WEEK 13 REACTIONS: Oregon's Statement, Pitt's Upset & Oklahoma On The CFP Doorstep | College Football - The Solid Verbal College Football

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to the solid verbal hull. For me, I'm a man,
I'm forty. I've heard so many players say, well, I
want to be happy. You want to be happy for
a day? Edith state is that?

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Whoo whoo?

Speaker 1 (00:14):
And no Dan and tie.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Dan Rubinstein. You know we called it snake in the
toilet Saturday. I saw Matt Barry on ESPN called it
eye test Saturday.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
I don't know what that means. Weak, don't really care
to know what that means. Yeah, didn't we have something
a part of the eye that started with an S
that we used for alliterative purposes last year?

Speaker 2 (00:40):
I do remember the I think so, but look doesn't
really matter Week thirteen Now, officially in the books, we
did have a couple of snakes in the toilet that
we'll talk through. I suppose there were a couple eye
tests if you want to.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
Get Clara Sclara extra effort.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah, I believe we had a couple test that maybe
we could talk through that maybe some teams passed. It
was a week that I think was short on headliner games.
If I'm being honest for a second, Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Yeah, it's at the table.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
I know I'm supposed to be gung ho about every
college football weekend, and I was about this one. We
did a four hour live stream talking about Oregon USC
which we'll get to here in just a little bit.
But if being honest, because this is a show about honesty,
there weren't a lot of headliner matchups, but doesn't mean
it was interesting though, And I think that's the important

(01:35):
point here. We've got a lot of interesting things that
we need to get through to unpack all that Week
thirteen had in store for us, what it means going
into an absolutely friggin enormous Week fourteen, rivalry week, going
into conference championship week. This was sort of a table
setter week of sorts, a calm before a proverbial storm

(01:59):
that I think is coming. So it is ever more
important that we do this stream tonight. Yeah, we do
this recording right now to get folks ready for what
is in store and help them understand what just transpired.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Sir, welcome back to the show. It is great to
be with you.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
It is late, we're a little bleary eyed, we got
mushroom cars, they swimming in our veins, but we are
ready to talk college football. My friend, where are we
starting off?

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Well? First, of all, I would take a slight exception.
I know you didn't mean any ill will about it,
but this was it was actually a really fun like
reinforcing weekend. It was a reinforcement of like, okay, is
this a thing that we should establish as certain? And
when you see Florida State struggle in the very specific
way that they struggled, when you see New Mexico, by
the way, we can just lead with New Mexico if

(02:44):
you want taking it to airflow, well, pride baby. I
want to say New Mexico with a win against San
Diego State winning, they're in the Mountain West Championship game
because they hold time breakers. I want to say against
both U and LV. They haven't beaten Boise, but it
was UNLV and I forget the other team, but they
would happen against San Diego State as well, so they're
in a nice position. But yeah, I think it reinforced

(03:04):
a lot across the sport, even if the games weren't
you know, replete with you know, ranked against ranked, I
think there was a lot across the sport that like
I don't know about Illinois, Well, Illinois wasn't there, Like, oh,
I don't know about Colorado. What a lot of Colorado's
not there, Like, I don't know if BYU can win
this tough one. They've had some struggles on the road. No, no,
they can. They keep winning tough ones on the road

(03:26):
because they're a tough, good team. And so I thought
there was a lot of reinforcing ahead of a lot
of big final Rivalry week matchups, which I think was
very important because I think we can etch a lot
into stone in this moment.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Well, look, why don't we start there. Okay, let's stick
with the reinforcement theme and we'll kind of talk that
through again. For people tuning in, we've got your voice
messages that we're going to play a little bit later
on in the episode. Depending on how long this goes,
maybe we'll get to some YouTube comments and questions for
the people who have taken the time to stay up
blate with us and watch us do our thing live.

(04:03):
We're also going to do doodle alerts a little bit
later on in the episode, and in the interim, we're
going to try to go through all of the biggest
action in the storylines that we think matter the most.
What was most reinforced to you? If you had to
pick a game out of what we saw in week thirteen,
Which storyline, which narrative, which belief that you held dear?

(04:24):
Would you say was reinforce the most in week thirteen?

Speaker 1 (04:28):
You know a lot of people said Charlotte was going
to beat Georgia, and I've i've all season long have
circled this as a big Georgia. Now, which was the
most reinforcing outcome to me? I thought Oregon over at
USC actually reinforced a lot of what we've talked about
in both really impressive ways with USC and sort of

(04:48):
what has ailed USC and at the same time what
has been very impressive about Oregon, and at the same time,
you know, some concerns about Oregon. So I thought that
checked a lot of Boxesn't it just so happens to
have been the headliner of the weekend. It was that
in Oklahoma Miszoo.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah, Oklahoma Zoo, which maybe we could talk about next,
which I think reinforce some stuff in its own right.
But yeah, Oregon wins forty two to twenty seven. We
did the four hour stream for this game. Thank you
to everybody who stopped by. I feel like it went
much the way we thought it was going to go.
You know, there were some nuance here and there, but
by a large you and I were both pretty spot on.

(05:25):
I think my final prediction was something like thirty eight.
Twenty five wasn't really that far off. And the reason
that I went there is because to me, it felt
like a bit of a rather obvious mismatch, that being
USC's rushing defense versus an Oregon rushing attack that has
been very good. I remember talking through with you all

(05:46):
the guys who averaged six or more yards per carry
on the Oregon side. Not to say that's the only
way that they're going to beat a team, but it's
one of the ways that they'd been successful in winning
so far this season. And as we saw this game
go on, Oregon did lean progressively more and more on
that ground assault. As the game wore on. You know,

(06:06):
it was apparent the deeper we got into this thing
that they could use, that they could possess the ball,
they could wear USC down. That to me was sort
of obvious going in and even more obvious coming out.
But like I think, the thing that really was reinforcing
to me as I think about how Oregon won this game,

(06:26):
we knew USC was going to score.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yeah, we knew they were going to score.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
And I think by a large it's a pretty good
effort on the USC side. Jade Mayava, the wide outs,
all that stuff kind of was assumed going in. What
was really reinforced to me is what Oregon can do
in the trenches, specifically with their defensive line. They're banged
up as hell along the offensive line, but as far

(06:51):
as the defensive line goes, they allowed just fifty two
yards in the ground, doing no small part because of
that defensive front. And secondly, and I would say most
importantly against an offense like this didn't have any sacks,
but pressure the hell out of Jade Mayava and it.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
Forced to fumble.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
Yeah for the phone, but it was one of those
deals where they were forcing him out of rhythm, forcing
him to make some throws a little bit sooner than
he would like. He kind of buckled under the pressure
from time to time. It was forcing throws into double
triple coverage. Had two interceptions, probably could have had more

(07:32):
in this football game. I just thought they did a
really good job using that pressure to their advantage, which
again was something that I thought coming in. But you
never really know when you're going up against a good
offense until you see it go down. And I thought
Oregon did a really good job on that front. So
I credit what they can do and have done all
seasonal on the defensive line.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yeah, I mean, look, you start with the injuries too.
Both of these teams were beat up along the offensive line. Obviously,
usc missing their starting safeties is a big deal in
this one. When Oregon had the success that they had
through the air, both you know, down the seamed, guys
like Canyon Sadik Malik Benson made big plays. You mentioned
Oregon running the ball. They were able to do so
without their starting right tackle for a chunk of this game,
starting center for a chunk of this game. Left tackle

(08:14):
in and out of this game. Look for as as
impressive as the throws were on both sides of the ball,
I think you just got to tip your cap to
how well those refs through those yellow flags. Tie. They're
gonna be icing those shows. Here we go again with this.
I'm just telling you ty in terms of the accuracy.
You know, you prepare yourself for a game like this.

(08:35):
If you're a referee, you know all off season long,
and you're just say I'm gonna get in my reps
and just throwing that flag, throwing that flag, throwing that flag.
I don't want to belabor the point, but they were
obviously terrible. They were. Like you, anybody who watched, even
accidentally came across this game, we're like, oh, these are terrible,
terrible referees. USC fans, I'm sure feel that they were

(08:56):
terrible referees at certain moments, and Oregon fans felt that
they they were terrible referees. I'm not even gonna say
it was terrible officiating. I'm gonna say personally speaking, they
are terrible at what they do. And of course the
game ended with Gary Danielson saying Gary Danielson ended the game,
and this is like his second to last game, I
think for CBS. He's like, I thought the rest did

(09:18):
a great job, and that was about all I needed
to know. That was about all I needed to know
to reinforce to go with the theme. In my opinion here,
Oregon made more plays. Oregon made more plays. They had
the punt return for a touchdown, They had the interceptions,
they had the big passes up the scene, they had
the big third down conversions, they had the big runs
for touchdowns. They made plays on defense, and USC while

(09:41):
in great individual plays. At times it was Mikai Lemon
and Jacoby Lane. It was a struggle for USC. At
times they were abysmal on special teams and you just
they gave away too many free yards and they couldn't
at all establish anything on the ground. I was, you know,
I was singing USC fans about how they're like a
three hundred through the air, two hundred on the ground

(10:02):
type team. King Miller had thirty yards. I want to
say they have thirty fifteen carries for thirty yards. Oregon,
as you mentioned, did a great job. Bar Alexander, the
USC transfer did a great job for Oregon, and the
Ducks were just able to make more plays. There were
times when it seemed like USC decided, like what if
we just built the whole plane out of pass interference

(10:24):
the old I was about to say, the Jane Pauley,
not the Jane Polly, the Jane Coston all PI offense.
And it worked for them. It really did work, and
so it was an impressive performance from Oregon. USC marched
down the field quickly to start the game, but otherwise
it was a great individual moment here or there for

(10:46):
these receivers. For USC, it was a much more complete
performance from Oregon. And you know, closing out, you mentioned
the long drive in the fourth quarter. They just did
more right things more often in this game. And they
have more good players. Is a more positions who were
better prepared to make more successful plays, and so I

(11:06):
just I came away much more impressed with Oregon as
a coach team. At one point, USC had a receiver
trying to start a fight on the Oregon sideline. That
was special. We were doing our stream. That was fun.
That was fun to discuss on the stream. Not an
ideal moment to point to where USC is at in
terms of having players ready to compete on the general
public side of the field. So yeah, a really nice

(11:28):
win for Oregon in a tough spot.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
I misspoke Matteo ui Anglile had the one sack for
Oregon that was on the forest fumble.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
I thought was yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
And the shout out to one Swell Foop who tweeted
us and said that USC really put the special in
special teams today with a free kick out of bounds,
they hit a player that called for a fair catch,
leaping foul on a missed Oregon field goal that extended.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
A drive led to a touchdown I believe, Yeah, allowed
to kick return touchdown, and missed a short field goal.
Thank you for that two week return. Yeah, apologies.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
I know this gentleman's the USC guy. But Oregon gets
the win here. This is a pretty big win. It
was I think the biggest remaining hurdle for the Ducks.
Nothing is clinched as of now in the Big Ten.
I mean, I guess Indiana pretty much has its sewn up.
But in terms of what the game actually looks like

(12:25):
in the Big Ten title, there are mathematical possibilities for Oregon, obviously,
for Ohio State, even for Michigan, depending on what happens
next week in that Michigan Ohio State game. We will
talk through all of those scenarios on one of our
episodes coming up this week. But this is more of
a recurring theme across college football. We had a bunch

(12:46):
of other games go down, and maybe we could talk
about Oklahoma Missouri next. But the SEC is in this camp,
the ACC is in this camp, the Big Twelve is
in this camp. Though we have a little bit more
already about who is going to be playing for these conferences.
None of these games, none of these matchups are officially
clinched at this point, which I think sets up an

(13:09):
incredible Week fourteen. Agree, you know, there is so much
that remains up in the air. One of the things
coming up. One of the things that came up this week,
I should say, as a result of Oklahoma knocking off
Alabama a week ago, after we saw these college football
playoff rankings, after we saw that Oklahoma had climbed all

(13:29):
the way up to number eight. This was an opportunity
in Week thirteen for Oklahoma to reinforce its standing as
a potential college football playoff team. Missouri got Bo Brabula back, right,
He's been injured for a while. Bo Brabula comes back.
Missouri's got a pretty good defense. They've got a beast
of a ground assault. There was I think a real

(13:51):
train of thought here, and you and I spoke to
this when we did the preview, that maybe Oklahoma is
going to be sitting in a bit of a letdown spot.
This game was at home, but this was for Miszoo
sort of like a last gasp to try and get
one over on the SEC. Not to necessarily play for
anything conference wise, but if only to assert themselves and

(14:15):
have a real impact on the conference frase and make
their mark on things here down the stretch.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
And win their first game against a team with a
winning record despite being ranked. You said it having a
signature win against Kansas, and it's always good for Missoo
to be Kansas. Let's be clear, and it's always good
for Kansas to beat Missou. But also we have a
conversation about, like they have this many wins over ranked
teams and they beat number twenty two or whatever Miszoo,

(14:40):
And also Miszoo is not that good, So I don't know.
Oklahoma Miszoo was a rock fight, which we talked about.
Oklahoma was not able to move that ball consistently, though
they did have a very impressive long touchdown pass. I
believe it was Matterei to Isaiah Satanna. Yeah, Miszoo is
basically counting on its defensive front and it's as a

(15:00):
whole doing enough to help the offense accidentally score more
than Oklahoma. That was essentially the best hope. Obviously, Ama
Hardy is incredible for Miszoo, but he doesn't call plays,
he doesn't throw passes, he doesn't block and occupy all
five positions on the offensive line. Mizoo could not throw

(15:21):
the ball, and literally it looked like Bo Prabula struggled
to throw the ball at times. Coming back from injury.
I think he was listened as questionable before this game.
He was not probable, He was not listed as playing.
So this was a I think near game time decision.
And Bo Brabula just did not look like an upper
two thirds of the SEC level quarterback in this one.

(15:42):
And maybe that's a health thing. That's Maybe it's you know,
being rusty from missing as much time as he has
and coming back from injury.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
When Matier came back from his injury, i'llbeit a different
kind of injury that was his hand. But you know,
when Matier came back for that Texas game, he didn't
look the part either. Yeah, that was not his best game.
This was truly a rock fight. There were twelve punts.
There was a total between both teams of five hundred
and seventy seven yards obviously twenty three total points. The

(16:12):
final score was seventeen to six in favor of Oklahoma.
There were large chunks of this game that felt like
it was an Iowa game.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
Yeah, you know, like just.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
And I'm not even saying that as a pejorative, but
just two defenses, two decent defenses. Obviously, at a minimum,
decent defense is good, very good at best, making it
very ugly.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
I mean, it felt like a twenty eleven SEC game
between two teams who weren't in the SEC were about
to be in the like just yeah, real old school SEC.
And so I think there were a couple of stories
that came out of this one. For me.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
The first is that Boprabula did play, yeah, and I
you know, i'd.

Speaker 1 (16:51):
Disagree a little bit.

Speaker 2 (16:52):
I thought he looked okay, given that he was coming
back from injury and given that, you know, the status
was questionable pretty much all week. But the problem was
that they needed more than okay to beat a team,
to beat a defense this good, they needed a superstar
and he wasn't that today. And that doesn't mean he
can't get there, but he wasn't there in this football game.

(17:14):
And they needed the superstar because Oklahoma shut down to
Matt Hardy, they shut down the Mazoo rushing attack. They
got constant pressure on bo Prabula, they sacked him four times,
they picked them off twice. So this was again, I
think more to the point the way that Oklahoma has
chosen to win games this year. They're not scoring thirty

(17:36):
points a game. This is not a dynamic offense, though
the offense has dynamic players. This is a team that
is led by its defense, with a defense first head
football coach and Brent Vanderbilts, who's been very good at
coaching defense over the years. This is how they have
chosen to win. And they are now one step away.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
One win away.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
All they got to do is beat LSU, who, by
the way, struggled with Western Kentucky.

Speaker 1 (17:59):
Tonight, you beat LSU, you're in the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
You're probably hosting a first round game in Norman against
you know, right now, I think it's set up as
Notre Dame, could be, could be a number of teams
depending on how things shake out these last two weeks. So,
you know, I'm not exactly sure how to feel about
Oklahoma in that situation, which maybe we can talk about here,
but at least within the context of this one, they

(18:22):
were just kind of suffocating with their defense, and Miszoo
just didn't feel like they could get anything going, no
momentum on offense whatsoever.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
By the way, I think this is how you should
and everybody should feel about Oklahoma because coming into the season,
we looked at the schedule and we said Michigan, Auburn, Texas,
South Carolina, almost Tennessee, Alabama, MISSOO LSU. I know, and
obviously we understand the context of their schedule. There is
a decent I would say there's a good two, very
good chance they're about to go ten and two against

(18:52):
this schedule and go to the College Football Playoff, which
is why that's that's you should feel incredible about Oklahoma.
You said they're not a thirty point per game team.
They our offense has not scored thirty points once in
the sec right, they had a defensive touchdown against Tennessee
to go to thirty three. So you should feel incredible
about the job that Oklahoma has done with Brent Venables

(19:13):
winning in a very specific way, weathering what could have
been a catastrophic quarterback injury. This has been nothing short
of a terrific season for Oklahoma. Not always pretty, n
somehow it just needs to work though, right, it just
needs to work. By the way, here's the sidebar here,
fourth and three, miszoo. I want to say in the
red zone, are near the red zone, they decide to

(19:35):
call a timeout, get a perfect play and to go
for it on fourth and three. Then Brett Venables calls
a timeout and then Maszoo comes out and attempts the
field goal and misses the field goal. And at that moment,
I said to myself, Yeah, I don't know if I
love Miszoo long term under Eli dri Quitz. I don't
know if this is the guy. He came out after
the game and said like, yeah, they saw our look
on offense, and we were like, pH I guess they

(19:56):
saw it. We got a kick.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
Now.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
It's like, man, what a depressing turn of events if
you're a Mazoo fan there. And I think they had
the lead in that moment right like three nothing, So
I don't know. Really nice win for Oklahoma and they
have a really nice opportunity to put a cherry on
top of an impressive season next week against LSU. Against LSU,
they're in a really really good spot.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
If they win next week, they're all but certainly in
the playoff. They are all but certainly hosting a first
round playoff game, notably without having to play in the.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
SEC title game. Yeah, which I still think is kind
of an advantage.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
I really like the spot for Oklahoma, and to your point,
look when I say I don't know how to feel
about Oklahoma, I don't know the extent to which we
can trust this style of play the deeper they get
into the playoff. But clearly they have done well enough
given their schedule. Yeah, using that defense as their primary

(20:55):
weapon to get them to a point now on the
precipice of ten and two, So regardless of how pretty
it looks, the numbers sort of speak for themselves. The
wins are there and to the earlier point, Yeah, given
this schedule, that's a pretty damn god accomplishment for brand Vannables,
especially given that brought in a bunch of new talent,

(21:17):
was very much on the hot seat coming into this season.

Speaker 1 (21:20):
The schedule looked very formidable.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
It was formidable to get to this point now where they're,
you know, stones throw away from making the postseason. Regardless
of whether they go into the postseason a win or not,
that's I think beside the point that they could go
ten and two against this is quite accomplishment.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
So good that they went they went six and six
and lost to Navy in a bowl game. Last year,
Oklahoma fans should be running into the streets, screaming, naked,
drinking nectar dripping from clouds. Everything is great, I know it. Man,
Good for them, Good for them. Yeah, where do you
want to go next? What else stood out?

Speaker 2 (21:58):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (21:58):
Pitt, Georgia Tech. I'll give you the choice right here, right,
My beautiful pit panther, Your beautiful pit panthers. The pen look.
Penn State was more impressive in a weird way. Maybe
Pitt almost choked away a crazy lead, or speaking of
actually choking away something crazy. Do you want to go
Kansas State? Utah?

Speaker 2 (22:16):
I want to start with my beautiful pit panthers. Okay,
my beautiful pit Panthers won Dan forty two twenty eight.

Speaker 1 (22:23):
Pitt may have been the snake in the toilet this week. Ah, yeah,
that's fair. They were just ranked. It wasn't that pronounced
a snake.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
They jumped out to a twenty eight to zip lead
in the first quarter. They were cooking with gas Man.
They did a lot of what we described in our preview,
you know, and I think what what I said or
what you said, I don't remember which one of us
said it, but it was at least partially true that
Pitt was good enough to keep the ground game in

(22:53):
check and force the issue through the air. And Haines
King has been very good. He's been very solid. Marry
fishevery responsible with the football, a lot of senior leadership.
I mean, there's a reason that Haines King has gotten
this Georgia Tech team to where it is, you know,
in their own right on the precipice. If they had won,
they would have qualified for the ACC Championship game. But

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Pitt was able to get pressure on Haines King. Pitt
was able to shut down the ground attack and by
just leaning a little bit more on Haines King and
forcing him into some interesting situations, they got two big
time turnovers, two interceptions for him, including a backbreaker, an
absolute backbreaker of a pick in the third quarter that

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went back the other way for one hundred yards, and
a touchdown that made up thirty five to fourteen PIT
at the time that separation. It just killed a lot
of momentum that Georgia Tech felt like it was building.
So I got a credit the Pit defense for coming
to play against an offense that by some counts was

(24:00):
the best.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
In college football. They did a really really good job,
getting some big turnovers, stopping Georgia Tech for the most
part on the ground, and getting out to a big
early lead, because I think that was key here.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
Georgia Tech definitely was able to gain some momentum a
little bit deeper into this one. Pitt came up with
a few plays that were able to you know, they
were able.

Speaker 1 (24:24):
To stop it.

Speaker 2 (24:24):
But jumping out to a huge lead, making Georgia Tech
play from behind, maybe more so than what Pitt was
able to do on defense, that changed the game plan
for Georgia Tech considerably. They had to play with more urgency.
It took them out of what they wanted to do,
I thought, almost instantly by the end of the first quarter.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
So big game for Pitt, big game for Jakari and Turner. Yeah,
Boozy Turner amazing, another another great performance, no desertate, obvious.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
Two hundred yards the freshman, I mean, just a really
really good campaign and now they find themselves in a
situation where, with a little bit of help and a
win next week over Miami, Pitt could end up in
the ACC title game. As I'd been warning, as the
private streaming four told back in August, the Pitt Panthers

(25:14):
could make it actually happen.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
I mean, you find yourself another college football podcast with
a host who is going to both say James Franklin's
going to be the head coach at Virginia Tech in
November and Pitt's going to be really good this year.
Only Ty hildon Brand predicted both of those things. Do
not fact check once again.

Speaker 3 (25:32):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
I'm pretty sure I picked Penn State to win the
national championship, and do not fact check.

Speaker 1 (25:36):
Do not fact check.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
I did not have I had Brad Priye getting fired,
but I definitely did not have James Franklin getting fired
mid season and going to Virginia.

Speaker 1 (25:44):
Tech before the end of the season. Mason Heinschel's really fun.
You mentioned Boozy Turner. Obviously, he's been really good this
year as a rotation guy and took over and was
probably the biggest engine reason why Pitt was able to
win tonight. In the defense, I mean it was it
was run defense. I'm curious to see what Mason heinscheld
because you can tell he's a freshman kind of in

(26:05):
a good way that I don't think he is trusted too,
and I don't know if he trusts himself to just
settle into the pocket, climb the pocket, go through progressions
and that's okay. He's a freshman. His ability to improvise
and just playmake is crazy impressive for his age and
experience level. He was really really strong in a tough
environment with a lot on the line, And like you said,

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Pitt came to play immediately. They generated points on both
sides of the ball. They did hold on. You knew
Georgia Tech was going to score some, you didn't know
exactly how many. You didn't know what the exact rhythm
of this game was going to be in the second half.
That Pitt jumped out the way that they did impressively,
but that they were able to hold on and make
plays throughout. Just a really impressive night for Pitt and

(26:49):
not a losable spot, but a tough spot. It wasn't
losible because of how they started that game out, but
it got kind of tight there at the end and
they managed to sort of find that that next gear.
And yeah, they have a real opportunity to I mean
it's not even an opportunity. They'll likely be ranked once
again ahead of that Miami game. They will be and

(27:10):
that game looms as pretty huge national.

Speaker 2 (27:13):
Enormity because that's an enormous game. That's an enormous game
on like seven different levels. And I'll say it again,
I think Pick can hold down Miami's rushing attack. Yeah,
I stand by what I've said now for three straight weeks.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
Buddy, Virginia Tech died today. It doesn't it doesn't take much.

Speaker 3 (27:34):
I know.

Speaker 2 (27:35):
I know Pitt is built to stop the run, and
I think they're going to do a lot of the
same stuff to Carson Beck that they did to Haines King,
which is they're going to shut down the run or
at least defang it to the extent that it's not
going to kill them. And they're going to find ways
either by bringing pressure or by mixing up coverage to
try and confuse Carson Beck. They cannot let Carson Beck

(27:57):
sit in the pocket and pick them apart.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
I think he's very good at that.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
But I can expect, I think we can all expect
Pat and Ordos He's going to find some way to
bring pressure. You're going to confuse him or try to
confuse him with different coverage schemes, and they're going to
see if they can turn over Carson Beck the way
they turned over Haines King today. Haynes King was not
prone to interceptions before today.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
He just wasn't.

Speaker 2 (28:19):
I mean, he's been very efficient with the football. We
know that Carson Beck has had a few moments where
you can kind of get him to see ghosts, right.
We saw that in the Louisville game. I think Pitt's
going to try to do a lot of the same stuff.
And I'm standing by what I said. Pitt's gonna win
this game against Miami. They're going to make the acc
interesting and you know, they'll probably need some help to

(28:42):
get into that title game. But don't be surprised if
Pitt emerges victorious when we're doing this stream a week
from tonight. Wow, Okay, I won't be You've said it.
You wanted to talk about the Utah game. Oh my god,
this is probably the game of the day. This game

(29:03):
was uts This game was absolutely nuts. Speaking of snakes
in the toilet, it looked like k State was gonna
be a snake in the toilet. Yeah, fifty one to
forty seven was your final Here where is my sound?
This was, as we like to say, a shootout through

(29:25):
and threw a shootout.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
Actually can I can I jump in because I usually
used a vorzak to spotlight terrible drive charts, but this
is almost as funny in its own way. Do you
mind listen? This is your bit man. Punt, punt, slow, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown,
field goal, punt, touchdown, punt, end of half, touchdown, punt, touchdown, touchdown, punt,

(29:51):
field goal, fumble, touchdown, touchdown, punt, touchdown.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
Oh, no interception and no game. It's a lot of touchdowns.
There's a lot of touchdown. This game swung on for
my money to pivotal plays. The first was Utah intercepting
Kansas State on a two point try and then taking
it the other way for two points. Yep, ball was

(30:16):
tipped right, ball was tipped into a Utah defender's hands.
He goes the full distance. That makes the game forty
seven to thirty seven. It was a four point swing, which,
by the way, four points was the winning margin here,
so that was significant. And then the second was on
fourth and one, Utah's got the ball in their own

(30:36):
thirty nine yard line a minute and forty seven left
on the clock, and Devin Dampier runs directly up the middle. Yeah,
for fifty nine yards all the way down like the
one yard line. That gave Utah a goal to go.
Circumstance extended the drive obviously, and was what sprung them

(30:57):
free and got them to the point where they could
go in for the score and go up on k State.
Case State did have an opportunity to maybe pull some heroics.
They didn't have any timeouts. They think it was under
a minute. You and I were messaging back and forth
like what this is going to go one of two ways.
It's either going to go great and Case State's going

(31:20):
to have a heroic victory, or it's going to end
in some sort of bad turnover.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
And it ended in a bad turnover. Yeah. There was
the weird thing. I forget who had the run at
the end of the game, if it was damp Pier
or somebody else where in watching the game after the fact,
because we were doing our live stream or usc organ
live stream, that Utah had a long run and it
was run down at like the three yard line with

(31:45):
like a minute fifty eight left, and then if they
just let that dude score on that run, they have
an additional minute with no timeouts. It's hard calculus to
sort of compute when you know it's all happening live.
But no, this game was incredible. It was thirty one
to twenty one. I think the idea that Kansas State,

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who has been so weird on offense this season, was
able to score thirty one in the first half running
like they were able to run against Utah. And this
game was at Utah. Yes, yeah, this game was at Utah.
Kansas State completely beat up in their front seven. Their
offensive line has not been good this season. I did

(32:27):
see that it was Matt Wells's first game up in
the booth, so maybe that happened as a difference maker.
I don't know. Chris Cleimban made like some of bit
like after the game. After the loss, made a big
emotional speech in this presser about you know, people thinking
that you know, they're just going through the motions, and

(32:47):
they made this conscious decision to really lock in on
the run. Joe Jackson got so much exercise for Kansas
State and a losing effort nearly went for three hundred yards.
They went right at Utah and succeeded. They went directly
at Utah and it wasn't just a collection of ninety
yard runs. It was just chunky, chunky, chunky, But the

(33:08):
final stat line was indicative of how successful Kansas State
was against Utah, and honestly, like the passing game wasn't
there for Kansas State and they I don't think Jason
Brown played in this game, did he? I didn't see him.
I don't think he was out there. So they're shorthanded
on both sides of the ball. Utah, to their credit,
is just making play after play and don't give up

(33:29):
in this game. And it goes back and forth, Utah
comes out on top. But in terms of a pure
entertainment factor that it did feel like Kansas State could
have done the one two three can coon thing and
they were just like, what if we just go directly
at Utah and do not care about what we are
or are not supposed to accomplish against the Utes? And

(33:53):
I don't know why they didn't do this sooner against
their schedule, but crazy impressive from Kansas State and slightly
even more impressive for Utah for absorbing Joe hard it
is to win giving up four hundred and seventy two
yards rushing, I mean that's a win and a losing
effort for Utah. Good god man, but good job. Yeah.
I mean, Devin dan Pierre had a monster game.

Speaker 2 (34:14):
He did.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
He was amazing. He had a monster game.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
Two fifty nine through the air, He had ninety four
on the ground, four total touchdowns. He very much powered
this Utah offense to victory. Obviously, hey had that big
run inside of two minutes to give them the opportunity
to win in the first place. But you know, again, Ed,
I don't know if we call this, yeah, a clunker.
I don't know what the terminology is for a game

(34:39):
like this, but this was whoever as the ballast is
basically going to win. It just had that tenor of
the full way through. It got real crazy, real crazy
in the second half, and you know, we had people
messaging us and calling in about this one left and right,
just because fifty one forty seven is a pure shootout
and a lot of fun. There wasn't much defense, and

(35:02):
we saw two teams that were very good on the ground,
very good on the ground, even though Utah with Devin
Dan Pierre had a little bit more going through the air, obviously,
but I was damn impressed with the plan that Kansas
State had in this game.

Speaker 1 (35:16):
I thought it.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
I thought they were going to get the win here,
and if they had gotten the win, I mean more
to the previous point. You know, we've talked about playoffs
and where Miami's places in the playoffs and where some
of these team Vanderbilt's another one that's a little bit lower.

Speaker 1 (35:33):
A Utah loss.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
Would have gone a long way for a team like
a Miami. It wouldn't have put him in certainly not
in as an eliminator though, Yeah, but this would have
been something that would have knocked Utah out and slid
everybody else up in notch and that would have been
great for Miami. Miami did not have that luck, but
Utah did and a really nice win here, fifty one
to forty seven at home. The crowd was going nuts.

(35:55):
It looked like a great setting for a game. Obviously
they wish it wouldn't have been as close, but you know,
you'll take the dub at this point, where are we going,
Let's stay in at the big twelve and talk about
the BYU win. Oh yeah, so number eleven BYU on
the road a couple of weeks ago they lost, right
m hm. So there was a question last week against TCU,

(36:17):
what kind of BYU team were going to see I.
They'm gonna be locking their wounds. They're gonna be a hangover.
You and I both reacted to it by saying, this
might have been their most complete game yet. Sure, you know,
is it maybe tasting their own blood or something like
that sharpened their intensity?

Speaker 1 (36:35):
They looked really good.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
This game again was I think the epitome of BYU football.
No turnovers. They had like eighteen more minutes of possessions
something like that, seven or fourteen somewhere in that neighborhood.
On third downs, they were very solid. They were very solid.

(36:59):
They were led by l J. Martin, who had two
twenty two and two touchdowns on the ground. Bear Bachmeyer
again was excellent in whatever role they needed him to play.
Seems like he might be gaining weight since he made
the joke about him a couple of weeks ago. I
feel like every time I see bear Bachmeyer, he adds
ten pounds to his frame.

Speaker 1 (37:17):
He's a big ball, like below the waist, he's a
big boys. He's just got tree trunks. Yeah, he's a
big boy. He's big boys, tough to bring down. He
plays hard. At one point, both him and LJ.

Speaker 2 (37:27):
Martin were a little nicked up and that was danger zone, yeah,
given the way they play offense. But you know, they
were able to stay out there and finish this game out.
And I think on the opposite side of the fence
for Cincinnati. They showed a graphic on the broadcast. Actually
that summed it up pretty well. Cincinnati had a turnover
on downs on the BYU three, They missed three field

(37:48):
goals and at one point they were offside on a
fourth down that ended up extending a BYU drive. So, look,
you can go pretty far in this sport just by
not shooting your self in the foot. Agree, And a
lot of BYU's wins haven't always been that pretty. But
BYU does not shoot itself in the foot. They're a

(38:09):
very disciplined team. They play however they need to in
order to win a football game, and this was a
prime example of that. Cincinnati had a chance here, by
the way.

Speaker 1 (38:19):
Yeah, I mean this was a game somewhat late. Yeah,
they made it a.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
Game late, but BYU was just rock solid. Again, they
were rock solid. They didn't shoot themselves in the foot.
To go to Knippert at night and win a game.
I mean, this is a place that has a bit
of a reputation for being difficult to play at night. Yep,
So to go there to get this win knowing what
the stakes were BYU, is it not fully clinched yet?

(38:44):
I don't believe for the Big twelve title game, but
right on the doorstep of it.

Speaker 1 (38:49):
Correct. The only thing I'll add here is BYU. I
think they gave up a long punt return that set
up the first Cincinnati touch down. But Cincinnati came into
this game I believe as like the most efficient Big
twelve running team. Yes, and against this BYU defense, and

(39:10):
it's totally fair. I mean, obviously LJ. Martin had a
huge game. Bar Bachmeyer had like huge runs, you know,
third and threes, third and fours BYU kind of seemed
automatic as they ice the game away. It was BYU's defense,
specifically the linebackers. These safeties have been terrific all year.
That just smashed Cincinnati on the ground. I think Evan
Pryor had a twenty seven or twenty eight yard run

(39:32):
and otherwise it was like six carries for seven or
eight yards. Brendan Storesby did nothing on the ground. This
team runs on everybody and they got nothing. Against BYU,
And so what BYU is able to do in terms
of strangling and suffocating offenses and turning them into a
one dimensional offense is thrilling for the BYU defense. I

(39:55):
think that's the story. BYU's defense has been better than
their offense this season. That has been what has led
the way the offense has been good, But it really
has been the defense more than anything that has sort
of set the standard for this year's run for BYU.
And yeah, I mean, well, I think we're all crossing
our fingers that don't care about who ends up in
the Big twelve Championship that we get, you know, a
competitive rematch of Texas Tech BYU, because I mean that

(40:20):
just seems like the headline desire and I'm here for
headline desires, ty, you know me.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
One, I guess interesting nugget that I should throw out there,
And I haven't heard enough people talk about this possibility yet,
but I think it's real. Yeah, And I think it's
something that as we build to Week fourteen in Conference
Championship week, we should at least put out there for

(40:46):
people to understand and think about a little bit more.
But you know, so much of the talk with regard
to the playoff, has been teams outside the top twelve
worming their way in via a conference championship, and we're
thinking of teams like a Tulane who might win the American.

Speaker 1 (41:03):
We're thinking of teams.

Speaker 2 (41:04):
Like Well George Tech or Pitt or whoever ends up
winning the ACC is going to be in this category
as well, outside of the top twelve, knocking out the
last two teams in that Top twelve and finding a
way in a backdoor into the playoff. Right there is
also a scenario where BYU continues to win, Texas Tech

(41:25):
continues to win, we get a rematch in the Big
twelve championship game, and BYU beats them. I don't think
in that circumstance they're going to knock Texas Tech completely
out of the playoff, and obviously by virtue of a
conference championship, that would get BYU in. These are hypotheticals,
but in that scenario, it's a very real possibility that,

(41:49):
given current rankings, Alabama would be out, which would trigger
an entire firestorm into sport. We saw it a little
bit last year, but I think Obama being left out
again would certainly be caused for much debate in the
college football universe. It would bring up a whole slew

(42:11):
of questions about Kaylin de Bor and is he managing
the team correctly? I mean, it would be really interesting
for a solid forty eight hours, if not longer, when
we eventually get those brackets unveiled. So one of the
many hypotheticals just to kind of keep on your radar
as a possibility.

Speaker 1 (42:31):
Because it exists. The first game between Texas Tech and
BYU wasn't particularly close, but rematches have a funny way
of working themselves out in this sport, and just something
to bear in mind, that's all. Yeah. I mean, look,
you can already see it weighing on Kaylan de Bor
as he picks out all of his Penn State quarter zips.
So we'll see how it all plays out. Ty, where

(42:56):
do you want to go next? You want to stay
big twelve?

Speaker 2 (42:58):
You were twelve? Okay, So let's let's sort of put
a bow on this. We had Ocoa State with a
big win over k State. We had both TCU and
UCF with three point wins. TCU over Houston Houston hook
the field goal attempt at the end, I think to
tie this one. UCF beat Oklahoma State, but we did
have people messaging us like, hey, Oklahoma State's got a.

Speaker 1 (43:20):
Lead, Hey, okay they do, or they did they did?

Speaker 2 (43:23):
And then Asu slow start, slow start, but ended up
beating Colorado, you know, sort of going away. The game
that I wanted to bring up, though, that was of
the most interest to me was the Arizona Wildcats baby
forty one to seventeen over bail Or. Baylor just announced
that David rand is coming back for another year. I

(43:44):
had some Baylor folks messaging us saying, why so yeah
about that. Arizona was not great in the first half
of this game, and it was close for a while,
but in the second half they flipped a switch. Man
the second half they outscored Baylor twenty seven is zip.
Their defense stepped up. They got three turnovers in the

(44:04):
fourth quarter, including a pick six. Arizona's offense also looked
great and very smooth in the second half, thanks to
Noah Fafida, who looked good in the second half. They
were also running it at will against Baylor. It was
like a total one to eighty when you compare the
first half to the second half. And again we come

(44:27):
back to the point Arizona is not that far off.
They're already going to have a very good season compared
to preseason expectations. That much is I think already clear
and certain. But they are not that far off from
having a truly special season.

Speaker 1 (44:44):
No, that game next week is going to be huge,
and it's just too bad we don't have Sam Levitt,
but Jeff Simms has been pretty decent, you know, all
things considered, That game is huge next week. I can't
remember the last time that matchup was just like, man,
this is a toss up, and just like a high
quality game, it's been a minute.

Speaker 2 (45:03):
It has been a minute. It has been a minute,
and Arizona State still has sort of a mathematical chance
to maybe find their way into that title game. I
don't think it's likely, but there are stakes involved in
this game, which always makes rivalries fun.

Speaker 1 (45:21):
Yep, I agree.

Speaker 2 (45:23):
I wanted to talk about the Notre Dame fighting Irish
for a second, but the floor is yours.

Speaker 1 (45:28):
I mean, that's probably all we really need to talk about.
It's just about a second.

Speaker 2 (45:32):
Yeah, there were a lot of crazy stats in this game.
The final was seventy to seven Notre Dame one. Let
me start off just by being fair to Syracuse. Syracuse
is crazy injured right now. They're crazy injured right now.
But that being said, Notre Dame was up thirty five

(45:54):
to Zip in the first quarter despite running just five
offensive plays. Okay, here is their drive chart, or the
drive chart of the game.

Speaker 1 (46:03):
I'm not going to play the music, thank you. I'm
just kidding.

Speaker 2 (46:06):
Go pick six, a block punt for a touchdown, and
a pick six on the three opening drives for the
Syracuse Orange.

Speaker 1 (46:15):
Then Notre Dame got the ball.

Speaker 2 (46:16):
They ran one play before Jeremiah Love ran directly up
the middle for a forty five yard touchdown run. Then
on their next drive, they ran two plays before giving
the ball to Jujarian Price, who ran for a fifty
eight yard touchdown.

Speaker 1 (46:32):
That's how you get the thirty five Zip.

Speaker 2 (46:34):
In the first quarter, Notre Dame had more points than
they did passing yards seventy points just sixty seven passing yards.
They didn't have to pass why bother They scored seventy
points for the first time since nineteen thirty two.

Speaker 1 (46:50):
Dan, Yeah and all told.

Speaker 2 (46:53):
It was three hundred and twenty nine rushing yards on
the ground, including one seventy one and three touchdowns for
Jeremiah Love on just eight carries. The stats were gaudy,
more than Matt Berry's point. If this truly was an
eye test Saturday, I think Notre Dame passed it here.
Syracuse may not be a good team, they may be

(47:15):
extraordinarily injured at the moment, but seventy to seven in
the manner that Notre Dame got to seventy points was
damn impressive and it could have been a lot worse
that they really wanted it to be. So I thought,
as somebody who follows Notre Dame, there is no way
you can look at this showing, both just purely looking

(47:37):
at the box score in the points or by watching
the game and just feeling the general vibe of the game.
There is nothing but good vibes coming out of this
one on the Notre Dame side. Yeah, this was a
dominant showing anyway you slice it, And as I said,
it could have been a hell of a hours.

Speaker 1 (47:55):
Had the rhythm of like when like a prime Geno
oriam a Yukon women's basketball team takes on like in
an exhibition a team from the Philippines, where you're just like, yes,
it's thirty five nothing after a couple of minutes. But like,
what are we expecting here? Yeah, Notre Dame. Just Limb
from Limb ripped them apart, and uh, you know it's

(48:16):
took care of business in a highly efficient and violent way.

Speaker 2 (48:21):
Let's stay in the acc. Okay, we had some results
here to discuss. We had Miami thirty four to seventeen
over Virginia Tech SMU running one up here on Lousville
thirty eight to six, No Miller Moss and no one
speaking of crazy injured Duke one. That game was Nuts
thirty two to twenty five over North Carolina. Wake Forest

(48:45):
is now eight and three with a win over Delaware
and Clemson one forty five to ten over firm and
I believe I saw. I don't have the score written
down for some reason. But Cal beat Stanford.

Speaker 1 (48:56):
They did no, no, no, no, no, no no no Stanford staffordy
Cow excuse me, comfortably comfortable, that's right. Yes, they beat Cal.
They did really well. I want to say North Carolina
committed twelve penalties for over one hundred yards and so one.

Speaker 2 (49:09):
Doke had a chance late to kick a go ahead
field goal. And the highlight that everybody's going to see
is the fake great fake. Instead of going for the
game winning or the go ahead field goal, they decided
they're going to fake it.

Speaker 1 (49:25):
It was very successful.

Speaker 2 (49:26):
They ran it down to the one, they punched it
into the touchdown, they got the two point conversion. A
little bit of a front door cover for those who
play the betting game. But I just got to compliment
this fake field goal because what they did was basically
an option pitch. Usually when we see this type of play,
the holder for a righty kicker takes the snap, stands up,

(49:49):
turns to his right, and they run around the right side.
Instead what happened this time, or they do the LSU
thing right where the kicker runs behind the holder, the
holder throws it back over his head and then he
runs basically a toss sweep out to the right. I
can't think of a whole lot of instances, and I'm
sure there have been examples of it in the past

(50:09):
where instead of that, the holder takes the ball pitches
it directly out in front of him as the kicker runs.

Speaker 1 (50:17):
Like a little option.

Speaker 2 (50:18):
Yeah, a toss sweep out around the left hand side. Yeah,
and that's what they did. The great effect here again
he ran it down to the one. They were able
to punch it in That gave them enough separation to
win this one and cover thirty two to twenty five.

Speaker 1 (50:31):
But a bit of a wild game.

Speaker 2 (50:33):
There was also a play earlier where Duke went forward
on fourth down. We were on stream. We showed the
highlight of it. Guy just sort of running around aimlessly
in the backfield like pulling the old techmo super Bowl,
waiting until something was supposed to be like a double
pass that wasn't there.

Speaker 1 (50:49):
Then he was like, well, I bet better start running
backwards and hope for the best. So this is destly
not show up.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
Not the cleanest game in the world, but no had
some fireworks down the stretch in a cool rivalry.

Speaker 1 (51:00):
Win your clunkers. As always, a win is a win.

Speaker 2 (51:03):
The SMU game stood out to me just because SMU
has some real stakes now and you know again, Louis
those crazy banged up. They were without Miller Moss, they
were starting a freshman Deuce Adams at quarterback, without two
running backs. I mean, just crazy hurt. So it's hard
to beat a quality team like SMU given those circumstances.

(51:25):
This one felt like it was over almost right away,
you know. I mean, obviously the injuries don't help, but
this is a quality SMU team that I think is
hunger to try and get back to that ACC championship.
They're on the precipice of doing it. What they need
is one more win SMU. Right now, if you're an
SMU fan, you feel pretty good about where things stand.

Speaker 1 (51:45):
Definitely, they're they're finishing quite strong. The defense has taken
a night step forward and did it against a shorthand
Louisville team. How do you feel about Miami Dan largely good,
continued pop between Carson Beck and Malachai Tony. The running
game kind of I don't know. It's not bad. It's

(52:07):
above average, but it's sort of slowed down recently, which
I don't think is a great sign. Obviously they're beat
up in that running back room, but turning to youth
with a ton of talent, it seemed like it was
gonna play bigger dividends, and they gave up some bigger
runs to Virginia Tech. I don't think this game. I
don't think they were ever truly in danger in this game.
And so because they have the defense that they have,

(52:27):
there's still a team with penalty issues. Ty, I know
you've harped on this a bunch that Mario chriswal keeps
talking about needing to address them. I don't know what
they're doing to address them in practice, because they seem
to be lingering on and on. But no, I mean
a really nice day between Carson Beck and malachay TONI
that was enough, made enough plays on defense and set

(52:47):
up a really nice showdown against Pitt next week. And
Virginia Tech is in their full on look at our
new toy mode with James Franklin.

Speaker 2 (52:59):
I'm telling you, I get I understand why everybody's excited
about James Franklin of Virginia Attack. He looks uncomfortable to me,
or maybe I am projecting my level of uncomfortable on
times possible what I am seeing.

Speaker 1 (53:14):
It does not feel right to see him in the maroon.
I think he screwed up Enter Sandman. Yeah, think you
said enter the Sandman or something like. That's okay, it's okay,
you're new, you'll figure it out. But I don't know.
You gotta get that song right. That's a pretty big.

Speaker 2 (53:29):
One's let's go over to the Big ten for a second,
if we can.

Speaker 1 (53:34):
Let's with your newly Bowl eligible Northwestern Wildcats. The streets
on the north shore of Chicago running purple.

Speaker 2 (53:41):
The streets on the north shore are running purple. They
won thirty eight to thirty five in Wrigley.

Speaker 1 (53:48):
In Wrigley, missed field goal attempt late a makeable field
goal from Minnesota, and it was a complete performance on
offense for Northwestern. Drake Lindsay had a really nice game
from Minnesota and Wrigley. And you don't see a lot
of thirty eight to thirty five Northwestern games come across
the tailor. You really don't. I didn't watch a ton

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of this from what I saw, a lot of excitement
on the Northwestern end. They were down fifteen, I want
to say, yeah, man, and just kept churning, kept finding
big plays. Preston Stone had a nice day. Yeah they're
going bowling.

Speaker 2 (54:26):
Stop me when I get to a game that jumps
out to you, Okay, okay, Ohio State forty two to nine, It.

Speaker 1 (54:34):
Jumps out to me, not the results, because this game,
I mean, it was a slow start for Ohio State.
Defense was great as expected. No Carnel Tate, no Jeremiah Smith.
So I don't know what level of concern there is.
They didn't seem too concerned on the sideline, but there's
a pretty big game next week. Yeah, and they seem
to be shorthanded. Bo Jackson's the guy, which is nice

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to establish at this point. But yeah, curious to see
what those dudes look like. Because this was a Max
Claire game for Ohio State. Receivers definitely didn't pop to
me for Ohio State anytime I turned to this game,
and so a lot has been made about Ohio State

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is sort of taking a very slow approach and trying
to peak in January, which I think is a good idea. Yeah,
but yeah, slow start turnover. I don't know nothing actually
concerning for when they play in big games because they
still have that quarterback and defense combination. But I don't
know if your Winter Wonders and Carnell Tait and Jeremiah

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Smith are not their full selves even when they're on
the field and suit it up. It's not my favorite
thing for Buckeyes.

Speaker 2 (55:46):
Michigan wand forty five to twenty on the road against Maryland.
They were two touchdown favorite going into this one.

Speaker 1 (55:52):
Nice complete performance.

Speaker 2 (55:53):
Yeah, Yeah, I thought this was a good showing. There's
always no Jordan Marshall. No Jordan Marshall. I mean, there's
always potential when you've got a big game on deck,
especially a rivalry like the game that you could see
some weird results the week before. Also, this was Maryland
and they just announced that Mike Loxley is going to

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be retained. There was some conversation about whether or not
they were going to relieve him of command to go
in different directions. So, look, Maryland got off to a
hot start. Stop me if you've heard this before. They're
finishing with a bit of a whimper. They are very young,
which I think they have going for them. I do
like their quarterback Moleague Washington, but at the end of

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the day, Michigan's just a better team.

Speaker 1 (56:36):
They're now nine to two again.

Speaker 2 (56:40):
To continue the trend and the theme that I have
been bringing up with all of these conferences, if Michigan
were to knock off Ohio State next week, that opens
up some possibilities for the Big Ten championship game. If
Ohio State wins that game, in barring any kind of
collapse from Indiana, we're going to see Ohio State Indiana

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one versus two in that Big Ten championship game, if
in fact, Ohio State were to lose again for the
fifth straight year to Michigan, opens up the possibility for
Oregon should they be Washington.

Speaker 1 (57:15):
If Oregon should lose on.

Speaker 2 (57:17):
The road to Washington, it could mean that Michigan gets
into that game against Indiana. So these are unlikely possibilities,
but I think it warrants mentioning that there is still
some wiggle room atop that big ten, even though it
elements of it feel like something of before gone conclusion.

Speaker 1 (57:37):
Yes, more specifically to this game and what could be
interesting ahead of next week. So Max Bretison got hurt,
who has been there like heartbeat of the Trench stuff
as the fullback sort of HVAC and you know, a
big deal in their offense and the way that they
operate in their power rushing attack. No Smage Morgan, no

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Ernest Houseman in this one for Michigan. I don't think
there were and listed on the injury report, so that's
sort of curious if they're just resting. Who knows. I
don't know the specifics there, but a nice comfortable win
obviously they weren't missed. Jordan Marshall, I think by all
accounts should be good to go for Ohio.

Speaker 2 (58:13):
State elsewhere in the Big Tan just real quick, Dan,
if we could.

Speaker 1 (58:18):
We had a win for Iowa late.

Speaker 2 (58:22):
A late field goal gets the dub for them. We
had a win for Wisconsin over Illinois, a ranked win.

Speaker 1 (58:28):
Just suffocated them as well. Illinois could not do anything
on offense, and not that Wisconsin was blowing the doors
off of them, but they played winning football once again.
Took down another I don't know if Washington was ranked
when they beat them, but they took down another ranked
team in Illinois.

Speaker 2 (58:41):
Washington currently up twenty seven to ZIP saw that over
UCLA in the third quarter at time of recording.

Speaker 1 (58:47):
Looks like they're going to go on to win here
and elsewhere.

Speaker 2 (58:53):
Penn stint Nitny lyons, Yeah, Man thirty seven to ten
Man over Nebraska.

Speaker 1 (59:03):
State's going bowling next week, right, they gotta beat Rockers.
They're going bowling. That's not bad.

Speaker 2 (59:08):
Ethan Grunkemeyer missed one pass he was eleven or twelve
in a touchdown and K Tron Allen had won sixty.
Nick Singleton had two touchdowns on the ground, was a
contributor through the air in the receiving game. This is
a very very nice showing for Penn State. And I

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was genuinely questioning what this was going to look like
down the stretch. I know, after James Franklin gets hired,
you know, where where's the team at? What are they
playing for? Are they playing for themselves? Are they playing
to get the year over with? Where are they at?
This was a really nice showing against the Nebraska team
that's got its own issues for sure. But the other

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thing that I noticed, and I'm going to point out,
and I'm not necessarily slamming NBC or anyone for doing this,
because I understand the storyline. NBC came in real hot
with the pro Terry Smith.

Speaker 1 (01:00:10):
Oh really?

Speaker 2 (01:00:11):
Oh yeah, I mean they talked about it endlessly on
the broadcast.

Speaker 1 (01:00:15):
Is he interviewing I believe. I believe he's interviewed for
the job.

Speaker 2 (01:00:19):
Okay, Pat Craft said as much when he gave his
remarks right after they relieved James Franklin of command that
Terry Smith would be considered for the for the for
the coaching job. You know, you kind of have the
standard thing going on right now where the players trying
to rally behind their interim coach because they all know
him and they love him. Terry Smith is a Penn
State guy through and through, so he's definitely going to

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have some support in that building.

Speaker 1 (01:00:43):
I would like.

Speaker 2 (01:00:45):
To think there are some better options out there or
accomplished as a head coach. Not to say Terry Smith
is not qualified, but it was just notable to me.
I would expect it from the team to be walking
around with higher Terry Smith signs. I think that's kind
of standard whenever there's kind of a team favorite and
he's been around forever, right of course, whenever you got

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a team favorite like that as the interim coach, he's
going to have a lot of support within the building.
But I did not necessarily expect it on the NBC side,
and they were definitely coming in pretty hot, laying it
on real thick. Okay, you know from black Ledge right
on down that Terry Smith should be considered, So I
think you will be considered. I still be considered. Yeah,
I don't think he'll be the guy. But look, the

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results speak for themselves. A twenty seven point went at
home over a team with, if nothing more, a pretty
good defense, Nebraska. I think this was an impressive showing
for Terry Smith and PennState.

Speaker 1 (01:01:38):
Yeah, strategies seem to be I went through this one quickly.
But just like sit on the clock right, be successful.
Don't give the ball back if you don't need to.
And the first half was a long touchdown drive, a
long field goal drive, another long touchdown drive, a short
touchdown drive off a short field, and more of the
same in the second half. And it was Kate Tronaw

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and it was inaccurate Ethan Grunkemeyer. I don't know if
he was how many he was popping deep, but he
was accurate as hell. And a nice win, nice comfortable
win for Penn State. And again they should finish six
and six all things considered, after you lose the way
that you do to UCLA Northwestern and then Iowa. Yeah,
a nice turnaround run so far.

Speaker 2 (01:02:17):
And let me just add, and I know this has
been popular in the Penn State circles, but it's nice
to see Kobe Howard out there. Kobe Howard is their
young receiver, their freshman receiver who everybody was gung ho
on in the build up to the season, and then
the season started and he was nowhere to be found.

Speaker 1 (01:02:36):
Didn't see him at all.

Speaker 2 (01:02:37):
Every patch, everybody was talking his kid up in the preseason,
a freshman out of Florida, I believe, and was just nowhere.
And so they have given him a little bit of
a run now over the last few weeks. And this
is not to say he's getting like a mass target
share or anything like that. He only had one catch

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in this game, but we have I've seen his ability
to produce chunk plays and we saw it again. He
had one catch for thirty one yards in this game.
And it's just, of course, everything's easier in hindsight after
you fire a coach and after the season goes off
the rails. But this is just one of the decisions
among many that we have seen this season in the
Penn State world that does leave you scratching your head

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a little bit, given all the issues they've had at receiver.
And obviously they went out and they tried to bring
a bunch of guys in, but it seemed apparent in
the run up to the season that they had somebody
recruited that was on the roster that they could plug
in there and maybe get some chunk plays out of
and they didn't use him. So I'm glad to see

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that he's getting a run here. I hope he sticks
around because everybody seems to like his potential. But if
nothing more, even if they're not playing for a national championship,
even if it's just for Bowl eligibility, it's good to
see him out there.

Speaker 1 (01:03:55):
Where do you want to go? You want SEC? Real quick, SEC.

Speaker 2 (01:03:58):
Let's close out with the SEC group of five and
then we'll play some messages. Sure, Vandy forty five to
seventeen over Kentucky combined with Texas fifty two to thirty
seven over Arkansas. Yes, two dominant offensive showings here. On

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the Vandy side, they were up forty five.

Speaker 1 (01:04:20):
To three at one point on Kentucky just murdered. And
I think they're about to get a five star quarterback as.

Speaker 2 (01:04:25):
Well, about to get the five star quarterback the flip
who I think you told me decommitted twice now from Georgia.

Speaker 1 (01:04:31):
Hell, he hasn't decommitted the second time from Georgia yet,
but that appears to be what's happening.

Speaker 2 (01:04:36):
Pavia had five hundred and thirty two total yards, six
total touchdowns, crazy showing. And then on the Texas side,
Arch had six touchdowns. He's the first quarterback in Texas history.
To have a passing, a rushing and a receiving touchdown
all in the same game. Yes, three eighty nine through

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the air, four passing touchdowns, had the rush, had the
trick play touchdown on the Philly special. Fifty two to
thirty seven. Again was your final.

Speaker 1 (01:05:06):
Yeah, thorough performance from Texas, arguably their first thorough performance
on their SEC slate. They had a comfortable win against Oklahoma,
but I think one offensive touchdown in that one, so
all it took was playing against the worst arguably the
worst defense in the SEC, especially the worst pass defense.
But they did what a good team should do. They

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still gave up a lot of points. Arkansas was still
able to move the ball. But you know, this game
was identified as a potential sloppy spot between the Georgia
and Texas A and M games, and it most certainly
was not. Arch was protected, the offensive line was there.
It was a pretty complete performance. Good to see that
Texas may have some rhythm against you know, ahead of

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Texas A and M, which obviously is an enormous one
next week.

Speaker 2 (01:05:52):
For those listening at home, you may have noticed I
didn't mention the Florida State game from earlier in the week.

Speaker 1 (01:05:58):
In the AGA Sendzee State.

Speaker 2 (01:05:59):
Yeah, and the reason I didn't do that is because
I wanted to put it in this context. Okay, Tennessee
beat Florida by a thirty one to two or eleven score,
Like immediately they were up thirty one a zip at half,
they cruised the rest of the game.

Speaker 1 (01:06:17):
They had four hundred and fifty two yards on offense.
Florida couldn't get anything going on offense.

Speaker 2 (01:06:21):
And it is not lost on me that given the effort,
the level of effort we saw from Florida this week,
which felt like they were totally checked out to me,
I don't know if that's fair, but that's how it
felt to watch.

Speaker 1 (01:06:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:06:35):
You combine that with the fact that Florida State had
an incredibly ugly game against NC State, where I wondered
a lot of the same stuff about Florida State when
they played earlier in the week, like this is a
team that just it.

Speaker 1 (01:06:52):
It was an ugly affair. Okay, they were a mistake prone.

Speaker 2 (01:06:55):
It was just an ugly affair for the knowles Florida
and Florida's play next week, they do and perhaps one
of the great one to two three can Coon Bowls
we've seen in a long time.

Speaker 1 (01:07:07):
By the way, they technically don't have to. It's not
a compulsory thing. They can just have a phone call
and decide we don't need to do this. There is
no contest. We're good.

Speaker 2 (01:07:19):
You suggested maybe they'll play table tennis instead.

Speaker 1 (01:07:22):
I would love that. I would love camp games to
decide this. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:07:25):
I suggested maybe they could do some sort of Revenge
of the Nerds style, a rotation of events situation to
decide who gets the win. Here, but certainly on the
football side, it feels to me like these are two
teams that are checked out Florida State. Florida State had
four turnovers. Congrat Stancy State for getting Bowl eligible. Yeah,
I'm not sure how Norvel comes back from this. This

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is a really bad showing on the Florida State side.
So this is all to say, congratulations Tennessee on the win.
You win in the swamp. Nice rivalry win for the
for the balls. But now moving forward the game next
week between Florida and Florida State, I have to put
that on a run the board game.

Speaker 1 (01:08:05):
I have to. I have to put it on there.

Speaker 2 (01:08:08):
I have no idea what the points bread is gonna
be I have no idea how you even handicap that game.
To me, it just seems like it's two teams that
are checked out. I think we saw that from both
teams this week. The fact that they play each other
next week presents an incredible opportunity for a double like
checkout game.

Speaker 1 (01:08:25):
Listen, whatever happens next week, if Florida State does not
have a punt return in which a random player has
a full on punt doink off of his head that
was incredible and bounce all the way back to the
original line of scrimmage to have it recovered by the

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punter for a first down for the other team. As
long as that doesn't happen, or in a close game,
if the punt returner doesn't have the punt bounce off
of his face mask five minutes later, Floria State might
be in an okay position.

Speaker 2 (01:09:03):
Elsore in the sec A and M one Big Georgia,
one big Alabama, one Big Auburn.

Speaker 1 (01:09:08):
Took it to your beautiful Mercer Bears seven. Dude Knight
had seventy three hundred yards, so that was okay.

Speaker 2 (01:09:14):
Duce Knight got the call. Duce Knight had a really
good game. At quarterback for Auburn. We'll see what happens
next week in the Iron Bowl and last Banatali South
Carolina with a win over Coastal Carolina fifty one to seven.
Oh in LSU by the way thirteen to ten over
Western Kentucky. We'll see what happens next week when they
score off against Oklahoma.

Speaker 1 (01:09:33):
Oh And also in the SEC, Hugh free shot a
seventy three. His mid irons were actually humming. Short game
was here and there, but all in all, he was
happy with his day.

Speaker 2 (01:09:45):
Over in the American, which I think figures to be
the team or the conference with the inside track to
get a team into the playoff. We did have a
win for two Lane on the road against Temple thirty
seven thirteen. We had a resounding, crazy statistical game for
North Texas.

Speaker 1 (01:10:07):
Fifty six to.

Speaker 2 (01:10:08):
Twenty four over Rice. Drew Mestamaker at one point had
something like forty yards per attempt.

Speaker 1 (01:10:13):
That seems good.

Speaker 2 (01:10:16):
We also had a win for Utsa in resounding fashion
over ECU, which basically knocked ECU out of the running
for the American. And to just sort of close things out,
we had a win for Tulsa over Army it's a
good win. We had a win for South Florida over
UAB and just sort of American adjacent here, I guess.

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We had Yukon with a forty eight to forty five
win over Florida Atlantic to get to nine and three
on the.

Speaker 1 (01:10:47):
Year the only time. This is the first time in
history I think Yukon has won back to back nine
win affairs. Crazy Man really great for Yukon. I think
right now the winner of the American is team that
has the inside track. Now, James Madison did win their game.
They needed a late bit of heroic to emerge victorious

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over Washington State. Yeah, this is a good game. They
needed some style points.

Speaker 2 (01:11:17):
They didn't get any style points, and this was not
a particularly great game in terms of what teams did
on third downs. But JMU did out gain Wazoo. They
did not have a good game from Milanza Barnett. I
remember we talked about that a little bit when we
previewed the game. I thought ranwell better game, but it
wasn't particularly great for him. But this was Wayne Night

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leading the way on the ground for the Dukes and
they've done it all year. Give the ball the way
Knight run the ball well, play solid on defense. Yeah,
that was sort of their formula here. That's what they've
done all year. That's what they did in this one
here against Wazoo.

Speaker 1 (01:11:56):
And honestly, again, I don't know what what's Twazoo's record
now five and it's a strange schedule, it's a strange year.
It's year one for Jimmy Rodgers. All things considered, I
think he's done a pretty decent job. I agree, completely agree.

Speaker 2 (01:12:10):
Any other games around college football that you want to
highlight here, Dan, before we play some messages, before we
do some doodle ors, before we let the fine people
go well.

Speaker 1 (01:12:19):
I mentioned New Mexico winning against air Force, and I
want to say San Diego State was up in a
low scoring game when we started out this show. It's
San Diego State up eighteen to three. Right now, Fresno's
up seventeen fourteen. These are live games, so that's a
back and forth game. It looks like against Utah State
Friday night, UNLV absolutely demolished Hawaii. You loved the Rainbow

(01:12:44):
Warriors there got they it damn work out, I know,
but a nice game for Tony Calandra Anthony Calandra. Boise
State took it to Colorado State and once again New
Mexico for air Force, and the could have an interesting
Mountain West Championship game. A lot of outcomes to be
determined next week that will affect that elsewhere. I think

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Southern miss lost, I want to say early in a
back and forth game. Yeah yeah, really to South Alabama
and a bit of a shootout. I'm trying to think
what else jumps out to me that's on my list
to watch when I have the time early in the
next week's time.

Speaker 2 (01:13:22):
Man, I watched the Louisiana Arkansas State game on Thursday night.

Speaker 1 (01:13:26):
How was that?

Speaker 2 (01:13:28):
That was one of the wildest starts to a game
I've seen him forever. They just kept fumbling back and forth.

Speaker 1 (01:13:34):
It was insane.

Speaker 2 (01:13:34):
There was no defense for the first half of that game.
It didn't feel like any team could tackle. It was
just super sloppy, but kind of a lot of fun
to watch, you know, sort of what you'd expect from
midweek football, and so it was. It was entertaining, if
not a little bit frustrating at points because it could
have gone for a little bit more efficiency in my

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football right.

Speaker 1 (01:13:59):
That's fair by the way, Western Michigan lance Taylor right
their head coach running the army like shotgun option attack,
having a really nice year in the MAC and just
destroyed Northern Illinois. And I think they're the only MAC
team with only one loss in conference, So really nice

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here for Western Michigan.

Speaker 2 (01:14:22):
We got a bunch of phone calls. Dan Shaye tells
me it's one of the better.

Speaker 1 (01:14:28):
Reverb segments that we've had.

Speaker 2 (01:14:29):
The Nice had a bunch of verbowlers dial in eight, five, five,
verbal three. Bear in mind, we've got one more reverb
segment next week, and that's pretty much it. I don't
believe we've done it for a conference championship week in
the past because there were a fewer teams playing. So
it's nice to see that the verballer hood is going
out strong. We got one more week to knock this

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out of the park. Let's see what we're up against.
Here's what you had to say in week thirteen.

Speaker 4 (01:14:59):
Hey guys, Dave from Santa.

Speaker 5 (01:15:00):
Fe, New Mexico. This is Scott from Utah. This is
Brandon from Great Big in Texas.

Speaker 1 (01:15:05):
Hey guys, Grandma being here from Oregon.

Speaker 5 (01:15:08):
Snake in the toilet doesn't quite work for me, but
you're still my favorite go back. The snake was in
Utah's toilet. Its name was Kansas State running back Joe Jackson.
Absolute dude running for two hundred ninety three yards an
all time stadium record in a losing effort.

Speaker 4 (01:15:29):
But ba, but ba, that Kansas State game just took
ten years off of my life. I feel like Wesley
from The Princess Bride, except instead of Prince Humperdink and
the count, it is Avery Johnson and Joe Jackson. I'm
going to throw up if that was my last name
as a student and I am feeling sick.

Speaker 5 (01:15:49):
Snake in the toilet Saturday? How about sleeper Saturday?

Speaker 2 (01:15:57):
You think I, as an Ohio State fan, am worried
about next week's game?

Speaker 1 (01:16:03):
Preposterous? I'm fine, We'll fine, It's going to be fine.

Speaker 5 (01:16:10):
Notre Dame Syracuse, Limb from Limb.

Speaker 1 (01:16:13):
Starting to jump on stands.

Speaker 3 (01:16:15):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:16:16):
Jerry Danielson Haate twenty seven thirty five in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 1 (01:16:21):
I guarantee you he does not understand any of the
math behind going for two in that situation.

Speaker 5 (01:16:26):
Dou the Dude Night coming to an Iron.

Speaker 4 (01:16:29):
Bowl near you.

Speaker 5 (01:16:30):
If the world knew about the steamy antics that occur
in that that's a student union in rest in Louisiana,
more people would recognize that Louisiana Tech.

Speaker 1 (01:16:40):
Is bold eligible.

Speaker 5 (01:16:41):
I ignored your window of opportunity, but did.

Speaker 1 (01:16:44):
Just be cats.

Speaker 5 (01:16:45):
As in the Missouri Tigers get shut down by.

Speaker 1 (01:16:48):
The Oklahoma defense, as the Sooners refused.

Speaker 5 (01:16:51):
To donate to your favorite pet charity.

Speaker 3 (01:16:53):
Boomer Sooner, farewell, Lena, do to you faars Trojans, farewell
going to do by day, Duff, you've been slaying youde
received daughters.

Speaker 1 (01:17:04):
To sail up there?

Speaker 3 (01:17:05):
Whose sign now you fail? So about the only Lincoln complaints.

Speaker 1 (01:17:11):
Arch man in stat Laine tonight three hundred and eighty
nine yards passing four touchdowns, one rushing touchdown, one receiving touchdown.

Speaker 5 (01:17:19):
That is arch madness.

Speaker 1 (01:17:22):
Bring them on the aggies, holkom horns.

Speaker 5 (01:17:24):
This is Carol calling from New Haven, Connecticut to say
Harvard still sucks. Go bulldogs.

Speaker 2 (01:17:31):
A wise man once said life is not a waste
of time, and time is not a.

Speaker 5 (01:17:35):
Waste of life.

Speaker 1 (01:17:36):
So let's get wasted and have the time of our life.
FIU is going, boy, there we go our own nice
beautiful Thank you to one and all for dialing in
in by the way I mentioned wm O in Western Michigan.
It's Central Michigan who hired Matt drink All in they're
running really nicely, not Western continue Lehigh Mountain Hawks, Dan.

(01:18:03):
You know what, honestly, we don't need to get into specifics.

Speaker 2 (01:18:08):
There was a point in time where the Lehigh Lafayette
game was the best game on TV.

Speaker 1 (01:18:12):
Yeah, not kidding.

Speaker 2 (01:18:13):
Early in the day watching some of these early window games.
You and I were going back and forth. It's a
tough watch when you don't have the yellow first and ten.

Speaker 1 (01:18:21):
Line, that's tough.

Speaker 5 (01:18:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:18:23):
And they also have the camera fixed on the clock
on the scoreboard. There's no digital clock, right, it's just
a shot of the clock on the scoreboard. That's right,
That's right. But that's right. This is a back and
forth the game.

Speaker 2 (01:18:37):
It was a good game, it was a fun game.
Lehigh emerged victorious. They're now going to go into the
FCS playoffs. So the Patriot League Lightning Round will continue.
Mm hmm for as long as Lehigh continues. It's played
in the FCS playoffs. We shall see what happens with
Hava Dan.

Speaker 1 (01:18:57):
I mean, yell beat him to win the IVY. That's tough. Yeah,
I mean good for Yet I don't have any other
FCS insights who won the Brawl of the Wild tie
and putting it with Montana State one that one Dan
three over number two. Good job thirty one, twenty eight.
Maybe I want to say thank you everybody for dialing in.

(01:19:21):
Do you got doodle alerts, handy, Dan Rubinstein? I do.

Speaker 2 (01:19:25):
Each week we pay homage to the guys out there
who have awesome weeks.

Speaker 1 (01:19:31):
We make a social media post. They're called a dood alerts.
Who do we got for week thirteen? Dan, I've got
Joe Jackson Kansas State. Jeremiah Love ran for seventy two
hundred yards for Notre Dame against Syracuse on six carries.
Diego Pave at Vanderbilt should be retired, Wyat Young Drew
Mestamaker's target for North Texas Boozy Turner. We mentioned at

(01:19:54):
Pitt the Freshman. A bunch of quarterbacks had huge days,
some in losing efforts, like Caden Veldt Camp for FAU
went for almost five hundred yards and a couple of
touchdowns in a losing effort in that shootout. Braylon Braxton
at Southern Miss in a losing effort, but through three
touchdowns at four hundred yards. Colton Joseph had a great

(01:20:15):
game for Old Dominion and their big win over Georgia
Southern Dominic. Richardson for Tulsa in their upset against Army
went for over two hundred yards. I mean, Deuce Knight,
it's against Mercer, but it's a dude in that. Like,
what's gonna do against Alabama next week? Are they just
getting them ready to throw for the Wolves? I guess so. Gosh,

(01:20:36):
so we got Iron Bowl intrigue based on Duce Knight
and Knight's due to.

Speaker 2 (01:20:40):
Billity And by the way, speaking of Auburn, we got
this suggestion Brian Battie from us SO Senior Day on
Senior Day, right, he was shot in May of twenty
twenty four. Today he walked out on the field to
be honored on Senior Day with his class, which was
like a really cool moment. Yes, I agree, So let's

(01:21:04):
give him a dood alert, shall we?

Speaker 1 (01:21:05):
Absolutely, that absolutely has earned it with his recovery.

Speaker 2 (01:21:09):
I want to thank everybody for tuning in here this evening.
It was a long day for us. We did the
long stream. Yes, we had our best to keep track
of all the games. The schedule will be a little
bit different this week for those of you who watch
the videos. Dan's going to be out of the normal office,
so it'll look a little bit different, but we're still

(01:21:31):
going to do what we do here in preparation for
a gigantic Week fourteen. I don't think we're going to
be releasing an episode on Thanksgiving because we've tried that
in the past, and trust me, nobody downloads anything on Thanksgiving.
Nobody has time to watch videos on Thanksgiving, So in
all likelihood, will be putting our episodes out a little
bit earlier in the week, but you're still going to

(01:21:52):
get the same content that you need to get ready
again for a massive rivalry week. Crazy that we're already here,
but it is going to be very significant. There are
big games on Friday, there are big games all throughout
the day on Saturday, and of course there will be
a lot of conversation on Sunday as we have championship
games figured out, as we start talking a little bit

(01:22:13):
more intently about what the playoff matchups could be. There
is a lot still to be settled and we've only
got two weeks left. This is where this thing goes
in college football, at least in the good years.

Speaker 1 (01:22:24):
Dan, So I'm excited about what is in store.

Speaker 2 (01:22:27):
We've got a lot of work ahead of us, but
we appreciate that for ballerhood supporting us for what we do,
not just earlier today with our stream, but by following
by subscribing, by supporting us out at a ballers dot
com agree. All right, folks, thank you so much again
for downloading, for listening, for supporting. We will be back

(01:22:47):
in very short order here to get you prepped and
ready and excited for Week fourteen.

Speaker 1 (01:22:53):
In the meantime, for.

Speaker 2 (01:22:54):
That fine gentleman over there, Dan Rubinstein, for myself, Tie
hilden Brandt, thank you as always, will talk to you soon.

Speaker 1 (01:23:01):
In the meantime, you know the drill, Stay solid, Peace

Speaker 2 (01:23:10):
MHM.

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