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Speaker 3: How are you guys doing?
Speaker 2: Fantastic?
Speaker 1: BYU seven and zero, they're knocking on the top ten
and they're heading on the road to Iowa State to
maybe validate finally that they have a arrived they are
the real deal, right, everyone said? The analyst de pundits
out there said that once Boa hasn't played anybody yet,
once they beat Utah, then I'll believe. But still, Braton,
you've seen it. They're hesitant. They don't want to buy in.
They're not buying Brigham just yet. Will a win over
Iowa State, though, make the doubters into believers?
Speaker 4: I don't think so. I think it's going to take
the Texas Tech game, which I don't know how. They
became Texas Tech lovers so much because they beat Utah.
Speaker 2: Because they spent the most money.
Speaker 4: You beating Utah didn't work because they all became big
Texas Tech fans. So even though Texas Tech is long off,
I was beating Texas Tech. I think is going to
be the only thing that gives us any credibility besides
just running the table truthfully.
Speaker 2: No doubt about it.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, I said, A beautiful thing about being at
the conference is that we control our destiny.
Speaker 3: So yes, we don't.
Speaker 4: We don't have to realize so much. I mean, yes,
it'd be great if we could get it. It could
be a two bid league, but I don't know that
it's going to happen. Just as much hate as the
Big twelve gets, even though I think we deserve it.
Speaker 1: So, hey, put a target on my back, put a
chip on my shoulder, tell me I'm not good enough,
I'm not smart enough, and dog got it. Then nobody
likes me. It'll elevate my play. Uh.
Speaker 2: And I think that's what BYU's been doing.
Speaker 1: Uh. They've been trying to make those doubters into believers.
But they they embrace the doubters all day, every day
by staying humble, staying hungry, focusing on themselves rather than
outwardly on the hype. So ESPN Analytics though okay, and
granted they've been wrong about b YU for a long time.
It seems like they're always wrong, right, Hey, Vegas is wrong.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: Obviously ESBN Analytics has been wrong, FPISP plus, et cetera.
I think the only analytic company that has really gotten
by you right over the last five years with their
preseason prognostications was actually PFF, and they justified it because
Tyler Algier was returning and they thought that he would
be a bell cow back and that was the reason
why they predicted a ten win season four BA and
they got there. But that's the only one that's really
accurately depicted BA. So at any rate, analytics are saying
that that BOI is going to lose at least two
of the next five games.
Speaker 2: Which two games concern you the most and why?
Speaker 4: I definitely think it's Houston and Cincinnati.
Speaker 3: I don't think.
Speaker 4: I think those are the two that I'm sorry I
say you said, I'm at Tech Texas Tech and Cincinnati
those are the two that I'm I'm most nervous about
because I think they're the highesteer this week. I'm I'm
nervous because it is we are coming up the rivalry.
But I do think we'll take care of business. The
guys based on interviews and stuff this week, like it
seems like they're locked in and last year was a
they recognized what they did last year that they can't
let that happened in this year. So I really think
it's Tech and Cincinnati, and I think both those games
are winnable, but it's gonna mean it's tough.
Speaker 3: To win every single week.
Speaker 4: So those are the two I'm most worried about, but
I do think we can land any of them.
Speaker 1: So yes, I think the Cincinnati gave is actually an
underrated game as far as difficulty is concerned. Remember, Cincinnati
got the wight over Iowa State a couple of weeks ago,
and they've been one of the best offenses in the
Big twelve and in the country.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they look good. They've looked there. They've been the
surprised team of the Big twelve.
Speaker 4: They're the what everybody's now starting to talk about is
the Arizona State of last year. This year they're that team.
So we'll see, we'll see how long that can go.
But that is what they're looking at trending towards right now.
Speaker 1: You mentioned the ASU of this year. Who's the Colorado
or sorry, the Kansas of this year. The Kansas team
that knocked off three ranked opponents at the end of
the year, and I wonder, Colorado, that's tc you think,
do you think it's CCU.
Speaker 3: I'm scared.
Speaker 4: I'm scared it's going to be TCU for us next
next week, I don't think so.
Speaker 3: But or not next week, you put it in.
Speaker 4: A few weeks. But I do think that's a team
that has all the talent. That's that's the thing that
Kansas was. They have the talent, they just weren't performing.
And I do think Colorado is also that and I'm
hoping that's I hope that's who it is because this week,
then winning would be a great thing for me.
Speaker 1: Would it be a good thing or a bad thing
for Colorado to like win out right and Utah lose?
Like I sometimes I wonder, like what what's best for
BYU from a strength of record, strength of schedule standpoint, right,
especially if we're getting into conference end of conference?
Speaker 4: Yeah, my I mean, I guess it does matter in
terms of tiebreakers. I was gonna say, it doesn't really
matter because they're not going to give us respect no
matter what. And so that's kind of my thought is like, hey,
it just doesn't really matter, and I want you trying
to lose But but when it comes to actually looking
at the like strength of record, I think as long
as one of them is winning consistently, that's fine. If
they both become teams that are losing out, that's where
it hurts us. So I think if if one or
both of them win all their games, in Utah loses
this week or Colorado win like loses, I think it's
more just that both of them need to be somewhat strong,
because I don't want to get to a tiebreaker scenario.
But again, that's the beauty. We can control our destiny.
We don't have to rely on a tiebreaker if we
if we play the way we should.
Speaker 1: So has has It has like the realization set in
for Utah fans that they're not going to be running
the truck stop conference.
Speaker 2: Uh now, like that they're not fit, they're not built
for this. Or is they still hope that they could
run this conference.
Speaker 4: I think I'm hoping that it's set in. I think
last year was the denial stage of Greece, So I'm
thinking that I'm trying to I'm actually looking it up
right now to remember all the stages of figure out
what they're in right now.
Speaker 3: But I know I know that they're in one of them.
So they were in the denial of anger.
Speaker 4: Now they're in the bargaining trend together where they're at
and then the presice acceptance hasn't quite hit yet, but
acceptance will hit next year hopefully.
Speaker 1: Oh man, I really wonder, like what I mean, it's.
Speaker 3: Not true though, Man, I know you're laughing at it.
I know that I don't want to get all the flak.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna get quoted over here and and cut in
somewhere or other. But like they were in denial Quarta.
Speaker 1: And now they're they're they're pissed off and they want firings.
They want with to move on, you know, and and
h then they they they forced their offensive coordinator's wife
to get off Twitter, and they blame the b YU fans.
They're blaming now b YU fans for all of the
vitriol and the rivalry because uh because uh we we
posted a video of their kicker, uh kicking during the
prayer anyway, like they like, these are the worst fans
on North for posting and judging our kicker for prayer,
for kicking during the prayer. Anyway. They're angry right now.
They're ticked off. They haven't bargained yet. I think if
they have consecutive losses, if if they're flirtatious with maybe
kind of sort of going to a bowl game but
don't get to a big bowl game, they're going to
be in that bargaining arena, no doubt.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw this or not, but
ESPN is now rating ranking the true freshmen of college
football and coming in at number three is bear Bachmeyer.
This season, Malaki Toni and Malik Washington of Miami and
Maryland are the only two that are ahead of him.
Malik Tony Malachi Tony excuse me, wide receiver and Malik
Washington quarterback for Maryland. Hey, bear bach my uh achieved,
overachieved or underachieved for your expectations thus far this season.
Speaker 3: Overachieved.
Speaker 4: I would say he probably underachieved on the throwing a
little bit to me just because I don't know why.
Speaker 3: I just expected him. I saw him in practice.
Speaker 4: As a couple of practices I got to go to
and he threw the ball around a little more and
I think it's mostly game planning.
Speaker 3: But overall it's been a huge overachieved. I mean, the
his poise.
Speaker 4: I had heard about his poise, I you know, was
excited about it, but watching his poise, watching him just
handle them himself the way he has and then come
in so clutch and so many big moments already between
the Arizona game Utah game, and then he's had quite
a few other moments where he's kind of had to
put the team on his back for a couple.
Speaker 3: Of plays in difficult situations. And it's been I mean,
he's he's been awesome. It's been so fun to watch.
Speaker 2: No doubt about it.
Speaker 1: He's He's a baller, air bear, the centaur, the right
handed better throwing Tim Tebow. Is he living up to
all of that now? All the nicknames? Uh?
Speaker 2: Is is he a better throwing Tim Deebow?
Speaker 3: The I is?
Speaker 4: I mean it's hard to Actually, I saw this stat
the other day. It was showing the quarterbacks that have
gone seven to zero up to this point in the season,
and it was I think it was Trevor Lawrence from sure, Yeah,
from there was there were a few both all of them,
and they all of them had won national championships in
their career. Yeah, and I thought it said two things
to me. Is what it told me was one that
Bear is great, he is playing awesome. But two do
you I use as a team. I mean, look what
they did under And obviously I was a Jake believer
and I still think Jake was a great quarterback. People
can fight me on that till they one. But at
the same time, what we're seeing is that the team
around both of those quarterbacks is what's winning these games. Like, yes,
the quarterbacks are not losing us games, and they're getting
us in spots to win games at the end of
the game, like Bear one won us the game against
you dam certain ways, but there was also some many
other plays. So I think it shows how good of
a team b Yu is while also showing how good
of a quarterback Bear has been.
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That's what it looks like to me. I always stayed
this year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm I'm thinking, like I'm guessing we've probably come
out of it. I'm going, say, in twenty thirty one
twenty four, so it can be a closes game. I
think that twenty four ends up being a late touchdown,
So I think I think we control the game.
Speaker 3: I'm trying not to I'm trying.
Speaker 4: Not to overlook them, but at the same time, I
do think we're gonna come out The team seems to
be coming off the win better than they did last year,
where they were a little, you know.
Speaker 3: Over zealous about how how well they were doing.
Speaker 4: I think this year they recognize what the goal is
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