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Speaker 1: College football season is right around the corner. What futures

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vets should you be getting in right now? You're about

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to find out next on bet on It. What a

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blast from the past. I guess we're gonna use our

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same intro from twenty twenty one. That's right, guys, that's

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the last time US three did a solo show together.

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But we listened to everybody in the comments. We listened

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to our wager talk, friends and family. We decided to

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bring it back myself, Kelly Stewart, Marco DiAngelo, and Yanni

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the Greek we call him Ace, we call him VR.

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You're gonna hear me give him various names throughout the show.

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Speaker 2: And this is our college football preview.

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Speaker 3: Guys.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna go through some of the powerful conferences, plus

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a couple of extras.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna talk national champions here at the end.

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Speaker 1: We've got some regular season win totals for you guys

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as well.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna get right into it.

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Speaker 1: Marco di'angelo VR, You guys are gonna have to wait

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in the wings because I'm gonna talk about the ACC first.

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Speaker 2: Because of alphabetic quarder.

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Speaker 1: Look, Clemson plus one oh five is the obvious choice here,

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and I do think we will talk about those Miami

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Hurricanes here later on in the regular season win segment,

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but right now I think that there is a longer

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shot to win the ACC and it's Louisville plus seven fifty.

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As you guys know, they lost their quarterback to the NFL,

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but they did get USC transfer Miller moss over twenty

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five hundred passing yards eighteen touchdowns last year with the Trojans,

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and what a better coach for him to play under

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than Jeff Brohm.

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Speaker 2: I think Jeff brom is gonna have one of the.

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Speaker 1: Best offenses we've seen in his tenure there at Louisville.

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Speaker 2: And I look for the Cardinals not.

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Speaker 1: Only to win ten games this season, but to give

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Clemson a run for their money on November fourteen. How

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this is gonna kind of work for this previous shows,

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I'm gonna give both guys a chance to interjected.

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Speaker 2: Marco thoughts on the ACC.

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Speaker 4: Well, I think the ACC is one of the more

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wide open conferences, Kelly. I agree with you. There are

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several teams that could make some noise. Moss a, you

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know he's coming from USC. We'll see if the new

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scenery is good for him. But you know, remember at

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the end there at USC the old UNLV quarterback ended

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up finishing up there the last couple of games last season,

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So we'll see what happens with him. But if there's

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a coach that can groom a quarterback, I agree with

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you Jeff Baum is the guy that can get it done.

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There's gonna be a lot of hype watching Bill Belichick

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in the ACC this year and what he's gonna do

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with North Carolina, So you might sign find value with

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other teams because obviously he's gonna command some attention, and

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then you always have the usual suspect of clin We

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saw Clemson get off to a slower start last year.

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last year, so maybe they can return to the glory days.

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But too short of a price for me. So I

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don't have a problem with your play, Kelly. As I said,

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you like dogs. That is a live one. I gotta

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give you that much.

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Speaker 1: All right, V are your thoughts on the ACC before

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Clemson's got some ground to make up

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at the last season, but they aren't still the cream

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of the crop, and when you look at them, they're

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Speaker 3: The problem is, I think they're a little bit over

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value coming into the season, having them as fourth right

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now in the AP pole, sixth in the coaches poll.

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I think that's a little bit too high for Clemson.

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that as far as the rankings go. But that's going

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to play itself out as the season progresses. Again, Clemson's

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coming off a season where they held opponents. They gave

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up one hundred and seventy four total points overall. For

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this I mean three hundred and nine total points overall,

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had almost a two hundred point one hundred and fifty

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point differential. Like the thing is, you know, can they

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get back in where they were a few seasons ago.

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I'm not sure this version is up the par Again.

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I don't dislike your pick. I do think it's live

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and again, even though Clemson's the cream of the crop,

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Speaker 1: High line I said we were going to Big twelve

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next we're actually going to Big ten, which is who

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Marco selected to break down Marco, there's on a four

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horse race here in this conference.

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Speaker 4: Well on Kelly, there's one team that stands out above

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everybody else. Okay, and at his Penn State. They are

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absolutely loaded on both sides of the football. This is

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the best team on paper in the Big Ten. This

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is the big the best team that James Franklin has

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had at it since his tenure at Penn State. But

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there's one problem. There's still James Franklin there. And that's

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my biggest conferred. You know, if this offense doesn't wake

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up this year with everything they've got, I don't know

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that James Franklin will be there next year. They're there

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to do it. Do I trust Penn State until he

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shows me that he can open up an offense. No,

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I don't, and not at the price that they're gonna be. Well,

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then there's this next choice. You've got Ohio State, the

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national champions. Ryan Day finally got that monkey off his back,

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got the championship last year. This is a team though

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if you look, man, they were dead made it with

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talent that moved on to the NFL from last year,

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and now we know that the big programs don't rebuild,

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they just reload. So Ohio State's gonna be fine as

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far as talent goes, but there's gonna be a little

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bit of a learning curve blending all the new players

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in there. And you know, it's the first season, first

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show of the season. I got to get a fat

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and sassy in there somewhere. If there's any team that

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and sassy coming into this season, it would be Ohio State.

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point of the season where people were calling for Ryan Day,

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you know, job, and then they got the job done,

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got themselves back in position after the devastating loss to Michigan,

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laid in the season and got it done. So where

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am I going to go for value? I think there's

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a team that's getting overlooked and it was one of

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the newcomers to the Big Ten last year, and that's Oregon. Now,

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Oregon's never going to be totally overlooked. But as far

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as coming into this season, it starts with Penn State

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in Ohio State. So for me, The value to win

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this conference lies with Oregon. They did well with their

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reloading after last season. Last year had to be a

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little bit of an adjustment for them, you know, having

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to come and play those games you know in the

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Midwest and you know on the East Coast where you've

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got games where you know those West Coast teams. You

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don't have to play some of these Big Ten teams

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traveling to penn State and so forth. Those were going

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to be tough spots doing it for the first time

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and getting through it and now know what to expect.

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I'll take Oregon at plus three twenty to be the

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sleeper to win the Big Ten. Sorry, James Franklin until

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you show me, I can't do it with you. I'll

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be rooting for you as a Pennsylvania native, but you

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got to show me first.

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Speaker 2: Kelly, Yeah, Marco, I'm kind of with you here.

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Speaker 4: VR.

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Speaker 1: I'm curious if you like to do the same or

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at least the groups that you work for.

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Speaker 2: You kind of buck the narrative.

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Speaker 1: Right when I turn on Fox, ESPN, CBS, NBC, any

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sports show, and the number one thing they're talking about

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in May is how Penn State's gonna win the national championship.

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I'm going, huh so your thoughts on this Big Ten Conference?

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As I mentioned, I really I could make a case

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for three or four teams here to win this one.

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I think that there's a five dog race. Talk to

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me about the Big Ten and maybe anything that Marco

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Speaker 5: On, you nailed it.

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Speaker 3: And that's why I'm so excited about this college football

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season is because if you don't have that one elite

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team that's three plus points better than everybody else. In fact,

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if you look at the top five teams in the country,

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most respected power raiders are going to have them within

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two points of each other. That's five or six teams

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within two points of each other. At the top, you've

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got to have Penn State in Ohio State, it's one A,

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one B. Before the season starts, you know those two

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right there. I think on on neutral field, you make

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it a pick them and let the market decide who

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they'd make the favorite. But who I think is being

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overlooked is Michigan. I really think Michigan the price that

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they're offering may be a little bit too good to

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pass off because this is a possible playoff team and

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they're giving you like thirty five forty to one in

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the future. Again, I don't expect them to win the

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national championship, but it's a team that can make a

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run because they are being overlooked.

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Speaker 4: Loaded loaded loaded.

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Speaker 3: On defense, especially on the line, Like it's going to

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be tough to put up points against Michigan, and that's

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going to give them time to figure out the quarterback

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situation because you have the transfer and Nikey Keane and

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then you have the freshman in Bryce Underwood who's supposed

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to be a start. Those guys got time to figure

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it out. Why this defense keeps the scoring low because

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could get the job done and put up points for you.

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overlooked this year because of just how good Penn State is,

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just how good Ohio State is, and I think they

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could sneak up on some of these teams. And more importantly,

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Speaker 5: Michigan makes sense.

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Speaker 3: It's tough to choose between Penn State and Ohio State,

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but for a long shot, I like Michigan.

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Speaker 2: Who let's see who you like for the Big Twelve.

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Speaker 1: I'm sitting here looking at VR's notes and I'm going, man,

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you've got k State, Texas Tech, Utah, Baylor, Arizona State

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all basically in the running here to win the Big twelve. VR,

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tell me why you think it's gonna be Arizona State

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without Cam Skataboo.

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Speaker 3: Because they came out of nowhere last season, and I

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think that's gonna like propel them forward. Here's why. It's

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a conference that has a ton of parody. Forty three

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percent of conference games last year were decided to bite

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less than one one score or less, so there were

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a lot of coin flip results last season. And then

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you look at Arizona State, Kansas State, Texas Tech, Utah,

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and Baylor. That's five teams that are giving you between

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plus five fifty and plus seven hundred, so again amongst each.

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Speaker 5: Other, they're all almost a coin flip.

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Speaker 4: But here's why I like Arizona.

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Speaker 3: State because even though Skataboo was thirty nine percent of

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the team's yardage from scrimmage, which tied him for fourth

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in FBS, they return about seventy nine eighty percent of

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their total production.

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Speaker 4: That's the key.

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Speaker 5: So I think you'll be able to fit.

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Speaker 3: In running backs that Again, they're not going to be

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Camp Scatiboo, but I think if you all you know

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run like now, even in the NFL, we don't see

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those backs that have fifteen hundred yards, you know, you

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have multiple backs. I think Arizona State's going to have

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to do something like that until someone steps forward and

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really tries to replace them. But I think they'll be

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fine just with that because they have an a Heisman

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hopeful quarterback, they have weapons at wide receiver, offensive line

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to protect them, and the bulk of the defense is

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returning that only allows twenty two and a half points.

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it all the time in the NFL, like no players

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worth as much as we think they're worth. We talk

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about it with non quarterbacks. Skill position players are worth

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very little to the betting line. And I think this

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is an overreaction and I think Arizona State will prove

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that they're just much better than these teams even though

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they're all grouped up. I was ready to fire. Kansas

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State's right there, Kansas State's right there. I think it's

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gonna come down to who's healthier, you know, when it

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comes to football, that's the key. Who's they able to

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stay healthier or who gets some of the bounces, you know,

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who has good luck or bad luck. But I do

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like the favorite, Arizona State at plus five point fifty

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to repeat all.

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Speaker 2: Right, I'll tell you this much.

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Speaker 1: I have a little bit of faith in Kansas State,

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but they kind of remind me of Penn State. A

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lot of those sports writers seem to be well high

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on my Wildcats, and that usually makes me, as a fan,

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a little apprehensive. But I do think Avery Johnson now

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getting all of those reps last year, finally getting to

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be the starter, finally getting to spend time as the

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first TERRN quarterback in this offense. He made a lot

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of mistakes last year, and I think he can actually

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start to capitalize on some of those. I know Dj

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Giddens left for the NFL, but guess what we got.

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Fillin's right behind him, another two headed monster in the

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backfield there with Avery Johnson's best friend and Dylan Edwards.

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And of course finally Kase got a five star recruit

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and Link and Cure a lot of expectation there. Running

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a two tight end set is going to be very,

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very interesting. I'll say this. I did bet Baylor over

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seven and a half wins and that was another team

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that Vre mentioned. And I will get to Texas Tech

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here at the end of the show, because of course

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I had to pick some crazy long shot that's never

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gonna hit. Marco your thoughts on the Big twelve. I

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know you have some things to say about Utah later

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on in the show as well.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I got a lot to say about Utah later

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in the show. And just to rebuttal a little bit,

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my concern with Arizona State with them is they caught

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a lot of teams by surprise last year in VR

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mentioned at and you had a coach that, can we

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say it, he had probably one of the biggest set

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of balls in college football, some of the trick plays

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and stuff that he ran at different times in games.

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I don't think that teams are going to get caught.

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They're going to prepare for things from him. Remember, they

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moved over from the Pac twelve just like Utah, and

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I got a lot to say about Utah later, but

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I expect Arizona State to take a step back, losing

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that bit scataboo, the way that he did so many

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things for that team, taking away that element of surprise

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because new team in the conference from last year, and

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then will the coach do the same thing and take

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the same chances this year? Last year, nobody expected anything

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from them. This year, there are expectations because of last

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year's success, So maybe he won't gamble as much. That's

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my concern there at Kelly, you know, I mean, if

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there was ever a lock, if I could have put

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a five percent out for this show, I would say,

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Kelly's gonna give Kansas State luck. Okay, all right, you're

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always going to give them love.

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Speaker 1: Okay, let me give some let me say some things.

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Their secondary is horrendous. I'm absolutely terrified about some of

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their losses on defense. But I do think Austin Romaine

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is going to be a great leader for them. And hey,

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I'm so not sure who they're starting wide receivers are

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going to be, because there's about six guys that are

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mediocre at best.

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Speaker 2: Is that what you wanted me to say.

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Speaker 4: The day that you would say somewhere.

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Speaker 2: To go see this team in person. Okay, I'm gonna

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give you that much.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, that's it. You gotta admit. Okay, when

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it comes to k State and you can compare me

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to Pittsburgh, I trash the Steelers more often on a

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weekly basis. I don't know. And maybe Dan can check

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the archives if you've ever actually on record how to

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play against Kansas State.

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Speaker 2: I didn't have a play on them. How about that?

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Speaker 4: Well, okay, let's.

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We're gonna go right back to you. You've been to

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the Mountain West for your proximity out there in Las Vegas.

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This was a conference that I used to follow so much.

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They're awesome football teams, but they just don't quite hit

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the mark all the time. There's a team, though, in

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the Mountain West that every once in a while gets

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a lot of love. Right last year with Ashton john T,

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they got a lot of hype surrounding him and a

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lot of people say, you should have got into the

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college football playoff.

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Speaker 2: I want to hear why you think they're gonna win

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the Mountain West.

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Speaker 4: Well, obviously they're the favorite to win the Mountain West

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and they should be. The Mountain West this year is

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really bad in my opinion, and one of the teams

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that people are giving a little bit of love too.

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I'm just gonna blow them up later in the show.

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But I'm not gonna take Boise State at minus one

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point fifty five to win the conference and really no

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value there in that wager. So how can we make

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Boise State that we want to take them and we

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want to turn them into a plus proposition. Well, let's

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just go ahead and take Boise State right now to

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make the college football playoffs. The team is loaded, where

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everybody else is either rebuilding or has a new coach.

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I haven't seen more coaches carousel one season in a

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particular conferences we have this year in the Mountain West.

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So where are they gonna get beat from their schedule?

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They always schedule somebody, you know, tough early. They have

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that game this year again. But I see them running

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the table after that. I see this team is eleven

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and one. They win the Mountain West eleven and one,

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that's going to get them into the college football playoffs.

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And at plus one seventy two right now, you can

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get them for the yes to make the playoffs. That's

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where I'm gonna go with them now. As I said,

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the team that people have a little bit of hype

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and they have a new coach is UNLV. I'm going

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to talk about them later in more detail when we

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get to a segment here. But this is a team that, yeah,

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UNLV came out of nowhere for the last two seasons.

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But when you have success, what happens your small program.

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You have success, you can kiss your coach goodbye. And

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that's what's happened to UNLV. So not only does you

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and LV have a new coach, they lost a lot

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of people will go into that detail, and then they've

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got a new coach, a coach that Kelly's familiar with

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from his former coaching job a few years ago. I

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wasn't impressed there when he was there. I'm not going

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to be impressed here, and I'll explain why later. But

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take Boise to make the playoffs. That's the best play

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to make out of the Mountain.

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Speaker 1: Westr I can't really disagree with Marco here.

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Speaker 2: Do you have any thoughts on the Mountain West Conference?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: And actually I don't mind laying some chalk for them

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to win this conference because I do think the ROI

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is worth tying up your money for a couple months.

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They have one of the East faltest strength of schedules,

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like in the top twenty as far as easy strength

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of schedule goes. You got a potent offense with a

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stud quarterback. You know, even though they got to replace

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Jantia at running back, they have the pieces to do that.

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They got two good guys back there competing. They have

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a solid defense with all their key pieces returning. Yeah,

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I think this team wins the conference with ease. And

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more importantly, I like Marco's bett as far as making

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the playoffs, because I think it's gonna be hard to

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turn them away, especially if they run the table.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get into the SEC. This is kind

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of an interesting conference this year. Right, last year was

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pseudo interesting because of Texas and Oklahoma joining. But now

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all of a sudden, here comes the Texas love no

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different than the Big twelve.

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Speaker 2: Everybody thinks they're gonna win the SEC.

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Speaker 1: Everybody thinks they're gonna win the national championship game with

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Arch Manning under the helm. Tell me who you like

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to win the SEC? And are you faiting the Texas

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hype or you just think this team is exponentially better?

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Speaker 5: No, Texas? Is they all well deserved?

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Speaker 3: I mean all the attention you're getting is very well

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deserved with Texas. I mean, look at what they did

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last year. Look at the defense, the amount of points

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they allowed. It's not just offense now with the excitement

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with Manning, but because of that, we're able to get

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some value that otherwise would not be on the board.

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Because one, I think the best teams in college football

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right now are completely being overlooked.

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Speaker 5: And that's Georgia.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you're talking they're talking about Penn State, they're

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talking about Ohio State. Obviously they're talking about Texas in

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the SEC. They're even putting Alabama up there in the

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SEC too, all the surprise.

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Speaker 5: Possibly at LSU they're the sexy pick. But Georgia continues

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to be overlooked.

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Speaker 3: And if you look over the last four season, few

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teams have won as many games as Georgia. In fact,

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they finished eleven and three last year, but over the

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last four seasons they went fifty three and five.

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Speaker 5: They've lost five games.

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Speaker 3: In four seasons, and those losses they came to Alabama,

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Michigan and Ohio State. Only two other teams lost less

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than ten games in the last four seasons. That's Michigan

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and that's Ohio State. And again, rarely will we get

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this kind of value on a team like Georgia, who

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has that recency of being really good over these last

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four seasons. And you have a head coach in Smart

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who in his six seasons three SEC titles, two national championships,

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so he knows how to win when it matters, knows

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how to.

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Speaker 5: Win the big games.

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Speaker 3: Then started quarterback with Gunner Stockton finally going to get

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to play the full season after he was filling in

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last year for Beck when he got injured.

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Speaker 4: He looked great.

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Speaker 5: Now he's going to have an entire.

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Speaker 3: Season, entire camp, the defensive stat all NFL talent all

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over that defense, and you have a top five power

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rating team. That's what's most important. In the twenty twenty

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five season. There's five teams that are separated, like I said,

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within two points, some even say within one point of

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each other, and Georgia's right there.

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Speaker 4: Like going on the.

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Speaker 5: True line on a neutral field, I.

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Speaker 3: Wouldn't make Penn State, Ohio State, or Texas more than

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a one point favorite over Georgia. The market may disagree

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with me and bet them up to minus three, but

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I don't think the true line would be much more

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than one one and a half, maybe two max. But

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it won't be a field goal of that key three

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or I'd be all over Georgia. So I think Georgia

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offers a ton of value at plus three sixty to

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win arguably a very tough conference.

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Speaker 5: But I think that's the team that's being overlooked.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got another team to win the SEC at

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eighteen to one, and we're going to get into them

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here in a little bit for them to make the playoff, possibly, Mark.

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I want to get your thoughts on the SEC as

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I mentioned the Texas hype. Of course, Alabama's always in

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the mix. Out an Alabama fan tex Me this.

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Speaker 2: Morning, saying, cal, do you think they're gonna get in?

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Of course they're probably gonna get in. They're gonna let

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in a three lost SEC team. Why wouldn't they?

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Speaker 4: Of course, Kelly. But you know what, with Ace's brilliant

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breakdown of the SEC as, I'm listening to all of this,

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this is a carbon copy to me of the big Tag.

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All of the hype goes to Texas. Okay, on paper,

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they're the best team in the country, and there's so

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much hype with arch Manning. But the problem is, just

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like with Penn State with James Franklin, you've got Steve

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00:24:34,839 --> 00:24:38,359
stare gaging at Texas. The only way that we could

479
00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:43,319
have poetic justice is if somehow Texas and Penn State

480
00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:47,200
find their way to the National Championship Game. Then finally

481
00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:50,440
one of those two coaches will win the big game

482
00:24:50,519 --> 00:24:52,839
and can get the monkey off their back. But until

483
00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:56,480
they do, I can't buy them at short prices. I

484
00:24:56,519 --> 00:24:59,480
think that the SEC is wide open. I think the

485
00:24:59,559 --> 00:25:02,599
SEC he has a chip on their shoulder because the

486
00:25:02,599 --> 00:25:05,839
Big ten is taking a line light the last two seasons.

487
00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:08,599
I mean, for how long it was just you know,

488
00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:12,480
a parade of SEC national champions whether it was Georgia,

489
00:25:12,559 --> 00:25:16,559
whether it was LSU a few years back. Alabama's dominance.

490
00:25:16,799 --> 00:25:19,400
They want that back. So the rest of this conference

491
00:25:19,759 --> 00:25:23,799
is coming to play. I think it's wide open after

492
00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:26,599
Texas if they don't do what they're supposed to do.

493
00:25:26,759 --> 00:25:29,000
But you hit the nail on the head, Kelly, You're

494
00:25:29,079 --> 00:25:31,960
gonna get definitely two teams out of this conference in

495
00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:35,720
possibly three. That's gonna give them a chance to get

496
00:25:35,839 --> 00:25:38,960
somebody into the national championship game. So if you're gonna

497
00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:42,720
look for value, it's not on Texas. There's two or

498
00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:45,640
three other teams in here that present good value, like

499
00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:48,440
we talked in the Big Ten. I will be talking

500
00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:49,440
about one of them later.

501
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:52,680
Speaker 1: All right, I appreciate you guys hanging out with us

502
00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:53,960
here on bat on It.

503
00:25:54,039 --> 00:25:55,160
Speaker 2: If you guys are new.

504
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Speaker 1: To the Wager Talking YouTube channel, please give us a

505
00:25:57,240 --> 00:26:00,839
thumbs up and hit that subscribe. But I'm going to

506
00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:03,640
talk about the team or excuse me. The conference formally

507
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,519
named the ACC, it's now just the Athletic Conference. And

508
00:26:07,559 --> 00:26:10,160
I think this might be the toughest conference to break down.

509
00:26:10,559 --> 00:26:15,680
You've got Tulane, UTSA, Navy, USF, and Memphis who I

510
00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:17,359
can make a case for each and every one of

511
00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:19,480
those teams to win it. I think it is a

512
00:26:19,559 --> 00:26:22,839
very top heavy conference. But one of the games that

513
00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:24,440
I or one of the teams excuse me, that I

514
00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:27,400
thought was worth betting over nine games plus one point

515
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:30,960
thirty are good friends at fan Duel is Tulane. I

516
00:26:31,039 --> 00:26:33,599
think John Summerl has done a terrific job as a

517
00:26:33,599 --> 00:26:37,200
head coach, and back to back seasons he's went over

518
00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:40,519
this season win total. Again, Memphis scares me a little

519
00:26:40,519 --> 00:26:43,880
bit with their defense. USF, we've seen them play great

520
00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:47,319
first halves and faltered in the second. Navy is always

521
00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:49,599
going to give their best effort, and of course those

522
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:53,000
road runners there from San Antonio have made things really

523
00:26:53,079 --> 00:26:55,720
interesting over the last couple of years. I do not

524
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:59,359
have a pick for this conference, and I apologize, Marco.

525
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:02,400
If you do have anything to add about the Athletic Conference,

526
00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:03,400
please do so now.

527
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:06,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, you hit the nail on the head to start, Kelly,

528
00:27:06,519 --> 00:27:09,960
this conference is wide open. I don't see a clear

529
00:27:10,039 --> 00:27:12,559
cut favorite in this one. I like you, I can

530
00:27:12,599 --> 00:27:17,119
make a case for several teams. Navy, you know, they're

531
00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:20,319
always tough to prepare for. This is a team that

532
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:23,119
you know that's gonna come to play every single week.

533
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:28,519
Texas San Antonio. That's a team that I found some

534
00:27:28,559 --> 00:27:32,640
spot plays on them last year. They are a team

535
00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:36,960
that's up and coming moving into this conference. This is

536
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:41,559
a wide open conference. Don't take chalk here. Okay, find value.

537
00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:44,680
But for me, I made no plays, no futures in

538
00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:47,039
this one. I'm gonna just try to take this conference

539
00:27:47,079 --> 00:27:49,440
week by week and try to find my spots and

540
00:27:49,519 --> 00:27:51,480
hope that one of these teams gets a little bit

541
00:27:51,519 --> 00:27:55,319
over value after starting the season out with maybe one

542
00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:58,359
or two impressive wins and then everybody jumps on the bandwagon.

543
00:27:58,759 --> 00:27:59,960
That's when we go the other way.

544
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:04,319
Speaker 1: All right, V Are any thoughts here before we move along?

545
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:06,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I don't want to waste the viewers' time.

546
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:08,440
I don't have much to add at all. I agree

547
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:10,240
with Marco. I think you take this conference on a

548
00:28:10,279 --> 00:28:12,880
week by week basis and look for some of those

549
00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:16,000
teams that may become over or undervalued. I could look

550
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:17,880
at Memphis, but I just don't got to see what

551
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:20,599
their defense does this year. Like that was just two

552
00:28:20,599 --> 00:28:22,680
week of a defense, even in a conference like that,

553
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:24,519
So pass past.

554
00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:26,359
Speaker 2: For me, Pass past pass.

555
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:29,440
Speaker 1: I'll take the over nine wins there at plus money.

556
00:28:29,839 --> 00:28:31,519
Speaker 2: Let's talk about playoffs, guys.

557
00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:34,279
Speaker 1: I asked the guys to pick me a team to

558
00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:35,440
sneak into.

559
00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:37,319
Speaker 2: The twelve team college football.

560
00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 1: Playoffs, and I said it has to be plus money,

561
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:41,240
and VR barely missed the mark.

562
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:41,759
Speaker 2: I'm kidding.

563
00:28:41,799 --> 00:28:44,720
Speaker 1: Plus one twenty five there for LSU. VR, give me,

564
00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:47,480
give me your thoughts on why you think LSU is

565
00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:49,559
going to be that third SEC team to get in.

566
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:52,400
Speaker 3: And it's because I talked about Michigan a little earlier,

567
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:54,920
so I wanted to share some more information. But more importantly,

568
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:57,240
I didn't want to give a team that you know,

569
00:28:57,279 --> 00:29:00,440
would just just throw it out there and not having

570
00:29:00,559 --> 00:29:03,720
a real probable chance to get there. So I know

571
00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:06,240
plus one twenty five isn't the biggest dog, but I

572
00:29:06,279 --> 00:29:08,960
think it's a coin flip at worse for LSU, and

573
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:10,680
if you could get plus one twenty five on a

574
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:13,880
coin flip, not a bad bet. I did read Marco's

575
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:16,559
analysis and he's been talking about LSU a little bit later,

576
00:29:16,559 --> 00:29:18,400
and I think his is a lot more in depth,

577
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:21,839
and it actually helped convince me even more so that

578
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:25,160
actually placed this bet because they're just so talented on

579
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,839
both sides of the ball. And Blake Baker now in

580
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,440
his second year at defense, and if you look, the

581
00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:33,000
weakness for LSU was the secondary, and what did they do.

582
00:29:33,039 --> 00:29:34,559
Speaker 5: They went out there and revamped that.

583
00:29:34,559 --> 00:29:37,039
Speaker 3: Secondary, did exactly what you're supposed to do, so the

584
00:29:37,079 --> 00:29:39,880
defense got even better. You got a fifth year starter

585
00:29:40,079 --> 00:29:44,000
at quarterback. Texas and Georgia had a lot have those

586
00:29:44,079 --> 00:29:47,519
tough schedules as well. And when I look at LSU,

587
00:29:47,559 --> 00:29:49,880
they're a top ten power rated team right now to

588
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:53,240
start the season, at least in my numbers, and Kelly's

589
00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:56,279
got a lot of motivation seeking his first playoff berth.

590
00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:58,920
For a team like LSU, they expect to get to

591
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:02,240
the playoffs at least, if not challenge for a national championship.

592
00:30:02,359 --> 00:30:04,839
I know the talk from him is like national championship

593
00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:07,279
or bust, that's all we're aiming for. But right now,

594
00:30:07,319 --> 00:30:09,039
just get in the playoffs, brother, and then take it

595
00:30:09,079 --> 00:30:10,920
from there, because you haven't been there in a while,

596
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:13,160
and you've had the teams to get there. At plus

597
00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:15,920
one twenty five again, I think it's a coin flip

598
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:17,640
and you're getting plus one twenty five.

599
00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:19,839
Speaker 5: Do you want to lock up your money for that long?

600
00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:23,000
Speaker 3: It's a tough sec but that's the dog that jumped

601
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:25,039
out at me as far as actually having a legit

602
00:30:25,119 --> 00:30:26,519
shot to make the playoffs.

603
00:30:26,759 --> 00:30:28,920
Speaker 1: All right, Marco's going with the Big twelve team. Marco,

604
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:31,240
my first question is how many Big twelve teams do

605
00:30:31,279 --> 00:30:33,759
you think we'll get in the college football playoff? And

606
00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:36,599
why do you think one of them is Utah?

607
00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:39,799
Speaker 4: I think you're gonna probably get two of them in there, Kelly,

608
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:44,200
be totally honest with you. You gave us the opportunity

609
00:30:44,519 --> 00:30:48,279
to pick what conferences we wanted to do. I'll be

610
00:30:48,319 --> 00:30:50,839
honest with you. My first choice would have been the

611
00:30:50,839 --> 00:30:54,119
Big twelve. But being the gentleman that I am, I

612
00:30:54,359 --> 00:30:57,359
saved at thinking that you would want the Big twelve.

613
00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:00,079
Speaker 5: I snatched it, bro I snatched.

614
00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:03,119
Speaker 4: It, all right. So I just want that out there.

615
00:31:03,599 --> 00:31:10,119
I love Utah. Okay, and let's start with the narrative. Okay,

616
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:14,480
is Cam Rising questionable? He was questionable every single week

617
00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:18,000
last year, never played and it was a disruption to

618
00:31:18,039 --> 00:31:21,240
this team. This team moved over from the Pac twelve.

619
00:31:21,319 --> 00:31:25,119
Last year, a lot of people thought high things from Utah,

620
00:31:25,359 --> 00:31:28,319
and they should have. They had a great defense. They

621
00:31:28,359 --> 00:31:32,720
had a veteran quarterback that's been injury prone, but if

622
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:35,119
he was going to be healthy, this team could go far.

623
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:38,039
Last year, well, he was never healthy, but he was

624
00:31:38,079 --> 00:31:41,200
always hanging around that there was a possibility that he

625
00:31:41,279 --> 00:31:43,279
was going to play, and he never got any continuity

626
00:31:43,319 --> 00:31:46,400
on offense and that killed them. And even though the

627
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:51,200
offense didn't have that continuity last year, the defense never quit.

628
00:31:51,319 --> 00:31:54,839
It kept them in ball games. Now this year, we

629
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:57,640
don't have to worry about Cam Rising. He's gone, and

630
00:31:57,759 --> 00:32:01,400
what we've got is a new offensive coordinat this offensive coordinator,

631
00:32:01,519 --> 00:32:05,920
Jason Beck comes in from New Mexico along with he's

632
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:10,200
bringing the quarterback with him, Devin Dampier, who hit the

633
00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:14,480
transfer portal and followed his offensive coordinator to Utah. This

634
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:18,319
is a team that's loaded. They've got a big offensive

635
00:32:18,359 --> 00:32:21,119
line to protect the quarterback and they're going to be

636
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:24,160
able to play that physical brand of football. When you

637
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:26,880
go back to their success that they had the last

638
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:30,559
few years in the Pac twelve, why was it? It

639
00:32:30,599 --> 00:32:33,680
was the brand of football they played. They played defense,

640
00:32:33,759 --> 00:32:36,440
which we've seen in the Pac twelve, not many teams

641
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:40,000
played defense. They were physical. I always referred to the

642
00:32:40,039 --> 00:32:42,680
Pac twelve as a finesse conference, and they didn't like

643
00:32:42,759 --> 00:32:46,480
the physicality of Utah, and it got them success. It

644
00:32:46,559 --> 00:32:50,240
got them to the Pac twelve championship games. Now they

645
00:32:50,319 --> 00:32:53,519
moved to the Big twelve. Isn't that just an extension

646
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:57,400
of what the Pac twelve was. You've got pass happy teams,

647
00:32:57,599 --> 00:32:59,960
You've got teams that don't play defense. They want to

648
00:33:00,079 --> 00:33:03,559
go up and down the field, play in shootouts. Utah

649
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:06,960
is a team that will frustrate most of the Big

650
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:10,359
twelve teams this year and getting the price that we're

651
00:33:10,359 --> 00:33:14,000
getting on them at plus four to ninety to make

652
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:17,359
the playoffs. I gotta do that because if they win

653
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:22,000
the Big Twelve, they're getting in plus four ninety to

654
00:33:22,039 --> 00:33:25,000
make the playoffs. We're there. And even if they have

655
00:33:25,119 --> 00:33:29,319
a respectable second place finish in the Big Twelve, because

656
00:33:29,319 --> 00:33:32,240
of the conference and being the big conference that it

657
00:33:32,359 --> 00:33:34,559
is the Big Twelve, you're gonna get two teams in.

658
00:33:34,799 --> 00:33:37,319
So I got two shots to make the playoffs at

659
00:33:37,319 --> 00:33:40,720
plus four ninety with a team I think can win

660
00:33:40,759 --> 00:33:42,160
this conference.

661
00:33:42,599 --> 00:33:45,880
Speaker 1: There are three games Marco. That really concern me about

662
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:48,599
that Utah team, Arizona State, Texas Tech, and of course

663
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:52,119
my Kansas State Wildcats. On that note, I'm going to

664
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:56,279
take another big dog to make the college football playoff.

665
00:33:56,279 --> 00:33:59,000
And it was funny I gave their season win total

666
00:33:59,279 --> 00:34:02,000
out over with my friends at Picket Sports.

667
00:34:02,039 --> 00:34:02,480
Speaker 2: I went on.

668
00:34:02,519 --> 00:34:05,119
Speaker 1: Vsin I talked about this team and I said, hey,

669
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:06,720
I think that they're a good long shot to win

670
00:34:06,759 --> 00:34:07,279
the SEC.

671
00:34:07,759 --> 00:34:09,880
Speaker 2: But I do think that the most amount.

672
00:34:09,559 --> 00:34:11,760
Speaker 1: Of value lies within this team getting in the college

673
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:12,480
fotball playoff, and.

674
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:15,239
Speaker 2: That is Florida. And in fact, Matt Humans called me

675
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:18,239
a homer for saying that. I'm like, wa wait a minute,

676
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:18,800
Wait a minute.

677
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:22,159
Speaker 1: I getting that they've won the national championship for me

678
00:34:22,199 --> 00:34:24,880
in college basketball having a forty to one ticket in pocket,

679
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:28,360
but this is a completely different team and sport. Anyway,

680
00:34:28,559 --> 00:34:30,079
I don't know how in the world I could possibly

681
00:34:30,119 --> 00:34:32,000
be a homer of this team because I have done

682
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:35,079
nothing but bet against them as a favorite. And I've

683
00:34:35,119 --> 00:34:37,960
kind of told you guys some spots as home underdogs,

684
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:39,039
particularly against.

685
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:41,400
Speaker 2: Tennessee, when to play on this team.

686
00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:44,039
Speaker 1: You guys talk a lot about the coaches and who's

687
00:34:44,079 --> 00:34:46,039
in the hot seat and who has to take a

688
00:34:46,039 --> 00:34:48,800
big step forward this season or they may no longer

689
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:51,639
have a job. One of those guys' names is Billy Napier.

690
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:54,880
Look seven wins in twenty twenty three, nine wins in

691
00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:57,800
twenty twenty four. He's going over a season win total.

692
00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:01,800
Second year, started with DJ Lagway and have plenty of

693
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:05,119
offensive weapons. I think this team has a real shot

694
00:35:05,159 --> 00:35:07,880
to sneak into that twelve team college football playoff. I

695
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:11,280
mentioned the possibility of a three loss SEC team getting in.

696
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:15,199
I think Florida having two losses has a real shot

697
00:35:15,559 --> 00:35:16,199
sneak in here.

698
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:19,360
Speaker 2: I like them plus three sixty.

699
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:21,679
Speaker 1: We're gonna go around the horn again and keep this

700
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:25,480
show rolling, similar to the last segment, but this time

701
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:30,039
we're going season wins and VR now agrees with Marco

702
00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:32,360
Yeah on the Utah youths.

703
00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:33,880
Speaker 5: I love this bet.

704
00:35:34,079 --> 00:35:37,159
Speaker 3: In fact, I released a four percent best bet to

705
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:40,320
my subscribers on this over seven and a half at

706
00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:44,039
minus one point fifty moving for multiple college football groups,

707
00:35:44,039 --> 00:35:46,679
the same that back in twenty twenty twenty twenty one.

708
00:35:47,039 --> 00:35:50,559
So when I'm getting confirmation, I'm feeling very confident. And

709
00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:53,280
this one now has moved up to minus one seventy five,

710
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:55,159
so the market agrees with us, and I thought it

711
00:35:55,199 --> 00:35:58,079
had value up the minus two hundred. I thought three

712
00:35:58,119 --> 00:36:00,480
out of four times it actually gets there. Listen, they

713
00:36:00,559 --> 00:36:05,199
finished two and seven in their first year in the

714
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:08,000
Big twelve, five and seven overall, but they had a

715
00:36:08,039 --> 00:36:11,760
positive thirty five point differential, so if you look at

716
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:14,639
the Pythagorean wins and losses, the record should have been

717
00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:17,360
much better than five and seven. I like that that

718
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:19,880
they underperformed based on point scored points allowed.

719
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 5: Again, their offense only scored.

720
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 3: Twenty three point three points a game, putting them at

721
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,360
one hundred and sixth in college football. But it was

722
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:29,920
the defense top twenty five defense that only allowed twenty

723
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:32,679
point seven points. Okay, now the offense is going to

724
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:36,000
be much improved. You got an offensive coordinator and quarterback

725
00:36:36,039 --> 00:36:40,079
coming from New Mexico, solid offensive line to protect them,

726
00:36:40,119 --> 00:36:44,800
good weapons for the pass game and rushing, and anything

727
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:48,039
less than minus two hundred I think's gold here. They

728
00:36:48,039 --> 00:36:51,400
only got improved three games from last season. This team's

729
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:54,000
got the ability to improve four to five games easily.

730
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:56,719
Give me over seven and a half. Utah to minus

731
00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:57,960
two hundred all right.

732
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:01,880
Speaker 1: Marco mentioned this in his Mountainous breakdown and now he's

733
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:04,119
going UNLV under eight and a half wins.

734
00:37:04,119 --> 00:37:06,119
Speaker 2: A little chopping here for the show, Marco.

735
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:11,800
Speaker 4: Minus one thirty four, little little, little less jockey. But

736
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:15,800
you know, here's where we're going, Kelly. It's just hard

737
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:18,440
for me to get excited about this UNLV team this year.

738
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:22,880
This is a team that the last two years brought,

739
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:28,039
you know, excitement to Vegas. The unl V football program

740
00:37:28,079 --> 00:37:30,559
has been non existent. They played, you know, in a

741
00:37:30,599 --> 00:37:34,719
beautiful stadium. You would think that the program would do better. Well,

742
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:38,199
they finally had their guy. Barry Otom brought a sense

743
00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:41,800
of swagger to this team. They had a toughness to them,

744
00:37:42,199 --> 00:37:46,519
and they had two successful seasons. But as I said,

745
00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:51,039
when you're a smaller program like UNLV and you have success,

746
00:37:51,559 --> 00:37:54,320
one thing's gonna happen, and it's gonna happen quickly. That

747
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:58,400
success is going to land your coach somewhere else. And

748
00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:02,039
Barry otom got the head coach job at Purdue. Now

749
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:05,679
in comes Dan Mullen and I just talked about that

750
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:08,800
toughness that Barry Odom had. Do you know last year, Kelly,

751
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:14,199
you would love this Barry Odom for charity went to

752
00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:19,239
the South Point during a rodeo and actually rode a bull.

753
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:22,599
Took the team and he rode a bull for charity,

754
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:26,000
just to show that toughness. And when your coach does

755
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:28,920
something like that, you're gonna run through walls for him.

756
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:32,519
I don't see Dan Mullen getting on any bull anytime soon.

757
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:36,119
Dan Mullen, I didn't like him at Florida. I'm sorry,

758
00:38:36,199 --> 00:38:38,760
and I'm probably never gonna talk to him on a

759
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:41,599
radio show that I do here in Vegas if he

760
00:38:41,679 --> 00:38:44,480
watches this. But I wasn't a fan of him there,

761
00:38:45,119 --> 00:38:48,840
didn't last at Florida, got fired, Then he went behind

762
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:52,199
the mic. You know, he was on camera for ESPN

763
00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:55,239
as an analyst, and now he's coming out of the team,

764
00:38:55,280 --> 00:39:00,719
converting this team and another bad sign for UNLV. Nobody's left, Okay,

765
00:39:01,559 --> 00:39:05,760
everybody departed. Anybody that could have stayed didn't. This team

766
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:09,719
that cupboard's bear. So if the players weren't buying what

767
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:13,559
Dan Mullen was selling, neither am I. I'm taking under

768
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:16,920
eight and a half wins. I don't see them getting

769
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:17,440
near it.

770
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:21,079
Speaker 1: All right, last, but not least, I will go And

771
00:39:21,119 --> 00:39:23,400
if you guys, watch bet on it the last.

772
00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:23,719
Speaker 2: Couple of years.

773
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:25,559
Speaker 1: You know, we made fun of Mario Cristoball a lot,

774
00:39:25,639 --> 00:39:29,239
and it wasn't, you know, by his own doing. You

775
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:31,000
don't want to get Crysta balled, as our good friend

776
00:39:31,039 --> 00:39:33,880
Joe Ranier used to say. And somehow this man won

777
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:37,159
ten games by the grace of God last year. And

778
00:39:37,199 --> 00:39:38,760
you know what, he's never been able to do do

779
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:41,000
that back to back in his career. If you guys

780
00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:44,840
recall we bet against the team four times last season

781
00:39:45,559 --> 00:39:47,519
and it took Georgia Tech to finally get us the

782
00:39:47,519 --> 00:39:48,559
outright winner.

783
00:39:49,119 --> 00:39:50,239
Speaker 2: That CAL game.

784
00:39:50,679 --> 00:39:56,440
Speaker 1: Virginia Tech Louisville man cam Ward pulled out tricks against

785
00:39:56,519 --> 00:39:59,519
us to somehow get that w And now we've been

786
00:39:59,559 --> 00:40:02,800
replaced by Carson beck Georgia transfer. And I'm sure that

787
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:05,639
the Georgia Bulldog fans in the comment section are not

788
00:40:05,679 --> 00:40:08,599
gonna be very happy with me. But let's remember he

789
00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:12,239
was replaced due to injury after being down in the

790
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:15,320
SEC championship game to Texas. Stockton came in and was

791
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:16,280
able to win them that.

792
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:18,239
Speaker 2: Game, and that was all she wrote.

793
00:40:18,519 --> 00:40:18,719
Speaker 4: Now.

794
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:21,280
Speaker 1: Beckett started his tenure in Coral Gables with a bunch

795
00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:24,599
of drama if you guys follow along on social media.

796
00:40:24,599 --> 00:40:27,119
Speaker 2: And I'm just not sure Miami is the place for

797
00:40:27,199 --> 00:40:30,079
a guy like this. I could be dead wrong. I

798
00:40:30,119 --> 00:40:32,400
could have to eat my words.

799
00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:35,639
Speaker 1: But I think the ultimate test on how Florida and

800
00:40:35,679 --> 00:40:38,239
Miami are both gonna do this year is that game

801
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:41,519
coming right up around the corner here for week one.

802
00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:43,599
Then Florida's gonna get the win for a week one,

803
00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:46,119
and that is going to solidify Miami under eight and

804
00:40:46,159 --> 00:40:50,960
a half wins plus one thirty Marco really quickly, because

805
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:54,599
I totally forgot. You were supposed to promo yourself after

806
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:57,760
your Utah breakdown, and I did not give you that opportunity.

807
00:40:57,800 --> 00:40:59,519
So I want to give you that opportunity right now.

808
00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:03,199
Speaker 4: I appreciate It's probably because I was busting your you

809
00:41:03,199 --> 00:41:07,559
know what with Kansas State. But Kelly, we got a

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Speaker 2: All right, let's get into those National Championship picks.

835
00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:40,440
Speaker 1: And as I told the guys, is there anything worse

836
00:42:40,519 --> 00:42:44,280
than someone picking the chalk plays to win the National Championship.

837
00:42:45,079 --> 00:42:46,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, Texas is the front runner.

838
00:42:47,039 --> 00:42:51,800
Speaker 1: You got the usual suspects in Georgia, Alabama, Ohio State.

839
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:54,760
But I told these guys give me fifteen to one

840
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:57,480
or better, right, Like, that's fine. You want to tell

841
00:42:57,480 --> 00:42:59,239
me that you think Texas is gonna win it all,

842
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:01,559
but give me something juicy.

843
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:03,000
Speaker 2: Just for reference.

844
00:43:03,119 --> 00:43:06,960
Speaker 1: The five biggest underdogs to ever win the national championship

845
00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:10,920
twenty excuse me two thousand and two, Ohio State was

846
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:14,000
nineteen to one. USC won at the following year as

847
00:43:14,039 --> 00:43:18,800
a twenty to one underdog LSU in twenty nineteen thirty

848
00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:24,119
three to one, Ohio State twenty fourteen, forty four to one,

849
00:43:24,159 --> 00:43:28,159
and the biggest dog to ever win the national championship,

850
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:31,280
the Auburn Tigers, as at.

851
00:43:31,159 --> 00:43:35,760
Speaker 2: Fifty to one. So VR, let's get into your national

852
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:37,039
championship pick.

853
00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:39,280
Speaker 1: But before we do, tell me what you got going

854
00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:42,039
on over for the college football season at wager Talk.

855
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:44,280
Speaker 3: I wish this was live because I just bet a

856
00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:50,760
doubles Cincinnati atp the men's doubles, So hopefully if this

857
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:53,000
was live, I'd be giving that out. But yeah, I

858
00:43:53,039 --> 00:43:56,119
got the season package of NFL and college football. I

859
00:43:56,119 --> 00:43:59,199
combined it together so you get all those futures already

860
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:02,079
nine in therecluding a five percent best bet season win

861
00:44:02,199 --> 00:44:05,559
total in the NFL. There'll be a lot more between

862
00:44:05,599 --> 00:44:08,519
now and when the season kicks off. Staying more selective,

863
00:44:08,679 --> 00:44:12,159
but definitely worth tying up some money on those futures

864
00:44:12,199 --> 00:44:15,000
because the RII just has been so good long term.

865
00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:17,840
And yeah, other than that, week by week, and of

866
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:20,440
course I got a five percent going in the UFC

867
00:44:21,559 --> 00:44:22,320
this Saturday.

868
00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:23,760
Speaker 5: So excited.

869
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:26,360
Speaker 3: Busy couple of days, busy couple of months ahead and

870
00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:30,519
this college football season, NFL season ready to do some damage.

871
00:44:30,519 --> 00:44:32,679
Speaker 5: So make sure you tune in weekend week out. Bet

872
00:44:32,719 --> 00:44:33,280
on it baby.

873
00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:35,679
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just realized you and Marco both have the

874
00:44:35,679 --> 00:44:39,280
same national champion pick. So I'm gonna let you take

875
00:44:39,559 --> 00:44:42,199
the helm first. Then we'll go to Marco to see

876
00:44:42,199 --> 00:44:43,519
if he's got anything to add.

877
00:44:44,119 --> 00:44:47,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's because we had to go with fifteen

878
00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:49,079
to one or higher. And it's funny, it was probably

879
00:44:49,079 --> 00:44:50,760
fourteen to one, and then yesterday when I look at

880
00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:53,079
got the the it was a fifteen to one, and

881
00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:54,719
just going back, I don't want to take the time

882
00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:57,559
to repeat myself, but I just think LSQU is that

883
00:44:57,679 --> 00:45:01,159
team that if things go right, like they could really

884
00:45:01,159 --> 00:45:03,280
make a run. They're that loaded on both sides of

885
00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:05,079
the ball. That the problem is they're in one of

886
00:45:05,119 --> 00:45:09,159
the toughest conferences and because of that, you got to

887
00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:11,360
have some luck go your way, like you know, some

888
00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:14,400
injuries on other not wishing bad on others, but that's

889
00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:14,920
what you need.

890
00:45:15,039 --> 00:45:19,000
Speaker 5: Some bad things to happen to the Georgias of the world, to.

891
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:23,000
Speaker 3: The Alabamas, to Texas, and then they have a shot

892
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:27,679
to make a run again four seasons in. You gotta

893
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:31,119
do something, bro like you have the talent. So again,

894
00:45:31,119 --> 00:45:33,239
I'll let Marco take it from there, but I like

895
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:35,239
LSU at fifteen to one.

896
00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:36,360
Speaker 5: I think it's live.

897
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:39,840
Speaker 1: All right, Marco, let's hear your analysis on why you

898
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:43,079
think Brian Kelly is headed back to the national championship.

899
00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:45,679
Speaker 4: Okay, Kelly, I've given you a lot of grief on

900
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:48,440
the show so far. I'm gonna give VR a little bit.

901
00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:51,840
I think he fabricated that fifteen to one just because

902
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:54,320
he was scared to get yelled at by you and

903
00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:58,599
see band slide. Okay, because Kelly wanted fifteen to one

904
00:45:58,679 --> 00:46:03,239
or more. My opening line, guys in our slack channel

905
00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:06,360
for our notes for the game is I've got LSU

906
00:46:06,559 --> 00:46:09,920
at fourteen and one, fourteen to one, just to piss

907
00:46:10,039 --> 00:46:13,159
Kelly off because it's not fifteen to one, all right,

908
00:46:13,239 --> 00:46:14,880
So I do Like.

909
00:46:15,039 --> 00:46:17,360
Speaker 2: God, I'm just a nice girl from Kansas. Why would

910
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:18,360
I ever get mad at you?

911
00:46:21,679 --> 00:46:23,800
Speaker 4: If you guys ever heard her yell at me when

912
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:27,239
I screw up on social media? The sixty four year

913
00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:31,920
old trying to do TikTok and Instagram. She forgets how

914
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:34,960
old I am. But we're trying. She has given me

915
00:46:35,039 --> 00:46:37,159
some love lately on it, so I'm getting I must

916
00:46:37,239 --> 00:46:41,400
be getting better. Look at LSU. I look at this team,

917
00:46:41,599 --> 00:46:43,800
and the first thing I'm gonna say, yes, this is

918
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:48,199
year four from coach Kelly. That's important because now there

919
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:50,559
is no more excuses. You've got all the players that

920
00:46:50,679 --> 00:46:53,360
you want. You know, normally it used to be, you know,

921
00:46:53,880 --> 00:46:56,199
year two to year three were the big years where

922
00:46:56,239 --> 00:46:58,920
you saw it. But now because of the portal, it

923
00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:03,280
has to be even fatter. Teams expect results quicker because

924
00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:07,920
you're bringing that big influx and making wholesale changes. They's

925
00:47:08,039 --> 00:47:12,000
got everybody they won, and it starts at quarterback. You've

926
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:15,599
got a fifth year senior quarterback in Garrett neuss Meyer

927
00:47:15,679 --> 00:47:19,360
going for that. This team is going to be good defensively,

928
00:47:19,559 --> 00:47:23,360
they're going to be excellent offensively. And you look at him.

929
00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:25,559
He's coming off a season where he threw for over

930
00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:29,800
four thousand yards, he had twenty nine tds and as

931
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:32,679
I said, it looks even better this year on paper

932
00:47:32,679 --> 00:47:36,119
for that offense. The LSU defense was good last year.

933
00:47:36,440 --> 00:47:39,599
They held nine of thirteen opponents to twenty seven or

934
00:47:39,639 --> 00:47:42,880
fewer points. And I know twenty seven maybe sounds a

935
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:46,320
little bit high, but in today's college football, no, it's not.

936
00:47:46,679 --> 00:47:51,960
We've seen a lot more scoring in college football. Holding

937
00:47:52,079 --> 00:47:55,639
nine of thirteen to twenty seven or less is huge,

938
00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:59,320
and I look for this team to continue what they

939
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:02,800
did last year. They were a balanced offense. What that

940
00:48:03,119 --> 00:48:07,320
translated to was over thirty two minutes per game time

941
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:10,960
of possession that was sixteenth best in the country. Those

942
00:48:11,039 --> 00:48:13,800
are all the ingredients that you need to win a

943
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:19,480
national championship. Good defense, a playmaker at quarterback, and be

944
00:48:19,639 --> 00:48:23,039
able to have a balanced offense that you're not one dimensional.

945
00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:25,920
I think they make a serious run in the SEC,

946
00:48:26,599 --> 00:48:30,559
gets them into the playoffs, and once they're in the playoffs.

947
00:48:30,559 --> 00:48:33,559
I'll take my chances with this team at that eye

948
00:48:33,639 --> 00:48:35,679
popping fourteen to one.

949
00:48:36,199 --> 00:48:39,400
Speaker 1: Sorry, Kelly, uh see, Then then I just had to

950
00:48:39,440 --> 00:48:41,719
go do something like this, a team that's not ever

951
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:43,760
going to win the national championship, but I do think

952
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:47,880
there's an immense amount of value. We mentioned the amount

953
00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:50,920
of parody in the Big Twelve. There's a five horse

954
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race there. We mentioned that we think at least two

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Big twelve teams are going to get in to the

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college football playoff, and I thought, you know what, I'm

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kind of a little crazy. This isn't gonna happen. But

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let's look at the team that has spent a godly

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amount of money oil money. In fact, they spent more

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money than ninety four percent of.

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Speaker 2: The schools in college football. And in fact, the past.

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Speaker 1: Two years they have fifteen x their nil spending budget.

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They got seventeen guys part as part of their new

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rebuild just for this year. Yeah, I'm talking about Joey

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McGuire's squad Texas Tech. At one hundred to one, I

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think this team has a real opportunity to play last

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year's Arizona State, right, A team that kind of came

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out of nowhere and got into the College Football Playoff

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after winning the Big Twelve. I think Texas Tech has

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value going over their season win total. I think they

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have value going to win the Big Twelve. And no,

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they're not going to win the National Championship. And I

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know I'm supposed to pick a national champion, but everything

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is so chalky. Vre mentioned there was not one team

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that was one and a half points two points better

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than so I thought, you know what, I'm just gonna

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go off the deep end. Texas Tech is currently one

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hundred to one to win the Natty.

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Speaker 2: Again.

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Speaker 1: I just want to see this team be able to

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get into the College Football Playoff, and being able to

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do that means that we're alive and we have other

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opportunities to make some money. So give me Texas Tech

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over their season win total' to give me Texas Tech

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to win the Big Twelve, and why not throw a

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little flyer on them to win the National Championship. Let's

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bring the guys back in. This was our first show

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back together as the Gang. We're also currently going to

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do some NFL preview shows, which we're very excited about.

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If you're looking for more information on that, head over

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to the wager Talking YouTube channel and then of course

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live from Ireland. That's all right, guys, I'm gonna be

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doing the first college football bat on An episode. There's

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only five games, but we've got to do an episode

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and I'm gonna try not to drink too.

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Speaker 2: Many Guinnesses before that one.

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Speaker 1: So thank you guys again for hanging out with us

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