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November nineteenth edition of Cougar Sports. Hopefully you're doing well

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despite the fact that BYU's one of the first two

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teams out.

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Speaker 3: Of the college football playoff.

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Speaker 4: As of today, we don't know what's gonna happen, what

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type of college football carnage will ensue in the next

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couple of weeks. But you hope more college football cannibalism

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at the top really does occur. You hope that Alabama loses,

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so maybe Auburn. You hope that somehow someway, maybe Notre

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Dame loses again. Like, if you're wishing, hoping for losses

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Is Notre Dame gonna lose to Syracuse? Man, that would

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be interesting. Is Notre Dame gonna lose to Stamford? Stamford's

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been playing not so good football? Are they gonna pull

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a rabbit out of their hat suddenly at the end

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of the season we were hoping? I don't think so though.

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Their last three games lost forty two to seven, thirty

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five to twenty in twenty to fifteen. But maybe there's

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some magic left still in the cardinal. Syracuse is an

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interesting study. They're three and seven. You thought they were good,

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maybe out the front end, because who did they beat?

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They beat Clemson earlier in the year. They beat Clemson,

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and you thought Clemson was better than they really were.

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Over the last three games, they's lost a Georgia Tech

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forty one to sixteen, North Carolina twenty seven to ten,

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Speaker 3: Miami thirty eight to ten.

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Speaker 4: So maybe not much magic happening there, Maybe not much

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college football cartage happening there, But we'll discuss it. Which

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of the teams ahead of BYU are most likely to

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take it out and could be bounced out of the

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top ten. BYU and Utah are at eleven and twelve, respectively.

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What does that mean? Are BYU and Utah going to

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meet in the Alamo Bowl for another Holy War matchup

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this season? Brett Jormarch looking at it, the Alamo Bowls

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looking at it, They're like, well, you have the legacy

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Pac twelve teams still here, and you have BYU and

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the newfound Big twelve. Maybe we just match them up

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again and sell out.

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Speaker 3: This bowl game.

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Speaker 4: Both BYU fans and Utah fans would not want that,

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do not want that, But that very well could happen.

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Speaker 1: Ah.

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Speaker 4: It would be weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth, no doubt.

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We'll get into why the chairman the committee are putting

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BYU at eleven in Utah twelve, and why you know,

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Notre Dames where they're at, Miami's where they're at, et cetera.

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Speaker 4: Ronald the three man Weaver. Ronnie. How you living.

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Speaker 5: I'm living a lot better Ben after recent things. You

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fantastic Wednesday. Feeling very thankful Ben, very thankful for everything,

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Speaker 4: Love and appreciate you, buddy always. You got to take

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gonna get into Aaron Rodrick commentary first and foremost here

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in this first hour, get into our question and poll today.

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One of the things I'm delving into here is By's

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issue average winning scoring margin, right, which over the last

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best records in college football from a power conference member,

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twenty and three.

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Speaker 3: Very few have that record.

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the last two years. But their average winning scoring margin

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Speaker 4: If you take out the fcsfos, it's thirteen point seven points.

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BYU is in that great to elite status. They're still

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a good to great team, not a great to elite team.

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Speaker 4: The human element, combined with the analytics, doesn't like BYU

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as much as these other teams. And I'll read the

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last night's College Football Playoff Rankings show Hunter said some

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interesting things about the eye test College game day, as

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Speaker 4: By the way, we'll get into some sound here momentarily

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from Aaron Rodgers, but this is what he said, Hunter Yrchek,

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loss teams Oklahoma, Notre Dame and Alabama. It's really the

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way they looked in that game against Texas Tech. They

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were dominated on both sides of the ball in that

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taking that into account. By the way, no one within

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the committee or the committee chairman that's gone on record

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Speaker 3: Think is folly.

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pitt who's ranked. Then Oklahoma has wins at number eighteen,

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number twenty, number eighteen, Michigan, number twenty Tennessee, and then

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at number ten Alabama. My thing is this Notre Dame

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Speaker 3: They have a loss to Miami.

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Speaker 4: And it's ahead to head and they're ahead of Miami,

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and their best win is against whom Southern Cal, who's

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at fifteen BYU's best win is against number thirteen Utah.

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That's my biggest qualm is the fighting Irish in all this.

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This is where preseason branding, equity rankings combined with revenue right,

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the revenue generation within TV rights, combined with population density,

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gets into this invitational. Man, I hope Notre Dame does

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not get into the college football Playoff. Is it good

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for consumership, for viewership, Yes it is, But does Notre

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Dame truly deserve to be in the time. I don't

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just taking into account this these uh, these quotes here

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from Hunter Yrzchech Committee chairman. I believe, and may you

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may call me a negative nancy. You may call me,

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uh all manner of hateful and spiteful things, you know,

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glass half empty type of guy. I believe in order

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for BYU to get into the college football Playoff, they

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championship game. And you don't want to look too four like.

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Speaker 3: It's not my job as.

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as a Cougar club member, or anything like that to

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just take it one game at a time.

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Speaker 3: That's not my job.

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Speaker 4: That's Killane's job. That's the coach's staff, the coaching staff job.

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That's the player's job. I'm just telling you what forecast says.

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The win, the potential win versus Cincinnati, even if you

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win by thirty points, it still falls on deaf ears.

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twenty five, and they're not going to be in the

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top twenty five after they lose to BYU. And all

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you're doing is doing what the team that's ranked behind

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you has done, which has beat them by thirty points.

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to beat Cincinnati on the road and Utah beat them

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at home. And that is my issue. It's a huge issue,

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and no one even brought it up. I don't think

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in the college football playoff ranking show. I'm like, do

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you guys really We talk about this in college basketball

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every single March madness? Right, you have different tiers, you

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two quad, three on the road, neutral at home. Why

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the college football catball, the college football oligopoly doesn't want

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it to be a part of it just yet.

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Speaker 3: They don't need it to be a part of it

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Speaker 4: They got a lot of criticism last year and they're

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com A rod. What's the offense been like? In preparation

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for another big game on the road versus Sincy.

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Speaker 3: We had a good practice today.

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Speaker 6: I think, you know, we had a sense of urgency

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last week and you can kind of feel that again.

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It's the games get bigger each week and everybody knows

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what's at stake, you know, so I think today was really.

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Speaker 4: Good, solid a sense of urgency you need it. I

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need a sense of urgency. Look, Ron, I don't know

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what you're taking is on that. But if even if

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BYU goes on the road and beat Sincy by thirty,

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I don't think BYU moves up at all. I think

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there's gonna make Yeah, well, nice job. That's what you're

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supposed to do, right, Yeah, exactly. No.

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Speaker 5: Look, I mean you're seeing what Utah is doing and

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they're moving up, but it's like you're supposed to be

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the bad Baylor team fifty five to twenty nine or

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twenty eight or whatever it was.

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Speaker 4: Like.

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Speaker 5: Look, I said that they have to win these games

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like that against TCU thirty plus, but yeah, they need

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to go beat this team like forty two to fourteen seventeen, Ben.

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They have to put on the same performance. But they're

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not going to get credit for it. But guess what

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if you don't do that, then you're gonna get jipped

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for it.

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Speaker 2: So you have to do it.

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Speaker 4: You need cannibalism up front, no doubt. And so we'll

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delve in that here a little bit later. But I'll

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put that question out. Where do you feel, where do

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you look and say, hey, this cannibalism, this college football

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chaos could occur from the top ten that's currently in

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positions to get the invite to the college football Playoff.

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Ay Ron, your last two opponents have been at the

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top of the Big twelve, and rush defense against TCU

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had a lot of success. Who do you why do

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you think that was well?

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Speaker 6: We executed pretty well, I thought in that game, and

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we had a good plan. They are a good defense,

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though they tough to run the ball against. And I

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was concerned about it honestly going into it. And you know,

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we the rushing numbers weren't amazing, but it was what

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it did for us though, is if we can establish

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the run, then our play action pass that's really what

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opens up for us. And you know, we made some

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good plays in the passing game too. So we want

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to be a balanced team and I thought we achieved

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that on Saturday.

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Speaker 3: Ballance Baby balance. They were affected.

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 4: That offensive line did a tremendous job. I was maybe

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most impressed by the offensive line in this game, just

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dominating a print and I was confident to be He's

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gonna be able to run the ball.

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Speaker 3: I didn't know they'd run that well.

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Speaker 4: There have been a few drops by your wide receivers

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a Rod, is that a concern or you're not really

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worried about that always?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean drop Ball is always concerned. That was,

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you know, in a game full of positive, lot of positives,

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that was one of the negatives we talked about on

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Monday with the team. But our guys had been making

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plays all year. So we're just gonna keep working and

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try to do better this week.

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Speaker 4: Gotta get better, gotta have a sincegery. Hit the judge machine.

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I always say this tongue in cheek, but it's not

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an Otter Code violation to hit the jugs after practice.

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Go hit them jugs, get after them jugs. Hey, Rod

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as a whole, are you pleased with the receiving corps?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, those guys they execute, They do a lot of

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things in our offense. They block for us. They're involved

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in the run game as as ballcarriers and his blockers

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and been executing at pretty high level in the passing

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game as well. So I'm and we just got to

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try to keep getting a little bit better each game.

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Speaker 3: It's nice to have Jojo back.

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Speaker 6: Jojo played much better game two than he did in

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need him take another step this week as well, because

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he When we have Jojo, Chase and Parker out there,

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that's a pretty good group.

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Speaker 3: So need Jojo to to be great. He's a great blocker.

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Speaker 4: That's why he's he's great in the blocking game.

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Speaker 3: He's a great route runner too.

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Speaker 4: He's a big body, and I mean he he he

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runs good routes for his size. His hands are still

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a question mark, so I I even Parker sometimes hands

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have been questionable, and even Chase has been questionable at times.

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they're doing a lot of great things. These kidds doing

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a lot of great things on the field. Off the field,

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say thirty minutes post practice and work on the hands.

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What did you see from Bear? What did Bear show

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you in the bounce back game? A Rod against TCU.

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Speaker 6: Played very well. Yeah, I mean I knew he would

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and he's he's he has great character, he's a great competitor,

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he's accountable, and I knew he would bounce back and

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play well. And that's what he did.

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Speaker 4: Bounce back. That's who we use. It's a part of

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his persona. Will he keep on track on the road

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versus Cincinnati in a hostile environment. Hopefully Cincinnati's dubbers are

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down and the fans are given up and they don't

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show up. What is the challenge going into Cincinnati in

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a night game on the road, knowing they're coming off

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multiple losses?

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Speaker 6: Now, yeah, the first of all, they're a good team.

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That's the big challenge right there, is just we're playing

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as a good team. They have good players, good schemes,

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they're well coached. So that's the first part is just

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that they're good. The secondly, we're on the road, which

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we didn't handle our last road game very well, didn't

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handle crowd noise very well, so we've got to do

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better with that. And and then just yeah, it's it's

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a long trip. So you know we've we've done it

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before and we've won games on the road in the past.

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But it's a huge challenge for sure. This is a

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team that that is.

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Speaker 4: Very good, good football team, very talented. They've just suffered

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a couple of lawsuites. One was a devastating one on

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the road versus you know, Utah team that's playing their

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best ball. The other one was at home versus a

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very respected in my opinion, ver respect will not necessarily

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respected you. Who's only a three loss team right now?

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They're winning, they continue to find a way to win.

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So uh, good football team. They're talented, no doubt. Saw

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you the a rod number seven, saw you? Uh, you know,

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talking about the noise here? How do you prepare for

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the noise?

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Speaker 1: Uh?

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Speaker 3: Or sorry?

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Speaker 4: Preparing for the noise? How do you prepare for the

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noise on the road.

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Speaker 6: It's really the only way you can. You just try

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to It's miserable. I mean, you pipe that noise in

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and it's it makes practice miserable. But that's the only

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way you can really practice.

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Speaker 4: So that's what that's what we'll do. Yeah, yeah, anyway, Yeah,

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you definitely have to get the uh. So what they

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do is they'll put in to their audio system, theyll

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roll out their audio system and then they'll put the

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crowd noise in. They'll pipe in excuse me, the uh,

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the the crowd noise. So uh, it's uh, it's something

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that needs to be done. You need to probably going

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into any hostile you probably need to be working on

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your silent count all week long and just have that

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be your standard period. Nipperton Nipperton Stadium, I think what

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holds fifty thousand or so forty thousand Nippert Stadium. Nippert

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only forty thousand, So I don't think it's gonna be

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as loud. And it's not a vertical stadium either, it's

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more of like a bowl.

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Speaker 3: So I think we'll be okay.

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Speaker 4: I don't think it's gonna be too loud it we'll

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be all right anyway, Still prep for silent count. What

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stands out to you about the front seven of Cincinnati.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean they have good man. The defensive line

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is really good. Those linebackers are good and they're big.

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The linebackers are six four two forty each, the two

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inside guys and the d line is very good. And yeah,

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and it's a tough scheme too. I mean, this is

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it's a unique scheme and you have to you have

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to do unique things to try to attack it. And

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we definitely have our hands full for sure.

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Speaker 3: Gonna be a tough one, no doubt.

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Speaker 4: Will we see Cody Hagen against Cincinnati A Ron Hope.

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Speaker 6: So he's he's practicing and we'll see how he you know,

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how he goes throughout the week. We're not not sure yet,

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but he did practice today.

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Speaker 4: I did like seeing Tiger run the ball out from

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the end zone.

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Speaker 3: I did.

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Speaker 4: I'll be honest, I think he's a little bit bigger.

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I think he's a little bit thicker than Cody. I

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like Cody in a situation when when he's not necessarily

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getting vertical in the kickoff return game, but he's it's

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that elongated stretch kind of wall return where he takes

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it upfield and then you see him bow to the

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left or to the right and you run around the

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wall up the sideline so you can showcase the speed.

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If you're going vertical, then I like Tiger, and I

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might even like Canada Reees personally.

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Speaker 3: Cody just gets stripped.

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Speaker 4: Up a little bit too much when he's getting vertical

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in that kick return game. Just isn't able to fight

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through contact as well. He's a speed guy, not a

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oply physical guy. That's my take. Is there any update

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right now? It's shooting boy. Will he be back this season?

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Speaker 6: We're hoping. We're hoping he won't play in this game,

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but we're hoping that he does something for us before

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the season's over. Yes, he's he's slowly getting back.

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Speaker 4: It's been a tough, tough.

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Speaker 3: Road maybe Bowl game possibly.

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Speaker 5: Not the classic, not the classic Bowl game?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yep. Uh. What do you make of Lj's performance

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against TCU on Saturday?

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Speaker 6: I thought he played outstanding? Yeah he LJ played so well.

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He he ran the ball well. Uh, he's so good

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in the open field and passing game and we got

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a couple of completions in the open field and he

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makes people miss and makes extra yards. And then he's

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he's a really good blocker in pass protection for us

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and uh, just all around good player. Man. We love him.

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Speaker 4: Gotta love LJ. Final thing from a rod. His durability

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has been pretty good this year. What do you make

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h What do you make of what he's been able

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to overcome so much this season?

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Speaker 3: Well, LJ, he takes good care of himself.

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Speaker 6: He's first of all, he's a big guy, a big

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strong dude, and he takes really good care of himself.

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He's very very professional about caring for his body, getting sleep.

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Speaker 3: You know, he eats right.

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Speaker 6: I mean, he does all everything he can and not

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never guarantees that you're gonna stay healthy. But he also

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plays with really good technique. He plays with good pad level.

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He just he plays the game the right way, and

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so you know we're gonna give him the ball as

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much as we can.

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Speaker 3: They go.

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this segment.

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Speaker 4: One of the elements that is maybe keeping Cougar fans

509
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up at night is BYU is sitting at number eleven

510
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of the College Football Playoff Committee's rankings.

511
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Speaker 3: I asked this question to Kugarnation.

512
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Speaker 4: Jake retch laugh in the Two Lane Wave are sitting

513
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at number twenty four in the College Football playff Committee rankings.

514
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That's the highest ranked G six program. That means if

515
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they continue down this path, if they continue to win,

516
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they will go to the College Football Playoff and BYU

517
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may not. How does that make you feel, Kugarnation, how

518
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does it make you feel that you could possibly maybe

519
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if Brett or Mark in the Alible Ball come together

520
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and they want to see the Holy War again at

521
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:49,200
the Alimble Bowl. I'm just going Domino worst case scenario here,

522
00:27:50,319 --> 00:27:52,519
not trying to be negative, but we got to talk

523
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about worst case scenarios.

524
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Speaker 3: They've happened before.

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Speaker 4: BOI hasn't gotten over the hump at times. It could

526
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happen again. I hope it doesn't. That's all we really

527
00:28:03,079 --> 00:28:05,200
ride on these days. Ride a little bit of hope

528
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sometimes having a little.

529
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Speaker 3: Bit of faith.

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Speaker 4: You gotta have faith, gotta have faith over fear. I'm

531
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still riding with faith, but I gotta prepare emotionally, mentally,

532
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:22,079
physically for the worst case scenario as well. So I

533
00:28:22,079 --> 00:28:27,960
asked Kugarnation how they feel about this. Look, Cougar Stats

534
00:28:28,799 --> 00:28:32,640
drops the gift of Obi wan Kenobi in the bar,

535
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telling a lesser being. You know that he wasn't JENEDI

536
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:42,640
mind tricking him. I want to go home and rethink

537
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my life. Highly ranked True Blue by you says, wait

538
00:28:47,599 --> 00:28:50,640
until the final rankings happened before any of this discussion happens. However,

539
00:28:50,839 --> 00:28:53,519
we're so far ahead of schedule with Bear as Bear

540
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is better than Jake even as a freshman.

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Speaker 3: It's just about this season.

542
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Speaker 4: It's the next two to three seasons and ceiling looking

543
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forward to the next few seasons.

544
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Speaker 3: I get it. Bring him newsfeed sucks, but.

545
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Speaker 4: Happy that he was able to overcome false allegations and

546
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make it there, even if it's without BYU James Harkness,

547
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I feel happy for him, Lance Rawl. That would be

548
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awesome for Retzlaf. He deserves it. BYU can only play

549
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the games they are given. Even if they went out

550
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and beat Texas taking the Big Twelve championship, they'll have

551
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a chance to prove that they belong. If they don't,

552
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then it's on to next year. So Cougar fans, I mean, look,

553
00:29:37,279 --> 00:29:39,720
they love Jake. They love what they did that Jake

554
00:29:39,799 --> 00:29:43,400
did for BYU. But it hurts a little bit. Of

555
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:46,559
course it hurts. You don't want to have to admit it.

556
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It's just the way it is. The other question that

557
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I have here, even if BYU goes on the road

558
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and beat Cincinnati by thirty points, what will the committee

559
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say about that win? I think they're gonna say, you're

560
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just doing what the number thirteen team did behind you.

561
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Speaker 3: They won't to count for road versus home wins.

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Speaker 4: They'll say a decent U of a team beat the

563
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Cincinnati team at Cincinnati. You're not special. You're just doing

564
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what you're supposed to do. With the schedule that's ahead

565
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of you, you can't move up. You're gonna have to

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rely on catibalism and chaos in the top ten. Well

567
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will that? Where would that loss come from? Alabama versus

568
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aubren notre name versus Syracuse? What other teams could lose

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with their remaining schedule. Let's discuss a few things here.

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John Summer All, by the way, doesn't even think his

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team deserves to be to be in the top twenty five.

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John summerl is the head coach of the two lane weight.

573
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This is what he said when the media asked him

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about getting into the CFP and being ranked in the

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top twenty five.

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Speaker 7: I mean, I'll just be very candid. Uh, there's some

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days I fel like we're one of the bottom twenty

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five teams country watching us play. So you know, if

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we want to start feeling comfortable or casual about somebody

580
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wanted to vote us in the top twenty five teams,

581
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there must be a lot of bad football going on

582
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if we're in the top twenty five teams. So I mean,

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there must be some really bad football played right now

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in college football.

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Speaker 4: So I don't know. We're average. We're an average team.

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Speaker 7: We get every we get every six or seven days,

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and we've been on the schedule of the week to

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promote ourselves or embarrass ourselves. We've done that before, so

589
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we better get ready to play. I think we're I

590
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watched this practically. I think we're average.

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Speaker 4: Average, he says, we're an average team. Look, that's you know,

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you have to have a cinder row. I was actually

593
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chatting with Brett always bringing the hammer pre pre show,

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and you may hate it, but you know, there's like

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a there's a unique feeling that only EYU fans have

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right now because for so long you were in G five.

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For so long you were an independent on the outside

598
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looking in, being discriminated against. Now you're P four and

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you're still getting You're there, you're knocking on the door,

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but you're not predicted, projected with your remaining schedule necessary

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to get in for the regular season, right and even

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if you get to the Big twel championship and you

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keep it close, you may not be getting in. So

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looking at Tulane, who is the highest ranked G six

605
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program right now, you're like, well, they shouldn't be in

606
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the College Football Playoff.

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Speaker 3: They're not good enough.

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Speaker 4: Even John Summerl himself said they're an average team. They

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don't deserve to be in the top twenty five because

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they have so many losses and they're just not one

611
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of the top twelve best teams in college football. But

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the way that we set up the College Football Playoff

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Committee was for the cinderella cinderellas, as we've seen in

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March Madness, bring additional eyeballs, the hope, the prayer, the

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faith that maybe they can make a run, maybe they

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can beat them.

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Speaker 3: Last year, did that happen some will.

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Speaker 4: Say ASU was a bit of a Cinderella. I disagree.

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SMU and Boise State were the Cinderellas, and they got

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curb stopped, they got to demolish. They lost by three scores,

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I believe, both of them in the College Football Playoff.

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Speaker 3: So this will continue.

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Speaker 4: This is the standard until we expand, until we have

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bye weeks into the College Football Playoff, etc.

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Speaker 3: Which we do have.

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Speaker 4: But like if we expand to sixteen, or you want

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to expand to twenty or twenty two, whatever it may be.

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Speaker 3: It's just the way it is.

629
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Speaker 4: So I asked the question, where will cannibalism occur? Well

630
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and impactful cannibalism for insipan, If Ohio State loses to Michigan,

631
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Ohio State is not getting bounced out of the top ten,

632
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so that really doesn't matter. What about Indiana Will they

633
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lose a game? Does it matter? They won't get bounced either.

634
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Why because they're eleven and oh they'd have to lose

635
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two games and they're most likely not going to lose

636
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versus perdue they got a bye week in preparation. By

637
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the way, Texas A and m is skirted by a

638
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number of games. They have interestingly enough.

639
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Speaker 3: Let's say this.

640
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Speaker 4: Let's say Texas A and M loses to Texas. Does

641
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that bounce Texas A and M out of the top ten?

642
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They're ten and oh right now only a one lost team.

643
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Most likely not. They don't get bounced out of the

644
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top ten. Not gonna happen. So like you're sitting there

645
00:34:50,039 --> 00:34:55,360
looking for ways pass in which BYU can get it.

646
00:34:56,000 --> 00:35:01,559
There's an interesting one, Georgia versus Georgia Tech. If Georgia

647
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loses two games, does that bounce.

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Speaker 3: Them out of the top ten.

649
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Speaker 4: I'm not convinced.

650
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Speaker 3: I don't think so. I think they're still in the

651
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top ten.

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Speaker 4: Will there be shifting and pivoting, et cetera within that

653
00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:20,159
top ten? Yes, but it's not gonna happen. Texas Tech

654
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is gonna win out. They got West Virginia. Rich Rod

655
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:27,440
can shock the world, I guess. I mean, are you

656
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hoping for that?

657
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Speaker 3: Though? You're trying to get two teams in?

658
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Speaker 4: Right? You're trying to get two teams in. Is this

659
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one on the road ors this one at Tech? It's

660
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at West Virginia. That's an interesting one. I don't that's

661
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not gonna help be yu though I don't think I

662
00:35:46,519 --> 00:35:48,239
don't think it would help. I don't think it would

663
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because if you if you put even if they lose

664
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to West Virginia, does that push Texas Tech out of

665
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the top ten? Does it?

666
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Speaker 3: Maybe? Right there?

667
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Speaker 4: Right two lost Texas Tech team they've lost to ASHI

668
00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:06,920
and West Virginia that they bounce them. But do they

669
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fall behind BYU? Do they fall behind Utah? Probably not.

670
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Then you're gonna shuffle.

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Speaker 3: It's gonna be.

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Speaker 4: Texas Tech at eleven, BYU at twelve. Utah thirteen doesn't

673
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:26,119
help BYU, So then you move on to Ole miss Ole,

674
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miss has Mississippi State. Mississippi State is an interesting study.

675
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They're below five hundred. They've been competitive at times. They

676
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almost knocked off they knocked off Arkansas. They've beat Northern Illinois.

677
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They beat actually Arizona State by the way earlier this season.

678
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:47,599
That could have been a nice non conference data point

679
00:36:47,639 --> 00:36:53,239
for US to have. Dillingham anyway, they were competitive versus

680
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:56,119
Tennessee forty one to thirty four. They got stopped by

681
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Texas A and M. They lost a close one to

682
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Florida twenty three twenty one. They've had multiple one score

683
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games Texas forty five to thirty eight. Most recently, though,

684
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they've lost to Georgia and Missou by three scorers and

685
00:37:09,519 --> 00:37:13,440
two scores respectively, so they're not necessarily on the right track,

686
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but it's a bit of a rivalry game. If ole

687
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Miss is a two loss team, do they drop out

688
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of the top ten their one losses to Georgia? I

689
00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:28,440
don't think so. I don't think oh Miss drops out either.

690
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I don't think Lane Kiffen, being as sexy as he

691
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is to viewership. I think that that's a debatable one,

692
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:42,000
but I'm not convinced that ole Miss at two losses

693
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:49,920
drops out Oregon. The next one Oregon has USC. Oregon

694
00:37:50,039 --> 00:37:54,000
is nine to one their one losses to Indiana. If

695
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:57,440
they lose to USC, is Oregon dropping out of the

696
00:37:57,440 --> 00:37:59,719
top ten, they could lose the bet. They could lose

697
00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:02,599
back back games. By the way they have USC and Washington.

698
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:06,400
Washington is a good football team. They really are there

699
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:09,880
seven to three. They kind of remind me of like TCU.

700
00:38:10,199 --> 00:38:15,719
TCU can compete with anybody. Washington puts up points. Unfortunately

701
00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:17,880
for Washington, they lost to Wisconsin thirteen to ten.

702
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Speaker 3: That's a disappointing one.

703
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Speaker 4: They lost to Michigan twenty four to seven, and they

704
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lost to the Ohio State twenty four to six.

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Speaker 3: They just destroyed.

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Speaker 4: They destroyed Illinois ranked the Illinois team at the time,

707
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and Purdue. They also beat up on Rutgers in Maryland.

708
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I'm not saying Oregon's gonna lose to Washington, but they

709
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they could lose the USC. They're at home and then

710
00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:41,320
they're at Washington. You need Oregon to be a three

711
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:44,519
loss team to out ounce them out of the top ten,

712
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because if they lose to USC, they have too many

713
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quality losses to be bounced out of the top ten.

714
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:53,679
Oh they lost to Indiana, who's our.

715
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Speaker 3: Number two team in the country. They lost to USC, who's.

716
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Speaker 4: A top fifteen team in the country. Those are quality

717
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:11,920
losses BYU doesn't get a quality loss unfortunately, So Oregon

718
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:15,000
two loss team, I'm not convinced that they get bounced.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so you're looking at the two loss teams. Now,

720
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you need.

721
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Speaker 4: Oklahoma to lose to MISSOU. You need Oklahoma to lose

722
00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:28,840
to LSU. That is a possibility and a viability. Missoo's

723
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:32,320
good seven and three right now. They beat up on

724
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Mississippi State. They lost a close one to Vanderbilt. They

725
00:39:37,559 --> 00:39:41,199
lost to Texas A and M. They lost Alabama twenty

726
00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:43,760
seven to twenty four. Missoo's a good football team. They

727
00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:47,360
beat Auburn twenty three to seventeen. That's their last five games.

728
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That is what you're praying for right now. Oklahoma has

729
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:56,519
to lose to MISSOO or LSU. LSU is six and four.

730
00:39:56,559 --> 00:40:00,400
They fired their coach earlier this year, and you know,

731
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they've been competitive the last two games. They're at twenty

732
00:40:03,159 --> 00:40:05,960
to nine to Alabama. Arkansas they beat twenty three to

733
00:40:06,039 --> 00:40:08,519
twenty two, so they've lost one one one. They were

734
00:40:08,519 --> 00:40:11,159
okay versus Texas A and M. I think that was

735
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:17,280
when actually their head coach got fired, Chip Kelly or sorry,

736
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why did I just call him Chip Kelly?

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Speaker 3: Sorry?

738
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Speaker 4: You know this is Frank Wilson the thirties now the interim,

739
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I believe. So I'm intrigued to see what happens. Obviously,

740
00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:37,760
we're looking at these opportunities and you're wondering what's the

741
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:44,480
most likely scenario. Notre Dame may not happen, Alabama may

742
00:40:44,519 --> 00:40:47,599
not happen. They could lose to Auburn, though, those are

743
00:40:47,599 --> 00:40:49,719
some of your options right now kugrenation. Where do you

744
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see the loss coming? What's your predicted loss? In order

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the colle Football Playoff, only ten will essentially get in.

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Then you're gonna have, you know, essentially an at large

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and and and then a G six. Right, we know

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that it's unfortunate, but it looks like BYU and Utah

777
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are the first two teams out. And you hope that

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they don't end up in the Alamo Bowl together. And

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Brett or Mark just doesn't want to just I don't

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know why you do that. I don't know why the

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Alma would do that, but they very well could. Just

782
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to sell tickets and get eyeballs on a Holy War

783
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twice in one season. Crazy anyway, I want to get

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Speaker 3: This is what he had to say about the rankings.

806
00:43:45,559 --> 00:43:47,599
Speaker 8: Eleven and one Texas Tech and an eleven and one

807
00:43:47,679 --> 00:43:51,199
by you meet in Arlington. What the judgment is after

808
00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:54,159
that game, because I think personally and this shouldn't be

809
00:43:54,199 --> 00:43:56,480
a surprise that that's.

810
00:43:56,280 --> 00:43:57,000
Speaker 4: A two big league.

811
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Speaker 8: If you if you put if you put eleven in

812
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one BYU and eleven in one Texas Tech in Arlington,

813
00:44:03,199 --> 00:44:04,400
those are your two playoff teams.

814
00:44:04,639 --> 00:44:06,239
Speaker 4: The Big twelve should be a two bid league.

815
00:44:06,519 --> 00:44:11,119
Speaker 8: It's a power conference in every measure of the definition.

816
00:44:11,599 --> 00:44:14,840
And eleven and one against eleven and one. You can't

817
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:17,679
go outside of those teams to find a different two

818
00:44:17,679 --> 00:44:19,639
loss team to put in the playoff. You just can't,

819
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:23,480
especially if b while you beat that team, you're considering, Okay,

820
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:24,639
it shouldn't.

821
00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:25,079
Speaker 4: Even be a discussion.

822
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Speaker 8: You're talking ah, Obviously the committee values.

823
00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:29,599
Speaker 4: Here's what the committee.

824
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:33,039
Speaker 8: They value less the number of wins you have against

825
00:44:33,039 --> 00:44:36,559
good teams more than the victory margin you have against

826
00:44:36,559 --> 00:44:39,760
bad teams or less good teams. They love the fact

827
00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:42,360
that you talk smoking people right now, even though they

828
00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:45,480
are teams you should beat. They think that matters more

829
00:44:45,719 --> 00:44:49,360
than having one loss, a better record, and beating obviously

830
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:53,519
arguably better teams on the whole. So that's what I

831
00:44:53,519 --> 00:44:55,320
always knew that was gonna be the case, because they

832
00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:59,880
love what's called game control. If you blow somebody out,

833
00:45:00,039 --> 00:45:03,320
they love that. They absolutely love it. Now, is Utah

834
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:05,440
beating the two best teams in the conference? No, No,

835
00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:07,400
those are the teams they lost to. Okay Boy is

836
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:09,400
one of those teams. But when they win a game,

837
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:12,039
they win it convincingly, and the committee loves that.

838
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:16,239
Speaker 4: There's still this idea over the last two years that

839
00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:19,000
BYU gets lucky and they get by by the skin

840
00:45:19,079 --> 00:45:19,760
of their teeth.

841
00:45:21,079 --> 00:45:22,119
Speaker 3: And some of that has to.

842
00:45:22,079 --> 00:45:26,199
Speaker 4: Do with the scoring winning margin, as I mentioned in

843
00:45:26,199 --> 00:45:30,679
the first segment on average versus fbsfos only winning by

844
00:45:30,679 --> 00:45:35,559
fourteen points per game. They definitely like blowout losses or

845
00:45:35,599 --> 00:45:36,280
blowout wins.

846
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:38,119
Speaker 3: Sorry, they like them.

847
00:45:39,519 --> 00:45:42,280
Speaker 4: There's a public relations issue as it pretends to BYU.

848
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:46,440
There's no doubt, and it didn't. It just just didn't

849
00:45:46,519 --> 00:45:50,039
sit well with anybody watching BYU get demolished by Texas.

850
00:45:50,039 --> 00:45:54,159
Tech Boe was never in the game, at least if

851
00:45:54,199 --> 00:45:57,760
you had started the game for the first half and

852
00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:00,480
it got into a twenty two point line in the

853
00:46:00,519 --> 00:46:03,199
second half, people would say, hey, by you competed in

854
00:46:03,239 --> 00:46:06,480
the first half Texas. Texas pulled away, and the rhetoric

855
00:46:06,519 --> 00:46:12,280
would be BYU had the smallest scoring loss. Twenty two

856
00:46:13,079 --> 00:46:16,000
points was the loss out of all the other teams

857
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:20,960
in the Big twelve minus the ASU game that they lost.

858
00:46:21,519 --> 00:46:24,280
That would be the rhetoric. But all eyes were on

859
00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:28,320
BYU and they flopped. It was unfortunate, even though the

860
00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:33,920
defense kept it semi competitive. That's what Hunter Yurachek, the

861
00:46:34,039 --> 00:46:40,119
chairman said in his eval of BYU. They just never

862
00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:43,320
they never seemed like they were competitive in that game,

863
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:46,400
and that's why BYU is at eleven and some two

864
00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:49,360
loss teams are ahead of them. So Greg raakes some

865
00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:55,039
really good points here. And I think one of the

866
00:46:55,079 --> 00:46:59,920
biggest issues right in this in this eval in these

867
00:47:00,079 --> 00:47:04,119
rankings from the committee, as I was evaluating him last night,

868
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:08,639
I felt like the Miami Notre Dame situation and the

869
00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:13,840
justification for having Notre Dame ahead of Miami was maybe

870
00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:20,119
the biggest folly of the committee, right, Like, you're evaluating

871
00:47:20,159 --> 00:47:24,599
Notre Dame's resume and you're putting them in the position

872
00:47:24,679 --> 00:47:28,719
that they're in because of quality losses versus teams that

873
00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:35,039
are ranked behind them that beat them. I make it

874
00:47:35,119 --> 00:47:40,000
make sense. Why do you even play the games? And well,

875
00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:42,360
you're from Brandon Gurney. I was chatting with Gurney earlier

876
00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:45,239
today and one of the things he pointed out was,

877
00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:50,480
like in March Madness, or leading up to March Madness, we.

878
00:47:50,519 --> 00:47:50,920
Speaker 3: Tend to.

879
00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:57,280
Speaker 4: Maybe gravitate towards certain seating, certain invites of certain teams

880
00:47:57,519 --> 00:47:58,719
if they're trending in the right.

881
00:47:58,599 --> 00:48:02,480
Speaker 3: Direction in late February. I think that's accurate.

882
00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:06,599
Speaker 4: Maybe college football the committee, the College Football Playoff Committee

883
00:48:06,599 --> 00:48:09,239
is doing the same thing. Here. Who's trending in the

884
00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:13,800
right direction at the end of the year and he's

885
00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:16,559
notre dameed one of those teams. You can make an

886
00:48:16,599 --> 00:48:20,199
argument for that. The other thing that they're discounting, the

887
00:48:20,199 --> 00:48:23,559
committee is not taking into account road versus home rent wins.

888
00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:27,400
Why in the world are they not taking into account

889
00:48:27,400 --> 00:48:32,480
home versus road wins? Neutral games? There are a handful

890
00:48:32,519 --> 00:48:35,800
of those in college football every single year. They're not

891
00:48:35,880 --> 00:48:41,880
doing it, unfortunately, and that's where criticism needs to be

892
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:46,920
placed on the committee in this process. What's interesting is

893
00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:51,800
in the offseason. The SEC and even to a certain extent,

894
00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:55,800
the Big Ten, they wanted more strength of schedule and

895
00:48:55,880 --> 00:49:03,000
strength of record metrics being included in these evaluations. It's

896
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:05,239
one of the reasons why they went to nine games

897
00:49:05,239 --> 00:49:10,199
in conference, nine games and they have strategically. You look

898
00:49:10,239 --> 00:49:14,400
at how the SEC has set up their scheduling. None

899
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:16,880
of these teams really have a whole lot of crossover.

900
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:17,599
Speaker 3: And playing against each other.

901
00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:23,800
Speaker 4: They were pretty strategic about They knew Greig'sainking knew prior

902
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:27,440
to kickoff of the college football season which teams were

903
00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:29,440
trending in the right direction, that they don't really play

904
00:49:29,440 --> 00:49:31,719
each other. There's not a whole lot of cannibalism maybe

905
00:49:31,760 --> 00:49:35,280
as much happening in the SEC this year as opposed

906
00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:40,719
to other years. Strength of record in college football right now,

907
00:49:41,400 --> 00:49:44,480
if that was actually taken into account BYU is number

908
00:49:44,519 --> 00:49:45,400
six in the country.

909
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Speaker 3: How's their strength of schedule? Not as good?

910
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Speaker 4: But strength of record, which is a different analytic that

911
00:49:53,519 --> 00:49:56,000
the SEC wanted a number six.

912
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Speaker 3: Make it make sense. Make it make sense.

913
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Speaker 4: Let's go to break Eyes coming up in the four

914
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or sorry, the three h five segment. We'll get into

915
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more commentary. Jay Hill Isaiah Glasker and more. What does

916
00:50:08,960 --> 00:50:11,360
Jay Hill think about this Cougar defense and how are

917
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they prepping for Cincinnati? Little scattering report coming up next

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