October 15, 2025 • 56 mins
College Football Week 7 live reaction with AP Top 25 fallout, Penn State firing James Franklin, and a coaching carousel set to spin like crazy. George Wrighster breaks down why “no one is safe” in 2025: Ohio State football, Oregon football, Miami Hurricanes, Alabama football, Georgia Bulldogs, Florida State football, Michigan football, Penn State football—every brand just got stress-tested. We’ll hit the shockers (Indiana over Oregon, Texas over Oklahoma, USC over Michigan), what the poll will get wrong on Sunday, and why preseason rankings are useless in the NIL/transfer portal era even as they still warp CFP strength of schedule. Then the big shocker: did Penn State panic by paying ~$49M to dump James Franklin weeks after being top-5? George explains why emotion-led firings backfire, how modern programs must adapt (staff resets, portal timing, recruiting class protection), and which openings will reshape the sport.
We run through the hottest seats and dream lists—UCLA, Virginia Tech, Oklahoma State, Stanford, Arkansas, Oregon State, with watch-listers like Florida, Wisconsin, Auburn, FSU, UNC—and candidate names fans keep asking about: Curt Cignetti, Lane Kiffin, Dabo Swinney, Marcus Freeman, Alex Golesh, Brent Key, GJ Kinne, Matt Campbell, Jedd Fisch, Clark Lea, Ryan Silverfield, even wild cards like Dan Mullen or Jon Gruden. We’ll also hit game takeaways: Indiana Hoosiers’ front seven harassing Dante Moore, Ohio State Buckeyes turning Illinois mistakes into points, Texas A&M flexing at home, USC Trojans winning with physicality, Tennessee Volunteers closing late, and why Georgia, Oklahoma, Missouri, Iowa State, and Florida State left more questions than answers. Bottom line: parity is the product—upsets travel, depth swings weekly, and the only constant is chaos. Sound off live with your top-4, your “most overrated,” and which coach you’d actually hire tomorrow.
⏱️ Chapters
00:00 — “No one is safe”: in College Football
04:00 — Oregon football, Ohio State football, Michigan Football, Texas Longhorns all at risk
08:00 — Penn State fires James Franklin: smart move or panic button?
14:30 — Coaching carousel preview: open jobs & top candidates
20:30 — Indiana stuns Oregon; lessons for CFP contenders
26:00 — Oklahoma–Texas, USC–Michigan, A&M, Tennessee, more reactions
33:30 — Why preseason rankings are broken in the portal era
38:00 — CFP stock up/down & viewer receipts
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Wow, Wow, Wow. Welcome to the College Football Show. It's
your boy, George Riester and James Franklin just got fired.
We were coming on to do the normal reaction show
on Sunday, but we had to start a little bit
early today because James Franklin got fired. So we got
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breaking news and we're gonna cover all the games right
now as well. Make sure that you like, subscribe, get notifications,
tell a friend about the show, and most importantly share,
because I am college Football's honesty broker, the man.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Who is going to tell you the truth.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Even when nobody else is willing to do it, because
most importantly, we are supposed to be telling the truth
because a lot of times people don't want to say
it because it is against them or the university, or
just it don't sit right with them. So sometimes people
have to tell it to you. I'm former NFL player,
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former college football player, college football analyst for c W,
so I was at the Oregon Indiana game yesterday. Reaction
to that on the channel already, But let's start with
this James Franklin talk because I believe that this goes
significantly deeper than the James Franklin talk, because we are
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living in an era of college football, and there are
two movies that remind me of where we are right now.
And this part, if you don't listen to any other
part of the show, this is the part that you
need to hear. And this is the part that you
need to share with your friends. We are living in
an era of college football. Two movies fully encompassed that,
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and that is the Incredibles movie. I'm talking about the
animated film, Yes, the Incredibles. As an Oregon fan, I
have lived this on both sides. The person who played
at Oregon when they were on the come up, I've
lived both sides to this, and this is exactly what
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I asked for in college football. So that's the first movie.
Do you remember who the villain is in there? His
name Syndrome, and he was mad that he was ignored.
He was ignored, he.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Was left out.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
All the cool kids around everybody gets to do everything
and he's left out. So his whole premise is I'm
going to make everybody super. So instead of just having
a couple superheroes, no, I'm gonna make everybody super. That way,
nobody is super, and that is exactly what college football
is right now everybody has a chance to be super
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And the reason why I said, I've lived this on
both sides as an Oregon guy, Oregon wasn't when I
went there in ninety nine. The jerseys had just changed.
That wasn't the coolest place in the whole world to beat.
But now, oh, it's dope. Oregon is one of the
halves in college football. You beat Oregon, that levels you up,
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whereas Oregon was beating other people trying to level them up.
So Oregon fans understood what it was like to be
in the Incredibles movie. And then the second one was
the Batman with Bane in it when he said, you
have so much, and you think it's gonna be okay
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for us to have so little, And that's exactly why
the rebellion happened. We have nil, we have the transfer
portal players were like, oh, coaches, you think it's okay
for you to have so much and us have so little.
The administrators to school everybody else. You're building new fancy
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stadiums and new fancy facilities, getting multimillion dollars thirty forty
fifty million dollar deals, and we and we ain't getting
the little peach piece of that pie. You think it's
okay for you to have so much in us to
have so little. That's exactly why the rebellion happened with
the players. And now we are at a point in
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college football. Georgia Juggernaut they're not safe anytime they step
on the field, unless they step on with an FCS opponent,
they are not safe to win the game. Oregon Ducks,
they are not safe. They're not safe against lowly a
program with a name like Indiana, because Indiana is a
top five program right now this season. Florida State, they
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damn sure ain't safe. They went two and ten last year.
They're three and three right now. They're not safe against anybody. Michigan.
Michigan ain't safe. They can be beat. Penn State. They
wasn't safe versus oh and four UCLA, Alabama wasn't safe
versus Vanderbilt. Last year, they wasn't safe versus the same
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Florida State that ain't safe.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
This year. Nobody is safe, and so that has led
to I believe.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
People being so critical of coaches and not really seeing
the big picture. This leads me to Penn State just
firing James Franklin. So James Franklin, who has amassed a
record at Penn State of one hundred and four and
forty five across twelve seasons. But the man is three
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and three this season after a number two ranking in
the preseason. But now you got fans, fire James Franklin,
Fire James Franklin, and you know what they do.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
They fire James Franklin. Now, I understand that.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Winning is important and all of these stings, but let's
dissect this whole thing. James Franklin got fired for forty
nine million dollars worth of buyout money. Plus you're gonna
have to buy out kote Nikki, Jim knows everybody else
after a terrible three weeks or one bad season. We're
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talking about the same man who just one season ago
had Penn State in the College Football Playoff.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
And won two games.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I and if you have watched this channel, I've been
a person who's been highly critical of James Franklin even
coming into this season. I told you that they were
going to disappoint. Yes, he's four and twenty one against
top ten teams. But this is a prime example. What
has happened with Penn State right now is a prime
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example of making too much out of one single game.
This is what has happened. This is Penn State's fault,
This is the media's fault. This is everybody's fault because
the reaction to that and the fallout from his team,
because they are a victim of emotions, and this is
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also a victim of people ass adapting.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
James Franklin being fired by Penn State is an.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Example of people half fast adapting to the new age
of college football. Because the old days are over, where
you lose one game and your season is over. You
are made or break broken by one season. Oh, Penn State,
Ohio State, Michigan, whoever wins that game gets to go
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to college Football Playoff. Everybody else just regular ballgame. Those
days are over. We have to divorce ourselves from that
mentality because it is over. Penn State made their entire
season about beating Oregon. Make their entire season about beating Oregon. Oh,
Oregon's a young team. They lost so much in the draft.
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It's gonna be a white out environment. They're not ready
for one hundred and eleven thousand people. Penn State is
returning Drew Isler, Nick Singleton's coming back, k Tron Allen's
coming back. We went to the portal and got wide receivers.
Our defense is good, we got Jim Knowles, we got everything.
This is our moment. Why would a game in septep one, September,
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beginning of October, why would that be your moment? Think
about that. That's an incorrect mentality. That game can't be
your moment because you can't. Even if Penn State had
beaten Oregon, like Indiana beat Illinois sixty three to ten,
what trophy would you have gotten for it? What banner
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could you put up? What national championship would you have gotten?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
The goal of college football right now is to be
playing your best football in.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
November, December, in January.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
That is it, and the best coaches and the most
successful coaches have adapted to that. Kirby Smart, Dan Lanning
a saving prior to retiring.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Even Dabo Sweeney.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Last year started out not great, ended up making the
College Football Playoff.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Think about this.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
That's what matters, not the that it doesn't matter how
much you win by It matters win a of your games,
find a way to get into the tournament. And this
is exactly why the parody in college football is exactly
why the the expansion needs to happen in the college
football playoff.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Think about this.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
I believe that Penn State has a legitimate shot to
regret this decision in firing James Franklin. Did the team
fall apart? One hundred percent? They put everything into the
Oregon game. But what would they have actually won if Oregon,
if they beat this, if they had beaten the Ducks, nothing,
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they would have got a kudos and an Ada boy
from everybody. And then as soon as they had their
bye week, and you know, Miami runs Florida State out
of the building, then all of a sudden, or Ohio
State goes to Washington and win. Now, all of a
sudden they might be the better team. Then doesn't matter.
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Win your games and don't let your team fall apart.
And James Franklin, I know he's been there twelve years,
but he could have had the opportunity to fire Cote
NICKI fire Jim Knowles after the season, and maybe he
should have done it.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
During the season.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
After this game, but you got every the administration found
a way they wanted a way out, and they did
a knee jerk reaction that they might turn out to regret.
And mind you, I'm a person who has been critical
of James Franklin, but this don't make a lot of sense.
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First of all, financially forty nine million dollars, you're probably
gonna be up near sixty something once you get rid
of all the assistants as well. And remember, James Franklin
is the same guy that has leveled your program up,
leveled it up after it was in ruins and in ashes.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
And has he given you a national championship? No? Has
there been disappointment? No? But I always tell.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
If there are two rules to fire in the coach
Number one, is there a coach that you can guarantee
get that will do a better job than the one
that you have right right now? Is that a guarantee?
Think about that, who's available guarantee do a better job?
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And then the second criteria is is there a loss
of hope? Can you go into the houses of seventeen
to twenty two year olds between the high school recruiting
and a transfer portal and sell them on the fact
the future is brighter than the past.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah, there was probably a little bit of a loss of.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Hope, but not a full meltdown of the loss of hope,
because I want to bring everybody back down to reality
right now. And you guys make sure that you like, share, subscribe,
tell a friend about it. You do not want to
miss this conversation because people have fully mustn't misunderstood what
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is going on right now. We have UCLA, Penn State,
Virginia Tech, Oklahoma State, Stanford, Arkansas, Oregon State, all jobs
that are open right this second. And then you might
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have Florida might be open, the Florida Gators, Wisconsin at
Luke Fickle, he might be up out of there the
way I will ran them up out of here this
last week. Auburn could be out of there. Their offense
looks Futrid defense looks good. Florida State they might be
in a similar situation except for one guy went two
and ten last year and this year don't look that great.
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Nevada might be looking for a new head coach UAB North.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Carolina with Bill Belichick. And you know what they all want.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
They all want to proven head coach and somebody who
wants to allegedly stay at their university. So there are
all so all of those jobs that are open and
maybe open. Everybody wants those jobs right so where are
they gonna get these proven head coaches from. We just
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saw an On three thing come out about.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Who were the candidates for this man's job.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Kirk Cignetti who just won at Indiana over Oregon, and
then you got me that Rule at Nebraska. Those were
the two names for the Penn State job. I sent
a text out that said, Kurt Senghetti's making nine million
dollars at Indiana, Matt Rule is well paid. Two they're
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both winning programs headed in the right direction. There's no
way are they serious lead possibly taking these jobs?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
And this is from somebody super in the.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Note one word yes, I was like, wow, wow, I
was for real, absolutely, so you might have Indiana lose
their head coat.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
I just want you to see the fallout that is
about to happen in college football. If Matt Rule or
Kurt Cignaty take that job, Indiana then needs a new
head coach or Nebraska needs a new head coach. So
then how do you back feel there? And remember all
them other jobs are open UCLA, Virginia Tech, Oklahoma State, Stanford,
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who's got a bunch of money now, Arkansas, Oregon State,
as well as then in Florida, Wisconsin, Auburn in Florida
State come available to Who are they gonna be trying
to get kurse signatty Matt Rule, J G. Kenny from
Texas State, Marcus Freeman from Notre Dame, Alex Golis from
US LF brick Key from Georgia Tech, Dabosweeney. If Clinton
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don't want him, one of these schools will want them.
Maybe Lane Kipping will be be willing to leave old
mess and go to Florida. Maybe Dan Mullen, who just
told me in an interview earlier this year he's committed
to staying at UNLV. What if he gets an SEC
What if they offer him the Florida job again, he
really gonna turn that down.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
How About Jed.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Fish at Washington maybe to link to the UCLA job.
Clark leet Vanderbilt, who cares if it's his alma mater.
Maybe he'll do exactly what James Franklin did and go
up to Penn State.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Maybe Ryan Silverfield over at Memphis, Oh.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Or maybe the great John Gruton, a head coach and
who I've said is the next failed former NFL coach
who to be a college football coach. Or maybe Matt
Campbell you're steal Matt Campbell from Iowa State, So then
what do you got?
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Then you gotta backfill all those jobs.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
So then coordinators are gonna get them lower level guys
of my.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Son's coach over at UC Davis tim Plow, he's.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Gonna get job opportunities now all Now, my kids impacted.
Everybody's impacted because you don't have no patience. And you
know what else is gonna happen. Everybody that wants to
fire their head coaches every time at the sign of
trouble with these ginormous buyouts. What's going to happen is
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eventually you are going to run out of money because
money can't be the only way to solve your problems.
Kurt Sengetti Signetti is not using only money to solve
his problems at Indiana. He is recruiting well, he is
developing well. He has put in a system that works
extremely well for the players that he has.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
That's what has.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Happened, and fans and I know that it is uncomfortable,
but we have to get to a point where we
are understanding that this is a new era in college football.
Parody is real. Everybody can't go nine and three every year,
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especially now that we're going to nine conference games in
the SEC and the ACC. And if you're really being honest,
deep down in your soul, this is what you prayed for.
This is what you wanted. Unless you were in an
Ohio state or an Alabama fan, what is going on
in college football right now is exactly what you prayed for,
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which was what we get on this television right here,
is in.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
The NFL, which is you got the Bengals.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Playing the Packers right now, and the Bengals are two
and three, Packers are two to one and one, and
you don't know who's going to win the game before
the game starts. That's what you really want, and that's
what we are getting in college football, and it is great.
It makes the game so much more interesting because now
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on Saturdays, a game like uh not this past weekend,
but the weekend before where it looked like a bunch
of throwaway games. Upset City, Baby, that's what television ratings want,
the companies wanted, everybody wants it. It will make it
better for everybody. And this is exactly why I despise
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any idea of private equity money coming in and also
uneven revenue sharing, because uneven revenue sharing is going to
roll this back to the old days, and we don't
want that. Because there has never been a lower, you know,
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threshold or lower margins between a five star player and
a three star player than what we have going on
right now in college football. And the depth is less
because players are willing less willing to sit on the
bench at different places. They're less willing to sit on
the bench. They're like, why the hell would I sit
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on the bench at Georgia when I can be a starter,
when I can go to.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
UCLA and play now, Or.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
If I can go to you know, Oklahoma State because
they're gonna have a new coach, a new situation, I
can go there and play now. So now you lose
a lot of your depth. And as soon as you
have injuries, somebody's not as good as you think that
they were. Now all of a sudden, you are a
mortal team. And there is not a team in college
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football right now that cannot be be.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
All right. So the expectations that fans.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Have are so unrealistic at this point, so unrealistic at
this at this point, do you think that that Penn
State is gonna make the College football Playoffs every single year.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
No is Oregon gonna make it every single year.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
No Georgia, no Alabama, no them days is over found
Ohio State.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Nope.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
They're on a good run right now. But eventually it's
all gonna turn. One of these years, Missouri is gonna
get in and they're gonna be playing in the final
versus versus you know, Clemson and win. It's gonna be Washington.
Washington has been in the National champion Championship, but it's
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gonna be you know, an old miss versus It's gonna
be old miss versus Michigan State. One year it can
be like, what this is the greatness that we need?
You need the powers to be good still because the
brands matter. But right now the brands matter way less
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because we are in an era of college football where
it is not about how good you were, or how
good your brand was, or how many championships that you
have won in the past. It is like the book
the forty eight Loud Laws of Power. Don't appeal to
me from the past. Oh man, remember I did that
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for you thirty years ago. And that's USC fan thinking, Man,
we're USC. We have thirty eight national championships. The most
heids a man. You just saw videos of kids in
college right now. They can't even spot my boy, Reggie Bush.
They ain't even one hundred percent that ah man, he
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looks familiar. Do not appeal to people from the past.
Appeal to them what you can do for them for
the future. That's why Kurts Signetti is winning at Indiana,
That's why Dan Lanning is winning at Oregon. They not
worried about the past. The past don't matter. Yes, there's
still some shine on you from your logos past, but
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your logos can't go out and win no more.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Just saying.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
A prime example is what we had this weekend. What
was the biggest college football game this weekend, Indiana Oregon.
All eyes were on that game. What would normally have
been the biggest game the Red River Roval Reed Oklahoma
versus Texas. That normally would have been sucked all the oxygen.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Out of the room.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
But College Game Day was in Eugene. All the eyes
were in Eugene, and that's what we got.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Think of this. Number three Oregon lost this weekend.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Number six Oklahoma number but yeah, and they lost to
an unranked team in Texas. A number fourteen Missouri lost.
They lost to a ranked team in Alabama. Number fifteen
Michigan lost USC unranked. Number seventeen loss Illinois, but they
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lost to number one Ohio State, So that's difference. Somebody
had to lose. Number twenty two Iowa State lost to
Colorado unranked, and number twenty five Florida State lost to
an unranked pit This is what we wanted in college football.
And if you don't think that this is great, I
don't know what to tell you. You guys hop in the comments.
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Tell me if you believe that this is not the
greatest era of college football. But one thing I want
coaches to do, and this is where I'm going to
start the games. I'm gonna start with this Michigan versus
USC game because it is even with the coaching thing.
And this is sharone more because USC won this game
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thirty one to thirteen, I believeue. And this was a
game where people expected Michigan to come out and beat UCLA,
be more physical and everything in between. But what did
Sharone Moore do all week? And mind you, he's been
a guy who's been humble.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
You know, he talks a little little bit but he.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Got to a hey, telling this team, Hey, y'all hey,
and then to the media because it's different what you
say things behind closed doors versus outfront. Hey, y'all know
why the coliseum has sold out this weekend? It sold
out because of us, because it's similar to what Oregon's
Dan Lanning said when they went to the white out
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at Penn State. But that ain't been But that's been
Dan Lanny's m O the whole time. Kurt Sengetti's been
talking greasey since he got to Indiana, and when he
was at James Madison, Jerome Moore ain't been that greasy talker.
So is this really who Charome Moore is at Michigan
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as a person in terms of his because if that's
who he is, keep it up. But we hadn't seen
that side of him. And he got to talking all
bit before this game, and I wondered, I was like,
hold up, is this because he's seeing the attention and
everything that it's bringing Indiana's head coach Kurtsey Signetti and
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Dan Lanning, and he's like, we need to generate some
juice around Michigan or is this who he is that's
a legitimate question. All right, so in this game USC,
I did, USC was favored by two and a half points.
I did not expect USC to win this football game
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in this fashion.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
I thought that there was a path to.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Them winning in terms of them being able to force
Michigan into passing situations. And that's what they were able
to do. And I thought Michigan would be the more
physical team. Now, granted they did lose their running back
Justice Hayines, but still USC ran for two hundred and
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twenty four yards and then that backbreaking forty nine yard
touchdown run slammed the door shut with well, the twenty
nine year yard touchdown run slammed it short. But it's
Michigan's Bryce Underwood who only threw for two hundred and
seven yards two touchdowns, and he is exactly what a
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true freshman is going to be. Now, Mikey Keane have
helped them win games this year, sure, but this is
the nil era Underwood was gonna play because he's a
talented player and Michigan, even though they're fans, I could
not understand why people had Michigan as a legitimate contender
in the Big Ten this year. I was like, what
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are you looking at they got a true freshman quarterback.
We haven't seen no true freshmen win anything since, like
Trevor Lawrence, but he didn't even start the year as
the starter. And then we got to go all the
way back to Jamil Holloway with Oklahoma, the last time
a true freshman won a national championship. It's just the reality.
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And Michigan is still a factor. They're still a good team,
but this offensive line and the run game and the defense,
they are nowhere near what I thought they would be
in terms of physicality. But also too that I must
also think about the possibility that maybe USC is better
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than we thought they were. Maybe things have changed for
real on some level over at USC now. Granted Illinois
pushed him around, so I think that both things are true.
That I see is better than we thought they were.
They are a top twenty five team, believe that. But
at the same time, they are not a team that
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is national championship worthy. Are at the next game that
we gotta talk about. We gotta talk about this Oregon
Indiana game. I was at this football game and I
knew something was weird, and I put up a reaction
video to it late last night when I got back home,
so you guys can go on the channel and watch
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the full thing. It's long, so you can we get
deep in the woods. I believe, I still believe that
Oregon is a better football team.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
But I also believe.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
At the same time that Indiana if you, if you
do not bring your A game, which is what I said,
if Oregon don't bring their A game, they will lose
this football game. They did not bring their A game,
partly because Indiana took them out of their A game.
They had simulated blitzes. Dante more got confused, didn't know
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where the balls ship should be going. It's wide open.
People on tape. There are throws available. They didn't do it.
I didn't think, but Dan Lanning said it best in
the post game. He said his team's plan was not good.
They needed, as coaches needed to prepare the team better.
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I won one hundred percent agree with that. Will Stein
did not have his best day. But the good news
is I'm still encouraged by Oregon's defense. Still encouraged by
because they were what five for Indiana was like five
for fourteen, well really five for thirteen on third down
because they had the last one where they took a knee,
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so that that doesn't count at all. So that's a
big deal, a very very big deal. And this was
the biggest game of the weekend. And it was funny
because somebody tweeted me and they said, oh, this is
a horrible loss for Oregon to Indiana. You lost to Indiana.
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You are right, you are one hundred percent right. If
you just look at the name Indiana, that is a
horrendous loss. But this, if you go back, I told
you this a new era of college football. Indian what
Indiana's history is in terms of their their logo, awful loss,
what Indiana actually is in twenty twenty five, that loss
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ain't gonna ain't gonna hurt you because they're one of
the best teams in college football. They are well coached,
they are very physical, and they execute on offense.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
That's it. They're not doing anything flashy.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
They're not doing anything exotic on the offensive side. They
are efficient, efficient, efficient. They earned their lesson from last
year when they played against Ohio State.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
This ain't that.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
And yes, Oregon does have some things to do on offense.
They gotta clean it up. They gotta get Dante Moore's
confidence back. Up when they go to Rutgers this week.
These things matter, and we're at a point where you
could say that Oregon is at the same point that
Penn State was this last week, well two weeks ago
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when they went to UCLA. Yeah, you lost a big game,
But now what are you gonna do. Are you gonna
go out to Rutgers and have a first half like
Washington had against them, or what like Washington had against
Maryland where you're down twenty to zero in the third quarter.
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You gotta come back and win or do you regroup,
you go to the doctor and you get it fixed.
This is where we are and this is why coaches
are going to be paid the big bucks. This is
where they thrive. This is where coach. This is where
your head coach has to be excellent. Your head coach
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has to be excellent in this part of the game.
He has to be the guy that can galvanize the team,
that he can grow the team and make.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Sure that they are ready.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Just tell me mentally, physically, emotion you guys, make sure
that you swipe up, share this with a friend, like it, subscribe.
All of those things are at the next game that
we have to talk about we got to talk about
the game that would have been the biggest game of
this weekend, which is Texas versus Yeah, which is Texas
versus Oklahoma the Red River Robbery. Now, all the story
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about this was about the quarterbacks. This was about arch Manning,
how bad he was failing, and whether John Mattier was
gonna play Oklahoma's defense and everything else. John Mattier with
the Chippotele guy. I'm gonna tell you this, John Matteer
played in this football game through three interceptions. John Matteer
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should not have played in this football game.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
He was rusty.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Maybe Oklahoma would have had a better chance had Hawkins play,
but Oklahoma got demolished with Hawkins in this game as
a true freshman last year.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
But he was a true freshman.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Last year and he played well last week in Johnmeteer's absence.
So that's the question that you have to ask yourself.
Texas football won this game. With small ball baseball, baseball
playoffs are going on right right now. You know, some
teams they hit a lot of home runs and some
of them they got a bunt.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
They gotta do all the.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Little things to make sure that they are staying in
football games.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
That's it. This is the Texas played small ball baseball.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Arch manny two twenty one for twenty seven only one
hundred and sixty six yards in a touchdown, like he
was steady. But the real story in this game was
Ryan Niblett's seventy five yard punk return touchdown.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
And then the.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Defense that only held that well, that held Oklahoma the
only two hundred and fifty eight yards with three interceptions.
This Texas defense did to Oklahoma exactly what Oklahoma did
to Auburn. Pass rush was absolutely dominant, and then they
leaned on Trey Wisner as well. Twenty two carries for
ninety four yards. That's what they did. But now what's
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up next for these that there's no layups coming? Oklahoma's
got South Carolina Old Miss. Yeah, they got South Carolina
Old Miss, and then Tennessee coming up. Texas has Kentucky,
Mississippi State, and Vanderbilt. Oh that must be nice to
be Texas. Texas is back ranked in the AP pole.
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I still believe that this is an overrated football team,
but you know, so be it, so be it, and
that's where we are.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
So with that game, and I believe.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
That Texas because of their name brand and their recruiting
rankings and everything. This went over Oklahoma vaults them back
up into the top twenty five, and they have a
legitimate chance with their schedule to make the college football playoffs.
So you can listen, regard right, wrong, or indifferent. These
are the facts, and this is why people are unhappy
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with the Texas schedule. All right, let me get to
you guys. It's comments right quick, because y'all been over
there beating them up.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
So good stuff. Oh, Hugh O'Brien.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
These preseason rankings are a big problem that could contribute
to these situations with the coaches.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
You are one hundred percent right. Fan expectation goes crazy.
It's hope season and it said it's interesting. Op. Well, okay,
so we get our false start. Oh oh.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
They were talking to each other about the Oregon game.
Has some people going back and forth in the comments.
So if you guys have any questions stuff that you
want me to address, drop it in the comments.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
All right.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
The next game that we gotta go to. Next game
that we gotta go to is oh is the other
big game from this weekend. We had Ohio State Illinois.
Now Ohio State came into this game of fourteen and
a half point favorite, and everybody thought that they were
going to get there, that Illinois was gonna get their
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doors blown off. But I'm gonna tell you this. The
thing about this game was is that if you are
a team and Ohio State ended up winning this game
thirty four to sixteen, you can have the perfect game,
but you cannot play for mistakes. You can't plan for mistakes.
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Third and seven. Here's a sequence for Illinois. They were down,
they were down ten zero at this point in time,
had the ball around midfield. It is third and seven.
Incomplete pass. Okay, so what you're gonna flip? Flip the field?
Who cares low snap on the punt, Punter picks it up.
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Punter's knee is on the ground when he picks the
ball up, So ball's dead right there. Ohio State gets
a short field, you hold him to a field goal.
It's thirteen to zero. And then the first play you
get the ball back Illinois Valentine fumbles the football. Now
super short field. You're down twenty to nothing middle of
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the second quarter. But after that, Illinois absolutely outplayed Ohio State.
So I know that everybody is over here talking about
Ohio State is unbeatable.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
That is not true.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
This team is vulnerable as well, despite how good their
defense is, because the Buckeyes turned the three aligned night
giveaways into twenty one points.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
Because some of them weren't even forced.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Yes, a fumble technically is fourth st You gotta hold
on to the damn football. But I will tell you
that they do have championship profile. They create short fields,
cash in on them, and then Julian Saying was efficient
nineteen for twenty seven, one hundred and sixty six yards,
two touchdowns.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
CJ.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Donaldson added some scores as well. So Ohio State might
be mortal, especially if you cannot turn the ball over
just saying the next game. But I will say this,
when people were sleeping when I said that Illinois was
going to be a ten win team this season, I
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still stand by that.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
I still feel really good about that.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
For Yeah, for Illinois, they got Washington, Rutgers, and then Maryland.
All of those games they can win. That Washington win
is gonna be tough, tough though. Rutgers in Maryland, I
expect them to win those games. Ohio State at Wisconsin
and then they play Penn State and at Purdue and
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I believe that Penn State game for Ohio State just
got even more dangerous if Ohio State can get some
competency at quarterback, just got a lot more dangerous, just
like UCLA got more dangerous once Deshaun Foster was let
go and then they let go to oc they let
Jerry new Heisl and Tim Skipper loose. So a wounded
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dog is way more dangerous than a than of dog
who was full. All right, now, I want to talk
about one of the worst things I saw this week,
one of the worst things I saw this week, and
this came from a championship head coach. This came from
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mister Nick Saban. Mister Nick Saban, you were over here
doing the You were not doing the Lord's work when
you did this on the Pat McAfee show.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Did when he sat up there and.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Regurgitated the talking points about the SEC and the Big Ten,
Let's have an honest conversation here, because what Nick Saban
actually said was he was like, Hey, there's no days
off in the SEC. Anybody can beat anybody. What isn't
that exactly what happened with PennState getting beat by UCLA.
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Isn't that what happened with Indiana beating the organ. Those
same things are true. The difference is is that the
SEC just doesn't have any elite teams right now. Find
me an elite team in the SEC. I don't think
there are any. Remember when it was the PAC twelve,
they'd be like, oh, the PAC twelve, they played their
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way out of a championship. They played third way out
of the playoff. Well, how come the SEC ain't playing
their way out of the playoff? Well, George, how about
South Carolina schedule? Yeah, it's rough, it's rough, hard out
here in the streets. Maybe Texas should have that schedule.
That's what you should be complaining about with the SEC
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with that part of the schedule. Look at Wisconsin schedule.
Murderers wrote on the back end, they gotta play Indiana,
they gotta play Oregon, they gotta play all sorts of teams,
top five, top ten teams. Come on, man, it is
scheduled roulette. Sometimes you get the good end, sometimes you get.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
The bad end.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
And the SEC is a very good conference. But this
ain't the old days. This is not the old days.
Find me elite teams in there, like Ohio State, Oregon,
in Indiana, just saying all right. So that was the
worst thing that I saw this last week. Now, I
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want to talk about this Alabama versus Missouri game. Alabama
twenty seven, Missouri twenty four. The difference maker in this
game was Kaylen de Boer and Kayln de Boor, who
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has been under fire from Alabama fans acting like he's
a bum. He's this, he's act well, he's going out
and winning a lot of football games right now.
Speaker 2 (42:52):
He is being bold.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
He is not worried about what everybody else is talking about.
He is doing a great job just telling you and
and he has his team winning. He would three for
three on fourth downs. And remember everybody wanted ty Simpson
bench in the first game. Well, you know he's out
there playing extremely well and ty Sampson ty Simpson has
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command two hundred yards three touchdowns in the game, key moments.
And then Alabama's defense went one and made Missouri go
one in ten on third downs and they got a
late interception that closed the door. And it was funny
because all the Penn State people after they lost, they
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were yelling, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
Both Prabula bo brah Bula, well both pra Bula.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
He played Okay, he's at his moments, but this I
feel like is a coaching thing over a player thing.
When it came to Penn Penn State, I predicted before
this season that Alabama would not make the college football playoffs.
And the question is will they make the college football playoff?
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They still have South Carolina, which I do not believe
can beat them. If South Carolina puts up a lot
of points on Alabama, you know that Alabama's defense, ain't it.
Then they still got LSU, who get They got a
bunch of teams that can't score right right now? They
got South Carolina, LSU, Then they play Oklahoma, who's gonna
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be able to score? Eastern Illinois and then they play
auberd So they got three teams on the schedule. Oh
excuse me. And then then they have Tennessee. This Tennessee
game is gonna be a fight. I'm gonna pick. I'm
telling you, I'm picking Tennessee to win this game already
before we even get to the matchups, South Carolina, LSU,
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and Auborn.
Speaker 2 (44:46):
None of them fools can score. Their their offenses will
make your eyes bleed.
Speaker 1 (44:51):
And we thought that this was the year potentially that
Missouri and Eli Drinkowitz. Oh I forgot to mention his
name in some of these coaching care sales too. They
still got Bandy Tech saying them, which I believe that
they're gonna mess around an upset Tech saying M. And
they got Oklahoma as well. It's a mess. This is
why the SEC needed to go to nine conference games
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because you got all sorts of tie record scenarios that.
Speaker 2 (45:16):
Are going on here.
Speaker 1 (45:19):
And when it comes to these losses with this era
of college football, that actually might be the best thing
for you. Ohio State just proved that you can propel
your team to a national championship after losing a game.
And those are the things that matter because if you
want to win a national championship, you have to have
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good players, you have to have great coaching as well.
All Right, the next game and we had to talk
about we got to talk about this Florida Tech say
and M game. Now, we're not gonna spend a whole
lot of time on Florida because this is a team
that it doesn't look like they're going anywhere fast right now.
The offense, it is disjointed, and this is very similar
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to what we have seen out of their their head coach,
Billy Napier. Since he's been there, there has been a
level of inconsistency from this team. They are now what
two and four on the season, with their only wins
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being against Texas and Long Island, and people are what
and then they play Mississippi State there often, then they
play Georgia. So now you're sitting here wondering, Okay, what's
going to happen with this football team? Is Billy Napier
going to survive? Or is Florida gonna be added to
that list of names where jobs are open? So this
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team can't score a lot of points. They only scored
seventeen versus TEXA and M, who has a propensity to
give up points as well. But this Texas A and team,
they have to mind you. They have been a heavily
penalized team and now they are not for the last.
Speaker 2 (47:09):
Couple of couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (47:11):
But everything that I have told you about this Texas
A and M team is true. They must run the
football at a high level and if you make Marcel
Reid throw the football, this is not a team that
can beat you. This Texa A and M team is
getting very, very fortunate. They look like a top five team,
and they're gonna stay highly ranked because they play Arkansas, LSU, Missouri,
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South Carolina, and Texas. So they're gonna stay highly ranked
even if they drop two or three of these games.
But that's just the reality. They're probably gonna end up
right on the outside of the college football playoff or
if they can win one of them games, if they
can beat LSU or Texas or Missouri, win win one
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of those and you're probably in the college football playoffs,
like or you know, you're kind of a shoe in
at that point in time. All right, a next game up.
We got Georgia at Auburn. There are some few points
to this that I want to bring up, and the
first of which is.
Speaker 2 (48:16):
The SEC officials. They are going to.
Speaker 1 (48:19):
Give Auburn another two apologies after this game.
Speaker 2 (48:23):
Number one, Jackson Arnolds.
Speaker 1 (48:26):
Scored on that push push quarterback sneak where the ball
got punched out and then they gave them the turnover.
Speaker 2 (48:32):
First thing.
Speaker 1 (48:33):
Second thing is Kirby Smart was absolutely calling timeout. Didn't
have to use the timeout. And at this point it
is comedy hour and it is a travesty against Auburn.
You are gonna mess around and get Hugh Freeze fired
because of that. But if Hugh Freeze was gonna be fired,
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it should be the fact that he has not found
Like last year, they blamed the quarterback for everything when
they could pass the ball. Now Auburn had Georgia looking
like the eighty five Bears in the second half yesterday.
Aarburn is the get right game for everybody's defense because
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they can't score on you, because the quarterback, for whatever
reason you can call it coaching, you can call what,
he cannot throw the football at a high level.
Speaker 2 (49:28):
Think about this.
Speaker 1 (49:31):
Auburn on this season, well on this in their three
conference games in the SEC, thirty seven point score thirty seven,
that is thirteen points per well, twelve points per game,
essentially barely over twelve. They've only allowed sixty So the
defense is playing pretty well, but they've only scored thirty
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seven points. There is not an SEC team, not even Texas,
not even Mississippi State has and Mississippi State's only played
two SEC games has scored less points. This Auburn offense
is gross. Even Kentucky is better than that.
Speaker 2 (50:10):
It's awful.
Speaker 1 (50:11):
But this Georgia team, I want to applaud Kirby smart
because this is where you know good coaching comes from.
He is a guy who has found a way to
win football games. This Georgia team is like Kansas City
Chiefs last year. They didn't win the Super Bowl, but
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they won all the games. Why because their team knows
how to win in crucial situations.
Speaker 2 (50:39):
They know how.
Speaker 1 (50:40):
To execute, not make mistakes in the big moments. That's
how they win so many football games. Guess they lost
the Alabama, but this is how they beat all the
rest of the teams. Great coaching, great belief, and just
finding a way not to make more mistakes than the
other team. All right, let's look at this South Carolina
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versus ill LSU game. This is how bad South Carolina's
offense is.
Speaker 2 (51:14):
LSU gave them three turnovers, including two at the.
Speaker 1 (51:17):
Goal line, and they could still only manage ten points. Now,
I know the LSU's defense is pretty good, but the
South Carolina's supposed to have Lenori Sellers and how disappointing
have the quarterbacks who were built coming into this season
as potential first overall picks. How have they been Lenori Sellers? Yeah,
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stay in stay in school, kid, you got Drew Isler
up at Penn State. Now, I'm not saying it's all
the players, because obviously coaching factors into this as well.
Kay Klubnick, you got the four or five of the
Sawyer down there at Baylor.
Speaker 2 (51:59):
Oh, none of those dudes.
Speaker 1 (52:01):
Haven't all of these college football quarterbacks need to stay
in school at this point in time, Baseball, Garrett Nusmart
Baseball on what we have seen.
Speaker 2 (52:10):
It ain't it. It ain't it South Carolina's offense. Ain't it?
Speaker 1 (52:15):
This is I cannot believe I foolishly picked them to
make the college football playoff.
Speaker 2 (52:19):
I feel, but this is the area that we live living.
It is impossible.
Speaker 1 (52:25):
South Carolina is on the verge of not making a
bowl game at this point in time.
Speaker 2 (52:28):
They are three and three.
Speaker 1 (52:32):
They got Oklahoma, Alabama, and Old Miss in a row,
and they gotta get at least at least two of
those games because they're gonna get a game with Coastal
so that that's four wins. So they still got Oklahoma, Alabama,
Old Mess text saying them and Clemson left and they
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gotta get two of them games to get to a
bowl game. All right, it ain't looking pretty. So all
of that shamee Beam with a Virginia Tech talk. Either
it's real or you know there's something going on. Now
we're gonna talk about the teams that we need to
start talking about, because there's a bunch of teams that
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we need to start talking about. You had Utah beat
Arizona State forty two to ten. There's some reason to
start talking about Utah again with Devin Dampier and everything else.
But Sam Levitt did not play in.
Speaker 2 (53:33):
This football game.
Speaker 1 (53:35):
I believe that that there's something going on there because
he went from probable to out in one day.
Speaker 2 (53:43):
So something's going on.
Speaker 1 (53:45):
This feels like Utah level of of if there were
injury reports with Cam Rising, this is the kind of
thing that would have happened every single week. He would
have been probable every single week. And so something's going
on with Arizona State. Arizona State fans, don't y'all come
crying about Kenny Dillingham, And I don't believe that they will,
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because this is the nature of college football that we
live in. You're going to have ebbs and flows with
your team. Just the reality we need to start giving
BYU little bit of love. We gotta start get who
beat Arizona thirty three to twenty seven. We gotta start
giving some love to Tennessee and paying attention to them.
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They defenses buns, super buns. But this is a good
football team and are they special? No, but they're not
gonna make the college football playoff again, which I told
everybody in the preseason.
Speaker 2 (54:41):
But this matters.
Speaker 1 (54:44):
Look at the bump that Arkansas got after firing Sam Pittman.
This is why I told you that Penn State might
be dangerous to Ohio State. But people don't want to listen.
So they beat Arkansas forty thirty four to thirty one.
Another team we got to talk about, Notre Dame scorched
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in c State. Nobody watched this game. It was thirty
six to seven. Everybody's gonna be watching this USC game
this week, so we gotta break that down so that'll
be on the show on the show tomorrow. Can't wait
to talk about that. One Old Miss barely beat Washington
State twenty four to twenty one. Think about this. Old
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Miss is starting a D two quarterback in Trinidad. Chambers
head quarterback and this would have been his Super Bowl
last year playing against all them. North Dakota State players
at Washington State. I do not know what Old Miss
is yet, but I don't fully believe in them. But
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they got Georgia, Oklahoma and South Carolina next, so we
go see what they really talking about at that point
point in time. And the last thing I want to
tell y'all is I told y'all so. I told y'all
so with Florida State. I told you so about Florida State.
I told you that they were the biggest froust in
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college football, the most overrated team in college football.
Speaker 2 (56:14):
Proved it.
Speaker 1 (56:17):
Lost again. But anyways, though you guys, I'm George Reister.
This is George Reister's College Football Show. We got much
more coming up this week, so make sure that you
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Speaker 2 (56:35):
Peace out.
Wow, Wow, Wow. Welcome to the College Football Show. It's
your boy, George Riester and James Franklin just got fired.
We were coming on to do the normal reaction show
on Sunday, but we had to start a little bit
early today because James Franklin got fired. So we got
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breaking news and we're gonna cover all the games right
now as well. Make sure that you like, subscribe, get notifications,
tell a friend about the show, and most importantly share,
because I am college Football's honesty broker, the man.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Who is going to tell you the truth.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Even when nobody else is willing to do it, because
most importantly, we are supposed to be telling the truth
because a lot of times people don't want to say
it because it is against them or the university, or
just it don't sit right with them. So sometimes people
have to tell it to you. I'm former NFL player,
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former college football player, college football analyst for c W,
so I was at the Oregon Indiana game yesterday. Reaction
to that on the channel already, But let's start with
this James Franklin talk because I believe that this goes
significantly deeper than the James Franklin talk, because we are
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living in an era of college football, and there are
two movies that remind me of where we are right now.
And this part, if you don't listen to any other
part of the show, this is the part that you
need to hear. And this is the part that you
need to share with your friends. We are living in
an era of college football. Two movies fully encompassed that,
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and that is the Incredibles movie. I'm talking about the
animated film, Yes, the Incredibles. As an Oregon fan, I
have lived this on both sides. The person who played
at Oregon when they were on the come up, I've
lived both sides to this, and this is exactly what
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I asked for in college football. So that's the first movie.
Do you remember who the villain is in there? His
name Syndrome, and he was mad that he was ignored.
He was ignored, he.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Was left out.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
All the cool kids around everybody gets to do everything
and he's left out. So his whole premise is I'm
going to make everybody super. So instead of just having
a couple superheroes, no, I'm gonna make everybody super. That way,
nobody is super, and that is exactly what college football
is right now everybody has a chance to be super
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And the reason why I said, I've lived this on
both sides as an Oregon guy, Oregon wasn't when I
went there in ninety nine. The jerseys had just changed.
That wasn't the coolest place in the whole world to beat.
But now, oh, it's dope. Oregon is one of the
halves in college football. You beat Oregon, that levels you up,
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whereas Oregon was beating other people trying to level them up.
So Oregon fans understood what it was like to be
in the Incredibles movie. And then the second one was
the Batman with Bane in it when he said, you
have so much, and you think it's gonna be okay
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for us to have so little, And that's exactly why
the rebellion happened. We have nil, we have the transfer
portal players were like, oh, coaches, you think it's okay
for you to have so much and us have so little.
The administrators to school everybody else. You're building new fancy
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stadiums and new fancy facilities, getting multimillion dollars thirty forty
fifty million dollar deals, and we and we ain't getting
the little peach piece of that pie. You think it's
okay for you to have so much in us to
have so little. That's exactly why the rebellion happened with
the players. And now we are at a point in
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college football. Georgia Juggernaut they're not safe anytime they step
on the field, unless they step on with an FCS opponent,
they are not safe to win the game. Oregon Ducks,
they are not safe. They're not safe against lowly a
program with a name like Indiana, because Indiana is a
top five program right now this season. Florida State, they
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damn sure ain't safe. They went two and ten last year.
They're three and three right now. They're not safe against anybody. Michigan.
Michigan ain't safe. They can be beat. Penn State. They
wasn't safe versus oh and four UCLA, Alabama wasn't safe
versus Vanderbilt. Last year, they wasn't safe versus the same
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Florida State that ain't safe.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
This year. Nobody is safe, and so that has led
to I believe.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
People being so critical of coaches and not really seeing
the big picture. This leads me to Penn State just
firing James Franklin. So James Franklin, who has amassed a
record at Penn State of one hundred and four and
forty five across twelve seasons. But the man is three
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and three this season after a number two ranking in
the preseason. But now you got fans, fire James Franklin,
Fire James Franklin, and you know what they do.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
They fire James Franklin. Now, I understand that.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Winning is important and all of these stings, but let's
dissect this whole thing. James Franklin got fired for forty
nine million dollars worth of buyout money. Plus you're gonna
have to buy out kote Nikki, Jim knows everybody else
after a terrible three weeks or one bad season. We're
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talking about the same man who just one season ago
had Penn State in the College Football Playoff.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
And won two games.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I and if you have watched this channel, I've been
a person who's been highly critical of James Franklin even
coming into this season. I told you that they were
going to disappoint. Yes, he's four and twenty one against
top ten teams. But this is a prime example. What
has happened with Penn State right now is a prime
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example of making too much out of one single game.
This is what has happened. This is Penn State's fault,
This is the media's fault. This is everybody's fault because
the reaction to that and the fallout from his team,
because they are a victim of emotions, and this is
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also a victim of people ass adapting.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
James Franklin being fired by Penn State is an.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Example of people half fast adapting to the new age
of college football. Because the old days are over, where
you lose one game and your season is over. You
are made or break broken by one season. Oh, Penn State,
Ohio State, Michigan, whoever wins that game gets to go
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to college Football Playoff. Everybody else just regular ballgame. Those
days are over. We have to divorce ourselves from that
mentality because it is over. Penn State made their entire
season about beating Oregon. Make their entire season about beating Oregon. Oh,
Oregon's a young team. They lost so much in the draft.
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It's gonna be a white out environment. They're not ready
for one hundred and eleven thousand people. Penn State is
returning Drew Isler, Nick Singleton's coming back, k Tron Allen's
coming back. We went to the portal and got wide receivers.
Our defense is good, we got Jim Knowles, we got everything.
This is our moment. Why would a game in septep one, September,
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beginning of October, why would that be your moment? Think
about that. That's an incorrect mentality. That game can't be
your moment because you can't. Even if Penn State had
beaten Oregon, like Indiana beat Illinois sixty three to ten,
what trophy would you have gotten for it? What banner
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could you put up? What national championship would you have gotten?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
The goal of college football right now is to be
playing your best football in.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
November, December, in January.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
That is it, and the best coaches and the most
successful coaches have adapted to that. Kirby Smart, Dan Lanning
a saving prior to retiring.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Even Dabo Sweeney.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Last year started out not great, ended up making the
College Football Playoff.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Think about this.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
That's what matters, not the that it doesn't matter how
much you win by It matters win a of your games,
find a way to get into the tournament. And this
is exactly why the parody in college football is exactly
why the the expansion needs to happen in the college
football playoff.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Think about this.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
I believe that Penn State has a legitimate shot to
regret this decision in firing James Franklin. Did the team
fall apart? One hundred percent? They put everything into the
Oregon game. But what would they have actually won if Oregon,
if they beat this, if they had beaten the Ducks, nothing,
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they would have got a kudos and an Ada boy
from everybody. And then as soon as they had their
bye week, and you know, Miami runs Florida State out
of the building, then all of a sudden, or Ohio
State goes to Washington and win. Now, all of a
sudden they might be the better team. Then doesn't matter.
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Win your games and don't let your team fall apart.
And James Franklin, I know he's been there twelve years,
but he could have had the opportunity to fire Cote
NICKI fire Jim Knowles after the season, and maybe he
should have done it.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
During the season.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
After this game, but you got every the administration found
a way they wanted a way out, and they did
a knee jerk reaction that they might turn out to regret.
And mind you, I'm a person who has been critical
of James Franklin, but this don't make a lot of sense.
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First of all, financially forty nine million dollars, you're probably
gonna be up near sixty something once you get rid
of all the assistants as well. And remember, James Franklin
is the same guy that has leveled your program up,
leveled it up after it was in ruins and in ashes.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
And has he given you a national championship? No? Has
there been disappointment? No? But I always tell.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
If there are two rules to fire in the coach
Number one, is there a coach that you can guarantee
get that will do a better job than the one
that you have right right now? Is that a guarantee?
Think about that, who's available guarantee do a better job?
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And then the second criteria is is there a loss
of hope? Can you go into the houses of seventeen
to twenty two year olds between the high school recruiting
and a transfer portal and sell them on the fact
the future is brighter than the past.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah, there was probably a little bit of a loss of.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Hope, but not a full meltdown of the loss of hope,
because I want to bring everybody back down to reality
right now. And you guys make sure that you like, share, subscribe,
tell a friend about it. You do not want to
miss this conversation because people have fully mustn't misunderstood what
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is going on right now. We have UCLA, Penn State,
Virginia Tech, Oklahoma State, Stanford, Arkansas, Oregon State, all jobs
that are open right this second. And then you might
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have Florida might be open, the Florida Gators, Wisconsin at
Luke Fickle, he might be up out of there the
way I will ran them up out of here this
last week. Auburn could be out of there. Their offense
looks Futrid defense looks good. Florida State they might be
in a similar situation except for one guy went two
and ten last year and this year don't look that great.
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Nevada might be looking for a new head coach UAB North.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Carolina with Bill Belichick. And you know what they all want.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
They all want to proven head coach and somebody who
wants to allegedly stay at their university. So there are
all so all of those jobs that are open and
maybe open. Everybody wants those jobs right so where are
they gonna get these proven head coaches from. We just
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saw an On three thing come out about.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Who were the candidates for this man's job.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Kirk Cignetti who just won at Indiana over Oregon, and
then you got me that Rule at Nebraska. Those were
the two names for the Penn State job. I sent
a text out that said, Kurt Senghetti's making nine million
dollars at Indiana, Matt Rule is well paid. Two they're
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both winning programs headed in the right direction. There's no
way are they serious lead possibly taking these jobs?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
And this is from somebody super in the.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Note one word yes, I was like, wow, wow, I
was for real, absolutely, so you might have Indiana lose
their head coat.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
I just want you to see the fallout that is
about to happen in college football. If Matt Rule or
Kurt Cignaty take that job, Indiana then needs a new
head coach or Nebraska needs a new head coach. So
then how do you back feel there? And remember all
them other jobs are open UCLA, Virginia Tech, Oklahoma State, Stanford,
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who's got a bunch of money now, Arkansas, Oregon State,
as well as then in Florida, Wisconsin, Auburn in Florida
State come available to Who are they gonna be trying
to get kurse signatty Matt Rule, J G. Kenny from
Texas State, Marcus Freeman from Notre Dame, Alex Golis from
US LF brick Key from Georgia Tech, Dabosweeney. If Clinton
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don't want him, one of these schools will want them.
Maybe Lane Kipping will be be willing to leave old
mess and go to Florida. Maybe Dan Mullen, who just
told me in an interview earlier this year he's committed
to staying at UNLV. What if he gets an SEC
What if they offer him the Florida job again, he
really gonna turn that down.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
How About Jed.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Fish at Washington maybe to link to the UCLA job.
Clark leet Vanderbilt, who cares if it's his alma mater.
Maybe he'll do exactly what James Franklin did and go
up to Penn State.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Maybe Ryan Silverfield over at Memphis, Oh.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Or maybe the great John Gruton, a head coach and
who I've said is the next failed former NFL coach
who to be a college football coach. Or maybe Matt
Campbell you're steal Matt Campbell from Iowa State, So then
what do you got?
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Then you gotta backfill all those jobs.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
So then coordinators are gonna get them lower level guys
of my.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Son's coach over at UC Davis tim Plow, he's.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Gonna get job opportunities now all Now, my kids impacted.
Everybody's impacted because you don't have no patience. And you
know what else is gonna happen. Everybody that wants to
fire their head coaches every time at the sign of
trouble with these ginormous buyouts. What's going to happen is
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eventually you are going to run out of money because
money can't be the only way to solve your problems.
Kurt Sengetti Signetti is not using only money to solve
his problems at Indiana. He is recruiting well, he is
developing well. He has put in a system that works
extremely well for the players that he has.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
That's what has.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Happened, and fans and I know that it is uncomfortable,
but we have to get to a point where we
are understanding that this is a new era in college football.
Parody is real. Everybody can't go nine and three every year,
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especially now that we're going to nine conference games in
the SEC and the ACC. And if you're really being honest,
deep down in your soul, this is what you prayed for.
This is what you wanted. Unless you were in an
Ohio state or an Alabama fan, what is going on
in college football right now is exactly what you prayed for,
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which was what we get on this television right here,
is in.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
The NFL, which is you got the Bengals.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Playing the Packers right now, and the Bengals are two
and three, Packers are two to one and one, and
you don't know who's going to win the game before
the game starts. That's what you really want, and that's
what we are getting in college football, and it is great.
It makes the game so much more interesting because now
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on Saturdays, a game like uh not this past weekend,
but the weekend before where it looked like a bunch
of throwaway games. Upset City, Baby, that's what television ratings want,
the companies wanted, everybody wants it. It will make it
better for everybody. And this is exactly why I despise
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any idea of private equity money coming in and also
uneven revenue sharing, because uneven revenue sharing is going to
roll this back to the old days, and we don't
want that. Because there has never been a lower, you know,
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threshold or lower margins between a five star player and
a three star player than what we have going on
right now in college football. And the depth is less
because players are willing less willing to sit on the
bench at different places. They're less willing to sit on
the bench. They're like, why the hell would I sit
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on the bench at Georgia when I can be a starter,
when I can go to.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
UCLA and play now, Or.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
If I can go to you know, Oklahoma State because
they're gonna have a new coach, a new situation, I
can go there and play now. So now you lose
a lot of your depth. And as soon as you
have injuries, somebody's not as good as you think that
they were. Now all of a sudden, you are a
mortal team. And there is not a team in college
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football right now that cannot be be.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
All right. So the expectations that fans.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Have are so unrealistic at this point, so unrealistic at
this at this point, do you think that that Penn
State is gonna make the College football Playoffs every single year.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
No is Oregon gonna make it every single year.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
No Georgia, no Alabama, no them days is over found
Ohio State.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Nope.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
They're on a good run right now. But eventually it's
all gonna turn. One of these years, Missouri is gonna
get in and they're gonna be playing in the final
versus versus you know, Clemson and win. It's gonna be Washington.
Washington has been in the National champion Championship, but it's
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gonna be you know, an old miss versus It's gonna
be old miss versus Michigan State. One year it can
be like, what this is the greatness that we need?
You need the powers to be good still because the
brands matter. But right now the brands matter way less
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because we are in an era of college football where
it is not about how good you were, or how
good your brand was, or how many championships that you
have won in the past. It is like the book
the forty eight Loud Laws of Power. Don't appeal to
me from the past. Oh man, remember I did that
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for you thirty years ago. And that's USC fan thinking, Man,
we're USC. We have thirty eight national championships. The most
heids a man. You just saw videos of kids in
college right now. They can't even spot my boy, Reggie Bush.
They ain't even one hundred percent that ah man, he
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looks familiar. Do not appeal to people from the past.
Appeal to them what you can do for them for
the future. That's why Kurts Signetti is winning at Indiana,
That's why Dan Lanning is winning at Oregon. They not
worried about the past. The past don't matter. Yes, there's
still some shine on you from your logos past, but
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your logos can't go out and win no more.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Just saying.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
A prime example is what we had this weekend. What
was the biggest college football game this weekend, Indiana Oregon.
All eyes were on that game. What would normally have
been the biggest game the Red River Roval Reed Oklahoma
versus Texas. That normally would have been sucked all the oxygen.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Out of the room.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
But College Game Day was in Eugene. All the eyes
were in Eugene, and that's what we got.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Think of this. Number three Oregon lost this weekend.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Number six Oklahoma number but yeah, and they lost to
an unranked team in Texas. A number fourteen Missouri lost.
They lost to a ranked team in Alabama. Number fifteen
Michigan lost USC unranked. Number seventeen loss Illinois, but they
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lost to number one Ohio State, So that's difference. Somebody
had to lose. Number twenty two Iowa State lost to
Colorado unranked, and number twenty five Florida State lost to
an unranked pit This is what we wanted in college football.
And if you don't think that this is great, I
don't know what to tell you. You guys hop in the comments.
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Tell me if you believe that this is not the
greatest era of college football. But one thing I want
coaches to do, and this is where I'm going to
start the games. I'm gonna start with this Michigan versus
USC game because it is even with the coaching thing.
And this is sharone more because USC won this game
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thirty one to thirteen, I believeue. And this was a
game where people expected Michigan to come out and beat UCLA,
be more physical and everything in between. But what did
Sharone Moore do all week? And mind you, he's been
a guy who's been humble.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
You know, he talks a little little bit but he.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Got to a hey, telling this team, Hey, y'all hey,
and then to the media because it's different what you
say things behind closed doors versus outfront. Hey, y'all know
why the coliseum has sold out this weekend? It sold
out because of us, because it's similar to what Oregon's
Dan Lanning said when they went to the white out
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at Penn State. But that ain't been But that's been
Dan Lanny's m O the whole time. Kurt Sengetti's been
talking greasey since he got to Indiana, and when he
was at James Madison, Jerome Moore ain't been that greasy talker.
So is this really who Charome Moore is at Michigan
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as a person in terms of his because if that's
who he is, keep it up. But we hadn't seen
that side of him. And he got to talking all
bit before this game, and I wondered, I was like,
hold up, is this because he's seeing the attention and
everything that it's bringing Indiana's head coach Kurtsey Signetti and
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Dan Lanning, and he's like, we need to generate some
juice around Michigan or is this who he is that's
a legitimate question. All right, so in this game USC,
I did, USC was favored by two and a half points.
I did not expect USC to win this football game
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in this fashion.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
I thought that there was a path to.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Them winning in terms of them being able to force
Michigan into passing situations. And that's what they were able
to do. And I thought Michigan would be the more
physical team. Now, granted they did lose their running back
Justice Hayines, but still USC ran for two hundred and
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twenty four yards and then that backbreaking forty nine yard
touchdown run slammed the door shut with well, the twenty
nine year yard touchdown run slammed it short. But it's
Michigan's Bryce Underwood who only threw for two hundred and
seven yards two touchdowns, and he is exactly what a
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true freshman is going to be. Now, Mikey Keane have
helped them win games this year, sure, but this is
the nil era Underwood was gonna play because he's a
talented player and Michigan, even though they're fans, I could
not understand why people had Michigan as a legitimate contender
in the Big Ten this year. I was like, what
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are you looking at they got a true freshman quarterback.
We haven't seen no true freshmen win anything since, like
Trevor Lawrence, but he didn't even start the year as
the starter. And then we got to go all the
way back to Jamil Holloway with Oklahoma, the last time
a true freshman won a national championship. It's just the reality.
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And Michigan is still a factor. They're still a good team,
but this offensive line and the run game and the defense,
they are nowhere near what I thought they would be
in terms of physicality. But also too that I must
also think about the possibility that maybe USC is better
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than we thought they were. Maybe things have changed for
real on some level over at USC now. Granted Illinois
pushed him around, so I think that both things are true.
That I see is better than we thought they were.
They are a top twenty five team, believe that. But
at the same time, they are not a team that
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is national championship worthy. Are at the next game that
we gotta talk about. We gotta talk about this Oregon
Indiana game. I was at this football game and I
knew something was weird, and I put up a reaction
video to it late last night when I got back home,
so you guys can go on the channel and watch
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the full thing. It's long, so you can we get
deep in the woods. I believe, I still believe that
Oregon is a better football team.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
But I also believe.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
At the same time that Indiana if you, if you
do not bring your A game, which is what I said,
if Oregon don't bring their A game, they will lose
this football game. They did not bring their A game,
partly because Indiana took them out of their A game.
They had simulated blitzes. Dante more got confused, didn't know
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where the balls ship should be going. It's wide open.
People on tape. There are throws available. They didn't do it.
I didn't think, but Dan Lanning said it best in
the post game. He said his team's plan was not good.
They needed, as coaches needed to prepare the team better.
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I won one hundred percent agree with that. Will Stein
did not have his best day. But the good news
is I'm still encouraged by Oregon's defense. Still encouraged by
because they were what five for Indiana was like five
for fourteen, well really five for thirteen on third down
because they had the last one where they took a knee,
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so that that doesn't count at all. So that's a
big deal, a very very big deal. And this was
the biggest game of the weekend. And it was funny
because somebody tweeted me and they said, oh, this is
a horrible loss for Oregon to Indiana. You lost to Indiana.
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You are right, you are one hundred percent right. If
you just look at the name Indiana, that is a
horrendous loss. But this, if you go back, I told
you this a new era of college football. Indian what
Indiana's history is in terms of their their logo, awful loss,
what Indiana actually is in twenty twenty five, that loss
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ain't gonna ain't gonna hurt you because they're one of
the best teams in college football. They are well coached,
they are very physical, and they execute on offense.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
That's it. They're not doing anything flashy.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
They're not doing anything exotic on the offensive side. They
are efficient, efficient, efficient. They earned their lesson from last
year when they played against Ohio State.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
This ain't that.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
And yes, Oregon does have some things to do on offense.
They gotta clean it up. They gotta get Dante Moore's
confidence back. Up when they go to Rutgers this week.
These things matter, and we're at a point where you
could say that Oregon is at the same point that
Penn State was this last week, well two weeks ago
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when they went to UCLA. Yeah, you lost a big game,
But now what are you gonna do. Are you gonna
go out to Rutgers and have a first half like
Washington had against them, or what like Washington had against
Maryland where you're down twenty to zero in the third quarter.
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You gotta come back and win or do you regroup,
you go to the doctor and you get it fixed.
This is where we are and this is why coaches
are going to be paid the big bucks. This is
where they thrive. This is where coach. This is where
your head coach has to be excellent. Your head coach
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has to be excellent in this part of the game.
He has to be the guy that can galvanize the team,
that he can grow the team and make.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Sure that they are ready.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Just tell me mentally, physically, emotion you guys, make sure
that you swipe up, share this with a friend, like it, subscribe.
All of those things are at the next game that
we have to talk about we got to talk about
the game that would have been the biggest game of
this weekend, which is Texas versus Yeah, which is Texas
versus Oklahoma the Red River Robbery. Now, all the story
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about this was about the quarterbacks. This was about arch Manning,
how bad he was failing, and whether John Mattier was
gonna play Oklahoma's defense and everything else. John Mattier with
the Chippotele guy. I'm gonna tell you this, John Matteer
played in this football game through three interceptions. John Matteer
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should not have played in this football game.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
He was rusty.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Maybe Oklahoma would have had a better chance had Hawkins play,
but Oklahoma got demolished with Hawkins in this game as
a true freshman last year.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
But he was a true freshman.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Last year and he played well last week in Johnmeteer's absence.
So that's the question that you have to ask yourself.
Texas football won this game. With small ball baseball, baseball
playoffs are going on right right now. You know, some
teams they hit a lot of home runs and some
of them they got a bunt.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
They gotta do all the.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Little things to make sure that they are staying in
football games.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
That's it. This is the Texas played small ball baseball.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Arch manny two twenty one for twenty seven only one
hundred and sixty six yards in a touchdown, like he
was steady. But the real story in this game was
Ryan Niblett's seventy five yard punk return touchdown.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
And then the.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Defense that only held that well, that held Oklahoma the
only two hundred and fifty eight yards with three interceptions.
This Texas defense did to Oklahoma exactly what Oklahoma did
to Auburn. Pass rush was absolutely dominant, and then they
leaned on Trey Wisner as well. Twenty two carries for
ninety four yards. That's what they did. But now what's
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up next for these that there's no layups coming? Oklahoma's
got South Carolina Old Miss. Yeah, they got South Carolina
Old Miss, and then Tennessee coming up. Texas has Kentucky,
Mississippi State, and Vanderbilt. Oh that must be nice to
be Texas. Texas is back ranked in the AP pole.
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I still believe that this is an overrated football team,
but you know, so be it, so be it, and
that's where we are.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
So with that game, and I believe.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
That Texas because of their name brand and their recruiting
rankings and everything. This went over Oklahoma vaults them back
up into the top twenty five, and they have a
legitimate chance with their schedule to make the college football playoffs.
So you can listen, regard right, wrong, or indifferent. These
are the facts, and this is why people are unhappy
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with the Texas schedule. All right, let me get to
you guys. It's comments right quick, because y'all been over
there beating them up.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
So good stuff. Oh, Hugh O'Brien.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
These preseason rankings are a big problem that could contribute
to these situations with the coaches.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
You are one hundred percent right. Fan expectation goes crazy.
It's hope season and it said it's interesting. Op. Well, okay,
so we get our false start. Oh oh.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
They were talking to each other about the Oregon game.
Has some people going back and forth in the comments.
So if you guys have any questions stuff that you
want me to address, drop it in the comments.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
All right.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
The next game that we gotta go to. Next game
that we gotta go to is oh is the other
big game from this weekend. We had Ohio State Illinois.
Now Ohio State came into this game of fourteen and
a half point favorite, and everybody thought that they were
going to get there, that Illinois was gonna get their
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doors blown off. But I'm gonna tell you this. The
thing about this game was is that if you are
a team and Ohio State ended up winning this game
thirty four to sixteen, you can have the perfect game,
but you cannot play for mistakes. You can't plan for mistakes.
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Third and seven. Here's a sequence for Illinois. They were down,
they were down ten zero at this point in time,
had the ball around midfield. It is third and seven.
Incomplete pass. Okay, so what you're gonna flip? Flip the field?
Who cares low snap on the punt, Punter picks it up.
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Punter's knee is on the ground when he picks the
ball up, So ball's dead right there. Ohio State gets
a short field, you hold him to a field goal.
It's thirteen to zero. And then the first play you
get the ball back Illinois Valentine fumbles the football. Now
super short field. You're down twenty to nothing middle of
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the second quarter. But after that, Illinois absolutely outplayed Ohio State.
So I know that everybody is over here talking about
Ohio State is unbeatable.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
That is not true.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
This team is vulnerable as well, despite how good their
defense is, because the Buckeyes turned the three aligned night
giveaways into twenty one points.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
Because some of them weren't even forced.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Yes, a fumble technically is fourth st You gotta hold
on to the damn football. But I will tell you
that they do have championship profile. They create short fields,
cash in on them, and then Julian Saying was efficient
nineteen for twenty seven, one hundred and sixty six yards,
two touchdowns.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
CJ.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Donaldson added some scores as well. So Ohio State might
be mortal, especially if you cannot turn the ball over
just saying the next game. But I will say this,
when people were sleeping when I said that Illinois was
going to be a ten win team this season, I
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still stand by that.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
I still feel really good about that.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
For Yeah, for Illinois, they got Washington, Rutgers, and then Maryland.
All of those games they can win. That Washington win
is gonna be tough, tough though. Rutgers in Maryland, I
expect them to win those games. Ohio State at Wisconsin
and then they play Penn State and at Purdue and
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I believe that Penn State game for Ohio State just
got even more dangerous if Ohio State can get some
competency at quarterback, just got a lot more dangerous, just
like UCLA got more dangerous once Deshaun Foster was let
go and then they let go to oc they let
Jerry new Heisl and Tim Skipper loose. So a wounded
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dog is way more dangerous than a than of dog
who was full. All right, now, I want to talk
about one of the worst things I saw this week,
one of the worst things I saw this week, and
this came from a championship head coach. This came from
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mister Nick Saban. Mister Nick Saban, you were over here
doing the You were not doing the Lord's work when
you did this on the Pat McAfee show.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Did when he sat up there and.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Regurgitated the talking points about the SEC and the Big Ten,
Let's have an honest conversation here, because what Nick Saban
actually said was he was like, Hey, there's no days
off in the SEC. Anybody can beat anybody. What isn't
that exactly what happened with PennState getting beat by UCLA.
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Isn't that what happened with Indiana beating the organ. Those
same things are true. The difference is is that the
SEC just doesn't have any elite teams right now. Find
me an elite team in the SEC. I don't think
there are any. Remember when it was the PAC twelve,
they'd be like, oh, the PAC twelve, they played their
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way out of a championship. They played third way out
of the playoff. Well, how come the SEC ain't playing
their way out of the playoff? Well, George, how about
South Carolina schedule? Yeah, it's rough, it's rough, hard out
here in the streets. Maybe Texas should have that schedule.
That's what you should be complaining about with the SEC
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with that part of the schedule. Look at Wisconsin schedule.
Murderers wrote on the back end, they gotta play Indiana,
they gotta play Oregon, they gotta play all sorts of teams,
top five, top ten teams. Come on, man, it is
scheduled roulette. Sometimes you get the good end, sometimes you get.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
The bad end.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
And the SEC is a very good conference. But this
ain't the old days. This is not the old days.
Find me elite teams in there, like Ohio State, Oregon,
in Indiana, just saying all right. So that was the
worst thing that I saw this last week. Now, I
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want to talk about this Alabama versus Missouri game. Alabama
twenty seven, Missouri twenty four. The difference maker in this
game was Kaylen de Boer and Kayln de Boor, who
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has been under fire from Alabama fans acting like he's
a bum. He's this, he's act well, he's going out
and winning a lot of football games right now.
Speaker 2 (42:52):
He is being bold.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
He is not worried about what everybody else is talking about.
He is doing a great job just telling you and
and he has his team winning. He would three for
three on fourth downs. And remember everybody wanted ty Simpson
bench in the first game. Well, you know he's out
there playing extremely well and ty Sampson ty Simpson has
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command two hundred yards three touchdowns in the game, key moments.
And then Alabama's defense went one and made Missouri go
one in ten on third downs and they got a
late interception that closed the door. And it was funny
because all the Penn State people after they lost, they
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were yelling, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
Both Prabula bo brah Bula, well both pra Bula.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
He played Okay, he's at his moments, but this I
feel like is a coaching thing over a player thing.
When it came to Penn Penn State, I predicted before
this season that Alabama would not make the college football playoffs.
And the question is will they make the college football playoff?
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They still have South Carolina, which I do not believe
can beat them. If South Carolina puts up a lot
of points on Alabama, you know that Alabama's defense, ain't it.
Then they still got LSU, who get They got a
bunch of teams that can't score right right now? They
got South Carolina, LSU, Then they play Oklahoma, who's gonna
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be able to score? Eastern Illinois and then they play
auberd So they got three teams on the schedule. Oh
excuse me. And then then they have Tennessee. This Tennessee
game is gonna be a fight. I'm gonna pick. I'm
telling you, I'm picking Tennessee to win this game already
before we even get to the matchups, South Carolina, LSU,
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and Auborn.
Speaker 2 (44:46):
None of them fools can score. Their their offenses will
make your eyes bleed.
Speaker 1 (44:51):
And we thought that this was the year potentially that
Missouri and Eli Drinkowitz. Oh I forgot to mention his
name in some of these coaching care sales too. They
still got Bandy Tech saying them, which I believe that
they're gonna mess around an upset Tech saying M. And
they got Oklahoma as well. It's a mess. This is
why the SEC needed to go to nine conference games
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because you got all sorts of tie record scenarios that.
Speaker 2 (45:16):
Are going on here.
Speaker 1 (45:19):
And when it comes to these losses with this era
of college football, that actually might be the best thing
for you. Ohio State just proved that you can propel
your team to a national championship after losing a game.
And those are the things that matter because if you
want to win a national championship, you have to have
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good players, you have to have great coaching as well.
All Right, the next game and we had to talk
about we got to talk about this Florida Tech say
and M game. Now, we're not gonna spend a whole
lot of time on Florida because this is a team
that it doesn't look like they're going anywhere fast right now.
The offense, it is disjointed, and this is very similar
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to what we have seen out of their their head coach,
Billy Napier. Since he's been there, there has been a
level of inconsistency from this team. They are now what
two and four on the season, with their only wins
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being against Texas and Long Island, and people are what
and then they play Mississippi State there often, then they
play Georgia. So now you're sitting here wondering, Okay, what's
going to happen with this football team? Is Billy Napier
going to survive? Or is Florida gonna be added to
that list of names where jobs are open? So this
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team can't score a lot of points. They only scored
seventeen versus TEXA and M, who has a propensity to
give up points as well. But this Texas A and team,
they have to mind you. They have been a heavily
penalized team and now they are not for the last.
Speaker 2 (47:09):
Couple of couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (47:11):
But everything that I have told you about this Texas
A and M team is true. They must run the
football at a high level and if you make Marcel
Reid throw the football, this is not a team that
can beat you. This Texa A and M team is
getting very, very fortunate. They look like a top five team,
and they're gonna stay highly ranked because they play Arkansas, LSU, Missouri,
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South Carolina, and Texas. So they're gonna stay highly ranked
even if they drop two or three of these games.
But that's just the reality. They're probably gonna end up
right on the outside of the college football playoff or
if they can win one of them games, if they
can beat LSU or Texas or Missouri, win win one
(47:56):
of those and you're probably in the college football playoffs,
like or you know, you're kind of a shoe in
at that point in time. All right, a next game up.
We got Georgia at Auburn. There are some few points
to this that I want to bring up, and the
first of which is.
Speaker 2 (48:16):
The SEC officials. They are going to.
Speaker 1 (48:19):
Give Auburn another two apologies after this game.
Speaker 2 (48:23):
Number one, Jackson Arnolds.
Speaker 1 (48:26):
Scored on that push push quarterback sneak where the ball
got punched out and then they gave them the turnover.
Speaker 2 (48:32):
First thing.
Speaker 1 (48:33):
Second thing is Kirby Smart was absolutely calling timeout. Didn't
have to use the timeout. And at this point it
is comedy hour and it is a travesty against Auburn.
You are gonna mess around and get Hugh Freeze fired
because of that. But if Hugh Freeze was gonna be fired,
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it should be the fact that he has not found
Like last year, they blamed the quarterback for everything when
they could pass the ball. Now Auburn had Georgia looking
like the eighty five Bears in the second half yesterday.
Aarburn is the get right game for everybody's defense because
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they can't score on you, because the quarterback, for whatever
reason you can call it coaching, you can call what,
he cannot throw the football at a high level.
Speaker 2 (49:28):
Think about this.
Speaker 1 (49:31):
Auburn on this season, well on this in their three
conference games in the SEC, thirty seven point score thirty seven,
that is thirteen points per well, twelve points per game,
essentially barely over twelve. They've only allowed sixty So the
defense is playing pretty well, but they've only scored thirty
(49:52):
seven points. There is not an SEC team, not even Texas,
not even Mississippi State has and Mississippi State's only played
two SEC games has scored less points. This Auburn offense
is gross. Even Kentucky is better than that.
Speaker 2 (50:10):
It's awful.
Speaker 1 (50:11):
But this Georgia team, I want to applaud Kirby smart
because this is where you know good coaching comes from.
He is a guy who has found a way to
win football games. This Georgia team is like Kansas City
Chiefs last year. They didn't win the Super Bowl, but
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they won all the games. Why because their team knows
how to win in crucial situations.
Speaker 2 (50:39):
They know how.
Speaker 1 (50:40):
To execute, not make mistakes in the big moments. That's
how they win so many football games. Guess they lost
the Alabama, but this is how they beat all the
rest of the teams. Great coaching, great belief, and just
finding a way not to make more mistakes than the
other team. All right, let's look at this South Carolina
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versus ill LSU game. This is how bad South Carolina's
offense is.
Speaker 2 (51:14):
LSU gave them three turnovers, including two at the.
Speaker 1 (51:17):
Goal line, and they could still only manage ten points. Now,
I know the LSU's defense is pretty good, but the
South Carolina's supposed to have Lenori Sellers and how disappointing
have the quarterbacks who were built coming into this season
as potential first overall picks. How have they been Lenori Sellers? Yeah,
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stay in stay in school, kid, you got Drew Isler
up at Penn State. Now, I'm not saying it's all
the players, because obviously coaching factors into this as well.
Kay Klubnick, you got the four or five of the
Sawyer down there at Baylor.
Speaker 2 (51:59):
Oh, none of those dudes.
Speaker 1 (52:01):
Haven't all of these college football quarterbacks need to stay
in school at this point in time, Baseball, Garrett Nusmart
Baseball on what we have seen.
Speaker 2 (52:10):
It ain't it. It ain't it South Carolina's offense. Ain't it?
Speaker 1 (52:15):
This is I cannot believe I foolishly picked them to
make the college football playoff.
Speaker 2 (52:19):
I feel, but this is the area that we live living.
It is impossible.
Speaker 1 (52:25):
South Carolina is on the verge of not making a
bowl game at this point in time.
Speaker 2 (52:28):
They are three and three.
Speaker 1 (52:32):
They got Oklahoma, Alabama, and Old Miss in a row,
and they gotta get at least at least two of
those games because they're gonna get a game with Coastal
so that that's four wins. So they still got Oklahoma, Alabama,
Old Mess text saying them and Clemson left and they
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gotta get two of them games to get to a
bowl game. All right, it ain't looking pretty. So all
of that shamee Beam with a Virginia Tech talk. Either
it's real or you know there's something going on. Now
we're gonna talk about the teams that we need to
start talking about, because there's a bunch of teams that
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we need to start talking about. You had Utah beat
Arizona State forty two to ten. There's some reason to
start talking about Utah again with Devin Dampier and everything else.
But Sam Levitt did not play in.
Speaker 2 (53:33):
This football game.
Speaker 1 (53:35):
I believe that that there's something going on there because
he went from probable to out in one day.
Speaker 2 (53:43):
So something's going on.
Speaker 1 (53:45):
This feels like Utah level of of if there were
injury reports with Cam Rising, this is the kind of
thing that would have happened every single week. He would
have been probable every single week. And so something's going
on with Arizona State. Arizona State fans, don't y'all come
crying about Kenny Dillingham, And I don't believe that they will,
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because this is the nature of college football that we
live in. You're going to have ebbs and flows with
your team. Just the reality we need to start giving
BYU little bit of love. We gotta start get who
beat Arizona thirty three to twenty seven. We gotta start
giving some love to Tennessee and paying attention to them.
(54:28):
They defenses buns, super buns. But this is a good
football team and are they special? No, but they're not
gonna make the college football playoff again, which I told
everybody in the preseason.
Speaker 2 (54:41):
But this matters.
Speaker 1 (54:44):
Look at the bump that Arkansas got after firing Sam Pittman.
This is why I told you that Penn State might
be dangerous to Ohio State. But people don't want to listen.
So they beat Arkansas forty thirty four to thirty one.
Another team we got to talk about, Notre Dame scorched
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in c State. Nobody watched this game. It was thirty
six to seven. Everybody's gonna be watching this USC game
this week, so we gotta break that down so that'll
be on the show on the show tomorrow. Can't wait
to talk about that. One Old Miss barely beat Washington
State twenty four to twenty one. Think about this. Old
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Miss is starting a D two quarterback in Trinidad. Chambers
head quarterback and this would have been his Super Bowl
last year playing against all them. North Dakota State players
at Washington State. I do not know what Old Miss
is yet, but I don't fully believe in them. But
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they got Georgia, Oklahoma and South Carolina next, so we
go see what they really talking about at that point
point in time. And the last thing I want to
tell y'all is I told y'all so. I told y'all
so with Florida State. I told you so about Florida State.
I told you that they were the biggest froust in
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college football, the most overrated team in college football.
Speaker 2 (56:14):
Proved it.
Speaker 1 (56:17):
Lost again. But anyways, though you guys, I'm George Reister.
This is George Reister's College Football Show. We got much
more coming up this week, so make sure that you
like subscribe, tell a friend about the show, and most
importantly share. Because it is hot. Fire out in these streets.
Speaker 2 (56:35):
Peace out.
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