December 8, 2024 • 36 mins
John reacts to an exciting weekend in college football. John dives into the high scoring Big Ten Championship Game that saw Oregon outlast Penn State 45-37. Next, he talks about the Georgia-Texas SEC Championship Game. John discussed how impressive it was for Georgia to find a way to win 22-19 despite having their back-up QB in the game after Carson Beck got knocked out of the game. All that and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The volume. Well, I watched college football all day to
day like many of you, starting with Kenny Dillingham and
ASU just routing Iowa State through a record SEC championship game,
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first ever overtime, the Oregon Penn State game that was
kind of looked like a blowout and then got pretty
entertaining as the game went on. And obviously Clemson in SMU,
Clemson just had a walk off fifty five ish yardfield
goal to avoid a pretty devastating loss because they were
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up big and then SMU came storming back. But we
got a pretty good idea tomorrow the playoffs. I think
we'll be set before the NFL games kickoff. Sure nine
am Eastern. That doesn't even sound right saying maybe it's
nine Pacific. Maybe it's the hour before the NFL kickoff
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that college football is gonna do their show. So we
will know the brackets. We pretty much have a good idea.
We just don't know the seating. I think all signs
point to SMU not getting invited in Alabama. Coming on
in and listen, but before we'll dive into it. In
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gonna be playing in the Rose Bowl, right. Notre Dame's
gonna have a home game, Ohio State's gonna have a
home game. I mean, some of these home games in
a couple of weeks are going to be pretty badass.
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I think my takeaway as we head into the college
football playoffs is Oregon is the best team in the country. Now.
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We have seen over the last twenty plus years, like
all time dynasty level teams from Alabama to historic team
like that LSU team in twenty nineteen. Some are Urban Myers,
Florida teams, Pete Carroll's USC teams, teams that you're just
gonna remember forever, right, And I don't think we have
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a team like that playing this year. I think the
parody at the top is as good as it's been
we basically have. I would say some sort of NFL
version of college football. You could even argue and listen,
I'd have to really dive deep into my Oregon people.
Is this the best Oregon team of the past fifteen years?
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I think we could have a long argument about that.
But who cares like this version of Oregon relative to
the competition. I think it's fair to say is the
best team in the country. And Oregon, unlike you know,
Penn State, has won a national championship before, Georgia has
won a national championship before. Texas has won national championship
before Ohio State, I mean Oregon never has, so trying
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to do it is a really really big deal for them,
and this time wide open number one seed. The quarterback tonight,
Dylan Gabriel. Listen, He's had an awesome career. He has
been a good player since before we got to Oklahoma. Tonight,
I thought he was awesome. He looked like to what
at Alabama tonight, the way he was slinging that thing around,
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getting peppered in the pocket, throwing strikes so many times
a night against Penn State. Who say what you want
about James Franklin, he is like the Dan Campbell of
Mario Cristobals. He can recruit. I mean there were players
all over that field on Penn State and be like,
I'd want him on my team. I'd want him on
my team. I'd want him on my team. Can I
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get that guy on my team? Very talented player or
players all over the place, and that front, they had
some dudes that just are going to plead playing for
a long time on Sundays crushing Dylan Gabriel And the
one thing you know with the Oregon quarterback. He's not
that big and he would throw a strike at Pepper
deliver it hit a guy in stride. Obviously, Tess Johnson,
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bo Nix's buddy from Auburn, was dominant tonight and the
speed on the outside was a huge separating factor for Oregon.
But I thought he was he was really really special.
And the difference of him and Alur, who I've been
up and down on, and even in that game, you
watch him and you go, yeah, damn uh whoa uh,
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He's just he's a roller coaster. But I will say
this about Alur. I will take a chance on Alur
seven days a week and one hundred times on Sunday
over the two quarterbacks I watched in the SEC Championship game,
but like, he just misses too many passes. And the
difference in the game to night when when all the
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dust settled, because they were down twenty eight to ten
and it wasn't all Alur's fault. There were a couple
of personal foul penalties, like Penn State was kind of
in shambles. Then they come storming back. I thought Gabriel
was excellent start to finish. Obviously, throws for whatever four touchdowns,
but so many big passes on second and third and
long in the second half when he is just gonna
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get Molly walk. Some of these passes aren't even accounting
for first downs. It's just getting them into a more
advantageous third and five instead of being third and ten.
It's like the dude was tough throwing strikes, you could
rely on him, and then al are two passes the
night that listen. There is no disputing his physical gifts
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Like that is what I would consider a really good
project in the history of the league. That's like a
second day pick. Maybe because of his tools, I'm sure
he's a you know all, I've heard good things, high
character guy. Maybe he goes a little higher than he should.
But there's a lot to work with there. But accuracy
in touch, man, You're just like, damn, because they ran
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a trick play in they were down seven points in
the second half and they're driving and they call this
BELICHICKI and Josh McDaniels. Tight end is where the tackle
is and the tackles flexed out with the wide receivers,
and clearly Oregon is confused. Warren, who's a first round
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player number forty four B lines down the seam is
wide open, and Aler rushes the pass and Warren tries
to juggle it like he's Jerry Rice and just is
not able to catch it. If he just takes a
deep breath lobs it up, Warren probably scores. Then Penn
State kicks a field goal and misses, and the game
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kind of flips right there. I thought that was a
huge miss in the game. And obviously at the end
of the game when their defense was awesome, you know,
just making big plays down the stretch to get the
ball back. They basically forced a three and out on
Oregon and didn't even have to use it any other timeouts,
well they only had two, and they get the ball
back with like under two minutes and thirty seconds with
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two timeouts and the two minute warning, and then he
throws a go ball down the scene unless if you
could put that on the coaches as well, like what
are you guys doing? And so he makes two huge
mistakes where Gabriel just wasn't making mistakes and just does
it make mistakes. Now, Gabriel doesn't possess like the physical
gifts Aler did or does. Aler had the one play
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where h Ungoulela DJ's brother whose Oregon's pass rusher, probably
the position DJ should have played defensive line, is yanking
his undershirt. Aler's unfazed as he's getting yanked, throws a
strike into the end zone to number six. You're like,
holy shit, what a pass in that game? I had
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on the big ten game on the big screen. Sound
on the SEC game or not the ACC game on
the smaller TV no sound that felt right Like one
game felt like NFL level intensity. The other felt a
little Minor League. I mean, let's face it, that's no
Shaye like I don't have a dog in the fight.
It sound like I'm an Oregon guy. Though very proud
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of the former PAC twelve who won two of the
Power Four Conferences with Oregon in the ASU, but excellent
season from Dan Lanning, Tonight was a big game. Think
like listen, Oregon was favored. They went in there, they
jumped out twenty eight ten. They had the lead the
whole time. They took some punches, they made huge plays.
Allan misses that go ball by a little bit in
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the dB makes a great catch. It's like Oregon just
makes plays, and they got playmakers fucking everywhere. A lot
of teams speed now, one thing's kind of clear, as
you can run on them a little bit. But the
one thing I would say is like I was pretty
impressed at Penn State. Like Penn State's got a lot
of players. I would want their entire front seven. I
would want Warren forty four. I would want There are
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two running backs Singleton and I think thirteen. Give me
those two guys in the backfield. So talent is not
the issue. A little weird their skill guys on the
outside aren't as good, which is somewhat ironic given that
Franklin is an elite recruiter and he's a wide receiver
guy at his core, Like that's kind of his baby.
He was a wide receiver coach when he was coming up.
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But they definitely got talent. They definitely can win a
playoff game. I think if you're a Penn State fan, listen,
you lost the best team in the country. You kind
of hold your head high that that final pick sucks,
But I think you have to believe, like we have
the talent to win a playoff game. We have the
talent to make noise. And I think if you're an
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Oregon fan, you go, this is our fucking year. We
are winning the national title. We have a quarterback that's
good enough. We have a coaching staff that's good enough.
We have talent on offensive defense is good enough. We
got playmaker speed, I mean the amount of time that
The one thing you saw tonight is that speed relative
to Penn State, which is good, especially on the back end.
They have a bunch of highly touted guys. Looked like
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advantage Orgon. It looked like advantage organ The one thing
you'd say about Penn State is like the way they
recruit their NFL talent is a lot like the Tennessee's
and the Georgias, Like those are the type guys they're
rolling out, you know, in the front. So if I'm
a Ducks fan, I'm pretty fired up for this playoffs.
I'm feeling good. It's not championship or bust in terms
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of like being down on my coach or whatever. But
I do think it's fair that like expectations are really
really high. Spend that way all season. They answered the bell.
They have not lost. First year in the Big Ten.
Beat Ohio State beat Penn State, number one seed, doesn't
get any better. That's you know, you had expectations. The
wind blows the hardest at the top of the mountain top.
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You didn't get blown over. You handle it all season long.
Early in the season was a little weird, playing your
best football post Ohio State. Feeling good now headed on
into the playoffs and if your Penn State, I think
it's a success successful year if you win a playoff game.
And James Franklin kind of needs that, right because clearly
he's not a bad coach. I think he's like the
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better version like I said of Mario Christobal. But eventually,
you got to win a game where you're the underdog
against a good team and not like an underdog like
twenty points, like two or three points, like can you
can you just beat a team that we all think
is a little bit better but not that much better
skill wise. And I don't know. I don't really have
that much to say about Clemson SMU because I was
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so locked into the Big Ten game. Obviously Clemson's into
the playoffs as a ten and three team, SMUs out
and I really have zero sympathy. I do not care,
Like I'm not going to spend much time put Alabama in.
Basically five through twelve for me is a television show
and would I rather see Alabama Notre Dame or SMU
Notre Dame. Give me Bama Notre Dame all day long.
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And Clemson like this is part of is a little
like basketball, you know, like the NCAA tournament where sometimes
you know, like an NC state in the ACC would
be like the fifth or sixth seed in the basketball tournament.
Then all of a sudden, they win the conference tournament,
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you get an automatic bid to the Dance. And that's
what Clemson just did. They gave themselves a chance once
Miami lost and then they won the game, which was
a huge advantage for him because the game was right
down the street from from where they play. So sucks
for SMU, but it is what it is. I look
at their schedule midgame was like, who they've even beaten?
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I don't even care. Let's get to the SEC championship game.
Pretty big. Listen the referee. The officiating was pretty terrible
all game long. It was not a well officiated game.
Start complained about it at halftime, gave it all time,
well they need a call holding for them too, and
then just walked off. Very awkward moment. Carson Beck gets
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knocked out of the game. Looks like he has the
brock Perty injury from the Eagles NFC championship game. Kirby
said after the game that he could not grip the ball.
Then the backup gunner Stockton, all time great backup quarterback,
SEC quarterback name gets KOed right in ot they had to.
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I don't think he got six quarterbacks dressed. Carson Beck
comes back into the game well, his arms dangling as
he runs into the game, so it's clear they're going
to hand the ball off, and then they score the
game winning touchdown. But I think there are a lot
of elements of that game. One big picture thing. I
don't think either one of those two teams now Carson Beck.
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I think it's fair to take an educated guests given
that he can't grip the ball, and we saw purty
and we saw the way it was hurt that if
he does need Tommy John like obviously, his season's over.
They weren't winning a national championship with Carson Beck, just
like Texas cannot win a national championship with Quinn yours.
And listen, Texas was beating the shit out of them
in the first half. I mean running it all over
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the place, and I got so many texts from people
in the NFL. It's like Sark is so good at
scheming around Quinn ewrs, you cannot depend on the guy.
And I think they're kind of in a tough spot,
like should they have just gone to Arch at this point?
But they have no shot and everyone knows it, and
he Texas fan, any person that watches college foot you're
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not gonna win. However, many four games with k Quinn
you were as at quarterback, it is not going to happen.
And they clearly, like Oregon, like Ohio State, like they
have a national championship level roster. They have elite players
all over the place, and their quarterback is a major liability.
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And when I see you know, some of these people
are being sarcastic and some of them are being kind
of serious, Like same energy now that George's quarterback gets
knocked out basically alluding to Florida State, It's like, no,
it's not the same energy because Jordan Travis was one
of the Florida State's better players and when the backup
came in, it was a dramatic drop off. So when
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Florida State got left out, it's like, well they're down
to their third string quarterback. All these guys look like scrubs.
Their starting quarterback was a legit player. I mean, hell
he got still got drafted off of devastating knee injury.
Not like he was a first round quarterback or anything,
but the gap was huge. I watched Gunner Stockton come in,
It's like, what the hell's the difference? Carson Beck just
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isn't that good. I got a text again tonight from
a like a number two with the team, was like,
I don't remember any player losing more money just based
on play, not something off the field, not getting in trouble,
just on a weekly basis. Watching them play starting week
one to be a championship game, then Carson Beck. So
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like I view Georgia upgraded, this kid can run around.
It just feels like it gives them life. Because hell,
they might have been one and done with Carson Beck.
They might be one and done with this guy. But
the difference at quarterback in this situation to me is nothing.
And say this about listen a lot of respect for Texas.
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They have a huge payroll at Ohio State, so they
shouldn't ever be not pretty damn good, right, And they
spend a ton of money. But year one sec in
the SEC Championship game had tipped to you. Today everyone's
gonna bitch and moan about the referees. You had your shot, man,
you really did. And I don't think you get to
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bitch and moan when you're rolling that out of quarterback.
I really don't. But you've played Kirby twice now, and
now that Savan's gone, he's the clear king of the hill,
and he's beat you twice. He's beat you twice. He
kicked your ass at home and then he beat you again.
And today is on you because sixty three at halftime,
like it should have been eighteen to three, because if
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you get a big enough lead, you're winning the game
pretty easily. But y'all gain them, you dominate them. Georgia
looked terrible. Just an embarrassing first half from Texas in
terms of the scoreboard relative to the way they played.
And I think it comes down to the quarterback play.
And you watch the way Sarkas to call plays with
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this guy at quarterback, it's wild. It's like, you know,
he's got a team full of Ferrari and then he's
got a Honda cord a quarterback usually if you have
a Ferrari quarterback and then have some Honda Chords around him,
like it's easier to be a better team when that
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is your major limitation and listen, for a long long
time in college football, we have seen great teams have
average to below starting quarterbacks. I mean, honestly, most of
my life growing up in the nineties, most quarterbacks for
the best teams in college were not future John Elways
and Dan Marinos. There were a bunch of random guys
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in the late nineties and early two thousands, a lot
of Ken Dorsey's, a lot of Josh Heipel's. But I
feel like I'm watching Quinn yours like NFLF. He's an
NFL Like, I don't even view him as an NFL player,
at least I've seen some moments where I could if
you wanted to draft Carson back in the sixth round,
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like okay, But like I do not view Quinn viewers
as an NFL player. So I think Sark has to
think long and hard about making a change at quarterback
to arch Manning in the playoffs because this point, like
you've paid him the nil. It is what it is.
It's pretty wide open. It actually doesn't get any more
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wide open, and obviously from a mobility standpoint, Arch is
much more mobile. And listen, I think Arch's arm. I
think when you just say Arch Manning to a casual fan,
people think they're getting like Josh Allen from Mahomes or something.
He's his arm is not that great. But it's not
like quinn Ewers is out there slinging it around, you know,
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like he's justin Herbert, like you just can't keep going
like this, but that that has to hurt. I didn't
see Sark's postgame press conference or any of his quotes
because we just went right into this this night game.
But I can't imagine he's not going to sleep well tonight.
You know, the first time around, get your ass kicked,
tip your hat. It is what it is tonight. Like
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they came out out ready, they were fucking ready to
win that game. There's that visual during the ASU game,
I think it was a halftime they had a camera
in the bus for Texas. And usually you know, football
team has multiple bus as offense, defense or whatever. Usually
the head coaches and bus number one which tends to
have the offense. But depending on how you do it, it
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could just be like a mismatch of different players and coaches.
And Sarks in the front seat basically right next to
the bus driver with just a massive mouthful of red
man and you could tell like he was pretty dials
and he came out swinging, but his quarterback let him down.
I give them a lot of credit. His defense is good.
He has matured as a coach, like he just his
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teams look much more tougher than let's say, Ryan Day,
Like I think there if we're doing tiers for coaching,
Sarks in a different level than Ryan Day. But like
his quarterback man, it's just the same thing with Ohio State.
When you have limitations with your quarterback and you have
to try to scheme around him, you're gonna have problems.
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Georgia always has kind of played like that. Kirby's not
defensive or yeah, defensive guy, so he doesn't want to
put it all on the quarterback. In a weird way,
Kirby ain't really looking for Matt Staffords, not the way
he wants to play star Kiss and Quinnyewer's name is
bigger than the actual player. But fantastic win for Georgia.
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Kirby's taking shots on the podium at grag Sankee about
the schedule and the difficulty of it. He's not wrong.
I saw that Texas doesn't even have a top twenty
five win this season. I bet there's a chance Penn
State doesn't either. So you know, you look at Georgia,
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Let's go to the morning. Most of my life definitely
my late nineties into the two thousands. Arizona State has
had a moment here in a moment there, Jake Plumber,
Pat Tillman, they had decent team in the two thousand
and four five range. But Arizona State, I would say
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the last ten plus years has mainly been a dogshit program.
It's just completely irrelevant and at times it's been one
of the worst Power five programs. And what Kenny Dillingham
inherited from Herm Edwards was an embarrassment. Think of how
bad Herm Edwards was. He coached at ASU for five seasons,
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and when he got fired, ESPN immediately hires him back
and they don't have him talk about college football at all. Obviously,
he's an NFL guy, he's been an NFL coach. I
get it's like he should be able to talk about
the NFL two, but he literally had just coached in
Power five for five seasons, and it's like, as someone
told me a while back, that like, yeah, I don't
even think Herm would be able to tell you half
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his team's first name. So the program was in shambles.
Dillingham takes over. They go three and nine, They have
no nil money. It's a program that no one really
cares about. And then this season to win the conference,
when you go to the Big Twelve and you're pick
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to finish last, it's just an incredible accomplishment. And nothing
sums up football more than Cam Skataboo, the running back
who if it wasn't for Travis Hunter and Shador Sanders
would be the player of the year in the Big Twelve.
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And just as an incredible story. And I think it's
kind of symbolizes why football resonates with so many people.
He had zero stars coming out of high school. Zero stars.
I looked up his junior year in high school. He
played in Sacramento Atrial Linda. It's a small little school.
He had three hundred or thirty five hundred yards and
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forty two touchdowns. I don't know if he got injured
or something happened a senior in high school, but he
wasn't as productive his junior in high school. Looks like
Derrick Henry in high school. Then he goes to Sack
State for a couple of years. And while he's at
Sack State, they have the greatest year in the history
of the program. They go to the playoffs, Troy Taylor,
their head coach, becomes the head coach at Stanford, and
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he clearly goes in the transfer portal, one of the
better transfer portal guys goes to Arizona State, and two
years later, I mean today he looked like Mike Alstott
meets Walter Payton. He looked and he's looked like this
all season, but today he had a couple runs of
just breaking tackles and running through guys and making guys miss.
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You know, they said the running back was dead, and
I'm guilty of this too. I thought so the running
back bounce back and relevancy and importance is undeniable. Right now.
The amount of top one hundred players in college football
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that are going to get drafted, like meaning the top
one hundred picks of the draft, there might be ten
plus running backs. And we saw two guys Arizona State
and Boise State. Those teams are gonna have buys. If
it's gonna be Oregon, Georgia, Arizona State, and Boise or
Boise Arizona State, I would put Arizona State three and
Boise four. They are led by two running backs. You
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remove those two running backs and just put an average
college running back. Neither one of those two teams sniffs
the playoffs obviously, action Genty, I don't know if they're
gonna count playoff games on your record. They usually do
because bowl games typically count. You know, this isn't like
the NFL, where regular season separate from playoffs. It usually
accounts under one umbrella. Maybe they've made changes to it
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so you know if he wins, If if Boise State
were to win a playoff game, maybe Genty could catch
Barry Sanders for a single season rushing. Those two guys
are incredible players to watch. I mean, my personal favorite
position on offense is running back more thanquarter back, more
than the left tackle, more than tight end or wide receiver,
because no position encapsulates football more than that. You have
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to block middle linebackers, pass rushers inside and out. In
pass protection, you literally are the last line of defense
for the guy protecting the quarterback. You then have to
catch the ball like a wide receiver. Most of your
routes are going to be around the line of scrimmage,
but they send you on some wheel routes where you
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kind of go up the field. You have to have
good hands, especially in twenty twenty four, and then you
have to run the ball inside where there are three
or four three hundred plus pounders sitting there as well
as linebackers multiple five six yards behind the line of
scrimmage running full speed at you, as well as a
couple of safeties, and go outside where you are attempting
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to run by some of the fastest guys on the
football field, and you watch these two guys as just
it's football porn. I mean, it really is skataboo. I mean,
he's he's a fucking baller, and gent's just an all
time great college player. I mean, he's going to go
down as probably the best player in the history of
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his program. You know, if he was bigger, we'd be
in discussion for him to be like a top ten pick.
He's five to eight, so he's one of the best
college players in recent memory. But when you're five to eight,
how high can you really go in the draft? Someone's
going to take a five eight running back at pick twelve,
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like that seems a little high to me. I think
when the dust seedtles, I have heard this draft isn't great,
but I would say my guess is somewhere like twenty
to twenty eight in that range just because he's small.
You know, you don't want to make a you know,
living off drafting five eight guys in the first round,
even though he's clearly a great player and ASU's running back.
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My guest is Washington play up to see what he
runs and injury history and stuff. But third, fourth round.
But those guys are just elite college players. And you
know the thing with Boise, this is not Boise's best team.
I started in football in the whack at fresident State.
The teams that in two thousand, the year before I
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got there was the year they beat Oklahoma in the
Chris Peterson Statue of Liberty Game, And a couple of
years later they have a team that has ten guys drafted,
led by Kellen Moore at quarterback. I mean, he wasn't
their best NFL prospect. I actually don't think Kellen Moore
even got drafted. Maybe won the seventh round. But they
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had a team full of NFL guys. And this team
is not as good as those teams. But the program
is pretty special. Since basically nineteen ninety nine, they averaged
like ten wins the season, and they have a ton
of twelve and thirteen wins seasons, Like when they win
eight or nine games in a year, it's kind of
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an outlier season. This program, for non Power four Slash
five has easily been the most consistent in the country,
and they have produced the most coaching talent. I mean
Sarks defensive coordinator, where's he from Boise State? And you
just look all over college football. They have assistant coaches
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from Boise State obviously Kellen Moore with the Eagles, Poise
State guy, And it was a think tank of just
high level coaching, high level football, and I think it's
really cool. You know, in the ASU situation, are they
going to maintain this year after year? They got pretty lucky.
They got a great transfer running back from Sack State
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in the transfer portal. It's one of those that like
sometimes you're going to strike oil, but how often does
that happen? Like the likelihood if everyone knew he was
going to be that good, other programs would have been
all over them, because it's not like ASU has any money.
Everyone last year knew gent was elite when they fired
their coach, I think with a couple of games left
to go in the season, GENT was gonna hit the
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transfer Portal, and I think technically he did. And I
read this long article, like he had seven figure offers,
so it's not hard to figure out who was probably interested.
The Oregons, the SCS, the Texas's, the Ohio States, like
those type teams were sniffing around that player, and he
stayed at Boise State for three hundred thousand dollars. Now
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I think he got other deals included, but that's the
only amount, Like that's the most amount of cash they
could guarantee him, and he single handedly just I mean,
it's not all him. It's a team game, but like,
let's face it, like he's kind of Steph Curry Davison,
Like that's what he is. And that's the cool part
about this playoffs is like I'm not a huge proponent
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of these guys should automatically get a non power for spot,
but as Stucky and I have talked about it, it's
clear they're doing it for lawsuits. No one wants to
get sued. But I think if you are going to
allow one of these smaller schools into the playoffs, it's
very cool when their best player is like a first
round draft pick who plays running back, who they want
to hand the ball to I think on UNLV Friday
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night he had like thirty carries. Now he had two
hundred yards, but his handed to him not to stop.
You know, it's like here here, here, here, here, and
eventually he's gonna break when and last night he did.
He made a guy miss boom on the right side
up the sideline. He going. And what a fun college
football season. And I'm excited for these playoffs because I
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think if today showed anything, if weekend week out has
shown anything, everything's on the table and the transfer portal,
the nil I would say, the spreading of the high
end assets, which are the players, the lack of depth
for some of these teams, anything can happen. And from
a gambling standpoint, whenever they come out with the brackets,
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you know, if you tell me the seventh seed ends
up winning it, you know, I think it's gonna believable.
I think any team in the dance. I don't think
Boise could win four games, but I think any of
the big programs, you know, Tennessee, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Georgia's, Texas, obviously,
Oregon like on they can win any game. But as
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we've seen, like all of them get weird. All of
them get weird fast. It's hard to trust these teams
on a weekend, week out basis, which makes for a
very very entertaining product. So I'm really excited if you
had a chance to see the clip of the committee
in the hotel room with little ass TVs. It's like, guys,
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you cannot be the committee that determines the college football
playoffs with thirty inch televisions. I get you're, you know,
at some four Seasons or JW. Marriott. They have to
be able to go to Costco and buy four eighty
inch TVs and put them there. I mean, some of
these people in the committee are like seventy years old
and they're sitting twenty five feet back. It's like, I'm forty.
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I couldn't see. Granted, I think, you know, as the
doctor told me a couple weeks ago, I might need
glasses for some long you know, long range vision. But still,
like you, guys, I can't take you seriously that you
are determining the ranking system with thirty inch TVs in there. Now.
I think there had one TV that was like fifty
but it looked like something I would have had, like
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when I was a sophomore in college at a house
that probably should have been burned down, and we all
moved out a couple of years later because like any
college house, uh, we do a number on it. But
the television set up in that room was just an
absolute embarrassment. So what a day for college football. And
now we go to bed and we wake up in
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a couple hours and we watched NFL football. So it's
coming down the home stretch. Baby, buckle up, have a
good night. See the volume
The volume. Well, I watched college football all day to
day like many of you, starting with Kenny Dillingham and
ASU just routing Iowa State through a record SEC championship game,
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first ever overtime, the Oregon Penn State game that was
kind of looked like a blowout and then got pretty
entertaining as the game went on. And obviously Clemson in SMU,
Clemson just had a walk off fifty five ish yardfield
goal to avoid a pretty devastating loss because they were
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up big and then SMU came storming back. But we
got a pretty good idea tomorrow the playoffs. I think
we'll be set before the NFL games kickoff. Sure nine
am Eastern. That doesn't even sound right saying maybe it's
nine Pacific. Maybe it's the hour before the NFL kickoff
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that college football is gonna do their show. So we
will know the brackets. We pretty much have a good idea.
We just don't know the seating. I think all signs
point to SMU not getting invited in Alabama. Coming on
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I think my takeaway as we head into the college
football playoffs is Oregon is the best team in the country. Now.
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We have seen over the last twenty plus years, like
all time dynasty level teams from Alabama to historic team
like that LSU team in twenty nineteen. Some are Urban Myers,
Florida teams, Pete Carroll's USC teams, teams that you're just
gonna remember forever, right, And I don't think we have
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a team like that playing this year. I think the
parody at the top is as good as it's been
we basically have. I would say some sort of NFL
version of college football. You could even argue and listen,
I'd have to really dive deep into my Oregon people.
Is this the best Oregon team of the past fifteen years?
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I think we could have a long argument about that.
But who cares like this version of Oregon relative to
the competition. I think it's fair to say is the
best team in the country. And Oregon, unlike you know,
Penn State, has won a national championship before, Georgia has
won a national championship before. Texas has won national championship
before Ohio State, I mean Oregon never has, so trying
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to do it is a really really big deal for them,
and this time wide open number one seed. The quarterback tonight,
Dylan Gabriel. Listen, He's had an awesome career. He has
been a good player since before we got to Oklahoma. Tonight,
I thought he was awesome. He looked like to what
at Alabama tonight, the way he was slinging that thing around,
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getting peppered in the pocket, throwing strikes so many times
a night against Penn State. Who say what you want
about James Franklin, he is like the Dan Campbell of
Mario Cristobals. He can recruit. I mean there were players
all over that field on Penn State and be like,
I'd want him on my team. I'd want him on
my team. I'd want him on my team. Can I
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get that guy on my team? Very talented player or
players all over the place, and that front, they had
some dudes that just are going to plead playing for
a long time on Sundays crushing Dylan Gabriel And the
one thing you know with the Oregon quarterback. He's not
that big and he would throw a strike at Pepper
deliver it hit a guy in stride. Obviously, Tess Johnson,
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bo Nix's buddy from Auburn, was dominant tonight and the
speed on the outside was a huge separating factor for Oregon.
But I thought he was he was really really special.
And the difference of him and Alur, who I've been
up and down on, and even in that game, you
watch him and you go, yeah, damn uh whoa uh,
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He's just he's a roller coaster. But I will say
this about Alur. I will take a chance on Alur
seven days a week and one hundred times on Sunday
over the two quarterbacks I watched in the SEC Championship game,
but like, he just misses too many passes. And the
difference in the game to night when when all the
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dust settled, because they were down twenty eight to ten
and it wasn't all Alur's fault. There were a couple
of personal foul penalties, like Penn State was kind of
in shambles. Then they come storming back. I thought Gabriel
was excellent start to finish. Obviously, throws for whatever four touchdowns,
but so many big passes on second and third and
long in the second half when he is just gonna
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get Molly walk. Some of these passes aren't even accounting
for first downs. It's just getting them into a more
advantageous third and five instead of being third and ten.
It's like the dude was tough throwing strikes, you could
rely on him, and then al are two passes the
night that listen. There is no disputing his physical gifts
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Like that is what I would consider a really good
project in the history of the league. That's like a
second day pick. Maybe because of his tools, I'm sure
he's a you know all, I've heard good things, high
character guy. Maybe he goes a little higher than he should.
But there's a lot to work with there. But accuracy
in touch, man, You're just like, damn, because they ran
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a trick play in they were down seven points in
the second half and they're driving and they call this
BELICHICKI and Josh McDaniels. Tight end is where the tackle
is and the tackles flexed out with the wide receivers,
and clearly Oregon is confused. Warren, who's a first round
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player number forty four B lines down the seam is
wide open, and Aler rushes the pass and Warren tries
to juggle it like he's Jerry Rice and just is
not able to catch it. If he just takes a
deep breath lobs it up, Warren probably scores. Then Penn
State kicks a field goal and misses, and the game
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kind of flips right there. I thought that was a
huge miss in the game. And obviously at the end
of the game when their defense was awesome, you know,
just making big plays down the stretch to get the
ball back. They basically forced a three and out on
Oregon and didn't even have to use it any other timeouts,
well they only had two, and they get the ball
back with like under two minutes and thirty seconds with
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two timeouts and the two minute warning, and then he
throws a go ball down the scene unless if you
could put that on the coaches as well, like what
are you guys doing? And so he makes two huge
mistakes where Gabriel just wasn't making mistakes and just does
it make mistakes. Now, Gabriel doesn't possess like the physical
gifts Aler did or does. Aler had the one play
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where h Ungoulela DJ's brother whose Oregon's pass rusher, probably
the position DJ should have played defensive line, is yanking
his undershirt. Aler's unfazed as he's getting yanked, throws a
strike into the end zone to number six. You're like,
holy shit, what a pass in that game? I had
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on the big ten game on the big screen. Sound
on the SEC game or not the ACC game on
the smaller TV no sound that felt right Like one
game felt like NFL level intensity. The other felt a
little Minor League. I mean, let's face it, that's no
Shaye like I don't have a dog in the fight.
It sound like I'm an Oregon guy. Though very proud
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of the former PAC twelve who won two of the
Power Four Conferences with Oregon in the ASU, but excellent
season from Dan Lanning, Tonight was a big game. Think
like listen, Oregon was favored. They went in there, they
jumped out twenty eight ten. They had the lead the
whole time. They took some punches, they made huge plays.
Allan misses that go ball by a little bit in
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the dB makes a great catch. It's like Oregon just
makes plays, and they got playmakers fucking everywhere. A lot
of teams speed now, one thing's kind of clear, as
you can run on them a little bit. But the
one thing I would say is like I was pretty
impressed at Penn State. Like Penn State's got a lot
of players. I would want their entire front seven. I
would want Warren forty four. I would want There are
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two running backs Singleton and I think thirteen. Give me
those two guys in the backfield. So talent is not
the issue. A little weird their skill guys on the
outside aren't as good, which is somewhat ironic given that
Franklin is an elite recruiter and he's a wide receiver
guy at his core, Like that's kind of his baby.
He was a wide receiver coach when he was coming up.
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But they definitely got talent. They definitely can win a
playoff game. I think if you're a Penn State fan, listen,
you lost the best team in the country. You kind
of hold your head high that that final pick sucks,
But I think you have to believe, like we have
the talent to win a playoff game. We have the
talent to make noise. And I think if you're an
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Oregon fan, you go, this is our fucking year. We
are winning the national title. We have a quarterback that's
good enough. We have a coaching staff that's good enough.
We have talent on offensive defense is good enough. We
got playmaker speed, I mean the amount of time that
The one thing you saw tonight is that speed relative
to Penn State, which is good, especially on the back end.
They have a bunch of highly touted guys. Looked like
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advantage Orgon. It looked like advantage organ The one thing
you'd say about Penn State is like the way they
recruit their NFL talent is a lot like the Tennessee's
and the Georgias, Like those are the type guys they're
rolling out, you know, in the front. So if I'm
a Ducks fan, I'm pretty fired up for this playoffs.
I'm feeling good. It's not championship or bust in terms
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of like being down on my coach or whatever. But
I do think it's fair that like expectations are really
really high. Spend that way all season. They answered the bell.
They have not lost. First year in the Big Ten.
Beat Ohio State beat Penn State, number one seed, doesn't
get any better. That's you know, you had expectations. The
wind blows the hardest at the top of the mountain top.
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You didn't get blown over. You handle it all season long.
Early in the season was a little weird, playing your
best football post Ohio State. Feeling good now headed on
into the playoffs and if your Penn State, I think
it's a success successful year if you win a playoff game.
And James Franklin kind of needs that, right because clearly
he's not a bad coach. I think he's like the
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better version like I said of Mario Christobal. But eventually,
you got to win a game where you're the underdog
against a good team and not like an underdog like
twenty points, like two or three points, like can you
can you just beat a team that we all think
is a little bit better but not that much better
skill wise. And I don't know. I don't really have
that much to say about Clemson SMU because I was
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so locked into the Big Ten game. Obviously Clemson's into
the playoffs as a ten and three team, SMUs out
and I really have zero sympathy. I do not care,
Like I'm not going to spend much time put Alabama in.
Basically five through twelve for me is a television show
and would I rather see Alabama Notre Dame or SMU
Notre Dame. Give me Bama Notre Dame all day long.
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And Clemson like this is part of is a little
like basketball, you know, like the NCAA tournament where sometimes
you know, like an NC state in the ACC would
be like the fifth or sixth seed in the basketball tournament.
Then all of a sudden, they win the conference tournament,
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you get an automatic bid to the Dance. And that's
what Clemson just did. They gave themselves a chance once
Miami lost and then they won the game, which was
a huge advantage for him because the game was right
down the street from from where they play. So sucks
for SMU, but it is what it is. I look
at their schedule midgame was like, who they've even beaten?
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I don't even care. Let's get to the SEC championship game.
Pretty big. Listen the referee. The officiating was pretty terrible
all game long. It was not a well officiated game.
Start complained about it at halftime, gave it all time,
well they need a call holding for them too, and
then just walked off. Very awkward moment. Carson Beck gets
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knocked out of the game. Looks like he has the
brock Perty injury from the Eagles NFC championship game. Kirby
said after the game that he could not grip the ball.
Then the backup gunner Stockton, all time great backup quarterback,
SEC quarterback name gets KOed right in ot they had to.
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I don't think he got six quarterbacks dressed. Carson Beck
comes back into the game well, his arms dangling as
he runs into the game, so it's clear they're going
to hand the ball off, and then they score the
game winning touchdown. But I think there are a lot
of elements of that game. One big picture thing. I
don't think either one of those two teams now Carson Beck.
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I think it's fair to take an educated guests given
that he can't grip the ball, and we saw purty
and we saw the way it was hurt that if
he does need Tommy John like obviously, his season's over.
They weren't winning a national championship with Carson Beck, just
like Texas cannot win a national championship with Quinn yours.
And listen, Texas was beating the shit out of them
in the first half. I mean running it all over
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the place, and I got so many texts from people
in the NFL. It's like Sark is so good at
scheming around Quinn ewrs, you cannot depend on the guy.
And I think they're kind of in a tough spot,
like should they have just gone to Arch at this point?
But they have no shot and everyone knows it, and
he Texas fan, any person that watches college foot you're
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not gonna win. However, many four games with k Quinn
you were as at quarterback, it is not going to happen.
And they clearly, like Oregon, like Ohio State, like they
have a national championship level roster. They have elite players
all over the place, and their quarterback is a major liability.
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And when I see you know, some of these people
are being sarcastic and some of them are being kind
of serious, Like same energy now that George's quarterback gets
knocked out basically alluding to Florida State, It's like, no,
it's not the same energy because Jordan Travis was one
of the Florida State's better players and when the backup
came in, it was a dramatic drop off. So when
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Florida State got left out, it's like, well they're down
to their third string quarterback. All these guys look like scrubs.
Their starting quarterback was a legit player. I mean, hell
he got still got drafted off of devastating knee injury.
Not like he was a first round quarterback or anything,
but the gap was huge. I watched Gunner Stockton come in,
It's like, what the hell's the difference? Carson Beck just
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isn't that good. I got a text again tonight from
a like a number two with the team, was like,
I don't remember any player losing more money just based
on play, not something off the field, not getting in trouble,
just on a weekly basis. Watching them play starting week
one to be a championship game, then Carson Beck. So
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like I view Georgia upgraded, this kid can run around.
It just feels like it gives them life. Because hell,
they might have been one and done with Carson Beck.
They might be one and done with this guy. But
the difference at quarterback in this situation to me is nothing.
And say this about listen a lot of respect for Texas.
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They have a huge payroll at Ohio State, so they
shouldn't ever be not pretty damn good, right, And they
spend a ton of money. But year one sec in
the SEC Championship game had tipped to you. Today everyone's
gonna bitch and moan about the referees. You had your shot, man,
you really did. And I don't think you get to
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bitch and moan when you're rolling that out of quarterback.
I really don't. But you've played Kirby twice now, and
now that Savan's gone, he's the clear king of the hill,
and he's beat you twice. He's beat you twice. He
kicked your ass at home and then he beat you again.
And today is on you because sixty three at halftime,
like it should have been eighteen to three, because if
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you get a big enough lead, you're winning the game
pretty easily. But y'all gain them, you dominate them. Georgia
looked terrible. Just an embarrassing first half from Texas in
terms of the scoreboard relative to the way they played.
And I think it comes down to the quarterback play.
And you watch the way Sarkas to call plays with
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this guy at quarterback, it's wild. It's like, you know,
he's got a team full of Ferrari and then he's
got a Honda cord a quarterback usually if you have
a Ferrari quarterback and then have some Honda Chords around him,
like it's easier to be a better team when that
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is your major limitation and listen, for a long long
time in college football, we have seen great teams have
average to below starting quarterbacks. I mean, honestly, most of
my life growing up in the nineties, most quarterbacks for
the best teams in college were not future John Elways
and Dan Marinos. There were a bunch of random guys
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in the late nineties and early two thousands, a lot
of Ken Dorsey's, a lot of Josh Heipel's. But I
feel like I'm watching Quinn yours like NFLF. He's an
NFL Like, I don't even view him as an NFL player,
at least I've seen some moments where I could if
you wanted to draft Carson back in the sixth round,
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like okay, But like I do not view Quinn viewers
as an NFL player. So I think Sark has to
think long and hard about making a change at quarterback
to arch Manning in the playoffs because this point, like
you've paid him the nil. It is what it is.
It's pretty wide open. It actually doesn't get any more
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wide open, and obviously from a mobility standpoint, Arch is
much more mobile. And listen, I think Arch's arm. I
think when you just say Arch Manning to a casual fan,
people think they're getting like Josh Allen from Mahomes or something.
He's his arm is not that great. But it's not
like quinn Ewers is out there slinging it around, you know,
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like he's justin Herbert, like you just can't keep going
like this, but that that has to hurt. I didn't
see Sark's postgame press conference or any of his quotes
because we just went right into this this night game.
But I can't imagine he's not going to sleep well tonight.
You know, the first time around, get your ass kicked,
tip your hat. It is what it is tonight. Like
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they came out out ready, they were fucking ready to
win that game. There's that visual during the ASU game,
I think it was a halftime they had a camera
in the bus for Texas. And usually you know, football
team has multiple bus as offense, defense or whatever. Usually
the head coaches and bus number one which tends to
have the offense. But depending on how you do it, it
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could just be like a mismatch of different players and coaches.
And Sarks in the front seat basically right next to
the bus driver with just a massive mouthful of red
man and you could tell like he was pretty dials
and he came out swinging, but his quarterback let him down.
I give them a lot of credit. His defense is good.
He has matured as a coach, like he just his
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teams look much more tougher than let's say, Ryan Day,
Like I think there if we're doing tiers for coaching,
Sarks in a different level than Ryan Day. But like
his quarterback man, it's just the same thing with Ohio State.
When you have limitations with your quarterback and you have
to try to scheme around him, you're gonna have problems.
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Georgia always has kind of played like that. Kirby's not
defensive or yeah, defensive guy, so he doesn't want to
put it all on the quarterback. In a weird way,
Kirby ain't really looking for Matt Staffords, not the way
he wants to play star Kiss and Quinnyewer's name is
bigger than the actual player. But fantastic win for Georgia.
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Kirby's taking shots on the podium at grag Sankee about
the schedule and the difficulty of it. He's not wrong.
I saw that Texas doesn't even have a top twenty
five win this season. I bet there's a chance Penn
State doesn't either. So you know, you look at Georgia,
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they beat Texas twice. You know, Oregon's beat Penn State
and Ohio State. So those two teams are gonna be
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Speaker 1 (23:39):
Let's go to the morning. Most of my life definitely
my late nineties into the two thousands. Arizona State has
had a moment here in a moment there, Jake Plumber,
Pat Tillman, they had decent team in the two thousand
and four five range. But Arizona State, I would say
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the last ten plus years has mainly been a dogshit program.
It's just completely irrelevant and at times it's been one
of the worst Power five programs. And what Kenny Dillingham
inherited from Herm Edwards was an embarrassment. Think of how
bad Herm Edwards was. He coached at ASU for five seasons,
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and when he got fired, ESPN immediately hires him back
and they don't have him talk about college football at all. Obviously,
he's an NFL guy, he's been an NFL coach. I
get it's like he should be able to talk about
the NFL two, but he literally had just coached in
Power five for five seasons, and it's like, as someone
told me a while back, that like, yeah, I don't
even think Herm would be able to tell you half
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his team's first name. So the program was in shambles.
Dillingham takes over. They go three and nine, They have
no nil money. It's a program that no one really
cares about. And then this season to win the conference,
when you go to the Big Twelve and you're pick
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to finish last, it's just an incredible accomplishment. And nothing
sums up football more than Cam Skataboo, the running back
who if it wasn't for Travis Hunter and Shador Sanders
would be the player of the year in the Big Twelve.
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And just as an incredible story. And I think it's
kind of symbolizes why football resonates with so many people.
He had zero stars coming out of high school. Zero stars.
I looked up his junior year in high school. He
played in Sacramento Atrial Linda. It's a small little school.
He had three hundred or thirty five hundred yards and
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forty two touchdowns. I don't know if he got injured
or something happened a senior in high school, but he
wasn't as productive his junior in high school. Looks like
Derrick Henry in high school. Then he goes to Sack
State for a couple of years. And while he's at
Sack State, they have the greatest year in the history
of the program. They go to the playoffs, Troy Taylor,
their head coach, becomes the head coach at Stanford, and
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he clearly goes in the transfer portal, one of the
better transfer portal guys goes to Arizona State, and two
years later, I mean today he looked like Mike Alstott
meets Walter Payton. He looked and he's looked like this
all season, but today he had a couple runs of
just breaking tackles and running through guys and making guys miss.
(26:37):
You know, they said the running back was dead, and
I'm guilty of this too. I thought so the running
back bounce back and relevancy and importance is undeniable. Right now.
The amount of top one hundred players in college football
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that are going to get drafted, like meaning the top
one hundred picks of the draft, there might be ten
plus running backs. And we saw two guys Arizona State
and Boise State. Those teams are gonna have buys. If
it's gonna be Oregon, Georgia, Arizona State, and Boise or
Boise Arizona State, I would put Arizona State three and
Boise four. They are led by two running backs. You
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remove those two running backs and just put an average
college running back. Neither one of those two teams sniffs
the playoffs obviously, action Genty, I don't know if they're
gonna count playoff games on your record. They usually do
because bowl games typically count. You know, this isn't like
the NFL, where regular season separate from playoffs. It usually
accounts under one umbrella. Maybe they've made changes to it
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so you know if he wins, If if Boise State
were to win a playoff game, maybe Genty could catch
Barry Sanders for a single season rushing. Those two guys
are incredible players to watch. I mean, my personal favorite
position on offense is running back more thanquarter back, more
than the left tackle, more than tight end or wide receiver,
because no position encapsulates football more than that. You have
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to block middle linebackers, pass rushers inside and out. In
pass protection, you literally are the last line of defense
for the guy protecting the quarterback. You then have to
catch the ball like a wide receiver. Most of your
routes are going to be around the line of scrimmage,
but they send you on some wheel routes where you
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kind of go up the field. You have to have
good hands, especially in twenty twenty four, and then you
have to run the ball inside where there are three
or four three hundred plus pounders sitting there as well
as linebackers multiple five six yards behind the line of
scrimmage running full speed at you, as well as a
couple of safeties, and go outside where you are attempting
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to run by some of the fastest guys on the
football field, and you watch these two guys as just
it's football porn. I mean, it really is skataboo. I mean,
he's he's a fucking baller, and gent's just an all
time great college player. I mean, he's going to go
down as probably the best player in the history of
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his program. You know, if he was bigger, we'd be
in discussion for him to be like a top ten pick.
He's five to eight, so he's one of the best
college players in recent memory. But when you're five to eight,
how high can you really go in the draft? Someone's
going to take a five eight running back at pick twelve,
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like that seems a little high to me. I think
when the dust seedtles, I have heard this draft isn't great,
but I would say my guess is somewhere like twenty
to twenty eight in that range just because he's small.
You know, you don't want to make a you know,
living off drafting five eight guys in the first round,
even though he's clearly a great player and ASU's running back.
(30:01):
My guest is Washington play up to see what he
runs and injury history and stuff. But third, fourth round.
But those guys are just elite college players. And you
know the thing with Boise, this is not Boise's best team.
I started in football in the whack at fresident State.
The teams that in two thousand, the year before I
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got there was the year they beat Oklahoma in the
Chris Peterson Statue of Liberty Game, And a couple of
years later they have a team that has ten guys drafted,
led by Kellen Moore at quarterback. I mean, he wasn't
their best NFL prospect. I actually don't think Kellen Moore
even got drafted. Maybe won the seventh round. But they
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had a team full of NFL guys. And this team
is not as good as those teams. But the program
is pretty special. Since basically nineteen ninety nine, they averaged
like ten wins the season, and they have a ton
of twelve and thirteen wins seasons, Like when they win
eight or nine games in a year, it's kind of
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an outlier season. This program, for non Power four Slash
five has easily been the most consistent in the country,
and they have produced the most coaching talent. I mean
Sarks defensive coordinator, where's he from Boise State? And you
just look all over college football. They have assistant coaches
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from Boise State obviously Kellen Moore with the Eagles, Poise
State guy, And it was a think tank of just
high level coaching, high level football, and I think it's
really cool. You know, in the ASU situation, are they
going to maintain this year after year? They got pretty lucky.
They got a great transfer running back from Sack State
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in the transfer portal. It's one of those that like
sometimes you're going to strike oil, but how often does
that happen? Like the likelihood if everyone knew he was
going to be that good, other programs would have been
all over them, because it's not like ASU has any money.
Everyone last year knew gent was elite when they fired
their coach, I think with a couple of games left
to go in the season, GENT was gonna hit the
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transfer Portal, and I think technically he did. And I
read this long article, like he had seven figure offers,
so it's not hard to figure out who was probably interested.
The Oregons, the SCS, the Texas's, the Ohio States, like
those type teams were sniffing around that player, and he
stayed at Boise State for three hundred thousand dollars. Now
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I think he got other deals included, but that's the
only amount, Like that's the most amount of cash they
could guarantee him, and he single handedly just I mean,
it's not all him. It's a team game, but like,
let's face it, like he's kind of Steph Curry Davison,
Like that's what he is. And that's the cool part
about this playoffs is like I'm not a huge proponent
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of these guys should automatically get a non power for spot,
but as Stucky and I have talked about it, it's
clear they're doing it for lawsuits. No one wants to
get sued. But I think if you are going to
allow one of these smaller schools into the playoffs, it's
very cool when their best player is like a first
round draft pick who plays running back, who they want
to hand the ball to I think on UNLV Friday
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night he had like thirty carries. Now he had two
hundred yards, but his handed to him not to stop.
You know, it's like here here, here, here, here, and
eventually he's gonna break when and last night he did.
He made a guy miss boom on the right side
up the sideline. He going. And what a fun college
football season. And I'm excited for these playoffs because I
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think if today showed anything, if weekend week out has
shown anything, everything's on the table and the transfer portal,
the nil I would say, the spreading of the high
end assets, which are the players, the lack of depth
for some of these teams, anything can happen. And from
a gambling standpoint, whenever they come out with the brackets,
(33:58):
you know, if you tell me the seventh seed ends
up winning it, you know, I think it's gonna believable.
I think any team in the dance. I don't think
Boise could win four games, but I think any of
the big programs, you know, Tennessee, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Georgia's, Texas, obviously,
Oregon like on they can win any game. But as
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we've seen, like all of them get weird. All of
them get weird fast. It's hard to trust these teams
on a weekend, week out basis, which makes for a
very very entertaining product. So I'm really excited if you
had a chance to see the clip of the committee
in the hotel room with little ass TVs. It's like, guys,
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you cannot be the committee that determines the college football
playoffs with thirty inch televisions. I get you're, you know,
at some four Seasons or JW. Marriott. They have to
be able to go to Costco and buy four eighty
inch TVs and put them there. I mean, some of
these people in the committee are like seventy years old
and they're sitting twenty five feet back. It's like, I'm forty.
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I couldn't see. Granted, I think, you know, as the
doctor told me a couple weeks ago, I might need
glasses for some long you know, long range vision. But still,
like you, guys, I can't take you seriously that you
are determining the ranking system with thirty inch TVs in there. Now.
I think there had one TV that was like fifty
but it looked like something I would have had, like
(35:26):
when I was a sophomore in college at a house
that probably should have been burned down, and we all
moved out a couple of years later because like any
college house, uh, we do a number on it. But
the television set up in that room was just an
absolute embarrassment. So what a day for college football. And
now we go to bed and we wake up in
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a couple hours and we watched NFL football. So it's
coming down the home stretch. Baby, buckle up, have a
good night. See the volume
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