Transcript
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Hello and welcome to this episode of Kennedy Saves the World. This is the UCLA Bruins victory lap celebration. After defeating the number seven football team in the country, Penn State, we all assumed, me prime among them, that the at the time 04 Bruins would get a good bloody buggering the likes of which no one who is affiliated with the school wanted to live through. And we had pre salved our bottoms. Having said that, it was a tremendous, I gotta say, a blowout. 42:37 Bruins on the right side of victory here. And Jimmy Fala joins me to discuss how great this feels because someone very close to both of us is a big Penn State fan.
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Is he ever. And he's a little down on himself right now. You know who else should be down on themselves? Every a hole that does preseason rankings for college football. Because, you know the number one team was preseason Texas. You know the number two was Penn State. You know what they both have in common? They're not even ranked in the top 25.
B (1:16)
Yeah. That Penn State is now ranked 28th.
A (1:19)
The old Penn State is ranked higher in daycares than in football.
B (1:24)
So is it because of the transfer portal and the nil money? Is, is there. Are there just so many outstanding variables that it's impossible to know what a team even is at this point?
A (1:36)
I think that's a big, big component of it. I think there's one other aspect to this is that Penn State was returning a fair amount of a pretty successful team. So that kind of motivated people to put them above Ohio State because they had a little more turnover. And I think on the other Arch Manning side of this, they had just decided he was the number one pick in the upcoming NFL draft without him throwing a pass. When they played Ohio State in week one. Yeah, when they played Ohio State in week one, he was in like 62 commercials. Was like every commercial. And then right now he's like tied for the national lead in interceptions. So the point is, don't listen to any of these people. UCLA was winless.
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Yeah.
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Coming into this game.
B (2:13)
But then they finally got rid of desean Foster matters. So Jerry Neuheiselle, his dad, Rick Neuheisel, not only was the coach of the UCLA Bruins, not, Not their greatest era, but he was also the quarterback. His son Jerry Neuheisel, also a quarterback, and he had applied. So he's been on the coaching staff for a few years now. Cute kid. He applied for the OC job under DeSean Foster, but they said DeShawn Foster already suffers from inexperience. You, Jerry Newheisel, also inexperienced. So then when they cut to Sean Foster loose, the little baby New Heisel is like, give me a shot at the OC job. I want to do it. I can do it. He was born at ucla and so they give it to him. And in one game, this team figured out how to play football again and. And his dad was calling the game on cbs. That's what was so cool.