Best Of 2 Pros & A Cup Of Joe

On this episode of 2 Pros & A Cup Of Joe, Brian Noe and Geoff Schwartz fill in for the guys as they react to the Ohio State Buckeyes losing to the Miami Hurricanes in the College Football Playoffs. Plus, the guys also debate the College Football Playoff format, preview the Ducks vs Red Raiders, and more!!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Welcome in the ball buffet, in full working order here
in twenty twenty six. Happy New Year, Hope twenty twenty
six is off to a fantastic start. And I'll tell
you what we have ball on the brain, mister Jeff Schwartz.
I'll tell you this first though, before we get to
Miami's manly wins. Is a physical win.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
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(00:53):
New Year to you. Former offensive lineman for the Ducks
in the NFL for eight years. Had to maybe he
didn't have a dog in the fight last night, but
the offensive lineman in you had to love what you
saw from Miami Hurricanes.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Especially late in that game.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Some big runs and they score a touchdown to go
up ten and put the game away. The old linement
in you you can't turn your nose on that. I
don't care if you had heavy money on Ohio state
that He's just like, I can't help but love Miami
in this spot right here, right. You had to love
that last night.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
It was great. I made a only couple of wagers.
I made a correct score wager zero to zero and
in the first quarter, So that was nice. And then
I took Carson back to that interception, which did happened.
He play a really good football game the other way,
j Sandfield of interceptions. I can just imagine if they
penned Mario crystal Ball, Miami's head coach, at some point
in that final drive, he might have had ten pants, right.

(01:45):
I mean, that's how excited he was to win that game.
Riding the football. I mean, that's what Mario Cristaball does, right,
And in Mario this year, it has done a great
job sort of finally finally blending what he loves with
a little bit of more modern football. Right where you
saw that big third and four, We're gonna run a
screen pass right wide, receive a fun screen right like

(02:07):
those and if you notice on that play, you know,
they'll HOIU State defense element all fall flat on their
face because like they are so geared up to stop
the run, and those little things this year have been
into the difference. But this this game reinforced so many
things that I feel about college football. And look, I
know it's one game. It doesn't really it may or

(02:29):
may not matter today or next year. But it changed
the way I feel about a lot. Reinforced some feelings
I've had about college football the last couple of years,
and one of them that I think is really important
is that for playoff caliber teams, Brian, it feels a
lot more like we have to view their season the

(02:51):
way we view NFL teams, where it's not about how
you play in September and October, and that matters, right,
because you can only get in the playoffs if you
play well, but that the goals is to peak at
the end of the season. Right. Think about Miami season.
Think about where they're at now. They had played good
football for five weeks until they got in the playoffs, right,

(03:13):
and then just they survived if anything, as A and
M and they had their feet under them last night
and they came out roaring last night, right, I mean
they came out like full like just they were so
much more physical and they played so much faster and
they were ready to go in that game from the
first snap, and the Ohio State was not. So I
think that for playoff caliber teams, whether it's Ohio State

(03:36):
or Miami or Indiana now or Bama or Georgia or
even Texas to some extent, Notre Dame like, yes, you
have to win and lose that. You know, you have
to win enough to get in the postseason. But in
the NFL, we don't view losses in September October like
we don't care at all, Like we're not we don't
preview back in September they lost as we never say

(03:58):
that about any any player might be the reason that
cost them a playoff spot because they lose too many
games or cost them a like for the Rams, for example,
they don't have the one seed because they lost the Panthers.
You know, like we would talk about and that we're
We're never like, well that team lost several weeks ago
that if therefore that No, we never view it that way, right, Brian.
We always view it by how the team is playing.

(04:20):
And this is act the moment and college football don't.
We've never done that. I think we have to change
that now. I think it's time to start looking at
at teams that are playoff caliber, not everyone's playoff caliber. Right,
So we can't just be for everyone, but we look
at it through the lens of what are they doing
now and handicapped games based off of that rather than
the entire team. Because Ohio State had a great season

(04:41):
right the test of season, but one thing that a
lot of people talked about was, hey, guys, like they
might not play many good teams this year. Right, And
and that's my second point is that they we're getting
a point two where like the schedule, because these big
conferences have so many teams, you might have a year
you just don't play anyone. Texas, A and m had

(05:01):
this problem or they didn't play anybody, right, and they
played Miami finally got smoked. Ohio State played essentially two
and a half worthy teams. They'd beat Texas by seven.
I think Texas might beat them. It'd be different now,
of course, right, they played Michigan, who can't throw the
ball with a truefessional quarterback, and they played Indiana and

(05:22):
Miami for whatever you want they played there to day
like that's some tough I see games. It's just how
dose they just didn't really get tested all season and
you see the result of that last night. So schedule,
but more importantly, how do you feel about my viewing
in the lens of an NFL schedule?

Speaker 2 (05:41):
Well, yeah, it makes sense. The first thing it makes
me think of is when Tom Brady won that first
Super Bowl with Tampa. Right, they weren't playing great football
all season long, but they won their final four regular
season games and they rode right into the playoffs and
won four playoff games. And it's like, it would be
silly to view whatever the record was, like nine and

(06:01):
eight or something. I'd have to go back and look
what their exact record was, but it wasn't anything sparkling.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
They might have had a.

Speaker 3 (06:06):
Tie, well there were wildcard team, remember.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
Their wildcard team, And it was just like, you know,
if you would have looked at their one loss record,
you'd be like, this team is not impressive at all.
But if you looked at them peaking at the right time,
you probably viewed them differently. And maybe there's some truth
to that. With Miami, where it was funny during the
game last night. They were like, hey, at one time
in this season, they were the number two team in

(06:30):
the country, and there were a lot of people saying, hey,
Miami might be the best team in college football here right,
like they've got NFL talent, real dudes in the trenches.
And then they lost two of three and we're like, yeah,
forget that, and we never recalibrated, We never revisited that, like, hey,
maybe they are what we thought they were in a
good way earlier in the season. It's just, you know,
Carson Beck bad. Carson Beck showed up and threw four

(06:53):
picks against Louisville, and we're just like, out of side,
out of mind. We didn't think of Miami like that again.
But to your point, they're playing their best football when
it matters most. And at least last night they were
that team that we thought, hey, maybe they are the
best team in college football.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
I tweeted out when they started the season well and
I thought they were the best team in the country.
And then after they lost to SMU all takes exposed
just like crushed me for that take, right, I thought,
go back and ask them how that takes going.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
It's not over yet, right, Like That's the thing is
like we're still playing football here.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
We still have a twelve team playoff.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
If they sneak into this thing, they've got real talent
and can make some noise. Now, I think this is, uh,
you know, a boys to men's situation, like the you know,
the end of the road, you know that whole. I
think we've come to the end of the road. I
think the Dogs win today, and I think the Dogs
win next time they play. So I don't think Miami
wins another game. But that was an outstanding performance last night.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
And I'll tell you what.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
The bigger picture for me, Jeff is, you watch some
of these teams just take on the personality of their
head coach. We see this with Georgia, right Like Georgia's
personality is Kirby Smart's personality.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
Georgia is a.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
Team that just at sixty minutes, man, they are going
to battle you. They might look to like the Tennessee
game on the road. It looked bad for them. They're
trailing and they're just coming after you, and they're just
all right, next play, next play. Okay, we know we're trailing,
but let's see if we can make something happen. The
next play, Oh, we hit a guy, you know, hitting
getting a Willie Mays catch in the corner of the

(08:32):
end zone. Like all that helps, All right, let's try
to get a stop. We get to stop. They end
up winning that game. That's they just battle you. That's
a gritty team. And Kirby Smart is that guy you
go back to. I was just thinking this morning, remember
that great Rose Bowl performance against.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
Oklahoma and Georgia. Way was it came for the ed Ages.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (08:53):
Yeah, it was something that that was when they had
Nick Chubb and Sony Michelle at running back and that
one two combo and when Georgia won that game, Kirby
Smart is running on the field and he's like boom
and effort, like he's I'm like, he's Georgia. Georgia is him,
Like that's their personality is his personality And you saw

(09:16):
that last night with Miami. Like we can talk all
we want about Mario Christball and he's had some head
scratching moves over the years, going back to his days
at Oregon, how he misused some of his quarterbacks, like
Justin Herbert who's now an NFL stud. He was so
careful with Justin Herbert and then when they had the
game won against Georgia Tech, they just needed to kneel

(09:37):
on the football and he's like, let's.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
Keep running it, and they fumbled and lost the game.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
Like he's had some ridiculous like head coaching decisions before,
but last night, that was about physicality, that was about violence.
He was preaching that and that is what they did.
I want to share just a little snippet. This was
after the first quarter on ESPN So good that.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
I could just picture you watching this.

Speaker 3 (10:02):
And you're like, oh, yes, that is why I want
to hear from Mario well and I and he despises
his interviews, and this was an incredible Mario interaction.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
So good. Check this out on ESPN.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
ABC. Coach, how would you describe the impact of a
key Messador and Ruben Bain Every single game they show
up full throttle all the time to affect the line
of scripts, the affect the quarterback. We gotta do a
better job. We're starting to do some good things up
front the trench, and we just gotta be more physical
and more violent.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
That's what I'm talking about.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
At the end there, you can we need more physicality,
more violence, and that's what they did. Man, that was
their whole whole approach. That's his whole approach. That's what
he is to a t and that's what they.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
Were last night.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
They took the personality of Mario Christopaul and that's exactly
what they had to do to win that game.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
Well, in the interview too, I think they asked him
something like yeah, like the second question they asked him,
and he just like looked he dead pained the guy
like yes, and it was like that. I was like
that the end of it. Look obviously very very happy
for Mario in this Miami program, right, Like they this
is why he was hired, right, former player had won

(11:12):
a championship there. He was hired for his physcality and
for his program building. It takes time, right, It's this
fourth year that's about when you should start seeing some
of these results. You know. They if you can rush
the passer, you're in every game. Man. An interception they
had was just a brilliant, like film study interception, right,
and that changed the entire game because Ohio State was

(11:34):
sort of not they were playing okay, they were driving
down the field and then you throw a really bad
interception and just deflated the entire team. Right now, people
are going to talk about this and we should bring
it up. The teams off of buy in the playoff
now are zero to five. Yeah, now it's fair. We
got we got to go back to last year. What

(11:55):
the scenario was exactly the right, This is what I
mentioned on social media last year. Three of the teams,
so two of the teams were big underdogs. Those don't count, Okay, that.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
Was Boise State and Arizona State. Right that It was
the dumb set. It was the It was the NFL
playoff format. Basically, like they said, if you win your
conference in college football, you get a bye.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
Yeah, and so like you had.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
The number nine team was the three seed, the number
twelve team was the four seed. Okay, like that matters, Okay,
and we'll get to the NFL because that's exactly what
the NFL still has but college football. After one year,
they were like, this is dumb. We're changing it, right,
but that directly impacts how those teams with the first
round by fared in the second round last season for.

Speaker 3 (12:40):
Sure, Right, but now we have another team off of
Boye who didn't play well in Ohio States, and not
only didn't play well like didn't look at themselves for
entire half. I mean, like like the hitting, like the
physicality that Ohio State do. Their defense is so physical
and there was some big hits early on, but the
trench play Matt they got. They have not been pushed

(13:02):
around that the entire sea and they play good office
squads not pushed around that all season. And offensively just
no rhythm whatsoever. It took them a half to gain,
which is really what it does, right if you're off
for a month, it takes about a half to get
into rhythm. And I thought that made played a big difference.
It is rich so because Oregon fans last year obviously
played Ohio State in the Rose Bowl off a month rest,
and we said like, hey, you know, I mean, you know,

(13:23):
Oregon probably would have lost, but it makes I think
we kind of made a difference. Oregon didn't playing it
for a month at Ohio State fans just like mocked
us endlessly. Now or like the bye, the bye, and
I do and I do wonder like today when you
start talking about the Oregon Tech Texas Tech game, this
game that's a close game right by spread. Organ coaches

(13:43):
this week have talked a lot about this year's schedule
being so much better than last year for them, where
they got to have a home playoff game against James Madison,
they got to a tune up game essentially call what
is a tune up game? Right? And how how much
better they're prepared for this game today because of the

(14:05):
schedule and the difference in it this year where they
got to play a game, they got to practice a
little differently, got prepared a little bit differently. And how
how that is made this they think their preparation for
tech Tech that much better. And if tech Tech comes
out slow today, I do wonder if people start talking
about like, yeah, the adviser done well.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
I mean, it's one of those things until it changes.
This is what we know, you know, as far as
where we are right now, these teams that had a
first round by they are zero to five in the
second round. And there was a little bit to that
last night, right like right away, you know, Miami is
taking it to Ohio State. Ohio State is not crisp.

(14:46):
They're not executing well. They got shut out in the
first half. Right, Like, if if Ohio State plays the
first round, if they have a first round game, maybe
they look a lot better last night. Like they did
look little bit sluggish. They did look a little bit
uh just not crisp. They just were not on point.
And this was the part, the part that you were

(15:07):
talking about, Jeff, you like this better. At the end
of the first quarter with Chrystal ball.

Speaker 4 (15:11):
What what why are you equipped to win the rock fight?

Speaker 2 (15:16):
I was just like, all right, coach cool, thanks back
up to you guys.

Speaker 3 (15:22):
It was like the wrong question asked Mario. It was
very It was very It was more its face, I
guess face what is what? What are you asking me?
Why are we why are you asking me this question? Yeah,
those those interviews continue to be very worth our time.
But uh, look it was such a good win for
the program for Mario last night. You know, I didy

(15:42):
win a championship last season. But Ohio State fans are
taking this. They're taking it hard rough. I mean, look,
they were the favorite to win the championship again this season.
You have a year when you have all these offensive
all these offensive weapons, right and Tates and you have
and you have Smith and Saying, and you figure that
those will carry you did last year to a championship.
Your defense, you're the defense this year. Might be more

(16:06):
talent than the defense they had last season. It's like,
it's a dude, I watched the Indiana offense or so,
how's the defensive buddy the house? The defensive linemen were
terrorizing Indiana's offense live. It's good offensive line that did
not look at the same Ohio State defensive line last night.
Part of it was not even Notre Dame. Notre dame.
I mean, Miami had the ability to run right at them,

(16:29):
which a lot of teams don't. And I think that's
just a physicality check. And how's they just a lot
of teams just can't run the ball right at them.
They weren't used to that feeling of double teams and
running the ball vertically right at the right in their face.
And they just never really, it never got better throughout
the game. They just never were comfortable as a defensive
line the entire game.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
Man, you would have thought you wouldn't have even recognized
me yesterday. You know, I am like screaming, I'm going nuts,
like rootings for Miami. It really wasn't rooting for Miami
as much as it was rooting for myself, to be right.
I don't know about you Jeff, But I root for
me to be right.

Speaker 1 (17:08):
That's what that's what.

Speaker 2 (17:11):
I was so right about Ohio State being overrated, Like
you give Miami full credit for that win. Okay, they
played a great game last night. They're so physical. We
know what they did against Ohio State. But the way
Ohio State has been talked about this season was never correct.
Like Ohio State was talked about in such glowing terms like.

Speaker 1 (17:34):
Oh my gosh, Ohio State. Their defense, how do you
even think about scoring on them? They're just all unbelievable,
and it's.

Speaker 2 (17:41):
Like they haven't played anybody. They beat Texas by seven
at home. They barely beat Texas, a team that gets
clowned seemingly by everybody all season long, and then we
turn around and it's like, well, Ohio State beat them.
It's like they beat Texas by seven at home, all right,
that's one of arch Manning's like only handful of starts
in college football at the time.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
And then they got beaten by Indiana in the Big
Ten championship game. That's it. That's the resume.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
The rest of it is Wisconsin and this team in
this run of the mill Big that's it. Like they
have great, great talent, but they were never that juggernaut
team that many made them out to be. And that's
not to say I think they suck. You know, people
struggle with overrated. All overrated means is their reputation is
greater than the reality, and that's exactly what they were

(18:32):
all season long.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
Their reputation was oh, Ohio State, Oh my gosh, this
dam And it's like the reality wasn't that.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
They were not that same squad this season, And I
think a lot of it was tied to last season
where they wanted all they got hot at the right time,
and even if you look at that, I'm not taking
anything away from last season, but as it applies to
this season, right yet, you were all world against Tennessee,
a flawed team in the first round. You blew the

(19:01):
doors off the Ducks, which was very impressive. But then
you survive against Quinn Viewers and Texas. That's a close game.
You survived. He held on for dear life against Notre Dame,
like it was that enough for you to get the
benefit of the doubt all across the board this season, No,
it wasn't. So I thought they were ripe for the
picking and it was sweet to see that come to

(19:22):
fruition last night. That was a that was a beautiful
display for yours truly. I'll tell you what.

Speaker 3 (19:26):
Jeff I had said this week. I thought the game
would be UH close, Butjase would win. On my podcast,
I mean to do it with Chris Filika the Bear,
and he's a Miami grad and he's been pretty right
about Miami this year, and he came on like boastfully,
it was like, Miami's gonna win this game, and people

(19:48):
people crushed him on social media, and of course they
never came back to say you were right.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
That's weird how that works.

Speaker 3 (19:54):
Yeah, right, like you make you make a prediction and
ends up being right. Look, Miami, I think I don't think.
I know, you know, physicality wins football games. And me
Carson back through for like one hundred and thirty yards,
like it was.

Speaker 1 (20:06):
It just ran it man fifty that's all you need.

Speaker 3 (20:09):
You're good. That turnover makes such a big difference, right
it was in Ohio State failed in the red zone
a couple of times, which was their problem against against
uh in the enda too was poor red zone. You know,
they failed in the red zone, and they failed in
the red zone again sight, they had a miss field
goal that the interception like those are things you can't
do in playoff games and you're looking looking forward today

(20:29):
like Texas Tech is one of the worst teams in
the red zone in the country. They can't. They can't
score touchdowns. That that matters, and you have to be
able to score touchdowns when you get them. You if
you'll go every now and then, it's fine, But you
can't have a seven point swing like that. You can't
throw an interception that least is Miami seven points when
you're in your own red.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
Zone, right, no doubt about that.

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Speaker 1 (24:32):
There you go. It's all about the you, right.

Speaker 3 (24:35):
He says, like that that was saw wasn't it scored?
The touchdout.

Speaker 1 (24:39):
It's just like Miami ricade, you know, like that's it.
You're just fired up right there, you know.

Speaker 3 (24:45):
I think that that flight home yesterday must have been
just the best. I'm a text. I know their offensive
line coach very well. I'm gonna I wonder if he's
awake right now. I bet he's awakeste I bet they're
all ways.

Speaker 2 (24:55):
They might not have gone to sleep. Man, that was
compliments of Hurricanes Radio Network. But man, you think about
that pick six and really what it meant for the
second half, Like, imagine, scenario is flipped, it's turned around.
If you know, imagine if Ohio State not only avoids
the pick six but puts points on the board on
that drive.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
You know, we're talking to like a seven to three
game at worst. You know.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
So that was a massive play, as it turns out,
in the second half and in that game, and you.

Speaker 1 (25:23):
Never know what happens.

Speaker 2 (25:24):
If I thought watching that play live, because I can't
remember who was putting heat on the quarterback. It might
have been Bain Junior, I'm not sure, but one of
the the DNS kind of jumped it and it looked
like it was going to be a negative play and
it would have been their second negative play forced in
a row. And then the dB just jumped it, and

(25:46):
I'm like, oh, that's a bad idea for saying to
throw that ball.

Speaker 3 (25:49):
And sure enough, well it was a design. It was
like a wide receiver screen like it was designed to
throw the ball. So that's why the ball got thrown
because that that was like, that was the play. It
was like an r P O screen type of thing.
And so that to me is like a film study interception, right,
like seeing that on film and he was ready to go.
So look that game again, I mean, you know it

(26:12):
is it boiled down to the physicality, right, and one
team just beat up the other team in the trenches.
And that's Look, there are many reasons to win football games.
One of them is just beating up your opponents. And
that's like there's and I look, I loved it last night,
you know, I think also to you know, I know, Brian,
you want your Irish in the in the in the

(26:33):
in the postseason. But I have a feeling the playoff
committee was like see see see we got it right now.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
Now they're not going to feel as good when Bama
gets crushed today, but you know that was that was
a w for them last night.

Speaker 1 (26:44):
For sure.

Speaker 3 (26:45):
The thing that's very simple, if you have a playoff,
you have to include all the teams that can win
and the already was a team that could have won
the championship this season.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
Absolutely, you can't include.

Speaker 3 (26:58):
You cannot have two G five teams in and take
the spot from Notre Dame. You know. The argument is
is always, well, the tournament has thirty one at large
as thirty one eight teams, right, thirty one on a
mat qualifiers, that's ay from.

Speaker 1 (27:12):
A college football has got twelve spots, that's it, right.

Speaker 3 (27:15):
But the difference, Brian, is that in tournam everyone could
win a championship is in the tournament already, Like there's
no they're all in, that's right. So yeah, so the
spot you're taking is from an eleven seed ranked thirteenth
ACC member. You're like, they don't write, they don't be
in the tournament. Notre Dame was a team that could
win a championship and they were out of the tournament.

(27:38):
And so that's everyone's complaints, right.

Speaker 1 (27:40):
So that's the question. It leads to, do you eliminate
all G five's?

Speaker 2 (27:44):
Is that what you would like to see is that
the short syndicate official model going forward?

Speaker 3 (27:50):
I don't know, because I think you could have this
year if you would have had eleven eleven teams in,
which would have been including Notre Dame and two Lane.
There's no argument to be made from anybody like like that.
Vanner Bill can argue, sure, and and and know Texas
we want to be in, but like you really don't
have a great argument.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
And so I don't lose to Florida. You've got three
losses like hit the road.

Speaker 3 (28:11):
Man, right, yeah, And so that would have been I
think the best solution or the best answer just would
have been, okay, keep it at keep it as it is,
but that you just have one G five team. And
to be fair, looked, last year, Boise State was a
top fifteen team the entire season. Remember they went to
Oregon and lost by three and organ two special team
touchdowns to to win that game. Jam you and two

(28:34):
Lane were not top five teams all season, I mean
tough fifteens all season. Like so to me, like that's
just a big difference, right. And so when you have
a situation where you leave out a noted aim team
that could win a champion and they were the fourth
best odds the legitimate good team. Are they gonna win?
I don't know, but they weren't even in the dance.
They weren't even in the dance, and so I'm sure
the committee was happy that the Miami won last night

(28:55):
because they can prove the CE see we got it right.
But in the end they they didn't they get it right.
Iris should have been in over JMU. That would have
been the answer, and it didn't happen. Hopefully it correct
itself heading in the next season.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
You know, it's funny because just for a second, with
Notre Dame being promised a playoff spot if they're in
the top twelve, if they're just ranked in the top twelve,
they're promised a playoff spot, and I think it's garbage.
As me from I'm from South Bend, I lead Notre
Dame football.

Speaker 1 (29:29):
It's such garbage.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
Any automatic spots, they earn your spot, whether it's the
Big Ten, you shouldn't be promised four spots or the
SEC promised four spots.

Speaker 1 (29:38):
No matter what.

Speaker 2 (29:39):
Maybe there's a year where you don't have a fourth
team that deserves it, you shouldn't be promised anything. Same
thing goes for Notre Dame. If you're in the top
twelve this season, that shouldn't be promised. But the point
I'm trying to make is we only look at that
from one angle where it's like, hey, why would you
schedule Notre Dame going forward? If you're USC? For instance? Right, Okay,

(30:00):
Notre Dame at the end of the season. USC is
ranked number eleven, Notre Dame is ranked number twelve. Notre
Dame's automatically in. That could mean you're out, right, so
why would your schedule them? That's a good argument, but
that's the only way it gets looked at. The other
way is what you're talking about for this year, it
would mean no JMU, right, I mean Notre Dame is
in there, and well, I guess they still technically would

(30:24):
have gotten in, just based on the way the setup is,
it would have meant no Miami.

Speaker 1 (30:29):
How crazy is that?

Speaker 2 (30:30):
Based on what we saw last night, no Miami would
have been there, and that's the head to head win
and they're phased out. If you have Bama in, then
Miami is out. If Notre Dame is automatically in, that's
crazy too.

Speaker 3 (30:42):
So the automatic qualifier discussion with the big tem proposal
White they have four aqs for sec A Big ten, right,
that's their proposal for like the twenty fourteen playoff ORMs
whatever it is. And their argument, Brian, is that if
you have auto that qualifiers, that means that your conference

(31:04):
is essentially deciding who goes your conference play is not
the committee, right, So if you do if you do
it that way, like you say, the four Big ten teams,
the four six teams, it takes the decision out of
the committee's hands. It just and looks at conference record
and conference results. So I understand from that perspective of
we just want the conference results to matter more than
what the committee thinks for every team. So I get that.

(31:26):
But your point about in a given year there might
be six Big ten teams or some of these teams
that that that deserve to go. Look, in the end,
though I've said the same thing all the time, the
playoff is about finding a champion. We don't need teams
twelve through sixteen even in this is they're not winning
a championship. And if you expand it, fine, you're expanding

(31:48):
it because you just want the revenue from more playoff games.
You're not expanding it to actually look fuck, okay, look
bowl game results don't matter. I think we love talking.

Speaker 4 (31:57):
Oh, the Big Ten is in the SEC states, so
many yeah.

Speaker 3 (32:03):
It doesn't mean anything. But like watching Vandy who had
most of most of their whole team yestery, their tight
end was out, Like they're not a playoff team. No,
like they're a playoff team. Texas is not a playoff team,
even they're playing better. I'm like, I'm not disagree with that.
It's just not a playoff team. And so the expanding
is only is only to either be nice however gets

(32:26):
in it's a participation tournament or for revenue, right, or
maybe people don't think the balls matter. I'll tell you what, man,
as the Bulls have gotten better. Right at this time
of the year, we have better teams playing bowl games.
Guess what the competition has been better. Brian Like, yes,
Southern miss And and law Tech. I'm sorry those two
schools are bringing you guys up, Like, yeah, that ball
game is not gonna be good. It's two seven to

(32:46):
five teams, but.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
Like they're going after each other's next, you know, like
they are, but it's not good football.

Speaker 3 (32:53):
I tweet this out the other day at Jeff Schwartz.
When you I don't watch a ton of Sun Belt
football or America in football. I watched, I used to
watch you know, Memphis and North Texas like some of
the better teams. There's a reason why the team is
seven and five. If you watch their seven and five
bowl game, you know, like like you can you see
why they're seven and five, Like, oh, that makes sense.
But the better, the better teams are starting to play

(33:16):
in bowl games and it's a good football game because
they're good football teams like Georgia Tech, and and and
and BAU was a great bowl game TCU USC. They're
so value I'm used so value in bowl games. Yeah,
if you can get through sort of the beginning of
the bowl season and they're going away now that being
wrapped into a bigger playoff. But I'm not one of
the people the things we need to explain the playoffs.

(33:37):
Twelve is good. If we just put noted a man
like you should have, then you would have had the
eleven best teams in the country playing, and that would
have solved all the all the problems with should we
expand should we not expand? Now the buye is you
we'll see how the team's playing off off of buy
I wonder if that gets eradicated to where we go
to sixteen teams and no buys right, But it does
feel like they're gonna have to be that big of

(33:58):
adjustment if you just let note name in the post
using in the first place.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
Well, that's the thing is if it's if it's up
to me, if college football, if the committee they're like, hey, Brian,
you get any ideas for what the format should look like,
I've got, I'd be like, yeah, I do. I have
a couple ideas that you should implement this immediately.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
I would keep it at twelve teams. I think it's
the right number.

Speaker 2 (34:19):
Now they're gonna do what you just said right there, Jeff,
They're going to move it to sixteen teams.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
It's going to happen.

Speaker 2 (34:24):
It means more money, more revenue, more this more that
they're not going to turn their nose on more. That's
just what they do. I would keep it at twelve.
I think it's the right number. You have a quality field.
The regular season means a lot, you know, there's a
lot writing on these games. You're not you know, opening
it up a little bit more and watering it down
just a little bit more. I think twelve is the

(34:44):
right number. Now, what I also would do, I would
never have automatic spots. You're not guaranteed anything Big ten.
You're not guaranteed anything. SEC You're not guaranteed anything.

Speaker 1 (34:53):
Notre Dame.

Speaker 2 (34:54):
You earn it right, Like no automatic spots. And the
last thing I would do. It's something that your coach
Dan Landing was talking about it Oregon. I give him
a lot of credit. I've been talking about this for
a long time. All home games except the championship game.
Just like the NFL, everybody plays a home game until
we get to the super Bowl. College football should do
the same thing. Everything should be a home game until

(35:17):
we get to the championship game. I'd have it at
the Rose Bowl every single year. Oh what about the
Orange Bowl? Screw the Orange Bowl? What about the Fiesta?
I don't care about the Fiesta. To get it out
of here. It's not good for college football, are you
telling me? Like, as great as the atmosphere was last night,
it's way better if that's in the shoe and Miami
goes in there and takes them down in their own crip.

Speaker 1 (35:38):
That is way better for college football.

Speaker 3 (35:41):
The whole thing feels like kind of sterile, right, Like,
it doesn't feel like it's it feels again, it feels
more NFL, right where you have these neutrals. It feels
like Super Bowls, right, like neutral site game. Yeah, it
doesn't kind of have the feel I think of to
your point of of like a home like you should
if you're the two seed, you should have a home
playoff game like you has the NFL. You be like, uh, Patriots,

(36:02):
sorry you went for you the two to give.

Speaker 1 (36:04):
Thee You're in the f tempe Real, what come on?

Speaker 3 (36:11):
Dan Lanning also suggested yesterday that college football should play
on only Saturdays and the season should basically the playoffs
would just be in the month of December, which is
guess what the NFL does their playoffs in five weeks
The culgeable does not.

Speaker 1 (36:26):
That's including a bye week, right, yeah, sure, and.

Speaker 3 (36:29):
They collag football plays their their last regus the week
at Fasgiving and then they have championship weekend and then
they don't play for twenty five days twenty six days
for the teams off a bye to wonder if that's
something that that's considered sort of or look, you start
the season earlier, earlier, should and you give yourself a
little bit of breathing room because you know again like and.

Speaker 1 (36:51):
That helps the transfer window.

Speaker 2 (36:53):
We got the portal opening tomorrow until the sixteenth.

Speaker 1 (36:57):
Yeah tomorrow, Yes, yeah, you've got You've got.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
Free agency during your playoff run. It's so dumb, like
they would never have NFL free agency during the NFL point.

Speaker 3 (37:07):
Does not have a starter, But we have like a
significant backup on our defense for one of our safety
in the border today not playing like that's actually like
out of all the losses, Like that's a pretty big
deal for us. We don't have most people have a
backup safety, like we're gonna play a true freshman. I
think today playing us first STAPs of the season is
our backup safety. Not great?

Speaker 2 (37:27):
Yeah, uh all right, coming up next, Now, we did
have miked up footage a few years ago. Remember Sam
Darnold with the Jets where he's like I'm seeing ghosts.
That was a big deal. There was something that a
college football player said yesterday. It's not the same message,
but the impact is I think pretty significant. We'll share
that with you. Coming up, he's Jeff Schwartz, I'm Brian No.

(37:49):
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Speaker 2 (38:05):
Oh, good morning, Welcome in, Happy Thursday, Happy New Year,
twenty twenty six. Let's get after it. I'll tell you
what Jeff. Twenty twenty five ended in maybe the best
way possible for myself. Not only was I right about
Ohio State being ripe for the picking and losing out right,
I'll tell you what I Finally, Jeff, I don't know

(38:27):
how I can accurately describe this, and we'll get to
your ducks here momentarily take it on Texas Tech. But
I can't describe to you how it has hurt my
soul year in and year out to lose the annual
Mario Kart showdown to my nephew Mini Matt. Every single

(38:48):
year he beats me. Maybe he'll win. Seventeen to fifteen,
we do thirty two races.

Speaker 3 (38:53):
Old school.

Speaker 2 (38:54):
Let's get out and we document it. We film it,
we do a whole thing. Man, We take a picture,
we put all the bells and whistles, the graphic on it,
and there it goes.

Speaker 1 (39:02):
That's another year in the books.

Speaker 2 (39:05):
I have won this thing once, right, it goes all
the way back to like nine. We've done it every year.
I've won it once. It was a decade ago in
twenty fifteen. And you know what happened yesterday, Jeff, I
want to get finally, victory is mine. I tasted the
sweet nectar of wins here and I got.

Speaker 1 (39:23):
It done and it was sweet.

Speaker 3 (39:25):
Man.

Speaker 2 (39:25):
I just want to tell you where were yet? Oh
it was at least I would say at least plus two.
I would say plus two fifteen.

Speaker 3 (39:38):
So we're like in Miami territory here, yeah.

Speaker 2 (39:41):
Right around there, yep, yeah, yeah, that's where I was.
And I I just I showed the physicality just like
you know the O line, the D line, like you
know Baine Junior at messidor that was me. I showed
real physicality during the Mario Kart showdown yesterday and I
got it done. Man, it was fantastic. You would have
saluted me, like driving No. I think he would have

(40:01):
said that great driving No is what you would have said.

Speaker 3 (40:04):
I probably would have said that you know me very well,
that's right. My Uh. We got my son a PS
five for Hanukkah, and my wife went with him to
like Gameshop to buy games, and there was a Mortal Kombat,
like old school Mortal Kombat, and she convinced my son

(40:26):
to get it. And he's like what's in Mortal Kombat? Mom?
Like why would I get this? And he's had the
most fun playing it?

Speaker 1 (40:32):
Oh nice, Okay.

Speaker 3 (40:33):
We've been playing with him. So I beat him the
first time we played, and I was like, bro, what
are you doing? Like you're He's like, Dad, I'm like
trying to like press this button. I'm like, dude, just
start spamming buttons, bro, like, just start just start mashing
the keypad, like just starting yeah, And he's like really,
I'm like, yes, just start hitting buttons. Who cares what

(40:54):
moves they do, Just start start mashing stuff. He's like really, Dad,
I'm like yes. And then he startedsh up and beat
me immediately, like just like I'm like, when are you
like stop being so perfan. He's like, Dad, I'm trying
to block and I'm setting out my move of no,
don't do any of that. Just start pressing buttons. And
finally he started pressing buttons because his mom smoked him.

(41:16):
Like Meredith came out just like beat them multiple times,
just fifteen times in a row, like buddy, great, Like, Buddy,
you have to start just hitting buttons. Stop because my
son's very analytical and very yeah yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (41:28):
I was trying to go with this this complex combo
and I'm a little slow with it, so it's not
doing it, and you're like, bro, just just mash him, man.

Speaker 3 (41:38):
Just start hitting buttons. So he started hitting buttons and
he's been so much better. So the joy of playing
some of these old school video games is a lot
of fun. I play them a couple of times, and
we obviously we don't have Mario Kart. They'll probably have
it for PS five.

Speaker 1 (41:51):
Right, I don't know. They might.

Speaker 3 (41:53):
They might have to switch. I mean, he's not a
switch and we can get it for his switch. I
would imagine.

Speaker 1 (41:56):
Yeah, it should be there too.

Speaker 2 (41:58):
I love the old school version, man, and the old
school Well that's what we've done everyday sixty four.

Speaker 1 (42:04):
Uh No, it's just a Wii. It's just like the whee.

Speaker 3 (42:08):
Okay, yeah, yeah, we used to have a wee. I
don't know if we still do.

Speaker 2 (42:11):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (42:12):
If not, I mean, it's gotta be. My house is
eight years old, it's got nine years it's gotta be
nine years old. If we have a week and then
we got We would have got it when we built
the house. I mean we might still have it in
the playroom. That'd be pretty funny. Fucking find it for us.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
You should dust it off, man, get after it.

Speaker 3 (42:26):
It's making me want one again.

Speaker 1 (42:29):
We yes, I used to play we bowling. It was fun.
We bowling was good.

Speaker 3 (42:33):
Yeah, and always throw the controller at the TV because
I used to put the thing on my wrist.

Speaker 1 (42:39):
Yeah. You gotta strap in, man, because you never know. Yeah,
that's right, that's right. Playing baseball sucked.

Speaker 3 (42:45):
I get so mad because it would never get out
of the park.

Speaker 1 (42:49):
I gotta flick the wrist. Yeah, I got it.

Speaker 2 (42:51):
A real fast story. I gotta tell you. I have
to tell you. It's based on that reminded me. So
we're playing we tennis back in the day and it's
my younger nephew and he's a young kid, I don't know,
like three, maybe he was tiny, you know, maybe five
something like that, and he's teaching me. It's like, you
got to flick the wrist and it hits the ball

(43:12):
really fast, right, And I'm like okay, And I'm like
all right. So I'm standing there and I flick my
wrist and I hear this like smack, and I'm like
what in the world, Like, I look down and Tide's
grabbing his head looking at me like, ah, like you
just hit me in the.

Speaker 1 (43:27):
Back of the head.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
And it's one of those things where it's like if
you tell a kid or say like, oh, buddy, are
you okay, they freak out.

Speaker 1 (43:35):
Man, they think they're gonna die. They're like, I don't
think I'm okay.

Speaker 2 (43:38):
And I'm just like, oh, you're fine, and he was like,
I guess I'm fine. Like it just he just went
with it, like I'm like, yeah, you're fine. I think
may in my old concussion maybe, but you're fine, You're fine,
and he's just crazy cry at all.

Speaker 3 (43:52):
It's great. It is crazy how often if you just
tell a kid they're fine, they're.

Speaker 1 (43:55):
Like okay, yeah, They're like I guess I'm good here.
Yeah whatever, react how you react, that's right.

Speaker 5 (44:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (44:03):
My wife will sometimes be like you need to show
more compassion. I'm like, no, not.

Speaker 1 (44:06):
Really, it's all mental, right, Like.

Speaker 3 (44:11):
Yeah, we're preparing for sports, okay, meritith, that's right what
we're doing around. Yeah, we're hard we're hardcore. We're prepared
everything's fine. Like my favorite two is like, Emmy got
hit by the baseball a few times in softball this
year when I was out of town and my wife
would be at the games. She's not sports person at all,
like zero sports. She didn't play sports, like no idea.

(44:31):
She would text me like, and you got hit by
the ball. I'm saying something to the coach. I'm like, no,
you're not. Yeah, she's fine. I promise you. It sounded bad.
I promise you, she's gonna be okay, she's gonna be fine. No,
young at the coach. Please of the other team. I
don't need that in my life. Please, don't you do it.

Speaker 2 (44:48):
Anyways, by the way she did, she still like I
still thought it called for it.

Speaker 1 (44:52):
Yeah, you'll have that sometimes.

Speaker 3 (44:55):
I just yeah, yeah, yell the coach, I get it.

Speaker 2 (44:58):
Hey, let's shift it to your over here. Jeff So
Oregon taking on Texas Tech. It's a great, great matchup.
I can't wait for the Battle in the trenches, like
we had that on full display last night with Ohio
State and Miami.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
That was beautiful.

Speaker 2 (45:13):
If you're into the Battle in the Trenches Oregon's running game,
Texas Tech's D line, their front seven. It is gonna
be awesome, man. But I'm curious what you think about
the points spread in this game, right, Jeff. So it's
ticked up a little bit. Oregon now favored by two
and a half. The total is ticked down, stick down
a couple of points down to fifty and a half. Now, like,

(45:33):
what do you think of the movement with either of those?

Speaker 3 (45:36):
So it's interesting based off of yesterday because yesterday Miami
got steam.

Speaker 1 (45:39):
Like big time, big time.

Speaker 3 (45:41):
Yeah right, yeah, nine and a half down to I
think like seven.

Speaker 1 (45:44):
It was at least seven and a half. I don't
know if it got lower.

Speaker 3 (45:47):
Yeah, but yeah, I'm curious to see where the where
the motion comes in today. Vegas has been an organ
this week. They've been the Sharps have been an organ
this week. I don't know if that matters to anybody,
but just that's that's what it is really on the
money line. On the Organ money line, look obviously went
to Organ. I'm wearing my Organ sweatshirt, I my Organ

(46:09):
duck mug right now, drinking my coffee out.

Speaker 1 (46:11):
Of you wearing duck socks.

Speaker 3 (46:14):
I mean, no duck socks, but I probably I probably should. No,
here's the deal. So last night, and again I don't
want to use last night to reinforce a lot of
what I sort of have thought about this game. But uh,
Oregon has talked extensively this season about what happened in
the playoff last year to Ohio State and how this

(46:36):
season was about preparing to play in this game today.
Like that's what the whole season was about. And you
listen to the players talk, you listen to the coaches talk.
Of course, winning games the ever season mattered to them,
but the goal was to get here in a different
place than they were last year. Last year they were
beat up. If you listen to players talk, they practiced

(46:58):
too hard, they were beat up up. They just kind
of weren't ready for the moment. And this year they've
been preparing to play in this game all season, and
that think really matters. Texas Tech has not been here before,
and there is a it's a natural it's a natural
human emotion. I think Oregon felt this last year to
be very happy to be there. Now, you still play hard,

(47:20):
you still prepare hard. We're like Ohio State last year
was sort of like on a mission to win a championship,
you know, And I think that does matter in a
game like this, right when it's a close game, but
one team has been there before the other team hasn't.
And we talked about Ohio State and and and their schedule.
I mean Texas Tech has played Nope. I mean, yeah, okay, BYU,

(47:41):
but BYUS is not. They lose to every playoff team
right like they just would every every power for a
playoff team. Utah, great season, can't pass the football. They're
not the same team as Oregon. And I just think
that those two things way heavy on my mind. Is
that Oregon has been preparing to play this game all season,

(48:05):
tex Tech has not. And that Texas this is the
best team Texek has played all season, both sides of
the ball, best offense, maybe not the best defense, but
easily the best offense they played all season. Oregon has
played more teams that are like Texas Tech than not.
Right then they play Iowa, who's got great on defense. Look,

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the Penn State game is what is but Penn State's
still really good on defense. Right they play Indiana. They've
played like more teams that are closer to Texas Tech.
The Tech Tech has played Oregon, So any of those
things are pretty big advantages in Oregon. How you feel
about those points right now?

Speaker 2 (48:40):
You know what, I'm a little bit different than you.
I hear what you're saying, but I would actually point
to the NFL to make a point here, right like,
because you're talking about the path for Texas Tech, and
you're certainly right, like Oregon is easily the most quality
team that Texas Tech is going to face to this
point this season, right for sure, and that could make

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the difference today. We'll see what happens. But there's one
team that I think is being sold short because of
their their schedule, and that's the Patriots. You hear this
a lot where and there's a stat like there are
popular tweets going out there where it's the Patriots have
beaten one team with a winning record this season, and
the Giants have beaten two teams with winning records this season.

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So the takeaway is like, oh, okay, well, the Patriots
aren't going to do anything come playoff time. And there's
another stat here that's really interesting to me. So the
Patriots have won thirteen games this season, and so the
thirteen plus win teams in the history of the NFL,
like this is the Patriots the Patriots have played the

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easiest schedule since the nineteen ninety nine Rams, and it's like, Okay,
what did the ninety nine Rams do that season? Oh,
that's they want it all? They won a super Bowl,
you know. So I think that it can be a
mistake to say, oh, this team has played a very
favorable schedule and look, that could come back to bite them.

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But if that team is still really talented and Texas
Tech is right, that might not make the ultimate difference.
They still could get a big win even though they
haven't been as tested as they will be today against
the Ducks.

Speaker 3 (50:18):
The two teams with the easiest schedules that have won
thirteen games. I saw the tweet the d eighteen that's right. Yeah,
it was a ninety one Buffalo Bills who made the
Super Bowl again and the ninety nine Rams, right.

Speaker 2 (50:32):
And then seventy two Dolphins who went undefeated won a
super Bowl.

Speaker 3 (50:36):
So it can't the Patriots take us more than Like,
I just don't know if they're ready as a team yet,
Like they're just not fair. Yeah, they're not as good
as the other teams are going to play. They've had
a good season so Timexas Tech has these defensive ends
that are incredible height and Bailey and Rodriguez and Roberts
at linebacker, but otherwise, I mean, look, organize the advantage
at quarterback. Skill, guys tight end up a running back

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in the secondary like they they're better detackle. So I
feel good about where we're at as a team. You know,
no one's tried to run it in the A gaps
against Texas Tech. I think we will today.

Speaker 1 (51:14):
Absolutely try today.

Speaker 3 (51:15):
Yeah, absolutely, and so I'm looking forward to it.

Speaker 2 (51:19):
By the way, like how successful was Miami last night
doing just that to run straight up the middle, right
to the teeth of the defense. They had a successful
carry after successful carry right up the middle man.

Speaker 3 (51:31):
That's what kind of gets me geeked about what Orgon
can do. And two like this is the healthiest we've
been all season on offense. I mean, we we will
have our wide receivers back, which we don't have for
the last month. Yeah, I see people doing this thing.
We're like, well, Oregon went to Isolwa only scored eighteen points.
I'm like, yeah, we had two wide receivers. I go,
what do you want from us? Wisconsin? Then like the

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was in a month soon and we lost our quarterback,
and you know you start the second half like this
is you have to again that you have to stop
as a culturaball fan. In my opinion, looking at results
of games that happened six weeks ago, yeah, really, it
really doesn't matter and so oh utah in week three?

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Who cares that the game was in September, right, it
doesn't It doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 (52:20):
How about this? What would you say to this, Jeff?

Speaker 2 (52:24):
If if you were to say, hey, Oregon does this
really well in the game, and you feel like that
that is the most important thing that gives them a
great chance to win the game, and vice versa. If
Texas Tech does this really well, you're like, I actually
really like their chances all of a sudden to win
the game.

Speaker 1 (52:42):
What would it be for each team?

Speaker 3 (52:43):
If we don't turn the ball over, we're going to win?

Speaker 1 (52:46):
Okay, I I could.

Speaker 3 (52:48):
You know, there's an organ account that does like a
ton of like like incredible film study. I like most
of it. I think sometimes they don't really get football,
but it's it makes sense they they did something. We're like,
if Texas Tech has to drive sixty yards or more,
I'm gonna pull it up right here here it is
right here. Sorry, I wasn't prepared for this, but it

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is important. Texas Tech is number on the country and
forced turnovers right, and their number one the country in
field position for their offense, Like it's been important here
you go full field, So sixty plus yards okay, Texa
has scored a touchdown only twenty eight percent of the time.
They've had an empty possession fifty seven percent of the time.
So sixty yards or more okay, yep. On a short

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field they have had score touched on fifty percent of
the time. Wow, an empty possesion is only twenty three
percent of the time. If they have to go under
thirty yards, they score a touchdown sixty seven percent of
the time if they start on their own side of
the field. Also again, so that's like fifty plus yards
to score touchdown, right, yep, they have had They've had

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twenty nine percent touchdown rate, empty percent, fifty five percent
on the opponent's side. They have scored touch on fifty
three percent of their drives.

Speaker 5 (54:01):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (54:02):
So that that's turnovers, right, that's the forced ton of turnovers.
And so if we don't turn the ball over, we're
gonna win the game. In my opinion. I think that's
that simple.

Speaker 1 (54:12):
How about the other way, how about Tech?

Speaker 3 (54:15):
I think, if if so, Oregon has lost seven games
in Dan Lanning, all seven have one thing in common.
The opponents scored at least thirty points all seven losses.
It's kind of crazy, right, Oregon is forty to zero
er Dan Lanning. When the opponent scores less than thirty points.

Speaker 1 (54:33):
It's pretty good. So it's undefeated, right then?

Speaker 3 (54:36):
Yeah, yeah, and I think I think I put it.
I think we're seven and seven when scoring more when
the opponent scores more than thirty points. And I did
a ton of racers of the game. Of course, Oregon
has only played I think five games within one score.
If the opponent scores less than thirty points, they basically
have won every game by a lot. Yeah. Now, if
if opponent scores more than thirty points, I think it's
like eight games are within a touchdown, right, So, like

(54:58):
it's so to me, that's so if Tech's got a
score points right like that? Of course that's the easy
thing to say, John Manner, Right.

Speaker 1 (55:06):
Yeah, yeah, No, it's deeper than that. I get it.

Speaker 3 (55:08):
Yeah, sure, but they have to find ways to be
better in the red zone and find ways to just
take organ doesn't really give up exposed to plays. I'll
tell you right now, it's gonna happen. Org's gonna sit
the zone defense the entire game. They're gonna give up
some some some chunk run plays because of it, but

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they're gonna say, Okay, we're gonna make you work for seventy.

Speaker 1 (55:32):
Yards there you go.

Speaker 2 (55:33):
Yeah, yeah, you gotta you gotta be like Carson Beck
a little bit last night, right, like you gotta be precise,
you gotta be smart. You gotta take what the defense
gives you. And we're betting that maybe you get a
little impatient, maybe you do take a risk that you
shouldn't take. Yeah, it's like you gotta earn it. You
got to execute all the way downfield, like like little segment,

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little segment, little segment right that.

Speaker 1 (55:55):
Yeah, I hear.

Speaker 3 (55:56):
He has a broken leg still. He asked him about
his leg. He said like, yeah, maybe five percent. I mean,
cause he's the dam he what Jones played through. Like
that's a problem. I I you know, like organist struggle
and most teams against quarterbacks are gonna run. You can't run.
So I think a couple of things I think allose

(56:17):
things play in our favor. The one thing that does
worry me as well as the start time. I mean,
it's a nine am body clock game for us. Sure,
we played one of those this year. Northwestern didn't go
terribly all to start. It's Northwestern, so well, it should
be a fun game, man. I I uh, Luckily I'm
working up until then. I have more work after the show, Brian, So.

Speaker 1 (56:33):
Wow, look at you.

Speaker 3 (56:35):
I can sort of ignore my emotions to kick off.

Speaker 1 (56:38):
Okay, but the nerves just hit you all at once.
That's gonna happen.

Speaker 3 (56:43):
Not gonna be good. But again, I feel good. I
feel good. It's probably the best I can to play
this game. So I'm not even playing. But no matter what, I.

Speaker 1 (56:51):
Feel like, that's good. I'm glad you got your game
face on. Man, You're ready to go here.

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