CFP Predictions & Coaching Headlines

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On today's pot We've got some news tidbits that are
going on that we have got to discuss along with
I'm go on and give you my predictions again for
what I am expecting out of the college football playoffs.
It's football. I've been watching it for forty years. How
are you kidding me? You're listening to Winning Cures Everything?

(00:24):
Game day, baby, Wake up or get out. Here's your host,
my confident young man, a deferm athlete, Gary Siegers. Welcome
in Winning Cures Everything. It's College Football Podcast. I'm your host,
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The voice is just about gone today for whatever reason,

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so he left to bear with me. We won't make
this one a long one, but there's some news nuggets
that I have opinions on and in a few things
that we are going to discuss today. First off, if
you didn't want to listen through through the hour long
whatever it is, I'll go on and tell you what
my predictions are for this weekend. I think Miami covers,

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but I think Ohio State wins. I think Alabama covers
and wins over Indiana. So you will have Oregon. I
have Oregon covering and winning against Texas Tech, and I
have Georgia covering and winning against Ole Miss. So your
semi final games, which ESPN would absolutely love, would be

(01:29):
Oregon against Alabama and Ohio State against Georgia. That is
what I'm looking for in the college football playoffs. So far,
I went three and one on spread picks, but I
picked all four of the correct winners in round one,
So we'll see what happens here. As always subscribed to

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appreciate that, certainly appreciate it. All right, let's get through
some of the news and nuggets that we have to discuss. Oh,
how about this happy frickin New Year, everybody. We are
about to head into twenty twenty six, which will mark
the tenth season that I have been podcasting about college football.

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Pretty crazy, which means that I've been out of a
band even longer than that. I am getting old. My
friends getting old. My forty third birthday is coming up.
I just got used to telling everybody I'm forty two.
We will see what that looks like. The world is
a different place now than it was ten short years ago.

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All right, continuing on, let's move into it. Michigan hired
Kyle Whittingham, former Utah coach outstanding record. Of course, he
replaced Urban Meyer, so he and Urban Meyer have always
had a pretty good relationship. And now Michigan goes and
hires somebody from the urban Meyer tree. Now, at this point,

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I think Whittingham is his own guy. I don't think
you can really call this part of the urban Meyer tree,
but it is a fun anecdote to at least discuss
for a minute. He is, I mean, he's sixty six
years old, like that is. He's been around for a
little bit, and everybody just kind of assumed that once
he steps away from Utah, well he's going to retire,

(03:42):
because there were retirement rumors at Utah for a very
long time. I'm sure at some point people will get
into why he was pushed out at Utah. The guy
can still coach. He's an incredible CEO kind of coach.
He instills a good culture, he instills a toughness about

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the team, and that is something that Michigan will absolutely love.
They will love it. So I am excited to see that.
I don't know what he's gonna look like recruiting, but
if you got you know, donors and whatnot in il
people buying your players, it may be easy. From everything

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I've heard, he's bringing Jason Beck, the offensive coordinator with him.
I don't know if that means that Devin dan Pierre
is coming, because I don't know why you would because
Bryce Underwood is already there and I don't think he's
going anywhere. So if you've got Bryce Underwood with Jason Beck,
Jason Beck is awesome, Like he's fantastic. He was the

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quarterback coach at Virginia under Broncomenen Hall with Brendan Armstrong
and had just an out sant like absolutely insane, absolutely
insane year with him at quarterback and has done good
things since. So again, we'll see what all this means.

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The portal opens up this Friday, so I'm certain that
we're gonna get on and talk about all of the
Auburn stuff. The fact that Iowa State only has seventeen
active players on the roster, like all these different things.
We'll talk about that on Friday, but for now, we're
not gonna We're not gonna mess with the portal stuff
until everything becomes official. Once that does, then you know,

(05:35):
we'll talk about it. But in the meantime, the Michigan
stuff is going to be interesting, if for no other
reason than it's Michigan and it's a huge, huge head coach.
Absolutely insane to think about the fact that this guy

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was coaching Utah this year, let him to a ten
and two record, and then all of a sudden decided that, yeah,
I'm ready to step down. This is the next step
for I think at some point we're just going to
stop with the head coach and waiting stuff. I understand

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Utah did not want to lose Morgan Scalley, but at
some point it's okay, you can grow and develop as
a head coach somewhere else if you really want to leave.
But why we guarantee jobs to certain coaches. I have
no idea, especially coaches that have never been head coaches.

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So we'll see what that ends up looking like. I'm
not totally sold on Morgan Scalley being the next big
thing at Utah. But obviously we'll see, we'll see what
ends up happening there. Let's talk about the Sugar Bowl
for just a minute. It's going to be on New
Year's Day that evening, and it's in New Orleans, and

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that place is effectively like a home away from home
for ole Miss fans. So the Superdome is going to
be completely overwhelmed with ole Miss fans for their game
against Georgia, their playoff game against Georgia. And Ross Ellinger
had a good article today, and I won't talk so

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much about the article just about the information that's in it,
but I would highly recommend you go read it. Lane
Kiffen appears to be going to the game with the
Louisiana Governor, Jeff Landry, which is going to be wild.

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There are six assistant coaches that are still working for
ole Miss that are going with Lane Kiffen to LSU.
And you want to talk about a weird set of circumstances. Georgia, LSU,
and ole Miss all involved in this Bowl game. Now
LSU per se is not, but a good portion of

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the coaching staff for next year's LSU team is coaching
in this game, and the head coach is going to
be in one of the boots up there somewhere in
one of the suites with the Governor of Louisiana, and
I can't imagine a situation where he is not going
to get spit on, where he is not going to
get cussed where I mean, they will have to find

(08:30):
all kinds of ways to get him into the building
and into a certain spot without letting him be around
anybody in the public. And I'm certain that there's ways,
because obviously with the governor it's the same thing. But man,
I just I can't imagine wanting to show up there.

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And why would you go sit through this game when
you just got hired at the new school. You were
just at their game over the weekend in Houston, and
you didn't even hang around for the game. You'd went
all the way to Houston and left as soon as
your ESPN hit was done in the first half. Make

(09:14):
it make sense? Because I did. I can't figure any
of it out. Can't figure it out. But that is
going to be a wild ballgame. I don't anticipate things
are going to go well for Ole Miss. There's too
much emotion. Too much stuff going on there, and the
coaches are focused on other things. So continuity is nice.

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But I'm not completely sold that you are going to
be able to beat a team that is as focused
as Georgia. But maybe there is something to remember. Last year,
the teams that had buys didn't exactly didn't exactly do well. Right,
Texas did not have a buy they advanced to the semifinal. Actually,

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Ohio State advanced to the semifinal. Obviously, they won the
national championship. Notre Dame did not have a buye they
advanced to the National championship, and Openn State did not
have a buye. So not a single team that had
to buy won a game last year, when now Georgia
is the team that has the buy. They had a
buy last year didn't do well. Obviously, that was Gunner

(10:25):
Stockin's first start and it was against a pretty good
defense in Notre Dame. In this situation, not really gonna
have to worry about the defense too much. I don't
think when people talk about ole Miss, they don't exactly
talk about the defense. But we'll see what Lane Kiffin,
what kind of commotion he causes, because I'm certain something

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will come out of this game that we will be discussing,
but we'll see exactly what happens. If you haven't, by
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bucks for the year. All right, Clemson, let's talk about

(11:33):
offensive coordinators. And the Clemson Tigers have fired Garrett Riley
and they fired another longtime assistant as well. But three years,
in three years with Cave Club, Nick never really had
a shot with another quarterback, and Dabo says, eh, all right,

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you're out, We're done. Offense didn't do so well. I mean,
I know that they just hired Tom Allen, but that
defense was ready built and they I mean they allowed
forty six points to Duke. I mean what are we
talking about? That is a defense that had some NFL
talent on it. The offense had some NFL talent as well,

(12:16):
not that the offense was great by any stretch. But
I still don't know if I necessarily blame this on
any one particular guy other than the guy at the
top that sets the culture. I just think the culture
has shifted, and it shifted because college football in and
of itself is a different beast. And I don't know

(12:38):
if Debo knows how to handle that. But if you're
gonna hang around and you're gonna keep trying things, eh,
I mean we'll see. Like I thought this was a
Grand Slam higher for Clemson back when they did it,
and all the rumors that are coming out it appears
are that Chad Morris is coming back to coach. Took

(13:00):
this year off to watch his son Chandler quarterback in
Virginia to an eleven win season. But my goodness, Chad Morris,
who hasn't exactly done a whole lot. You know, he
left Clemson as the offensive coordinator before they had won
a national championship, if I'm not mistaken, then took over

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SMU for a little while, left there, took over Arkansas
and then disappeared because he was atrocious at Arkansas. Like
I know that he had worked as an analyst and
may have been an offensive coordinator somewhere else and whatnot,
but it looks like that. But I was just kind
of replaying the hits, like, this is somebody I'm comfortable with,

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somebody I believe in, somebody I trust, blah blah blah blah.
But do we think this is actually going to work?
I guess if you're gonna go into the portal and
you're gonna buy players and you're gonna, you know, pay
these guys, which I'm extremely curious about, what is that
going to look like for this next batch of Clemson players.
Are they going to go by themselves as a football

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team like because obviously they recruit high school but they
don't do a lot in the portal. What is I mean?
Clemson is fascinating, what a fascinating football team. So we'll
see what that is a looking like. They have not
hired Chad Morris yet, but that is all of the
rumor that is going around from the circles that I

(14:29):
am involved in, So we'll see what ends up. Happening there.
Chip Kelly has been hired as Northwestern's offensive coordinator, So
that means in the last four years he was the
UCLA head coach, took them to a bowl game, did
good things there, left there to be the offensive coordinator

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for Ryan Day at Ohio State they won a national championship.
This year. He was the offensive coordinator for the Las
Vegas Raiders, where he made six million dollars a year.
You're guaranteed for three years, and they fired him midseason.
Things went so badly there that they pulled the plug
halfway through the first season, and they have him on

(15:10):
the books for three years now. I don't know all
the details about it, but that would certainly raise some
red flags. And then to go from that where he
was at Ohio State just two years ago, now he's
going to be the offensive coordinator at Northwestern. I would
have never imagined that Northwestern would have been able to

(15:37):
hire chip Kelly, but also that they would want to
with potential scandal and whatever else. But I do suppose
if you are Northwestern and you are the people that
are in charge there, you do not want Pat Fitzgerald
to go and be successful at Michigan state. You got

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to do whatever you can do to be more successful
than the guy that's over in East Lansing now. And
maybe it's not that big a deal, but the fact
that Pat Fitzgerald is back in the Big Ten against
the team that Northwestern pretty regularly plays, they will be
directly compared. So if you are in Northwestern, you got
this brand new stadium, you got big things coming up.

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They might be willing to spend some money now, so
we'll see what that looks like. I'm curious, very very curious.
All right. I hope everybody has a wonderful new year.
It's been a strange season and a strange year. Next
year we will continue on, I mean ten years of winning,
gears everything. How crazy is that? Crazy? Crazy? Yeah, started

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this thing in August of twenty sixteen, so August of
twenty twenty six will be what ten years? I think
that's right as so long as the math is correct.
I'm excited about it. I'm excited. We'll see how this
thing goes. We'll continue to adapt, we will continue to
grow the show, and hopefully you're going to be right
there with us. With that said, take care of yourself,

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