September 5, 2023 • 40 mins
Jason Smith and Steve DeSaegher go into some predictions with naming who will make the National Championship in College Football.
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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how was your Labor day? Skip skip? Oh sorry did
I say? I didn't mean I meant to say, I'm
am sorry. I meant to say, Steve.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I slid got something else on the there.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
No, no, no, I meant not.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I just know just a thing, you know, I don't
know what it is, but just wanted to make sure.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Are you one of the rotating hosts with skip Is
that what's going on back.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
In your mind?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
There are none of them.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
No, it was just one of those things, just just
a force of happen in case one of those.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Things Gilgan's Islands, slip of the tongue. Yeah, I'm doing it, Okay.
It was just a normal, normal day. Couldn't wait till tonight.
But I must say football this weekend. It was just
so great having it. There were enough games that there
were enough good total games. Imagine how we will feel
one week from tonight when we have NFL football starting.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
And I want to say this, I'm very sorry because
I you know, watching Michigan play yesterday, you didn't get
to coach the overtime potentially that they would have played
a day ago. So I know that was something you
really you know, you were excited. Only twenty of us
are getting to coach Michigan while Harball is out these
three games.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Yeah, they're kind of rotating. You know, is it the
next game where they have two guys coaching one on
the first half one and the second.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
There's somebody coaches every quarter and that's what it is,
and then somebody gets to actually coach halftime it's a
completely different guy that comes in and coaches the halftime adjustments.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
You know, maybe Blake Korum can just coach. Maybe that's
some sort of nil thing they can slip in there,
because he's only really needed to play the first half
this past week. In the opening, he would have been
free for the second. Did you notice by the way
Michigan won its opener against East Carolina thirty to three.
East Carolina kicked a thirty three yard field goal on
the final plumb final plan to avoid a shutout here
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all day the team up until the last drive. They
got eight drives, eight first downs, ten penalties, but we
didn't get shut out. We went to the big house.
We scored on those guys. That's what they could walk home.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
We made that last play of the game count. And
I'll tell you that that's you know, I understand that
they actually went for it earlier on fourth down in
the fourth quarter when they could have kicked a field
goal down thirty nothing, and they didn't get it. So
I think they're like, Okay, well this second time, we
got to make sure this happens now.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Yesterday it happened yesterday. As Northwestern Mike Carmon is not here.
Northwestern was it Rutgers and getting shut out twenty four
to nothing and scored a touchdown in the final seconds
after using all three timeouts late in the final minute
or so to make sure we got a shutout. Gotta
make sure just so they can say we're back. Of course,
we're back. Did you see us? We just scored?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Now, speaking of college football, and speaking of did you
see us?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
We just scored?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Clemson and Duke the ninth rank Tigers have not had
a good first half offensively, and now they find themselves
trailing Duke thirteen to seven early in the third quarter.
I mean, this is this would be something where suddenly,
you know, Duke goes wow, this is I'd be usually
we get this in basketball, so in football this should
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just be.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Used to always be Clemson in basketball. Remember that was
like Notre Dame against Navy and.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Football, that's all I always used to it.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Now here they are Clemson struggling against Duke and Kate Klebnick,
who is supposed to be the next great quarterback for
eighty five yards in a touchdown, Will Shipley, who has
had big games sixty five yards. I know, what's a
new offense? They're trying to put in put together. But
so far, all the big teams that we've seen from
a year ago that we were most of them anyway that
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we see them, Hey, how are they gonna adjust with
new players? It's a little bit, it's a little bit
of please sure, Okay, they looked okay to a point.
Now they looked okay to a part. But like, we
still have the same questions, right, Like Clemson's offense. How's
that we were talking about USC's defense. Well, they're still
allowing twenty eight points a game to teams that are
not Power five you know how?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Hey, only two touchdowns by Nevada.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Come on now, all right, sorry sorry, only two all right,
two touchdowns by Nevad. Okay, okay, so they're averaging twenty
one points to not well.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Penn State got a really slow start Saturday night and
eventually put away West Virginia. I will say impressive for
a sport that doesn't have a preseason. Penn State only
had one penalty in that game. And by the way,
I need to update a reference that I had a
minute ago. It's not like, you know, Duke basketball used
to always be Clemson. The updated reference is the way
Ohio State football beats Indiana, because I think that's up
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to about twenty eight straight times, which would be the
longest active streak in any FBS series.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Last week a little bit more of a struggle for
Ohio State, little it was it was for then you
throught against Indiana.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Thirteen to three late in the third and Indiana was
doing nothing on offense and it was still a game.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
You know, it is a perfect conference of circumstance and
the biggest thing, the best thing to start with tonight. Look, obviously,
yes college football and seeing a lot of the teams
we expected to be great struggle a little bit, not
wins or losses, but just boy, I expect this to
be sixty to nothing. I expect this to be like
Syracuse and Colgate, you know, sixty five nothing.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I we did Washington. Washington took a little bit until
in the second quarter Pennix throws four touchdown passes and
they start to blow out Boise.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
If you're judging by social media, I think you officially
have to say Heisman Trophy candidate. Yeah, Michael Penick. I
think they're trying to make that happen. So but let's
we got to make this happen for Michael Pennick.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Well, the amount of people that had five touchdowns in
a game this weekend, the SEC quarterback, the Washington quarterback,
the new Alabama quarterback, it seemed like a long lit Well,
I mean, the Kansas State quarterback. It was four touchdowns
in the first half. He had two passing, one rushing,
and one receiving.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Yeah, I mean and look, and when you talk about
big games, listen, there's a perfect confluence of circumstances to
get to what we're gonna start. Start with Toddy because
with all these teams struggling, and with all the attention
on Colorado after beating TCU in an incredible game on
Saturday forty five, forty two, you saw stuff that just
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made your jaw drop, Right, Shaduora Sanders throwing for four
touchdowns and five hundred yards against the last year's national finalists.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Right.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
You watched Travis Hunter play one hundred and ten snaps,
catch eleven passes for one hundred and twenty yards and
pulled out a great interception on the goal line. You
saw Colorado has some dudes. And with the attention coming
in with Deon Sanders and what's gone on since in
the last twenty four hours, everybody's trying to make everybody's
trying to make sense of, Okay, what is it with
college what are the things?
Speaker 4 (07:03):
What do I need to know? What's going on?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
What have they done? What they've done? Number one is this,
They have become college football. They are the national story.
Everything else is page two. We didn't even we didn't
even talk about We didn't even get to talk about
Alabama on the show tonight. We're gonna get to talk
about Georgia actually still tonight.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
All the other top ten teams, even ones that we
just mentioned, You're right, are a secondary story right now
to Colorado.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Everything is deon Sanders and Colorado has become a traveling
road show and we can't get enough of it. It's
a perfect confluence of circumstances. Where are there is there
any real excitement coming into this season from a lot
of teams? No, a lot of teams are starting over,
So okay, so there's a bit of an emptiness there.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Oh. Yes.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Caleb Williams and USC they get a lot of attention
coming off the bat because he's gonna be the number
one pick in the draft, and USC or rock Stars
I get it. There's attention for Jim Harbaugh because he
always has attention around him, things going on at Michigan,
his suspension, not he's got his best team at Michigan
since he's been there. But by and large, in college football,
there is a wide guff for a team to grab
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our attention nationally, where people in New York and Florida
and Kansas and Missouri and California and Washington all want
to see what's going on?
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Right? Did we do we have that? Do we have that? Dover?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
We really care what Georgia does ever across the country?
Or do you care about your team? No, you care
about your team?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
That's college Can I can I interject maybe when somebody
from Georgia is driving, we care because it.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Really come on, seriously, We'll get to that. We'll get
to that.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
But the whole thing with Colorado is they have now
filled this void, and Deon Sanders has filled this void
to become the conversation. We're going to talk about Colorado
football all week every week. We're going to talk about
it leading up to games, We're going to talk about
it coming off of games. He's going to stay in
the public mindset because Deon Sanders.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
One thing. What does he love?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
He loves Deon Sanders, right, Deon Sanders loves himself from
Deon Sanders. He loves the attention. He loves bringing it
to his team. He doesn't mind putting them on the
spot and himself on the spot. And it's a story
that cuts through every week. Is going to be my
team Colorado. I gotta see Colorado, not just because they're winning,
but because of how they're winning, because of how fun
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they are and the flash fast offense that has come
together really really quickly. And Dion's standing up there and
he's admonishing reporters after the game. You didn't believe, You
didn't believe. He's turned this into a big time traveling show.
And people are gonna love Deon Sanders, and people are
gonna hate Deonson. They're gonna want to see him win,
They're gonna want to see him lose. There's there's gonna
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be no down the middle on Dion. But he has
become the conversation in one game. With one game, he
has taken the.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Entirety of college football and said we are what matters.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
I'm what matters my team or what matters where we
are on national television on Saturday. We're what matters, where
we go, what we do. And he is not gonna
give that up. Because the one thing, Diana, he knows
how to keep attention going, how to keep it on himself.
He knows how to keep it on the team. He
knows how to stay in the limelight. And they are
going to be the show in college football all season long.
(10:08):
And there's gonna be weeks when they lose. When they lose,
guess what he's gonna be even in the news even
more when that happens. He has found a way to
tend college football. Needed this because we've had enough of Alabama.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Alabama was great for a while and they carried the
torch for college football. And look at this dynasty they
have in Nick Saban. But then slowly Nick Saban turned
into somebody who was He's just kind of a curmudgeon,
all right, he's just upset about everything, all right in Alabama.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Yes, they keep winning. We're onto something else.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Now we have a team whose coach is not afraid
of the microphone. We'll say whatever the hell he wants to.
He's got superstars on his team. He's got next level guys,
He's turned this team around in an instant and now
there's not going to you get people buying codad a
Buffalo merchandise flying off the shelves and have nothing to
do with Colorado. I'm gonna do it. He has become
the story in college football from day one. And congratulations
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anybody who used that today when I tweeted it out,
talked about it a lot on Saturday right after the game, Congratulations,
And any show that may have used that skip and
be able to try to figure it out, congratulations.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
And one thing that you mentioned just there reminds me
of the quote from one of the old old sports
writers from almost one hundred years ago. The two biggest
stories in sports are big Man wins or big Man loses,
and Deon Sanders is big man on campus. Right now,
they are the story, and you're right, it's going to
be win or lose, huge story, and people are going
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to be not only Fox wisely putting them on their
big noon kickoff the first two weeks of the season, some.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
First ten weeks. Now it's going to be first ten
weeks of the season.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Some people are not aware that that is the first
of the four games on Fox TV this Saturday, it's
Colorado hosting Nebraska. But you talk about the attention nationally,
and this is one thing that has been talked about
of college football that it gets to be a regional sport.
Understandably so the way it's not really adjudicated from a
top like the pro sports. Let's put it that way.
(11:57):
It's conference by conference and that means re by region.
But I can think of offhand three big national stories that
everyone wanted to have their eyeballs on over the past
twenty years in college football. One was Johnny Manziel about
a decade ago, the game against Alabama early really got
it started and eventually a Heisman Trophy win. About fifteen
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years ago it was Tim Tebow, and about twenty years
ago it was USC, which won over thirty games in
a row. I'm sure there are others, but it's few
and far between. That's a twenty year span we're talking about.
Add Colorado to the list right now.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
That's every five years it's the USC dynasty. Then Tim
Tebow having the best maybe three year run of anybody
in the history of college football, national champion, two national
titles in a Heisman.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Trophy, I mean up there with Tommy Fraser, Matt Lioner.
It's a short list.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
And then it was Manzel and now it's this and oh,
by the way, my whole skip line there was not
for skip was because that's what I'm saying, who's to
be the first person to take that? And it was
Shannon so okays one congratulations, Yeah it was Shannon.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
But I don't watch it anymore, for I had no
idea what you were talking about.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I mean, it's it's it's he and and the thing
is and this is the most shocking parts even this
is the part that I love about this is that
you know, Dion's out, and we'll get into the Dion
you know why he's so you know, affronted with people
who didn't believe in him. But the most amazing part
of this is that this is, you know, college football.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Is not an add water and stir type situation. Right.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
This is not oh hey, I'm here and I'm showing
up and I'm bringing in eighty seven new guys, add
water stir. Look at this, right, It's not It's not
like making a nice, easy couple of ramen noodles when
I just put water in, you know, put the the
top over for two and a half.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Minutes, open up and I'm eating this might.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Be you need to do that, Rick Newso on the air,
Jason Saturday said, I cannot come up with an example
to compare to what I saw today. And this guy's
been including at Colorado in college football for a long time.
It's darn near unprecedented here with the amount of transfers
you can have immediately and easily.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
I mean, it's it really it shocks me just how now.
And the big thing, the second thing to get to have,
but owning college football is that what. I don't think
anybody doubted that Dion was going to win. I don't
think anybody doubted that. And d unplays up the hate
because it's good for him. It's good, you know, it's
against the world mentality, so he plays up the hate.
I don't think anybody ever doubted he was going to win.
(14:18):
But the speed with which Colorado was going to a
rot and I admit, look, they arrived a lot quicker
than I thought. I thought, this is gonna be a
team that arrives in the middle of the season and
they're gonna take their lumps a little bit early because
You're putting in a new offense, a new defense with
eighty seven guys, and how are you gonna do it right?
And you had a tough schedule coming up. This is
gonna be a team that you're gonna see that big change.
(14:39):
It'll happen fast because he did it fast at Jackson State, right,
it was fast there. It'll have but middle of seedon.
But now he's just accelerated that timeline too. It's happening
now because is TCU great? I mean, look, it's week
one of college football. We always say tap the breaks,
Tap the breaks. Yeah, TCU may be a great teams,
could be their only loss this year. TCU may struggle
all year. They may be a five hundred team. But
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there's no doubt that Colorado has dudes, and they've arrived
faster than anybody expected. And that that's the real takeaway
from Colorado and just that it's happened this fast, and
I mean, I mean it. I don't know how he
does it. I mean you watch him just zip around
the practice fielding the golf cart and you're like, what's
he doing?
Speaker 4 (15:18):
In meetings? Is he what's going on? How do they
get on the same page? How does all of this
happen so fast? How does this come together so fast?
And their offense is so good so early? It really is.
It's baffling.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
And I'll tell you it's gonna be fun because nobody
has needed a major injection of a talent more than
college football. Shoheo Tani showed up and that gave the
big injection major League Baseball needed. Hey, we need this.
We need somebody that's gonna be a guy who cuts
through that whenever he does something, we pay attention. College
football needed the same thing because really it's about USC
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until they lose, and but nationally it's not that great.
Michigan's a big story because of Harba because Harbo's also
a look at me head coach, but nothing on the
level of Dion Standers in Colorado. Everywhere you look tomorrow,
that's where the conversations are going to be on TV,
on radio. What are we looking ahead? And boy, you
feel bad for Nebraska. It's like, man, we just well,
things just got works for us coming off this game
(16:14):
we just lost on national TV. Now we gotta go
and play Colorado on Saturday.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Maybe they won't be close enough to blow it in
the end. On Saturday. By the way, we'll talk about
Colorado later, but we need to emphasize how low the
bar was set, how truly horrible the team was that
he took over at Colorado. And as far as TCU
maybe not being the tap, I wouldn't even use the
word maybe not the same team as last year when
they made their run. I believe I saw five TCU
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stars from last year's team in one NFL preseason game,
So yeah, they don't have the same talent as last year.
Update on what's going on. Duke still leading number nine
Clemson mid third quarter thirteen to seven because Duke got
that touchdown on their first drive. Clemson had a short
field goal blocked on their first drive, and in fact,
that's the second one blocks from the new kicker and
(17:03):
that special teams unit of Clemsons.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Tonight, Clemson loses this game, they'll kick them out of
the ACC. We'll get another new team in there. We'll
kick Clemson al SMU.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Who do you like?
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Why do you feel like they wanted Cow? They didn't
really want Cow. They just need bodies just in case
FSU and Clemson.
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Well, we'll have more on Colorado and the story that
continues to make waves throughout college football. Plus it's time
for the National Championship prediction. After what I saw this weekend,
Ready to go, I feel even better about it when
I made it last week.
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Speaker 4 (18:30):
Boy, we've lost a lot in music the last few days.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Jimmy Buffett the other day, and you've seen tributes to
him all weekend. Gary Wright, who did dream Weaver, one
of the biggest songs of the seventies, came Back and
Wayne's World the nineties. He passed away at the age
of eighty and then a story that got out yesterday.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
And then had its ending today.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
The lead singer smash Mouth, Steve Harwell, dies at fifty
six acute liver failure. All of the tributes pouring into
him you see from his friends, from people in the band.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
He lived life to the fullest.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
I mean, obviously, look he had issues with alcohol and
when you have a cute liver failure, but he was
with you know, in the words of his friends, he
was desirous of being a rock star. He wanted to
do it, and they had some of the biggest songs
on the radio back in the late nineties early two thousands.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
They remade I'm a Believer.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
I remember when the Jets used that as their theme
song one year because Herm Edwards. The whole thing was
we win ugly and it was when Shrek two would
come out and they and smash Mouth did the song
for Shrek two, and after every game they won, they
would sing the smash Mouth version of I'm a Believer
in the locker room because he would say, you think
we would ugly, We don't have any team would have
a town. We went and it brought them together, went
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to the playoffs that year. I mean they smash Mouth
had a huge run in the nineties into two thousand,
one of the biggest pop pop rock bands out there.
And you know, we saw the story yesterday. Hey, Steve
Harwell is in hospice. He's you know, may not make
it another week, and we get the news today he
passed away at the age of fifty six.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
The song all Star twenty five years ago was all
over the place and also got pointed out by Mark
Willard from the Bay Area on our air last night
that he's from the Bay Area and was a huge
appearance making appearance as well a being a huge fan
of the Bay Area sports teams.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Yeah he was.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
And all Star is a song that I mean you
talk about. Yeah, there are songs that make it over
the test of time. But they're gonna play All Star
for the next hundred years at All Star Games and
four All Stars and you're gonna see it on TV.
I mean, All Stars one of those songs that has
has gone from being hey, it's a great song here
on the radio when you turn on the eighties channel
the nineties channel to being a song that you hear
(20:37):
still in pop culture regularly. And the song was twenty
five years ago. Really, it doesn't seem like kind of popularity, no,
when you hear something like that now, Yeah, that was
just a HTNA. It's twenty five years ago. Is in
the late nineteen nineties when that came out.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Well, when we were talking about in segment one, I
mean the USC winning streak and college football seems like
forever ago. That was more recent than the song All
Star and Gentlemen.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Yeah, really, you know.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
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Speaker 4 (21:37):
Is clemsing any good is Clemson? Are they really still
as good as well?
Speaker 3 (21:43):
If they had special teams, they would have been tied
by now. But two blocked field goals and a new kicker.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
We are nearing the end of the third quarter and
Duke behind Dave Brown at quarterback.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Now Duke, and.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
It's not even cut Cliff coaching. No, no, it's the
new Duke last year.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Eh, Duke leads Clemson thirteen to seven. Kate Klubnick, who
you've been hearing for years now, is going to be
the next great quarterback for Clemson. I think back in
two thousand and four they talk about Kate Clubnick and
he just for the next has thrown a touchdown. But
they have not moved the offense a lot. They've had
a couple of field goals. Shipley's running the ball pretty well.
But this is just you could tell watching Clemson this
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is just not the same team starting the season. Does
I mean they're not really good to but you know,
you only get so many chances to stub your toe
before the rest of college football says sorry, I'm moving
on from you.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
And they're on the road against a decent team, a
guy who was as I recall coach of the Year
starting at Duke last year in the ACC. But the
club Nick Fumble I reference was on a first and
goal here their previous drive. So they've had missed opportunities
plural in this one. You did mention there was the
one touchdown from Will Shipley receiving on the ground fifteen
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carries one hundred four yards for Clemson.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
Yeah. No, Shipley's legit. I mean he is.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
He's legit, But if he's your whole offense, you're not
going to be able to me. You gotta be more
than one dimension.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Now.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
You might be able to play defense and win this
game because it's still a one score game, and you
might be able to get in the end zone one
more time, but oh boy, that becomes a really difficult
needle to thread when suddenly, hey, we're going to run
the football and play defense.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Yeah, and this is not the old Duke that you
kind of shrug your shoulders that you really don't want
to see. They had a quarterback who had touchdown after
touchdown last year, Riley Leonard, and on the ground tonight
for Duke. Six carries, eighty six yards and a touchdown.
It's two and a half minutes to go in the
third at Duke and the Blue Devils are still leading
Number nine Clems in thirteen to seven.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Now, we were off on Friday, so I didn't get
to give my big well some of us football.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Well, I was off fun Okay, I was off fun skip.
I was off Friday. Okay, it's okay.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
So being off on Friday, I didn't get to give
my national championship prediction on the air, but I want
to make sure I got it on social media just
in case something happening. But I feel even better about
it now than I did last week, just seeing where
the top teams, the other top teams in college football
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are going from week one forward.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
Right, there's still a lot of questions.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
You're going to Iowa after all of.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
That, Yes, Iowa and Iowa State, and I put a
lot of money on that.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
That one time end of the season, and gentlemen, uh.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
No, here's where I'm going for my national championship.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Prediction, and boy, this would be something for college football.
And and maybe this is me overvaluing how well I
project one team to be, but really, Syracuse, no I'm
looking at for the national championship. Give me Michigan and
no Tre Dame for the national championship.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
You know I could see that.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Give me Nore Dame. Right, Let's deal with Notre Dame first.
You know how much I like them. I told you
Sam Hartman's going to win the Heisman Trophy. He is
everything they need at no. He's all they need. He's
a lad there. We just need a quarterback, Tanna, you
got a quarterback. You haven't had a dependable quarterback at
Notre Dame that can really throw the football in a while.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Now.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
You had a year here and there from a guy,
but never someone like Sam Hartman, who is so incredibly talented,
who does everything well. Right, I've told you I watched
a lot of him play. I watch a SEC football,
so you don't have to. That's my whole thing. And
watching him play.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Wait a minute, isn't everybody going to be in the
ACC as his next year?
Speaker 5 (25:24):
Two?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Well, well, now I've been at the last few years.
People want to know, like you know, okay, you watch it. Yes,
I watch AC football, so you don't have to. He's legit.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
He is. He does everything really well. He's smart.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
You hear all the stories about how he has jumped
in and helped with the culture at Notre Dame. And
he's everything they wanted Notre Dame. That's all they needed
was a quarterback. And even though Sam Hartman is and
he's thirty seven years old, he's got a lot of experience.
That's all they need. Notre Dame and USC is going
to be the game of the year in college football.
And Notre Dame can even stub there till in that game.
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I don't believe they will, but they can even stub
there till in that game and get to the National
Championship because because Sam Hartman's bringing them there, bringing them
to the playoff, give me Notre Dame and give me Michigan.
Because watching this Michigan team on Saturday, this is the
best team that Jim Harbal has had. He didn't even
coach the game. They looked how do I say this,
They looked bored good on Saturday For a team that's
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been to the National Football Playoff the last two years.
They've beaten Ohio State badly the last two years. There's
gonna be a little bit of boredom for a team.
But this is like their good board, Like, Hey, we're
gonna go out there and we're gonna score, and we're
gonna dominate the game, and then we're fine. We don't
need to go crazy. We have bigger fish to fry.
This is your year to win the national championship. This
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is JJ McCarthy is a star. You have two terrific
running backs. Blake orm he's gonna problem. Staying healthy, doesn't matter.
Donald Edwards is great. The receivers they have coming up
are all terrific. This is Harball's team.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
This is it.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
This is the year he's been building towards. They should
win the Big Ten. They should win the Big Ten
pretty easily.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Right. Ohio State's got a lot of problems right now.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
It doesn't mean they don't solve them, but Ohio State's
got a lot of pride. Told the beginning of the year,
I thought they were a little bit over ranked. They
still didn't have a quarterback going into Week one and
still Ohio State's number three. Yeah, let's tap the brakes
on that. Yeah, but give me Michigan and Notre Dame
for the national Championship.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Well, I mentioned It's Saturday night on our show that
about Michigan and Georgia.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Number one.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Georgia is not scheduled to play a ranked team until
November eleventh, when they face Old Miss. Michigan could start
nine to zero. It is not scheduled to face a
ranked opponent until November eleventh at Penn State. Yeah, and
this came out when the Harbass suspension came out. Oh,
are they going to lose any of these early games
because coach is not on the sideline. And then everybody
saw their schedule East Carolina, which essentially was shut out
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last weekend, And you're right about looking in an odd
way board because it was twenty three to nothing at
the half and there was almost no scoring in the game.
After that last Saturday, the next game for Michigan is
UNLV and then Bowling Green and then Rutgers at home.
I still don't think that's a dangerous game, and then
at Nebraska, Minnesota, Indiana whose offense couldn't get off the ground.
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Maybe Michigan at Michigan State at October and then Purdue,
which lost at home to Fresno State yesterday. So there's
the nine to zero possibilities for Michigan. Those are the
nine games before they're at Penn State, which is currently
a top ten team. Once we head toward about mid November.
Some people before the season even started, we're thinking, once
we get to mid October, it could be undefeated USC
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at undefeated Notre Dame. We now know sc I.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Told you that's the game of the year that's gonna
be under it. Look, if USC wins, we would listen
USC wins until they have to win, and then suddenly
something happens, so they're gonna win all the they'll get
to the Notre Dame game, and it's gonna be Here's
undefeated USC with Caleb Williams number one overall pick in
the draft, undefeated Notre Dame. Sam Hartman, look at this,
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just like years ago. Here's all the footage of ad
running the football. Here's Rick Meyer, here's everything else. This
will be the game of the year in college football.
There will be no game bigger as far as hype
anticipation than USC Notre Dame. With both of them being undefeated,
playing middle of the season where we're looking for a
big game like this to grab our attention. Hey, we
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can only watch Colorado steam rolls some teams for so long.
Let's get something really big in the middle. This is
going to be that game.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
USC's only test in the first half of the season
leading up to the game at Notre Dame. I mean,
aside from the test of its own defense. Is the
game at Colorado to end the month of September. And
if USC's defense is a problem, you're going against the
Colorado team that, if I may quote you as dudes
now Shador Sanders had over five hundred yards passing last weekend.
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So there is that possible hiccup on the way to
the battle at Notre Dame. For the Irish, they do
play Ohio State, granted at home, but they do play
Ohio State between now and then. And coincidentally, Notre Dame
happens to have a game at Duke, just like Clemson
right now is losing at Duke after three quarters.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Twitter, and how about a fresca Jason Smith Steve Desager
in for Mike Harmon Tonight's there you go, Michigan Notre Dame.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Get ready, get ready to hear the fight songs and
everything else. You want get ready.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Now we get ready to find out what's trending in
the wide world of sports. Steve, what do you got
for us?
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Clemson driving still trailing at Duke. This is the opener
for the ninth ranked Tigers end of three Blue Devils
thirteen to seven over Clemson. Couple of field goals got
Duke a six to nothing lead early second quarter. Then
Clemson had its one touchdown short TD pass Kid Clubnick
to will Shipley. Shipley on the ground fifteen carries one
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hundred four yards for the Clemson Tigers. However, Riley Leonard
on a forty four yard touchdown run just after halftime.
That's the Duke quarterback put the Blue Devils in the lead.
And that's where we stand at thirteen to seven. I
mentioned earlier Leonard on only six carries, has eighty six
yards rushing and the TD. Currently Clemson is driving by
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the way, so we'll see if they can finally take
the lead. They've had a couple of field goals blocked
and they have a new field goal kicker this year.
As for the baseball in progress, there is a game
on FS one sho Hee Otani out tonight at Anaheim
due to oblique tightness. Orioles lead the Angels three to
one in the top of the fourth. Tampa Bay played
earlier today and lost at home seven to three to Boston.
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The Race scored their three runs in the first inning,
but after that went two for twenty five at the
plate with ten strikeouts. The Orioles are the first place
team in the AL East. They were two and a
half games over Tampa Bay to start this holiday. Pittsburgh
beat Milwaukee four to two. The Brewers are the first
place team in the NL Central. They're now two and
a half games over the Cubs, five and a half
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up on the Reds because the Cubs and Reds each
won today. Cubs five nothing over San Francisco, another win
for All Star pitcher Justin Steely sixteen and three. Cincinnati
beat Seattle six to three. Mariners have been on quite
a run, but did lose today as Julio Rodriguez, despite
a homer, later struck out to end the seventh inning
as a struck out dam night.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Not being on a road then, Mets just took two
out of three from them this past weekend. Maybe if
the Mets played in the AL West, we'd be going
to the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Speaking of the Mets, did you see that Pete Alonzo
hit a couple of home runs yesterday?
Speaker 4 (32:06):
He did?
Speaker 1 (32:06):
He did every day he hits a home run, and
every day it looks like he's gonna get traded.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
For He's in one hundred rby eyes and batting a
whole to twenty five. Well, guess what the.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
You can hit two twenty five, You're gonna hit forty
home runs and knocking one hundred runs.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
Just ask Max Munsey.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
I was just gonna say, in your absence on the
Friday Night Show, I called Max Monsey Schwarber West. And
here Kyle Schwarber for the Phillies tonight hit his fortieth
home run, So he's in the category of Peter Alonzo,
although he's only batting one ninety three pet Alonzo ladies
and gentlemen to twenty five, So take that.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Yeah, Peter Alonzo looks like Tony Gwynn compared to Kyle Schwarber.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Speaking Tony Quinn in San Diego. Tonight, Philly was head
of rich Hill in company. Yes, he's still in the league.
It was eight one Phillies over the Padres in the
third inning. Phil's held on for a nine to seven victory,
and Minnesota won at Cleveland twenty to six. The Twins
are first in the AL Central, now six games ahead
of the Guardians. If the Twins can just sweep they
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can all but wrap up the division here by September sixth,
by the way, because that would put Cleveland's record at
sixty six and seventy four, by the.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Way, but Cleveland went and signed forty seven new players
last week when they were put on waivers.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
They sure could use I'm ed Rosario at this point.
Chase for Houston and Arizona.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
They could use Rosario Dawson at this point.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
I think she's a little busy. She seems to be
a little busy.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Well, well, she's Ahsoka. She's trying to save the galley exactly.
Or maybe they re tape that.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Is that not live? Are we not tuning into live?
Speaker 1 (33:38):
On that streaming, we go live to AHSCA where they
try to find Grand Admiral thrown all the way in
deep space.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
We've had a turnover by Clemson. They still can't take
the league.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
Oh, you're ahead of me. They were on the one
yard line. You're ahead of me. What happened?
Speaker 3 (33:54):
They had second and goal at the one and I
see a fumble and it gets run back past midfield.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
Oh yeah, what goodness? What is going on?
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Clemson?
Speaker 4 (34:03):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Duke starts with a drive in Clemson territory at the
thirty three yard line and already up thirteen to seven
over a top ten team. This is the opening minute
of the fourth quarter. The handoff was clean, but the
hit was in the backfield. Charged the ball loose and
about a fifty plus yard return for Duke. My goodness,
thirteen to seven, the lead and the ball for the
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Blue Devils. Rams wide receiver Cooper cups so a specialist
today about his injured hamstring and at the US Open,
Madison Key swept Jessica Pagoula. Dodgers pitcher Julio Arius was
arrested for felony domestic violence late last night.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
Back to you, thanks a Buch Steve O.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
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The Jason Smith Show is Steep to sang are in
from Mike Harmon Tonight, Rest in peace, Jimmy Buffett. We'll
have more on the Clemson duke game coming up in
a few minutes. Because this game has gone not at
all how anyone has expected it to go well.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
See the problem is they have too many first and
goals Clemson just has known what to do with them tonight.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Clemson's red zone offense is not very good. But there's
a weird thing coming out of this game too with
Club Nick and Dabo Sweeney.
Speaker 4 (36:20):
We're going to get to coming up in a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Duke leads this game over Clemson, now twenty one to seven.
After Clemson fumbled on the two yard line. Duke took
it back about seventy yards. They just punched it in
for a touchdown at a two point conversion. They lead
the ninth ranked Tigers now twenty.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
One to seven.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
But this story coming out of Major League Baseball about
an hour or two ago from the agent for show
Hey o Tani. Right now, we haven't heard anything from
show Hey or any of his people following his UCL injury,
in which he's going to continue to hit for the Angels.
So he was a late scratch tonight.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
Yeah, ninety minutes the agent talks to the media, Hey,
that's fine, nothing to say here, people, And then he
scratched from tonight's lineup.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Yeah, a little bit of right oblique tightness. So show
Hay was out of the lineup tonight. But his agent
spoke today, Nez Bilelo of Cia and talked about a
lot of different things, saying, yeah, the plan is for
show hey to hit the rest of the season.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
Is he going to play the rest of the season.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
I don't know, And I take that to mean if
when the Angels get eliminated, is he going to continue
to play. That doesn't help anybody. But the biggest thing
he said is that, hey, next year, he's going to
be in somebody's lineup. He's gonna be raking. Now when
it comes to pitching, he said that there's not a
question in his mind that he's going to come back
and he's going to continue to do both. This what
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Bellelo told a large contingent reporters from his suite at
Angel Stadium. No doubt in his mind he's going to
come back and he's going to continue to do both. Now,
this is a big deal because if he really wants
to pitch again, if he really wants to be this
guy again, then he only has one choice. Because you
can say this, but no team is gonna say here's
(38:04):
seven hundred and fifty million dollars to be our slugger
and and every and every five day pitcher and be
one of our top two guys.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
Nobody's gonna do it because.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
You're talking about Tommy John surgery in twenty eighteen, most likely,
according to Bilelo, a procedure of some kind on his elbow.
Speaker 4 (38:22):
From this ucl end down the road.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
He said, this is inevitable.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Yeah, could be Tommy John, could be something else. It
doesn't seem like he's going to pitch in twenty twenty four.
That's what that. That's the first big takeaways that it
doesn't seem like he's gonna pitch in twenty twenty four.
So if you're not going to pitch in twenty twenty four,
and you still say I'm coming back and I'm gonna
be a pitcher, the only way you're gonna get that
seven hundred million dollar contract is if you signed somewhere
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for one year whatever it's gonna be forty million dollars.
Then for one year, then you get healthy and you
show everybody you can still pitch, but you're gonna but
it's gonna be twenty twenty four. At some point you
gotta show before you're gonna make that contract. So then
suddenly you're into twenty twenty five where you have to
show teams that hey, I can still go out there
and take the ball every fifth day. So even though
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he can say this, I don't see a timetable Steve.
I don't see there being any way that he can say, hey,
I can show this to you enough where he'll get
that seven hundred, seven hundred and fifty million dollar contract.
Someone's gonna sign him and give them all kinds of
money to be a slugger. But I still, even though
he's saying this, and the agent said, I don't see
there being any way that he's gonna be able to
do that.
Speaker 4 (39:28):
Ed get paid to be a pitcher. No one's gonna
do it.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
First off, even five year deals have been proven to
be disasters for starting pitchers. As far as as hitter, okay,
say he's back, like the agent next year. He took
batting practice tonight, which is news because he almost never does,
and reportedly it was awkward, and then he was scratched.
And this is an hour and a half after the
agent said, Hey, the original Tommy John repair is still intact.
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This new tear is a different place. This is best
case scenario. Everything's fine, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
It's it's it's really hard because I know that he
wants to get paid, he wants to get that money.
He's just not going to It's just not gonna happen.
You can say this, but it's gonna be two years.
Two Are you really gonna go for two years of
wait or you have to some time. You're gonna have
to sign that contract somewhere and do it, because it's
tough to go year to year, especially when you have
somebody you have this kind of injury situation. We'll have
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more on this story more in a big story out
of baseball as well, besides show Hey.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
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how was your Labor day? Skip skip? Oh sorry did
I say? I didn't mean I meant to say, I'm
am sorry. I meant to say, Steve.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I slid got something else on the there.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
No, no, no, I meant not.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I just know just a thing, you know, I don't
know what it is, but just wanted to make sure.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Are you one of the rotating hosts with skip Is
that what's going on back.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
In your mind?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
There are none of them.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
No, it was just one of those things, just just
a force of happen in case one of those.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Things Gilgan's Islands, slip of the tongue. Yeah, I'm doing it, Okay.
It was just a normal, normal day. Couldn't wait till tonight.
But I must say football this weekend. It was just
so great having it. There were enough games that there
were enough good total games. Imagine how we will feel
one week from tonight when we have NFL football starting.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
And I want to say this, I'm very sorry because
I you know, watching Michigan play yesterday, you didn't get
to coach the overtime potentially that they would have played
a day ago. So I know that was something you
really you know, you were excited. Only twenty of us
are getting to coach Michigan while Harball is out these
three games.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Yeah, they're kind of rotating. You know, is it the
next game where they have two guys coaching one on
the first half one and the second.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
There's somebody coaches every quarter and that's what it is,
and then somebody gets to actually coach halftime it's a
completely different guy that comes in and coaches the halftime adjustments.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
You know, maybe Blake Korum can just coach. Maybe that's
some sort of nil thing they can slip in there,
because he's only really needed to play the first half
this past week. In the opening, he would have been
free for the second. Did you notice by the way
Michigan won its opener against East Carolina thirty to three.
East Carolina kicked a thirty three yard field goal on
the final plumb final plan to avoid a shutout here
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all day the team up until the last drive. They
got eight drives, eight first downs, ten penalties, but we
didn't get shut out. We went to the big house.
We scored on those guys. That's what they could walk home.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
We made that last play of the game count. And
I'll tell you that that's you know, I understand that
they actually went for it earlier on fourth down in
the fourth quarter when they could have kicked a field
goal down thirty nothing, and they didn't get it. So
I think they're like, Okay, well this second time, we
got to make sure this happens now.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Yesterday it happened yesterday. As Northwestern Mike Carmon is not here.
Northwestern was it Rutgers and getting shut out twenty four
to nothing and scored a touchdown in the final seconds
after using all three timeouts late in the final minute
or so to make sure we got a shutout. Gotta
make sure just so they can say we're back. Of course,
we're back. Did you see us? We just scored?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Now, speaking of college football, and speaking of did you
see us?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
We just scored?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Clemson and Duke the ninth rank Tigers have not had
a good first half offensively, and now they find themselves
trailing Duke thirteen to seven early in the third quarter.
I mean, this is this would be something where suddenly,
you know, Duke goes wow, this is I'd be usually
we get this in basketball, so in football this should
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just be.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Used to always be Clemson in basketball. Remember that was
like Notre Dame against Navy and.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Football, that's all I always used to it.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Now here they are Clemson struggling against Duke and Kate Klebnick,
who is supposed to be the next great quarterback for
eighty five yards in a touchdown, Will Shipley, who has
had big games sixty five yards. I know, what's a
new offense? They're trying to put in put together. But
so far, all the big teams that we've seen from
a year ago that we were most of them anyway that
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we see them, Hey, how are they gonna adjust with
new players? It's a little bit, it's a little bit
of please sure, Okay, they looked okay to a point.
Now they looked okay to a part. But like, we
still have the same questions, right, Like Clemson's offense. How's
that we were talking about USC's defense. Well, they're still
allowing twenty eight points a game to teams that are
not Power five you know how?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Hey, only two touchdowns by Nevada.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Come on now, all right, sorry sorry, only two all right,
two touchdowns by Nevad. Okay, okay, so they're averaging twenty
one points to not well.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Penn State got a really slow start Saturday night and
eventually put away West Virginia. I will say impressive for
a sport that doesn't have a preseason. Penn State only
had one penalty in that game. And by the way,
I need to update a reference that I had a
minute ago. It's not like, you know, Duke basketball used
to always be Clemson. The updated reference is the way
Ohio State football beats Indiana, because I think that's up
(05:01):
to about twenty eight straight times, which would be the
longest active streak in any FBS series.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Last week a little bit more of a struggle for
Ohio State, little it was it was for then you
throught against Indiana.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Thirteen to three late in the third and Indiana was
doing nothing on offense and it was still a game.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
You know, it is a perfect conference of circumstance and
the biggest thing, the best thing to start with tonight. Look, obviously,
yes college football and seeing a lot of the teams
we expected to be great struggle a little bit, not
wins or losses, but just boy, I expect this to
be sixty to nothing. I expect this to be like
Syracuse and Colgate, you know, sixty five nothing.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I we did Washington. Washington took a little bit until
in the second quarter Pennix throws four touchdown passes and
they start to blow out Boise.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
If you're judging by social media, I think you officially
have to say Heisman Trophy candidate. Yeah, Michael Penick. I
think they're trying to make that happen. So but let's
we got to make this happen for Michael Pennick.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Well, the amount of people that had five touchdowns in
a game this weekend, the SEC quarterback, the Washington quarterback,
the new Alabama quarterback, it seemed like a long lit Well,
I mean, the Kansas State quarterback. It was four touchdowns
in the first half. He had two passing, one rushing,
and one receiving.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Yeah, I mean and look, and when you talk about
big games, listen, there's a perfect confluence of circumstances to
get to what we're gonna start. Start with Toddy because
with all these teams struggling, and with all the attention
on Colorado after beating TCU in an incredible game on
Saturday forty five, forty two, you saw stuff that just
(06:35):
made your jaw drop, Right, Shaduora Sanders throwing for four
touchdowns and five hundred yards against the last year's national finalists.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Right.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
You watched Travis Hunter play one hundred and ten snaps,
catch eleven passes for one hundred and twenty yards and
pulled out a great interception on the goal line. You
saw Colorado has some dudes. And with the attention coming
in with Deon Sanders and what's gone on since in
the last twenty four hours, everybody's trying to make everybody's
trying to make sense of, Okay, what is it with
college what are the things?
Speaker 4 (07:03):
What do I need to know? What's going on?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
What have they done? What they've done? Number one is this,
They have become college football. They are the national story.
Everything else is page two. We didn't even we didn't
even talk about We didn't even get to talk about
Alabama on the show tonight. We're gonna get to talk
about Georgia actually still tonight.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
All the other top ten teams, even ones that we
just mentioned, You're right, are a secondary story right now
to Colorado.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Everything is deon Sanders and Colorado has become a traveling
road show and we can't get enough of it. It's
a perfect confluence of circumstances. Where are there is there
any real excitement coming into this season from a lot
of teams? No, a lot of teams are starting over,
So okay, so there's a bit of an emptiness there.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Oh. Yes.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Caleb Williams and USC they get a lot of attention
coming off the bat because he's gonna be the number
one pick in the draft, and USC or rock Stars
I get it. There's attention for Jim Harbaugh because he
always has attention around him, things going on at Michigan,
his suspension, not he's got his best team at Michigan
since he's been there. But by and large, in college football,
there is a wide guff for a team to grab
(08:10):
our attention nationally, where people in New York and Florida
and Kansas and Missouri and California and Washington all want
to see what's going on?
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Right? Did we do we have that? Do we have that? Dover?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
We really care what Georgia does ever across the country?
Or do you care about your team? No, you care
about your team?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
That's college Can I can I interject maybe when somebody
from Georgia is driving, we care because it.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Really come on, seriously, We'll get to that. We'll get
to that.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
But the whole thing with Colorado is they have now
filled this void, and Deon Sanders has filled this void
to become the conversation. We're going to talk about Colorado
football all week every week. We're going to talk about
it leading up to games, We're going to talk about
it coming off of games. He's going to stay in
the public mindset because Deon Sanders.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
One thing. What does he love?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
He loves Deon Sanders, right, Deon Sanders loves himself from
Deon Sanders. He loves the attention. He loves bringing it
to his team. He doesn't mind putting them on the
spot and himself on the spot. And it's a story
that cuts through every week. Is going to be my
team Colorado. I gotta see Colorado, not just because they're winning,
but because of how they're winning, because of how fun
(09:17):
they are and the flash fast offense that has come
together really really quickly. And Dion's standing up there and
he's admonishing reporters after the game. You didn't believe, You
didn't believe. He's turned this into a big time traveling show.
And people are gonna love Deon Sanders, and people are
gonna hate Deonson. They're gonna want to see him win,
They're gonna want to see him lose. There's there's gonna
(09:37):
be no down the middle on Dion. But he has
become the conversation in one game. With one game, he
has taken the.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Entirety of college football and said we are what matters.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
I'm what matters my team or what matters where we
are on national television on Saturday. We're what matters, where
we go, what we do. And he is not gonna
give that up. Because the one thing, Diana, he knows
how to keep attention going, how to keep it on himself.
He knows how to keep it on the team. He
knows how to stay in the limelight. And they are
going to be the show in college football all season long.
(10:08):
And there's gonna be weeks when they lose. When they lose,
guess what he's gonna be even in the news even
more when that happens. He has found a way to
tend college football. Needed this because we've had enough of Alabama.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Alabama was great for a while and they carried the
torch for college football. And look at this dynasty they
have in Nick Saban. But then slowly Nick Saban turned
into somebody who was He's just kind of a curmudgeon,
all right, he's just upset about everything, all right in Alabama.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Yes, they keep winning. We're onto something else.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Now we have a team whose coach is not afraid
of the microphone. We'll say whatever the hell he wants to.
He's got superstars on his team. He's got next level guys,
He's turned this team around in an instant and now
there's not going to you get people buying codad a
Buffalo merchandise flying off the shelves and have nothing to
do with Colorado. I'm gonna do it. He has become
the story in college football from day one. And congratulations
(10:54):
anybody who used that today when I tweeted it out,
talked about it a lot on Saturday right after the game, Congratulations,
And any show that may have used that skip and
be able to try to figure it out, congratulations.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
And one thing that you mentioned just there reminds me
of the quote from one of the old old sports
writers from almost one hundred years ago. The two biggest
stories in sports are big Man wins or big Man loses,
and Deon Sanders is big man on campus. Right now,
they are the story, and you're right, it's going to
be win or lose, huge story, and people are going
(11:26):
to be not only Fox wisely putting them on their
big noon kickoff the first two weeks of the season, some.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
First ten weeks. Now it's going to be first ten
weeks of the season.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Some people are not aware that that is the first
of the four games on Fox TV this Saturday, it's
Colorado hosting Nebraska. But you talk about the attention nationally,
and this is one thing that has been talked about
of college football that it gets to be a regional sport.
Understandably so the way it's not really adjudicated from a
top like the pro sports. Let's put it that way.
(11:57):
It's conference by conference and that means re by region.
But I can think of offhand three big national stories that
everyone wanted to have their eyeballs on over the past
twenty years in college football. One was Johnny Manziel about
a decade ago, the game against Alabama early really got
it started and eventually a Heisman Trophy win. About fifteen
(12:18):
years ago it was Tim Tebow, and about twenty years
ago it was USC, which won over thirty games in
a row. I'm sure there are others, but it's few
and far between. That's a twenty year span we're talking about.
Add Colorado to the list right now.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
That's every five years it's the USC dynasty. Then Tim
Tebow having the best maybe three year run of anybody
in the history of college football, national champion, two national
titles in a Heisman.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Trophy, I mean up there with Tommy Fraser, Matt Lioner.
It's a short list.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
And then it was Manzel and now it's this and oh,
by the way, my whole skip line there was not
for skip was because that's what I'm saying, who's to
be the first person to take that? And it was
Shannon so okays one congratulations, Yeah it was Shannon.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
But I don't watch it anymore, for I had no
idea what you were talking about.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I mean, it's it's it's he and and the thing
is and this is the most shocking parts even this
is the part that I love about this is that
you know, Dion's out, and we'll get into the Dion
you know why he's so you know, affronted with people
who didn't believe in him. But the most amazing part
of this is that this is, you know, college football.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Is not an add water and stir type situation. Right.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
This is not oh hey, I'm here and I'm showing
up and I'm bringing in eighty seven new guys, add
water stir. Look at this, right, It's not It's not
like making a nice, easy couple of ramen noodles when
I just put water in, you know, put the the
top over for two and a half.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Minutes, open up and I'm eating this might.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Be you need to do that, Rick Newso on the air,
Jason Saturday said, I cannot come up with an example
to compare to what I saw today. And this guy's
been including at Colorado in college football for a long time.
It's darn near unprecedented here with the amount of transfers
you can have immediately and easily.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
I mean, it's it really it shocks me just how now.
And the big thing, the second thing to get to have,
but owning college football is that what. I don't think
anybody doubted that Dion was going to win. I don't
think anybody doubted that. And d unplays up the hate
because it's good for him. It's good, you know, it's
against the world mentality, so he plays up the hate.
I don't think anybody ever doubted he was going to win.
(14:18):
But the speed with which Colorado was going to a
rot and I admit, look, they arrived a lot quicker
than I thought. I thought, this is gonna be a
team that arrives in the middle of the season and
they're gonna take their lumps a little bit early because
You're putting in a new offense, a new defense with
eighty seven guys, and how are you gonna do it right?
And you had a tough schedule coming up. This is
gonna be a team that you're gonna see that big change.
(14:39):
It'll happen fast because he did it fast at Jackson State, right,
it was fast there. It'll have but middle of seedon.
But now he's just accelerated that timeline too. It's happening
now because is TCU great? I mean, look, it's week
one of college football. We always say tap the breaks,
Tap the breaks. Yeah, TCU may be a great teams,
could be their only loss this year. TCU may struggle
all year. They may be a five hundred team. But
(15:00):
there's no doubt that Colorado has dudes, and they've arrived
faster than anybody expected. And that that's the real takeaway
from Colorado and just that it's happened this fast, and
I mean, I mean it. I don't know how he
does it. I mean you watch him just zip around
the practice fielding the golf cart and you're like, what's
he doing?
Speaker 4 (15:18):
In meetings? Is he what's going on? How do they
get on the same page? How does all of this
happen so fast? How does this come together so fast?
And their offense is so good so early? It really is.
It's baffling.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
And I'll tell you it's gonna be fun because nobody
has needed a major injection of a talent more than
college football. Shoheo Tani showed up and that gave the
big injection major League Baseball needed. Hey, we need this.
We need somebody that's gonna be a guy who cuts
through that whenever he does something, we pay attention. College
football needed the same thing because really it's about USC
(15:52):
until they lose, and but nationally it's not that great.
Michigan's a big story because of Harba because Harbo's also
a look at me head coach, but nothing on the
level of Dion Standers in Colorado. Everywhere you look tomorrow,
that's where the conversations are going to be on TV,
on radio. What are we looking ahead? And boy, you
feel bad for Nebraska. It's like, man, we just well,
things just got works for us coming off this game
(16:14):
we just lost on national TV. Now we gotta go
and play Colorado on Saturday.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Maybe they won't be close enough to blow it in
the end. On Saturday. By the way, we'll talk about
Colorado later, but we need to emphasize how low the
bar was set, how truly horrible the team was that
he took over at Colorado. And as far as TCU
maybe not being the tap, I wouldn't even use the
word maybe not the same team as last year when
they made their run. I believe I saw five TCU
(16:42):
stars from last year's team in one NFL preseason game,
So yeah, they don't have the same talent as last year.
Update on what's going on. Duke still leading number nine
Clemson mid third quarter thirteen to seven because Duke got
that touchdown on their first drive. Clemson had a short
field goal blocked on their first drive, and in fact,
that's the second one blocks from the new kicker and
(17:03):
that special teams unit of Clemsons.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Tonight, Clemson loses this game, they'll kick them out of
the ACC. We'll get another new team in there. We'll
kick Clemson al SMU.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Who do you like?
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Why do you feel like they wanted Cow? They didn't
really want Cow. They just need bodies just in case
FSU and Clemson.
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Speaker 4 (18:30):
Boy, we've lost a lot in music the last few days.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Jimmy Buffett the other day, and you've seen tributes to
him all weekend. Gary Wright, who did dream Weaver, one
of the biggest songs of the seventies, came Back and
Wayne's World the nineties. He passed away at the age
of eighty and then a story that got out yesterday.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
And then had its ending today.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
The lead singer smash Mouth, Steve Harwell, dies at fifty
six acute liver failure. All of the tributes pouring into
him you see from his friends, from people in the band.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
He lived life to the fullest.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
I mean, obviously, look he had issues with alcohol and
when you have a cute liver failure, but he was
with you know, in the words of his friends, he
was desirous of being a rock star. He wanted to
do it, and they had some of the biggest songs
on the radio back in the late nineties early two thousands.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
They remade I'm a Believer.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
I remember when the Jets used that as their theme
song one year because Herm Edwards. The whole thing was
we win ugly and it was when Shrek two would
come out and they and smash Mouth did the song
for Shrek two, and after every game they won, they
would sing the smash Mouth version of I'm a Believer
in the locker room because he would say, you think
we would ugly, We don't have any team would have
a town. We went and it brought them together, went
(19:40):
to the playoffs that year. I mean they smash Mouth
had a huge run in the nineties into two thousand,
one of the biggest pop pop rock bands out there.
And you know, we saw the story yesterday. Hey, Steve
Harwell is in hospice. He's you know, may not make
it another week, and we get the news today he
passed away at the age of fifty six.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
The song all Star twenty five years ago was all
over the place and also got pointed out by Mark
Willard from the Bay Area on our air last night
that he's from the Bay Area and was a huge
appearance making appearance as well a being a huge fan
of the Bay Area sports teams.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Yeah he was.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
And all Star is a song that I mean you
talk about. Yeah, there are songs that make it over
the test of time. But they're gonna play All Star
for the next hundred years at All Star Games and
four All Stars and you're gonna see it on TV.
I mean, All Stars one of those songs that has
has gone from being hey, it's a great song here
on the radio when you turn on the eighties channel
the nineties channel to being a song that you hear
(20:37):
still in pop culture regularly. And the song was twenty
five years ago. Really, it doesn't seem like kind of popularity, no,
when you hear something like that now, Yeah, that was
just a HTNA. It's twenty five years ago. Is in
the late nineteen nineties when that came out.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Well, when we were talking about in segment one, I
mean the USC winning streak and college football seems like
forever ago. That was more recent than the song All
Star and Gentlemen.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Yeah, really, you know.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
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Speaker 4 (21:37):
Is clemsing any good is Clemson? Are they really still
as good as well?
Speaker 3 (21:43):
If they had special teams, they would have been tied
by now. But two blocked field goals and a new kicker.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
We are nearing the end of the third quarter and
Duke behind Dave Brown at quarterback.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Now Duke, and.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
It's not even cut Cliff coaching. No, no, it's the
new Duke last year.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Eh, Duke leads Clemson thirteen to seven. Kate Klubnick, who
you've been hearing for years now, is going to be
the next great quarterback for Clemson. I think back in
two thousand and four they talk about Kate Clubnick and
he just for the next has thrown a touchdown. But
they have not moved the offense a lot. They've had
a couple of field goals. Shipley's running the ball pretty well.
But this is just you could tell watching Clemson this
(22:21):
is just not the same team starting the season. Does
I mean they're not really good to but you know,
you only get so many chances to stub your toe
before the rest of college football says sorry, I'm moving
on from you.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
And they're on the road against a decent team, a
guy who was as I recall coach of the Year
starting at Duke last year in the ACC. But the
club Nick Fumble I reference was on a first and
goal here their previous drive. So they've had missed opportunities
plural in this one. You did mention there was the
one touchdown from Will Shipley receiving on the ground fifteen
(22:51):
carries one hundred four yards for Clemson.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
Yeah. No, Shipley's legit. I mean he is.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
He's legit, But if he's your whole offense, you're not
going to be able to me. You gotta be more
than one dimension.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Now.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
You might be able to play defense and win this
game because it's still a one score game, and you
might be able to get in the end zone one
more time, but oh boy, that becomes a really difficult
needle to thread when suddenly, hey, we're going to run
the football and play defense.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Yeah, and this is not the old Duke that you
kind of shrug your shoulders that you really don't want
to see. They had a quarterback who had touchdown after
touchdown last year, Riley Leonard, and on the ground tonight
for Duke. Six carries, eighty six yards and a touchdown.
It's two and a half minutes to go in the
third at Duke and the Blue Devils are still leading
Number nine Clems in thirteen to seven.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Now, we were off on Friday, so I didn't get
to give my big well some of us football.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Well, I was off fun Okay, I was off fun skip.
I was off Friday. Okay, it's okay.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
So being off on Friday, I didn't get to give
my national championship prediction on the air, but I want
to make sure I got it on social media just
in case something happening. But I feel even better about
it now than I did last week, just seeing where
the top teams, the other top teams in college football
(24:06):
are going from week one forward.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
Right, there's still a lot of questions.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
You're going to Iowa after all of.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
That, Yes, Iowa and Iowa State, and I put a
lot of money on that.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
That one time end of the season, and gentlemen, uh.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
No, here's where I'm going for my national championship.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Prediction, and boy, this would be something for college football.
And and maybe this is me overvaluing how well I
project one team to be, but really, Syracuse, no I'm
looking at for the national championship. Give me Michigan and
no Tre Dame for the national championship.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
You know I could see that.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Give me Nore Dame. Right, Let's deal with Notre Dame first.
You know how much I like them. I told you
Sam Hartman's going to win the Heisman Trophy. He is
everything they need at no. He's all they need. He's
a lad there. We just need a quarterback, Tanna, you
got a quarterback. You haven't had a dependable quarterback at
Notre Dame that can really throw the football in a while.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Now.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
You had a year here and there from a guy,
but never someone like Sam Hartman, who is so incredibly talented,
who does everything well. Right, I've told you I watched
a lot of him play. I watch a SEC football,
so you don't have to. That's my whole thing. And
watching him play.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Wait a minute, isn't everybody going to be in the
ACC as his next year?
Speaker 5 (25:24):
Two?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Well, well, now I've been at the last few years.
People want to know, like you know, okay, you watch it. Yes,
I watch AC football, so you don't have to. He's legit.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
He is. He does everything really well. He's smart.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
You hear all the stories about how he has jumped
in and helped with the culture at Notre Dame. And
he's everything they wanted Notre Dame. That's all they needed
was a quarterback. And even though Sam Hartman is and
he's thirty seven years old, he's got a lot of experience.
That's all they need. Notre Dame and USC is going
to be the game of the year in college football.
And Notre Dame can even stub there till in that game.
(25:57):
I don't believe they will, but they can even stub
there till in that game and get to the National
Championship because because Sam Hartman's bringing them there, bringing them
to the playoff, give me Notre Dame and give me Michigan.
Because watching this Michigan team on Saturday, this is the
best team that Jim Harbal has had. He didn't even
coach the game. They looked how do I say this,
They looked bored good on Saturday For a team that's
(26:18):
been to the National Football Playoff the last two years.
They've beaten Ohio State badly the last two years. There's
gonna be a little bit of boredom for a team.
But this is like their good board, Like, Hey, we're
gonna go out there and we're gonna score, and we're
gonna dominate the game, and then we're fine. We don't
need to go crazy. We have bigger fish to fry.
This is your year to win the national championship. This
(26:39):
is JJ McCarthy is a star. You have two terrific
running backs. Blake orm he's gonna problem. Staying healthy, doesn't matter.
Donald Edwards is great. The receivers they have coming up
are all terrific. This is Harball's team.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
This is it.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
This is the year he's been building towards. They should
win the Big Ten. They should win the Big Ten
pretty easily.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Right. Ohio State's got a lot of problems right now.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
It doesn't mean they don't solve them, but Ohio State's
got a lot of pride. Told the beginning of the year,
I thought they were a little bit over ranked. They
still didn't have a quarterback going into Week one and
still Ohio State's number three. Yeah, let's tap the brakes
on that. Yeah, but give me Michigan and Notre Dame
for the national Championship.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Well, I mentioned It's Saturday night on our show that
about Michigan and Georgia.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Number one.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Georgia is not scheduled to play a ranked team until
November eleventh, when they face Old Miss. Michigan could start
nine to zero. It is not scheduled to face a
ranked opponent until November eleventh at Penn State. Yeah, and
this came out when the Harbass suspension came out. Oh,
are they going to lose any of these early games
because coach is not on the sideline. And then everybody
saw their schedule East Carolina, which essentially was shut out
(27:41):
last weekend, And you're right about looking in an odd
way board because it was twenty three to nothing at
the half and there was almost no scoring in the game.
After that last Saturday, the next game for Michigan is
UNLV and then Bowling Green and then Rutgers at home.
I still don't think that's a dangerous game, and then
at Nebraska, Minnesota, Indiana whose offense couldn't get off the ground.
(28:03):
Maybe Michigan at Michigan State at October and then Purdue,
which lost at home to Fresno State yesterday. So there's
the nine to zero possibilities for Michigan. Those are the
nine games before they're at Penn State, which is currently
a top ten team. Once we head toward about mid November.
Some people before the season even started, we're thinking, once
we get to mid October, it could be undefeated USC
(28:26):
at undefeated Notre Dame. We now know sc I.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Told you that's the game of the year that's gonna
be under it. Look, if USC wins, we would listen
USC wins until they have to win, and then suddenly
something happens, so they're gonna win all the they'll get
to the Notre Dame game, and it's gonna be Here's
undefeated USC with Caleb Williams number one overall pick in
the draft, undefeated Notre Dame. Sam Hartman, look at this,
(28:49):
just like years ago. Here's all the footage of ad
running the football. Here's Rick Meyer, here's everything else. This
will be the game of the year in college football.
There will be no game bigger as far as hype
anticipation than USC Notre Dame. With both of them being undefeated,
playing middle of the season where we're looking for a
big game like this to grab our attention. Hey, we
(29:09):
can only watch Colorado steam rolls some teams for so long.
Let's get something really big in the middle. This is
going to be that game.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
USC's only test in the first half of the season
leading up to the game at Notre Dame. I mean,
aside from the test of its own defense. Is the
game at Colorado to end the month of September. And
if USC's defense is a problem, you're going against the
Colorado team that, if I may quote you as dudes
now Shador Sanders had over five hundred yards passing last weekend.
(29:36):
So there is that possible hiccup on the way to
the battle at Notre Dame. For the Irish, they do
play Ohio State, granted at home, but they do play
Ohio State between now and then. And coincidentally, Notre Dame
happens to have a game at Duke, just like Clemson
right now is losing at Duke after three quarters.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Twitter, and how about a fresca Jason Smith Steve Desager
in for Mike Harmon Tonight's there you go, Michigan Notre Dame.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Get ready, get ready to hear the fight songs and
everything else. You want get ready.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Now we get ready to find out what's trending in
the wide world of sports. Steve, what do you got
for us?
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Clemson driving still trailing at Duke. This is the opener
for the ninth ranked Tigers end of three Blue Devils
thirteen to seven over Clemson. Couple of field goals got
Duke a six to nothing lead early second quarter. Then
Clemson had its one touchdown short TD pass Kid Clubnick
to will Shipley. Shipley on the ground fifteen carries one
(30:29):
hundred four yards for the Clemson Tigers. However, Riley Leonard
on a forty four yard touchdown run just after halftime.
That's the Duke quarterback put the Blue Devils in the lead.
And that's where we stand at thirteen to seven. I
mentioned earlier Leonard on only six carries, has eighty six
yards rushing and the TD. Currently Clemson is driving by
(30:51):
the way, so we'll see if they can finally take
the lead. They've had a couple of field goals blocked
and they have a new field goal kicker this year.
As for the baseball in progress, there is a game
on FS one sho Hee Otani out tonight at Anaheim
due to oblique tightness. Orioles lead the Angels three to
one in the top of the fourth. Tampa Bay played
earlier today and lost at home seven to three to Boston.
(31:12):
The Race scored their three runs in the first inning,
but after that went two for twenty five at the
plate with ten strikeouts. The Orioles are the first place
team in the AL East. They were two and a
half games over Tampa Bay to start this holiday. Pittsburgh
beat Milwaukee four to two. The Brewers are the first
place team in the NL Central. They're now two and
a half games over the Cubs, five and a half
(31:32):
up on the Reds because the Cubs and Reds each
won today. Cubs five nothing over San Francisco, another win
for All Star pitcher Justin Steely sixteen and three. Cincinnati
beat Seattle six to three. Mariners have been on quite
a run, but did lose today as Julio Rodriguez, despite
a homer, later struck out to end the seventh inning
as a struck out dam night.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Not being on a road then, Mets just took two
out of three from them this past weekend. Maybe if
the Mets played in the AL West, we'd be going
to the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Speaking of the Mets, did you see that Pete Alonzo
hit a couple of home runs yesterday?
Speaker 4 (32:06):
He did?
Speaker 1 (32:06):
He did every day he hits a home run, and
every day it looks like he's gonna get traded.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
For He's in one hundred rby eyes and batting a
whole to twenty five. Well, guess what the.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
You can hit two twenty five, You're gonna hit forty
home runs and knocking one hundred runs.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
Just ask Max Munsey.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
I was just gonna say, in your absence on the
Friday Night Show, I called Max Monsey Schwarber West. And
here Kyle Schwarber for the Phillies tonight hit his fortieth
home run, So he's in the category of Peter Alonzo,
although he's only batting one ninety three pet Alonzo ladies
and gentlemen to twenty five, So take that.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Yeah, Peter Alonzo looks like Tony Gwynn compared to Kyle Schwarber.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Speaking Tony Quinn in San Diego. Tonight, Philly was head
of rich Hill in company. Yes, he's still in the league.
It was eight one Phillies over the Padres in the
third inning. Phil's held on for a nine to seven victory,
and Minnesota won at Cleveland twenty to six. The Twins
are first in the AL Central, now six games ahead
of the Guardians. If the Twins can just sweep they
(33:07):
can all but wrap up the division here by September sixth,
by the way, because that would put Cleveland's record at
sixty six and seventy four, by the.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Way, but Cleveland went and signed forty seven new players
last week when they were put on waivers.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
They sure could use I'm ed Rosario at this point.
Chase for Houston and Arizona.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
They could use Rosario Dawson at this point.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
I think she's a little busy. She seems to be
a little busy.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Well, well, she's Ahsoka. She's trying to save the galley exactly.
Or maybe they re tape that.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Is that not live? Are we not tuning into live?
Speaker 1 (33:38):
On that streaming, we go live to AHSCA where they
try to find Grand Admiral thrown all the way in
deep space.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
We've had a turnover by Clemson. They still can't take
the league.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
Oh, you're ahead of me. They were on the one
yard line. You're ahead of me. What happened?
Speaker 3 (33:54):
They had second and goal at the one and I
see a fumble and it gets run back past midfield.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
Oh yeah, what goodness? What is going on?
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Clemson?
Speaker 4 (34:03):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Duke starts with a drive in Clemson territory at the
thirty three yard line and already up thirteen to seven
over a top ten team. This is the opening minute
of the fourth quarter. The handoff was clean, but the
hit was in the backfield. Charged the ball loose and
about a fifty plus yard return for Duke. My goodness,
thirteen to seven, the lead and the ball for the
(34:27):
Blue Devils. Rams wide receiver Cooper cups so a specialist
today about his injured hamstring and at the US Open,
Madison Key swept Jessica Pagoula. Dodgers pitcher Julio Arius was
arrested for felony domestic violence late last night.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
Back to you, thanks a Buch Steve O.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
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The Jason Smith Show is Steep to sang are in
from Mike Harmon Tonight, Rest in peace, Jimmy Buffett. We'll
have more on the Clemson duke game coming up in
a few minutes. Because this game has gone not at
all how anyone has expected it to go well.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
See the problem is they have too many first and
goals Clemson just has known what to do with them tonight.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Clemson's red zone offense is not very good. But there's
a weird thing coming out of this game too with
Club Nick and Dabo Sweeney.
Speaker 4 (36:20):
We're going to get to coming up in a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Duke leads this game over Clemson, now twenty one to seven.
After Clemson fumbled on the two yard line. Duke took
it back about seventy yards. They just punched it in
for a touchdown at a two point conversion. They lead
the ninth ranked Tigers now twenty.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
One to seven.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
But this story coming out of Major League Baseball about
an hour or two ago from the agent for show
Hey o Tani. Right now, we haven't heard anything from
show Hey or any of his people following his UCL injury,
in which he's going to continue to hit for the Angels.
So he was a late scratch tonight.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
Yeah, ninety minutes the agent talks to the media, Hey,
that's fine, nothing to say here, people, And then he
scratched from tonight's lineup.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Yeah, a little bit of right oblique tightness. So show
Hay was out of the lineup tonight. But his agent
spoke today, Nez Bilelo of Cia and talked about a
lot of different things, saying, yeah, the plan is for
show hey to hit the rest of the season.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
Is he going to play the rest of the season.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
I don't know, And I take that to mean if
when the Angels get eliminated, is he going to continue
to play. That doesn't help anybody. But the biggest thing
he said is that, hey, next year, he's going to
be in somebody's lineup. He's gonna be raking. Now when
it comes to pitching, he said that there's not a
question in his mind that he's going to come back
and he's going to continue to do both. This what
(37:43):
Bellelo told a large contingent reporters from his suite at
Angel Stadium. No doubt in his mind he's going to
come back and he's going to continue to do both. Now,
this is a big deal because if he really wants
to pitch again, if he really wants to be this
guy again, then he only has one choice. Because you
can say this, but no team is gonna say here's
(38:04):
seven hundred and fifty million dollars to be our slugger
and and every and every five day pitcher and be
one of our top two guys.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
Nobody's gonna do it because.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
You're talking about Tommy John surgery in twenty eighteen, most likely,
according to Bilelo, a procedure of some kind on his elbow.
Speaker 4 (38:22):
From this ucl end down the road.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
He said, this is inevitable.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Yeah, could be Tommy John, could be something else. It
doesn't seem like he's going to pitch in twenty twenty four.
That's what that. That's the first big takeaways that it
doesn't seem like he's gonna pitch in twenty twenty four.
So if you're not going to pitch in twenty twenty four,
and you still say I'm coming back and I'm gonna
be a pitcher, the only way you're gonna get that
seven hundred million dollar contract is if you signed somewhere
(38:48):
for one year whatever it's gonna be forty million dollars.
Then for one year, then you get healthy and you
show everybody you can still pitch, but you're gonna but
it's gonna be twenty twenty four. At some point you
gotta show before you're gonna make that contract. So then
suddenly you're into twenty twenty five where you have to
show teams that hey, I can still go out there
and take the ball every fifth day. So even though
(39:09):
he can say this, I don't see a timetable Steve.
I don't see there being any way that he can say, hey,
I can show this to you enough where he'll get
that seven hundred, seven hundred and fifty million dollar contract.
Someone's gonna sign him and give them all kinds of
money to be a slugger. But I still, even though
he's saying this, and the agent said, I don't see
there being any way that he's gonna be able to
do that.
Speaker 4 (39:28):
Ed get paid to be a pitcher. No one's gonna
do it.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
First off, even five year deals have been proven to
be disasters for starting pitchers. As far as as hitter, okay,
say he's back, like the agent next year. He took
batting practice tonight, which is news because he almost never does,
and reportedly it was awkward, and then he was scratched.
And this is an hour and a half after the
agent said, Hey, the original Tommy John repair is still intact.
(39:51):
This new tear is a different place. This is best
case scenario. Everything's fine, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
It's it's it's really hard because I know that he
wants to get paid, he wants to get that money.
He's just not going to It's just not gonna happen.
You can say this, but it's gonna be two years.
Two Are you really gonna go for two years of
wait or you have to some time. You're gonna have
to sign that contract somewhere and do it, because it's
tough to go year to year, especially when you have
somebody you have this kind of injury situation. We'll have
(40:17):
more on this story more in a big story out
of baseball as well, besides show Hey.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
And can Clemson come back? Keep it here, Happy Labor Day, Fox,
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