September 2, 2026 • 27 mins
Everybody spent the weekend dunking on the empty seats at the Coliseum. Colin isn't buying the outrage — and his defense of USC isn't really a defense, it's a theory of American sports geography. Big cities belong to pro teams. Mid-sized cities belong to college. Small towns belong to Friday nights. LA has been paying that tax since the Rams and Chargers moved in, and USC already conceded the point when it shrank the building and added suites. It's not an excuse, it's a reason.
Then the part the attendance story buried: true freshman Trent Mosley looked like a first-team All-American in his first college game, and Lincoln Riley emptied the bench on purpose, because September is for getting a very young roster ready for Oregon, Washington, Penn State, Ohio State and Indiana. Colin also explains why he thinks USC, Ohio State and Texas all have schedules too brutal to survive, why Notre Dame and Miami is his national title call — twice — and why he'd take the Longhorns at home against the Buckeyes. Plus NFL Week 1: the Colts as a live home dog, why Jacksonville could bury Cleveland, whether Denver's 14-win magic regresses, and why Goodell's London talk is a stadium-leverage bat signal, not a real plan.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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All right, it's Wednesday, September 2nd. I'm golfing later today.
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But every year at this time, people say, Colin, where'd
you go? Listen, we had the World Cup at Fox.
It was unbelievable. The most fun I've ever had broadcasting
in the summer in my life. I thought Fox did
a great job. And because of that, it was, you know, June,
which is often a time to take some time off
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after the NBA finals. Everybody worked every day, should have,
and is glad they did. But I'm soaking up some
of my last days off of the year because obviously
football season, everybody works at every network. But it is
now getting to the point where I am jonesing to
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talk about stuff. The first thing I wanted to address,
I thought was kind of interesting, was the USC home crowd,
nobody went, a bunch of excuses. One of the things
I learned 20 years ago when I started working at
The Other Place, because I was such a huge fan
of college football, is how many people in the building
at that time 20 years ago at The Other Place,
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they were pro sports fans. They loved the Yankees. the
Red Sox, they didn't pay attention to college football, like
at all. And a lot of them were from New
York and Boston and Minnesota and Philadelphia and big major
American cities. And what I found was those were pro
sports fans. A lot of them loved college basketball because
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they grew up in the Northeast and the Big East
was the, you know, the conference of note along with
the the tobacco road and the ACC rivalries. But I
learned that very quickly at the other place was that,
you know, if you grow up in the Northeast, you
are a Red Sox or a Yankee and a Giant
and a Jet and an Eagle and a Patriot fan.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
You didn't care if.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
You grew up in Boston about BC football.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
You didn't care about it.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I did more than they did when they were born there.
So I learned very quickly that, you know, big cities
are mostly for pro sports. Medium-sized cities, they love their
college sports. And small towns love their high school football. Now,
in the ratings game, everybody watches March Madness because you
can watch it. Many of those big city kids went
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to these schools. It lasts three weeks. You bet on it, right? Like,
that's different.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
But college football.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Before we have an expansion of the playoff, which will become,
you know, bigger and bigger as it expands and it
becomes part of our sports legacy. This point forward in 20, 30,
40 years, the college football playoff will be like March Madness.
You just you don't have to love the sport, but
you want to go in, make some bets and have
some fun and watch it.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
And so L.A. is one of the only not just
because I lived there for nine years.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
L.A.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Is one of the only big cities that.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Well, you can get 75,000, 80,000 people to watch a
college football game, and it has tradition. New York doesn't really,
you know, Philadelphia doesn't. Minneapolis, Denver, Phoenix, San Francisco, those
are pro sports towns. Chicago, where I live now, I mean,
they'll go watch a Northwestern Michigan game or, let's say,
Ohio State's in town, but that's a pro sports city.
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It's a Bears, Blackhawks, Bulls, Wrigley Field, Cubs, White Sox town.
It's just the reality of it. Now they got the
Chicago Fire building a new stadium. So, I always looked
at L.A. as one of the few places. For years
and years, Miami has been a city because it's got
a beach like L.A.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Miami and L.A. are very similar. Pro sports towns, transient
with great beaches.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
It is hard to get people on a Saturday afternoon
when they're going to watch a pro team on a
Sunday to get them on a Saturday afternoon, regardless of
the weather, get them into a college football environment.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
It's hard. There's just a lot to do.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
You'll notice that most of the great college football towns,
your Tuscaloosas, your Stillwaters, your Normans, Gainesville, that's the biggest
act in town. So I always looked at Los Angeles differently.
I was like, man, you could, especially before the NFL
teams were there in the Pete Carroll era, you'd get
like 90,000 people to a college football game on a
Saturday night and you'd have stars on the sidelines.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
It felt huge. Well, now you have two NFL teams.
You got to make.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Choices Saturday or Sunday. So even USC acknowledged this. They
shrank their attendance. They put in more suites. They realized
the days of getting 90,000, you're just not going to
get it. It's just, lot of oxygen out of a city.
So I never consider, I don't consider USC's fan base
like the Miami Hurricanes to be the best or the
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most loyal, but I sort of understand the ecosystem of
Coral Gables, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Like, I get it.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
That said, I'd rather live in Miami or Los Angeles
than I would most college towns. For the primary reason,
there's a lot to do. In fact, there's a big
problem in America that's developed over the last 10 to
15 years. College graduates don't want to live in small towns.
They're struggling to find health care and the right doctors.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
And it's hard.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
You know, kids come out of college with college debt.
They want to go places where the handsome boys and
the cute girls are, right? They come out without college debt.
They want to go live in the cities. They don't
even want to own houses anymore. They want to go
to New York, L.A., San Francisco, Minneapolis, Denver. You know,
they want to go where the action is. You've heard
that saying, right? Let's go where the action is. Well,
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the action's not in West Lafayette, Indiana.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Doesn't mean Bloomington's not a great college town or Athens isn't.
But again, I just, I view this differently.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
It's not an excuse. It's a reason. Like Miami and LA,
there's a lot of stuff to do.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
That said, lost in the USC game is that they
had like a 35-3 lead and played really well early.
Then they dumped their bench. Why did they do that?
This is why you have to watch a college football game.
You can't just go and see the score. If you
watch the game, and I did, then I re-watched it
on YouTube, is that they were really impressive considering you
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were starting like freshmen on the offense. Yeah. Trent Mosley
is probably the best Southern California high school player I've
seen in three or four years. He starts day one
as a wide receiver. He is an unbelievable eight. All-American
first team freshman. I mean, you can put that thing
down in pen today. Also, they start at defensive end,
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at tight end, at wide receiver, multiple freshmen starting. Well,
they have another eight to 10 freshmen. They had the
number one recruiting class in the country. They have another
eight to 10 freshmen who they need to be on
the second team because they don't have a ton of depth.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
It's a very young football team. USC is one of
the younger Big Ten teams.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
So it's talented, but The freshmen are good, but they've
got two to three guys that'll start, eight or nine
freshmen who they want.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
To get ramped up.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
In this first four or five weeks before they face
back-to-back oregon washington and then here comes penn state and
then it's ohio state then it's indiana they want those
freshmen to be ready to play because they're talented they
went and got a national class kids from a couple
guys from ohio that are amazing and all over southern
california new jersey it's a national class And they're just
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trying to build as much depth as they possibly can
for Big Ten play.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
So who cares what happened in the fourth quarter?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
You can understand they're just they're trying to get ready
for Big Ten play because they haven't had the requisite
depth to compete at the highest levels of Big Ten play,
because by the time they get to the middle or
the end of the Big Ten conference, they're all beat
up and they're using backups as starters. So they're trying
to get guys minutes early for Big Ten play. And.
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With that said, do I think they're going to win
the Big Ten championship? No, their schedule is too tough.
Same reason I don't think Ohio State is going to
win the national championship. Their schedule is too tough. Same
reason the Texas Longhorns won't win the national championship. Their
schedule is too tough. Notre Dame, Miami are my picks
to meet for a second time in the national championship.
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Notre Dame wins the first meeting in South Bend. Close game,
wins the first. Miami and Notre Dame meet for a
second time in the national championship. I'd probably go with
Miami in the second matchup. But that's kind of who
I like. I think the more quality teams you play,
especially on the road, you have multiple losses, you get played. Remember,
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the tougher schedule you play, the more injuries you generally have, right?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
You're going like.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
You know, when you are Texas and you have six
or seven games against all sorts of NFL, future NFL athletes,
you get dinged up.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
I mean, you get injuries before the games start, just
in practice.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
So I think it's unrealistic to think that you have
Ohio State or the Texas schedule. They're going to fly
through it unscathed. They're not going to lose any starters.
Notre Dame can rest a lot of those starters for
almost their entire regular season. They're going to be a
dominant defensive team. I mean, Notre Dame has the best
corner in the country, maybe the best linebacker in the country,
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maybe the best safety in the country, and maybe the
best defensive mind in the country in Marcus Freeman and
an easy schedule. But Notre Dame is going to have leads.
They're going to build depth. They're going to play the
entire depth chart. And my guess is, barring some, you know,
CJ Carr injury, they're going to fly to the regular
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season and look really impressive and be ready to roll
for the playoff.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
So that's who I like. So those are some college
football thoughts. The NFL.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
This year, you know, you're starting on a Wednesday, Seattle
and New England up in the Northwest. And then, you know,
you get the Rams and the 49ers in Australia. I
don't love that. I understand, like there was a recent
comment where the NFL Roger Goodell said, we're going to
have a team in London.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I think it's a smokescreen. I don't think there's ever
going to be a European team.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
I think potentially you could have one in Mexico City, Um,
that could potentially work, but there's always been, you know,
questions valid or not air quality safety.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
It's not my department. I do think you could have
a professional team in Mexico city. I think it would
be really hard to do in Europe. Um, I just,
you're asking, I mean, you're, you're going to ask Midwest
and West coast teams to have to fly to Dusseldorf
or London, uh, wherever they put it, I think that's unfair.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
It would be a huge home field advantage for the
European team.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
But I think it does, it kind of sends out
a bat signal that all you teams that get your
act together, we've moved teams before, the Raiders, the Chargers,
all these local municipalities. Oh, no, no, we'll move a
team to London. Yeah, City Council, we need... you know,
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approval on getting a new stadium built, whatever it takes.
I mean, we're seeing it with the Bears. All right,
we'll go to Hammond, Indiana. I think it feels like
to me, you put it out there and it's the
NFL staying on the aggressive when it comes to future
potential franchises. I think week one in the NFL is
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really fascinating. Now, I've always said I don't do a
blazing five on week one. I do it, but it's
like I'm guessing because very few starters play. everybody's hiding
their best plays, defenses, vanilla. The hell am I doing?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
There are some games that I think are very interesting
in week one, like the Colts are getting the hook
against the Ravens. Well, the Colts now are healthy. I
watched them when they were healthy last year. They're really good.
That's a really good roster. They've been trying to find
the right quarterback forever, and I don't know how long
Daniel Jones will be a Colt, but he was really
good last year when he was upright. I watched them
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go to Los Angeles and outplay the Rams. Should have
beaten the Rams. Pretty good team. Shane Steichen's excellent. And
they host a Ravens team, which, by the way, new
play caller, new head coach, lost the anchor of that
offensive line. Lamar Jackson is off an injury. I don't
know what Baltimore is going to be. Vegas loves him.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
I like him. I respect the organization. Ownership down.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Excellently run. Would it shock anybody if the Colts upset
the Ravens?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Another game that jumps out to me, if you were
somebody interested in betting, you go look up the Jags-Browns line.
Jacksonville was a really good football team down the stretch
last year, averaging 33 points a game in the last
couple of months. And they were beaten by Josh Allen
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and a more experienced playoff team. But now Liam Cohen
goes into year two with Trevor Lawrence. And I think
both the coach and the quarterback are a little underrated.
I don't quite know what to do with the Jaguars
this year. Didn't necessarily love their draft, but I mean,
how many players come out of a draft on an
annual basis for a good team? Jacksonville's got good players,
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a good team, playoff team. You know, it's easy if
you're the Jets or the Browns to go grab five
starters in the draft. It's much harder when you're the
Jacksonville and you had a team that at the end
of the year was averaging over 30 points a game offensively.
They lose Travis to ATN, don't love it, but they've
got a pretty solid staff.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Not a lot of rookies are going to walk in
and start for the Jags.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
And against the Cleveland team, and I think Cleveland's GM's
done a really good job, but last year, They played
more rookies than anybody, if I recall. This year, they're
going to play five or six more rookies. They had
an excellent draft. Cleveland is young, and the quarterbacks have
been splitting snaps. And you've got a first-year head coach. Like,
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would you be surprised if Jacksonville won that game 34-10?
I would not. So those are two teams and two
games that kind of jump out to me. The Colts
at home. Daniel Jones is healthy. That's a handful. That's
going to be a really difficult team to beat. And
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everybody knows I like Chris Ballard. The Colts are a
great example in the NFL that you can do a
lot right. But if you don't have a star or
an A quarterback, it is hard to win games in
this league. And Daniel Jones was playing at that level
early last year before he got hurt. So keep your
eye on the Colts. I have the Colts as a
team battling for a playoff spot along with Jacksonville to
the very last weekend of the year. And... Other games
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that are fascinating to me is, you know, we know
Denver's the team. I was texting with Sean Payton last week.
Denver's a fascinating team. They led the NFL in sacks
and allowed the fewest. Just that alone. If I said
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to you, there's this team, they sack your quarterback and
pressure him regularly and you never sack theirs.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
You'd be like, oh, it's a playoff team. And myself
and others look.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
At them and go, yeah, I know, but they trailed
in 15 games last year, won 14.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
There has to be some sort of regression to the mean.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Now, they may not trail in 15 games this year
by adding Jalen Waddell, another year of snaps for Bo Nix.
Maybe they only trail in seven games this year and
win four or five. But Denver's a fascinating team because
in week one, they're getting points against Kansas City. And
it's like we all acknowledge that. that Kansas City appears
to be better, but Mahomes off of surgery. Kenneth Walker's
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a good running back, but could he last a year?
They've got a rookie corner, no longer Trent McDuffie, and
you cross your fingers on their left tackle, Josh Simmons' availability. Like,
if you're telling me what roster do I like, and
I respect Kansas City top down. It's like Denver. Denver's
got a top five roster in the league. Eagles, Lions, Rams, Seahawks, Denver.
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Those rosters feel different. Those rosters feel different. So that's
just an interesting number to me. Bet who you want,
but Denver getting points, Jags only giving up a little
more than a touchdown, Colts getting the hook at home.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Those are interesting games. And yes, I will do a
blazing five. Who's kidding?
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Who?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
It's not going to be that successful. I just bake
it in right now. It's not going to be a
great one.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
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I will say this. I want to go back, pivot
back to college football. There's only four games right now
in the Blazing Five that I really feel strongly about.
I got to tell you, Texas minus one and a
half hosting Ohio state.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I like the Longhorns. First of all, for as poorly
as they played in Columbus.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
The game was close and Ohio state was a really
good team.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
And Ohio state at home is an exceptional team. All right.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
So, uh, Texas also not only, um, is a loaded
team this year. But at the key positions, they bring
back really talented people. Quarterback, left tackle, edge rusher, and weapon.
Those are really essential positions. You know this and I
know this. All positions are not the same. In the NFL,
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you got to get the coach, the quarterback, left tackle,
a weapon, and a pass rusher. You can win a
lot of games with average linebackers, so-so safeties, and a
decent but not a great interior offensive line. But there
are places, college and pro, that if you have special
players at those positions, it will pay off. Texas has it.
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So All-American, potentially an edge rusher, quarterback, left tackle, and
wide receiver with an experienced coach. The criticism on Sark
is in big games, hasn't played particularly well, a little
soft in big games. Listen, when you're Texas, there's a
lot of big games. You're everybody's big games. I always
said this about Muhammad Ali. Everybody that fought Muhammad Ali
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in his prime was the biggest fight of their life.
You know, like that's a hard, when I was a
kid growing up, the Raiders were unbelievable. I mean, they
were so many different things. They were iconic. It was
Kenny Stabler. It was John Madden. It was Super Bowls.
It was Lyle Alzado. It was Cliff Branch. It was
Fred Belitnikoff. It was Raider Nation. They were just so
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many things. They were great. They were historic. They had
like an edge, almost a anti-corporate edge there. And for
years and years, when I'm a Seattle Seahawks fan, and
the Seahawks entered the NFL in the mid to late 70s,
like 77, the Seahawks gave the Raiders fits at the kingdom,
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gave them fits.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Well, I was a Seahawks fan.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
The Raiders were the game of games, even bigger than
Elway and the Broncos.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Coming to the kingdom. The Raiders are coming to the kingdom.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
And I can remember at some point, the Seahawks beat
the Raiders again in Seattle. And one of the Raider players,
it could have been Lester Hayes, said, I'm so tired
of people calling them an expansion franchise.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Like they got good players. And when I was younger.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
I can remember the great Yankee teams, like with Reggie
Jackson coming to the Kingdome and the Mariners had some
success against the Yankees. And so like every, it didn't
matter if it was June, it didn't matter if the
Mariners were 27 games out of first, when the Yankees
came to town- It.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Was a much bigger game for those Mariners than it
was those Yankees.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
And so, you know, I think when you're the Texas
Longhorns and I hear you don't win a lot of
big games, they got a lot of big games. And
it feels like that game means so much more to
Texas because Texas is representing the SEC in that game.
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Over the last several years, the Big Ten has been
much better in bowls and in the playoff than the
SEC has. And the SEC dominated college football for two decades.
So it does feel like this is a very crucial
year for the SEC to make a statement early in
the season. And that is a statement game. And so
I think Texas is at home. They're kind of carrying
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the SEC banner. They've got All-Americans at the right spot.
And it feels like it really matters a lot for
the Longhorns. And they have a brutal road schedule. So
you lose here a home game, and Texas understarts not
losing home games. You lose here, and this thing could
go sideways. I mean, you could be a really good team.
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Remember last year with Texas. There was a real argument
they should have been a playoff team, but they had
won too many losses. Well, you start looking at that
schedule in road games, college kids don't play on the
road at the same level pro athletes play on the road.
I mean, the NFL now, they say largely home field
is a point and a half. Forever, it was like
three to three and a half. Now it's a point
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and a half because, you know, teams on the road,
they take... I was talking to a player about this
several years ago. He's like, man, when you go on
the road now, you take all the comforts of home.
It just doesn't, especially if it's a close road game,
it's Steelers to Ravens or Ravens to Bengals. It's just
not traveling that far. It's just Green Bay to Chicago.
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It just doesn't matter anymore. Best team wins. Best coaching
staff wins. Best quarterback wins. But college is different. A
lot of college kids are young. They haven't done a
ton of traveling. You know, you're not you don't have
the elevated. You're in a small town. You're in a
normal hotel. You know, this is not pro football where
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like road feels like road. Right. There's a big difference
if you're a Buckeye playing in Ohio State and then
playing in West Lafayette. OK, doesn't mean you're not going
to win, but it feels like it doesn't feel like
the comforts of home. So in college, I still generally,
when two great teams play, remember I said this a
couple years ago with Ohio State and Oregon. I said,
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Oregon's going to win at Autzen. Ohio State will beat
them later in the year. And I feel the same way.
I think Texas wins this one. If they meet again,
I'd probably take Ohio State. I think Ryan Day is
just a tremendous coach who, because he doesn't have a
brand like an Urban or a Saban or a Harbaugh,
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he just wins a bunch of games.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
You just forget how damn good he is. He doesn't
have a sweater vest.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
It's just Ryan Day wins 88% of his games, and
the Buckeyes always come to play in.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
The big ones. They may not win them all. They
come to play.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Texas in big games, those Georgia games, felt like they
weren't ready to play. That said, I would take the
Longhorns close in that one.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
All right.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Blazing Five's around the corner. John Middlecock podcast is around
the corner. I'm going to go golf today. Not particularly well.
It's not going to be pretty. Don't care about that.
It's about the effort. And for the record, Friday, USC
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plays Fresno State.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
About a 21.5 point favorite. My guess is it's a
night game. A few people will show up.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
I know, nobody cares about USC football in Los Angeles.
My guess is the Fresno State-USC game. It's going to
be a nice crowd. A little cooler.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Fresno's not that far of a drive.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
LA fans hearing about, SC fans hearing about what lousy
fans they are, they'll show up.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Hydrated. At least until half. When they'll get lubricated. All right,
that's it. We'll talk soon.
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All right, it's Wednesday, September 2nd. I'm golfing later today.
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But every year at this time, people say, Colin, where'd
you go? Listen, we had the World Cup at Fox.
It was unbelievable. The most fun I've ever had broadcasting
in the summer in my life. I thought Fox did
a great job. And because of that, it was, you know, June,
which is often a time to take some time off
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after the NBA finals. Everybody worked every day, should have,
and is glad they did. But I'm soaking up some
of my last days off of the year because obviously
football season, everybody works at every network. But it is
now getting to the point where I am jonesing to
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talk about stuff. The first thing I wanted to address,
I thought was kind of interesting, was the USC home crowd,
nobody went, a bunch of excuses. One of the things
I learned 20 years ago when I started working at
The Other Place, because I was such a huge fan
of college football, is how many people in the building
at that time 20 years ago at The Other Place,
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they were pro sports fans. They loved the Yankees. the
Red Sox, they didn't pay attention to college football, like
at all. And a lot of them were from New
York and Boston and Minnesota and Philadelphia and big major
American cities. And what I found was those were pro
sports fans. A lot of them loved college basketball because
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they grew up in the Northeast and the Big East
was the, you know, the conference of note along with
the the tobacco road and the ACC rivalries. But I
learned that very quickly at the other place was that,
you know, if you grow up in the Northeast, you
are a Red Sox or a Yankee and a Giant
and a Jet and an Eagle and a Patriot fan.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
You didn't care if.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
You grew up in Boston about BC football.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
You didn't care about it.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I did more than they did when they were born there.
So I learned very quickly that, you know, big cities
are mostly for pro sports. Medium-sized cities, they love their
college sports. And small towns love their high school football. Now,
in the ratings game, everybody watches March Madness because you
can watch it. Many of those big city kids went
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to these schools. It lasts three weeks. You bet on it, right? Like,
that's different.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
But college football.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Before we have an expansion of the playoff, which will become,
you know, bigger and bigger as it expands and it
becomes part of our sports legacy. This point forward in 20, 30,
40 years, the college football playoff will be like March Madness.
You just you don't have to love the sport, but
you want to go in, make some bets and have
some fun and watch it.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
And so L.A. is one of the only not just
because I lived there for nine years.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
L.A.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Is one of the only big cities that.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Well, you can get 75,000, 80,000 people to watch a
college football game, and it has tradition. New York doesn't really,
you know, Philadelphia doesn't. Minneapolis, Denver, Phoenix, San Francisco, those
are pro sports towns. Chicago, where I live now, I mean,
they'll go watch a Northwestern Michigan game or, let's say,
Ohio State's in town, but that's a pro sports city.
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It's a Bears, Blackhawks, Bulls, Wrigley Field, Cubs, White Sox town.
It's just the reality of it. Now they got the
Chicago Fire building a new stadium. So, I always looked
at L.A. as one of the few places. For years
and years, Miami has been a city because it's got
a beach like L.A.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Miami and L.A. are very similar. Pro sports towns, transient
with great beaches.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
It is hard to get people on a Saturday afternoon
when they're going to watch a pro team on a
Sunday to get them on a Saturday afternoon, regardless of
the weather, get them into a college football environment.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
It's hard. There's just a lot to do.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
You'll notice that most of the great college football towns,
your Tuscaloosas, your Stillwaters, your Normans, Gainesville, that's the biggest
act in town. So I always looked at Los Angeles differently.
I was like, man, you could, especially before the NFL
teams were there in the Pete Carroll era, you'd get
like 90,000 people to a college football game on a
Saturday night and you'd have stars on the sidelines.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
It felt huge. Well, now you have two NFL teams.
You got to make.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Choices Saturday or Sunday. So even USC acknowledged this. They
shrank their attendance. They put in more suites. They realized
the days of getting 90,000, you're just not going to
get it. It's just, lot of oxygen out of a city.
So I never consider, I don't consider USC's fan base
like the Miami Hurricanes to be the best or the
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most loyal, but I sort of understand the ecosystem of
Coral Gables, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Like, I get it.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
That said, I'd rather live in Miami or Los Angeles
than I would most college towns. For the primary reason,
there's a lot to do. In fact, there's a big
problem in America that's developed over the last 10 to
15 years. College graduates don't want to live in small towns.
They're struggling to find health care and the right doctors.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
And it's hard.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
You know, kids come out of college with college debt.
They want to go places where the handsome boys and
the cute girls are, right? They come out without college debt.
They want to go live in the cities. They don't
even want to own houses anymore. They want to go
to New York, L.A., San Francisco, Minneapolis, Denver. You know,
they want to go where the action is. You've heard
that saying, right? Let's go where the action is. Well,
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the action's not in West Lafayette, Indiana.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Doesn't mean Bloomington's not a great college town or Athens isn't.
But again, I just, I view this differently.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
It's not an excuse. It's a reason. Like Miami and LA,
there's a lot of stuff to do.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
That said, lost in the USC game is that they
had like a 35-3 lead and played really well early.
Then they dumped their bench. Why did they do that?
This is why you have to watch a college football game.
You can't just go and see the score. If you
watch the game, and I did, then I re-watched it
on YouTube, is that they were really impressive considering you
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were starting like freshmen on the offense. Yeah. Trent Mosley
is probably the best Southern California high school player I've
seen in three or four years. He starts day one
as a wide receiver. He is an unbelievable eight. All-American
first team freshman. I mean, you can put that thing
down in pen today. Also, they start at defensive end,
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at tight end, at wide receiver, multiple freshmen starting. Well,
they have another eight to 10 freshmen. They had the
number one recruiting class in the country. They have another
eight to 10 freshmen who they need to be on
the second team because they don't have a ton of depth.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
It's a very young football team. USC is one of
the younger Big Ten teams.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
So it's talented, but The freshmen are good, but they've
got two to three guys that'll start, eight or nine
freshmen who they want.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
To get ramped up.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
In this first four or five weeks before they face
back-to-back oregon washington and then here comes penn state and
then it's ohio state then it's indiana they want those
freshmen to be ready to play because they're talented they
went and got a national class kids from a couple
guys from ohio that are amazing and all over southern
california new jersey it's a national class And they're just
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trying to build as much depth as they possibly can
for Big Ten play.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
So who cares what happened in the fourth quarter?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
You can understand they're just they're trying to get ready
for Big Ten play because they haven't had the requisite
depth to compete at the highest levels of Big Ten play,
because by the time they get to the middle or
the end of the Big Ten conference, they're all beat
up and they're using backups as starters. So they're trying
to get guys minutes early for Big Ten play. And.
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With that said, do I think they're going to win
the Big Ten championship? No, their schedule is too tough.
Same reason I don't think Ohio State is going to
win the national championship. Their schedule is too tough. Same
reason the Texas Longhorns won't win the national championship. Their
schedule is too tough. Notre Dame, Miami are my picks
to meet for a second time in the national championship.
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Notre Dame wins the first meeting in South Bend. Close game,
wins the first. Miami and Notre Dame meet for a
second time in the national championship. I'd probably go with
Miami in the second matchup. But that's kind of who
I like. I think the more quality teams you play,
especially on the road, you have multiple losses, you get played. Remember,
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the tougher schedule you play, the more injuries you generally have, right?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
You're going like.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
You know, when you are Texas and you have six
or seven games against all sorts of NFL, future NFL athletes,
you get dinged up.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
I mean, you get injuries before the games start, just
in practice.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
So I think it's unrealistic to think that you have
Ohio State or the Texas schedule. They're going to fly
through it unscathed. They're not going to lose any starters.
Notre Dame can rest a lot of those starters for
almost their entire regular season. They're going to be a
dominant defensive team. I mean, Notre Dame has the best
corner in the country, maybe the best linebacker in the country,
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maybe the best safety in the country, and maybe the
best defensive mind in the country in Marcus Freeman and
an easy schedule. But Notre Dame is going to have leads.
They're going to build depth. They're going to play the
entire depth chart. And my guess is, barring some, you know,
CJ Carr injury, they're going to fly to the regular
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season and look really impressive and be ready to roll
for the playoff.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
So that's who I like. So those are some college
football thoughts. The NFL.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
This year, you know, you're starting on a Wednesday, Seattle
and New England up in the Northwest. And then, you know,
you get the Rams and the 49ers in Australia. I
don't love that. I understand, like there was a recent
comment where the NFL Roger Goodell said, we're going to
have a team in London.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I think it's a smokescreen. I don't think there's ever
going to be a European team.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
I think potentially you could have one in Mexico City, Um,
that could potentially work, but there's always been, you know,
questions valid or not air quality safety.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
It's not my department. I do think you could have
a professional team in Mexico city. I think it would
be really hard to do in Europe. Um, I just,
you're asking, I mean, you're, you're going to ask Midwest
and West coast teams to have to fly to Dusseldorf
or London, uh, wherever they put it, I think that's unfair.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
It would be a huge home field advantage for the
European team.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
But I think it does, it kind of sends out
a bat signal that all you teams that get your
act together, we've moved teams before, the Raiders, the Chargers,
all these local municipalities. Oh, no, no, we'll move a
team to London. Yeah, City Council, we need... you know,
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approval on getting a new stadium built, whatever it takes.
I mean, we're seeing it with the Bears. All right,
we'll go to Hammond, Indiana. I think it feels like
to me, you put it out there and it's the
NFL staying on the aggressive when it comes to future
potential franchises. I think week one in the NFL is
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really fascinating. Now, I've always said I don't do a
blazing five on week one. I do it, but it's
like I'm guessing because very few starters play. everybody's hiding
their best plays, defenses, vanilla. The hell am I doing?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
There are some games that I think are very interesting
in week one, like the Colts are getting the hook
against the Ravens. Well, the Colts now are healthy. I
watched them when they were healthy last year. They're really good.
That's a really good roster. They've been trying to find
the right quarterback forever, and I don't know how long
Daniel Jones will be a Colt, but he was really
good last year when he was upright. I watched them
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go to Los Angeles and outplay the Rams. Should have
beaten the Rams. Pretty good team. Shane Steichen's excellent. And
they host a Ravens team, which, by the way, new
play caller, new head coach, lost the anchor of that
offensive line. Lamar Jackson is off an injury. I don't
know what Baltimore is going to be. Vegas loves him.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
I like him. I respect the organization. Ownership down.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Excellently run. Would it shock anybody if the Colts upset
the Ravens?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Another game that jumps out to me, if you were
somebody interested in betting, you go look up the Jags-Browns line.
Jacksonville was a really good football team down the stretch
last year, averaging 33 points a game in the last
couple of months. And they were beaten by Josh Allen
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and a more experienced playoff team. But now Liam Cohen
goes into year two with Trevor Lawrence. And I think
both the coach and the quarterback are a little underrated.
I don't quite know what to do with the Jaguars
this year. Didn't necessarily love their draft, but I mean,
how many players come out of a draft on an
annual basis for a good team? Jacksonville's got good players,
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a good team, playoff team. You know, it's easy if
you're the Jets or the Browns to go grab five
starters in the draft. It's much harder when you're the
Jacksonville and you had a team that at the end
of the year was averaging over 30 points a game offensively.
They lose Travis to ATN, don't love it, but they've
got a pretty solid staff.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Not a lot of rookies are going to walk in
and start for the Jags.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
And against the Cleveland team, and I think Cleveland's GM's
done a really good job, but last year, They played
more rookies than anybody, if I recall. This year, they're
going to play five or six more rookies. They had
an excellent draft. Cleveland is young, and the quarterbacks have
been splitting snaps. And you've got a first-year head coach. Like,
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would you be surprised if Jacksonville won that game 34-10?
I would not. So those are two teams and two
games that kind of jump out to me. The Colts
at home. Daniel Jones is healthy. That's a handful. That's
going to be a really difficult team to beat. And
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everybody knows I like Chris Ballard. The Colts are a
great example in the NFL that you can do a
lot right. But if you don't have a star or
an A quarterback, it is hard to win games in
this league. And Daniel Jones was playing at that level
early last year before he got hurt. So keep your
eye on the Colts. I have the Colts as a
team battling for a playoff spot along with Jacksonville to
the very last weekend of the year. And... Other games
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that are fascinating to me is, you know, we know
Denver's the team. I was texting with Sean Payton last week.
Denver's a fascinating team. They led the NFL in sacks
and allowed the fewest. Just that alone. If I said
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to you, there's this team, they sack your quarterback and
pressure him regularly and you never sack theirs.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
You'd be like, oh, it's a playoff team. And myself
and others look.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
At them and go, yeah, I know, but they trailed
in 15 games last year, won 14.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
There has to be some sort of regression to the mean.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Now, they may not trail in 15 games this year
by adding Jalen Waddell, another year of snaps for Bo Nix.
Maybe they only trail in seven games this year and
win four or five. But Denver's a fascinating team because
in week one, they're getting points against Kansas City. And
it's like we all acknowledge that. that Kansas City appears
to be better, but Mahomes off of surgery. Kenneth Walker's
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a good running back, but could he last a year?
They've got a rookie corner, no longer Trent McDuffie, and
you cross your fingers on their left tackle, Josh Simmons' availability. Like,
if you're telling me what roster do I like, and
I respect Kansas City top down. It's like Denver. Denver's
got a top five roster in the league. Eagles, Lions, Rams, Seahawks, Denver.
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Those rosters feel different. Those rosters feel different. So that's
just an interesting number to me. Bet who you want,
but Denver getting points, Jags only giving up a little
more than a touchdown, Colts getting the hook at home.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Those are interesting games. And yes, I will do a
blazing five. Who's kidding?
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Who?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
It's not going to be that successful. I just bake
it in right now. It's not going to be a
great one.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
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Speaker 2 (18:41):
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Speaker 1 (19:34):
I will say this. I want to go back, pivot
back to college football. There's only four games right now
in the Blazing Five that I really feel strongly about.
I got to tell you, Texas minus one and a
half hosting Ohio state.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I like the Longhorns. First of all, for as poorly
as they played in Columbus.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
The game was close and Ohio state was a really
good team.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
And Ohio state at home is an exceptional team. All right.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
So, uh, Texas also not only, um, is a loaded
team this year. But at the key positions, they bring
back really talented people. Quarterback, left tackle, edge rusher, and weapon.
Those are really essential positions. You know this and I
know this. All positions are not the same. In the NFL,
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you got to get the coach, the quarterback, left tackle,
a weapon, and a pass rusher. You can win a
lot of games with average linebackers, so-so safeties, and a
decent but not a great interior offensive line. But there
are places, college and pro, that if you have special
players at those positions, it will pay off. Texas has it.
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So All-American, potentially an edge rusher, quarterback, left tackle, and
wide receiver with an experienced coach. The criticism on Sark
is in big games, hasn't played particularly well, a little
soft in big games. Listen, when you're Texas, there's a
lot of big games. You're everybody's big games. I always
said this about Muhammad Ali. Everybody that fought Muhammad Ali
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in his prime was the biggest fight of their life.
You know, like that's a hard, when I was a
kid growing up, the Raiders were unbelievable. I mean, they
were so many different things. They were iconic. It was
Kenny Stabler. It was John Madden. It was Super Bowls.
It was Lyle Alzado. It was Cliff Branch. It was
Fred Belitnikoff. It was Raider Nation. They were just so
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many things. They were great. They were historic. They had
like an edge, almost a anti-corporate edge there. And for
years and years, when I'm a Seattle Seahawks fan, and
the Seahawks entered the NFL in the mid to late 70s,
like 77, the Seahawks gave the Raiders fits at the kingdom,
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gave them fits.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Well, I was a Seahawks fan.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
The Raiders were the game of games, even bigger than
Elway and the Broncos.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Coming to the kingdom. The Raiders are coming to the kingdom.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
And I can remember at some point, the Seahawks beat
the Raiders again in Seattle. And one of the Raider players,
it could have been Lester Hayes, said, I'm so tired
of people calling them an expansion franchise.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Like they got good players. And when I was younger.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
I can remember the great Yankee teams, like with Reggie
Jackson coming to the Kingdome and the Mariners had some
success against the Yankees. And so like every, it didn't
matter if it was June, it didn't matter if the
Mariners were 27 games out of first, when the Yankees
came to town- It.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Was a much bigger game for those Mariners than it
was those Yankees.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
And so, you know, I think when you're the Texas
Longhorns and I hear you don't win a lot of
big games, they got a lot of big games. And
it feels like that game means so much more to
Texas because Texas is representing the SEC in that game.
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Over the last several years, the Big Ten has been
much better in bowls and in the playoff than the
SEC has. And the SEC dominated college football for two decades.
So it does feel like this is a very crucial
year for the SEC to make a statement early in
the season. And that is a statement game. And so
I think Texas is at home. They're kind of carrying
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the SEC banner. They've got All-Americans at the right spot.
And it feels like it really matters a lot for
the Longhorns. And they have a brutal road schedule. So
you lose here a home game, and Texas understarts not
losing home games. You lose here, and this thing could
go sideways. I mean, you could be a really good team.
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Remember last year with Texas. There was a real argument
they should have been a playoff team, but they had
won too many losses. Well, you start looking at that
schedule in road games, college kids don't play on the
road at the same level pro athletes play on the road.
I mean, the NFL now, they say largely home field
is a point and a half. Forever, it was like
three to three and a half. Now it's a point
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and a half because, you know, teams on the road,
they take... I was talking to a player about this
several years ago. He's like, man, when you go on
the road now, you take all the comforts of home.
It just doesn't, especially if it's a close road game,
it's Steelers to Ravens or Ravens to Bengals. It's just
not traveling that far. It's just Green Bay to Chicago.
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It just doesn't matter anymore. Best team wins. Best coaching
staff wins. Best quarterback wins. But college is different. A
lot of college kids are young. They haven't done a
ton of traveling. You know, you're not you don't have
the elevated. You're in a small town. You're in a
normal hotel. You know, this is not pro football where
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like road feels like road. Right. There's a big difference
if you're a Buckeye playing in Ohio State and then
playing in West Lafayette. OK, doesn't mean you're not going
to win, but it feels like it doesn't feel like
the comforts of home. So in college, I still generally,
when two great teams play, remember I said this a
couple years ago with Ohio State and Oregon. I said,
(25:16):
Oregon's going to win at Autzen. Ohio State will beat
them later in the year. And I feel the same way.
I think Texas wins this one. If they meet again,
I'd probably take Ohio State. I think Ryan Day is
just a tremendous coach who, because he doesn't have a
brand like an Urban or a Saban or a Harbaugh,
(25:38):
he just wins a bunch of games.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
You just forget how damn good he is. He doesn't
have a sweater vest.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
It's just Ryan Day wins 88% of his games, and
the Buckeyes always come to play in.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
The big ones. They may not win them all. They
come to play.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Texas in big games, those Georgia games, felt like they
weren't ready to play. That said, I would take the
Longhorns close in that one.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
All right.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Blazing Five's around the corner. John Middlecock podcast is around
the corner. I'm going to go golf today. Not particularly well.
It's not going to be pretty. Don't care about that.
It's about the effort. And for the record, Friday, USC
(26:27):
plays Fresno State.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
About a 21.5 point favorite. My guess is it's a
night game. A few people will show up.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
I know, nobody cares about USC football in Los Angeles.
My guess is the Fresno State-USC game. It's going to
be a nice crowd. A little cooler.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Fresno's not that far of a drive.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
LA fans hearing about, SC fans hearing about what lousy
fans they are, they'll show up.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Hydrated. At least until half. When they'll get lubricated. All right,
that's it. We'll talk soon.
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Colin Cowherd
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