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look at the big weekend in college with both Pete
Futech coming up in about twenty minutes telling you arch
Manning if arch Man if he doesn't come through this week,
Steve O, I mean that's it, man like, It's like

(01:11):
it's like all of college football, is that hey, because
you're arch Manning right, your royal.

Speaker 4 (01:16):
Name for starter, it's not just that he was a
great recruit.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yeah, we're gonna give you three weeks to get it
going right. We're gonna lay off you after this Ohio
State game. We're gonna give you three We invested a
lot of time and attention into you, but we're gonna
give you these three weeks because no one's gonna care.
But when that Florida game comes up beginning of October,
you got to show us something.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
You really got to show it.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Because now for now I'm saying to myself right now,
I would say always absolutely coming back to Texas next
years because you've seen so many of the quarterbacks that
have bypassed him already. You're you're talking about Leonora Sellars
and Garrett nuts Meyer at the top of the draft.
Even Matier, although the injury to Materir might hold him
back a little bit.

Speaker 4 (01:54):
Ironically, Oklahoma against Texas in a week.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Yeah, yeah, and look at material know the number, right,
he'll know he'll Noah, you know you want to talk
about the number. Sorry, that's an August joke. But like
you've seen these guys have already bypassed him. We're not
talking about oh, arch Manning overall number one pick and
what we would normally be saying about him.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
Now.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
So when when when Archie Manning said in the pre oh,
yeahll go be going back next year. We're going back
next year. Like you wonder, what did was he thinking
this was going to happen?

Speaker 3 (02:22):
Did he know? Was he?

Speaker 1 (02:24):
But clearly right now I would say, oh, ye, one
hundred percent. And if he goes back to Texas, that's
bad for him, right, it's it's bad for him going
back text because of the the hype and where we
thought he was going to be.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
But now I tell you he's got to come through tomorrow, man,
Like this is this is it for arch Manning.

Speaker 4 (02:41):
And at the moment, Texas is ranked in the top ten,
Oklahoma is ranked in the top ten. Now, Oklahoma's tune
up for the Texas game the next weekend is hosting
Kent State tomorrow afternoon. So it's that Texas plays a
conference game at Florida tomorrow afternoon. But as we've discussed,
Florida really should be winless this year. I'm not saying

(03:02):
that Texas is automatically going to roll. I don't think
we've even thought that, but it is a conference game
on the road, and you always have to be warey
of those.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Hey, look, they've played these other top ten teams somewhat close, right,
Like LSU was a close game and Miami was close
to ish.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
You know what Miami last week? Look and I'll tell.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
You scored a couple of times late Miami.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
I am all in on Miami going unbeaten at this point, right,
this is they are better than they were in twenty
twenty four. The offensive line is making Carson Beck into
a Heisman finalist. This is the best Miami team in
well over a decade.

Speaker 4 (03:37):
Like, so you're already saying Miami's winning at Florida State tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
Oh oh yeah, yeah, I'm already. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
Florida State is kind of back. They're not as back
as we thought they were when they beat Alabama. But
this Miami team, they are just Carson Beck is the
perfect guy to slide in here, you know, coming off
the cam Ward year where he's a number one pick
in the draft. But it was disappointing at the end.
They get blown out by Syracuse. They don't make it
into the playoff. But you know, getting Carson beckat guy
who's been through it, who is not who has not

(04:04):
only been able to put points on the board, dynamic,
being a leader, been through the big games.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
This was a.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
Perfect segue to get from what do we do after
cam Ward? Here they are now and this team is
absolutely loaded at the end of the season. It's hard
for me to find a loss for them in the
ACC at this point.

Speaker 4 (04:21):
Well, they do have to play at SMU. And remember,
even with cam Ward, they had that late Saturday night
game at Cal conference game. Now that's considerably more travel
than SMU, but you know, it's more travel than you're
used to in that league with these teams Cal, Stanford
at SMU joining the conference, so there might be something
a little crazy, and we don't know what time that

(04:42):
of course, it's college football. We don't know what time
of day that game will be. What if it's a
late night game and crazy things happen at SMU and
they're overlooking We're.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
Gonna screw Miami and put them on late at night.
What do we do to them? It's almost like, well,
they had the.

Speaker 4 (04:56):
Heisman winner on it ten forty five in the evening
a year ago in one of these situations and he
almost lost.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
It's almost like what college football used to do to
USC in the heyday, right when in the in the
in the aughts, when when they first became the dynasty,
when it was Carson Palmer into Matt Lioner and all
this stuff. They would always put USC on like a
on a Thursday night either at Oregon at Oregon State

(05:26):
or at Washington or at Washington State, and the place
was absolutely bananas, and they would wind up in a
tough game that they would had probably about a fifty
percent win percent of John to b boy, look at this,
they lose this game.

Speaker 4 (05:38):
Like back or else, you know, Mark Sanchez, John.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
David Like, they would do that to USC all the time.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
We're going to give you a Thursday night game at
Washington State at Oregon State and they would lose and
it would be what a huge debt in their national
championship plans.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
But just they would do that to USC all the.

Speaker 4 (05:57):
Time, just because you have the talent on your team.
The amount of late night starts that Travis hunter Head
or the I mentioned cam Ward as well, this does
happen and then screwy things can happen the more college
football evolves, and that includes trips that people aren't used to.
I mean, let's state the obvious. There are teams, even

(06:20):
the NFC East is a good example that genuinely don't
travel much at all for an entire season. And then
there's the Seahawks or the Chargers or the Niners that
do nothing but travel back and forth, up and down
all over and sometimes internationally. It doesn't get talked about enough.
It's not at all an even playing field as far

(06:41):
as the geography for some of the teams. But that's
just what you sign up for.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
Yeah, no, those are the teams like well you can
see the movie up in the air and like Clooney
is such a master of traveling, Like they make a
move through the airport just like it's so smooth. But
like Anna Kendrick and everybody else is getting stopped and
here they're dropping things that those are the teams, like
all the teams that traveled, like the Niners everything.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
Yeah, we're all good.

Speaker 4 (07:03):
Yeah we did this is and they've done that to us.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
We've done that. We're cloning up in the air. Everybody
else is Anna Kendrick.

Speaker 4 (07:09):
So as far as travel from Miami. Yes, it's the long,
long travel to Florida State for the Saturday night game,
but they are going to have to travel to SMU
and aside from that, they don't have a tough road
game on the entire schedule of twenty twenty five.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
So I'm all in on Miami going unbeaten. Now you
mentioned travel, Oh yeah, We'll lot more college football coming
up in a few minutes, but.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
We're going to talk about the Jets. Big foot put
I said college football. I don't say. I didn't say
semi pro football. I said college When you said.

Speaker 4 (07:38):
Talking about travel, I thought you were going back to
the Lakers exhibition today.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
Solid it's been the one of the big stories of
the day.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
Look in the NFL, one quarterback coming back, one quarterback out,
Lamar Jackson out for the Ravens, But the Commanders are
getting Jade and Daniels back for their game against the Chargers,
and it's it's.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
A huge deal.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
Look, the Commanders were able to survive for the last
couple of weeks without Jayden Daniels, and that's great. You know,
sitting at two and two, they're absolutely fine the Charger
at three and one. You know, I picked them go
to the AFC Championship game. Disappointing loss last week in
New York, but they still start out three and one.
It's a game on the East Coast at one o'clock.
And look, those West Coast teams never traveled. Not an

(08:23):
excuse the West Coast teams. Yeah, it's you know, it's
it's I've seen this. You know, I've seen this overall.
It's not an excuse, but I've seen it so many times.
The Chargers weren't nearly as sharp.

Speaker 3 (08:33):
As it needed to be.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
But this game that this tells me, like you want
to tek aup a couple of games here to spotlight
the one concern I have about the Chargers, right, because
it's this loss of the Giant's not that big a deal, right,
but how they lost, because what worries me so much
is that Jim Harbaugh has built this team from the
offensive line out and you're seeing all the effects of this.

(08:54):
Amarion Hampton, they have not missed Naji Harris. He's been
everything they expect and be since they draft him. Justin
Herbert playing at a at a Pro Bowl, all Pro
caliber level the first month of the season. But now
you had the big injury to Slater. Now Alt is hurt,
and you saw last week the Giants defensive line was
able to run the game because the Giants defensive line

(09:16):
is really good, right.

Speaker 4 (09:17):
And we don't know yet if gard McKay becked in
his back from concussion, it might be three linemen out
for the Jet I.

Speaker 3 (09:22):
Mean, you know him missing like he turned.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
He went from Jets buss Toto super Bowl champion and
now he's you know, rewriting his legacy in the NFL.
But that's the one thing that really concerns me about
the chart, the only question I have. Everything else is good.
Their defense is great, They have all the weapons they need.
Quinton Johnson is turning into a star. You could throw
the football, little mortal lad McConkie, don't be afraid, justin
Herbert throw the ball Labconky a little bit more. But

(09:44):
that's the only thing that can derail their season is
if suddenly offensive line wise, they're banged up. Because as
you've seen, you can cover a little bit on the
offensive line you get an injury or so, but once
you get into two and three injuries, no team can
do it. Right, they missed Slater, didn't matter right slater
as good as he is, Look how well they were
still able to play. But now you're into another offensive

(10:05):
lineman potentially too. And you saw what happened to the Chargers
last week. That's my only concern about them this year
is can their offensive line stay up and stay healthy.
If it is, Charger are gonna roll. If not, boy,
every week is gonna be like the Giants last week.

Speaker 4 (10:20):
The good news for the Chargers is generally on the offense,
they have more weapons this year, and also now they're
playing a Washington Commander's defense that's the worst in the
league so far at allowing big plays chunk yardage, So
the Chargers have a potential of feasting on that in
their home game against Washington this Sunday. But with the
quarterback Daniels coming back, and more importantly to me, yes,

(10:44):
he's playing with a brace on his knee. They say
it's not gonna affect his mobility. He practiced fully all
week long. This is not some game time decision, and
he's gonna give it a shot. The guy is back.
He's also from southern California, by the way, I'm sure
he is really looking forward to this game, and he
had almost seventy yards rushing in the season opener this year,

(11:05):
the Chargers allowed just from the first drive you could
see the Chargers could not stop the running quarterback last
week when it was the Jackson Dart debut. That's gonna
be a key for the Chargers because that's the weapon
for this offense. And Jayden Daniels, as bad as they've had,
you know, the Eckler injury for example, he's not playing
against the Chargers with his injury.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
So Chargers command again. The only thing that concerns me
about the Charges their offensive line.

Speaker 4 (11:32):
Yeah, and Herbert's been hit a lot the.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
Less, Yes, he has been hit a lot. Y know,
that's the reason. Because Herbert's been hit a lot. The
big game of the week Sunday Night on National TV NBC,
we get the Patriots and the Bills, and sure this
game looked a little bit more interesting.

Speaker 4 (11:45):
Nobody asked for this, by the way, no one, No
one did.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
But I got to be honest, Steve.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
You look at the Bills and if they lose more
than two games this year, that's disappointing at this point
because this schedule for them, we thought it was a
little light when the season before the season started.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
As the season goes.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
On, now it is incredibly light. Right, you look at
the schedule of New England at home. That should be
a win. At Atlanta, that should be a win. At Carolina,
they get the Chiefs, but they get the Chiefs at home.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
They have Tampa Bay. They get Tampa Bay at home.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
Right, Suddenly Houston is no good. Right, they're struggling. They
get to play Houston. The Bengals are no good with
Joe Burrow being out. Then they end the season New England, Cleveland, Philadelphia.
They get Philadelphia at home. Their three toughest games are
all at home. They should win at least two of
those games. If they lose more than two games, that's disappointing.
The road to the AFC to the Super Bowl should

(12:43):
be through Buffalo. You got to play them on the
road to get there. Because this schedule, it was light
early on, and now with these way the teams have
unfolded over the course of the season. Look, Kansas City
has problems too, Like even the nobody's unbeatable. They should
be favored in every game they play the rest of
the way.

Speaker 4 (13:02):
So it's possible that the last game ever played at
the current Buffalo Bills Stadium is the AFC Championship Game,
also as their schedule. As we run down the schedule,
they also got the Ravens on opening date. And it
turns out it's a year where the Ravens have no
defense and the Bills are in a division where there's

(13:23):
no competition. Let's be on no.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
I mean really, I mean this date, they should have
this thing clinched by. I don't want to like if
I say they have a clinch by Thanksgiving, that might
be a little uh, that might be a little too generous.
They might have a clinch by like like All Saints Day, Right,
they have a clinch I want to say Halloween. But
in the money, that may have no Remember a month,
I mean they might have like a five game lead

(13:46):
in a month on this right, because they're four and
zero right now. And look, the Miami Dolphins are terrible.
They won their first game last week. The Chests are bad.
That the Patriots are two and if they.

Speaker 4 (13:56):
Beat yeah, they're gonna Jets. The Patriots gonna be losing
after Sunday night. We think it's a three game.

Speaker 1 (14:02):
Lead already for the Bills and we're in the first
week of October. Right if they as long as they
beat the Patriots on Sunday like that, that's how dominant a.

Speaker 3 (14:10):
Year they're having in the AFC East. Unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
Two games, more than two games, that's this one. Maybe
one game might be this way. You lose more than
one game, it's disappointment for Jason.

Speaker 4 (14:19):
Keep keep my team's name out your mouth.

Speaker 3 (14:22):
Hey, you just tell Herbert to keep throwing a lad
of macacky.

Speaker 4 (14:24):
Okay, I need to tell her nothing other than keep
up the great That'll be fine as long as the
teammate stops knocking him down.

Speaker 3 (14:31):
Exit up out a fresco.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
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Speaker 1 (15:34):
Radio, The Jason Smith Show with Steve de Sager in
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(15:54):
one stop shopping for everything college football, all the picks,
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what's happening, man, I'm.

Speaker 6 (16:15):
Witnessing the greatest show on turf here with San Diego State.
It was like my call of the week with that
San Diego State. Colorado State was going to go under
the forty one and they're at like ninety five and
like our first half or something like that. Don't even
know anymore. No, it's going good. It's lovely down here,
and I like being on your Pacific time zone. It's
more fun.

Speaker 3 (16:34):
Say why are you there this week?

Speaker 6 (16:37):
Kids in college and parents weekend? And she's a senior.
I've never come out here for it. So I'm out
here among the pretty and beautiful people of San Diego
for the weekend.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
Oh nice, Oh very good. And you're getting to see
a big win. They're up big over Colorado State. It's
a win win situation for you.

Speaker 6 (16:54):
Yes, my hard earned money going towards hopefully like a
pick in the second half or some more of a
production from this.

Speaker 4 (17:00):
Yeah, over three hundred yards for the Aztecs first time.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
I'll tell you what.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
You're gonna love waking up at eight thirty tomorrow to
watch Wisconsin Michigan.

Speaker 3 (17:11):
You're gonna love that.

Speaker 6 (17:13):
That's the best, absolutely the best. My honeymoon in Hawaii,
I think, Thank Don mcdavidy Eagles were going off at
like five in the morning or something like that, and
an AFC championship kids, I get so much fard of
the East coast. The specific time zone is just just
great for sports.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
I just move out here except.

Speaker 4 (17:31):
In the London games. But we'll move on.

Speaker 3 (17:33):
Yeah, that that happened exactly all right. Now, one of
the big games of the week, Steve, we talked about.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
Look, arch Manning has to show us something tomorrow against Florida. Right,
it's a bad Florida team, but he's had three weeks,
he's had three bye weeks to figure out. It's still
Florida on the road. If he doesn't show us anything tomorrow,
I don't know that I can expect anything from the
rest of the season.

Speaker 6 (17:57):
It's my call of the off season. I had two
big calls of the offseason. One of them actually came
true is that Mississippi State was going to beat Arizona State.
This never works. But the other one was Florida was
gonna win this game. It just seemed like one of
those moments where we saw a couple of years ago
against Tennessee. We thought late last year against LSU where
every once in a while in the swamp Billy Napier's

(18:20):
Gators ended up rising up and rocking on defense. And
we still don't know what this This Texas team really is.
I mean they at the one game at the House
State where okay, the defensive great, but they don't really
played anybody else's notes. I think this is one of
those games where I'm sure, look, Stark is gonna be fine,

(18:41):
he's gonna be a good quarterback, he's gonna be the
number one overall pick whenever and all that. But you're right,
it hasn't quite happened yet. And this is one of
those games against the you know, for all the problems
that Florida's had this year, that defense is fantastic. I
think it's one of those games that Texas has the
problems with Pete.

Speaker 4 (18:58):
As far as Alabama, they lost Vanderbilt last year. Bama
is hosting him this time. That's tomorrow. The quote that
jumped out at me from the Vanderbilt quarterback, Diego Pavia,
if we play our game Saturday, it won't be close.
End quote. Vanderbilt is a deserved underdog in this game
in Tuscaloosa tomorrow, are they not.

Speaker 6 (19:17):
Yeah, Actually, he got his last name wrong. It's Diego Manzel.
That's that's what he is, exact type of player. And
if I look, if he if he's right, and they
win this in rock heisan race kind of over right,
I mean, because there's no one else out there, and
Pavia has been great so far and Vanderbilt and he's

(19:39):
doing great things with it. But look, I I we
always kind of you know, put you know, thoughts and
ideas in the head, like, well, Alabama is going to
care about this one because the last year and this
is going to be one of those games and all
that kind of stuff. Yeah, from what I'm hearing, this
is one of those things they are so sick of
hearing about Diego Pavia. They are so sick of that

(20:01):
loss last year. I think this is one of those
games where they just come out and thunder dunk on them.
I'm just like, okay, yeah, this is cute and Noll,
you're good in all Vanderbilt, but Bama's you know, Bama,
and I think this is one of those games that
they're going to come up and do something special.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
All right, Pete, how many points would you have to
get to take UCLA over Penn State like sprints twenty
four and a half. If you said fifty, maybe I'll
take forty. I'm still taking Penn State fifty maybe, but
forty I'm still taking Penn State.

Speaker 6 (20:33):
Well, the thing about UCLA there's there's sort of scoring
a little bit. They just don't seem to have all
the parts there. So I mean, you're right. I mean,
if you're telling me right now, I'm getting off the
bus up forty eight and a half to nothing. Yeah, probably,
you know, go for something like that. It's so bad,
I mean you And the problem is also their schedule.
Look at who UCLA has left. They're going on twelve.

(20:56):
I mean, there's if it's not there's some massive upset
along the way because they're going to be double digit
underdogs the rest of the way. And I'll throw another
one at you and you kind of brought up earlier.
Find me the Wisconsin win the rest of the season
and show me how without a massive weird twist and
something crazy going with this this Luke Pickle offense. Find

(21:20):
me where that wins coming. Ain't coming tomorrow, Michigan. Let's
Michigan decide to turn it over eight times.

Speaker 4 (21:25):
Actually, I think that's two great examples for my next question.

Speaker 1 (21:29):
U c.

Speaker 4 (21:29):
L A program Wisconsin program. Is college football starting to
pass by some of the teams that you speak competitive?
Things are so different in the world of college football.

Speaker 6 (21:41):
There's there's a bunch of different factors that play at
both of them. One UCLA for some reason, and this
is the program of John Wooden, you know, and Sam Gilbert. Okay,
you know they can't figure out Nil really, you know
u c l A. You know, they give all the
money to the NICO. They just don't have any other
parts with them. And their schedule is brutal. Wisconsin, it

(22:03):
just isn't working. And their schedule is brutal. So like
if you're a team like Cal or a team like
look at why Virginia has left to play, you could
tell if you get Wisconsin col schedule, you could see
how they're probably going seven and five or eight to
four even. I mean, but when you've got this brutal
swait and this is the new world to college football,

(22:24):
where some teams play the good team, some teams miss them.
And that's really it's just a perfect storm for teams
like this. But except for UCLA, who's just flat out that.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
You know, it's funny you say that Pete to go
back to Florida and Texas for a second. I mean,
I don't know if the team has had a harder
month schedule that I can ever remember than what Florida's
got right now that they're in the middle of number three, LSU,
number four, Miami number nine, Texas number six, Texas A

(22:54):
and M four top ten teams in a month. I
don't know anybody that's you probably gotta go back to
the forties when it was Army playing Navy and then
playing Columbia and then playing California Institute Technology. Like, I
don't know about a tougher run than Florida's got right now.

Speaker 6 (23:10):
Yeah, take a look at what Oklahoma's got coming up.
And here's another kind of funky twist. I think I
got this right, where I don't think Texas University of
Texas the biggest athletic department in the country. It's Texas Football,
not Texas State, Texas Antonio University of Texas, I don't
think has a home game for like five weeks in

(23:31):
a row in the middle of the season starting tomorrow.
I think I have that right. It's close to that.
But like, it's crazy how these schedules are being set
up with so many teams, especially in the SEC, who
just have these brutal, unmanageable suits where you're looking at them.
Unless you're something truly special, there's no way you're going
to the college football playoffs. You're gonna have at least

(23:52):
two losses coming out of these stretches. So it's gonna
be tough for both these teams.

Speaker 4 (23:57):
What about a matchup that Jason brought up earlier this
evening with Clemson at North Carolina because realistically, as two
winless cod so far this year, Carolina had two cupcakes
and Clemson beat Troy, essentially winsless as they go into
the game at Chapel Hill.

Speaker 6 (24:15):
Tomorrow, I'm gonna harp on this again. Schedule, schedule, schedules.
I believe I came on this show, oh about a
few months ago and I was asked the question, who's
that sleeper team out there? And I think I said
the Belichick because look at that schedule for North Carolina.
There's this game against Clemson and nothing else. And I

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honestly said that that's the thing we would be talking
him in November about a oh wow, look at you
got a you know, one lock North Carolina team only
because of the schedule they're bad and so kind of
like I said before, where about Alabama's kind of like Okay,
enough of this. I think you're gonna get that with
Clemson tomorrow, and they with a week off, they're gonna

(24:59):
be like, Okay, they just need a tweak, They just
need something positive to go their way, and then everything
starts to rock. I think that starts to happen to
Marva Clemson.

Speaker 1 (25:08):
College Footballnews dot COM's Pete fu Tech our guest Jason Smith,
Steve de seger in from Mike Carmon. All Right, big
marquee game of the day. We got Miami in Florida State.
Not quite as marquee as it was after Week one
when Florida State played you know, beat outbat But okay,
but Pete, at this point, I am kind of all
in on Miami going undefeated.

Speaker 3 (25:27):
I mean, really, I don't know where the loss is.

Speaker 1 (25:30):
This is the best Miami team so far that I
have seen in years, and I don't know where the
l is for them.

Speaker 6 (25:36):
I want to see if Look as I'm sitting here
on a Friday night, Friday night games are weird. It's
just they throw teams off their schedule. Nothing's quite right.
That certainly happened with Florida State last week. They couldn't
tackle a Lick. So if they couldn't tackle Virginia, God
bless you against an NFL offensive line like Miami has.

(25:58):
Now it's Mario Cristobal, So there's gonna be a fifth.
It's you know what, when there was always when at
Oregon there is always that November Arizona game, and he
was like three years in a row where it was
like Arizona or Arizona State where they kept whiffing. And
so there's it's like at SMU or some there's gonna

(26:18):
be some place that they're gonna make a mistake. But
you're right, they're gonna be eleven and one. I think
they win the ACC Championship, and I do think they're
a top four team if they show it tomorrow. I mean,
who knows. Maybe if Friday night think was a blip
for Florida State and their fact that we have the
team that played like they did against Alabama, I don't think.
So I think Miami comes back going because I'm with you,

(26:39):
I think, And I also keep thinking Carson Beck is crossed.
Possibly the most underappreciated player in the country. He's not
winning the Heisman. He might be the number one overall
pick next year.

Speaker 4 (26:48):
Ohio State is number one in the country. After the
game against Minnesota Saturday night, they have the big noon
kickoff in a week at Illinois, and Ohio State still
last to play Penn State. Do you believe in this
offense and this team yet for Ohio State?

Speaker 6 (27:03):
Kind of hard, I mean, but maybe not. But even
if you don't, this defense is shocking. I mean, it's
unbelievably good considering all the talent that has to play,
had to replace. Last year's team had so much there
and now this year, look at the red zone scoring
percentage for defense. You have three teams that are under

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sixty percent, you know, so everyone else is giving up
sixty point sixty the more Ohio State than twenty eight percent.
Ohio State's not giving up anything in the red zone
and they're going to go. If they keep Minnesota under
ten points, it'll be the first time since like nineteen
seventy ish something that they've gone to this program has

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gone four straight games in a row without allowing that
many points a row. So this defense has been, at
least for the last thirty years historically great and I
think that's it's going to keep carrying them. The offense
is just gonna be good enough to get by, all.

Speaker 3 (28:01):
Right, Pete.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
So lastly, we don't have a lot of big top
twenty five games tomorrow. Can you spot a big upset
you wouldn't be surprised to see whether it's a top ten,
top fifteen team, you got a big upset for tomorrow,
you wouldn't.

Speaker 6 (28:13):
Be surprised that I'm gonna stick with it. I mean,
I'm all late at this point. I just kind of
think that Texas. You're right, we haven't seen anything about
Ohio State yet except they played Texas. We haven't seen
anything in Texas except they weren't awful defensively against Ohio State.
I'm not buying in Texas. I just think this is

(28:33):
one of those that they're gonna, you know, come up
and neither either they show out tomorrow and they like yeah,
or Texas, where really are that good? But again, I'm
gonna say at home that billion naper defense desperation. No
one's thinking they're gonna do anything. They're they've been keeping
teams close, and I think they're gonna do something pretty
good tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (28:51):
Last question for me is about Notre Dame. After the
zero and two start, they were still ranked do you
expect them after that start to win ten in a
row and beat you? I see and Notre Dames just fine?

Speaker 6 (29:02):
Oh yeah, I said it at the time. And not
only not only they lose those two games, they lost
to that Miami team. Like we said, it's probably going
to be in the a SEC Championship, almost certainly in
the college football playoffs, and that was a close game
that came down to the final seconds Texas A and
m there but for a miss snap and a fourth
down stop they get that one. So those are about
as acceptable as those losses that get and ten wins

(29:25):
in a row. Yes, Notre Dame's absolutely in the college
football playoff and I don't think it's closed. I think
they're going to be that This offense is unstoppable.

Speaker 3 (29:34):
CJ.

Speaker 6 (29:34):
Carr is being talked about now is a potential top
five overall pick someday. That running back Candeon of Cadarium
Price and to Jeremiah Love the best of the country.
I think they cruised at ten and two and I
think they are waltz right into the college football playoffs.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
He's on Twitter at Pete feu Tech.

Speaker 1 (29:50):
That's at Pete few Tech at College Footballnews dot com
as the website or at snap Dragon Stadium for the
second half of what is going to be the over
hitting for San Diego State again. The big upsets for
Pete Florida over Texas and U s LA on the
field over Penn State.

Speaker 3 (30:07):
Okay, well, the first.

Speaker 6 (30:09):
Weave Andy under in this San Diego State Colorado State game.
It's not even gonna come close.

Speaker 1 (30:15):
Yeah, Pete, enjoy the game, enjoyed parents weekend.

Speaker 3 (30:19):
We'll talk to you next week pretty much. All right?

Speaker 1 (30:23):
Who there he is, Steve o all In on Florida
pulling the upset over Texas.

Speaker 4 (30:28):
Tomorrow conference road games.

Speaker 3 (30:30):
Oh man, if that happens, I mean you for really.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
Arch Manning may as well announced after I'm coming back
to school again.

Speaker 4 (30:37):
If that happens. Also, people are saying, wait, we don't
have to know what the coaches buy out is here
in Florida.

Speaker 1 (30:43):
No, yeah, yeah, or or Texas or Texas saying yeah,
it's great you're coming back here. Arch But man, we
gave you a lot of money and we didn't expect this.
So maybe we get somebody else. Maybe maybe Archie gonna play,
Maybe you go play at Penn State next year. They
go for Drew Aller, You're gonna go back to Penn State.

Speaker 4 (30:56):
Well, let's get to the college football scoreboard show. Wait
because that game San Diego State Mountain West Conference opener
is early in the third quarter with the Aztecs leading
Colorado State twenty eight to ten. There's a Mountain West
opener on FS one right now that is through three quarters.
San Jose State now leads thirty five seventeen over New Mexico. Earlier,
Western Kentucky went to five and one undefeated in Conference

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USA after winning at Delaware twenty seven to twenty four
and South Florida one. It's American Conference opener fifty four
twenty six against Charlotte. USF is four and one BYU,
ranked twenty third in the country, is leading at home
twenty eight ten against West Virginia early in the third quarter.
Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson is out this weekend with a

(31:41):
hamstring injury, so Cooper Rush will make his first start
for the Ravens, a team that's one in three. Baltimore
will be missing three other Pro bowlers from last year.
Linebacker Roquan Smith bad hamstring, defensive back Marlon Humphrey calf
injury and fullback Patrick Ricard calf injury. Former Ravens defensive
tackle Arthur Joe died at the age of thirty nine.

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Washington quarterback Jaden Daniels return Sunday at the Chargers after
a sprain knee. He practiced fully all week. Butt wide
receiver Terry McLaurin is out with his quad. Entry Jets
running back Braylan Allen will miss two to three months
with a sprain knee. Game one of the WNBA Finals
was in Las Vegas tonight. The home team edge Phoenix
eighty nine eighty six Asia Wilson twenty one points. Game

(32:23):
two is Sunday afternoon. As for Baseball's news, no games tonight,
but the Texas Rangers hired Skip Schumacher as manager. He
was NL Manager of the Year with the Marlins a
couple of years ago. Last year an advisor for the
Texas team from the Rangers, he gets a four year contract.
Baseball's Divisional series all start on Saturday, including Yankees at

(32:43):
Toronto on Fox TV four pm Eastern time. Game two
of the best of five will be Sunday afternoon on
FS one. Blue Jay's pitcher Kevin Gossman will start Game
one against the Yanks, and pitcher Luis Hill and Will
Warren of New York will be in the bullpen. Max
Freed will start Game two for the Yankees on Sunday.
Blue Jays and Yankees tied for first in the al

(33:05):
Lease this year, but Toronto held the tiebreakers, so it
got the previous round off and it are in the
top seed in the al SO Games one and two
this weekend in Toronto.

Speaker 3 (33:14):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O. The Jason Smith Show.

Speaker 1 (33:17):
Steve de Sager in for Mike Harmon tonight. We got
more football coming up in a bit. But straight ahead,
you want a big, bold prediction coming off of the
game of the night and the most controversial moment of
the night, We got that for you. Next right here,
Jason Smith, Steve de Sager in for Mike Harmon. This
is Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 4 (33:36):
Was it the Phoenix Suns pretending this was their NBA Finals?

Speaker 1 (33:40):
Hey, they played it like at Frostburg. Get ready, get
ready for them to win thirty eight games this year.

Speaker 4 (33:45):
It was a statement.

Speaker 2 (33:49):
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Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
pm Pacific Fox.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with ah my best
friend Mike Harmon Special delivery Steve to say you're in
for Harmon Tonight. We get back to our football Friday
weekly NFL previews coming up in about ten minutes. But
look at a night where there was no baseball and
I miss not having baseball tonight. Yeah, I mean I
thought I would be okay with having a day off, Steve,

(34:19):
But I really missed the game. I missed the intensity,
I missed the anxiety. Even though my team is not playing,
I just missed that right I could have had.

Speaker 4 (34:26):
And people need to be aware of the schedule this weekend.
They are splitting up games one and two in the
two National League Series. You're playing Saturday, but you're not
playing Sunday. You're just staying in town and your game
two will be Monday. If you're gonna split it up,
you could have had openers tonight in the National League
Division Series.

Speaker 1 (34:46):
Yeah, I really really, No baseball game should be played
on Sunday. That doesn't mean you want people to watch you.
You can't play games on Sunday dur at football. But
look the big game tonight, right, This gave the spotlight
to the eighth Sunday Night.

Speaker 4 (34:58):
I mean it's the Patriots Sunday Night.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
Okay, well it is, yeah, but it's still football on
the air.

Speaker 1 (35:03):
Choose that the Aces of the Mercury game one of
the w NBA Finals and the Aces win it eighty
nine eighty six, right. Alissa Thomas of the Mercury misses
two free throws with fifteen seconds left. The Aces are
able to hold on to win, and they take a
one nothing lead in the WNBA Finals.

Speaker 4 (35:20):
And she had five turnovers as well.

Speaker 1 (35:22):
Yes, a really really rough night, rough night for Lyssa
Thomas and the Mercury, and they still almost won. So
I guess you look last half empta this bad. We
still almost pulled off the victory, but still you're down
one zip.

Speaker 4 (35:33):
But Las Vegas has seemingly won every game for a
couple of I know, they had to go to overtime
to the last round to barely get in here, but
they've piled up win.

Speaker 3 (35:41):
After one game since July Steve.

Speaker 4 (35:44):
That's just still a little bit that. Yeah, But the.

Speaker 1 (35:47):
Backdrop to this game is what is really more interesting.
Because the much maligned Commissioner Kathy Engelbert spoke for the
first time since earlier this week when WNBA starting a FISA,
Colla spoke for four minutes and really I think turned
the direction of a league in which she talked about
how unhappy she was with the leadership with the CBA

(36:09):
coming up with how games are officiated. You've seeing coaches
getting suspended because of bad calls and all kinds of
things happening. Nobody likes the officiating. And she even went
out to call out commissioner Kathy Engelbert by name, recounting
conversation sehid she said she had with Engelbert about Kaitlyn
Clark should feel she's lucky she's in the league. Without

(36:30):
the WNBA, she wouldn't get all that money, and that
all the players should be thanking Kathy Engelbert for the
latest rights deal that she got them. Media wise, since
this happened a few days ago, basically every WNBA star
has come out in support of Nofisa Collier, Caitlyn Clark
being the latest to do so in a podcast yesterday. Now,

(36:52):
I said this in the beginning when this came up Monday,
I said, this is it. Kathy Engelbert has to resign
or they're going to fire her, because clearly there's no
confidence in her. She gave a press conference today said hey,
I know I need to do better. She said that,
you know, yes, the CBA coming up, she understands concerns,
She's got to do better. She was disappointed about in
the FISA Collier's comments, but said I don't remember saying

(37:15):
anything to her about Caitlin Clark feeling lucky she should
be in the league. Now here's the thing right to
push this forward a bit. I don't know how you
go forward with someone a commissioner that the players who
are extremely powerful don't have any confidence.

Speaker 4 (37:30):
In when you have to negotiate with said players because
it was their union that opted out of the current deal.
And so this CBA that you mentioned expires at the
end of this month.

Speaker 1 (37:40):
Yeah, look, now I have a great, big solution for you.
It's going to be awesome. But you can see that
she's not going to be able to stay.

Speaker 3 (37:46):
Now. It's going to take the owners.

Speaker 1 (37:48):
It's going to take the NBA, who owns a good
part of the league, to say, okay, yes we need
a change at someone who is who is the commissioner
of the league with knowing all of this and noing
not the players are unhappy. I'm gonna give you this,
Steve O. Magic Johnson, WNBA commissioner. You talk about the

(38:09):
one guy in the world that can service every single
need that everybody has the WNBA. It's Magic Johnson. It's
star power. Magic Johnson come to the WNBA. It's someone
who has the cachet with the players, who's incredibly savvy
business wise, right, because that's Kathy Engelbert's CEO business but

(38:31):
no background in the game. But Magic's got the background
in the game. He's got the respect. You've seen the
business success. He's been an owner with the Sparks for
a long time, right, He's in with the league.

Speaker 3 (38:42):
He knows the other owners.

Speaker 1 (38:43):
Obviously, he'd have to give up whatever he needed to
give up to be commissioner. But if the WNBA says,
come beyr commissioner, I'm pretty sure Magic Johnson would do that.
You talk about someone that the NBA would have to
be okay with running things and being the commissioner. Magic
Johnson checks every box as to what the WNBA needs
to be their next leader. That everybody's going to have

(39:05):
confidence in that. Everybody feels like they can talk to
that everybody feels like they have a relationship with There's
nobody else can do that. There's there's other people that heay,
would the players love a former player coming in? Beca absolutely?
But are the owners going to like that? Is that
going to get a proof? If Magic Johnson comes in,
he's the guy. He again, every single box that has
checked it's Magic. It would be a It would be

(39:27):
a huge boon to the league. And again, the league
is different now than it was ten years ago. Right,
it's different things. It's now Magic with the business acumen,
the everything. There's nothing he does, there's no box he
doesn't check for this.

Speaker 4 (39:38):
And then he gets to buy the Connecticut team and
problem solved. Everybody is happy. Let's move on, people and
just sign on the dotted line. One thing I hated
about the commissioner's comments, and you know they were not
one hundred percent well received. Let's just say that awkward.

Speaker 3 (39:55):
They were really awkward.

Speaker 4 (39:57):
Instead, she said, there's a lot of inaccuracy out there
social media and all of this reporting. The press conference
you're referring to was televised. What are you talking about
this reporting? Stop bringing reporters into address a person by name,
address a sentence that was said, give a clear answer

(40:17):
and stop being evasive.

Speaker 3 (40:19):
Yeah, you know. And here's the thing.

Speaker 1 (40:21):
She says, No, I didn't recall saying that about Caitlyn,
and she kind of sidesteps it. If she never here's
the thing, if she never said that. That's the first
thing she says, I did not say that about Kitlyn Clark.
That was nothing. I would never said that. I want
to see I never said that, But she didn't say it. Instead,
she kind of danced around and said, no, I don't

(40:41):
recall that. How can I plausibly deny this. The fact
that she didn't come out and said tells me, Okay,
this is exactly what we thought it was when the
FISA Collie was telling her a story.

Speaker 3 (40:50):
But you need a little bit to This is one
person's side of it.

Speaker 1 (40:53):
This tells me that right there, Magic Johnson, WNBA Commissioner.
Coming up next, we get back to our football Friday preview.

Speaker 3 (41:01):
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