Jason Fitz & Buck Reising Preview Week 4 of the NFL, React to the Biggest College Football Games & More!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
We've got massive college football everywhere you can turn right now,
We've got upsets brewing. We're all locked into the sort
of Saturday that all week people told you. If you
have a wedding to go to, cancel it. If you
have dinner plans, cancel them. Everything you want to do
is sit in front of the screen and watch college football.
And they're right, because that's what we're all doing today.

(00:27):
But in this landscape, in this moment, as I feel
like college football frankly is better than it has ever
been before, I also have to acknowledge one simple thing.
None of these games really matter. None of this will
have actionable consequence. At the end of the day, win
or lose, your favorite team will still be alive. And

(00:47):
it is that reality that makes Buck Rising snarl a
little bit. It makes his nose furl up. He doesn't
know what to do with it, but it's the truth.
He's Buck Rising on Jason Fitzbuckin fits on Fox Sports Radio,
hanging out with you, Buck, Like, we watched Florida State
lose last night, and after the loss, I kept thinking,
oh man, that is so catastrophic. And then today I thought,

(01:08):
it's not really it's it's a loss. And in modern
college football, one loss isn't a big deal. Two losses
might not even be a big deal. A twelvety playoff,
we might edu three losses are to be like, we
make it all a big deal.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
I'm just not sure it really is. I don't want
to start the show every week with some form of
you telling America, Hey, this thing that you saw that
caused this great reaction, that saw something of field storming
like you've never seen in your life.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
I hope that fall was, Oh my god, that the
worst we will catch it out was the worse.

Speaker 4 (01:41):
I was so scared.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
I think I'm officially getting old because I'm like, oh no, God,
please don't. But I do not want to start this
damn radio show every week with some version of Jason
fitz Mary and Ian back in Los Angeles telling America
that this thing doesn't matter.

Speaker 4 (01:56):
It makes me insane. No, damn you, it does matter.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
But okay, look, I'm a peaking of light in a dark,
dark world. You're taking my message that it doesn't matter
as some sort of of down, But it's an up
because like, hey, guess what, guys, if Alabama loses today
to Georgia. The season's not over. There's plenty of football
left to happen.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
If on Alabama's downfall, I want, I want to act
like the world.

Speaker 4 (02:19):
Is ending around Alabama. Nothing gives me more joy than.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
To see the Crimson Tide fans scurrying like cockroaches away
from college football because.

Speaker 4 (02:28):
Now they're down here with the rest of us.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
That's what I've decided this show Bucking Fits that you
can listen to every Saturday morning or Saturday morning, Good guys,
Saturday night. I've decided that we're a little bit like
an HBO show where you can't decide who the good
guys are the bad guys are because we're fluctuating back
and forth.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Here, I'm saying in a positive.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
Way, like one of the joys for me, as you
well know, because I don't have a favorite team in
college football, I just love to watch the chaos, and
I love the chaos that's gonna come from all of.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
These results today.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
We've got close games right now across the board for
ranked teams that feel like there's so much consequence. I also,
I'm being the calming voice in the background that's saying
as fans right now are trying to figure out how
they can tape a viral video of them destroying their
TV for no good reason. I'm the person in the
chair in the back of the room saying, wait a minute,
it doesn't really matter. Like it's gonna be fine because

(03:18):
there's a ton of football left and this is the
new college football landscape, and twelve teams in the playoff
means that every single week isn't quite the consequence isn't
quite the same.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
The drama is like, if ole Miss beats.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
LSU, and ole Miss right now is up by ten
over LSU in the third quarter, If Ole Miss beats LSU,
BOI is at a great win. Oh is that a
cool moment for ole Missing? And man, will that feel
like a downer for LSU. It doesn't mean LSU ain't
going to.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
The College Football Playoff.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
It just so like there's consequence in emotion, but there's
still plenty of football left to go.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
I am giving a message of hope.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
I don't like when you whisper in my ear. America
doesn't like when you whisper in theirs. It's very disconcerting.
I don't like it. It makes me uncomfy. Maybe not
as uncom as Florida State fans who were witnessing their
team fall to Virginia.

Speaker 4 (04:04):
But that's the thing. It's Virginia.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
Like if you were losing in a huge game against
a ranked opponent on a Saturday night primetime game, that's
one thing. If you're playing Friday night lights like a
high school football team against an opponent that you should
be significantly superior over, then I understand a bit of
the freak out. Now, to your point, as far as
the long term stakes go, doesn't matter or does it have.

(04:27):
So let's let's recategorize this, shall we. Let's not say
that it doesn't matter. Let's say that it doesn't quite
have the dire consequences that it used to because FITZI
just you know, from the perspective of somebody who's covered
an NFL team as a beat reporter for ten years. Now,
I'm in Houston today to cover the Titans at the

(04:48):
Texans to winless teams. Oh, don't make me contemplate my
life decisions right now.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
Not right now.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
I'm in the middle of something. But with a football
team that is bad. Many young players are on, typically
on football teams that are bad because you spend a
lot of time drafting at the top of the order.
You spend a lot of time acquiring new and young
talent to fortify your roster. And when you start to
lose games early on in the NFL season, if you're

(05:19):
dealing with a lot of young players that don't have
a lot of veteran experience around them, it would be
easy for that young locker room to think, oh my god,
the world's ending, because that's what college football has always been.
You have to have that steadying presence in the locker
room to remind them, hey, boys, three in the NFL,
it's not quite the same as oh three, and college
football still not good, especially when you're in the stinkiest
division in football, like the AFC South.

Speaker 4 (05:39):
But it's not the end of the world.

Speaker 3 (05:41):
So that's just kind of the mentality that college football
fans writ large have to now embrace because it's no
longer the end of the world.

Speaker 4 (05:49):
And to your point, fits there are we.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
You and I have had this discussion before in some
former fashion where the college football die hards, the old guard,
don't like the new college football, whereas for everybody else,
I think the new college football is as good as
it's ever been or even better, because you don't have
teams whose season is essentially over by the time we
get to October.

Speaker 4 (06:13):
It's September the twenty seventh.

Speaker 3 (06:15):
We're just now in what week five of the college
football season, and you're looking around or week I mean
week four, but technically week five account week's.

Speaker 4 (06:23):
Heero all this nonsense.

Speaker 3 (06:24):
But I think that that just is going to take
an acclamation period for college football fans in the same
way that it does for college football players who then
go play professionally and understand, no, the world's not over,
even if we don't start the season off the way
that we wanted to, even if we start the year
with two or three losses.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
You're right, he's buck rising them.

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Speaker 1 (07:04):
Today.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
I am puckered up right now with some of the
results we're getting. I'm just gonna be honest. I first
to be puckered up.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
I forgot to place my bets in Tennessee before I
flew to Texas. Why is sports gambling not legal in
every state by now?

Speaker 4 (07:16):
Why?

Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yeah, one hundred percent? And uh, look, this is what
I do every year. Every year, I seed.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
My account with the amount of money. Really uncomfortable with
how I said that.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
I seed my account with the amount of money and
then whatever that is, and then I set two limits,
like when it's gone, I don't put any more in
until the start of the next football season.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
Whatever that is.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
And then when it reaches a certain number, I pull
it all out and I'm not going to bet anymore.
So I like I have that's it's a discipprain, right,
it's a discipline, all right, Gotta work on that.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
So a couple of years ago it went really well
for me.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
I got to the point that like, hey, I hit
that max number, took it all out, and I'm like, whoa,
I'm a god. Last year it took me very little
time to lose it all, and I was like, I
am no longer a golden god.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
This this is my first week back.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
I don't bet on the first few weeks of the
season too much on predictability, and so now we're here,
this is my first week back into it, and I'm
reminded why I prefer not betting, because I am just
nervous about games I should not care about. We have upsets,
by the way, running all over the place right now,
and trying to make a little bit of sense of it.
I will say, obviously, if you're an LSU fan, for example,
LSU ole Miss has tremendous meeting, and how this game

(08:25):
ends will absolutely ruin your Monday. It just won't ruin
the rest of your season. So that's the beacon of light,
the hope that comes in this. But it is going
to be wild to see how to make sense of
all of this, because we are truly in a season
where I don't know that anybody is separated Buck and
that's what's interesting. I mean, Ohio State's up seventeen to
six on Washington. I've been watching the game in the

(08:47):
entirety of while we've been getting ready for the show.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
There's been nothing Oh my god, there that am one
team worthy out of this Ohio State Washington game.

Speaker 5 (08:54):
Right.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
I am still waiting for somebody to come in, like
it's a WWE Royal rumbling and they're Andre the Giant
and nobody can take him down.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
I want this moment.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
We just haven't really seen much of it so far,
Like you got somebody.

Speaker 4 (09:09):
Well.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
I bring this up only because it happened today, and
it happened in dramatic fashion for a team that started
their year one and two. Notre Dame came out and
I understand that Arkansas is not a world beater, and
that Sam Pittman is probably gonna lose his job in
Fayetteville this coming off season, and that is a program
that is not quite as fearsome as it used to
be or as it wance to be. And Notre Dame

(09:31):
played for a national championship last year and lost. But
Notre Dame what they did today against Arkansas and Arkansas
was largely ineffective, but they Julian Love had four touchdowns
Fitzie in the first half of this game. He was unbelieved.
Jeremiah forgive me not Julian. Jeremiah Love had four touchdowns
in the first half of this game. Their defense is

(09:52):
something that looks like it's a work in progress. But
they finished today fifty six to thirteen on the road
against It's an SEC program, and I understand that it's
not a ranked SEC program or the best SEC program,
But there are moments out there in the early goings
of college football of a team that you might have
left for dead after they started their season zero and
two with a Miami team that looks very very good

(10:15):
and a Texas A and M team that beat them
by one in an overtime period that was very dramatic.
Notre Dame is going to be fascinating here in the
same way that we're documenting Ohio State as the number
one team in the country, Notre Dame currently ranked twenty two.

Speaker 4 (10:27):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (10:28):
I can't imagine that they would vault up the rankings
too much after beating up on Arkansas today, depending on
the kind of upsets that we get for the rest
of the slate, and of course everybody's paying attention to
Alabama and Georgia. And also also if we're just talking
college football playoff at large, why can't it be Vanderbilt?
Why not Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt U Toss State.

Speaker 4 (10:48):
I get it. I know they beat the snot out.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
Of Georgia State, who beat them last year, by the way,
But why are we talking about Vanderbilt the way that
they keep dominating opponents no matter what level of football
they play.

Speaker 4 (11:00):
Vandy looked like they got a little spunk to him.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
I keep hearing that game day is headed to Florida
State for Miami Florida. Next week they should be headed
to Tallahassee for Vandy Alabama. You're one thousand percent right
up and down or Tuscaloosa.

Speaker 6 (11:14):
What did I say?

Speaker 1 (11:15):
Yeah, yeah, in my bad up.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
And down day for Notre Dame in one sense, absolutely
up in the sense that they dominate their opponent. Down
for them in the sense that they have two quality losses.
I'm speaking from the College Football Playoff Committee mindset. They
need a quality win. So USC losing to Illinois was
catastrophic for Notre Dame because if you look at the
rest of their schedule, it.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
Is hot garbage. It is just terrible.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
The one shot that they have on their schedule of
getting somebody that might have some value is USC. So
every time USC loses, weirdly it's like a chink.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
In the armor. It's a crack over there to the
side to Notre Dame.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
Like so, if you saw Notre Dame fans and they
looked a little despondent after a dominant win, it's because
most of them are already doing the schedule watch, and
the schedule watch says that there are problems across the
board with USC losing. We got action everywhere in college
football happening right now. We will keep you caught up
on it throughout the course of this wildly energetic two
hours that we give you every single Saturday.

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Speaker 2 (14:07):
He's Buck rising on Jason Fitz Bucket fits hanging out
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Speaker 1 (14:13):
I don't know. It's better than oysters in a Golden
corrab effect.

Speaker 4 (14:16):
Stop it, stop it right now.

Speaker 1 (14:20):
That's all I said. That's all I said was okay, okay, okay,
buzzing off.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
Buck has so many rules. He has so many rules.
Be sure to subscribe to the Fox met Radio Why
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Wait? Wait, let me let me say hold on, hold on,
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Speaker 4 (14:47):
Why are you mad?

Speaker 3 (14:49):
Because nobody can more efficiently humble me than Mary Mack.

Speaker 1 (14:53):
And hey, she's got a gift. She's got a gift.

Speaker 3 (14:55):
I hate it because one of my favorite things in
the world when I try level for work as is
my wont to travel around the country watching bad football
because I covered the Tennessee Titans, and this is my
cross to bear. I love to eat. I love good restaurants,
I love local food. I'm in Houston. I went to
a place called Papao today. I enjoy their fair no

(15:16):
free ads. Mary Mack came in here and told me
it was the equivalent of Golden Corral, and I fell
to my knees in the studio in Houston because I
wouldn't be caught dead in a Golden Grawl unless they
advertise with us, in which case I apologize very deeply.
But Mary Mack comes in here every day or every
time we do this show, and I feel like I've
got something going, and she just right in a side

(15:38):
of the knee just I collapsed like a house of cards.

Speaker 4 (15:40):
You're a killer, do you know this?

Speaker 3 (15:43):
Nothing to say for herself?

Speaker 6 (15:44):
And she has because I'm laughing behind the mike.

Speaker 3 (15:48):
Yeah, maybe laughing into the MIC's ready to look whatever.

Speaker 2 (15:51):
Whatever energy you give, she gives back, all right, So
maybe this is just a little bit, Maybe it's a
little bit of take it back in. Maybe it's something
about Buck, not to not the rest, but yes, like
we've not had the opportunity to all do a show
together in the room at one time, but just Mary's
voice and the way that she carries herself just has
convinced me that she is by far the.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
Coolest person in the show and maybe in the world.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
And as a result, like I think you and I no, no, no,
I think you're just being honest.

Speaker 1 (16:19):
See here's the difference. Buck, You are trying to hide.

Speaker 6 (16:23):
You know, not fine because he was just being super
sweet to me, and then you said it was bullying,
Like come on, like why are you doing, ass hater?
You know?

Speaker 2 (16:31):
I mean, here's the thing. Buck is unwilling to admit
his insecurity. I grew up a fat kid that played
the violin. I am very transparent with my insecurities. Buck,
you just got to come to my side of the
fence and realize that there are people cooler than you,
and Mary Max is one of them. I'm just I'm
just here now. I was speaking of beef, though we
do have beef, all right, I will admit you know,
I'm sitting here before our show.

Speaker 1 (16:50):
I'm getting ready, right, my may or may not have
been eating frozen.

Speaker 2 (16:53):
Grapes actually, and I'm getting ready for the show and
having a good old time.

Speaker 1 (16:56):
And I'm listening to the show. Thank you. I'm listening
to the show before us, and I hear Carmen say
uh something. She says, you know, just stick around for
Bucking fits. I don't know. Buck Rising texts me and
said that I have to promo the show.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
That does not count, Like if you text a friend
and say, hey, tell everybody to stick around. And then
she barely tells everybody to stick around. Now we got beef,
Now we got beef.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
All right. Now I'm coming in and I'm just no,
you didn't do your job. No, no, she gets fine,
she gets fined. Did you wind it?

Speaker 4 (17:28):
Wait?

Speaker 6 (17:29):
Did you want to devote like an entire segment?

Speaker 2 (17:31):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (17:31):
No, okay, I think they wanted more enthusiasm.

Speaker 1 (17:34):
Right, it's this. It's this.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
Hey, guys, you love if you love, if you love
bucking fits, you know what you need to do. You
need to hang out two hours before us every single
Saturday because you can hear great radio.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
See, that's all you gotta do. Like, even if you
don't believe it, you just gotta sell it.

Speaker 9 (17:48):
But I think I think we need to question. Do
we think, like, does Carmen actually like you guys? Then
because if we're asking her a favor and that's the
promo that she gives, then maybe she just don't mess.

Speaker 5 (18:02):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
I don't really know her, like we don't know a
long time.

Speaker 6 (18:07):
Okay, so you don't know. So you basically asked like
a stranger.

Speaker 1 (18:11):
I didn't.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
I didn't ashcash. I would never ask. I would never I.

Speaker 4 (18:16):
Did no such things.

Speaker 3 (18:18):
There are falsehoods spread on the airwaves nationally. I demand justice,
all right, I texted Carmen Batale. No, I don't care.
I'm bullying through the fine system. You can't stop me
with your fines. Get out of the way, all right,
I texted Carmen Batally. I said, why are you having
somebody on the air talking about the Houston Texans and

(18:41):
the Tennessee Titans.

Speaker 4 (18:42):
It's not me.

Speaker 3 (18:43):
Why why is that a thing? That's a bad job
out of you. I'm sitting right here, I can hear you.
I'm in Houston, for God's sakes, I'm covering that game tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (18:51):
You know this. And she said, well, it's enough of
you already. You talk too much.

Speaker 3 (18:56):
I don't want to have to continue to expose people
to your nonsense, which is fair, but I just want
to be asked. I don't actually want to do it.
I talk enough. I'm I'm exhausted, I'm going through it.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
I'm not you.

Speaker 4 (19:09):
Derrick Hendley styles Norman.

Speaker 6 (19:12):
Basically, what happened is you're mad because she didn't ask you,
so you just want to be asked so you could
say no.

Speaker 3 (19:17):
That's right, that's that's my that's my elitist privilege.

Speaker 4 (19:23):
I don't want to do it.

Speaker 10 (19:25):
I want.

Speaker 9 (19:29):
Arry gets pretty flag happy, but that's a legit fine,
you know.

Speaker 2 (19:31):
I just want to point out that all I did
was sit here getting ready for my show, and I
hear someone give a laxadaisical promotion and then mentioned that
Buck asked, and then I went to the defendant, to
the to the side of my teammate. Look, I'm just
I'm just walking up to the sideline. I'm just I'm
coming over here. I'm flying in, running my mouth because

(19:52):
my teammate was being I think, you know, maybe understood
a little bit. So I'm just here defending my team.
And now I find out that there's way more drama behind.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
Like I hope this.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
I hope I will await the apology next week for
the promotion that was given by Car.

Speaker 4 (20:07):
I'm just better have some more energy behind the car.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
Energy energy we want, we want energy to the you
know who had plenty of energy.

Speaker 1 (20:14):
By the way, you're listening to Bucket Fits on Fox
Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (20:16):
Everybody storming the field last night had just a palpable
amount of energy, and buck I just, man, it's gotta stop.
Like for anyone that didn't see the end of the
Florida State game last night, Florida, the players were barely
on the field with the incomplete signal from the ref.
They were still laying there when the crowd was opened

(20:36):
up and like a sea of people. And I heard
them on the broadcast say, you know, this is what's
amazing about college football.

Speaker 4 (20:42):
Everything.

Speaker 1 (20:42):
The whole time, I was.

Speaker 2 (20:43):
Genuinely wondering were people just trampled to death? Like I
had no idea, you couldn't see. It was scary, dude,
Like you got football players on the ground. And now
there's this viral video of a guy that's right in
Florida State's quarterback face flipping him off with this camera there,
like you know, a foot from his face, right after
this devastating loss, and that's what's happening, and like, look,

(21:04):
I just want I want to bring justifiable ass kickings
into this society, Like I want I want that guy
to just get wrecked on the field. And then when
they take it to a jury of his peers and
they say they just show the footage, we can all
use enough common sense and be like, oh, you know what,
in a really emotional moment, when you had nothing to
do with the outcome and you got right in somebody's
face and you flipped them off with your camera out

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because you wanted the attention, you got the attention.

Speaker 1 (21:29):
You got what you deserved.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
Like I can admit that sometimes when my big brother
kicked my butt, it's because I deserved it. Man, that
kid last night flipping off a Florida State quarterback in
that moment. Absolutely, we need to normalize just getting your
butt whip because you think that you can say or
do anything without consequence.

Speaker 3 (21:45):
Sneaky athletic by that guy, though, like he was running
backwards holding his phone and flipping the bar at the
same time. Is really good, really good side to side
movement by that kid. Also, I agree there there should
be some level of kangaroo court where these kind of
justices are deciding, and that person should have should basically
have to be in an Oklahoma drill with the professional

(22:07):
football player that he just flipped off, even if it
is a quarterback.

Speaker 4 (22:10):
To your point about the field storming, though.

Speaker 7 (22:12):
I.

Speaker 3 (22:14):
Get why it's not going away. They have tried all
manner of fines and things to curb it. I have
covered Tennessee upsetting Alabama at home and all the craziness
that comes with that after so many years of losing
to Alabama. I was at the Indiana game against Anthony

(22:35):
Davis and the number one overall ranked Kentucky team when
the court was stormed there and Dick my Tala is
losing his mind because it's unbelievable. Maybe and all these things,
like it's a unique moment that those people will have
for the.

Speaker 4 (22:47):
Rest of their lives.

Speaker 3 (22:47):
But also there has to be some level of protection
to your point, and like FITZI, when you look at
how quickly, how quickly they overtook those players on the field,
because there's nothing that you can do to stop that
many people who are just on having their moment as
a part of their college experience. I just I simply
don't know what can be done other than putting electric

(23:09):
fences around the field to keep these people from vaulting it.
And even still, I think some people would get through.
You know what I'm saying, like, what do you do?

Speaker 1 (23:18):
I've got a solution.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
I've got an actual, real solution that will stop it,
and the way that it should be done. I'll give
you all that before Smart Weis needs to get us
update out of what's going on right now.

Speaker 10 (23:28):
You know, boys, I'll just say this as the guy
who hosts the show coming up next, I'll be very
interested in hearing the energy level of the toss to
promote Martin Weiss and Mancis.

Speaker 4 (23:40):
I'll just I'll just.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
Shall be elite.

Speaker 4 (23:43):
It's so fair. I'm locked in, That's all. I'll just say.
I'm locked in, all right, twenty two minutes twenty.

Speaker 10 (23:49):
Six seconds left in the fourth quarter, Ohio State was
a twenty four to six lead over Washington. Washington unable
to get in the end zone. Ohio State with the ball,
trying to kill the clock. There all miss and Lsulsu
lining up for a Fueld goal on fourth and ten.
Right now, the Rebels with a seventeen to ten lead
with one minute left there, I said, old Miss, I
mean Lsu attempting a Fueld goal right about now. That

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Fueld goal is going to be good. So that lead
now cut to four for ole Miss going into the
fourth quarter. There ten twenty five left in the fourth quarter.
Auburn just shored a touchdown, its first touchdown of the day.
Texas A and M with a thirteen to ten lead
over the Tigers. The Aggies are the ninth ring team
in the nation. With six minutes and thirty seconds left

(24:36):
in the fourth quarter, eleven thranth Indiana and Iowa. It's
a tie game here. It's been a close, low scoring
matchup all day. Thirteen a piece. Indiana just caught an interception.
Elsewhere in college football, Ucla and Northwestern in the Carmen
Vitali Bulls. She was interested in this earlier seventeen to
fourteen locked in. I'm sure everybody's into that. Elsewhere in

(24:57):
college football, ere we go, buck fifteenth rank Tennis just
kicked a field goal to take a twenty to seventeen
lead over Mississippi State.

Speaker 4 (25:05):
Balls. There you go. I knew that was coming. And
let's see.

Speaker 10 (25:09):
Early we saw Illinois b usc on a walk off
field goal thirty four to thirty two. Big wins for
a Notre Dame man Vanderbilt the twenty second and eighteenth
ranked teams, respectively. Sixteen three Georgia Tech v. Wake Forest
thirty to twenty nine in overtime. Haynes King with a
go ahead touchdown in overtime for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets.

(25:29):
And at the Ryder Cup, Team USA right now at
the end of Sugo ten, Europe leads ten to ten
and a half.

Speaker 4 (25:38):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 10 (25:38):
At the end of day two, Europe leads ten and
a half to four and a half. At the Ryder
Cup in New York. Back to you, guys, he's Buck rising.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
I'm Jason Fitzbucket Fits on Fox Sports Radio.

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(26:10):
solution to crowdstorming. That's real and I think it could
actually work.

Speaker 1 (26:14):
I've been lucky.

Speaker 2 (26:15):
Enough in my career to cover several national championships at
the college football level, and when you cover the national
championship game, at the end of the game, there is
a moment where everybody is basically corralled in one tunnel
and you have to wait with the clock. I think
it's three minutes, five minutes at something like that. There's

(26:35):
a timer and there are people in front that are
holding that timer, and until that clock goes to zero,
you cannot step on the field. They have to give
everybody the opportunity at that point so you can still
as the press rush the field.

Speaker 1 (26:48):
So in this scenario, whatever that.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
Timing would be it would be the amount of time
that it would require.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
All of the teams to get off the field.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
Let's say five minutes, and you can hold everybody in
a tunnel, and the minute that five minutes is over,
they can storm the field, they can rip off the goldposts,
they can do whatever you want.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
Now, I think that's a viable solution.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
Is it as fun to look at as a instantaneous
spontaneous crowdstarming.

Speaker 7 (27:09):
No?

Speaker 1 (27:10):
Is it safer for everybody involved? Yes?

Speaker 2 (27:12):
And I go back to safety because I want to
remind everybody that's not as old as I am, that
there was when I was a kid, and every summer
during my early childhood, I would go visit my great
aunt Unics in Wall, South Dakota. Right to go see
great ant Unice in Wall, South Dakota, and had to.

Speaker 4 (27:28):
Fly to Rapid City.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
I was a little kid.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
Right when you landed and you walked off the plane,
right there at the front of the gate was Aunt
Eunice standing there waiting for you. Because it used to
be that you could literally walk into an airport with
no ticket and walk right up to the gate. That's
how you flew. If you watch, you know home alone
and you see the family running up. Let's remember that
back then, you didn't have to go through security, you
didn't have to go through all of this team to

(27:51):
pre check, you didn't have to go through TSA, you
didn't have to do all of those things until, obviously,
there was an incredible national tragedy that changed everything. It
will take one person in one of these events. It'll
take one time then an athlete is actually trampled to death.
It'll take one person that has nefarious thoughts in mind.
It'll take one awful event, and we will all sit

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around at that point and we will say, what the
hell were we doing letting it happen in the first place.
We will all realize how ignorant it was to let
this happen the first time something tragic happens.

Speaker 1 (28:25):
So my question is, why do we have to wait
for tragedy?

Speaker 2 (28:27):
And if the answer is you simply can't stop the crowd,
there are certainly ways.

Speaker 1 (28:31):
You could do it.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
You could, for example, you could force a one game
suspension for the quarterback and coach if a single person
walks on that field before the five minutes hits. You
think the crowd wouldn't enforce itself at that point, if
there's an automatic one game suspension for your coaching quarterback,
if you storm the field, everybody's gonna stop doing it.
They can stop money, won't stop it because who cares

(28:52):
about money.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
They can make more money.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
But if you absolutely force a suspension of your coaching
quarterback for screwing this thing up, you know, so that
every single kid in there for Virginia knows that if
they lose their coaching quarterback the next game, you can't
go just give it five minutes, let everybody run out.
It's a real solution that the NCAA and every school
could actually put in if they actually cared about the

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safety of the people.

Speaker 4 (29:15):
On the field.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
Well, and that's the thing, right, because what you bring
up is such an excellent point. Why do we have
to be reactive instead of proactive? And that is such
a typical college football or rather college athletics NCAA governance
type of thing where you're talking about a situation where
the entire name, image, and likeness landscape that we're currently

(29:38):
waiting our way through in the ground constantly shifting under
college sports year after year after year because we are reactive,
not proactive. In the way that this thing should be governed. Now,
what you're talking about is much more extreme, much more
in terms of what the potential harm there is, right,
much more visceral, because we I'm sure everybody in America

(29:59):
who had that television or that football game on on
Friday night between Florida State and Virginia probably unless you
you know, you had money on Virginia in that particular situation,
and even then you probably grabbed your you grabbed your
both both of your hands over your heart and said,
oh my god, is that Florida State wide receiver?

Speaker 4 (30:18):
Okay, because he just disappeared. It was I saw a.

Speaker 3 (30:21):
Lot of you know, and you try not to laugh
at these things because and think, God, the kids, okay
after the fact, but there was You ever seen a
lion king Fitzy like the.

Speaker 4 (30:29):
Oh god, yeah, yes, it's it's the will to be stampede.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
It's it's baby Simba looking at the will to be
stampede and all of a sudden he's just under the
wild to be. He's trying to you know, die, dodge
and duck and dip and dive like dodgeball all over
the place to try and not get trampled to death.
That's literally what I'm sure this poor kid on the
ground's face was like as he saw the Virginia stands
clearing and heading in his direction in a matter of milliseconds.

Speaker 4 (30:57):
It was insane.

Speaker 9 (30:58):
So to your point, his name is squirrel too, like
his first name is squirrel. It's kind of funny, tramp. Yeah, yeah,
form of all good. Yeah, I had no idea it
was white, was there?

Speaker 1 (31:07):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (31:08):
Squirrel white there?

Speaker 2 (31:09):
Not to mention, like not to mention the buck, like
all the team managers that are on the field right there,
like Chris Budden, sideline reporter was on the field there.
They couldn't even find her on the broadcast, Like that's
such a vulnerable like you are just you are putting.

Speaker 1 (31:23):
Tens of thousands of people.

Speaker 2 (31:24):
And look, I used to everybody knows my background in
country music at this point, like there were so many
fairs and festivals we played Thank You very Much in Wisconsin, uh,
or even stage coach out in California where Coachella is,
where you would watch the gates open and everybody would
just run in because it was ga and it was
how fast can you get to the stage? And we
used to all stand on the stage and watch it.

(31:45):
And even back then, I was like, man, this is
just begging for disaster. And there's just a part of
me that looks at it and says, we got to
be better about not forcing a disaster to happen before
we figure out how to fix a disaster in waiting,
And like it's just it feels so obvious to me.

Speaker 1 (31:59):
And and the.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
Fact is money, Just who cares about money? If you
find a program, they'll just make more money. Okay, find
the school a million dollars.

Speaker 1 (32:08):
What's that going to do.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
You can't find enough money that we'll have And the
kids don't care about that, Like they don't care if
their schools getting fined. You have to have actionable consequence
to the team itself in that moment, Like can you
imagine the reaction of teams knowing that kids are trying
to storm the field and knowing that it could cost
them a suspension in the college football playoffs?

Speaker 1 (32:28):
Like that, I think that's what it's going to take.
As extreme as it sounds.

Speaker 3 (32:33):
We have not to distract from the topic at hand,
but there are a lot of tight games around the
world of college football right now. Tennessee speaking of Tennessee
is up twenty to seventeen in the third quarter at
Mississippi State and undefeated Mississippi State team my Indiana Hoosiers,
because I'm double dipping as far as my football fandom goes.
In fact, I'm triple dipping because I'm I'm a Notre
Dame fan, even though I say.

Speaker 4 (32:54):
Go balls all the time.

Speaker 3 (32:55):
Thirteen to thirteen at Iowa for the ranked Hoosiers. At
this point in time, there's a lot of interesting, interesting
results that are getting ready to finish up right about
the time we wrap up on air here today.

Speaker 4 (33:07):
Fits.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
Yeah, we'll get you caught up on all of the
action as it is going on. We are just getting started.
He's Buck Rising, I'm Jason Fitz. We're hanging out with you.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
It's bucking fits on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (33:16):
More scores, more updates, more college football coming at you
when we come back. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.
He's Buck Rising, I'm Jason Fitz. It's bucking fits on
Fox Sports Radio. And college football Saturday is not disappointing.
We've got a massive game right now between Tennessee and

(33:39):
Mississippi State. The balls have just thrown an interception that
has led to Mississippi State taken over possession of the football.
It is twenty to seventeen. Tennessee is hanging on to
a very very narrow lead. They're going to be taking
a look at that play. We've also got ole Miss
right now up on LSU seventeen to thirteen. LSU's offensive
woes continue. It feels like ls you just can't get

(34:02):
anything going and even though their defense is played pretty well. Man,
I just don't know how you win if you can't
score points. That game is in the fourth quarter, at
ole Miss is driving and it's setting. It is shaping
up book to be a wild day in the sec.

Speaker 3 (34:16):
God, I hate those cowbells. I hate the cowbells. It's
so annoying the Mississippi State fans. But they should be
excited because they've got a way better team than they
probably expected to have. But now that Blake Shapin is healthy,
they seem to have some momentum. The defense is playing
at a reasonable enough level. Joey Aguilar, the Tennessee quarterback,

(34:37):
just a bad bounce on a dropped pass right into
the defensive back's hands and Mississippi State hoping that what
I didn't see the call. I did see that there
was a flag, but I didn't see what the call was.

Speaker 2 (34:49):
The call was unnecessary roughness on the balls, giving them
an extra fifteen yards. So as we stand right now,
Mississippi State is at about the ten yard line and
driving towards what could be a go ahead score. Same
with the Ole miss driving already up by four points,
they are driving with what could be just I mean,
you feel like if this game gets to two scores

(35:10):
the way LSU's offenses look, that's an abject disaster.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
We also have Texas A.

Speaker 2 (35:15):
And M beating Auburn right now in a close game,
and we are looking at a barn burner between Indiana
and Iowa.

Speaker 3 (35:23):
I mean, this game, that's the Big Tens version of
a barn burner for sure.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
At least has everybody on their toes because Indiana certainly
look like world beaters, you know, for the way that
they went in last week and just absolutely demolished Illinois.
And now you know, I hate I hate this whole, like, well,
this is who we are sort of things sometimes, but
it's to who Iowa is. Iowa's defense does what Ioas
defense needs to do.

Speaker 4 (35:47):
So were doing in Indiana.

Speaker 1 (35:49):
We have a touchdown for Indiana.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
They are taking they've taken the lead, so they are
now up nineteen thirteen with a minute thirty six to go,
so we'll see Also.

Speaker 1 (35:59):
For an ed and oh that's a fun name.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
Same Mendoza Francisco eleven and nineteen, one hundred and sixty
yards with the touchdown and an interception. One of the
most interesting things about college football this year is that
I have no idea who's gonna win the Heisman. Like,
I just think it's interesting because especially now that Matier,
the quarterback for Oklahoma's going to miss some time with
the broken hand, there really isn't anybody that stands out

(36:22):
and is like, oh, this is the this is the
musty TV guy every single week, right Like if you
thought that nus Meyer was the answer, I'm watching an
LSU offense that.

Speaker 1 (36:30):
Has just looked lethargic all day.

Speaker 2 (36:33):
So I just, man, I don't know right now who
the best player in college football is, which comes back
to one of the themes, like, I think it's an
interesting year that makes that that's a good thing in
my opinion.

Speaker 3 (36:42):
Yeah, I like I like the you know, the word
parody is probably overused by the way Mississippi State. They're
currently reviewing a touchdown running back look like as elbow
was down before the ball broke the plane, So they're
reviewing that. But right now, if it stands, Mississippi State
is up twenty three to twenty hosting Tennessee number fifteen
Tennessee right now. I enjoy the idea of you just

(37:06):
don't know who you are going to get a star
performance out of on a weekend week out basis, or
if you are going to get that level of star
power on a weekend, week out basis. I like that
the playing field feels level fits and I do think
that this is what they I mean, at least in part,
set out to accomplish when they restructured the way that

(37:28):
college football and college athletics generally was going to work
with the transfer portal and name, image and likeness funds.
And now, if you have a good portal class, you
can turn a program that nobody thinks twice about, like Virginia,
into somebody who's capable of upsetting Florida State. At the
same token or with the same token, you can have
a Florida State situation or last year, how many wins.

Speaker 4 (37:49):
Did they have two? Three? I think it was two? Right?

Speaker 1 (37:52):
Ten lost team last year.

Speaker 2 (37:53):
I'm convince that Mike Norvel is the Michael Myers of
college football.

Speaker 1 (37:57):
Right, he's dead, it's over, it's done. No, he's not dead.
It's fine.

Speaker 2 (38:01):
I spurned down and everything's tragedy and he's fine. It's
right like this, the up and down. Yeah, last year
was so bad and this year it was so good
until last night.

Speaker 3 (38:09):
Well so you you invest heavily in acquiring talent through
the portal and then the talent doesn't live up to
expectation or you're you're still dealing with seventeen and eighteen
and nineteen year old kids. I know, you know, college
football players are staying in college like Diego Pamia for
seven years at a time now.

Speaker 4 (38:25):
But still it is.

Speaker 3 (38:28):
It brings a level of variance and a level of
openness to the game, to the sport that I do
really enjoy because there's not one program that's going to
dominate the playing field or dominate the landscape for fifteen years.
The way that Alabama was able to successfully do, as
we've talked about before, the overturn touchdown for Mississippi State
was no small thing or no big issue for Mississippi State.

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The same running back who score just punched it in
from the one yard line, so twenty three to twenty
pending the extra point in that SEC game right now
in Starkville.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
You mentioned the replay for all the just absolute fiery
takes about how bad the ACC is?

Speaker 1 (39:07):
Can we acknowledge that last night opening up the Just?

Speaker 2 (39:11):
And I've talked to a couple of people at ESPN
that have told me that the reason everybody's not doing
it yet is because it's expensive and it takes.

Speaker 1 (39:18):
A lot of work on the back end. And I'm like,
I don't really care what it takes.

Speaker 2 (39:22):
The level of transparency that comes and this is something
you know, I was lucky enough to host the studio
show in the XFL came back at ESPN at the time,
and they Dean Blandino was miked up, and the number
of times we'd be sitting there in a production you know, meeting,
watching the game and we're like, oh, they're definitely calling
this back. And then you'd watch Plantino and you're like, oh,
I don't agree with you, but I at least understand

(39:44):
what you're seeing and how you came to the conclusion.
Like I absolutely thought last night was especially with the
controversy of the late play against Florida State. I thought
it was so key in that moment to actually have
eyes on the play and be able to say, oh, Okay,
you know exactly why he believes what he believes. You
may not agree with it, but I get exactly why

(40:04):
he believes it.

Speaker 1 (40:05):
I thought that was such a key moment.

Speaker 2 (40:06):
And today I'm looking at these replays and I'm thinking,
how in the hell is the SEC not ahead of
the ACC When they have the money to spend, they
should be able to do this.

Speaker 4 (40:15):
I loved it.

Speaker 3 (40:16):
That's the first time that I've really gotten to experience
it that way, because I mean, I love you, but
I wasn't watching a ton of XFL when you were
in the middle.

Speaker 2 (40:23):
Offl Not even the Rocker was. We couldn't even get
the Rock to come on our show. He owns the league.

Speaker 1 (40:30):
He owns the league, and every week we asked for
the Rock and they're like, no, that's how hard passing?

Speaker 4 (40:34):
Yeah, I don't think so.

Speaker 1 (40:35):
Even aske Dwayne Johnson's.

Speaker 2 (40:38):
You're listening to Fox Sports Rado, We've got one score
games all over the college football landscape right now, including
Auburn about to get the ball back with under two
minutes to go, and the opportunity to try and beat
Texas A and m Texas A and Im Curley up
by six in that game.

Speaker 1 (40:57):
We will keep you updated on all.

Speaker 2 (40:59):
The college football acts, and as it happens, he's Buck
rising on Jason Fitz. But let's be real, that's not
the only weird pressure this weekend, because tomorrow two of
the biggest brands in the NFL, two of the best
teams in the NFL, two Super Bowl favorites in the
eyes of most coming into the season, will face off.
The Ravens will take on the Chiefs, and the loser

(41:20):
will fall to one in three. So the question, Buck,
is how much panic should the loser actually have? I
started this show by saying, I'm not sure any one
week really matters in college football. How much panic should
either of these teams have with the thought of going
one in three barring a tie tomorrow between the Ravens
and the Chiefs.

Speaker 3 (41:39):
Man, it's such an interesting scenario that we are getting
ready to see play out tomorrow between these two teams,
because what's insane fits is that the Ravens are damn
near scoring forty points a game. Why wild that that
would give them enough to at least come out on
the right side of a couple of these situations, But

(42:01):
their defense has been one so hurt, so hurt at
this point in time. The attrition on the Ravens defense
so early in the season has really really undermined anything
that they would try to accomplish. And for Kansas City,
it's kind of the same issues that we've been talking
about for an extended period of time, which is that
they're just not very explosive, and now you're starting to
see a few more cracks on that defense that has

(42:23):
helped carry them through some of those low times. Offensively,
or Patrick Mahomes isn't enough or isn't enough to just
outright will them to wins, or they're not getting explosive
plays as Tennessee punts. There was a touchdown, but I
got wiped off the board for OPI Chris Brassel, So
twenty four to twenty is the lead right now for
Mississippi State. For you guys keeping an eye on the

(42:43):
college football playoff implications of today's slate, but for the
circumstance for the Ravens and the Chiefs.

Speaker 4 (42:50):
I mean it is more.

Speaker 3 (42:51):
It's more important for the Ravens because the Ravens have
not accomplished anything with Lamar Jackson. Of consequence, right, they
have been the number one overall seat. But I mean,
you remember what happened when they were the number one
overall seed in Lamar's what second year, the Titans came
in and upset them. When the Titans were actually a
competent and well coached and well run framewik.

Speaker 4 (43:09):
I don't know if they were ever well run, but.

Speaker 3 (43:11):
They're well coached at the time, franchise went into Baltimore,
knocked them off after knocking Tom Brady off in his
last game as a Patriot, and then went on to
lose in the AFC Championship Game two. The aforementioned Patrick Mahomes,
who won his first Super Bowl that year. Lamar Jackson
does not have a Super Bowl. He's got MVPs, he's
got statistical accomplishments. He is incredibly impressive. I think he's
the best quarterback for my money in pro football right now,

(43:33):
although Josh Allen is making that argument harder and harder
for me with each passing week to his credit coming
off the defending his MVP campaign. Whether you thought he
should have been last year's MVP or not, god knows,
he's playing like it in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 4 (43:47):
It is vastly more important.

Speaker 3 (43:49):
It is vastly more dire for the Baltimore Ravens because
they have to capitalize on how good they are right
now around this quarterback who is just otherworldly, and at
this point they're in a situation where they're they can
be undermined by how poorly their defense is executing.

Speaker 1 (44:09):
So I agree absolutely with everything you just said, and
that's really well laid out. I will say clearly and loudly.

Speaker 2 (44:16):
I still believe both the Ravens and the Chiefs are
going to the playoffs no matter what.

Speaker 1 (44:19):
Happens in this game.

Speaker 2 (44:21):
And what's crazy to me is that the Chiefs could
start the Chiefs could start one and five, and I
don't care. Rashi Rice is going to come back, and
when he comes back, that's the light at the end
of the tunnel. That certainly makes a massive difference to
the way their entire offense comes back.

Speaker 1 (44:34):
He's suspended for the first six games of the season.

Speaker 4 (44:36):
So no Xavier Worthy coming back tomorrow. Right, Is that right?

Speaker 9 (44:39):
Right?

Speaker 7 (44:39):
Right?

Speaker 4 (44:39):
The expectation, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (44:40):
Savior Worthy is coming back tomorrow, but I care more
about Rashie Rice. When Recei Rice comes back, now, you're
going to be fully restocked, right, So once you're fully restocked,
all of a sudden, this is the Chiefs and let's
just injecting truth to him in everybody's nains. I was
watching Get Up this week and I heard Greenie say, oh, well,
you know they won't be able to win the division
and they'd be fighting for a wildcard. Okay, do we
not believe that if the Chiefs make the wild card,

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the lead won't be every.

Speaker 1 (45:05):
Damn day on ESPN. Oh, I don't want to take
on these Chiefs. Patrick mahomes barely like, that's what we're gonna.

Speaker 2 (45:11):
Do, and inevitably that's what we're going to do, because
that's what we should do, because the Chiefs are.

Speaker 1 (45:15):
Always the problem. I need to remind everybody. I just
double checked this. There are sixteen teams in the AFC
four divisions. Okay, there's your quick math.

Speaker 2 (45:23):
Currently, let's take the four division leaders out of it,
so that leaves us twelve teams to talk about.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
Ten of the twelve teams that are not in first
place in their division right.

Speaker 2 (45:30):
Now have losing records. That's how bad the AFC is. Like,
in fact, if you just run through the list, the Patriots,
the Jets, the Dolphins, the Raiders, the Broncos, the Chiefs,
the Ravens, the Browns, the Texans, and the Titans all.

Speaker 1 (45:46):
Have losing records.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
Who cares if you go one in three because nobody
else has gotten enough distance in front of it to
make it a problem. If the Chiefs go one in three,
it will be tough to overtake the.

Speaker 1 (45:58):
Chargers to win the division. That's fair.

Speaker 2 (46:01):
If the Chiefs go one and three, they have a
massive lift left to do to try and win the
AFC West.

Speaker 1 (46:06):
I don't think they can.

Speaker 2 (46:06):
I think the.

Speaker 1 (46:07):
Chargers are actually a better football team right now.

Speaker 2 (46:09):
So I do think it's fair to say, hey, what's
it look like versus the expectation of continuing your run
of being AFC West champions. But the reason I don't
think either of these teams is out is because the
AFC kind of sucks. Like, just we're being honest, there's
just a lot of bad Like how much do we
believe in the Jags that are two and one, or
the Colts that are three and oh that you know
I've been a champion of all.

Speaker 1 (46:31):
Those are two of them. I like the Colts. I
like the Colts a lot.

Speaker 2 (46:35):
I think the Colts have a good chance to prove
it this weekend against the Rams. But like, come on, like,
are we really sitting here saying there are just a
slew of juggernauts right now in the AFC.

Speaker 1 (46:44):
There's the Bills and there's the Chargers.

Speaker 4 (46:47):
Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 3 (46:50):
I'm looking at the Ravens schedule right now and the
front end of it is significantly worse than what their
next basically two months are going to be. I mean,
they started at the Bills, home for the Browns, home
for the Lions. Obviously, they played the Bills close in
a one point loss. They lost to the Lions by
one score. And now they'll have the Chiefs or they'll

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be at Arrowhead tomorrow for a three point thirty Central
time kick. But then they have the Texans and the
Rams at home. The Rams are obviously a better football
team than Houston is right now, but Houston's defense can
give you enough problems. I'm curious to see what's going
to happen with Houston tomorrow, just because I'm boots on
the ground here in Houston to cover that game with CJ.
Stroud and all the different issues that they've been having.

(47:33):
It's a fascinating circumstance.

Speaker 2 (47:35):
Did you see Rassini on Lebittard saying, Hey, I think
something's going to come out about this soon. We both
know Diana really well, like she doesn't make that sort
of stuff up right, She's got basis to it. So
I'm curious to see what that is because it feels
like things are crumbling there for an organization that we
felt had finally turned the corner.

Speaker 3 (47:52):
Well, they got lucky because they got a quarterback that
looked like he had promise. And it made it to
your point because we were on a local show with
me in Nashville talking about that it can cover up
a lot of wartz that you still have as a
franchise if you hit on the quarterback. But now if
you're getting the quarterback hit after hitting on the quarterback,
then it starts to tail spin your problems.

Speaker 5 (48:11):
No.

Speaker 3 (48:11):
Diana Roussini of The Athletic was on Dan Levittard's show
of The Dan Levatard Show podcast talking about what Fitz
he just alluded to, which is some things are going
to come out at some point in time. And honestly,
I aired in not texting Diana before we got on
the air today because I'm curious to know whether she's
talking about like things that are going to come out

(48:33):
from behind the scenes, or if we're going to learn
more about the Houston Texans as we move forward. Like
I wasn't, there was enough there, enough smoke to make
people kind of perk their attention or perk their ears
up a little bit, but I wasn't quite sure what
she was what. There didn't seem to be a pointed
reference there, and I don't think that she was trying

(48:54):
to gaslight anybody, obviously, But it's like I said, on
me for not reaching out to Diana.

Speaker 4 (48:59):
I'll follow up with her at some point.

Speaker 3 (49:01):
But the Ravens schedule home Texans home Rams home Bear,
so three straight home weeks and then they're at Miami.

Speaker 4 (49:08):
Who if not for.

Speaker 3 (49:09):
The existence of the Tennessee Titans, the team that I cover,
I would think that the Dolphins are the worst team
in football at this point in time. At Minnesota, the
sh god fitsy I have the Saints and the Titans
in Nashville at Week seventeen, it's going to be friends, family,
and media.

Speaker 1 (49:28):
That's like Christmas week maybe, is that?

Speaker 3 (49:29):
Like, Look, it's the We thank god that they're not
playing on a holiday this year, so I don't want
to have to spend you know, my holiday season with
these sad boys. But God Almighty Saints Titans in Nashville
Week seventeen. Throw out the records because the records will
be putrid. But anyway, at Vikings at Brown's home, Jets

(49:50):
so like Baltimore.

Speaker 4 (49:51):
Has the best chance to get right here.

Speaker 3 (49:54):
Should they fall to one and three, whereas Kansas City
schedule is much less forgiving at this point in time,
and we understand that their circumstance. We still have to
see them find this gear that they've had for so
long but have spent basically the last season and a
half missing. What Kansas City is up again? Should they
fall to Baltimore. Are the Lions? Are the Commanders? Are

(50:18):
at the Bills, at the Broncos, the Colts. Yes, they've
got the Chargers obviously twice or one more game against
the Chargers obviously opening the season with the Chargers. They
do play the lowly Tennessee Titans. But that's not neither
here nor there. You understand my point. Their schedule much
less forgiving, So the Chiefs honestly have a little more
wiggle room than or rather Baltimore has a little more

(50:39):
wiggle room here, even if Baltimore needs this worse and
it's going to feel way worse for the Ravens should
they lose at Arrowhead tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (50:47):
Yeah, I think you're right that if the Ravens, if
the Ravens lose to that awful offense, then I don't
know that we can trust the Ravens defense ever, and
that's going to be really difficult to figure out. We
are coming down to the wire on college football. LSU
has just scored a touchdown but did not get the
two point conversion, so they tried to make it a

(51:08):
three point game instead, it is twenty four to nineteen.
They continue to trail almost we'll get the ball back.
We are late in the fourth quarter. We'll get you
updated and all the action Schames are coming down to
the wire and it looks like it's gonna be yet
another wild finish weekend in college football. Will gets caught
up on the latest next He's Buck Rising. I'm Jason Fitz.
Bucket Fits hanging out with you on Fox Sports Radio.

(51:30):
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on everything you need to know from college football. Tennessee
has taking a twenty seven to twenty four lead on
a defensive touchdown, but Mississippi State is currently driving. They're
about to find their way into the red zone, so
that one is coming down to the wire. For the

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now have a tie between Tennessee and Mississippi State.

Speaker 1 (52:31):
That game is at twenty seven a piece.

Speaker 2 (52:33):
Buck how we feel in Buck Rising is stuck covering
the I mean stuck.

Speaker 1 (52:37):
He can get Buck Rising to I'll give my calls
a little credit.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
He's on a very popular local show in Nashville, Tennessee.
Where of the two main topics, the three main topics,
if you will, one one is the Tennessee Volunteers. One
A and it's a much lower A would be the
Tennessee Titans. And then like the just the bottom of
the totem poll topic is the National Predators. Between those
three teams. I like, you need the ball. I need

(53:03):
you to have the joint of the balls being good
because everything else sucks.

Speaker 3 (53:07):
I and it's unfortunate because I'm a I'm by trade
a Tennessee Titans reporter, which is why I'm here in
Houston to cover that stinky game between the OH and
three Texans and.

Speaker 4 (53:15):
The OW and three Titans.

Speaker 3 (53:16):
Good though, the UH press box in Houston lovely. They
have a Buffalo sauce water fountain that is a delight.

Speaker 4 (53:25):
Yes, it's not good for my waistline, but.

Speaker 3 (53:28):
I led the Houston Texans PR people. They trade us
right in a press box. That's a one percenter problem
or a one percenter situation, but I think be very happy.

Speaker 1 (53:36):
I love that stadium.

Speaker 2 (53:37):
We played the Houston Radio there several times, humble brag.
At one point we had the attendance record all the
time attendance record. I will never forget playing a Fi
Die Young at the Reliant at the time on the
fifty yard line, and that's the first time in my
life I ever took my in ears out because I
wanted to hear what's seventy five thousand I'd never heard
what seventy five thousand people sounded like. I will always
have love for that stadium because that was the first
time in my life I ever believe in front of

(53:58):
a crowd that big.

Speaker 4 (54:00):
There will not be seventy five thousand people there tomorrow.
But here's the thing.

Speaker 3 (54:04):
Okay, I we talk a lot about the Titans because
I'm a Titans reporter on the local show.

Speaker 4 (54:09):
I need Tennessee to win this game.

Speaker 3 (54:11):
If you hear me at some point, yell murder him
talking about Blake Chafin, the Mississippi State quarterback. I don't
mean it literally, although you know I would like to
see maybe somebody trip and fall onto him several times
in a way that we continue to send him behind
the sticks. Because if Mississippi State pulls off this upset

(54:31):
and puts Tennessee's college football playoff chances that I didn't
think we're real prior to the season begetting given all
the Niko Yamaliava drama that we worked our way through
this summer. But now I'm praying and hoping and wishing
for because not, not even the joy of a number
one overall draft pick at quarterback can save me from
the hell that is covering the Tennessee Titans on a

(54:51):
weekend week out. Basis, Fitzy, I need Tennessee to win
this game.

Speaker 2 (54:55):
Well, look, I just I want you to have nice things. Also,
I'm tired of you like the If the Balls lose
this game, then the.

Speaker 1 (55:03):
Balls for the second.

Speaker 2 (55:04):
The walls are now sort of the Charlie Brown where
you run up to the football and it gets moved
into the last second and you fall. Fatal flaw to
that Charlie Brown ism of you know the football, why
is he fall? Like if somebody moves to football, why
are you really You're swinging so like suddenly your swing
changed and you land on your ass Like it never
made any sense to me even as a kid, which
probably shows why I'm no fun. But also like I

(55:26):
think that there's this moment with the balls where last year,
oh man, it looks so good. For a minute, it
looks so good, and we were like, no, this team
is legit, and then all of a sudden.

Speaker 3 (55:36):
It's like, oh, then they go to Arkansas they lose
because their quarterback can't do bleep And now that quarterback
is not doing bleep at UCLA and got his coach
fired at this point in time, and this was a
pleasant surprise because again the transfer portal has put things
in a situation where you can turn a program around
so quickly if you just get the right pieces to
fall in place. And that piece for Tennessee so far

(55:57):
this season has been Joey Aguilar, even though the defense
is the thing that's been keeping them in it or
keeping it tied at the end of the defensive touchdown
on that fumble recovery that they had in the end
zone twenty seven to twenty seven, as fits he mentioned.
With ten thirty one to play, Tennessee about to come
back out on offense.

Speaker 1 (56:14):
Huge play in LSU ole Miss.

Speaker 2 (56:16):
Right now, ole Miss is up twenty four to nineteen
with a minute fifty three left. On a third and four,
ale Miss runs the Olmoss quarterbacks running a little bit
of away from a bunch of pressure, and he dives
to try and pick it up. He did not pick
up the first down, and he also dove out of bounce,
so he stops the clock. It looks like he in
the process he stopped the clock. They're going to figure

(56:38):
out where to snap it here.

Speaker 1 (56:39):
Ole Miss.

Speaker 2 (56:40):
Looks like they may be going for it as they
It's fourth and three. Ole Miss is up by five
and they are not quite in field goal territory, so
they are going to go for it, which could give
LSU the ball back. This is that the great thing
that has happened now in college football and the NFL
both is that it's.

Speaker 1 (56:58):
Gotten so aggressive and I love it. I love it.
I love it because it's.

Speaker 2 (57:02):
Like we're playing video games all the time. But also
let's realize that it's the Lions. For example, their aggressiveness
that helped get the Lions to where they were, but
it's also their aggressiveness that cost them in the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (57:12):
Like the aggressive nature of.

Speaker 2 (57:14):
It, the analytics say, go for it, you're not quite
in field goal range, you're not really scared of LSU's offense.
I get all of those things. Ole Miss has called
a time out to think about it for a second.
But I don't know where the right line is between
aggression and just smart football. Because also part of me
just says, my god, like you could make your life
much easier if you just punted and pinned them back.

(57:34):
We have a massive interception in the Tennessee game. I'm
always tipped into the air. Al Miss has put themselves
in a scoring situations like this is a chaos. This
is the chaos that every Saturday brings us when we
hang out. That's why I love getting this time slot
with Buck Rising.

Speaker 3 (57:48):
I'm so glad I didn't buy that Joey Swagular T
shirt I was thinking about after that.

Speaker 2 (57:52):
Interest you actually thinking about buying a Joey's Swagular because
that feels like it feels.

Speaker 1 (57:57):
Like we could do better than that.

Speaker 3 (57:58):
Like Mary Mancy, I came back to Tennessee Titans, I
need something.

Speaker 2 (58:04):
She the the ultimate arbiter of cool on this show
is Mary Mack Mary mac. If buck were to wear
a Joey Swagular T shirt to anything, really anything at all,
where are we on that?

Speaker 1 (58:14):
I just I just need you to time. Maybe I'm
missing something. Maybe I'm missing something.

Speaker 6 (58:18):
Is it a play on Joey Aguilar's name?

Speaker 4 (58:21):
That is correct?

Speaker 6 (58:21):
Yes, swag well on on the side.

Speaker 3 (58:25):
Yeah, she feels bad because she cut us off at
the knees early.

Speaker 6 (58:29):
No, I'm just swag like.

Speaker 1 (58:31):
It's kind of coming back Joey's Swagular.

Speaker 6 (58:34):
I just think it's making a comeback.

Speaker 1 (58:36):
Yeah, yeah, it's just the concept of that is your shirt?

Speaker 3 (58:39):
Like, wait, where did swag go that it needs to
make a comeback? Is this a justin Timberlake situation where
we're bringing Sexy back?

Speaker 4 (58:44):
But where did Sexy actually go?

Speaker 1 (58:45):
Bring? Are we bringing Swaggy back? I shouldn't. Okay, thank
you so much I have I have now been fined,
like audibly scoffed with.

Speaker 2 (58:58):
Ways out of the crossfire, right, It's like, you know what,
what I don't want to do is get fined, and
I don't want to put myself in the.

Speaker 1 (59:03):
Cross on the act.

Speaker 9 (59:04):
I'm ducking behind the desk every time the flags start flying,
because well, he.

Speaker 6 (59:08):
Tells me what our what's flagworthy?

Speaker 1 (59:10):
And what is it?

Speaker 2 (59:12):
Oh Shadow, now I'm taking that's actually he's getting extra
flag happy.

Speaker 9 (59:18):
That's her, that's all her.

Speaker 6 (59:20):
No, but he'll stop me though, and yoh, you're you
know that's not a flag.

Speaker 2 (59:24):
Ls Shadow Commissioner LSU is unable to stop ole Miss
from converting. Ole Miss gets the first down, and now
ole Miss is just taking a knee and running this
thing out. Ole Miss up twenty four nineteen. They are
about to take down Lsu. So uh interestingly in shotgun
for taking a knee. That's where we are in college football,

(59:45):
that even taking a knee is a shotgun formation. But
ole Miss is going to do the unthinkable here and
upset l SH. I shouldn't say unthinkable. Some people called it.
My co host An Yao who Sports Daily, Caroline Fent
and a big LSU fan said she she picked Ole
Miss to win in this game. I thought it was
just fan trauma, but no, LSU's inability to stop the
run and their inability to actually have a competent offense. Now,

(01:00:07):
this is where I started the show saying, Look, none
of these results really matter because there's still so much
season to play. But I do think some of the
tendencies you see from these results.

Speaker 1 (01:00:16):
Absolutely are important.

Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
So if I'm an old Miss fan right now, I
love this victory. If I'm an LSU fan, I am
crushed because my team had so many opportunities and just
couldn't do it.

Speaker 4 (01:00:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:00:27):
No, that's the worst case scenario if you're a college
football fan right now in the current college football playoff atmosphere,
as Tennessee is allowing Mississippi State or has Mississippi State
pushing them in the red zone at this point in time,
with under nine minutes to play in the fourth quarter,
looks like Mississippi State is about to score.

Speaker 2 (01:00:49):
Oh not only not only is Mississippi State scoring, it
like shows you how quick it's a copycat. They ran
the play that was run in the NFL, A quick
handoff that then turns into an option. So obviously everybody
saw that crazy play from the Lions. I believe it
was it. Yeah, they saw from the Lions, and now
already it has been implemented, So get ready for that
on your fourth and shorts coming up defenses.

Speaker 3 (01:01:11):
Copycat league for sure across the sport right now. But
here's the thing, Like I was at that Tennessee Georgia
game Fitsy a couple of weeks ago, and Tennessee had
every opportunity to knock Georgia off and completely change the
dialogue around them at this point in time, the field
goal situation, the conservative nature of the coaching or the
call of the of the game plan at the end
by the Tennessee coach Josh Hipel was brought in a

(01:01:34):
scrutiny after the fact. And obviously, you know, college kickers
can't be relied upon to hit from forty plus the
way that NFL kickers are now asked with regularity to
hit from fifty plus. And we treat a you know,
a fifty three yard or a fifty five yarder like
it's anything.

Speaker 4 (01:01:48):
Or it's like it's basically routine.

Speaker 3 (01:01:49):
But this is this is a fascinating situation for LSU
and for Ole miss especially given Old missus messaging, Lane
Kiffin's messaging last year around the college Football Playoff and
the fact that they did choke in big spots against Kentucky,
or not even in big spots, but in games that
they should have won handily, like Kentucky, who they did
struggle with earlier this season but were able to scrounge

(01:02:11):
out a win. There there are teams that we're still
trying to learn about a lot of these college football
teams even though we're a quarter of the way through
the season, which is what makes Alabama and Georgia tonight
such a fascination from a variety of different standpoints, because
I still don't know what to make of the Crimson tide,
which is not a sentence I've said many times in
my college football consuming life. And Georgia where a lot

(01:02:35):
of things that you are impressed by right now about
the Bulldogs, in particular Gunner Stockton, who is an unknown
commodity coming into this season. Georgia's defense is a bit
suspect right now in their ability to play against the pass,
which brings up the Ty Simpson situation. The Alabama quarterback
who's played a couple of as we were talking during
the commercial break, played a couple of tomato cans. But

(01:02:57):
teams that can't get pressure on Alabama right now Ty
Simpson is dicing them up. So it would be crazy
to see Alabama Georgia tonight turn into a bit of
a track meet, which is not the way that these games,
or at least historically have played out. But huge college
football playoff implications across the borders. I'm sure Martin will
tell us as we continue to get updated around the
world of college football.

Speaker 1 (01:03:17):
Go come on, Martin, bring us in.

Speaker 2 (01:03:18):
Let's get everything going that we need to know that's
going on right now.

Speaker 4 (01:03:22):
Well, Bucky did the job for me.

Speaker 10 (01:03:24):
Thirty four to twenty seven Mississippi State, now eight minutes
left in the fourth quarter. The fifteenth Strength falls trailing
as anarchy ranks supreme in college football. Iowa State with
the eight point lead over areas under the fourteenth Rngth
Cyclones leading the wildcatch both of those teams undefeated just
under six minutes left in the first quarter.

Speaker 4 (01:03:45):
We just had a bunch of games wrapped.

Speaker 10 (01:03:47):
Final LSU falling to Old Miss Old miss The thirteenthreinth
Rebels with Ay twenty four to nineteen win LSU. That's
a first loss on the year. Ohio State beat Washington
twenty four to six in a game that you know,
Washington didn't get into the end zone. Ninth rank Texas
A and M sixteen to ten over auburns Auburn's second
loss in as many weeks and their second loss in

(01:04:08):
the SEC. Indiana with the eleventh rangths Hoosiers hung on
today really with a late touchdown pass from Fernando Mendoza
forty nine yards for a twenty to fifteen win over Iowa.
Was Iowa's second loss on the year, and overtime. Haynes
King went into the end zone in the first frame
for Georgia Attack. The sixteenth rank Yellow Jackets undefeated so far,

(01:04:28):
undefeated in conference play obviously as well. Thirty to twenty nine.
Wake Forest is winless in conference play thus far. Utah State,
thanks for coming out. Vanderbilt beat you by fifty five
to thirty five. Vanderbilt's the eighteenth rank team in the nation.
Twenty second rate Notre Dame, same story over Arkansas fifty
six to thirteen. The win for the Fighting Iris is

(01:04:49):
their second win on the year. Illinois and usc USC
flight all the way to Illinois to get beat in
Champagne on a last second walk off field goal and
USC's defense left must to be desired for most of
the day. But updating the games in action right now
in the top twenty five again, Iowa State eight over

(01:05:10):
Arizona midway through the first quarter, and I know Buck's
sitting there, wonder eight minutes left.

Speaker 4 (01:05:16):
What does Joey Agilar.

Speaker 10 (01:05:17):
Got trailing right now in Mississippi State thirty four to
twenty seven, Tennessee. You'll get the ball when they start
playing back back to you, guys, go Valls.

Speaker 1 (01:05:27):
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(01:05:48):
there's another epic matchup by the way book, because we
do also have I don't know Penn State taking on Oregon.
And it's funny because Oregon, to me is maybe the
slept on team in the country.

Speaker 1 (01:06:01):
They were undefeated last year and it.

Speaker 2 (01:06:03):
Meant nothing, and because they were eliminated early in the
playoffs without any acknowledgment that maybe their bracket was just
god awful. And then on top of that, they come
back with the roster with a ton of turnover. But
I know one reporter that had the chance to sit
down with Dan Lanning, the head coach of Oregon, this summer,
and when he asked him about the team, he said,
Dan just got a smile on his face and see, yeah, man,
we're gonna be good. I don't want to oversimplify here,

(01:06:26):
but Oregon's really good and I know that that Penn
State it's a wide out. We always talk about James
Franklin in big games. That's real. He sucks in big games.
You know who doesn't Dan Lanning, Like I really, I
have a weird amount of trust for the ability for
Dan Lanning to get the most out of Oregon and
for Orgon to be in good positions. Oregon can win
games no matter how they have to play him. So

(01:06:47):
I know it's a white out. I know it's a
big vibe. I've got it on on the TV here.
I've been lucky enough in my life to stand on
the field during a white out and white out it's intimidating,
it is, But I don't think there's anything that.

Speaker 1 (01:06:57):
Oregon can't handle it.

Speaker 2 (01:06:58):
And I think Oregon's gonna win this game and we're
gonna be asking a lot of questions about Penn State
on Monday.

Speaker 3 (01:07:03):
Well, I don't know how much you've listened to, Uh,
are you guys technically colleagues Josh Pate?

Speaker 1 (01:07:10):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:07:11):
You can check out Josh Pat's college football show on
Yahoo Sports dot TV, on theh WHO Sports Networks wherever
he get your television channels.

Speaker 4 (01:07:17):
Okay, very good, free plug pet comes in the.

Speaker 1 (01:07:20):
Won'll text me back, but I'll h you know, at
least I call salty.

Speaker 4 (01:07:23):
He'll text me back.

Speaker 1 (01:07:25):
He doesn't, man, got the time love to chop it
up with you.

Speaker 2 (01:07:29):
Nothing.

Speaker 1 (01:07:30):
Nothing.

Speaker 3 (01:07:31):
He's he's very he's very busy being bald and beautiful.

Speaker 4 (01:07:34):
It's very active.

Speaker 1 (01:07:36):
His text to me are like his hair non existent.
Go ahead, that was love.

Speaker 2 (01:07:46):
He's I don't know if he's balled by choice or
if he's bald because he finds mister Clean to be
an inspiration. I just know that he's got no hair
in I said he's he's I know Will Compton is
out here trying to be Josh pat like we all
see it.

Speaker 4 (01:07:57):
Will Will lost his hair that may not come back.

Speaker 2 (01:08:00):
By the way.

Speaker 4 (01:08:00):
Will's got to be careful. Also, he needs to wear
more hats.

Speaker 3 (01:08:02):
Anyway, I talked to Pate a lot because Pate lives
in Nashville. He comes in studio, he does the local
show on a regular basis. And Peate has this whole
thing about and I'm stealing it or borrowing it for
the purposes of this conversation. James Franklin is the most
properly rated coach in America. He does not win games
that he is an underdog in. He does not lose
games that he is favored in. Penn State is favored

(01:08:25):
by three and a half at home tonight. And here
is a fascinating opportunity for James Franklin to do the
thing that nobody expects him to do, which is handle
a quality opponent in a game that he's expected to win.
We haven't seen these two teams obviously play since the
Big Ten title game Oregon won that one forty five
thirty seven. Oregon already won a zero in conference play

(01:08:45):
so far. They beat up on Northwestern, but it wasn't
as seamless as I'm.

Speaker 4 (01:08:48):
Sure Dan Lanning would have liked.

Speaker 3 (01:08:50):
But you use those opportunities, even if it is a
conference opponent, to tune your team up and get it
ready for the kind of game that this is going
to be. Beaver Stadium is crazy for these white out opportunities.

Speaker 4 (01:09:01):
You even had Nick Saban.

Speaker 3 (01:09:02):
Dressed like Bruce Almighty today on the game day set
because even the game day cast is getting involved in
the white out conversation of the white out, the white
out fun that you have going on there. The atmosphere
is going to be awesome, but there is there are
a few people who seem to relish the opportunity to
take the air out of an opposing stadium the way
that Dan Lanning and the Oregon Ducks do. Now, I

(01:09:24):
think that the Big Ten has a couple of different
problems in the way that it's structured because of things
like you know, Oregon and US and UCLA playing in
the Big Game.

Speaker 2 (01:09:33):
For starters, Whoever would have thought that maybe there'd be
time zone issues would put maybe they should have a
conference on the West Coast where a bunch of West
Coast teams, Oh.

Speaker 3 (01:09:42):
Go ahead, Well, but you know what, Dan Lanning and
his football team have handled it significantly better than Lincoln Riley,
who's out here behaving like a weenie.

Speaker 4 (01:09:50):
Respectfully, he does.

Speaker 3 (01:09:51):
Doesn't mean that he is a weenie, but he's displaying
weenie behavior at this point in time, complaining about the
times that they've kicked off from one extreme to another.
This was your choice, you signed up for this. Welcome
to the Big Ten. Anyway, the travel part of it
does matter. It is a difficult thing. It's not quite
an international game the way that the Vikings and the

(01:10:12):
Steelers are going to play tomorrow in Dublin Tomorrow morning
in Dublin. But this does have a level of impact
here that I'm curious to see whether there's any kind
of lethargy to Dan Lanning's team, given that they are
already going to be up against it in an environment
that is basically on their necks for sixty minutes of football.

Speaker 2 (01:10:31):
That's where I think the late kickoff actually really helps them, though, dude,
I think about it because this is eight o'clock PM
kickoff basically, and that's a five pm Pacific time.

Speaker 1 (01:10:39):
I think this game would have been much tougher.

Speaker 2 (01:10:41):
Even though Penn State fans don't want to hear this,
I think it would have been tougher if it was
a big noon kickoff.

Speaker 1 (01:10:45):
If it had been noon and then you.

Speaker 2 (01:10:47):
Got your body clock trying to get you ready to
play a football game at nine am. When you talk
to guys that played, they'll tell you the change in
your clock and when you have to eat and all
of the different things you have to do when you're
playing it. What is essentially nine am to your body clock.
It means that all of a sudden euro up and
eating your meal at three in the morning to try
and get the start of your day and all of

(01:11:08):
these different things to stretching, it's all weird to your
body clock. I think a noon kickoff with a sneaky
been a bigger advantage for Penn State. The fact that
this game kicks at night really means that it's kind
of a normal day for Oregon in a.

Speaker 1 (01:11:20):
Lot of ways.

Speaker 2 (01:11:20):
Like that's where I would have, you know, as a
program been really comfortable, and I think they did come
in very last second. All right, it's fine because our
body clocks don't really have to adjust. It's an eight
o'clock at night football game, So I don't think the
college football was scheduling. People did Penn State any favors
from a timing standpoint. They did do a favor in
the atmosphere, though, I will agree that a whiteout is

(01:11:42):
not nearly as impactful at noon as it is like
white out in the middle of the sun doesn't really
have the same impact as the vibe and energy will
have in that stadium tonight. Are we puckered up by
the way Tennessee has the ball they are driving. There's
about three and a half minutes left, they are down
by a touchdown.

Speaker 3 (01:11:59):
You're less converted to fourth down Chris Brasel on the
receiving end of Joey Aguilar's pass there, and they're trying
to get this offense and they're trying not to go
too fast.

Speaker 4 (01:12:06):
That's the thing.

Speaker 3 (01:12:07):
It's almost it's almost antithetical to what the Tennessee offense
is because they tend to want to operate at warp speed.
Right now, with four you know, about four and a
half minutes left on the clock and trailing by a touchdown.
I don't know how this is going to alter the
approach for Josh Heipel, but that, oh god, that pass
was so far behind Brazl at that point. A good
catch by the wide receiver to convert that fourth down.

Speaker 1 (01:12:29):
Yeah, puckered antithetical?

Speaker 7 (01:12:31):
Is it?

Speaker 1 (01:12:32):
Congratulations you MVP?

Speaker 2 (01:12:34):
Like you use antithetical in a show and you just
flippantly throw it out there like I mean.

Speaker 9 (01:12:39):
That is congrats Buck, thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:12:42):
The rest of the room noticed that, right, Mary Mack,
like we noticed that antithetical is just.

Speaker 3 (01:12:46):
Not Mary doesn't give me credit for anything. She's just
here to She's just here to cut me down.

Speaker 1 (01:12:50):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (01:12:51):
Yeah, I am.

Speaker 4 (01:12:52):
I don't know who.

Speaker 2 (01:12:53):
I don't know who hurt Buck Rising, but apparently he
thinks he was Mary Mac. We will get you caught
up on the rest of this because we are coming
down to the wire and we are about to kick
off on some of these big, huge games that are
taking place tonight. But coming up next the single greatest
game show in the history.

Speaker 1 (01:13:09):
Of sports talk radio.

Speaker 2 (01:13:10):
Would you rather coming at your next bucking fits on
Fox Sports Radio. We are waiting an extra point that
could lead us to a tie football game.

Speaker 1 (01:13:23):
Tennessee has just scored. With just underd two minutes to go,
they trail Mississippi State by one go. Buck Rising, I'm
Jason fitz fucking fits on Fox Sports Radio, hanging out
with you, everybody behind the scenes. Mary mckian doing a
great job.

Speaker 2 (01:13:38):
Don't forget coming up right after us. Oh my god,
you do not want to miss it. Martin Wiss and
Monsey Blanio is going to be hanging out. Oh it's
going to be electric for a big night of college football.
Nowhere you'd rather be than Fox Sports Radio. See how
that's done, y'all, It's super easy.

Speaker 6 (01:13:53):
Well Martin wasn't listening though, he wasn't listening listening.

Speaker 4 (01:13:58):
Oh well, he doesn't get another one.

Speaker 6 (01:14:00):
Yeah, I know he doesn't be fine, but we'll let
them know.

Speaker 4 (01:14:02):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:14:03):
Wow, you know what. I always all that for nothing.
I got a lot of love Fromanci though.

Speaker 2 (01:14:07):
MONCYI is amazing, So come on, man, you know what.

Speaker 9 (01:14:14):
Never mind, Well, Mary's in control of whether or not
they can hear you. They're sitting in the studio and
she has the option to turn it up so that
they can hear it.

Speaker 1 (01:14:22):
I love this.

Speaker 5 (01:14:22):
I love that.

Speaker 1 (01:14:23):
Mary, just like na No, like I'm good Mary. Mary's
like nope, I've decided that this will not be able.

Speaker 6 (01:14:28):
It's up now, so they'll hear it.

Speaker 4 (01:14:29):
You can you can read it now.

Speaker 1 (01:14:31):
I can't redo it.

Speaker 2 (01:14:32):
If I redo it, that seems disingenuous. And then I
get fined by Buck. And then all of a sudden,
this like that is no, it's too late.

Speaker 1 (01:14:39):
It's too late. Now the moment's pasted. You know what,
just tick around with Fox Sports.

Speaker 6 (01:14:42):
That's even more rude.

Speaker 3 (01:14:43):
Turns out there's a podcast that they can listen back
to it for themselves.

Speaker 1 (01:14:47):
Oh yeah, all look at that. That.

Speaker 2 (01:14:48):
Go ahead, Buck, tell everybody where to get the podcast
wherever it gets a podcast.

Speaker 1 (01:14:51):
That's how we're supposed to do that. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:14:53):
What I do know is it is time for the
single greatest game show in the history of sports talk radio.

Speaker 1 (01:14:58):
It is time for would would you rather?

Speaker 9 (01:15:05):
That's terrible that man, All right, let's play some would
you rather? I have a good, good bunch of them here,
and they are all attached to our wonderful, colorful spinning wheel.
So we're gonna go ahead and spin.

Speaker 4 (01:15:19):
It so we know where to start.

Speaker 1 (01:15:20):
Okay, okay, spin the wheel all right?

Speaker 9 (01:15:22):
Would you rather always type with autocorrect changing one random
word or always have your GPS be slightly inaccurate?

Speaker 3 (01:15:31):
Oh no, see I just experienced this for a full
season because Will Levis was the last Titans quarterback and
auto correct just kept changing it to Leviyes and it
made me insane. But the GPS thing would be infuriating,
Like just like, how what's slightly off? We talk about block?
We talking a mile? Because those are very different things.

Speaker 1 (01:15:51):
Let's call it like five blocks.

Speaker 3 (01:15:54):
Yeah, no, I think I'd rather have a random auto correct,
although that could lead to very very uncomfortable situations with
whomever you are messaging.

Speaker 2 (01:16:02):
I no longer care if the autocorrects correct, Like I'm
not going to try and correct it from ducking anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:16:09):
Like that's just the way it's going to be.

Speaker 2 (01:16:10):
Like I don't care if, like i'd say, use your context,
read the sentence, you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (01:16:15):
All right, Like you can figure it out. I can't.
I drive to the same gym every single day. I
can't do it that ways, Like I'm willing to admit that,
Like I have not.

Speaker 2 (01:16:24):
Like I have no spatial understanding of directions at all.
If ways doesn't tell me how to get there, I
have no idea what to do. So yeah, like I
would be lost and I would be pulled over on
the side of the road crying like a child because
they can't fib away home. So I need the GPS. Well,
we all have our strength of weakness? Is I acknowledge one?
I need my GPS? And don't I need you guys
as the people that I'm texting to just figure out

(01:16:44):
what I mean?

Speaker 1 (01:16:45):
I absolutely I don't care about the auto correct.

Speaker 2 (01:16:47):
I need to be able to get where I'm going
thirty four to thirty four by the way, tie game?

Speaker 1 (01:16:52):
All right?

Speaker 9 (01:16:52):
Would you rather always have popcorn kernels stuck in your
teeth or always feel like you're forgetting something?

Speaker 2 (01:16:58):
I always too feel like I'm forgetting something back as
I just and there's way too many edibles in my life.

Speaker 1 (01:17:03):
For me to remember anything.

Speaker 2 (01:17:04):
So I have no idea, like my popcorn colonel stuck
in your teeth can ruin like three days, like you're
just in there, like gouging yourself trying to do anything
you can with the flaws, or like dental picks and
anything anything you can.

Speaker 9 (01:17:14):
And this is always so, this is more than three days,
this is literally every day.

Speaker 1 (01:17:17):
Yeah, no, I can't. I can't do the popcorn kernel.

Speaker 2 (01:17:19):
I don't care about forgetting stuff like fine, I'll worry
about recycling next month, like I don't care about that.

Speaker 1 (01:17:25):
I cannot have the popcorn kernel in my teeth.

Speaker 4 (01:17:28):
I love popcorn.

Speaker 3 (01:17:29):
I refuse to eat it because I hate that feeling
so much, like when it gets stuck by, especially like
the back of your teeth, as opposed to like you
can't see it, but you're digging around there trying to
like get a nail on the kernel to drag it
out from behind your gums. Disgusting. It's just I'm telling
you like it. What about the movie in the world?

Speaker 1 (01:17:48):
Are you a movie theater popcorn guy?

Speaker 3 (01:17:51):
No, I don't know. Also a movie theater. Movie theaters
are disgusting.

Speaker 2 (01:17:56):
I have the I have the AMC pass that gets
me is many movies as I can go four movies
a week every I love going to the movies.

Speaker 3 (01:18:03):
I pay for every damn streaming service under the sun.
I don't want to have to leave my house to
go sit in a sticky chair with sticky, sticky popcorn
that people have probably stuck their mouth under to get.

Speaker 4 (01:18:15):
The butter out of whatever. I mean, it's probably not
real butter. Whatever the hell is being pumped.

Speaker 2 (01:18:19):
You go to stadiums, You go to stadiums, You go
to the Golden Corral. You think that's any worse than
you can go to gold Coral? Go aheady In Sorry,
he is like, I quit, I'm out of the show.

Speaker 4 (01:18:37):
Damn you Mary all right?

Speaker 9 (01:18:40):
Would you rather only be able to laugh in slow
motion or only be able to clap at double speed?

Speaker 3 (01:18:46):
He already claps at double speed. Yeah, I mean it's
the laugh in slow motion? What would that even be?

Speaker 9 (01:18:51):
Like?

Speaker 4 (01:18:54):
Kwhy?

Speaker 2 (01:18:57):
I would rather be able to get to like I'd
like walking into supporting events and just screaming aggressive clapping
while I clapp really loud. I enjoy doing that just
to annoy everyone around me. If I could do that
at double speed, I would absolutely cherish that skill, just
to be able one.

Speaker 1 (01:19:12):
Of those little monkey toys with the symbol.

Speaker 2 (01:19:15):
Did anybody see Simon Cowell last week the video of
him and he was clapping like this man has been
responsible for deciding who's famous in the music business for
a generation, and he claps like that I'm very unify
and get one more and we can do this.

Speaker 1 (01:19:28):
We can do this fast.

Speaker 9 (01:19:31):
Would you rather always know when someone is lying but
not be able to call them out, or always tell
the truth but in the most awkward way possible.

Speaker 4 (01:19:40):
I'd rather be always able to tell when somebody's lying.

Speaker 2 (01:19:43):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:19:44):
It's awkward enough when you have to tell uncomfortable truths.

Speaker 9 (01:19:47):
The knowledge of it is good enough too.

Speaker 2 (01:19:49):
I just need the knowledge because then I know who
I can trust in who I can't trust. I don't
need to call him out on it. I just immediately,
especially in business, to be able to quickly know who
you can and can't trust. Go into a press conference
and knowing right away what the coach is saying and
saying whether that, Oh, give me inject that in my veins.
I want every single second of that stick with us
all night. Martin weiss Manzi Bolanos is gonna keep killing

(01:20:10):
it on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (01:20:12):
Don't go anywhere. He's buck Rising on Jason Pittsie you
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