Week 6 Upset Alerts + Commissioner’s Poll & Cole Cubelic

College Football week 6 upset alerts are here. Vanderbilt vs Alabama was the big shocker last season. Could it happen again? What about Miami vs FSU or Mississippi State vs Texas A&M? We also look at Texas vs Florida and Ohio State vs Illinois. The latest edition of the Commissioner’s Poll is out as Josh Pate updates his personal top 25 rankings. Where are LSU and Ole Miss? Did Alabama reappear in the top 10? What about Texas and Oklahoma? We also look at Oregon and Ohio State after big wins. Will we ever see a dynasty again in College Football? Is it possible to repeat what Nick Saban or Kirby Smart have done? Cole Cubelic also joins the show tonight to discuss the latest developments around the SEC and College Football. All that plus best bets on the Ramen Noodle Express.

 

 

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:31):
A couple of you noticed that new tab on the
YouTube channel collaborations. Yeah, I do something with Colin Cowherd
every week. It's an extended it's a long form. You
can find it there. Now. We do the locker room
over with the guys at Busting with the Boys, Will
and Taylor. You can find that on our channel now,
also on their channels. Just thanks to our friends at
YouTube for setting that up. It is Thursday. It is

(00:51):
October second. The Arm of Our Lord twenty twenty five
were jam packed hi atop a very warm downtown Nashville, Tennessee.
I told everyone false fall was upon us. You remember
three or four weeks ago, Week one, it was gonna
be in the seventies. And then I said, it's not over.
It's not over. Summer's not over. Well, now summer is over,
but summer temperatures still linger. It won't last forever, I

(01:14):
promise you. Eventually we'll get to a point where it's
twenty two degrees at kickoff in Columbus, Ohio for a
playoff game, or maybe not because they have a first
round by anyway, Upset alerts on the show tonight, Yes, yes, yes, yes,
we got them all over the place the commissioner's pole
drops in just a matter of minutes, got some movement,
got some teams that I did not expect to be ranking.

(01:36):
I didn't expect to be ranking teams period, but here
we are. I didn't expect to be ranking these teams
in the top twenty five. But yeah, I am a
fair ranker. I watched the games, which you know what,
I'm not even gonna say it, dynasties. Lane Kiffin had
to say something about dynasties, and I agree with him,
and I really wonder how much the college football public

(01:58):
has realized how dead the concept of dynasties are in
college football, and also what it means about competitive balance
and parody. Because everyone claims they want it, and there's
some great things about it, there's some other things that
I just think we need to bear in mind about it.
I'm going to talk about that, and we're really going
to just use it until Kublick picks up the phone
a little bit later on. So it could be a

(02:20):
four minute segment, Jesse, it could be a nine minute segment.
You never know. Our balls are in his court. They're
watching us in Woodstock, Georgia, Montreal, Canada, best pro wrestling
city in the country, actually in any country, because it's
not in our country, Louisville or Louisville, Texas, Louisville, Kentucky.
I'm just gonna throw them in and Charlotte, North Carolina.
I have fortunate news if you go to bed early,

(02:42):
unfortunate news if you're a night out. I again have
to do Friday Night Lines at five eastern fourth Central
tomorrow on Instagram live at Josh pat CFB because once
again I am being summoned to play softball before we
fly down to Tallahassee tomorrow night. And again, look, it's
not like I want to do this. It's not like
I want to play church league softball on Friday nights. Okay,
I'm obligated. I'm committed to the team and so as

(03:06):
a result, we just have to shape our Friday accordingly. Again,
this is my sacrifice. So you think I want to
just be playing softball, You're crazy. No, absolutely not. But
I have to do this. I have to do it
all right, here we go. Last week this segment ended
up being pretty prophetic. The upset Alert meter, powered by

(03:34):
our friends at flex Power mind You is pinging once
again and get good generators at flex Power. Buddy. The
upset alert meter generated some serious shockways last week. Remember
Jesse when we dared even mention USC and Illinois and
people are like, why are you even talking about that game?
Why are you even throwing that game in there? Well,

(03:54):
the line was six and a half. What Virginia is
not going to beat Florida State? Why are you even
throwing that in there? Oh? I think we'll just go
ahead and mention it anyway. Bam bam bam. It's like
the opening scenes of Armageddon, just asteroids all over the
place the movie, not the portion of revelation. People calm down.
So Kentucky's playing Georgia this weekend. You know they go
to Athens Georgia classic get right spot line is twenty

(04:18):
and a half. All right, so just dust your hands off.
Good hard fought win over Kentucky. Well is their upset
alert potential here? Both teams are off losses, not just Georgia. Kirby,
I don't know if you've ever listened to him talk
about Mark Stoops in Kentucky. You cannot get a question
out of your mouth about Kentucky without Kirby reminding you
how physical Kentucky is how much those two programs believe

(04:41):
in the same principles and how close the games have been,
how competitive the games have been, And he's not wrong.
First paper pop of the night. Are you aware that
Kentucky has held Georgia to twenty one or less in
four of their last six meetings? I am again because
stats and Info informed me this was a knockdown, drag out.
What was it like fourteen to thirteen last year? Now

(05:03):
that was up there. This is gonna be at Georgia.
Georgia going from facing the number two passing defense in
the country to facing number one oh six. This is
where I feel like that wide receiver corps can really
get back to work. Georgia is gonna have to have
that anyway. I think they're gonna find it here. Now.
On the flip side, Zat Calzada is back for Kentucky,

(05:24):
and I leave it up to you. That's open for interpretation.
You make of that whatever you want. I just know
that stylistically this matchup has always yielded weirdly competitive outcomes.
It's a matchup thing. Kentucky cannot tote Georgia's jock when
it comes to comparative program strength, but matchup wise, they

(05:45):
always give them a hard time. So I'm gonna put
this at a five, which is way higher on the
one to ten upset alert concern meter than a twenty
point spread normally would be. But that's where we are. There.
Next up a game that had much much more marquee
attraction in the preseason than it does this week. Did
you know Boise goes to Notre Dame. Did you know that? Well,

(06:09):
fewer of you knew it than you would have had
Boise not lost to USF or Notre Dame had not
lost to Miami and A and M. Because right now,
I think we could have gotten some pretty good money
if we bet that there would be a combined three
losses in this game by the time it happened. But
yet here we are. However, in the interest of upset
alert concern here, I'm going to put a six on

(06:31):
this game. Notre Dame's favored by the same number as
Georgia is over Kentucky. Notre Dame's favored by twenty and
a half, but Boise has pulled the nose up a
little bit now. They scored seven against USF in Week one.
That's the last time most of you paid attention to them,
and I will grant you, I can't blame you. They've

(06:52):
scored fifty one, forty nine and forty seven since then.
They are top twenty rush and pass again because of that.
Notre Dame's defense good week last week on the scoreboard.
Have we just solved all the problems that we saw.
I'm sure there's a little bit different organizationally. They're defensively

(07:13):
because there had to be, so, I'm sure they've shaken
some things up there. Is it all just fixed after
a fifty six to thirteen win against Arkansas? Shame on
you people for what you did, Sam Pittman, Shame on
Notre Dame for what they did to him. As long
as CJ. Carr is good, you're good in this game. However,
if Boise starts pushing you a little bit more, then

(07:36):
you're comfortable with. If that game looks like it's going
to be played in the high twenties and the thirties again,
then there's a chance that you turn it over. There's
also lingering in my memory the Northern Illinois game. There's
also lingering in my memory the Marshall game. Marcus Freeman
has dropped these kinds of games before. Now, they weren't
in desperation mode then like they are now. They have

(07:58):
no wiggle room, there's no margin for air. They know
they got to run the table here to make the playoff.
And even then some people are out there debating whether
they'd make it him. I'm gonna put a six on
this one. It is going to attract at least one
of my eyes attention. On Saturday, Texas texat Houston on Saturday.
Houston's undefeated, take notice, so is Texas Tech. Houston's got

(08:19):
the sixteenth rank defense in the country right now, and
they've got Connor Wigman at quarterback. Texas Tech's got a
whole bunch of guys who you saw probably for the
first time against Utah. And what was notable of that
about that game is, of course they went in there,
they won I think thirty eight ten. They pulled away
from them, and they pulled away with their backup quarterback. Well,

(08:40):
he's back this week. Baron Morton's back this week. Now.
Houston is top ten in turnover margin, so they've taken
the ball away so far this year. Baron Morton's given
it away a few times. Joey maguire has squashed any
talk of quarterback controversy anything like that. Baron Morton's healthy,
He's going to start for him. Look, I just question

(09:04):
if Houston does put forth a strong defensive effort here,
even if they do for us a turnover, maybe they're
plus one. You can't predict this, but let's say they're
plus one turnover. Can they score enough? Because Texas Tech
can suffocate you. I think this is going to be
a lower scoring game. With the lower scoring profile comes
a little more variance in outcome. Eleven and a half

(09:24):
is the number here. Texas Tech favor by eleven and
a half. I'm putting a five and a half on
it now. Candidly, I picked Texas Tech to win and cover,
but I didn't bet it just to pick. I'm gonna
put a five and a half on it, though. When
you can play defense, you give yourself a chance. Clemson,
Clemson's playing North Carolina. What do you think the number is?

(09:47):
Fourteen and a half is the number? Clemson minus fourteen
and a half? Clemson coming off the buy And I
got to tell you something. The model here, not me,
Let me stress, not me. The model loves North Carolina
this week. I say that publicly because that's the last
Ye're gonna hear of me talking about betting North Carolina
this week. I'm not doing it. I am not gonna

(10:08):
be that guy. But the Model wants me to be
that guy. It has North Carolina plus fourteen and a
half inexplicably circled as one of the best bets of
the week. Their offense is one hundred and thirty fourth
in total yards per game. They are one hundred and
thirteenth in rush yards per game. They're one hundred and
twenty fourth in pass yards per game. They're one hundred
and eighth and third down conversion percentage. They're one hundred

(10:29):
and thirty fourth in explosive plays. Clemson, last time you
saw them was busy toting another l They are off
a by It is the most desperate get right spot imaginable.
Dabo has basically been fending for his life up there
at press conference podium, and now we get to play
football again. Clemson if they have a slow start here, Honestly,

(10:53):
I still don't know how it would happen. I don't
know how the upset would happen. The numbers fourteen and
a half. Okay, I would be way more shocked at
this upset happening than I would boise over Notre Dame then,
I mean would this would be right up there with
some of these three touchdown spreads. So I just don't
get it. But the model does, or it thinks it does. Anyway,

(11:13):
I'm gonna put a four on this one. Huh, three
and a half. I'd have to see it to believe it.
Next up, Penn State favored by twenty four and a
half at UCLA. It's a two for me. It's a
two on the upset alert concern scale. If Penn State's
just normal, this is a blowout win. This is medicine.
I mean, you build that home game up against Oregon
and then you drop it in the fashion you did.

(11:35):
This is medicine. You are sick, and college football's remedy
is go play Ucla. There's all kind of staff upheaval there,
and actually, those of you who have watched the show
for a number of years, you know we love betting
on backup quarterbacks, and we love betting on teams when
coaches have been fired because we think that the hit

(11:55):
that they take in power ratings is actually over corrected,
and we think there's value there here, not in this
particular case. So Penn State just lost Tony Rojas maybe
for the year for an extended period of time. And
he's one of the guys we had circled. They're about
four of them on Penn State's defense. They really can't
afford to lose, and they just lost one. I just
don't know that it bites them this week. Down the road,

(12:18):
it may bite him. I don't think he's going to
bite him this week. Here's my question, Who's got the
better quarterback in this game? If you think that's disrespectful
because the other guy's Nico iyam Alaiava. If you think
that's disrespectful to Drew Aller, look at the numbers and
if you're listening on podcast, Nico's got the better completion percentage,

(12:40):
He's got the better pass yards per game. Drew's got
him total touchdowns by one. They Drew's thrown two picks,
Nico's thrown three. Nico's like quadrupled him up or something
like that in or tripled him up in rush yards
that it's an uncomfortable stat profile, trust me. Producer Jesse
had to make it earlier. Today. You think he enjoyed that. No,

(13:02):
he did not. I don't know if Penn Sdy's got
a huge quarterback edge here. I know they should, I
don't know that they do. And if we rewind a
couple of classes ago, it's two five star quarterbacks there.
And imagine just telling yourself, boy, they're gonna face off
in twenty twenty five. I would have thought it maybe
in the national title game. I would have thought it
may be like a playoff semi final game. Instead, it's

(13:25):
Week five in the Rose Bowl, dozens of folks waiting
for the game to start, most of them in blue
and white. And I'm gonna put a two on the
upset alert concern scale here. I'm not that concern. Lastly,
this may be the game kublicas this week. I think
we'll ask him in a little while. Mississippi State's at
Texas A and M. A and M's a fourteen and

(13:46):
a half point favorite. Mississippi State off a gut punch
of a loss in overtime to Tennessee at home. A
and M is off what the locals are calling a
flawed win. Okay, Mike Elco none too please that he
was getting criticized out there, the gloomy questions his words,
not mine, gloomy questions, and the press are after a win.

(14:06):
He had to set them straight out there. They beat
Auburn sixteen to ten. They've also hung forty plus on
the road to beat Notre Dame. Mississippi State. They can
throw the ball deep. They got that capability. They're top
ten and passes A thirty plus forty plus fifty plus,
so the super explosive the sees if you will, they're
pretty good at that. However, they allow sacks, so they've

(14:30):
had a hard time protecting the quarterback, and A and
M notably can get after the quarterback. A and M
top ten and sack percentage per drop back and Mississippi
State in the one hundreds in sacks allowed. Mississippi State
can create turnovers, though, so look for efficiency from Marcel Reid.
If it's there, they're okay here. If it's there, State
is an undervalued team. Still. I think this number was

(14:53):
put out by FanDuel begging you to take Mississippi State.
I took Mississippi State because I see the trap being set.
But I think we set a counter trap in that
I think Mississippi State's still a little undervalued, and for
our purposes perpi plural of purpose, this week to bet
State is probably a good thing. They lost that game

(15:14):
against Tennessee. They tasted what could be, but then it
got snatched from their fingertips. And now they go on
the road and now they got to fight and the
Jeff Levies. They got to find a way to win
one of these games. They got to get that program. Definer.
You got the Arizona State game. It's not a conference game.
I'm gonna put a seven on this one. I think
this is going to be a competitive game. And there

(15:36):
you have the upset Alert meter for week number six.
I've got huge breaking news, Jesse. I think we can
call this breaking news from Quick Trip, exclusive fuel provider
of the Fall, don't lie tour no Less. We're headed
to Tallahassee this week. That's not the breaking news. The
breaking news is happening north of US. It is October
two right now. So I'm giving you a whole week.

(15:58):
But if you're listening anywhere near Cincinnati, if you're listening,
I'm sorry about the Red season coming to an m
I'm gonna make you forget all about it, though, Westchester, Ohio,
a little just northeast of Sincy. Friday, October tenth, we're
having a rare regrand opening of a Quick Trip. Why

(16:19):
are they regrand opening this thing because we missed it
the first time? Are bad? Okay, we'll take the fall
for it. In return, you get a whole regrand opening
up there. Now here's the way it works around here.
If you're new, Quick Trip opens new stores all the time.
And our challenge to you is we're gonna take like
five of you. If you prove to us that you
went to the regrand opening, we're gonna send child Life

(16:39):
Supremacy out. I got four new boxes of Childli that
I keep forgetting to bring in here, So if you're
waiting for us to ship them out, they're coming. Don't worry.
But I'm giving you advanced notice. It's not this weekend.
It's next weekend. Also, U see f's intown to play Sincy.
I think the next day, So just make a make
a trip of it. I would if I weren't going

(17:00):
somewhere else. Next weekend. It's right up the road. So
that's next weekend. I'll remind you again as we get closer.
But yeah, we'll be in Tallahasseee. I keep trying to
say tomorrow. We'll be their Saturday. Actually we'll be there
late tomorrow night, but we'll be there Saturday. Looking forward
to it. Have not been to a Florida State home
game since twenty sixteen. It's time for the drought to end.

(17:24):
All right, let's continue. The Commissioner's pole has just dropped.
The paper's still hot, fresh out of the printer. These
are not Power ratings. These are in fact rankings. I
did it once early in the season, and then everyone said,
we want you to do it. Then flex Power hit
us up and said, we'd love to generate that. We
make generators, we'd love to generate the Commissioner's poll. And

(17:46):
I said okay and okay, and then I started to
have fun doing it. So now it's a staple of
every week's show, especially since someone has to market correct
the abysmal nature of the ap pole here lately. So
I'm not afraid to move teams, but I am going
off merit. I'm measuring resume and I am not trying
to predict what you're gonna do. That's the JP Poles job.

(18:07):
That's on Tuesday. No, This is just about what you've done.
So let's take a look. Twenty five through twenty one.
Us F is still holding strong. Memphis Memphis G five.
Josh is happy to report that Memphis has showed up.
The interlocking Mississippi State logo is still there. We had
state like twenty ath or nineteenth last week and they

(18:28):
lost to a team in the teens. We don't think
they should drop all that much. They've still beaten Arizona
State too already, so and I don't care what I
think they'll do. Okay, if they go get beat by
thirty Saturday at A and M, I'll adjust, but I'm
not measuring what I think you're gonna do. Illinois has
checked in. Just saw them in person last week. They're

(18:48):
at twenty two. Louisville is at twenty one. Louisville, Illinois,
and Memphis were all unranked last week, So welcome to
the party, guys. Twenty Penn State has dropped. Penn State
has dropped. Not in the ape pole, you know, but
for those of us who actually believe in measuring resumes
instead of what we thought in July and baking what

(19:09):
we thought in July. Like I mean, we got folks
still operating off conversations they had at media days with
Penn State's AP pole ranking No. Penn State's twentieth, and
they're lucky to be there. Michigan is nineteen, Texas is eighteen.
I'll get back to Texas in the second Tennessee is seventeen.
Lsu drops to sixteen. I have been accused of being

(19:30):
a Texas homer for a long time. I was aware
of those allegations, and I know where it comes from.
We've given preferential treatment to Texas on the show. I
go out there all the time. I actually low key.
You know, I shouldn't say I love it because that'll
ruin the stereotype that surfaced about me. The model has
always been drunk on Texas. So when it comes to
the JP Pole, when it comes to power ratings, we've

(19:52):
always got Texas rated high. I've always been aware of
those allegations. What I was not aware of, Jesse until
this week, until the last seven two hours, is there
are rumors circulating on the Internet that I have become
a Texas hater. A friend of the program, Will Compton,
has fanned these flames, but he didn't start the fire.

(20:13):
Billy Joel Didton, Will Compton didn't. But it hasn't always
burned since the world's been turned in, So where did
it come from? Well paid State investigates Trademark has tracked
it down to a few message board threads wherein some
lives are being spread. It's the nature of message boards.
And should I sign up for an account just so
I can log in to defend myself? No, I will not,

(20:36):
But I'm going to tell everyone the same thing I
told that random dude who has a Lamborghini as his
profile picture on Twitter last night. If anyone wants to
bring concrete evidence of me being a Texas hater, that
doesn't include me making a prediction on a game you
disagree with. Any concrete evidence, bring it to the attention
of me, or bring it to the attention of the

(20:57):
staff at Texas, and they'll bring it to me. But
it hurts. It hurts to hear those allegations. Who's to
the funk it Texas hater whoms to the funking Georgia.
We got them at fifteen, they dropped ten spots. We
got Bama at fourteen, I got Florida State at thirteen.
I was wrestling with this because I still have this

(21:17):
power ratings mentality in my mind. But that's not what
a poll is, that's not what ranking should be. So
I think Florida State and BAMA have comparable resumes, Like
their best win FSU's is over Bama, Bama's is over Georgia.
So anyway, if I think they're comparable, I've got to
acknowledge the head to head result, right, So that's why

(21:38):
Bama's of course going to go ahead of Georgia. But
that's why FSU's got to go ahead of Bama. Now,
Bama's got Vandy this week. FSU's got Miami this week.
So this could solve itself. This could work itself out.
Remember we adjust, we start from scratch every week with
the Commissioner's pole here. But I do have FSU at thirteen.
I've got Missouri at twelve, Iowa State's at eleven. This
is another classic case of people who keep on keep

(22:03):
on voting and ranking based on what they expect to happen.
Like you expect Iowa State will end up losing some games.
Some people think they'll lose to SINCI this weekend. They're
down two starting corners. Irrelevant, irrelevant, irrelevant, what have they done?
They've beaten a bunch of Power four teams. Oh josh,
but it was just Kansas State and it was just Arizona.
It was okay, who have the rest of you beaten?

(22:26):
I didn't rank them third, but I put them eleventh.
They're undefeated. Who am I supposed to put above them?
I got ten teams above them? But like, who beneath
them definitively has a better resume than Iowa State Right now,
I don't know. Georgia Tech's at ten. I got Indiana
at nine, Texas Tech at eight. I've got Vandy at
seven again, not because of what I thought about him

(22:49):
in the preseason, because of what they've accomplished, which, by
the way, begs the question if Vandy goes into Tuscaloosa
and win Saturday, where could they How high could they
end up? Texas A and M I've got at six.
They are up five spots. Still looking good, still looking good.
Of course I've got that Tech SAgs money in my pocket,

(23:11):
so of course I would have A and M ranked
in the top six. Why not top five? Because Billy
Luchi didn't pay me enough. That's why top five? Oh
you the John Matier injury is not baked into this
again because the materiar injury has not lost them a
game yet. I'm not predicting what I think will happen.
I'm just ranking what has happened. Ole mess is four,

(23:36):
Oregon is three, Ohio State two, and I got Miami
still number one, which means we are going to see
the number one team in the country according to the
Commissioner's poll in about forty eight hours. Looking forward to it.
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(24:39):
lot of sense. So someone asked me if I saw
this thing that Kiffin was talking about, and I did,
so we're gonna throw it in the show here for
just a second and then we'll get to Cublic. Carter
from Norfolk, Virginia hit me and said, did you see
what Kiffin said about dynasties being over? Isn't this something
you've said before too, Yes, and yes, Carter. So this

(25:02):
was with ESPN. I think Lane Kiffin was talking to ESPN,
and I don't even know what he was asked, but
you don't really need that to know the context here.
He said, in my opinion, dynasties are over Alabama with
coach Saban and then Kirby at Georgia where they had
those rosters year in, year out, and they'd be a
bunch of wins by thirty in the conference. Those days
are done. When I was at Bama, they'd be like,

(25:23):
go watch the outside linebackers. There's six of them over
there that are first round picks. That's not going to
happen anymore because if they don't play, then they're going
to leave. They can't keep them all anymore. Well that's true,
all right, So what does this do like? First off, yes,
he's right, He's unequivocally right. The concept of a dynasty
in college football, to me, has to be re engineered

(25:44):
or reimagined to just be who has their team in
contention to make the playoff every year. If you could,
if you could freeze college football right now and in
the climate that exists currently, if you could go ten
straight years of being within reach giving yourself a punch
chance at winning a title, that's that's dynasty worthy. But
that's not how people define dynasties. They defined dynasties by

(26:07):
winning championships, and by that metric, I don't know that
you're going to do that in college football anymore. Now.
I don't know what the future holds. Big changes could happen,
but if things are the way they are, or they
continue to trend further down the road that they've gone down. No, now,
not a lot of people are complaining about it because
it's brought a lot more competitive balance to the sport.

(26:29):
So what does it mean. It means more wide open
conference races and more wide open playoff field pictures. Yes,
it does mean that. It means more upsets because you
kind of shaved the tops of the tallest trees, which
means there are no more, you know, like insurmountable hurdles
out there. There's more volatility week to week. That's how

(26:52):
you have. You know, already we've seen Florida State beat Alabama,
then go loose to Virginia. We've seen all kinds of
crazy stuff, and that's always in college football. I just
think in the aggregate, there's more of it now, and
there will be more of it moving forward. It's still
a pretty small sample size because we've only had things
as they are a few seasons. So that'll continue down
that road. Think about the second half of the season. See,

(27:15):
this is what worries a lot of coaching staffs. A
lot of coaching staffs look at it and say, we're
thinner than we've ever been before. Maybe that doesn't bite
us in September, maybe we get through early October, but
by the time mid October gets here, no one has
escaped injury. Some of you have been bitten harder than others,
but no one escapes it. And if the fact of

(27:37):
the matter is if you're Georgia, if you're Alabama, if
you're Miami, if you're Oregon. It doesn't matter anybody here.
No one's immune from this. You are so disproportionately more
vulnerable to one or two key injuries creating massive, massive
fissures on your team profile than they used to, where

(27:57):
you just backfill with, oh man, well now we got
to start a five star true freshman, like that was
your vulnerability. Now it's not that anymore because the guy
that you would have plugged in there is he went
to start for USC, so he's not there anymore. George
is dealing with that right now. Actually, so the depth

(28:18):
thing bites those teams more the second half of the year.
Also the G five teams. You know, it's one thing
to watch the G five in September or be playing
the G five team in September versus playing him in
October and November, because they're frontline guys on the G
five level, especially the upper tier of the G five,
and I would know is G five, Josh, Those are

(28:40):
just guys that couldn't quite make it on the Power
four in some cases Power two rosters. So they're going
to start for a Memphis or Tulane or whatnot. So
if you're playing those teams in September and you're getting
their fastball, there's not that big a separation between their
front line guys and you if you're a Missouri or

(29:00):
something like that. But if you played them in November,
that's one layer of jelly there. Once you scrape past
the top layer, that's when the depth really disproportionately bites
the G five teams. So the net result of all
this is good to the public. You're looking at the
team portal rankings from on three this past cycle Texas, Tech,

(29:24):
lsu Ole, miss Oregon. You just had a lot of
talent moving around and the public has looked at it,
and what the public has picked up on is Wow,
this makes the results a lot more randomized, It makes
more teams able to compete, It opens up the playoff
picture more more teams theoretically could win the championship. That's
the elusive parody, that's the elusive competitive balance that people

(29:47):
had sought out for a long time. And there's no
catch there. That really is happening. That really is as
it appears, And I don't have a problem with that.
I'm not fighting against that. There is one thing I
couldn't help but think about last week when I was
at the Alabama Georgia game. It could have just as
easily cropped up in my mind this week or the
week before, but I was thinking about it last week.

(30:08):
I was talking to a couple of people about it.
Last week. I was standing there watching midway through the
third quarter, and it's just collision after collision, and occasionally
you got an injury time out and you're looking at
the medical tent over their Kuway Russol for Alabama walks
buying a boot, and immediately your mind starts going, ooh,
what's their depth situation there? And then you're looking at

(30:29):
a clean white jersey out on the field and it's
a true freshman, or it's a red shirt freshman who
hadn't played, and they probably weren't planning on playing them.
And so that's a first world problem, cause you know,
Bama's second stringers are still really good, but I was
thinking to myself, they're not nearly as good as they
used to be, nor are Georgia's, nor are anyone's. And

(30:52):
so I thought to myself, the rosters have never been
thinner for the big boys than they used to be.
They're about to a ninth conference game in the SEC,
they've already done it in the Big Ten. You're also
adding at least one marquee out of conference game, So
you're really gonna play at least ten high level games
every year with thinner rosters. The expectations are gonna be

(31:15):
really slow to recalibrate, because Kiffn went on to say,
and I agree with him, they're gonna be a lot
of pretty good teams that go eight and four, maybe
even seven and five, just because of how compacted the
nature of the field is. And people are still clinging
to this idea that you know, ten and two, that's
kind of your baseline, and maybe we'll go eleven and one,

(31:36):
but ten and two, nine and three worst case scenario.
That is not the worst case scenario, even for high
level teams anymore. And so you got all that and
you throw it in a blender, and no one's gonna
feel sorry for coaches because they're gonna make a ton
of money. But I was just thinking to myself about
how big an ask that is. Like those two things,
converging thinner rosters combined with a way a tougher schedule

(32:01):
moving forward and what November looks like. And I'm just
I'm in September. I'm watching guys walk off in boots
on the sideline and thinking to myself, if that guy's
not back, what is the nature of that linebacker depth chart?
And that's that's even if no more injuries happen. And
so the one thing I was thinking, I don't know
that there's an answer to this, But the one thing

(32:21):
I was thinking is, all right, we all claim that
we want competitive balance, we all claim we want parody.
Is there a line, like, is there a threshold that
you go past? And seeking out parody leads to diluting
the on field product too much? Cause, I mean, the
bigger critical mass of younger, not as ready players that

(32:45):
get put on the field, the lower the caliber of
play is now in the NFL, that kills you. Because
the NFL is all about caliber of play. College football
is about a whole lot more than just the quality
of play on the field. So you could sell me
that it doesn't matter, it'll always be relative, and it's
about tradition and pageantry and all the stuff that sells
about college football, and no one's really going to care

(33:08):
if if Arkansas's outside linebacker room is really really fractional
to the quality that it used to be, you may
be right about that. I was just thinking about it
the other day, that that's one of the unintended consequences,
or maybe an intended consequence that you don't have to
worry about as much as a coach has to worry about.
But yeah, he's right, dynasties. Who in the world's about

(33:29):
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There's another name, col E Cube for short, who I
believe is on the Mississippi State A and M game.
Is that right? Is that where you're going this weekend?

Speaker 2 (37:46):
That is correct? We will be there looking forward to it.
Out of the maroon.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
Yeah, we expect a competitive game there, But that's actually
not the one I want to ask you about. First off,
I want to ask you about a game that I
drew a lot of heat for the other day because
I had the audacity to pick the home team to win.
And I picked Florida to do a Mark Callaway special
better known as the Undertaker, and to just do the

(38:12):
full set up out of the grave and compete, you know,
kind of like they did last year and win a
football game here. And I laid it out and it
was tough, trust me. It was one of those give
me a game plan where twenty points is enough kind
of routes, and I think I found it. I found
it enough where my heart was able to let me

(38:32):
sleep at night the other night. I think that Jaden
Ball sees a whole lot more workload this weekend than
he has recently. I think there's still a lot to
be seen, a lot to be proven from that Texas
passing game. They get to go into a really hostile
environment here again for the first time since Columbus. I

(38:52):
don't know that the separation potential is there in the
wide receiver room, at least like it was last year.
So I was able to resolve in my own mind,
Florida's got a shot to win this thing. What do
you expect from Texas Florida.

Speaker 2 (39:06):
There's a path in which you try to take that
game that I can see it going. The offensive line
for the Florida Gators is gonna have to play a
lot better. Jaden Ba has the ability to get loose.
The problem is where a lot of the issues are
with Texas. It's not on that side of the football.
It's the other side of the football.

Speaker 3 (39:23):
So if Florida were.

Speaker 2 (39:24):
To win this game, I think you're gonna see arch
Manning sacked four to six times. I think one of
those would have resulted in at least one turnover. You
may see a special team's touchdown from Florida. You're gonna
get great field position for the Gators to where they
could take some shots towards the end zone. But I
don't see necessarily Florida's offense just going out and being

(39:46):
the reason that they win this game. Because Colin Simmons
and company are still playing good football. Michael Taffick company
are still playing good football. That Texas defense the all
who has been playing great off the ball at linebacker.
It's not just the edge defenders, it's the secondary. It's
the linebackers trade more off on the football. That group
has still been outstanding. Now the offense is where I

(40:08):
have the issues with Texas, where they're ranked, the way
people view them, what they kind of seemingly are in
the public eye right now, Josh, because the playmakers aren't
making plays. You can try to go blame march Manning,
and I do think he was pretty amped up in
the beginning of the season. Ashley thought the last two
games he began to calm down just a little bit,
began to find some rhythm, began to find that calm
in the pocket that I think a quarterback has to

(40:29):
have to truly go be elite or great. The problem
is when you allow UTEP to put out the best
tackling performance I've seen this season in a single game
because your guys were getting put into the ground in
one on ones. I'm not gonna be overly confident that
your playmakers are gonna do that against a pretty good
Florida defense. And no, there won't be a Caleb Banks,

(40:49):
but Tyreek scept George Gumms. This is a Florida defense
that can still get after you up front.

Speaker 3 (40:55):
Secondary has some holes.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
But the Texas playmakers, at least by the standard that
I watched them a year ago, have not been doing
those things.

Speaker 3 (41:04):
And if that happens in this game and.

Speaker 2 (41:06):
The Florida defense is able to get the ball to
the end zone, maybe give good field position multiple times
this came to the Florida offense, could they make it competitive?

Speaker 3 (41:13):
Yes, the giant wildcard in all that, I don't know where.

Speaker 2 (41:17):
Florida is mentally, I don't know where they are emotionally
right now. None of us are going to be able
to put our finger on that. None of us know.
Have half the kids mailed it in? Are they extremely upset?
Frustrated and get a real mad on come out in
this game. Want to try to prove something. They did
it last year, can they repeat it again this year?
If they do that, then sure they can play with
that team. I don't think there's any doubt. But Steve

(41:37):
Sarkisan is too good of a coordinator to keep letting
some of the headaches regularly take place.

Speaker 3 (41:42):
With what they have been in this Texas offense.

Speaker 2 (41:45):
But that offensive line hadn't been what I thought they
were gonna be, and Florida has the front that could
take advantage of that.

Speaker 1 (41:49):
So Texas, I mean, I think you'd agree with me.
There aren't many programs out there just with more raw
talent walking around the building than Texas, So probably, like
you just said, I think most people would agree. I
expect a little bit more from Texas so far. But
the calendar just turned to October, so still a little
ways to go, all right, and then you know, maybe
that climb starts Saturday. All right, think about that theme,

(42:13):
but just go around the rest of the league. I
don't even care, go around the rest of college football.
For all I care teams that have shown flaws shown
vulnerability so far this year. That you think have the
ingredients that they if they get it all in gear
could hit a different gear, could get to November. And
you find yourself saying, like we do about three or
four teams every year, do I don't want to play

(42:33):
them right now? Or Buddy, if they if they get
in that thing, they could actually go win it.

Speaker 3 (42:38):
Who is that there's a lot of them.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
Let's just let's take Ohio State, Oregon, Miami out of
this conversation, because we would all believe that they are there.
They have that there are known commodities within those teams,
and I think that might be hard right now in
college football. Maybe the biggest challenge, Josh, is what do
we know? Like give me knowns in college football? Like

(43:02):
I know right now, Mad Hardy's the best running back
in college football. I don't know if Ohio State has
the best offensive line in college football, but I think
they got the meanest and the nastiest, specifically with what
I saw last week against Washington. I mean it was
there was a head count at the end of that
game with what that offensive line and tight ends did
to the Washington defense. Don't know if they're just the

(43:23):
overall best, but right now They're the group i'd probably
least like to face of all offensive lines in college football.

Speaker 3 (43:30):
Miami's O line not far behind them.

Speaker 2 (43:32):
They have trained killers on defense that want to try
to decapitate you on every game.

Speaker 3 (43:35):
So we know those three.

Speaker 2 (43:37):
The first one that I would give you is Old Miss,
and it would be the reason that they won the
game against LSU. I thought there were two big things
that people missed in that game. One Old Miss won
the line of scrimmage. I'm a dramatic pause there. We're
gonna place some period next to that, because there are
no ifs, there are no ands, there are no butts.

(43:58):
We don't have to come in and put parentheses on
this with an asterisk and say, oh, but these other things.
This guy was out, but this happened in the game
or the situation. No Ole Miss won the line of scrimmage.
And I think maybe the thought process on that that
would get lost is you would immediately have to think
that they got ninety five Nebraska and they just got
mowed up and down the field.

Speaker 3 (44:18):
Wrong.

Speaker 2 (44:19):
The Old Miss offensive line doesn't have to do that
with the way that they operate offensively. But they got a.

Speaker 3 (44:23):
Hat on a hat.

Speaker 2 (44:23):
They strained, and they allowed Kwan Lacey, who is one
of the most underrated players in college football right now
because he doesn't have eleven yards of carry, but he
is grinding out yards when that team desperately needs him to.
And they showed me they can win a little bit
of a different style fight. That defensive line is coming along.
That group showed up last week.

Speaker 3 (44:42):
Now against an LSU line that hadn't played very good
football this year.

Speaker 2 (44:46):
So I think I think O Miss has the makings
of a team that could, like you said, turn it
on late and go Oklahoma. I don't think we can
really say right now because so much of that is
on John Mattire. If John Mattier is there, they are
absolute that team because he is enough to carry you
through multiple rounds of a postseason, because he's just that

(45:06):
dynamic of a football player. Now, our defense will keep
him in any game, any game. It's the best D
line in the SEC, possibly the best D line in
college football. You put the front seven with that, they
can go out there and keep you in almost any
football game you're ever gonna play. But you need John
Matier to win a championship. That's just the reality of it.
And then there's the kind of the team. Alabama is
absolutely in that mix right now. We haven't really seen

(45:28):
them turn the power switch on just yet, but it's
gonna be tough to match up with that group of receivers.
When Ty Simpson is making decisions like he did a
week ago, when you really go in and dissect it
and you watch his eyes and how he took defenders
off of routes and took defenders out of space to
be able to complete balls in tight windows.

Speaker 3 (45:46):
He knew exactly what he was doing.

Speaker 2 (45:47):
He was precise, He made great decisions, and he had
an understanding of how to operate that offense at its peak.

Speaker 3 (45:55):
And that's all I care about.

Speaker 2 (45:56):
Can a quarterback operate an offense like the other thing
with old Miss You look at at Chambliss and everybody
tells you, well, he's a playmaker, he can run, he's
beautiful balls down the field.

Speaker 1 (46:04):
Josh.

Speaker 2 (46:05):
The biggest thing that Trinidad Chamblas does for me, the
most important aspect he brings.

Speaker 3 (46:09):
He avoids catastrophe. He has catastrophe plays that he is
faced with six eight times a game, and he gets
out of them and he'll throw it away or he'll
elude and make a three yard gain out of it.
He's not taking a fifteen yard sack. He's not fadeaway
jumpers trying to throw the ball down the field. He's
not fumbling because he's trying to get away from three defenders.

(46:30):
That young man avoids catastrophe. And when you have an
offense that's going to score anyway, those are the only
kind of things that are going to allow a lot
of teams to even get back in games with you.
So I still would not put Georgia out of this mix.
I would not put Tennessee out of this mix. I
don't even think I would rule Flarida State out of
being one of these teams. But it does feel like

(46:50):
the list is dwindling of teams that could realistically turn
it on. I think we'll learn a lot more about
Texas Tech this week.

Speaker 2 (46:56):
We want to see them against Houston, another undefeated team
before I really may I believe this or I know
this about that football team and what they might be
able to do second half.

Speaker 3 (47:04):
Of the season.

Speaker 1 (47:05):
You have done radio in Birmingham, Alabama all week the
week after Bama beach Georgia, the week of Alabama Vanderbilt
I don't know how to describe this. I want you
to describe what your existence has been down there this week.
My existence has been. I've got a lot of Bama
buddies who the week of a big game, you can

(47:25):
always tell the hair on the back of the next up,
the guards up the shoulders are a little more tense normally.
It's like when they'll play Tennessee or LSU or Auburn
or something like that, and the questions will always be,
you know, we got to make sure to do this,
make sure to do that. But the thought is always
are as long as the volume knob is turned up
to eight plus in this in this category, will win.

(47:48):
I've never heard him talk like that about Vanderbilt, is
my point. It's not that I've got Bama buddies who
expect to lose Saturday. None of them expect to lose.
I mean, this is Alabama, come on now. But what
they are talking like is the way they would normally
talk if LSU was coming to town or they were
going down there, or they're playing like a vintage Auburn
team playing Georgia last week. And so that's my side

(48:11):
of it. Like Vandy owns third down last year, they
own time of possession, they win the turnover battle. That's
all stuff Bama did last week on the road at Georgia.
So I look at it and say, can you own
those critical factors? If you do, you should win the
game Saturday. It's really that simple and that hard. What
has your existence been like? Three hours? Three hours? Yeah,
three hours per morning with McElroy who's on the call,

(48:33):
no less this weekend? What has that been like this week?

Speaker 3 (48:37):
Here's the thing. You're almost doing it too though.

Speaker 2 (48:39):
If this, if it's in, you're saying, how amazed you
are that we're having this conversation about Vanderbilt.

Speaker 3 (48:47):
That's the problem.

Speaker 2 (48:49):
The discussion point should be we're talking about a good
football team, not we're talking about Vanderbilt. And I understand
that there are certain people that will tell you that
history never fails us in college football, and it will
always go on as it should and will never hit.

Speaker 3 (49:04):
Lulls or hurdles or obstacles.

Speaker 2 (49:05):
But this is one of those peaks in Vanderbilt history
that when we look at the seismograph and it's sitting.

Speaker 3 (49:12):
There just buzzing on the bottom forever and ever.

Speaker 2 (49:14):
And you get the James Franklin peak, Well, this is
going to be taller than that one and higher than
that one. But the difference is this team does have
real sustainability and the program may have more sustainability because
of how it's being built and how Clark and the
people around him have built it. First off, Tim Beck
gets no credit and deserves a ton of it. The
Vanner built offensive coordinators.

Speaker 3 (49:35):
Who that is?

Speaker 2 (49:35):
For the millions of people tuned in that have no
idea who that guy was and they thought maybe I
was referencing an old relief pitcher for the Giants back
in the day or the Cubs, it's not Rod Beck.
It's Tim Beck. And the guy's damn good. He knows
exactly what to do, how to manipulate things and the
amount of reads and options that are involved in this
offense now with more visual deception because they have real

(49:57):
speed on the perimeter and an offensive line and that
physically can at least match up better than any Vanderbilt
offensive line I've ever seen. That makes them an absolute
handful Because going back to what we talked earlier, Josh
about operating your offense, Diego Pavia does that as well
as any quarterback in college football. Now, that doesn't make
him Jaden Daniels, It doesn't make him Caleb Williams. It's

(50:19):
not what I'm trying to say. But when you put
him in that with his experience, his knowledge and how he.

Speaker 3 (50:26):
Operates a little bit, he puts it.

Speaker 2 (50:28):
To a level that not a lot of the order
quarterbacks can do with what they are given the card
that they're given to drive. So it is a handful
to defend without Kway. Russaw thinks it makes it more
complicated for Alabama because they've become less experienced, left out
athletic on the edges where they're going to attack on
a regular basis, and there are a defense that plays
really sound. They trust each other, they know where to be,

(50:49):
They leverage the sideline, they understand how to tackle, They
tackle in pairs, they don't always get out there in
space and try to tackle.

Speaker 3 (50:55):
On their own.

Speaker 2 (50:56):
They understand the finer parts of playing defense as a group,
and Alabama is more talented. Alabama has more speed, Alabama
can be more physical, They can be more physically imposing
based on the humans that they have out there. But
that doesn't always make you a great football team, and
it doesn't always win games.

Speaker 3 (51:14):
So I think the only ifs here, if we're gonna talk.

Speaker 2 (51:17):
About it, is one is Alabama operating their offense to
the level that they were last week and have the
last two three weeks. And if ty Simpson's doing that,
I don't really think we need to talk about a
lot of the other things. They're probably gonna win the
game because at that point, talent takes over when the
operation of it is that good two Diego Pavea is
gonna give you three to six, three to five. O

(51:39):
expletive plays a game? Which direction do they go? Because
when you're falling down getting tackled and you pitch it
behind your head, if your running back catches at and.

Speaker 3 (51:48):
Goes forty yards, well that's one your way. If you
do that little fade away.

Speaker 2 (51:52):
Backfoot throw into the end zone because you got pressure
breathing down your neck and you don't know what else
to do, and your receiver comes away with that, that's
one for you. When those two into fumbles for touchdowns
or interceptions after a great drive, that's a massive win
for Alabama. So is Alabama operating where they have been
one two, the O expletive diego pavia plays, Which direction?

Speaker 3 (52:14):
To those go that's what decides this game. In my opinion, how.

Speaker 1 (52:17):
Do you gauge the energy coming out of LSU right now?
We saw what happened in the game against Ole Miss
last week. That result did not surprise me. I know
you well enough to know that result didn't surprise you
a whole lot either. So now you know you're listening
to Brian Kelly talk about oh everyone's angry, everyone's angry here.
You know a lot of times you kind of got

(52:37):
what you got. And the real skill in this sport
is looking in the mirror realizing, hey, I'm LSU man,
like about ninety five percent of the country would love
to have my problems. Eventually, we got what we got
in the room. We gotta coach them up. We got
we gotta squeeze every drop out of the sponge that
we possibly can, and hopefully it's good enough to win.
I just wonder, number one, if they're capable of doing that,

(53:00):
and then number two if they're not, and if some losses,
you know, start to stack up. I'm talking like maybe
an eight and four season, and that's a long way
down the road, but I just wonder, like what the
conversation would be then, But we can talk about that
down the road. As far as the here and now
can't run the ball nuss Meyer's hurt. I don't really
know what they believe they have behind him. I know

(53:21):
what the name on the depth chart is. I don't
know that they believe they're comfortable going to him. I
just wonder, like, because I have no feel for what's
going to happen the rest of the way with them.
I don't think they're done losing games, and so I
just kind of wanted to get your take, wanted to
get your read on LSU right now.

Speaker 2 (53:37):
Yeah, the interesting part is when you look at some
of the things that Old miss did to complicate the game.
When LSU was on defense, you still got Lenora Sellers,
Diego Pavia. I mean, you got Alabama, Texas A and
m Oklahoma at the end of the year when John
Matier most likely could be back.

Speaker 3 (53:54):
I don't like seeing that in front of me.

Speaker 2 (53:56):
And I will say this, Josh, and I don't think
I'm not pointing finger at you here, but we came
out of last weekend in the SEC with a huge
misconception because if I looked at Twitter and I listened
to a few podcasts and how people talked about games.
Alabama won by fifty two and Ole missed one by
thirty nine, and Tennessee lost by eleven, and it's like

(54:20):
that wasn't the way that these games really went those game.
I mean, you could say the same thing about Auburn,
but against sexast A and m that one actually did
look and appear to be as though the score was
about twenty points different than it was. So I don't
even know if I'd categorize that, even though Auburn did
have the football with the chance to take the lead late,
just like LSU did, just like Georgia did. So I

(54:43):
don't know if that means that the teams that want
aren't that good or the teams that lost aren't that bad.
But that's what I'm trying to sell to my group.
If I'm Brian Kelly. Here are the mistakes that we
made that were critical. Here's how close we were in
the end. However, what you just stated, it's one of
the things that Nick Saban did better than anybody self scout.
He would ask people around the facility. He had a

(55:03):
couple people that he leaned on and said, tell me
what's wrong with me, tell me what's wrong with us?
I tell mean, he always went out there and said, okay, good,
we're gonna sken that and we're gonna come out here
and do it completely different. No, but he wanted to
at least have his eyes open to things that he
possibly did not see. There are a few of those
for LSU. I'll give them credit. Seven plays against Old Miss.

(55:25):
They evened up the run formation, which means you're either
shotgun two back or your pistol with the back right
behind your quarterback, and you allow the perception of multiple
runs being able to go one way or the other.
The shotgun offset to one side or the other gives
the defenses too many advantages. The offensive line has flat
out not played good football. Your quarterback's dinged up, obviously,

(55:46):
but even he is still taking a few too many chances.
The ball starting into traffic last week were unacceptable on
a very regular basis.

Speaker 3 (55:53):
So those are things that can get cleaned up now.

Speaker 2 (55:56):
Some of those include a certain level of physicality and
talent and understanding and your technique and fundamentals and belief
they're gonna change all that.

Speaker 3 (56:03):
I don't know, like you reference not being able to
run the football.

Speaker 2 (56:06):
Do we know that because I think only thirty three
times this year, if my statitician in Charlotte Monday afternoon
was correct, they've run the ball on back to back
downs this year.

Speaker 3 (56:18):
That's not giving you a chance to live in that neighborhood.

Speaker 1 (56:21):
You know.

Speaker 2 (56:21):
That's being the one hundred thousand dollars millionaire in Dallas
or whatever it is driving the Ferrari with your new sponsor.

Speaker 3 (56:28):
Can go deal with you know, the two three.

Speaker 2 (56:30):
Hundred thousand dollars debt that they have trying to pretend
that you're something else that you're not. So I think
LSU needs to know who they are first and foremost.
I know what they want to be and what they
think they are, and that is superstar quarterback with flashy
weapons that can pitch it all over the field. There's
nothing you can do about it. And our defense is
going to punch you in the stomach. And some teams
can withstand a punch in the stomach. Old miss did

(56:51):
Old mis proved that you don't have to go score
forty to beat that football team. So there should be
a lot of looking in the mirror, and there should
be a lot of looking in there and saying we
can't be that anymore, or we thought we were that
and we're definitely not. So we have to find other
things that we can offset what we think we're good
with and maybe try to give us some true balance
down the road.

Speaker 3 (57:08):
I still think they have one of.

Speaker 2 (57:09):
The best defenses in the league, one of the best
defenses in college football.

Speaker 3 (57:13):
You can lean on that in a lot of ways.

Speaker 1 (57:15):
Yeah, that's why I'm not tapping out on them. I
refuse to tap out on Blake Baker. That's an American hero.
I just have a lot of questions about the other side.
All right, All this stuff happens on Cube Show all week.
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Speaker 3 (57:32):
Right, It's so free.

Speaker 2 (57:34):
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(57:55):
played another conference opponent or not.

Speaker 3 (57:57):
We're going to tell you what we saw and how
it went.

Speaker 1 (58:00):
That film study has done on the treadmill.

Speaker 2 (58:01):
Yes, lots of it is logging steps on the treadmill, correct.

Speaker 3 (58:06):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (58:07):
I just wish that other people could experience, like me
walking into a hotel gym and you're over there with
the incline at about seventy percent, pouring sweat all over
the place, and just every now and then there's and
I look over and your head shaken cause someone just
broke edge contained and I'm like, headphones in, disrupting everyone
else in there, some guys just trying to do tricept presses,

(58:27):
and you're over there, terrifying him like a caged animal.

Speaker 3 (58:30):
That's Chris storing about it.

Speaker 2 (58:31):
He comes in there and bothers me almost every week
because we stay at the same hotel, and he's like,
what are you doing? But I will sell scout right
now and tell you seventy percent incline Absolutely not.

Speaker 3 (58:40):
No, I'm not that guy. I can't do that.

Speaker 1 (58:43):
Fifteen years ago. All right, Well, have funny college station,
tell Lucci, I said, Hi, and remember it is not
cult behavior. It is just tradition, and everyone has unique
tradition into and of themselves. It's not anything that we
should be laughing at, not that you ever would. I'm
just trying to speak to certain other people in the
chat right now.

Speaker 2 (59:01):
It's gonna be a fun game. I agree with you
what you said earlier that here's what I'll say about this.
And for people who maybe don't know a lot about it,
you know, they all wear these GPS monitors, right, And
I actually pitch this to our television crew. I don't
think there's any way we can graphic this or stat
this or whatever. But those things don't just read miles
proud or they read output. And that's when guys will

(59:21):
be throttled back or taken out of games or their
snaps limited because they know what your max output is,
be it force blocking or speed running, changing directions all that.

Speaker 3 (59:30):
If we could.

Speaker 2 (59:31):
Measure the force output of all the bodies that step
on the field for every SEC team, Josh, I honestly
believe Mississippi State would win that.

Speaker 3 (59:40):
Yeah, whatever, that competition would be called, whatever, it would be.

Speaker 2 (59:44):
The output GPS meter Olympics, because these kids play their
rear ends off and they now they might be going
the wrong way playing their rear ends off, but they
do it, and they love to hit, love to tackle,
and offensively they get after it.

Speaker 3 (59:58):
And they got a quarterback that knows how to.

Speaker 2 (01:00:00):
They can't body everybody up in this league and match
up perfectly or having this matches go their way, but man,
they play hard, and I know Levy and those guys
have got to be proud of that.

Speaker 1 (01:00:08):
All right, go get some dinner. I'm gonna do the same.
We'll talk to you next week.

Speaker 3 (01:00:12):
Thank you, Josh.

Speaker 1 (01:00:14):
And that's our show too. We're out of here, remember
Friday night, Lines five Eastern, fourth Central on the Instagram
channel at Josh Pate CFB Tomorrow will then be headed
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Saturday at Dope Campbell Stadium a I'm told, rocking done
Campbell Stadium from Miami and Florida State and all of
that behind the scenes, all access sort of thing will

(01:00:37):
be in the Instagram story until Sunday night. For director Bradley,
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Cold Cubany. I'm Josh Pate, take care of have a
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