CFB Week 5: Oregon Stuns Penn State—Bama Broke Georgia— LSU Flops

College Football Week 5 recap LIVE hits the biggest results with Oregon vs Penn State, USC vs Illinois, Ohio State vs Washington, LSU vs Ole Miss, Alabama vs Georgia, Auburn vs Texas A&M, Tennessee vs Mississippi State, Notre Dame vs Arkansas, Indiana vs Iowa,  —real CFB Playoff implications across the SEC football, Big Ten football, Big 12, and ACC. George Wrighster breaks down what mattered: QB execution on money downs, defenses that traveled, and the coaching decisions that flipped outcomes in the fourth quarter and OT.

We start with the Big Ten, Oregon football at Penn State football: statement road win and a White Out breaker for the Ducks—Dante Moore’s composure, while James Franklin’s 4–21 vs AP Top-10 re-lights the narrative pressure in State College. Ohio State football leaned on speed and defense to mute Washington huskies—1-for-11 on third down allowed, rushing bottled—and yet the Buckeyes’ offense still feels governed even with Jeremiah Smith flashing.

USC football at Illinois football turned into a shootout: Lincoln Riley had Jayden Maiava dealing to Makai Lemon (monster night) but Bret Bielema’s Illini refused to die—special teams, short fields, and third-and-long conversions kept it claustrophobic. Indiana hoosiers vs Iowa Hawkeyes was portfolio football.

In the SEC: LSU football at Ole Miss exposed the Tigers’ offensive issues while Trinidad Chambliss kept stacking wins for the Rebels; Alabama football at Georgia bulldogs football snapped the Dawgs’ mega home streak—Ty Simpson accounted for three TDs, Kalen DeBoer’s Tide owned third down (12-of-19), and Georgia’s defense looked un-Georgia-like tackling in space. Auburn Tigers at Texas A&M showcased Aggies’ defense and Le’Veon Moss while penalties kept it closer than it had to be. Tennessee Vols vs Mississippi State  football was cardiac ball—Heupel’s explosives returned, pass rush slammed the door in OT. Fast break: Notre Dame football detonated Arkansas (56–13) in a get-right showcase for CJ Carr and a defense that finally pinned ears back.

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Week five in college football did not disappoint. We got
winners and we got losers. James Franklin, how is he
on the hot seat right now? We gotta talk about
fans calling for these coaches jobs at a record pace
of guys who are winning games. We gotta talk about

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open jobs UCLA, Virginia Tech, Arkansas now Oklahoma State. We
gotta talk about what's going on with Lincoln Riley and
USC and is the Georgia short lived dynasty? Is that over?
What's up with Lane Kiffen? Just breaking down the top
quarterbacks and a lot of other things here on the show.

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You guys, make sure that you like, subscribe, get notifications,
and most importantly, tell a friend about the show. I'm
George Rice, a former NFL player, college football player, college
football analysts for c W, And you know, the truth
teller for college football, the man that is going to
shoot it to you straight. Because there's a lot of

(01:08):
people all the networks want to slant it this way,
your employer wants to slant it this way. I'm gonna
give it to your truth, even when it is against
a rival, even when it's against a team that I
may be covering. Whatever the truth is what matters here
in college football. No media bias, none of that. All right,

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So we're gonna start today with something that I think
is very very important that is going on in college football,
and that is the amount of people that are calling
for coaches jobs right now. It is absolutely insane. It
is absolutely insane. You got UCLA, Virginia Tech, Oklahoma State,
and Arkansas. They are already open right now, and you

(01:55):
have more. I think you're gonna at least have one
more job open after this team plays five weeks of
college football, because I think there is one team in
particular that is waiting until after it plays its fifth
game to fire their coach because they don't want certain
people to red shirt and potentially hit the transfer a portal.

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So that's just it. Now. The second thing that I've
noticed is we are in the best state that college
football has ever been in. College football has never been
in a better place because parody is what we all
really wanted. Now. No, does Ohio State want parody, No,

(02:39):
does Alabama want parody? No does Georgia No. Of course
they don't want parody because they are the halves everybody else,
so they want a fair shot. Every single week, every
single game, because that means that for the fan, that's
the thing that makes the NFL so popular. It's that
you can have the best team in the league lose

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to the worst team in the league on any particular
day depending on how those teams play. That is all
college football fans really want down deep in their heart.
And no, the big brands don't want it. If you're
one of the halves, of course you don't want it.
It would be like if you were a billionaire, do
you want everybody else to be billionaires? No, because you're

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an exclusive club. You can have things that other people
don't have, and you can be like, I spend four
thousand bucks on this just to be like, you ain't
up on this, Because then everybody has the same house
as you, the same car as you. You then don't
feel special. But that's what college football fans really want.
It's for everybody to have that same access to not

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only the college football playoffs. They want to have the
same access to recruits, to winning. They want the same access.
And that's really truly what people want more than anything else.
So this goes back to the coaches that I was
talking about, because right now LSU fans who've won a

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national championship fairly recently. Twenty nineteen, Ed ojeron LSU fans,
they're calling for Brian Kelly to be fired. Penn State
fans in the middle of the game in a three
to three game, or might have been ten three at
the time, they started yelling. They're booing their team and
they're talking about fire Franklin in the middle of the

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game that you could have possibly won. USC fans, they're
out on Lincoln Riley right now. Florida fans, they want
the Billy Napier fired. NC State fans, they want Dave
Dorn fired. Kentucky fans, they're just apathetic right now. But
the question that I really have for you, deep down

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to your soul, is this is I have established two
rules for firing a coach, and you tell me if
this is going on at LSU, Penn State, USC, Florida,
n C State, Kentucky, any of them. Number One, is
there a loss of hope? Can you go into recruiting

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seventeen to twenty two year olds out of the transfer
portal and sell them on the fact that the future
is brighter than the past, or that you'll take enough
money to ignore that. And then the other thing is
is there a coach that you can guarantee get that
will do a better job if you fire Brian Kelly?

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Can you assure that your next coach will do better?
If your Penn State? Can you assure your next coach
will do better? USC, Florida? Any of those? You can't
guarantee that at the first three place Florida maybe because
they're not winning the whole lot, Kentucky not winning a
whole lot, nowhere to go but up. And the thing

(06:01):
that generates this is what is going on at Mississippi
State because in year two, Jeff Levy, Oh, all of
a sudden, you're taking Tennessee to overtime, you beat Arizona State.
You're being hyper competitive. Arizona State hired Kenny Dillingham. They
weren't doing well. They ran out herm and everybody else.

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He's five and one versus top twenty five teams since
he's been there, and he has turned Arizona State around
in short order and was in the College Football Playoffs
last year. That's what That's the thing that drives fans
crazy is that there is that they're looking at other
teams have success and they're like, we want that, we

(06:45):
want that level of success for ourselves, and you want
it every single year. So there is a little bit
of you know, wanting it right now, like kids, I
wanted and I want it now. I want ice cream
for breakfast. Well, sometimes you got to go through. Sometimes

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you got to eat your you know, each of each
your eggs with is spinage and you and your and
your peppers and your onions and all the rest of
the goodies in there. You gotta eat your vegetables first sometimes.
So I know that. Now, last year we saw very
few power for coaches fired, and I said that last

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year and that it would be a significant uptick this
year because they have a good handle on how the
rev sharing is gonna work nil and all of that stuff.
And this is a hard conversation because everybody wants a
brand new coach, right What does it cost to get
a brand new coach? And I know that you're spending
other people's money, but what all does it cost to

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get a new coach? A lot? And because to get
the coach that you wanted in the first place, that
you were so excited about, the school had to bend
over backwards and give him a buyout that is absolutely insanity.
That makes no fiscal responsibility sense, Like why would you

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hire a coach for ten eleven million dollars a year
and if he leaves you, he owes you like ten
million dollars, But if you fire him because he stinks
or he doesn't win enough, you owe him seventy million
dollars kind of sense? Does that make none? Right? But
this is the college football landscape that we live in

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right now, and this has to change on that level.
Another thing that I noticed in Week five in college
football is all the pre complaining, pre complaining. I don't
like my coaches to complain. I don't like coaches who
now there's a difference in pointing things out on the

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back end, but pre complaining. I don't like it. And
an example of pre complaining this week was Lincoln Riding
prior to them playing Illinois. He talked about, oh, man,
you know, it's the schedule. It's hard. We had the
latest kick in college football last week versus Michigan State.
This week we have the earliest kick at nine am.

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It's a week later. Fam, You are supposed to complain
about these things in private, not in public when you
get in public. You're supposed to celebrate it in public.
If you go win that game in Champagne, Illinois, then
you come out and say, man, I'm so proud of
my team. We had a tough slate. We had the

(09:38):
latest kick in college football last week, then we had
the earliest kick. My team responded, We went out and
did these things, celebrating public. But the thing that none
of these coaches who pre complain about things will actually
tell you is you're actually preparing guys for the NFL.
And if you're preparing guys for the NFL, you're gonna

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play in all the different time zones, you are gonna
play in different weather. You're gonna play on Sunday and
then have to turn around and play on Thursday. It
ain't gonna be easy. And that's just the truth. Then
I also wanted to talk and you guys hop in
the chat and tell me who are the biggest complainers

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in college football right now? Who are the coaches that
complain more than anybody, Because there are a bunch. I
think that Lane Kiffin is on that list, and I
do believe that Lincoln Riley is now on that list
as well. So the next thing up is these quarterbacks,

(10:45):
these quarterbacks in college football, because we have players that
have been resurfacing all over the place and doing well.
Think about we just watched Virginia and Chandler Moore just
beat Florida State. This is a kid who has who

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was at a power for a school, goes down to
another level and then it comes back up in resurfaces
at Virginia were one of the biggest wins in program history.
Joey Aguilar over there at Tennessee Juco app State. So
a lot of times people think that these five star
quarterbacks are the answer, but that ain't always the answer

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to winning in college football. It's just like, you know,
like thinking that everybody who went to Harvard is going
to be the best doctor or the best lawyer. Yes,
they put out a lot of really good ones, but
that don't mean that the best ones necessarily come out
of there. They may have gone somewhere else. Look at
Diego Pavia, Juco, New Mexico State and Vanderbilt, and he's

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the heart and soul of that comeback over there. Because
we like to believe that that once something doesn't work,
that it's now that it go to the land of
misfit toys and nobody else can love it again. It's
like the toy story movie The Land of Misfit Toys,
and you think that those toys are no good persona

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non non grado, that they just el yuck, when in
reality there is hope and reclamation for them. Look at
what happened with bow Knicks at Auburn looking real good
for him, It looked real good at Oregon doing good
turned out to be a first round pick with the
Denver Broncos. Look at Spencer Rattler fell out of grace,

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resurface back starting in the NFL. Dante Moore over there
at Oregon. Same thing. UCLA people are he's a bust,
he's a failure. Nobody was even talking about him in
the preseason except your boy here on the show, Darien
Mensa Tulane and then Duke Kid out there absolutely bothering.
So this is not just quarterbacks with this is all positions.

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Do not just throw kids in the trash and think
that it's over. Because a lot of times sometimes there
was injury, Sometimes there was somebody in front of them.
Sometimes they weren't coach well, sometimes they weren't mature enough.
They weren't ready for it, but you still have hope,
and you don't run out of the only thing that
you can run out of is time and hope. Don't

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ever run out of hope. So I did want to
list my top quarterbacks right now in college football. I'm
going to put the exact number list together for you
guys this week in a graphic, so this will be
out but the top quarterbacks in college football because remember
in the preseason arch Many, Drew Howler, Kay Klubnick all,

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y'all told me about these dudes. Yes, I had k
Clubnick high on the list, but I told you that
Jeoh Materier was going to be on the list. He's
still one of the top quarterbacks. I told you Dante
More going to be on the list. He's got to
be the Heisman favorite right now. Fernando Mendoza over there
at Indiana, transferred from Cal playing great football. Carson Beck

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at Miami, CJ. Carr at Notre Dame, Ty Simpson, who
people wanted to throw in the trash after one game
to Florida State. Now all of a sudden they're like, man,
this kid might should should win the Heidgs and he's
excellent Jade might via same thing. USC people wanted to
throw him in the trash boat. Praboula at Missouri. Yep,

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he didn't even win the starting job. The Penn State fans,
oh yeah, I'm glad we let him go now that
I bet you the hell they wish they had Bo
Pabula back Joey Aguilar. USC threw him in the UCLA
threw him in the trash just saying uh. And these
are the top quarterbacks in college football right now. Add

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in Demal Williams, Darien Memnza of Hank Bachmeyer's playing good,
and then Drake Lindsay just balled out for Minnesota. So
those are your college football quarterbacks right now. If I miss,
somebody throw it in the chat. We're gonna start with
the biggest game, I believe, the most anticipated game of

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this season, and that was Oregon versus Penn State. I
did a breakdown on this last night, so I'll keep
this from brief in case you saw it. Because the
question that I was taking away with and I had
a discussion with a friend, was was this Oregon or
was this James Franklin? Was this Oregon just being a

(15:34):
better team, better coach, better everything, or was this James
Franklin's failure in the white out you got one hundred
and eleven thousand people everything. It was both, That's what
it was. It was both because on one hand, both
teams had opportunity. This was a statement road win for

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Oregon and it plays you know, their basically, as long
as something stupid doesn't happen, they're going to go to
the College Football Playoff because they're not just gonna drop
out and lose four games on the way out of here.
So then you got Penn State. They are four and
twenty one against ap top ten teams under James Franklin,

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and a lot of those times they were top ten teams.
So is this James Franklin's fault? Yes, because he is
the is the tip of the spear. He's the head coach.
But one of the things head coaches do a lot
of times, and this is both a positive and a negative,
sometimes they will stick with a player and believe in
him because they believed in him already, and Drew Owler

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is that guy. So I believe that that James Franklin
has no idea how because he clearly can recruit, he
clearly can spot talent, But I believe that that he
gets so conservative in his preparation for his team and

(17:04):
in the way that he just his whole mentality that
behind you can't even see through it, Like it's just
booty holes so tight right now every time a big
game comes. And it's not that he doesn't want to
break out of it, it's just that he can't figure

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out how to break out of a paper bag right
now when it comes to a big game. Scared money,
don't make no money, and they want to come out. Yes,
playing great defense is important, but there comes a level
of competency with offense that cannot be ignored. It's almost
like he's content with the game staying close and then

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hoping that they can win in the end. And that's
not how you win big time football games. You can't
just hope it stays close and then pray that you
can make some plays in the end, because if you
are fortune favors the aggressive, it always does. And this

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was a heartbreaking loss for Penn State fans. Heartbreaking loss.
White out. This is everything is lined up for you.
And remember I've been talking about this with Penn State
all year. Everything is lined up for Penn State, three
year starting quarterback. You just poortal wide receivers that you're
not even using. Again, you have a marvelous players on defense,

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You've got a great defensive coordinator in Jim Knowles. What
more could you possibly want to need? Because if you
can't win these games now, it ain't gonna happen until
until there is a mental breakthrough. He needs to go
see a sports psychologist, a coach psychologist, something else, because

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right now it is men. It has nothing to do
with his actual players besides needing a quarterback. But there
has to be something wrong with what James Franklin is
doing in terms of either player or evaluation. And remember
head coaches coach coaches either player evaluation, coach evaluations of players,

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or the way that they're being coached. Because James Franklin
is content to do this like coach Nikki a trick
smoking mirrors, like everything's gotta be smoking mirrors. That's not
the way you win big time football. When is the
last time you saw a national championship team running offense

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like that? Maybe Cam Newton maybe maybe, and that was
back in what twenty ten? Maybe that's the last time
and that we've seen that Aside from that, Yes, you're
gonna have some trick plays, some design things and stuff
like that, but you can't be trying to as Scott

(20:05):
ben Pelt pitch, you woo woo your way two wins.
It just don't work like that. And this goes not
for James Franklin, but this for every single coach and
you guys, make sure that you like, subscribe, share, tell
a friend about the show, and everything else. All right, So,
and there is nothing worse in life than to come
back and lose. That is a heartbreaker. But on the

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Oregon side, I believe that this was they got up
for seventeen to three. They relaxed a little bit, and
that goes to speak to a young team doesn't know
how to close. And people were like, well, even if
Oregon loses, this will be their grow up opportunity. You

(20:50):
are right, their grow up opportunity, except for they grew
up with a win. So I believe that this is
going to propel them when it is time to close
other games. No more penalties, no more you know, letting up,
keeping that same energy all game. And Dan Lanning's aggressiveness
is crazy because there's only been one team in the

(21:12):
last thirty years that has defeated an ap Top five
opponent while converting five plus fourth down attempts. And that
happened last night. What org you all right? Now? I
want to go to another really good coach, Kirby Smart
playing against another really good coach, Alabama's Kaitlin de Boor.

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And remember Alabama fans, they have wanted to punt Kaitlin
de Board to the sun. These are the same people
who just a few weeks ago, just a few weeks ago,
their fans were talking about this. I tell exactly what
I'd do with the first seventy million. I'd pay off
Kaitlin de Boor and get him the heck out of
the University of Alabama, and then I'd take whatever else

(21:55):
it took to get rid of Their fans were just
talking about using to buy out money to fire Kaylin
de Boor, just talking about this. So you know, so
at Alabama fans, y'all gotta settle down a little bit. Fair,
y'all gotta settle down because it is a okay, all right,

(22:17):
So Kirby Smart has not won this game very many times?
What are they like? He's won in eight now versus
Alabama but he's got two national championships. This feels a
lot to me like Ohio State with Ryan Day in Michigan.
He ain't beat Michigan, but he did win a national

(22:41):
championship last year. So as a fan in this era
of college football, you gotta pick your poison. So are
you upset with Kirby Smart for losing the Alabama Yeah,
of course you're tired of being Alabama's little brother. But
at the same time, you're getting a lot of wins
and Alabama ain't losing to a whole lot lot of people.

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And remember, I am the same person that told you
guys that Kaitlyn de Boor is a really good coach
when everybody was trying to fire him. I said, if
y'all stay patient, he will figure it out. Stuff's getting
figured out now. I do not believe that they are
completely fixed. Yet I don't. I do also believe that

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Alabama is just not a very well that Georgia is
not a very good passing team. They only threw for
one hundred and thirty yards in that game. They ran
the ball fairly well. But I also don't believe fully
in Alabama yet I don't. I think that they are

(23:46):
a good football team, but we still got to see,
you know what, what's coming down the pipe. But I
do I am starting to be like, okay, okay, but
they are still the team that lost badly to Florida State.

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So and if that's what you do, that means that
it is possible for it to happen again if it
happens once. So this game was a complete domination by
Alabama the total yards three ninety seven to three fifty seven,
but it's the pass game two eighty to one thirty,
which was the huge difference. But the biggest thing overall

(24:27):
in this whole game was Alabama was twelve for nineteen
on third down. Georgia was two for eight. So that
means that you are running so many more plays than
the opposition, that you are moving the sticks. And that's
what Kaitlyn de Bor wants to do. Get first downs

(24:49):
and those will turn into points and once you get impatient,
then things will open up for you. And when I
was watching this game, I was like, damn, w was
the last time before this season that we have seen
a Georgia defense that was just mad. And that's a

(25:09):
credit to Kirby Smart. If we're being Honest, when was
the last time. I can't even remember in the Kirby
Smart era. But this team is not strong tacklers giving
up six yards per play and in the rushing and
in the yeah, that that's not gonna cut it. Six

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yards per play. It's bad. And like this Georgia defense,
they don't look like they had. They look completely devoid
of special type playmakers and they getting carved up in
the past game. Dudes are wide open at times. This

(25:51):
is problematic, and Kirby knows what he's looking at. He's like, Okay, okay,
we gotta get this fixed because they do have a standard.
But this is exactly why college football is so special
right now, is because you're going to have the powers
that be have years where they can get beat where

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they are vulnerable, and then the coach is going to
have to fix it quick. And I love it because
the real skill of coaches is going to be shown
and it is not just going to be with who
has the most money. It is going to be which
guys can instill their culture and make it last. But

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speaking of Alabama, we got to talk about Florida State
for a quick second, because Florida State lost to Virginia
in overtime. And I got to give credit to the
winners because Tony Elliott huge win. He has gotten himself
off the hot seat. It's his fourth season. Looks like
he's figured it out. Granted, their wins are against Coastal Carolina,

(27:02):
they lost the NC State close, william and Mary Stanford
and now FSU. But the fact that they believe that
they can win, that's when you are when you have
gotten your team where you want them to be. When
they believe every single week, then no matter who they
are on the field with, they are going to win
or they have a chance to win. Just sim and

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I believe that that Alabama win gave Florida State way
more clout than they deserved. That people, oh, this might
be the best team in the country. Well, I didn't
rank them that high because or excuse me, Alabama then
to the seasons that Alabama was gonna miss the College
football and it's rat poison game to me, like they

(27:47):
just overlooked them or anything like that. I just believe
that this is who Florida State is. They are a
good team and that they can beat really good teams
like Alabama may be a really good team. Beat Alabama,
but they are not capable of playing at that high
level weekend and week out. That's what you're going to

(28:09):
see more of with these teams. And I love it.
This is great for college football. It is great when
you don't know who's going to win. It is great
when you can't just say, yeah, that team's gonna win
the national championship. I they're the best team going black.
When you know it's gonna be a dog fight every week,
I love it. But I wanted to give a shout
out to Deuce Robinson. USC transferred down to Florida State

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nine for one, seven and a tuddy big man, big man,
do good big man, do good Man. That kid is
a matchup nightmare. I know he regrets not catching that
ball in the end zone, but you know, life happens.
We got to talk about Ohio State and yeah, we

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got to talk about Ohio State and Washington twenty four
to six. Now, when I was watching this game, I
honestly was kind of bored. I was like, bro, this
is a snoozer. Bro Like, oh my gosh. It was
just like Ohio State won this game by leaning on Washington.

(29:18):
It would be like me two hundred and you know,
seventy five pounds of me leaning on my all. My wife.
She might be able to hold me up for a minute,
but eventually the weight's gonna get a little too heavy.
And when the weight gets a little too heavy, it's
gonna fall. I'm gonna fall on her and crush her.

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That's exactly what Ohio State did to Washington. This was
not a decisive offensive victory. In fact, Ohio State's offense
is nerfed right now. And we'll talk about that for
a second. But this defense, they are fast, they are physical.
They only allowed to undred and thirty four yards with

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a one four eleven on third down to Washington. They
contained Demond Williams, who's a little jitterbug. They contained the
running back Jonah Coleman. Demand Williams only had one hundred
and sixty three pass yards and Coleman had sixty one
rush yards and Washington only averaged two yards per carry.

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And Caleb Downs is an absolute monster. This Ohio State
defense is carrying this team. And I was concerned about
this Ohio State offense after the Texas after the Texas
game because the Texas out gained them everything. So the
question is, what are we supposed to make out of them. Now.

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I believe that Jeremiah Smith he feels like a threat
right now because you see how physically dominantd he is
and everything else that you saw last year. But that's
it because there is a governor on this offense. So
my question is are they protecting Julian Saying, who's doing
a good job back back there, and just letting him

(31:06):
ease in until there's a moment where they gotta unleash
him and let them let him go, letting them get comfortable,
not making him, you know, have to chuck the ball
downfield and potentially throw fix and all that. So are
they protecting Saying and intentionally putting a governor on this
offense or do they not trust him? Or the third

(31:29):
thing is their new offensive coordinator, Brian Hartline. Is he
feeling his way around? Now? You don't get to take
your lumps at Ohio State. So my question is when
when Ohio State gets up against somebody where they have

(31:51):
to actually put together some competent offense, how is that
going to work? Cause they got Minnesota this week, then
they play at Illinois, at Wisconsin and then Penn State.
It feels like they can win playing the same way
that Oregon did and not necessarily any big plays. Just
lean on them until they break at Purdue, Ucla, Rutgers,

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and then Michigan. That's gonna be tough. So it doesn't
feel like a lot of spots where this offense is
going to have to have to make end roads. But
at the same time, they do have to get better
by the end of the year because this relying on
your defense and not being explosive offensively, that's not gonna work.

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It is not going to get you another national championship.
Might get you through the Big Ten into the College
Football Playoff, but you ain't gonna be a win like that.
But the good news for Ohio State is you don't
have to be playing your best football right now. Now.
Let's talk about Washington for a minute, because I've been
hyping Washington up. Everybody knows that we're my preseason top

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twenty five, when most people did not believe. I still
look at this team and I was like, Yo, that's
a good football team that Jeff Fitch is putting together.
Are they ready yet? No? No, they're not ready to
go to college football playoffs yet? But are they trending?
In the right direction one hundred per one hundred percent,
because there's a lot of teams that would have got

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ran off the field. And but ohiose they just had
too much. This was a Jimmy's and Joe's game, and
they had too many Jimmies, you get it. Now we
got to talk about and yeah, so I'm still high
on them. Now we got to talk about some LSU

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situations for a minute. What's going on with this man,
mister Brian Kelly, Because I am of the opinion, Oh,
I am of the opinion that with mister Brian Kelly
that there are times where he does not take credit

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for his team not playing well. Because remember, prior to
the year, he said his quarterback Garrett Nussmyer, he needed
to run the ball more. Then at the beginning of
the season, Garrett's gotta play better. And now their story
is whoa Listen, listen, nobody's at fault, because everybody's at fault.

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Coaches got to coach better, players gotta play better, everything
else in between. The blame is rarely on him. He's
the leader of this operation and this offense is not
doing a good job. They just lost to old Miss

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of twenty four to nineteen, and yes the game was
in Oxford, Yes it's a road game, all of those things.
But this LSU offense is not good right now. It
is not good. It is actually, honestly, it is problematic.

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It is problematic. And if you are a a LSU
team that Clemson win and that Florida win doing a
lot of heavy lifting right now. And it doesn't mean
because you do not have a bad team by any
stretch of the imagination. Your defense is doing a good job.

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They were able to. Yes, ole Miss ended up with
four hundred and eighty yards three hundred and fourteen pass yards,
but part of it is because your offense was two
four eleven on third down and then ls and then
ole Miss was completing at almost a fifty clip four
for seventeen. This is the issue is that Brian Kelly,

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who is known for having some really good d but
it's been the offense that is doing really well since
he had been there with Jayden Daniels and you know,
but now it feels like you're like, we don't know
what the identity of this team is. And he was
so elated and so happy after that Clemson win to

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get off the snide. We don't just lose our first
first game. He focused so much on that one game
that you lose sight of the big picture. And think
about that in life, because we all know people when
you get singularly focused on one particular thing and then
you lose track of everything else. Like here, I'm focusing

(36:41):
on George Reister's Unafraid Show Well college football podcast, focusing
on that growing up. But if my kids they they
had going out of control, that grade's not going well,
stuff's not going well in sports. But I'm completely ignoring
that kind of what we're going with Brian Kelly. He

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got so focused on that one thing that he lost
focus of what was really going on. It was just
we completed the goal. We beat Clemson. Then you got
happy and you weren't paying attention to all of the
warts that I could see. This is why when people

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were like Clemson, LSU might be the best team in
the country. No, not even close. Right now, they are
not even one of the teams that I believe can
win a national championship right now now on old miss side,
because we got to give credit to the winners. Lane
Kiffin gotta give the man credit. Number One, he has
not started complaining yet. This season hasn't started all the

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pre complaining. And when he do, it does that's when
LSU will start Ole Miss will start losing. But Trinidad Chamberless,
he made a wonderful change because Austin Simmons was the
kid who came in as a sixteen year old, he
was named the starter. He brought in D two transfer
Trinidad Chamberless, who's a senior now. And once Simmons got

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hurt in that first game, Chamberless came in. Tabless ain't
came back out. He said, what like almost four hundred
yards of offense in each of the last four games.
It's been impressive. It has been crazy. He had three
hundred and fourteen passing yards this game. Old Miss rushed
for another one sixty six. He's now three to zero

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as a starter. Old Miss is ranked right now and
people believe that this team is really good. And I
did not believe that they and they are ranked number
four in the nation now. I did not believe that LSU,
well that Old Miss was going to be a team
that was going to be competitive this year in terms

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of making the college football playoffs. But they got a shot.
They just beat at USSU. They got washed this they're
gonna drag them. Then they got at Georgia at Oklahoma
and Matier may or may not be back at that
point in time. Then they got South Carolina, the Citadel, Florida,
and Mississippi State. So if they get passed the Georgia,

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Oklahoma South Carolina slate with only one loss, they're pretty
much home free, home free from their basically, unless you
have a stupid loss to Florida or Mississippi State because
Lane starts talking and starts worrying about everything else again.

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So I'm actually, you know, I'm ready to replace Old
Miss put them in that South Carolina spot that I
have reserved for the college football playoff. I'm ready to
I think I'm ready to insert Old Miss into that spot.
Just saying, and think about how bad this LSU offense is.

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Who scored nineteen points airly converting on third down, Old
Miss gave up twenty three points to Kentucky and ls
you can barely move the ball. Oh Miss gave up
thirty five points to Arkansas, who just got dog walked
by a Notre Dame. Something is broken in this LSU offense.

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A lot of it is third down and but we
gotta figure out well not not we he Brian Kelly's
gotta figure this out. So and LSU I gotta talk
talk about that. Florida and Clemson wind doing a lot
of heavy lifting. But then they still got South Carolina, Vandy,

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Texas and m Bama and Oklahoma. They not making through
that unscared with this offense. So, Brian Kelly, you got
some questions to answer, my friend, some questions to answer.
All right, now we got to talk about Lincoln, right, Lord,
have mercy Lincoln Riley and the USC Trojans who went

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out to Champagne and lost twenty four to seventeen. This
is why you watched the show. I told you in
the preview what was coming in this game. Lincoln Riley
is not I told you that the key to stopping

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USC stop their run game. If you stop their run game,
limit their run game, you will beat USC. Limit their
run game. It is obviously not easy to do, but
if you can do it, you will. You will shut
them down because and then the second thing that you

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have to do is you have to change the picture
late for Jade and my villa, because what Lincoln Riley,
would I believe Lincoln RDI he's doing. They're breaking the
huddle so early, getting lined up, and then Lincoln is
talking to my BA in the huddle. They're changing the play.
The talk communication shuts off at fifteen. The play usually

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starts right at like fourteen, fourteen or thirteen. But when
it gets later in there, like when they do late
subs and then the other team subs, So Lincoln Rodley
has to stop with the late subs because it's throwing
his whole offense off because then he can't talk to
my BA, and that's how you stop their offense. USC

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was eight for if. When you look at USC stats,
you're like, how did they lose? They? Now, granted they
have four hundred ninety yards of offense, they gave up
five oho two three sixty four passing to three thirty
three point thirty one for Illinois rush yards. Illinois had

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a fifty more to one seventy one US. He had
eight penalties to five third downs, you know, six six
for ten for Illinois, four for eight for fourteen for USC,
so well over fifty percent. USC was four for five

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on fourth downs, so that means that Illinois was putting
them in positions to go for it that they were
getting them to those fourth downs. They just couldn't get
off the field. So think about this. USC had an
excellent offensive output except for that running game only got

(43:39):
limited to three point seven yards per carre. That's it.
You limit the running game and then they can't you know,
hey pink elephant, Hey look over here and hit you
with that, with that misdirection stuff. They can't do that.
And this is where Lincoln Riley struggles because we have

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been asked and begged. I've had USC fans in my
mentions all week. George, you're just a USC hater. This
is why you don't give us credit and all of
like number one, you hadn't beat nobody so far this season,
and how did you pick Illinois? They lost sixty three
to ten. Illinois is still a good football team and

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I knew that they would prove it because that Indiana
game watching the film, they got lined up bad, they
were out of place, and then stuff just snowballed. And
this Illinois offense is not a comeback offense. They get
down fourteen points, games get games over unless they get
turned over. It's brito. But Lincoln Riley his defense. He's

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not a defensive guy. He's an offensive guy. And the
way that in Nick Saban talked about this, if you
are going to be a high powered offense kind of guy,
you have to also make your practice conducive for physicality
because when you get met with physicality, which football is,

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the is the Marshawn Lynch principle. We're gonna run through
a mofo's face over and over and over again. Like
you have to be able to line it up and
run it when everybody knows that you're running it to
be able to and that doesn't mean you running the
bad boss Counts do stupid things, but you have to
be able to line it up and check somebody's chin strap.
And when you check USC's chin strap, it's always a

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little loose. Always. And Lincoln Raleigh through forty six games
in his career, he now has a worst record, excuse me,
forty five. It has a worst record than Clay Helton
by one game. So so the same people that wanted

(45:52):
Clay Helton fire because he was doing so poorly, you
literally have the exact same record right now. The only
thing that you got better right now is you got
the number one recruiting class coming in with six hundred recruits.
They all can't can't play. You've overpaid for some of them.

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But it is giving fans hope, right, But it was
the tweets that were just, oh my god, it's brutal.
USC fans need to understand that this is not year
four of Lincoln Raley. This is year eight. He took
his coaching culture and well, he took his coaches from
Oklahoma and the best player and went to USC. Now
I don't subscribe to that a little bit because the

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last time that USC was really good was when the
president hired the ad ad hired the head coach. Everybody's
in continuity, they have not had that. They haven't had it.
And if we talking about all of this, you know,
James Franklin winning big game stuff. Lincoln Raleigh is now

(46:57):
four and eleven against ranked opponents at USC. Just saying,
but I do want to give a huge credit, huge
shout out to Brett Belama, huge bounce back win. This
was major, bro, This was a major win. And you
guys make sure that you like subscribe get notifications in
tele a friend. Major win for Illinois and Brett Belama

(47:19):
because they battled at Versity. They fumbled on the one
fumbled in the end zone, and they could have been
up twenty one to seven at the half. Then they
had a chance to go up thirteen with forty five
minutes left, fumbled in the end zone. This game could
have got out of control. That could have been a
blowout the other way because they only made USC punt once,

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but they still were dominating the football game. They made
usse's pass rush nonexistent. And all we kept hearing about
from the us defense this defense, this defense, oh the
affront seven. You got people ranking them because and I'm like, yo,
watch the film at all looks great until somebody checks

(48:01):
their chin strap, Like number one offense in the country,
most touchdowns, all of this stuff till somebody checks their
chin strap. But there is a bright spot for USC.
And the bright spot is Jade and my Via. Actually,
before Avery get get to him, I feel better again
about Illinois. Remember I picked Illinois to potentially make the
college football playoff finishing fourth into Big Ten? Is that

(48:25):
gonna happen? I don't know, we gonna see, but I
feel a little better about it again. Now back to
Jaden my Via. The kid is much improved, much improved.
He still has some growing to do to be an
NFL quarterback, but he's getting there and next year he
could be a massive problem. He finished this game thirty

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for forty three for three sixty four, two touchdowns and
a pick yo. His touch like some of these throws
are just incredible, And now I do wonder if the
windows are gonna be there against better teams, against b
excuse me, against defenses. But he man, he's making better

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decisions everything. And Makai Lemon at wide receiver, lord have
a mercy eleven for one one to two touchdowns, two
point conversion. The kid is special. Kid is special. And
USC fans that are calling for Lincoln Riley to be
fired and all this stuff dealing with the same thing.

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I would not be too excited to fire them, because
the upcoming slate is going to chest test your chin
strap again Michigan. This week. Chin strap is getting checked
because they gonna run the ball down your throat unless
you stop it. Notre Dame gonna check your chance strap
because they're head coaches, check theirs. Oregon, you better put

(49:52):
on two chance straps. If you watch that Penn State game,
there's no way Lincoln Riley's team is holding up to
that level of physicality. Nebraska is more physical. Those are
all potential losses. So hey, he better tight tighten it
up because just saying speaking of checking chin straps, though,

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Iowa and Iowa in Indiana twenty to fifteen. So I
would just like everybody thought that Indiana was gonna troll
up into Iowa and run them over after they just
dump trucked Illinois last week. No sir, no sirt. And

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you know why because Iowa, number one is a hard
place to play and number two they are going to
check your chin strap and Indiana they were coming off
of high And what I've told you what is harder
success or failure? Success is harder because when you have success,

(50:56):
start eating good man, it's hard to get up and
do all the workout and everything that you did grinding
one thousand count thrand sheets. Just see. But this game
came down to two separate things. And this is not
just about I went Indiana. Think about this when you're
watching teams play. There were two contrasting styles. And in life,

(51:24):
what do people always tell you to do financially? Diversify
your portfolio, have some stocks and bonds, have some real estate,
maybe have some private equity. If you can get in somewhere,
invest in a business, invest in collect something, diversify your portfolio. Well,
here's the thing. Indiana. They can win a close game.

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They can run the football, they can play power, they
can throw it with like the Indiana has multiple ways
to win a football game. So think about this when
you're judging Indiana multiple ways to win a football game.
Iowa has one way to win football games. Run and

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punt football. We gotta be able to run the foot football,
play good defense. We can't throw it to save our life.
We couldn't. We couldn't throw it if if our life
depended on it. And I know Gronowski got hurt, but
it wouldn't have mattered if Gronowski was in or not.
But overall, credit to Iowa. Oh, they did throw for

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one hundred and ninety two yards for like like, they're
getting close to breaking to two hundred yards this season.
Keep it up, Iowa, but they have less ways to win.
And this is exactly why you can't transitive property in
college football and why you can't overreact to outlier wins
because you always have to can account further they got

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happy factor and Indiana got drugged down into the deep
end and almost got drowned. But I will say give
credit to Indiana. They are of the teams in the
last thirty years to have thirteen hundred yards passing, thirteen
hundred yards rushing and two or few turnovers through five

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games of a season. That's it. One team. That's Indiana, baby,
So good on them. Good on Fernando Mendoza, who's absolutely balling,
one of the best quarterbacks in the league this year.
And I will get some damn offense. Man that ain't
good enough this throwing the But you the two minute
drill you tried. The run was pitiful. You're so much better.

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You're good, coach Kirk Farrence. You just have to change
before the game runs you over all. Right now, I
want to talk for a second before I get to
the rest of these games about the rankings, because the
polls came out today and my poll will be out
on Tuesday on the live show, So make sure you

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guys are for that on Tuesday evening, so you have
the AP poles out and the ESPN FPI. Now, I
am usually consistently frustrated about ESPN's FPI, but I got no.
I'm starting to like I don't buy it, but I

(54:19):
understand it and it's less annoying to me. But it
does annoy me when you have like Texas at four,
Alabama at three. But Alabama just be Georgia, so of
course they're gonna get an overreaction. But they loved Alabama already,
Notre Dame at six. People are like, this is a
two lost team already, blah blah blah, listen sc at ten.

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It feels weird, right, But when you look at some
of these teams, right, the majority of them are just
what I said. They have multiple ways to win. Oregon
can beat you with their defense. Ohio Sate can beat
you with their defense. They both it beat you with
their offense. Alabama can beat you with their offense. I

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mean they shut Georgia down passing, so I guess on defense.
Some Texas win't even sure about. Indiana's proven that they
can win multiple ways. Notre Dame has proved they can
win and lose multiple ways. George is just very talented.
Oh Miss has been winning games against good competition and
looking impressive, like in terms of dominating the game flow

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and not having to come back from behind. Miami has
been dominant. Michigan multiple ways to beat you. So that's
the thing that I want you to pay attention to
with the FPI is that it does give you a
good indication of teams that have multiple ways to beat you,
not necessarily the best teams. But now let's look at

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the AP pole. Now, I'm not mad at one, two, three,
I believe that these are the four best teams toil
excuse me, the three best teams in college football right now.
Where my disagreements come in Texas at nine. Texas has
not shown us anything on earth that to make us

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believe that this is the ninth ranked team in the country,
the ninth best team in the country. Now, might they
be at some point in time, sure, right, but not
at this point in time. But aside from that, you
ain't really gonna get in an argument for me about
the AP because this week was honestly one of the
toughest weeks for me to do my rankings, one of

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the toughest weeks to do the rankings because and you
know whose fault it is, Number eighteen, Florida State's fault,
because you got Alabama who lost it. Because I believe
that you have to acknowledge what happens on the field.
Florida State beat Alabama week one. It's week one teams

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had the biggest growth from week one to week two.
So week one is not gonna carry the most you know,
like definition for me in terms of the quality, wind,
schedule played, and dominance, the three things that go into
the George Reister Pole. And then you had Florida State
just lose to Virginia, and then you had Alabama beat Georgia.

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So now you're sitting here trying to figure out, if
you're an AP voter, how where the hell do we
rank them at? Because we got to put Alabama behind
Georgia right now, so which they which they did, And
then you got to figure out where you put Florida
State because Florida State beat Alabama, but then they just
lost to Georgia, so then that makes them worse than
Alabama right now, run now, right exactly. So it is

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a hard job as the as the parody comes into play.
So good luck, my friends, good luck, and god speed.
But I wanted to also show you guys, my uh
my best teams in the country right now. I believe
that these here are the four best teams in college

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football right now. You got the Oklahoma Sooners one of
the four best teams, and I think that they're four
right now now. Granted Jometier is hurt, but he will
be back at some point in time. And this defense
is really good and they are one of those teams
that can beat you in multiple ways. The Ohio State

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Buckeyes one of the three best teams in college football
right now now. Their defense is carrying the weight and
doing a lot of the heavy lifting right now. But
this team, Julian's saying he's not been bad at quarterback,
he's just been governored. They put a governor on it.
They have nersed this offense to protect things for whatever reason.

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But we won't know truly what Ohio State is until
they're forced to get out of that shell. The Miami Hurricanes,
they have been dominant at every single level. Their offensive
line is really good. They're but we gonna see what
happens to them when they played Florida State this weekend,
because I believe that them playing Florida State this weekend

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is the worst thing for them, because Florida State, after
just getting embarrassed by Virginia. They're gonna be hungry. And
then the Oregon Ducks clearly went in the happy valley
on the road, hostile environment, white out, young team went
out there and won, and in fact, they dominated us

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even though the game went in the overtime. Anybody watching
the game look like Oregon was clearly the best team
on the field and they almost choked it away because
they had to learn how to win. So there it is.
Now we gotta talk about this game right here. Auburn
versus Texas and M sixteen to ten Texas. A and

(59:53):
M won this game because of two things, defense and
Moss because beyond moster running back one hundred and thirty
nine rush yards and a touchdown, and their defense held
Auburn to one hundred and seventy six yards. Oh for
twelve on third down? Yes, you heard me, oh for

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twelve on third down. But when I'm watching this game,
and I believe that Mike Elko has done a great
job with this team, He's gotten them to believe. But
when I was watching this game, this was not high
level quarterback play. Marcel Reeves has improved dramatically, he still

(01:00:38):
has to improve as a passer. Fifteen for twenty two
two oh seven, no touchdowns and a pick. And it's
not the yards because there are people who throw for
god yards that aren't necessarily that. I mean, they're in
good systems, systems that are conducive to that. Marcel Reese

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is still in that playmaker stage of being a quarterback.
I do believe that he can improve to being a
really good passer or a good passer, but he's not
there yet. If you can contain him in the pocket
and not get your rush lanes off, just squeeze him in,

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He's gonna have a tough time beating you. But if
you let him run around and pitch the ball around,
it is going he is going to rain hell on
your life. That's the truth. But now Auburn, Auburn Who's
fans and their head coach, Hugh Free blamed everything last
season on the quarterback well he chose. He got a

(01:01:44):
couple quarterbacks out of the portal. The one he chose
to go with was Jackson Arnold from Oklahoma. Now, Jackson
Arnold ten sacks sacked ten times versus Oklahoma, seven times
versus Texas A and him I looked at the film,

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Jackson Arnold is responsible for the majority of these sacks.
This is he does not want whatever he's looking at.
It is not clear to him. He doesn't feel safe,
he does not feel comfortable throwing the football, and he
wants to wait to see people open to throw it,

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and that does not work. So Auburn is in a situation.
They have a good defense, good running backs, the wide
receivers are really good. They have to improve their quarterback
play there. It is time to try something else because
Jackson Arnold, it is not working. It's not and it's

(01:02:51):
unfortunately I got two quarterback sons. I don't like to
call for benchings and all of this stuff, but it's
not working right now. You either have to reset it
and only go quick game so he can't so he
doesn't have a choice, or you have to figure something
else out. It's just the reality of things. But on

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the Texas A and M side, this team is running
on the margins right now. Thirteen penalties in this game
for one hundred and nineteen yards. You are running in
the red. When you are a team that does this,
life is not going to be pretty for you. You

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are headed for disaster. So I am telling Texas A
and M fans right now that no matter how good
the season has looked so far, and no matter the
fact that you are now ranked number six in the
nation in the AP Pole, you have problems coming your

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way with all of these penalties. You play Mississippi State
this then you play Florida at Arkansas, at LSU at Missouri,
South Carolina, Sanford, and then Texas at Texas. So you
got some tough road games in LSU, Missouri and Texas.

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But if you don't play well against Florida, well, too
many penalties against Florida, too many penalties against Arkansas, you
are going to find a way to lose games. That
is just the truth. You cannot be undisciplined and win
football games at a high level. It just don't work
like that. Another team that we have to talk about

(01:04:37):
that nobody's really talking about right now. We got to
talk about Arizona State College Football Playoff participant last year.
I want them in my top twenty five. They have been,
you know, somewhere between twenty six and thirty since they
lost to Mississippi State. It's nothing pretty is going on

(01:05:00):
with what ASU is doing right now. The offense looks disjointed,
but Sam Levitt is an absolute dog now and they
beat TCU twenty seven to twenty four this week. This
was a hard fought win on Friday night. Lord have mercy.

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They got some juice from Elik from Realik Brown at
running back. Their all star. If you do not know
the name Jordan Tyson, he is one of the five
best wide receivers in college football. If you think Ryan
Williams is good, go see Jordan Tyson play. You think

(01:05:44):
Jeremiah Smith is good or the Corey and moorek go
watch Jordan Tyson play. You can be back. Oh oh
oh oh two Spider Man's pointing at each other. They
look the same. This kid is probably going to be
an NFL first round pick. Spectacular. Arizona State, who made
They are scraping by right now. It reminds me of

(01:06:04):
when Florida State when they won the national championship and
then they came back and the next year we're just
scraping by wins. That's what Arizona State is doing. TCU
twenty seven to twenty four. They had to come back
Baylor twenty seven to twenty four, comeback thirty four to
fifteen in Texas State wasn't pretty you thirty nine to

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nineteen in Northern Arizona Mississippi State. You lose that when
twenty four to twenty you got down too much and
you couldn't come back with the cow bells. But they
gonna get a real test in two weeks when they
head out to the Musk, when they head out to Utah.
And if they can't get this Marcus Arroyo, their offensive
coordinator and Kenny Dillingham, if they can't get this offense fixed,

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that is going to be an l and possibly put
them out of the Big twelve race in terms of
making the College for a playoffs. But Arizona State still
still has hope and I like them. On the TCU side,
Sunny Dykes has this team, you know, doing some nice things.

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Hoover is doing well. This defense is just giving up
way too many points. It is just not what you
needed to be. They are trying, they're fighting. TCU is
gonna be competitive. Yeah, we will leave it at that,
all right. Next team up, we gotta go with the
Tennessee Valls. Baby, the Tennessee Falls. They played against Mississippi State.

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The reason why we're talking about this game more than
anything is because this was a forty three we'll excuse me,
forty one to thirty four overtime game. Jeff Levy, Mississippi
State's head coach, is why everybody else is calling for
their head coach to be fired. They're like, see, look
what we can do in short order, and Lincoln Brodley,

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why can't you do that? I mean, that's a legitimate question.
But Jeff Levy's doing a wonderful job down there. It
reminds me of what Jed Fish did at Arizona in
year two there where they went from being doormats to competitive,
very competitive, and then you know, and then what the

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next year you're eleven and two. This is what Mississippi
State feels like. They might not go eleven and two,
but maybe a nine to three for next year. You
get the right players in, you could have some you know,
some good things going now. The volunteers, the cardiac balls

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is what I'll call it. They were down seven with
seven fifty nine left, Joey Aguilar twenty four for forty
for three thirty five a touchdown in two picks, and
and you know Mike Mike Matthews their wide receiver, and
Chris Brasel the second like they won versus man coverage.

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Every time they got it. It's like explosives and it
was just like what Hypel wants to do in this offense.
The issue, though, is the only well I see. I'll
say the only reason why Tennessee won its game. It
was not their offense. It was their defense. Five sacks,
eleven tackles for loss and they got two touchdowns on defense,

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then interception and then the fumble recovery for a touchdown.
That's the truth. So Tennessee I predicted they would not
make the college football playoffs and I stand on that.
Stand on that. But this defense, they're getting good. They're

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getting good, but it took some breaks to win. Let's
see what's in the chat so I can address that
before we before we fast break this thing. Somebody asked,
who's a yan yandaneer. Who's a bigger threat for Oregon,
Indiana at home or Iowa away. I'm going with Indiana

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on the road. I think it is a tough, tough
road to road to Hoe because it's the next game
they're coming off of buy in a tough game. Their
head coach, Kurt Syngetti ain't gonna be afraid. But he's
probably gonna get done like uh he did when they
went to Ohio State last year. So but they got

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playmakers at wide receiver, everything else. Adam du Boys, Washington's
d shows that they're much better than last year. Some
retired music Oregon needs a tight end next next year. No, no,
they don't. They they got one coming in out of
high school ranks. They got two there. Now Johnson is

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gonna be good. Uh number No. Number nine. He's doing
a good job up there as well. All right, the
next thing that we gotta do this is the fast
break segment, because this is the segment where hold on,
let me change this. This is the fast break segment.
This is where I talk about all the games that

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you did not watch that I watched for you. And
these are teams that nobody is talking about, but I
believe have a legitimate chance to make the College Football Playoff.
First team Notre Dame. Yes, I know that they lost twice.
One of them is to a team that I have
ranked number one last week in Miami. This is a

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good football team. They have regrouped. They won last week big.
They came to Arkansas this week fifty six to thirteen,
knocked the dog. They knocked the They knocked the Sam
Pittman out of Arkansas. They beat Arkansas so bad they
fired Sam Pittman and put Bobby Patrino back in charge.

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Think about that. That feels like a mob hit. Like
that the mob that Bobby Patrino is the second in charge.
He wants to take the boss out, so he blows
the the boss's car up and now he's like, yo,
I'm in charge for a minute. And now he's got
to find a new consulieri to beat him. But Notre

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Dame they are getting things together and it is fascinating
to watch their quarterback CJ. Stroud. Lord have mercied his
kid is good, man, This kid is good and Notre
Dame is in that. Think think about this is the
common theme for college football this year. There is ebbs

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and flows. This is what's going to happen. Georgia's in
a down right now in terms of their defense. Theyre
not what they are Next year they may be better.
You have you know, like there's there's gonna be peaks
and valleys. You just got to keep the floor of
the valley as high as possible when you hit those
valleys because everybody is gonna hit them at some point

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in time. So that's Notre Dame fifty six to thirteen
and covered to Sam Pittman Firing News as well. Vanderbilt.
They beat Utah State fifty five to thirty five. Diego
Pavia twenty six for thirty four three twenty one five
touchdowns and he was their leading rusher seventy nine yards,

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but the team overall ran for two hundred and twenty
two yards. Now this week, Vanderbilt is going to come
in my rankings much higher than they do in most
people's rankings because of their consistency. Now, this could all
get thrown in the trash in a couple weeks when
they play Alabama. But Vanderbilt believes they are a win

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away from being Bowl eligible for back to back years,
which I need to find a stat on win the
last time that that's happened. So big up to their
head coach Clark Lee. They are schematically winning, but mostly
they are winning because they have Diego Pavia and a
belief that they can. They're like, why not us? Next

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scene Georgia Tech versus Wake Forest. Georgia Tech. They're scaring me.
Thirty to twenty nine over Wake Forest. This is the
game that they should have lost Wake Forest if Wake
Forest had a better quarterback and big upstole to to
Robbie Ashford, who's been transferring around and he's finally found
a home and he's keeping his job so far, and

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he's doing a pretty good job at quarterback. But Georgia Tech,
they stole this game. This is a game that they're
still undefeated, but they are walking through the rain drops
right now. You can't keep living like this. It will
go poorly for you. Another team we need to be

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talking about that can make the college football Missouri Missouri.
They beat you Mass forty forty two to six, Like
should we be talking about Missouri though? Should we be
talking about bo Prabula. They've beating Central Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana,
South Carolina. They won twenty nine to twenty in that

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game that Leonora Sellers got hurt, but they were up
in the game at that point and then they beat
you Mass. But they got Bama in two weeks. So
if they beat Bama in two weeks, then we will
move Bama down the show to like the games in
the fast break segment, and we will move Missouri up
on the last team that we need to talk about

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BYU versus Colorado twenty four to twenty one. Damn, I
want Dian to be successful, but his clock management is
absolutely got off. It is, and I'm not even gonna
pretend I'm not gonna sugarcoat it's gotta be better. Colorado
was dominating this game and they should have won. But

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this goes to what bear Bachmeyer is and he's doing
a good job in that number forty seven jersey at
quarterback and he deserves credit for that. But you guys, though,
the takeaway from this weekend is the parody in college
football is great. For college football. We are watched. This
is the greatest time to be a college football fan

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because you don't know what is coming around the bend.
You don't know what's coming. Your team can go from
sugar to shit real fast, and shit to sugar real fast.
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