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Bachmeyer versus the Bearcats. One is not actually a bear

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human bear. I don't know what that all means, but

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it's kind of a crazy deal. We've had bear Bachmeer

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versus bear Rin Morton. Now we're having the Bearcats versus

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bear Bachmeyer. I don't know what's going down with this game,

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but it's gonna be a big one. It's a fantastic

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matchup versus a prolific a prolific offense versus a very

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good defense.

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let's get out to the hotline. Welcome in Scott Springer, Cincinnati.

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Inquire a Cincinnati Bearcat inside of Scott.

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Speaker 1: How you living good?

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Speaker 3: You mentioned Bear Bachmeyer and Brendan Soresby in his press

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conference this week came out and he was wearing a

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shirt that said bear Raid and it caught my eye

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right away, and mayes aren't very good, but I did

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catch it, and he I said, it is that on purpose.

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I was wondering, It's like, well, we're throwing shade here,

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what's going on? And he said what it was was

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actually a shirt that they had made in the off season,

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you know, take off on air raid Bear raids.

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Speaker 4: So it had nothing to do with Bear.

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Speaker 3: So we don't have any great headlines for you there

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other than you know, it should be a pretty decent

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matchup between the two and they're pretty similar sized dudes

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with with similar attitudes in terms of the way they

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting.

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Speaker 2: I think your quarterbacks, what six three two thirty five,

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Speaker 1: You guys are these are.

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Speaker 2: Big, strong, athletic quarterbacks that are going up against each other.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I haven't seen as much a Bear as

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you guys have. But I know Brendan Sorsby typically is

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he will slide, but he's not a fan of it.

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Speaker 4: Hit or whatever.

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Speaker 3: But I think as they get older, they they're they're told,

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you know, Slider, we're gonna do something to you. But

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in Cincinnati's case, you know, he's the guy. He's gonna play.

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They they have him listed probable on the official injury list,

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which freaks some people out overnight. But look, you know,

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you don't a guy to the weekly press conference and

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then not playing. So I think he had an ankle

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issue and it'll be fixed up. They can tape ankles up.

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than me. But it's like, you know, you can be

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as good as new with the taped ankle and maybe

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Speaker 2: Well, I've got to get to know, Yeah, get a

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little little lighter cane in the ankle. Who is this

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Cincinna Bearcat team? Like, what would you say is their identity?

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Speaker 3: Well, they want to be a tough running team, and

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that's what they had been. Unfortunately, you got the November

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went September and October without a turnover, no fumble, no interception.

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interception against Nebraska at the end of the game.

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Speaker 4: If that's complete, you know that that's a win.

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Speaker 3: No interception until they get to Utah there at the

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Rice Cycle Stadium and he throws one there and he

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tried to get back in it, but the youths were

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Speaker 4: And it got out of hand.

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Speaker 3: And then the last game against Arizona very disappointing because

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a very winnable game that you really should have had.

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and three. They took you guys to byu to double overtime,

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but you know, you're at home, you had the time

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zone in your favor, everything was in your favor. Cincinnati

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had a lead, and it just seemed like, you know,

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they they just were treading water. And suddenly Noah Flafida

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was completing passes and they came back and Cincinnati couldn't

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make the comeback, got within three with like six minutes,

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got the ball back with a buck twenty, couldn't do

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anything with it. They did beat Kansas that way with

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a late drive, but at home they didn't finish, And

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in my mind, I thought they had to go undefeated

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to be a factor in this Big twelve race. Now,

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mathematically there may be a chance, but you know, not good.

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It's like slim and none, and Slim might have left down.

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Speaker 2: Cincinnati's getting a good wide receiver and a good running back,

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Speaker 1: That has to be a big deal for this offense.

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Speaker 2: Could you explain just how good these two players have

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Speaker 3: Well, it just helps your depths because Tolllly Walker had

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done a great job running the ball. He's close to

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seven hundred yards on the season, and he's the guy.

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I don't know if you saw the video when they

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played the Iowa State he bowled over one of their linebackers.

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Speaker 4: It was crazy.

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Speaker 3: He's a ton like five eight two twenty bowling ball dude.

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But Evan Pryor a little bit more shifty, a lot

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more speed, and when Evan Pryor breaks away, you're not

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going to catch him where you're probably going to catch

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Tallie Walker. So it's a different type of running back.

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factor catching balls out of the backfield. Caleb Good to

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stretch the field. And I think he was averaging about

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maybe nineteen plus yards per catch. So does he have

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big games every game, No, but he's a threat and

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teams have to defense him or otherwise the other guys

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Speaker 4: So they've missed him.

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Speaker 3: The last couple of games and prior to the last

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couple of games, and so it's welcome.

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Speaker 4: To have him back.

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Speaker 3: On the other hand, you know, you still got to

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shore up your passing game, which is you know, had

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man coverage. So I'm guessing that the b YU is

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going to do some man coverage because they're tough kids

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so they better have something dialed up and prepared.

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Speaker 4: Because this is not an easy game.

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Speaker 3: But for Cincinnati, it's their senior night, Big night, you know, spotlight.

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then eight pm under the lights. They haven't had a

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night game all season, so the kids like the night games.

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what they want to do with it. Even if they win,

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Speaker 4: I don't think they get the.

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Speaker 3: Factor in into the Big twelve championship game without some

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very strange things happening.

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Speaker 2: Well, then they're gonna have to play spoiler, right. So

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how motivated is this Bear Catch team? What's the culture like?

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right now? Because I mean, you can still go to

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a really good bowl game, you can get to possibly.

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Speaker 1: Double digit wins in a season. That's a difficult thing

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Speaker 2: And so give me their mindset, if you will.

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Speaker 3: Well, a lot of the seniors that came back to

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Dante Corleones, Gavin Gerhardt is a guy that's been around

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like like six years. You know, it's crazy how long

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college careers go now, but yeah, he's been back. And

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these are guys that could have left and came back.

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Joe Royers another one could have left came back, and

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Speaker 4: Of them said, well, we didn't.

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Speaker 3: We don't like the taste left in our mouths last

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year when they were five and two and then dropped

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five straight games and didn't even qualify for a bull

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this place better. And so you're in a situation now

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going from seven to one to seven and five. So

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each week. You know, tremendous challenge ahead when you got

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the number eleven team in.

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Speaker 4: But again, the spotlight's there.

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Speaker 3: The kids get kind of crazy at night, and so

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Speaker 4: Obviously they're they're they're they're very different at home. I

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know that much. So I think the Big.

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Speaker 3: Twelve needs a little bit more respect in the College

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, will give me a few takeaways on

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Speaker 1: What stood out to you? What did you disagree with? Uh?

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Speaker 3: The one that stands out is the and I hate

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Speaker 4: I know why.

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Speaker 3: You know, Notre Dame means money and so, but they

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get a pass so many times. So they're a good

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team of Marcus Freeman, he coached here. A lot of

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coaches Geno Goodooley and Mike Denbrock and Mike Mickens is

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a Cincinnati Hall of Famer. So for their sake, I

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Speaker 3: But you know what's fair in life. You know, I

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Speaker 4: There's not a whole lot fair in athletics.

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Bearcats two and a half points to be exact, ESPN

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Analytics givings BYU sixty seven point nine percent chance of

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Victory's a six pm kickoff at Nippert Stadium.

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Speaker 1: What do you think the environment's going to be like?

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Speaker 2: And do you think this is going to be kind

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of like a hard fought, close, one score type of game.

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Speaker 3: That would be my guess. You know, anything's possible. I

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don't see Cincinnati getting blown out at home. And it

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seems like the home field in football and even home

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court in basketball is so huge in the Big twelve,

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and particularly when you're going across time zones, they're different games,

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and so I think there's enough in seid Of for

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the Cincinnati fans to rise up and make some noise

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and give BYU a challenge. They make me make predictions

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each week, the Cincinnati Inquirer does. So my prediction is

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I have BYU winning, because based on the last two

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games I've seen, I've not seen what looks to me

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a team that is going to make a big postseason push. Now,

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are they capable of it? They certainly are. Is a

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talent level better, It certainly is, and they have had

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tremendous games, and they've surprised me in a couple of them.

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Earlier in the year, you know, they beat I was

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stayed up pretty good in the first half, but then

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kind of let them back in. They beat Baylor decently,

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So yeah, there's been some surprises in the year. I

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had actually kicked them to win seven games. They got

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to seven and one, and then I said, well, you know,

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maybe we're onto something here. But the last two games

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that they just haven't a problem they've.

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Speaker 4: Had the previous two years.

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Speaker 3: It's just not finishing games, having games where you maybe

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outgained the opponent and I think that even happened two

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years ago at Lavelle Edwards Steaghum. I believe they outgained

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BYU by a significant measure and still lost thirty five

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twenty seven. So you got to figure out ways to

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score and take advantage of games and finish games and

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not cough the ball up, which has not been a

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problem until the last two games.

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Speaker 4: So obviously they need to play clean football and.

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Speaker 3: You know, otherwise it's not going to be anything that

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the Cougars haven't seen it. It's a little chilly here,

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but you know, like I've told you before, I've got

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a son and daughter in law in Utah, so I've

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been there and I've certainly been called in Utah, so it's.

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Speaker 4: Nothing new here.

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Speaker 3: What they really needed last week was it needed to

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be about thirty degrees for Arizona, and it wasn't.

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Speaker 4: It was nearly seventy.

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Speaker 1: So it'll be like, what forty one degrees at kickoff.

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Speaker 4: Something like that.

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Speaker 3: I believe rain's coming on Friday. I think if I

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looked at it, because my wife's got tickets and going,

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and I think it's the highest fifty one or two,

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but the low thirty seven, So yeah, I would what

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about forty forty one around kickoff time?

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Speaker 1: Seats? What forty thousand?

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Speaker 2: There?

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Speaker 1: Is it natural grass or turf?

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Speaker 3: It's turf. It's a unique field. It's a little different.

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It's kind of built right into the campus and it's

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one of the rare fields where you can walk through

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there during school hours or afterward, and it's not unusual

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to see kids down on the field, you know, throwing

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frisbees and this and that because it's wide open and

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they can't really.

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Speaker 4: Block it off. It's very strange.

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Speaker 3: It can be even though it's only forty thousand, can

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be very loud though, because there's two adjacent buildings and

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once things get repped up, that noise bounces off those buildings.

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Speaker 4: So it's a.

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Speaker 3: Little bit more intimidating than you would guess because you're

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looking and you're going on a big deal forty thousand.

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Speaker 4: But that's the feel of it.

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Speaker 3: And some people call it like the Wrigley Field of

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football because it just there's a lot of stone structures

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and it's unique. It's totally unique. Now doesn't have the

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view that your place does. I don't know who does,

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because that's that's outstanding, you know, standing in the press

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box and looking out at that all you're doing is

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taking pictures and not even concentrating on the game. So

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there are hills in Cincinnati, but certainly no snow capped mountains.

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Speaker 2: B Yu's three and zero all time against the Cincinnati Bearcats,

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but this game has only been played from twenty fifteen

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to present day. Each of these games, though BYU, I

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don't think it's one necessary handily. The closest margin was,

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I believe the last one in twenty twenty three, thirty

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five to twenty seven. By You've gotten the Bearcats in provo,

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and so you know it's they've been competitive games, but

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BYU has found a way to win, and win by

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you know, eight to double digits.

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Speaker 4: Well, that's the sign of a good team.

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Speaker 3: I remember the first game in twenty fifteen, and I

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think Cincinnati had that twenty four to seventeen lead, and

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it was twenty one straight points by the Cougars and

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the fourth quarter, So I don't know if the altitude

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is probably a combination of the altitude and you know,

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by you're just getting it together. And then the following

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year it was twenty to three, and that was a

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pretty lopsided one.

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Speaker 4: And that's the one if.

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Speaker 3: You remember right, the future senator from Alabama yelled at

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one of the fans that made the YouTube reels and such.

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Speaker 4: But that was kind of one side. And then the

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one that you described.

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Speaker 3: I believe Cincinnati threw a pick six in the first quarter,

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and then right before halftime there was a field goal

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where Cincinnati went up, but they.

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Speaker 4: Gave the Cougars the ball.

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Speaker 3: I think there was a quick touch down before half,

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and then another one and that's what's killed the Bearcats

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in a lot of games. That's so called middle eight,

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you know, the last four of the second quarter, first four,

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the third. There's been so many games where they lose

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a coin toss or they give up the score before halftime.

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Then the team has the ball back to start the

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second half, and those minutes can kill you. And that

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was one of the problems with Arizona. I think the

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offense sat on the sideline for nearly an hour because

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they had a fourteen to seven lead, and then Fafita took.

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Speaker 4: Arizona on a long drive and then they had won.

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Speaker 3: The toss, so they get the ball back, and then

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you got guys that haven't been on the field, you know,

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seemingly since the day before, but it was you know,

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an hour and that it just throws the rhythm off

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because any offense once a quarterback gets gone. I'm sure

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you've seen it with Bachmeyer and I've seen it with Swersby.

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When they get rolling, it's like you can't wait to

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see him back out there because it's just up and

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down the field. But when things get sluggish, it's not

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so fun to watch or.

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Speaker 1: Right about what what happened to these last two games?

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Speaker 2: That the Utai game was the most maybe disappointing at

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least the uv game was close and competitive. You know

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what were the keys to these losses on the bearcat

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side of the ball.

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Speaker 3: Well, fumble in the red zone when you're about ready

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to score, and I think that would have tied it

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at that point. I can't remember off the top of

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my head, but it was a crucial fumble. Uh then

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then you had to pick and then another fumble, and

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you had a couple of red zone miscues there and

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then other than that, it was you know, I'll give

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Utah credit. They're tremendous at home and they took advantage

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of the turnovers and uh, you know, the two quarterbacks

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that can run like the wind, and that was tough

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to defend. And they they gave you Cincinnati fits in

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the passing game, you know again, you know, no goodie,

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no prior. I don't think with those two though, that

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night they were gonna win. It was just that that

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was Utah's night, and fair and square, they were gonna

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win it either way.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm excited to watch this game. A lot on

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the line for BYU. Spoiler in a double digit win

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season with a big bowl game, right, Cincinnati could end

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up being you know, the Pop Darts Bowl or the

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Alimo Bowl if they win out right, if they win

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big and so these are big games for big time

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teams in the Big twelve, and I can't wait to

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see how it plays out. Appreciate you hopping on for

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a know, the faux segment and letting us get to

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know the Cincinnati Bearcats from your purview, from your eyes,

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your voice, and it was a great segment.

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Speaker 1: Great catching up with you.

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Speaker 4: All right, Thanks a lot. I appreciate it. We'll do

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it again sometime, all.

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Speaker 2: Right, Thanks Scott, We'll see you out there in Cincinnati.

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