Jake Storieli (32:21)
There's a lot of teams you can be like Bregman, Bregman, Bregman, Red Sox, Mats Gnats. I have to feel like our team, everyone wants the Tigers, that we've done. Pete, that whole first base wheel happened carousel. Then I don't know. I'm starting to think he's going to fall more into like a Cody Bellinger, Matt Chapman three year with opt out. So if you have a 40 homer year in the next two years, you'll get another big deal. But I don't know. It's entered a weird spot with Pete and I didn't think it would. I thought a team would. Would talk themselves into that. Reds, Diamondbacks. Who's gonna come out of the woodwork for Pete? Yankees. No, no. Kombucha girl gift. Again, a joke for a couple people. Let's talk a little football. Because I told you this is kind of the big one. College football, if you're not into it, I think this should be your weekend. We are down to. Well. Oh, God. I was gonna say. I was. I was gonna make a joke about one of the bad bowl games. It had South Alabama, Western Michigan. But that was December 14th, so if you're looking forward to that game, it's not happening. No. There are three college football games left. Notre Dame at Penn State. Okay. Some traditional northern colleges mixing it up. The Golden Domers have become, I don't know, kind of Yankee ish. Right? Like Notre Dame used to be college football's brand. They haven't really won the big one in a while. People said last week against Georgia was the biggest game they've won in a long time. They play a fun brand of football. They want to run the ball. They've got a veteran quarterback, Riley Leonard, who's going to make plays. Not a ton through the air last week, but they didn't need a ton through the air. But their run game is really fun. Love and Price normally doing a lot of work, although Riley Leonard did a lot of the work last week as they beat a Georgia team with basically just a good end to the half. Penn State had been kind of one of. They'd been a punching bag of college football for a little bit. Cause another program that kind of landed top 10, they won every game they were supposed to win. They lost every game they were supposed to lose. So it's kind of like, well, what are you? You're clearly not the elite. You're not bad, but how do we treat you? They beat SMU and Boise State, so even reading that off makes me a little timid. But they won both those games dominantly, which. Which you like to see. They do have one of the best quarterbacks remaining in this whole dance. Drew Aller has. Has elevated his stock. He had three touchdown passes against Boise, no interceptions. Allen and Singleton are there to go to running backs. Singleton's a beast. And it's funny. Allen actually outplayed him last game against Boise. And if you're in the NFL world and you're just waiting to get to the next part of this conversation. They have a tight end, Tyler Warren, who is just massive. There's been a couple times they just give him the ball in the backfield because he's that good that it's just like, hey, figure it out, dude. We don't know how to get you the ball right now. So go. Two touchdowns receiving against Boise State and just, you know, some college players look different on the field. He is one of them. That'll be fun to see him on that stage. And I'd have to assume he's going to be a first round pick and he is just massive. I think there's going to be Gronk comparisons come the draft and if he has a big game, watch out. That, that's going to be fun to see. Those two teams, one of them is going back to the national championship. Notre Dame did that a few years ago, but they got absolutely rolled by Alabama. Like they just didn't have a chance at that. It was like Alabama's peak and it was like Notre Dame wiggled in and that was a bad time. This will be a fun game. Notre Dame is the favorite. I was just talking myself by a point and a half, so it's pretty tight. I was just telling myself, like, ooh, Penn State, they've got a quarterback. Notre Dame hasn't seen that. But Notre Dame just beat Georgia, who they've got, you know, Georgia compared to Boise State and SMU is a different product on each line that this game is being played tomorrow night. So again I mentioned this is a, an explosive football weekend. Tomorrow night at the Orange Bowl. Fighting Irish, Nittany Lions, gun to my head, why does he always do that? I guess I like Notre Dame. They just took out Georgia. They're feeling good about themselves. They kind of know who they are. They've got a good storyline. I like their head coach a little more than Penn State's head coach. And I don't know, the Notre Dame story is cool. Like they lost to Northern Illinois and everyone was ready to fire their coach and Notre Dame's a joke and here we go and they have responded from that as good as a team can, so I guess I like that story a little more. James Franklin left my Vanderbilt, so some, some wounds just never heal. But that should be a fun one. Now on Friday maybe because we've got a snowstorm in Dallas. Watch out. Supposed to get a half a foot and they don't know what to do with snow down there. Ohio State, the Ohio State, the heavy favorites to win this Whole dance. How quickly we've moved on from Ryan Day not beating Michigan over the past four years. They are the favorites. They are playing Texas, the Texas Longhorns, who their two losses this year are to Georgia in a couple close games, or at least the second one was. So we'll see if there's any Texas in Texas effect. They're playing at Jerry's World. You'd like to think there's going to be more burnt orange in the crowd. I'll tell you this. Dallas is a commuter city. Is that the transplant city? That there's already a lot of Ohio folk there and it's a fan base that travels that I don't. I don't think we're looking at something odd here. A team that wouldn't travel unless flights from Ohio get canceled. We'll see about that. Texas, I'm interested to see are they gonna mix anything up. They ended up letting Clemson into the game a little bit in their first game. Arizona State almost pulled out a miracle against them in their defense that is supposed to be their strength. Continues to just have kind of these weird moments of what is going on here. Ewers stat line ends up looking good. Last game people were wondering has he been playing hurt through the season? Because he had some moments of just bizarre kind of output on their end. And meanwhile Ohio State, I talked about Notre Dame looking in the mirror after losing to Northern Illinois and kind of doing, yo, what are we doing? And how. It's a great bounce back story. Ohio State's looking to write an even better one. Ryan Day looking like he's on the chopping block into four years, not beating Michigan. And this Michigan team was not a Michigan team that if they slipped up against Tennessee in a cold weather game, if they lost to Oregon, the undefeated number one team that they had lost to. Ryan Day could have been in a weird spot. And I don't know if he'd be the coach of Ohio State. I think after they beat Tennessee how they did. If the Oregon game was close, he would have been fine. But a reminder, they jumped out in front of Oregon cataclysmically. It's a Joe's McFly word that I try to mix in. I mean 34 nothing. I think that word works there that Ohio State has now become the favorite. It seems like they're clicking on all cylinders. Their wide receivers cannot be stopped. Jeremiah Smith, the wide out freshman wide receiver, he's drawing comps to Julio Jones, Andre Johnson, like the best of the best wide receivers, you know, that went through college football and just ripped it up. He's on that level. They have him and a book on the outside that the secret is they've kind of been feeding those guys the ball instead of focusing on the run and nobody can stop them. Even though they have a great run game. With Henderson and Howard the quarterback chipping in where he needs to, it's going to be interesting to see if what kind of fight Texas has for them. It's a five, five and a half point spread, which usually that means they're indecisive and they're trying to get you to take Texas. Because Ohio State and just how good they have looked. Ohio, Texas might be the last line of defense. Texas, one of the favorites coming into this season. And they've shown moments of really high play between their quarterback, their running back, their defense, and can they get a Texas boost or even. Ohio State hasn't seen something go the wrong direction in a while. They haven't seen a pick six. They haven't seen a bad fumble. Can they get something early that shows like, hey, this is an equal playing field. Cause right now they are rolling. I'll be honest, it's tough to bet against Ohio State right now with how good they do look. But tune into, if you're a sports person, these are going to be two fun ones to tune into. And by the way, your college football bracket, which we've talked about a little bit and we'll talk about more how we need to make some changes and adjustments. The current seeds left are 5, 6, 7 and 8. So again, how the bracket got built in previous years, it would have been a different one through four. Like a couple of these teams would have been in here. But this year, this is where we're at. And I think the product has gotten to a good spot with that Arizona State Texas game that was just electric last week. I guess we could use one more signature game. But again, we are now at the point that the playoffs started previously. So I think, I think we're in a good spot. So if college football is not your fancy, the NFL will have what you're looking for into the weekend. As it is wild card weekend, the NFL is rolling out 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 games starting Saturday, ending on Monday. Saturday, it starts off Chargers, Texans, Harbaugh, remember Michigan. Harbaugh and The Chargers are 11 and 6. The turnaround happened like he does everywhere he goes. And they will head to Houston. Who a weird year for them, man. 10 and 7. No one else in their division finished above 500. The Colts had a very culty year. Meanwhile, Jacksonville died in Tennessee with was bad enough to have the first pick in the draft. So what is Houston? CJ Stroud took a step back and was that the league seeing him more? Was it the people having a target on them? Trying to see what's my best. What is my best. Texans win. They beat the Bills a while ago, so that's kind of an easy one I guess. Since then. Since then the Texans best wins are the Patriots, the Colts, the Cowboys, the Jaguars, the Dolphins and the Titans. They lost to the Ravens, the Chiefs, the Titans. Yikes. Lions, Jets, Packers. So a year that was filled with a lot of excitement for Houston. They've been off the map since. Off the map since early in the season. The Chargers in Houston are three point favorites. And I think you could tell by the way I was talking to myself. I think I'm talking myself into that. Justin Herbert, man, 23 touchdowns, three interceptions. Pretty impressive what he's done. The lad McConkey rookie season that he's put up. Yeah, I guess I was interested to. I thought the Texans at home in a playoff game, you know, you think they'd be at least pick them or one point favorites. No, the Chargers minus three. And I think I just talked myself into more of that. The nightcap that you hope has excitement. A nine and a half point spread makes you a little nervous. And two teams that make you nervous on both fronts. The Ravens at one point my super bowl pick for this year. And man, could Lamar use a big play playoff game to shake some of his wooga wooga woogas against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Who? Pittsburgh Steelers. Bell of the ball, Mike Tomlin. How did they do it defense in this guy? They've lost their last four. Eagles, Ravens, Chiefs, Bengals. It's feeling different. It's feeling different for the Steelers who will head to Baltimore. They played the Ravens twice this year. They won the 18 to 16 Boswell bowl six times. Three. Is that 18? Yep, they won that one. Then at the Ravens they lost 34 to 7 with Baltimore opening it up late in that game. Baltimore is a much better team. The Steelers, it's. How can they score with the Ravens and I don't know if they can even on their bad day. Mark Andrews, Fun stat with him after the first six weeks of the year with zero touchdowns. He ended up leading the tight end position in touchdowns. There's a lot of people that had regretful fantasy trades, including my main league. I care about. Someone was very sad. No names mentioned. It's Andrew but the there's a couple.
