Week 13 Reaction Show + Lane Kiffin Rumors & AP Poll vs CFP Rankings

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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Let me get this straight. So we are embarking on
a week where we're leading up to last regular season games,
and the Big Ten looks like it's on a collision
chorus versus Ohio State versus Indiana. The SEC could dial
up Georgia AN, M, Alabama A and M the Big twelve.
We're gonna probably see a rematch, I would guess of

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Texas Tech Brigham Young. Can the Cougars get them the
second time around? All that's happening, and Jesse walks in
my office today and tells me that Syracuse versus Boston
College has significant implications to who goes to Charlotte for
the ACC Championship game. I threw up everywhere, welcome in,
We're jampacked, We're high a top of very suspenseful downtown Nashville, Tennessee.

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On this Sunday, November twenty I heard the Year of
Our Lord twenty twenty five. Yes it is rivalry week,
Yes it is here. It's also Thanksgiving week, and it
is coaching search week, and all of that has really
really just kind of fallen into our lapse at the
same time. So sure, on Sunday night, we react to
everything that we saw I have not slept since nine

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a m. Central yesterday. I don't advise it, but that's
what happens when you go to Oregon. You just have
to give up a day of sleep every now and
then to do a dam pack show. And don't think
for a second that that's an excuse unless I screw
up on the show, in which case it is. So
we got full reaction to that one. Had a good
time in Eugene, Oklahoma, Missouri. Exactly what we expected it

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to be, but we got a lot of takeaways. The
Sarah McLaughlin special could be one of the ugliest that
we've ever done in the history of the show. I've
never seen a piece of paper have the stuff written
on it that the stuff about that game provided us.
I think we all know where we're going, but if
you don't stay tuned, I've got a hun on, not
just Lane Kiffin. Some people asking about things I've tweeted today,

(02:05):
which just boggles my mind. But you know what, I'll
address it. I'll tell you where. I think that coaching
search at Florida is at lsu is Ole, miss doesn't
have a coaching search. They have like a coaching retention
plan that they've put in place. I'll talk about all that.
I'll give you the latest on Penn State, I'll give
you the latest on Auburn. We'll go through all that.
We got the ap pole that's dropped, we'll react to that.

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We got a jam packed show. They're watching us in
Winston Salem, North Carolina. Eagle River, Alaska is tuned in Snellville, Georgia, Orlando, Florida. Look,
here's the bottom line. We are about to embark on
one of the most memorable weeks in the history of
college football because we got Rivalry Week coming up. Smack
dab in the middle of Thanksgiving Week, smack dab in
the middle of everyone trying to figure out who their

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show for this week will be Tuesday, cause we're not heathens,

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like we have to celebrate Thanksgiving at some point, but
we will be on top of things. All right, Let's
dive into the show. Oregon forty two USC twenty seven
quick trip fueled us pH all the way out to
Eugene and we had a good time out there. I'll
talk to you about the trip at the tail end
of this, However, I would call this a three childli game.

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I assume most of you watched it. It was the
biggest game of the day yesterday Autson Stadium in late fall.
Just do it. Just make it an appointment destination trip
many of you. I know it's tough to get out there.
I'm not saying do it every other weekend, but make
sure you get out there. It's unbelievable trip. I'd say
the same thing about Washington. Ironically, they go play Washington

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later this week, and it's just great up there this
time of year. Little chili, but that's okay, it's great
up there this time of year. So this game nineteen
penalties for two hundred and thirty yards, and I'm not
even claiming that it was overly officiated. However, the modus
operandi for the Big Ten this year has been throwing

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flags as an absolute lash resort. Now, the SEC they
throw them left and right. Man, they do them like
when you're practicing to learn how to juggle, and they
have you throw you little scarfs in the air. That's
how SEC officials have been all year. It is glaring
when you look at Big Ten officiating profiles versus SEC
officiating profiles. This was officiated like an SEC game, So

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don't be fooled. And I come to you formally as
PAC twelve pay telling you do not be fooled by
the PAC twelve score here because the winning team won
the way you always win in the Big ten, and
that is out rushing your opponent one seventy nine to
fifty two. Statson info came in earlier today. That breaks
down to four point four yards per carry to one

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point nine yards per carry. So there's that better defensive
team one. There's that. But I got to tell you
don't overlook special teams in this game. I thought special
teams in many ways was the difference. Joe Lorig and
his staff deserve a lot of credit. Now. Am I
giving him a little favoritism because I stormed the building

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Friday and had him let me sit in on special
teams meetings? Of course I am. But I just got
to tell you. I know this is an often overlooked
part of games. If you believe that it's a third
of the game, which everyone says, you know, you gotta
win all three phases offense, defense, special teams, then they
proceed to never talk about special teams if you believe

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that special teams is a third of the game, then
there is no game that bears that out better than
this one. And I've just got to tell you, without
sacrificing you know anything, and without betraying confidence, I don't
think they were surprised with the way Special teams played
out in this game yesterday, because sitting in that team

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meeting Friday was almost like reading a movie script that
you then watched out or play out the next day.
Very intentional, very very detail oriented. And they knew they
had a matchup advantage here candidly, and I think they
took advantage of it, and that ends up being the
day if it's in the game, because it's fourteen to
fourteen when Malik Benson returns the punt for a touchdown,
then they add another one. I think it's twenty eight

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fourteen at the half, and at that point USC is
just playing catch up the rest of the time, and
they were competitive. It's not some blowout game. They're competitive
at the very least. They have the horses on the
outside to draw pis if they can't just complete the passes.
But that's the point. It wasn't going to be a
blowout game. I mean, Oregon's beat to death, so they

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don't even have some of their best players. You got
to find a way to win special teams was I
wouldn't call it the hidden advantage because it was right
out there in your face. But I think those guys
deserve a ton of credit because they gave themselves a
big edge there. So we said Tuesday when we preview
the game, it's a big culture game, and you know,
that's pretty easy to understand the implication behind. There's one

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place that used to be the place on the West coast,
and that's USC. That's the way it was when I
was a kid. A lot of people who were on
the field yesterday aren't even old enough to have remember that.
Some of them were not born the last time USC
really ran things on the West coast. But if you
were around, if you were of age when Pete Carroll

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and USC were doing their thing in the mid two thousands,
it doesn't seem like that long ago. But really it
was a long time ago. It's been quite a while.
If you don't believe me, go watch some of the games.
Look at the picture. Quality sneaks up on you a
little bit. So it's been a little while. There's one
place that used to be, and then there's another place
that is. It's as simple as that, and one place

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is trying to get back to where the other one
currently is. And the dynamic for people who follow recruiting
and people who follow talent acquisition has always been it's
so wild that a team tucked away in the Pacific
Northwest can attract better talent from the West Coast than
the team in the biggest city on the West coast,
in Los Angeles. But that's been the case. And so

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yet again you see two of them on the field,
and you know it's up to one of them to
change your mind up to one of them. Not only
to change the way the other team thinks, it's up
to usc to change the way the country thinks. And
they didn't do it yesterday. Now you could argue they're
getting closer. I think Lincoln Riley's argued that I'm gonna
talk about Lincoln in a second because he's taken a
lot of heat today, and you know what, I'll say that,

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I'll talk about it in a second. But part of
the whole culture piece of this is it reminded me
a lot of Notre Dame last year on the offensive line.
Notre Dame on the offensive line last year felt like
they lost thirty seven starters and they just kept trotting
an offensive line out there that kept delivering the same result,
no matter who the names were on the back of

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the jerseys, which numbers were on the back of the jerseys.
And I just remember thinking to myself, especially second half
of the season, why it just kind of feels like
a Notre Dame offensive line is a Notre Dame offensive
line independent of which individuals are out there. And that's
kind of the way Oregon played yesterday. Organs without Evan
Stewart have been for a while. There were without Decoryan Moore.

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They lose Gary Bryant, they got a couple of offensive
linemen out, and yet there's forty two on the board
at the end of the day, and you look at
it and you just kind of say, this is the
ultimate testament to culture by the way you look at it,
and you say, I guess it really is next man up,
because you wouldn't have been able to tell the difference
if I were to just show you the game yesterday.
You don't know a whole lot about Oregon. You don't
know the particulars. You're not looking at the injury reports

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or the depth chart. You just say, yep, that's an
Organ offensive day. Yep, that's an Oregon defensive day. Yep,
that's a good, solid organ ground game. Dude, they're beat
to death. The big hope up there is that they'll
be able to get themselves some breathing time between this Saturday.
Hopefully if they win against Washington and the conference championship

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happens and they're probably not in it, and so they
got a first round playoff game, maybe they can get
a little bit healthy. That's the hope up there, because,
as I said last week, I'm never giving up on
a team that has a talent roster like this, especially
when they could be the one that gets helped at
the right time. Now, there's an understanding in that building
that you can't be thinking way way down the road

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like you got USC coming up, you go Washington coming up.
If we don't win those games, it may be a
moot point. But they won one of them, and now
they got the other one this Saturday. They're a six
and a half point favorite, by the way against Washington.
If they win that one, then yeah, you got an opportunity.
But as for Lincoln Riley, so I know he's taking
a ton of heat right now. Everybody's got an opinion
on Lincoln Riley. A lot of people are taking swings

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at him because he just lost another big game on
the road and he's had a bad record on the
road at USC. Well, that's because they haven't been good
enough as a program. But the winning outside end approach
that he kind of took when he went there, they
tried to course correct last year and I remember when
he went into the winter before last season, they understood

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big changes were needed in the program. And he had
that press conference and I made a big point to say,
if he's serious about what he's saying, good Because I've
never punted on Lincoln Riley. I know a lot of
you have. I've never punted on him. I still think
really highly of him. I still think of him as
a guy that if he gets his act together as
a head coach rather than just an offensive mind, could

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still be really really premier in the sport. But he's
not yet, and he hasn't fully been yet, But that
doesn't mean he couldn't be. But what he said last winter,
like winter before last, was we're going to change everything,
We're going to rethink everything. And those were just words.
So I said, hey, he hired Lynn as the defensive coordinator.

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He's talked about a top to bottom sort of reapproach
to the way you run a program. If he's serious
about all that, good, even if he nails it, though
it's a couple to maybe three years, because you're really
talking about tearing a lot of stuff philosophically down to
the studs and then building it back up. Okay, they're
better this year than they were last year, unequivocally better

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this year than they were last year. Some would call
that progress. Other people view it in a vacuum and
they just say, hey, you're going to finish eight and
four again, maybe nine to three, and that means you're
not as good as Ohio State, you're not as good
as Oregon. You're not going to make the playoff again. Failure.
And I said, if you're not willing to accept a

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two to three year window here that it's going to
take to rebuild on the fly, I get it. And
it's fair because you really shouldn't have to be making
those moves several years into your tenure. But if you
are going to accept it, then you're going to have
to understand there is no snap of the fingers. There
is no quick fix there. I would also guess from
the outside looking m that if you've got a number

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one recruiting class, or you got a highly ranked recruiting
class coming in, and you've got some young guys in
the program right now, and then you've got some veteran
guys that are going to draft out or age out
of the program. A lot of times, what you're dealing
with when you're looking at rosters like this is the
younger crop of guys is your future. The incoming class
is your future. And there's a lot of cosm medic leadership,

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you know, guys who are leaders by default in other words,
And it's like this layer off the top of the
pond that you kind of have to scrape so that
what you really want underneath can rise up. Sometimes there's
no quick way to do that, and I think they're
probably dealing with a little bit of that at USC.
All I'm saying is I'm not giving up on him, Like,

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I still think it can work there. I still think
they can win there. I just believe he made the
moves three years in that he should have made immediately.
But I do understand the hangup. I do understand why
he took his defensive staff out there with him. I
get the real world business side of how this industry works.
So I'm not a USC fan, I'm not a USC donor,

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so it's easy for me to sit here and say, hey,
I'm willing to give you some time. If you are
a USC fan slash donor and you're not willing to
give him time, I do understand that you got every
right to feel that way. As for the trip itself,
like I said, Organ's amazing always, Organs especially amazing this
time of you. If you're a fall foliage type, highly
advise it. I don't even care if you don't like football,

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Just go out there. I always get to Audson Stadium
early and march myself up to the roof because this
is the view. If you're listening on podcast, I don't
know what to tell you. Just imagine a screen saver,
but it's real life. That's what it looks like there
this time of year. That is a tight end. Allegedly,
ken Yonsidik don't know many of them who are built
like that or who move like that. But that's allegedly
a tight end. And it is Sunday when we're doing

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the show, which is ironic because I think you'll see
him play on Sundays for a long time. We went
out there on Friday, and Lauren Anderson and the folks
over at the Warsaw Center always have us out there
to speak and I do a wide ranging Q and
A with the students there. Oh, it's so great, to
the point where I told her when we were leaving
their Friday afternoon, maybe we just bring a crew out

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here and broadcast this. It would be so great. It
would be like an hour's worth of really really captivating
content that we could put on the YouTube channel. And
then I look, I just want to say I grew
up in the South, Okay. So for us to go
to the West Coast and constantly get recognized and constantly
have you guys wearing our T shirt and constantly be

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asking for pictures, I don't care if I do it
five hundred times on a Saturday. I want to say
thank you. And it is never lost on me how
significant that is. Because one of the big indicators that
were growing is you have a recognition coast to coast.
But also one of the just wild things that have
happened over the past ten years in media is you

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used to never be able to reach an audience like
that unless you had major network distribution at your disposal.
And now with the advent of things like YouTube, things
like podcast networks, people in Portland and Bend and Oregon
City and Corvallis and Eugene and everywhere out there, they
can listen to us on demand at their leisure and

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don't even have to be on a network. So we
appreciate everyone out there. It was a great trip. Who knows, man,
maybe we'll be back in a few weeks. Where will
we go this week? Though? Let me pull up my
tweet because I always forget to fire this thing off.
The Faull Don't Lie Tour has to make a stop
for Rivalry Week, and you have probably anticipated that we

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will go to ann Arbor, But you would be wrong
because I've had my eye on this game for a
little while, and I have known that we're going Thanksgiving
in Columbus, and I have known that there is a
university that's going to host a fairly significant college football
game that Saturday, that is. Oh, I'd say forty five
minutes to the west. Would the stakes be on the game?

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Would the implications be on the game that warranted us
being there? That was the only question. Well, the game
is the Iron Bowl, the university is Auburn. Alabama's headed
down there as and listen to me clearly when I
say this a three and a half point favorite. So yeah,
I'd say the stakes are there, and yes we will

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be there. The Fall Don't Lie Tour is headed back
to Auburn for the first time in a couple of years,
looking forward to it. I spilled the beans to Kirk
Sampson down there a few days ago. As best I
can tell, he did not leak the information. And we
can always count on Kurt. Just just zip that mouth tight.
It's gonna be cold, it's gonna be really intense. It's

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a night kickoff. Oh buddy. If you don't get a
little bit, I don't know, antsy, If you lack the
if you don't like the ability to sit still a
little bit when rivalry week gets here, I don't really
know if you're cut out for college football. This is
the playoffs are amazing. Conference championship games are amazing, But

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what's gonna happen in Auburn, Alabama or Ann Arborn, Michigan Saturday.
That's what it's about. That is the pinnacle of college
football to me, and anything and everything that comes after
that kind of comes like downstream of that. And I
will not apologize speaking of lack of apologies. We got

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a lot more to get to from yesterday, but I
kind of wanted to weave the coaching search stuff throughout
the show. I said something about Lane Kiffin earlier today
that I thought was very, very clearly detectable sarcasm. But
I forgot in the year of our lower twenty twenty five,
especially when it comes to something as consequential as a

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coaching search in college football, no one has a sarcasm
detector anymore. So here's what I said. Quote, I know
where Lane will be in twenty twenty six, and all
I can say is wow. Anyone who knows me, anyone
who follows me on socials, like, do I ever talk
like that unless I'm clearly mocking other people? The answer
is no, I was clearly mocking other people here. This

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is very very standard message board lingo. And look, I
had a four hour flight to Portland the other night.
So all I did was live on Florida and LSU
message boards. I'm in the weeds with you, guys. I'm
in the trenches. So this is an inside joke in
message board culture. And look, fortunately, slash unfortunately, depending on

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your viewpoint on life. A lot of you do not
traffic in message boards all day. And it went over
a lot of people's heads. And I mean some smart
people thought I was dead serious or trying to be
dead serious with this. I'm not apologizing for it. If
you can't detect sarcasm, that's this obvious, that's a you problem.
I apologize all the time. We have a halfway used

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package of clown noses right over here on this table.
I'm looking at it right now for when I have
to apologize on air. So I apologize all the time.
I'm not apologizing for that. Here's what I will tell
you several things, several thoughts on where the Lane Kiffen
multi coaching search, will he stay, will he go? Drama
is and how it's going to play out this week.

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I still don't think anything is decided. There are many
people there who would tell you this is done to LSU.
There are a few people out there less but still
a few people out there close to the Florida situation
who would swear to you, Hey man, I know it's
quiet around here, but we feel good about where we're at.

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There's some folks who think Ole Miss will keep him
as well. I don't think it's decided now. All joking aside.
I'm telling you I will be completely honest with you here.
All joking aside. I have spoken to Lane Kiffen every
day for the past week. I don't know where he's going,
So you guys may have better sourcing on this than me.

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I have no idea where he's going. Now. Apparently some
people think they do know where he's going. And here's
what I do think. I think you've heard indications that
strongly make you believe you know where he's going. That's
what I do believe. And there are very very strong
indications to make you believe he's going to LSU. I
know what you're talking about. I am not ready to
say that. There are some people who would think, hey man,

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you know read the tea leaves. Have you heard this
about Florida? Have you heard that about Florida? Yeah? I have.
I'm not ready to say that. Well, at least you
can say he's gonna leave old Miss, right, No, I
can't say that. I don't know that. I don't know that.
I have talked to the dude every day, sometimes multiple
times per day for the past week. I got no
clue where he's going. So if you know more than me,

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God bless you. I'd love to know what you know.
But so far I haven't heard anything from anyone, including him,
that makes me sure he knows where he's going. Because
where I think it is still on this Sunday night
is I don't think definitively Lane knows what he's gonna do.
And if you've ever had multiple options on tables in
front of you and they're all good, I think you

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can kind of relate to this. It's very rare you
find yourself in these positions, very rarely in life. But
imagine you're Lane Kiffen for a second, stay where you are,
and you're at a great place that you yourself have claimed
you love, that is already made playoff destination. You don't
have to guess if you can make the playoff at
Ole Miss. You're already there. So if you stay boom

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you're in the playoff. You don't have to move, you
don't have to pack up and go. People adore you
for the rest of your life. That's option one. Options
two and three are you go to one or the
other of some of the most historically relevant brands in
the past quarter century. In this sport, you go to
a place where Steve Spurryer's one big, an Urban Myers

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one big. And by the way, that place has massively
reinvested in itself over the past five years. It's pretty
transformative how different Florida looks on the inside. I'm down
there multiple times a year. I can confidently attest to
this then it did five years ago. So you can
win big at Florida LSU. I don't think I need

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to describe to people what you can do at LSU.
So if these are your options, my point is it's
not a slam dunk. It's like degrees of edges that
each of them have. And so if either of the
three options are winners, if the worst of the options
is really good and the best of the options is great,
I could see kicking the can down the road as

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far as you possibly can. I don't know to what
degree the announcement by Keith Carter, the ole miss Athletic director,
delayed anything last week. Like there were some people who suggested, man,
maybe LSU was ready to lock this thing down, but
then Keith Carter put out his statement saying, oh, we'll
deal with this after the egg Bowl. We're going to

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make an announcement after the egg Bowl. And maybe that's
the only thing that delayed us. I think there's probably
a lot more in play than that. You also got
to understand there's the small matter of the dude has
a game to coach Friday and is represented by the
most powerful agent in the sport right now in Jimmy Sexton.
So if that were the position I was in, I

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would say, do what you got to do behind the scenes.
I'll make a decision when never I'm telling you, I'll
make a decision that could be five minutes from now,
that could truly be after the egg Bowl, but between
now and then. If you understand how your representation works
behind the scenes, it may make sense why things feel
like they continue to be changing and why you may

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have one whisper over here one hour, then another whisper
over here the next hour. Well, it's because when there
are multiple parties involved. You're just basically taking offer from
party to party. Can you match this. Here's what they're
gonna do on this front. Here's what they're gonna do
on that front. Here's how they counter to your offer. Now, look,
you can think this is slimy. You could think this

(25:39):
is absolutely the way of the world. It works this
way and more than just college football. I can promise
you so like that's the way it is, as Bruce
Hornsby once saying, for better or for worse. But anyway,
my point is for anyone who thinks that, oh, there's
no way it's still up in the air, yeah there is.
I actually think it is up in the air. So
there's most certain away. Here's what will happen, though, I

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promise you this part will happen. We will arrive at
a conclusion by the end of this upcoming week. I
strongly believe that's pretty obvious. The second part is someone's
gonna get a ton of fake e cred from this.
I played around about trying to get mine today. That
tweet was very clearly a joke. There are people on
various talk shows, various message boards, various other shows, and

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other columns and whatnot that have stated to varying degrees. No,
it's a done deal. He's going to LSU. It's a
done deal. He's going to Florida. It's a done deal.
He's gonna stay at Old Miss. Well, there aren't fifteen
different options than the hat, So you got a thirty
three percent chance of just guessing right. If these are
indeed the three hats on the table, you've got a

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thirty three percent chance of guessing right. Here, someone will
have blindfolded themselves and tried to throw a dart fifty
yards across the room and hit bullseye, and they will
achieve status on their local message board for the next
decade for having been inside the coaching search the entire time.
They weren't inside anything. They guessed right, They had wrong information,

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right outcome. Be careful, be wary of that. You can
really get misled down the road from people like that.
The one thing I'll say about Florida is, I know
there seems to be a fraction of the noise coming
out of Florida that there is LSU. That maybe because
he ends up signing with LSU. For all I know
that may be the case. I would just caution you

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do not confuse silence within action. Sometimes there's a lot
going on behind the scenes and it's just buttoned up
pretty tight. So I don't take the relative silence out
of Gainesville compared to Baton Rouge to mean Florida's just
cooked here. And I know a lot of the reporting
has been Florida's a distant third and this and that.

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I still think they got a shot. That's all I'm saying.
Not a leader in the cluse, nothing like that. I'm
not making a pick on that. I'm just saying I
still think they're in it. I think he could stay
at Ole, miss Absolutely think he could go to LSU.
So yeah, there we are. But to reiterate sarcasm from
the tweet this morning, and if you don't get it,

(28:17):
I don't know what to tell you. I will tell
you this. If you're going to be in Atlanta, Georgia
the weekend of the SEC Championship game, I got something
for you to do Friday night, Friday night, December fifth,
over at the Buckhead Theater. They're in Atlanta, seven pm
Eastern Time. Our first true live event, our first live show,

(28:37):
not our show being broadcast live. I mean full. I
expect sold out buckhead theater. Ticket sales have gone like
shockingly well for that. That's why I haven't even pushed
it on social yet. I actually want the people who
watch and listen to the show to be the ones
grabbing up the tickets. But I know we're still kind
of waiting to see who plays in the game. But

(28:59):
many of you live in I'm from Georgia, so like,
we got a lot of folks who have followed the
show for a long time who have bought tickets. The
tickets are available at paintstatematerial dot com right now, there's
an entire live show tab. It looks like that. Truthfully,
I don't remember taking that picture, but I assume I
did at some point. Gonna be a lot of fun.
We're gonna have exclusive merch that you can only get
at the show. We're going to have surprise guests plural,

(29:23):
probably correlated with who plays in the SEC Championship Game,
but maybe not. Maybe there's some people who are just
in Atlanta. No matter what, we're gonna have a lot
of fun. It will not be broadcast anywhere, so you've
got to be there to see this. It will be
very interactive We'll have a lot of audience interaction, a
lot of Q and a you know, pass the mic around,
all the things you've always wanted to ask but can't

(29:43):
ask because I can't answer them on air. This is it,
this is that moment. It'll be a lot of fun.
Paintstatematerial dot Com tickets available there. Right now, let's continue.
We had more games. Yesterday. Oklahoma beat Missouri and only
scored seventeen points, and you know what, they still won
by double digits. This game was not the most esthetically
pleasing in the country yesterday. I know that. I know that,

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but look, this is football. Some of you look at
a fifty two to forty eight game and you think
that's beautiful, and then some of you look at seventeen
to six and you think it's hideous. This game got
one and a half tily, so I know it won't
break the bank on ratings when they report them later
this week. But I just want to tell you Oklahoma's

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developing a little bit of a team identity here. They're
past three games. Think this through as I think it
out loud. At Tennessee at Alabama, Missouri. Three ranked opponents,
two of them on the road, they are plus six turnovers.
They've been out gained by a combined three hundred and
twenty four yards in those games, and yet they're three

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and zero. Now, I didn't say they have an offensive identity.
I got no clue what they are offensively, but team identity. Basically,
what they've become is a team that doesn't need offense
to win games. Really crazy where we are with Oklahoma
right now. The game played out almost precisely how we
laid it out in the game preview last Tuesday. Very
low scoring, that was pretty easy to see coming. Mattiir

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had eighty six passing yards except for one play, and
on one play one cap buster. I think those were
my exact words. There could be one random capbuster. That's
the difference. Simple drag route Satania takes at eighty seven yards,
he had more passing yards on that one play than

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he did the rest of the day combined. And that's enough.
When you hold Missouri to seventy yards rushing, that's enough
what they have. I think Hardy himself had over three
hundred on the ground against Mississippi State the week before.
Seventy Yeah, two interceptions, four sacks, eight tackles for loss,
Oklahoma has discovered that if you play high level defense,

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you don't have to light the world on fire. This
is not the Big twelve anymore. We don't have to
outscore people. I do have a padlock stat for you,
paper popper of a padlock stat. Missouri had more pass
is then runs in this game. Yeah. I'm gonna let
that simmer for a second because you may think that's
not that big a padlocks. That is it? Well, if
it is, if you understand the state of the Missouri offense,

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the way that they've been competing, if not winning games,
competing in games. The path for them to win this game,
I promise you was not Eli rolling in there saying, yeah,
we want to sling it all over the field this
Saturday in Norman. No, no, no, But they had to
because they ended up being put in catch up mode.
They needed a plan. I said the other day to

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where twenty is good enough to win a game? And
you know what they got that game. They just didn't
score the twenty, held Oklahoma to seventeen. But they didn't
score the twenty, and so Missouri's defense kind of provided
them with the runway offense couldn't take off and that's
not because they shot themselves in the foot. It's because

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Oklahoma is just really good. And I got to give
pretty supreme credit to Brent Venables. Earlier in the year,
it was very popular to be trashing Brent Venables and
some people, you know, since it became popular, all of
a sudden, the fire coaches. In October, some people after
the Texas game said, oh, here we go, here we go.
Matier got his finger hurt and he's back and he

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looks like a shell of himself. We lost to Texas,
and now what Now we got to run this gauntlet.
Now we got to leave home a couple of big games.
Oh what's going to happen? Well, imagine if I rewind
to going into the Red River shootout. You lose that
game on Saturday, and I were to tell you Matier's
not going to get any better. His health, you know,

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his hand, it's going to be what it is the
rest of the year. And imagine me telling you that
you're going to have to go through that entire stretch
Texas at South Carolina, Ole miss at Tennessee, at Alabama, Missouri,
and you'll come out of all that despite lacking an
offensive identity of any kind with your college football playoff

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destiny in your hands the last week of the regular season.
Imagine me telling you that, but tier's not gonna get
any better. Offensive identity is going to be non existent.
And yet you're gonna go Texas, South Carolina, Old miss Tennessee, Bama, Missouri,
and you're gonna have your fade in your hands, which
they absolutely do. Going into the last week. You're looking
at the odds to make the college football playoff on

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your screen right now, courtesy of FanDuel. Oklahoma minus four
to twenty. So they are solidly favored to make the playoff.
Just got to beat LSU. And I'm sure there's some
path where even if they lose to LSU, but certainly
if they beat LSU. There in Jesse, do you remember
off the top of your head what the spread is
in the Oklahoma LSU game this Saturday. I don't think

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we checked on it all right, Jesse is efforting that
as we speak. So anyway, look ten and a half. Oh,
you favored by ten and a half. Win that game.
They're in for sure. I'm just saying it could have
gone off the rails. It hasn't been ideal like I
had some Oklahom folks saying, look, you gotta trash our
offense a little bit on the show tonight. By the way,

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this is commonplace. I know. Our show ends up in
these hype videos that teams play for the team on Fridays,
and half the time the staff has asked us to
say it on air disgusting. So yeah, man, Oklahoma would
love a little spark to be lit under the offense.
I don't know what's gonna happen there. I just think
you kind of got what you got right now. Is

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it a flawed team, of course? Is it an imperfect team?
Of course. A third of the team is non functional
right now. But the other two thirds are really getting
the job done. Missouri. I'm going to talk about them
very briefly a little later in the show. I still
think they can salvage and win to end the season.
But it kind of is what it is. Bopra Bulick

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came back yesterday. He did play They're seven and four
right now. They could finish eight and four if they
beat Arkansas. It's not a terrible season. Injury derailed it
a little bit. They had the close loss to Alabama
and then and they look the Vanderbilt game's really where
it turned. We were there for that game. You got
a fourth and goal situation and you don't make it,

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and you lose your quarterback on that play, and then
Vandy breaks a long run I think on the next drive.
That was the difference in that game, and that's been
the difference in the season really, because that's where the
playoff hopes kind of went out the window a little bit.
But it still not a bad season. They're watching us
in Columbia, South Carolina. A task a Seeda Texas. Perhaps
a young man by the name of Kenny in a Taskaseeda, Texas.

(36:30):
If you know, you know one person knows. And Dayton, Ohio.
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(37:12):
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and then we were on our way. That's how we
get to five hundred K. What a headline I have
in my hand right now. Florida State is retaining Mike

(37:36):
Norvel for the twenty twenty six season. They made it
official today. Well, they put out a graphic today, so
I assume that makes it official. This kind of genuinely
surprised me. I really thought that there would be some
action on him after they lost to NC State the
other night. I'm talking about the most disastrous display of
special teams I think I've ever seen. There were three

(37:57):
different moments in a three minute period on Friday night
when we were watching this game in the hotel room
in Oregon, where I said, you cannot be serious. I
said those words three times. That phrase came out of
my mouth three times about Florida State in the span
of three minutes of game action. You're supposed to say
that like twice a year. I said it three times
in five minutes, and they lost the game. And here

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we are, though we're five and six, could end up
six and six. They got to beat Florida on the
road to get there. Mike Norvell is going to be retained.
Very simple to understand what's happening here. No one wanted
to retain Mike Norvello there. It cost too much to
fire him. That's just the way it is. I like
Mike Norvel a lot. I love the dude as a person.

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I actually think he can be a successful coach. I
think they got started down a slippery slope there when
it came to roster construction, and they've never been able
to get their footing. By that, I mean they leaned
on the portal heavy and they killed it one year,
that twenty twenty three year they killed it, and then
they doubled down on that approach and they never started

(39:05):
to build up through high school recruiting. And that's even
aside from the problem of maybe they're not capable of it.
But let's just assume they are capable of it. They
chose to continue going the portal approach because the thing
about going heavy portal is you got to keep going
heavy portal to backfill the portal losses that you originally
portaled in because a lot of them are one year guys,
maybe two year guys max, and it's it's just once

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it gets going downhill, that's really hard to reverse that. Anyway,
that's where they are right now, and so that's why
he's being retained. It would have cost a ton of
money because they got played when Alabama had the job
opening and they got tricked into thinking Mike Norvell was
a serious candidate for the Alabama job. They were not

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going to offer Mike Norvel the job. It was always
Kaelin de Bor's job, but the people at Florida State
were made to believe that it was Mike's job, to
the tune that he got a huge buyout. So it's
not the first time that's happened to someone. And if
he were to go on to win, it would be
a moot point. But he hasn't gone on to win,
so it immediately makes you look at that buyout number
and say, we would owe him what How did that happen,

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Alabama's job opening, and a certain mega agent out there
is how it happened. So the details are pretty obvious here.
My question is not, what did you say in your statement?
You're not aligned on this, not everyone's behind this. Everyone
knows why you're retaining him. Mike Norvell knows why he's

(40:33):
being retained. If he ends up winning, that's irrelevant, like
it doesn't matter. There's a look at this. Look at
how many words they're all over here. That's a that's
a that's a mighty big word salad to say we
can't afford to fire you right now, or we're not
willing to pay that money to fire you. No one's
reading that. That's the most TLDR I've ever seen in
my life. One paragraph would have been too long. Didn't

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read that's one, two three, that's five paragraphs. So what's
Mike Norvell do about it? That's the only question that
matters here, sort of a stay of professional execution for
a little while. What's he going to do about it?
And my immediate follow up is, how do you recruit
to this environment? How do you recruit to a place
where everyone just assumes the head coaches on borrow time.

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I think these are fair questions. I don't think this
is irresponsible to ask at all. In the best of worlds,
if you had just a staff full of assassin recruiters,
it would be tough. This staff is not known for
its ability to recruit the high school ranks, so it's
going to be an uphill battle. Now. The answer to
that is you've got to be willing to pay a
premium for talent. You could make the argument that, well,

(41:39):
since we're not spending the money on buyouts, we'll reinvest
that money into paying for players. They tried that at
Florida this past cycle didn't work, but that doesn't mean
it can't work. It just didn't work there. Also, it
feels like there are going to be several staff moves.
How do you staff like understand what we're talking about here.
It's not a video game, so you don't just get

(42:01):
to press buttons and imaginary people take over for other
imaginary people. If Gus Malson heads out the door, you
got to find an offensive coordinator that's willing to uproot
his family and his situation, and hopefully a good one
by the way, to come down to Tallahassee to maybe
live one year, or if you make player personnel department changes,

(42:24):
you're gonna have to get people willing to come down
there with the risk and the cloud over the staff's
head that you may only be there because they can't
afford to fire you right now. My point is, even
in the best of climates, if you've got a magnetic
head coach and you've got a great recruiting staff, it
would be tough to attract players and staffers here. This
is what has a lot of the Florida State fans

(42:45):
so up in arms because they're looking at it and saying,
everyone knows it's an inevitability. Why don't we rip the
band aid off right now? And you know the retort
to that's obvious, Well, do you guys want to stroke
a sixty plus million dollar check? Of course they can't
afford too. Very few single people can afford to do that,
very very few individual people. You may be single, I
don't know. But what was the talk we heard down there?

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The talk was they had the money. Maybe they did,
maybe they didn't. If they did, they're not willing to
spend it. The biggest risk here is not anger. If
fans are angry, it's not the worst thing in the world.
That's the second worst thing in the world. The worst
thing in the world is apathy. The worst thing in
the world is a half full house. When you're in

(43:29):
a freshly renovated stadium and it's like week three or
week four next year, and already the season's given off
bad vibes, and already we realize all the good things
we said in the spring and summer are just cosmetic
and oh, it's the same old, same old. We're not
going through this again. That is the biggest danger here,
and hopefully it doesn't happen again. I'm gonna tell you,

(43:52):
like I'm dead serious when I say I like Mike Norvell.
I think he's a great person. I hope it works out.
Cannot state that strongly enough. I badly hope it works out.
I had a lot of hope after the Alabama game
this year that somehow, some way they had pressed the
right buttons and it was gonna work out. I mean,

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they looked ultra impressive in that Week one, still one
of the most baffling results of the season. Given the
context that we ended up having at our disposal, I
was pulling for it to be true and it turns
out that it was a little bit of a mirage.
Who knows what the future holds. I do know what

(44:33):
a month and two days from now holds Christmas. We
celebrate it proudly at pet State and also in the
Peate State store. The Tiss the Season collection is setting records.
Our November store traffic is through the roof, and now
it doesn't take long for us to ship stuff. So
a lot of you have already got product in hand.
We just launched the Tiss the Season Collection like two

(44:55):
weeks ago, so like a lot of you are already
wearing your Christmas gear. I mean, look at that chuggy swa,
look at the merry Christmas, you filthy casual. Oh that
thing's great. Great idea on my part, I think Jesse great,
great creative idea for me to solely have come up
with that T shirt. So you know, we're not about

(45:15):
the credit around here. Really, it's a team effort. That's
why you never hear me ask for credit when something
good happens here at Paint State. We we just share
the credit collectively. I take all the blame, of course,
but we share the credit and a lot of credit
due because the store is on fire. So uh, I
just I just humbly invite you guys paintstantmaterial dot coments.

(45:37):
Right there is just splashed, not splattered or splashed all
over the home screen. But it's also a really really
good gift idea because if you're like me and you
have no idea what to buy people, just buy them that.
And if they don't like that, they're a loser. No
they're not. They could be, but not just because of that.
That's harsh language, but I think the point was made.

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Let's continue. We've got still a few things to get
to here. Uh important text mesters, let me read this
blah blah blah blah blah blah. Okay, we continue. It's
a very look. We do the show live, so a
lot of times, very very important things happened during the
show that, as it turns out, was not one of them.
The AP pole is out for week thirteen, and I

(46:21):
think it's very very important. I think there are a
lot of blinking red lights on this week's AP pole,
so walk through me or walk through with me here.
SMU is number twenty five, Jesse. I think we boiled
this down earlier. Today. SMU controls their ACC Championship fate. Right,
if they win Saturday, they are in the ACC Championship game. Yes,

(46:47):
all right, I'm going to take that to mean that
SMU controls its college football playoff destiny. Now I can't
one hundred percent guarantee that, but I can pretty much
guarantee that Lashly and the boys once again in position
to go to Charlotte. I think they got to beat
Cal this Saturday, who just fired Justin Wilcox like five

(47:09):
minutes ago. And look, if you I don't want to
take anyone back to the COVID days, those are dark days.
But if you remember how it ended for Nick Rolovich
at Washington State and Wyatt ended that way, which I
thought was kind of bs. And you remember the Brian
Harrison era at Auburn, and you remember some of the
stories around Brian Harrison at Auburn who also never got

(47:29):
a fair shake at Auburn. The fact that both of
those guys are running the house at Cal Berkeley right now,
it just amazing. Only in college football, not even only
in America, only in America in college football. So that's
who plays SMU Saturday. Pitt is number twenty four, Georgia
Tech's number twenty three. That's where I want to stop.

(47:50):
Put on the E break for a second. I have
it on good authority. These teams played yesterday in Atlanta,
and the outcome was pretty defendive. AP voters looked at
that and said, give me Georgia Tech ahead of Pitt Anyway,
I have no words. I have no words. Tulane is
twenty two, North Texas is twenty one, and James Madison

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is twenty. All right, So let's still ask the question
because you know the playoff rule. The playoff rule is
we take the five highest ranked conference champions and then
we take seven at larges all right, So it's known
that the Big ten champ will be one, the SEC

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champ will be one, the Big twelve champ will be one.
That's three. The big question that we have asked is
could there be a world where let's say, oh, North
Texas wins the American and they're ranked really high. That's four.
And then JMU wins the Sun Belt and they're ranked

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higher than the ACC conference champ. So that's five. That's it,
and we don't have room for the ACC champ. Is
there a world where that could happen? I'm still guessing no.
I'm still guessing no. But then Jesse again marched into
my office earlier today and showed me the various ACC

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Conference championship scenarios, tiebreaker scenarios. I threw up. I had
no other recourse. I just threw up. Every other one
of these conferences is going to have like this premier
matchup in the Big Ten. It's going to be Ohio
State Indiana, who are ranked one two. By the way,
it's going to be a one to two matchup in
all likelihood, pending pending this Saturday, Ohio State Michigan. We

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have that small matter to get through, and then we
could have A and M Alabama, or we could have
an M Georgia or Bama Georgia, and that's going to
be a great game no matter what. In the SEC
Championship game, and for all the world, it looks like
Texas Tech Brigham Young in a rematch in Dallas, and
I've just got this alphabet soup of mess in the ACC.
So who knows what the ACC is going to spit

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out at us, But anyway, there is some drama there.
USC is still at nineteen. That is significant. They didn't
drop a whole lot Now the big question is do
the playoff rankings reflect the AP, especially with those G
five teams. Do the playoff rankings reflect the AP? Jesse,
to my knowledge, the College Football Playoff has not featured

(50:23):
in their rankings so far two G five teams from
different conferences. They've had G five teams in there, but
we haven't seen Oh, there's TWU Lane at twenty two
from the American Oh there's JMU at twenty fifth from
the Sun Belt, because then we'd kind of get an
idea of where they have those respective teams ranked. Therefore,

(50:43):
we would have an idea if those teams won their
conferences of relatively how high the conference champ would be ranked.
Hadn't seen that yet. So we'll see if that is
reflected this week in the Committee rankings, just like we'll
see if Oh, I don't know, Southern cal is still
as high as nineteen in the Committee rankings. Tennessee's eighteen,
Virginia seventeen, Texas sixteen. All right, there's Michigan at fifteen.

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Michigan's going into Saturday, they're going to play Ohio State
if they beat them, and I think that line was
eleven and a half as I saw that game's in
ann arbor. So yes, Ohio State back to back to
back to back losses, still a double digit favorite in
Michigan's building. Yep. If Michigan wins the game, how high
do they climb? Is the question? And do they go

(51:27):
to the Big Ten title game? Which I assumed was
automatic But apparently there's some tiebreaker scenarios that make it
not automatic. But truthfully, those all are written in crayon,
so who knows what's true. But if Michigan beats Ohio State,
how high do they climb in the rankings? Like everyone
keeps thinking about these walls, like these little barriers, like, oh,
you can't jump ahead of Alabama, or you couldn't jump

(51:48):
ahead of Notre Dame. Of course you could. You could
put him seventh or eight. I don't know, Oh, use
a two loss team. Notre Dame is a two loss team.
Bama's a two loss team. As far as I could tell,
if Mischigan bet to Ohio State, that have a better
win than any of you. Now you could talk about
the rest of their strength of schedule, Okay, but we
know that baked in already. They're already fifteenth. How high

(52:09):
would they jump Utah's fourteenth. I'm going to talk about
Utah in a second. One of the most insane box
scores you will ever see in your life ended up
with the Utah win. Yesterday. Miami is at thirteen. Again,
we're wondering how closely do the AP rankings reflect the

(52:30):
Committee rankings. Vandy's at twelve. I I'm gonna keep saying
the same thing, where does the committee have Vandy? Vandy
ought to get a lot of credit for just bodybagging
Kentucky yesterday. Diego Pavia threw for half a mile on
Kentucky and they won emphatically. And that was a game
that some people had their eye on as like a
potential upset. Alert US included Nope, bringing me Young is

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at eleven. Good Win yesterday, good Win top ten. I
want to talk about BBAMA for a second. I am
seeing some scenarios out there that I think are complete garbage.
So if Alabama loses to Auburn, they're out of everything,
and that's that takes care of itself. If Alabama beats

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Auburn and they win the SEC Championship game, there are
some people who don't think they would jump into the
top four guys, they're jumping into the top four. The
SEC champ is going to be one of those top
four teams, so they one hundred percent in my mind,
will have a first round by they will be one
of the top four teams if they beat Auburn and

(53:35):
beat whoever they play in Atlanta. The real tricky part,
according to the All State Playoff Predictor at least, is
if Alabama beats Auburn, they go to Atlanta at ten
and two and they lose the SEC Championship game. Apparently,
the All State Playoff Predictor says they have like a

(53:56):
fifty four percent chance of making the playoff at that point.
I want to tell you, in no uncertain terms, if
an SEC team enters Conference Championship Saturday inside the top
ten and they lose and fall out of the playoff
because they played in the SEC Championship game, they will
burn the conference to the ground. The SEC greg SANKI

(54:19):
may secede from college football if that happens. I struggle
to see a planet where that is allowed to happen.
The SEC's second best team, because they earned the right
to play in what they would call the premier conference
championship game in America. Now, look one to two in
Big ten country this year. It's gonna be hard to
argue with. But still that's gonna be a top ten

(54:40):
matchup in the SEC Championship game. And if you sit
there and have the audacity to drop Alabama out after
they were in going into that Saturday because they lost
the game, I know a lot of times you figuratively say,
oh man, they're gonna riot. I really think that'd riot.
I don't even know what building they would march on.
I think they would riot, so fifty four percent, like

(55:02):
I think if they go into Atlanta, they're in. I
think no matter who in the SEC plays in the
SEC Championship Game, they're in. I don't even know what
other scenario there would be. Notre Dame's nine check. We
had argument back and forth about Notre Dame Bama last week,
but everyone spoke in their piece on that. OU is

(55:22):
eight check. Texas Tech is number seven. Now here's another
question to just ponder, because I've seen some disagreement back
and forth on this. I really don't think there's a
solid answer yet. Texas Tech at seven. First off, let's
see where the committee has them. But what do you
think is gonna happen. If Texas Tech wins the Big Twelve,

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do you think they jump into the top four if
Alabama were to, let's say, make it to Atlanta and
they lose to A and M. Because remember, for a
long time, it just looked like the participants from the
Big Ten in SEC Championship game are gonna be the
top But then Bama lost to Oklahoma. They fell out.
So there's this world now where Bama could play A

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and M ann beats Bama, So you know the one
and two. You know those two teams are gonna have
top four seeds unless they lose. So you'd have the
Ohio State Indiana dynamic there and you'd have the SEC
champ there. But that would leave one spot open. That
fourth seed there would be open. And at that point
you got a wonder would the committee put a Texas

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Tech Big Twelve champ all the way up into the
four seed or would they put an at large team
like Georgia. Well, they wouldn't be they would be a
non conference champ. Would they put them up there? Would
Oregon vault up there? I tend to think if Texas
Tech wins the Big Twelve championship. They're gonna have enough
juice given an extra data point of a conference champion

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chip to jump up there. But that is very very
disagreed upon right now from what I can tell, So
I'm just kind of guessing on that. Oregon's five and
Georgia's four. Again, that's very important to note. Let's see
what the Committee says about that. But Oregon jumped up
to five, and it's very important. If a non conference
chance is gonna get a bye, it could be Georgia,

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it could be Oregon. Georgia's got a chance against Georgia
Tech this Saturday. That's a ranked team. I think there's
an outside chance that Washington could maybe be on the
fringes of being ranked by the committee this week, which
means Oregon could face a ranked team. Let's see what
they do. They're a and m Indiana Ohio State three
to one. Let's move merrily along some more coaching search stuff. Well,

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I got a bunch of added takeaways from Saturday, So
I mean we got to Sarah MacLaughlin special to end
all Sarah McLaughlan specials coming up. The Auburn coaching search
is continuing, and I think it's nearing a conclusion. I
think Auburn's really really zeroing in on their guy. I
got some pushback last week from Auburn fans for suggesting

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that this coaching search had been a well oiled machine.
And I said that because has and I didn't just
volunteer that. Like, I mean, I've got fairly good working
knowledge of where the search has been, but I also
have working knowledge of what other people involved in the
search have thought. I've spoken to a bunch of people that,
in some shape, form or fashion have been involved in

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the Auburn coaching search, but also people who have been
involved in many coaching searches before, so they've seen clusters before,
they've seen well oiled machines before, and they would describe
the Auburn coaching search firmly in the latter category. And
that's what I've heard as well. So I said that,
and like, I don't know what it was. Some Auburn

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fans pushed back. It's almost like they have Stockholm syndrome
from the ineptitude in that athletic department over the years
that they crave being told it's a mess. And for once,
at least, I'm sitting here telling you No, Auburn's really
got a tag together on this thing. Now. They could
screw it up at the eleventh hour, but I don't
expect that, so I think they're really close. I mean,

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I think there's some eyes to dot, some teas to cross,
but I really think they've zeroed in on a handful
of qualified candidates for the job. So like that could
be John Summrall and you could get that thing done
immediately after Tulane's season is over. Now Tulane could be
in a conference championship game, they could be in the playoff.
I think there's a plan in place for how that

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would be handled if some are All gets the job,
if some are All doesn't get the job. I think
they've got their solid two and three options in place.
I think they've vetted everyone. I think they've had this
done for several days, so I think that's where they are.
I also think because of that, this time next week
will probably be on the precipice of getting an announcement
from Auburn, or we will have an announcement from Auburn.

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I mean, I really would be surprised if by Sunday
after the Iron Bowl we didn't have traction on that
front or it wasn't imminent, So like I think they'll
be ready for that. DJ Dirkin is the interim head
coach down there right now. Now. It had been my
personal opinion going off no information and just going on
feel that I thought DJ Durkin was not really a

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candidate for the job. This is a couple of weeks
ago when I was saying this, but I got corrected
by people who would know because I didn't that he
is very much in play. And I can tell you
even right now, DJ Durkin is still very much in
play for this. To what degree that's anyone's guess. I'm
not John Cohen. I'm not running the search, but I'll
tell you DJ has gotten a look and will get

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a look now. He is auditioning as the head coach
right now for the job. I do think if you
just kind of close your eyes and envision the future,
I think we all could see a world where that
place is just crazy Saturday night and Alabama's in town,
and you do what you've done to them at Jordan
Hare Stadium over the years, and you just make it

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a house of horrors. Defense rises up, you force some
turnovers and offensively, you scratch out enough points and you
win at twenty three to sixteen, and boom DJ Dirk
and just carry it off the field on the player's shoulders.
And there's this sudden late rush of momentum to make
him the head coach, and it could make things really interesting.

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I could easily see that this is college football, and
I could absolutely see that. My guess is it won't
go that way, but not because he's not a serious candidate.
So I didn't want to correct that from a couple
of weeks ago. The other thing I wanted to say
is I wanted to kind of correct, in my opinion,
the misnomer about what kind of job this is. The

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Auburn job's a phenomenal job. The Auburn job gets painted
with this broad brush from past stereotypes that I don't
think reflects that place currently at all. I think the
Auburn job's really a job where you're set up to succeed.
The roster's good if you get the right guy in there.
I think you'd have a surprising level of retention if
you get the right front office folks in there. There's

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no lack of resource. The other good thing about Auburn.
Just earmuff yourself in Tuscaloosa and Athens is Auburn sort
of sells itself. It's a really good place. I grew
up really close to Auburn, so Auburn kind of sells itself.
You get folks on campus there. I mean, if you're
even competitive. If I don't want to use a golf joke,
this is no shot at Hugh Freeze. This is like

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a metaphor a lot of people use. If you can
just get within a nine iron of the other places
Auburn sometimes is enough to get Auburn across the finish line,
especially if you got the right guy there, you got
the right staff there. So it may very well be
John Summrall. If it is, that's a huge win. That's
a huge win because a John Summral or any of

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a number of these guys whose names have been at
the forefront coaching for Auburn, as it's properly aligned, would
be a home run, not a Grand Slam. We don't
label hires grand slams anymore. Good solid home run though.
I think that's what we could see there. I got
to give credit have I got to go with the
Tom Fournelli line, I got no clue if it will

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work out. None of us have the magic eight ball.
Auburn University, from its standpoint, has put itself. Auburn University
has put Auburn in as good a position in this
coaching search as any of the last several coaching searches
that they've operated there. And if you don't remember how
those have gone, they've been varying degrees of disaster. Back

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in two thousand and nine, late two thousand and eight,
they fired now a sitting senator, Tommy Tubberville. All this
is real life, by the way, and then they operated
a coaching search. Bama had hired Nick Saban, Bama was
about to go win a national title, and they had
resurrected their program. And there's a lot of heat on

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the powers that be down at Auburn. Ja Jacobs, I think,
was the athletic director, their friend of the program, Jay Jacobs,
And so they start their own coaching search. They go
to ames, Iowa, which a lot of universities should be
doing right now, to interview the sitting head coach at
Iowa State. His name was Gene Chiswick. He was five
and nineteen. The plane lands at Auburn, the administration gets

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off the plane, there's a dude standing at the airport hangars.
There's a clip of this on YouTube. It's famous. We
used to play it all the time when I did
radio down in Columbus, and the guys just yelling, Boo,
we need a leader, not a loser, just yelling that
over and over again. Five and nineteen is not what
we need. And then it would have been great if

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the SoundBite ended there, but the guy just torpedoed his
reputation when he listed off all the coaches that he
would rather Auburn hire, and it was Rodney Garner, Turner
Gil I think Patrick Nicks got a look. This was
pre Bo Nicks by several years. So yeah, the replacements

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that he had in mind wouldn't have exactly lit the
world on fire there either. And then we had Malzan
come in and Malzon did very well, and then Malson's
out the door, and then we have the Brian Harrison
air and Brian Harson. I don't know if he would
have worked out there, but given the circumstance that he
was dropped into, he had no shot of working out.
And then they have another search if you want to

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call it that, and then he Hugh Freeze and you
see how that worked out. So for me to say
Auburn has its act together and a coaching search is
a big deal, that is not normally the case. There,
let's continue back to the field we go. Added takeaways
from week thirteen. We got to start with this pit
Georgia Tech game. It was a classic man of his

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word moment there at Grant Field, not by Brent Key.
Brent Key a man of his word, no doubt, but
Pat Nardoozi told you that the Notre Dame game was
not must win, and he said that the Georgia Tech
game was must win. And Buddy, they played like it.
I hated this matchup for Georgia Tech. We put this
game at a ten on the Upset Alert concern Meter

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the other day. Georgia Tech had three turnovers on downs,
they had two more interceptions. At the end of the
first quarter, it was twenty one to nothing and Pitt
had a one seventy six to twenty one total yardage advantage.
And Pitt is now responsible, not solely responsible, but primarily

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responsible for the complete and utter mess that is the
ACC And to build off of that, let me also
talk about Miami right quick. They beat Virginia Tech thirty
four to seventeen. Carson Beck nice. I was in my
hotel room getting ready to go to Austin Stadium yesterday,
and I flip on the Miami game and it was
first quarter and the first thing I saw was Carson

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Beck just rip a ball over the middle, nice twenty
yard touchdown pass to Elijah Lofton. It was so refreshing.
Not everything has to be thrown within five yards of
the line of scrimmage or behind it. It was nice
to see that's still part of what we do. Miami
offensively twenty to three lead at the half. Carson Beck
was twenty seven to thirty two, three twenty four touchdowns.

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Miami had five sacks. Miami had nine tackles for loss.
They were seven to thirteen on third down. They came
up there prepared and ready to win, and they took
care of business. You remember what the fear was back
in July, don't you. It was one hundred degrees outside.
But we were looking at the calendar and we were saying,
hold up, second, Miami's got to go to Blacksburg and Pittsburgh.
In late November. That's going to be terrible. It was

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sixty two degrees at kickoff, So that's the best I
could do. Now, that's where the good news ends, because
it is my unfortunate duty to report to you that Miami,
although favored by six and a half, will play at
Pittsburgh this Saturday at high noon with a kickoff temperature

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of thirty three degrees. I can picture it now. You
got to overcome it. You just got to sack up
and overcome it. Utah. I don't know how this happened.
I got no clue. I thought we were well on
our way to making this the Sarah McLaughlin Special. But
then I watched another game. Did you First off, did

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you see it? Did you see Utah Kansas State? If
you didn't, Wow, You're gonna have some free time this week.
It's a short week. A lot of you're gonna be traveling,
a lot of you're gonna have some downtime, especially if
the family's coming to your house. If you have like
a spare twenty minutes, go find the condensed version of
this game on YouTube and watch it. Here's what wasn't

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enough to win this game? Okay, Kansas State had forty
seven points. That wasn't enough. They had I kid you not,
four hundred and seventy two yards wait for it, wait
for it, rushing four seventy two on the ground in
a losing effort. They had runs Jesse, hold on, I

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got to pull this up right quick. I forgot to
write all these down. This is one of the most
insane things you will ever hear me say. Kansas State,
in a loss, had runs of forty for thirty seven,
sixty six, thirty three, fifty eight, eighty, thirty three, and
twenty four and they lost the game. Utah found a way,

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I guess is the best compliment I can pay. And
they needed half one hundred. They found a way. They
dropped a little in the ap pole, but they're still
nine and two. They're gonna be right up there in
the playoff rankings, and they've got Kansas at Kansas to
end the season. I just this most mind boggling statistic
I've ever seen. I don't think Alabama's run for four
hundred seventy two yards in the past month. Kansas State

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did it in one afternoon and lost. And then I
thought Chris climb and cried at the press conference afterwards,
I did too, for different reasons. I did too. Brigham
Young one, I can count on them. Look, everyone was talking,
everyone was saying, oh, that trip to Cincinnati, y'all gott
to play in Cincinnati at night. And Brigham Young was like, yeah,

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they got to play us though, and they won twenty
six to fourteen. They again went on the road and
won the turnover battle, and they again outrushed an opponent significantly,
two sixty five to eighty seven. It's Texas Tech, It's
Brigham Young this Saturday. They don't play each other this Saturday,
last games of the regular season. They're both three possession favorites.

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Big Texas Tech's favored by three touchdowns, Brigham Young by
like eighteen and a half. And if they win those games,
they're headed to Arlington, They're headed to the Big twelve
Championship game. Odds to make the College Football Playoff Texas
Tech overwhelming favorite to make it Brigham Young plus two
h five. Now think this through with me, because I'm
going to be really interesting to see how those odds

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change if they win Saturday. They're a big favorites, So
you got to assume the assumption they win this Saturday
is almost certainly already baked into this number, and they're
still not favored to make the college football playoff, which
means the folks at fan Duel slightly bel leave that

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there's possibility they go into Conference Championship Saturday inside the
playoff bubble, lose and get dropped out, or maybe they're
just outside the playoff bubble when they go into Conference
Championship Saturday. Therefore, if they don't win, they were never
bumped out because they were never in it. But there's
no sure thing. My advice to Kalani Sataki and crew

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out there, win the Big Twelve and that'd mess some
things up for someone else too, because I don't think
Texas Tech has fallen out like they're gonna make it
even if they lose the Big Twelve championship game. So yeah,
is it gonna be a one bid league or a
two bid league? That's still up in the air. Vandy
just smoked Kentucky. There was a splattering in Nashville last night,

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never a doubt, never a doubt, six hundred and four
total yards. It's obvious that now this may sound a
little disrespectful to Vandy, but it's obvious there were about
eleven or ten weeks worth of gas in Kentucky's tank.
And when they ran out, they ran out. The e
light did not come on. They didn't have time to
find the next exit. They just died right there on

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the interstate. Diego Pavia for Heisman apparently is still a thing.
It is still a thing. I don't know how you
can watch him do what he did last night and
say it otherwise. We're looking at the odds right now
on the board from FanDuel to win the Heisman Trophy.
It's Fernando Mendoza favored. It's Julian saying Jeremiah Love and
Diego Pavia with the same odds. And then my guy

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Marcel Reed just waiting in the weeds there in fifth. Yeah,
Diego Pavi is way up there again, low key. If
I had to bet right now, Jeremiah Love, I think
has been the best player in college football this year,
so he would actually get my vote right now. I
didn't bet on him a few weeks ago. Jeremi Love's
best player in college football that I've seen this year.
That's what I'll say, so he'd get my vote. I'm

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not responsible enough to have a Heisman vote. But if
I did have one, it'll be Jeremiah Love and that
brings Oh, by the way, Vandy plays Tennessee. Let me
not bury that. Vandy goes to Tennessee this week. He's
gonna be insane. It's gonna be a war in Kneeland Stadium.
Vandy at Tennessee, Tennessee favored by two and a half.
That is your opening line for a game. Does that

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rivalry game have a name? Someone to call Bill Martin.
I'm not gonna do that. It's a big game, That's
what it's gonna be. We generally do a kid friendly
show here, like I don't use profanity on this show.
Maybe I give a little veiled immunity every now and then,

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but largely, look, if you're a dad out there and
you're driving to work on Monday morning, I structure the
show in such a way where little Jeffrey could be
in the passenger seat. You're safe if your kids are
listening to the show. Except for right now, and it's
not gonna be because of the language that things are
about to go sideways. Things are about to take a
little tvm a turn because of content I bring to

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you this week's Sarah McLaughlin special. Notre Dame beat Syracuse
seventy to seven, and it was thirty five to nothing
with time left to go in the first quarter. These
are the most points Notre Dame has scored since the
Great Depression in any game. They were up twenty one
to nothing before their offense ever took the field. Syracuse

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somehow had an edge in total first downs in this game.
They had more passing yards in this game, and they
lost by sixty three. It is the worst Syracuse loss
since they faced Union in eighteen ninety three. We assume
that just means the entire army. They scrimmaged the Northern
Troops in eighteen ninety three, and only then did they

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lose worse. The Union was strong back then, very strong crew.
This is the first time since nineteen ninety six. That's
as far back as we could go in record keeping.
By the way, it's probably the first time ever that
an FBS team has run for three hundred plus on
less than twenty five carries. The only thing that was
stopping Notre Dame was the wall in the back of

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the end zone. They could have run to Rochester if
they wanted to. CJ. Carr winning quarterback CJ. Carr nine
to fifteen for sixty seven yards. So, as it turns out,
Notre Dame had more points than their quarterback had passing yards.
Not a service Academy in South Bend, Notre Dame had

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thirty one more points than they had plays run. It's
the most inexplicable, unimaginable TVMA Sarah MacLaughlin Special of the
Modern Era, seventy to seven Prayers for everyone dressed in orange.
Just let the music cook. All you can do is

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pray for those kids. That is someone's child out there
wearing a Syracuse uniform. Terrible. I don't know how many
Syracuse T shirts flew off the shelves at various Academy
Sports and Outdoors yesterday. I'm saying, if you're a very,
very very sadistic fan, you could go to Academy and

(01:16:15):
buy one today. I'm told they have plenty and stop.
But you could also go to Academy for a number
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Forget stocking stuffers, the big stuff, the good stuff under
the tree. You could get it at Academy Sports and Outdoors.
You're out there tailgating you need a grill, maybe to
cook your food, maybe to keep warm. They've got it

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at Academy Sports and Outdoors. Also just you know, space heaters,
a nice little chair to sit in, nice little canopy
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Fall Sports, Winter Sports headquarters, Social headquarters. Just go hang
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Academy has been a long time partner of the show.

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We appreciate them place to be this. I'm a year,
got a couple more things to get to and then
we will be out of here because I've got to
sleep for like fourteen hours tonight. Where's the Penn State
coaching search? Let me tell where. Penn State. The team
is winning, one of the hottest teams in the country.
We have made bank on Penn State games the second

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half of the year. We just waited for them to
bottom out and we started betting them. So they beat
Nebraska yesterday thirty seven to ten. There's a big ground
swell of support up there to make the interiom. Terry Smith,
the permanent head coach, I know a lot of Penn
State fans have their thoughts on this. I've taken a
lot of arrows from Penn State fans for sharing my

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thoughts on the coaching search, of which is fine, it's
your program, it's not my program. I've given you guys
that I thought are well cut out for the job.
To this point, I haven't been given reason to believe
that they've been involved in the search. Okay, cool. I
also thought it was weird that they fired James Franklin.
So we are already we're disagreeing on all that. So
that's fine. So the people that want Terry Smith to

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have the permanent job totally get it, totally understand it.
I don't think it would work long term. I've got
several reasons for that, but it's nothing different than you
guys have already hashed out amongst yourselves. So if you
disagree with me on that front, you disagree with me
on that front. Here's what I will say. I think
they have zeroed in on their guy for the past

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several days. I think that guy may be Bob Chesney.
That's who I think that guy may be. Now that's
not the only one who's gotten a look here. I
don't even think that's the only guy who they will
have gotten well down the road in contract negotiation with
whoever they hire, they will claim was the only guy
they are for the job to which is what everybody

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does is because technically it's true. Big question here is, well,
what about Bob Chesney Because he's the head coach at
James Madison right now. They could be in the playoff,
they could have their season extended. This is why I've
I've had trouble like zoning in and zero in a

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Lane at Old Miss as the only coach that could
potentially be in this mess. Lane's just been way more
performative about it. But there are other guys. Some are
all could be in a position where his season is extended,
but he gets a new job and he has to
make a decision. Bob Jesney could be in that situation.
He gets a new job, team's in the playoff, He's
got to make a decision. So like a lot of

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these guys could be in this situation. I I think
that if you were to go and look at Bob
Jesney's Wikipedia page, it's really crazy. Now, if you're a winner,
you're a winner. I mean, Kurt SIGNITTI has taught us that,
So I'm not gonna doubt just because the guy's been somewhere,
hasn't been somewhere, but to go look at Jesney's Wikipedia page. Look,
if he gets the Penn State job, where he will

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have come from to where he will be going, because
that is a pretty steep ascension. If he can win,
he can win. I'm not pushing back on it. I
just want a caution. And look, I'm I'm an outsider.
Although I am wearing appropriate colors tonight. I know there's
a lot of former players support up there for Terry Smith,

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the lot of fans support Terry Smith getting the job.
I get it. I understand how emotion works. I understand
the dynamics of the roster there, how the recruiting class
has fallen apart, how everyone rightfully is worried that if
we bring a total outsider in here, we're not starting
from scratch. You don't start from scratch at Penn State.
But we're gonna have a lot of attrition no matter what.

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Our former guy just got hired at Virginia Tech. He's
going to snatch a lot of our players. He can
snatch a lot of our staffers. So like we're draining
right here, we're leaking right now. Maybe Terry Smith is
the guy who holds it together. There's a lot of
merit to those points. You've got to hire the guy
that is the long term face of a winning Penn

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State football operation. And if you think that's Terry Smith,
hire him. There's no way you can know that. How
would you ever know that. The only thing you could
go on is how they've performed in the back half
of the season. It's very admirable. I had a guy
a long time ago. I had an athletic director a
long time ago caution me against falling in love with interims.

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It wasn't Patcraft, it wasn't this season. So they weren't
talking about Terry Smith, but they were talking about a
similar situation where an interim got put in position and
the kids gave an inspired effort, really just played above
their skis, went over the cliff for the guy, and
they said, here's what that's like. That's like a sugar high.
Sugar highs don't last forever, but they're really powerful in

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the moments where it's kicking, and it's the same energy
that you get from a team sometimes for the interim.
But he also put it in another way. He said,
and I think about this. If you're in a boxing
match and you've scouted your opponent, and you've trained to
face your opponent of a sudden bell rings ding ding ding,
and your opponent just comes out of the corner swinging wildly.

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He said, would you be comfortable or uncomfortable? I said,
I'd hate that, Like I want the guy to do
what he's been doing on tape. I want to know
what to expect. I want to fight what I've trained
to fight. He said, yep, that's correct. It would make
everyone uncomfortable. But then he said, what if that same
boxer swung wildly for twelve rounds? Is it a long
term sustainable strategy? And I said no. He said, yep, yep,

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boxing expert. He said, that's kind of what it's like
when you fall in love with the interim, especially in
this case, the interim was already there and you fired
James Franklin, and you fired him with the intent on upgrading. Right,
That's why you fire a coach because you think you
can do better. In this event, you will be openly

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admitting that the better option had been on his staff
all along, and if you believe that that was the
dynamic there, maybe you're right. I don't tend to think
that's the nor do I think that ever was a situation.
I think there's a good option for Penn State out there.
I just don't think the guy who would win their
long term to the degree above and beyond what James

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Franklin did, which is important to note here, is Terry Smith.
I don't personally think that. So if it's not Bob Chesney,
where do they go? That's actually a great question. I
have centered in on Bob Chesney for a couple of
days now, so I think that's where they'll go if
they don't. Look. This is the one I've had the

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least amount of feel on. This is the one. This
is the search behind the scenes that I've had a
lot of people really look sideways at me about. Because
I'll hit some folks up. I'll ask them where they
think the search is, and I mean some of these
folks are involved in these searches, and they'll say, look,
I mean, I can give you an angle on it,
but we really don't know. Sometimes that's just a hallmark

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of a really really high functioning coaching search. I think
Auburn is that. I'm not sure Penn State has been
so again, not pulling against any of these folks, would
love to be wrong. I really don't. I don't know.
Maybe Bob Chess's gonna be a rock star. Maybe he'll
be Kurt Signetti two point zero sig came from James Madison.
He's the guy who replaced Signetti. So maybe that just

(01:24:14):
becomes the new cradle of coaches. James Madison, the new
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even a better and you're just very curious, ooh man
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I wonder what the Heisman odds look like. You can
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Here's what I'm gonna do to crank the Ramen Noodle
Express up, which had a five and eight day yesterday.
Very disappointed, guys. If you thought this was gonna be easy,
you got on board the wrong express. We don't just
go undefeed it every week, although we try to. This
is a battle. This is a fight that we're in together.
And we went five and eight yesterday, which means we

(01:26:43):
gotta get ready. We are Georgia Tech. We are bloodied,
but we have got to gird our loins figuratively or literally.
I don't really care it's your personal life. You do
what you want to do. We gotta get ready for
rivalry week, and I am doing that by taking Eli
Drinkwitz and Missouri minus two and a half against Arkansas.
I think drink and Company are going to get a

(01:27:04):
win this week, and I think they're going to win
by at least three, which is why I am laying
two and a half points. Now. Remember it's a little
different week this week, so I think we're going to
end up doing Friday Night Lines on Thursday Night Thanksgiving special.
I will hammer those details out in the coming days
because I literally just thought about that. So we will
probably do it Thursday, but we'll be adding several games.

(01:27:25):
I think. Well, it looks like we'll be at least
ten deep with picks again this week. So yeah, five
and eight was not ideal yesterday. I would say minor
setback for a major Thanksgiving comeback. That's how I'm choosing
to look at this. I am done. That's the show, guys,
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(01:28:07):
normal time. I don't think that is the playoff doing
something weird Tuesday night. All right, normal time. Tuesday night,
That'll be our last show of the week, So a lot,
a lot to get done Tuesday night. We will probably
sleep until then. For director Bradley, Producer Jesse, I'm Josh Pate.
Take care, have a great start to your week, a
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