December 6, 2025 • 57 mins
Jason Smith & Mike Harmon talk and react to the few College Football championships games going on such as James Madison vs Troy for all the marbles! Plus, the guys chat with Pete Fiutak and Todd Fuhrman and more!!
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
Hello, Welcome inside, Happy Friday, The Jason Smith Show with
my bas friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Hobo.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Where right now, everybody's getting a little tight, little wondering
Duke fans waving there, Troy pom poms right now, going,
come on, Troy, see this through it.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Maybe we can go to the college football playoff if
we win tomorrow. All of a sudden, Mike Harmon, all
the posturing, everything back and forth, We're coming down to it.
The next twenty four hours are gonna be absolutely huge.
We could see teams like Alabama get left out. The
door could be open for Duke if they win. Now,
all the posturing that we've heard all week, all the hey,
(01:09):
here's our resume, here's what we've done, here's this, here's
that now we get to the games.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
See how chesty people get over the next twenty four hours,
how many of their sycophants start writing more missives or
hit TikTok or Instagram videos. Hey, let me give you
one more point about why I love this squad and
why my team And then they accidentally show too much
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of their sec tattoo or whatever. Then starts to come
through Notre Dame colors dress up like a leprecha on
whatever the case may be. This one also interesting because
Troy was a twenty three and a half point dog
in this game, and James Madison can just create no
separation at this point.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yeah, listen, this is a big deal because you know, Duke, obviously,
the ACC is the big center of dramasar there is
with Alabama and George as well, because Alabama is on
the cusp of potentially being left out depending how that
game goes tomorrow. But the ACC title game, which no
one's gonna watch Virginia and Duke. Duke gets seven and five,
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you get the automatic berth if you're one of the
top conferences, but you gotta be one of the top
conference champions as far as the rankings go, and Duke
is not gonna be there, but James Madison will be
there ranked twenty fifth right now. But they won't be
twenty fifth anymore if they lose this game Detroit and
the Sun Belt Championship. So all of a sudden, the
(02:33):
door is open for Duke if they pull the upset
against Virginia tomorrow to maybe be able to politic enough
to get into the college football playoff. But you gave
me an idea right there, Mike Carmon, You gave me
an idea right there, and tell me this wouldn't be
a must see thing, the biggest mussy thing in.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
College football all year.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Okay, tell me wouldn't see Okay, Now, let me just
throw this out for where we're sitting at right now
with teams that potentially could be left out, you know, understanding,
you know we still still a game left to go,
Like like I would like a two part part of this, right,
So just think about this. Right, you get the head
coaches from let's say Alabama Notre Dame. Right, you get
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you Kaylin debor in, you get Marcus Freeman in right,
you know, you get Miami, you get Sark, you get
Texas in right, you get Mario cristoball in from Miami.
You get all You get all these schools, right that
are sitting there and need to make their case to
make the playoff. Right not not not school Look schools
like Indiana, it doesn't matter if they lose. They can
lose to Ohio State tomorrow fifty six. Nothing like Indiana's
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getting it. But you get the true four or five schools,
like the big schools that need to politic to get in, right,
that needed part to get in. We love debates in
this country. We watch all kinds of debates, watch presidential debates,
all kinds. You put all of these coaches on stage
with a moderator, okay, with a mod and you make
(04:01):
them all have to make their case for the college
football playoff. They take questions, Maybe people in the crowd
get to ask questions, They get to comment on each other.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Right, Can you imagine.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Like like like Steve Sarkisian talking about, Hey, the three
top ten teams they beat. Look at this, and then
suddenly you get you get Mario Cristobaul over the top
going you lost a three team, You lost the three
teams that weren't even in the top ten.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
What are you talking about? Here.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
You lost to a guy who's standing right next to me,
you know, to Dame or whatever. You beat No Todame
who's standing right next to me. Like, can you imagine
what that would be like? You get all these guys
on stage for like an hour debate and watch them
just sweat their asses off after like the first fifteen
minutes as they try to make their cases and make
against the cases for the other schools. Tell me that
wouldn't be the biggest watched hour of television college football
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in the year.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Yeah, but I think the biggest thing is that at
least their opening remarks have to be done rap battle
style like in Hamilton. Oh okay, so I need some
creativity here. I mean there's a lot of money there,
there's a lot of preparation times. Just give me a
couple of bullet points. That's not gonna sell me. You
gotta win me over. I mean, full greatest showman's style,
(05:07):
a couple of dancers, fire eaters, whatever you got, you
gotta take me. It's a TV show, right, It's all
a TV show to get into a TV show. So
you gotta wow me with something a little more.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Oh, come on, I just gave you a great idea. Now, no,
that's not good enough. Oh no, what are you talking about?
Speaker 5 (05:25):
You know what? That's an idea for like season.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
They've already got a bunch of jackass. Dude, you're a
that's a season three idea. Man, you're asking them to
do a little bit too much, Man, a little bit
too much?
Speaker 2 (05:37):
I asked her a little much. I did like the
idea earlier this week, saying, hey, can we just play
one more game to impress the polsters? See it's like
we're back in old times. Man, come on, give us
one more opportunity, put us on the field Saturday. Yeah,
I wa took championship week?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Or you know what, we have playing games in college basketball.
Let's have a playing game in college that's one in
so bad you four to be in the playing round.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
We aren't. Yes, you're in the player round.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Were We have a month before we're gonna play any
of these games? Anyway, why not have another week of games?
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Come on? Just think about that for a second.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Just think if that was that was how we decided
the final spots debate and who wins?
Speaker 5 (06:15):
And and you.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Call in like American idol, Yeah, let's.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Get your post debate spin analysis, and everybody's talking about it,
and we're breaking it down after and you get, you know,
and you get what's his name with the big with
the touch screen and the map from from CNNES is
pressing stuff. Here's where I look. Oh you look in
the area right here in Miami. This where Mario Christopaul
made a lot of send. He gave a lot of
voters here this part of Miami, in this lower part
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of Alabama. But look up here right here, right around
South Bend. No votes coming in right here, Nothing going
on right there, and Krnaki is just hitting the buttons
and show.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Now, if you were wowed by by Debor, I'll tell
you know, Notre Dame is part of this though. I mean,
Freeman was on the Today Show the other day and
he was charming as hell according to the exit polls.
So I mean, you know, you had the people that
were on set with him looking uncomfortable that he was
he was winning and they were getting charmed away.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
So I'll just think about that. How great idea that
would be.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Well I like that though, I mean, like you can
see him sweat. Look at he's sweating. He's got the
Nixon Kennedy debate.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
They should have done a better lighting job with him
over there, and they got him like he looking like
he's turning green.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
He is really sweating right there. Uh so it just
doesn't look healthy. The biggest game of the night again,
James Madison and Troy Troy with the ball near midfield,
down three, eight minutes to go in the fourth quarter.
We'll keep you updated on this Pete feu Tech. We'll
stop by next hour break it down for us. Off
a little bit more clarity following this game.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Uh what about the Boys State Broncos. I'm actually wearing
a Broncos hat. It was muffed by Ron Garra. I
had my Northwestern jag and I right, I had to
walk the dog whatever, and you know, people have been
sick around here, so I'm like, I'm protecting myself at
all costs here. And then I grabbed a hat out
of the car and it was the Boys. He stated,
He goes, you're repping two schools. I can't go for that.
(08:05):
I'm like, yeah, no one. I already paid through the
nose for the other one. I'm about to so smurf
turfing up Baby twenty eight to fourteen let's go.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Halftime on a box.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
I mean you just look confused. I mean, really, I
gotta say, I'm on Robbi's side of that.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
You look confused. You don't know what I said.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
It's better than the adoption of schools that a lot
of people do around.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I'm just I'm just gonna wear everything in my closet
at once, like Joey and Friends.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
I'm wearing all your clothes Chandler.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
That is so not the opposite of all I Hey,
if I could have found the Santa Clara shirt, I
would have died throve on top of that one too.
Everybody who's gotten out of and you siphoned off my money,
Let's go so we'll.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Have more football. Odd way, we'll keep you updated on
this game. But today was a huge day as.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
We look ahead to the World Cup.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Now, whatever you think about the the the spectacle that
was the World Cup draw.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
What shack is?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I mean, hey, I had nothing to do.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Kevin Hart was bored.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
It was just insane. I mean it was to watch.
I'm going, this is the World Cup. Try, this is
what we're doing, this is how we're doing it.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Okay, this is.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
All right, TV show.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Let's go yeah, it was really This is one of
those like if you watch the World Cup draw today,
you like, if you ever go to a foreign country
and you watch a TV show that's really popular and
you go, what the hell is this? I don't understand
what is going on with this thing? And you go,
I don't get it. But you know, you don't know
the culture, you don't know the any characters, nothing else.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
It just looks really weird.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
I pitch you that's what people coming to the United
States and they're vacation in the United States.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
If they watched the World Cup drawing, going, what the
hell is this? Who is this band singing this song?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
And they're not even singing all the words, like the
village people are singing and they're not even singing all
the words, They're just singing the chorus.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Not even all the people. You remember, like, what is happening?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
The hell it's the village people?
Speaker 5 (09:53):
The hell here?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Might be transporting back to it.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I watched it, going, what is what is going on here?
This is insane? But the good news is that and
this is also the bad news. The good news is
that the United States draw in the World Cup for
next year. Probably the best you couldn't ask for a
better draw unless you gave them a bye into the
knockout round in Group D Australia, Paraguay and the winner
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of a fourteen playoff that involves Kosovo, Romania, Slovakia and TURKEYA.
I mean, this is who's in our We're not group
of death. We're in the group of everlasting life. This
is like, hey, everybody, just come here and live forever.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Look.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
I forget the rest of the rankings, but it's like,
here we go.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
We've already beaten Australian, Paraguay and friendlies when we haven't
had our whole team. And I know, look and already,
you know, Mauricio Pocatino had to say, hey, hey, hey, hey,
let's not get complacent.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
I understand we think we're not a buye into the
knockout round, but I understand that. But I gotta be
honest with you. This is about it that fantagious as
you can get. This is what happens when you spend
all that money to host the World Cup. This is
what you get. You get a draw like this. I'm sorry,
but you know what, all the other countries had stuff
like this, so right, now it's our turn. But I
gotta say this, if we don't get out a group stage, Okay,
(11:16):
I know we have problems, right, I know we have problems.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
I know we have some issues.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
And Bokatino's trying to figure out the right mix of guys.
And he had one one camp where it was mostly
MLS players And now you're welcoming some of the guys
back who play on the team long term, some of
the guys you remember from the last few years. Like,
he's still trying to figure out exactly who he's gonna take.
But I have confidence he's a good he's a good
head coach. He's just gotta get he's just got to
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get all the guys on his page right because he
I still think he was the right call to go
out and get to come in and put a stamp
on this team. But I got all those problems, all
that stuff might harmon, all this stuff, all the problems,
all those other If we don't get out a group
playing into the knockout round, we should stop playing soccer
in this country. We say, you know what, we tried,
(12:01):
We tried for a long time and we just can't
do it. Man, I'm so I don't know what I
don't know what to say, but we're gonna stop all
the youth programs. We're getting rid of all of them.
Were we're getting rid of the MLS. We'll let them
play one more year and then they're finished. Soccer is done.
We're not gonna play. We can't play because if we
can't get out of group play right here, there's no
reason why we should continue to play this sport. This
(12:22):
is the this is the easiest draw you could possibly
want and ask for. And if we can't get out
of group, man, I mean, we're never gonna get close
to winning a world Now.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Here's the thing. You can say, Well, we can redeploy
those assets, but go city to city, go state to state.
I'm looking at our fair state of California. Are we
gonna do anything better with that money? No, they're gonna
put it in another projects. So it's a failed multi
billion dollar efforts.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
So how with it?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Keep running through? Double up, redouble your efforts in terms
of money's allocated here, FIFA ranking thirty nine for Paraguay
is in twenty six for Australia. And then you go
on down to the rest where we were talking about
eighty forty nine, et cetera. And those games won't be
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played till March. So you're looking at the opportunity of
a lifetime here the home cooking. However you want.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
To go to the draw.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
And we've certainly chronicled in our years together here at
Fox Sports Radio, Jason, plenty of scandal plenty and eyebrow
raising moment related to FIFA. And here's just an example
of all right, come on, walk on through. Don't take it,
you know, don't take it too lightly. You still have
to win. You can't just get the automatic buys. Nobody's
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dropping out. You can make all sorts of jokes people
certainly did politically in terms of how the USA could
move forward. I'll just leave that on the table. You
can all hit that on the tee if you need to.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
I think there's ways we can move on even if
we lose every game. I think they're gonna fight. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Yeah, but you know what, Hey, the United States overall
they had more possessions. So yeah, because look, all these teams,
all these teams are all parked.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
The bus teams have sampler there. These are all park.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
The bus teams that shouldn't be able to score with
us that that look, maybe it's a little bit more
of a but these are not teams that have any
sort of firepower whatsoever, right, these these are these are
park the bus teams.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
I mean, we can't if we can't get out of group.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Man, I don't, I don't know, I really, I mean
everything soccer even cancel stuff that's got a black and
white ball, just getting so nobody gets that bad memory.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
I saw soccer ball. We think you cancel all of it.
Can't cancel everything. We're not gonna do it.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Yeah, but we we actually have kids that get out
and have some exercise, doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Video gamers.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
We'll find something else. They'll all go play baseball. Now
we'll go back and play baseball. You know what they'll do.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
They'll all go They'll all go play pickleball.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
They'll all no, no, no, it's pickleball still going.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
There's professional pickle ball. Would win.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Of golf where it's gone.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Golf had that giant swell.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Yeah, I don't hear people hitting the links near literally
as much casually as they once did. I mean, you
saw what happened when they we had the great invention
of Hey, you could just go down the street. I mean,
we got this place where you can hit balls deep
into the night. Oh wait, no, no, no, now, it's
that's only corporate events. I can't afford to go.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
There, So that's gone, all right. The out priced Top
Golf is making a lot of money. Drink a beer,
hit some balls. Oh sure, Top Golf is doing.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Go go go look at the financials on top Golf
and tell me that that's the case.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Top Golf is doing fine. Let me see Top Golf financials.
Oh wait a minute, Top Golf four oh four file
not found.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
We haven't quite hit that. But it's it's it's not
the the burgeoning growth industry.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Here we go. Four point two year over year increase
from last year.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Their revenue's fourner at seventy two million a quarter three
of twenty twenty five. And I didn't look this up.
I knew this off the top of my head. I
was just waiting to say it. I mean, they got
like a one percent increase in same venue sales. I
mean that's a you know, it's coming after a longer
trend they had of declining same venue sales.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
But now for the full year they've raised their.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Revenue to be between three point eighty six billion, three
point nine two billion.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Again, I know all this off the top of my head.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
No, that's that was really good. You want to get
said lines in there while you're at it.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Oh hey, since this was ai, everything I just said
not proven. Just make sure people know that.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
It's well played. Well played, my friend. But but yeah,
for all of it, it's it's now just it's winning time, right.
You got a couple of games here. One of the
the parents in the Maddie's soccer group goes, Hey, a
couple of games here in La I go. He just
offered to buy us all tickets. He's sting, so, oh
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very nice. There you go.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
I'll see if I can get you gin so again.
We'll stop playing. Stop it. That's what I would threaten
everybody with.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
If we don't win, if we don't get out of group,
we're not there's no more soccer.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
But I thought it was another generation or two away.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
You'd be like, you'd be like Phil Dunfield. We'll be
like Phil Dunphie in in modern family, Christmas is canceled.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
We can't cancel.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
I'm canceling Christmas Christmas. He pulls the tree out, get
it Christmas is canceled.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
You just build the giant dome over the States like
they did in the Simpsons movie, and you have no
idea what's going on in the outside world that that
game no longer counts exit.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
How about a Fresca exit swelling dome.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
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Speaker 1 (17:46):
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Speaker 5 (17:50):
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Speaker 1 (17:52):
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Sports Radio studios. Well, the first domino has fallen in
the college football playoff. James Madison wins the Sunbelt tonight.
They beat Troy thirty one fourteen, so now a ninety
nine percent chance according to the All State playoff predictor,
(20:02):
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Speaker 5 (20:23):
It is Pete futech, pete happy Friday. Man.
Speaker 7 (20:26):
I hate playoff predictors, and there's nothing sucks the soul
out of sports more than all these you know stats.
You have a four percent probability of making this. You know,
you know it's like, okay, well why even try? You know,
like what, I love this how every single week there's
a one percent chance that this team can win, and
(20:48):
then all of a sudden it does, Like oh well,
well yeah, I know it's not how it works, but
you're telling me out of one hundred times it would
happen once, happened once, and it happens every week. But
I digress. No, You're I'm actually take the one percent.
I you know, who knows what this bunch like you
can't say, Okay, well you're gonna move North Texas. Now, well,
(21:08):
maybe you do. If Duke wins pretty handily and crushes
Virginia and it's the Power four champ of the ACC.
I mean, I don't think it'll happen, but you know, look,
I mean, James Madison's only win over a power four
team always game against the power four team was against
Louisville and lost by two touchdowns. You're telling me the
(21:30):
a SEC champions shouldn't be in over James Madison.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
If that happens, Pete, do you really think Duke A
five lost Duke team gets that push over James Madison.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
No, they're not gonna mess with it. Look the ALTA.
Here's my take, and I will be I will happily
eat it if I'm wrong, because I'm guessing here. Knowing
this group like I do. I know it's a new
group of people of the committee, but knowing the playoff
types and how this all rolls in grape Vine like
I do. The one thing they don't want is controversy,
(22:08):
and they kind of avoided it all up until a
few years ago with the Florida State thing. It was
all kind of oh gosh, you left out you know
this team that was kind of deserving. It was. There's
never really any big twist until a couple of years ago,
and now everyone seems to be mad at everything. They
keep being cagey about it. They're cheeky and they want
to leave themselves as many outs as possible just in
(22:32):
case they have to make some kind of crazy president call.
So they haven't come out and flat said that they
are going by the president sent yet last year with
the no punishment for losing your conference championship thing. So
my guess is you already know who the teams are.
It's the only question now is whether or not BYU
(22:53):
wins tomorrow. Because if Tech to Tech comes out and
you know, steam rolls them, we got it. That it's over.
That's that's there's your college football playoffs.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
I just want chaos, Pete. That's that's really all it
comes down here.
Speaker 7 (23:05):
I mean, what would that be at this point? Would
it be Alabama?
Speaker 2 (23:09):
See here's your chaos, right Alabama? Alabama wins loses.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
I mean no, alabam would have to get destroyed because
here's your Because you're chaos is if you're you can't
selectively say we are not going to punish, you know,
conference championship losers, because I I kind of don't believe
that that's how it should be. But I get it.
You don't want to make going to the conference championship
(23:34):
a negative because at the moment, you know, you could say, well,
you know Alabama's in, you know, they're they're right, See,
they're fine, they should be okay, you know, but they're
punished by going to have to play another game. That's
not right. They're not gonna do that, and they're just
not saying it yet. So I think they're trying to
create a little drama. Oh well, the teams can move,
(23:54):
and yeah, you know they can move. If you know
someone else beats someone else and you know you're a knockout,
you have to move them up. But like, yeah, at
the Alabama, if it wins tomorrow, I think could move
up to three. And I don't think the one or
two Indiana House state that's it. If you're not punishing
conference champions I think that set well hole state. He's
(24:17):
not gonna fall further than two. Indiana's not gonna fall
further than that. And if Alabama went to moves up
to three, if BYU moves up to like four or five,
you know, until I think that's how this is going
to play out, They're just not gonna tell us yet
because they're not exactly sure what they're doing right now.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
I gotta say, though, Pete tomorrow, I'm not sold on
Georgia and Alabama as as the top level national title
competitors right I'm just still just Alabama's offenses kind of
hit the skids, and Georgia is not quite the the
the juggernaut they were when they won back to back.
But I like Alabama tomorrow. I mean I like Alabama
(24:55):
close game. I think they get the offense un tracked
a little bit, and Alabama is the more or desperate
team they need the W and Kalin de Borget to
stamp win.
Speaker 7 (25:04):
Oh my god. If I had a few days on
the X machine Man the SEC type I had, I
tweeted something out about I'm done with the word gauntlet.
That's not a gauntlege that Alabama played like you have
to remember, Yeah, okay, fine, they'd be a bunch of
rankings kind of Tennessee didn't beat a team that's going bowling. Oh,
(25:26):
Missouri's best win technically over the only win over a
bull bound team is Louisiana. You know, Auburn didn't beat
a bull bound team, but Vanderbilt didn't beat anybody who
beat anybody. LSU didn't have a coach or an offense
with Bamba Godam.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Like.
Speaker 7 (25:42):
It's yeah, there's a lot of big, flashy names, but
it's not that brutalless schedule. They did beat Georgia, you know, Okay,
they had to play Oklahoma, and Okay, they still lost
to Florida State by double digits. And that seems to
be the other part of this whole equation when you
come to know, I get to this is Notre Dame Miami.
Apparently everyone went to bed early during the Notre Dame
(26:05):
Miami game. Back, Noboddy remembers this. I mean, it's the
whost hilarious thing. I tweeted out that no one remembers it,
and everyone seems to responding back with some different form
of that game and not recognizing that it was a
tie game at twenty four to twenty four with sixty
five seconds to play. They're acting like this is a blowout. Meanwhile,
(26:28):
it's that fourteen point blowout loss, which is actually worse
than the final score of Alabama against the Florida State
has been memory dumped by everyone so long, super long
winded way of saying, I am a thousand percent with
you that I'm just this sec These teams are they're fine,
They're just they're not great. They're fine.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Fine at p FU Tech where you find them on Twitter.
You can't you cannot travel to the South anymore, Pete.
You have to just stay stay in this stay in
the Midwest. You to travel there anymore.
Speaker 7 (27:01):
Speaking my last few days, I simultaneously a spinning sec plates.
I was having three different arguments at the same time,
still arguing about why they got twenty twenty three right
with Alabama. It was so arguing if they got it
wrong last year, that Bama should have been in an
SMU out. So you think Bama's people would actually see
(27:23):
those even though they got like a ton of views,
and they should have seen that and been okay. But no,
all they are is mad at me for suggesting that
their team is just sort of met year. So it's
it's it's gonna it's been a couple of days, but
get there. You're again, They're fine, They're gonna go and
they'll get t shirts and they'rena be on TV, and
I just I don't. I'm not really buying into Georgia
(27:46):
does shows up. George is the one group that team,
no matter what happens tomorrow, I think they can do
some damage in this thing. I don't. I'm not sold
on the Oklahoma offense. I ole miss defense. No uh,
And I just don't think that they might all win
a game. But I just don't think there's a national
championship champion in this pluck. If it's not Georgia at.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Pete futech where you find him for all of your.
Speaker 7 (28:08):
No no more, no no, no.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
You I questions, all your line them up.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
SEC fans line them up?
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Oh god, no question they have. Hey, Penn State finally
got a coach. It seems like maybe they had reached
out to him before and the message didn't go through
for mister Campbell. But after our long nightmare is over.
Speaker 7 (28:34):
Yeah, you know it's it's funny, you know, Okay, he's
been kind of dancing with all these other programs for
the longest time, and you know, no, he's not leaving
at Penn State is a big enough program. And I
did enjoy the America held hostage thing for the last
you know, seventy two hours of like, oh, Penn State
can't find it. It's Penn State. They're you know, they're
gonna give somebody someone's gonna watch six or seven million.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Yeah, you're gonna get what year deal with that kind
of money, I mean, with the buyouts you're getting.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
Come on, let's go.
Speaker 7 (29:02):
Yeah, you know, it's a it's a you know what.
And that's kind of the craziness about this coaching care.
So you don't have to, you know, go for the
you know, the five run home run with Lane Kiffin here.
I mean, you can, you know you can. There's a
lot of good coaching hires out there. Pat Fitzgerald in
Michigan State, good Bob Chesney going to UCLA. Okay, I
see it. You know, Matt Campbell. You can see that
(29:23):
and be okay that that makes sense. The guys, you know,
gets to have a step up job after years and
years of succeeding at a place that's never one. Okay.
So there's a lot of ways you can get coaches
that just that you know, you don't have to have
all the drama stuff happening. But all right, Lane Kiffin
let's see what you can do. Son.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
You know, I really hope he goes on game day tomorrow, Pete,
like I know he I don't know right. Well, No,
the thing is he said he had to stay back
in Baton Rouge because they signed him. Yeah, but I'm
really hoping he goes all full WWE villain when he
goes on tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
But now apparently it's up in the air.
Speaker 7 (29:58):
I love how he's got Od's fault. You know, he
prayed on it and had God told him take the
Yukon job. Like, no, of course he's gonna say take
the job. That's a lot more money, you know, like
you isn't. That's the old joke that online that Reggie
White was praying on is gonna ask God? And Mike
Coleman recalled and said, Reggie is God to come to
Green Bay. Well that's that's kind of what should have
(30:20):
happened with Lincoln. But like, look, I think he's gonna go.
He does enjoy this, and but he's good at it though,
Like there's some guys who try and can't pull it off,
but but Lane legitimately is kind of that guy. And
I'm still an apologist. He has been a great coach.
Now we get to see what he can do at
a massive program bound by nothing. I mean he's only
(30:41):
a Tennessee for one year, and that was a rebuild
they actually did all right. He took over the USC
job right when the Reggie Bush sanctions and the Coma
penalty kicked in. Uh, and so they still had an
undefeated year there. But like, now we get to see
him do something at a program where he's got all
the resources, all the recruiting on the like. There he's
(31:02):
bound by nothing and he's already on a hot seat
because he hasn't won a national championships there yet.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Well then you see in the Pac twelve, I mean
they lost one of their coaches as Rogers go straight
to Iowa State. No drama, you got tears from the
ad is one guy's out the door, but he already
makes a hire.
Speaker 7 (31:19):
Yeah, you know it's that's the kind of thing of
this too in you're seeing is how do you know
a program likes their coach? Well, one, they either keep
them around when they've had a bad season, like Mike
Norvell or Luke Sickle, or the guy stays through the
bowl game or whatever the playoff run is supposed to
be because yeah, they'll kind of get along in their
adults and they can you know, sort of say, yeah,
(31:40):
you know what, let's finish this out and see how
it goes, and then we'll, you know, we'll take care
of the next job later, you know. So it's you
see how this is kind of working with all these places,
and well, look it's unfortunate, but at the moment, Washington
State or PAC twelve is not going to be the
PAC twelve we thought it was going to be.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
All right, Pete, let me ask you this tomorrow. You
talked about this a couple of weeks ago. I think
you're right on with it. The Heisman trophy is gonna
be one tomorrow. Someone's gonna have a big day. Who
is that gonna be?
Speaker 7 (32:12):
You know this as a Heisman voter, I'm not allowed
to speak about my vote, and I can freely talk
about it because I have no freaking clue who was,
like who is? Like they all it's all bad. This
is the worst Heisman race ever. You know, either I know,
everyone either wants Diego Manzell or Julian Toretta or they're
(32:32):
just you know all these you know, you got these
guys who are just fine, but like you know, Diego
Pavia didn't. He's kind of Robert Griffin ish like, and
you know that his run. But Robert Griffin had a
couple of massive performances on a big stage, and that
wasn't really Pavia. Even though he had great performances week
after week, you have that one big giant win. You know,
(32:53):
it's just you know, I just there's no odea. I
would guess the win whoever, who ever quarterback in the
Big Ten Championship walks, that's probably your front runner. If
Jeremiah Smith goes off. I mean, remember DeVonta Smith won
this in twenty twenty because he ripped apart Florida in
the SEC Championships. So if Jeremiah Smith, you know, goes
(33:13):
twelve catches for two hundred and nineteen yards and three touchdowns,
Heisman over. But it's really remember as a popularity contest,
it's who performs with everyone watching, because you know, I
don't think anybody saw it created a TV ranking, Nobody
saw Jeremiah Love play this year, So I don't think
he's got a real shot. And I think Tabby is
going to be on a lot of ballots but again,
(33:35):
not really any massive win to jump on. So I
think it's you know, tomorrow, does Ty Simpson rip apart Georgia.
I don't know. That would probably get him there, But
this is just an awful, awful Heisman race.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
He's on Twitter at Pete few talking about his His
cell phone number is area cou.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
And spell.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
It's f U I T A c K, Pete FU
Tech right g O sec raw.
Speaker 5 (34:07):
Send it.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Send your email, Tim courtesy of Todd McShay. He'll answer
all your questions.
Speaker 7 (34:13):
Yeah, thank you, Pete.
Speaker 5 (34:15):
Enjoy the games. We'll talk to you next week buddy
when we're talking about the playoff.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
In the mask pe Tech, don't don't send him a
message on Twitter.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Been doing you know what harm I've been doing radio
now on and off, like what you know. When I
was part time in two thousand, then at full time
at ESPN from two thousand and three for seven eight years,
left for three years to go do TV, came back
now with you for the past decade plus. That is
the first time in twenty plus years of me doing
(34:46):
this where I have given out a guest's uh a
Twitter account or our contact information and the guest has said.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
No, no, no, no, no, not me, let me promote you. No,
it's never no, no, no, just some bodied voice a guy.
Speaker 5 (35:03):
No no, no, I don't. I don't.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Don't worry about it. Don't worry about I'm taking I
no no, no, don't, no, don't. I'm not be futech
fake Prike caller, parke caller hangs up like Eric Stoulton
pulp fiction. Uh, time out to find out what's trending
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Speaker 5 (35:27):
No, no, no.
Speaker 8 (35:31):
By the way, even worse from met was you ask
him about the Heisman race and his response is I
have a Heisman vote, so I can't talk about it. Goodwell, yeah,
he apparently hasn't heard a certain Saturday show at this year.
Speaker 5 (35:45):
Network.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Are you trying to get that vote taken away? Holy cow, Mike.
Current reikings are something like that.
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North Texas number twenty five. James Madison twelve and one
now won the Sunbelt thirty one to fourteen against Troy
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(37:24):
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the first domino has fallen in the college football playoff.
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(39:06):
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Speaker 5 (39:26):
It is Pete fu Tech, Pete Happy Friday. Man.
Speaker 7 (39:29):
I hate can playoff predictors, and there's nothing sucks the
soul out of sports more than all these you know
said you have a four percent probability of making this.
You know, you know it's like, okay, when why even try?
You know, like what I love this how every single
week there's a one percent chance that this team can win,
(39:51):
and then all of a sudden it does, Like oh well, well, yeah,
I know it's not how it works. But if you're
telling me out of one hundred times it would happen
once happened once that happens every week, But I digress. No, here,
I would actually take the one percent. I you know,
who knows what this bunch like. You can't say, okay,
well you're gonna move North touchas now, well maybe you do.
(40:12):
If Duke wins pretty handily and crushes Virginia and it's
the Power four champ of the ACC. I mean, I
don't think it'll happen, but you know, look, I mean
James Madison's only win over a power four team always
game against the power four team was against Louisville and
lost by two touchdowns. You're telling me the a SEC
(40:34):
champions shouldn't be in over James Madison.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
If that happens, Pete, do you really think Duke. A
five loss Duke team gets that push over James Madison.
Speaker 7 (40:48):
No, they're not gonna mess with it. Look the altar.
Here's my take, and I will be I will happily
eat it if I'm wrong, because I'm guessing here, knowing
group like I do. I know it's a new group
of people in the committee, but knowing the playoff pipes
and how this all roles in grape Vine like I do.
The one thing they don't want is controversy. And they
(41:11):
kind of avoided it all up until a few years ago.
With the Florida State thing. It was all kind of
oh gosh, you left out, you know this team that
was kind of deserving it. There's never really any big
twist until a couple of years ago, and now everyone
seems to be mad at everything. They keep being cagey
about it. They're cheeky and they want to leave themselves
(41:32):
as many outs as possible just in case they have
to make some kind of crazy president call. So they
haven't come out and flat said that they are going
by the president sent yet last year with the no
punishment for losing your conference championship thing. So my guess
is you already know who the teams are. It's the
(41:53):
only question now is whether or not BYU wins tomorrow.
Because if Texas Tech comes out and you know them
rolls them, we got it. That's it's over. That's it.
That's there's your college football playoffs.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
I just want chaos, Pete. That's that's really all it
comes down here.
Speaker 7 (42:08):
I mean, what would that be at this point? Would
it be Alabama? See here's your chaos.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
Right Alabama? Alabama lose, wins, loses.
Speaker 7 (42:16):
I mean no, Alabama would have to get destroyed because
here's your because you're chaos is if you're you can't
selectively say we are not going to punish, you know,
conference championship losers, because I I kind of don't believe
that that's how it should be. But I get it.
You don't want to make going to the conference championship
(42:37):
a negative because at the moment, you know, you could say, well,
you know, Alabama's in, you know, they're they're right, See,
they're fine, they should be okay, you know, but they're
punished by going to have to play another game. That's
not right. They're not gonna do that, and they're just
not saying it yet. So I think they're trying to
create a little drama. Oh well, the teams can move,
(42:57):
and oh yeah, you know they can move. If you
know someone else beats someone else and you know you're
a knockout, you have to move them up. But like, yeah,
at the Alabama, if it wins tomorrow, I think could
move up to three. And I don't think the one
or two Indiana house state that's it. You're if you're
not punishing conference champions. I think that set well how state.
(43:20):
He's not gonna fall further than two. Indiana's not gonna
fall further than that. And if Alabama went to moves
up to three, if BYU moves up to like four
or five, you know, until I think that's how this
is going to play out, they're just not gonna tell
us yet because they're not exactly sure what they're doing
right now.
Speaker 1 (43:37):
I gotta say, though, Pete tomorrow, I'm not sold on
Georgia and Alabama as as the top level national title
competitors right I'm just still just Alabama's offenses kind of
hit the skids, and Georgia is not quite the the
the juggernaut they were when they won back to back.
But I like Alabama tomorrow. I mean, I like Alaba
(43:58):
a close game. I think they get the off It's
on tracked a little bit, and Alabama is the more
desperate team.
Speaker 5 (44:03):
They need the W and Kalin de Bor gets a
stamp win.
Speaker 7 (44:07):
Oh my god. If I had a few days on
the X machine Man the SEC type I had, I
tweeted something out about I'm done with the word gauntlet.
That's not a gauntleige that Alabama's played, like you have
to remember, Yeah, okay, fine, they be a bunch of
rankings kind of Tennessee didn't beat a team that's going bowling.
(44:29):
Missouri's best win technically over the only went over a
bull bound team is Louisiana. You know, Auburn didn't beat
a bull bound team, but Vanderbilt didn't beat anybody who
beat anybody. LSU didn't have a coach or an offense
with Bama. Goddam, Like, it's yeah, there's a lot of big,
flashy names, but it's not that brutalless schedule. They did
(44:52):
beat Georgia, you know, Okay, they had to play Oklahoma,
and okay, they still lost to Florida State by double digits,
and that seems to the other part of this whole
equation when you come to I know, if I get
this is Notre Dame Miami. Apparently everyone went to bed
early during the Notre Dame Miami game back, nobody remembers this.
(45:13):
I mean, it's the whole hilarious thing. I tweeted out
that no one remembers this, and everyone seems to responding
back with some different form of that game and not
recognizing that it was a tie game at twenty four
to twenty four with sixty five seconds to play. They're
acting like this is a blowout. Meanwhile, it's that fourteen
point blowout loss, which is actually worse than the final
(45:35):
score of alabamagainst the Florida State has been memory dumped
by everyone so long, super long winded way of saying,
I am a thousand percent with you that I'm just
this sec These teams are.
Speaker 4 (45:46):
They're fine.
Speaker 7 (45:47):
They're just they're not great. They're fine.
Speaker 2 (45:53):
Fine at Pete's you Tech where you find them on Twitter.
Speaker 5 (45:57):
You can't. You cannot travel to the South anymore. Pete.
Speaker 1 (45:59):
You just stay stay in this, stay in the Midwest.
You're not even allowed to travel there anymore.
Speaker 7 (46:04):
Speaking of my last few days, I simultaneously spinning sec plates.
I was having three different arguments at the same time,
still arguing about why they got twenty twenty three right
with Alabama to stay out. It was so arguing if
they got it wrong last year, that Bama should have
been in an SMU out. So you think Bama's people
(46:25):
would actually see those even though they got like a
ton of views, and they should have seen that and
been okay. But no, all they are is mad at
me for suggesting that their team is just sort of
mess this year. So it's it's it's been, it's been
a couple of days, but get there. You're again. They're fine,
They're gonna go and they'll get T shirts and they're
be on TV. And I just I don't. I'm not
(46:46):
really buying into Georgia does show it up. George is
the one group that team you remember what happens tomorrow.
I think they can do some damage in this thing.
I don't. I'm not sold on the Oklahoma offense, Ole
Miss defense. No, and I just don't think that they
might all win a game. But I just don't think
there's a national championship champion in this pluck. If it's
not Georgia at.
Speaker 2 (47:08):
Pete Futech where you find him for all of your.
Speaker 7 (47:11):
No no more, no no no, that's you.
Speaker 1 (47:15):
I questions all your line them up.
Speaker 5 (47:21):
SEC fans line them up.
Speaker 2 (47:23):
Oh god, no question they have. Hey, Penn State finally
got a coach. It seems like maybe they had reached
out to him before and the message didn't go through
for mister Campbell. But after our long nightmare is over.
Speaker 7 (47:37):
Yeah, you know, it's it's funny. You know, Okay, he's
been kind of dancing with all these other programs for
the longest time, and you know, no, he's not leaving
at Penn State to a big enough program. And I
did enjoy the America held hostage thing for the last
you know, seventy two hours of like, oh, Penn State
can't find it. It's Penn State. They're you know, they're
gonna give somebody. Someone's gonna watch six or seven million.
Speaker 2 (47:59):
Yeah, you're gonna hit what year deal with that kind
of money, I mean, with the buyouts you're getting, come on,
let's go.
Speaker 7 (48:05):
Yeah, you know, it's a it's a you know what.
That's kind of the craziness about this coaching carousel. You
don't have to you know, go for the you know,
the five run home run with Lane Kiffin here. I
mean you can, you know you can. There's a lot
of good coaching hires out there. Pat Fitzgerald of Michigan State,
Good Bob Chesney going to UCLA. Okay, I see it.
You know, Matt Campbell. You can see that and be
(48:26):
okay that that makes sense. The guys, you know, gets
to have a step up job after years and years
of succeeding at a place that's never won. Okay. So
there's a lot of ways you can get coaches that
just that you know, you don't have to have all
the drama stuff happening. But all right, Lane Kiffin, let's
see what you can do. Son.
Speaker 1 (48:43):
You know, I really hope he goes on game day tomorrow, Pete, Like,
I know he I don't know what right? Well, No,
the thing is he said he had to stay back
in Baton Rouge because they signed it. Yeah, but I'm
really hoping he goes all full w W villain when
he goes on tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (48:59):
But now.
Speaker 7 (49:01):
I love how he it's God's fault, you know, he
prayed on it and had God told him take the
Yukon job. Like no, of course he's gonna say, take
the job that needs a lot more money, you know,
like you know, isn't That's the old joke that online
that Reggie White was praying on is gonna ask God?
And Mike Colb recalled and said, Reggie is God to
come to Green Bay. Well that's that's kind of what
(49:23):
should have happened with Lincoln. But like, look, I think
he's gonna go. He does enjoy this, and but he's
good at it though, Like there's some guys who try
and can't pull it off. But but Lane legitimately is
kind of that guy. And I'm still an apologist. He
has been a great coach. Now we get to see
what he can do at a massive program bound by nothing.
(49:44):
I mean, he's only a Tennessee for one year, and
that was a rebuilt and they actually did all right.
He took over the USC job right when the Reggie
Bush sanctions and the Coma penalty kicked in. Uh, and
so they still had an undefeated year there was. But like,
now you get to see him do something at a
program where he's got all the resources, all the recruiting
(50:04):
on the like, there's he's bound by nothing and he's
already on a hot seat because he hasn't won a
national championships there yet.
Speaker 2 (50:11):
Well, then you see in the PAC twelve, I mean
they lost one of their coaches as Rogers go straight
to Iowa State. No drama, You got tears from the
ad is one guy's out the door, but he already
makes a hire.
Speaker 7 (50:22):
Yeah, you know, it's that's kind of a thing of
this too, in your seeing, is how do you know
a program likes their coach, Well, one, they either keep
them around when they've had a bad season, like Mike
Norvell or Luke Stickle, or the guy stays through the
bowl game or whatever the playoff run is supposed to be.
Because yeah, they all kind of get along and their
adults and they can you know, sort of say yeah,
(50:43):
you know what, let's finish this out and see how
it goes and then well, you know, we'll take care
of the next job later, you know. So it's you
see how this is kind of working with all these places,
and well, look it's unfortunate, but at the moment, Washington
State or PAC twelve is not going to be the
PAC twelve. We thought it was going to be.
Speaker 1 (51:00):
All right, Pete, let me ask you this tomorrow. You
talked about this a couple of weeks ago. I think
you're right on with it. The Heisman Trophy is gonna
be one tomorrow. Someone's gonna have a big day. Who
is that gonna be?
Speaker 7 (51:14):
You know this as a Heisman voter, I'm not allowed
to speak about my vote, and I can freely talk
about it because I have no freaking clue who was,
like who is? Like they all it's all bad. This
is the worst Heisman race ever. You know, either I know,
everyone either wants Diego Manzell or Julian Toretta or they're
(51:35):
just you know, all these you know, you got these
guys who are just fine, but like, you know, Diego
Pavia didn't. He's kind of Robert Griffin ish like and
you know his run, But Robert Griffin had a couple
of massive performances on a big stage, and that wasn't
really Pavia. Even though he had great performances week after week,
you have that one big giant win. You know, it's
(51:56):
just you know, I guess there's no Odea. I would
guess the whoever you ever quarterback in the Big Ten
Championship locks that's probably your front runner. If Jeremiah Smith
goes off, I mean, remember Devonte Smith won this in
twenty twenty because he ripped apart Florida in the SEC Championship.
So if Jeremiah Smith, you know, goes twelve catches for
(52:17):
two hundred and nineteen yards and three touchdowns, Heisman over.
But it's really remember as a popularity contest, it's who
performs with everyone watching, because you know, I don't think
anybody saw it created a TV ranking. Nobody saw Jeremiah
Love play this year, so I don't think he's got
a real shot. And I think PAB is going to
be on a lot of ballots, but again, not really
(52:38):
any massive win to jump on. So I think it's
you know, tomorrow, does Ty Simpson rip apart Georgia. I
don't know that would probably get him there. But this
is just an awful, awful Heisman race.
Speaker 1 (52:51):
He's on Twitter at Pete few talk about his His
cell phone number is area C.
Speaker 5 (53:00):
And spelling it's f U I T A C K
Pete FU tech right g O sec raw send it.
Speaker 1 (53:10):
Send your email, Tim courtesy of Todd McShay. He'll answer
all your questions.
Speaker 7 (53:16):
Yeah, thank you, Pete.
Speaker 5 (53:18):
Enjoy the games.
Speaker 1 (53:19):
We'll talk to you next week, buddy, when we're talking
about the playoff.
Speaker 2 (53:22):
In the mask pe tech. Don't don't send him a
message on Twitter.
Speaker 1 (53:27):
Been dude, you know what harm I've been doing radio
now on and off, like what you know when I
was part time in two thousand, then at full time
at ESPN from two thousand and three for seven eight years,
left for three years to go do TV, came back
now with you for the past decade plus. That is
the first time in twenty plus years of me doing
(53:49):
this where I have given out a guest's uh a
Twitter account or our contact information and the guest has said.
Speaker 2 (53:57):
No, no, no, no, no, not me, let me promote you. No,
it's never no, just bodied voice. I am guy.
Speaker 5 (54:06):
No no, no, I don't. I don't.
Speaker 1 (54:08):
Don't worry about it. Don't worry about I'm taking I
No no, no, don't, don't don't. I'm not be feutech
fake prike caller, parke caller hangs up like Eric Stultson
pulp fiction.
Speaker 5 (54:17):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (54:18):
Time out to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports. From special delivery Steve to Seger. I'll
give you his cell phone number coming up in a
few minutes. Uh, he'll give charger stack everybody who calls.
He's got a free charger stack.
Speaker 5 (54:29):
No. No.
Speaker 8 (54:34):
By the way, even worse from Pate was you ask
him about the Heisman race and his response is I
have a Heisman vote, so I can't talk about it.
Speaker 3 (54:43):
Goodwill.
Speaker 8 (54:45):
He apparently hasn't heard a certain Saturday show at this year.
Speaker 5 (54:48):
Network.
Speaker 2 (54:49):
Are you trying to get that vote taken away? How
my current kings are.
Speaker 8 (54:55):
Something like that? There is a game on Fox TV
right now. The Mountain West Championship gave with an and
a half to go at Boise State, Broncos lead thirty
eight to twenty one over UNLV under two minutes to go.
In the American Championship at number twenty two lane, the
home team up thirty four to twenty one over twenty
fourth rank North Texas number twenty five. James Madison twelve
(55:15):
and one now won the Sun Belt thirty one to
fourteen against Troy and Kennesa State blew a twelve nothing
lead in the fourth but still won at Jacksonville State
nineteen fifteen on a touchdown pass in the final minute.
That was the Conference USA Championship game. Attendance eighteen thousand
in Alabama. Penn State does have its new head coach,
the guy that was at Iowa State the past decade,
(55:36):
Matt Campbell the replacement for the Cyclones. Jimmy Rodgers from
Washington State. Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson will play Sunday. You
return to full practice today. Washington QB Jaden Daniels will
return to start Sunday at Minnesota after the dislocated elbow.
Vikings quarterback JJ McCarthy will start. He cleared concussion protocol.
(55:57):
Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray is out for the U year
with his foot injury. US men's soccer will face Paraguay
and Australia in next Summer's World Cup, and then it'll
face a European playoff winner. In college hoops, Gonzaga rip
Kentucky ninety four to fifty nine, and in the late
game in the NBA nine and a half minutes to go,
Oklahoma City apparently will win its fourteenth straight game thunder
(56:20):
up one eleven eighty three over Dallas. Shay Gilgis Alexander
thirty three points. That's the eleventh time this season already
he scored thirty before the fourth quarter started. In the
late NHL game, late second period, Washington leads three to
two at the Ducks already wins for Vegas and Dallas.
Speaker 5 (56:39):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve.
Speaker 1 (56:41):
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
Hello, Welcome inside, Happy Friday, The Jason Smith Show with
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Speaker 3 (00:33):
Hobo.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Where right now, everybody's getting a little tight, little wondering
Duke fans waving there, Troy pom poms right now, going,
come on, Troy, see this through it.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Maybe we can go to the college football playoff if
we win tomorrow. All of a sudden, Mike Harmon, all
the posturing, everything back and forth, We're coming down to it.
The next twenty four hours are gonna be absolutely huge.
We could see teams like Alabama get left out. The
door could be open for Duke if they win. Now,
all the posturing that we've heard all week, all the hey,
(01:09):
here's our resume, here's what we've done, here's this, here's
that now we get to the games.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
See how chesty people get over the next twenty four hours,
how many of their sycophants start writing more missives or
hit TikTok or Instagram videos. Hey, let me give you
one more point about why I love this squad and
why my team And then they accidentally show too much
(01:34):
of their sec tattoo or whatever. Then starts to come
through Notre Dame colors dress up like a leprecha on
whatever the case may be. This one also interesting because
Troy was a twenty three and a half point dog
in this game, and James Madison can just create no
separation at this point.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yeah, listen, this is a big deal because you know, Duke, obviously,
the ACC is the big center of dramasar there is
with Alabama and George as well, because Alabama is on
the cusp of potentially being left out depending how that
game goes tomorrow. But the ACC title game, which no
one's gonna watch Virginia and Duke. Duke gets seven and five,
(02:12):
you get the automatic berth if you're one of the
top conferences, but you gotta be one of the top
conference champions as far as the rankings go, and Duke
is not gonna be there, but James Madison will be
there ranked twenty fifth right now. But they won't be
twenty fifth anymore if they lose this game Detroit and
the Sun Belt Championship. So all of a sudden, the
(02:33):
door is open for Duke if they pull the upset
against Virginia tomorrow to maybe be able to politic enough
to get into the college football playoff. But you gave
me an idea right there, Mike Carmon, You gave me
an idea right there, and tell me this wouldn't be
a must see thing, the biggest mussy thing in.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
College football all year.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Okay, tell me wouldn't see Okay, Now, let me just
throw this out for where we're sitting at right now
with teams that potentially could be left out, you know, understanding,
you know we still still a game left to go,
Like like I would like a two part part of this, right,
So just think about this. Right, you get the head
coaches from let's say Alabama Notre Dame. Right, you get
(03:18):
you Kaylin debor in, you get Marcus Freeman in right,
you know, you get Miami, you get Sark, you get
Texas in right, you get Mario cristoball in from Miami.
You get all You get all these schools, right that
are sitting there and need to make their case to
make the playoff. Right not not not school Look schools
like Indiana, it doesn't matter if they lose. They can
lose to Ohio State tomorrow fifty six. Nothing like Indiana's
(03:41):
getting it. But you get the true four or five schools,
like the big schools that need to politic to get in, right,
that needed part to get in. We love debates in
this country. We watch all kinds of debates, watch presidential debates,
all kinds. You put all of these coaches on stage
with a moderator, okay, with a mod and you make
(04:01):
them all have to make their case for the college
football playoff. They take questions, Maybe people in the crowd
get to ask questions, They get to comment on each other.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Right, Can you imagine.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Like like like Steve Sarkisian talking about, Hey, the three
top ten teams they beat. Look at this, and then
suddenly you get you get Mario Cristobaul over the top
going you lost a three team, You lost the three
teams that weren't even in the top ten.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
What are you talking about? Here.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
You lost to a guy who's standing right next to me,
you know, to Dame or whatever. You beat No Todame
who's standing right next to me. Like, can you imagine
what that would be like? You get all these guys
on stage for like an hour debate and watch them
just sweat their asses off after like the first fifteen
minutes as they try to make their cases and make
against the cases for the other schools. Tell me that
wouldn't be the biggest watched hour of television college football
(04:45):
in the year.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Yeah, but I think the biggest thing is that at
least their opening remarks have to be done rap battle
style like in Hamilton. Oh okay, so I need some
creativity here. I mean there's a lot of money there,
there's a lot of preparation times. Just give me a
couple of bullet points. That's not gonna sell me. You
gotta win me over. I mean, full greatest showman's style,
(05:07):
a couple of dancers, fire eaters, whatever you got, you
gotta take me. It's a TV show, right, It's all
a TV show to get into a TV show. So
you gotta wow me with something a little more.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Oh, come on, I just gave you a great idea. Now, no,
that's not good enough. Oh no, what are you talking about?
Speaker 5 (05:25):
You know what? That's an idea for like season.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
They've already got a bunch of jackass. Dude, you're a
that's a season three idea. Man, you're asking them to
do a little bit too much, Man, a little bit
too much?
Speaker 2 (05:37):
I asked her a little much. I did like the
idea earlier this week, saying, hey, can we just play
one more game to impress the polsters? See it's like
we're back in old times. Man, come on, give us
one more opportunity, put us on the field Saturday. Yeah,
I wa took championship week?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Or you know what, we have playing games in college basketball.
Let's have a playing game in college that's one in
so bad you four to be in the playing round.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
We aren't. Yes, you're in the player round.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Were We have a month before we're gonna play any
of these games? Anyway, why not have another week of games?
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Come on? Just think about that for a second.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Just think if that was that was how we decided
the final spots debate and who wins?
Speaker 5 (06:15):
And and you.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Call in like American idol, Yeah, let's.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Get your post debate spin analysis, and everybody's talking about it,
and we're breaking it down after and you get, you know,
and you get what's his name with the big with
the touch screen and the map from from CNNES is
pressing stuff. Here's where I look. Oh you look in
the area right here in Miami. This where Mario Christopaul
made a lot of send. He gave a lot of
voters here this part of Miami, in this lower part
(06:38):
of Alabama. But look up here right here, right around
South Bend. No votes coming in right here, Nothing going
on right there, and Krnaki is just hitting the buttons
and show.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Now, if you were wowed by by Debor, I'll tell
you know, Notre Dame is part of this though. I mean,
Freeman was on the Today Show the other day and
he was charming as hell according to the exit polls.
So I mean, you know, you had the people that
were on set with him looking uncomfortable that he was
he was winning and they were getting charmed away.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
So I'll just think about that. How great idea that
would be.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Well I like that though, I mean, like you can
see him sweat. Look at he's sweating. He's got the
Nixon Kennedy debate.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
They should have done a better lighting job with him
over there, and they got him like he looking like
he's turning green.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
He is really sweating right there. Uh so it just
doesn't look healthy. The biggest game of the night again,
James Madison and Troy Troy with the ball near midfield,
down three, eight minutes to go in the fourth quarter.
We'll keep you updated on this Pete feu Tech. We'll
stop by next hour break it down for us. Off
a little bit more clarity following this game.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Uh what about the Boys State Broncos. I'm actually wearing
a Broncos hat. It was muffed by Ron Garra. I
had my Northwestern jag and I right, I had to
walk the dog whatever, and you know, people have been
sick around here, so I'm like, I'm protecting myself at
all costs here. And then I grabbed a hat out
of the car and it was the Boys. He stated,
He goes, you're repping two schools. I can't go for that.
(08:05):
I'm like, yeah, no one. I already paid through the
nose for the other one. I'm about to so smurf
turfing up Baby twenty eight to fourteen let's go.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Halftime on a box.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
I mean you just look confused. I mean, really, I
gotta say, I'm on Robbi's side of that.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
You look confused. You don't know what I said.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
It's better than the adoption of schools that a lot
of people do around.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I'm just I'm just gonna wear everything in my closet
at once, like Joey and Friends.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
I'm wearing all your clothes Chandler.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
That is so not the opposite of all I Hey,
if I could have found the Santa Clara shirt, I
would have died throve on top of that one too.
Everybody who's gotten out of and you siphoned off my money,
Let's go so we'll.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Have more football. Odd way, we'll keep you updated on
this game. But today was a huge day as.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
We look ahead to the World Cup.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Now, whatever you think about the the the spectacle that
was the World Cup draw.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
What shack is?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I mean, hey, I had nothing to do.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Kevin Hart was bored.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
It was just insane. I mean it was to watch.
I'm going, this is the World Cup. Try, this is
what we're doing, this is how we're doing it.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Okay, this is.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
All right, TV show.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Let's go yeah, it was really This is one of
those like if you watch the World Cup draw today,
you like, if you ever go to a foreign country
and you watch a TV show that's really popular and
you go, what the hell is this? I don't understand
what is going on with this thing? And you go,
I don't get it. But you know, you don't know
the culture, you don't know the any characters, nothing else.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
It just looks really weird.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
I pitch you that's what people coming to the United
States and they're vacation in the United States.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
If they watched the World Cup drawing, going, what the
hell is this? Who is this band singing this song?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
And they're not even singing all the words, like the
village people are singing and they're not even singing all
the words, They're just singing the chorus.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Not even all the people. You remember, like, what is happening?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
The hell it's the village people?
Speaker 5 (09:53):
The hell here?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Might be transporting back to it.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I watched it, going, what is what is going on here?
This is insane? But the good news is that and
this is also the bad news. The good news is
that the United States draw in the World Cup for
next year. Probably the best you couldn't ask for a
better draw unless you gave them a bye into the
knockout round in Group D Australia, Paraguay and the winner
(10:20):
of a fourteen playoff that involves Kosovo, Romania, Slovakia and TURKEYA.
I mean, this is who's in our We're not group
of death. We're in the group of everlasting life. This
is like, hey, everybody, just come here and live forever.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Look.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
I forget the rest of the rankings, but it's like,
here we go.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
We've already beaten Australian, Paraguay and friendlies when we haven't
had our whole team. And I know, look and already,
you know, Mauricio Pocatino had to say, hey, hey, hey, hey,
let's not get complacent.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
I understand we think we're not a buye into the
knockout round, but I understand that. But I gotta be
honest with you. This is about it that fantagious as
you can get. This is what happens when you spend
all that money to host the World Cup. This is
what you get. You get a draw like this. I'm sorry,
but you know what, all the other countries had stuff
like this, so right, now it's our turn. But I
gotta say this, if we don't get out a group stage, Okay,
(11:16):
I know we have problems, right, I know we have problems.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
I know we have some issues.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
And Bokatino's trying to figure out the right mix of guys.
And he had one one camp where it was mostly
MLS players And now you're welcoming some of the guys
back who play on the team long term, some of
the guys you remember from the last few years. Like,
he's still trying to figure out exactly who he's gonna take.
But I have confidence he's a good he's a good
head coach. He's just gotta get he's just got to
(11:41):
get all the guys on his page right because he
I still think he was the right call to go
out and get to come in and put a stamp
on this team. But I got all those problems, all
that stuff might harmon, all this stuff, all the problems,
all those other If we don't get out a group
playing into the knockout round, we should stop playing soccer
in this country. We say, you know what, we tried,
(12:01):
We tried for a long time and we just can't
do it. Man, I'm so I don't know what I
don't know what to say, but we're gonna stop all
the youth programs. We're getting rid of all of them.
Were we're getting rid of the MLS. We'll let them
play one more year and then they're finished. Soccer is done.
We're not gonna play. We can't play because if we
can't get out of group play right here, there's no
reason why we should continue to play this sport. This
(12:22):
is the this is the easiest draw you could possibly
want and ask for. And if we can't get out
of group, man, I mean, we're never gonna get close
to winning a world Now.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Here's the thing. You can say, Well, we can redeploy
those assets, but go city to city, go state to state.
I'm looking at our fair state of California. Are we
gonna do anything better with that money? No, they're gonna
put it in another projects. So it's a failed multi
billion dollar efforts.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
So how with it?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Keep running through? Double up, redouble your efforts in terms
of money's allocated here, FIFA ranking thirty nine for Paraguay
is in twenty six for Australia. And then you go
on down to the rest where we were talking about
eighty forty nine, et cetera. And those games won't be
(13:09):
played till March. So you're looking at the opportunity of
a lifetime here the home cooking. However you want.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
To go to the draw.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
And we've certainly chronicled in our years together here at
Fox Sports Radio, Jason, plenty of scandal plenty and eyebrow
raising moment related to FIFA. And here's just an example
of all right, come on, walk on through. Don't take it,
you know, don't take it too lightly. You still have
to win. You can't just get the automatic buys. Nobody's
(13:42):
dropping out. You can make all sorts of jokes people
certainly did politically in terms of how the USA could
move forward. I'll just leave that on the table. You
can all hit that on the tee if you need to.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
I think there's ways we can move on even if
we lose every game. I think they're gonna fight. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Yeah, but you know what, Hey, the United States overall
they had more possessions. So yeah, because look, all these teams,
all these teams are all parked.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
The bus teams have sampler there. These are all park.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
The bus teams that shouldn't be able to score with
us that that look, maybe it's a little bit more
of a but these are not teams that have any
sort of firepower whatsoever, right, these these are these are
park the bus teams.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
I mean, we can't if we can't get out of group.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Man, I don't, I don't know, I really, I mean
everything soccer even cancel stuff that's got a black and
white ball, just getting so nobody gets that bad memory.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
I saw soccer ball. We think you cancel all of it.
Can't cancel everything. We're not gonna do it.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Yeah, but we we actually have kids that get out
and have some exercise, doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Video gamers.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
We'll find something else. They'll all go play baseball. Now
we'll go back and play baseball. You know what they'll do.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
They'll all go They'll all go play pickleball.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
They'll all no, no, no, it's pickleball still going.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
There's professional pickle ball. Would win.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Of golf where it's gone.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Golf had that giant swell.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Yeah, I don't hear people hitting the links near literally
as much casually as they once did. I mean, you
saw what happened when they we had the great invention
of Hey, you could just go down the street. I mean,
we got this place where you can hit balls deep
into the night. Oh wait, no, no, no, now, it's
that's only corporate events. I can't afford to go.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
There, So that's gone, all right. The out priced Top
Golf is making a lot of money. Drink a beer,
hit some balls. Oh sure, Top Golf is doing.
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and tell me that that's the case.
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Oh wait a minute, Top Golf four oh four file
not found.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
We haven't quite hit that. But it's it's it's not
the the burgeoning growth industry.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Here we go. Four point two year over year increase
from last year.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Their revenue's fourner at seventy two million a quarter three
of twenty twenty five. And I didn't look this up.
I knew this off the top of my head. I
was just waiting to say it. I mean, they got
like a one percent increase in same venue sales. I
mean that's a you know, it's coming after a longer
trend they had of declining same venue sales.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
But now for the full year they've raised their.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Revenue to be between three point eighty six billion, three
point nine two billion.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Again, I know all this off the top of my head.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
No, that's that was really good. You want to get
said lines in there while you're at it.
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Oh hey, since this was ai, everything I just said
not proven. Just make sure people know that.
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It's well played. Well played, my friend. But but yeah,
for all of it, it's it's now just it's winning time, right.
You got a couple of games here. One of the
the parents in the Maddie's soccer group goes, Hey, a
couple of games here in La I go. He just
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Speaker 5 (17:02):
I'll see if I can get you gin so again.
We'll stop playing. Stop it. That's what I would threaten
everybody with.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
If we don't win, if we don't get out of group,
we're not there's no more soccer.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
But I thought it was another generation or two away.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
You'd be like, you'd be like Phil Dunfield. We'll be
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Speaker 5 (17:19):
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I'm canceling Christmas Christmas. He pulls the tree out, get
it Christmas is canceled.
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You just build the giant dome over the States like
they did in the Simpsons movie, and you have no
idea what's going on in the outside world that that
game no longer counts exit.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
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Let's go Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the Fox
Sports Radio studios. Well, the first domino has fallen in
the college football playoff. James Madison wins the Sunbelt tonight.
They beat Troy thirty one fourteen, so now a ninety
nine percent chance according to the All State playoff predictor,
(20:02):
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Speaker 5 (20:23):
It is Pete futech, pete happy Friday. Man.
Speaker 7 (20:26):
I hate playoff predictors, and there's nothing sucks the soul
out of sports more than all these you know stats.
You have a four percent probability of making this. You know,
you know it's like, okay, well why even try? You know,
like what, I love this how every single week there's
a one percent chance that this team can win, and
(20:48):
then all of a sudden it does, Like oh well,
well yeah, I know it's not how it works, but
you're telling me out of one hundred times it would
happen once, happened once, and it happens every week. But
I digress. No, You're I'm actually take the one percent.
I you know, who knows what this bunch like you
can't say, Okay, well you're gonna move North Texas. Now, well,
(21:08):
maybe you do. If Duke wins pretty handily and crushes
Virginia and it's the Power four champ of the ACC.
I mean, I don't think it'll happen, but you know, look,
I mean, James Madison's only win over a power four
team always game against the power four team was against
Louisville and lost by two touchdowns. You're telling me the
(21:30):
a SEC champions shouldn't be in over James Madison.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
If that happens, Pete, do you really think Duke A
five lost Duke team gets that push over James Madison.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
No, they're not gonna mess with it. Look the ALTA.
Here's my take, and I will be I will happily
eat it if I'm wrong, because I'm guessing here. Knowing
this group like I do. I know it's a new
group of people of the committee, but knowing the playoff
types and how this all rolls in grape Vine like
I do. The one thing they don't want is controversy,
(22:08):
and they kind of avoided it all up until a
few years ago with the Florida State thing. It was
all kind of oh gosh, you left out you know
this team that was kind of deserving. It was. There's
never really any big twist until a couple of years ago,
and now everyone seems to be mad at everything. They
keep being cagey about it. They're cheeky and they want
to leave themselves as many outs as possible just in
(22:32):
case they have to make some kind of crazy president call.
So they haven't come out and flat said that they
are going by the president sent yet last year with
the no punishment for losing your conference championship thing. So
my guess is you already know who the teams are.
It's the only question now is whether or not BYU
(22:53):
wins tomorrow. Because if Tech to Tech comes out and
you know, steam rolls them, we got it. That it's over.
That's that's there's your college football playoffs.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
I just want chaos, Pete. That's that's really all it
comes down here.
Speaker 7 (23:05):
I mean, what would that be at this point? Would
it be Alabama?
Speaker 2 (23:09):
See here's your chaos, right Alabama? Alabama wins loses.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
I mean no, alabam would have to get destroyed because
here's your Because you're chaos is if you're you can't
selectively say we are not going to punish, you know,
conference championship losers, because I I kind of don't believe
that that's how it should be. But I get it.
You don't want to make going to the conference championship
(23:34):
a negative because at the moment, you know, you could say, well,
you know Alabama's in, you know, they're they're right, See,
they're fine, they should be okay, you know, but they're
punished by going to have to play another game. That's
not right. They're not gonna do that, and they're just
not saying it yet. So I think they're trying to
create a little drama. Oh well, the teams can move,
(23:54):
and yeah, you know they can move. If you know
someone else beats someone else and you know you're a knockout,
you have to move them up. But like, yeah, at
the Alabama, if it wins tomorrow, I think could move
up to three. And I don't think the one or
two Indiana House state that's it. If you're not punishing
conference champions I think that set well hole state. He's
(24:17):
not gonna fall further than two. Indiana's not gonna fall
further than that. And if Alabama went to moves up
to three, if BYU moves up to like four or five,
you know, until I think that's how this is going
to play out, They're just not gonna tell us yet
because they're not exactly sure what they're doing right now.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
I gotta say, though, Pete tomorrow, I'm not sold on
Georgia and Alabama as as the top level national title
competitors right I'm just still just Alabama's offenses kind of
hit the skids, and Georgia is not quite the the
the juggernaut they were when they won back to back.
But I like Alabama tomorrow. I mean I like Alabama
(24:55):
close game. I think they get the offense un tracked
a little bit, and Alabama is the more or desperate
team they need the W and Kalin de Borget to
stamp win.
Speaker 7 (25:04):
Oh my god. If I had a few days on
the X machine Man the SEC type I had, I
tweeted something out about I'm done with the word gauntlet.
That's not a gauntlege that Alabama played like you have
to remember, Yeah, okay, fine, they'd be a bunch of
rankings kind of Tennessee didn't beat a team that's going bowling. Oh,
(25:26):
Missouri's best win technically over the only win over a
bull bound team is Louisiana. You know, Auburn didn't beat
a bull bound team, but Vanderbilt didn't beat anybody who
beat anybody. LSU didn't have a coach or an offense
with Bamba Godam.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Like.
Speaker 7 (25:42):
It's yeah, there's a lot of big, flashy names, but
it's not that brutalless schedule. They did beat Georgia, you know, Okay,
they had to play Oklahoma, and Okay, they still lost
to Florida State by double digits. And that seems to
be the other part of this whole equation when you
come to know, I get to this is Notre Dame Miami.
Apparently everyone went to bed early during the Notre Dame
(26:05):
Miami game. Back, Noboddy remembers this. I mean, it's the
whost hilarious thing. I tweeted out that no one remembers it,
and everyone seems to responding back with some different form
of that game and not recognizing that it was a
tie game at twenty four to twenty four with sixty
five seconds to play. They're acting like this is a blowout. Meanwhile,
(26:28):
it's that fourteen point blowout loss, which is actually worse
than the final score of Alabama against the Florida State
has been memory dumped by everyone so long, super long
winded way of saying, I am a thousand percent with
you that I'm just this sec These teams are they're fine,
They're just they're not great. They're fine.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Fine at p FU Tech where you find them on Twitter.
You can't you cannot travel to the South anymore, Pete.
You have to just stay stay in this stay in
the Midwest. You to travel there anymore.
Speaker 7 (27:01):
Speaking my last few days, I simultaneously a spinning sec plates.
I was having three different arguments at the same time,
still arguing about why they got twenty twenty three right
with Alabama. It was so arguing if they got it
wrong last year, that Bama should have been in an
SMU out. So you think Bama's people would actually see
(27:23):
those even though they got like a ton of views,
and they should have seen that and been okay. But no,
all they are is mad at me for suggesting that
their team is just sort of met year. So it's
it's it's gonna it's been a couple of days, but
get there. You're again, They're fine, They're gonna go and
they'll get t shirts and they'rena be on TV, and
I just I don't. I'm not really buying into Georgia
(27:46):
does shows up. George is the one group that team,
no matter what happens tomorrow, I think they can do
some damage in this thing. I don't. I'm not sold
on the Oklahoma offense. I ole miss defense. No uh,
And I just don't think that they might all win
a game. But I just don't think there's a national
championship champion in this pluck. If it's not Georgia at.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Pete futech where you find him for all of your.
Speaker 7 (28:08):
No no more, no no, no.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
You I questions, all your line them up.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
SEC fans line them up?
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Oh god, no question they have. Hey, Penn State finally
got a coach. It seems like maybe they had reached
out to him before and the message didn't go through
for mister Campbell. But after our long nightmare is over.
Speaker 7 (28:34):
Yeah, you know it's it's funny, you know, Okay, he's
been kind of dancing with all these other programs for
the longest time, and you know, no, he's not leaving
at Penn State is a big enough program. And I
did enjoy the America held hostage thing for the last
you know, seventy two hours of like, oh, Penn State
can't find it. It's Penn State. They're you know, they're
gonna give somebody someone's gonna watch six or seven million.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Yeah, you're gonna get what year deal with that kind
of money, I mean, with the buyouts you're getting.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
Come on, let's go.
Speaker 7 (29:02):
Yeah, you know, it's a it's a you know what.
And that's kind of the craziness about this coaching care.
So you don't have to, you know, go for the
you know, the five run home run with Lane Kiffin here.
I mean, you can, you know you can. There's a
lot of good coaching hires out there. Pat Fitzgerald in
Michigan State, good Bob Chesney going to UCLA. Okay, I
see it. You know, Matt Campbell. You can see that
(29:23):
and be okay that that makes sense. The guys, you know,
gets to have a step up job after years and
years of succeeding at a place that's never one. Okay.
So there's a lot of ways you can get coaches
that just that you know, you don't have to have
all the drama stuff happening. But all right, Lane Kiffin
let's see what you can do. Son.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
You know, I really hope he goes on game day tomorrow, Pete,
like I know he I don't know right. Well, No,
the thing is he said he had to stay back
in Baton Rouge because they signed him. Yeah, but I'm
really hoping he goes all full WWE villain when he
goes on tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
But now apparently it's up in the air.
Speaker 7 (29:58):
I love how he's got Od's fault. You know, he
prayed on it and had God told him take the
Yukon job. Like, no, of course he's gonna say take
the job. That's a lot more money, you know, like
you isn't. That's the old joke that online that Reggie
White was praying on is gonna ask God? And Mike
Coleman recalled and said, Reggie is God to come to
Green Bay. Well that's that's kind of what should have
(30:20):
happened with Lincoln. But like, look, I think he's gonna go.
He does enjoy this, and but he's good at it though,
Like there's some guys who try and can't pull it off,
but but Lane legitimately is kind of that guy. And
I'm still an apologist. He has been a great coach.
Now we get to see what he can do at
a massive program bound by nothing. I mean he's only
(30:41):
a Tennessee for one year, and that was a rebuild
they actually did all right. He took over the USC
job right when the Reggie Bush sanctions and the Coma
penalty kicked in. Uh, and so they still had an
undefeated year there. But like, now we get to see
him do something at a program where he's got all
the resources, all the recruiting on the like. There he's
(31:02):
bound by nothing and he's already on a hot seat
because he hasn't won a national championships there yet.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Well then you see in the Pac twelve, I mean
they lost one of their coaches as Rogers go straight
to Iowa State. No drama, you got tears from the
ad is one guy's out the door, but he already
makes a hire.
Speaker 7 (31:19):
Yeah, you know it's that's the kind of thing of
this too in you're seeing is how do you know
a program likes their coach? Well, one, they either keep
them around when they've had a bad season, like Mike
Norvell or Luke Sickle, or the guy stays through the
bowl game or whatever the playoff run is supposed to
be because yeah, they'll kind of get along in their
adults and they can you know, sort of say, yeah,
(31:40):
you know what, let's finish this out and see how
it goes, and then we'll, you know, we'll take care
of the next job later, you know. So it's you
see how this is kind of working with all these places,
and well, look it's unfortunate, but at the moment, Washington
State or PAC twelve is not going to be the
PAC twelve we thought it was going to be.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
All right, Pete, let me ask you this tomorrow. You
talked about this a couple of weeks ago. I think
you're right on with it. The Heisman trophy is gonna
be one tomorrow. Someone's gonna have a big day. Who
is that gonna be?
Speaker 7 (32:12):
You know this as a Heisman voter, I'm not allowed
to speak about my vote, and I can freely talk
about it because I have no freaking clue who was,
like who is? Like they all it's all bad. This
is the worst Heisman race ever. You know, either I know,
everyone either wants Diego Manzell or Julian Toretta or they're
(32:32):
just you know all these you know, you got these
guys who are just fine, but like you know, Diego
Pavia didn't. He's kind of Robert Griffin ish like, and
you know that his run. But Robert Griffin had a
couple of massive performances on a big stage, and that
wasn't really Pavia. Even though he had great performances week
after week, you have that one big giant win. You know,
(32:53):
it's just you know, I just there's no odea. I
would guess the win whoever, who ever quarterback in the
Big Ten Championship walks, that's probably your front runner. If
Jeremiah Smith goes off. I mean, remember DeVonta Smith won
this in twenty twenty because he ripped apart Florida in
the SEC Championships. So if Jeremiah Smith, you know, goes
(33:13):
twelve catches for two hundred and nineteen yards and three touchdowns,
Heisman over. But it's really remember as a popularity contest,
it's who performs with everyone watching, because you know, I
don't think anybody saw it created a TV ranking, Nobody
saw Jeremiah Love play this year, So I don't think
he's got a real shot. And I think Tabby is
going to be on a lot of ballots but again,
(33:35):
not really any massive win to jump on. So I
think it's you know, tomorrow, does Ty Simpson rip apart Georgia.
I don't know. That would probably get him there, But
this is just an awful, awful Heisman race.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
He's on Twitter at Pete few talking about his His
cell phone number is area cou.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
And spell.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
It's f U I T A c K, Pete FU
Tech right g O sec raw.
Speaker 5 (34:07):
Send it.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Send your email, Tim courtesy of Todd McShay. He'll answer
all your questions.
Speaker 7 (34:13):
Yeah, thank you, Pete.
Speaker 5 (34:15):
Enjoy the games. We'll talk to you next week buddy
when we're talking about the playoff.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
In the mask pe Tech, don't don't send him a
message on Twitter.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Been doing you know what harm I've been doing radio
now on and off, like what you know. When I
was part time in two thousand, then at full time
at ESPN from two thousand and three for seven eight years,
left for three years to go do TV, came back
now with you for the past decade plus. That is
the first time in twenty plus years of me doing
(34:46):
this where I have given out a guest's uh a
Twitter account or our contact information and the guest has said.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
No, no, no, no, no, not me, let me promote you. No,
it's never no, no, no, just some bodied voice a guy.
Speaker 5 (35:03):
No no, no, I don't. I don't.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Don't worry about it. Don't worry about I'm taking I
no no, no, don't, no, don't. I'm not be futech
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Speaker 5 (35:27):
No, no, no.
Speaker 8 (35:31):
By the way, even worse from met was you ask
him about the Heisman race and his response is I
have a Heisman vote, so I can't talk about it. Goodwell, yeah,
he apparently hasn't heard a certain Saturday show at this year.
Speaker 5 (35:45):
Network.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Are you trying to get that vote taken away? Holy cow, Mike.
Current reikings are something like that.
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There is a game on Fox TV right now, the
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to go at Boise State, Broncos lead thirty eight twenty
one over UNLV under two minutes to go. In the
American Championship at number twenty two lane, the home team
up thirty four to twenty one over twenty fourth rank
North Texas number twenty five. James Madison twelve and one
now won the Sunbelt thirty one to fourteen against Troy
(36:16):
and Kennesa State blew a twelve nothing lead in the fourth,
but still won at Jacksonville State nineteen fifteen on a
touchdown pass in the final minute. That was the Conference
USA Championship game attendance eighteen thousand in Alabama. Penn State
does have its new head coach, the guy that was
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for the Cyclones. Jimmy Rodgers from Washington State. Ravens quarterback
(36:40):
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Washington QB Jaden Daniels will return to start Sunday at
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He cleared concussion protocol. Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray is out
for the year with his foot injury. US men's soccer
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(37:03):
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Gonzaga rip Kentucky ninety four to fifty nine. And in
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Shay Gilgis Alexander thirty three points. That's the eleventh time
(37:24):
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Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Well,
the first domino has fallen in the college football playoff.
James Madison wins the Sun Belt tonight. They beat Troy
thirty one fourteen, So now a ninety nine percent chance
according to the All State Playoff predictor, if Duke upsets
(39:06):
Virginia tomorrow, joining us now for the possibility that could
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Speaker 5 (39:26):
It is Pete fu Tech, Pete Happy Friday. Man.
Speaker 7 (39:29):
I hate can playoff predictors, and there's nothing sucks the
soul out of sports more than all these you know
said you have a four percent probability of making this.
You know, you know it's like, okay, when why even try?
You know, like what I love this how every single
week there's a one percent chance that this team can win,
(39:51):
and then all of a sudden it does, Like oh well, well, yeah,
I know it's not how it works. But if you're
telling me out of one hundred times it would happen
once happened once that happens every week, But I digress. No, here,
I would actually take the one percent. I you know,
who knows what this bunch like. You can't say, okay,
well you're gonna move North touchas now, well maybe you do.
(40:12):
If Duke wins pretty handily and crushes Virginia and it's
the Power four champ of the ACC. I mean, I
don't think it'll happen, but you know, look, I mean
James Madison's only win over a power four team always
game against the power four team was against Louisville and
lost by two touchdowns. You're telling me the a SEC
(40:34):
champions shouldn't be in over James Madison.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
If that happens, Pete, do you really think Duke. A
five loss Duke team gets that push over James Madison.
Speaker 7 (40:48):
No, they're not gonna mess with it. Look the altar.
Here's my take, and I will be I will happily
eat it if I'm wrong, because I'm guessing here, knowing
group like I do. I know it's a new group
of people in the committee, but knowing the playoff pipes
and how this all roles in grape Vine like I do.
The one thing they don't want is controversy. And they
(41:11):
kind of avoided it all up until a few years ago.
With the Florida State thing. It was all kind of
oh gosh, you left out, you know this team that
was kind of deserving it. There's never really any big
twist until a couple of years ago, and now everyone
seems to be mad at everything. They keep being cagey
about it. They're cheeky and they want to leave themselves
(41:32):
as many outs as possible just in case they have
to make some kind of crazy president call. So they
haven't come out and flat said that they are going
by the president sent yet last year with the no
punishment for losing your conference championship thing. So my guess
is you already know who the teams are. It's the
(41:53):
only question now is whether or not BYU wins tomorrow.
Because if Texas Tech comes out and you know them
rolls them, we got it. That's it's over. That's it.
That's there's your college football playoffs.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
I just want chaos, Pete. That's that's really all it
comes down here.
Speaker 7 (42:08):
I mean, what would that be at this point? Would
it be Alabama? See here's your chaos.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
Right Alabama? Alabama lose, wins, loses.
Speaker 7 (42:16):
I mean no, Alabama would have to get destroyed because
here's your because you're chaos is if you're you can't
selectively say we are not going to punish, you know,
conference championship losers, because I I kind of don't believe
that that's how it should be. But I get it.
You don't want to make going to the conference championship
(42:37):
a negative because at the moment, you know, you could say, well,
you know, Alabama's in, you know, they're they're right, See,
they're fine, they should be okay, you know, but they're
punished by going to have to play another game. That's
not right. They're not gonna do that, and they're just
not saying it yet. So I think they're trying to
create a little drama. Oh well, the teams can move,
(42:57):
and oh yeah, you know they can move. If you
know someone else beats someone else and you know you're
a knockout, you have to move them up. But like, yeah,
at the Alabama, if it wins tomorrow, I think could
move up to three. And I don't think the one
or two Indiana house state that's it. You're if you're
not punishing conference champions. I think that set well how state.
(43:20):
He's not gonna fall further than two. Indiana's not gonna
fall further than that. And if Alabama went to moves
up to three, if BYU moves up to like four
or five, you know, until I think that's how this
is going to play out, they're just not gonna tell
us yet because they're not exactly sure what they're doing
right now.
Speaker 1 (43:37):
I gotta say, though, Pete tomorrow, I'm not sold on
Georgia and Alabama as as the top level national title
competitors right I'm just still just Alabama's offenses kind of
hit the skids, and Georgia is not quite the the
the juggernaut they were when they won back to back.
But I like Alabama tomorrow. I mean, I like Alaba
(43:58):
a close game. I think they get the off It's
on tracked a little bit, and Alabama is the more
desperate team.
Speaker 5 (44:03):
They need the W and Kalin de Bor gets a
stamp win.
Speaker 7 (44:07):
Oh my god. If I had a few days on
the X machine Man the SEC type I had, I
tweeted something out about I'm done with the word gauntlet.
That's not a gauntleige that Alabama's played, like you have
to remember, Yeah, okay, fine, they be a bunch of
rankings kind of Tennessee didn't beat a team that's going bowling.
(44:29):
Missouri's best win technically over the only went over a
bull bound team is Louisiana. You know, Auburn didn't beat
a bull bound team, but Vanderbilt didn't beat anybody who
beat anybody. LSU didn't have a coach or an offense
with Bama. Goddam, Like, it's yeah, there's a lot of big,
flashy names, but it's not that brutalless schedule. They did
(44:52):
beat Georgia, you know, Okay, they had to play Oklahoma,
and okay, they still lost to Florida State by double digits,
and that seems to the other part of this whole
equation when you come to I know, if I get
this is Notre Dame Miami. Apparently everyone went to bed
early during the Notre Dame Miami game back, nobody remembers this.
(45:13):
I mean, it's the whole hilarious thing. I tweeted out
that no one remembers this, and everyone seems to responding
back with some different form of that game and not
recognizing that it was a tie game at twenty four
to twenty four with sixty five seconds to play. They're
acting like this is a blowout. Meanwhile, it's that fourteen
point blowout loss, which is actually worse than the final
(45:35):
score of alabamagainst the Florida State has been memory dumped
by everyone so long, super long winded way of saying,
I am a thousand percent with you that I'm just
this sec These teams are.
Speaker 4 (45:46):
They're fine.
Speaker 7 (45:47):
They're just they're not great. They're fine.
Speaker 2 (45:53):
Fine at Pete's you Tech where you find them on Twitter.
Speaker 5 (45:57):
You can't. You cannot travel to the South anymore. Pete.
Speaker 1 (45:59):
You just stay stay in this, stay in the Midwest.
You're not even allowed to travel there anymore.
Speaker 7 (46:04):
Speaking of my last few days, I simultaneously spinning sec plates.
I was having three different arguments at the same time,
still arguing about why they got twenty twenty three right
with Alabama to stay out. It was so arguing if
they got it wrong last year, that Bama should have
been in an SMU out. So you think Bama's people
(46:25):
would actually see those even though they got like a
ton of views, and they should have seen that and
been okay. But no, all they are is mad at
me for suggesting that their team is just sort of
mess this year. So it's it's it's been, it's been
a couple of days, but get there. You're again. They're fine,
They're gonna go and they'll get T shirts and they're
be on TV. And I just I don't. I'm not
(46:46):
really buying into Georgia does show it up. George is
the one group that team you remember what happens tomorrow.
I think they can do some damage in this thing.
I don't. I'm not sold on the Oklahoma offense, Ole
Miss defense. No, and I just don't think that they
might all win a game. But I just don't think
there's a national championship champion in this pluck. If it's
not Georgia at.
Speaker 2 (47:08):
Pete Futech where you find him for all of your.
Speaker 7 (47:11):
No no more, no no no, that's you.
Speaker 1 (47:15):
I questions all your line them up.
Speaker 5 (47:21):
SEC fans line them up.
Speaker 2 (47:23):
Oh god, no question they have. Hey, Penn State finally
got a coach. It seems like maybe they had reached
out to him before and the message didn't go through
for mister Campbell. But after our long nightmare is over.
Speaker 7 (47:37):
Yeah, you know, it's it's funny. You know, Okay, he's
been kind of dancing with all these other programs for
the longest time, and you know, no, he's not leaving
at Penn State to a big enough program. And I
did enjoy the America held hostage thing for the last
you know, seventy two hours of like, oh, Penn State
can't find it. It's Penn State. They're you know, they're
gonna give somebody. Someone's gonna watch six or seven million.
Speaker 2 (47:59):
Yeah, you're gonna hit what year deal with that kind
of money, I mean, with the buyouts you're getting, come on,
let's go.
Speaker 7 (48:05):
Yeah, you know, it's a it's a you know what.
That's kind of the craziness about this coaching carousel. You
don't have to you know, go for the you know,
the five run home run with Lane Kiffin here. I
mean you can, you know you can. There's a lot
of good coaching hires out there. Pat Fitzgerald of Michigan State,
Good Bob Chesney going to UCLA. Okay, I see it.
You know, Matt Campbell. You can see that and be
(48:26):
okay that that makes sense. The guys, you know, gets
to have a step up job after years and years
of succeeding at a place that's never won. Okay. So
there's a lot of ways you can get coaches that
just that you know, you don't have to have all
the drama stuff happening. But all right, Lane Kiffin, let's
see what you can do. Son.
Speaker 1 (48:43):
You know, I really hope he goes on game day tomorrow, Pete, Like,
I know he I don't know what right? Well, No,
the thing is he said he had to stay back
in Baton Rouge because they signed it. Yeah, but I'm
really hoping he goes all full w W villain when
he goes on tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (48:59):
But now.
Speaker 7 (49:01):
I love how he it's God's fault, you know, he
prayed on it and had God told him take the
Yukon job. Like no, of course he's gonna say, take
the job that needs a lot more money, you know,
like you know, isn't That's the old joke that online
that Reggie White was praying on is gonna ask God?
And Mike Colb recalled and said, Reggie is God to
come to Green Bay. Well that's that's kind of what
(49:23):
should have happened with Lincoln. But like, look, I think
he's gonna go. He does enjoy this, and but he's
good at it though, Like there's some guys who try
and can't pull it off. But but Lane legitimately is
kind of that guy. And I'm still an apologist. He
has been a great coach. Now we get to see
what he can do at a massive program bound by nothing.
(49:44):
I mean, he's only a Tennessee for one year, and
that was a rebuilt and they actually did all right.
He took over the USC job right when the Reggie
Bush sanctions and the Coma penalty kicked in. Uh, and
so they still had an undefeated year there was. But like,
now you get to see him do something at a
program where he's got all the resources, all the recruiting
(50:04):
on the like, there's he's bound by nothing and he's
already on a hot seat because he hasn't won a
national championships there yet.
Speaker 2 (50:11):
Well, then you see in the PAC twelve, I mean
they lost one of their coaches as Rogers go straight
to Iowa State. No drama, You got tears from the
ad is one guy's out the door, but he already
makes a hire.
Speaker 7 (50:22):
Yeah, you know, it's that's kind of a thing of
this too, in your seeing, is how do you know
a program likes their coach, Well, one, they either keep
them around when they've had a bad season, like Mike
Norvell or Luke Stickle, or the guy stays through the
bowl game or whatever the playoff run is supposed to be.
Because yeah, they all kind of get along and their
adults and they can you know, sort of say yeah,
(50:43):
you know what, let's finish this out and see how
it goes and then well, you know, we'll take care
of the next job later, you know. So it's you
see how this is kind of working with all these places,
and well, look it's unfortunate, but at the moment, Washington
State or PAC twelve is not going to be the
PAC twelve. We thought it was going to be.
Speaker 1 (51:00):
All right, Pete, let me ask you this tomorrow. You
talked about this a couple of weeks ago. I think
you're right on with it. The Heisman Trophy is gonna
be one tomorrow. Someone's gonna have a big day. Who
is that gonna be?
Speaker 7 (51:14):
You know this as a Heisman voter, I'm not allowed
to speak about my vote, and I can freely talk
about it because I have no freaking clue who was,
like who is? Like they all it's all bad. This
is the worst Heisman race ever. You know, either I know,
everyone either wants Diego Manzell or Julian Toretta or they're
(51:35):
just you know, all these you know, you got these
guys who are just fine, but like, you know, Diego
Pavia didn't. He's kind of Robert Griffin ish like and
you know his run, But Robert Griffin had a couple
of massive performances on a big stage, and that wasn't
really Pavia. Even though he had great performances week after week,
you have that one big giant win. You know, it's
(51:56):
just you know, I guess there's no Odea. I would
guess the whoever you ever quarterback in the Big Ten
Championship locks that's probably your front runner. If Jeremiah Smith
goes off, I mean, remember Devonte Smith won this in
twenty twenty because he ripped apart Florida in the SEC Championship.
So if Jeremiah Smith, you know, goes twelve catches for
(52:17):
two hundred and nineteen yards and three touchdowns, Heisman over.
But it's really remember as a popularity contest, it's who
performs with everyone watching, because you know, I don't think
anybody saw it created a TV ranking. Nobody saw Jeremiah
Love play this year, so I don't think he's got
a real shot. And I think PAB is going to
be on a lot of ballots, but again, not really
(52:38):
any massive win to jump on. So I think it's
you know, tomorrow, does Ty Simpson rip apart Georgia. I
don't know that would probably get him there. But this
is just an awful, awful Heisman race.
Speaker 1 (52:51):
He's on Twitter at Pete few talk about his His
cell phone number is area C.
Speaker 5 (53:00):
And spelling it's f U I T A C K
Pete FU tech right g O sec raw send it.
Speaker 1 (53:10):
Send your email, Tim courtesy of Todd McShay. He'll answer
all your questions.
Speaker 7 (53:16):
Yeah, thank you, Pete.
Speaker 5 (53:18):
Enjoy the games.
Speaker 1 (53:19):
We'll talk to you next week, buddy, when we're talking
about the playoff.
Speaker 2 (53:22):
In the mask pe tech. Don't don't send him a
message on Twitter.
Speaker 1 (53:27):
Been dude, you know what harm I've been doing radio
now on and off, like what you know when I
was part time in two thousand, then at full time
at ESPN from two thousand and three for seven eight years,
left for three years to go do TV, came back
now with you for the past decade plus. That is
the first time in twenty plus years of me doing
(53:49):
this where I have given out a guest's uh a
Twitter account or our contact information and the guest has said.
Speaker 2 (53:57):
No, no, no, no, no, not me, let me promote you. No,
it's never no, just bodied voice. I am guy.
Speaker 5 (54:06):
No no, no, I don't. I don't.
Speaker 1 (54:08):
Don't worry about it. Don't worry about I'm taking I
No no, no, don't, don't don't. I'm not be feutech
fake prike caller, parke caller hangs up like Eric Stultson
pulp fiction.
Speaker 5 (54:17):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (54:18):
Time out to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports. From special delivery Steve to Seger. I'll
give you his cell phone number coming up in a
few minutes. Uh, he'll give charger stack everybody who calls.
He's got a free charger stack.
Speaker 5 (54:29):
No. No.
Speaker 8 (54:34):
By the way, even worse from Pate was you ask
him about the Heisman race and his response is I
have a Heisman vote, so I can't talk about it.
Speaker 3 (54:43):
Goodwill.
Speaker 8 (54:45):
He apparently hasn't heard a certain Saturday show at this year.
Speaker 5 (54:48):
Network.
Speaker 2 (54:49):
Are you trying to get that vote taken away? How
my current kings are.
Speaker 8 (54:55):
Something like that? There is a game on Fox TV
right now. The Mountain West Championship gave with an and
a half to go at Boise State, Broncos lead thirty
eight to twenty one over UNLV under two minutes to go.
In the American Championship at number twenty two lane, the
home team up thirty four to twenty one over twenty
fourth rank North Texas number twenty five. James Madison twelve
(55:15):
and one now won the Sun Belt thirty one to
fourteen against Troy and Kennesa State blew a twelve nothing
lead in the fourth but still won at Jacksonville State
nineteen fifteen on a touchdown pass in the final minute.
That was the Conference USA Championship game. Attendance eighteen thousand
in Alabama. Penn State does have its new head coach,
the guy that was at Iowa State the past decade,
(55:36):
Matt Campbell the replacement for the Cyclones. Jimmy Rodgers from
Washington State. Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson will play Sunday. You
return to full practice today. Washington QB Jaden Daniels will
return to start Sunday at Minnesota after the dislocated elbow.
Vikings quarterback JJ McCarthy will start. He cleared concussion protocol.
(55:57):
Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray is out for the U year
with his foot injury. US men's soccer will face Paraguay
and Australia in next Summer's World Cup, and then it'll
face a European playoff winner. In college hoops, Gonzaga rip
Kentucky ninety four to fifty nine, and in the late
game in the NBA nine and a half minutes to go,
Oklahoma City apparently will win its fourteenth straight game thunder
(56:20):
up one eleven eighty three over Dallas. Shay Gilgis Alexander
thirty three points. That's the eleventh time this season already
he scored thirty before the fourth quarter started. In the
late NHL game, late second period, Washington leads three to
two at the Ducks already wins for Vegas and Dallas.
Speaker 5 (56:39):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve.
Speaker 1 (56:41):
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