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The REAL #1 in College Football | Who's to Blame at Texas? | Week 7 NUMBERS
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The REAL #1 in College Football | Who's to Blame at Texas? | Week 7 NUMBERS 0:00 David Pollack's Mark Sanchez Mix-up 3:11 David Pollack's CFP 12 if it started TODAY 9:19 Texas Longhorns: Troubling Trends 14:00 Ohio State vs. Miami: Who's the Real Number 1? 23:32 Indiana-Oregon Preview 26:27 Alabama-Missouri Preview 28:26 Ohio State-Illinois Preview 30:19 Oklahoma-Texas Preview 31:48 Georgia-Auburn Preview 34:14 Michigan-USC Preview 37:44 Who Was Eliminated from the CFP? 42:17 Who Won the Weekend?
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And how about that Pollock interception in the end zone.
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David Pollock
Well, it's David Pollock and I think people are going to learn what kind of ball player he is. He's got a heart of a lion. I'm really proud of that kid.
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Brent
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 and seven time Emmy award winner, David.
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David Pollock
All right, welcome everybody. In another day, another week of college football, the games are absolutely extraordinary this week. It's going to be fantastic. We're going to go through the top 12 as if the playoffs were right now with that caveat. But first wanted to start the show. Whatever Mark Sanchez is going through, whatever happened, we're not getting involved in that. We're not going to speculate, wish the best for all involved. Not going to pile on. That's not what we are about here. With that said the photos earlier that were that were released about Mark Sanchez and some of the things, it wasn't the first time. I wish I could say that this was the first time that this has happened. It's not the first time that this has happened. If you're not looking, if you're in audio, it's, it's articles that have used my picture talking about what happened with Mark Sanchez and I'VE gotten that many a times. And when I first started radio, I was at the Super Bowl. So this was like, literally, this was 20 years ago, like 18 years ago, something like that. And never forget, I'm on radio row for the super bowl. Like, and you're just walking through, and obviously all the celebrities are walking through. And I walk through the, the lobby, and I'm walking through everybody's at, and I see Floyd Money Mayweather. And when I say his bodyguards were the biggest human beings I've ever seen, they put left tackles to shame, like, 7ft, 380, 400 pounds. I mean, just enormous. Like, it was pretty obvious. And, and then I meet my eyes, you know, after I am blown away by these hall of Fame tackles that you see my eyes meet Floyd Money Mayweather. And I walk up to Floyd Money Mayweather, and I'm starting to walk towards him. I can tell he's walking towards me with a smile, and it's like, you know, ready to dap me up. And I walk over and I'm like, okay, this is, this is, this is interesting. But I think he's coming in, like, you know, he's coming in for the, for the bro hug. So I do, I come in, dad him up. And he was like, hey, man, you know, hey, don't, don't worry about the haters, man. You're doing a great job. And I was like, you, too, man. Like, you're doing awesome. Like, you're killing it, man. Like, keep knocking people out. Keep doing you. He was like, yeah. He was like, man, just the critics are the critics. Never worry about that. Like, you're doing a great job. And I'm like, ain't nobody listening to me. I'm on seven ninety the Zone. I'm on a radio show in Atlanta. Like, nobody's listening. I, I, I'm not really tracking all that's going on. And then, then it hits me. He goes, all right, man, I'll see you later. Dats me up. And he was like, all right, Sanchez, be good. And I was like, now I realize what happened there. Literally, Floyd Money Mayweather thought I was, I was Sanchez. And it wasn't the first time I've gotten it out in public. That and Tony Gonzalez I've gotten at least 40, 50 times. Teddy Bruski, I get those all the time. I guess it's the skin complexion, it's the hair. I don't know what it is, but not the first time. I figured everybody would enjoy that. All right, get to the top 12. We're going to do this every week so you can see it. Because I think it's kind of cool because the committee's going to do this right? Like they're going to, they're going to meet week after week after week coming up in about a month, and they're going to start putting their teams in order and then as the season goes along, they'll continue to correct. FSU fans are like, yeah, I know, because we got hosed a couple of years ago late in the season and all of a sudden you get this whip. Oh, what happened? We just, we just slipped that one away. So number one team, we're going to spend some time on this. So Miami fans, Ohio State fans, we see you in the chat. We love you by the way. Y' all are active as can be. We are here for it. We love it. So we're going to spend some time tonight debating who number one is and the reasons why. So right now in ours here at cball G ball, we got Miami, numino uno, we got Ohio State, numino do. Number three is Oregon. The Ducks obviously has put everything together. The big cross the country win at Penn State doesn't necessarily look as good as it did a week ago, but I think we, we trust Dante more and what we've seen with this team, Ole Miss, nothing to see here, nothing to talk about. You know, just kind of just. I think it's. If you're a team and you got a bye week, always be happy. Like be happy this year in college football because bye weeks are glorious. Like you could, you, you might raise three or four, five, six, seven, eight spots with a bye week. It's, it's a beautiful thing to have. Oklahoma, we got you at five, baby. John Matier was gone. The offense was, was less than elite by any stretch of the imagination. If you watched it. And they still got some struggles, but you say that and you win by over 50 to nothing. And you know, it's interesting, Brent Venables said back in March, like, I'm going to start calling the defense. And they're like, why? And he was like, because that's what I'm good at. Well, he wasn't wrong. I mean, Venables and that defense is suffocating. Like, it's just unbelievable to watch it. Almost number one in every single statistical category in the sec. We talked about that D line before the season started and we were all about that. And it's absolutely come to fruition. A and M at 6, continuing to put the complete game Games together, handling adversity, doing well. Got no problem with A and m being at 6 in room to grow their schedule coming up will get. We'll have some difficult games obviously, but it's interesting to watch the schedules from here on out and how much you used to think it was like Murderers Row and now, you know, with teams like Texas that you won't see in the top 12 anymore. It's. Or you won't see in the top 24, top 25. So Indiana, Indiana is the only Big Ten team with, with a top 25 wind. That's, that's it. The only one. That's the only one with a top 25 win. And obviously they, they boat raced Illinois. The first, the next team, the second team in Texas to be ranked in the top 10. Not Texas, Texas A&M at 6 and then you had Texas Tech at 8. Only team in the nation, not the trail. So that's. They've been dominant. Man. Say what you want to say about them. Say what you want to say about the schedule, you know, you know, taking frying pans, clubbing people to the face. I'm here for it. Defensive lines, we've talked about the, the numbers on those guys and how they continue to, to put pressure. It's, it's really impressive. Georgia at. Or excuse me, Alabama at 9. Pretty good bounce back, huh? Wouldn't you say? Like they, I think they have proven themselves pretty well. That's, that's not bad. The, the Crimson Tide and Ty Simpson. If you can find a guy that's playing better in the country at the quarterback spot. I'm not impressed with, with Ty with. I'm not like overly impressed with what they did to Kentucky. Nobody thinks Kentucky's great. But the interesting debate with Georgia, LSU at 10 or 11. And this is why it's really fun when you're in the chat like, like in a room and you're doing this as a debate, like do you value Georgia's, you know, top 15 win at Tennessee more than LSU's, you know, loss? And like LSU, obviously, you know, they're a good team. Can you name their great win? It was a great loss to Ole Miss. The Florida loss looks a little bit better. But like we've seen defense, we haven't seen consistency. Eileen. Georgia's better win than, than LSU's loss. And I lean the consistency from what I've seen from Georgia and then Memphis obviously, you know, gets in the 12 spot. I think it's interesting to do the first one out like Missouri remaining Schedule. They're one of the. How about this, first of all, for Missouri, because everybody had this, like all of us smart prognosticators had this. So, so right now you have Missouri as an undefeated in the SEC, A and M, Ole Miss and OU. That's it. @ this point in the season, those are the only undefeated teams. Now, Missouri obviously hasn't played a great schedule, took care of business, took care of Kansas. Big week with Alabama coming up. I think we'll find out exactly what we need to know about Missouri. So, you know, those, those are our rankings. Those are, those are fun to do every week. And I think the reason you keep doing them is because of that reason, Brent. Like, you just keep, you keep talking about it, you keep nudging some teams up, some teams down, you know, depending on losses, depending on wins, depending on what those teams continue to do outside of it. You got any, got any grief? Got any, got any gripe?
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Brent
No, I mean, it's, I think it's actually, I mean, maybe the order is a little bit different, but the top 11 are kind of carbon copy of the AP top 11.
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David Pollock
Okay.
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Brent
Right now. And then you obviously got to put in a group of five team, which this is kind of a weekend for the, for the G5 that people aren't maybe not really aware of. But there's a playoff game this week. You've got South Florida going to North Texas. That's going to be a game that is going to matter a lot in terms of who ends up like the standings in, in that, in that conference and because of who plays each other, Memphis, all those sort of things. So that's a big game this weekend. Determine that because South Florida, their win at Florida now even like they did something that Texas couldn't do, even though Sark was talking about, I heard him or saw that he was talking about, you know, everybody go play at Texas and, or at Ohio State and at Florida and see how everybody else does. Well, South Florida, you know, did. And they went and beat Florida at Florida. Yeah, that's. But other than that, no big sort of gripes. The one versus two conversation is one that I think you're. We're gonna have to get into.
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David Pollock
Yeah, we about to get into.
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Brent
That's a conversation because like his comments today with that, like that to me is so just beyond ridiculous.
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David Pollock
Let's, let's get, let's get right into that because what we're going to see from the national media, it is what it is, but like it'll be a pile fest on Arch, like, it'll be a big doggy pile and everybody's going to crap all over Arch. He's not playing great and he hasn't, he hasn't played great. But let's not like, let the most important part to me off the hook. Like, the most important part is I think Sark, like, that's a, that's a big deal. Like, that's a big, that's a big person that deserves some of the blame. Like when we talk about Sark and we talk about his record, like, first of all, we talked about with everybody in nil, Nil helped the state of Texas as much as anyone. Like, that is a big time deal for them. Like every, they've got so much money and it makes it so easy to continue to be successful when you have that much money. But at the same time now when you look at Texas and you look at their roster and you look at the ability they have to spend and they've had a couple of good seasons. But like, I think when this starts to happen now, you look back a little bit and you go, okay, Sark's 2 and 2 and 8 versus top 10 teams at Texas. 2 and 8. So again, we're going to talk about Arch. He's not playing well. Whose job is it for the, for him to play well? It's the coach's job. It's the offensive play caller's job. Who is Steve Sarkeesian? 2 and 8 versus top 10 or 2 and 8 versus top 10 teams at Texas? 5 and 18 versus top 10 teams all time. 9 and 15 in one score games. 9 and 15. Like that's not good. That, that is. And I would argue that he's playing with more talent than the teams he's playing against or equal to. A lot of the times last season they played one SEC team, one SEC team that finished ranked, and they played him twice. It was Georgia.
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Brent
And they got, took two Ls, they got two Ls.
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David Pollock
So it's, it's, it's, it's not been good at the top. And if you look at Sark, like you can blame Arch if you want to and then that will happen. But I just think that we also have to say, look at those numbers and go, Steve Sarkeesian hasn't done a great job. And I guarantee he would say that, like, because Pete Kotowski and that defense has been pretty dang solid.
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David Pollock
They've been really, really good. And it's just you deserve some. You deserve some negativity. You deserve to say like it's not just because Quinniers wasn't so fantastic either and he was an all word world guy. Like we have to see something change at Texas because right now they've got all the resources they went in the portal. They did not go for, they did not go for a lot of offensive linemen. Their offensive line is not very good if you watched a week ago.
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Brent
So yeah, and you know, we're obviously, we're kind of talking about it because last week you had them, I think it's maybe first team out and then they lost at Florida and now they're very out, at least at the current time. But interesting number. It's, it's different situations, different time, all that. But Sark is 41 and 19 at Texas. Coach Donna was 40 and 19 at Georgia. I know a lot of Georgia fans when he got, you know, relieved of his duties at Georgia, basically the same record. So. And the part you mentioned that I think is the most relevant piece to what he's obviously not going to do it this year, but something he might have to do moving forward is take the Ryan Day approach, relieve the offensive play calling duties, let somebody else go do that, be the head coach, be the CEO type.
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David Pollock
Because it's, and that's why a lot.
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Brent
Of success for Ryan Day.
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David Pollock
That's why, that's why Arch is there. Arch is there because of the developmental piece. The Mannings aren't stupid, bro. Like, they've seen, seen him have success in the NFL, they've seen him have success in college, but right now there's not a lot of success going on. So Texas has they, they have a gm, they have people making the decisions. They have a lot of money. They're flux with cash. The chat, by the way, you guys are fantastic. I mean that you guys continue to bring it, we love it, continue to write, rate, subscribe, all that stuff, guys, because we continue to grow and we appreciate all that but there's a lot of, there's a lot of trash talk in the, in the chat and immediately and this is, we're going to get to next, I think, which is, I think this topic is going to be very interesting because the chat's going nuts and, and there's a reason like, you know, Miami is it Miami, is it Ohio State? Like who is number one? Who, who is, who should be number one. And again that's the question now. It's, it's not y'. All, we, we've heard it all weekend about who's the best team. We can, we can debate who the best team is. It's not about that. Who should be the number one team in the country and who should be the number one team in the country is Miami. And it's not close. Like Ohio State fans, I'm going to give you some stuff that's awesome. I'm going to tell you about some stuff that's, that that is really good about your team and the reason why I'd be really jacked up and really excited. But the number one team in the country is Miami and their schedule has been way harder. The top four teams Miami's played is Notre Dame, South Florida, Florida, fsu, Ohio State. They've played Texas, they played Washington, they played Minnesota and they played Ohio. That's their four best teams. Yeah, the Ohio Bobcats. Like that's, that's the fourth best team that they've had. And so the lines of scrimmage for, for Miami has been awesome. It's been really fun to watch the physicality in a world where we've gone more spread and you've gone more spread it out like, and less emphasis on the trenches. It's fun to watch a group that just wants to hit you upside the head of the hose. Like they literally are just going to like whip you with a hose over and over again and just beat you until your will breaks. And. And it's fun to watch an old school team that's built like that. They dominate the trenches on both sides. Elite playmaker and Tony now like just elite. Elite dude on the outside experience QB with Carson Beck. So Ohio State fans, I love you. I think you're fantastic. You guys are the reigning champs. You guys have the belt. You guys have the most important thing. You guys got some great players. And who's been more dominant is a different question. Like who's been a more dominant team against their competition? Ohio State has a gripe like, Ohio State's been really, really good. The defense is absolutely disgusting. Like five points a game. They've given up 7, 0, 9, 6 and 3 in their football games. And no, I'm not talking about a freaking video game. That's real life. Like that's how dominant their defense is. And, and they're, they're retooling so much up front and their D is that flipping good. Like this D is dirty. It's the best defense in the country. Like I got no problem saying that 100%. Julian saying, like we were focused week one, we were focused really hard on Arch Manning, a five star quarterback. And everybody was less focused about the other five star quarterback. Like Julian saying who, who last week threw the ball 27 times and four times it didn't even hit the ground. Like spinning bean with, with a great system. A Great offense, running the football. And here's the last, like, really, really big thing. If I'm an Ohio State fan, you heard a bunch of humpies like me talk about dynasties are dead. Not going to happen. You're not going to win two or three championships in a row. Like, you've heard. You've heard that on this show. Ohio State would like to like a word. Like, Ohio State should like a word and should say, really? Because. Because look at what we got going on. Ohio State, they reloaded, man. And they didn't reload with like, like, bottle rockets. I mean, they came out with double Uzis, man. Like, and just playing great. Reloaded both coordinators on each side of the football. Like, are you kidding me? And if you watch Sundays and you watch Ohio State wide receivers in the NFL, that's all you really need to see. It's just consistent, man. Every year, like, they've just got elite playmakers on the outside, and it makes it really easy to coach that. It makes it really easy to play quarterback there. So if we want to go to what's one, who is. If you ask me to bet my paycheck that I don't have anymore, but they're, like, the biggest paycheck that I've ever made, and you're asking me who to put it on to win a national championship, I'll put it on Ohio State. Like, I'll put it on them to win. But if you're asking me who the number one team in the country is, it's Miami. Like, what they've done so far, they deserve to be number one because it is about what you've done on the field. It is about how you've looked. Like, those are all things. Yes, you can project and you can talk about, like, itest, for sure, but they should all go into it. And I'm not knocking Miami for an eye test. You can look at the final score of Florida State if you want to. They beat the crap out of Florida State. Like, yeah, Florida State got back in the game. They beat the crap out of them. Like. And so I. Yes, there is a debate. Ohio State fans, Miami fans, y' all keep losing your minds in the chats because it's fricking fantastic. But. But, Brent, where am I wrong? I mean, like.
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Brent
I mean, resume. I think they're the best resume. I would agree with that.
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David Pollock
And Miami.
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Brent
Miami, yes.
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David Pollock
Yeah.
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Brent
Especially because in the Florida win in the south, Florida with Notre Dame, like, what Notre Dame is doing, and they're going to continue to do I think that's going to look even better if South Florida keeps winning. That's going to look even better. Like so I think resume wise they're, they're going to be there and then it'll just be, and a lot of this is tomato, tomato, like whatever at this point in the season. But a couple of things, One just for Miami fans, I, I wonder if they want it, do they want to be number one or they're like, hey, just don't, you know, Ohio State, you can take number one net right now. Like I, I, I'm curious about that.
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David Pollock
Do you read our chat? They might be the most vocal fans in our chat and they want to be number one.
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Brent
I've also seen a lot of them that are just like hey, hold on, hold on. Let's just pump the bird.
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David Pollock
Like nothing to see here. Like, don't look over here. Nothing to see. But, but here's the thing. Miami hasn't done this. They've run out to good starts, but they face plant like this is new ground for Miami and this is awesome. Like you should be jacked up and excited because this is Cristobal's handiwork of getting better players, better players, better players recruiting, building the physicality, building the toughness and finally putting it together, man. Like I think you want that number one ranking. I, I would go get it, man.
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Brent
Well, the use of this part, the, I can speak to that when Kate. So canesport.com which is now part of on3 used to be part of Rivals. I would actually write for them and do a sort of pff breakdown of Miami and rewatch their games, break down the games, do, do a thing. And I'm talking about Zion Nelson left, starting at left tackle as a true freshman and how he's getting a little bit better here and there. How they missed 20 tackles in a row for the third straight game or you know, hey, maybe you got a little something with these guys. Like I, I was writing in the struggles so I know all about the struggles with them and the fact that they're in this conversation in this position, it's just, just phenomenal. All right, so I have a two things. One, you talked and I finally hit me the other day you talked about Fletcher's running style and I wanted to see what you thought of this comp. Is he diet? Derrick Henry.
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David Pollock
Skinny, a skinny Derrick Henry.
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Brent
Like small, just a little bit smaller, but, you know, a little bit smaller but the upright, the lead you of style. But I thought that was funny. But anyway, that's A good one. You said about, you know, betting the paycheck to Ohio State.
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David Pollock
Oh, yeah.
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Brent
If I gave you Ohio State and Miami versus the field right now to win the whole thing, who you taking?
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David Pollock
Ohio State, Miami, 100%. Wouldn't even. Wouldn't even think twice. I mean, those, those two teams. Those two teams have. They have trump cards that. That other teams don't have. Like most of the teams in the country like lsu, what we know is dominant on defense, right? Offense is up and down. Hit or miss. Ole Miss, same thing. Great offense, defense has been hit or miss. Sometimes I've got to go through a gauntlet. This isn't one game anymore. So I got to go through a gauntlet and win three or four games in a row. Like that means I have to have both sides of the football. They're the most complete teams in the country. Oregon's a close third. But. But those two.
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Brent
I think if you put Oregon there, you definitively take those three.
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David Pollock
Yes, but I would. But those two, I would take. I would want over Oregon very much.
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Brent
That's. That was. That was my thoughts on that. Oh, and one thing I was looking at interesting sort of numbers wise before we, before we get to that here in a little bit. So Reuben Bain and Mazador.
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David Pollock
Oh, my God.
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Brent
Have 57 total quarterback pressures. That's more than three teams have in the power four. Three powerful teams combined. Like if you add. If you just did Mezador, Bain, and then added the two Texas Tech edge rushers, Bailey and Height, they had, those four players have more than 62 teams in the power four.
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David Pollock
It's. So to recap, the. The number one ranking is earned each week, and it's earned on what you have done, what you have done up until this point, who you've beaten. And then it's also a little bit you put in there about like, okay, how are you doing it? And then there's a little bit of looking into the future. I just don't know how you don't look at what Miami's done, who they've beaten and where they're at and not say they're the number one team in the country based on what they have earned, not been given based on what they have earned.
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Brent
Should we spin it forward now?
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David Pollock
Yeah, let's do it because we got.
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Brent
A lot of games this week that.
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David Pollock
Are every week bro.
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Brent
It feels very kind of Separation Saturday Contender Pretender, however you want to term it, but first and foremost, top 10 matchup the Fighting Kurt Signetti's Indiana Hoosiers go to Oregon and Dan Lanning. We did a breakdown of Oregon so if if you're hanging out on our channel, we did a Very deep dive into Oregon and looked at a lot of different details there. So we're not going to hit them. The thing with Indiana is they have a defensive line that against Illinois completely wrecked a game and are playing that way. And I was like, okay, where are these guys? Where do they get these guys? So I went and looked. So Mario Landino was the actually the only one that they recruited. He's. This is kind of a second year leap, defensive interior guy, 85.5 overall. PFF grade which speaking of the numbers brought to you by Pro Football Focus, There you go. Ball 25, code 25 off. You can get all the stuff that I'm looking at and showing. You can go nerd out.
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David Pollock
If you want more ammunition for the chat, go to pff, find it all and then you can slap people on here like Kane's cats, heat 305 every.
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Brent
Single week, all sorts of other things. But so out. So outside of him. Tyreek Tucker, JMU transfer that came last year, he was solid, played like around 300.
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David Pollock
Let's just go last names playing on Go last names and go through these tomorrow.
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Brent
Six you knew about.
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David Pollock
Yes.
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Brent
Like he's a stud JMU transfer. Wheeler 0. Western Kentucky transfer playing lights out. Stephen Daly, Kent State transfer. Wyatt playing on the edge, Kent State transfer and then Ratcliffe that kind of plays as a rotational piece, Texas State. So they're finding these guys in different places and now they get to go play against Oregon and that offense and all the freshmen and speed that Oregon has.
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David Pollock
And here's the thing, here's where they find them. Signetti is very clear about how he does this. He goes to smaller schools that have a lot of guys that have played for three and four years that have experience that are a little bit older, that they can come in that they've already played. They're not taking the young lumps with them like they want finished products for their school. That's the way they, that's the way they keep up with a team like Oregon who's got some youth, who will make some mistakes. So those are obviously really good numbers. And let me tell you something. At out at is a big stadium at outs and stadium is a big deal because that is one of the coolest. When you go in the south, obviously it's a different game. Like the environments are different in the South. Everybody's insane and nuts.
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Brent
I can attest to that. As someone from West Virginia, it was, yes, nuts.
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David Pollock
Let me tell you something. Oregon takes a backseat to no one now. It's not as big. But those people are absolutely crazy nuts. Tailgating. Unbelievable stadium. It helps Oregon's defensive line in that atmosphere. Not as much Indiana's for when they are home against Illinois. That was a big time help for them. Yeah, let's get to the next game. Let's go to Alabama, Missouri because that's. This game is all where fantastic Joe.
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Brent
Test and Jesse are on the call for this game. So you know, baby fighting like with Joe Test there, it's instantaneous excitement or exciting game. Six straight unbeaten opponent for Bama. If that's all six of their opponents, that's just crazy. Obviously FSU was unbeaten when they played him. They hadn't played. But outside of that everybody's been unbeaten. Per Buella has cooled off a little bit. 93.3 passing. Greatest first couple games. 62.5 recently. But the biggest thing in this game is like, is a Mod Hardy just absolutely licking his chops and be like okay, I'm gonna go get two hundo against Bama because Georgia went 231 and seven and a half a carry. Vandy went 146, eight and a half a carry. Now a lot of that was Pavia. They actually only had six carries by running backs. Vanderbilt, they kind of went throw heavy.
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David Pollock
How do you have a. How do you average 8 yards of carry, not run the ball more? That's. That's a side note that like fix that crap. That's. That's. That's very ungood. That is not smart play calling by Vanderbilt.
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Brent
And then Bama is 60th in the power four and explosive run play percentage allowed. So can Mod Hardy like basically put himself in a Heisman? I mean he already is with.
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David Pollock
That's what I'm saying. He's going to put himself on the mat this week. He's. He's got a chance to put himself in that conversation. Brent. Because not everybody's nerds like us that are watching every single Missouri game. Like, because in fairness, Missouri hasn't played a tough schedule by any stretch of the imagination. But like this is a chance. Hardy is built different, man. Like when you watch him this weekend you're going to be like, who is that dude that's got these tree trunks and that big old booty? Like that dude is built like a new school running back. Short, squatty, quick. Like runs through people like it is unbelievable. Like it's, it's just fun to watch him run. He runs angry. He runs with a purpose. He makes people miss. He runs through your face. He runs around you Like Bama's gonna have their absolute hands full with him.
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Brent
Very much so. The, the, I think this their number. Ohio State's number one in the ap. So yeah, the, the current number one team in the, in the poll, Ohio State goes to Illinois and Altmeyer like a very profit. And we talked about the sort of professional wins, some of those that Illinois has had this year. Last week against Purdue got another professional win, went and took care of business. He had 390 yards on 19 completions, almost 18 a completion. Just big plays galore. And he's actually to me balling out way more so than a lot of quarterbacks, other quarterbacks that are talked about at a different level. But the interesting thing for me was watching Ohio State and what they're doing with Julian saying and kind of just gradually taking the training wheel off. Yes. And letting him go and go. He finally threw an incompletion on a 20 yard deep ball pass. It was still, I remember one of them was still an absolute dime. It was just a very tough catch for Smith that he didn't make on the sideline. But he now is 12 of 14 for 515 yards, seven touchdowns and a 98 PFF passing grade on 20 plus yards throw throws. Unreal. Like that's in terms of best ever. Jaden Daniels is the best ever. And it's just a little bit more than that.
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David Pollock
And I would love to say that that's all him. That's not all him. Like, whatever. Don't, don't give me that. Like, please don't tell me and not you, bro. I'm just saying. Don't give me the. Like he's the greatest deep ball passer in the world. It's called Jeremiah Smith. It's called Cardell Tate. It's like Smith gets so much attention. Tate's going to continue to beat people deep like. And he's got him beat.
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Brent
Did you see the double move touchdown.
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David Pollock
He's got to beat by 10 yards. Like, yeah, I'm not. Okay. He's 12 or 14 on deep passes. I could easily be 8 of 14 and I've never played quarterback in my life. So I'm not hating on Julian saying he's a baller. I'm just saying when you got those weapons out wide, it's pretty easy to be really, really good. This one, the Luster Chat that that TD was filthy. Yes it was, sir.
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Brent
Yes, it was. I agree the route was nasty. Oklahoma. Texas was going to be a lot bigger game, but Texas kind of fumbled that a little Bit but still a massive game for Oklahoma and Florida was. We talked about how Florida was last in the power four in terms of sack percentage and and pressure percentage going to that into that game. They pressured arch on 62% of his drop backs in that game. And now Texas gets to play Oklahoma who's four in the power form who.
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David Pollock
Lives in the world of pressure. That's all they do. Like Venables wakes up and drinks coffee and that's all he does. That's why he had a get back coach at Clemson. This is still an enormous game. Like this is big time. This is a big game. Now Oklahoma, you're on your backup quarterback. I'm assuming, I'm assuming Mater isn't going to play. But like if I'm an Oklahoma fan, did I ever think that there was a world in a universe that I could beat Texas with my backup quarterback? The answer is absolutely not. Like you think about Oklahoma and how they've been perceived since joining the sec. They got a chance to change that narrative right now. They got a chance to say hey Texas, you want some? Take them like eat it. Like they got a chance to make a big time. Bury them dude recruiting. Bury them with a backup quarterback. Now listen that those numbers are terrible. Arts doesn't have anybody playing good around him. They got to coach it up better. But these games are always crazy. They're always weird. Something always happens. So I wouldn't write it off but I still think that'll be a good game. But not as good as UGA at Auburn. If you think this is a cakewalk for uga, you better think again.
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Brent
I think I saw the spread opened at four and a half and is down to three and a half like this game is going to be. It's always that way, but it's always that way, especially at Auburn. And does Auburn, we talked about Florida having a bye week. Does Auburn have a new offensive look and a new confidence about them after a bye week? Maybe Jackson Arnold's likely going to have some time to throw because Georgia's 63rd in the Power 4 impression percentage. But his last two games, 47. 47 passing grade and sack 15 times.
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David Pollock
Like 4, 7.
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Brent
Yeah, like 4, like 4, 7. That's, that's like you're like your number man.
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David Pollock
But, but how big is this for Auburn? Like how big, how big? How much? Auburn's not out of this thing yet. Like they can. And I say that this is going one of two ways this, this week. Like if Auburn makes a statement and beats Georgia, that They saved their season to start off a close loss to Oklahoma. Close loss to A and M. She's back. Yeah. Hey, they lose this one, it's like, all right, bro, this experiment went really well, but people are going to be pissed. Like, this is a, this is a huge game for Auburn and the perception of who they are. And if you think they're just going to walk in there and Georgia's got, you know, banged up offensive line like crazy. They haven't beat him at night since 2012. So if you think Auburn's just done like, I would disagree strongly.
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Brent
Yeah. And you think about what does Auburn have that Georgia has struggled with this season? Big receivers.
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David Pollock
Yeah.
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Brent
And really good receivers. And they have really good receivers. Like, look what Chris Brazil did to, to them at Tennessee.
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David Pollock
But Georgia has a really good run defense. That's one thing we've got to point out too. As much as we talk about the pass rush not being great, they've. They've shut down the run, like, unbelievable job of making everyone look very average that they've played.
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Brent
Yeah. I put that on Twitter, actually. Today they are number one in the power four in explosive run percentage allowed. Like the fewest explosive run place allowed. But yeah, but if, if you let Cam Coleman get one on ones in this game, I, I, this might not go well. And also you talk about Auburn after this, they get Missouri home and then at Arkansas, Kentucky, Vandy. So this game gets well, then maybe they can get some serious momentum. The next game, I think is like legit, a playoff game, Michigan at usc. And like this has been a thing with Underwood and does, you know, does he need to work on his touch and he's got too much of a cannon. Yes, all those sort of things. But yes, if you're a receiver for Michigan, used to. Your job is to catch the ball.
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David Pollock
Yeah.
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Brent
And they are doing that worse than anyone. His drop percentage, 15.4% would have led the nation last year. And it's number one right now in the power four. And we. Pff. Charts catchable throws.
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David Pollock
Yeah.
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Brent
They've only caught 82% of those.
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David Pollock
Yeah, but does it chart when it's coming 8,000 miles an hour.
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Brent
So if it's right there in the frame, yes, it's catchable. It's a little different and he's got to work on that.
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David Pollock
But still you got to catch short throws. But they've got to catch it. They, they also don't run the, they make big plays in the running game, but they don't consistently run the football well. They got some injuries on the offensive line too that are just, you know, legit that the up front. But no, they've got to do a better job of. They have to do a better job of winning out wide and making plays. And the big mule client at tight end, he's the guy, man. Like, he's the guy that has to be a bigger part of their, their plan. I think McCully is also another guy that he. And he came to life last game. Like I saw that. But you're right about usc. Here's a first look too. This is what I would have done numbers wise on this. Like, can USC keep their quarterback upright? Because Michigan they're going to be. And usc, if you watch the Illinois game, you're like, good Lord, they couldn't protect their dude. So that's a.
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Brent
And think about last year. That was Miller Moss running for his absolute life on everybody's life just in Louisville just he transferred to a team with maybe a worse offensive line. But like that. And there's so many other great games this week. Florida now with feeling good, going to Texas A M. Like all the SEC games are good. You've got like I talked about South Florida, North Texas, which for folks that don't know that that's actually big game in terms of who might actually from end up in the playoff from the group of five. Like that's a big one. Arizona State goes to Utah in the Big 12. Big night game, late game there. Like there's all kinds of great games, every window.
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David Pollock
How about this chat's great too. Michigan ground gonna. Gonna run for four hundo. That's. That's aggressive. The Italian Stallion heartline is the guy C.J. stroud ignored as O.C. right. All right, well, I mean maybe they Heartline had his chance and it didn't look great, but obviously Chip Kelly was okay. How about. How about Craig, Our boy Craig Signetti is going to be sitting on a in the coach's office in Happy Valley by the end of the year. Interesting. Rhys Davis brought that up. He brought up with us, you know, not too long ago he talked about like, why not hire Signetti? Like instant credibility. You'll get half his roster like he did with jmu. Like obviously he's one got.
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Brent
Speaking of Penn State though, did you see Franklin's comments about, you know, hey, the travel and like excuses galore for not playing well instead of just saying, hey, we weren't ready to play. That's on me. It won't happen again.
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David Pollock
He did say that he did Say that as well. I mean, that might be what you took out of it, but, like, he definitely. He owned it up too. But, like, I think that, you know, when you. When you have that much success and you've had that many people questioning, like, here's. Here's the thing. They hear the outside noise like they do. Like, the coaches hear it. As much as they don't want to, they don't want to. It's too easily accessible, and too many people text you. You have too many friends. That's the problem. Your friends send you a clip of somebody saying this. Your friend sends you a video, like, just to. Like to try to motivate you. But at the same time, it's like, all right, I get it, man. I've heard this enough. Let's get to the Eliminator, though, because we had some eliminations last week that I think were. We're big time, and we'll just stay on pace because one thing, one real.
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Brent
Quick thing, I just. I had to let the audience in on. On a little secret. That's fun. I. I think. I think you need to tell the audience how your world has been enlightened by technology recently that we use for the show because you're. You're adulting, and you need to show how much you're more. More adulting that you are with. With this technology that you're. That you're using.
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David Pollock
I don't think as much as gonna be. People are gonna look at it in a positive light. They're probably gonna make fun of me, but. No, let's not make fun of you. I just recently with the guys, we. We do this thing called Google Doc, and I've never heard of it, but it's life changing. I mean, I didn't know that. Me, Brent and Wes, there's Wesley. Google, like, Google Doc.
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John McClain
It's not like a teladoc. It's a. It's plural. There's more than one document.
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David Pollock
Okay, well, Google Docs, and it's been amazing, like, the fact that you can actually, like, you can put notes. I can put notes, and we can all, like, look at the notes, and I can even see your color, like, editing. And like, I don't even need. I use guys. I have. This is from last year. This is two notebooks from last year. Like, literally two notebooks that I filled full of crap last year that I wrote down. I'm. I don't even have to write anything anymore. It just pops up in your. In your computer. I'm. I'm upstairs I'm downstairs. This is awesome.
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John McClain
Like, I just put a note in the. In the Google Doc for you, David. Check out under the Eliminator.
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David Pollock
I'll.
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John McClain
I'll go. I'll go first. My. My eliminator for the week. Texas. The Longhorns. Things are not. All right. All right, all right. And there was a moment from the weekend that was a microcosm of the whole thing. Dp. We had the quad box up and we had Texas in the top right. And below, it was on a commercial. And the commercial was Arch Manning in his Rory shorts throwing pr. No, it wasn't. The glasses. The glasses.
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David Pollock
My bad.
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John McClain
That would have been sweet, but it was like, right after one of his picks and he's down there for his nil deal. And I'm not knocking the kid for making his money. And really my thing. And y' all nailed this earlier. This is not on Arch. 100%. The media storm where he's just been cannibalized. The kid was set up to fail all off season. He could have won the Heisman with one arm behind his back, and he wouldn't have met the expectations that people had for him. But this was the worst case scenario, unfortunately. That loss at Florida was terrible. And you know, you're giving up a 55 yard touchdown to that. That freshman Dallas Wilson, who hurt his foot.
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David Pollock
It.
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John McClain
It was coming back like nothing was going right for Texas. And if they were any other team with what we were seeing from them earlier in the season, they would have been in our CFP eliminator a lot earlier.
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David Pollock
Yeah, kind of like. Kind of like Alabama. They were in the eliminator.
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John McClain
I delimited. Deliminated.
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David Pollock
All right, Brett, who you got? Who'd you eliminate this week, brother?
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Brent
Someone we've already talked about. Miller Moss and his Louisville Cardinals. Like, oh, like, in terms of win percentage probability versus what actually happened, they should have won that game. But you give up two defensive touchdowns to Virginia and you can't protect your quarterback, and your next game is at Miami. I. I think you're pretty well done, Ski.
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David Pollock
Listen, the. The chat.
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Brent
Louisville for me.
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David Pollock
I get it. And the chat's going like, wait a minute. Texas isn't technically eliminated. We don't. We don't go by mathematical. We go by what we see and we're like, they done. They gone. Like they're not. They're not bouncing back a lot. Penn State. Allah. Penn State is mine. Like, technically, Penn State plays Indiana. They play Ohio State. So you're saying, hey, Penn State can get back in this, all they got to do is win a few big games. Right? Like all Penn State, Brent, to be not eliminated, all they have to do is win a few big games against.
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Brent
Teams that will be ranked in the top 10.
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David Pollock
Yeah. That's all they got to do. That's why they're eliminated. I love you. We are. I love your. I love your team, man. That. That last week was the. Was the back breaker. It's it, man. It's over. I think they can.
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Brent
They've won the games they're supposed to win, and when you now lose a game you're supposed to win now, the heat gets cranked up.
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David Pollock
Yeah.
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Brent
So.
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David Pollock
And speaking of. Of. Of winning victory formation, like, now we go to who won the weekend. And these are always fun because everybody can kind of look at it however they like to see what. What they consider winning. I'm going with Tim Skipper, everybody in the chat. Yeah, go ahead and go nuts. Because you don't know who Tim Skipper is, because Tim Skipper was the interim coach for UCLA. The 04 Bruins, who had no life, who averaged 14 points a game, who hadn't led at any point in the season, not one minute, not one second, had they led a single game. So when you talk about winning a weekend, my man, Tim Skipper, you won the weekend. You got the victory formation because you took your team that had no belief, no coach, you somehow dialed them in and you beat Penn State. You got a super big dub, and guess what? You are officially tied now with James Franklin because you have one top 10 win versus a Big Ten team. You did it really quick in your career, really quickly, but you won the weekend, sir. That's.
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Brent
I mean, that's an amazing number. Such an amazing number. My winner of the weekend. Let me see if I can zoom in a little bit here or zoom out.
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David Pollock
Zoom out, bro.
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Brent
That. That would be the. Yeah, zoom out. That would be the U. Because to me, you can now put them in the playoff in Sharpie, whatever seed, fine. However it ends up, I think they're. They are definitively a playoff team. And the other part was it wasn't just that for the weekend, because not only did they win, their previous quarterback had a coming out party because the Arizona Cardinal guy decided to drop the ball before the end zone again when they were about to go up. And then Cam. Yes. From tcu.
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David Pollock
Are you doing like Sean Jackson as a kid? And go, that is so cool. I'm gonna do this. Like, I can't. You're in the NFL. I can't believe that's. Even possible that you could do that. But no, Miami, like, this is what they got. They got the belt. The state championship belt again. Yes, they did, like just two years in a row. Just being like, sit down. Hey, South Florida, good little program. Hey, fsu, good program. Hey, Florida, y'. All. Y' all got it going this time. Nah, sit your butt down. Miami's just straight whack. A mole. The state of Florida.
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Brent
Eat it.
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David Pollock
Eat it. Eat it.
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Brent
They owned it. Put him in the playoff. Sharpie.
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John McClain
Yeah. D. Mercado pulled the. The Chad Powers in real life. All right, John McClain.
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David Pollock
From Dialogue. Yeah.
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John McClain
Hugh Glass, the Revenant. Freddy Krueger. People who refuse to die. My winner of the weekend, Billy Napier, refuses to die. For better or worse, if you're a Florida fan, look, you hate this guy six days of the week, but tell me that beating Texas isn't sweet in the swamp. That looked like a lot of fun. Billy Napier, you live to see another day, my man. And he is my winner of the weekend. I love Billy Napier. Look, we're dogs here. We're not gonna. Not gonna beat around the bush, but I like that guy. I think the. The Stetson Bennett story. Have you heard that one, David, about how he almost went and played for Billy Napier when he was. He was juco. Billy Napier called him, wanted him to transfer to Louisiana from his juco school. And then I think Kirby called him that day and Stetson was like, sorry, sorry, coach. I got to go back to Georgia. And the rest was history. So tough loss for Billy Napier there. But that guy, his story as a coach, whatever happens at Florida, I think he's going to do great things. And this weekend, beating Texas at home, that was awesome.
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David Pollock
Big dub for Billy done. He's not done. Florida and Billy Napier are going to get more people this season. Like, they've. Listen, their schedule gives them plenty of opportunities because their schedules are murders row. But somebody else is going to taste. Taste the Gators because it's. They've got a good team talent. And now this freshman kid. Holy cow. Like, now you're going, okay, is that just. Is that duty? Elite of elite. Is he going to go take over games? Dallas is an absolute stud, too, so I agree with you guys.
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John McClain
Thanks for watching. Brent, great job with the numbers tonight. Great breakdown of some big games. This is going to be a fun weekend. DP, your top 12 is terrible, just like it is every week. You can't please everybody or anybody, but, hey, that's how it's going to go. We're going to be the committee before the committee starts doing their rankings here in about a month, I think. So getting excited about that y' all hit like and subscribe here on YouTube. If you're listening on podcast, rate and review the show. And look, we y' all can't catch us live every single show. So go follow it over there too and listen wherever you're going. Heading to work at work. We won't tell your boss. Listen there too. Y' all have a great week. D.P. appreciate it, man. Brent we'll see y' all Wednesday night. Peace. Peace.
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