October 5, 2025 • 37 mins
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The Ohio State Buckeyes make light work of the Minnesota
Golden Gophers 42 to 3 Outstanding performance for
Julian Sayan, outstanding performance for Carnell Tate,
and Oh yeah, they've got Jeremiah Smith and you don't.
But we're still going to talk about the defense.
We're going to talk about Florida State and Miami as soon
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as that one finishes up. But Miami seems to have that one
well in hand and we're going to take a little bit of an early
look at Wu Texas and talk about what's lying in wait for us in
week 7. What's up, kinfolk?
It's RJ Young. I am not on a step mill.
If this is your first time watching adapt and respond.
Thank you for joining us here. We talk college football year
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round. If you're into that, go ahead
and hit that subscribe button like this video and answer the
question in the comments below. Did you expect Ohio State to
beat Minnesota by 39 points and continue this really impressive
streak? I'm not allowing a single
touchdown in the red zone through the first five games of
the season. I I was very impressed.
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They're they're five and O, they're clearly the number one
team in the country and they aremy pick to win the national
championship this year, especially given what we've
seen, not just this Saturday, but in the previous six weeks
combined, man. But let's talk a little bit
about what happened with Ohio State and Minnesota.
Minnesota got off to a pretty decent start.
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We thought, OK, cool, they've come to play.
They felt a little bit intimidated when they picked up
that false start penalty because, you know, the Ohio
State fan made themselves very loud and they love a night game
and playing it. OK, Drake Lindsay from around
the way he went to Fayetteville.He was a winner down there.
Maybe he got something. Maybe he got some cooking for
them. No, Sir.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no Sir, no Sir.
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That's not how that went. As a matter of fact, I I think
it it could have gone worse for him, but it didn't. 15 to 26 for
94 yards. You're like RJ, that sounds
pretty bad for him. He didn't throw no
interceptions. You know what I'm saying?
Like that's that's it. Matter of fact, PJ Flake came
into this one earlier in the week and he was going, you know,
Washington scored six points on them.
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And when Ohio State has given upfive and a half a game, you, you
exceeded the average. That's pretty good.
Minnesota couldn't get to the average.
They couldn't get to 5 1/2 points.
They were held to just three. And those three came in the
first quarter. And then the Ohio State defense
said you will get nothing else at all.
And while we're at it, we're going to let the offense go do
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its thing. And that was when Jeremiah Smith
started to eek it open. But all the time we're looking
at Carnell take 10. That's wide receiver won the
2026 NFL draft right over there.Good reason as to why, man.
I mean, you look at you look at the stats for him and they're
gargantuan. 9 catches for 183 yards at the TD.
Jeremiah Smith had 7 catches for67 yards and two TDs.
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And then on top of all of that, you've got Julian saying
continue to be surgical with thefootball man, 23 to 27 for 326,
three TDs. It is an open question as to
which one of these players is going to be the representative
for the Heisman Trophy at this pace.
But you know, given what we've seen from the rest of college
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football, I don't think it's outof a question that you could see
both Jeremiah Smith and Julian saying represented for the
Heisman Trophy, not unlike we saw Baker Mayfield and DD
Westbrook in 2017, the year or 2016, excuse me, the year before
Baker came back and won the Heisman Trophy.
Julian saying also in his first year, I mean, could you ask for
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a better start for a true a new quarterback for the Buckeyes?
Could you ask for a better startfor Brian Hartline, who I still
don't think is getting enough credit for what he has been able
to do with this offense? Like this is the best wide
receiver coach in the country who is fast becoming a brilliant
play caller. And we're just not giving the
credit because we know that RyanDay is the head coach and he had
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had held the play sheet for so long.
But when you look at what they're able to do to other
teams and how they're able to find ways to both run the ball
and throw the ball all over and up and down the yard, I got to
think that guy is going to make the list of Royals award
finalists if they want to put him up for it.
But on the other side, you've got Matt Patricia, who's got the
number one scoring defense in the country, and they're giving
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up nothing and nodded. Nobody.
They get Illinois next week. We'll talk about it.
But for now, I think I got to bemore impressed with what Matt
Patricia has done with the Ohio State defense, only because he's
in Year 1. I mean, as an assistant at Ohio
State, unlike Brian Hartline andbecause he inherited the defense
that was already the best in thecountry and he's made it better.
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I don't know if you'll know thisor not because maybe you living
underneath that particular rock in in which case I'm glad that
you found some shade because Penn State couldn't find none
spotlights on them tonight as they gave up 42 to Owen 4 UCLA
and became the first top ten team since 1985 to lose to an O
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and 14. That's UTEP beaten #7 BYU in 85.
It's also the first UCLA win against a top 10 opponent as an
unranked opponent since they beat Texas in 2010, which
precipitated the beginning of the end of the Mac Brown era.
They lost that game at Texas. They also got run on again and
this I bring up because Jim Knowles was a defensive
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coordinator at Ohio State and that defense, it is renowned.
It was amazing. It was great.
It had Jack Sawyer on it at JT two.
We will allow on it. You were getting that first
crazy year of Caleb Downs doing whatever you wanted.
Cody Simon was absolutely wrecking things in the middle
and I didn't think it could get better.
And and many people, many of them Buckeye fans thought it
would get worse with the higher Matt Patricia.
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Like what is Ryan Day doing? Go get somebody that knows how
to coach college defense. Don't go get this guy that's got
3 Super Bowls and work for a guythat can't seem to beat Dabo
Sweeney, let alone Scott Frost in a football game.
But it made those, it made senseto Ryan Day.
He went and made the hire and itis working out for them.
Meanwhile, Penn State hired Jim Knowles away to beat Oregon,
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lost Oregon, and then they lost a second time to Oregon with his
loss to UCLA, if we're being honest about it.
But more than that, when you think about Jim Knowles and you
think about the way that he got run on by UCLA and Niko
Iyamaliaba who couldn't throw the ball for any amount of
yardage, you have to believe that the Buckeyes were already
doing so much more with him. And the three-year curve that it
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took for the Buckeyes to get to be a national championship
caliber team, Penn State ain't got that kind of time.
They hired the man expecting himto do it right away to beat
Oregon in the regular season andto give them a chance to beat
Ohio State for the first time since 2016.
They could not feel further fromthat task as Ohio State is seems
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to be lapping the field when it comes to a balanced offense than
a balanced defense. I would put them up against
anybody else in college footballright now for the form that
they're in. And Mick Murati also needs to
get his flowers here. No significant injuries
whatsoever to this Ohio State football team.
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And I realized that there's a lot of folks that root for Ohio
State knocking on wood. You ain't got to do that because
they're prepared. They're going out there, they're
doing their injury prevention. And then I mean, then there's
Larry Johnson, seniors, defensive line.
My goodness, dude, Kaden Curry, Kaden McDonald, junior senior,
by the way. So guys, they developed along
the way that called themselves Nobody from nowhere.
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Nah, dog, y'all, y'all were nextin line behind JT and Jack
Sawyer. They had this assembly line
continuing to go to goes all theway back to the Bosa brothers
and then some. They just keep putting them out.
I remember I was stumping on thejumping up and down, going Chase
Young for Heisman, Chase Young for Heisman.
They got another one of those, Arvel Reese seeking whom he may
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destroy. Sonny Styles being the guy with
the green dot in the middle making plays.
And then again, Caleb Downs was the best defensive player in
college football. Matt Patricia was given these
really cool toys to go play with, and they're seeking whom
they may destroy, and they're making it happen.
So much fun watching that Ohio State offense, that Ohio State
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defense do what it knows how to do.
Now, they're going to get a challenge next week that we'll
talk about in Illinois. But Indiana put 63-UP on
Illinois, all right? And they allowed just 10.
If Indiana can do that, and you've seen what Indiana did, or
should I say did not do against Ohio State when they played last
year, what do you think Ohio State's going to do when they
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got to travel to Champaign next year?
I'm telling y'all, it could be furniture moving in that game.
Next week we come back. I want to talk a little bit
about this game that is ending. It looks every bit like Miami
and Florida State. It's going to end with Miami
winning this game by at least one score.
It's about two minutes left to play.
They're up 28 to 19 on the road here.
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But we're going to take a short break and we're going to start
talking about the implications, a win for Miami and the
implications of a loss for Florida State because, well,
that's how it's beginning to look.
Keep it locked, be back. Music back on adapt and respond
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with me RJ Young as we are watching the clock wind down for
Miami and Florida State. Florida State is down 2819 to a
Miami team that seems to be getting anything that he wants
in the passing game. Alec Tony turned out to be a
beast up there. But I thought that this game was
going to be a real test for Florida State and who the hell
we think they're going to be. And that's still true given they
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got the loss to a Virginia team that was able to beat Louisville
in overtime. That was an undefeated
Louisville and they beat an Alabama team.
That team turns out to be prettydamn good.
They've got to win against Georgia, the first team to beat
Georgia at Sanford in 33 attempts going back to October
12th, 2019. When Will Muschamps and South
Carolina jacking for the Hedges and Ty Simpson gets to go in
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there? Say I'm one and O against Kirby
Smart in Georgia, the defending SEC champs and Caitlin De Borg
Just say I'm 2 and O against Georgia, the defending SEC
champs. For the Alabama, it's about how
do you finish the second-half? We saw them get off to a
fantastic start last year and they just could not finish.
Let's see if some things have changed since Ryan Grubb became
their offense coordinator. Got a great win against
Vanderbilt today, 30 to 14, setting the world as it should
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be after taking a loss of numberone team on the road in
Nashville to Vanderbilt for a resetting of the board.
For Vanderbilt, who walked into this as a ranked team, might
walk out of this as a ranked team, especially after what we
saw from Texas and Penn State today and other teams being
idle. But for Miami, this is a game
that you needed to win going away.
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Kind of like they are for us to take you completely seriously as
not just a contender for the ACCtitle, but a contender for the
national championship. And there is a contingent, a fan
out there that I know remembers Miami versus Ohio State for the
national championship almost 25 years ago.
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And that was fun and I think that it could be fun again.
Do I think that this Miami team is as talented as that Miami
team? No, I do not.
I certainly don't. However, Carson Beck has
something brewing with Malachi Tony.
When they able to run the football, they look good running
the football. Corey Heatherton has them
humming on defense. I genuinely believe that that
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defensive line rivals Ohio States as the best in the entire
country. And I'm putting Michigan at
third basically, since they've moved Jayshawn Varner down to
edge away from middle linebacker.
They become more dominant in their defensive line approach.
And we're going to continue to have these sorts of
conversations as they keep beating people.
But Florida State really needed to get this win for us to
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believe that they are well and truly on their way back to
playing in the College Football Playoff.
And as it stands right now, it just doesn't seem like that's
going to happen. If they can come back, we'll
talk about it. But for now, I think for Mike
Norvell, for Gus Malazan, for Tony White, you've seen how
close you are to being great. You're able to beat Alabama in
the same stadium. If you could do it against
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Miami, can't nobody tell you nothing, even though you went up
to Virginia and took a loss in double overtime, right?
You could say that, dope. Campbell is a place where other
teams come to die. That felt like it was at stake
here in one of the most heated rivalries in college football.
That just ain't as heated anymore.
I don't mind telling you, when Iwas a teenager, hell when I was
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11/12/13, there was no bigger rivalry in college sports to me
then Miami versus Florida State,All right?
Florida State would win nationalchampionships, would would
contend for those things. Miami would get in there and
when Larry Coker took over, it'sjust, hey, don't mess up the
ship, you know what I mean? Dennis Erickson had it humming
for a little while, Butch had ithumming for a little while.
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Jimmy got it got it really goingand Howard Schnellenberg got it
going, but Bobby Bowden had beenthere through the entirety of it
from Deion Sanders work that damn it.
They had Randy Moss and they chose the red shirt him rather
than play him and I kept going. Danny Connell, this is the only
point that you ever made that I agree with.
Y'all should have thrown Randy Moss is behind up out there.
Do you? Can you imagine having Peter
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Ward and Randy Moss at wide receiver?
Some of y'all ain't old enough to remember, but I some old
heads in here. There's some unks in here like
myself with a little white in our beers, little white in our
hair that are going Nah Nah Nah.You didn't want to smoke with
with with Peter Ward. Anyone smoke with Randy Moss and
you didn't want to work smoke with Charlie Ward.
Hello, Heisman Trophy winner that chose to play basketball
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dog. Come on now.
That's like RG3 winning the Heisman Trophy and then decide
he going to run the 400 meter hurdles.
You know what I mean? It's just it's not something you
go see no more. We just don't do that.
But that's the kind of legacy that you had at Florida State.
That's the kind of legacy that you had at Miami Hill.
Florida State played against Oklahoma for the 2000 national
champion with the oldest hell quarterback, Chris Winky.
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And at the time didn't nobody think no 20 plus year old
quarterback was ever going to play in college football?
Then we got Brandon Whedon and then we've got, you know, name,
image and likeness as is happened today.
And we've got guys that have played six years college
football like Dylan Gabriel, whoget to Jack all the records
because they get the two extra years to play.
But as I'm looking more and moreat this Miami team, I'm coming
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to appreciate what they are verygood at and what they have not
been very good at in the years past.
They are able to sit on a lead, they can take a lead and they
can sit on it. Mario Cristobal has not run into
any clock management issues of yet, but they haven't really
been in any tight games like that where they needed to do it.
They've also been really great running the football, like even
as them doing the live analysis Right now I'm looking at Malachi
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Tony for the 7th one O 7. But the guy that's stirring the
drink that's really allowing forthe brothers routes to get run
is CJ Daniels, who sets the tonein that Miami wide receiver
room, according to Mario Cristobal, who's an offensive
line coach at heart and who ain't giving out no easy.
Yeah, he hustles. He really loves that guy.
He really thinks that guy can make them a better football team
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and sets the standard for guys like Malachi Tony to show up,
whose nickname, I kid you not, is baby Jesus.
Why is he nicknamed baby Jesus? Because the boy just turned 18
years old and he was stomping out people in the in South
Miami. It takes a special kind of human
being, especially a short dude like myself, be stomping out
other people in in in in Florida.
You know, I'm saying Jeremiah Smith come out of there.
Lamar Jackson come out of there.It's North Florida, but you get
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my point here. Derek Henry come out of there.
Dion, come out of there. You can keep going down the
line. Patrick Stain come out of there.
The dudes that be coming out of state of Florida, let alone
South Florida be something different.
So when they tell me that they got a dude, I choose to believe
them and they got to do the and Malachi Tony.
What I thought was really interesting is that they're able
to get this sort of a lead and perhaps get this win without
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being able to run the ball well.Like I thought Mark Fletcher
would have had a whole hell of alot to do with them being able
to win this football game. But right now it's 11 rushes, 36
yards. And as someone watching the
game, it's been more about how they've been able to limit
Florida State from doing anything they want to do.
Like Gus Malzahn runs an offensethat allows for the the
quarterback to do a lot, but they want to get east and West.
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They like to run their gadget, they like to run their men's
direction so they can get you out in space.
And they just haven't been able to do that with Tommy
Castellanos at quarterback so far.
And I I think that they ought tobe committed.
They be in the Miami defense fordoing that.
I mean, you talk about 21 to 40 for 232 TDs, but 2 picks.
So you putting the ball in the air and you have a stash out the
air, but you're also holding them. 15 rushed 54 yards.
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I should also say that Tommy Castellanos has rushed for at
least 54 yards in every game that they have played at Florida
State now. So it's not something you get to
count as extra money. It's what you got to count as
part of the checking account at this point.
So if Tommy Castellanos doesn't run for 54 yards, you working at
a deficit and you are overdrafted.
And I'm sure there's a lot of y'all to understand the learning
of overdrafted and shouldn't just like, hey, let's get our
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credit up. You know what I'm saying?
My credit over 800. Just I'm, I'm putting that out
there because I know that's the flex.
And if she watching, yeah, how it's going to get paid off, How
it's going to get paid off? Truck is paid off, cars paid
off, motorcycles paid off. We don't do no overdrafting over
here. We work within our means and we
set a budget, you know what I'm saying?
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So if Tommy Castellanos ain't getting your 54 yards, you ain't
playing within the budget, You know what I'm saying?
You, you, you ain't going out there and and going and going to
work for us. All right, So it's man, since
I'm here, why the hell are we taking sick days?
Because we got a headache that ain't that ain't, that ain't
what you take your sick days for.
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You don't take no sick days for no headaches.
We ain't take no mental health days around here.
We take our black ass to work. You know why?
You know why? Because we got bills that got to
get paid. And the bills don't give a damn
about your headache. Bills don't give a damn about
your mental health. They care about getting paid.
You get your mental health and, and your and and your, your
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Tylenol together, your ibuprofentogether.
I don't want to have no Tylenol conversation with y'all.
Your ibuprofen out here and you go to work.
Let's go get this money. So this is always something in
the checking account so we don'tget overdrafted.
That said, sometimes you going to get hit over the head with
something. You're going to get a high water
bill, you're going to get a highelectric bill.
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And that's what it feels like it's happening.
Florida State right now because they have done what they needed
to do with Tommy Castellanos. Got you 2 turnovers, also got
your 54 yards. But you haven't been able to do
much outside of that, ma'am. And as much as I wanted Deuce
Robinson to have his way with this Miami secondary and I
thought he might give an all sixfoot six of his behind and that
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they moved into wide receiver, which I absolutely love.
That's such a Gus Mauson thing to do.
Do y'all remember Daquil Williams would do this at Auburn
for Gus? Many of y'all don't remember,
did Dequil Williams look like Duke Williams?
Jim used to look like a defensive end out there playing
wide receiver. Gus loves that kind of dude.
Tight end at USC? No, you play wide receiver for
Gus Malzahn. Where the gadget offense is,
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hey, we are throwing a deep or we running the football.
Either way you going to be butt naked open.
You go get one-on-one cover to get some smaller defensive backs
and we're going to make it do what it do.
I also think that when we're talking about Florida State and
this Miami game, the idea that you could be about 50% on your
third down conversions against Miami and still be down by two
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scores kind of wild to me. That's that's kind of wild to me
because right now they're 7 to 16 and three or four on 4th
down. It's just Miami's put a lid on
the defense and or you put the ball in the air and then gone to
go get it. Meanwhile, you got oh, wee you,
you going for it on 4th and eight with 112 left to go and
gave the ball back to Florida State and this game is probably
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over. But he also Miami didn't play a
clean football game. I mean, with the game has got
one minute, 12 seconds left to play in it.
We're talking about 11 penaltiesfor 84 yards for Miami.
You should be able to win that football game at home.
If you are Florida State, you know, you were you were the more
disciplined team. You were better on 3rd down.
You didn't win the turnover battle and that probably does
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you in. You got 3 turnovers.
So there's zero. But I would feel like you you're
in a spot where you could win this thing.
I mean, Miami, you had the ball that many times in Florida State
got something like 25 first downs in this game.
And even now, I think we're going to talk about Florida
State being a team that contendstoward the end of of the year
about making the College Football Playoffs, depending on
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how things shake out in the SEC.But this is going to be their
this is going to be their secondloss, right?
And it's going to be their second loss, their first loss to
a team that is ranked now. And I think the Alabama loss is
going to look a lot better for them.
But no, it's going to be the third loss because they lost
Virginia. Never mind, that's three losses.
Florida State, they're against ranked competition.
Maybe they will be there at the end because you can make the
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College Football Playoff as a nine, three team with three
losses to teams that end up in the top 10.
So Virginia would have to do some work there, but they're
five and one and they got a straight shot to the ACC title.
Alabama has a shot to make the AC the SEC title with their win
against Georgia, their win against Vandy.
He's got to keep their end up. And then we're talking about
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Miami. That might be that team that
goes undefeated in the ACC and wins championship.
You might look at that as a Florida State fan and go, OK, we
can get to this. We can get in.
And if we get in, we get a good draw, maybe we can make it go.
And I got to tell you, after going 2 and 10 last year and
bringing Tommy Castellanos in and bringing Tony White in and
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bringing Gus Miles on in and really overhauling the football
program to be in a position to talk about making the College
Football Playoff at Florida State after Week 6.
That's Mike Norvell earning his money.
I on the one hand, you can make the argument he should have
never lost the money by going toand 10.
You right, I understand. I get it, but that's the past
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and we live in the present and we look at toward the future
right now. Nothing about this game has led
me to the belief that Florida State can't play with anybody in
college football. There were teams that they'll
get beat by like Miami, but they're not going to get run out
the building. That I find to be encouraging if
you are a Knowles fan. And yeah, you wanted this one.
It's on national television, it's at night, it's at home and
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it's Miami. But if you got to lose to Miami,
lose to Miami, being a top 25 opponent and then being the
number three team in the countryaccording to the API, don't see
that changing. For me, when we get to the AAP
top 25, I don't or into my top 25.
I think the same three teams aregoing to be the same three teams
for me. I also think that there's a lot
of teams that are idle this week.
They're going to be looking at Penn State.
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Tech's going, oh, that could have been us, but a lot of teams
that are at the back of that, like Georgia Tech, that going to
move up because they're five. And OBYU, who got a win Friday
night against West Virginia, it's also five and O going to
get some moving to shake it help.
Cincinnati got a great win against Iowa State, but is Iowa
State still going to be a top 25team?
These are things that also help Florida State is what I'm
saying, right? Where could be there's a real,
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there's a world where all those teams like Iowa State, like
Texas, like Penn State got wins today and that really hurts
Florida State. Any AP rankings.
The AP rankings are a really good indicator of just what
we're going to make, what we're going to think about the College
Football Playoff when that comes.
But man, right now you got to feel good about what it is that
you've seen from Florida State. If you're a Florida State fan,
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you're going to take this L281935 seconds left to go.
But it could be worse. It really could be.
We come back, we'll take an early look at OU in Texas and we
got time, maybe an early look inOhio State in Illinois, 20
seconds, keep it locked. Back on adapt and respond with
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Oh you Texas next Saturday, because right now I got to tell
y'all feel real good. Feel real good as as as the
resident National College football analyst.
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They're with Oklahoma and likes to see Oklahoma do well and
doesn't hurt my feelings none tosee Texas take no LSI got to
tell you it feels pretty good. Feels pretty good.
It's like ARJ you acting like John materials healthy.
Nah, you ain't. But you know what Oklahoma beat
Kent State 44 to 0 and it's the zero and not the 44 that I'm
more interested in. Had the really violent injury to
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Kiantes Lewis who quite literally hit his head on the
brick wall the back of the end zone.
I've never liked it, I've alwayshated it, I've always been
against it. They haven't removed it.
Maybe they'll get around to removing it now that my man
needed to go get checked out. X-rays are negative and he was
walking around he had feeling all his extremities but it could
have been worse and there is no reason for you to have a brick
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wall that close to any end zone.However 44 zero you get the shit
out, you get to take away and turn over on defense.
OK, that makes Oklahoma the lastteam to get a take away for its
defense in FPS, which is a wild stat because Oklahoma hadn't
given up more than 17 points in any game this year.
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Scoring defense has been just amazing, but it also cuts into
account a Florida team that could not be LSU, a Florida team
that got run out by Miami and a Florida team that lost.
South Florida put the beat down on the Longhorns today at Ben
Hill Griffin. They say it's a swamp and they
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say it's a swamp because only Gators get out alive.
And that's been I don't know, man.
I've seen some volunteers leave there.
I've seen some dudes with some muskets leave there.
You know what I mean? Like I I've seen some people
come through there right quick. I've seen South Florida show up
there with some bulls and they just fine.
But apparently not no Longhorns except for today.
This is their first win against Texas, Florida's first win
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against Texas. They ain't played all that many
times, but it's still cool to say.
DJ Lagway went 21 of 28 for 298 against the Texas Longhorse,
Jaden Blah 27 rushes for 107 yards against Texas Longhorns
and Dallas Wilson became the first wide receiver at Florida
to debut with 100 receiving yards and two TDs.
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Mind you, that's not debut against Sanford.
That's not debut against AbileneChristian.
That's not debut against Southern Illinois.
That is the university flagship of Texas that he did that
against and Pete Krakowski's defense that he did that
against. You got some real problems.
Now you got some real problems. You got some real problems
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because yes, Michael Hawkins is out there trying to do his best
job in the year and I need him to stop because somebody tell
that boy that throwing the ball side on him is not his bag.
I swear that boy tried to throw at least three interceptions in
this game and if the Kent State players were better, they picked
him off. Your bag is to not turn the
football over and run with it. When they tell you, OK, every
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now and again, you're going to get one-on-one opportunities
with Dionne Burks, with Kiantes Lewis, with Isaiah Satanga, and
you're going to hit them becauseyou ain't got no other choice.
Oklahoma ain't got no run game. Oakley ain't got to have no run
game. If you can't do nothing against
the defense, dog, forget Oklahoma's offense.
We back to playing Oklahoma football now.
You know, Oklahoma football was Brett Venables was linebackers
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coach. It was.
We don't give a good damn how many points the offense scores.
It's nice when we had Lincoln Riley, it's lights when we had
Kevin Wilson. It's nice when we had Josh Hypo.
Don't give a good damn though, about how many points the
offense is going to score. We got cool with it.
It's fun seeing 40 points put upa game.
You know what Oklahoma loves? Defense.
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Defense, yo, y'all ran a wishbone and we had the number
one scoring defense. That's what Oklahoma does.
We stop people from scoring and now we have a defense that can
stop people from scoring and canscore with the ball.
Or did you not see the scooping score against Kent State?
And Arch Manning looks rattled against Florida's defense.
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Now, Florida's defense is not bad, right?
They're they've been pretty damngood on defense.
They just been sorry on offense.Oklahoma ain't sorry on offense.
It's decent. It's better with John Mateer,
but it's decent because the run game is just not kind of there.
The run game has been John Mateer and Brent Venables has
already said, hey, I'm acting asif he's not going to be
available for OU Texas, which iswhat he says after post game of
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Kent State. And even if he had some inkling
that it was going to be, why would he tell anybody that out
loud? You know, I mean, I say that I
would, but that's because I walkaround going I don't give a damn
what you know about us. We still going to beat the hell
out of you. Come watch practice.
Come watch when we put in, I have better players than you and
we will execute better than you.Come see us.
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I dare you. That's not how Bren Venables
want to play the game. That's fine.
But when you got a defense like what he's had, you get to just I
don't know if he can go, he can go.
If he can, he can't. And he says, I got all this
faith in Michael Hawkins. Well, dog, I don't.
I'm just saying that if it comesdown to Michael Hawkins got to
go win the football game, Oklahoma's defense didn't do
enough. That's what I'm saying.
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As much as I want to see MichaelHawkins go something like 16 or
28, making it easy, right? 16 to 28250, you know, 70 yards
on the ground that wasn't going to happen.
I didn't get to see that happen.Yay through the three TDs.
But again, I wanted to see you beat up on Kent State because
this is a bye week. That's that's what you paid Kent
State to come down for your fours for the bye week.
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So you get the bye week going into Texas.
OK, so now we have a Texas team that got its back against the
wall. It's got the loss to Ohio State,
which still looks good because Ohio State is so good.
But this loss to Florida does not.
And now you are a one loss team in the SEC play, which puts you
really up against it and making the SEC championship and more
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than anything else, and this is my global take on Texas right
now heading into the season. They are supposed to play for
the national championship. As a matter of fact, I would
have told you to been to Ohio State and Texas in the national
championship game. That doesn't feel like it's
going to happen at all. They feel as far away from
playing the national championship as any football
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team feels today. Matter of fact, make Texas and
Penn State play each other just so we know which one of them is
the worst. Because this is the first time
since 1964 when two teams have been ranked at #2 in the AP poll
and have taken 2 losses before Week 6.
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Been that long. That's how big an anomaly it is.
But it also is one of the unintended consequences of the
volatility of our sport, where you can have the transfer portal
make you good or bad and in a quick fast, in a hurry, and you
can know that Arch Manning can'tbeat a good team.
And that's really the thing. Guys like Oklahoma's a good
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football team. Show me the good football team
that Arch Manning has been able to beat.
And I realized some of y'all hadbeen saying this all along.
But I'm telling you that you're right.
That's what I'm saying. He beat Mississippi State last
year. They were not good last year.
They're good this year, not lastyear.
ULM not good enough to beat them.
You know, like you keep UTSA, not good enough to beat them.
Ohio State good enough to beat them.
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So they did. Florida is just as talented as
Texas. They just weren't able to
execute. And now we're getting into a
spot where we're asking questions about how Steve
Sarkeesian is developing the rest of the team.
And I don't think it's the rest of the team.
I really don't. I think the defense is fine.
They played poorly against Florida, but that's OK.
That's that's going to happen. I think the offensive line is
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good. I think the running backs are
good. I think he's got one of the
better wide receiving course in in college football.
I just don't think that he's gotthe reps to be a great
quarterback right now. And that's where I was wrong and
I was too far ahead. But you know what?
Same king could be said about the folks that believe that K
Klubnick was going to be a Heisman finalist, that DJ Lagway
was going to be a Heisman finalist, that Garrett Nutsmeyer
was going to be a high finalist,and that Drew Aller was going to
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be a Heisman finalist. And I kid you not, that Niko
Iyamaliaba was going to be a Heisman finalist.
In fact, right now, if you looked at the board, you
probably got Julian Say and Jeremiah Smith in one.
In one way or another. You've got John Mateer, you got
Trinidad Chambliss at Ole Miss, and you got Dante Moore at
Oregon, and dare I say it, you got Fernando Mendoza at Indiana.
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And oh, by the way, had he not gotten beat down 63 to 10, Luke
Altmire's in there, guys. Ty Simpson has worked his way
into this. You know what I figured out?
I say I figured out. It's actually one of those
things that I just believe the more a quarterback plays college
football, the better he's going to be.
And there's a very simple reasonas to why your lived experience
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informs your future choices, informs your present.
So if you've seen the same set of circumstances enough to read
and react, you're going to be better at it.
But if you're seeing a differentset of circumstances every time
you go out, you're just not going to be OK.
Like, I'm into cycling, right? And I've come to find out that
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I'm pretty good at some things and I'm not good at some others.
But what I've been told over andover again is as precocious as I
seem to be on the bike because Igot a big aerobic engine and I
know fitness and I can I can ride the bike, is that I still
need time on the bike. And with time on the bike, I'm
going to see all sorts of situations I'm going to find
myself in. I was involved in a crash on
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Thursday. I'm going downhill and I'm out
in front of the group. Dude is behind me, too close.
He overlaps Will, he clicks the wheel and he goes flying off the
bike and gets injured. I had been in a situation that
was similar. So rather than hit the brakes,
I'm able to catch my bike and turn to one side.
That's because I've been in a situation earlier, if you're a
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quarterback and you know what Cover 2 looks like or you know
what rotating down safety means,RIP the friggin scene.
You're going to do that. And I just don't see that Arch
Man has had that much experiencedoing that.
That's what I'm saying. And I think you can make that
same claim about a lot of these players that we thought were
going to be great. Now, Kate Klubnik, not so much.
Gary Nutsmeyer, not so much. You've been a starter for a full
year or even 2. Drew Aller just ain't got the
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winning gene. I don't know that there's
anything to do about that. Nico and Malayalva, not the
passer that we thought he was going to be coming out of high
school. Wasn't that guy at Tennessee
last year? Wasn't that guy at UCLA this
year? They beat Penn State because he
could run the football like we can.
Trinidad Chandlers turns out to be a guy that played a lot of
football and knows how to play. John Mateer played a lot of
football. These things matter.
That's what I'm telling you. And if you don't think that they
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matter, I got another thing coming for you because nobody
wants to be out there with a talented quarterbacks figuring
out, which is why Julian's saying is such an anomaly.
And we've come to believe that that's how guys should come out
as first time starters because Trevor Lawrence was able to do
it. And it feels like Gunner
Stockton's getting it done. But we're waiting and seeing
we'll see about Ty Simpson. But I think with Arch, we just
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he needs time. And I, I hate to say it because
he's really talented and we wantto see it come together for him.
And I don't like seeing the dudeget his butt kicked, except when
he plays Oklahoma. But again, it doesn't shock me
that he played poorly in a loss against UCL against Florida.
And he didn't really play that poorly.
Like he completed like 57% of his passes, but he went for 260
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and he went out, energy came back in.
It's probably not a good thing because he always threw the pick
and you don't know what you really have behind him.
And that's going to put them in a wild place.
But sooner or later, you're going to have Dia Bell there and
you might get to make some decisions.
But if nothing else, and you're a Texas fan sink when you were
his flowers. You owe that man an apology.
That's going to do it for this episode of adapt and respond.
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All right, that's gonna do it for me.
Doses.
The Ohio State Buckeyes make light work of the Minnesota
Golden Gophers 42 to 3 Outstanding performance for
Julian Sayan, outstanding performance for Carnell Tate,
and Oh yeah, they've got Jeremiah Smith and you don't.
But we're still going to talk about the defense.
We're going to talk about Florida State and Miami as soon
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as that one finishes up. But Miami seems to have that one
well in hand and we're going to take a little bit of an early
look at Wu Texas and talk about what's lying in wait for us in
week 7. What's up, kinfolk?
It's RJ Young. I am not on a step mill.
If this is your first time watching adapt and respond.
Thank you for joining us here. We talk college football year
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round. If you're into that, go ahead
and hit that subscribe button like this video and answer the
question in the comments below. Did you expect Ohio State to
beat Minnesota by 39 points and continue this really impressive
streak? I'm not allowing a single
touchdown in the red zone through the first five games of
the season. I I was very impressed.
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They're they're five and O, they're clearly the number one
team in the country and they aremy pick to win the national
championship this year, especially given what we've
seen, not just this Saturday, but in the previous six weeks
combined, man. But let's talk a little bit
about what happened with Ohio State and Minnesota.
Minnesota got off to a pretty decent start.
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We thought, OK, cool, they've come to play.
They felt a little bit intimidated when they picked up
that false start penalty because, you know, the Ohio
State fan made themselves very loud and they love a night game
and playing it. OK, Drake Lindsay from around
the way he went to Fayetteville.He was a winner down there.
Maybe he got something. Maybe he got some cooking for
them. No, Sir.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no Sir, no Sir.
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That's not how that went. As a matter of fact, I I think
it it could have gone worse for him, but it didn't. 15 to 26 for
94 yards. You're like RJ, that sounds
pretty bad for him. He didn't throw no
interceptions. You know what I'm saying?
Like that's that's it. Matter of fact, PJ Flake came
into this one earlier in the week and he was going, you know,
Washington scored six points on them.
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And when Ohio State has given upfive and a half a game, you, you
exceeded the average. That's pretty good.
Minnesota couldn't get to the average.
They couldn't get to 5 1/2 points.
They were held to just three. And those three came in the
first quarter. And then the Ohio State defense
said you will get nothing else at all.
And while we're at it, we're going to let the offense go do
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its thing. And that was when Jeremiah Smith
started to eek it open. But all the time we're looking
at Carnell take 10. That's wide receiver won the
2026 NFL draft right over there.Good reason as to why, man.
I mean, you look at you look at the stats for him and they're
gargantuan. 9 catches for 183 yards at the TD.
Jeremiah Smith had 7 catches for67 yards and two TDs.
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And then on top of all of that, you've got Julian saying
continue to be surgical with thefootball man, 23 to 27 for 326,
three TDs. It is an open question as to
which one of these players is going to be the representative
for the Heisman Trophy at this pace.
But you know, given what we've seen from the rest of college
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football, I don't think it's outof a question that you could see
both Jeremiah Smith and Julian saying represented for the
Heisman Trophy, not unlike we saw Baker Mayfield and DD
Westbrook in 2017, the year or 2016, excuse me, the year before
Baker came back and won the Heisman Trophy.
Julian saying also in his first year, I mean, could you ask for
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a better start for a true a new quarterback for the Buckeyes?
Could you ask for a better startfor Brian Hartline, who I still
don't think is getting enough credit for what he has been able
to do with this offense? Like this is the best wide
receiver coach in the country who is fast becoming a brilliant
play caller. And we're just not giving the
credit because we know that RyanDay is the head coach and he had
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had held the play sheet for so long.
But when you look at what they're able to do to other
teams and how they're able to find ways to both run the ball
and throw the ball all over and up and down the yard, I got to
think that guy is going to make the list of Royals award
finalists if they want to put him up for it.
But on the other side, you've got Matt Patricia, who's got the
number one scoring defense in the country, and they're giving
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up nothing and nodded. Nobody.
They get Illinois next week. We'll talk about it.
But for now, I think I got to bemore impressed with what Matt
Patricia has done with the Ohio State defense, only because he's
in Year 1. I mean, as an assistant at Ohio
State, unlike Brian Hartline andbecause he inherited the defense
that was already the best in thecountry and he's made it better.
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I don't know if you'll know thisor not because maybe you living
underneath that particular rock in in which case I'm glad that
you found some shade because Penn State couldn't find none
spotlights on them tonight as they gave up 42 to Owen 4 UCLA
and became the first top ten team since 1985 to lose to an O
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and 14. That's UTEP beaten #7 BYU in 85.
It's also the first UCLA win against a top 10 opponent as an
unranked opponent since they beat Texas in 2010, which
precipitated the beginning of the end of the Mac Brown era.
They lost that game at Texas. They also got run on again and
this I bring up because Jim Knowles was a defensive
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coordinator at Ohio State and that defense, it is renowned.
It was amazing. It was great.
It had Jack Sawyer on it at JT two.
We will allow on it. You were getting that first
crazy year of Caleb Downs doing whatever you wanted.
Cody Simon was absolutely wrecking things in the middle
and I didn't think it could get better.
And and many people, many of them Buckeye fans thought it
would get worse with the higher Matt Patricia.
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Like what is Ryan Day doing? Go get somebody that knows how
to coach college defense. Don't go get this guy that's got
3 Super Bowls and work for a guythat can't seem to beat Dabo
Sweeney, let alone Scott Frost in a football game.
But it made those, it made senseto Ryan Day.
He went and made the hire and itis working out for them.
Meanwhile, Penn State hired Jim Knowles away to beat Oregon,
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lost Oregon, and then they lost a second time to Oregon with his
loss to UCLA, if we're being honest about it.
But more than that, when you think about Jim Knowles and you
think about the way that he got run on by UCLA and Niko
Iyamaliaba who couldn't throw the ball for any amount of
yardage, you have to believe that the Buckeyes were already
doing so much more with him. And the three-year curve that it
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took for the Buckeyes to get to be a national championship
caliber team, Penn State ain't got that kind of time.
They hired the man expecting himto do it right away to beat
Oregon in the regular season andto give them a chance to beat
Ohio State for the first time since 2016.
They could not feel further fromthat task as Ohio State is seems
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to be lapping the field when it comes to a balanced offense than
a balanced defense. I would put them up against
anybody else in college footballright now for the form that
they're in. And Mick Murati also needs to
get his flowers here. No significant injuries
whatsoever to this Ohio State football team.
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And I realized that there's a lot of folks that root for Ohio
State knocking on wood. You ain't got to do that because
they're prepared. They're going out there, they're
doing their injury prevention. And then I mean, then there's
Larry Johnson, seniors, defensive line.
My goodness, dude, Kaden Curry, Kaden McDonald, junior senior,
by the way. So guys, they developed along
the way that called themselves Nobody from nowhere.
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Nah, dog, y'all, y'all were nextin line behind JT and Jack
Sawyer. They had this assembly line
continuing to go to goes all theway back to the Bosa brothers
and then some. They just keep putting them out.
I remember I was stumping on thejumping up and down, going Chase
Young for Heisman, Chase Young for Heisman.
They got another one of those, Arvel Reese seeking whom he may
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destroy. Sonny Styles being the guy with
the green dot in the middle making plays.
And then again, Caleb Downs was the best defensive player in
college football. Matt Patricia was given these
really cool toys to go play with, and they're seeking whom
they may destroy, and they're making it happen.
So much fun watching that Ohio State offense, that Ohio State
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defense do what it knows how to do.
Now, they're going to get a challenge next week that we'll
talk about in Illinois. But Indiana put 63-UP on
Illinois, all right? And they allowed just 10.
If Indiana can do that, and you've seen what Indiana did, or
should I say did not do against Ohio State when they played last
year, what do you think Ohio State's going to do when they
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got to travel to Champaign next year?
I'm telling y'all, it could be furniture moving in that game.
Next week we come back. I want to talk a little bit
about this game that is ending. It looks every bit like Miami
and Florida State. It's going to end with Miami
winning this game by at least one score.
It's about two minutes left to play.
They're up 28 to 19 on the road here.
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But we're going to take a short break and we're going to start
talking about the implications, a win for Miami and the
implications of a loss for Florida State because, well,
that's how it's beginning to look.
Keep it locked, be back. Music back on adapt and respond
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with me RJ Young as we are watching the clock wind down for
Miami and Florida State. Florida State is down 2819 to a
Miami team that seems to be getting anything that he wants
in the passing game. Alec Tony turned out to be a
beast up there. But I thought that this game was
going to be a real test for Florida State and who the hell
we think they're going to be. And that's still true given they
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got the loss to a Virginia team that was able to beat Louisville
in overtime. That was an undefeated
Louisville and they beat an Alabama team.
That team turns out to be prettydamn good.
They've got to win against Georgia, the first team to beat
Georgia at Sanford in 33 attempts going back to October
12th, 2019. When Will Muschamps and South
Carolina jacking for the Hedges and Ty Simpson gets to go in
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there? Say I'm one and O against Kirby
Smart in Georgia, the defending SEC champs and Caitlin De Borg
Just say I'm 2 and O against Georgia, the defending SEC
champs. For the Alabama, it's about how
do you finish the second-half? We saw them get off to a
fantastic start last year and they just could not finish.
Let's see if some things have changed since Ryan Grubb became
their offense coordinator. Got a great win against
Vanderbilt today, 30 to 14, setting the world as it should
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be after taking a loss of numberone team on the road in
Nashville to Vanderbilt for a resetting of the board.
For Vanderbilt, who walked into this as a ranked team, might
walk out of this as a ranked team, especially after what we
saw from Texas and Penn State today and other teams being
idle. But for Miami, this is a game
that you needed to win going away.
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Kind of like they are for us to take you completely seriously as
not just a contender for the ACCtitle, but a contender for the
national championship. And there is a contingent, a fan
out there that I know remembers Miami versus Ohio State for the
national championship almost 25 years ago.
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And that was fun and I think that it could be fun again.
Do I think that this Miami team is as talented as that Miami
team? No, I do not.
I certainly don't. However, Carson Beck has
something brewing with Malachi Tony.
When they able to run the football, they look good running
the football. Corey Heatherton has them
humming on defense. I genuinely believe that that
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defensive line rivals Ohio States as the best in the entire
country. And I'm putting Michigan at
third basically, since they've moved Jayshawn Varner down to
edge away from middle linebacker.
They become more dominant in their defensive line approach.
And we're going to continue to have these sorts of
conversations as they keep beating people.
But Florida State really needed to get this win for us to
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believe that they are well and truly on their way back to
playing in the College Football Playoff.
And as it stands right now, it just doesn't seem like that's
going to happen. If they can come back, we'll
talk about it. But for now, I think for Mike
Norvell, for Gus Malazan, for Tony White, you've seen how
close you are to being great. You're able to beat Alabama in
the same stadium. If you could do it against
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Miami, can't nobody tell you nothing, even though you went up
to Virginia and took a loss in double overtime, right?
You could say that, dope. Campbell is a place where other
teams come to die. That felt like it was at stake
here in one of the most heated rivalries in college football.
That just ain't as heated anymore.
I don't mind telling you, when Iwas a teenager, hell when I was
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11/12/13, there was no bigger rivalry in college sports to me
then Miami versus Florida State,All right?
Florida State would win nationalchampionships, would would
contend for those things. Miami would get in there and
when Larry Coker took over, it'sjust, hey, don't mess up the
ship, you know what I mean? Dennis Erickson had it humming
for a little while, Butch had ithumming for a little while.
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Jimmy got it got it really goingand Howard Schnellenberg got it
going, but Bobby Bowden had beenthere through the entirety of it
from Deion Sanders work that damn it.
They had Randy Moss and they chose the red shirt him rather
than play him and I kept going. Danny Connell, this is the only
point that you ever made that I agree with.
Y'all should have thrown Randy Moss is behind up out there.
Do you? Can you imagine having Peter
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Ward and Randy Moss at wide receiver?
Some of y'all ain't old enough to remember, but I some old
heads in here. There's some unks in here like
myself with a little white in our beers, little white in our
hair that are going Nah Nah Nah.You didn't want to smoke with
with with Peter Ward. Anyone smoke with Randy Moss and
you didn't want to work smoke with Charlie Ward.
Hello, Heisman Trophy winner that chose to play basketball
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dog. Come on now.
That's like RG3 winning the Heisman Trophy and then decide
he going to run the 400 meter hurdles.
You know what I mean? It's just it's not something you
go see no more. We just don't do that.
But that's the kind of legacy that you had at Florida State.
That's the kind of legacy that you had at Miami Hill.
Florida State played against Oklahoma for the 2000 national
champion with the oldest hell quarterback, Chris Winky.
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And at the time didn't nobody think no 20 plus year old
quarterback was ever going to play in college football?
Then we got Brandon Whedon and then we've got, you know, name,
image and likeness as is happened today.
And we've got guys that have played six years college
football like Dylan Gabriel, whoget to Jack all the records
because they get the two extra years to play.
But as I'm looking more and moreat this Miami team, I'm coming
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to appreciate what they are verygood at and what they have not
been very good at in the years past.
They are able to sit on a lead, they can take a lead and they
can sit on it. Mario Cristobal has not run into
any clock management issues of yet, but they haven't really
been in any tight games like that where they needed to do it.
They've also been really great running the football, like even
as them doing the live analysis Right now I'm looking at Malachi
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Tony for the 7th one O 7. But the guy that's stirring the
drink that's really allowing forthe brothers routes to get run
is CJ Daniels, who sets the tonein that Miami wide receiver
room, according to Mario Cristobal, who's an offensive
line coach at heart and who ain't giving out no easy.
Yeah, he hustles. He really loves that guy.
He really thinks that guy can make them a better football team
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and sets the standard for guys like Malachi Tony to show up,
whose nickname, I kid you not, is baby Jesus.
Why is he nicknamed baby Jesus? Because the boy just turned 18
years old and he was stomping out people in the in South
Miami. It takes a special kind of human
being, especially a short dude like myself, be stomping out
other people in in in in Florida.
You know, I'm saying Jeremiah Smith come out of there.
Lamar Jackson come out of there.It's North Florida, but you get
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my point here. Derek Henry come out of there.
Dion, come out of there. You can keep going down the
line. Patrick Stain come out of there.
The dudes that be coming out of state of Florida, let alone
South Florida be something different.
So when they tell me that they got a dude, I choose to believe
them and they got to do the and Malachi Tony.
What I thought was really interesting is that they're able
to get this sort of a lead and perhaps get this win without
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being able to run the ball well.Like I thought Mark Fletcher
would have had a whole hell of alot to do with them being able
to win this football game. But right now it's 11 rushes, 36
yards. And as someone watching the
game, it's been more about how they've been able to limit
Florida State from doing anything they want to do.
Like Gus Malzahn runs an offensethat allows for the the
quarterback to do a lot, but they want to get east and West.
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They like to run their gadget, they like to run their men's
direction so they can get you out in space.
And they just haven't been able to do that with Tommy
Castellanos at quarterback so far.
And I I think that they ought tobe committed.
They be in the Miami defense fordoing that.
I mean, you talk about 21 to 40 for 232 TDs, but 2 picks.
So you putting the ball in the air and you have a stash out the
air, but you're also holding them. 15 rushed 54 yards.
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I should also say that Tommy Castellanos has rushed for at
least 54 yards in every game that they have played at Florida
State now. So it's not something you get to
count as extra money. It's what you got to count as
part of the checking account at this point.
So if Tommy Castellanos doesn't run for 54 yards, you working at
a deficit and you are overdrafted.
And I'm sure there's a lot of y'all to understand the learning
of overdrafted and shouldn't just like, hey, let's get our
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credit up. You know what I'm saying?
My credit over 800. Just I'm, I'm putting that out
there because I know that's the flex.
And if she watching, yeah, how it's going to get paid off, How
it's going to get paid off? Truck is paid off, cars paid
off, motorcycles paid off. We don't do no overdrafting over
here. We work within our means and we
set a budget, you know what I'm saying?
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So if Tommy Castellanos ain't getting your 54 yards, you ain't
playing within the budget, You know what I'm saying?
You, you, you ain't going out there and and going and going to
work for us. All right, So it's man, since
I'm here, why the hell are we taking sick days?
Because we got a headache that ain't that ain't, that ain't
what you take your sick days for.
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You don't take no sick days for no headaches.
We ain't take no mental health days around here.
We take our black ass to work. You know why?
You know why? Because we got bills that got to
get paid. And the bills don't give a damn
about your headache. Bills don't give a damn about
your mental health. They care about getting paid.
You get your mental health and, and your and and your, your
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Tylenol together, your ibuprofentogether.
I don't want to have no Tylenol conversation with y'all.
Your ibuprofen out here and you go to work.
Let's go get this money. So this is always something in
the checking account so we don'tget overdrafted.
That said, sometimes you going to get hit over the head with
something. You're going to get a high water
bill, you're going to get a highelectric bill.
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And that's what it feels like it's happening.
Florida State right now because they have done what they needed
to do with Tommy Castellanos. Got you 2 turnovers, also got
your 54 yards. But you haven't been able to do
much outside of that, ma'am. And as much as I wanted Deuce
Robinson to have his way with this Miami secondary and I
thought he might give an all sixfoot six of his behind and that
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they moved into wide receiver, which I absolutely love.
That's such a Gus Mauson thing to do.
Do y'all remember Daquil Williams would do this at Auburn
for Gus? Many of y'all don't remember,
did Dequil Williams look like Duke Williams?
Jim used to look like a defensive end out there playing
wide receiver. Gus loves that kind of dude.
Tight end at USC? No, you play wide receiver for
Gus Malzahn. Where the gadget offense is,
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hey, we are throwing a deep or we running the football.
Either way you going to be butt naked open.
You go get one-on-one cover to get some smaller defensive backs
and we're going to make it do what it do.
I also think that when we're talking about Florida State and
this Miami game, the idea that you could be about 50% on your
third down conversions against Miami and still be down by two
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scores kind of wild to me. That's that's kind of wild to me
because right now they're 7 to 16 and three or four on 4th
down. It's just Miami's put a lid on
the defense and or you put the ball in the air and then gone to
go get it. Meanwhile, you got oh, wee you,
you going for it on 4th and eight with 112 left to go and
gave the ball back to Florida State and this game is probably
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over. But he also Miami didn't play a
clean football game. I mean, with the game has got
one minute, 12 seconds left to play in it.
We're talking about 11 penaltiesfor 84 yards for Miami.
You should be able to win that football game at home.
If you are Florida State, you know, you were you were the more
disciplined team. You were better on 3rd down.
You didn't win the turnover battle and that probably does
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you in. You got 3 turnovers.
So there's zero. But I would feel like you you're
in a spot where you could win this thing.
I mean, Miami, you had the ball that many times in Florida State
got something like 25 first downs in this game.
And even now, I think we're going to talk about Florida
State being a team that contendstoward the end of of the year
about making the College Football Playoffs, depending on
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how things shake out in the SEC.But this is going to be their
this is going to be their secondloss, right?
And it's going to be their second loss, their first loss to
a team that is ranked now. And I think the Alabama loss is
going to look a lot better for them.
But no, it's going to be the third loss because they lost
Virginia. Never mind, that's three losses.
Florida State, they're against ranked competition.
Maybe they will be there at the end because you can make the
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College Football Playoff as a nine, three team with three
losses to teams that end up in the top 10.
So Virginia would have to do some work there, but they're
five and one and they got a straight shot to the ACC title.
Alabama has a shot to make the AC the SEC title with their win
against Georgia, their win against Vandy.
He's got to keep their end up. And then we're talking about
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Miami. That might be that team that
goes undefeated in the ACC and wins championship.
You might look at that as a Florida State fan and go, OK, we
can get to this. We can get in.
And if we get in, we get a good draw, maybe we can make it go.
And I got to tell you, after going 2 and 10 last year and
bringing Tommy Castellanos in and bringing Tony White in and
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bringing Gus Miles on in and really overhauling the football
program to be in a position to talk about making the College
Football Playoff at Florida State after Week 6.
That's Mike Norvell earning his money.
I on the one hand, you can make the argument he should have
never lost the money by going toand 10.
You right, I understand. I get it, but that's the past
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and we live in the present and we look at toward the future
right now. Nothing about this game has led
me to the belief that Florida State can't play with anybody in
college football. There were teams that they'll
get beat by like Miami, but they're not going to get run out
the building. That I find to be encouraging if
you are a Knowles fan. And yeah, you wanted this one.
It's on national television, it's at night, it's at home and
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it's Miami. But if you got to lose to Miami,
lose to Miami, being a top 25 opponent and then being the
number three team in the countryaccording to the API, don't see
that changing. For me, when we get to the AAP
top 25, I don't or into my top 25.
I think the same three teams aregoing to be the same three teams
for me. I also think that there's a lot
of teams that are idle this week.
They're going to be looking at Penn State.
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Tech's going, oh, that could have been us, but a lot of teams
that are at the back of that, like Georgia Tech, that going to
move up because they're five. And OBYU, who got a win Friday
night against West Virginia, it's also five and O going to
get some moving to shake it help.
Cincinnati got a great win against Iowa State, but is Iowa
State still going to be a top 25team?
These are things that also help Florida State is what I'm
saying, right? Where could be there's a real,
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there's a world where all those teams like Iowa State, like
Texas, like Penn State got wins today and that really hurts
Florida State. Any AP rankings.
The AP rankings are a really good indicator of just what
we're going to make, what we're going to think about the College
Football Playoff when that comes.
But man, right now you got to feel good about what it is that
you've seen from Florida State. If you're a Florida State fan,
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you're going to take this L281935 seconds left to go.
But it could be worse. It really could be.
We come back, we'll take an early look at OU in Texas and we
got time, maybe an early look inOhio State in Illinois, 20
seconds, keep it locked. Back on adapt and respond with
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me RJ Young. If you are new to the channel,
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Oh you Texas next Saturday, because right now I got to tell
y'all feel real good. Feel real good as as as the
resident National College football analyst.
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They're with Oklahoma and likes to see Oklahoma do well and
doesn't hurt my feelings none tosee Texas take no LSI got to
tell you it feels pretty good. Feels pretty good.
It's like ARJ you acting like John materials healthy.
Nah, you ain't. But you know what Oklahoma beat
Kent State 44 to 0 and it's the zero and not the 44 that I'm
more interested in. Had the really violent injury to
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Kiantes Lewis who quite literally hit his head on the
brick wall the back of the end zone.
I've never liked it, I've alwayshated it, I've always been
against it. They haven't removed it.
Maybe they'll get around to removing it now that my man
needed to go get checked out. X-rays are negative and he was
walking around he had feeling all his extremities but it could
have been worse and there is no reason for you to have a brick
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wall that close to any end zone.However 44 zero you get the shit
out, you get to take away and turn over on defense.
OK, that makes Oklahoma the lastteam to get a take away for its
defense in FPS, which is a wild stat because Oklahoma hadn't
given up more than 17 points in any game this year.
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Scoring defense has been just amazing, but it also cuts into
account a Florida team that could not be LSU, a Florida team
that got run out by Miami and a Florida team that lost.
South Florida put the beat down on the Longhorns today at Ben
Hill Griffin. They say it's a swamp and they
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say it's a swamp because only Gators get out alive.
And that's been I don't know, man.
I've seen some volunteers leave there.
I've seen some dudes with some muskets leave there.
You know what I mean? Like I I've seen some people
come through there right quick. I've seen South Florida show up
there with some bulls and they just fine.
But apparently not no Longhorns except for today.
This is their first win against Texas, Florida's first win
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against Texas. They ain't played all that many
times, but it's still cool to say.
DJ Lagway went 21 of 28 for 298 against the Texas Longhorse,
Jaden Blah 27 rushes for 107 yards against Texas Longhorns
and Dallas Wilson became the first wide receiver at Florida
to debut with 100 receiving yards and two TDs.
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Mind you, that's not debut against Sanford.
That's not debut against AbileneChristian.
That's not debut against Southern Illinois.
That is the university flagship of Texas that he did that
against and Pete Krakowski's defense that he did that
against. You got some real problems.
Now you got some real problems. You got some real problems
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because yes, Michael Hawkins is out there trying to do his best
job in the year and I need him to stop because somebody tell
that boy that throwing the ball side on him is not his bag.
I swear that boy tried to throw at least three interceptions in
this game and if the Kent State players were better, they picked
him off. Your bag is to not turn the
football over and run with it. When they tell you, OK, every
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now and again, you're going to get one-on-one opportunities
with Dionne Burks, with Kiantes Lewis, with Isaiah Satanga, and
you're going to hit them becauseyou ain't got no other choice.
Oklahoma ain't got no run game. Oakley ain't got to have no run
game. If you can't do nothing against
the defense, dog, forget Oklahoma's offense.
We back to playing Oklahoma football now.
You know, Oklahoma football was Brett Venables was linebackers
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coach. It was.
We don't give a good damn how many points the offense scores.
It's nice when we had Lincoln Riley, it's lights when we had
Kevin Wilson. It's nice when we had Josh Hypo.
Don't give a good damn though, about how many points the
offense is going to score. We got cool with it.
It's fun seeing 40 points put upa game.
You know what Oklahoma loves? Defense.
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Defense, yo, y'all ran a wishbone and we had the number
one scoring defense. That's what Oklahoma does.
We stop people from scoring and now we have a defense that can
stop people from scoring and canscore with the ball.
Or did you not see the scooping score against Kent State?
And Arch Manning looks rattled against Florida's defense.
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Now, Florida's defense is not bad, right?
They're they've been pretty damngood on defense.
They just been sorry on offense.Oklahoma ain't sorry on offense.
It's decent. It's better with John Mateer,
but it's decent because the run game is just not kind of there.
The run game has been John Mateer and Brent Venables has
already said, hey, I'm acting asif he's not going to be
available for OU Texas, which iswhat he says after post game of
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Kent State. And even if he had some inkling
that it was going to be, why would he tell anybody that out
loud? You know, I mean, I say that I
would, but that's because I walkaround going I don't give a damn
what you know about us. We still going to beat the hell
out of you. Come watch practice.
Come watch when we put in, I have better players than you and
we will execute better than you.Come see us.
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I dare you. That's not how Bren Venables
want to play the game. That's fine.
But when you got a defense like what he's had, you get to just I
don't know if he can go, he can go.
If he can, he can't. And he says, I got all this
faith in Michael Hawkins. Well, dog, I don't.
I'm just saying that if it comesdown to Michael Hawkins got to
go win the football game, Oklahoma's defense didn't do
enough. That's what I'm saying.
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As much as I want to see MichaelHawkins go something like 16 or
28, making it easy, right? 16 to 28250, you know, 70 yards
on the ground that wasn't going to happen.
I didn't get to see that happen.Yay through the three TDs.
But again, I wanted to see you beat up on Kent State because
this is a bye week. That's that's what you paid Kent
State to come down for your fours for the bye week.
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So you get the bye week going into Texas.
OK, so now we have a Texas team that got its back against the
wall. It's got the loss to Ohio State,
which still looks good because Ohio State is so good.
But this loss to Florida does not.
And now you are a one loss team in the SEC play, which puts you
really up against it and making the SEC championship and more
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than anything else, and this is my global take on Texas right
now heading into the season. They are supposed to play for
the national championship. As a matter of fact, I would
have told you to been to Ohio State and Texas in the national
championship game. That doesn't feel like it's
going to happen at all. They feel as far away from
playing the national championship as any football
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team feels today. Matter of fact, make Texas and
Penn State play each other just so we know which one of them is
the worst. Because this is the first time
since 1964 when two teams have been ranked at #2 in the AP poll
and have taken 2 losses before Week 6.
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Been that long. That's how big an anomaly it is.
But it also is one of the unintended consequences of the
volatility of our sport, where you can have the transfer portal
make you good or bad and in a quick fast, in a hurry, and you
can know that Arch Manning can'tbeat a good team.
And that's really the thing. Guys like Oklahoma's a good
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football team. Show me the good football team
that Arch Manning has been able to beat.
And I realized some of y'all hadbeen saying this all along.
But I'm telling you that you're right.
That's what I'm saying. He beat Mississippi State last
year. They were not good last year.
They're good this year, not lastyear.
ULM not good enough to beat them.
You know, like you keep UTSA, not good enough to beat them.
Ohio State good enough to beat them.
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So they did. Florida is just as talented as
Texas. They just weren't able to
execute. And now we're getting into a
spot where we're asking questions about how Steve
Sarkeesian is developing the rest of the team.
And I don't think it's the rest of the team.
I really don't. I think the defense is fine.
They played poorly against Florida, but that's OK.
That's that's going to happen. I think the offensive line is
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good. I think the running backs are
good. I think he's got one of the
better wide receiving course in in college football.
I just don't think that he's gotthe reps to be a great
quarterback right now. And that's where I was wrong and
I was too far ahead. But you know what?
Same king could be said about the folks that believe that K
Klubnick was going to be a Heisman finalist, that DJ Lagway
was going to be a Heisman finalist, that Garrett Nutsmeyer
was going to be a high finalist,and that Drew Aller was going to
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be a Heisman finalist. And I kid you not, that Niko
Iyamaliaba was going to be a Heisman finalist.
In fact, right now, if you looked at the board, you
probably got Julian Say and Jeremiah Smith in one.
In one way or another. You've got John Mateer, you got
Trinidad Chambliss at Ole Miss, and you got Dante Moore at
Oregon, and dare I say it, you got Fernando Mendoza at Indiana.
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And oh, by the way, had he not gotten beat down 63 to 10, Luke
Altmire's in there, guys. Ty Simpson has worked his way
into this. You know what I figured out?
I say I figured out. It's actually one of those
things that I just believe the more a quarterback plays college
football, the better he's going to be.
And there's a very simple reasonas to why your lived experience
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informs your future choices, informs your present.
So if you've seen the same set of circumstances enough to read
and react, you're going to be better at it.
But if you're seeing a differentset of circumstances every time
you go out, you're just not going to be OK.
Like, I'm into cycling, right? And I've come to find out that
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I'm pretty good at some things and I'm not good at some others.
But what I've been told over andover again is as precocious as I
seem to be on the bike because Igot a big aerobic engine and I
know fitness and I can I can ride the bike, is that I still
need time on the bike. And with time on the bike, I'm
going to see all sorts of situations I'm going to find
myself in. I was involved in a crash on
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Thursday. I'm going downhill and I'm out
in front of the group. Dude is behind me, too close.
He overlaps Will, he clicks the wheel and he goes flying off the
bike and gets injured. I had been in a situation that
was similar. So rather than hit the brakes,
I'm able to catch my bike and turn to one side.
That's because I've been in a situation earlier, if you're a
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quarterback and you know what Cover 2 looks like or you know
what rotating down safety means,RIP the friggin scene.
You're going to do that. And I just don't see that Arch
Man has had that much experiencedoing that.
That's what I'm saying. And I think you can make that
same claim about a lot of these players that we thought were
going to be great. Now, Kate Klubnik, not so much.
Gary Nutsmeyer, not so much. You've been a starter for a full
year or even 2. Drew Aller just ain't got the
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winning gene. I don't know that there's
anything to do about that. Nico and Malayalva, not the
passer that we thought he was going to be coming out of high
school. Wasn't that guy at Tennessee
last year? Wasn't that guy at UCLA this
year? They beat Penn State because he
could run the football like we can.
Trinidad Chandlers turns out to be a guy that played a lot of
football and knows how to play. John Mateer played a lot of
football. These things matter.
That's what I'm telling you. And if you don't think that they
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matter, I got another thing coming for you because nobody
wants to be out there with a talented quarterbacks figuring
out, which is why Julian's saying is such an anomaly.
And we've come to believe that that's how guys should come out
as first time starters because Trevor Lawrence was able to do
it. And it feels like Gunner
Stockton's getting it done. But we're waiting and seeing
we'll see about Ty Simpson. But I think with Arch, we just
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he needs time. And I, I hate to say it because
he's really talented and we wantto see it come together for him.
And I don't like seeing the dudeget his butt kicked, except when
he plays Oklahoma. But again, it doesn't shock me
that he played poorly in a loss against UCL against Florida.
And he didn't really play that poorly.
Like he completed like 57% of his passes, but he went for 260
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and he went out, energy came back in.
It's probably not a good thing because he always threw the pick
and you don't know what you really have behind him.
And that's going to put them in a wild place.
But sooner or later, you're going to have Dia Bell there and
you might get to make some decisions.
But if nothing else, and you're a Texas fan sink when you were
his flowers. You owe that man an apology.
That's going to do it for this episode of adapt and respond.
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Tell me that in the comments below.
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All right, that's gonna do it for me.
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