January 2, 2026 • 40 mins
In the first hour of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, Aaron Torres & Jason Martin fill in for the guys & discuss Indiana’s domination in the Rose Bowl, Curt Cignetti’s coaching & more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
If you're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Welcome in everybody, Fox Sports Radio, Fox Sports. I guess
it's twenty twenty six. I was gonna say Saturday. That's
just my default. Uh you heard it. It is The
Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon. The guys a very
much deserve New Year's Day off, no worries though. Eron Torres,
Jason Martin, you taking you till two a m. Eastern time.
(00:51):
And when I tell you people, we got ourselves a
jam pack show. We are going to preview or really
recap most of the college football that has happened so far.
Indiana's win in Pasadena, We of course, had Oregon taking
care of Texas Tech last night, Ohio State and Miami,
and right now in New Orleans, Georgia up twenty one
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to twelve at halftime of the Sugar Bowl, Jason Martin,
how are you happy New Year? Should I do the
cliche of feel like I haven't talked to you since
last year?
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Anyway? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (01:24):
What's up?
Speaker 6 (01:25):
How you know?
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Apply? Apparently you just did so too late. I guess
we're not.
Speaker 6 (01:28):
Taking that back. Yeah, No, all good, All good. It's
been a decent start to twenty twenty six. We ate
the black eyed peace tonight for dinner, which is not
a thing I knew until I was married, but apparently
it's a thing for good luck on New Year's to
eat black eyed peas. So it's the only time of
year we buy a can and then we eat them
as a family. My four year old daughter immediately refused
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to eat what she called beans. We said, please eat
one so that we can have some good luck, and
she would she refused to do so. So there might
be good luck with the parents, but it might be
a rough year for the children.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Might be a rough year for the children, might be
a rough couple days for Alabama.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
We'll get to them in a minute. I want to start, though,
So Sugar Bowl Yeah in New.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Orleans, Georgia up twenty one to twelve, we're first half,
so Old Miss goes up twelve to seven in this game,
Georgia a big score on a big run. There was
a gunner stockedon throw that he got popped whatever.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Right before half. Old Miss was driving.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Now, I was kind of coming into the studio, so
I wanted to let you set up with the audience.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
For the audience that's driving around.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
It's New Year's Day, they're in a car or wherever
there may be at work, tell us what happened right
before the half, because Old Miss it did look like
they were at minimum and field goal range and certainly
had a chance to put more points on the board again.
The final college football quarterfinal of the day, Old Miss
trailing twenty one to twelve at halftime against Georgia.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
Yeah, so it really should be to one to fifteen
right now. They got something going again after you know,
they were struggle a little bit on their last couple
of possessions. Trinidad. Shambliss has been really good. He's been
a little behind hers of his receivers a few times,
but he's getting no help from those guys dudes that
are usually very sure handed or dropping stuff that's right
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between their numbers, but they got this thing over midfield
and into field goal range for their Lou Groza semi finalist,
who might be able to kick from eighty five yards.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Yeah, they were talking about that. He's a monster yet, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
He's absolutely insane. So they're in field goal range for him.
Now you already recognize if you're old miss that Georgia
gets the ball after the half. Your defense actually got
the ball back for you with about fifty two seconds left,
and you got it into field goal range. But you
know you had to use your timeouts and all that,
so you got no timeouts left. You throw to a
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tight ends really good and jayalen Wright and he decides
instead of going out of bounds, he cuts back up
into the field with like fifteen seconds left, trying to
get a first down instead of doing the obvious thing,
which is.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Getting out of bounds.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
They're already in field goal range, so he gets tackled
short of the first down by a yard. So the
clock is not gonna stop and it runs out. They
can't get a snap, they can't get their personnel onto
the field. They can't get this kicker onto the field.
That would have made it a twenty one to fifteen game,
a one possession game, obviously, and you're giving Georgia the
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ball after the half instead, you look like your coaching
staff goofed or your player just had one of those
moments where just the moment was too big for him
and he just made a boneheaded mistake, which can happen
these are still young players. But and the funny thing
is that it was Joe Judge who's running the offense.
He's the one that's supposed to make sure everybody knows
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what they're supposed to do. He h kind of did
this when he was in the NFL as well. Wasn't
really great at clock management and pressure situations and things
like that.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
So that's going to add to the lore of Joe Judge.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
But the biggest thing is just like, this is the
kind of thing that leads to the easy take of well,
that wouldn't happen if Lane was still there, and you know,
you asked Pete Gold about it, and he was just
kind of like, yeah, you know, I, you know, we
just we just we messed that one up. We were
trying to get out of bounds, but they weren't. Like
he literally cut back up into the field. He had
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a clear path out of bounds and didn't take it.
So you're giving Georgia the ball back after just looking
like you had no idea what was going on, not
giving your field goal kicker a chance to make something
he likely would have made.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
He already has a fifty six yarder in this game.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
So like, let's say Georgia comes back out scores a touchdown,
all of a sudden, it's twenty eight to twelve, and
much of this is you shooting yourself in the foot.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
So this is the last like four or five minutes
and a half, we're just abs absolutely brutal. If you're
an Old Miss.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Fan, yeah, it's interesting watching the game early it did
feel like, wow, you know, maybe Lane Kiffin, you know,
I don't say he was holding him back, but it's like,
don't seem to be missing a beat, And it did.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
By the way.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Also, I would add this.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
In the opening round game against Tulane, they won forty
one to ten. But if you actually watched the game,
and I'm not saying there was ever a moment where
you felt like Old Miss wasn't gonna win, but the
final score was forty one to ten.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
As I said in that game. Tulane also had.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Well over four hundred yards of total offense, had a
couple opportunities early in the red zone that they just butchered.
I mean, it's not as though they just completely blew
them out, and it was never close, never competitive. So
I don't want to make any too many sweeping judgments,
and we certainly have to make some judgments on what
happened in the Rose Bowl just minutes ago or hours ago.
I should say, but you know, I will say, I
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do think you're starting to see the cracks in the armor.
Four old miss uh just doesn't feel as crisp or
as clean. When Lane Kiffin was there Lane Kiffin, by
the way, at the Kentucky LSU women's game tonight, there
was a talk that he might show up at the
Sugar Bowl, which, of course New Orleans is only about
a half an hour or so from Baton Rouge.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
He stayed away at least as of now.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Yas I say it's still time, I was gonna say,
there's there's still a second half for him to get in,
right as they potentially get blown out, we are kicking
off the second half.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Yeah, Ja Mark, I don't really have much to add
on this right now.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Don't want to make too many sweeping judgments with one
half a football.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
There's still a lot of game left, and this one's
actually been pretty good.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Yeah, yeah, that's good.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
That good that we got, you know, I would say
last night's game was at least entertaining, like that was
interesting to watch as it was transpiring, and it was
a three point game with Ohio State with the football
I think on on the Miami side of the field
with a chance to go take the lead. And then
you know, obviously Miami ended up winning a game. But
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that one was that was a pretty good game. The
two this afternoon, h ooh, not so much. But this
one's this one looks like it's gonna be good, which
it really should be because it was good in the
regular season, was.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Good in the regular season. Second half has just kicked
off in the Sugar Bowl, oh Miss trailing Georgia twenty
one to ten. As J Mart said, Georgia has the
ball to start the second half. Want to go back
to earlier in the day, As J Mart said, two
games are final in this college football playoff from Thursday,
the early one.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
I think we're on for four hours.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
J bart I think the actual analysis will probably be
less than ten minutes of these total four hours. Oregon
wins twenty three to ten. We'll get back to that
one in a minute. I do think that the best
place from here to start is with the Rose Bowl
because there is a lot to take away Indiana with
the thirty eight two three win, Kaylin de Bor and
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Alabama suffer their worst postseason loss ever and really quickly,
j Mart, I have two pieces of sound that I
want to play, But I'm gonna ask you, do you
want to start with the Indiana is awesome part of this?
Or the Alabama What the heck was that? Because that
will dictate what piece of sound we start with.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Absolutely the Indiana being awesome part.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Well, then let's start with the Indiana being awesome part?
Because you and I are filling in tonight for Jason
Smith and Mike Harmon, but we normally work this same
time slot ten pm or eleven pm to two am
Eastern on Saturdays. This time of year, we're sort of
a de facto college football recap show. And I bring
it up because hate to toot our own horns. But
(09:36):
earlier this season, on our September twentieth episode, of Torres
and Martin. We opened Week four Indiana beat then ninth
ranked Illinois, and I asked this question to open our show.
Let me ask you this, This might sound crazy. Is
Kurt Signetty the best coach of college football? I'm just
(09:57):
gonna I'll lay out some stats for you. He took
over the war first team in the Big Ten, fifteen
and two and seventeen games, fourteen double figure wins. The
only losses that he had at any point, The only
losses that he has had at any point as Indiana's
head coach were to the two teams that played for
a national championship last year, Indiana and Indiana and Ohio
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State or Ohio State and Notre Dame. Excuse me, This
wasn't where I was anticipating leading the show. And we
don't have to stay on this for too long because
there's a lot to get to. I think you can
make the argument that was Ra Torres Jason Martin on
September twentieth, twenty twenty five, in our normal spot that
is a Saturday night, eleven pm Eastern. If you want
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to hear us j mart you know, we kind of
went back and forth, and I don't think either of
us was one hundred percent committal on that.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Day, but we started to raise the conversation.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
And I will tell you this, with due respect to
the dude that's coaching right now in New Orleans that
has two national championships, I think KURTZYETI is the best
coaching college football. And this Indiana story, I know it's
getting hyperbolic at this point with the way everyone in
our space keeps talking about it. But they beat Alabama
thirty eight to three in a game that they essentially
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made Alabama quit about midway through the third quarter.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Yeah, so you're right, it's getting hyperbolic.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
But well, and you know what it's not, because I
think hyperbolic means it's getting exaggerated, and I don't think
it's being exaggerated. I think it's being talked about exactly
like it should be. This is one of the most
incredible things we've ever seen in this sport. I mean,
it's on the short list if he goes if they
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go and win a championship. This year, you got a
Heisman Trophy winning quarterback that was a two.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Star committed to Yale.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
I believe, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
And by the way, you're looking at a zero star
on the field right now for Ole Miss, which is
another miraculous thing, and Dad Chambliss. But anyway, all of
what Kurt Signetti has done, he's twenty four and two
as a head coach of Indiana.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
You already laid out the losses.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
It only took I'm not even sure it took seven
syllables to actually lay that out. They didn't just beat Alabama.
Watching that game, it felt like twenty ten. Alabama was
wearing Indiana uniforms. The way they played, the smash mouth nature,
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the lack of mistakes, the demoralization. You talk about Alabama quitting,
they just demoralized them. That game ended for all intents
and purposes. Look, and you could see that Alabama knew
they were in trouble when they tried that weird fourth
down thing, and like they showed Signetti on the sidelines
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and it's going to be a meme if it's not already.
Signetti looked looked like, you're not serious, right, Like you
don't really think we're gonna fall for this, do you?
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Like?
Speaker 6 (13:02):
There are a lot of teams, Oh, man, I hope
they're not gonna Indiana didn't because they just don't. They
don't make mistakes, They don't do those kinds of things.
They get that they end up getting that fumble off
of the quarterback, off of ty Simpson on that hit
when he really he already had the first down. He
didn't go down, he took that big hit, lost the ball,
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and what they do they went and scored. That's exactly
what Alabama used to do before the end of the half.
Exactly what they used to do in the last like
two minutes. They would get a big time turnover and
they would cash it in. And guess what Indiana did
right before the end of the first half. They scored
a touchdown. What was a ten oh game, and you
had Alabama actually starting to move the football a little
bit on that drive that just killed him. It was
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seventeen to nothing and a half. They come back into
the second half and I think Signetti and that defense knew, look,
if we can get the football back into Mendoza's hands,
the thing's over.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
And that's what they did.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
Four minutes later, it was back in the hands of Indiana.
Before you know what, it's twenty four to nothing. And
then it gets even worse, like it was just the
Alabama side of it is not as baffling to me
because if you've watched this year, Indiana is just great,
Like they're they're really good, Like everywhere, they're better than
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they were. I can't really name a position on the
field that I felt like Alabama had the advantage in.
So the only reason that you would pick Alabama, the
only reason you would do it is because there's still
a bias.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
In your brain because it's Indiana.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Can I jump in real quick?
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Signetty had a great quote at one of the press
conferences where they asked him about the mystique of Alabama
and he's like, these guys don't care about mystique.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
They care about what they see on film.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Andation was, I'm very confident in what we're going to
be capable of doing when we step on the field
with these guys.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
Yeah he said, Like he said, you guys in the
media know more about the mistique of Alabama than these players.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
They know what's on film.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
And like it's just like, dude, he's just got that thing,
like this is the dream for every school. This is
why there's hope out there. You just have to if
you find the guy, and you never would have known
Kurt Signetti was going to be the guy, but I'm
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here to tell you, folks, Kurt Signetti is the guy.
I did the rankings with Brian know as we were
in for two pros and a cup of Joe on
New Year's Eve, and I asked the question. I was like,
eight to one, who do you trust the most in
the playoffs when you're looking at the coaches? And we
had Signetti two and Smart one because Smart has done
all this crafty stuff and he's aggressive and just certain things,
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especially this year, and of course he has to pedigree
and it's hard not to trust him. And I still
feel that way, but I do think Signetti is the
best coach in the country now. And I think when
you asked that question, I said no, but I think
it's a fair question to ask, and I mentioned Kirby
Smart and then I think within two weeks I said,
let's really ask the question because I actually think it
might be Yes. Now I'm willing to say even though
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my final game is Georgia beating Indiana, I don't feel
real good about that right now.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
I really don't.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
But either way, those are the two best coaches in
the sport, and I think there's a pretty massive drop off,
even though I think Dubor's are really good, and I
think Dan Lanning's good, Marcus Freeman's a really good coach.
There's some other names that you can put there, but
I think it's Signetti and Smart and that's Tier one
right now. But Signetti doing this at Indiana, it just
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can't be It can't be exaggerated because it's Indiana. This
is not a thing that's ever supposed to happen, and
it's just it's absolutely incredible. It's mind boggling watching it,
Like Alabama did not look like they were playing the
same sport as Indiana around the third quarter of that game.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
A couple thoughts here, by the way, speaking of not
good coaching, more confusion for ole Miss. They forced a
three and out to open the second half. Get to midfield,
fourth down, weird play, guys in motion, Georgia's stuffs that
they get the ball back at the fifty. Georgia is
still up twenty one to twelve early third quarter in
the final game of the college football quarterfinals.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
Back to Signetti. So everything you said I agree with.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Obviously, the resume speaks for itself at this point and
I would saying about this during the game. And again,
whenever you say stuff like we're saying about Signetti, it
feels like you're taking shots at other guys and you were,
you didn't it at all, but like, I'm not about
to take a shot at Kirby Smart, Okay, but Kirby Smart.
I think we've all just been like, oh, Kirby Smart's
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the next Nick Saban or whatever, and it's like Kirby
Smart's unbelievable, two national championships, use the blueprint, blah blahlah blah,
this and that. But watching that game today, it really
struck me it's actually Kurt Signetti that.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
Is the Nick Saban.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Yes, no question about that.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
And I think you know, as the kids say, real
ball knowers understand what I'm saying is like we're not
saying Kirby Smart isn't great or this coach it, but
everything you laid out getting up taking advantage of your opportunities,
I mean. And the thing that stands out to me
like Kirby as great as he is, like they will
have a dud every now and again, including the first
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game against Alabama at home, where it's just like what
just happened there, right, signetty to our point, to just
the math, to the facts. Only two losses at Ohio
State at Notre Dame last season has already this season
been in Oregon at Oregon, Ohio State on a neutral
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and Alabama on a neutral. And you just watch that team.
They just don't beat themselves. They're so fundamentally sound. They
take advantage of your mistakes. I just like I said,
he is to me, actually the closest thing to Sabin
that we have had. And I'll just put a bow
on the Indiana part of this conversation. We could come
back and talk about the Alabama side, but I'll put
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a bow on it. By I think you said something
really interesting is that in this new world of college football,
not only is it about finding the right guy, but
it's like, dude, when you get them, you can keep them,
which is important. And I think it's really interesting is
like you look at all these coaching changes that have
happened this year. I don't blame anybody for sitting there
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and saying, good, you know, whatever the standard is at
their school, it doesn't have to be this. And even
I'm just using a very random example. But like Kentucky
fired the most successful coach in their school's history, basically
over the last couple of weeks. Okay, and I want
to bring it up because Kentucky sitting there saying, well,
wait a second, nof Indiana can be really good. That's
there's no reason we can't be as well. Vanderbilt too,
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Vanderbilt two, there's only one. Kurtz Signetti. I thought Indiana
was gonna win. I know on our Saturday show, I
thought it would be close by by the time we
got to kick off. I did think Indiana was gonna
win by double figures. I did not think they were
winning by five touchdowns. And we're gonna put Alabama in
the sleeper hole. So tell you what, j mart this
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Speaker 5 (20:02):
We'll come back.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
We'll talk about the other side of things, because there
is a thorough of victory, but there's also the agony
of defeat. And I think there's gonna be a lot
of agony and Tuscaloosa for Kaitlin to board these next
few months.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
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Welcome back, everybody, Fox Sports Radio. Jason Smith showed Mike
harm and Jason and Mike are out. Aaron Taurs, Jason
Martin are in.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
Man.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
You know who else is in? I was just gonna say,
Alex Teyschert 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 6 (21:24):
He just he gets it, man, but he always takes
care of you.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
What's my favorite song?
Speaker 5 (21:28):
You're being honest?
Speaker 4 (21:30):
This song tears fears and tysher first.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
Time coming back out of the break, didn't mention it
to him, said it a long time ago.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
He just remembers and plays it straight off.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
Incredible.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Tysher, My favorite song is Rihanna Be's better have My Money.
So if you no, I'm just kidding, Okay, that would
be funny to come out of break though.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
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 (21:53):
You know.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
It's really cute about J mar two laying on what
he got, the fact that I remember from years.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
Yeah, this whole pollen fiasco he had. I still ask
him about it.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
He does.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
How's the Paul He asked me about how's the palling
going right now? I was just really sick and I
just told him told him to night right before the show.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Is like, dude, I've just had allergies.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
Now for like eight years, so 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. I
just know I'm gonna wake up with a running nose
pretty much every day.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Now, you know, it's weird.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
I get I wake up with a sore throat every
day for like six months at a time. And I'm
not sick, people, I'm not sick. I think the error
just gets drew too dry at night.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
TMI Sugar Bowl. Ole Miss has cut the lead to
twenty one to eighteen.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
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, Look, Indiana
is gonna be the greatest story. But the other greatest
story would be ole Miss winning a championship with lang
Kiff and not there because he didn't think he could
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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 (23:12):
It would be and you know, I want to get
to Alabama. But for half a second on link iffn
Is 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 kind
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of know who's coming back. And then of course it's
essentially free agency for college football.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
You're gonna see so many quarterbacks with news tomorrow. There's
gonna be all sorts of like twelve to one hits
or whatever.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
You're just gonna see.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
Quarterbacks with new destinations all over the place. It's gonna
be insane.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
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. It was a
terrible exit. 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 championship. Blah blahlah blah. Half of his staff
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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
think it's easy to root for the team round one whatever.
The portal's going to be open tomorrow, and like you
need boots on the ground in Baton Rouge. I there's
no way to know, and it's not really a topic,
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and it's there's nowhere to really take this conversation. But
I would just say I think it's easy for Lane
Kiffin to be like, oh, yeah, I'm rooting for him. Yeah,
let's see what happens at twelve oh one tonight. If
Ole Miss is hosting a Sugar Bowl Trophy and your
coaches have another week of game prep when the portal's
opened something, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
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 are moving
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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 his 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 conducive to anything.
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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.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
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 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.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
More of a cluster, not less.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
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 5 (26:15):
I do think you could basically.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Just move up the season a week, eliminate 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,
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.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
And what are the ramifications. It's like, Oh, Ohio State,
you don't ever play now.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
I mean, the title game is being played on January
the nineteenth, Folks, 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
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they're all devoted to football at that point in time.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Well, by the time.
Speaker 6 (27:25):
You get to the NFL playoffs, college needs to be
done because the attention is changed, it moves and when
if you've watched Lamar and Josh Allen, it's gonna be
hard to go watch JJ McCarthy at Michigan the next night.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
It just is it's gonna.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
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 first when I was a kid,
And it just seems like it's going later and later
and later, needlessly.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
I'll give you a perfect example, then we'll get to
MASSI 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 going to care.
What I mean by that is like one, college football
just does not need to be played in late January.
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But 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? I mean
besides we, no.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
No, no, everyone else maybe well yeah, we.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
And it's like every single year, all these leagues keep
convincing themselves like America wants more football, and it's like, 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
in the third quarter, exceed.
Speaker 6 (28:51):
That's the kind of thing I'm talking about with Kirby Smart,
he does stuff like that.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
Oh, Yeah, what was it? What game was it?
Speaker 4 (28:57):
Where it was the Old Miss game? I think if
it wasn't the Ole Miss game?
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Was it?
Speaker 4 (29:02):
LSU?
Speaker 6 (29:03):
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.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
It was a Texas game.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
They went for an that's what I believe, three times
on one drive to seal the game.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
I believe that's what it was.
Speaker 6 (29:18):
He's just he's just he's aggressive in a way that
so many guys like Ohio State would.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Love for Ryan Day to be aggressive. Sorry, that was
low hanging fruit. But it was also accurate.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Well, let's see, speaking of accurate, Gunner stocked it incomplete
down the field. But you know who's always accurate, Manzi Beligia. Oh, yes,
semi accurate. Now I'm kidding.
Speaker 8 (29:39):
Oh that's good, semibove above five hundred Yeah, above fifty percent?
How about that?
Speaker 4 (29:44):
That?
Speaker 5 (29:44):
What do we got, Monzie? Tell us what's new in
the world of sports?
Speaker 8 (29:47):
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, they'll take a couple of days.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Yeah, the Sugar Bowl.
Speaker 8 (29:55):
It's uh in its 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 twenty one to
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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 one hundred and five yards, but he
has two rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
Got rocked twice.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Yeah, it was one of those hits. I can't believe
you got up for them.
Speaker 8 (30:38):
If it would have been the NFL, that thing they
would have taken out, they would have taken them over.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
He would have been with like, no way, no way.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
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 that by the way, it looks
like he's down.
Speaker 8 (30:54):
He's he's been hit, 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
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in that second quarter 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.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
Sacks shutting down the Red Raider offense.
Speaker 8 (31:33):
So Oregon and Indiana are going to face each other
in the Peach Bowl on Friday, January ninth. A little
NFL news for you. Lamar Jackson is expected to start
for the Ravens for Sunday Night Football against the Steelers
Saints wide receiver Chris Alave sorry Bree. He is out
for the last game of the 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
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within the next month when it comes to the NBA.
Right now, the Mavericks 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. The heat
are beating, or that he beat the Pistons in Detroit
(32:17):
one eighteen to one twelve, where former Clipper Norman Powell
had thirty six points.
Speaker 5 (32:22):
Back to you, guys, Monzi, thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
By the way, Monzy 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.
Speaker 8 (32:37):
He listen me too, me too, and then at the
same time next week I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
He's the greatest Clipper ever.
Speaker 8 (32:43):
He saved franchise, franchise, so let's be in eleven.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
He does seem to care more than Kawhi Leonard.
Speaker 8 (32:48):
He does seem and that's it's been crazy what he've done.
But he definitely I've definitely yelled at him, good and bad.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
Thank you man. Yes all right.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
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Speaker 5 (33:28):
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Speaker 1 (33:29):
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Speaker 3 (34:10):
Tell you what Ja mart As I said, Indiana wins
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Speaker 5 (34:21):
It was bad for Alabama and.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
This will certainly be a theme of this show over
the next three hours. But really quickly, I thought Kirk
Herbstreet during the game summed up the Alabama performance better
than anybody. Here's what Herbie said during the game.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
It feels like Alabama. It's just strange to see they're
just existing. They're just out there.
Speaker 6 (34:43):
Nobody's penetrating, nobody's playing.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
With any fire.
Speaker 6 (34:48):
They're just it's almost like they feel defeated, like there's
nothing we can do. Nobody's making an impact player, not
even trying their hands on their hips.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
They're just kind of out there.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
I don't know how you can say it any better.
Jmart Floor is yours.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Alabama thirty eight to three loss, worst postseason loss ever
for the Crimson time.
Speaker 6 (35:09):
It was thirty eight to three, and it wasn't that
Close's that's legitimately true. There were eleven guys wearing Alabama uniforms,
and the longer that game went, the less it looked
like any of them wanted to be part of that team.
Not that they were quitting on each other, they just
had enough, Like they tapped out.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
It was just over.
Speaker 6 (35:32):
And what he says, they were existing, they were, they
were on the field, they were going through the motions,
but it almost looked like spring practice or it was
just kind of like they had been demoralized. And this
is what I was talking about when I was saying
that Indiana looked so much to be like a you know,
twenty ten to twenty fifteen, Nick Saban team where they
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just demoralized the opponent, beat them in a way where
by the end it didn't even look like one team
wanted to play the sport anymore. And that's what you got.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Like it.
Speaker 6 (36:05):
It was the most bare minimum by the end of
that game. I don't think that they quit. I hate
saying that. It's more that they just they were out
ideas like eventually, you're a comedian, right, you're up there
telling jokes and you're just bombing out left and right.
The only thing that you've basically got left to do
(36:25):
other than walk off stage is start insulting people in
the front row and trying to win something back, or
at least win your own dignity back in your own mind.
Like there was just nothing left. I don't think they
had an answer in any way, shape or form for
what Indiana brought on offense or on defense. And again
(36:45):
once the fumble, when we came back and we said
that was play the day, and it was like the
game ended right there because Indiana got the ball, went
down and scored a touchdown of seventeen.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Nothing got the ball back after forcing.
Speaker 6 (36:56):
Nothing for Alabama to open the second half put up
another touchdown and beat them down like this is bad.
I'm very curious what the Alabama fan base, what their
reaction to all of this is going to be, especially
the ones in Tuscaloosa, the die hards, because we know
Caitlyn de Bor is a really good head coach, a
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really good football coach. But I gotta say this was
about as bad as I have seen Alabama look in
my lifetime when they're supposed to be at least decent.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
The game that they.
Speaker 6 (37:31):
Lost to Florida State, we didn't watch that thing start
to finish because there were so many games going on
that day that we were trying to cover. But this
right here, Indiana was either that much They're either that
much of a juggernaut, that much of a wagon, or
Alabama is not good at all. And I just, you
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just it's unthinkable that they would get beaten this badly.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
Well, and I think it's more of the latter. By
the way, things are getting very interesting in New Orleans.
Fourth quarter has just begun Old Miss trailing twenty four
to nineteen, but they are driving Trinidad Shamblis's incredible conversion
on a first down deep in his own territory then
just threw an absolute dart to get old Miss deep
(38:19):
into Georgia territory. Thirteen minutes to go, Georgia up twenty
four to nineteen, Old Miss driving. They are now in
the red zone.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
Lane Kiff.
Speaker 6 (38:27):
It's gonna show up for a distraction finish. It's gonna
show up straight up, get their attention. There's gonna be
a schoolboy roll up for the three count for Georgia.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
It's gonna be like the like when a fighter, like
when the guy that wants to fight the next guy
shows up ringside, but he you know, he claims he's
just there for whatever and he ends up whatever. But yeah,
back to back to Alabama. I'll just be quick on
this is you know, you said, you know, you tend
to wonder is this who they are? I mean, I
think it is because two games ago they did the
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same thing against Georgia. Total no show. It wasn't a
thirty one point, what was a thirty five point loss
like today, but twenty eight to seven in the SEC
championship game, barely two hundred yards of total offense, negative
three rushing yards. The stat that sticks with us from
that game. I just think that's who they are. And
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maybe we could even keep this conversation going into our two.
But I think it is a fascinating question going forward
because it is year two and there's plenty of talent
and this team wasn't even close, not just tonight but
for most of the season against the best teams they played.
Speaker 6 (39:35):
I mean, what was the big the biggest question that
I saw in a lot of the threads and the
forums and things like that around the time that the
quarterback change was made because the injury is where is
ty Simpson gonna play next year?
Speaker 7 (39:47):
Mm?
Speaker 6 (39:48):
Like he needs to get into the portal, he can't
possibly go into the draft, but he can't be at
Alabama next year either.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
Like that's how bad this was.
Speaker 6 (39:58):
This is a dude that, like what we five week
six people are talking about in the top two or
three in the Heisman voting. You get to the end
of the season and people are saying he can't possibly
be the quarterback at Alabama next year because of how
bad Indiana made him look.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
We'll tell you what ole Miss is making Georgia look
not too good right now. A Keewan Lacy touchdown run
has given ole Miss a twenty five twenty four lead,
eleven twenty nine left in the fourth quarter, extra point pending.
I assumed they would go for two here to make
it a three point game. Going up two basically does
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nothing for you.
Speaker 5 (40:35):
We'll come back. We'll keep you updated on what's going
on in New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
We'll continue the Alabama conversation, talk Miami, Ohio State, so
much college football.
Speaker 5 (40:42):
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Speaker 3 (00:27):
Welcome in everybody, Fox Sports Radio, Fox Sports. I guess
it's twenty twenty six. I was gonna say Saturday. That's
just my default. Uh you heard it. It is The
Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon. The guys a very
much deserve New Year's Day off, no worries though. Eron Torres,
Jason Martin, you taking you till two a m. Eastern time.
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And when I tell you people, we got ourselves a
jam pack show. We are going to preview or really
recap most of the college football that has happened so far.
Indiana's win in Pasadena, We of course, had Oregon taking
care of Texas Tech last night, Ohio State and Miami,
and right now in New Orleans, Georgia up twenty one
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to twelve at halftime of the Sugar Bowl, Jason Martin,
how are you happy New Year? Should I do the
cliche of feel like I haven't talked to you since
last year?
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Anyway? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (01:24):
What's up?
Speaker 6 (01:25):
How you know?
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Apply? Apparently you just did so too late. I guess
we're not.
Speaker 6 (01:28):
Taking that back. Yeah, No, all good, All good. It's
been a decent start to twenty twenty six. We ate
the black eyed peace tonight for dinner, which is not
a thing I knew until I was married, but apparently
it's a thing for good luck on New Year's to
eat black eyed peas. So it's the only time of
year we buy a can and then we eat them
as a family. My four year old daughter immediately refused
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to eat what she called beans. We said, please eat
one so that we can have some good luck, and
she would she refused to do so. So there might
be good luck with the parents, but it might be
a rough year for the children.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Might be a rough year for the children, might be
a rough couple days for Alabama.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
We'll get to them in a minute. I want to start, though,
So Sugar Bowl Yeah in New.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Orleans, Georgia up twenty one to twelve, we're first half,
so Old Miss goes up twelve to seven in this game,
Georgia a big score on a big run. There was
a gunner stockedon throw that he got popped whatever.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Right before half. Old Miss was driving.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Now, I was kind of coming into the studio, so
I wanted to let you set up with the audience.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
For the audience that's driving around.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
It's New Year's Day, they're in a car or wherever
there may be at work, tell us what happened right
before the half, because Old Miss it did look like
they were at minimum and field goal range and certainly
had a chance to put more points on the board again.
The final college football quarterfinal of the day, Old Miss
trailing twenty one to twelve at halftime against Georgia.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
Yeah, so it really should be to one to fifteen
right now. They got something going again after you know,
they were struggle a little bit on their last couple
of possessions. Trinidad. Shambliss has been really good. He's been
a little behind hers of his receivers a few times,
but he's getting no help from those guys dudes that
are usually very sure handed or dropping stuff that's right
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between their numbers, but they got this thing over midfield
and into field goal range for their Lou Groza semi finalist,
who might be able to kick from eighty five yards.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Yeah, they were talking about that. He's a monster yet, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
He's absolutely insane. So they're in field goal range for him.
Now you already recognize if you're old miss that Georgia
gets the ball after the half. Your defense actually got
the ball back for you with about fifty two seconds left,
and you got it into field goal range. But you
know you had to use your timeouts and all that,
so you got no timeouts left. You throw to a
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tight ends really good and jayalen Wright and he decides
instead of going out of bounds, he cuts back up
into the field with like fifteen seconds left, trying to
get a first down instead of doing the obvious thing,
which is.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Getting out of bounds.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
They're already in field goal range, so he gets tackled
short of the first down by a yard. So the
clock is not gonna stop and it runs out. They
can't get a snap, they can't get their personnel onto
the field. They can't get this kicker onto the field.
That would have made it a twenty one to fifteen game,
a one possession game, obviously, and you're giving Georgia the
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ball after the half instead, you look like your coaching
staff goofed or your player just had one of those
moments where just the moment was too big for him
and he just made a boneheaded mistake, which can happen
these are still young players. But and the funny thing
is that it was Joe Judge who's running the offense.
He's the one that's supposed to make sure everybody knows
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what they're supposed to do. He h kind of did
this when he was in the NFL as well. Wasn't
really great at clock management and pressure situations and things
like that.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
So that's going to add to the lore of Joe Judge.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
But the biggest thing is just like, this is the
kind of thing that leads to the easy take of well,
that wouldn't happen if Lane was still there, and you know,
you asked Pete Gold about it, and he was just
kind of like, yeah, you know, I, you know, we
just we just we messed that one up. We were
trying to get out of bounds, but they weren't. Like
he literally cut back up into the field. He had
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a clear path out of bounds and didn't take it.
So you're giving Georgia the ball back after just looking
like you had no idea what was going on, not
giving your field goal kicker a chance to make something
he likely would have made.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
He already has a fifty six yarder in this game.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
So like, let's say Georgia comes back out scores a touchdown,
all of a sudden, it's twenty eight to twelve, and
much of this is you shooting yourself in the foot.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
So this is the last like four or five minutes
and a half, we're just abs absolutely brutal. If you're
an Old Miss.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Fan, yeah, it's interesting watching the game early it did
feel like, wow, you know, maybe Lane Kiffin, you know,
I don't say he was holding him back, but it's like,
don't seem to be missing a beat, And it did.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
By the way.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Also, I would add this.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
In the opening round game against Tulane, they won forty
one to ten. But if you actually watched the game,
and I'm not saying there was ever a moment where
you felt like Old Miss wasn't gonna win, but the
final score was forty one to ten.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
As I said in that game. Tulane also had.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Well over four hundred yards of total offense, had a
couple opportunities early in the red zone that they just butchered.
I mean, it's not as though they just completely blew
them out, and it was never close, never competitive. So
I don't want to make any too many sweeping judgments,
and we certainly have to make some judgments on what
happened in the Rose Bowl just minutes ago or hours ago.
I should say, but you know, I will say, I
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do think you're starting to see the cracks in the armor.
Four old miss uh just doesn't feel as crisp or
as clean. When Lane Kiffin was there Lane Kiffin, by
the way, at the Kentucky LSU women's game tonight, there
was a talk that he might show up at the
Sugar Bowl, which, of course New Orleans is only about
a half an hour or so from Baton Rouge.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
He stayed away at least as of now.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Yas I say it's still time, I was gonna say,
there's there's still a second half for him to get in,
right as they potentially get blown out, we are kicking
off the second half.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Yeah, Ja Mark, I don't really have much to add
on this right now.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Don't want to make too many sweeping judgments with one
half a football.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
There's still a lot of game left, and this one's
actually been pretty good.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Yeah, yeah, that's good.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
That good that we got, you know, I would say
last night's game was at least entertaining, like that was
interesting to watch as it was transpiring, and it was
a three point game with Ohio State with the football
I think on on the Miami side of the field
with a chance to go take the lead. And then
you know, obviously Miami ended up winning a game. But
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that one was that was a pretty good game. The
two this afternoon, h ooh, not so much. But this
one's this one looks like it's gonna be good, which
it really should be because it was good in the
regular season, was.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Good in the regular season. Second half has just kicked
off in the Sugar Bowl, oh Miss trailing Georgia twenty
one to ten. As J Mart said, Georgia has the
ball to start the second half. Want to go back
to earlier in the day, As J Mart said, two
games are final in this college football playoff from Thursday,
the early one.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
I think we're on for four hours.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
J bart I think the actual analysis will probably be
less than ten minutes of these total four hours. Oregon
wins twenty three to ten. We'll get back to that
one in a minute. I do think that the best
place from here to start is with the Rose Bowl
because there is a lot to take away Indiana with
the thirty eight two three win, Kaylin de Bor and
(08:52):
Alabama suffer their worst postseason loss ever and really quickly,
j Mart, I have two pieces of sound that I
want to play, But I'm gonna ask you, do you
want to start with the Indiana is awesome part of this?
Or the Alabama What the heck was that? Because that
will dictate what piece of sound we start with.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Absolutely the Indiana being awesome part.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Well, then let's start with the Indiana being awesome part?
Because you and I are filling in tonight for Jason
Smith and Mike Harmon, but we normally work this same
time slot ten pm or eleven pm to two am
Eastern on Saturdays. This time of year, we're sort of
a de facto college football recap show. And I bring
it up because hate to toot our own horns. But
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earlier this season, on our September twentieth episode, of Torres
and Martin. We opened Week four Indiana beat then ninth
ranked Illinois, and I asked this question to open our show.
Let me ask you this, This might sound crazy. Is
Kurt Signetty the best coach of college football? I'm just
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gonna I'll lay out some stats for you. He took
over the war first team in the Big Ten, fifteen
and two and seventeen games, fourteen double figure wins. The
only losses that he had at any point, The only
losses that he has had at any point as Indiana's
head coach were to the two teams that played for
a national championship last year, Indiana and Indiana and Ohio
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State or Ohio State and Notre Dame. Excuse me, This
wasn't where I was anticipating leading the show. And we
don't have to stay on this for too long because
there's a lot to get to. I think you can
make the argument that was Ra Torres Jason Martin on
September twentieth, twenty twenty five, in our normal spot that
is a Saturday night, eleven pm Eastern. If you want
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to hear us j mart you know, we kind of
went back and forth, and I don't think either of
us was one hundred percent committal on that.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Day, but we started to raise the conversation.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
And I will tell you this, with due respect to
the dude that's coaching right now in New Orleans that
has two national championships, I think KURTZYETI is the best
coaching college football. And this Indiana story, I know it's
getting hyperbolic at this point with the way everyone in
our space keeps talking about it. But they beat Alabama
thirty eight to three in a game that they essentially
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made Alabama quit about midway through the third quarter.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Yeah, so you're right, it's getting hyperbolic.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
But well, and you know what it's not, because I
think hyperbolic means it's getting exaggerated, and I don't think
it's being exaggerated. I think it's being talked about exactly
like it should be. This is one of the most
incredible things we've ever seen in this sport. I mean,
it's on the short list if he goes if they
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go and win a championship. This year, you got a
Heisman Trophy winning quarterback that was a two.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Star committed to Yale.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
I believe, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
And by the way, you're looking at a zero star
on the field right now for Ole Miss, which is
another miraculous thing, and Dad Chambliss. But anyway, all of
what Kurt Signetti has done, he's twenty four and two
as a head coach of Indiana.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
You already laid out the losses.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
It only took I'm not even sure it took seven
syllables to actually lay that out. They didn't just beat Alabama.
Watching that game, it felt like twenty ten. Alabama was
wearing Indiana uniforms. The way they played, the smash mouth nature,
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the lack of mistakes, the demoralization. You talk about Alabama quitting,
they just demoralized them. That game ended for all intents
and purposes. Look, and you could see that Alabama knew
they were in trouble when they tried that weird fourth
down thing, and like they showed Signetti on the sidelines
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and it's going to be a meme if it's not already.
Signetti looked looked like, you're not serious, right, Like you
don't really think we're gonna fall for this, do you?
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Like?
Speaker 6 (13:02):
There are a lot of teams, Oh, man, I hope
they're not gonna Indiana didn't because they just don't. They
don't make mistakes, They don't do those kinds of things.
They get that they end up getting that fumble off
of the quarterback, off of ty Simpson on that hit
when he really he already had the first down. He
didn't go down, he took that big hit, lost the ball,
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and what they do they went and scored. That's exactly
what Alabama used to do before the end of the half.
Exactly what they used to do in the last like
two minutes. They would get a big time turnover and
they would cash it in. And guess what Indiana did
right before the end of the first half. They scored
a touchdown. What was a ten oh game, and you
had Alabama actually starting to move the football a little
bit on that drive that just killed him. It was
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seventeen to nothing and a half. They come back into
the second half and I think Signetti and that defense knew, look,
if we can get the football back into Mendoza's hands,
the thing's over.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
And that's what they did.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
Four minutes later, it was back in the hands of Indiana.
Before you know what, it's twenty four to nothing. And
then it gets even worse, like it was just the
Alabama side of it is not as baffling to me
because if you've watched this year, Indiana is just great,
Like they're they're really good, Like everywhere, they're better than
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they were. I can't really name a position on the
field that I felt like Alabama had the advantage in.
So the only reason that you would pick Alabama, the
only reason you would do it is because there's still
a bias.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
In your brain because it's Indiana.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Can I jump in real quick?
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Signetty had a great quote at one of the press
conferences where they asked him about the mystique of Alabama
and he's like, these guys don't care about mystique.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
They care about what they see on film.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Andation was, I'm very confident in what we're going to
be capable of doing when we step on the field
with these guys.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
Yeah he said, Like he said, you guys in the
media know more about the mistique of Alabama than these players.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
They know what's on film.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
And like it's just like, dude, he's just got that thing,
like this is the dream for every school. This is
why there's hope out there. You just have to if
you find the guy, and you never would have known
Kurt Signetti was going to be the guy, but I'm
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here to tell you, folks, Kurt Signetti is the guy.
I did the rankings with Brian know as we were
in for two pros and a cup of Joe on
New Year's Eve, and I asked the question. I was like,
eight to one, who do you trust the most in
the playoffs when you're looking at the coaches? And we
had Signetti two and Smart one because Smart has done
all this crafty stuff and he's aggressive and just certain things,
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especially this year, and of course he has to pedigree
and it's hard not to trust him. And I still
feel that way, but I do think Signetti is the
best coach in the country now. And I think when
you asked that question, I said no, but I think
it's a fair question to ask, and I mentioned Kirby
Smart and then I think within two weeks I said,
let's really ask the question because I actually think it
might be Yes. Now I'm willing to say even though
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my final game is Georgia beating Indiana, I don't feel
real good about that right now.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
I really don't.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
But either way, those are the two best coaches in
the sport, and I think there's a pretty massive drop off,
even though I think Dubor's are really good, and I
think Dan Lanning's good, Marcus Freeman's a really good coach.
There's some other names that you can put there, but
I think it's Signetti and Smart and that's Tier one
right now. But Signetti doing this at Indiana, it just
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can't be It can't be exaggerated because it's Indiana. This
is not a thing that's ever supposed to happen, and
it's just it's absolutely incredible. It's mind boggling watching it,
Like Alabama did not look like they were playing the
same sport as Indiana around the third quarter of that game.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
A couple thoughts here, by the way, speaking of not
good coaching, more confusion for ole Miss. They forced a
three and out to open the second half. Get to midfield,
fourth down, weird play, guys in motion, Georgia's stuffs that
they get the ball back at the fifty. Georgia is
still up twenty one to twelve early third quarter in
the final game of the college football quarterfinals.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
Back to Signetti. So everything you said I agree with.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Obviously, the resume speaks for itself at this point and
I would saying about this during the game. And again,
whenever you say stuff like we're saying about Signetti, it
feels like you're taking shots at other guys and you were,
you didn't it at all, but like, I'm not about
to take a shot at Kirby Smart, Okay, but Kirby Smart.
I think we've all just been like, oh, Kirby Smart's
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the next Nick Saban or whatever, and it's like Kirby
Smart's unbelievable, two national championships, use the blueprint, blah blahlah blah,
this and that. But watching that game today, it really
struck me it's actually Kurt Signetti that.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
Is the Nick Saban.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Yes, no question about that.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
And I think you know, as the kids say, real
ball knowers understand what I'm saying is like we're not
saying Kirby Smart isn't great or this coach it, but
everything you laid out getting up taking advantage of your opportunities,
I mean. And the thing that stands out to me
like Kirby as great as he is, like they will
have a dud every now and again, including the first
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game against Alabama at home, where it's just like what
just happened there, right, signetty to our point, to just
the math, to the facts. Only two losses at Ohio
State at Notre Dame last season has already this season
been in Oregon at Oregon, Ohio State on a neutral
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and Alabama on a neutral. And you just watch that team.
They just don't beat themselves. They're so fundamentally sound. They
take advantage of your mistakes. I just like I said,
he is to me, actually the closest thing to Sabin
that we have had. And I'll just put a bow
on the Indiana part of this conversation. We could come
back and talk about the Alabama side, but I'll put
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a bow on it. By I think you said something
really interesting is that in this new world of college football,
not only is it about finding the right guy, but
it's like, dude, when you get them, you can keep them,
which is important. And I think it's really interesting is
like you look at all these coaching changes that have
happened this year. I don't blame anybody for sitting there
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and saying, good, you know, whatever the standard is at
their school, it doesn't have to be this. And even
I'm just using a very random example. But like Kentucky
fired the most successful coach in their school's history, basically
over the last couple of weeks. Okay, and I want
to bring it up because Kentucky sitting there saying, well,
wait a second, nof Indiana can be really good. That's
there's no reason we can't be as well. Vanderbilt too,
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Vanderbilt two, there's only one. Kurtz Signetti. I thought Indiana
was gonna win. I know on our Saturday show, I
thought it would be close by by the time we
got to kick off. I did think Indiana was gonna
win by double figures. I did not think they were
winning by five touchdowns. And we're gonna put Alabama in
the sleeper hole. So tell you what, j mart this
(19:56):
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Jason and Mike are out, Aaron Torres, Jason Martin are in.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
We'll come back.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
We'll talk about the other side of things, because there
is a thorough of victory, but there's also the agony
of defeat. And I think there's gonna be a lot
of agony and Tuscaloosa for Kaitlin to board these next
few months.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
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Speaker 3 (20:58):
Welcome back, everybody, Fox Sports Radio. Jason Smith showed Mike
harm and Jason and Mike are out. Aaron Taurs, Jason
Martin are in.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
Man.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
You know who else is in? I was just gonna say,
Alex Teyschert 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 6 (21:24):
He just he gets it, man, but he always takes
care of you.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
What's my favorite song?
Speaker 5 (21:28):
You're being honest?
Speaker 4 (21:30):
This song tears fears and tysher first.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
Time coming back out of the break, didn't mention it
to him, said it a long time ago.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
He just remembers and plays it straight off.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
Incredible.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Tysher, My favorite song is Rihanna Be's better have My Money.
So if you no, I'm just kidding, Okay, that would
be funny to come out of break though.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
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 (21:53):
You know.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
It's really cute about J mar two laying on what
he got, the fact that I remember from years.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
Yeah, this whole pollen fiasco he had. I still ask
him about it.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
He does.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
How's the Paul He asked me about how's the palling
going right now? I was just really sick and I
just told him told him to night right before the show.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Is like, dude, I've just had allergies.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
Now for like eight years, so 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. I
just know I'm gonna wake up with a running nose
pretty much every day.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Now, you know, it's weird.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
I get I wake up with a sore throat every
day for like six months at a time. And I'm
not sick, people, I'm not sick. I think the error
just gets drew too dry at night.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
TMI Sugar Bowl. Ole Miss has cut the lead to
twenty one to eighteen.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
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, Look, Indiana
is gonna be the greatest story. But the other greatest
story would be ole Miss winning a championship with lang
Kiff and not there because he didn't think he could
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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 (23:12):
It would be and you know, I want to get
to Alabama. But for half a second on link iffn
Is 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 kind
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of know who's coming back. And then of course it's
essentially free agency for college football.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
You're gonna see so many quarterbacks with news tomorrow. There's
gonna be all sorts of like twelve to one hits
or whatever.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
You're just gonna see.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
Quarterbacks with new destinations all over the place. It's gonna
be insane.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
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. It was a
terrible exit. 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 championship. Blah blahlah blah. Half of his staff
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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
think it's easy to root for the team round one whatever.
The portal's going to be open tomorrow, and like you
need boots on the ground in Baton Rouge. I there's
no way to know, and it's not really a topic,
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and it's there's nowhere to really take this conversation. But
I would just say I think it's easy for Lane
Kiffin to be like, oh, yeah, I'm rooting for him. Yeah,
let's see what happens at twelve oh one tonight. If
Ole Miss is hosting a Sugar Bowl Trophy and your
coaches have another week of game prep when the portal's
opened something, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
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 are moving
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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 his 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 conducive to anything.
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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.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
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 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.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
More of a cluster, not less.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
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 5 (26:15):
I do think you could basically.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Just move up the season a week, eliminate 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,
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.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
And what are the ramifications. It's like, Oh, Ohio State,
you don't ever play now.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
I mean, the title game is being played on January
the nineteenth, Folks, 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
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they're all devoted to football at that point in time.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Well, by the time.
Speaker 6 (27:25):
You get to the NFL playoffs, college needs to be
done because the attention is changed, it moves and when
if you've watched Lamar and Josh Allen, it's gonna be
hard to go watch JJ McCarthy at Michigan the next night.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
It just is it's gonna.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
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 first when I was a kid,
And it just seems like it's going later and later
and later, needlessly.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
I'll give you a perfect example, then we'll get to
MASSI 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 going to care.
What I mean by that is like one, college football
just does not need to be played in late January.
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But 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? I mean
besides we, no.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
No, no, everyone else maybe well yeah, we.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
And it's like every single year, all these leagues keep
convincing themselves like America wants more football, and it's like, 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
in the third quarter, exceed.
Speaker 6 (28:51):
That's the kind of thing I'm talking about with Kirby Smart,
he does stuff like that.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
Oh, Yeah, what was it? What game was it?
Speaker 4 (28:57):
Where it was the Old Miss game? I think if
it wasn't the Ole Miss game?
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Was it?
Speaker 4 (29:02):
LSU?
Speaker 6 (29:03):
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.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
It was a Texas game.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
They went for an that's what I believe, three times
on one drive to seal the game.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
I believe that's what it was.
Speaker 6 (29:18):
He's just he's just he's aggressive in a way that
so many guys like Ohio State would.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Love for Ryan Day to be aggressive. Sorry, that was
low hanging fruit. But it was also accurate.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Well, let's see, speaking of accurate, Gunner stocked it incomplete
down the field. But you know who's always accurate, Manzi Beligia. Oh, yes,
semi accurate. Now I'm kidding.
Speaker 8 (29:39):
Oh that's good, semibove above five hundred Yeah, above fifty percent?
How about that?
Speaker 4 (29:44):
That?
Speaker 5 (29:44):
What do we got, Monzie? Tell us what's new in
the world of sports?
Speaker 8 (29:47):
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, they'll take a couple of days.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Yeah, the Sugar Bowl.
Speaker 8 (29:55):
It's uh in its 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 twenty one to
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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 one hundred and five yards, but he
has two rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
Got rocked twice.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Yeah, it was one of those hits. I can't believe
you got up for them.
Speaker 8 (30:38):
If it would have been the NFL, that thing they
would have taken out, they would have taken them over.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
He would have been with like, no way, no way.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
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 that by the way, it looks
like he's down.
Speaker 8 (30:54):
He's he's been hit, 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
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in that second quarter 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.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
Sacks shutting down the Red Raider offense.
Speaker 8 (31:33):
So Oregon and Indiana are going to face each other
in the Peach Bowl on Friday, January ninth. A little
NFL news for you. Lamar Jackson is expected to start
for the Ravens for Sunday Night Football against the Steelers
Saints wide receiver Chris Alave sorry Bree. He is out
for the last game of the 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
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within the next month when it comes to the NBA.
Right now, the Mavericks 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. The heat
are beating, or that he beat the Pistons in Detroit
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one eighteen to one twelve, where former Clipper Norman Powell
had thirty six points.
Speaker 5 (32:22):
Back to you, guys, Monzi, thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
By the way, Monzy 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.
Speaker 8 (32:37):
He listen me too, me too, and then at the
same time next week I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
He's the greatest Clipper ever.
Speaker 8 (32:43):
He saved franchise, franchise, so let's be in eleven.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
He does seem to care more than Kawhi Leonard.
Speaker 8 (32:48):
He does seem and that's it's been crazy what he've done.
But he definitely I've definitely yelled at him, good and bad.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
Thank you man. Yes all right.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Fox Sports Radio ertors Jason Moore and in four Jason
Smith and Mike Harmon. This is the Jason Smith Show
with Mike Harmon. Will come back, Promise We'll pay off
the Alabama side of things in Pasadena. A lot of
tough questions ahead on Klen the Boar. That's next Fox Sports.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 6 (33:20):
Stepson alighting the staff gets it, lookstat Field and be
chased on the pocket.
Speaker 5 (33:28):
He's got running you RUMBI.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
He's gonna have a first down and he breaks a
town only fuddle the football to Cendiana.
Speaker 6 (33:35):
Get it, they know Isaiah.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Jones that call courtesy of Chris Stewart from lear Field.
A ty Simpson fumble leads to a touchdown before the
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Speaker 3 (34:10):
Tell you what Ja mart As I said, Indiana wins
thirty eight to three. This is the Jason Smith Show
with Mike Carmon. By the way, the guys will be
back on Monday, Aeron Taurus Jason Martin filling in.
Speaker 5 (34:21):
It was bad for Alabama and.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
This will certainly be a theme of this show over
the next three hours. But really quickly, I thought Kirk
Herbstreet during the game summed up the Alabama performance better
than anybody. Here's what Herbie said during the game.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
It feels like Alabama. It's just strange to see they're
just existing. They're just out there.
Speaker 6 (34:43):
Nobody's penetrating, nobody's playing.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
With any fire.
Speaker 6 (34:48):
They're just it's almost like they feel defeated, like there's
nothing we can do. Nobody's making an impact player, not
even trying their hands on their hips.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
They're just kind of out there.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
I don't know how you can say it any better.
Jmart Floor is yours.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Alabama thirty eight to three loss, worst postseason loss ever
for the Crimson time.
Speaker 6 (35:09):
It was thirty eight to three, and it wasn't that
Close's that's legitimately true. There were eleven guys wearing Alabama uniforms,
and the longer that game went, the less it looked
like any of them wanted to be part of that team.
Not that they were quitting on each other, they just
had enough, Like they tapped out.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
It was just over.
Speaker 6 (35:32):
And what he says, they were existing, they were, they
were on the field, they were going through the motions,
but it almost looked like spring practice or it was
just kind of like they had been demoralized. And this
is what I was talking about when I was saying
that Indiana looked so much to be like a you know,
twenty ten to twenty fifteen, Nick Saban team where they
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just demoralized the opponent, beat them in a way where
by the end it didn't even look like one team
wanted to play the sport anymore. And that's what you got.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Like it.
Speaker 6 (36:05):
It was the most bare minimum by the end of
that game. I don't think that they quit. I hate
saying that. It's more that they just they were out
ideas like eventually, you're a comedian, right, you're up there
telling jokes and you're just bombing out left and right.
The only thing that you've basically got left to do
(36:25):
other than walk off stage is start insulting people in
the front row and trying to win something back, or
at least win your own dignity back in your own mind.
Like there was just nothing left. I don't think they
had an answer in any way, shape or form for
what Indiana brought on offense or on defense. And again
(36:45):
once the fumble, when we came back and we said
that was play the day, and it was like the
game ended right there because Indiana got the ball, went
down and scored a touchdown of seventeen.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Nothing got the ball back after forcing.
Speaker 6 (36:56):
Nothing for Alabama to open the second half put up
another touchdown and beat them down like this is bad.
I'm very curious what the Alabama fan base, what their
reaction to all of this is going to be, especially
the ones in Tuscaloosa, the die hards, because we know
Caitlyn de Bor is a really good head coach, a
(37:18):
really good football coach. But I gotta say this was
about as bad as I have seen Alabama look in
my lifetime when they're supposed to be at least decent.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
The game that they.
Speaker 6 (37:31):
Lost to Florida State, we didn't watch that thing start
to finish because there were so many games going on
that day that we were trying to cover. But this
right here, Indiana was either that much They're either that
much of a juggernaut, that much of a wagon, or
Alabama is not good at all. And I just, you
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just it's unthinkable that they would get beaten this badly.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
Well, and I think it's more of the latter. By
the way, things are getting very interesting in New Orleans.
Fourth quarter has just begun Old Miss trailing twenty four
to nineteen, but they are driving Trinidad Shamblis's incredible conversion
on a first down deep in his own territory then
just threw an absolute dart to get old Miss deep
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into Georgia territory. Thirteen minutes to go, Georgia up twenty
four to nineteen, Old Miss driving. They are now in
the red zone.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
Lane Kiff.
Speaker 6 (38:27):
It's gonna show up for a distraction finish. It's gonna
show up straight up, get their attention. There's gonna be
a schoolboy roll up for the three count for Georgia.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
It's gonna be like the like when a fighter, like
when the guy that wants to fight the next guy
shows up ringside, but he you know, he claims he's
just there for whatever and he ends up whatever. But yeah,
back to back to Alabama. I'll just be quick on
this is you know, you said, you know, you tend
to wonder is this who they are? I mean, I
think it is because two games ago they did the
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same thing against Georgia. Total no show. It wasn't a
thirty one point, what was a thirty five point loss
like today, but twenty eight to seven in the SEC
championship game, barely two hundred yards of total offense, negative
three rushing yards. The stat that sticks with us from
that game. I just think that's who they are. And
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maybe we could even keep this conversation going into our two.
But I think it is a fascinating question going forward
because it is year two and there's plenty of talent
and this team wasn't even close, not just tonight but
for most of the season against the best teams they played.
Speaker 6 (39:35):
I mean, what was the big the biggest question that
I saw in a lot of the threads and the
forums and things like that around the time that the
quarterback change was made because the injury is where is
ty Simpson gonna play next year?
Speaker 7 (39:47):
Mm?
Speaker 6 (39:48):
Like he needs to get into the portal, he can't
possibly go into the draft, but he can't be at
Alabama next year either.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
Like that's how bad this was.
Speaker 6 (39:58):
This is a dude that, like what we five week
six people are talking about in the top two or
three in the Heisman voting. You get to the end
of the season and people are saying he can't possibly
be the quarterback at Alabama next year because of how
bad Indiana made him look.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
We'll tell you what ole Miss is making Georgia look
not too good right now. A Keewan Lacy touchdown run
has given ole Miss a twenty five twenty four lead,
eleven twenty nine left in the fourth quarter, extra point pending.
I assumed they would go for two here to make
it a three point game. Going up two basically does
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nothing for you.
Speaker 5 (40:35):
We'll come back. We'll keep you updated on what's going
on in New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
We'll continue the Alabama conversation, talk Miami, Ohio State, so
much college football.
Speaker 5 (40:42):
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