Craig and Cam predict the winner for Texas/Michigan

Craig and Cam close out Friday's show with their final look at Texas vs Michigan and give out their predictions.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Nick rod Or the deep snapper thirty seven yards to
win the Rose Bowl. Flash bolts of popping. Here's the
snap and the whole thirty seven yard field gons gone.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
That's gone.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
The Texas Longhorns have what the Rose Ball, Dusty my
numb the senior They win it thirty eight thirty seven.
That was the last time Texas and Michigan play, the
only time they've met on the football field. It was
just a little bit under exactly twenty years ago. It

(00:39):
was the two thousand and four season, so it was
twenty football seasons ago. It was January first, two thousand
and five, so this coming January first, it would be
twenty years to the day. But obviously carries a lifetime
of memories for Longhorns and long one fans. We'll hear
Will Matthews talk about it tomorrow. Obviously, Roger Wallace and

(01:03):
Will and I will talk about it on the pregame show.
Look back at that game and what really stood out
about that, we will. But obviously this is in the
here and now about two football programs who have since
gone on to win. Each has gone on to win
a national championship, Texas winning theirs the very next season

(01:25):
two thousand and five. It's been largely stated that it
was that win over Michigan that really set in motion
all that happened for Texas in the ensuing two thousand
and five season, which of course was capped by the
National championship in the Rose Bowl, another thrilling win in

(01:46):
the Rose Bowl, they needed three more points on what
they scored against Michigan, and he remember they beat the
Wolverines on that Dusty Mayham field goal thirty eight thirty seven,
and they beat USC forty one thirty eight. Michigan did
not win a national championship agin until last season when
the Wolverines won it. And so now they're the defending

(02:09):
national champions And you know, Cam, I've heard a lot
of comments, including what we just heard from Gene Watson.
There's a lot of very very confident media and long
WRN fans who have the feeling that this thing is

(02:29):
going to be rather easy tomorrow. Are you feeling that?

Speaker 2 (02:33):
It makes me nervous because after Saturday, after watching Texas
play and watching Michigan play, I thought, man, there's absolutely
no way the Michigan can hang with Texas. But as
the week goes on, You're starting to see more people
predict Texas and pick Texas big, and all the models,
unlike the weather models, Craig, all the models in college
football seem to agree that Texas wins this game, including

(02:55):
ESPN's FPI winning by ten. But then, you know, I
look back, Michigan's are the bending national champion, and it's
not like the program is going to fall off the
face of the earth here. There's still a lot of
players on that Michigan roster. Now they lost a lot
of draft picks, well, there's still guys who are part
of that winning culture.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
Right.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
You're playing at the Big House. You got big newon
kickoff there, you have college game there. It kind of
reminds me of Texas Alabama two years ago. You know,
when Alabama was the number one team in the country.
In Texas, I believe, I think they were unranked and
that came down to a last second field goal from
Alabama and if not Bert Arburn, we thought for a moment,

(03:32):
put Texas in front for good. So it doesn't matter
how many draft picks you lost. The start kind of
alluded to on Monday. Now there is a big talent
gap and not having JJ mccarthury behind center may prove
to be really big for Michigan, But I think this
game is going to be a lot closer than people
expect because the way Michigan plays football, and because they're

(03:53):
playing in front of what will probably be the largest
crowd Texas football has ever played in since the two
thousand and five at the Horseshoe against Wihlo State and five.
So I think it's gonna be a lot closer. The
way Michigan plays football, I mean, they only play about
sixty sixty two plays per game, and you know some
of the some schools in the country play about nineties.

(04:13):
So the way they play football, it doesn't really allow
for them to get blown out. Now, if Quinn Yours
connects on a couple of big passes, maybe it does
turn into a double digit game. But I do like Texas,
but I don't see this turning into a big win.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yeah, I don't either, and I hope, I hope we're
both wrong. I hope I hope it does go easy
for the Longhorns. But as I sit here and I
look around it, and by the way it is going
to it's about to be band practice here in a
few minutes. The band is kind of making its way
out here for Michigan, but as a city here, I'm
just thinking about, you know, I think SARK has rattled off,

(04:51):
you know what, not only what they did last year
and three straight years of being in the college football
Playoff and all that, but what they've done in this building.
And I think that does count for something. I know
last year has nothing to do with this year's team
other than the experience of the guys coming back, but
there is a comfort level playing at home. They are
going to be fired up about it. Listen, when the

(05:13):
plane landed in Charlotte and we took off from Austin
and it was chock full of long warm fans. There
were a few Michigan fans on it, but it was
mainly Long One fans. When it landed in Charlotte, the
lead flight attendant telling us blah blah blah, uh, you know,
make sure to check and he ever had been contents

(05:34):
may have shifted. I hope you enjoyed your flight and
go blue. She said that, and people were like, well, no, no, no, no,
Texas is fine, and all that stuff happened, you know,
out of that, So there's you know, there. I get
the feeling that this team. I think Sharon Moore is

(05:55):
a good coach. I think you'll have him ready to go.
You know, it was interesting he was asked because you
know we played at Ou, uh if if if any
of his old Oklahoma teammates had reached out to him
this week, and he said, oh, yeah, probably some, but
you know, this is about Michigan and so on and
so forth. He's a very low key, low level guy

(06:17):
in terms of being empty. But I think these guys
will be ready to go tomorrow. They're still very talented guys.
There's still Colston Lovelin, and there's there's still Donovan Ewards
is a good running back, and they're they're really thrilled
with what they saw from Davis Warren, even though he
had by statistical measures, perhaps a pedestrian game. And and

(06:37):
Alex Ordgy's going to get on the field. He will
play in what specific roles. It's going to be interesting
to see that they want to get the ball in
his hands. And they have a really good defense, so, uh,
you know, none of this is going to be a
cake walk. I think by any stretcher. The long ones
are on their game and playing their game. I think
they come out on top, but I don't think anything's

(06:59):
going to be handed to him. I think it's I
think it's probably gonna be kind of difficult. But it
doesn't matter, you know, it doesn't matter by how many.
If you win by one, you win by one. If
you win, win by twenty one, you know, whatever it is.
If the Longhorns are able to get through it and win,
that's the main thing. To get it to two and
out before they go home for the next three weeks.

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