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the world of football, mostly NFL, but it will cover
also college football and being able to understand what happened
over the weekend and get a good gauge as far
as not only what happened over the weekend, but what
is going to be coming up. And I know right
now we don't have a whole lot of action in
terms of on the field action, but we did have
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pre season NFL football this past weekend starting last Thursday,
so we are in full board now again we will
have football every single week until February. We're here, and
we also we know today's big day school day here
in Erinville County, first day of school for Greenville County schools,
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And so I know there's a lot of people out
there that excited, maybe also a little apprehensive starting high school.
You know, my step son first day of high school today,
So you do have that. And then you also, I think,
have a lot of parents that are also saying, okay,
we made it through summer. As much as we're exciting
about football coming up, we also getting back into a
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normal routine. And I'm trying to think though, starting school
on a Monday, Man, that's hard. It feels right though.
I mean, if you could, you know, but don't you should?
Well yes, And so I'm probably sounding very soft here
that have an acclimation type of period. Oh yeah, you know,
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so hey start on Wednesday. Then you've only got three
days of school right, and then then you hit it hard. Yes, exactly,
let's go Monday. It is this is real life, so
hey to get ready for real life and exactly, but
we talked about Hey, mondays don't have to be so bad.
Monday's an opportunity of reboot, reset, new chapter, new chapter,
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get ready for the week come out strong, all of
those type of things and be able to Obviously, you
have the weekend to re energize from that standpoint and
then get ready for this Monday. But I know there's
a lot of parents that are excited that school has started,
and again this might be also last year of high
school for a lot of parents as far as their kids.
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So new chapters all the way around. And we also
have a new chapter because we have the latest AP
poll out now in college football, so we'll take a
look at that. But we have a jam pack show.
We'll take a look at some of the weekend's best performances.
And when we do that, this is something that I'm
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wanting the investors, the listeners out there. I really want
you to be interactive in this. Oh yeah, and because
you and I we have some of our thoughts on
some of the weekend's best performances. But I'm curious how
other people see some of the performances out there. I mean,
how much do we value NFL preseason performances? Right?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Well, And I mean I think that's the fun part
of it is it's so subjective.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
What I think is the.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Best may not be what you think from Chad, who
knows what happens in the world. We don't follow NASCAR's
as exclusively as he does.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Maybe's going from there, yes, and well, and there's also
you can't keep up with everything, right As much as
there's so much content out there and there's so many
platforms out there where you can see all of this information,
it's still hard to keep up with everything. I mean,
we do have lives. You do have things that are
going on also, and you don't want to spend your
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entire weekend there on your phone or on your computer
right on you know, there at the TV whatever it
might be. It is good to get outdoors a little bit.
But it did rain, so we do have that, you know,
as part of the weekend. Although Saturday was a good day. Yeah,
so this is good that we can take it. You
had a fantastic weekend. Pastic weekend. I loved it. There
you can go I like this here was one doesn't
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mean anything. I don't care. Easy pasy weekend and anybody
else out there let us know how your weekend was.
You can join the conversation eight six four two four
zero five four eight zero. Because yes, we are getting
oh so close to the official start of college football.
We know NFL all of that is right around the corner.
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So we're going to take a look at some of
the storylines in college football. Okay, because I've got some
storylines that I think you are going to be very interesting.
And this is outside of just the top twenty five.
This is breaking down some of the storylines that are
going to be something that will monitor throughout the season,
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and how that will affect the polls, oh yeah, how
it will affect the college football playoff rankings once they
do come out later in the year, and obviously will
have any impact on when we crown a national champion
in college football. And this week we'll also we'll start
breaking down conferences. We'll start doing some conference previews, We'll
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start doing some team previews and giving our thoughts on
who we truly believe is going to be a national contender.
Especially on the college football side, and then also you know,
we'll look at the NFL also, sure, why not? Oh well,
of course we have to. Are you kidding me? It's
about time the Cowboys are finally going to get back
to the promised land. Okay, well, let's get ahead of
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himself here.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
You almost lost Ceedee Lamb, float down there, I mean, okay,
so we'll start there.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
So we'll go ahead and get the the ugly out
of the way on this weekend that we saw, yeah
in the NFL preseason. I mean, is that not almost
the epitome of what's going on in Dallas right now?
Can you imagine if he would have really been injured
and if you didn't see anybody out there that's listening.
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So Ceedee Lamb is there on the sidelines, and Joe
Milton throws a pass and he's got great catch. Looks like,
you know, an opportunity score. So Ceedee Lamb celebrating. He's
running kind of on the the white part of the sideline,
or he's in the white park. Can't stand there, yeah,
but he's standing there, and so he's running a little bit.
But then he stops and he's like celebrating and here
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comes the side ref, the sideline judge, you know, and
I mean trucks him. Oh yeah, he no chill. That
had to be a Jerry Jones plant. That ref had
to be. It was absolutely insane, especially how you see
Ceedee Lamb, how he gets hit, Yes, exactly, full body
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he had. I mean, he was blindsided. He had no
idea he was about to get hit the way he did.
Unfortunately he was able to get it up and you know,
laughed it off or whateverybody did receive a penalty, uh
for that play because you can't be in that area. Yes,
and and I know, hey you can laugh. But your
head coach, Mike Tomlin, he's been called doing the same thing.
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Oh no, he wasn't. He wasn't just stand. He tripped
the guy that was That was a purpose exactly. There's
a different little that's a little worse. Yeah, but that
is the epitome right now of the three ring circus
there in Dallas. And can you imagine if if Ceedee
Lamb would have gotten hurt right there?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Oh man, depending on how long he was out and
what it was. Are your season's over? I mean, I
mean you're talking about you still haven't tied down Michael Parsons.
So you've got your best person on defense. What's he doing?
And then you're talking about C. D.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Lamb, yes, being out for any amount of time.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Because of something, just as goobers as that, like, yeah, yeah,
that sums up the Cowboys pretty well.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
And how many times we question, yeah, should you have
your guys playing in preseason? Well, it might have been
better if Ceedee Lamb was on the field right then, yeah, yeah,
than actually on the sideline because he could have gotten
hurt on the sideline. But that does seem to be
right now, what's going on in Dallas. There's a lot
of dysfunction, And I make jest of that, and I
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do understand that, Hey, we'll see what happens come regular season. Yeah,
September fourth, y'all'll be fine. I saw the promos Eagles
Cowboys kicking off that Thursday night on NBC Pea cog.
I mean, it gets you hyped, even with the Cowboys
situation the way it is right now, because it's the
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opening of NFL season, you know, and it's the Super
Bowl champs, and it's the NFC East, and it's Philly
and Dallas. We know they don't like each other. We
know that rivalry, and my wife said, oh yeah, I
really used to like this rivalry when Dallas was winning.
But now it's a complete opposite. And especially it's just
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magnified because the Eagles seem to be a organization that's
functioning at a high level. They just won the Super
Bowl and they've been two times and you know, in
the past four years. So there is something right now
that even makes it worse if you're a Dallas Cowboys
fan that you're seeing the Eagles and their rise right now.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Well, it's almost two sides of the same coin, right,
I mean, you look at the Cowboys and the dysfunction,
and then you have the Eagles and the stability.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
It's it's insane. And then you've got, yes, you've.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Got basically head coach, general manager and everything all rolled
into one with Jerry Jones. And then just from a
top down perspective with the Eagles of how well it's run.
And I'm looking at it like, I mean, you don't
hear a whole lot about their owner, you know. So
it's it's interesting now that you mentioned that, I hadn't
thought of it, but yeah, it's kind of mirror images.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Of each other, and all. Yeah, that's the problem is
that the Cowboys are just showing even more of there's
more of their dysfunction, right, based on other teams that
are in their division. Oh yeah, and that's the problem.
And again, I know we're not necessarily touting you know,
division over division or whatever, but within your division, I mean,
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we know that's the easy path. Just go win your
division and you're in the playoffs, right, and you've got
a great opportunity of succeeding in the playoffs there if
you can win your division. So you do have to
take that into consideration. All right, enough about the Cowboys.
We will break down much more of the NFL. But
I did want to get to the AP poll that
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just came out, And now, how much are we going
to value the polls right now? Because we know later
on in the college football season they're not going to
mean anything, right, it's all about the college football playoff rankings.
But how much do these actually impact the college football
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playoff rankings later? Now that's a good question, because yeah,
there is something to be said about you start believing
in some of these narratives and the biases that go
with that. And that's where you have to be careful.
But it does at least give us a reference to
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begin the season as far as where we can put
these teams, and especially when you're looking at the schedule,
how the opening weekend, how that's going to look. And
we talked about it last week with in the coach's poll.
When you got Texas number one, Ohio State number two
and they play opening weekend or week one, Yeah, I
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should say, of college football. And so that's the number
one versus the number two. And we've never seen that
to open the season. Yeah, number one versus number two,
And so that's pretty impressive. So you do have that
at least to gauge some of the games that you
want to watch. And I know we've had people call
in and actually talk about that that Hey, at least
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it gives me an idea. Okay, that's that's a game
that maybe I want to watch versus another game, and right,
you know, and I do understand that. But again, how
much are we valuing these polls? Very similar to how
much do we value what we see in NFL preseason.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
I think, at least from a casual fan perspective, the
preseason poll if you're not following it super closely. At
least gives you an idea of like, okay, like all right,
this is where these teams are. Like if you're if
you're casually following it and you're you're not super investing
keeping up with all the storylines, at least you have
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a guideline of Okay, here's the top twenty five teams.
These are supposedly the best based on whatever metric they're
coming up with. Maybe it's because they like them, it
doesn't matter, but there's there's a metric that the AP
has that's just as their top twenty five.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Yes, and so when you look at the AP Top
twenty five versus the Coaches poll, I'm interested in how
this comes about. All right, So Texas is number one
in the AP Top twenty five and number one in
the Coaches poll. Right, Penn State is number two in
the AP poll, but they're number three in the Coaches poll.
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But when you look at Texas versus Penn State in
the number one, number two position there, Texas had twenty
five first place votes, Penn State twenty three first place votes,
and so the total points they were only separated by
five points. Oh wow, and that's the closest we've seen
of a number one versus number two two since nineteen
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ninety eight. So you can see how the media right
now is trying to I mean, they're basically saying it's
a coin flip, yeah, between the two Texas and Penn State.
And that's why little preview. I think there's something to
be said about a storyline this year in college football,
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and that could be Penn State. I could see that
number three in the AP poll is Ohio State, and
we know we just talked about them, and the Coaches
polled their number two. Clemson is number four in the
AP poll. Interesting, a little bit higher than the coaches poll.
And Clemson only got two first place votes in the
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coaches poll, but got four first place votes in the
AP poll. Georgia at number five with one first place vote.
They're in the AP Notre Dame number six, Oregon number seven,
Oregon got a first place vote, Alabama eight, LSU nine,
in Miami ten. Very similar to what the Coach's poll has. Yeah,
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in terms of once you get past Georgia at five,
there with Notre Dame, Oregon, Alabama and LSU and Miami
orgon Alabama LSU and Miami are all the exact same
seven through ten, So I'm curious, and I want to
talk about South Carolina in just a minute, because South
Carolina is also thirteenth in the Ape Pole and their
thirteenth in the Coach's Pole. I would like to see this.
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If we're going to do this, I want to see
it where they both come out at the same time,
so they can't cheat off each other's homework. Bingo. Yeah.
I don't want to see narratives that are already be
informed when the Coach's poll comes out, and then we're
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sitting there examining the Coach's Pole, and you can't tell
me there's not some type of bias that goes into
it and some laziness. That's what I was going to say.
There's a little bit of that.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
I want to shuffle this around so that it looks
a little bit different. It's like, copy my homew make
it look like you didn't copy it.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
That's right. Oh yeah, yes, trying to move away. Oh
it's not AI, it's not chat GPT. I came up
with this. That's why I want to see it come
out at the exact same time. And I wonder how
different it would be if both of the polls came
out at the same time, So we don't have the
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opportunity of hearing some of these narratives. We're already here
in the narrative as they are, But once you see
it there with numbers attached to it, you start automatically.
It's just human nature. And I'm not faulting any of
these people necessarily, other than the fact that, Hey, I
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really hope it's not laziness and that, oh, I just
got to vote. To vote, you should really take that
honor to be able to vote, Oh yeah, and do
your homework with it and make sure that you are
putting the effort into it. I've been able to vote
in like the SEC and ACC media polls. Really yes,
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because I'm go to the media days and as an
attendee and a member, you get the opportunity to vote.
That's kind of cool and so and I take it seriously.
I mean, I probably overanalyze it way too much. You, yes,
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but it's something that hey, if I'm going to put
the effort into this, hey, I want to do the
best job that I can. And now some of it too.
Don't get me wrong. When I'm trying to compare you know,
Mississippi State in Kentucky or you know, I'm looking at
Syracuse in Virginia Tech. It's it's a little or I
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should say, this is a better example where I struggled
California and Stanford in the SCC. Now was like, all right,
how much time am I spending on those teams to really,
you know, do I really believe that Stanford is so
much better than cal or vice versa. Right, But my
point is is that I hope that all of these
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voters are taking the series and even from the coach's side.
And I've told the story before. I know how the
coach's poll works. Now, maybe here at the beginning of
the season you do have you know, the head coach involved,
but I can promise you throughout the season at least
on the basketball side. Yeah, the head coach at Maryland
Eastern Shore we were Division one. He would hand me
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the form and say take care of it, and I
would vote yeah, And that's how it worked. So again,
maybe it's a little bit different, but I just hope
that they're putting the effort into it and also not
just going off of now. You also, I do understand
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you have to do homework. Oh yeah, so when you
start reading certain things over and over again, you start
believing in some of those things. But that would be
my suggestion to make these polls better or more relevant
is have them come out at the same time.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
If I had to wager a guess, and if they
came out at the same time, I would say one
through five would probably look pretty similar to what we
see today, where yes, cause I feel like at least
in college football, and I guess you could say that
along pretty much any sport, especially you go over in
the NFL, you have kind of the usual suspects, Especially
in college football, though there's that top five where you're like, okay,
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you could probably interchange those and we said it many
times that it's almost like splitting hairs at that point,
like which one is number one, which one is number two.
It's almost personal flavor at that point what you think
would be one over the other. Now, once you get
out of that top five, that's where I would be
curious to see if they came out at the same time.
I think that might look a little bit different going
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from six to ten, ten to fifteen, especially fifteen on
into twenty five. I would be curious to see what
that looks like. But the top five I think would
look pretty similar.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yeah, I would think so. Also, and because we're we
know some of the storylines at the end of the year,
oh yeah, yeah, and now it is a little bit
different with the transfer of portal, right, how that affects
teams And that's why I also, how much can we
really gauge these teams? Yeah, right now, because there's so
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many question marks, and especially when you're having teams that
are changing their quarterback. Oh yeah, and even it might
be a veteran quarterback that had success at a previous
school the year before. But does that mean automatically it's
going to be success at your school? Not always? Not always. Yeah,
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it's I'm anxious to see how And we'll break down
some of these stats in terms of again, teams that
are in the top twenty five to start pre season
and where they end up at the end of the season,
and then vice versa teams that are not in the
top twenty five, and how many times they actually end
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up ranked in the top twenty five, and including actually
being ranked in the top ten. It's more than you
think and that's what's crazy. That's why we don't know
what the hell we're talking about here. We try to,
we think we do. We want to know what we're
talking about, but we don't always do that. All right,
we'll look at more of the ap poll. The top
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four eight zero. Again that number is eight six four
two four zero five four eight zero. All right, we
were talking about the AP poll. It just came out
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the top twenty five and the excitement heading into the
college football season. Oh so close for Week zero, August
twenty third, and so we do have a ranked matchup
with Iowa State and Kansas State. They're in Dublin, Ireland.
That's right, Yeah, So I mean there you care? So
now all of a sudden, that's a hell of a
game to watch because we've got two teams ranked in
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the top twenty five and having an opportunity of playing
across the pond, so to speak, there in Dublin, Ireland.
And how much excitement is that going to be for
college football fans? That's the question? Because are you out men?
Not really? I guess it depends on how how much
you buy into that ranking. What are they ranked? Kansas
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State seventeen and Iowa State twenty two? Does that count?
Speaker 3 (23:26):
I Mean, I get they're in the top twenty five,
but at a certain point, I feel like most people
only care about top ten unless their team is in there.
Then the like if you're a Carolina fan, obviously you
care that Carolina is there at thirteen.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
That means something. But pass that Does anybody care? That's
the question, all right? So, speaking of South Carolina, game
Cocks are ranked thirteenth in the AP preseason Top twenty
five poll and also thirteenth in the Coaches Poll. It
marks the first time the game Cocks have been ranked
in the AP preseason poll since they entered the twenty
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fourteen season. Wow, and they were ranked ninth in the country.
And remember, they're coming off of a nine to four
season in which they won their last six regular season
games to finish nineteenth in both the AP and the
Coaches poll. And think about this the schedule, and then
I'm bullish on the game Cock this year. I've already
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talked about it. I think they have a legitimate shot
to make the college football Playoff with the twelve team expansion.
I do believe that they do have the opportunity. But
six games feature teams that are ranked in the preseason
AP poll. Clemson number four, Alabama ranked number eight, LSU
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ranked number nine, Oklahoma eighteen, Texas A and M nineteen,
and Ole Miss twenty one. Somebody is not going to
be ranked when South Carolina plays them. Yeah, there's just
no question. I just don't know which team that is,
other than the fact that maybe it's a Texas A
and M, because I don't know. Can we believe in
Texas A and M. How many years have we been
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saying in there? Yes, exactly. Of course, anytime I see
Texas A and M, I'm going to be upset when
they're ranked pre season, Yeah, because they just don't finish
that way, right, that's the problem with Texas A and
M now. And I do like Mike Elko. I think
he has the opportunity to actually do something special at
Texas A and M. Jimbo Fisher wasn't able to do that.
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I mean, you can go back to RC Slocum days.
But we've been hyping Texas A and M up for
so long Johnny manziel and after you know, you beat
Alabama on the road and he has his magical moment,
that magical season. But outside of that, I mean, it
seems to be let down each and every year for
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Texas A and M. And so how about this, talking
about letdowns, here's the preseason AP top two twenty five
according to each year teams that finish below five hundred
and are not ranked in the top twenty five. After that, Okay,
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In twenty twenty four, there were seven teams seven total
of seven that were in the top twenty five and
didn't even finish below I mean they finished below five hundred.
It's a lot, that's a lot. Seven of the top
twenty five, and twenty twenty three there was only one.
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So for whatever reason, hey, we might have actually had
a little bit of better understanding of that. Twenty twenty
three season, twenty twenty two, five teams finished below five hundred.
Twenty twenty one, another seven teams finish below five hundred.
All right, how about this the preseason ap top twenty
five teams that ended up winning ten or more games.
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So in twenty twenty four there were eleven teams that
had success. So we did a good job. We gauged
this correctly. In twenty twenty three, fifteen teams I finished
with ten, and you go back to in twenty twenty three,
there was only one team that was in the preseason
top twenty five that finished below five hundred. Yeah, they
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nailed that year. They nailed it. Yeah, somehow somebody did
their homework that year. So that's pretty special right there.
So the point is is that there's going to be
teams that drop out yea of this top twenty five.
We know that's going to happen. And at least one
team that started the season unranked finished in the top
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ten in the final AP pole twenty nine of the
last thirty one years. Again, at least one team that
started the season unranked finished in the top ten in
the final AP pole twenty nine of the last thirty
one years. There's a spoiler out there, There's somebody that
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comes out and just redefines their season. So here's some
teams that are outside of the top twenty five BYU, Utah, Baylor, Louisville,
Southern col Georgia Tech, Missouri, Tulane, Nebraska, UNLV, Toledo, Auburn,
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James Madison, Memphis, Florida State, Duke, Navy, Liberty, Iowa, TCU, Pittsburgh, Army, Louisiana,
and Colorado. I know that's a long laundry list of
teams right there, and I don't expect anybody to remember
everything that had just read. But the point is, is
there a team that's outside of there, like a BYU
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Utah Louisville. Is it a Georgia Tech, Is it a Nebraska?
Is it an Auburn? Is it a Florida State? What
team has the opportunity to be in the top ten
at the end of the season. That's a good thinking.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
I am.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
I'm part of the one. I know you don't have
the list. If you don't have the list in front
of you, it's hard to write to understand. I get
that I'd have to.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Do a little bit more homework, But part of me
wants to believe in that Florida State only because we're
crazy rebound. I was gonna say they had such a
crazy drop off last year because you remember the year
before that, you know, they barely missed the playoffs by
that much, and then all of a sudden come out
ye undefeated. Yeah there were yeah, and there was a
twelve team playoffs they're in.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Then last year the huge crazy drop off that nobody predicted.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
They're one team. Yeah, they're the one team that was
in the top ten. Yes, sell out.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Wouldn't it be so poetic for them to be out
of the top twenty five and come back in and
finish in the top ten.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
This year though, as a storyteller, as somebody here who
likes the opportunity of something to talk about obviously here
on the radio, that would be phenomenal to see some
type of crazy story like that and to have something
to talk about. Right, But that's a huge leap, mister Falco.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
I think they need I think they need one Richmond
Weaver and one camera.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Set up, because that's that's right. You need to jump
on that.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
So your next documentary, Florida State, own crew there with
Florida State.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Yes, and we will document this entire season. They'll go
win the ACC and they'll go win a game on
a crazy field goal or walk off touchdown in the
college football playoff. Allah what Furman was able to do
in twenty twenty two as I was able to embed
a film crew with the team again thanks to Bob
Ritchie and Jason Donnelly, the athletic director there for allowing
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me to do that. Yeah, so who knows, try to
speak it into existence.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Let's follow it, right, The Richmond Weaver effect is real.
How many how many teams have you been a part
of personally that.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Have gone on? There's something there. Yeah, it's just maybe
a little Midas touched. I don't know what it is,
but and that's why maybe South Carolina fans get ready.
That's right, Yeah, I'm telling you get ready. If I'm
looking at some of these teams, though, Florida State would
be a tough one for me at this point, although again,
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that would be a crazy story. Could it be a
Louisville or could it be a Georgia Tech. You've been
pretty high on Georgia Tech. I have been high on
Georgia Tech. And that's why I think that game in Atlanta,
the third game of the season for the Clemson Tigers
there against Georgia Tech and the Flats there at noon,
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I think that could be a tricky game for the Tigers.
I do think Clemson will win that game, but that's
gonna be that's gonna be a hard faught game against
Georgia Tech. And I don't know, maybe Missouri again, I
think they have shown it's very tough to beat them
at home. Yeah, but going on the road could be
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a different story. But twenty nine out of the last
thirty one years, there's been a team that's been unranked
that has finished in the top ten. So statistics tell
us that there's a high probability that one of these
teams is going to do it. Could it be a BYU,
could it be a utah? Let us know your thoughts
eight six four two four zero five four eight zero
And let's head out to the Engles hotline right now,
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the Richmond Weavers show. Who's this?
Speaker 4 (32:23):
Hey Richmond, I'm Terrey. How are you guys doing this afternoon?
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Doing fantastic Billy? How about you? Sir?
Speaker 4 (32:29):
Very good? I've got a question, now, what do you
think the percentages should be on these opening polls at
the end of the year, not just this year, but
every year? What do you think would be? Do you
think it should be half? You think it should be
a third? What do you think both of you guys finishes?
The percentages tould be of right teams in slide the
top twenty five because it's not an exact spot.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
No, yeah, it's definitely not an exact science. And so
what I'm making sure to understand your question is how
many teams out of the top twenty five that are
preseason should also be ranked at the end of the season.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
In the last poll, Yeah, the last poll it comes out.
In other words, how accurate will they be, and I'm
amazed if that twenty twenty three how accurate they will out,
because I would have never guessed it would have been
that accurate at any time.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Honestly, Yeah, I would suspect. I mean to be honest
with you to your point, Billy, that it's it's much
more art. It's not an exact science. I mean, if
you could get close to fifty percent.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
Is that Yeah, I think that's where I'm at. I
think it's just under fifty percent, because you know, thirteen
out of it. To me, it would be hard to
hit thirteen out of twenty five, Yeah, which would be
just over fifty. I'm thinking it's probably closer to Towielve.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
That's probably about right. What about the top.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
Ten, I would say it's probably closer to eight out
of ten at least will be ranked, maybe not in
the top ten, but will be ranked. You know the
reason I'm doing this because I knew when you when
you were reading that poll off. The last time the
South Carolina had been ranked in the final poll or
at the beginning of the poll was twenty fourteen. I
remember that year. They got chilled that year at home
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the opening game that by Texas A and M, and
it set the standard for the rest of the year.
And then I know that in twenty twenty two to
South Carolina wasn't rank and ended up in the top twenty.
And then in twenty twenty four they written ranked and
ended up in the top fifteen. So or or I
guess specifically that gets caught twenty considering that lost of Illinois.
But yeah, anyway, I know it happens every year, and
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there's going to be some that are on the outside
looking in that's going to end up in that pole,
and there's going to be plenty there aren't and I'm
just hoping that the South Carolina is not because South
Carolina is one of those things specifically right now, I
would be shocked if Clemson wasn't ranked end of the year.
Now I'm not saying they're going to in the national title.
We don't know. That's that's a whole lot of speculation,
but it would be shocking to me for them not
to be ranked, okay, because I think they're looking at
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that worst a ten to two top season, you know,
regular season's right, that's worthy of being ranked. So but
South Carolina, because of their schedule and what they've lost.
You know, they could be ten and two. Well, they
could be six to six. I mean, let's just be honest.
And there's a lot of people that are really high
on them and people who are like, Okay, they're not
going to be top twenty five worthy. So that's what
has gotten me curious about this.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Yeah, and I think you're right in terms of Clemson
when you look at their schedule and the roster that
they've got coming back, and especially you know, with a
quarterback kid club Nick, I think they're going to answer
some of the questions. On the defensive side. With the
addition of Tom Allen as the defensive coordinator, I do
think that's going to add a little bit of a
different spark, so to speak. We know he's a really
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good defensive coordinator, and I think he's a good head
coach what we saw previously to his time as Penn
State's defensive coordinator and then for South Carolina. I mean,
I do feel very confident about South Carolina and their
roster and the weapons that they have. And I know
on the defensive side, yes, you're feeling some voids there
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that were left from leaders on the team. So it's
not just the athletic ability that you're having to replace,
but you're having to replace some of that leadership. But
I do think you've got some guys that can come
in and provide some of that. But part of it,
too is the schedule. I mean, there's something to be
said about that, and so especially when you're looking at
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some of the four game stretches there were for some
of these teams in South Carolina definitely has one of
those stretches of four games where I mean it's a
gauntlet when you're looking at some of the teams that
South Carolina has to play, when you're looking at not
only home versus on the road as well, and you know,
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South Carolina easily has a top fifteen toughest schedule in
the country right now, so that could be a factor
obviously and how they finish the season.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
Yeah, yeah, that's sorry. It's the combination of the loss
is the key losses. I mean it's not just defense.
You know, they lost finding on offense and they also
lost anders to contribute in pre season games this week.
I know it's preseason, but that tells you that they
are elite, So, you know, versus the schedule, that's what
worries me, but I do feel pretty good about it.
But you know, you were mentioning teams that I think
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that could be in the top twenty five. You mentioned
two of the three that I think. First of all,
I think Georgia Tech could possibly be a fringe top
ten team if you look at their schedule. I like
what they've back, what they're coming back with, I like
their quarterback. And then their schedule is so easy. They've
got Clemson in Georgia and that's it. I mean, I'm sorry,
but that's the truth. And so because of that, I
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fully expect them to be at least a nine win team.
And then I do like Louisville. Now, you know, I
was kind of leaning towards them being the other team
versus Clemson. I've looked at some of their schedules and
I've backed off of that a little bit. It would
not surprise to me it's going to be Clemson versus
either Miami, Louisville or Georgia Tech. I think it's going
to be one of those three teams. I'm not sure
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that I'm positive Pumpson's going to be the one that's
the number one seed going into the ACC championship game.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Yeah, and I could definitely see that. Now, the question
is is there going to be a surprise How How
is Miami with Carson Beck? How are they going to
play down there in South Florida, Because I do think
that's a team and also the wild card though you're
talking about schedule, really it's North Carolina and that's a
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you know, A.
Speaker 4 (38:22):
Well, they're going to be the surprise team. I would
be shocked if they're in the ACC Tournament. I know
their schedule is easy. Now I think they're going to
win eight games. For me, I think they're they're lost
their Vegas or whatever it is. Sportsbook's predictions of over
under was like seven and a half. I would take
that all day if you look at that versus that schedule.
But I just don't think they're going to be I
would be shocked at they're one of those two teams.
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I just put that out there. I don't think they're
going to improve that much. I do think they're going
to be improved.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
Yes, No, and I agree with you. That's a big
stretch for Bill Belichick. As great of a coach as
he is, he's still unproven on the college level. Because
we don't know what that roster is going to be
like for North Carolina.
Speaker 4 (39:03):
The rosters. If you gave them Crimson's roster, I've put
them in the National change him. That would be a
Crimsons roster. They've got North Carolina's roster, which is better
than North Carolina's roster last year, but it's still not
a top ten roster. So I just think versus that schedule,
they're probably going to be an eight or maybe even
a nine win team. But that doesn't get you in
today's sec T Championship. I don't believe that we'll see anyway.
(39:25):
It's in a racing. And then the last thing is
you guys are talking about Dallas. I mean that lamb
thing didn't bother me because it's pre season. If it
had happened on you know, Thursday night versus Philadepia, I've
been a little bit more embarrassed. But then again, it
wouldn't have happened because he would have been playing in
the game. They were on offense.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
I know. But the problem is, can you imagine if
he had gotten hurt though Billy.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
Yeah, wouldn't that view the Jerry Jones things that.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Does, Yes, exactly, that's the point. Yes, that would be
so apropos for the Dallas Cowboys, the way things are
going right now, with the dysfunction and the lack of
playoff postseason success in the past thirty years.
Speaker 4 (40:03):
Yeah. Well, you know, listen, I'm sure you guys have
taken a gander maybe at a line or two, because
you know our contest is coming up. Yes, I've already
looked at some lines, and I'm telling you right now,
I hate to say this, Richmond, but I'm leaving leaning
heavily towards Philadelphia in that game. It's a bad matchup
for Dallas. They've got a big offensive line, they like
to run the ball, and Dallas has not stopped the
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run in since the ninety So I just don't see
it being competitive. Honestly, I'm just saying it. When I
say competitive, Listen, it's hard to win in an NFL game,
especially an opener, by three or four touchdowns. But I
think they're going to win that game by double ditches.
That's just my personal opinion. Anyway, I'll hang up and listen.
I appreciate you guys.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
Thank you, Billy. We appreciate it as always, and we
do have to hit this Brake as we'll continue this
Monday edition of the Richmond Weaver Show presented by Ingles Markets.
Right after this, the Monday edition of the Richmond Weavers
Show presented by Ingles Markets continues right here on one
of four nine Fox Sports Upstate. As we are already
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moving through the first hour, as we're getting close to
start our number two. But let's take a look at
some of the best performances from this past weekend.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
The biggest moments from the weekend. It's Rich's weekend's best, really.
Speaker 2 (41:19):
Good, like all right, and you do have the opportunity
you can actually participate. The text line is open eight
six four triple seven ninety five ninety three, and let
us know what maybe your weekend's best, either one of
ours or if you have something else that you might
have seen again the text line eight six four triple
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seven ninety five ninety three. All right, I'm going to
start with golf. Oh first off, all right, and it
was oh so close because I thought it was going
to be Tommy Fleetwood would be able to get his
very first PGA Tour victory, but no, he did not
make it happen. But justin Rose, he was actually able
to beat jj spawn in a three hole playoff there
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at the Saint Jude in Memphis and making at the
age of forty five. He birdied the fourteenth hole, the
fifteenth hole, the sixteenth hole, the seventeenth hole, and then
got into the playoff and birdied two out of the
three holes to win there in the playoff. So yes,
I'm going with Justin Rose on that performance. Oh yeah,
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I think rightfully. So dude was on fire. He was
on fire, and again at the age of forty five. Yes,
in the NF al right, how about the NFL. We
heard in the Jacksonville Jaguars game, this call was made.
Speaker 4 (42:40):
They drilled the ball.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
Holy smokes, I got a shot. He just kicked a
seventy year Are you kidding me? Crazy? Ivery crazy? The
NFL record. That would be an NFL record in the
first half. Holy smokes. That's unbelievable. Holy smokes. That's right.
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Seventy yard field goal in preseason Cam Little of the
Jacksonville Jaguars. But it doesn't really mean much. Yeah, I
watched that live and I was so hyped for it.
Speaker 3 (43:17):
But like I get why it can't be a record,
and it probably that record will probably never be broken
because who's gonna go for a seventy yard field goal
in game, real game time, and you never know.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
Liam Cohen might, but come on, ah, it should count.
It was beautiful to see, but does not count as
an NFL record because it needs to be in a
regular season game. And now, according to reports that I
read on ESPN, is that he did post on social media, Oh,
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don't worry about the record, because there will be more
seventy yard field goals. So he's already trying to speak
it into existence and he obviously has the leg. Oh yeah,
but to your point, who's going to make the decision
to be able to do that? I remember, gosh, this
was late two thousands, like two thousand and nine, Sebastian
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Janikowski is when Lane Kiffen was the head coach of
the Raiders at the time, and they trotted him out
there to kick a seventy six yard field goal and
it wasn't even close. And yeah, it's amazing. Now when
you look at some of these kicks, I mean on
some of these guys, exactly, I don't understand. Is there
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something different about techniques, something different about the ball, something different,
because these kicks are getting longer and longer, and they're
just more accurate. I mean it's amazing, Like a fifty
yard field goal. Now you're like, oh, yeah, who's going
to make this? Yeah? I mean you almost don't even
second guess it. Yeah, it's absolutely insane. So that is
definitely one of the weekend's best performances. How about this
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In the WNBA, former South Carolina game cock Asia Wilson
made history and she became the first player in w
NBA history to record thirty or more points and twenty
or more rebounds in a game. She finished with thirty
two points and twenty rebounds in that game. Yes, so
that was history in the making right there. And how
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about this for the Seattle Mariners their offense, this is baseball.
In the last ten games through this weekend, they had
twenty home runs and twenty stolen bases and got caught
stealing zero times. They're the first team in Major League
Baseball history to have a ten game span with at
least twenty home runs and twenty steals while not be
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caught stealing one time. And then this one. We also
have to take notice in the Atlanta Falcons and Detroit
Lions games as safety Morris Norris. Maurice Norris was taking
off the field after a serious head injury, taken off
on a stretcher, and as the play would resume, the
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Falcons did not snap the ball, and the teams were
just standing around and you're trying to figure out what
was going on. And then they and this is like
with twelve minutes to go, yeah, yeah, in the first
a lot of game time, and they decided that we're
just going to circle up in prayer and in the game,
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and that was it. And that's one of my weekend's
best performances that we get to see the humanity and
the special bond that happens in certain situations. And now
the reports are is that Maurice Norris was in stable
condition and had feeling and movement all his extremities, so
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it does seem very positive. But maybe that power of
prayer helped right there, those teams coming together. That's the
beauty that we see from humans each and every day.
All right, that's some of the weekend's best and we'll
have Hour two right after this
Exploring the latest headlines and in depth conversations. It's the
Richmond Weavers Show on one oh four nine Fox Sports
up State presented by Ingles Low Prices, Love the Savings,
Now for riches take on Sports. Here's Richmond Weaver.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Ready to roll this Monday right here on one oh
four nine Fox Sports Upstate. And we appreciate all of
the investors taking the time to listen today, and remember
we are still in our new programming four hours of
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Will be with you until five pm and we'll hand
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things over to mister John Ellis with game on and
mister Trey Falco is here, yes, sir, behind the board
and behind the mic as always. And also don't forget
John has his new show on Monday nights seven to nine.
Overtime is the name of it, and it's a great
opportunity of recapping all of the things that happening in
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the world of football, mostly NFL, but it will cover
also college football and being able to understand what happened
over the weekend and get a good gauge as far
as not only what happened over the weekend, but what
is going to be coming up. And I know right
now we don't have a whole lot of action in
terms of on the field action, but we did have
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pre season NFL football this past weekend starting last Thursday,
so we are in full board now again we will
have football every single week until February. We're here, and
we also we know today's big day school day here
in Erinville County, first day of school for Greenville County schools,
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And so I know there's a lot of people out
there that excited, maybe also a little apprehensive starting high school.
You know, my step son first day of high school today,
So you do have that. And then you also, I think,
have a lot of parents that are also saying, okay,
we made it through summer. As much as we're exciting
about football coming up, we also getting back into a
(02:06):
normal routine. And I'm trying to think though, starting school
on a Monday, Man, that's hard. It feels right though.
I mean, if you could, you know, but don't you should?
Well yes, And so I'm probably sounding very soft here
that have an acclimation type of period. Oh yeah, you know,
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so hey start on Wednesday. Then you've only got three
days of school right, and then then you hit it hard. Yes, exactly,
let's go Monday. It is this is real life, so
hey to get ready for real life and exactly, but
we talked about Hey, mondays don't have to be so bad.
Monday's an opportunity of reboot, reset, new chapter, new chapter,
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get ready for the week come out strong, all of
those type of things and be able to Obviously, you
have the weekend to re energize from that standpoint and
then get ready for this Monday. But I know there's
a lot of parents that are excited that school has started,
and again this might be also last year of high
school for a lot of parents as far as their kids.
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So new chapters all the way around. And we also
have a new chapter because we have the latest AP
poll out now in college football, so we'll take a
look at that. But we have a jam pack show.
We'll take a look at some of the weekend's best performances.
And when we do that, this is something that I'm
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wanting the investors, the listeners out there. I really want
you to be interactive in this. Oh yeah, and because
you and I we have some of our thoughts on
some of the weekend's best performances. But I'm curious how
other people see some of the performances out there. I mean,
how much do we value NFL preseason performances? Right?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Well, And I mean I think that's the fun part
of it is it's so subjective.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
What I think is the.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Best may not be what you think from Chad, who
knows what happens in the world. We don't follow NASCAR's
as exclusively as he does.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Maybe's going from there, yes, and well, and there's also
you can't keep up with everything, right As much as
there's so much content out there and there's so many
platforms out there where you can see all of this information,
it's still hard to keep up with everything. I mean,
we do have lives. You do have things that are
going on also, and you don't want to spend your
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entire weekend there on your phone or on your computer
right on you know, there at the TV whatever it
might be. It is good to get outdoors a little bit.
But it did rain, so we do have that, you know,
as part of the weekend. Although Saturday was a good day. Yeah,
so this is good that we can take it. You
had a fantastic weekend. Pastic weekend. I loved it. There
you can go I like this here was one doesn't
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mean anything. I don't care. Easy pasy weekend and anybody
else out there let us know how your weekend was.
You can join the conversation eight six four two four
zero five four eight zero. Because yes, we are getting
oh so close to the official start of college football.
We know NFL all of that is right around the corner.
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So we're going to take a look at some of
the storylines in college football. Okay, because I've got some
storylines that I think you are going to be very interesting.
And this is outside of just the top twenty five.
This is breaking down some of the storylines that are
going to be something that will monitor throughout the season,
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and how that will affect the polls, oh yeah, how
it will affect the college football playoff rankings once they
do come out later in the year, and obviously will
have any impact on when we crown a national champion
in college football. And this week we'll also we'll start
breaking down conferences. We'll start doing some conference previews, We'll
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start doing some team previews and giving our thoughts on
who we truly believe is going to be a national contender.
Especially on the college football side, and then also you know,
we'll look at the NFL also, sure, why not? Oh well,
of course we have to. Are you kidding me? It's
about time the Cowboys are finally going to get back
to the promised land. Okay, well, let's get ahead of
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himself here.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
You almost lost Ceedee Lamb, float down there, I mean, okay,
so we'll start there.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
So we'll go ahead and get the the ugly out
of the way on this weekend that we saw, yeah
in the NFL preseason. I mean, is that not almost
the epitome of what's going on in Dallas right now?
Can you imagine if he would have really been injured
and if you didn't see anybody out there that's listening.
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So Ceedee Lamb is there on the sidelines, and Joe
Milton throws a pass and he's got great catch. Looks like,
you know, an opportunity score. So Ceedee Lamb celebrating. He's
running kind of on the the white part of the sideline,
or he's in the white park. Can't stand there, yeah,
but he's standing there, and so he's running a little bit.
But then he stops and he's like celebrating and here
(07:05):
comes the side ref, the sideline judge, you know, and
I mean trucks him. Oh yeah, he no chill. That
had to be a Jerry Jones plant. That ref had
to be. It was absolutely insane, especially how you see
Ceedee Lamb, how he gets hit, Yes, exactly, full body
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he had. I mean, he was blindsided. He had no
idea he was about to get hit the way he did.
Unfortunately he was able to get it up and you know,
laughed it off or whateverybody did receive a penalty, uh
for that play because you can't be in that area. Yes,
and and I know, hey you can laugh. But your
head coach, Mike Tomlin, he's been called doing the same thing.
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Oh no, he wasn't. He wasn't just stand. He tripped
the guy that was That was a purpose exactly. There's
a different little that's a little worse. Yeah, but that
is the epitome right now of the three ring circus
there in Dallas. And can you imagine if if Ceedee
Lamb would have gotten hurt right there?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Oh man, depending on how long he was out and
what it was. Are your season's over? I mean, I
mean you're talking about you still haven't tied down Michael Parsons.
So you've got your best person on defense. What's he doing?
And then you're talking about C. D.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Lamb, yes, being out for any amount of time.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Because of something, just as goobers as that, like, yeah, yeah,
that sums up the Cowboys pretty well.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
And how many times we question, yeah, should you have
your guys playing in preseason? Well, it might have been
better if Ceedee Lamb was on the field right then, yeah, yeah,
than actually on the sideline because he could have gotten
hurt on the sideline. But that does seem to be
right now, what's going on in Dallas. There's a lot
of dysfunction, And I make jest of that, and I
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do understand that, Hey, we'll see what happens come regular season. Yeah,
September fourth, y'all'll be fine. I saw the promos Eagles
Cowboys kicking off that Thursday night on NBC Pea cog.
I mean, it gets you hyped, even with the Cowboys
situation the way it is right now, because it's the
(09:09):
opening of NFL season, you know, and it's the Super
Bowl champs, and it's the NFC East, and it's Philly
and Dallas. We know they don't like each other. We
know that rivalry, and my wife said, oh yeah, I
really used to like this rivalry when Dallas was winning.
But now it's a complete opposite. And especially it's just
(09:30):
magnified because the Eagles seem to be a organization that's
functioning at a high level. They just won the Super
Bowl and they've been two times and you know, in
the past four years. So there is something right now
that even makes it worse if you're a Dallas Cowboys
fan that you're seeing the Eagles and their rise right now.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Well, it's almost two sides of the same coin, right,
I mean, you look at the Cowboys and the dysfunction,
and then you have the Eagles and the stability.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
It's it's insane. And then you've got, yes, you've.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Got basically head coach, general manager and everything all rolled
into one with Jerry Jones. And then just from a
top down perspective with the Eagles of how well it's run.
And I'm looking at it like, I mean, you don't
hear a whole lot about their owner, you know. So
it's it's interesting now that you mentioned that, I hadn't
thought of it, but yeah, it's kind of mirror images.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Of each other, and all. Yeah, that's the problem is
that the Cowboys are just showing even more of there's
more of their dysfunction, right, based on other teams that
are in their division. Oh yeah, and that's the problem.
And again, I know we're not necessarily touting you know,
division over division or whatever, but within your division, I mean,
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we know that's the easy path. Just go win your
division and you're in the playoffs, right, and you've got
a great opportunity of succeeding in the playoffs there if
you can win your division. So you do have to
take that into consideration. All right, enough about the Cowboys.
We will break down much more of the NFL. But
I did want to get to the AP poll that
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just came out, And now, how much are we going
to value the polls right now? Because we know later
on in the college football season they're not going to
mean anything, right, it's all about the college football playoff rankings.
But how much do these actually impact the college football
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playoff rankings later? Now that's a good question, because yeah,
there is something to be said about you start believing
in some of these narratives and the biases that go
with that. And that's where you have to be careful.
But it does at least give us a reference to
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begin the season as far as where we can put
these teams, and especially when you're looking at the schedule,
how the opening weekend, how that's going to look. And
we talked about it last week with in the coach's poll.
When you got Texas number one, Ohio State number two
and they play opening weekend or week one, Yeah, I
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should say, of college football. And so that's the number
one versus the number two. And we've never seen that
to open the season. Yeah, number one versus number two,
And so that's pretty impressive. So you do have that
at least to gauge some of the games that you
want to watch. And I know we've had people call
in and actually talk about that that Hey, at least
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it gives me an idea. Okay, that's that's a game
that maybe I want to watch versus another game, and right,
you know, and I do understand that. But again, how
much are we valuing these polls? Very similar to how
much do we value what we see in NFL preseason.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
I think, at least from a casual fan perspective, the
preseason poll if you're not following it super closely. At
least gives you an idea of like, okay, like all right,
this is where these teams are. Like if you're if
you're casually following it and you're you're not super investing
keeping up with all the storylines, at least you have
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a guideline of Okay, here's the top twenty five teams.
These are supposedly the best based on whatever metric they're
coming up with. Maybe it's because they like them, it
doesn't matter, but there's there's a metric that the AP
has that's just as their top twenty five.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Yes, and so when you look at the AP Top
twenty five versus the Coaches poll, I'm interested in how
this comes about. All right, So Texas is number one
in the AP Top twenty five and number one in
the Coaches poll. Right, Penn State is number two in
the AP poll, but they're number three in the Coaches poll.
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But when you look at Texas versus Penn State in
the number one, number two position there, Texas had twenty
five first place votes, Penn State twenty three first place votes,
and so the total points they were only separated by
five points. Oh wow, and that's the closest we've seen
of a number one versus number two two since nineteen
(14:01):
ninety eight. So you can see how the media right
now is trying to I mean, they're basically saying it's
a coin flip, yeah, between the two Texas and Penn State.
And that's why little preview. I think there's something to
be said about a storyline this year in college football,
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and that could be Penn State. I could see that
number three in the AP poll is Ohio State, and
we know we just talked about them, and the Coaches
polled their number two. Clemson is number four in the
AP poll. Interesting, a little bit higher than the coaches poll.
And Clemson only got two first place votes in the
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coaches poll, but got four first place votes in the
AP poll. Georgia at number five with one first place vote.
They're in the AP Notre Dame number six, Oregon number seven,
Oregon got a first place vote, Alabama eight, LSU nine,
in Miami ten. Very similar to what the Coach's poll has. Yeah,
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in terms of once you get past Georgia at five,
there with Notre Dame, Oregon, Alabama and LSU and Miami
orgon Alabama LSU and Miami are all the exact same
seven through ten, So I'm curious, and I want to
talk about South Carolina in just a minute, because South
Carolina is also thirteenth in the Ape Pole and their
thirteenth in the Coach's Pole. I would like to see this.
(15:30):
If we're going to do this, I want to see
it where they both come out at the same time,
so they can't cheat off each other's homework. Bingo. Yeah.
I don't want to see narratives that are already be
informed when the Coach's poll comes out, and then we're
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sitting there examining the Coach's Pole, and you can't tell
me there's not some type of bias that goes into
it and some laziness. That's what I was going to say.
There's a little bit of that.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
I want to shuffle this around so that it looks
a little bit different. It's like, copy my homew make
it look like you didn't copy it.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
That's right. Oh yeah, yes, trying to move away. Oh
it's not AI, it's not chat GPT. I came up
with this. That's why I want to see it come
out at the exact same time. And I wonder how
different it would be if both of the polls came
out at the same time, So we don't have the
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opportunity of hearing some of these narratives. We're already here
in the narrative as they are, But once you see
it there with numbers attached to it, you start automatically.
It's just human nature. And I'm not faulting any of
these people necessarily, other than the fact that, Hey, I
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really hope it's not laziness and that, oh, I just
got to vote. To vote, you should really take that
honor to be able to vote, Oh yeah, and do
your homework with it and make sure that you are
putting the effort into it. I've been able to vote
in like the SEC and ACC media polls. Really yes,
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because I'm go to the media days and as an
attendee and a member, you get the opportunity to vote.
That's kind of cool and so and I take it seriously.
I mean, I probably overanalyze it way too much. You, yes,
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but it's something that hey, if I'm going to put
the effort into this, hey, I want to do the
best job that I can. And now some of it too.
Don't get me wrong. When I'm trying to compare you know,
Mississippi State in Kentucky or you know, I'm looking at
Syracuse in Virginia Tech. It's it's a little or I
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should say, this is a better example where I struggled
California and Stanford in the SCC. Now was like, all right,
how much time am I spending on those teams to really,
you know, do I really believe that Stanford is so
much better than cal or vice versa. Right, But my
point is is that I hope that all of these
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voters are taking the series and even from the coach's side.
And I've told the story before. I know how the
coach's poll works. Now, maybe here at the beginning of
the season you do have you know, the head coach involved,
but I can promise you throughout the season at least
on the basketball side. Yeah, the head coach at Maryland
Eastern Shore we were Division one. He would hand me
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the form and say take care of it, and I
would vote yeah, And that's how it worked. So again,
maybe it's a little bit different, but I just hope
that they're putting the effort into it and also not
just going off of now. You also, I do understand
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you have to do homework. Oh yeah, so when you
start reading certain things over and over again, you start
believing in some of those things. But that would be
my suggestion to make these polls better or more relevant
is have them come out at the same time.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
If I had to wager a guess, and if they
came out at the same time, I would say one
through five would probably look pretty similar to what we
see today, where yes, cause I feel like at least
in college football, and I guess you could say that
along pretty much any sport, especially you go over in
the NFL, you have kind of the usual suspects, Especially
in college football, though there's that top five where you're like, okay,
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you could probably interchange those and we said it many
times that it's almost like splitting hairs at that point,
like which one is number one, which one is number two.
It's almost personal flavor at that point what you think
would be one over the other. Now, once you get
out of that top five, that's where I would be
curious to see if they came out at the same time.
I think that might look a little bit different going
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from six to ten, ten to fifteen, especially fifteen on
into twenty five. I would be curious to see what
that looks like. But the top five I think would
look pretty similar.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yeah, I would think so. Also, and because we're we
know some of the storylines at the end of the year,
oh yeah, yeah, and now it is a little bit
different with the transfer of portal, right, how that affects
teams And that's why I also, how much can we
really gauge these teams? Yeah, right now, because there's so
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many question marks, and especially when you're having teams that
are changing their quarterback. Oh yeah, and even it might
be a veteran quarterback that had success at a previous
school the year before. But does that mean automatically it's
going to be success at your school? Not always? Not always. Yeah,
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it's I'm anxious to see how And we'll break down
some of these stats in terms of again, teams that
are in the top twenty five to start pre season
and where they end up at the end of the season,
and then vice versa teams that are not in the
top twenty five, and how many times they actually end
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up ranked in the top twenty five, and including actually
being ranked in the top ten. It's more than you
think and that's what's crazy. That's why we don't know
what the hell we're talking about here. We try to,
we think we do. We want to know what we're
talking about, but we don't always do that. All right,
we'll look at more of the ap poll. The top
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two four zero five four eight zero. All right, we
were talking about the AP poll. It just came out
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the top twenty five and the excitement heading into the
college football season. Oh so close for Week zero, August
twenty third, and so we do have a ranked matchup
with Iowa State and Kansas State. They're in Dublin, Ireland.
That's right, Yeah, So I mean there you care? So
now all of a sudden, that's a hell of a
game to watch because we've got two teams ranked in
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the top twenty five and having an opportunity of playing
across the pond, so to speak, there in Dublin, Ireland.
And how much excitement is that going to be for
college football fans? That's the question? Because are you out men?
Not really? I guess it depends on how how much
you buy into that ranking. What are they ranked? Kansas
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State seventeen and Iowa State twenty two? Does that count?
Speaker 3 (23:26):
I Mean, I get they're in the top twenty five,
but at a certain point, I feel like most people
only care about top ten unless their team is in there.
Then the like if you're a Carolina fan, obviously you
care that Carolina is there at thirteen.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
That means something. But pass that Does anybody care? That's
the question, all right? So, speaking of South Carolina, game
Cocks are ranked thirteenth in the AP preseason Top twenty
five poll and also thirteenth in the Coaches Poll. It
marks the first time the game Cocks have been ranked
in the AP preseason poll since they entered the twenty
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fourteen season. Wow, and they were ranked ninth in the country.
And remember, they're coming off of a nine to four
season in which they won their last six regular season
games to finish nineteenth in both the AP and the
Coaches poll. And think about this the schedule, and then
I'm bullish on the game Cock this year. I've already
(24:21):
talked about it. I think they have a legitimate shot
to make the college football Playoff with the twelve team expansion.
I do believe that they do have the opportunity. But
six games feature teams that are ranked in the preseason
AP poll. Clemson number four, Alabama ranked number eight, LSU
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ranked number nine, Oklahoma eighteen, Texas A and M nineteen,
and Ole Miss twenty one. Somebody is not going to
be ranked when South Carolina plays them. Yeah, there's just
no question. I just don't know which team that is,
other than the fact that maybe it's a Texas A
and M, because I don't know. Can we believe in
Texas A and M. How many years have we been
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saying in there? Yes, exactly. Of course, anytime I see
Texas A and M, I'm going to be upset when
they're ranked pre season, Yeah, because they just don't finish
that way, right, that's the problem with Texas A and
M now. And I do like Mike Elko. I think
he has the opportunity to actually do something special at
Texas A and M. Jimbo Fisher wasn't able to do that.
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I mean, you can go back to RC Slocum days.
But we've been hyping Texas A and M up for
so long Johnny manziel and after you know, you beat
Alabama on the road and he has his magical moment,
that magical season. But outside of that, I mean, it
seems to be let down each and every year for
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Texas A and M. And so how about this, talking
about letdowns, here's the preseason AP top two twenty five
according to each year teams that finish below five hundred
and are not ranked in the top twenty five. After that, Okay,
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In twenty twenty four, there were seven teams seven total
of seven that were in the top twenty five and
didn't even finish below I mean they finished below five hundred.
It's a lot, that's a lot. Seven of the top
twenty five, and twenty twenty three there was only one.
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So for whatever reason, hey, we might have actually had
a little bit of better understanding of that. Twenty twenty
three season, twenty twenty two, five teams finished below five hundred.
Twenty twenty one, another seven teams finish below five hundred.
All right, how about this the preseason ap top twenty
five teams that ended up winning ten or more games.
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So in twenty twenty four there were eleven teams that
had success. So we did a good job. We gauged
this correctly. In twenty twenty three, fifteen teams I finished
with ten, and you go back to in twenty twenty three,
there was only one team that was in the preseason
top twenty five that finished below five hundred. Yeah, they
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nailed that year. They nailed it. Yeah, somehow somebody did
their homework that year. So that's pretty special right there.
So the point is is that there's going to be
teams that drop out yea of this top twenty five.
We know that's going to happen. And at least one
team that started the season unranked finished in the top
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ten in the final AP pole twenty nine of the
last thirty one years. Again, at least one team that
started the season unranked finished in the top ten in
the final AP pole twenty nine of the last thirty
one years. There's a spoiler out there, There's somebody that
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comes out and just redefines their season. So here's some
teams that are outside of the top twenty five BYU, Utah, Baylor, Louisville,
Southern col Georgia Tech, Missouri, Tulane, Nebraska, UNLV, Toledo, Auburn,
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James Madison, Memphis, Florida State, Duke, Navy, Liberty, Iowa, TCU, Pittsburgh, Army, Louisiana,
and Colorado. I know that's a long laundry list of
teams right there, and I don't expect anybody to remember
everything that had just read. But the point is, is
there a team that's outside of there, like a BYU
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Utah Louisville. Is it a Georgia Tech, Is it a Nebraska?
Is it an Auburn? Is it a Florida State? What
team has the opportunity to be in the top ten
at the end of the season. That's a good thinking.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
I am.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
I'm part of the one. I know you don't have
the list. If you don't have the list in front
of you, it's hard to write to understand. I get
that I'd have to.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Do a little bit more homework, But part of me
wants to believe in that Florida State only because we're
crazy rebound. I was gonna say they had such a
crazy drop off last year because you remember the year
before that, you know, they barely missed the playoffs by
that much, and then all of a sudden come out
ye undefeated. Yeah there were yeah, and there was a
twelve team playoffs they're in.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Then last year the huge crazy drop off that nobody predicted.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
They're one team. Yeah, they're the one team that was
in the top ten. Yes, sell out.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Wouldn't it be so poetic for them to be out
of the top twenty five and come back in and
finish in the top ten.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
This year though, as a storyteller, as somebody here who
likes the opportunity of something to talk about obviously here
on the radio, that would be phenomenal to see some
type of crazy story like that and to have something
to talk about. Right, But that's a huge leap, mister Falco.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
I think they need I think they need one Richmond
Weaver and one camera.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Set up, because that's that's right. You need to jump
on that.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
So your next documentary, Florida State, own crew there with
Florida State.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Yes, and we will document this entire season. They'll go
win the ACC and they'll go win a game on
a crazy field goal or walk off touchdown in the
college football playoff. Allah what Furman was able to do
in twenty twenty two as I was able to embed
a film crew with the team again thanks to Bob
Ritchie and Jason Donnelly, the athletic director there for allowing
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me to do that. Yeah, so who knows, try to
speak it into existence.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Let's follow it, right, The Richmond Weaver effect is real.
How many how many teams have you been a part
of personally that.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Have gone on? There's something there. Yeah, it's just maybe
a little Midas touched. I don't know what it is,
but and that's why maybe South Carolina fans get ready.
That's right, Yeah, I'm telling you get ready. If I'm
looking at some of these teams, though, Florida State would
be a tough one for me at this point, although again,
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that would be a crazy story. Could it be a
Louisville or could it be a Georgia Tech. You've been
pretty high on Georgia Tech. I have been high on
Georgia Tech. And that's why I think that game in Atlanta,
the third game of the season for the Clemson Tigers
there against Georgia Tech and the Flats there at noon,
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I think that could be a tricky game for the Tigers.
I do think Clemson will win that game, but that's
gonna be that's gonna be a hard faught game against
Georgia Tech. And I don't know, maybe Missouri again, I
think they have shown it's very tough to beat them
at home. Yeah, but going on the road could be
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a different story. But twenty nine out of the last
thirty one years, there's been a team that's been unranked
that has finished in the top ten. So statistics tell
us that there's a high probability that one of these
teams is going to do it. Could it be a BYU,
could it be a utah? Let us know your thoughts
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And let's head out to the Engles hotline right now,
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the Richmond Weavers show. Who's this?
Speaker 4 (32:23):
Hey Richmond, I'm Terrey. How are you guys doing this afternoon?
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Doing fantastic Billy? How about you? Sir?
Speaker 4 (32:29):
Very good? I've got a question, now, what do you
think the percentages should be on these opening polls at
the end of the year, not just this year, but
every year? What do you think would be? Do you
think it should be half? You think it should be
a third? What do you think both of you guys finishes?
The percentages tould be of right teams in slide the
top twenty five because it's not an exact spot.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
No, yeah, it's definitely not an exact science. And so
what I'm making sure to understand your question is how
many teams out of the top twenty five that are
preseason should also be ranked at the end of the season.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
In the last poll, Yeah, the last poll it comes out.
In other words, how accurate will they be, and I'm
amazed if that twenty twenty three how accurate they will out,
because I would have never guessed it would have been
that accurate at any time.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Honestly, Yeah, I would suspect. I mean to be honest
with you to your point, Billy, that it's it's much
more art. It's not an exact science. I mean, if
you could get close to fifty percent.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
Is that Yeah, I think that's where I'm at. I
think it's just under fifty percent, because you know, thirteen
out of it. To me, it would be hard to
hit thirteen out of twenty five, Yeah, which would be
just over fifty. I'm thinking it's probably closer to Towielve.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
That's probably about right. What about the top.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
Ten, I would say it's probably closer to eight out
of ten at least will be ranked, maybe not in
the top ten, but will be ranked. You know the
reason I'm doing this because I knew when you when
you were reading that poll off. The last time the
South Carolina had been ranked in the final poll or
at the beginning of the poll was twenty fourteen. I
remember that year. They got chilled that year at home
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the opening game that by Texas A and M, and
it set the standard for the rest of the year.
And then I know that in twenty twenty two to
South Carolina wasn't rank and ended up in the top twenty.
And then in twenty twenty four they written ranked and
ended up in the top fifteen. So or or I
guess specifically that gets caught twenty considering that lost of Illinois.
But yeah, anyway, I know it happens every year, and
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there's going to be some that are on the outside
looking in that's going to end up in that pole,
and there's going to be plenty there aren't and I'm
just hoping that the South Carolina is not because South
Carolina is one of those things specifically right now, I
would be shocked if Clemson wasn't ranked end of the year.
Now I'm not saying they're going to in the national title.
We don't know. That's that's a whole lot of speculation,
but it would be shocking to me for them not
to be ranked, okay, because I think they're looking at
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that worst a ten to two top season, you know,
regular season's right, that's worthy of being ranked. So but
South Carolina, because of their schedule and what they've lost.
You know, they could be ten and two. Well, they
could be six to six. I mean, let's just be honest.
And there's a lot of people that are really high
on them and people who are like, Okay, they're not
going to be top twenty five worthy. So that's what
has gotten me curious about this.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Yeah, and I think you're right in terms of Clemson
when you look at their schedule and the roster that
they've got coming back, and especially you know, with a
quarterback kid club Nick, I think they're going to answer
some of the questions. On the defensive side. With the
addition of Tom Allen as the defensive coordinator, I do
think that's going to add a little bit of a
different spark, so to speak. We know he's a really
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good defensive coordinator, and I think he's a good head
coach what we saw previously to his time as Penn
State's defensive coordinator and then for South Carolina. I mean,
I do feel very confident about South Carolina and their
roster and the weapons that they have. And I know
on the defensive side, yes, you're feeling some voids there
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that were left from leaders on the team. So it's
not just the athletic ability that you're having to replace,
but you're having to replace some of that leadership. But
I do think you've got some guys that can come
in and provide some of that. But part of it,
too is the schedule. I mean, there's something to be
said about that, and so especially when you're looking at
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some of the four game stretches there were for some
of these teams in South Carolina definitely has one of
those stretches of four games where I mean it's a
gauntlet when you're looking at some of the teams that
South Carolina has to play, when you're looking at not
only home versus on the road as well, and you know,
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South Carolina easily has a top fifteen toughest schedule in
the country right now, so that could be a factor
obviously and how they finish the season.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
Yeah, yeah, that's sorry. It's the combination of the loss
is the key losses. I mean it's not just defense.
You know, they lost finding on offense and they also
lost anders to contribute in pre season games this week.
I know it's preseason, but that tells you that they
are elite, So, you know, versus the schedule, that's what
worries me, but I do feel pretty good about it.
But you know, you were mentioning teams that I think
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that could be in the top twenty five. You mentioned
two of the three that I think. First of all,
I think Georgia Tech could possibly be a fringe top
ten team if you look at their schedule. I like
what they've back, what they're coming back with, I like
their quarterback. And then their schedule is so easy. They've
got Clemson in Georgia and that's it. I mean, I'm sorry,
but that's the truth. And so because of that, I
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fully expect them to be at least a nine win team.
And then I do like Louisville. Now, you know, I
was kind of leaning towards them being the other team
versus Clemson. I've looked at some of their schedules and
I've backed off of that a little bit. It would
not surprise to me it's going to be Clemson versus
either Miami, Louisville or Georgia Tech. I think it's going
to be one of those three teams. I'm not sure
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that I'm positive Pumpson's going to be the one that's
the number one seed going into the ACC championship game.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Yeah, and I could definitely see that. Now, the question
is is there going to be a surprise How How
is Miami with Carson Beck? How are they going to
play down there in South Florida, Because I do think
that's a team and also the wild card though you're
talking about schedule, really it's North Carolina and that's a
(38:21):
you know, A.
Speaker 4 (38:22):
Well, they're going to be the surprise team. I would
be shocked if they're in the ACC Tournament. I know
their schedule is easy. Now I think they're going to
win eight games. For me, I think they're they're lost
their Vegas or whatever it is. Sportsbook's predictions of over
under was like seven and a half. I would take
that all day if you look at that versus that schedule.
But I just don't think they're going to be I
would be shocked at they're one of those two teams.
(38:45):
I just put that out there. I don't think they're
going to improve that much. I do think they're going
to be improved.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
Yes, No, and I agree with you. That's a big
stretch for Bill Belichick. As great of a coach as
he is, he's still unproven on the college level. Because
we don't know what that roster is going to be
like for North Carolina.
Speaker 4 (39:03):
The rosters. If you gave them Crimson's roster, I've put
them in the National change him. That would be a
Crimsons roster. They've got North Carolina's roster, which is better
than North Carolina's roster last year, but it's still not
a top ten roster. So I just think versus that schedule,
they're probably going to be an eight or maybe even
a nine win team. But that doesn't get you in
today's sec T Championship. I don't believe that we'll see anyway.
(39:25):
It's in a racing. And then the last thing is
you guys are talking about Dallas. I mean that lamb
thing didn't bother me because it's pre season. If it
had happened on you know, Thursday night versus Philadepia, I've
been a little bit more embarrassed. But then again, it
wouldn't have happened because he would have been playing in
the game. They were on offense.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
I know. But the problem is, can you imagine if
he had gotten hurt though Billy.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
Yeah, wouldn't that view the Jerry Jones things that.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Does, Yes, exactly, that's the point. Yes, that would be
so apropos for the Dallas Cowboys, the way things are
going right now, with the dysfunction and the lack of
playoff postseason success in the past thirty years.
Speaker 4 (40:03):
Yeah. Well, you know, listen, I'm sure you guys have
taken a gander maybe at a line or two, because
you know our contest is coming up. Yes, I've already
looked at some lines, and I'm telling you right now,
I hate to say this, Richmond, but I'm leaving leaning
heavily towards Philadelphia in that game. It's a bad matchup
for Dallas. They've got a big offensive line, they like
to run the ball, and Dallas has not stopped the
(40:24):
run in since the ninety So I just don't see
it being competitive. Honestly, I'm just saying it. When I
say competitive, Listen, it's hard to win in an NFL game,
especially an opener, by three or four touchdowns. But I
think they're going to win that game by double ditches.
That's just my personal opinion. Anyway, I'll hang up and listen.
I appreciate you guys.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
Thank you, Billy. We appreciate it as always, and we
do have to hit this Brake as we'll continue this
Monday edition of the Richmond Weaver Show presented by Ingles Markets.
Right after this, the Monday edition of the Richmond Weavers
Show presented by Ingles Markets continues right here on one
of four nine Fox Sports Upstate. As we are already
(41:04):
moving through the first hour, as we're getting close to
start our number two. But let's take a look at
some of the best performances from this past weekend.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
The biggest moments from the weekend. It's Rich's weekend's best, really.
Speaker 2 (41:19):
Good, like all right, and you do have the opportunity
you can actually participate. The text line is open eight
six four triple seven ninety five ninety three, and let
us know what maybe your weekend's best, either one of
ours or if you have something else that you might
have seen again the text line eight six four triple
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seven ninety five ninety three. All right, I'm going to
start with golf. Oh first off, all right, and it
was oh so close because I thought it was going
to be Tommy Fleetwood would be able to get his
very first PGA Tour victory, but no, he did not
make it happen. But justin Rose, he was actually able
to beat jj spawn in a three hole playoff there
(42:05):
at the Saint Jude in Memphis and making at the
age of forty five. He birdied the fourteenth hole, the
fifteenth hole, the sixteenth hole, the seventeenth hole, and then
got into the playoff and birdied two out of the
three holes to win there in the playoff. So yes,
I'm going with Justin Rose on that performance. Oh yeah,
(42:26):
I think rightfully. So dude was on fire. He was
on fire, and again at the age of forty five. Yes,
in the NF al right, how about the NFL. We
heard in the Jacksonville Jaguars game, this call was made.
Speaker 4 (42:40):
They drilled the ball.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
Holy smokes, I got a shot. He just kicked a
seventy year Are you kidding me? Crazy? Ivery crazy? The
NFL record. That would be an NFL record in the
first half. Holy smokes. That's unbelievable. Holy smokes. That's right.
(43:06):
Seventy yard field goal in preseason Cam Little of the
Jacksonville Jaguars. But it doesn't really mean much. Yeah, I
watched that live and I was so hyped for it.
Speaker 3 (43:17):
But like I get why it can't be a record,
and it probably that record will probably never be broken
because who's gonna go for a seventy yard field goal
in game, real game time, and you never know.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
Liam Cohen might, but come on, ah, it should count.
It was beautiful to see, but does not count as
an NFL record because it needs to be in a
regular season game. And now, according to reports that I
read on ESPN, is that he did post on social media, Oh,
(43:47):
don't worry about the record, because there will be more
seventy yard field goals. So he's already trying to speak
it into existence and he obviously has the leg. Oh yeah,
but to your point, who's going to make the decision
to be able to do that? I remember, gosh, this
was late two thousands, like two thousand and nine, Sebastian
(44:07):
Janikowski is when Lane Kiffen was the head coach of
the Raiders at the time, and they trotted him out
there to kick a seventy six yard field goal and
it wasn't even close. And yeah, it's amazing. Now when
you look at some of these kicks, I mean on
some of these guys, exactly, I don't understand. Is there
(44:28):
something different about techniques, something different about the ball, something different,
because these kicks are getting longer and longer, and they're
just more accurate. I mean it's amazing, Like a fifty
yard field goal. Now you're like, oh, yeah, who's going
to make this? Yeah? I mean you almost don't even
second guess it. Yeah, it's absolutely insane. So that is
definitely one of the weekend's best performances. How about this
(44:51):
In the WNBA, former South Carolina game cock Asia Wilson
made history and she became the first player in w
NBA history to record thirty or more points and twenty
or more rebounds in a game. She finished with thirty
two points and twenty rebounds in that game. Yes, so
that was history in the making right there. And how
(45:14):
about this for the Seattle Mariners their offense, this is baseball.
In the last ten games through this weekend, they had
twenty home runs and twenty stolen bases and got caught
stealing zero times. They're the first team in Major League
Baseball history to have a ten game span with at
least twenty home runs and twenty steals while not be
(45:37):
caught stealing one time. And then this one. We also
have to take notice in the Atlanta Falcons and Detroit
Lions games as safety Morris Norris. Maurice Norris was taking
off the field after a serious head injury, taken off
on a stretcher, and as the play would resume, the
(45:59):
Falcons did not snap the ball, and the teams were
just standing around and you're trying to figure out what
was going on. And then they and this is like
with twelve minutes to go, yeah, yeah, in the first
a lot of game time, and they decided that we're
just going to circle up in prayer and in the game,
(46:20):
and that was it. And that's one of my weekend's
best performances that we get to see the humanity and
the special bond that happens in certain situations. And now
the reports are is that Maurice Norris was in stable
condition and had feeling and movement all his extremities, so
(46:42):
it does seem very positive. But maybe that power of
prayer helped right there, those teams coming together. That's the
beauty that we see from humans each and every day.
All right, that's some of the weekend's best and we'll
have Hour two right after this
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