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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, I'm at my West Coast wedding and there's
jazzy jazz right there.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Here's what I know so far.

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Nebraska being Northwestern at the moment, Oregon's offense is doing
nothing against Wisconsin. Alabama beats South carolina'm up barely Texas,
Mississippi State but barely Stanford Miami are tied in the
third quarter or something. I can't wait to find out.
There are games everywhere. Michigan's winning, Arizona State is losing.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Ties on his own.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Tye, this is you take it away.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Welcome to the solid verbal. I'm that for me.

Speaker 4 (00:36):
I'm a man, I'm for I've heard so many players say, well,
I want to be happy.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
You want to be happy for Dake Ada State?

Speaker 5 (00:43):
Is that whoo whoo?

Speaker 2 (00:45):
And no Dan and tie for bowlers?

Speaker 6 (00:49):
You heard the man. So I have good news, I
have bad news. The good news is that there's going
to be a show tonight, and certainly there is no
shortage of stuff to talk about. In light of what
we saw go down in week nine. We called it
seat belt Saturday. There was good reason for that. I
think we experienced a little bit of that turbulence. So

(01:10):
that's all good. The bad part is, well, you just
saw the intro video. Danny is not with me tonight.
Dan is at a fall wedding, of all things, for
a college football podcaster, Dan Rubinstein is at a fall wedding.
It's a very close personal friend. Sometimes you just got
to do the thing. He wouldn't have gone unless he
absolutely had to. He is certainly here with us in spirit,

(01:33):
and he sent that in. You could see the aforementioned
blue whale of formalware that we have talked about on
this show in that video. If you are watching us
on YouTube otherwise, I guess the bad news is that
you're just stuck with me tonight. So this show is
going to feel a little bit different. I'm not going
to be able to cover as much ground. I am

(01:53):
going to do my part to do a solo show.
We will see how this goes. Literally, in the span
of time we have been doing this show since two
thousand and eight, I have never done anything. So I've
done solo interviews, I have never done a solo show.
So we're going to do our part. Hopefully you can
do yours as well. What I am after a little
bit later on in this episode is what you learned

(02:16):
the most in week nine. Send those comments in if
you are watching live, I've got Shay work in the
virtual control room.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
He just cut the reverbs.

Speaker 6 (02:24):
He's hanging out for the remainder of this yere episode
and he's gonna star some of our favorite comments and
we'll flash shows up a little bit later on in
the episode. Again, what you learned in week nine is
what I am after. Also, if you kindly would not
mind please hit follow or subscribe Before this show goes
any further, maybe things come off the rails. I want

(02:48):
to try and get out ahead of that. I would
like to get your commitment before we get to that point.
So on tonight's show, look we got a lot of
ground to cover.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
I'm going to try my.

Speaker 6 (02:58):
Best to not make it a SEC only show, but look,
most of the key storylines went down in the SEC,
so we got to cover that. We'll hit that at
the very top. We'll go conference by conference, and I'll
give you just some quick reactions to things that jumped
out at me. There were other big games that went
on obviously around college football that I think need to

(03:19):
be mentioned. If there are some that I can't get
into great detail. On Dan and I will knock those
out on the Tuesday episode. Okay, those are the ground
rules for what we're gonna do here tonight. Were, of
course going to play your reverbs. We'll get to that
a little bit later on in the episode. Of course,
we'll show your comments, and as per usual, to close
things out, we'll give dood alerts. I put out the

(03:42):
call on our social accounts. We got a great bunch,
a bunch of great suggestions that came through. So we
will get to that in due course. But why don't
we start here. We called it seatbelt Saturday because Dan
was foreseeing some turbulence ahead.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
What we didn't.

Speaker 6 (04:03):
Foresee was that there would be some turbulence at ten
oh five am courtesy of various social channels on Saturday morning.
And by that, I'm referring to a tweet, a post,
a zeit, a whatever, that came across the wire from
the Athletics Diana Rassini quote. I'm told representatives for Texas

(04:25):
coach Steve Sarkisian have let NFL decision makers know that
he would be interested in potential head coaching openings, including
that of the Tennessee Titans.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
End quote.

Speaker 6 (04:37):
Obviously Sark's superagent Jimmy Sexton quickly denied the reports. But
it's out there now. It's not going anywhere. Those rumors
are just going to persist. As you know, we have
seen a couple big chips fall now over the last
couple weeks, over the last two Sundays in particular, I
have no idea if we're going to see anything more

(04:59):
starting to marrow. We will talk through some of the
results in the SEC. You can make a case for one.
We'll get there, I promise. But everyone who does what
I am doing right now, at some point or another,
has ranked one opening against another, or has looked out
across the landscape and says, I think this might be
the next one to open up. It's already an intriguing

(05:22):
list of power conference openings. It is a much much
spicier thought experiment. If we add Texas to that mix,
there are a bunch of big ones in limbo. But
if that one is a possibility, it totally changes the game.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
Now.

Speaker 6 (05:40):
I look at the list of openings right now, and
I see Penn State, Florida, Virginia, Tech, Oklahoma State, Arkansas, UCLA,
and Stanford. I also look at Auburn Florida State, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Arizona, UNC,
LSU will get to that and Texas as potentials and

(06:01):
suddenly this is a really really interesting coaching carousel.

Speaker 7 (06:05):
Now.

Speaker 6 (06:05):
I don't know if the Texas thing has any weight
to it or not, but clearly it was leaked for
a reason. And so if there is any possibility that
Texas is now going to throw its hat in the ring,
I would much rather be the likes of somebody like
a James Franklin than somebody like a Penn State, because
there is going to be crazy competition for all of

(06:25):
these openings, and you gotta believe that if you are
halfway decent at your job, you stand to get a
huge pay day. You are going to be rich even
if you're just okay at being a head coach, if
you are just mentioned for one of these potential openings. So,
as we said, seat belt Saturday, buckle up. This is

(06:46):
gonna get weird. If Texas ends up being part of
this conversation. It's going to be like dropping a second
Jupiter in the Solar system, right. It is going to
get real weird, real fast. And there is one game
in the SEC that might have an outsized influence. Texas

(07:07):
A and M absolutely positively throttled LSU.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
Guests who just got furded.

Speaker 6 (07:16):
In my opinion, right now, Texas A and M is
the best team in the SEC. And I think of
all the things that I saw across college football in
Week nine, what Texas A and M did, especially in
the second half against LSU, that was the most impressive performance.
They went into halftime trailing eighteen to fourteen, they came

(07:37):
back out and absolutely blew.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
The doors off of LSU.

Speaker 6 (07:41):
This was like when the computer goes into fu mode
when you're playing the college football video game, really when
you're playing any video game. It was a completely different
team after halftime. Marcel Reid turned into Lamar Jackson, Casey
Concepcion turned into Devin Hester. LSU stopped tackling like all
together until later in that game. I think Herbie even

(08:04):
mentioned it on the broadcast that there were fans starting
to clear out completely from Tiger Stadium. What they didn't mention,
but I'm sure somebody will mention at some point before long,
is that Brian Kelly's buyout is something north of fifty
two million dollars. I honestly did not expect we would
be having this type of conversation this early in the season.

(08:26):
I know it hasn't gone great for LSU so far
this year, but wow, the turn that this thing has
taken by getting blown out at home against a conference
opponent like Texas A and M got I just I
know what people say in our discord, I know what
people have sent into us via the social channels and email.
I honestly cannot believe it took this turn, especially with

(08:49):
the commitment that we saw from LSU in the offseason
to beef themselves up via the transfer portal. High school
recruiting has obviously still been very, very strong. There is
going to be a much longer conversation about LSU football
and Brian Kelly and whether this team is quitting. Fans

(09:09):
are going to have to chime in and let me
know what they think. But I know what I saw
in that second half and after they went in with
a lead at halftime, to come out and get destroyed
the manner that they did that was really really upsetting
and really really disheartening about what the future of this
LSU team looks like. The story here though, should be
Texas A and M. You know, it shouldn't be all

(09:29):
doom and gloom on the LSU side. A and M
was superior in all three phases. They were superior on offense, defense,
and special teams. It was not the cleanest performance from
Marcel Reed he threw two picks, but I think it
might have been the best that I've seen in a while,
considering the circumstances right on the road, hostile environment, Tiger
Stadium at night. I mean, that is a tough, tough

(09:50):
setting to go and win a game and be this dominant.
So this wasn't a game so much where they needed
to lean on him as a passer, but it absolutely
was a game in which he showed what he can
do with his legs. And so I joke around about
him being Lamar Jackson. He's not, but he kind of
looked like it in this game. He was really really
effective on the ground with his legs, and the vaunted

(10:11):
LSU defense, which we've heard a lot about, gave up
a ton of yards and a ton of points. His
legs were just killer and they didn't really have an
answer for that. And defensively, like LSU was on skates here,
they just could not get any momentum they couldn't get
any series of stops. Casey Concepsion just killed him with
punt returns, one of which went back for a touchdown

(10:34):
in the third quarter. So, look, it's going to get
spicy here down the stretch. I think there is a
very clear path for Texas A and M to continue
this trajectory and find itself in the SEC title game,
at a minimum, get into the playoffs. The LSU thing is, Look,
I've said it a couple times now, but it's going
to get weird. They've got Bama in two weeks. That

(10:55):
game's in Tuscaloosa. There's a good chance that is lost
number four, which potentially sets up a really interesting stage
for a game to close out the year against Oklahoma,
where you've got two teams that are vying for a
seven and five record, and I don't know if that
bodes well for either coach. There's a chance one of

(11:17):
those two coaches won't even be there. And I'm looking
at you, Brian Kelly. I mentioned Oklahoma. Ole Miss won
this one in Norman thirty four to twenty six on
a wet, rainy field and there were guys sliding around
all over the place that looked like they were playing
this one on ice. Interestingly, this was Lane Kiffin's first

(11:41):
road win over a ranked SEC opponent, which kind of
seems crazy it's been this long without him having accomplished that,
but here we are. This one also came amid the
rumors that he's the top target at Florida. I got
to give Lane Kiffen a lot of credit for the
way that he handled this, because we have seen a
full spectrum of coaches now talking through whether the rumors

(12:05):
are true are not true, ranging from blaming the media
to sort of being evasive but complementary in the form
of whatever Matt Ruhle was trying for. Lane Kiffin didn't
try to run from any of this. He called a meeting,
He addressed the team. He told the guys it was

(12:25):
due to their success on the field that these rumors
persist at all. He didn't deny that there was interest,
either from his end or from Florida's end. But among
the ways that we have seen coaches deal with these
types of things, it seemed like the more adult version
of a response, and at least initially it seems as

(12:46):
though the response was pretty positive from those who were
in the room and those who have had a chance
to think about it and analyze what Lane did. I
give him a lot of credit for it. Maybe as
a result, Lane looked like he was trying to little
extra to be the old miss coach today. I don't
know if he's trying to overcompensate for some of the
stuff that's swirling out there. But there are some weird

(13:10):
moves in this game. Weren't there a couple PlayStation decisions.
The first one that comes to mind was a sequence
in the first half where Trinidad Chambliss drove the field,
had a ton of momentum, was playing especially well, got
down into the red zone, he gives him the hook,

(13:33):
gives him the hook. Time for Austin Simmons to come in.
Let's see what he can do. Austin Simmons a little
bit of a bigger guy. I've seen some speculation Brooks.
Austin out online was saying that, well, Trinidad Chambliss passing
inside the five yard line has had a bunch of
tip passes. Austin Simmons bigger dude. Maybe maybe that'll help well.

(13:54):
Austin Simmons air mailed two incompletions. They ended up having
to settle for a field goal. Then there was another
circumstance in the third quarter, fourth and one from their
own twenty five. Lane decides he's going to go for it,
doesn't get it, turns the ball over to Oklahoma. That
could have been a turning point for Oklahoma. Instead, they

(14:15):
end up having to settle for three points. That actually
ended up being more of the story in this game.
It was not decisions, thankfully, that Lane Kiffin had to make.
It was the fact that Old Miss came to play
with its defense and they put Oklahoma in a situation
where the Sooners could not convert on some of these

(14:36):
key moments. Oklahoma got the ball back, they had to
settle for three. Situation like this, you just can't settle
for three. Even still, Oklahoma storm back. They were down twelve.
They outscored Ole Miss sixteen to three in the third quarter.
They end up taking a very slim lead, but Old

(14:57):
Miss gets a job done in the end. What Ole
Miss did on defense Oklahoma, you look at their box score,
three hundred and fifty nine yards one hundred and forty
one on two pass plays or two long plays. I
guess one long pass play, one running play. John Mattier

(15:17):
was sort of held in check. He wasn't able to
kill them with his legs, which I think was a
real possibility in this game coming into it. It was
something that we had talked a lot about. But John
Mattire was held mostly in check as a runner. John
Mattier also held himself in check a little bit, right,
John Mattier. John Mattier had an opportunity late to check

(15:40):
down to take an easy fourth and five conversion, decides
he's going to try and throwing down the sidelines incomplete.

Speaker 3 (15:46):
That's the ballgame.

Speaker 6 (15:49):
So I credit Ole Miss what they did on defense.
Defense was not necessarily what we expected a whole lot
from their side of coming into this one, but well
and behold, they got the job done and held Oklahoma
pretty well in check. I think they deserve most of
the credit. They've got a very workable schedule in.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
Front of them.

Speaker 6 (16:08):
Now the rest of the way, there are teams in
front of them that are going to lose. I think
with a little bit of help, they could end up
in the SEC title game. With a little bit of luck,
they could avoid the SEC Title Game altogether and still
get into the playoff. But it looks really good. If
you're an Old misfan on the Oklahoma side, this was
another game against a powerful opponent where you don't score

(16:31):
more than twenty six points. Their schedule the rest of
the way is four teams that were ranked at the
start of this week. They're at Tennessee, They're at Bama,
They've got Miszoo and LSU at home. I mentioned this
a moment ago, but a seven and five season, or
playing for a seven and five season against LLC to

(16:53):
close out the year, that's very much on the table.
So I think a disappointing performance from Oklahoma. But if
you're an Old Miss fan, this was a big win
to go into Norman again, the first one for Lane
Kiffen as a coach of Old Miss.

Speaker 3 (17:10):
A win over a ranked opponent on the road.

Speaker 6 (17:13):
Some of the other games in the SEC that are
of note, and I promise I want to talk about
some other conferences here. I got to talk about this
Alabama game, if only because I picked South Carolina outright.
I picked them outright. I thought it was going to happen.
There was a chance it was going to happen. I
stuck my neck out last game of October for South Carolina,

(17:36):
biggest home game left on the slate. They always have
one game of year under Shane Beemer. That doesn't make
any sense. They came into this one a healthy, double
digit dog at home, and I thought for a moment
I was going to be right, because it looked like
I was going to be right. I got the cover,

(17:57):
so you know, it wasn't a total loss. But Bama
was down twenty two to fourteen with about ten minutes left.
They got two really quick touchdowns from Jeremy Bernard in
the final two and a half minutes to win it.
The first was a really nice seventy nine yard drive
that ate up almost eight minutes. He caught the touchdown

(18:18):
pass almost immediately after that. The ensuing drive for South Carolina,
Lenoras Sellers, who was really good in this game for
the most part, coughs up a fumble sets up a
second touchdown. It was a sick play and an awesome
run for Jeremy Bernard. A fake reverse to Tye Simpson.
I don't even know how you draw that up, but

(18:40):
he goes around the end untouched, scampers into the end
zone twenty five yards out on third and ten. That
gives Alabama twenty nine to twenty two lead. They eventually
end up winning. It was a great escape for the
Crimson Tide.

Speaker 3 (18:54):
It really was.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
I'm not going to call it a clunker.

Speaker 6 (18:57):
I don't think it was a clunker. They found a
way to win a tough spot on the road in
South Carolina played pretty well.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
I saw that.

Speaker 6 (19:04):
Calin de Boor spoke about coming up biggest in some
of the most critical moments, and I think that pretty
much sums it up in this game. Alabama was really
good when they had to be, especially late, and that's
why they ended up winning this one. So they deserve
their flowers. As the kids like to say, Ty Simpson's
playing like a QB one. I don't know what his

(19:25):
draft status is going to be, but Ty Simpsons's very
much going to be in that conversation come draft time.
I still think it's mostly a one dimensional offense. They're
still way more centered around the past, but they're scheming
ways to get Jeremy Bernard and Ryan Williams the ball
and key situations. Daniel Hill, the young running back, didn't
do a whole lot of running, but was really effective

(19:47):
in the passing game. Had a couple of big plays
in this one. I'm really impressed by this Alabama offense.
I am curious if at some point they're going to
run into somebody that can take more advantage of the
fact that they're so based around the past. But for
right now, you got to feel pretty good about where
Alabama's at. I just you know, there's no two ways

(20:08):
about that. The problem again is that this one was
there for South Carolina. It was there, and you know,
if they'd all repeatedly shoot themselves in the foot, I
think it's there for him. Bama's first touchdown was on
a pick six that was juggled by result Faison. Then
there was also a holding call that wiped out a

(20:30):
touchdown run for Leonoris.

Speaker 3 (20:32):
There was what does it say here?

Speaker 6 (20:33):
Another holding call that killed another drive all together. There
was a missfield goal just for good measure, by the way,
the missfield goal did I mention? All of that happened
in the first half. It was all in one half.
Then we had some more weirdness go down in the
second half with the funnel that I talked about a
second ago. I'm not frustrated because I picked South Carolina

(20:57):
and they didn't win. I am frustrated for the South
Carolina fans out there who watched this game, who also
know that they could have won this game, probably should
have won this game, and they still found a way
to lose it. So bigger picture, good win for Alabama.
Bigger picture, it's a bad season for the Cocks. Man
just there's a pretty good chance.

Speaker 3 (21:18):
It's going to get worse too. It is.

Speaker 6 (21:20):
It's like starting to look more and more like a
four and eight, five and seven year. I don't know
what the ramifications are for that. I don't want to
sit here and speculate, but it's it. Loss is like
this sting. Let's leave it at that. The final game
that I'm going to talk about in the SEC and
then I promise you we're going to move on. It

(21:44):
is not going to be the Texas overtime win over
Mississippi State. I want to save that one. I want
to talk about that one on Tuesday with Dan arch
Manning looked like he got knocked around pretty good, got
hit kind of in the back of the head, was
walking off a little bit woozy.

Speaker 3 (21:59):
I hope he's okay.

Speaker 6 (22:01):
Texas emerges with an escape victory in overtime over Mississippi State,
who continues to be one of the better stories in
college football. I want to talk about Vandy, you want
to talk about the doors with me. Seventeen to Ten's
your final score. Vanderbilt beats Massoo. I had Miszoo in

(22:21):
this one. I think Dan took Vandy. Dan always takes Vandy.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
So look, my theory here.

Speaker 6 (22:29):
Was that Missoo was going to be good enough on
defense to hold down Diego Pavia. I was not wrong
about that. Okay, they held him down for the most part.
The Miszoo defense held Vandy to two hundred and sixty
five yards. That's a season low. Eighty of those yards,
by the way, came on a long touchdown run in

(22:49):
the third quarter, So if you take that out, I
don't know. I'm not a math major. One hundred and
eighty five yards total on offense. You can't ask for
much more from a defense. I don't care who you're planning.
So this one was very much a rock fight here.
It was just three to three at a half. Both
teams kind of hurt themselves with penalties. There were a
couple key turning points, though that went against Missoo. I

(23:12):
think the bigger, more existential turning point was what went
down with bau Pribula, and this one's potentially a killer.
Beau Brabula hurt what I think was his right ankle
in the third quarter, ends up getting carted off, gets
carted off, and they transfer him to a wheelchair to
push him into the locker room, which is like a

(23:33):
doubly bad look. I felt horrible for him. Had an
air cast on, which is never a good sign. That
is a huge blow to the Missouri campaign. You might
recall part of the reason why bau Bribula got the
job so easily at the start of the year was
because Sam Horn got hurt.

Speaker 3 (23:54):
So Bo gets the job.

Speaker 6 (23:55):
Bo has had a good year, but quarterback depth behind
him him was immediately the question what happens if Bo
goes down?

Speaker 3 (24:06):
Bo went down, so.

Speaker 6 (24:09):
They turn it over to Matt Zohlers, who's also from Pennsylvania,
a little bit farther east than Bo, who's from York.
But Matt Zohlers is a four star. I don't think
he looked out of his depth. I think he's got
a good arm. He does have some happy feet, a
you know, didn't have a great feel for the pocket.

(24:30):
But all things considered, stepping into the circumstances like this,
I thought he did a pretty good job. He led
a drive at the start of the fourth quarter of
that tide at a ten apiece, so he wasn't so
much liability out there In terms of this game, though.
The moment that I'm thinking of on the Missou side
is what went down with Jamal Roberts. Jamal Roberts fumbled

(24:54):
with seven minutes left, Vander gets the ball back. They're
able to siphon like five minutes off the clock, end
up scoring a go ahead touchdown. Maszoo gets the ball,
Matt Zolers gets one more shot to win it. Kind
of Hemming and Hahn trying to like Nickel and dime
their way down the field. I looked at the clock

(25:14):
before the last play. I believe there were six seconds left.
Everybody goes down Hail Mary, Mazoo catches the pass. They
catch the hail Mary. It's about that far short. They
went to video review. It's about that far short of
the goal line. Who the hell knows what happens if
this one goes to overtime.

Speaker 3 (25:37):
Just a bit short.

Speaker 6 (25:40):
So it wasn't a clean game for either side. I
do think the Massoo defense did what it needed to
do against Diego Pavia. But again, the story of Vanderbilt
and Diego Pavia continues. They are suddenly seven and one.
It is their best start since nineteen forty one. They
close out their season on the road against Texas, US

(26:01):
at home against Auburn, at home against Kentucky, and also
on the road against Tennessee. They might be better than
all four of those teams right now. I still have
questions about what happens if Vandy gets in a shootout,
but that's neither here nor there. Vandy right now, with
the way that they're playing, they're just finding ways to

(26:24):
do it, and you got to give them props for that. Notably,
I thought Missoo took Vandy out of its game today
because we've talked about it a lot on our show.
Vandy likes to control time of possession. They like to
slow you down. They like to force he to be
efficient in order to beat him. They didn't do any
of that today. They lost time of possession. They lost

(26:44):
time of possession by about thirteen minutes. They were not
the more efficient team at all in terms of Vandy
and what we've seen this season.

Speaker 3 (26:52):
This was a clunker.

Speaker 6 (26:54):
And they still found a way to win. And if
you're a good team, that's.

Speaker 3 (26:58):
What you got to do.

Speaker 6 (27:00):
That's what went down in the SEC. Let me know
in the comments what you learned about the SEC. Well
flashhows up at the end of the episode.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
Over in the Big twelve.

Speaker 6 (27:12):
BYU forty one Iowa Stay twenty seven. So I had
the BYU Iowa State game in the quad box like
all afternoon because we talked about it in the preview.
Might remember if you listened to it the afternoon slate
of games, you could have built two quads that were

(27:33):
of equal interest. It was really, really, really interesting in
that time slot. Amid all the other games going on,
this is the one I wanted to watch. All I
wanted to do was watch Bear Bachmeyer. Honestly, I'm not
even kidding. True freshman number forty seven, wonderful head of hair,

(27:55):
which we've talked about a lot here. Plus he's part
of the Bachmeyer football dynasty. All of these things are
very important on the solid verble. Now, I will note
he is not a finished product. Okay, he is not
a finished product. He still has happy feet, there are
still some ill advised throws. He is not perfect but
what is most encouraging if you're a BYU fan, is

(28:17):
they are not scheming around him. If you watch that game,
if you watch any of what bear Bachmeyer has done
leading up to this game progressively, so it is more
and more the case where the coaching staff is not
treating him like a liability, and that is really exciting,

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especially with how well they are playing otherwise. Whether it's
a stroke of good luck, whether it's really good coaching,
maybe it's a combination of the two. It probably is.
But bear Bachmeyer already seems to me like he's better
than Jake Rhetz left and given the circumstances in the
run up to this season, to have caught lightning in

(29:01):
a bottle with a true freshman is crazy. It almost
never happens. He looked awesome in this game. He was
the entire offense.

Speaker 3 (29:13):
In this game.

Speaker 6 (29:14):
BYU had four hundred and ten total yards. Bear Bachmeyer
had three hundred.

Speaker 3 (29:18):
And fifty six of them.

Speaker 6 (29:20):
Iowa State came in as like a top twenty five
caliber defense. It was clear fairly early that we knew
watching from home what BYU was going to do, and
certainly John Haycock knew what they were going to do
and build the whole plane out of bear Bachmeyer, and
in what they still couldn't stop them. They couldn't stop them.
And what's even crazier to me is that this was

(29:43):
kind of a shootout, like this was not a shutdown
effort on the BYU side, by any stretch of the imagination.
BYU came into this game. I think as like the
twelfth or thirteenth best defense in Bill Connolly's sp plus
YU was out gained. They gave up almost five hundred
yards in this one, but they would turnover battle three

(30:06):
to ZIP.

Speaker 3 (30:07):
One of those was a pick six.

Speaker 6 (30:09):
As we said when we previewed this game, BYU doesn't
fit neatly into any box. There's not like one guiding
philosophy or identity. They're sort of all the things all
at once, and they can adapt to whatever. They're extremely adaptable,
and that's what I think makes them really hard to

(30:30):
game plan for. They'll just sort of do whatever works,
whatever they need to do. Frankly, there should be more
teams around college football that adapt that mentality. I don't
know if all of them will be as good at
it as BYU seems to be this year, but they
are getting the job done. To go on the road
to win this one in the manner that they did
is damn impressive. They are now eight to zero. They

(30:53):
might crack the top ten.

Speaker 3 (30:55):
You know.

Speaker 6 (30:55):
I don't know what the rankings are going to show
when they release the latest round of AP polling.

Speaker 3 (30:59):
But they're right there. They deserve to be right there.

Speaker 6 (31:04):
They're off next week, but two weeks they go to Lubbock,
which is gonna be one of those games that we
have to do the early preview four on the Tuesday episode,
right I mean, that's gonna be the big twelve game
of the year right there. I don't know if they'll
be favored by Hunches, No, but I do think they
can win. And if you ask me how I think

(31:24):
they could win or what I think they're going to
do in order to win, it's a big shrug. I
have no idea, but that's kind of their mo and
I think that's kind of what makes them who they are.
So BYU with a damn impressive win here over Iowa State.
I Wowa State was favored in this game at home,
by the way, so to go in there to win

(31:45):
like they did, to put up all those yards to
be outgained, they still have to find a way to
do it. BYU is legit. They might not go twelve
and zero, but uh, eleven and one, ten and two
is looking pretty good right about now. And there are
other teams in the Big twelve too that I think
rise to the same level for having this conversation about

(32:06):
Big Twelve teams. I mean, it was the same case
last year, right there were a bunch of teams, Arizona
State being one of them picked last, they end up
winning the conference. We've got a grouping of teams that
I think everybody missed to some extent that are playing really,
really well. Texas Tech was obviously in action this week.
They won pretty handily, but it's not just BYU. What

(32:30):
about Cincinnati. Cincinnati also won going away, and this was
also a matchup in which we called out some of
their liability on defense, specifically against the past, something that
Baylor is known to be pretty good at. I think
we need to have a longer conversation about Cincinnati right

(32:52):
now because November Cincinnati is going to get damn spicy.
Like I started poking around with tiebreakers and stuff. It's
probably a little too early, but especially with the news
that Houston knocked off Arizona State, It's going to end
up being ridiculous, just like it was last year, and
Cincinnati is going to have a big part to play.

(33:12):
I like Cincinnati more coming into the year, certainly than
in twenty twenty four. But I didn't expect this, and
I don't know many people that did. Admittedly, I only
saw a handful of highlights. I want to go back
and I want to really imbibe this one and take
it all in. But I'll just note that we did

(33:33):
mention on our preview despite some of the liability on defense,
the fact that Baylor does not play any run defense
and Cincinnati rushed it fifty times for two hundred and
sixty five yards. I think that is their default mode.
I think they want to run people into submission if
they can, but if they can't. We should also note

(33:56):
that Brendan soaresby their quarterback as a nineteen to one
touchdown on the interception.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
Ratio, which is pretty good.

Speaker 6 (34:03):
So like they have a couple pitches Cincinnati, It's not
just all one thing. They got a couple different ways
that they can get You had too many penalties in
this game, but still really really solid and maybe a
knockout blow for Dave Randa.

Speaker 3 (34:17):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (34:18):
I don't know what the status is at Baylor. I
know he's been on the hot seat for the last
two years. But Cincinnati putting up forty one points, holding
Baylor down to some extent here not getting killed through
the air, that was impressive to me. I thought that
Baylor might throw on him, but they just had two
hundred and sixty six yards as a team, turned the

(34:39):
ball over twice, there were four of twelve on third downs.
I mean, you could convince me that Baylor is like
a five lost team at this point, but they still
have an offense. And I still think it's really impressive
what Cincinnati did. And the other big one here, Honestly,
in the Big Twelve, I mentioned it a second ago,
and I'm not going to go into too much detail
on this one because they didn't watch it and I

(35:00):
don't want to be disingenuous, but Houston twenty four to
sixteen over Arizona State. They were up twenty four to
zip right away, like they punched him in the mouth.

Speaker 3 (35:14):
They did not look back.

Speaker 6 (35:16):
This was probably a bit of a letdown spot for
Arizona State after the win last week against Texas Tech,
where everybody you know stormed the field, but Jordan Tyson
was out. I believe Sam Levitt later on in the
game was out as well. Jeff Simmons did come in
for a stretch and actually wasn't that bad, just sort
of the surprise of the game. I give a lot

(35:39):
of credit to Willie Fritz and what he's building at Houston.
I talked a lot about it in the preseason. They
were aggressive in the transfer portal, but they were smart
in the transfer portal. They were not going out after
the biggest names. They did get Conor Wigman, which is
a big name in and of himself, but otherwise the
guys that they went out and got were ones who

(35:59):
could come in and contribute either by filling in gaps
that they knew they had or by adding depth where
they thought they might need it, and we are seeing
that pay major dividends. I don't know what the future
holds for Houston at this point, but I think it's
another testament to the job that Willy Fritz is doing.

(36:20):
It would not surprise me if Willi Fritz's name came
up in accordance with some of these other openings out there.
I don't know if there is any desire for him
to leave the Houston, for him to leave Houston.

Speaker 3 (36:30):
He just got there.

Speaker 6 (36:31):
But Houston completely controlled this game. In the bit that
I saw of it, I got to go back. I
obviously need to brush up on this one a little
bit more before I talk super knowledgeably about it. But
what Houston is doing right now under Willy Fritz again,
another one of these teams that I think has snuck
up on people. It's hard not to be impressed.

Speaker 2 (36:53):
Again.

Speaker 6 (36:54):
Let me know what impressed you, what you learned from
the Big twelve in week nine, I want to go
through the ACC I want to go through the Big ten.
I want to mention a big game that went down
on the G six ranks as well. But I would
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(37:36):
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(37:58):
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don't know if we're going to see a whole lot
of change in that pole, but there are always subtle

(38:20):
shifts even if there aren't gigantic upsets. Let's take a
look at the acc Virginia wins seventeen to sixteen over
unc My lock of the week of the week, don't
know what this was. Virginia won this game by about

(38:43):
six inches. I've got a pen here. They won by
about that much. So UVA goes.

Speaker 3 (38:51):
To overtime against UNC.

Speaker 6 (38:54):
They get the ball first, they score a touchdown, they
kick the extra point. UNC that's its turn. Next they
score almost immediately, they go for two, which I thought
was the right call. I know Tony Elliott spoke in
the post game and was surprised that they went for two.
I don't know why he'd be surprised that they went

(39:14):
for two. This is a team that was previously and
is still winless in the ACC. What Like, what's the
point why I play for the tithe So say what
you want about Belichick.

Speaker 3 (39:25):
I thought that was the right move.

Speaker 6 (39:26):
They didn't get it by about this much, doesn't mean
it was the wrong call. This was not at all
an impressive win for Virginia. I think it goes without
saying they were a ten and a half point favorite here.
But a win is a win. And you know it's crazy,
but the Whos are in a position now by virtue

(39:48):
of a loss that I'll talk about in a second,
where they actually control their own ACC destiny.

Speaker 3 (39:56):
Totally wild.

Speaker 6 (39:57):
You want to talk about big twelve teams that are
kind of fine under the radar and sneaking up on everybody.
We need to have a Virginia conversation because right now,
if everything breaks according to projections, we're looking at a
Georgia Tech Virginia ACC title game, which some people had
Georgia Tech, nobody had Virginia. I don't care who if
you had Virginia. If you claim you had Virginia, I

(40:18):
think you're full of it. What I'm worried about on
the Virginia side is that there are definite hints that
they're an LRO team. LRO is not my term, I
guess collectively at this point, it's our term, but LRO
stands for luck runs Out. Virginia's last three wins have
come by a combined six points. There's something to be

(40:43):
said for a team that finds ways to win close games,
and they are winning close games. They're three to zero
in overtime games so far this year. And surely there
are teams around college football that would kill to be
better in close games.

Speaker 3 (40:56):
Just ask the Auburn Tigers. They would love it.

Speaker 6 (41:00):
But I'm not fully invested in Virginia at this point.
Great story. I'm worried that eventually one of these is
going to come back to bite them. Either way, They've
got a clear path to nine and three, At a
minimum ten and two maybe better. Talk about an incredible

(41:22):
success for Tony Elliott, Chandler Morris. What they've done here
building this program kind of in the offseason has been remarkable.

Speaker 3 (41:32):
Talk about another team that deserves the flowers.

Speaker 6 (41:35):
North Carolina meanwhile still winless in the ACC, but played
a good game all things considered. Look, UNC is not good.
This is not a good team. But UNC found a
way to hang with what apparently might be one of
the better teams of the conference, and they could have won.
And I approve of going for two. So at least

(41:56):
for this week, everybody can get off of Bill Belichick's back.
The game that I mentioned that now springs Virginia loose
and allows them to control of their own destiny.

Speaker 3 (42:08):
Is this one?

Speaker 6 (42:12):
Wake Forest thirteen SMU twelve. I am saying that with
a question mark at the end on purpose. I just
don't get it. I don't know what is going on
with wake Forest, but I do know, and I give

(42:33):
us credit for the fact that very early on we
called out wake Forest as being a genuine pain in
the ass because they are a pain in the ass
and they play hard.

Speaker 3 (42:48):
There were eight.

Speaker 6 (42:49):
Turnovers in this game. There were two missfield goals, there
was a block the extra point, there were seventeen punts.
If Dan we're here right now, I would demand that
he do a madic drive chart reading, and if I
had the sound on my board, I would do it
for myself. But SMU lost this one on a fifty

(43:10):
yard field goal at the gun. Wake Forest played good defense.
They turned the ball over five times, but they still
found a way to win this one. And they're five
and two, by the way, another team you know, sal
what you want, even if they finished six and six.
I remember looking at preseason projections that had wake Forest

(43:32):
as three and nine, four and eight, five wins. Jake
Dickerd's first year, I know we talked a lot about
how the vibes were good, and there was a question of, hey,
how far can good vibes take wake Forest? Well might
take them to a bowl, which is pretty damn cool.

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Let's talk about the big ten, shall we? Washington forty two,
Illinois twenty five?

Speaker 2 (44:00):
What was this? Not much defense?

Speaker 6 (44:03):
Forget about that, But collectively, these teams put on a show.
Offensively a combined eighteen of twenty four on third downs.
The story I thought was Washington's offense. I watched a
fair amount of this game. There were a bunch going
on at the same time, but Washington only had two drives.

(44:23):
They had eight drives in total, but only two of
them did not go for touchdowns. That's how they end
up with forty two points. DeMont Williams was awesome in
this game. Dunzel Boston was awesome. We got a bunch
of Denzel Boston suggestions for our doodle alerts. I'll throw
his name in the ring there when we get to
that part of the show. But three forty six in

(44:44):
total yardage for Demond Williams, four touchdowns. I don't know
what to make Washington. I think I have pretty consistently
been higher on Washington than Dan. But I think I
picked Illinois in the run up to this game, and
so I think Washington is a bit of a two face.

(45:05):
Sometimes to see your performance like this, other times to
see your performance like we saw against Ohio State where
they score six points. No shame in scoring six points
against Ohio State. I think that might be their average.
But Washington right now seems to have found its guy
at quarterback. There are obviously good vibes around that we'll

(45:26):
see if Jedfish stays, because there's always a risk that
Jedfish is going to leave. But alas, you gotta like
the win if you are a Washington fan, they've got
a pretty clear path than nine and three, which would
be about a three win improvement over where they were
a year ago. And again another case of Jedfish taking
over a program and doing a pretty good job building

(45:47):
it into something a little bit better. Illinois, by the way,
has played eight games now I was looking at their schedule,
I'd say five of the eight were against teams that
I think are pretty good. Last four games, though, are
considerably easier. So if we're talking about teams that could
go nine to three, I think Illinois is one of

(46:08):
those teams that could go nine to three. I think
there's a pretty good shot they end up going nine
to three as well. It's still a good team, but
they were just not able to get over the hump
in this one on the road. Looks like we had
a nice little backdoor cover for Michigan State in the
Michigan Michigan State game. It was a thirty one to

(46:32):
twenty final in favor of Michigan, but Sparti did score
a late touchdown to cover the fourteen I believe was
the closing line. So if you did go with a
little brother here plus the points Mike Hart's words not mine,
you came out on top.

Speaker 3 (46:50):
Good for them.

Speaker 6 (46:52):
We also had this one. I usually don't play this
sound twice, but this one really deserves us who've just
got burded. Iowa absolutely throttled Minnesota. They throttled them.

Speaker 2 (47:04):
They were up thirty one.

Speaker 6 (47:07):
I almost said thirty four. It doesn't matter. They were
up thirty one to zip at halftime. They ended up
winning by thirty eight. But they only had two hundred
and seventy four yards, which is kind of a statistical anomaly.
You expect such things from the Iowa Hawkeyes at this point,
but they had a pick six, they had a punt
return that contributed. I guess if you're an Iowa fan,

(47:29):
it's a good feeling to put up forty one points
in a rivalry game.

Speaker 3 (47:33):
You'll take that.

Speaker 6 (47:35):
Speaking of teams that could end up with like a
nine and three record, I was just there again. Don't
mind them might not win anything. Of real merit go
to a playoff, even contend for a conference, but they'll
end up playing in a pretty good bowl game in
a warm climate. Give you somewhere to go in January.
Not bad, not bad. They are running the crap out

(47:59):
of the ball. Mark Gronowski actually had a decent enough
day through the air. Wasn't exactly like he's putting up
crazy numbers, but it was one of the better passing
games we've seen out of him, just in terms of
raw efficiency. If you're a Minnesota fan, I I don't
know what to say. All I can say is you
should email me if you want that invite to the

(48:22):
Golden Gophers support zoom call that we're going to do
at some point in early December. Cliverbo atgmail dot com.
I called this out at the start of the year.
I'll call it out again. Now let me know if
you want to be part of that. This is a
real thing. I will do this because every year I'm
higher on Minnesota than I should be. I don't realize
it until we get to late October early November. It's

(48:46):
one of my fatal flaws. I'll admit it openly. Forty
one to three is a really bad showing here, and
this is a really bad showing. A kudos to Iowa.
There are plenty of other Power Conference games that went down.
If there are any that we did not get to
and you learn something from them, please shout it out.
Let us know in the comments. We're gonna flash those

(49:08):
up here in just a little bit. The only other
game that I want to call out is what went
down between Memphis and USF. We previewed this game on
the Thursday preview episode, and this is one of those
that had real significance, certainly in the American but more

(49:28):
broadly speaking in the playoff chase. Still seems like it
might be Boise Spot to lose, but certainly USF has
had a really good season. Memphis did lose to UAB, granted,
but that was their only loss and now they come
away victorious in this one by a thirty four to

(49:50):
thirty one score. This was a really entertaining game. I
don't know if people had a chance to watch this
one again. There were plenty of games going on at
pretty much every window throughout the course of Saturday, but
they were over a thousand total yards in this one.
Just as we expected, Memphis was down thirty one to
seventeen going into the fourth quarter. They end up scoring

(50:14):
seventeen unanswered points to win this one. Brendan Lewis threw
the game winning touchdown with about a minute left, which
resulted in a great quote from him that I found
in the game cap. Quote the defense comma, I don't
know what they were thinking. They left the defensive back

(50:35):
one on one on an island, and Tes did what
he does. Tes caught the game winning tenure touchdown pass.
USF did get the ball back, and this is where
comedy sort of ensued. They get the ball back, they
drive the field, They get within range of Nico Grammatica
for I think a forty two yarder, and rather than

(50:59):
try to kick the field goal with about ten seconds left,
they try to throw a pass and they get called
for holding, which pushes everything back ten yards. Nico Gramatica
goes out there, kind of had a little smirk on
his face, looked like he was gonna nail it. Does
not make the fifty two yarder. Alas, the Memphis Tigers

(51:22):
end up with a really big win. I want to
talk more about this one with Dan on Tuesday. It
was truly one of the more entertaining games of the day.
It's gonna be one of those I know he's going
to want to go back and listen to, or go
back and watch, and then you listen to what I
had to say here on the episode, as well as
what other people on our discord had to say as well,
because this is one of those games that I know

(51:44):
people were really anticipating in the run up to week nine.
It did not disappoint, and bigger picture, there will be
a question that I think comes into play about influence
on that G six playoff spot. And I don't know
if Memphis will be there. I don't know if it's
too late for us up at this point with multiple losses, but.

Speaker 3 (52:07):
We'll see. We'll see.

Speaker 6 (52:11):
All right, Here is what we're going to do next.
Because we got so many reverbs that came in on
the reverb line eight five to five verbal three. I
am told from our chief reverb engineer, Shay that this was,
in particular, one of the best weeks we've ever had
of reverbs. Not a moment too soon, as I have
been sitting here droning on for about fifty three minutes now,

(52:34):
so I need to get a cup of tea or
some tea to lubricate the instrument and bring this baby home.
But in the meantime, here's what y'all had to say
in week nine.

Speaker 3 (52:46):
Have a listen.

Speaker 6 (52:47):
The beatings will continue until you stop doubting the usures.

Speaker 3 (52:54):
By right, this is Bonds from Scotland. This is Brandon
from Dicky Tom, this.

Speaker 4 (52:57):
Is Hey, this Will and Soda calling with a message
to tie you.

Speaker 5 (53:03):
Tried so hard to curse my.

Speaker 6 (53:05):
Who's and they had no business lanning, but it didn't
work well.

Speaker 4 (53:10):
After one quarter, wake forth as a leave for you
and nothing a negative one offensive yard.

Speaker 3 (53:16):
This is not the All Cotco Conference, buddy.

Speaker 8 (53:18):
We're a dollar general by um Cheetahs.

Speaker 2 (53:20):
A few moments later, we did it.

Speaker 8 (53:23):
We won the worst game at the fall History Cookie.

Speaker 5 (53:26):
I'm a Stanford fan and I like to petition the
NCAA to replay the third quarter tonight, death Taxes and
case stays showing Kansas who daddy is?

Speaker 3 (53:39):
Devanteenth Tray Baby.

Speaker 5 (53:40):
Dave Aranda has villain eyebrows. I have the same feeling
about firing Dave Branda as they do about putting down
all the other at the end of the movie. It's
got to be done, but God, I hate it.

Speaker 4 (53:52):
I think it's time we start talking to our kids
about Cincinnati football.

Speaker 8 (53:56):
Hey, tick your boyt Brooks in Madison, Wisconsin. I'm here
year with your chief reverb Officer Chay. We're at the
wrestling Warfare game and we want to know DJ Flex
takes a pen shake drop midweek falks five million. I'll
say it.

Speaker 5 (54:13):
Soler for you.

Speaker 6 (54:14):
This week Iowa has an all sense.

Speaker 7 (54:17):
Now, are you ready to get back on the Knoski train?

Speaker 5 (54:21):
This PREU football train wreck we'll just never.

Speaker 1 (54:24):
End losing after the QB fumbles his own tipped pass
in the final minute.

Speaker 5 (54:29):
Physical pain. If you have mondrat to severe althor to cootitis,
you know.

Speaker 7 (54:33):
That nothing is everything and nothing also describes the effect
that Nick Marsh has had in this game.

Speaker 5 (54:40):
Go Blue.

Speaker 7 (54:40):
I'm ready to hard launch Jonathan Smith and the entire
coaching staff into the sun.

Speaker 8 (54:46):
This is Steve from Atlanta, Georgian calling about eight Wingdiana.

Speaker 5 (54:50):
Smoke him if you got him, Coach sig wins again.

Speaker 4 (54:52):
Sorry about the turbulence flying over Columbia and Starkville. We
should beat through right now. The SEC is flying slow
and study. Please feel free to move about the cabin.

Speaker 2 (55:03):
Hey guys, it's Cole and Tuscaloos.

Speaker 4 (55:05):
And when your clunkers, I guess just.

Speaker 5 (55:08):
Keep picking against the sky.

Speaker 2 (55:09):
I appreciate you, buddy. This is Bill from Texas.

Speaker 8 (55:12):
I think it's said to win your clunkers.

Speaker 7 (55:15):
How about when your claim does. When the fourth quarter
looked like it was going the way of last week
against Georgia, those players fought like hell for Lang Kiffin, Hotty,
Toddy go ReBs. So it was Arkansas versus Auburn in
the battle of the elite losers, and Arkansas lost. So
does that mean that we won because we're the most
elite loser as is Presno, Shayday was proof that it

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doesn't matter who the quarterback is, We're never going to.

Speaker 5 (55:41):
Win the Mountain West ever again.

Speaker 2 (55:44):
We can win the Pac twelve, though.

Speaker 5 (55:46):
I also want to shout out in.

Speaker 2 (55:47):
New England College, who won their.

Speaker 5 (55:49):
First game in fifty one years today in D three Let's.

Speaker 7 (55:53):
Go North Texas seven and one. Drew Mess to Maker,
Mess to Macon school records and Mess of making me
go mean.

Speaker 8 (56:01):
Green Josh and mount wasn't just going to say you
mass more like you boys are?

Speaker 6 (56:05):
I am spire epis you say the secs, fell Gods
and Monsters, fans, a you.

Speaker 7 (56:12):
Can Slay the over one o'clock League, and a tron
special from must Churches.

Speaker 3 (56:16):
Let's go call medor Spinker's Dying.

Speaker 6 (56:19):
Go Doors Baby, big win, big win today. I appreciate
that somebody called out Indiana's win. I believe by fifty points.
We probably need to talk more about Indiana because they are,
of course a killing machine. The caller who mentioned that
Iowa has an offense, Iowa scored points. I don't know

(56:41):
about the offense part of it in week nine, but
certainly more points that we're used to. And you'll take
it like I'm not splitting hairs. You will take that
if you're an Iowa fan. We got a unt call,
which I appreciate. I want to talk more about that
on Tuesday with Dan and last but not least, Lehigh
one again today. I had to check the box score

(57:03):
to make sure, but Lehigh is the top ten FCS
team if they end up with a playoff game, I'm
gonna have to go over to Goodman Stadium if they
end up hosting one at some point.

Speaker 3 (57:13):
Here in December.

Speaker 6 (57:15):
Thank you again to everybody for calling in eight five
to five verbal three. We do the reverbs every week.
It was a great batch this week, and I know
there was a lot that was on the cutting room floor.
So shout out to everybody who took the time to
dial in, and of course shout out to our reverb engineer, Shay,
who is still waiting patiently on the line here and
is going to help me out. He has been filtering

(57:37):
through your comments. I have been asking since the start
of this episode for what you learned in week nine.

Speaker 3 (57:48):
Let's see him Shay.

Speaker 6 (57:50):
Trash Pile says, I learned that Alabama can win games
that last year's team.

Speaker 3 (57:56):
Would have lost.

Speaker 2 (57:58):
That's a really good.

Speaker 3 (58:00):
Point on the Alabama side.

Speaker 6 (58:03):
And I have been kicking this around a lot because
I think if you are not fully briefed on what
Alabama is in twenty twenty five, and if you don't
watch the games, the inclination is to go onto the
stat sheet and to see what they're doing. And they

(58:24):
very much profile as a one dimensional offense, like it
is all on Ty Simpson and it is all on
whatever they can do with Jeremy Bernard Ryan Williams as
their two playmakers. But we saw it in this game,
especially with the way that they use Daniel Hill right,
he's running back, but they're using him out of the backfield.

(58:45):
Like ty Simpson is getting better. It is clear that
Caitlin de Boor and Ryan Grubb are very confident in
his abilities out there, and certainly Alabama is able to
put up points. Alabama is able to come back and
win a game like they want today in a tough
road spot against South Carolina. Say what you want about

(59:06):
South Carolina and where they're at, but they've got a
pretty good defensive front and ty Simpson was very comfortable
back there, able to navigate efficiently. So whatever they are doing,
even if it does not fit into any kind of
balanced offensive box, Alabama.

Speaker 5 (59:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (59:24):
Alabama is I think learning us all week in and
week out.

Speaker 2 (59:30):
Thomas says.

Speaker 6 (59:31):
I learned that Brian Kelly will be coaching in the
Big Ten next year.

Speaker 2 (59:34):
Will he Willy? I don't know about that.

Speaker 8 (59:39):
Man.

Speaker 6 (59:41):
If you are Brian Kelly, obviously, James Franklin's already there.
If you are any of these guys who are currently
coaching at higher level places, I gotta believe that you
will be in the hunt for some of these openings.
If you are no longer in your current spot. There
are teams out there that would want Brian Kelly. I

(01:00:03):
sure as hell hope it's not Penn State. Penn State's
coming from this position now with Franklin, where they could
win the big game. That's essentially why they got rid
of him. And I know they talk about vibes and
trajectory the program. I think there's some merit there, but gosh,
Brian Kelly went out and they did everything they needed

(01:00:27):
to do this offseason at LSU to make that team better.
Still can't block. The offense is worse. The defense got
skewed today against what apparently is a much better offense
than any of us thought possible. I just don't know
what the case is for Brian Kelly at one of
those national championship tier institutions that at least are coming

(01:00:51):
from the position of we need to win the big game.
Somebody would hire him.

Speaker 3 (01:00:56):
For sure.

Speaker 6 (01:00:57):
He's still a good coach, But speaking as a Penn Stater,
I hope it's not Penn State. What I learned is
that BYU is fun and feisty. They are, and I've
been learning that week in and week out. I have
heard from a lot of BYU people out there. We

(01:01:17):
get comments from BYU folks that listen to the show,
many of whom are very passionate about the Cougars, and
the overwhelming sentiment has been, you guys aren't talking enough
about BYU. No one's talking enough about BYU, but you
guys on the show especially aren't talking a whole lot
about YU. By didn't really play anybody first couple weeks

(01:01:38):
of the year, and so I think what they are
now was sort of masked up until very recently. But
perhaps that bit of a run up that they had
was also what they needed to give bear Bachmeyer the
experience to get him comfortable, to put him in a
position like we saw today where he went off and

(01:01:59):
was essentially the entire offense. Again, I reiterate what I
said earlier. They are not treating him his liability and
to have a true freshman out there that actively is
part of the game plan and you are utilizing his
skill sets and you're not afraid to let him be
what he is. That is a rarity. You just do
not see that much around college. But it's not impossible

(01:02:21):
it happens all the time, but it is certainly not
something that happens more than fifty percent of the cases,
especially with the true freshman. The whole situation at BYU
this year at quarterback has been a one off, to
say the least. It has been unexpected, and the success
I think that they're having with bear Bachmeyer has been

(01:02:44):
unexpected as well. But again, this has been a great
campaign and Kalanie Sataki has proven time and again that
he's a good coach. He knows how to navigate these situations.
He's done it in the past and he'll do it
in the future. So I am damn impressed with BYU,
says I learned that Lane Kiffin is getting better as
a head coach. It could win the SEC. I think

(01:03:10):
they could win the SEC. I believe that. I don't
know if there is any perfect team in the SEC.
The closest to that is probably Texas A and M
right now with the way that they're playing, But everybody
else kind of has a flaw. Everybody else has looked
beatable at some points. Even A and M has looked beatable.
A and M hasn't blown doors off everybody they did

(01:03:30):
at LSU tonight, but there have been some close games.
The Auburn game was a little bit weird. The Notre
Dame game out of conference, mind you, but Notre Dame
game was a one point affair earlier in the year.
They got into a battle a week ago against Arkansas. Right,
They're not perfect, but All Miss is very interesting because

(01:03:51):
they're getting really solid quarterback play out of Trinidad Chambliss.
They're really interesting because I thought their defense stepped up
in a really significant way.

Speaker 3 (01:04:00):
I think.

Speaker 6 (01:04:03):
Some of the parts is really intriguing. On the Old
Miss side, I think it's just working better for Lane
Kiffin this year for whatever reason. You know, he's still
making some weird decisions and he's still trying to be
hyper aggressive and do what he's kind of always done.
It's just working better. And I think the field in
the SEC is conducive to a bit of a wild card.

(01:04:28):
By the way, Ole Miss, as I'm talking through here
with teams in the Big twelve and the ACC even
the Big Ten to some extent, teams that have flown
under the radar, teams that maybe we looked at the
preseason and weren't sure what to expect, and expect a
whole lot of them. Ole Miss is right there. We
looked at Old Miss's schedule, and we said, all right,
schedule looks good, but they lose a lot to lose.

(01:04:48):
Jackson Dark Jacks start was the first round pick. There
was a lot new coming in this year, and so
I think at least on that front, on that front,
to assemble the pieces very quickly to have the stones
to make the move to Trinidad. Chambliss after he got
on a bit of a heater early. All of that

(01:05:09):
reflects I think a really really good coach and it's
understandable why he would be the top target at Florida.
We'll see if he decides he wants to take that
gig or not. But in the meantime, he's got a
lot to play for this season at all, miss. I
learned that Indiana, Navy, Cincinnati, Virginia. It's like you're seventeen

(01:05:31):
of an NCAA fourteen dynasty. Indiana's looked really good. We
know this much. Navy is having a good year. Cincinnati
and Virginia we talked through, this is what makes college
football great. This is why we like college football because
teams like this, especially in this day and age, are

(01:05:54):
finding ways to eat at the big table. And that's
a lot of fun. I don't know how long it's sustained,
but it's a lot of fun. Final one here from
Caleb in Kansas City. I learned that the Hawk gys
can be scary when they click on all cylinders. Let's
go Hawks again. I don't know if they clicked on
all cylinders today. I need to go back and watch

(01:06:16):
that game. What I do know is that they beat
the crap out of Minnesota.

Speaker 5 (01:06:22):
Right.

Speaker 6 (01:06:22):
There's probably a bigger conversation to be had about Minnesota
and where they come down in this whole conversation and
not Iowa.

Speaker 3 (01:06:31):
But look, all you.

Speaker 6 (01:06:32):
Can do is when the game's in front of you,
and Iowa has been in way too many twenty to seventeen,
twenty to nineteen style games, I think for Iowa fans comfort,
So yeah, you will absolutely positively take a forty one

(01:06:52):
to three victory. Thank you to everybody for sending in
those comments. Last, but not least, let's do some dood alerts.
If everybody is cool with that bunch, come in. Let's
give a shout out to Auburn's Alex McPherson, who kicks
six field goals in their win on the road today
over Arkansas. Denzel Boston from you dub of course. Casey

(01:07:16):
Concepcion from Texas A and M had a great day
in the special teams game where a turn to punt
had another long punt return. Bar Bachmeyer goes without saying
was the entire offense. Ryan Nibblett again coming up big
for Texas in their overtime win. Jimmy Rolder from Michigan

(01:07:37):
the linebacker was all over the field in this game
against Michigan State. The last two here are Cole Payton,
who is the quarterback I believe for North Dakota State
in their win over South Dakota State. And last but
not least, somebody ironically, maybe not ironically mentioned Jimmy Sexton.

(01:07:58):
Jimmy Sexton of course right now, the ultimate dude. Thank
you to everybody out there for watching this, if you
are watching live, for downloading, for supporting. I don't know
how this went. It is different. It felt different for
me too, but hopefully you got what you needed. Hopefully
you enjoyed it. If you got any tips or tricks,

(01:08:18):
let me know Solid Rebel at gmail dot com. I'm
always open to it. Would love to hear from the
masses out there. Dan will be back on Tuesday.

Speaker 2 (01:08:27):
I do have one final thing.

Speaker 6 (01:08:32):
I want to end tonight's show by setting the record
straight for a second. I want to give a shout
out to our friends over at rock m Nation, which
is a great Missou site. I've read Rockmnation for like
twenty years now. They do a great job covering the
Missouri Tigers this week. As you might expect, with the
carousel spinning in the manner that it has, they posted

(01:08:56):
something talking about the chances of Eli drink Wits leaving
to take.

Speaker 3 (01:09:01):
Another job, including the one up at Penn State.

Speaker 2 (01:09:06):
Quote.

Speaker 6 (01:09:07):
While geographic fit isn't as important as it used to be, culturally,
drink Wits and the wine and cheese crowd of Pennsylvania
might not be the easiest.

Speaker 3 (01:09:20):
Fit end quote.

Speaker 6 (01:09:22):
As you might expect, this one made the rounds a
little bit within the Penn State community, certainly among the
penn Stators that I know, and the universal response was wait,
wine and cheese?

Speaker 5 (01:09:34):
Really?

Speaker 2 (01:09:36):
I don't blame.

Speaker 6 (01:09:37):
Anyone for not understanding this state. Okay, this is one
of the weirdest states in the Union. We are bookended
by big cities and steel plants and coal mines, and
in between we've got a state Capital, State Game Lands,
and obviously State College. The Penn State crowd is a

(01:10:00):
combination of Eagles fans and Steelers fans, with the side
of the Jersey Shore maybe a dash of New York City.
Most of us here in this community are from places
you've never heard of, right, I'm taught like Wallnaport nescapec
mechanics Burg. My high school mascot quite literally was inspired

(01:10:26):
by the factory that made all the cement in the
Panama Canal. So this is a different place with a
different kind of mentality than I think was portrayed here.
If we are fancy, it is like the most blue
collar version of fancy. That's why the uniforms are still
that boring blue and white. That's why you got people

(01:10:48):
chug and yingling in random fields outside the stadium before
all the games. And why in college our wine nights
consisted of a guy who found a case of boons farm.
I am not sure where Eli Drinkwitz stands on cheap booze,
but I know that his story was hashed in rural Arkansas.

(01:11:10):
I know he grew up in a town known for
a spinach factory. I believe I know he had a
big family that was struggling to make ends meet, that
he cut grass to help make money, and that his
career has taken him from the southern tip of Appalachia
to the northern part right now of the Ozarks. Other
than being a family man and a really good coach,

(01:11:32):
he's a button pusher who knows how to ruffle some feathers.
So frankly, Missouri fans and whoever wrote this, he sounds
a lot like one of us, and I'm happy to
remind everybody of that time and again until a couple
months from now when Penn State eventually hires Matt Rule.

(01:11:55):
That's all for tonight's show. Thank you for bearing with me.
Dan will be back. As I said on Tuesday. In
the meantime, you know, the drill as always stay solid.
H m hm

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