2024 Barstool Pick Em Week 14

Summary

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Barstool Pick ‘Em – Week 14 (2024)

Podcast: Barstool Pick ‘Em
Hosts: Big Cat (Adam/Dan Katz), Dave Portnoy (Pres), Rico Bosco
Date: November 27, 2024
Theme: Rivalry Week in college football – laughter, trash talk, contract drama, heated debate, and wall-to-wall picks

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Episode Overview

This action-packed episode celebrates rivalry week in college football, with the Barstool Pick ‘Em crew (Big Cat, Dave Portnoy, and Rico Bosco) recapping another season’s ups, downs, and degeneracy. The show dives deep into the latest college football storylines—playoff chaos, Heisman speculation, and the madness of feast week—while also serving up the annual ritual of inter-host drama about losing records, office politics, and whether Rico will actually move to Chicago.

The gang’s signature banter is on full display: playful needling, attempts to get personal grievance segments back to their "junkyard dog" roots, and relentless speculation about playoff scenarios, coach drama, and their own contract negotiations.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Standings & “Bet Every Game” Pledge

• Current Records: Rico leads at 51.9%, Dave trails at 50.9%, and Big Cat languishes at 46%, lamenting yet another suboptimal betting run.
  • Big Cat vows a last-ditch comeback:

    "This rivalry week, I will have a bet on every single game... I gotta go for one last shot. I gotta go 17 games over .500. But, hey, crazier things have happened."
    (01:46)

• Bowl Season Counts: Champions will be crowned after bowl games—expect more pick shows leading into January’s semifinals.

2. Barstool Office Drama: Contracts & The "Junkyard Dog"

• Ongoing contract negotiations—Dave assures fairness ("I'm more than a fair guy"), Big Cat recalls how he’s accepted every offer since his $60k days, and Hank wants a bigger cut for his contributions.
• Rico’s “Move to Chicago” Saga: The perennial debate: Will Rico bring his legendary volatility to Barstool’s Chicago HQ? Skepticism abounds.
  • Dave: "I’ve already been told there’s zero percent chance you ever move. That this is all one big song and dance." (26:55)
  • Rico: “I’m doing everything I can to try to get out there. Yes. We are talking to agents. We're looking at Geico.”
• The crew longs for "junkyard dog" Rico, whose old-school meltdowns fueled ratings:
  • Dave: "People—according to our lawyers—we lost the segment of people just tuning in to see Rico go crazy." (29:04)

3. Feast Week, College Hoops, and the Fanta Factor

• College Football Playoff implications — More meaningful late-season games thanks to the playoff expansion.
• Feast Week: All-time degenerate vibes, with hosts reminiscing about losing streaks and marathon betting sessions during college basketball multi-game slates and Thanksgiving football.
  • Dave: "I also get smoked every week, too, so..." (06:27)
  • Big Cat: "By Thursday... I'm just bruised and battered... just give me an NFL game." (06:30)
• John Fanta Segment: The show’s college hoops crush calls in to talk Crosstown Shootout rankings (Cincinnati over Xavier), delivers gold:
  • Fanta: “I don’t lose sleep over where I rank a team. I lose sleep over whether I took the trash out on time, picked up the right groceries for my wife, if I’m taking care of her right now. And the Cleveland Browns." (08:45)
  • The crew laments "the one that got away"—Fanta refusing to leave play-by-play for Barstool.

4. Playoff Scenarios & Conference Chaos

• Futures Recap: Portnoy’s futures (Alabama, Phillies, Texans) all dead in the water. Rico holds no live futures.
• Playoff Debate: Heated speculation about who sneaks into the new expanded field.
  • SEC, ACC, Big 12, and the prospect of 3-loss teams—where do South Carolina, Alabama, SMU, Miami fit? Dave lobbies for 3-loss South Carolina over other 2-loss teams.
  • Adam: "I think it'll be very clear after this weekend because you'll have a definite answer on a few teams..." (19:27)

5. Heisman Talk

• Is Travis Hunter a lock, or is the "oppo research" about to kick in?
  • Big Cat: "I’m getting to the point where I’m doing a lot of oppo research..." (20:21)

6. The Bosco Move: Comedy Gold

• Extended riff on Rico consulting GEICO for insurance quotes before moving, juxtaposed with debates over real estate, streaming attendance, and whether changing cities will impact his on-air persona.
  • Dave: "What does GEICO have to do with it? ... If you make the move, you will have more money in your bank account." (25:51)

7. The Need for More ‘Junkyard Dog’ Segments

• Staff/execs/lawyers say the show’s missing the old-school “Rico loses it” energy. Big Cat sees a way for "healthy" junkyard dog segments (competitive streams, rivalry games) if Rico moves.
  • Big Cat: "I'm invested in trying to find a junkyard dog that is not a junkyard dog that is bad for Rico’s health... but a junkyard dog... in between the white lines." (29:30)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Big Cat on Betting Every Game:
  "Why not this week? For me to get hot. So follow Barstool Pick ‘Em. I will be texting Jack… I will have a side or total on every single game." (01:46)
• John Fanta’s Thanksgiving Zinger:
  "I don’t lose sleep over where I rank a team... but I might lose sleep because of you. Happy Thanksgiving." (08:55)
• Dave on Fanta & Media Stardom:
  "He may be a megastar with us, by the way... Like, honestly, he may. That's how electric he is." (12:39 & 12:55)
• Dave, on the Move-to-Chicago Debate:
  "I’ve been told there’s zero percent chance you ever move. That this is all one big song and dance." (26:55)
• Big Cat on Show Legacy:
  "Part of Pick ‘Em’s legacy as a show is... college football nil could have changed forever on this show..." (46:03)

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Important Segments (Timestamps)

• [01:46] Big Cat pledges to bet every rivalry week game
• [06:27] Feast Week war stories & annual losing streaks
• [07:39] John Fanta crosstown hoops and "takes his job seriously"
• [14:03] Factor Ad
• [15:16] Breakdown: Playoff chaos, futures burned, expanded playoffs
• [21:59] GameTime Ad & transition to contract talk
• [22:01-24:50] Detailed contract negotiation drama and move-to-Chicago debate
• [29:04] Dave on lawyers/data saying Pick ‘Em needs more "Rico melts down" content
• [36:41] Rico’s emotional breakdown about the moving process
• [45:18] Handicapping Miami-Syracuse, Michigan-Ohio State and other major rivalry games
• [55:26] Hosts’ cards for Rivalry Week

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Picks Summary (Games Previewed)

1. Miami at Syracuse (+11, o/u 67.5)

• All three hosts like Syracuse to cover, possibly to win outright.
  • Dave: “I love Syracuse here. I don’t know why Miami’s getting this much respect. Their defense has not showed up all season.” (44:21)
  • All expect the Dome advantage, despite being more myth than fact lately.

2. Michigan at Ohio State (-20.5, o/u 43)

• Dave: Michigan to cover the big number—sees improvement late in the season.
• Rico: Likes the OVER—expects Ohio State to run it up.
• Big Cat: Ohio State to cover—Ryan Day will try to crush Harbaugh while he can.

3. South Carolina (+2.5) vs Clemson

• Clean sweep for South Carolina—hosts rooting for the Gamecocks narrative, Dave makes the case for them as a playoff darkhorse.

4. Auburn at Alabama (-11.5, o/u 52)

• Rico: Bama to cover; admits last week’s lock on Bama was a disaster.
• Dave: Auburn +10.5 (reluctantly); not confident in Bama’s current state.
• Big Cat: The OVER.

5. Texas A&M +6 at Texas (o/u 48.5)

• Big Cat & Dave: Aggies to cover and possibly win outright.
• Rico: The UNDER; leans on the defenses.

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Hosts’ Rivalry Week "Card" Highlights

Rico:

• Mississippi State +26, Kansas -1, Duke -4, UTSA -7, Syracuse +11, Kansas State +3.

Dave:

• Ok St/Colorado over 65.5, Ole Miss -26, Georgia Tech +19.5, Michigan +21, Baylor +1, Texas Tech -3.5, Vandy +10.5, Kentucky +3.5, South Carolina +2.5, Army -7, Arizona +9.5, Syracuse +11, USC +7.5, Auburn +10.5, Cal +13.5, TCU/Cincy over 58.5, A&M +6, UNLV -17.5.

Big Cat:

• Will play every side/total for every game; updating the @barstoolpickem feed daily. ("I will bet every single game this week—side or total.")

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"Mortal Locks" (Final Picks)

• Hank: South Carolina +2.5
• Jack McCarthy: Wisconsin
• Rico: Louisville -3.5 vs Kentucky
• Dave: Syracuse +11 vs Miami
• Big Cat: Will play every game; Thursday play is Tulane -14 vs Memphis

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Tone & Notable Moments

• Classic Pick ‘Em: Lightning-fast high-stakes banter, personal shots, and side stories take center stage as much as sports handicapping.
• Dave relentlessly needles Rico about his indecisiveness and will-he-won’t-he Chicago saga.
• Playoff picture analysis features both real (if sarcastic) debate and running jokes about endless tiebreakers, bad beats, and mascot-related locks.
• John Fanta’s segment is a comedic highlight—professional, witty, and “the one who got away” in Barstool lore.
• Multiple segments quickly veer off-topic (insurance rates, moving logistics, contract leverage, etc.), but always circle back to picks.

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For Listeners Who Missed the Show

If you haven’t listened, this episode is quintessential Barstool Pick ‘Em: a rowdy blend of college football strategy, degenerate gambling confessions, and inside-the-office mockery, wrapped around genuine sports analysis and locker room humor. The hosts serve up both their hearts (for each other's futures) and sometimes their heads (on the betting line), all to usher in the greatest week of the football season—Rivalry Week.

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[End of Summary]

Transcript

[Adam]

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[Rico]

You can find every episode on Apple.

[Adam]

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[Adam]

Okay. Barstool. Pick them. Week 14. Rivalry Week. Last week of the regular season. Rico.

[Dave]

Close.

[Adam]

It's getting close. Rico is at 51.9%. Dave is on his heels. 50.9%.

[Dave]

Three games back. Wait.

[Rico]

Davis. 50.9.

[Adam]

50.9 on three games back. Three games back. I have. I think I've set the record for most consecutive weeks going 9 and 13. I'm at 46%. I would like to make an announcement here, here, here, here. In front of the pick em audience and Dave and Rico. This rivalry week, I will have a bet on every single game. I gotta. I gotta go. I gotta go for. I gotta go for one last shot. I'm gonna have to go 17 games over.500. But, hey, listen, crazier things have happened. Why not. Why not this week? For me to get hot. So follow Barstool. Pick them. I will be texting Jack. I. I will do it day by day. So every single day, I will have a CIDER total on every single game. And it's probably going to most likely end up me like falling to like 44%. But we're going to take a shot. Uh, Ebo has the Bob Diaco wrapped up, locked up. Congrats to him. 10 and three. What a season. But yeah, it's really a two man race. It's Dave and Rico.

[Rico]

Rico, you got to be rooting for.

[Adam]

Me, Dan, to keep him off the board 100%. I'm. I couldn't be rooting for you harder. I need you to be sharp. I need day, I need Davey eyeballs to show up. And because Rico, he's. He's going to play four corners. You know that's not true, dude.

[Dave]

I don't do that with a three game lead with the amount I'm doing, like, if he does that, I go right past them.

[Adam]

Yeah. And by the way, as always, bowl season does count. We go all the way till the end. So I think what we'll end up doing is we'll have a pick them next week for championship week. We'll have a bowl preview and then given the new schedule, I think we'll maybe do one last pick them before the semis because that's like the second week of January. So we'll do, we'll do a final one there where there's only four games left or three games left. So we should have an answer to who has won by that point. But Rico, are you, you're feeling it, right? I mean this is.

[Rico]

I didn't know he was at 50.9. I looked at that tweet the other day and I just, I guess I retweeted it blind. I didn't look at it.

[Dave]

Yeah, he's.

[Rico]

He's hot and he did the right thing. He was.

[Adam]

What does that mean? You looked at it blind?

[Hank]

It's like, it's like 10 letters.

[Adam]

It's word numbers actually. Just three numbers. It's. It's 51 points. Nine verse, 50.9.

[Rico]

I think it was when I was on radio, like tweet came in. So I just instantly retweeted it. So I was like, all right, it's. And I didn't look at it till now, to be honest with you. But yeah, he's dangerous.

[Adam]

Yeah, that's very dangerous. You got to take more attention to detail.

[Rico]

Yep.

[Adam]

It is college basketball season. Rico. How was the Maui? That. How was that last game?

[Rico]

I fell asleep last night. Fell asleep. Late. It's late. It's a late start. It's a late Start, but it's a good one. Yukon, Yukon, Memphis was good. Auburn, Iowa State was good. Michigan State, Colorado was not great, but it's. It's a great tournament. They should have a first round there.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Rico]

Unbelievable.

[Adam]

UNC came back from, what, 21 down? Insane. Second half. Dave, how are you feeling? I mean, I know you're. You're in Miami still. I think you're. You're going tomorrow.

[Dave]

I get back to live bullets, which I'm afraid, and I got to put like, when I've been. So I have been betting almost every weekend to last because I've been in gambling states. I just place it, but I gotta put like millions of dollars into my account.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Dave]

Which is frustrating because it's like, I don't. I have to like, I'll be back in Miami Friday, so I just need all my bets in. It's not like I replenish when I win. You know what I'm saying?

[Adam]

Yeah. Yeah. No, you can't. You can't play like, window by window.

[Dave]

Yeah. So it. I probably have to put in like 5 million to cover through Sunday.

[Adam]

Just live bullets. All that. And, and you got feast week.

[Dave]

I know. Which I can't wait to get back, like, into a gambling state. It's very frustrating.

[Adam]

Yeah. I mean, feast week is. Is my favorite. I mean, this is like, it's. It's weird having you not lie bullets, even on a Tuesday.

[Dave]

I didn't watch one second of the Maui going to bed at 8:30pm because.

[Adam]

Feast Week is usually the week where it's like, I'll be like at the park with my kids and Dave will be like, did you. What do you have in this game? And I'll be like, sitting at the park watching, like, you know, a triple overtime in a fucking ballroom in the Bahamas. And there's nothing better. Yeah.

[Dave]

And I also get smoked every week, too, so.

[Adam]

Smoked beyond smoked. It's by Thursday when, when NFL comes around. On Thursday, feast week, I'm just like. I'm just like, basically just bruised and battered and being like, whatever. I, you know, just give me an NFL game to try to change what I'm looking at.

[Rico]

What. What has been historically worse for you guys? Champions week or championship? I just was going to say that. Yeah.

[Adam]

I think it's honestly both. I. Can you, can you answer?

[Dave]

Nothing worse than championship week.

[Adam]

Yeah, championship. But. But there's something about feast week, Dave, where it's like. It's like the first part of the week is the college basketball, and then I just feel like all My memories of Thanksgiving week is, like, Friday, like. Like losing, like, Iowa, Nebraska, and being like, I can't. This is like, no mas. Get me to. Get me back to, like, regular world where there's Not Sports on 24. 7.

[Dave]

I'm in a totally different spot. I'm coming in fresh. I'm coming in hot tomorrow.

[Adam]

Yeah. By the way, we should mention because our guy, John Fanta, unbelievable, electric. He's the best. Hey, John. Thanks. Just following up on the Crosstown Shootout.

[John Fanta]

How bad did it hurt to finally rank Cincinnati ahead of your buddy Sean Miller this week? Didn't hurt me one bit, Adam. I. I do my. I do my job. Cincinnati's better than Xavier right now.

[Dave]

You've had.

[John Fanta]

You've had Xavier ranked ahead of him.

[Rico]

All season until this week.

[Adam]

I just. I figured it had to hurt. I know your buddies with Sean.

[John Fanta]

I mean, just, you know, I got a job to do, Adam. So, Adam, you call me up here and you want to. You want to tell me it must hurt me to rank somebody against over somebody else. I've seen the media bias in Xavier's favor for the last several years, and now, yeah, they've been a better program. They kicked Cincinnati's butt. They've been a better program by a wide margin, frankly. Cincinnati, we've been waiting for this version of Cincinnati. Cincinnati's been. Their butts have been kicked. You're using the past couple of years. No, no, no, no, no. You're using the past couple years. That's your argument. Xavier's been better than Cincinnati in every fast. If there's a media bias, I go off score. The scores of the game were Xavier over Cincinnati. Want to add? Tell me about how I feel about stuff. I don't lose sleep over where I rank a team. I lose sleep over whether I took the trash out on time, whether I picked up the right groceries for my wife, if I'm taking care of her right now. And the Cleveland Browns. I didn't lose any sleep over the matter, but I might lose sleep because of you. Happy Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving, Johnny.

[Adam]

Go Browns.

[John Fanta]

No, you don't get to salvage the call.

[Dave]

He unbelievable. College, the best doing college basketball there is. Like you said, Dan, he's the one who got away. He is the one who got away. He didn't really get away. He said no.

[Adam]

He said no. But I. I honestly think, like, when I'm on my deathbed, I'm gonna be like. They'd be like, what, do you have any regrets? And be like, fanta.

[Dave]

He's unbelievable. He's unbelievable.

[Adam]

You don't get to salvage the call.

[Rico]

If they, if he worried about my.

[Adam]

Wife, I worry about my wife in the grocery.

[Dave]

Bosco, he's like, you're like a Kmart Fanta. Like, you know, he, he's the guy who's doing the, the, the this, the. What do they call those things on X Space. Yeah, the spaces. Like in doing the extra mile and always being plugged in while you're doing all blows. Like in a different world, you could have been Fanta.

[Adam]

He's electric.

[Dave]

If we had play by play options, I think we would have had him. Yeah, but he, he, he wants to be the mainstream guy and he, he.

[Adam]

I mean he deserves it. He's, he's like just something about him where he's just, he gets in the mix with all these fan bases and like, you know, a Xavier Cincinnati fan is getting mad at him on a Monday night, during Monday Night Football. I texted him and I was like, it was like third quarter of the Monday Night Football game and I just texted him, you don't get to salvage the call. And he just, he just wrote, he wrote back auburn for three. Bang. And it was like, we're watching football Fanta. No, no. Locked.

[Dave]

Say this. I think there's a chance Fanta lost sleep that he had to put Cincinnati ahead of Xavier. He, he is friends with the. That he may have lost sleep about that caller may have been correct.

[Adam]

Yeah, yeah. Zoop. You'll have to put in the call when we just, when we introd it so the people who missed it can, can see it.

[Dave]

You don't get to salvage the call.

[Adam]

You don't get to see a Happy Thanksgiving. Go, bro.

[Dave]

Is there any part of you, Bosco, when you hear is like, that could have been me.

[Rico]

Yeah, he's. I mean he's killing it, but you could kill it.

[Dave]

Do some spaces like, like he watches it all. He makes himself a destination. It's a max effort guy.

[Adam]

Yeah, he's. He's one in a million. I, I looked. So when I texted him last night, I was looking for my last text with him. Just pure Fanta. He's just like, there's something about him that I just can't, I can't get enough of him. He. His last text to me before I said, you don't salvage the call was my wife's been praying that the kidney stones subside. Totally serious. Like, his wife was literally like getting on her knees before going to bed being like, I hope big cat's kidney stones. Stop that's the Fanta family? Just one of ones.

[Hank]

Did you talk to him about the Browns, honey?

[Adam]

Yeah, like, it's a salvage the call. That might be why the Browns have had such a bad season, because Fanta's wife's been praying for my kidney stones and not the Brownies.

[Dave]

Could be electric guys. An electric guy. He has been from the second I became aware of him, which I think was in New Orleans.

[Adam]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Dave]

When he came on the show, he's just an absolute electric factory. He is. He's one of those guys that I made a strong move for him, and he just. He didn't have it. He's like, no, I'm gonna go back. I want to call games. And I just. What are you gonna do?

[Adam]

I love him. All right. College football.

[Dave]

There's a chance he's a mega star with us, by the way.

[Adam]

Yeah, I'd agree.

[Dave]

Like, like, people know he's a college basketball guy. He may be like an international superstar if he.

[Adam]

It's. It's Mr. It's like Pitbull and Fanta. Mr. Worldwide.

[Dave]

Like, honestly, he may. That's how electric he is. But you got to be like, really in his wheelhouse to know who he is.

[Adam]

Yeah, Yeah, I. Yeah, I. I could see Fanta. I could see Fanta, like, going from just college basketball to like, hosting the prices. Right. Or like Family Feud soon.

[Dave]

I mean, clearly, the Browns and football, he likes everything. I mean, he's not beyond when you flick around the channel to be like, watching the women's bowling championship on, like, some odd off.

[Adam]

Send him.

[Dave]

When college basketball's over, he does the weirdest sport. He's probably done 20 sporting events that have a max total, like, attendance of 14 people. Like, they send him to odd events with nobody watching.

[Adam]

We should see if we can.

[Dave]

And by the way, it's electric when he's doing it. Like, he has me locked in on, like, second round, like, women's softball in the miac.

[Adam]

Yeah, we. We. We should see if we could. If he has any place to do do, like him doing our mini golf or, like, camp bar stool. Like, he would be. We should. We might have to. We might have to open up the talks with Fanta again.

[Rico]

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[Adam]

All right, so college football, obviously one of the craziest Saturdays ever. That was so awesome. I think you guys probably agree. I think we all thought the 12 team playoff was going to be the best, but that proved it because you had games that would not have mattered whatsoever. That absolutely mattered on Saturday. And it's like that's why the sport I feel like is in a stronger place than it's ever been.

[Dave]

Yeah, Alabama has put me in the worst spot. I like Oklahoma. I've had to root for Alabama twice versus Vanderbilt when nobody should be rooting for them versus Vanderbilt. But I kept money lining them. And then I have the future that went up and smoked that, that, that was almost as fast as the Bengals future. Like where I don't even get like, oh, oh, I didn't even get my futures. I've gone ice cold. Ice cold.

[Adam]

Yeah. You didn't even get like you could. If you put in a future on Alabama like you did, you could, you could deal with them losing in the playoff. But you got to the playoff.

[Dave]

Yeah, it looked like they had a straight path, like nobody left on their schedule. So my last three futures, Phillies, Texans, who stink and these guys. So not good.

[Adam]

Yeah. Rico, do you got anything live in the futures market?

[Rico]

No, I don't. Who's, who's in like what, how many spots are left? The SEC like obviously was a disaster. You have the five conferences and then I have four teams I think are safe right now. Ohio State, State, Penn, Notre Dame and Tennessee just by happenstance. Well, that leaves three.

[Adam]

Well, hold on. Tennessee's not safe because they got to play Vandy.

[Rico]

All right.

[Dave]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Rico]

All right. So Tennessee's not even there. So that leaves a mishmash of Georgia, Indiana A and M, SMU and Bama. Who was the three that they would put in?

[Adam]

Indiana.

[Dave]

I'm riding South Carolina.

[Adam]

Yeah, Dave's been hot on South Carolina. Indiana's in. Obviously they have to beat Purdue. Indiana's in. Ohio State's in. Texas A and M is. Is not in, by the way. They.

[Dave]

Oregon's in.

[Rico]

I didn't say they were in. I said they were a MishMash. Of the five leftovers, Texas a and.

[Dave]

M, I can't do the skin. Do the same. We're going to end up yelling at each other again. We just did this last night.

[Adam]

Texas A and M is. Is only in if they win out. They can't. They can't lose another game.

[Rico]

I agree.

[Adam]

Okay.

[Rico]

They're in the left. They're in the leftovers.

[Adam]

Yeah, but I like, I think the three losses, like, forget about all the three losses. That will get figured out if there's more chaos. You got to focus on all the two. Like the biggest winners from the chaotic Saturday was the ACC because they will hope they will probably get Miami and SMU or possibly Clemson in and then the Big 12 should get someone in as well, which that looked like it could be a problem. They could have been completely blanked from the whole thing a week ago. Yeah, so I don't. I don't. I'm not doing the three loss teams until we get to a point where it's like, okay, I am willing to.

[Dave]

Put a three loss team over two loss team. I'm on the record with that. If South Carolina wins, I would put them over other two loss SEC teams.

[Adam]

You would put them over Tennessee.

[Dave]

I would have to relook. I definitely put them in over Alabama.

[Adam]

Well, Alabama has three losses and what is South Carolina? Three losses.

[Dave]

Oh, yeah. So I'm talking three over three.

[Adam]

Yeah, that's why I'm saying like the all the three losses team basically put them in a pile and if you get to it, you just figure it out.

[Dave]

You guys are saying you want to put South Carolina in over Alabama?

[Adam]

I probably wouldn't because they played.

[Dave]

Yeah, see, I would in a heartbeat, but yeah.

[Adam]

So Rico, who do you think?

[Rico]

I don't know, dude. I could see a world where Bama still has life. I know that's crazy to say, but like, it's a TV show. And they want that best. I don't know. You think the s. You think the ACC is going to get two?

[Adam]

Yeah, I think so. Because it's going to be SMU versus Miami. If SMU and Miami both win and they have one loss going into the ACC championship, I think barring like, insane blowout, I think they'll go two losses before three losses.

[Rico]

Yeah.

[Adam]

And they also will go, hey, you don't get penalized for having to play an extra game.

[Rico]

Right?

[Adam]

So, yeah, I think that's what's going to end up happening. What are you saying?

[Hank]

Will it be very clear after this weekend or will it still.

[Adam]

Because right now it seems like it will be very.

[Hank]

Situations possible.

[Adam]

I think it will be very clear after this weekend because. Yeah, I think it'll be very clear after this weekend because you'll have a definite answer on. On a few teams that are like, who are not going to be playing an extra game, and then you have to decide the extra game. Does it matter or not? Like, it will matter if Texas A and M. Because Texas A and M already has three losses. So I don't think even if they lose the SEC championship game, they get in. But if Texas wins, they're obviously no matter what in. So, yeah, I think it'll be very clear after this week. But it is chaotic in Indiana. Indiana and Tennessee were the big winners on Saturday, even though Indiana lost.

[Dave]

Right.

[Adam]

Do you guys have anything with the Heisman or is it Hunter?

[Rico]

Should be.

[Adam]

I'm getting nervous. I'm starting. I'm getting to the point.

[Hank]

No cash outs.

[Adam]

Yeah, no cash out, Dave. I'm. I'm getting the point where I'm doing a lot of oppo research.

[Dave]

I've been doing, like.

[Adam]

Yeah, yeah, like. Like Ash and Genti. Everyone's saying we've never seen anything like this. I mean, 2014, Melvin Gordon was. Was just as good to even 2011, Monty Ball had an insane scene. Rashad Penny your guy or. No, Donald Pumphrey was your guy. Rashad Penny. Yeah, both of them. Yeah. So there's. There's a lot of. I got some oppo research that I've been doing, crunching the numbers, because I've been seeing some people trying to say that Travis Hunter's winning a cardio award. It's like, what the fuck does that mean? Come on. He's. He's. He's doing something no one's ever seen before.

[Rico]

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[Adam]

All right. Anything else related? Any other stuff we got to talk about before we start talking about the games?

[Rico]

Do we have a contract update?

[Dave]

Yeah, he's. Yeah, yeah, we're done.

[Adam]

We're done. We're good. So we got another year.

[Rico]

Yep.

[Dave]

More than we always. Yeah, yeah. I'm more than fair guy. I'm doing contracts.

[Adam]

It's.

[Dave]

It's the worst time of the year for me.

[Adam]

Yeah. Yeah. Hank was like, is Dave on one? Because he asked me like a bunch of questions. I was like, no, he's just doing contracts. Yeah, yeah.

[Dave]

And I had to yell at Hank. Hank's negotiat. Hank's negotiating. Before I even started negotiating, Hank's coming in. I said, hypothetically with this. I got a problem with that. It's not. It's like, Hank, I, like, I. I haven't even. We haven't even. I. This is the first time since I have the company back that we're doing it.

[Adam]

You.

[Dave]

You can't pre complain when you don't even know what's going on.

[Hank]

I was just talking shop. I. I didn't even realize what I was doing.

[Adam]

I did tell. I. I did tell Hank when. I mean, I think it was all for good because we're trying to figure out just like numbers and everything. But for me personally, every single year. And this goes Back to like 2013. I remember when I was making, like, I think I was making $60,000 way, way back in the day. Every, every year. Around this time, Dave would just text me and he would, he would say a number and I, like, I'd be like, well, yeah, that's more than fair. Like, I wouldn't even have to jump the gun. Yeah.

[Dave]

And so many words. Hank's like, listen, I know I'm part of a lot of successful stuff. I don't want to carry the Boss goes to the world. Like, I want like that extra Bosco money to squeeze to me and not to the Bosco's. That's.

[Adam]

Yeah, that's.

[Hank]

That's not true. But that's, that's fine.

[Rico]

Thanks, Hank.

[Adam]

I. That's not true, Rico. That's not true. You did not say the Bosco's.

[Hank]

I want Bosco here more than anyone.

[Adam]

Bosco, are you going to, is there going to be maybe a move?

[Rico]

I'm doing everything I can to, to try to get out there. Yes. We are talking to agents. We're looking at Geico. We're doing everything.

[Adam]

Geico agents and Geico.

[Rico]

Geico's price, dude, half the price. I got it all broken down.

[Dave]

Just. We're paying for the move.

[Rico]

Right, but it's. Yes, but once you get out there, it's weighing all the options.

[Dave]

But is it? Isn't the Chicago cost of living less than New York?

[Hank]

Like 30% less?

[Dave]

So then what, so, so what do you mean? Like that, that aspect you may have all blows and God knows what going on, but looking at the pricing, you have more money in Chicago than you would in New York. So I don't know what looking at Geico has to do with anything.

[Adam]

Well, you got to look at Geico.

[Rico]

Yeah, a lot of it is her work too. It's transferring that work. Trying to figure that out as well.

[Dave]

But just to be clear, Geico has nothing to do.

[Rico]

No, Geico would save me a lot of money. That would help him, like monthly. That's big.

[Dave]

But you'd be ahead of the game if just person A, person B. One person lives New York, One person lives Chicago. Person B, Chicago has more money. Like I have more money in Miami, why I'm here than I do in Boston and New York.

[Adam]

Oh, no. He froze.

[Dave]

So what does Geico have to do with it? Austin, do we have him? Oh, it's Geico.

[Adam]

Wait, say that again. Say that again. Say that again.

[Dave]

I hate my Internet. Internet unstable. Can you hear me?

[Adam]

Yes, we can hear you now.

[Dave]

All right, person A, person B. I don't know where I left off, but person A, person B. One person lives in New York. One person Lives in Chicago. Person B is going to have more money available because it's cheaper to live. It's why I'm in Miami as opposed to Boston, New York. More money. So I don't know what GEICO has to do with anything.

[Adam]

But Dave, you got to talk to Geico.

[Dave]

Like when you, when he says he's doing everything he can, he talked to Geico. What does that mean? Because you're, You're. You have more money. If you make the move, you will have more money in your bank account.

[Rico]

What.

[Adam]

What was the conversation with Geico that.

[Dave]

Imagine that being the Geico agent picks up that call.

[Adam]

Oh, he basically called Geico. He's like, should I move to Chicago.

[Hank]

Car and house, Rico, or just car?

[Adam]

Yeah. What. What was the GEICO combo?

[Rico]

It was car.

[Dave]

Okay, but even that, isn't it.

[Rico]

That's like a hundred bucks way less.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Dave]

So then what? So then.

[Rico]

But I wanted to know what you're going for. It could have been more. You got to research what you're doing before you get out there. I wanted to know what it was. And they told me it was half. I was like, this is great.

[Hank]

We're just gonna come buy groceries here.

[Adam]

Yeah, see Geico. Geico and I mean, Rico. I looked when we were. You're here last week. I told you, like, just rent for a year. You can rent. You can.

[Rico]

You gotta get somebody to rent. You gotta get somebody to rent.

[Dave]

I've already told me that they think there's zero percent chance you ever move. That this is all one big song and dance. The Bosco song and dance. And it wasn't. It was not Dan. No, it was somebody in this room.

[Adam]

I mean, I said. I've said this too. I'm doing everything, researching, because I've been. I. I'm like. I feel like I'm in old school Bosco land where like, when I, when I would. Dave, when I'd be like, I don't think he's that crazy. And you'd be like, no, no, no, he's crazy. And then when, like, he showed that he was crazy, I was like, I was wrong. I'm. I feel like I'm in that spot again where I'm like, no, I think he. I think he really wants to move. And everyone's like, no, no, dude, he's. He doesn't. But I hold out. I'm an eternal optimist by nature. I hold out.

[Dave]

I don't see it. I mean, the man half the time can't get over there. Verizono bridge. I just. I don't know how. Pick up everything and come. But what do I know, Rico?

[Hank]

I'm. I'm battling McCarthy and Max every day in the gambling cave. They're talking I gotta be a rider. And I just know that if you were here, they would just, you know, scour and run away and, and go back to how they should be and you would thrive here.

[Adam]

I.

[Hank]

But I just can't. I can't. I just can't see it happening either.

[Adam]

Go ahead. Jack Woody, I think. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Rico]

Complains about everything already. He moves.

[Hank]

Yeah, exactly.

[Adam]

You have.

[Rico]

You have more problems going on than anybody according to, you know. Yeah.

[Dave]

They run this league and problems.

[Rico]

Imagine if he has to move his family across the country.

[Dave]

Yeah. I mean, what happens when he moves and he's still not at 50% of the streets?

[Adam]

That's okay. That would be. That would actually be a very big problem because I've told Rico lead the league's problems is very funny line. I've told Rico that I think he would be great here because here's, here's my, my quick, long and short. I can never quit Rico. I'm a rider for life. We've been through ups and downs, but I am a rider through and through. I've told him Rico's done a very good job recently of being a model citizen. But, and I think I speak for the fans, they miss a little bit of the junkyard dog.

[Dave]

I got a report on Pick him and Pick him is down. And it was from our lawyers, apparently. People. We lost the segment of people just tune in to see Rico go crazy. Which is probably true.

[Adam]

Our lawyers. So, so, yeah, so.

[Rico]

We have lawyers on Pick them.

[Dave]

No, it was like a spreadsheet, like analyzing.

[Adam]

I don't know lawyers. They're probably our data analysts.

[Dave]

But yeah, it was. It was from the exec team.

[Adam]

Yeah. So I am invested in trying to find a junkyard dog that is not a junkyard dog. That is bad for Rico's health and also other people's health. The junkyard dog throwing High Noon cans. The con stuff. That's a bad junkyard dog. That's a junkyard dog. That is bad. In Rico's. Rico can't sustain that in his own brain. But there's a junkyard dog, for instance, like even a camp barstool when you and Max went at it like that junkyard dog where it's like in between the white lines. Junkyard dog is a very great rico. And I think here I told Rico if he Moves out here. There's two things that I'm going to expect of him. Be at every stream and no chance. And do stool streams. Because stool streams. We're revamping stool streams. I think we're gonna come up with a new name. Tate's. Tate's running it. He's doing a good job. Like, we're gonna start doing a lot more of those inner office competitions that I think people like. And that is where Rico thrives. Because when he gets into the competitive mode, he can be a junkyard dog. And then when the whistle. When the whistle blows and the game's over, he can go back to being model citizen Rico. So it's like trying to recapture the junkyard dog in a healthy way. I think could happen in Chicago.

[Dave]

I don't know if it's possible. The only way I could see it working is if you actually, like, built an in law house for him attached to the office where, like, he can live at the office and like, just roll out of his little thing with his family and roll onto the street. Because if his house is not connected to the office, he is going to have oblos all the time.

[Rico]

What is my attendance record on streams has not been an issue.

[Dave]

But you guys, you realize New York streams far less than Chicago, right?

[Rico]

Like, those are converse. Those are conversations with. With my wife. Like, that's a. Sundays is a workday. That's how it works.

[Dave]

But you didn't go to the Mets Yankees stream.

[Adam]

But Rico, I'm revamping the Mets Yankees, the.

[Dave]

The World Series Dodgers. Like Meek Phil was there in the new year.

[Adam]

Rico, I'm revamping. Like, Hank and I have been talking about revamping the gambling streams because, like, we've got a problem right now where people love to come for the witching for. For the early slate. They come for the early slate. It's packed house. It's probably too packed. We got to. We got to try to figure out a way to make it so it's like, I think we talked about it, but like, six people is better for a stream than 12 people, because six people can all have a singular conversation. And that's what people want to watch. And what we have the problem here is we watch the early games, the late games. Come on. I have to go prep for PMT because we tape, you know, three hours at 9pm on Sunday nights, and then everyone leaves because it's like, you know, the witching hours gone. We need people who are like, hey, I'm going to stay for the whole Day. I'm going to stream. I'm going to be active. I'm going to be in this. Like, that's where I would rely on you because I think you're really good on streams when you're committed to them, so.

[Dave]

And you think you're going to get that long of a Bosco stream again?

[Adam]

It's like I said, I'm back in the.

[Dave]

I can see rubbing his arm right now. Sunday sauce all blows like good luck.

[Adam]

I believe, man. I believe in Boston.

[Rico]

That's an old time. That was an old time. That was a long time ago.

[Dave]

Well, why didn't you go to the World Series streams?

[Rico]

The Yankees were filled out. The Yankees were. Fans were all there. They took all the seats.

[Dave]

All right.

[Adam]

I believe in Bosco and it's probably going to be my downfall, but I believe in this guy. I do believe in something. Believe in Bosco.

[Dave]

Imagine those, the riders with those flags. Believe in Bosco.

[Adam]

That's. I listen, I'm, I'm as rider as Ryder could ever be because I'm, I'm pushing for this and I do.

[Dave]

Yeah. That's huge.

[Adam]

I have a plan.

[Dave]

You're opening. Yeah. You're opening a door. I don't think it's ever going to happen, but. No, we'll see.

[Rico]

It's not.

[Adam]

I mean, I look like a fool right now because I even like how he's looking at me. I, he's, I think, I mean, he's.

[Dave]

A guy like, who loves New York.

[Adam]

Yeah. Which I'm not. If he doesn't want to move, I don't want to. I, I, I kind of want. I, I do want to do this. Yeah. I want, I do want to know.

[Rico]

I do that. I'm doing everything I can to research it.

[Adam]

Hear that?

[Rico]

They're looking at real estate agents to list it.

[Adam]

Like you want.

[Rico]

All the things you, of all people, you have not. Did I not call the lady? Hey, doesn't work for you?

[John Fanta]

Rent the house?

[Adam]

No, it's. Mike sucks. I don't know why his mic sucks so bad. Can you zoopy. What does he have to do?

[Hank]

You just got to turn it down.

[Adam]

Turn it down. Rico, he's just screaming. All right. What to do with your car? Try again. Rico. I don't know why his wife doesn't say it again. Rico, I'm going to tell you this.

[Dave]

If he moves, it's. And I don't want to, like, throw cold water on the move. The next contract negotiations after the move are going to be a disaster in a good Way.

[Rico]

See, that's bad, Dan.

[Adam]

That is bad. That is bad.

[Rico]

That's a. That's a bad statement because you said they'd be good.

[Adam]

Well, I said that. Mike, you gotta see.

[Rico]

That's it.

[Dave]

He thinks he signed the contract and had a 60 home run season. The second he signs in, the season hasn't played out.

[Adam]

We're going to put him in a good lineup. What I'm like, he's going to be looking at a lot of great. He's going to get more. Yeah, he's going to be. Yeah, he's going to get more shots. He's going more shots.

[Dave]

The ball's getting blown by him. What if he's fucking Tony Manderich?

[Adam]

Rico, what I've told you, and I've been very consistent about this, you could back me up. I said you do the work and then you get the money. That's how it works in the world. You do the work and then you get the money. So. And I think that if you have a goal in your head of what you want to be earning in a year or two, I think that money can happen here. But the work has to come first.

[Dave]

Yeah.

[Rico]

Committed to that.

[Adam]

Okay, what was it. What was your yelling at Hank? Because we. We didn't get any of it. So if you could yell at Hank again with list.

[Rico]

I'm listing the fucking. Like you're looking at people. List. The house, how does it work? Renting, how does that work? What can I get for that? If you rent the house for a year before you move? Geico. I called fucking Geico, Hank.

[Adam]

Geico.

[Hank]

That's good.

[Rico]

It's moving costs. Like, can she transfer a license for her work? Like there's difference. It's not just picking up a couch and a fucking eight ball like Jack McCarthy when he moved to Chicago. There's a lot more involved. It's not just three old sweatshirts from the Tick Tock shop and a bait bag. It's. You gotta move. There's a lot to move. There's a lot of pressure. I want to make every. It's the sin on Thanksgiving. I gotta make everybody happy. This is what I'm at. This is my own. I'm trying to make everybody happy. And you know who's not happy?

[Adam]

Me.

[Rico]

Because I'm crying at night like this. It all fucking consumes you. And you got Dave saying, you're not gonna be a Tony Mandarich fuss. How does that work? Gonna put you in the hall of fame? And you just got the two. There it goes. You got your wife going. You know, they. They canceled you out once before.

[Adam]

You sure they're gonna.

[Dave]

What did your wife say?

[Rico]

We canceled you. Well, I can't. It was a cancel. It was a double canceling.

[Adam]

Penalties.

[Dave]

I don't know what happens at that house. What distorted lies are told at that house, but we canceled you. Does she even know half the stuff you've done?

[Rico]

She probably does.

[Dave]

Clearly said we canceled you. You attempted murder. You ran a guy's wife out of town. You've killed seven employees. We canceled you. You faked another job and left. We can. I would love to know the propaganda that you probably have one channel in that house. Like, it's the Rider. It's like Rider terrorists on. It's like Al Jazeer, except the Bosco network on that house.

[Adam]

Oh, man. Hanks, right? That's right. Offsetting. He's selling his wife. It's offsetting penalties.

[Dave]

Yeah.

[Adam]

Replay. Third down. They tried to cancel you once. That is.

[Dave]

That may be the nuttiest thing ever said here, but it's the. I know. That's the conversation happening. You want to move. They already tried to fuck you once.

[Adam]

Those guys, they're not loyal. They tried to fucking kick you out. Oh, man. Bosco, at the end of the day, this whole conversation, you got. You got a lot of haters. You got Jackie. Jackie tables. You know, Dave's a doubter. Hanks a doubter. But I believe, like, what more do you need?

[Rico]

Nothing. But you. It's just figuring out the logistics. Can she transfer the license?

[Dave]

Can we figure out how to get over the Verano Vera Verazo Bridge when there's traffic? And you think I was gonna.

[Rico]

10 years ago.

[Adam]

The new thing is the Bosco. This is a problem I have Dave with. With Bosco and Jerry. They just keep asking me, how much longer are you gonna work? And I'm just like, my. My youngest is 1 years old. I ain't going anywhere for 17 years at the minimum.

[Dave]

Jerry asked me that. Jerry asked me. I'm working.

[Adam]

Do you know. Do you know what he did, Dave? We went to the fur ball Shout out Pause. Chicago, a big gala, which is great. Every year we do it. There's. They dress up. We got to get. Ms. Peaches, you there? They dress up. All the dogs are in tuxedos. It's awesome. We're there, and I. I was. I don't know what I was doing. I was talking to someone else, and I get in the car after with my wife, and I was like, so, like, did you talk to anyone. And she was like, yeah. Jerry, like, cornered me and asked, how long you're working for? I was like, what? These guys are just obsessed. God forbid. I got hit by a bus tomorrow. Like, what? I. I'm. I'm working. I'm. I. I ain't stopping. I don't know what you want me to say.

[Dave]

Bosco's wife said we erased him.

[Adam]

We're setting 10 penalties. Third down.

[Dave]

You quit.

[Adam]

You did. You quit.

[Dave]

You steamrolled half our employees and then quit.

[Rico]

That was fucked up.

[Adam]

Yeah, and then he got mad at me because I took his key card. Remember that? You're like, did you really have to take my key card? I'm like, yes, dude.

[Dave]

You literally use their key card. I had serious people being like, watch out. Like, office shooting, Like, Bosco.

[Rico]

Oh, come on.

[Adam]

All right, well, Bosco, listen, I. I will say this to put a bow on this whole thing. I. I was thinking about talking to you privately, but we're talking about it now. I do. I don't want to do this every year, so I do want to put, like, a. Like, hardened. I don't want to say it's maybe like, this year specifically, but it's. I. I think it's got to be within the next. Whatever you want to call it. 18 months that I. I'm done with this convo. We're not going to do this. I know.

[Rico]

I'm. I'm not stringing you. We got to go see it. She hasn' gotta go out and book on flights.

[Adam]

I know, I know, I know. I. Listen, I still believe in you. So I got texts of neighborhoods.

[Rico]

I got texts of neighborhoods.

[Adam]

Okay. What more do you need, though, than me saying I believe in you and I think you'd be great here? You got car insurance guy, Geico, you don't need. You don't need Dave and Hank to have your back on this, right? They can be doubters. And then. And then in a year and a half, you know what we should do, Bosco, when you move out here, because of all the money you're going to save on. On Geico. Let's get you a huge bottle of champagne. Two of them. And we'll put Hank's name and Dave's name on it, and we'll pop that shit.

[Rico]

I'm also rooting for me. That's not fair. I don't think Hank's rooting for me, which is a weird term.

[Adam]

No, no, no, no, no, no, Rico. And you know this.

[Hank]

I'm the biggest believer in Bosco in The world. Number one rider. I do not believe you're earnestly going to move. I just don't think you're going to move here. I'll believe that when I see it. If you do move here, I'm the number one believer. Number one rider.

[Rico]

All right, Dave, you got to get somebody to rent the house.

[Adam]

Dave, you're going to be on a champagne bottle if you don't answer this question correctly. What's the question? Do you believe.

[Dave]

In Bosco?

[Adam]

Yeah, he believes.

[Dave]

Something something's not. Like something something's not.

[Adam]

Okay, that's a half a champagne. We'll have two champagnes. The some things and the some things not. By the way. Shout out. We'll do the games but shout out. I want to just say because we're getting to the end of the season and yeah, the lawyers did say the numbers were down. We got to get the junkyard dog back. This has been great. Shout out. I. I would say MVP of the. Of the pick em season is Jackie Tables. Because this all started with just the. Is the contract signed?

[Rico]

He's a. Nah, he's a little nat.

[Adam]

But we need it.

[Rico]

I believe in you, Bosco.

[Adam]

No chance. He does. You should see what him and Max are saying about you.

[Rico]

Bosco, how can you believe in me when you're face down in a credit card? Fucking asshole.

[Adam]

Oh, okay.

[Dave]

That one did that one kind of.

[Adam]

Yeah. I mean it's not really. You wouldn't be face down in a credit card.

[Rico]

Whatever.

[Adam]

Well, I mean, you wouldn't.

[Rico]

All right. I don't do it drug like.

[Dave]

And I already hit him with one of the. Like.

[Adam]

Yeah, yeah.

[Rico]

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[Adam]

All right, let's do the games. Let's do the games. Okay, we have five games we're going to hit. First up, Miami, It's Syracuse. Syracuse plus 11 over under 67 and a half. What are we thinking, Dave?

[Rico]

Syracuse.

[Dave]

I love Syracuse here. I don't know why Miami's getting this much respect. Their defense has not showed up all season. I'm gonna take Syracuse and the over. I think Syracuse can win this game.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Dave]

And by the way, if Syracuse win this game, I am very much in a South Carolina over two loss Miami team.

[Adam]

Yeah, that one I would make sense. But you do understand that Alabama and Ole Miss both beat South Carolina. Ole Miss.

[Dave]

I don't. Yes, but I don't care about that because you can then look, we talked about yesterday. Yeah, fine, they beat them.

[Rico]

When did they play?

[Dave]

Early in the season. Where Mississippi. Granted they killed him, but Alabama won by two at home. And if you look at South Carolina's losses, it's Bama. Ole Miss, lsu, lsu. They should have won lsu they got. And Bama's losses are Vanderbilt and Smoked by Oklahoma. Those two losses are far better than the wins.

[Adam]

Yeah, I can see it. Okay, Rico, what do you got in this game?

[Rico]

Syracuse. There's a spot play as well. Syracuse. Miami's been, it's been misleading. Final scores. They beat wake by 28. That should have been the right side. Wake was the right side in that game. They got some touchdowns late. I think Q's can win the game outright.

[Adam]

I, yeah, I, I, I like Syracuse as well.

[Rico]

Miami's been hanging on by a thread all season.

[Adam]

Yeah. Yeah. And I also think this is one of those situations where Syracuse, this is one of the biggest games they're going to have long, forever. New, new coach, like trying to build a program.

[Dave]

I still live in a world where the dome is a tough place to play.

[Adam]

Yeah, I do too. Although it's, it hasn't been for a very long time. But I don't care. Right. It's like you just like the Donovan.

[Dave]

McNabb running with those half shirts, like that's a tough place to play.

[Adam]

The 11am kickoff and you're like, oh, here we go to Carrier Dome.

[Dave]

Rob Conrad.

[Adam]

Okay, Dave, your game. Michigan. Ohio state. Ohio State -20 and a half over under 43. Oh, I forgot to say this at the beginning, but in a, in a weird world. And Dave told the whole story about how everything came to be with Bryce Underwood. But part of Pickham's legacy as a show is that college football nil could have changed forever on this show because that started, that started the, the snowball effect of you being like, I'm going to get a quarterback into you working with Larry Ellison to get Bryce Underwood.

[Dave]

It's true.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Dave]

I don't know what I. I don't know. Maybe we get a man. I know this. It played a role. Whether they. It sounded like the Ellison's jolin was like waiting for somebody to be like, yeah, let's. Let's lock arms and go get what we got to get for Michigan. So it's true. I think Michigan turned a slight corner the last game and a half. I know that's crazy. Do I think they're going to win?

[Adam]

No.

[Dave]

Is the game mean anything? No, because Ohio State, if they win, they go to the playoffs. If they lose, they go to the playoffs. Michigan season's pretty much, oh, I don't care about useless bowls, but I do think they keep it within the number. Brandon Walker is a pussy and didn't have the balls to make this an interesting game. We did College Football show and just to add some spice, I'm like, why don't we do a bet who keeps it closer, Mississippi State or Michigan in their games. We couldn't figure out what to bet. He said if he wins, he wanted to go to Starkville next year for game for Barstool College Football Show. I said, fine, but if I win, we still go. But Mincey takes your spot on the program. And he refused to do it. Oh, we gotta such a good bet.

[Adam]

We gotta figure out a bet for this. We gotta. I don't know.

[Dave]

I offered him the points. I said, I'll give you a plus five because we're 21 point dogs. He's 26. He's like, he just refused to do it would have been such an unbelievable bet. Matigo. Starkville is just Mincy on stage.

[Adam]

We need that.

[Hank]

Just you guys going. I don't know why he wants you guys to. I guess going to Starkville in the first place would be crazy.

[Adam]

Yeah, but did you hear what Fred Smooth said about the pink eye allegations? Because we. Because, you know, when you guys went to Starkville, you all got pink eye. He said, nothing in life. Nothing in life is is or no. What do you say? He said, like, anything in life that's worth it comes with a little risk of pink eye. He's like, if you go to Amsterdam with a bunch of buddies, you're probably coming back a little pink guy, but it's worth it. So Starkville. Yeah, it was a good. It was. He's like, if you want to have fun, there might be some pink eye involved. So. All right, so you're taking Michigan, Rico. I feel like, Rico, anecdotally, you've gotten this game Wrong. Every year for the last like 10 years.

[Rico]

No, I don't think that's true at all. I took Ohio State when they blew them out for two years in like 2018 and 2019.

[Adam]

But I feel like you had Ohio State the last three.

[Rico]

The day. The day Dave flipped out and said, Pete, with the TVs. I had Ohio State. That's a fact.

[Adam]

Okay. Sorry. But you. You did have. You had Ohio State, I think the last couple of years, right?

[Rico]

Yeah, I got. That was back when I wouldn't stream with people. I was fucked up, and then the street, and it was sabotage. But, yeah, I lost. That was bad.

[Adam]

Wait, it was sabotage? What do you mean?

[Rico]

It was when I wouldn't stream with people and people there were streams, and now I've changed.

[Dave]

Yeah, that was also when we ran you out. They won't let Rico on the streams. They won't let my husband on the streams.

[Rico]

It was offsetting penalties.

[Hank]

Was that one cons?

[Adam]

Yeah, cons. Yeah, he's talking about cons. Big T, by the way. Cons. I taught. I called him yesterday when we were on the stretch. He. He and we. He's made amends because I think he was very hurt by the Army Notre Dame loss. But he did call us dummies. So I did retweet that during the game when Notre Dame was just fucking running it down their throat. As always, foes are more like than they seem because cons did a old school Bosco. Total radio silence after that game. Like, I was going. I was going to his Twitter on Sunday morning to see. And all he had was, like, retweets of people being like, this is why army matters so much. Like, pictures with the troops and stuff.

[Rico]

Fairness. The stadium was a nightmare to get in and out of, so he probably was dealing with that. Yeah, you got to give the benefit of the doubt.

[Adam]

I like that you have his back. So. All right. But that was. Yeah, it was.

[Rico]

Did you see the videos?

[Dave]

You took an hour and a half. I find it funny you haven't consist back. That's all.

[Adam]

Yeah, it's great. It's great. Okay, so, Bosco, what's your pick?

[Rico]

I'm gonna take the over. You look at a team with some fucking inspiration here to run it up. You saw them jam it in last week. I think Ohio State scores a ton here. I'll take the over.

[Adam]

Okay. I'm gonna take Ohio State here because I think Ryan Day has been battered and bruised beyond belief in the last three years, and now that he has a team that's significantly better. He is going to try to run up this score. He's going to try to run up this score and. And really prove a point, which is bully behavior because he does have a team that's way better. But he doesn't know when he's going to get this again. 20 point favorite against.

[Dave]

Never. Never.

[Rico]

Not.

[Dave]

Not with what we got going on in the nil.

[Rico]

Yeah.

[Adam]

So I'm going to take Ohio State here. All right. South Carolina. Clemson. Clemson minus two and a half over under is 49. I said this on the college football show, but my handicap of this game is simply dabo doing a. It looked like he was like going to his car and a reporter just got him and he just said Carolina is in Chapel Hill. USC's in Southern California. There's only one school in South Carolina and it's Clemson. It'll always be Clemson. And that's it. That's my whole handicap.

[Dave]

I like the line.

[Adam]

It's great line.

[Dave]

I'm taking South Carolina. Hottest team in the country or one of them. I would say more than even Kansas because I think they played better teams. So I'm taking South Carolina.

[Adam]

Okay.

[Dave]

And I think. I think they should find their way in. If they win this game, I will as well.

[Rico]

A lot of motivation. They're playing great football. Take South Carolina.

[Adam]

I mean Clemson's. Clemson's possibly in if they win this game.

[Rico]

Yeah, they're a long shot. They're a long shot.

[Adam]

They don't have a lot of great wins. I think they only have one game, one win over a bowl team going into this game. So they're going to need this, obviously. All right. Iron bowl. Auburn at Alabama. Alabama -11 and a half over, under 52. I really wish that those, those games were reversed last Saturday because I'd love to bet Auburn here. But knowing that Auburn won in Alabama loss, I feel like it's tough to bet Alabama in this spot or Auburn. Sorry. It's tough to bet Auburn.

[Dave]

Who's going?

[Adam]

Bama.

[Rico]

I'll take Bama.

[Adam]

Okay. You had Bama last week as your lock.

[Rico]

That was an absolute disaster. I didn't think Oklahoma had it in their bag. They were a disaster all season. I did not expect that game to win outright.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Rico]

At all.

[Adam]

They killed.

[Dave]

Well, no, it was a lock and they're like two touchdowns. They lost by 20. It was a 50 point loss from you.

[Adam]

Horrible.

[Dave]

I don't know. Clearly not the same Alabama team. So we're applying the same Alabama logic to a team that just may not be the guys. I'm gonna take Auburn, but I hate it. I get what you guys are saying, but at some point you lose the Vandy, you lose Oklahoma like that. I don't have much faith in you.

[Adam]

Yeah. You are what your record says you are.

[Rico]

Yeah.

[Adam]

And that's just kind of it. I'm going to take the over in this game. Over 52. I don't love it, but I also said that I was going to bet every single game this week. So there it is. Over 52. Last one, Texas. Texas a and M. Texas A and M is plus 6 over unders 48 and a half. I love the Aggies here. This is. I mean, we said it last week. Mike Elko was asked about Auburn and like or about Texas and he said no, our focus is on Texas. I mean, Auburn, they've been. This game has been circled for the longest time. They want them so bad they're going to Texas A and M College Station. I'm going to take Texas A and M here.

[Dave]

I agree with everything you said. A and M. And I think they can win the game.

[Adam]

Under. Okay. Under 48 and a half. Quinn, yours is a little banged up, right? So that might.

[Rico]

Yeah, I think the defense is travel.

[Adam]

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[Adam]

Rico, you want to start with your card?

[Rico]

Sure. I'm going to take this one stinks, but I'm going to take Mississippi State plus the 26. I worry about Ole Miss's motivation after that deflating loss last week. I think 26 a lot of points. I hate it, but I'll take Mississippi State plus the 26. For the number Kansas minus one against Baylor the hottest team in the country they're trying to get to a bowl take Kansas. Duke minus 4 Duke sneak sneaky had a good season I'll take Duke -4 UTSA -7 I think army is not going to show anything they got they got the championship game in a week and then they got Navy so I don't know if what the motivation I'll take UTSA plus they're banged up from Notre Dame. I'll take Q's plus 11 and I'll take Kansas State as a spoiler for Iowa State plus three.

[Adam]

Yeah there's eight teams in the Big 12 that could still go to the Big 12 championship game.

[Rico]

Crazy.

[Adam]

Insane insane. All right Dave, your card all right.

[Dave]

It'S a big one Oklahoma state Colorado over 65 and a half I think Oklahoma that was the easiest over ever I last with Oklahoma State Texas Tech but I do like the over again here Ole Miss -26 at home Mississippi State I think with all the chaos they maybe still think they can get in kill this team Georgia Tech plus 19 and a half Georgia I just don't think Georgia's great Michigan plus 21 against Ohio State Baylor plus one against Kansas I think Kansas has run kind of comes to an end this week we got who's oh Texas Tech -3 and a half at home against West Virginia over 64 and a half I had trouble reading my sheet Vandy plus 10 and a half Vandy did cover last week for me against LSU Vandy plus 10 and a half at home against Tennessee I think they can win that game Kentucky at home plus three and a half against Louisville South Carolina plus two and a half on the road against Clemson army minus seven against UTSA I think they flushed that game against Notre Dame and come back here army will I just feel like army guys don't don't look past people they just were outplayed or outmanned out talented Arizona plus nine and a half at home against Arizona State Arizona State coming off that BYU crazy ending the Willingham the rust of field I think Arizona is waiting for him here gives him a good game I have somebody plus 11 ver oh Syracuse plus 11 against Miami over 67 and a half I have USC plus 7 and a half at home against Notre Dame I think they keep that game close Auburn plus 10 and a half at Bama tough one Cal plus 13 and a half at SMU I love the Cal kid crying how a bear for life after beating Stanford TCU Cincinnati over 58 and a half a and m plus six at home against Texas and UNLV minus 17 and a half at home against somebody that I can't read who had Nevada UNLV mass 17 and a half at home against Nevada.

[Adam]

Okay, I'm going to have my full card. Like I said, follow barstool pick them. I'm going to play every single game. So I don't have it yet. I'm gonna play day by day starts tonight. Or I guess people will listen to this on Wednesday, but day by day.

[Rico]

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[Adam]

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[Dave]

Yeah, look at Pete. Pete's. Pete's a wild man.

[Adam]

Pete's a wild man. Yeah. You know. Do you know Stella's has. When we did the DNA test, she's 25% Beagle. Really? Yeah. Yeah. She. That's. I mean, she's a pure mutt. She's like. It was like 25% Beagle, 25% Pit, 25% shepherd, whatever. But that's. That's. I think, why Stella talks a lot. Because beagles talk a lot, right?

[Dave]

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Adam]

He.

[Dave]

He talks when he wants to play.

[Adam]

Yeah. Yeah. Very mouthy when they're playing.

[Dave]

Yes.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Dave]

That's what it.

[Adam]

Yeah. Yeah. Okay, so let's do our mortals. Bob Diaco. Congrats to Ebo. Hank, you want to start? Yeah.

[Hank]

I'm going to go. South Carolina.

[Adam]

Okay. South Carolina plus two and a half. Zupi. That's mine as well. South Carolina. Okay. Jack McCarthy.

[Rico]

Wisconsin win the AX. I'll be there.

[Adam]

Okay. That's mine as well. Badgers minus two. Two.

[Rico]

Lane minus 14 versus Memphis.

[Adam]

Tulane minus 14 versus Memphis on Thursday. Yeah. All right. Put that on my card. That's my Thursday play. Thank you, Evo. What?

[Dave]

That's for me, too?

[Adam]

Yeah. Well, no, there's. I mean, one a day. There's only one game. I'm not doing side in total for every game, and I am going to bet every single one of them. Everything I say I'm going to bet. Oh, man. Okay, Rico.

[Rico]

Louisville minus three and a half against Kentucky.

[Adam]

Okay.

[Dave]

Dave, I'm going to take Syracuse plus 11 at home against Miami.

[Adam]

Okay. Good job, boys. This is my favorite week of the year. So we'll. We'll send everyone off. Go buy [e-mail] On Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and we'll see everyone next week.

[Rico]

Happy Thanksgiving.

[Adam]

Happy Thanksgiving, Geico.