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get right back into the sound from yesterday. A Rod
deserves an A. I don't know what other grade you
want to give him for the season, everything that he's done.
Brett would agree with me, Ap would agree with me.
There're still some fans disrespecting. We've had Steve Clements on
the show. We've had Guy Holliday, We've had Riley Nelson,
We've had I don't know if we had rather just
don't want to speak out a side of my mouth.
We've had Derwin Gray, We've had all the former Graades
guys that played the game. We've had even professionals at
the highest level, Jake Krane. We're gonna hear from John
Kurtz later in the show. Everybody has given a Rod
his flowers and cougarnation. You need to as well. Shout
out to the one fan that commentent on Ben's Twitter post.
I don't know if it was a Big twelve mafia
or Big b Yu mafia. Whatever it was, they said
that they repent of disrespecting a Rod. Thank you for
taking accountability and getting down on your knees and praying
and asking for that forgiveness. Now I can't give that
to you because I'm not the Lord, nor will I,
but I recognize your efforts and that you were wrong.
Speaker 2: Let's get back into the question. Let's go number six here,
a Rod. You were down early, but this team just
seems to never quit.
Speaker 4: Our guys don't flinch. Man's that's one thing about this team.
No matter what the circumstances, nobody flinches. We just keep
playing the next play and super you know, I think
sometimes the players even are an example of the coaches
on that on that front, where no matter what the
circumstances are, guys are just unfazed by what the score
is or what's going on in is play. And then
Will to knock out that fifty yard field goal.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was no gimme.
Speaker 4: It was not a gimme. There was a little bit
of win in that stadium, you know. To go out
there and hit that and keep us in range, that
was That was a big deal.
Speaker 3: A couple of things I want to address there. The
first is Willfarens back baby. Everybody thought he was gone.
Hey that fifty yard and a win. That's not an
easy kick. That was a tough kick to make. So
shout out to Will and being able to drill that.
But yeah, those guys didn't flinch. Earlier this morning, I
saw two BYU football players at one of our sponsors
as I was taking care of some personal things this morning,
and you know what, they were watching at Iowa State
game because it was on the television. They just look calm,
cool and collected nothing. I granted they already played the game,
but they just seem very mellow. They weren't worried about
it at all. And that's been this team from top
to bottom. They don't quit, they don't give up. They're
not phased by anything. That's the maturity, that's the leadership.
Everybody's got a plan until they get punched in the mouth, right.
I think that Mike Tyson Mike said that, yep. And
they have a true freshman quarterback. They go on the
road to Iowa State, one of the top teams in
THEIG twelve. We know all of this.
Speaker 1: Will Farren definitely deserves a lot of credit because when
he looked like a human being, people tried started freaking out.
Not even that he looked like a bad kicker, just
that he looked like a human being. But we know
he's not a human being. We know he's superhuman. We
know he's the best kicker in the country. He is
Will Farren.
Speaker 2: He deserves a lot of credit for making that kick.
Speaker 1: We don't talk about either of the kicks that he
made in that game because of the other ridiculous plays
that were made by the offense by follow tout by
Logan Latui. But Will Farren definitely deserves a lot of
credit for going in that road environment, cold windy Iowa State.
Just knock it down a fifty yarder like it was nothing, Like.
Speaker 3: It was nothing down the middle, easy, like he bowling
on a Saturday night and he hits the striking on problem,
got to hit the kingsman pin.
Speaker 2: You know about bowling. You know what I'm talking about.
Number seven.
Speaker 3: What did you say to Bear Pryor to that final
first half drive and how you would assess that whole
drive as.
Speaker 4: A whole got them right here down fourteen, said let's
go get a touchdown and we get the ball first
a half And that's exactly what we did, and we
put together a really nice two minute drive. Thought the
guys executed very well. I thought the pace was really
well done, and then we did a good job just
throwing completions and getting out of getting out of bound stopping'clock. Yeah. Really,
I thought all the players showed really good awareness of
the situation, catch the ball, get out of bounce, you know,
and as long as as long as we have situational awareness,
we always have a chance. I mean, I thought this
run was gonna be able to get out of bounds.
It didn't, so we were back on the ball quickly,
got the next snap off in a hurry, and then
the scramble here a huge play for Barr to go
get that fourth down work down three for three on fourth.
Speaker 5: Down in the game, which was really big.
Speaker 4: And then the touchdown pass here to h Parker I
thought was very well executed. It's a play we thought
we could take advantage of their red zone coverage with that,
and it worked worked really well.
Speaker 3: They did take advantage of it. It did work really well.
They were three or three on fourth down. Giving credit
to a lot of things, but I want to point
out the most important thing, guys, and get your thoughts
on this.
Speaker 2: Utah.
Speaker 3: Remember before an end and a half, what did they do?
They fumbled the bag to score a touchdown yep. I
think they did because.
Speaker 2: I'm proud of field goal though, right, well, they could
have scored a touchdown, that's what.
Speaker 1: They could have. But but I don't know, fumble. There
were a lot You're not the only one. There were
a lot of fans upset. Everyone that I was sitting
in the arena with was really upset. I was probably
the only one who's like, hey, it's not the end
of the world.
Speaker 3: They still got points out of it. I thought Bear
could have run for a touchdown. I have no problem
with the running the ball on first down.
Speaker 2: I thought.
Speaker 3: I thought that was no problem with that, But to
do it on second and then thirty out the clocket
because you don't have a timeout like a rod has
to be in his ear or they have to like
you said, hey, let's go score touchdown. Be way more
efficient and like you said, getting out of bounce and
they were way better than Iowa was taking, which lets
you know. They saw the film of Utah said yeah,
we probably didn't do a good job of that. That's
everybody as a whole, because the way they executed that
going down, they could have messed it up or just
taken a field goal, and they need a touchdown.
Speaker 2: Well, I think they had.
Speaker 1: They had a couple other issues on that specific drive
working against them.
Speaker 2: First of all, they were bad in the drop back
pass game, and.
Speaker 1: Not necessarily because they were bad, but because what you
two edge rushers are good. Dyu's success in the past
game came off of play action that day.
Speaker 2: The other problem that they.
Speaker 1: Had working against them is something you and I have
talked about all season that has bugged Ust. But even
though it's bugged Dust, Colinie's still been right because he's undefeated.
Speaker 2: And we're not. They burned timeouts early.
Speaker 1: They burned time outs early, and so when you get
into that two minute drive and you're going down, you're
limited and how many times you can stop the clock.
Speaker 2: So I agree, I think it could have been better.
Speaker 1: I don't think it was the end of the world,
but it doesn't matter because Iowa State they had it
figured out.
Speaker 2: They were able to drive down the field.
Speaker 1: The drop back pass game was much better in that game,
and then they can go down and get it. The
one piece that got I think cut off. I might
not have cut the audio as close as I needed to,
But the first thing he says when he's asked like
what did you say to Bear? He went up to
Bear and said, hey, we're down two scores. We got
him right where we want him. That is what he
said to Bear. He said, we got him right where
we want him, and then him and Bear went down
and obviously the rest is history. Scoring that two minute drive, Yeah.
Speaker 4: I said, Bear, we got him right where we want him,
right here now in fourteen, I said, let's go get
a touchdown and we get the Bear.
Speaker 2: We got right where we want him.
Speaker 6: I'll say this, I think there's a lot of people
very concerned with By's ability to run a two minute drill,
and I actually losing reaf well just this year going
into that going into the iOS Stakhan not as a
whole okay, but but b why you hasn't really been
asked to run a two minute drill very much this year? Yeah,
we did it pretty well against Colorado right before the half,
got that touchdown to cut it to fourteen to ten.
But a lot of fans, to Brett's point, were really
unhappy with the way things were done against Utah and
that two minute drill, and I think Bear was also
upset with how things were done.
Speaker 2: There's some miscommunication there.
Speaker 6: So to see by you go down, run a very
effective two minute drill with little timeouts and and honestly
get yourself back into the game, because if you go
into the half down two scores, it's very difficult for
BAU to come back and win that game. So to me,
I think there and I sent this to you in
a text during the game, there's a couple things during
that game that I felt like were the biggest moments
of the year for Bayu. That Logan Latui interception I
think biggest turnover of the year.
Speaker 2: I agree with you.
Speaker 6: I think that was the four to seven. I think
that's the biggest turnover the year. And I think that
drive to go and score at the end of the
half is the best end up half b why you've had.
Speaker 2: You need to both of those.
Speaker 3: Yeah, both of those are crucial because if Keanu doesn't
tip the ball and if Logan doesn't get that interception,
potentially twenty four to seven or twenty to seven.
Speaker 2: That's a tough ask. It's a tough you.
Speaker 3: Can come back from that, and I think that's a
very valid point. I don't know if you can. Luckily
they didn't have to. They made the right place coach
is always putting them in the right positions to succeed.
Speaker 2: Number eight A Rod.
Speaker 3: This team has been really successful in two minute offense,
but having a true freshman quarterback makes it even more impressive.
Speaker 4: Would you say, yeah, we take a lot of pride
and executing in two minute I think, you know, the
first of all starts with the quarterback just keeping his
poise and bears absolutely one of the most poised players
I've ever seen, as I can't believe he's what he's
doing as a freshman. And then just again, our players
just they don't kick too caught up in the moment,
they just execute just one play at a time. And
been happy with our executions so far this year and
two minut.
Speaker 3: One of the most poised players I've ever seen. Guys,
Remind you Jaron Hall, he coached, got drafted in the NFL.
Remind you Zach Wilson, he coached, was a number two
overall pick in the draft. Remind you Keaton Slova's he coached,
is still playing quarterback in the NFL. Jake Gretz laugh
falling out of Tulane, Hey, quarterback whisper in a way
you want to talk about Kevin O'Connell. I think Aaron
Rodick is the quarterback whisperer of college football to a degree.
I think you can argue that. Some may say that's
a hot take, but I'm being honest. What he's been
able to do, Like he took a guy that didn't
have any offers, like guy Holiday said, and turn them
into something like Jake is able to go to Tulane
and ball out. Look what he did with Jared, Look
what you did with zachly talking about guys that were
like barely three star guys, they were able to do
that that went out and played and got to the NFL.
Speaker 2: That's a rod Now he's doing with the.
Speaker 6: Twue freshman well Bear, like you mentioned all those guys.
The thing too, Aaron Rodericks point Bear is the most
composed of all those guys, because Zach Wilson was not
a composed quarterback as a freshman. He fumbled a lot
of moments, and he had a lot of big moments
like he had that he had the bowl game, he
had the game against White but he also had the
game against Boise State where he fumbled it at the
end like he didn't, but he bare he should have
won that game, and he couldn't get it done at
the end, all right, and he took this a.
Speaker 2: Really really bad sack.
Speaker 6: Okay, Jared, we didn't really get to see as a freshman,
but I don't think he would have been as composed
as he was as a junior.
Speaker 2: Senior.
Speaker 6: System helped him the best, right And and Jake, I'm
not sure was ever really composed until it was the
end of the game, like first half and of the
halfs like, we saw some bad turnovers at end of half,
we saw some bad moments. So Bear has somehow avoided
all of those moments as a not only as a freshman,
a true freshman he didn't get the red shirt year,
and a true freshman who came into the system in
the middle of the summer.
Speaker 3: That that's why that's so impressive. Yeah, it is really impressive,
no doubt. Let's get the number nine. Ay, ro, what
were your thoughts going in half?
Speaker 4: The main thing was, Okay, Lj's out, how do we adjust?
And so the first thing was okay, run game wise,
what are some things that Presston and Enich can execute?
And then but the main thing was just getting our
passing game going. We really felt like we could throw
the ball. They hadn't given up a three under our
passer in like twenty something game, twenty one games, but
oddly we felt like we felt really confident about throwing
the ball on them. And so at halftime, we just
went through our call sheet and found passes that we like,
and we even pulled up a few others from past
games that weren't on the game plan this week. Talked
about those. But the guys in the halftime, hey, remember
this play from this game, Remember this play from that game.
Speaker 2: We're going to use it in this half.
Speaker 4: And so there was two or three calls in that
second half that weren't even part of the game plan.
We just talked through them at halftime and work, Yeah, yeah,
they did. And then we went out and I thought
that the guys executed really well, and I thought our
pass protection was outstanding because they blitzed more in this
game than they had in prior games.
Speaker 3: The reason why the blitzed Morris or two freshman quarterback
want to get him rattled, get him off his horse,
but he wasn't bear stay true.
Speaker 2: Shout out to the boys up front. Brod was always
given credit.
Speaker 3: Hopefully got U some rice Krispy treats because they did
a phenomenal job and Drew block and to make sure
that he was able to get the ball off and
you hear that, Hey, Lj's out. What adjustment is do
we need to make on the run game? What can
press him do? And Enie can run him different? Ben
said yesterday, Enich is more of a hybrid press and
Rex and Joe Vessel your scatbacks.
Speaker 2: You're gonna run those guys deferently than LJ.
Speaker 3: You do have to adjust and they did, and sure
didn't look the prettiest maybe at times, but they were
able to be somewhat effective and stay committed to it.
They didn't go away from it at all. But they
really felt like they could pass on these guys. They
felt like they could throw the football. They could do
that and it worked out really well. And again they
haven't allowed a three hundred passing yard game in twenty
one games. Bear Backmeier and Aaron roddercks offense, and a
Rod was able to scheme that up and make the
adjustment necessary and Bear looked great.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 6: I think it's important not just for that game to
be able to make that adjustment, because the second half
offensive plan against Iowa State, I think is your whole
game plan against Texas Tech.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because if you don't have LJ.
Speaker 6: Martin, and even if you do, Texas Tech's defensive line
is so good that running the ball is going to
be extremely difficult. However, they have been prone to give
up big yards to really good quarterbacks. They've made bad
quarterbacks look really bad, but they've also made good quarterbacks
look really good. Arizona State's quarterback through four over three
hundred yards Dann Daniels, Kansas two hundred and fifty five yards.
Speaker 2: So you can throw on this defense. Running, however, is
really really tough.
Speaker 3: It is really really tough. You're not wrong, so we'll
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You're listening to Cougar Sports on at Thursday, October thirtieth
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Speaker 1: What's going on in the world of Cougar athletics here
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to Cougar Sports here on one of three
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Speaker 2: Still discuss some college football.
Speaker 3: Keep you caught up on everything related to BYU and
everything around the Big twelven college football in this bye
week BYU off this week big games going around the
Big twelve. Texas Tech Kansas State is the game I
think we all are watching as well as the College
Game Day is coming to Utah.
Speaker 2: Two hosts.
Speaker 3: The Utah versus Cincinnati game will be locked into both
of those. I actually will be at the station helping
out with that Utah Cincinnati game, so you know who
I'm rooted for and what I'm looking at and hey,
there it is.
Speaker 2: Hey I.
Speaker 6: When it comes to Bearcats, all I'm gonna say is
our quarterback's name is Bear. He's a cougar. We literally
have a bearcat cat at quarterback.
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why College Game Day might not have as many Big
Twelve games. You brought up a very good point that
I liked during our break. I want you to tell
the listeners.
Speaker 1: So not only College Game Day, but I think I
have pinpointed why exactly we keep asking these guests, well,
is by or is the Big Twelve gonna get two
teams into the College of Ball playoffs, and whether they're
Big Twelve guests, whether they're national guests, they all say
the same thing. Probably not. And here's why the Big
twelve is too competitive. It's too entertaining. Frankly, when we
hear Brett Yormark say things like the deepest conference in America.
While he may be right about that, he's still wrong
for saying it because here's why. Because the Big Twelve
doesn't have a Texas or in Oklahoma. They again, we've
talked about this, they have a branding problem. When I
say to you, who's the best team in the Big Ten,
no matter how deep of a college football fan you are,
you can say probably Ohio State, probably Michigan, and then
now obviously the new Pac twelve teams they are in there.
If I say you who's the best in the SEC,
you can probably go Georgia, Alabama and be right. When
you ask the casual college football fan who's the best
in the Big twelve, what's their answer?
Speaker 2: Uh? I mean Arizona.
Speaker 1: State won it, but like, are they that good because
they haven't been that great at football?
Speaker 2: Well, Arizona's a basketball school.
Speaker 1: I think Boa using that conference right, they're like pretty solid.
There's no definitive answer for the college football who is
a casual which, let's be honest, college foball playoff committees, casuals,
apvol orders, casuals.
Speaker 2: They have a hard time.
Speaker 1: Determining who's the best in the Big Twelve, and so
when you're constantly having turnover at the top, it's hard
for them to trust someone and say, yes, let's give
them the job. Let's hire them to be our best
guy to go to the playoffs, because they don't know
how that team will perform because they haven't done it
in the past. And so because they've never had to
give credit to the Big Twelve, because they've never definitively
known who the best in the Big Twelve was outside
of Texas and Oklahoma, the Big Twelve being the deepest
conference in America, because look, I think the Big Twelve
has more fun games to watch than any other conference.
On average, they have the most games in the conference
that are entertaining to watch. The last place team UCF
is fun to watch in their games because it's always competitive.
But because their games are always competitive, that's what hurts them.
Because there's no definitive answer for the casual college football
fan of who's the best in the conference. What you
need honestly, is you need BYU to run the conference
for a few years. You need somebody just to win
it and go to consecutive Big Twelve titles in order
for a casual college football fan to say, Okay, yeah, yeah,
that's who runs the Big Twelve and that's who's competing
with them.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And the reason why people it was Oklahoma and Texas,
Oklahoma and Texas if they weren't winning the Big Scheff title,
they were in the title game or close to it.
Oklahoma and Oklahoma dominated the conference doing that. Texas got
theirs before they went out, So yeah, they Big Twelve
might have a branding issue. We're gonna ask John Curtsis
in the last segment of the show and our four
o'clock hour, in our interview portion in the five thirty
five forty five to forty five segment, But I agree
with you, you really don't know because Iowa State got there,
Kansas State has won it.
Speaker 2: There's been so much up and now like is it Baylor?
You really don't know?
Speaker 3: And you to your point to validate that more, who
is the face of the Big twelve? Not a Oklahoma
State and Texas left? You really can't say I've mentioned
in six schools. Honestly, I think between Iowa State, Baylor,
Kansas State, I'm being honest gonna say that Texas take
bway in Utah. I think any of those six schools
can represent this conference, if I'm being honest, there's just
it might be too much parity.
Speaker 6: Ap I'm going to agree but also slightly disagree here.
I don't think the problem is that it's too competitive,
but I do agree with some of the points you
made about the top switching up so much. I think
the problem is that the off season hype is going
to the wrong schools.
Speaker 2: In the Big Twelve.
Speaker 6: Okay, I can hear that because you're starting Arizona State
way too high this last year.
Speaker 2: And I mean they won't of course run the Big Twelve.
Speaker 6: I just want to say this, We can't always say
just because they won it last year, they're going to
win it next year because of champ though. Yeah, but
the defending champ almost never wins the Big Twelve the
next year.
Speaker 1: Reed, But we're not talking about rogic. We're talking about
connotation here.
Speaker 6: But my my point is we hyped up Baylor in
the off season and they fell on their face.
Speaker 2: We hyped up Kansas State, and.
Speaker 6: So you're hyping up the wrong teams in the off
season for two years in a row.
Speaker 1: Now, how is we don't know who to hype up
because guess what, Arizona State won it? What was Arizona
State picked last the media?
Speaker 2: Well, I'm not saying competitive and you don't know who
to pick, So I agree with you.
Speaker 6: Well, but okay, so my point is I'm not saying
it's I I don't think the fact that it's competitive
is the problem.
Speaker 2: Because the SEC is competitive.
Speaker 6: It's like they still have a lot of hot teams
in the in the mix, still actually in the SEC
looking at the standings.
Speaker 2: The problem I think is and it's good.
Speaker 6: This is why I said I'm going to only slightly disagree,
but I agree with most of what you guys are saying.
Speaker 2: Is the Big twelve does need that bell cow.
Speaker 6: You need to start hyping up teams that are consistently good,
like I don't know b YU starting out eight and
o two years in a row.
Speaker 3: It doesn't need to be taken into They were independent
for so many years, so they didn't have any like
hype up stock for people to buy into because they
were independent they had nothing really going for them from
a national perspective.
Speaker 1: Obviously we know what BYU is, but again we're talking
about the casual college football fan, and because BYU wasn't
in a conference for so long, the casual college football
fan didn't pay attention.
Speaker 5: To be one.
Speaker 3: I think if Texas Tech or BYU, if both of
them gets at the title game and one of them
wins it, I think that will help.
Speaker 2: I think it has to be done for multiple years ago,
and I.
Speaker 3: Agree like, but I think if I think, what's gonna
slap Texas Tech on the face, and I think you
would agree with this, with all the money that they invested,
if they don't win the title game, that's a well.
Speaker 6: I think Texas Tech should have been hyped up more
in the offseason. That's my biggest point. Three is like
that was a pretty obvious pick given how much money
they'd spent and all the talent.
Speaker 2: They even though people didn't do that. But I'm with you.
Speaker 6: You it's like, if you're the Big twelve and you're
going to pick a team to hype up, Arizona State
was not the move. They lost their best players from
last year right right in Texas Tech strode it up,
and there was like it was like even from inside
the Big Twelve, it felt like a wait and see
instead of like, hey, let's like hype up this team.
Speaker 1: But just because you buy players doesn't necessarily guarantee success.
I do agree with you, but I'm just saying I
think there were a lot of people who said, Okay,
what is Texas Tech done in the Big twelve?
Speaker 2: Tech Tech win the Big Twelve recently? I don't. I don't.
I don't think so.
Speaker 1: In fact, when BYU beat Texas Tech like we played
Tech Tech a couple of years ago, Texas Tech was
bottom of the conference. And I agree they probably should
have hyped up Texas Tech more. But again, it's not
about what you do this year, it's what you've done
for the last five years. Because we were talking about
Texas Tech or Texas winning the Big Twelve every year.
When was the last time Texas was nationally relevant outside
of arch Manning prior to that?
Speaker 2: Was the last time Texas was nationally relevant? Yes, but
they were.
Speaker 1: But you're working off the stock that you've built up
for years and years and years. And that's why Kansas
State has a lot of stock built ups because they
wanted a few years ago, and so we keep expecting
them to rise up. Same with Baylor, like, it's not
about what you did last year. And to your point
a little bit, Arizona State shouldn't be hyped up solely
because of what they've done. The problem is because there's
so much turnover, we don't know who to hype up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we have no idea who to hype up. I
wish you have more time to talk about it.
Speaker 3: We're gonna have to came to this discussion, maybe even tomorrow,
because this is a good conversation to have because there's
points that you both bring up that are valid, and yes,
we can't over hype Arizona State. But at the same time,
if you're saying that Sam Levin's gonna be the Big
twelve offensive preseason player of the Year, and I think
that's a bad pick because I think everything was predicated
upon Cam Scattaboo and you're building your offense around that,
than when I need you to do this. If Bear
goes undefeated, it only loses one game, it goes to
the title game. To Andrews's point, I need you to
put Bear as a preseason player of the year. Next year,
because if he's doing this as a true freshman, what
he's gonna do or to your point, if that's the case,
these are the schools. Why and Avery Johnson pick to
do that? There's lots of questions, So you guys both
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Entrepreneurs not the right word. The head hot show of
the fine establishment is Rheche Davis. He was actually caught
by Fox Nashville. We're gonna play this clip for you
of what's the college game Day site selection process, which
I'm also intrigued by because I felt like College Game
Day missed an opportunity like Pat McAfee said to come
for the BYU Utah game. Not granted it was on Fox,
and I played a factor made it easier for Big Noon,
but you cater to the sec Big ten. You can't
tell me that you don't because you do not. Granted, Yeah,
Georgia Old missed all this stuff to pass up. I
understand why you can't say no to that, but he
missed an opportunity for people to understand the rivalry game
here in Utah, or what fans called the Holy War
net in that term. So let's hear from recent Davis
about the process of how College Game Day selected sites,
because a lot of fans are thinking, when you look
at the schedule next week, it's going to be a
top fifteen match of BYU Texas Tech, especially with the
kickoff time be in ten amounts to eleven AM Central,
that College Game Day will be in Lubbing.
Speaker 2: Let's hear from him and find out what that process
is like.
Speaker 1: What goes into that selection process and is there any
you know, beyond power for talk there too?
Speaker 7: Yeah, every week, all the time. I mean, I mean,
this is probably going to get me in trouble. I'm
pitching battle with the revenue in a few weeks, spending
on what else happens. You always try to go where
the best story is for that week, and you try
to judge what the buzz is and you also try
to look.
Speaker 5: At the landscape.
Speaker 7: You can get in trouble making every decision looking three
weeks down the road, especially early in the season, but
you do try to take inventory.
Speaker 5: Of what the landscape looks like over the next month,
and there are.
Speaker 7: Opportunities for I sort of reading between the lines of
your quest and beyond the power forward.
Speaker 5: There are numerous opportunities.
Speaker 7: Over the next few weeks until the end of November
really to be able to do that. Is it contingent
on performance, of course, but there are a lot of
opportunities to be able to be able.
Speaker 5: To do So.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 3: That was a clip. We'll probably play it for you again.
Ap your thoughts on that.
Speaker 6: I mean, I mean, he's right about the you get
in trouble when you plan things down three weeks in
a row. The problems change of for college football. The
problem is that's exactly what they've been doing right until
the like, you can't tell me they hadn't determined probably
at the beginning of the year to go to Georgia
Ole Miss instead of byu Utah. They didn't expect byu
Utah to be a big game, and it was. And
and you get what Pag McAfee said, or he says
we missed out, like we made the wrong decision, because
in all honesty, they did. And here's why I say that,
it's not because BYU Utah is necessarily a bigger game
then a Georgia ole miss I'm not gonna say that.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna make that case.
Speaker 6: But when you go to the same places every year,
the crowds and the environments for your show get less
and less enthusiastic. It's still good, still fun. But when
I have say, when you're at Georgia and game days
there twice a year or or once every single year,
there gets to be a fatigue about that, right, and
it just gets a little bit more boring. Whereas you're
going to the BYU Utah is, you go to Appalachian
State like they did a few years ago, you have
a pretty dang good show when you've got people who
have never experienced college game day coming to their town.
And quite frankly, college game day has a better show
because there's stories in these towns that haven't been told.
Whereas if you go to Georgia every year, there's only
so many stories about the same place you can tell.
And so I think they're starting to I think they're
starting to do better. I think they threw they threw
a bone to the Big twelve coming to Utah Cincinnati.
I'm gonna guess they come to Texas Tech BYU as
long as Texas Tech handles business against Kansas State. So
I do like what they're saying. It's like, we got
to stop planning things out three weeks in advance.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you definitely got to not plan things out three
weeks in evans. That will definitely get you in trouble.
But the problem is, like you said, that's exactly what
they have been doing. They've been planning on that and
even if one SEC team is ranked the other ones close,
they still go and it needs to be a week
by week thing. And they have these meetings on Sunday.
Do That's why that's why they're not announced until Sunday afternoon,
because they're discussing them Sunday morning, Because if that was
the case, they would announce it automatically, but they don't.
They announce everything around noon one pm. I think what
mounts time our time no little than two pm Eastern
is what we've seen, and that's the updates that we've gotten.
So but he is right, you do need to perform.
It is based on performance opportunity. And I think outside
of the P four if we were discussing this with
Jared Blitz early in the week, if you and this
might have been off record, but we can say this
conversation on record. If you were to send them to
like a North Dakota or South Dakota like game, do
you know what fans would do. People would drive ten
to twelve hours, ten to twelve hours to come and support.
It might be a great turn on. I can't believe
Sean Walker, front of the program as well, was talking
about a team I can't remember which one had shown
up they had a great turno.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to remember the game. It was.
Speaker 3: You have these G five or these other teams that
will show up that will ball out. So they do
need to give other opportunities to other schools. But I
just feel has been too heavily seced. And what I
mean is a game like next week at bau and Texas,
technically you have no other prime matchups. If you just
selected said we're going to go to a and in
Missouri because it's both are an SEC team. I think
you're fumbling the back. I think you're missing the mark
and you are biased. I do I firmly believe that
you're biased. I do I believe that you do not
care about any other conference. You're letting the Big ten
and the SEC determined that you can say whatever you
want that you don't be because there's no reason why
you would not go to a top fifteen matchup. If
Texas Tech wins this week, you to be what you
drop some number of eleven. It's a top fifteen matchup
is to two teams that are competing for the title game.
Like by you potentially can knock Texas Chech out of
the title game if they win.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, there's no question ESPN's biased about where they're
going and it's well, it makes sense. And I'm gonna
say this, I'm not gonna blame ESPN for this. They
are heavily invested in the SEC. That's who they have
their biggest TV deal with. The problem is they act
like it's the only conference they have a TV deal with,
whereas they do have a deal with the Big twelve.
Speaker 2: You when you have a deal with when you you.
Speaker 6: Want your biggest deal, like you want to invest in
that the most right. You want the SEC to do
well because that's where all your money is, but you
also have money going into the Big twelve. You need
to act like you've got money going into the Big twelve,
and unfortunately until this week, they just haven't acted like that. Now,
for me, I want to see college game Day to
go to some G six games, like last week of
the of the year.
Speaker 2: We all know they're.
Speaker 6: Probably going to Auburn Bama or something like that. The
game they should be going the game they should go
to Navy Memphis because that game very well could decide
who your G six, your G six team is going
into the playoff, and that to me is probably one
of the biggest stories left because we have a general
idea of who's coming out of the SEC. It's gonna
be Bama, It's gonna be A and M or one
of those two. You get Bandy's in there. We probably
know Ohio State, Indiana, Oregon out of the Big ten.
Speaker 2: Right, we don't.
Speaker 6: Necessarily know who the Big twelve ACC is, but we
have a pretty good idea with the ACC. We have
no clue who the G six team is not one
the teams in the running. You got Memphis, you got Tulane,
you got Navy. It's it's gonna be the winner of
the AAC or the American It's not the AAC anymore.
And and that's a race I'm intrigued with. I would
say Tu Lane Memphis is the game to go to.
Accept that game is get me on a Friday, which
I think is a bit of a miss scheduling wise. True,
but Navy Memphis, I think it's the game they should
go to last week of the of the regular season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you bring up a good point in a good argument.
Speaker 3: I think if you are about expanding landscape, if you
want to talk about that, then Navy Memphis, because one
of those schools is going to get in a G
six team has to get in. And Navy beats you know,
Memphis and in that game or that or in order
to name all of that matters. So I think you're right,
you do have to take a look into that and
go to that game, because if Memphis beats two Lane
or two Lane beats Memphis, that Navy game that is
going to be the knockout game. That game will determine
the final team in the American they'll compete in the
American Conference Championship to set it up and if very
well could be one of those two teams that goes
on to represent the G six.
Speaker 2: It could be. So you bring up a good point.
Speaker 3: So, and that's what I'm getting at, is I understand
why they do it. Yes, viewership, even when you look
at the numbers of the television games this past week BYU,
this is one of their best Iowa State it still was,
you know, bottom five compared to the other ones. Yes,
that's true. People want to watch SEC and Big ten football.
But I'm telling you, one of these days is gonna
be like you and U NBC or NBC or whatever
it is, the team that beat Virginia, it's gonna be
a sixteen seed knocking off a one seed.
Speaker 2: One day, something's gonna happen.
Speaker 3: And sometimes, and I bring that up, I'm not necessarily saying,
if Dieger that you've been the sixteen teams, that the
sixteen seed will beat the Ohio sait I'm not saying that.
What I'm saying is that you're gonna have an Arizona
State knockoff of Texas then what's gonna be your narrative, right,
because once they win, you can't say anything and they
move on. And that's why they changed the whole formatting
of no buys because they were irritated that at Big
ten excuse me, Big twelve school and at Mount West
School got the buys when they wanted to be sec
in Big ten and then they not fumbled the back,
but they lost. You know, Penn State beat Boises Date
very convincingly. You never thought they were in jeopardy, but
you didn't think Texas was. But then Texas over overcame
the great little bit of help. They got a little
bit of help from some things right in that, but
you know, there's there's no help on fourth and eleven
when you let Golden score touchdown. Shout out to him
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gonna save that conversation for a different day. But no, Look,
that's the process let's play it actually one more time,
so that way people can hear this is one more time.
Reese Dave is talking about the selection process that they
go through when they select sites for college game day.
Speaker 1: What goes into that selection process and is there any
you know beyond power Ford talk there too.
Speaker 7: Yeah, every week and all the time, I mean, I mean,
this is probably gonna get me in trouble. I'm pitching
battle with a revene con a few weeks spending on
what else happens. You always try to go where the
best story is for that week, and you try to
judge what the buzz is, and.
Speaker 5: You also try to look at the landscape.
Speaker 7: You can get in trouble making every decision looking three
weeks down the road, especially early in the season, but
you do try to take inventory of what the landscape
looks like over the next month, and there are opportunities
for I sort of reading between the lines of your
question and beyond the power forward, there are numerous opportunities over.
Speaker 5: The next few weeks till the end of November really
to be able to do that.
Speaker 7: Is it contingent on performance, of course, but there are
a lot of opportunities to be able to be able
to do so.
Speaker 3: Now you say storylines, You guys, tell me what's the
best storyline in college football for next week? Is it
really Texas A and M in Missouri or is it
BYU in Texas Tech.
Speaker 6: It's gotta be it's nothing against And yes, we are
a little bias here because we cover BYU thing against
the SEC schools. The problem is those stories have been
told several times this year on every single podcast in
America covering college football.
Speaker 2: The Big Twelve.
Speaker 6: Texas Tech BYU are that they're becoming the biggest brands
in the Big Twelve this year, and so the stories
are being told in the Big Twelve, but they haven't
been told to anyone outside the Big Twelve, right, No,
Like it's starting, like you're starting to hear about bear
Bachmeyer and you've heard about Texas Tech's expensive roster, But
do you does anybody honestly know about anything outside of
how expensive that roster is. No would say that nobody's
heard about the actual stories of Texas Tech except for
that their roster's expensive. They've got a lot of good players.
There's a lot of stories to tell. Baron Morton is
one of them. He's been in and out of the
lineup several times. He keeps coming back. They're backup quarterback,
they're quarterback. He's off for the season now. But nobody
knows that story except for Big twelve fans.
Speaker 3: And that's the problem. You're right, that is a me
and that's a good point. And that's why I go
into this and I look. I look at the scores,
I look at the schedule, I look at all of
the games, and I'm gonna give you guys some data.
We're gonna start with the top twenty five. This is
the top twenty five games. Next week, Houston is at UCF.
Now Houston con very well loses, wee can not be
in the top twenty five. B YU, we know will
Texas Tech will bar and that they lose. But even
in if they were, they would have dropped a little bit.
Northwestern's at USC two Lanes at Memphis, Indiana, Penn State,
Oregan's at Iowa. I would have to think Oregon in
Iowa would be a good, big new kickoff game. I
would have to think that That's what I'm looking at.
You know, you can't send in my opinion college game
in orgon Iowa. You can send them to Big newon
kickoff and go there, Georgia, Mississippi State. Mississippi State's four
and four. Here you go, number ten, b YU, number thirteen,
Texas Tech undefeated BYU seven to one. Texas Tech four
and one in Conference five and zero Conference Ohio State
Perdue produced to and six. Stop playing with me, all
miss to taking on a city. Come on, come on
the mighty what is it? I don't know what it is,
but they're three and five. No, then you got Texas
A and M Missouri at one thirty pm, which could
be good like no Syracuse Miami. Syracuse is three and five.
Au Burns four and four, Bandy is seven and one.
Like when I look at this, when you want to
talk about storyline, unless you're gonna go Navy Nordre Dame,
which I'll hear. I'll hear Navy Notre Dame, which that
could be a going in if you want to talk
about getting out there, that gives a lot more than
Navy and Notre Dame. I'm okay with that. I wouldn't
be offended by that. I think that's a good one
to go to. I'd be like, okay, good. That would
hit their topic of going outside that really would. It
would because there's some stories, because there's some stories to
tell there. And Navy, honestly, if they beat Notre Dame,
right knock them off. Or if that's the only loss
going to and they win the G six as you
mentioned earlier in the segment, what does that say? So
I think there's a storyline there, So it should be
in my opinion, now, if it's not bau text Tech
and it's not me being biased, me calling it down
the middle, it should be Navy Norre Dame because there's
no other games that I'm looking at when I go
to FBS in general, when you look at all of them,
UTSA South Florida, No South Florida. I get there at
six to two. They just fell out of the top
twenty five. No Georgia, Southern app State, No Kent State
at Ball State, no Norton Illinois to Toledo.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 6: It's like I will say, come on, like there was
no better I don't in my mind, no better College
Game Day show has ever happened except for with like
the best show that they've ever done is when they
went to Appalachian State because Grows fans were so excited.
Speaker 2: They were so high. That was a good show.
Speaker 6: So when you go to like a Navy Notre Dame,
or you go to if you just pick one of
these G six schools like we were talking about earlier,
that would be an all time crowd for college game day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that would be. That would that that would be.
So we're gonna have to figure it out. You know,
they're gonna have to answer to this, they really are.
They're gonna have to answer to why things aren't going
well when people get upset about not being selected to
the right process, because I think at the end of
the day, the day they do go more sec in
Big ten. Sometimes the storyline is there, sometimes it is not.
But when you want to say storyline, when you want
to talk about winning, there's no doubt in my mind
when you look at the schedule of all of the
games why you wouldn't be it either Navy Nordre Dame.
When Navy's seven to zero, Nordre Dame is five and two,
and y'all keep claiming they're the best five and two
team in the country and the rank number twelve or
bau Texas Tech which check the Tech is a one
lost team.
Speaker 2: Abill he's undefeated.
Speaker 3: So if you don't go to one of those two
and you end up going to Texa and in Missouri,
then I'm just gonna keep it.
Speaker 2: You're riding the SEC.
Speaker 3: I won't see the other word because I don't want
listeners to get mad and I don't want to get
in trouble with the bosses. But you're definitely doing that.
So we'll see, we'll see, we'll see where they go.
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