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November 8, 2024 • 13 mins
Craig and Cam look ahead to this weekend's slate of College Football games and which ones will capture their attention on Saturday including Georgia-Ole Miss and Alabama-LSU.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
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Speaker 1 (00:31):
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Speaker 2 (00:37):
All right.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
So, uh, it's an important college football weekend and it's
already being described by many. Separation Saturday. Now I'm gonna
start in the SEC and then there's some other games
to get to. The Texas Florida game kicks off Separation

(01:04):
Saturday and kicks off a full slate in the Southeastern Conference.
And this is the national telecast ABC, the whole bit.
There's that, but beyond that, and certainly there's plenty to
discuss with this game of Texas in Florida, and we
have been doing that throughout the course of the week
and as of today right now, DJ Lagway is listed

(01:27):
as questionable for the game.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
You know it.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
In talking to long Oarnchs head coach de Starkeishan about it,
he said, he a must be pretty much of a
fast healer and b it is. You know, Aydon Warner
is a little not a little, He's a different kind
of quarterback. This is a guy who and when Sean Kelly,

(01:55):
the voice of the Gators, was on with us the
other day, described as a young man who's from Florida,
went to Yale, played there one year, wanted to come
back home, earn his way onto the Florida Roster's dream
was to be a Gator. Earned his way onto the
roster by being a walk on. Was able to do that.
And part of the reason he was able to do

(02:15):
that is because he made a highlight video of himself,
not just in game action, but some of the other
things and moves and stuff he made and his agility
and speed and things like that. So he sent it
to the coaches and like, okay, yeah, yeah, he'd be
a good preferred walk on we'll have him in there.
So they bring him in and then during a routine
examination once he got in, they realized he had a

(02:38):
torn acl and he had done all that without so
then he underwent surgery and then after that came back
and was really the third guy on the roster going
into the season. Graham Mertz was the starter.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
EJ. Lagway was the backup.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
When Mertz and the Gators overall to be fair as
a team, struck early, Lagway was given an opportunity and
it did inject some some energy and enthusiasm into the
offense and helped a little bit, but also he had
his struggles as a true freshman would They went back
to Graham Mertz, and then Mertz suffered a season ending

(03:18):
knee injury and that was it for him. Lagway came in,
had been playing well and really kind of had the
Georgia defense off balance with him up in that first
half thirteen to six, and that's when he injured the
hamstring and it was originally and initially described as significant
by head coach Billy Napier. Since then, however, and again,

(03:40):
Sean Kelly, their play by play voice, who was on
with a couple of days Ago said, I visited with
DJ on Monday and he said it wasn't as bad
as I thought it was going to be, and I
feel better today, And that kind of prompted I think
also some of the comments from coaching Apier and his
news conference about how it wasn't quite as bad, and

(04:01):
in Napier's words, there was a pathway for Lagway to
return and actually play in this game tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
And you know he really wants to.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
He's a native Texan, he was a Mister Texas Football
from Dave Campbell's Texas Football magazine with what he did
with Willis last year, and really wants to play. Well,
we'll see if he's in condition to go, it may
go all the way. He maybe listed this question. The
thing about questionable is you can put a guy. You

(04:32):
can list the guy in the SEC Student Athlete Availability
Report as questionable. Questionable means fifty to fifty. You don't
have to do anything more than that. You don't have
to say it's probable, you don't have to say is doubtful.
You can keep him at questionable and then not play
him if you so choose, or play. So I have
a feeling he may be questionable all the way up

(04:53):
till they finally make the decision. Maybe it's after warm
ups tomorrow, who knows. We'll keep an eye on it
for sure, But that's just the first game Texas Florida
then cam There are those who would say, without question,
don't even blink the that the Alabama LSU game is

(05:17):
the most important game in the Southeastern Conference, if not
the nation this week. But there are others who will
tell you Georgia ole Miss is pretty dog gone important
and that's the game that follows Texas and precedes Alabama LSU.
It's gonna be a, you know, quite the challenge for
Georgia going out. Ole Miss is playing really well, I think,
and I think that would make a big difference.

Speaker 3 (05:39):
And we have not really seen Georgia play well for
an entire game outside of maybe they're winning against Texas, right,
I mean, they were in a dog fight with Florida
that came down to the second half, and if Lagway
does not get injured, maybe Georgia loses that game. I mean,
who knows, purely hypothetical. Obviously led the entire game against Techs,

(06:00):
but in a close one against Misissippi State that came
down to the very last possession. Auburn probably their most
dominant victory, but then struggled against Kentucky lost to Alabama. Obviously,
the Clemson game kind of got out of hand in
the second half. So what will happen for can Georgia
together a four quarter game? And I think the question
really is about Carson Back. I mean he's throwing what

(06:22):
eleven interceptions or seven something ridiculous. He threw for four,
counted for four turnovers against Florida, had three picks in
a fumble.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, is that correct? I mean Jorge in three interceptions
against Texas.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
Yeah, that's awful for a quarterback that was supposed to
be maybe the first quarterback taking off the draft.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
Board this season.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
So Georgia able to skate by, But man, if he
throws three or four interceptions against Ole Miss or or
Tennesse Seed, that they may end up losing one more game.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
Craig, Yeah, so we'll see how an Ole Miss of
course has been playing better. And and speaking of courterbacks,
Jackson Dart is playing just about as well as any
quarterback in the SEC right now.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
Yeah, so Ole Miss team with two losses in conference play,
if they want to make the SEC title. I think
everyone can except for what do you know if Florida can't.
I think Florida is out of it. You did the algorithms,
states all of it. I think South Carolina is out
of it. But in uh, Oklahoma obviously one in foreign

(07:24):
conference play, but Ole Miss. You know, if they can
stack some wins here, they can beat Georgia, then they
just have Florida and the Bulldogs left on their schedule
Miss Sippy State. That is, they can find a way
a pathway to Atlanta.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
All right, So does the fact that Alabama at LSU
is described by Paul Finbaum.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
Among others, as an elimination game. But for.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
Heather Dinnich and other college football playoff analysts who do
the number crunching and this and that and can prepare
the probably ability, they say that Alabama wouldn't necessarily be out.
Does that grind your gears a bout as much as
anything else, because the way, judging from your reactions this week,

(08:10):
that possibly even made a snide comment about a four
loss Alabama four loss team is not getting in, but
you know, a three loss she said, it doesn't necessarily
knock them out, but it kind of puts them in
a bad spot.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yeah, it depends on how much chaos happens, Craig. I mean,
if Notre Dame loses, the Army BYU slips up, maybe
Indiana gets blown out by Ohio State, Penn State, or
Tennessee lose here or there. If you Boise State drops one,
then all of a sudden, there is a case that
a three loss Alabama team might be better than one
of those teams. So a lot can happen. Now, I

(08:47):
think it would take all of that for them to
get in because if they lose to LSU, they need
a lot of help. Then LSU theoretically would be ahead
of them in the standing sure has a better case
for the spot than Alabama does, unless LSU ends up
dropping one more game the end of the season. So
it's that doesn't really grin in my gears. I just

(09:08):
think it's funny Craig. And again, this just goes back
to what ESPN puts on their their TV screen, where
every every game is just a massive game and has
massive implications. You know that the world's going to end
if this team loses or this team wins, it's over
with that coach. He's getting fired this quarterback sucks. It's
just there's there's a lot going on. So I'm glad

(09:28):
we have the Heather Dimaches of the world to kind
of keep people's feet on the ground and say, no,
you know what, it's the board is not going to
get fired. They lose this game, they just they still
have a pathway. It's just it's harder to make the
playoffs that they lose.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
You know who makes me crazy. It's not that it's
not the armageddon like status of things in the SEC
as presented in promos by ABC or ESPN. It's the
woman on the Monday night football promos, the one who's
just sitting there staring at her commercial stare it or
a computer went, this is gonna be the greatest game ever,

(10:03):
you know, stealers and giants, And I'm like, stop it.
Don't make that like it's a big deal. Look I'm
a Rams fan. Quit making the Rams and Dolphins sound
like it's a super Bowl from the seventies, because it's not. Okay,
stop it. Anyway to some of the other matchups. One

(10:24):
thing that was written in by Bill Connelly for ESPNO
covers college football so astuteley he said, was last week
This is a very valid question to ask. Was last
week a sign of things to come in the Big twelve?
Talking about Iowa State losing at home to Texas Tech,

(10:46):
Kansas State losing in Houston. So what you got are
a couple of really big games, really three games that
matter this week in the Big twelve, and TCU Oklahoma
State is not one of those. B. Why you at Utah?
The oh Holy War that thing? Although Utah is struggled.
They're just four and four right now. B WHYU yeah,

(11:10):
b YU undefeated. I Aloway stayed at Kansas. Kansas has
got a little bit better late, but they struggled mightily
at the beginning. And then what I think could be
as telling is anything is Colorado at Texas Tech Tech
one in Ames last week. They're hard to beat at home,
but Colorado has been on a roll. And Travis Hunter

(11:30):
one of the Heisman Trophy favorites, if not the Heisman
Trophy favorite, certainly he's right up there with Ashton genty
I think. So those are three important games in the
Big Twelve, just as there's three important games in the
SEC I would I would offer to you. So those
are those are some ones to keep in mind as well,
and then there's not that much.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
Happening really in the Big Ten.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
I mean, Indiana is Indiana's playing Michigan, but Indiana's better
in Michigan and they're playing the game in Bloomington. Washington's
at Penn State. Eh, Washington hadn't been that good and
Penn State will be itching to be better after losing
at home to Ohio State last week.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
Maryland and Oregon, I don't think there's much there is
Penn State.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
Are they locked into a playoff spot? I mean at
number six, it's pretty high ranking after their lost to
wiow State.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
I'd say they have a really good shot. And their
remaining schedule is yeah, very manageable. You mentioned Purdue, Minnesota
and Maryland, maybe Minnesota PJ Fleck, But besides that.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
Yeah, it's very manageable.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
They could wind up a one loss team outside of
the Big Ten championship game, a rematch between Oregon and
Ohio State with a shot to get.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
In hosting a first round game.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
Yeah, hosting a first round or maybe they're in the
nine spot, depending on who's winning and slotting of conference champions.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
But it's going to depend on what else is going on.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
I'm here to tell you, if Boise State wins out,
they're not just going to be automatically slotted in the twelve.
They're going to be higher than that, because they're you know,
they're knocking on the door of that right now. All
right up next, we bring you a Friday, a Florida
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