September 4, 2024 • 38 mins
After week 1 of college football, there are many questions to be answered. What happened to Florida State? Whats the deal with the Oregon Ducks? Can Texas A&M survive with Conner Weigman at QB? Do you take Travis Hunter or Tetairoa McMillan in the NFL draft? We also look at the week 2 AP Poll vs the Unafraid Show Top 25.
Chapters: 00:00- Intro 07:19- US Mailbag: What's Wrong with Florida State? 10:15- US Mailbag: Should the Ducks be scared of Boise State? 12:35- US Mailbag: Will Miami Carry the ACC? 16:20- US Mailbag: Arizona State Football Helps Recruit 5-Star Basketball Player 17:55- US Mailbag: Is TAMU QB Conner Weigman a bust? 20:25- US Mailbag: Are the USC Trojans Back? 22:55- US Mailbag: Colorado's Travis Hunter or Arizona's Tetaroia McMillan? 24:20- US Mailbag: Should 25-year-olds be eligible for the Heisman? 25:35- US Mailbag: Which G5 QB Upped Their Portal Stock? 27:34- US Mailbag: Hotter Hot Seat- Shane Beamer or Billy Napier? 30:50- The Unafraid Show College Football Top 25
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to Unafraid Show Daily Live, where we talk about
the most important things in sports quickly, honestly, and of
course tell them truth. And we got college football this week,
and after one week of college football zero weekend, Week one,
there are many questions to be answered, and you guys
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sent in a bunch of them via Twitter, via email,
and you guys can always send them in I'm mad,
I amma d at Unafraid Show dot com or just
shoot them on Twitter at George rece Serge you see
down here below or at the Unafraid Show and we
will answer them every single Tuesday. But the questions that
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you guys have, what happened to Florida State, what's to
deal with my Oregon Ducks with the way that they
looked after one week? Kent Texas A and M survive
with Connor Weekman at quarterback? And do you take Travis
Hunter or Tedoroa McMahon if you are the first pick
of the NFL Draft. And we're also gonna look at
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the Week two of the AP Pole versus the Unafraid
Show Top twenty five, and we will discuss the updated
college football playoff and the new playoff polls with the
way that they're shaking out, all right, And of course
we have to discuss at three two one no and
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his tweet and how the whole barstool community. You got
Josh paid people out there looking for that man. They
found out who he is. But I'm wondering, do we
really do we really expect this man to eat it?
That's the biggest question, all right, and the but we're
gonna start with what I think is the best, absolutely
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the best part of college football and absolutely the worst
part about college football, And.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
It's the passion.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
It's the passion, the overreaction and everything in between, because
aside from European side, there is nothing, There is no
American sport that carries the same amount of passion and
crazies as college football does.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Nothing.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Try to think about, has anybody ever risked their life
and freedom to get into the Super Bowl, like mass
amounts of people that we're trying to get into Florida
Stadium to go watch.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
The Kanafka Cup, Right, it ain't happening.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
But in college football you got fans willing to kill trees,
people to kill people, people willing to kidnap mascots and
everything in between. There are states that will not even
allow the letter over the letter M in a certain
color for an entire week. And that's actually the best
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part about college football. But the worst part about college
football is the overreaction. Right So, Florida State's having major
issues right now. They're owing to the lost to Georgia Tech,
and then they came back and lost to Boston College
this week, and the overreaction is wild.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
People talking about fire Mike nor Veil.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
The dude was just thirteen and oh last year and
everybody was happy with him. The talking about you should
have gone to the college football playoffs, you got snubbed
everything else, regardless of whether that's true or not. Now,
all of a sudden, after an zero to two start
you on a fire, like we gotta have some sort
of like realistic expectations, because the question is do you
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want somebody who's gonna fix it quick or you want
to fix it right. It's like it's like building a
set of legos. You're building a whole set of legos,
and then you get about halfway through and you realize, damn,
I missed the piece. Oh man, this ain't quite right,
and instead of tearing it down back to where you
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know it's right, and then rebuilding from there. Nope, Nope,
we just gonna keep on building with We'll just figure
it out. We'll shoehorn something in there. No, you gotta
have the foundation has to be built correctly, and when
those overreactions happen, you fire people that you shouldn't fire.
Look at what's going on at the University of Florida
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and Dan Mullen retweeting this was a Matthew Berry tweet
was absolutely insane because the tweet read the Florida coach
that got fired went to three consecutive New Year six
games in his first three years and was let go
in his fourth season.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
And that's Dan Mullen.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Now, wouldn't the Florida Gator fans welcome back the Dan
Mullen years. Absolutely, But the problem is is that we've
gotten into this world in the world of college football,
of thinking that every single program is supposed to look
like what went on for sixteen of Nick sabans seventeen
years at Alabama and what went on with Kirby Smart. Well,
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what's going on with Kirby Smart over there at Georgia
right now? It's not gonna look like people overreact to this.
In the NFL all the time, they look at their
quarterback like Dak Prescott. Dude, getting your twelve wins every
single year, getting you into the tournament. Oh, he sucks.
We need to find anybody but Dak. Anybody but Dak.
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Anybody can't do what Dak is doing. That doesn't mean
that you don't want to win a championship. It just
means that you just realizing that it's a lot harder
than you thought, because everybody wants their young rookie quarterback,
whether it's Trevor Lawrence or Kyler Murray or Joe Burrow
or whoever else. Cayleb Williams this year. Oh, Tom Brady
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and Patrick Mahomes are the standard. No, they can't be
the standard, Like that's never been the standard in the
history of football. We're looking at outliers. What Nick Saban
has done at Alabama and what Kirby Smart is doing
at Georgia right now are outlier results. Those aren't the norm.
So can your team do it? No, that's not normal.
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If it so happens to happen, sure, but that's not
Those aren't typical results. And we get and we have
to figure out some sort of way to express our displeasure.
If you're a Florida State would have known to start
and having some sort of common sense, because if you
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want to switch stuff up and be an unstable person
every time something goes wrong, you're gonna be switching stuff
up all the time and it doesn't give you time
to build. And yes, it's just like a marriage being
with a college football head coach. Yes, you're gonna have
the majority of it should be good. But are you
gonna have some downs? Yes, kids are gonna get sick,
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mom is gonna die, but the house is gonna flood,
You're gonna have somebody's gonna lose a job, amongst all
the other great things that happened. You have a family,
your kids go to college. It doesn't necessarily amount to tragedy.
But you're gonna have some ebbs and flows along this
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marvelous climb, and you got to be able to take
it and live with it. And it's gotta be okay.
But now on to the mail bag. Though, the first
question that you guys sent in was that I thought
Florida State was gonna win the ACC and who gets
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more blamed for Florida State's oh, and to start Mike
Norvel or dj Uya galle Now, this is funny and
I gotta address this because people were cooking me after
Florida State lost to Georgia Tech, and I said, Yo,
I don't know why y'all are over exaggerating about this loss,
even though I was concerned because of the lack of
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physicality with Florida State. I do not believe that Florida State. Like,
the most embarrassing thing about the Florida State situation right now.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Is there lack of.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Physicality on the offensive line and on defense. This is
a team that has gotten bullied in back to back weeks.
So the question is is this more Mike Mike Norvel's
fault or is this dj Uiaga le Les fault. This
is Mike Norvell's fault because DJ you last night against
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uh Yeah, when they were playing against Boston College last night,
was he good? No? But when he was hitting people
in the numbers, his teammates didn't help him out a
little bit. And for context here, Mike Norvel he's actually
never had success with a transfer quarterback, like he recruited
Brady White to Arizona State before White went to Memphis
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and then he threw for seventy three hundred yards in
two years under Mike norvel.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
And that Jordan.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Travis here was a lot like Taylor Kelly over at
Arizona State, an accurate passing, lowly regarded recruit that could
take off and run and maybe dipping into the portal
for a big name isn't what Mike norvel needs to
be doing, especially when is somebody like dj uy A
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Gal who's a pocket passer.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
And he was able to.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Have some strength, well some success with Jonathan Smith last
year at Oregon State, because that's the type of quarterback
that Jonathan Smith at Oregon State who's now Michigan State
had had success with Jake Lowton, Like that's what he's
had and that's probably why DJ you looked good last year.
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So yes, this is Mike Norvelle's fault. It is Mike
Norvell's fault that the offense and the defense are lacking physicality.
Because even if you lost you know, players to the
NFL Draft, there is still a standard for physicality amongst
your team, and if you can't maintain that physicality with
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your team, that's a significant issue.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
The second question that you guys sent in is, uh,
my organ Ducts are playing Boise State this week. So
here's the question. Oregon has never beaten Boise State. Are
you worried about this week? After Ashton Gentry, that's their
running back, ran for two hundred and sixty seven yards
and six touchdowns last week? Also, should Gentry be allowed
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to punch an Oregon defensive.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Player as payback for Legarrett Blunt?
Speaker 1 (10:45):
So the first part of it is, well, actually, I'll
address the second part of this question. First, should Ashton
Gentry be allowed to punch an Oregon defensive player as
payback for Lagarrett Blunt? And if you don't remember Lagarrett
Bump Blunt punched Byron out in the face after Oregon
lost to Boise State up at Boise State a number
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of years ago, Well, you let Legarrett Blunt say it
that Byron Houte harassing him after the game, tapped him
on the shoulder, called him the N word. I just
saw a video about this earlier today where Legarrett was
talking about it. Legarrett said he punched him because it
was no longer about football when he called him the nword.
So if you believed that version of the start, then no,
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Ashton Gentry shouldn't be allowed to punch anybody.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
But here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Are you worried about this week with Oregon, with Boise
State and Gentry? My answer to that is no, because
even though Oregon did not put up the amount of
points that you thought that they should have against against Idaho,
they were pretty stout against the run and this defensive
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line looks very physical. The Oregon linebackers do need to
step it up, but Bossa didn't play the majority of
the game. This team should be fine. And I expect
Dan Lanning's team, who has recovered well in history after
they you know, didn't play well, so I expect them
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to do it. And just so you guys know, the
Boise State wins over Oregon where two thousand and eight
over Mike Bellatti thirty seven, thirty two O nine over
Chip Kelly nineteen to eight. That was the Byron Howt
Lagarritt blunt punch game. And then the twenty and seventeen
lost Vegas Bowl over christ Ball thirty.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Eight twenty eight. All right.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
The third question is fsu is oz in two Clemson loss,
Virginia Tech lost, North Carolina needed a missed field go
to beat Minnesota. Is Miami gonna have to carry the
ACC this year. Yes, the answer to that is yes, yes,
they're gonna have to carry the ACC. But but here's
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the other part of it. How much are they really
kick carrying the ACC because number one, they won the
scheduling roulette where Miami's schedule is softest grandma's love right now.
I mean just literally softest grandma's love. When you look
at the rest of this season, there is no way
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that you can look at this and be any type
of intimidated if you are a Miami fan, you can't.
They are off this week, oh no, no, no, sorry, They
play Florida and A and M this week, so might
as well be off. Then they play Ball State at home,
they play at South Florida Virginia Tech, who doesn't look
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very good, cal Louisville, Florida State obviously, how bad they
look Duke Georgia Tech, Wake Forest, and then they end
the season with Syracuse. So no, there is nobody in
Miami's camp that should be scared. And if they drop
more than one game this year because they were sleepwalking
or something like that, that's going to be a major
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red flag. But my question about Miami is not this year.
My question about Miami is next year because they are
being they were saved by the PAC twelve because they
got cam Ward over from Washington State. He looked obviously
really good. And it's funny because he was the fifth
or sixth best quarterback in the PAC twelve last year.
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Think about that fifth or sixth best because you already
had Caleb Williams, you had Bo Knicks, Michael Pennick junior,
you had Noah Fafida down at Arizona. I mean that
at a minimum puts him at fifth at a minimum.
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So so the ACC, who you know, called themselves a
quarterback conference, they needed help from the PAC twelve to really,
you know, ensure that they were gonna be okay. Now,
how about Clemson in the ACEC. It's Clemson going to
be able to do much in the ACC. A lot
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of this has to do with Dabo Sweeney, because Dabo
Sweeney must adapt or die at this.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Point in time.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
And I've talked about it that my mom always says,
you always do what you're always done, you always get
what you always got. Now, Dabo's gotten a lot of success,
but here is the problem is that change is happening
around you, and Dabo Sweeney is not adapting to the
changes in college football. Nick Saban adapted to the change.
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He did it wonderfully. Hiring Lane Kiffin changed his whole offense.
Look at what happened down in LSU with Les Miles.
He refused to change. Dinosaur died out. And this is
where Dabo is. He's going to have to adapt. This
is adapt or die time in college football. Now that
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doesn't mean Now adapting does not mean that you mortgage
or sacrifice your principles because you are supposed to be
who you are at the core you. But when it
comes down to winning football games, you have to do
what you have to do to win football games within
your culture. So you got to keep your culture intact,
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but also put the best team out on the field
as possible. And Dabbo adapt or die, baby, adapt or die.
Number four? Did you see Arizona State's head coach Kenny
Dillingham put a walk on lineman in at running back
to impress his five star basketball playing brother. And what
did you think of that? Okay, So for you guys that.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
CoA Pete who and that Peak family is one of
the most athletic families around.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Just google them. Pa Pea t.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
CoA Pete is a five star forward who has all seven,
yes seven of his siblings playing college sports. And he
was on an official visit to ASU and they're trying
to compete with Duke and Arizona for this kid. So
having the football coach in Kenny Dillingham put his brother
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in the game at running back, is that going to sweed? Listen,
this is something that coaches need to be aware of.
And this is actually something that Dan Lanning actually does
really well. When kids are playing hometown kids like Sadiq
bay Over at Oregon or Kenyan Sadik, Yes last name
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is Sadik. They were playing Idaho, He's from Idaho. All
of a sudden he touched the ball a little bit
more because that's something that means a lot to the kids.
So I'm actually I'm not mad at Kenny Dillaham for that.
They were blowing them out in the game. They were
blowing out Wyoming, So yeah, is what it is, all right?
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The fifth question up Connor Weakman, who's Texas and M's quarterback.
He only threw four hundred yards against Notre Dame. He
was a five star coming out of high school? Are
we ready to call him a bust? So here's the truth.
In limited playing time, Connor Wigman has sixteen touchdowns two
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interceptions in his career. Obviously it's still early, and Notre
Dame actually might be the best.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Defense in the country right now.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
They look fantastic, Like look what they did to Caleb
Williams in twenty twenty three, had him throw three picks.
If Caleb Williams looked horrendous versus Notre Dame last year.
So it is something about this about this defense as well.
But the thing that we have to understand is that
a five star rating coming out of high school, as
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much as we'd like five stars and people will tell
you that stars matter and everything else, they are not
a guarantee of success because there are guys that underperformed
that rating for whatever reason every single year. Look at JT.
Daniels who was over at USC and then it's been
you know, multiple spots after that. Harrison Bailey, ty Thompson,
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who transferred from Oregon down to Tulane didn't win the job.
Malachai Nelson left USC went to Boise, didn't win the job.
Walker Howard Sam Hewart. All of these dudes, think about it.
Them dudes have like Harrison Bailey, Tyd Thompson, Walker Howard,
and Sam Hewart have one combined touchdown pass. Stars matter
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on a macro level, like if you have a team
and you have the blue Chip rating, you know eighty
percent where eighty percent of your roster is four and
five star players. Yes, your team is going to be
one of the best teams in the country, particularly if
you're well coached. But on a micro level, like on
an individual player level, stars don't matter. You can be
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a two star get a first round draft pick. You
can be a five star and end up to never
play no matter what school you go to. Just the
reality of things, all right? Question six from you guys
here on the mail bag on Unafraid Show. Make sure
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Matt i Ammad at Unafraid show dot com for us
to get to your questions.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
All right? Number six, Ah, this was good. George.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
You come across as a USC hater after we held
LSU to twenty points. Are you ready to admit the
Trojans are back? Number one. I am not a USC hater.
I just try to call things out how they are.
And USC had not put together a good defense even
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at all. And here's what we saw in the LSU game,
and I want people to keep it in perspective. LSU
and USC had two of the worst defenses in the
country last year, the worst five far unadulter rated worst
defenses in the country. And so you don't go from
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worse in the country to a top ten, top fifteen defense.
So are both of those defenses better?
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Yes? Is USC's defense better? Yes?
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Was Miller Moss really good? Yes, it's LSU's defense great. No,
So do not be fooled by what you saw. Take
it as a really good win for USC, a good
stepping stone and a building block for what they got
coming up this year, and be okay with that, like
that's where we got a land with this, and not
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try to make it more than what this game really was.
And USC's upcoming schedule they got Utah State this week,
then then they played Wisconsin at home, which is gonna
be a formidable game at Wisconsin Penn State, so we're
gonna find more and more out about this team. So
there's no need to overreact there or be and be
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reactive to Oh my god, you're not giving them enough credit,
you're hating Nah. Just really just making sure that we
temper the expectations, because with great expectations comes great disappointment.
And USC fans will be trying to fire Lincoln Riley.
They will be if they lose like three games this
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year after the excitement of this LSU game, and how
many times have we looked at it a week one
week zero game and put way too much stock into it.
Look at Colorado last year when they beat Nebraska, everybody's like,
oh yeah, they back baby. It beat Colorado State, they
back baby, let us go. Then they lose seven out
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of eight in conference. Just saying, all right, number seven.
You're an NFL general manager, George, and you have a
top three pick, and you already have your quarterback of
the future. Do you take Travis Hunter or Tetoroa McMillan
out of Arizona in case you don't know who the
kid is. Wow, I'm going to go with Travis Hunter
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only for one single solitary reason, and that's flexibility. That's
flexibility because now I have a player that I can
play at dB if I need to, Oh, Georgia can't
play both ways. I mean the Patriots had a wide
receiver playing nickel dB sometimes on a Super Bowl team.
So yeah, and Travis Hunter is significantly better. So that's
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the only reason. But McMillan, t mac the kid is electric.
If you have not watched Arizona play, watch him play.
He cannot be covered. He was supposed to be. He
was originally committed to Oregon. Because you're like, how do
you ended up at at Arizona? He was originally commit
to Oregon and then he ended up backing off his
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commitment once Mario Christobaul left and went to Miami, and
so he went down to Arizona with his best friend
and quarterback Noah Fafiita. All right, number eight, question number eight,
and we're gonna take ten from you guys every single week,
guys like Cam Rising and Tyler Shuck went off in
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a went off in week one. Do you believe that
twenty five year olds should even be eligible.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
For the Heisman? Yes? Yes, what are we talking about here? Absolutely?
Are you kidding me? Yes? Twenty five year if you are.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Eligible in college football, you should be eligible for any
postseason award. Should Cam McCormick over at Miami in his
ninth college football year, not be eligible for the Mackie
Award as the best tight end in the country. Yes,
the dude suffers four straight season ending injuries. Yes, he's
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earned that opportunity, Cam Rising, multiple injuries transferred are to
sit out everything. So yes, you should not just be
eligible just because you're the between the ages of seventeen
and twenty one. I mean, if that's the case, should
Jayden Daniels have wanted it twenty.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Three last year? Yes, he was the best player.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Well let's old, no story, but anyways, he was really
really good though, all right? And number nine, which G
five quarterback, made themselves the most money in the transfer
portal so far. That's like upcoming. So first one is
because you got New Mexico's quarterback Devin Dampier. He's from
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Arizona originally, and I got the chance to see him
when my son played against them in high school, and
Arizona didn't want him back then, but they they might
want him now. Even though norha Fida's doing a really
good job. But three hundred and ninety total yards and
five touchdowns, kid looks electric right now. And then you
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gotta look at a kid like Owen McCowan. He's over
at UTSA right now, and Dion Sanders got him up
out of Colorado two years ago and he against Kennessas
State and Utsa's opener, three hundred and forty yards, three touchdowns,
so it's working out for him. Lincoln Riley got the
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kid Chandler Morris out of high school and he technically
has a year of eligibility left after this year. And
Morris was on that TCU team that actually went to
the national championship. And I wonder if he rather play
at North Texas then hopping the transfer portal after this year,
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because he went for four hundred and fifteen yards and
five total touchdowns against South Alabama, so people are going
to be calling his name after this season.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Then you got J. C.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
French over at Georgia Southern, John Mattier at Washington State,
Grant Wilson at Old Dominion. This is what it is,
all right, the last of your mail bag questions which
you can send to us.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Eight. I was getting ready to give the phone numbers
to my radio show on Mad Dog Is.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
I'm Matt i Ammad at Unafraid show dot com. So
the tenth question is who will last longer into the season,
Billy Napier over at Florida or Shane Beeamer over at
South Carolina. Who I'm gonna go with Shane Beemer. And
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the reason why is because Billy Napier is fighting up
hill already.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Man.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
They have already lost to Miami, which is an in
state game. They they're end of the season with, like Georgia, Texas, Alabama.
It's just not looking.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Good right now.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
So it's going to be hard for him if Florida. Okay,
let's let's let's look at Florida's schedule right now because
just to make sure, just to see how long that
this is gonna last. Because Florida plays Samford this week,
then after that Texas A and m that's gonna be
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a tough game at Mississippi State at Tennessee Kentucky, and
that's all before they get to Georgia, Texas, LSU, oh
Miss and Florida State. That's all before they get to them, dudes.
So if he racks up three losses before he gets
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to that Georgia game, it's it's gonna be a problem.
It's gonna be a problem. If I am Billy Napier
right now. As much as I you know, believe in
Graham Mertz or like Graham Merts or think he might
be the best, the only way to save his job
right now is to put DJ Lagway in that quarterback
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and let DJ Lagway cook. And if DJ Lagway looks
like he's continuing to grow and get better and better
under Billy Napier, maybe he can inspire some hope that
he can get things fixed and get this whole train
back on the on the trails. But Shane Beemer, though,
Shane Beemer over at South Carolina, his situation is a
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little bit different because he's got Kentucky this week and
they went to overtime with Old Dominion. Granted Old Dominion
is much better, but South Carolina has a defensive end
number six. He did bad things to Old Dominion's tackles. Boy,
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that kid as a true freshman, unbelievable. I gotta look
up his name because his performance was incredible. But the
difference is is that Florida's O one, South Carolina is one.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
And oh and if.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
They can beat Kentucky this week, oh oh, he's pretty
much a shoe in to make it through the end
of the season, even though the middle of the season
gives you lsu Ole, Miss Alabama, Oklahoma and Texas A and
M and then Missouri a couple weeks later. Hey, he
just got to win any of those games, oh, miss Oklahoma,
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Texas or Alabama, any of those three games, and he'll
make it through the season. But my money, if I'm fading,
it is on.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Billy Naprier to.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Be gone first, even though you know, everybody knows he's
a good guy. But it doesn't matter in college football.
All right, though, now it is time. I have revealed
on Twitter already, but here is my top twenty five
for this week in the world of college football. Top
twenty five this week. So for context, the ap Pole
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put out its top twenty five. And the difference between
my poll and the ap Pole and like you know,
a Josh Pate rating poll, is that mine is based
upon the three most important criteria for ranking teams. It's
not betting odds, it's not you know, writers, any of
that three most important criteria quality wins at the top
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of the list, Schedule played second on the list, and
then Dominant's third on the list.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
So what that means is.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Is that teams that have played better teams are going
to be and one are going to be rewarded with
a higher ranking despite a team that I feel is
technically more talented or is you know or looks the part. Now,
in the preseason, I did the rankings based upon recruiting rankings,
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returning roster, and coaching. But now that we have data
and our model gets better and better as the season
goes along, the more and more information that we get.
So I don't project out to who Alabama's going to
play later, No, no, no, no, I'm looking at who if
they played now. So here is this week's top twenty five.
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We had Georgia at one, Notre Dame two, Penn State, Miami, USC,
Ohio State, Texas, Ole, miss Alabama, and Oregon rounding out
the top ten Utah, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Washington fifteen, Michigan, Iowa, Louisville,
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K State, and Georgia Tech to twenty LSU Arizona, NC State,
Oklahoma State and Clemson at number twenty five. Now people
might be saying, George, how could you put Notre Dame
at two? They absolutely played a good opponent in Texas,
A and m they shut them down, got a big win.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
They look really good.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
So their schedule played quality wins high and they look
dominated on defense. So yes, I could have actually made
a case for them at number one, except for Georgia
went to Clemson. Clemton is a good team on defense
and put them in an absolute stranglehold. And we're gonna
find out as the season goes on how good those
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wins are. And so here is the poll last week.
The way you guys can understand how this works because
some you know, with the ape pole, they don't react
very much. So look at last week the preseason. I
had Oregon at two. Oregon did not put on a
very they they played Idaho and they didn't score a
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ton of points. Now, they were dominant on office. The
quarterback almost threw for five hundred yards, they didn't convert
in some special situations, they didn't turn the ball over,
the defense was dominant. So yes, so Oregon fell a
lot in the pole. But that's the reason why. And
then you have Florida State fall completely out. Obviously Clemson
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because that Georgia Clemson game was actually closer than the
score dictated. And Clemson still looks like a team that
has some metal to them and can and can be better.
Ohio State fell from three to six. Why they played
accurate where they dominant one percent, USC, Miami and Penn
State all played quality opponents. They at least played Power
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five opponents. Whether you think they're good or not, this
whole different story. But you play Power five opponents and
you dominate them, you are going to move up this pole.
So I want you guys to understand that. And now
I want you guys to take a peek at what
the AP pole did this this week. And this is
what the AP pole did this week versus what the
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AP pole was in week one.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
See the AP pole.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Actually that's coaches poll, but they barely move teams from
week to week. And here on the Unafraid Show, the
more and more data and information that we get, we
have an opportunity to fly up the polls. Just like
for instance, this week we have the Michigan and Tennessee
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play right, Michigan, Tennessee. If Michigan and Tennessee play I'm
sorry Michigan in Texas, excuse me, Michigan and Texas. Michigan
and Texas played this week, Texas is right. Now is
seven point favorite. If Texas wins this game by twenty
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one points, now we have to compare that to the
Texas and the win.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
We got to compare that to the.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
When we punch all the numbers in, we got to
put it against the Penn State, West Virginia win, the
floor to Miami win. And depending on how those teams
do this week, and with LSU and USC and so forth,
just like we have Tennessee and NC State, those things
can dramatically impact where you are in the rankings. Iowa
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Iowa State this week, so and Oregon plays Boise State.
So if Oregon bounces back there, I think they're nineteen
point favorites against Boise State. They knock the doors off
of them and look really good. Okay, now we can
add some to it, but that's still it's a better
win than Idaho. But is it a better Is it
going to be a better win than how many people
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are in front of them? So that's how the Unafraid
sho Paul works and that's the reason why we do
it the way we do it. So and with the
top twenty five, that gives us how we are going
to shape the playoff, because the playoff is its own beast.
The playoff is its own beast. Because here is the
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preseason playoff bracket that I was able to do. The
preseason playoff bracket, I had Oregon as a champion playing
Notre Dame in the National Championship. Everybody laughed at me, Oh, George,
how the hell could you have How the hell could
you have Notre Dame in the in the top playing
for the national championship. Yeah, you saw what they did,
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text saying in with that defense, right, Okay, okay, I'll
accept all apologies, but I'm not gonna brag because I
did have Florida State at number three, and there ain't
no way that they're getting anywhere near the playoff unless
they have a miracle and run through the SEC. Sorry,
acc right now, but here is this week's Paul, here's
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this week's playoff bracket. I got Georgia winning the national championship.
So you have Oregon, who went from the two seed
down to the tennessee. Ohio State moved from the sixth
seed down to the seventeen. USC jumped up to six,
Alabama fell from ten to eleven, Liberty's out of there,
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Memphis is in Texas moves from eight to five. Notre
Dame moves from nine to five, Utah stays at four,
Alabama moved. Yeah, so Alabama moved there, but then Miami
moved to number three and Penn State moved to number two.
That's how it works, how it works, and so we
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will update these every single week, and you guys can
always take advantage and see it and make sure that
you guys comment. I'm George Reister. This is the Unafraid Show.
Make sure that you like, subscribe, tell a friend about
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Speaker 2 (38:50):
Peace out
Welcome to Unafraid Show Daily Live, where we talk about
the most important things in sports quickly, honestly, and of
course tell them truth. And we got college football this week,
and after one week of college football zero weekend, Week one,
there are many questions to be answered, and you guys
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sent in a bunch of them via Twitter, via email,
and you guys can always send them in I'm mad,
I amma d at Unafraid Show dot com or just
shoot them on Twitter at George rece Serge you see
down here below or at the Unafraid Show and we
will answer them every single Tuesday. But the questions that
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you guys have, what happened to Florida State, what's to
deal with my Oregon Ducks with the way that they
looked after one week? Kent Texas A and M survive
with Connor Weekman at quarterback? And do you take Travis
Hunter or Tedoroa McMahon if you are the first pick
of the NFL Draft. And we're also gonna look at
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the Week two of the AP Pole versus the Unafraid
Show Top twenty five, and we will discuss the updated
college football playoff and the new playoff polls with the
way that they're shaking out, all right, And of course
we have to discuss at three two one no and
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his tweet and how the whole barstool community. You got
Josh paid people out there looking for that man. They
found out who he is. But I'm wondering, do we
really do we really expect this man to eat it?
That's the biggest question, all right, and the but we're
gonna start with what I think is the best, absolutely
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the best part of college football and absolutely the worst
part about college football, And.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
It's the passion.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
It's the passion, the overreaction and everything in between, because
aside from European side, there is nothing, There is no
American sport that carries the same amount of passion and
crazies as college football does.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Nothing.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Try to think about, has anybody ever risked their life
and freedom to get into the Super Bowl, like mass
amounts of people that we're trying to get into Florida
Stadium to go watch.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
The Kanafka Cup, Right, it ain't happening.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
But in college football you got fans willing to kill trees,
people to kill people, people willing to kidnap mascots and
everything in between. There are states that will not even
allow the letter over the letter M in a certain
color for an entire week. And that's actually the best
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part about college football. But the worst part about college
football is the overreaction. Right So, Florida State's having major
issues right now. They're owing to the lost to Georgia Tech,
and then they came back and lost to Boston College
this week, and the overreaction is wild.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
People talking about fire Mike nor Veil.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
The dude was just thirteen and oh last year and
everybody was happy with him. The talking about you should
have gone to the college football playoffs, you got snubbed
everything else, regardless of whether that's true or not. Now,
all of a sudden, after an zero to two start
you on a fire, like we gotta have some sort
of like realistic expectations, because the question is do you
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want somebody who's gonna fix it quick or you want
to fix it right. It's like it's like building a
set of legos. You're building a whole set of legos,
and then you get about halfway through and you realize, damn,
I missed the piece. Oh man, this ain't quite right,
and instead of tearing it down back to where you
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know it's right, and then rebuilding from there. Nope, Nope,
we just gonna keep on building with We'll just figure
it out. We'll shoehorn something in there. No, you gotta
have the foundation has to be built correctly, and when
those overreactions happen, you fire people that you shouldn't fire.
Look at what's going on at the University of Florida
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and Dan Mullen retweeting this was a Matthew Berry tweet
was absolutely insane because the tweet read the Florida coach
that got fired went to three consecutive New Year six
games in his first three years and was let go
in his fourth season.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
And that's Dan Mullen.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Now, wouldn't the Florida Gator fans welcome back the Dan
Mullen years. Absolutely, But the problem is is that we've
gotten into this world in the world of college football,
of thinking that every single program is supposed to look
like what went on for sixteen of Nick sabans seventeen
years at Alabama and what went on with Kirby Smart. Well,
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what's going on with Kirby Smart over there at Georgia
right now? It's not gonna look like people overreact to this.
In the NFL all the time, they look at their
quarterback like Dak Prescott. Dude, getting your twelve wins every
single year, getting you into the tournament. Oh, he sucks.
We need to find anybody but Dak. Anybody but Dak.
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Anybody can't do what Dak is doing. That doesn't mean
that you don't want to win a championship. It just
means that you just realizing that it's a lot harder
than you thought, because everybody wants their young rookie quarterback,
whether it's Trevor Lawrence or Kyler Murray or Joe Burrow
or whoever else. Cayleb Williams this year. Oh, Tom Brady
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and Patrick Mahomes are the standard. No, they can't be
the standard, Like that's never been the standard in the
history of football. We're looking at outliers. What Nick Saban
has done at Alabama and what Kirby Smart is doing
at Georgia right now are outlier results. Those aren't the norm.
So can your team do it? No, that's not normal.
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If it so happens to happen, sure, but that's not
Those aren't typical results. And we get and we have
to figure out some sort of way to express our displeasure.
If you're a Florida State would have known to start
and having some sort of common sense, because if you
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want to switch stuff up and be an unstable person
every time something goes wrong, you're gonna be switching stuff
up all the time and it doesn't give you time
to build. And yes, it's just like a marriage being
with a college football head coach. Yes, you're gonna have
the majority of it should be good. But are you
gonna have some downs? Yes, kids are gonna get sick,
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mom is gonna die, but the house is gonna flood,
You're gonna have somebody's gonna lose a job, amongst all
the other great things that happened. You have a family,
your kids go to college. It doesn't necessarily amount to tragedy.
But you're gonna have some ebbs and flows along this
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marvelous climb, and you got to be able to take
it and live with it. And it's gotta be okay.
But now on to the mail bag. Though, the first
question that you guys sent in was that I thought
Florida State was gonna win the ACC and who gets
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more blamed for Florida State's oh, and to start Mike
Norvel or dj Uya galle Now, this is funny and
I gotta address this because people were cooking me after
Florida State lost to Georgia Tech, and I said, Yo,
I don't know why y'all are over exaggerating about this loss,
even though I was concerned because of the lack of
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physicality with Florida State. I do not believe that Florida State. Like,
the most embarrassing thing about the Florida State situation right now.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Is there lack of.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Physicality on the offensive line and on defense. This is
a team that has gotten bullied in back to back weeks.
So the question is is this more Mike Mike Norvel's
fault or is this dj Uiaga le Les fault. This
is Mike Norvell's fault because DJ you last night against
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uh Yeah, when they were playing against Boston College last night,
was he good? No? But when he was hitting people
in the numbers, his teammates didn't help him out a
little bit. And for context here, Mike Norvel he's actually
never had success with a transfer quarterback, like he recruited
Brady White to Arizona State before White went to Memphis
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and then he threw for seventy three hundred yards in
two years under Mike norvel.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
And that Jordan.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Travis here was a lot like Taylor Kelly over at
Arizona State, an accurate passing, lowly regarded recruit that could
take off and run and maybe dipping into the portal
for a big name isn't what Mike norvel needs to
be doing, especially when is somebody like dj uy A
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Gal who's a pocket passer.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
And he was able to.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Have some strength, well some success with Jonathan Smith last
year at Oregon State, because that's the type of quarterback
that Jonathan Smith at Oregon State who's now Michigan State
had had success with Jake Lowton, Like that's what he's
had and that's probably why DJ you looked good last year.
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So yes, this is Mike Norvelle's fault. It is Mike
Norvell's fault that the offense and the defense are lacking physicality.
Because even if you lost you know, players to the
NFL Draft, there is still a standard for physicality amongst
your team, and if you can't maintain that physicality with
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your team, that's a significant issue.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
The second question that you guys sent in is, uh,
my organ Ducts are playing Boise State this week. So
here's the question. Oregon has never beaten Boise State. Are
you worried about this week? After Ashton Gentry, that's their
running back, ran for two hundred and sixty seven yards
and six touchdowns last week? Also, should Gentry be allowed
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to punch an Oregon defensive.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Player as payback for Legarrett Blunt?
Speaker 1 (10:45):
So the first part of it is, well, actually, I'll
address the second part of this question. First, should Ashton
Gentry be allowed to punch an Oregon defensive player as
payback for Lagarrett Blunt? And if you don't remember Lagarrett
Bump Blunt punched Byron out in the face after Oregon
lost to Boise State up at Boise State a number
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of years ago, Well, you let Legarrett Blunt say it
that Byron Houte harassing him after the game, tapped him
on the shoulder, called him the N word. I just
saw a video about this earlier today where Legarrett was
talking about it. Legarrett said he punched him because it
was no longer about football when he called him the nword.
So if you believed that version of the start, then no,
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Ashton Gentry shouldn't be allowed to punch anybody.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
But here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Are you worried about this week with Oregon, with Boise
State and Gentry? My answer to that is no, because
even though Oregon did not put up the amount of
points that you thought that they should have against against Idaho,
they were pretty stout against the run and this defensive
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line looks very physical. The Oregon linebackers do need to
step it up, but Bossa didn't play the majority of
the game. This team should be fine. And I expect
Dan Lanning's team, who has recovered well in history after
they you know, didn't play well, so I expect them
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to do it. And just so you guys know, the
Boise State wins over Oregon where two thousand and eight
over Mike Bellatti thirty seven, thirty two O nine over
Chip Kelly nineteen to eight. That was the Byron Howt
Lagarritt blunt punch game. And then the twenty and seventeen
lost Vegas Bowl over christ Ball thirty.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Eight twenty eight. All right.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
The third question is fsu is oz in two Clemson loss,
Virginia Tech lost, North Carolina needed a missed field go
to beat Minnesota. Is Miami gonna have to carry the
ACC this year. Yes, the answer to that is yes, yes,
they're gonna have to carry the ACC. But but here's
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the other part of it. How much are they really
kick carrying the ACC because number one, they won the
scheduling roulette where Miami's schedule is softest grandma's love right now.
I mean just literally softest grandma's love. When you look
at the rest of this season, there is no way
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that you can look at this and be any type
of intimidated if you are a Miami fan, you can't.
They are off this week, oh no, no, no, sorry, They
play Florida and A and M this week, so might
as well be off. Then they play Ball State at home,
they play at South Florida Virginia Tech, who doesn't look
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very good, cal Louisville, Florida State obviously, how bad they
look Duke Georgia Tech, Wake Forest, and then they end
the season with Syracuse. So no, there is nobody in
Miami's camp that should be scared. And if they drop
more than one game this year because they were sleepwalking
or something like that, that's going to be a major
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red flag. But my question about Miami is not this year.
My question about Miami is next year because they are
being they were saved by the PAC twelve because they
got cam Ward over from Washington State. He looked obviously
really good. And it's funny because he was the fifth
or sixth best quarterback in the PAC twelve last year.
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Think about that fifth or sixth best because you already
had Caleb Williams, you had Bo Knicks, Michael Pennick junior,
you had Noah Fafida down at Arizona. I mean that
at a minimum puts him at fifth at a minimum.
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So so the ACC, who you know, called themselves a
quarterback conference, they needed help from the PAC twelve to really,
you know, ensure that they were gonna be okay. Now,
how about Clemson in the ACEC. It's Clemson going to
be able to do much in the ACC. A lot
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of this has to do with Dabo Sweeney, because Dabo
Sweeney must adapt or die at this.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Point in time.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
And I've talked about it that my mom always says,
you always do what you're always done, you always get
what you always got. Now, Dabo's gotten a lot of success,
but here is the problem is that change is happening
around you, and Dabo Sweeney is not adapting to the
changes in college football. Nick Saban adapted to the change.
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He did it wonderfully. Hiring Lane Kiffin changed his whole offense.
Look at what happened down in LSU with Les Miles.
He refused to change. Dinosaur died out. And this is
where Dabo is. He's going to have to adapt. This
is adapt or die time in college football. Now that
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doesn't mean Now adapting does not mean that you mortgage
or sacrifice your principles because you are supposed to be
who you are at the core you. But when it
comes down to winning football games, you have to do
what you have to do to win football games within
your culture. So you got to keep your culture intact,
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but also put the best team out on the field
as possible. And Dabbo adapt or die, baby, adapt or die.
Number four? Did you see Arizona State's head coach Kenny
Dillingham put a walk on lineman in at running back
to impress his five star basketball playing brother. And what
did you think of that? Okay, So for you guys that.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
CoA Pete who and that Peak family is one of
the most athletic families around.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Just google them. Pa Pea t.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
CoA Pete is a five star forward who has all seven,
yes seven of his siblings playing college sports. And he
was on an official visit to ASU and they're trying
to compete with Duke and Arizona for this kid. So
having the football coach in Kenny Dillingham put his brother
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in the game at running back, is that going to sweed? Listen,
this is something that coaches need to be aware of.
And this is actually something that Dan Lanning actually does
really well. When kids are playing hometown kids like Sadiq
bay Over at Oregon or Kenyan Sadik, Yes last name
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is Sadik. They were playing Idaho, He's from Idaho. All
of a sudden he touched the ball a little bit
more because that's something that means a lot to the kids.
So I'm actually I'm not mad at Kenny Dillaham for that.
They were blowing them out in the game. They were
blowing out Wyoming, So yeah, is what it is, all right?
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The fifth question up Connor Weakman, who's Texas and M's quarterback.
He only threw four hundred yards against Notre Dame. He
was a five star coming out of high school? Are
we ready to call him a bust? So here's the truth.
In limited playing time, Connor Wigman has sixteen touchdowns two
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interceptions in his career. Obviously it's still early, and Notre
Dame actually might be the best.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Defense in the country right now.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
They look fantastic, Like look what they did to Caleb
Williams in twenty twenty three, had him throw three picks.
If Caleb Williams looked horrendous versus Notre Dame last year.
So it is something about this about this defense as well.
But the thing that we have to understand is that
a five star rating coming out of high school, as
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much as we'd like five stars and people will tell
you that stars matter and everything else, they are not
a guarantee of success because there are guys that underperformed
that rating for whatever reason every single year. Look at JT.
Daniels who was over at USC and then it's been
you know, multiple spots after that. Harrison Bailey, ty Thompson,
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who transferred from Oregon down to Tulane didn't win the job.
Malachai Nelson left USC went to Boise, didn't win the job.
Walker Howard Sam Hewart. All of these dudes, think about it.
Them dudes have like Harrison Bailey, Tyd Thompson, Walker Howard,
and Sam Hewart have one combined touchdown pass. Stars matter
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on a macro level, like if you have a team
and you have the blue Chip rating, you know eighty
percent where eighty percent of your roster is four and
five star players. Yes, your team is going to be
one of the best teams in the country, particularly if
you're well coached. But on a micro level, like on
an individual player level, stars don't matter. You can be
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a two star get a first round draft pick. You
can be a five star and end up to never
play no matter what school you go to. Just the
reality of things, all right? Question six from you guys
here on the mail bag on Unafraid Show. Make sure
that you like, subscribe, tell a friend about it, and
most importantly share and you can hit us up. I'm
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Matt i Ammad at Unafraid show dot com for us
to get to your questions.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
All right? Number six, Ah, this was good. George.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
You come across as a USC hater after we held
LSU to twenty points. Are you ready to admit the
Trojans are back? Number one. I am not a USC hater.
I just try to call things out how they are.
And USC had not put together a good defense even
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at all. And here's what we saw in the LSU game,
and I want people to keep it in perspective. LSU
and USC had two of the worst defenses in the
country last year, the worst five far unadulter rated worst
defenses in the country. And so you don't go from
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worse in the country to a top ten, top fifteen defense.
So are both of those defenses better?
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Yes? Is USC's defense better? Yes?
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Was Miller Moss really good? Yes, it's LSU's defense great. No,
So do not be fooled by what you saw. Take
it as a really good win for USC, a good
stepping stone and a building block for what they got
coming up this year, and be okay with that, like
that's where we got a land with this, and not
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try to make it more than what this game really was.
And USC's upcoming schedule they got Utah State this week,
then then they played Wisconsin at home, which is gonna
be a formidable game at Wisconsin Penn State, so we're
gonna find more and more out about this team. So
there's no need to overreact there or be and be
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reactive to Oh my god, you're not giving them enough credit,
you're hating Nah. Just really just making sure that we
temper the expectations, because with great expectations comes great disappointment.
And USC fans will be trying to fire Lincoln Riley.
They will be if they lose like three games this
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year after the excitement of this LSU game, and how
many times have we looked at it a week one
week zero game and put way too much stock into it.
Look at Colorado last year when they beat Nebraska, everybody's like,
oh yeah, they back baby. It beat Colorado State, they
back baby, let us go. Then they lose seven out
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of eight in conference. Just saying, all right, number seven.
You're an NFL general manager, George, and you have a
top three pick, and you already have your quarterback of
the future. Do you take Travis Hunter or Tetoroa McMillan
out of Arizona in case you don't know who the
kid is. Wow, I'm going to go with Travis Hunter
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only for one single solitary reason, and that's flexibility. That's
flexibility because now I have a player that I can
play at dB if I need to, Oh, Georgia can't
play both ways. I mean the Patriots had a wide
receiver playing nickel dB sometimes on a Super Bowl team.
So yeah, and Travis Hunter is significantly better. So that's
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the only reason. But McMillan, t mac the kid is electric.
If you have not watched Arizona play, watch him play.
He cannot be covered. He was supposed to be. He
was originally committed to Oregon. Because you're like, how do
you ended up at at Arizona? He was originally commit
to Oregon and then he ended up backing off his
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commitment once Mario Christobaul left and went to Miami, and
so he went down to Arizona with his best friend
and quarterback Noah Fafiita. All right, number eight, question number eight,
and we're gonna take ten from you guys every single week,
guys like Cam Rising and Tyler Shuck went off in
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a went off in week one. Do you believe that
twenty five year olds should even be eligible.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
For the Heisman? Yes? Yes, what are we talking about here? Absolutely?
Are you kidding me? Yes? Twenty five year if you are.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Eligible in college football, you should be eligible for any
postseason award. Should Cam McCormick over at Miami in his
ninth college football year, not be eligible for the Mackie
Award as the best tight end in the country. Yes,
the dude suffers four straight season ending injuries. Yes, he's
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earned that opportunity, Cam Rising, multiple injuries transferred are to
sit out everything. So yes, you should not just be
eligible just because you're the between the ages of seventeen
and twenty one. I mean, if that's the case, should
Jayden Daniels have wanted it twenty.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Three last year? Yes, he was the best player.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Well let's old, no story, but anyways, he was really
really good though, all right? And number nine, which G
five quarterback, made themselves the most money in the transfer
portal so far. That's like upcoming. So first one is
because you got New Mexico's quarterback Devin Dampier. He's from
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Arizona originally, and I got the chance to see him
when my son played against them in high school, and
Arizona didn't want him back then, but they they might
want him now. Even though norha Fida's doing a really
good job. But three hundred and ninety total yards and
five touchdowns, kid looks electric right now. And then you
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gotta look at a kid like Owen McCowan. He's over
at UTSA right now, and Dion Sanders got him up
out of Colorado two years ago and he against Kennessas
State and Utsa's opener, three hundred and forty yards, three touchdowns,
so it's working out for him. Lincoln Riley got the
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kid Chandler Morris out of high school and he technically
has a year of eligibility left after this year. And
Morris was on that TCU team that actually went to
the national championship. And I wonder if he rather play
at North Texas then hopping the transfer portal after this year,
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because he went for four hundred and fifteen yards and
five total touchdowns against South Alabama, so people are going
to be calling his name after this season.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Then you got J. C.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
French over at Georgia Southern, John Mattier at Washington State,
Grant Wilson at Old Dominion. This is what it is,
all right, the last of your mail bag questions which
you can send to us.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Eight. I was getting ready to give the phone numbers
to my radio show on Mad Dog Is.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
I'm Matt i Ammad at Unafraid show dot com. So
the tenth question is who will last longer into the season,
Billy Napier over at Florida or Shane Beeamer over at
South Carolina. Who I'm gonna go with Shane Beemer. And
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the reason why is because Billy Napier is fighting up
hill already.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Man.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
They have already lost to Miami, which is an in
state game. They they're end of the season with, like Georgia, Texas, Alabama.
It's just not looking.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Good right now.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
So it's going to be hard for him if Florida. Okay,
let's let's let's look at Florida's schedule right now because
just to make sure, just to see how long that
this is gonna last. Because Florida plays Samford this week,
then after that Texas A and m that's gonna be
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a tough game at Mississippi State at Tennessee Kentucky, and
that's all before they get to Georgia, Texas, LSU, oh
Miss and Florida State. That's all before they get to them, dudes.
So if he racks up three losses before he gets
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to that Georgia game, it's it's gonna be a problem.
It's gonna be a problem. If I am Billy Napier
right now. As much as I you know, believe in
Graham Mertz or like Graham Merts or think he might
be the best, the only way to save his job
right now is to put DJ Lagway in that quarterback
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and let DJ Lagway cook. And if DJ Lagway looks
like he's continuing to grow and get better and better
under Billy Napier, maybe he can inspire some hope that
he can get things fixed and get this whole train
back on the on the trails. But Shane Beemer, though,
Shane Beemer over at South Carolina, his situation is a
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little bit different because he's got Kentucky this week and
they went to overtime with Old Dominion. Granted Old Dominion
is much better, but South Carolina has a defensive end
number six. He did bad things to Old Dominion's tackles. Boy,
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that kid as a true freshman, unbelievable. I gotta look
up his name because his performance was incredible. But the
difference is is that Florida's O one, South Carolina is one.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
And oh and if.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
They can beat Kentucky this week, oh oh, he's pretty
much a shoe in to make it through the end
of the season, even though the middle of the season
gives you lsu Ole, Miss Alabama, Oklahoma and Texas A and
M and then Missouri a couple weeks later. Hey, he
just got to win any of those games, oh, miss Oklahoma,
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Texas or Alabama, any of those three games, and he'll
make it through the season. But my money, if I'm fading,
it is on.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Billy Naprier to.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Be gone first, even though you know, everybody knows he's
a good guy. But it doesn't matter in college football.
All right, though, now it is time. I have revealed
on Twitter already, but here is my top twenty five
for this week in the world of college football. Top
twenty five this week. So for context, the ap Pole
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put out its top twenty five. And the difference between
my poll and the ap Pole and like you know,
a Josh Pate rating poll, is that mine is based
upon the three most important criteria for ranking teams. It's
not betting odds, it's not you know, writers, any of
that three most important criteria quality wins at the top
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of the list, Schedule played second on the list, and
then Dominant's third on the list.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
So what that means is.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Is that teams that have played better teams are going
to be and one are going to be rewarded with
a higher ranking despite a team that I feel is
technically more talented or is you know or looks the part. Now,
in the preseason, I did the rankings based upon recruiting rankings,
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returning roster, and coaching. But now that we have data
and our model gets better and better as the season
goes along, the more and more information that we get.
So I don't project out to who Alabama's going to
play later, No, no, no, no, I'm looking at who if
they played now. So here is this week's top twenty five.
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We had Georgia at one, Notre Dame two, Penn State, Miami, USC,
Ohio State, Texas, Ole, miss Alabama, and Oregon rounding out
the top ten Utah, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Washington fifteen, Michigan, Iowa, Louisville,
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K State, and Georgia Tech to twenty LSU Arizona, NC State,
Oklahoma State and Clemson at number twenty five. Now people
might be saying, George, how could you put Notre Dame
at two? They absolutely played a good opponent in Texas,
A and m they shut them down, got a big win.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
They look really good.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
So their schedule played quality wins high and they look
dominated on defense. So yes, I could have actually made
a case for them at number one, except for Georgia
went to Clemson. Clemton is a good team on defense
and put them in an absolute stranglehold. And we're gonna
find out as the season goes on how good those
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wins are. And so here is the poll last week.
The way you guys can understand how this works because
some you know, with the ape pole, they don't react
very much. So look at last week the preseason. I
had Oregon at two. Oregon did not put on a
very they they played Idaho and they didn't score a
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ton of points. Now, they were dominant on office. The
quarterback almost threw for five hundred yards, they didn't convert
in some special situations, they didn't turn the ball over,
the defense was dominant. So yes, so Oregon fell a
lot in the pole. But that's the reason why. And
then you have Florida State fall completely out. Obviously Clemson
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because that Georgia Clemson game was actually closer than the
score dictated. And Clemson still looks like a team that
has some metal to them and can and can be better.
Ohio State fell from three to six. Why they played
accurate where they dominant one percent, USC, Miami and Penn
State all played quality opponents. They at least played Power
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five opponents. Whether you think they're good or not, this
whole different story. But you play Power five opponents and
you dominate them, you are going to move up this pole.
So I want you guys to understand that. And now
I want you guys to take a peek at what
the AP pole did this this week. And this is
what the AP pole did this week versus what the
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AP pole was in week one.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
See the AP pole.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Actually that's coaches poll, but they barely move teams from
week to week. And here on the Unafraid Show, the
more and more data and information that we get, we
have an opportunity to fly up the polls. Just like
for instance, this week we have the Michigan and Tennessee
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play right, Michigan, Tennessee. If Michigan and Tennessee play I'm
sorry Michigan in Texas, excuse me, Michigan and Texas. Michigan
and Texas played this week, Texas is right. Now is
seven point favorite. If Texas wins this game by twenty
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one points, now we have to compare that to the
Texas and the win.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
We got to compare that to the.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
When we punch all the numbers in, we got to
put it against the Penn State, West Virginia win, the
floor to Miami win. And depending on how those teams
do this week, and with LSU and USC and so forth,
just like we have Tennessee and NC State, those things
can dramatically impact where you are in the rankings. Iowa
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Iowa State this week, so and Oregon plays Boise State.
So if Oregon bounces back there, I think they're nineteen
point favorites against Boise State. They knock the doors off
of them and look really good. Okay, now we can
add some to it, but that's still it's a better
win than Idaho. But is it a better Is it
going to be a better win than how many people
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are in front of them? So that's how the Unafraid
sho Paul works and that's the reason why we do
it the way we do it. So and with the
top twenty five, that gives us how we are going
to shape the playoff, because the playoff is its own beast.
The playoff is its own beast. Because here is the
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preseason playoff bracket that I was able to do. The
preseason playoff bracket, I had Oregon as a champion playing
Notre Dame in the National Championship. Everybody laughed at me, Oh, George,
how the hell could you have How the hell could
you have Notre Dame in the in the top playing
for the national championship. Yeah, you saw what they did,
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text saying in with that defense, right, Okay, okay, I'll
accept all apologies, but I'm not gonna brag because I
did have Florida State at number three, and there ain't
no way that they're getting anywhere near the playoff unless
they have a miracle and run through the SEC. Sorry,
acc right now, but here is this week's Paul, here's
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this week's playoff bracket. I got Georgia winning the national championship.
So you have Oregon, who went from the two seed
down to the tennessee. Ohio State moved from the sixth
seed down to the seventeen. USC jumped up to six,
Alabama fell from ten to eleven, Liberty's out of there,
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Memphis is in Texas moves from eight to five. Notre
Dame moves from nine to five, Utah stays at four,
Alabama moved. Yeah, so Alabama moved there, but then Miami
moved to number three and Penn State moved to number two.
That's how it works, how it works, and so we
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will update these every single week, and you guys can
always take advantage and see it and make sure that
you guys comment. I'm George Reister. This is the Unafraid Show.
Make sure that you like, subscribe, tell a friend about
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Speaker 2 (38:50):
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