January 2, 2026 • 24 mins
On today's edition of The Jason Smith Show, Aaron Torres & Jason Martin fill in for the guys and have Alabama Host Ryan Fowler joins the show to discuss Alabama's devastating loss to Indiana + the guys react to the crazy ending of the Sugar Bowl between Ole Miss & Georgia!
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Speaker 3 (00:29):
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Speaker 4 (00:33):
Jason Martin are in. Alex knows what he's doing.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Man.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
You know who else is in? I was just gonna say,
Alex teischert is in. You know listen, Tysher, I know
you're spoken for. But to all the older ladies out there,
if you got a daughter, this is the kind of
man that you want to set your daughter up with.
And j mart you can explain why I'm saying this.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
He just he gets it, man. But he always takes
care of you. It's his favorite scary what's my favorite song?
You're being honest, This song tears, fears and Rule of
the World first time coming back out of the break.
Didn't mention it to him, said it a long time ago.
He just remembers and plays it straight off. Incredible ty shirt.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
My favorite song is Rihanna Bees Better have My Money.
So if you no, I'm just kidding, Okay, that would
be funny to come out of break though. It's like, Wow,
that'd be aggressive saying know something different about you. No, No, No,
it's it's not. I think that would be funny.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
You know.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
It's really cute about Jmr two laying on me what
we got, the fact that I remember from years. Yeah,
this whole pollen fiasco he had, and I still ask
him about it.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
He does. How's the pau He asked me about how's
the pollen going right now? I was just really sick
and I just told him, told him tonight right before
the show. It was like, dude, I've just had allergies
now for like eight years, so I don't I don't
know if it's Paulin anymore or not. I had an
allergy test. They want me to have allergy shots and
all sorts of stuff. Now it's just it's just crazy
over here. There's nothing nothing, I can do about it anymore.
(01:50):
I just know I'm gonna wake up with a running
nose pretty much every day now. No, it's weird.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
I get I wake up with a sore throat every
day for like six months at a time, and I'm
not sick.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
I'm not sick.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I think the air just gets strewed too dry at night. Anyway,
TMI Sugar Bowl. Ole Miss has cut the lead to
twenty one to eighteen.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
They've tried so hard to just get blown out of
this game, yes, but they do have a lot of talent,
so like they've actually been able to get around some
of these mistakes and still be in this game because
they're really good. And again, the greatest story, like Indiana
is gonna be the greatest story, but the other greatest
story would be ole Miss winning a championship with Lang
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Kiffin not there because he didn't think he could win
and he went to LSU and then they go win
a title like that. That would be the other one.
I'm not saying they're even gonna win this game. I'm
just saying I think a whole lot of people are
old Miss fans right now.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
It would be And you know, I want to get
to Alabama, but for half a second on Link Kiffin
is I and I said this on our Saturday show,
like I do think for people who don't follow the
college football calendar, tomorrow the transfer portal opens, and that's
really where for basically everybody, including teams still playing. That's
really where you start to push towards next year. You
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kind of know who's coming back. And then, of course
it's essentially free agency for college football.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
You're gonna see so many quarterbacks with news tomorrow. There's
gonna be all sorts of like twelve oh one hits
or whatever. You're just gonna see quarterbacks with new destinations
all over the place. It's gonna be insane.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
I wonder if it happens while we're on air, but
that's my I'm serious. We will be on till midnight Easter.
But I bring it up because and I said this
to you on Saturday, is Lane Kiffin.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
It was a terrible exit.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
We all know that, but I will say he has
said all of the right things about you know, I
want that team to finish and I hope they win
a championshi blah blah blah blah. Half of his staff
is still coaching Ole Miss. Yeah, but they're also like
weirdly recruiting for LSU And so I only bring it
up because he would never say it publicly. I don't
think with Lane Kiffin, you would never know. But I
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think it's easy to root for the team round one whatever.
The portal's gonna be open tomorrow, and like you need
boots on the ground in and rouge I. There's no
way to know, and it's not really a topic, and
it's there's nowhere to really take this conversation. But I
would just say, I think it's easy for Langekiff to
be like, oh, yeah, I'm rooting for him. Yeah, let's
see what happens at twelve oh one tonight if Ole
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Miss is hosting a Sugar Bowl Trophy and your coaches
have another week of game prep when the portals open something.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Yeah, Look, Dan Lanning's right, he said, you know, earlier
this week, he said, look, we've got to stop this.
We need the season to be over. No games need
to be played after January the first, whether we have
to play week zero, we need to have four consecutive
weeks to the playoff of sixteen teams, no buys, and
you know, get this thing done so that guys that
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are moving on can go ahead into their new jobs.
Of course, he's got that same thing with will Stein
as offensive coordinator, who's going to Kentucky to be the
head coach. Like there's this kind of thing is happening everywhere,
and what you're saying about Lane Kiffin is right, like
he does need it. It is this new job and
he wants some of those guys there and he needs
them in order to do what needs to be done
right now, Like the college football schedule is not conduced
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to anything. It's not conducive to these decisions coaches have
to make as they're getting Pilford from this school to
that school and all this, but then the coordinators and
the kids are left in the lurch on everything, like
it's a mess. I don't know. I think Lannings at
least his heart is in the right place. I don't
know how the logistics work. He said something like I
think he said it, or maybe somebody else said use
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fifteen bull sites to do this or whatever like that,
or maybe you do it on campus something. They're going
to have to figure this thing out because this is
going to become more of a cluster not less.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Yeah, you know, all I would say is, first of all,
I was against, like Clatt has been saying for years,
the season should end January first, and I kind of
logistically didn't know if it was possible.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
I do think you could basically just move.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Up the season a week elimited conference championship games, and
you could get there pretty easily. I do think there
are like I think it would make a lot of
sense for a lot more people and the entire sport.
It can't be going into late January, you know, like
like you and I have talked about it on our
Saturday show. But it's like, listen, I love college football
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as much as anybody. You get to the middle of January,
the end of January. I remember last year the championship game,
that the college football Championship Game was the day after
Ravens Bills, Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, and it's like, I
love college football, but I just watched Lamar Jackson and
Josh Allen and that's all I want to talk about,
and that's all I care about. And what are the ramifications.
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It's like, oh, Ohio State in or day were playing now, I.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Mean the title game is being played on January the nineteenth, folks,
and go that does not There's just no reason for that.
This is the same thing as like the NBA season
starting in October. Nobody cares yet, Like it's just not
a good time. Start on Christmas Day, make it your day. Start,
you know, start much later because you only have so
many attention spans out there and they're all devoted to
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football at that point in time. Well, by the time
you get to the NFL playoffs, college needs to be
done because the attention has changed, it moves and when
if you've watched the and Josh Allen, it's gonna be
hard to go watch JJ McCarthy at Michigan the next night.
It just is, it's gonna make it feel like it's
less than let them have the stage where the champion
used to always be crowned. It felt like on January
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first when I was a kid, And it just seems
like it's going later and later and later needlessly.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
I'll give you a perfect example. Then we'll get to
Mansi for the update. But you know, I am a
believer that just there are certain things at certain times
of year and when you try to like put them
outside of that, people just are not gonna care. What
I mean by that is like one, college football just
does not need to be played in late January. But
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the example that I'll use, and I know you'll love
this one. How many years in a row have we
been trying to make spring professional football up?
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Dude?
Speaker 3 (07:47):
I mean besides we no, no.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
No, no, oh, everyone else maybe, well yeah, we And.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
It's like every single year, all these leagues keep convincing
themselves like America wants more football, and it's like, no, no,
we watched like twenty four straight weeks of it and
it was incredible at the highest level. It's March. I
want to watch college basketball. I don't need to watch this,
and then I want to watch NBA playoffs. By the way,
speaking of playoffs, in the Sugar Bowl, fake punt by
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Georgia is converted about four minutes left in the fourth
core in the third quarter.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Exceed. That's the kind of thing I'm talking about with
Kirby Smart. He does stuff like that. Oh yeah, what
was it? What game was it? Where it was the
Old Miss game? I think if it wasn't the Old
Miss game, was it? LSU? There was a game this
year where they pulled a fake out and it completely
changed the momentum of the game. He got super aggressive.
It was a Texas game.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
They went for a heck coarse That's what I believe,
three times on one drive to seal the game.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
I believe that's what it was. He's just, he's just
he's aggressive in a way that so many guys like
Ohio State would love for Ryan Day to be aggressively. Sorry,
that was low hanging fruit, but it was also accurate.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Well, let's see, speaking of accurate, Gunner stocked in incomplete
down the field. But you know who's always accurate, Manzi Belaga.
Oh yes, semi accurate, now I'm kidding.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
No, it's good.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Semi above five hundred, Yeah, above fifty percent?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (09:12):
How good with that?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
What do we got, Monzi? Tell us what's new in
the world of sports?
Speaker 5 (09:16):
All right, guys, Happy New Year. First of all, it's
twenty twenty six. I wonder how long I'm gonna write
twenty twenty five down though, it'll take a couple of days.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
The Sugar Bowl, it's in the second half, and the
Rebels got in the end zone after going for it
on fourth and three. They got a nice thirty six
yard pass from Trinidad Chambliss setting them setting them up
for a rushing touchdown. But as you mentioned, the Bulldogs
are trying to get some points. They are still in
their own side of the field, on their own side
of the field. But the Bulldogs are up right now
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twenty one to nineteen with about three minutes to go,
and they just crossed over, so they are definitely driving
downfield making their way towards the red zone. Chambliss is
twenty three to thirty four for two hundred and thirty
five yards and the touchdown Gunner stocked in for the
Bulldogs is nine to eighteen for hundred and five yards.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
But he has two rushing touchdowns. He's got rocked twice. Yeah,
it was one of those hits. I can't believe he
got up for him.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
If it would have been the NFL, that thing they
would taken out, they would have taken them over.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
He would have been with like, no way, no way.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
J mart In our text thread said, the refs clearly
don't want to be the story in this playoff. But
if that wasn't targeting in the first half, I don't
know what is. And now, by the way, it looks
like he's down.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
He's been hit.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
Yes, he's been rocked. So but Bulldogs are up. We'll see,
We'll see what happens. Plenty of game left. At the
Rolls Bowl, it was the Indiana Show. They crushed Alabama
thirty eight to three, where Fernando Mendoza had a hat trick.
He threw for one hundred and ninety two yards and
three touchdowns. And unfortunately for Alabama, their quarterback Tys Simpson,
who also kind of got rocked in that second quarter
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a little bit where he fumbled the ball, exited early
in the second half and they had to put in
their back of Austin Mack to finish the game. And
then at the Orange Bowl, Oregon shout out Texas Tech
twenty three zero, where the Ducks had two interceptions, seven
tackles for loss, and four sac shutting down the Red
Raider offense. So Oregon and Indiana are going to face
each other in the Peach Bowl on Friday, January ninth.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
A little NFL news for you.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Lamar Jackson is expected to start for the Ravens for
Sunday Night football against the Steelers.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Saints. Wide receiver Chris Olave sorry Brie. He is out
for the last game of the.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Season due to a blood clot found in one of
his lungs, but he has no history of that, so
he's expected to recover within the next month when it
comes to the NBA.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Right now, the Mavericks.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Are losing at home to the seventy six Ers one
fifteen to one oh eight, about two minutes to go
in the game. Cooper flag twelve points, seven rebounds, seven
assists early in the second quarter in Sacramento, where the
Kings lead the Celtics forty to thirty five. Clippers are
coming up. Don't worry, guys, I know you're excited about
about that one. I am too.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
The Heat are beating or he.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Beat the Pistons in Detroit one eighteen to one twelve,
where former Clipper Norman Powell had thirty six points.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Back to you, guys, Manzi, thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
By the way, Monzi hosts the show before us on Saturday.
I hope you don't listen to us on the way
back home during April because me and j Mart have
gone on a very angry James Harden rant or two
in he doesn't me too, me too?
Speaker 4 (12:07):
And then at the same time next week.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
I'm saying he's the greatest clip forever.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
He saved Branch franchise, So listen at eleven.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
He does seem to care more than Kawhi Leonard.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
He does seem and it's it's been crazy what he's done,
but he definitely I've definitely yelled at him, good and bad.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Thank you mon. Yes, all right.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
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Speaker 2 (12:41):
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Speaker 3 (12:48):
Welcome in everybody, our three Jason Smith's Show with Mike Harmon.
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span your VJ Husky in tomorrow night. On Friday and
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we do. Finally, It's like the meme from Titanic Rose.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
It's been eighty four years.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
It's been eighty four years, but we have a final
in New Orleans. I'm shocked. I am genuinely stunned. Ole
missed the thirty nine to thirty four win. I will
try to be as quick as I can. Here J
Martin explaining this. Ole Miss takes a thirty seven thirty
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four lead with six seconds to go. I mean, there
was a lot of that happened before that, but thirty
six what would that be? Thirty six, thirty thirty seven
and thirty four lead with six seconds to go. They
kick the ball off and as our Fox Sports Radio
college football insider Alex Teischer told us, this is with
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six seconds left and Georgia up or oh Miss up
three at this point, okay, all they Olemiss has to
do is one play and they're done. Georgia elects to
run the ball out of the end zone. They then
throw a later roll that trickles out of bounds. The
clock hit zero, Confetti falls on the field. The refs
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go to the monitor. One second is left on the clock.
A safety is called to put ole Miss up thirty
nine to thirty four because the ball went out of
bounds in the end zone. Okay, so Ole Miss is
up thirty nine thirty four. There is still a second
left on the clock. At that point, Georgia lines up
for what is essentially an on side kick. I don't
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even know if you call it an on side kick
because it was after a safety whatever kick. The ball
barely makes it ten yards. There's only one second left
on the clock. Georgia recovers it. Apparently no time comes
off the clock in this situation.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
If I'm a football casual, I had no idea. I
assumed at least a second would come off after they
touched the ball. Georgia recovers the on sidekick again, trailing
thirty nine to thirty four.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Ole Miss thinks the game is over.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Pete Golding, the now head coach at Old Miss, doused
with gatorade and it turns out that no time comes
off the clock, so Georgia gets one play with one
second left. They have about twenty five laterals that result
in Gunner Stockton getting the ball back. After starting to
play with the completion the ball is Stockton ends up
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getting tackled. The game is now officially over Ole Miss
thirty nine Georgia thirty four.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
The Old Miss.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Rebels, along with the Miami Hurricanes, who they will play
next week in the Fiesta Bowl, have advanced to the
semi finals of the College Football Playoff. Obviously, the other
game will be Indiana, and uh who am I missing? Oregon?
Indiana and Oregon. So Indiana, Oregon all missed match and
uh whatever, that's the final four, But take it where
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you want. After that goofy ending and this incredible win
for the Old Miss Rebels, I.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Mean, it's just an incredible story. These last two games
really just have stories you can't write. You've got Indiana
finding its way into being the number one seed and
then just demolishing really the team of the century in
college football so far in terms of just the program
that Saban built and what they had been for fifteen years.
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And then you've got this with a coach his second
game as a head coach after the fiasco with Lane Kiffen,
and they come in here and they beat Georgia, who
was my pick to win it all and who was
playing I felt like about as good as anybody in
the country and had everything going for him. And look
they took shot from Georgia and still were just better
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in the end. Trinidad Chambliss just his story alone, but
just what he ended up doing in this game, well
over three hundred yards, just made every throw that he
had to make they win the game. It's just outrageous.
And immediately saw like forum comments that were like, well,
Miami's going to the national championship because no, because Old
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Miss definitely can't stop the run. And I'm just thinking
to myself, I'm like, did you just watch Old Miss
and Georgia, Like if you want to count them out,
you go right ahead, like, yeah, Miami's really good, and
Miami beat them. I'm not suggesting that they won't. I'm
just saying, if you're going to actually just poop this
to borrow Rob Parker's phrase or his term, you've lost
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your mind. Man. There is nobody that needs to be
looking past this Old Miss team, especially when it looks
like they're having more fun playing football now than they
were at any point during the season, especially when they
were in afterthought because of their coaches, drama, their coach.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
You know, let me ask you this, jmrt is I
want to celebrate Ole Miss doing what they're doing. I
keep coming back to. Obviously an incredible story, it goes
without saying. I do think the biggest story of this
game is the fact that Lane Kiffin is not on
the sidelines. And listen, at this point, he's allowed to
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do what he did. He whatever, it's his life, whatever.
But the whole concept of leaving for LSU was that
I want to go to a place where I can
compete for championships. And I just go back to what
and what I keep saying. You know, I think I've
said this on air a million times, but listen, it's
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the old Herm Edwards line. You play to win the game.
If you're Lane Kiffen, you coach your entire career to
have a team that finishes eleven and one in the
SEC and is in the college football player.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
You play to win the game.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
You're going somewhere to do something that you could have accomplished.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Quite literally.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
It's not like a metaphorical like the pieces are there
and that this is there. No, no, you literally could
have won a national championship this year. So I don't
want to make I want to celebrate the eighty five
guys in that locker room on the field. I want
to celebrate the coaching staff, but that's the story.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
To me.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
You left to go to a place to win championships,
and you could have won one if you stuck right
where you were.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Yeah, I mean you were already there. Like the whole
goal is to get to the college football playoff and
give yourself a chance. And you had the team and
you end up going somewhere else and they're gonna expect
you to go there and win a championship. You were
closer where you were. The program was built in a
direction to where you were much closer really than what
we're seeing at LSU right now. I don't care what
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you're gonna like what you can look in the future,
and do you sacrifice the present for what you think
might be easier later. I just I was hoping he
would make the other decision, but we kind of knew better, right.
I was saying that he would see the opportunity not
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just to win a title this year, but to be
a legend at a school that didn't have one, like
to go there and be the guy. Like when you
think of Ole Miss football, it's going to be synonymous
with Lane Kiffin because of what he's done there over
the last half century. You know, he's been there twenty
five years or whatever, coaching, and like no, he goes
and he takes what he thinks are greener pastors, and look,
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they may well be. I mean, I have no idea,
but I'm telling you this, this team right here is
two wins away from a national championship, and if they
win it, I don't care how many movies, how many
documentaries are made about it. I'll watch every single one
of them, because it's just it's something that absolutely, honestly,
Lane Kiffen deserves. For them to go win the national
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championship without him, that's sad, but it's true.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
It's unbelievable and to your point, and if I if,
I can not make it about Lane kiff And even
though I do think that's the biggest story, you know,
I haven't seen it. You know, we're obviously live here,
we are live filling in for Jason Smith and Mike Carmen.
I haven't seen what the public's reaction is. I'm sorry.
If you beat Georgia in the manner that you did,
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Trinidad Chambliss with respect, by the way, you know, I
know that we're all high on the Miami Uh you
know the Miami vibes right now, I'm sorry, I understand
what Mario Cristaball has done with that team. Their defensive
front as good as it is. George, It's got a
pretty good defensive front too, Like, yes, and I don't,
I know, you're just kind of paraphrasing what some people
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are saying on a message board or whatever. But if
if you don't think that team can go on a
neutral field and beat Georgia, then I'm sorry, I just
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
If you don't think netral field and beat Miami.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
To after them beating Georgia, Yeah, I I don't. I
actually don't understand that logic at all. I mean, listen
to everyone's title to their opinion. I think it's a
bad opinion. If you can beat Georgia in the manner
that you just did, I think you know you got
as good a shot as anybody to be beat Miami
and you're potentially playing for a national championship, And just
it is an incredible Independent of how dumb I think
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Lane Kiffin is, this is also an incredible story for
the guys that are actually still in Oxford.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Oh yeah, one hundred percent. I mean, I uh, I
know that. You know you miss out on the Carson
Beck that's true revenge game. You miss out on that storyline.
Now I'm good with that because I didn't want to
listen to that for the next week. Sure, Like I
want to see this football game because I think it's
gonna be an awesome football game because there's a ton
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of athletes. I want to see what Miami's defense can
do against Chambliss, who's certainly gonna be able to move
around and get some things going. But I mean, it's
gonna be a whale of a football game. It's gonna
be awesome. But like, how can you not root for this?
You've got two teams, You've got the niest that was incredible,
and it's just the wrong year for them for me
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because I got to pull for Old Miss to win
the whole thing, like even before this game, but really
going into the playoff, when you just looked at it, it
was just like, dude, man, they deserve this. They've done
everything right and they've been an afterthought because of what's
happened outside of their control. So to watch Trenidad Chambliss
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show up and do this against Georgia. It's just like
he he earned this man, He's had to fight for
everything he has and to go out there on this
stage and do it to that team in this manner
is just it's phenomenal. It really is. It really is.
Old Miss.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
With the thirty nine to thirty four win, they advanced
to play Miami. Now the other semi final Indiana and Oregon.
Old Miss the last SEC team standing too. I mean, listen,
I'm not here to get into the SEC versus everybody
else debate, but like, who would have thought that that
would be the case in the middle of the season,
(24:05):
the end of the season, the day Lane Kiff and
left the whatever. Yet here we are Ole Miss in
the semi finals. Tell you what, j Mart, why don't
we come back? When we do, we'll kind of put
a bow, not put a bow, but we'll reset and
recap a lot of the things that we either have
you know, have not talked about, or just.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
They han't even gotten Ohio State at all.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Let'll tell you what, Why don't we talk Ohio State next?
Because that game went final? Ole Miss will now play Miami.
Of course, Miami, coming off the win against Ohio State
on New Year's Eve Rocket New Year's Eve not with
Ryan Seacrest but with Ryan Day did not go well
for the buck guys. We'll come back and discuss that next.
Aer Torus Jason Martin in for Jason Smith and the
guys should mention. Also, Ty Shirt's Tower of Trivia Oh
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Speaker 4 (24:53):
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Speaker 3 (00:36):
You know who else is in? I was just gonna say,
Alex teischert is in. You know listen, Tysher, I know
you're spoken for. But to all the older ladies out there,
if you got a daughter, this is the kind of
man that you want to set your daughter up with.
And j mart you can explain why I'm saying this.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
He just he gets it, man. But he always takes
care of you. It's his favorite scary what's my favorite song?
You're being honest, This song tears, fears and Rule of
the World first time coming back out of the break.
Didn't mention it to him, said it a long time ago.
He just remembers and plays it straight off. Incredible ty shirt.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
My favorite song is Rihanna Bees Better have My Money.
So if you no, I'm just kidding, Okay, that would
be funny to come out of break though. It's like, Wow,
that'd be aggressive saying know something different about you. No, No, No,
it's it's not. I think that would be funny.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
You know.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
It's really cute about Jmr two laying on me what
we got, the fact that I remember from years. Yeah,
this whole pollen fiasco he had, and I still ask
him about it.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
He does. How's the pau He asked me about how's
the pollen going right now? I was just really sick
and I just told him, told him tonight right before
the show. It was like, dude, I've just had allergies
now for like eight years, so I don't I don't
know if it's Paulin anymore or not. I had an
allergy test. They want me to have allergy shots and
all sorts of stuff. Now it's just it's just crazy
over here. There's nothing nothing, I can do about it anymore.
(01:50):
I just know I'm gonna wake up with a running
nose pretty much every day now. No, it's weird.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
I get I wake up with a sore throat every
day for like six months at a time, and I'm
not sick.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
I'm not sick.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I think the air just gets strewed too dry at night. Anyway,
TMI Sugar Bowl. Ole Miss has cut the lead to
twenty one to eighteen.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
They've tried so hard to just get blown out of
this game, yes, but they do have a lot of talent,
so like they've actually been able to get around some
of these mistakes and still be in this game because
they're really good. And again, the greatest story, like Indiana
is gonna be the greatest story, but the other greatest
story would be ole Miss winning a championship with Lang
(02:28):
Kiffin not there because he didn't think he could win
and he went to LSU and then they go win
a title like that. That would be the other one.
I'm not saying they're even gonna win this game. I'm
just saying I think a whole lot of people are
old Miss fans right now.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
It would be And you know, I want to get
to Alabama, but for half a second on Link Kiffin
is I and I said this on our Saturday show,
like I do think for people who don't follow the
college football calendar, tomorrow the transfer portal opens, and that's
really where for basically everybody, including teams still playing. That's
really where you start to push towards next year. You
(03:03):
kind of know who's coming back. And then, of course
it's essentially free agency for college football.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
You're gonna see so many quarterbacks with news tomorrow. There's
gonna be all sorts of like twelve oh one hits
or whatever. You're just gonna see quarterbacks with new destinations
all over the place. It's gonna be insane.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
I wonder if it happens while we're on air, but
that's my I'm serious. We will be on till midnight Easter.
But I bring it up because and I said this
to you on Saturday, is Lane Kiffin.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
It was a terrible exit.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
We all know that, but I will say he has
said all of the right things about you know, I
want that team to finish and I hope they win
a championshi blah blah blah blah. Half of his staff
is still coaching Ole Miss. Yeah, but they're also like
weirdly recruiting for LSU And so I only bring it
up because he would never say it publicly. I don't
think with Lane Kiffin, you would never know. But I
(03:52):
think it's easy to root for the team round one whatever.
The portal's gonna be open tomorrow, and like you need
boots on the ground in and rouge I. There's no
way to know, and it's not really a topic, and
it's there's nowhere to really take this conversation. But I
would just say, I think it's easy for Langekiff to
be like, oh, yeah, I'm rooting for him. Yeah, let's
see what happens at twelve oh one tonight if Ole
(04:12):
Miss is hosting a Sugar Bowl Trophy and your coaches
have another week of game prep when the portals open something.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Yeah, Look, Dan Lanning's right, he said, you know, earlier
this week, he said, look, we've got to stop this.
We need the season to be over. No games need
to be played after January the first, whether we have
to play week zero, we need to have four consecutive
weeks to the playoff of sixteen teams, no buys, and
you know, get this thing done so that guys that
(04:38):
are moving on can go ahead into their new jobs.
Of course, he's got that same thing with will Stein
as offensive coordinator, who's going to Kentucky to be the
head coach. Like there's this kind of thing is happening everywhere,
and what you're saying about Lane Kiffin is right, like
he does need it. It is this new job and
he wants some of those guys there and he needs
them in order to do what needs to be done
right now, Like the college football schedule is not conduced
(05:00):
to anything. It's not conducive to these decisions coaches have
to make as they're getting Pilford from this school to
that school and all this, but then the coordinators and
the kids are left in the lurch on everything, like
it's a mess. I don't know. I think Lannings at
least his heart is in the right place. I don't
know how the logistics work. He said something like I
think he said it, or maybe somebody else said use
(05:22):
fifteen bull sites to do this or whatever like that,
or maybe you do it on campus something. They're going
to have to figure this thing out because this is
going to become more of a cluster not less.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Yeah, you know, all I would say is, first of all,
I was against, like Clatt has been saying for years,
the season should end January first, and I kind of
logistically didn't know if it was possible.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
I do think you could basically just move.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Up the season a week elimited conference championship games, and
you could get there pretty easily. I do think there
are like I think it would make a lot of
sense for a lot more people and the entire sport.
It can't be going into late January, you know, like
like you and I have talked about it on our
Saturday show. But it's like, listen, I love college football
(06:06):
as much as anybody. You get to the middle of January,
the end of January. I remember last year the championship game,
that the college football Championship Game was the day after
Ravens Bills, Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, and it's like, I
love college football, but I just watched Lamar Jackson and
Josh Allen and that's all I want to talk about,
and that's all I care about. And what are the ramifications.
(06:27):
It's like, oh, Ohio State in or day were playing now, I.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Mean the title game is being played on January the nineteenth, folks,
and go that does not There's just no reason for that.
This is the same thing as like the NBA season
starting in October. Nobody cares yet, Like it's just not
a good time. Start on Christmas Day, make it your day. Start,
you know, start much later because you only have so
many attention spans out there and they're all devoted to
(06:51):
football at that point in time. Well, by the time
you get to the NFL playoffs, college needs to be
done because the attention has changed, it moves and when
if you've watched the and Josh Allen, it's gonna be
hard to go watch JJ McCarthy at Michigan the next night.
It just is, it's gonna make it feel like it's
less than let them have the stage where the champion
used to always be crowned. It felt like on January
(07:13):
first when I was a kid, And it just seems
like it's going later and later and later needlessly.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
I'll give you a perfect example. Then we'll get to
Mansi for the update. But you know, I am a
believer that just there are certain things at certain times
of year and when you try to like put them
outside of that, people just are not gonna care. What
I mean by that is like one, college football just
does not need to be played in late January. But
(07:40):
the example that I'll use, and I know you'll love
this one. How many years in a row have we
been trying to make spring professional football up?
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Dude?
Speaker 3 (07:47):
I mean besides we no, no.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
No, no, oh, everyone else maybe, well yeah, we And.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
It's like every single year, all these leagues keep convincing
themselves like America wants more football, and it's like, no, no,
we watched like twenty four straight weeks of it and
it was incredible at the highest level. It's March. I
want to watch college basketball. I don't need to watch this,
and then I want to watch NBA playoffs. By the way,
speaking of playoffs, in the Sugar Bowl, fake punt by
(08:14):
Georgia is converted about four minutes left in the fourth
core in the third quarter.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Exceed. That's the kind of thing I'm talking about with
Kirby Smart. He does stuff like that. Oh yeah, what
was it? What game was it? Where it was the
Old Miss game? I think if it wasn't the Old
Miss game, was it? LSU? There was a game this
year where they pulled a fake out and it completely
changed the momentum of the game. He got super aggressive.
It was a Texas game.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
They went for a heck coarse That's what I believe,
three times on one drive to seal the game.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
I believe that's what it was. He's just, he's just
he's aggressive in a way that so many guys like
Ohio State would love for Ryan Day to be aggressively. Sorry,
that was low hanging fruit, but it was also accurate.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Well, let's see, speaking of accurate, Gunner stocked in incomplete
down the field. But you know who's always accurate, Manzi Belaga.
Oh yes, semi accurate, now I'm kidding.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
No, it's good.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Semi above five hundred, Yeah, above fifty percent?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (09:12):
How good with that?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
What do we got, Monzi? Tell us what's new in
the world of sports?
Speaker 5 (09:16):
All right, guys, Happy New Year. First of all, it's
twenty twenty six. I wonder how long I'm gonna write
twenty twenty five down though, it'll take a couple of days.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
The Sugar Bowl, it's in the second half, and the
Rebels got in the end zone after going for it
on fourth and three. They got a nice thirty six
yard pass from Trinidad Chambliss setting them setting them up
for a rushing touchdown. But as you mentioned, the Bulldogs
are trying to get some points. They are still in
their own side of the field, on their own side
of the field. But the Bulldogs are up right now
(09:44):
twenty one to nineteen with about three minutes to go,
and they just crossed over, so they are definitely driving
downfield making their way towards the red zone. Chambliss is
twenty three to thirty four for two hundred and thirty
five yards and the touchdown Gunner stocked in for the
Bulldogs is nine to eighteen for hundred and five yards.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
But he has two rushing touchdowns. He's got rocked twice. Yeah,
it was one of those hits. I can't believe he
got up for him.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
If it would have been the NFL, that thing they
would taken out, they would have taken them over.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
He would have been with like, no way, no way.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
J mart In our text thread said, the refs clearly
don't want to be the story in this playoff. But
if that wasn't targeting in the first half, I don't
know what is. And now, by the way, it looks
like he's down.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
He's been hit.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
Yes, he's been rocked. So but Bulldogs are up. We'll see,
We'll see what happens. Plenty of game left. At the
Rolls Bowl, it was the Indiana Show. They crushed Alabama
thirty eight to three, where Fernando Mendoza had a hat trick.
He threw for one hundred and ninety two yards and
three touchdowns. And unfortunately for Alabama, their quarterback Tys Simpson,
who also kind of got rocked in that second quarter
(10:45):
a little bit where he fumbled the ball, exited early
in the second half and they had to put in
their back of Austin Mack to finish the game. And
then at the Orange Bowl, Oregon shout out Texas Tech
twenty three zero, where the Ducks had two interceptions, seven
tackles for loss, and four sac shutting down the Red
Raider offense. So Oregon and Indiana are going to face
each other in the Peach Bowl on Friday, January ninth.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
A little NFL news for you.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Lamar Jackson is expected to start for the Ravens for
Sunday Night football against the Steelers.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Saints. Wide receiver Chris Olave sorry Brie. He is out
for the last game of the.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Season due to a blood clot found in one of
his lungs, but he has no history of that, so
he's expected to recover within the next month when it
comes to the NBA.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Right now, the Mavericks.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Are losing at home to the seventy six Ers one
fifteen to one oh eight, about two minutes to go
in the game. Cooper flag twelve points, seven rebounds, seven
assists early in the second quarter in Sacramento, where the
Kings lead the Celtics forty to thirty five. Clippers are
coming up. Don't worry, guys, I know you're excited about
about that one. I am too.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
The Heat are beating or he.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Beat the Pistons in Detroit one eighteen to one twelve,
where former Clipper Norman Powell had thirty six points.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Back to you, guys, Manzi, thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
By the way, Monzi hosts the show before us on Saturday.
I hope you don't listen to us on the way
back home during April because me and j Mart have
gone on a very angry James Harden rant or two
in he doesn't me too, me too?
Speaker 4 (12:07):
And then at the same time next week.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
I'm saying he's the greatest clip forever.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
He saved Branch franchise, So listen at eleven.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
He does seem to care more than Kawhi Leonard.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
He does seem and it's it's been crazy what he's done,
but he definitely I've definitely yelled at him, good and bad.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Thank you mon. Yes, all right.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Fox Sports Radio eritors Jason Martin in for Jason Smith
and Mike Harmon. This is the Jason Smith Show with
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Speaker 2 (12:41):
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Speaker 3 (12:48):
Welcome in everybody, our three Jason Smith's Show with Mike Harmon.
Jason and Mike are out eritrres Jason Martin. We are
live here in the Fox Sports Radio studios filling in
for Jason and Mike. The guys will be back Monday. Already,
span your VJ Husky in tomorrow night. On Friday and
(13:09):
we do. Finally, It's like the meme from Titanic Rose.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
It's been eighty four years.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
It's been eighty four years, but we have a final
in New Orleans. I'm shocked. I am genuinely stunned. Ole
missed the thirty nine to thirty four win. I will
try to be as quick as I can. Here J
Martin explaining this. Ole Miss takes a thirty seven thirty
(13:37):
four lead with six seconds to go. I mean, there
was a lot of that happened before that, but thirty
six what would that be? Thirty six, thirty thirty seven
and thirty four lead with six seconds to go. They
kick the ball off and as our Fox Sports Radio
college football insider Alex Teischer told us, this is with
(14:00):
six seconds left and Georgia up or oh Miss up
three at this point, okay, all they Olemiss has to
do is one play and they're done. Georgia elects to
run the ball out of the end zone. They then
throw a later roll that trickles out of bounds. The
clock hit zero, Confetti falls on the field. The refs
(14:26):
go to the monitor. One second is left on the clock.
A safety is called to put ole Miss up thirty
nine to thirty four because the ball went out of
bounds in the end zone. Okay, so Ole Miss is
up thirty nine thirty four. There is still a second
left on the clock. At that point, Georgia lines up
for what is essentially an on side kick. I don't
(14:46):
even know if you call it an on side kick
because it was after a safety whatever kick. The ball
barely makes it ten yards. There's only one second left
on the clock. Georgia recovers it. Apparently no time comes
off the clock in this situation.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
If I'm a football casual, I had no idea. I
assumed at least a second would come off after they
touched the ball. Georgia recovers the on sidekick again, trailing
thirty nine to thirty four.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Ole Miss thinks the game is over.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Pete Golding, the now head coach at Old Miss, doused
with gatorade and it turns out that no time comes
off the clock, so Georgia gets one play with one
second left. They have about twenty five laterals that result
in Gunner Stockton getting the ball back. After starting to
play with the completion the ball is Stockton ends up
(15:38):
getting tackled. The game is now officially over Ole Miss
thirty nine Georgia thirty four.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
The Old Miss.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Rebels, along with the Miami Hurricanes, who they will play
next week in the Fiesta Bowl, have advanced to the
semi finals of the College Football Playoff. Obviously, the other
game will be Indiana, and uh who am I missing? Oregon?
Indiana and Oregon. So Indiana, Oregon all missed match and
uh whatever, that's the final four, But take it where
(16:09):
you want. After that goofy ending and this incredible win
for the Old Miss Rebels, I.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Mean, it's just an incredible story. These last two games
really just have stories you can't write. You've got Indiana
finding its way into being the number one seed and
then just demolishing really the team of the century in
college football so far in terms of just the program
that Saban built and what they had been for fifteen years.
(16:38):
And then you've got this with a coach his second
game as a head coach after the fiasco with Lane Kiffen,
and they come in here and they beat Georgia, who
was my pick to win it all and who was
playing I felt like about as good as anybody in
the country and had everything going for him. And look
they took shot from Georgia and still were just better
(17:02):
in the end. Trinidad Chambliss just his story alone, but
just what he ended up doing in this game, well
over three hundred yards, just made every throw that he
had to make they win the game. It's just outrageous.
And immediately saw like forum comments that were like, well,
Miami's going to the national championship because no, because Old
(17:24):
Miss definitely can't stop the run. And I'm just thinking
to myself, I'm like, did you just watch Old Miss
and Georgia, Like if you want to count them out,
you go right ahead, like, yeah, Miami's really good, and
Miami beat them. I'm not suggesting that they won't. I'm
just saying, if you're going to actually just poop this
to borrow Rob Parker's phrase or his term, you've lost
(17:47):
your mind. Man. There is nobody that needs to be
looking past this Old Miss team, especially when it looks
like they're having more fun playing football now than they
were at any point during the season, especially when they
were in afterthought because of their coaches, drama, their coach.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
You know, let me ask you this, jmrt is I
want to celebrate Ole Miss doing what they're doing. I
keep coming back to. Obviously an incredible story, it goes
without saying. I do think the biggest story of this
game is the fact that Lane Kiffin is not on
the sidelines. And listen, at this point, he's allowed to
(18:25):
do what he did. He whatever, it's his life, whatever.
But the whole concept of leaving for LSU was that
I want to go to a place where I can
compete for championships. And I just go back to what
and what I keep saying. You know, I think I've
said this on air a million times, but listen, it's
(18:46):
the old Herm Edwards line. You play to win the game.
If you're Lane Kiffen, you coach your entire career to
have a team that finishes eleven and one in the
SEC and is in the college football player.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
You play to win the game.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
You're going somewhere to do something that you could have accomplished.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Quite literally.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
It's not like a metaphorical like the pieces are there
and that this is there. No, no, you literally could
have won a national championship this year. So I don't
want to make I want to celebrate the eighty five
guys in that locker room on the field. I want
to celebrate the coaching staff, but that's the story.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
To me.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
You left to go to a place to win championships,
and you could have won one if you stuck right
where you were.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Yeah, I mean you were already there. Like the whole
goal is to get to the college football playoff and
give yourself a chance. And you had the team and
you end up going somewhere else and they're gonna expect
you to go there and win a championship. You were
closer where you were. The program was built in a
direction to where you were much closer really than what
we're seeing at LSU right now. I don't care what
(19:52):
you're gonna like what you can look in the future,
and do you sacrifice the present for what you think
might be easier later. I just I was hoping he
would make the other decision, but we kind of knew better, right.
I was saying that he would see the opportunity not
(20:13):
just to win a title this year, but to be
a legend at a school that didn't have one, like
to go there and be the guy. Like when you
think of Ole Miss football, it's going to be synonymous
with Lane Kiffin because of what he's done there over
the last half century. You know, he's been there twenty
five years or whatever, coaching, and like no, he goes
and he takes what he thinks are greener pastors, and look,
(20:35):
they may well be. I mean, I have no idea,
but I'm telling you this, this team right here is
two wins away from a national championship, and if they
win it, I don't care how many movies, how many
documentaries are made about it. I'll watch every single one
of them, because it's just it's something that absolutely, honestly,
Lane Kiffen deserves. For them to go win the national
(20:57):
championship without him, that's sad, but it's true.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
It's unbelievable and to your point, and if I if,
I can not make it about Lane kiff And even
though I do think that's the biggest story, you know,
I haven't seen it. You know, we're obviously live here,
we are live filling in for Jason Smith and Mike Carmen.
I haven't seen what the public's reaction is. I'm sorry.
If you beat Georgia in the manner that you did,
(21:23):
Trinidad Chambliss with respect, by the way, you know, I
know that we're all high on the Miami Uh you
know the Miami vibes right now, I'm sorry, I understand
what Mario Cristaball has done with that team. Their defensive
front as good as it is. George, It's got a
pretty good defensive front too, Like, yes, and I don't,
I know, you're just kind of paraphrasing what some people
(21:44):
are saying on a message board or whatever. But if
if you don't think that team can go on a
neutral field and beat Georgia, then I'm sorry, I just
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
If you don't think netral field and beat Miami.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
To after them beating Georgia, Yeah, I I don't. I
actually don't understand that logic at all. I mean, listen
to everyone's title to their opinion. I think it's a
bad opinion. If you can beat Georgia in the manner
that you just did, I think you know you got
as good a shot as anybody to be beat Miami
and you're potentially playing for a national championship, And just
it is an incredible Independent of how dumb I think
(22:18):
Lane Kiffin is, this is also an incredible story for
the guys that are actually still in Oxford.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Oh yeah, one hundred percent. I mean, I uh, I
know that. You know you miss out on the Carson
Beck that's true revenge game. You miss out on that storyline.
Now I'm good with that because I didn't want to
listen to that for the next week. Sure, Like I
want to see this football game because I think it's
gonna be an awesome football game because there's a ton
(22:44):
of athletes. I want to see what Miami's defense can
do against Chambliss, who's certainly gonna be able to move
around and get some things going. But I mean, it's
gonna be a whale of a football game. It's gonna
be awesome. But like, how can you not root for this?
You've got two teams, You've got the niest that was incredible,
and it's just the wrong year for them for me
(23:04):
because I got to pull for Old Miss to win
the whole thing, like even before this game, but really
going into the playoff, when you just looked at it, it
was just like, dude, man, they deserve this. They've done
everything right and they've been an afterthought because of what's
happened outside of their control. So to watch Trenidad Chambliss
(23:25):
show up and do this against Georgia. It's just like
he he earned this man, He's had to fight for
everything he has and to go out there on this
stage and do it to that team in this manner
is just it's phenomenal. It really is. It really is.
Old Miss.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
With the thirty nine to thirty four win, they advanced
to play Miami. Now the other semi final Indiana and Oregon.
Old Miss the last SEC team standing too. I mean, listen,
I'm not here to get into the SEC versus everybody
else debate, but like, who would have thought that that
would be the case in the middle of the season,
(24:05):
the end of the season, the day Lane Kiff and
left the whatever. Yet here we are Ole Miss in
the semi finals. Tell you what, j Mart, why don't
we come back? When we do, we'll kind of put
a bow, not put a bow, but we'll reset and
recap a lot of the things that we either have
you know, have not talked about, or just.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
They han't even gotten Ohio State at all.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Let'll tell you what, Why don't we talk Ohio State next?
Because that game went final? Ole Miss will now play Miami.
Of course, Miami, coming off the win against Ohio State
on New Year's Eve Rocket New Year's Eve not with
Ryan Seacrest but with Ryan Day did not go well
for the buck guys. We'll come back and discuss that next.
Aer Torus Jason Martin in for Jason Smith and the
guys should mention. Also, Ty Shirt's Tower of Trivia Oh
(24:47):
Yeah makes its debut here on The Jason Smith Show.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Coming up as well. Erra Torres Jason Morrin in for
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