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despite the fact that BYU's one of the first two
teams out.
Speaker 3: Of the college football playoff.
Speaker 4: As of today, we don't know what's gonna happen, what
type of college football carnage will ensue in the next
couple of weeks. But you hope more college football cannibalism
at the top really does occur. You hope that Alabama loses,
so maybe Auburn. You hope that somehow someway, maybe Notre
Dame loses again. Like, if you're wishing, hoping for losses
in college football, where are they most likely to come?
Is Notre Dame gonna lose to Syracuse? Man, that would
be interesting. Is Notre Dame gonna lose to Stamford? Stamford's
been playing not so good football? Are they gonna pull
a rabbit out of their hat suddenly at the end
of the season we were hoping? I don't think so though.
Their last three games lost forty two to seven, thirty
five to twenty in twenty to fifteen. But maybe there's
some magic left still in the cardinal. Syracuse is an
interesting study. They're three and seven. You thought they were good,
maybe out the front end, because who did they beat?
They beat Clemson earlier in the year. They beat Clemson,
and you thought Clemson was better than they really were.
Over the last three games, they's lost a Georgia Tech
forty one to sixteen, North Carolina twenty seven to ten,
and then.
Speaker 3: Miami thirty eight to ten.
Speaker 4: So maybe not much magic happening there, Maybe not much
college football cartage happening there, But we'll discuss it. Which
of the teams ahead of BYU are most likely to
take it out and could be bounced out of the
top ten. BYU and Utah are at eleven and twelve, respectively.
What does that mean? Are BYU and Utah going to
meet in the Alamo Bowl for another Holy War matchup
this season? Brett Jormarch looking at it, the Alamo Bowls
looking at it, They're like, well, you have the legacy
Pac twelve teams still here, and you have BYU and
the newfound Big twelve. Maybe we just match them up
again and sell out.
Speaker 3: This bowl game.
Speaker 4: Both BYU fans and Utah fans would not want that,
do not want that, But that very well could happen.
Speaker 1: Ah.
Speaker 4: It would be weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth, no doubt.
We'll get into why the chairman the committee are putting
BYU at eleven in Utah twelve, and why you know,
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.
Speaker 5: I'm living a lot better Ben after recent things. You
know you and I know I. Normally I'm in a
joys The mood is always unless I'm really being at
a Debbie downer. I think that's what they say. But
I'm in a really good mood today. It's a fan
fantastic Wednesday. Feeling very thankful Ben, very thankful for everything,
Thankful for you, Thankful for Brett always bringing the hammer.
I know I'm stealing prob of your part, but I
just want to say I'm grateful.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 5: My heart is warm right now.
Speaker 4: Love and appreciate you, buddy always. You got to take
your wins where you get them.
Speaker 3: Knowing's answered much about it.
Speaker 4: Let's also give a big hugar, Oat, a big krab
and Brett always bringing the hammer, putting out of the content,
making sure we're putting out like all the content that
we need in our rundown and on our social media platforms.
We appreciate that doing all the work behind the scenes.
We're gonna get into a ton of content today. We're
gonna get into Aaron Rodrick commentary first and foremost here
in this first hour, get into our question and poll today.
One of the things I'm delving into here is By's
issue average winning scoring margin, right, which over the last
two years, in year two and year three of the
Big Twelve, Bayh's got twenty and three, one of the
best records in college football from a power conference member,
twenty and three.
Speaker 3: Very few have that record.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's a top ten record in college football over
the last two years. But their average winning scoring margin
is thirteen point seven points.
Speaker 3: Versus FBS opponents.
Speaker 4: If you take out the fcsfos, it's thirteen point seven points.
That BYU's winning at that rate at that clip, and unfortunately,
it's just not good enough to make people believe that
BYU is in that great to elite status. They're still
a good to great team, not a great to elite team.
Speaker 3: That's the situation.
Speaker 4: The human element, combined with the analytics, doesn't like BYU
as much as these other teams. And I'll read the
quote directly from Hunter yurchik Is as the chairman from
last night's College Football Playoff Rankings show Hunter said some
interesting things about the eye test College game day, as
we feared brought yes opportunity, but BYU failed in that
game to a degree from an eye test standpoint.
Speaker 3: This is what Hunter said real quick.
Speaker 4: By the way, we'll get into some sound here momentarily
from Aaron Rodgers, but this is what he said, Hunter Yrchek,
Committee chairman. The question was what are the differentiators that
the committee sees currently that that puts BYU between two
loss teams Oklahoma, Notre Dame and Alabama. It's really the
way they looked in that game against Texas Tech. They
were dominated on both sides of the ball in that
game against Texas Tech. Then you look at their wins.
They have a win over Utah, who's ranked thirteenth, but
then their other wins are against what we would can
center quality wins against an unranked Iowa state team, Arizona
in East Carolina.
Speaker 3: He doesn't mention on.
Speaker 4: The road, by the way, I don't even think they're
taking that into account. By the way, no one within
the committee or the committee chairman that's gone on record
has discussed home wins versus on the road wins. They
just talk about wins which I.
Speaker 3: Think is folly.
Speaker 4: He continues, Then you look at two loss Alabama, that's
got wins against number four Georgia, number fourteen, Vanderbilt, at
number twenty one Missou and also number twenty Tennessee. Notre
Dame's got a win over fifteenth ranks Southern Cal. And
then last week a dominating went on the road at
pitt who's ranked. Then Oklahoma has wins at number eighteen,
number twenty, number eighteen, Michigan, number twenty Tennessee, and then
at number ten Alabama. My thing is this Notre Dame
is maybe the one that I have biggest issue with because.
Speaker 3: They have a loss to Miami.
Speaker 4: And it's ahead to head and they're ahead of Miami,
and their best win is against whom Southern Cal, who's
at fifteen BYU's best win is against number thirteen Utah.
That's my biggest qualm is the fighting Irish in all this.
This is where preseason branding, equity rankings combined with revenue right,
the revenue generation within TV rights, combined with population density,
which is a component of all that is determining who
gets into this invitational. Man, I hope Notre Dame does
not get into the college football Playoff. Is it good
for consumership, for viewership, Yes it is, But does Notre
Dame truly deserve to be in the time. I don't
think so. That's the issue that is a big issue.
And this is my forecast, by the way, little forecast,
just taking into account this these uh, these quotes here
from Hunter Yrzchech Committee chairman. I believe, and may you
may call me a negative nancy. You may call me,
uh all manner of hateful and spiteful things, you know,
glass half empty type of guy. I believe in order
for BYU to get into the college football Playoff, they
will have to be Texas Tech in the Big twelve
championship game. And you don't want to look too four like.
Speaker 3: It's not my job as.
Speaker 4: A media member, as a as a former Boa football player,
as a Cougar club member, or anything like that to
just take it one game at a time.
Speaker 3: That's not my job.
Speaker 4: That's Killane's job. That's the coach's staff, the coaching staff job.
That's the player's job. I'm just telling you what forecast says.
The win, the potential win versus Cincinnati, even if you
win by thirty points, it still falls on deaf ears.
Why even with big Nute out there. Why because they've
lost two in a row and that would be three
in a row, and they're no longer in the top
twenty five, and they're not going to be in the
top twenty five after they lose to BYU. And all
you're doing is doing what the team that's ranked behind
you has done, which has beat them by thirty points.
They won't talk about the fact that BYU is going
to beat Cincinnati on the road and Utah beat them
at home. And that is my issue. It's a huge issue,
and no one even brought it up. I don't think
in the college football playoff ranking show. I'm like, do
you guys really We talk about this in college basketball
every single March madness? Right, you have different tiers, you
have different zones, you have different quads, quad, one quad,
two quad, three on the road, neutral at home. Why
is this not a part of the equation. It's because
the college football catball, the college football oligopoly doesn't want
it to be a part of it just yet.
Speaker 3: They don't need it to be a part of it
just yet.
Speaker 4: They got a lot of criticism last year and they're
gonna maybe try to make amends here. Anyway, we'll delve
into it a little bit more throughout the show, but
we got a good one for you guys. Appreciate you
tuning in, chiming in wherever you're tuning in, chiming in from.
We got Aeron Torres, host of the Aaron Tordon Podcast.
At four o five, we'll get into Jay Hill sound,
Isaiah Glaser commentary in the three o'clock hour at four
point thirty, getting.
Speaker 3: Into some basketball news and O J A. J.
Speaker 4: Davonsa, also Brandon Gurney Cougar Beat five oh five, and
then UVU Men's basketball takes over at five thirty. All
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com A rod. What's the offense been like? In preparation
for another big game on the road versus Sincy.
Speaker 3: We had a good practice today.
Speaker 6: I think, you know, we had a sense of urgency
last week and you can kind of feel that again.
It's the games get bigger each week and everybody knows
what's at stake, you know, so I think today was really.
Speaker 4: Good, solid a sense of urgency you need it. I
need a sense of urgency. Look, Ron, I don't know
what you're taking is on that. But if even if
BYU goes on the road and beat Sincy by thirty,
I don't think BYU moves up at all. I think
there's gonna make Yeah, well, nice job. That's what you're
supposed to do, right, Yeah, exactly. No.
Speaker 5: Look, I mean you're seeing what Utah is doing and
they're moving up, but it's like you're supposed to be
the bad Baylor team fifty five to twenty nine or
twenty eight or whatever it was.
Speaker 4: Like.
Speaker 5: Look, I said that they have to win these games
like that against TCU thirty plus, but yeah, they need
to go beat this team like forty two to fourteen seventeen, Ben.
They have to put on the same performance. But they're
not going to get credit for it. But guess what
if you don't do that, then you're gonna get jipped
for it.
Speaker 2: So you have to do it.
Speaker 4: You need cannibalism up front, no doubt. And so we'll
delve in that here a little bit later. But I'll
put that question out. Where do you feel, where do
you look and say, hey, this cannibalism, this college football
chaos could occur from the top ten that's currently in
positions to get the invite to the college football Playoff.
Ay Ron, your last two opponents have been at the
top of the Big twelve, and rush defense against TCU
had a lot of success. Who do you why do
you think that was well?
Speaker 6: We executed pretty well, I thought in that game, and
we had a good plan. They are a good defense,
though they tough to run the ball against. And I
was concerned about it honestly going into it. And you know,
we the rushing numbers weren't amazing, but it was what
it did for us though, is if we can establish
the run, then our play action pass that's really what
opens up for us. And you know, we made some
good plays in the passing game too. So we want
to be a balanced team and I thought we achieved
that on Saturday.
Speaker 3: Ballance Baby balance. They were affected.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 4: That offensive line did a tremendous job. I was maybe
most impressed by the offensive line in this game, just
dominating a print and I was confident to be He's
gonna be able to run the ball.
Speaker 3: I didn't know they'd run that well.
Speaker 4: There have been a few drops by your wide receivers
a Rod, is that a concern or you're not really
worried about that always?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean drop Ball is always concerned. That was,
you know, in a game full of positive, lot of positives,
that was one of the negatives we talked about on
Monday with the team. But our guys had been making
plays all year. So we're just gonna keep working and
try to do better this week.
Speaker 4: Gotta get better, gotta have a sincegery. Hit the judge machine.
I always say this tongue in cheek, but it's not
an Otter Code violation to hit the jugs after practice.
Go hit them jugs, get after them jugs. Hey, Rod
as a whole, are you pleased with the receiving corps?
Speaker 6: Yeah, those guys they execute, They do a lot of
things in our offense. They block for us. They're involved
in the run game as as ballcarriers and his blockers
and been executing at pretty high level in the passing
game as well. So I'm and we just got to
try to keep getting a little bit better each game.
Speaker 3: It's nice to have Jojo back.
Speaker 6: Jojo played much better game two than he did in
Game one, you know, and and uh, he you just
need him take another step this week as well, because
he When we have Jojo, Chase and Parker out there,
that's a pretty good group.
Speaker 3: So need Jojo to to be great. He's a great blocker.
Speaker 4: That's why he's he's great in the blocking game.
Speaker 3: He's a great route runner too.
Speaker 4: He's a big body, and I mean he he he
runs good routes for his size. His hands are still
a question mark, so I I even Parker sometimes hands
have been questionable, and even Chase has been questionable at times.
So need better receiving from uh, you know, I look,
they're doing a lot of great things. These kidds doing
a lot of great things on the field. Off the field,
say thirty minutes post practice and work on the hands.
What did you see from Bear? What did Bear show
you in the bounce back game? A Rod against TCU.
Speaker 6: Played very well. Yeah, I mean I knew he would
and he's he's he has great character, he's a great competitor,
he's accountable, and I knew he would bounce back and
play well. And that's what he did.
Speaker 4: Bounce back. That's who we use. It's a part of
his persona. Will he keep on track on the road
versus Cincinnati in a hostile environment. Hopefully Cincinnati's dubbers are
down and the fans are given up and they don't
show up. What is the challenge going into Cincinnati in
a night game on the road, knowing they're coming off
multiple losses?
Speaker 6: Now, yeah, the first of all, they're a good team.
That's the big challenge right there, is just we're playing
as a good team. They have good players, good schemes,
they're well coached. So that's the first part is just
that they're good. The secondly, we're on the road, which
we didn't handle our last road game very well, didn't
handle crowd noise very well, so we've got to do
better with that. And and then just yeah, it's it's
a long trip. So you know we've we've done it
before and we've won games on the road in the past.
But it's a huge challenge for sure. This is a
team that that is.
Speaker 4: Very good, good football team, very talented. They've just suffered
a couple of lawsuites. One was a devastating one on
the road versus you know, Utah team that's playing their
best ball. The other one was at home versus a
very respected in my opinion, ver respect will not necessarily
respected you. Who's only a three loss team right now?
They're winning, they continue to find a way to win.
So uh, good football team. They're talented, no doubt. Saw
you the a rod number seven, saw you? Uh, you know,
talking about the noise here? How do you prepare for
the noise?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: Or sorry?
Speaker 4: Preparing for the noise? How do you prepare for the
noise on the road.
Speaker 6: It's really the only way you can. You just try
to It's miserable. I mean, you pipe that noise in
and it's it makes practice miserable. But that's the only
way you can really practice.
Speaker 4: So that's what that's what we'll do. Yeah, yeah, anyway, Yeah,
you definitely have to get the uh. So what they
do is they'll put in to their audio system, theyll
roll out their audio system and then they'll put the
crowd noise in. They'll pipe in excuse me, the uh,
the the crowd noise. So uh, it's uh, it's something
that needs to be done. You need to probably going
into any hostile you probably need to be working on
your silent count all week long and just have that
be your standard period. Nipperton Nipperton Stadium, I think what
holds fifty thousand or so forty thousand Nippert Stadium. Nippert
only forty thousand, So I don't think it's gonna be
as loud. And it's not a vertical stadium either, it's
more of like a bowl.
Speaker 3: So I think we'll be okay.
Speaker 4: I don't think it's gonna be too loud it we'll
be all right anyway, Still prep for silent count. What
stands out to you about the front seven of Cincinnati.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean they have good man. The defensive line
is really good. Those linebackers are good and they're big.
The linebackers are six four two forty each, the two
inside guys and the d line is very good. And yeah,
and it's a tough scheme too. I mean, this is
it's a unique scheme and you have to you have
to do unique things to try to attack it. And
we definitely have our hands full for sure.
Speaker 3: Gonna be a tough one, no doubt.
Speaker 4: Will we see Cody Hagen against Cincinnati A Ron Hope.
Speaker 6: So he's he's practicing and we'll see how he you know,
how he goes throughout the week. We're not not sure yet,
but he did practice today.
Speaker 4: I did like seeing Tiger run the ball out from
the end zone.
Speaker 3: I did.
Speaker 4: I'll be honest, I think he's a little bit bigger.
I think he's a little bit thicker than Cody. I
like Cody in a situation when when he's not necessarily
getting vertical in the kickoff return game, but he's it's
that elongated stretch kind of wall return where he takes
it upfield and then you see him bow to the
left or to the right and you run around the
wall up the sideline so you can showcase the speed.
If you're going vertical, then I like Tiger, and I
might even like Canada Reees personally.
Speaker 3: Cody just gets stripped.
Speaker 4: Up a little bit too much when he's getting vertical
in that kick return game. Just isn't able to fight
through contact as well. He's a speed guy, not a
oply physical guy. That's my take. Is there any update
right now? It's shooting boy. Will he be back this season?
Speaker 6: We're hoping. We're hoping he won't play in this game,
but we're hoping that he does something for us before
the season's over. Yes, he's he's slowly getting back.
Speaker 4: It's been a tough, tough.
Speaker 3: Road maybe Bowl game possibly.
Speaker 5: Not the classic, not the classic Bowl game?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yep. Uh. What do you make of Lj's performance
against TCU on Saturday?
Speaker 6: I thought he played outstanding? Yeah he LJ played so well.
He he ran the ball well. Uh, he's so good
in the open field and passing game and we got
a couple of completions in the open field and he
makes people miss and makes extra yards. And then he's
he's a really good blocker in pass protection for us
and uh, just all around good player. Man. We love him.
Speaker 4: Gotta love LJ. Final thing from a rod. His durability
has been pretty good this year. What do you make
h What do you make of what he's been able
to overcome so much this season?
Speaker 3: Well, LJ, he takes good care of himself.
Speaker 6: He's first of all, he's a big guy, a big
strong dude, and he takes really good care of himself.
He's very very professional about caring for his body, getting sleep.
Speaker 3: You know, he eats right.
Speaker 6: I mean, he does all everything he can and not
never guarantees that you're gonna stay healthy. But he also
plays with really good technique. He plays with good pad level.
He just he plays the game the right way, and
so you know we're gonna give him the ball as
much as we can.
Speaker 3: They go.
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Speaker 3: A couple of things I want to get to in
this segment.
Speaker 4: One of the elements that is maybe keeping Cougar fans
up at night is BYU is sitting at number eleven
of the College Football Playoff Committee's rankings.
Speaker 3: I asked this question to Kugarnation.
Speaker 4: Jake retch laugh in the Two Lane Wave are sitting
at number twenty four in the College Football playff Committee rankings.
That's the highest ranked G six program. That means if
they continue down this path, if they continue to win,
they will go to the College Football Playoff and BYU
may not. How does that make you feel, Kugarnation, how
does it make you feel that you could possibly maybe
if Brett or Mark in the Alible Ball come together
and they want to see the Holy War again at
the Alimble Bowl. I'm just going Domino worst case scenario here,
not trying to be negative, but we got to talk
about worst case scenarios.
Speaker 3: They've happened before.
Speaker 4: BOI hasn't gotten over the hump at times. It could
happen again. I hope it doesn't. That's all we really
ride on these days. Ride a little bit of hope
sometimes having a little.
Speaker 3: Bit of faith.
Speaker 4: You gotta have faith, gotta have faith over fear. I'm
still riding with faith, but I gotta prepare emotionally, mentally,
physically for the worst case scenario as well. So I
asked Kugarnation how they feel about this. Look, Cougar Stats
drops the gift of Obi wan Kenobi in the bar,
telling a lesser being. You know that he wasn't JENEDI
mind tricking him. I want to go home and rethink
my life. Highly ranked True Blue by you says, wait
until the final rankings happened before any of this discussion happens. However,
we're so far ahead of schedule with Bear as Bear
is better than Jake even as a freshman.
Speaker 3: It's just about this season.
Speaker 4: It's the next two to three seasons and ceiling looking
forward to the next few seasons.
Speaker 3: I get it. Bring him newsfeed sucks, but.
Speaker 4: Happy that he was able to overcome false allegations and
make it there, even if it's without BYU James Harkness,
I feel happy for him, Lance Rawl. That would be
awesome for Retzlaf. He deserves it. BYU can only play
the games they are given. Even if they went out
and beat Texas taking the Big Twelve championship, they'll have
a chance to prove that they belong. If they don't,
then it's on to next year. So Cougar fans, I mean, look,
they love Jake. They love what they did that Jake
did for BYU. But it hurts a little bit. Of
course it hurts. You don't want to have to admit it.
It's just the way it is. The other question that
I have here, even if BYU goes on the road
and beat Cincinnati by thirty points, what will the committee
say about that win? I think they're gonna say, you're
just doing what the number thirteen team did behind you.
Speaker 3: They won't to count for road versus home wins.
Speaker 4: They'll say a decent U of a team beat the
Cincinnati team at Cincinnati. You're not special. You're just doing
what you're supposed to do. With the schedule that's ahead
of you, you can't move up. You're gonna have to
rely on catibalism and chaos in the top ten. Well
will that? Where would that loss come from? Alabama versus
aubren notre name versus Syracuse? What other teams could lose
with their remaining schedule. Let's discuss a few things here.
John Summer All, by the way, doesn't even think his
team deserves to be to be in the top twenty five.
John summerl is the head coach of the two lane weight.
This is what he said when the media asked him
about getting into the CFP and being ranked in the
top twenty five.
Speaker 7: I mean, I'll just be very candid. Uh, there's some
days I fel like we're one of the bottom twenty
five teams country watching us play. So you know, if
we want to start feeling comfortable or casual about somebody
wanted to vote us in the top twenty five teams,
there must be a lot of bad football going on
if we're in the top twenty five teams. So I mean,
there must be some really bad football played right now
in college football.
Speaker 4: So I don't know. We're average. We're an average team.
Speaker 7: We get every we get every six or seven days,
and we've been on the schedule of the week to
promote ourselves or embarrass ourselves. We've done that before, so
we better get ready to play. I think we're I
watched this practically. I think we're average.
Speaker 4: Average, he says, we're an average team. Look, that's you know,
you have to have a cinder row. I was actually
chatting with Brett always bringing the hammer pre pre show,
and you may hate it, but you know, there's like
a there's a unique feeling that only EYU fans have
right now because for so long you were in G five.
For so long you were an independent on the outside
looking in, being discriminated against. Now you're P four and
you're still getting You're there, you're knocking on the door,
but you're not predicted, projected with your remaining schedule necessary
to get in for the regular season, right and even
if you get to the Big twel championship and you
keep it close, you may not be getting in. So
looking at Tulane, who is the highest ranked G six
program right now, you're like, well, they shouldn't be in
the College Football Playoff.
Speaker 3: They're not good enough.
Speaker 4: Even John Summerl himself said they're an average team. They
don't deserve to be in the top twenty five because
they have so many losses and they're just not one
of the top twelve best teams in college football. But
the way that we set up the College Football Playoff
Committee was for the cinderella cinderellas, as we've seen in
March Madness, bring additional eyeballs, the hope, the prayer, the
faith that maybe they can make a run, maybe they
can beat them.
Speaker 3: Last year, did that happen some will.
Speaker 4: Say ASU was a bit of a Cinderella. I disagree.
SMU and Boise State were the Cinderellas, and they got
curb stopped, they got to demolish. They lost by three scores,
I believe, both of them in the College Football Playoff.
Speaker 3: So this will continue.
Speaker 4: This is the standard until we expand, until we have
bye weeks into the College Football Playoff, etc.
Speaker 3: Which we do have.
Speaker 4: But like if we expand to sixteen, or you want
to expand to twenty or twenty two, whatever it may be.
Speaker 3: It's just the way it is.
Speaker 4: So I asked the question, where will cannibalism occur? Well
and impactful cannibalism for insipan, If Ohio State loses to Michigan,
Ohio State is not getting bounced out of the top ten,
so that really doesn't matter. What about Indiana Will they
lose a game? Does it matter? They won't get bounced either.
Why because they're eleven and oh they'd have to lose
two games and they're most likely not going to lose
versus perdue they got a bye week in preparation. By
the way, Texas A and m is skirted by a
number of games. They have interestingly enough.
Speaker 3: Let's say this.
Speaker 4: Let's say Texas A and M loses to Texas. Does
that bounce Texas A and M out of the top ten?
They're ten and oh right now only a one lost team.
Most likely not. They don't get bounced out of the
top ten. Not gonna happen. So like you're sitting there
looking for ways pass in which BYU can get it.
There's an interesting one, Georgia versus Georgia Tech. If Georgia
loses two games, does that bounce.
Speaker 3: Them out of the top ten.
Speaker 4: I'm not convinced.
Speaker 3: I don't think so. I think they're still in the
top ten.
Speaker 4: Will there be shifting and pivoting, et cetera within that
top ten? Yes, but it's not gonna happen. Texas Tech
is gonna win out. They got West Virginia. Rich Rod
can shock the world, I guess. I mean, are you
hoping for that?
Speaker 3: Though? You're trying to get two teams in?
Speaker 4: Right? You're trying to get two teams in. Is this
one on the road ors this one at Tech? It's
at West Virginia. That's an interesting one. I don't that's
not gonna help be yu though I don't think I
don't think it would help. I don't think it would
because if you if you put even if they lose
to West Virginia, does that push Texas Tech out of
the top ten? Does it?
Speaker 3: Maybe? Right there?
Speaker 4: Right two lost Texas Tech team they've lost to ASHI
and West Virginia that they bounce them. But do they
fall behind BYU? Do they fall behind Utah? Probably not.
Then you're gonna shuffle.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be.
Speaker 4: Texas Tech at eleven, BYU at twelve. Utah thirteen doesn't
help BYU, So then you move on to Ole miss Ole,
miss has Mississippi State. Mississippi State is an interesting study.
They're below five hundred. They've been competitive at times. They
almost knocked off they knocked off Arkansas. They've beat Northern Illinois.
They beat actually Arizona State by the way earlier this season.
That could have been a nice non conference data point
for US to have. Dillingham anyway, they were competitive versus
Tennessee forty one to thirty four. They got stopped by
Texas A and M. They lost a close one to
Florida twenty three twenty one. They've had multiple one score
games Texas forty five to thirty eight. Most recently, though,
they've lost to Georgia and Missou by three scorers and
two scores respectively, so they're not necessarily on the right track,
but it's a bit of a rivalry game. If ole
Miss is a two loss team, do they drop out
of the top ten their one losses to Georgia? I
don't think so. I don't think oh Miss drops out either.
I don't think Lane Kiffen, being as sexy as he
is to viewership. I think that that's a debatable one,
but I'm not convinced that ole Miss at two losses
drops out Oregon. The next one Oregon has USC. Oregon
is nine to one their one losses to Indiana. If
they lose to USC, is Oregon dropping out of the
top ten, they could lose the bet. They could lose
back back games. By the way they have USC and Washington.
Washington is a good football team. They really are there
seven to three. They kind of remind me of like TCU.
TCU can compete with anybody. Washington puts up points. Unfortunately
for Washington, they lost to Wisconsin thirteen to ten.
Speaker 3: That's a disappointing one.
Speaker 4: They lost to Michigan twenty four to seven, and they
lost to the Ohio State twenty four to six.
Speaker 3: They just destroyed.
Speaker 4: They destroyed Illinois ranked the Illinois team at the time,
and Purdue. They also beat up on Rutgers in Maryland.
I'm not saying Oregon's gonna lose to Washington, but they
they could lose the USC. They're at home and then
they're at Washington. You need Oregon to be a three
loss team to out ounce them out of the top ten,
because if they lose to USC, they have too many
quality losses to be bounced out of the top ten.
Oh they lost to Indiana, who's our.
Speaker 3: Number two team in the country. They lost to USC, who's.
Speaker 4: A top fifteen team in the country. Those are quality
losses BYU doesn't get a quality loss unfortunately, So Oregon
two loss team, I'm not convinced that they get bounced.
Speaker 3: Okay, so you're looking at the two loss teams. Now,
you need.
Speaker 4: Oklahoma to lose to MISSOU. You need Oklahoma to lose
to LSU. That is a possibility and a viability. Missoo's
good seven and three right now. They beat up on
Mississippi State. They lost a close one to Vanderbilt. They
lost to Texas A and M. They lost Alabama twenty
seven to twenty four. Missoo's a good football team. They
beat Auburn twenty three to seventeen. That's their last five games.
That is what you're praying for right now. Oklahoma has
to lose to MISSOO or LSU. LSU is six and four.
They fired their coach earlier this year, and you know,
they've been competitive the last two games. They're at twenty
to nine to Alabama. Arkansas they beat twenty three to
twenty two, so they've lost one one one. They were
okay versus Texas A and M. I think that was
when actually their head coach got fired, Chip Kelly or sorry,
why did I just call him Chip Kelly?
Speaker 3: Sorry?
Speaker 4: You know this is Frank Wilson the thirties now the interim,
I believe. So I'm intrigued to see what happens. Obviously,
we're looking at these opportunities and you're wondering what's the
most likely scenario. Notre Dame may not happen, Alabama may
not happen. They could lose to Auburn, though, those are
some of your options right now kugrenation. Where do you
see the loss coming? What's your predicted loss? In order
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little cougar bye. Greg rebel pontificated about his reaction to
the coll Football Playoff compete rankings, putting BAU at eleven
and Utah at twelve the first two teams out of
the colle Football Playoff, only ten will essentially get in.
Then you're gonna have, you know, essentially an at large
and and and then a G six. Right, we know
that it's unfortunate, but it looks like BYU and Utah
are the first two teams out. And you hope that
they don't end up in the Alamo Bowl together. And
Brett or Mark just doesn't want to just I don't
know why you do that. I don't know why the
Alma would do that, but they very well could. Just
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twice in one season. Crazy anyway, I want to get
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joined Boa Sports Nation Jerrem Jordan Spencer Linn earlier today.
Speaker 3: This is what he had to say about the rankings.
Speaker 8: Eleven and one Texas Tech and an eleven and one
by you meet in Arlington. What the judgment is after
that game, because I think personally and this shouldn't be
a surprise that that's.
Speaker 4: A two big league.
Speaker 8: If you if you put if you put eleven in
one BYU and eleven in one Texas Tech in Arlington,
those are your two playoff teams.
Speaker 4: The Big twelve should be a two bid league.
Speaker 8: It's a power conference in every measure of the definition.
And eleven and one against eleven and one. You can't
go outside of those teams to find a different two
loss team to put in the playoff. You just can't,
especially if b while you beat that team, you're considering, Okay,
it shouldn't.
Speaker 4: Even be a discussion.
Speaker 8: You're talking ah, Obviously the committee values.
Speaker 4: Here's what the committee.
Speaker 8: They value less the number of wins you have against
good teams more than the victory margin you have against
bad teams or less good teams. They love the fact
that you talk smoking people right now, even though they
are teams you should beat. They think that matters more
than having one loss, a better record, and beating obviously
arguably better teams on the whole. So that's what I
always knew that was gonna be the case, because they
love what's called game control. If you blow somebody out,
they love that. They absolutely love it. Now, is Utah
beating the two best teams in the conference? No, No,
those are the teams they lost to. Okay Boy is
one of those teams. But when they win a game,
they win it convincingly, and the committee loves that.
Speaker 4: There's still this idea over the last two years that
BYU gets lucky and they get by by the skin
of their teeth.
Speaker 3: And some of that has to.
Speaker 4: Do with the scoring winning margin, as I mentioned in
the first segment on average versus fbsfos only winning by
fourteen points per game. They definitely like blowout losses or
blowout wins.
Speaker 3: Sorry, they like them.
Speaker 4: There's a public relations issue as it pretends to BYU.
There's no doubt, and it didn't. It just just didn't
sit well with anybody watching BYU get demolished by Texas.
Tech Boe was never in the game, at least if
you had started the game for the first half and
it got into a twenty two point line in the
second half, people would say, hey, by you competed in
the first half Texas. Texas pulled away, and the rhetoric
would be BYU had the smallest scoring loss. Twenty two
points was the loss out of all the other teams
in the Big twelve minus the ASU game that they lost.
That would be the rhetoric. But all eyes were on
BYU and they flopped. It was unfortunate, even though the
defense kept it semi competitive. That's what Hunter Yurachek, the
chairman said in his eval of BYU. They just never
they never seemed like they were competitive in that game,
and that's why BYU is at eleven and some two
loss teams are ahead of them. So Greg raakes some
really good points here. And I think one of the
biggest issues right in this in this eval in these
rankings from the committee, as I was evaluating him last night,
I felt like the Miami Notre Dame situation and the
justification for having Notre Dame ahead of Miami was maybe
the biggest folly of the committee, right, Like, you're evaluating
Notre Dame's resume and you're putting them in the position
that they're in because of quality losses versus teams that
are ranked behind them that beat them. I make it
make sense. Why do you even play the games? And well,
you're from Brandon Gurney. I was chatting with Gurney earlier
today and one of the things he pointed out was,
like in March Madness, or leading up to March Madness, we.
Speaker 3: Tend to.
Speaker 4: Maybe gravitate towards certain seating, certain invites of certain teams
if they're trending in the right.
Speaker 3: Direction in late February. I think that's accurate.
Speaker 4: Maybe college football the committee, the College Football Playoff Committee
is doing the same thing. Here. Who's trending in the
right direction at the end of the year and he's
notre dameed one of those teams. You can make an
argument for that. The other thing that they're discounting, the
committee is not taking into account road versus home rent wins.
Why in the world are they not taking into account
home versus road wins? Neutral games? There are a handful
of those in college football every single year. They're not
doing it, unfortunately, and that's where criticism needs to be
placed on the committee in this process. What's interesting is
in the offseason. The SEC and even to a certain extent,
the Big Ten, they wanted more strength of schedule and
strength of record metrics being included in these evaluations. It's
one of the reasons why they went to nine games
in conference, nine games and they have strategically. You look
at how the SEC has set up their scheduling. None
of these teams really have a whole lot of crossover.
Speaker 3: And playing against each other.
Speaker 4: They were pretty strategic about They knew Greig'sainking knew prior
to kickoff of the college football season which teams were
trending in the right direction, that they don't really play
each other. There's not a whole lot of cannibalism maybe
as much happening in the SEC this year as opposed
to other years. Strength of record in college football right now,
if that was actually taken into account BYU is number
six in the country.
Speaker 3: How's their strength of schedule? Not as good?
Speaker 4: But strength of record, which is a different analytic that
the SEC wanted a number six.
Speaker 3: Make it make sense. Make it make sense.
Speaker 4: Let's go to break Eyes coming up in the four
or sorry, the three h five segment. We'll get into
more commentary. Jay Hill Isaiah Glasker and more. What does
Jay Hill think about this Cougar defense and how are
they prepping for Cincinnati? Little scattering report coming up next
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