The Big Suey: The College Football Power Hour

Summary

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Podcast Summary: The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Episode: The Big Suey: The College Football Power Hour
Date: September 22, 2025
Location: Elser Hotel, Downtown Miami
Hosts: Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, Greg Cody, Mike Ryan, Chris Cody, Zaslo

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Main Theme

This episode centers on a lively, comedic autopsy of NFL and college football action from the previous weekend, featuring a deep dive into coaching meltdowns (especially Dabo Swinney at Clemson), surprises and letdowns across both leagues, the evolving culture of aggressive play-calling, and the dynamic energy of college football’s “game day” experiences. The crew’s irreverent banter explores big stories, personal pet peeves, and the eccentricities of coaches, teams, and media.

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Key Segments and Discussion Points

1. Wild NFL Coaching Decisions and Recaps

[03:06-05:28]

• Aggressive Fourth Down Calls:
  • Greg Cody opens discussion on Mike Vrabel’s (Patriots) risky choice to go for it on 4th-and-1 from his own 16-yard line.
  • Greg Cody: “I still can’t get used to some of this stuff…all these coaches have gone crazy now when it comes to fourth and short.”
• Offensive Droughts:
  • The crew bemoans teams like Houston and Jacksonville for offensive ineptitude:
    • Mike Ryan: “Get that team off televisions everywhere…they are so unpleasant.”
• QB Struggles and Frustration:
  • Zaslo on CJ Stroud: “We were all on his tip. He’s not that good.”
• NFL Viewing Fatigue:
  • Mike Ryan: “This game is an affront to football. Get this off. Just skip it…”
  • Comedy about “stinky quarterbacks” and “half a team” franchises.

2. Baker Mayfield as Surprise MVP?

[05:54-10:11]

• Baker Mayfield’s Heroics:
  • Discussion of two game-winning drives despite injuries on offense.
  • Mike Ryan highlights Mayfield’s throw to Ibuka: “He makes stuff happen. He becomes Steve Young in certain moments.”
  • Stugotz stirs MVP chat: “When I say Baker Mayfield, league MVP, I’m not even kidding…The way he’s winning games, it’s not ridiculous.”
• QB Value in Crunch Time:
  • Talks about the value of a fearless QB who thrives under pressure.
  • Dan: “Baker can also lose you a championship, which is why he doesn’t win the MVP…”

3. NFL Special Teams Woes & The "Witching Hour"

[10:24-12:52]

• Blocked Kicks & Misses:
  • Chris Cody dives into research, tracking an unusual spate of missed and blocked field goals:
    • Chris: "Ended up being around 76, 75% yesterday…while the average is slightly above 80."
  • Multiple blocked field goals returned for TDs during “the witching hour.”
  • Greg Cody: “To have…the witching hour, you had two blocked field goals returned for touchdowns is what made the witching hour a race a truly dreadful day…”

4. College Football Power Hour: Big Stories and Coach Drama

[17:14-31:11]

Dabo Swinney’s Clemson Meltdown (Major Focus)

• Montage of Dabo Quotes:

  • [17:51] Dabo fires at a critical caller, invoking his age and career:
    • “If they’re tired of me leading this program, all they gotta do is let me know…I’ll go somewhere else where there is an appreciation…”
  • [20:00] Adds more bravado: “If they want me gone, if they’re tired of winning, they can send me on the way…we’ve won this league 8 out of the last 10 years…”
  • [21:28] Post-Syracuse loss, a humbled tone: “We may suck this year. We may lay a freaking egg and go 6-6.”
  • [22:04] Near tears: “This is my life, man…I’ve invested my life here and when I don’t get the job done, I’m responsible.”

• Crew Commentary and Satire:

  • They mock Dabo’s “just fire me” tactic, with Greg Cody picturing similar arguments with his wife.
    • Greg Cody: “I also imagine that whenever he argues with his wife, he also gives his age and asks her to fire him.” [19:01]
  • Discussion of Clemson’s enormous buyout and the “Alabama clause.”
  • Zaslo: “You can’t run down that hill the way he does and then lose 34-21 to Syracuse.”

• Transfer Portal Debate:

  • Paul Finebaum quote: “[Dabo] should consider another school…or just get away from football and become a TV guy…”
  • Mike Ryan: “Fully embrace the portal…Stop thinking you have all the answers…He’s becoming a joke.”

Standout College Games & Coaching Hot Seats

[23:47-29:03]

• Texas Tech Defensive Emergence:
  • Greg Cody: “Their backup quarterback Will Hammond…all of a sudden started dragging Utah…”
  • Mike Ryan: “They spent so much money on that defense…it seems to be working out for them.”
• Oklahoma-Auburn Cheating Fiasco:
  • Trick play controversy, SEC refs admit mistake.
  • Zaslo: “Why is it cheating?”
• Mike Gundy (Oklahoma City) in Trouble:
  • Mike Ryan: “There is no way Mike Gundy is still coaching…reports said he was out but he gave back money to save his job.”
• Teams on the Rise:
  • Indiana crushes Illinois, vaults in the polls.

5. Game Day Culture, Media Moments & Tailgating Tales

[35:31-41:13]

• Miami Game Day Atmosphere:
  • Zaslo lauds Mike Ryan’s tailgate: “Good music, good food, good drinks…That’s where I sit for all the games now.”
• Interviews with Mario Cristobal:
  • Greg and Zaslo note Cristobal’s new confidence, less stress, and roster belief.
• The McAfee Effect:
  • Discussion about Pat McAfee’s game day charisma: “How many are there who could pull off what McAfee did this weekend?”
  • Mike Ryan: “He makes these spur of the moment decisions and he’s the one that fronts the money. He’s a star.” [44:31]
  • Feeding Saban a gator sandwich, crowd-following spectacle.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• [03:41] Dan Le Batard:
  “He’s a crazy person. He said he was going to cut off his pecker. Like the guy’s insane.” (on Mike Vrabel)

• [07:52] Stugotz:
  “When I say Baker Mayfield, league MVP, I’m not even kidding. …He just has that ability.”

• [17:51] Dabo Swinney:
  “If you got a problem with that, I don’t care. …If they’re tired of me leading this program, all they gotta do is let me know. I’ll go somewhere else…”

• [22:04] Dabo Swinney:
  “I’m not a cyborg. I mean, this is my life, man. …I hurt. …When I don’t get the job done, I’m responsible.”

• [24:43] Mike Ryan:
  “You’re not allowed to do this. …It was a bad call. You can’t because it’s cheating.”

• [36:23] Zaslo:
  “Good music, good food, good drinks. …That’s where I sit for all the games now.”

• [44:31] Mike Ryan:
  “He makes these spur of the moment decisions and he’s the one that fronts the money. He’s got a on that game. …Star power.”

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Important Timestamps

• [03:06] – NFL coaching boldness, Patriots and Vrabel
• [05:54] – Baker Mayfield’s late-game heroics
• [10:24] – Special teams/missed kicks breakdown
• [17:14] – College Football Power Hour begins
• [17:51] – Dabo Swinney rant montage
• [21:28] – Post-Syracuse loss: Dabo’s humbling
• [23:47] – College football game observations
• [29:03] – Indiana football’s poll leap
• [35:31] – Tailgating tales & Miami game observations
• [41:13] – Mario Cristobal’s mindset & Miami’s roster strength
• [44:31] – Pat McAfee’s game day spectacle discussed

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Conclusion

This episode oscillates between biting satire and insightful analysis, covering the NFL’s strange coaching era, the volatility of college football power structures, Dabo Swinney’s increasingly memeable defensiveness, and Miami football’s rejuvenated optimism. The chemistry and wit of the hosts, plus standout moments (Dabo’s radio rants, Baker MVP talk, McAfee’s game day showmanship), make for a sprawling, energetic, and very “Le Batard Show” experience.

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Transcript

[Dan Le Batard]

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[Greg Cody]

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[Stu Gotz]

I'm sorry.

[Zaslo]

I'm not gonna apologize for that.

[Greg Cody]

In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries that if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys.

[Mike Ryan]

I've done it.

[Greg Cody]

And now here's the marching man to Nowhere, Fat Face and the Habitual Liar.

[Stu Gotz]

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[Greg Cody]

What happened there? How you feeling?

[Chris Cody]

Why'd you get all weird about that?

[Greg Cody]

What happened?

[Chris Cody]

Why'd you look to your right mid sentence?

[Stu Gotz]

Because the mic did not pick up when I started that. The mic was not on when I said this episode and it threw me off.

[Mike Ryan]

It was. It was. Don't worry about it. Everybody heard you. Because sometimes you get a countdown and it'll throw you off. Don't worry about it. You did great. I don't know why so many people are piling on. You nailed that Bills Dolphins game.

[Stu Gotz]

Thank you very much, Mike. I should be used to it by now, but I'm not quite. It's okay. I'll get over it.

[Greg Cody]

The Patriots had five turnovers yesterday. I saw something that I don't often see in that game. Mike Vrayboule, not late in the game, not in a desperate situation. Fourth and one from his own 16 yard line. Went for it. Fourth and one from his own sixteen. I still can't get used to some of this stuff. I know all of these coaches have gone crazy now when it comes to 4th and short. Most coaches, college and pro, now know that they were doing the math all wrong for, I don't know, a century before that. And now they all go for it.

[Zaslo]

But I won with a 16. Is still nervous.

[Dan Le Batard]

He's a crazy person. He said he was going to cut off his pecker. Like the guy's insane.

[Mike Ryan]

He's since walked that back.

[Greg Cody]

Well, he was the Titans coach back then. He said if they want, he would cut off his his pecker in order to win a Super Bowl. And now with the Patriots, they had five turnovers yesterday. Aaron Rodgers ends up winning and going to 2 and 1. But the Steelers offense didn't look particularly good. The Patriots were 4 for 4 on fourth down in that game right till the end when they needed the last fourth down conversion and did not get it. That's one of the five I would mention is worth talking about yesterday. I reluctantly will throw Jacksonville and Houston in there. Houston is the lowest scoring offense in the sport. How crazy is that?

[Zaslo]

C.J. stroud sucks, huh?

[Mike Ryan]

Get that team off televisions everywhere. I cannot watch this team. They are so unpleasant. I get angry watching them because I do believe them to have talent. And maybe I should forget what CJ Stroud did as a rookie.

[Zaslo]

We were all on his tip. He's not that good.

[Mike Ryan]

Whoa. That's a breakdown. You're not getting on. Get up.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, he's talking about a pecker getting up.

[Stu Gotz]

Whoa.

[Mike Ryan]

I mean they, they have, they have some talent, right? I don't. That's a bad organization.

[Greg Cody]

The Jags were trying to lose that game. They had five drops in the game. The Jags do everything wrong at the end of game. Everything.

[Mike Ryan]

I saw that game on the schedule. I was like, no, no, don't do this to us. They, they play twice.

[Zaslo]

Were you actually looking at the rundown for week three and you come up with Houston?

[Mike Ryan]

No, no, no. Why is this game. This game is an affront of football. Get this off. Just skip it. The next time they're scheduled to play, find two other teams to play. It's just bad. I hate.

[Zaslo]

It's a battle of stinky quarterbacks.

[Mike Ryan]

I hate them.

[Stu Gotz]

Another half a team. Another half a team. Good defense, no offense.

[Greg Cody]

How do you guys feel in general about the limits on offense all over the sport? All over the sport that you have every quarterback throwing for 160 yards?

[Mike Ryan]

Well, I mean, is Houston going up against a great defense every game? Like is that. That can't possibly be it. I saw Tyrod Taylor move the ball against Tampa Bay, which by the way, good team.

[Greg Cody]

Let's talk, let's talk for a second about how Aaron Glenn feels about that wonderful celebration after Baker Mayfield produced not one but two game winning drives in that game. Two game winning drives in that game. Baker Mayfield now has four game winning drives this season and they've only played three games.

[Mike Ryan]

That throw to Ibuka and the catch. Abuka's coming to the league. He's wide receiver one.

[Greg Cody]

He is so good.

[Mike Ryan]

He's so amazing. That game was so great. And by the way, as aesthetically pleasing a game as you could see those white creamsicle uniforms at home, it just. What is more valuable to a football team if you're not putting up your best effort? Because we have not seen a complete game from Tampa Bay this year. They've been in tough betting spots. What more do you want as a special trait from your quarterback than to do that? What is more valuable? Valuable in the final minute. I know this guy's going to do.

[Greg Cody]

It perhaps multiple times they're injured and not only did they do it multiple times at the end of that game, you're mentioning Abuka, but Mike Evans was out like he got injured. And so it's not just that both his tackles are out now Mike Evans is Hall of Fame receivers out and still two game winning drives against the Jets.

[Zaslo]

Wasn't it just last week you were talking about Baker Mayfield that he's one of the three or four quarterbacks who if they have the ball late in the game, we think they're going to score.

[Mike Ryan]

We all knew how it was going to happen. You saw how much time was on the clock after while Aaron Glenn. Glenn is dancing and you're like, don't do this, don't do this. This is. He's. Baker's got to find a way and he always finds a way. But a book is a great. That dude is a great player. And while Mike Evans is off, there's talk that Chris Godwin, who is another one of the great players to watch in this league. So fun to watch. Godwin's coming back, so hopefully there isn't that much of a drop off because they have Philadelphia next. And there has been a thorn in Philadelphia's side over these last few season. Remember Philadelphia had to reshape their entire offense the last time they played Tampa because they got blown the out.

[Stu Gotz]

When I say Baker Mayfield, league mvp, I'm not even kidding. I mean it used to be words that would be ridiculous in the same sentence, but the way he's winning games, it's not ridiculous. He just has that ability. I mean Daniel Jones, Justin Herbert, who are the MVPs right now? I can make an argument for Baker being number one on the list at this point.

[Mike Ryan]

And it's not like system plays. It's not. It is very much individual effort. He makes plays, he makes stuff happen. He becomes Steve Young in certain moments when they need plays with his legs. And that throw that he made to Ibuka is just. It's not many people can do that on this planet.

[Greg Cody]

I know that a lot of analysis excludes what I'm about to say, which is one of the reasons that the football got worse in week three here is because people aren't as fresh. They haven't had months off anymore. Now they're going week to week again. Some of the quarterbacks are out. And so your ability to win games when your team is injured, he's. Baker Mayfield is without his tackles. They're winning games against teams that have pass rush. And when we're talking about this and you guys are saying Baker Mayfield for mvp and I'm hearing then unless you say Daniel Jones, imagine that conversation.

[Zaslo]

What a sentence.

[Greg Cody]

Two and a half years ago, Baker.

[Dan Le Batard]

Was in the MVP conversation like halfway through last season also. He had a great last season also.

[Mike Ryan]

No, we're. I think we're here on Baker Mayfield where we've decided this guy is an upper echelon you can win a championship with Baker Mayfield. There's no more question, right?

[Zaslo]

Baker Mayfield. Were caught like this is Baker Mayfield. When maybe there's still some. Well, not maybe. There are probably still some questions about Daniel Jones. We are here with Baker Mayfield.

[Dan Le Batard]

But Baker can also lose you a championship, which is why he doesn't win the mvp. Because Baker is capable of blowing. Blowing you some games also, which is what always ends up happening at some point in the season. And then he takes himself out of the MVP conversation.

[Greg Cody]

I just love that he's fearless and that everyone sort of has to backpedal when he's got the ball at the end of games.

[Chris Cody]

Aaron Glenn was confident.

[Mike Ryan]

That was so silly.

[Chris Cody]

Is he not like, I'm on my couch being like there's a lot of time.

[Mike Ryan]

Does he not know that he's coaching the Jets? You're not, you're not going to transcend the jets.

[Chris Cody]

Like walking like Greg Cody in the music on the couch.

[Stu Gotz]

It did look like me.

[Mike Ryan]

There's two things. There's two acts of God here. You're the jets and that's Baker Mayfield. With time, they're always three. Why are you dancing? You gotta know that's not gonna age well. That is a rookie head coach.

[Greg Cody]

Let me explain to you that Chris Cody. Do you know how odd and sort of earth shaking it is for the jets to get a lead late and send Chris Cody, who I know to be aller, to books and research? Sent him immediately to the Internet to wonder whether or not yesterday was a historic day for blocked kicks.

[Chris Cody]

I was like, there are a lot of missed blocks and misses. I'm like, there's a lot of misses today. Let me do the numbers. I'm going to crank the numbers out. I'm going to go to every game log, see all the kicking stats. And I learned based off the average, it was just a slightly below average day.

[Greg Cody]

How much time did you spend?

[Chris Cody]

14 to 17 minutes of going through game logs, doing all the math of all the field.

[Dan Le Batard]

What is, what is that like, what exactly did you do in terms of like every game?

[Chris Cody]

I went look at the kickers field goals in every game. So like I, I have it in my phone actually where again this game they were four of seven. The kickers were in this game they were three for four. And there was only three games yesterday where the kickers were perfect. There were misses in every other game. Some games had like four misses. It ended up being around 76, 75% yesterday. Field goal kickers, while the average is slightly above 80.

[Dan Le Batard]

But blocked kicks return for touchdowns had to have been historic.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, I mean I didn't look up that specific one. It was more just misses in general.

[Mike Ryan]

That's one that I'm most interested in.

[Stu Gotz]

Yeah, that would have been a good.

[Chris Cody]

In my mind I was just like every game I'm watching that, that field goal.

[Mike Ryan]

The weird part was the returns.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, it was also in my mind the Mrs. And the.

[Mike Ryan]

And they turned like potentially losses to wins.

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[Mike Ryan]

That's what the witching hour does. It delivers.

[Dan Le Batard]

Classic witching hour. By the way, the Dolphins are favored over the jets on Monday Night Football.

[Chris Cody]

One of the. How about that all time sad Monday night games? We have a week from tonight.

[Dan Le Batard]

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[Chris Cody]

And three Jets.

[Stu Gotz]

I'll be there.

[Chris Cody]

Oh, and three Dolphins.

[Greg Cody]

Unfortunately, Scott Hansen actually said yesterday that that Colts Titans game was the game between the most accurate kickers in the league. And as soon as he said it, they missed three consecutive kicks. Three consecutive field goals got missed. Also in the Cleveland game, you could have also had one return a blocked kick returned for a touchdown. Except it took like a funny boun. Otherwise that would have happened there too. To have the fact that during the witching hour you had two blocked field goals returned four touchdowns is what made the witching hour a race a truly dreadful day of professional football.

[Mike Ryan]

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[Zaslo]

I might go.

[Dan Le Batard]

Two bad teams. Could be an exciting game.

[Zaslo]

I might go. I might go.

[Dan Le Batard]

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[Mike Ryan]

Yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

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[Mike Ryan]

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[Dan Le Batard]

I think they are.

[Mike Ryan]

They're doing Dublin and then London. Kevin o', Connell, good coach.

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[Greg Cody]

You owe me everything.

[Stu Gotz]

You have added 10 years to my career.

[Mike Ryan]

Yes, I have.

[Stu Gotz]

This man has.

[Mike Ryan]

That man.

[Stu Gotz]

Who the hell are you?

[Mike Ryan]

Stugats. I am. Who the hell are you? Banking.

[Stu Gotz]

You're a rude young man.

[Mike Ryan]

You're a fool. You're a fool.

[Stu Gotz]

I already called you a fool.

[Greg Cody]

Right.

[Mike Ryan]

You can't call me a fool. It's a fool. You're an idiot for dismissing how much I've helped you. This is the Dan Levatar show with the St. Gads.

[Greg Cody]

I want to talk about some college football here. And I'd like to know from the group here what you guys believe to be the biggest story from the weekend. The first thing I'm going to do here is play some old Dabo Swinney sound. Not just the sound from last week, but the famous sound from last year where he was taking calls from a sports radio station and he got mad at some caller, the Dabble Sweeney show, named named Tyler.

[Dabo Swinney]

Because I've worked my ass off every single day. And I ain't gonna let some smart ass kid get on this phone and create this stuff. So if you got a problem with that, I don't care. I work for the board of trustees, the president and the ad. And if they're tired of me leaving this program, all they gotta do is let me know. I'll go somewhere else where there is an appreciation. Am I perfect?

[Mike Ryan]

No.

[Zaslo]

He wants to be fired.

[Dabo Swinney]

And I am a man of faith. Absolutely. I'm 53 years old and there ain't one thing in my life I have been a part of failure many times. But there ain't one thing in my life that I ever failed at Tyler. Never. I wanted to get an education. I got two degrees. I wanted to be the first college in my graduate, my family. I did it. I wanted to play football in Alabama. I earned scholarship letter three years. Worked my ass off. Born the next will kill. I wanted to get into coaching. I worked my way to being a head coach. And when I got this job, I'm sure you didn't want me to get this job. Fifteen years later, I'm still here. And I say the results are what they are and I stand on them. So you don't ever have to call back Tyler.

[Stu Gotz]

Wow. Braggart.

[Greg Cody]

Well, he's pretty arrogant. I also imagine that whenever he argues with his wife, he also gives his age and asks her to fire him.

[Mike Ryan]

This is becoming a move. You can get a divorce if you want, I think. Look, I'm 53 years old, okay? I got plenty of time. You can take half my stuff. My out's only going down.

[Greg Cody]

Let's play the sound from last week because I suspect after losing to Syracuse, we will get some of that arrogance deflated right out of him in tone, temper and tenor. But let's play the sound from last week of Dabo Swinney also being hugely arrogant. While he's.

[Mike Ryan]

Well, to buy.

[Greg Cody]

You sure.

[Mike Ryan]

I can provide the framework for the audience that I guarantee you he will invoke he can be fired at any time and that he's still got plenty of time to get fired and go somewhere else and win. I've been backing up Dabo consistently throughout all these because he turned that program around, but that was a really bad loss that he had to Syracuse.

[Dabo Swinney (continued)]

If they. If they want me gone, if they tired of winning, they can send me on the way because that's all we've done, is win. So if they tired of winning, we've had. We've won this league eight out of the last 10 years. Is that not good? I'm just asking, is that good? I don't know if that's good or not. To win your league eight out of 10 years, to go to the playoffs, seven out of 10 years. Be in four national championships, win it twice. Yeah, we go down right now. Take your shots. But I got a long memory, in case y' all don't know. We'll be all right. We'll bounce back. This is a program built to last. Always has been, always will be. And I would just say if you give up on us after, if you don't believe on us because we've lost two games down to the last straight, and we're one, you didn't believe in us anyway, so it don't matter. You wasn't all in anyway. If you're all in, you burn the ships, man. There ain't no exit strategy like you're freaking all in. And, hey, listen, I mean, if Clemson's tired of winning, they send me on my way. But I'm gonna go somewhere else. And coach, I ain't going to the beach. Hell, I'm 55.

[Mike Ryan]

I got a long way to go.

[Dabo Swinney]

Y' all gonna have to deal with Me for a while.

[Dabo Swinney (continued)]

A long way to go. I'm just getting going. I'm just now good enough to be a head coach.

[Greg Cody]

Okay, so then, but this was after he lost two games. Then Syracuse comes into Clemson. They were a double digit underdog. So I think they were 17 point dog in this game. And they lose. Clemson loses 34, 21 at home. And Dabo doesn't sound, you might not hear fire me now and give his age here.

[Dabo Swinney (continued)]

But why are we held to a different standard from all these other teams out there who ain't ever won nothing? We're not perfect and we may suck this year. We may lay a freaking egg and go six and six.

[Zaslo]

You'll be lucky you get six and six. I think Dabo's realized that the best job isn't coaching college football, it's being fired from coaching college football.

[Greg Cody]

I mean where is Jimbo Fisher right now? Is he still making.

[Mike Ryan]

Did you run into him on your campus tour? Jimbo is out there working for ACC network.

[Zaslo]

Nah, see him.

[Greg Cody]

Let's play the sound of Dabo sounding broken. You've gotten all of the arrogance. Let me hear broken.

[Dabo Swinney (continued)]

Disappointed. Painful. It hurt. I mean I'm human. I mean I'm not a, I'm not a cyborg. I mean this is, this is my life, man. I mean I've been here 23 years. I love this place. I give this place the very best I got every single day.

[Greg Cody]

Every day.

[Dabo Swinney (continued)]

There's never been a day that I have. And giving Clemson every ounce of everything I had, I hurt. I mean I've invested my life here and when I don't get the job done, I'm responsible.

[Mike Ryan]

I'm 55 years old. Sure, I could be fired at any time.

[Chris Cody]

Not a robot.

[Mike Ryan]

And it cost him less. If they do it next year, perhaps not really.

[Dan Le Batard]

Like if they, if, if they fire him now is by about 60 million. Next year it's 57 million. And after that they have to pay him everything that's left from 2027 to 2031.

[Mike Ryan]

Did he not listen to himself? He's like, why are we held to a different standard? I mean we won a bunch of championships around here.

[Zaslo]

I won this league 10 times that good. I don't know.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah. Why, why, why aren't they treating us like every other 6 and 6 ACC team? Is it because we've won so many of these championships while I was here? Maybe, maybe that's perhaps, I don't know. I'm just a 55 year old man. I'm just good Enough now to be a head coach.

[Dan Le Batard]

He has special Alabama clauses in his contract also. So like if he were to leave to coach Alabama, he would have to pay Clemson $6 million and if it's any other school, he'd have to pay them $4 million. And every single year there's clauses like that and it's only Alabama that's higher than every other school in the country. So when they signed him to this 10 year deal in 2021, they were really afraid of him leaving to go to Alabama when Saban left and now they want to get rid. Now they're hoping Alabama fires their coach and hires him so that he has to pay them instead of the other way around.

[Zaslo]

You can't, you can't run down that hill the way he does and then lose 3420 when it's.

[Greg Cody]

Put it on the poll at LeBatard show. Can you run down the hill the way Dabo does and then lose 3421 to Syracuse? I do want some college football observations from you guys, especially from Zaslow, who's a college football expert and was part of ESPN Radio's coverage all week and want Mike Ryan's thoughts on game day as well. Texas Tech looked awfully impressive to me and somehow their backup quarterback Will Hammond is better than their starter Morton because he came into the game and they all of a sudden started dragging Utah. But the game for, for me that I enjoyed most this weekend, by the way, Belichick quietly lost to UCF 34.

[Mike Ryan]

Nine this weekend lost to Jacore Brown, former Miami third string quarterback. Yeah Dan, to your Texas Tech point, they spent so much money this offseason on that defense and on college game day they did a breakdown of what this defense does. You got the tackles, holding guys up with one hand, just kind of pushing them away so they can make a tackle with the other arm. They got Romello Height from Georgia Tech who is appears to be a mercenary and a good one. Texas Tech, that's a team that spent a lot of money and seems to be working out for them.

[Greg Cody]

I felt the limitations of offense in Auburn and Oklahoma and when I looked at the stat sheet, Oklahoma had eight sacks at the half and finished with a record for the school, 10 sacks. But I really did think it was 20. I'm not joking when I, when I tell you I thought that they had more sacks in the second half than they did in the first because of the amount of pressure they kept getting.

[Mike Ryan]

Interesting storyline with Jackson Arnold who was quarterback for Oklahoma. Now did they? Boom Auburn. Yeah, they did kind of weird. Oklahoma. They cheated to win that game. SEC refs admitted they did one of those.

[Zaslo]

They admitted they cheated.

[Mike Ryan]

They did the. Yeah, they blew that call. Oklahoma tried to be cute. They ran a guy to the sideline pretending that he was going to sub out.

[Zaslo]

Oh, I like when they do that.

[Mike Ryan]

Defense was super confused. You're not allowed to do this. Against the rules. Calls for timeout were even ignored. Guy who's pretending to be subbed out stays on the side of the sideline, just walks into the end.

[Zaslo]

Why can't you do that?

[Mike Ryan]

It was a bad call. You can't because it's cheating.

[Zaslo]

Should be allowed. Why is it cheating on the field?

[Mike Ryan]

The defense is allowed to substitute. So they're caught in no man's land. Like, is this guy checking in? Is he checking out? He goes into the end zone unguarded.

[Zaslo]

I disagree.

[Mike Ryan]

There was also a bad. There was also a bad call on a fumble return that should have went Auburn's way. It was just really bad. And then they get the safety at the very end for a back breaking six and a half. And you know, I was on that.

[Chris Cody]

Now you can hear it.

[Mike Ryan]

That's how you can hear it.

[Stu Gotz]

There you go.

[Zaslo]

You can hear it.

[Mike Ryan]

Of course you could hear it.

[Stu Gotz]

They cheated.

[Zaslo]

That's the cheating right there.

[Mike Ryan]

Auburn for the last two. I've been on Auburn against Oklahoma the last two years. They're inventing ways to lose to this team and not cover.

[Greg Cody]

The best game of the weekend was Arkansas. Memphis. Arkansas was winning the whole game. And then Memphis took the lead late and Arkansas had the ball clearly in field goal range inside of the 10 yard line at the end. Could have just milked the clock, I think. Could have just knelt handed the ball to the running back and he got the ball, punched out. Is Mike Gundy gonna last the season?

[Mike Ryan]

No, there's no way. I can't believe he got out of that building. Watching that game on Friday, I can't believe he got out of that building. There were really like good sources that said Mike Gundy was out. There were. There were reports saying that he was out. And at the 11th hour he agreed to some sort of deal that saved his job. There is no way Mike Gundy is still coaching.

[Greg Cody]

He gave back money. He gave.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, that was a deal.

[Greg Cody]

He gave back money in order to keep his job. But I thought they were terrible last year and they were. I thought they were as bad a big conference team as I saw all of last year. But they're worse this year. They just got dragged at home. I don't even know. Was it Tulsa? Tulsa Lane?

[Mike Ryan]

It was Tulsa and Tulane. I guess you can understand it. Tulane's not a bad football team.

[Greg Cody]

Tulsa is always bad.

[Mike Ryan]

Tulsa is not. Tulsa doesn't belong to be playing on the same surface as Oklahoma City.

[Zaslo]

They're getting their ass kicked at home next week too. They have Baylor. They're going to lose that game too.

[Greg Cody]

Put it on the poll at LeBatard show. Has Tulsa ever even one time been good at football? Yes or no? I just. I want to know because I just associate Tulsa. You tell me that name and I'm just always associating that with. With bad college football.

[Mike Ryan]

Also geographically strange place to have a hurricane. I never really got that mascot name for Tulsa.

[Zaslo]

How about Indiana? You see Indiana kill Illinois.

[Mike Ryan]

Dude, Mendoza might be the real deal.

[Zaslo]

He's good. He's from here, right?

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He was. He was a Cal quarterback that gave Miami everybody everything that they could handle. He was one of those quarterbacks that was linked to Miami in the offseason. By the way, John Mateer Mendoza, Carson Beck were the three quarterbacks that Miami was pursuing this offseason. All three guys are probably in New York right now. If you were to pull Heisman voters.

[Zaslo]

How about Indiana, though? Indiana jumped up from number 19 to 11 in the poll after crushing number nine. Illinois, one spot behind one, lost Texas.

[Mike Ryan]

That's Indiana. Look at Indiana's schedule because they always find a way to get these sweetheart schedules. They'll have some tough conference tests, but to do that to a top 10 team. It seems like Signetti is going to be in that conversation, that playoff conversation. They've already shown that a Big Ten team that tcbs like that, they don't need to play anybody non conference. And that's what he's banking on.

[Greg Cody]

What do you guys think of this Paul Feinbaum quote on Dabo? It's time for him to do one of two things. It's either consider another school and I think he is hireable if he quits talking or just get away from football and become a TV guy. He's very funny. He'd be very glib. He's got more credentials than any other non TV coach out there. Of the people that could leave coaching and go into the tv, he would be very coveted.

[Mike Ryan]

There's another solution. Fully embrace the portal. I know it's not part of that program's identity. I think their best player on the D line is like the one transfer portal they have.

[Zaslo]

What, like three transfer Portal kids I think on the team this year.

[Stu Gotz]

Right.

[Mike Ryan]

And they, they're some of the better players on that roster.

[Zaslo]

Like why can't he just adjust?

[Mike Ryan]

Just give yourself over to where college football is and stop thinking that you have all the answers. He very clearly thinks that he does have all the answers from how his.

[Zaslo]

Program'S built to last.

[Mike Ryan]

I mean Paul Feinbaum may wrong. Like stop talking. That should be one because he's not doing himself favors. He's becoming a joke.

[Stu Gotz]

Well, you're right. He should invest in the portal because teams that do are ranked number two in the nation to use an example. But the problem with Feinbaum's comment is Daniel Sweeney's got a very impressive resume. So what are you saying? He's not allowed a one on three start?

[Greg Cody]

Well, he's just three. I think three of his last four seasons have three losses or more in them and so he of course he's allowed a one in three start. But this is what the descent looks like. It's not up for argument.

[Zaslo]

It's kind of not allowed a one in three start.

[Dan Le Batard]

He won the ACC last season with three losses and he was in the playoff.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah. And if you don't believe that, ask Dabo. He'll be very quick to remind you of that.

[Greg Cody]

It's not just three losses though, Greg. It's. You're supposed to get right against Syracuse at home.

[Stu Gotz]

Agreed.

[Greg Cody]

And it's a bad loss and it's.

[Mike Ryan]

Not like a loss in which everyone's like questioning your the difference between this Gabo team.

[Dan Le Batard]

Not a bad team.

[Mike Ryan]

No, no. Although their season's probably going to fall off some because Angeli who's been really good for them had a non contact injury that wipes him out for the season. So that that's not going to be a loss at age as well. I don't, I don't think. But usually when he's at these forks in the road where Tyler from Spartanburg's going at him or they Tyler or they lose to these other teams. He's very good to back up his words with a good performance and you to lose at home a conference game 17 and a half point favorite and not have. They were never in that game. Syracuse totally controlled that game. That's not what this season was about for Clemson that came in ranked top.

[Zaslo]

10 Dabo versus Belichick.

[Greg Cody]

Up next, Syracuse. Fran Brown, their coach is a good talker. He's the one who reminded us last year that he doesn't shower after they lose. Here he is after beating Dabo and presumptuous and I presume Tyler as well in Clemson.

[Mike Ryan]

I don't care about what Vegas said. Nah, Vegas said Canelo was about to win.

[Dabo Swinney (continued)]

Right?

[Mike Ryan]

You know what I'm saying. Crawford said different.

[Zaslo]

Does he understand Vegas is not like a prediction. It's not what it is.

[Mike Ryan]

No. They try to get action.

[Chris Cody]

Vegas said different.

[Zaslo]

It's not a prediction.

[Stu Gotz]

Vegas said different.

[Mike Ryan]

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[Stu Gotz]

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[Mike Ryan]

Are you not gonna tell anyone? Wait a minute, you guys. Guys, it's a Tuesday. Stugats. Here's your guy, Greg Cody with Back in My Day.

[Stu Gotz]

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[Mike Ryan]

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[Greg Cody]

Zaslo, how was your time with Mike Ryan? Tailgating. And as part of the ESPN Narration Radio Campus Tour, I understand that Willis McGahey was wandering, yammering and yelling into the sky, fueled by whatever. Whatever it is that he was enjoying in terms of liquid.

[Zaslo]

He made one of our videos for ESPN Radio unusable, let's just put it that way. Willis was having a good time, though. Good for him. We had a great time tailgating. I mean, like Mike said, we had a bunch of Florida Panthers were hanging out with us. Mike. Mike knows how to do a good tailgate. I'll tell you something. I've never been to a Mike Ryan tailgate. He knows how to do it. Good music. I mean, it was lacking a little bit of the Pearl Jam, but whatever. It's. I'm not a dj. Good music, good food, good drinks. And then let me tell you something. I sat with Mike for the game. Those seats, that's where I sit now. That's where I sit for all the.

[Greg Cody]

Recliners and the televisions and all that stuff.

[Zaslo]

That's where I sit for all the games now.

[Greg Cody]

Okay? You mentioned that, but you didn't give me any further details on Big, comfortable.

[Zaslo]

Seats, lots of legroom. Sometimes I like to, you know, I want to. I want to, you know, spread out a little bit. I want to be comfortable. I could stand when I want. I can sit when I want. Drinks flowing, there's food. You got the TVs right there. What a great. That's where I sit now.

[Greg Cody]

You mentioned that.

[Stu Gotz]

Wait a minute. Are you a golden cane like Mike or.

[Zaslo]

I mean, no.

[Stu Gotz]

Yeah.

[Zaslo]

Look, I don't get involved in that minutia. I'm just telling you, that's where I.

[Mike Ryan]

Sit for someone else to figure out. But Sasla walks into that barn. That's where he sits.

[Greg Cody]

Michigan won at Nebraska this weekend. What's the name of their interim coach? Biff something. Their interim coach. How was he gonna celebrate after it is that they beat. They beat Nebraska. And Matt Rule, host of the house rules podcast.

[Mike Ryan]

What are you gonna do tonight to celebrate? I'm gonna eat some Haagen Dazs coffee ice cream with my wife and smoke.

[Greg Cody]

A Cuban cigar and then probably go to the hospital.

[Mike Ryan]

I love that last part. He was also great on game day. Saban was interviewing him. He's like, I remember when you're down there at St. Francis paying players, like, I learned that from you, Coach.

[Zaslo]

When he's at the hospitals and the night, he's like, this is a great night.

[Mike Ryan]

Yes.

[Dabo Swinney]

Let's play it again.

[Greg Cody]

Yes, I. Ice cream and cigars in the hospital. That's a good night. That's a good night.

[Mike Ryan]

What are you gonna do tonight to celebrate? I'm gonna eat some Haagen Dazs coffee ice cream with my wife and smoke.

[Greg Cody]

A Cuban cigar and then probably go to the hospital.

[Chris Cody]

Cigar.

[Zaslo]

He's high fiving the nurses. You know, I'll probably go to the hospital.

[Stu Gotz]

Smoking a cigar in the hospital. That guy.

[Mike Ryan]

By the way, Nebraska, don't be afraid to win one of these.

[Greg Cody]

Mike, how was the game day experience?

[Mike Ryan]

So I heard from a lot of people at espn. They're like, man, this is a. This is better than 2017. I didn't think so. I think 2017 had, just by volume, more people there. And it also happened later in the season, so the weather was better. Shout out to all those kids that were there. It was a hot one. Florida, South Florida in particular, especially with a bunch of students from the Northeast. Not exactly a hockey town. Matthew Chuck, clearly hindered by this injury, did his best to get the people there, but it was all about the moment with Pat McAfee in the Speedo going off the diving board. I think overall it was just a great weekend for the University of Miami. Shout out to that athletics department. Joe Etchiberia, the president, Kim Gorby, the Sid Cristobal came off great in his interviews. The campus looked beautiful on television. It looked like a place you wanted to be. And then it's not the prettiest game. But Miami TC Beeson looks physically dominant against an in state rival. Just pretty much ends the Billy Napier experience at Florida and looks a certain way, looks like a legit contender and on a neutral field, I'd concede to the champs. I think that Ohio State is better than Miami. Probably a little bit more experience, more depth. Certainly Miami's got to stay healthy, but the neutral field this year in the national title game is in Miami.

[Zaslo]

Isn't quarterfinals also here? Right.

[Mike Ryan]

Miami looks a certain way and I think they'll have a really good test. Now. They. It's a weird schedule for them. They're only going to play one game in the next 20 days, but that game's against Florida State, which by the way, not the easiest opponent. On Friday when they go up to Charlottesville against Virginia, that team can move the ball. I. I don't think it's gonna be a low scoring one, but I think FSU in this game might fortify some things that will get them feeling good about their offense, but won't exactly be where they can win this game because Miami's gonna give you a different energy along those trenches.

[Zaslo]

As a Canes fan, you want FSU to beat Virginia though, right?

[Mike Ryan]

I do, but I'd be, hey, don't overlook the who's. Don't overlook Chandler Morris. They can move the ball.

[Greg Cody]

A couple of things I do want to say, though. I've known Mario Cristobal, okay, since he was an offensive lineman in college, and I've told you that his brother's a good deal more intense and menacing his older brother is than he is. Mario Cristobal works extraordinarily hard and is usually soaked in an inordinate amount of stress. The way that he is presently carrying himself in interviews is as a man who is really confident in the players that he has. Lane Kiffin told us when that group of men were coaching in Alabama that they would walk onto the field and just know that they had the bigger, stronger, faster players every single time that they were walking onto the football field. Crystal Ball has had some of that stress pour off of him in these interviews where he doesn't seem nearly as much under duress.

[Zaslo]

I noticed it too. He. He was really kind to me. He gave me a lot of time over the weekend as well for espn. And he obviously, it has a lot to do with the current state of the program. I mean, he was. He was really nice and really forthcoming with me.

[Mike Ryan]

Smart.

[Dan Le Batard]

Crispell go on any show but this one, it seems, huh? Greg Cody twice Zazzo for the extended period of time.

[Stu Gotz]

You know what? Mario is so confident in his team right now. He can't even convey publicly what he thinks of his team. It's one of those situations where he has to be careful what he says publicly, because I just think he's supremely confident. I think before the Notre Dame game, he thought he knew he was going to win. I think before the South Florida game, he knew he was going to win easily. He can't say that, but I've never seen him so confident in the roster he has. Would you agree, Mike?

[Mike Ryan]

Teams with this type of advantage along the trenches, they're going to be in every game. You're not going to blow out a team with that offensive line. And now you can add the defensive line. We kind of said this last year, you don't blow out teams with that offensive line. Miami, to their credit, lost two games by a combined nine points. Were in every game. It's different this year. You know, they're not going to abandon the run game like they have last year. They blew the Syracuse game, which they were leading 21 0, and they were running at seven yards a clip, and they were still chasing. Chasing awards and whatnot. They couldn't break themselves because they were so desperate down here for 20 years to get a quarterback that looked like Cam Ward. Once you had the toy, your identity was. Cam's gonna figure it out. Cam's gonna save us. That's not the identity here. Carson Beck, I don't have it today. Let's hand it to Mark Fletcher. He'll get hit at the line of scrimmage three yards in, and then that line of scrimmage will then move seven more yards because everybody in Mass is just going to physically dominate the opponent.

[Stu Gotz]

The. The. Now, granted, the Florida defensive line was depleted by injury a little bit, but I don't think I've ever seen a, um, offensive line physically play that well against a good defense. It. It was just, um, is so complete over. All over the field right now. I just don't see a weakness other than what you mentioned, depth. But if they're starting, 24 are healthy, they're as good as anybody in the country other than OSU.

[Greg Cody]

Speaking. Starting 24, punter and kicker.

[Stu Gotz]

Pretty important. Yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

Chris did the research this weekend.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah. In fact, this is a little bit delayed, but.

[Mike Ryan]

Yo, chicken thigh.

[Dabo Swinney (continued)]

I don't believe it was 15 minutes of research.

[Dabo Swinney]

I don't actually do 15 minutes of research on anything.

[Greg Cody]

The photo that shows every research and the come on.

[Mike Ryan]

Makes and misses in every game.

[Greg Cody]

Speaking of confidence in the history of sports media people, how many are there who could pull off what McAfee did this weekend? Give me the names of the people who do that stuff. The game day experience. It's hard to transition from Lee Corso to something that is younger and has more energy. But him upping the ante on multi, you know, 1000-002000-00300,000, $500,000, field goal kicks.

[Zaslo]

And then pathetic kicks this weekend.

[Mike Ryan]

I mean, that is life changing money for you and your boys. And he gave you a second chance and you can bank it in. You know, it's legit. Like a lot of people just assume, like, ah, ESPN takes care of Pat on the back end. No, he makes these spur of the moment decisions and he's the one that fronts the money. He's got a on that game. I think that's the best version of Pat McAfee. I really do. He leans into what makes that show special.

[Zaslo]

See him feeding Saban the gator sandwich. He got Nick Saban on camera to take a huge sandwich.

[Mike Ryan]

And for Pat McAfee to pull off that big moment at the end and make it feel big. When David Pollock did that in 2017, Jenna Sims did that earlier in the show and it still felt bigger because of the personality and just the general star power. That Pat McAfee, he's a star.

[Dan Le Batard]

Everyone was following him around on game day, like the crowds of people wherever he would walk to view switching stages. If he was going over to the field goal contest, like, he had crowds of people following him. Everyone had their phones out. Where's Pat? Where's Pat? Like that guy commands a crowd.

[Mike Ryan]

I did get to speak to Chucky, though. If Chucky wasn't fresh off of surgery, Chucky would have been right there up there with him jumping off that thing.

[Dan Le Batard]

This guy was tough.

[Mike Ryan]

They had that conversation. That would have been a look. That would have been a look.

[Chris Cody]

I'm out for two months.

[Mike Ryan]

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