August 30, 2025 • 42 mins
Jason Smith & Steve DeSaegher chat it up with College Football Analyst Pete Fiutak as we gear up for the Saturday grand debut of College Football!
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
Hello, Welcome in side hour three The Jason Smith Show
with Steve de Sager in for Mike Harmon. Well, yeah,
it's all college football. Thank you very much, Micah Parsons.
Everything has been awesome. We flip the page to college
football and we got Pete Futech coming up in a
few minutes, but a couple of college games to get
to here. Right, We've talked a lot about Texas and
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Ohio State and before we TV big New New kickoff.
Where will you see Dave Portnoy? When do you see
him make his debut? Where will he be? Will he
be above the state? Where will you find Dave Portnoy?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
How about that huge flagpole right behind the end zone there?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
He is No. I like the idea that Harmon had
the other night that Portnoy would dress up as one
of the mascots with a big head and he would
take it off like hey, like Lee Corso would be
passing on the torch, Yeah, the torch to him, except
you know, it's Portnoy sneaking into the horseshoe and taking
off the head.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
The heads like, yeah, I'd like to see him with
the brutus Ohio state head.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Yes, I'm sure that will happen.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
But to be fair, right now, we talked about Colorado
look marquee game of the night, the Buffalo's deon Sanders
moving on first year without Shador and Travis Hunter. They
followed Georgia Tech twenty seven to twenty. I'm bullish on
Colorado still for this year, and you know, going forward
with their schedule, their talent, they'll be fine. However, there
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is another side of the coin, and this is the
most stunning part of it because if you watch the
end of this game, Colorado gets the foot ball back
with a minute two left and two timeouts, and they
run a bubble screen two Hail Mary's and end the
game at midfield with two timeouts. All right, so you
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with a minute two left to go and a very long.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Quarterback.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah. I mean, look, the one hail mary ish play
wasn't really a hail Mary. He had a receiver open,
Cadence Salter, but he just overthrew him a little bit.
But that play could have happened. But these aren't rookies
calling this game. You know. This is not Deon sanders
first day on a sideline. This is not Pat Shermer's
first day on a sideline coaching offense. And to see
some of those play calls and to end with two
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timeouts like that, that's inexcusable, man, Like that that's the
one thing you want me be The big question for
Deon Sanders that I always have, it's does he have
that attention to detail? Right? Like, that's the big thing
because Dean Sanders is not someone that's coming in with
a great offensive system or a great defensive system. He
comes in with an attitude, with a culture, with a
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way to bind players together and coaches and to get
them to be the best version themselves. Like that's what
Dion does. But sometimes you see games and you scratch
it and go, you know, like last year against Nebraska,
like they kept running the same types of plays that
were getting stuffed over and over again, and I go,
what is that like? And you look at some of
the play calls here in the fourth quarter, it's you
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have a minute, two and two timeouts. This is college football.
Georgia Tech is going to play this where they're going
to try to just hope you run out of time
rather than running into the end zone and instead, in
a minute, you got the ball to midfield, right like,
with a minute, you have the ball the twenty yard line.
That's the furthest you could get was to midfield.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
And the problem started with the very first play of
Colorado's drive. They've just given up, well it was tied
before them, they've just fallen behind. Let's say so they're
down seven. They need to go the length of the field.
They're starting to drive on their own twenty five and
they throw a two yard completion and then don't take
time out and incomplete would have stop the clock and
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you've got plenty of time to work things through. It
would still be about forty five seconds left, and still
on that one play to open the Colorado drive at
the end, they use up what twenty seconds?
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Yeah, and this is not the only time this happened
on the drive. What is going on?
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I mean, like, because that's the thing when I talk
about attention to detail, because that's where people have to
be screaming, get a time I know it sucks, get
a time out. Get a timeout. This is killing us.
Get a time out. Okay, so you get a time
out with fifty six seconds left, Yeah, you use one,
but you got fifty six seconds at one time out
compared to what thirty some odd seconds and two timeouts,
Like okay, it's not like you have two minutes and
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you have a like thirty seconds. You're only getting so far.
So you got to think that people are yelling use
a timeout, and Deon Sanders is not using one, which, okay,
that's on Dan or no one's yelling use a timeout,
and that's on the entire coaching staff. Yes, you know,
you look at attention to detail and what it's like
when a game is in the is in the hottest moments, right,
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And that's why I always whatever I want to say
about the Patriots, like the way they were able in
the Brady Belichick era to control the end of games
where no time seemed like it was too little for them, right,
mahomes and and and the Chiefs went when you know,
up until a couple of years where he became a
game manager, Like no time was too little for him
to get the team downfield. He could get the ball
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back with sixteen one time, what seventeen seconds and no
timeouts left against Buffalo and I got a field goal.
I mean, I mean, come on like that. That's the
type of offense and I'm so jealous of. But that's
such a huge deal. And this is what separates the
elite teams from just the regular teams, where hey, when
it comes down to it, this attention to detail gets
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us through big moments like this where they're not too
big for us and we're not too panicky and our
eyes aren't milky in the lights. And this is a
situation clearly with with a minute left and two timeouts,
even if you run three plays, you should be at
midfield with like forty thirty five or forty seconds left,
Like that's the way this should go. Because you know,
Georgia Tech is gonna play soft. You can throw the
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ball to the middle of the field a couple of times,
you know, and a little bit downfield. Again, they're gonna
try to keep you and hope you run out of time, right,
they know that. Okay, we're gonna have to have some
kind of stand here defensively. We're just hoping we're dealing
with a couple of plays from the twenty yard line,
from our twenty yard line instead of down to our
five yard line, right, that's what we're hoping to deal with. Instead,
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it was whoa, we got to mid midfield and they
run two hail Mary's. Like you still had time to run,
Let's run a play to the thirty yard line, right,
You gonna run a play for twenty yards and used
one of your last times. And this is bad decision
making all over the place. It's bad decision making by
Cayden Salter on the field, it's bad for Deon Spad
from the coaches life. That's inexcusable, up and down.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
And Deon Sanders should not get a pass on this.
I don't care if it's the first game of the season.
You had your first game with this quarterback and you
on the sideline had a chance to bail him out
from a bad decision to start the drive with a
timeout and use one of those. Instead, you wound up
on this drive that went I won't say nowhere, but
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it only went to midfield. When you had to go
the length of the field, you lost by seven. There
were two short gains, neither of which had a time
out called after them, and as you say, two long
incompletions for hail Mary's toward the end zone and the
last one. It was one receiver in the end zone
and four defenders, so when one of the defenders unwisely
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tried to catch the ball and it deflected off his hands,
there was no other Colorado teammate behind the receiver to
catch it.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
You know, allah the Bears game.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
And then have an amazing finish to this game that
could have gone for two and one. It could have
gone to overtime. Something spectacular could have happened in a
number of ways. It could have been more than the
dud we got on this last minute drive at Colorado tonight.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
This is where you know someone's got You know, the
athletic director has to walk into the locker after and go,
Cordell Stewart's not walking through that door. Michael Westbrook is
not walking through that door. Just so you know, okay,
it's not not walking through that door.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Living in reality, I know that the actual answer to
that question is absolutely nobody walks through that door da
because he owns all the keys to all the doors.
Because I already handed over the entire campus to him.
He has nothing but yes men around him.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yeah, and uh, you know the only reason I could
actually mention Cordell Stewart and Michael Westbrook is my wife
took our dog out for a walk because if I
mentioned that is a years ago, like of all the
games to bring up, as you know, as as a
Michigan fan, like that's the one game where she was like,
don't bring that up, Like that's the one for Secon.
This is thirty years now, man, yeah, thirty years And
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she's like, don't bring that up. Don't bring up the
Courtle Stewart Michael Westbrom Like oh okay, she goes, yeah, no,
not at all. I'm like okay, Like she'd rather be
bring up bad losses to Ohio State where you know
where they I mean, then then bring up that game
like like that game that took a lot out of her.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
That surprises me, I think anything like you know, if
you're an Ohio State fan, pretend you didn't win it
all at the end last year and you have to
go into the offseason on that finish against Michigan. I
mean that would have become on the Ohio State side,
one of those things that you just mentioned, like years
from now you're.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Gonna say, do not talk about that. I'm not talking
about that and saying.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I got news for you. I got news for you.
I said that the night Ohio State won the national championship,
right thing about where they are now, right now going
into the game against Texas tomorrow. I said, if you
put three Ohio State fans in front of me, right
this is them winning the national title, and it's it's
like less than ten minutes after the game is over
and confetti is still falling, and I said, you put
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three Ohio State fans from you say to the first guy, hey,
how do you feel about this season? And the first
guy would say, you kidding? What are the greatest seasons
we ever had? We overcame that loss at the end
of the year to Michigan. We won Thetional championship. Man,
this is unbelievable. Okay, great, second guy, how to feel
about the season? Are you kidding? We won the national
champion Boy, I wish it would have beat Michigan but man,
we won the national championship and go to the third fan,
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and the third fan would say, uh, we lost to Michigan.
What does it really matter now, all these months later,
going into the season to see because it's always about
how a championship plays over time, right, like the Lakers
Bubble Championship of twenty twenty, for whatever reason, just doesn't resonate. Meanwhile,
it's one of the most difficult ones to win because
the Lakers played all season for home court advantage and
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you lose that, right, you lose four out of seid.
That's a big deal to win a championship where you're
a much better team.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Everything's on a neutral, specially in my sport, where the
fans are on top of you. Home court can really
mean something.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Yeah, and now you're out playing in a different environment
and you don't know how that.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Zero fans, zero noise.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Well there were fans. They were the cardboard fans that
were that were taping.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
We had the video fans that were watching the game
on the wall.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Remember that, so you know, so that so that didn't
resonate over time. Now overtime, Ohio State is the chance.
But well, look what did you see all week on
FS one this week replays of the Michigan Ohio State
last game of the year. If you put two Ohio
State fans in front of me right now and say, hey,
how do you feel about last year going to this year?
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The first guy would say, well, we won the national title,
but we lost to Michigan, so okay. And the second
guy is how do you feel? He would say disaster,
We lost to Michigan. It doesn't matter that we won.
Now we got these new guys coming in, we got textas,
it doesn't matter. Like over the last few months, like
this national championship for Ohio State has not resonated like
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Michigan's the year before, or any of Alabama's championships or
anything like. It's gone to that point where if you're
Ohio State, it's yeah, that lost to Michigan was just
so bad that they they're already they can't. I mean
normally you can't wait for the game, but they can't.
They want to play that tomorrow. They don't want to
play Texas tomorrow. They want to play Michigan tomorrow and
say it's such a bad taste in our mouths from
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last year. It tainted the national championship ruined it for
some fans, and now here we are getting ready for
this year, and I'm still not over it. I'm still
it's like it's like you break up with with a
girl you're with for so long, but you meet somebody
great right away and you get married and you're married
and everything is wonderful, but you still sit around and go,
I miss my ex. I wish that would.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
By the way, Ohio State really did lay an egg
in that game last year, and I understand if people
still feel bad about it, you should, but you did
win the national championship, so please turn over to the
other side flip the same coin. That is the ending
to the story of twenty twenty four's season. I do
think that we need to say this part out loud
that in the new era of college football, this is
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not the only time that's gonna happen with rivals, because
you're gonna see a result you don't want in your
rivalry game late, and you're still gonna see both rivals
get into the postseason. The College Football Playoff is not
getting any smaller.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
People.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Yeah, oh look, we're gonna be at sixteen teams. They
just for some ridiculous reason they couldn't figure it out, Like,
how do you not figure that out? Already? They'll get
we'll get to sixteen teams, and yeah, you know, you
bring up a good point because it's still going to say, okay,
teams lose a big rivalry game, but they still wind
up getting in the playoff. But I think that's gonna
wind up being okay because the years of now that
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you have these super conferences, right, and Michigan is and
Michigan Ohio State are always gonna play Penn State, They're
gonna play Michigan, They're gonna play tough games. They're gonna
lose a couple of games a year or at least
one game of the year, right, And the years of hey,
we play these twelve games, we play eight games in
conference and all of you know, almost all they are
gonna be walkover games. Those years are kind of over.
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So whereas now the rivalry games are gonna be more
of there's still gonna be big sake because a you
want to beat your rival because you never know how
it's gonna end. But it's also going to affect playoff positioning.
Are we gonna get in the playoffs? And yeah, maybe
we see them again at some point, which would be awesome.
But there's still enough on the line with the rivalry
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games to say, okay, it's not only is it big
for now, but it's big for what we could see.
So in a way, you could say, all right, so
a rivalry game like Michigan Ohio State, you know, in
previous years, that would have been enough to knock Ohio
State out of the playoffs, and that would have been terrible.
But Ohio State still was able to lose and continue
to have their season, So okay, And I think that's
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kind of the way it's going to go, where you're
gonna have the rivalry implications, but you also could have
the big playoff implications too. And look, as we've seen,
the more implications, you know, the better for college football.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
And I'm a mature enough sports fan that I realized
this is how things are, and things have changed, not
are going to change, they have changed. The door is closed.
It does make me a little wistful about the past
that college football season in all of sports used to
really be the most special season, because that October Notre
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Dame Boston College game really did mean something, or the
Notre Dame, Florida State, or you know that game held
up and meant something a month and a half later,
and in some cases it meant everything. And so now
remember when they started expanding March Madness tournament and Larry Brown,
Danny mannings Kansas team won and you're thinking, anyway you
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can win, you can lose ten twelve games and you're
still the national champion. Is this how it's gonna be.
The answer is yes, that's how it's gonna be.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Look, you want to go that's
a fun thing. You want to go back and look
at what some teams records were and their seeds were
going into the NCAA tournament. Like, I'm really for what
being Syracuse guy. The Big East was murder, right, it
was such a fun conference. There's years where Syracuse would
be like, would finish second in the Big East and
their record was like twenty three and twelve and they're
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a four seed or a three seed, Like, boy, Syracuse
is really good because the Big East was murder and
those conferences were murdered.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
A couple of years ago, was a four seed and yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Yeah, and you would but I mean, like, but your
record is not like, hey, hey, you're a three seed.
You got to be like, you know, twenty eight and
six or you know, twenty five and five. It's like,
now there's years where we're twenty three and ten, but
we're a three seed because it was like that's what
it was like so long ago. And look, you're not
gonna get to the you know many, but you get
to three losses. Now it seems to be the magic
number for the college football playoff when it's all said
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and done.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Until it expands to twenty eight teams.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Yeah, no, no, eventually we're gonna get to like one
hundred and one hundred and twenty eight teams and there's
gonna be no regular season. We just start the playoffs
Week one and we go frounder twenty eight to fifty six.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
I would advise college football on these airways once again,
the NFL hasn't gone anywhere. And you already had playoff games,
playoff games that were invisible on a Saturday because the
NFL played on the Saturday in December.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
So let's just keep that in mind. Shall we exit out.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
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It's Steve deeseger in for Mike Harmon Colorado Falls to
Georgia Tech. We are just less than twelve hours away
from Texas, Ohio State, the big nude kickoff. We got LSU, Clemson, Alabama,
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winning team between Syracuse and Tennessee will be the Orange team. Pete,
that is great analysis.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
Thank you, And I guarantee you between LSU and Clemson,
go with the Tigers, Jacob, Jacob, I mean one thousand
percent masterlock guarantee of the century.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
All right, now, before we get to tomorrow, let's get
to what we just saw with Colorado and Georgia Tech.
And we spent some time on this earlier this hour. Look,
I'm still arrow up on Colorado. You know, it could
be a six to seven ish win season for them,
but wow, the end of the game, Pete, I sit
here and look at Deon Sanders and his attention to
detail and say, is that where it needs to be
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with the play calls in the final minute and you
leave two timeouts in your back pocket and you throw
two hail mary's. Like what was going on the final
minute of that game wasn't exactly crisp.
Speaker 7 (20:23):
And look, Kayden Salter is a veteran. He's been around,
he played.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
In a a big couple of really big games. He's
a veteran quarterbackers should be able to handle it. I
know he's struggling at the next level. I know he's
you know, kind of a you know, punching bag in
a lot of ways, but I should do it. Sanders
was great, and it kind of gets lost that Dion
relied on his son, and there's a reason why they
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didn't run the ball ever, because he basically said, you know,
I think he's flying with something the effective you know,
when you have Michael Jordan, you know, anybody else shooting
the I'll know and you should do or go and
you want something just to throw it. And so those
are the type of things that they were so instinct
and should do. It was such a good college quarterback
that those things kind of made your team. Now, he
did throw hail mary's to try to win games, but
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that was missing tonight. You just didn't have the accuracy,
didn't have the Christmas Christmas Christmas of the passing game,
and it just wasn't.
Speaker 7 (21:22):
Quite as right.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
And you know, it's You're right, I'm with you. If
this was anybody else, if this wasn't overhyped and they're
ESPN's not doing state run media stuff and sending out
nineteen texts about you know, Colorado.
Speaker 7 (21:38):
You'd be like, yeah, okay, you know, Dean's doing.
Speaker 6 (21:40):
A great job of the program that was doing absolutely
nothing when he took over. But you know, a good game.
Georgia Tech's pretty good, and I think it'll prove out
during the season that that's not a very bad loss.
Loose to that Georgia Tech team.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Pete, this is Steve. Florida State is unranked.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
You have a gauge on what their season will be
like this year and specifically what they might has tomorrow
hosting Alabama to open.
Speaker 7 (22:03):
I I think it's going to that this year is
going to be a mix of that.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
You.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
Obviously, Florida I think is not as bad as it
was last year, and it's certainly I never thought was
as good as as it was made out to be
that schedule they played two years ago is just okay,
great team, a lot of good stuff happening, but it
certainly wasn't just you know, they certainly didn't get robbed
like everyone says, especially after Jordan Trause got hurt. So
it's gonna be somewhere in the mix there. It's more
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about Alabama. I mean, if I know it's a road games,
that's Florida State, I think there'll be moments when Florida
State starts to flit the part. But if Alabama's really back,
this is a game that they just thunder dunk.
Speaker 7 (22:41):
You know, they have the lines, they have the talent.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
It's going to be all about Ty Simpson as well.
Does Alabama have the quarterback.
Speaker 7 (22:48):
Who can run this kale into bar offense?
Speaker 6 (22:50):
Because we know if you have, if he under this attack,
under this coach, if you're Michael Pex's junior, even if
you're Jalen Monroe last year, or you're Jake Hayner at
Freszlo State, you can put up big, massive numbers. And
if you've been anointed as the starting quarterback and they
didn't go get a trans hurt, well, all right, Ty Simpson,
let's who you can.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Do beat fu Tech, our guest here at Fox Sports Radio.
All right, so the big one tomorrow, Pete obviously Texas
and Ohio State. The betting line has shifted to Texas
earlier today. I like Texas tomorrow. I think there's a
too many new moving parts for Ohio State. I think
arch Manning is going to get better as the game
goes on, make some plays with his legs. How do
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you see tomorrow's game?
Speaker 6 (23:31):
I you know what everyone forgets also that there's a
lot of moving part. Arch Manning is a moving part,
like we don't know for sure yet. You know, I
love him, You love him, We all love them. We
all know he's going to be the number one pick
in the draft. He's gonna, you know, make one hundred
and fifty jillion dollars. The second he's ready to get
going is if not now? But he only played, you know,
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a couple of games last year. He always started against
Louisia Monroe in Texas, San Antonio. Quinny Hewers did all
the heavy lifting. And oh, poor old Ohio State. How
will they ever you know, restock the shelves there? I mean,
they just have more five star guys. I mean it's
Ohio State. The next man up is better than the
next guy at the start at probably you know, one
hundred and twenty five other places. So the town's gonna
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be there, and I think that almost helps him in
a way. There's you know, the guys have been waiting
in the wings. They know that they're the new guys
again starting quarterbacks. Julian saying, all right, let's see what
you can do. I mean, look at that recent history
of Ohio State quarterbacks, you know, going back to Justin
Fields and you know, Braxton Miller and on through an
even little Howard winning a national championship last year. They've
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been great at quarterback. And it turns out your Kyle
McCord was pretty good.
Speaker 7 (24:42):
So all right, here you go.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
You're all the spotlights on the other guy on sixteen
on the other side.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Of the field.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
So let's see what the new quarterbacks of Ohio State
can do. I can't go against Ohio State at home.
I can see Texas, but I keep coming back to
the same It's the Bobby Knight joke where they were
playing LSU, they were in trouble. They said, I look
down the other end of the bench and I saw
Dale Brown, I knew everything was gonna be okay. They're
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gonna look across the sidelines and it's it's Steve Sarkisians.
The first twenty plays of the game tomorrow, Texas is
gonna look like they could win the Super Bowl. They're
gonna look awesome, and something's gonna happen, and Steve Sarkisian's
gonna get too cute by a half and they cut
that and dice it up into little pieces and they'll
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screw it up late.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Do you expect Ohio State's defense to be about as
great this year? And do you expect, specifically for Saturday
on Fox, a low scoring game with them involved?
Speaker 6 (25:43):
I can't see him being as good. I mean, remember
last year's team was that good because they had all
this NFL talent that decided to come back. They were
so driven after the way the year before ended. He
had all these guys who'd been around for four or
five six years, and they.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
All they're deep. They had all this talent, and they.
Speaker 6 (26:04):
Had who was currently Penn State's defensive coordinator, Jim Knowles,
was there and he kind of dialed that up to
a whole other level again, you know, to Ohio State,
everything will be fine, but when you lose your coordinators,
there is going.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
To be a little bit of the shift. So I
wouldn't be shocked out.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
I'm not going hard to the rim here at Ohio State.
I mean, there's no outcome I think would be very
all that shocking. But again, sheepishly, I'm gonna take Ohio State.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
All right, LSU Clemson the other big game. You know, honestly,
I think everybody's sleeping on Clemson this year because of
the whole well, they're the ACC. How good is the ACC.
It took kay club Nick a while, but he's become
really good and you know he's got He's got great
wide receivers. I think both these guys have big names
and nus Meyer. But I'm gonna take Clemson at home
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in an aerial shootout, like a thirty eight to thirty
five kind of game.
Speaker 7 (26:56):
I kind of am.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
I'm right there with you, but not for the same reason.
It's it's in Baton rouge. I'm going LSU. Al he's
more talented, ALX, He's got the guys. I mean, this
is club makes good and I'm kind of on the
side of those other people. You're mocking and ridiculing about Oh,
it is the ACC and they're experienced. There's a difference
between being experienced and being super talented. So they don't
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have the guys like they had in those National championship
years with you know, Trevor Lawrence and all the talent
on that offense and the defensive line with Dexter Lawrence
and you know, Christian Wilkins.
Speaker 7 (27:31):
It's really good.
Speaker 6 (27:32):
This is a really good team. It's Miami and it's Clemson.
Some order in the ACC. LSU's got more talent.
Speaker 7 (27:41):
But again, home field shootout, I.
Speaker 6 (27:44):
Don't see the defenses holding up. I just I have
an easier time in envisioning gabble screaming into the microphone
in the postgame interview than.
Speaker 7 (27:53):
I do Brian Kelly.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
So again, it's another fun, cheapish game. But I'm going
I'm going Clemson very very lightly, and.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
They both would have Southern accents in the postgame interview exactly.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
North Carolina is going to open on Monday night?
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Would that be an upset if they can beat TCU
at Carolina? And what do you think of the rest
of the Carolina schedule? ACC games included, How about two.
Speaker 6 (28:16):
Years ago, TCU opens up in the Dion standers there. Yes, yes,
now they get they open up with this, so you know,
they seem to get all the circus games to start.
TCU is good and it's gonna get lost in all
the Belichuckiest miss of this. But that was a nine
win team last season that comes back absolutely loaded and
they get all this talented from the transfer portal. Tc
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is a much better team than North Carolina. But if
North Carolina could pull this off, We've done this before.
Go through their schedule, they miss everybody. I mean, they
do get Clemson, but that's a home game. They miss Miami,
they missed Louisville, they missed Georgia Tech who won tonight.
They miss SMU, they miss Florida State, they miss all
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the big guys from the a SEC, including the friends
with benefit thing with a Notre Dame they don't have
to deal with. So if they somehow win this, they
could you know, they lose to Clemson, they still might
be like seven to one or so going into November,
just because that schedule is so late and it's still Belichick.
Speaker 7 (29:19):
You know, he's not I know everyone's kind.
Speaker 6 (29:21):
Of demonizing he's not a bad guy, He's just Belichick.
He's just you know, everyone's so used to rooting against him.
I'm really interested because he's you know, he's a you know,
the arguably the greatest football coach of all time.
Speaker 7 (29:34):
Let's see what he can do.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
Let's see what he can if he can make magic
give Belichick's coaching at defense, this should be pretty fun.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
All right, Pete, Now, I'm I'm nervous what you're gonna say,
but I'm ready for what you're gonna have. Either way,
Look opposite of Texas, Ohio State. The other game of
the I mean really the game of the year Syracuse
and Tennessee. Tennessee a top twenty five team. Tennessee's favored
by two touchdowns. Here am I getting a miracle from evangel.
Speaker 6 (30:01):
I can't wait to see if this offense translates. And
you know, is it the system? The court is actually
really good, uh and but the system that kind of
have to leave the nation in passing yards per game.
I want to see if they can do this with ANGELI.
I want to see if they could do this with
the parts, because Tennessee doesn't have a whole. I don't
they don't have a whole lot of offensive pop. They
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lost their top guy and you want to see you know,
the storyline I think we're going to have coming out
a week one, depending on how this all goes, is
how all the new quarterbacks fare. And again it comes
down to, you know, all the guys we've been talking about,
whether it's Tye Simpson or Julian Saying or C. J.
Carr on Monday for Notre Dame, and it's going to
come down to Tennessee who gets let Nico go?
Speaker 7 (30:46):
And even though I mean, you love it, you know.
Speaker 6 (30:48):
And all the stress and craziness and all, we're not
going to begin his into his demands everything Well that's okay.
Well he's probably the best quarterback in the Big Ten
that U see la this year. And if ten See
does not get good offense, if they cannot get this
o going all of a sudden, that's gonna be one
of the storylines that, yeah, who won that round? But
you just let this NFL caliber quarterback go. It's gotta
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Tennessee's got to rely on its defense. They got a
whole screw of new pass rushers. But I'm really interested
to see if this year he's passing game can translate
into this year.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
He's on Twitter at Pete fu Tech. That is at
Pete fu Tech. The website is college Footballnews dot com.
You're one stop shopping for everything college football, all the analysis,
all the picks, all the prognostications. Pete is always buddy,
Appreciate it, man, enjoying the games tomorrow. We'll talk to
you next week.
Speaker 6 (31:36):
I'm going guys, all right.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Great stuff there from Pete Futech A big slate of games,
but it's been a big slate of games tonight, none
bigger than the Mets nineteen to nine win over the Marlins,
then the Jets nineteen to nine win over the Dolphins.
Steve de Seger has that and more with What's trend.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
We've still got a couple of college football games going.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Dan Mullen is going to be two and oh for
UNLV after tonight mid fourth quarter, his team now up
thirty eight thirteen at SAM Houston and in the third
quarter at San Jose State Spartan's fourteen to thirteen on
Central Michigan. The night started on FS one with Michigan
State's home win against Western Michigan twenty three to six,
and on Fox TV Auburn got a win at Baylor
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thirty eight to twenty four quarterback Jackson Arnold sixteen carries
one hundred thirty seven yards and two scores. Twelfth ranked
Illinois fifty two to three over Western Illinois. Tarleton State
won at Army in double overtime, thirty to twenty seven
Army with three turnovers and two late miss field goals.
Georgia Tech won at Colorado twenty seven to twenty out
of forty five yard touchdown run with about a minute left.
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Victories for Appalachian State and Florida International Kansas forty six
to seven over Wagner Jalen Daniels four touchdown passes, one interception.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Yeah, but that was still a tough game by Wagner College.
The Seahawks played tough on the road.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
If you say so, and wake Forest at home eked
out a two victory against Kennesaw State and the s
Number one Texas plays at number three Ohio State Saturday
noon Eastern time on Fox TV, and there's a Utah UCLA.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
Game late Saturday night on Fox.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
The New England Patriots release safety Jabrill Peppers in New
York Women's number one Arena Sablenca advanced at the US Open,
and number four Jessica Pagoula won her third round match,
as did Taylor Townsend WNBA wins for Atlanta and Indiana,
which won in La this evening, seventy six seventy five
to Major League Baseball. We've only got three games in
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the late window, and that includes an Arizona lead of
three to nothing at Dodger Stadium in the top of
the ninth. Minnesota has already beaten the Padres seven to four.
Rangers lead five to two at the A's bottom of
the ninth, Giants up ten to six on the Orioles,
bottom of the seven. San Francisco trying for a sixth
straight win. Update on the Dodgers, They're going to the
bottom of the ninth now down three to nothing to
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the d Bes. At the moment, the Dodgers would stay
two games over the Padres. In the NL West, the
Cubs one eleven seven at Colorado, Dansby Swanson two homers,
six RBIs. Detroit ended a four game losing streak with
a five to three victory at Kansas City. The Royal
still three games behind Seattle for the last Al wildcard
Cleveland beat Seattle five to four with two runs in
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the bottom of the ninth. Milwaukee and Pittsburgh each one
on the road. Yankees as well. Yanks have won six straight.
Houston shut out the Angels two nothing, the Halos with
just two hits.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
It was the.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Mets nineteen to nine over Miami. Mets hit six home runs.
Jonah Tong, in his major league debut, got the win.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Philip that's King Tall, King Tall.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
He's one to zero.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Philadelphia two to one over Atlanta with the run bottom
of the eighth. Tampa basin Washington to a sixth straight
loss four to one, and Saint Louis won at Cincinnati
and Tenanting seven to five. So the Reds now five games,
the last NL wildcard behind the Mattspeck to.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
You, Legas Steve O coming up next. Wow. Deon Sanders
just did himself no favors trying to explain that bockle
of play calling and a lack of usage of timeouts
at the end of Colorado's loss to Georgia Tech. Wait, doll,
we tell you that's next. Right here. Jason Smith Steve
de Sager in for Harmon. This is Fox Sports Radio.
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Speaker 1 (35:23):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
Friend Mike Harmon Special Delivery. Steve de Saga in for
Harmon tonight and uh look, Colorado loses their first game
post Shador Sanders and Travis Hunter. And while I've told
you they're gonna be fine, there'll be a six to
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eight win team Georgia Tech is pretty good. The end
of the game is inexcusable. Right with a minute two
left to go, down by a touchdown to Georgia Tech.
They run bubble screens, they run two hail Mary's, they
don't call any timeouts, and they leave the game. Dion
leaves the game with two timeouts in his pocket. The
game ends with them throwing two hail Mary's from midfield.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
So correct me if I'm wrong, Jason. They get five
timeouts next weekend for the next game. They say two
from Tonight's.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Their rollover minutes from the old from the old cell
phone you got, you get rollover minutes you old times.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
He's way ahead of the game. I don't know why
other coaches don't do this, and.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
It's inexcusable to not use it. The play calling is terrible,
and the point is is that, Hey, you have timeouts,
so when you get the ball back with a minute
two from your twenty yard line, you call plays that
are okay being run to the middle of the field,
like that's the whole rea. You have timeouts, you can
use the whole field. It's not that well if you
don't have timeouts. So we kind of have to go
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outside the hashbarks as we get caught in bounds. That's
a killer. That's what you have the timeout, so you
go to the middle of the field. Now, Deon Sanders
was asked about this a few minutes ago, and this
is via Troy Rank columnists the Denver Post, the Denver Post.
This is talking about why he didn't use his timeouts. Quote,
we got out of bounds a couple of times. We
didn't have to take them. We got out of bounds
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on both sidelines. Uh, it doesn't make sense to use
your time out in that sense. We were trying to
preserve them because we needed them. But I don't want
to go home with any timeouts. They don't do me
any good. You have to be strategic, but to burn
a time out, just to burn a time out, just
so you guys won't say anything that don't make sense
at all.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
Okay, again, strategic, aguess, you have to be strategic.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Yeah. I like how he says. Yeah, I want to
be strategic. We had we were We had to preserve
them because we needed them. Clearly you didn't because you
didn't use them, so you didn't think you needed them yet.
But the point is it's not you know, I understand that, Yes,
we got out of bounds and got a bounds, but
that's not the point. The point is not getting out
of bounds. The point is, hey, we can use the
whole field like Georgia Tech is going to give them
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the middle of the field. Again, they're coming into this thinking, okay,
Colorado's got a mobile quarterback. We we have to defend
eighty yards, right, we have to defend eighty yards because
they need get in the end zone. That's a big
thing for us. And they're likely thinking, all right, they're
gonna get some chunk yards, but we'll make a couple
of plays defensively, and we're hoping that this game is
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gonna end with us having to make a stand from
our twenty yard line and not our two yard line,
or they get they get in the end zone. So
that's what it is. And this is where you use
the whole field. You throw the ball over the middle
of the field fifteen yards downfield, use that first play
to get to the forty five yard line and call
a time out right away, right you. Or you use
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a play to you know that's gonna get you twelve
yards somehow where you get to midfield, then you call
a time out. Like being able to use the whole
field is your advantage, right, So that's the whole thing.
And that's whole thing about using tome so to hear
this explanation, like the almost makes it worse, like saying,
but you saw what we got out of bounds. Yeah,
but why are you running those places? Why are you
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running to hail Mary's Like that doesn't that doesn't say
why we there's twelve seconds left, whatever it is, why
aren't you trying to throw a path to the thirty
five Georgia Tech will give you a path to the
thirty five yard line with with the fifteen seconds left
to go, because they'll be okay with that, and you'll
be okay with it because now you're trying to convert
two plays with thirty five instead you're throwing hail Mary's Like,
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that doesn't make sense. His explanation for the timeouts doesn't
jibe with the play calls and what Colorado tried to
do in the final minute.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
The hey, he got out of bounds anyway, explanation applies
to when the quarterback scrambled and instead of using about
five seconds on a play, tried to get out of
bounds himself from the middle of the field and it
wound up a short gain and burning ten seconds off
the clock. And that doesn't explain why on the first
play of the drive you only got a short gain
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and didn't use the timeout right after that. So the
bad decision from your new QB was trump by the
bad decision from the coach on the sidelines, where now
you've burned twenty to twenty five seconds right off the
bat at the beginning of a drive, a drive where
you need to go through orders of the length of
the field, you're down seven.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Yeah. That again, the attention to detail is the biggest
thing I wonder in a situation like what's Deon Sanders'
attention to detail during the week, you know, and and
Pat Shermer as well, because he's the one calling the
plays offensively, Like what what are they doing at this point?
Because to see this at the end, like look, Pete
Futech talked about it with this two minutes ago. Caden
Salti is a veteran, told you I love the kid, right,
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but he's played at Liberty a long time. He's got
a lot going on. He knows what to do with.
This was a This was a failure at all levels,
whether it's Deon for not calling the timeouts, the play calling,
Salter for not being smart enough with the football. This
was a end of game meltdown. And I guarantee you
Georgia Tech coaching staff is walking off the field going, man,
I don't know what the hell they were doing, but
we'll take it right, Well, can't take away. We'll take
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that win on the road. Man, it's awesome. Well we'll
take it. Walk away, tip bar cap and say see everybody, Boulder,
We're not coming back.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
And two of the last three plays for the Colorado
offense where Hail Mary's with only one receiver in the
end zone, multiple defenders. If you're gonna call that and
call multiple hail Mary's fine, give yourself a chance. Somebody
else has got to be down there, because you did,
in fact, on the last play of the night, have
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a tip ball where the defender didn't just bat the
ball down to the ground and hey we win. He
actually tried to catch it, it went off his hands, and
no secondary receiver for the offense was down behind the
first guy to try and get the karm.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
Well, here's where I can defend Deon Sanders, Steve. You
would be expecting them to put all those receivers down
there to catch it. How much of he I'm gonna
surprise you by throwing it to one guy around four defenders.
You're not expecting that, are you?
Speaker 4 (41:41):
No, not in the least. Ah.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
Yeah, he's playing chess. Well you're playing checker, Steve. But
that's what's going on.
Speaker 3 (41:49):
You still got his two timeouts exit out about of Frasca,
Jason Smith, Steve de Sager coming up next.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
Hello, Welcome in side hour three The Jason Smith Show
with Steve de Sager in for Mike Harmon. Well, yeah,
it's all college football. Thank you very much, Micah Parsons.
Everything has been awesome. We flip the page to college
football and we got Pete Futech coming up in a
few minutes, but a couple of college games to get
to here. Right, We've talked a lot about Texas and
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Ohio State and before we TV big New New kickoff.
Where will you see Dave Portnoy? When do you see
him make his debut? Where will he be? Will he
be above the state? Where will you find Dave Portnoy?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
How about that huge flagpole right behind the end zone there?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
He is No. I like the idea that Harmon had
the other night that Portnoy would dress up as one
of the mascots with a big head and he would
take it off like hey, like Lee Corso would be
passing on the torch, Yeah, the torch to him, except
you know, it's Portnoy sneaking into the horseshoe and taking
off the head.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
The heads like, yeah, I'd like to see him with
the brutus Ohio state head.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Yes, I'm sure that will happen.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
But to be fair, right now, we talked about Colorado
look marquee game of the night, the Buffalo's deon Sanders
moving on first year without Shador and Travis Hunter. They
followed Georgia Tech twenty seven to twenty. I'm bullish on
Colorado still for this year, and you know, going forward
with their schedule, their talent, they'll be fine. However, there
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is another side of the coin, and this is the
most stunning part of it because if you watch the
end of this game, Colorado gets the foot ball back
with a minute two left and two timeouts, and they
run a bubble screen two Hail Mary's and end the
game at midfield with two timeouts. All right, so you
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with a minute two left to go and a very long.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Quarterback.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah. I mean, look, the one hail mary ish play
wasn't really a hail Mary. He had a receiver open,
Cadence Salter, but he just overthrew him a little bit.
But that play could have happened. But these aren't rookies
calling this game. You know. This is not Deon sanders
first day on a sideline. This is not Pat Shermer's
first day on a sideline coaching offense. And to see
some of those play calls and to end with two
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timeouts like that, that's inexcusable, man, Like that that's the
one thing you want me be The big question for
Deon Sanders that I always have, it's does he have
that attention to detail? Right? Like, that's the big thing
because Dean Sanders is not someone that's coming in with
a great offensive system or a great defensive system. He
comes in with an attitude, with a culture, with a
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way to bind players together and coaches and to get
them to be the best version themselves. Like that's what
Dion does. But sometimes you see games and you scratch
it and go, you know, like last year against Nebraska,
like they kept running the same types of plays that
were getting stuffed over and over again, and I go,
what is that like? And you look at some of
the play calls here in the fourth quarter, it's you
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have a minute, two and two timeouts. This is college football.
Georgia Tech is going to play this where they're going
to try to just hope you run out of time
rather than running into the end zone and instead, in
a minute, you got the ball to midfield, right like,
with a minute, you have the ball the twenty yard line.
That's the furthest you could get was to midfield.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
And the problem started with the very first play of
Colorado's drive. They've just given up, well it was tied
before them, they've just fallen behind. Let's say so they're
down seven. They need to go the length of the field.
They're starting to drive on their own twenty five and
they throw a two yard completion and then don't take
time out and incomplete would have stop the clock and
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you've got plenty of time to work things through. It
would still be about forty five seconds left, and still
on that one play to open the Colorado drive at
the end, they use up what twenty seconds?
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Yeah, and this is not the only time this happened
on the drive. What is going on?
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I mean, like, because that's the thing when I talk
about attention to detail, because that's where people have to
be screaming, get a time I know it sucks, get
a time out. Get a timeout. This is killing us.
Get a time out. Okay, so you get a time
out with fifty six seconds left, Yeah, you use one,
but you got fifty six seconds at one time out
compared to what thirty some odd seconds and two timeouts,
Like okay, it's not like you have two minutes and
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you have a like thirty seconds. You're only getting so far.
So you got to think that people are yelling use
a timeout, and Deon Sanders is not using one, which, okay,
that's on Dan or no one's yelling use a timeout,
and that's on the entire coaching staff. Yes, you know,
you look at attention to detail and what it's like
when a game is in the is in the hottest moments, right,
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And that's why I always whatever I want to say
about the Patriots, like the way they were able in
the Brady Belichick era to control the end of games
where no time seemed like it was too little for them, right,
mahomes and and and the Chiefs went when you know,
up until a couple of years where he became a
game manager, Like no time was too little for him
to get the team downfield. He could get the ball
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back with sixteen one time, what seventeen seconds and no
timeouts left against Buffalo and I got a field goal.
I mean, I mean, come on like that. That's the
type of offense and I'm so jealous of. But that's
such a huge deal. And this is what separates the
elite teams from just the regular teams, where hey, when
it comes down to it, this attention to detail gets
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us through big moments like this where they're not too
big for us and we're not too panicky and our
eyes aren't milky in the lights. And this is a
situation clearly with with a minute left and two timeouts,
even if you run three plays, you should be at
midfield with like forty thirty five or forty seconds left,
Like that's the way this should go. Because you know,
Georgia Tech is gonna play soft. You can throw the
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ball to the middle of the field a couple of times,
you know, and a little bit downfield. Again, they're gonna
try to keep you and hope you run out of time, right,
they know that. Okay, we're gonna have to have some
kind of stand here defensively. We're just hoping we're dealing
with a couple of plays from the twenty yard line,
from our twenty yard line instead of down to our
five yard line, right, that's what we're hoping to deal with. Instead,
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it was whoa, we got to mid midfield and they
run two hail Mary's. Like you still had time to run,
Let's run a play to the thirty yard line, right,
You gonna run a play for twenty yards and used
one of your last times. And this is bad decision
making all over the place. It's bad decision making by
Cayden Salter on the field, it's bad for Deon Spad
from the coaches life. That's inexcusable, up and down.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
And Deon Sanders should not get a pass on this.
I don't care if it's the first game of the season.
You had your first game with this quarterback and you
on the sideline had a chance to bail him out
from a bad decision to start the drive with a
timeout and use one of those. Instead, you wound up
on this drive that went I won't say nowhere, but
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it only went to midfield. When you had to go
the length of the field, you lost by seven. There
were two short gains, neither of which had a time
out called after them, and as you say, two long
incompletions for hail Mary's toward the end zone and the
last one. It was one receiver in the end zone
and four defenders, so when one of the defenders unwisely
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tried to catch the ball and it deflected off his hands,
there was no other Colorado teammate behind the receiver to
catch it.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
You know, allah the Bears game.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
And then have an amazing finish to this game that
could have gone for two and one. It could have
gone to overtime. Something spectacular could have happened in a
number of ways. It could have been more than the
dud we got on this last minute drive at Colorado tonight.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
This is where you know someone's got You know, the
athletic director has to walk into the locker after and go,
Cordell Stewart's not walking through that door. Michael Westbrook is
not walking through that door. Just so you know, okay,
it's not not walking through that door.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Living in reality, I know that the actual answer to
that question is absolutely nobody walks through that door da
because he owns all the keys to all the doors.
Because I already handed over the entire campus to him.
He has nothing but yes men around him.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yeah, and uh, you know the only reason I could
actually mention Cordell Stewart and Michael Westbrook is my wife
took our dog out for a walk because if I
mentioned that is a years ago, like of all the
games to bring up, as you know, as as a
Michigan fan, like that's the one game where she was like,
don't bring that up, Like that's the one for Secon.
This is thirty years now, man, yeah, thirty years And
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she's like, don't bring that up. Don't bring up the
Courtle Stewart Michael Westbrom Like oh okay, she goes, yeah, no,
not at all. I'm like okay, Like she'd rather be
bring up bad losses to Ohio State where you know
where they I mean, then then bring up that game
like like that game that took a lot out of her.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
That surprises me, I think anything like you know, if
you're an Ohio State fan, pretend you didn't win it
all at the end last year and you have to
go into the offseason on that finish against Michigan. I
mean that would have become on the Ohio State side,
one of those things that you just mentioned, like years
from now you're.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Gonna say, do not talk about that. I'm not talking
about that and saying.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I got news for you. I got news for you.
I said that the night Ohio State won the national championship,
right thing about where they are now, right now going
into the game against Texas tomorrow. I said, if you
put three Ohio State fans in front of me, right
this is them winning the national title, and it's it's
like less than ten minutes after the game is over
and confetti is still falling, and I said, you put
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three Ohio State fans from you say to the first guy, hey,
how do you feel about this season? And the first
guy would say, you kidding? What are the greatest seasons
we ever had? We overcame that loss at the end
of the year to Michigan. We won Thetional championship. Man,
this is unbelievable. Okay, great, second guy, how to feel
about the season? Are you kidding? We won the national
champion Boy, I wish it would have beat Michigan but man,
we won the national championship and go to the third fan,
(10:12):
and the third fan would say, uh, we lost to Michigan.
What does it really matter now, all these months later,
going into the season to see because it's always about
how a championship plays over time, right, like the Lakers
Bubble Championship of twenty twenty, for whatever reason, just doesn't resonate. Meanwhile,
it's one of the most difficult ones to win because
the Lakers played all season for home court advantage and
(10:33):
you lose that, right, you lose four out of seid.
That's a big deal to win a championship where you're
a much better team.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Everything's on a neutral, specially in my sport, where the
fans are on top of you. Home court can really
mean something.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Yeah, and now you're out playing in a different environment
and you don't know how that.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Zero fans, zero noise.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Well there were fans. They were the cardboard fans that
were that were taping.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
We had the video fans that were watching the game
on the wall.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Remember that, so you know, so that so that didn't
resonate over time. Now overtime, Ohio State is the chance.
But well, look what did you see all week on
FS one this week replays of the Michigan Ohio State
last game of the year. If you put two Ohio
State fans in front of me right now and say, hey,
how do you feel about last year going to this year?
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The first guy would say, well, we won the national title,
but we lost to Michigan, so okay. And the second
guy is how do you feel? He would say disaster,
We lost to Michigan. It doesn't matter that we won.
Now we got these new guys coming in, we got textas,
it doesn't matter. Like over the last few months, like
this national championship for Ohio State has not resonated like
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Michigan's the year before, or any of Alabama's championships or
anything like. It's gone to that point where if you're
Ohio State, it's yeah, that lost to Michigan was just
so bad that they they're already they can't. I mean
normally you can't wait for the game, but they can't.
They want to play that tomorrow. They don't want to
play Texas tomorrow. They want to play Michigan tomorrow and
say it's such a bad taste in our mouths from
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last year. It tainted the national championship ruined it for
some fans, and now here we are getting ready for
this year, and I'm still not over it. I'm still
it's like it's like you break up with with a
girl you're with for so long, but you meet somebody
great right away and you get married and you're married
and everything is wonderful, but you still sit around and go,
I miss my ex. I wish that would.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
By the way, Ohio State really did lay an egg
in that game last year, and I understand if people
still feel bad about it, you should, but you did
win the national championship, so please turn over to the
other side flip the same coin. That is the ending
to the story of twenty twenty four's season. I do
think that we need to say this part out loud
that in the new era of college football, this is
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not the only time that's gonna happen with rivals, because
you're gonna see a result you don't want in your
rivalry game late, and you're still gonna see both rivals
get into the postseason. The College Football Playoff is not
getting any smaller.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
People.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Yeah, oh look, we're gonna be at sixteen teams. They
just for some ridiculous reason they couldn't figure it out, Like,
how do you not figure that out? Already? They'll get
we'll get to sixteen teams, and yeah, you know, you
bring up a good point because it's still going to say, okay,
teams lose a big rivalry game, but they still wind
up getting in the playoff. But I think that's gonna
wind up being okay because the years of now that
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you have these super conferences, right, and Michigan is and
Michigan Ohio State are always gonna play Penn State, They're
gonna play Michigan, They're gonna play tough games. They're gonna
lose a couple of games a year or at least
one game of the year, right, And the years of hey,
we play these twelve games, we play eight games in
conference and all of you know, almost all they are
gonna be walkover games. Those years are kind of over.
(13:45):
So whereas now the rivalry games are gonna be more
of there's still gonna be big sake because a you
want to beat your rival because you never know how
it's gonna end. But it's also going to affect playoff positioning.
Are we gonna get in the playoffs? And yeah, maybe
we see them again at some point, which would be awesome.
But there's still enough on the line with the rivalry
(14:05):
games to say, okay, it's not only is it big
for now, but it's big for what we could see.
So in a way, you could say, all right, so
a rivalry game like Michigan Ohio State, you know, in
previous years, that would have been enough to knock Ohio
State out of the playoffs, and that would have been terrible.
But Ohio State still was able to lose and continue
to have their season, So okay, And I think that's
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kind of the way it's going to go, where you're
gonna have the rivalry implications, but you also could have
the big playoff implications too. And look, as we've seen,
the more implications, you know, the better for college football.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
And I'm a mature enough sports fan that I realized
this is how things are, and things have changed, not
are going to change, they have changed. The door is closed.
It does make me a little wistful about the past
that college football season in all of sports used to
really be the most special season, because that October Notre
(14:59):
Dame Boston College game really did mean something, or the
Notre Dame, Florida State, or you know that game held
up and meant something a month and a half later,
and in some cases it meant everything. And so now
remember when they started expanding March Madness tournament and Larry Brown,
Danny mannings Kansas team won and you're thinking, anyway you
(15:20):
can win, you can lose ten twelve games and you're
still the national champion. Is this how it's gonna be.
The answer is yes, that's how it's gonna be.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Look, you want to go that's
a fun thing. You want to go back and look
at what some teams records were and their seeds were
going into the NCAA tournament. Like, I'm really for what
being Syracuse guy. The Big East was murder, right, it
was such a fun conference. There's years where Syracuse would
be like, would finish second in the Big East and
their record was like twenty three and twelve and they're
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a four seed or a three seed, Like, boy, Syracuse
is really good because the Big East was murder and
those conferences were murdered.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
A couple of years ago, was a four seed and yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Yeah, and you would but I mean, like, but your
record is not like, hey, hey, you're a three seed.
You got to be like, you know, twenty eight and
six or you know, twenty five and five. It's like,
now there's years where we're twenty three and ten, but
we're a three seed because it was like that's what
it was like so long ago. And look, you're not
gonna get to the you know many, but you get
to three losses. Now it seems to be the magic
number for the college football playoff when it's all said
(16:20):
and done.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Until it expands to twenty eight teams.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Yeah, no, no, eventually we're gonna get to like one
hundred and one hundred and twenty eight teams and there's
gonna be no regular season. We just start the playoffs
Week one and we go frounder twenty eight to fifty six.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
I would advise college football on these airways once again,
the NFL hasn't gone anywhere. And you already had playoff games,
playoff games that were invisible on a Saturday because the
NFL played on the Saturday in December.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
So let's just keep that in mind. Shall we exit out.
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winning team between Syracuse and Tennessee will be the Orange team. Pete,
that is great analysis.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
Thank you, And I guarantee you between LSU and Clemson,
go with the Tigers, Jacob, Jacob, I mean one thousand
percent masterlock guarantee of the century.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
All right, now, before we get to tomorrow, let's get
to what we just saw with Colorado and Georgia Tech.
And we spent some time on this earlier this hour. Look,
I'm still arrow up on Colorado. You know, it could
be a six to seven ish win season for them,
but wow, the end of the game, Pete, I sit
here and look at Deon Sanders and his attention to
detail and say, is that where it needs to be
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with the play calls in the final minute and you
leave two timeouts in your back pocket and you throw
two hail mary's. Like what was going on the final
minute of that game wasn't exactly crisp.
Speaker 7 (20:23):
And look, Kayden Salter is a veteran. He's been around,
he played.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
In a a big couple of really big games. He's
a veteran quarterbackers should be able to handle it. I
know he's struggling at the next level. I know he's
you know, kind of a you know, punching bag in
a lot of ways, but I should do it. Sanders
was great, and it kind of gets lost that Dion
relied on his son, and there's a reason why they
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didn't run the ball ever, because he basically said, you know,
I think he's flying with something the effective you know,
when you have Michael Jordan, you know, anybody else shooting
the I'll know and you should do or go and
you want something just to throw it. And so those
are the type of things that they were so instinct
and should do. It was such a good college quarterback
that those things kind of made your team. Now, he
did throw hail mary's to try to win games, but
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that was missing tonight. You just didn't have the accuracy,
didn't have the Christmas Christmas Christmas of the passing game,
and it just wasn't.
Speaker 7 (21:22):
Quite as right.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
And you know, it's You're right, I'm with you. If
this was anybody else, if this wasn't overhyped and they're
ESPN's not doing state run media stuff and sending out
nineteen texts about you know, Colorado.
Speaker 7 (21:38):
You'd be like, yeah, okay, you know, Dean's doing.
Speaker 6 (21:40):
A great job of the program that was doing absolutely
nothing when he took over. But you know, a good game.
Georgia Tech's pretty good, and I think it'll prove out
during the season that that's not a very bad loss.
Loose to that Georgia Tech team.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Pete, this is Steve. Florida State is unranked.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
You have a gauge on what their season will be
like this year and specifically what they might has tomorrow
hosting Alabama to open.
Speaker 7 (22:03):
I I think it's going to that this year is
going to be a mix of that.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
You.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
Obviously, Florida I think is not as bad as it
was last year, and it's certainly I never thought was
as good as as it was made out to be
that schedule they played two years ago is just okay,
great team, a lot of good stuff happening, but it
certainly wasn't just you know, they certainly didn't get robbed
like everyone says, especially after Jordan Trause got hurt. So
it's gonna be somewhere in the mix there. It's more
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about Alabama. I mean, if I know it's a road games,
that's Florida State, I think there'll be moments when Florida
State starts to flit the part. But if Alabama's really back,
this is a game that they just thunder dunk.
Speaker 7 (22:41):
You know, they have the lines, they have the talent.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
It's going to be all about Ty Simpson as well.
Does Alabama have the quarterback.
Speaker 7 (22:48):
Who can run this kale into bar offense?
Speaker 6 (22:50):
Because we know if you have, if he under this attack,
under this coach, if you're Michael Pex's junior, even if
you're Jalen Monroe last year, or you're Jake Hayner at
Freszlo State, you can put up big, massive numbers. And
if you've been anointed as the starting quarterback and they
didn't go get a trans hurt, well, all right, Ty Simpson,
let's who you can.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Do beat fu Tech, our guest here at Fox Sports Radio.
All right, so the big one tomorrow, Pete obviously Texas
and Ohio State. The betting line has shifted to Texas
earlier today. I like Texas tomorrow. I think there's a
too many new moving parts for Ohio State. I think
arch Manning is going to get better as the game
goes on, make some plays with his legs. How do
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you see tomorrow's game?
Speaker 6 (23:31):
I you know what everyone forgets also that there's a
lot of moving part. Arch Manning is a moving part,
like we don't know for sure yet. You know, I
love him, You love him, We all love them. We
all know he's going to be the number one pick
in the draft. He's gonna, you know, make one hundred
and fifty jillion dollars. The second he's ready to get
going is if not now? But he only played, you know,
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a couple of games last year. He always started against
Louisia Monroe in Texas, San Antonio. Quinny Hewers did all
the heavy lifting. And oh, poor old Ohio State. How
will they ever you know, restock the shelves there? I mean,
they just have more five star guys. I mean it's
Ohio State. The next man up is better than the
next guy at the start at probably you know, one
hundred and twenty five other places. So the town's gonna
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be there, and I think that almost helps him in
a way. There's you know, the guys have been waiting
in the wings. They know that they're the new guys
again starting quarterbacks. Julian saying, all right, let's see what
you can do. I mean, look at that recent history
of Ohio State quarterbacks, you know, going back to Justin
Fields and you know, Braxton Miller and on through an
even little Howard winning a national championship last year. They've
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been great at quarterback. And it turns out your Kyle
McCord was pretty good.
Speaker 7 (24:42):
So all right, here you go.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
You're all the spotlights on the other guy on sixteen
on the other side.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Of the field.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
So let's see what the new quarterbacks of Ohio State
can do. I can't go against Ohio State at home.
I can see Texas, but I keep coming back to
the same It's the Bobby Knight joke where they were
playing LSU, they were in trouble. They said, I look
down the other end of the bench and I saw
Dale Brown, I knew everything was gonna be okay. They're
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gonna look across the sidelines and it's it's Steve Sarkisians.
The first twenty plays of the game tomorrow, Texas is
gonna look like they could win the Super Bowl. They're
gonna look awesome, and something's gonna happen, and Steve Sarkisian's
gonna get too cute by a half and they cut
that and dice it up into little pieces and they'll
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screw it up late.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Do you expect Ohio State's defense to be about as
great this year? And do you expect, specifically for Saturday
on Fox, a low scoring game with them involved?
Speaker 6 (25:43):
I can't see him being as good. I mean, remember
last year's team was that good because they had all
this NFL talent that decided to come back. They were
so driven after the way the year before ended. He
had all these guys who'd been around for four or
five six years, and they.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
All they're deep. They had all this talent, and they.
Speaker 6 (26:04):
Had who was currently Penn State's defensive coordinator, Jim Knowles,
was there and he kind of dialed that up to
a whole other level again, you know, to Ohio State,
everything will be fine, but when you lose your coordinators,
there is going.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
To be a little bit of the shift. So I
wouldn't be shocked out.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
I'm not going hard to the rim here at Ohio State.
I mean, there's no outcome I think would be very
all that shocking. But again, sheepishly, I'm gonna take Ohio State.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
All right, LSU Clemson the other big game. You know, honestly,
I think everybody's sleeping on Clemson this year because of
the whole well, they're the ACC. How good is the ACC.
It took kay club Nick a while, but he's become
really good and you know he's got He's got great
wide receivers. I think both these guys have big names
and nus Meyer. But I'm gonna take Clemson at home
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in an aerial shootout, like a thirty eight to thirty
five kind of game.
Speaker 7 (26:56):
I kind of am.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
I'm right there with you, but not for the same reason.
It's it's in Baton rouge. I'm going LSU. Al he's
more talented, ALX, He's got the guys. I mean, this
is club makes good and I'm kind of on the
side of those other people. You're mocking and ridiculing about Oh,
it is the ACC and they're experienced. There's a difference
between being experienced and being super talented. So they don't
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have the guys like they had in those National championship
years with you know, Trevor Lawrence and all the talent
on that offense and the defensive line with Dexter Lawrence
and you know, Christian Wilkins.
Speaker 7 (27:31):
It's really good.
Speaker 6 (27:32):
This is a really good team. It's Miami and it's Clemson.
Some order in the ACC. LSU's got more talent.
Speaker 7 (27:41):
But again, home field shootout, I.
Speaker 6 (27:44):
Don't see the defenses holding up. I just I have
an easier time in envisioning gabble screaming into the microphone
in the postgame interview than.
Speaker 7 (27:53):
I do Brian Kelly.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
So again, it's another fun, cheapish game. But I'm going
I'm going Clemson very very lightly, and.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
They both would have Southern accents in the postgame interview exactly.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
North Carolina is going to open on Monday night?
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Would that be an upset if they can beat TCU
at Carolina? And what do you think of the rest
of the Carolina schedule? ACC games included, How about two.
Speaker 6 (28:16):
Years ago, TCU opens up in the Dion standers there. Yes, yes,
now they get they open up with this, so you know,
they seem to get all the circus games to start.
TCU is good and it's gonna get lost in all
the Belichuckiest miss of this. But that was a nine
win team last season that comes back absolutely loaded and
they get all this talented from the transfer portal. Tc
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is a much better team than North Carolina. But if
North Carolina could pull this off, We've done this before.
Go through their schedule, they miss everybody. I mean, they
do get Clemson, but that's a home game. They miss Miami,
they missed Louisville, they missed Georgia Tech who won tonight.
They miss SMU, they miss Florida State, they miss all
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the big guys from the a SEC, including the friends
with benefit thing with a Notre Dame they don't have
to deal with. So if they somehow win this, they
could you know, they lose to Clemson, they still might
be like seven to one or so going into November,
just because that schedule is so late and it's still Belichick.
Speaker 7 (29:19):
You know, he's not I know everyone's kind.
Speaker 6 (29:21):
Of demonizing he's not a bad guy, He's just Belichick.
He's just you know, everyone's so used to rooting against him.
I'm really interested because he's you know, he's a you know,
the arguably the greatest football coach of all time.
Speaker 7 (29:34):
Let's see what he can do.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
Let's see what he can if he can make magic
give Belichick's coaching at defense, this should be pretty fun.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
All right, Pete, Now, I'm I'm nervous what you're gonna say,
but I'm ready for what you're gonna have. Either way,
Look opposite of Texas, Ohio State. The other game of
the I mean really the game of the year Syracuse
and Tennessee. Tennessee a top twenty five team. Tennessee's favored
by two touchdowns. Here am I getting a miracle from evangel.
Speaker 6 (30:01):
I can't wait to see if this offense translates. And
you know, is it the system? The court is actually
really good, uh and but the system that kind of
have to leave the nation in passing yards per game.
I want to see if they can do this with ANGELI.
I want to see if they could do this with
the parts, because Tennessee doesn't have a whole. I don't
they don't have a whole lot of offensive pop. They
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lost their top guy and you want to see you know,
the storyline I think we're going to have coming out
a week one, depending on how this all goes, is
how all the new quarterbacks fare. And again it comes
down to, you know, all the guys we've been talking about,
whether it's Tye Simpson or Julian Saying or C. J.
Carr on Monday for Notre Dame, and it's going to
come down to Tennessee who gets let Nico go?
Speaker 7 (30:46):
And even though I mean, you love it, you know.
Speaker 6 (30:48):
And all the stress and craziness and all, we're not
going to begin his into his demands everything Well that's okay.
Well he's probably the best quarterback in the Big Ten
that U see la this year. And if ten See
does not get good offense, if they cannot get this
o going all of a sudden, that's gonna be one
of the storylines that, yeah, who won that round? But
you just let this NFL caliber quarterback go. It's gotta
(31:11):
Tennessee's got to rely on its defense. They got a
whole screw of new pass rushers. But I'm really interested
to see if this year he's passing game can translate
into this year.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
He's on Twitter at Pete fu Tech. That is at
Pete fu Tech. The website is college Footballnews dot com.
You're one stop shopping for everything college football, all the analysis,
all the picks, all the prognostications. Pete is always buddy,
Appreciate it, man, enjoying the games tomorrow. We'll talk to
you next week.
Speaker 6 (31:36):
I'm going guys, all right.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Great stuff there from Pete Futech A big slate of games,
but it's been a big slate of games tonight, none
bigger than the Mets nineteen to nine win over the Marlins,
then the Jets nineteen to nine win over the Dolphins.
Steve de Seger has that and more with What's trend.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
We've still got a couple of college football games going.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Dan Mullen is going to be two and oh for
UNLV after tonight mid fourth quarter, his team now up
thirty eight thirteen at SAM Houston and in the third
quarter at San Jose State Spartan's fourteen to thirteen on
Central Michigan. The night started on FS one with Michigan
State's home win against Western Michigan twenty three to six,
and on Fox TV Auburn got a win at Baylor
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thirty eight to twenty four quarterback Jackson Arnold sixteen carries
one hundred thirty seven yards and two scores. Twelfth ranked
Illinois fifty two to three over Western Illinois. Tarleton State
won at Army in double overtime, thirty to twenty seven
Army with three turnovers and two late miss field goals.
Georgia Tech won at Colorado twenty seven to twenty out
of forty five yard touchdown run with about a minute left.
(32:42):
Victories for Appalachian State and Florida International Kansas forty six
to seven over Wagner Jalen Daniels four touchdown passes, one interception.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Yeah, but that was still a tough game by Wagner College.
The Seahawks played tough on the road.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
If you say so, and wake Forest at home eked
out a two victory against Kennesaw State and the s
Number one Texas plays at number three Ohio State Saturday
noon Eastern time on Fox TV, and there's a Utah UCLA.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
Game late Saturday night on Fox.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
The New England Patriots release safety Jabrill Peppers in New
York Women's number one Arena Sablenca advanced at the US Open,
and number four Jessica Pagoula won her third round match,
as did Taylor Townsend WNBA wins for Atlanta and Indiana,
which won in La this evening, seventy six seventy five
to Major League Baseball. We've only got three games in
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the late window, and that includes an Arizona lead of
three to nothing at Dodger Stadium in the top of
the ninth. Minnesota has already beaten the Padres seven to four.
Rangers lead five to two at the A's bottom of
the ninth, Giants up ten to six on the Orioles,
bottom of the seven. San Francisco trying for a sixth
straight win. Update on the Dodgers, They're going to the
bottom of the ninth now down three to nothing to
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the d Bes. At the moment, the Dodgers would stay
two games over the Padres. In the NL West, the
Cubs one eleven seven at Colorado, Dansby Swanson two homers,
six RBIs. Detroit ended a four game losing streak with
a five to three victory at Kansas City. The Royal
still three games behind Seattle for the last Al wildcard
Cleveland beat Seattle five to four with two runs in
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the bottom of the ninth. Milwaukee and Pittsburgh each one
on the road. Yankees as well. Yanks have won six straight.
Houston shut out the Angels two nothing, the Halos with
just two hits.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
It was the.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Mets nineteen to nine over Miami. Mets hit six home runs.
Jonah Tong, in his major league debut, got the win.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Philip that's King Tall, King Tall.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
He's one to zero.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Philadelphia two to one over Atlanta with the run bottom
of the eighth. Tampa basin Washington to a sixth straight
loss four to one, and Saint Louis won at Cincinnati
and Tenanting seven to five. So the Reds now five games,
the last NL wildcard behind the Mattspeck to.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
You, Legas Steve O coming up next. Wow. Deon Sanders
just did himself no favors trying to explain that bockle
of play calling and a lack of usage of timeouts
at the end of Colorado's loss to Georgia Tech. Wait, doll,
we tell you that's next. Right here. Jason Smith Steve
de Sager in for Harmon. This is Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
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Speaker 1 (35:23):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
Friend Mike Harmon Special Delivery. Steve de Saga in for
Harmon tonight and uh look, Colorado loses their first game
post Shador Sanders and Travis Hunter. And while I've told
you they're gonna be fine, there'll be a six to
(35:44):
eight win team Georgia Tech is pretty good. The end
of the game is inexcusable. Right with a minute two
left to go, down by a touchdown to Georgia Tech.
They run bubble screens, they run two hail Mary's, they
don't call any timeouts, and they leave the game. Dion
leaves the game with two timeouts in his pocket. The
game ends with them throwing two hail Mary's from midfield.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
So correct me if I'm wrong, Jason. They get five
timeouts next weekend for the next game. They say two
from Tonight's.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Their rollover minutes from the old from the old cell
phone you got, you get rollover minutes you old times.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
He's way ahead of the game. I don't know why
other coaches don't do this, and.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
It's inexcusable to not use it. The play calling is terrible,
and the point is is that, Hey, you have timeouts,
so when you get the ball back with a minute
two from your twenty yard line, you call plays that
are okay being run to the middle of the field,
like that's the whole rea. You have timeouts, you can
use the whole field. It's not that well if you
don't have timeouts. So we kind of have to go
(36:45):
outside the hashbarks as we get caught in bounds. That's
a killer. That's what you have the timeout, so you
go to the middle of the field. Now, Deon Sanders
was asked about this a few minutes ago, and this
is via Troy Rank columnists the Denver Post, the Denver Post.
This is talking about why he didn't use his timeouts. Quote,
we got out of bounds a couple of times. We
didn't have to take them. We got out of bounds
(37:07):
on both sidelines. Uh, it doesn't make sense to use
your time out in that sense. We were trying to
preserve them because we needed them. But I don't want
to go home with any timeouts. They don't do me
any good. You have to be strategic, but to burn
a time out, just to burn a time out, just
so you guys won't say anything that don't make sense
at all.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
Okay, again, strategic, aguess, you have to be strategic.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Yeah. I like how he says. Yeah, I want to
be strategic. We had we were We had to preserve
them because we needed them. Clearly you didn't because you
didn't use them, so you didn't think you needed them yet.
But the point is it's not you know, I understand that, Yes,
we got out of bounds and got a bounds, but
that's not the point. The point is not getting out
of bounds. The point is, hey, we can use the
whole field like Georgia Tech is going to give them
(37:50):
the middle of the field. Again, they're coming into this thinking, okay,
Colorado's got a mobile quarterback. We we have to defend
eighty yards, right, we have to defend eighty yards because
they need get in the end zone. That's a big
thing for us. And they're likely thinking, all right, they're
gonna get some chunk yards, but we'll make a couple
of plays defensively, and we're hoping that this game is
(38:10):
gonna end with us having to make a stand from
our twenty yard line and not our two yard line,
or they get they get in the end zone. So
that's what it is. And this is where you use
the whole field. You throw the ball over the middle
of the field fifteen yards downfield, use that first play
to get to the forty five yard line and call
a time out right away, right you. Or you use
(38:31):
a play to you know that's gonna get you twelve
yards somehow where you get to midfield, then you call
a time out. Like being able to use the whole
field is your advantage, right, So that's the whole thing.
And that's whole thing about using tome so to hear
this explanation, like the almost makes it worse, like saying,
but you saw what we got out of bounds. Yeah,
but why are you running those places? Why are you
(38:51):
running to hail Mary's Like that doesn't that doesn't say
why we there's twelve seconds left, whatever it is, why
aren't you trying to throw a path to the thirty
five Georgia Tech will give you a path to the
thirty five yard line with with the fifteen seconds left
to go, because they'll be okay with that, and you'll
be okay with it because now you're trying to convert
two plays with thirty five instead you're throwing hail Mary's Like,
(39:14):
that doesn't make sense. His explanation for the timeouts doesn't
jibe with the play calls and what Colorado tried to
do in the final minute.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
The hey, he got out of bounds anyway, explanation applies
to when the quarterback scrambled and instead of using about
five seconds on a play, tried to get out of
bounds himself from the middle of the field and it
wound up a short gain and burning ten seconds off
the clock. And that doesn't explain why on the first
play of the drive you only got a short gain
(39:42):
and didn't use the timeout right after that. So the
bad decision from your new QB was trump by the
bad decision from the coach on the sidelines, where now
you've burned twenty to twenty five seconds right off the
bat at the beginning of a drive, a drive where
you need to go through orders of the length of
the field, you're down seven.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Yeah. That again, the attention to detail is the biggest
thing I wonder in a situation like what's Deon Sanders'
attention to detail during the week, you know, and and
Pat Shermer as well, because he's the one calling the
plays offensively, Like what what are they doing at this point?
Because to see this at the end, like look, Pete
Futech talked about it with this two minutes ago. Caden
Salti is a veteran, told you I love the kid, right,
(40:23):
but he's played at Liberty a long time. He's got
a lot going on. He knows what to do with.
This was a This was a failure at all levels,
whether it's Deon for not calling the timeouts, the play calling,
Salter for not being smart enough with the football. This
was a end of game meltdown. And I guarantee you
Georgia Tech coaching staff is walking off the field going, man,
I don't know what the hell they were doing, but
we'll take it right, Well, can't take away. We'll take
(40:45):
that win on the road. Man, it's awesome. Well we'll
take it. Walk away, tip bar cap and say see everybody, Boulder,
We're not coming back.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
And two of the last three plays for the Colorado
offense where Hail Mary's with only one receiver in the
end zone, multiple defenders. If you're gonna call that and
call multiple hail Mary's fine, give yourself a chance. Somebody
else has got to be down there, because you did,
in fact, on the last play of the night, have
(41:12):
a tip ball where the defender didn't just bat the
ball down to the ground and hey we win. He
actually tried to catch it, it went off his hands, and
no secondary receiver for the offense was down behind the
first guy to try and get the karm.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
Well, here's where I can defend Deon Sanders, Steve. You
would be expecting them to put all those receivers down
there to catch it. How much of he I'm gonna
surprise you by throwing it to one guy around four defenders.
You're not expecting that, are you?
Speaker 4 (41:41):
No, not in the least. Ah.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
Yeah, he's playing chess. Well you're playing checker, Steve. But
that's what's going on.
Speaker 3 (41:49):
You still got his two timeouts exit out about of Frasca,
Jason Smith, Steve de Sager coming up next.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
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