August 14, 2024 • 10 mins
Hour 2 of Wednesday's program is here! Craig and Cam look at ESPN's preseason all-America team and react to the selections and talk surprises and dissapointments. Plus, another look at the final preseaon SP+ rankings.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Second hour of the program here on Sports Radio AM
thirteen hundred The Zone. Craig Way, alongside the producer Cameron Parker,
glad to have you with us here in hour number two.
As always, happy to take your questions, comments, your thoughts
on our text line. All you have to do is
text the word Texas follow by your question or comment
to eight one five three zero. Standard messaging and data
(00:25):
rates may apply. Somebody text and heightspan two point zero.
Maybe they're thinking about Quen yours, Queen yours. We heard
from Quinn last hour. We'll hear more from Quinn, youwers
and from Jaddey Barron.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
This hour. We'll have more about that.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Also, like I was promising earlier, update on the stage
being set, and what gave me this idea to check
this out was the injury last week to c. J. Baxter,
And there was a lot of activity on social media
where folks said, hey, you know, too late to go
(01:03):
into the portal. Get a running back now, right, Can
we get one to it? No, No, it's too late, And
I thought, you know and.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Teams, which, by the way, not a bad question considering
I have no idea when the portal is open, when
it closes windows a lot different than five years ago.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, So it got me thinking about the
quarterbacks and where the quarterbacks are that have.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Landed through the portal.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
So we have a list to go through and I'll
let you hear from it coming up in the next segment.
First of all, however, I mentioned we were going to
talk some more about college football today and about some
of the teams that are expected to do well. Yesterday,
ESPN had its sp plus, its power Index where they've
(01:49):
ranked all one hundred and thirty four FBS Division I
college football programs going into the season. Texas, by the way,
acording to the respe plus rankings is number fivenumber four
in the preseason balloting both on the coaches Poland and
the ep pole number five. In those sp plus rankings,
they number one was Georgias. You might imagine number one
thirty four, by the way, last place, because there's one
(02:12):
hundred and thirty four Division one FBS programs. Number one
thirty four is a team that will be in Austin
this year, Uel Monroe, Louisiana Monroe. That was the game
that was added once Texas got into the SEC and
it was revealed that they were definitely going to go
with eight conference games, so they would have to find
a fourth non conference opponent, and they did.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Uel Monroe is in the Sun Belt, same league as
Texas State. They are Division one FBS. They don't Texas
as a rule does not want to play FCS opponents
if they can at all avoid it. And the last
time they played one was two thousand and six and
was Sam Houston, and that was only because it was
a late thing. I think Minnesota had dropped for the
(02:56):
schedule as a scramble and they got Sam to come in.
But otherwise it's been a while since they scheduled in
advance an FCS opponent and played them. They like to
play FBS opponents, and although they're ranked at the bottom
of the list, Uel Monroe is one of those now.
The other thing is today ESPN came out with its
(03:20):
pre season All American Team and there are only four
players who were on their first team postseason team from
last year. One of those is Ali Gordon, the running
back for Oklahoma State, Malachi Starks, the Georgia safety, Graham Nicholson,
the Alabama place kicker, and the USC return specialist Zachariah Branch. Alabama, Georgia,
(03:44):
and Michigan lead the way with three first team selections each.
Ohio State is one first team selection and four second teams.
So here it is. This just came down this afternoon.
This is ESPN's preseason All American team. The quarterback is
Carson Dack of Georgia. The running backs oli Gordon of
Oklahoma State. And of course he had what he had
(04:06):
a DWI just a few weeks night, and they've got
to sort through all that kind of.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Stuff, which, by the way, his head coach said he's
done millions of times.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
He said something like a big twelve media days out
in Vegas. He said, he went through the whole deal,
and you know, he went out, you have some drinks,
he goes, and you know, and then drive home he goes,
I've done I think he said a thousand times. Was
the phrase he used, A thousand times or something like that.
I was like, okay, thanks for the insight there. Coach Gundy,
(04:36):
the other running back of mari In Hampton and North
Carolina wide receivers and so far got no quarrel with
any of.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
These selections so far.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
As I rolled down the list, Luther Burden the third
the wide receiver from Missouri.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I think he's really good.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Tedoro and McMillan of Arizona. The two wide receivers. The
tight end Colston Loveland Michigan lo Orange will see him
second game of the year. Offensive line one tackle Will
Campbell of LSU at guard, Tate Ratlage of Georgia at
center Parker brails For at Alabama, the other guard Tyler
Booker of Alabama, and the other offensive tackle Calvin Banks.
(05:10):
So there is a long horn on that, and that
makes all the sense about the all purpose guy Travis
Hunter of Colorado. On defense, ends James Pearce Junior from
Tennessee and Nick Gorton of Texas. A and m tackles
Mason Graham of Michigan and Dion Walker of Kentucky. Linebackers
(05:33):
Barrett Carter of Clemson, Danny Stutsman of Oklahoma and the
Harold Perkins of LSU. Cornerbacks Will Johnson of Michigan and
Benjamin Morrison. A noted name safety Malachi Starks of Georgia
and Caleb Downs from Ohio State. Special teams Graham Nicholson
of Alabama, even though he was second team placekicker in
(05:54):
the preseason se All SEC team because Burt Auburn was
the preseason kicker. Alex Master Mono of Florida stays the punter,
and the returner Zachariah Branch of USC. So that's a
preseason All American team. You have any problem with any
of that? No, I don't either. I think that's pretty
(06:17):
spot on. I mean, you know, I do find it
interesting that ESPN's got their preseason All American team and
the kicker is Alabama's placekicker, Graham Nicholson, who's really really good.
(06:39):
You know, he's moving from Miami of Ohio to Alabama.
He won the lu Groze Award as the nation's top placekicker,
made twenty seven of his twenty eight field goal attempts.
He hit ten from forty plus He's made sixty field
goals during his career.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
So he goes there. But he wasn't even.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Bert Armourn wasn't even second team, Andres Borigalis of Miami
was listed as second team.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
The only thing that comes away is that out of
these players, Texas will face.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Nine of them. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yeah, that's why all that stuff, having this easy schedule,
Like what are you looking at I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
If it's easy creak. I think it's more favorable than
it could have been a very it could have been
A and M levels of tough for your first time.
I think Oklahoma A and M both have tougher schedules
than Texas, but it's still tough. It's not an easy
schedule by by any means. I just think it's a
little bit more favorable than what it could have been.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Well, I think the road schedules are tougher for both
of those teams. Now, it is notable, noteworthy, and we
pointed it out that all three of the quote unquote
rivalry games from Texas at all three of the none
of those games are being played in Austin, at Arkansas,
at Texas Hang and M obviously in the Oklahoma game
being in doubt, but the rest of it might be
(08:02):
pretty favorable. But my goodness, you still have to go
to Michigan and play that as a non conference game,
and you have Georgia on your schedule even though it's
a home game.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
So there's that.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
The second team quarterback, by the way, was not was
not Quinn yours. It was Dylan Gabriel of Oregon. Second
team running backs Todge Brooks of Texas Tech and Quinn
Shuhn Judkins of Ohio State. Second team wide receivers Ted
Johnson of Oregon and Tony Horton of Colorado State. Second
team tight end Brant Keith of Utah. The offensive tackle
(08:35):
second teams erante Aseri of Minnesota and Emery Jones of LSU.
Second team guards Donovan Jackson of Ohio State and Luke
Candra of Cincinnati, and the second team center Cooper May's
of Tennessee. Second team all purpose guys Ashton john Tea
of Boise State, Abdul Carter Penn State and Michael will
(09:00):
of Georgia are the second team defensive ends. The second
team defensive tackles are Tyler Williams of Ohio State and
Peter Woods of Clemson, and then the linebackers. Second team
linebackers are Jared Henderson of Old Dominion, Deontay Lawson of Alabama,
and Jay Higgins of Iowa.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
And my son asked me to league is where is
Old Dominion.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
It's in Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia, and they haven't had football
that long there. They were an FCS program, eventually went
up Division one. They're in Conference USA second team corners
Denzel Burke of Ohio State and Sebastian Castro of Iowa.
Second team safeties Dylan Theeneman Purdue and Xavier wattson Notre
(09:45):
Dame UH. And that's and the second team returner of
Jacob DeJesus of UNLV. So there's just one long worn
and it's on the first team. It's Calvin Banks. But
it's the only Longhorn on the team, first team or
second team. All right, up next, speaking of Longhorn, we'll
hear from a couple. We'll hear from quinn Ewrs, We'll
hear from John ay Bar, but also look at this
(10:07):
quarterback thing too through the portal. That's next when we
continue on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone and
the Ihear Radio app.
Second hour of the program here on Sports Radio AM
thirteen hundred The Zone. Craig Way, alongside the producer Cameron Parker,
glad to have you with us here in hour number two.
As always, happy to take your questions, comments, your thoughts
on our text line. All you have to do is
text the word Texas follow by your question or comment
to eight one five three zero. Standard messaging and data
(00:25):
rates may apply. Somebody text and heightspan two point zero.
Maybe they're thinking about Quen yours, Queen yours. We heard
from Quinn last hour. We'll hear more from Quinn, youwers
and from Jaddey Barron.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
This hour. We'll have more about that.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Also, like I was promising earlier, update on the stage
being set, and what gave me this idea to check
this out was the injury last week to c. J. Baxter,
And there was a lot of activity on social media
where folks said, hey, you know, too late to go
(01:03):
into the portal. Get a running back now, right, Can
we get one to it? No, No, it's too late, And
I thought, you know and.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Teams, which, by the way, not a bad question considering
I have no idea when the portal is open, when
it closes windows a lot different than five years ago.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, So it got me thinking about the
quarterbacks and where the quarterbacks are that have.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Landed through the portal.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
So we have a list to go through and I'll
let you hear from it coming up in the next segment.
First of all, however, I mentioned we were going to
talk some more about college football today and about some
of the teams that are expected to do well. Yesterday,
ESPN had its sp plus, its power Index where they've
(01:49):
ranked all one hundred and thirty four FBS Division I
college football programs going into the season. Texas, by the way,
acording to the respe plus rankings is number fivenumber four
in the preseason balloting both on the coaches Poland and
the ep pole number five. In those sp plus rankings,
they number one was Georgias. You might imagine number one
thirty four, by the way, last place, because there's one
(02:12):
hundred and thirty four Division one FBS programs. Number one
thirty four is a team that will be in Austin
this year, Uel Monroe, Louisiana Monroe. That was the game
that was added once Texas got into the SEC and
it was revealed that they were definitely going to go
with eight conference games, so they would have to find
a fourth non conference opponent, and they did.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Uel Monroe is in the Sun Belt, same league as
Texas State. They are Division one FBS. They don't Texas
as a rule does not want to play FCS opponents
if they can at all avoid it. And the last
time they played one was two thousand and six and
was Sam Houston, and that was only because it was
a late thing. I think Minnesota had dropped for the
(02:56):
schedule as a scramble and they got Sam to come in.
But otherwise it's been a while since they scheduled in
advance an FCS opponent and played them. They like to
play FBS opponents, and although they're ranked at the bottom
of the list, Uel Monroe is one of those now.
The other thing is today ESPN came out with its
(03:20):
pre season All American Team and there are only four
players who were on their first team postseason team from
last year. One of those is Ali Gordon, the running
back for Oklahoma State, Malachi Starks, the Georgia safety, Graham Nicholson,
the Alabama place kicker, and the USC return specialist Zachariah Branch. Alabama, Georgia,
(03:44):
and Michigan lead the way with three first team selections each.
Ohio State is one first team selection and four second teams.
So here it is. This just came down this afternoon.
This is ESPN's preseason All American team. The quarterback is
Carson Dack of Georgia. The running backs oli Gordon of
Oklahoma State. And of course he had what he had
(04:06):
a DWI just a few weeks night, and they've got
to sort through all that kind of.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Stuff, which, by the way, his head coach said he's
done millions of times.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
He said something like a big twelve media days out
in Vegas. He said, he went through the whole deal,
and you know, he went out, you have some drinks,
he goes, and you know, and then drive home he goes,
I've done I think he said a thousand times. Was
the phrase he used, A thousand times or something like that.
I was like, okay, thanks for the insight there. Coach Gundy,
(04:36):
the other running back of mari In Hampton and North
Carolina wide receivers and so far got no quarrel with
any of.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
These selections so far.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
As I rolled down the list, Luther Burden the third
the wide receiver from Missouri.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I think he's really good.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Tedoro and McMillan of Arizona. The two wide receivers. The
tight end Colston Loveland Michigan lo Orange will see him
second game of the year. Offensive line one tackle Will
Campbell of LSU at guard, Tate Ratlage of Georgia at
center Parker brails For at Alabama, the other guard Tyler
Booker of Alabama, and the other offensive tackle Calvin Banks.
(05:10):
So there is a long horn on that, and that
makes all the sense about the all purpose guy Travis
Hunter of Colorado. On defense, ends James Pearce Junior from
Tennessee and Nick Gorton of Texas. A and m tackles
Mason Graham of Michigan and Dion Walker of Kentucky. Linebackers
(05:33):
Barrett Carter of Clemson, Danny Stutsman of Oklahoma and the
Harold Perkins of LSU. Cornerbacks Will Johnson of Michigan and
Benjamin Morrison. A noted name safety Malachi Starks of Georgia
and Caleb Downs from Ohio State. Special teams Graham Nicholson
of Alabama, even though he was second team placekicker in
(05:54):
the preseason se All SEC team because Burt Auburn was
the preseason kicker. Alex Master Mono of Florida stays the punter,
and the returner Zachariah Branch of USC. So that's a
preseason All American team. You have any problem with any
of that? No, I don't either. I think that's pretty
(06:17):
spot on. I mean, you know, I do find it
interesting that ESPN's got their preseason All American team and
the kicker is Alabama's placekicker, Graham Nicholson, who's really really good.
(06:39):
You know, he's moving from Miami of Ohio to Alabama.
He won the lu Groze Award as the nation's top placekicker,
made twenty seven of his twenty eight field goal attempts.
He hit ten from forty plus He's made sixty field
goals during his career.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
So he goes there. But he wasn't even.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Bert Armourn wasn't even second team, Andres Borigalis of Miami
was listed as second team.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
The only thing that comes away is that out of
these players, Texas will face.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Nine of them. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yeah, that's why all that stuff, having this easy schedule,
Like what are you looking at I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
If it's easy creak. I think it's more favorable than
it could have been a very it could have been
A and M levels of tough for your first time.
I think Oklahoma A and M both have tougher schedules
than Texas, but it's still tough. It's not an easy
schedule by by any means. I just think it's a
little bit more favorable than what it could have been.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Well, I think the road schedules are tougher for both
of those teams. Now, it is notable, noteworthy, and we
pointed it out that all three of the quote unquote
rivalry games from Texas at all three of the none
of those games are being played in Austin, at Arkansas,
at Texas Hang and M obviously in the Oklahoma game
being in doubt, but the rest of it might be
(08:02):
pretty favorable. But my goodness, you still have to go
to Michigan and play that as a non conference game,
and you have Georgia on your schedule even though it's
a home game.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
So there's that.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
The second team quarterback, by the way, was not was
not Quinn yours. It was Dylan Gabriel of Oregon. Second
team running backs Todge Brooks of Texas Tech and Quinn
Shuhn Judkins of Ohio State. Second team wide receivers Ted
Johnson of Oregon and Tony Horton of Colorado State. Second
team tight end Brant Keith of Utah. The offensive tackle
(08:35):
second teams erante Aseri of Minnesota and Emery Jones of LSU.
Second team guards Donovan Jackson of Ohio State and Luke
Candra of Cincinnati, and the second team center Cooper May's
of Tennessee. Second team all purpose guys Ashton john Tea
of Boise State, Abdul Carter Penn State and Michael will
(09:00):
of Georgia are the second team defensive ends. The second
team defensive tackles are Tyler Williams of Ohio State and
Peter Woods of Clemson, and then the linebackers. Second team
linebackers are Jared Henderson of Old Dominion, Deontay Lawson of Alabama,
and Jay Higgins of Iowa.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
And my son asked me to league is where is
Old Dominion.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
It's in Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia, and they haven't had football
that long there. They were an FCS program, eventually went
up Division one. They're in Conference USA second team corners
Denzel Burke of Ohio State and Sebastian Castro of Iowa.
Second team safeties Dylan Theeneman Purdue and Xavier wattson Notre
(09:45):
Dame UH. And that's and the second team returner of
Jacob DeJesus of UNLV. So there's just one long worn
and it's on the first team. It's Calvin Banks. But
it's the only Longhorn on the team, first team or
second team. All right, up next, speaking of Longhorn, we'll
hear from a couple. We'll hear from quinn Ewrs, We'll
hear from John ay Bar, but also look at this
(10:07):
quarterback thing too through the portal. That's next when we
continue on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone and
the Ihear Radio app.
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