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welcome in our guy Spencer letting a bau TV Spencer.

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Speaker 2: How are you Ben?

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Speaker 1: Greetings from Arlington. It's happening BYU is in a Power

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for Conference Championship football game. In less than twenty four

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hours and one win from not just getting in the

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college football playoff brother, but from I think hosting a

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home playoff game in the fund. You beat Texas Tech,

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you deserve to be in the top eight.

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Speaker 3: Let's go, Oh my goodness, gracious, is it possible?

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Speaker 2: Is it? Fees?

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Speaker 3: Do you think they get a home game if they

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beat Texas Tech? Do you think they get a home

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game in the college football playoffs?

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Speaker 1: I don't see how even this committee, yes, even this

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committee cannot reassess BYU IFF And I know it's a

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huge hypothetical lift. But if BYU beats Texas Tech when

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the Red Raiders are number four, and what's the only

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thing working against BYU right now? Well, the only game

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they played against an elite squad, they look like they

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were incompetent and not capable of winning an important game.

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That's the only thing that people keep defaulting to. Spencer.

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They lost by twenty two. Yeah, okay, what if they

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beat that team? Now you have to reassess eleventh ranked

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BYU for just beating the number four team. I don't

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see how that doesn't jump BYU over the rest of

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the two lost teams at least and put BYU at

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worst at number eight. So not only is BYU playing

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for their first ever powerful conference championship and the hoist

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to Big twelve Trophy, I truly believe that if they

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beat Texas Tech, they will jump at least three spots

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and we'll be in level Edworth Stadium on Friday night

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December nineteenth or on Saturday, December twentieth, getting ready for

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the Cougars to host a playoff game. Everything is on

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the line, brother, and it's it's been just the culmination

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of decades of at times struggling and frustration for this

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type of opportunity to break through. And people keep saying, hey, winning,

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you're in. Yep, winning, you're in, and you are hosting.

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Speaker 3: What makes you believe that BYU will beat Texas Tech tomorrow?

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point four percent chance of victory. Give me your optimistic

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takes on why BYU can get a victory in Arlington.

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Speaker 1: Okay, well this disclaimer. I understand why BYU is again

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a heavy underdog, Like I don't have any issue with

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most oddsmakers thinking that yet it's probably going to be

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a thirty one to seventeen game or a thirty four

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to twenty game or something of that sort in favor

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of Texas Tech. But this does feel like a totally

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different BYU team, especially from an emotional standpoint. In lubbing.

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BYU was the undefeated team. The Red Raiders already had

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a loss to Arizona State, so when they had the

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opportunity to host BYU at their place and then take

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firm hold again of the Big Twelve, it sold a

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little bit like Texas Tech was the team that had

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more to prove and had more to lose and had

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a desperation element of sort, like if they lost to

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BYU and Lubbock, now they might not get to this game,

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and BYU becomes the clear favorite, so they had the

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desperation element of sorts this go around. Who's the team

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that is absolutely desperate? Uh, yeah, it's YU. So they've

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got that working for him, because nobody outside of those

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probably in our circle, has been think that BYU has

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any shot to actually go and win this game. Then

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you throw in the element of Wow. BYU at the

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beginning of the week, weren't even sure they were going

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to have Kilani Satake as their head coach in this

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game or even for this game, and then he's going

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to State College Pennsylvania and it becomes like a lame

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duck scenario. So what BYU went through to keep their

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head coach and get through the first two days of

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this week and all of the emotional roller coaster that

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that was, and how difficult that was, and how for

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some of the players and the recruiting in the future

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of the team. Team in the program, like I've heard

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the word frightening used to describe what it would have

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been like if Colonia left. To get through that, and

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then to come together and to be able to rally

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around their coach after practice when he suddenly said, hey,

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look I'm not going anywhere, and then the team freaks

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out watching that imagery happen and knowing that hey, we

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got to the next day, got through that, and then

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the college football playoff ranks came out that night and

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BYU still number eleven, and the disrespect and you're not

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put on graphics that ESPN keeps putting out. BoA's nowhere

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in the conversation, they're just beware the spided, perturbed team

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that is BYU right now. So from an emotional standpoint

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desperation factor, this is the only way you're probably going

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to get in. This is advantage BYU. They can go

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out and truly play loose because even if they don't win, well,

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nobody expected you to anyway, and you can go to

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pop tards, bull and nice job BYU. Pat on the back.

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You went eleven and two. But guess what, you're not

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good enough again. They're so tired of hearing that for

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the last month and being taken as not a serious

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contender to actually prove that they can get in this

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playoff and earn their way in. I like that a

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lot for BYU. If ever, there was a chip on

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the shoulder, this might be the biggest chip on the

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shoulder moment in BYU football history. I know it sounds

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like hyperbole, but seriously step back and say, Okay, when

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did BAU have a bigger chip on the shoulder than

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they do right now? And they're using it to their

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advantage now From an actual skill set and football schematic approach,

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Man Ben, doesn't it feel like this team's way healthier

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than they were against Texas Tack and Lubbick. Especially LJ.

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Martin like he's running violently and with an edge and

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with purpose. LJ from his mouth, from the mouth of

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the horse himself, feels way better than he did coming

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off that shoulder injury against Iowa State. So advantage that

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Duiu is just feeling better, and the run game should

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be better against an incredible defensive front that the Red

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Raiders are going to put out there. But the offensive

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line also feels like they have something to prove. Colonia

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said several times, We're not just going to send Bear

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back there and let him wait for longer passing ruts

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to develop. We want to play with some pace. Ball's

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got to come out faster. LJ is running better, offensive

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line is motivated, Parker Kinkeson is motivated to show that

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he can show up for the big game. The offense

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should be able to manufacture some type of momentum. It

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just stuff like they were stuck in the mud in Lubbock,

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and so yeah, anxious to go out and show that

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they can do something. I thought the defense was fine,

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they were okay. They held Texas Tech to their lowest

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scoring output at home on the season and the side

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from the airs on the state game where Texas Tech

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had their backup quarterback in the always defense, I thought

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really did a nice job when their average starting films

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position was what minus seventeen or eighteen yards on average

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for the game insane? And your minus three in the

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turnover margin crazy. So I don't expect those things to

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be so wildly in favor for Texas Tech. This game

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is weird, It has a weird shaped ball. Can BYU

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catch a break, build some momentum, and then take some

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things with a healthier bunch of guys on offense and defense? Yeah,

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I think that boy's going to look like a totally

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different team in this game. With hopefully twenty five to

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thirty thousand BYU fans slammed into AT and T Stadium

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so what type of ticket sales do you think of?

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know it's sold out. Are we going to say fifty

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Speaker 2: Will be more of a home environment for BYU?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? So I talked to a guy named Tagart Baron.

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He's the alumni chapter chair in the Dallas Fort Worth

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area for BYU, and he was feeling very confident, you know,

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he had his blue goggles on and the optimism flowing,

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and he said, I think it's going to be a

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split stadium. I don't know if it's going to be that,

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but I am confident that in a stadium that holds

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a little over eighty thousand, BAU can pack in thirty thousand.

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So maybe sixty forty split in favor of Texas Tech,

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because this too is an accomplishment, major accomplishment moment for

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Texas Tech as well to be in this game and

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playing against BYU. And it's only a five hour drive

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from Lubbock, but I feel like Red Raider alumni base

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is all flying and from all over the country as

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well to be at this game. I'd guess sixty forty.

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would be something if BYU could pull that off. It's

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gonna be a little bit tougher of a ticket to

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get and a tougher place to get to for some

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BYA fans in Texas Tech. So I'd say sixty forty.

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But even thirty thousand fans like they'll be loud. BUA

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fans will be loud, They'll be heard. It'll be even

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better than it was, certainly for the BYU Oklahoma game

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in two thousand and nine, when it felt like there

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were sixty thousand Oklahoma fans and only about twenty thousand

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a true split, but it'll still still should be probably

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sixty forty in favor of Texas Tech. I'm excited to

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see all the blue there. It will feel like a

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totally different game, a true neutral site game. Uh and

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not what by was facing in a hornet's nest That

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was love of just a few weeks ago.

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Speaker 2: You need you need a little love at the home.

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Speaker 1: Ben, And this is not a joke. I was just thinking,

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what do I need to buy for my wife? What

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can I do for her? How can I help her

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for Christmas? And my Hey? What if I just paid

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house cleaners to come clean the whole house like I

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take the family out to go see a movie in

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and some dinner, and then we come home in the

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house is sparkling clean like Merry Christmas. Hunt.

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Speaker 2: Let's go, yeah, I'm gonna hook you up.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna get you in contact with Gabby. Are you're

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Speaker 1: Yes, sir, Saratoga Springs represent Let's go.

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Speaker 3: Let's go, Okay, we'll get you aoked up. I'll get

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you connected with Gabby and her starting five. She does

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great work. No's answer much about it. UH Signing Day

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occurred on Wednesday, and then we just got the flip

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Speaker 2: They ranked twenty first.

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Speaker 3: Right now they have I believe, like ten four stars

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nine four stars in this class. H who's your favorite

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and why? What do you make of the signing class.

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Speaker 1: It's always nice when you can slip not one, but

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two players of the caliber of the pool of twins

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like that is no small feat that BYU just pulled off.

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that certainly is not happening, and probably at least half

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of the class that has been celebrated this week deservevely

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so that Boa just pulled in the best ever in

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program history is probably gone somewhere else, and the flips

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are happening to other in state schools and other power

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conference schools, and those guys are not staying at BYU.

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So just an incredible, an incredible week for BYU considering

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everything that was on the line with Kilane is potentially

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leaving for Pennsylvania. So this is credit to Kilani and

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his staff. You asked my favorite. Yeah, like I like

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those late slips. How do you not love that Bo's

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back in the quarterback business with bear Bachmeyer and he'll

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be followed by Rider Lions, And I know there's a

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lot of conversation about, well what about the crossover spencer,

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writer comes back and he expects be the starter after

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his mission, and like, let's just get.

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Speaker 2: To that prof to have. It's a great prop to have.

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Speaker 1: Let's get to that point. Let's stop. Let's stop like

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throwing it down to twenty twenties. I'd be like, oh no, drama.

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Let's just enjoy the Big twelve championship game tomorrow. Let

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Rider Lions do his thing as a missionary for the

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Church of Jesus Christ, and matter of his hants for

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however long that may or may not be. He said

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he wants to come back in early twenty twenty seven. Great,

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that's his prerogative. He can do what he wants. But

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let's just worry about that when we get there. And

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You're right, fantastic problem to have. Love that BYU is

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back in the quarterback business. Love that they're back in

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the bringing major offensive lineman like bot Mouy Talow, and

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that those guys should become a more common thing. TJ. Woods,

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by the way, underrated recruiter, Ben underrated recruiter on that

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offensive line for the Kougs. And so yeah, I'll probably

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start with those guys. But gosh, I can't think of

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a crazier week in our professional careers in the broadcast

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fashion than what has transpired over the past five days.

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It's been insane.

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Speaker 3: It's been loco, my friend, it's been crazy. Know if

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sandsor Butt's about that. We got Spencer Linton on the

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line here in a Cougar Beat brought to by Brezea

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house clean. So right now, BYU is a in a

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place that they've never well, I feel like they've been

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here before, but they haven't necessarily been here before.

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Speaker 2: And I'll qualify that and I'll preface it.

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Speaker 3: BYU since nineteen ninety six technically has not been able

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to get over the hump into the College Football Playoff

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or BCS Championship Series. Correct, right, like everybody else has,

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UCF UTAH, TCU, Boise State and Northern Illinois got there,

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like you go down the list of teams, and like

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BYU was tremendous from O six nine.

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Speaker 2: They had the two thy and.

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Speaker 3: Sixteen season where they were like they're eight points away

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from going undefeated. That was a great season, but it

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just wasn't enough. Twenty twenty your yard short versus Coast

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Carolina twenty twenty one, you fall short a little bit,

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you know, with those two losses, we've just we've been

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knocking on the door last year where we're knocking on

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the door and we.

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Speaker 2: Just don't get there.

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Speaker 3: We're tied and the tiebreaker beaches we don't go to

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the Big twelve championship game.

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Speaker 2: We're knocking on the.

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Speaker 3: Door again, right and I want to believe that now's

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the time, now's the place, and it's gonna happen. But man,

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it's been almost thirty years since we got into a

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New Year's Ball situation. You know, are you feeling like

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this is the year, now's the time, Now's the place?

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Speaker 1: So it that is why it carries so much significance.

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Like I've had several people say, Spencer, I know that

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the eighty four championship game against Michigan that quenched it

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for BYU, like that probably is a deserve number one.

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But if you think about, you know, really earning it

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and showing the country that, like you're legit, because people

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still pointed that game and say, yo, good job beating

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a six and five lame duck Michigan Wolverines team to

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win your your fake national championship. Like I this this

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is a different beast, right, Like you you go and

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beat number four after you put together an eleven and

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one campaign and like you earn it the hard way there,

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you can't deny that at that point, b Yu one

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million percent is an absolute contender and deserves to be

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where they are. So it's just a different feel to

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go around. And you bring up ninety six that the

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only New Year's dy Bowl game that by has ever

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played in against Kansas State and Cooges were number five

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and it was number fourteen Kansas State and they won

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that game and it was so fun, and you know, hey,

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Bowl Alliance like yet you know, suck on this Cotton

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Bowl win. Even even then, like the Bowl Alliance still

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didn't invite b YU in that year. It was heartbreaking

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when BYU was not playing in the Fiesta Bowl like

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they thought they were going to be, which was part

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of the Elite More Elite Bowl Alliance. The Cotton Bowl

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is fantastic, don't get me wrong, but even then that year,

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the Cotton Bowl was not included in the Coolest Kids Club.

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So this this gives BYU the chance to just get

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somewhere they've never been. Even if they don't even they

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got to the college football playoffs and and didn't win

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the first round game, this would still count as the

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official breakthrough. Okay, can we just make that clear. If

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BOU wins this game and they're in the College Football

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playoff like that is breaking in the cool kids club

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and then you have a chance to win and then

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go play in the quarterfinals in one of those major

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bowl games. But getting to the CFP would still count

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as the breakthrough that BYU has been longing for it

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that they have never been able to do, to be

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the Alliance bull buster, to be the bcs busal, the

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college Football playoff buster. Here's your opportunity. Do I believe

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that BYU is going to do it tomorrow? I'll tell

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you what I do believe. This is going to look

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like a totally different team and it's going to be

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an absolute battle. I expect, not even this game, not

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even like, well, can BYU just be like, you know,

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can I be within ten or like get out of

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here with that No, no, no, get out of my

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face with that crap. They're going to show up. It's

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going to be a dog fight, and I think it's

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going to get weird in the fourth quarter, and then

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you never know what has can b Why you put

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Texas Tech in the position that they have not been

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in this season, which is with their full staff, their

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full accouterment of weapons, including Baron Morton, their quarterback playing,

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and BYU put them in a weird place mentally in

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a close game they haven't experience to this year with

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Baron Morton, Like, how does Texas Tech respond? Because? Ben,

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what is by You've done? All year long? They've been

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in so many close games and they've been able to

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finish every close game they've played.

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Speaker 2: It.

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Speaker 1: It was not close against Texas Tech, there was no

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weirdness for drama, but every other close game Boy he's

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played in, they've been so clutched in critical situations in

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the fourth quarter. Can they get it to that weird

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scenaria in the fourth quarter? If they do, watch Out

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then BYU could be that team that does it again.

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Speaker 3: Watch out now, Ladies and gentlemen, Spencer Lytton, Ladies and gentlemen, Spencer.

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Best way to support you? What you do, how you

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do it? For all the Cougar fans that are tuning

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in today.

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Speaker 1: Well, we've got a two hour pregame show to get

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you set for anything and everything that relates to tomorrow's

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big TOEAL Championship showdown against Texas Tech. It's bright and early. Obviously,

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we're on the air at eight a a Mountain time

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on BYU TV to count you down to the showdown

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between the Red Raiders and Cougar's. We'll have all of

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the details on the latest injury update status, who's playing,

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who's feeling well, who's not feeling well, the mindset of BYU.

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Will have our usual assistant coaches interview, probably with Sessi

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Sataki or Aaron Rodgers, talk about how the offense is

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going to attack Texas techas go around, and of course

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any in every stat that you could hope for, and

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if you just want to be in a room where

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you want to get in that echo chamber where everybody

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feels the same way that you do about the disrespected

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the YUS feeling from the College Football Playoffs Committee, like

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the pregame show is going to get you in the

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right mindset to feel agitated and ready to go when

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the game kicks off tomorrow at ten am. So we'll

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see tomorrow on the pregame show two hours and then

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win or lose, we'll be there for a postgame show

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to recap how the game went down, talk to all

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the key players from the game, and of course in

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the interview with Cloni Okay love it.

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Speaker 3: Spencer Litten make sure you follow him on x as well.

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Is watching him on BAYU TV.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much, Spence, Ben, you got it, brother, I'll

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say you this no more. Trust me, Bro arguments from

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the college football playoff situation. Okay, well this team just

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looks better than BYU. Bro, trust me. I know, boy,

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you know it's.

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Speaker 3: Funny because I was just look, there's a lot of

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conspiracy theorists out there, and look, I am a bit

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of a conspiracy theorist now post twenty twenty.

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Speaker 2: But Mark Carlin's on the committee.

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Speaker 3: Do you believe that Mark is advocating for his Big

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twelve friend, his Big twelve rival, his Big twelve member

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BYU right now in the committee.

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Speaker 1: I want to believe the best in everyone, Ben, like

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I want to believe the best in everyone. But there's

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integrity there. Please Mark, please look.

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Speaker 3: I could just imagine Mark getting in front of the committee.

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He's like, look, BYU is a resilient, gritty, good football team.

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I mean, they're all right, but I know, bway you

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better than anybody. But look, they stole that game in

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twenty twenty four from They stole it from us. The

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rest stole it like they didn't earn that, and honestly,

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they kind of stole the game and at Lavelle Edwards.

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I mean, they shouldn't have won that game. So no,

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I don't think you should be in the colleg football playoff.

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Speaker 2: That's my opinion.

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Speaker 1: Oh dude, I hate it. I hate that that might

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actually be happening. But oh my gosh, I just I

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just want to believe the best and everyone. But please

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to the people that keep saying, but Notre Dame's two

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losses were aby combined four points and buy Us one

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losses by twenty two. Thus Notre Dame eighteen points better

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than be one. Get out of here. Stop it.

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Speaker 2: Crazy crazy. I'm taking crazy pills.

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Speaker 1: Spencer, I can't do it anymore.

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Speaker 3: Enjoy your time in Arlington, man, hopefully come back with

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a dub.

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Speaker 1: You got it, brother, Good to talk to you. Go Kogs.

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Hope everyone listening as well, and Merry Christmas and happy Holidays.

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Speaker 3: Let's go Blessings on blessings, grateful, attitude of gratitude. B

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Way's got a chance. They are the master of their destiny.

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They can win this game. And I do predict and

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I do perceive a BYU team that will be better

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than they were in Arlington. Know if answer, but a

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Speaker 2: Okay not uh. You don't have to do a physically.

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Speaker 3: You can pay someone to clean it for you seventy

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dollars off the first cleaning at Bres. Bresa makes it

475
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a breeze to keep your house clean. Eight on one

476
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three eight zero eight zero eight seven. Let's go to break,

477
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don't go anywhere. Max Chadwick College or excuse me, PFF.

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Pro Football Focus is who he represents. We'll talking metrics

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with him coming up next.

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Speaker 2: This is Cougar Sports. One of three nine ninet eight

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point three is