pressure on Ohio State. I
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: think that's the difference. I think they come in and
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: play loose.
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: They're on the road. and they figure out how to
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: get it done.
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: Gotcha. I like it. Now, I do think– the only
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: thing I don't completely agree with you here is I
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: do think there's pressure on both of these teams because
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: both of these teams didn't make the playoffs. And so,
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think you've got to– I mean, this
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: is a big game for both of these teams because
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: you win this game here, and it gives you that
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: spot where you could lose a clunker later on in
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: the season, and it's a data point to help you
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: get in. But I think this is a fantastic game.
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: Kudos for them for scheduling it. I'm excited to watch it.
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: I think it's going to be fantastic. Moving on, Scotty,
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: Ole Miss, Charlotte. Charlotte lost to the fucking Citadel last week.
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: I don't even know how you have a football team
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: at Citadel. I don't know if I want to lay 47.5, but, man,
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: Timmy Albins not doing a great job at Charlotte. Southern
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: Miss traveling to Auburn, laying 33.5 again. Don't like to
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: lay that many points, but you've got to think Auburn
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: comes out completely butthurt as bad as they played last
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: week against Baylor. And this Southern Miss team is not
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: very good. Might look at that one a little bit.
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: Game I want to go to that I think is
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: interesting is Arkansas traveling all the way up to play
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: in Salt Lake, play Utah at Rice-Eccles. Line here is 12-and-a-half.
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: Utah laying it over under 54-and-a-half. Scotty, how are you
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: going to play this game?
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: Man, I think it's not so bad for Arkansas.
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: I think Utah may just completely drill these guys.
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: I think Utah is going to cause problems. Arkansas couldn't
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: run the ball last week. I don't know if you
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: watched much of that game, but they were not effective.
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: And so I think up here it's going to be
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: a physical– I mean, because this is a Utah team
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: that's mostly intact from last year. It's not like William
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: brought the whole team with him to Michigan– A lot
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: of players back, defensive-minded coach. This was something that was
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: going to happen. Everything is intact for what you've got
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: there for me. Utah. I would lay it with Utah
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: on this one. I think Arkansas really struggles. And the
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: other thing, too, is you're catching an SEC team on
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: the road in your house. And you can say whatever
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: you want to about that, but that's a big deal.
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: All these other schools, all these other players, all these
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: other teams have to listen to that whole SEC rhetoric
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: all the time. You get a chance to play one
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: of these teams and you get a chance to beat them,
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: I think you're going to give it your all. I
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: think this Utah team gets it done. I like them
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: to cover this one pretty sizable. Scott, you got any
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: other games on the board that are kind of pulling
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: up your interest on the spot?
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: You know, the only game that I, you know, is,
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: you know how much I love the Mac Ohio-Jacksonville State.
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: I think that's a great game. They're traveling up to Athens. Ohio,
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: I thought, actually looked pretty good last week against Nebraska,
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: at least for the first half of that football game.
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: I guess it's a game that Jacksonville State's got to
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: figure out how to win. But I like Ohio in
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: this ballgame. Short line, two and a half. I think
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: it's going to be a quietly, a really, really good
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: football game.
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: Oh, goodness, goodness. What's your favorite play on the board
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: this week, Scotty?
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: Favorite play, I am going to go with my South
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: Alabama Jags plus nine at Tulane.
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: Interesting. I may take– They are my upset pick.
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: I think they're going to win. I think they're going
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: to win that game. I will be on the– I
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: will be invested in the money line. I will tell you,
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: I will probably have me a little two-gamer with them
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: in Memphis. and that's probably going to be 4-4, 50-1.
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: I like Memphis in here. I think Memphis is– if
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: you're going to roll that in, that's on the other
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: side of the Moneyline Underdog Parlay, is I'll take Memphis
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: in that one and get involved there. The other game
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: I kind of like, it's off the radar a little bit,
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: but I haven't gotten involved in it yet, is the
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: UAB game. I thought UAB looked a lot better against
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: Illinois than I was expecting them to, and I kind
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: of think that carries over into this week. You know,
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: this was a team that had done really well for
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: years until they brought in Trent Dilfer as the coach there.
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: They're laying 10 this week. I could probably get involved
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: in that. And then one other game, I haven't played
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: it yet, but I think it'll be fun to watch.
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: Texas State and UTSA, beep, beep, against the Bobs. These
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: are two teams that both want to play fast, both
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: want to play with tempo. I think they're about 35
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: miles apart. This one will be played in San Marcos,
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: which means it's going to be outdoors, not inside the
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: Alamo Dome. It's going to be hot as balls. It
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: gets hard to play defense at tempo when it's hot.
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: And 66 and a half is not a number that
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: I typically want to lay. It's the highest number on
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: the board this week if you want to lay it
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: to go over it. But I think this is a
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: game that could be back and forth all day long.
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: in this one here. And so I would lay 66
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: and a half in this one. So those would be
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: my two off the beaten path would be lay over
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: 66 and a half with Texas state UTSA, and then
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: lay in 10 points with UAB against the university of Louisiana,
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: Monroe Warhawks. But yeah, so good, good, good slate this week.
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: Any other games that have caught your eye that you're
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: going to interested in whether you're going to play them
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: or not?
• 52:47
  Speaker 3: No, I mean, look, there's a lot of games I'm
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: excited to watch.
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: I mean, I, you know, I think that you mentioned UCLA,
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: San Diego State. Nico looks like he and Bob Chesney
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: are on the same page. They looked good on offense
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: last week. Excited to watch them go again. Fascinated to
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: see who Clemson really is. Is LSU that good or
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: is Clemson that bad? And, you know, we start to
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: see that over the next couple of weeks. And I
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: think it's a combination of both, candidly.
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: Man, I just got– they looked– but Clemson, when's the
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: last time you remember watching a Clemson game and you
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: just were like, yep, that team is dominant? Because I
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: feel like this has been going on for three or
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: four years now where you're watching them play and you're
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: just kind of scratching your head the whole time. But
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: they've got the name brand recognition because of the natties
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: and playing for it. And, you know, we used to
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: love Dabo. Dabo drives me crazy now. And I just–
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: I can't figure out if that team is any good
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: at all.
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll be honest with you. I don't think they
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: are any good. I think they're young at quarterback. You know,
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: the offensive line had a lot of communication issues last week.
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: You know, you've all seen– everybody's seen the video running
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: around social media of the tackle turning left and the
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: guy going right inside of him. I mean, you don't
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: know what the calls were. You don't– it sounds more
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: complicated than it is. But, man, offensive line play is
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: an intricate part of the football game. And it is
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: a cerebral– part of the game and you start getting
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: calls wrong and protections wrong, and you can have guys
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: look like complete idiots and it's, and it's not on them.
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: And I tend to lean more towards that is what
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: was going on that LSU just had them completely confused
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: in the, in the road environment and all of that.
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: But they looked bad at the line of scrimmage on
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: both sides of the ball. And that's a problem. You
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: know that they can go recruit that you can go develop.
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: And I, it, and everybody thought that this offensive line
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: was going to be really, really good. And they looked
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: pedestrian in that ball game last week. And that's being kind.
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: I texted you that you were like, that's, that's way
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: too kind. And it was, it was, it was terrible.
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: I mean, it was, it was really, really bad. I mean,
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: it was just, And it wasn't just that you were
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: playing LSU, and I think the LSU is going to
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: be good. But, I mean, they just– they looked just
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: lost after the first– after that interception in the first quarter,
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: and then they kicked the field goal. Like, literally, you
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: go back and look at the drive chart for that team,
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: and it is awful until you get to the fourth
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: quarter for that one other drive.
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: Marth only had, like, three first downs starting the fourth quarter.
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: They got the hell beat out of them. So, I
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: am literally– Fascinated to see. And look, that Ole Miss
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: LSU game next week is, I mean, that is must-see TV.
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: I mean, that is must-see TV. The Grove, those people
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: are going to have their hate on like they've never
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: hated anybody. I mean, look, I remember what they used
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: to be like with Jackie because they hated Jackie. And
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: there was a stretch, Mullen's first three years, where they
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: hated Mullen. I mean, like with a passion. That isn't
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: remotely comparable to the hate they've got for Lane Kiffin.
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: I mean, that place is going to be zoosed up.
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: I can't wait to watch it. But you just don't know.
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: That's the reason I say I want to watch Clemson.
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: Are they that bad? And the same thing is true.
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: This La Tech game is interesting to me. I find
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: it very hard to believe. that LSU is going to
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: go win this game by 36-and-a-half because La Tech's going
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: to play it like it's their Super Bowl and never
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: quit fighting.
• 56:46
  Speaker 3: Could they sneak in and.
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: Get a backdoor cover at 36-and-a-half?
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: You bet. I mean, LSU could win this game 49-14.
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: Boom, you got a cover. This game's never– you know,
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: 52– you know, 52 to– 17. You just don't know
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: what you're going to get. They could backdoor cover this
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: game because there's no way LSU's not looking forward to
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: next week.
• 57:13
  Speaker 3: And I kind of feel the same way in Oxford.
• 57:15
  Speaker 3: I think they're going to be looking.
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: I expect them to play flat because both these teams
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: had big games last week. They got huge games the
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: next week. It just feels like flat spots. So those
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: are some of the games that I want to come
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: out and see Does Golden get this defense communicating and fixes?
• 57:31
  Speaker 3: They're more talented than they look.
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: There was no excuse for them giving up the points,
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: the way they gave them up in that game. Do
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: they bounce back and recover? So I guess there are
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: a few games that I'm excited to watch, but a
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: lot of it is how do teams bounce back from
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: week one?
• 57:47
  Speaker 3: Who are they?
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with you there. I mean, because that's
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: the biggest, you know, that's the biggest data point you're
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: going to get from this week is who is going
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: to bounce back that looked bad last week. Again, I'm
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: not sure who it's going to be yet. Like, you
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: go look at that Clemson drive chart, and it is
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: field goal, punt, punt, punt, punt, end of half, interception, punt, punt, punt.
• 58:06
  Speaker 3: Punt, punt.
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: It's just– and so I don't know. And Michigan in
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: the same boat. You know, it's like Michigan– I mean,
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: they went from being a 16-8 people that they're not
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: even ranked this week. And so I thought that was interesting.
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: I think a lot of that had to do with
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: how they won the game. So anyway, Scotty, got it
• 58:25
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• 58:28
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• 58:31
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• 58:34
  Speaker 1: have a great week. Scotty, travel safe, brother. Enjoy your games.
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: I'll talk to you next week.