Week 10 Reaction Show + Hugh Freeze FIRED & Updated Playoff Predictions

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Speaker 1 (00:16):
Against doctors orders. Here we are sick. No voice, that's
a live and I got a little bit of a voice.
It's just gonna sound a little distorted tonight, but we
can't miss this show. It can't be not jam packed.
There's some double negatives in there, but it's not nearly
as negative as losing your job, which Hugh Freeze has
done today. It brings me no joy, but we got

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to talk about it. It is a full reaction show
where jam packed high atop a dark downtown Nashville, Tennessee.
Why well, because this country still hasn't gotten its out
together about standard savings time and daylight savings time. And
everybody this side of Danny Knell understands it shouldn't be
dark at four forty eight pm outside my window here.
But yet here we are, and here we are after

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week ten, got full reaction on the show tonight. As
I said, and I know some of you have been
at church today, or you've been at pot luck, or
you've been at grandma's house, and you don't know what
I'm about to tell you, which is Hugh Freeze has
been fired at Auburn. So twenty six days ago I
led this show by saying we were about to punt
the ant bed, as me Ma would say, and when
if you've ever punted an ant bed, you know what

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I mean. If you haven't, you don't have to try it.
Just imagine it. Ants scurry all over the place. It's
really it gets crazy. It's a little chaotic. Well, since
I said that, what if we had Jesse, we had
Arkansas come open, we had Penn State come open. Now
we've got Auburn coming open, LSU's come open. And I
would like to take this Sunday evening, November two and

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suggest to you it's not done coaching carousel madness not done.
I have to update my playoff predictions just a little
bit tonight. I think it's only fair that I get
a three point zero shot at the playoff predictions because
the playoff rankings will come out Tuesday night. So we'll
do that. We'll reveal where we're for the tour this week.
We got a jam packed show. Listen. Listen, that's a

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Wherever you're watching. Hey, all seriousness, I know we joke
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let's dive and I'm going to clear the throat about

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thirty times in the show tonight, but that's only so
I can keep talking, which may or may not be
a good thing, you know, But like this right here,
that's how you know we mean business. Hugh Freeze was
fired at Auburn today. Buy out a little bit north
of fifteen million dollars. This is not a surprise to
anyone who's watching college football. It's not a surprise to

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anyone who's watched Auburn this year fifteen to nineteen, over
three seasons, six and sixteen in SEC play and of
course one in five in SEC play this year, not
getting blown out. In fact, you could make the argument,
and some would, that officiating cost them the Oklahoma game.
You can make the argument and some would that may

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be officiating cost them the Georgia game. They lost the games.
And you know, if you've watched them this year, if
you watched them last night, god bless you. There were
other options on now. I because I am a sick,
sick individual, I watched nearly every snap of Kentucky Auburn.
We got back from the SMU game in time for

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this game to start, and so I watched it wire
to wire because we got to support Cublic Kublic. The rare,
well semi rare color commentator booth spot last night wasn't
even on the field, And what a thing for a
former Auburn Tiger himself to witness from the fifty yard line.
So I watched it. It was ugly, it was bad.

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Jackson normal doesn't start the game, then he comes off
the bench, then he gets rebinched. That was basically a
microcosm of the Hugh Freeze era at Auburn. There will
be thousands and thousands of words written about what went wrong,
Why didn't it pan out? Why did Hugh Freeze fail
at Auburn? And you just boil it down to four

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of them never figured out quarterback. That's it. That's it.
There's not really a whole lot of overthinking that has
to go on here now. With Brian Kelly at LSU, Guys,
there were layers to that, and I'm not saying, actually,
I am saying it's pretty straightforward. It's pretty fundamental. With
Hugh Freeze, you know, when he first got there, when
they first made the move to hire him, there were

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a lot of people saying, oh, does he deserve a
second chance because he had run a foul of all
kind of bylaws, both ethical and sec when he was
at Ole Miss And then he went to Liberty and
he paid his dues and he worked his way back up.
Does he deserve the right to come back? Is it
a big risk? And you know all the reasons, all
the bullet points for why it was risky. I kind

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of laughed at those at the time, because I thought, Man,
the risk here is does the offense still work? He's
not going to get in trouble off the field anymore.
This dude's getting a second chance that most people thought
he'd never get. That's not going to be the issue.
The issue is going to be whether you should really
be bankrolling your entire future behind a guy whose resume's

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biggest bullet points were I beat Saban a couple of times. Now,
if you had doubts of that, okay, But the doubts
about all the extra curricular stuff. I never really thought
that was much of a risk. The risk, as it
turns out, was on field related, and the risk, as
it turns out, was is it going to figure out quarterback?

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It wasn't even the offense. I think a lot of
people are going to look and say, oh, Hugh Freeese's
offense didn't work anymore. Now, Look, there may be layers
of truth to that too. Do we really even know.
I mean, really think about the three years here, do
we really even know if his offense would have worked.
I can tell you one thing we know. It doesn't
work if you don't have the right quarterback, which shockingly

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we have learned about a lot of offenses around college football.
It doesn't tend to work if you don't have the
right quarterback. You look at the nil market, you look
at the recruiting market, you look at a lot of
the big dollar figures that teams are paying quarterbacks, and
I know it rubs some of you the wrong way.
And to those of you who feel that way, I
would just advise you not to pay attention to what

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the players get paid. Trust me, life's a lot easier
that way. But if you ever wonder why those quarterbacks
get paid what they do, check out what happens when
you don't have one. Ask Q Freeze. Ask Auburn, who's
now going to have to pay tens of millions of
dollars and buy out money and then hiring a new
staff to make up for not paying two or three
million dollars for the right quarterback. Which reminds me no,

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of course, Jackson Arnold didn't work out for Hugh Freeze.
But what was crazy is they went through last cycle
and they didn't really spend on quarterback because they were
saving up to spend in this cycle. And you know,
on the surface, I thought the plan kind of made sense.
We went over that at the time, like they weren't
gonna make much noise in year two anyway. Why invest

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in a big time quarterback and create a false bubble
of expectation, Wait one more year, So that logic I
was on board with. Problem was they got to this
cycle and the quarterback market was what it was, but
it was not void of options. I will ever listened
to that, because I'm not going to turn on an
Indiana game and watch Fernando Mendoza doing what he's doing

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and think, oh, Auburn couldn't have paid and gotten that kid.
I'm not gonna watch Steve Angeli even doing what he
was doing at Syracuse before injury, and say, oh, Auburn
never could have made a run at that kid. They
made a run at the wrong one, That's what they did.
And it cost Hugh Freeze's job. So look, maybe his
offense wouldn't have worked out, Maybe there were maybe there
was too much stock put in a couple of wins

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over Nick Saban ten years ago. Totally fair. I don't
even know that it's that complicated. Guy just didn't get
quarterback figured out. I mean, otherwise they were a physical team,
play good defense, could run the ball, didn't matter. That
just means a lot of close losses, that's all that means.
So you could feel this in the spring, you could

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feel it in the summer. I thought it was very
peculiar when he rolled into Atlanta had SEC media days,
and I don't know, I don't know what his deal was. Actually,
he voluntarily just started talking about expectations and started talking
about how it should be playoffs, and man, I look,

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if I thought I had the best team in the
history of my organization, I wouldn't talk like that. And
certainly he couldn't have felt that way. I know that
because Hugh Freeze is not dumb. He's forgotten a lot
more about football than I'll ever know. But even I
was picking up from around the program a lot of
people that were saying, Hey, we're not in love with
where we're at right now, and that doesn't always mean

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the end of the world, because you're not what you're
gonna be coming out of spring. Kirby Smart presents every
post spring the idea that his team could go six
and six. Here it could be bad, so you know,
it's not the end of the world. But there were
warning signs. There were red flags around Auburn post spring
going into summer, same thing coming out of summer, going
into fall camp. Right before that media day is just

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the buzz was not great. So look, they won that
Baylor game, which sort of prolonged the inevitable. I thought
it was a big deal they won the Baylor game,
but so that the warning the warning signs were there.
It's not a shot, none of that. I think some
of the criticisms are kind of lame. That's just me.

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I know, if you're losing games, you can't be having
regular tea times, you can't have a social life, you
can't be perceived to be doing anything other than grinding
away twenty hours at the desk. I get all that
they get paid a lot of money. It's fair. I
don't even say, don't criticize, that's fine. All I'm saying
is there's some guys that are about to take their

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teams to the playoffs that enjoy a fair amount of
activities outside the office. Guys, it's not that he didn't
figure out quarterback. If he I mean, if he had
Ty Simpson playing for him, or had Dante More down
there playing for him, and they did what they're doing,
nobody would have cared. What he was doing on Sunday

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afternoon at two pm wouldn't have mattered. He didn't get
quarterback figured out. Hugh Freeze worked plenty hard enough, So
I don't buy that. I don't buy that he didn't care.
In fairness, most people aren't saying that. You know, a
few on the fringe may say it, but a lot
of the criticisms it comes with the territory. I get it.
I think he gets it, but he didn't win because

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he didn't have quarterback figured out. So anything above and
beyond that is just kind of people want to dunk
on someone because he's on his way out. There was
zero scandal, I mean major scandal. I'm not presenting Hugh
Freeze as a choir boy or anything like that. But
remember what the history here is, and remember what the
risks were. Oh man, if we bring him back in,
oh think about the risk we're running. There was none

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of that. The risk was not figuring out quarterback. Okay,
now that we've belabored that point, where's Auburn gonna go here?
I got a big concern with the Auburn coaching search.
So Pete Nakos put out the hot board today and
Pete has John Summer all on there. See that second name,

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got jim Fisher on there. And as you laugh about
Jimbo Fisher being listed, I'm gonna tell you don't laugh.
I'll come back to that in a second. He's got
James Franklin, Brent Key, Clark, Lee, Eli Drinkwitz, Kenny Dillingham.
I don't think Ryan Silverfield or Alex Golish would factor
into this search, at least until they missed on several

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other candidates. Let me put it that way. So first
thing I hope Auburn doesn't do is go down the
Jimbo Fisher road. Got nothing against Jimbo Fisher. I know
some of you look at that name and you kind
of laugh. What's Nakos doing. He's putting Jimbo Fisher's name
on that list because there is a pretty big push

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behind certain scenes to get Jimbo Fisher back into the
coaching world. And what you need to ask yourself is
not do I think Jimbo Fisher would work out at Auburn.
I know it wouldn't be a good hire, of course
it wouldn't. But I'm not a big money donor at Auburn.
So before you just laugh that off, you need to
make sure all your big money don't think it's also
a laughable notion, because if they don't think it's a

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laughable notion, then it has some legitimacy. And all I'm
saying is you might want to kick the tires around
there and make sure everyone's on the same page that
Jimbo Fisher is not an option here, right, right, right, okay,
because you need to get all head nods to the yes, yes, correct,
He's not an option here. Let's just make sure that.

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And then the other thing that I'm concerned about is
the guy who makes perfect sense for this job is
John Sumral. Why is that concerning, Josh? It's concerning to
me because everyone is saying it. This is one of
those instances, pretty rare, where the overwhelming sentiment I think
is the proper sentiment, which you would think is a

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good thing, but in coaching searches sometimes it's not a
good thing, because sometimes athletic directors want to view themselves
as mavericks. They want to view themselves as having ideas
unique unto themselves. And sometimes you can probably relate to
this in your own life. When it's time for you
to make a big decision, if everyone else is telling

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you which decision you should make, you go the other way,
just to spite the clapping seals out there. And so
right now we got the athletic director down there, we
got John Cohen looking around. Maybe he's looking around, and
if he is, he's everybody's h. John somerall h. Does
that make him more or less likely to view John

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Someral as the favorite? Now some role I think would
kill it here in due time. I also want to
remind everyone I think we are we're looking in the
rear view mirror at what it used to be like
to hire a head coach, and not in the windshield.
In the windshield, none of the proven commodities are going
to be on the move. By proven commodities, I mean

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to the top of the list, which are like Ryan Day,
Kirby Smart like those guys of course are not moving.
But even beyond that, you got multiple jobs that probably
the market views as higher quality than yours. So you
know your A listers are probably not moving now. It
doesn't matter. As long as you land a guy that

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you think is going to be an A lister, that's
all that matters. But you need to bake in the
idea that a guy can professionally develop on your dime.
What that looks like is what Oregon did with Dan Lanning. Josh,
are you saying Landing's available? No, that's not what I said.
I said, pay attention to what Oregon did with Lanning.

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They took a little bit of a risk there. Dan
had never been a head coach before, but they believed
in him and so they went and got him and
they invested in him. Now that the trade there is
if you don't go get an established P four winner,
you pay a little bit less on the front end.
They're thankful to just have the job, and they know

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they'll prove themselves, and you think they'll prove themselves and
as they do, then you tear up the old contract
write a new one. The beauty of that is you
only pay bigger money when they win. That's part one.
Part two is you got to bite the bullet and
understand not everyone's a finished product. Not everyone's gonna come
to you ready to win a championship. Dan Lanning didn't

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come to Oregon immediately ready. Do you see him against
Kalyn Debor first few times he faced him? See Dan
Lanning in the playoff last year in the first round.
He's learning on the job, But Orgon's invested in him
for the long term, and so they'll reap the rewards
for a long time and they'll be in the hunt
most every year. Everyone should be willing to do that

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now and moving forward, everyone should be willing to do that.
Auburn should be willing to do that now. Summer All's
already a head coach. But my point remains like if
anyone looks at that guy and thinks, oh, he's just
a G five head coach, and what does that mean?
Does he have the qualities and characteristics that it takes
to be the head man at Auburn or doesn't he?
How else is he gonna get the experience? So the

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only thing that concerns me there every body is saying
his name, and I wish they weren't. It's actually counterintuitive
right now for the purposes of Auburn hiring the guy
they should hire. Not that he's not the only qualified
candidate on that list. There are certain other names that
I this is no slam dunk guys. There are certain

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other names there that are going to get some major
traction with that job. We'll talk about that in the
coming days. Throat clear number one. You know, we were
in Dallas yesterday, had a fun time, went to the
SMU game, which I'll talk about in great detail a
little bit later on. But a quick trip fueled us

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all the way there, all the way back, fueling the
Fall Don't Lie Tour. Had a number of SMU staffers
actually refer to the tour by its name. That's refreshing.
And so we were there yesterday and even on the
flight home, we're kind of wondering where are we going
this next week? Now I had it narrowed down to
two candidates, but look, I went somewhere in the spring

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and I promised a certain someone that if they took
care of business, there was a date on the calendar
that I would come and visit them, and I would
be at their game and we would bring the yet
to be named tour to their campus. That team was
Texas Tech and Texas Tech took care of business in
the aforementioned game against Kansas State last night, and so

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Joey McGuire did his job and Brigham Young is more
than done their job. So we're going to fulfill our
end of the bargain. We are headed to Lubbock, Texas
this Saturday. Fall Don't Lie Tour will be on the
sideline for BYU versus Texas Tech. It will be my
first game I've ever seen at Texas Tech. We were

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there in spring the Speaker series went out there. Joey
McGuire joined us, but never been to a game there.
The drought is over now. Actually in West Texas. It's
not going to rain to drop all week. I looked
at the forecast, but as far as our visit drought
for a game, it's over. It could be scratched that
it will be an electric atmosphere, as atmospheres in the Lubbic,

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Texas go. I'm excited for the world to see that place.
I think the world the college football public has seen
bits and pieces, little snippets of Texas Tech this year,
and they've watched them climb up the rankings. But really,
how many of you have sat down and watched a
full four quarters of Texas Tech. It's entertaining, very multiple team,

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very dynamic team. And that's a word I'm using a
little bit this year, but only to describe a few teams.
Texas Tech's one of them. Very impressive win yesterday. We'll
talk about that later. So looking forward to that. Next up,
we got a lot to go, We got a lot

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to talk about. Oklahoma just flat out went to Kneeland
and won last night, thirty three to twenty seven. They
beat Tennessee. I would give this game three and a
half child. It was a classic what we would call
a badlock first half. That is derived from badlock stats,
which are the opposite of padlock stats. Badlock stats are
the really, really misleading stats that if you saw nothing

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more than the box scorer, you'd never be able to
guess who won the game. This first half badlock half.
There was a team that had a two fifty five
to ninety nine yardage edge, a seventeen to five first
down edge. That's right, kids, Yeah, that's right. Seventeen first
downs in the first half. I'm not done. Two eleven

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to forty four passing yardage edge, forty nine to twenty
five plays run edge and that team trailed sixteen to
ten at the half. That team was the Tennessee Volunteers.
Three first half turnovers two inside the Oklahoma forty one
led to a score. It was tough. It was so bad.

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I had Tennessee fans hitting me up at halftime, begging
me not to make them the Sarah McLaughlin Special. And
they didn't even know what the second half was going
to bring yet. That's how bad it was. But this
right here is what teams do. Teams good teams do. See,
we thought going into this game that one of these
quarterbacks was probably going to have to win it. And

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I didn't love Oklahoma in the spot because I didn't
think Mateir was playing the kind of ball that made
him capable of going in here and winning this game.
And that's even with Tennessee's defensive limitations. But he didn't
need to. He was nineteen to twenty nine, had one
hundred and fifty nine yards through the air, he threw
a pick. Now, he did have eighty yards on the

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ground and did score a touchdown, but he didn't light
the world on fire. Here. I'll tell you what Oklahoma
did get for the second week in a row, they
got one hundred yard rusher in Xavier Robinson sixteen for
one fifteen. Now that was a big deal. I went
two yards per attempt. It was a big deal because
you're used to guys in college football fading during the season.

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We see that all the time, right, We see guys
that shine in September, but then they get banged up October,
and by November you're like, oh, man, if we only
still had so and so. Oh man, if so and
so would have only been able to play a full year,
well much more seldom, but sometimes there are guys who
aren't ready to go early in the year. Sometimes they're

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rehabben from surgery and you're gonna get him back in
like October. Sometimes they just flat out aren't in shape
at the beginning of the year. Sometimes they missed spring
ball for whatever reason. Well, bottom line is, don't discount
guys just cause they're not lighting the world on fire
in September. And I guarantee you much much of you,
like me, are watching Xavier Robinson knowing full well Localahoma

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has struggled run the ball this year, and you're going,
where's he been all year? They coaching staff and a
bunch of idiots. They've had reasons why they haven't haven't
played who they haven't haven't played. But what's important is
he played last night and he was a key part
of winning this game. It felt like also on the
Tennessee side, this game felt like the first game where
my fears for Joey Aguilar were fully realized, because the

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fear of bringing him in so late was he was
very turnover prone. In his last year at app State,
he had five games with multiple interceptions, so that was
kind of them on him. Now, the hope was, oh,
Hipel's hypel system. Man, it'll open the guys up for him.
It'll make the reads, it'll make the checks. All he's

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got to do is just deliver an accurate ball and
so don't worry what we'll just wash all that away. Well,
this was not that game. If that's how you thought
it was going to go, This was not that game.
And it was a terrible situational game for Tennessee as well.
It's not a game they deserve to win. It was.
It was a tough watch because, like you come out

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of that first and remember a week ago we saw
a and m dominate the first half box score, but
they still trailed LSU. But it just felt like a
matter of time before the dam broke. This game felt
a little different to me. I felt like Tennessee left
a lot on the field in the first half and
they may end up paying for it with a loss,
and that's what happened. However, what I didn't expect is

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to look at my phone. I got two texts last
night from people whose opinions I kind of respect, except
for last night when these are Tennessee fans, mind you,
and they were like, is it time to have the
conversation about hypel? I said, I'd be happy to have
a conversation about Josh. What do you want to know?
And they're like, no, I mean, we're not saying we
should fire him, but well, it sounds like you're saying

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you should fire him, even though you followed it with
a butt. It sounds like that's where you're trying to
go with this. And they're like, well, no, it's just
it's just something has to change here, all right. On
the ladder of criticism in coaching, let's just say we
we have ten rungs, and the tenth th rung is
fire this guy. You need to specify when you say

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changes need to be made, are you talking about like
are you on run three critically or four or five?
Because there's a long way to go between this guy
needs to make some changes versus we need to fire
this guy, and sometimes we just shave off all the
rungs four through nine. It's just either you're wrung three

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or run ten. It's kind of way that was presented
to me last night. So hey, if you want to
say he needs to make some changes on his staff, Okay,
I'm just gonna ask, because I do possess the ability
and the right to zoom out to fifty thousand feet
here for a second. Does anyone care to go back
to July with me? Does anyone care to just recap
what they thought about Tennessee coming into the season, because

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we had a great, big fight on this show right
into this microphone where I looked and I had the
audacity to say, Hey, this dude, Josh Heipel, they're losing
a lot off a good defense last year. This dude,
Josh Hipel just had his quarterback yanked from his roster
after spring and went and got a guy who's been
fairly turnedover prone in his career. Oh, this guy's also

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got some big time defensive injuries. For the guys who
are still there. Coming into the year eight and four,
I feel like eight and four is about right. Oh man,
they rained criticism down on me. Well, here's the problem.
The people. I'm not hating on you. You ought to root
for your team to win every game. What I'm saying
is some people who had I think, unrealistic expectations for

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this team are now getting mad at the team for
not fulfilling on their unrealistic expectations. Tennessee's right in line
to do what I thought they were going to do.
I had him as an eight and four team. I
thought it was a transition year. I called it a
bridge year. They'll be I think they'll be right back
in the mix next year. I mean, hot seat and
Joshipel shouldn't even be in the same sentence unless he

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is commenting on the hot seat about someone else, is
how I view that. So Tennessee's right where I expected. Now,
they got New Mexico State, they go to Florida, they
got Vandy left. Where are they going to finish? What
are they a three lost team? The other three lost team.
Right now, they run the table. They can do better
than I thought they'd do. I think they may lose

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one more game, either the Florida game or the Vandy game.
I would advise you, guys to make it the Florida game.
Don't be losing the Vandy and nieland last weekend of
the season. It's hey. As for Oklahoma, now, all of
a sudden, we got to repopularize the notion that Oklahoma
has everything in front of them. Remember, let me take
it to the preseason again. Do you remember the conversation

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about three loss SEC teams making the playoff? Some of
you scoffed at it. Many of you scoffed at it,
but most of you agreed, begrudgingly. If there's a three
loss team from the SEC that makes the playoff, probably
going to be Florida or Oklahoma. Well, mathematically, I'm told
Florida is incapable of being a three loss team because

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they've already lost more than three. Oklahoma is seven and
two and they got three games left. They're gonna go
to Bama off of bye. By the way, they're gonna
go to Bama. They've got Missouri at home. Injured quarterback
and they got LSU decapitated head coach. So what happens
if OU loses one more game? They lose the Bama game,

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they're nine to three. Where are they gonna be? Or
are they gonna don't? Don't don't just be dismissing the
notion because you hate SEC teams? Tell me? Are there
gonna be twelve resumes better than that? I'm asking rhetorically
because I don't know yet, how do you think it's
gonna play out? Much less? If they win all their
remaining games, then they're a shoe win. And I'm wondering

(28:41):
if they lose one of those games. Oklahoma sort of
left for dead after the Old Miss loss. I thought
they'd lose this past weekend. So I include myself in
that Interesting times. Interesting times, Let's move on. I'm gonna
take a chuggle of water right quick? If I objected
in the studio, So I'm gonna take a chug of water.

(29:03):
Turn the logo around a straight from the plastic carton.
So no bph in that definitely not no, that's that's
high quality plastic. SMU beat Miami in overtime yesterday. This
line plummeted as the game got closer. I was sitting

(29:25):
in the press box show today because it was raining,
and I did go down to the field. I ended
up braving the rain. I don't want any criticism, but
I was sitting next to Chris Vanini and I said,
did you see this line? He said, what it was
like ten and a half right? I said no, no, no, no,
it was about twenty minutes ago. It's down to eight
and a half now. Gasps everywhere, as Lee Corso used

(29:47):
to say, somebody knew something. We got there because of
Quick Trip. Quick Trip fueled us there, and they present
this entire game recap. By the way, I give this
game four and a half tily it really we were there,
We were on the field, and we were part of
another field storming. And you know, I've got the eye
Josh with me, so I'm capturing footage. Prez was standing

(30:09):
in the end zone. This is actually from his phone,
the iepres if you will, He was capturing footage. Unbelievable
times sold out game there, Gerald Ford's stateiument reigned in
the first half. There's not a cloud in the sky
by the time the game ends, and there's rhet Lastly,
what an emotional scene. They just lost to Wake last week.

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This is Miami's sixth loss as a double digit favorite
on Memorial Christobaul. This is SMU's first home win versus
a top ten team since nineteen seventy four. They had
Craig James there yesterday, That had Eric Dickerson there yesterday.
The last time they won at home versus a top

(30:50):
ten team was several years before. Those guys played at SMU,
before Ron Meyer even got there. Just pre pony excess,
pre pony excess, amazing. Just look, we always bank on
getting a memorable experience and a memorable trip. We got
more than we bargained for at SMU yesterday. So it

(31:13):
begs the question, doesn't it? How did this team to lose?
How did this team lose to Wake Forest. It'll make
a better sound bite if I just rewracked the balls there, Bradley,
How did this team lose to Wake Forest? Probably the
question on a lot of people's minds as they watched
him win this game. Well, you got to understand what
a college football team is. It is twelve versions of

(31:35):
a program, and sometimes there are there's wild variants week
to week, doubly especially in college football, and so I
would suggest to you, what if the wake Forest result
triggered this result? We see that all the time they went.
I mean I talked to Rhet Lashley last week after
the wake Forest game, and he was confident of two things. One,

(31:59):
that's one of the first offensive performances we've ever had
anytime I've been a coach anywhere. Number Two, adamant we
will bounce back. We will bounce back from it. Both
were true, and they bounced back yesterday. They didn't light
the world on fire offensively, but you see they didn't
need to. They played a complimentary enough style where they
got the job done. Kevin Jennings the quarterback there, I

(32:21):
can't speak highly enough of him. Man. So his numbers alone, okay,
if I give no caveat here, I think he was
twenty nine of forty four for three hundred and sixty
five yards. He had a passing touchdown, he had a
rushing touchdown. He had no run game to lean on.
And so not only that, but there is a period

(32:42):
of this game where he gets hurt and can't put
any weight on the foot, so he hops off the
field and they were already banged up. Man, They had
a lot of guys that were questionable. Some of them went,
some of them weren't able to go. They're just dealing
with injuries like a lot of teams are. But Jennings
goes down and I watched him leave the field, and
I just watched him. The plays are still going on.

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I'm just watching him. Helmet gets thrown over there, he's
laid out on the bench. I watched him a couple
of times trying to walk on the foot. No cameras
are on him. This is not this is not like performative.
It legit can't walk on it. Then he could put
a little weight on it and tried to run, and
it looked like a three legged horse trying to run

(33:23):
like it was tough. It did not look like mobility
was gonna be any kind of factor in his game,
even if he was able to get back out there.
I think he missed like two plays. I understand these
are very very high level athletes. I'm just saying that's
a dude who was not going to miss plays. He
was not going to miss the rest of the game,
and he was dealing with something, with a serious something.

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And he gets back out there and they go on
and win the game. And SMU's defense. You know, we
talked about them being kind of all or nothing. The
one thing they will do is they'll blitz and they'll
get after you. And they went all or nothing in Miami,
never took the game. SMU actually had a three seventy
five to two sixty four passing yards at vantage on them,

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So it was a great day for SMU. I'll talk
about the experience more in a second. This was an
embarrassment from Miami. There's no other way to put that.
They had nine trips into SMU territory and they totaled
twenty points. They had three explosive passes the whole day.
And this is an SMU secondary that you should be

(34:27):
able to go to work on. That's a skill set
at Miami that should be able to go to work
on SMU secondary, and they didn't. They were heavily penalized.
They appeared very ill equipped and ill prepared to play
the game. Twelve penalties for ninety six yards. Now, look,
this wasn't the best officiating job I've ever seen, and
I think Miami probably ended up on the wrong side

(34:49):
of some of this stuff. But man, like I told,
I mean, I told pres coming home. I told Jesse
earlier today, I hope I hear any Miami fans try
and blame officiating for this. I haven't, by the way,
to their credit, I've heard them complain about it. I've
seen Miami fans stop well short of criticizing officials as
it relates to the reason they lost the game. I

(35:11):
don't know how it seems to you, but it seems
to me just standing there watching Miami. They use the
approach offensively that other teams should be using against them.
So Miami's got an athletic advantage on most teams they play.
When you have an athletic advantage on teams that you play,
what you want to do offensively is run as many

(35:34):
plays as you can. Expand the game, extend the game,
the more drives, the more plays, the more reps your
better athletes have against relatively inferior athletes, and therefore you
actually reduce variants when the game gets contracted, when your

(35:54):
possessions get limited, that's when there's a lot higher variance
in outcome. And that's what Miami's offensive game plan actually yield.
It's the craziest thing to watch. They play to condense
the game, and then the game gets condensed and they're
trying to be methodical and they're trying to be physical

(36:15):
and it's not working, and there's no secondary pitch. It's
the craziest thing to watch. It is the craziest thing
to watch, and yet it happened time after time after time,
and eventually you realize this is gonna change, and you
get the result you got there, and now you are
on the precipice. You're on the brink of the second

(36:35):
year in a row, wasting a very very good, talented roster,
not even making the playoffs, not even making your conference
championship game. That speaks to everybody that starts with Mario
and goes all the way down. But it really starts
and ends with Mario, because he's responsible for everything underneath him.
And I don't really know what kind of adjustment you're

(36:57):
going to make in season, and candidly, at this point,
I don't know what adjustment you could make that would matter.
I don't know that you control your own fate anymore,
and I don't know what the math is on that.
But are they done losing. I don't know that they're
done losing. They're odds to win. The ACC championship are gone,
so that's gonna be a big story to follow. And

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they got four more games and the last two are
on the road, and all four of those teams can
give them problems. They're favored by twenty eight against Syracuse,
And that's all well and good if your team's still
checked in. We got to make sure the team still
checked in first and foremost. There's no guarantee of that.
You know, there was a lot of unrest on that sideline.

(37:40):
There should be. There's a lot of unrest between staff members.
There should be. We'll see what that yields. But that's
a story to keep a close eye on. And you've
got to evaluate the entirety of your organization every year,
even when you Ryan Day evaluated his organization after this
last season. That doesn't matter. If you're terrible, you're great,

(38:02):
you're evowling. Sometimes you look and say I like everything,
and other times you look and say I hate everything.
What What is? What is Mario Christopaul's evow of his
organization is what I'm interested in? Like last year, it
was very it was so easy a blind guy could
have seen it. You got to make a change a
defensive coordinator they did. Results have been better, but now

(38:26):
offensively they should be more than they are. Uh, program
wise they should be more than they are. I said
when I went and watched them in personing it's Florida State.
Earlier this year, I put out a tweet I said,
Miami looks different in person than any other team I've seen,
and a lot of a lot of foolish people have
tried to throw that back at me, Oh, how do

(38:47):
you feel about that now? The exact same way is
when I said it, I've watched all these teams in person.
That team physically looks insane. It's an indictment on them
that they're not winning with those guys. It does doesn't
make those guys not look that way. What I said
had nothing to do with quality of team. I wantn't
predicting them to go twelve and zero. I was saying,

(39:08):
boy on the hoof, those guys look incredible. Well, looks
don't win games, which is ironically what some people have
been saying back to me. Yeah, I know, looks don't
win games. Obviously they don't. There's only one acc loss
on SMU's resume. Right now, they're a three loss team
only one of those is in conference. They got Boston
College this week. That's not easy. They got to buy.

(39:30):
They got Louisville, they go to Cal That'll be Louisville
six straight game, by the way, when they play arrested SMU,
So keep that in mind. So we're on the field yesterday.
Field gets stormed and I'm standing there with some with
some SMU staffers and we're standing next to the tunnel.
So they say, just come with us. So we go

(39:51):
up the tunnel. We go into the locker room and
postgame locker rooms after you've won a big game, like
a dramatic game, there's nothing like that, nothing like it.
And a lot of times I'm in there and I'm
going to be respectful, like I'm not going to record,
but they're okay with you recording in the SMU locker room.
Look at that shoot McGavin in the middle of it all.

(40:14):
I'm standing next to Savannah. I'm just watching rhet lashly,
I'm watching all these guys. I'm just soaking it all
in Savannah like this could only happen in a college
football game. She just says, oh, hey, there's shooting McGavin.
Let's excuse me. Yeah, yeah, Christoph McDonald down there, there's
shooting McGavin. What why shoot a McGavin in the locker room?
You know what? Don't even answer the question, of course

(40:36):
shooting McGavin's in the locker room. So it was a
great scene. That program needed it bad, they needed it
really bad. First class treatment. Loved our time there. Second
half was beautiful weatherwise, look at that. You'd never guess
it was raining there an hour and a half before.
So first game at SMU, very successful. Question becomes what

(40:57):
is the nidal Oh, by the way, George W. Bush
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The big question is, and this is up to RHT
Lashley and those guys to answer, what is the NIL
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(41:19):
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(42:35):
We just soldier right on through here. Georgia won another
game that everyone thought they were gonna lose at some point.
Yesterday twenty four to twenty was the final gotta give
it for Chai. Georgia is on pace to play as
many four plus Chaali games in a year as they
ever have normally Georgia games are boring. Not this year.
Excitement all around Georgia. Kirby Smart and Georgia have taught

(43:00):
you this lesson a thousand times. Yesterday was just one
thousand and one. What is the lesson? It's getting old now.
I keep saying the same thing after every Georgia game.
The lesson is, you got to cut the head off
the snake. Until you've cut the head off the snake,
it doesn't matter if it's wounded, that doesn't matter. If

(43:22):
you've ever killed a snake, you know how to kill it.
Cut its head off. Ballgame and everyone keeps wounding Georgia,
but they don't cut the head off. And then Georgia
bites you in the fourth quarter, and you're sitting there
at Nieland Stadium saying, how did they win this game?
And you're sitting there down at Auburn saying how did
they win this game? And you're sitting down there in

(43:44):
Jacksonville yesterday saying how well competitive character is how and
being comfortable being uncomfortable is how. Kirby Smart has a really,
really good understanding of the team he has here, and
that he has is not dominant. Some of the Georgia
teams he's had, there are two or three or seven

(44:06):
dominant things they can do in a football game. This
Georgia team doesn't have all that. It's not a terrible team.
It's just not a historically great Georgia team. That doesn't
mean you can't win games. How do you have to
win them? You gotta win them in the margins. So,
like you look at a Georgia box score, where are
the margins? Here's one of them. Third down Georgia was

(44:27):
seven of fifteen, Florida was two of eleven. Decent edge.
They got that field goal right before the half. I
thought that was a big deal. That third and seven
they converted late in the game, huge deal. Four explosive
passes for Georgia, three of them for Florida. Little bit
of a margin there, twenty to sixteen edge on first downs,

(44:49):
little bit of a margin there. What I'm saying is
there aren't many paper Popper stats on the stat sheet here,
There aren't any at all. Actually, Georgia's not dominating games
winning them. See whether you win fifty four to twenty
or twenty four to twenty, they give you a win. Now,
for those of you who had a Georgia minus seven

(45:09):
and a half ticket. You know that taking a knee
at the one yard line at the end costs you,
but it doesn't cost Georgia the win. And prayers up
for anyone who suffered there. We've all been there. I
would wish it on my worst enemy, but on people
I just dislike, I wouldn't even wish that on them.
That's a terrible, terrible thing. They are comfortable being uncomfortable, Georgia,

(45:30):
not the losing betters. They're comfortable being uncomfortable. It is
the biggest compliment that I find myself frequently giving to
Kirby's teams, because you know, you always have this vision
in your mind of, well, if games go the way
they're supposed to, Georgia will just win. And that's never
the way they prepare. They're always ready. They're ready for
a shootout, they're ready for a street fight. They tend

(45:52):
to do well in those moments. I felt like this
game got discussed under false pretenses, by the way, because
Georgia is like right there in the top ten or
top five or whatever they're ranked, and Florida's unranked, and
their seasons going off the rails, and they fired their coach.
So that creates this perception in your mind that there's
this big gap between these teams. There aren't. There's not

(46:13):
a big gap between these teams. On one given Saturday.
The big question for Florida was are they going to
be checked in? I doubted whether they would be. That's
why I thought Georgia minus the points may be the
right side. We didn't bet it, but that's the way
I kind of slightly would have leaned. And look, I
mean they took a knee at the one yard line
at the end, so probably the right side. But point

(46:35):
being Florida was checked in. Florida hadn't mailed anything in.
So if you told me nothing more than that on Friday,
I would have expected a dog fight in this game,
because Florida's plenty athletic enough to beat Georgia. So that's
not the way the game got discussed. We were on
the way back from Dallas yesterday and I was looking

(46:55):
at the way people were talking about the game as
it rolled from third quarter into four quarter. People were
talking about it like this massive upset was brewing, like
Georgia was a twenty seven point favorite instead of a
seven point favorite. This wasn't gonna be a massive upset.
There was nothing shocking about Florida hanging with them. Look athletically,

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Florida had some edges on that field against Georgia yesterday.
That wasn't going to be a shock. Georgia is the
better team. That's why they're favored by a touchdown, but
not three touchdowns. We talked about that last week. We said, hey,
in the Big Ten, Ohio State is favored by three
touchdowns over Penn State. Georgia is favored by one touchdown
over Florida. Now you can make of what you will

(47:39):
of that as it compares the Big Ten to the SEC,
but as it relates to this game, this wasn't a surprise.
I mean, what's Georgia's ceiling right now coming out of
this game. That's kind of what I think about. There's
seventh right now at FanDuel in the title odds. So
they keep slipping down the board a little bit because
people keep watching them and they keep seeing, Oh, Georgia,

(48:00):
they're just kind of good, like it's a crime. Georgia's
they're okay, But you know, Notre Dame Oregon A and
m Alabama, Indiana, Ohio State all those teams have better
odds to win the national title right now than Georgia.
I think it's fair to ask what do they do
that is elite? But my follow up question would be, well,

(48:23):
how high is their floor? And I think the answer
is it's pretty high. Like the worst you're going to
get out of Georgia is a pretty good performance. Ironically,
they're ceiling maybe lower than it's used to being, but
the floor is still way up there. They've got a
young team, far less experienced collectively, so look, it's not

(48:43):
an overly dynamic team, but they've got November to hit
their stride, whatever that's going to be, and they'll be
a tough out come what may they'll be like Texas
is going to go in there in a couple of weeks.
They got a big letdown spot this week, by the way,
not that they're usually prone to that, but I just
want to warn everyone. They go to Mississippi State Saturday.

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State just got their first conference win under Levy, so
it's a letdown spot for them as well for those
of you who are under any kind of false pretense
that there's gonna be some blowout game. Georgia is favored
by seven and a half at Mississippi State eleven am kickoff,
So they got a little lucky with that, But they
got Texas coming to Athens the week after, so I'm

(49:25):
just throwing a little trip to Starkville in between games
against Florida and Texas. Interesting. I will continue to say
this because it's the way thus far that I plan
on remembering the twenty twenty four Georgia or twenty twenty
five Georgia team. It is so obvious Kirby Smart loves
that team. He knows it's not his most talented team.

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The ceiling's not as high. I mean, look at this lineup.
They win by three at Tennessee after Tennessee misses a
game winning field goal. They got beat by three against Bama.
They trailed Auburn at the half and looked dead in
the water, came from behind to win that one. They
beat Old Miss even though Old Miss scored on like
their first six drives, and then they lost you and

(50:07):
they won yesterday. Close games, just all a bunch of
close games. That's the profile of this team this year.
But no one's cut the head off the snake yet,
no one's knocked them out yet. Bama beat them, but
you can lose one or two games now, so no
one's knocked him out yet. Just be interested to see, Like,
come playoff time, how do they match up? That's still

(50:30):
a really good roster. How do they match up? Let's
roll on. So far, so good, Bradley. The score of
the Texas Vanderbilt game, for those of you who didn't
watch it feels kind of misleading. Thirty four to thirty
one was the final yesterday, So you think who shootout

(50:52):
wire to wire down to the wire? Well, let me
set the table here. How rarely do we have a
thirty four to thirty one game that gets two and
a half, Chilai. Well, I'll tell you the games that
are thirty four to ten entering the fourth quarter and
end up being thirty four to thirty one. Those are
close games that get two and a half, Childlai. This

(51:13):
is a perfect example, though, of why the model and
why any predictive models never fully discount the talent factory
like Texas for example. You'll notice that even after Texas
loses some games, or Bama in the past, or Georgia
in the past, Ohio State in the past, those teams

(51:36):
lose several games but you know, our model still has
empower rated top ten or Vegas numbers FANDUL odds still
favor them against teams that are ranked higher than them.
Why is that, Well, it's because of what talent means,
and over the course of history, it's hard to keep
talented teams down for an entire year. So yesterday Texas

(52:01):
all of a sudden catches fire offensively, and really it
was playing off of what they did in the Mississippi
State game the week before. If this is arch Manning,
Texas could be a problem. If this is arch Manning
the back part of last week and this week, which
we didn't even know he was going to play until
later in the week, Texas scored on their first six

(52:23):
standard drives. In this game, arch was twenty five to
thirty three to three, twenty eight, three touchdowns, no picks.
That is not a bad Vanderbilt defense. Guys, So you
remember what I told you earlier. Sometimes you gotta wait
for guys to get healthy to peak in the in
the season. Sometimes guys also developmentally are not all ready

(52:44):
to go by week one. Sometimes guys clicked during the year,
Arch Manning may just be clicking. If he is Texas
is not out of anything yet. They're a two lost team,
but Texas still has everything in front of them. They
had twenty five rushes under one hundred yards yesterday too,
so they didn't have this great ground game to lean on,

(53:05):
but they still owned most of the game until the
fourth quarter. And you've got a credit Vanderbilt. I mean,
they made a comeback here. Officiating look, I just got
to say, it's very, very suspect in the fourth quarter.
I think it aided Vanderbilt's effort to come back. Texas
is secondary also greatly aided Vanderbilt's effort to come back.

(53:28):
A will to win aided Vanderbilt's effort to come back.
But November is a very long month. And it's only
the first or second of November, but you start to
get out of these waters where you know you've got
your playoff fate in your own hands, and it just
gets tough. The air is then it just gets tough
to keep stringing together wins. So now vany seven and

(53:50):
two probably not gonna go to Atlanta, but they've still
got their playoff fate in their hands. Bottom line is this,
They got Auburn and Kentucky at home. They go to Tennessee,
they win those three games they're in. So is there
an insurmountable hurdle there? I don't think so. At the

(54:10):
same time, is there a gimme there? You may think
there is. Like Auburn at home, you may think there is.
The line is seven and a half on that game.
You don't know how Auburn's gonna play under an interim
head coach. You just watched Kentucky throw the crowbar into
the spokes at Auburn against the head of Auburn, and
then you got Tennessee and Neeland at the end of
the year. So they're all gonna be tough, but they're

(54:32):
all winnable. But how much will this fourth quarter matter?
That's what I kept thinking about the Texas game. So
first thing you want to do in this order, hold
on and win the game. They did. Then the game's
over and I started to asking myself, all right, I
just saw the Texas secondary get worked back to back

(54:53):
weeks now, so a flaw has been exposed there. Three
hundred and fifty plus passing yards for Vandy. So that's
the first thing that's gonna matter down the road. But
then the second thing is if Texas loses one more game.
So let's say they go to Georgia and lose, but

(55:13):
they beat A and M top five A and M
to end the year, and Texas is nine to three.
A lot of chaos is happening. So like, there's going
to be a window, there's gonna be a little crack
and door where one of these nine and three sec
teams can sniff one of those lower seeds. I don't
care if you don't like that. I'm just telling you
it's gonna be a possibility. How will the committee look

(55:34):
back on this? Because this ended up being a very
close game, and I wonder like if Texas had a
thirty four to ten blowout of a top ten team
right there, Boy, that's emphatic. Now they won the game,
so you know a win is a win in that case.
But if it comes nit picking time, will the committee

(55:54):
look and say, well, that wasn't an overly convincing win.
You know how it can be? You can that could
it could be the committee's looking for a reason to
put Texas in and they say, oh, it doesn't matter
by fifty or by three. They won the game. I
just Texas is still a dangerous team. If they've if
they've gotten a hot quarterback, Texas is still a very
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Can we do it? Five hundred thousand subs? Can we
do it? I think we can. USC beat Nebraska last
night twenty one to seventeen. Shame for the home team,
Shame for Will Compton, shame for me, for Taylor Luwan.
We went three way money line on this one. Terrible
things happened to Nebraska last night, so great things for USC.

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Two and a half. Tily on this game. Sort of
a rock fight, if you want me to be honest
with you. Jade Mayava held under two hundred yards and
yet USC wins a big team ten game on the road. Anyway,
that's a long headline, but it's a big headline. They
cleared a mental hurdle here, did USC. Cause if you

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tell me, they're gonna get poor quarterback numbers and they're
still gonna win, and they're gonna win with defense, and
they're gonna win. Running the ball on the road. Hello,
two times ons away, Hello at night Memorial Stadium, blackout conditions, Hello,
m So, how did they do this well? Their defense

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held Nebraska to five of twelve on third down oho
of one on fourth down. Nebraska. I would call this
a paper popper. Nebraska had eight drives of twenty five
yards or less, but Josh Dylan Royola went down. I
know that. I'll get to that in a second. Usc
also ran the ball thirty eight carries over two hundred
yards five point three per carry. Now, some would call

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that an ugly game, but you know, there have been
games in the past where Lincoln Riley has scored forty
plus and lost fireworks all over the place. You know,
people never call those games ugly. But you win a
lower scoring game and it's ugly. If that's the case,
you give me ugly. I'll take the ugly. You guys
can take the fireworks, you can take the pinball game.

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This I think is probably as good an indication as
anything we've seen this side of the Michigan game. That
what Lincoln Riley promised last winter about the transformation of
the program is really starting to take root. Still a
ways to go, but it's starting to take root. That's

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a really good sign. This is not the kind of
game that Lincoln Riley teams have been equipped to win
in years past, just purely on identity and philosophy. They
haven't been so this is a good thing. Now. There
wasn't much to say for Nebraska because Dylan Ryola went
down in this game broken fibula. I believe he's out

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for the season, and so TJ. Latif had to come in,
and it kind of was what it was at that point.
They were up fourteen to six when Ryola went down
and they saw it slip away from him. Like I said,
tough to watch. Everyone knows I had Nebraska as sort

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of a wild kardish playoff team. So that's out. Now,
they got three games left. They're all gonna be tough.
With a backup quarterback, they're all gonna be tough. Jesse,
do you remember off the top of your head the
early number for Nebraska at UCLA? No? Okay, Well I
don't either, But they're all gonna be tough. But for

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USC plus two and a half, okay, So Nebraska is
a short underdog on the road at UCLA, they will
be a dog at Penn State. I don't know what
the Iowa number will be. I was their own story
right now. But USC controls their own destiny. That's the
important thing to note. We are now going to be
two weeks into November and the University of Southern California

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controlling their own destiny, at least when it comes to
the playoff. So they're six and two. Riddle me this,
these four games left Northwestern Iowa at Oregon UCLA. USC's
record in those four games will be what two, three, four, five? Say? Wait, Jesse,

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this seventh is a Friday, right, That's what he was
complaining about. So Lincoln Riley is in a conference where
the schedule makes little sense because teams are all over
the country. They played a night game at Nebraska. Now
that I've got to come home and get ready for
a Friday game. Not the easiest position to be in
the world. But that's what the money's for. All those

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media rites dollars come in your way, that's what the
money's for. I guess do you think they can go
undefeated in November? Do you think they can they can
run that schedule there. The game at Oregon's obviously the
one everyone circles. But please, let's not get ourselves under
the misguided notion that us he can take anything for
granted here, Let's not do that. But this is still

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a team with a lot to play for. It's still
a team that it could be one of those where
they're sitting there and all of a sudden, it's Selection
Sunday and you've got like one or the ten seed
and the eleven seed is open, and you're trying to
choose from some three loss SCC teams, but oh there's
two loss USC put them in. It could happen. The

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big ten odds to make the playoff, Oregon's minus four
point thirty. Of course, Ohio State and Indiana are virtually in,
so it's favored, significantly favored right now to make the playoffs.
USC's plus six thirty. So if you think, if you
think that USC is going to run the table here,

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I would encourage you to get down on that one
now and don't wait. Added takeaways in week ten, probably
another sip of water, still going, still going strong. Don't
feel the voice cracking quite yet. Ah, but you never know,
So hang in there. I'm talking to myself, not you, Okay.

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Added takeaways from Week ten. Look, Ohio State, they look
pretty good yesterday. Let's just be real. They had more
yards on four plays than Penn State had the whole game.
All I have is paper popper stats for Ohio State.
There's no breakdown. It's just it's all dessert. There's no
there's no green beans here, there's no cabbage. It's just

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all dessert. So Ohio State had more plays or had
more yard cards on four plays than Penn State had
the whole game. All right, Julian saying had more touchdowns
than in completions. That's fun. They outscored Penn State twenty
one to nothing in the second half. It is really
weird to talk about Ohio State right now. I was

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trying to figure this out, trying to get to the
bottom of this. Today I keep seeing a whole bunch
of people defending Ohio State, but I don't know what
the claim is that they're defending against. It seems to
have something to do with the SEC shocker, something to
do with specific teams in the SEC. How Ohio State

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matches up with them. And I keep trying to figure
out what's happened. Did someone say Ohio State's not the
number one team in the country. I don't mean someone
with thirty eight followers and an egg for their profile picture.
I mean real people whose opinions you value. Is anyone
saying that, Is anyone saying, hey, Ohio State, Georgia neutral

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field today, gimme Georgia. Are those people out there? If
they're out there, that's okay. Maybe they're right. I don't
think they are, but maybe they're right, but at least
show them to me. Right now, I see for one
hundred people who have the solution, I only see like
one person presenting the problem. It's the craziest thing in
the world. How many people are gate keeping the obvious

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number one team in the country right now? And if
it's not them, it's Indiana. So the SEC doesn't tie
into that at all. Right now, Even most A and
m folks I know and Bama folks I know are
not saying they belong above Ohio State. So anyway, that's
that next up? Oh no, oh no, oh no. So

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yesterday I'm looking at the scoreboard. They're at gerald Ford
Stadium in Dallas, and I'm looking at the Duke Clemson
game and the score starts up there, I'm like, wow,
that must be a little uncomfortable there at Clemson. Then
I saw him take a forty five to thirty eight

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lead late and I figured, oh, well, they got out
of there with one. And then we're walking out of
the stadium and I'm scrolling trying to get some games
pulled up, and like, it says forty six to thirty
five here. That can't be right. It was thirty eight,
so the touchdown would have tie it up. Wait a second,
did Duke score and go for two and just just

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go for the jugular? Did Clemson really just score forty
five at home and lose? And the answer to all
of those questions, as it turns out, was yes. And
so I gotta find my paper. I regret to inform
you I have no other choice. Clemson's got to be
the Sarah McLaughlin Special. This was Clemson's sixth consecutive home

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loss to a Power for a team I don't even
understand how that's possible. This place used to be called
Death Valley, used to be called Death Valley. They've lost
half a dozen games, they're in a row to Power four, teams.
They were sixty two and five in that spot from
twenty eleven through the middle of last year. Before this

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run started, they had been one hundred and thirty four
to zero when scoring forty five or more Clemson total
losses per year starting in twenty nineteen. Tell me if
you can spot the trend here. One loss, two losses,
three losses, three losses, four losses, four losses, five losses. Again,

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tell me if you can spot the trend. They've got
Florida State at Louisville, Furman at South Carolina still to go.
They need to win three of those four to make
a bowl. Yes, DeVos Swinny's team in danger of missing
a bowl. They play FSU this Saturday. I thought this
may be one of the marquee game of the season.

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In July, I called myself possibly taking the tour to
this game. It's on ACC network. They don't even count
that in the Nielsen ratings. That's how badly they're trying
to hide this game from you. Quote from daboswineye after
the game, we'll win more championships, I promise you that.

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And apparently he's talking about football. So Clemson goes down
forty six to forty five to Duke. We move on
Ole miss one again. They beat South Carolina thirty to fourteen.
I don't know if you've noticed, but every other coach

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whose name has been mentioned in coaching searches has sucked
lately except one. Lane Kiffin just keeps rolling merrily along.
Go to Oklahoma, we'll win. Come home against South Carolina.
It's not October anymore. Huh, we'll win, no problem. Out
rushed him two fifty eight to fifty, got half a

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dozen sacks, perfect in the red zone. Here they are
eight and one. They've actually got some wiggle room right now.
They got Citadel, Florida and at Mississippi State left. They
can afford to lose one of those games and still
make the playoff. Lane Kiffin's name is all over the place.
Show me a job he's not a candidate for. And somehow,
some way the noise has affected some are all. It's

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affected Rule, it's affected Brent Key, it's affected everybody else.
And Lane Kiffin headed off to hot yoga in the morning,
Show up to work whenever. Just keep winning. Wow. Texas
Tech took care of business last night, forty three to
twenty against Kansas State one team in this game had

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five turnovers, the other had two. Guess who won. One
team had twenty points off turnovers. Good offensive balance here
from Texas Tech. They went on the road. This is
a tough now. Kansas State had won three of four
and barely dropped the other one like they were very,
very hot, and Texas Tech took care of them. Two

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forty nine passing, oneint eighty seven rushing on fourth down.
They were two of three and Kansas State waszer four.
And that's a that's a paper popper stat and that
leads me to this. We will be there this Saturday.
I already revealed this earlier in the show, but I
just want to reiterate it because I'm very, very excited

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about this game. The top two teams in the Big
twelve right now are Brigham Young in Texas Tech. They
play this Saturday, eleven am, Lubbock, Texas. The whole world's
going to be there. We will be there. Game Day
is going to be there. Ryan Roussillo is rumored to
be there. Just to give you an idea on a
scale of one to Rousseillo showing up, how big this

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game is. We're at a solid nine point seventy five,
pending an announcement from him, it's going to be a
great day. I'm looking at Sunday in seventy nine, going
to be a great day. NC State beat Georgia Tech
forty eight to thirty six yesterday. And the thing about
it is, guys, Haines King did not have a bad game.
He did his thing twenty five of thirty five for

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four oh eight, two touchdowns and one interception. He added
another one hundred and three yards on the ground and
two more scores. He statistically he is the team. But
you can't count on that because what Haines King will
not do is to this point, he is not pulling
a Travis Hunter. He will not play both ways. And

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that's unfortunate because NC State had five hundred and eighty
three total yards yesterday. I have in my hand their
drive chart, but you also have it on the screen. Touchdown, touchdown, punt, touchdown,
field goal, touchdown, touchdown, field goal, touchdown, punt. That's it.
That equals forty eight, and that's not going to be

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good enough. Somehow, some way, NC State may end up
being responsible for wrecking multiple seasons CZI plural. They're the
only ones who had beaten Virginia. They're now the only
ones who had beaten Georgia Tech. I have no idea.
At least this was a conference game, the one he
gains Virginia. What even a conference game? I got you

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a conference game, though, and I got you a conference game.
The Model nailed Utah Cincinnati. Dusty Devor checking friends on
the call last night. You know when I told you
last week the Model actually has Utah as the highest
rated team in the Big twelve. You know how even
as that spread got up to ten and a half

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and it had everyone puzzled, like why is Utah this
big a favorite? I said, the Model thinks it's going
to be a blowout. It was a blowout. Model nailed
this one. Utah was four or five in the red
zone for twenty four points. That is a paper popper.
That's all you need to know. Yet they're still on
the outside looking in right now in the Big twelve

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title picture because they lost against Texas and lost against
Brigham Young. Those are conference games, and so they got it.
They got two losses. Right now, Brigham Young is undefeated still,
Texas Tech and Cincinnati have one loss a piece in
conference play, so there's still some stuff that has to
happen for Utah to get in there, but they may

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end up playing the best ball in November of any
team in this conference. So weird times right now. But yeah,
good on the model. Good on the model. It nailed
that game. Let's continue. The AP pole is out. Some
would say this may be the last AP pole that
matters because we have the playoff rankings coming out Tuesday.

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They're generated by flex power. Then I have them right here,
and we just talked about this team, Cincinnati, so it
is my duty to inform you they're still ranked. AP
has them twenty fifth and Iowa twenty sixth, so Iowa
not ranked as Oregon heads in there under a touchdown.
Favorite Oregon is at Iowa at unranked Iowa. So since

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he's twenty five, Washington's twenty four. Tennessee dropped nine spots
to twenty three, which ironically is where we had Tennessee
already in the Commissioner's poll. So welcome to the party,
my friends at the AP. Late as usual, but welcome
to the party. Memphis is twenty two, Michigan is twenty one.
You know, Purdue was one of our favorite bets. Yesterday.

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I was stunned that Michigan was laying twenty one and
a half against Purdue because I thought there were several
scenarios where Michigan doesn't score twenty one, and I think
that was actually what they scored. It's like twenty one
to sixteen or something like that. Michigan's just kind of
quietly winning games. That Justice Haynes's going to be out
for a little while now. The tailback sustained an injury.

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So keep an eye on that. Southern Col's at twenty.
I want you to keep an eye on some of
these teams like USC, Washington, Iowa. I mentioned they're at
twenty six. Just remember that for something I'm going to
say in a second. Missouri's at nineteen. So Missouri's coming
off of bye. Remember both Pribuela. The quarterback is out
for the year. Here's what's interesting. They let me make

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sure of this line right quick. They play texts. They
play Texas A and M Saturday at home, and you're thinking, okay,
undefeated A and M. Missouri quarterback's done for the year.
You know what the number on the game is. It's
five and a half A and M's a five and
a half point favorite, so that's one to keep an

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eye on as well. Miami's at eighteen, Miami plummeted. They
dropped eight spots. I don't know, man, that's you could
put them lower than that, but you're not supposed to project.
But they do have that win over Notre Dame. They've
got the win over USF, so they started the season strong.

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It's just Miami keeps finishing weak. They keep finishing these seasons. Week.
Utah's up seven spots, and I agree with that, Like
Utah is playing really good football right now, which begs
the question, how are you supposed to handle this? Are
you supposed to backweight the resume? Which I think is
fair if you're an AP voter if you lost games
earlier in the year, like Utah lost to Texas Tech

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and Texas Tech was playing their backup quarterback. But Devon
dan Pierre has been banged up a little bit, if
he's looking right, if he's playing his best ball, Like,
how do you weigh that? Committee is going to talk
about the same thing on Tuesday night. Georgia Tech dropped
eight spots there at sixteenth. I think teams like this
get punished a little bit more like they drop a
little bit further, which is fair. I guarantee you if

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Brigham Young loses Saturday, same thing will happen to them.
If you're undefeated in your strength of schedules week. But
you're undefeated, I think the AP voters are willing to
inflate you with the understanding that the ice is very thin.
So if you fall, you're going to fall a pretty
good ways. Because as long as you're undefeated, we're we're

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gonna honor that. But if you lose and you don't
have strength to schedule, you're gonna drop pretty precipitously. So
Georgia Tech did. I got no problem with that. Vandy's
at fifteen two lost, Vandy still in the top fifteen
for as long as it took the AP to come
around on Vandy in the preseason. I am proud of
you guys. We do offer congratulations, We do offer some

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pats on the back around here. Vandy's still top fifteen.
I think they should be. That's around where we'll probably
have them. Louisville is at fourteen, just sneaking, just sneaking around,
all right. Texas Texas is back. Texas is up seven spots,
number thirteen. I wrote the words there. They are exclamation
mark in my notes. They're not out of it. It

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brings me suh. It doesn't bring me any pain or
any joy. I just know a lot of you wanted
to write Texas off. I didn't even have him ranked
last week. I'll have them ranked now. I needed to
see him gonna win here. They were just they were
getting rewarded for well, partly for their logo. And then
they had lost to Ohio State, and they had lost

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to Florida, and like, where were the impressive wins so far?
The Oklahoma win, I'll grant you that they needed another one.
They got one. So they're thirteen. Virginia is twelve, still
rolling one loss. Oklahoma's up seven spots to number eleven,
and that win against Tennessee surprised me yesterday. I wasn't

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really prepared for this, but they're up at number eleven.
I'm gonna talk about them a little bit later in
the show. Oklahoma still in the playoff picture. Texas is
still in the playoff picture. And I think to varying degrees,
people had written both of them off. Vanderbilt, you can't
write them off yet either. They're all still in it.
If any of them went out, they will be in
the playoff. Let me put it that way. Notre Dame's
at ten, Texas Tech is at nine, and bringing Young

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is at eight. Okay, so that is nine versus eight
this week. That's the matchup we have in Lubbock. How
far does the loser of that game drop both in
the ap and also in the playoff committee's minds, because again,
Texas Tech's already got a loss, so theirs would be
their second. And if they look this is not supposed

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to matter, but it does matter. If they lose at
home as an over a touchdown favorite, which they are
in the odds, they will be like, really heavily punished
for it. Second law people will look at it the
same way they looked at Miami losing to Louisville. Louisville's
a really good team. No one cared. Miami was favored
by twelve and a half. So when they lost at
home to a team that were favored by double digits against,

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they plummet. If Texas Tech has their second loss against
a team they're a big favorite against, I think they'll
plummet a little bit further than you're comfortable with If
Brigham Young loses, you're losing. And what if they lose
a close game they get blown out, that's different. But
they lose a close game in love, but to a

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top ten team. How far do they fall? Because on
one hand, this is by far the best team they've
played so far. Utah is really good too, though, so
they do have that quality. Utah win, they went on
the road and beat Iowa State, they will have lost
against the highest rated team they've played so far. How
far do they fall? Just keep an eye on that,
because that means a lot for how the committee is

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going to view teams that are like one or two losses,
especially one loss from the Big twelve against maybe some
at large teams or teams for at large spots. Ole
miss is seven, Oregon is six. Now with Oregon, I
want you to keep this in mind because a lot
of people weren't looking at this a little while ago.
So now we've got we've got November into focus a

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little bit. Oregon's remaining schedule has them playing at number
twenty six Iowa, number twenty at home USC, and at
number twenty four Washington, and no one's really circling those
games right now as far as I can tell, like
they go to Iowa this week, they're under a touchdown

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favorite at Iowa. This could be a dogfight. All of
these games could be, so Oregon's got it to do
if they're going to make the playoff. This is not
going to be easy at all for them. Five through ones,
the same as it was Georgia, Bama, A, and m
Indiana Ohio State. By this time next week, when you
look at who plays each other, there is a world

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where eight or nine of the top ten are SEC,
Big Ten and Notre Dame. And again, the reason that
matters more so than it did last year was because
of the changes in the seeding in the playoff, where
you don't automatically get a first round by only for

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conference champs. Now it's just we play the conference title
games and the highest seeds are the ones that get
the buys. And it is looking very like that the
top four teams are just going to be the Big
Ten champ in the SEC champ and the loser of
the Big Ten title game and the loser of the
SEC title game. So that's important to note. They're watching

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you may be thinking to yourself, didn't you just do
this a couple of weeks ago. Yes, but it's unfair
to me because some things have changed. So I just

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want a third chance at playoff predictions again. It's my
constitutional right. Some people exercise their Fifth Amendment, right, I'm
exercising my right to repredict the playoff. Okay, Tomato, Tomato,
you live your life. I'll live my life. The playoff rankings,
the first edition of them will be this Tuesday. So

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before we get there, let me remind you of where
I was in the mid season. You're seeing it on
your screen. I had Georgia Ole Miss in the first round,
had USF as the G five team. Yes, I had
Nebraska in the playoff because I thought they could go
ten and two. That's out the window now with the
Dylan Royola injury, so I've got to replace them. Yes,

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I had Miami winning the ACC. I am probably replacing
them now Elsewhere. Most of these other teams I think
are still in line to make the playoff, the order
probably switches up, and that Alabama Oregon national title matchup,
I swore to you, I'm not coming off that unless

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I have really, really good reason to come off that.
So my conscience is weighing on me right now. So
first off, let's just let's just put it up there.
Nebraska's not gonna make it anymore. Miami's probably not gonna
make it anymore, all right, So In the ACC, let
me let you know that I had Miami over Georgia Tech.

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I gotta switch that up. I gotta switch that up
to Louisville over Georgia Tech. Miami and Georgia Tech just
fell last weekend or yesterday. It was Miami Georgia Tech.
I'm changing that to Louisville over Georgia Tech. Louisville is
in a good spot right now. I think Louisville could
win the ACC if they're gonna make the playoff. In
the SEC, I've got no reason to change up the prediction.

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I had Alabama over Texas A and M. I will
keep Alabama over Texas A and M. I reserve the
right to change that up until kickoff if the game
does indeed happen. In the Big ten, it's been Ohio
State Indiana collision course for a long time. I still
think that until further notice. I'll take Ohio State to
beat Indiana. Nothing would shock me, but I'll stick with

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that because that was already my prediction. In the Big twelve,
got to switch it up a little bit there, Still
gonna take Texas Tech. I'm gonna slide Brigham Young into
that game. I will take Texas Tech over BYU. Those
teams played this Saturday. I am predicting a rematch in
Arlington in the first week in December. So just remember

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as we're going through this, I'm about to show you
the seedings and I'm about to give you the bracket.
But just remember the way this works. Now, last year
you were looking at saying, ooh, who's gonna win the
Big twelve? Oh, cause that team's going to get a
first round by O who's gonna win the ACC? Can
Clemson win? Can they get a first round by? That's
not the case this year. The case this year is

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you get a first round by if you're ranked one, two, three,
or four. That's it. After conference title weekend, that's it. Okay,
just keep that in mind. So here's how I have
the one through twelve seeding playing out right now. Ohio
State wins the Big Ten, I got them number one.
Bama wins the SEC, I've got them number two, and

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then I've got the teams they beat number three and four,
Indiana and Texas A and M. Right now, I've got
Ole Miss. I don't have them losing another game, So
I've got him in the five spot. Right now, I
got Texas Tech winning the Big Twelve, and I've got
them winning out too, So I mean that's a one
lost Big twelve champ. I think that have them pretty high.

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I've got him at six. I've got Louisville at seven,
the ACC champ. I think that's still have them pretty high.
Not a lot of other dominant teams out there. So
then we get down to like a Georgia, maybe a
two loss Georgia, maybe a one loss Georgia. If it's
one lost Georgia, they'd be higher than eight. So I've
got them losing one more game, Oregon at nine. Think
Oregon's got one more loss coming in there. Just mathematically

(01:27:17):
the percentages suggest maybe one more loss. We'll see. Notre
Dame's still sitting at ten. I inserted Oklahoma at eleven.
I think the window is opening more and more for
a three loss SEC team to back into this. Right now,
I would project it to be Oklahoma, and we've still
got three or four more weekends to go where the

(01:27:40):
window could open more and more. So I'm going ahead
and familiarizing myself with the idea that a three loss
SEC team could make it in here. There are a
couple of teams that can stand to lose three games
in the resume still be good enough. So I got
Oklahoma for the time being right there at eleven and
US seth even though they just lost a game. I
still got them as my G five team. So a

(01:28:01):
couple of questions before I show you the bracket. How
does the committee handle an eleven and two Big twelve
runner up? So think through this with me. Let's say
let's say Bringing Young loses this Saturday to Texas Tech,
all right, and then they go the rest of the
way and they finish eleven and one, they go to

(01:28:23):
their conference title game, and let's say the week of
the conference title game they're ranked ninth. If they lose
that conference title game and they finish eleven and two,
is the Committee going to drop them out? Now? You
may say, oh, no, no, because remember they didn't do
it last year. That's one year. We don't have an

(01:28:45):
established enough sample size or track record to have understood
the trends of what the Committee will do. And also
keep in mind, what I'm about to say should not matter.
I am fully admitting to you it should not matter.
But I'm not on the committee yet, so it may
matter that last year when they put SMU in the playoff,

(01:29:07):
for example, they got beat soundly. If some of you
were already yelling, I know it's not supposed to matter.
I know that, and I know you're gonna get blowouts
in the first round somewhere. No matter what. I know that.
I'm not telling you I agree with it. I'm telling you,
let's be mindful that it may be in the back
of their mind. Just remember that. So that's the first

(01:29:30):
thing I've got in mind. Secondly, Texas could radically alter
this right now. I'm not projecting Texas to make the playoff.
If they went out, they're one hundred percent in. And
if they don't win out, if they go nine to
three and they split the Georgia A and M games,
they're gonna either have a win in Athens or they're
gonna have a win against ANM at home. Either way,

(01:29:52):
it's going to be a top ten win. What is
their resume. One of their losses would be Ohio State,
number one team in the country. Theoretically they would have
lost to Florida on the road. That would be viewed
as a bad loss, but that was pre Napier fired
Florida and they will have either a loss to Georgia
or A and M, but a win against Georgia or

(01:30:13):
A and M that window for the three loss SEC team.
I'm just interested to see how wide or shut that is.
So what does this bracket look like? Well, here you go.
This rearranging of teams would mean Oregon travels to Athens,
Georgia for around one game. I got USF headed to Oxford,

(01:30:35):
Mississippi for around one game. Notre Dame plays at Louisville,
and Oklahoma plays at Texas Tech. My winners of those
games right now, give me Georgia over Oregon, give me
Ole Miss over USF, give me Texas Tech over Oklahoma

(01:30:58):
in Lubbock, baby oooh, and give me Notre Dame over Louisville.
So that gives us the first indication that Ohio State
may have a really, really ridiculous draw if this scenario
were to play out. But they did last year. They
ran the buzzsaw last year as well, so it's not
like it's gonna bother them. But this is not an

(01:31:19):
easy path for Ohio State. So we got Georgia Ohio State.
Round two. We got A and M old miss round two.
Notice there are three SEC teams on that side of
the bracket, which is a good guarantee to eliminate some
SEC teams. Notre Dame Alabama is a second round game,
and Indiana Texas Tech is a second round game. I

(01:31:39):
got Bama over Notre Dame. I got Indiana over Texas Tech.
I got A and M over ol Miss, Ohio State
over Georgia, which gives us a final four of Ohio
State versus A and M and Alabama versus Indiana. That's
Debor versus his old team. By the way, that's Signetti
versus his old team. Come to think of it, I

(01:32:01):
will take Ohio State and Alabama to advance to the
National championship game. My national champion the preseason was Alabama.
I'm not coming off that until I absolutely have to,
and so give me Alabama to continue to win the
national title. I had to bump Oregon out because I
think Oregon needs to be doubted right now, and because

(01:32:22):
I they have got a tough road here. They've got
a tough road and it starts this weekend at Iowa.
I don't know, I don't know, with that bracket set
up the way it is, they would I mean, Oregon
would need to beat Georgia, Ohio State A and M
to get to the title game. I just think it's
far more likely Ohio State gets there. So if you

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