CFP Scenarios, Texas-Georgia Prep, and NFL Rumor Mill

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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Wednesday a day to get over the hump with the
help of the little yacht Rock and a lot of
college football. It's a good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to a
yacht Rock Wednesday. Welcome to the program here on Sports
Radio A. I'm thirteen under the Zone. My name is
Craig Wait. Thanks so much for joining us on this
Wednesday afternoon. As I always say, if you're trying to
get over the hump on this day, hopefully we can

(00:34):
help you glide right over the crest of that hill
and make the down. He'll run to the weekend. If
Wednesday is the end of your work week, good on you,
Good for you, and hopefully this launches you into a
chance to refresh and renew yourself. And then for those
individuals for whom Wednesday is the start of the work week,
and I know some of those folks, Hey, hopefully we

(00:56):
can help you get it off to a good start.
My name is Craig Wait. Thanks for joining us. Jay
Herman is alongside. How do you I mean you like
I do? You work a lot of days of the week,
So I mean does Wednesday strike is a regular home
day or is it just kind of another day?

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yeah, It's almost about, you know, getting ahead of my
week before my week gets ahead of me, because you know,
on Friday, I'll be pretty much busy the moment I
wake up until the moment I hit the pillow. So
if I lay the foundation on Wednesday, then I can
maybe have some time to enjoy myself a little bit
on Thursday before Friday gets to be really busy.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
I'm in a similar boat today. Obviously, we have the
program this afternoon, I'll hustle over to campus and record
our weekly edition, Longhorn Weekly with coach Sark coming away,
and that will actually air tomorrow night at seven o'clock,
but we'll air we'll record that program this afternoon, and

(01:52):
our guests include Kyle Flood, the offensive line coach and
offensive coordinator, and also Derrek Johnson in the College but
Ball hall of Famer and former Longhorn great. So we'll
have a DJ on as well. We look for that
and then and then I'll just zip right across the
street and call Longhorn Men's basketball tonight as they take

(02:13):
on fairly Dickinson University at Moody Center in Texas, trying
to get to two and one this season as a
six thirty pregame Star Time in a seven o'clock tip.
All right, things to get to on the program this afternoon.
The brand new college football Playoff rankings around. I don't
know that there was a great deal of surprise or

(02:37):
you know, stunning announcements that came down. I think an
eyebrower two got raised when Texas Tech moved past Ole
Miss into the sixth slot and you know, didn't didn't
crack into the top five, but they did move past

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Ole Miss there. Also, we do have they're still calling
it a group of five. I guess it technically would
be a group of five and not G six because
the PAC twelve is really only the TUPAC right now,
so they don't until they get into next year. You
can't really say there are six you know, G six

(03:20):
conference conferences going full tilt. So G five for one
of a better term.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
No California love in the Tupac at the moment.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Nope, not happening there so at least not this season.
But on the G five front, they're at is actually
a G five team ranked this week, whereas there was
not last week. So that was one talking point and
we're gonna hear from Mac Rhoades, who is the athletic

(03:51):
director of Baylor University and he's a chairman of the
College Football Playoff Committee. He was on last night, did
his song and dance with ESPN, and then he does
a separate conference call with media, and we're going to
bring you some of the comments of that. Also, today,
being a Wednesday, at SEC Teleconference Day, we'll hear from

(04:11):
Kirby spart there and also coming up at the four
o'clock hour, we'll hear from long Horns head coach Steve Sarkeesian.
In that we'll also hear from Longhorns defensive n Ethan Burke.
So we've got all that coming over this afternoon. I
guess a good place to start would be the CFP rankings,
where if you compared it with the AP poll, the

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top five are identical Ohio State, Indiana, Texas A and M, Alabama,
and Georgia. Now we'll say this, there were those who
wondered if Texas, A and M might jump Indiana into
the two slot, if only because Indiana I really struggled
to beat Penn State. Let me let me see if

(04:54):
I can make this a little less irritating for Aggie fans.
The difference between two and three is minuscule, not only
in terms of their evaluation, but also even if they
wound up at three, and by that, what I'm talking
about is you know where they who they would be

(05:18):
playing A and M would be playing the winner of
a six versus eleven game, which right now, right now
would be Texas Tech and the first one the odd
team out would be Oklahoma even though they're eleven, because
you have to have the five highest ranked champions in

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there right now, that would actually be Miami. But we
know there's a road to go for them as well.
And the mere fact that the Hurricanes are kind of,
at least for the moment, on the outside looking in,
trying to get in the a SEC Championship might prevent
them from getting in the team right behind them, as
Georgia Tech they might be. I will also tell you this,

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trying to figure out the acc right now, unless you're
one of those people who can do a Rubik's cube
in five seconds, you know, and we've seen all those
geniuses who can do that. I am not one of
those people.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
You're not sitting across from one.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
I started to say, are you one as well? Can
you can you do the Rubik's cube like real quick,
you know, three turns, all of a sudden boom, you
got it.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
I'm pretty good at puzzles, especially word puzzles Rubik's Cube.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
I'm slow.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
Okay, unless you're one of those people, you probably can't
figure out what's going to happen or where things are
stationed in the ACC right now. That's why, that's why
the ESPN family of networks has so much fun with
the ACC, with what they call their Wheel of Destiny. Uh,

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you know, it's kind of like a wheel of forcen thing.
Spin it. You might as well spin it to see
who might win it.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
You win a trip to Oxford.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
Exactly, And it might be so for the SE see,
depending on what happens here down the stretch of these
final three weeks. Now that's a captain obvious statement. But
what I mean by that is the right combination of
surprises could make a difference. For example, I got a
text from someone I know who's asking me about a

(07:17):
possible SEC chaos scenario. He said, what would happen if
this happens? A and M loses to Texas, Texas beats Georgia,
NA and M so A and M finishes eleven and one.
Ole Miss finishes eleven and one, Alabama loses to Oklahoma,
finishes ten and two. Georgia finishes ten and two with
the loss to Texas, Texas finishes ten and two. Vanderbilt

(07:39):
runs the table and finishes ten and two. Oklahoma runs
the table and finishes ten and two.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
Who do you leave out? Yeah? Yeah, And that's the
larger picture. What you would you know, who gets left
out of the college football playoff? Now? I went to
the micro before the mackro and set under that scenario.
By my calculations and the way the SEC adjudicates its
tie breakers, the two teams in the SEC championship game

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just to break the ties would be Alabama and Texas.
And the reason for this is Alabama, Texas, Texas, A
and M, and ole Miss all would each have one
conference loss. Ole Miss would be eliminated by its loss
to Georgia, with Texas having a win over Georgia, and
A and M would be eliminated on its loss to Texas.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
So and those teams are saying great.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah right right now. And then I added for the playoff,
it's anybody's guess. I think an eleven to one. A
and M is certainly going to get in.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
The team that really doesn't want this scenario to happen
is Notre Dame.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
Well, that's true, and they're sitting in a pretty good
spot right now. But you know, their biggest remaining challenge
is going to be pit this Saturday in Pittsburgh. If
they beat them, then they're probably in pretty good shape
to get in, unless there is chaos, as we mentioned.

(09:02):
So my point about all of this is, I wouldn't
get two worked up about A and M being third
if you're an Aggie fan in Indiana being second. First
of all, there's more football to be played. Secondly, there's
not that much difference between two and three anyway. So
it's Ohio State, Indiana, Texas, A and M, Alabama and
Georgia in the top five, second five in the CFP rankings, Texas,

(09:23):
Texas six, ole Missus seven, and it's flip flopped in
the AP pole. But again, the AP pole doesn't play
into the College Football Playoff rankings. Oregon is eight in
the CFP, Notre Dame nine, and then Texas number ten,
and right now, if it were to in right now,
Texas would be in we all know there are two

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huge mountains to climb for Texas, one on the road,
one at home. The one on the road is this
Saturday night in Athens against Georgia. Then you got to
come home and even if they win that game and
be dialed in and focused to play Arkansas, which of
course would of nothing better than the wreck of Texas trained,
and then the long Horns host Texas A and M.

(10:05):
So last year Alabama was on that outside looking in
at nine to three. If the Lowgrns split those two
games and beat Arkansas, they could be in a very
similar situation to Alabama. And we'll have more on that.
Heather Dentach kind of compared the two off of that.
The second ten begins with Oklahoma, and even though numerically

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Oklahoma falls from the top twelve, again they'd be the
first team out because of an automatic qualifier ACC champion.
He noticed that there's no ACC teams that are even
ranked in the top fourteen by US twelve, U Taught thirteen,
Vanderbilt fourteen. Then you get Miami at fifteen, followed by
Georgia Tech, then at USC, Michigan, Virginia, Louisville, Iowa, Pittsburgh, Tennessee,

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South Florida. That's your G five representative right now. And Cincinnati.
If South Florida finishes by winning its last regular season
games and then winning the American Conference championship, good chance

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they stay above James Madison. Now we're gonna hear mac
Roach talk about all of that. Coming up. We'll also
hear from Kirby Smart. Like I said, we've got inconceivable
this hour. We're gonna hear from Ethan Burke. We got
a lot to go to get to and we'll do
that when we continue right here on Sports Radio AM
thirteen under the zone of the iHeartRadio app. It's a

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yacht rock Wednesday, maybe fitting to open with one of
the greatest rock and roll bands of all time, who now,
of course, is firmly entrenched into the hot rock mode,
and that's the Doobie Brothers. This is earlier Doobie Brothers.
With listening to the music and the debate, you didn't

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think I was going to be able to draw a
parallel between the Doobie Brothers and the college football play.
But I'm about to do just that.

Speaker 3 (12:21):
I would never underestimate you like that, all.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
Right, here's the deal. There's the debate between this sound
of the Doobie Brothers, which absolutely love and the later
Doobie Brothers with a lot of heavily Michael McDonald vocal influence.
And there are those who will draw their line in
the sand and dig in their heels and say no,
I'm an early Doobie Brothers guy. And then there's other
people say no, no, I like a yacht right.

Speaker 3 (12:43):
Fran Like what a full belief is, like the poster
song for that later Yep, yep, yep.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
Absolutely Now my deal is I love it all. And
I was so thrilled when I saw him a couple
of years ago Moody Center, they had Michael McDonald and
they basically get the whole catalog, so it was tremendous.
So I don't you can say whatever a straddle defense
or whatever. I like it both. I'm a more is

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more guy in that vein. I'm a more is more
guy on the college football playoff as well. There's twelve
teams right now and people are going to have arguments
about who belongs in who does not. That sort of
thing with the college football playoffs. So let's hear from
Mac Rhoades. He is the chairman coms to be the

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vice president athletic director at Baylor as well, but he
was fielding some calls. This was not part of the
ESPN presentation last night where they asked certain metric oriented questions,
and that's always going to be the case about why
did the metric do this or why did the committee
do that. One thing that I've gathered about this particular committee,

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they're very big into watching games and individual analysis of
teams and players. It was a little more glazed over
in the past. Not with this group. They'll get into
a lot of specificity. They'll they'll they'll talk about why,
you know, one team is valued a little more because

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of a specific player for example. Uh. He was asked
about his thoughts on Oklahoma, which is at number eleven,
and did they evaluate, at least in this recent number
two ranking, how John Mattier played before the injury and
after the surgery and since he's come back.

Speaker 4 (14:30):
You know, Oklahoma we've got obviously, you know, great respect
for them, ranked eleven, you know, really good quality wins
against number eighteen Michigan, you know, going to Tennessee, beating
beating Tennessee. We've had conversation about quarterback Jeomettier felt like
he was playing at a really high level prior to

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the to the hand surgery. Obviously, the first game back,
big games versus Texas, we the committee probably did not
think he was at at full strength. And seems as
the season has moved on, he's he's getting closer to that,
and UH and certainly have great respect for him as

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a as a quarterback and and hope he continues to
continues to heal.

Speaker 1 (15:18):
They also have a lot of respect for Texas Tech,
even though there are those on the call who think
the Tech is still being disrespected by being number six,
even though they moved up in the rankings.

Speaker 4 (15:28):
Certainly, you know, well regarded moved up two spots.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
You know.

Speaker 4 (15:33):
Uh, probably the longest discussion that we had in the
room was Texas Tech and an old miss.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (15:41):
Texas Tech's win, you know, just recently this past weekend
against b YU, really convincing both sides of the ball. Uh,
Texas Tech defensively, really really good offensively, you know, move
the ball up and down the field.

Speaker 5 (15:57):
You know, UH kicked some some field goals.

Speaker 4 (16:01):
Will probably less some points off off the board, but
really you know, looked at you know, Texas Tech's you know,
two top thirteen wins b YU, Utah, Old Miss. You know,
had had the one win at really good win at
at Oklahoma, also a win against LSU.

Speaker 6 (16:20):
But Texas Tech.

Speaker 4 (16:21):
You know, highly regarded by the by the committee.

Speaker 1 (16:24):
You know, it's interesting And the back side of his
answer on Texas Tech mirrored what he said to Reese
Davis about leaving some points on the board and having
to settle for some field goals and in the red zone.
And Ree Davis made the Rye comment about don't kick
field goals, you know, yeah, and make sure you're you know,
you know, get touchdowns in that red zone. Don't get

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field goals as well. But if people are going to
ask questions of specifics down to the most minuscule of
detail in the committee room of twelve, why is this
one team behind another, they're going to tell you, yeah, look,
maybe their offense isn't doing quite as much as we
need to see. And there's some other things that I

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know a lot of Texas A and M fans got really
upset about the what was said about with regard to
the Indiana and we'll get into that a little later on.
He was also asked why Vanderbilt was rated behind Utah
and Notre Dame despite their strength of schedule metric being advanced.

Speaker 4 (17:24):
Certainly, you know, we had conversation about Vanderbilt, you know,
playing an Auburn team that you know made a coaching change,
you know, having to take that, you know, two overtime
win in overtime at at home.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
A lot of.

Speaker 4 (17:41):
Conversation about you know, Diego Pavia maybe the most most
important individual to their to their team as as they go.
You know, the wins versus South Carolina, l s U
Missouri really really good wins. But you know, when we
when we looked at certainly, you know Utah, you know,

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the the the convincing win against Arizona State and then
against Cincinnati, and Blake apologized, who's the other team that
you that you wanted me to compare Notre Dame. Notre Dame. Yeah,
Notre Dame is a team you know that you know,
seven straight games, they won seven straight. You know, I

(18:29):
think early in the year they lost the two by
a total of four points.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (18:34):
Defensively, I think they struggled a little bit. You know,
it feels like, you know, certainly the Arkansas game was
a turning point for them. Offensively, the committee, we really
like Notre Dame as a complete team.

Speaker 6 (18:48):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (18:49):
Again, Defensively, their run game, uh is, you know, as
good as anybody, if not the best, in the country.
When you think about their two two backs Love and
and Price and then and you know Car at the
quarterback spot. He's the third rank quarterback in terms of
passing efficiency in the in the country. So those are
all the things that we talked about and looked at

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as a as a committee and obviously gave him an
edge over Vanderbilt.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
So there's some comments from Mac Rhodes, the committee chairman
of the College Football Playoff Compante. We'll hear some more
comments from him a next hour and in the four
o'clock hour. Now the Texas Georgia and they had the
SEC teleconference today. We'll hear from start coming up in
the four o'clock hour. But Kirby Smart addresses is what

(19:40):
Jake is? He the first up every time in the
conference call. Can't remember he's number two.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
He's in the customary two hole behind LSU. Was Frank
Frank Wilson today who was asking all sorts of questions
about Garrett Nussmeier season. Going sideways and he brushed him off.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
Much like LSU season has gone sideways as well, George's
has done anything but that. Yeah, they had the home loss,
dinged at home by Alabama. Other than that, they've been
beating people. And here's Kurrie Spart's opening comments. Our guys
are excited. Got another big home game. We had a
great slate of home games this year. Be a night

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game in top ten matchup. A lot of respect for
their program for SARK, they do a great job. I
think their team is very improved here in the last
few weeks and playing really good football at the right
time of year and should make for a great matchup.
So when you have a great matchup like this, what

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goes into preparing your team well and coaching them up
for this type of game. I think recruiting well is
the first step.

Speaker 7 (20:45):
You've got to have good football players, and players win
games more times than coaches do. I think you know
your your program just like sarks program. There you get
accustomed to playing in big matchups, so you have a
little less maybe anxiety. They have a better expectation of

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what it takes to win in those type games.

Speaker 1 (21:10):
And our kids have played in a lot of them,
and so have theirs. Okay, so you know, here's this
big game, and we've been talking about college football playoff
and SEC the run to try to get to the
SEC championship, and yet you get these kind of well,
let's just say, esoteric questions on a conference collect And
who was asking these next two questions that we got here?

Speaker 2 (21:32):
Jake And I'm sorry I'm forgetting his name. It was
a reporter from the athletic.

Speaker 1 (21:36):
From the athletic, Okay, all right, doing I guess he's
doing a story on shoulder pads, believe it or not,
so he's asked. He asked Kirby Smart about the evolution
of shoulder pads throughout his playing and coaching career. I
don't think about that much.

Speaker 7 (21:57):
I mean, it's it's it's not something that I really
notice or think about. I've had kids make comments when
we've had guest speakers come in to speak and we
play their old highlight videos and several kids walk out
and like Kyle Lee, shoulder pads were huge, y'all wore.
Like Ben Watson spoke one time, and everybody talked about
the shoulder pad. You just forget about it until you

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really see it. But the evolution of that is beyond me.
I think it's science trying to be lighter safer. What
can they build? It's just as safe but lighter, And
you know, it's just technology. I mean, it's evolved and
no different than the helmet, no different than the cleat.
Every piece of equipment you wear as a football player

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has evolved, and these companies are always trying to make
one step better to maybe sell more and sell guys
on being loose in speed.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
You know, I couldn't agree with him more about the
evolution being the things about smaller, lighter, and I only
wish and I think the day will come. So I
think the day will come when we will see this
and when they can make the Guardian cap streamline so

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it doesn't look like you're wearing a hot air balloon
on your head. There was a guy for the RAMS
who was wearing one of the offensive linemen, and I
think somebody could have jumped on top of his Guardian
camp and bounced off like a trampoline. You know, I
understand what it's for and until they come up with
a better way, you got to do that. But it

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does look kind of weird, but it must have looked
weird even, you know, back in the day when some
of the great players, like for example, Smart was asked
if he ever misses the old big shoulder pad look
from a guy like Hersha Walker. It's hard for me
to miss it because I never got to observe it. Really.

Speaker 7 (23:48):
I mean, I think it's more about safety and speed
than it is a look.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
Yeah that, there's no doubt about that. And you could
definitely say that about that Guardian cap as well, because
it's just looks like a big old pillow on top
of the head.

Speaker 3 (24:02):
Did you get to cover Mcallum and all this year?
I know Roger had.

Speaker 1 (24:05):
That, Yeah, yeah, I watched him a couple of times,
and this saw some of that.

Speaker 3 (24:10):
Every everyone on the team was wearing one.

Speaker 1 (24:12):
Yeah, I've seen it with I've seen it with several
teams where they've had several guys wearing those. And again
I'm not diminishing the importance of it. You gotta have it.
It makes you know what it makes me think about.
It makes me think about the early days of face
masks in the NFL and college football. If you look
at it back in the fifties when it started. One

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of them that the original ones were fiberglass that came
around and those things would smash and shatter and stuff
like that. Then he had that one little bitty one
that was in front. It kind of almost looked like
was it Bane and Batman? You know, that little thing
over his mouth. It looked like that.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
Some guys still wear ones with with a lot of
you know, Darth Vader lines.

Speaker 1 (24:54):
Yes, absolutely so, the predator mask and all of those
kinds of things. But anyway, yeah, I I think it's
just the next step in the evolutionary process, and I
think they will find a way to do a guardian's
cap or to streamline yet increase the safety on all helmets,
both in college football and in the NFL. How about
the neck roll, Yeah, that's too. That was the other

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thing we're in, that big old neck roll back in
the day. All right, up next Inconceivable here on a
Yacht Rock Wednesday afternoon here on Sports Radio AM thirteen
under the Zone and the iHeartRadio app. Second hour of
the program here on Sports Radio AM thirteen, hundreds of Zone.

(25:39):
Craig Way Alongside's producer Jay Carman, glad to have you
along as well on this hub day Wednesday, a Yacht
Rock Wednesday here on the program. I hope it's going
well for you. Tonight, Long Worn men's basketball and the
Longrun's back on the floor. They take on the nights
of Fairleigh Dickinson University. Do you know where Fairley Dickinson
is located?

Speaker 3 (25:58):
I want to say, New Jersey.

Speaker 1 (25:59):
Yeah, it's good. You got the state right, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (26:01):
I don't have the city for you.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
T neck, t neck, New Jersey. It's not that far
from East Rutherford and those other bedroom communities on the
Jersey side of the Hudson River, across from New York
City itself. So they play Fairley Dickinson tonight seven o'clock.
We'll have it for you six thirty pregame star time,
and the tip off is at seven o'clock. All right,

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we're gonna hear more from Mac Roads, the chairman of
the College Football Playoff Committee, this hour, also hear some
more from Kirby Smart, and we'll hear from Ethan Burke
this hour. Next hour, we're gonna hear some more from Burke,
and we'll also hear some more from Kirby, and we'll
hear some more from Macros. But we will also hear

(26:49):
from Sark Long runs head coach Steve Sarkisian from that
SEC teleconference. As we've pointed out, he does three availabilities
a week. There is the Monday main press conference, which
we bring to you live every Monday morning at eleven
thirty from the UT campus here on the Zone. Then
we bring you his comments from the SEC teleconference on Wednesdays,

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and then on Thursdays his final media availability the week.
It's a zoom availability, and we'll hear from him tomorrow
on that, but we'll hear some other some other comments
from him. All right, h There there was not a
great deal of movement there amongst the college football playoff

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rankings that were released yesterday evening, But there were some
that that that some that caused or brought about questions
and commentary for and from the committee Chairman mac Rohoades.
And there were some moves that did not happen that
brought about the same questions about why didn't this movie

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the in specific Indiana and Texas, A and M. We'll
hear more on all that coming up. But in terms
of the examination where it is I've mentioned this before.
Heather Dinisch of course, covers it as tightly as anyone does.
She does it for ESPN, and she is all inside
the notion. In fact, they were giving her grief last
night about her going deep into the weeds as they said,

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or deep dive and all that stuff. That's what she does.
Maybe I have respect for people to do that because
I do that a little bit myself when it comes
to like high school football permutations and things like that.
But she comes up with some real defined answers on

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this stuff. She pointed out. The biggest winner at a
last night, and her estimation was the entire state of Texas.
The Aggies number three still in the first round by position.
Texas Tech rose to number six after it's convincing win
against BYU. They went up two spots. In Texas, she says,

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moved into a safer spot at number ten thanks to
BYU dropping the number twelve, and in the state of
Florida number fifteen nine. MEYS regained its position as the
top ACC team, number twenty four. South Florida is the
first group of five team to appear in the college
football playoff rankings this season. By the way, I did

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take a close look. It was funny watching them kind
of do their scrolling like almost roll of decks. Look
at what would happen if a team runs the table
and they're in the middle of all of that scrolling
was North Texas. It's like a thirty one percent chance
to get in. I'm like, hey, the mere fact that
they're mentioned in the alma mater. But they've got work
ahead of them. They've got three very winnable games at

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UAB at Rice and then home against Temple to close
out the regular season. But they're going to need help
to get into the American Conference championship game, and then
they got to win that and then hope they don't
get leap fraud by James Madison.

Speaker 3 (29:57):
But there's a path, there is a.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
Path, there's a path. She does a bubble watch, does
Heather Dnich about the college football playoff game, where she
does the would be in status based on the committee
second ranking for each of the Power Forward Conference. She
lists last team in and first team outs. Those are
the true bubble teams hovering around inclusion. Teams labeled still

(30:19):
in the mix haven't been eliminated, but they have worked
to do. A team that is out will have to
wait till next year. She says, all right, So any
SEC in the would be in category Alabama, Georgia, Ole,
Miss Texas, in Texas, A and M. Now she has
Texas as the last team in. She said the long
Ones earned a promotion the number ten after b Why

(30:41):
you dropped the number twelve. They had a well timed
buy on Saturday to prepare for Georgia, and no team
has a better chance to impress the selection committee this
month in Texas. Totally agree with her on that because
they have two more top ten games. They already owned
two top ten wins teams that were running in the
top ten at the time, Oklahoma and Vanderbilt. Neither of

(31:06):
those teams are ranked, but they're still ranked and raked relatively,
you know, impressively, And now they have two top five
teams that they're going on as starting with fifth ranked
Georgia on the road in Athens. That always weighs in
with the committee. And then, of course, obviously there's the
Cotton Holdings lone star showdown on Black Friday Night against

(31:28):
Astris A and M.

Speaker 2 (31:29):
And on that top ten note, there's people that say, well,
they're not in the top ten, now, what do you
mean claiming top ten wins?

Speaker 3 (31:37):
Think about where Oklahoma would.

Speaker 2 (31:39):
Be if they had, you know, played Kentucky that week
and one, they'd be in the top ten.

Speaker 1 (31:45):
Yeah, yeah, it's listen, that's going to be the debate.
I remember hearing the debate last year. People talk about
strength of schedule. Strength of record is something that the
committee looks at. They have their own metric, by the way,
for strength to record a little bit different. In fact, ESPN,
of course is the lead rights holder for televising college

(32:07):
football more so than five or any other of the
CW or any of those other entities. They don't even
have the formula that the CFP Committee uses. And that's
a good thing, Yes I do. Why should ESPN have
it and the others not? Absolutely? In fact, if you're
to ask me, when they say that Rhys Davis and

(32:35):
Booger McFarlane and Joey galloway and Greg McElroy do not
have the rankings until they pop up on the screen
poppy Cock, I shah. Listen. Take it from a person
who in the past has hosted UIL realignment shows, and
that realignment doesn't go out until nine o'clock in the

(32:56):
morning on the day when we were recording the show
to release it on we had to see it in advance.
Now we were, you know, certainly under ourn Garden, sworn
to secrecy and all that other kind of stuff. We
didn't see it till we got to the building, but
we did see it before it actually went out because
we had to to be prepared to talk about it.
So don't give me that stuff about they don't know,

(33:17):
they know.

Speaker 2 (33:18):
Oh, only the graphics guys in the back have seen it.

Speaker 1 (33:21):
Yeah right, you're standing by the guy standing there having
himself a diet coke by the drink machine. You know,
that's very you're gonna tell me you didn't ask him,
or that you didn't see they got it. That doesn't
really matter, though.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
I believe Galloway. I feel like Galloway is always shocked.

Speaker 1 (33:36):
Yeah, he might don't show it to me, you know.
And McElroy is already mad about it, a great about it.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
And Galloway's like, I don't even think we should be
talking about it, but why is there a show?

Speaker 1 (33:46):
Yeah? Right, exactly. It doesn't matter because if they find
out an hour before everybody else, they're not tweeting it out.
It's okay, we get it. It's supposed to be this
big secret. So anyway, Logorns have the chance to impress
the committee. When we hear Sark or any of the players,

(34:10):
Michael Taff or any of these other players, when we
hear them say all our goals are in front of us,
there's this collective eye roll that goes on, But it
really is true. In this case. If they went out,
they're going to be in the SEC Championship if they
win their last three games, and then if they win
and then they're probably in the College Football Playoff almost

(34:30):
certainly at that point.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
Wait a second, they could they could win out. They'd
be in there and not ole Miss and not Alabama.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
Based on tiebreakers, right, Okay, ole Miss that ole Miss
as a loss to Georgia, Texas would have beaten them.
Alabama would be in they have a win over Georgia.
That's why I've read that tiebreaker last hour, about all
the stuff.

Speaker 3 (34:51):
With that's iron clad.

Speaker 1 (34:52):
I didn't know.

Speaker 3 (34:52):
I didn't know there was I didn't know all the
uncertain it's.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
Based on the formula as it stands right now and
under that scenario.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
But did Florida's lost to Kentucky weaken the Texas schedule
at all?

Speaker 3 (35:04):
Well, that but that doesn't play both.

Speaker 1 (35:06):
That doesn't factor into the SEC, right, Okay in the
College Football Playoff rankings. B. Yeah, sure, that's humans making
that call based on metrics and as they say, the
eye test, watching all the games and committee conversation. That's
a different thing the CFP from the SEC Championship. I'm

(35:26):
just saying if they if they win their last three games,
they're in the SEC Championship.

Speaker 2 (35:30):
Well, and I was reading something this morning how conference
championships are becoming such a vestigial thing, a relic, because.

Speaker 1 (35:39):
Tell people what vestigial means.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
It's something that like, it's something like your appendix that
used to serve a purpose right now and now it
doesn't until it causes you problems, by the.

Speaker 3 (35:50):
Way, V E S T I G I A L.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
Yeah, very good.

Speaker 2 (35:54):
And so I was reading this from from Ralph Russo
of the Athletic Texas A and M make the SEC
Championship without playing Ole, Miss, Alabama, Georgia, Oklahoma, or Vanderbilt.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
That's true.

Speaker 2 (36:06):
Georgia Tech could make the ACC Championship without playing Miami, Louisville, Virginia,
SMU or Duke.

Speaker 3 (36:12):
This is the most egregious one.

Speaker 2 (36:13):
Ohio State could make the Big Ten title game without
playing Oregon, Indiana, Iowa, or USC who I think are
clearly teams two, three, four, and five in that conference.

Speaker 1 (36:23):
Yeah, yeah, no, it's true. That's what conference expansion has done.
Everything is swollen now, everything is so big. You know,
I was on a program yesterday and they were talking
about how it's unfortunate that you don't have those days
anymore of everybody playing everybody, like in the Big Twelve.

(36:44):
You don't even have it in the Big Twelve anymore either.
You know, remember they said every game counting on you
don't having the Big Twelve. The Big Twelve has grown
growth of that when you got sixteen teams in the
conference can't play sixteen games, not the NFL that that was.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
A good thing about the Big Twelve when it was smaller.
In Texas's the last few years there, everybody playing everybody
every year.

Speaker 1 (37:04):
Ask TCU about that. Though we got hosed. They felled
in twenty what was it fourteen, Baylor, Yeah, they did
get so. Anyway, point being is that those days are
long gone. So now you're looking at the rotation of
the schedule and now seeing what the SEC has announced
for the coming years, and I like this. Everybody plays

(37:28):
everybody at least once every other year, and they get
the playmant home at least once every four years. The
best they can do. It's such a big conference. Absolutely,
so that's how it is. More from Heather Dinich, which
she says the log Orange will face two top five
opponents and number five Georgia and number three Texas A
and M. But with a bad loss to Florida to

(37:49):
go along with the defeat by Alabama, Texas is still
on the bubble, even though it would appear to be
in a safer spot this week. Completely agree with her
on this. If Texas as a three loss team, and
he said, well, wait a minute, what's the third loss.
Under her scenario, they beat Georgia, they beat Arkansas, and

(38:10):
they beat Texas A and M. They have four top
ten wins. But if they lose in the SEC championship
game in Alabama, they have three losses. So now you're
weighing the one against the other. And again more from her,
if Texas finishes as a three loss team, it's conceivable,
not inconceivable. It's conceivable that it could be ranked in

(38:32):
the top twelve, but would likely face a similar situation Alabama.
Last year, they were nine in three and got left
out the titles the committee's top three loss team, but
got bumped out of the top twelve during the seating
process to make room for a conference champion that earned
a guaranteed spot. So with the ACC and the group
of five champions currently outside of the Committee's top twelve,

(38:56):
it looks like the number eleven and number twelve ranked
team would be excluded. And that's probably the ceiling for
a three loss Texas. That's why you gotta win him
the first team out. She has his Oklahoma, She says,
the Sooners had to buy last week to prepare for Alabama,
which is essentially a playoff elimination game for Oklahoma. Unlike Texas,

(39:19):
the Sooners likely wouldn't have enough on the resume to
compensate for a third loss, even if it were on
the road to a top fourteen. Their best wins are
against Michigan, Auburn, and Tennessee, and they would lose the
head to head tiebreaker to Texas if the records remained
the same.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
Let me ask you this, though, If Texas goes through
your scenario, suffers that third loss in the SEC championship game,
after beating Georgia and Texas A and M, how do
you turn around and drop Texas below Georgia and Oklahoma
for an at large bid. Texas had to play an
extra game and beat those two teams head to head.

Speaker 1 (39:56):
Well, we're going to hear from Macroach talking about that
extra game, but I don't think they would drop below them.
That's not the problem. The problem is the ACC champion
and the G five conference champion getting those spots right.

Speaker 2 (40:07):
But I'm saying, where would Texas be rent going into
that conference championship game?

Speaker 1 (40:10):
Well, only time will tell based on how these other
teams that are on the bubble do to get in
the ACC. As ESPN likes to call it as a
wheel of destiny, we won't find out more about that.
And then there's Notre Dame factored into that.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
So she's thinking Texas wants to avoid the SEC Championship
game if they went out.

Speaker 1 (40:32):
Well, if they went out, they won't get to them exactly.

Speaker 2 (40:35):
Again, but so she's saying at that point the SEC
Championship game existing could pretty much only hurt them.

Speaker 1 (40:40):
Well, again, mac Rhodes takes a little different tact on that.
So we'll hear from him coming up wild times. Yeah,
it is Listen, the loss and games will put him
in this position. Had they not lost to Florida, they
could sustain the loss to Georgia, beat Arkansas, E, A,
and M and still be in the playoff. They're not

(41:02):
there because of that. So because of that lost to Florida.
So when it is said that their goals are still
in front of them, they are better went out.

Speaker 2 (41:12):
This is where I would take a little umbrage with
it because of the old miss non conference schedule.

Speaker 3 (41:17):
But we can get to that much more later.

Speaker 1 (41:19):
Yep, we'll do that. We'll continue here. We're gonna hear
more from Mac Rhoades, the committee chairman of the College
Football Playoff Committee, and more. We'll hear something from Kirby
Smart as well when we continue on thirteen hundred the
Zone in the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 6 (41:37):
You chudging.

Speaker 1 (41:50):
Continue on a yacht Rock Wednesday. The great George Benson
there would turn your lover rou fits right into that
yacht rock mold. Talking a lot of Coege football today
on the program, obviously coming off of last night's updated
college football playoff rankings. Texas up to number ten in
those rankings. But again if the long runs don't find

(42:12):
a way to win at least one of those two
games against top five ranked teams Georgia number five on
the road, A and M currently number three at home
on Thanksgiving weekend on Black Friday, and it's a given
they have to beat Arkansas also, So if without at

(42:34):
the very least splitting that and then winning the other one,
they're probably they're not going to get in, And even
splitting puts them in the exact same spot as Alabama
last year nine and three and outside of the conference championship.
On the other hand, if they win all three get
into the conference championship at ten and two. The third

(42:57):
loss probably doesn't keep them out because the committee's been
very very upfront about not punishing teams for losing in
the conference championship. They were that way with SMU last year,
and so we'll see. Meanwhile, speaking of the committee, Mac Rhodes,

(43:17):
the Baylor University Athletic Director chairman of the committee, was
asked and here's another one of those really fascinating wrinkles,
G five, G six, if you want to count what's
right now on the respirator of the PAC twelve of
Washington State and Oregon State, But are there any other

(43:38):
G five teams, including teams like Tulane in the American
Conference and James Madison who are close to breaking in
to that top twenty five, just as South Florida did
this week.

Speaker 4 (43:52):
They were both of those teams that you mentioned were
certainly part of the conversation and discussion, you know, and
we when we talked about when we talked.

Speaker 5 (44:02):
About group of five.

Speaker 1 (44:03):
So those two, yes.

Speaker 5 (44:06):
We're we're we're certainly part of it.

Speaker 4 (44:08):
You know, Uh, Memphis and I'm just I'm thinking here
out loud in terms of any anybody else. You know,
it was it was Tulane, it was South Florida, it
was Memphis, it was James Madison. You know San Diego
State had the bad loss at at Hawaii. You know

(44:29):
Boise State certainly you know, part of part of the
part of the conversation as uh as well.

Speaker 1 (44:36):
Okay, so the grumbling North Texas alump said hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
you didn't even mention u nt Uh. What's gonna be
funny is is, like I said, there's three winnable games left.
They could wind up eleven in one and playing in
the conference championship game. Then where do they stand at
that point? But James Madison, Uh, I think some folks
thought James Madison would be ranked ahead of al Florida

(45:00):
right now and they're not. So Florida has two losses.
James Madison is what what one loss to Louisville. That's right,
that's their one and that that that dinged a little
bit by Louisville losing a cow. Uh.

Speaker 3 (45:14):
Maybe our guy in Texas was a James Madison fan.

Speaker 1 (45:16):
Yeah, that could have been. Uh, but Louisville did beat Miami,
so uh so there's that. That's another one of those
what do you call it, those transitive property things when
you're looking at who beat who and so on and
so forth. So we'll we'll see how that all plays out.
Because there, just as there could be some colossal tie

(45:39):
breakers that go into the ACC A SEC Championship game
determinants the teams that are determined to have qualified through
tie breakers in the SEC and the ACC. I'm here
to tell you the American could be just as messy.
It could be just as MESSI So we'll see how

(46:02):
that goes the rest of the way. For their James
Madison is clearly, as they say in NASCAR running with
clean air. They are out front of the rest of
the field in the sunbount Now there is a they
would have to play and win a conference championship game,
but they're they're viewed as being clearly the best team
in that league right now.

Speaker 2 (46:21):
And I think with a one hundred and fifteenth ranked
strength of schedule at least according to ESPN's formula. How
they win also matters, and they have not been blowing
everybody out, but they have been winning right exactly.

Speaker 1 (46:36):
Here's that question that you were kind of alluding to
jay conference championship games and if they have a positive
or negative impact. The question was asked with specific respect
for Texas Tech if they were to lose in the
Big Twelve championship game. It is my feeling that if

(46:58):
Tech doesn't lose out the rest the way and gets
into the Big Twelve Championship, they're in. I think they're
in the playoff no matter what they do, even if
they lose in that conference championship game. But mac Rhodes
is there to tell you that the conference championship games
are not there to penalize teams that might have a
shot to get in the playoff. If they lose the

(47:18):
conference title game.

Speaker 4 (47:19):
For the committee, we we look at it as a
as a positive.

Speaker 1 (47:23):
If you're if you're.

Speaker 4 (47:24):
Playing in the in the championship game, it's another it's
another data point. It's certainly, you know, recognized when we
when we think about record strength. Obviously you win it
that that's a plus. If you lose it, you know,
theoretically it's not it's not supposed to it's not supposed
to hurt you.

Speaker 5 (47:46):
Could it hurt you?

Speaker 4 (47:47):
You know, if if it was a game where you know,
it wasn't competitive and you completely got blown away, then
that would be a conversation candidly in the room amongst
amongst the committee.

Speaker 1 (47:59):
That's a great answer. I like what he said. It's
not supposed to hurt you. But if you lose fifty
one to six, committee's going to look at that and go,
this team didn't get in to that conference championship game,
but they didn't get blown out of any games. And
this team got blown out, And maybe it's also the

(48:21):
path of how that team got into the championship game.
Was it clean, was it clear, or did they back
in or did they get in on a tie breaker
or you know, was it something like that. All of
that stuff gets factored in, all of that stuff can say,
you know, this always reminds me of the thing when
they've had a mock committee thing like in October September,

(48:48):
October and they've had like media members in on that deal.
I've often said I'd love to do that one time,
one time, just to see the angst and the the
ringing of hands that goes on the consternation. Yeah, I'd
love to get it. Listen, my heart and my emotions

(49:08):
and my blood pressure took the biggest shot it could
ever take in terms of interest in something in Game
seven of the World Series. So if I could get
through that, I think I could get through being a
dispassionate examiner, you know, excused from the room where Texas

(49:28):
would be discussed or North Texas. Yeah, because if it's
your alma monter, you're supposed to be out as well.
And that was part of the thing. Aggie fans are
upset with mac Rhodes because he has a master's from Indiana,
but that's reach in a little I think to get
that worked up on that. Speaking of the Aggies, mac

(49:51):
Rhoades was asked the fact that A and M. Played
a road heavy stretch. They had three straight road games.
Long worn fans are saying, hold my bea yeah, since
the entire month of October they were oute. Nevertheless, they
played a road heavy stretch and did that factor into
the scheduled discussion.

Speaker 4 (50:09):
You know, as a reflect back in just the conversation
of the of the body of work. I do believe that,
you know, it came up in terms of just the
number of consecutive you know, road games when we when
we talked about talked about A and M.

Speaker 1 (50:29):
Didn't give a lot of specificity there, but yeah, we
talked about it. You know, we do what we talked
about it and that's about where it ended. Yeah, they
talked about it. So there was nothing really more or
other than the fact that, yeah, it was a conversation piece.

Speaker 3 (50:50):
I mean, road win Notre Dame.

Speaker 2 (50:53):
Is that maybe the second best win in the country
right now might be second or third. Alabama winning at
Georgia's up there, yeah, and then obviously Indiana winning at Oregon.

Speaker 1 (51:02):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. Let's move forward to Kirby Smart, the
head coach of the Georgia Bulldogs, ask some specifics about
some guys who've been banged up, and then guys who
are just having great seasons, like his outstanding corner, his
senior corner, Dalan Everett, who has broken up seven passes

(51:25):
and has made thirty tackles this year. What does Kirby
think about the season that Dalen Everett is having. That's
one of our best leaders.

Speaker 7 (51:33):
He's done a great job in that corner room and
in the dB room helping those guys out, especially the
young guys who've had to play with in some spots.

Speaker 1 (51:41):
He continues to grow lead.

Speaker 7 (51:43):
Develop went through a little bit of injury early in
the year, but very pleased.

Speaker 1 (51:48):
With the year he's having all right, speaking of injuries,
he was asked about a couple other guys who have
been banged up but are in pretty good shape for
having been through what they been through, and one of
those was the backup tight end Loss and Lucky, and
the other is Damello Jones, who is listed as the

(52:09):
backup quarterback behind Everett, but could be back on that
opposite side as well. So in the case of Damelo
Jones and Lost and Lucky about their physical and emotional
well being, Yeah.

Speaker 7 (52:19):
Both those guys are practicing doing well, and Damello's growth
has been great. He's a very strong, physical kid, and
that's why he's been able to go and play some
of the inside positions because he's got some strength, and
he's got instincts and he's got good ball skills.

Speaker 1 (52:37):
So he's a he's he's a he's a good football player.
So then you get into some other interesting things that
come up in these kinds of forums and these these
kind of a media environment like on a teleconference where

(52:58):
there can be media from all over the country. In reality,
it's a lot more regionally based media in Georgia, Alabama, Gennessee,
even Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi. Uh those those to Arkansas, Florida.
So in other words, the SEC footprint. So, speaking of Florida,
Kirby's part was asked, can you confirm what capacity Billy

(53:23):
Napier was working in at practice yesterday.

Speaker 7 (53:26):
Billion is a good friend. We coached together for years.
I've known him. I mean, people don't understand relationships and coaches.
There's you know, coaches have a brotherhood and a fraternity together.

Speaker 1 (53:40):
And you know, his dad was good friends with my dad.

Speaker 7 (53:42):
His dad was really good friends with with coach Bobo,
and we all grew up in the state of Georgia
with our father's coach in high school football.

Speaker 1 (53:49):
We're well respected.

Speaker 7 (53:50):
People and he's been a friend for a long time,
so he dropped by.

Speaker 1 (53:55):
Yeah, but that was really.

Speaker 3 (53:56):
It, Craig.

Speaker 2 (53:58):
Have you seen guys drop by at Texas practice you're
allowed to share.

Speaker 1 (54:02):
Yeah, there's been guys. There's been some. There's been some somewhat.
You know, coaches if they're not working currently at the
time that they're between jobs, maybe there was a a position,
maybe they got fired, whatever. Most coaches do this thing
where they go around the country and they watch practices.

Speaker 3 (54:22):
Yeah, I know NFL guys have come in.

Speaker 1 (54:24):
Absolutely absolutely. Sean McVay was here to speak at a clinic.
Sark is pretty tight with McVeigh, Mike McDaniel, the coach
of the Dolphins, Matt laflora Green Bay, and Kyle Shanahan
of the forty nine ers. They're all like minded guys.
He mentioned Mike Bobo, his offensive coordinator, so yeah, he's

(54:45):
pretty tight there with Napier as well. Billy day Pier
was kind brought in to to start coaching a position there.
He was just mainly they're observing analysts. Yeah, so just
kind of observing the thing right that. Next here's another
one of those kind of questions that you probably only
get on a deal like this. He's asked about the

(55:07):
Monday night football game the Packers and the Eagles. There
was someone saying number was like thirteen guys or something
like that.

Speaker 3 (55:16):
I think it was at least nine or ten.

Speaker 1 (55:18):
Georgia Bulldogs who were on that field playing in the game.

Speaker 3 (55:21):
And Nolan Smith was everywhere.

Speaker 1 (55:23):
Yeah, he was. And Kirby was asked about those former
players in the game and what kind of feeling he
derives from that.

Speaker 7 (55:32):
Yeah, I'm happy for those guys, first of all, and
the fact that I think about nine or ten of
them jumped in a picture together and sent that picture
around to our staff and players, and it's meaningful that
they care enough to take that photo after the game,
and says a lot about the history and pride that
those guys have for the University of Georgia and most

(55:54):
of them overlapped at least one or two years and
something to be proud of.

Speaker 1 (56:00):
Some good stuff there. All right. We'll hear some more
from Kirby Smart coming up next hour, as well as
hearing from Longhorn's head coach Steve Sarkisian coming up next hour.
Up next, we'll hear from Ethan Burke, the Longhorns defensive end,
who's having quite a go right now. We'll do that
when we continue on this yacht Rock Wednesday on Sports
Radio AM thirteen under the Zone in the iHeartRadio app.

(56:25):
This is one of my favorite yacht rock songs of
all time. It really is, and it's for sure my
favorite Hall of Oates song. That is. It also has
one of my favorite lines. I know it's I know
it's my wife Linda's one of her favorite lines. It's

(56:49):
coming up here. If you know, you see these things
where people say, hey, what's the best line one line
from a song? I don't. There's a lot of but
I know this is one of the best ones right here,
this line coming up here, this one. I need a

(57:15):
drink and a quick decision. She's gone. Great song by
Hall of those Papers. It's pretty yeah, talk to night.
He's just in a world a mess right now.

Speaker 3 (57:32):
That's a kind of walk down in the background. Reminds
me a little bit of the Grateful Dad.

Speaker 1 (57:36):
And Okay, yeah, I could see that. Yeah, let's hear
from Ethan berg Uh the Longhorns rush end and he's
really on a roll right now with sacks, quarterback pressures,
block kicks, all that stuff. He was asked what did
he learn in the four road games that the Longhorns

(57:57):
had to encounter in the month of October and can
apply this road trip.

Speaker 8 (58:01):
I think we just learned how tough we are as
a team and how resilient we are.

Speaker 1 (58:06):
You know, four in the road.

Speaker 8 (58:08):
Straight and the sec is legit, and there was there
was challenges at times, but we learned learned from them,
and I think that last month was a really good,
really good growing experience for us as an entire team.

Speaker 1 (58:23):
This pass rush has really started to come on now. Georgia,
while not having a ton of quarterback sacks, still puts
a lot of pressure on the quarterback, so they've gotten
a lot of attention. And Ethan was asked as he
feel that the Texas pass rush might be a little
bit overlooked compared to Georgia. Yeah, it probably should be.

Speaker 8 (58:41):
I think we have thirty four sacks on the season
and they might have eight, so.

Speaker 2 (58:46):
You could hear it, but just stop himself mid answer
there to not give out any bulletin.

Speaker 1 (58:51):
And they had eight and we get thirty four on that.
But how has the pass rush improved for Texas and
for Burke himself during the year.

Speaker 8 (58:59):
Just work together and rushing is one, and having a
better understanding of the game plan.

Speaker 1 (59:05):
Okay, next, We've often heard Stark and other coaches talk
about this. It's not necessarily just about getting sacks. And
this is why Georgia does such a good job. It's containment.
It's keeping the quarterback in the pocket. It's if you
flush him, he's under duress, he doesn't have a clean
look down field. He's either throwing to get rid of

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the ball, or he's throwing it up for grabs or
hoping for the best or that kind of thing. And
so Ethan Burke was asked, how does keeping containment on
a mobile quarterback impact the pass rush?

Speaker 8 (59:40):
Definitely. We've had to do a lot of running guys
this year and just keeping them in the pockets, you know,
essential because a lot of these guys after their first
two reads, they look to scramble, but if the pockets collapse,
they have nowhere to go and it usually ends up
in our favor.

Speaker 1 (59:59):
Okay, yesterday we heard this question asked of Arch Panning.
We heard this question asked also of Colin Simmons. We
heard this question asked of Michael taff and so it
would stand the reason it would be asked of Ethan Burke.
I get why the question is asked. The question is

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is their extra incentive having lost to Georgia twice last
year in Austin and in the SEC Championship game in Atlanta.
And I understand the reason of the question being asking
and also tell you that these guys who live in
the moment and as sarks as, it's a completely different team.
Maybe it's different in a lot of ways. Yeah, there
are returners like Burke and Simmons, you know several of

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those guys, but that doesn't necessarily mean revenge is rolling
through all of their collective minds.

Speaker 8 (01:00:52):
Now last year's in the past, and they have a
ton of new players. We have a ton of new players.
It's completely new teams and and and new mentality for
for us and for them. So we're focused on on
this week and and and being in the right now.

Speaker 1 (01:01:11):
He was also asked how he has progressed personally individually
as a pass rush of the past couple of years.

Speaker 8 (01:01:18):
Uh Man, just just getting to know the scheme, and
we got really good coaches and and executing my job
and the plays kind of kind of come to you
if you you h just execute well as a team.

Speaker 1 (01:01:30):
Yeah, it doesn't hurt to have a guy like Colin
Simmons on the other side as well.

Speaker 8 (01:01:33):
Yeah, he draws a lot of attention. So it's it's
it's a benefit for the whole front.

Speaker 1 (01:01:38):
So does that mean that Simmons in his rush drives
the quarterback in the direction of Burke? Yeah, of course.

Speaker 8 (01:01:45):
Well I think the quarterbacks have to like keep them
in their vision and they're aware where he's at. So,
like I said, it just helps everybody up front as
a whole.

Speaker 1 (01:01:56):
All right, So there's some thoughts from Ethan Burke. We'll
hear more from Burke next hour, as well as hearing
from Long Worn's head coach Steve Sarkishan. All right, we'll
be back to wrap up our number two here on
This yacht Rock Wednesday afternoon on Sports Radio AM thirteen
under the zone of the iHeartRadio app third and final
hour of the program here on Sports Radio AM thirteen

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under the Zone here on This yacht Rock, Wednesday afternoon.
Glad to have you with us Craig Way alongside the
producer Jay Carmel. We have a lot of college football conversation.
We'll have some more this hour as well, and you
know we'll hear from Macrohodes, the committee chairman from Baylor University.
We will also here from long Wrtons head coach Steve

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Sarkisian from the SEC teleconference, and some more from Ethan Burke.
So we'll have those things out as well before we
get back to college football NFL notes, just to let
folks go on. Of course, the New York Giants are
they're going to have to make a coaching change now
that they have given the pink slip to Brian Dabole. Instantly,

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and I do stress the word instantly. Attention turned to
Bill Belichick and he says, nope, I'm getting Carolina ready
for Wake Forest. That's his and to his credit and
that of the Tariels, they've shown him some life here
these past few ball games.

Speaker 3 (01:03:28):
Getting a little better.

Speaker 1 (01:03:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:03:30):
Win over Stanford. Yeah, find a way. You want to
know who the favorite is? According to Well, I don't
have a witch sports book it is, but the New
York Post has some odds listed. Let's hear them seven
to one, Mike McCarthy really okay, eight to one, Clink
Kubiak okay. And then in the nine to twelve to

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one range, you've got Spags, Steve Spagnolo, lou An Arumo,
Cliff Kingsbury, Yeah, heard his name, Mike Kafka, Jesse Minner,
Jeff Hapley, the defensive coordinator from Green Bay.

Speaker 1 (01:04:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:04:04):
And then you get lower to guys like Antonio Pierce,
Todd Monkin, Robert Salah, Lane Kiffen, and John Gruden.

Speaker 1 (01:04:09):
Fourteen to one, okay, very nice. There's a lot of
a lot of questions about what they're going to do next.

Speaker 2 (01:04:18):
There's some Stefanski smoke being fanned by a couple of
get up personalities too.

Speaker 3 (01:04:23):
If he were to get let go by the Browns.

Speaker 1 (01:04:25):
All right, hot rumor right now, Kyler Murray's not going
to be in Arizona next year. That's the rumor. He's
been there for seven years, Arizona's had one winning season,
zero playoff wins, but he's guaranteed nineteen and a half

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million dollars in twenty twenty seven if he's still there,
which would be the case if they don't try to
release him by the fifth day of the upcoming league year,
so it's nearly thirty have a million in twenty twenty six.
Guarantees that that would be a little bit difficult as well,
because I don't know how many teams are going to

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be that fired up to deal with that kind of
cap hit for that guy, right. I just I don't
see that they that you know that they think that.

Speaker 3 (01:05:22):
It's not it's not quite a Watson situation.

Speaker 1 (01:05:24):
No, And it's no, because it's it's totally different. Yeah,
it's not a citizenship thing.

Speaker 3 (01:05:29):
But but it's an overpaid thing.

Speaker 1 (01:05:32):
Yeah, it's ROI. They just have not had the return
on investment that they thought they would have u from
Kyler Murray. And some of it's injury based, like right now,
and some of it's just hadn't played well in some
of the big spotlight games. They had that home playoff
game against the Rams. He was horrible in that game.

Speaker 3 (01:05:49):
And you know, he takes these hits.

Speaker 2 (01:05:52):
He takes a lot of hits, but he's out four
or five weeks from some hits that other quarterbacks take every.

Speaker 1 (01:05:59):
Week, which is why he tries to avoid getting hitted
every turn. I mean, he'll he'll dirt the ball quicker
than a lot of quarterbacks on because he didn't want
to get hit because of the fragility has for his physique.
And he does get knocked out of games. So I
can't say, is I blame him on some of those, but.

Speaker 3 (01:06:17):
And he gets worn down over seasons like that physically.

Speaker 1 (01:06:20):
Yeah, right, exactly. Bigger pretender Steelers in the AFC, Bears.

Speaker 2 (01:06:28):
In the NFC Steelers Steelers because I don't know that
that defense can hold up against the top end of
the league offense wise.

Speaker 1 (01:06:39):
Well, they do want to win over the Patriots, but
New England kind of gift wrap that game for them. Yeah.
Four fumbles, Yeah, they've also the Steelers have lost three
of their last four. Did not play well against the
Chargers on Sunday night. Aaron Rodgers did not play well
already for some If you Shine's kind of wearing off
a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:06:56):
If you get pressure on him, he is below average. Yeah,
and give him time, he's still awesome.

Speaker 1 (01:07:02):
Yeah. How concerning is it if you are a follower
of the Buffalo Bills right now? I mean, you know
they've they've just kind of warbled along. They have the
win over the Chiefs, but then they just looked awful
in their loss to the Dolphins last weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:07:23):
Them losing Dalton Kincaid is a lot like Green Bay
losing Tucker Craft. He was so important to their offense
this year. And their defense right now has a problem
similar to Washington's last year. They can't get any pressure
and at Oliver, especially when he's not on the field.

Speaker 1 (01:07:39):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely so it it makes a difference.

Speaker 3 (01:07:44):
So they just beat k C.

Speaker 1 (01:07:45):
Yeah yeah, right before getting you know, just trucked by Miami.

Speaker 2 (01:07:50):
And they got trucked by Atlanta earlier in the year.
It's a little bit of an issue for them. They
do not in games where their life would be so
easy if they could get sure. They don't make it
easy on themselves.

Speaker 1 (01:08:02):
All right. To the NBA, Spurs still look good eight
and two and playing well. Mavericks fans are celebrating Nico
Harrison being gone. Even though they're kind of rock bottom
right now, nowhere to go but up. They have hope
that they can turn some things around. Also the NBA,

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this happened yesterday. We didn't get to this.

Speaker 3 (01:08:27):
Oh wait, yeah, I forgot about this.

Speaker 1 (01:08:30):
They're going to Actually it happened late after now I
think we were already off the air when this happened.
But they're changing the All Star game format now. I
understand a lot of people's collective eye roll where they
think the All Star Game should just be abandoned completely,

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get rid of the Pro Bowl, get rid of the
alls to you know, I will tell you this, the
one All Star game that still makes sense is baseball,
and even that at because it most closely approximates a
regular season game play. But even that is affected by
pitchers only going like one inning each, so it's kind
of like a starter thing. But otherwise it's it's still

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swinging and missing at pitches and fielding the ball and
running the bases. The NBA and the NHL All Star
games have had a collective loss and total total absence
of defense, and then I think people have gotten bored
just watching it be one fifty three to one forty nine,
that kind of thing. So here's what the NBA has done.

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They're going to overhaul the All Star Game. It's going
to be the United States against the World format. It's
a three team format featuring eight man rosters, two of
which will be made up of American players, and a
third roster of international selections, So there's a couple of

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changes to how those players will be selected. The basic
five starters, seven reserves from each conference, with a combination
of fans, media, and players voting for the starters and
the coaches picking the reserves. That's still unchanged from the past.
But what is different There will no longer be any
positional requirements. Listen, the NBA has kind of gone to
positionless basketball anyway, so that kind of makes sense. In

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the past that's been made up with two back court
players and three front court players, with the reserves being split,
plus a couple of wild cards. This year, it's the
top five vote getters regardless of position, and the reserves
will be the top seven, also regardless of position. And
the league answered the other question, what if those twenty
four players do not evenly break down into sixteen American

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eight and eight international players or with the league force
the voting to adhere to those numbers. The solution is
is that if the player pool doesn't reflect the sixteen
to eight split, Adam Silver the Commissioner gets involved. He
will name extra players to the roster to get to
the minimum sixteen Americans and the minimum eight international players.

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So if there's fourteen Americans and ten international players. Silver
would name two more Americans to get the sixteen player minimum,
and if it was an eighteen to six split, he
would name two international players to get to the eight
player minimum.

Speaker 2 (01:11:17):
There, well, you know, they're just trying to take what
hockey found and dip into it. But I just think
there's so many differences in the culture of basketball and
hockey to where this is.

Speaker 3 (01:11:29):
This is gonna flop in my opinion.

Speaker 1 (01:11:31):
Well, the first three quarters will be made up of
round robin play featuring the three teams, allowing each of
them to play twice.

Speaker 3 (01:11:38):
The fourth quarter will.

Speaker 1 (01:11:39):
Then be the game featuring the two best teams after
the round robin, and if all three teams are one
and one, the two of the best point differentials will
advance to the championship game. There's your one fifty three
to one forty nine again, So there you go. All right.
Coming up, we're gonna hear from long wrn's head coach
Steve Sarkishan and more from the College Football Playoff Committee
chairman as well Mac Rhoades when we continue on this

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Yacht Rock Wednesday right here on Sports Radio AM thirteen
under the Zone of the iHeartRadio app. You know, it's

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hard to hear this tune from the late Chuck Man
Jonian not think of King of the Hill because they
incorporated him into their stuff at megalo Art where he
was there and performing and all that stuff. It was
great stuff. Feels so good, was a number one hit
and now it's a yacht rock classic there from the

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late Chuck Man Junior. All right, we continue on this
yacht rock Wednesday afternoon, let's hear from Lorhorren's head coach
Steve Sarcasian from today's SEC teleconference, starting with his opening thoughts.

Speaker 5 (01:13:19):
Yeah, great opportunity for our team.

Speaker 9 (01:13:21):
Heck of a challenge playing at Georgia, a night game,
tremendous home record. Then Coach Smart his staff of assembled
a tremendous group of players, talented group, well coached, got
a great deal of fight about him, and so a
heck of a challenge for our guys, but also a
great opportunity.

Speaker 5 (01:13:40):
So we're looking forward to it.

Speaker 1 (01:13:41):
Yeah. He was then asked about here's the opportunity to
be the third top ten ranked team. Remember Oklahom was
number six at the time when Texas won that game,
and even that loss, has aged pretty well obviously since
the Sooners a ranked eleventh and then of course beat Vanderbilt,
and there's still fourteenth. They were ninth when Texas beat them.

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Now you get fifth ranked Georgia. A couple of weeks
after that you get third ranked Texas. Ay, and but
here's an opportunity to be the third top ten ranked team.
And so how different when they say just means more whatever?
And the difference in the SEC hasn't been for him
than in previous years in the Big Twelve.

Speaker 5 (01:14:20):
I mean, it's obviously this conference is it's grueling.

Speaker 9 (01:14:24):
And you know every year, I think people look at
schedules and like, oh, they got an easy schedule, they
got a hard one, or you know, you don't really
know until teams start taking the field. You got to
start playing, and teams deal with injuries or some teams don't.
And you know, teams fire their coaches, some teams don't.
And you know, we've we've had a very challenging slate

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for sure of not only you know the quality of
the opponents that we're playing, but also some of the
environments and the road games at night. But I think
one thing about our conference that man, it just holds
true week in and week out. Literally, anybody in our conference,

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it doesn't matter who they are, can beat anybody else
in our conference on any given Saturday. And I think
that's what makes our conference so difficult. It's not about
getting up for one or two games a year. It's
not getting up for three Top ten matchups or the
third one this year. You got to get up for
him every week because every team is capable of beating
anybody else. And I think that's the toll that it

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takes when you play in this conference. There's a physical
toll that this league takes on your team, but also
think there's a mental toll that it takes. And I
think that's where the toughness aspect is so critical in
the SEC. There's a physical toughness you have to have,
but there's a mental toughness you have to have to
get yourself prepared to play every Saturday and to be

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at your best, because if you're not, you're going to
be in a dogfight and you're going to be trying
to find a way to win late. And so you
learn a lot about your team in this league, and
we've learned a lot about our team and and like
I said, we're you know, it's a great lead to
be part of. It's challenging, but you you have to
grow up and you have to grow up quickly.

Speaker 1 (01:16:13):
So now there's this weekend of marquee games, including the
two newest members of the SEC, Texas at Georgia, Oklahoma
and Alabama. What does it say about the impact those
two programs have had on the SEC since their entrance?

Speaker 9 (01:16:27):
Well, I think it was you know, very strategic by
the SEC to you know, if you're going to expand,
where were we going to expand? How are they going
to expand? And obviously they went and got two great
brands that our national brands, but yet you know in
in the Southwest are are very influential, but but really

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nationally and for the Southeastern Conference now to expand the
way that they did West, I think was was great
for the conference. But you got to national brands, high
quality programs that have won a lot of games and
championships over the years. But yet are two programs that
they know, you know, at the end of the day,
are going to be good year and in year out.

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And so the conference is tough, it's difficult. It's only
going to get harder. If we're going to go to
nine games, it's like, holy cal here we go. You know,
we're playing eight now, and now we're going to nine.
So I think we all got to keep recruiting well
and keep developing our players because it's hard to keep
everybody healthy for that long of a season.

Speaker 1 (01:17:29):
It's it's been said quite often mentioning the comparison and
the analysis of Texas playing the four consecutive road games
and and open to eight and all that other kind
of stuff, having that in the month of October, not
playing a game away and not playing a game at
dk R Texas Memorial Stadium. So it was asked if
that long month on the road, and that's kind of

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from the Department of redundancy department long month, but being
on the road, did it better prepare the team mentally
for in road environment like what they'll in counter at Georgia.

Speaker 5 (01:18:03):
First game of the season, right.

Speaker 9 (01:18:04):
I mean, we opened out Ohio State with them coming
off winning the national championship, so the exposure playing in
that environment, and then as you touched on there, you know,
we went, you know, four straight road games.

Speaker 5 (01:18:19):
You know, we didn't play at home for forty two days.

Speaker 9 (01:18:21):
And you know, being in some of those environments, being
in some tough you know, overtime games, you know, having
to bounce back, playing in a rivalry game, all those
things I think helped us mature. But I think more
so than that, it helped us grow closer together as
a team. And football is the ultimate team sport, and
you win as a team, you lose as a team.

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But ultimately, I think that we are playing as a
team now better than we ever have all season long.
And that includes all three phases offense, defense, special teams.
But the connectivity from from player to player, coach to player,
coach to coach is.

Speaker 5 (01:18:58):
At an all time high force right now. And I
think that's what it takes.

Speaker 9 (01:19:01):
When you go into these environments like we're going into
Saturday night, you got to be really connected.

Speaker 5 (01:19:05):
You're gonna need all three phases.

Speaker 9 (01:19:08):
Because in those these types of hostile environments, you know,
you gotta lock arms and you got to go fight
collectively together. You can't just rely on one aspect of
your team to get it done.

Speaker 1 (01:19:20):
Next, Sark was asked about the familiarity between the Texas
and Georgia programs and ask to compare and contrast how
each have been built.

Speaker 9 (01:19:32):
I think one there's probably some credit to to Nick
Saban in there, right, you know, obviously you know Kirby's
you know history with coach Saban, and then obviously mine.
You know, I think there's there's some modeling to how
to build a roster, how to build a staff, how
to build a team. Now we both have evolved, I
think from our time with with Nick, but I think

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there's a foundation there and and some of that foundation
is the line of scre mentioned to play at the
line of scrimmage, in the in the physicality of of
that's needed at the line of scrimmage. I think the
multitude of schemes. You know, you you watch both teams play.
There's a lot of offense and a variety of offense on

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both sides. There's a lot of defense. There's there's and
and and strategic defenses predicated on situational football and first
second hal football, third down football, you know, red area
things of that nature. And and I think there's a mentality,
you know, you know, they've they've obviously won a ton
of games in the Caribbean.

Speaker 5 (01:20:38):
And if I always say, like if there's a standard for.

Speaker 9 (01:20:41):
College football over the last decade, it's been Georgia and
the way that the consistency in which they've done it
with different players, different coaches, And I think what we've
done now in the short term, you know, been to
the playoffs the last two years and now striving for
a third consecutive year. You know, there's a style, there's
a mental and a competitive spirit that I think both

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teams play with and I think that's what makes these
games when we play them so intriguing to the fans.
And you just look at the viewership of the first
two times we played them, in the amount of numbers
and the millions of people that watched the first two games.
I just wait to see the numbers from this Saturday night.
How many people watch this game. There's high level players,
there's NFL players, there's high level schemes. It's great environment,

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it's competitive spirit, and that's what we want. I mean,
that's the beauty of college football. And then that's why
kids go to Georgia, that's why kids come to Texas.
It's to play in these games. And you know, I
think both everybody evolved is looking forward to Saturday Night
of seven thirty.

Speaker 1 (01:21:43):
Finally, Sark was asked about Gunner Stockton, and of course,
Texas became very familiar with Gunner Stockton when he had
to come in for the injured Carson Back in the
SEC Championship game a season ago. But he was asked
if Georgia uses Stoctor Stockton in much the same way
that Vanderbilt uses Diego Pavia.

Speaker 5 (01:22:04):
But I think they're similar.

Speaker 9 (01:22:05):
You know, there's similar players in essence and similar schemes,
and you know, I don't, you know, that's probably a
better question for Kirby of you know, how they design
stuff for him. I know they use him, and he's effective,
and they use him in critical moments for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:22:21):
Okay, all right, So there's some thoughts from long Worn's
head coach Steve Sarkisian. Let let's go to his counterpart,
Kirby Smart, and he was asked on the conference called
a lot of SEC Championship and College Football Playoff related
impact type of questions. For example, he was asked if

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there are other steps that the SEC can take to
boost college football playoff rankings, what with a few SEC
teams ranked behind some others who didn't quite have the
same strength of schedule.

Speaker 7 (01:22:55):
I'm not educated to answer it. I mean because I don't.
I literally don't even know. I don't know the strength
of schedule metric of each team, haven't looked at it,
don't even know the rankings that came out last night,
and could care less. I got so much going on
that I can't. I mean that to me, Is it
going to change what I say or what people say? No,

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that's what we got to worry about that thing in
the off season in terms of trying to get it
fixed or corrected if it's wrong in the first place.

Speaker 1 (01:23:24):
I don't. I just do not even know what those
numbers are.

Speaker 7 (01:23:29):
If I studied those numbers, it would be taking away
from preparing for a game plan that I've got to
prepare for it with Texas.

Speaker 1 (01:23:36):
Yeah, that dude isn't looking at that kind of number crunching.
It reminds me of a question years ago when I
was a young reporter working a KRLDN down. I think
I was your age, Jake. I think it was twenty
five at the time, and part of what my responsibilities
were was to go to Ranger home games, like on weeknights,
and I was working at in all news radio format.

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So ever, quarter hour, quarter after and quarter till I
would do live updates on what was going on in
the Ranger ball game. Then when the game was over,
I was supposed to go down to the clubhouse and
get sound which was a challenge for a young reporter
back in the day when the Rangers just flat out sucked.
They were awful. They would routinely lose games like seven
to two and stuff like that, and he had to

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try to see if he can get some workable sound
bites out of guys like Buddy Bell and Gary Ward,
Jim Sunberg. He could always count on and then go
in and talk to Bobby Valentine, the manager, and he
would routinely answer questions much like what Kirby Smart did
when you'd say something about and if he got into
any methodology or any hypothetical stuff, he would say, I'm

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not supparted enough to figure that out. That would be
his answer. Now, in Kirby's case, it makes sense when
when he talks about not you know, he can't wrap
his mind around that stuff. That's math and metrics and
things like that. It's going to prepare a football team
to play. He was asked if he thought game control
should be valued more than clutch victories for the committee.

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That's not for me to judge. You know.

Speaker 7 (01:25:09):
Again, that's something that that they're gonna do. They're gonna
they're gonna do things based on what they believe to
be in control. I don't think that's changing, at least
not within this year. So it's not something for me
to judge or worry about. Hell, I want to control
every game I can. I can assure you that, but
that doesn't always happen.

Speaker 1 (01:25:27):
Yeah, that's the old thing about whether you blow a
team out or whether you win a tight contest, it's
not getting the wins ultimately. And then finally, uh again,
these are questions that are asked by a variety of
media about a variety of different topics, not necessarily related
to individual football players on the Georgia in this case,

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the Georgia program. Kirby Smart was asked about this ongoing
dispute between ESPN and YouTube TV. Are are you affected
by that? By the way, you a YouTube TV?

Speaker 2 (01:26:01):
No, No, I'm one of the direct TV lucky ones
and it hasn't always been that way for direct TV.

Speaker 3 (01:26:07):
But yeah, we've got same Yere's still okay.

Speaker 1 (01:26:10):
Same here. I've had a Direct TV since ninety eight
and it's and I've had ups and downs with him
and things like that.

Speaker 2 (01:26:17):
That's my dad's been through the ringer with them. He
uh yeah, he jokes that. Uh well, he's got problems
with them. But every time he calls the they lower
the price. So yeah, he's always to start calling. Yeah,
he's always threatening to cancel, and but he's honest.

Speaker 3 (01:26:29):
He is threatening to cancel, they lower the price.

Speaker 1 (01:26:31):
Okay, all right. Uh So he was asked if this
dispute between esp and and YouTube TV does he have
any concerns on how it might impact college football fans. Yeah,
you say, Do I worry about it? No? I can't.

Speaker 7 (01:26:48):
I got I got way too many things occupying my
worries over that. I worry more about it when I
get home and I can't watch it, So I have
to find ways around it. But that's what most people
will have to do. I guess until they figure it out.

Speaker 1 (01:27:02):
I would think that the head coach of a major
in this major division and college football program would have
all possible avenues.

Speaker 3 (01:27:11):
He's I mean, he's watching the All twenty two. Okay,
let's be honest to here. He's not.

Speaker 2 (01:27:16):
He doesn't have the Joe Test broadcast on no disrespect
to Joe Tests.

Speaker 1 (01:27:20):
No, My point is, I think he would probably have
direct TV, YouTube TV. He's probably got cable, you know,
he's probably got you know, home digital antennas. He's probably
got every imaginable means to pull down college football games
or Mike Bobo's logging. Yeah, there you go, and it
works that way. All right. Coming up, we're gonna hear
more from Ethan Burke, Longhorns defensive end, and also from

(01:27:43):
the College Football Committee College Football Playoff Committee Chairman Mac
Roach when we continue on the Shot Rock Wednesday on
Sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone in the Iart
Radio Apple. Another great yacht rock entry Cleewood Mac which

(01:28:14):
you make love and funny. You said, this is one
of the bumpback tunes you use on your bass Drop broadcast.

Speaker 3 (01:28:19):
Yeah, I love it. I love this start of the song.

Speaker 1 (01:28:21):
Well, here's the story. Here's the story with this song.
This was supposed to be the processional walkout song right
after Lynn and I were pronounced husband and wife. So
we picked out our music and on our way out
with it was gonna be an outdoor wedding Myrtle Beach,

(01:28:42):
and it was going to take a while for the
wedding party to walk out in US and so this
would probably last all the way through it pretty close
to it. What happened was it rained, so they had
to move the thing inside. So there's about ten steps
to get out of the room. So our running joke
now is when this song begins, Christine mcvie's voice, that

(01:29:04):
you're sweet and we're outside taking picture. That's that's our
running joke about that. But it is a great too.

Speaker 2 (01:29:13):
We played this during San Jose State Week because they
met at San Jose State.

Speaker 1 (01:29:18):
Oh yeah, okay, all right, there you go. All right,
let's uh, let's hear some more from the College Football
Playoff Committee Chairman Macrohodes, the athletic director at Baylor. This
hits right in the home about the SEC SO and

(01:29:39):
again this is going to get into hypotheticals, which the
committee prefers not to do, and we know Sarks not
into the hypotheticals as well. Still, in all, the committee
is going to be charged with differentiating very similar resumes,
just like the NCAA Basketball Tournament selection Committee does. But
in this specific case, the question was a just about

(01:30:00):
three loss SEC teams? Yes, we're looking at you Texas
and possibly Oklahoma and some other ones that could be
right around the cusp about whether they merit not just consideration,
but perhaps entry into the playoffs. So he was asked
about how does he differentiate the three loss SEC teams

(01:30:21):
from other at large teams.

Speaker 4 (01:30:22):
So again, I think we we look at you know, certainly,
the the body of work, the entire resume. You know,
those three losses, who they're, who they're against. We certainly
look look at you know who they who they've beaten,
you know, who they won against. We obviously have two

(01:30:43):
three loss teams in our in our rankings. When we
when we look at you know, in Iowa at six
and three and uh and at Tennessee at at six
and three, and you know, you think about you know,
two of Iowa's losses to to Indiana number two two,
Oregon at at number eight. Tennessee as well, you know,

(01:31:03):
the their their losses. So again we're looking at complete
body of work, and we factor in all of all
of our tools, metrics, you know, certainly the head to
head common opponent, our twelveth CORA correlative statistics, record strengths,

(01:31:25):
schedule strength, all of it comes in comes into play.

Speaker 1 (01:31:29):
The point here that he's making is the same point
they always make, and people seem to forget they're evaluating
each team individually, they're not evaluating the conference. Rhys Davis
stepped into that last night when he tried to get
him to talk about the relative strength of the ACC
and he was saying, well, you know, we're looking at
each team individually, not how the conference is doing, which

(01:31:53):
would then have you interested in what he had to
say about Miami, which had lost to Georgia Tech, jumping
past Georgia Tech and the A C C being viewed below,
say the Big twelve because of the cannibalizing that's going
on in that league.

Speaker 4 (01:32:09):
Georgia Tech was was idle. You know, obviously their their
last game, UH they they certainly didn't didn't play well
on either side of the ball. When you think about
their their loss to UH to North North Carolina State,
you know Georgia you know Georgia Tech. Again, we we
look at all of the metrics, their schedule strength, you know,

(01:32:34):
is is hard for them when you think about just
you know, any non conference signature wins. Miami certainly with
the with the win versus versus Notre Dame was a
was a key factor for for for Miami ahead of
ahead of Georgia Tech. And again just in general with

(01:32:57):
the A c C, I think just their their lack
of non conference signature signature wins, other than Miami over
over Notre Dame.

Speaker 1 (01:33:10):
Yeah, that's a big thing about Miami. Didn't lose to
Georgia Tech. They lost the one I was thinking of
his SMU that they lost in addition to losing the
Louisville And.

Speaker 2 (01:33:19):
I heard this on the panel last night and again
from Mac Rhodes. I'm not the biggest ACC guy. I'm
furthest from it. But everyone's just overlooking Florida State's went
over Alabama even I mean it was week one.

Speaker 1 (01:33:29):
Because it's week one, that's why week who know, yeah,
that's that would be the reason it's valid.

Speaker 3 (01:33:35):
I mean, yeah, you know, it's it's.

Speaker 1 (01:33:38):
It's going to be viewed less valuable than say a
loss in week seven or eight. That that type of thing.

Speaker 3 (01:33:44):
I think that's just human nature.

Speaker 1 (01:33:46):
Yeah yeah. And then finally he was asked about is
there a specific metric Folks are wanting to know exactly
what the what what I remember them going through this
last year about the computation and what what exactly separates
teams numerically metrically, And somebody was asked, is there a
metric that separates that's truly separating number one, Ohios, date

(01:34:08):
number two, Indiana number three, Texas A and M.

Speaker 4 (01:34:11):
You know, again, when we look at you know, schedule
strength and record strength, because you mentioned those two again,
just just two of the metrics, those teams are are
very very close. I made extremely extremely close. Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:34:25):
You know, when when we look at when we.

Speaker 4 (01:34:27):
Look at those two again, you know, defensively, Indiana, we
we give them the edge over over A and M.
We give Indiana certainly the edge. Offensively, they're the top
scoring offense in the in the in the country. Their
defenses is ranked second. And so again, those are two teams.

(01:34:52):
As I mentioned, the longest discussion, you know, Texas tech
old miss. The second longest discussion was was Indiana and
uh in Texas A and M.

Speaker 1 (01:35:02):
Okay, And I know a lot of Aggie fans were
upset by this day that they thought that what Macros
was quoting was foolishness or whatever. But he did talk
about some specific numerical metrics. It's that close That's why
I say, if you're a fan of Texas A and M,
I wouldn't really worry about that right now, keep your
foot on the accelerator and you you're gonna be just
just fine.

Speaker 2 (01:35:22):
I think if they went out and they come to
Austin and win, they should be number one.

Speaker 1 (01:35:27):
Uh, there's a good chance of that. Came in. Check
Ohio State Michigan and see what happens with that. And
you know the rest of the stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:35:34):
Indiana Michigan is no good Craig, Yeah, I got.

Speaker 1 (01:35:39):
I think it just depends on who they're playing and
on the day that they're playing. That's right. USC has
its own claim about that, obviously. All right, let's a
couple of things from Ethan Burke. One he was asked
about uh communicating with uh uh Anthony Hill and Colin
Simmons and priests app to help make the defense more successful.

Speaker 8 (01:36:03):
Yeah, you know, I I have like an idea of
what we're gonna need to check or I know what
Anthony likes to tell me what to do. So I
just look back and ask him like what are we
doing or what do you want me to do?

Speaker 1 (01:36:15):
And he lets me know.

Speaker 8 (01:36:16):
And I always try to try to listen to Anthony
Lion Trey and and uh he do.

Speaker 1 (01:36:23):
I miss ty.

Speaker 8 (01:36:26):
Because they they got I want them to play off
of me and just being on the same page helps
everyone execute better.

Speaker 1 (01:36:33):
A couple of things about Georgia. Is Georgia the most
physical team he expects to encounter in the SEC?

Speaker 8 (01:36:40):
Yeah, I mean everyone's pretty physical. We know Georgia is
really physical as well. Big old line I think probably
one of the bigger ones we face. But we faced
some some really big offensive linemen this year. But we
know on the perimeter they're they're quite physical. Goes well

(01:37:00):
with the receivers, so our dbs have got to bring
it to this week. Just overall going to be a
physical game and whoever's more physical will probably come out
on top of.

Speaker 1 (01:37:08):
And finally ask what is he noticing anything different about
Georgia this season when he looks at him on the film?
A lot of play action.

Speaker 8 (01:37:16):
I know they were play action heavy last year, but
maybe they like to drop back a little more with
the quarterback they had, And with this guy, it's a
I think he's talented with If you get linebackers playing
the run and then they have to drop out, he
makes the correct read on play action and then give
him the option to roll out and run two a lot?

Speaker 1 (01:37:38):
Is it just some I've noticed? All right, that's from
Eton Burke. We'll be back to wrap up today's edition
of the program right here on sports Radio AM thirteen
under the Zone any iHeart Radio app

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