10-22-25 - Mo Egger with Danny Kanell

Danny Kannell on how far the Bearcats can go

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between six and eight tonight on ESPN fifteen thirty. I
love that we do this. We get him three four
times a year during the college football season. Our guy

(01:06):
Danny Canell joins us thanks to bet Online. Go to
betonline dot ag for updated college football, Playoff, Heisman and
college football Week nine lines. It's awesome to have you.
I'm looking at bet online. I see Cincinnati at plus
seven hundred to win the Big Twelve.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Talk me into that or talk me out of it, Danny.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
Oh Man, I think it's pretty good value, right, I mean,
I think people are still sleeping on the Bearcats. My man,
Brandon Sorosby has been bawling. I don't think he's getting
anywhere near the amount of attention that he should be getting.

Speaker 4 (01:41):
He has been awesome, and.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
If you take away, you know, one bad play against Nebraska,
this team is really close to being undefeated. But Sorsby's
got eighteen touchdowns in one interception, and he's got six
rushing touchdowns. By my math, that's twenty four total touchdow
one interception. Why isn't he getting any Heisman love? I

(02:03):
get why because you're not in the market, you know,
or you're not a traditional blue blood. But I'm serious,
he's playing quarterback as good as anybody in the country.
They're playing some great football. And if the Big Twelve,
I mean, we all we've been proven.

Speaker 4 (02:18):
Wrong all season long.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
We all thought, oh, it's Texas Tech head and shoulders
above the field.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
Oh, it's Texas Tech.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
Texas Tech goes and loses last week, I say, why
not the Bearcats? So I am not trying to talk
you out of that one. Of course, the Texas Tech
game would be the only one that they would have
to face in the Big Twelve championship. Don't have them
the regular season. But we just saw Utah get beat
by BYU. You can handle them BYU. You guys play
at home, like, why not at the nip You could

(02:47):
see it happening. Now you're thinking about I'm about to
take a bet on the Bearcats here to win the
Big Twelve.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
See there you go. You're speaking my language.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
By the way, two fifty to one to win the
college football playoff, it's uh, that's That's not something I
thought I would be looking at. A long way to go,
but it's been a fun season so far. We were
talking about this yesterday. Ohio State gets talked about a
lot in this part of the country. I'm not sure
in recent years nationally there has been a less discussed

(03:14):
number one team in the nation through this part of
the season.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
Yeah, I would tend to agree. I think you saw
this happen last year with Georgia. They were just everybody
knew they'd be in the College Football Playoff and you're
kind of like, yeah, we'll talk about them when it matters.
But Georgia wasn't as dominant as Ohio State has been
this year. I just was in Madison, Wisconsin, so I
saw the buck guys in person. Of course, it was

(03:38):
not a great game, completely lopsided, but that we haven't
seen a lot of teams that are just handling their
business every single week. We've seen a lot of teams
overlook opponents, they underwhelm.

Speaker 4 (03:50):
Ohio State has not done that, and I think this team.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
I talked to Jeremiah Smith after the game and he
said he thinks this team is better than last year's
and it is really hard to argue against when you
look at the totality of the roster. I think last
year's run game was a little bit better and the
offensive line was a little bit better. But outside of that,
the defense is putting up historic numbers. You know, they

(04:14):
put another shutout last week, which was really impressive. My
big concern for Ohio State and this is similar to
sort of some of those great teams that we've seen,
you know, traditionally, it's do they get battle tested before
they have to play against potentially Indiana and the Big
Ten or if they have to play against Alabama and

(04:35):
the College Football Playoff because they're so good, Like, it's
just you wonder if that's gonna matter, because they won't
have many opportunities to be in a fourth quarter game
where you look up the scoreboard it's like, oh crap,
we got to get.

Speaker 4 (04:49):
This thing going.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
They might not have to face that type of adversity,
which is like rich people problems, right, Like it's a
problem that everybody would love to have. But I cannot
say enough about how impressed I was the Buckeyes, Julian
saying is playing like a seasoned veteran. I love the
way they've kind of they've taken you know, they kind of.

Speaker 4 (05:06):
Have slow played it. It's like a restaurant. They have
a soft opening.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
I think that's what they did early in the season,
and then now they're kind of just throwing everything at him.

Speaker 4 (05:14):
And he is flourishing.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
It has just been really really impressive the Buckey's what
they've been able to do.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
When you were in Madison, if I would have told
you that at this time this week, Luke Fickle will
still be employed.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
You would have said, what.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
I'm pretty astounded, especially considering the pulse. You know, you
get a pretty good pulse when you're on the ground.
Even before the game, fans were like, yeah, we probably
have to make a change, and then you know, at
the airport after everyone's like, well, it's got to happen today,
and then no, you get the statement of support from
the athletic director. So I'm surprised, but I'm also surprised

(05:46):
at how bad it's been. I thought Luke Fickle was
an a higher you know who grade, the HighRes. I
thought he was a great fit at Wisconsin. I do
think they're starting to learn they have a lot of
making up to do in the nil landscape, and their
schedule has been brutal, and he's that horrible quarterback look.
So I know the athletic director said they're going to
try to give him some more resources, give more money,

(06:07):
But my goodness, I don't think it's gonna get I
think it's gonna get worse before it gets better. And
that's gonna take a tremendous amount of fortitude for that
athletic director to continue to back Luke Fickle the way
they've lost the fan base.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
Danny Knell is with us thanks to bet Online again.
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Heisman and College Football Week nine lines. Stay in the
Big ten with me. Last year, it felt like Indiana
was a really neat story. This year, it feels like
they're a powerhouse. Fernando Mendoza the odds on favorite to
win the Heisman Trophy. Do you take the Hoosiers seriously

(06:40):
as national championship contenders?

Speaker 4 (06:42):
Absolutely?

Speaker 3 (06:43):
And I would say why, like and maybe if they
didn't do what they did to Oregon, you'd probably be
waiting for them to prove it one more time, like we.

Speaker 4 (06:52):
Need to see it.

Speaker 3 (06:53):
But they I thought of Oregon. I still think Oregon is
a really good football team. That was a pretty convincing win.
I mean, they want by ten, but I think the
style of it, the way they were able to control
both lines of scrimmage, that was really really impressive. Kirkseying
that he's a great football coach, and I still think
it's very similar to what's going on at Vanderbilt. People
need to erase everything you've known about Indiana for the

(07:15):
last fifty years.

Speaker 4 (07:17):
There's a couple of reasons why.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
One, they've done a great job and they're going on
their second season kind of putting a stampoint they did
last year.

Speaker 4 (07:23):
But this is a new landscape of college football.

Speaker 3 (07:25):
Like you, you don't have just windows where you can win,
where you get lucky with a good class or a
good quarterback. They actually have resources, and they have the
revenue share and they've got the portal. So I think
Indiana is here to stay. And I do think Fernando
Mendoza is pretty special. They still have a lot of
players that were on last year's team that were holdovers
from James Madison, which was a championship level player. So yes,

(07:48):
I think Indiana is a team that could win the
national championship.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
In college football, we've seen a lot of coaches get
fired with large buyouts, most notably James Franklin, who's being
paid nearly fifty million dollars to not work. Some view
that as this is a sign that the sport is
really really healthy, and some view this as this is
a sign that the sport is in trouble. And it's
not so much the money going to the players. What's
your take, MO.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
All I know is I don't want to hear any
athletic directors or school presidents complaining about finances, right Like,
you've got to stop saying, oh, we're we're at a
point of crisis. Well, if there is a crisis, it's
on you, guys, like you're the ones that are handing
out these contracts with these ridiculous guarantees and ridiculous buyouts.
And I don't think it changes. I think it's the

(08:34):
sport is in a great spot. I mean it really is.

Speaker 4 (08:37):
The ratings are up, the players are making money, The.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
Expanded playoff has brought a lot of hope to a
lot of programs. So I think the sport is in
a great spot. I mean, the coaches just have more
pressure on them than ever before, in large part because
of these salaries, because of the money that they're making.
So I think until athletic directors start getting smarter and
don't get raked over the coals by these agents with
all the leverage that they have, you're just gonna see

(09:01):
these continue to escalate, and you're gonna see coaches make
a lot.

Speaker 4 (09:04):
Of money either to coach or to not coach. It's
just a matter of what where they're.

Speaker 3 (09:08):
Gonna be or on television, you know, talking about the sport.
But either way, they're gonna make a lot a lot
of money.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
All right, one more really quick.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
I ask you this every time look at that online.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
I don't want to favorite. Give me a dark horse.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
Give me a long shot with value, whether it's the
National championship or whether it's the Heisman Trophy. Give me
one of those where I could get some value for
my wager spend.

Speaker 3 (09:32):
On how long you want to go, I would say
the Miami Hurricanes, and I it was ugly right. They
lost on the national stage, was Friday night kind of
standalone game. I still thought they were National championship worthy before.
And it's just you got to really put a lot
of trust in Carson Beck that he's not going to
have that type of game because he had four interceptions.

(09:54):
The three of them were horrendous decisions, a couple of
them were great plays. But I still think that team
as an offensive and defensive line that are very special.
I think Oregon I would put in that same category.
But Oregon's only nine to one. If you want to
go a little bit longer. Fourteen to one, Like I
would not waste your money on Texas think Arch Manning
still has significant growth.

Speaker 4 (10:13):
To go Texas Tech.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
I worry a little bit about their competition Ole missus defense.
I don't trust them, so I would say Miami at
fourteen to one. And this is from a seminal, So
you got to consider this like this is me giving
a lot of love to a program that I don't like.

Speaker 4 (10:27):
I'll say Miami's not bad value here at fourteen to one.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
Learn more bet online, dot ag get updated college Football Playoff,
Heisman and college Football Week nine lines. Standy canell kind
enough to join us. Always awesome to have you. I
hope we can do it before the season ends. Appreciate it, man,
thanks so much.

Speaker 4 (10:45):
Oh we will.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
We might be talking about Cincinnati and College Football playoff.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
Pe Yes, we will, and I might need a half
hour with you if that happens, Danny, thank you definitely.

Speaker 4 (10:55):
All right. Well let's see you.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
Got a plus twenty five hundred by.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
The way for Thecats to win the national title. First
things first, beat Baylor on Saturday. Cincinnati, for what it's worth,
a five and a half point favorite against the Bears
a quarter after five on ESPN fifteen thirty Bengals and
Jets on Sunday. By the way, remember that game is
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I remember the last home game. The last Sunday home
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me and Tony. So the last one o'clock home game
was the Jags game, right, I think I have that correct?

Speaker 4 (11:42):
Yeah, I do.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
Think of everything that has happened since Ken Brew, Tony
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it'd be great to be together here at the Holy
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(12:06):
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