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Speaker 1: I don't think Yeah joined us as as you mean yourself. Matthew. Yeah,
I don't think he's joined yet. Matthew as a speaker,
Let's try to get Matthew on. Maybe Matthew, you can
run us through some of the goings on in the
a c C this past weekend.
Speaker 2: It was a heck. It was a heck of a
weekend in uh in the a c C for a
CC foot ball. Uh, it's just we Uh let me
I can basically run through it. But I think we
had a we had our podcast, Pony Pony All Pony
Access all a cc on here earlier this year, and
he's he was on our podcast earlier this year, and
his his perdition for SMU was was seven and five
and and they're the Mustangs right now, are are sitting
at basically at at not at not at by my
count I think they're sitting at nine and one if
I'm not mistaken, in the football conference right now, or
eight and one, excuse me, in the Football Conference right now,
if I'm not mistaken, and they're way above expectations, and
they're they're probably the likely a likely Canada get, likely
Canada to get. Really, if you think about it, they're
likely candidate to get to the to the ACC Championship game.
Because if you run through, you run through SMU schedule.
And give me a second here and I'll run through
SMU SMU schedule, Jeff. They're sitting there, sitting at a
point where they have a pretty good I mean I
think they have quite frankly, have a pretty good shot
to run run the rest of the table. They're playing
Boston College, they're playing Virginia, and they're playing California. They
probably will end up eleven and one going into the
ACC title game, and they're probably gonna play, probably gonna
play Miami. Is there a chance that that if they lose,
they get an age at large bid?
Speaker 3: Probably?
Speaker 2: Maybe not, probably not, But I mean this is they're
they're certainly surpassing every every possible expectation. I think that
you could have for SMU in their first year in
the conference. I don't think anybody disagree. I don't think
anybody disagrees with that. I think we'd be hard pressed
to have anybody to have anybody disagree with that, right,
So and Jeff, are we are we still having technical
difficulties here?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, still trying to get ethan ethan here on? Uh? Okay, Matthew,
Oh we've got ethan now Ethan.
Speaker 3: Can we here?
Speaker 2: Can you hear us, buddy?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 4: Can you hear me?
Speaker 3: We can hear you. Welcome back all right? Three times
with I'm sorry for the air there, guys. I can
hear you all on the last previous attempt.
Speaker 4: But you couldn't hear me, so I apologize.
Speaker 1: All right, So we're good to go. So Matthew ready,
I'm ready.
Speaker 2: I'm ready. Were when I'm ready? I'm ready? Can you
hear me?
Speaker 1: All right? Whenever one of us yourself, So.
Speaker 2: We uh, we have a certainly have a great guest
with us today. And I ran through the intro welcome
back here Ethan, what what a night. We didn't plan
this at all. Buvill had one of the bet one
of the best wins and perhaps program history. Uh and
certainly within the history within the ACC. I mean, how
are you, how are you feeling today? Tell us about
yourself too? For our listeners who we get new listeners
in here all the time, tell us tell us about
yourself here because we're we always get new listeners here.
But het man, what a time for you to come
on the podcast. And we sure as he didn't plan
it this well.
Speaker 4: I mean I would give you guys credit for planning it.
You just had the foresight, you know, a couple of
months ago to envision this massive upset that occurred. So
kudos to you guys from doing just that. We we
run the City its longest running all UFL sports talk show,
and so eloquently that you all encapsulated in the intro
of your podcast. We've been doing that for thirteen years.
Celebrated that anniversary this past September. We focus on all
things Louisville football, basketball and recruiting, and so for every
Wednesday generally with the coaches Show now in season, the
coaches shows run from seven to eight generally, we're now
eight to ten every Wednesday night. You can take us
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here in town locally, it's ninety three nine the Ville.
So appreciate you guys having me on as always, and yeah,
we're super estatic with the win yesterday. Louisville cracked back
into the AP top twenty five poll, number twenty five
this afternoon, and we just run through some of the numbers, guys,
of how impressive this win was and over the last
I believe it was eleven years or so, Clemson was
eighty two and four at home. They had not lost
a night home game in eleven years. And this was
a curse, of course, in nine tries, Louisvill's first win
against Clemson since being members of the ACC. There's a
couple of years where they didn't play, but Louisll got
its first win. It was it was shocking. I don't believe, honestly, gentlemen,
that anybody really thought louisll would win this game. Going
into it, I did not as well. But this this
season has been crazy, highlighted by how good SMU is doing.
And yes, I had the Mustangs at seven and five.
That was way wrong. And then you know, I watched
them against Nevada and I put my foot in my
mouth again by saying I don't think that they're going
to compete for the ACC title based on that one
game against Nevada where they didn't look very good. But silly, mean,
that's not the first time I'm going to be wrong
and it's certainly not gonna be the last. So yeah,
back to the Louisville's win, guys, it was phenomenal. Louisville
has a lot left to play for in my opinion,
with these last three games. We have a bye coming
up this week, but man, I mean, Louisville can run
the table. You can beat a nationally ranked pit team
still left on the schedule, and and finally get that
get that monkey off or back that we that we
have with our ar rivel up the road five straight losses.
That is an absolute must win for Louisville this season.
Speaker 2: So I mean, you gave it a pretty good answer,
ethan On. You know, clearly Louisville was the most impressive
team last week. I think we all agree on that.
You kind of talked about that a lot at the intro.
But if there were any other impressive performances you'd like
to talk about, certainly give us that. You could also
give us your take on the ACC's most disappointing team
in Week ten, and there there may be a candidate
for that too that I wrote about, but I'm not
one of put words in your mouth.
Speaker 4: Well, it's going to be one of the games from
last night, and that is SMU. Pitt. I think outside
of Louisville, certainly SMU with their dominant performance forty eight
to twenty five, and if you watch the game, it
wasn't even that close. SMU has been very, very impressive
this year in the ACC eight and one, five and
zero in the league. They're only lost to an undefeated
BYU team by three earlier in the season, and then Pitt,
I think they got exposed a little bit. I do
think the Panthers are a really good team, but I
don't think they're you know, Charlotte caliber for the ACC title.
I think SMU addressed that. Of course, the Panthers have
played Clemson here in a couple of weeks as well,
but certainly with the disappointing team with that being Pitt.
I mean, guys, you could pick Florida State, but hell,
that's every week. If you have a disappointing team, go
ahead and throw the Noles in there every single week.
But this week I think it was Pitt because they
just weren't competitive. Then you know what I mean at
thirty one to three at halftime, that the game was
over with, you know, fifteen to twenty minutes after it started.
So for me, that's going to be the most disappointing
team in the ACC. Pitt did remain ranked in the
latest a peop Pull at number twenty three, but that
is those are the superlatives. I'm going to go with
Louisville and SMU for most impressive and then most disappointing Pitt,
And then you could also throw in Florida State, but again,
like I said, that's like weekly thing for them.
Speaker 2: All outstanding answers, Jeff your up friend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just want to say a little bit about
that that Clemson Louisville game two because because I was
there and there was not one bit of fluke today
loss for Clemson or for the win for Louisville. They
took Clemson to the woodshed completely, absolutely completely dominated the game.
The score thirty three to twenty one was not indicative
of the of the level of domination that Louisville had
in that game. I mean, I was just sitting there
watching it, and you could you could even see on
the on the field in every single phase of that game,
Louisville was better than Clemson. And I even put it
on Twitter afterwards. I was like, you know, maybe if
it was the matchups or whatever, but if they played
ten more times, I think Louisville would be Clemson nine
of the times. It was. So it was such a
level of dominance there in Death Valley that I think,
I mean, Clemson was fortunate honestly that it wasn't forty
seven to seven during that game, because there were early
in that game when Louisville was dominant. They just dominated
from start to finish. You know, they had they had
a missed field goal early in the game, then they
had got inside the Clemson ten were had held inside
a field goal, were held into a field goal. There
were a couple other field goals later in the game,
at the start of the third quarter, when Louisville drove
down uh that game, there was a third down pass
that was dropped that resulted in another Louisville field goal.
I mean that that catch was made and and you're
probably looking at another touchdown. So I mean, for those
of you just kind of saw the final score, it
was total domination. It really was as one of the
worst performances I've seen from Clemson in Death Valley in
probably in more than a decade, and it had everything
to do with the way Louisville came into that today game.
You know, well executed, game plan prepared. The Clemson linebackers
were misreading plays all night long. Every time they showed
a replay, Louisville was moving with every player was moving
in a different direction than they were going. So just
hats off to Louisville Ethan that they were just outstanding
Saturday night.
Speaker 4: I like what you said there about the misdirection brom
was in his bag last night, and something that we
were kind of clamoring for is you saw before a
couple of weeks ago. You saw glimpses of the creativity
from the offensive side that brom can administer. But for
whatever reason, Louisville's offense was stagnant. They didn't have the
tempo that they utilized last night in Death Valley. They've
gotten back to that. They started doing that a little
bit more against Miami. They did that in spurts against Virginia.
But I think you saw that in a more consistent
manner last night against Clemson, speeding the tempo up, not
allowing the defense to get set and the substitute with regularity,
and that has helped as well. And it also does
help when you have one of the best freshmen in
the nation in Isaac Brown, who is on an absolute
tear of four games now over one hundred yards. I
hope that Louisville's NIL package is sound for him, because
you know there's gonna be a variety of schools coming
after him. But he is a game breaker. He has
great vision, great speed, and he also you know, he
can talk a little trash too, as he did the
night night go to sleep routine with the Tiger mascot
last night. I don't know if if he was ready
for that, but I think that Isaac Brown with that,
with that forty yard plus touchdown run kind of sealed things.
It was nice to see Louisville have that bounce, have
that energy, and have that swagger about him, because they
haven't really had that until maybe that Virginia come and
then in the fourth quarter, and then getting down twenty
points a week ago at Chestnut Hill, being down seventeen
points in the second half against Boston College powering back.
Something coach Brom said last night in the locker room
was teams get judged at the end of the season.
Still keep fighting and there's still a lot left to
play for. And I think the team really took that
to heart, and you saw that this was the first
complete game. Now, it took nine games in the season
to get that done, but I think Louisville fans are
very happy that you get that done with the then
eleventh ranked team nationally getting that first win against Clemson
and the ACC, We'll take it. It might be nine
games into the season, but we were very, very impressed
with the complete game from Louisville last night.
Speaker 1: Absolutely well definitely well done from Louisville side. All Right, Ethan,
which ACC football game games are you looking forward to
the most in week eleven.
Speaker 4: For me, I think it starts with Clemson. You know,
Clemson dropped to number nineteen in the polls from eleventh.
I think they'll probably still be in the top twenty
in the College Football Playoff Paul when it is released
on Tuesday. But they go to Blacksburg in Virginia Tech
for a three thirty game on ESPN and planning in Blacksburg.
Although Virginia Tech is coming off a very disappointing loss
on the road to Syracuse, if Clemson's feeling sorry for themselves,
then the Hokies will give them loss number three. So
there's no rest for the weary for Clemson. That is
one of the games that I have circled to watch
next weekend is Clemson at Virginia Tech. And then also
too It's going to depend on Haines King's health, but
Miami traveling to Atlanta to take on Georgia Tech. If
King is healthy, you know, Miami better be ready to
play because I think Georgia Tech has the talent to
make that a ballgame, as you saw with Duke for
three quarters this past weekend as well. So those are
the those are the two games for me that I'm
going to keep a close eye on.
Speaker 1: All right, ethan, which ACC team could be on upset
alert in week eleven if they're caught looking ahead to
a game on their schedule or otherwise just sleep walking
on the field.
Speaker 4: You know what, I it's it might be those two
teams already mentioned, to be honest with you, Clemson and
Miami both are going on the road, both are playing
hungry teams that that are that are kind of licking
their wounds a little bit, that want to kind of
right the ship.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: And of course too with Georgia Tech with Haines King
being out for the last couple of games that you know,
that's that's obviously a reason for the for the Yellow
Jackets saluta step when you have a dynamic playmack like
that on the sidelines. And then two, I think with
Clemson coming off this loss, is this going to be
a loss where it lets all the air out of
the balloon for Clemson or will they regroup and in
view this season as well? As you know, they might
not make it the Charlotte but if they went out
the rest of the way, a lot can happen if
you're seven and one in league play. So Clemson for
me more so than Miami could be on an upset alert.
I think if if Clemson plays their best and Virginia
Tech plays their best, and that is a win for Clemson.
But if Clemson still you know, down the dumps from
their lackluster of defeat by the hands of the Louisville Cardinals,
then you know they can find themselves turning that one
loss into two.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go national. Here, Ethan step out of
the ACC for a bit. Which national FBS games are
you looking forward to the most in week eleven? And
we're wide open this with this question. This can be
you know, powerful versus you know, non power plat four game,
a non power forward game. You can even have an
FCS matchup and then give us a winner of that
game or two.
Speaker 4: You're looking at, well, I think when you look at
when you look at the next week slate, certainly Alabama
at LSU jumps off the page at you. But for
me personally, you know what I mean, Like I get
I'm getting so sick and tired of the SEC love fest,
and so I'm going to go outside of the SEC. Indiana,
the Hoosiers nine, and oh welcome the Michigan Wolverines up
to Bloomington. And you know, this is this has been
a lopsided series, like most are in the Big Ten
when it comes to Michigan. But but even though Indiana
is the favorite in this game, they're favored by fourteen points, gentlemen,
I mean that is crazy. That's a crazy number when
you're talking about Indiana and Michigan. Plan But that's a
game really that I'm that I want to pay attention to.
And then and I hope I'm kind of pulling for
IU if they can, they can make it ten to zero.
And then I think the next week they play Ohio State.
So for me on the national slate, that is the
game that sticks out the most for me. Also that
there's another intriguing matchup Georgia at Ole Miss. I know,
I just, you know, was complaining about the SEC level,
but that that game to me is a little bit
more appealing than LSU Alabama simply because I just I
just feel like Georgia is overrated at number two, you know,
And maybe that's just me, and you know, I'm sick
of the SEC bias. Georgia is no doubt an elite team.
They're a playoff caliber team, no doubt, but are they
the second best team? And and is Oldness a playoff
caliber team? I think right now their body of work
would say that they're not. But of course, if you
can beat Georgia on your home field, and then they're
in the discussion. So for me, those are the two
games on the national slate. It's of course in the
big you know, the Big Ten and the SEC arguably
the Power Too and the Power Four. But those are
the games for me that are the most intriguing in
the upcoming week.
Speaker 1: All right, very good, Ethan Matthew. I'm gonna our next
question here before I turn it over to Matthew. This
is a new segment we've started where we're just gonna
let our guests have an open mic segment, and this
one's only gonna be reserved for you. What is on
your mind, you know, whether it be Louisville National, whatever
you're thinking. Here the floor.
Speaker 4: Yours, gentlemen. I'm I allowed to talk basketball.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, We're allowed to talk to anything.
Speaker 4: All right, Well, you know, I know this was this
was a football centered podcast, but the guys, I am
so excited because Louisville tips off the season tomorrow night.
Against Morehead State, we are turning the page from the
disastrous Kenny Payne era and moving in to Pat Kelsey.
So no more KP. Now we're all about p K.
And the excitement level is at an all time high.
H During the exhibition season, Louisville has looked very impressive
with ball movement at the tempo, the ability to knock
down three pointers, the ability to get out in transition.
It's it's such a welcome relief. It's a welcome sight
to see, uh this program and how the offensive firepower
that Kelsey has at his disposal. And you know, after
this game against Moorhead State tomorrow night, Louisville welcomes to
the Young Center number twelve, Tennessee. So we're going to
know a lot about this Uleville basketball team just a
week ind to this season. But I'm excited overall for
college basketball to tip off. Yeah, we have three or
four more weeks for college football, and you know, we
have the college football playoff rankings that've come out on Tuesday.
But I am super excited for college basketball. And I
just mentioned it, and I had since this is an
open mic, what I want to see for the first
college football playoff rankings is I don't want to see
a bunch of two loss SEC teams in the top twelve.
I don't want to see Indiana disrespected either. And if
I was on this committee, I would be putting SMU
ahead of Alabama as it stands right now. That's it.
You know, things can change. If SMU drops a game
and Alabama beats l s U, then then Alabama would
be in my in my rankings that nobody cares about anyways,
but Alabama would then leap frog SMU. But until that happens,
records have to mean something, guys. And so when you're
in the SEC, is it the best league in college football?
Yes it is. But when you when you have some
undefeated teams or one loss teams from power conferences below
two lost SEC teams, I don't think that's right. So
those are the two things that I that's really on
my mind. Louisville basketball kicking off a new era or
tipping off a new era, I should say. And then
what do the first college football playoff rankings look like?
And then again too, at the end of the day,
it doesn't matter, it's all it's all fodder for us
to complain about or to dissect because you know another
you know, several weeks from now, we're gonna get that,
we're gonna get the playoff bracket. It's then we're going
to complain about that even more. But for me on
this open mic segment, those are the two things that
are really front and center for me. Can't wait Louisville's
favored by sixteen and a half against Morehead State. The
young is gonna be rocking tomorrow night. Can't wait for that.
Speaker 1: Outstanding.
Speaker 2: Let me take over here for the last one. So
I'm gonna use two questions here, okay, Ethan, and they're
gonna be part of my open microphone. Army has a
good chance, I think, to get to the college football playoff.
They closed the season at North Texas at Notre Dame,
UTSA at home, and Navy at home. Ethan, Are they
gonna go undefeated? Is Army gonna go undefeated and get
into the college football Playoff? That's my first question for you, Ethan.
Here's my second question. I think, and I'm saying it today.
I think Louisville is going to be Kentucky at home
on and I believe that schedule since you brought up, Poops,
I'm bringing it up too. This is the fourteenth of
December at five point fifteen on ESPN. I believe Louisville
is gonna win that game over Kentucky. I'm calling it today.
Tell give me your thoughts on both of those questions.
Speaker 4: Eh, Mat got me. We got me a roued up
on that second one. That that is something that's something
that needs to happen. I talked about how football, on
the football side of things, with that robbery, that the
team up the road has has gotten the better of
Louisville the last five years. In basketball, gentlemen, Louisville has
not beaten them in Reperna since two thousand and eight.
That is that is ridiculous. So second question, first, Matthew,
I hope you're right. I'm still at the I'll believe
it when I see it phase, but certainly I hope
that's the case. And then, just like I hope that
that football the Governor's Cup returns to Louisville on November thirtieth,
I think that they play them in Lexington as well
in football. So again, Liuil needs to pull their weight
in this thing, both football and men's basketball wise, and
I hope that they do. For Army, I hope that
they would go undefeated. I'm going to pull for him
because too, you have to think about this from the
Notre Dame perspective. Let's say Army goes goes on to
beat Notre Dame. That would effectively knock the Irish out
of the college football playoff while give giving Army, in
my opinion, the upper hand over Boise State for that
group of five nods. So that game, assuming Army takes
care of business against North Texas, UTSA and Navy, if
Army can beat Notre Dame, as far as I'm concerned,
and went out, they punched their ticket to the playoff,
whereas Notre Dame would be on the outside looking in.
But also too, Matthew, I think it's important to note here,
and maybe they're going to address it on Tuesday night.
As far as I know, that Selection Sunday is going
to be a week before the Army Navy game. That
Army Navy games on December fourteenth, and so to my knowledge,
the bracket will already have been set. So what type
of scenario will that entail? I mean, if Army loses.
Let's say Army is eleven and zero, but they lose.
The Navy is Boise State on deck. I mean, so
what would happen there. That's another whole hurdle to jump over.
And then maybe they like I said, maybe they gets
addressed Tuesday. But that's something else. If that's going to
be the case and Army is undefeated, what happens after
that bracket is set a week before that game?
Speaker 2: I want I'm pulling for Army to win every game.
I'm sorry, I'm being a homer. I want them to
win every single game.
Speaker 4: Too.
Speaker 2: There's schedule. There's schedule open microphone segment number two for you,
Ethan the floors here.
Speaker 4: In Il, gentlemen, we're gonna have to get that under control.
I want the players to get paid, They've earned it.
But I also think you're gonna have to have some guardrails.
You're gonna have to have some parameters. Just a couple
of weeks ago, calling Lacey one of the best wide
receivers in the portal this past season, you know, cast
it his lot with Louiell. Unfortunately for him, he broke
his collarbone late in fall camp. I was hurt the
first several weeks of the season, came back against Notre Dame,
played four games, had a one hundred yard kickoff return
against Miami for a touchdown, and then decided to opt
out and use his red shirt season. Currently, he's fifty
to fifty on returning to Louisville or transferring out somewhere else.
This red shirt rule was specifically meant for freshmen, not
you know, fifth year seniors who want to sit out
whether they're they're banged up or not, and a chance
to get more money. So again, I want players to
get paid. I know Colin Lacy is handsomely compensated, although
that's probably on hold with him sitting out the rest
of the year. But this is like an impossible task
for coaches to really kind of pinpoint and to move forward.
You cannot manage a roster if you're having guys saying,
you know, and after four games, I just want to
use a red shirt. I might transfer out, I might not.
You can not and build and sustain a roster that way,
And that's not fair to the coaching staff, it's not
fair to his teammates, and it's not fair for the fans.
So while you want the players to get paid, and
while you want them to be able to make money
off their name, image, and likeness. We're gonna have to
We're gonna have to do something differently, and in my opinion,
we can't have graduate transfers opt to sit out after
four games middle of the season when for all intents
and purposes, you're able to play.
Speaker 2: Excellent. Take Jeff, you're a friend.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna echo a couple of things that even
said for my open mic. November starts. To me, it's
my favorite time of the year when we've got college
football and college basketball going on at the same time.
And already mentioned really intriguing Tennessee Louisville game Friday night.
You got Kansas in North Carolina playing if I remember right,
Michigan Wake Forest are playing this week, all in the
first week. And I know we're all like big basketball fans,
so we're not waiting until February fifteenth to start watching
and paying attention. We enjoy these November December games a
lot too. And then you got the college football playoff
rankings coming out. I'm so intrigued to see. I really
want to see where they ranked SMU. You know, I
think Miami is pretty well established I'd be shocked if
they're outside the top five. You know, best offense, probably
the best quarterback in alive college football. The defense still
some question marks, but I think you'll definitely see Miami
in the top five. But I want to see where
they put s you. As Ethan said, they only have
a three point loss to the Big twelves leading team
right now, Big BYU. That was a game that the
that they were still some quarterback transition between Preston Stone
and Kevin Jennings. I was jennings first game. I think
SMU is a completely different team since that time. You know,
not to take anything away, you know, a loss is
a loss, and BYU has that win over SMU. I mean,
we're not doing sec math here where we say teams,
you know, games at the beginning of the year don't matter,
and they certainly do. But since that time, you know,
especially what SMU did to a pretty darn good pit
team on Saturday night. If they can, if they can
get in that first college football ranking and they're in
there around you know, fourteen, fifteen sixteen, I mean, they've
got a great chance to run that table and to
get to the ACC title game, you know, around eight
to nine or ten. Uh, I think because because they're
they're finishing kick is is it not that you know,
Formidable Pit was the game for them to focus. I mean,
of course they got to finish and take care of business.
But you could very well have a top ten matchup
in the s C I mean, the ACC title game
if Miami can also you know, finish out, which I
think I think they will. You know, Georgia Tech with
a healthy hands King will you know, be capable of
putting up points on them. I just don't think even
with an improved Georgia Tech defense, I don't think there's
a defense in the ACC that can really slow down Miami.
They got to go and play Syracuse, we know, you know,
at times Kyle mccourtz looked like an All American but
but same thing there. I don't see how they're going
to end up stopping Miami. So you could very well
be looking at a top ten matchup in the ACC
title game. And I would like to see SMU be
ranked you know, high enough given to respect, you know,
just because they're not like a traditional brand. And we've
seen this, you know here all back and forth, you know,
two three loss SEC teams. I mean, there was already
I heard this weekend. You know, great win for South Carolina,
but they were talking about them running the table getting
into the playoffs, which is you know, you know, come on,
this is kind of absurd, you know, to be honest,
you know, unless just complete chaos happens around the country.
I mean, great win over Texas A and M. But
you know, we're really think of the SEC teams They've
got to jump over that they've already lost to, They've
already lost to Ole Miss, you know, Alabama, LSU for
them to get into the playoffs. But you know, let
let's not get crazy. Let's not get crazy here. So
it's going to be really interesting to see those college
football playoff rankings, college basketball starting up. Yeah, it's it's
the best time of the year. I can't wait to
see how how the rest of it finishes out.
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, I mean, you made a good point
about the about SMU and and where do they where
do they start with the rankings? And then my point
earlier about the SEC bias stuff. I mean, South Carolina
very well should be a top twenty five team, but
for them to even be mentioned in the playoffs it's like,
come on, man, like, like stop it. No nine, No three,
lost team right now needs to be in the playoff
unless a bunch of other teams you know, fall off
the map in the last last few weeks here. So
uh yeah, there's I want to see. And then how
overall is the ACC respected right right now, right now
and the A people the league's got five ranked teams?
Do we see five ranked teams in Tuesday's college football
playoff poll? I think that's a good question because I
don't think that's a for sure thing either.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a great point. You know, one thing I
wish they would do and I don't it'd be great
to see it is when they put out the top
twenty five, you know, to even in no particular order,
if they would list like who are the next five out?
You know, to see if Louisville, if they don't make
the top twenty five, are they just outside those rankings
right now? I think the AP and coach's polar are
reasonably fair to the to the ACC at the moment.
You know, with with Miami right there around in four
and five range, SMU took a nice jump up. You
know this week you kept Clemson in the poll with
their two losses twenty if maybe about right. And then
you've kept Pittsburgh kind of rewarding them for their undefeated
start not dropping them out. And then you you have
Louisville in the poll, you know, showing there are only
three losses have all been to ranked teams, and in
the other pole there just out by one, which you
know it's only going to take a loss by a
couple of teams. And then Louisville's in both poles. So
this is one of those times I'm actually not too
upset with the current rankings. But let's see how the
college football playoff rankings do, because that's the one that's
gonna count.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm with you there, Ethan.
Speaker 2: Thanks so much for spending your Sunday evening with us
on the All Sports Discussion ACC podcast. We love Devin
you come on the show. Love to have you come
on during college hoops season. Thanks again for spending your
Sunday night with us, and.
Speaker 4: Man, thanks guys for having me as always, I always
enjoy it, and here's to a very entertaining college basketball.
Speaker 2: Have a great week, guys, take care
Speaker 4: You too.