November 25, 2025 • 36 mins
RICK NEUHEISEL (CBS Sports) joins the show as college football has announced a delay in deciding the future of the CFP. Could they expand to 24-teams? What shakeups does Coach Neuheisel expect in tonight’s CFP rankings? It’s rivalry week and Oregon is coming to Montlake; do the Huskies have a chance? Plus, a look at the rest of the rivalry matchups. :30- Earlier, we talked about the NFC west and the remaining schedules for the three contenders, now we take a broader look at the NFC playoff picture. Who do we see falling out playoff contention and who will step up? :45- We close out the Tuesday show with one last thing!
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new Heiseel. How you doing today, Rick, Happy Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Happy Thanksgiving to you, Bucky. I'm doing fine. We got
the last week of the college football season. We got
the CFP getting ready to announce what that looks like tonight.
We'll see where if anything changed, Not much in the
way of movement in terms of wins and losses, but
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some power. I'm anxious to see if Notre Dame goes
past Oklahoma tonight with the heels of a seventy seven
bludgeoning of Syracuse. They remain ahead of Miami even though
Miami beat them, So that's kind of an interesting thing.
How far Vanderbilt's off the pace. Vanderbilt has a chance
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to win ten games for the first time in school history.
They're the only Power four team that's never won ten,
so that's kind of fascinating as they get ready to
go to Niland Stadium and Knoxville. Yeah, lots going on,
And then you saw that the CFP in ESPN extended
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the deadline. No longer is it December one. We're actually
going to wait till January twenty third to see if
we're going to change the format, which allows the two commissioners,
Greg Sankee and Tony Pettiti to do a little horse
trading as to how they're going to do this. And
I think we might blow right past sixteen teams, Bucky,
we might get all the way to twenty four by
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January twenty third.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Wow, I mean, I guess yeah, because that's the main
hang up there is whether or not it's automatic bids
or whatnot, Right, I mean, the SEC and Big ten
are at odds to some degree about how that whole
thing would work if it's just five conference champs and
a bunch at large, or if there's automatic bids. And
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you're saying if they do delay this and come to
a liking agreement between both of them. You think it's
going to be because they get all the way to
twenty four teams.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Huh, Well, here's what just happened today. You know, there's
this basketball tournament going on in Las Vegas where they're
actually paying the players. The money's up for nil, right,
and so the winning teams are going to get an
extra bucket of cash. And so everybody's kind of interested
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in this tournament, right because it's the future of college athletics.
We're paying players. So the Big twelve just took a
fifteen percent stake in this tournament. It's called the Players
Era Tournament. It remains to be seen if the SEC
and the Big ten and the ACC are going to
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follow suit, But if they do, you can see where
that model could extend to the college football world. And
if that happens, then you could see where as everybody's
looking for more money, we're aware that, you know, the
University of Cali California pension Fund is offering an excess
of two billion dollars to the Big Ten one hundred
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million dollars at least per school and to become a
partner of the Big Ten and then get their principal
back in twenty forty four and then I've obviously earned
a bunch of money between now and then. It's fascinating
to see if that model doesn't extend. As we're looking
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at the basketball tournament might not make sense at the
CFP level, where the two commissioners can't determine how you're
going to get teams in. Well, it won't be as
much a big deal if most of your teams get in,
and that twenty fourteen field would make sure that we're
not excluding a usc this year. We're not excluding a
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Vanderbilt this year. You know, you can see where they're
getting excited about that. And if there's some private money
that goes along with it, maybe that solved some of
the economic issues facing all these athletic directors. It's an
incredibly interesting time to follow college athletics.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Coach.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Do you worry at all though, that this is another
example of college football getting ahead of themselves, because I mean,
so far in the last years we've had you know,
the transfer portal out of control, and NIL has just
kind of you know, gotten massive, and we've got these
coaches that they're opting to leave and all of these
things that it's kind of seems like they let it
get ahead of itself and then they've got to rein
it back.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
It seems like by going from have a year of.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
A college football playoff two before the second one is done,
expanding it to twenty four would be another example of
them getting ahead of themselves.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
First of all, let me just say I'm guessing why
they're doing this. Yeah, obviously obviously they want to earn
more money, right, so to leave it at twelve teams,
they get no more money. The question is will ESPN
pay more money for just four more games? And the
answers probably know they already signed the deal. It's like
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Brian Kelly right now in LSU. They keep wanting him
to take less and he said, no, I signed the deal,
you owe me this money. And so now they're threatening
all this you know stuff that they have, you know,
dirt on him or what have you going to embarrass him.
It's unseemly and it's embarrassing, but it's happening. So what
we have to do is figure out exactly what's best
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for college athletics because college football. What's best for college
football is also best for college athletics because it pays
the for the rest of it. But it's fascinating, and
you mentioned the calendar, Ashlely. The calendar is ridiculous. We
have to change the calendar. We right now have Lane
Kiffin sitting there at Old Miss getting ready to coach
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an egg bull on Friday, and he won't tell us
whether he's either going to be along for the ride,
assuming they win in their favor to do so, if
he's going to be along for the ride in the
college football playoff be the best season in the history
of Old Miss, and he won't tell us if he's
even going to stay there. He may take the LSU job.
I just told you how embarrassing that situation is. He
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may take the Florida job, which has also got a
lawsuit right now by a former recruit by the name
of Jaden Rashada who's suing Billy Napier, the old coach,
and the school for offering a big ton of money
for him to come there as a recruit and then
renigging on the deal. That lawsuit is still pending. So
we have so many issues, but it's all because of
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this calend. Under this calendar, there's on December third. We're
going to sign recruiting classes on December third through the seventeenth.
There's going to be finals on campus, and then you've
got championship games, and then you've got college football playoff games,
and then you've got a transfer portal. Before we even
get to the semi finals of this deal, a transfer
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portal opens where players can come and go, just like
coaches are coming and going. Now, it's nonsensical, and we've
got to get our arms around it. And I hope
somebody comes to their senses that has some clouds to
do something about it.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I'm with you one hundred percent. I mean, the big
picture just seems like, oh my gosh, there could be chaos,
and yet you know they'll find a way to survive.
I mean, it's just too bad.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Well, the problem, the problem, Bucky, is it's obscuring what
we've spent all this time working towards, which is our
college football playoff. We are basically making that the least
interesting story. We'd rather talk about where the coaches are going,
what players are leading. You know, Sam Lovett, the quarterback
at Arizona State. He led the sun Devils to the
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incredible season a year ago where they made the College
Football Playoff and had Texas absolutely on the brink of extinction.
Right they were had at fourth and thirteen in the
Peach Bowl, Matthew Golden makes the catch in Texas somehow survived,
but Sam Lovett was a hero. He and Cam Skataboo
or the big names of the Sun Devils. Well, he's hurt,
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lost for the season. But the word at Arizona State
is he's now taking a deal, whether it be with
James Franklin a Virginia Tech or to be the guy
who replaces Carson Beck at Miami for somewhere around eight
million bucks. Holy smoked, what are we doing. We can't
afford it. And we just have to get some arms
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around this, whether it be through collective barting or common sense,
and right now we don't have either.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I hear you, and yet I do want to get
your take on the more granular, the thing that is
important at this point in time, beyond all of the
stuff that's happening outside, which is the college Football Playoff.
Tonight we get another version of the College Football Playoff
rankings leading up to that selection Sunday here in a
few weeks. But are you seeing any shakeup. Is this
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the year that Indiana or the week that Indiana gets
maybe leap frog by A and M is this could
Oregon be moving up? There's probably some shake up down
there at the bottom in the eleven and twelve spots too,
wouldn't you think?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I think we'll see. If they the impressive Oregon win
last week, congratulations to your ducks. If they jump Ole
miss Ole miss is vital, it's possible that they could
go past them. It's also passable that MIAI that's Notre Dame.
On the heels of a seventy to seven victory in
which they had the ball eighteen minutes. They for seventy
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points in eighteen minutes of possession times, it's possible they
could go past Oklahoma, who beat Missouri, but Missouri was
not quite up to snuff and it was kind of
an ugly game. If that happens, maybe they'd stay ahead
of Miami in terms of beating compared to Miami in
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how the committee goes about making their rankings, and if
they are not in the same pool with Miami, then
they avoid that head to head conflict. That seems like
so logical for all of us as college football fans,
and yet doesn't seem logical at all to find people
in the committee room who make these determinations. It's going
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to go down as the greatest frustration. Maybe it since
Florida State was thirteen and oh and didn't get in.
If Miami doesn't get in and Notre Dame does and
they have the same record, it's going to be a
colossal head stretcher for everybody that roots of the team
from South Florida.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
I'll never forget fueled my hatred, honestly for Notre Dame.
Was watching it was like a revealing show of the
college football rankings a long long time ago, and one
of the announcers was like, well, or if Notre Dame
gets into a bowl game, that's good for everyone in
college football, And I thought it was the most absurd
comment I'd ever heard in my life.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
So that just reminded me of it.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Obviously, you actually they're the rolling Stamps. You know what
is as old as Mick Jagger is? You still want
to go see him?
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
I know.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Ugh gives me the heb gbs.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
Okay, well, coach, we got a big game here obviously
this week with Oregon in town to face the Huskies
and Bucky and I've been talking all morning about how
confident we're feeling about both both teams a little banged
up obviously. You know, Washington and Oregon, this rivalry different
than it was just a couple of years ago when
both were vying for a shot at heading to a
national championship. But Washington has a chance to ruin Oregon season.
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Do you think that's enough to give the dogs a boost?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
They're going to play their best game. Demon Williams was
fantastic in the second half against UCLA last week. Oregon
was fabulous in corralling a high flying FC offense and
then could kind of just putting the ball on the
ground and punching out that game that was heading it up.
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Whether or not Washington has for wherewithal to stop Oregon's
running game is going to be the key. Ryan Walters
is kind of playing with hot dice right now, the
defensive coordinator for Washington. I think it's going to be
a really competitive game. It always is. Was one of
my favorite games to coach in against the Ducks, just
because of the energy on the field. Everybody was certainly
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all in in terms of wanting to compete in that game,
so I think you're in for a whale of a game.
I think the Ducks are a little bit better, and
so I'd probably lean Oregon if I had to pick
one side or the other. But Demon Williams is capable
both special things. It'll be interesting how healthy the Boston
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kid is and whether or not he can have an
impact in the game.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Yeah, yeah, Rick. I mean, the health obviously is something
you got to deal with as a football coach, regardless.
And yet both of these teams are dinged w and
Jonah Coleman got in and got a touchdown last weekend,
but he did not look right with that knee, and
then Boston Denzel Boston wasn't even in there. And Oregon
doesn't have I think three of their top four wide receivers.
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I mean, they're down the depth chart in multiple spots,
and they keep having an offensive lineman drop and so
health wise, I mean, when you start looking at the
depth that you need basically at this point in the season, unfortunately,
but it's necessary. Where are you see in the depth
when it comes into this, because I kind of the
advantage of being at home for the Huskies is one
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advantage I would think that Oregon has a little bit
more depth. What's your eye both telling you.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
I think you're exactly right. Oregon has more of quality
players based on their recruiting, their ability to finance their recruiting,
there's no question that their depth is superior to Washington's.
So that will play into this. And here's one thing
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that Oregon definitely wants to do. They need to win
this game and then hope, like heck that Ohio State
handles business against Michigan because the last thing they want
to do is have to go play in the in
the Big Ten championship game. They want a week to
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heal and to get ready for the college football playoffs,
so they do not want to have to go play
another game, even though they won't say so. They want
the Georgia path right now. Georgia Hits is the number
four team in the country and they have Georgia Tech
this weekend on Friday. So if they win the game,
they're going to be pulling for all of and Texas
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A and M because they want those two teams to
go play in the SEC Championship game. They think by
virtue of their victory and hopefully it'll be an impressive one,
if you're a Georgia fan, that they could get all
the way to January first. They could be one of
the top four teams, get a bye, not have to
play in the first round, not have to play in
the SEC Championship game, and you have to get to
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be healthy by December. Excuse me, January first, and play
in the quarterfinals. By the way, remember it was them
that lost Carson Beck in the SEC Championship game last
year and was unavailable for the CFP.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Yeah. Crazy, it's crazy how that could work out. But
I'm with you one hundred percent. I mean, there's a
bunch of rivalry games this weekend. You just kind of
nailed one Ohio State, Michigan. I mean, I suppose we
don't have a time, We don't have enough time to
go through all of them. But Ohio State, Michigan, Texas
A and M Texas, the Georgia, Georgia Tech. Maybe those
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are the three big ones. Which what's the most interesting
storyline for you on this rivalry week Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
I think it's well, the Egg Bowl ol miss Mississippi
State because of Lane Kiffins Shenanigans. Yeah, it's going to
be fascinating. You know, remember two years ago, he had
this kind of dalliance with Auburn during the Egg Bowl
week and then announced that he was staying late in
the week. But they still got beat by Mississippi State
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that weekend, even though they were favored and so forth.
So to me, is this going to be lightning striking
again that they lose their hold on a CFP spot
and Lane is sitting there looking down at all the
old myths fans who financed all these acquisitions in the
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transfer portal and having to say, sorry, is he's leaving
Freether Florida or l shit. That's to me the wild
story the Ohio State Michigan game, given the fact that
Ohio State's lost corn a row is an amazing story
unto itself, and yet they won the national championship last year.
So here comes Sheron Moore, who's was the head coach
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in two of those games, with a chance with a
Washington win to get himself into the Big Ten championship
in the College Football Playoffs if he does it for
a fifth time, And you can imagine the amazing Blue
looking forward to having another three hundred and sixty five
days to crow about owning the Ohio State University, so lots,
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and then you've got Auburn Alabama in the late Saturday
night that the Atlanta Rhythm Section used to have a
song called Spooky. That's Jordan Harris Spooky for Alabama. And
if Alabama loses the playoff spot to Auburn, as Auburn
tries to get bull eligible with DJ Diurkin as their
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head coach and Ashton Daniels does their quarterback, that will
be a story that Kaylin de Boor will say, spooky
isn't nearly a strong enough word.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Yeah, yeah, no doubt about it. Man, There's gonna be
so much I mean, with the NFL schedule starting up,
and then you got college football Friday Saturday. I mean,
there is so much stuff going on with storylines that abound.
I need to get what is your Taco Time pick
of the week.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
We're going to take the over in the Egg Bowl.
Sixty two and a half is the number of points
that they say will be scored in this game. We're
going to say more than that. I think Blake Shape
and in Mississippi State in front of a home crowd
are going to be ready to move. It's not as
formidable as ole Miss defense as it was a year ago,
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and certainly ole Miss knows how to move the ball
with Trinity ex see me Printidad Chamblets as their quarterback
and Key one Lazy as they're running back. Those two
guys are high flying. I think the game's high scoring.
And look, I can't wait to see the post game
press conference.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Yeah, one hundred percent. That is going to be crazy
sixty two and a half. I wouldn't be surprised if
they both passed that as well. What's your what you
go to coach when it comes to thanks skimming? Are
you just traditional turkey guy? Or you you somebody mixes
it up? Do you have a whole plate? How long
you eat leftovers?
Speaker 2 (19:20):
For I'm big on the leftovers. The sandwich is especially
on those Hawaiian little bowls and those are off the charts.
But I kind of moved through the regular fair into
the dessert. I'm a pumpkin ris smothered with whipstream guy.
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That is it's decadence and I only like it this
time of year, but I can't wait.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
That is interesting because pumpkin pie seems to be a
very hot button thing, like people either love it or
they can't stand it. I'm kind of in the middle,
like all have a piece around Thanksgiving and then I don't.
I don't want it ever again until the next Thanksgiving, right, I.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Don't have a craving for it any other time than
this year. But I if I see any pie, then
I haven't got enough with stream. I want it smothered,
and that is like a delicate piece to me.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
I hear you. Well, you have a great Thanksgiving, Coach,
and we'll be seeing you on TV and talk to
you again next week.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Happy Thanksgiving to one and all. Go dogs, enjoy and
Bucky go duck hey, enjoy, enjoy. The weekend should be
trot with all sorts of storylines.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
It will it will you have a great weekend, a
good Thanksgiving yourself, seeing out Coach Rick new Heisel there
with us and breaking down all of the storylines that
go from big picture thirty thousand foot view all the
way down to I think he said the Ducks are
going to crush the Huskies there. I'm pretty sure I
heard that.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
I didn't. I don't think we heard the same thing.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Didn't here, You didn't hear that?
Speaker 4 (21:01):
No?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Maybe just thinking on my part, maybe I think you
said they're a lot deeper and way more talented.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
I don't think you said way more talent like supreme.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Did he say Supreme?
Speaker 4 (21:12):
No, I think you were thinking about pizza so Supreme.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
No, No, I think you said nothing like. Yeah, I'm
pretty sure Supreme was what I heard. Maybe not. Maybe
we'll discuss what he said in the next one. Everybody
needs to stick around and we'll come back and talk
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to the Chucking Bok Show. It is Chuck and Ashley
Charles's home, probably whipping up some gravy. I would imagine
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to put on Bjorst or whatever it was that they
have sometimes. Yeah, yeah, I don't know. Hopefully saw us
gravy with that if he doesn't.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Go traditionally put gravy on.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
Oh no, it's not a broad worst, No, it's it's
like a beat or I can.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Put gravy on anything.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Gravy wouldn't make it better.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
I'm certain because I don't love it, but it'd be
weird you just make it more soupy.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Well, I'm just thinking he's doing the stuff all mixed
up because you know that he's decorating for Christmas prematurely.
We know that, and he's probably doing other things prematurely
as well, And I think he needs to.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Pull himself together that time of year.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Is it the prematurit time of year? All right? Well,
one thing we might be getting a little bit premature
on here, and yet I don't care uh is talking
about playoffs playoffs, But I do think because we did
a little exercise to start the show today where I
I kind of broke down the toughest strength of schedule
for the three teams you're vying with in the NFC.
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I mean, we can kick the Cardinals out. They're not
coming back and being a threat to anybody in this division.
Rams are on top of the thing right now, Seahawks
are and second. San Francisco forty nine Ers are basically
half a game behind them at eight and four. I
am at this point, and I don't know where if
you agree or not, I kind of feel like both
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of these teams, all three of these teams, excuse me,
are going to make the playoffs. I think three teams
from the NFC West are going to make it. Based
on the schedule, I mean, these teams just have to
take care of business. San Francisco might be the one
that I would worry most about not making it if
I was a Niner fan, because they're so dinged up,
and yesterday they played like garbage against the Panthers. And
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yet the Panthers are a team I don't know for
sure if that's because they actually are fairly decent. That's
why they've kind of hung around, and so I think
for sure too, I think the Rams and Seahawks for
sure one to two. Order is yet to be determined.
I think a Thursday night game here in a month
or three weeks is going to be a big factor
in that. But the Rams definitely have the easiest road
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to win in the division. The Seahawks have probably the
most difficult run to win in the division, even more
so than the Niners in my opinion. But I think
all three of them are going to make it. I
think a good exercise we could do right now is
we go down the NFC. At this point, the Rams
number one, Eagles, number two, Bears, number three, Buccaneers number four.
Seahawks are there at number five, and that's simply because
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the Buccaneers at six and five would win their division,
So the Seahwks would be the number one wildcard team.
Then the Packers at seven three and one, and then
the Niners at eight and four. Is there a team
you think is going to fall out of that group?
And if so, who do you think might jump up
and sniper that. We have the Lions that basically would
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be in the mix there at seven and four. They're
right behind San Francisco at eight and four, Caroline Panthers
six and six, Cowboys maybe at five and five and one.
They have kind of a nice looking schedule moving forward.
I think that might be where it stops. The Falcons
are at four and seven. At that point, I mean,
then you're getting into the Falcons, Vikings, Cardinals, Commanders, Saints,
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and Giants. Those teams I would just think are pretty
much out of it. So how do you how do
you see this NFC playoff situation shaken out? Ashley?
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Well, it's interesting because I would say just based on
looking at the teams, not looking at their schedules at all,
I think the Buccaneers would be the team most likely
to fall out. They started out the season playing really well.
They haven't been playing as well as of late, and
now Baker Mayfield's injured, although whether Humless time or not,
we have no idea. Then I looked at their schedule though, HM, Cardinals, Saints, Falcons, Panthers, Dolphins, Panthers,
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They're not falling out of the pime, I would agree, Yeah,
So I would look at Chicago Eagles, Packers, Browns, Packers, Niners, Lions.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
That is a tough last six games.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
Yeah, and now, and you know the Bears, they've played
well well, They've played well enough, They've won a lot
of very close games. Nobody can figure out how they
can keep doing it. Nobody thinks it's sustainable. I think
this last six games of their schedule is going to
prove that it's not sustainable.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
I would say the Bears are most likely to fall out.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
That would be my guess as well. And then that
basically opens the door. I mean their division, they're right
now eight and three, Packers are right behind them, half
a game behind, seven to three and one. And then
the Detroit Lions had another half game behind them at
seven and four. I think the Lions are the best team,
But then again, I'm not sure if I should be
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thinking that the way that they've put last year, we
watched this Detroit Lions team. Now everybody's entitled to. You
lose a game the year before, you found a way
to pull out, that's understandable. They just don't look the same.
They don't look like they're crazy dominant. Now they've whooped
up on a couple teams here and there, but for
the most part, it's like they've scratched out w's. I
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mean the way in which they barely beat the Giants
last week. I mean, you know, they end up beating
them by seven points, but I mean they were behind
at times in that game, and Jameis Winston is just
putting up points left and right, ONYA. That to me
is not a great sign. But then that was on
the heels of losing a game against the Eagles where
you couldn't do anything offensively. So to me, it's they
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seem a little bit more sketchy than I would have
thought in years past, for sure, and yet I still
feel like that the Dan Campbell factor. I think that
they will dig deep. I think they will find a
way to jump up there. And I think that the
only logical thing would be the Chicago Bears, how difficult
their schedule is. If they drop three or four games
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and find themselves at nine and eight, then I think
they'll find themselves on the outside looking in, because I
think the Packers will right the ship enough. I think
the Detroit Lions are right the ship enough, and outside
of that, I just don't see a whole heck of
a lot of teams that are going to be vying
for any of those top seven spots.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
Yeah, although I did look at the Packers schedule too,
and that's a tricky one too because it's Lions, Bears,
Broncos Bears, Ravens Vikings, and if this Ravens team is
who people are thinking that they will actually be at
the end of the year. I mean, I think they'll
have no trouble with the Vikings. But I would have
thought that the Packers would have had no trouble with
the Vikings the first time they played, and they did.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
That's true.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Yeah, So I don't know. It's gonna be interesting.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
I I do think though it's going to be it's
going to be the.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Bears, and they're possibly the Packers. Yeah, that would be mine.
That might yeah, that we bomped out would.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
And that would make room for the Lions, then you
would assume would get in there. And I don't know
who else Carolina, Dallas.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
Yeah, one of the I don't I just don't see
Fear doing it.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
But yeah, I kind of feel I could see the
Lions jumping up and taking somebody's spot, right, and that
either think the wis one would be the Bears.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
One of them's got to be that that division though, right,
And although we'd already discussed Tampa Bay's not going anywhere,
I don't.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Think, right, but that's yeah, I think, oh.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
Yeah, I would think it would be the Dallas Cowboys
over the Panthers personally.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Yeah, hut, it's gonna be interesting.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
There's a lot, especially looking at those last six weeks
of just the Packers, Lions, and Bears schedules.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
That's gonna be very interesting. M hm.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Well that's I mean, you got the Lions, Packers, and
Bears are all going for that division.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
So if it's to say after you say.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Oh my Lions and Packers and Bears, oh my, yeah,
I didn't think about that. I'm not that quick. Well,
hopefully I will be quick enough to get out here,
because we got one last thing on the other side.
Sports Radio ninety three point three KGRFM, Welcome back to
the show. One final thing. It's actually one last thing,
(29:50):
but it's kind of one final thing for Ashley and I. Again,
we've been here for four hours doing pretty bowsome radio.
I mean I would agree, oh would you? Yeah, I
was being facetious. I actually just told Anders and Kid
outside I said last segment was the first one that
(30:12):
I felt awake enough to actually host a radio show.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
Well, welcome, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Yeah. I don't know what I can do more about
it other than just change who I am because I
have I've drank about seventy ounces of coffee today. Oh,
it just didn't kick in until nine thirty.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
Well, you know what, there's always tomorrow. Maybe it'll kick
in at least by nine to twenty. And you've improved.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Yeah, that's true. I'm gonna you know what, guys, I'm
planning on three good segments too.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
Okay, I like that, but we the good.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Thing is tomorrow for my well, I'll say that for
I was gonna say the good thing tomorrow is we're
going to get to dive into Seahawks or the Seahawks
round table? Is that one at eight? That one's at nine,
that's at nine, but eight we're doing a Husky round
Husky round table.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
So tomorrow, I mean, if you're one of the people
that does not like when I'm hosting tomorrow, basically I'm
just the last coup of hours, I'm gonna step aside
now the first two hours. Oh it's on. It's on
like Donkey Kong, because it is the last day before
the Ducks Huskies matchup, in which you guys are trying
to ruin my entire fall.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, does that mean.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
When you're so happy about it, I think.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
You would be just as happy if we were.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
I would not even be as happy. I would not
because I don't have the same hatred in my heart.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Well you should. Yeah, you're promoting sports hatred. Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
If Palmer says I hate somebody like no, no, it's
too strong of a word.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
We don't hate him exactly exactly, and.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
Then I'll be like, well except for Nicks, Yeah, no,
I don't tell her to hate Bonnicks.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
Now she should hate.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Okay, yeah, all right, that's fine, fair enough. Do you
have one last thing?
Speaker 4 (31:58):
I do have a one last thing?
Speaker 5 (31:59):
Or I told you if you want to be tame
at the tailgate on Saturday, don't play Survivor flip cups. Okay,
well you know flip cup, right, yeah, okay, So with
Survivor Flip Cup, you have.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
A whole long table lined with people.
Speaker 5 (32:15):
Everyone cheers, is at the same time, puts their cup
down at the same time, drinks at the same time,
and tries to flip at the same time. The last
person to flip their cup is that. Oh and that's
why you can't be tame if you're good at flip cup,
because you will play all the way till the end.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Oh and so you actually get kind of reward punished,
you do for being good.
Speaker 5 (32:35):
I've gotten sucked into many a game where I was like, oh,
I shouldn't play because I'm not good at a lot
of things. But I am pretty damn good at flip Cup,
and I've won in three weeks in a row. I
won it and finished second, and the third time I
was like, I'm not going to play.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
They're like, just leave her, just exit early. Just go
out early.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
I was like, I can't make people think I suck
at flip Cup.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
What do you think I am?
Speaker 1 (32:57):
What am I going to do? Sacrifice my integrity for
the same of my liver? Yeah, come on, liver regenerates,
So the only thing worries integrity doesn't.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
The only thing worse than winning is finishing second because
you still drink the same amount you just didn't win.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Yeah, that doesn't.
Speaker 5 (33:11):
No, it's not great ultimate And granted they're not whole cups.
You're filling like an inch.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
So it's not like of Tito's vodka.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
No, that would I love Tito's vodka, but that would
that would be Trouble's Survivor.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
You gotta do something with a lot lower alcohol content.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Okay, townsend whiskey.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
I will.
Speaker 5 (33:31):
I won't tell you how to tailgate, but I'll tell
you if you want to play Survivor clip Cup, I
would not play it with either of them with booze.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Okay, all right, fair enough. I will heed that warning,
and I will have my son and yeah, so I
probably will.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
Not want you to because he'll cheer you on.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
He would, and I have a feeling, I mean, the
competitive nature, it's just it's there.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
That's the problem that it happens.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
It's even if you don't play, it's happening right near you,
and then you're like watching it and you're like, sometimes
I just have to walk away because I'm like, I
just want to be all of you.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Yeah, I'm not gonna be I wouldn't be able to quit.
And the thing is is, I'm certain if a game
does a game break out every time?
Speaker 4 (34:07):
Oh yeah, multiple, So there's.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Zero chance that I'm gonna not get sucked into one.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
Just one. But just don't get sucked into multiple and
you'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
And I don't know if I'm that good at flip cups.
A matter of fact, I think I've done it once
or twice in my life.
Speaker 4 (34:19):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
It's just a red solo cup that you put down
like normal after it empty, and then you on the
edge of the table. You just flip it up and
try to make it land on its head.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
I don't think it's that hard.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
Yeah, I think I'm gonna do it now.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
I mean, I'm gonna try it now now, and I
want to beat you.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
I'll have hours just happened.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
To recover the game. Yeah, So if you want to
be tamed, don't do it. And we just basically three minutes.
It's on.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
It's on Washington, Oregon. Here we go.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
All right, all right, I'm gonna see my son. Can
he play without drinking?
Speaker 4 (34:52):
No? No kids allowed?
Speaker 1 (34:53):
No kids allout? Is there an area that you like
quarantine them all?
Speaker 5 (34:56):
No?
Speaker 4 (34:56):
No, no, they can hang out there.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
So where is this tailgate? You tell people?
Speaker 2 (35:01):
Or no?
Speaker 4 (35:01):
I mean, it's just tell me.
Speaker 5 (35:03):
It's in the north parking lot between the staircases.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
You'll see, Okay, very easy to find.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
All right, Well, anybody that's going to the game, you
can come find us and I'll kick your acid Flip
Cup Survivor Series two.
Speaker 5 (35:16):
Also because I just got we just got a text
from Keith and I can see that he's still listening.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Hold on, Oh triple screech here, boy, that's a great
way to kick off Turkey hump Day. And Turkey hump
Day we started it, ended it there you go, screeches
all over the joint. All right, Well there's some screeching
that's coming up next. You got MJ and Chris Kid
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
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Speaker 1 (00:31):
That is the voice of the one and only Rick
new Heiseel. How you doing today, Rick, Happy Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Happy Thanksgiving to you, Bucky. I'm doing fine. We got
the last week of the college football season. We got
the CFP getting ready to announce what that looks like tonight.
We'll see where if anything changed, Not much in the
way of movement in terms of wins and losses, but
(00:59):
some power. I'm anxious to see if Notre Dame goes
past Oklahoma tonight with the heels of a seventy seven
bludgeoning of Syracuse. They remain ahead of Miami even though
Miami beat them, So that's kind of an interesting thing.
How far Vanderbilt's off the pace. Vanderbilt has a chance
(01:19):
to win ten games for the first time in school history.
They're the only Power four team that's never won ten,
so that's kind of fascinating as they get ready to
go to Niland Stadium and Knoxville. Yeah, lots going on,
And then you saw that the CFP in ESPN extended
(01:40):
the deadline. No longer is it December one. We're actually
going to wait till January twenty third to see if
we're going to change the format, which allows the two commissioners,
Greg Sankee and Tony Pettiti to do a little horse
trading as to how they're going to do this. And
I think we might blow right past sixteen teams, Bucky,
we might get all the way to twenty four by
(02:03):
January twenty third.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Wow, I mean, I guess yeah, because that's the main
hang up there is whether or not it's automatic bids
or whatnot, Right, I mean, the SEC and Big ten
are at odds to some degree about how that whole
thing would work if it's just five conference champs and
a bunch at large, or if there's automatic bids. And
(02:25):
you're saying if they do delay this and come to
a liking agreement between both of them. You think it's
going to be because they get all the way to
twenty four teams.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Huh, Well, here's what just happened today. You know, there's
this basketball tournament going on in Las Vegas where they're
actually paying the players. The money's up for nil, right,
and so the winning teams are going to get an
extra bucket of cash. And so everybody's kind of interested
(02:54):
in this tournament, right because it's the future of college athletics.
We're paying players. So the Big twelve just took a
fifteen percent stake in this tournament. It's called the Players
Era Tournament. It remains to be seen if the SEC
and the Big ten and the ACC are going to
(03:15):
follow suit, But if they do, you can see where
that model could extend to the college football world. And
if that happens, then you could see where as everybody's
looking for more money, we're aware that, you know, the
University of Cali California pension Fund is offering an excess
of two billion dollars to the Big Ten one hundred
(03:39):
million dollars at least per school and to become a
partner of the Big Ten and then get their principal
back in twenty forty four and then I've obviously earned
a bunch of money between now and then. It's fascinating
to see if that model doesn't extend. As we're looking
(03:59):
at the basketball tournament might not make sense at the
CFP level, where the two commissioners can't determine how you're
going to get teams in. Well, it won't be as
much a big deal if most of your teams get in,
and that twenty fourteen field would make sure that we're
not excluding a usc this year. We're not excluding a
(04:19):
Vanderbilt this year. You know, you can see where they're
getting excited about that. And if there's some private money
that goes along with it, maybe that solved some of
the economic issues facing all these athletic directors. It's an
incredibly interesting time to follow college athletics.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Coach.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Do you worry at all though, that this is another
example of college football getting ahead of themselves, because I mean,
so far in the last years we've had you know,
the transfer portal out of control, and NIL has just
kind of you know, gotten massive, and we've got these
coaches that they're opting to leave and all of these
things that it's kind of seems like they let it
get ahead of itself and then they've got to rein
it back.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
It seems like by going from have a year of.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
A college football playoff two before the second one is done,
expanding it to twenty four would be another example of
them getting ahead of themselves.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
First of all, let me just say I'm guessing why
they're doing this. Yeah, obviously obviously they want to earn
more money, right, so to leave it at twelve teams,
they get no more money. The question is will ESPN
pay more money for just four more games? And the
answers probably know they already signed the deal. It's like
(05:29):
Brian Kelly right now in LSU. They keep wanting him
to take less and he said, no, I signed the deal,
you owe me this money. And so now they're threatening
all this you know stuff that they have, you know,
dirt on him or what have you going to embarrass him.
It's unseemly and it's embarrassing, but it's happening. So what
we have to do is figure out exactly what's best
(05:52):
for college athletics because college football. What's best for college
football is also best for college athletics because it pays
the for the rest of it. But it's fascinating, and
you mentioned the calendar, Ashlely. The calendar is ridiculous. We
have to change the calendar. We right now have Lane
Kiffin sitting there at Old Miss getting ready to coach
(06:14):
an egg bull on Friday, and he won't tell us
whether he's either going to be along for the ride,
assuming they win in their favor to do so, if
he's going to be along for the ride in the
college football playoff be the best season in the history
of Old Miss, and he won't tell us if he's
even going to stay there. He may take the LSU job.
I just told you how embarrassing that situation is. He
(06:36):
may take the Florida job, which has also got a
lawsuit right now by a former recruit by the name
of Jaden Rashada who's suing Billy Napier, the old coach,
and the school for offering a big ton of money
for him to come there as a recruit and then
renigging on the deal. That lawsuit is still pending. So
we have so many issues, but it's all because of
(06:59):
this calend. Under this calendar, there's on December third. We're
going to sign recruiting classes on December third through the seventeenth.
There's going to be finals on campus, and then you've
got championship games, and then you've got college football playoff games,
and then you've got a transfer portal. Before we even
get to the semi finals of this deal, a transfer
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portal opens where players can come and go, just like
coaches are coming and going. Now, it's nonsensical, and we've
got to get our arms around it. And I hope
somebody comes to their senses that has some clouds to
do something about it.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I'm with you one hundred percent. I mean, the big
picture just seems like, oh my gosh, there could be chaos,
and yet you know they'll find a way to survive.
I mean, it's just too bad.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Well, the problem, the problem, Bucky, is it's obscuring what
we've spent all this time working towards, which is our
college football playoff. We are basically making that the least
interesting story. We'd rather talk about where the coaches are going,
what players are leading. You know, Sam Lovett, the quarterback
at Arizona State. He led the sun Devils to the
(08:08):
incredible season a year ago where they made the College
Football Playoff and had Texas absolutely on the brink of extinction.
Right they were had at fourth and thirteen in the
Peach Bowl, Matthew Golden makes the catch in Texas somehow survived,
but Sam Lovett was a hero. He and Cam Skataboo
or the big names of the Sun Devils. Well, he's hurt,
(08:31):
lost for the season. But the word at Arizona State
is he's now taking a deal, whether it be with
James Franklin a Virginia Tech or to be the guy
who replaces Carson Beck at Miami for somewhere around eight
million bucks. Holy smoked, what are we doing. We can't
afford it. And we just have to get some arms
(08:53):
around this, whether it be through collective barting or common sense,
and right now we don't have either.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I hear you, and yet I do want to get
your take on the more granular, the thing that is
important at this point in time, beyond all of the
stuff that's happening outside, which is the college Football Playoff.
Tonight we get another version of the College Football Playoff
rankings leading up to that selection Sunday here in a
few weeks. But are you seeing any shakeup. Is this
(09:22):
the year that Indiana or the week that Indiana gets
maybe leap frog by A and M is this could
Oregon be moving up? There's probably some shake up down
there at the bottom in the eleven and twelve spots too,
wouldn't you think?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I think we'll see. If they the impressive Oregon win
last week, congratulations to your ducks. If they jump Ole
miss Ole miss is vital, it's possible that they could
go past them. It's also passable that MIAI that's Notre Dame.
On the heels of a seventy to seven victory in
which they had the ball eighteen minutes. They for seventy
(09:59):
points in eighteen minutes of possession times, it's possible they
could go past Oklahoma, who beat Missouri, but Missouri was
not quite up to snuff and it was kind of
an ugly game. If that happens, maybe they'd stay ahead
of Miami in terms of beating compared to Miami in
(10:20):
how the committee goes about making their rankings, and if
they are not in the same pool with Miami, then
they avoid that head to head conflict. That seems like
so logical for all of us as college football fans,
and yet doesn't seem logical at all to find people
in the committee room who make these determinations. It's going
(10:41):
to go down as the greatest frustration. Maybe it since
Florida State was thirteen and oh and didn't get in.
If Miami doesn't get in and Notre Dame does and
they have the same record, it's going to be a
colossal head stretcher for everybody that roots of the team
from South Florida.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
I'll never forget fueled my hatred, honestly for Notre Dame.
Was watching it was like a revealing show of the
college football rankings a long long time ago, and one
of the announcers was like, well, or if Notre Dame
gets into a bowl game, that's good for everyone in
college football, And I thought it was the most absurd
comment I'd ever heard in my life.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
So that just reminded me of it.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Obviously, you actually they're the rolling Stamps. You know what
is as old as Mick Jagger is? You still want
to go see him?
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
I know.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Ugh gives me the heb gbs.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
Okay, well, coach, we got a big game here obviously
this week with Oregon in town to face the Huskies
and Bucky and I've been talking all morning about how
confident we're feeling about both both teams a little banged
up obviously. You know, Washington and Oregon, this rivalry different
than it was just a couple of years ago when
both were vying for a shot at heading to a
national championship. But Washington has a chance to ruin Oregon season.
(11:55):
Do you think that's enough to give the dogs a boost?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
They're going to play their best game. Demon Williams was
fantastic in the second half against UCLA last week. Oregon
was fabulous in corralling a high flying FC offense and
then could kind of just putting the ball on the
ground and punching out that game that was heading it up.
(12:21):
Whether or not Washington has for wherewithal to stop Oregon's
running game is going to be the key. Ryan Walters
is kind of playing with hot dice right now, the
defensive coordinator for Washington. I think it's going to be
a really competitive game. It always is. Was one of
my favorite games to coach in against the Ducks, just
because of the energy on the field. Everybody was certainly
(12:44):
all in in terms of wanting to compete in that game,
so I think you're in for a whale of a game.
I think the Ducks are a little bit better, and
so I'd probably lean Oregon if I had to pick
one side or the other. But Demon Williams is capable
both special things. It'll be interesting how healthy the Boston
(13:04):
kid is and whether or not he can have an
impact in the game.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Yeah, yeah, Rick. I mean, the health obviously is something
you got to deal with as a football coach, regardless.
And yet both of these teams are dinged w and
Jonah Coleman got in and got a touchdown last weekend,
but he did not look right with that knee, and
then Boston Denzel Boston wasn't even in there. And Oregon
doesn't have I think three of their top four wide receivers.
(13:29):
I mean, they're down the depth chart in multiple spots,
and they keep having an offensive lineman drop and so
health wise, I mean, when you start looking at the
depth that you need basically at this point in the season, unfortunately,
but it's necessary. Where are you see in the depth
when it comes into this, because I kind of the
advantage of being at home for the Huskies is one
(13:50):
advantage I would think that Oregon has a little bit
more depth. What's your eye both telling you.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
I think you're exactly right. Oregon has more of quality
players based on their recruiting, their ability to finance their recruiting,
there's no question that their depth is superior to Washington's.
So that will play into this. And here's one thing
(14:16):
that Oregon definitely wants to do. They need to win
this game and then hope, like heck that Ohio State
handles business against Michigan because the last thing they want
to do is have to go play in the in
the Big Ten championship game. They want a week to
(14:39):
heal and to get ready for the college football playoffs,
so they do not want to have to go play
another game, even though they won't say so. They want
the Georgia path right now. Georgia Hits is the number
four team in the country and they have Georgia Tech
this weekend on Friday. So if they win the game,
they're going to be pulling for all of and Texas
(15:01):
A and M because they want those two teams to
go play in the SEC Championship game. They think by
virtue of their victory and hopefully it'll be an impressive one,
if you're a Georgia fan, that they could get all
the way to January first. They could be one of
the top four teams, get a bye, not have to
play in the first round, not have to play in
the SEC Championship game, and you have to get to
(15:24):
be healthy by December. Excuse me, January first, and play
in the quarterfinals. By the way, remember it was them
that lost Carson Beck in the SEC Championship game last
year and was unavailable for the CFP.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Yeah. Crazy, it's crazy how that could work out. But
I'm with you one hundred percent. I mean, there's a
bunch of rivalry games this weekend. You just kind of
nailed one Ohio State, Michigan. I mean, I suppose we
don't have a time, We don't have enough time to
go through all of them. But Ohio State, Michigan, Texas
A and M Texas, the Georgia, Georgia Tech. Maybe those
(16:00):
are the three big ones. Which what's the most interesting
storyline for you on this rivalry week Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
I think it's well, the Egg Bowl ol miss Mississippi
State because of Lane Kiffins Shenanigans. Yeah, it's going to
be fascinating. You know, remember two years ago, he had
this kind of dalliance with Auburn during the Egg Bowl
week and then announced that he was staying late in
the week. But they still got beat by Mississippi State
(16:29):
that weekend, even though they were favored and so forth.
So to me, is this going to be lightning striking
again that they lose their hold on a CFP spot
and Lane is sitting there looking down at all the
old myths fans who financed all these acquisitions in the
(16:49):
transfer portal and having to say, sorry, is he's leaving
Freether Florida or l shit. That's to me the wild
story the Ohio State Michigan game, given the fact that
Ohio State's lost corn a row is an amazing story
unto itself, and yet they won the national championship last year.
So here comes Sheron Moore, who's was the head coach
(17:12):
in two of those games, with a chance with a
Washington win to get himself into the Big Ten championship
in the College Football Playoffs if he does it for
a fifth time, And you can imagine the amazing Blue
looking forward to having another three hundred and sixty five
days to crow about owning the Ohio State University, so lots,
(17:35):
and then you've got Auburn Alabama in the late Saturday
night that the Atlanta Rhythm Section used to have a
song called Spooky. That's Jordan Harris Spooky for Alabama. And
if Alabama loses the playoff spot to Auburn, as Auburn
tries to get bull eligible with DJ Diurkin as their
(17:56):
head coach and Ashton Daniels does their quarterback, that will
be a story that Kaylin de Boor will say, spooky
isn't nearly a strong enough word.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Yeah, yeah, no doubt about it. Man, There's gonna be
so much I mean, with the NFL schedule starting up,
and then you got college football Friday Saturday. I mean,
there is so much stuff going on with storylines that abound.
I need to get what is your Taco Time pick
of the week.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
We're going to take the over in the Egg Bowl.
Sixty two and a half is the number of points
that they say will be scored in this game. We're
going to say more than that. I think Blake Shape
and in Mississippi State in front of a home crowd
are going to be ready to move. It's not as
formidable as ole Miss defense as it was a year ago,
(18:44):
and certainly ole Miss knows how to move the ball
with Trinity ex see me Printidad Chamblets as their quarterback
and Key one Lazy as they're running back. Those two
guys are high flying. I think the game's high scoring.
And look, I can't wait to see the post game
press conference.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Yeah, one hundred percent. That is going to be crazy
sixty two and a half. I wouldn't be surprised if
they both passed that as well. What's your what you
go to coach when it comes to thanks skimming? Are
you just traditional turkey guy? Or you you somebody mixes
it up? Do you have a whole plate? How long
you eat leftovers?
Speaker 2 (19:20):
For I'm big on the leftovers. The sandwich is especially
on those Hawaiian little bowls and those are off the charts.
But I kind of moved through the regular fair into
the dessert. I'm a pumpkin ris smothered with whipstream guy.
(19:42):
That is it's decadence and I only like it this
time of year, but I can't wait.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
That is interesting because pumpkin pie seems to be a
very hot button thing, like people either love it or
they can't stand it. I'm kind of in the middle,
like all have a piece around Thanksgiving and then I don't.
I don't want it ever again until the next Thanksgiving, right, I.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Don't have a craving for it any other time than
this year. But I if I see any pie, then
I haven't got enough with stream. I want it smothered,
and that is like a delicate piece to me.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
I hear you. Well, you have a great Thanksgiving, Coach,
and we'll be seeing you on TV and talk to
you again next week.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Happy Thanksgiving to one and all. Go dogs, enjoy and
Bucky go duck hey, enjoy, enjoy. The weekend should be
trot with all sorts of storylines.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
It will it will you have a great weekend, a
good Thanksgiving yourself, seeing out Coach Rick new Heisel there
with us and breaking down all of the storylines that
go from big picture thirty thousand foot view all the
way down to I think he said the Ducks are
going to crush the Huskies there. I'm pretty sure I
heard that.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
I didn't. I don't think we heard the same thing.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Didn't here, You didn't hear that?
Speaker 4 (21:01):
No?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Maybe just thinking on my part, maybe I think you
said they're a lot deeper and way more talented.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
I don't think you said way more talent like supreme.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Did he say Supreme?
Speaker 4 (21:12):
No, I think you were thinking about pizza so Supreme.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
No, No, I think you said nothing like. Yeah, I'm
pretty sure Supreme was what I heard. Maybe not. Maybe
we'll discuss what he said in the next one. Everybody
needs to stick around and we'll come back and talk
a little bit more football on the other side of
this Sports Radio ninety three point three KGRFM. That is
(21:37):
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action never stops on our show as well. Welcome back
to the Chucking Bok Show. It is Chuck and Ashley
Charles's home, probably whipping up some gravy. I would imagine
(21:58):
to put on Bjorst or whatever it was that they
have sometimes. Yeah, yeah, I don't know. Hopefully saw us
gravy with that if he doesn't.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Go traditionally put gravy on.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
Oh no, it's not a broad worst, No, it's it's
like a beat or I can.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Put gravy on anything.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Gravy wouldn't make it better.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
I'm certain because I don't love it, but it'd be
weird you just make it more soupy.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Well, I'm just thinking he's doing the stuff all mixed
up because you know that he's decorating for Christmas prematurely.
We know that, and he's probably doing other things prematurely
as well, And I think he needs to.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Pull himself together that time of year.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Is it the prematurit time of year? All right? Well,
one thing we might be getting a little bit premature
on here, and yet I don't care uh is talking
about playoffs playoffs, But I do think because we did
a little exercise to start the show today where I
I kind of broke down the toughest strength of schedule
for the three teams you're vying with in the NFC.
(23:06):
I mean, we can kick the Cardinals out. They're not
coming back and being a threat to anybody in this division.
Rams are on top of the thing right now, Seahawks
are and second. San Francisco forty nine Ers are basically
half a game behind them at eight and four. I
am at this point, and I don't know where if
you agree or not, I kind of feel like both
(23:26):
of these teams, all three of these teams, excuse me,
are going to make the playoffs. I think three teams
from the NFC West are going to make it. Based
on the schedule, I mean, these teams just have to
take care of business. San Francisco might be the one
that I would worry most about not making it if
I was a Niner fan, because they're so dinged up,
and yesterday they played like garbage against the Panthers. And
(23:47):
yet the Panthers are a team I don't know for
sure if that's because they actually are fairly decent. That's
why they've kind of hung around, and so I think
for sure too, I think the Rams and Seahawks for
sure one to two. Order is yet to be determined.
I think a Thursday night game here in a month
or three weeks is going to be a big factor
in that. But the Rams definitely have the easiest road
(24:09):
to win in the division. The Seahawks have probably the
most difficult run to win in the division, even more
so than the Niners in my opinion. But I think
all three of them are going to make it. I
think a good exercise we could do right now is
we go down the NFC. At this point, the Rams
number one, Eagles, number two, Bears, number three, Buccaneers number four.
Seahawks are there at number five, and that's simply because
(24:32):
the Buccaneers at six and five would win their division,
So the Seahwks would be the number one wildcard team.
Then the Packers at seven three and one, and then
the Niners at eight and four. Is there a team
you think is going to fall out of that group?
And if so, who do you think might jump up
and sniper that. We have the Lions that basically would
(24:54):
be in the mix there at seven and four. They're
right behind San Francisco at eight and four, Caroline Panthers
six and six, Cowboys maybe at five and five and one.
They have kind of a nice looking schedule moving forward.
I think that might be where it stops. The Falcons
are at four and seven. At that point, I mean,
then you're getting into the Falcons, Vikings, Cardinals, Commanders, Saints,
(25:16):
and Giants. Those teams I would just think are pretty
much out of it. So how do you how do
you see this NFC playoff situation shaken out? Ashley?
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Well, it's interesting because I would say just based on
looking at the teams, not looking at their schedules at all,
I think the Buccaneers would be the team most likely
to fall out. They started out the season playing really well.
They haven't been playing as well as of late, and
now Baker Mayfield's injured, although whether Humless time or not,
we have no idea. Then I looked at their schedule though, HM, Cardinals, Saints, Falcons, Panthers, Dolphins, Panthers,
(25:48):
They're not falling out of the pime, I would agree, Yeah,
So I would look at Chicago Eagles, Packers, Browns, Packers, Niners, Lions.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
That is a tough last six games.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
Yeah, and now, and you know the Bears, they've played
well well, They've played well enough, They've won a lot
of very close games. Nobody can figure out how they
can keep doing it. Nobody thinks it's sustainable. I think
this last six games of their schedule is going to
prove that it's not sustainable.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
I would say the Bears are most likely to fall out.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
That would be my guess as well. And then that
basically opens the door. I mean their division, they're right
now eight and three, Packers are right behind them, half
a game behind, seven to three and one. And then
the Detroit Lions had another half game behind them at
seven and four. I think the Lions are the best team,
But then again, I'm not sure if I should be
(26:43):
thinking that the way that they've put last year, we
watched this Detroit Lions team. Now everybody's entitled to. You
lose a game the year before, you found a way
to pull out, that's understandable. They just don't look the same.
They don't look like they're crazy dominant. Now they've whooped
up on a couple teams here and there, but for
the most part, it's like they've scratched out w's. I
(27:05):
mean the way in which they barely beat the Giants
last week. I mean, you know, they end up beating
them by seven points, but I mean they were behind
at times in that game, and Jameis Winston is just
putting up points left and right, ONYA. That to me
is not a great sign. But then that was on
the heels of losing a game against the Eagles where
you couldn't do anything offensively. So to me, it's they
(27:28):
seem a little bit more sketchy than I would have
thought in years past, for sure, and yet I still
feel like that the Dan Campbell factor. I think that
they will dig deep. I think they will find a
way to jump up there. And I think that the
only logical thing would be the Chicago Bears, how difficult
their schedule is. If they drop three or four games
(27:50):
and find themselves at nine and eight, then I think
they'll find themselves on the outside looking in, because I
think the Packers will right the ship enough. I think
the Detroit Lions are right the ship enough, and outside
of that, I just don't see a whole heck of
a lot of teams that are going to be vying
for any of those top seven spots.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
Yeah, although I did look at the Packers schedule too,
and that's a tricky one too because it's Lions, Bears,
Broncos Bears, Ravens Vikings, and if this Ravens team is
who people are thinking that they will actually be at
the end of the year. I mean, I think they'll
have no trouble with the Vikings. But I would have
thought that the Packers would have had no trouble with
the Vikings the first time they played, and they did.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
That's true.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Yeah, So I don't know. It's gonna be interesting.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
I I do think though it's going to be it's
going to be the.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Bears, and they're possibly the Packers. Yeah, that would be mine.
That might yeah, that we bomped out would.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
And that would make room for the Lions, then you
would assume would get in there. And I don't know
who else Carolina, Dallas.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
Yeah, one of the I don't I just don't see
Fear doing it.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
But yeah, I kind of feel I could see the
Lions jumping up and taking somebody's spot, right, and that
either think the wis one would be the Bears.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
One of them's got to be that that division though, right,
And although we'd already discussed Tampa Bay's not going anywhere,
I don't.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Think, right, but that's yeah, I think, oh.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
Yeah, I would think it would be the Dallas Cowboys
over the Panthers personally.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Yeah, hut, it's gonna be interesting.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
There's a lot, especially looking at those last six weeks
of just the Packers, Lions, and Bears schedules.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
That's gonna be very interesting. M hm.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Well that's I mean, you got the Lions, Packers, and
Bears are all going for that division.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
So if it's to say after you say.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Oh my Lions and Packers and Bears, oh my, yeah,
I didn't think about that. I'm not that quick. Well,
hopefully I will be quick enough to get out here,
because we got one last thing on the other side.
Sports Radio ninety three point three KGRFM, Welcome back to
the show. One final thing. It's actually one last thing,
(29:50):
but it's kind of one final thing for Ashley and I. Again,
we've been here for four hours doing pretty bowsome radio.
I mean I would agree, oh would you? Yeah, I
was being facetious. I actually just told Anders and Kid
outside I said last segment was the first one that
(30:12):
I felt awake enough to actually host a radio show.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
Well, welcome, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Yeah. I don't know what I can do more about
it other than just change who I am because I
have I've drank about seventy ounces of coffee today. Oh,
it just didn't kick in until nine thirty.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
Well, you know what, there's always tomorrow. Maybe it'll kick
in at least by nine to twenty. And you've improved.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Yeah, that's true. I'm gonna you know what, guys, I'm
planning on three good segments too.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
Okay, I like that, but we the good.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Thing is tomorrow for my well, I'll say that for
I was gonna say the good thing tomorrow is we're
going to get to dive into Seahawks or the Seahawks
round table? Is that one at eight? That one's at nine,
that's at nine, but eight we're doing a Husky round
Husky round table.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
So tomorrow, I mean, if you're one of the people
that does not like when I'm hosting tomorrow, basically I'm
just the last coup of hours, I'm gonna step aside
now the first two hours. Oh it's on. It's on
like Donkey Kong, because it is the last day before
the Ducks Huskies matchup, in which you guys are trying
to ruin my entire fall.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, does that mean.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
When you're so happy about it, I think.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
You would be just as happy if we were.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
I would not even be as happy. I would not
because I don't have the same hatred in my heart.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Well you should. Yeah, you're promoting sports hatred. Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
If Palmer says I hate somebody like no, no, it's
too strong of a word.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
We don't hate him exactly exactly, and.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
Then I'll be like, well except for Nicks, Yeah, no,
I don't tell her to hate Bonnicks.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
Now she should hate.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Okay, yeah, all right, that's fine, fair enough. Do you
have one last thing?
Speaker 4 (31:58):
I do have a one last thing?
Speaker 5 (31:59):
Or I told you if you want to be tame
at the tailgate on Saturday, don't play Survivor flip cups. Okay,
well you know flip cup, right, yeah, okay, So with
Survivor Flip Cup, you have.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
A whole long table lined with people.
Speaker 5 (32:15):
Everyone cheers, is at the same time, puts their cup
down at the same time, drinks at the same time,
and tries to flip at the same time. The last
person to flip their cup is that. Oh and that's
why you can't be tame if you're good at flip cup,
because you will play all the way till the end.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Oh and so you actually get kind of reward punished,
you do for being good.
Speaker 5 (32:35):
I've gotten sucked into many a game where I was like, oh,
I shouldn't play because I'm not good at a lot
of things. But I am pretty damn good at flip Cup,
and I've won in three weeks in a row. I
won it and finished second, and the third time I
was like, I'm not going to play.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
They're like, just leave her, just exit early. Just go
out early.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
I was like, I can't make people think I suck
at flip Cup.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
What do you think I am?
Speaker 1 (32:57):
What am I going to do? Sacrifice my integrity for
the same of my liver? Yeah, come on, liver regenerates,
So the only thing worries integrity doesn't.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
The only thing worse than winning is finishing second because
you still drink the same amount you just didn't win.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Yeah, that doesn't.
Speaker 5 (33:11):
No, it's not great ultimate And granted they're not whole cups.
You're filling like an inch.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
So it's not like of Tito's vodka.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
No, that would I love Tito's vodka, but that would
that would be Trouble's Survivor.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
You gotta do something with a lot lower alcohol content.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Okay, townsend whiskey.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
I will.
Speaker 5 (33:31):
I won't tell you how to tailgate, but I'll tell
you if you want to play Survivor clip Cup, I
would not play it with either of them with booze.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Okay, all right, fair enough. I will heed that warning,
and I will have my son and yeah, so I
probably will.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
Not want you to because he'll cheer you on.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
He would, and I have a feeling, I mean, the
competitive nature, it's just it's there.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
That's the problem that it happens.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
It's even if you don't play, it's happening right near you,
and then you're like watching it and you're like, sometimes
I just have to walk away because I'm like, I
just want to be all of you.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Yeah, I'm not gonna be I wouldn't be able to quit.
And the thing is is, I'm certain if a game
does a game break out every time?
Speaker 4 (34:07):
Oh yeah, multiple, So there's.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Zero chance that I'm gonna not get sucked into one.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
Just one. But just don't get sucked into multiple and
you'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
And I don't know if I'm that good at flip cups.
A matter of fact, I think I've done it once
or twice in my life.
Speaker 4 (34:19):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
It's just a red solo cup that you put down
like normal after it empty, and then you on the
edge of the table. You just flip it up and
try to make it land on its head.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
I don't think it's that hard.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
Yeah, I think I'm gonna do it now.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
I mean, I'm gonna try it now now, and I
want to beat you.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
I'll have hours just happened.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
To recover the game. Yeah, So if you want to
be tamed, don't do it. And we just basically three minutes.
It's on.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
It's on Washington, Oregon. Here we go.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
All right, all right, I'm gonna see my son. Can
he play without drinking?
Speaker 4 (34:52):
No? No kids allowed?
Speaker 1 (34:53):
No kids allout? Is there an area that you like
quarantine them all?
Speaker 5 (34:56):
No?
Speaker 4 (34:56):
No, no, they can hang out there.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
So where is this tailgate? You tell people?
Speaker 2 (35:01):
Or no?
Speaker 4 (35:01):
I mean, it's just tell me.
Speaker 5 (35:03):
It's in the north parking lot between the staircases.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
You'll see, Okay, very easy to find.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
All right, Well, anybody that's going to the game, you
can come find us and I'll kick your acid Flip
Cup Survivor Series two.
Speaker 5 (35:16):
Also because I just got we just got a text
from Keith and I can see that he's still listening.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Hold on, Oh triple screech here, boy, that's a great
way to kick off Turkey hump Day. And Turkey hump
Day we started it, ended it there you go, screeches
all over the joint. All right, Well there's some screeching
that's coming up next. You got MJ and Chris Kid
stick around here at Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
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