September 3, 2024 • 31 mins
Nick Wize dives into the thrilling clash where USC emerged victorious over LSU, highlighting the key plays and standout performances that led to the Trojans' big win. We’ll also dissect Florida State's rough start to the season as they grapple with a quarterback dilemma, struggling to find their rhythm at 0-2. Join us as we analyze the implications of these developments on the college football landscape and what they mean for the rest of the season.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
The season Tickets podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
My name is Nick Wise. Thank you so much for
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time I upload new content. It is Tuesday, September third,
and Week one of college football is officially in the
books now. Episode number one we covered a lot of
the Week one games we did Thursday, Friday, Saturday. If
you want to go back and listen to that episode,
all of that content is still relevant. We talked about,
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you know, Michigan not going to the portal for a quarterback.
I think they're going to regret that that could possibly
cost them a playoff spot, especially with what we saw
from USC. You know, that's a game we thought Michigan
was going to win. Now we're not so sure anymore.
Michigan's looking at eight and four, nine and three, it's
staring at him right in the face because they didn't
go get a quarterback. We talked about that at episode
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number one. The three most impressive teams over the weekend,
which was led by Miami. That's an episode number one.
We talked about the most disappointing teams in episode number one,
which included the Florida Gators, Texas Tech who almost lost
to Abilen Christian Appling Christian, a school with six two
hundred and nineteen students, nearly beat Texas Tech at school
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forty one thousand students. That is a massive that would
have been a massive upset had Texas Tech blown that game.
Billy Napier, we talked about him being on the hot seat,
so all of that stuff episode number one. Today's podcast
going to focus on the games that didn't get covered
in episode number one, and that was USC and LSU.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
I want to talk about that game.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I also want to talk about Florida State losing to
Boston College starting zero to two. I don't want to
go too deep into the Florida State game and I
don't want to go back into the Florida stuff really
on this episode. I have a lot to say and
I'll touch on it a little bit here. I got
a radio show this afternoon here in Tampa Bay on
ninety five to three WDA and AM six twenty, where
we'll cover the Gators and the seminals a little bit
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more there. You can definitely check that out this afternoon.
That's going to start at three o'clock. So let's start
with usc LSU. I also want to give out my
you know, I want to talk about three players of
the weekend that really stood out in college football. One
of them you were probably already asleep while this performance
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was going on. I want to talk about three teams
that I think really made their path to the playoff
much easier this year, and also the most surprising things
from week one. We'll get to all of that, but
let's start with usc LSU Sunday night. If you're a
direct TV subscriber, what they did to you was brutal
in ESPN and ABC Disney. They got to stop doing
this because at the end of the day, it's them.
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You get mad at your cable company. Really, it's the
network that is polling this move. It's a dirty move
and I don't like it. Now here's the thing. If
you still have DirecTV after the NFL already got Sunday ticket,
what are you doing like, why do you still have DirecTV? Now,
this is not an ad, this is not a sponsorship.
They do not sponsor this podcast. But I will tell
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you as a sports fan, and I often see this
question on social media, people are like, what should I
get Hulu YouTube by sling all of this, I'm a
sports fan. If you are a sports fan and you
want to watch the games in the most games and
just the most the best possible viewing experience, it's YouTube TV.
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It's easy to use, even if you're someone older, which
you know, chances out the people listening to the podcast
a younger generation. I don't need to deep dive into
this for you. You know how it works. But you got
the multiview. It's absolutely incredible, it really is. And what
happened before the USCLSU game was not right. And if
you don't know, DirecTV had a blackout right when the
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game was about to start. ESPN, Disney ABC couldn't come
to an agreement when DirecTV they blacked out the channel.
DirecTV subscribers did not get to watch usc LSU. And
this isn't the first time they've done this. They did
it last year right before Georgia. I'm sorry right before
Florida in Utah kicked off on a Thursday night, ESPN
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went black. I believe it was for comcasts or Spectr.
It was a cable company, I believe is what it was.
And look, this has happened with YouTube TV in the
past as well. I had to pause YouTube TV for
a couple of days while they didn't have ESPN. I
went to Hulu for like literally three hours, and then
they got an agreement and it.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Was back to YouTube TV.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
The best part about it was YouTube TV and ABC
and Disney like didn't agree on this deal, blocked out
their channels. Yet YouTube TV is literally the sponsor of
the NBA Finals, which is on ABC and Disney. It's
just it's saying what these networks are doing to us
as fans. We're losing out because it's all about the
bottom line and the dollar, and it's only gonna get
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worse pretty soon. I think you're gonna pay basically to
stream each team that you want. It's gonna be like
a pay per view, which we've seen a lot of
people talking about. Would it be surprised, Oh, I want
the Florida State channel. Oh, let me subscribe to the
Michigan channel, it's all gonna be apps. I think that's
a long ways down the road. I think that's I
think the NFL is getting closer to something like that happening,
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even though the NFL doesn't really want to do single
team streams. But I mean, we're getting to the point
to where these networks in the greed. And I get
it because they're paying these conferences so much money. NBC,
AB or I'm sorry, NBC, CBS and Fox. They paid
seven billion dollars for the Big ten rights, you know, ESPN, ABC.
They spent right around the same for the SEC. So
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I get it. But we the fans, are the ones
losing out. And no fan of college football should have
missed that game Sunday night because it was a good one.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
And you know what we learned in the USC and LSU.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
We learned that not hopping into the portal, having a
quarterback that is in the system for a couple of
years and then gets to start works his way up
to the starter, it gives you good football and it
makes you a better prepared team and you look better like, yeah,
LSU didn't win, but LSU is much more prepared team
than someone like Florida state, Garrett, that's my performed. He
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was great, you know, and he sat behind Jane and
Daniels last year. Miller Moss, he sat behind Caleb Williams
for a couple of years, waited his opportunity to play,
and now the opportunity has arrived and both of these
guys delivered. Now, Miller Moss outplayed Garrettnsmeyer just a little bit,
and Brian Kelly was quick to tell us that I
thought his press conference was weird. He took the blame,
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but he also deflected a lot of it too. There
were times where I felt like he was blaming his players,
and then there's times where he was blaming himself and
he should be blaming himself. ALICU got conservative at the
end of that game. They thought, hey, we're the SEC team,
this is a former Pac twelve team, they're not great
on defense. We're gonna blow this thing open, and we're
going to get out of here with a win. And
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that's not what happened. USC looked like a big ten
team and their defense came up with multiple stops in
that game. LSU had multiple opportunities to put that game away,
and USC has done something they have not been able
to do in years, and that was make big plays
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on defense, giving their offense multiple opportunities to come back
in that game. And that's exactly what happened. The USC
defense won the night. Yes, everyone's talking about the Miller
Moss performance. Yes, everyone's talking about all of the highlight
reel catches that happened in that game.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
And there were some good ones from both sides.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
USC and LSU receivers, those were some of the best
receivers in college football in that game. But it was
USC's defense that made the difference. That's not what we
were expecting. Look, that was one of Nick's picks this weekend.
I had the over in that game sixty four and
a half. I think it shot all the way up
to sixty six and a half by kickoff. We were
expecting what we saw from LSU and all Miss last year,
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back and forth, back and forth. Both teams got new
defensive coordinators, both teams looked vastly different on that side
of the ball, and both teams were improved. But where
both of these teams benefited and we'll benefit as the
season goes on. And yes, LSU starts off zero and
one again, and the chip Kelly Era. You know, I
went to their schedule next year just to see who
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they play, Like maybe next year they have an easy
game to start off the season and Brian Kelly will
eventually get to one to know they play Clemson. Yeah,
Clemson a little bit on the downfall, probably dropping a
tier because Devo refuses to adapt to the new age
of college football. But it's still a big game. I mean,
props LSU for continuing to schedule these every single year
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in Week number one, but the USC defense made the
stop late and they've been They were talking about it
all broadcast, like USC has put on so many I
think it was like fourteen hundred pounds as a team
they put on in the offseason, and they had to
do that if they were going to play in the
Big Ten. A lot of those Midwest corn fed boys,
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we're out west. It's a little bit of a different game.
They're smaller, they're fast. But USC looked like a Big
ten team, a good Big ten team at that and
they pushed USC around. They held their own Grier. I'm sorry,
they pushed LSU around. They held their own ground. And
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USC's got some wide receivers, which we talked about in
this game both sides of the ball, but USC wide
receivers against Michigan and their secondary Week four at the
Big House. That's gonna be a fun one to watch.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
And Michigan.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
I talked about it in the second of the show,
regretting not going to the portal. You know, I think
a lot of people were thinking Michigan will lose to Texas,
Ohio State, Oregon. Now USC is going to be a problem.
Michigan is staring at an eight win season possibly, But
I can't wait for that matchup week four.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
That is going to be a really, really good game.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Also before the USC LSU game, see, I'm not a
big fan of neutral site games. I like college football
for the atmosphere, not just the atmosphere, but that's a
big part of it. I like the games on a
college campus. And before that game, the Trojan sword stuck
in the field. You know, does this a little thing
where he sticks the sword at the fifty yard line
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end of the field. He got like stuck because it
you know, it's fake grass Vegas. That wouldn't have happened
at the coliseum. How much better would that game have
been in Death Valley at night in Baton Rouge, even
at the Colisseum in La and LSU fans would have
traveled out there for that. That's where I wish that
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game would have been played. One of these stadiums. Do
a home and home if you got to not a
big fan of the neutral site games. Same goes for
Saturday's nooner with Georgia and Clemson. Would have preferred to
see that on a campus, you know, but you know,
it is what it is. They're going to continue to
do the neutral site games because, like we talked in
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the beginning of the show about the TV networks and
the dollars, there are sponsorships and there's money to be
made in these neutral site games and they're going to
continue to have it. So last night Florida State, they
took on Boston College. They're sixteen and a half point favorites,
thought they were going to bounce back. I put it
out there on Twitter. I said, I'm not betting this game,
but if I had to bet it, there's no way
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Florida State drops this game. They're going to open up
the playbook like they did on that final drive against
Joornany Georgia Tech, and they're gonna build off of that.
We're gonna find out what dj Uyungalula has. We found
out what he has, and it's not a lot. By
the way, at three two one, Nol still not on
Twitter if you did not see it. August twenty seventh,
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tweeted out of the eleven forty two AM, if Florida
State loses to BC this weekend, I will eat dog
shit out of a red solo cup with a spoon
and post a video of me doing it.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Book it.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
He deleted Twitter. I've also heard he's deleted his Facebook.
He's nowhere to be found, basically deleted from social media.
Nobody saw Florida State getting upset by Bill O'Brien in
Boston College last night, and it wasn't.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Even really a good game.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
When you think of Florida State, they're a tough watch,
Top ten preseason. You think they're gonna get into the playoffs.
They're eliminated on a Labor Day from playoff contention. They're
not running the ACC they're not winning that conference. This
is a team that has nothing going for it right now.
This is what happens when you don't develop a quarterback.
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This is what happens when you do the opposite of
LSU and USC. You let somebody outscream your quarterback. You
let him grow in another system, and then you bring
him in for his final year.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
You take a gamble on him.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
You hope it pays off, doesn't The scouts for Florida
State let Florida State down. You should have known dj
uyongal Lay isn't that guy. He never has been. Yes,
he's a five star coming out of high school. Yes,
he was the number one quarterback in his class, ahead
of guys like c. J.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Stroud.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
But he continues to get opportunities and opportunities and people
take a chance on him, and it's now working out
in Tallahassee. You want to know why it worked at
Oregon State? And he wasn't great out there, but a
lot of twenty one personnel, easy system with Jonathan Smith,
and a lot of that relied on Martinez in the
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run game. At Oregon State and a Florida State, he's
asked to do a little bit more. At Oregon State,
they threw the ball just forty seven percent of the time.
Forty seven percent of the time is all they threw
in an era where we throw the ball all the time.
Time forty seven percent is not a lot. That's why
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dj Ueyongalaala was better with Jonathan Smith in Oregon State.
There was a point in the game last night where
Florida State had run the ball just thirteen times and
they threw it thirty five times. That is a recipe
for a disaster when dj Uyongalaala is your quarterback. Now,
the final numbers in that game, dj threw the ball
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forty two times. He was twenty one to forty two,
two hundred and seventy two yards. He averaged six and
a half yards per pass, one touchdown, one interception at
twenty seven point four QBR. The run game sixteen carries
twenty one yards, so it's not all his fault.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
You know.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
The offensive line doesn't look great, which was supposed to
be a strength. Some people said the Florida State defensive
line was with the best in the country. That was
an actual take from ESPN's Pete thamil Week zero that
Florida State had the best d line in the country.
That is maybe the coldest stake all year long. They
have looked nowhere near one of the best defensive lines
in college football. But Florida State is a team that
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is in trouble right now, and I don't know how
you go into week three, I'm sorry, Week two, their
third game and you start dj Ouiyunglila against Memphis. Memphis
is going to come into this building trying to crush you.
This is Memphis's only chance to go to the playoff.
Their dreams are still alive. They are coming into this
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game motivated. They can no longer lose this game and
still win their conference to go to the playoffs. This
is now a game Memphis has to have. Mike Norvell
used to be the coach of the program, not for
none of these players played for him. But still there's
a lot of storylines there. This game is gonna get
built up. Memphis is gonna be no easy get The
Noles are out the Virgines starting zero three. There's a
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really good chance that happens. And again it's not all
dj Ouiyunglalay's fault. But he doesn't look good. He doesn't
look comfortable, he doesn't look like he knows what he's doing.
He looks like he's been faking it until he makes it.
He hasn't made it yet, and he's fooled people. He's
fooled people to think that he's a capable quarterback and
he's anything. But I never thought dj uy youngla was
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that guy. But I never thought he was as bad
as he was in these first two games. He looks
lost on the football field. And I don't know how
much longer you can keep playing djuy Younglla. If Mike Norvell,
you know, I could see if Graham Mertz is still
playing for Florida instead of dj Lagway, because Graham Mertz
was one of the best quarterbacks in the SEC last year,
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very underrated guy. Florida's loss wasn't on Mertz, but a
bigger part of Florida State's loss is on dj Ouey
younglaa and how he runs this offense, and it's not
very good. If you're Mike Norvell, I don't know how
you're not starting one of your freshman quarterbacks who are
sitting on the bench right now, or at least going
into the game against Memphis with an open quarterback competition.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
This is something you have to be doing. The season's over.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I hate to say that because it's September third, but
the season for Florida State it's over. It's time to
put in one of the freshman quarterbacks. It's time to
develop somebody yourself, Mike Norvell. This is your opportunity so
this doesn't happen again in twenty twenty five, because this
drop off is inexcusable. The expectations in Tallahassee were to
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win the ACC. It's now the day after Labor Day.
They're oh and two in the ACC and they weren't
even playing. I guess what you would call a premier
team in the conference if this conference even has any
Miami really is that premier team right now? Clemson the
premier team? Oh and one Florida State a premier team.
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Oh and two North Carolina State? I guess a premier team.
Almost lost to Western Carolina that score closer than really
what it was. And how about Virginia Tech losing to
Vanderbilt see us down right now and dowed bad? With
Florida State dropping their first two games? And what is
Mike Norvel doing going forward on fourth down in their
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own zone in a one possession game? Horrible call turned
into an interception and Boston College turned it into points.
And then Norvel punched the football with six minutes to go.
You want to know why he did that he did
it because he knows his quarterback can't make a play.
Mike Norvel has zero faith in dj Uyunglawa. He tried
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to hide him in the Georgia Tech game. You can
only hide your quarterback and protect him for so long.
Couldn't hide him and protect him last night. You were
down in that game all night long, and therefore you
had to throw the ball forty two times. But if
you're Mike Norvel, how are you not starting one of
the freshmen going into this Memphis game. Give the fans
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something to watch because they've had enough of dj Uyunglawa.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
I hope he paid.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
I hope he got paid good money because that's gonna
be the last paycheck in football that he probably gets.
And look, he's I hate criticizing a kid who's way
more accomplished than I'll ever be at the game.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
So it's nothing personal.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
But when you're the quarterback for Florida State, you have
high expectations and you have not lived up to those,
not even close here in the first two weeks, I mean,
it was downright brutal. So I'm hoping that they make
the change in Tallahassee, and I hope we see it
this weekend, the dj Uyongala era. I'm over it. It
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was over before it started. This team has nothing to
play for of any value. So why not start the
process early, develop your quarterback and play for twenty twenty
five because that's where we are.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Before Week two is even started. And that's sad.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
How about the other team in Florida? Real quick, we'll
start it. I'm already singing on social media. The Florida
fans want Lane Kiffin. They want to pair Lane kiffing
up with DJ Lagway. Guys, relax, that's not happening. Is
Billy Napier see hot? You bet it is. Does he
have a quarterback competition on his hands? You bet he does.
Graham Mertz not practicing right now with the concussion. DJ
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Lagway possibly in for the start. That's going to give
you something to look forward to this weekend. Again, I
don't think it's all on Graham Mertz. While they got
their asses kicked. Yes, DJ Lagway had a good touchdown
drive near the end of the game, but totally different moment.
You know, Miami at that point playing a little bit differently.
They're kind of just sitting back, not letting you burn
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him quickly. They're giving you the stuff in front of them,
So I don't take much into that, but I know
that as a Florida fan, you got to be interested
in seeing DJ Lagway and really he is the one
person that can save Billy Napier's job. Let's talk about
the players of the weekend. There is a wide receiver
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route in Arizona McMillan. Ten receptions, three hundred four years,
four touchdowns. Kids incredible, going to be a first round pick.
If you're not staying up at ten thirty at night
to watch Arizona, check them out.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
They're worth watching. Now.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
This is a game that only psychoes like myself watch,
but Arizona is a fun team to watch. And that
game with New Mexico was close going in a halftime.
They were a twenty eight point favorite, twenty seven and
a half point favorite. They did not cover. It was
actually very close going into halftime. Arizona started to pull
away in the second half. But Arizona's got a really
fun offense. Noah Fafieda, their quarterback. McMillan, the wide receiver
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I'm talking about right now. One of the top tandems
in the league are in college football. These are two
guys that McMillan definitely going to be playing on Sundays
and Noah Fafida Alma Fana because their coach, Jetfish left
for the Washington opportunity. Once Kaitlin Demore went to Alabama,
McMillan and Fafieda they stayed in Tucson in much respect
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for that. They're trying to build their own little legacy
there and they're doing that. Won a Bowl game together
last year against Oklahoma. I believe it was the cheese
at and off to a one to start this year.
Number two player of the week. How about cam Ward
twenty six to thirty five, three hundred and eighty five yards,
three touchdowns, one interception. Miami is legit. Everything about Miami
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just felt different over the weekend, something we haven't felt
from Miami since the nineties, early two thousands. I mean,
just everything about Miami felt different in a good way.
Like Miami's never been a program where I'm like, at
least not since the early two thousands where I've been like,
I can't wait to watch the Hurricanes play. Now they're
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musty television now because of cam Ward, and I think
that Mario Cristi Ball as long as he doesn't find
a way to screw this up. Has a really good
football team in a really clear path to the playoff.
I want to talk about more of that in just
a second. My last player of the weekend, Travis Hunter.
Travis Hunter played one hundred and twenty nine plays in
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the game Thursday night against North Dakota State. He sat
out two plays two.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
At seven receptions, one hundred and thirty two yards in
three touchdowns. He's a guy that you're gonna hear his
name pop up often for the Heisman Trophy, whether Colorado's
winning or not. And the same goes for McMillan. The
problem with McMillan in Arizona nobody watches them bare down.
I watch you guys, Wildcats all right, three teams that
made it making the playoffs much easier.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
This weekend.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
I talked about it for a second that I want
to get back to it. Miami being one of those teams.
Miami has a clear shot to win the ACC clear path.
Clemson doesn't look to be great. I get it, they
were playing Georgia, but let's be honest, Kate Klubnick is
exactly who I thought he was not very good, and
Clemson's exactly who I thought they were not very good.
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They've got good players, but they're not deep. And this
is what happens when you don't take anyone from the
transfer porting you're the opposite of Mike norvel Somewhere in
the middle. There's got to be a middle between Norvelle
and Daweeney, and that's where you want to be. These
guys are extreme right and extreme left when it comes
to the portal and not using the portal. Miami's pat
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to the playoff looks good. In fact, they don't even
play Clemson. The only time they would meet up with
Clemson would be in the a SEC championship game. How
about Notre Dame. Notre Dame is going to be a
team that definitely gets into the playoff. They're gonna be
favored in every single one of their games going forward.
They're going to be a team that maybe gets the
five seed, plays against a group of five, they'd win that.
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But Notre Dame is a team that could play against
any other team outside of the group of five, probably
losing the first round of the playoff. We totally all
expect that to happen, nobody would be surprised, but they
got their flowers. In week one, they go into Kyle Field,
they faced the twelfth Man, they faced Texas A and
m a Mike Alco defense, and they got the job done.
And really the craziest environment they're going to play in
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all year long. They went down into the heart of
the SEC and they won a football game. And that
was a big football game on their schedule, the biggest
one really, because now when you look at the schedule
Florida State, they don't look that good. USC gonna be
a little bit of a tougher challenge. Now, maybe that
game USC Notre Dame is for a playoff spot at
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the end of the year. And that last team that
I have out of the three teams that made making
the playoffs much easier is in fact USC. So that
game at the final final game of the year USC
Notre Dame could mean something. I don't want to jump
too far into the year. We're just enjoying week number one, right,
but USC is a team that put everybody on unnoticed
this weekend.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Hey we're here, We're for real. We beaped up on defense.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
We can make stops now we don't have Caleb Williams,
but we still got Miller Moss, who's a very capable quarterback.
He's got weapons everywhere on the outside, multiple wide receivers
that can catch the football no matter where he blitz it,
and we saw it in action Sunday night in Vegas.
But USC's path got a little bit nicer to the playoff.
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They've become real contenders. A lot of people thought they
had the twenty three next to their name because of
the brand and the program and where they are, and
rightfully so, they were good last year, but they came
through in Week one. They delivered congrats to Lincoln. Riley
did an excellent job. He out coached Brian Kelly in
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that game, and again Brian Kelly starts off oh and
three to LSU for the third year in a row.
The most surprising things from week one as we wrap
up the podcast this morning, the USC defense, so I
just talked about, definitely surprising. Nobody saw that we were
all betting the over. LSU's defense got better too. I
don't have them as the most surprising things from week one,
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but the USC defense, yes I do. How about Iowa
scoring forty Kirk Farrens suspended for the game. Now it
was against Illinois State, but still I think the spread
in the game was twenty one and a half. I
contemplated taking Illinois State and for a while it looked
like same old Iowa offense. But Io scores forty points
(27:03):
in a game for the first time in a long time.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
So that was a surprise to me.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
And now I think the biggest surprise over the weekend
Oregon struggling to run against Idaho. In fact, Oregon just
struggling period was a big surprise. Organ is one of
those teams that you constantly hear picked to win the
national championship. It's really them, Ohio State, Georgia are the
three people are throwing Texas in there as well, but
(27:28):
they're one of the top five teams everybody thinks is
going to have a chance to win the national championship.
And they really struggled against Idaho. But a lot of
people don't realize it because that game, I think was
on the Big Ten network, so not a lot of
people saw it. But that was a three point game
lay in the fourth quarter. You know, they ended up
(27:48):
winning twenty four to fourteen, but you know, no run
game for Oregon, and yeah, I know what you're thinking,
Oregon or not bill like that. They're quick. No, that's
old Oregon chip ca ally back in the day. New
Organ is built like an SEC and a big ten team.
They are built strong up front on both sides of
the football. So it wasn't that they just get pushed
(28:09):
around and they're they're athletic, but not big. No, no, no, no, no, no,
that's not a thing with Organ anymore. Oregan's got an
excellent offensive line and defensive line. They only rushed for
one hundred and seventy yards. Jordan James led the way
with ninety five yards rushing. I mean Dyllon Gabriel, he
wasn't bad. He was forty one to forty nine with
(28:30):
three hundred and eighty yards. They just struggled to get
the ball in the end zone. Now again, it's week one.
You know they have on their schedule this weekend an
old rival. Actually, no, that's coming up in a couple weeks.
They got Boise State this weekend, which that could be
a game. That's Boise State. It's only chance to get
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into the playoff. They gotta beat Organ. That's their big game.
Boisse of State's gonna come ready to play. So that's
gonna wrap up today's episode. Really appreciate you listening seriously
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We'll get some NFL action in the podcast later this week. Yes,
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heavy is well, that's what's happening right now. That's where
(29:33):
we've actually played games. We have actual storylines. It's not
a bunch of what ifs. But we'll talk more about
the NFL later this week as it kicks off with
Kansas City and Baltimore. And then you got the Friday
night game between the Packers and Eagles. Darius Sleigh speaking
his opinion about that game being down in Brazil. Not
happy with the NFL. Why are you sending us to
(29:53):
a place where the murder rate is so high. And
I have to agree with Darius Slay, But the NFL
don't care. Those TV deals we talked about on the podcast,
All about that money, baby, It's all about the money.
NFL doesn't care, n C double A doesn't care, ESPN
don't care, Disney don't care about the fans, the players, nothing.
(30:13):
It's all about that bottom line, all right. That's gonna
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time I upload new content. It is Tuesday, September third,
and Week one of college football is officially in the
books now. Episode number one we covered a lot of
the Week one games we did Thursday, Friday, Saturday. If
you want to go back and listen to that episode,
all of that content is still relevant. We talked about,
(00:49):
you know, Michigan not going to the portal for a quarterback.
I think they're going to regret that that could possibly
cost them a playoff spot, especially with what we saw
from USC. You know, that's a game we thought Michigan
was going to win. Now we're not so sure anymore.
Michigan's looking at eight and four, nine and three, it's
staring at him right in the face because they didn't
go get a quarterback. We talked about that at episode
(01:09):
number one. The three most impressive teams over the weekend,
which was led by Miami. That's an episode number one.
We talked about the most disappointing teams in episode number one,
which included the Florida Gators, Texas Tech who almost lost
to Abilen Christian Appling Christian, a school with six two
hundred and nineteen students, nearly beat Texas Tech at school
(01:30):
forty one thousand students. That is a massive that would
have been a massive upset had Texas Tech blown that game.
Billy Napier, we talked about him being on the hot seat,
so all of that stuff episode number one. Today's podcast
going to focus on the games that didn't get covered
in episode number one, and that was USC and LSU.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
I want to talk about that game.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I also want to talk about Florida State losing to
Boston College starting zero to two. I don't want to
go too deep into the Florida State game and I
don't want to go back into the Florida stuff really
on this episode. I have a lot to say and
I'll touch on it a little bit here. I got
a radio show this afternoon here in Tampa Bay on
ninety five to three WDA and AM six twenty, where
we'll cover the Gators and the seminals a little bit
(02:15):
more there. You can definitely check that out this afternoon.
That's going to start at three o'clock. So let's start
with usc LSU. I also want to give out my
you know, I want to talk about three players of
the weekend that really stood out in college football. One
of them you were probably already asleep while this performance
(02:37):
was going on. I want to talk about three teams
that I think really made their path to the playoff
much easier this year, and also the most surprising things
from week one. We'll get to all of that, but
let's start with usc LSU Sunday night. If you're a
direct TV subscriber, what they did to you was brutal
in ESPN and ABC Disney. They got to stop doing
this because at the end of the day, it's them.
(03:00):
You get mad at your cable company. Really, it's the
network that is polling this move. It's a dirty move
and I don't like it. Now here's the thing. If
you still have DirecTV after the NFL already got Sunday ticket,
what are you doing like, why do you still have DirecTV? Now,
this is not an ad, this is not a sponsorship.
They do not sponsor this podcast. But I will tell
(03:21):
you as a sports fan, and I often see this
question on social media, people are like, what should I
get Hulu YouTube by sling all of this, I'm a
sports fan. If you are a sports fan and you
want to watch the games in the most games and
just the most the best possible viewing experience, it's YouTube TV.
(03:41):
It's easy to use, even if you're someone older, which
you know, chances out the people listening to the podcast
a younger generation. I don't need to deep dive into
this for you. You know how it works. But you got
the multiview. It's absolutely incredible, it really is. And what
happened before the USCLSU game was not right. And if
you don't know, DirecTV had a blackout right when the
(04:02):
game was about to start. ESPN, Disney ABC couldn't come
to an agreement when DirecTV they blacked out the channel.
DirecTV subscribers did not get to watch usc LSU. And
this isn't the first time they've done this. They did
it last year right before Georgia. I'm sorry right before
Florida in Utah kicked off on a Thursday night, ESPN
(04:26):
went black. I believe it was for comcasts or Spectr.
It was a cable company, I believe is what it was.
And look, this has happened with YouTube TV in the
past as well. I had to pause YouTube TV for
a couple of days while they didn't have ESPN. I
went to Hulu for like literally three hours, and then
they got an agreement and it.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Was back to YouTube TV.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
The best part about it was YouTube TV and ABC
and Disney like didn't agree on this deal, blocked out
their channels. Yet YouTube TV is literally the sponsor of
the NBA Finals, which is on ABC and Disney. It's
just it's saying what these networks are doing to us
as fans. We're losing out because it's all about the
bottom line and the dollar, and it's only gonna get
(05:08):
worse pretty soon. I think you're gonna pay basically to
stream each team that you want. It's gonna be like
a pay per view, which we've seen a lot of
people talking about. Would it be surprised, Oh, I want
the Florida State channel. Oh, let me subscribe to the
Michigan channel, it's all gonna be apps. I think that's
a long ways down the road. I think that's I
think the NFL is getting closer to something like that happening,
(05:30):
even though the NFL doesn't really want to do single
team streams. But I mean, we're getting to the point
to where these networks in the greed. And I get
it because they're paying these conferences so much money. NBC,
AB or I'm sorry, NBC, CBS and Fox. They paid
seven billion dollars for the Big ten rights, you know, ESPN, ABC.
They spent right around the same for the SEC. So
(05:51):
I get it. But we the fans, are the ones
losing out. And no fan of college football should have
missed that game Sunday night because it was a good one.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
And you know what we learned in the USC and LSU.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
We learned that not hopping into the portal, having a
quarterback that is in the system for a couple of
years and then gets to start works his way up
to the starter, it gives you good football and it
makes you a better prepared team and you look better like, yeah,
LSU didn't win, but LSU is much more prepared team
than someone like Florida state, Garrett, that's my performed. He
(06:28):
was great, you know, and he sat behind Jane and
Daniels last year. Miller Moss, he sat behind Caleb Williams
for a couple of years, waited his opportunity to play,
and now the opportunity has arrived and both of these
guys delivered. Now, Miller Moss outplayed Garrettnsmeyer just a little bit,
and Brian Kelly was quick to tell us that I
thought his press conference was weird. He took the blame,
(06:49):
but he also deflected a lot of it too. There
were times where I felt like he was blaming his players,
and then there's times where he was blaming himself and
he should be blaming himself. ALICU got conservative at the
end of that game. They thought, hey, we're the SEC team,
this is a former Pac twelve team, they're not great
on defense. We're gonna blow this thing open, and we're
going to get out of here with a win. And
(07:11):
that's not what happened. USC looked like a big ten
team and their defense came up with multiple stops in
that game. LSU had multiple opportunities to put that game away,
and USC has done something they have not been able
to do in years, and that was make big plays
(07:31):
on defense, giving their offense multiple opportunities to come back
in that game. And that's exactly what happened. The USC
defense won the night. Yes, everyone's talking about the Miller
Moss performance. Yes, everyone's talking about all of the highlight
reel catches that happened in that game.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
And there were some good ones from both sides.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
USC and LSU receivers, those were some of the best
receivers in college football in that game. But it was
USC's defense that made the difference. That's not what we
were expecting. Look, that was one of Nick's picks this weekend.
I had the over in that game sixty four and
a half. I think it shot all the way up
to sixty six and a half by kickoff. We were
expecting what we saw from LSU and all Miss last year,
(08:13):
back and forth, back and forth. Both teams got new
defensive coordinators, both teams looked vastly different on that side
of the ball, and both teams were improved. But where
both of these teams benefited and we'll benefit as the
season goes on. And yes, LSU starts off zero and
one again, and the chip Kelly Era. You know, I
went to their schedule next year just to see who
(08:33):
they play, Like maybe next year they have an easy
game to start off the season and Brian Kelly will
eventually get to one to know they play Clemson. Yeah,
Clemson a little bit on the downfall, probably dropping a
tier because Devo refuses to adapt to the new age
of college football. But it's still a big game. I mean,
props LSU for continuing to schedule these every single year
(08:54):
in Week number one, but the USC defense made the
stop late and they've been They were talking about it
all broadcast, like USC has put on so many I
think it was like fourteen hundred pounds as a team
they put on in the offseason, and they had to
do that if they were going to play in the
Big Ten. A lot of those Midwest corn fed boys,
(09:15):
we're out west. It's a little bit of a different game.
They're smaller, they're fast. But USC looked like a Big
ten team, a good Big ten team at that and
they pushed USC around. They held their own Grier. I'm sorry,
they pushed LSU around. They held their own ground. And
(09:36):
USC's got some wide receivers, which we talked about in
this game both sides of the ball, but USC wide
receivers against Michigan and their secondary Week four at the
Big House. That's gonna be a fun one to watch.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
And Michigan.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
I talked about it in the second of the show,
regretting not going to the portal. You know, I think
a lot of people were thinking Michigan will lose to Texas,
Ohio State, Oregon. Now USC is going to be a problem.
Michigan is staring at an eight win season possibly, But
I can't wait for that matchup week four.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
That is going to be a really, really good game.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Also before the USC LSU game, see, I'm not a
big fan of neutral site games. I like college football
for the atmosphere, not just the atmosphere, but that's a
big part of it. I like the games on a
college campus. And before that game, the Trojan sword stuck
in the field. You know, does this a little thing
where he sticks the sword at the fifty yard line
(10:32):
end of the field. He got like stuck because it
you know, it's fake grass Vegas. That wouldn't have happened
at the coliseum. How much better would that game have
been in Death Valley at night in Baton Rouge, even
at the Colisseum in La and LSU fans would have
traveled out there for that. That's where I wish that
(10:55):
game would have been played. One of these stadiums. Do
a home and home if you got to not a
big fan of the neutral site games. Same goes for
Saturday's nooner with Georgia and Clemson. Would have preferred to
see that on a campus, you know, but you know,
it is what it is. They're going to continue to
do the neutral site games because, like we talked in
(11:16):
the beginning of the show about the TV networks and
the dollars, there are sponsorships and there's money to be
made in these neutral site games and they're going to
continue to have it. So last night Florida State, they
took on Boston College. They're sixteen and a half point favorites,
thought they were going to bounce back. I put it
out there on Twitter. I said, I'm not betting this game,
but if I had to bet it, there's no way
(11:38):
Florida State drops this game. They're going to open up
the playbook like they did on that final drive against
Joornany Georgia Tech, and they're gonna build off of that.
We're gonna find out what dj Uyungalula has. We found
out what he has, and it's not a lot. By
the way, at three two one, Nol still not on
Twitter if you did not see it. August twenty seventh,
(11:59):
tweeted out of the eleven forty two AM, if Florida
State loses to BC this weekend, I will eat dog
shit out of a red solo cup with a spoon
and post a video of me doing it.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Book it.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
He deleted Twitter. I've also heard he's deleted his Facebook.
He's nowhere to be found, basically deleted from social media.
Nobody saw Florida State getting upset by Bill O'Brien in
Boston College last night, and it wasn't.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Even really a good game.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
When you think of Florida State, they're a tough watch,
Top ten preseason. You think they're gonna get into the playoffs.
They're eliminated on a Labor Day from playoff contention. They're
not running the ACC they're not winning that conference. This
is a team that has nothing going for it right now.
This is what happens when you don't develop a quarterback.
(12:47):
This is what happens when you do the opposite of
LSU and USC. You let somebody outscream your quarterback. You
let him grow in another system, and then you bring
him in for his final year.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
You take a gamble on him.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
You hope it pays off, doesn't The scouts for Florida
State let Florida State down. You should have known dj
uyongal Lay isn't that guy. He never has been. Yes,
he's a five star coming out of high school. Yes,
he was the number one quarterback in his class, ahead
of guys like c. J.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Stroud.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
But he continues to get opportunities and opportunities and people
take a chance on him, and it's now working out
in Tallahassee. You want to know why it worked at
Oregon State? And he wasn't great out there, but a
lot of twenty one personnel, easy system with Jonathan Smith,
and a lot of that relied on Martinez in the
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run game. At Oregon State and a Florida State, he's
asked to do a little bit more. At Oregon State,
they threw the ball just forty seven percent of the time.
Forty seven percent of the time is all they threw
in an era where we throw the ball all the time.
Time forty seven percent is not a lot. That's why
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dj Ueyongalaala was better with Jonathan Smith in Oregon State.
There was a point in the game last night where
Florida State had run the ball just thirteen times and
they threw it thirty five times. That is a recipe
for a disaster when dj Uyongalaala is your quarterback. Now,
the final numbers in that game, dj threw the ball
(14:24):
forty two times. He was twenty one to forty two,
two hundred and seventy two yards. He averaged six and
a half yards per pass, one touchdown, one interception at
twenty seven point four QBR. The run game sixteen carries
twenty one yards, so it's not all his fault.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
You know.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
The offensive line doesn't look great, which was supposed to
be a strength. Some people said the Florida State defensive
line was with the best in the country. That was
an actual take from ESPN's Pete thamil Week zero that
Florida State had the best d line in the country.
That is maybe the coldest stake all year long. They
have looked nowhere near one of the best defensive lines
in college football. But Florida State is a team that
(15:05):
is in trouble right now, and I don't know how
you go into week three, I'm sorry, Week two, their
third game and you start dj Ouiyunglila against Memphis. Memphis
is going to come into this building trying to crush you.
This is Memphis's only chance to go to the playoff.
Their dreams are still alive. They are coming into this
(15:25):
game motivated. They can no longer lose this game and
still win their conference to go to the playoffs. This
is now a game Memphis has to have. Mike Norvell
used to be the coach of the program, not for
none of these players played for him. But still there's
a lot of storylines there. This game is gonna get
built up. Memphis is gonna be no easy get The
Noles are out the Virgines starting zero three. There's a
(15:48):
really good chance that happens. And again it's not all
dj Ouiyunglalay's fault. But he doesn't look good. He doesn't
look comfortable, he doesn't look like he knows what he's doing.
He looks like he's been faking it until he makes it.
He hasn't made it yet, and he's fooled people. He's
fooled people to think that he's a capable quarterback and
he's anything. But I never thought dj uy youngla was
(16:13):
that guy. But I never thought he was as bad
as he was in these first two games. He looks
lost on the football field. And I don't know how
much longer you can keep playing djuy Younglla. If Mike Norvell,
you know, I could see if Graham Mertz is still
playing for Florida instead of dj Lagway, because Graham Mertz
was one of the best quarterbacks in the SEC last year,
(16:35):
very underrated guy. Florida's loss wasn't on Mertz, but a
bigger part of Florida State's loss is on dj Ouey
younglaa and how he runs this offense, and it's not
very good. If you're Mike Norvell, I don't know how
you're not starting one of your freshman quarterbacks who are
sitting on the bench right now, or at least going
into the game against Memphis with an open quarterback competition.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
This is something you have to be doing. The season's over.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I hate to say that because it's September third, but
the season for Florida State it's over. It's time to
put in one of the freshman quarterbacks. It's time to
develop somebody yourself, Mike Norvell. This is your opportunity so
this doesn't happen again in twenty twenty five, because this
drop off is inexcusable. The expectations in Tallahassee were to
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win the ACC. It's now the day after Labor Day.
They're oh and two in the ACC and they weren't
even playing. I guess what you would call a premier
team in the conference if this conference even has any
Miami really is that premier team right now? Clemson the
premier team? Oh and one Florida State a premier team.
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Oh and two North Carolina State? I guess a premier team.
Almost lost to Western Carolina that score closer than really
what it was. And how about Virginia Tech losing to
Vanderbilt see us down right now and dowed bad? With
Florida State dropping their first two games? And what is
Mike Norvel doing going forward on fourth down in their
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own zone in a one possession game? Horrible call turned
into an interception and Boston College turned it into points.
And then Norvel punched the football with six minutes to go.
You want to know why he did that he did
it because he knows his quarterback can't make a play.
Mike Norvel has zero faith in dj Uyunglawa. He tried
(18:30):
to hide him in the Georgia Tech game. You can
only hide your quarterback and protect him for so long.
Couldn't hide him and protect him last night. You were
down in that game all night long, and therefore you
had to throw the ball forty two times. But if
you're Mike Norvel, how are you not starting one of
the freshmen going into this Memphis game. Give the fans
(18:52):
something to watch because they've had enough of dj Uyunglawa.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
I hope he paid.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
I hope he got paid good money because that's gonna
be the last paycheck in football that he probably gets.
And look, he's I hate criticizing a kid who's way
more accomplished than I'll ever be at the game.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
So it's nothing personal.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
But when you're the quarterback for Florida State, you have
high expectations and you have not lived up to those,
not even close here in the first two weeks, I mean,
it was downright brutal. So I'm hoping that they make
the change in Tallahassee, and I hope we see it
this weekend, the dj Uyongala era. I'm over it. It
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was over before it started. This team has nothing to
play for of any value. So why not start the
process early, develop your quarterback and play for twenty twenty
five because that's where we are.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Before Week two is even started. And that's sad.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
How about the other team in Florida? Real quick, we'll
start it. I'm already singing on social media. The Florida
fans want Lane Kiffin. They want to pair Lane kiffing
up with DJ Lagway. Guys, relax, that's not happening. Is
Billy Napier see hot? You bet it is. Does he
have a quarterback competition on his hands? You bet he does.
Graham Mertz not practicing right now with the concussion. DJ
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Lagway possibly in for the start. That's going to give
you something to look forward to this weekend. Again, I
don't think it's all on Graham Mertz. While they got
their asses kicked. Yes, DJ Lagway had a good touchdown
drive near the end of the game, but totally different moment.
You know, Miami at that point playing a little bit differently.
They're kind of just sitting back, not letting you burn
(20:33):
him quickly. They're giving you the stuff in front of them,
So I don't take much into that, but I know
that as a Florida fan, you got to be interested
in seeing DJ Lagway and really he is the one
person that can save Billy Napier's job. Let's talk about
the players of the weekend. There is a wide receiver
(20:54):
route in Arizona McMillan. Ten receptions, three hundred four years,
four touchdowns. Kids incredible, going to be a first round pick.
If you're not staying up at ten thirty at night
to watch Arizona, check them out.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
They're worth watching. Now.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
This is a game that only psychoes like myself watch,
but Arizona is a fun team to watch. And that
game with New Mexico was close going in a halftime.
They were a twenty eight point favorite, twenty seven and
a half point favorite. They did not cover. It was
actually very close going into halftime. Arizona started to pull
away in the second half. But Arizona's got a really
fun offense. Noah Fafieda, their quarterback. McMillan, the wide receiver
(21:31):
I'm talking about right now. One of the top tandems
in the league are in college football. These are two
guys that McMillan definitely going to be playing on Sundays
and Noah Fafida Alma Fana because their coach, Jetfish left
for the Washington opportunity. Once Kaitlin Demore went to Alabama,
McMillan and Fafieda they stayed in Tucson in much respect
(21:52):
for that. They're trying to build their own little legacy
there and they're doing that. Won a Bowl game together
last year against Oklahoma. I believe it was the cheese
at and off to a one to start this year.
Number two player of the week. How about cam Ward
twenty six to thirty five, three hundred and eighty five yards,
three touchdowns, one interception. Miami is legit. Everything about Miami
(22:15):
just felt different over the weekend, something we haven't felt
from Miami since the nineties, early two thousands. I mean,
just everything about Miami felt different in a good way.
Like Miami's never been a program where I'm like, at
least not since the early two thousands where I've been like,
I can't wait to watch the Hurricanes play. Now they're
(22:36):
musty television now because of cam Ward, and I think
that Mario Cristi Ball as long as he doesn't find
a way to screw this up. Has a really good
football team in a really clear path to the playoff.
I want to talk about more of that in just
a second. My last player of the weekend, Travis Hunter.
Travis Hunter played one hundred and twenty nine plays in
(22:57):
the game Thursday night against North Dakota State. He sat
out two plays two.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
At seven receptions, one hundred and thirty two yards in
three touchdowns. He's a guy that you're gonna hear his
name pop up often for the Heisman Trophy, whether Colorado's
winning or not. And the same goes for McMillan. The
problem with McMillan in Arizona nobody watches them bare down.
I watch you guys, Wildcats all right, three teams that
made it making the playoffs much easier.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
This weekend.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
I talked about it for a second that I want
to get back to it. Miami being one of those teams.
Miami has a clear shot to win the ACC clear path.
Clemson doesn't look to be great. I get it, they
were playing Georgia, but let's be honest, Kate Klubnick is
exactly who I thought he was not very good, and
Clemson's exactly who I thought they were not very good.
(23:47):
They've got good players, but they're not deep. And this
is what happens when you don't take anyone from the
transfer porting you're the opposite of Mike norvel Somewhere in
the middle. There's got to be a middle between Norvelle
and Daweeney, and that's where you want to be. These
guys are extreme right and extreme left when it comes
to the portal and not using the portal. Miami's pat
(24:08):
to the playoff looks good. In fact, they don't even
play Clemson. The only time they would meet up with
Clemson would be in the a SEC championship game. How
about Notre Dame. Notre Dame is going to be a
team that definitely gets into the playoff. They're gonna be
favored in every single one of their games going forward.
They're going to be a team that maybe gets the
five seed, plays against a group of five, they'd win that.
(24:33):
But Notre Dame is a team that could play against
any other team outside of the group of five, probably
losing the first round of the playoff. We totally all
expect that to happen, nobody would be surprised, but they
got their flowers. In week one, they go into Kyle Field,
they faced the twelfth Man, they faced Texas A and
m a Mike Alco defense, and they got the job done.
And really the craziest environment they're going to play in
(24:54):
all year long. They went down into the heart of
the SEC and they won a football game. And that
was a big football game on their schedule, the biggest
one really, because now when you look at the schedule
Florida State, they don't look that good. USC gonna be
a little bit of a tougher challenge. Now, maybe that
game USC Notre Dame is for a playoff spot at
(25:16):
the end of the year. And that last team that
I have out of the three teams that made making
the playoffs much easier is in fact USC. So that
game at the final final game of the year USC
Notre Dame could mean something. I don't want to jump
too far into the year. We're just enjoying week number one, right,
but USC is a team that put everybody on unnoticed
this weekend.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Hey we're here, We're for real. We beaped up on defense.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
We can make stops now we don't have Caleb Williams,
but we still got Miller Moss, who's a very capable quarterback.
He's got weapons everywhere on the outside, multiple wide receivers
that can catch the football no matter where he blitz it,
and we saw it in action Sunday night in Vegas.
But USC's path got a little bit nicer to the playoff.
(26:00):
They've become real contenders. A lot of people thought they
had the twenty three next to their name because of
the brand and the program and where they are, and
rightfully so, they were good last year, but they came
through in Week one. They delivered congrats to Lincoln. Riley
did an excellent job. He out coached Brian Kelly in
(26:20):
that game, and again Brian Kelly starts off oh and
three to LSU for the third year in a row.
The most surprising things from week one as we wrap
up the podcast this morning, the USC defense, so I
just talked about, definitely surprising. Nobody saw that we were
all betting the over. LSU's defense got better too. I
don't have them as the most surprising things from week one,
(26:42):
but the USC defense, yes I do. How about Iowa
scoring forty Kirk Farrens suspended for the game. Now it
was against Illinois State, but still I think the spread
in the game was twenty one and a half. I
contemplated taking Illinois State and for a while it looked
like same old Iowa offense. But Io scores forty points
(27:03):
in a game for the first time in a long time.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
So that was a surprise to me.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
And now I think the biggest surprise over the weekend
Oregon struggling to run against Idaho. In fact, Oregon just
struggling period was a big surprise. Organ is one of
those teams that you constantly hear picked to win the
national championship. It's really them, Ohio State, Georgia are the
three people are throwing Texas in there as well, but
(27:28):
they're one of the top five teams everybody thinks is
going to have a chance to win the national championship.
And they really struggled against Idaho. But a lot of
people don't realize it because that game, I think was
on the Big Ten network, so not a lot of
people saw it. But that was a three point game
lay in the fourth quarter. You know, they ended up
(27:48):
winning twenty four to fourteen, but you know, no run
game for Oregon, and yeah, I know what you're thinking,
Oregon or not bill like that. They're quick. No, that's
old Oregon chip ca ally back in the day. New
Organ is built like an SEC and a big ten team.
They are built strong up front on both sides of
the football. So it wasn't that they just get pushed
(28:09):
around and they're they're athletic, but not big. No, no, no, no, no, no,
that's not a thing with Organ anymore. Oregan's got an
excellent offensive line and defensive line. They only rushed for
one hundred and seventy yards. Jordan James led the way
with ninety five yards rushing. I mean Dyllon Gabriel, he
wasn't bad. He was forty one to forty nine with
(28:30):
three hundred and eighty yards. They just struggled to get
the ball in the end zone. Now again, it's week one.
You know they have on their schedule this weekend an
old rival. Actually, no, that's coming up in a couple weeks.
They got Boise State this weekend, which that could be
a game. That's Boise State. It's only chance to get
(28:51):
into the playoff. They gotta beat Organ. That's their big game.
Boisse of State's gonna come ready to play. So that's
gonna wrap up today's episode. Really appreciate you listening seriously
of checking it out and you liked it. I ask
you to subscribe. Maybe ask a couple of your friends
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your friends, Hey, I listen to this great podcast. It's
(29:12):
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Let's keep this thing going. This is a lot of fun.
We'll get some NFL action in the podcast later this week. Yes,
it's not going to always be college football. We will
do NFL as well. The reason it's been so college
heavy is well, that's what's happening right now. That's where
(29:33):
we've actually played games. We have actual storylines. It's not
a bunch of what ifs. But we'll talk more about
the NFL later this week as it kicks off with
Kansas City and Baltimore. And then you got the Friday
night game between the Packers and Eagles. Darius Sleigh speaking
his opinion about that game being down in Brazil. Not
happy with the NFL. Why are you sending us to
(29:53):
a place where the murder rate is so high. And
I have to agree with Darius Slay, But the NFL
don't care. Those TV deals we talked about on the podcast,
All about that money, baby, It's all about the money.
NFL doesn't care, n C double A doesn't care, ESPN
don't care, Disney don't care about the fans, the players, nothing.
(30:13):
It's all about that bottom line, all right. That's gonna
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