July 24, 2025 • 41 mins
Penn State coach James Franklin is 0-7 against Ohio State and Michigan over the last four years. Should that narrative matter in 2025?
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What's up again, folk, it's RJ Young.
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question in the comments below. Is James Franklin right to
embrace the suck? That is to say just how bad his
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Nittany Lions have been against top five competition and
particularly against Michigan and Ohio State.
Also want to discuss odds for making the College Football
Playoff inside the Big 10. Some teams that are listed, a
lot of teams that are not Tommy Castellanos ain't taking back
what he said about Bama, Should he?
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And what exactly did he say in response to not taking back what
he said against Bama? And Brent Key is ready for
Colorado and doesn't give a damnwhere they're going to play
Georgia. That game is not going to take
place at the Flats anymore It orI should say this year, it's not
going to take place at the Flatsthis year.
But I want to talk about this James Franklin story to start
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with. Adam Rittenberg did a good job
on this one, man. He got a great quote from
Franklin because you like, I know that James Franklin ain't
been that good. Events against teams that have a
5A4A3A2 or A1 next to their names when they play Penn State.
I've been very critical of JamesFranklin's Penn State and I
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think I have every reason to be.However, there are many, many,
many people that believe that Penn State is the best team in
college football going into thisseason.
And you will see them ranked #1 in many polls and rankings.
I'm not going to do that. I'm doing the 136.
It will be out when it is out. But I can tell you that Penn
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State ain't going to be at #1 because I can't trust you to
beat #1 I, I come from the Ric Flair school, right?
Which is to say to be the man, you got to beat the man.
And Ohio State is the man 2023 to be the man, you got to beat
the man. And in 2023, the man is
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Michigan. So forth, so on.
To be the man, you got to beat the man, and you couldn't beat
Oregon, OK? I don't care that you stopped
the mud hole in Southern Methodist.
I don't care that you beat BoiseState.
I care that you lost to Notre Dame.
I care that you lost to Ohio State last year and lost to
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Michigan the year before that. I care that James Franklin's
teams, for whatever reason, cannot beat a team that we think
will play for the national championship even when we expect
them to be the team to beat, OK.I think there were people that
thought that for whatever reason, Penn State would show up
and beat Oregon and they got close.
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They really did. They played very well, but in
the very tight moment, they couldn't find a way to get it
done even with that really greatoffense and defense they have
now. They got 15 guys returning and
among them K Tron Allen, Nick Singleton, Drew Aller, denied,
Dennis Sutton. It's pretty good, right?
They got better at at on defenseand in defensive coordinator
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when they added Jim Knowles. Not to say Tom Allen didn't do a
hell of a good job. It's just Jim Knowles, the best
defense coordinator in college football last year.
Andy Koloniki's going into Year 2, still need to see one of
these wide receivers step up andbe what Tyler Warren was for
this program. But again, it's not about the
wide receivers for me. It's about the guy throwing the
football, Drew Aller said he's coming back because he's got
things to do. Drew Aller is Thule, he's been
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Thule. He hasn't put it together.
But for that matter, neither hasJames Franklin.
So I was really interested in this quote that Franklin gave to
ESPN. And it goes.
You got to embrace it. It is what it is.
That's why you came to Penn State.
I would also say there's a long list of coaches in college
basketball that that was a conversation about them until it
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wasn't. At the end of the day, I'm
excited about the opportunity tochange that narrative, and so
are our players. There's also recognizing that
99% of the programs would love to be in the position that we
are. You have to take it as a sign of
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respect and a compliment, and you have to take it as a
challenge. But 99% of the programs in the
country would die to be where we're at.
End Quote. 99% of the country isn't who we're comparing you
to. Penn State.
That's not who we're comparing James Franklin to.
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That's never who we've compared Penn State to.
We don't compare James Franklin's Penn State to Boise
State. We don't compare James
Franklin's Penn State to Louisiana Monroe.
We don't compare James Franklin's Penn State to
Tennessee, Chattanooga. We compare them to the blue
bloods, to the national champs. Compare Penn State to Clemson.
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Compare Penn State to Ohio State, Alabama, Georgia, LSU.
Pick a team that has won the College Football Playoff in the
last decade. Pick Florida State if that's
what you want to do. But the one thing you can't say
is that you won a national championship and you really
can't say that you've been any good against elite competition.
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That is the 1%. That's who you're compared to.
So if your argument is building around being like the majority,
that is not why you come to PennState either.
You come to Penn State to be great.
You come to Penn State to be remembered as one of the best to
ever do it. You don't come to Penn State to
be compared to the 99%. Nobody gives a damn.
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I don't care that you want to compare your team to everybody
else's success. The standard at Penn State needs
to be the standard that it is atOhio State, that it is at
Michigan and it ain't record against Ohio State and Michigan
last four years, James Franklin's Penn State O and
seven, not a single win against the two teams that have proven
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to be the class of this conference for the last four
years. OK, we're also talking about a
James Franklin and a Penn State program that is one in 15
against AP top five opponents. That means every 16 times they
get to play, they're going to win one.
That can't be what it is. That can't be what it is if you
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expect to be a top five program,if you expect to be a team that
can win the national championship.
And that's what Penn State is banking on.
They signed resign, I should say, a lot of players that could
have gone to the NFL with the expressed opportunity here to
go. We can win a national
championship. That's why Nick Singleton is
back, K Tron Allen is back. That's why you go into the
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portal hard. That's why you were able to go
get Jim Knowles. You're spending money, which is
good. You're bringing in talent, which
is better. I need to say, though, I'm not
going to rank them #1 because I don't think that the the hope
and Dream strategy is going to win.
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I think if you're going to rank them at #1 it's because you're
going to say, well, they're due.So is my rent.
And come January, 1 of them is getting paid OK.
And unlike Penn State the last four years, my checks don't
bounce. I need this team to show up with
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fury. I need this team to show up with
fire. I need this team to beat Oregon
when it's time to play them in September like they stole
something. And roll into the Big 10
Championship and roll past Ohio State, Oregon or Michigan or
whomever it might be. And then roll through the
College Football Playoff. We expanded the College Football
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Playoffs to 12 teams in part so teams like Penn State could get
in because they couldn't get in on the 14 merits.
Just what it is, of all the programs that we talk about, who
we think have an opportunity to win their first College Football
Playoff national championship, the one that I am not picking
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because of these reasons that I've laid for you here is Penn
State. I'm picking Texas to win a
national championship before I pick Penn State.
And you know who's singing this?OK, SC needs to make a rise.
Florida needs to make a rise. Wisconsin needs to make a rise.
We can continue to go on about this, but we don't need to.
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You don't need to. You get the point.
So if you're going into Big 10 media days and your narrative
needs to be is, hey, we accept the challenge and a lot of
people are envious, Envious of us.
OK, who are you envious of? You IDG is that?
Who are you comparing? Because if you're comparing
yourself to what you've done in the past, great, fine, cool.
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But what you've done in the pastain't win national
championships. And that's what Penn State
football needs to be about. Glorified independent, that I
should say. Glorified independent.
They act like a glorified independent in the Big 10, even
though they've been in this thing for damn near 20 years.
Got to go back to what, 86? For the last time?
We're talking about Penn State winning the national
championship, so it ain't exactly in the DNA.
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OK, Lot has gone on, a lot of changes.
Great first round picks. Mike Parsons is one of my
favorite players ever to come out of there.
Stick City. Paul plus Leslie, right?
Lavar Arrington, My goodness, I keep going on about what is
great about Penn State, but I don't need to.
Penn State needs to demonstrate that they are indeed great or
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this narrative continues to be told as it is and nothing
changes. Come back.
Want to have a conversation about Tommy Castellanos and what
he had to say at ACC Media days when he was asked?
So that thing you said about Bama and Nick Saban, you
sticking to that? Music back on adapt and respond
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doing full shows. OK, so let's talk about Florida
State, Tommy Castellanos. But as a way into that, Mike
Norvell gets up at the days at ACC Media Day and proceeds to go
full PJ Fleck. He is just out here telling you
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I want our players pissed off, mad, angry, upset and to put it
all into 2025. I don't care what they did last
year. I don't care what we did the
year before that. I care about how are you going
to respond when we play Alabama week one that starts next week
when they begin preseason camp like everybody else that isn't
playing overseas? I enjoy that.
I also think you don't have another way to go here.
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You have to tell this team rightfrom the jump, you can't afford
to be embarrassed like you were embarrassed last year.
It's going to be difficult. So either you can play
cautiously or you can play with great optimism and a certain
level of respect for your opponent, which could be none,
or you're going to get your brains beat in again.
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Remember Florida State, it's oneof the worst seasons it's had in
50 frigging years. Last year they go 2 and 10.
They start out as an AP Top Ten team, and it's downhill from
there. Georgia Tech, Memphis, everybody
seemed to be able to get a pieceof Florida State last year.
Florida State, who won a national championship 2014, got
bucked out of the College Football Playoff after going 13
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and O in 2023. Didn't matter, right?
Didn't matter. Come back in 2025.
New offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn, new defensive
coordinator Tony White, new quarterback Tommy Castellanos.
You got a little bit better at some positions.
You lost some great players, right?
But Tommy Castellanos is bringing in a little bit of
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brash, a little bit of, I don't care who we're playing except
Bama, I want Bama. Do you remember there was a time
when we make jokes about the people that say they want Bama
and how somebody could get hurt here?
You know, like, it became a jokeoutside of sports, right?
Somebody would win something andgot nothing to do with no
competition, no sports, and theywould say we want Bama.
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Tommy Castellanos apparently wants them and was unafraid to
tell them this in June when he spoke to On Three and he said,
look, Nick Saban ain't there to save them anymore.
And that made the rounds becauseI immediately looked at that and
I said, if I'm defense coordinator, defensive line goes
linebackers coach, secondary's coach at Alabama, this man has
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absolutely put this on the boardfor me.
I'm putting it everywhere. I would not be shocked to find
out there's an Alabama booster who took out billboards with
quote on it saying y'all gonna let this stand?
This this, this used to be Alabama.
This used to be the program thatyou didn't want no truck with.
Now we got dudes like Tommy Castellano, who's coming from
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Boston College in Central Florida saying they're going
they can win that trade. What y'all going to do about it
now? Isaiah Horton, Deonte Lawson for
their part at SEC media day saidwe heard it, it will be dealt
with. But I can't imagine being a
quarterback when half my game isrunning with the football
talking noise about a defense because a 73 year old head coach
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is not there anymore. OK, So what did he say at ACC
media days when he was asked about, hey, do you stand by
this? He said, we stand on what?
I said we. Oh, OK.
I said what I said and we stand on that.
I don't mean no disrespect to none of these guys at Alabama or
anything like that. I have confidence in my guys and
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the work we've been putting in and preparing and the
preparation we've been putting in together.
That's all that was no disrespect to those guys, but we
stand on what I said. I think what she said was
disrespectful and I think that'show many people are going to
take it because it's real difficult for me to tie seem
disrespect when you say Nick Saban ain't there to save you no
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more and you're saying you go stand on that.
But you didn't mean no disrespect.
I get it. You want to defuse the
situation. You know, you want to be like a
it's about it's about us. It's not about them, which is
the thing coaches love to say towhich I'm going if it's about us
and it ain't about them. Do you think they don't pray
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either? Is that, is that what you think?
You, you, you, you think they'rethe heathens and you the
Israelites? You, you don't think that both
of y'all believe that y'all are anointed to go win this game?
You don't, you don't see that. I always used to pick that
fight, man. Because I would ask this like,
if we're talking about having respect for our opponents,
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wouldn't we want to treat them like we would want to be
treated? Which is to say not kind.
But I'm not going to act like that's an easy win over there.
Like I, I tell people all the time you're welcome to try me,
you know, short your voice, whatever cool bet right here.
Come get it. It's a all day affair over here.
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And that's what I would expect from you, right.
So when you sell wolf tickets inJune, but you're talking about
it's about us in July, come August, what am I going to
expect from you? You know, like it ain't about
hey, I said I said what I said. I stand on that.
But no disrespect to the Alabamaguys.
No, no, no, no. It's one or the other.
It's it's one or the other is either disrespect to the Alabama
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guys or you stand on what you said, OK?
Because if you stand on what yousaid, it is disrespect.
Either you pump the brakes all the way back and get hey, my
bad, my fault. I was on one, you know, happy.
I'm trying to pump myself up. Trying to pump my guys up.
I understand that. Y'all believe that Alabama gonna
drop 1000 on us and that FloridaState, what, very good last year
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and doesn't look like a top 25 team this year, But you know
what? It's going to be all right?
No, no, that's not what you did.That's not what you did.
You're trying to also signal to the alumni, signal to Knowles
fans that yeah, I said what I said, but you're also trying to
look over at Tuscaloosa Band. Hey, no, no, no disrespect,
homie. I'm from Tulsa.
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I'm Tulsa. We play this little thing called
all city. Some of y'all know what I'm
talking about. We probably got an all city.
Where you from all city in Tulsaused to be the TPS schools that
be Tulsa Public schools because you know I went to Tulsa public
schools. I got things to say cash about
cashier Bishop Kelly Holland Hall.
I'm missing somebody. Who am I missing?
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Metro Christian Bixby Union jinx.
Well, anyway, point is, you didn't show up to All City to
take back what you said. You showed up to All City
because you hate Edison. Hate Edison.
You showed up to All City because I hate, hell, I hate
Webster. I can't stand Booker T.
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That's what they told us. That's what they said.
That's what they said, you know.But you know what?
When it come time to go hit somebody, don't care about what
you hate. Care about what you stand.
Line up, line up. Let's go, Let's go play.
And I believe that's what Alabama has to do going into
this. They're coming off a season that
was down for them. OK, they go nine and four.
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They missed College Football Playoff.
Caitlin de Boer takes 4 losses. But here's the one of wild
stats. Nick Saban was 135 and three in
games where they were favored by14 or more.
In games where Alabama was favored by 14 or more last year,
they go six and three. It's already 3 losses matches
the 138 total for Nick Saban. They got to come out and put a
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hammer down. They have to come out and they
have to make a statement. They have to go back into the
SEC where they're going to placemuch more, much tougher
competition in Florida State andthey need to be able to feel
good about that. And more than anything else,
again, it's coming back to the all city of it all.
On my block, on my set, I got tobe the dog.
I, I got to be you can be your block on your set in San
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Antonio, in San Jose, you know what I'm saying?
In, in San Diego, in Santee. But on my block, I gots to be
the man I got. I gots to be the man.
You not going to have me embarrassed and send me home
where other people look like he can take my set, take my block.
Now that's my corner. I saw what you did over there
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when you went, when you went to go play Florida State.
I saw what you did. Respect putting on for the SEC,
putting on for us on the block. Meanwhile, if you don't guess
what, we're all coming after you.
But if you go and do what Tommy Castellano does and you're going
to show up to somebody else's block and you go, you're going
to start barking and got no choice but to come out there
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and, and, and disagree with prejudice, disagree with a level
of ferocity for which don't nobody else in the crowd want to
try you. You want to be knock around
guys. You want to be Vin Diesel knock
around guys. One of my favorite movies.
OK, 500 fights. That's how many fights I thought
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it took. It's Vin Diesel's character to
be a tough guy. 500. But along the way, it stopped
being about winning the fights. It just becomes about the ACT,
fighting. The thing you get from such
experience is you find out what you're made of, and because
you've done that introspection, you've done that work, it really
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is about you. It ain't about them.
You know where you're willing togo.
Again, I'll hit this subject as often as I have to.
Drag somebody into the deep water, see if they keep
swimming. Drag someone into a fight where
all it is is knowing pain, see if they keep fighting.
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That's Alabama's task. If Florida State can respond,
we're going to have a yellow thefootball game.
If Florida State can't respond, it can get out of hand real
quick, fast and in a hurry. But you can't have it both ways.
You can't say I stand on what I said and no disrespect to those
guys because you got to get hit and they going to try to hit you
and you got to try to hit them. Let's see who wins that fist
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fight. Come back, talk a little bit
about Brent Key and why he wantsGeorgia and is so prepared for
Colorado. Back on adapt and respond with
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Should Brent Key really want Georgia in the way that he seems
to want Georgia? Brent Key reminds me of an old
school Southern football coach. Just hearing him talk, hearing
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about how he goes about his business, seeing how much he
loves the game and the physicality of the game.
And then I say this often enoughthat you should probably believe
me at this point. A football program takes on the
identity of its head coach. If your head coach is one that
airs the ball out and runs scoreup, that's what program is going
to be about, right? If you're head coach, it's kind
of eats film but also just wantsto maul you.
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That's which program is going tobe about.
Brent Keys. Georgia Tech is the latter.
They want your heart, they want your soul.
They want to take it from you. And the easiest and the most
effective way to take somebody'sheart and soul and will to stay
on that football field, to breakthem in half is to run through
their face. And Georgia Tech has been doing
that for three years. OK, now they made rings for
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going 7:00 and 6:00 last year. But when you take into account
who they were able to knock off two top ten teams and damn near
took Georgia into the into a loss that probably, if nothing
else, makes it real hard for them.
They've College Football Playofffor the loss in the NEC
championship game. You can understand it.
You can understand they felt good about last year and they
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should they should feel good about last year, which means
they should feel good about going in this year because they
return to lunch. So Brent King gets up and is
asked almost out the gate, why is the Georgia Georgia Tech game
that was supposed to be played in Atlanta, I should say, excuse
me, at Georgia Tech's home fieldin Atlanta being moved to
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Mercedes-Benz in Atlanta, to which Brent Key says that's way
above my pay grade. Well, I mean, it might be dog,
but somebody wrote it down and it's let me check.
Says money, says money, Right, right, right.
Right there It says it says money.
That's why they that's why they moved.
The game ain't above my pay grade.
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I just you know, I just read it,you know, because it's been
widely reported things like the Atlanta Journal, Constitution,
national news media outlets. But I get it.
You ain't trying to say that we should have had that game at
Georgia Tech and that it's abouthold on money.
There it is. But what he did say, I felt him
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say with his whole chest, because after he said push that
aside, like I'm not going to talk about there it is money.
What he said was I could give a crap where we play.
We can go home tonight and play them at Piedmont Park at 5:00.
I'm serious. He said it twice too.
He he's fired up. He's I don't care where we
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played them. I hate Georgia.
You can you can feel in his heart, in his in his heart.
Whoa. That man wanted that win last
year. That man hates Georgia.
And you know what, I would not expect anything less from
somebody that absolutely, positively rise for Georgia
Tech. But it was nice to see.
It was so it was so nice to see because you know, historically
that ain't that ain't been a game that Georgia Tech expects
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to win, right. But last year going into
Sanford, taking them to 8 overtimes and damn near walking
out with the West would have been the first win at Sanford
since October 2019. Yeah, I could see why he was
saying no, no, no, we give give us another shot.
I want them bad. And I love that.
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I really do. Because Brett King wants to run
the football, wants to prove that his team is a much more
tough team than yours is. I mean, in Michigan, they'd be
saying that smash stuff all the time.
But Georgia Tech, they believe it.
Like that's that's what they ride or die for.
And one of the reasons that theyget to do that is the
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quarterback. Brent Key loves him some Haynes
King. I love me some Haynes King dude
from Longview, TX. Real hard for me not to like
somebody from East Texas. OK there's some people in there
that I don't like from East Texas and that's in conversation
for another day. But in as far as attitude and
mood and get down they from around the way as far as I'm
concerned and Haynes King is oneof those dudes. 50M fifty 52nd
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400 meter sprinter. It's pretty fast in high school.
It's not fast in the world, but it's fast as hell.
I should say that. And it showed because there was
a game that they played, 2023, it was their bowl game against
Central Florida. They win that game. 3017, he
rushed for 128 yards on 18 carries, didn't throw for more
than 87. I think he had ATV and a pick in
that game, too, like 9 or 13. But Brent Key told a story about
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Haynes King and his football team to basically underline what
kind of a leader he thinks he has.
A quarterback. Apparently, Haynes King had an
opportunity to break four singleseason passing records at George
Tech and he was very, very closeto hitting each one of those
marks. And as the game came in hand in
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the second-half, Buster Faulkner, offensive coordinator,
would ask Haynes, what do you want to do?
He said run the ball, run the ball, run the ball.
And he kept saying it. So much so that Georgia Tech
finished that game with 27 straight rushes.
Now, Brent Key tells that as a way of saying putting himself
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above the team, which is what you want.
Excuse me, Excuse me, Putting the team above yourself.
My bad. Putting yourself below the team,
Whatever is best for the team iswhat you want.
And in that game, the easiest way for them to go, make sure
that they were going to win it was continue to try to snatch
souls at the line of scrimmage. And it's easy to do that halfway
through the third quarter and into the fourth quarter.
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Running the football, it's easy to score points, throwing the
ball. And you know what?
Throwing the ball late in the game has proven to be a way for
you to lose a game that you should probably walk out with.
AW by two touchdowns, right? Put the ball in the air not just
because somebody else picked it off, but because maybe you
scored and gave the ball back tosomebody that shouldn't have the
ball. You can.
If you keep the ball and you gotto lead, there's no reason for
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you to give it back unless you absolutely have to.
And that's called 4th down and long.
OK, I think we're also talking about a Hanes King to understand
the identity of the football team is built around Brink Keys
identity. And Brink Keys identity is we
want to hurt you at the line of scrimmage.
We want that fight. We want trench warfare.
We want fast hands. We want Kung Fu.
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We want it all up there. That's where we think we can win
a game. That's what they did against
Florida State. Snatched their soul at the line
of scrimmage. That $12 million defense, that
$2,000,000 defensive line took, it took it straight from them.
Knowing that, I hope Robert Livingston has that defense
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ready for what they're going to face Week 1 when they play
Georgia Tech. Grant Key was asked.
So they got a new quarterback, Caden Salter.
He's coming from Liberty. Are you watching more Colorado
film? Are you watching more Liberty
film? How are you preparing for that
game? To which Brent Key says I'm
probably the wrong person to askthis question to because I watch
a lot of film. And then the man proceeded to
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tell us he does watch a lot of film.
Brent Key has watched the last two seasons of Colorado football
all the way through twice July. He said he's also 3/4 of the way
through all of the games that their transfers have played.
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Man eats the film. Choose the film.
I expect he expects the same thing from his coordinators,
from his assistants. They will be prepared for
everything that Colorado has ever done and might want to do,
offensively and defensively, as football coach.
As football coach. Some guys are just built to sit
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in a dark room with a projector and a remote and take apart the
tendencies. Take about tendencies.
How often you want to be in thispackage.
What this means downs and distance, all of it.
And by the if, if you watch it twice through, especially if you
got the minor quarterback, thereare things that you just see
that you can immediately clock and that that's that's poker.
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That's what that is. Oh, I know what to do here.
That's chess. I know what to do here.
I've seen this look going to getus into this or I'm going to get
it out of this. I love that you got that from
the head coach. That's all the way down.
Again, taking on the identity ofyour program as they prepare for
what will be a game of two early1990s national champions.
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I'm going to be curious to find out just how much of that can
translate to the football field.Because there's one thing for
Brent Key to do all of this is another thing for them to be
able to execute it right. I say this often, if I know what
you're running, yeah, maybe I can stop it.
You know, if you're telling me you run ISO, cool.
I know how to feel. I know where safety needs to be.
I know where the linebacker needs to be, but there's
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something to be said about knowing what's coming at you and
not being able to do a damn thing about it.
Let's see which one of these programs is that team because
Brink, he also said this and I believe it.
First, your first game is alwayscan you execute your offense,
your defense, your special teamswith fewest amount of mistakes?
Everybody's going to be new. We haven't really got to hit
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anybody other than each other for almost 8 months and they've
been watching us too. Again, respect for your
opponent. Believe that they might know
something about you. Do some self scouting.
I am going to be very excited about this game because you
know, prime back on the sideline.
Kate and Salter gives them a added run dimension that they
haven't had what should do or standings.
And Robert Livingston's defense has progressed and gotten better
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each and every year. If they can run the damn ball at
Colorado, they might actually have a shot here.
But here's the thing, Georgia Tech doesn't give you a lot of
opportunities to hold the ball because they run the ball so
well. So you're going to have to be
surgical with each one of the possessions you get.
I would not count on more than 8if you can't get to 35, which
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means scoring touchdowns 5 timesout of those eight
opportunities. It's going to be a long day for
you against Georgia Tech. If you can score 4 touchdowns on
those eight drives. Maybe if your defense is playing
great, but again, that is the problem with playing a team like
Georgia Tech and playing from behind.
As long as Georgia Tech can holdserve, you got a shot.
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You know, if you're Georgia Tech, if Georgia Tech falls
behind, two touchdowns, you sit on the rock, OK, goes like that.
That's what you're going to see.A lot of this is just playing EA
Sports, college football, 25 or 26, Excuse me now, and you'll
see some of these things. But if you've been playing
football since you were a child,you know how this works.
So does Brent Key. So I can't wait to see where
they win the margins or who winsthe margins in this game.
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It's going to be a lot of fun. Come back.
Let's go through the odds to make the College Football
Playoff among Big 10 teams. Talk about teams that are listed
here and why I think only one ortwo of these teams should
probably be considered as, you know, something like a surprise.
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Back on Adapt and respond with me, RJ Young.
If you're new to the channel, goahead and hit that subscribe
button. Like this video and answer
questions in the comments below.How many teams do you think will
make the College Football Playoff out of the Big 10 in
2025? We got odds from Circa on which
team we think can make the playoff and not every team got
odds. I think that's pretty smart on
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the bookmakers part because theylost their shirts on Travis
Hunter winning the Heisman Trophy last year.
And one of the things that we had seen people do for so long
is give plus 10,000 for almost every player that was, you know,
on the board. Now you just don't put those
players on the board because youhad these things happen before
and college football is such a volatile sport.
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So the programs that they chose to give us to, I find
interesting. OK, now there are teams here
that have never made the CollegeFootball Playoff, and there are
those that have. So let's start with the ones
that have Ohio State plus, or excuse me -400 cool.
Penn State at -310 also cool. Oregon -300 fine.
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Then you get funky with it. So three teams that you more or
less can bank on, because those three teams made the College
Football Playoff last year, plus225 from Michigan.
It's a lot on Bryce Underwood, plus 480 for USC.
It's a lot on Jayden Bajava plus575 on Illinois sounds like good
money because Illinois feels like that team that Indiana was
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last year. But then you got Nebraska, who's
getting the same odds plus 575. Then you get Indiana plus 600,
Iowa plus 650. I don't know why we've got
Indiana here at +600, but if youwon't be able to put down 100
and pick up 600 on Indiana making the playoff and they made
the playoff last year, that sounds like a good bet to me if
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you if you do the betting right.I don't do the betting even
though you know, like I, I pay attention to it.
What not too many people in is getting pinched for betting.
That's just new. I don't need that kind of
controversy in my life. Plus 750 for Washington.
Do you like Damon Williams that much?
And then my favorite year plus 1800 Minnesota.
Take a look at Minnesota's schedule. 2 losses.
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If Drake Lindsay is that dude, it's a good football team.
PJ Flex seems to think he's got the quarterback he needs and
he's got a guy that's going to play both ways in Corey Perch
and he's going to play offense, defense, special teams.
He's had five interceptions and a forced fumble.
Plays great football. When it's time to play great
football, Taylor's back. He fell just short of 1000 yards
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last year, 986 I believe it was on not a whole bunch of rushes.
I was saying, well, I say I say that he had over 200.
I like the Washington it plus 1800 there.
Like if you got it, fine. The Gophers feel like a team
that were just this close to being Indiana last year.
They just need a couple things to go their way that didn't.
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If they are good enough at making those opportunities
theirs as opposed to those opportunities their opponents,
it's easy for me to see them as a team here.
And that, that is surprising, right?
I think that Michigan at plus 225, I would probably swap with
Illinois at plus plus 575. Feels like, I don't know what
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what Circle was thinking about there, but it's probably that
the public knows that Michigan won the national championship of
2023 and made the previous 3 college football play offs.
Illinois has not done that before.
You get it. Luke Altmeier, quarterback,
Illinois is one thing. Brett Bielema wants to run the
football and he's been pretty good about it.
Also beat Michigan last year. It's important.
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Nebraska's about Dylan Rayola and Dana Holgerson.
I think if those two are In Sync, you'll find a wide out or
two that can help you out and you'll make that happen.
Iowa at +6 fifties. Intriguing because Bart
Gronowski is a great quarterback, but will he be a
great quarterback for Iowa? We'll wait and see on that one.
I think he will be. I do.
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I did that segment earlier last week.
Not a whole lot of people watch that segment as a standalone
VOD. By the way, whenever we're
having these discussions about the teams that we talked about
on the show, if you want to see UNLV on this show, you need to
show me more people because there's nothing like putting out
content that nobody wants to watch.
So we don't do it. You know, we talk about the
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teams that people want to hear talk about and they do that by
clicking through, doing what you're doing.
So if you got a whole group of people over there talking about,
I would really like to see more Iowa content.
They ain't showing up over here.Show me the Iowa fan and we'll
serve them. You know, that's what we'll do.
I think when you look at this list though, you got
1234567891011 teams that circle think thinks are capable of
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making the College Football Playoff of 18 in that league.
I don't see more than 4 here. I don't think that's even more
informed with the ICC for what that for what it's worth in a 12
team playoff three, I think you can bank on that.
So the two teams that make the Big 10 championship game and
then maybe an 11 win team, right?
Or A10 win team, I guess depending on the records of
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those two teams that make the Big 10 championship.
But this whole part where Tony Petiti wants to see a six and
three team have an opportunity to make a 16 team playoffs and
College Football playoffs, I don't like that neither.
I would love to see someone new from this conference make the
College Football Playoff like SC, Illinois, Nebraska in Iowa,
Washington. Well, Washington, excuse me,
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Washington made it. Minnesota.
It'd be fun. But if you're looking past Ohio
State, Penn State, Oregon, good luck because there might be a
great Big 12 team over there. There might be 3 great, great
ACC teams over there. Could be what Pat Narduzzi
thinks that North Carolina and Pitt are going to play in the
ACC Championship game this year.That could upset the apple cart.
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We'll see here. But this is fun to talk about
because it's July. We're in media days.
And everybody's undefeated and everybody's got a shot.
And we know that because Indianaflipped the script last year.
Texas Christian flipped the script 2022.
I would not be shocked to find out somebody somewhere does it
this year. And that is why we absolutely,
positively, 100% love this sport.
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We talk college football year round.
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question in the comments below. Is James Franklin right to
embrace the suck? That is to say just how bad his
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Nittany Lions have been against top five competition and
particularly against Michigan and Ohio State.
Also want to discuss odds for making the College Football
Playoff inside the Big 10. Some teams that are listed, a
lot of teams that are not Tommy Castellanos ain't taking back
what he said about Bama, Should he?
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And what exactly did he say in response to not taking back what
he said against Bama? And Brent Key is ready for
Colorado and doesn't give a damnwhere they're going to play
Georgia. That game is not going to take
place at the Flats anymore It orI should say this year, it's not
going to take place at the Flatsthis year.
But I want to talk about this James Franklin story to start
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with. Adam Rittenberg did a good job
on this one, man. He got a great quote from
Franklin because you like, I know that James Franklin ain't
been that good. Events against teams that have a
5A4A3A2 or A1 next to their names when they play Penn State.
I've been very critical of JamesFranklin's Penn State and I
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think I have every reason to be.However, there are many, many,
many people that believe that Penn State is the best team in
college football going into thisseason.
And you will see them ranked #1 in many polls and rankings.
I'm not going to do that. I'm doing the 136.
It will be out when it is out. But I can tell you that Penn
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State ain't going to be at #1 because I can't trust you to
beat #1 I, I come from the Ric Flair school, right?
Which is to say to be the man, you got to beat the man.
And Ohio State is the man 2023 to be the man, you got to beat
the man. And in 2023, the man is
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Michigan. So forth, so on.
To be the man, you got to beat the man, and you couldn't beat
Oregon, OK? I don't care that you stopped
the mud hole in Southern Methodist.
I don't care that you beat BoiseState.
I care that you lost to Notre Dame.
I care that you lost to Ohio State last year and lost to
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Michigan the year before that. I care that James Franklin's
teams, for whatever reason, cannot beat a team that we think
will play for the national championship even when we expect
them to be the team to beat, OK.I think there were people that
thought that for whatever reason, Penn State would show up
and beat Oregon and they got close.
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They really did. They played very well, but in
the very tight moment, they couldn't find a way to get it
done even with that really greatoffense and defense they have
now. They got 15 guys returning and
among them K Tron Allen, Nick Singleton, Drew Aller, denied,
Dennis Sutton. It's pretty good, right?
They got better at at on defenseand in defensive coordinator
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when they added Jim Knowles. Not to say Tom Allen didn't do a
hell of a good job. It's just Jim Knowles, the best
defense coordinator in college football last year.
Andy Koloniki's going into Year 2, still need to see one of
these wide receivers step up andbe what Tyler Warren was for
this program. But again, it's not about the
wide receivers for me. It's about the guy throwing the
football, Drew Aller said he's coming back because he's got
things to do. Drew Aller is Thule, he's been
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Thule. He hasn't put it together.
But for that matter, neither hasJames Franklin.
So I was really interested in this quote that Franklin gave to
ESPN. And it goes.
You got to embrace it. It is what it is.
That's why you came to Penn State.
I would also say there's a long list of coaches in college
basketball that that was a conversation about them until it
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wasn't. At the end of the day, I'm
excited about the opportunity tochange that narrative, and so
are our players. There's also recognizing that
99% of the programs would love to be in the position that we
are. You have to take it as a sign of
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respect and a compliment, and you have to take it as a
challenge. But 99% of the programs in the
country would die to be where we're at.
End Quote. 99% of the country isn't who we're comparing you
to. Penn State.
That's not who we're comparing James Franklin to.
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That's never who we've compared Penn State to.
We don't compare James Franklin's Penn State to Boise
State. We don't compare James
Franklin's Penn State to Louisiana Monroe.
We don't compare James Franklin's Penn State to
Tennessee, Chattanooga. We compare them to the blue
bloods, to the national champs. Compare Penn State to Clemson.
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Compare Penn State to Ohio State, Alabama, Georgia, LSU.
Pick a team that has won the College Football Playoff in the
last decade. Pick Florida State if that's
what you want to do. But the one thing you can't say
is that you won a national championship and you really
can't say that you've been any good against elite competition.
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That is the 1%. That's who you're compared to.
So if your argument is building around being like the majority,
that is not why you come to PennState either.
You come to Penn State to be great.
You come to Penn State to be remembered as one of the best to
ever do it. You don't come to Penn State to
be compared to the 99%. Nobody gives a damn.
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I don't care that you want to compare your team to everybody
else's success. The standard at Penn State needs
to be the standard that it is atOhio State, that it is at
Michigan and it ain't record against Ohio State and Michigan
last four years, James Franklin's Penn State O and
seven, not a single win against the two teams that have proven
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to be the class of this conference for the last four
years. OK, we're also talking about a
James Franklin and a Penn State program that is one in 15
against AP top five opponents. That means every 16 times they
get to play, they're going to win one.
That can't be what it is. That can't be what it is if you
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expect to be a top five program,if you expect to be a team that
can win the national championship.
And that's what Penn State is banking on.
They signed resign, I should say, a lot of players that could
have gone to the NFL with the expressed opportunity here to
go. We can win a national
championship. That's why Nick Singleton is
back, K Tron Allen is back. That's why you go into the
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portal hard. That's why you were able to go
get Jim Knowles. You're spending money, which is
good. You're bringing in talent, which
is better. I need to say, though, I'm not
going to rank them #1 because I don't think that the the hope
and Dream strategy is going to win.
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I think if you're going to rank them at #1 it's because you're
going to say, well, they're due.So is my rent.
And come January, 1 of them is getting paid OK.
And unlike Penn State the last four years, my checks don't
bounce. I need this team to show up with
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fury. I need this team to show up with
fire. I need this team to beat Oregon
when it's time to play them in September like they stole
something. And roll into the Big 10
Championship and roll past Ohio State, Oregon or Michigan or
whomever it might be. And then roll through the
College Football Playoff. We expanded the College Football
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Playoffs to 12 teams in part so teams like Penn State could get
in because they couldn't get in on the 14 merits.
Just what it is, of all the programs that we talk about, who
we think have an opportunity to win their first College Football
Playoff national championship, the one that I am not picking
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because of these reasons that I've laid for you here is Penn
State. I'm picking Texas to win a
national championship before I pick Penn State.
And you know who's singing this?OK, SC needs to make a rise.
Florida needs to make a rise. Wisconsin needs to make a rise.
We can continue to go on about this, but we don't need to.
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You don't need to. You get the point.
So if you're going into Big 10 media days and your narrative
needs to be is, hey, we accept the challenge and a lot of
people are envious, Envious of us.
OK, who are you envious of? You IDG is that?
Who are you comparing? Because if you're comparing
yourself to what you've done in the past, great, fine, cool.
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But what you've done in the pastain't win national
championships. And that's what Penn State
football needs to be about. Glorified independent, that I
should say. Glorified independent.
They act like a glorified independent in the Big 10, even
though they've been in this thing for damn near 20 years.
Got to go back to what, 86? For the last time?
We're talking about Penn State winning the national
championship, so it ain't exactly in the DNA.
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OK, Lot has gone on, a lot of changes.
Great first round picks. Mike Parsons is one of my
favorite players ever to come out of there.
Stick City. Paul plus Leslie, right?
Lavar Arrington, My goodness, I keep going on about what is
great about Penn State, but I don't need to.
Penn State needs to demonstrate that they are indeed great or
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this narrative continues to be told as it is and nothing
changes. Come back.
Want to have a conversation about Tommy Castellanos and what
he had to say at ACC Media days when he was asked?
So that thing you said about Bama and Nick Saban, you
sticking to that? Music back on adapt and respond
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doing the kind of segments that I would normally do when I was
doing full shows. OK, so let's talk about Florida
State, Tommy Castellanos. But as a way into that, Mike
Norvell gets up at the days at ACC Media Day and proceeds to go
full PJ Fleck. He is just out here telling you
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I want our players pissed off, mad, angry, upset and to put it
all into 2025. I don't care what they did last
year. I don't care what we did the
year before that. I care about how are you going
to respond when we play Alabama week one that starts next week
when they begin preseason camp like everybody else that isn't
playing overseas? I enjoy that.
I also think you don't have another way to go here.
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You have to tell this team rightfrom the jump, you can't afford
to be embarrassed like you were embarrassed last year.
It's going to be difficult. So either you can play
cautiously or you can play with great optimism and a certain
level of respect for your opponent, which could be none,
or you're going to get your brains beat in again.
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Remember Florida State, it's oneof the worst seasons it's had in
50 frigging years. Last year they go 2 and 10.
They start out as an AP Top Ten team, and it's downhill from
there. Georgia Tech, Memphis, everybody
seemed to be able to get a pieceof Florida State last year.
Florida State, who won a national championship 2014, got
bucked out of the College Football Playoff after going 13
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and O in 2023. Didn't matter, right?
Didn't matter. Come back in 2025.
New offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn, new defensive
coordinator Tony White, new quarterback Tommy Castellanos.
You got a little bit better at some positions.
You lost some great players, right?
But Tommy Castellanos is bringing in a little bit of
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brash, a little bit of, I don't care who we're playing except
Bama, I want Bama. Do you remember there was a time
when we make jokes about the people that say they want Bama
and how somebody could get hurt here?
You know, like, it became a jokeoutside of sports, right?
Somebody would win something andgot nothing to do with no
competition, no sports, and theywould say we want Bama.
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Tommy Castellanos apparently wants them and was unafraid to
tell them this in June when he spoke to On Three and he said,
look, Nick Saban ain't there to save them anymore.
And that made the rounds becauseI immediately looked at that and
I said, if I'm defense coordinator, defensive line goes
linebackers coach, secondary's coach at Alabama, this man has
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absolutely put this on the boardfor me.
I'm putting it everywhere. I would not be shocked to find
out there's an Alabama booster who took out billboards with
quote on it saying y'all gonna let this stand?
This this, this used to be Alabama.
This used to be the program thatyou didn't want no truck with.
Now we got dudes like Tommy Castellano, who's coming from
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Boston College in Central Florida saying they're going
they can win that trade. What y'all going to do about it
now? Isaiah Horton, Deonte Lawson for
their part at SEC media day saidwe heard it, it will be dealt
with. But I can't imagine being a
quarterback when half my game isrunning with the football
talking noise about a defense because a 73 year old head coach
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is not there anymore. OK, So what did he say at ACC
media days when he was asked about, hey, do you stand by
this? He said, we stand on what?
I said we. Oh, OK.
I said what I said and we stand on that.
I don't mean no disrespect to none of these guys at Alabama or
anything like that. I have confidence in my guys and
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the work we've been putting in and preparing and the
preparation we've been putting in together.
That's all that was no disrespect to those guys, but we
stand on what I said. I think what she said was
disrespectful and I think that'show many people are going to
take it because it's real difficult for me to tie seem
disrespect when you say Nick Saban ain't there to save you no
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more and you're saying you go stand on that.
But you didn't mean no disrespect.
I get it. You want to defuse the
situation. You know, you want to be like a
it's about it's about us. It's not about them, which is
the thing coaches love to say towhich I'm going if it's about us
and it ain't about them. Do you think they don't pray
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either? Is that, is that what you think?
You, you, you, you think they'rethe heathens and you the
Israelites? You, you don't think that both
of y'all believe that y'all are anointed to go win this game?
You don't, you don't see that. I always used to pick that
fight, man. Because I would ask this like,
if we're talking about having respect for our opponents,
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wouldn't we want to treat them like we would want to be
treated? Which is to say not kind.
But I'm not going to act like that's an easy win over there.
Like I, I tell people all the time you're welcome to try me,
you know, short your voice, whatever cool bet right here.
Come get it. It's a all day affair over here.
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And that's what I would expect from you, right.
So when you sell wolf tickets inJune, but you're talking about
it's about us in July, come August, what am I going to
expect from you? You know, like it ain't about
hey, I said I said what I said. I stand on that.
But no disrespect to the Alabamaguys.
No, no, no, no. It's one or the other.
It's it's one or the other is either disrespect to the Alabama
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guys or you stand on what you said, OK?
Because if you stand on what yousaid, it is disrespect.
Either you pump the brakes all the way back and get hey, my
bad, my fault. I was on one, you know, happy.
I'm trying to pump myself up. Trying to pump my guys up.
I understand that. Y'all believe that Alabama gonna
drop 1000 on us and that FloridaState, what, very good last year
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and doesn't look like a top 25 team this year, But you know
what? It's going to be all right?
No, no, that's not what you did.That's not what you did.
You're trying to also signal to the alumni, signal to Knowles
fans that yeah, I said what I said, but you're also trying to
look over at Tuscaloosa Band. Hey, no, no, no disrespect,
homie. I'm from Tulsa.
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I'm Tulsa. We play this little thing called
all city. Some of y'all know what I'm
talking about. We probably got an all city.
Where you from all city in Tulsaused to be the TPS schools that
be Tulsa Public schools because you know I went to Tulsa public
schools. I got things to say cash about
cashier Bishop Kelly Holland Hall.
I'm missing somebody. Who am I missing?
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Metro Christian Bixby Union jinx.
Well, anyway, point is, you didn't show up to All City to
take back what you said. You showed up to All City
because you hate Edison. Hate Edison.
You showed up to All City because I hate, hell, I hate
Webster. I can't stand Booker T.
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That's what they told us. That's what they said.
That's what they said, you know.But you know what?
When it come time to go hit somebody, don't care about what
you hate. Care about what you stand.
Line up, line up. Let's go, Let's go play.
And I believe that's what Alabama has to do going into
this. They're coming off a season that
was down for them. OK, they go nine and four.
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They missed College Football Playoff.
Caitlin de Boer takes 4 losses. But here's the one of wild
stats. Nick Saban was 135 and three in
games where they were favored by14 or more.
In games where Alabama was favored by 14 or more last year,
they go six and three. It's already 3 losses matches
the 138 total for Nick Saban. They got to come out and put a
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hammer down. They have to come out and they
have to make a statement. They have to go back into the
SEC where they're going to placemuch more, much tougher
competition in Florida State andthey need to be able to feel
good about that. And more than anything else,
again, it's coming back to the all city of it all.
On my block, on my set, I got tobe the dog.
I, I got to be you can be your block on your set in San
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Antonio, in San Jose, you know what I'm saying?
In, in San Diego, in Santee. But on my block, I gots to be
the man I got. I gots to be the man.
You not going to have me embarrassed and send me home
where other people look like he can take my set, take my block.
Now that's my corner. I saw what you did over there
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when you went, when you went to go play Florida State.
I saw what you did. Respect putting on for the SEC,
putting on for us on the block. Meanwhile, if you don't guess
what, we're all coming after you.
But if you go and do what Tommy Castellano does and you're going
to show up to somebody else's block and you go, you're going
to start barking and got no choice but to come out there
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and, and, and disagree with prejudice, disagree with a level
of ferocity for which don't nobody else in the crowd want to
try you. You want to be knock around
guys. You want to be Vin Diesel knock
around guys. One of my favorite movies.
OK, 500 fights. That's how many fights I thought
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it took. It's Vin Diesel's character to
be a tough guy. 500. But along the way, it stopped
being about winning the fights. It just becomes about the ACT,
fighting. The thing you get from such
experience is you find out what you're made of, and because
you've done that introspection, you've done that work, it really
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is about you. It ain't about them.
You know where you're willing togo.
Again, I'll hit this subject as often as I have to.
Drag somebody into the deep water, see if they keep
swimming. Drag someone into a fight where
all it is is knowing pain, see if they keep fighting.
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That's Alabama's task. If Florida State can respond,
we're going to have a yellow thefootball game.
If Florida State can't respond, it can get out of hand real
quick, fast and in a hurry. But you can't have it both ways.
You can't say I stand on what I said and no disrespect to those
guys because you got to get hit and they going to try to hit you
and you got to try to hit them. Let's see who wins that fist
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fight. Come back, talk a little bit
about Brent Key and why he wantsGeorgia and is so prepared for
Colorado. Back on adapt and respond with
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me. RJ Young, thanks for being here.
Talk college football year roundyear and do that.
Go ahead and hit that subscribe button like this video and
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Should Brent Key really want Georgia in the way that he seems
to want Georgia? Brent Key reminds me of an old
school Southern football coach. Just hearing him talk, hearing
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about how he goes about his business, seeing how much he
loves the game and the physicality of the game.
And then I say this often enoughthat you should probably believe
me at this point. A football program takes on the
identity of its head coach. If your head coach is one that
airs the ball out and runs scoreup, that's what program is going
to be about, right? If you're head coach, it's kind
of eats film but also just wantsto maul you.
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That's which program is going tobe about.
Brent Keys. Georgia Tech is the latter.
They want your heart, they want your soul.
They want to take it from you. And the easiest and the most
effective way to take somebody'sheart and soul and will to stay
on that football field, to breakthem in half is to run through
their face. And Georgia Tech has been doing
that for three years. OK, now they made rings for
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going 7:00 and 6:00 last year. But when you take into account
who they were able to knock off two top ten teams and damn near
took Georgia into the into a loss that probably, if nothing
else, makes it real hard for them.
They've College Football Playofffor the loss in the NEC
championship game. You can understand it.
You can understand they felt good about last year and they
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should they should feel good about last year, which means
they should feel good about going in this year because they
return to lunch. So Brent King gets up and is
asked almost out the gate, why is the Georgia Georgia Tech game
that was supposed to be played in Atlanta, I should say, excuse
me, at Georgia Tech's home fieldin Atlanta being moved to
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Mercedes-Benz in Atlanta, to which Brent Key says that's way
above my pay grade. Well, I mean, it might be dog,
but somebody wrote it down and it's let me check.
Says money, says money, Right, right, right.
Right there It says it says money.
That's why they that's why they moved.
The game ain't above my pay grade.
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I just you know, I just read it,you know, because it's been
widely reported things like the Atlanta Journal, Constitution,
national news media outlets. But I get it.
You ain't trying to say that we should have had that game at
Georgia Tech and that it's abouthold on money.
There it is. But what he did say, I felt him
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say with his whole chest, because after he said push that
aside, like I'm not going to talk about there it is money.
What he said was I could give a crap where we play.
We can go home tonight and play them at Piedmont Park at 5:00.
I'm serious. He said it twice too.
He he's fired up. He's I don't care where we
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played them. I hate Georgia.
You can you can feel in his heart, in his in his heart.
Whoa. That man wanted that win last
year. That man hates Georgia.
And you know what, I would not expect anything less from
somebody that absolutely, positively rise for Georgia
Tech. But it was nice to see.
It was so it was so nice to see because you know, historically
that ain't that ain't been a game that Georgia Tech expects
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to win, right. But last year going into
Sanford, taking them to 8 overtimes and damn near walking
out with the West would have been the first win at Sanford
since October 2019. Yeah, I could see why he was
saying no, no, no, we give give us another shot.
I want them bad. And I love that.
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I really do. Because Brett King wants to run
the football, wants to prove that his team is a much more
tough team than yours is. I mean, in Michigan, they'd be
saying that smash stuff all the time.
But Georgia Tech, they believe it.
Like that's that's what they ride or die for.
And one of the reasons that theyget to do that is the
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quarterback. Brent Key loves him some Haynes
King. I love me some Haynes King dude
from Longview, TX. Real hard for me not to like
somebody from East Texas. OK there's some people in there
that I don't like from East Texas and that's in conversation
for another day. But in as far as attitude and
mood and get down they from around the way as far as I'm
concerned and Haynes King is oneof those dudes. 50M fifty 52nd
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400 meter sprinter. It's pretty fast in high school.
It's not fast in the world, but it's fast as hell.
I should say that. And it showed because there was
a game that they played, 2023, it was their bowl game against
Central Florida. They win that game. 3017, he
rushed for 128 yards on 18 carries, didn't throw for more
than 87. I think he had ATV and a pick in
that game, too, like 9 or 13. But Brent Key told a story about
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Haynes King and his football team to basically underline what
kind of a leader he thinks he has.
A quarterback. Apparently, Haynes King had an
opportunity to break four singleseason passing records at George
Tech and he was very, very closeto hitting each one of those
marks. And as the game came in hand in
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the second-half, Buster Faulkner, offensive coordinator,
would ask Haynes, what do you want to do?
He said run the ball, run the ball, run the ball.
And he kept saying it. So much so that Georgia Tech
finished that game with 27 straight rushes.
Now, Brent Key tells that as a way of saying putting himself
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above the team, which is what you want.
Excuse me, Excuse me, Putting the team above yourself.
My bad. Putting yourself below the team,
Whatever is best for the team iswhat you want.
And in that game, the easiest way for them to go, make sure
that they were going to win it was continue to try to snatch
souls at the line of scrimmage. And it's easy to do that halfway
through the third quarter and into the fourth quarter.
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Running the football, it's easy to score points, throwing the
ball. And you know what?
Throwing the ball late in the game has proven to be a way for
you to lose a game that you should probably walk out with.
AW by two touchdowns, right? Put the ball in the air not just
because somebody else picked it off, but because maybe you
scored and gave the ball back tosomebody that shouldn't have the
ball. You can.
If you keep the ball and you gotto lead, there's no reason for
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you to give it back unless you absolutely have to.
And that's called 4th down and long.
OK, I think we're also talking about a Hanes King to understand
the identity of the football team is built around Brink Keys
identity. And Brink Keys identity is we
want to hurt you at the line of scrimmage.
We want that fight. We want trench warfare.
We want fast hands. We want Kung Fu.
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We want it all up there. That's where we think we can win
a game. That's what they did against
Florida State. Snatched their soul at the line
of scrimmage. That $12 million defense, that
$2,000,000 defensive line took, it took it straight from them.
Knowing that, I hope Robert Livingston has that defense
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ready for what they're going to face Week 1 when they play
Georgia Tech. Grant Key was asked.
So they got a new quarterback, Caden Salter.
He's coming from Liberty. Are you watching more Colorado
film? Are you watching more Liberty
film? How are you preparing for that
game? To which Brent Key says I'm
probably the wrong person to askthis question to because I watch
a lot of film. And then the man proceeded to
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tell us he does watch a lot of film.
Brent Key has watched the last two seasons of Colorado football
all the way through twice July. He said he's also 3/4 of the way
through all of the games that their transfers have played.
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Man eats the film. Choose the film.
I expect he expects the same thing from his coordinators,
from his assistants. They will be prepared for
everything that Colorado has ever done and might want to do,
offensively and defensively, as football coach.
As football coach. Some guys are just built to sit
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in a dark room with a projector and a remote and take apart the
tendencies. Take about tendencies.
How often you want to be in thispackage.
What this means downs and distance, all of it.
And by the if, if you watch it twice through, especially if you
got the minor quarterback, thereare things that you just see
that you can immediately clock and that that's that's poker.
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That's what that is. Oh, I know what to do here.
That's chess. I know what to do here.
I've seen this look going to getus into this or I'm going to get
it out of this. I love that you got that from
the head coach. That's all the way down.
Again, taking on the identity ofyour program as they prepare for
what will be a game of two early1990s national champions.
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I'm going to be curious to find out just how much of that can
translate to the football field.Because there's one thing for
Brent Key to do all of this is another thing for them to be
able to execute it right. I say this often, if I know what
you're running, yeah, maybe I can stop it.
You know, if you're telling me you run ISO, cool.
I know how to feel. I know where safety needs to be.
I know where the linebacker needs to be, but there's
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something to be said about knowing what's coming at you and
not being able to do a damn thing about it.
Let's see which one of these programs is that team because
Brink, he also said this and I believe it.
First, your first game is alwayscan you execute your offense,
your defense, your special teamswith fewest amount of mistakes?
Everybody's going to be new. We haven't really got to hit
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anybody other than each other for almost 8 months and they've
been watching us too. Again, respect for your
opponent. Believe that they might know
something about you. Do some self scouting.
I am going to be very excited about this game because you
know, prime back on the sideline.
Kate and Salter gives them a added run dimension that they
haven't had what should do or standings.
And Robert Livingston's defense has progressed and gotten better
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each and every year. If they can run the damn ball at
Colorado, they might actually have a shot here.
But here's the thing, Georgia Tech doesn't give you a lot of
opportunities to hold the ball because they run the ball so
well. So you're going to have to be
surgical with each one of the possessions you get.
I would not count on more than 8if you can't get to 35, which
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means scoring touchdowns 5 timesout of those eight
opportunities. It's going to be a long day for
you against Georgia Tech. If you can score 4 touchdowns on
those eight drives. Maybe if your defense is playing
great, but again, that is the problem with playing a team like
Georgia Tech and playing from behind.
As long as Georgia Tech can holdserve, you got a shot.
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You know, if you're Georgia Tech, if Georgia Tech falls
behind, two touchdowns, you sit on the rock, OK, goes like that.
That's what you're going to see.A lot of this is just playing EA
Sports, college football, 25 or 26, Excuse me now, and you'll
see some of these things. But if you've been playing
football since you were a child,you know how this works.
So does Brent Key. So I can't wait to see where
they win the margins or who winsthe margins in this game.
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It's going to be a lot of fun. Come back.
Let's go through the odds to make the College Football
Playoff among Big 10 teams. Talk about teams that are listed
here and why I think only one ortwo of these teams should
probably be considered as, you know, something like a surprise.
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Back on Adapt and respond with me, RJ Young.
If you're new to the channel, goahead and hit that subscribe
button. Like this video and answer
questions in the comments below.How many teams do you think will
make the College Football Playoff out of the Big 10 in
2025? We got odds from Circa on which
team we think can make the playoff and not every team got
odds. I think that's pretty smart on
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the bookmakers part because theylost their shirts on Travis
Hunter winning the Heisman Trophy last year.
And one of the things that we had seen people do for so long
is give plus 10,000 for almost every player that was, you know,
on the board. Now you just don't put those
players on the board because youhad these things happen before
and college football is such a volatile sport.
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So the programs that they chose to give us to, I find
interesting. OK, now there are teams here
that have never made the CollegeFootball Playoff, and there are
those that have. So let's start with the ones
that have Ohio State plus, or excuse me -400 cool.
Penn State at -310 also cool. Oregon -300 fine.
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Then you get funky with it. So three teams that you more or
less can bank on, because those three teams made the College
Football Playoff last year, plus225 from Michigan.
It's a lot on Bryce Underwood, plus 480 for USC.
It's a lot on Jayden Bajava plus575 on Illinois sounds like good
money because Illinois feels like that team that Indiana was
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last year. But then you got Nebraska, who's
getting the same odds plus 575. Then you get Indiana plus 600,
Iowa plus 650. I don't know why we've got
Indiana here at +600, but if youwon't be able to put down 100
and pick up 600 on Indiana making the playoff and they made
the playoff last year, that sounds like a good bet to me if
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you if you do the betting right.I don't do the betting even
though you know, like I, I pay attention to it.
What not too many people in is getting pinched for betting.
That's just new. I don't need that kind of
controversy in my life. Plus 750 for Washington.
Do you like Damon Williams that much?
And then my favorite year plus 1800 Minnesota.
Take a look at Minnesota's schedule. 2 losses.
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If Drake Lindsay is that dude, it's a good football team.
PJ Flex seems to think he's got the quarterback he needs and
he's got a guy that's going to play both ways in Corey Perch
and he's going to play offense, defense, special teams.
He's had five interceptions and a forced fumble.
Plays great football. When it's time to play great
football, Taylor's back. He fell just short of 1000 yards
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last year, 986 I believe it was on not a whole bunch of rushes.
I was saying, well, I say I say that he had over 200.
I like the Washington it plus 1800 there.
Like if you got it, fine. The Gophers feel like a team
that were just this close to being Indiana last year.
They just need a couple things to go their way that didn't.
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If they are good enough at making those opportunities
theirs as opposed to those opportunities their opponents,
it's easy for me to see them as a team here.
And that, that is surprising, right?
I think that Michigan at plus 225, I would probably swap with
Illinois at plus plus 575. Feels like, I don't know what
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what Circle was thinking about there, but it's probably that
the public knows that Michigan won the national championship of
2023 and made the previous 3 college football play offs.
Illinois has not done that before.
You get it. Luke Altmeier, quarterback,
Illinois is one thing. Brett Bielema wants to run the
football and he's been pretty good about it.
Also beat Michigan last year. It's important.
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Nebraska's about Dylan Rayola and Dana Holgerson.
I think if those two are In Sync, you'll find a wide out or
two that can help you out and you'll make that happen.
Iowa at +6 fifties. Intriguing because Bart
Gronowski is a great quarterback, but will he be a
great quarterback for Iowa? We'll wait and see on that one.
I think he will be. I do.
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I did that segment earlier last week.
Not a whole lot of people watch that segment as a standalone
VOD. By the way, whenever we're
having these discussions about the teams that we talked about
on the show, if you want to see UNLV on this show, you need to
show me more people because there's nothing like putting out
content that nobody wants to watch.
So we don't do it. You know, we talk about the
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teams that people want to hear talk about and they do that by
clicking through, doing what you're doing.
So if you got a whole group of people over there talking about,
I would really like to see more Iowa content.
They ain't showing up over here.Show me the Iowa fan and we'll
serve them. You know, that's what we'll do.
I think when you look at this list though, you got
1234567891011 teams that circle think thinks are capable of
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making the College Football Playoff of 18 in that league.
I don't see more than 4 here. I don't think that's even more
informed with the ICC for what that for what it's worth in a 12
team playoff three, I think you can bank on that.
So the two teams that make the Big 10 championship game and
then maybe an 11 win team, right?
Or A10 win team, I guess depending on the records of
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those two teams that make the Big 10 championship.
But this whole part where Tony Petiti wants to see a six and
three team have an opportunity to make a 16 team playoffs and
College Football playoffs, I don't like that neither.
I would love to see someone new from this conference make the
College Football Playoff like SC, Illinois, Nebraska in Iowa,
Washington. Well, Washington, excuse me,
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Washington made it. Minnesota.
It'd be fun. But if you're looking past Ohio
State, Penn State, Oregon, good luck because there might be a
great Big 12 team over there. There might be 3 great, great
ACC teams over there. Could be what Pat Narduzzi
thinks that North Carolina and Pitt are going to play in the
ACC Championship game this year.That could upset the apple cart.
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We'll see here. But this is fun to talk about
because it's July. We're in media days.
And everybody's undefeated and everybody's got a shot.
And we know that because Indianaflipped the script last year.
Texas Christian flipped the script 2022.
I would not be shocked to find out somebody somewhere does it
this year. And that is why we absolutely,
positively, 100% love this sport.
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