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Stugach
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Lucy
Stugach. I want to tell you a story. I'm serious here. My wife and my two daughters, they begged me to buy a peloton. So I bought a peloton. And then I watched that peloton sit in my office and stare at me. So you know what I did one day I looked at it and so I decided to get off my ass and I jumped on the peloton because no one else was using it and I paid for it. I mean, so why not? Then I realized eventually that they bought it for me. And I got to tell you, way more challenging than I could have ever imagined. Peloton coaches are walking the walk. I love the coaches. I do the Grateful Dead one. It's fantastic. They have a sub 3 hour marathon runner, military trained athlete, a former college basketball player, and so many other well rounded coaches on their team. All this experience really shows in their classes, which are never short of challenging, especially for me. So I jumped on it that first time. It was challenging, more challenging than I thought. And then I wanted to beat the bike and so I kept jumping on it. And I absolutely love it. I mean, I'm the only one who uses it, but again, they got it for me. I mean, I had no idea. That's a little passive aggressive that you think. Find your push, find your power. With peloton@1peloton.com.
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Unnamed Host
Lucy, we're back.
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Stugach
Sort of last time. Not really last time, but kind of the last time.
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Unnamed Host
Yes. Maybe second to last episode. We haven't recorded in a while because we've been sick. We've been traveling, the show is dark for a couple weeks, the holidays, et cetera, et cetera. We don't really have a plan for this show. We're just gonna, we're just gonna vibe about the playoffs. There's one game left of the college football season. It's the national championship game between Ohio State and Notre Dame. Since the last time we talked, there's been about 60 bowl games. They were all awesome. There's been a double dozen playoff games. I would contend that they were all awesome too. And we're gonna, we're gonna talk about all of that. But where would you like to start? What's been on your mind these last few weeks?
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Stugach
Oh, my God. Well, honestly, I wish we could just take the full 30 minutes to just talk about Brett Bielma and what's up with him. His bowl drama. How awesome was that? Everyone's saying bull season doesn't mean Anything but Brett Bielma is starting fights in the middle of games.
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Unnamed Host
I love it.
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Stugach
It means everything.
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Unnamed Host
He's doing the. He's angrily doing the. The T signal to signal, you know, fair catch. He was just like, not happy at all in that Citrus bowl game against South Carolina. And I think, you know, we had a good idea of who was going to win the Jennifer Awards before Christmas, but there was so much juicy content and drama during bowl season that now I think we're going to have to rethink everything. Brett be almost got to win a Jenny award.
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Stugach
Oh, he. I feel like we should rename the awards after him. You said something I got to push back on. You said he didn't seem happy. He was laughing his ass off at Shane Beamer losing his mind.
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Unnamed Host
That's true.
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Stugach
It was so Shane Beamer was the.
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Unnamed Host
One that was being a little pouty.
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Stugach
Oh, and he's still been pouty. He was pouty online for the next, like four days while Bert is just basking in the glow of the Orlando sun.
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Unnamed Host
Okay, maybe we give our coach of the year where we rename it the Bert of the Year.
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Stugach
Oh, I love it.
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Unnamed Host
And he is. He's definitely the clubhouse favorite to win that one. But yeah, the. The Citrus bowl was phenomenal. The Idaho Potato bowl was phenomenal. The Lockheed Martin Armed Forces bowl between Oklahoma and Navy. I mean, there were obviously the Pop Tart Bowl, Iowa State in Miami. There were so many good games. I think like a lot. There's been a lot of discourse about like, ah, the SEC and all these different conferences and the ACC's record in bowl season and all that since, you know, bowl season ended. What do you make of the bowl games? Is there anything that we should take away from them other than like, here's 40 free games for everyone to enjoy. Just like, shut up and have fun.
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Stugach
I can't remember who published it, but bowl ratings like TV and viewership for bowl games was higher this year than I, maybe it's ever been, I don't know, higher than it has been in recent memory. People are watching bowl games because people like bowl games. And now that you see bowls like Pop Tart and the Mayo bowl, like really kind of dive into the absurdity of college football and the absurdity of bowl season. Like, you're creating this super fun atmosphere and who cares? Let. Let these kids have an extra game at the end of the year. Go to Orlando. Let them go to Universal Studios. There's nothing wrong with that.
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Unnamed Host
Yeah. The bowl games averaged 2.7 million viewers for the 33 non CFP bowl games this season, tied for 2122 for the best figure since 2.9 million in the 1920 season. 22 of the 33 saw year over year gain. So, yeah, I mean, bowl alive and well. If you're like, oh, there's too many Bulls, they're not going anywhere. People watch them. They're awesome. I had, like, one of the greatest weekends of my several great weekends in a row, I should say, watching bowl games, into NFL games, into college football playoff games, back into bowl games. Like, it was just non stop football from like 11am until midnight. Every single night past midnight. If you stayed up for the Las Vegas bowl, what a comeback from the USC Trojans. So, yeah, I'm with you. Like the. Just have fun. Football is. Football's fun. We like watching.
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Stugach
Yeah, it's such a stupid argument. Like, it just makes me. Okay, are you with the cloud? I literally don't give one shit. We saw a Pop Tart get eaten. A rose out of a. Out of a toaster. And life has forever been different. Just go outside.
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Unnamed Host
I did think it was a little jarring seeing Rocco Beck sentence that specific Pop Tart to death. They were like, which Pop Tart do you want to eat? And he just. It was like, literally a death sentence. It was very scary. I think it was the cinnamon. The cinnamon one. And then they just killed him on the spot and ate him. It was. That was kind of alarming.
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Stugach
Look, the 800 points they scored in that game was alarming to me. I was already like, My senses were very disoriented at the time. There was so much going on.
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Unnamed Host
Yeah. And we got to avoid all of the Cam Lord discourse because we didn't have an episode that week. So that's probably for the best because, man, there's one thing that there's been a lot of these last few weeks. It's discourse. It's been, oh, my God, at Indiana. What a bunch of losers. The SEC is so much better than everyone else as everyone. Every SEC team loses their playoff games. You were at the first Texas home playoff game, the Clemson game, which was. For some reason, everyone was like, that was. Every game was a blowout. They all stunk. That game. Lucy was like, pretty exciting. What was your reaction to watching that one?
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Stugach
That game was very much just like, sweep the leg. Just finish it. What are you doing? Like, it was very much like, okay, great. Texas is up by 20. Like, life is easy. And then Cade Club Nick was like, hey, guess what? I'VE decided to be the best quarterback you've ever seen. And you're like, Texas, just stop up. Just stop them one time, and they would not do it. It was a very much, like, it was very exciting. Like, it had the aura of a playoff game. Something that I think is really interesting was we ended up, like, getting tickets for this game, and they were very cheap compared to, like, when we would go to Georgia, Alabama during the regular season, they were very cheap. It was very accessible to go to the game, which I thought was phenomenal. But, yeah, it was like, the vibes were high. Texas should have kind of finished Clemson a lot earlier on in that game. They just kept letting them hang around, but it was a good time. I had a lot of fun at Texas, and I really like their fight song. I think it's quite good.
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Unnamed Host
The reaction I had watching that was like, not what I expected to have about Clemson this season, which was. You probably feel pretty good if you're a Clemson fan going into next year. Like, they just hired Tom Allen, who left Penn State, which I think is really interesting to be the new defensive coordinator at Clemson. They. They got some shit together by the end of the season. Like, it wasn't pretty. Like, the South Carolina game was not pretty. But I do think South Carolina was, you know, obviously one of the two best teams they played this season between them and Georgia. But I don't know. I feel like if you're a Clemson and now you're finally dipping your toes into the portal, you probably have some. Some good vibes going into 2025.
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Stugach
Yeah, they've been using the portal like crazy. And you look at the acc, things feel kind of wide open. I don't know. Carson Beck being in the equation, that either makes you feel better or worse. I'm not quite sure.
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Unnamed Host
Yeah, I don't know what to make of Carson back either. Like, he's come. He's going to be coming off a major arm surgery, but at the same time, like, yeah, he probably is better than whoever Miami has in their quarterback room at the moment. So I don't know what to make of that.
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Stugach
Who knows?
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Unnamed Host
We'll find out.
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Stugach
Dating a cavender. Good for you, brother.
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Unnamed Host
It.
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Stugach
It works out in the end, but, yeah, Clemson's got to be feeling pretty good right now. And that game, they played a lot better than I thought they would. Run defense is terrible, though. Jesus.
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Unnamed Host
Yeah, Texas was just running the ball all over them. I was at the Notre Dame Indiana game, which I thought was awesome, and I've already sort of Talk about this on air, but, like, going from like, what a fun game. Amazing. Like, I love it so much. That was so fun. The first ever college football playoff game at a home stadium. What a cool atmosphere. College football is the greatest to then going online. And every take was like, this game sucked and was shitty and a dud and we all hate Indiana and they should die. And I was like, whoa. I was not expecting that reaction. I thought we were all kind of like. I thought maybe the reaction be like, wow, Notre Dame's really good. But instead it was like, indiana, screw you. And now the last two teams left standing in college football are the two teams that beat the Indiana Hoosiers this season. So were you, as a Big Ten fan, sad to see everyone take a. Take their turn taking dumps on Indiana after that game?
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Stugach
I mean, yeah, it was one of those things where I really love that you brought that up because I was curious. I was like, I wonder if people at the game thought it sucks so much. Because I think a big reason of why everyone hated the expanded playoff that first round is because everybody wouldn't shut up about how much they hated the expanded playoff in the first round. Hard for me to buy into a game when the announcers are talking about how much stinks and how much they wish that it was an Alabama team there that ended up losing to Michigan in the Reliaque Quest Bowl. Like, be so serious right now. I think the biggest pro. There are a lot of problems with the playoff. We can fix the seating, conference championships, the buys, they're all a little weird. That will work itself out. But the biggest immediate problem with the playoff is everybody needs to shut up about how much they hate it because it's really not that bad. And we've had two solid rounds and my dog is barking.
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Unnamed Host
That's okay. I. Your dog is agreeing with you. And I also, like, if Kevin Jennings hadn't just completely melted down in the first half, like, that also could have been a better game. But, like, you know, it's the playoffs, there's nerves involved. There's. Penn State's defense is obviously top five defense in the country this year. I thought that the opening round games, they were what you would expect watching better teams play worse teams in the first round of a playoff. Like, the good teams tend to beat the not as good teams, and that's why they got to host the games in the first round. And it kind of worked out that way.
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Stugach
No one's blowing smoke because of the NFL. Like, first round of the playoff. Wild Card weekend. You had a lot of blowouts there and everyone's fine because that's what. What's expected. No one loses their mind in March Madness when.
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Unnamed Host
Yeah. When all the 16 see.
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Stugach
Yeah. Lose.
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Unnamed Host
Yeah.
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Stugach
Yeah. It just is like the seating was done that way for a reason. I do think that if I have an issue like Oregon being the only undefeated team, this having such a great year, and then getting the draw of.
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Unnamed Host
Playing Ohio State, I would be sad.
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Stugach
Playoff game. I would not be a happy camper if that were me. So I do think there's problems with the seating, but, like, overall, just. Yeah, it's really fine. It's. It's really okay.
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Unnamed Host
I would also.
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Stugach
We're happy now.
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Unnamed Host
Exactly. I would love to see the quarterfinals on campus sites, too. I think, like, if you could rework the whole thing. Personally, I would get rid of conference championship games in general. They. If you're a fan, first of all, there's very limited circumstances in which you travel for one of them. Unless you're like an Indiana fan and they're in the Big Ten championship in Indianapolis. Like, Oregon fans aren't going to fly across the country for that if they're going to be in the Fiesta bowl or the Rose bowl, like in two weeks. So from like, a fan perspective. And like, I know they're never going to get rid of conference championship games because they get great ratings, obviously. I'm just saying, like, if I could tweak things, I would just get rid of those, start the playoffs a week earlier, have quarterfinal games on campus in the week that the first round games were, and then have the semifinals on New Year's Day because, A, they get way better ratings. That's a humongous college football day. And B, I just think it makes more sense. But I digress. The quarterfinals were also, I thought, really awesome and just because, like, I'm basically just throwing shade at Stu bats in this whole segment and refuting everything I've heard him say over the last, like, month because he was like, Boise State in Penn State. Boo. That stinks. No, that game was really game. Really good. I thought the only game that really stunk was Oregon and Ohio State, which we all like. This is how big of an idiot. And everyone else is like, in the whole world, including me. I'm like, oh, this is going to be the best game of the playoffs. Like, this is a one point game during the regular season.
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Stugach
It's me.
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Unnamed Host
So good. No, no, Lucy.
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Stugach
I spent my own money to travel to that game. Watch it.
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Unnamed Host
Oh, no.
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Stugach
I Was so embarrassed.
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Unnamed Host
You should try to.
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Stugach
So embarrassed. I was, like, sitting in the press box, just being like, okay, I guess I have to play Sudoku now. Like, I have no idea what to do. Like, it was so bad that game was over so quickly that I was getting my own Rose bowl flashbacks that I was like, I gotta leave. I gotta get out of here.
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Unnamed Host
Oh, no.
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Stugach
Yeah. But the rest of the games are great. I mean, Texas, Arizona State, that was awesome. Yes. That ruled so hard. And, like, I think you can. The Texas Ohio State game was really good. It obviously kind of came down to that one horrible play call when Texas is. Is trying to score late in the game. But that if that targeting call had been made in Arizona State, Texas, which I believe it was targeting. Do I know what targeting is necessarily? Not particular.
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Unnamed Host
It reminded me at the end of the Cal Miami game. I was like. I thought I knew what it was, but I guess there's. There's a huge difference between the crown and, like, next to the crown. I don't know. I don't.
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Stugach
It just. It doesn't make. There has to. We have to do something with the helmet. So we have to put an ax on the helmet, and when it hits.
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Unnamed Host
That, that's when, you know, put ink on them. So, like, if you hit someone, there's a little stamp. Yeah.
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Stugach
Like, get a little insurance person there who can. Like, when they go to a car accident, they can tell who's at fault. So you get the two helmets and you. And you look at them. Yeah. If that call had gone differently, we probably would have had Arizona State, Ohio State, which I do think would have been probably a worse game. But, like, that was the cool part of the playoff, is Arizona State would not have made the playoff in any other year. Notre Dame might not have made the playoff in any other year with that loss. Ohio State might not have made the playoff with two losses. Like, it's exciting to see that, like, expanding it. I do believe that the two best teams are playing in the national championship game.
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Unnamed Host
Yeah.
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Stugach
Except for a hypothetical SEC team would be.
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Unnamed Host
Hypothetically, Alabama would beat both of these teams by three touchdowns. And Taylor, for some reason, is like an Alabama fan. So he's like, fist pumping. We're kidding. Okay. God, it's so annoying. I. I'm with you. I think that the biggest difference between this championship game and any previous championship game is that there's no good argument to say, well, Ohio State, they lost to Michigan, so they shouldn't be in this championship game. Or Notre Dame lost to Northern Illinois, they should be. Notre Dame had to play the Big Ten runner up, the SEC champion and a top four Big Ten team to get to the championship. Ohio State had to play a top four SEC team, the Big Ten champion to avenge their loss in the regular season, and the SEC runner up to get to this championship game. They both had really difficult draws in the playoff. There's no like asterisks. Like if Penn State had made it, it would have been like, oh well, they had to play the G5 team and SMU and blah blah, blah. Like, I still wouldn't have agreed with that. But I think both of these teams in particular had really difficult paths to the championship game. So even if there is a lopsided championship like we've seen in, I don't know, a half dozen of the last dozen championship games, it's like, well, what else can you ask for from a playoff? Both of these teams had to win three tough games in a row.
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Stugach
I believe there's some stat that like the average margin of victory in the super bowl or in the NFL playoffs is like 30 to 13. That's. I'm making it up. I'm making it up. But it's in the, the vicinity of that. But we don't lose our minds over it. But when it comes to college football, you're like, if every team isn't, if every game isn't a one score game, then this is a bad system.
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Unnamed Host
Right. Or if everything happens, doesn't hit like a 55 point total, it's like, that was bad. It's like, okay, wait a second. I don't.
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Stugach
You don't get that.
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Unnamed Host
Yeah, you would understand. Defense is cool actually. But I'm with you. I thought that the semifinal games, I, I was at the Orange bowl or you were at the Orange bowl too, right? We didn't see each other. That I have only bad things to say about Hard Rock Stadium.
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Stugach
I, I did not have the best time of my life. I'll say that.
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Unnamed Host
It was so hard to get around that place on foot, by car, by sea, whichever vehicle or however you were getting around. Just, it was not easy. Plastic and Arqueso, which I've, I've documented on my social media. Anyways, an all time classic though. Like, holy shit, was that a crazy third and fourth quarter? James Franklin's obviously getting slammed for once again not be able to win a top five game. But at the same time, all of Penn State's players are coming back next year, except for like a couple, a couple big ones like Abdul Carter, for instance. But do you feel good if you're a Penn State fan at the end of the season?
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Stugach
I think you feel like you've always felt. I think that Penn State is very just. I'll have to look at Penn State schedule and see if they play Ohio State.
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Unnamed Host
They're not. Conference is very easy next year.
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Stugach
Yeah, I assume so. But if they're playing Ohio State during the regular season, then I don't feel great. Yeah, I think there was a lot of like, I have a few questions just about like when, when Drew Eller came out for that final drive, I looked at Harry and I said, he is dying to throw in a double coverage. He's going to do it like without a doubt. And if I knew what he was going to do, that James Franklin should have known what he was going to do. Not getting their wide receivers involved at all. Zero catches, zero yards. Just a big fat zero for Penn State's receivers. I just. You feel good because you got to the semifinals. You are considered one of the four best teams in college football this year. But we still see that there is such a gap between four and one where if you're looking at Ohio State, Penn State, like those teams play every year and we know there's a big gap in between those two. So like, I feel good. I just don't feel like, like super duper rock and roll. I feel like yacht rock.
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Unnamed Host
I would feel not great about Drew Alar. I think that was. I think the biggest bummer from the semifinal game was that he just didn' like you said, Lucy, they haven't thrown to their wide receivers like all season. But luckily Tyler Warren's like the best tight end in college football, so he helps a lot. But yeah, all are threw three picks. Two of them obviously got called back, but the last one was an absolute dagger to Christian Gray, Notre Dame's DB corner extraordinaire, only a sophomore. Next year, Penn State has Nevada, FIU and Villanova to open the season. But then they get Oregon. They have to play Iowa, Ohio State, Indiana and a couple other Big Ten, you know, Nebraska, Rutgers, Michigan State.
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Stugach
Take it back. I feel bad.
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Unnamed Host
Yeah, it might be a tough. It might be tough next season once they get through the non com, but I don't know. We'll see. I still think that they're. They're always going to be a really good football team. They just like they need to get over that hump and they haven't yet. And James Franklin was negging Marcus Freeman during the press conference and it Totally backfired. He's like, how old are you again? And Marcus Freeman was like, I'm 38. Didn't work for what?
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Stugach
For what?
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Unnamed Host
James? And then he's like, you should join a conference. It's like, okay, well, we can't keep doing this. Notre Dame is 40 against the Big Ten in this season, so I can't.
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Stugach
I claim you all as a spiritual Big Ten team. I don't know if I'm allowed to do that.
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Unnamed Host
Yeah, that's gross. I don't want anything to do with that.
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Stugach
I think it's accurate.
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Unnamed Host
I heard you talking shit on godless football, but we don't have to talk about that either.
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Stugach
That doesn't sound like me.
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Unnamed Host
We're both going to be in Atlanta this weekend. What are your thoughts on the title game?
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Stugach
I, like I said before, I really do think that the two best teams are playing in this game. The line right now. What Ohio State as of recording, Ohio State minus eight and a half. I think that's kind of high. I'm not like counting out Notre Dame as much as everyone else is. I do think it would require Notre Dame putting together like an unbelievable football game, like close to perfect, where I kind of think that is possible because I don't think they played particularly well against Penn State. I thought the second half, those adjustments were phenomenal, but the first half, they were kind of ass. So to see Notre Dame sort of put together such a good half after that, original just kind of stinker. I do think that Notre Dame's defense is good enough that if they can force Ohio State into these third down situations and Ohio State sucks on third down, like they're really, really bad. That's their only glaring weakness on this team. Then I think that if it's a close game, Notre Dame could win. But that's an. If it's a close game, I think it goes close game. Notre Dame wins or Ohio State blows them out.
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Unnamed Host
Yeah, I think Ohio State definitely has the ability to just like do that knockout punch. Right? Like so many of their passes this season have just been to wide open receivers that they're able to just scheme open. They've been playing so well in this postseason. Whereas, you know, both teams have struggled with injuries on their offensive lines. Notre Dame left lost their left tackle in the Orange Bowl. Their right guard got banged up. They're down four starting linemen. Their best player on defense, Benjamin Morrison, out for the season, who was really effective in covering Marvin Harrison Jr. Last year when these two teams played each other So I think you're right. I think, like, Notre Dame can. If Notre Dame can keep it close and play out of their minds, especially defensively, like, this game could be really close from a fan perspective. Like, this has been. The last three games have been so awesome. And I think Ohio State fans probably agree, like, it's been like. Winning postseason playoff football games is not a thing that ever existed in college football, really, until this season. Like, we had semifinals and that was it. But now it's like, you get the chance to win multiple New Year, six bowl games in one season. You get the chance to play against teams that you never really play against in meaningful games in January and December. Being on the winning end of that is pretty cool. So no matter what, like, either Notre Dame is the best team in the country and they win the national championship, and I retire from my job and move to an island and never talk to anyone again because I will have no purpose in life anymore. My life will have been fulfilled, or Notre Dame's the second best team in the country this year, and I'll just keep doing what I'm doing now. So either way, like, I'm at peace with it. I'm a happy, happy little camper, and I love college football so much, and it's been a fun season, and I'm excited for the Jennies.
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Stugach
Jesus, I've seen what you've done for others, and I want that for me.
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Unnamed Host
That's what Taylor said, too. After the Orange Bowl, I had like, look, it's. Notre Dame's been really good, and I love that I get to actually talk about Notre Dame because they're in the national championship. No one can be like, stop talking about Notre Dame. Okay, well, when your team is in the national championship, you can have the floor. Notre Dame has been a really good football team for the last decade, but they have not been able to win in the postseason. They've lost both of their semifinals when Brian Kelly was a head coach. Marcus Freeman's now on two in two New Year, six games, three playoff games in, like, three weeks. I feel like I'm on cloud nine right now. It's great. I love winning football games. I feel like. I feel like I'm a part of it. Do you.
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Stugach
Have you, like, noticed the hating going down now that you have a super cool, hot head coach?
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Unnamed Host
Oh, yeah. I've seen so many national media outlets post the is Notre Dame likable now? Thing, which I don't care if other fans like Notre Dame or not. That doesn't bother me. Because, like, I hate everyone else, too. Like, that's part of the sport. Right? Like, you hate everyone that you don't like and you. You like the people you like and it's usually just your own team. The thing, though, that's annoying. Like, they're just doing the. Like, yeah, Brian Kelly's not the coach. Like, that's fine. Like, that's all that takes. Should be. Because Notre Dame had some very likable players on all those. Brian. Like Kyron Williams. Extremely likable. Kyle Hamilton, Very likable. Ian Book. What a sweetie pie. Like, there are so many. So many likable players from those teams. So we're just doing the Brian Kelly, Marcus Freeman comparison thing, which is fine. I agree with it. Marcus Freeman's like 1 billion times more likable than Brian Kelly. But it's. If fans are rooting against Notre Dame, that's fine. I. It's okay. I would be probably rooting as your team, too.
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Stugach
It's an all time hater. Matchup. Ohio State. Notre Dame.
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Unnamed Host
Yeah, right.
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Stugach
Everyone's. Everyone's got someone to hate.
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Unnamed Host
Oh, Michigan fans are like, I guess we're rooting for Notre Dame. But, like, this doesn't feel good.
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Stugach
I've heard that they're rooting for Ohio State. I've gone directly to the source to ask a few Michigan fans, hey, who are you rooting for? And they say, I gotta root for Ohio State so that Ohio State can say they put together one of the best college football teams of all time and we still beat them. And.
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Unnamed Host
Okay, I guess that. I guess that makes sense. But, like, I. I still find that hard to believe. I don't know. Like, that just doesn't seem right to me. You can't. Like, I would never root for USC in a national championship game. Like, I just couldn't do that. It would be.
- [25:23]
Stugach
It's also conference, even though both teams are spiritually or literally in the Big Ten, geographically should be in the Big Ten.
- [25:31]
Unnamed Host
I love that college football goes to the Midwest, Lucy. I mean, that is something that I'm feeling great about this year. It's like, oh, all this talk about the SEC and ICC this and SEC. There should be 100 SEC teams in the playoff and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Guess what? Both of these teams in the championship, Indiana and Ohio, the heart of the Midwest, the heartland, if you will.
- [25:52]
Stugach
There's only one Big Ten team that lost to the SEC in the postseason. And they didn't mean to do it.
- [25:57]
Unnamed Host
It was an accident.
- [25:58]
Stugach
It was meant to. They were I don't know. You'd have to look it up. I'm not gonna do that though. But I'm sure that they didn't mean to do it and it was just, it was Nashville. There's, I don't know, something in the.
- [26:08]
Unnamed Host
Air, something crazy happened and we will talk about it maybe during the Jennies, maybe the accidental blast of the season award. I don't know. If you. If you want us to talk about certain things from this bowl season or football season, send them to us on Twitter and bluesky and Instagram. We'll put it together. Next week will be our big award show finale. I'm very excited for that.
- [26:30]
Stugach
Yeah. Tick tock will be gone. I'll be able to really focus on it.
- [26:34]
Unnamed Host
All right, Lucy, well, see you in Atlanta.
- [26:37]
Stugach
Good luck. I want you to be happy.
- [26:39]
Unnamed Host
I actually genuinely believe that. Huh.
- [26:43]
Stugach
I would hope so.
- [26:45]
Unnamed Host
Even though I heard you talking.