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College Football Week 1: What We Learned by the Numbers | CFP Predictions Re-Evaluated
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https://www.youtube.com/@DavidPollackCFB?sub_confirmation=1 College Football Week 1: What We Learned by the Numbers | CFP Predictions Re-Evaluated College Football analysis from CFB Hall-of-Famer, three-time First-Team All-American and First-Round NFL Draft Pick David Pollack and Scheme / Data Analyst Brent Rollins. #collegefootball #cfb #ncaafootball Garrett Nussmeier Carson Beck Julian Sayin Tommy Castellanos Respond in the comments, SUBSCRIBE and CLICK THE BELL for notifications Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/david-pollack-college-football/id1769665459 Spotify Podcasts: https://open.spotify.com/show/1t835E1wS2wOc9dp85EeJV?si=b78f59b53b754023 SUBSCRIBE to The Family Goals Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@FamilyGoalsPod?sub_confirmation=1 Speaking: https://davidpollack.com X: https://x.com/davidpollack47 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidpollack47/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dpollack47 Produced by: https://www.bigstoryco.com
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- [00:00]
David Pollack
What's up, everybody? David Pollack here of C Ball Get Ball podcast. I hope you like it, man. Be sure to follow the show Wherever you subscribe, YouTube or any of your other platforms. Everybody, welcome back on in to see Ball Get Ball. It's Monday night. We're going to keep staying on our course like every week during the season. Mondays at 8:30 we're going to be live so you guys can, so we can play these same games, talk about the same information, talk about different teams, talk about the weekend. We're going to talk a lot about the numbers don't lie, the big numbers that stuck out to us. We're going to talk about College Football Playoff do over. Yes, please. I think after week one there's a couple probably that you could go right away and then victory formation. Who won the weekend? Like there's, there's some clear choices probably for those to who won the weekend. But I think we start with what did we learn? And I think we're going to learn every week. That's the beauty of now playing games. Like we're going to learn and our opinions are going to change and they're going to morph. But one thing that I was reminded by Brent, I didn't necessarily learn, but I was reminded that Lee Corso is the goat. That's my first one. He picked Ohio State, he picked fsu, he picked lsu, he picked Miami. All six teams. He either played for or coached one. So basically whatever league Corso picks every single week, go with it. Like, oh, wait, he's done. He's done. But that stinks like that. We're gonna miss him. But, but coach goes out like the goat goes out in style. So we did. I learned that that's first off the jump. Like just kind of a, a nice Lee Corso ism to start it off.
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Brent Rollins
Did you. So I saw this. I didn't. And I know we're not the of the betting variety, but I saw if you had played his parlay like all those picks, it was like plus 8, 700. So you would have made an insane amount of money.
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David Pollack
I don't even know what that means. We're not huge gamblers. But you can, you can take any advice you want and do what you want with it.
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Brent Rollins
You would get a lot of money for very little money that you put in.
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David Pollack
Yes. So what's the first thing Brit Rollins learned this weekend?
- [02:08]
Brent Rollins
Miami's edge combination is beyond legit with Reuben, Bain and Mazador, which by the way, I had for like I had forgotten that he started his career at West Virginia.
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David Pollack
Yeah.
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Brent Rollins
This is sixth year playing college football. He's almost 25 years old at Mazador. That is.
- [02:24]
David Pollack
How dare you forget a fellow mountaineer. That's dirty.
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Brent Rollins
Shame on me by the way. Shame on me. But Reuben Bain like is a game changing, like game wrecking type player. Top 10 pick guy. His 90, 94.4 overall PFF grade the highest of his career in terms of single game Boat and Mezadors was I think the second highest of his career. So the, like the, in terms of production from those guys, it's been quite a while. Like even when Bane was a freshman with like Leonard Taylor since they've gotten that level of production in a game and that to me is game changing for them independent of the offensive stuff.
- [02:57]
David Pollack
They had the defense and Blay and Scott and the other guys that continue to rotate on the middle too like they were, they weren't a one man band. But I think the pass rush repertoire is, is pretty solid. This is not a huge one but. But I learned that Arch Manning just wasn't ready for the moment yet. And that's not, that's not his fault. That's. I know we were talking about him and all the hopes and all the things and that's, that's placed upon him and everybody talked about him and I heard some, some grand statements about you know, the generational type of a talent. He was sped up, he was hurried. That's what happens when you go on the road, man. It's hard to play on the road, especially at a place like Ohio State with that kind of hyp. He, he, he was off target on about, on 30%, 30 something percent of his throws which is not a good number I would imagine. Brent, that'll be his worst game like period will be his worst game of the season. The weapons in them will continue to gel and get better. But the hype was too much. It was not his fault, but he wasn't ready for that stage yet at this time will be interesting to monitor him and to watch like throughout the season and then if he gets another chance and then to prove himself down the road in big games. But right off the jump he wasn't ready for the hype.
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Brent Rollins
No. By the way, first play of the game, little rollout that he like left like five yards short.
- [04:15]
David Pollack
He skipped.
- [04:17]
Brent Rollins
Yeah, that was wide open. Interesting though, he like he had four big time throws which was late.
- [04:23]
David Pollack
All late, right?
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Brent Rollins
Yes, all late.
- [04:25]
David Pollack
Yeah.
- [04:26]
Brent Rollins
But one of the, I think second highest in the, in the Nation. And I think the thing that's. If you want to say, hey, what's a positive? And this is, I'll sort of preempt some of the numbers because this is one that I had. He was pressured on 41 of his drop backs. He's only sacked once. And if that sort of. At that rate, your pressure versus sack percentage, how often you get pressured versus how often you're sacked, that 7.1%, that would have been the best in the Power Four a year ago. So his ability to at least handle pressure, escape, get rid of the ball, avoid sack, scramble, things like that, I think that's something that, okay, moving forward.
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David Pollack
And he stays in the pocket. I think it's not, it's not just a scramble. To me. I was impressed with the way he would move just subtly and still try to throw. I think you clean up some of those layups that he missed. Which, which there's several, like several layups. And then you clean up your eyes in the looks. And here's the thing, as you play, you develop instincts more and more. You've seen that, like, I'm not as confused. You go to the sidelines, you break out the iPad, you're like, okay, like, I remember when somebody did this to me. I'm going to put it in my data bank. And so like, yeah, you did see some big time throws, especially late when they had to. And they let it rip. I would argue too, maybe Sark lets it rip a little bit more. Like, yeah, maybe calls the game a little bit more aggressively. But like, that was one thing I definitely learned. What's your second thing, homie?
- [05:48]
Brent Rollins
So I went to the sort of big picture part other than his bank account. I would not want to be Kaylin DeBoer right now. It's just not, it's, it's, it's not a, that, that it's like blood in the waters and the sharks are feasting right now. And you know, thank you, Street 8, whatever. Street 86, however you say that, smash the like button. Thank you. Appreciate that. It's 7 7, by the way. TCU just tied up North Carolina for those that are watching and while listening to us. But yeah, and then I saw the press conference today where Deborah's like, you say that versus what the.
- [06:21]
David Pollack
The.
- [06:22]
Brent Rollins
It was just sort of a back and it just didn't look like somebody who control. There's this, there's so much of, of college football that's with the head coach position. Do you feel like you have the right person and that Your program. And it's, it's. It's kind of like the stock market. It's very perception based. But that is a bad look. And I would not want to be him other than the bank account.
- [06:45]
David Pollack
Could anybody have exceeded or succeeded him? Like, I just don't. I think he was put in an impossible situation. He's a really good football coach, man. A really good football coach, but you're replacing the best ever. And I had the same thing. I just said, Bama's trend is now continuing to trend. Lost three of the last four last year. Now come in. And it wasn't like it was a competitive game and you lost late. It was a bad game and you got smashed like. Speaking of smashing the like button, you got smashed like.
- [07:18]
Brent Rollins
Yes.
- [07:18]
David Pollack
Saban was 230 and four against unranked opponents at Alabama. 230 and four. Kaylin Deborah is 14 and four against unranked teams. Dan Lanning's 25 and. Oh. So just giving you like, like numbers of coaches and different things in that arena. It's not a good start. I thought.
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Brent Rollins
Replaced the guy, huh? You never want to be the guy that replaces the, the goat guy. You want to be the next guy.
- [07:45]
David Pollack
No. In the press conference, man, the thing that, the thing that I, I don't think plays exceptionally well in the locker room is when you say, I watched the tape and I was trying to find out why guys, when we put them in calls and we showed them things that were coming that they weren't successful. And I need a coach that stands up there in a bulletproof vest, bro, and takes all the shots for me. Like, he just, boom, boom, boom. He's getting bodied. Like, he's getting shot. But he's got my back. And no matter what has my back. And I think, you know, you've seen out on social media a million people pointing out effort. And I just, I kind of laugh at some of these people that like that. Some of these tape guys that consider themselves tape guys that point out things like effort like that. You could point that out last year. You could point that out with every team at some point during a football game. Like, that happens everywhere. But I think the, the line of scrimmage and the toughness factor about Alabama, you want that in your squad, right? You want playing hard and being tough and being physical to be a staple of your program. Not making mistakes like. And those are things that right now they just, they aren't staples. And that's, that's not, that's not a great thing. For Alabama and Deborah. And you're right, like the. Here comes all the questions and all the things. Man, that's going to be something. It's going to be nauseating, annoying. It's going to be hard to concentrate. It's going to be hard not to be negative around there.
- [09:14]
Brent Rollins
Yep. All right, what was your next one?
- [09:18]
David Pollack
I am confident that, that Michigan's. That I learned that Michigan's passing attack is going to be way, way more formidable. They only threw for 251 and that looks like a bad number. That's more at any point than the season. Last year they had more yards than any point in the season. Like Bryce Underwood made some plays and made some throws that I was like, okay, that looked pretty dang good. So I think, like, I think Michigan, along with the defense, that, that wasn't as, as dialed in as I think that they're used to being. But you still see a bunch of playmakers, a bunch of sacks, a bunch of pressures, a bunch of turnovers. That's what they do. Along with a more balanced attack. This year. We got a good one coming at Oklahoma this week. We got a fun. Underwood vs. Mater will be dirty.
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Brent Rollins
And, and especially if you're looking at like, if you're a fantasy football junkie, like what Mattier just did this past weekend with like almost four hundo and a bunch of touchdowns and you know, a rushing touchdown as well. But the thing with Underwood is now he has to go on the road like, like Ty Simpson did, like C.J. carr did, like all these sort of young guys that are in new places did. But yours actually kind of blends with. The last thing that I learned is we've got some big time talented true freshman QBs. And please tell me you saw at least the highlights of the Cow kid.
- [10:43]
David Pollack
Yes.
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Brent Rollins
I'm just going to use his initials, jks. I don't even want to Jaren something like I will butcher it to the nth degree his last name, but holy cow, that, like if you put that, like if you told me that kid was on Georgia, at Georgia's roster right now I'm stand like punting them in terms of pen for the national championship. That kid was unreal in that game. Just accuracy beyond belief.
- [11:09]
David Pollack
After they just lost Mendoza to the transfer portal to Indiana and you're like Cal's gonna punt on the year and then all of a sudden they just find the next guy and put him in and they go, that's an upgrade.
- [11:19]
Brent Rollins
So impressed with that kid. The poise, the, the accuracy. 91.5 or 95.1 overall grade. He had five big time throws. It was highest in the FBS and they were just, it was just pinpoint down the field, 35 yard dots all over the place. Now granted they played Oregon State, who's I think going to struggle. But it's just the look of it, quickness of the release, the mental game. I had fun watching that. And then Underwood too, by the way, the thing with Underwood was the fastball. And then also, hey, I'm going to throw it over top of a guy.
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David Pollack
Yeah.
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Brent Rollins
And put it in, put some touch. I've got a short throw. I'm just going to kind of like turn to like I'm a second baseman. I'm going to variations of throws.
- [12:01]
David Pollack
I'm going to block that. Freaking fantastic.
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Brent Rollins
And he didn't even have to run. Like you didn't have to do any running. That's the point. No.
- [12:08]
David Pollack
And you don't want them to. Those are, those are the. Now listen, I bet Michigan fans are like, wait a minute, we didn't blow out a team. We should have blown out. Like, we should blow out teams like this. But let's get on to the numbers, man. We're going to do this every, every Monday because I think it's, it's fantastic. Like you work for pff, you have access to all of these numbers that Brett walked me through the other day, by the way, and I was like, I don't know what that means. I don't know what that means. Like, more numbers than you can ever imagine. And what, what did you learn? And what are we, what are we looking for with pff?
- [12:39]
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- [13:56]
Brent Rollins
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David Pollack
Know all the details about your quarterback, your guys, what they do, how they run to the right and throw, how they get rid of the football. Brent was showing me you can do like time to throw like 0 to 1 second. Like you can take you can do all the things and learn all the numbers you want. It's crazy.
- [14:40]
Brent Rollins
Yep. Promo code get ball G E T B a l l 25 get you 25 off your PFF plus subscription. So those of you that are in the chat that like this but I tried to focus on two things. One is the big games. So lsu by the way Harold Perkins was good to see him back and good to see him sort of looking one highest graded game since in a year and a half for him. And then also it was the second career game that he's had where he's had four plus tackles and zero missed tackles. Like he actually looked like the explosive player that we saw years back. And by the way you have to go back to his first year against Alabama for that to happen locally here at Georgia. I think you you probably enjoy you mentioned it but in terms of watching Zachariah Branch and the game that he had so he had a 91.9 I think was the actual grade overall GPS.
- [15:35]
David Pollack
Too when he caught that one screen good lord he was flying.
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Brent Rollins
So can you guess how many receivers in the Kirby Smart era have had at least a 90 or above? And that by the way in PFF grading that's an elite level game grade. How many receivers have done that in the Kirby Smart era 1, 2 lad did it twice in 2021 and then George Pickens did it once in 2019. So transfer first game in Sanford Stadium. That's there. But the other part though I wanted to get was the new QBs and either new QBs and new places or just new QBs in general. So Carson Beck, by the way, we talked about how much he played under pressure and how well the both touchdown plus passes were under pressure.
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David Pollack
Yeah.
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Brent Rollins
You have to go back to his first two games that he played at Georgia which were against an FCS and an FB and A and Ball State to win his passing grade under pressure was better than his clean pocket passing grade. So that's this all those games he's played for the last two years. That's a sort of.
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David Pollack
And he. And he did it in big time moments with the, the third and ten touchdown in the first half. 12 seconds left in the, in the first half. Like he made some big plays. I tell you what, if you weren't a Carson Beck believer and you thought he was the reason, you know, that Georgia fell off a cliff last year, you know, offensively and. But you're just reminded by the drops and some of the, the run game struggles. Yeah, he's definitely. And I love the emotion after the press conference too. Like he was really emotional. Like he had a long journey and a lot long off season as well. So it's good to see him playing well.
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Brent Rollins
All right. So we talked about Julian saying and I mentioned, I think one of the biggest things for me that was his accuracy. So one of the things that PFF tracks is adjusted completion percentage. When you factor in the drops, 88.9% adjusted completion percentage which was in the top seven in the country. And he was the only one that played another Power 4 team.
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David Pollack
Yeah. Wasn't asked to do much.
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Brent Rollins
Right.
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David Pollack
They scored 14 points. So when you were telling me like you know, again, I'm not. I love the numbers. I love when people look awesome. But like I'm also going to say that there wasn't a lot of production there either. But I like the command, the accuracy. You're right. But I think, I think when he's not playing Texas to his numbers will go through the roof because Texas is so elite across the board. But I thought, I love the way he negotiated the pocket. He moved around enough. So yeah. Julian saying is set in a position where he's going to take off. Like if you want Heisman odds and you're talking about Heisman odds, like you're probably taking Arch going this direction and sayings going this direction. But, but if you go back to Carson Beck too with those numbers, you know, we, we also talked about Carson Beck being in a position to succeed. Like you watch the line of scrimmage, you watch the defense. Now you watch guys like Tony, who we've never heard about this, this freshman just all of a sudden come out there and you're like, oh, that guy can, can run by everybody that guards him. A scheme in Shannon Dawson, it's a great scheme. Like they understand how to, how to get mismatches. Like Carson's in a great position to succeed. I think he'll continue to succeed. And guess what, his defense now is way better now. They had some bus late in that game and let Notre Dame back in it that, that you can't have. But I'm not surprised his numbers are up. That's why I picked Miami to go to the playoffs. I thought Carson would be a really good player this year because the system around him is set up for him to succeed.
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Brent Rollins
So stay staying in the into that game. C.J. carr in his debut, his average depth of target, how far down the field on average.
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David Pollack
Oh, this is easy.
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Brent Rollins
Passes first.
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David Pollack
I'm gonna give.
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Brent Rollins
Did you guess it was greater than five?
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David Pollack
I was going to give you 6.7.
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Brent Rollins
All right. 4.3.
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David Pollack
Oh, wow.
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Brent Rollins
Tied for the second lowest mark in the power four. Dylan Raola was also there and by the way, just barely ahead of Garrett Nussmeier. Four point was 4.4. In terms of average depth of target, Nussmeier 2.09 seconds average time to throw that ball was like. That's how you. That the LSU's game plan was phenomenal. Phenomenal game plan. The running of the bulk, staying with it balls out quick mitigate all the issues with there. But C.J. carr, yeah, like they definitely. They will let. They will need to let the training wheels off of him a little bit.
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David Pollack
And they did in the game like they did throughout the game. They did that. But, but the Nussmeier thing to me was, you know, the things that. Let's put it this way too. I bet if you changed up some things too. And this is why the numbers aren't always correct. Like the throws to Green at the tight end spot. He drew several PIs down the field that are penalties, those aren't plays, but those are 20, 30 yard shots down the field that you're taking. You know, quads to one side. The single receiver like and us also like when you watch lsu like and this will transition to our next one because our next one is repeats in College Football Playoff. And if you don't, if you're not picking LSU in the College Football Playoff as a Repick, I can't help you. Like, I can't help you at all. Like, I am. I'm not. It's. It's week one. But their tackles did. I didn't think they played great. Like, I didn't think they protected Nuss great. But. And Nuss doesn't run the football that much. But watch him get outside the pocket and then watch him get outside the pocket and do damage. And it's not with his feet, man. It's his ability to throw across his body. It's his ability to, to see things and be able to anticipate and make plays that were phenomenal. LSU's offensive line is only going to get better. The design of the offense was, was so magical. It was majestic to watch, man. Like you said, ball coming out fast. Using receivers as running backs, using receivers as quarterbacks, like Green as a weapon. Like it's, it's, it's going to get better. Like, but, but you. We talk about Texas Brent and we talked about their weapons, right? Like don't. Didn't love the weapons. You talk about Ohio State and you're like, okay, I, I see some weapons. You talk about lsu, bro. I saw some speed, some height, some playmaking, some design. Like I was like holy cow, that is pretty dang impressive. So I got LSU and I'm going inserting right into the College Football playoff picture.
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Brent Rollins
Another George one in terms of new QBs with, with Gunner Stockton making his first sort of home start. He was the first quarterback in the Kirby Smart era to have at least 10 rushing attempts in a game like.
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David Pollack
Gunner Stockton is Gunner Stockton.
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Brent Rollins
And by the way tied for most rushing yards in terms of that. And shout out. Chad Conley. Appreciate you with the super chat there. Thank you sir.
- [22:26]
David Pollack
I know Chad is, Chad is a phenomenal human being. Appreciate that Chad.
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Brent Rollins
He said he has green brave swag for the walls.
- [22:32]
David Pollack
Yes. We'll hook it up.
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Brent Rollins
Most attempts in the Kirby era and most rushing yards tied with Stetson. And by the way, do you remember which game Stetson would have had 73 yards rushing?
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David Pollack
Auburn.
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Brent Rollins
Auburn. Because of the ones big long run.
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David Pollack
Yeah, but.
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Brent Rollins
Yeah, so.
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David Pollack
Yeah but. And it's going to be interesting to watch that offense to see because. Because I leave that offense very similar to South Carolina. Like passing game has to improve, it has to get better. The running game for Georgia it was much improved, and it had a lot to do with Gunner Stockton's ability to pull that thing out at the right time.
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David Pollack
That zone read mesh when you stick it in and you're able to pull it out like right when it's closing in on you like that's when you make plays and you make the defenses really, really respected. So that was, that was good. Did you have another college football playoff crush that you wanted to put in?
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Brent Rollins
What do you mean crush?
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David Pollack
Like another, like a repick. A college football repeat. I mean, you probably agree with LSU with me now.
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Brent Rollins
Well, so I was, I was going to let you pick lsu.
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David Pollack
Okay.
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Brent Rollins
I don't know that I would go there with them as much. I, I think. And the reason I wouldn't pick them ahead of this other team in terms of if I had to just pick one is because they have a lot of still possible games left that are going to be tough. I looked at seven games that are potential, like not necessarily coin flip games, but going to be tough games for them if you just had to pick one.
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David Pollack
I didn't say you just had to pick one, first of all, but go ahead, pick away.
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Brent Rollins
I would put Miami, Miami in over Alabama.
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David Pollack
I love that because I have Miami in. And much like my Notre Dame pick last year when you told me Notre Dame, you think Notre Dame can win it all and get hot in the playoff, like, but, but, but I'm with you. It's hard to. Until you see it. It's really hard to, to, to pull the trigger and believe it. So, I mean, I, there's, there's nothing wrong with that. But I think you talked about the line, the defensive ends, the D line, the line of scrimmage probably is a.
- [26:57]
Brent Rollins
Big reason and the Alabama part of it is. And I went back and I listened to you remember how we did the whole good cop, bad cop. And I went full months and on all these teams I went back and listened to what I said about Alabama and it was like, hey, Melrose, gone, your best lineman's gone, your best secondary player's gone, your best defensive player's gone. And you're supposed to be better. How's that equating? And you kind of saw that. By the way, I didn't think Ty Simpson played awful. He was under pressure. Almost 50% of his drop backs.
- [27:25]
David Pollack
Well, he.
- [27:26]
Brent Rollins
And they just went away from the running game too much to me.
- [27:29]
David Pollack
Ty Simpson also created a lot of his own pressure. I will say that that sucker was damp, dancing like Gregory Hines. Like he was, he was moving and grooving and shaking and, and, but again, that, that's. He's starting in an electric atmosphere like on the road. That's not easy either. Just like arch man. Like we just assume these kids that are highly rated, rated that are just gonna step in and a lot of times it just doesn't work that, that way. And the game didn't work his way either. Right. Like, it doesn't always. Like you had the run game going the first drive, it's easy to have balance and then all of a sudden when it's on you and you're down and guess what? Receivers like Ryan Williams dropping balls for you, not making plays, committing penalties, like, that's not, that's not an easy thing to do. Are you, are you throwing Alabama out right now? Like, are you, are you saying, like, take, put them out with the bathwater, like you're done with Alabama?
- [28:22]
Brent Rollins
The only problem I have is that the board's been so good in big games and everything is now a big game for the. I mean, not everything, but I still think their schedule is. I mean, they got a lot of roads and he's not been good on the road. I would, yes, I would take Alabama out, but the, the Ryan Williams piece you looked at, I was curious, just sort of re watching the game and his production and just, you know, he had three drops.
- [28:44]
David Pollack
Yeah.
- [28:45]
Brent Rollins
So let's look. The first four games of his career, he had 462 yards receiving and five touchdowns and zero drops. The last 10, 433 yards receiving, three TDS, 10 drops.
- [28:59]
David Pollack
Zero. 100 yard games in that span too. Zero.
- [29:02]
Brent Rollins
That's 43 yards a game in, you know, basically since the Georgia game last year. Like completely fallen from a production standpoint off a cliff compared to what his first four games was.
- [29:12]
David Pollack
That's not. The, the talent's too good for that to happen. Like, so the talent's too good here. The coaching needs to make sure that happens too. And, and, and listen, him dropping balls, that's on him, bro. That's, that's nobody else's fault but yours. But it will be interesting to watch this offense because they're going to have to figure things out really, really quickly. And Ryan Grubb was supposed to give them an identity and fix that a little bit. And it didn't, it didn't look like it right away. Another team I'm ready, I would be ready to pull the plug on right away and say, is Boise like I thought Boise would be the group of five and now I'll go, I would, I would go look at Tulane, Week 1 against Northwestern, getting a big win, a huge win. Jake Ratzlife went off over 100 passing, over 100 rushing. And they look like, you know, they always, they're always talented and they lose guys to the portal every year, but. But they find a way to, to do an unbelievable job. And they got Duke and Ole Miss left on the schedule early in the season, which I think is good because you're usually the healthiest early in the season. Beat Duke, lose the Ole Miss, who's going to be a top 15, top 20 team. I mean, take care of business within your conference. And two lanes in pretty good spot after Boise took a pretty big whooping.
- [30:28]
Brent Rollins
Did you see Summer's comments after the game about the jerseys? And he's like, if you're going to disrespect New Orleans like that, like, don't be like, I love. Get what you're asking for. It was like, he might end up being podium king on Wednesday.
- [30:41]
David Pollack
It should be. I just love that kind of stuff, man. You, you, you want to. I mean, that's the beauty. Like, you get to run your mouth. Thomas Castanellos, he ran his mouth like, and then he said everybody can shut it. Like, you all can eat it because Saban wasn't here to back him up, just like I said. And look what happened. So, like, that's the fun part of the sport that I think. There used to be more of that. There used to be more hatred now that the world's smaller and everybody can, like, reach out to each other and direct message each other and get each other's phone number off social media. Like, we have less hatred, but. But, man, it's fantastic.
- [31:19]
Brent Rollins
Well, and also too, like, you think about the way the world is now with the college, and I think Kirby's kind of actually led this charge. I might need that guy in a year. Like, yeah, I can't burn. I can't burn basically any bridges because that guy might be on my roster in a year or two. Our kid. Hey, great, you know, good decision for you. I'm going to be here. Whatever you need kind of thing.
- [31:39]
David Pollack
Because you might need.
- [31:40]
Brent Rollins
I might need you in two years. Yeah, kind of thing. But that was awesome that the, that that went out like that. I do think, though, that that's probably the. The biggest sort of definitive team or thing is that the group of five will likely come from the American Conference, whoever wins that conference. Because in terms of our normal college football, looking at who's eliminated from the playoffs, there's a long list of teams obviously that, that weren't going to have much of a chance, but, you know, we're eliminated. The one for me, that definitively is now eliminated because there was potential talk that they might make the playoffs as the G5 team is Toledo to go and get beat at Kentucky like they did. And I don't know. I don't think Kentucky's gonna win one maybe sec game that you. I can't put you in the playoff if. And Calzada, like, they didn't play good. So Toledo, to me would be the one that would get the big X and be eliminated from the college football players.
- [32:39]
David Pollack
We're going to do. We're going to do that every. Every week and start as we go, eliminating Wesley. Do we have any nice sound bites yet?
- [32:47]
Guest Analyst
I want to get y' all on the record, though.
- [32:49]
Brent Rollins
Your.
- [32:49]
Guest Analyst
Your CFP eliminated teams. David, you got Boise and Brent, your Toledo. Is that right?
- [32:56]
Brent Rollins
I think it's probably one more maybe. I think I want to say, Davey, I'll give you.
- [33:02]
Guest Analyst
I texted y' all today and Brent said no, but I'm going. It's Bama. Bama's out. I mean, I'm taking them out. And I'll tell you guys, like, the way I look at how we talk about these, we don't have to look at the mathematical possibilities. Obviously, they're not mathematically eliminated, but what is the College Football Playoff committee look at, man? It's the eye test, and it is the losses that you have on your schedule. And the. The unfair thing for Florida State is now they're going to get boosted in the rankings. Right. Because they beat number eight, Alabama. But was Alabama really number eight? Like, there's so much. So much of this cannibalization that it's impossible to really get a beat on until we get a few weeks into the season. But yeah, David, I'm. I'm one of the film guys that you're. That you're calling out. They look like crap, man. They look terrible out there. And they give up 230 rushing yards.
- [33:55]
David Pollack
Yeah.
- [33:55]
Guest Analyst
Before they even play an SEC team.
- [33:59]
David Pollack
I don't.
- [34:00]
Guest Analyst
In my gut for them, it doesn't.
- [34:03]
David Pollack
Doesn't work. Ain't nothing wrong with that. Ain't nothing wrong with that. If you're asking me to be optimistic, I dang sure ain't optimistic. Like, there was nothing about that performance that goes, oh, I'm buying Alabama. I mean, there was a zero who stood out. Like, who. Who are we going, I want that guy from Bama because it would have been Ryan Williams in a heartbeat. And I'm like, nah, maybe Bernard because he played well. They even handed him the ball some. Like that might be a guy. But. But I'm with you. Like, there was nothing positive about it. And that pressure is going to just mount and those questions are going to continue to mount. But I had a different one too. I think Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech did their Miami impersonation. They look like Miami uniforms in the all orange. Their offense is. Is still going to be a work in progress with drones. And I feel pretty confident saying that my. That Virginia Tech is. Is out. They're not going to make the college football playoff. But. But their defense, I think is still pretty dang solid. But I think that that loss to South Carolina will do it for their. For their college football playoffs. Yes.
- [35:07]
Guest Analyst
One more thing about Bama too, that I think a few people have pointed out. Johnny Manziel pointed it out as well. The mental edge that Bama brings to a football game where people see those numbers on the side of the helmet. No real logo, but they got the crimson, they got the white. And they get off the bus and they'd make you wet your pants if you. If you knew you weren't matched up right against them.
- [35:28]
David Pollack
Yeah.
- [35:28]
Guest Analyst
And they've lost that and that huge.
- [35:32]
David Pollack
Those helmets and that logo won a lot of football games. 100 before it even snapped. I agree with that. All right.
- [35:40]
Guest Analyst
Our victory formation. Every Monday we're going to do this. Who won the weekend? We've had some time to let the results breathe for me. I'll start it off. We'll. We'll just continue the trend and I'll let you guys take us home. Gus Malzon, the Gus bus won the weekend. He's kneeling it out for me on this weekend as we turn the page onto Week 2. 230 rushing yards like I mentioned against that Bama defense. Other than that, I mean, the offense really on the stat sheet. Brent, you're the numbers guy, but numbers don't really blow you away. That was some Gus Bus stuff. And add to that all the trolling he had on social media. I know Georgia fans remember the Georgia. We whipped the dog crap out of him. That was some bulletin board material before the SEC championship game. But. But Gus is great. And I remember when we had. When we had Eli Drinkwoods on.
- [36:38]
Brent Rollins
Had some great stories.
- [36:39]
David Pollack
That's.
- [36:40]
Guest Analyst
That's a way back in the vault. C ball, get ball. Before we even named the show. C ball, get ball. But some great stories on Gus, a great college football character. Don't forget about what he's doing behind the scenes right now for fsu. He was my weekend winner.
- [36:56]
David Pollack
You got guys got no problem with that. Like you've got. You've got to tip the cap to the Gus Bus and not even him too. Just Mike Norvell. Like Mike Norvell deserves to be in that conversation because Mike Norvell went new DC Tony White, new oc Gus Malzahn, new qb and then went to. And then Bama came to town and said, we'll take care of business. We'll go ahead and show you how this is done. Which was a huge win. So you can't argue with that. Brian Kelly. Brian Kelly. Kelly getting the dub early in the year, backing off the hatred just for a little bit. You talked about Kayn De Boar and the pressure that comes if Brian Kelly loses game one when he's lost every single game one. And, and, and people are talking about nine wins isn't good enough, 10 wins isn't good enough. LSU is not a normal team. Like you've got to, you've got to win Natties. That's what our coaches do. That, that's what Ed Orgeron did. That's what Les Miles did. That's what Nick Saban did. So Brian Kelly to come out week one against a top five team in the country, a really good football team, go to their place and take care of business. Hats off, sir. Like you get the weekend dub for me.
- [38:09]
Brent Rollins
I went a little. We mentioned my initial one to me, which this weekend will forever be remembered as the Lee Corso weekend because of the final headgear pick. Because of the fact that he picked Florida State to beat Bam and he was the only one to do it. All the picks that he made were correct. He's the sort of ultimate winner of this one. But outside of that, I went a little off the radar. I think the fans are the number one winner of this weekend. Because just think if you were. No, if you're a Notre Dame fan 3 years ago, you're like, crap, we are not going to get into the playoffs. We don't have enough opportunities to, to get wins and you know, win a conference championship game, that sort of thing. We're out of the playoff. Clemson, we'd have to, we now have to run the table to sort of get in the playoff. Just those games and big games. Even Texas, looking at your schedule and it's one where I just, I think the 12 team playoff actually works because all of these teams that we're going to look at have some level of hope and it is wide open in terms of who's going to be in the field and even like the 10 seed being somebody who can win the whole thing. I think that's real. Beyond real. And the fans you got, by the way, you got football Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. You're listening to us while watching Chapel Bill right now. Like what a weekend in the fans that is the winner the weekend.
- [39:36]
David Pollack
I like that. And even Bama, even though Wes buried them and so they. And they should quit football is, is. Is still in this. Like they still could lose another game. They're still in the SEC race. They could still figure some things out. So even though they've been, you know, are they.
- [39:57]
Guest Analyst
Is Bama a basketball school? I'll leave that as an.
- [40:03]
Brent Rollins
Way. Just think if they, you know, Louisiana, Monroe, Wisconsin, they come into Athens. I mean that Georgia. We talked about how much Georgia has an Alabama problem. They win that game and then they got Vandy at home and now they're, you know, 4 and 1 and feeling good about themselves again like their world.
- [40:18]
David Pollack
And there's no denying, we all can agree with that. Georgia has a Bama problem. Oh yeah, like, and imagine, imagine being highly ranked this year and then losing that game like after FSU just took care of business and it's. There's not very many matchups that are going to be so like you don't have that qb. That QB changes everything defensively in the way you can play. So I think that I just wouldn't write them off yet. Man, there's a lot of talent on that roster. I'm not ready to. To do the island with West.
- [40:48]
Guest Analyst
Prisoner of the moment. CFP eliminator for me.
- [40:52]
David Pollack
All right.
- [40:52]
Guest Analyst
So Brent, you mentioned Chapel Bill in action right now. 107 TCU up. I know by Wednesday you'll have a lot of numbers on how many times we saw Jordan Hudson on the sidelines. The screen time we saw for her an in depth analysis. So we'll be back Wednesday at 8:30. We're here every Monday and Wednesday, 8:30pm Live on YouTube audio pods throughout the week as well and live Saturday nights in prime time after those big games wrap up. And we got Booger McFarland to talk about the Bayou Bangles on Wednesday. I love Booger. So fired up about that.
- [41:31]
Brent Rollins
I wonder what Booger's DEFCON rating for the program in Tuscaloosa is quite curious to ask him that question.
- [41:39]
David Pollack
That's one of the best things to watch on Saturdays on Social is his DEFCON meter as people start to get unset upset and then the, the anger, the trolling is fantastic. But man, we appreciate you guys. We'll still keep growing. And Brent, great show like always. Go finish up watching chapel, Bill, man. Because Lawrence Taylor I saw in the building. Michael Jordan. Roy Williams.
- [42:03]
Brent Rollins
Like Randy Moss.
- [42:04]
David Pollack
Randy Moss. It was a who. Teddy Brusky was up there. It's a. It's a who's who. Just more excitement to end this weekend, which we've all had and then we'll be on our normal schedule. But don't forget, guys. C ball. Get ball. Crush it. Crush the. Like all that other stuff. Rate. Subscribe if you like us if it's good. And we will see you guys soon.
- [42:23]
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