The Fellas with Anthony Gargano & Jason Fitz Talk College Football, 4th of July & More!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
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Speaker 3 (00:45):
Let me you know, I've been so anticipating talking to
you today because I'm trying to figure out I was
thinking to you on fourth of July. Okay, you know
I've been on this this clean diet kick, right, I
had a hot dog. I gave myself the grace to
have a hot dog. It was far better than the
real chicken rice eating every day for you know, six weeks,
seven weeks at this point.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
But that does mean well, I'm glad that you've you
did that.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
Well, I mean it was one hot dog, you know,
But here's my biggest I was thinking of you as
I ate that hot dog because I remember when we
were hanging out and talking after Thanksgiving and you were
talking about how, you know, as a proud Italian, your
Thanksgiving feast a little bit different. So I was sitting
there and I looked at it. I giggled to myself
because I was like his cousin eating an Italian sausage

(01:27):
right now? Is is that the way they worked?

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Like?

Speaker 3 (01:29):
Is there a different tradition when you're an Italian Philly
like like that that just through and through? Is it
still the good old fashioned you know, hamburger, hot dog,
apple pie?

Speaker 4 (01:39):
Or is there some difference here?

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Well, it's great, that's that's uh, that's a great question.
So actually I did have an Italian sausage. That's the
tri square to God. My sister had a barbecue. Now
they had steak. We had some steaks and some you know, hamburgers,
hot dogs and sausage. But I do love like the

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Italian sausage. So I like you, I'm trying to do better.
You know, you're far more You're successful at it. But
I was like, I'll have no I was thinking about
a hot talk because of the you know, they puts it.
It puts it in your head that you know, the
hot doggin me contest. They're like, you know what, I

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need a good hot dog. But the Italian sausage was
sitting there, and I was like, that looks delicious, So
I grabbed the sausage. I had half a steak and
a sausage see July.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
And that feels like the right thing. And by the way,
not for nothing Italian song like even as I finished
the hot dog, which again was a delight when you're
used to eating egg whites porridge and you know, chicken
and rice all day. But I will say this, like
I as I finished it, I thought, yeah, I should
have waited for an Italian sausage because they're they're plumpier,
you know, They're just they got a little bit more,

(02:55):
they got a little bit more snap to them. They're
just better. They're better.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
So he's got a little bit better it too, you
know what I mean. The bite is I like it
with the especially when they do the Italians with the fannel.
So the fennel seats so it's got the heat and
then the fenel and the so it gives it it
gives it a little bite to it instead of the
normal dog.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
See that's that's a smart that's a smart way to go.
And I got a buddy that's like a you know,
he's a chef, right, so he's like a in a
local restaurant. And so he came over later in the
day and I'd already have my hot dog and I
was gonna get myself one hot dog. He came over
later in the day and he's like, I brought some
you know, brought some dogs. But then he did like
this special sauce on it, and he grilled the buns

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and like that was the next level. And I looked
at it and thought, yeah, I should have waited. I
should I should have waited for the properly made like
how you grill these things. It makes a massive difference.
I will concede that point all day every day. So
you know, it was a good splurge. But I also
think hot dogs are I am the hot take of
the week seems to be. I think the Fourth of
July overall a little overrated. Like it's it's fine, you know,

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but it's the food's always just sort of like, yeah,
you're grilling most of the time your buddies are putting
out like they're hot dogs that are fine, They're hamburgers
that are fine, like all the usual sides are fine
at the fourth of July, they're not. They're not spectacularly
they're fine. Fireworks are fine. And it all comes with
the whole heap inside of a lot of butt cracks, weat,
and I don't really love that.

Speaker 4 (04:24):
So, like, I'm just telling you, like the.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
Whole dude, I'm with you. I'm out, I'm out, dude.
I gotta tell you, I think you're spot on of
all the holidays. And I'm not talking about its significance
because obviously it's you know, of course right, it's poignant.
But but if you just go with the holiday, eh,

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it's a me. It really is, like it's a man.
And it's probably due with the because I'm like you,
I mean, I like the heat, right, but the heat's
only good is if you're in somewhere like like the
shore with an ocean, right, like a beach, you know,

(05:09):
knock me out pool. But but if you're just backyard grass, hey,
you know I can't. I've been better, you know what
I mean? They give me autumn, you know what I'm
saying all day, give me football man, Like that's it.
So I'm with you. The only significance for me is

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this is like the first true pieline like mile post right,
like you get pasto pass forwardly because in the business,
and now you know that's better than anybody. Like all
the football people, this is the end of their vacation.
So I got a buddy of mine, Matt Ruhle, coaches Nebraska,

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and I'm like, dude, what's your plan or you're around
Monday and he said, no, I'm flying back Sunday. He's
at the Jersey Shore or flying back Sunday and we
have a meeting Sunday night, and then they get ready
because the coach to get ready for camp. My other
friend is Steve Spagnola from the Chiefs. He's down the

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same Jersey Shore there. I said, what's your deal? He said,
we got one more week left. He's like, I'll be
here Sunday that we're flying out, him and his wife
flying out for a week and then next Sunday back
to Kansas City because we got camp. So I give
you this because to me, this is the last kind

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of thing. This is it, Like the camp's around the corner.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
That's a huge point to another reason that I personally
don't love the fourth the same way. Again, we're not
talking about the meeting behind it, but everything you just
said speaks to the fact that it's a dead time
for sports in general.

Speaker 4 (06:56):
Like, think about it, it's such.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
A dead day that we were trying to create controversy
around hot tal gating. That's where we are. And I
realized there were some baseball games on during the course
of the day, but nothing that people flock to at least,
Like if you're not super into Thanksgiving, you know that,
Like I'm okay on Thanksgiving. I don't love Thanksgiving the
same way, but I got football all day, So like,
I don't really have to love Thanksgiving. Even if you're

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you're somebody in the world that unfortunately has a really
sad Christmas, and there are a lot of people like that.
There are huge sporting events that can at least service
somewhat of a distraction, you know, Like you've got football,
you've got basketball, You've got all sorts of things going on.
You know, you look at the calendar of sports and
most of it like all right, Saint Patrick's Day, you're
right in the thick of March madness.

Speaker 4 (07:40):
There's all the stuff going on around it.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
This year there were NCAA games on Saint Patty's date, right, Like,
so you look at.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
A little Labor Day action. Oh god, college football, man, Like,
Labor Day is a great day.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
That again, And I find myself just sitting there on
fourth of July and I'm hanging with some buddies. I
look up and I was like, oh, there's an Orioles
Mariners game on mah and like literally that was the reaction.
And one of the guys turned the TV channel to
a replay at the hot dog eating contest. So it's like,
that's how just sort of sports board we are in

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the fourth because it's great for the coaches that are
getting their end of their summer vacation, and even you know,
if you're going to year round schools in parts of
the country, you've only got a couple of weeks left
before you're back in, right, So I get why that
has good meeting. But man, it's not a great sports holiday.
It's not a great weather holiday, especially if you're in
the South. My god, like the humidity. It's not a

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great food holiday. It's just in fireworks in general, well
a little love a.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
Rated Yeah, I'm with you, you and I are we
walk his brothers. The fireworks is like, all right, you know,
it's nice like once you see see the problem with
fireworks is once you've seen one one display, you've really
seen them all, you know, and the finales are great,

(09:02):
like you know, I mean obviously it wasn't like a finale,
but after a while, like you see one firework display,
I mean, what else? What else you're gonna do? It's
the saying it's it's kind of redundant, to be honest
with you, So I like, I feel you on that,
and I feel you on baseball, like I love baseball,
but you know, I mean, it's at this point, it's

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it's monotonous, like this is what this is how you're
viewing it, Like you're like all right, you know, like
I can sit here and watch baseball and watch it
get your favorite team. You can watch a game, go
to a game, but it doesn't give you the tingles
like football or any kind of big you know, play
basketball tournament or whatever. It doesn't give you that that

(09:48):
kind of tingle. And I think that's kind of what
you're looking for. What you're kind of seeking out. Like
we watched the Phillies were over because they were in
Chicago's who I remember watching some of the Phillies. But
then we as a family watched Jaws, right, because that's
the summer move we watch, So we watched you know,

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we watched Jaws and that kind of was you know
whatever it was. It was an okay day, you know,
it was nice, like we weroll together so so God
bless right. But to your point, sports is your best friend, right,
Sports is always your best friend because sports is around
at all times, right, Like, like you said, except fourth July,

(10:34):
it's really the only time, even Memorial Day, which is
the gateway kickoff summer. Right, Memorial Day you had the
NBA NHL Finals going on, right, like, so you got playoffs, man,
but you're you're spot on with this.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
Yeah, Like, even if you don't have something to watch,
at least if you're standing, you know, at the grill
with somebody that you don't know that well, or the
neighbor that's kind of hard to talk to, you got
that super easy, Like, oh man, how about how about
the finals right now? Like, you know, how about them Celtics.
It's like an easy conversation starter for the July You're
just like, so Joey Chestnut eating on his own.

Speaker 4 (11:14):
It's just not a conversation, you know.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
And it grosses me out watching that. Oh yeah, I can't.
I know you covered it right, and I can't do it.
I can't. I can't do it. Every year I go,
oh for and I just go, I can't watch. This
is gross, like because the hot tol itself, it starts

(11:37):
to skiv ye out right, like when you watch, like
when you were there, like you said, this smell was
on godly.

Speaker 3 (11:43):
Oh yeah, no, you're You're right, like the whole the
whole process. When you see just the way they're essentially
choking themselves with hot dogs trying to get them down.
It's just it's it's a tough watch, I'll be honest.
And you know, at this point, I have friends involved
with it and I wanted to watch it to support
and I made it through a couple of minutes and
I was like, yeah, this is just it's not it's
not my bag. If I'm not participating in it, it's
just a different. It hits different, you know, And I'm

(12:05):
with you the whole way. Watching it was and the
fact that no matter this year, no matter what happened,
the fact that somebody won, they worked their whole life
to win, and then immediately it's like, well didn't need
as many as Joey does. It's it's it was just
such a lose lose situation this year. I felt like
the hot dog eating contest even didn't have the usual juice,
so you know, it's a weird. That's a weird spot

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to be in.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
The usual hot dog juice. There's nothing more schevy than that.
So well, you guys were to Cather yesterday, My boys,
what happened was the show.

Speaker 3 (12:39):
It was good, it was fun, you know, like, figure, yes, Shay,
we got to hang out. We were we were filling
in yesterday.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
In fact, told me because you guys were to call me,
I'm like, well, yeah, let me know.

Speaker 3 (12:49):
Yeah, well you're really the way the way I heard
it is, cousin is in to hang out. And then
we were like, well did did we get cousin? He's like, yeah,
we haven't heard back. So that's you know, we figured
you were busy. You were fourth of July star a man.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
I told them, dude, just get out, give me a time.
I get the whole thing, give me a time, all right?
Like see the Wallston translation is he says to me,
are you around? I went absolutely right, just you know,
and then he wrote back, all right, what's a good time?

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And I was like just kind of waiting for him
to say, give me a time. I'll be honest with you.
I was like, and then I forgot about it. Well,
I was like, look, you got my boys were hanging out.

Speaker 4 (13:36):
The way we were. We were almost the fellas.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
We were just like the laws there because there's no
fellows looking at me the whole thing. We were just
the laws going into it.

Speaker 4 (13:44):
But yeah, I mean a good time.

Speaker 3 (13:45):
We filled in for got leave, and then we filled
in for Kavino and Rich and you know, got to
give the fellows a little love and talked a little
bit about you know, we tried to power rank the holidays.
We took the college football Playoff Committee approach and argued
about the holidays as we've done on the show with
other things in the past, and couldn't even come to
a consensus number two holiday. That's how that's how weird.

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It got right out of the gates.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
But we had a good time, you could, So you're
number two because your anti Thanksgiving, Figgi was probably number two.
Is just Thanksgiving, right Figgi?

Speaker 3 (14:15):
Figgy and I think Shay had Thanksgiving at number two,
and then Iowa sam and I didn't have Thanksgiving in.

Speaker 4 (14:23):
Our top five.

Speaker 3 (14:24):
So as a result, Thanksgiving was torpedo down to number three,
which felt, you know, felt terrible to Iowa Samini because
we didn't want it to be number three.

Speaker 4 (14:34):
But if that means it was number two year Halloween,
Halloween came in.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
Ah, yeah, Halloween. I want to tell yeah, Halloween. It's
a great holiday, dude. I would, I might be with you,
and I may go Halloween too.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
Here's the thing I don't have to worry about, you know,
a problematic cousin saying something that defends the entire room
at Halloween. I do with Thanksgiving, you know, like above
and beyond even just the food conversation, Like, let's just
be real, the idea of hanging out with family all
day on Thanksgiving for you know, I'd say eighty percent
of the world is far better than the actual execution

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of it. You know, it's just it gets a little weird,
gets a little weird. So you know, Thanksgiving didn't it
didn't fall there for me. But yeah, we ended up
with you.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
Yeah, sure, I gotta definitely gotta take the pilgrimage up
to see.

Speaker 3 (15:22):
Your house, well one hundred percent, and I'm just gonna
come up to your place for Thanksgiving.

Speaker 4 (15:26):
We'll trade holidays and that way, you know, I'll get
good at that.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
I'm in man, I think that's great. I think you
should do that.

Speaker 4 (15:34):
We ended up with Christmas one.

Speaker 3 (15:37):
We ended up Halloween two, Thanksgiving three, and fourth of
July fourth, and I.

Speaker 4 (15:41):
Was completely outvoted on that.

Speaker 3 (15:42):
Like I just I thought Saint Patrick's Day. I think
Saint Patrick's Day's better. Like nobody has a bad Saint
Patrick's Day, I mean unless they triag too much. But
still like Saint Patrick's Day, you got like the cheesy
parade nobody really cares about, but it's still there, and
you got everyone a good time. New Year's Day, so
some of the guys pointed out that New Year's Day
isn't always as exciting, you know, as you get older,

(16:05):
you don't make it to midnight, and so there was
a little bit less love for New Year's Day than
I expected. I had New Year's Day four on my list,
but it didn't make mony.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
That's not even clothes. I mean that just that Trump's
like that tramples Fourth of.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
July, yeah to one hundred percent agree, like New Year's Day,
New Year's Eve.

Speaker 4 (16:23):
That whole process is.

Speaker 3 (16:25):
I think that one's become a little underrated, where Fourth
of July is overrated to me?

Speaker 2 (16:30):
Yeah, No, no love for the Labor Day.

Speaker 3 (16:34):
Labor Day, I got no love. Nobody put Labor Day
in there anywhere, And I was a little surprised Labor
Day didn't make it into the combo our committee failed.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
You're a college football fan, you know Labor Day is
a big deal.

Speaker 3 (16:44):
And I think one of the things you learned in
the exercise above, and beyond just the fact that I
say this all the time, if I if I forced
thirteen of your friends to get into one room and said, Okay,
you guys are now a committee and you have to
bet on the you have to vote on the best
pizza places in your town, you would end at not
having thirteen friends.

Speaker 4 (17:01):
Like, nobody can agree on anything.

Speaker 3 (17:03):
And we take that for granted when we think the
College Football Committee has it easy. But the other part
is imagine being the committee chair that has to stand
up and speak for a committee vote that they don't
like at all, and they can't say that, Like, if
I was committee chair, I'd come in. I'd be like, y'all,
let's start with the elephant in the room. I have
no idea why we've got this team at number four.
But they can't do that in the committee. They got
to stand up and say, well, you know, the committee

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looked at it really hard. I'm looking, I can't even
defend our committee holiday rankings without you know, giving the
caveat that I didn't like them, And all of a sudden,
I'm thinking about what it's like having defend to defend
the college football playoff committee. That would be brutal.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
Dude, that's so on point, so on point. There is
so much wrong with that thing, And you're right, it's
because of the nature of the committee. As much as
the committee sounds like a great idea, it's never good.

Speaker 3 (18:00):
Well and to me, the only real solution that would
ever come is if you, at the end of every
single vote, when the committee makes their statement, put them
all on one long stage and give everybody a mic
and ask everybody to defend their Like, let me ask
a coach specifically why that coach put that team in
that number. And for anyone that says, well that could
make them hesitate to vote, all I'll say is somebody

(18:22):
that you know. I vote on the Bulletnikoff every year
for the best wide receiver in college football.

Speaker 4 (18:26):
I also have had a Grammy vote for a lot
of my life.

Speaker 3 (18:29):
I'm transparent on who I vote for, because if I'm
going to have the honor of a vote, I got
to be willing to stand behind it. And I look
at the committee the same way.

Speaker 2 (18:37):
Oh with you. I voted for a Heisman forever. You know,
did various awards in football and the NFL, NBA, baseball,
And I'm with you. I think you have to be
that way. I think it's only right that you defend
your position on why because you also know that you

(18:58):
can tell who is on point right like you know, Okay,
well that's a great case pass like like then that's
good right like so so I think that's that's a
huge thing. All right. We got lots to do today.
I got a couple of football things I got to
throw by you. We celebrate college football. The College Football

(19:20):
Video Game is just days away now. So I do
want to I do want to celebrate some of the
old school video games sports video games today with you.
So I want to do some of that with you.
I got to think on eighties and nineties movies all

(19:40):
right that I want to ask you about. And well,
that's fun. It's a fourth July weekend right here, hanging
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Speaker 2 (20:34):
Fellas, Jason Fits, Anthony Gargano Hanging out with You guys,
fourth July weekend. Hey, I got one baseball for the
Baseball is a fascinting game. Baseball is macro right, whereas

(20:55):
the other sports, like you hone in on the singular games.
The fascinating thing about baseball, and it's going on with
the Yankees. The Yankees lose again last night, Like they
were up three nothing and they lose five to three
X ratings to the Red Sox. Dude, did you their

(21:16):
collapse is like epic right now? This team was on fire.
They were forty nine and twenty one on June twelfth.
Since then, they're the worst team. Since then, they're the
worst team in the league. They're five and fifteen, Like,
what accounts for that? It's so interesting because really it's

(21:42):
not like they add like the Braves had like two
serious injuries, right Strider and a Kunya, but the Yankees
haven't had you know, I'm the devastating injuries.

Speaker 3 (21:55):
It's it's interesting because what do you make of it?
Whenever you have this in I think anytime we see
this in baseball, where you have a team that's so
good and then plays so poorly, you're trying to figure
out what the real version is like will the real
slim shady still please stand up? Sort of thing? And
I think what's wild about it? When it happens as
ways we want to excuse it. We want to turn
around and say, well, you know, team's just a little bored.

(22:18):
It's the mid season blues. It's all those like you
want to find a reason or a moment like will
the All Star break help them sort of recharge? But
you're right, the hardest part about Major League Baseball and
the smartest way to look at it my mind, is
to take it weeks at a time and then say, okay, well,
now what do you have? And right now what you
have is a Yankees team that's falling apart. And it's

(22:38):
easy if they had played a spot in their schedule
they were playing terrible teams, I could easily excuse it
and say, okay, you know what, they're just checked out
right now, they'll be fine. But this series, particularly over
the weekend, is supposed to be a massive one, right
and the Red Sox aren't world beaters right now, so
right so there is this moment of you just lost
to a bad Red Sox team. I have a mediate

(23:00):
ochre Red Sox team at this point, it feels gross.

Speaker 2 (23:03):
It's just free nothing too, Like you're you're up free
nothing quartetspits really well for you, and you just you
blow the lean like that's you know, that's it's just
the anomaly of baseball and numbers right when you're they
were that good forty nine to twenty one, and you

(23:23):
know it's you know, the Phillies lost Bryce Harper and
Kyle Schwarber, like their big bats in their lineup, and
they're still kind of, you know, muddling through and winning games.
So how come the Yankees just you know, fell flat
like that. I mean, they had a couple of tweaks
here and there, but did nothing. You know, it's not
like you're losing Judge and Soto for the Lion's sharing

(23:46):
that well.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
And what would we be saying if there was another
logo on the chest, you know, if this was Kansas
City that started off the hottest team in baseball and
then all of a sudden was the worst, what will
we be saying. We'd be saying, Wow, the real Royals
have shown up, right, this is what we expected all year.
It just feels different with the Yankees because, like I've
been saying for two weeks with the Lakers. There are
certain organizations that have one expectation that's a championship.

Speaker 4 (24:09):
So that's the Yankees.

Speaker 3 (24:10):
So when you see really good baseball followed by really
bad baseball, it just it feels a little catastrophic to
the fan base, rightfully, so because the expectation isn't just oh, man,
we had a good, good season. That's not that doesn't
work for the Pinstripes. We all know that. So you
got to get it right, and you got to get
it right quickly. The question is how do you get
it right and what change.

Speaker 4 (24:30):
Can you make? And that's I think the artist.

Speaker 3 (24:32):
If you can't identify why things are going wrong, how
do you identify what to what to fix right? And
that's I think the hard part for the Yankees right now.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
Now you're your your dear spot on. All right. So
I kind of die to get this because college football,
the game is coming out. So I like, I got
my kid, I got my maswall Like, I'm like, dude,
college football. Even my older one who's not the biggest
sports video game guy but he's a big football player.
I go, dude, we got to do the family tournament, man,

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all right? Like this is a big deal college football
coming out, it's coming back, and so like they're all
fired up over it. It's it's one of those games that
it just struck a chord. So I'll ask you, right
and so, And I'm sure Ian knows our producer, the

(25:28):
games that struck a chord with you. Why is it
see college football? I don't know what it is, but man,
it's got everything. Like it's got the if I want
to build myself, if I want to build my program,
it's even better that I think it's even better at Madden.

Speaker 4 (25:49):
Well, and it was taken away.

Speaker 3 (25:51):
Like one of the things that I always say in
music is the best thing that can happen to some
acts is you just go before you start putting out
bad records. And that there are certain artists that have
just like retired or you know, tragically passed away, and
because they didn't go through that period where they put
out like three straight records that disappointed their fan base,

(26:14):
they live in this different bubble like Madden has spent
years at this point disappointing the fan base. Every year.
People expect something massive and different, and it's never massive
different changes. It never really meets the expectation. So now
people spend more time complaining about Madden than actually praising it.
For college football, there was a period where I think
maybe the luster was running off that game a little bit,

(26:37):
but then it was taken away. And the minute it's
taken away, now all of a sudden, it's like, well
we still miss that. Now not only is it coming back,
but it's coming back with the traditions, with the stadiums,
with the licensing, with the players, with all of the
things that we always dreamed we could have when we
had it the first time. So it truly is back
and better than ever. And you think about what that

(26:58):
means to the fans. I don't think I've ever seen
a more anticipated sports video game ever in my life,
and that's in large part because it was taken away
from us. They didn't spend the last ten years repeating
the same formula and frustrating their fans, so they haven't
put out.

Speaker 4 (27:14):
A bad video game.

Speaker 3 (27:15):
That's now we're getting the the real, the version of
this game we always wanted. You combine all that together,
that's why this is a cultural phenomenon.

Speaker 2 (27:23):
You know what, that's a that's brilliant, that's a brilliant.
It's a brilliant summation. You're right, because Madden for so
long it's feel stale. Right, It's like, well how many
It's impossible year to year, like the tech moves quickly,

(27:46):
but the changes aren't really that significant other than the roster, right,
And but the game itself, you know, a little tweak here,
and they're at little tiny features, but it doesn't fit.
It's it's around us, and it feels like, well, you're
going to shake me down for another game another year,

(28:07):
Whereas you're right, college football it's been it's been forever,
and the tech since last was here, has you know,
improved leaps and bounds.

Speaker 7 (28:18):
Can I jump in really quick about that?

Speaker 2 (28:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (28:20):
Please, yeah, just really quick. The I'm one of those
suckers who buys Madden every single year. But it's it's
the fact that you need to have the updated rosters,
and that's what kind of makes people keep coming back.
But it's the fact that with Madden every year, it
feels like it could have been just like an update
and you're forking over seventy dollars for it. But like
Fitz was saying, the fact that they're bringing back college

(28:42):
football games now that it's like a full it's a
whole new game that the last one we got was
ten years ago. So it's just like the most up
to date college game experience that just doesn't exist.

Speaker 3 (28:52):
Well, I wonder ahead for Twoeaks too, So I've had buddies,
like I've got a couple of buddies that have an
even and played video games in years that are buying
a system just to get this game. So they are
gonna be things that they've never seen, like one of
the crowd elements where if you have lost momentum, your
controller's gonna shake and you're gonna feel it, and the

(29:14):
camera's gonna move around and all of these things that
you know have been integrated, but if you're a college
football fan, you haven't seen it. A small tweak in
a current Madden game is going to feel like an
epic change to a game that has been made in
ten years. So there is a bit of a bit
of an advantage to it. And look, you're right, Ian,
I'm still an avid Madden player. I've gotten to the
point now where most of the time I buy it

(29:36):
every two years because you know, other than like as
a Raiders fan, this year Okay, So I guess if
I want to see Antonio Pierce on the sidelines and
I want to deal with trying to win with Aiden
or Gardener as my quarterback, then I go out and
buy it. You know, there's but unless you have a
big change to your roster, Like if you're a Bills fan,
are you really like, are you clamoring to buy Madden again?
Like your roster's basically the same. You just go trade

(29:58):
Stefan Diggs and you keep playing the game yourself. Like,
I don't know that unless you have big changes, you
need to get the new mat and every year even
if you want the new rosters. It's it's just such
a small difference. But the college football world is a
massive difference.

Speaker 7 (30:11):
And there's they're adding so many little things in the
college football on it's just clear how much effort they're
putting into it. Like I'm seeing some like they're they're
they're even putting in those those like stickers, you know,
the spirit stickers that that players in college get when
they have.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
A good game.

Speaker 7 (30:25):
They're they're having in the game. It's like if you
start a franchise with USC, say, then your players gradually
over the course of the season. US is a bad example.
They don't have stickers, but Ohio State, Yeah, there you go.
They get more Buckeye stickers as the year goes on.
Yeah no, see, that's that's awesome. Those little things are great.
What they should do and and you're right, what they

(30:45):
should do is.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
Have like a membership, right, and it gets you the
it gets you the updated rosters. And then every three years,
if you want to put a new game out where
the tech kind of catches up, then it kind of
feels it'll feel a little different. Yeah, that's the and
that's the like fits the points great like putting out

(31:11):
band records just kills you, like because you can't sustain greatness.

Speaker 3 (31:18):
I would argue that, Look, people are very divided on
a band like the Eagles. I've never really understood why
there's so much hate for the Eagles. I get what
people may not love them, but you know, the whole
fact that they just broke up, and then when they
came back, instead of trying to convince the world to
listen to a bunch of new stuff, they came back
with you know, help freezes over a reunion record where
they played their hits and everybody's like, oh my god,

(31:38):
this is the best thing ever, and.

Speaker 4 (31:40):
It, you know, catapulted them.

Speaker 3 (31:41):
It's it's so funny that you think about sometimes for
even for great musicians that put out two or three
records in a row that you don't really like, Like
I've never hidden my love of bon Jovi, but they
put out several bad records in a row, and I'm like, okay,
and it does sort of jade the the conversation what's
your favorite band? And it's like, well, if we're only

(32:03):
taking these records into account, like that's just natural, I think.
And for video games, it's so hard, even like I'm
a big I play a lot of NHL, I play
a lot of FIFA. I enjoyed those games. You rarely
see a moment where you say, oh my god, guys,
we have to buy this one because this is all new,
and that's the eventage, Like, I don't know, this year's
college football game the most type we've ever seen. I

(32:25):
think the real question is gonna be next year. Are
people clamoring to buy next year's version of college football?
Or is this just a one year wonder of everybody
having to get it? And then we'll find out that
eventually it calms down, just like Madden.

Speaker 7 (32:37):
And how much effort are they putting into next year's
game because this year is easy because it's a whole
new game that hasn't existed in ten years.

Speaker 3 (32:45):
So but you said playing as us CE and I
that's that's a violation. All right, we're gonna we're gonna
set this out right away. You're playing is a good
team violation. Like I'm gonna go win a national championship
with UNLV. All right, When I win a national championship
with you win LV football, I expect some damn respect
around here. People are going to be like, oh my god,
you won two straight championships with UNLV, Like that is

(33:07):
playing the game. If you're taking one of the top
ten teams and winning a bunch of games with it soft.

Speaker 7 (33:12):
And no comment.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
Dude, dude, I dig get spot on. You know that,
and you think he's spot on spot On? Yeah, go
win his temple. Yeah, it's more impressive for sure.

Speaker 7 (33:26):
But I think people just want to play as their school,
you know, Like, if you're a Michigan fan, you haven't
been able to play as Michigan as the Michigan Wolverines
in ten years.

Speaker 3 (33:35):
I'll give you that you just can't talk you to
for Yeah, if you win a bunch of games, if
you're like, man, I've won three straight Natties. All right,
what team you're playing as, Michigan? Oh congratulations? Like like
you so you're winning the game on easy mode. There
is one mode they need to They need to create
a new mode on this game. And then you know, ea,
you should have called me in advance. I would I
would have helped you with this. You need to create

(33:57):
a mode that's called Welcome Back, and it's for everybody
that just hasn't played a sports video game in ten
years that is now back for this, like and give
me the old controls on it. Make it super easy, because, like,
if we're being honest, I think there's a lot of
us that are football heads that are gonna have to
use the tutorial, Like I'm gonna have to actually play
in the beginning to practice mode just figure out how

(34:18):
to do some of the stuff in this game.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
Yeah yeah, yeah, no, I listen as a sometimes y person, right,
Like I'll do the hockey. I love the NHL, and
like we'll do the baseball. Me, me and my little guy.
We'll do the baseball of hockey and and then we'll
do the mad But like I'm not, I'm not as

(34:43):
there's a million things that I like, I just don't
have the time to process, right, the little nuances like
the NBA one the controllers, I get a little the NBA,
and I love the NBA the two K but like,
like I know, I'm mis out on a couple of functions.

Speaker 3 (35:03):
Oh god, yah, a bunch of those those games are
wildly complicated.

Speaker 2 (35:08):
Yeah, yeah, no, I'm with you, all right, Uh let's
say quick til we'll come right back. Fellas hanging right
here at Fox Sports.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
Radio listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 2 (35:21):
Fellas from the tire Rack dot Com studios. So I
want to die too. The college football for a second,
and the the llure of it, right, the allure of it,
the when I when I think of certain towns right,

(35:45):
like because it was funny, I had the conversation with
my nephew, yeah, yesterday or the other day, for it's
a lot because he's he's looking at schools and he's
looking at college and he's going to a senior in
high school and he's like, I want to go to
a big football school. He goes that's all I want
to do is go to a big football school with

(36:06):
a lot of tradition and where it's just great. So
it was kind of neat because right of this conversation
and he's like, so here's my list, and he gives
me the Clemson, Alabama, West Virginia, Texas. I'm trying to

(36:26):
think of what else was on there. There's a couple
other aces SEC schools, Georgia and then No, he didn't
want to go to Georgia, and then Ohio State, No, Michigan.
There was a couple like big programs that he did
not that he didn't and Oregon was on the list.

(36:50):
He's like, that's a little far because he lives in
New Jersey. But he's He's like, the Oregon is also
one of it. So I was thinking about this right,
and I'm going and if you are, if you were
this recruit, like if put yourself as the Magnie character,
as this incredible recruit and you get choice, think about

(37:16):
that for a second, which tradition, which which place would
would you know in order would would find you? Would
you find the most attractive.

Speaker 3 (37:31):
Wow, that's so if I'm man if I'm wanting to
go somewhere as a as a play.

Speaker 2 (37:37):
Let's break it down by conference, because that might be easy.

Speaker 3 (37:41):
When I think of the great college football schools, I
think about the places where you know, it is just
such a part of life that you have to be there,
you have to experience it, and it feels like the
whole region just stops when you play games. Like Look,
I think Oregon, it's a great place to go to games.
I really enjoy Oregon, but I wouldn't put it in

(38:03):
the same category as Alabama or Ohio State. And you know, frankly,
I think what's interesting is that even if you look
at Alabama, you know, there were some conversations a few
years ago about declining ticket sales in the stadium when
they play Cupcakes, and you know.

Speaker 4 (38:17):
That's just part of the way it goes. Blah blah
blah blah.

Speaker 3 (38:19):
I don't know that that is part of the way
it goes because I keep thinking about what it's like
to go to games. I've been to a bunch of
games at Ohio State, and there is a different vibe
to that whole city. I think certain places have a
really special vibe around game day. Certain regions have a
really special vibe. So I mean, if we're just talking
about sort of good or bad, you always know that

(38:40):
the ViBe's going to be there. Ohio State's pretty tough
to beat for me on that list you just gave me.
I think, well, let's go.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
By conference, right, let's do We'll start a big time
because you are you got Ohio State, now Ohio State, Like,
I'm with you at big time, But I could argue
Penn State too, because Penn State's obviously on his list.
Penn State white out pretty good, buddy.

Speaker 3 (39:10):
No, yeah, the whiteout is one of the coolest things
I've ever experienced. I think the interesting thing is white
outs are amazing midday games. Penn State are still really good.
What I like about Ohio State and Penn State is
I kind of like their rivalry split better. Like I think,
if you didn't grow up in Michigan, Michigan, Michigan State
doesn't really matter to you, right like, and I'm not

(39:30):
sure Michigan State's going to be relevant anytime soon. So
I like the fact that it feels like the world's
gunning for schools like Ohio State and Penn State.

Speaker 4 (39:38):
I would put Ohio State one.

Speaker 3 (39:40):
Penn State two Michigan, Nebraska three, Michigan four.

Speaker 2 (39:45):
If I'm just a I was going to break that
op to you because Nebraska it's another one. I mean,
that's when those people are so through. So we do.
I mean, you know, seventy thousand people for they filled
the stadium for a volleyball game. So the place for
football is out of its mind.

Speaker 3 (40:02):
The whole city shuts down on football Saturdays. And like
I remember when we were covering the game there and
the local gas station was closed and it was just
it was open for people to come in and eat
and drink for free. Like you just walk through the
whole city tailgates walking to that stadium. It's an unreal experience.

Speaker 2 (40:19):
Yeah, and it's like that sea of Red's seeing it.
It's wild, man, it really is. All right, So I'm
gonna I'm gonna write this stuff down that we want to.
You're gonna be the big recruit, all right, and we'll
figure it out. Where the fell is right here, Fox
Sports Radio listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio, Well, good morning,

(40:41):
good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning. Happy fourth
of July Saturday. You're with the fellas Jason Fitz Anthony
Gargano hanging from the ti iraq dot com studios tyrack
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(41:03):
way tire buying should be, all right, So here's the deal.
This is we're going to do in honor of college football,
the new video game coming out as excited. We want
to go through the conferences and it's kind of our
way to whittle it down to the recruit. You're gonna

(41:24):
be this great recruit and you're going to look at
which place is the best to go to from a
pure you know, college football pageantry standpoint. So we're starting
to big ten. So I'm want to have each of
us rank their three schools, all right, from one to three.

(41:49):
We have with us, Fitsie, we have Mighty Mark and
Ian our production team. Right, So Ian, you're going to
keep it charge right. So were a number one vote,
you get ten points. For a number two school, you
get five points. For number three school, you get three points.
All right. So that's how you're gonna tally it up.

(42:10):
So if I said to you, Fitzie, you said Ohio
State in the Big ten would be your number one school?
Is that correct?

Speaker 3 (42:19):
Yeah? For pagetry yep.

Speaker 2 (42:21):
So and again this is your you are the standout athlete.
It's Jason Fits. You know, not only was he a
music prodigy, but he was this incredible receiver five foot ten,
blazing speed and he could run pass to run through

(42:43):
a cover two. Jason Fits.

Speaker 3 (42:47):
All right, But I'm only I'm only going on pageantry here.
I'm not talking about winning. I'm not talking about coaches.
I'm not talking I'm like, we're just talking to coaches, right.

Speaker 2 (42:55):
The coaches have to be irrelevant because of the revolving
door the coaches. Okay, so let's go on.

Speaker 3 (43:03):
The game day experience and I'm walking in and.

Speaker 2 (43:06):
That's part of it, right, And also you know, also
it should be like part of you know, what part
of the like what part of the you know, just
the culture of it all, right, Like pageantry is one thing,
but also culture is a piece of it. So you
rank it and how what you would see fit? Okay
for you you know, you look at the big set

(43:29):
and there's a lot of great choices. Obviously Michigan, Wisconsin,
Camp Randall, It's got some great tradition. Great right, yeah,
great stuff that pageantry and I've covered big games there.
It's it's awesome.

Speaker 3 (43:44):
I partied on that campus and let me tell you,
that is an experience right there.

Speaker 4 (43:48):
Yes, some drunken days on that campus.

Speaker 2 (43:51):
Yeah, they know how to party in a big way.
So for this, for this purpose, I'm going to keep
the PAC twelve alive. Okay, all right, Okay, So Canady
and I'm gonna I'm gonna keep Texas where it is.
The Texas is not in the Big two, in the
Big ten, in the eight, in the SEC.

Speaker 3 (44:11):
All right, I want to keep not putting We're putting.
We're keeping Texas. We're not putting Texas in the SEC, not.

Speaker 2 (44:17):
Yet, only because it's it makes it so much, it
makes it much more difficult to kind of as sets it,
you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 7 (44:27):
Same with Oklahoma.

Speaker 2 (44:28):
Then yes, let's keep that for and let's keep them
in the Big twelve, keep the Big twelve intact, and
the PAC twelve intact almost like it's going into last year.
All right, Okay, all right, So let's go through. So
you say, Ohio State one.

Speaker 3 (44:49):
Yeah, I'm gonna stay Ohio State one. I'm I'm gonna
I'm gonna move it. I get three at this point,
so I'm gonna go Ohio State one for pageantry and experience.
I'm gonna go Nebraska to yeah, and then I'm gonna
I can't keep Michigan. Michigan is gonna they're gonna take
out Penn State. So I'm gonna take Michigan is three,

(45:09):
I'm gonna talk to Michigan is three. Penn State goes
to four. So yeah, that's it. I've thought about the
whole break. I think I've undervalued the big House. So
I'm going one Ohio State, two, Nebraska three, Michigan.

Speaker 2 (45:20):
Yeah, listen, I get it all The bahais only a freshman.
Jason Fence faster than lightning flashes. I love it, all right,
So you have those three ian all right, So Iowa
State we get ten points, Nebraska will get five, and

(45:40):
Michigan will get three. All right. Now let's go to one.
Mighty Mark oh here, he is a recruits from Chicago,
the South side of Chicago. He is a six foot one,
two hundred and twenty five pound safety. Hits like a

(46:02):
ton of bricks.

Speaker 8 (46:03):
And then Mark said, who are we talking about?

Speaker 9 (46:05):
Just kidding, all right, Mark, So just help me out
on Northwestern you know, okay in your backyard, Yeah, help
you out.

Speaker 2 (46:15):
What just the.

Speaker 8 (46:18):
Because it's been so crazy for the past few years
about who's in what conference and blah blah blah. I'm
gonna say, fighting a line for a school.

Speaker 2 (46:30):
Okay, Well then there you go. You know what, that's good.

Speaker 8 (46:34):
Champagne, Champagne Illinois.

Speaker 2 (46:36):
All right, let's go down to Champagne.

Speaker 4 (46:39):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (46:39):
Okay, Okay, all right, what else?

Speaker 2 (46:42):
Uh, let's see three number one?

Speaker 8 (46:46):
Okay, Ellen, Okay, So just the whole pageantry thing. I'm
gonna say, Iowa, Iowa.

Speaker 3 (46:56):
Wow.

Speaker 8 (46:57):
Their colors look like it's spark. So what am I saying?

Speaker 2 (47:02):
You're gonna go Iowa, I like it, celebrate and they
never score and they still fill that stadium every day.

Speaker 3 (47:10):
Like, give up one field goal in Iley, you're losing
a football game. So I appreciate the passion of that
fan base.

Speaker 2 (47:15):
Let's go, yeah, Kennick.

Speaker 8 (47:17):
And then I will go with the Irish the Golden Dome.

Speaker 2 (47:22):
Now, big Chen, big Chen, I mean you can have
you can have you know, Ohio State, Michigan, you're all
on the board.

Speaker 8 (47:32):
Then Michigan you can got Michigan.

Speaker 2 (47:35):
Yeah, all right, so Illinois your first choice? Yes, all right,
illinoiite And then he goes, okay, you got you got
it in, got it all right? Now what about you? Yeah?

Speaker 7 (47:51):
So my number one, I'm gonna I'm gonna go. I'm
gonna go with Michigan. Number one, I'm gonna go with Michigan.
I see crandall over here giving me the thumbs down.
He's a big Ohio State fan. But yeah, I love
ann Arbor. I think the town. It's just so cool
how the entire town centers around Michigan. I love that,

(48:11):
and the traditions of course. Number two, I am gonna
go with Iowa as well, with Mighty Mark there. Yeah,
it's the fits put it well, it's the fact that
that place is packed out, regardless of the fact that
their offense hasn't been good and I don't even know
how long, and and every week they're they're completely packed out.
So it just shows that the fan base they they

(48:33):
care about football. And then three, I'm gonna go with Wisconsin.
The jump around is such a cool, such a cool
uh tradition. Yeah, so I really I like that. I
like that. I'm gonna those are my three.

Speaker 2 (48:47):
All Right, all right, I'm gonna go number three, Michigan.
Number two. I go to about Braska Cats, and my
first choice would be the Nitney Lions of Penn State.

Speaker 3 (49:08):
All Right, a lot of dent stit there.

Speaker 2 (49:10):
Okay, Yeah, I'm gonna go Penn State. Listen. Part of
it's like also where you come from too, Like that
adds to it a little bit.

Speaker 3 (49:17):
So yeah, one hundred percent.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
I'll give my I'll give some love to Happy Valley.

Speaker 3 (49:23):
So can I give you my one? My one anti
Happy Valley? Is that? Like for anyone that's ever this
is such a first world complaint when you cover games
at Happy Valley, hotel rooms are impossible to find, so
like it's just it's impossible to get to. In fact,
when we went when I was with ESPN, they figured
out like at that point they were just like, hey,
we were flying to everything. We came day and they're like,

(49:45):
you know what, just drive. It's easier to drive. And
our hotel room was a solid hour and a half
out of the stadium. Because they don't decide where you're
going for game day until you know, a lot of
times Sunday and then you're talking about days away from
a huge rivery game. There was a hotel to be
found anywhere. If I was a recruit, I'd be concerned
about whether or not my family could get in and
get in easily. There's not a close airport, right, there's

(50:07):
not good hotels. These a first world complaints. But I'm
just you know, giving my money.

Speaker 2 (50:12):
I mean, dude, like that's all valid.

Speaker 7 (50:13):
Man, family is a big factor.

Speaker 2 (50:15):
That's a that is valid. And you're right about that.
I mean, they're the the airport. Now, you're such a
stud that you know you're you're you're gonna be flying private.

Speaker 3 (50:28):
Oh no, that's it. That's what if I got, if
I got the boosters flying me private.

Speaker 2 (50:32):
That is, you know, you're flying in a G five
like you're you're good or G six. Actually you're good,
all right, So you're you're you'll be you'll be fine.
But no, that is that is that is certainly a problem.
There are some issues, and it's true. And then you're
right about the hotels. All right, So you have the

(50:52):
Big ten? Do you have the consensus for the Big ten?

Speaker 3 (50:58):
Has shaven it little points?

Speaker 7 (51:01):
Shay has not been able to do the math quickly.
Shay's not here.

Speaker 3 (51:06):
Yet I talked to Shay yesterday. This is what happens. Ian.
You know, I guess it's my fault. I blame drugs.
You go ahead. So has Ian done the math?

Speaker 7 (51:14):
Ian has done the math. The consensus that Michigan is
the top, Nebraska is second, and Iowa is third.

Speaker 3 (51:22):
Oh, that's an upset for the ages. Upset for the ages.
My number one didn't even make the final list. Glory
be God?

Speaker 2 (51:29):
What Io Ohio state? The Ohio state is not on
the list.

Speaker 3 (51:37):
Who oh Man controversy has already his spicy barely an
hour two?

Speaker 2 (51:42):
Is that possible? A week? Iowa got how many points?

Speaker 7 (51:47):
Look it was Iowa got ten points. Ohio State, Yeah,
got ten as well, but was only on fits his list.
So I counted Nebraska as getting the edge.

Speaker 3 (52:04):
Wow or Iowa the t the tiebreaker? The tiebreaker went
because more people voted for Iowa. Wow. Wow. You know
what telling you?

Speaker 7 (52:14):
I guess we we didn't really come to a you.

Speaker 3 (52:17):
Know, democracy failed a general rule there.

Speaker 7 (52:19):
If we want to give the lean to to Ohio state,
I guess we could do that because it get a
first place vote.

Speaker 2 (52:25):
I like how you did it.

Speaker 3 (52:27):
Your consensus was the right way to do it more
people went for it. It's just it's you know, now
what we know what we need. We need an electoral
college coming in. So you so what was your popular vote?

Speaker 2 (52:37):
What was you? Was your three in order?

Speaker 7 (52:40):
Michigan was first, Nebraska was second, and Iowa was third.

Speaker 2 (52:48):
Okay, well what a second? And what was and what
was and what was marx mark.

Speaker 7 (52:57):
Marks three were Illinois, Iowa, and Michigan.

Speaker 2 (53:01):
So I would get to total of eight points.

Speaker 7 (53:04):
Iowa was my second as well, so they got ten,
just said it third?

Speaker 2 (53:07):
Okay, no, no, I all right, right, you was your second.
I thought it was your third.

Speaker 7 (53:12):
Yeah, Madison was my third. Wisconsin.

Speaker 2 (53:15):
Oh wow, look at that. Look at Iowa coming in.
How about that.

Speaker 3 (53:22):
Dude, I mean, fix a little stunt. I'm a little stunned. Uh,
you know, i was a great environment though, Like I'm
not taking anything away from Iowa. It's just you know, Iowa.

Speaker 2 (53:35):
At home, that's you know, that's have you were you
guys there? Uh?

Speaker 3 (53:39):
Game day went to Ames for Iowa State. But I've
been to I've been to Iowa a budget like country
music in Iowa are synonymous. Like I'll never forget when
we were going to Ames for Iowa State, for the
Iowa Iowas take game. It was funny because the first
thing Game Day had never been there. They were like,
what do you even do in Ames? And I looked around.
I'm like, oh, man, like I know where the chilis
is and there's a couple of bars right down the road,

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like I've been to those places. A bunch country music
in Iowa, one and the same. So yeah, I got
a lot of love for Iowa.

Speaker 8 (54:06):
In fact, I'm going to jump in, please go ahead, Mark,
since I don't know the conferences the way you guys
know them, I'm going to change my vote and go
with Ohio State. My sisters are born in Ohio, so
I'm going to go take out Iowa.

Speaker 3 (54:24):
It's too late to turn back now, elections done. You
can't recount the votes.

Speaker 8 (54:29):
Too late to turn back now.

Speaker 2 (54:30):
Yeah, it's too late, Marky, you can't do it.

Speaker 8 (54:33):
Got it to turn back now, got it?

Speaker 2 (54:36):
Yeah, it's too late. Otherwise you know we're running a
you know, fugazy, fugazy election here.

Speaker 3 (54:43):
Yeah, I can't do that. Votes are in, the votes
have to be counted. We can't we can't fix the election.
We can't recount the whole thing. It's just going to
be the way it's going to be.

Speaker 2 (54:52):
I think, you know, listen, High States Ohio State, right,
you know, we all know nobody needs to argue for
our state. We understand, But listen, this is why you
play the games.

Speaker 3 (55:02):
This is really what I've learned through this exercise of
only one conferences. I feel for whoever's going to be
monitoring the Fox Sports radio Twitter handle, because we're gonna
get killed for leaving Ohio State off. And I love it.

Speaker 2 (55:16):
I mean, it's funny because Nebraska adds something to it,
don't you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (55:23):
Look, I don't think I've ever experienced a more surprising
college football environment than Nebraska. I didn't know what to expect,
I'll be honest, and I remember walking out of our
hotel and then just seeing everybody flock to the stadium
and thinking like what is this? Because it truly was
a whole city where all the businesses were not doing business.

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They were just open as a community tailgate to get
everybody into the stadium. I've never seen anything like it.
And look, it was a game where Nebraska got absolutely crushed.
They got killed in the game, and it still didn't matter,
and the fourth quarter of that crowd was still going.
It was just it was different, man, it was. It
was a wildly different vibe. So I'm with you. I

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want to I really want Now. Obviously I'm selfish because
of rule, but I want them to turn around. I
think they're good for college football.

Speaker 2 (56:17):
I think it's good for college football when they're good
and competitive.

Speaker 3 (56:22):
I agree, I agree in an nil world. I hope
their collective gets it together because I don't. I don't
know how you can, as a kid go to that
environment and not think, yeah, this is actually pretty damn cool.

Speaker 2 (56:34):
Right, Oh my god, it's just got everything about it
there really is, all right, So let's move on to
the packed twelve. So there's something interesting, all right. So
now the pack twelve, FITZI, you're gonna take your skills

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out the West and when the Pac twelve still exists.

Speaker 3 (57:01):
Right right? Uh? I mean that's so Oregon is number
number one on this one, right, Like we we could
all agree with that, like I think, I okay, okay, okay, no,
like we've got.

Speaker 2 (57:15):
Kind not by not by a log shot?

Speaker 4 (57:18):
Wow, okay.

Speaker 3 (57:19):
Uh. If I'm I would say Oregon is one for me,
I'm gonna say Washington.

Speaker 4 (57:27):
No, Utah is too. Washington is three.

Speaker 3 (57:30):
That's how wo Oregon Utah, Washington, that'd be my thought.

Speaker 2 (57:35):
Oregon Utah. I mean again, I said at C and
u C. L A are still with the PAC twelve.

Speaker 3 (57:44):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think both of those environments are
highly overrated. Like usc is is us is my number
one by a far really Like yeah, Trojan bro, the
city of l A is not clamoring for us C.
Like there's not the same. Like you walk up and
down the streets in Oregon and you are a rock

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god if you play on that football team. Utah is
electric like that those games. The stadium rumbles, the coliseum
is fine.

Speaker 1 (58:15):
I don't know about that.

Speaker 2 (58:16):
Listen. I agree with you that you're you know, you're
talking about small ponds. So yeah, you know you're you're
walking around flexing. But to be a Trojan.

Speaker 3 (58:29):
Dude, like the first the first time you walk into
the Oregon training facilities that are all paid for by Nike,
You're like, oh my god, this like this is just
when we were touring. We hit that locker room when
we were touring and theres a grown man. I was like,
oh my god, this is the coolest thing I've ever seen.
I can't imagine agree the kid going to that. Oh yeah,

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I'm strong on Oregon is number one, and I am
very contulled by Mikey.

Speaker 2 (58:57):
I get it. Like Mike, you brought you, I understand. Listen,
it's sexy, man, it's the uties, the whole thing, like
you know, the O Like, there's someth cool about the
Oregon's got a high cool factor. He went out of
with out of doubt, without of doubt. But come on, Trojans,

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where the tropan usc yon Southern yawn so us.

Speaker 7 (59:31):
That's a black blood program fits. It's a blue blood
program and all the legends that have played for it
to be counted hollowd.

Speaker 3 (59:38):
But we're talking about the pageantry what what like in
l A, Who's stop right.

Speaker 2 (59:45):
You've you've covered I'm sure you've covered many usc games.

Speaker 3 (59:50):
There's all kinds of pageantry. It's the ViBe's fine, Like
the Rosebull is amazing. The vibe around the usc is
is fine.

Speaker 7 (59:59):
L A is here huge too. That's something else you
need to consider. It's like, yeah, you don't see the
entire city flocking like you do in Nebraska. But but
you're not going to see.

Speaker 2 (01:00:08):
Quarter back in the court, Like, if you're a quarterback, right,
and yeah, listen if my Masmo turned out to be
a quarterback, I mean quarterback in USC, You're you're a
king of l A. If you're if you're great, how
about it, Ian, If you're great, you're the king.

Speaker 7 (01:00:29):
Of la Absolutely, Caleb Williams, I'm sure every weekend must
have been living it up.

Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:00:35):
Come look, we're talking about Matt was a god. Yeah,
we're talking about walking around on the beach. We're not
talking about like the same vibe as what we're talking
about for these college football towns. L A is just
not a great college football town. I stand by that.

Speaker 2 (01:00:51):
It's the only major city where college football is still
the number is greater than the NFL.

Speaker 3 (01:00:58):
Well, I mean that's not saying much considering the rams
in the charts look compared to the atmosphere, Like USC
doesn't even belong in the same conversation atmosphere wise as
Ohio State or Nebraska or Michigan or Oregon.

Speaker 2 (01:01:12):
You just your flush it.

Speaker 4 (01:01:14):
I don't flush the drug. I don't care.

Speaker 3 (01:01:17):
I don't care about as a kid, I care about
I care about the experience right now, I don't care.
I don't care about who played there in the sixties.
Who cares?

Speaker 2 (01:01:25):
All right, all right, well we'll come back. We're knee
deep in the fact twelve what used to be the Fellas,
hang it out right here Fox Sports Radio. So what mean,
Nikki says FITZI pooping all over USC three thirty Eastern

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always USC prime time total pageantry.

Speaker 4 (01:01:58):
Hmm hmmm.

Speaker 3 (01:02:01):
We buy that.

Speaker 4 (01:02:02):
Like you're telling me that you think you think you're
you're telling.

Speaker 3 (01:02:06):
Me you think that the atmosphere around USC football on
a Saturday, in the stadium, before the stadium, after the game, I.

Speaker 2 (01:02:16):
Mean in the stadium. Yes, I'm the stadium is awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:02:20):
I have not. For me, I have not felt that
energy in that stadium compared to what we see at Oregon. Like,
Oregon to me is a much more It's a louder,
more energetic, more oh my god stadium to.

Speaker 2 (01:02:33):
Me, Okay, I'm not going to dispute that. I mean,
I do think Oregon in stadium. I'll give you some octaves.
But as far as like you know, pageantry and history
and what the trojan means.

Speaker 3 (01:02:54):
See this is I do like when we talk about
what the trojan means I don't really care about who
played twenty years ago for the program.

Speaker 2 (01:03:03):
I a part of the tradition of what it means
to put on that helmet. I mean, first of all,
go into a school. If you're a great player, you're
a great recruit, you want to put the helmet on
the same helmet as the legends of the past.

Speaker 3 (01:03:23):
Do you do you think the modern Do you think
the modern recruit? Right now? That's it's you know.

Speaker 2 (01:03:28):
I don't know. I don't know. I'm not seven feve
years old, so I can't I can't answer that answer
that question.

Speaker 3 (01:03:33):
Yeah, but I mean in this, in this exercise, I'm
thinking they're like I walk into you.

Speaker 2 (01:03:38):
I'm thinking to you, you're you as you as Jason Fits.

Speaker 10 (01:03:43):
You know, you just happen to be this, you know,
ridiculous four one five speed on the outside.

Speaker 7 (01:03:55):
Yeah, you're specifically a receiver to usc IS. It's one
of the schools considered wide receiver.

Speaker 3 (01:04:01):
You. This is no doubt, no doubt. But we were
told not to factor in the coaches, so I'm not
I'm not thinking about where I'm gonna go to have
success in the league. I'm talking just about the pageantry
of game day experiences.

Speaker 2 (01:04:12):
And like, but come on, part of that is with
the with the logo means yeah, I absolutely you were
to tell me to look that that trojan doesn't mean anything.
That color does it mean anything.

Speaker 3 (01:04:27):
On my list? It like for me personally, that would
be like sixth or seventh on the list.

Speaker 2 (01:04:32):
Listen, that's fine, that's fair. You know, again, this is
all a very personal exercise. I mean, you know, when
I'm in Rolf is watching college football, don't you love
the football? He's watching USC, notre Day, you know, come on, bro,
I mean that's means something I'm in Rolf is all

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about saw the Califoard. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:04:55):
I feel like if I'm watching, like the matchups and
the rivalries, right, us see the brand far better than
the other brands, and we care more about it. But
if I'm sitting down and it's a PAC twelve after
dark game and I got the choice of watching Oregon
at USC or USC at Oregon, I'd rather go USC
at Oregon. I think that that.

Speaker 2 (01:05:15):
Yeah, but you're also USC at Washington greater than Washington
at US at Oregon.

Speaker 3 (01:05:25):
USC at Washington, Yeah, at USC USC. I mean we're
not talking about which brands we prefer the best, Like
I get the USC program. I mean, but I'm talking
about I mean, if if brands are a part of it,

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then how can I rightfully in the last conference.

Speaker 2 (01:05:48):
It's all about how you. It's all about how you,
how you put the blender.

Speaker 4 (01:05:54):
Yeah, we.

Speaker 3 (01:05:57):
Didn't blend in Ohio State, and we took Iowa over
Ohio State.

Speaker 2 (01:06:01):
I'd be listening. Mighty Mark's taking Illinois. I don't know
what's his preference. I mean, he's taking Illinois.

Speaker 3 (01:06:09):
US sees a USC is a fine college football environment.
It's really nice. It is not elite to me.

Speaker 2 (01:06:15):
All right, Well, listen, you have spoken. You go once
again your top three.

Speaker 4 (01:06:21):
Oregon, Washington, Utah.

Speaker 2 (01:06:25):
Utah, Hutah, Utah.

Speaker 3 (01:06:29):
Ryan. That's a mighty mark right there. That's a mighty Mark.
He's going, all right, Utah home field advantages.

Speaker 8 (01:06:35):
Why yayata.

Speaker 3 (01:06:39):
I'm deeply offending. The crew of this show is in
l A.

Speaker 4 (01:06:43):
I get it, I get it, I get it.

Speaker 2 (01:06:45):
All right, Uh, mighty Mark, give me your three, baby.

Speaker 8 (01:06:51):
So I looked at the list because I don't know
folks in conferences. So I'm gonna go USC, Stanford and
then Washington.

Speaker 2 (01:06:59):
That's good. That's good. Stanford. Huh, Stanford is interesting. Uh.

Speaker 8 (01:07:07):
Well, the few times that I went to a U
SEE game and I saw the colors of the and
the tree on the on their health.

Speaker 2 (01:07:15):
You like the tree, Yeah, I like the tree. All right,
it's a good tree. All right, all right, there you go.
Stanford is two. And who's your third? Washington? Yes you dubbed?
All right, that's good stuff, all right? And who you got?

Speaker 7 (01:07:33):
I got USC first. It's my my alma mater. Have
to go with it, so bias, I guess. But uh
then Oregon two and Washington three.

Speaker 2 (01:07:45):
That's fair.

Speaker 7 (01:07:46):
Yeah, Seattle's a great city. I think Washington has to
be on there.

Speaker 2 (01:07:49):
I agree. I went to uh USC one, Washington two
in honor of a big Lincoln Kennedy right tackle, and
number three. I gotta give some love to the powder
blue and U C l A.

Speaker 3 (01:08:09):
And I purposely a seven people in that stadium when
they play.

Speaker 2 (01:08:12):
There's purposely. I purposely didn't put the Oregon there just fit.

Speaker 3 (01:08:17):
Just to cost me points. He cost me points in
the final, like all you know.

Speaker 2 (01:08:22):
What, Actually I would have remembered CLA. You're right, it's
a shame. It's dried up. It was. It was a
historical program. But instead I will go with Oregon State.

Speaker 4 (01:08:35):
Okay, four balls.

Speaker 3 (01:08:38):
The great thing about UCLA is I can proudly, loudly
say on air, hey, guess what u c LA fans,
your football team stinks in your environment, stinks. And I
can say that and not have to worry about looking
at Twitter for the rest of the day because there's
only like two fans and they aren't gonna blow me up. Yes, yes,
both u c LA fans are really angry at me
right now. U CLA football used to matter. It's a joke.

(01:09:05):
Now I'm done on ucl That's all I have to
say about UCLA.

Speaker 2 (01:09:10):
It is a shame though, for what it was. Now
if we're talking basketball, you.

Speaker 4 (01:09:15):
Know, much different story, right.

Speaker 2 (01:09:18):
You know, it is amazing the two LA schools have
one owns football, the other owns basketball.

Speaker 3 (01:09:24):
Absolutely, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:09:25):
You know, I will say this underrated. Both Corvalis and
Pullman both underrated.

Speaker 3 (01:09:37):
You know. And you mentioned college basketball. I think it's
kind of shocking we haven't heard anything about the possibility
of a college basketball video game like that just shows
you where the state of college basketball is. They put
all these resources into a college football game because the
lawsuits have been settled and they can now do college games.
Have we heard anything about the release of a college

(01:09:58):
basketball video game? It just feels like the level of
interest in that sport is just such a hard thing
to wrap your mind around. Because it is.

Speaker 2 (01:10:08):
But I gotta believe the nil stuff and where it's going.
I gotta believe that that's going to do well. I
think college basketball will have a renaissance.

Speaker 3 (01:10:18):
I hope so, and that basically not not being.

Speaker 2 (01:10:24):
Yeah, that's g Leak's for bogus, right, like stop what
the G league? You know, I'm with you. I think
it had some sort of renaissance because I think now
with kids being paid, they're gonna want to say they're
gonna stay a little bit. I think you'll see that
at least I'm hoping that has that kind of impact.

(01:10:45):
I agree. All right, let's go to the Big twelve.
How about we go? Well, first of all, who won
the Pac twelve? Did you do the Matthean?

Speaker 7 (01:10:58):
Yeah, so USC came out on top, Washington was second,
and Oregon was third.

Speaker 2 (01:11:04):
There do you go, how do you feel Fitz's getting slighted? Well,
they didn't make the cut and Oregon comes in third.

Speaker 3 (01:11:15):
This is this is a travesty. What's happening right now.

Speaker 4 (01:11:17):
It's a travesty.

Speaker 3 (01:11:21):
Right now. I do not support what is happening right now.
This is this is an absolute travesty. I I want
to speak to the manager. I am going to find
a Karen and I'm going to complain. I'm leaving a
Yelp review like this is not this is not going well, Yelp.

Speaker 7 (01:11:36):
What's more infuriating the fact that Oregon's third or USC's first.

Speaker 4 (01:11:41):
Uh, the USC's first.

Speaker 3 (01:11:43):
That an atmosphere that wouldn't even make the list for
most conferences was first because of you, Homer's.

Speaker 7 (01:11:51):
You're putting a lot of sock in the atmosphere? Is
that like the whole thing to you?

Speaker 4 (01:11:55):
Well, I mean no, to me. When we talk about pageantry,
this is what I think of.

Speaker 3 (01:11:59):
I think about day, and I think about what it's
like when you go to some of these places and
you tailgate the day before and you see some of
these campuses, Like I'll never forget what it was like
to be on LSU's campus the night before game day.
Was there and there were people already camped out outside
because they wanted to see the game day experience, and
they were there at five in the afternoon on Friday

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because college football is life and they don't care about school.
They care about college football, right, And I think about
getting up at three in the morning and walking through
that whole crowd and just seeing what that environment and
atmosphere is like spending the day hanging out with people
before the game, and then you walk into the stadium
and you can feel the thump and you can feel
the role, and you can feel all of the energy

(01:12:40):
in the crowd, and then you watch this amazing game
where everybody's just going nuts, and after the game they
pour out into the streets and the party continues because
all that mattered in that day was that LSU was
taking on any football team. And that's what I think pageantry.
I think about passion that runs for forty eight hours
around a game, where you know, all week it's been

(01:13:01):
people making signs and people getting ready and people wanting
that electric moment. And while I think at Huntingdon Beach
is beautiful, I don't think of la A as as
that sort of a college football town. Like people aren't
quitting whatever they have to do Thursday so they can
line up and stand somewhere just so that they can
be part of a college football atmosphere around big noon

(01:13:22):
on a Saturday afternoon, because they want to be there
for college football.

Speaker 4 (01:13:27):
Like, that's what I think of for pageantry.

Speaker 7 (01:13:29):
Why you got to be so good with words?

Speaker 2 (01:13:31):
That's equinn. I'm like, I gotta tell you, I'm sitting
there riveted listening to you.

Speaker 4 (01:13:38):
Oh Man, well thank you. That's that's tough cop, you know, I.

Speaker 2 (01:13:41):
Mean, I gotta. I mean, it's just absolutely beautiful, beautiful.
I mean, I agree with I love what you said.
I just have to add I I put the logo,
like the logo means something, the tradition means something. Who
wore the helmet matters to me? It just does, you know,
not like if I if I get if I say,

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off the top of my head, I can rattle off
ten great USC players in Oregon. It's just a little
tougher because of you know, it's comparison, and I think
that means something.

Speaker 3 (01:14:17):
And that's honestly, that's really fair.

Speaker 2 (01:14:19):
Cauz.

Speaker 3 (01:14:19):
And like because I don't as a person, I don't
necessarily stop so much and say, okay, what does this
mean historically? Right? Like I think to your point, it's
a really powerful thing for you, and I think it
speaks to who you are. And one of the beautiful
things I love about you know how much you value
you know, family and history and roots and all of
those things. As somebody that didn't grow up with a

(01:14:41):
lot of that, I don't think I value his.

Speaker 2 (01:14:43):
It's a great point, like and think about it. It's
it goes just to show you, right, like you spent
formal years, if informative years in Vegas and in Nashville,
and like take hockey right like I would. If I
think hockey, I think of Montreal or Toronto or Chicago

(01:15:04):
or New York. Right, you're gonna go. I got you know,
Vegas and I got Nashville, and you're both great for
different reasons. So it it stands the reason it's a
good conversation. I'm loving this stuff and it gives us
a way to talk about college football in a big
way where the fella is hanging out. That's right right here,

(01:15:25):
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(01:16:08):
out soon, a couple of days away.

Speaker 3 (01:16:11):
Basically get the fields too, But brother, we just miss
it right now. We're in our fields.

Speaker 2 (01:16:17):
Yeah, it's totally right. You know listen. I mean, it's
great all Star game and you know baseball MLB, but
let's like, you're right on, man, it's football. It's it's
about that time. It's about the time we have that
deep longing for it. So it's uh so we're diving

(01:16:37):
into it, all right, We're gonna dive into how about
some Big twelve. Now, this is Big twelve last year,
all right, not this year. It's the Big twelve Oklahoma Texas.
All right. You can well imagine you can look at
nothing like Chexas football Fizie, You're being You're the hot recruit.

(01:17:02):
They're knocking on your door, checking you text messages, blowing
off your Instagraham where you had ite.

Speaker 3 (01:17:12):
I mean, honestly, this is the first said this for me.
It's a real flip of the coin. I spent the
whole break trying to decide whether it was Texas or
Oklahoma as the top environment experience. I'll go with Texas,
but it literally was a flip of the coin for me.
So Texas is one, Oklahoma is two. It gets really

(01:17:33):
tough to pick three at this point because you could
make a case for Oklahoma State, but I just gotta
go West Virginia. There's something I'll admit a little bias here.
We've been trying to admit our biases for this whole process.
One of the coolest tours I was ever on was
Brad Paisley's tour when we were with the Vamperio and
we were on with Brad, and Brad's the biggest West

(01:17:54):
Virginia fan you'll ever meet in your life. So maybe
I saw too much of it at that point, but man,
you just really you feel how much it means in
that community. How much it means those game days mean
on those Saturdays. It's tight for me. This is I
don't think that any of these would necessarily be as
highly ranked, including Texas in some of the other lists

(01:18:15):
that we've had. But I go Texas one, Oklahoma two,
West Virginia three.

Speaker 2 (01:18:22):
That's great stuff. Listen, Morgantown when they're good, it's awesome,
right like when West Virginia like they don't want a
Thursday night. Oh my god, you know those West Virginia
Morgantown has got a lot of that's good football right there.

(01:18:43):
It's good football, it's good pageantry, it's exciting. I listen.
I agree. They would be my three, not in that order,
but they would be in my three. All right, let's
go to Mighty Mark, Mighty Mark, Big twelve. Where you're going,
I'm gonna say.

Speaker 8 (01:19:03):
Oklahoma, Kansas and in Baylor, Oh.

Speaker 3 (01:19:08):
Shout out to Buddy Lance light Poles. I've I almost
put Kansas on there at home.

Speaker 2 (01:19:12):
By the way. Great environment, Kansas, Kansas football, great environment.
Not at that logo basketball school.

Speaker 8 (01:19:18):
But bird logo too. That's what I'm going for.

Speaker 2 (01:19:20):
Well, you're rock Chalk Jayhawk. Actually, you know, I can
see you being a Jayhawk. I can see Mighty Mark
coming from the great state of Illinois and going out
to Kansas to becoming Jayhawk Son. That's fantastic, all right,
Ian the stud right, he's just study the end from

(01:19:44):
southern California, all right, six foot four and a half,
two hundred and fifty five pounds of steel.

Speaker 7 (01:19:58):
We're taking my talents to Aton, Texas. That's that's easy
number one for me. And I like a personal anecdote.
My girlfriend's from Austin. She's taken me to games before.
It is incredible. Like one hundred thousand people in that stadium.
One half of the stadium Texas, the other half fight.
It's incredible.

Speaker 2 (01:20:16):
That's pretty awesome.

Speaker 7 (01:20:17):
Just went to the SEC celebration. It's packed and it's
the middle of summer. It's crazy. So Texas won. I'm
gonna say owe you two only because it's just so clearly. Yeah,
and then third West, be right back.

Speaker 2 (01:20:30):
A lot more stuff fellas Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (01:20:34):
You don't listening to Fox Sports Radio radio.

Speaker 2 (01:20:37):
Ah, good morning.

Speaker 11 (01:20:41):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:20:41):
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all right. So case you're just you tuning into us,
we're honoring the college football video game and uh, all

(01:21:23):
of that. We're talking about all of college football, the conferences,
the schools, the pageantry of it all. Now, I was
off of a conversation with my nephew at the Fourth
July barbecue. He wants to go to college at a
big football school. He is a He's heading into his

(01:21:45):
senior year in high school and he's like, uncle, Aam,
I just want to go to a big college football
school and I want to go vibe in the in
the whole thing. So we had all these schools and
so all of that. I'm making all of our crew here,
the Great Jason Fits, the Mighty mock are head of production,

(01:22:09):
and our producer, the Fine Ian. I'm making them all
like top recruits. So we're all recruits. We all get
recruited we can choose where we want to go. And
we're looking at obviously the pageantry, the gained an experience,
what the logo means, right like, it's all that is

(01:22:29):
going to go into our choice. Now. It's not about coaches,
because coaches come and go. It's just about what the
vibes like, what the scene is like, what the history
is like. It's why we love college football. It's well,
we can't wait for this game to come out, right,
There's something unique about how we celebrate football in each

(01:22:51):
nook and cranny of this country. In so many ways,
football is the culture, right like the culture comes true
through football. Football is the conduit. Right. When I say culture,
I mean food, celebration, dress, damn party and uh like
all all the all the traditions, that's all the culture

(01:23:15):
and our culture. And FITZI you you've had the uh
what a great experience being part of game day, to
experience the different the culture and all these vast parts
of the country.

Speaker 3 (01:23:32):
It's one of the reasons I think you're even even
aside from being a top recruit. Your nephew's concept. If
I want to go somewhere that has a great football
sort of school mindset, I think the reason some people
feel that way is that it sticks with you forever.
You know, I've got friends who went to Michigan I've
got friends who went to Michigan State. If you think
about what their life means on Saturday, like there is

(01:23:55):
an element of bond that you have forever. In random cities,
if you walk around with somebody that went to Michigan
State and they see a tea shirt, they scream go green.
No matter how old they are, no matter where they
are in the world, they scream go green. And somebody
screams go white. You know, like there are these moments
of there's a bond that happens through college football and
college basketball that really creates this lifelong I didn't just

(01:24:18):
go to this school.

Speaker 4 (01:24:19):
I became part of something and it.

Speaker 3 (01:24:21):
Really hits And when you go to some of these
environments on Saturdays, you feel that. Look, none of us
believe right now that Nebraska is a top college football
program on the field, right They've got work to do
to get to where they want to be. That doesn't
mean that it's not still a bonding, lifelong experience just
being part of a game at Nebraska, and that's what

(01:24:41):
you really feel when you go to these games in person.
That's part of why I think the magic at college
football on Saturdays is just looking at how passionate the
kids are. Because those passionate students become passionate adults become
passionate and alumni and it sticks with generations just from
attending these games. It truly is special. The SEC coined it,

(01:25:01):
and people roll their eyes at it. But there are
certain programs where it just means more.

Speaker 2 (01:25:06):
Yes, it just means more. There is you're so spot
on a bit. I think it's cleaving to something that
if you want to be a party to go to
that school, you now become a part of that. Right.
It's funny he said, I'll go, Ah, I don't know
who to root for this year. He's like, this'll be

(01:25:27):
my last year. He said to not have a team
because once I go to pick my school, that'll be
my team. I thought that was pretty awesome that he
said that. I went, dude, I'm proud of you, Like
I get that, Like I you know, I don't have
a college team and I went to Temple right, and
you know it's why I'm I'm a half a Nebraska

(01:25:50):
fan because of Matt Ruhle, he resuscitated temple for a
brief period of time, and then you know, I I
was a awesome experience. You know what that's like, FITZI.

Speaker 3 (01:26:05):
Yeah, well, And look, the part of the reason I
love covering college football is I also don't have a
favorite team. I don't care who wins and loses. I
just love watching the game. And there's just something beautiful
about seeing the relationship that college football has with their fans.
And look, I'll never forget the first time, my first
Saturday in Nashville, and growing up on the West coast

(01:26:25):
in Vegas, college football wasn't a big deal. And even
when I moved around as a kid to the East
coast college I didn't live anywhere where college football was
truly a big deal. I moved to Nashville, I walked
into a bar on a Saturday, and I just moved here.
And I was like, all right, let's see what everybody's
freaking out about. And I wore a red shirt, not
realizing that it was you know whatever, or Saturday in
October and I was walking in to an Alabama I

(01:26:47):
was one foot in the door. It's the peak peak
Peyton Manning Area Era. I was one foot in the
door and I had a beer thrown in my face
by a complete random stranger that then just started mother
f and me the whole way through because they thought
I was a Bama fan walking into a Tennessee bar
and I was like, Okay, this is different than I expected.

Speaker 4 (01:27:05):
And dude, you really feel this place is made you
feel it.

Speaker 3 (01:27:09):
It just it means everything to certain places, and inly
like the cities that didn't grow up with professional sports.
Like you know, if you grew up in Bama, you
didn't have a pro team as a kid. Grew up
in Nashville, you didn't have a pro team as you
get and Vandy was never good. So everybody hears, like
the reason the balls are so important in Nashville is
because you have so many people that you know, my

(01:27:31):
grandfather was a balls fan and my great grandfather is
a balls fan. It's just it's passed down from generation
to generation and it really hits like that's part of
the allure of this video game is that you were
gonna have father son combos everywhere playing it because they
watched these games together on Saturdays.

Speaker 2 (01:27:48):
Dude, you're so so spotty, and it was funny. You
and I were kidred spirits in many ways. So my
love of college football fostered similarly in Knoxville. Right in
Tennessee was I was one assignment for the New York Posts,

(01:28:08):
and I spent I had an idea. I was like,
I want to go to class with Peyton Manning. So
they're like, ohay, go down and see if you can
do what you can do. So I go to Knoxville
cent it all up and I get to go to
class with Peyton, who was to this day one of
my favorite people, like an incredible dude, Like he was

(01:28:32):
so such like when he was in college. And this
d was the ultimate you know bmoc right like he
was in and just down the earth and affable. And
I spent like, I don't know, almost two weeks time
there going to class and then going to the game

(01:28:52):
and you know, just taking in the vibe and writing
all about it. And I fell in love with Colle's
man Like I just I loved it, man, I just
like I couldn't wait. I got to go shit with
Bobby Balladen. I got to go all throughout the Notre Dame.
Bob Davey was a code's like all these things like
that you did with the ESPN I got to do

(01:29:14):
when I was in New York, And like, you know,
there's something about these about these towns that it just
matters more. And it's like the congregation of it of
these people is awesome, like the Gator Pit and then
Baton Rouge and all these mythical places. Right, Like you
could name all the college towns right, like if I go,

(01:29:38):
we were just talking about it, right, Oregon State is Corvalis, right,
Like would anybody know of Corvallis fitsy if not for
Oregon State?

Speaker 3 (01:29:48):
Oh god no, no, got no, Like you're right that
it's it's just certain towns. It's such a takeover, you know,
and and it becomes such a launching pad for or
how people perceive an entire area, an entire region, right
Like when when football is great in a certain area,
it just gets more attention. And that's that's real because

(01:30:11):
Saturday is so much of the conversation is around it,
and then areas get to shine, whether it's the atmosphere
or the food.

Speaker 4 (01:30:19):
Like there's so many stories to.

Speaker 3 (01:30:20):
Tell about college football that it truly lets regions shine
in cities shine that otherwise wouldn't.

Speaker 4 (01:30:26):
Even be on the map.

Speaker 3 (01:30:27):
Like, how many people in the world really even understand
where Knoxville, Tennessee is. People oftentimes are surprised to find
out it's as far from Nashville as it is, because
you know, you think they're assistance. Yeah, it's like it
takes a good solid three and a half hours to
drive the shadows.

Speaker 2 (01:30:43):
Of the Smoky Mountains.

Speaker 3 (01:30:45):
It's but how many people would even know what Knoxville
is if it wasn't for you know, frankly Tennessee football.

Speaker 2 (01:30:52):
Yeah, yeah, no, it's it's it's great. Like we're talking
at Big twelve and you know, I mean Austincky. How
about like like Norman, Oklahoma. I mean, what a what
an incredible place to watch football? Boomer Sooner, Like, it's

(01:31:14):
it's incredible, man, it really is. I got my buddy
on Twitter, uh Curtis Oklahoma seven national championships in football
and uh, you know it's funny like he's fired up
over to the SCC and the whole thing. It's such

(01:31:36):
a great moverm it's so cool, like to be a
part of something like Curtis is a part of you
know what it is in Oklahoma? You know, and there's
a thing there. So all right, so let's recap the
big twelve you you have.

Speaker 3 (01:31:52):
I went Texas, won Oklahoma two, and then I went
West Virginia three.

Speaker 2 (01:31:58):
Great choice, great choice, mighty mark, you went, you got, you.

Speaker 8 (01:32:07):
Went Oklahoma, Kansas and then Baylor.

Speaker 4 (01:32:11):
All right, Baylor, small stadium.

Speaker 3 (01:32:13):
But they did a really nice job with it, like
they did a very boutique, nice smaller stadium that was
really cool. It's a really cool experience down there.

Speaker 7 (01:32:22):
Yeah, all right, Ian, I got Texas one, o U
two in West Virginia three.

Speaker 2 (01:32:31):
Very good, very good. I'll go Oklahoma one. It's close, man,
it's close. Something about the something about Norman. It's just
a I give just a look that Sooner red you know,
I mean I love the horns too, though it's it's
one a you know again, four uts that don't have

(01:32:54):
that aren't down there because it's a blood rival. It's
the Red River blood rival, right, but you know, both
of those schools are so attractive. So you know, I'll
just give you Oklahoma, Texas and in West Virginia. So
you could you could do the math on that one.
But there is there's something that there's something about that,

(01:33:18):
you know what I mean, Like, there's there's nothing there's
something that's so cool, so alluring about those schools when
you were in when you were with Game Day, did
you do a lot of the food stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:33:30):
Too, Oh yeah, Like that was one thing I did
on a lot of our shows, is like I would
go eat somewhere and we would film it and put
it out, you know, on socials and everything where it's like,
all right, let's just try the sandwiches, Let's try the
local place, Let's try and get the local flair, you know,
and it's I think that's one of the coolest things
you can do in each of these cities, the opportunity
to eat that food. And you know, it's a little

(01:33:51):
bit of a callback in some of these cities because
if you' you know, if you're talking about Texas, you're
talking about Oklahoma, you're also talking about state fairs. I
played in country music, right, so I've already eat my
way through half of these places anyway, but to do
it again around college football is incredible. The tailgating in general,
Like we you know, every time I watch a show,
a TV show with kids that can cook, I'm always

(01:34:12):
amazed by you know, ten year old out here making
something I've never even heard of. But I do think
we sometimes sleep on how you know, how restaurant worthy.
So much tailgating has gotten like it's not what it
was when we were kids, where it was like, all right,
somebody sets up a grill and like you just got
a couple of samfifs or whatever. Yeah, it's like now,
all of a sudden, you got people that are making
like meals and it's it's incredible what they do at

(01:34:35):
some of these stadiums on a Saturday. It's an all
week endeavor just to get ready.

Speaker 2 (01:34:39):
Oh yeah, no, it's it's it's incredible, you're right. I
mean it's a display of a culinary display of what
they do. It's it's pretty awesome. I always wanted to
write a book about the different nuance of like football,
how we how we love football and American and each

(01:35:03):
of the different kind of corners the nooks and crannies
of the country and which includes the tale you know,
the food.

Speaker 11 (01:35:12):
The.

Speaker 2 (01:35:14):
Football and the food you know together it's so American,
you know, but in a typical American fashion, we celebrate
it with different melting plot pot of flair, right like
to you go to Italy and while there's whatever it is,

(01:35:35):
twenty one regions, you know, a little varies from north
to south, and you know, little nuances like North cooks
with butter, South cooks with olive oil. But in the
end it's still the Italian culture, right, same thing in
you know, Spain, and even though within Spain it marries,

(01:35:55):
there's nothing that varies more than the United States. We
are a true melting pot, right, So we are so vast,
you know, we are so much bigger than the European
countries that we have such uniqueness in how we celebrate
something that is important to us, like football.

Speaker 7 (01:36:17):
The European mind cannot comprehend how big college football is
in America. Like, I think it's so cool, how blown
away they are when they hear about how into college
sports we are. Like, to them, it's like, oh, you
watch kids PLAYEPA play sports, you watch students play sports.
But to us, it's like, yeah, that's like the biggest

(01:36:38):
sport here besides NFL.

Speaker 2 (01:36:40):
Yeah yeah, yeah, Well because they're they're playing professional at sixteen,
seventeen years old, right, you know, Luca is seventeen years
old thrown against thirty year olds playing basketball, right, the
professional leagues, So that's you know, they don't have that,
they don't have the system kind of that we do.

(01:37:02):
All right, so let's dive.

Speaker 7 (01:37:03):
Into let's do a c C playing on the results
for Big twelve. Yes, yes, so OU was first, Texas
was second, and then West Virginia was third. But obviously
there was a big gap between those first two in
West Virginia.

Speaker 3 (01:37:19):
I would just like to point out that my streak continues.
Whatever I vote for is number one does not survive.
That's just it just doesn't make it through, doesn't make
it through. It's fine.

Speaker 7 (01:37:28):
Well, I thought you had the same as FITZI you
had Texas.

Speaker 3 (01:37:31):
Fitz No, I thought you said, oh you came in first.

Speaker 7 (01:37:35):
Oh yeah, I know, Oh you came in first. Texas
was second. I thought you. I thought you.

Speaker 3 (01:37:38):
Okay, No, I'm just saying that, like my first choice
didn't wasn't.

Speaker 7 (01:37:40):
It doesn't come out on top of the grip.

Speaker 2 (01:37:42):
Yeah yeah, well how did wait? How did that happen?
So I had Texas second?

Speaker 3 (01:37:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:37:47):
So so Mark didn't have Texas at all and he
had Ou first. So that was kind of the big
swinging mindy.

Speaker 3 (01:37:53):
Mark continues to be that Like, have you ever seen
the Always Sonny where they're on family Feud and they're
going through the whole and like Charlie Day always suggests
the most random answer that doesn't it's nonsensical, it doesn't
ever fit. And then he always gets it right because
you find out at the end of the episode that
he was actually called one day and was part of
the survey. That's what's happening right now. Mindy Mark is

(01:38:15):
going full Charlie Day on us. He's just he's just
you know, giving us weird answers, and it's screwing up
my chance to get number one.

Speaker 2 (01:38:21):
It's okay, though, Money Mark, how you feel about that, buddy?

Speaker 8 (01:38:26):
I do what I can.

Speaker 4 (01:38:29):
Well play, good sir, Well played, good sir.

Speaker 2 (01:38:34):
That's fabulous. All right, let's take a quick tear. We'll
come back, we'll do the acc and then we'll move
to the Southeastern Conference. Right after that, fella is Big
College Football Day right here, Fox Sports Radio. All right,
welcome back fellas from the Tairaq dot Com studios. Jason fitz,

(01:38:58):
Anthony Gargano, Fitzy Cauz, and then we got our boys,
Ian Mighty Mark. Oh the college Football Day on this
July fourth, Nothing better than to look ahead at the
pig skinned football the uh oh, Fitzy, my boys, my

(01:39:19):
my oldest one, I said, it gets for real. Now
he's uh, he's in uh, he's heading into his freshman
year of high school. And practice is uh there off
this week and then it's on.

Speaker 3 (01:39:34):
Are you excited?

Speaker 2 (01:39:36):
I can't wait. I'm excited for But I was like, dude,
it's a ton of work. And I was like, listen
it because you hadn't done anything for this past week.
I was like, dude, have you run? Did you run?
Did you He's like no. I was like, dude, So
where I said, We'll go to gym today. You got
to get a lift end today. You got to run
tomorrow because Monday it all starts workouts. He's got it's

(01:40:00):
first seven.

Speaker 12 (01:40:01):
I guess it says seven on seven scrimmage Tuesday, and
and then it's you know, I mean, it's it starts
to go.

Speaker 2 (01:40:13):
Meanwhile, my little one has the districts. They won their
first so they won their I forget what it's called.
It's they one of the districts right now in the regionals.
So for baseball, so he's got he starts a big
week if they win, I guess they They did the

(01:40:34):
Sectionals against the regional sexuals and Sectionals and the States
whatever it is. So he's got the next leg of
it that begins tomorrow. Tomorrow night.

Speaker 3 (01:40:45):
Good lord it is. You know you're gonna be your
head on a swivel. You're just gonna be everywhere at
this point, everywhere, at this point.

Speaker 2 (01:40:53):
Dude, I got to change you. Just for grins. What
I sent my family this is just this week because
I come up with their schedule like I do their schedule,
and I send it out to my wife and the
two boys, and you're gonna this is just for for

(01:41:16):
this coming week. I gotta get sent this to You're
gonna crack up laughing. It's ridiculous. But anyway, let's do
our ode to college football the ACC. Where do you
think it all?

Speaker 3 (01:41:33):
Right? So pageantry ACC Clemson number one. I think that
one's pretty pretty set in my mind. And I will
give Virginia Tech number two. Even though the program is
not where they were before, there's still something magical about Blacksburg.
To me, what gets really tough is number three, honestly,

(01:41:53):
because like I get that everybody's gonna put Florida State.
I keep thinking about the pictures I saw a couple
of years ago from a friend of mine that knows
that program well, of an empty stadium because they didn't
like Norvella in his first year. And I keep thinking
about that, and it just bothers me. Right, it's hard
for me to get behind some of these atmospheres, like
Miami's atmosphere is meant nowadays. You know, Boston College has

(01:42:16):
no atmosphere, Louisville's Okay. I think I'm gonna take NC
State is my number three atmosphere in the ACC. So
I go Clemson, Virginia Tech, NC State, leaving Florida State
off because it's still just stuck in my mind how
bad it was a couple of years ago. And for
my money, you know, we mentioned Nebraska earlier. Even when

(01:42:37):
Nebraska is not good, the atmosphere still is. I think
I think Florida State takes a little bit of a
knock on that for me. So they go down to
four behind NC State. That's my controversial pick.

Speaker 2 (01:42:49):
Wow, now once more, you're not going to put Yodre
Davy there.

Speaker 3 (01:42:54):
Oh. I wasn't including Notre Dame in the ACC because
they're an independent if we never mind will include Notre Dame.

Speaker 2 (01:43:00):
That that makes we've got to put Notre Dame somewhere.

Speaker 3 (01:43:02):
So we're putting Dame, let's put Notre.

Speaker 2 (01:43:06):
Dame in there, because now you have a battle between
Notre Dame and Clemson. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:43:11):
I would put Notre Dame one, I would put Clemson two,
and I would put Virginia Tech three. That's much easier.
I feel much better about that list.

Speaker 2 (01:43:19):
Yeah. Yeah, actually I think that's actually perfect. Uh mighty Mark,
you got you heard Notre Dames there? So are you
going to go Notre Dame or Notre Dame figured in
from Chicago?

Speaker 8 (01:43:36):
And then I think I'll do Miami you first, and
then Florida State. So there you go, you Miami and
then Florida State you.

Speaker 2 (01:43:48):
Go to you? All right? I like it? No Clemson,
how about you? Ian?

Speaker 7 (01:43:57):
So I'm going Clemson one, uh, and then Notre Dame
to Florida State three. Yeah, And that's that bothers me too,
fits that Norvelle thing. But just if I was a recruit,
I think Florida State I would have to still give
the edge.

Speaker 2 (01:44:13):
There's something like to speaking about magic, right, And I'm
sure you've been there a million time. Fitsy Tallahazi, Yeah right,
like cool Tallahatzi.

Speaker 3 (01:44:24):
Oh there is magic to Tallahassee. But man, there's magic
to Inner Sandman too. Like Blacksburg, you're you're just your
sort of they're like even when they're bad, when that
moment happens, Like Virginia Tech is a terrible football team,
we will all watch the beginning of a home Virginia

(01:44:44):
Tech game just to see Inner Sandman, and then we'll
flip it off. If Florida State's terrible, are we are
we tuning in? That's you know, that's part of the thing.
I give that much credit to what Inner Sandman means
is a college football experience that I put Blacksburg three.

Speaker 2 (01:44:59):
You know, Thursday night, Blacksburg Beaver Ball. I mean, that
was unbelievable. When they were blocking punts, yeah, I mean,
they were just I mean that was humble. That was
incredible theater.

Speaker 3 (01:45:16):
Yeah, I mean, and I realize that they haven't lived
up to that expectation now, but it still feels electric.
It's still when you watch those games, still feels like
that crowd is everybody's into it. Part of it is
it like you're in Blacksburg. What else do you have
to do? Right, Like, you're going to that game, no
matter how good about the football team, what else do
you have to do? But yeah, I think that's a
big part of you know, there's something special even now

(01:45:38):
still about it.

Speaker 2 (01:45:39):
To me, how about let's look at the you, because
mightdy Mark brings up to you any love for the you?

Speaker 3 (01:45:49):
Now, I just think the stadium is so far from
the campus that it just all feels kind of cold
and removed to me. So like the U is one
of those things that you know, you talk about the history,
and I think if we looked at past players and
past greatness, that matters. But if we look at this
current vibe and this current team, it just hasn't mattered
for a long time to that same level.

Speaker 2 (01:46:10):
Yeah, it's so it's been a way for too long.
Like anytime you you gotta go back to the early
two thousands, right, like Jeremy Shockey and that squad. So
that's a long time, man.

Speaker 3 (01:46:25):
And you're right, once you've been gone that long, it's
just sort of a memory, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:46:29):
Yeah, Yeah, yeah, I would go Notre Dame one, Clemson two,
and man, I probably go I mean I got a
soft spot for that Beamer ball. And I also love Tallahassie.
I mean being there with Bobby Bowden like during that era.

(01:46:51):
Oh yeah, yeah, it was pretty cool. Man. I guess
I'll go Va Tech. But it's close, Yo, it's not close.
Is it's Notre Dame. Man, it still matters. It's it's
pretty it's pretty cool because it's something like when you
go on that campus. I mean, fitsy tell everybody like

(01:47:13):
that that campus it just feels like football. It does.

Speaker 3 (01:47:18):
And I would say this, if you're a kid and
you're even playing against Notre Dame and you find out
you get to go to Notre Dame for your game,
I think that matters. You sit there all year, you're like, man,
I can't wait for that Notre Dame game. Like it's
just that stadium, that atmosphere. Touchdown, Jesus what it means
on the campus. You talk about the history that is

(01:47:39):
obviously still intertwined in all of it, but even there's
just something different about the way all of the gold helmet,
like something just hits different from everything in the way
that they do things.

Speaker 2 (01:47:51):
It does. It really does pregame and that the linebacker
in is something there's something out that place. Yeah it is.
It's hallowed, man, it really is. It's hallowed stuff. All right,
What do we got for the A c.

Speaker 7 (01:48:10):
C Ian Alright? So Notre Dame won in a landslide.
Clemson was second and then third. I gave it to
Virginia Tech, which was tied with Florida State at six.
But I gave it to Virginia Tech because because you
two anton Fits were the two that put Virginia Tech,
while Mighty Mark and I put Florida State. So we'll

(01:48:32):
give it to the edge to the talent.

Speaker 4 (01:48:35):
Wow, look at that. I feel fancy right now?

Speaker 2 (01:48:38):
Yeah, I feel I feel uncomfortable. Just leave it as
a tie, man, there's no pecking order here.

Speaker 3 (01:48:46):
I mean, we could do a runoff.

Speaker 2 (01:48:49):
You know, we're good. We're good. You leave it as
a tie. It's fine. For third, it's all good.

Speaker 3 (01:48:57):
I give you guys a participation trophy.

Speaker 2 (01:48:59):
For all right. Now, let's get to the biggest of
them all, the Southeastern Conference. And if you really want
like pomp and circumstance and you want tradition and college

(01:49:22):
football oozing, it just doesn't get any bigger. You know,
I love the Big Ten, but I still got to
go a little nod to the SEC. It just feels
bigger and the places are mythical. So whether you go with,
you pick your division because you know, as much as

(01:49:45):
we go to Batim Rouge and Tuscaloosa, you know, Gainesville's
got every bit of it. Man, Like, you know, it's
chock full of it. I know you're you're you've been
to all those major places, FITZI yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:50:02):
I mean, look, number one is clear cup for me,
and that's LSU. I mean, the LSU experience was one
of the coolest sports experiences I've ever had in my life.
I think that that stadium and you know, granted it
was for a huge game when I was there, but
that stadium was absolutely Lsubama. So it was you know
Lsubama when they were you know, top five teams, so

(01:50:24):
it was it was electric. So LSU takes a clear
number one for me. I honestly, the Swamp is wildly
underrated at this point. Like the rest of the experience
I had around game day wasn't great, but the actual
game experience at the Swamp was. It was different. I
think I actually controversial take care I think ago LSU

(01:50:46):
won Florida two, and then maybe it's between Georgia and
Tennessee at three, and I think I leaned Georgia, but
I could also be talked into Tennessee. This is the
toughest one for it. I didn't even include Bama. I
haven't even talked about A and M or Auburn. So
my god, I think I'm gonna go LSU Florida, Georgia.

(01:51:10):
I think that's where I'm gonna go. I could be
talked out of this though. That's where I am right now.

Speaker 2 (01:51:16):
Because here's the thing. Auburn, which you glossed over, Yeah,
is an incredible environment. You know, it's a great underrated environment.
Freaking old Miss.

Speaker 3 (01:51:30):
Yeah, Ole Miss is incredible, incredible, like Ole Miss. I
feel like maybe I've shorted them, Like yeah, you could
talk me. You can't talk me out of LSU number one.
And I think Florida number two I feel good about.
You could talk me into Ole Miss, Georgia or Tennessee
or maybe even Auburn for number three.

Speaker 4 (01:51:50):
Like I am very on the fence.

Speaker 2 (01:51:54):
Yeah, Cainesville is something man the gator pit. Like see,
I agree with you that LSU's number one. I love Lashue.
I battm rouge and like, I'm with you. I think
Lsho's one, But I don't know, man, I like all

(01:52:16):
these other ones, Like I mean, are we just we're
just going to gloss over at Alabama? Like is that possible?
Like too?

Speaker 3 (01:52:28):
But then think about that Bama Tennessee game at Nyland
and you know them taking the cross the goal posts
and throwing it into the river afterwards, like that that
you want to talk about just college football atmosphere, ripping
the goal post down and marching it through the street
to throw it in the river. Tennessee's number two. I'm

(01:52:48):
moving Tennessee up to number two. There we go. That's it.
That's it. You rip the goal post out, you dig
it down, your throw it in the river. You go
to number two.

Speaker 2 (01:52:54):
I mean the checkered at his own and.

Speaker 4 (01:52:57):
The old miss with the cow like, oh god, I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:53:01):
I think about it, and then we'll.

Speaker 7 (01:53:03):
Get very well, yeah, I'm writing in pen here fits.

Speaker 2 (01:53:07):
Think about it, all right, all you like, take a breath,
we'll take a quick t o. We'll think about it.
Mighty Mark, come up with yours, Ian, come up with yours,
and then I'll come up with mine. Then you get
me your final FITSI all right, where the fella is
hanging out right here on Fox Sports Radio, fellas, Jason Fitz,

(01:53:36):
Anthony Gargano hanging out talking a lot of college football
today from the tyraq dot com studios. All right, so
we're doing.

Speaker 3 (01:53:48):
I'm ready to see a ready, I got the sec.
I am ready to put it in pen. I have
made a definitive decision on the top three. I am ready, good, sir,
to crush this thing.

Speaker 2 (01:53:58):
All right, so I want eat a hole back. All right,
then you can divulge it. First we'll go to Mighty
Mark Mark.

Speaker 8 (01:54:07):
I am going to pick Alabama as the first one,
and the Auburn and then Tennessee.

Speaker 2 (01:54:16):
Alright, Alabama, Auburn, Tennessee for the highly recruits out of Chicago,
the south side, all right, eot well, the defensive.

Speaker 7 (01:54:32):
End, alright, I've got a long beach. Yeah, I've got
I've got LSU. Number one. Had to agree with you
guys there, going all miss number two? Uh, and then
number three. I'm gonna go with Alabama just because everything
we were saying about USC kind of rings true with
Alabama too. But then you just add in the atmosphere

(01:54:53):
and game to atmosphere. So gotta go Alabama three.

Speaker 2 (01:54:56):
Yeah, I agree, I agree, all right, I will go
to set there and we'll do the drum roll for Fitzie.
I'm going to go number one, LSU. I'm going to
go number two, Alabama, number three, Tennessee. I love Florida.

(01:55:19):
I thought about bold Miss, you know, I mean, you're
right about we even get to A and M. There's
so much, there's so much going on. We talk about
George like, it's almost criminal that we don't even get
George on there. I just don't know how to tell
any of them break the top three. So that's my three.

(01:55:43):
Now you got it in Penn, let's hear it.

Speaker 3 (01:55:47):
Big changes, big changes, Number one, LSU, number two, the
groven Ole Miss and here's the thing.

Speaker 4 (01:55:54):
Wow, here's the thing.

Speaker 2 (01:55:56):
Go there.

Speaker 3 (01:55:57):
I've been thinking about it the whole break and all
I keep thinking about. I'm gonna hold the same standard.
I talked about empty stadium Florida State. We all know
that when Alabama plays like Northwestern Community Tire School and
nobody cares about it, that stadium's empty. Nobody goes because
they don't want to see those trash games. The grove
is never empty. It doesn't matter who you play. Ole
Miss is gonna come out and it's gonna be fired up.

(01:56:19):
So I take the Grove at number two and at
number three. When you got hundreds of boats in the
water and you pick up your goalposts, you're taking you
chuck it in the goal in the water. Afterwards, Kneeland
gets number three. So I'm going number one, LSU number two,
Ole Miss number three. Tennessee, I'm leaving everybody else off
the list, and I still love all it.

Speaker 4 (01:56:37):
Like hear me, sec fans, I love all of your environments.

Speaker 3 (01:56:40):
I think some of the schools that we left off
the list would be number one in other conferences. But man,
this just comes down to the fact that there's true
greatness from the three that I mentioned.

Speaker 2 (01:56:52):
Wow wow wow wow wow wow.

Speaker 3 (01:56:56):
I mean ole Miss, the grove, the food, the visuals
you like.

Speaker 2 (01:57:03):
Now, it's been a minute since I've been down there too,
like I've been down there for years. Give me, uh,
since you've been down there more recent? Give me what it?
Give me this spread that you see you or you
enter upon the grove.

Speaker 3 (01:57:19):
It's truly everything, like when you talk about every type
of food. But the amazing thing is that you got
because it's the South, right, so you have people bringing
in full trailers and full tractors that are filled with
grills and griddles, and like the crazy thing is that
you if you walk up and down the number of
people total strangers that will just invite you to come
into their tailgate and feed you. Like you can get breakfast,

(01:57:42):
you can get lunch, you can get dinner. All walking
up and down the line and everybody's having drinks and
everybody's so nice. Like one thing that really stands out,
Like I've been ole miss and Kneeling both when I
was not wearing any colors that represent any team, and
the fans were all at both of those places were
so welcoming, Like I do think that's part of the
fun atmosphere, is like, hey, come party with us, Like

(01:58:03):
you don't have to know anybody in those tailgates and
you're going to be just fine having a great day.

Speaker 2 (01:58:09):
Yeah, it's well put. It is, it's well put. The
only figure is it's why I had to put Alabama too, Like,
how do you not how do you just ignore that?

Speaker 3 (01:58:20):
Well, it's not that I ignore, I mean one hundred
thousand fans and my god, that stadium is so loud,
so loud when there's a great matchup. I just think
that part of the the Like, cupcakes aren't going anywhere,
so everybody's going to schedule them. So the question is
when you schedule cupcakes, where do you still have an
environment where it doesn't matter who the opponent is, you

(01:58:41):
still have an environment. And that was sort of the
tiebreaker during the break for me is sitting here thinking, Okay,
I'm devaluing Ole Miss because I want to put Alabama
higher on the list. But there have been real conversations
about attendance issues for cupcake games in Alabama, because if
you're a Bama fan, you're not into seeing that. Don't
want to see the National Auto Diesel College get their

(01:59:02):
butts kicked by Bama. Like, but at some point, if
you're an old miss, you just you just want to
be at the party, so you're going no matter what happens.
That to me is part of the game day experience
we have to account for. So I get the history
of Bama and I think that's real, and I get
the beauty. Like the crowd there is just absolutely disruptive.
But man, day in and day out, no matter who

(01:59:24):
the opponent almost can hang with him.

Speaker 2 (01:59:27):
Yeah, no, I know, it's it really is great. It's great. Yeah,
we even put Florida on there.

Speaker 3 (01:59:34):
Yeah, I feel Florida almost edged out Tennessee. For me,
that was that was a tough one.

Speaker 2 (01:59:39):
Yeah. It's interesting me because you know, and Georgia doesn't
even get a sniff. Dude, Like, think about that for
a second, and you know what Georgia mean is.

Speaker 4 (01:59:52):
That is wild that it works.

Speaker 3 (01:59:53):
Again, Georgia would be number one on most conference lists,
just not on this list.

Speaker 7 (01:59:58):
Yeah, you guys want the top three.

Speaker 2 (02:00:00):
Wait, well we'll do it on the other side, all right,
because you've got to take a quick time out. So
we'll come back and we'll put a whole neat bow
on this thing and kind of look at it from
a macro standpoint. With all the conferences. It's our o
to college football right here with the fellas Fox Sports Radio.

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(02:01:28):
family time. Whatever you're doing, I hope you're enjoying yourselves
and safe. So with the college football and the new
game College Football coming out, we've been we're jones in right,
We're looking for something. So we spent the majority of
the show talking about college football, the different schools, different universities,

(02:01:48):
where we would go to, we'd want to go? What
is our what would be if we were top recruits
and we had choice, where would we want to go?
What's important to us? And wis of these schools? So
we broke it down by conferences like last year, because
we wanted to have a little bit of a kind
of separation that allow us to talk about more schools.

(02:02:10):
So we had to pack twelve and the Big twelve
as they were last year. So we went into it
kind of looking at each of the schools and we've
ended up culmination SEC. H FITZI, you once again for
your SEC. You had one, two three, One being LSU and.

Speaker 3 (02:02:34):
Two being Ole Miss, three being Tennessee. Controversy everywhere, controversy everywhere. Yes,
no Bank, no Florida, no A and M God, I
feel terrible.

Speaker 2 (02:02:44):
No Georgia, no Georgia.

Speaker 4 (02:02:46):
Yeh, I feel terrible, But I.

Speaker 2 (02:02:49):
Like, I can't really argue I didn't go Miss. The
only way we differ because I have LSU one and
I have Tennessee three. But I couldn't. I couldn't leave
out Alabama. Like if I go at Sea when we
were doing PAC twelve, then I can't leave out Alabama. Right.

Speaker 3 (02:03:11):
That's actually really fair point because history means a lot
to you. You were you were passionate about SC and
the PAC twelve, and you were passionate about BAMA and
the SEC. You remain consistent as I did because the
history isn't as big a deal to me. I left
USC off my PAC twelve list. It makes me feel
a little bit better about leaving Bama off my sec list.

Speaker 2 (02:03:33):
Yeah. We Actually it's interesting because you learn a lot
about yourself and others and your buddies, like you know,
were your formative years or how they were spent. Right, So,
if FITZI was born in Vegas and goes to Nashville
spends a lot of time in Nashville, two areas that

(02:03:54):
got like boom sports towns, right, Like you get like,
let's take how hockey the Vegas Knights and the Prince
like incredible way to celebrate the sport. But they are
the new school, like with no tradition whatsoever, and you've
cleaved to that right.

Speaker 3 (02:04:15):
Well, and think about even so, the most important franchise
in my life as a sports fan was the Raiders
has been the Raiders my whole life. I grew up
an La Raiders fan that became an Oakland Raiders fan
that is now a.

Speaker 4 (02:04:28):
Vegas Raiders fan.

Speaker 3 (02:04:29):
And through every step of that relocation, when people have said,
oh my god, how can you leave a city, my
answers sort of been like I don't really care. Like,
I'm not from any of those cities, so if they
choose to move, it doesn't really hit my heart the
same way, like, I don't care where the Raiders play.
I just want them to play in a really cool
stadium and I want to be able to go to
games like That's what I care about. And I know
that a lot of Oakland fans found that super efensive

(02:04:50):
when I was so open about that, But to me,
I look, I didn't go to an Oakland Raiders game
until I was a grown ass man. Like I grew.
I grew up my whole life every single Sunday being
dedicated to watching the Raiders. I never saw a game
in Oakland until I was, you know, in my thirties, right,
So you know, I just think about all that, and
it speaks to you know, how I'm wired when it

(02:05:11):
comes to the history stuff. Now, it doesn't really bother
me that you're changing the history so much because that's
just not part of my wiring.

Speaker 2 (02:05:19):
Yeah, it's interesting because you also were You're also raised
in a town that didn't have a long legacy of
pro sports, right.

Speaker 3 (02:05:31):
They grows in transient towns, I mean mostly Yeah, like
Vegas and even Nashville.

Speaker 4 (02:05:36):
They're transient cities.

Speaker 3 (02:05:37):
People. Not a lot of people are from Nashville, you know,
like not a lot of people are from Vegas. People
look can be so weird when I say I'm from Vegas.
My right arm is a tattoo of everywhere I've ever
lived in the moments I'm proud of stuff in my life.
And the amount of times people stop and be like,
do you have a Vegas tattoo? And it's like, yeah,
well that's where I'm from because it's a big part
of that skyline on my arm. And it's funny to
see the looks that people get me when they're like, wait,

(02:05:59):
you're from Vegas. It go, It does exist. There are
people from Vegas. It's just not common.

Speaker 2 (02:06:04):
Yeah, it's that is interesting. People look at it like that.
It's true. And I'm raised the opposite, right, I'm raised
in an old city in Philadelphia and with you know,
a long tradition of sports teams, and so when I
when I think about teams relocating, it kills me because

(02:06:29):
you know, I could put myself in the in that place.
Like years and year I was a little guy, the
Eagles were about to move they were close.

Speaker 3 (02:06:38):
I don't know that ever happened.

Speaker 2 (02:06:40):
Yeah, in the eighties they were close to moving the Phoenix.
Oh wow, yeah, before Arizona, before the Arizona Cardinals. Remember
the Cardinals were in Saint Louis, right.

Speaker 3 (02:06:54):
Me growing up as a kid, Saint Louis Cardinals.

Speaker 2 (02:06:56):
Yeah yeah, and it was man Jim Hard and Metcalf
was the running back. And what I remember anyway, the
Arizonta was looking Phoenix was looking for a team, and
the owner of the Eagles, this guy named Leonard Toe's,
was in serious financial trouble and they had they had

(02:07:20):
talked to the city of Phoenix and they were gonna
lure the Eagles and cure all the woes, financial woes,
and it just got stopped at the eleventh hour type
of thing.

Speaker 3 (02:07:33):
That's kind of crazy, like to think about how close
relocation has been for such an iconic franchise.

Speaker 2 (02:07:38):
Yeah, I mean, I mean, look at the Colts, right,
I mean, does it get more iconic from those people
from that generation? The Baltimore Cults was a big They
made a movie who was that movie Diner where they
talked about the Baltimore cults, like how big the cults
were for that sound and they left, Like that's that's

(02:08:01):
the one problem that I always thought, like I never
liked the relocation thing, Like to this day, I still
can't believe that the SuperSonics don't exist, Like how did that?
How did the Sonics which were which was supported so
greatly just not exist?

Speaker 3 (02:08:21):
I think it's wild too to see teams leave only
to see other teams come back, Like it's crazy to
think that the Cleveland Browns became the Baltimore Ravens to
get an expansion tea for the Cleveland Browns, so that
the Baltimore Colts moved to Indianapolis, only for the Browns
to move to Baltimore. That we've seen the Rams play
in La Saint Louis and then back in LA you know,

(02:08:44):
like that, we see redundant cities, like it's inevitable that
when the NBA expands, and most people think that's gonna
happen in the next five years, they're going to add
two cities. And most people you talk to an inner
circles to tell you that that's going to be Vegas
in Seattle. And it's funny to think, well, Seattle had
a team, lost the team and now they're gonna get
a team back, like it's this weird cycle. Got one,

(02:09:05):
don't got one, got one, don't got one?

Speaker 11 (02:09:06):
Like it.

Speaker 4 (02:09:07):
It's that's wild to me.

Speaker 2 (02:09:09):
Yeah, yeah, it really is. It's it's it is pretty wild,
all right. So let's get back to it. So the
SCC what is the final tally Ian.

Speaker 7 (02:09:21):
Final tally LSU came out on top with thirty. Uh,
Bama was second with eighteen, and third was Ole Miss
with ten.

Speaker 2 (02:09:30):
Wow?

Speaker 3 (02:09:31):
Miss me putting Ole Miss at number two change the
whole balance of yeah, chase the whole balance power.

Speaker 4 (02:09:38):
Look at that. Look at that almost getting a little low.

Speaker 7 (02:09:41):
Yeah, you and I both having it at two. May
gave it ten while there were three fits, so fits,
you and and Mark all had Tennessee at three. But
that adds up to nine. So it's just short.

Speaker 3 (02:09:56):
It's not by a single point.

Speaker 2 (02:10:00):
Rocky Top on the outside looking in.

Speaker 3 (02:10:04):
Well, you know what, they should be punished for making
me listen to Rocky Top that many times?

Speaker 4 (02:10:07):
Anyway?

Speaker 3 (02:10:08):
Like that? Is there a more annoying tradition in college
football than Rocky Top playing all the time in that stadium?
I mean, good lord, it's golly that one. That one's tough.
To it's just tough on the years by the third quarter,
where you're like, I just hope nothing else happens for
a minute, because I'm tired to hear a rocket top.

Speaker 2 (02:10:26):
Hey real quick, what is the relationship between It's funny
between country music, college football and the SEC.

Speaker 3 (02:10:38):
It's I mean, so the whole reason for you pitched Yeah,
for years, I pitched to ESPN that I wanted to
do shows where I had music guys talk about college
football because country music and college football all run in
the same circles. It's it's life on the road for
a ton of the acts. It's it's relationship between a
ton of the guys that play. And then the fans

(02:10:58):
are so common. Like know, I've mentioned this before, but
I'll never forget when we played, I think it was
called Tiger Fested LSU Stadium, and it was also Luke
Bryant and it's the craziest. I mean, my keyboard was
shaken so much on the riser, I thought it was
going to fall off just from the crowd. And that's
the same crowd that goes to watch football, you know,
the next day. So the common fan, the commonality between

(02:11:19):
the fan bases is real. But then the true trash
talking like Zach Zach Brown Band. Some of those guys
are Georgia fans and some of those guys are Bama fans,
and that's real. Like they argue on the bus repeatedly
about it. And you can get guys to tell you stories.
And I've done this before in different interviews, like Caane Brown,
big Georgia fan, you know. He he has his phone

(02:11:40):
on the stage during games so that people can, you know,
tell him the scores of what's going on. And even
Chris Young, a good buddy of mine, you know, from Texas,
and he tells the story of being on stage one
day and the guy told him, because you wear these
little inn ears that you know, people can talk to
you in during concerts. And the Indian monitor guy told
him to score the Texas game and accidentally let an

(02:12:00):
f bomb out in front of the mic because he
was mad, and.

Speaker 2 (02:12:02):
Like it's.

Speaker 3 (02:12:06):
It's life, yeah, like when you're when you're talking about
I mean, Darius Rutger doesn't like to play during a
South Carolina game if he can avoid it, but if
he has to, then he doesn't want anyone to say anything.
So we can go back up with the bus and
watch it from the start, you know, like everybody has
their routine. The Rascal Flats guys Ohio State fans, a
couple of them, you know, they make sure the bus
is always parked in a very particular spot so that

(02:12:27):
they have satellite service on Saturdays to watch the game
like it's college football. Is truly life for guys on
the road.

Speaker 2 (02:12:34):
That's so cool. I love that. That's uh.

Speaker 3 (02:12:37):
I wish I wish it's like it's college football and look,
I pitched this the Big Noon too, but haven't gotten
any traction. I wish that college football would spend more
time on the Saturday shows. I know they all want
to make us cry and get in your feels and
tell you about some incredible story of redemption, but I
wish that there was more storytelling about stuff like that
where you know music guys that love it and actors

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that love it and like what their day and day
out routines are. Because I think what fans would be
surprised at is, at the end of the day, at
their core, a lot of these guys that you you
know you love their music are just the same as
you and me on a Saturday when they're watching a game.

Speaker 2 (02:13:12):
Well, you know what if we were you and I
were just talking on the side, that's what we got
to do.

Speaker 3 (02:13:19):
Yeah, I mean we could easily do that.

Speaker 2 (02:13:20):
Just that's our that's that's that's that's our next thing
that we're gonna do.

Speaker 3 (02:13:25):
All right, Well, the fellows and we'll add you know,
a lot more fellows to it. We'll talk to you know, yes, exactly.

Speaker 2 (02:13:34):
And because the actors and the musicians and the actors
and you know, from all walks of life in different
and the same thing goes with different uh, different sports,
you know, like different athletes from different sports. I love it.
I just think it's great. I think it's fantastic. All right,
So let's go to the our in totality, right, So

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let's go through for a second. Where do we stand.

Speaker 11 (02:14:04):
With?

Speaker 2 (02:14:06):
Did you have I and you have it all?

Speaker 7 (02:14:08):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (02:14:08):
Go through all the power five and where we and
where we are? Yeah? All right?

Speaker 7 (02:14:13):
So did do you want me to go through who
won each conference? Or just go through the top three
of each?

Speaker 2 (02:14:19):
Yeah? The top three? All right?

Speaker 7 (02:14:21):
Top three? So Big ten was Michigan, Nebraska, and Iowa. Okay,
Big twelve was ou Texas and West Virginia PAC twelve
was USC Washington and Oregon. ACC was Notre Dame Clemson,
and then Virginia Tech and FSU Florida State tiede and
then SEC was LSU Alabama and Ole Miss.

Speaker 2 (02:14:44):
All right, now here you go. This is your final
top three? Did you get to narrow it down? All right? Okay,
so narrow your top three. I'll give it to you.
I'll say, in fact, I'll stay you for last, FITZI.
I'm gonna go mighty Mark first, So give me your

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all your top three that you have, and I write
it down.

Speaker 3 (02:15:12):
One question? Does it have to be from the list
that we've had then? So they have to have been
a winner to qualify for this conversation.

Speaker 2 (02:15:19):
Now it could be it's you. It's your top three. Okay,
all right, go Mark, Let's go with.

Speaker 8 (02:15:29):
Michigan first. Okay, USC and then Notre Dame.

Speaker 2 (02:15:37):
That's that's iconic. You can't go roll there, brother, you
can't go roll there? All right?

Speaker 3 (02:15:46):
Ian?

Speaker 7 (02:15:48):
All right, I my final three. I'm gonna go number one, LSU.
Number two's gonna be Texas, and number three is gonna
be USC.

Speaker 2 (02:16:03):
Well, that's awesome, that's awesome. All right, My number one
will be Notre Dame. My number two will be ped State,
and my number three will be Lsu Wow.

Speaker 3 (02:16:23):
Okay, okay, my uh my number one will be Lsu.
In a landside, my personal number two would would still
be Ohio State even though they didn't got robbed on
that one earlier. And I'm gonna I'm gonna continue the controversy.
My number three is gonna be ole Miss.

Speaker 11 (02:16:46):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (02:16:47):
I'm bringing ole Miss into number three.

Speaker 2 (02:16:48):
You got number three?

Speaker 3 (02:16:50):
Ole Miss?

Speaker 11 (02:16:51):
No?

Speaker 2 (02:16:52):
Why it's wild? Listen, I went ped State probably more
we're out of the history, my own local history. I
probably should go elsewhere. But I get it. I like
your I like your old mist love. That's big time

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old miss love right there.

Speaker 3 (02:17:18):
Notre Dame is a tough one to leave off the list,
but I feel like I feel like I have to.

Speaker 2 (02:17:23):
Yeah, I think I really needed to. Men mind, because
I can't leave Alabama off the list because truthfully, if
I think about it, if I look at it for
my son, right, if I get to choose, my son
had three choices, Alabama would be over Penn State.

Speaker 3 (02:17:46):
Just for the atmosphere, would be over Penn State. Yeah,
I think that's I mean.

Speaker 2 (02:17:50):
I mean again I go on atmosphere and logo. Yeah yeah,
I mean, I mean it's a lion. It means something,
and so does that place is awesome. But I mean,
you know, Bama, you know what I'm saying, Like again,
how do you how do you not? How do you put?
How do you turn down the a? Wait?

Speaker 7 (02:18:12):
So an, what's your final three?

Speaker 2 (02:18:15):
All right? I hate there a men because I'm not
a big believer in it, but I will notre Dame one,
l U two, Bama three? Gotcha? So those are That's
how we do it. Wow, that was fun, man, my man,
I gotta give it a yo, fellas we give yo's

(02:18:37):
my man's southside. Chuck. Chuck just pre ordered my NCAA
College Football twenty four for the PS five. All right,
so I got a couple of weeks to coach and
GM my beloved Kentucky Wildcats. That's awesome.

Speaker 3 (02:18:56):
You know what, I'll take that matchup, Chuck. All right,
we'll figure out how to connect online. I'll take that matchup.
I'll take Kentucky v. Un LV. Let's go the matchup.
Nobody wants imagine how terrible you know, I'm not. Just
imagine if your heart's sinking when you're like, oh, I
can't wait for a good weekend at college football action
and I come in and say the.

Speaker 4 (02:19:13):
Game of the week is Kentucky at UNLV.

Speaker 3 (02:19:17):
But on this college football game, I'm telling you it's
gonna be it's gonna be electric.

Speaker 2 (02:19:21):
Well you're gonna well listen, You're gonna make it right.
Oh yeah, you will listen. If you would LV was
what became a thing in basketball, why wouldn't it become
a filure if you WNLV. Suddenly he was able to
build a program, you know, I mean, and you got
some charismatic coach. I mean, think about what Pride did

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for Colorado.

Speaker 3 (02:19:46):
I think it's it's stunning that places like UNLV, where
there's casino money, haven't been able to figure out a
way to nil their way. Like Barry Odom is their
coach now, and he's not. He's he's a legit coach.
He can coach like U and V had a good
here last year. They play an Allegiance stadium. Now, like
you would think all of the the systems are in place.
It's just it's gonna take some of those casinos coming

(02:20:08):
in and writing some big old checks to get some
of that la USC talent to come over and play
for UNLV instead, like U and LV basketball should be
relevant right now because of the money that should be
available to them. But you and LV football should be
able to consistently win the Mountain West. And let's not
forget that. You know, that's still being the best of
the Power five still gives you a shot at the
college football playoff and expansion. So why not? I guess

(02:20:30):
I'm stunned they're not going They're not consistently getting better talent.

Speaker 2 (02:20:34):
Well, in this world did a world in this world
where you have, you know, like all the money to
build your team, it could be anywhere, and kids have
got like you said, they're gonna follow the money, so
you're gonna go wherever and then and then wherever they
go becomes a thing. Right, So now all of a sudden,

(02:20:55):
you're creating a whole thing out of it. So like
you know, I could start, you know, because you know
what I'm saying, And if I had the right nil backing,
cause you goes and builds a big time football team.
And now all of a sudden, because you is a
place to be.

Speaker 3 (02:21:13):
I mean, you've got in Vegas, You've got so many
people that are worth literally billions of dollars that are
in the casino industry, if they each just gave a
little bit to your point earlier. When we think about
certain cities and we think about college football, I genuinely
believe that if UNLB were built into a powerhouse, it
would continue to change the way people view Las Vegas
as a city. I would want to make that investment

(02:21:35):
as a casino owner just to help the way the
city has seen. And also, by the way, bring in
a bunch of people on Saturdays for these games. Like
you get good there, you're gonna start getting consistently games
against Michigan. They played Michigan last year, they played Notre
Dame the last couple of years. Like those are big
travel crowds that are gonna come to a legion to
watch a game.

Speaker 2 (02:21:53):
That's a great point. It's a great point. Great business.
That's a great business point. Right there. Hey, where the
fellas hanging out. The big Brain's going to come join us,
and we still got some time, so hang with us
right here on five. Welcome back to the Fellas. Jason
Fitz Anthony Gargano from the tairaq dot Com Studios fourth

(02:22:16):
July weekend, and let's go to our man who takes
a look at sports from a betting standpoint, the brain.
Good morning, brain, I.

Speaker 11 (02:22:33):
Hope you had a great fourth my friend, how are
you today?

Speaker 2 (02:22:36):
Yeah? Not as good as yours. I'm sure it was
pretty boring and whatever, which is why we're talking about football.
We all love this little exercise. We're doing it because
we're doing a whole thing of Hey, if you were
a big recruited athlete, what schools would you want to

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go to?

Speaker 11 (02:23:00):
Sport?

Speaker 2 (02:23:01):
Football with sport? Come on, man, you want sport, so
fitz Gi give the brain you're three.

Speaker 3 (02:23:12):
Well, keep in mind, we weren't accounting for coaching or anything.
This is just like the experience, the atmosphere, the ambiance,
the tree around the program. So, after much heated debate,
I ended up with l s U at number one.
I ended up with a state at number two, and
I ended up on miss at number three. There we go,

(02:23:33):
that's how my list went.

Speaker 11 (02:23:35):
Oh my god, yeah, well I probably definite wouldn't have
had number two on Thereic Anthony can attest to that. Well, well, listen,
it's interesting because when you when you think about it,
you're like, Okay, obviously, if you want like a great program,
Ohio State.

Speaker 2 (02:23:55):
Would be there.

Speaker 11 (02:23:55):
But then you just come down to me, Okay, I'll
take my stand them out of it. Do you want
to be in a cold weather climate? If you're that
kind of level player, would you rather play in the
Southeast Conference where maybe the weather is a little or
a lot warmer. To me, that would be like a
decision that I think would be a you know, would

(02:24:16):
be paramount to me potentially. But again, I could never
go to Ohio said if I were to go to
a cold weather school.

Speaker 2 (02:24:25):
And I'm not just saying this.

Speaker 11 (02:24:27):
I again, Anthony lives or you know, Nose Area Law too,
And I'm just biased because and there are a bunch.

Speaker 2 (02:24:33):
Of the friends.

Speaker 11 (02:24:33):
I lay Happy Valley very much, and it's a great
collegiate atmosphere. That would have been to me about Ohio State,
and obviously Michigan would be And then when I look
at the SEC schools, I mean, I you know, I
mean Alabama, I mean, I you know, talk about and experiment.
It's like a tough factory and success and obviously the
whole state rallies around the team. I know you probably

(02:24:56):
think in the night games, depth Valley'd be a cool thing,
and I get that, but I don't know it definitely,
you know what's funny, I mean, Texas is such a
hotbed for football. I think playing in the air could
be pretty cool too.

Speaker 3 (02:25:09):
But everyone Texas was high on our list too, Like
Texas was definitely high on our list. And you know,
Anthony mentioned, uh mentioned Penn State. For me, Penn State
is such a pain in the ass to get to
and there's such limited hotel rooms and it's hard to
fly to and it's hard to drive to. Everything about
Penn State's just it's a great atmosphere for a whiteout game,
for sure, but weekend and week out, it's it's just

(02:25:32):
painted blood to me.

Speaker 11 (02:25:34):
Well, okay, but you're talking two different things here, Like
you're saying that if you were to like go to
school there and you were a great athlete, right, like,
you're actually as much right right. I mean, look, I
don't know, I I hear what you're saying. I just
I just really did enjoy that, you know, probably be
the Michigan probably in that campus, both to any campus.

(02:25:55):
I just think it's a fun atmosphere and I think,
you know, I I liked it quite a bit, but
I hear what you're saying. There's all the things that
go into it. I definitely would not pick a West
Coast team because I just don't think they treat the sports.
There is enough, you know, like in my opinion, like if.

Speaker 2 (02:26:12):
You only ask you this, let me ask you this,
because I we had a battle over the PAC twelve,
Like what was the PAC twelve for me? Right? So
FITZI went Oregon and I went Southern cal Like, well, yeah, son,
it's like that that is iconic.

Speaker 3 (02:26:32):
You know it is.

Speaker 2 (02:26:33):
Program it is.

Speaker 11 (02:26:34):
But I'm gonna usually I agree with you and almost all,
but it is. But you know what it's like, it
is iconic. It's like that is like a brand. It's
a brand name. It's everything. But in my own head
and again i'd have to hope it out so to
speak it, which is what I would do. I would
actually really go. But I mean Oregon to me, you
and you're in Oregon, it is you know, it is
the University of Oregon when you're when you're there and

(02:26:55):
I and I've only been there once, but them that way,
the USC than me is more of a there's twenty
million things going on in that area, and USC football
is one of those twenty million.

Speaker 2 (02:27:07):
That's exactly's point.

Speaker 3 (02:27:09):
Yeah, I said the same thing.

Speaker 11 (02:27:11):
Yeah, So, I mean again, not that it can't be
great not listening. When they had the Reggie Bush Matt
Lioner days, it was like the hip thing to do.
But again, can they get back to that, you know,
that way the way they were the vibe in college football?
Maybe maybe, but I don't know. I think Oregon at
least if you go there. I like it when you
go to a school like That's why I loved you know,

(02:27:33):
they have ever been ann Arbor like Anna michigant is
University of Michigan. Like there's no like that. That is
that the school is the is the college, and like
the city is the college. So and I like that.
And I think if you went to Oregon, my guess
is would kind of been that same kind of field
versus going to USC, where I would feel like maybe
like you get maybe lost in the shuffle potentially, But

(02:27:54):
I don't know. But it's cool. It's pretty cool the
bank you guys are having.

Speaker 2 (02:27:57):
Yeah. Yeah. One of the one of the schools that
we're talking about too, is like Nebraska you know, like.

Speaker 11 (02:28:02):
That's another squad. Yeah, yeah, and you and that's trying Nebraska. Again.
We just talked about Oregon. What I like about Nebraska
would be obviously of the incredible tradition. But again I'm
picturing that in my own head. In every single Saturday,
every father, grandfather, you know, son is going to that

(02:28:23):
game and like just going and that that is that
is their week. That is everything to them and is
that Saturday football game in Nebraska in Lincoln. And I
can't imagine a much more you know, fan base. It's
gonna be more devoted than that. And I would think
that'd be a part of it. Like you're kind of
like truly are like a local hero if you're playing,
especially if things are going well.

Speaker 2 (02:28:46):
That's the truth, all right, real quick, because you come
on to give us selections and everything else. I got
one college football question. Did you play any conference?

Speaker 4 (02:29:00):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (02:29:00):
To win the conference? Plays? You know?

Speaker 11 (02:29:04):
Yeah, I don't. I really haven't. I've done a few
old runners. I haven't done as much in college football
as I really probably should. Have a lot of reasons
for that. I've been so focused on baseball and then
the NBA when that was going on. But I have not.
I will tell you again, I'm looking extremely forward to
this year, the since that I think with the playoffs expanding,

(02:29:28):
I think it's going to be you know, like something
that I'm extremely uh looking forward to, what excited about.
But listen to the playoffs in terms of winning the conference,
you know, I have some certain thoughts on things. But
like again, I think a lot of states feel in
the Big ten that's a really really good chance, but

(02:29:49):
the odds are so thin it's just not you know,
not appealing to me. And I haven't really found a
team where I think the odds are we're taking like
the Big All for example, this year, that to me
is a more wide open conference because you know, it's
just you've lost teams and there's no team that really

(02:30:10):
stands out. Utah is the favorite, and I'm not so
sure if it's going to be Utah. So that the
comments I've been looking at to see if I can
find something that I think is a good guy, because
all the teams are getting a nice price in that
conference and I'm not looking to tie up my money
for you know, for five months for like a plus
one to fifty payout.

Speaker 3 (02:30:32):
When is the right time to make it play in
college football now.

Speaker 11 (02:30:35):
No, no, no, it is now. I mean it is now.
It's just it's just been time issues for me because
I study the stuff like so much and I haven't
had the time to put in between my travel schedule
and just doing you know, with the daily grind of
doing the baseball and the basketball which just ended. I

(02:30:56):
just I just never I'm not trying to complain, I
just never really get a day off. So it's like
I'm always doing something every day and studying every day
for hours and hours those days. I get that I
have to look, I have to make the prime and
I will and I'll get there. But yeah, I mean
the answer is now, because now you know, you want
to do it as soon as possible, because if you're
head of the curve that see, you'll get the best line.

(02:31:19):
These things never go if you're sharp, they never go
against you, these lines they always go for you. So
you want to be you know what, a day ahead.
In addition, you want to shop. If one sports book
has plus three fifty on something, if you shop it,
you may be able to get like a plus four
hundred like the six Ers the other when they spoke
to Anthony like they were twelve to one, ten to one,

(02:31:39):
twelve to one, thirteen to one. One sportsbook at eighteen
to one on them won the title. And you know
that's a massive difference. And you know, if you have
that eighteen to one in your pocket right now, you're
sitting here, you're pretty happy.

Speaker 2 (02:31:51):
Yeah, well this does you Paul George, I remember we
thought that that was going to happen.

Speaker 11 (02:31:55):
Yeah, I know you Anthony called that on a show,
like specifically said this is this really should happen. I'm like,
it should happen. You're like, yeah, should happen. So, yeah,
you nailed that, and obviously is you know, as a
Sixer guy, I mean excited about that. Hopefully the Sixers
can you know, I'll give people a future that I
that I just like what this team's done. I did

(02:32:17):
bet okay see plus four sixty to win the West
because I think the East with Boston being a behemoth
in New York and Philadelphia theoretically improving in theoretically Milwaukee
another year to maybe get healthy and didn't have Yannis
in the playoffs. I didn't I wanted to avoid some
of those these teams, so I liked Okay, see, I
love getting Caruso for Giddy and couldn't play getting in

(02:32:38):
the playoffs. Cruso the work in case on walls because
in three elite premier defenders and I like getting I
think they overpaid him, but that's okay. I like getting
Isay Hartenstein. They were the worst rebounding team in the NBA,
or one of them getting him, I think that's going
to be a really, you know, really most talented team
in the NBA in my opinion right now, even had a.

Speaker 2 (02:32:56):
Boss, and I think I like it. Eddie plays for
us all.

Speaker 11 (02:33:01):
Oh, I got all. I got a lot for you today,
my friend, I got a lot for you. Let's I'll
give it you A Brandon fat Arizona Cardinals, I'm sorry,
Arizona Fires Cardinals, Arizona Diamonbacks over three and a half strikeouts,
pretty juicy. Was like minus at the hour of sixty
five area. But he's fourteen. Bring that over and he's
averaging five and a half strikeouts. Puped matchup against the Padres,

(02:33:21):
whore the hardest team of strikeout, but I still would
have made it four and a half. I wouldn't adopt
him too. Strikeouts only would have docked them one. I mean,
he's thirty two and nine the last three years. I
liked his over Todz Bradley eight and two or five
and a half strikeout. His k rate this year ninety
percent tile, ninety percent tile. He's averaging over seven strikeout.
I would have clearly had that.

Speaker 2 (02:33:41):
At six and a half.

Speaker 11 (02:33:42):
Anthony, you Anthony here is going. You'll relate to Ranger
as far as hadn't been mentioned great recently. But I
still think it should have been five and a half.
They made his over under for strikeouts four and a half,
eleven and sixty over the Braves actually do strikeout. He's
averaging six strikeouts game. I would have had it at
five and a half. Hunter Brown been one of the
hottest pitchers in the sport thirteen and one his last

(02:34:04):
fourteen five and a half hits. I love the way
he's pitching right now. He's probably been the last fourteen
s as good as any pitcher in the American League.
Give me that underfront hits and I'll give you a
couple of straight games. Like even though it's in course field,
I like the Royals laying a half run on the
five inning lines A little over Austin gomber Love has
been dominant all year because you don't like taking games

(02:34:25):
in quarters field. But the price was solo. You only
have to lay about a dollar ten dollars fifteen. I
thought it was worth doing. Garrett Crochet, who's been again
one of the best pitchers in baseball, going against Yanni Cheronos.
I like Crochet in the five inning line again, laying
a half run. Crochet filing to pitch five or six
innings won no part of the White Sox after that.

(02:34:47):
Shareron nos Is probably gets up more hits printing than
they won in Major League Baseball. All lay half run there,
basically even money and take my chances.

Speaker 2 (02:34:56):
I like it, man, great stop. As always, people want
more at Brad'sbeest Bets dot Com, At Brad'sbeest Bets dot
Com and on Twitter, it's still at Brad's Best Bets.

Speaker 11 (02:35:07):
Yeah, man, I appreciate you guys.

Speaker 2 (02:35:11):
That's you, buddy, see youpal, he is the big brain.
Fifty nine. Will come right back, wrap up the show
with a blast, Hang with you guys. Hope you guys
feel the same way. We're the fellas right here, Fox
Sports Radio. All right, well back fellas hanging out. We

(02:35:33):
wanted to make this a kind of an oh to
college football, really, a reason why, a reason to talk
about all the different cultures of college football, like the towns.
That's why we went from you know, conference to conference
conference is to kind of talk about it like it

(02:35:55):
was a good way. It's a good way. Now we
decided to do more college football then dive into you know,
baseball or NBA deadline. I think you kind of are
a the NBA free agency and where it's at. And listen,
I think the NBA the free agent the movement was good,

(02:36:17):
and it was the East. I love what the Knicks did.
I think the Knicks are great. I mean, I'm a
Sixer man, so I appreciate Paul George coming. I think
that gives them some hope. I think the East is
just nasty right, Boston's still coming back strong. I think
the Knicks are clearly unportunity of the Sixers. Milwaukee are good.

(02:36:39):
So I look at it and like, I think, wow,
it's that's pretty interesting. But ultimately, you know, I think Fitz,
we kind of are both on the same phage here
that we're we can't wait until football begins and this
college football game is going to drop coming up in
the next two weeks is a big deal.

Speaker 3 (02:36:59):
Yeah, let's be real for a second. Most people right
now are not clamoring for anything that's happening in Major
League Baseball. The meltdown of the Yankees is interesting, but
it doesn't let if we're being honest, In about two weeks,
training camps are gonna kick off for the NFL, and
when training camps kick off, we'll be talking more about

(02:37:21):
practices and underwear than we will about actual games happening
in other sports.

Speaker 4 (02:37:25):
Like that's just that's what happens. And look, I love
the concept.

Speaker 3 (02:37:29):
Of NBA free agency being this thing that is a
difference maker and a world changer in all of these things,
but it's just the way we cover the NBA. Hell,
the regular season doesn't even matter. If a team this
year goes undefeated in the regular season, we wouldn't care
because we'll still sit there and say, yeah, I gotta
do it in the playoffs. You gotta see if they
could take down the Celtics. See inevitability of the way

(02:37:49):
we cover it. So we've essentially decided as a society
that the only time that really matters that the whole
world needs pay attention to. The NBA is May and June,
right like, so once you get to this spot of
the season, the free agency moves are nice, Like it's
a good move, Paul George going. I thought of you
when it happened, and I thought, you know, that's really
cool for Philly. Do I think that that suddenly changes

(02:38:10):
the entire landscape of the NBA. No, that's just not
the way the league is built right now. So yeah,
like we're all sitting here ten days away from or
so from a video game release. There really is just
about being excited for football season around the corner.

Speaker 2 (02:38:25):
Yeah, and that's the problem to the other sports. Like
I love baseball, I do. I love it, you know,
the whole thing fifteen nos. But in reality, you know,
baseball is all about the macro. It's about streaks and wins. Away.
The Yankees are We're at best team in baseball, and

(02:38:46):
now all of a sudden they're five and fifteen the
worst team. And it all evens out, like who you
are evens out over the long stretch and barring like
dramatic injuries, I mean, you know, it's it'll start to
heat up and take shape in September. The storylines I
think are interesting, but not to the point of you
know what we're talking about with football, And that's why

(02:39:09):
it specially with college football this year going to another
level with the playoffs, I just think it takes over.

Speaker 3 (02:39:18):
Yeah, this is gonna be the craziest year in college
football history. And we get into the playoff situation, when
we start to see what expectations really look like. Are
there programs that are just happy getting to the playoffs
or do they have to advance in the playoffs, We're
going to start to see so many different conversations we've
never had before. This is an unprecedented year in college football.

Speaker 2 (02:39:35):
Yeah, I mean just figuring about you know, how it's
going to all play out. I Mean the one thing
I am venally against is talking about the NCAA tournament,
the basketball tournament, that that's going to increase. I don't
like that a little bit.

Speaker 3 (02:39:52):
Yeah, I think that's already gotten out of control, but
it's inevitable. It feels like they're just going to keep
adding because what money can be made that way?

Speaker 2 (02:39:59):
Yeah, I know, but the football needed to need in it, right,
like football that you need in it. Man, that's what
it had to be. That stuff. I'll tell you it was.
I had fun. I mean I enjoyed it. Fits He
always a pleasure. Love you, buddy. We love you, guys.
Have a great week. Fellas are out. Thanks, Thanks guys,

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