September 9, 2025 • 61 mins
College Football Week 2 reaction and live recap — Michigan vs Oklahoma, Oregon vs Oklahoma State. Who is king? SEC football or Big Ten vs Big 12, ESPN FPI controversy, Arch Manning & Bryce Underwood, Miami hurricanes & Florida State football, South Florida vs Florida gators. George Wrighster is live breaking down a wild Week 2: why the Big 12 disappointed in non-conference play, but Big Ten football didn’t (Oregon football, Ohio State football, Michigan football, Indiana hoosiers, Penn State football, USC football, Washington huskies) looked elite, and why the SEC handled its non-con tests while the ACC’s best hopes are Miami and Florida State. Plus, the nation’s biggest surprise: South Florida out-toughing Florida in The Swamp.
We unpack statement wins and red flags: Oregon 69–3 over Oklahoma State (Moore sharp, defense ruthless), Army 24–21 at Kansas State, Mississippi State 24–20 over Arizona State (program win for Jeff Lebby; Blake Shapen steady), Ohio 17–10 West Virginia, Missouri 42–31 Kansas. Then the algorithm smoke: ESPN FPI after Week 2 vaults Alabama to #4 after ULM while FSU sits #26, Miami falls to #21, 0–1 Notre Dame at #10, USF ranked 15 spots behind Florida, Arkansas up 10 spots for AAMU/Ark St, Oregon to #1 after blasting a bad OkSt, Iowa State down seven—we’ll show why the FPI formula is broken even as SOS and efficiency love the SEC.
Deep dive: Michigan vs Oklahoma (24–13) — OU led 14–0 at half, went 7/13 on third down to Michigan’s 3/13, and never ceded control. John Mateer (270 pass, 74 rush, 3 TD) answered every Wolverine push; Deion Burks (7–101–TD) stressed the corners. Bryce Underwood (9/24, 142) flashed arm talent but never found rhythm vs pressure. Justice Haynes (125 rush, 75-yd TD) provided the lone spark while OU’s front won the non-explosive downs. Hidden pivot: a missed 32-yd Michigan FG in a low-possession game. OU closed with a clock-kill drive—blueprint stuff.
Around the country: South Florida 18–16 Florida (walk-off Nico Gramatica FG; Gators 11 penalties, bad punt snap safety; DJ Lagway banged up), Iowa 16–13 Iowa State (rock fight; Hawkeye offense still stuck in 1998), Ole Miss 30–23 Kentucky (Austin Simmons survives two INTs; Kewan Lacy hammers), Arizona State 20–24 Mississippi State (ASU rallies late but stalls at the 1), Illinois 45–19 Duke (Luke Altmyer dicing; Duke turnovers doom), Baylor 38–38 SMU to OT (Sawyer Robertson spectacular, defense leaks), LSU 23–7 LaTech (defense carries; Nussmeier steady), Alabama 73–0 ULM, Ohio State 77–0 Grambling, Georgia 28–6 Austin Peay. We’ll also hit Bryce Underwood vs the Arch Manning anointing, why Brent Venables calling OU’s defense + a real QB = SEC problem, and which teams are real vs noise heading into Week 3. Tap in live—no fluff, just truth.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 – Week 2 truth serum
01:02 – Big 12’s non-con faceplant
02:48 – “Generational” Arch Manning & Bryce Underwood
04:37 – What Arch’s SJSU tape really said
05:27 – QB confidence/fit: DJ Lagway & Dylan Raiola lessons
08:47 – Michigan–Oklahoma recap setup
09:43 – Venables’ defense vs a freshman QB: the Belichick effect
10:47 – OU’s gauntlet ahead in the SEC
12:38 – USF–Florida fallout: Napier heat, discipline, missed explosiveness
14:39 – DJ Lagway context (injury/no spring) & Gators
17:27 – Oregon 69–3 Oklahoma State: total demolition
20:29 – Why I’m “nervous to get excited” about Oregon
23:01 – Will Stein masterclass: shifts, personnel, nightmare to prep
23:52 – Has college football passed Mike Gundy by?
27:53 – Ole Miss–Kentucky
30:46 – Kentucky needs a schematic edge
32:37 – AP vs ESPN FPI rant:
37:42 – Clemson/South Carolina placements & poll sanity check
39:26 – Texas–SJSU:
41:26 – Arch’s “noise” problem & tempered Texas expectations
42:20 – Illinois is for real
43:28 – Illini schedule talk & upset call
44:38 – Baylor–SMU chaos: Sawyer Robertson show
48:29 – Big Ten snapshot: true title threats & spoilers
49:21 – LSU–La Tech: letdown indicators & Blake Baker’s defense
52:14 – Arizona State–Mississippi State:
54:14 – 17-play drive stalls; why ASU isn’t “for real” yet
55:13 – Mea culpa: Kansas State CFP pick retracted
56:10 – FAST BREA
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Transcript
Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
College Football Week two.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
It did not disappoint and we are so excited to
be here. The Big Twelve, however, they disappointed. The top
of the Big ten looks in leaked. You got the
SEC performing well in the non conference the ACC. Their
best hopes are Miami and South and well in Florida State.
Right now you have South Florida being the biggest surprise.
(00:30):
Can they crash the college football playoff party? And so
much more to talk about today because we got to
talk about the real generational talent and what we're really
seeing out of Arch Manning and Bryce Underwood as well.
The FPI is going crazy and so much stuff here.
I'm George Reister, former NFL player, college football player, college
(00:52):
football analyst on c W and thankful that next week
when you tune into the Miami South Floor or the
game Who's Mug, You're gonna see right there, your voy
right here.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
So I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Make sure that you like, subscribe, get notifications, and tell
a friend about the show. We always got the heat,
all right. So we are going to start with the
Big Twelve because the Big Twelve, remember I told you
guys in the preseason, made a whole video about it
that the Big Twelve their Brett yor Mark their commissioner,
talking about that they want more than one College Football
(01:28):
Playoff bid in the twelve team. And I told y'all
they had very few opportunities in the non conference to
prove and show that they could do it, and they
were about it. Well, guess what they showed up And
they absolutely have flopped. They have flopped, They have face planted,
and every other negative thing that you can say in between.
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And this weekend was brutal. This weekend was absolutely brutal
for the Big Twelve because think about this. You had
Oklahoma State get I don't even know what you call that.
Dan Landing should be thrown in jail for what happened
at Oklahoma State sixty nine to three. Army turned around
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and beat Kansas State, the team that I picked to
win the Big Twelve and go to the College Football Playoff.
I apologize you, Tah, I apologize BYU. I apologize to
anybody that I was sleeping on except these teams right here.
Mississippi State hosted ASU, knocked their doors off, Ohio beat
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West Virginia, Missouri beat Kansas After having a big league
it wasn't good. So all of this has led to
how many teams are going to get in the college
football playoff? And we got to talk about the lies.
I gotta tell some truths about teams that people don't
really want to hear. But the first truth that we
are going to tell is surrounding Arch Manning and is
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surrounding Bryce Underwood. And you guys, make sure you like up,
like subscribe, put your stuff in the chat, and I
will respond to your questions and comments in the chat
as well. So Bryce Underwood and Arch Manning, now here
is the truth. So you had arch Manning against Texas
last week. I was here against Ohio State last week,
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big matchup. And then this was Bryce Underwood's term. Because
we have heard the term generational talent surrounding both of
these guys, and they have been anointed before. They have
put enough on tape to believe that they are true. Now,
if it were up to me and you were like George,
you can either take the future in college football, forget
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the pros, the future of college football of Bryce Underwood,
or the future of college football of Arch Manning. I'm
taking Bryce Underwood YEP, one hundred percent. George you know
he went nine for twenty four against Oklahoma, Yes, I do.
But you know what I didn't get. I didn't get
Darren head Like I did not get you know, four
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mall funky moment feels too big.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I didn't get any of that.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Now, Arch may turn out to be a fantastic NFL
pro like everybody's talking about. But for right now, what
we have seen through these two games of these players
this season. Gimme Bryce underweo. But the anointing is premature
for both way premature and this and here's the other
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part about this. About this Texas game where Arch Manning
came out and threw four touchdowns in the first half,
everybody was so excited about it. And I hate to
be the bearer of bad news, but the truth is
is that when you look at the tape, Arch's feet
are still bad.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
He still is turning down reads if Oakland.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
If Texas's offensive line had not been so stellar in
the game, he would not have had nearly the amount
of stats and yards as were in the first half.
So he finished nineteen for thirty two hundred and ninety
five yards and four touchdowns in there thirty eight to
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seven win over San Jose State, and there were times
like it was a mixed bag where Arch like you
were like, okay, nice throat, and then you're like, why
are you skipping that ball? And then there's turning down
reads and stuff. So it is confusing. And I have
two quarterback sons. And the thing that it looks like
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to me when I watch it that I've seen happen
in my own kids, that I've seen happen in other
people's kids, there is something going on with his confidence
right now. People are wondering if he's hurt, if he's
been grimace and throwing whatever it is, whether it is
confidence in his arm, whether it is confidence in his
you know, in the scheme and the play calling, if
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the moment's too big. Either way, there is something going
on in internally in Arch Manning, and hopefully it can
get fixed, because if not, we have built in y'all,
excuse me not we y'all, and the media and the
public have built this kid up so big just to
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be able to cut him down later. And it is
fortunate and it is a blessing and a curse that
he has this last name, because if his name was
was Arch Reister granted there's a little gravitas that comes
to being a Reister having an NFL dad, but it
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ain't the same as being a manning and in terms
of college football, let's just be real about that. But
then there was another kid that we were throwing around
the term generational talent last year as well, and it's
DJ Lagway.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
So how many times do we have to be fooled
and learn?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
And I know that we live in a media day
and a and this is why you come to George
Reister's college football show, thee A Freight chose to hear
the truth.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
There are so.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Many times that that in media, we want to be
in the hot take business. We want to anoint somebody
so quick the way we can be right and be first.
Everybody wants to be the first person to make the
grand statement about a player. But look at DJ Lagway
as well, generational talent. Oh man, this kid is going
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to be the next greatest thing. And through two games
at Florida, how's it look this year?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Not that great? Right?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Because nobody was using the common sense that that was
just that God gave us. Dj Lagway missed all of springball,
came into camp hurt, finished last season hurt, no reports
of surgery, but we think that that he was going
to have a great season, especially to start. Where's the
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calculus in that? It doesn't make any sense at all?
And there is a reason why DJ Lagway is struggling
right now. And do you know who else that they
were talking about generational talent as well recently Dylan Riola
over there at Nebraska. Nothing about Delan Roola looks generational
at this point in time. Physically, he looks great getting
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off the bus. Physically, these kids look great getting off
the bus.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
But the thing that.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I've learned in quarterbacking in terms of my own sons
and watching other people's kids and everything else, it is
so much about confidence, it is about fit. It is
about being emotionally healthy. And there was a coach that
told me, and I know that Dion got a lot
of pushback from this about saying that kids need to
come from good homes and all of this stuff, but
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it's not even that, well two parent homes and are
no kids have to be emotionally healthy to play this
position and in a home that doesn't go like this
just reality. But let's get into the games from this
week and all the stuff that has gone on, and
we are going to start with the with the Michigan
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and Oklahoma game. Now, you may have seen the video
last night on the here on Unafraid Jode, but if
you didn't full recap on it. Brent Venables, who people
came into this season questioning, he showed up and showed out.
And I knew that we were going to be looking
at peak Oklahoma because and this was a twenty four
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to thirteen victory Peak Oklahoma, because Brent Venables took this
defense back over. And you cannot discount the job that
this man has done schematically at Oklahoma and then at Clemson.
And when you put Bryce Underwood, a rookie quarterback, a
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freshman quarterback, up against Brent Venables, it is almost like
going against Bill Belichick as.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
A rookie quarterback.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
They have terrible records in the NFL and Michigan is
a year away. So for all you crazy people on
message board saying that Brent, that Jeron Moore is terrible
of the Michigan culture, I guess you forgot what happened
the beginning of Jim Harball's tenure. You just won a
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championship two years ago settle down. You didn't have a
quarterback last year. The roster is younger, he's rebuilding and
not just running punt football. This is smash Mount football
and it is also going to be able to pass
the football. This is why I'm high on Bryce Underwood
going forward. Michigan is going to be a hot spot
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for wide receivers. They want to play with that dude.
I'm telling you.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
That right now.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
I've asked around and that is the report that I've gotten,
is that kids want to play with mister Bryce Underwood,
and the SEC is going to have their hands full
with Oklahoma. But also Oklahoma has their hands full with
the SEC. When you look at their at their upcoming schedule,
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they got Templed, then they got Auburn. They also have Texas,
South Carolina, Old Miss, Tennessee, Miami, Missouri, and LSU. Now
right now, that is one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight ranked teams.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Eight ranked teams right now. Now.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Granted, Missouri might not be ranked by then, Auburn might
not be ranked in two weeks when they play, and
you know, who knows what's gonna happen with Old misson
Tennessee and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
But still this schedule.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Looks very daunting, but it is a good thing that
they have mister John Mattier, who is a playmaker. We're
talking about a team that is going to be a
force in the SEC, and through two weekends of football,
there is not one team in the SEC that looks
unbeatable right now.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
There there isn't now.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Granted, some of them have not played, you know, the
stiffest of competition, but nobody looks like that they are
world beaters at this point in time. Nobody looks like,
oh my gosh, like Georgia a few years ago when
their defense was so scary that you couldn't even possibly
even think about scoring on them. That's not what we're seeing.
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So this Oklahoma team is going to be a problem
in the SEC. But I do want to point out
that Michigan, for all of the talk about, you know
anything around this program, Sharon Moore is building things the
right way. He's recruiting well, kids are gonna want to
go there, and they are continuing the level of physicality
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that helps you play really good football. Now, the next
game that we have to talk about that South Florida
versus Florida game, and Florida's athletic director. Today, he came
out and talked about mister Oh, about their head coach,
mister Billy Napier, gave him another voter confidence and this
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was the same thing that he did last season. Now,
I understand the frustration with fans with losing to South
Florida because the amount of money that you spend and
have in your recruiting budget compared to South Florida, ain't it.
These things aren't even remotely the same. But the issue
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is is that the expectations are not matching the consistency
expected because Florida, who their next game is against LSU
this weekend, This is a game that Florida turns around
and wins. And that's why fans are frustrated with Billy Napier.
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And but you do have to exercise some level of patience,
even in an impatient world. Is that means that you
are starting to get things right on some level? But
Yo yoing and I've talked about this so many times
that Yo yoing drives fans mad. Fans would rather you
suck completely or be completely dominant. It's the lukewarm like, yeah,
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we're great this week, Oh my god, we lost to
an inferior team next week, same thing. When you do this,
fans are going to be frustrated and Billy Napier is
back on the hot seat talk. But I'm happy that
the athletic director gave the vote of confidence because that
will keep his team fully engaged. And if he can
keep his team engaged and together, they will have a chance.
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But my biggest question is about DJ Lagway is the like,
how healthy are we really believing that DJ Lagway is
Because you know, twenty three for thirty three for two,
twenty two, a touchdown and a pick that doesn't look terrible,
but if you notice not running the ball quite as much,
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and also a lot of short passes and some of
the deep passes are getting missed because of.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
The lack of practice time in the spring.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
So I am going to give Dj Lagway a little
bit of a pass.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
No spring ball hurt to start spring.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Fall camp, and I expected a slow start this season,
but this offense only being able to put up sixteen
points is a significant problem. Now, they ran the ball
fairly well thirty one for one, thirty three and for
four point three yards to carry, but the issue is
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you're not having explosive runs one fifteen yard runn you
gotta be able to run the ball at a high
clip because when you look at the team that they played,
South Florida, who is looking like the best group of
five team.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
By far right now Byron Brown.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Their quarterback twenty yard rush, Alvin Isaac twenty two yard rush.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Those are the type of exposive plays.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
So they ran the ball twenty nine times for one
twenty eight four point four yards to carry. And that
is what is concerning, is that it wasn't that that
Nico gramatica twenty yard walk off field goal, and it
wasn't even the eighty seven yard touchdown drive that led
up to it. The issue for the Florida Gators is
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that they look like they are not a disciplined football team.
Can you imagine one of Nick Sabans players, and I
know we use him, but like spitting on somebody in
a crucial point in time in the game. Now, granted,
like you can't control somebody spitting on somebody if you're
the head coach, but there's a culture surrounding your team
of good decision making, especially in crucial times like yes,
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you may get a holding penalty or something like that.
Maybe a weird rough in the passer call just something
like that, but not anything, just foolish. And the Gators
had eleven penalties for one hundred and three yards. They
had a PI and an ejection for spitting on the
game winning drive. So they literally helped South Florida out
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bad tackling, a bad punt, snap, everything surrounding it. So, yes,
Florida looks to be a better team than South Florida,
But no matter how talented a team is, because we
get to talking about talent all the time, and I
want you guys to pay attention to this. No matter
how talented a team is, if you cannot if a
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team can not execute when it matters the most, you're
not gonna win football games, even against the inferior opponents.
The next game that we got to talk about, I
got to talk about the Oregon Ducks for a second
because Oregon State, oh sorry, Oklahoma State went out there
to Eugenie to play the Oregon Ducks. And now, mind you,
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I want you guys to pay attention to these rankings
for a second.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
I'm gonna put up.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Today's FPI and AP pole And the reason why this
matters is I want to talk about this Oregon Oklahoma
State game, because nobody is really talking about the Oregon
Ducks right now. They have played two opponents. Montana State,
who is a very very good FCS team. They came
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into the season ranked number one, I believe, so that
means hoighly thought of right. And then they played against
Oklahoma State, which is a Big twelve team. Now, Oklahoma
State went winless in the Big Twelve last year, so
and they got like six forty new transfers.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
All this stuff.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
When you watch this Oregon Ducks team play, and I'm
going to be completely honest. Remember I told you that
this is the show of truth today, this is the
show of truth that Oklahoma State and Dante I'm sorry
Oklahoma State went to go to Eugen and I watched this.
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This was a complete destruction from the beginning. It was
forty one to three at halftime. Nine different people scored
six hundred and thirty one yards, Dante Moore two hundred
and sixty six yards, three touchdowns, back to back pick sixes.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
I do not care.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
As a former Oregon player this game, I expected this
to happen. Twenty eight and a half point favorites. I'm
gonna tell you this. I about the Oregon Ducks, I
am too nervous to get excited. That is the truth.
This Oregon team looks phenomenal. We've heard that this is
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the most talented team that they have ever had. But
you know what last season did to me, I from
being honest, broke it broke me. I feel like I
was in a relationship and then I walked in and
I found my wife into bed with my best friend.
That's what happened in the Rose Bowl last year. That's
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the way I felt. Thirteen to zero, got through the
regular season, all this stuff, and no, I don't care
about the twenty five days off.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
I know it impacted the team. Don't care about it.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
But this was one of them years where you're like,
oh my god, this was a national championship type team.
And then you go to the Rose Bowl and for
all whatever the reasons are, you get your heart ripped
out because you get your ass whipped. That whooped handed
to you and packed in a lunch pail and made
you go but walk back to ug Gay, your wedgie
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dumped you in the toilet. Gay, You're swirling, That's how
bad it was. So for the Oregon Ducts this season.
I don't even care what they do in the regular season.
I don't care whether they go undefeate it. I don't
care whether they lose two games. Just make it to
the playoff and then win games. Because my heart was
broken so badly last year that I can't even get excited.
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And this is also one of the problems with and
I know that some of you guys have experienced this
as well. Is is when you are a fan and
your team has some success, there becomes a level of
jadedness where you are like bro like, where you can't
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even be happy about stuff like this. So I'm going
to try to find a way that I hope that
you guys can too, when you're team has some success,
that we don't taint it right, that we don't taint
it and we can actually enjoy it for what it
is and don't worry about the future. Don't worry about
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what happens two weeks from now, three weeks from now.
Let's live in a moment, as college football coaches tell us,
be where our feet are. I tell my kids that
all the time, and you know, so we need to
do this too. But I will tell you for teams
that are preparing for Oregon, like Penn State in a
couple of weeks, because Oregon has Nebraska next week on
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Big noon kickoff, and then they got Oregon State, and
then the week after that they go to Happy Valley
to play Penn State.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Now, if you are.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Penn State and you are prepared for Oregon, if you
are Northwestern, if you are Oregon State, Oregon's offensive coordinator
Will Stein looks like the best offensive coordinator in all
of college football right now. Watch them play. The amount
of different shifts, the amount of different UH formations, the
amount of different personnel groups, everything in between. It looks
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so phenomenally different right now than a lot of other teams.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Are giving you.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
This man is poised, Oregon's officer coordinator, Will Stein. He
will be somebody's head coach probably after this season. So
if you like what you're saying out of Oregon, that
might be your guy. But let's talk about Mike Gundy
and Oklahoma State for a while. Now here is and
I'm gonna be as honest and transparent as I can
(23:42):
possibly be. Now, I'm a person, and you guys make
sure that you guys like up subscribe, Tell a friend
about the show. George Reister, former NFL player, college football player,
college football analysts. You'll see me this week on the
Miami South Florida game, well in pre and postgame on CW. So,
Mike Gundy and I have a relationship with a ton
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of college football coaches. It was texting Mario Christobal the
other day. Have relationships with a lot of coaches around
the country. So this makes me uneasy to say, because
I am welcome in a lot of these buildings, I
am privy to a lot of private conversations, and so
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calling for coaches jobs or saying that coaches are not
doing a good enough job and need a replacement or
something is touchy territory. But the truth is, Mike gundhy
college football in twenty twenty five has passed Mike Gundy by.
Actually it passed them by in twenty twenty three, and
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he didn't see it. There's a reason why Oklahoma State
needed forty transfers. When you are a person who's been
at a program as long as Mike Gundy has, there
is no reason that you should have these big swings
like you're having right now. But Mike Gundy believed that
nil and the transfer porter were going to go away.
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He lost his roster, lost his way. Does not understand
college football right now, And I'm going to give you
three examples why now. In twenty twenty two, Oklahoma State
lost to Kansas State by forty eight points, the third
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largest loss in Mike the Gundy's career been there well
over a decade.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
In twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
That was last season, they lost at Colorado by fifty
two points. Yes, the Colorado, the fighting Buffaloes, the fighting
Dion Sanders, Chador, Travis Hunter, everybody in between.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
They lost by fifty two points to Colorado.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
And now you lose to Oregon by sixty six points
in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
You are taking massive losses. That means you are nowhere
even near the stratosphere.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
So this is not a knock on anything that Mike
Gundy had done prior to the last three years, because
he had had Oklahoma State competitive, He has had them
ranked in the top ten before major bowl games, everything
in between.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
So this is not that. This is not a disparaging
of a man's career.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
However, in the new age of college football, you have
to have people in your leadership positions who can adapt
and react because college football is changing at a pace
that it is hard for most to keep up with.
So if you are a coach who who is not
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going to adapt to what is happening in real time
without over reacting, you are not going to have success
in college football. And I know that a lot of
people are looking at it like, well, it's too many changes.
We need to go back to the old days. The
old days ain't coming back. You can't put the toothpaste
back into two. That's just the reality of the situation,
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all right. Now we got to talk about Ole Miss
because this Old Miss versus Kentucky game. Ole Miss got
kept out of the College Football Playoff last year largely
due to this Kentucky game. And now I'm looking at
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Old Miss because a lot of people are like, George,
why didn't you have Old Miss in your top twenty
five coming into the season. If you'll watch the Kentucky game,
that's exactly why I did not have them in my
top twenty five. This is exactly what I expected from
Old Miss. They are a solid football team. This is
a team that is built for twenty twenty six and
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not for twenty twenty five. And they're gonna be able
to beat a special team alway, excuse me, They're not
gonna be able to beat a special team, but they
can beat the good ones, and they're gonna struggle with consistency,
and that is going to be twenty twenty six, I'm sorry,
twenty twenty five, Old Miss. Twenty twenty six should be
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another one of those years that you have a chance
to make the college football playoff. But this ain't that year.
And it is largely because Old Miss, says, roster last
year was built so transferred portal heavy that it is
going to take multiple recruiting classes and development to be
for Old Miss to be able to churn over playoff
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teams year after year. That's not where their roster is
at this point in time now. The kid that they
have starting the quarterback, Austin Simmons, young kid, but it
is like eighteen now. Finally, he's already been in college
for two years, thirteen for twenty four for two thirty
five and two interceptions. And they started out in a
ten to nothing hole against Kentucky. But Kentucky suffers from
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the same thing that Kentucky suffers from pretty much every
recent year. Their offense stinks in terms of being able
to efficiently move the football. They're having quarterback like Zach
kalks out as a good quarterback. They haven't found, you know,
a special quarterback yet and he's on his like seventh
year of college football.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
And it's just not.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Like connecting the way that I know that Kentucky fans
have hoped with Mark stoops at this.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Point and point in time.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
They put it together a hell of a defense year
after year, but you do have to get the offense
right on some level, whether it's personnel or scheme. Now,
one thing that Kentucky might consider, and this is a
player on like Kentucky's a team that needs a schematic advantage.
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They need to run something that everybody else does not run.
Because Kentucky and Mark Stoopens has proven that since he's
been there, they have not been able to recruit at
the level that is going that you are going to
be able to play traditional offense and win. So Kentucky
either has to go to the air raid, the go
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go offense, or like some sort of gimmick offense. They
must go to it if they want to have success,
because you have to do something that the other teams
don't see every week.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Go to the triple option for all.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
You have to come up with a gimmick that nobody
else sees and get your personnel to fit the gimmick.
So Mike Kentucky needs a gimmick to be able to
have success in the SEC They are beating their head
against the wall doing what they're doing right now. If
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you're Alabama, you don't need a gimmick. Lsu, you don't
need a gimmick. If you are Rutgers, you probably need
a little bit of a gimmick. In the Big twelve,
I'm sorry to Big ten. I think you understand the point.
When you are down in a talent deficiency compared to
the people that you're playing against, you have to have
something special and unique. You can't just run the same
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thing and think that everything is right. And I'm gonna
give you another example of this.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
This is just like.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
When in this industry here on YouTube or TikTok or
wherever else, you have to have something that differentiates you
from everybody else. I have to have something that differentiates
me from JD. Piquel and Josh Pate and everybody else.
Got to have my own style, my own flare that
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separates me from them. The same thing in college football.
All right, Now, let's take a peek at these rankings, right,
I gotta give you a peek at these rankings that
came out today, the AP rankings and the FPI.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Now I am tired. The FPI makes my head hurt.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
And the FPI is the one over here in the black,
the ESPN FPI, which is the now strength of schedule
and all this stuff are now being factored into the
college football playoff and.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Who is going to make the top twelve?
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Well, look at the AP pole over here on this
side and Grave and then the ESPN FPI. And the
reason why this matters is because I have lamented the
FPI rankings for so many and just point out the
hypocrisy every single week. Now, mind you is and the
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reason why that this matters is because it is going
to directly impact who makes the college football playoffs.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Now here's what I want you to point out. Oregon.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Let's start at the top. Oregon jumped up to number
one in the college foot well in the ESPN FPI. Now,
mind I do my rankings, and those will be out
on Tuesday. My rankings are based upon three criteria schedule played, quality, wins,
and dominance, which I think are the most important things.
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FPI factors in historical data, recruiting rankings, all this stuff.
What does that matter for this particular season. Let's look
at Alabama. They continuously are ranked extreme well, actually Oregon first.
Oregon is played Montana State and a terrible Oklahoma State team,
and they jumped up all the way to the top
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of the FPI with that, they jumped up six spots.
Now the next thing I want you to point out.
Look at Alabama. Alabama, the same Alabama team that lost
to Florida State last week. That same Alabama moved up
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nine spots after beating number four Louisi' excuse me, to
number four after beating Louisiana Monroe. And do you know
who's sitting outside of this ranking at number twenty six?
Florida State, the team that just routed this weekend and
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already beat Alabama. But Alabama's number four? Why because their
recruiting ranking is high? What does it matter if they
Alabama has lost what five out of their last ten games,
and we're sitting here talking about this. This is where
the nonsense goes. Miami Miami Hurricanes, who beat Notre Dame?
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Where is Miami? They fail to number twenty one? They
failed six spots, while to one Notre Dame is sitting
at number ten. Who Miami beat? Can anybody make it
make sense? Hop into comments and tell me because I
will get to it. Oh funny funny comments in the
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in the chat right now, And this was about Dan Lanning.
They said, do you believe that Dan? What is my
level of concern that Dan is gonna get arrested for
violating Oregon Statue one sixty six point eighty seven on
lock television mutilating a corpse? Oh man, good lord? Anyways, Okay,
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let me finish the ap thing. So in uf it's
fifteen spots behind Florida. In it, Florida is number twenty
three in the rankings. South Florida is number thirty eight. Okay,
make it make sense. Arkansas Arkansas Razorbacks are at number eighteen.
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They moved up ten spots after wins against AA MU
and Arkansas State. How do we factor these things? And
how how is Arkansas? What is Arkansas done so far
to even be ranked? Historical data? Don't even say that
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Iowa State fell seven to number thirty one.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
What are we doing here with the FPI?
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Somebody make it make sense to me, because I feel
like I'm like, they ain't gonna let common sense getting
away of the argument, and people are gonna continue to justify,
Oh well see it's different and it takes just it's gabbage.
The algorithm is broken. It'd be like, oh, well, you
don't like what the computers do. Do you realize that
humans tell the algorithms how to form you late things?
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So this algorithm is specifically designed to give you what
it is getting. Yeah, and that's a question. Why is
Notre Dame at number ten? They haven't managed to win
a game yet this season? They're oh and one, what
are we doing? Come on, man? We continue to try
and the AP pole is doing the same thing. We
continue to rank teams based upon how good we think
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that they are, regardless of what they have put on film.
And that, my friends, is ridiculous. We cannot do that.
We can't look at Clemson. Clemson is number twelve. I
pick Clemson in the in the AP pole, Clemson is
number twelve. I pick Clemson number one coming into the season.
I pick Clemson to win the National Championship. There is
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nothing that Clemson has put on film again it's LSU
or this week against Troy that even leads you to
believe that this is one of the twenty five best
teams in America if we're being honest. And I love
that bull, but what they're putting on film with their
offensive line, it ain't it. Their defense looks legit. That
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offensive line it ain't it. And this offense ain't cutting it.
Right now, we gotta be honest, and we gotta be
be real. Come on people, and yeah, like, let's let's.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Be real about this.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
What is South Carolina done at this point point in
time to a warrant being number eleven in the country, schedule,
play quality, wins, and dominance in my poll, and this
is why my ball's better. All right, let's get back
to business. Let's get back to the order of business now.
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I wanted to also talk to you guys about a team. Well,
actually we'll go Texas versus Santaose State first, because this
was a what thirty eight to seven win or something
like it was a big, big win for Texas, right,
So I left this scent and I want to give
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you the exact score of the way I'm not the
way I can quote it completely right. So it was, yeah,
thirty eight to seven.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
I had a right.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
I left this Texas versus San Jose State game feeling
like I ate great mashed potatoes, but they were cold,
like like the flavor. You're like, oh man, if these
were if these were hot, oh man, it'd be fire.
I got cold mashed potatoes out of the game because
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Texas's defense overwhelmed San Jose State, but San Jose State
was moving to football. The quarterback was making bad decisions,
and you're like, oh, wow, this is a team that
could have competed with some competent quarterback play. And then
you're looking at arch Manning in the first half and
you're like, oh, four touchdown passes. But if we're being honest,
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Mechanics's confidence it is still nowhere near this generational thing
that we have expected. And I believe that the expectations
on Texas need to be tempered dramatically. This is a
team that should hope to make the College Football Playoff
this year, but they have the fortunes of having a
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late They got a lay up last week with San
Jose State, then again UTEP Sam Houston State. Then they're
at Florida, Oklahoma at Kentucky, at Mississippi State, Vanderbilt, Georgia,
Arkansas and Texas A And that ain't exactly what Oklahoma
has to face because Oklahoma, on the other hand, you
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look at their schedule and already talked talked about it.
They still got Auburn, South Carolina, Old miss Tennessee, Alabama
and LSU and Missouri. One of these schedules does not
look like the other. So Texas fans, well, Texas needs
expectations need to be tempered. This is a team that
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you should hope that it gets to the college football
playoffs and is peaking at this point in time because
arch Manning, when you watch him play he makes throws,
you're like, damn, that's dope. And he's clearly talented, but
the noise is bothering him at this point time. And
you guys can weigh in, what do you think about
arch Manning? And you guys please, I know you guys
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are the channel is continuing to grow and I appreciate it.
Make sure that you share it with a friend. So
what do you guys think about arch Manning? Throw it
in the chat. Oh and Also, we're gonna get into
some message board stuff in a minute too, but you know,
love it. We got to talk about some teams as
well that people don't want to talk about. People want
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to ignore. They want to ignore the Illinois fighting a
line that because their history is gottage like, they do
not have a football rich tradition at Illinois. But this year,
in twenty twenty five, we're not talking about twenty twenty four,
where they won ten games. We're talking about not twenty
twenty six. In twenty twenty five, Illinois is a college
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football playoff team. They return sixteen starters. I know Pat
McAfee kept saying nineteen, but that ain't it, and you
guys keep being active in the chat.
Speaker 1 (42:35):
Love to see it.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
They beat Duke forty five to nineteen. And this just
goes to show that whether it's Illinois, or whether it's Oregon,
or whether it's South Carolina or LSU, defence travels, and
so when your team is playing against Illinois, you.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
Better watch out.
Speaker 2 (42:58):
You better watch out, because Luke Altmar looks really good,
really really good. And the two hundred and ninety six
yards three touchdowns distributing the football, Illinois is going to
cause a major problem for some teams this season. And
when you look at their schedule, I want you to
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see who they have a legitimate chance to beat, despite
the television telling you otherwise, because the television is not
going to tell you the true story about Illinois football
until they go off and beat somebody. They got Western Michigan,
then they got Indiana. That USC game in a couple
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of weeks on September twenty seventh, that's the game I
want you to circle because Illinois is going to beat USC.
Speaker 1 (43:51):
You can book it, write it down.
Speaker 2 (43:52):
I mean, we're you know, we're saying some injury to
Luke Altmar or Gabe Jakis or somebody else for Illinois
that is going to be a win. I can't wait
to talk about that week. The next game that we
got to talk about Baylor versus SMU.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
This was a.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
This was a game where I want to point out
that we are in a historic time with Baylor football
right now, because Baylor football is possibly and mind you,
they had a forty eight, forty five win over SMU.
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This was the most Big twelve. If you want to
know what the Big twelve is as a conference or
was as a conference, This game is it? This game?
Speaker 1 (44:49):
Is it? This was a.
Speaker 2 (44:51):
Thirty eight twenty four game with eight minutes and thirty
eight left and Baylor forced overtime with scores at five,
twenty three and thirty four seconds. Now wide receivers camera
Josh Cameron nine for one, fifty one in a touchdown,
Ashton Hawkins ten for one, Kobe Print has had a touchdown.
They SMU had matchup issues all day. But the historic
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thing about what we are watching with Baylor right now
is that this is that Dave Randa and Baylor, they
are not supporting their quarterback Sawyer Robinson with who has
immense talent with a competent defense is criminal.
Speaker 1 (45:36):
This is criminal.
Speaker 2 (45:37):
And David Randa, is was a LSU's defensive coordinator before
he got this job, was absolutely stoning people, shutting people down.
He gets to Baylor, can't put a competent offense together,
brings over Jake Spabodol. Offense goes crazy, defense falls apart.
But the bright spot for Baylor is this, and a
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bright spot if you're a college football fan, the reason
why you want to watch Baylor is for their quarterback
Sawyer Robertson. Because what's happening at Baylor is exactly how
Jaydon Daniels won the Heisman at LSU. What Sawyer Robinson
is doing, except for he ain't just racking up big
yards against bad teams. Because Sawyer Robinson for the second
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week in a row over four hundred yards. This time
it was thirty four for fifty for four hundred and
forty yards. So in two games of football, in two
games of football versus Auburn, Oh damn, that's a good
football team. Twenty seven for forty eight four nineteen three
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touchdowns this week threw for four forty and four touchdowns.
Man ain't throwing a pick, and he's throwing the ball
ninety eight times against power for opponents. He's not play
These were not two layup games. And this defense, honestly
is the is the most that a defense has ever
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wasted a quarterbacks talent since Patrick Mahomes at Texas Tech,
Jaydon Daniels at LSU, and Jared Goff at Cal. Think
about this. Jared Goff at Cal where Jake spavidoal was
the OC was in twenty sixteen. That team went five
and seven and they averaged thirty seven points a game
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and had Jared Goffitt quarterback and still went five and
seven with thirty seven points a game. That is what
we are looking at at Baylor right now. So for
anybody pointing at Arch Manning in twenty twenty six at
the top of the draft and all this stuff, watch
out for Sawyer Robinson. Whether it's John Mattier, whoever else
you want to put at the top of the twenty
twenty six NFL draft, you better start looking at Sawyer Robinson.
Speaker 1 (47:58):
Book it.
Speaker 2 (48:01):
Oh, and let me look at the chat real quick.
Is it Auburn good? Yes, Auburn is a competent team.
We don't know how good they are yet, but they
have good players. And it was asked it, Oh, how
many teams actually have a legitimate chance to win the
Big Ten? I think that there are three. You got Oregon,
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Penn State, and Ohio State. That's who has a legitimate
chance to win. Now, Illinois has a chance to ruin
somebody season in terms of winning the Big Ten and
through tie breakers and all this stuff, they could end
up in the Big Ten championship.
Speaker 1 (48:41):
Definitely could.
Speaker 2 (48:43):
But I do believe that well, So in that case,
I'll give it a four team race. When it comes
to the Big Ten, and yes in Indiana, but I
think that we're gonna figure out real quick where Indiana is,
particularly after they play. But we're seeing better play out
of Michigan State. The Big Ten is not it is
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not for games right now. USC looks much improved, Washington
looks really good, Wisconsin is better. Michigan we've seen them. Yo,
this is going to This is the best college football
conference in America right now.
Speaker 1 (49:22):
It's the truth. I know people don't want to hear. Now,
speaking of.
Speaker 2 (49:26):
LSU, LSU played LA Tech Louisiana Tech. They won twenty
three to seven. Now, on one hand, I do believe
that this was a bit of a letdown after the
after their big win against Clemson. Don't think that they
came in with the same level of focus. Brian Kelly
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was on every show, imaginable happy as you ain't never
heard Brian Kelly this consistently happy as he was after
getting his first after getting to win at Clemson. He
was like, oh yeah, but I'm gonna tell you it
was inflated. That win against Clemson was significantly inflated compared
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to what it really was because.
Speaker 1 (50:10):
Clemson right now, on offense is not a.
Speaker 2 (50:13):
Very good football team. So how good is Blake Baker
their defensive coordinator, because so far he is earning his money.
I think they're giving up seventeen points in two games.
And yes, and Garrett Nusmyer in this game against La
Tech two's thirty seven and a touchdown productive, but they
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left points out there. So when I look at this
LSU team, I am not going to hold this loss
against them the same way that other people would or
teams would. And the main reason why is because I
do believe that they had a hangover from that Clemson win. Now,
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at the same time, when you have a team that
plays to the level of the competition, you can run
into into issues because sustained focus is the hardest thing
to do. So now they are going to try to
ratchet it up again versus Florida. That means that practice
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intensity is gonna be up again. So when you watch
this game against Florida this week, preview will be out tomorrow,
watch it. This is a game that that you gotta
pay attention to. This is a game that you gotta
pay attention to because this is a game LSU can lose,
just tell you. But I do like their wide receivers,
Burying Brown, Aaron Anderson.
Speaker 1 (51:43):
You know, they look they look very very good there.
Speaker 2 (51:49):
Now, last game that I want to talk about, well,
actually two two more games that we gotta talk about significantly.
We gotta talk about it. Arizona State versus Mississippi State. Now,
Zona State fans were a little bit upset with me
when the season started, and people were like, because I
did not have them going back to the College Football
Playoff because I did not believe the Big twelve was
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gonna get two bids, and you know, and unless and
now in hindsight, I'm looking at this and I'm like, wow,
Utah looks like the best team in the conference at
this point in time with with damp Year at quarterback.
So Arizona State went to Mississippi State and they got
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app slutely destroyed.
Speaker 1 (52:36):
In the first half.
Speaker 2 (52:38):
They were down and it was like wait, wait, wait
what what? So I know that nobody got a chance
to see Arizona State's first game because the ESPN feed
cut out, But here was the synopsis. Penalties, penalties all
over the place for them.
Speaker 1 (52:56):
They had hella.
Speaker 2 (52:57):
Penalties in that game, and they proceeded to keep that
same energy in this game, and it is the reason
why they were down seventeen to three at halftime, and
the three didn't come until a field goal at the
you know, to end the half. Literally, this was a
program statement win for Jeff Levy. It's their first top
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fifteen non conference win for Mississippi State since nineteen ninety one. Now,
granted they haven't played a lot of top non conference opponents,
but this day first one.
Speaker 1 (53:34):
Since nineteen ninety one.
Speaker 2 (53:37):
And I came into this game, remember I gave you
guys the preview this week, things to watch for in
Week three, and I said Arizona State to see if
they were for real. They are not for real right now.
Their quarterback John Mattier, I believe that he is having
that he read a lot of press clippings this offseason
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and he's got to get back to business. He gotta
shrink it back down because he is a really good
football player. But he is keyed in on Jordan Tyson,
their their all star, potentially first round wide receiver, way
too much, it just says, and they're not being as
efficient as they can be. They finished this game with
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what I think another another penalty written game, and Mississippi
State they lost six tackles for lost two sacks, two interceptions,
and Hunter Washington to seal the deal. Because Arizona State,
after being down seventeen, oh, they.
Speaker 1 (54:41):
Fought back, fought back.
Speaker 2 (54:44):
They outgained Mississippi State two thirty one to fifty nine
after halftime. But it was that last but it was
the last drive. What we actually the next to last drive.
Arizona State seventeen plays ninety five yards, that the one
yard line and settle for a field goal with a
minute and thirty eight left. Seventeen played ninety five yards.
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You come away with a field goal. You can't win
on the road like that. The fans are trying to
blame the cow bells and everything else. Cow Bells didn't
beat you bad, play beat you so And speaking of that,
I owe a big time apology. I owe a big
time apology for this. Here is my playoff bracket from
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this year. Do you know who ain't making the college
football playoff from this bracket? Number seven? Kansas State. Boot
them up out of here. So I apologize for telling
y'all and lining to y'all, making y'all believed that this
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was going off, that they were going to make the
college football playoffs, So I apologize. And Clemson is on
the ropes too. I know that they only lost one game,
but they are on the ropes too. Kansas State lost
the Army. And we are going to finish this episode
with the fast break and what the fast break segment is.
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These are the games that you didn't watch, but I
watched for you that I paid attention to the way
you didn't have to watch it. Now, the Syracuse Yukon
game overtime game, you didn't need to watch it. The
thing that you did need to watch is after the
game because fran Brown. Fran Brown, their head coach, made
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his team run sprints after the game on the.
Speaker 1 (56:43):
Field at home.
Speaker 2 (56:44):
Always so old school, and he's one of the few
coaches that can have that old school mentality and still
relate to the players and not have them hoping the
portal after that. I did have a question in the
chat though, why put all the best teams on the
left side of the bracket? I understand what you mean.
Everybody's in the a. It was talking about the college
football playoff bracket. Have all the teams on the what
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do you want me to do? They are ranked according
to seed. I mean ranked according to rankings like I'm
not picking and choosing.
Speaker 1 (57:13):
Just is what it is.
Speaker 2 (57:14):
That's how you had an Oregon in Ohio s they
played in the first round.
Speaker 1 (57:17):
Can't doctor it.
Speaker 2 (57:19):
So more on the fast break. You had Alabama beat
ULM seventy three to nothing. Nothing to talk about there.
That doesn't mean Alabama is back. Everything's not fixed. Nothing
to pay attention to here. It was a seventy three
to nothing game. They dominated in every aspect. Yes, you
can get up and play Ulm. Let's see what happens
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when you actually get some comp Let's see what Let's
see what happens Alabama. What you really talking about when
you go when you get Wisconsin next week and then
you go to Georgia in two weeks, talk to us
then we don't care about this. Florida State seventy seven
to three over East Texas A and m If you
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can drop in the chat, what city is East Texas
A and m Inn. I don't know, you don't know.
This is not a This doesn't congratulations Florida State. You
are two win er a game that it will little
be concerning Penn State versus FIU thirty four to nothing.
Now Penn State's defense nothing to be concerned about there.
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Penn State's offense something to be concerned about there because
them completing passes to their wide receivers has proven extremely difficult.
This has proven extremely difficult. And Drew Aller in this
game nineteen for thirty three for two hundred yards.
Speaker 1 (58:47):
What are we doing?
Speaker 2 (58:49):
K Tron Allen and Singleton. They're doing their thing, running
the football, offensive line doing their thing. It's the passing part.
And this is why told Joe I'm not in on
Drew Oler and not in on penns State winning the
national championship, even though everything is stacked in their favor.
Texas A and M forty four. Utah State twenty two.
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Marcel Reid, their quarterback, is allegedly healthy. He started the
game accounted for four touchdowns, three passing, one rushing. Left
the game late in the third quarter, fell weird. Mike Elko,
their head coach, said that he'll be fine, but they
looking good. The new toys are popping. kJ concepts Young
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six for seventy three, two tubs Mario Carver five for
one fourteen and a tub Terry Bussey thirty four yard touchdown.
Speaker 1 (59:40):
Come on man.
Speaker 2 (59:43):
And their backup quarterback Miles O'Neil seventy two yard bomb. Hey,
this team, we will see after this Notre Dame game.
Notre Dame wins that game, they'll be fine if Notre Dame.
If Notre Dame lose that game. Out of the college
football play up, see you next Sunday, and we'll see
you next year. Georgia versus Austin p Twenty eight to six.
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A little bit concerning that. Georgia only scored twenty eight points.
I will tell you that. But Fraser and Bowens they
ran well for Georgia as a team. They went for
one hundred and ninety yards on forty carries and four touchdowns.
But we gonna see what Georgia is really made out
of pretty soon, because there are a lot of questions
surrounding this team. And that wasn't exactly what you wanted
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to see when they played Austin. P. Last thing, Ohio
State versus Grambling seventy seven to nothing. The only thing
that mattered in this game was the bands. You had
Ohio State's band and Grambling's band on the field. That
was the best part of this game. There was nothing
to even talk about. Congratulations Grambling getting a good payday
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Speaker 1 (01:01:40):
Peace Out.
College Football Week two.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
It did not disappoint and we are so excited to
be here. The Big Twelve, however, they disappointed. The top
of the Big ten looks in leaked. You got the
SEC performing well in the non conference the ACC. Their
best hopes are Miami and South and well in Florida State.
Right now you have South Florida being the biggest surprise.
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Can they crash the college football playoff party? And so
much more to talk about today because we got to
talk about the real generational talent and what we're really
seeing out of Arch Manning and Bryce Underwood as well.
The FPI is going crazy and so much stuff here.
I'm George Reister, former NFL player, college football player, college
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football analyst on c W and thankful that next week
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right here.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
So I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Make sure that you like, subscribe, get notifications, and tell
a friend about the show. We always got the heat,
all right. So we are going to start with the
Big Twelve because the Big Twelve, remember I told you
guys in the preseason, made a whole video about it
that the Big Twelve their Brett yor Mark their commissioner,
talking about that they want more than one College Football
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Playoff bid in the twelve team. And I told y'all
they had very few opportunities in the non conference to
prove and show that they could do it, and they
were about it. Well, guess what they showed up And
they absolutely have flopped. They have flopped, They have face planted,
and every other negative thing that you can say in between.
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And this weekend was brutal. This weekend was absolutely brutal
for the Big Twelve because think about this. You had
Oklahoma State get I don't even know what you call that.
Dan Landing should be thrown in jail for what happened
at Oklahoma State sixty nine to three. Army turned around
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and beat Kansas State, the team that I picked to
win the Big Twelve and go to the College Football Playoff.
I apologize you, Tah, I apologize BYU. I apologize to
anybody that I was sleeping on except these teams right here.
Mississippi State hosted ASU, knocked their doors off, Ohio beat
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West Virginia, Missouri beat Kansas After having a big league
it wasn't good. So all of this has led to
how many teams are going to get in the college
football playoff? And we got to talk about the lies.
I gotta tell some truths about teams that people don't
really want to hear. But the first truth that we
are going to tell is surrounding Arch Manning and is
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surrounding Bryce Underwood. And you guys, make sure you like up,
like subscribe, put your stuff in the chat, and I
will respond to your questions and comments in the chat
as well. So Bryce Underwood and Arch Manning, now here
is the truth. So you had arch Manning against Texas
last week. I was here against Ohio State last week,
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big matchup. And then this was Bryce Underwood's term. Because
we have heard the term generational talent surrounding both of
these guys, and they have been anointed before. They have
put enough on tape to believe that they are true. Now,
if it were up to me and you were like George,
you can either take the future in college football, forget
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the pros, the future of college football of Bryce Underwood,
or the future of college football of Arch Manning. I'm
taking Bryce Underwood YEP, one hundred percent. George you know
he went nine for twenty four against Oklahoma, Yes, I do.
But you know what I didn't get. I didn't get
Darren head Like I did not get you know, four
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mall funky moment feels too big.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I didn't get any of that.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Now, Arch may turn out to be a fantastic NFL
pro like everybody's talking about. But for right now, what
we have seen through these two games of these players
this season. Gimme Bryce underweo. But the anointing is premature
for both way premature and this and here's the other
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part about this. About this Texas game where Arch Manning
came out and threw four touchdowns in the first half,
everybody was so excited about it. And I hate to
be the bearer of bad news, but the truth is
is that when you look at the tape, Arch's feet
are still bad.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
He still is turning down reads if Oakland.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
If Texas's offensive line had not been so stellar in
the game, he would not have had nearly the amount
of stats and yards as were in the first half.
So he finished nineteen for thirty two hundred and ninety
five yards and four touchdowns in there thirty eight to
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seven win over San Jose State, and there were times
like it was a mixed bag where Arch like you
were like, okay, nice throat, and then you're like, why
are you skipping that ball? And then there's turning down
reads and stuff. So it is confusing. And I have
two quarterback sons. And the thing that it looks like
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to me when I watch it that I've seen happen
in my own kids, that I've seen happen in other
people's kids, there is something going on with his confidence
right now. People are wondering if he's hurt, if he's
been grimace and throwing whatever it is, whether it is
confidence in his arm, whether it is confidence in his
you know, in the scheme and the play calling, if
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the moment's too big. Either way, there is something going
on in internally in Arch Manning, and hopefully it can
get fixed, because if not, we have built in y'all,
excuse me not we y'all, and the media and the
public have built this kid up so big just to
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be able to cut him down later. And it is
fortunate and it is a blessing and a curse that
he has this last name, because if his name was
was Arch Reister granted there's a little gravitas that comes
to being a Reister having an NFL dad, but it
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ain't the same as being a manning and in terms
of college football, let's just be real about that. But
then there was another kid that we were throwing around
the term generational talent last year as well, and it's
DJ Lagway.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
So how many times do we have to be fooled
and learn?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
And I know that we live in a media day
and a and this is why you come to George
Reister's college football show, thee A Freight chose to hear
the truth.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
There are so.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Many times that that in media, we want to be
in the hot take business. We want to anoint somebody
so quick the way we can be right and be first.
Everybody wants to be the first person to make the
grand statement about a player. But look at DJ Lagway
as well, generational talent. Oh man, this kid is going
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to be the next greatest thing. And through two games
at Florida, how's it look this year?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Not that great? Right?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Because nobody was using the common sense that that was
just that God gave us. Dj Lagway missed all of springball,
came into camp hurt, finished last season hurt, no reports
of surgery, but we think that that he was going
to have a great season, especially to start. Where's the
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calculus in that? It doesn't make any sense at all?
And there is a reason why DJ Lagway is struggling
right now. And do you know who else that they
were talking about generational talent as well recently Dylan Riola
over there at Nebraska. Nothing about Delan Roola looks generational
at this point in time. Physically, he looks great getting
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off the bus. Physically, these kids look great getting off
the bus.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
But the thing that.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I've learned in quarterbacking in terms of my own sons
and watching other people's kids and everything else, it is
so much about confidence, it is about fit. It is
about being emotionally healthy. And there was a coach that
told me, and I know that Dion got a lot
of pushback from this about saying that kids need to
come from good homes and all of this stuff, but
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it's not even that, well two parent homes and are
no kids have to be emotionally healthy to play this
position and in a home that doesn't go like this
just reality. But let's get into the games from this
week and all the stuff that has gone on, and
we are going to start with the with the Michigan
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and Oklahoma game. Now, you may have seen the video
last night on the here on Unafraid Jode, but if
you didn't full recap on it. Brent Venables, who people
came into this season questioning, he showed up and showed out.
And I knew that we were going to be looking
at peak Oklahoma because and this was a twenty four
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to thirteen victory Peak Oklahoma, because Brent Venables took this
defense back over. And you cannot discount the job that
this man has done schematically at Oklahoma and then at Clemson.
And when you put Bryce Underwood, a rookie quarterback, a
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freshman quarterback, up against Brent Venables, it is almost like
going against Bill Belichick as.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
A rookie quarterback.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
They have terrible records in the NFL and Michigan is
a year away. So for all you crazy people on
message board saying that Brent, that Jeron Moore is terrible
of the Michigan culture, I guess you forgot what happened
the beginning of Jim Harball's tenure. You just won a
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championship two years ago settle down. You didn't have a
quarterback last year. The roster is younger, he's rebuilding and
not just running punt football. This is smash Mount football
and it is also going to be able to pass
the football. This is why I'm high on Bryce Underwood
going forward. Michigan is going to be a hot spot
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for wide receivers. They want to play with that dude.
I'm telling you.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
That right now.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
I've asked around and that is the report that I've gotten,
is that kids want to play with mister Bryce Underwood,
and the SEC is going to have their hands full
with Oklahoma. But also Oklahoma has their hands full with
the SEC. When you look at their at their upcoming schedule,
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they got Templed, then they got Auburn. They also have Texas,
South Carolina, Old Miss, Tennessee, Miami, Missouri, and LSU. Now
right now, that is one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight ranked teams.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Eight ranked teams right now. Now.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Granted, Missouri might not be ranked by then, Auburn might
not be ranked in two weeks when they play, and
you know, who knows what's gonna happen with Old misson
Tennessee and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
But still this schedule.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Looks very daunting, but it is a good thing that
they have mister John Mattier, who is a playmaker. We're
talking about a team that is going to be a
force in the SEC, and through two weekends of football,
there is not one team in the SEC that looks
unbeatable right now.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
There there isn't now.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Granted, some of them have not played, you know, the
stiffest of competition, but nobody looks like that they are
world beaters at this point in time. Nobody looks like,
oh my gosh, like Georgia a few years ago when
their defense was so scary that you couldn't even possibly
even think about scoring on them. That's not what we're seeing.
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So this Oklahoma team is going to be a problem
in the SEC. But I do want to point out
that Michigan, for all of the talk about, you know
anything around this program, Sharon Moore is building things the
right way. He's recruiting well, kids are gonna want to
go there, and they are continuing the level of physicality
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that helps you play really good football. Now, the next
game that we have to talk about that South Florida
versus Florida game, and Florida's athletic director. Today, he came
out and talked about mister Oh, about their head coach,
mister Billy Napier, gave him another voter confidence and this
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was the same thing that he did last season. Now,
I understand the frustration with fans with losing to South
Florida because the amount of money that you spend and
have in your recruiting budget compared to South Florida, ain't it.
These things aren't even remotely the same. But the issue
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is is that the expectations are not matching the consistency
expected because Florida, who their next game is against LSU
this weekend, This is a game that Florida turns around
and wins. And that's why fans are frustrated with Billy Napier.
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And but you do have to exercise some level of patience,
even in an impatient world. Is that means that you
are starting to get things right on some level? But
Yo yoing and I've talked about this so many times
that Yo yoing drives fans mad. Fans would rather you
suck completely or be completely dominant. It's the lukewarm like, yeah,
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we're great this week, Oh my god, we lost to
an inferior team next week, same thing. When you do this,
fans are going to be frustrated and Billy Napier is
back on the hot seat talk. But I'm happy that
the athletic director gave the vote of confidence because that
will keep his team fully engaged. And if he can
keep his team engaged and together, they will have a chance.
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But my biggest question is about DJ Lagway is the like,
how healthy are we really believing that DJ Lagway is
Because you know, twenty three for thirty three for two,
twenty two, a touchdown and a pick that doesn't look terrible,
but if you notice not running the ball quite as much,
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and also a lot of short passes and some of
the deep passes are getting missed because of.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
The lack of practice time in the spring.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
So I am going to give Dj Lagway a little
bit of a pass.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
No spring ball hurt to start spring.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Fall camp, and I expected a slow start this season,
but this offense only being able to put up sixteen
points is a significant problem. Now, they ran the ball
fairly well thirty one for one, thirty three and for
four point three yards to carry, but the issue is
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you're not having explosive runs one fifteen yard runn you
gotta be able to run the ball at a high
clip because when you look at the team that they played,
South Florida, who is looking like the best group of
five team.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
By far right now Byron Brown.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Their quarterback twenty yard rush, Alvin Isaac twenty two yard rush.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Those are the type of exposive plays.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
So they ran the ball twenty nine times for one
twenty eight four point four yards to carry. And that
is what is concerning, is that it wasn't that that
Nico gramatica twenty yard walk off field goal, and it
wasn't even the eighty seven yard touchdown drive that led
up to it. The issue for the Florida Gators is
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that they look like they are not a disciplined football team.
Can you imagine one of Nick Sabans players, and I
know we use him, but like spitting on somebody in
a crucial point in time in the game. Now, granted,
like you can't control somebody spitting on somebody if you're
the head coach, but there's a culture surrounding your team
of good decision making, especially in crucial times like yes,
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you may get a holding penalty or something like that.
Maybe a weird rough in the passer call just something
like that, but not anything, just foolish. And the Gators
had eleven penalties for one hundred and three yards. They
had a PI and an ejection for spitting on the
game winning drive. So they literally helped South Florida out
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bad tackling, a bad punt, snap, everything surrounding it. So, yes,
Florida looks to be a better team than South Florida,
But no matter how talented a team is, because we
get to talking about talent all the time, and I
want you guys to pay attention to this. No matter
how talented a team is, if you cannot if a
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team can not execute when it matters the most, you're
not gonna win football games, even against the inferior opponents.
The next game that we got to talk about, I
got to talk about the Oregon Ducks for a second
because Oregon State, oh sorry, Oklahoma State went out there
to Eugenie to play the Oregon Ducks. And now, mind you,
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I want you guys to pay attention to these rankings
for a second.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
I'm gonna put up.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Today's FPI and AP pole And the reason why this
matters is I want to talk about this Oregon Oklahoma
State game, because nobody is really talking about the Oregon
Ducks right now. They have played two opponents. Montana State,
who is a very very good FCS team. They came
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into the season ranked number one, I believe, so that
means hoighly thought of right. And then they played against
Oklahoma State, which is a Big twelve team. Now, Oklahoma
State went winless in the Big Twelve last year, so
and they got like six forty new transfers.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
All this stuff.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
When you watch this Oregon Ducks team play, and I'm
going to be completely honest. Remember I told you that
this is the show of truth today, this is the
show of truth that Oklahoma State and Dante I'm sorry
Oklahoma State went to go to Eugen and I watched this.
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This was a complete destruction from the beginning. It was
forty one to three at halftime. Nine different people scored
six hundred and thirty one yards, Dante Moore two hundred
and sixty six yards, three touchdowns, back to back pick sixes.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
I do not care.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
As a former Oregon player this game, I expected this
to happen. Twenty eight and a half point favorites. I'm
gonna tell you this. I about the Oregon Ducks, I
am too nervous to get excited. That is the truth.
This Oregon team looks phenomenal. We've heard that this is
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the most talented team that they have ever had. But
you know what last season did to me, I from
being honest, broke it broke me. I feel like I
was in a relationship and then I walked in and
I found my wife into bed with my best friend.
That's what happened in the Rose Bowl last year. That's
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the way I felt. Thirteen to zero, got through the
regular season, all this stuff, and no, I don't care
about the twenty five days off.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
I know it impacted the team. Don't care about it.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
But this was one of them years where you're like,
oh my god, this was a national championship type team.
And then you go to the Rose Bowl and for
all whatever the reasons are, you get your heart ripped
out because you get your ass whipped. That whooped handed
to you and packed in a lunch pail and made
you go but walk back to ug Gay, your wedgie
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dumped you in the toilet. Gay, You're swirling, That's how
bad it was. So for the Oregon Ducts this season.
I don't even care what they do in the regular season.
I don't care whether they go undefeate it. I don't
care whether they lose two games. Just make it to
the playoff and then win games. Because my heart was
broken so badly last year that I can't even get excited.
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And this is also one of the problems with and
I know that some of you guys have experienced this
as well. Is is when you are a fan and
your team has some success, there becomes a level of
jadedness where you are like bro like, where you can't
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even be happy about stuff like this. So I'm going
to try to find a way that I hope that
you guys can too, when you're team has some success,
that we don't taint it right, that we don't taint
it and we can actually enjoy it for what it
is and don't worry about the future. Don't worry about
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what happens two weeks from now, three weeks from now.
Let's live in a moment, as college football coaches tell us,
be where our feet are. I tell my kids that
all the time, and you know, so we need to
do this too. But I will tell you for teams
that are preparing for Oregon, like Penn State in a
couple of weeks, because Oregon has Nebraska next week on
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Big noon kickoff, and then they got Oregon State, and
then the week after that they go to Happy Valley
to play Penn State.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Now, if you are.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Penn State and you are prepared for Oregon, if you
are Northwestern, if you are Oregon State, Oregon's offensive coordinator
Will Stein looks like the best offensive coordinator in all
of college football right now. Watch them play. The amount
of different shifts, the amount of different UH formations, the
amount of different personnel groups, everything in between. It looks
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so phenomenally different right now than a lot of other teams.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Are giving you.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
This man is poised, Oregon's officer coordinator, Will Stein. He
will be somebody's head coach probably after this season. So
if you like what you're saying out of Oregon, that
might be your guy. But let's talk about Mike Gundy
and Oklahoma State for a while. Now here is and
I'm gonna be as honest and transparent as I can
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possibly be. Now, I'm a person, and you guys make
sure that you guys like up subscribe, Tell a friend
about the show. George Reister, former NFL player, college football player,
college football analysts. You'll see me this week on the
Miami South Florida game, well in pre and postgame on CW. So,
Mike Gundy and I have a relationship with a ton
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of college football coaches. It was texting Mario Christobal the
other day. Have relationships with a lot of coaches around
the country. So this makes me uneasy to say, because
I am welcome in a lot of these buildings, I
am privy to a lot of private conversations, and so
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calling for coaches jobs or saying that coaches are not
doing a good enough job and need a replacement or
something is touchy territory. But the truth is, Mike gundhy
college football in twenty twenty five has passed Mike Gundy by.
Actually it passed them by in twenty twenty three, and
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he didn't see it. There's a reason why Oklahoma State
needed forty transfers. When you are a person who's been
at a program as long as Mike Gundy has, there
is no reason that you should have these big swings
like you're having right now. But Mike Gundy believed that
nil and the transfer porter were going to go away.
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He lost his roster, lost his way. Does not understand
college football right now, And I'm going to give you
three examples why now. In twenty twenty two, Oklahoma State
lost to Kansas State by forty eight points, the third
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largest loss in Mike the Gundy's career been there well
over a decade.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
In twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
That was last season, they lost at Colorado by fifty
two points. Yes, the Colorado, the fighting Buffaloes, the fighting
Dion Sanders, Chador, Travis Hunter, everybody in between.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
They lost by fifty two points to Colorado.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
And now you lose to Oregon by sixty six points
in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
You are taking massive losses. That means you are nowhere
even near the stratosphere.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
So this is not a knock on anything that Mike
Gundy had done prior to the last three years, because
he had had Oklahoma State competitive, He has had them
ranked in the top ten before major bowl games, everything
in between.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
So this is not that. This is not a disparaging
of a man's career.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
However, in the new age of college football, you have
to have people in your leadership positions who can adapt
and react because college football is changing at a pace
that it is hard for most to keep up with.
So if you are a coach who who is not
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going to adapt to what is happening in real time
without over reacting, you are not going to have success
in college football. And I know that a lot of
people are looking at it like, well, it's too many changes.
We need to go back to the old days. The
old days ain't coming back. You can't put the toothpaste
back into two. That's just the reality of the situation,
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all right. Now we got to talk about Ole Miss
because this Old Miss versus Kentucky game. Ole Miss got
kept out of the College Football Playoff last year largely
due to this Kentucky game. And now I'm looking at
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Old Miss because a lot of people are like, George,
why didn't you have Old Miss in your top twenty
five coming into the season. If you'll watch the Kentucky game,
that's exactly why I did not have them in my
top twenty five. This is exactly what I expected from
Old Miss. They are a solid football team. This is
a team that is built for twenty twenty six and
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not for twenty twenty five. And they're gonna be able
to beat a special team alway, excuse me, They're not
gonna be able to beat a special team, but they
can beat the good ones, and they're gonna struggle with consistency,
and that is going to be twenty twenty six, I'm sorry,
twenty twenty five, Old Miss. Twenty twenty six should be
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another one of those years that you have a chance
to make the college football playoff. But this ain't that year.
And it is largely because Old Miss, says, roster last
year was built so transferred portal heavy that it is
going to take multiple recruiting classes and development to be
for Old Miss to be able to churn over playoff
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teams year after year. That's not where their roster is
at this point in time now. The kid that they
have starting the quarterback, Austin Simmons, young kid, but it
is like eighteen now. Finally, he's already been in college
for two years, thirteen for twenty four for two thirty
five and two interceptions. And they started out in a
ten to nothing hole against Kentucky. But Kentucky suffers from
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the same thing that Kentucky suffers from pretty much every
recent year. Their offense stinks in terms of being able
to efficiently move the football. They're having quarterback like Zach
kalks out as a good quarterback. They haven't found, you know,
a special quarterback yet and he's on his like seventh
year of college football.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
And it's just not.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Like connecting the way that I know that Kentucky fans
have hoped with Mark stoops at this.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Point and point in time.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
They put it together a hell of a defense year
after year, but you do have to get the offense
right on some level, whether it's personnel or scheme. Now,
one thing that Kentucky might consider, and this is a
player on like Kentucky's a team that needs a schematic advantage.
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They need to run something that everybody else does not run.
Because Kentucky and Mark Stoopens has proven that since he's
been there, they have not been able to recruit at
the level that is going that you are going to
be able to play traditional offense and win. So Kentucky
either has to go to the air raid, the go
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go offense, or like some sort of gimmick offense. They
must go to it if they want to have success,
because you have to do something that the other teams
don't see every week.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Go to the triple option for all.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
You have to come up with a gimmick that nobody
else sees and get your personnel to fit the gimmick.
So Mike Kentucky needs a gimmick to be able to
have success in the SEC They are beating their head
against the wall doing what they're doing right now. If
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you're Alabama, you don't need a gimmick. Lsu, you don't
need a gimmick. If you are Rutgers, you probably need
a little bit of a gimmick. In the Big twelve,
I'm sorry to Big ten. I think you understand the point.
When you are down in a talent deficiency compared to
the people that you're playing against, you have to have
something special and unique. You can't just run the same
(31:32):
thing and think that everything is right. And I'm gonna
give you another example of this.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
This is just like.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
When in this industry here on YouTube or TikTok or
wherever else, you have to have something that differentiates you
from everybody else. I have to have something that differentiates
me from JD. Piquel and Josh Pate and everybody else.
Got to have my own style, my own flare that
(32:02):
separates me from them. The same thing in college football.
All right, Now, let's take a peek at these rankings, right,
I gotta give you a peek at these rankings that
came out today, the AP rankings and the FPI.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Now I am tired. The FPI makes my head hurt.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
And the FPI is the one over here in the black,
the ESPN FPI, which is the now strength of schedule
and all this stuff are now being factored into the
college football playoff and.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Who is going to make the top twelve?
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Well, look at the AP pole over here on this
side and Grave and then the ESPN FPI. And the
reason why this matters is because I have lamented the
FPI rankings for so many and just point out the
hypocrisy every single week. Now, mind you is and the
(33:00):
reason why that this matters is because it is going
to directly impact who makes the college football playoffs.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Now here's what I want you to point out. Oregon.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Let's start at the top. Oregon jumped up to number
one in the college foot well in the ESPN FPI. Now,
mind I do my rankings, and those will be out
on Tuesday. My rankings are based upon three criteria schedule played, quality, wins,
and dominance, which I think are the most important things.
(33:34):
FPI factors in historical data, recruiting rankings, all this stuff.
What does that matter for this particular season. Let's look
at Alabama. They continuously are ranked extreme well, actually Oregon first.
Oregon is played Montana State and a terrible Oklahoma State team,
and they jumped up all the way to the top
(33:59):
of the FPI with that, they jumped up six spots.
Now the next thing I want you to point out.
Look at Alabama. Alabama, the same Alabama team that lost
to Florida State last week. That same Alabama moved up
(34:19):
nine spots after beating number four Louisi' excuse me, to
number four after beating Louisiana Monroe. And do you know
who's sitting outside of this ranking at number twenty six?
Florida State, the team that just routed this weekend and
(34:40):
already beat Alabama. But Alabama's number four? Why because their
recruiting ranking is high? What does it matter if they
Alabama has lost what five out of their last ten games,
and we're sitting here talking about this. This is where
the nonsense goes. Miami Miami Hurricanes, who beat Notre Dame?
(35:04):
Where is Miami? They fail to number twenty one? They
failed six spots, while to one Notre Dame is sitting
at number ten. Who Miami beat? Can anybody make it
make sense? Hop into comments and tell me because I
will get to it. Oh funny funny comments in the
(35:30):
in the chat right now, And this was about Dan Lanning.
They said, do you believe that Dan? What is my
level of concern that Dan is gonna get arrested for
violating Oregon Statue one sixty six point eighty seven on
lock television mutilating a corpse? Oh man, good lord? Anyways, Okay,
(35:56):
let me finish the ap thing. So in uf it's
fifteen spots behind Florida. In it, Florida is number twenty
three in the rankings. South Florida is number thirty eight. Okay,
make it make sense. Arkansas Arkansas Razorbacks are at number eighteen.
(36:17):
They moved up ten spots after wins against AA MU
and Arkansas State. How do we factor these things? And
how how is Arkansas? What is Arkansas done so far
to even be ranked? Historical data? Don't even say that
(36:38):
Iowa State fell seven to number thirty one.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
What are we doing here with the FPI?
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Somebody make it make sense to me, because I feel
like I'm like, they ain't gonna let common sense getting
away of the argument, and people are gonna continue to justify,
Oh well see it's different and it takes just it's gabbage.
The algorithm is broken. It'd be like, oh, well, you
don't like what the computers do. Do you realize that
humans tell the algorithms how to form you late things?
(37:09):
So this algorithm is specifically designed to give you what
it is getting. Yeah, and that's a question. Why is
Notre Dame at number ten? They haven't managed to win
a game yet this season? They're oh and one, what
are we doing? Come on, man? We continue to try
and the AP pole is doing the same thing. We
continue to rank teams based upon how good we think
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that they are, regardless of what they have put on film.
And that, my friends, is ridiculous. We cannot do that.
We can't look at Clemson. Clemson is number twelve. I
pick Clemson in the in the AP pole, Clemson is
number twelve. I pick Clemson number one coming into the season.
I pick Clemson to win the National Championship. There is
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nothing that Clemson has put on film again it's LSU
or this week against Troy that even leads you to
believe that this is one of the twenty five best
teams in America if we're being honest. And I love
that bull, but what they're putting on film with their
offensive line, it ain't it. Their defense looks legit. That
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offensive line it ain't it. And this offense ain't cutting it.
Right now, we gotta be honest, and we gotta be
be real. Come on people, and yeah, like, let's let's.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Be real about this.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
What is South Carolina done at this point point in
time to a warrant being number eleven in the country, schedule,
play quality, wins, and dominance in my poll, and this
is why my ball's better. All right, let's get back
to business. Let's get back to the order of business now.
(38:53):
I wanted to also talk to you guys about a team. Well,
actually we'll go Texas versus Santaose State first, because this
was a what thirty eight to seven win or something
like it was a big, big win for Texas, right,
So I left this scent and I want to give
(39:14):
you the exact score of the way I'm not the
way I can quote it completely right. So it was, yeah,
thirty eight to seven.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
I had a right.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
I left this Texas versus San Jose State game feeling
like I ate great mashed potatoes, but they were cold,
like like the flavor. You're like, oh man, if these
were if these were hot, oh man, it'd be fire.
I got cold mashed potatoes out of the game because
(39:48):
Texas's defense overwhelmed San Jose State, but San Jose State
was moving to football. The quarterback was making bad decisions,
and you're like, oh, wow, this is a team that
could have competed with some competent quarterback play. And then
you're looking at arch Manning in the first half and
you're like, oh, four touchdown passes. But if we're being honest,
(40:09):
Mechanics's confidence it is still nowhere near this generational thing
that we have expected. And I believe that the expectations
on Texas need to be tempered dramatically. This is a
team that should hope to make the College Football Playoff
this year, but they have the fortunes of having a
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late They got a lay up last week with San
Jose State, then again UTEP Sam Houston State. Then they're
at Florida, Oklahoma at Kentucky, at Mississippi State, Vanderbilt, Georgia,
Arkansas and Texas A And that ain't exactly what Oklahoma
has to face because Oklahoma, on the other hand, you
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look at their schedule and already talked talked about it.
They still got Auburn, South Carolina, Old miss Tennessee, Alabama
and LSU and Missouri. One of these schedules does not
look like the other. So Texas fans, well, Texas needs
expectations need to be tempered. This is a team that
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you should hope that it gets to the college football
playoffs and is peaking at this point in time because
arch Manning, when you watch him play he makes throws,
you're like, damn, that's dope. And he's clearly talented, but
the noise is bothering him at this point time. And
you guys can weigh in, what do you think about
arch Manning? And you guys please, I know you guys
(41:36):
are the channel is continuing to grow and I appreciate it.
Make sure that you share it with a friend. So
what do you guys think about arch Manning? Throw it
in the chat. Oh and Also, we're gonna get into
some message board stuff in a minute too, but you know,
love it. We got to talk about some teams as
well that people don't want to talk about. People want
(41:59):
to ignore. They want to ignore the Illinois fighting a
line that because their history is gottage like, they do
not have a football rich tradition at Illinois. But this year,
in twenty twenty five, we're not talking about twenty twenty four,
where they won ten games. We're talking about not twenty
twenty six. In twenty twenty five, Illinois is a college
(42:23):
football playoff team. They return sixteen starters. I know Pat
McAfee kept saying nineteen, but that ain't it, and you
guys keep being active in the chat.
Speaker 1 (42:35):
Love to see it.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
They beat Duke forty five to nineteen. And this just
goes to show that whether it's Illinois, or whether it's Oregon,
or whether it's South Carolina or LSU, defence travels, and
so when your team is playing against Illinois, you.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
Better watch out.
Speaker 2 (42:58):
You better watch out, because Luke Altmar looks really good,
really really good. And the two hundred and ninety six
yards three touchdowns distributing the football, Illinois is going to
cause a major problem for some teams this season. And
when you look at their schedule, I want you to
(43:20):
see who they have a legitimate chance to beat, despite
the television telling you otherwise, because the television is not
going to tell you the true story about Illinois football
until they go off and beat somebody. They got Western Michigan,
then they got Indiana. That USC game in a couple
(43:42):
of weeks on September twenty seventh, that's the game I
want you to circle because Illinois is going to beat USC.
Speaker 1 (43:51):
You can book it, write it down.
Speaker 2 (43:52):
I mean, we're you know, we're saying some injury to
Luke Altmar or Gabe Jakis or somebody else for Illinois
that is going to be a win. I can't wait
to talk about that week. The next game that we
got to talk about Baylor versus SMU.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
This was a.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
This was a game where I want to point out
that we are in a historic time with Baylor football
right now, because Baylor football is possibly and mind you,
they had a forty eight, forty five win over SMU.
(44:38):
This was the most Big twelve. If you want to
know what the Big twelve is as a conference or
was as a conference, This game is it? This game?
Speaker 1 (44:49):
Is it? This was a.
Speaker 2 (44:51):
Thirty eight twenty four game with eight minutes and thirty
eight left and Baylor forced overtime with scores at five,
twenty three and thirty four seconds. Now wide receivers camera
Josh Cameron nine for one, fifty one in a touchdown,
Ashton Hawkins ten for one, Kobe Print has had a touchdown.
They SMU had matchup issues all day. But the historic
(45:15):
thing about what we are watching with Baylor right now
is that this is that Dave Randa and Baylor, they
are not supporting their quarterback Sawyer Robinson with who has
immense talent with a competent defense is criminal.
Speaker 1 (45:36):
This is criminal.
Speaker 2 (45:37):
And David Randa, is was a LSU's defensive coordinator before
he got this job, was absolutely stoning people, shutting people down.
He gets to Baylor, can't put a competent offense together,
brings over Jake Spabodol. Offense goes crazy, defense falls apart.
But the bright spot for Baylor is this, and a
(46:00):
bright spot if you're a college football fan, the reason
why you want to watch Baylor is for their quarterback
Sawyer Robertson. Because what's happening at Baylor is exactly how
Jaydon Daniels won the Heisman at LSU. What Sawyer Robinson
is doing, except for he ain't just racking up big
yards against bad teams. Because Sawyer Robinson for the second
(46:22):
week in a row over four hundred yards. This time
it was thirty four for fifty for four hundred and
forty yards. So in two games of football, in two
games of football versus Auburn, Oh damn, that's a good
football team. Twenty seven for forty eight four nineteen three
(46:48):
touchdowns this week threw for four forty and four touchdowns.
Man ain't throwing a pick, and he's throwing the ball
ninety eight times against power for opponents. He's not play
These were not two layup games. And this defense, honestly
is the is the most that a defense has ever
(47:10):
wasted a quarterbacks talent since Patrick Mahomes at Texas Tech,
Jaydon Daniels at LSU, and Jared Goff at Cal. Think
about this. Jared Goff at Cal where Jake spavidoal was
the OC was in twenty sixteen. That team went five
and seven and they averaged thirty seven points a game
(47:33):
and had Jared Goffitt quarterback and still went five and
seven with thirty seven points a game. That is what
we are looking at at Baylor right now. So for
anybody pointing at Arch Manning in twenty twenty six at
the top of the draft and all this stuff, watch
out for Sawyer Robinson. Whether it's John Mattier, whoever else
you want to put at the top of the twenty
twenty six NFL draft, you better start looking at Sawyer Robinson.
Speaker 1 (47:58):
Book it.
Speaker 2 (48:01):
Oh, and let me look at the chat real quick.
Is it Auburn good? Yes, Auburn is a competent team.
We don't know how good they are yet, but they
have good players. And it was asked it, Oh, how
many teams actually have a legitimate chance to win the
Big Ten? I think that there are three. You got Oregon,
(48:25):
Penn State, and Ohio State. That's who has a legitimate
chance to win. Now, Illinois has a chance to ruin
somebody season in terms of winning the Big Ten and
through tie breakers and all this stuff, they could end
up in the Big Ten championship.
Speaker 1 (48:41):
Definitely could.
Speaker 2 (48:43):
But I do believe that well, So in that case,
I'll give it a four team race. When it comes
to the Big Ten, and yes in Indiana, but I
think that we're gonna figure out real quick where Indiana is,
particularly after they play. But we're seeing better play out
of Michigan State. The Big Ten is not it is
(49:06):
not for games right now. USC looks much improved, Washington
looks really good, Wisconsin is better. Michigan we've seen them. Yo,
this is going to This is the best college football
conference in America right now.
Speaker 1 (49:22):
It's the truth. I know people don't want to hear. Now,
speaking of.
Speaker 2 (49:26):
LSU, LSU played LA Tech Louisiana Tech. They won twenty
three to seven. Now, on one hand, I do believe
that this was a bit of a letdown after the
after their big win against Clemson. Don't think that they
came in with the same level of focus. Brian Kelly
(49:47):
was on every show, imaginable happy as you ain't never
heard Brian Kelly this consistently happy as he was after
getting his first after getting to win at Clemson. He
was like, oh yeah, but I'm gonna tell you it
was inflated. That win against Clemson was significantly inflated compared
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to what it really was because.
Speaker 1 (50:10):
Clemson right now, on offense is not a.
Speaker 2 (50:13):
Very good football team. So how good is Blake Baker
their defensive coordinator, because so far he is earning his money.
I think they're giving up seventeen points in two games.
And yes, and Garrett Nusmyer in this game against La
Tech two's thirty seven and a touchdown productive, but they
(50:37):
left points out there. So when I look at this
LSU team, I am not going to hold this loss
against them the same way that other people would or
teams would. And the main reason why is because I
do believe that they had a hangover from that Clemson win. Now,
(51:00):
at the same time, when you have a team that
plays to the level of the competition, you can run
into into issues because sustained focus is the hardest thing
to do. So now they are going to try to
ratchet it up again versus Florida. That means that practice
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intensity is gonna be up again. So when you watch
this game against Florida this week, preview will be out tomorrow,
watch it. This is a game that that you gotta
pay attention to. This is a game that you gotta
pay attention to because this is a game LSU can lose,
just tell you. But I do like their wide receivers,
Burying Brown, Aaron Anderson.
Speaker 1 (51:43):
You know, they look they look very very good there.
Speaker 2 (51:49):
Now, last game that I want to talk about, well,
actually two two more games that we gotta talk about significantly.
We gotta talk about it. Arizona State versus Mississippi State. Now,
Zona State fans were a little bit upset with me
when the season started, and people were like, because I
did not have them going back to the College Football
Playoff because I did not believe the Big twelve was
(52:10):
gonna get two bids, and you know, and unless and
now in hindsight, I'm looking at this and I'm like, wow,
Utah looks like the best team in the conference at
this point in time with with damp Year at quarterback.
So Arizona State went to Mississippi State and they got
(52:32):
app slutely destroyed.
Speaker 1 (52:36):
In the first half.
Speaker 2 (52:38):
They were down and it was like wait, wait, wait
what what? So I know that nobody got a chance
to see Arizona State's first game because the ESPN feed
cut out, But here was the synopsis. Penalties, penalties all
over the place for them.
Speaker 1 (52:56):
They had hella.
Speaker 2 (52:57):
Penalties in that game, and they proceeded to keep that
same energy in this game, and it is the reason
why they were down seventeen to three at halftime, and
the three didn't come until a field goal at the
you know, to end the half. Literally, this was a
program statement win for Jeff Levy. It's their first top
(53:24):
fifteen non conference win for Mississippi State since nineteen ninety one. Now,
granted they haven't played a lot of top non conference opponents,
but this day first one.
Speaker 1 (53:34):
Since nineteen ninety one.
Speaker 2 (53:37):
And I came into this game, remember I gave you
guys the preview this week, things to watch for in
Week three, and I said Arizona State to see if
they were for real. They are not for real right now.
Their quarterback John Mattier, I believe that he is having
that he read a lot of press clippings this offseason
(54:01):
and he's got to get back to business. He gotta
shrink it back down because he is a really good
football player. But he is keyed in on Jordan Tyson,
their their all star, potentially first round wide receiver, way
too much, it just says, and they're not being as
efficient as they can be. They finished this game with
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what I think another another penalty written game, and Mississippi
State they lost six tackles for lost two sacks, two interceptions,
and Hunter Washington to seal the deal. Because Arizona State,
after being down seventeen, oh, they.
Speaker 1 (54:41):
Fought back, fought back.
Speaker 2 (54:44):
They outgained Mississippi State two thirty one to fifty nine
after halftime. But it was that last but it was
the last drive. What we actually the next to last drive.
Arizona State seventeen plays ninety five yards, that the one
yard line and settle for a field goal with a
minute and thirty eight left. Seventeen played ninety five yards.
(55:06):
You come away with a field goal. You can't win
on the road like that. The fans are trying to
blame the cow bells and everything else. Cow Bells didn't
beat you bad, play beat you so And speaking of that,
I owe a big time apology. I owe a big
time apology for this. Here is my playoff bracket from
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this year. Do you know who ain't making the college
football playoff from this bracket? Number seven? Kansas State. Boot
them up out of here. So I apologize for telling
y'all and lining to y'all, making y'all believed that this
(55:51):
was going off, that they were going to make the
college football playoffs, So I apologize. And Clemson is on
the ropes too. I know that they only lost one game,
but they are on the ropes too. Kansas State lost
the Army. And we are going to finish this episode
with the fast break and what the fast break segment is.
(56:12):
These are the games that you didn't watch, but I
watched for you that I paid attention to the way
you didn't have to watch it. Now, the Syracuse Yukon
game overtime game, you didn't need to watch it. The
thing that you did need to watch is after the
game because fran Brown. Fran Brown, their head coach, made
(56:39):
his team run sprints after the game on the.
Speaker 1 (56:43):
Field at home.
Speaker 2 (56:44):
Always so old school, and he's one of the few
coaches that can have that old school mentality and still
relate to the players and not have them hoping the
portal after that. I did have a question in the
chat though, why put all the best teams on the
left side of the bracket? I understand what you mean.
Everybody's in the a. It was talking about the college
football playoff bracket. Have all the teams on the what
(57:04):
do you want me to do? They are ranked according
to seed. I mean ranked according to rankings like I'm
not picking and choosing.
Speaker 1 (57:13):
Just is what it is.
Speaker 2 (57:14):
That's how you had an Oregon in Ohio s they
played in the first round.
Speaker 1 (57:17):
Can't doctor it.
Speaker 2 (57:19):
So more on the fast break. You had Alabama beat
ULM seventy three to nothing. Nothing to talk about there.
That doesn't mean Alabama is back. Everything's not fixed. Nothing
to pay attention to here. It was a seventy three
to nothing game. They dominated in every aspect. Yes, you
can get up and play Ulm. Let's see what happens
(57:43):
when you actually get some comp Let's see what Let's
see what happens Alabama. What you really talking about when
you go when you get Wisconsin next week and then
you go to Georgia in two weeks, talk to us
then we don't care about this. Florida State seventy seven
to three over East Texas A and m If you
(58:06):
can drop in the chat, what city is East Texas
A and m Inn. I don't know, you don't know.
This is not a This doesn't congratulations Florida State. You
are two win er a game that it will little
be concerning Penn State versus FIU thirty four to nothing.
Now Penn State's defense nothing to be concerned about there.
(58:29):
Penn State's offense something to be concerned about there because
them completing passes to their wide receivers has proven extremely difficult.
This has proven extremely difficult. And Drew Aller in this
game nineteen for thirty three for two hundred yards.
Speaker 1 (58:47):
What are we doing?
Speaker 2 (58:49):
K Tron Allen and Singleton. They're doing their thing, running
the football, offensive line doing their thing. It's the passing part.
And this is why told Joe I'm not in on
Drew Oler and not in on penns State winning the
national championship, even though everything is stacked in their favor.
Texas A and M forty four. Utah State twenty two.
(59:10):
Marcel Reid, their quarterback, is allegedly healthy. He started the
game accounted for four touchdowns, three passing, one rushing. Left
the game late in the third quarter, fell weird. Mike Elko,
their head coach, said that he'll be fine, but they
looking good. The new toys are popping. kJ concepts Young
(59:31):
six for seventy three, two tubs Mario Carver five for
one fourteen and a tub Terry Bussey thirty four yard touchdown.
Speaker 1 (59:40):
Come on man.
Speaker 2 (59:43):
And their backup quarterback Miles O'Neil seventy two yard bomb. Hey,
this team, we will see after this Notre Dame game.
Notre Dame wins that game, they'll be fine if Notre Dame.
If Notre Dame lose that game. Out of the college
football play up, see you next Sunday, and we'll see
you next year. Georgia versus Austin p Twenty eight to six.
(01:00:06):
A little bit concerning that. Georgia only scored twenty eight points.
I will tell you that. But Fraser and Bowens they
ran well for Georgia as a team. They went for
one hundred and ninety yards on forty carries and four touchdowns.
But we gonna see what Georgia is really made out
of pretty soon, because there are a lot of questions
surrounding this team. And that wasn't exactly what you wanted
(01:00:30):
to see when they played Austin. P. Last thing, Ohio
State versus Grambling seventy seven to nothing. The only thing
that mattered in this game was the bands. You had
Ohio State's band and Grambling's band on the field. That
was the best part of this game. There was nothing
to even talk about. Congratulations Grambling getting a good payday
(01:00:53):
to go out there and get beat up. But it
is what it is. But you guys thought we got
so much coming this week on The Unafraid Show Live
show on Tuesday, College Football Apostles. On Thursday, we have
another live show with the best things of the week,
the things that you need to watch for to make
sure that you like, subscribe, share, tell a friend about
(01:01:15):
the show. Most importantly, thank you for being one of
us and making this one of the top college football
channels where we tell the truth. I give you the
honest stuff where and then when I'm on TV this week,
I'm gonna give y'all a shout this week when you
watch that the pregame of the South Florida Miami game.
So make sure that y'all say what's up to me
on Twitter, on Instagram, on wherever else, because I'm here,
(01:01:37):
I'm one of y'all man telling you the truth.
Speaker 1 (01:01:40):
Peace Out.
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