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CFB Week 12 PICKS: Texas-Georgia, Notre Dame-Pitt, Oklahoma-Alabama and MORE
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CFB Week 12 PICKS: Texas-Georgia, Notre Dame-Pitt, Oklahoma-Alabama and MORE 0:00 Notre Dame-Pitt 8:21 Oklahoma-Alabama 14:47 Texas-Georgia 22:36 Arizona-Cincinnati 26:34 TCU-BYU 30:29 Virginia-Duke 35:32 Iowa-USC 40:22 USF-Navy 42:31 Kennesaw State-Jacksonville State 44:03 Penn State-Michigan State 45:10 South Carolina-Texas A&M 46:10 Upset Alerts
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And how about that Pollock interception in the end zone?
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B
Well, it's David Pollock and I think people are going to learn what kind of ball player he is. He's got a heart of a line. I'm real proud of that kid.
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C
This is C ball. Get ball. College football's top show for football analysis, predictions and coach interviews. Now here's your host, three time All American, seven time Emmy award winner, David.
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B
All righty. Here we go. Week 12. Golly man. Week 12. Week 12. Picks. Getting a little bit colder. Some of that you might take into account when when picking pick games. I, I, I would if I were you. And we're going to. But some fun games at the top, Brent, but I think you. You got something else probably to go to first. But. But man, there's some good games period to pick as well.
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C
Oh, this is a great week. The last three weeks down the stretch, it's. It's as good as it gets. And speaking so this week in the. After they, you know, they did the rankings, every team in the top 25 plays this week except for one. Do you happen to know the one that gets the week off?
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B
Well, I know Miami's already had two buys.
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C
You're really close to who it is in terms of the ranking.
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B
Well, you got. Virginia is playing. I know Virginia's playing Duke.
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C
On our list. They're Louisville. They're playing Friday night against Clemson. That's on the potential upset list.
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B
USC's playing Michigan.
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C
No, they're playing. They got north, not Northwestern, but I forget who it is. They're playing, but they are playing.
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B
Okay. BYU's definitely playing because we're talking about that.
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C
Northwestern. Michigan plays Northwestern.
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B
Okay. Who is it?
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C
Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt. Only team that gets to after sort of a grind for them. They're the only team out of the top. The current. The new top 25 that gets a buy this week. But you know, we talked about the, the playoffs and the rankings and we're. And we're reacting to sort of where teams are in this team versus that team. I think it's probably time every now and then to just think about what could be. And I think the coolest thing looking at the bracket as it currently stands is the fact that there are three Texas teams on one side of the bracket right now. Whether it ends up that way. Who know? Who knows like that. That's it, won't it?
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B
Absolutely.
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C
It likely won't.
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B
No.
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C
The. Just the. The. What could be. You got. You could have A Texas Tech vs Texas A M quarterfinal and then an A M vs Texas rematch potentially in a semi if you. If they. All the Texas teams kind of won.
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B
And North Texas could get in. Like, ooh, it could be Texas could get in.
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C
So that's, you know, that's. Hey, SMU can still win the acc. That. That would be. Ooh, you could have all those teams from Texas potentially get in. Maybe an Alabama, Georgia rematch, Notre Dame, Ohio State. That might set some, some that'd be a national championship game rematch. But also, you know, sort of watching that Oregon, Ohio State, potentially, who didn't play in the regular season this year. But it's always the possibilities of what the fun Matchups could be just sort of a good second to think about, but we got some nugget platter games this week, big time. And I think we mentioned this on Monday, but we got three this week. The 12, 3, 3730 window. Right back to back to back, these three big games. First Notre Dame at Pitt. Did you see Narduzzi's comment?
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B
I did.
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C
What'd you think about it? It was, it was. He was asked for those, you know, didn't see it. He was asked if Notre Dame game was a must win and the quote was, absolutely not. It is not an ACC game. I'm glad you brought that up. It's not an ACC game. I'm. I gladly get beat 103 or 110 to 10 in that game.
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B
That's the part that lost me. That, that's the part that lost me. Like, I, I understand what he's saying. I understand what he's doing. Alleviate the pressure from your team, by the way. It doesn't matter. I, I get it. Like in this game, doesn't matter for seatings and for where they're trying to get, if they want to get to the playoffs. Just don't tell me we can lose by 100. Like, I'm out on that. Like, I'm out. Like, stop.
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C
Realize the significance of those numbers.
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B
Oh, no.
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C
The last two times they played Notre Dame, it's Notre Dame 103, pit 10 in the last two.
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B
I did know it's been, it's been significant blowouts.
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C
Yes.
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B
You know, I'm, I'm really interested to see this Mason hint shell like this Heightenshul. To see what, to see what he does, man. You know, I know a little bit about his recruiting background. Like, I know Michigan offered him, but when, when Underwood came, like, he dipped, which good decision kind of got out on him. And this is what can happen now. But a true freshman coming in. I think here's some things to, to consider. You talk about just dangerous in there. In their five straight wins, 40 points a game, he's had at least three touchdown passes in three of the five and over 300 yards in four of the five. He's the first true freshman since Jameis Winston, so 2013, to throw at least three touchdown passes and go for 300 yards in three of his first six career starts. Like he's been chucking it, man. He's been spitting it like he's, he's been doing a really, really good job. And this. Now, listen, I understand it's not Notre Dame, like, who They've been facing and, and, and can they run the football against Notre Dame and that, can they protect him? That, that's, that's obviously going to be an issue. But a lot of juice for the, here's, here's the recipe for success for, for Pitt gotta come out with juice. It's air Donald retirement Jersey day, college game day. Like hopefully you get some of that juice and you start fast and it gives you a chance. And you know, Desmond Reed was the guy we talked about like coming into the season, the explosive backfield. But it's really been, you know, the playmakers out wide with Poppy Williams and Kenny Johnson who have kind of been the guys that have been the straw that stir the drink. Notre Dame's secondary has been good. Like this is, this will be a good matchup to see the weather in Pittsburgh, I promise you. Won't be fun. Probably like more than likely will not be enjoyable. And so five straight wins for Pitts, seven straight wins for Notre Dame. At least there's some excitement because Notre Dame schedule we thought was already done for the season. Like after they beat usc, everybody was like, all right, we, we're taking, they're in the playoffs.
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C
My mom sent me a picture yesterday. So I'm from West Virginia and they live in West Virginia. Snow, all kinds of snow on the ground. So crazy. I don't know what it's going to be like and whether, you know, in terms of temperature because I know it's supposed to warm back up here in the South. But we talked Monday about pits. Actually defensively one of the better run defending teams in the country. Can that, can they do anything to slow down Love and Price. But also you talked about Notre Dame's secondary being good. It's who throws the interceptions in this game to me who wins. Because both of these teams are in the top 20 in terms of getting interceptions. Notre Dame's third in the FPS, they have 16. Pitt has double digits like 10 or 11, something like that. And CJ Carr, he's had one, you know, in the first one each. In the first two games he's only had two cents. And then Heinzel. Yes, he has. He has five in the last four games but he has nine turnover worthy plays in the last four games. So a lot of almost and he's.
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Going to be pressured more than he.
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C
Has at all intermore and all that. Yeah, you got not feeling Irish.
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B
So do I. Yeah.
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C
Two touchdowns. Yeah, I got 34, 20.
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B
I don't see a way how it's, it's going to be close. I, I think that because they, they won't be able to run it, they won't be able to throw it, their defense is going to have to keep them in it. And Notre Dame's pretty good balance. So I'm with you on that night.
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C
Next one, Oklahoma. The Sooners at Alabama. Alabama got Curb Stomp last year.
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B
Oklahoma kept Alabama out of the playoff last year. That's why they didn't go to the playoff. Like we literally were like that's a bad loss. Like Alabama had a really bad loss to a bad team, to a team that barely went to a bowl. They got stomped out like no, they're not going to the playoffs. So the revenge factor, man, has to be good. Hey, this team has faced seven times. What do you think the record is between these two, these two schools? Yeah, they faced seven times, maybe six.
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C
And one Oklahoma four two and one Oklahoma leads this year because I'm assuming they played maybe not recently. Like it's a rare. Yeah, last year they played, Oklahoma's more dominant.
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B
They played back in my era too because I actually, you know why I remember that? Because we were playing, we were going to play Alabama and our defense was the same as Oklahoma. I remember watching Tommy Harrison company actually play. So I know, I know they played in 03.
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C
Oklahoma was better than fellow first round pick do I. Wasn't Tommy Harris the first round pick too?
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B
Yeah, Tommy Harris. Oh, he was, he was a bad man. I think this game is so interesting, man. I really, I don't think this game is not going to be close. I do think it's going to be really close. There's a couple of things, a couple of reasons why I think this game was, is going to be close. One Alabama, if you've watched them throughout the, throughout the season, throughout last year, they struggle with running quarterbacks. I've mentioned it 4,000 times. I'll continue to mention it. And John Matier, he's probably a better runner right now than he is a thrower. He just hasn't been himself. He's 8 touchdown passes, 7 ints on the season. Like he was on pace. Yeah, but he was, he was on pace to like to shatter that to start the season before the thumb and then things got weird and obviously the running quarterback helps the way Oklahoma's run the football recently. Xavier Robinson back to back hundred yards games since the last hundred yard game which was against Alabama a year ago. So I think that's a good thing for Oklahoma that they've, they've got the run game going against an Alabama team that doesn't stop the run. Great. That's not their strength. Running the ball or stopping it. So I think Oklahoma has a real chance. I think John Mateer has to tote that puppy like he's going to have to tote it 15 times. There are seasons on the line. He's going to have to be John Mattier that we've seen. Like you said, he's well rested off of the by. There's a lot of reasons why I think this game is going to be close. I think this is a 2420 game. I think Oklahoma can keep that number down. And the reason I think Boomer Sooner is going to win the football game is because yeah you're. I just saw your eyes get big. I like that a lot. The reason I think Boomer Sooner is going to win is because they got the pass rush man. They got the dudes up front with Stone and our Mason Thomas and guys that can and Halton that guys they can get to get to a one dimensional Alabama offense. Alabama plays a bad game. They get caught up in it and finally stub their toe. They've been great for the rest of the season. Boomer freaking sooner 2420 over Bama.
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C
I'm in, I'm in shock right now and not. And not for the reason that you.
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B
Might think you better not have picked them too. I'm gonna be pissed if you picked him too.
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C
I wrote Oklahoma or typed. Sorry I didn't write it. I typed it. Oklahoma 23, Alabama 20.
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Oh, I hate that so much.
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C
I, I don't like this that we are in agreement. This might be an upset. That's not good. That usually means it's going to completely be the other way.
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B
I thought I'm gonna add.
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I'm gonna add all the great stuff that you just mentioned right there. I'm gonna add to the my reasons that why I, I put that pick that every Oklahoma game you play. How. How do you handle the blitz? Ty Simpson has actually not handled the blitz. I mean he's done okay but from a turnover worthy play standpoint he only has one pick but he has seven turnover worthy play blitz his word. His lowest passing grade versus the blitz. He's 71 completion when he's not. He's like 60 right at 60. When he is blitzed last week versus LSU's blitz like his Venables. You know alarm clock says blitz. We've. We've said that before.
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Yep.
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C
The other thing with the running game with Alabama is I actually went and looked and re watched some of this stuff and looked at the data and then also re watched it too. I actually think they have a problem in that they're too left handed. They came proctor too much to Kaden Proctor. Yeah. And what made me go re watch this is I'm, you know, just kind of messing around. Re watching the game, writing stuff. Re watching stuff on Sunday and listen to the NFL and Greg Olson who does a phenomenal job is the best to me. Combination of knowledge and teaching of the game on tv. Talked about Andrew Thomas with the Giants and how, hey look, you might, you think you want to run at him because he's your best lineman, but he was showing plays like consecutive plays where they ran away from him and the ability of what he does on the backside of a run scoop people with his athletic ability and to cave in lines like when you're, especially when you're running zone games away from him. They actually, they run it way more to the left and they're very dominant left handed but they average more per carry going right. So I, I think they need to get back to getting away from being sort of dominant towards Kane Parker. Can they do that? I don't know. I don't think so. But the blitz part of it. Yeah, I picked, I put Oklahoma 23, Alabama 20. Wow. I'm in shock.
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Can't stand it.
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That's probably not, that's probably, that's probably a good thing for Alabama.
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Roll Tide.
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It's time for roll Tide, that's for sure because we just picked against Kaylin Deborah. I don't think he's lost it. Lost there, has he?
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No, he's good at home. They have a third loss win streak at home.
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Yeah. With him as coach.
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So.
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All right.
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C
Stores or dsw.comnight game texas@ Georgia Are you going to make an appearance?
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No. Gosh, no. Absolutely not. I'll be right I'll be ready to rock out on C ball. Get ball here and cover covering all the games.
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C
Okay. Didn't know if you'd make the trip over for at least, at least a half or so. The question I have because we talked a lot about this game and how sort of Arch and Gunner have played and are accelerating or sort of trending up over the last four to five weeks and the defenses and what they've done. Texas stopping the run, George is running the ball, all that sort of stuff. The qu the question I have, addition to what we talked about the other day, what if Texas can't run the ball at all again?
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Well, they, they have it all season.
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Like and they, they haven't they at all.
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They, they haven't been. They haven't been good at it all year. I mean this has been probably the most. Here's, here's the thing. And so the answer is I don't think they will be able to because they haven't. And Georgia stops it at a really good level. So Georgia's really good at it. Texas is not good at it. You're playing on the road, which is another element to throw into that. So, so here's the thing with me, Arch Manning. So despite what you think about Arch and Gunner and preseason, here's what Gunner is going to have in this football game. Balance a run game, screen game, playmakers that can make plays consistently like he's Got a plethora of weapons that we go through every single week. And they've actually grown because Elias Williams, now you're like, okay, that guy's good too. Like, so you're going to, I think the surrounding. Hell, I don't think Gunner has to do superhuman things in his atmosphere to go in the football game. Manning, Arch Manning is going to have to be the guy we thought he was before the season. Like the guy who was Heisman Trophy worthy. Like, he's going to have to play great. We've talked here on the. And you've talked about the numbers, about getting the ball out quick to his guys. You got to get the ball out quick to your guys in stride, consistently. You, you can't, you can't miss, man. When you miss a little bit and you throw the ball on a swing route really quickly and you throw it behind him and he has to stop for just a second, C.J. allen's there, you know, so you've, you've got to be, you know, really, really good. I think Texas defense is more than capable of keeping him in it. More than capable. Like, they're a great defense. And just like you talked about writing, writing the Georgia, the Georgia picks every week you can kind of copy and paste like 24, 17, 28, 21, even though they just stomped out Mississippi State. But I just think that I, I think when you look at the, the help, the surrounding help Georgia's got, the run game's really, really going, really going. And Gunner contributes to that too. And I think you can ask him to do that more and more in big games when you really need it. Georgia wins this. They're in the College Football Playoff.
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Yes.
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Like, they're in. Texas lose, Texas loses, they're out. Like, ah, they could still beat A and M. They're not out. But Texas, Texas wins. They actually can be. Keep themselves in it, keep hope alive from being preseason number one, newly minted number 10, which is, which is good. They've got a lot of momentum going their direction, but I've got Georgia 24, 17.
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I think in terms of, I was thinking about how does Texas win this game? And outside of things that you can't predict and the, you know, the part that we always talk about like Wheel of Fortune, the rstl, any of. Of football, turnovers, explosive plays, all these sort of things that add up to what wins, turnovers is one that you can never predict outside of getting turned. Like last year, Georgia got all kinds of turnovers and turned them into touchdowns quickly. It's the for me, Texas winning this game was a lot about like you said, it's Arch being sort of having a Heisman esque type performance or a big time both running where he's got, you know, 70, 80 yards running on scrambles as well as design runs and a lot of explosive plays in the passing game. The only thing, the thing that does give me sort of pause with Georgia is these are two of the better tackling teams in the country. Both top 15. Georgia is actually number one in power in tackling grade in the power power four. Texas I think is like 13th or something like that. But the screen game you talked about because both of these are going to use them. Texas is going to have to tackle Branch, Georgia is going to have to tackle Wingo Niblet, whoever else that, you know, backs that they run screens too, like that, all that. So who tackles well in the screen game and prevents explosives there? I just, I think it's the home team. I told you I wasn't going to deviate from my score. I told you I was putting it the same in every non Charlotte game. So I'm putting it the same. I'm man of my word here. Georgia 30, Texas 23. That's my score the rest of the season.
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So, you know, here's what's crazy. I appreciate the integrity there. What's crazy is if Texas wins out, they're in the SEC championship game. So just, just put that in your pipe and smoke it. Like they'd have tiebreakers over Georgia and A and M. Like, yep, Just think about last Texas feels to me a lot like Georgia did a year ago. Like all the hype, all the expectation, everybody jumped off. I'm off the bandwagon. And then all of a sudden Texas got together, won some close games and by the end of the season, like, hey, still here guys? Hey, we're going to go ahead and take the ring. Y' all can suck it and walk out the octagon. Like, Texas has a cool opportunity, man, to kind of shut some people up. And, and Arch can be like, yeah, I heard y'. All. I heard all y' all all season. Like, I just, I think it's an awesome opera. I love when people have opportunities to shut people up. And this is a shut people up opportunity for, for Arch Manning, for Texas, for Sark. It's a great opportunity to say, all right, y'.
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C
All.
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B
Y all y' all did was bury us. Y' all said we suck. Eat that. We just beat a great team. We can beat another great team. And go to the SEC championship and piss all y' all off, so.
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C
But we're not picking them to do it.
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B
No, absolutely not. I'm picking upsets this week. I got several upsets. That ain't one.
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C
Okay. Okay. That. That makes the rest of these a little intriguing. Before we get to the Heartburn games, let's go to some. Something that's more heartwarming. Oh, yeah, a little bit.
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B
Yeah. This is something that our family does every year. And we have so many families in our community that come help us serve, too, like Brent. We do the Banquet of Blessings, and we rent out the Classic center in downtown Athens, and our foundation, we bus in the homeless and then the underprivileged in that area. Anybody who wants to come, everybody's invited. We throw a Thanksgiving throwdown. Like, the works. Every food you can imagine. And then everybody gets to walk through two different lines this year. Everybody gets to pick up a brand new coat, brand new sleeping bag, brand new blanket, wool socks, a beanie gloves, book bags. Like, I could just keep going on. And if it's something that you'd ever want to support, man, we would love for you to be a part of it. Go to the Pollock family foundation dot com. Click on Donate in the top right. You can click on Banquet of Blessings, and you can donate to it. But no, I appreciate you, Brent. Give me that opportunity to talk about. It's the coolest thing we do. It's Sunday, November 23rd. There's some videos on there, too. You can see the past years, man, like, just a. A bunch of smiles and a good time.
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C
Music.
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B
Oh, yeah. Music's fantastic.
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C
It's not just. It's not just there. It's not just food. It's a. It's a whole shindig. Great stuff. Next game, Arizona at Cincinnati. And. And like I said, there's all the top 25 teams play, except for one. We didn't necessarily get to all these games because there's a lot of games that, you know, favored by a lot of points. This is more. More so importance of games. And in terms of actual importance, this is a ginormous game for Cincinnati and their hopes to be in the College Football Playoff as the Big 12 rep.
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B
They got to win this one, and they got to beat BYU next week, But Cincinnati's had a great year. And here's the thing about Cincinnati. We bragged about Sorsby, we bragged about the offense. I think the most important part I loved was their physicality. I love the way they were physical up Front and moving people. And Iowa State kept coming to mind. And then I watched by or then I watched Utah and I was like, oh, my gosh. Like, that was the opposite. That was like. That was like me versus Brent in a board drill. It wasn't good. Like, it's. It's big box car, little box car. And I was very disappointed. This.
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C
You're going to say the bag drill?
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B
Yeah, that's. That's a good one.
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C
Like right there when you put me off my feet. You remember that?
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B
No, I do remember. Me and Britt coach youth league football together. And Britt was holding the bag and I was showing the kids how to, like, wrap up, and I swear to goodness, I hit Brent and he went wee. And I was like, oh.
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C
I was kind of, like, not really paying attention. I was just there and then you. And you're not knowing your own strength kind of.
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B
Yeah, I was like, dude, I'm sorry, bro. Flying. He popped up, though. Popped up? No, he wasn't on injured reserve or anything like that. This feels like a game that UC absolutely could lose. Noah Fafita is a really good football player, man. Like, really good. I know people don't watch Arizona, but you should like that. He's. He's good. He's got great wheels. He makes things happen. He's. He's got 67 career touchdown passes. That's tied for the school record. Can you name the person he's tied with? He won a Super bowl as the quarterback of the Philadelphia Eagles.
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C
Aaron. Oh, Nick Foles.
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B
Nick Foles.
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C
So she said that. I was stressed. I was hunting in the brain for that.
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B
I was trying to. I was trying to help.
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C
Thank you for that.
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B
Like, in. Arizona's got. They've got a good defense, man. They play really well. They turn people over. Like, everything in me wants to take Arizona, and I. I really think Arizona's gonna win. I got more upsets to come, but I'm going to say what I saw earlier in the year is more what I'm going to get at Nippert Stadium. UC being more physical, the ground game being more physical, and that being the difference in the football game. So I'm going to roll with my wife's Bearcats, where I did rehab when I broke my neck in the NFL. I'm going with. I'm going with Allen and Goody making a couple of plays in the passing game, outscoring Arizona. But it will be close. That I can promise you.
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C
Arizona has two great corners, Stuks and Cole, and played the pass really well, safety really good. Dalton. Dalton Johnson. You mentioned about Fafita, sort of a comeback year for him after a off year last year. Him and Sorsby are the two highest graded QBs in the Big 12. In Arizona, two really close. I mean, they had BYU beat for the most part. And then byu they did late. Houston gets a late comeback win, but Cincinnati happens to also play the same type of defense that Iowa State does. And Iowa State put a hurting on Arizona. And I'm going with. And, and this is much of the reason I picked Oklahoma. Cincinnati had a buy and that late buy like this to me is just golden because when you're beat up physically to have that recharge battery, if we're down the stretch run, I, I'm, I'm going. I got Bearcats 31, Arizona 27 off the buy.
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B
I got Bearcats too. I'm right there with you.
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C
Next1 Big 12 like this, this game. TCU at BYU. BYU 12th fell five spots. This is one. The biggest thing that I'm curious about in this game is the rebound effect. Because playing Texas Tech and their. The physical nature of playing against those guys. Physical, it's a different animal in that league, I think. Like, it's a different level. And does TC or does BYU kind of have a like sort of level down in terms of their physicality? That's what the thing I'm most interested to see in this game.
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B
Yeah, and it's, you know, byu. I think after last week, it goes immediately kind of like with Cincinnati, like, it was like, all right, how do I really feel, like, how do I really feel about byu? Do I really think they're that good? Like TCU should be in this race? They shouldn't have lost Iowa State, but they did. But they have an explosive offense and they got explosive playmakers, explosive receivers that can win on the outside. Like if you haven't seen Eric. Eric McAllister is the Big 12 leader in receiving yards for a reason. I mean, he's really good. Dwyer's good. Like they're, they're good on the outside. Hoover's a good qb. They can make plays. Like they're going to score, they're going to give up plays. And Iowa State was scoring and making plays, but then BYU got aggressive, played more man to man. Like, are they going to be able to do that against tcu? I don't think you will with those weapons. Like, those weapons on the outside will sting you if you choose to do that. And so I got this one. 27, 24. Like super close back and forth, possibly. I got another upset. I got TCU winning the football game.
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C
Oh, I want the exact same score, different teams.
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B
Yep.
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C
I just. And the reason I went that way is I liked how Bear played in the loss.
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B
I don't know. No, no. You didn't like how he played. You liked his composure.
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C
Yes, exactly. In terms of how he handled that game when it was clear they were, I wouldn't necessarily say physically outmatched, but it was good.
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B
They were physically outmatched.
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C
They were physically outmatched.
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B
Yeah.
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C
And they hit pressure, all the stuff around him and late. You know, even in the second half, into the third quarter, he's still no phase. Eyes downfield, making plays, doing what he's doing. Like it's play one. That was impressive to me and I think that sort of. And I also think my guess is Sataki has learned a little bit from last year's kind of collapse in a way, maybe does things a little bit differently. And they win a very close game because of the like. And BYU is a heavy man team. And you play man. Those two receive those two receivers. I think that's why TCU defends the run really well. That's like the fourth highest grader defense in terms of run defense in pff grading.
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B
And every time BYU's faced a team that can stop the run play a little bit of man, it hasn't ended well because you, you got to commit extra guys to the Bear. I mean he wears 47, he plays quarterback. Like you gotta. You gotta put extra guys. So.
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C
Yeah, I got.
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I'm right there with you. But I, I think the explo. The easier. The only thing I worry about is weather.
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What's like, what's the.
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B
What's the weather gonna be like? This. The Bearcats?
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C
No, the Horn Frogs. Horn Frog.
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B
Oh, yeah, the Horn. Oh, yeah.
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C
That's like some weird thing with the fingers.
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B
Yes.
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C
I don't know.
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B
And they. And they. And they. The hypnoatoid. Yeah.
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C
Yeah. Next one. Kk. So we. Lot of time. Spend a lot of time there. A Big 12 now in terms of chaos. Acc, this is the. I. I have a great question for you.
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B
This is back to the. The Wheel of Destiny. Reese Davis used to do the Wheel. The acc. Wheel of Destiny back in the day. I'm talking about 12, 15 years ago when we did Thursday Night Football. And that's exactly what this is like. It's just spin it week to week and you're like, all right, let's go, let's go. I. I got this one this week and 5.
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C
Talking about Virginia, Duke.
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B
Yes, I know exactly where you're going. Five ACC teams with one conference loss. Five. There's five teams that are in this mix. Like, this league is drunk. It's absolutely drunk. It's bonkers. And, and you got. And you got Virginia and Duke playing this week. Who are two of them, like, which, again, which is the weirdest thing because Virginia lost NC State and it doesn't count as a conference game. Like, screw that crap. I don't understand that. But anyways, go ahead.
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Well, I was just gonna say it's one of those where you have to. Who thought it was a good idea to have like 20 teams in a league and unbalanced schedules? Like, that's not a good idea. You're gonna get situations like this where Duke is 5 and 4 and can still win out. You know, they went out. They're gonna be three out of conference losses. Three out of conference losses. Unbelievable. But Virginia play with fire a little too much. You're going to get burned. I, I did see where they are hopeful to have Chandler Morris back, but that's. I, I think that's kind of the point with a lot of these team, with a lot of teams that are a fringe top 10 team, fringe top 20 team, they go to the portal and they. And they hit. Those guys got to stay healthy. Like when you hit in the portal and you have a good vibe. Good team, good sort of mojo with everything. One little. One injury here, one injury there and train off the tracks.
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B
Well, the guy that hit for Duke is Mensa. I mean, that dude, he's been. I don't know if he's been worth every penny. They're five and four, but he's been worth it. And that offense is explosive and it's fun. The defense has not pulled their weight. And here's the thing, man. I don't know if Morris is going to play. I assume he will. He wasn't practicing. He's off of a concussion. He likes to run. It doesn't set up good. A good recipe for, for Virginia. They're not great offensively regardless. Duke and Duke can score. I mean, yes, they can absolutely score. They can put points on the board. Here's the thing. If we went back and replayed these. I picked Duke to beat Illinois and they blew off all five of their toes. And then I picked Duke to beat Georgia Tech and they blew off the other five of their toes. So they're out of fricking toes. I mean, I Don't know what else they blew off. So here's my thing. Five wins, one turnover. Five wins, one turnover. Other four games, losses, 10 freaking turnovers. 10. All toes blown off. There's no more toes, Brent. I got Duke. No more toes. You want. You got fingers, but no more toes. You want to.
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C
I'll read you what I typed. Okay. Duke, just for the chaos.
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B
Yes. And that is. That is. I'm not going to lie. That is going to be so much fun because I want Duke to go to the ACC championship shoot. I want him to win it. Because here's another thing too. If they win it and there's teams that are ranked ahead of him that are ranked in the group of five, that are champs, they could go over them.
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C
Yeah. You realize that was my. That was my. I have a question in blue right below this.
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B
That literally can happen.
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C
USF or a G5 is ranked above.
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B
The ACC and they could literally not have a team that's represented in it. Like, because they would have two other conference champions in the group of five that are ranked higher than the group than the auto. Than automatic qualifier even.
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C
There's a world where Miami is say 10th in the. And gets an at large bid and is the ACC rep, but their champion does not make the playoff.
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B
That's right.
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C
That's a world that exists. Like if James Madison wins out and you know, they're 12. One as a conference champ and then us and ranked and rank.
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B
Yes.
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C
All that 100% wins out at that. I mean, just unreal. Like eight and four. Nine.
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B
Four.
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C
Yes.
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B
Give me. Give me more of that. Obviously there's a lot that would have to happen there, but like just the fact that that's a possibility that we have five teams that are tied with one loss. This is. This is absolutely drunk and it's fun and I'm here for it. I'm absolutely here for it. It's like, that's like the Big 12 last year. That's how the Big 12 was. It was. It was literally like me and you were going, all right, there's still 27 teams that can win this in the last week. Like, what are the tiebreakers?
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C
Speaking of that, I got a text today. And the text, the text was regarding the fact that NC State still technically, mathematically can make the ACC champion.
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B
Tell James Argo to shut up. Tell. Tell. Get you some Oconee gold to shut up. We've already. We've already eliminated them. Hush.
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C
Yes, I agree.
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B
Onto the next.
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C
I was like. I was like, nah, bro, nah.
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B
Bro, we out. This is Kevin Harlan.
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C
Dip our marquee game, but not the marquee, but fired up to dig into it. Iowa, who's still ranked at USC, who is now 17th? Can Iowa score enough points? Can USC run it enough and hit any deep balls? Because the Trojans are one of the best 20 plus yard teams, throws, completions and hitting deep balls in the country. Yeah, guess who's one of the best at defending it. That would be Iowa. And I think in the last it's it was either two or three games. They've only allowed one 20 plus yard throw to be completed. And can you name that throw?
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B
Yeah, the last throw of the game with three seconds left.
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C
The one from the core from yes. Dante Moore to I think it was Benson. That was an absolute dime. That's the only completion over 20 yards.
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B
Well, in fairness, Oregon also didn't even try to throw the ball over 20. They just said I'm gonna line up in slap you upside your face. It was like doing it was like me versus like my, my six year old son in the slap contest. When you walk up to each other you're like hey, you sit there. I sit here, I get the first lick. And Oregon just kept whacking them across the grill like seven yards a pop. I ain't throwing the ball down the field either.
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C
No, they out. Physically, they out. I would. I would. They out.
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B
I would.
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C
Iowa there.
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B
Yeah, I like that. I'm tracking Jade. Myava will be the, will be the man to watch. Like you're like he's just, he's, he's almost 300 a game which is top 10 in the FBS. But it's the, it's the almost 10 yards of completion. Like he's just behind C.J. carr and Julian sand like those two guys and it's just, it's effortless. We've talked about the nonchalant nature but, but now that you got Lane going with Lemon, like I hear you Iowa defense, good luck because it ain't like they don't run it too like the balance of this USC offense is really, really, really good. Then being ranked with Michigan cluster. They beat Michigan, they're still very much alive, man. Very much alive. Like usc. All the hate, all the vitriol coming into the season with, with Lincoln, they're right there in the mix to go make a playoff push. Can they stop the physicality of Iowa? Can they stop the run game that like what, what we've been knocking you on for years is about to come to fruition. We're about to see, man, if you've done what you've, what you've supposed to do. We've known you can score. We've known you've been the king of counter. We've known you the king of two backfield sets and shallow screens and all we can go on and on about Lincoln Riley. We told we needed you to make a change on defense and bring some physicality to the defensive line and you're going to be tested by Iowa. Do you man the freak up? Can you step up, man? Can you, can you stop the run? Can you stop a team that can't throw the football? They can't throw the football, bro.
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C
The man, the man the freak up point. This feels like a. Where I'm. If I'm usc, I do exactly. I go old school like youth football. And I'm. It's nine in the box, man. Like if you got three receivers. Okay, I'm gonna guard those three guys man to man. Everybody else is in the box. Eyes on qb. Eyes on the run game. I think they do it. I got the triggers. Getting the dubs.
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B
Seven and three in the series. Usc. All three of Iowa's losses this year have been by five points or fewer. All ranked teams, all really good teams, obviously they lost at the buzzer. Granowski, 12 rushing TDs broke Iowa's record already for a QB. He's the only player in the nation to score a rushing touchdown in every single game. Only player in the country. Like the dude's going to find the end zone. But he's also got five TD passes on the season total. Five. Five on one hand. Five. Like Iowa. Iowa. This game is absolutely a Hawkeye dub. 99 out of 100 times. If this game is in Ames right now because USC would be freezing their absolute off. They, they, they would have to go to Iowa. Huh? To Iowa City.
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C
Thank you. There we go.
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B
To come to Iowa City. Usc, those Southern California boys, they would absolutely lose this football game. Iowa going to usc. Different animal. USC takes care of business. They win by two touchdowns.
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C
Yep. I think. And this sets up a old school Pac 12 game. Big time game versus Oregon next week. Because I think Oregon takes care of Minnesota on. I think they play Friday night.
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B
Minnesota.
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C
Yeah, yeah. Friday night. That game. All right. Veggie tray games. You might skip them, but they're going to be really good. Usf. Newly ranked USF at Navy. And to me this was much like Levitt sitting the week before Arizona State played Texas Tech.
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B
Why would I play more of that against yesterday when I'm going to get.
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C
Anyways, he was a. I would bet money he was a. He could have played. If this game was last week he was playing but he was a healthy scratch against Notre Dame because they knew they needed him to be Superman against usf.
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B
I don't agree with that in any way shape or form, but I bet he was nicked up and they're like, yeah, let's make sure we're 100%. Like, yeah, if he could have played, obviously they would have played him to try to win. But, yes, I understand what you're saying.
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C
You got the Bulls.
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B
Yeah, absolutely. Navy just got, like, open hand slapped to the face last week. Again. Like, the physical toll BYU took with Texas Tech. Like, they had a bad one last week. It was a physical game. And Byron Brown's an animal. Like, I don't know how many times I can say this on the show. I said it early in the season when I watched him against Florida. Like, the dude runs like a running back. He's big, he's physical. He's also throwing touchdowns left and right. Like, he's. He's a problem. Like, no one's figured out how to stop their offense but them when they make mistakes. Otherwise, they run the fat, one of the fastest tempos in the country. And they make you tackle him. That's the problem. The problem is they go really fast. They've got speed, and they make you tackle him. He's the. He's the mini. Like Tim Tebow. He's the mini, you know, guy at quarterback that is carrying the rock and making plays and making you physically feel it and then get a first down and then run it again and run it again and get you on your heels and just go, go, go, man. So I think Brown's too much. I think this is 38, 21. I don't think this one's close, either.
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C
Yeah, I got two touchdowns. USF as well. That's actually a really good comp, especially given the funky. Each of them have kind of funky.
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B
Funky throwing motions.
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C
Yeah, throwing motions. All right. One game that probably nobody's thinking about, but we're going to talk about it just because we want to give a shout out. Kennesaw State, the Owls of Marietta, Georgia, after, you know, just started football in 2015. This is only year two in the FBS, and they are 72 playing at Jacksonville State, both 50 in Conference USA. They lost Awake Force by one. Yep. And then they got beat by Indiana and seven straight for the Owls.
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B
Seven straight for the Owls. And then Jacksonville State's got. I think they've won four straight.
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C
Yeah.
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B
And they're perfect.
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C
Are five and zero and conference play for Conference USA supremacy. So we're giving everybody love.
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B
So a Gamecock versus an Owl. Who wins that fight? Oh, gosh, I got no clue. I'm taking the owl. Sharper claws.
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C
I. That's a. That's a great question. We need some sort of animals smarter than us. Maybe the. The. Yeah. That's an area that I am nil.
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B
I know. At night. I'll take an Owl. I know that. Give me the Owls. I'll take Kennesaw State Owls.
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C
Well, I mean, I know some kids who go there, so I'm. I'm gonna. I'm gonna go with the Owls as well. But anyway, just. It's just a fun game to shout out because, you know, it's still an amazing feat, the fact that you just. You're. You just started your program a decade ago and now you're already in fbs and you're potentially winning a conference. That's amazing. That's. That's insanely good work from them. Next one is more a negative, I guess. Shout out in a way. Sort of how the mighty have fallen. Penn State at Michigan State. Somebody has to win because both of them are 0 and 6 in Big 10 play.
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B
Golly. How much money would you have made before the season if you bet that?
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C
Like, bet the under on, like.
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B
Because Penn State, remember.
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C
So the Bear preseason, I think he said, what's the safest bet in college football? I think was his quote. 10 and 2. Penn State in the playoff. He's like, that was the same. I'm pretty sure he said that was the safest bet.
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B
He got some right, too, obviously. But that one obviously was a big swing and a miss. That's crazy. That's nuts. I feel like. I feel like Penn State might do what. What a lot of teams have done, like Florida & Co. Like, rally one big time. And then it's like, all right, dude. Like, I'm. I'm. Let me. What time is it? Like, yeah, I got something. Like, it's not practice. I got. I gotta coach. I gotta go to a meeting. I got. I got coach. I got a final. I got academics. Yeah. I feel like if you asked me to pick Hammy.
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C
Tight, coach. It's a little tight. Tammy's really.
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The Spartans. I would take the Spartans.
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I did too. I did, too. All right. Cooler game. Be on ice. The earliest. South Carolina at Texas A M. This is a revenge game because Texas A M was all in the all, you know, on the fields about themselves last year. And then South Carolina said, nope, hold my beer. Yes. Yeah, I think that tide turns very much so this week, especially at.
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AT A M. Yep. Interested to see the Lenore Sellers train, though. Not necessarily this game, but the off season. It'll be interesting to watch. Maybe possibly where Lenora Sellers ends up.
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C
Just interested to see so you breaking anything? You got some.
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B
You got some knives. You just thinking I'm gonna. I'm not talking about the NFL either.
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C
But I wouldn't be talking about that either.
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It's not the NFL. But there. There. There will be some suitors for Lenores. Sell it, and it will be. Be pretty solid offers. It'll be a good day for him.
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C
All right. Speaking of, you talked about upsets, so I'm. I'm. I'm very curious to see this last little bit because, hey, last week. So we did four. We had four games last week. Here's the three. Three of the four. One of them wasn't necessarily close, but we had Auburn at Vanderbilt as a potential upset. That was a heck of a game. You know, won an ot. We had Indiana at Penn State. Neither of us went there, but that was like literally that close. Yeah, millimeter away from the toenail away from being upset. And then Wake Forest at Virginia, and that was kind of the one that we pointed to. Even. We even looked at the Vandy game. But, you know, Wake Forest went and beat Virginia. So this week I wrote down 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 different games for this week. And one of them. Okay, I'll get the one out of the way. Just as a fun mention, Tennessee Tech plays at Kentucky. Yeah, they're 10 0. They've won 15 straight games. Tennessee Tech FCS team.
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B
That's great.
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C
Conference supremacy versus UT Martin next week. But they get Kentucky first.
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B
Yeah, okay.
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C
Not gonna be that one. But anyway, I just wanted to shout out Tennessee Tech.
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B
Good shout out.
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C
Do you know who. Do you know their mascot?
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B
Tennessee Tech. Now what are they?
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C
Golden Eagles.
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B
Golden Eagles.
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C
Okay. They played UT Martin next week. UT Martin as the Skyhawks. Just for those out there to some.
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B
Knowledge base, take an Eagle over the Gamecock.
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C
Yep. Owls and Owls and Eagles over others. Other bodies. All right, next one, though. Clemson at Louisville, Michigan at Northwestern, NC State at Miami, FL Ole Miss or Utah at Baylor? Who is your upset special if not maybe more than one this week because you said you had some upsets.
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B
Yeah, Utah at Baylor. I think Baylor's got. I think Baylor's got a chance now. They have to. Unfortunately, they have to. They can't just play offense the whole game. If it was make it take it. Like, I would love Baylor. Like Baylor would have a chance. But they have to play defense at Baylor helps Florida. I have zero confidence in from what I saw. Like, I. They. I feel like they punted on the season. Like we can wipe them off the board. NC State. Let me tell you something. When he's playing, when he's spinning the ball at NC State, Mr. Bailey, like, dude's different now. Like, he's got. He's another guy that you might hear a lot of names and a lot of interest in that cat.
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C
Because I potentially opponent this week.
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B
I can't say the comparison I have because it's sacrilegious. Like, I can't say it. I'm gonna say it anyways.
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C
But you, you kind of open the can there.
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B
Yes. But like, okay, so, so hear me out. He's not this guy because he's not as fast as him, but he's smooth and a long strider like Vy. He's got the Vince Young stride.
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C
Like, it looks that way.
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Yes, it look. The gate looks that way. And man, he's had some great moments. And you look at those ACC teams that are ranked, it's like, yeah, he's taking care of them. Like he's beaten them. And we saw Miami struggle with Jennings, you know, we saw. But. But I just don't know that NC State will create the balance like they did with Georgia Tech. I think that's a different animal with that defensive line. But Michigan at Northwestern. Northwestern is extremely good football team. Extremely. Make you earn it at Northwestern will not be fun weather. I can promise you that in Michigan. Their offense is ungood. Like all the, all the Bryce Underwood hype was deserved. I get it. I see the skill set. I have not seen this. I have not seen him get better throughout the season. So like, you can get upset with me if you want to, Michigan fans, but I have not seen him grow and get better. I thought his day, his best outing of the year was week one. Like I saw several plays week one. I was like, that was awesome. That was awesome. That was awesome. He had some other bright spots, but watching the Michigan State game, like, I have a buddy that's a die hard Michigan fan. Die hard Michigan. He was like, I turned it off at half and went to bed. He said, I watched the Michigan State game. I went to bed. He was like, that was the most boring football game I've ever seen in my life. And I was like, jeez, poor guy. Ouch. But anyway, his own squad. So Utah, Baylor, I give a chance. And then Michigan at Northwestern. Northwestern's a good football team, man. They're very solid.
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C
Which one you picking if you had to pick one?
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B
God, Baylor, you and your stupid defense. I'll go Michigan at Northwestern.
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C
I'm going to go. The ACC is Chaos, which. I mean, Louisville's already kind of semi.
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B
Pissed down their leg. You can say it. They pissed down my leg.
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C
And I just know Isaac Brown. I. I don't like the vibes without him being there. Dabo maybe has one in him. One D one.
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B
He did. He.
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C
Did he feel good win.
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B
I mean, think about the. The Clemson, Florida State rivalry, man, like, best teams in the league plot. That was last week, man. That was a big win.
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C
Yeah, it was.
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B
Yeah.
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C
They might get bow eligible.
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B
They got.
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C
They're fighting for bowl eligibility, so Clemson gets the. They got to be bowl eligible. They can't. They can't be your national championship pick and then not be bow eligible. So they're going to get the bowl eligible.
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B
No, no, no. If you're gonna. If you're gonna jump off a cliff, make sure there's rocks at the bottom. You don't want to live through that chest.
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C
Oh, that's week 12.
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B
That's.
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C
I mean, the. The amount of great football this weekend, like, it's great every weekend, but it's separation. And like we talked about on the playoff reaction, if the two newbies go into the. The mainstays and beat, wouldn't that win on the road?
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B
The Oklahoma, Texas just walk in the league year two and be like, hey, I know Alabama and Georgia have run this league, but y' all go ahead and slide over a little bit. Like, go over there because. Because we're both going to be. I mean, they both have a chance to get in the playoff by beating the. The mainstays, the blue Bloods, and we both give them a shot. Like you. They both got a shot.
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C
We both Oklahoma, Boomer, Sooner.
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B
That's crazy. That. That is. As Bama fans.
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C
Did you think in any way I was going to pick that game that way?
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B
Gosh, no. I thought I was like, dude, this is an upset. I feel like. I feel good about. I know Brent's going to go conservative. He's not going to pick an upset. Like, he's not going to pick against Bama and Ty Simpson and the role they've been on and show enough, like, almost the exact same scale.
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C
I thought you would stick with Simpson, and they're there. Oh, well.
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B
Well, listen, we're ramping. After what Bama's put together, it's hard to pick against them. It really is, man. Like, they're. They're tried and true, but the best team doesn't win every week. Like, that's just not the way it works. And I got a lot of road upsets. This week, which don't usually happen, but I think this is going to be a week we look back and, and, and we go, man, this, this really defined the season, like the leagues and the clarity that you get in the league. So enjoy the picks and we will see you guys again. We'll be back at it tomorrow, I think. So you guys can can jump in, hang out with us and talk some more football. Peace time.
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A
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