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CFP First Round: BEST MATCHUPS | Notre Dame: Bowl Game Fallout | 2025 Review
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CFP First Round: BEST MATCHUPS | Notre Dame: Bowl Game Fallout | 2025 Review
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Brent Venables
That Pollock interception in the end zone.
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David Pollock
Well, it's David Pollock and I think people going to learn what kind of ball player is. He's got a heart of a lion. I'm real proud of that kid.
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Brent Venables
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.
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David Pollock
It's the most wonderful time of the year in all shapes sizes man. Like the movie. We're throwing down Christmas movies here in the Pollock house. I'm David Pollock. C ball, get ball. We got the bald guy Brett Rollins who will be here who works on on three with pff West Blankenship always running the keys, doing everything else to do with the show. And the playoffs are set, the championship week is done. We are not done talking about the playoff. And so we're gonna, we're gonna finish with this, you know, little take on Notre Dame and then we'll start moving on. Notre Dame took its ball and said we're going home, right? Like, we're not gonna play in the playoff. Unfortunately, I don't think that's the, the first time this is gonna happen. And obviously you've seen several others do it. I think this is gonna have a really big ripple effect on college football. Just like McCaffrey did in 2016. 17 season Leonard Fournette McCaffrey shocked the world. Everybody went nuts. Like, holy cow, what the heck? Player not playing in a bowl game. Now you got teams not doing it. And I think more teams will continue to do this every single year. Notre Dame did it because their captains, you know, talked with Coach Freeman and wanted to do it. That's what, that's the reasoning they gave. Like they didn't want to play. And listen, opt outs happen. You're not the same team. There's a lot that goes into bowl season, man. Coaches, coaches want to play in the bowl season. Coaches get extra practice. When you get extra practice, you get extra wins, right? Like, you get time to develop your guys, your younger guys. Now the calendar the way it is, it makes life hard. But if we go back to the Notre Dame and the decision, if you want to get pissed and you want to get upset and you want to talk about things need to change and things need to expand, like, fine, I'm here for it. We need to expand. Like, there's 67 Power 4 teams in college football. Like a bigger percentage needs to make it because it's playoffs or bust. We know that, like, that's why people are getting fired left and right. But we need to expand the field if we're going to do that. Like, if it's going to be playoff or bust, we need more cracks at the apple. But for this year, specific, man, like, my, my, my biggest gripe and my biggest takeaway is if you look at what happened and why we got to where we're at, if the ACC would have taken their highest ranked team and that's it. Notre Dame's in because we made this a championship thing. We had to take a champion. So because of that, you got two group of five teams in. You don't get the 12 best teams anyways. You usually get the 11 best teams. This year you only get 10 power four spots for 67 teams. So like last year, we fixed the buys. The four by the top four seeds get the buys. So be it. If we're not going to expand, how about you take the best team from each conference? Pretty simple. Like the show is going to be the show. You're going to have that show to talk about football every Tuesday, that that's the way the show was designed for you to watch, for you to have an opinion. That's a good thing. But don't expect it. If you're an FSU fan, you've learned it. And now if you're a Notre Dame fan, don't take it as gold and don't take it like you're safe because we've played it where we had a team, we had a four team playoff and you went from Georgia from one to six. Last year, SMU lost, still stayed in the playoff. This year, Alabama got destroyed in the SEC championship game, still stayed in the playoff. The ball system is going to change. We're going to fix this. But like you hear a bunch of people talking about, you know, what Hugh Freeze talked about with week zero, what Brent's been talking about Week zero, taking the bowl games, moving those to the next season, incentivize that with, with dollars. That's how you make money for the Nil now, to pay your players and fill out your roster. But you know, this is the time of year, man, where we're all going to complain. We all have gripes this year we have more than most because we should. Like, there's no way that the best tournament in the best sport on the planet has two G5 teams in it. It's nothing against James Madison. It's nothing against Tulane. But. But how we're here. It's literally as simple as the ACC's playoff tied conference thing. Taking the highest conference thing. We're in a different world and Notre Dame's in and then everybody's happy. But you know, a lot of changes to come that would have changed things. But that's the last take on Notre Dame. If I'm a Notre Dame player, if I'm a Notre Dame coach, I would want to finish the season. I would want to do what Clark Lee did. Job's not done. I would want to absolutely finish the deal. They made this decision to leave. They talked with their players. Supposedly that's the reason that it went down. I would love to see them play, but I know, I also know that it would not be the same team. So I get it. I understand where they're coming from. I don't think we've seen the last. I think it's going to continue to happen. I think we're going to continue to change this system. But until the presidents decide to step the freak up. The presidents have to step up, man. Coaches are willing, like coaches want to Change the calendar. Presidents run the schedule because of the academics. Academics. Get out of here with that crap. This is semi pro ball. Get the freak out of here with academia.
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Brent Venables
But to someone who teaches in academia.
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David Pollock
Yeah. Don't care the calendar. The calendar needs to be fixed because Everybody's worried about January 6th starting the. Starting the calendar and we have to start school like shut up. We don't need that crap. Get together with the presidents, with the coaches, with some players. Figure this out, man. We can make some change. But if I'm Notre Dame, I still would have played in the bowl game.
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Brent Venables
Yes. And I think it's. It's one A big key. Is there like you said. Who. Who would they have. They would lose a lot of guys that would turn pro.
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David Pollock
Both running backs gone.
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Brent Venables
Not. Yeah. Not play things like that. And in the contrast that you brought up to Clark Lee and how he's talked about this and that response. You know that was. That's how you ideally want things to work. It's like even with. With Georgia in 2023 when they got left out that year all. Almost all those guys played in the. In the bowl game and they just scored again.
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David Pollock
Against Florida State.
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Brent Venables
Against Florida State, 60. There's one thing about this that's interesting that I. I don't know how much it's been talked about. Maybe I've seen it here and there and maybe. Maybe Brady Quinn brought it up. But do you know what Notre Dame's AD's previous job was?
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David Pollock
No.
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Brent Venables
Chairman of NBC Sports.
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David Pollock
So he runs the playoff. He knows the TV's pretty. The TV pretty intricately there. Huh.
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Brent Venables
ESPN like so this is.
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Wesley
There's.
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Brent Venables
There's probably an element of, you know, some birds to. Because. And guess which network the bowl game would have been on? Espn like so. Or abc whatever that may that sort of fan.
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David Pollock
One of the parent networks.
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Brent Venables
Yeah. So in the end I bet if you talk. You know players decision things like that. That might be 49 of it feels like 51 of it is a uppercut to the.
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David Pollock
To the Ace to the ubc, espn, Disney.
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Brent Venables
Very very much so. But yeah the bowl games being the first part of the. Of the season. I wrote about that in like January 2024 rivals and on three merge. So I haven't. I have somebody looking. I think Grok may have actually the AI stuff may have found it somehow that I'm trying to find it exactly. But that was one of the things that I suggested because of the way the calendar should work. Like I. To me ideally New Year's day should be when the semifinals are like college football should own New Year's Day and the, you know, the Rose bowl be a part of that all consistently.
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David Pollock
That's how it used to be in the past too, which was cool.
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Brent Venables
And it's also, you get like the schedule lined up much better that way. You push it back. And then those first two weeks, I'd love to see those first two weeks be kind of alternating conference matchups based upon your year, the record you had the prior year and you know, kind of match teams up and go play, go see good games those first few weeks. And those be bowl games. They could be neutral site games potentially. But yeah, I think that's where it. Because though a lot of those games are good, great money makers. Maybe some of them aren't, but they are a TV product. So create them in the beginning instead of the end of the season.
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David Pollock
And then they mean especially the portal. And then they mean the portal. If you put them in week zero next year, they mean something like if you put like that now actually you're playing for something. Obviously you can put them in, you can still do them at destination spots. You can, you can split the revenue which, which you're going to make. Like I talked to a coach that played a game on week zero this year. They made $5 million. Like yes, please. That's a good chunk of change to like you might go pay for your quarterback. I mean like seriously, that might, that might, that might get you a stud at qb. So it's true, you know, it's a, it's a big part of it. But Brett, we're going to mix this next one, right? We're going to do a little, a little one on one battles and we're.
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Brent Venables
Going to do this.
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David Pollock
Are we going to do this by the numbers with, with pff, like we always do?
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Brent Venables
Yes. Mix and match here. I've got some numbers for some one on one match and maybe not necessarily always one on one, but matchups that these first round games that are actually intriguing and I did have to dig a little bit for a couple of those games. But okay, two of the games were pretty easy because when you look at.
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David Pollock
I bet you're leaning a little towards JMU and, and, and Tulane was a little harder to find some nuggets on.
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Brent Venables
Look, I mean not hard to find nuggets but harder to pinpoint some things. But first game, the one that we talked about is the one we're most intrigued to see. Texas A and M and Miami.
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David Pollock
This is going to be freaking awesome.
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Brent Venables
Like Trey Zoo. So Trey Zoo. And I think I even. Did I see a clip of him.
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David Pollock
Saying, oh, I posted it today, homie. I posted it. Like, he. He basically said, like, I haven't watched a lot of tape, but I'm not really worried about Reuben Bane. That's. That was his. That was his quote to start the bowl season off. I'm like, can we play this game next week, please? Like, skip the buy. Get me to him right now. It was freaking awesome.
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Brent Venables
So I'm going to give you some things where he's like, okay, maybe he's got the. The credence to back it up here. The cred. His pass block grade 96.9. It's the highest in the power four. Not only is it the highest in the power four, it would be the highest ever since PS PFF has done college grading.
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David Pollock
It's pretty good.
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Brent Venables
That's since 2014. So that's 13, you know, 12, 13 years now. And the big reason he's given up one sack, only one pressure against South Carolina in that game that they got messed up in, but zero penalties. He's not been penalized at all all season.
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David Pollock
Pretty impressive, you know. You know, his buddy Crownover on the other side's like, hey, why you got to crank him up, though, and piss him off? Because I got to go against him in Mazador, too. You know, it's interesting. Like, all these Brent, I'm going to get in your world a little bit.
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Wesley
All these.
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David Pollock
All these pff. Nerds in the beginning of the season. And like, oh, my gosh, Desmond Bane.
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Brent Venables
Like.
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David Pollock
Or like Ruben Bane. Excuse me, Bane. By the way, I can't not think of Batman. Every time I hear Bane, Bane's gonna should be in New York for the Heisman. I'm like, bro, pump the brakes here. Like this. You know how hard it is for a defensive player to get there. You have to play both ways. Like, not even. He's only got four and a half sacks now that you just. When you watched him in the beginning of the season, it felt like he had 20. You know what I'm saying? Like, it felt like he was on pace to. To destroy everybody. So, you know, him and Mezador, that one, two punch, you know, Zun might be talking that trash, but his brother on the other side has got to back it up.
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Brent Venables
So let me, let me behind the curtain of PFF a little bit for you. Your numbers in college actually would have been way better had PFF existed back in the day. Because in terms of pff, there is no half sack. So.
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Wesley
Oh really?
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Brent Venables
He's. If you get a sack, it's a sack. Like there is no half sack. How do you get a half sack? That's garbage. So he has seven according to PFF data.
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David Pollock
Dude, you know, in the NFL, in the NFL, you, you knock somebody off to make sure you get the full sack. I'm not lying. Like, you literally, like if you kind of clip your buddy, you'll be like, I got that one by myself, sucker. Like, because you'll get half sack.
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Brent Venables
So that's interesting. And that gets you paid in the.
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David Pollock
In the league, man, you got incentives. You try to feed your family. Absolutely, baby.
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Brent Venables
But you know what's interesting? You talked about going against Bane. So Bain actually like they split him him a Mezador each side they rotate them. But if you go sort of 2/3, 1/3 or 60, 40, Bane attacks the right tackle more. So. So it's crown over. That's going to get that. And crown over, by the way, has It's a completely different story. He's been.
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11 times, most in the.
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Fourth, most in the power four. And he's. He's the one who struggled mightily against South Carolina in Texas, in. In the. In those games. So I bet room of Bain is going to say, hey, I'm going to stay on defensive left side.
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David Pollock
I wonder. I wonder how they do it in Miami because, like, Georgia, like, I got to pick my side.
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You know, like third down. Like, if you had a booger eater or a young guy once, I'm like, all right, I'm on the other side. I'm going to get the booger eater. But that'll be interesting to see if Bane wants that smoke because. Because I'm just telling you, if you run that yapper to me, like, I'm. I want to line up on your side and I want to break you. Like, I want to absolutely rip your head off. So. All right, what else you got?
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Brent Venables
All right. Tulane versus Ole Miss again.
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David Pollock
Oh, geez. Oh, geez. Don't talk about the last game. They lost by five tuddies. So two lane, ladies and gentlemen, it.
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Brent Venables
Wasn'T like it was 23 three at the end of the third quarter and Tulane got stopped on a goal to go. They. They went for it on fourth and goal. So it could have been like 23 to 10 at the end of the third quarter. But the key to me is going to be Wrestlof running because he only had 10 design rush yards. And I'm sure a lot of that was purposeful in that game to keep him healthy for the rest of the year because they're sort of other big games. 83 design rush yards, 55, 46 against North Texas last weekend. And if you're sort of looking for a path, I went back and I'm like, okay, Tulane's actually kind of done this before in this moment. A couple. Not in recent. Recent history, too. When they beat USC in the Cotton Bowl. Pratt that day, Michael Pratt that day, dude, he toted rock 83 yards rushing.
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David Pollock
So it was the running back. That running back was a ball or two. God, Spears. Tajie Spears. He was. He was so good. I remember that game well.
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Brent Venables
And I mean, you watch if you. I don't know how much of the North Texas game you got to see, but, like, they actually could get whatever they wanted in the run game, in that game. So if they can run the football, Red Sloff runs it. Maybe you hang around, keep it close for a little bit.
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David Pollock
Listen, we've got a Great. Like we've got all these numbers for Ole Miss that are fantastic, but you got a new head coach, man. Like, you know, and there's a difference for Pete Golding now running the show versus just running the defense. Like it's a different world, man. The, the communications. Gus Malzahn said it best when he came on our show to start the season. He was like, do you know how much fun it is to be an OC and come to the sidelines and actually look at the iPad and like, give my quarterback a chance to be successful as opposed to worrying about timeouts and what the defense is doing and all this? So like, I think it's, I think it's really. I think it's really an unknown. It's a question mark in the game, how Golding motivates them, how they get, how they get the situational football handled. Do they analytically, do they stay the way they were and stay aggressive? Like, because that, those are, those are in game decisions that are very tough to make, man.
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Brent Venables
And actually I need, I would like to go back and look at that now that you say that, because it feels like in a lot of these games this year, Lane has actually been a little more fourth down conservative, especially like kicking field goals in certain games like that. He's versus like early Matt Corral days, Lane Kiffin, when they played at Alabama that one year and they went for it. When every fourth down known to man.
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David Pollock
Kind of like Dan Lanning too. Dan lanning was like Mr. Mr. Analytic. Like, let's go. Ready, go. Ready, go. It's like playing a video game, which is fantastic. If you could segue a game consistently, you're, you're, you're not very bright.
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Brent Venables
Yeah, just, just segue. Oregon game, JMU running back Wayne Knight. So if you google Wayne Knight, do you know who the first person that pops up when you Google Wayne Knight? Do you ever watch Seinfeld?
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David Pollock
Yeah, of course.
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Brent Venables
Newman.
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David Pollock
That's Newman.
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Brent Venables
That's Newman.
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David Pollock
I didn't think you.
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Brent Venables
I didn't think you would know that one, actually.
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David Pollock
Yeah.
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Brent Venables
Yeah. Wayne Knight for JMU, 10th in the FPS and rush yards. Number two in yard, Georgia Great.
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Wesley
Wayne Knight. He's adult.
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Brent Venables
That's right, ladies and gentlemen. I did remember he was from Georgia and he had 212 and a touchdown against Troy. He doesn't have as many tds as a lot of those other guys in the top and I think that maybe hurts him a little bit because Barnett runs a lot in. I think Barnett has 14 or 15 touchdowns. At quarterback. But him against as a one on one against Bryce Betcher. Who I love his story from Local kid, huh?
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David Pollock
Isn't he the one who played lacrosse?
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Brent Venables
No, baseball. Baseball, yes. He played baseball initially and then came walked onto the football team. When Landon got there he was actually a 13th round pick in the baseball draft. Burlsworth winner last year, dialed into football now, great in coverage as well, really good player. But.
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Last game they played against Washington, he missed three tackles in that game. That was the most in a game in his career of all the two and a half, two years plus that he's been there at Oregon. So you've watched a lot of Wayne Knight against bet.
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David Pollock
I've watched a lot of Oregon. Some people probably haven't watched as much. When I look at their second level at the defense, I don't see the type of second level guys that I see at other spots. I don't see the athletic ability, playmaking at those levels that I do at some other places. And so I'll be very interested to see how that holds up. And listen, it's not going to matter like that. That's against Newman and Company. Newman and company. It's not going to matter. But I am very interested to see Oregon against some. You know.
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Watching them against Indiana was kind of like, whoa, okay. Watching them against Penn State who had some speed at running back and some athletic ability, I was like, oh, they gave up a lot of points and a lot of yards. So I'll be interested to watch that. I know the front seven can kick some ace. I'll be interested to see the tackling grades because again, you know what makes you a worse tackler when you play better players. Like here's the thing, when you're rushed and you have to get your feet set and you're trying to catch somebody who's way faster than you. Like when you watch people go tackle, everybody's taught to shimmy, like shimmy your feet real quick and then make a tackle. Well, when the guy's way faster than you, that shimmy's got to be very brief and then they can juke the absolute pee out of you. So like I think that as we see these defenses get into the higher. I'm, I'm excited to Watch the Big 12 in Texas Tech defense. Like, yes, I think that's where they're. Where they could struggle a little bit if they saw. I'm not worried about the point of attack with either one of those teams. I think the D line is going to be fine. But it's the second level guys that have to make plays in space. It's a different animal when you throw it to Branch, it's a different animal when it goes to Tate, it's a different animal. I could keep going down the list of guys.
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Brent Venables
Surratt and Cooper and apparently Craver.
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David Pollock
Yes. Golly. So it'll be interesting. It'll be interesting to watch those guys.
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Brent Venables
All right, last one of the these first round matchups. Kind of looking into individual matchups. I picked sort of Bama quarterback Ty Simpson slash OC Ryan Grub against Brent Venables blitzes because if you look back to that first game, they blitzed Simpson on two thirds of his drop backs, 32 of 48. It wasn't, they didn't, didn't get a ton of pressure on those but they forced the ball out quick. Average time to throw in the blitz was 2.48 seconds. So he was 17:27 for 190 touchdown interception against the blitz but three turnovery plays. So he had his worst plays. And they, in terms of tackling and what they did game plan wise was all about the blitz. And interestingly enough, what did Georgia do last week or this past weekend against Simpson 61 of his drop backs, they blitzed. It's the most for, in a, for a game, in a game for Georgia's defense since Clemson at the beginning of the season last year. So they pressured him 13 times on the blitz, sacked him 310 of 23 for 141 yards. How is Alabama going to fix and handle and be ready to play against Oklahoma? And Venables blitzing well.
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David Pollock
And here's, and here's the thing to watch again, this is a little nerdy. So bear, bear with me. I always try to say these things like very simply, Alabama loves to play five out. They love to get everybody out into a route. But when what they do is they like to chip with their tight ends in their backs. So it's a slow release. So when I bring pressure at you, you're protecting the edge to help your, to help your right tackle specifically most of the time. But I also have a chance to bring extra bodies before that guy releases into a route. Now they'll delay him and you saw him hit the tight end a little bit late. So like the screen game, they have to do more of the Bernard touchdown was a beautiful design. They have to run more screens, they have to design better offense. They've got to do a better job of creating the run game, being more creative with what they do. Because I got news for you. I can watch Alabama and I can tell you a lot of times what they're going to do conceptually. Like, I literally can tell you emotion. I can tell you with what they're going to do with trips. They love Dagger, which is crease. They love. They love that. Like, that's the kind of stuff, man, that you've got a couple of weeks here, self assess, self scout, watch what they do. And Alabama is going to have to have some answers.
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Wesley
What did y' all think about the difference in the way Alabama called plays in the first half of the Georgia game the first time in Athens compared to the rest of the year? They did it a little bit against Vandy, but it just seemed like they were much more creative in that first half than what I saw most of the rest of the season.
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Brent Venables
I think the biggest difference for me was the absence of Jam Miller because they actually hit two or three against Georgia of traditional screens that you don't really see a lot of anymore. You know, where you're inviting Rush and just throw into the back over top. That. That's. They hit those early in the first half. You know, a lot of those plays on third down and got. They had. Were accepted down the field.
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David Pollock
Well, exceptional and over the middle of the field. And then Georgia was like, nah, bro, you ain't take. You ain't taking the middle. Listen, Wes, people are taking the middle of the field away. Like, that's the way you beat them. You take the middle of the field away. But. But I think the way you combat that is the screens. But it was clear. It was very clear what Alabama's plan was in game two against Georgia. They knew they had to run the football. They had to or they had no shot. They have to create balance. They couldn't, man. They tried over and over. It had nothing to do with Jam Miller. It had a bunch of guys up front getting that hat whipped, like, getting beat like they stole something. Like, you got to get some move. Alabama doesn't diagnose guys up front really well. Like, they don't. They don't see the. Some reason. There's always. There's a lot of people that get run throughs and I don't know why the communication isn't always there, but they don't knock people off the ball and have that just nasty physicality either. So they've got some time, man. Like, figure it out, screen it. Yes. Get healthy. But. But I do think there's like, they. They're. They've. We've been saying it here, man. They're leaking oil. They've been leaking oil. So you now have some time to go see the mechanic. You get to get the oil, get the, get the. Get the thing. Get all the things fixed, man. Like get this worked on self scout be the best version of you. And you have tape against the opponent that you've played against too. So those are. Those are helpful. All right.
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Brent Venables
Since you brought it up though, one number, one number since you brought it up. Now there were some drops, a lot of drops. Like Williams dropped a touchdown outside the numbers in that game against Georgia. Ty Simpson was 1 of 12 for 2 yards.
- [28:47]
David Pollock
I feel like somebody's been saying that on this show a lot. So like we've been talking about that.
- [28:52]
Brent Venables
Like you're going to shout out Mr. RBS Bentley for the super.
- [28:55]
David Pollock
Yes, I am. I missed the rip Bulls portion of the stream which was in the beginning. With that said, My first UGA game I saw was the 2005 Outback bowl which David Pollock and David Green was their last game. I hope the Bulls survive. I do too. That was a good game. By the way.
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Brent Venables
Erasmus James played defensive end Wisconsin game, right?
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David Pollock
Wisconsin. You know who their tackle was?
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Hall of Fame, hall of Fame Wisconsin Joe Thomas. Joe Thomas was the tackle. I had four sacks and I was the MVP of that game. The last play of my college career was almost the same as South Carolina play. I took it from Stocko on the 12 yard line while I was throwing and then we never gave the ball back. Thomas Brown toted rock who coaches in the NFL now. Thomas Brown toted rock and finished the deal. Rbs you demand dog. Appreciate that. Appreciate you letting me brag on myself.
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Brent Venables
Was that. Was it on New Year's day? Was it on New Year's Day?
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David Pollock
I don't know. I know it was.
- [29:52]
Brent Venables
I'm pretty sure those game. That game was on New Year's Day.
- [29:54]
David Pollock
It was on New Year's.
- [29:55]
Brent Venables
And the reason I say that thumbs up is because I was probably working because I always did my schedule watching games. Well my. No my this was grad school pharmacist me. So I was working in the pharmacy because I always worked New Year's Day because my. So I could go home so we could go home and do things for Christmas. So I always work New Year's Day those first years that I was that I lived here. So I probably missed that game live listened on the radio. Let me tell you a funny story about that. Yeah. So I'm at work one Saturday and that Just moved here and lady comes up to the counter and I, she asked what we had the game on the radio in the back of the pharmacy and she says, what's the score of the game? And I said, I, I said they're up like 10. I said, but according to the guy that's doing the announcing, you're losing by 30. He's the most negative person I've ever heard. And he's a straight face. And she goes, don't you ever talk about Larry Munson like that. And I was like, okay, yeah, lesson learned.
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David Pollock
West Virginia boy coming down south, don't know about that life. You don't want that smoke.
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Wesley
Cuz I'm, I'm sure Larry went to bed really early on New Year's Eve, the night before New Year's Day.
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David Pollock
I'm sure he did too. All right, next segment. I think everybody's going to like this actually outside of several teams. Which teams in the college football playoffs can win a national championship? I'm excited to get the other guys takes too as we, as we get in this. I got four, I got four teams that can win a national championship.
- [31:32]
Here's what's crazy. Three of them are in the Big Ten. So again, you give me the odds. Big Ten versus the field. I'll take them. The best conference, most, the most depth in a conference. The most good teams in a conference, absolutely. Going to take the sec. But when you talk about winning it all, you've got to have something special. You know what Indiana has? Heisman Trophy winning quarterback. You know what Ohio State has? 2 first round wide receivers, a quarterback that's a Heisman Trophy finalist. You know what Oregon has Dante Moore, a guy who will be a first round pick in the NFL whenever that happens. Gunner Stockton's been good. Gunner Stockton's been really good. He don't throw the ball like those guys. Like he can't do what those guys can do with his arm. So my four teams that could win a national championship, obviously Indiana, obviously Ohio State, obviously Oregon and then the University of Georgia. Those are my four teams that I said like if you, if you, if you're going to bet on, like I don't, I don't look at odds. We don't bet. One of the things you'll find here is we're not a gambling team, we're not gambling site. We don't do that. Like it's just not who we are and what we want to be about. But those four, for my money, most complete teams. Now Georgia's the Wild card in there. Because Georgia's literally going to like, you know those, those things you see online now all the time, like those slapping competitions, like Georgia's going to stand in front of you and be like, all right, business. You get the first slap, go ahead and like just, you're going to eat it. But then you got to sit in a chair. Like, you got to sit in the chair next because that first, that first knock ain't going to knock them out. Like, they're going to get their slap. And so you've got to be willing to eat that slap. And they, they can enforce their style. I think more than anyone. If we're going to get on, on the periphery and start going past that list, like Texas Tech plays great defense. There, there is no way that the Raiders fans feel good about the Red Raiders feel good about their offense. Like too many question marks. Same thing with Alabama, a lot of question marks. Same thing with Oklahoma. Down the list we could go. Obviously when you throw in JMU and Tulane, I mean.
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They can't win a game, more or less win several games that you streak together. But y' all boys, y', all, y' all boys can chime in anytime you want and tell me if I'm wrong. To me, there's four teams and it's, you know, it's crazy. If you had a four team playoff, those four teams would be in it.
- [34:07]
Brent Venables
Texas Tech would be in.
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David Pollock
Ah, I don't know. Yeah, they would, I don't know.
- [34:12]
Brent Venables
It'd be the current top four.
- [34:13]
David Pollock
Maybe, maybe. I don't know. I, I would be interested to see how that would be handled. I, I, it might be handled differently with the old, the old school, the way it was. But you probably, you probably wouldn't get four from a conference. Texas Tech would probably be in. You're right. But tell, tell me I'm wrong. Brett Rollins, give me some numbers and tell me I'm wrong.
- [34:32]
Brent Venables
You're not. Because the way, when we looked at this as a topic, I thought of maybe a better way to ask this because after the top five, I don't know that I would pick anyone. Texas Tech is one that's a friend for me. Just because I want to see their defense that will be rested. Like that's, that's the, that unit rested. And maybe Gil Howard comes back. I haven't seen anything like that. I want to look and see if he's going to be able to come back.
- [34:57]
David Pollock
Yeah, but they still got to play offense, Brent.
- [34:59]
Brent Venables
I, I get that, I get that. But I. I think all these games are going to be like first to 20 kind of games. All of them, a lot. Well, once you get past that first round. Yeah, once you get past the first round, especially when you get 18, I think.
- [35:12]
David Pollock
I think when you get past the second round, maybe.
- [35:15]
Brent Venables
So my better question is, if you had to pick one team outside of the top five, who would you pick if you had to?
- [35:27]
David Pollock
Oh, man.
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Golly.
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You know.
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I'd probably go A and M.
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I'd go. I'd go A and M because I. A and M. When they play well offensively, all A and M's got to do is get up 14 and then they can turn cash's how and company loose and they're really good and turn the blitz packages loose like. And remember Craver and Concepcion, they ain't. They are not. They are not easy, bro. And you want to talk about defense, you're going to have to tackle those guys over and over again. I think they'll hand it to him more. Reed can run it more like. And A and M is def. Listen, A and M, they're streaky, right? Like they're up and down. But when they put it together, I don't think you want that smoke like they can. They can get as hot as anyone in the country. I think their defense has been a little bit inconsistent for me. But their offense, man, they've got weapons all across the field. And so I would say A and.
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David Pollock
Done about you.
- [38:33]
Brent Venables
If you told me they were completely healthy, I might say Alabama.
- [38:37]
Because of the reset. But I don't think they're going to be completely healthy. My other thought was Miami because I know I got game records at defensive ends. Yep. I know I've got big time receiver. That's big time, tough to cover. And as much as you don't necessarily trust Carson Beck in big moments right now, he's been playing really well recently and they can for the most part protect. So.
- [39:09]
David Pollock
So you would, you would say Miami.
- [39:12]
Brent Venables
If I had to pick one outside.
- [39:14]
David Pollock
Of the top five, saying you have to pick one.
- [39:17]
Brent Venables
Yeah, I would pick Miami.
- [39:18]
David Pollock
Really. It's interesting.
- [39:22]
Brent Venables
The amazing part is I don't even that doesn't mean I'm going to pick them in the game.
- [39:25]
David Pollock
About to say you I know your pick.
- [39:28]
Brent Venables
No, I, I don't know that. But it's because it's more about winning three games.
- [39:34]
Wesley
Yes.
- [39:34]
Brent Venables
Than just winning one. I, I think they're at a big disadvantage going on the road like that. That's an element that we saw last year. All the home teams won. Now granted, all the home teams weren't very much. Were the better team.
- [39:46]
David Pollock
Yeah, they were way better.
- [39:47]
Brent Venables
All the home teams won. So like that's if they get through week one, that would be the one team to me that could potentially win two more. I don't think any of the others can win two more with what's in front of them. Like Ole Miss. Could they score a bunch on some teams and could they? Could they? I mean the heck, they almost beat Georgia in Athens.
- [40:09]
David Pollock
They just gotta stop you.
- [40:10]
Brent Venables
Oh you I don't trust OU's offense independent of the of the God completely.
- [40:16]
David Pollock
Change a lot of if you got first of the year. Ohu's offense, maybe they figure some things out too. Rich all said, look at A M's schedule with some lack laughy things. Look at their players. I'm just telling you, bro, they got some good ones, man.
- [40:27]
Brent Venables
Well, in a. In a game of. That's as you get in these more competitive games, better teams, one or two plays might swing it. You've got. You've got big time game changers, game records on each side of the ball for A M with Concepcion and Craver and then Cassius. How defensive then. And even York, I think at linebackers can make some game changing type.
- [40:49]
David Pollock
He's a baller. He's an absolute baller. Big time, big time instincts.
- [40:54]
Brent Venables
But that's a lot of different. We got a lot of different thoughts in the chat.
- [40:57]
David Pollock
Yeah, we. The chat's amazing. The chat's fantastic. All right, Wesley, you want to kick this next one off on. On the. I think you got some. You got the goods for this one, right?
- [41:05]
Wesley
Yeah, you know, one. One thing I wanted to add on Oregon, something that's interesting and I don't know if this makes you change your mind or reconsider a little bit. How you look at them, if they make it all the way to the natty, look at the cities they have to go to. They've got to go to Miami. If they win first round, they've got to go to Atlanta and then they got to go back to Miami. I mean, that's a lot of east coast travel for them. That's a. That's a bit of a travel gauntlet. All right.
- [41:32]
David Pollock
That is.
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Wesley
Let's look.
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David Pollock
That is really. That's a great point, Wesley.
- [41:35]
Wesley
Let's look at the vault from the beginning of the year. All right. I'm going to pick what I thought was your best pick and what I thought was maybe your most ungood pick. You want to start with.
- [41:50]
David Pollock
You smirked when you're like.
- [41:54]
Wesley
You want to start with the good or the bad first?
- [41:56]
David Pollock
Let's start with the bad.
- [41:57]
Brent Venables
Okay.
- [41:58]
David Pollock
Let's get the bad out the way.
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Wesley
Sorry to Scott Van Pelt. Kind of catching a stray here. Y' all weren't alone on this one, though.
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Brett Rollins
I'm long on Clemson. I'm just. I'm just telling you. You're in on them too, huh?
- [42:09]
David Pollock
Yeah. All in.
- [42:11]
Brett Rollins
Well, that's their saying in Clemson. Well, they have that little chip, right? You're supposed to put that.
- [42:16]
David Pollock
Put the chip in, baby. I'm all in, too. I'm with you.
- [42:18]
Brett Rollins
All right, you and me, David. I'll line up and I'll. I'll put my chip in there with them.
- [42:27]
Brent Venables
I.
- [42:29]
Brett Rollins
There's. I have very little that I feel as. And I'm not certain about that. That's the thing I feel best about the team that I believe in the most, that I just. I felt like I saw it last year. They've invested within their program. They've retained the people that matter. They've got freaks on defense and. And Klubnick, I think can do it. And you saw those young receivers grow throughout the year. Last year, I just.
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Brett Rollins
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David Pollock
Yeah, baby.
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Wesley
How that hit you?
- [43:04]
David Pollock
Ah, I mean, it didn't taste good, but, hey, at least it didn't rip your heart out. You knew early, baby, it wasn't those that you go, man, I'm going to beat that horse down the stretch and we going. We going to get it done. Nah, bro, they were out. They were out. Week one. Like, it was like, all right, they're gone.
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Wesley
What a. What an odd season it's been. Brent's pick for the record, still alive, the Georgia Bulldogs. We'll get to Brent in a minute, though. Brent, I'm not done. I'm not done with you. I'm not. I'm not done with myself either. I've got some cell phones as well. All right, here's the good news. You nailed this one. This one right here. We've already talked about a good bit tonight talking about the cfp.
- [43:42]
David Pollock
I think that people are going to realize about A and M. I think their offense is going to be a problem this year because if you look across the line of scrimmage on that O line, like, they got a lot of bodies, a lot of girth. They got Bell at running back. Who's going to dot your eyeballs. They. They got a QB that can absolutely fly and can throw the football. They've built it with weapons, I think, that are quick, elusive, can do. Can add the jet sweep component and the. The plus one in the running game. I think with Marcel Reed is going to be a big deal and it's going to be very difficult.
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Wesley
Okay, that one right there. One of our. I think one of our best videos of the year. One of our best shorts. So good job on that. A and M living up to. To the David Pollock hype machine. So next thing I want to do, take a look at some of the teams we eliminated.
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Brent Venables
Are you gonna. Is this. Is this. Is this week yourself Is this. We look in the mirror.
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Wesley
Oh, yeah.
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David Pollock
Week one.
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Wesley
Eliminator I want to do a little competition here. I want to kind of call back to the college football final era when Lou Holtz and Mark May were in that fake courtroom and Reese was kind of the judge. Okay. My Bama eliminator after losing to FSU versus Brent's Vandy. Non 0 CFP chance, which claim do you think was more egregious?
- [45:09]
David Pollock
Yours by far.
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Kevin Harlan
Why?
- [45:12]
David Pollock
That was.
- [45:13]
Brent Venables
That was initially.
- [45:15]
David Pollock
Well after.
- [45:16]
Brent Venables
At the. At the moment in time that he did that. And that's. That's the first impression.
- [45:22]
David Pollock
It was a beat down to fsu. It was over. Like it was. Right.
- [45:25]
Brent Venables
So. So the legitimacy of it. But like me still saying at that point in time, Vandy could be 10 and two playoff team. Everybody still probably thought I was crazy because that was after week one.
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So legitimacy there.
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Wesley
What do you think's worse? Bama getting in or Vandy being left out?
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That's one way to ask it.
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Brent Venables
I mean, should have been.
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David Pollock
Bama beat Vandy.
- [45:52]
Wesley
I don't think. I don't think Bama should have been in either.
- [45:54]
David Pollock
Bama beat Vandy. Like, that's. That's. If we're gonna do the Notre Dame, Miami thing, stand the freak up, everybody and own it. Like Bama beat Vandy. Like, they tapped him out in the end of the game. Ran the football. Actually the only game they actually could run the football. Look like old school. Just run the football straight ahead. They beat Vandy. Sorry, Vandy.
- [46:14]
But any other.
- [46:15]
Brent Venables
And he finished 10 and 2.
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David Pollock
Great team.
- [46:17]
Brent Venables
Great squad. They did.
- [46:19]
David Pollock
They got better, bro. They got better.
- [46:22]
Wesley
Yeah. Bama with the negative three rushing yards in the committee saying earlier in the year that they were knocking them back because they can't run the ball. Well, I know they're banged up, but negative three is pretty rough. Any other predictions that stood out for y'?
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Brett Rollins
All?
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Wesley
Looking back on the year, those were the only two sound bites I had. But anything y' all want to revisit, that's. That's changed throughout the course of the year that you didn't expect.
- [46:43]
Brent Venables
So Davey also had Miami in the playoff, so that was. That was a sort of positive.
- [46:49]
David Pollock
You had Ole Miss in.
- [46:50]
Brent Venables
I had Ole Miss in. So that we got that right.
- [46:53]
David Pollock
We could have put ours together. That have been great.
- [46:55]
Brent Venables
Yes. We should have just. And eliminated Clemson and Penn State from that and Arizona State and there's Boise. I think we both picked Boise as the. As the G5 rep team. But we over two. Other than we. Other than having Bam in the SEC championship and Ohio State in the Big Ten championship. Every other participant in the championship games, we got wrong.
- [47:17]
David Pollock
Yeah, but hey, the acc, shoot, if you, if you got that right, you, you probably living good, living high on the.
- [47:24]
Brent Venables
I had, I had Georgia Tech. I did have them as one, so they were, they were close.
- [47:27]
David Pollock
But yeah, we talked about Georgia Tech a lot in the preseason.
- [47:32]
But yeah, I mean, listen, it's, it's impossible to do that. LSU was another team that was talked about to pick. I mean, it's, it's all, It's a crapshoot, man. But. But it was good to see. You know what? We didn't, we didn't, we didn't have Indiana winning the Big Ten. I know that.
- [47:48]
Brent Venables
No, I thought, hey, I did say one of the eyes would make the playoffs. I just picked the wrong one.
- [47:52]
David Pollock
Yeah, that's right.
- [47:53]
Wesley
Illinois, you know, Texas pick over A M was, was pretty solid because that was one that. I don't think anybody, not a lot of people were really going on the record and saying, even though the odds had Georgia in the SEC championship against Alabama, so clearly some people thought that, but you nailed that one. And yeah, weird, weird year in terms.
- [48:20]
Brent Venables
Of when we did our national championship predictions. Mine is actually my final game pick is still alive and they were on opposite sides of the bracket. I had Georgia and Oregon. You picked in the championship.
- [48:31]
Wesley
You sure did.
- [48:32]
Brent Venables
But when I talked about Georgia, it was like, I thought, I thought they would get clipped early because of the youth of the team like Auburn or Tennessee. And Gunner made the throw of the season for, for the team and then obviously the play at the goal line for Auburn. So they win those two games and it's a whole different story because. But the youth is definitely getting better and better and better.
- [48:54]
Wesley
I think one of the three of us brought up the fact that if Duke won the acc, that JMU and Tulane would both be in and that. That wasn't received very well by Brent.
- [49:04]
David Pollock
Yeah, Brent, definitely. Sure, he shrugged me off pretty quickly, but he's, he's not wrong. This shouldn't have been.
- [49:11]
Yeah, I mean, definitely shouldn't have been Duke. Duke could win. Like, Duke could win a game. Like, I mean, listen, nobody's going to pick Duke with, with the amount of times they broke your heart this year. All right, well, let's end this thing with who won the weekend. We do it every week. We've done the eliminator every week. But obviously the, the college football committee did the eliminating and if we were on there, it would have been Notre Dame. So I think everybody Had Notre Dame on the college football eliminator. Unfortunately for, for Notre Dame, but who won the weekend?
- [49:46]
I'll start Mendoza, Signetti, Indiana. Like, yeah, I mean, whatever we need to tip, whatever we need to give you, man, like what a freaking season. Like unbelievable to, to go back to back great seasons. But to do what they just did, to go undefeated, to beat Ohio State. Nobody in the world thought they could do it except them. Nobody in the world picked Mendoza to win a Heisman. We thought it'd be good. We didn't think he'd win a Heisman. Indiana, undefeated. First ever time they've done been at number one in the country. So many firsts. Like, to me the most surprising thing of the weekend was, was Indiana and Signetti and company doing what they did. And you just gotta tell them. You just got to give them credit. I just, I, I'm just impressed it's released about what they did. It's unbelievable.
- [50:38]
Brent Venables
And I mean I've seen people talk about this, their turnaround being, you know, unlike anything in sport, all sport. And it is like you see a lot of worse. The first in other sports.
- [50:51]
David Pollock
Braves win.
- [50:51]
Brent Venables
Sorry, that one. That's for sure. But in terms, I, I agree with Indiana. So since you had picked that one, I went elsewhere. I went the combination of. Or Texas Tech, Joey McGuire and can't forget Cody Campbell because he was up there.
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They won. They, they showed that they. And the big thing is when you do things like that and then you show that you as a coach can blend all of that and create a team.
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Tip of the cap to you. You won the weekend. You won the Big 12 championship after never having won it before.
- [51:28]
David Pollock
So Texas, I can't wait to watch.
- [51:29]
Brent Venables
Them wire Campbell in the playoff.
- [51:31]
David Pollock
Man, I really can't wait to watch because, Because I'll be honest, I don't know. I don't know what to expect. Like, I think they're one of those teams that I'm going to be very curious to see how they come out and how they respond to the playoff atmosphere and how they, how they play, like offensively, defensively. Like, you know, they're going to play a really, really good team in the second round. And I'm just really curious to see. I mean, listen, all these teams with the rust and coming off of bye last year didn't suit them well. So let's see how all the teams do. Wesley, who you got, bro?
- [52:02]
Wesley
I got Mike Bobo and B O.
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David Pollock
B O. Yeah.
- [52:06]
Wesley
So, you know, I think a lot of people have heard by now the story about Kirby asking the team before the game if you've beaten Alabama, if you're a senior, stand up. I don't. Guys, is there a senior that is playing defense for Georgia? I don't think so. Off the top of my head I can't really think of any. That's a young.
- [52:25]
Brent Venables
The only one that had been on a team he didn't play against them was Michael Morris. But I don't think he. I think he was actually he was the only one who's even on the team at that point in time. But yeah, yeah. Nobody. Nobody played against them in one.
- [52:36]
Wesley
So. So for that reason because the defense is so young and the redemption of Mike Bobo absolutely getting filleted in that first Alabama game even though he called a pretty good one had a drop touchdown and Taylor Taylor was going to have a touchdown if. If Gunners pass didn't get Frazier fumbled.
- [52:54]
David Pollock
Inside the 20 coming out. That was elbows fault too.
- [52:57]
Wesley
Yeah yeah Mike Bobo look he got called out. It's a high emotional matchup and they get the monkey off the back in the SEC championship game. My favorite play going back and watching it was the dagger to Branch. They set up looking like they're going to throw another third down screen to Cash. Yeah totally fakes them out like acts like he's going up to catch a pass that takes Hubbard out of the play and Branches gonna do some Branch things. I don't know if there's a lot of guys give.
- [53:31]
David Pollock
Give Lucky some credit.
- [53:32]
Wesley
He blocked suckers so Bobo in his bag and back to back SEC champs.
- [53:39]
Brent Venables
Did you see Ernie Johnson on game day? The clip of him on game day and he was like hey Georgia fans I'm sorry about this but Alabama's gonna score a touchdown late to cut the lead to 17.
- [53:53]
And it was almost. It was 14 when they scored in.
- [53:56]
David Pollock
The fourth quarter to cut it almost nailed it.
- [53:58]
Brent Venables
So he basically almost nailed that perfectly. So.
- [54:02]
David Pollock
And then Bobo the duo wrap with. With inserting the tight. The wide receiver as the kick out player near the goal line on Frazier's touchdown. Like that was freaking Sean McVeigh. And let me tell you something, that's. That's an awesome thing to run in the future because I think Georgia's. That's Georgia's content with who they are and they're going to be ground and pound and that's the kind of stuff that now you go, you run that play and you slip it and you go to the flats and you run a shoot route. Like there's a lot you can do off of it. But I look forward to the creativity with all the people that time off. But Bobo, Ole Miss, Bobo, Tennessee, everybody wanted to fire Bobo. And if you look at this season, what he did with Gunner Stockton, who did better, I mean it'd be hard to find someone who did better than what he did this season. Mike Bubba, I agree.
- [54:50]
Brent Venables
Maybe, maybe you vote for him for the Broyles award.
- [54:53]
David Pollock
Yeah, baby.
- [54:56]
Brent Venables
Did you.
- [54:56]
David Pollock
Oh, speak.
- [54:57]
Brent Venables
Since you brought that up. Did you see. You probably didn't see this. I tweeted out Georgia under center percentage was like almost 37% in the SEC championship game in the regular season. It was like 18 or it was like 13, 14, almost three times.
- [55:13]
David Pollock
I bet you see, I bet you see more of that moving forward too. I mean just it puts Gunner in a good position for sure to have more play action, to have more variants of run game. You know, when you, when you know where the back is, man, as a defense it allows you to slant certain calls and do certain things against it. So I think that's another thing that he did well. All right, dudes, we'll be back.
- [55:36]
Brent Venables
Time to land it.
- [55:37]
David Pollock
Yeah, land. Land the plane, baby. West. West. When will we be back? Because we got all kinds of stuff coming this week. We got Cassius, how we got Marcel Reed. Those will be together, which will be a lot of fun. We'll get that.
- [55:48]
Wesley
Yeah, we'll have. We kind of have this CFP lull for a couple weeks where we don't have a lot to actually react to outside of like transfer portal news, maybe some coaching hire news. So we'll stick with a Monday, Wednesday for sure. Live at 8:30 and then throughout the week just check back in because we're going to have some good combos with players and coaches leading up to the cfp. So we're not taking a break just because your favorite team is. We'll. We'll be around.
- [56:18]
David Pollock
We will be around.
- [56:19]
Brent Venables
Appreciate you.
- [56:19]
Wesley
Have a good week. See you soon.
- [56:21]
David Pollock
Absolutely. Thanks.