Jason Martin gives his top 12 College Football Teams heading into the season, talks Deion + Colorado & MORE!

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It looks like TCU is going to get out of
Stanford with a win. It was a little bit in doubt,

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but I think they've put a touchdown up here in
this final two minutes that should likely seal it for
Sunny Dikes and the horn Frogs. That was looking a
little sketchy for much of the evening, and that game
turned out to be a little more entertaining than maybe
we thought. But TCU was about a ten point favorite.
Now they find themselves up ten, I believe after the

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extra point, So I guess all's well. That ends well,
though there's still some time left, about a minute minute
fifty one or so. But boy, I'll tell you what
feels good being able to give you that update because
it means the college football is back. Baby. Here we go.
There is so much to get into over this next
three hours. It's a good week for me in terms

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of being able to fill in for the great Bernie Fratto,
but just to hand me week one to do. So
I'll be finishing the night with Aaron Torres as it's
you know, one am where I am two am on
the East coast. But we're here. We have arrived officially
to week one. We had the you know, kind of

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the soft opening for the restaurant a week ago and
came with some fireworks because of the Florida state result,
of course, but now we get everything, and so during
the course of the next three hours we can break
down all the big college football matchups, and indeed we
will do that. We're gonna talk plenty of NFL because
we're almost there as well, and so there's you know,

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all the questions of a new season. We can get
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to go as we roll right along. So this is
the beginning of college football, at the beginning of the
twelve team playoff era. It's the expansion. Oklahoma has already
played a game. Technically now they're an SEC school even
though they crushed a you know, just kind of a
one opponent. Some some schools are playing some tough games,
others are not. But Oklahoma hung fifty one earlier, so

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they're off and running. We'll see where they are at
the end of the year. I saw an article about
Oklahoma as it related to they do they need to
be wary of becoming the next Nebraska, And I'm just like, well,
I mean they I understand that they haven't maybe been
quite as hot in the last two years, but they're
starting in a much different placed in Nebraska as well.

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Oklahoma is almost always good. The two schools that don't
really have a drop off meaning complete drop off, not
that they're perennially every single year they're gonna win a
championship or they have an opportunity to win a championship,
But the two schools historically that almost always field very

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good teams, Ohio State and Oklahoma, they're almost always in
the mix. They didn't have like the fifteen year drop off,
like after Switzer left, they had a little bit of
a down period, but then came Bob Stoops and since then,
of course, they've pretty much always been there. Now, Brett
Vinables is still kind of trying to make his mark.

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They're not in as good a spot today as Texas is,
but it would be kind of unfathomable for Oklahoma to
fall off a cliff. I don't anticipate that that will happen.
That's it. I don't know whether or not Bret Vinnables
is going to be long for that either. They are
stepping into a different conference, and I don't think that
maybe they're in the best position today compared to where

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they could be, although you know they've they've done better.
They certainly were a better football team last year, but
they also did pretty well in the ways that you
needed to in the off season to start things out.
But Venables's got have to make sure he keeps his
wits about him, keeps his emotions as in check as
possible without losing the edge and the aggressiveness that he's

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known for. And they're gonna have some dog fights, no question,
about that. I you know, last week we ran through
on the weekly show that I hosted thereon Torres on
Saturday nights, we went through our twelve team playoff, and
we went through our champion, and you know, I came

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down to it. At the moment that I was doing it,
it didn't seem like what I was doing was particularly wild,
But then it really when I sat down and did it,
I didn't have a champion in mind, and then when
I got to the end, the champion I ended up
with is not what I thought when I started the exercise.
So over the next couple of minutes, I'm just gonna

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run through those for you if you don't or if
you missed that program, and I'm gonna go from twelve
to one. Now that's mainly just kind of the way
you would do a reverse order to get to the
top of the list. But I'm going to explain as
we go along where we are here, and then we
can come back out of the break and we can

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talk more about all of these things. And maybe I'll
only give you the twelve now and then I can
give you the playoff after the break. But and number twelve,
I've got Memphis and I was torn between Memphis and
Liberty because Liberty and Caden Salter at quarterback, excellent football team,
phenomenal last year. There's got to be a champion outside

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or the best team outside of that power level conference
where each conference gets the automatic bid. They're gonna get one,
and so it's gonna be Memphis or Liberty. I went
with Memphis, but I think one of those two teams
is going to be your answer. If you want to
go with Liberty, I'm not going to argue with you

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that much, but they're the best of the Power five.
To me. Number eleven. I went a little off the
board compared to some and I put Tennessee there, and
that's because I just think they're going to be better
than people think. I think their offense is going to
be there. I think the quarterback is going to be special.
And I also believe that the mediocrity of the ACC

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may leave them with only one bit, just their champion.
I don't know that anybody else is going to get in.
So we can stop here and we can talk about
this a bit. Florida State. What I saw in Dublin
was not fluky. It was a football team. It's nowhere
near what they were a year ago. And that gets

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us to what I think maybe many of us saw
and thought last year when Jordan Travis got hurt and
that was the really sad thing for Florida State and
the toughest thing for those fans and for the coaching
staff and everyone associated there Mike norvellen company, is that

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that was really their shot. Now, could they have won
it all? I'm skeptical, but healthy Jordan Travis, you're in
the mix. Without them, you had no chance, and that's
why you shouldn't have gotten into college football playoff. Some
will disagree with me, you're entitled to do so. I
think that changed everything because I don't think that the

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team that you would have voted in was the team
that was going to be showing up. But once Travis leaves,
Keon Johnson leaves, they lose a ton of talent that
you're going to be watching on Sundays this year and
then years to come. You come back and they went
full on transfer portal. When you bring in Dju at quarterback,

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with all due respect to him, what we have found
out about Dju is he's just a guy. He's He's
an average quarterback on a college level, and that's great,
but it's not for a Dju that came in Gangbusters
in his first action at Clemson and then never again

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came close to duplicating that level of play. He went
to Washington State, he played pretty well, or Oregon stas
I should say, and he played pretty well, but he
never really felt like there was anything dynamic about Dju.
He wasn't a game changing kind of guy. He wasn't electric.

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He was fine. I hesitate to use the term serviceable
because that really feels harsh and almost mean. But he's not.
You're not winning a bunch of games because he's your
quarterback doesn't mean you have to win in spite of him.
He's very much a game manager kind of guy. Last year,
last week in Dublin, in that loss to Georgia Tech,

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he actually played well when you look at his actual
stat nine, but most of his passes weren't even five
yards past the line of scrimmage. So it was a
lot of short games and so when you see a
high completion percentage, it kind of masks the fact that
they were having a struggle moving the ball down the field.
And when he did try a couple of those throws

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he was throwing in front of guys. He was just
inaccurate enough to put everything in doubt. But I just
don't think Florida State's very good. I don't know that
that's a team that's even going to be ranked at
the end of the year. But I certainly don't see
them getting in.

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Monday night, they're going to play against Boston College, and
now you're going to have your eyes on that because
they have the one blemish and you can potentially overcome that.
But they've put themselves in the hole. As much as
as we want to talk about how, oh, Georgia Tech
could be good and coach Key and it's gonna be
something else, let's slow our role, slow down and recognize

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that that Florida State team is just not very good.
They just don't look anywhere close to the team that
we saw a year ago. So that's why I slide
Tennessee in, because I think Tennessee is better than people
think if Florida State is worse. And then you look
at look NC State struggled. On Thursday night. North Carolina
lost Max Johnson. That's horrible for them, Horrible for the team,

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horrible for Max Johnson. You wait all off season, you
bring in the quarterback, and the quarterback breaks his leg
against Minnesota on Thursday night on Fox, and now you
don't have him. But I mean, you look at the
rest of that conference, it's just not a lot great.
So I do only have one ACC team. So I've
got Memphis at twelve, Tennessee at eleven. Then I've got

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ole Miss at ten. That's low for some, but it's
still the SEC. And ole Miss still has a like
a baffling loss somewhere in there some days, something that
just doesn't compute one day. But they've got Jackson Dart.
They've got a great roster. They spent a lot of
money on that roster as well. You have some that

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have Jackson Dart as a Heisman contender or at least
a Heisman trending level player. I don't know that they're
going to be quite good enough to keep him there.
But I like ole Miss at ten. I like Michigan
at nine, And mainly it's because I like Sharon Moore
more than I like James Franklin on game day. I
understand that Sharon Moore doesn't have a ton of experience

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as a head coach. But I liked what I saw
last year, and they kept the culture train running. Everything
that they had, they've still gotten more, really equated himself well,
and it looks like the young men at Michigan want
to play for him. And when it comes to James
Franklin on Saturdays, I want just about anybody else coaching.
If you want somebody to recruit, somebody to get you

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to buy in all that kind of stuff, James Franklin
can do that very well. But when it comes down
to winning the football game on Saturday, making the decisions
that need to be made, and being that game day
coach that sometimes can carry a team that is just
above average but get them across, He's not that guy.

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And they have yet to prove that they can find
a quarterback to get the job done. And if you
look at their wide receiver talent this year, there's not
very much of it. So I think Penn State is
going to be a major disappointment, even if they could
find their way into the playoff. Usually you see them
somewhere between nine and twelve on most people's list, maybe

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sometimes even higher. I've got them completely off the board
because I just trust in what Michigan is doing and
what Sharon Moore is capable of doing. Even with Harball
out the door, they lost a lot of talent too,
but they've still got an awful lot of talents. I
got Michigan at nine, I got Alabama at eight. The
pressure level on kwind Bor is crazy. We've never seen

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it before because you're replacing Nick Saban and a real
dynasty at Alabama. Not that they won last year, not
that they have become you know, they're now probably number
two in that conference, and that's a new place for
Alabama to be. But that's a tough spot to join
if you're a kaln to board. They have brought in talent,

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he has assembled a really solid staff. We know what
he did at Washington and what he's capable of doing.
But we've never seen anybody replace Nick Saban at Alabama.
But someone was going to have to do it. Your
question is is Jaywen Milroe ready to step up and
be consistently great as opposed to sporadically great. Jaywen Milroe

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does some spectacular stuff, but he also does some head
scratching stuff, and that's where you get yourself into trouble,
especially any sec where the margin for error is going
to be nil. I think with the level of talent
that they have on the field, on both sides of
the football and on the coaching staff, I think you're

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in I don't think you're gonna win the SEC. I
think you're gonna take a couple of losses, probably during
the regular season, but I assume and expect that they're
gonna be good. It is how much growth we have
seen between twenty twenty three jo and Milroe and twenty
twenty four Jaywen Milroe, with the head coaching changes and

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all that, that's gonna determine how good Alabama is. But
I certainly don't see a massive problem in terms of
where they were to where they are now. But at
the same time, this is there gonna be a half
step down? Or are we gonna see anything that gives

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us pause? Or is there just gonna be enough new
that it's gonna be just a little more unpredictable than
you might want. That's something that we're still yet to
find out, and we're gonna find out. So I've given
you Memphis at twelve the best of the Power five
to me. But again, you can argue Liberty and I'll
certainly entertain that Tennessee at eleven, Ole Miss at ten, Michigan,

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and nine Alabama at eight. So just in the five
that I've given you so far, I've given you three
out of the sec and we're not done with that conference.
And I realized, because of what time it is, we
can actually go ahead and go to break. After these
five come back, I can give you the seven, we
can get our update, and then we can actually get
through those twelve teams and what those matchups would look

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like seating wise, and we can get to my national champion.
It is awesome to be able to do this and
not feel like we're speculating months and months out and
what's gonna happen in the off season, what's gonna happen
before this and this and this and this. Yes, there
are gonna be injuries. We saw it on Thursday with
Max Johnson. But football is here. I'm watching highlights right

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now on the screen of Western Michigan and Wisconsin from
last night, which were a little closer I would say
than Wisconsin was hoping for. That's a that was a
little dangerous. I mean in the fourth quarter, Western Michigan
held a lead by one. But yes, college football is here.
Week one is here. So when we come back, I'll
give you my top seven for the college football Playoff,

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and then we'll actually go through those matchups and I'll
tell you who I think will win every single one
of them all the way to the national champion. I
can't give you better than that to open a show,
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So I've been running through my twelve. If you heard
Torres and me a week ago, you already know this
because we went through it together, and he went through
his twelve, I went through mine. What I'm gonna do
is I'm gonna go through my twelve and then we're

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gonna get an update from Kevin Wyatt, and then we're
gonna come back and I'll be able to give you
actually the matchups of the twelve and how I actually
see the brackets playing out through two way Champion that
when I started the exercise, I didn't think I was
gonna end up with and I just I went with

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what felt right and I'm gonna stick by it. Nothing's
going to change from what I said a week ago.
So if you just tuned in, first off, welcome, and
if you came back out of the break, thanks appreciate that.
Memphis number twelve best of the Power five to me,
as I've said, Liberty is the other one that I
think you could make the argument for there. Tennessee at eleven,
Ole miss A ten, Michigan at nine, Alabama at eight

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at seven, I've got Notre Dame. I just think they're
going to be there. I think Riley Leonard's really good.
Now are they going to be able to keep him upright?
They've got to make sure that the O line is
what it needs to be and it's Notre Dame, and
so you never want to get too high, but you
also never want to get too low. I really like
Marcus Freeman a lot. I have since he got the job,

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since he took the job, since we saw the videos
of the players wanting him to get that job when
Brian Kelly left for LSU. Their schedule, it's not easy,
but it's pretty favorable. I don't see a universe where
they're not in the twelve somewhere, but I've got them
at seven, just a hair above out Alabama, number six,

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Texas first year for Sarkesian and Crew in the SEC,
and there'll be a blemish here or there, we know that,
but as long as they qualify, that's really all you
got to do. So at this stage, I've got Tennessee, Ole,
Miss Alabama, and Texas out of the SEC. And of
course we're not done because there's one school. Everybody is

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waiting for me to mention where I have them. But
Texas will get its season started in grand fashion. They're
not going to be challenged. They're going to win big,
but you're going to see a show. You can see
a lot of points put up by quinn Ewers and
that just very talented group of skill players around him.

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But Texas is coming back after a year where they
were as advertised and better than advertised. I think the
whole is Texas back thing. It became a running joke
for so long and you could technically say they're back,
but really it's just Texas is here, like Texas has arrived,
because the Texas that you may remember is not back.
Mac Brown is not there and he's not going to

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be there. But Sarkisian has them not just in the mix,
but as a legit contender at this stage in his tenure,
and he has He's grown up a lot, He's battled
some demons we all know of those, and he's put
himself in a good spot and it's good to see.
I think America loves a redemption story, and he is

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certainly an example of one. Number five. I have Ohio
State that is lower than you're going to see. If
you go read articles and season previews, they could easily
be number two. There's no denying that they have brought

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in a talented quarterback. They've gone out and grabbed some
excellent skill players to go with Will Howard. But of
course you lose Marvin Harrison junior. We already know what
they usually are from a talent perspective. To me, this
comes down to the coach. Remember I told you I
have Michigan at nine and not Penn State in the twelve.

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But certainly it would have been in this spot that
I would have had. Penn State. I believe as well,
But I just trust more in Michigan more than I
trust Franklin on game day, even if I think Penn
State is better in some ways. I mean, Penn State's
going to feel a good defense, but I don't trust
them to be able to score enough points. And I
certainly don't trust them to beat the teams that you

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have to beat to put yourself in the mix. Ohio State.
I'm not to that level. But Ryan Day. This is
a big year for Ryan Day. Huge year. I read
an article on Friday night, fairly early in the evening
that asked if they don't win a championship, does he
save his job? That's a tough thing to ask for

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somebody that's never done it. That that's that is now
what he has to do to keep his job. I
don't know that it's quite that dire, but they're going
to have to win a couple of games that we
haven't seen him win lately. They're certainly going to have
to reverse the Michigan thing. But past that, there needs

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to be a sense of difference in how the game
is coached and the aggressive nature. And so you bring
in Chip Kellway and you hand over the play calling
to him, maybe that's going to be good. I don't
think that Chip Kelly's play calling in twenty twenty four
has the same luster on it that it did a
decade ago, but it's still a smart move for Ryan

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Day to bring someone in and to also acknowledge, Yeah,
I could use some help and I could use another
set of eyes on this, But I didn't think that
Ryan Day's play calling in general was the problem. He
just needs somebody to tell to light a fire under
him in those moments when he gets timid against top
flight opposition and just say, hey, man, stick with your gut.

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You know you're good, go for it. And maybe that's
what Chip Kelly can do for him and maybe hand
and play calling to somebody that is going to push
the envelope in that direction. We'll get him there. But
I've got Ohio State at five, number four, I've got
Clemson and it's the only bid that I have out
of the ACC. The mediocrity in that conference is big time.

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I think that you will see this weekend Miami and
Florida are gonna play in That's a great matchup to
open the season. That's two schools with a lot to prove.
Crystal Ball is trying to hang on to the job,
but their top twenty ranked team and then Florida. That
seat is just lightning hot. Just I mean, it is
scorching hot for Billy Napier. And they've decided they're going

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to play the toughest schedule in the country. Their schedule,
ladies and gentlemen, is insanity. They're gonna have a lot
of winnable games in the first half of that season,
but the second half of that season at Tennessee and
then they go to and then they get Kentucky at home,
then in order Georgia at Texas, LSU at Ole Miss,

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and at Florida State. And then you add in the
Miami game this weekend and Texas A and M in
Week three. That is one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight games that they could easily lose. You lose eight
games in your Billy Napier. With where they find themselves,

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then Napier is going to go back to being a
really good coach somewhere else because it just didn't happen
for him at Florida. But to the acc side with
Florida State, just to me, what you saw last week
is more indicative of what you're going to see this year.
They're going to struggle. I'm not saying they're gonna below
five hundred, but I wouldn't be surprised to see them

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out of the top twenty five at the end of
this year. I just don't think they have the level
of talent that they had last year, especially in the
spots you have to have it. And at quarterback they
took a pretty significant step down from Jordan Travis to dju.
So process of elimination, somebody asked to win the conference,
and the team that wins the conference is then going
to get the automatic bid into the twelve. And so

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I've got Clemson there. Even though I think Clemson's probably
going to get smacked in Atlanta against Georgia at noon today.
Number three Utah Cam Rising five touchdowns already for this season.
I thought he was going to come out a blazon
after missing basically all of last year with that injury.

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But the fact you get him back and then you
add Kyle Whittingham to it, Winningham wins with anybody, and
now he's got Cam Rising, who really wants to prove something.
I think you're in a really good spot if you're Utah.
I like them to win the Big twelve, to get
the automatic bid, and to be very dangerous all the
way through this thing. Number two. If I said Ohio
States at five, it easily could have been at two.

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And I've already told you Michigan, and I also told
you that State's not gonna be in my twelve. Number
two should be obvious. It's Dan Lanning and Oregon, And
really I like Dan Lanning's attitude and that culture more
than I like Ryan Day's attitude right now in terms
of the killer instinct and just the right mix of
cocky and confident. You're gonna see just a week or

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so from now in Eugene, Ohio State against Oregon. That
to me is gonna determine the Big Ten champion in
Oregon's gonna beat Ohio State, and that's gonna be a
big time game. I can't wait to see it. That's
gonna play into a lot later in the season. But
that's why I've got Oregon winning the Big Ten. I
just think I think when it comes down to it,

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I trust the coach more at Oregon. Even though and
Erin Torre has made this point to me last week,
I don't know what their signature win is either under
Dan Lanning. I just like what I see there, and
that's more on just the eye test and just watching them.
I trust them, and you know, you bring in Dylan Gabriel.

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He should be very good with the skill talent up there.
I like them, and I got Georgia one. The roster
is still the best in the country. Kirby Smart has
not forgotten how to coach. They've won two of the
last three national champions They're looking at three in the
last four, which is just insane in this era of
college football. To me, they're the big dogs. So there's
your twelve. So now we're gonna go to Kevin Wyre

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and we come back. Then I'm actually gonna start going
through these games to get you to my champion here.
But first let us go out to LA and talk
to Kevin Wyre. Kevin, what's happening?

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Yeah, college football is back and we had our first
edition of the ACC after dark. Mean, I hardy believe
we're saying that right. Stanford just doesn't feel right saying
they're a member of the ACC. But they did play
their first game of their twenty twenty four campaign as
a member of that conference. They hosted TCU in Palo
alt So this game was close up until inside two

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minutes ago in the fourth quarter, as the Cardinal trail
TCU by just three points. It was twenty seven to
twenty four. They mainly hung around because a TCU shot
themselves in the foot plenty of times. They lost a
turnover battle to one, losing two fumbles. They also committed
seven penalties for one hundred yards compared to just four
penalties for nineteen yards or Scanford, though. That's why TCU

(29:18):
had to pull away late. But they do eventually win
at thirty four to twenty seven. Elsewhere in college football,
it was close for much of the game in Madison, Wisconsin,
though wins at home against Western Michigan twenty eight fourteen
to open their season, Oklahoma blowing out Temple fifty one
to three to two began their twenty twenty four campaign,

(29:40):
and Michigan State hanging on for a sixteen to ten
win against Florida. Atlantic Duke and Army both easy wins
against FCS teams. Tennis, there's chaos at the US Open.
Down goes Novak Djokovic. He loses to the twenty eighth
seed in the tournament, Alexaity Poppy Wren in four sets.
So this comes to day after Carlos Alcarez lost on

(30:03):
the same court, So this tournament is wide open, at
least on the men's side of things. And Coco Goff
does advance in two sets, beating twenty seventh seeded Alena
Ceviti lone vit Tolina three six sixty three six three.
Major League Baseball plumby of action on this Friday night,

(30:23):
Dodgers and Diamondbacks out in the desert, and it feels
like we say this every time, but joey Otani making history.

Speaker 8 (30:29):
Deal two swang on a hammer left field. This one's deep,
this one's heading back toward the wall.

Speaker 9 (30:34):
It's got a home run number forty three, the first
Major leaguer to have forty three home runs, forty three
stolen bases, steep passers Alex Rodriguez to the forty two.

Speaker 4 (30:46):
To forty two club. That says it all right there.
That was Tim Neverett on FSR affiliate Keyley seeing the
Dodgers radio network. The Dodgers were up a ten to
five on one point that had to hang on as
their bullpen once again giving up some runs ten nine.
The finals score out in the desert. Some other scores
from late night on the West Coast Giants over the
Marlins three to one, Angels fall to the Mariners nine

(31:07):
to five, Orioles over the Rockies in at Denver five
to three. And in the WNBA, Caitlin Clark thirty one
points and twelve assists as the Fever beat the Chicago
Sky one hundred and eighty one. Indiana l improved to
sixteen and sixty.

Speaker 6 (31:21):
They're No.

Speaker 4 (31:22):
Five hundred just one year after they finished dead last
in at the Eastern Conference. They talk about how Caitlin
Clark has transformed the league. Well, she's definitely transformed her
team into a playoff contender. They currently occupy the number
six seed in the WNBA standings. Angel reached for her part,
though at double double, ten points and eleven rebounds in
that loss. Brianna Stewart Powers deliberty passed the Storm ninety

(31:45):
eight eighty five as she led the way with thirty
six points and sad news this morning in the NHL,
a seven time All Star Johnny Goudreau of the Blue
Jackets his younger brother Matthew killed when they were biking
and they were struck by a vehicle driven buy a
drunk driver. Gudreu He won the Hobe Baker Award as
College Hockey's top player at Boston College. He was just

(32:07):
thirty one years old, his brother Matthew only twenty nine.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
That's you. That story's awful. There's nowhere to go after that.
I mean, that's a seven time All Star thirty one,
biking with his brother. I can't even imagine the heartbreak
in that family. And don't get behind a car if
you've had alcohol. I mean, come on, do we really

(32:31):
have to say this out loud? Don't do that. There's
nothing good that can come from that except that you
escape and you get home. And you're just like, oh, man,
that was dangerous, but I got here. Don't take that risk.
That ruined his life too. This driver ruined his life too.
He's not ever getting over that. Whether he ends up,

(32:54):
you know, going to jail for vehicular homicide or whatever
comes from it. Is that worth it? But just a
horrible story for the NHL in the sports world. I mean,
even if it was. But the thing is, even if
it was two people you've never heard of before, but
the story came through and it wasn't you know, a
crazy great hockey player and his brother was just a

(33:17):
random story. Still just as bad, and it was so
easy for that not to happen, but for just reckless
disregard for human life or just not taking serious things
seriously enough. So there's your top twelven college football playoff.
I gave you that before we went to Kevin Wyre

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and they started talking about some other sports that I
actually wanted to get into. So we may actually just
carry this through into the second hour. We're gonna go
ahead and take a break, We're gonna come back. I
might actually shift gears momentarily. I want to talk about
us open a bit, and I do want to talk
about Caitlin Clark a bit. I'd like to clean up
those stories, just just talk about them for a couple
of minutes, because I think they deserve it. Then we

(34:00):
can get into the college football Playoff in terms of
those twelve teams and the matchups to open the second hour,
and then we're gonna jump into the NFL. I'm gonna
give you my five biggest questions entering the NFL season,
So I'm giving you a roadmap right now. Don't go anywhere.
We'll be right back on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 3 (34:17):
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Speaker 1 (34:30):
Welcome back, finishing up the first hour of the Bernie
Ferrado Show here on Fox Sports Radio. My Good powert
Bernie Ferrato is out this weekend. I'm Jason Martin, blessed
to be in his chair this evening or this early morning,
depending on how you evaluate it. Like you could call
it either thing because it is dark outside, but whatever

(34:53):
you do, you you can hear me tonight with Aaron
Torres in our usual spot, which basically ends your college
football night lot. This is our favorite time of year.
This is when the fact that they pay us to
sit here and just comment on the football that's happening
in front of us and the football that has happened
prior to us, and then preview the football that's coming
up the next day. I mean, I'm digging it. Let's

(35:18):
just say that. So I gave you my top I
gave you my twelve college football playoff seeds. I'll give
them to you again to open the second hour, and
then we'll actually go through the games and I'll take
you all the way through my champion. But I did
actually want to derail momentarily. There's a lot to get
to in football, but just a couple of things happening
in a world of sports to end this hour that

(35:39):
I do think are relevant. Djokovic will loses to the
number twenty eight player in the world, and we saw
Carlos Acarez lose yesterday in straight says on Thursday. So
you have alkaaz who's won two majors this year, and
you have Djokovic who's going to end the year without
a major. And the reason why I think this is

(36:02):
worth mentioning is that this is now the first year
since two thousand and two when you're going to finish
a tennis season without either Djokovic, Nadal or Federer winning
a Grand Slam. This is a ten time finalist who's

(36:24):
won four, who just won the gold medal in the Olympics,
and he actually said, you know, I was out of gas.
I wanted to go and give it my best, but
it took a lot to go win that gold medal,
and I didn't have my game about me at all.
And his opponent even said I was waiting for him
to kind of step up. I was waiting for that guy,
and he didn't really come like he said the exact

(36:45):
same thing. It's kind of amazing, Like you would have thought, oh, man,
don't make excuses, just give credit to the other guy.
But truthfully, he didn't look great and he was admitting
he's like, yeah, I came in not feeling particularly good.
And his opponent even said, yeah, that didn't feel like
Djokovic had beaten him several times in the past. He
had never beaten him before as a matter of fact.
But I think the point that I want to make

(37:08):
about it's the first time in twenty two years when
one of those three guys Djokovic, Nadalar Federer hasn't won
a Slam is I don't know that sometimes we appreciate
the greatness that's in front of us while we have
it like there was going to come a time when
those guys were not going to be playing. I mean,
Jokevic is now thirty seven years old. Alcora is GONI

(37:29):
to be around for a while, but he's not part
of that mix yet. You can't give him that as
good as he is. But we were watching all time.
We were watching the greatest ever going head to head
dueling tournament after tournament after tournament, and I think that
the thing that stinks about it is so many in
the United States never really paid attention to it because

(37:51):
there weren't that many. There wasn't an American to watch.
It's not that there was nobody, but there was nobody
that was on that level. It wasn't Sam person agacy
at that point. It was it was Andy Murray at best.
But then you know, you had your Sam queries and
you had guys like that and dudes that were fun
to watch to have good personality, but they just weren't
top top, top level players, and as such, I don't

(38:14):
think we were dialed in the way that we were
in the nineties when you had five or six deep
on the men's side of just incredibly talented tennis players
from America. It's the reason I letter in tennis in
high school, and it was the sport that I played.
I loved it. I played it every afternoon. I knew everybody,

(38:35):
you know, I went in tournaments and all that kind
of stuff, even outside of school, playing in city tournaments
where I was in North Carolina, tennis was big tom
and it kind of fell off, and I think because
I mean, it fell off here, and the reason why
is because there was just nobody here to watch. On
the women's side, you had the Williams sisters, but eventually
that was going to come to an end. But I

(38:57):
think the point being just don't miss what you've got
in front of you while you've got it, appreciate it.
You're always going to appreciate greatness more in the rear
view than as it's happening, because then you get to
really see man that was something special, like Tiger in
his prime. You know what greatness was. Even if it's
not there now, we can remember a time when it
was there. Well, we're coming to a time when tennis

(39:19):
is going to be looking for its next future. But
we may never see what we just saw ever happen again.
As Djokovic goes down, and then of course Alcaa is
losing on Thursday. Other thing quickly before the end of
the hour, Kaitlyn Clark thirty one points twelve assists, only
the third player in WNBA history to have a thirty
and ten regulation game. Enescu did it two years ago

(39:40):
and Diana Tarassi did it once in her career. So
all of the Kaitlin Clark's not that good talk, You
can go ahead and quiet that down. They're sixteen and sixteen.
This is the first time they've been at least five
hundred and one hundred and five games. And by the way,
I'm talking about it in the first hour of a
national sports radio show because I think that's actually interesting,

(40:03):
and Caitlyn Clark moves the needle. I still don't think
you got a league, and now the football is back,
you really don't have a league, but you still got
a player. People are gonna look at the box scores
for you totally blew it at the Olympics. I'm gonna
tell you again, Yes you won the gold, but she
should have at least been on the bench because no
one even knew that they played and their season stopped.

(40:23):
And then you've come back, and I don't think that
they've brought everybody back with them. And now you got
football that takes up our attention. Again, Appreciate what you
have while you have it. But good on Caitlyn Clark
for coming out blazing since they've come back. When we
come back, I'm gonna take the twelve seeds. I'm gonna
repeat them to you, and I'm gonna give you the games,

(40:45):
and I'm gonna take you to a national champion in
college football. Plenty of NFL and yes, Colorado Escapes. You're
listening to Fox Sports Radio. What's going on our number
two Bernie Frado Show, and I am Jason Martin Is
Bernie's got the weekend off. Hopefully he's gonna be able
to watch them football. We'll see you next week. Pal.

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(41:29):
gone through the twelve my twelve seeds in a college
football playoff, I'm gonna give those to you again, and
then we're gonna get into these matchups and the way
I actually see the thing playing out. But I got derailed.
I was thinking of something else. Sid Udy passed away.
Sid Vicious if you remember him from or perhaps you
remember him as Sid Justice in WWF at the time,

(41:51):
but I knew him first in the National Wrestling Alliance
in the late eighties when I was still living in Martinsville, Virginia,
in my hometown, and then later in w in Salem,
and I probably wouldn't talk about this. I mean, if
you have listened to me for years or know me
or know of me, then you know I worked in
pro wrestling for a very long time, both as a

(42:12):
writer and as an announcer, and then not just as
a columnist but actually writing the content and writing articles
and things of that nature as well. And so it's
been a large part in my life podcast host for
years and all that stuff too. But I lost my
dad back on July the eighth, and I'm still really

(42:36):
kind of coming to grips with that. And the one
thing that you don't have time for with the busy
season of life when something like this happens is to
properly mourn. And I don't know that I have. It
kind of comes in stages, or it comes in this
big time memory, in this big time moment, and Sid
Vicious is passing is one of those kind of moments

(42:58):
for me because it reflects the kind of guy Dad was.
And I remember being It was a Shoneese restaurant where
they had the breakfast buffet, and I was there with
Dad one Saturday morning after we had gone to see
the WCW event, and it would have been I think
ninety the fall of ninety and in there were some

(43:25):
wrestlers and they were all heels, they were all bad guys.
It was the Iron Sheet who also has passed. It
was the Nasty Boys, Brian Knobs and Jerry Saggs, it
was Dirty dutch Man Tel and it was Sid Vicious
and Sid at that point the night before he had

(43:46):
worked Sting in the main event in the Championship and
that was the program that they were working towards. After
Stinging won the title in the summer at the Great
American Bash, he ended up working Sid who was saying
the Four Horsemen going into Halloween havoc then, So this
would have been sometime between October and December of nineteen ninety.

(44:08):
I was again already a massive, massive fan, didn't know
how big until it became a career, but I wanted
their autographs. But they were heels, and especially then, that
was not a time where the heels in public really

(44:29):
revealed themselves too often. It's not that it didn't happen,
but we still lived in an age of kfabe where
it was taken seriously and where babyfaces and heels didn't
drive into the arena together to be seen. And I
remember many shows that I did if I was a
heel at that point in time, as a manager character

(44:49):
or something like that. I remember full well letting someone
out of a car a half mile early and letting
them walk the rest of the way so that we
didn't come in together, because we were going to end up,
you know, on opposite sides of an altercation later on
in the evening. So at the time like you could
get snapped off pretty easily by a heel that was

(45:12):
trying to keep himself in character. But I wanted their
autograph without hesitation. I'll never forget it. Dad went and
asked him, and he came back with a receipt because
we didn't have any paper that was signed by every
one of them, including Sid Vicious, who passed away this week,
and I've still got it. I found it when I

(45:34):
was cleaning out their house. As a matter of fact,
don't know why it all came to me to do
that to open this second hour of the show, but
it just it's just another one of those memories that
comes up as we're, you know, six seven weeks away
from the kind of crazy turn of events that led

(45:54):
to Dad's passing. And the Sid Vicious memory that I
remember the most. Even though I did a show with
the guy, certainly watched his entire career, knew a lot
of people that knew him pretty well. The memory I
have is of Dad getting his autograph for me when
I was twelve and wents to say im North Carolina

(46:18):
at his shonies. After of course, Dad took me to
the matches the night before, just kind of guy Dad
was And credit to Sid and those guys for finding
a way to just kind of joke with me, because
they did. They came over the table at one point
they kind of joked about because I was wearing a
Sting shirt and that's the guy said. It just worked.
I was terrified. I was twelve, and I knew that

(46:43):
it wasn't fully legit. But at the same time, Sid's
a pretty intimidating presence, and so he told a joke
about Sting being stink and all it was. It worked out.
But anyway, long story hopefully short. Dad was great guy
to miss him and RP to Sid as well because
he left a big time imprint on the industry because

(47:06):
he was a larger than life figure and looked the part. Okay,
so we'll shift back now. My college football playoff twelve
to one. I had Memphis at twelve. You can argue
Liberty Tennessee at eleven, Ole Miss at ten, Michigan at nine,
Alabama at eight, Notre Dame at seven, Texas at six,
Ohio State at five, Florida sorry, Clemson at four, Utah

(47:29):
at three, Oregon at two, and Georgia at one. So
who do I have out Penn State because I just
don't trust James Franklin. On game day Kansas State, I
just think it's going to be a little difficult to
replace what they had, losing the quarterback Oklahoma who won big.
I'll tell you what was weird. If you watch any

(47:50):
of the Oklahoma Temple game, which certainly you probably didn't
watch it for very long. I think it was fifty
one to three, the SEC patch on the Oklahoma uniform,
it just looked weird. I can't believe we are to
this place. It's gonna look the same when you see
it with Texas this weekend, and of course all the

(48:11):
Big ten schools USC with a Big ten logo is
gonna look weird on Sunday night against LSU. We're in
a new universe, folks, new universe. But I've got Penn State,
k State, Oklahoma out Florida State. I told you, I
just I don't think they're very good, and I don't
think that it was because they got caught up in
a weird situation. Although I wouldn't want to play that
Dublin game if I'm sort of a pretty good, too

(48:35):
good football team, especially if I'm a ranked team, I
don't know what the win is for you there, because
that's a tough place to go play to start, it's
a neutral site of all neutral sites. You've got all
sorts of distractions. It's week one or week zero, so
you're still trying to gel and figure out who is
what and who you got and who you can trust

(48:55):
and chemistry and all those things. It was a perfect storm,
but I think the thing that was displayed past all
of that is just I don't think the talent is
what it was a year ago. So I've got them
out as well, and I don't have Miami in and
I mentioned I took Memphis over Liberty, but that was
probably the toughest call for me because I think, I mean,

(49:17):
one of them is definitely going to get in. I mean,
one team that's, you know, the top Power five team
will get in. I think it's going to be one
of those two. And then I don't have LSUN either,
and they're like a thirteen seed to enter the season
playing against sc on Sunday night. Okay, So that sets
up an eight to nine matchup Alabama Michigan, which is

(49:41):
as you'll take that every day in your eight nine matchup.
I got Alabama beating Michigan in that game, which they
would also be hosting in Bryant, Denny and Tallahassee. I
think that would make a big difference. But in those
two and I do think Alabama is a more talented
team than Michigan. I just think Michigan's culture and the
fact that they've gotten used to winning, and I think
they know what that feels like and when it gets tight,

(50:04):
I trust them more than I do for instance of
Penn State. So I've got Alabama over Michigan. Then in
the five to twelve matchup, because the top four seeds
all get buys, so it's Ohio State at Memphis playing
out Ohio State, and then Ohio State wins that game easily.

(50:25):
Then you've got the seven to ten matchup Notre Dame
and Old Miss. For me, Notre Dame would host that game.
But I've got Old Miss being better than Notre Dame
just being able to score more points. And I think
that even though that might you would want that one
to become ugly. I think if you were a Notre
Dame fan, even though Riley Leonard can at times really

(50:45):
bring it up, I just don't think they've got quite
enough in that matchup, and then Texas Tennessee, which I
just think could be an incredibly good football game. At
that point, I've got Texas beating Tennessee in the six
to eleven match up, So that then gives me Alabama,
Ohio State, Ole Miss, and Texas joining Georgia, Oregon, Utah

(51:08):
and Clemson that being your final eight. So that gives
you a quarterfinal round that would include Georgia and Alabama,
Ohio State and Clemson, ole Miss, and Oregon Utah in Texas.
So in the one eight matchup of Alabama and Georgia,

(51:30):
I got Georgia beating Alabama. They got the most talent
in the country, and that I think is where Carson
Beck is going to be better than Jayalen Milroe. Beck
could win the Heisman this year. I mean Milrow I
guess could too. But I think one of the more
underappreciated things from last year is that Carson Beck was
really good and it kind of went under the radar,
and it's not going to this year. He's going to

(51:50):
be great. So I got Georgia Overbama. I got Ohio
State over Clemson, because again I don't think Clemson is
one of the top twelve teams by the end of
the sea. But they're gonna win the ACC I think
by default, So that's going to put them in in
that four spot. But then when you get them against
Ohio State, even though it's a five to four matchup
and Clemson would be the four, I don't think anybody

(52:14):
thinks that Clemson's going to be a better team at
the end of the year than Ohio State. And I
think Ohio State is going to roll in that game.
Ole Miss Oregon is interesting because there could be a
whole lot of points and that will be a shootout
and it will be fun to watch, and I think
Oregon will beat them. I think Oregon. Oregon's going to

(52:34):
be Oregon is one of those teams that if they
do win it all, it's going to surprise very few people.
They're loaded. You add Dylan Gabriel to that, that's a
pretty good Constellation prize after losing bnicks to the NFL
to my Denver Broncos. As a matter of fact, we
might be talking about him a little later. As a
matter of fact, but I got an Oregon over Ole

(52:57):
Miss and then already mentioned Cam Rising five touchdowns him
against Quinnewers or I guess archs manning by that point,
not because Ewers loses a job, but maybe an injury
or something. You have a pretty good backup quarterback in Texas,
but Utah and Texas playing in that final quarterfinal matchup.
I've got Texas beating Utah there. So Texas is the

(53:18):
six and Utah is the three, and certainly wouldn't be
shocked if winning him won that game. But I got
Texas winning it. Just I just I like that the
makeup of that football team in general. So that gives
you this is your final four. Georgia, Ohio State, Oregon, Texas,
Georgia and Ohio State matchup in the one to five matchup.

(53:42):
Most have that as a one to two, which you
wouldn't see yet. But because I have Oregon winning the conference,
winning the Big Ten, then Ohio State being a five
makes that possible in the semis, so you got Georgia,
Ohio State, and Oregon Texas. I got Ohio State upsetting Georgia.
I don't think they're as good as Georgia. I just
for some reason, I think we're going to see some

(54:03):
weird stuff this year. I just do. I think there
are a lot of teams that are capable of beating
one another, and that's the point of a twelve team playoff.
And I think as we get to my finals and
how this all plays out, I think the winner this
year is going to be proof of concept because if
you just end up with one, two, the same detractors

(54:25):
that have tried to talk against a twelve team playoff
for so long are going to be out in force
to say, yep, told you so, and it could well happen.
Don't get me wrong, And I'm not like voting against
it to be contrary to that. I just for again,
when I sat down did the exercise, I went with
my heart the entire way through and said, this is
what I think is going to happen. And I ended

(54:47):
up without those the teams that you would expect to
be there to be there at least based on my
seeds and the way that the season plays out. So
I've got Ohio State beating Georgia, the five beating A one,
and then I've got Texas beating Oregon. I've got the
six beating the two. Any one of those four teams

(55:08):
could win it, no question they could win at all.
But I've got Ohio State and Texas as my national
championship game. Ohio State's got the talent advantage here. I'm
going with Texas to win it all, Folks, I did
not when I started that. It's not like I sat

(55:28):
down and said, all right, well, Texas is my champion,
how do we get there. I went through the matchups.
I went through the twelve teams, and then the matchups
and the bracket, and when I got to the end
of it, it was Texas that I felt the best about.
So I've got a six winning it in year one
of the twelve team playoff against a five. So that's
why I say my champion is proof of concept, because

(55:50):
if that happens, it's gonna be hard to argue that
the twelve team playoff wasn't a good idea. Texas at
six means they're not going to be an under feeded champion.
But we live in the universe where that's not gonna
have to happen anymore, And maybe you're gonna be able
to lose two and still win a title on a
regular basis. Perhaps are you playing your best football at

(56:11):
the end? Are you healthy at the end, and are
you that proverbial team nobody wants to see going into
the postseason. I think Texas it's all of those, even
though they don't win the SEC. I got Georgia winning
the SEC, but Texas doesn't have to play them again
if Ohio State knocks them off first, and then I
like how Texas matches up with Ihowa State, and I

(56:32):
think Texas wins. So there is my national champion again.
You're as surprised as me because that's not where I
thought I was going when I started looking at it.
But that's the first time I've done it that way.
You know, I just think it's going to be this
team this season. I didn't do it that way. I've
done it that way almost every year, but this time

(56:53):
it was I'm just just gonna go ahead and do
the bracket and just see how I feel about all
these matchups. And I thought it broke Texas's way, So
we'll see. I could be an idiot or I could
be prophetic. I said prophetic, not pathetic. By the way,
some of you Oklahoma fans and people that don't like
Texas are probably that way. Look I don't like Texas.

(57:14):
I mean I'm an SEC and ACC guy and have
lived in this territory of my whole life, I do
the show out of Nashville. I mean, I'm not a
giant Texas fan by any means. I usually would pick
against them just because of I just kind of have
a negative connotation to them generally, and think that their
fans could be pretty obnoxious the way that they act

(57:35):
like they are ordained to win every year when they
haven't been ordained to win in fifteen years. But they're good,
and Sarcasians turned it around, and so that's what I
came up with. When we come back, we're gonna shift
from the college game to the pro game. I want
to start laying out some of my biggest questions entering
the NFL season, beginning with this one after the break.

(57:56):
Which of these three quarterbacks is under the most pressure
this season in the AFC. I'll tell you who they are. Yeah,
I'll tease it.

Speaker 3 (58:07):
I won't.

Speaker 1 (58:07):
I won't even tell you the three guys are. But
there's three guys. I think they have more pressure on
them than everybody else in the AFC. I think you
could argue a fourth, but I'm gonna stick with three.
So we'll do that when we come back. As we
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You'll see this show posted right after we get off
the air. So we've done a lot of college football
so far. We're still going to do more. We haven't
even gotten into the matchups themselves this weekend. We'll do
that in the third hour of the show. But I
did want to shift gears and talk about the NFL,
which is a little under a week away from getting
going itself, and I said, I wanted to talk about

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the five biggest questions of the NFL season. I don't
know how many we're going to get through, but this
one leaped off the page to me, and I think
that you could just say it's two guys, but I'm
going to add a third guy to the list. Which quarterback,
Which AFC quarterback specifically, is under the most pressure this

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year to do something when it counts. This, I think
was this week the most overrated players in the league
came out and Josh Allen won the award from his peers,
and I think that's a kind of ridiculous, but I
also sort of understand why that would have happened. Well,

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Josh Allen has a ton of pressure on him because
Josh Allen still has not reached to Super Bowl. I
think that his easy fall guy has continually been Sean
McDermott and should be And I'm not really sure that
Sean McDermott should be there this year, because this may
be a wasted year if it doesn't go well, maybe
he gets ousted pretty fast. And immediately saw an article
a couple of days ago about if McDermott or Sirianni

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and there was a third guy mentioned as well. If
they get out to a slow start, here comes Bill Belichick, like, really,
we're doing that already. Let's get the season going first.
But Josh Allen Lamar Jackson got the big pay day
of course stellar last year, and then they got to
the postseason and they played Scared in the biggest game

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of his career and lost. He hasn't snipped a Super
Bowl yet despite being transcendent. And he was the other
guy that was on I think the overrated list. And
then the third guy that I just add to this
is Tua because Tua talk about loa at this stage
when you look at what Miami has and they just
extended Mike McDonald through twenty twenty eight as head coach,

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and you get that, gone to the playoffs last couple
of years. Best coach Miami's had in ages, and certainly
they've been more fun to watch in his tenure than
they had been in I mean, I can't even tell
you how long it's been since you could say that
about them. But he's a great young coach. They have
a lot to prove as a team when it matters

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because I don't trust them to win games when it
counts either. But Tua, when you've got Tyreek and you
have Jaywen Waddle and you have all of these guys,
it's going to come down to the quarterback. And honestly,
when they needed it most in the back half of
last season, it wasn't an injury, it was just inconsistency
from Tuatogovailoa. So you look at those three guys, You've

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got two in the same division in the AFC East,
which is a three team race. No offense to the
Patriots other than all the offense that comes with me
telling you you're maybe the worst team in the NFL,
But you've got Buffalo and Miami there and then the
Jets will be heard from and then. But I don't
think the pressure is really on Aaron Rodgers because I
don't know what the expectations should be at his age,

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coming off the injury that took him out for an
entire year, And it's the Jets, Like, if they do well,
I don't think we're going to be surprised. But I
also don't think it's just going to be the most
damning thing ever if they don't do well. I don't
think that. I don't think it's that kind of a
situation necessarily. But you look at Buffalo and Baltimore in Miami,

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those are three teams that have aspirations, that have been
contenders more often than not in the last three seasons,
some longer than that, and all of them have large
questions because Lamar hasn't gotten it done in the playoffs.
Josh Allen hasn't reached a Super Bowl. The most important
and biggest game of his career, the one that we

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remember the most is the game that they lost to
the Kansas City Chiefs. And then there's tu who There
are moments, there are these flashes where he really just
looks dialed in, But then there are other moments where
you can see the flaws, you can see the limitations,
and you can see the you can see the uphill

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climb that you have if that is your QB one
in the NFL in twenty twenty four. When you look
at the rest of the quarterbacks, especially in the AFC,
but across the league, there's some deficiencies there, and then
of course you are you are always going to be
worried about the injuries. This isn't a situation of money.
For these three guys, it's a situation of longevity and trust.

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And I hate this phraseology, but because I don't believe
in a championship window, I think that you have to
win now because you just can't trust. You can't bank
on things being exactly the same the year after. I mean,
think about Florida State last year. Florida State last year,
that was their opportunity, and then you come back this

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year and you're not the same team, you don't have
the same talent. It's a little different in the NFL
because you can retain a lot more and you're not
worried about graduation. You're just worried about free agency and
trades and a draft and all that kind of thing.
But you just can't bank on it looking the same
this year as last, even if you have all of
the same pieces, which no one does. But so if

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you're in win now mode, Buffalo loses Stefan Diggs and
maybe that's going to be auditioned by subtract because it
had soured there. But what are you doing to replace it?
You've got young guys, are they going to be able
to step into that void? Where's Josh Allen going to
play hero Paul too often to make something happen because
he feels like he has to and has a lot

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of pressure on him in a moment, and he makes
mistakes because he does do that. He has those moments
where it looks like his brain leaves his body and
he goes and tries to be Superman and he comes
up about half a degree short of where he needs
to be. He's gonna have to play within himself and
play smart and maybe live to fight another down a

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few more times than he's used to. Is he capable
of that? We'll find out. Lamar I think that the
one thing that you have to hope for if you're
a Ravens fan is just you're not going to abandon
what got you there once you get there. Because if
you get to the spot where Baltimore went out of

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the playoffs a year ago, they stop doing fairly early
in that game what had made them so good all year,
and you can't do that. Whatever got you there is
what you've got to keep doing. It's similar, not perfect,
but similar to I'm gonna go draft this super mobile,

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super athletic quarterback into my organization, and then I'm gonna
get him there, and I'm gonna teach him to be
a pocket passer because I don't want him to run anymore.
Don't draft me, is what I would say to that.
Don't draft that guy if you don't want to do
what it was that put him on the map in
the first place, then what are you even thinking. If

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you draft a running quarterback, for example, an athlete and
then you want to knock seventy percent of that athleticism away,
then you have wasted a draft pick. You're not going
to let him flourish because he's not doing the thing
that made him special in the first place. What made
Baltimore special is what they needed to continue to do,
even if it started out a little wonky in that

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in that playoff game and they didn't do it, they
went away from it, started doing weird things and got beat.
And some of that's on Lamar for not standing up
and just saying, hey, we're gonna keep doing what brought
us to the dance here. And Lamar's just kind of
been a little weird in the postseason. He has they've
schemed him up pretty well the teams that he has
faced there. There have been some moments where he has

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looked less than Lamar. So I think you can look
at all three of those guys and make the argument
who does have the most pressure of the three of
those guys. I'm actually going to think about that as
opposed to just giving you an answer, and I'm going
to think about it as I also listened to what
happened in the world of sports last night. Let's go

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out to LA and talk to Kevin Wire.

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Kevin, Yeah, we had a few college football games going
on as we have now already reached Week one of
the college football season is back baby, and we had
a good game going on late out in hollow out
so as to see you when Stanford faced off Stanford
playing their first game. It's a non conference game, but
still their first game is a member of the ACC.

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It feels weird saying that Stanford and the ACC. But
they played TCU and this was a close game. With
about two minutes ago it was tc only up by three,
twenty seven to twenty four. The horn Frogs really shooting
themselves in the foot, committing several penalties, seven for one
hundred yards for the game, Stanford four penalties for nineteen yards.
The Cardinal also winning the turnover battle two to one,

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as TCU losing a couple of fumbles, so they let
Stanford hang around, but late they are able to pull
away and eventually win it by a final score of
thirty four to twenty seven. Elsewhere in college football, Wisconsin
getting the win at home against Western Michigan twenty eight
fourteen Oklahoma an easy blot win against Temple fifty one

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to three Michigan Stana was a bit of a close one,
but they do beat Florida Atlantic sixteen to ten. Duke
and Army both wins against FCS teams, neither t Tema
with a problem there. In tennis, though, chaos at the
US Open, Novak Djokovic losing to the twenty eight seed
Alexi Poppy Rin in four sets. So Carlos Alkrez losing

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yesterday and that makes the tournament on the men's side
wide open. But Coco Goff on the women's side of
things did advance in a three sets you beat the
twenty seven seed Alina Zvitolina three six six ' three
six three. Major League Baseball, some scores from late night
on the West Coast. Dodgers hold off the Snakes, The

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Diamondbacks ten to nine out in the Desert show Ootani
home run and a stolen base. He is now up
to forty three forty three on the season, the first
player in history to do it. Alex Rodriguez held the
previous one at forty two to forty two. So show
Hey continuing to make history, and with about a month
ago in the regular season, he's has a fifty to
fifty season inside, so that'll be fun to watch as

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he tries to continue to chase history for the Dodgers
Giants with a win again some Marlins in San Francisco
three to one. Mariners top the Angels nine to five
at the Big A. Orioles over the Rockies five to three.
In the WNBA, Caitlin Clark another fantastic game for the
Indiana Fever thirty one points, twelve assist as they beat

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the Chicago Sky one hundred and eighty one. Indiana now
sixteen and sixteen. They finished dead last in the Eastern
Conference last year, got the number one overall pick and
Caitlin Clark She's transformed the league and she has certainly
transformed this Indiana Fever franchise. There now the number six
seed in the WNBA playoffs if the season were to
end today. Just an incredible turnaround. Angel Reese though she's

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had a great campaign as well, and we don't want
to lose sight of her. In the loss, she did
have herself another double double ten points and eleven rebounds.
Brianna Stewart another superstar of the league. She powers the
Liberty Pass the Storm ninety eight eighty five, she had
thirty six points.

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Back to you, Thank you, Kevin. We are indetirack dot
com Studios. It's pretty amazing. I don't know that you're
ever gonna see a league again where two rookies are
the biggest stars in the league, like what Kevin just
said about Breonna Stewart having thirty six And we know
there's a lot of talented women in that league, but

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the two most marketable names by far are Caitlin Clark
and Angel rees Like it's not even close. That is
you really think about it, I mean that I can't
imagine that ever happening before or again. Maybe which you
think maybe Magic and Bird when they entered the league,

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maybe something like that, But this this is to a
completely different degree, Like not guys that are never gonna
watch WNBA games start to finish, and I pretty much
am one of them. I usually will find out what
those two ladies did, and it used to just be one.

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And credit to Angel Reeves for making herself. I do
think she drafted off Caitlin Clark for a while and
then she's started racking up double doubles and that just
became interesting in and of itself, and so yeah, you'll
check that from time to time as well. But that's
definitely I think it's definitely an intriguing place to be.
All Right, I'm gonna do one more question for you

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real fast. Well, I didn't answer my question to answer
the question of the three AFC quarterbacks that list to
who's under the most pressure Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Toua.
I think two was probably third, Like I had to
add him to the list, So I don't think he
can be number one, but I think he's fair to
be on this list just because of the talent there.
Like eventually he can't be the thing that holds them

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back and it's gonna take more consistency the other two guys.
It's what are you going to do for me in
the playoffs? Josh Allen losing Stefan Diggs. I think it's
a big year for him because more is on his
shoulders and this Buffalo experiment has gotten near the top
of the mountain for three four years in a row.
Eventually that's got a turn or you're just not going

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to quite get there. You're just gonna be a really
good team that never quite became great. And then you
might have the same thing with Baltimore. I'll tell you,
I think the most pressure is on I think it's
Josh Allen And the reason why I would take him
over Lamar Jackson is because Lamar Jackson has John Harball,
and Harball has a ton of respect as being an

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iconically good, just a great head coach. He does some
things that just annoy me to no end. But John
Harball is a great coach and they're always well coached.
And it's not that McDermott's not good. It is, though,
that I think we might have found the ceiling for him.
He's not an offensive minded guy. And when they lose

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Brian Dable, they don't look quite as good. When Ken
Dorsey takes over that job as OC, and now you
lose some skill talent, and so you're bringing in I mean,
they only have one guy, that one receiver last year
of any vote, that's still there. Everybody else is gone.
So it's a completely new cast of characters. But Josh
Allen's still there, and no one's going to give him

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a mull again or give him grace because of the
changes at wide receiver. What they're going to say, folks,
if he's bad is oh, he was just a product
of Stefan Diggs, because remember his first two years in
the league. First year, he was an accident waiting to happen.
Second but I mean, it was fun to watch, but
it was a calamity a lot of the time. Second year,

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you started to see more flashes of what you saw
in him at Wyoming and why you wanted to draft him,
and just you loved everything about the way he played
and how he talked and how he competed. I mean,
I love Josh Allen, I do. I know this sounds negative,
but it's really not. But then you get to they
bring in, they pay Steffan Diggs and bring him in,
and then they hit the stratosphere. So now Stefan Diggs

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is gone, So you have to look there and say,
what's the change if they take a massive step back.
For example, they lose two three more games than you're
used to the Bills losing. That's gonna fall on his shoulders.
I don't think you have that story anywhere else because
they've still got talent everywhere on those other two rosters,

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similar talent to what they have had. So there's gonna
be blame to spread around here. It's gonna be well,
Josh Allen wasn't able to raise up their level of play,
So I think that's why it's that That's why that's
the answer. I think it is Josh Allen by over
Lamar Jackson, maybe not by a lot, but by a little,
and then certainly over Tua. I think that Josh Allen

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is entering the season with the most pressure of any
quarterback in the league, but certainly in the AFC. We'll
come back. We'll do another one of my big NFL questions,
this one about another AFC quarterback and whether or not
he's even good. I'll tell you who he is and
we'll debate it when we come back. It is a
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Just based on the soundtrack of this, you know, it's
the Bernie Ferraudo Show here on Fox Sports Radio. I
can see Bernie just wheeling through the casino to this
in the background. I'm Jason Martin for Bernie Friday. He's
out this weekend. You can hear me with Aaron Torres
on Saturday nights right here on most of these same
Fox Sports Radio stations. And this is our favorite time

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of year because Tores and me we're college football nuts
and we pretty much get the chance to react live
to everything that's happening and happened to end your college
football Saturday every week throughout the fall. Cannot wait to
get going this evening. And we're gonna have a lot
of matchups. We're gonna talk about a good many of

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them in the third hour of the show. But I teased,
is this guy good? Another one of my questions entering
the NFL season. All Right, so in twenty seventeen, here's
a guy that had a one to oh three passer
rating twenty eighteen, he had a one to oh three
passer rating, twenty nineteen he had a ninety eight passer rating,

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and then in twenty twenty he had a one to
twelve point four passer rating. He had thirty three touchdowns
and seven interceptions that season. But then in the last
two years of his career, he's had seven touchdowns and
five interceptions and seven touchdowns and four interceptions in a

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combined twelve starts. And his passer rating has gone from
the lowest in his first four years in the league
being ninety eight, he's now gone to a seventy nine
and an eighty four. And I want to know if

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he's still good, because I think the team is really good,
but I don't know that the quarterback is. And I'm
talking about Deshaun Watson. Deshaun Watson is still not even
thirty years old. You feel like he's been in the
league longer than he has, but he's only played six
seasons now. Of course, he took some time off. We

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know this between the twenty twenty and twenty twenty two
seasons when he went from Houston to Cleveland. But last
year he wasn't even the best option for them, Joe
Flacco outplayed him pretty significantly. As a matter of fact,
he's eight and four starting in Cleveland, had a fifty
eight percent completion percentage in twenty two, had a sixty

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one percent completion percentage in twenty three. This is the
guy that his final three years in Houston. Of his
first four, he started out as sixty two percent, so
still fairly low on his stats. But then he went
sixty eight, sixty seven, seventy, and then he came back
and he was fifty eight and sixty one. If you

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don't have a quarter you can't win in this league.
And I don't know if they've got a quarterback. I
don't even know if he's starting by the end of
the year. You know, they they reset his deal and
kind of fixed it so he can get him. They actually,
if you can believe this, even with a fully guaranteed
contract to their quarterback, they now have the most available
cap space in the NFL. Do the Browns because the

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way that they restructured his deal. Don't tell me that
the money is real in the NFL. You just can't.
Not when you can make that work. But if he's
not good, then they're their ceiling is pretty low now.
Nick Chubb is starting the season out on the pup list,
and he's as good a back as you'll find in
a league when he's healthy. But they got talent everywhere.

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I like Stefanski a lot. The defense is phenomenal, but
Deshaun Watson might just not be good anymore. Like at
some point it's not just rust. At some point it
was well. I mean, he was away for the game
from two years for two years. Maybe it passed him by.
I've heard the argument that Brian knows hosting with him.
On Monday, we were in for the guys in the
morning and Brian and Brian even you know, speculated that

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you know, there's something that saying he doesn't love it enough.
Like I don't know if that's true, but I can
tell you that life has taken a toll on him
and maybe it has affected his play. I still think
he wants to be good. I don't think he's out
there to stink, but he's gotten a lot closer to
stinking that anybody thought was possible for him. Boy, it
is taking a real downturn for Deshaun Watson. So that's
a big question for me. The Browns are contenders. If

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he's good, but I don't know if he's good. We'll
come back to open the third hour. How about we
talk about Colorado. They escape North Dakota State. We're coming
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talk about Colorado. The Colorado won the game thirty one
to twenty six over in North Kota State. It was
a fun one, it was and you could tell in
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their head coach has moved on, still a team that
has a culture of winning and is not gonna make
a whole lot of mistakes. The quarterback didn't make many mistakes.
They're they're just they're sound. They don't have the level
of talent that you're gonna see all day Saturday. For

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the most part, at least on half the field. There's
gonna be a lot of cupcake games and things of
that nature. But you knew it was gonna be a fight,
and Dion knew it was gonna be a fight, And
he even said to his ad made that joke about,
you know, could you give us something a little easier
than North Dakota State. Even if it's not one of
those North Dakota State teams where you have a quarterback

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that is gonna be playing in the NFL year one
and things of that. They were still gonna be good,
and they were, But I think the story is more
about Colorado because no one has more eyeballs on them
this year, both to see him either succeed or to
fail miserably than Colorado. Because there are those that are

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certainly in both camps. I think the latter campus is
stronger at this stage. Dion brings a polarizing presence with him,
and he's done nothing but made himself more polarizing by
some of the things that he said and just the
stuff with the media over the last few weeks and
the way he's handled the transfer deal. It seems like

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maybe even within college football, I think a lot of
those athletic directors and coaches, I think they've bristled at
some of the way that Colorado has done business, and
some have probably gone too far in how they've criticized Eon.
But we knew they didn't have the talent last year.
They had to do her and they had Travis Hunter,

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and then that was kind of it. And they go
out and they have gotten a ton of guys out
of the border. I think they've gotten over ninety dudes
since he's been there, and they have ten guys on
their offensive and defensive line that are from elsewhere, bigger
name guys after they jettisoned their own guys. Now, Shador

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was tied for the first or tied for first in
a league last year. I think in a number of
sacks that he took, I think he took fifty six
in the season or something crazy like that. Well, he
only got sacked once on Thursday night against North Dakota State,
so that's a good thing. Although I didn't feel like
in the trenches if you watched the game, I didn't
feel like the offensive line or the defensive line performed
to a degree that would make you feel good about

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Colorado going forward. And I think that's the storyline here.
It's not about beating North Dakota State, although that was
the challenge in front of them in the moment. It
is what is this team going to be at the
end of the year. I saw one of ESPN's analysts,
I think suggest, you know, we're not even gonna be
talking about him by December, and you know there's the

(01:25:47):
Heisman buzz surrounding Hunter, but also around Sanders. I mean,
Hunter is unreal over one hundred snaps, but he had
three touchdowns in the game. One He's got guys draped
all over him, he still makes the touchdown grab, he
runs away from guys on the field. He's got speed,
he's got athleticism, he's got everything and then should do

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or we know what he is capable of. But I
don't think you can win the Heisman if your team
is completely irrelevant by December. And is this team going
to be irrelevant by December, I don't know. I mean,
all you need to do in Week one is win,
and you did, but you almost lost. You found a
way to almost lose. You almost had the boneheaded play
at the end of the game as well, Like it

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didn't feel good. If you're watching that game from a
Colorado perspective, that didn't feel good. That felt like, man,
we almost found a way to really screw that one.
That's how it felt like watching that. I didn't necessarily
have a dog in the fight, And I'm glad that
we got something compelling on Night one to watch. The

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only other compelling game was the close but not really
exciting game between North Carolina in Minnesota and you got
the NC State game as well, I guess, but North
Carolina and Minnesota, and unfortunately you saw Max Johnson break
his leg in that game in the third quarter and
the end of season before it barely even started.

Speaker 10 (01:27:13):
U and C.

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But from the Colorado perspective, that one didn't feel good
like that. It's a w. But is it really like?
I mean, they did win and and that's just not
that's not just me saying that. I think we have
this audio, so if we do, here's what Dion. Here's
what coach Prime had to say after the game, because
I think it pretty much reflects exactly what I just said.

(01:27:36):
Let's hear from Dion.

Speaker 10 (01:27:39):
I mean, you got to understand you got to take
what people give you.

Speaker 1 (01:27:42):
You can't take what you want. And it's not there.
I mean, what is it? What do you throw for
four yards? You think we upset? Who upset?

Speaker 2 (01:27:52):
So?

Speaker 1 (01:27:53):
They ever run a game?

Speaker 6 (01:27:54):
Well?

Speaker 1 (01:27:54):
The passing game w look pretty darn good today.

Speaker 10 (01:27:56):
So let's let's let's be appreciative and thankful that that
we got one of the premier guys in college football
spending it. We're gonna run the ball, We're gonna do that.
We're gonna have a lot more battles. Today was just
that type of day. You got to take them to
give you.

Speaker 1 (01:28:09):
But in that situation, I toun us up. If you
want to run the clock down.

Speaker 3 (01:28:12):
I mean you won't.

Speaker 1 (01:28:13):
No, no, you won't.

Speaker 10 (01:28:14):
First downs right if you want to run a clock down.

Speaker 1 (01:28:17):
They got a five man box.

Speaker 6 (01:28:18):
I mean they got five five down. Like you got
to look at there and say, okay, I.

Speaker 1 (01:28:23):
Got one on one right here.

Speaker 6 (01:28:24):
I haven't seen one on one the whole game. So
I gotta do what I gotta do.

Speaker 1 (01:28:27):
The move these change and that's what that is. So
that's Dean talking about the sun kind of you know,
going for broke on a play late when you probably
run the ball. And he was saying, we're going to
run the ball. And that was against the criticism that
I laid out here a minute ago about their offensive line,
like their packs that couldn't get anything done. I didn't

(01:28:48):
see them dominating in the trenches on either side of
the ball. Quite frankly, they weren't able to rush the passer.
And although they protected Shador Sanders to where he only
got sacked once, he was getting chased around and facing
pressure a lot during the game. It may have been
a little better, but it's gonna have to be a
lot better for them against you know, even better opposition

(01:29:11):
going forward. And we knew what they had from you know,
you've got Joe Hornson and you've got Hunter of course
to receive the ball. So I mean, you've got a
lot of talent on that side. But one thing that
Dion said in the press conference was that's a win
that felt like a loss. Like I know what he
said right there, kind of defending what was happening and
saying we aren't upset. He had four hundred some yards

(01:29:32):
and all this. Of course it's his son that had
four hundred some yards, and that's just that that gets
I think that that puts a lot of people off.
I think if Shador Sanders was playing at Colorado but
Dion wasn't the coach, there'd be a lot different feeling
about it. But there's something about it. I think it's
easy to rub someone the wrong way. And look, I'd

(01:29:52):
be proud of my kid too, especially if he was
that good, and I'd probably be setting up a lot
of ways for him to be good, not to make
him stand out, but because he is a standout but
it's just an awkward deal. Like I saw the story.
I don't know if you guys have seen the story,
But what is Bronni supposed to call lebron if they're

(01:30:14):
on the floor together and lebron has said that he
can't call him dad? And I'm just like that, that's
the kind of thing, like does that story? It's not
about that story needing to be written, it's should that
story exist? Like it's just a weird dichotomy. Anytime a

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coach coaches his son in college. I remember it happened
at Colorado in the past as well, so this is
not it's not new, but it is always kind of awkward.
Now when you have a stud there, it's a little
bit different. But I mean Bronni, Bronni's in there because
of Dad, who I guess he's gonna call Braun on
the floor, Like I don't know what exactly he's supposed

(01:30:57):
to address him as. But do you remember Beheim had
his and Beyon's some's good too, So I mean the
examples where the guy is good, Yeah, I'm gonna go
recruit my son if my son is that good, and
s North Sanders is that good. So I understand it,
but I do think that it creates I think it
would be easy for a lot of fans, and I
imagine it is for them to kind of just not

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be down with all of that. And I know it
would be easy if you were someone that plays on
that team to feel like you're being passed over. So
it creates I think it just it creates an extra obstacle.
But Prims never really cared about obstacles. But I mean,
if they lose this game, that's uh. I understand it's
North Akota State, but they're not getting any grace out

(01:31:39):
of that, like that. They had to find a way
to win that game, and they did. But even though
they certainly have talent in some key spots, there's still
a lot of flaws in there. And I think it's
probably more likely again that they are indeed going to
be not talked about in December in terms of anything relevant,

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which is gonna that. I understand, like LSU wasn't near
a championship last year, but I just don't think you're
gonna see Travis Hunter and shud Or Sanders in a heisman.
I don't think they're being invited to New York if
the team is four and eight, and I don't know
that that's what they're gonna be. I know that Dion

(01:32:21):
said after the game, you know, we just got you
one step closer to that bowl game. So I'm glad
that he's like he's even saying, look, we're trying to
win and get eligible for a bowl. So he's kind
of I'm not saying that he's bringing expectations down, but
he is at least not speaking so blussery as if
to say things that are preposterous, like it's certainly not

(01:32:42):
within the without the or past the realm of reason
that Colorado can get to a bowl game. They absolutely can,
and they're gonna do it, largely because of the guys
that we've spent the brunt of this segment speaking about.
But it is going to be a challenge for him.
It might be an easier schedule than they last year,
but they this was one of those that they couldn't

(01:33:03):
let slip through, and lucky for them, they didn't. But
that got closer than it needed to, and late in
the second quarter, North Dakota State had the lead fourteen
to thirteen in the game and looked like they were
just playing more solid fundamentally sound football at that stage.

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But Tawan eventually did went out and Colorado won. But
I don't know if you can come away from that
feeling particularly good past the fact that the only thing
that I mean, you could have done any more than
win the game, but you could have done it in
a way that made you feel more confident about what
Colorado was going to do, you know, after that point.

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And you know, that's just that that's a thing that
you're going to run into. I think that Hunter is
Hunter and Sanders like there must see TV. That's the
other thing. Yes, you have Dion, and that's going to
make tuning into Colorado a little easier, whether you love
him or hate him. But they do have some box

(01:34:09):
office dudes on that team, and that is that's a
that's a good problem to have. Let's just say that
that is a that's a that's a crazy level of talent.
Those two guys, like, I don't think you know, you're
just the discussion about the two way side. I'm glad

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we're getting to see it, but I don't want to
see it wreck his career or shorten it because he's
just being asked to do too much. Like the college
baseball pitchers, especially in years past, that would throw one
hundred and fifty pitches and they'd be high draft picks,
but then they'd be out of the league because their
arm was shot before they ever even got there. Like,

(01:34:52):
you don't want to see that. I want to see
him be really good at one of those things, even
if the skill set in BO makes him better at each,
because it gives him a different a different observation standpoint,
like a different experimentation, like because he knows how to
receive at that level, he also understands how to defend

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because he knows what to do to overcome on both sides.
I think there is something to that, but I don't
know if you can do that long term. Now, if
you look at Colorado's schedule, they got at Nebraska and
at Colorado State. Neither one of those are going to
be easy. Even if Colorado State's not good, that's a
rivalry game and it's on the road Nebraska, they should

(01:35:34):
be better. But let's say you start out three and zero.
Then you get Baylor, and Baylor has their own issues
with you know, David Randa's seat is really hot and
they need a really good year. But there's your first
four games and then you got UCF. Let's just suggest
you're three and two and you're Colorado. There you're not
quite at mid season. Then you play against a top

(01:35:56):
twenty preseason ranked team in Kansas State. You go to
Arizona that's another ranked team. Then you play Cincinnati Texas Tech,
and you finish your season with three preseason ranked teams
Utah at Kansas and Oklahoma State Oklahoma State. That's a
sneaky game to watch on Saturday. To watch today is
Oklahoma State against the jack Rabbits of South Dakota State.

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The reason why is because first off, SDSU has a
they have the guy. Like if you're looking for the
smaller college quarterback that NFL scouts are looking at, it's him.
So they've got him. And last year they had arguably

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the best season we've ever seen one of those schools.
Half like, they just they were outrageously good. So they're
really good. Now, Oklahoma State is a very good football team,
but I don't think they're the team that they have been.
They weren't great last year, but I don't think this
is one of Gundy's best teams either. That's game just
watch that one. I think it's a ten point spread

(01:37:03):
for Oklahoma State, which tells you they aren't sure about
that one either. I mean, the Colorado spread was I
think it was ten by the time the game started,
but I think it opened at nine or nine and
a half or something like that, and they didn't cover it.
But that's the one to keep your eye on. But again,
Kansas State, Arizona, Cincinnati will I mean, they're still pretty good.

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Texas Tech can give you trouble. I guess Utah they'll
lose that game at Kansas Lance and Company. And then
Oklahoma State. If you come out three and two of
the seven that I just gave you, do you have
three more wins in you from there? I don't know,
but if you do end up six and six. I

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think the other question is what seems like a success
at Colorado this year? Because of the added attention and
all that, are the expectations higher than they used to be?
Not sure, but at the very least, if you're a
Colorado fan, you can hang your hat on the fact
that they won the game. They did beat North Dakota State.
We didn't do a segment just now about how they're

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zero to one after losing to the Bison thirty one
to twenty six. They win thirty one to twenty six,
and again there must see TV every week because they're
gonna create drama. There's a lot of flaws, which means
there's gonna be a lot of close games. But then
there's just gonna be some dynamic, highlight real stuff from
Sanders and Hunter. When we come back. We're gonna look

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on Saturday, some great ones at noon and throughout, and
then of course a big one on Sunday as well.
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at some of the matchups that are happening today in
college football. I mean, we've got some good ones. Not

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all of them are good. You know half the top
twenty five. Let me get off on a rant real fast.
I don't care about the preseason top twenty five rankings.
It does create content, and it creates like here is, oh,
you beat a ranked team? Well, I mean did you?
I mean they haven't done anything yet if they do

(01:40:41):
get upset. Did you really beat a ranked team? I
guess on paper you did. But the reason why I
don't like the preseason top twenty five is because it
creates another imaginary obstacle for some team to have to
get over that they shouldn't otherwise, I don't need to
know who the top five are. And then you're a

(01:41:02):
team for example that's like twentieth ranked. Okay, Like I'm
trying to think of a good example of it here,
but just think about all right, So Textas AY and M.
I think Texas A and M is like twenty or
twenty one in a country. Okay, let's say they go
have a crazy good year, but they start out at

(01:41:23):
twenty one. They still have to hope for all these
other teams to lose, even if they don't get to
play them, because they weren't ranked higher than them in
a preseason ranking that was based on nothing. But here's
our gut feeling. That's why I don't like it. Everybody
start at zero, and I know they do when the

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win loss column, but they don't in the rankings, and
so well, they didn't leave frog them, but they didn't
even play them like. I don't like that for that reason.
It's there for content and we get excited about it,
and then you can talk about the rank games early
in the year, which you otherwise wouldn't be able to do.
But you could still say this team would be ranked
if there were rankings, but they are always going to

(01:42:07):
be preseason rankings. I just don't like them because I
think that they then make it harder for a team
that doesn't get an early preseason ranking to advance without help,
even if they were to have a magnificent season. I
think it makes it creates more problems than it solves.
Let's just say that. But otherwise, I told you the

(01:42:31):
Sneaky Game. To pay attention to Gronowski, the quarterback for
South Dakota State. First off, watching him because he's going
to be an NFL player, at least that's the expectation.
And this is a team that had a season last
year that's as good as you'll see from the smaller league,
and they're playing against an Oklahoma State team that isn't great.

(01:42:55):
They should beat them. I think they're a ten point favorite,
and it is at home, it is in still Water,
so I mean, I assume they still win the game,
but that's one to keep your eye on, Like, if
that goes the other way, don't be surprised, especially with
it being Week one. That's the other thing. These are
eighteen year olds, nineteen year olds under a ton of pressure,
some of them for the first time ever, these giant crowds,

(01:43:17):
all of this stuff. Man, stuff goes wrong. Things just happen.
That's one of the things I love about college football
is how unpredictable it can be because when you're dealing
with immaturity, and I just mean in terms of age,
I'm not talking about how you act or morality or anything.
I'm just just an immaturity. Compared to an NFL season
player that's been in college for a few years and

(01:43:39):
now is playing at the highest level, these are in
many ways they're still just developing, and it's right for mistakes.
So you see the highs of the highs, but you
also see some lows that you're never expecting and that
just don't happen on the NFL level. I think it's
the imperfections in college football that makes it so special

(01:44:02):
and the traditions. But by the day, maybe even by
the hour, we are losing those traditions. So I digress.
I think that that game that's that South Dakota State
game with Oklahoma State is one to watch. Now. They
may end up winning by fifty and you guys are
laughing at me tomorrow, but I would watch that one

(01:44:22):
if I were you. Penn State West Virginia. I'm down
on Penn State this year because I just don't trust
James Franklin winning games. I think Neil Brown's West Virginia
team is coming in with some confidence into this. Penn
State's like a seven and a half eight point favorite.
I think it's a noon game. It's early. I don't
know if I picked the upset. I don't know if

(01:44:44):
West Virginia is the team, but I have heard a
lot of buzz about that program over this last four
or five months. So this is the kind of game
that they if they put, you know, a pushpin in
it on the blackboard. We're on their I don't know
if anybody even uses blackboards anymore, but whiteboard, the expo marker,

(01:45:04):
whatever it is. They could come in there and know,
you know, this is a statement to set us up
for the rest of the year. Penn State better show up.
And again, whenever you're saying Penn State better show up
on game day, that means the coach and I just
I don't trust it. That could go either way. Miami
at Florida. We talked early in this show this morning

(01:45:27):
about Florida's schedule. It's insane. If I'm Billy Napier, I'm
just like, man, do you just want me out? Because
that schedule is brutal. Six to the last seven games
against preseason ranked teams. I know I just ranted about them,
but I mean that means we know there's talent on
all those teams, and it's you know, being an the

(01:45:47):
SEC star. But then you open your season against the
Miami team with Mario Cristobal. His seats a little bit hot,
but they are at least and now that they know
Florida State is not Florida State, Miami's got a shot
to win that conference and If Miami wins the conference,
they get the automatic bid and not Clemson they expect.
I imagine that Clemson is gonna get drubbed by Georgia

(01:46:09):
or at least lose by a couple of touchdowns. So
Miami comes out beats Florida in the Swamp. That's a
nice victory for them early in the year. If you
play them later in the year, it's not gonna be
as impressive. But if you beat them in the Swamp
to open the season, maybe, But that that's a that's
a big time game, big time atmosphere. Both those coaches

(01:46:32):
really need a win there to get things started properly.
That's one that I just think that's gonna be a war.
There could be there could be some some fist flying
in that game, Like there's there's gonna be bad blood,
but in the good way, in the competitive way. But
that's that's gonna be a fun one. This afternoon l

(01:46:53):
s U USC is a Sunday game. We know what
that's gonna be. That is well, I mean, it's USC
joining the Big Ten. They already have their added challenge.
I don't think it's gonna go particularly great for them,
even though they're I think twenty three in a country
right now in LSU's thirteen. I don't have LSU in
my final twelve, but I had them as like the

(01:47:17):
if you want to do the first four out or
something like that, I had them in like the first
five or six out. I still think they're gonna be
good this year. I just think they're gonna get beat
up in the schedule and lose a game or two
that they that keeps them out. But that's when LSU's
done this before, and seem to do it quite a lot.
As a matter of fact, play these Sunday night games
early in the year. I didn't work out war them

(01:47:39):
last year at all. The winner here it's a real
I think it's a real springboard for your season because
both programs have high aspirations. In USC, there's just a
ton of question marks. It's what is Lincoln Riley gonna
do now without Caleb Williams. I know they've got talent
at that position, and they've got a new defensive coordinator,

(01:48:00):
but we got to see that happen because he's had
multiple defensive coordinators in his career and he's never had
a good defense, not a USC, not at Oklahoma. That's
gonna need to change, especially in the Big Ten, where
the size that he sees on a weekly basis is
gonna be different. The amount that they run the football
directly at his guys and try to control the clock.

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I mean, can you imagine USC and like the Iowa offense.
We know how bad the Iowa offense is, but the
way that they play defense and they can control the
ball even if they're not scoring, they could just bore
you to death running the ball if they need to,
like USC's gonna have to, They're gonna have to be

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tougher than we have seen. So that's a big test
against LSU for them. And then Georgia Clemson. Clemson's who
I have coming out of the ACC with Florida State
not not looking like they'd have the same level of
talent that they had a year ago. And I don't
quite buy into Miami, even though we'll see this is

(01:49:06):
not going to be a good day for Clempson. Kay Klebnick,
and with all due respect to Dabbo and everything that
they've done there, George is just a completely different animal.
Georgia has the most talent in the country. We know this,
We've seen this. It hasn't changed. Go look at the
recruiting rankings. The off season still got its problems for
Georgia when it comes to what's happening off the field.

(01:49:28):
Get these guys stop driving so fast, but they're just better.
I don't think the champion coming out of the ACC
is a top six or seven team in the league
or in the country when we get to that spot,
but I think Clemson. I think Clemson's gonna have better days.

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This is not gonna be a good one. I think
George is probably gonna win that game by a couple
of touchdowns. And then Notre Dame in a and m
Notre Dame going to Kyle Field to play in front
of almost a hund In three thousand, they renovated that stadium,
so now it's even louder than it used to be.
It's going to be nuts as an atmosphere. And you've

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got another The Notre Dame has become the Indianapolis Colts
of college football, and by that I mean not just
because they happened to be in the same state, but
because they seem to be rent a quarterback every year.
And that's what the culture trying to break with Anthony
Richardson if he's able to stay healthy this year and
become their franchise guy. But I mean it was Carson

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Wentz and it was Philip Rivers. Like once Luck left,
you didn't have anything stable, and so they would just
grab somebody new every year, and sometimes it worked. And
you know, the same thing has proven true to some
degree at Notre Dame, but didn't ended up being as
good as you thought it was going to be with
Sam Hartman. And now you've got Riley Leonard, another acc

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guy from another academic institution who's coming in that's done
a lot, who's coming back off an injury, and I've
got them high this year. I think they're going to
end up in the College Football Playoff. But you know,
this is a tough environment and it's not the Jimbo
Fisher A and M. This is a different A and M.
And that's gonna be fascinating in its own right. That's

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just there's a lot to like about that game, and
that game's going to be right there in the mix
of it's still I think gonna be on by the
time Tours and I hit the air, or it's going
to have just ended. It's going to be real close there,
so we'll be reacting in real time to that one.
So that's just some matchups to keep your eye on.
It's a pretty good, honest, it's a pretty good Week
one slate. There's there's something in every window from noon

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straight on through the end of the evening to watch.
And that's all you can ask for. Now. I asked
for one more thing, and that is one more update
from Kevin Wire. Let's go out to La find out
the latest was going on.

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keV.

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Yeah, we had a Friday night full of college football action.
We had a thrilling one late night out on the
West coast in at Palo Alto, Stanford and TCU, and
this one was close up into the last couple of
minutes before tc were able to pull away and win
it thirty four to twenty seven. But it was twenty
seven to twenty four in favor of the horn Frogs
up until the last couple of minutes. Josh Uver not

(01:52:10):
standing game at quarterback three hundred and fifty three passing
yards in a couple of touchdowns to lift TCU over Stanford.
Elsewhere in college football, Wisconsin a winner at home against
Western Michigan twenty eight fourteen Oklahoma. A dominating performance against Temple,
the Sooners winning at fifty one to three Michigan State

(01:52:30):
bit of an ailbuyer. They had to hang on for
a sixteen to ten victory against Florida. Atlantic Duke and
Army both playing FCS teams and picking up easy wins.
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Novak Djokovic the latest superstar player to lose in the
early rounds out in New York as he falls to
the number twenty eight seed. Alexei poppyren in four set, six,

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four sixty four, two six sixty four. Carlos Alcarez losing yesterday.
So that's a couple of big names out of this tournament.
It's wide open on the men side. On the women's
side of things, Coco Goff advancing in three sets, three six, six,
three sixty three against twenty seven seeded Alina s Vitelina.
In Major League Baseball show, hey Otani continuing to make history.

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tep this one's heading back toward the lawn. It's got
a home run number forty three, the first major leaguer
to have forty three home runs, forty three stolen bases,
steep passos, Alex Rodriguez to the forty two forty two club.

Speaker 1 (01:53:34):
That call set it all.

Speaker 4 (01:53:35):
That was Tim Neverett on FSR affiliate Kaylee C and
the Dodgers Radio Network. LA Does beat the Arizona Diamondbacks
on Friday Night ten to nine, but they let it
ten to five, so the bullpen almost giving up that
lead for Los Angeles. Elsewhere on the West Coast, Giants
over the Marlins three to one, Mariners top the Angels
nine to five, and the Orioles over the Rockies in
Denver five to three. Caitlin Clark thirty one points and

(01:53:58):
twelve assists Friday night as the Indiana Fever now five
hundred on the season, they beat the Chicago Sky one
hundred and eighty one.

Speaker 6 (01:54:06):
Sixteen and sixteen for the Fever.

Speaker 4 (01:54:09):
That's a year after they finished dead last in the
Eastern Conference and hey, I'll find themselves in a playoff positions.
They're currently in the sixth seed in the playoff standings.
Angel Reese also having herself a solid game a double
double again ten points, eleven rebounds for Chicago's sensational rookie
Breonna Stewart, a big game for the New York Liberty

(01:54:29):
thirty six points as New York beats the Seattle Storm
ninety eight to ninety five.

Speaker 1 (01:54:33):
Back to you, Thank you, Kevin. He mentioned Otani forty three,
forty three first ever. He's the best baseball player I've
ever seen, and I'm it's not even particularly close. I

(01:54:53):
was with Brian no on Monday morning and we did
mention that you've got to appreciate this. I talked earlier
about make sure that you watch greatness and appreciate it
while it's happening, or try to try to slow down
enough to appreciate it. This is all time great, and
what Aaron Judge is doing is all time great, and
it's all happened in the same year. It's not been

(01:55:14):
the best year for baseball when it comes to just
eyeballs and attention. I think the regional sports network thing
really hurt. Definitely hurt me as a Braves fan not
being able to watch them every day. It just made
it hard to stay completely dialed into a league that
I was fully invested in a year ago. But Otani
is just is it ridiculous to say he might even

(01:55:35):
be underpaid considering what he's being paid just preposterously good,
dumb levels of good. It's a privilege that we are
able to watch him do what he does. When we
come back at this break final segment, Dak Prescott is
talking a lot about money, and I think that the

(01:55:58):
money comes with the performance. We'll discuss that to finish
off the program. Next, it's the Bernie Frado Show. I'm
Jason Martin and for Bernie here on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 3 (01:56:07):
listen live.

Speaker 1 (01:56:20):
Final segment of the program, Bernie Frado Show here Fox
Sports Radio. I'm Jason Martin. I've been in for Bernie tonight.
Starting off your football Saturday Coming up next mypel Jason Fitz,
Anthony Googano, the Fellas. Just stick around for that here. Also,

(01:56:40):
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(01:57:01):
to Kickoff, presented by bet MGM right here on Fox
Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app. Dak Prescott he said
something to the extent of it shows a lot, or
it says a lot that you know they don't have
a deal and they're talking about a deal here before
the season, and so what does that mean? Well, just

(01:57:22):
where people's heads are. I think it's what he said.
He said it wasn't gonna affet him. He's worried about
the season, all this kind of stuff, but he did
manage to say that in the process. Dak is by
all accounts, very good guy, good in the community, easy
to root for. I don't root here, though, just because

(01:57:43):
I don't need you to talk a lot. I just
needs you to play in this case, because I think
that what you're talking about gets taken care of if
you play. I could bring up his stats. I know
his stats have been good, but he is not measured
by what he does in the regular season. He's measured
as are we did earlier. I did it earlier in
the second hour said who of these three AFC quarterbacks

(01:58:03):
has the most pressure on them this year? Josh Allen,
Lamar Jackson Tuwatongue below and I said it was Josh Allen.
And the main reason why is because now that Stefan
Diggs has gone, Gave Davis has gone, all these guys
that you're used to wearing Bill's jerseys as pass catchers
for Josh Allen are not there. So it's a new crop.
If the new crop fails, it's going to be on

(01:58:25):
Josh Allen. I think, I think the pressure is there
where they're going to say, oh, well, you weren't able
to bring them up to the level. So maybe you
were just a product of your talent because Stefan Diggs
was there. Remember when Tyreek Hill left, it was how
we recognized the greatness of Patrick Mahomes being even maybe
more special to me thought was how he was still
Patrick Mahomes after Tyreek Hill and even last year by

(01:58:49):
the time you got to the Super Bowl, he had
found something in his young guys. Josh Allen needs to
have that kind of season. Similarly, well, when you look
at Dak Prescott, he's obviously gonna have a lot of
pressure on him all the time. But if Josh Allen
goes to performs, it's not gonna matter how much pressure
he has on him to open the season, He's gonna
have succeeded. Dak Prescott has done squat in the postseason,

(01:59:11):
and so I don't really and I don't think anybody
measures him based on his regular season stats. We know
he can play. Here's the question, though, the deal that
he seeks, are you irreplaceable? Can you not find another
Dak Prescott if you're the Dallas Cowboys or someone that
gives you similar production. I think the answer, of course,

(01:59:33):
is no, He's not irreplaceable. He's not Patrick Mahomes, he's
not Joe Burrow, He's not, in my opinion, CJ. Stroud,
He's not that guy. He's a very good quarterback. I
stopped short of calling him anything more than that. And
I think it's very possible he's wearing a different jersey
next year. Maybe he's with the Raiders. That's been speculated

(01:59:55):
and talked about. But him saying you know it says
a lot. We don't have a deal, and you know,
my agent and the team, they're gonna decide if we
talk about this during the season. The Cowboys are not
gonna have a good year. They're just not. I'm here
to tell you that right now. Seedy got paid and
that was the best decision that Jerry has made in
a while. But you still got some other guys that
want money, and that's been a malcontent situation. I still

(02:00:17):
don't think your head coach is very good. By very
good meaning what that means NFL parlance meaning super Bowl
level to me. And then you just it's just everything
that's being talked about seems to be not the field.
And now you got Debron Bland out for a while.
On top of that, you're all pro corner. Just every

(02:00:38):
story about the Cowboys in the offseason outside of that
Ceedee Lamb getting paid story this week has been not
the stuff you want. So I don't like their season.
Chances if that goes out and plays, he's gonna get paid.
It's that simple. He doesn't need to talk about that
says a lot. We don't have a deal. No, you
can say far more by going out there and bawling

(02:00:59):
out all season and shutting everyone up, every skeptic or
everyone that's at least hesitant. You see deals made when
someone has something to lose. Iyuk and the forty nine ers.
That finally happened because both parties recognized and I think
the Niners always wanted a Uk, but they wanted him

(02:01:20):
at their number, not his, and so they let him
find out that his number probably wasn't out there for
him to get somewhere else that he wanted to be,
and so they were able to get him pretty much
at the deal that he said no to, or his
agent said no to a couple months ago. They had
to leverage the whole time, and you know, he did
what he could and he's certainly no reason not to

(02:01:41):
do that. But and he got paid pretty well. Maybe
not what he wanted, but he got paid pretty well.
But that's what it is right now. Who's got something
to lose in this Dallas Dack thing really none of
them because they're not going to win Super Bowl anyway.
Dak doesn't have anything to lose right now, and the
Cowboys don't need to rush and get this done either
because there's no I don't think the market is giant

(02:02:05):
for Tag Prescott right now, not at the money that
he wants. So we'll see how that goes. But that's
another big question mark entering the seasons. Is that drama
going to continue to sit over that franchise throughout the season.
Is that actually going to play a negative? All right,
The Fellows are coming up next, then you got count
down to kickoff and then it's college football check out.

(02:02:26):
Me and Aaron Torres tonight eleven pm Eastern Time, will
be with you for three hours, looking forward. So forward
to doing that and we will see you then. Appreciate
Bernie having me in you guys, have a great day.
Enjoyed the ball

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