Georgia Just Georgia'd (Again)

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addition from Atlanta, Georgia, after what I think it's fair

(00:25):
to say, a classic Alabama against Georgia national title game
here in Atlanta. And if I am waking up this morning,
and many of you are, and I am a Georgia
Bulldog fan and many of you are, I am utterly
sick to my stomach because this was George's game to win.

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It wasn't just that Alabama won. It's like Alabama's won
a lot of games over the last decade. Nick Saban
is now sixteen and three in SEC tide games where
he's seven and one, in national title games where he's
six and one, and in college football playoff games where
he is three and one. But Georgia was up twenty

(01:10):
to seven late in the third quarter after getting an
interception from Tua. And there are many things that discuss
about tah But if I'm sitting around this morning thinking
about the way that game went. George is up thirteen
points with the ball around the Alabama forty, and they
almost immediately I think, on the next play, throw an interception.

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If they just run the ball a couple of times, there,
odds are they've got a field goal opportunity, and they've
got a field goal opportunity to go up twenty three
seven late in the third quarter. Instead, Alabama gets an interception.
Alabama comes down and kicks a field goal. Later, Georgia
is oh so close on a third down pass to

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an interception in the end zone. Instead they're just out
of the back of the end zone after a player review,
and that Obama kicks a field goal to make. And
then I think Georgia went way too wacky on the
play calling. I don't know why they decided to go
wild card wildcat a couple of different times against an

(02:12):
Alabama defense that good. That is pretty good at knowing
what's gonna happen when you don't have a pass option,
don't have a run pass option on that wild card
and take it out of Jake From's hands. What an
unbelievable comeback for Alabama to score on fourth down I'm
not sure whether to where two A knew that he

(02:33):
was throwing the football. Then Georgia comes back from finally
misses a throw. He had a pretty easy first down
throw that he missed. Bama comes back down and misses
what should have been a chip shot field goal, and
Alabama's field goal kicking under Nick Saban has been consistently woeful.

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Uh they missed two field goals in this game, but
the one they missed that should have won the game
after they lined it up, after they brought back out
Jalen Hurts and let him take a knee on a
snap directly in the center of the field. That's as
bad of a miss as you will see in a
big game kicking situation anywhere in college. And certainly you
would never cease that see that in the NFL. It's

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one thing if it gets blocked, but to kick it
that far left and never have that kick have a chance.
And then we go into overtime and Georgia bombs through
a fifty plus yard field goal and then two get
sacked and we end up with a second and twenty
six passed for the ages. I was on the field
alongside Jason Martin. It was pure bedlam at that moment.

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Nick Saban and Alabama with the walk off National championship
twenty to twenty three is your final and of all
the decisions Nick Saban has made in his coaching career,
of all of the choices that he has had to
make in big games, I'm not sure there is a
bigger one than benching Jalen Hurt at the end of

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the first quarter after they had gone down thirteen to nothing.
Now we're sitting in the press box watching that game.
I tweeted it out. It wasn't it wasn't Monday morning quarterbacking.
I didn't see very many people asking this question, but
I've watched Bamma play all year. I've seen what ta
can do in the passing game, and I asked the
question on Twitter. I said, is it time to go

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to to Ah? And I heard people reacting with surprise
at the start of the second half that Nick Saban
had actually been willing to do it so that we
had two true freshman quarterback dueling in the National title game,
Jake from from Georgia and to h whose last name
I'm not even gonna attempt to say throughout this show.
Just to ah, that's all you need to know, t

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u A. He became a legend tonight. Two touchdown passes
inside the final four minutes of this game, and just
an epic, epic performance. But if I am Georgia, I
am sick to my stomach over the way that we
gave away this game. Now. I understand that Georgia is
gonna say all the right things. You know what, We're

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gonna be back here again. It's only year two of
Kirby Smart, and all those things may be true, But
it is so desperately hard to win a national championship
in this day and age, where you have to get
to the playoffs where you have to win two games
once you get there to win the national championship. It's
just so hard to be in the national championship game
that to be in a situation where you're up twenty

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seven with the ball late in the third quarter, with
the chance to basically slam the door, and to have
it go awry like it did. I don't know how
Georgia fans and Kirby Smart and everybody else cannot be
incredibly sick to their stomachs this morning. Now, a couple
of other things I think the Playoffs selection Committee should

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be doing absolute laps of of of praise all morning
long because Alabama was I think, certainly deserving of being
in the national title picture and certainly deserving of being
in the college football playoff. And everybody out there who
was saying, oh, it's gonna be an all SEC game,
it's gonna be boring, I have no interest in watching this.

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A lot of people were telling me that on Twitter
yesterday when I was talking about this game. They were saying,
enjoy your game. It's stupid to have two SEC teams playing.
I'm not gonna watch. Well, that's a weird decision. If
you're so upset that there were two SEC teams playing
that you decided not to watch. Good for you, congratulations
on being a loser, and I hope you had an

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incredible Monday night doing absolutely nothing that was very fun
while you watched one of the best college football games
of the year take place, and certainly a game end
in an iconic fashion with Nick Saban exulting on the
sideline running off with his arms raised above his head.
It was I thought, an incredibly memorable, in an incredibly

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exciting way to finish the college football season, and I'm
not sure that when you look back on it, that
George is gonna be anything other than more sick over
the next nine months as more and more time passes. Now, look,
George has got the number one recruiting class in the nation.
They have got a good, true freshman quarterback who is returning.
I'm just pointing out that it's so hard to get

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to the title game. There are many teams who get
there and never return. I think Georgia will be one
that returns. I think what Kirby Smart did with this
team was incredible, and again Georgia had this game to win.
If I'm a Obama fan, I'm like, my god, we
stole one here. We got away with nearly getting blown
out early in the third quarter and getting put away.

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We had everything that Nick saban did worked wonders in
the second half after an atrocious first half as bad
offensively as Alabama has been all year long, and maybe
in the entire Saban era, this game was exactly what
I anticipated. Why did I tell you take Georgia plus four?
I said, Ultimately it's gonna come down to quarterback play,

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and I have zero faith Jalen Hurts when it comes
to converting on third down based on everything I've seen
from him in big games throughout the entirety of his
tenure at Alabama. And on the other side, I felt
like Jake from was gonna make big plays, and he did.
And he had a couple of tough interceptions, tip ball interceptions,
one on the first drive, which was basically the equivalent
of a punt, and one when they were up twenty

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to seven that would have otherwise potentially started to ice
this game. And I just I got I think you
gotta give credit to Nick Saban, because it's rare for
a guy to be willing to bench a quarterback who
at that time, what was Jalen Hurts His record like
twenty seven and two, I mean, and absolutely insane record.

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Right last year he was fourteen and one. I believe
as a starter. Maybe he didn't start the first couple
of games. I can't even remember exactly now it seems
like so long ago. And obviously this year he was
twelve and one. Uh and so at this point in time,
you're talking about a guy who's twenty six and two.
I think, if I'm not mistaken, uh In and Jalen
Hurts and to have the wherewithal the gumption and the

(09:04):
testicular fortitude, for lack of a better phrase, to make
the decision to bench Jalen Hurts and come bring into
a and frankly, I don't know that Jalen Hurts ever
starts another game at Alabama. Uh. It's funny. When we
were watching this game, we're standing in overtime and the
Alabama the ball boys, the guys who were carrying the
spare balls for Alabama, were at the I think ten

(09:26):
yard line in overtime, literally on the front row looking
out on the field there. And the ball boys from
Alabama come running down and kneel down directly in front
of us, and they see me and they turn around.
They're like, oh, they're big OutKick fans. Uh. And they're like, hey,
what's up man, how you doing? How about this game?
You know, we're talking back and forth and then they say,
what about the fly in Hawaiian? And I said, man,

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he's been really really good in the second half. And
I said, man, he's been in fantastic And I said,
is he like this in practice all the time? And
they're like, yeah, he's incredible in practice. So everybody out
there who's been one orrying how has Jalen Hurts maintained
his hold on this starting job. I think Nick Saban's
just been loyal to him because he hasn't been bad
enough to lose. And then in this situation, Saban knew

(10:10):
how difficult it is to get the championship games for
pretty much everybody but him, because he's now six and
one in these national title games, sixteen and three, like
I said, overall in national title games, SEC games, and
also obviously in uh in the college football playoff as well.
So I'm gonna bring in my crew. Uh. We will
talk about this game. We will discuss it. Where does

(10:31):
it rank, what's the overall impact? Do we believe that
Georgia will go on and one day win a national championship.
We'll talk about all those big issues. I will also
open up the phone lines for those of you who
are up early and we're watching this game. Uh, it's
just about four hours ago that kind of the the
final moments came down. We'll also play you a lot
of the audio clips, a montage we're putting together of

(10:52):
all the different twists and turns of this game. Congratulations
of the an Alabama Crimson type, by the way, double
Blood Bank guarantee. Talk about a tough loss. Talk about
a tough loss for everybody out there who had the under.
First of all, no points, hardly scored in the first half,
just thirteen Alabama scores to tie it with four minutes
to go on a fourth down pass and I'm not

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sure to even knew where he was throwing the ball too.
But then they've got a chip shot field goal, a
thirty six yard or from directly in the center of
the field in a dome that should be made about
eighty five or ninety percent of the time by a
decent college football kicker. Instead, Alabama, which can't make field
goals for the life of me, pushes it wide left.
We go to overtime, and if you had the over

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in this game, you should be thinking you're lucky stars,
because you had no business whatsoever winning this bet. We
did at least get the Georgia cover plus four. I
will say this also, on top of everything else that
was going on, what an incredible turnout from Georgia fans.
This was their super Bowl, This was their opportunity to

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go back in time to the herschel Walker era. Try
to get their first titles. They were all in and
to have so much of the noise in that stadium
just disappear on that to a touchdown pass. Probably at
least sixty five the crowd was from Georgia, and it
was amazing to have pure bedlam inside that stadium and

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then so much of that stadium to go quiet the
moment that that touchdown pass happened. I think Georgia fans
should be very happy with their year. They're the defending
SEC champs, but now they also have to rebuild with
the idea of how close they were to a title.
Maybe this for Kirby Smart will be a lot like
what happened to Nick Saban in year two when Nick
Saban and Year two lost to Tim Tebow and Alabama

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in the SEC title game. Or maybe Kirby Smart had
the perfect team, a lot of seniors, a lot of
great talent, and now it's gonna take a little while
to build back up a team capable of winning a
national championship. So much to discuss again, I'm gonna let
you guys load up the phone lines eight seven seven
nine six three six nine. I'm Clay Travis. You're listening

(13:02):
toal Kick the coverage more obviously live from Atlanta, as
we break down what was an epic national title game
between two SEC teams, What did y'all think, what did
my crew think? And what in the world was Georgia
thinking down the stretch. Congrats to Nick Saban in Alabama,
and most importantly, congrats to Tua who became a legend

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in the crew here momentarily, but first I believe we
have a great montage of last night's game. All of
the plays that happened rolled in together, and good work
by the crew out in l Let's kick back and
listen to this now here a breakdown of last night's
Bama and Georgia game. Gets the shock down snap with

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pressure off the edge hill on load dot one far side.
It holds up in the air. It's coming back to
and fought but long then dropped by Georgia's incepted. He'll
say down as Tony Brown interception as he rips it
out of the hands up the receiver across the way.
He is four of eights from this distance this year

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a forty yard try off the neyar hash mark. The
snap is good, the spot is there. The kick on
the way, it is up and it is no good.
It is wide left, first and goal from the one
yard line. We go wild dog with Sony. Now we
go wild dog with Hardman. From out to the right,
snap it too, the cool Hartman. He played fakes. He
runs to the left corner. Touchdown, Hardman, the wild Dog,

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the freshman from Eva Beach hold by e to a
tongue go vid lowas the quarterback for Alabama, too is
a left hander. Here now on the fake, gift to it,
keeps it. He'll do a bit of a head shake
and get across the twenty five. He'll pick up four
yards on the play. Twice he claps his hands to it,
gets the snap. He'll throw into the back of the

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end zone. Touch down. Henry runs, Thank you very much.
Alabama in business with a touchdown on this drive with
two a tongue, Go Belowa showing the way third and long.
Three receivers to the right, one to the left from
out of the shotgun takes the snap. Here comes pressure,
throws a deep far sideline man breaking up. But God,
gordd fight right down the fifth breas de Taco breaks

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de Taco touchdown, touch down. Oh my goodness, here's a
fourth down, four to get a first down. Southern yards,
so a touchdown, empty backfield, Nancy in motion. Here's to
um he looks, stands in. Everybody's covered. He'll throw to
the left side. Called touchdown. Alabama. Talk by Alabama on

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the end zone. What a play coming across the Calvin
Ridley showing his younger brother how you come up hard
on the biggest stage of the night. Pappanastus right in
front of the goal post, about a thirty six yard
try to snap the hole. The kick is away and
no God, no god, he hooked it to the left.

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Oh my goodness, hole he missed it to the left.
Oh wow, we'll play another day. In fact, we'll go
to overtime. The clocket zero papperness just missed it to
the left. Blanket ship on the kick it for the lead.
In overtime, there's the snap, the hole, the kick is away.
Let's watch it, Let's watch it. It's reaching, doesn't have

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enough and it is good. Fifty two yards quadrigal hot
ride blanket ship gives the Dogs a lead twenty three
to twenty. Go out of the gun, straight back the
paths go. Indeed, throw you down a man sideline and
it is god touch down. Come on day Smith. When's

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then said on tap and ship sideline and wide open
behind the defense? Hello Alabama three over Georgia. Unbelievable to
have the double cracked voice happen. What is Sean McDonough
doing to suddenly hit puberty at the age of sixty?

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I mean, what a little powerful. That is a different
audio courtesy of the Crimson Tide Radio Network from Learfield Sports,
the Georgia Bulldog Sports Network from i MG and ESPN Radio. Uh.
That is all of the big plays rolled in together.
Now I want to bring in my crew, Um, Jason Martin,

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did Alabama win it? Or did Georgia lose it? There's
two parts to winning a game against Alabama. I'm not
sure any of us fully understood that until last night. One,
you have to walk in and believe when the game
starts that you can beat Alabama. Number two is you
have to then believe if you have a lead in
the second half that you can actually finish it, because
what you start to think is, well, we might be Alabama,

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and then immediately there's this how much times left? Can
we do this? Or are we really gonna beat Alabama?
Recall last year's Super Bowl, another Georgia based team not
used to that stage against the NFL's Evil Empire. Same thing,
It's college as Evil Empire with Nick Saban. Look at
Bill Belichick and the Patriots twenty three lead, Weird offensive

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play calling decisions late, lose the momentum, lose the confidence,
lose the football game. Last night, it's twenty two seven
froms rolling Michelle's playing great, Alabama's in fighting, Brown shoving
his assistant coaches on the sidelines, Mack Wilson's loss is
cool on the field, and then strange play calling decisions
from Georgia. They lose the momentum is saving adjusted, but

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not just two of it. But there were other freshmen
that stepped up as well for Alabama. Momentum gone, confidence gone,
and even in overtime after a blown chip shot, somehow
Georgia forgot they could actually win that football game, and
they lost that football game. Alabama look to have played
a slutely fantastic football but Georgia had it and Georgia
lost it. And that's coming from an Alabama fans mouth.

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As good as to have played, as well as they recovered,
as good as those adjustments were. If Georgia doesn't get cute,
they still probably win that football game, but they did
and they lost. I think the challenge for Georgia is
the idea that they are gonna be back and that
they're gonna eventually win a national championship. I think it's

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incredibly underrated how hard it is to get to this game,
and they had an opportunity to win. They basically had
this game one and I think but for desperation from
Nick Saban in Alabama, because I do think it was
a desperate move to bring into it. Now I think
it was the right move, but I think it was
a desperate move befitting a team that was recognizing that

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they didn't have the answer all week with how they
had game planned. And so Obama is down thirteen nothing
at the half, and they look around and they say,
my god, if we're gonna score twenty or more and
find a way how to win this game, we can't
do it with Jalen Hurts. I think that Kirby Smart
prepared his team so well for Jalen Hurts that they

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forced Alabama to go to a wild card to what
came in and through three touchdowns and performed really, really
well fourteen of twenty four for a hundred and sixty
six yards. I knew he I know he threw the
one interception, But if you had told Nick Saban at
the time that they put him in to start the
second half, this guy's gonna throw throw three touchdown passes

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for you in second half and overtime, I think he
would have said, my god, that's a hell of a
trade that we're gonna make, and also obviously drive the
team down and kicked two field goals and also set
them up frankly to should have won that game in regulation.
Um Georgia was fortunate to get another opportunity in overtime.
And to me, Nick Saban and Kirby Smart, you know,

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the whole master versus pupil, The pupil outcoached the master.
But Saban had enough talent on the bench. Then when
he recognized that Kirby Smart, who had been coaching against
him for you know, he knew that offense, He knew
all about Jalen Hurts. He knew that team well, he
had been inside that building. He knew what Jalen Hurts
could and could not do. They stifled Jalen Hurts and

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forced Nick Saban to change everything on the fly. And
to Nick Saban's credit, if they don't go with Tah,
this game doesn't even end up remotely close. I think
Georgia would have won by double digits, and I don't
think that Alabama would have gotten anywhere near twenty points
in regulation. I think it probably would have ended up
something like Georgia twenty four, Alabama seven or ten, something

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along those lines. If TA doesn't come in and lead
the Crimson tide to victory. And now I don't even
think that two is ever gonna give this job up.
And you look around and you say, man, we had
to to two true freshman quarterbacks dueling down the stretch
to it looks like a stud by the way, from
the same high school as Marcus Mariota and if you

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had watched Alabama play. I remember watching in the spring game.
When he came in in the spring game back in April,
I said, my god, you can go back and look
at my tweets. I said, my god, this guy too.
It looks like the real deal. And he's come in
and kind of sprinkled that performance throughout the rest of
the season too. Saving's credit, Alabama's put away a lot
of different teams and had an opportunity to bring him

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in and get him some reps. And all that being said,
you can never assume that a true freshman is going
to come in in the second half and play like
he did with all of the pressure on him. Maybe
it was better that he didn't even know he was
necessarily gonna come in. He didn't have a lot of
time to sit around and worry about it. They just said,
you know, to him at the halftime, get your helmet,

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you're going in. And by the way, I think Jalen
Hurts did a good job handling being benched. I thought
he talked to the media well. I thought he handled
an incredibly awkward situation. But when I watch now, I
I think Jalen Hurts got a transfer. I mean it's early,
but why if you're Jalen Hurts and you lose this
starting job and I think there's a good chance that
he has and you lose the starting job to a

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true freshman and you're a true sophomore, don't you have
to find somewhere else to go. That's kind of my
immediate read on it. What about you guys out in
l A. What have we not hit so far? Danny
g and Robert uh in terms of this game from
your perspective, what a crazy night? First of all, Clay,
the evening began with Trump's mug on the screen and

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it ended with yours on the screen, which was kind
of what did you guys think when you saw me
looming over Savans Savings shoulder there at the end of
the game. For people who saw him the postgame interviews.
I was on the field. I mean we were. We
had an incredible view. I mean, you know, sometimes you
want to pitch yourself and say, I can't believe I
get to do this for a living, But we were

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literally standing at the ten yard line, so uh, you know,
we watched the coin flip and everything else. Everybody came
rushing down to where we were. We were on the
right side of the field. And uh and to see
I mean you overtime only went what six plays? Uh,
you had Georgia kick the field goal in their first possess,
first series, and then Alabama gets sacked. You're thinking to yourself,

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Oh my god, I mean, are they even gonna be
able to attempt a field goal which the guy will
definitely yank on a second and twenty six there, and
then I saw we had a perfect angle. I saw
the guy come open, saw the ball in the air.
I said, that's it. Touchdown, and uh, in a perfect
throw from to a perfect catch. And then if you
go on Snapchat or you go on my Twitter feed
at Clay Travis, you can see I almost found myself

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right in the scrum of the celebration because Alabama came
straight to where we were standing to to celebrate with
the receiver who caught the ball. Yeah, it wouldn't have
surprised me if you had been on stage with Kendrick
lamar As as well as the only place you were missing. Um. Yeah,
the first half of the game was a snooze fest.
I kind of felt like I was watching another Blake

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Bortles playoff game, uh, and Jalen Hurts was definitely Tyrod
Taylor because as I was watching, I'm like, a, Okay,
he's never gonna start for Alabama ever again. Um tongue
O VLOA. He obviously stole the show. But how about
that pass to Davonte Smith. I mean, uh, freshman to freshman,

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that is pretty amazing. And like Jason mentioned, with all
hell breaking loose in the second half, I mean that
was crazy with Kyreek on the stretcher and uh McKay
throwing a punch on the field and then right away
on the sideline going after the assistant coach. I mean,
any other coach Clay, we'd be saying, oh my god,
they've lost control of that program. But since it's Saban's

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team and everything ended, uh like a fairy tale, it
seems like everything's okay. I wonder on some level whether
there's any part of Nick Saban's mind that thinks now
is the perfect time to retire. I mean, I understand
that he wants to coach until the last possible moment,
but he's got his sixth national championship. I think if

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he looks around, he has to recognize that in the
SEC things are going to get more difficult for him.
I think you've got probably got multiple years of this
Georgia Alabama rivalry set up, where the best team in
the East, which I think is gonna be Georgia, and
the best team in the West, which probably will be Alabama,
are gonna be going head to head. But now at
Texas A and M, you've got Jimbo Fisher, You've got Auburn,

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even though you may not think Gus mills On as
much of arrival, they're probably gonna return Jared'stidham. You've got
certainly the talent level at Georgia such that at times,
at times, I think in the next couple of years,
Georgia may well have more talent on the field than Alabama.
If you look at how Kirby smarts recruiting, and you
just won an improbable game that frankly you had no

(26:42):
business winning. I think if Nick Saban were honest with
us and he was on the show this morning, he
would acknowledge and say, you know what, I had absolutely
no business winning that football game. We should have lost it.
We had a lot of things go our way down
the stretch to come back late from a twenty seven
deficit um and the fourth down touchdown pass. I'm not

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even sure that Tah was intending to throw it where
he threw it and who he threw it to. I
think he knew he just needed to get it into
the end zone, and he kind of had a vague
recollection or vague realization of where he was throwing the football.
I think to get sacked and be on second and
twenty six, and somehow I would like to watch that
all twenty two film just to see what Georgia was

(27:23):
thinking to be up pressing like that. To me, given
how bad Alabama's field goal kicking had been, you let
Alabama have like the ten or fifteen yards on second
down if they can make a good throw, you don't
let anybody behind you, and then you make up convert
again on third and ten. Because I don't have any
faith whatsoever that Alabama's gonna come out and kick a

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field goal to put it into double overtime. So I
think there are a lot of things that Kirby Smart
is gonna go back over and question the decision making
that led him to lose this game when they had
basically this game one back out to l A anything
else that stood out to you guys. Yeah, you know,
Danny mentioned a few minutes ago about it being a

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fairy tale ending, and you know, I don't know if
I speak for a lot of you know, other college
football fans outside of Alabama, outside of the South, but
something about seeing Nick Saban win a fairy tale ending
kind of game was just because made me feel a
little bit dirty. And then if you I'm sure I'm
kind of clay that you were there, so you probably
didn't see it on TV. But after they want they

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the camera pans over to him and he's already yelling
at someone because there's like confetti in his face, like
he's already upset. So it was just kind of uncomfortable.
I think it does feel a little bit unfair for Alabama,
which has won so many games, to get so many
breaks down the stretch to win game that frankly, I

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don't think they deserve to win. Um. I think that
Georgia and Kirby smart out coach Nick Saban. I think
they out prepared him, and I think Nick Saban was
left just kind of saying, you know it, like when
you have a bad hand in poker and you're like, man,
I'm gonna have to throw these three cards down. Maybe
I'll get lucky on the river. And to his credit,
they had to to go to But the fact that

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he would come in and throw three touchdown passes in
the second half and overtime was I think far and
above beyond what Nick Saban could have reasonably expected, and frankly,
the way that to have performed, I think there have
to be a lot of people sitting around saying why
wasn't he the starting quarterback all year? Because then he
would have gotten a lot more reps all season long.

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And I think the answer probably is, well, how do
you bench the guy that went fourteen and one last year?
And early in the season Alabama won every game by
so much, and then they started to show that they
were not an improbable, guaranteed national title winning team with frankly,
what wasn't a very good effort against Mississippi State, and

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then certainly they weren't very good against Auburn. And then
they went back to the drawing board and got healthy,
performed flawlessly against Clemson, but to fall apart like they
did in the first half, and then to redeem themselves
and come back to to snag a championship was just
a phenomenal performance by to a tongue by Oloa. If

(30:18):
I'm gonna tongo by loa uh, if I can correctly
say that name, That's why I'm all for the rest
of his career, just gonna call him to ah. We
will open up the phone lines here. I'm gonna take
some of your calls eight seven seven six three six nine.
But first let me find out from Eddie Garcia what's
shaken in the world of sports. Well, obviously, Claire, we're
all talking about the college with ball, the national championship
game which edited over time with Alabama beating Georgia three.

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Of course, this is a tale of two halves. Georgia
had a thirteen nothing lead at the break, then Alabama
decided to make a quarterback change. Jalen Hurts went to
the bench and the true freshman to a Tongay Loah
three touchdown passes in the second half and overtime, including
a forty one yarder to Devonte Smith to win its
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and for Nick Saban, it's his sixth national title as

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react to the game that we just saw that only hinted.

(31:46):
It feels like about three or four hours ago. Everybody
up early reacting to this game. I'm Clay Travis. We're
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what was a classic college football game Alabama with the
walk off touchdown pass in the first overtime three, the
Crimson Tide wins Nick Saban his sixth the national championship,
his fifth in the last nine years at Alabama. Georgia

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narrowly avoids becoming the sixth SEC team to win an
undisputed national championship since but I think serves notice too
many out there that they are a team on the rise.
The question will be will Georgia get back to this
same venue again and will they be able to seal
the deal the next time? The pressure only increases until

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you've actually done it once, and this year would have
been the year for Georgia to do it where everybody
surprised and they were exceeding expectations. One of the most
difficult things to do is maintain excellence in Alabama now
has done frankly the improbable. They have been number one
in the country. And think about this for a minute

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with me. Two thousand, eight, two thousand nine, two thousand, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen,
and seventeen and eighteen. Now, Alabama has been number one
at some point in the season throughout all of those years,
and they've won national championships in five of the last

(33:35):
nine years, including what would have been a incredible win
last year if Clemson doesn't put together a fantastic fourth quarter.
So this is one that I think Alabama frankly didn't deserve.
I think they were not the better team for most
of the day in here in Atlanta, but the decision
to go to Tua was the one that led them

(33:57):
to a to a championship. And uh, and frankly it
is Uh. It's difficult to get past if you are
if you're a Georgia fan, Richard and Jacksonville wants to react,
what's up, Richard, what's up? Playing great game? Um, I
just wanted to say, I think when you're trying to
define who was the better team or you know, did

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Georgia winned I mean, did Georgia loser to Alabam win him?
I think ultimately in that second half, not just two
of but also putting in that running back. Alabama played
at a higher gear than Georgia played at any point,
and if that gear had been played throughout four quarters,
who knows what they would have done. But and the
other thing is that passed to Ridley, where he threw
to the open space, was as as pro a throw

(34:40):
as you're ever going to see from a college quarterback. Well,
I mean, to his credit, he knew that he had
to get the ball into the end zone and to
be a true freshman quarterback like twa is and to
make that throw in that situation on fourth and four,
down seven with four minutes to go, I think that's
probably the play. Uh. You know, Georgia had a I

(35:02):
think Alabama took a time out right before that place,
so Georgia had a lot of time to get their
defense set and to have had the ball for a
while in the pocket when he made that that throw. Uh,
I think that's probably There were a lot of plays.
I think when Kirby Smart goes back over this film
and kind of dissects the Georgia performance, I think the

(35:22):
series before that, when I believe Georgia got the ball
and went wildcat wildcat for two of their final three plays.
There I thought that was a really bad decision making.
I thought that was overthinking things when you've got a
quarterback like Jake from who has made a lot of
big throws on third down to take the ball out
of his hand, and then from missed one from missed one.
Once the game was tied and Georgia had to go

(35:44):
back and punt, he had a first down and Alabama
got the ball back and was like a well oiled
machine going down. And I think a lot of the
talk would not necessarily be about the Georgia collapse maybe
if Alabama just made that field goal, because I think
we'd still say, man, Alabama came back from a twenty
to seven deficit, but that field goal, that drive to

(36:08):
end the game was kind of expertly set up, and
then they had a thirty six yard or and they
missed it. Jason Martin, did you think when the Alabama
missed that? Guy? This is where I do think Alabama
deserves a lot of credit to have the mental toughness
to come back from missing that field goal, which frankly
is a chip shot final play of the game. Alabama
is all set on the sideline to come running on

(36:29):
the field and celebrate that championship and then they just
shank it and it wasn't even close. I mean that
that field goal kick is not gonna be very much
talked about because the way the game ended, But if
Alabama had lost the game, that shank was as bad
of a shank as I've ever seen in a big game,
big kick situation. Yeah, it was terrible. I was asking

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the guy in front of me. I was like, how
many feet did he miss that by? And he said ten?
If I was being generous, At no point when that
kick went up did we ever think, oh, it might
go through. Like it was pushed the left from the
get go and it was like sideways, looked like a helicopter.
I mean, it was like totally miskicked as well. Yeah,
it was terrible and look Alabamas. I guess since Lee

(37:10):
Tiffin has really not had a kicker that they could
rely on, which is really strange honestly that they haven't.
But when that kid gets missed, considering all the emotion
going into that situation, you have to feel like George
is in really good position and it just didn't play
out that way. They just were completely I don't know
exactly if they just kind of fell apart because they

(37:31):
did not expect Tongo Vyloa to be in that game,
and they just were not they expected Hurts to not
be able to throw the ball. You could tell they
weren't respecting his ability totally game plan that that part
of this game was what I foresaw when I said
you gotta take Georgia plus four, because I said, ultimately,
if you have to look at From versus Hurts, from
is the better quarterback. And I think probably that Kirby

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Smart did not think that Alabama was going to go
to Tongo, you know, to t t of there, and
so when they did that, he hasn't remember Kirby Smart
hasn't been at Alabama watching to a throw. He doesn't
know necessarily what he does best. Like he knows everything
about Jalen Hurts. He's been in practice going against him.
He knew every single thing that Alabama liked to go to,

(38:16):
what their tendencies were. And I don't I don't know
if Alabama would have scored, frankly, other than a couple
of field goals if they had stuck with Jalen Hurts.
And so, yeah, I think that kind of threw them off. Yeah,
It definitely threw them off, and Georgia had it. They
just they really felt like their receivers were making plays,
even when From is a little bit off. The receivers
really seemed to be making the same kind of plays

(38:36):
that Deshaun Watson receivers were making last year at Clemson
Sony Michelle was playing fantastic. I was telling you during
the break. I didn't realize it because we talked about it.
We both said, where is Nick Chubb. It didn't feel
like he got that many carries, but he had eighteen
carries for twenty five yards. And that was like what
Alabama used to do to Leonard four Nette. They're gonna
take the one thing that you want to do away
from you and make you do something else to beat them.

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Belichick and Save and are very alike in that way.
So if you're gonna hick how you're gonna lose to Georgia,
you're gonna make From beat you. And he was doing
it early in that game, but he did miss a
few throws. He only ended up with a fifty percent
completion percentage last night at sixteen for thirty two and
down the stretch just just simply did not have it.
It was the ebbs and flows in that game. At

(39:17):
the end of the first half, I told you him, like,
this is a game. Everybody that wanted to hate this
game dreaded that this was gonna be you guys. Second
half completely redeemed all of it. Jason. They didn't have
Michelle or Chubb in on their final drive. Why not?
That's a real good question. It was, I think a
game I would love to see Kirby smart. Like I'm

(39:38):
not an XS and OS guy, but I would love
to know what he was thinking. Because much like I
criticized Lincoln Riley because of the play calls that he
made down the stretch in the game that they lost
against against Georgia, where I felt like Oklahoma just kind
of lost their ability to go for the jugular. I
thought it was really strange the way they broke down
in this game. Again, like I said, the Wildcat. Now,

(40:02):
maybe if from makes that throw. I did think he
tightened up and just missed a throw late with about
three minutes left. He had the first down there. Maybe
they opened the offense up a little bit if he
can make that throw. But my god, Nick Saban Alabama,
they get it done again, will continue to react the
game that was a classic in Atlanta. I'm Clay Travis.
I'll kick the coverage he knows which today are in Atlanta.

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Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on
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transcendent classic that did not certainly feel like it was
going to finish that way. Alabama and Georgia play a dueling, overtime,
truly classic game that nobody would have been on being

(40:47):
a classic at the end of the first quarter when
it was scoreless, and certainly nobody would have bet on
it being a classic even at halftime when Georgia was
up thirteen to nothing, or about halfway through the third quarter,
when Georgia took a twenty two seven lead and had
the ball after an interception. At no point in time

(41:08):
that I think to myself, you know what, this has
the potential to be a game that we talked about
for years to come. But I think it changed the
moment really that to came into this game. Now. The
wild thing about college football in general is that when
you find a great quarterback, and that great quarterback as
a freshman, you can kind of take a breath of

(41:30):
air and say, man, my team is gonna be in
pretty good shape for the next couple of years because
we've got somebody, even if he decides to leave. And
the first time that I saw too, I obviously knew
the name, uh to a Tongo Va Loa, who I'm
just gonna call to a throughout the rest of his career,
but to a Tongo Va Loa. I watched him play

(41:51):
in the spring game, and I knew his name, and
I knew him as a recruit. You know, the Hawaiian
quarterback that Alabama had brought in that they thought was
gonna be very good had gone to the same high
school as Marcus Mariota. And by the way, I think
we're on out in Hawaii. How about that for Hawaii
for a great weekend of football action, if you want
to count Monday as a part of their action. Marcus Mariota,

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twenty four year old third year quarterback in the NFL,
goes on the road and wins against the Kansas City Chiefs.
I'm pretty confident that's the first NFL playoff game that
anybody who is a native Hawaiian would have won. So
that in and of itself is a pretty wild, UH
celebratory moment for Hawaiian football fans. And then you follow

(42:34):
it up on Monday with another guy from the same
high school coming out and winning a national championship for Alabama,
throwing three touchdown passes after he comes in in relief
of Jalen Hurts. That's about as good as it gets
for UH for Hawaii. I mean, to have both those
things happen Saturday and Monday, and you look at this situation,

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and when I look at this, I think an interesting question.
Are you telling me that Obama would have lost to
Auburn if they had started to like if he could
have come in and played like this against Auburn? Then
is there any way that Alabama's offense looks as awful
as it does in the second half. I mean, the
moment he came in, their passing game was revolutionized and

(43:16):
looked totally different than it did with Jalen Hurts. And
I said this on the show yesterday. I said, look,
Jalen Hurts a great leader. He is obviously very difficult
to control when he runs. But I said yesterday on
the show, George is not gonna let him consistently convert
third downs running the football, and I just don't believe

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in him. When it comes to third and eight, can
he make throws to convert in a big way? And
he couldn't. I mean, frankly, he had no chance and
it wasn't even close. And Georgia had him so well
game planned. Kirby Smart knew exactly what he could do.
That defense was so completely prepared, and then they went

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with two. And I would love to know inside the
locker room did Georgia prepare that defense at all for
the idea that to a tongue of Valoa might be
coming in? Did anybody know that that might happen, that
they were gonna be able to switch quarterbacks? And did
Georgia do any preparation at all for the idea that

(44:18):
they might bring in a passing quarterback? Now, to Georgia's credit,
Obama went three and out that first series with two
and didn't look like very much of a well oiled
machine at all. But that is I think a intriguing
question to ask. Was Georgia prepared on the fly to
react and respond to to ah? Was this Kirby Smart's

(44:41):
worst nightmare? Because frankly, this is a sign of how
good that Alabama had, Oh sorry, how good Georgia had
been at preparation for Alabama. Just think about it. If
there's an interesting question for you. If Georgia doesn't score
a touchdown at the end of the half and kicks
the field goal and stead and Alabama makes their field

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goal and it's nine to three at the half, does
Nick Saban make the change? In other words, wasn't going
down thirteen to nothing and being two scores at least
two touchdowns down that made Nick Saban say, okay, it's
time to pull the trigger. Let's go ahead and put
into a and let's bench. Uh, let's bench. Jalen hurts.
Do you think that was possible? Kirby Smart was asked

(45:25):
about that good pull here by Danny g and Robert
back in l A. He was asked about that. And
here's what Kirby Smart had to say. He had played
enough snaps, We had seen him on tape. We told
her about a half time. There was no question that
they were going to him because they were struggling and
they needed some momentum. And uh, he provided them some
juice and got them some momentum, got the momentum swung
back their way. And he's a good player. You know,

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he's got confidence in his arm. He scrambles and makes place,
throws the ball downfield. A really talented freshman. I mean,
you remind you of Jake with a lot of things
he did. Um, he's got poison in the pocket, and
he made the plays when he had to. One big
play that hasn't gotten a lot of attention. And Jason Martin,
I know you were watching it with me. The first
touchdown drive that Alabama had, third down, Georgia had him

(46:08):
dead to rights. They were gonna force a punt and
Alabama still had not scored. It's thirteen nothing and Alabama
is in pretty good field position. But they basically have
to have bottled up. I mean, he has almost no
chance to get a first down. He can't throw the football.
They hit him, they don't quite get their hands on.
He reversed his field, runs all the way back the

(46:30):
other way on the field and converts a first down there.
Remember I turned to you and that that play happened.
I said, that might be the play that kind of
calms him down a little bit because he got a
first down, Maybe the game slows down a little bit
and from that point he drove them in and got
a touchdown and made it thirteen to seven. And I
don't think that's a play that is going to get

(46:51):
a lot of attention, but it was a big one
because if Georgia gets the sack there, which they basically had,
if they can get him on the ground, the they
force a punt, they're still up thirteen nothing and we're
moving in and that's I think the second possession that
Alabama has and uh, and then they're over two in
uh in terms of trying to score with twa and

(47:12):
maybe he doesn't have the same level of confidence and
moxie going forward because once he made that touchdown pass
to make it a six point game, you felt like, Okay,
Obama's in really good shape to to to really kind
of contend here now Jake from and Georgia. I think
it was a third and eleven play when From hit
down the sideline for the a d r touchdown catch
was an incredible throw, an incredible catch and the fact

(47:35):
that he stayed in bounds and they reviewed it and
they couldn't have confirmed that he had stepped out of bounds,
but man, it was a It was a seismic performance
the likes of which we haven't seen very often. Can
you even think of a big time sub that has
come in in a college football game and performed like

(47:55):
this on a stage like this where you know, it's
one thing for a young quarterback back to come in
and play well and know that that young quarterback is
going to play throughout, but to bring in a true
freshman quarterback. Maybe some of you guys can think of
a performance like this in college football? Uh, you can
tweet me at Clay Travis guys in l A. Jason Martin.

(48:16):
Can you guys think of any situation like this. We're
in football, you know, and again I'm talking about the
quarterback position, not somebody comes in and they're a great
running back or good wide receiver or anything else. But
you come in with all the pressure on you and
perform like this and don't even know you're gonna be playing.
You know, if Jalen Hurts comes out and plays well,
then two obviously never gets in this game. To have

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him not only play, but then to come in and
throw three touchdown passes like he did, including a walk
off touchdown press too in the game and win a
national championship for his team in overtime. It's legendary performance.
It was particul I mean, that was exactly where I
said when we were actually taking the elevator down to
the field. There in that last five minutes, I said,
is the legend of two about to start? And you

(49:01):
mentioned that drive. There were a couple of third downs.
You talked about the eighty yard touchdown which came after
the first touchdown from two A two. It comes in there,
they go three and out. Then he comes in that
third down and seven he runs for nine. Just so ridiculous.
It looked like there was five yards enforced U punt.
So after that we both said, maybe they'll speed him
up here, not let him have to think in the huddle.

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So they sped him up. And what did you do?
Pass complete to Robert Foster for fifteen, pass complete to
Henry Ruggs the third for nine, past complete to Rugs
for fourteen, and then Rugs again six yards in the
end zones of four straight completions came immediately after that
third down play. In answer to your question, I can't
think of one. I'll do research and see, but I

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can't think of anybody that stepped into a situation like
that as a true freshman against that level of an
SEC defense. We're standing on the field. Just looking at
the size of these individuals is just mind boggling to me.
I mean, I've I've been on the field before in
big football games. I It's just everybody's huge, Like absolutely
everybody is huge. The punter would knock you out, like

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that's how ridiculous this situation is. And Tonga Volta is
not huge. He's not the biggest player, but boy did
he play big that third down and seven could not
possibly have been bigger. And then to have the poise
because after the eight yard touchdown, what did we see?
We saw an interception off A TOA and then they
got the ball back on that weird tip play that

(50:26):
I went off the helmet of Shawn Hand and that
was right into the uh that was that was a
tough break. That's probably the situation. I think somebody said
in live game way during at that point that Georgio
was minus six to win the game at that point.
How much time was left in the game when Georgia
got the ball there up twenty seven at the Bama
forty After that interception, I think like six minutes in
the third quarters six there's basically twenty minutes left in

(50:49):
the game at that point. If Georgia can just go
down and make a field goal, and as well as
their glass glass kicker there was was bombing things through,
you feel pretty good about their odds of making the
field goal there if they can just get six or
seven yards even on that series, not even needing a
first down, but to immediately have a turnover happened was
a wild turn of events. Not to mention, if they

(51:12):
just run the ball a couple of times, they're they're
taking it down to around four minutes left in the
third quarter. And look, I think if they had gotten
up twenty three to seven, to say nothing of obviously
getting a touchdown, that would have been basically Katie Barr
the door for Alabama and any chances there for the
tide of actually being able to to win a championship.

(51:32):
All Right, we're gonna take a few more of your
calls eight seven, seven, six, three six nine. You can
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About as good as it gets, right, I mean, to
get Marcus Mariott to the first I'm assuming the first
native Hawaiian to ever win a NFL game. I can't

(51:53):
think of anybody else that would have done it, and
I certainly unless it was like fifty years ago or something,
I can't think of that ever happening. But or and
certainly to have to come in same high school and
win a national championship for Alabama, it's about as good
as it gets for Hawaiian college and NFL football fans.
Eight seven seven nine nine six three six nine. Uh.

(52:16):
We will bring in some of your reactions, some of
your calls in what was a classic game. As the
nation is waking up. Georgia Alabama ended late last night,
after midnight on the East Coast. Many of you may
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couple of other things surrounding this game that I think
it's worth hitting on. One. It was almost impossible to

(53:42):
get in UM. They shut down half the stadium because
the president was coming, and there were people who spent
an hour two hours lined up outside in a cold
rain in Atlanta trying to get into this stadium. I
want to thank UH one of the members and I
don't even know his name of the Atlantic Police Department
who got us through UH into the stadium, because otherwise

(54:05):
I don't know how we would have gotten in because
they had shut down the media entrance and it was
virtually impossible to get in UH to the stadium at all,
and one of the members of the Atlanta Police Department
got us through. UH. Met a lot of out kick fans,
by the way, great great time walking around the stadium.
That's an incredible venue of Mercedes Been Stadium brand new.

(54:26):
Started my season down here with the Alabama versus Florida
State game and the Tennessee versus Georgia Tech game. Seems
like ages ago now. It's the way college football works.
It's such a short season to go from effectively Labor
Day to the to the national title now being decided
in early January. No other sports UH season at all

(54:51):
is anywhere near as intense or as short or as
compact as the college football season. The other thing is,
I was told a couple of interesting things about Donald
Trump when he came out and decided to walk out
for the National Championship. One, I was told that that
wasn't planned. That he basically showed up and said, I
want to walk out with this group for the National

(55:12):
champion for the for the national anthem, and there had
not been any prior preparations for that. So they put
him on the jumbo tron. They show him there at
the beginning of the game, and there was not any
like preconceived notion that he was going to walk out
and be there for the for the national anthem. Two.
I have told that Trump turned down the ESPN interview

(55:35):
and was supposed to do a local interview with the
UH with the BAMA Radio network calling the game. I
don't think he ended up doing that. And he left
right around halftime of the game, according to the White
House pool reports. So he came and watched the first
half of the game and then left. But obviously that
added to kind of the electricity in the building. I

(55:56):
think anytime you have a sitting president at a sporting event,
and certainly to come out on the field like he
did for the national anthem was a was a moment
where there was a lot of people saying oh wow.
And again I talked to people who were inside the
building who had been prepping for what the beginning of

(56:16):
that game would be like, and there was no prior
knowledge really that he was going to walk out and
be there for the national anthem. He showed up and
said he wanted to do it, and so it happened,
and that was his public kind of persona there as
he rejected an opportunity to go into the booth with
ESPN and do an interview with them. Um, we thought

(56:38):
that he might come by and do an interview with
the Alabama Radio Network because they said that they expected
to get him at the end of the first quarter,
and then it didn't end up happening, but we were
there sitting and prepared in the event that it had happened. Uh.
Had you ever seen a president before? No, not in person.
I mean I've seen I've seen other leaders, but I've
never actually seen a president. So where we were staked out,

(56:59):
I was like, maybe he'll walk by. You get a
glimpse of the president from a couple of feet away.
That's something you something you stash away and take off.
The old bucket list, but it didn't end up happening unfortunately. Yeah,
and it was pretty crazy though getting into the stadium.
I mean you were with me, like, have you ever
seen anything like that? No? I mean I told you
as I was walking in, because we saw the guns
and we saw the all the armed security and things

(57:20):
like that. I said, when there was the nicest threat
when I attended a w w E event a couple
of years ago. Uh, there was something similar in the
air that night, but no, and it was we last
year in Tampa was a disaster trying to get in,
just watching just that freakas and everything else. And we
were there a little bit earlier last year than we
were this year. This year. When we were dropped off

(57:41):
and I started to look around, like you couldn't even
see the entrances. It was just a sea of people everywhere,
not really being herded in any particular direction. Then you
found out they had knocked out a couple of the
gates completely. One of them had like triple security on
top of it. We try to go down steps, we
can't go down steps. That security guy saved our life
because he just walked us straight through the sea part

(58:04):
of the Red Sea got us there, we got through
the metal detector, and then honestly, we didn't have all
that much trouble then, Like I I have no idea
how we got through that easily. That dude just happened
to walk up to because the other security people standing
there weren't helping us at all. They didn't have any clue. Yes,
I I think, um, yeah, it was a it was
a zoo. It was I'm curious to see what the

(58:28):
overall ratings look like for this game nationwide. Was this
something that people because a lot of people were like, Oh,
I'm not gonna watch because there's two sec game, two
sec teams, it's a regional game. It's in Atlanta, so
you didn't even have you know, like next year the
college football National Championship is in Santa Clara in the
forty Niners Stadium. You know, you'd get a lot more
attention in l A if that were happening. If they'd

(58:49):
had the national championship game in Texas or in Indianapolis
or somewhere else that was a different region, I think
you would have gotten a little bit more regional attention there.
But to have it in Atlanta with two sec teams.
The game was so good, though, does it end up
saving what was otherwise kind of a disastrous weekend of
We didn't talk about this yesterday because we were breaking

(59:10):
down so many of the wild card games, but all
of the wild card games tanked in ratings. Like you
were reading some of those numbers to me while we
were watching this game, and you were saying, man, this
is bad for the NFL. And so is that something
that is going to be connected to college football to
what is going on with the NFL that the wild
card television ratings all just completely the bottom fell out

(59:33):
of them, and you had those I mean there are
four different games and they were all a disaster across
the board. Yeah, Titans Chiefs strew a fourteen seven overnight
last year's Texans Raiders and recall the worst Ossweiler and
Connor Cook one of the worst playoff games ever played
that did a sixteen six. So that's on. That's a
one point nine point drop, right, Millions less people were watching. Yes, Uh,

(59:55):
let's see Falcons rams was down ten percent from a
sixteen point five for Lions Ehawks to a fourteen point
nine Jacksonville and Buffalo was down ten percent. They drew
a seventeen point two uh Stewards Dolphins, ten percent higher
last year, and then the final one Saints Panthers drew
a twenty point four, down twenty one percent from a

(01:00:16):
twenty five point nine last year in the same window
for the New York Giants and the Green Bay Packers.
So and again that Saints Panthers games a really good
game game, I mean, by far the best of the
wild card weekend. So to have it dropping over, I'm curious.
Were there people out there? What was your verdict? I
want to hear from people outside the South eight seven
seven nine nine six six three six nine. Were you watching?

(01:00:39):
Did you come in late and see like, Okay, this
game is gonna end up more competitive maybe than I anticipated.
I'm guessing that the rating is gonna have peaked in overtime.
ESPN got about as good of a game as they
possibly could. But were there people out there who were
not watching? Because this was the SEC and there weren't
like any players I say that were needle movers. And

(01:01:02):
what I mean by that is, if you were watching
this game, most people didn't really have an opinion strongly
one way or the other about Jalen Hurts or Jake
from I don't think most people even know Kirby Smart
to have an opinion on him. Saban is maybe a
little bit polarizing, but I don't even think he's that polarizing.
I think it's just like Nick Saban stands for a
high degree of excellence, and so there wasn't even that

(01:01:24):
much of a reaction out there about Saban. I feel
like Belichick and the Patriots provoke a lot more disgusting
because he's a star, and Brady obviously is a quarterback star.
But a Baker Mayfield if they had beaten Georgia. I
think Baker Mayfield against Alabama would have gotten a lot
of attention, like Deshaun Watson against Alabama did. But I

(01:01:45):
think the vast majority of the nation didn't really know
any of the players. Like Nick Chubb and Sony Michelle
have been at Georgia a long time, but they aren't
really what I would call household names. It's not like
Nick Chubb has shown up every year in the Heisman
Trophy voting, and so there were those players that make
you say, oh, I really want that guy to win,
or oh, I really want that guy to lose, and

(01:02:07):
so as a result, I'm curious I want to hear
from people in different parts of the country. Were you
watching or did you not watch? Because of the all
SEC nature of this championship. I think the lowest rated
game in the last fifteen or sixteen years was Alabama
against L s U and the and the Sugar Bowl
back in two thousand eleven, six years ago. Now, that

(01:02:29):
game also was never in suspense, It was not entertaining.
The L. S U offense was atrocious, they never crossed
the midfield. This game seemed like one that Georgia was
gonna win, and in fact it was a game that
Georgia should have won, and Alabama stole it away from them,
which is unlike frankly most of Nick Saban's championships and
the way he's played when he's gone sixteen and three. Again,

(01:02:52):
this is to me the most remarkable thing about Nick
Saban as a head coach in UH In college football,
he is six and one in NASH championship games, the
only loss coming on a touchdown pass with just a
couple of seconds left to Hunter Renfro. In Clemson, he
is seven and one in SEC title games, the only

(01:03:12):
loss in SEC title games coming his second year at
Alabama when when Tim Tebow and Florida won that game
and we're able to go on and win a national championship.
And he is three and one in the semifinal round
of the College Football Playoff, the only loss coming to
card L Jones in two thousand and uh two thousand

(01:03:35):
and fourteen, so uh combine. Now he is sixteen and
three in title games in the SEC and national title
games or in the College Football Playoff. And obviously he's
been in the College Football Playoff now with Alabama for
four straight years. A lot of you reacting on Twitter.
You can find me on Twitter. I'm Clay Travis on there.

(01:03:56):
You can find me, uh pointing out that Mattie Mock
or matt Mark sorry, coming in in the two thousand
and one SEC Championship game for an injured Rohan Davy
and had a very good second half and brought the
l s U team with Nick Saban back from indeficit.
I remember that game. That's one of the games if

(01:04:16):
I could change any outcome that I would, Tennessee was
up I believe seven team to seven in that game
and then knocked out Rohan Davy and Matt Mock comes
in and suddenly Tennessee doesn't know how to defend a
quarterback sneak and the guy comes back and brings l
s U a championship, and that when knocked Tennessee out
of the Rose Bowl to have played an incredible Miami

(01:04:39):
team and UH and be able to try to win
a second national championship. UH. A couple of other examples
of different um different of those situations. You got guys
who were injured, things like that. But but again I
wonder on some level whether this is an opportunity for
Nick Saban to write off into the sunset and retire

(01:05:01):
as the most dominant college football coach of all time.
Eight seven seven s nine, Ryan in San Francisco, Ryan,
were you watching? Like is this? Were you thinking you
might not watch because it's a regional game. How did
you break down out in the Bay Area this college
football title game? Oh? Man, I always watched, especially when
it's SEC And you know, my cousins are all Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama,

(01:05:26):
and so we're on a big group text message just
for hours and hours and hours, you know, so you're
more likely you're more likely to watch because of the
SEC brand, even though you're outside of the regional footprint
and you don't necessarily Yeah, but because because of this
year in the way the NFL is gone. I watched
maybe I'm a Raiders season ticket holder and I went

(01:05:47):
to every game, but I did not watch. I want
to say what I watched last season for the NFL,
it's just going down. College football is coming up. For me.
It's a lot more fun. He's my wife, She's like,
this is great. Yeah, but you know that was the
second half. So yeah, no, I I appreciate the call.
I'm curious on that. I feel like people who don't

(01:06:08):
watch college football are watching a less entertaining product when
they watch the NFL. Now I'm not saying, certainly that
the college football players are better, but in terms of
just sheer enjoyment, I think that college football puts a
better product on the field. And obviously, in this heightened
political era, you don't have to worry about what college

(01:06:31):
football players are gonna do during the national anthem or
anything else because they're not out on the field for
the national anthem. So uh, if you're worried about like
all the protests and everything else, which by the way
I think the NFL is going to have to recognize
Jason Martin when you ran through those numbers down in
the viewing. My theory on people not watching because they're

(01:06:53):
disgusted with the way the NFL has responded to the
national anthem controversy is that the games that get hurt
the most or the national on games, because I think
if you're a true NFL fan, it's hard for you
not to watch your favorite team play. But if you
are a casual fan, the games you would choose not
to watch would be the national games. And all of
the national windows were down, and I would think that

(01:07:17):
would even translate even more so. I thought maybe we'd
get a rebound in the playoff games because you know,
there's good storylines. I mean, I think that the wild
Card weekend, look, I mean, the Bills and the Jags
a bad game, but the Bills haven't been in the
playoffs in a long time. I would think there'd be
some interest in seeing that game. I would think certainly

(01:07:37):
the Panthers game. You're adding against the Saints, and then
you're adding the Los Angeles, which is a big deal
to have a playoff game in l A. And and
you've got Atlanta, which is one of the biggest cities
in America. Like I thought that the ratings are gonna
be pretty interesting. Um, we're gonna take your calls. Gonna
bring in Eddie Garcia eight seven seven six three six
nine reacting to Alabama against Clemson day after we're in Atlanta.

(01:08:01):
But first let me bring in my guy. Eddie Garcia
would shake him. Man. Yeah, Clay, of course, we're talking
about the National championship game where Alabama beat Georgia twenty
three and overtime. The Crimson tied down thirteen nothing at
the half, they made a quarterback change. Jalen Hurts goes
to the bench incomes true freshman to a tongue of
Baloa with three touchdown passes in the second half and
the forty one yard or in overtime to win it

(01:08:22):
to Devonte Smith. For Alabama, it's their fifth national title
in twelve years. Bread coach Nick Staban his sixth national title,
tying Barry Bryant for the most by head coach, and
he also stayed perfect against his former assistance. Now twelve
and oh. Of that win over Kirby Smart of Georgia
in the NFL, the Chicago Bears name Ken City Chiefs
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(01:09:28):
Garcia Kirk on Twitter. You can find me on Twitter
at Clay Travis says, I hate the SEC, loved the
Big ten, but I watched the game and now have
a whole new respect for the SEC. That game was
a bar fight. I don't know how you could not
have respect for the SEC beforehand. But let's go to
some of your calls, John and Albany, New York. What's up, John,
cle uh clear hit it right on the head first

(01:09:48):
of all. The Bills game got a fifty one rating
in Buffalo. So regionally, if you live in a region,
you're gonna watch the game. You're gonna tune on. And
no one in Buffalo watched that Saints game. They were
too depressed. But isn't a college getting into college. I
live in the Northeast, you know, we have one Double
A football up here, and even are you know, and
we have teams like US and Syracuse. But let me

(01:10:11):
tell you, I never root for Alabama and I rarely
root for Georgia. But every Saturday at three thirty, there's
one game I have on on my TV. It's three
thirty Eastern CBS. Nessler Garry Danielson used to be verned monthless.
That's the game to watch. You're gonna watch one game
a week, and I watched more. That's the game you're
gonna watch. So even though I don't like the SEC,

(01:10:33):
you know, I'll watch them any time they're on. Yeah,
you know, it's an interesting point because to me, I
don't understand, like if you were out there and you said, oh,
and I got a lot of these guys on Twitter,
and I'm not sure you know whether they actually will
will translate into the ratings, but they said to me
on Twitter, oh, I'm not gonna watch because there's two
SEC teams playing. Well, now that this game was basically

(01:10:54):
a classic, It's Monday night, what are you watching instead?
You know, like, if you're a if you're a sports fan, okay,
h And I understand again in the NFL arena, if
you feel like you're voting by not watching. Were there
people who felt like that it was an illegitimate game?
I mean, I don't even understand that argument. I think

(01:11:15):
if you watch the way Alabama played against Clemson, who
was the number one team in the country, and the
domination that we saw there, and then you watch the
way that Georgia played against Oklahoma, and then also the
way that Georgia played against Alabama, I don't understand how
you could say anything else other than the committee got
it right. They got the four best teams in the game.
And so I understand a little bit. White people would

(01:11:36):
not watch the NFL because they're like, Hey, the NFL
is spitting in my face. They're not respecting me. I'm
gonna walk away from the the game. But here college
football is trying to give you the best possible matchups,
and in fact we got an overtime national title game
which was extraordinary down the stretch, the whole fourth quarter,
lots of tension. Certainly Alabama was not very good offensively,

(01:11:59):
but the game can and you to build towards a crescendo,
which I would say basically peaked when Alabama missed what
should have been a chip shot field goal to win
the National championship, and then the swings of emotion in
college football overtime, which I think is the best overtime
in all of sports. I just I don't understand why
you didn't watch. If you didn't, what about you, Ryan
and Minnesota? What's up, Glad? Thanks for having me on

(01:12:21):
the radio. Yeah, no worries now being from Minnesota, obviously,
I'm a big ten guy, and I know you're not
a huge Big ten lover. But I'm gonna be honest,
I wasn't super interested in the game. I kind of
kept tabs on it through Twitter and whatnot. Um and
as I saw get closer in the fourth quarter. I
did kind of log on to see the spectacular finish. UM.

(01:12:45):
But to add, how about ESPN and they're dumpy, Uh
watch app? Oh my gosh, Yeah, I want yeah, tell
me about your experience freeze thout UM. Last year, I
missed the Shawn Washington touchdown as he's gone under center
with five or six seconds left. My app froze and

(01:13:05):
unfroze with him dancing and the touchdown and Clemson winning.
This year, I missed uh two getting sacked and then
the two touchdown throw. So two years in a row,
ESPN has screwed me out of watching the spectacular finishes
and the biggest game of the year. So yeah, I
know you've talked about the conspiracy theory about cable cutting

(01:13:26):
and I'll sign off. And while you talk about about man,
ESPN just pisses me off with their horrible capability of
streaming over the over the internet. Yeah. I want to
hear from other people if that happened, because I got
delus during the college football playoff last week between the
you know, Georgia and Oklahoma and then Alabama going up
against Clemson that lots of you were trying to stream

(01:13:48):
that game through the watch ESPN app and it just
died on you. And I'm curious how many of you
had a similar issue with buffering and it not working
and everything else. Because everybody talks about streaming being the
future of sports, I'm gonna be honest with you. I
have Apple TV up in my office at home, and
I can watch up to four games at once on
the screen, which looks in theory pretty cool. But what

(01:14:11):
I rapidly noticed was that streaming oftentimes has issues. And
I've got pretty good at WiFi in my house, pretty
high level streaming capabilities, and even when it streams accurately,
it's oftentimes like twenty or thirty seconds behind the actual
cable broadcast, which if you follow along on a second screen,
meaning Twitter or or something like that, Facebook, you're getting

(01:14:34):
a reaction. Uh, you see a reaction on social media
before you actually see the play in front of you.
But where other people having issues with that? I want
to get your calls. Eight seven seven three six nine.
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(01:15:15):
going to run through those. I'm Clay Travis. Well, you're
live here in Atlanta reacting to the college football National
Championship game last night. Alabama steals one from Georgia three
walk off touchdown pass in overtime. The Alabama Crimson Tide
gets their fifth national championship with Nick Saban in nine years,

(01:15:35):
and Nick Saban moves to sixteen and three in championship games,
SEC Championship, National Championship, or the playoff, which is one
of the most remarkable statistics of all time. And I
think cements Nick Saban as the best big game coach
in the history of college football and maybe the history
of sports in general. But let's get a few of

(01:15:57):
your calls. Let's go to car Earl in Ohio. You
were one of the guys out there streaming what was
your reaction, What was your experience, Like, yes, uh, when't
he was kicking the fifty one yard field going overtime?
I was. I was in my car watching it on
my phone and I ran in the house and they
were throwing the long ball for the touchdown. That's how
big of a delay there was there. Yeah, you know,

(01:16:19):
and and that is tough. If you are somebody who
likes to follow, do you follow Twitter or Facebook or
anything like that during the course of games? Is it
something like you'll have your laptop out or your your
iPhone or something like that, while like I always sit
personally on the couch watching games and I'll scroll through
and see what other people are saying about the game.
And I can't do that if I'm streaming. Yeah, mus

(01:16:41):
to mention. Throughout the whole game, it was it was freezing.
You could hear the style, but the picture pros YadA YadA.
Why were you watching on your phone as opposed to
watching at home? I had to go pick up my
son at work. Yeah, okay, I mean that that that
Thanks for the call. That's the reason why I typically
watch a streaming app is if I can't be in
front of my tell vision. But everybody talks about how

(01:17:01):
streaming is the future, and I don't know. I'm not
a technologically savant enough or sophisticated enough to explain why
the buffer is so much more substantial on streaming. Even
if you have a perfect stream, you're like twenty seconds
behind cable. I don't understand that exactly, but that's a
major issue. Brandon in Louisville, what's up, Brandon? Hey, Glen,

(01:17:22):
how you doing this morning? Excellent? How about you? I'm
doing all right, man. I watched the title game last night.
Luckily I was able to see the finish in the
comfort of my own home with a buddy of mine.
But I will say I watched a little bit of
it on the watch ESPN app. And that is not
the first time I have had trouble, uh watching the

(01:17:45):
game on that app. I mean, I've watched NFL games
on there, you know, on the NFL app, CBS F
stuff like that. But they dropped the ball every time
when the games. It's just it's it's annoying. I'm not
gonna lie, it's very yeah. Yeah. I pre to call
Ja in Indianapolis. What's up? Ja? Quickly? Thanks taking my call.
It's great. To have you guys back on in Indianapolis.

(01:18:07):
That's you're not being on for your I I love
your show. Um, I was gonna say, I think it's
a byproduct. I'm not talking about streaming, but I didn't
watch the game last night. I think it's a bioproduct
of the NFL and just a lack of I mean,
you went through those numbers in the wild card games.
It's a silent majority. Man, we're just tuning out. I mean,
you know, so you didn't watch college or the NFL games.

(01:18:28):
I watched here and there a bit. Normally I would
watch every single Sunday this year just because and it's
not necessarily a huge political stance. It's just the annoyance
of it in the Pandora's box that the NFL opened
up and dragging it into the game that just turned
me off. I mean it's like I don't comment on
politics on social media anymore because I'm gonna be bullied

(01:18:49):
by liberals or because I just I'm just gonna be quiet.
I'm just gonna vote with my vote, and I'm gonna
watch what I watched with my with my with my
you know, my precious time in the NFL I think
is just people. Yeah, good stuff Ray in Texas? What's up? Ray?
We lost Ray? There? Um. I That's why I think

(01:19:12):
college football could have an opening here because the NFL,
I mean that game. That number is shocking to me,
that the Carolina Panthers and the New Orleans Saints, which
is a great game featuring two big time quarterbacks that
everybody knows, Cam Newton and Drew Brees, that the ratings
on that would drop over on Sunday afternoon, which is

(01:19:34):
the best possible window to watch a game, right, that's
Sunday three kickoff, you know, four o'clock in the Eastern
time zone, three o'clock Central. Uh, everybody's up, everybody's out
of church, like that is the primo window. To have
that down over is wild, I mean just crazy. Yeah.
One of the excuses are One of the reasons that

(01:19:54):
they're saying is Charlotte Rally Durham Markets add to two
point three million house olds New York last year in
that same windows seven million obviously, and then they talk
about New Orleans being the fifty first rank with no
national following as opposed to the Packers who do. That's
the way they're trying to excuse it away, but if
you look at a nine percent drop during the regular season,
all four of these games down double figures. I don't

(01:20:17):
think that wash is enough. We're gonna come back in
our three live from Atlanta, unpack and continue to develop
what the overall impact is of Alabama winning their fifth
national title under Nick Saban, Bear Bryant Nick Saban now
tied with six titles and Nick Saban's are all pretty
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Quote what a game last night? There was lots of
talk about, Oh, this is such a regional game. You
got Georgia going up against Alabama to sc CE teams
playing in basically the capital of the SEC. Down here

(01:21:04):
in Atlanta, people saying, Oh, I'm not gonna pay attention.
Oh I'm gonna sit this one out. Oh I don't
think Alabama deserved to be in I'm an Ohio State fan,
the committee got it wrong. Well, guess what, Alabama found
a way to snag a championship in a situation where
you would have thought they were not gonna be able
to get that championship. Up twenty to seven, Alabama in

(01:21:27):
uh really difficult shape. Georgia looked like with about five
minutes to go, they picked off to a tong go
by Loa And I think if you want to go
back to a point in the game where everything was
at its apex for the Georgia Bulldogs, it was that
point in time. They've got the ball, I think at
the forty yard line of Alabama close to getting you know,

(01:21:49):
six seven yards. With the field goal kicker they have,
they can bomb one through go up twenty three seven.
If they were able to drive down and get a touchdown, effectively,
the game is over even as well as two are played.
Alabama trying to pull out all the stops. Nick Saban
does he have any magic left in the game at all,
And just when you think that Alabama is going to lose,

(01:22:12):
they find a way touchdown pass with four minutes left
on fourth down to tie it at twenty drive back down,
look like they got a chip shot thirty six yard
field goal right and center of the field to end
the game. And oh, by the way, to also help
your boy hit the under and still get the cover
from Georgia. Instead they push it wide left. My apologies

(01:22:32):
to everybody out there who was with me on the
blood bank guarantee, because the blood bank went up in
smoke right then and there. We're gonna need a transfusion.
And we went to overtime. Georgia bombs through a fifty
plus yard field goal to take a lead, then sacks
to Ah and you're thinking, oh my god, Alabama's gonna
have to try a long field goal at second and
twenty six, and magic happens to a tong go Vy

(01:22:56):
Loa becomes a legend with that touchdown pass. And we
have put together a series of different audio from the
game featuring a lot of the different scoring uh plays.
Let's go listen to Alabama called the game, Georgia called
the game, and our boys Sean mcdonnah, who if you
listen to the show yesterday, his voice was cracking. He's

(01:23:18):
still going through puberty. His voice continues to explode and
crack like a sixty year old man who suddenly became
went from boy to man Sean McDonough at the end,
you'll hear him. But let's listen to all of the
calls put together from last night's classic game. That's the
shock down, sneeze, put pressure off the edge here on
a little that one far side and holds up in

(01:23:39):
the air. It's come back to and pop but long
then dropped by Georgia and something Tony Brown as Tony
Brown interception as he rips it out of the hands,
help the receiver across the way. He is four of
eight from this distance this year. A forty yard try
off the new year hash mark. The snaps, the spot

(01:24:00):
is there, the kick on the way, It is up
and it is no good. It is wide left first
and goal from the one yard line. We go wild
dog with Sony. Now we go wild dog with Hardman.
From out to the right, snap it to the coole Hardman.
He play fakes. He runs to the left corner. Touchdown
Hardman from the wild Dog. The freshman from Eva Beach

(01:24:21):
hell By to a tongue go vid Loa is the
quarterback for Alabama. To is a left hander. Here now
the fake give to what keeps it. He'll do a
bit of a head shake and get acrost the five.
He'll pick up four yards on the plane twice. He
claps his hands too. I gets the snap. He'll throw
into the back of the end zone. Touchdown. Henry runs,

(01:24:43):
thank you very much. Alabama in business with a touchdown
on this drive with two a tongue go Valoa showing
the way third and long. Three receivers to the right,
one to the left from out of the shotgun takes
the snap. Here comes Pressure throws a deep far sideline
man breaking up, but hardening cat farts tight right down
in the fifth eight bas the deco breaks the dacko touchdown.

(01:25:06):
Touch down. Oh my goodness, here's a fourth down on
four to get a first down, southern yard and a touchdown.
Empty backfield, naunchy in motion. Here's to him. He looks,
stands in. Everybody's covered. He'll throw to the left side.
Called touchdown Alabama. Call by Alabama on the m zone.

(01:25:26):
Want a play coming across the Calvin Ridley showing his
younger brother how you come up large on the biggest
stage of the nights. Pappanastus right in front of the
goal post about a thirty six yard try to snap
the hole the kick is away and he no good,
no good. He hooked it to the left. Oh my goodness,

(01:25:47):
he missed it to the left. Oh wow. We'll play
another day. In fact, we'll go to overtime to clocket
zero paper Nash just missed it to the left. Blanket
Ship on the kick it for the lead in overtime.
Here's the snap, the hole. The kick is away. Let's
watch it. Let's watch it. It's reaching, doesn't have enough.

(01:26:08):
It is good. Fifty targe quadrigal hot ride. Blanket Ship
gives the Dogs the lead twenty three to twenty. Go
out of the gun, straight back to path, going deep.
Throw you that a man sideline and it is god
good touch down on day Smith, when's the national championship?

(01:26:30):
Down the lid, sideline and wide open behind the defense.
Hell Alabama, it's the national champion in overtime twenty six
to twenty three over Georgia. Hard to think anything other
than Alabama stole this game. Thirteen nothing Georgia at the half,
Nick Saban desperate, Jalen Hurts cannot complete and he passes

(01:26:52):
down the field. Kirby Smart had designed the perfect defense
that has totally stifled the Crimson Tide. He was prepared.
He knew exactly what Obama would want to go to.
They were the Georgia defense perfectly mirroring everything that Alabama
was gonna try to do. I tweeted it out. I
didn't see a lot of other people talking about it.
It's time for Alabama to go to Tuah and they

(01:27:15):
made the decision to go to Tua Tongo. By Loa.
He throws three touchdown passes, including one on fourth down,
another and overtime on second and twenty six, and he
goes from a guy nobody has ever heard of to
a legend in the space of one half of football.
All right, I want to show you we we played
our guy uh breaking down the voice there, his voice cracking,

(01:27:37):
Sean McDonough. We also played that for you from the
Titans and the Chiefs game the day before on or
two days before on Saturday. But I want to play
for you now the final play call of the game
from both Alabama and Georgia. The Georgia call we will
listen to first. It is from Scott Howard. At this

(01:27:59):
point in time, Georgia had just sacked to It was
second in twenty six. The Georgia Bulldogs are leading twenty
three to twenty and this is what it sounded like
if you were listening to the Georgia radio broadcast second
twenty six on the forty one. They say, Tula going death,
Philly's got a man up, and oh my god, that's
down't Alabama has wanted. Were just lost. It hit the

(01:28:24):
secondary too deep, cut behind our quarterback, and the Cripson tide.
Sweet jubilation for them as the Dogs are heartbroken. That
was Georgia george ing it in the most Georging way possible,
snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Here was Eli

(01:28:44):
Gold making the call for the Alabama radio network. Here's
two stepping back loads up looks long flows. That's all
touchdown Labama. The fun Ta Smith touched down, love Eva
and the Crimson time has once again ascended to the
top of the college football mountain. Their fifth Nursen championship

(01:29:07):
in nine years. Alabama, here's back. He's the Chapian of
college football. Incredible win for Nick Saban. Like I said,
he moves to sixteen and three overall, six and one
in National title games, seven and one in SEC Title games,
three and one in the college football playoff sixteen and three.
No one has ever dominated any sport in the big

(01:29:30):
games better than Nick Saban has at Alabama, to a
tongo vloa becomes a superstar, a legend coming off the bench.
If you're a Georgia fan, Man Georgia, you managed to
lose a game that you should have one. I don't
know whether you'll get back into this position anytime soon.

(01:29:50):
I know, as good as Kirby Smart as doing, I
know as good as he is recruiting. It is just
so hard when you think about the health of your team,
when you think about winning close games, when you think
about everybody out there trying to win a championship. Unless
you're Alabama, it's really hard to get into this title game.
So we will see what ends up transpiring as we

(01:30:10):
move closer and closer towards UH. The question of how
many more years is Nick Saban half? I mean, I
think it's a fair question to say. Is it possible
that Nick Saban could retire? Is it possible that Nick
Saban could look at the NFL having won five titles
in nine years? Does Nick Saban look around and say, Hey,
Kirby Smart's kind of got my number? Maybe he's gonna

(01:30:30):
build an even more impressive team in Georgia than Nick
Saban has it Alabama. I don't know, frankly, what's gonna happen.
I do know this, Nick Saban is the most dominant
coach in the history of college football, and he may
be the greatest big game coach in the history of
American sports. He's up there when you look at what
he has managed in the games that matter the most.

(01:30:51):
We were at the game, we were on the sideline.
For me, a moment that I will remember for a
very long time is the missed field goal and then
the start of overtime where it a ten yard line
literally right there on the field. I'm telling my producer
Jason Martin, hey, careful there with the social media snaps
and the videos and everything else. I actually told you,
I was like, we may get run up on because
we're right here on the sideline. And as we're saying that,

(01:31:14):
the two Alabama ball boys come in and they kneel
down right in front of us at the ten yard
line with the extra balls in the event that one
of them goes out of play and he's each of
them kneels down. They both see me, and they're both
OutKick fans, and then they both want to talk about
the game and uh, and one of them says, uh,
did you what about the fly in Hawaiian talking about
tongo tongo tongo? Uh? Sorry to a tongo va loa

(01:31:37):
and uh? And I said, man, is he like this
in practice too? And they were like, yeah, he's every
bit as good as this in practice and more, which
I think raises the question why didn't he play before?
Why didn't he play against Auburn? And the world happens
with Jalen Hurts. Now you talk about how quickly things
can change in college football. Jalen Hurts coming into this
game was twenty six and two as a starter at

(01:32:00):
Alabama as the quarterback, and now he gets the win
as the starter again. But will he ever start another
game at Alabama? I mean, tah is a true freshman,
and I don't know. If you look at the way
that offense played once he came in, night and day,
Jalen Hurts I think ends up having to transfer. I
don't think he's ever the starting quarterback again at Alabama

(01:32:22):
as long as two as healthy. Yeah, it's he can't
play there anymore. There's just there's no way, as classy
as he was, he's got to go somewhere where he
can actually get onto the field. As soon as Twa
hit the field, they started letting him throw the ball
like they they had so much more faith, clearly in
what he was able to do, even the idea that
he took that sack in overtime and then they let

(01:32:43):
him throw on that next place second drops back to pass.
You would think, again, if you're Georgia and you're doing
your Monday morning quarterback and you're going back over everything,
and obviously it's Tuesday morning here, that what you would
say when it's second and twenty six is on the
side sideline, let's not let anybody get behind us, because
if we just play a little bit of an umbrella

(01:33:06):
defense and allow a catch to happen in front of us,
make the tackle, worst case scenario, it's probably gonna be
third and ten, And then you know how much pressure
Alabama's in to try to get that first down, because
did anybody have any faith at all in Alabama even
attempting a field goal there? I I don't know that
that would even have made any sense at all, But
but man, I feel like Alabama's totally stole one here

(01:33:29):
in this game. This was a game that should have
been won by Georgia. Georgia had everything in their favor,
taking possession with about five minutes to go in the
game and the third quarter after that interception, they're up
thirteen and they throw an immediate interception there. I bet
if you go back and you talk to Kirby Smart
and he says, man, if we had just run the
ball three times there, I think it's very likely you

(01:33:49):
set up a field goal. You have a good shot
to go up twenty three to seven and effectively put
that game away, because I think if they ran the
ball three times, they probably gain at least seven or
eight yards and then that's a few goal they've given
how good Rodrigo Blankenship has been for Georgia. With those
big kicks, it's likely to go up seven and effectively
games over because you're also going to run a couple
more minutes off the clock. And I don't think that

(01:34:11):
Alabama would have been able to come back and win
at that point. Yeah, no, I don't either. I mean,
they could have easily just kind of taken the clock
completely away from Alabama. It was like they forgot what
got them in position to beat Oklahoma. They were able
to run back into that game, which is something that
is almost impossible to do, especially at that level. Georgia
able to run back into it against Oklahoma because Oklahoma

(01:34:35):
decided that they weren't gonna try to use the clock,
they weren't gonna do anything intelligent at all, and they
were gonna take it out of the hands of their
best football player. As much as you like what Jake
Frown was doing, if you weren't as satisfied there, at
least trying to drown that clock out by handing it
to Michelle or bring Chubb in. Chubb was not really effective,
so maybe you just go with Michelle or try to
do some kind of misdirection or something. But it did

(01:34:56):
not make any sense at all because they went away
from what made them Georgia and they got beat because
of it. It was a incredible effort by Tah who
became a absolute, just absolute star, absolute star last night,
a legend for Alabama Crimson Tide fans, three touchdowns in

(01:35:17):
the second half and in overtime a hundred and sixty
six yards passing Alabama the moment he came in was
a different team in the passing game, and for Jalen Hurts,
it's got to be difficult. But I don't see how
if Ta is healthy, he ever gets the job back
at Alabama again. Is he gonna transfer? Who knows? And
for Georgia fans, I was so close to retiring the

(01:35:39):
term Georgia. If you don't know what Georgia ing is,
it's when you basically have done everything to succeed and
then you've managed to somehow still fail and you can
apply it in all aspects of life. Georgia does it
better than anybody. They snatch defeat from the jaws of
victory unlike any team I've ever seen before. And I
understand the Georgia fans who want to be optimists out there,

(01:36:01):
and you're up early and you're waking up in Atlanta
and you were at that game, and you're saying, man,
we were so close to winning the title, just like
back when herschel Walker was it was a it was
a pup and instead they found a way to lose
this game. And my position on it is pretty straightforward.
It's hard to get into the title game, particularly with
a four team playoff and as good as Georgia maybe

(01:36:21):
in talent, they're probably gonna take a little bit of
a step back next year. And although you said they're
the number two overall favorite right now in the odds
to win the national championship, I do think that Alabama
Georgia are gonna have a lot of big time games
in the SEC title game in the years ahead, because
I think george is likely to have a pretty good
strangle hold on the SEC East over the next couple

(01:36:43):
of years. As as Florida gets ready, uh to prepare
to kind of make a run under Dan Mullen, as
Tennessee takes a little while to get up and rolling
with with Jeremy prue Att, the defensive coordinator for Alabama
who coached his final game for the Crimson Tide last night,
is now officially a University of Tennessee head coach. Just
what a well of a ball game last night. I
hope for those of you out there who were saying

(01:37:05):
I'm not gonna watch because it's two SEC teams, I
hope you made the decision. You know what, maybe I
should actually end up watching that. Uh. Just a spectacular
game all around. Congrats to the Crimson Tide Nick Saban
fifth national title in nine years. Again, to me, Nick
Saban is not just the greatest college football coach of
all time. I think that's what it means in terms

(01:37:26):
of I should say more the most dominant because he
maybe this isn't gonna coach as long as other guys.
Most dominant college football coach of all time and maybe
the greatest big game coach in the history of American sports.
Now sixteen and three entitle games or playoff games. I
am Clay Travis. We're gonna be joined by my guy
Petros Papadakis, will find out what l A thought about
the college football playoff game, what the field is on

(01:37:48):
the Rams losing. And also we haven't spent a lot
of time on this because we've had so much college
football in the NFL to talk about. What about LaVar
Balls comments that have sent the world spinning uh in
all sorts of easy directions, everybody in the NFL commenting
on his LaVar ball that is impressions and UH and
and and takes on what is going on right now

(01:38:10):
with Luke Walton, UH and everything there. So we will
discuss all of that and more upnext. Petros Papadas five
seventy am Sports in l A. He'll join us to
break down this game and more. I'm Clay Travis's out
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(01:38:30):
fifteen percent or more on car insurance. Joined now by
my guy, Petros Papadakis at Petros and uh Money on
Twitter five seventy am Sports out there. A lot of
you will be listening to him in the afternoon in
the l A area. Petros, We're talking a lot about
what the nation's reaction to this college football game is

(01:38:50):
and was. What was your reaction to Bama versus Georgia
as you watched it? Well, I enjoyed the game. You
know I have to watch. I'm a college ballperson. The
West Coast doesn't get as excited when it's two states
that born each other in a four hour flight away.
But it was a great game. It was an exciting game.

(01:39:12):
It was a game that was played at a high level.
I think the whole way through both teams are really
well prepared. There was great drama on all sides, whether
you like crossover stuff or you're a hip hop fan
or whatever. I thought the whole broadcast had a lot
And then there was Clay Travis sightings on Twitter all
night on my feet, so that was it was a

(01:39:34):
good night I thought. I thought it was exciting. There
there's no doubt about it. I don't think there was
a bunch of people running around screaming it's a fraudulent championship.
I only got a couple of texts about ucf uh.
But you know, I found an interesting staff the other day,
which was the two most watched championships of the last
I think ten years or something were the two Oregan games,

(01:39:59):
which interesting because they've kind of involved the entire country.
But personally I enjoyed it. What what about two of
his performance? You played college football, You've been there like
a big eyed freshman. You've talked about your experience on
the sideline to get the ball handed to you in
a national title game when your team is down thirteen nothing,

(01:40:20):
come in like he did and throw three touchdown passes,
including a walk off forty one yard touchdown pass two
in the game. Can we even express how incredible of
a performance he put forth? Not really I mean, the
only thing is is that's not his first game. You know,
It's not like that was the first time he ran
out of tunnel, the first time he was looking through

(01:40:41):
the face mask, the first time he went through you know,
the pregame warm ups or anything like that. I mean,
it's been a long year and you always hear reporters
or play by play guys say, well, you know, he's
not really a freshman anymore. You know, he's been on
the team the whole year. Now, he's like an experienced sophomore.
So there is a little something to that. But obviously

(01:41:02):
the guy can really throw. I mean, he can really
release that football, and he has got a live, fiery
arm and he is not afraid to unleash it. And
that's what you heard about him, you know. I guess
the best thing I could say about him was he
was as advertised. I mean, you were told that he
was an electric thrower, and he came out and made
electric throws. You wonder where he's been why we haven't

(01:41:26):
gotten to see him much. I mean, obviously Jalen Hurt
has been very, very successful and done a lot of
good things. Uh, the decision was interesting, and then to
stick with him after he he had some uh some
rough plays here and there and took some really bad sacks.
Was also interesting, But that's Nick Saban. That's why he's
the best in the business. He gets paid to pull

(01:41:46):
that trigger, and when it works, he just seems like
he's more and more the greatest coach we've ever had
in the history of college football. On the Georgia side,
do you think the Bulldogs will win a national championship
with Kirby Smart? For the people who are waking up
at cross the country today, who are Georgia Bulldog fans
who have been so close to winning championships over the
years and they just haven't been able to do it.

(01:42:09):
He is it so hard to get there that it's
even hard to predict that? Or watching them play in
the year two at Kirby Smart, did you find yourself thinking,
even in the wake of this defeat, they'll be back
and I think they'll get one. Well, for those of
us that that you know, make a living in college
football and watch it really hard, you know, we know
how difficult it is to get to that point. And
for those of us that picked Alabama to win this game,

(01:42:32):
uh by more than a touchdown or so. Uh, we
were surprised by their freshman quarterback from performance. I thought
from was absolutely lights out. He took some terrible sacks too,
especially at overtime, but I thought he was great in
this game for a true freshman quarterback. Of course, he's
got a lot more experience than to Uh, he's played

(01:42:52):
the whole season. You know, he took the field against
Notre Dame and all that and been very successful. But
I think George has got a great future because the
court back is really good, and like you said, you
saw the difference that Deshaun Watson made for Clemson last
season and what they were able to do in this
championship game against the great Alabama defense when things got
really competitive. So I think Georgia will have another shot

(01:43:15):
at this and they're obviously, you know, really good right now.
And Kirby Smart did a great job this year that
can't be said, can't be overstated. But uh, it's hard
to get there, there's no doubt about it, and there's
more teams than in just the SEC did you did
you think that Georgia got conservative in their play calling
down the stretch and that that impacted the overall outcome

(01:43:38):
of the game, or is that just taking away from
what Alabama did to focus on what Georgia didn't do. Well.
You know, let's say they didn't get conservative and and
they dropped from back seven steps and he took more
sacks and they were more behind the chains. Or let's
say they didn't get conservative and they threw the ball
and there was more time on the clock because the

(01:43:59):
income wee passes. I mean, they were trying to protect
the lead. They were trying to move the football in
their game plan, which was a lot of wildcat and
a lot of movement pre snap. Uh. In retrospect, yeah,
they got too conservative. You know, if you know that
kid's going to come out there and throw the ball
like freaking Brett Farve, you know, or he really played

(01:44:21):
like Steve Young, you know, uh you know, I mean
it was really really amazing watching him move around and
just whipped that ball, I mean really whipped that ball. Uh.
And we see good quarterbacks all the time. I mean,
we watched him every week, and this guy was just
his arm was just jumping off the screen, which really
tells you how talented he is. But I think in retrospect, yeah,

(01:44:44):
they got to conservative. They probably call some slant and
goes and some different things, but in the moment, I
think they were just trying to protect their lead. We're
talking to Petro's Papa s A M. Five seventy sports,
very successful Petros and Money Show, which many of you
will be listening to in the l A area since
after or noon. Petro's. When you look at at this
game between Georgia and Alabama and everything that went into it,

(01:45:08):
are you of the opinion that we need more than
four teams in the playoffs or did you think the
committee got it right and the final result, even if
it ended up being two SEC teams was okay? Because
back in two thousand eleven when this happened, it basically
led us to this playoff, people said, no, we can't
have two teams from the SEC playing for the title.
Now we got it again. Do you think it would

(01:45:29):
be better if there were a larger playoff or do
you think the number is right right now? Well, this
was a better game than the last one. I was
out there in New Orleans for the last one, and
even though I was there, that one made me nauseous.
This one felt a lot more genuine, at least to me, Uh,
did the committee get it right? I have to think

(01:45:51):
so that they just don't like when you get blown out,
and that's what happened to Ohio State. You know, was
there an SEC bias maybe? But look at Alabama. I
mean there's a great stat that in the last nine
years Alabama has played in six title games and they've
won five. I mean, so you put Alabama, and of

(01:46:12):
course you have some bias, but they perform in these playoffs.
So I didn't really have a problem with it because
the committee was stating even the Ohio State won the
conference championship, which is uh, something that is a tiebreaker.
If there's equal teams in their eyes, uh, then they're
gonna go. Obviously, these teams weren't equal in the eyes

(01:46:33):
of the committee because Alabama went over Ohio State and
they won their conference championships. So I didn't have a
problem with it the way it played out. And I
don't think it would hurt us to go to six
with a buy and I don't even think it would
hurt us to go to eight. Uh. I wouldn't mind
seeing what the Central Florida's of the world have to offer,
or the Boise States of yesteryear. Uh, could do in

(01:46:53):
the in a tournament. Uh. And I don't think it
would hurt the bowl season because we just watched football
because it's on. You know, people consume football. That's that's
what they do during the holidays. That's what's on in
most households in America. So I think some extra games
wouldn't hurt us. It would be fun. But I don't
mind the four either. To be honest, play, I'm I'm
contented these days. That's amazing. Uh, that's Petrus. I know, Okay,

(01:47:17):
I gotta ask you about LaVar Ball. I know that
we haven't hard they talked about it, that we haven't
hardly talked about that much because we've been so focused
on the NFL and the college football playoff. But I
know it's a massive story and we'll probably unpack it
later in the week. But you guys have to have
been talking about it a great deal. What was your
perspective on the story, the coverage of LaVar Ball basically

(01:47:37):
saying that Lonzo didn't want to play for Luke Walton
and no, no, nor did anybody else. All Right, Well,
if I get too jumbled in this situation, just kinda
steer me back in the right direction. Hey, Luke Walton
is struggling. You know, they just avoided tying a ten
game losing streak would be the longest in Laker history,
or tie the longest in Laker history. They're having a

(01:47:59):
rough here. Luke Walton is a well liked guy and
a good coach, and he's got a lot of equity
in this area. I shouldn't say good coach, he's perceived
to be a good coach. What do I know? Uh,
the Lakers are young, Obviously they're struggling. A Lonzo Ball
is not exactly what he was advertised to be and
doesn't seem to be in that greatest shape, even though

(01:48:19):
his dad's a trainer, you know, different things like that. Okay,
So that's that's that part of it, the LaVar Ball
thing that everybody thought Magic Johnson, with his magnetic personality
and the fact that he's the most popular person in
this city pretty much could control, uh anything coming out
of this guy's mouth. That that train has left the station,
especially since he's going after the Lakers from Lithuania for

(01:48:44):
God's sake, which is another very very hilarious part of
this story. Uh, this really just is the worst nightmare
of the Lakers coming to fruition. They are not having
a great year. Uh A, Lonzo's just okay. There's other
rookies they're performing a lot better than him. It looks
like they've missed on another number two pick. Not that

(01:49:04):
Lonzo is not an NBA prospect and a lottery pick,
but that's the number two pick they picked him with.
So those are tough questions to answer. They they are
in full defense mode there, and they have the dad
attacking them from basically the Eastern Bloc, which is just amazing.
It's an amazing part of this story. Uh And then

(01:49:25):
you have the NBA coaches protecting Luke Walm because of
the because of the coaches Union, and because ESPN sent
a guy out there, a full time guy, Jeff Goodman,
their basketball guy. They're they're old Andy Katz or Stein
or whoever you know, that's who that in the middle
of the college basketball season when conference play is starting,

(01:49:46):
ESPN said their number one guy to Lithuania to cover
a Baltic League team, not even the head league in Lithuania.
So the coaches are saying, why are you covering this?
Why are you giving this guy a voice when he's
attacking our co jius and he has no real basketball
credentials other than the fact that he's an a AU coach.
So they're throwing out the whole broadcast partnership angle here,

(01:50:09):
which is, hey, we're broadcast partners, and we'd let you
interview us at quarters. We let you interview our players.
We bend over backwards to give you information for your broadcast.
The SDN notice they're not criticizing Turner, who would never
do this, but ESPN has got a guy out there
because they're getting clicks whenever LaVar Ball opens his mouth.
So it's a really interesting circular situation. I don't really

(01:50:33):
know where it's going to go, but it is the
worst nightmare of the Lakers come into fruition. How do
you think most people in l A are coming down
on this? Are they on LaVar side? Or are they
on Luke Walton side? Do they just wish it wasn't happening?
How would you assess the average fan in the l
A metropolitan area and the way they've responded this story. Well,
it really depends if you're a Laker fan or you're
just somebody watching. You know, if you're somebody watching, you know,

(01:50:56):
you watch it like you watch the President, and you
just expect daily outrage and people on one side that
are really really far on one side too to go nuts,
and and the opposite on the other side. So it's
kind of the same thing. It always surprises me on
Twitter timelines and things of that nature, the people that

(01:51:16):
come out and defend LaVar Ball and say he's telling
the truth. This guy can't coach and you know, or
or anything. You know, this guy is doing what he
wants with his sons, this guy's an entrepreneur, this guy, uh,
you know, you see a lot of that, and that
does surprise me because to me, LaVar Ball is a clown.
I mean, but he creates daily outrage and people are

(01:51:39):
tuning in for it, and every time somebody predicts that
it's over, it just gains more momentum. So I'm done
predicting that people are done talking to LaVar Ball? Is
he good for what you do? Do people care? Like
you see like a blip, everybody wants to talk about
it or are you just over it? I hate to
compare it to this, but it's kind of like the
when Kobe was going through his sexual assault thing, and

(01:52:03):
he was flying back and forth from Colorado and it
was the number one story and you ended up doing
the whole show on it every day, and people would
complain and say, my God, could you please God talk
about something else, and you kind of shrug your shoulders.
In the world of breaking news and big events, and
you say, you know, this is what's happening. Uh, LaVar Ball,

(01:52:26):
for better or for worse, here in town has been
what's happening for like of the last year. You know,
He's been everyday topic almost, you know, for for all
of us in the l A media and beyond. And
it's just it does not get weirder, you know, than
a guy in Lithuania in a in a spartan looking

(01:52:50):
hotel resorts with an ESPN guy covering him of twenty
four hours a day going after an NBA coach who's
coaching his on the number two pick in the draft
while his other two sons he pulled out of a
major university and a good high school here in southern
California and brought them to freaking Lithuania where they were

(01:53:10):
not allowed in the building the other night because the
coach of one team had an outstanding debt to the
other team. Petros have a great afternoon a M five
seventies sports go follow them on Twitter at Petros and Money.
Good stuff, my man, thank you, Clay, and congratulations of
the South really really showed out for you last night. Yeah,

(01:53:31):
big time. That's Petros Papa Day. Guess let me bring
in my guy Eddie Garcia find out what's shaken the
world's sports well Claire. Of course, we started with the
college football national title game, where Alabama rally to be
Georgia three and overtime. Crimson tied down thirteen nothing at
the half. They then decided to make a quarterback change.
Jalen Hurts went to the bench and true freshman to
a Tongue of Valoa gets in the game. It throws

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three touchdown passes, including a forty one yard or in
overtime Davonte Smith to end the game to give Alabama
it's fifth national title in nine years. At Bread, coach
Nick Saban his sixth national championship, tying Bear Bryant for
the most for any head coach in the NFLO. Chicago
Bears named Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator Matt Niggy as
their new head coach. He had spent ten seasons as
assistant with Andy Reid with the Eagles and the Chiefs.

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Most recently was the o C in Kansas City and Clarid.
The final Associated Press College Football poll is out of course,
Alabama's number one, Georgia two, then Oklahoma, Clemson and Ohio
State round out the top five. I guess good News
Bad is in Central Florida. That News their six despite
the third team no record, but they did get a
few first place votes in that final poll. Good stuff,

(01:54:36):
my man. Final segment of the show, Live from Atlanta.
We will be back to wrap up what was an
incredible classic game between Nick Saban and Kirby Smart Alabama
and Georgia. The Tide get their fifth title in nine years.
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a more confident car buying experience. Guys, I'm sitting here
thinking about like the overall kind of big takeaway from
this game, and I think it ultimately circles back around
to Nick Saban. As much as he may not have
deserved to win this game, he made the decision to
pull out a starting quarterback who had gone and two
in Jalen Hurts and replace him with t A Tago Via,

(01:55:43):
a guy that most of us don't even know how
to pronounce his name, and that's why I'm gonna forever
call him to a from now on. But to hand
the reins to a guy like to Ah who is uh,
totally a wild card, and it may have been the
biggest gamble in Nick Saban's coaching career make that decision.
It also obviously has implications for the years ahead in

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terms of who his quarterback is, and it worked out
masterfully for him. Two of throws the touchdown past forty
one yard or to walk off to win, three throws
three touchdowns overall in the second half and overtime leads
to drives that also kicked field goals and storms Alabama
back from a thirteen to nothing deficit in a twenty

(01:56:25):
to seven deficit with about six minutes left in the game. Two.
Bring Alabama and Nick Saban a fifth national title in
nine years. And again these numbers are jumping out at me.
Nick Saban now sixteen and three in the biggest games
of his coaching career. Six and one in national title games,
the only loss coming last year to Clemson on a

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touchdown pass that was completed with one second remaining, seven
and one in SEC title games, and the only loss
there coming from UH, a Tim Tebow lad Florida Gator
team that would go on to win the national title.
And three and one in the College Football Semifinals in
the Playoff in the four years that the College Football

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Playoff has existed, with the only loss coming to Ohio
State UH in the year that Ohio State went on
to win the national championship. So Nick Saban in the
biggest games of his coaching career is sixteen and three
and every team that has beaten him has gone on
to win the national championship. That's not just the best
in the history of college football guys. I think it

(01:57:29):
may be the best in the modern era of sports.
I can't think of any coach Bill Belichick in the NFL.
Uh maybe if you go all the way back to
John Wooden with uh the u c l A. Bruins
in terms of all the championships that he won in
a row and all the big games that he won.
But if you think about how competitive college football is

(01:57:51):
and how there is no one else even close to
Nick Saban in terms of his overall accomplishments, I think
you can make a strong argument, and in fact, I
would make the argument the Nick Saban isn't just the
best coach, the most dominant coach in the history of
college football. I think he may be the best big
game coach in America today who is living and has

(01:58:12):
coached in a modern era, and a modern era being
defined as I don't know, the last forty or fifty years.
Can you even think of anybody who's better than Nick Saban?
I mean sixteen and three in the biggest games that
he has coached. That doesn't count obviously, all the games
you have to win to get to those big games,
you know, I mean that you obviously have to win
a tremendous amount of games to be able to play

(01:58:33):
for seven national championships. You have to win a tremendous
amount of games to play for eight SEC championships and
to make the College Football Playoff all four years that
it has existed. I don't know that there's anybody the
equivalent of Saban in all of sports right now. Who
would you even argue otherwise, Jason Martin think maybe you could.
I mean if I don't think you can make the

(01:58:54):
argument either for anybody, but you might look at coach
k at Duke and what Mike Sasowski has done, or
even Ian Smith, but he didn't win the number of
championships on a couple when he was in North Carolina
and he was regarded to be that good. I think
the three the three coaches. When you talk about the
great great coaches and team sports today, you're gonna say Belichick,
You're gonna say Saban, and you're gonna say Papovich. And

(01:59:14):
I think Saban is above all of them because of
the level of competition and just the duration with which
he continues to do this over and over and over again.
Coach k has got uh. Let's see, he has got
how many five n c Double A Division one championships.
Now he's coached a lot longer coach K one titles
in two thousand and one, two thousand ten, and two

(01:59:37):
thousand fifteen. And obviously that's a longevity stretch because Nick
Saban's titles have all come, if I'm correct, since two
thousand three. I think that math is right, so Nick
Saban has and you also have to take out two
years obviously that Nick Saban went to the NFL, and
I think most of the negativity associated with Nick Saban
would be people saying, well, he went to the NF

(02:00:00):
fell and he was only roughly a five coach. It
is interesting that he was two and two in his
four games against Bill Belichick. Um, you know, everybody wants
to talk about how Belichick is the greatest coach of
all time. Nick Saban coached four games against Bill Belichick
as a head coach with the Dolphins, and they split.
They went two and two, And obviously Belichick had a
more successful and talented roster and a more successful and

(02:00:22):
talented NFL career. But I still wonder the ultimate question
that I have about Nick Saban's coaching career is what
if they had signed Drew Brees with the Dolphins instead
of Dante Culpepper, would Nick Saban have ever come back
to coach at Alabama. Regardless of the Tide Rolling Baby,
they got their fifth title in the lights nine years

(02:00:42):
Saban and Alabama gets it done. Georgia, Georgia's in the end.
I'm Clay Travis. Thanks from Atlanta for OutKick the coverage.

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