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ready to roll and take on the Texas Tech Red Raiders.
BYU right now sits at the top of the Big
Twelve standings. Big Twelve Championship is in their view. Right
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Speaker 5: What will happen? Okay?
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difficult stretch of college football On the back end of
the schedule, You got some very difficult road matchups. Texas
Tech is the one that you have next up, focused
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delve in to the sound bites Kalani Satake addressing the
media earlier today.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to the matchup. I can say.
Speaker 8: That Joey maguire is a really good friend of mine.
I've spent many many meetings and dinners with him, hanging
out and picking his brain, and he's a great builder
of culture and character. And so it was really impressed
with Texas Tech and their entire group, all their players
that they brought to the media day this summer and
carried themselves. We were really respectful and carried themselves with
a lot of confidence, and you can see a lot
of that working through what they've done this season, what
they've accomplished. So congratulations to them and their fans. We're
just looking forward to this matchup, and we know it's
gonna take the best of us to get to go
in there and be victorious. But I'm just focused on
the prep this week and focused on what we can
accomplish and how much better we can get become as
a team between now and by the time we get
there on Saturday morning before kickoff. So looking forward to
the matchup, excited, super respectful to Texas Tech. I mean,
you've talked to a lot of BYU fans and myself
I'm a fan too. We've always had a connection to
Texas Tech because of coach Leech and so we always
found ourselves cheering for them and their success, especially with
what he's been able to do there for so many years,
and then now see and how it all works out,
and that they have a great man at the head
of their program with Joey McGuire and seeing the things
that he's been able to accomplish in his coaching career.
They have a great staff, a lot of people that
we know on their coaching staff, and a lot of
great players that obviously have built that they've bought into
and and and and have built around that culture that
that coach McGuire set there. And it's not a coincidence
or or a chance that they're successful. So looking forward
to the matchup and getting ready to make sure that
we're at our best. We can we can give it
a shot.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 3: Our first squestion will be from John Kune.
Speaker 4: All right, so let me delve into this matchup real quick. Okay,
it's gonna be on ABC. It's a high profile game
at a high profile time. Twelve noon kickoff Mountain time,
ten am Eastern Time, So a lot of eyes. Okay,
this is where you start off your college football watching experience. Okay,
there's a reason why this game had been teased as
a game day destination there in Lubbock. I think over
a week ago, a week and a half ago, Rhys
Davis was talking about Tortilla's tortillas and prognosticating that this
was going to be the place the Texas Tech was
essentially going to be able to take care of business
and BYU versus Texas Tech would be of the featured
game for College Game Day. Remember Pat McAfee went on
his show after the big noon kickoff that BYU received
that visit and guess what, Sorry, ten am Mountain in
noon Eastern. I apologize for inverting that, but Pat McAfee
stated he tried to convince the executive the administrators of
the decision makers to head to Provo for the Holy War.
That big new kickoff couldn't convince them. Pat mcafeel only
has so much power within the ESPN, Disney Hulu co conglomerate,
the power brokers of the sports world.
Speaker 5: So didn't happen.
Speaker 4: But now they're taking Game Day to love it in
a very high profile game in which BYU once again
is not even the favorite. They're eight to oh number
eight in the country, five to Ohero and Big twelve play.
Obviously in Texas Tech eight one, five and one. In
Big twelve play, they lost to Issue on the road
by four points on the road, right that was That
was a devastating loss to them, But they've bounced back
and they've looked really good since then. ESPN Analytics gives
Texas Tech a sixty point nine percent chance of victory.
Not a surprise okay and Vegas Okay is also fa
foring the Red Raiders even more so than what I
thought it would be ten and a half okay, with
an over under a fifty three and a half, so
more points scored in this game. But Texas Texas offense
is in my opinion, being heavily weighted in this particular spread.
I went into other data points, and it looks somewhat similar.
I would say to the BYU Utah matchup, where you
know Utah's offense and defense both were pretty good heading
into that game that BYU Holywar game, as was BYU's,
but the difference was actually that BYU Special teams unit
was significantly like forty slots better than the University of Utah's,
and I see a same similar situation here. Both teams
have good great offenses in defenses, Texas Tech comes in
at nine in SP plus in the SP plus metric,
number eight defensively, so offensively other ninth defensively. Their eighth
Their special teams unit, though, is eightieth, whereas BYU is
twenty fifth in offense, sixteenth in defense, and number six
overall in special teams efficiency. Their strength of schedule is
very similar. BYU's strength of record is slightly better, so
very interesting side by side metrics. Yet Vegas in the
betting game, albeit favors Texas Tech. BYU and Texas Tech
are facing off just for the third time in the series,
with each team winning a game apiece one and one
Texas Tech one back in nineteen forty crazy while the
Cougars won the last matchup twenty seven to fourteen in
twenty twenty three while playing in Provo, and that particular
game was the Spitgate game.
Speaker 5: Ronald, you remember the spit Gate? Do you not? I
do remember this spit Gate? I sure do. They were
attacking you personally too.
Speaker 4: Been all because I posted proof video evidence of Texas
Tech players spinning on the faces of BYU football players.
They attacked my Google reviews at orthor Pros, one of
our sponsors here, Orthropros of Utah, the medical device company,
the medical distribution company, medical device distribution company that I
own and operate. It was pretty crazy, but albeit the
virtue and grace won out. Amongst the Texas Tech red
Raider fans, the lowest, the dregs of the fans.
Speaker 5: Were.
Speaker 4: They ultimately lost the day because Google stepped in and
took away those reviews, and Texas Tech fans also tried
to flood my Google ruse. I said no, I don't
want any fake reviews, but they tried to give me
some five star reviews. At the end of the day,
it all worked out, but Spitgate was crazy. Man and
Joey McGuire, by the way, Joey McGuire, the head coach,
after this, this is what made it so crazy, Like
we have video evidence, not only the TV copy, but
the All twenty two okay, of players spitting on BAU players,
Texas Tech Red Raider players, and even one number fifteen
got kicked out. Their tight end got kicked out for spitting.
So the ref saw it and obviously the player denied it.
But this is what Joey McGuire said the following Monday.
I believe, after reviewing the All twenty two and the
TV tape, pretty crazy.
Speaker 9: Jane York said he did not do it. I've seen
every video TV copy. I would ask you all to
go back and.
Speaker 10: Review the TV copy and and see that if there
is a I thank you, if I spit in your face,
that would be in a reaction, and the reaction is
that you either wipe it off or you hit me
in the mouth. So go back and watch the TV
copy and see what everybody believes.
Speaker 9: Just watch the TV copy. It's nothing against.
Speaker 10: Officials, there's nothing against ninety two, it's nothing against Jane York.
They slow it down. Go watch the TV copy and see, like,
just as a logical human being, the conclusions that you crawl.
Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, pretty pretty insane like that. You could
watch the TV copy and the All twenty two. Look,
I'm all for protecting your players. If he said he
didn't do it, you have to stand by your players.
But then if you go back into you re review
the TV copy and the All twenty two, like you
see like a a concerted neck jerk as if you are,
you know, spitting right like that. The biomechanics of spitting
is not just through you know, lip propulsion, right.
Speaker 5: You don't just kind of stay it.
Speaker 4: You have to you know, you gotta cock back and
get after it right in order to put out that projectile.
I know this sounds weird that I'm breaking this down,
but like there's no way physically possible that you can
just kind of just let the spintle just just come
out of the mouth without projecting with your neck and head,
Like it's obvious.
Speaker 5: How could you deny that, Joe anyway? I digress.
Speaker 6: Eddie Hecker said he spit on them.
Speaker 4: Two Now that as I'm saying, Eddie said, Eddy and
Tyler Baddy both confirmed it. So who do you believe?
We all know who we believe cougarnation. But let's get
back to the sound. I don't think Kilani addresses spitgate.
I just wanted to take some time to like break
this game. This is gonna be a great game. This
is gonna be We're developing. I don't want to go
Kyle witting Have here, but we're developing our out of
state rivalry games, right, not just the in state game
in state rivalry. This is our inn state rivalry. We're
getting our out of state rivalry games going. Because ames
was lively, it was tenacious, it was awesome, and the
fan base was tremendous. I got a ton of reports
right now. I did not go out there, Okay, I
was at I was at home watching it from the
comfort of my home in front of my flat screen.
Speaker 5: He was glorious.
Speaker 4: But the fans, I was told, were just so gracious,
so respectful, and it was great. But they they it
was like a friendly kind of like the Baylor experience
when we went out to Waco a couple of years ago.
Speaker 5: They really enjoyed the experience.
Speaker 4: It was very it was not petty competitive, it was
it was it was gracefully competitive. You know, they want
to get after it a little bit, but just within
the field of play, within the whistles. Okay, So anyway
I want to get back to this. This could be
an out of state Rillygan. This one's a little bit
more I would say passionate. It could be even though
we've only played once in the modern era. But judging
by space A, this could get very lively, could get
really crazy out there in Lubbock. And because we have
a little bit of that Mike Leach history, as Kolani
pointed out, now there's there's other connectivity here. There's other
intrinsic fibers that connect both of these squads. And furthermore,
I'll say the other common theme, at least from an
outside of its perspective, Kyle Whittingham stated in his press
conference leading up to the Texas Tech game that the
reason why Texas Tech was winning is because they were
spending the most money. It's all about that that filthy luker.
It's all about the cash money and Kyle's football. Is
it more money, more problems, I don't know, more money,
more wins is what Kyle Whittingham states. And there's a
growing trend of commentators analysts, especially with BAU basketball being
at the forefront of all these that BWA football is
also at the forefront of great nil distribution. Now we
don't have confirmation of that, but yeah, I'm sure they're competitive.
Speaker 5: They're going to be competitive.
Speaker 4: The competitive man will passion college football. Anyway, Let's get
back to the sound because Coladdie pontificates on a number
of things.
Speaker 5: Let's continue to break it down.
Speaker 8: Alannie, with the bioe week, you've had a chance to
get maybe get some guys held out there.
Speaker 3: We're struggling with injuries. Where are you at in terms
of health going into this game, specifically how horor l J.
Martin and Jack Kelly doing.
Speaker 8: Yeah, they're doing great. I mean, we'll see how they
progress during practice this week. So they're not out, they're
practicing and and we'll see by the time Wednesday. Hopefully
it works in our favor, but the fact that they're
not out as a good sign.
Speaker 11: Next question from Jakatch, Wellnie, this is the first time
in BAYU football history as have played a top ten
opponent also being ranked in the top ten.
Speaker 3: You make anything of the significance of that matchup.
Speaker 8: No, I'm just trying to get the team ready. I
mean I'm not a voter.
Speaker 1: In the polls or any of that stuff. So all we.
Speaker 8: Know is that when we saw the schedule and we
knew that we're gonna go out to Lubwick around this time,
that we had to prep for that opportunity to play
that game.
Speaker 1: And I'm looking forward to the matchup.
Speaker 8: I mean, they haven't an awesome fan base there and
obviously not gonna be cheering for us, but it's a
lot of fun to go see these places that you've
never been able to play at before, So this will
be a first for all of us, and I'm looking
forward to the matchup. But yeah, I'm not concerned about
all that stuff with the rankings and everything. This is
an opportunity for us to get to play the game,
so I'm looking forward to that.
Speaker 3: I wanted to ask you. You mentioned that you're good
friends with Joey maguire.
Speaker 12: What do you make of just Texas Tech as a
team to show Russian crowis this past we get in particular?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean they're a complete team.
Speaker 8: They can do a lot of different things, and they're
they're very deep, and so you look at the talent,
not a lot to drop off from one to two
and that's in every position.
Speaker 1: And then they're well coached.
Speaker 8: I mean, you look at all the things you have
to be on top of your game because they can
do it in three phases and they played great compromary
football and so we we like to try to do
the same things as well. And so there's a lot
of things that we see that they do really really
well that we we try to emulate ourselves. So, uh,
you know, we're hope hopeful that we can get the
work done. But hope is not a great strategy. We've
got to get We got to actually get to work
and uh and put in, put in some time. We
did it last week. Felt great about that and the
progress we've made. And now now I gonna see if
we can if I can do my job as a
head coach and make sure that we're ready to roll
by the time we get to get their Saturday.
Speaker 13: Next question from Mitch Harper, Alanie brought up the company
football with with Texas Tech, what are some of the
you know, area is of their strength that that really
stand out that phil will be key key aspects of
this matchup.
Speaker 8: Well, they're opportunistic and they can they can hurt you
in such a short amount of time, so that's always dangerous.
Speaker 1: And then you could think it's.
Speaker 8: Going one way, and then they could just next thing,
you know, and and in a matter of three to
five minutes they.
Speaker 1: Could really take over.
Speaker 8: So, uh, that's that's gonna be difficult because they do
that pretty easily. It seems like with teams that when
they play. But I like the matchup, man, I think
it's gonna be great for us. We see it on film.
We've been seeing it for over a week already. We
saw it all last week. We've been prepping for it,
and uh, you know this is this is a it's
easier said than done because a lot of teams have
tried to do that and not not very many teams
can put them on their heels, and so we're gonna
try to do something that nobody else has been able
to do.
Speaker 3: Well, you bring up the film.
Speaker 12: What did you guys accomplish during the bye week?
Speaker 3: You know, how intense was it for practices? What what
do you feel it was accomplished ding this past week?
Speaker 8: Yeah, we accomplish everything we wanted to, so we wanted
the bye week. That was great for us. If anybody
wants to know, but we got to work in and
and you know, we we did game day stuff on
Saturday and had some practices and so yeah, we feel
good about it.
Speaker 13: Next question from Jay Cash, Annie, what do you make
a Baron Morton is a quarterback?
Speaker 3: Where's he stacked up in your opinion?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's complete quarterback. He can hurt you with his legs.
Speaker 8: He throws a ball real nice, got a quick release,
super smart, and he's he's complimented by all the I
mean an aggressive old line that's really stout and strong,
and then they have skill all around running back, at
tight end and receiver. They're their complete team when you're
looking at offensively and then defensively same thing, and then
special teams. I mean, Joey's done a great job coaching
that team and getting him ready is the reason why
they ranked the top ten.
Speaker 6: I also want to ask you about David Baileies leading
the nation in sacks coming off the edge.
Speaker 3: How much of the challenge is they prepare for a
guy like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's difficult.
Speaker 8: I mean that that's there's the reason why he's so
so effective. And you know that's a that's another thing
that we have to be aware of. But you know,
it's takes eleven guys on the on the field to
get it done. So as much as you want to
just focus on one, we got to make sure that
all all eleven guys are doing the right thing and
and he we may do all that and he may
still make plays. It's okay, but we got at least
do our part and not not give up some freebies.
Speaker 13: Next question from Mitch Harper Golani.
Speaker 12: How helpful is it in preparation for a week like
this that you your program experience being undefeated in November
high stakes games. Does that help it all going into
a matchup that's, you know, expected to be.
Speaker 3: A really good one.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 8: I think the UH our approach is the same every time,
whether we win or lose, and regardless of what our
record is. I like to think that we approach every
week and every opponent differently with the same mindset though
that that our focus is completely on that, not on
anything in the past and and any experience that we've
done before. I mean, there's some great lessons that you
can learn, but the truth is this is a different beast.
Texas texts different than they were last year and we're
different than we were last year too, So although there
could be some similarities and some things that you can
learn maybe as a head coach, and then some things
that you did with strategy, but when it all comes
down to it, every week is different.
Speaker 3: What's impressed you the most too?
Speaker 12: I wanted to ask about Bear Bachmeer his passing ability.
We've always known his ability to run the football. It's physicality,
but have you seen Bear evolve as a passer and
what do you attribute that to the success?
Speaker 1: Well, we always knew that he could throw the ball.
Speaker 8: It's just a matter of can we be dependable to
be in the right spots when he's throwing, and can
we get the timing right? Him being just being here
for a short amount of time before we started fall camp,
all that stuff we had the factor in and that.
Speaker 1: That's what Ayrod did. I thought he did it brilliantly.
Speaker 8: And we're still still work. There's still work to do though.
He hasn't arrived, and there's still some things that he
can he can accomplish in the next little bit and
he knows that. But he he's a he's a great
learner and he's a student of the game and he's
always trying to get better, and so when when you
have some of that work ethic, it will make it
a lot easier for us to get him where he
wants to be.
Speaker 3: Next question from j Dreel Wennie.
Speaker 11: With the release of the college football playoff rankings coming
out tomorrow, have you or your staff put any thought
whatsoever into the Have you have you broached the subject
with your team?
Speaker 3: What are your feelings on.
Speaker 1: That with the with the.
Speaker 3: You say that again with the release of.
Speaker 11: The college Football Playoff rankings coming out, No, it's important
obviously for your you know, postseason. Have you put any
thought into that at all of or we'll talk to
your team about it.
Speaker 8: No, I haven't talked about it before and probably won't
talk about it again anyway. So we just focused on
one thing, and that's being being at the right mindset
and making sure that we avoid all distractions before get
to that game. The focus this entire week is going
into that game against Texas Tech in Lubbock.
Speaker 9: Thanks question much for Jake catch.
Speaker 11: That's plenty when it comes to playing on the road
and environment like we expect down there in Lubbock.
Speaker 3: What's the biggest challenge in your opinion.
Speaker 8: I think everybody's to always talking about the noise factor,
but I think we've been in some noisy arenas before,
so that's always going to be a challenge. But I
think we can work through that. And when you say that,
it's just it's hard to simulate being in a hostile
and noisy environment. But we've been through that already. This
is in game one for a lot of these guys
and they've been in a situation where it's been loud.
I think that's gonna be It adds to the excitement
in the fun of the game, and so we're just
on the other side of it. We're used to being
at home and being loud, and now we're also used
to being on the road and it being loud. And
you know, our job is to try to you know,
put points on the board and try to get get
everything that we can so we can find a competitive event.
Is knowing that they are at home and they're how
the noise factor would work out in their favor.
Speaker 5: All Right, there you go.
Speaker 4: That's Kalani Satake from his media availability. I'd say one
of the biggest nuggets from the sound from early today
is the injury report Jojo Phillips wide receiver who went
out in the Stanford game. I believe it was the
Stanford game, right or yeah, it was the y Stanford game.
Stanford game had to undergo surgery for his shoulder. He's
nearing a return.
Speaker 1: I think A.
Speaker 4: Rodd also had stated last week that he felt confident
that Jojo would return for the Texas Tech game. But
he's been practicing and his nearing return to the lineup
big news for b Yu running back. If we got
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Running back to ony Moa remained sidelined and it's still
a ways off from returning.
Speaker 5: Per Kalani running backs LJ.
Speaker 4: Martin and linebacker Jack Kelly are not ruled out, both
on the depth chart, both rehabbing getting back into game
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What were your main takeaways from the shund bites and
the media availability Ronald the three man Weaver, What did
you make of it?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I think the biggest thing Ben is that Kilanie's not
letting anybody media member, parent family, baby child, as kids,
anybody deter him publicly or even maybe behind the scenes
about this being the top ten matchup between him and
Texas Tech those teams. He's not buying into the storylines.
They're treating us like another game. There's a lot of
hype around it, and they're trying to cast out anybody
and everybody is trying to make it a big deal.
Speaker 4: That's the biggest takeaway I got. This is a massive game.
From a publicity standpoint. Game day will be there. Look
at the play by play whenever you're on ABC, you're
at your you got a ten am Mountain type kickoff,
twelve noon Eastern kickoff.
Speaker 5: Game gays there, what's that this is the A crew.
This is the A crew.
Speaker 4: Herbstreet Chris Fowler play by play Kirk Herbstreet analyst Holly
Row on the sideline. This is the time, this is
the place to really solidify your footing in the college
football landscape. To tell everyone that's been doubting you, to
tell everyone that has called you a nice little program
since nineteen seventy two. A program that can compete with
the best but can't beat the best.
Speaker 5: Is how they view BYU, A.
Speaker 4: Program that when b Y's winning, right, they say, oh,
they're they're winning.
Speaker 5: Because they're older, because they're mature.
Speaker 4: Are they going to be able to do that when
by if BYU beats Texas Tech? Probably not? Why because
bear Backmeier is like eighteen. A lot of their key
players are young, okay, and they're not the traditional maybe
BYU Cougar football player that has you know, led YU
to ten top ten in the last sixty years. Total
wins that put you in the top ten of all
of college football. It's impressive, averaging eight wins a season,
so not too shabby. With all of the individual awards too, right,
the Heisman's the balls, the dokes, right, these iconic individual
wards and you have many conference championships as well in
the Whack Mountain West, and you made your way through
independence with some of the best I think top twenty
five TV viewership during that time being in the Mountain right,
being the Mountain time zone. So now's the time. Now's
the place to solidify your footing in the college football landscape,
to let everybody know that the free market, capitalistic, no
guardrails college football society and landscape and competitive field that
we're competing in now BYU because they weren't the ones
cheating before, but they were still winning. They just couldn't
get over that hump get to a BCS. They couldn't
get to maybe the College Football Playoff as an independent.
But now when byus on equal footing with the rest
of college football, they are able to compete and beat
the best with everybody watching. And Kalani's trying to keep
everyone humble and hungry, stay on task, not let them
buy into the hype, not let his team be distracted
by things that don't impact his team.
Speaker 5: They just don't.
Speaker 4: The task at hand is before you go and execute
that play, that that series, you know that that practice,
you got to take care of your body, all the
things that are most important are being present and shout
out to the the The mental performance staff of BYU,
Branden Brown, I think has done a really good job
and an unheralded job of keeping the most important things
at the forefront of the minds of these college football
players right keeping first things first and the most important
things as the priority right now for BYU Cougar football,
stay hung humble, and staying hungry right now. It takes
a village within a program to buy into a culture.
Many times there's like these offshoots within a football program
are offshoots because individuals, the falling state of men, the
Homo sapiens that we are, you know, we tend to
do what we think is best for us as individuals
rather than the collective the team team first. At BYU,
I feel like they've done a really good job under
kilane of limiting, excising, dis discarding those that are individuals
from a talent standpoint, personnel and from maybe coaches or
administrators or you know, technical or administrative staff. And that's
why we're seeing kind of the fruits of the labors
and the great return on investment within the college football
bull BAYU football program.
Speaker 5: I'm excited.
Speaker 4: All eyes on BYU this weekend and it'll be actually,
what type of numbers this pools? We went into the
TV data last week with BYU being on a bye week,
and BYU has been competitive in their time slots. They've
been good to great when they're in the best time slots, right,
because more people watch. And much of this is geographically based, right,
much as this has to do with you know, Fox
and ESPN determining just how you know where the game's
being played and who's playing, and that will determine due
to population density who's watching these games.
Speaker 5: But BYU has been very.
Speaker 4: Very competitive, averaging about one point six million viewers per
game across all these different platforms, Fox and ESPN, ESPN two. Okay,
they've done well, Now what type of viewership will we get?
The most viewers? BYU has been able to acquires two
point six million and it was the most recent game
by versus Iowa State on Fox, not even on the
ESPN mothership. ESPN other ship will be down there obviously
the game day, at least Game day College game Day
will be there, but it'll be broadcast on ABC. As
I mentioned with Herbie and Fowler and of course a BYU.
I believe she's an alum. Holly Roschie also was an
alum of Utah. She's a house divided with her schooling. Anyway,
this is a This is an important game obviously, one
that I think will will receive viewership, not akin to
what we saw in the Alimo Ball BYU versus Colorado,
Travis Hunter, Shodor Sanders, Primetime, et cetera. But I could
see this eclipsing maybe four million viewers more or more
than that, five million viewers. What's the what's the viewership
do you think it's going to be in this game?
Ronald the three man Weaver? What are you putting it at?
Speaker 6: Yeah, this viewership, I think BA is gonna get I
can say there's Ben confident. I think you can see
this game get into the three four may be even
five million ranges the primetime ABC game. And I think Ben,
everybody's intrigued. The national media is intrigued.
Speaker 5: They want to know.
Speaker 6: They've maybe looked at BYU and heard about it, really
haven't caught on. They're gonna be people watching it, don't
want to watch that, don't want to see it, and
they're gonna be those that are like, Okay, are you
actually as good as you say you are?
Speaker 5: Like I could tell you this.
Speaker 6: The College Football Playoff Committee definitely will be watching and
seeing this. This is a great game for BAU. Tout
silence everybody because if you defeat Texas Tech, this is
where I said you can earn your money because they
have nothing to say at that point. They can't deny
you as the prime time morning game. So I think
you see this game between four to five million, no doubt.
Speaker 4: Let me get in a few metrics here and some
commentary in this segment. Heather Damage of ESPN makes BYU's
case right now if they continue down this path, a
case for a seventh seed in the College Football Playoff
right Bau's eight zer why they could be here at
number seven. The crew's out a bye week, but will
be the Committee's loan defeated. This is just start off
the College Football Playoff Committee rankings, but the Committee's loan
undefeated Big twelve team to consider. BYU's back to back
wins against Utah and Iowa State are collectively better than
anything undefeated Georgia Tech has on its resume. Heading into Saturday,
BYU was ranked number five in ESPN Strength of Record
metric ahead of number eight Georgia Tech. The more glaring
discrepancy is in strength of schedule though, where b YU
was number forty nine in Georgia Tech number eighty three.
Look at that discrepancy there with Georgia Tech versus BYU. Statistically,
BYU and Georgia Tech have been extremely even in most
major categories, but the Cougars have done it against better competition. Okay,
So with the CFP rankings soon to be unveiled, soon
to be referral to the nation, BYU should get their
flat power for what they've done up.
Speaker 5: To this point.
Speaker 4: Does it matter, No, it matters at the end of
the season. But for us talking heads and for you
as fans, this is us as medium and we would
like to discuss these things perfectly kosher. But let Kilani
and his crew stay focused on the task at hand.
Couple other things I want to bring up here as
we get prepared for the BAU Texas Tech matchup. Texas
Tech is eight and one with an average win scoring
margin of thirty four points. So when they win, they're
winning on average thirty four points, they're putting up thirty
four more points than their opponents. That is crazy. That
is an insane number. Their one loss was by four
points on the road to ASU. So here's a quick
look at all the win margins from smallest to largest.
Their smallest win margin was versus Houston eighteen points, still
a convincing victory. Kansas State twenty three points, Utah twenty
four points, Kansas twenty five, Oregon State thirty one, Oklahoma
State forty two, that was a skunking, Kent State forty eight,
and then Arkansas Pine Bluff sixty. Yeah, they did it
against some weak foes, but they've also done it against
I mean, three score wins. That's impressive. I don't care
who you are in college football. You're playing FBS opponent
G six P four opponent like that is extremely impressive.
There's a reason why Texas Tech is a favorite. If
you're just looking at the metrics, I will continue to
die on this hill. College football metrics do not take
into account, and even Vegas does not take into account
in a weighted format, the efficiency and effectiveness of special teams.
They just don't off defence, and defense is heavily weighted
in these metrics, and it's heavily weighted. I think for
committees too. You get a committee with human elements in it,
they care about offensive defense. They're not looking at how
effective is the kicking game. How many turnovers has the
special teams unit caused this year, force fumbles, muff punts,
whatever it may be. How many returns flipping of this
field if you will, has has a special teams unit
created total yards, yards per yards per return, et cetera.
Speaker 5: I don't know if they're looking at that.
Speaker 4: There's very few metrics that wait special teams effectiveness and efficiency,
and that could be the difference once again in this
game versus text steck to keep it close, keep it
a one score game, and to have BYU come out victorious.
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stats here. This is a top ten showdown. The game
between number A b YU and number nine Texas Tech
will be the first time in AP top ten ranked
Cougar team has faced off against another team ranked in
the top ten at the same time. Check out that
stat of the day. The highest ranked teams BAU has
played well being a top ten team was number fourteen
Coastal Carolina and BYU was ranked number eight at the time,
and that was in the COVID year twenty twenty Number
fourteen Kansas State was the other one BYU, ranked number
five in the nation in that post New Year's Bowl
in nineteen ninety seven, the Cotton Bowl. It also marks
the Big twelve's first conference game between two top ten
teams since twenty twenty one. That game pitted number five
Oklahoma State versus number nine Baylor. This is not only
a big game for BYU, but it's showcasing the best
of the Big Twelve this season. When I feel like
the Big Twelve has been showcased right, I think to
start the football season overseas, it was ioway stayed in
Kansas State. It was kind of an ugly, sloppy game,
and no one really came away from it thinking, oh man,
those two teams are really good football teams.
Speaker 5: That was a great game. It just didn't feel that
way the other game.
Speaker 4: Like if we're talking about high profile games that received
a ton of media hype, fan hype, and you can
disagree with me on this, Ronald, but I mean, it
has to be the Texas Tech Utah game that was
a dud, That was a twenty four point loss by
Utah on their football field. The Big Twelve when they
are featured, I don't think they've done very well in
front of the national spotlight. Agreer, disagree and tell me
where they've done really well. If I'm missing something, I.
Speaker 5: Don't think you are.
Speaker 6: I mean, when you think of Texas Tech Utah, somebody
with the bed Utah did right. Obviously, Texas Tech looked great.
Utah did not. That was supposed to be a premier matchup. Now, Ba,
you played Arizona with that same Fox crew. But at
the same time Arizona we weren't thinking it was a
really good football team. Bay you demolished them. Know, the
Big twelve really hasn't had big lomost. The only game
you could possibly say that when they're featured was the
Arizona State Texas game in the playoff. Arizona State looked
really well and are. Honestly, you could argue they can't
scattaboo shit to play running back, quarterback, wide, receive a
tight end, defensive end. So I think that's the only
game I look at in Texas was an old Big
twelve team as we know now in the SEC.
Speaker 5: That's the only game I got. Will this game live
up to the high is the question?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I love that Game Days is going to be there.
I love that it's on ABC. When in BYU football history,
you know how they lived up to the hype. Well,
it's recent, it's very recent. I think the hype surrounding
I know it's the Alamo Bowl, but that was the
highest viewed non CFP bowl game in college football eight million,
and BYU lived up to the hype that surrounded that
game destroyed Colorado. Shador Sanders is with his iPad on
the sideline, inquiring. I don't even know what I'm looking at.
I'm confused. My pre snap red is not my post
snap read. They're throwing things at me I've never seen before.
And he didn't say all that, but that's what is
his His wide eyed gaze was telling me, and he
did say some of that. So I would say, by
You lived up to the hype recently in the Colorado game.
I think Big Neon Kickoff this season lived up to
the hype.
Speaker 5: The form and fashion which by You won.
Speaker 4: I think that by You lived up the hype last
year when they faced U of a right, Big noon
Kickoff came to town, played well, showcased well. I think
you know in ninety six you know it is a
New Year's Ball, Kansas State. You won that game. Many
eyes were watching. I don't know what the viewership was,
but that was a big bowl game. You're looking at
these these bowl games. Look, they didn't show up, did
not show out versus Coast Carolina in a pickup football game,
two time zones away. They came a yard short, came
a yard short. Mormons versus the Mullets in that game,
Coast Carolina. That was not a friendly fan base, that
was not a Ki Graci's fan base, nothing like we
experienced at Iowa State two weeks ago.
Speaker 5: Gost Carolina. They were nasties, They're mullets.
Speaker 4: Anyways, we didn't live up to that hype that pick
up college football game. It'd be nice to once again
live up to the hype. And I know Kugarnation is
filled with anxiety right now they are. Do they feel
a calming presence heading into this game? Do they feel confident?
Do they feel like their team has arrived like?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't think they do.
Speaker 4: I think they're still a little bit anxious about who
this team is. They're gritty, they're resilient, they're well coached,
they execute they find a way to win. They have
superb special teams are elite, They're great at offense and defense.
They have a true complimentary style college football team. This
is the first time in EYU football history that their
team is ranked in the top ten and they're facing
another top ten team.
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