September 22, 2025 • 54 mins
College Football live reaction and Week 4 recap across the SEC, Big Ten, ACC, and Big 12 featuring the Georgia Bulldogs, Ohio State Buckeyes, Oregon Ducks, Alabama Crimson Tide, Texas Longhorns, Michigan Wolverines, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, USC Trojans, Miami Hurricanes, LSU Tigers, Oklahoma Sooners, Penn State Nittany Lions, Clemson Tigers, and Florida State Seminoles. George Wrighster breaks down the biggest wins, upsets, and what it all means for the College Football Playoff picture.
You’ll get straight talk on signature brands and rising threats—Georgia, Ohio State, Oregon, Alabama, Texas football, Michigan football, Notre Dame football, USC football, Miami, LSU football, Oklahoma football, Penn State, Clemson football, Florida State—plus which teams gained (or lost) juice with the committee. We hit quarterback spotlights (Arch Manning, Julian Sayin, Carson Beck, DJ Lagway, Dylan Raiola, Nico Iamaleava, Dante Moore), the impact of NIL and the transfer portal, and why schedule strength + explosive rate + red-zone TD % still separate champions from clickbait. We’ll also shout the best of the rest: Utah, Texas Tech, BYU, Iowa State, USF, UNLV, Tulane, Memphis—and whether any G5 can crash the CFP conversation.
As always, it’s receipts season: game-defining calls, fourth-down math, officiating controversies, and the real reasons some elite rosters keep fading late. Drop your top-4, your biggest overreaction, and who should be on the hot seat. Subscribe for no-BS analysis every week on The Unafraid Show with George Wrighster.
Chapters:
00:00 — Welcome & Week 4 headlines (who’s actually elite)
03:15 — SEC pulse check: Georgia, Alabama, LSU, Texas
08:00 — Big Ten heat: Ohio State, Michigan, Oregon, Penn State
12:05 — ACC movers: Miami, Florida State, Clemson
15:40 — Big 12 chaos meter: Oklahoma, Utah, Texas Tech, BYU, Iowa State
19:10 — QB spotlight: Arch, Sayin, Beck, Lagway, Raiola, Nico, Dante Moore
24:20 — Defense or track meet? Explosives vs stops on money downs
28:05 — Coaching decisions: 4th-down calls, clock, play-sequencing
33:00 — Transfer portal/NIL reality vs depth & development
36:45 — Resume talk: quality wins, SOS, style points, injuries
41:30 — G5 respect: USF, UNLV, Tulane, Memphis stock check
45:10 — CFP Stock Up/Down & top-8 seeding debate
50:20 — Viewer Q&A + biggest overreactions we’re hearing
53:30 — Final takeaways & subscribe/notifications
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
College Football week for reaction and recap. So this week
was one of them weeks where fans needed to realize
that college football is changing. It is changing, and the
main thing is is that yesterday does not matter, and
that the recruiting rankings don't matter, none of that, because
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teams are no longer afraid of anybody right now, and
that your past resume is nice. Oh, all the wonderful
things that I accomplished last season, over the last five years,
over the last eight, of the last ten years, seven
of the last eight, whatever, none of that matters at
this point in time. And we had fan bases that
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are now melting down, and there are people that are
trying to remain calm and rational. But here on George
Reis's College Football podcast, we give you the truth. We
are going to talk about today about what's going on
with dabos Sweeney. We're going to talk about what's going
on over there at Florida. We're gonna talk about Oklahoma, Oregon,
everybody in between, like we usually do. But I want
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to go back to this thing about your resume, right
because last week Dabo Sweeney, he gave us a press
conference that I loved. He was like, listen, listen, I'm
fifty five. I'm not going to the beach. I can
go somewhere else and go go coach if you don't
want me here now, I want one hundred percent support
that sentiment because you can't just throw dude in the
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trash because you're having a bad year. But that's the
reality of college football right now. And this is why
I said that your resume is nice. Oh it's cute,
but it also works in reverse too. Dabo's resume is amazing.
Arizona State's history is kind of but they were in
the College football playoffs last year. Wisconsin thirty years of
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building a reputation, and now nobody is even afraid of Wisconsin,
not even a little bit. Alabama, what's their reputation post
Nick Saban, look at Indiana they had Damn there are
one hundred years of mediocrity and now all of a
sudden they knocking people's doors off. So that's what I'm saying.
The only thing that matters is what's next. Nothing matters
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about what you did anymore. And it's like that text
Winter's quote where he talks about greatness, greatness, You're only
great in the moment that you do something great and
a great act, but after that it's just you're not
great again until you do something great again. And in
this nil and transfer portal era, the future is the
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only thing that mattered that. The past doesn't matter. It
doesn't matter how much equity that you feel like you've
built up, none of that. The question is how good
are things going to be? Not today, how the good
are things going to be tomorrow? And that's what the
best coaches are doing. They are adapting. Look at what
Mario Cristabaul is over there doing in Miami. He's not
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worried about the game yesterday. He ain't worried about what
happened last season, last year's recruiting rank is none of that.
It is where we are right now, where your feed are,
and then be looking forward because none of that matters.
And what you accomplished as a head coach, pre n
Io era, pre transfer a portal era don't matter. Look
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at Mike Gundhy over at Oklahoma State phenomenal resume pre
n io and pre COVID well, pre n IL and
pre transfer portal. Now it ain't even the same thing
because the game has changed and we're at the point
in the season. For for fans in week four with
these results, oh my god, I know some of y'all
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because we're at the point where copium will optimism excuse me,
optimism is now turning into copium. Okay, that was that
was one loss. It wasn't the end of the world.
We will we will be okay, we will bounce back.
And then first then that copium turns into in a
couple of weeks, is gonna either turn into despair or relief,
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because either despair because the bottom fell out. If you're Clemson,
you're in despair right now, or you'll be in relief, like, who,
oh my gosh, we're gonna have a change in leadership,
the one that I've been wanting. Now. Granted that don't
mean your next coach is gonna be better, but the
relief and we're starting to get some separation because everybody
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was all feeling good about their team. We're two and oh,
right now we're three and oh. We started the season great, yeah,
and then all of a sudden you end up four
and eight and you're like, what happened? Yeah, the real
part of the schedule happened. And truthfully, for a lot
of these teams. The early season's success is fool's goal,
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and sometimes it's actually the hardest thing to handle because
we get to talking about, oh oh, it's the failures.
It's the failures. No, the failures ain't even really that hard,
because that's what gives you the motive to get up,
work harder, do all the right things and everything else.
It's the it's the success that Nick Saban rat poison talk.
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That's the hard part. Is after you go and have
a big game and you win. If you're Ohio State,
you go beat Texas, how do you handle it the
next week? If you are you know, Oregon and Penn
State play next week. The winner of that is going
to have some trouble the following weeks if their coaches
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are not on them. Just that much harder. If you're Syracuse,
you just be Clemson. How do you handle that? The
success a lot of times is harder than the failures.
And you, guys, make sure that you like subscribe getting notifications.
Tell a friend and in case you don't know, I'm
George Reis, the former NFL player, college football player college
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football analysts over at the CW. You hope you got
a chance to watch me yesterday. Watch your boy work,
watch your boy cook all right, and make sure most
that you tell a friend about the show. And so
just so you know, you're probably like, if you watch
the show all the time, probably like, George, where are
you at? Why are you not in your studio? Well,
your boy came up to the studio to do the show, obviously,
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and then my son, he plays college football and super
close to him, so you know, family first got to
come see the boy, all right. So so that gives
an explanation of why I'm not in my regular studio. So,
speaking of people not being able to handle success, cow,
what happened to you? Now? If you watch the channel
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and you pay attention on social media, everybody this last week,
after your boy came out with the cal take looking
at their schedule because they beat Minnesota, You're like, Yo,
this is a team that can mess around and sneak
up and go undefeated or eleven and one to end
up in the a SEC Championship, maybe even the College
Football Playoff. With this schedule, well, grand opening, grand closing,
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thirty four to zero. We ain't even gonna talk about
this game, thirty four to zero to San Diego State,
come on, Justin will Cox, man, we weren't brot Dan.
All right, yeah, all right, So that's first thing. Next
thing up, well we're gary started talking about the games.
First thing, I'm sorry. I apologize. I apologize to you,
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Kurt Sengetti. I apologize to Indiana because Indiana was favored
by I think the game opened up them five and
a half point favorites against Illinois, and I was like,
this game is upside down. Illinois is not as good
as people think they are, and I'm sorry, Indiana's not
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as good as people think they are. Yes, Fernando Mendoza
came over from Cal and all the other transfer portal
and I know that kurtz and Getty is a great coach,
but maybe next year blah blah blah. And I also
said that Illinois was going to the College Football Playoff.
Now that could still happen. This could be an aberration,
but sixty three to ten man, Kurtzingetty, you are a
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mean man. You are a mean man for what you
did to this Illinois team. And I don't want you
showing up in Austin Stadium in a couple of weeks
bringing that sword of energy, sir, no but for real, Indiana,
the Indiana Hoosiers, they look extremely physical and you're like, George,
why are you starting out with a blowout because this
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was probably the most shocking result of the weekend, sixty
three to ten, And this wasn't him just chucking up
bombs at the end of the game. But the thing
I love about Kurt Synghetti, Indiana's head coach, the dude
is unapologetic. He would have scored a hundred points if
he didn't think that he might have messed around and
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get one of his best players hurt. He was like, yo,
he will knock your doors off, and I love it.
I love it. I got that same kind of energy
he is. You know, if he were in the Karate Kid,
he'd be like, weep the leg, sweep it. And you
know their quarterback, Fernando Mendoza five touchdowns. I mean they
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just blew up a top ten team. I mean they
only allowed one hundred and sixty one yards a total offense.
They blocked a punt for a touchdown and then on
the offensive end five hundred and seventy nine total yards.
What are we doing? What are we doing? I mean
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they and now you're looking at the outlook for this
Indiana team. They are four to zero. They have a
real shot in the Big Ten. This is not for play.
They are not to be played around with. And their
upcoming schedule now, I know that they started with Old
Dominion Kennesaw State in Indiana State, which I didn't think
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was gonna get them ready for a big matchup like that. Man,
hell if the hell if that ain't true. And then
this upcoming week they go to Iowa, and I was
gonna bring a level of physicality. So we're gonna learn
even more about Indiana in this Iowa game next week.
So I Am going to elevate Indiana, but also at
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the same time not overreact. Now, if they go and
show this level of physicality versus Iowa, which will drag
you down in the mud and just and just and
just make a game nasty and like a six seven
point win when it should have been thirty. If they
go knock the doors off of Iowa at Iowa, I'm in,
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I'm in, I'm in, I apologize. I'm just letting you know.
The next game that we got to talk about Syracuse Clemson.
This was thirty four to twenty one, and there are
two sides to this now. Number one, Fran Brown and
Dabbos Sweeney's press conferences this week are gonna be legendary,
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absolutely legendary on and the like. And there was two
parts to this game, because number one, we have to
praise Syracuse and fran Brown. But then on the other end,
on the back end of this, we gotta look at
Clemson because this is troubling what we're seeing now. On
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the Syracuse side, this was a program momentum type of
win because one of the things that we questioned was
that Syracuse lost the lot, best ride receiver transferred out
everything else. Was fran Brown gonna be able to salvage
a good season after last year? Was he gonna be
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able to get seven wins? And you still feel good
about where things are going? Man, Listen, fran Brown ain't
here for none of that. He ain't scared. They literally
went into death Valley, a place where they notoriously could
not win. And one because he's not scared. And this
is the thing that I keep trying to tell people.
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Teams identified, they get the identity of their head coach,
especially if that guy lives it day in and day out.
And Fran Brown lives the I ain't scared, I ain't
worried about you. I'm taking care of my own business
type of energy. So if your coach has that energy,
your players are going to embody that energy as well.
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And that's exactly what they did. They were aggressive, they
got the ball scored on their first drive, and then
went down and on side kicked like we were not
even going to let you up for air Clemson, and
I loved it. I loved every bit of it. And
the bad news for Clemson, I'm sorry for Syracuse says
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they lost their starting quarterback, Steve Angiely and it's reported
today that it is an achilles injury, exactly what it
looked like. So Ricky Collins stepped in. So what is
the future for Syracuse look like? Honestly, when you usually
go to your backup, it's not great. But Ricky Collins
has looked really good at times, and looked really good
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in high school. So my question to you is is
with Fran Brown and his energy as head coach, do
you think that there is any way, shape form or
fashioning now that this team is not gonna have that
same energy. Absolutely not. So I'm still with Syracuse now
Here is the thing about Dabbo Sweeney on the Clemson
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side is number one, the fire Dabbo talk ball this up,
throw it in the trash, throw that take in the trash.
It is garbage. It is it is now in mind you.
I'm the same person that just said that you got
to look to the future, that you have to you
know that your past resume does not matter. I still
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am that same person that just said that. The difference
is though Dabbo is a man of integrity, he's the
principal man, and he's a man who undertests typically understood
when changes need to be made, and yes he's rigid.
Sometimes the changes come a little little late. But Dabbo
is at an inflection point. Either Clemson is going to
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They're never going to go to Oklahoma State route because
they've accumulated way too much talent. But it's either going
to go that way to where they're not a dominant
power in the ACC and the college football anymore, or
it is going to or he's going to adapt and react.
He is going to and I would figure that Dabbo
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is like, all right, that he's having one of them
Nick Saban moments when Nick Saban decided to stop playing
running punt football and was like, Yeah, it's time to
open this thing up and get a quarterback toss the
pill around. This feels like one of those moments for Dabbo,
all right, But and you can't say that he's not
willing to throw the ball because k Cubnic through for
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three sixty three. They ran for one hundred and forty yards.
That's five hundred yards to total offense. Even Randall. Randall
ended up with one hundred and thirty yards all by himself.
So and then they allowed two hundred and seventy eight
pass yards one hundred and fifty five rush yards. Clemson's
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defense was the issue and them getting off the field
on third down. It was awful. It was absolutely awful.
So the question is how is Clemson losing Because wide
receivers are going to the NFL, quarterback is going to
the NFL, d line is going to the NFL, secondary
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is going to the NFL. This is one of those
things that has happened in this era of college football,
which is when you lose a few games, you can
potentially lose your team. So this is going to the
rest of this season is going to be Dabbos Sweeney's
hardest coach job ever, and I do believe that he's
up for the task. He'll figure it out. But listen,
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they better figure it out fast. But good on, good
on Syracuse three and one. Next game, we got to
talk about Auburn Oklahoma twenty four to seventeen. This game.
Number One, the SEC officials, clearly the conference put out
a statement on that touchdown, the fake runoff the field
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and he's standing over on the corner. Number one, I
don't think that that should be illegal. Number one, you
should be paying attention to whoever is on the field
that that's not my problem if you get tricked. But
the rules are the rules. It's illegal. The officials should
have caught it. Everything else. But I am going to
tell you that that is not the reason why Auburn
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lost this football game. Auburn lost his football game because
Oklahoma is better. That's why they lost this football game.
It's just the truth. Brent Venables calling this defense again amazing.
He took the controls back of what he knows his
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core competency is, which is defense. Ten sacks on his
former quarterback Jackson are ten and Mason Thomas closed it
with that safety, which I was very happy about, and
people who actually bet on games were very happy about
because I make my picks, but I make them against
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the spread. And Oklahoma was up by Measley five points
and then safety happened. Oh, everybody's rejoicing. And where I
was watching the game at people were so excited they were.
And I got a text message that said, George, Oh
my god, what a safety. I was like, what are
you talking about? Why did that even matter? And then
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I thought about the line and he was like, yo,
the line. I was like, what. Oh man, hey, hey, oddsmakers, y'all,
y'all some geniuses. Boy, well, y'all be getting to one
hundred percent right sometimes. And so when you see ten sacks,
the first thing that people look at is, oh my god,
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offer his office A line is terrible? Nope, nope, nope, nope. Yes,
some of it is the defense and bent Vinable scheming
it up. But the other part of it is is
when quarterbacks are probably responsible for about forty thirty to
forty percent of their sacks, they either move where they're
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not supposed to move, they do something that they're not
supposed to do, or they are what Jackson Arnold was
trying to do. He was being a big play merchant,
and you can't be a big play merchant and win
football games against really good teams. Now, the kid was okay,
he was not bad at all. And the fans were
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heckling him. I mean, of course they are. This is
this is college football, and what do you think that
these people are going to do? Yes, these people and
all of us, because I'm doing this, y'all are watching it.
We're all part of that. And Jackson Arnold finished with
twenty one or thirty two, two hundred and twenty yards
and a touchdown. Yeah, it was good. But here is
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my concern about both of these teams. Auburn thirty five
rushes for sixty seven yards, Oklahoma twenty four rushes for
thirty five yards. And you might say, well, these are
two really good rush defenses. Well, Oklahoma ain't been able
to run the football all year. This is highly concerning
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for a really good football team. And this is a
tough loss for Auburn. They're sitting at three and one,
but Hugh Freeze's is not on the hot seat at
this point in time anymore. But next week that game
against but their schedule gets tough Texan and them Georgia Missouri.
Those are three games that are going to determine, basically
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determine Hugh Freeze's faith if he goes. If he drops
the next two against Texan, HM and Georgia and then
loses to to Missouri too, they ain't gonna care about that.
Arkansas Kentucky wins in between. They're just They're just not
especially if you lose the Iron Bowl two. This is
a tough stretch for Auburn coming up and and this
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is going to determine Hugh Freeze's fate because Auburn's playing
initially worked in this game until third downs because they
were in long yarded situation. So the question is, remember
Auburn was talking about well that they Hugh free said
that they got you know, Nick's calling plays on first down,
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he's the second down. They got a third down play caller.
If this is true, that ain't working back to the
drawing board, fan, But the question is did John Mattier
have his Heisman moment in this game with that touchdown
run He finished with twitter and seventy one passing yards.
He was electric? I am, and I've told it, and
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I didn't even understand how people didn't know about this guy.
How are you supposed to be a college football lov
and fan and you don't know who Jometier is? What? What?
Because at Washington State, now imagine this kim Ward was
the number one pick. Imagine if John Matier ends up
the number one pick and both of them were on
the same roster at Washington State. Washington State fans be
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ready to throw up. They will be ready to blow
up college football because their quarterbacks got stolen because of
you know, nil transfer portal and new TV rights, conference
realignment and everything else. It stuff that they had no
control over. But Oklahoma has you know, stay to buy
Texas South Carolina. But they ain't looking real good right
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now Old Miss Tennessee, Bama, Maya, Miami and LSU bro
that is, they ain't playing round right there. And but yeah,
we talked about Auburn, so their upcoming schedule is not
you know, a little scary. Now let's talk about them.
Oregon ducks Oregon State forty one to seven. This was
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exactly if you are a Oregon fan, this is exactly
what you wanted to see. It was domination. Seven points allowed,
one hundred and forty seven yards a defense allowed that's
it eighty yards passing and after the Northwestern I mean
they literally shut down Northwestern too, except for you know
that late seventy nine yard run again basically at the
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very very end of the game, after they were up
thirty four to nothing. This defense has been dominant. Now
there are times where people are able to run the
ball against them, but as my man Anthony Newman would say,
yards don't beat you. Points beat you. And they're not
giving up points. They are they are They've bent for
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a second and then all of a sudden they stiffen
up like uh, you know, you know, like uh, like
where putty feels, and then once it gets dry, you're like,
you know, game more. This State it is like cement. Yeah,
it's a little wet at first. You put your foot
in there, but you get the foot in there, it
might get stuck. And that's the way this defense is
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performing right now. Ausin Stadium is an absolute avalanche. Oregon
State was overmatched and it looked that way. And this
secondary is sticky. They are very very sticky. And you know,
if you're Oregon the first four games of this season
has been about one thing, getting ready for uh, getting
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ready for the game, getting ready for the Penn State game.
When you have to go to Happy Valley, when you
have to go to Happy Valley, and yeah, when you
have to go to Happy Valley and play Penn State,
that is going to be the answer. That's it. That's it,
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and I love it and I cannot wait. Everybody is
going to be an attendance in this game because this
is the game that people think is going to determine
largely the Big Ten champion or the winner is going
to the Big Ten Championship to likely play Ohio State.
So yeah, it's crazy. Next game up, Florida versus Miami
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twenty six to seven. That was a moment of silence
for the Florida Gators, for their season, for everything that
they had hopes and dreams of of this season. Ladies
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and gentlemen, it's a burrito. This is absolutely wrapped up.
They have no hope. And that is as kindly as
I can put it. The Florida Gators got suffocated in
this game. It is really really bad and the future
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is bleak right now, very bleak. Now. Their defense was
able to hold you know, Miami's offense at Bay, but
Miami is really really good and this is exactly the
type the end of the game, the last two touchdowns,
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especially the next to last touchdown drive. Mario Christobaul has
nighttime fantas sees about drives like that. He is just like,
oh my god, like that's the way he is. Thirteen plays,
eighty yards, seven minutes and twelve seconds and a touchdown,
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and ten of them were running plays. That's exactly what
Mario Cristoball wants. Like that is that was physical domination.
And then at the end of the game you see
him because I told y'all, that's who the dude is.
This is why and even and the funniest part was
at the end of the game that they were up
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by two scores and you know what he did. He
kept running the football until somebody was in his ear,
probably like Mario, take a knee. Stop this, take a
knee before we mess around. Now it was now, it
was never in danger that the Georgia Tech thing could
happen again, so it was fine. But he wanted to
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send a message to Florida fans, to anybody to recruit,
to that one recruit who was like, yeah, I'm going
to Florida because you know, I don't want to make
a mistake. Their outlook is better on offense and defense
than Miami. He was sending a message to everybody and
he was gonna go talk to the recruits after if
you go over there, that gonna happen to you too.
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I like it, okay, Mario yuep Mark Fletcher Junior one
hundred and sixteen yards had a touchdown. Marty Brown had
two touchdowns as well. Carson Beck stats wasn't gaudy, but
turnover free and just controlling the grind because this game
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was a grind because Florida's defense is solid. But now
let's talk about Florida for a second and why they
are so in trouble right now. They're one in three
and it is is DJ Lagway looks awful. He looks
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awful right now. I mean and and people will say, oh,
the kid just thinks in this I learned something. Tom
Brady made a good point the other day. He was like,
we ranked the quarterbacks, but we don't rank the quarterback coaches.
We don't rank the offensive coordinators because a lot of
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times quarterbacks are not being developed. And DJ Lagway right
now looks like Anthony Richardson that can't run the football
right right now at Florida, it's not pretty. So here
is the issue that Florida is dealing with. Now. They
have a bye and then they get Texas, right, so
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Dj Lagway doesn't look one hundred percent healthy. They may
be having a new head coach next year. So the
question is this because they got Texas, then Texas him,
and if you're DJ Lagway right and things are going
and remind you, I'm bringing this conversation up not because
this is what he should do, but what goes through
the mind of these kids and their handlers. Because I've
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heard this, maybe DJ should shut it down because he
can red shirt this year, have surgery on the shoulder
if he needs, or fix whatever is going on with
his shoulder, and then go and then come back brand
new with the new coach, or hopping a transfer portal,
anything like like that. What the issue is is that firing.
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And this is why I highly doubt, highly doubt that
Billy Napier will be fired anytime soon, especially not before
they play Texas, because at that point in time, you
can have players saying I'm not playing no more this season.
I'm gonna take my red shirt, the ones who have
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red shirts available, because if you fire ahead coach might
be like, listen, I don't want to do this. I'm
gonna finish out the I'm gonna take my red shirt,
transfer to somewhere else, or just wait till the next season.
That's what you run the risk of because so the
administration knows this. You can't think that they don't. So
that is going to be a factor. So after the
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Texas game, depending on how that goes, that's when you
might see a move on Billy Napier because and you
might be like, George, why would you fire a coach
in the middle of the season. Times have changed with
the early signing period in college football, So somebody's coach
will be stolen for Florida if they get rid of
Billy Napier by you know, right after Thanksgiving. Just the
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reality of the business. Now, I don't think it's right,
but the you know, this is why you come here
to get the truth, even if it's a little bit
hard sometimes. All right, now, I want to talk to
you guys about well, actually we'll go of the Texas
Tech Utah game. First, Texas Tech versus Utah. Number one,
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I did not pick Utah to win the Big Twelve.
To start the season, I had Kansas State and Utah.
After they beat UCLA, they came and manhandled other people.
I was like, yo, okay, Utah looking good. Devin damp here,
I see you, bo. No, so I'm talking about Utah,
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I see you not never anyways. So I was excited
about Utah and then, but I was still unsure about
Texas Tech. Not because they don't have good players on
their team, but because we hadn't seen them quite yet,
you know, because they played h who is this Arkansas
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Pine Bluff, Golden Kent State, and then they played Oregon State.
So you're like, listen, yeah, it all looks good knocking
people's doors off, but you know what's really what? Man?
They went into Salt Lake City, into the must the
mighty Utah student section and smacked Utah down. They turned
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Utah's offense with Devin Dampier, this new John Beck offense.
It was relegated to just mirror a fraction of itself.
It was not pretty at all. Like, this was not
pretty at all. If you were a Utah fan, you
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are like, yo, bro, do we need to go back
to the drawing board right now, because this was this
was one of them that was so brutal that it'll
hurt your confidence a little bit. This was one of
them games that will hurt your confidence because you're like,
I thought we were better, I thought we were different,
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and then you figure out that there is somebody bigger
and badder on the block than you. And even with
Utah's really good offensive line, it was tragedy. It was
one hundred percent a tragedy. So we're gonna look at
this for a second. Okay, so we're gonna look at this.
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So thirty four to ten, this is the point that
mattered Devin Dampier, their quarterback, twenty five to thirty eight, Like, ah,
that's not terrible. The yards per is not good, not
good at all. We're looking at what four point three
yards per completion. That's not good, fam not even good
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at all. And on the Texas tech side, Will Hamming
and Baron Morton. So now the question is this, So
Baron Morton was a little bit injured in the game,
but the question is is Baron Morton your future quarterback?
Because Will Hammond, the freshman, came in and did everything
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the exact opposite that Baron Morton was doing. He had
to interceptions. Will Hammond came in and was electric. He
was electric running the balls. He had eight carries for
sixty one yards. He was electric passing the ball. And
now you have a full fledged quarterback controversy going on
over there at Texas Tech, full fledged because there's no
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way that you can ignore what this kid did. And
people say, oh, you can't lose your job to injury.
The hell if you can't, The hell if you can't.
And this was clearly, clearly, clearly, clearly shows that that
Cody Campbell nil money is being well spent fun. They
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have buttoned up that defensive line, Their offensive line is
getting better, and I can't even imagine what this team
is going to look like two or three years from now,
stacking up five star recruit commitments. Yo coded with this
just goes to go show how much a single, focused,
determined individual can change your fortunes. You get the right coach,
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you get the right backing. That's anything in life. It
ain't just like it's part money, but it's also influence
and everything else. You gotta get the right people behind you.
That's just the truth, all right. Michigan versus Nebraska thirty
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to twenty seven. This was billed as a Bryce Underwood
versus Dylan Ryola game, and largely it was in terms
of what people were talking about about the game. And
these n these numbers are deceptive. I am going to
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be honest and I'm going to tell you that because
dil Rial look that last that hell Mary, that fifty
two yard hell Mary's doing a lot of heavy lifting
on these stats. It is. But I will tell you
dilar Rola was not bad in the game, but he
also was neither special either. I think that the kids
a good quarterback. I think he needs more seasoning. His
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lack of escapability is going to be the thing that
hinders his, you know, future progress. He's Carry Collins. That's
who he is. Like Kerry Collins was in an NFL
quarterback Kerriy Collins was pretty good for a while. But
that's what he is. He's not Patrick Mahomes. He's Carry
Collins and that there's nothing wrong with being Carry Collins.
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Like I want to make that clear, there's nothing wrong
with being Carrie Collins. But we but people keep comping Mahomes.
That's not the cop. It's like when people were trying
to comp Risterra McCaffrey with Toby Geerhardt. It ain't the
comp It was more La Danian Tomlinson. Come on, man
of a Bryce Underwood. They won this game in terms
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of his passing, not because of him more And it
wasn't even in spite of him. He was just kind
of a non factor passing the game, passing the ball
too much. He was just but his running ability eight rushes,
sixty one yards in a touchdown that definitely added to
the game. So the question is where what is Michigan
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right now? And I have told you guys time and
time again, Michigan's year is twenty twenty six. It is
not twenty twenty five. They are building for next year.
Their wide receiving core is gonna be really good next year.
Between the transfer portal high school rankings and these guys
that they have that are developing like they're they're gonna
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be a free lost team. But twenty twenty six, I'm Michigan,
all right. Next thing up, Oh and Nebraska, Nebraska Matt Rule, bravo, dude,
you're sitting at three and one. You clearly have a
team that is moving by far in the right direction,
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and then you get Michigan State, Maryland, Minnesota, Like you
don't draw the bad end of the see of the
Big ten schedule, the SEC, the sorry USC Maryland game,
Penn State are gonna be super tough. But this is
a way to escape out nine and three. Definitely, there's
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there's a ninety and three escape hatch, probably eight and four,
but there is a path to nine and three, which
would be Nebraska fans would be ecstatic about that. It's
static and they should be all right. The next game
that we got to talk about is, Oh, Lord have mercy?
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Is the Apple Cup? Actually no, I'm putting that in
fast break. Never mind, Oh, here we go. I wanted
to talk about the Michigan State USC game. This was
forty five to thirty one, number one. First and foremost.
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This game started at eight o'clock. And remember I was like, listen,
we don't care nothing about y'all East Coach fans. Sorry,
you gotta deal with the game, and blah blah blah.
That was bad take, George, that was a bad take.
That was awful. That was awful. The game didn't finish
till damn near midnight. It was like eleven thirty Pacific.
That's already late for me. So that's two thirty. You
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had to watch your team, and it ain't like the
game was completely out of hand. This was a one
score game in the fourth quarter, score game in the
fourth quarter, and and so you had to stay up
for this. AP voters had to stay up for this.
Wish they didn't come on. Man, that facts are the facts.
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This was way too late. Eight o'clock kicks are way
too late. They're they're way too late, especially for for Iowa.
Sure that the game would be over at ten twenty,
but for teams that are gonna be throwing the ball
like that, Oh god, no, that was brutal. That was brutal.
I put Michigan State fans, my sister and her husband
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Michigan State fans, and because he came from East Lansing
and they sat at the coliseum for that game, and
you know, you know, their their young parents too, so
they were sleepy as hell. Two But man, that was rough.
That was rough. But I do want to give so
USC is improved. But I'm looking at that game. If
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you can stop USC from running the football, you can
beat this USC team. And they still haven't developed that
killer instinct. They had too many mistakes at the end
of the game. They are a press clipping team right now,
but it is going to But you're gonna figure out
what's what with this team soon. You're gonna figure out
what's what's what because they are about to run up
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on the tests. That's what I'm gonna call it. They
they get run up on the tests because they're two
to zero in the Big Ten. They've beaten Purdue and
they beat Michigan State. Both games they looks significantly different
than they did against Montana State and I'm sorry, uh,
Missouri State and Georgia Southern. They got Illinois coming up
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this weekend, but it's at Champagne and Illinois is a
wounded animal right now, so they are going to respond.
Then they got Michigan, Notre Dame, Nebraska. We gonna find
out what's what's what? Can they close out games because
they're gonna be able to score. But the question isn't
is their defense good enough? Because a lot of it
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was based upon guys slanting and all this stuff, and
it's and the offense feels like an Oregon coach used
to say, fizz a little trick dick that's the that's
the issue, Fiz, little trick dick, and they got to
get more substance to what they're doing. It's more it's
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it's more slight, slight of hand than actual substance. And
until I see substance, I'm not gonna be a usc
believer yet. But they are better than they were last year.
Jade Mayava is way better, way better. This defense we
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don't know yet. We don't know, all right. The next
thing up, Arkansaw versus Memphis thirty two thirty one. Only
reason why I'm talking about this game of two unranked
teams from an auntie Vicky because she is happy. Thirty
two thirty one. The Memphis Tigers came back from eighteen
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points and so that puts Sam Pittman back on the
hot seat. And then Memphis trolling them on social media. Oh,
that's gonna put the man back in the hot seat.
And they're sitting at two and two, and the rest
of this schedule is not favorable at all for Arkansas.
It is gonna get Yeah, it could get it could
get bad. It could get bad for them. They are
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zero and one in conference. Then they got notre Dame
this weekend Tennessee, Texas and m Auburn, LSU Texas, Missouri.
Yeah this is yeah, yeah, things are about to get
hectic for them. Sorry, sorry to be the bear of
bad news. Arkansas versus Baylor twenty seven twenty four. I'm sorry,
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Arizona excuse me, Eras the State versus Baylor twenty seven
to twenty four walk off field goal. The issue here
was for Arizona State. I'm looking at this offense in
it looks nowhere near the explosiveness that it did last year.
They returned all of these players. This feels like Clemson,
except they're winning football games. All of these players. But
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something broke in, Something broke like it's like they got
a belt, a fan belt missing, like the engine still running,
but it ain't right that the catalytic converter is needs replacing.
It ain't done, but something may right. That's the issue,
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all right, Arizona State, they did show their clutch gene
in this ball security, walk off field goal, no turnovers,
you know, Heyzus Gomez, nice walk off field goal. Sam
Levitt two hundred and twenty one passing yards touchdown, Russian touchdown.
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But this is what happens with with preseason expectations. This
was Arizona State last season. Last year was such an outlier,
it was going to be hard to duplicate it again.
And that and that was a spike and now they
have to keep the floor very high. That way, when
you spike again, you are in a chance to win
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playoff games. But huge win for them, Baylor. They when
David Randa was named as one of the people that
they should look at as a UCLA job, I was like,
why he's not even doing Like they're not even got
Baylor on the right track right now. And this this
feels like Baylor is headed toward the the purgatory stage
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of college football where you are a perpetual six to
eight win team and the and the hope is bleak
in terms of being one of the upper echelon teams
even in the Big twelve. So this is a rough
road for them all right now, we gotta look at
the five best Here are the five best teams of
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Week four in college football, and I'm gonna give you
the five worst teams as well, but the five best
teams in Week five of e jeerus. The five best
teams in Week four of college football. Indiana sixty three
to ten win. Memphis thirty two thirty one against Arkansas,
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a great win. Texas Tech. Number three spot thirty four
to ten over Utah. Number four Miami twenty six to
seven over Florida and mid These are not the best
teams in couture. These are people put up the best performances.
Oregon forty one to seven over Oregon State. Those are
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the five best performances of Week four. Now the five
worst performances of Week four in college football. You had
cal What are you doing? Thirty four to zero to
San Diego State? How how to just be Minnesota? That's
why you can't have nice things? Calgarithm Number two Clemson
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Clemson thirty four to twenty one at Syracuse. I mean,
well versus Syracuse, Man, it was awful, God awful. And
Dabbo was ready to cry after the game. I was
ready to cry after the game with him. Number three
Illinois sixty three to ten. They got beat by Indiana.
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It ain't just the fact that they lost, it's that
they got That was some quit in there. They weren't
fifty three points better than Illinois. Brett Bilama, you're my boy.
Come on now, come on, now tighten up, and we're
gonna see versus USC this week. South Carolina twenty nine
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to twenty lost versus Missouri. Their offense looks broken, looks broken.
But maybe I'm the jinks, maybe picking them to go
to the College football playoffs. Maybe I jinxed them. Maybe
I jinx Kansas State. Maybe I jinked Clemson because I
called them to win it. Maybe I jinxed them. I
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don't know. And then the last one is Wisconsin twenty
seven to ten in Maryland. I know that you're dealing
with a quarterback issue because Billy Edwards is out. You
know you got Danny O'Neill in. But that ain't just
the issue because Danny on kni was pretty good last
year at San Diego State. Something is going on and
Luke Fickle, who had been such a good head coach
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at Cincinnati, it's not working in Wisconsin. It's not so
I did. Yeah, it's not not working all right. So
those are the five best and worst teams. But now
it is fast break time. We got to talk about
the games that you did not watch, but I did
just to make sure that we talked about it. And
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one of them is the Apple Cup. Like I was
talking about, you got Washington versus Washington State fifty nine
to twenty four. Deman Williams four touchdown passes, rushing touchdown.
I love this kid. He's got a veteran energy around
him as a sophomore, true sophomore quarterback. I love it.
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The Huskies. They mixed up the run balance and everything else,
and it was just really good to see. It was fun.
And you know, I didn't like that they gave up
to twenty four points because it was a little touch
and go like they were up early and then they
allowed him to come back. But overall, Washington is still
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a year away too. Next year they're they're they're like Michigan.
The Big Ten is going to be crazy next year.
Crazy Ohio State, Washington, Michigan. And that's to go along
with Ohio State, Illtod Penn State's gonna be next year.
But they're they're gonna put together a competent roster. USC
could potentially be really good. Yo, it could be. No,
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the Big Ten gonna be wicked next year. The perdue
Notre Dame fifty six to thirty. Notre Dame, where's your defense? Fam?
I got to lower them in my and my my
rank is this offense is really good. CJ. Carr looks
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a phenomenal love him. This Notre Dame defense, they they
gotta get something together. They got This was the bend
then burst defense. It wasn't Ben, don't break. It was
bend and then burst three and seventy nine yards. Come on, man,
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But yes it was. They did get some timely stops
and everything else. But this game was far too close.
It just wasn't as dominated as you would have liked
to see. But big ups on Purdue. They are better, yo, yo,
very open. Good jobs are. You lost the last two
weeks against USC and then Notre Dame, But things are
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looking up. See you can lose and still be winning,
all right. The next game Georgia Tech versus Temple. This
is Georgia Tech is a prime example when you get
a university committed to being good at football, you hire
the right coach, build a really good culture. Then you
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end up in short order three years, four and oh
for the first time since twenty twenty four. And they're
probably gonna be favored in all the rest of the
games until the Georgia game. But they did allow a
little too much to timp after being up twenty one
oh something to monitor two lane old miss oh miss
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forty one, forty five to ten. They got a quarterback
in Trinidad Chamberless. I'm sorry, Simmons, I wanted this for you,
but sometimes a kid comes in and you can't take
about so oh miss. You're gonna figure out what they
are soon. But there. Their defense ain't the greatest thing
since life's bread, but their their offense. And Trinidad Chamberless,
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good job. Back to back weeks of four hundred plus
yards a total offense. Yo, the kids dynamic and electric.
Florida State they beat another patsy sixty six to ten.
Nothing to talk about here. I am still not convinced
about Florida State. The Alabama win. Yets cool. We ain't
seen nothing since you've been playing, you know, Directional Schools.
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Tennessee you fifty six to twenty four. Okay, okay, Tennessee's
offense is still looking really good. You know. Yeah, we're
not even gonna go into that. And then you got
TCU versus SMU twenty four to thirty five. Now, I
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should have put this game in one of the games
that I talked about earlier. But TCU made SMU earn
everything after that, gave up sixty six points in the
game in twenty twenty four and TCU they sold out
on the run. That means that Kevin Jennings had to
carry the offense and he couldn't. And this game he
made two clutch red zone touchdown throws and then gave
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them a fourth quarter lead. But the damn broke defensively,
It just did. You had. Josh Hoover to Eric McAllister,
that connection looks lethal. Eight catches, two hundred and fifty
four yards, and he had the forty seven yard of
which which he was in bounds, called back, called in complete.
Come on, man, I love it, I love it, love it.
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College Football week for reaction and recap. So this week
was one of them weeks where fans needed to realize
that college football is changing. It is changing, and the
main thing is is that yesterday does not matter, and
that the recruiting rankings don't matter, none of that, because
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teams are no longer afraid of anybody right now, and
that your past resume is nice. Oh, all the wonderful
things that I accomplished last season, over the last five years,
over the last eight, of the last ten years, seven
of the last eight, whatever, none of that matters at
this point in time. And we had fan bases that
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are now melting down, and there are people that are
trying to remain calm and rational. But here on George
Reis's College Football podcast, we give you the truth. We
are going to talk about today about what's going on
with dabos Sweeney. We're going to talk about what's going
on over there at Florida. We're gonna talk about Oklahoma, Oregon,
everybody in between, like we usually do. But I want
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to go back to this thing about your resume, right
because last week Dabo Sweeney, he gave us a press
conference that I loved. He was like, listen, listen, I'm
fifty five. I'm not going to the beach. I can
go somewhere else and go go coach if you don't
want me here now, I want one hundred percent support
that sentiment because you can't just throw dude in the
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trash because you're having a bad year. But that's the
reality of college football right now. And this is why
I said that your resume is nice. Oh it's cute,
but it also works in reverse too. Dabo's resume is amazing.
Arizona State's history is kind of but they were in
the College football playoffs last year. Wisconsin thirty years of
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building a reputation, and now nobody is even afraid of Wisconsin,
not even a little bit. Alabama, what's their reputation post
Nick Saban, look at Indiana they had Damn there are
one hundred years of mediocrity and now all of a
sudden they knocking people's doors off. So that's what I'm saying.
The only thing that matters is what's next. Nothing matters
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about what you did anymore. And it's like that text
Winter's quote where he talks about greatness, greatness, You're only
great in the moment that you do something great and
a great act, but after that it's just you're not
great again until you do something great again. And in
this nil and transfer portal era, the future is the
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only thing that mattered that. The past doesn't matter. It
doesn't matter how much equity that you feel like you've
built up, none of that. The question is how good
are things going to be? Not today, how the good
are things going to be tomorrow? And that's what the
best coaches are doing. They are adapting. Look at what
Mario Cristabaul is over there doing in Miami. He's not
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worried about the game yesterday. He ain't worried about what
happened last season, last year's recruiting rank is none of that.
It is where we are right now, where your feed are,
and then be looking forward because none of that matters.
And what you accomplished as a head coach, pre n
Io era, pre transfer a portal era don't matter. Look
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at Mike Gundhy over at Oklahoma State phenomenal resume pre
n io and pre COVID well, pre n IL and
pre transfer portal. Now it ain't even the same thing
because the game has changed and we're at the point
in the season. For for fans in week four with
these results, oh my god, I know some of y'all
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because we're at the point where copium will optimism excuse me,
optimism is now turning into copium. Okay, that was that
was one loss. It wasn't the end of the world.
We will we will be okay, we will bounce back.
And then first then that copium turns into in a
couple of weeks, is gonna either turn into despair or relief,
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because either despair because the bottom fell out. If you're Clemson,
you're in despair right now, or you'll be in relief, like, who,
oh my gosh, we're gonna have a change in leadership,
the one that I've been wanting. Now. Granted that don't
mean your next coach is gonna be better, but the
relief and we're starting to get some separation because everybody
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was all feeling good about their team. We're two and oh,
right now we're three and oh. We started the season great, yeah,
and then all of a sudden you end up four
and eight and you're like, what happened? Yeah, the real
part of the schedule happened. And truthfully, for a lot
of these teams. The early season's success is fool's goal,
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and sometimes it's actually the hardest thing to handle because
we get to talking about, oh oh, it's the failures.
It's the failures. No, the failures ain't even really that hard,
because that's what gives you the motive to get up,
work harder, do all the right things and everything else.
It's the it's the success that Nick Saban rat poison talk.
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That's the hard part. Is after you go and have
a big game and you win. If you're Ohio State,
you go beat Texas, how do you handle it the
next week? If you are you know, Oregon and Penn
State play next week. The winner of that is going
to have some trouble the following weeks if their coaches
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are not on them. Just that much harder. If you're Syracuse,
you just be Clemson. How do you handle that? The
success a lot of times is harder than the failures.
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(06:12):
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speaking of people not being able to handle success, cow,
what happened to you? Now? If you watch the channel
(06:33):
and you pay attention on social media, everybody this last week,
after your boy came out with the cal take looking
at their schedule because they beat Minnesota, You're like, Yo,
this is a team that can mess around and sneak
up and go undefeated or eleven and one to end
up in the a SEC Championship, maybe even the College
Football Playoff. With this schedule, well, grand opening, grand closing,
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thirty four to zero. We ain't even gonna talk about
this game, thirty four to zero to San Diego State,
come on, Justin will Cox, man, we weren't brot Dan.
All right, yeah, all right, So that's first thing. Next
thing up, well we're gary started talking about the games.
First thing, I'm sorry. I apologize. I apologize to you,
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Kurt Sengetti. I apologize to Indiana because Indiana was favored
by I think the game opened up them five and
a half point favorites against Illinois, and I was like,
this game is upside down. Illinois is not as good
as people think they are, and I'm sorry, Indiana's not
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as good as people think they are. Yes, Fernando Mendoza
came over from Cal and all the other transfer portal
and I know that kurtz and Getty is a great coach,
but maybe next year blah blah blah. And I also
said that Illinois was going to the College Football Playoff.
Now that could still happen. This could be an aberration,
but sixty three to ten man, Kurtzingetty, you are a
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mean man. You are a mean man for what you
did to this Illinois team. And I don't want you
showing up in Austin Stadium in a couple of weeks
bringing that sword of energy, sir, no but for real, Indiana,
the Indiana Hoosiers, they look extremely physical and you're like, George,
why are you starting out with a blowout because this
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was probably the most shocking result of the weekend, sixty
three to ten, And this wasn't him just chucking up
bombs at the end of the game. But the thing
I love about Kurt Synghetti, Indiana's head coach, the dude
is unapologetic. He would have scored a hundred points if
he didn't think that he might have messed around and
(08:47):
get one of his best players hurt. He was like, yo,
he will knock your doors off, and I love it.
I love it. I got that same kind of energy
he is. You know, if he were in the Karate Kid,
he'd be like, weep the leg, sweep it. And you
know their quarterback, Fernando Mendoza five touchdowns. I mean they
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just blew up a top ten team. I mean they
only allowed one hundred and sixty one yards a total offense.
They blocked a punt for a touchdown and then on
the offensive end five hundred and seventy nine total yards.
What are we doing? What are we doing? I mean
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they and now you're looking at the outlook for this
Indiana team. They are four to zero. They have a
real shot in the Big Ten. This is not for play.
They are not to be played around with. And their
upcoming schedule now, I know that they started with Old
Dominion Kennesaw State in Indiana State, which I didn't think
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was gonna get them ready for a big matchup like that. Man,
hell if the hell if that ain't true. And then
this upcoming week they go to Iowa, and I was
gonna bring a level of physicality. So we're gonna learn
even more about Indiana in this Iowa game next week.
So I Am going to elevate Indiana, but also at
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the same time not overreact. Now, if they go and
show this level of physicality versus Iowa, which will drag
you down in the mud and just and just and
just make a game nasty and like a six seven
point win when it should have been thirty. If they
go knock the doors off of Iowa at Iowa, I'm in,
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I'm in, I'm in, I apologize. I'm just letting you know.
The next game that we got to talk about Syracuse Clemson.
This was thirty four to twenty one, and there are
two sides to this now. Number one, Fran Brown and
Dabbos Sweeney's press conferences this week are gonna be legendary,
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absolutely legendary on and the like. And there was two
parts to this game, because number one, we have to
praise Syracuse and fran Brown. But then on the other end,
on the back end of this, we gotta look at
Clemson because this is troubling what we're seeing now. On
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the Syracuse side, this was a program momentum type of
win because one of the things that we questioned was
that Syracuse lost the lot, best ride receiver transferred out
everything else. Was fran Brown gonna be able to salvage
a good season after last year? Was he gonna be
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able to get seven wins? And you still feel good
about where things are going? Man, Listen, fran Brown ain't
here for none of that. He ain't scared. They literally
went into death Valley, a place where they notoriously could
not win. And one because he's not scared. And this
is the thing that I keep trying to tell people.
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Teams identified, they get the identity of their head coach,
especially if that guy lives it day in and day out.
And Fran Brown lives the I ain't scared, I ain't
worried about you. I'm taking care of my own business
type of energy. So if your coach has that energy,
your players are going to embody that energy as well.
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And that's exactly what they did. They were aggressive, they
got the ball scored on their first drive, and then
went down and on side kicked like we were not
even going to let you up for air Clemson, and
I loved it. I loved every bit of it. And
the bad news for Clemson, I'm sorry for Syracuse says
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they lost their starting quarterback, Steve Angiely and it's reported
today that it is an achilles injury, exactly what it
looked like. So Ricky Collins stepped in. So what is
the future for Syracuse look like? Honestly, when you usually
go to your backup, it's not great. But Ricky Collins
has looked really good at times, and looked really good
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in high school. So my question to you is is
with Fran Brown and his energy as head coach, do
you think that there is any way, shape form or
fashioning now that this team is not gonna have that
same energy. Absolutely not. So I'm still with Syracuse now
Here is the thing about Dabbo Sweeney on the Clemson
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side is number one, the fire Dabbo talk ball this up,
throw it in the trash, throw that take in the trash.
It is garbage. It is it is now in mind you.
I'm the same person that just said that you got
to look to the future, that you have to you
know that your past resume does not matter. I still
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am that same person that just said that. The difference
is though Dabbo is a man of integrity, he's the
principal man, and he's a man who undertests typically understood
when changes need to be made, and yes he's rigid.
Sometimes the changes come a little little late. But Dabbo
is at an inflection point. Either Clemson is going to
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They're never going to go to Oklahoma State route because
they've accumulated way too much talent. But it's either going
to go that way to where they're not a dominant
power in the ACC and the college football anymore, or
it is going to or he's going to adapt and react.
He is going to and I would figure that Dabbo
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is like, all right, that he's having one of them
Nick Saban moments when Nick Saban decided to stop playing
running punt football and was like, Yeah, it's time to
open this thing up and get a quarterback toss the
pill around. This feels like one of those moments for Dabbo,
all right, But and you can't say that he's not
willing to throw the ball because k Cubnic through for
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three sixty three. They ran for one hundred and forty yards.
That's five hundred yards to total offense. Even Randall. Randall
ended up with one hundred and thirty yards all by himself.
So and then they allowed two hundred and seventy eight
pass yards one hundred and fifty five rush yards. Clemson's
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defense was the issue and them getting off the field
on third down. It was awful. It was absolutely awful.
So the question is how is Clemson losing Because wide
receivers are going to the NFL, quarterback is going to
the NFL, d line is going to the NFL, secondary
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is going to the NFL. This is one of those
things that has happened in this era of college football,
which is when you lose a few games, you can
potentially lose your team. So this is going to the
rest of this season is going to be Dabbos Sweeney's
hardest coach job ever, and I do believe that he's
up for the task. He'll figure it out. But listen,
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they better figure it out fast. But good on, good
on Syracuse three and one. Next game, we got to
talk about Auburn Oklahoma twenty four to seventeen. This game.
Number One, the SEC officials, clearly the conference put out
a statement on that touchdown, the fake runoff the field
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and he's standing over on the corner. Number one, I
don't think that that should be illegal. Number one, you
should be paying attention to whoever is on the field
that that's not my problem if you get tricked. But
the rules are the rules. It's illegal. The officials should
have caught it. Everything else. But I am going to
tell you that that is not the reason why Auburn
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lost this football game. Auburn lost his football game because
Oklahoma is better. That's why they lost this football game.
It's just the truth. Brent Venables calling this defense again amazing.
He took the controls back of what he knows his
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core competency is, which is defense. Ten sacks on his
former quarterback Jackson are ten and Mason Thomas closed it
with that safety, which I was very happy about, and
people who actually bet on games were very happy about
because I make my picks, but I make them against
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the spread. And Oklahoma was up by Measley five points
and then safety happened. Oh, everybody's rejoicing. And where I
was watching the game at people were so excited they were.
And I got a text message that said, George, Oh
my god, what a safety. I was like, what are
you talking about? Why did that even matter? And then
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I thought about the line and he was like, yo,
the line. I was like, what. Oh man, hey, hey, oddsmakers, y'all,
y'all some geniuses. Boy, well, y'all be getting to one
hundred percent right sometimes. And so when you see ten sacks,
the first thing that people look at is, oh my god,
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offer his office A line is terrible? Nope, nope, nope, nope. Yes,
some of it is the defense and bent Vinable scheming
it up. But the other part of it is is
when quarterbacks are probably responsible for about forty thirty to
forty percent of their sacks, they either move where they're
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not supposed to move, they do something that they're not
supposed to do, or they are what Jackson Arnold was
trying to do. He was being a big play merchant,
and you can't be a big play merchant and win
football games against really good teams. Now, the kid was okay,
he was not bad at all. And the fans were
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heckling him. I mean, of course they are. This is
this is college football, and what do you think that
these people are going to do? Yes, these people and
all of us, because I'm doing this, y'all are watching it.
We're all part of that. And Jackson Arnold finished with
twenty one or thirty two, two hundred and twenty yards
and a touchdown. Yeah, it was good. But here is
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my concern about both of these teams. Auburn thirty five
rushes for sixty seven yards, Oklahoma twenty four rushes for
thirty five yards. And you might say, well, these are
two really good rush defenses. Well, Oklahoma ain't been able
to run the football all year. This is highly concerning
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for a really good football team. And this is a
tough loss for Auburn. They're sitting at three and one,
but Hugh Freeze's is not on the hot seat at
this point in time anymore. But next week that game
against but their schedule gets tough Texan and them Georgia Missouri.
Those are three games that are going to determine, basically
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determine Hugh Freeze's faith if he goes. If he drops
the next two against Texan, HM and Georgia and then
loses to to Missouri too, they ain't gonna care about that.
Arkansas Kentucky wins in between. They're just They're just not
especially if you lose the Iron Bowl two. This is
a tough stretch for Auburn coming up and and this
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is going to determine Hugh Freeze's fate because Auburn's playing
initially worked in this game until third downs because they
were in long yarded situation. So the question is, remember
Auburn was talking about well that they Hugh free said
that they got you know, Nick's calling plays on first down,
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he's the second down. They got a third down play caller.
If this is true, that ain't working back to the
drawing board, fan, But the question is did John Mattier
have his Heisman moment in this game with that touchdown
run He finished with twitter and seventy one passing yards.
He was electric? I am, and I've told it, and
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I didn't even understand how people didn't know about this guy.
How are you supposed to be a college football lov
and fan and you don't know who Jometier is? What? What?
Because at Washington State, now imagine this kim Ward was
the number one pick. Imagine if John Matier ends up
the number one pick and both of them were on
the same roster at Washington State. Washington State fans be
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ready to throw up. They will be ready to blow
up college football because their quarterbacks got stolen because of
you know, nil transfer portal and new TV rights, conference
realignment and everything else. It stuff that they had no
control over. But Oklahoma has you know, stay to buy
Texas South Carolina. But they ain't looking real good right
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now Old Miss Tennessee, Bama, Maya, Miami and LSU bro
that is, they ain't playing round right there. And but yeah,
we talked about Auburn, so their upcoming schedule is not
you know, a little scary. Now let's talk about them.
Oregon ducks Oregon State forty one to seven. This was
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exactly if you are a Oregon fan, this is exactly
what you wanted to see. It was domination. Seven points allowed,
one hundred and forty seven yards a defense allowed that's
it eighty yards passing and after the Northwestern I mean
they literally shut down Northwestern too, except for you know
that late seventy nine yard run again basically at the
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very very end of the game, after they were up
thirty four to nothing. This defense has been dominant. Now
there are times where people are able to run the
ball against them, but as my man Anthony Newman would say,
yards don't beat you. Points beat you. And they're not
giving up points. They are they are They've bent for
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a second and then all of a sudden they stiffen
up like uh, you know, you know, like uh, like
where putty feels, and then once it gets dry, you're like,
you know, game more. This State it is like cement. Yeah,
it's a little wet at first. You put your foot
in there, but you get the foot in there, it
might get stuck. And that's the way this defense is
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performing right now. Ausin Stadium is an absolute avalanche. Oregon
State was overmatched and it looked that way. And this
secondary is sticky. They are very very sticky. And you know,
if you're Oregon the first four games of this season
has been about one thing, getting ready for uh, getting
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ready for the game, getting ready for the Penn State game.
When you have to go to Happy Valley, when you
have to go to Happy Valley, and yeah, when you
have to go to Happy Valley and play Penn State,
that is going to be the answer. That's it. That's it,
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and I love it and I cannot wait. Everybody is
going to be an attendance in this game because this
is the game that people think is going to determine
largely the Big Ten champion or the winner is going
to the Big Ten Championship to likely play Ohio State.
So yeah, it's crazy. Next game up, Florida versus Miami
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twenty six to seven. That was a moment of silence
for the Florida Gators, for their season, for everything that
they had hopes and dreams of of this season. Ladies
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and gentlemen, it's a burrito. This is absolutely wrapped up.
They have no hope. And that is as kindly as
I can put it. The Florida Gators got suffocated in
this game. It is really really bad and the future
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is bleak right now, very bleak. Now. Their defense was
able to hold you know, Miami's offense at Bay, but
Miami is really really good and this is exactly the
type the end of the game, the last two touchdowns,
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especially the next to last touchdown drive. Mario Christobaul has
nighttime fantas sees about drives like that. He is just like,
oh my god, like that's the way he is. Thirteen plays,
eighty yards, seven minutes and twelve seconds and a touchdown,
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and ten of them were running plays. That's exactly what
Mario Cristoball wants. Like that is that was physical domination.
And then at the end of the game you see
him because I told y'all, that's who the dude is.
This is why and even and the funniest part was
at the end of the game that they were up
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by two scores and you know what he did. He
kept running the football until somebody was in his ear,
probably like Mario, take a knee. Stop this, take a
knee before we mess around. Now it was now, it
was never in danger that the Georgia Tech thing could
happen again, so it was fine. But he wanted to
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send a message to Florida fans, to anybody to recruit,
to that one recruit who was like, yeah, I'm going
to Florida because you know, I don't want to make
a mistake. Their outlook is better on offense and defense
than Miami. He was sending a message to everybody and
he was gonna go talk to the recruits after if
you go over there, that gonna happen to you too.
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I like it, okay, Mario yuep Mark Fletcher Junior one
hundred and sixteen yards had a touchdown. Marty Brown had
two touchdowns as well. Carson Beck stats wasn't gaudy, but
turnover free and just controlling the grind because this game
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was a grind because Florida's defense is solid. But now
let's talk about Florida for a second and why they
are so in trouble right now. They're one in three
and it is is DJ Lagway looks awful. He looks
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awful right now. I mean and and people will say, oh,
the kid just thinks in this I learned something. Tom
Brady made a good point the other day. He was like,
we ranked the quarterbacks, but we don't rank the quarterback coaches.
We don't rank the offensive coordinators because a lot of
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times quarterbacks are not being developed. And DJ Lagway right
now looks like Anthony Richardson that can't run the football
right right now at Florida, it's not pretty. So here
is the issue that Florida is dealing with. Now. They
have a bye and then they get Texas, right, so
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Dj Lagway doesn't look one hundred percent healthy. They may
be having a new head coach next year. So the
question is this because they got Texas, then Texas him,
and if you're DJ Lagway right and things are going
and remind you, I'm bringing this conversation up not because
this is what he should do, but what goes through
the mind of these kids and their handlers. Because I've
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heard this, maybe DJ should shut it down because he
can red shirt this year, have surgery on the shoulder
if he needs, or fix whatever is going on with
his shoulder, and then go and then come back brand
new with the new coach, or hopping a transfer portal,
anything like like that. What the issue is is that firing.
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And this is why I highly doubt, highly doubt that
Billy Napier will be fired anytime soon, especially not before
they play Texas, because at that point in time, you
can have players saying I'm not playing no more this season.
I'm gonna take my red shirt, the ones who have
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red shirts available, because if you fire ahead coach might
be like, listen, I don't want to do this. I'm
gonna finish out the I'm gonna take my red shirt,
transfer to somewhere else, or just wait till the next season.
That's what you run the risk of because so the
administration knows this. You can't think that they don't. So
that is going to be a factor. So after the
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Texas game, depending on how that goes, that's when you
might see a move on Billy Napier because and you
might be like, George, why would you fire a coach
in the middle of the season. Times have changed with
the early signing period in college football, So somebody's coach
will be stolen for Florida if they get rid of
Billy Napier by you know, right after Thanksgiving. Just the
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reality of the business. Now, I don't think it's right,
but the you know, this is why you come here
to get the truth, even if it's a little bit
hard sometimes. All right, now, I want to talk to
you guys about well, actually we'll go of the Texas
Tech Utah game. First, Texas Tech versus Utah. Number one,
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I did not pick Utah to win the Big Twelve.
To start the season, I had Kansas State and Utah.
After they beat UCLA, they came and manhandled other people.
I was like, yo, okay, Utah looking good. Devin damp here,
I see you, bo. No, so I'm talking about Utah,
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I see you not never anyways. So I was excited
about Utah and then, but I was still unsure about
Texas Tech. Not because they don't have good players on
their team, but because we hadn't seen them quite yet,
you know, because they played h who is this Arkansas
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Pine Bluff, Golden Kent State, and then they played Oregon State.
So you're like, listen, yeah, it all looks good knocking
people's doors off, but you know what's really what? Man?
They went into Salt Lake City, into the must the
mighty Utah student section and smacked Utah down. They turned
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Utah's offense with Devin Dampier, this new John Beck offense.
It was relegated to just mirror a fraction of itself.
It was not pretty at all. Like, this was not
pretty at all. If you were a Utah fan, you
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are like, yo, bro, do we need to go back
to the drawing board right now, because this was this
was one of them that was so brutal that it'll
hurt your confidence a little bit. This was one of
them games that will hurt your confidence because you're like,
I thought we were better, I thought we were different,
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and then you figure out that there is somebody bigger
and badder on the block than you. And even with
Utah's really good offensive line, it was tragedy. It was
one hundred percent a tragedy. So we're gonna look at
this for a second. Okay, so we're gonna look at this.
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So thirty four to ten, this is the point that
mattered Devin Dampier, their quarterback, twenty five to thirty eight, Like, ah,
that's not terrible. The yards per is not good, not
good at all. We're looking at what four point three
yards per completion. That's not good, fam not even good
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at all. And on the Texas tech side, Will Hamming
and Baron Morton. So now the question is this, So
Baron Morton was a little bit injured in the game,
but the question is is Baron Morton your future quarterback?
Because Will Hammond, the freshman, came in and did everything
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the exact opposite that Baron Morton was doing. He had
to interceptions. Will Hammond came in and was electric. He
was electric running the balls. He had eight carries for
sixty one yards. He was electric passing the ball. And
now you have a full fledged quarterback controversy going on
over there at Texas Tech, full fledged because there's no
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way that you can ignore what this kid did. And
people say, oh, you can't lose your job to injury.
The hell if you can't, The hell if you can't.
And this was clearly, clearly, clearly, clearly shows that that
Cody Campbell nil money is being well spent fun. They
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have buttoned up that defensive line, Their offensive line is
getting better, and I can't even imagine what this team
is going to look like two or three years from now,
stacking up five star recruit commitments. Yo coded with this
just goes to go show how much a single, focused,
determined individual can change your fortunes. You get the right coach,
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you get the right backing. That's anything in life. It
ain't just like it's part money, but it's also influence
and everything else. You gotta get the right people behind you.
That's just the truth, all right. Michigan versus Nebraska thirty
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to twenty seven. This was billed as a Bryce Underwood
versus Dylan Ryola game, and largely it was in terms
of what people were talking about about the game. And
these n these numbers are deceptive. I am going to
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be honest and I'm going to tell you that because
dil Rial look that last that hell Mary, that fifty
two yard hell Mary's doing a lot of heavy lifting
on these stats. It is. But I will tell you
dilar Rola was not bad in the game, but he
also was neither special either. I think that the kids
a good quarterback. I think he needs more seasoning. His
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lack of escapability is going to be the thing that
hinders his, you know, future progress. He's Carry Collins. That's
who he is. Like Kerry Collins was in an NFL
quarterback Kerriy Collins was pretty good for a while. But
that's what he is. He's not Patrick Mahomes. He's Carry
Collins and that there's nothing wrong with being Carry Collins.
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Like I want to make that clear, there's nothing wrong
with being Carrie Collins. But we but people keep comping Mahomes.
That's not the cop. It's like when people were trying
to comp Risterra McCaffrey with Toby Geerhardt. It ain't the
comp It was more La Danian Tomlinson. Come on, man
of a Bryce Underwood. They won this game in terms
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of his passing, not because of him more And it
wasn't even in spite of him. He was just kind
of a non factor passing the game, passing the ball
too much. He was just but his running ability eight rushes,
sixty one yards in a touchdown that definitely added to
the game. So the question is where what is Michigan
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right now? And I have told you guys time and
time again, Michigan's year is twenty twenty six. It is
not twenty twenty five. They are building for next year.
Their wide receiving core is gonna be really good next year.
Between the transfer portal high school rankings and these guys
that they have that are developing like they're they're gonna
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be a free lost team. But twenty twenty six, I'm Michigan,
all right. Next thing up, Oh and Nebraska, Nebraska Matt Rule, bravo, dude,
you're sitting at three and one. You clearly have a
team that is moving by far in the right direction,
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and then you get Michigan State, Maryland, Minnesota, Like you
don't draw the bad end of the see of the
Big ten schedule, the SEC, the sorry USC Maryland game,
Penn State are gonna be super tough. But this is
a way to escape out nine and three. Definitely, there's
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there's a ninety and three escape hatch, probably eight and four,
but there is a path to nine and three, which
would be Nebraska fans would be ecstatic about that. It's
static and they should be all right. The next game
that we got to talk about is, Oh, Lord have mercy?
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Is the Apple Cup? Actually no, I'm putting that in
fast break. Never mind, Oh, here we go. I wanted
to talk about the Michigan State USC game. This was
forty five to thirty one, number one. First and foremost.
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This game started at eight o'clock. And remember I was like, listen,
we don't care nothing about y'all East Coach fans. Sorry,
you gotta deal with the game, and blah blah blah.
That was bad take, George, that was a bad take.
That was awful. That was awful. The game didn't finish
till damn near midnight. It was like eleven thirty Pacific.
That's already late for me. So that's two thirty. You
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had to watch your team, and it ain't like the
game was completely out of hand. This was a one
score game in the fourth quarter, score game in the
fourth quarter, and and so you had to stay up
for this. AP voters had to stay up for this.
Wish they didn't come on. Man, that facts are the facts.
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This was way too late. Eight o'clock kicks are way
too late. They're they're way too late, especially for for Iowa.
Sure that the game would be over at ten twenty,
but for teams that are gonna be throwing the ball
like that, Oh god, no, that was brutal. That was brutal.
I put Michigan State fans, my sister and her husband
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Michigan State fans, and because he came from East Lansing
and they sat at the coliseum for that game, and
you know, you know, their their young parents too, so
they were sleepy as hell. Two But man, that was rough.
That was rough. But I do want to give so
USC is improved. But I'm looking at that game. If
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you can stop USC from running the football, you can
beat this USC team. And they still haven't developed that
killer instinct. They had too many mistakes at the end
of the game. They are a press clipping team right now,
but it is going to But you're gonna figure out
what's what with this team soon. You're gonna figure out
what's what's what because they are about to run up
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on the tests. That's what I'm gonna call it. They
they get run up on the tests because they're two
to zero in the Big Ten. They've beaten Purdue and
they beat Michigan State. Both games they looks significantly different
than they did against Montana State and I'm sorry, uh,
Missouri State and Georgia Southern. They got Illinois coming up
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this weekend, but it's at Champagne and Illinois is a
wounded animal right now, so they are going to respond.
Then they got Michigan, Notre Dame, Nebraska. We gonna find
out what's what's what? Can they close out games because
they're gonna be able to score. But the question isn't
is their defense good enough? Because a lot of it
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was based upon guys slanting and all this stuff, and
it's and the offense feels like an Oregon coach used
to say, fizz a little trick dick that's the that's
the issue, Fiz, little trick dick, and they got to
get more substance to what they're doing. It's more it's
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it's more slight, slight of hand than actual substance. And
until I see substance, I'm not gonna be a usc
believer yet. But they are better than they were last year.
Jade Mayava is way better, way better. This defense we
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don't know yet. We don't know, all right. The next
thing up, Arkansaw versus Memphis thirty two thirty one. Only
reason why I'm talking about this game of two unranked
teams from an auntie Vicky because she is happy. Thirty
two thirty one. The Memphis Tigers came back from eighteen
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points and so that puts Sam Pittman back on the
hot seat. And then Memphis trolling them on social media. Oh,
that's gonna put the man back in the hot seat.
And they're sitting at two and two, and the rest
of this schedule is not favorable at all for Arkansas.
It is gonna get Yeah, it could get it could
get bad. It could get bad for them. They are
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zero and one in conference. Then they got notre Dame
this weekend Tennessee, Texas and m Auburn, LSU Texas, Missouri.
Yeah this is yeah, yeah, things are about to get
hectic for them. Sorry, sorry to be the bear of
bad news. Arkansas versus Baylor twenty seven twenty four. I'm sorry,
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Arizona excuse me, Eras the State versus Baylor twenty seven
to twenty four walk off field goal. The issue here
was for Arizona State. I'm looking at this offense in
it looks nowhere near the explosiveness that it did last year.
They returned all of these players. This feels like Clemson,
except they're winning football games. All of these players. But
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something broke in, Something broke like it's like they got
a belt, a fan belt missing, like the engine still running,
but it ain't right that the catalytic converter is needs replacing.
It ain't done, but something may right. That's the issue,
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all right, Arizona State, they did show their clutch gene
in this ball security, walk off field goal, no turnovers,
you know, Heyzus Gomez, nice walk off field goal. Sam
Levitt two hundred and twenty one passing yards touchdown, Russian touchdown.
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But this is what happens with with preseason expectations. This
was Arizona State last season. Last year was such an outlier,
it was going to be hard to duplicate it again.
And that and that was a spike and now they
have to keep the floor very high. That way, when
you spike again, you are in a chance to win
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playoff games. But huge win for them, Baylor. They when
David Randa was named as one of the people that
they should look at as a UCLA job, I was like,
why he's not even doing Like they're not even got
Baylor on the right track right now. And this this
feels like Baylor is headed toward the the purgatory stage
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of college football where you are a perpetual six to
eight win team and the and the hope is bleak
in terms of being one of the upper echelon teams
even in the Big twelve. So this is a rough
road for them all right now, we gotta look at
the five best Here are the five best teams of
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Week four in college football, and I'm gonna give you
the five worst teams as well, but the five best
teams in Week five of e jeerus. The five best
teams in Week four of college football. Indiana sixty three
to ten win. Memphis thirty two thirty one against Arkansas,
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a great win. Texas Tech. Number three spot thirty four
to ten over Utah. Number four Miami twenty six to
seven over Florida and mid These are not the best
teams in couture. These are people put up the best performances.
Oregon forty one to seven over Oregon State. Those are
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the five best performances of Week four. Now the five
worst performances of Week four in college football. You had
cal What are you doing? Thirty four to zero to
San Diego State? How how to just be Minnesota? That's
why you can't have nice things? Calgarithm Number two Clemson
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Clemson thirty four to twenty one at Syracuse. I mean,
well versus Syracuse, Man, it was awful, God awful. And
Dabbo was ready to cry after the game. I was
ready to cry after the game with him. Number three
Illinois sixty three to ten. They got beat by Indiana.
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It ain't just the fact that they lost, it's that
they got That was some quit in there. They weren't
fifty three points better than Illinois. Brett Bilama, you're my boy.
Come on now, come on, now tighten up, and we're
gonna see versus USC this week. South Carolina twenty nine
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to twenty lost versus Missouri. Their offense looks broken, looks broken.
But maybe I'm the jinks, maybe picking them to go
to the College football playoffs. Maybe I jinxed them. Maybe
I jinx Kansas State. Maybe I jinked Clemson because I
called them to win it. Maybe I jinxed them. I
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don't know. And then the last one is Wisconsin twenty
seven to ten in Maryland. I know that you're dealing
with a quarterback issue because Billy Edwards is out. You
know you got Danny O'Neill in. But that ain't just
the issue because Danny on kni was pretty good last
year at San Diego State. Something is going on and
Luke Fickle, who had been such a good head coach
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at Cincinnati, it's not working in Wisconsin. It's not so
I did. Yeah, it's not not working all right. So
those are the five best and worst teams. But now
it is fast break time. We got to talk about
the games that you did not watch, but I did
just to make sure that we talked about it. And
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one of them is the Apple Cup. Like I was
talking about, you got Washington versus Washington State fifty nine
to twenty four. Deman Williams four touchdown passes, rushing touchdown.
I love this kid. He's got a veteran energy around
him as a sophomore, true sophomore quarterback. I love it.
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The Huskies. They mixed up the run balance and everything else,
and it was just really good to see. It was fun.
And you know, I didn't like that they gave up
to twenty four points because it was a little touch
and go like they were up early and then they
allowed him to come back. But overall, Washington is still
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a year away too. Next year they're they're they're like Michigan.
The Big Ten is going to be crazy next year.
Crazy Ohio State, Washington, Michigan. And that's to go along
with Ohio State, Illtod Penn State's gonna be next year.
But they're they're gonna put together a competent roster. USC
could potentially be really good. Yo, it could be. No,
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the Big Ten gonna be wicked next year. The perdue
Notre Dame fifty six to thirty. Notre Dame, where's your defense? Fam?
I got to lower them in my and my my
rank is this offense is really good. CJ. Carr looks
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a phenomenal love him. This Notre Dame defense, they they
gotta get something together. They got This was the bend
then burst defense. It wasn't Ben, don't break. It was
bend and then burst three and seventy nine yards. Come on, man,
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But yes it was. They did get some timely stops
and everything else. But this game was far too close.
It just wasn't as dominated as you would have liked
to see. But big ups on Purdue. They are better, yo, yo,
very open. Good jobs are. You lost the last two
weeks against USC and then Notre Dame, But things are
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looking up. See you can lose and still be winning,
all right. The next game Georgia Tech versus Temple. This
is Georgia Tech is a prime example when you get
a university committed to being good at football, you hire
the right coach, build a really good culture. Then you
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end up in short order three years, four and oh
for the first time since twenty twenty four. And they're
probably gonna be favored in all the rest of the
games until the Georgia game. But they did allow a
little too much to timp after being up twenty one
oh something to monitor two lane old miss oh miss
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forty one, forty five to ten. They got a quarterback
in Trinidad Chamberless. I'm sorry, Simmons, I wanted this for you,
but sometimes a kid comes in and you can't take
about so oh miss. You're gonna figure out what they
are soon. But there. Their defense ain't the greatest thing
since life's bread, but their their offense. And Trinidad Chamberless,
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good job. Back to back weeks of four hundred plus
yards a total offense. Yo, the kids dynamic and electric.
Florida State they beat another patsy sixty six to ten.
Nothing to talk about here. I am still not convinced
about Florida State. The Alabama win. Yets cool. We ain't
seen nothing since you've been playing, you know, Directional Schools.
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Tennessee you fifty six to twenty four. Okay, okay, Tennessee's
offense is still looking really good. You know. Yeah, we're
not even gonna go into that. And then you got
TCU versus SMU twenty four to thirty five. Now, I
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should have put this game in one of the games
that I talked about earlier. But TCU made SMU earn
everything after that, gave up sixty six points in the
game in twenty twenty four and TCU they sold out
on the run. That means that Kevin Jennings had to
carry the offense and he couldn't. And this game he
made two clutch red zone touchdown throws and then gave
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them a fourth quarter lead. But the damn broke defensively,
It just did. You had. Josh Hoover to Eric McAllister,
that connection looks lethal. Eight catches, two hundred and fifty
four yards, and he had the forty seven yard of
which which he was in bounds, called back, called in complete.
Come on, man, I love it, I love it, love it.
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Oh but you guys though, This is George Reissel's college
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