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December 23, 2024 • 13 mins
Check out this segment talking about the biggest takeaways from the College Football playoffs opening rounds.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From Harrow Kay Royal Texas Memorial Ctitium in Austin.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
It's the college football playoff.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
The Texas long warnings against the Clemson Tigers on third down.
Viewers out of the gun balls on the white hash
two receivers wide left for the warnings asle Stad turns up,
hands it off on third down and standon Wister. The
quarter thirty twenty five had a first down Tredy Wiston.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
How about that on board down.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
In ten Adon Carron ran him out of bounds, but
the Travan Wister hicks up twenty two yards on a
third and ten running call. One down, the line up
in an eye formation with blues the deed back that
it goes to Gibson straight ahead. He's got the first
down and he pushes forward down inside the pop Hurston
go for the three.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Hand off Wister push his forward. Two's the goal line
West touchdown.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Texas just followed the blocks, pushed part and took it
across from three yards out and the lord Ones have
their first playoff touchdown of twenty twenty five.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
First down in ten Lemson from the Tiger twenty five
shot go.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Step club to cut a pressure in his sacks Barren
Farrell got it Tomson four five yard loss as bluff
that started to move up in the pocket.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Surreal peeled off and Moden down four loss of five
out of the pistol with the Trabian wife are directly behind.
When you weres on first down and ten, it's a
handoff to shape food rather right side of Blue breaks
the tap.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Of forty turns down the side.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Bunch you good up to this point.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Take bookin what thirty eight God touch down, rip the
stem back to throw, looking under pressure and he's gonna
go down.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
He didn't buck.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
He holds.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Teammate from west Lake High drags it down for a
loss of six. Who weers out of the shotgun, sending
Jane Blue in motion back to throw his quin looking
he's go looking going deep down field. He's got me
go with Golden open.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Getting hold on what he did now if you go
took a pump and he had to wait on the
ball a little bit, but pulled it end and the
mark Matthew Golden down with the football at the Clintson
twenty eight yard line of forty three yards.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Strike from twin viewers come mate guards from down in
ten Texas. Now Wisner offset to the left side of yours.
Two receivers wide left. They get three now as golden
ships in motion from right to left on the handoffs
right side. Bleister forget it off, touchdown Texas.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
The tray van Wisterer started right and then Tredy cut
it back into the middle.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Nobody close to it.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Sixteen yards to the house club the staff back the throw,
pressure coming steps up, pass the flected high in the air.
Minter set the town Simmons, Holland kicks it out his
first colleagues an interception, have one on the tip Drill.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Barons Rail tipped it. Holland.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Simmons put it the long Warns have a turnover and
they'll take over inside that comes to the.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Burden I got stepped back to you or point up the.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Second out Glendi for help, Hey t it touchdowns Texas.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
How many times have we seen that this season?

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Viewers a laser over the top to gut her Helm
one touchdown, twenty two yard field goal and the kick
from Auburn is good part bangs it home.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Jane Blue directly behind.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
When ers second out hand off, Blue comes to the
left side with the tackle thirty thirty five.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Here goes Jamamnfield No. Forty the thirty say good night
to this one. Jay Blue seventy seven.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
Yards Paul long Ward touchdown eight, clubbing out of the
shotgun on third down, club Nick has it, rolls to
the right, goes to the end, but he didn't get there.
He got stopped at the one by David Benda. And
now it's fourth and goal at the one. Tigers wrecked
the huddle webson fourth and goal of the Texas one

(03:47):
yard line, pub Vick out of the shotgun, a double
wing set, a powered pistol. He has it, turns, hands
it off.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Bildn get there ward stuff again.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
They make the step on Keeth Adams, Bill Norton punks
the gap. The defensive stand of the year was a
few weeks ago in College Station. It's been upgraded. The
defensive stuff of the year is tonight in Austin, Texas.
Lob it lay clock down the two down, the one,
hass the snap back to throw over the middle book

(04:24):
Ny good points would have been short of the first down.
Michaels have laying the wood at T. J.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Moore and that will do it.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
When you weres under center as the staff puts down
the knee and that will do it.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
As you go with a back flip in the.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
Backfield, and I to celebrate before the Christmas holiday, the
Texas Longmowns for the first time in school, his street
have one a college football playoff game for the first
time in school street he won a college football All
Playoff game and Little Tours time at school history the
All play at the Chick fil A teach Ball in

(05:08):
Atlanta in the quarter finals against Arizona State. Final score
from Darryl tam Royal Texas Memorial Stadium. The Texas Law
Boards thirty eight le Clemson Tigers twenty.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Four and again our thanks to Cameron Parker, despite being
in a sick bed or at least in and out
of it anyway battling the flu, Buck thought enough of
us to go ahead and put together the montage that
he annually creates or annually weekly creates during the course

(05:42):
of the football season.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
Did one there, so if Cam's feeling.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
Better, on that we begin the third and final hour
of the program. And thanks as well Ronald Savage and
on at the controls today and glad to have him
with us as we bring in the final hole of
the program before we break for a couple of days
for Christmas, and then we'll be back after that and
on the twenty sixth, we'll be back and we'll bring
you shows on Thursday and Friday, twenty sixth and twenty seventh.

(06:10):
There's Longhorn Basketball Men's and women's a double header at
Moody Center on Sunday the twenty ninth. Then it'll be
a quick transport over to the airport to fly to Atlanta.
We'll be reporting in from Atlanta on Monday the thirtieth
when the coaches have their press conference. There's a media
day on Monday and the practices there, so we'll do

(06:33):
all the regular bowl type things that we do for
the Chick fil A Peach Ball for Texas and Arizona State,
and coming up in a few minutes, we're gonna, in fact,
we need to hear a couple more of these just
to make sure we got caught up. Now. We're gonna
hear more from Longhrn's head coach, Steve Sarcasha, but also
from Kenny Dillingham, the head coach at Arizona State. They

(06:57):
did the they did the news conference simultaneously, so we
brought to you. Sark's comment last night when Day he
was asked what was something he has seen from Dillingham's
career now from Dillingham, what is something that he has
observed from Steve Sarkisian's coaching career.

Speaker 4 (07:18):
In regards to coach Sark, I mean I was a
high school coach when he's started his career as a
head coach, and the way he's evolved offensively. You know,
there's a lot of good offensive schemes out there, and
then there's offensive coaches who change their scheme and are
constantly getting better. And I think that's something that he's
done as good, if not better than anybody in the country.

(07:39):
Is if you turned on his tape from ten years ago,
it's going to be unrecognizable to his tape right now.
And that is very challenging to do when you're successful.
When you're successful, you want to keep doing what got
you successful, and it's very challenging to be challenging, in
my opinion, to be humble enough to constantly continually adapt

(08:00):
to the current landscape of the rules. You can't cuplock
on the perimeter right to RPOs and how they in
terms and changed the game in terms of substitution patterns,
and now you can slow teams down that sub late.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
You couldn't do that fifteen years ago.

Speaker 4 (08:17):
Like, he has always adapted with the game and almost
been ahead of the curve a little bit.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
And that's really challenging to do.

Speaker 4 (08:25):
And it's a testament to one how hard he works,
because you can't adapt unless you study. So he's always studied,
and I've always been able to kind of steal a
few things from him. I mean, I really remember when
he was at Washington and way back when he was
a big FIB guy, and he was one of the
first people to really dive into FIB and challenge.

Speaker 3 (08:45):
People with how they played the big nickel and what
to do. And I was like, well, what is he doing?
This makes no sense. I couldn't process it. I was
trying to learn it.

Speaker 4 (08:54):
But all of that stuff that he's done, he's just
constantly evolved and evolved and evaulved to get to why
he's where he's at right now, which is the best
offenses in college football. And I think that same philosophy
he carries over as a head coach in terms of
there's no stagnant people aren't stagnant. In that program, and
I think you can see that his office philosophy is
becoming the program philosophy, which is it's pretty impressive when

(09:16):
when you are young, innovative and you continue.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
To evolve throughout your entire career, and just got a
lot of respect for him.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
All Right, We're going to hear more from both those
head coaches coming up in just a few moments. When
you get something else what's written, we use the word
take away a lot. What's your takeaway from this? What's
your takeaway from that? Even ask Greg Tepper, you take
away from the high school football state championships, that sort
of thing. So they're pretty popular things about because sometimes

(09:46):
takeaways come after you've had a chance to think about
it and reflect on it and review things, especially with
regard in this specific instance, to the four games that
were played over the weekend, the four college football playoff
games that were played over the weekend. So the Athletic

(10:08):
always does a good job with its takeaways, as does
ESPN dot Com and a couple other sports Illustrated I
canvas all of these, but the ones for the Athletic
here were the their takeaways from the opening round of
the college football playoff. And that's another thing. By the way,
we call it the opening round, first round, I think
its first round was actually called but there's some folks saying, hey,

(10:29):
we should call that something else, you know, whatever, the
wild card round or whatever. But here's some takeaways from
the opening round. Number one says the Athletic that the
home game atmospheres were great, and they were Tennessee fans.
They took almost thirty thousand into the Horseshoe, Indiana had
that historic first of Indiana against Notre Dame, and the

(10:50):
on campus ambiance, he said, is perhaps the best part
of the new playoff format. And so the reporters were
asked by Jana Bardell in the staff of the Athletic
to describe the home game atmosphere, and with regard Sam

(11:11):
con Junior, whom we've seen a lot, he was at
the Texas game, he said, so much better than the
sanitized atmospheres we get from bowl games at NFL stadiums.
Point Number two, the games were lopsided. Any had of
one by ten, I mean Notre Dame beat Indiana by ten,
but we know it really wasn't that close. The pretty
much dominated the game, and of course, right after that,

(11:31):
as the Athletic points out, Dowers and SEC enthusiasts were
quick to question, now qualified the soon Hoosiers really were?
Little did we know that the ten point march in
victory would be the closest of a weekend full of blowouts?
As him you humbled in the thirty eight to ten
loss to Penn State, Clemson lost thirty eight twenty four
to Texas, and Tennessee's fate was determined early in the

(11:53):
forty two to seventeen lost to Ohio State. Point number three.
Strength of schedules should have more weight in the twelve
team that's been debated on that the playoff triple in
size this year, but the Committee kept its evaluation process
mostly the same blowouts are going to happen, and there's
a good chance under Dame, Penn State, Texas, and Ohio
State are all just really good teams. But moving forward,

(12:17):
the Committee needs to prioritize schedule strength as a key
metric in its rankings. There was always going to be
room to evaluate what the expanded Playoff got right and
wrong in this inaugural year, and although the Committee could
very well have gotten this year's twelve team playoff field correct,
does a three loss SEC team really belong. There's room

(12:39):
to acknowledge that schedule strength or lack thereof, can skew
the perceptions of the best teams. So there's some of that.
There's got to be I get all of the thing
of what Alabama fans are saying is about the quality wins.
I understand that, and Kirk kurb Street had a big
ranch about how it's got to be more than just wins.

(12:59):
I agree, but you have to factor in losses, and
if you have ugly losses, it's going to affect it.
I'm not saying that Alabama should have been in instead
of SMU or not or vice versa. I'm just saying
all things have to be evaluated, and the committee says
they do, so we'll see all right. Up next, more

(13:19):
from long WARN's head coach Steve Sarkesian, as well as
from Kenny Dillingham, the head coach at Arizona State, on
sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone.
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