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I told people. They didn't want to believe me. Jesse,
you were here. I told people the cradle of quarterbacks
in college football Connor Wigman, Haynes King, Marcel Reid. It's
always been as clear as day to me. The cradle
of quarterbacks has been College Station in Texas. I told you, guys,
I didn't tell you anything like that. We're jam packed.
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We're high a top of glowing downtown Nashville, Tennessee, on
the Sunday, September fourteenth, the Year of Our Lord, twenty
twenty five edition of This show Man. What a Saturday
that was. You could have chosen to be where we
were in Knoxville. You could have chosen to go to
South Bend. You could have chosen to go to Atlanta,
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which we thought about. Yeah, there was a lot of
really really good down to the wire college football games yesterday,
in many cases that did not adopt the game script
that the games were supposed to adopt. As Mima always
told us, that's why we play the games. So it's
a full reaction Sunday. I'm not gonna waste a whole
lot of time on the intro. We got a lot
to get to the ap pole is an abject disaster today,
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I would argue worse than it's been all year. So
I mean, if they keep screwing up, we'll keep correcting them.
Can't believe that this is a thing. A fourth week
end of the season. Two head coaches have lost their
jobs today. We do not delight in that, but I
will talk about it, and I've got three best bets
to toss aboard the Rominudle Express tonight as it chugs
out of the station for week four. They're watching us
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in Clarksville, Texas, Rotterdam. It's in the Netherlands. Bradley Fyi, Salem, Oregon, Fife, Alabama.
Bradley knows where Fife is. They're watching us everywhere. Hey,
if you're on the YouTube channel right now, you might
notice that number says, well, it's probably like four hundred
and one thousand. Now, we passed four hundred thousand subscribers,
which is significant because it kickstarts the road to five
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hundo and once we get to five hundred thousand subs,
which I challenge you to make this season, I need
to come up with some ideas on what to do.
We're not going full nude on the show, even though
I snap my fingers and can make TVMA appear in
the monitor. We have to keep the children around. It
has to be a child friendly show. However, I am
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not above completely humiliating myself for the cause I've thrown
a clown nose on several times on air. So Georgia
Tech one yesterday, I'm not throwing on the clown nose
for that Vandy one yesterday. I can't throw on the
clown nose for that Lagway, the best quarterback in the SEC.
I suppose I could throw on the clown nose for that,
but that's not what we're here for. We're here to
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decide what we should do when we get to five
hundred thousand subs. Side note, make sure you're subscribed if
you aren't already. Okay, let's dive into the show tonight,
because we've got a lot to get to. That's a
hefty stack of papers in front of me. Georgia gave
up forty one and still found a way to win
in Nland Stadium yesterday. Stunning, stunning atmosphere, stunning everything we
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were there. This is about as good as college football gets.
I wish so badly that people who have not been
to Niland Stadium on a Saturday afternoon, could be there
for a big conference game. Georgia's in town. It's a
back and forth affair. They grabbed the early lead, Georgia
takes the lead, Tennessee takes it back, and there we
are all the while. This was the scene. I try
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to tell you, guys, follow on the Instagram story. That's
Bill Martin, friend of the program. He takes us up
on the roof of the press box every morning of
a game day when we're in Knoxville and it's empty
and then it's full. And that's what it looks like
down there on field level. Unbelievable, ladies and gentlemen. We
witnessed our first five Chawlai classic yesterday. Five out of
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five cha lai, which, for the newly washed around here
is the plural of chalice, which also makes no sense
to you, but stick around it will. This was a classic.
You rated in whatever metric you want to. There were
fourth downs, there were new stars emerging. There were a
couple of quarterbacks playing at a higher level yesterday than
several of the alleged Heisman favorites that I was urged
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to believe in in the preseason. Man, what a day
overtime field goal drama. It was unbelievable, and I am
sure most of America watched. I can't believe that there
are American citizens that chose not to watch this, not
people that got dragged off to fall weddings against their will.
I mean, there were people who just chose to, you know,
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hang out and go to a park yesterday. You do you,
We'll do us over here. It is so hard to
cut the head off the snake, isn't it. That was
part of the game preview we did. If you'll recall
last week, animal rights activists came after us. No even
they say do what you want to do with snakes,
as does a certain wife of mine. But I said,
you know, it's really hard to beat Georgia. Not groundbreaking analysis,
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but I think let me pull this table over towards me.
It's when you haven't beaten a team in a long time,
it starts to feel like you can't and that's not
ever the case. It just means you have not. We've
gone over this rule on this show many times before,
cannot versus have not. And I still believe that Tennessee
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merely has not beaten Georgia eight up. Scratched that nine
out of the last nine tries. Eventually they will, I
mean Bama got up to what Jesse fourteen or fifteen
in a row, and then they've beaten them two out
of three years now, so you know it will eventually happen. However,
up until the moment where it does happen, it feels
like it's impossible to do because it's really hard to
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cut the head off the snake. This is the most
points Tennessee has scored against Kirby Smart, and it was
in their own building, and it still wasn't enough. Of
the many things, and there are many things that stand
out about Kirby Smart's Georgia football program, but one of
the things I've always imed is how resilient they are.
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That's a word that gets thrown around a lot. He
uses the word a lot, but a lot of times.
If you'll notice, whether it be your program or a
program you watch, you notice how overtime overtime programs develop styles,
Coaches develop styles, fan bases develop styles. Styles they like
to win. In Florida's may be different than Georgia's, may
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be different than Tennessee's, may be different than Kansas State's.
But over time, even when you start rolling, well, when
you're not rolling, you just want to win, period, But
when you are rolling, there's a there's a comfort factor
in play in a certain way. The thing I've always
admired about Kirby and Georgia is, yeah, he's got a style.
He's a defensive minded coach. Normally you're not used to
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seeing them give up a whole lot, but when they do,
it feels so uncomfortable. If you're a Georgia fan and
you're watching and other guys just marches down the field
and scores on you to open the game, and they
got twenty one on the board really early in the game,
and you're thinking to yourself, man, I hoped we wouldn't
give up twenty one all afternoon. It's not even close
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to halftime yet. And then you go on to find
out the other guy is gonna be up in the
low thirties, mid thirties, they may crack the forty point barrier.
That's not comfortable for a Georgia fan, even if you're
gonna go on to win the game. That's not comfortable.
Saving at Alabama was the same way. That's not comfortable.
That's not the way a Georgia football game is supposed
to look, because they normally don't look that way. The
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most impressive part of one of the many things that
Kirby Smart's been able to accomplish there is they can
get way out of their comfort zone and still look comfortable.
There is no world where I'm sitting there thinking Georgia
is gonna have to score in the mid forties to
win this thing. But yet they had to yesterday, and
they did. And they didn't do it with a fifth
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year veteran senior quarterback, and they didn't do it with
dominant returning starters along the offensive line. It was none
of that. It was just fighting, fighting, Because as many
guys come through that program and leave and go on
to the NFL as they do, that's the one thing
that remains. Doesn't always mean every team's going to be
as good as the previous year's team. This team, Kirby
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said it in the post game, I fully believe it's
got a long way to go. Tennessee probably got a
long way to go. A lot of folks got a
long way to go. But ma'am, how prepared they are
Being uncomfortable has always impressed me. I was really surprised
that the route the game went over under was fifty
and a half, both of them with the help of
one overtime period good above forty. Game had every reason
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to be a quarterback struggle. If you'll notice, across the
country yesterday and in general this year so far, there
are a lot of quarterbacks that a lot was expected
of that have struggled. You would think, for all the world,
if there's going to be a quarterback struggle fest on
the Week three slate will couldn't it be Joey Agilar
going up against a legitimate defense for the first time.
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Couldn't it be Gunner Stockton going on the road for
the first time against quality competition and both of them
just lit it on fire. Yesterday padlock stat though, as
we popped the paper, Georgia was five of five in
the red zone for twenty six points and Tennessee was
two of three for fourteen, including the missfield goal, there
were really no definitive statements. It's always really kind of
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fascinated me how these back and forth games where either
person could win and someone misses a field goal and
then the other guy takes advantage of it. Great, that's great,
that's the name of the game. You're trying to win
the game. But sometimes if you're listening to the call
in shows on the way home, or you're talking to
your buddies about the game, there's so many things that
you speak about in a positive nature after a win
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that if you change nothing else about them but the outcome,
you would speak negatively about, Like if you didn't run
the ball well enough, Well, if you win forty four
to forty one, that's cool. But if you lose forty
four to forty one, oh man, we sucked running the ball.
That's what cost us the game. Well, there really is
no definitive when a game is this balanced. On the
scene we saw, there really is no definitive. I wondered
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whether Gunner Stockton could take advantage of what I thought
was a vulnerability, was a match up edge his wide
receivers versus Tennessee's secondary I wondered that. Well, he answered
the question pretty definitively. Yes he can. He was twenty
three thirty one, three hundred and four passing yards. Just
an insane performance, just an amazing performance. I do not care.
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I do not care what Tennessee was missing yesterday because
you would have talked to a lot of Tennessee folks
before that game and they would have told you, we
still feel pretty good. Okay, these guys, these guys filling
in in the secondary, it's not like we got them
off the scrap heap. They're good players, their experienced players.
They're not as good as the starters that otherwise they'd
be the starters. Man Gunner Stockton went in there just fearless.
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I think it helps a lot when you connect early
on the first pass. I think it was the first
play from scrimmage that he had. They hit on a
deep ball, kind of reminiscent of what they tried to
do with Beck and I think maybe Arian Smith was
it the Bama game last year. They tried to hit
him down the side lane and he drops the ball,
because that's all Georgia receivers did last year. Well, this
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one connected and all of a sudden, instead of instead
of your quarterbacks starting out like arch Manning started out
the Ohio State game and your play calling going into
a shell. No one trashing Mike Bobo today. By the way,
it's funny. Instead of that happening, you got a quarterback
with a hot hand. Doesn't really matter how much experience
he does or doesn't have. If he's getting the job done,
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you keep letting him get the job done. And then
the other part of it that I wondered, Okay, well,
can Tennessee stretch the field because they've been notoriously incapable
of doing that against Georgia and Nico last year longest
pass play seventeen yards, Joey Agilar seventy two, fifty six,
thirty two, twenty one, and eighteen. He had five passes
yesterday longer than Nico's longest pass last year. Three of
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those went for touchdowns. Tennessee, though, only had one rush
of ten plus yards, so they still now they stayed
committed to that ground game, but George's not gonna let
you run the ball on them like that. They're just not.
Tennessee actually had a decent enough day and they're gonna
stay committed to that thing. But Georgia, I mean, just
to recap how impressive this is now very imperfect team
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because there is no perfect team out there yet, so
you don't have to keep qualifying your statements about that
third week of the season. To go on the road
with a first time starter quarterback, and you're giving up
what thirty eight I guess in regulation and still winning
the game knowing, knowing you've got a laundry list of
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things you think you can improve leaving. It's impressive to me.
So consider this. I'm gonna talk Tennessee for a second.
I'm gonna get right back to Georgia. Consider this. And
this is not merely me talking, although I agree with
what's about to be said. There was a coach that
was rewatching some of the stuff this morning. He was
texting me back and forth. This is a head coach,
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and he said, you know what's crazy about hypel and
about Tennessee dot dot dot. I said, what is that?
He said, the quarterback situation is such that it's obvious
they trust Joey Aguilar to do more through three games
than they ever did Nico at any point in him
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being at Tennessee. And I thought about it, and I said,
that's probably why that guy runs a program. Yeah, that
makes a lot of sense. I just don't know that
anyone could have expected that. I don't know that the
most diehard optimistic Tennessee fan could expect that through three weeks.
I mean Joey Agilar was going to be called on
to need to score a lot on Georgia and did
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at no point in his career. I don't care if
he played ten more years in Knoxville. Was Niko Yamalaiava
ever going to tote the jock of the performance that
Joey Agilar turned in yesterday first time ever for combination
of words on the show, But I feel it was necessary.
I actually feel really good about Tennessee leaving this game.
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It's an expanded playoff era, so by no means is
at the end of anything more than any team. This
is not a finished product. So I know if I'm Tennessee,
I'm gonna get guys back. I know I got a
quarterback I can win with. I know I got some real,
real good talent in that receiver room, probably underrated by
me coming into the season. I know good and well.
Quarterback was underrated by me. I just never could have
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expected it to click this quick. Never could have expected that.
How in the world do you have what happened to
them at the quarterback position and have it be an upgrade.
That's one thing where once Hypel gets done thirty eight
years from now, when he's done and he writes his memoirs.
I hope he's at least honest and says, yeah, that
one kind of fell in our lap. Now once it did,
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we made the most of it and we're really good.
And hey, I'll give you credit there, but there's no
way you could have designed this so injuries, new quarterback,
that's great. I feel good about Tennessee again. Here's the
caveat it's evergreen. Not a perfect team, No one is.
You just played a really good one yesterday and you
took him to the wire. The reset though that's necessary
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on Georgia is this most of my big fears? Would
Georgia have subsided as well? This game really absolved some
fears that I had about either team. If I'm trying
to advocate that I think they're going to be a
playoff contender, that I think they're going to be SEC
championship contenders. I stated my concerns with Tennessee, not there
so much anymore once they get healthy. With Georgia, my
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biggest concern was always going to be or what can
I get offensively? What can I get because I'm losing
Carson Beck and Carson Beck at his best, the Tennessee
game last year, for example, is a guy that can
go win a game for me? And you know, while
nobody's shed much of a tear when Carson Beck left
because of the way it went down, Georgia fans then
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look at Gunner Stockton and just like me, probably say,
all right, is this a limited amount that we can
get out of him? Could we ever trust him to
go win a game for us? No one really knows. Well,
we know now, yeah, you can trust them to go
win a game. You sure can. If the big question
mark about Georgia is defense. If the big question is
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not can we squeeze enough juice out of the offensive sponge,
but rather can Kirby Smart squeeze enough out of the
defensive sponge. If that's the lingering question for Georgia as
we get into the second, third, and fourth quarters of
this season, I'm fine with it. I'll take my chances
on Georgia there. So, Georgia's got the best odds to
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win the SEC as of right now, Texas is second,
Alabama and LSU tied for third. I gotta agree with that,
because if you tell me george is not gonna have
some terminal offensive flaw if they're not gonna have some
terminally low offensive ceiling. I watched them last year not
be their vintage selves defensively when it came time to
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smash someone up the side of the head with the sledgehammer.
They did it Texas twice, So I trust them. Defensively
doesn't have to be vintage Georgia, just opportunistic and then
every now and then sledgehammer to the face. I trust him.
If the offensive questions are answered, I trust them the
rest of the way. So a lot of questions answered
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on both fronts. This was a really, really incredible game
to be a part of. Afterwards. I mean, if you
listen to Kirby in the postgame, he flat out said
we probably didn't deserve to win that game. Now, I
don't ever believe in saying that. I believe they did
deserve to win the game. I believe the team that
deserved to win the game won the game. Now, you
may feel a little guilty because you've got some breaks,
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but let me ask you this, what if instead of
thirty eight thirty eight, it was thirty eight to seventeen
and Tennessee missed a field goal, well, it would have
been probably thirty I mean it would have affected the
total maybe or a second half line, but it wouldn't
have affected the outcome. No, there's skill in putting yourself
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in position to benefit when the other guy catches a
bad break or when injury happens or something like that.
So yeah, I'm going to disagree with Kirby and say
Georgia absolutely deserve to win the game. Now, Tennessee did
plenty enough to win the game, but they didn't take
it when it was there. Georgia then did take it.
So I do disagree with him, I think in that case,
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I just I think I have a little better feel
about Georgia football and Kirby. It's unfortunate it happens that way,
but it happens sometimes. Quick trip fueled us all the
way over there, all the way back. We drove over
to Knoxville yesterday afternoon. I gotta send a little request
to Danny White, the athletic director. He's been very forthcoming,
been very transparent on the socials. Today, I'm told about
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some of the the new logistics around Kneeland Stadium. Now
you feel very safe when you're there. Okay, The trade
off is the logistics were a nightmare yesterday, and you're
boy thought he was going to have to spend the
night in the G ten parking garage there. And I've
never had trouble getting out of that thing in the past.
So this is constructive criticism because elsewhere, everything else a
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plus chamber of commerce level experience. Let's just let's figure
out the logistics now, quick trip. No logistics problems none.
I probably wouldn't tell you if there were, but there weren't.
So they fueled us all the way to Knoxville and back,
a couple of quick trips on the way there to
and fro as me Mom would say, you get the
cold burn tap. Many more of you are finding that out.
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As I emphasize, not just visiting for gas, go inside.
I don't care if you paid with your card at
the pump. You need to go in there, friendly faces,
warm customer service. But more importantly, even if the dude
behind the counter is a jerk, which he never will be,
but even if he was, if you got cold burn
tap in there, it's worth it. It's worth a visit,
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and they've got it. They've got it, and much more.
Of course, raisin those trail mix I'm still working on,
but much more we appreciate them. What is that a
fighter jet flying over top of us, Jesse. It sounds
like they're doing a flyover on a Friday before a game.
We got a big crowd gathered live, and I thank you,
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and I ask you to sub to the channel, because
the sooner we get to five hundred K, the sooner
I can do the celebration of your choice when we
get to five hundred K. Let's talk about a game
yesterday that did not shock me all that much. Bradley,
here's a good endpoint for you. Georgia Tech beat Clemson
yesterday twenty four to twenty one, and some were shocked
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by this outcome, and I was shocked as well, but
I was shocked that people were shocked. I will grant
you not everyone's watched Georgia Tech this year, and maybe
you watched Clemson in Week one against LSU, but maybe
you didn't watch them closely, and maybe you didn't watch
them against Troy. Georgia Tech's a better foot ball team
than Clemson. So it was just a blessing to us
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that FanDuel was giving us points with Georgia Tech, because
I just picked them to win outright, emphatically on the
show last week, to the point where some people wonder, like,
what's your deal. Well, one team knew their identity, one
team had the better quarterback, one team was the better team,
and I'm describing Georgia Tech. So if you watched the
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game yesterday, I'm not sure how you argue with that.
But I do understand if you didn't watch this for
Chai game that you may think, but but it's Clemson,
but it's Georgia Tech. Yeah, that doesn't really mean anything. Now,
if you're talking about a matchup from twenty twenty one
or two or sixteen, yeah, probably does mean something. These
are different teams. These are not your memas Clemson Tigers,
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and these are not your memas Georgia Tech Yellowjackets. That's
really that really could be the end of the preview. Bradley,
what happened there, that's a little concerning. If you're listening
on podcasts, you're lucky. I mean, the purge started to
happen on one of our monitors back here, So I
really hope people get what happened yesterday. I was in
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the Tennessee press box watching the walk off field goal,
which just I think Theatrically, if you were to introduce
someone to college football who has never watched before. Let's
say you got a girlfriend, you really think that your
relationship could get taken to the next step. If she
loved college football, you're probably right, but you need to
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indoctrinate her somehow. Show her the last thirty seconds of
the Clemson Georgia Tech game, because anyone who watches that
and says, nah, that's not for me, is not for you. Now.
I don't want to be given out relationship advice, but
I think that's just basic life advice. This was unbelievable.
Everyone is gathered around me in the Neeland Stadium press
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box and we're all watching this game. We're glued to it,
and people are like, what is Brent Key doing? And
Brient Key's over there like this. He's just standing there
like he's planned it all. You know why, because they
planned it all and so we don't need the time out.
We got sixteen seventeen seconds. We're fine, we'll spot the ball,
we'll run them off, we'll run them off, we'll drain
one from fifty plus and we'll go home after we
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wear a backwards ha at in the press conference and
trash the ap pole. The only thing Brent Key did
wrong yesterday is he did not publicly acknowledge the Commissioner's poll,
which is long since had his team ranked and the
architect of which picked his team to win. Out Right,
we don't need the credit. We don't need it. We're
fine here. But man, Georgia Tech yesterday, when's the game
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twenty four to twenty one? Now again, you're gonna have
people who didn't watch the game and who are still
married to logic from ten years ago, so they think, oh, dude,
Georgia Tech pulled a massive upset here, right, No, it's
not a massive upset at all. It should happen again,
I disagreed with the point spread, So there's that, And
then people would probably think, oh, man, they what kind
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of lucky breaks did Georgia Tech have to get to
be in this thing? Hey, what if I told you
Clemson needed lucky breaks to stay in the game, kind
of like in week one? What if I told you
Clemson needed some breaks for LSU not to house them
in their own building. Because that's the reality of it.
Clemson got lucky to still be in this thing. Now,
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luck they had to execute on it. You know what
I mean. Football luck is different than a scratch off
lottery ticket giving you twelve hundred bucks kind of luck.
But there was a turnover on downs inside the ten
for Georgia Tech. They had to settle for a couple
of field goals inside the Clemson twenty five. They botched
a fourth down snap, which was horrendous execution. There was
a third and twenty two late in the second quarter
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where Clemson's just giving up the drive and they convert
and then they end up going down there and I
think they scored on a fourth down later. All that
stuff had to happen for Clemson to be in the game. Guys.
So I watched this the lens of someone who did
just that watch the game, and I thought, better team's
gonna win this game. Frankly, it shouldn't have been that close.
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That's how I saw it. Optimistic Clemson friend hits me
up after the game. This is a very optimistic Clemson fan,
and he said, Hey, there's still a long way to
go in the season, which is true, but that's always
said in a positive light. That's always said in a hopeful,
optimistic sort of way. And it is true that there
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is a long way to go in the season. It's
also true that while that could be good news for Clemson,
it also could be bad news because you assume one
and two is the worst it could get. One and
two is not the worst it could get. That extra
gear for Clemson's just not there as a football team.
I would argue as a program that extra gear is
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not there. Now, You'll remember in spring and summer I
took a very measured approach on this, because hey, I
could have just been wrong about it. So I chose
to take the approach with Clemson that one of two
things is going to happen here, and I have no
clue which it's going to be. One is, yeah, there's
a bunch of returning starters, but really they're just returning
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a bunch of guys who weren't really elite last year,
and so you're just gonna get more of the same.
The difference is people are going to hype the same
guys up a little bit more and it's going to
be a big disappointment, or they really are going to
be one of the best teams in the country and
Dabo's gonna have the ultimate I told you so dunk
on the entirety of the college football public moment. Well,
the latter is not going to happen. The former looks
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to be happening. And I don't really know what is
gonna come of this, because this is a team that
now needs to rewire its expectations. They're still alive, like mathematically,
it's week three, so no one's dead. I mean, you've
still got one conference loss. Now, you could go to
Charlotte and you could right the ship and get another
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shot at Tech, or play Miami or play Florida State. Yeah,
it could happen that way. But think about what we heard.
Think about what maybe you just individually expected. Cade Klubnick's
back this year with what I was told was going
to be a really good offensive line, good receiver corps.
Now I told myself that I still kind of believe that.
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But this defense has got NFL guys all three levels,
just everywhere. There were reasons for optimism, and I don't
have that optimism. Clemson still has the third best odds
to win the league. Clemson in Florida State have the
same odds to win the league. Let me tell you
something about Clemson in Florida State. I'm saying those teams
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in the wrong order right now. I believe they play
each other. I do believe that game happens, So I
don't waste a lot of time on that. I was
fine taking away and see approach on Clemson this year. Well,
I have waited long enough, and I have seen enough.
They're not a player in the national championship picture. As
it turns out, they never were. So I feel a
little foolish for spending the time that we did in
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the spring and summer on it. This is also not
to get fifty thousand feet here, because it's Week three
and we got a lot to talk about. But I mean,
we've probably got our answer on Dabo. Just this era
of Clemson football snow knock on him. Guy's legacy has
been secured for a long time. But the experiment for
Dabbo at Clemson was we're really gonna kind of not
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delve into the portal. We're gonna do it our way.
The Clemson way is a different way. I don't doubt that.
I don't think he's disingenuous when he says that. I
just think that the Clemson way in twenty twenty five
is not one that's gonna really put you in the
hunt for a national championship. He's not unfulfilled. He's got
multiple championship rings. They owned the league for over a decade,
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so he's been there. He's done that. It's just this
season's change. What was that band expose in the eighties?
Seasons changed? Well, that's Clemson football right now. Thing because
Dabo can stay there kind of as long as he
wants to, and it's it's not a crisis. They're gonna
win a lot of games this year. They'll be There'll
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always be a good, solid program as long as he's there.
But I don't think there's really gonna be fundamental change.
I there's a part of me that respects him for
sticking to his principles and values. I've talked to you
about this many times, but it's just tough for me
when I know what Clemson has been, when I know
what they could be if they just twenty percent course corrected.
I watched Texas A and M last night with studs
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at receiver that they got out of the portal and
that being the difference in a game on the road
at Notre Dame, and I think to myself, Clemson doesn't
need twenty of those guys. But what difference with two
or three or five guys over the course of a
couple of portal cycles make it Clemson? And how little
effort was actually put into exploring that. That's where I'd
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be if I were a Clemson fan. I do have
good news for you, though, since Georgia Tech won this game,
we have our first padlock player of the year. You
want to talk about a padlock stat, Haines King is
a padlock stat and an American icon. Twenty of twenty
eight for two to eleven in the passing game yesterday.
But if you watched this, you know that the real
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stat line was twenty five for one oh one twenty
five what Josh carries Oh. Georgia Tech as a team
ran the ball twenty five times, no friend, the quarterback,
Haines King ran it twenty five times for one hundred
and one yards and a touchdown. He was responsible just
pop that paper thrice. He was responsible for three hundred
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and twelve of their three hundred and fifty eight total
offensive yards. That's superhero stuff, That's what that is. They
film a lot of movies in and around Atlanta. Haines
King just play himself. That's superhero stuff. Brent Key an identity.
He talked about it yesterday in the postgame. You know,
he talked about toughness. There is not a coach out
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there right now that doesn't talk about toughness. Everyone wants
to be tough. Everyone preaches toughness. It's on everyone's wall,
it's on the front of everyone's binder for their players
to take home. But not everyone is. So how do
you become tough? Well, you become tough by living it
every day. You don't just say we're going to be
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tough this Saturday. You say we're gonna be tough this
Tuesday afternoon. In April, you say we're going to be
tough in every decision we make. Some of it has
to do with football, some of it has to do
with how you carry yourself off the football field. It's
just a way of life. I've always believed that there
is a way that it can work at Georgia Tech.
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I've always believed it's insane that there's a program in Atlanta, Georgia,
the capital of college football, the intersection of the SEC
and the ACC, one of the most talent rich areas
in America. I've always thought it's insane that no one
could find twenty five kids per cycle to get into
school there to win. Now Brent Key has, and he's
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done it in the most blue collar way imaginable. They're
just getting started there. They're just getting started. Now here's
what they need to be. He knows this, But I
just want to caution the rest of America. That was
very late to the Georgia Tech Party. So now they're
going to try to make up for it by being
the loudest person at the Georgia Tech Party. They're not
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guaranteed anything here. And the reason I say that is
because that Haines kingstat three twelve of three point fifty eight.
He can't do that every week. You can't have a
quarterback do that stuff every week. And if the formula
that they start to develop, if their identity offensively becomes
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so reliant on him carrying the ball eighteen twenty twenty two,
twenty five times a game, well then you're going to
run into some random week where you're playing a much
inferior opponent. You were favored by eighteen and a half,
even on the road, and it's just a slog fest
in the fourth quarter. Why that well. It's because when
they sat around Monday of game prep, they said, dude,
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we can't run him like this this week, so you
know what we're gonna do. We're gonna have to win
in a different way. And then you get to Saturday
and you find out maybe you can't. That's the risk
they run, and so that's why I'm trying to caution.
It's one thing if he's just throwing it all over
the place and the receiver rooms full of animals and
you've got no problem in your razor sharp efficient. That's
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one thing. They're very relying on him running the ball
right now Auburn Jackson Arnold to kind of feel the
same way about him. There are a couple of guys
out there actually right now, so beware. They're at poison.
It's very real, and now it's gonna be heaped upon
you at Georgia Tech, and they just I don't think
they could play that style every week. So that's my concern.
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But that schedule is manageable. And there's gonna be a
lot of people talking this week about how there's such
a clear path to Atlanta. There's not a clear path
to Atlanta. The path is no clearer than it ever
was before. You've gotten your way there, maybe a quarter
the way. Now you're gonna have to deal with expectations.
So how competitively mature are you and how diversified can
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you become? Offensively? Let's roll on. I didn't skip anything
to that, bro, only know I did not. Oh man,
every every sheet of paper is a classic game. Texas
A and M forty one, Notre Dame forty. We didn't
have one five Chili Classic. Yesterday we had two five
Chalai classics. This happened last year. You remember we went
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to the Ohio State Oregon game five Chaali Classic. But
earlier that same day Penn State USC also a five
Chilai Classic, And if I recall, that's the same day
Ole Miss LSU played and that was like a four
and a half Chalai game. Crazy stuff. So yeah, man,
I can't imagine those A and M fans that got
to make that trip. That is, you talk about that
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for fifty years. You're telling your great great grandkids. That's
a long while, that's a long time away. You're telling
your kids and your grandkids. One day two thousand twenty five,
made the trip up to South Bend and by the way.
At that time, we hadn't won a ranked game, and
I don't know how long, and we go up there
and Buckner Man Buckner drops the extra point. Boy, here's
somewhere there's a Boston Red Sox fan and a Notre
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Dame fan and just the name Butckner. I don't care
about the spelling. Imagine what that does to you. It
just it draws a visceral reaction out of you. Anyway,
that story is gonna be great to tell. Signature win
from Mike Elico, signature win for this program. I can't
believe more people are not addicted to this sport. If
they watched this last night, you could be agnostic. You
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don't even know what an aggie is fighting Irish why
they gotta fight doesn't matter, does not matter, if you
know anything, Just watch just look at that. It's unbelievable.
So to tell you what I can't believe. I can't
believe this. Texas A and m Offense answered the bell
like that. I really was amazed. Thirty two carries for
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one hundred and twenty eight yards. That's what they had
last night. Okay, that's supposed to be the way they
win the game. That's supposed to be a and m
their entire mo is. We're going to punch you and
punch you and punch you, and then we're gonna punch
you some more, and we're just gonna be a bowling
ball offensively, and Marcel Read's gonna do just enough, and
he's a threat with his legs as well. But we're
gonna run the ball to win, and that's a formula
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we can take with us on the road. Yeah, they
needed forty one points last night, and it was mainly
off Marcel Reid's arm. And it's just not a combination
of words that I thought would be coming out of
my mouth. He was seventeen of thirty seven for three
hundred and sixty yards, which is a very weird stat line.
He's below forty six percent completion. And so if you
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told me, I mean, just say this out loud now,
Notre Dame's gonna score forty at home. Your QB is
gonna be well below fifty percent completion percentage. You think
to yourself, oh, well, hopefully we didn't get blown out
and let's regroup and get ready for conference play. And
instead I said no, no, no, no, But you're gonna win?
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What how are we gonna win? Well? Eighty six sixteen
forty five, twenty one, twenty four to thirty one, eighteen
thirty four. That sounds like Monument Park at Yankee Stadium.
That sounds like all the retired numbers at Kyle Field. No. No,
those were pass plays for Marcel Reid last night, and
it could have been worse. He had several overthrows, other
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guys were open. What what happened to the game? I love? No,
what happened to the Notre Dame secondary? I love? That
was what I kept thinking to myself, What is this
home starred? These people? They're not Notre Dame defensive backs.
I saw someone I saw many people say, Tyler Butner
cost us a game. Tyler Butner didn't cost you anything
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but an extra point. Your defense cost you a game.
That's insane. A holder. Now, it is fascinating that Tyler
Butner's career arc will include starting at quarterback for Notre Dame.
At one point, he started a game at Alabama, took
a little lacrosse detour Who's to amongst us, and then
ends up being a holder because Steve Angeli transferred out
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and he did not hold what he was supposed to
immunity and they miss an extra point. But Notre Dame's
scoring forty at home should be good enough to beat
everyone in the country, and it wasn't because Chris ash
I don't know, I don't know. I know, you don't
have the same personnel you did last year. This is
Notre Dame. This is Notre Dame. Pass rush is markedly
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worse than last year. Tackling is a big issue for them.
Their secondary outside of maybe the best corner in the country,
is embarrassingly bad. And I just don't know how that
happens over the span of a few months. Like it's
almost to the point where you've watched through two games,
especially this game being a desperation game at home off
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of bye week, you got to try to be that
bad in some cases, I don't know what's gonna happen
with him. I mean, on one hand, they've got two
loss by a combined four points to teams that I
think are really good. It's not the end of the world,
it's nothing like that. But they got a long way
to go defensively, a long way to go, or else
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they got to win in shootout fashion. Feel bad for CJ. Carr,
because I think he's played plenty well enough to be
a two to zero quarterback, but instead here they are
zero to two. I don't know, man, but you remember
our view on Texas A and M, which got a
slight amount of criticism, as I recall, so they were
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bad to finish the year last year. Defensively, Mike Elko
goes off. Now. He didn't throw a chair in the
post game of the Bowl game. He did yesterday on
the sideline. We're always in favor of taking it out
on the chair, not the person, because it's illegal to
do the latter. But we thought A and m's interior
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defensive line could be a concern here. And they got
a good offensive line, and they got a really good
group of tailbacks, and we really believe in receiver there
more on that in a second. And Marcel Reid. I
went out there in the spring. I talked to Colin
Klein myself, and one of the first things out of
his mouth was, you know, vertical pass game. I believe
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in it for us this year. I really think we've
got people to do it now. I listened to that.
I followed it away. I told you that like half
a dozen times. Well it came time to prove it
last night, and they proved it and it was there,
far more than I ever thought it may be there.
But you know what else was there? Transfer receivers. According
to our friends at tech SAgs, listen to this, this
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is the difference in a program like Clemson and a
program like A and M. A and M looked and said,
we may have some deficiency at receiver, scratch that we're
not championship caliber at receiver, and our goals to win
a championship here. So you know what they did. They
went and got Mario Kriver. They went and got Casey
Concepcion last year. Transfer receivers for transfer receivers for Texas
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A and M. So far this year, thirty three catches,
six hundred and seventy yards and seven touchdow As. They're
averaging twenty point three yards per catch. Because that's what
you do when you've got championship aspirations but you got
a little roster deficiency, You go get the players you
need to get and don't give me culture because they
got one at A and M. Two. If you didn't
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see them fight last night, if you don't believe Texas
A and M culture was on full display last night.
You're lying to yourself what you think that magically the
only kids that can adopt and emulate your culture or
in high school, you don't think there are any kids
out there in the portal any given year. It's always
been nonsense. So good for them for going to get
in the players they needed to. They will always be
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majority high school football recruiting. But this is Texas A
and M. It's one should be one of the premier
programs in the country. I always argue with people because
they cannot have not thing, but man, they hit. They
have hit big time on receiving talent. And it's another page,
not quite a chapter even. I just think it's a
page in the Mike Elko era, the Mike Elko book.
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He's the real deal. He got overlooked when he got
hired there because he got hired in the same cycle
as Debor did at Alabama. So where everyone was talking
about saving out de boor in what's he going to be?
Not a lot of people talked about Ohko, but they
should because he's really really good. And now you're seeing
here too, you're seeing it take on a little bit
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more of his identity. Here's what he'll see though that
I think a lot of people won't. He'll see things
that were unacceptable in a win. You can have a
signature win and still have a lot of things that
are unacceptable that you know could have cost you a game.
Just because they didn't cost you the game doesn't mean
you shouldn't attack them and try to fix them every
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bit the same you would as if they lost the game.
So that is what I always look for, because it's
one thing to get people's attention when you lose. That's easy.
Can you get guys attention when they go to South Bend,
Indiana and win forty one to forty and everyone including
me is calling it a signature win and you're still undefeated,
and now everyone's talking about your schedule. Get it right there.
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Auburn comes there, you'll be off a bye. Auburn will
be off the Oklahoma game. Then you've got Mississippi State.
Florida doesn't look nearly as good. You go to Arkansas whatever.
You go to LSU, LSU offensively little limited right now.
You go to Missouri after that. South Carolina does not
look like what they once look like. Arch can barely
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complete the forward pass. Right now, everyone's going to talk
about how workable that schedule is. Just worry about you,
Just worry about you. This is not advice for Mike Elko.
If he wants to take it, that's fine. It's just
the expectation market out there is gonna really ramp up
on Georgia Tech and Texas A and M and I
don't want to inside a panic or anything, but you know,
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they'll probably lose some games this year, a contrary to
what yesterday told you, They probably will no losers at
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You can go to Academy when they're closed. Academy dot
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So there was just a nocean of Academy everything. The
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little kiddo's playing basketball on the play school goal in
the parking garage four hours before kickoff, probably purchased an Academy.
Mom and dad sitting in the chairs over here, I
know where they were purchased. They say, Academy. Are they
getting sunburned? No, they're not, not because of sunscreen, but
because of the canopy over top of them purchased at Academy.
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I just know Academy because I go in there a lot,
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But you may never have been there before. We don't
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a change there because you probably just heard a lot
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of things that you're gonna end up purchasing. Anyway. You
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of people subscribe. So it just helps us out. Let's
move on. Plenty more games to talk about. There's still
a big stack here. It's a jam pack show, jam
Pack Show. So LSU beats Florida twenty to ten game
felt weird to me. Did you watch this whole game?
I even asked my LSU brethren, I know you watched it.
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How'd you feel about the game. The Chalice rating is
not kind to this game now, the child. I mean,
we're just using a basic viewability rating. This was an
ugly game to watch, so we give it one chalice now.
It doesn't matter if you're an LSU fan. You got
to win. But it never really settled in, like the Georgia,
Tennessee game settled in. It got a flow to it.
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Notre Dame A and M's crazy, but it had a
rhythm and a flow to it. This was just like
if you've ever gotten too tight into a parking lot
and it's drive, reverse drive, reverse drive, reverse driver. You
never really got it in drive, you never really got
it in reverse. You were just stuck because you pulled
your Yukon into the Pigley Wiggly parking lot and you
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didn't really respect the space. Issues couldn't be Phoenix City, Alabama.
Me and Memo used to walk to the pig on
Somerville Road. So look, when the opponent is losing a game,
don't interrupt him. I credit LSU more than anything last
night for just not interrupting Florida as they were in
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the process of historically handing over a game. The easiest
padlocked stat of the week five to one. That is
how decisively LSU won the turnover battle in this game,
and they lost wit weeks on the opening drive for
a targeting foul. That again, you can complain about it,
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or you can work to elect me as commissioner of
this sport. Because on day one as college Football Commissioner,
I will address the egregious nature of targeting in this sport.
I'm not doing away with targeting, but the fact that
we don't have flagrant one, flagrant two type tiered foul
systems for targeting in this sport is insane. We're just
throwing guys out a game for playing hard. There's not
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an ounce of malicious intent in how Witweeks hit that dude.
He's just playing and all of a sudden he's out
of a game. Why. I don't know. If we're scared
we're gonna get sued. Yeah, well, maybe think before you
write the rules so that in the future your best
explanation is, well, we already wrote the rules. We can't
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be perceived as going backwards on them. Pathetic drugs pathetic.
It was not the prettiest night. However, the d showed
up immunity and as long as you got Blake Baker
down there, you got a shot. Blake Baker an American hero.
He now has LSU bordering on the top ten in
points per game in the country. And believe me, even
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that's an anomaly. There aren't eleven defenses better than LSU
in the country right now. They just happen to have
played a couple of decent teams. So LSU's playing lights out.
But you know what I kept thinking about last night
and this morning and this afternoon as I was thinking about,
how do I discuss Florida? You could do the napier
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hot seat stuff. We'll have plenty of time for that.
But you remember a couple of weeks ago. It's gonna
be weird that I'm bringing this game up. You remember
when Arizona State played Mississippi State. I think it was
last week, two weeks ago in Arizona State was down
seventeen to three on the road, and Sam Levitt had
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been terrible in the first half, and Kenny Dillingham and
Marcus Arroyo and that offensive staff they got together and
they said, all right, we're two scores down. We need
to come from behind, but our quarterback ain't feeling it,
so we're not gonna throw the ball. And sure enough,
thirty two of their next thirty nine plays were running plays.
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And you know what they did. They took the lead. Now,
they ended up losing the game, but they came all
the way back and they took the lead playing to
the strengths of what they were capable of that afternoon.
I mentioned that because did none of this last night.
I thought it was one of their worst efforts offensively,
because they looked at a quarterback that quite clearly didn't
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have it, and they still had him throw the ball
forty nine times. He threw the ball twenty five times
in the second half. Three picks in the second half. Egregious,
like inexcusable picks. Defense is playing lights out for Florida.
I mean their defense has played its tail off, it
has given up, you know what. I'll talk more about
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it in the second but just that offensive line and
that running back stable should be such that if that
defense is playing the way it is, you ought to
be comfortable that you can run your way back into
a game. And they, for whatever reason, not after one,
not after two, not after three, not after four, but
after five picks, they're still having DJ throw the ball
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and he clearly is not seeing the field. He's seeing
ten defenders out there, and Baker's allowed to play with eleven.
It was an ugly night. Now, Brian Kelly afterwards had
some stuff to say, So I gotta be real with you.
A lot of people have had a lot to say
about Brian Kelly. I'm gonna play the sound bite in
a second. Brian Kelly does not have a great offense
right now. He knows that. The media down there knows that. Now,
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there are two different ways to look at and listen
to what I'm about to play. Now. I got to
tell you if I'm Brian Kelly, if I'm the coach
of LSU and I just beat Florida, this is probably
what I would sound like. Roll at Bradley Ran in
the back. I know you love these immediate postgame sessions,
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but what are you seeing with your offense? Stop? Really?
Speaker 2 (51:40):
Is that the first question? We won the game twenty
to ten. Try another question. What do you want me
to tell you? I just laid it out for you.
We played the game to win the game. We played
the game to win the game.
Speaker 1 (51:54):
All right?
Speaker 3 (51:55):
How about third down?
Speaker 1 (51:56):
Then? What is going on with third down?
Speaker 3 (51:58):
It's one game. Last game, we were great on third down.
Speaker 2 (52:02):
Your micro, you're looking at this from the wrong perspective.
LSU won the football game, won the game. I don't
know what you want from me. What do you want
you want us.
Speaker 3 (52:14):
To win seventy to nothing against Florida? To keep you happy.
Speaker 1 (52:17):
No, I think people want to know why you can't
run the ball.
Speaker 2 (52:19):
We can run the ball. Did you see the last
play of the game. That's all you need, You just
need one. There's a ridiculous questions and I'm getting tired
of it. That football team just worked their tail off
to get an SEC win, and you want to know
what's wrong.
Speaker 3 (52:38):
You know what, You're spoiled. You're spoiled. This team is
seventeen and one at night, seventeen and one.
Speaker 1 (52:45):
Give them some respect. How about that?
Speaker 2 (52:48):
Give them some respect instead of micro analyzing every little thing.
This is ridiculous for a group of seasoned reporters, a
question is so out of line.
Speaker 1 (53:04):
Yeah, so, look, there's a lot of validity to what
he's saying technically. And if I were the LSU coach
and just coming off the field, I know how tough
it is to win those games. I mean, you got
Florida's max effort. They played poorly at the quarterback position,
but you got the max effort and you won the game.
The last thing you want to be doing is getting criticized.
So if I'm Brian Kelly, I'd probably sound like that.
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But if I were Florida or if I were an
LSU fan, I'd have those concerns. So the question is
totally valid. You know, maybe ask it fifth instead of first.
I don't know, ask it Monday or Tuesday instead of Saturday.
They're one hundred and eighth in points per game offensively
right now, like clearly LSU's offense is a shell in
terms of what people thought it would be capable of
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so far. Now that's through three games, and they've played
two really tough defensive opponents. Last week kind of was
what it was against Louisiana Tech. I will even give
you benefit of doubt. That was like a letdown spot,
look ahead spot. So maybe you've just been in a
letdown spot for your inferior opponent and you played two
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really good defenses. And Brian Kelly's right, Maybe Brian Kelly
is telling the god's honest truth that they called that
game last night in the best manner to win that game.
They realized, Hey, the other guy didn't have his fastball
or his curveball or his change up. So they keep
turning the ball over. We don't really need to try
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and hand it back to him. I mean, Nussmeyer had
an egregious pick of his own last night, you know,
so he's still got that in him a little bit.
Let's just pack it in. We'll be happy with the
win here and we'll move on down the road. When
we need to open the offensive briefcase, it'll be there.
You know. The reason I'm not going to get worked
up about that is because if he's right, he's got
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a game an old mess coming up, a game at Vandy.
He's got Texas A and M on the schedule, he's
got to go to Alabama, and he's got to go
to Oklahoma. I promise you they're not holding all them
to ten points. As much respect as I have for
Blake Baker American icon, I don't know that. I don't
know that every one of those games is gonna be
one where LSU can afford to sit there and just
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grind out a win. They may have to do what
Georgia did yesterday. They may have to do what Texas
A and M did yesterday. Can they I don't feel
like they could right now. But Brian Kelly knows his
team better than me, And like I said, it's not
like they play a bunch of tomato cans the rest
of the year where we'll never know either what we're
gonna find out. We're gonna find out, you know what.
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Maybe they're not good right now and they'll get better
over the course of the season too. That's another possibility.
There's a third possibility, and that is Brian Kelly knows
that his offense is sort of permanently limited this year,
and he's trying to enjoy the wins while they can
get him. That's a very pessimistic view, but I'm in
the interest of offering every viewpoint that's on the table.
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It's still only week three. We're just not going into
week four. There's still a lot we don't know. I
was thinking about the entire SEC last night and thinking
about how forget about trying to predict it in the preseason.
I've given you and myself three weeks. Are you any
closer to being able to predict the SEC right now?
I'm not. But I can tell you one thing I know,
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and this one's gonna be tough for me considering what
I thought I knew in the preseason. But we got
to do it. We do it every week, Ladies and gentlemen.
Our special musical guest, Sarah McLaughlin Florida is this week's
Sarah McLaughlin Special Hit. It pres the Florida drive chart
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is horrific from yesterday field goal interception, three and out, punt,
touchdown interception, punt interception, punt, punt interception, interception, and that's it.
That's an entire season's worth of picks. One three and
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a half hour game. Florida has allowed two offensive touchdowns
through three games, and they are one and two. This
defense is being wasted worse than any Heisman caliber quarterback
in the history of Lincoln Riley teams. This is horrible
to watch. Napier is sixteen and twenty one versus FBS
opponents at Florida. Now there are one hundred and twenty
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one FBS teams with fewer picks this season than dj
Lagway had in one evening against LSU, and Florida still
has games at Miami, Texas at A and m Georgia
Adel Miss at Tennessee Florida State. They still play. According
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to the Esteemed Associated Press Top twenty five rankings, the
number four, five, seven, eight, ten, thirteen, and fifteen teams
in the country. So if it feels bad now, don't worry.
It's gonna get a whole lot worse. The Sarah McLaughlin special,
the completely inept and neotered Florida offense. We move on.
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I hate to do it. Some people thought in the
chat that we had forgotten the Sarah McLaughlin special. No, no,
we just buried it a little bit later in the show. Hey,
did you see Alabama yesterday? We learned something, didn't we
Here's what we learned. It turns out in this thirty
eight to fourteen win that if you give Ty Simpson time,
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he can look like Dan Marino. And he was twenty fourth,
twenty nine for three eighty two four touchdowns. He was
also their leading rusher. So I told you after that
Week one Florida State game, for someone who picked this
team to win the national championship, I was more hurt
than most. And I told you this game right there,
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that's the next game where my mind could be changed,
because I was come completely out and my mind can
be changed. It's not gonna get changed against Wisconsin. You
know why, because Wisconsin's inferior to you. Now, to be clear,
I'm not questioning the effort. Alabama showed really good effort,
really good fire defenses bounced back in a big way,
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but you still aren't running the ball. Now, if getting
jam Miller back is all that's gonna take for you
to run the ball, which I remain skeptical about, but
I'll grant you it some possibility. Okay, but you're not
showing me that against Wisconsin. You got to show me
that against Georgia and the remainder of your conference schedule,
because I don't know, as good as ty Simpson looked yesterday,
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if I'm just gonna be comfortable blindly counting on him
to go win games single handedly, it's not fair for him,
just like it's not fair to ask Klubnick to do
it or nus s Meyer to do it. I'm not
gonna ask Ty Simpson to do it. I hope they don't.
So that's like the most negative game reaction I could
possibly give when you blow out a Big ten opponent. No, no, no, no,
it's very good for Alabama, very good. They looked utterly
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dominant yesterday. The thing that we all know is not
every game's gonna be comfortable, and there's gonna come crunch time,
third and five moments where you need to be able
to pick up those five yards on the ground. You
need to be able to move the chains. You need
to be able to get tough yardage and convert and
possess the football and control the flow of the game
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and limit possessions for the other guy. And if you
can't run the ball, you can't do those things. And
if you can't do those things, remember you already lost
the game, so you don't have a whole lot more
wiggle room. I feel like a hater. I'm not a hater.
I am just a remains to be seener. And you
were not gonna convince me of anything against U Well
Monroe in Wisconsin. All due respect to the Warhawks and
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the Badgers. Now Bama's got to buy. Then they go
to Georgia and that's where it gets real again. Vandy
made it real for South Carolina last night. Yes, we
nailed the prediction. You know, I have no idea how
this game would have gone had Lenora Sellers not gotten hurt.
Now South Carolina offensively hadn't been light in the world
on fire with him. So I'm not going to disrespect
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Vandy and claim it would have been any different. But
I know if your minus three turnovers are not winning anything,
Lenora sellers or not, and South Carolina was the opening
drive touchdown and then nothing the rest of the game.
That's pretty jarring. It was just it's been a hollow
feeling team so far to me this year. You've noticed
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every week in the JP Pole, South Carolina's dropped. Every
week in the Commissioner's Pole, South Carolina has dropped. This
result really wasn't a shock. I thought Vanderbilt would win
this game. They they felt like the better team to
me so far. You got to get past the logos, guys.
The gap in the SEC is not what it used
to be. It's not at all, So you need to
ignore again, that's not your memals Vanderbilt Commodore's logo. And
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I don't know what your me Mall's Vanderbilt logo even was,
nor do I know what her South Carolina logo. I
just know that this league is compacted right now. Just
it doesn't really matter what the point spread would have
been thirteen years ago. It's not the way it is anymore.
Vanderbilt's undefeated. What are they ranked. Oh, we'll talk about
it in a few minutes, but they are undefeated. Good
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for them, Good for you. Look at the schedule. There
got Georgia State, Nemesis rival revenge spot Georgia State, Utah State,
and then they go to Alabama another revenge game for
the other guy. On October fourth. They still got LSU, Missouri, Texas, Auburn, Tennessee. Yeah,
Vandy's got a long way to go, but good for
them so far. Texas and UTEP what a clinic. People
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paid to watch this game yesterday twenty seven to ten.
Not at the end of the first quarter. No, this
was the whole game. Obviously. Anyone who watched this knows
what I'm about to say is true. If something is
very off about arch Manning. It could be physical, it
could be mental, don't really care. I hope it's actually
I don't even know what I hope it is, but
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it's something's wrong. He was eleven of twenty five or
one hundred and fourteen yards and one touchdown in one pick.
And I don't have much to say about this game.
It just doesn't look good. And it is the ultimate
you got your work cut out for you type of
project right now for Steve Sarkisian. And I trust sark
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as much as I do anyone on this. But man
like we were the ones who were slow playing the
arch hype. And even I'm very, very underwhelmed with the performance.
And I never thought the dude was the Heisman favorite.
And I never used the word generational or elite in
anything other than a joking manner, not a disrespectful way.
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But like, this is tough, even by my standards or
estimations to watch right now. What's not tough is watching Miami,
because Miami may be the best team in the country
right now. Now. There are certain people down there who
probably want me to downplay this. They just played on
the c double you. They're hoping no one saw the
game yesterday, Miami forty nine to twelve. We also expected
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this one. We told you last week that point spread
was very, very misleading. South Florida had just beaten Boisey.
They beat Florida. They were seventeen and a half point dogs.
Miami's fumbled these kind of opportunities before. Alex Goldish has
made these games close before. This was a horrible dynamics spot.
It was a horrible mismatch, and we expected a blow
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out and we got a blowout. And this Miami offense
is strong, and I'm going to put something out there.
I was talking to a couple of Miami buddies and
they hesitantly agreed with me. So I want to throw
something out there and let's just let it marinate for
a little while. Miami's big question to me, offensively was
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not Carson Beck. The big question was how are you
going to replace your top half dozen pass catchers from
last year? I think their receiving corps maybe better than
it was next year early small sample size, and having
a better quarterback, well not a better quarterback. What in
the world I mean they had they had the best
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in the country last year, but having a really good
quarterback there and a new blend of talent, it just
may be that this blend is better. And you know
what else, they don't have to do score forty five
every week. They can, but they don't have to because
they also happen to have a defense this year, which
is a novel concept. So they look good and the
questions keep getting answered that wide receiver rooms not a
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weakness for them. That secondary still waiting on someone to
test it. But it may not be a weakness either.
And if that's the case, Miami doesn't really have a
whole lot of weaknesses, So cannot versus have not the
age old question. We're going to apply it to Miami. Now.
Ole Miss beat Arkansas yesterday forty one to thirty five.
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Sam Pittman now drops to seven and eighteen in one
possession games at Arkansas. And Lane Kiffin he likes the boat,
he likes the beach. It sounded like he went down
to the Caribbean and just got an island chain to
start at quarterback Trinidad Chambliss from Ferris State University last year,
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and he just wins with him. That's the backup quarterback
at ole Miss. Many of you had to wait until
yesterday a kickoff to find that out. They had four
hundred and seventy five yards total offense, seven of seven
in the red zone. I almost feel like yawning as
I read this off. I watched so many teams out
there struggle to chew gum and walk at the same
time with all of their starters in and then Lane
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Kiffin's like, Trinidad, what, I don't care. Where did he
play Ferris what the big circular Farris State? Oh, put
him in whatever, and he just draws up the plays
in the dirt and they're eight of twelve on third
down and they win and they don't cover because that's
not something Lane Kiffin believes in. But they win, and
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now they've got Tulane coming in. There is that this week?
Yet it is? It'd be fun and then LSU and
I assume Austin Simmons will be back. So that's tough
to listen to Sam Pittman talk about those one possession games,
by the way, not fun. Everyone loves Sam Pittman. That's
not fun. What is fun is we are going to
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Oh you know what I didn't do, Bradley, My bad.
I didn't announce that we are. We're going to Lincoln,
Nebraska this week. And if you go to the Peate
State Store right now peytstatemterial dot com the Fall Don't
Lie Tour. We have a new T shirt every week,
you know, for the new destination for the tour that week.
Collector's items. They tell me it's one week only and
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then they're never available again. So I've never been to
Nebraska in my life. I've never been to the State
of Nebraska. I've never been to the University of Nebraska.
I've never been to Lincoln, I've never been to the
stadium there, But you know what, the Busting Bowl has
happened in this week, So will Compton going to be there?
Taylor Lawan gonna be there. Fellow podcast Matt Ruhle, I'm
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told is going to be in the house cause he
also happens to be the head coach of Nebraska. How
could we miss this? How could we miss this? And
how could you not go to petstatemterial dot com right
now and see the limited edition, one week only T
shirt commemorating this. We have one of those every week
just so happens this one says Lincoln, Nebraska looking forward
to that. There's a ton of stuff in the Peate
State store. Not just that that rom Anudle Express shirt.
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Savannah State has been wearing that thing around the house,
so she's approved it. It's better than any endorsement I
could give. Bad news, ladies and gentlemen, bad news on
the job security front. It's that time of year. Two
head coaches got fired today, Brent Prye and Deshaun Foster.
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So already we've got coaching searchers ramping up at Virginia
Tech and UCLA. I wanted to talk about pride first.
He was sixteen and twenty four. Entering his fourth season,
he was three and eight, seven and six, seven and six,
they started to three. It really felt weird. It felt
like a doomed season to start out, because they got
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gutted by the portal, they lost some coaches, and ironically
his first and last game at Virginia Tech, he lost
to Old Dominion. They trailed thirty one to nothing yesterday
to Old Dominion, so it was done. They won double
digit games every year from four to twenty eleven under
Frank Beamer. Now I saw some people speculating about how
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good this job is, and I that's a question best
left for agents. I don't think too terribly highly of it.
I think incredibly highly of the history of the program.
What you worry about is what if Frank Beemer was
really good and otherwise this isn't a good job. That's
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like a concern that I would have if I were
a Virginia Tech fan. Now I'm a college football I
love Virginia Tech, Lovelane Stadium, love the tradition there. So
I mean I very very much missed this being a
national title player. Yes, kids, Virginia Tech, once upon a
time was a national championship player, and I hope they
can be again. But I was looking Nakos and Andy
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Staples and Chris Lowe. They sort of collaborated on an
article over on on three dot com today about some
of the potential replacements. I gotta be honest with you,
Alex Golish's name was on that list. There is not
a prayer I'm leaving us up for Virginia Tech. If
I'm goalish, I can do better than that. I'm just
being honest with you. I can do better than that.
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Buster Faultner at Georgia Tech is gonna have his name
thrown out there. Some Look, I'd recommend to all these guys,
if your stock is that high right now, you need
to understand that it's not gonna fade and you will
have better opportunities, Like there will be other jobs come open.
Will Stein at Oregon, same thing, same thing. Everyone knows
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those guys are going to get jobs. But you gotta
have the right deck of cards, especially if you got
a name that's a hot commodity. Before you just go,
You're gonna go grab the first one. No, don't, don't
necessarily do that. The portals open, you know, that's the
way these things work these days, the portal opens the
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moment your coach gets fired. Now, normally it's the end
of the season, but that's not the case here, nor
is that the case for UCLA with Deshan Foster. So
the portals open for the next thirty days, starting tomorrow.
That means those guys can leave tomorrow. And since they
haven't played four games this year yet, every one of
them that is eligible to have a red shirt year
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can count this year as a red shirt year. So
if I've played two games or three games as a
starting defensive tackle at Virginia Tech, I could transfer to
Auburn tomorrow. I can't play this year, but what I
can do is take a red shirt year. And so
this year never even happened. And I'm there, and I'm
not at Virginia Tech, by the way, So they're still
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trying to field a team. UCLA is still trying to
field a team. By the way, speaking of UCLA, is
Niko Iamliava staying out there? Don't know, haven't talked to him,
have no idea. Deshaun Foster also got fired today by UCLA.
That's what happens when you pay New Mexico one point
two million dollars to come in your building and they
beat you thirty five to ten. I don't really blame
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Deshan Foster because he never should have had the job.
I would have taken the UCLA job if they offered
it to me. It's not his fault. Like he didn't
offer himself the job, completely inept. Athletic director offered him
the job, and I don't think that athletic director will
be afforded the opportunity to offer anyone else the job
because knowing some of the internals around UCLA like I do,
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now that I've spoken to some people out there, then
there's probably a healthy amount of churn just above and
beyond the head coaching position that's coming. But it's very,
very interesting because that is a very what was the
word what was the word Stuart Mandel I saw used
earlier today? Very apathetic fan base at best. Sometimes it is.
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It is by far the second most important program in
its own city. It's got a stadium that is forty
five minutes to an hour away from campus, and the
nil situation is such that they're way more organized for
basketball than they are for football. But hey, you get
to play in the Big Ten. So glad that we
broke the Pac twelve apart for this, by the way,
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just fantastic job by all parties involved out there. Bravo.
By all means, let's fly guys to Rutgers for a
conference game and Maryland for a conference game for a
few extra dollars. Now, are we going to completely implode
an entire conference for no good reason? And are we
gonna suck and hire poorly? Of course we are where UCLA,
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but we'll have that Big ten sticker on our helmet,
and that's what really counts. No one else in the
Big ten's complaining. You notice, like in the SEC, Vanderbilt's good.
Mississippi State just beat the defending conference champ from the
Big twelve. Everyone's trying in the SEC. The bottom third
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of the Big Ten is a wasteland. And you think
Ohio State's complaining about that. You think Michigan, You think
Penn State and Oregon are complaining about that. They love it.
They hope nothing changes. I mean, imagine Kirby Smart at
Georgia being able to know that South Carolina was Maryland.
Imagine him being able to know that Vanderbilt was actually UCLA.
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Imagine how great that would be. Hey, grit's great to
be Ryan Day. It's great to be Sharon Moore once
he comes back from suspension. It's great to be Dan Landing.
They lay hope nothing changes, adds some more teams to
the Big Ten, as long as they don't actually take
winnings seriously. So where are they gonna go on this job?
Because I don't know how attractive this job is. You've
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got to get your administrative affairs in order before you
hire a head coach. I don't even know who's gonna
hire the head coach right now and then secondarily soon
to become primary. What kind of quality of job is this?
You think about the guarantees If I'm a hot commodity,
the guarantees I'm gonna need in io wise before I
come out there are plenty, and I don't know that
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they exist right now. But if they do, let me
give you some advice. Get someone from the South. Get
someone from the South who is completely off his rocker,
twenty five hours a day invested in recruiting. There's a
guy in Eugene, Oregon who lives that life. And I'm
not saying there's another Dan Landing around the corner. That's
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your blueprint. Find that kind of guy and get him
out on the West coast and he's gonna make some
people uncomfortable, and he's gonna wake some people up, and
there may be some dead fruit on the tree that
he's got to shake loose. And it's not going to
be an overnight turnaround because you didn't drive it in
the gutter overnight. But the UCLA jobs open as well.
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Very interesting. Oh my nose was itching the whole segment, Bradley,
but I held off. They're watching us in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania,
at Little Rock, Arkansas, and Monroe, Georgia. We have we
have an issue we have to talk about. Unfortunately, I
have in my hand hot off the presses the week
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four edition of the AP Poll. It is a disaster,
probably the worst I've seen them spit out so far
this year. Bradley is putting it up on the screen
right now. No problem with Ohio State being number one. Hey,
let me ask you something. What in the world has
Penn State done to be the number two team in
the country. And for that matter, look who number four
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is Miami's number four? On what planet have Penn State
and LSU outplayed Miami so far this year. Miami's beaten Nome, who,
by your own admission not mine, is still a ranked team,
and then they just slaughtered USF yesterday. Meanwhile, Penn State
is skipping past high school teams and LSU's struggling to
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score twenty on anyone, and Miami's behind them. Interesting. Interesting,
But I can't spend a whole lot of time on
that because I have much bigger fish to kill, not
even fried, just outright kill here. Oregon six, Yeah, that's good.
FSU seven is good. I know this hurts a lot
of people's pride. Texas is not a top ten team
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right now. Texas has lost to the only good team
they've played, and then they looked very, very lethargic in
wins against San Jose State and UTEP and they're eight
hy for that matter. What's Illinois doing in the top ten? Now?
I don't have a problem with Illinois in isolation, but
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I just want to ask you something. In fact, I
want to kind of skip over the whole eleven through
fifteen area, because that's good to me. O U, Iowa State, Ole,
Miss Bama, Tennessee, that's fine. Mine will probably look like
a version of that. We got a big, big problem.
The AP pole is the AP pole is an illegitimate product. Okay,
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So Illinois is sitting at number nine right now, Georgia
Tech's at eighteen, and Vanderbilt is at number twenty. I
ask you on what planet has Illinois done more to
warrant their ranking than Vandy and Georgia Tech. Vandy and
Georgia Tech are classic examples of, Hey, we didn't even
invite you to the party, and now you showed up
and we have no idea where to put you. That's
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the AP pole. It's like we got a pre existing notion,
an idea about Illinois. They haven't done anything to screw
it up yet, you know, their best wins Duke otherwise
we don't even remember who they played, but they haven't
done anything to screw it up. But then there's Vandy.
Vandy went on the road and smoked Virginia Tech, and
then they went on the and they beat South Carolina.
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Handedly I guess we gotta rank them where I don't twenty,
I don't know Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech went to Colorado
minus three turnovers in the first quarter, still win, and
then they come home and they beat Clemson. Should have
been more emphatic than it was. Oh man, they're good too. Well,
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we got to put them in there somewhere. I mean,
don't put them too Hi, it's Georgia Tech. It's just
Georgia Tech eighteenth. Yeah, that's fine Illinois. Though I ran
my mouth about him all spring, and I put him
on the cover of this preview magazine I publish, and
I wrote articles about him. You know, so I had
him pre season top ten. I gotta keep them top ten. Drugs, drugs,
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swindest thing is being laughed at. It should be laughed at.
The Commissioner's poll in the next two or three weeks
will overtake the AP pole as the definitive rankings viewpoint
on colle football in this country. Again, give me two
or three weeks and we will overtake the AP pole.
In the meantime, I regret to inform you Notre Dame,
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according to our friends at the AP, is a ranked
team as of sundown on Sunday, September fourteenth. Why well,
they haven't won a game yet. But hear me out. No,
I don't want to hear you out that part where
you said they haven't won a game yet. That was
kind of all I needed to hear. Yeah, but you
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don't have the whole picture. I think you may not
have the whole picture. I think you have a picture
that doesn't actually exist. I think the picture is this.
You had a preconceived idea of what Notre Dame was.
That's okay, we all did. The difference is some of
us have watched them play. They haven't won a game.
They've had two tries, they haven't won a game, and
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so we're gonna drop them for now, and then we're
gonna let them play the rest of their season, because
you see, we know Notre Dame eventually will win games.
And that's where part two of the picture that doesn't
exist yet actually exist in your mind, and that is
you expected them to be something. They haven't been that yet.
But since their starting point was top ten, you think
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they've quote unquote dropped to twenty four, and then you
expect them to go on to do something like half
of you think they'll still be ten and two. Well,
you know what, if they win ten in a row,
then we can adjust accordingly. But they haven't yet, so
what you thought would be hasn't been what you think
will be should have no bearing on a team's current ranking,
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and yet there sits notre dame at twenty four. This
AP poll is not worth the paper it was printed on.
And I know that because I told Bradley, don't even
print it out. See there's nothing even on this piece
of paper. I had to make a graphic every day,
every day that this thing remains in circulation. Every day
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that the Commissioner's poll has not overtaken this. Every day
that ESPN goes on the air with the number of
the AP ranking next to those teams instead of the
Commissioner's poll is a day that this country drifts further
away from God. We got to get back. We got
to get we got we gotta get. We got a
course correct. That's what we've got to do. The AP
poll is pathetic this week, and balls are in their court.
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Our balls are in their court. As meanwhile, would say
they can correct it, but that would require watching the
games with a tactful eye. And I just don't get
the sense that AP voters are that interested in college football.
I really don't. Not all of them. Not these ballots
are public, by the way, A lot of them are
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five hundred right now, ride at five hundred. We can
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Believe they're playing at Buffalo. We bet against Buffalo yesterday
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We are taking Northern Illinois plus twenty two and a half.
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