Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, Welcome into another edition of Pigskin and Burnt Ends.
It is Texas college football. As we start to close
down the regular season here for a few programs, some
of those who will not be going into the college
football postseason are wrapping their weeks up here after Week fourteen,
some of those who will continue on getting ready for
conference championship games or awaiting their final seeds in the
college football in the last college football playoff rankings that
will come out on Sunday, and boy howdy, lots of
news in that regard, and as you would expect, some
hurt feelings some because we had some back and forth
here coaches going at each other in between conferences, not
even in the same conference, but you had some coaches
kind of taking jabs at each other here in the
college football world as the playoffs approach here, as do
conference championship games coming up this weekend. But let's recap
some of Week fourteen. Some momentous games, some momentous upsets,
some momentous losses all across the college football landscape in
several conferences, not just the big ones. And then some
programs maybe making their case who do not have the
benefit of a conference championship game to play in, but
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football playoff, or maybe just making a statement as they
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into next season. But this season is not over, boys
and girls. We still have some college football to play,
and we're going to start with possibly the biggest game
nationally that was on the DOC and the biggest game
at least that people are talking about whether you're an
alum or a fan of either one of these schools.
It is certainly the topic of conversation around the college
football world on Friday night as the Texas Longhorns host
the number three at the time Texas A and m
Aggie's who are looking for not just a perfect seede
the first perfect season in twelve to zero season since
nineteen ninety two, but they're looking to maintain their spot
in the top four of the college Football Playoff rankings
and therefore a first round by But it was not
to be, and this loss slash win has initiated college
football Playoff ranking bracket chaos at Lease. It's one of
the games that did that. And we talked about this
game last week and I it's number one. It's a
rivalry game. And everybody that listens to this show, listened
to any of my shows, uh, certainly knows that I
am an Aggie all right. First and foremost, that is
my affiliation. That is my allegiance, which by birth and
by definition means that I don't like the Longhorns, and
I always cheer against the Longhorns.
Speaker 2: For the most part, I hate the color orange. Hate
it with a passion.
Speaker 1: Somebody tried to sell me an orange car one time,
and I wouldn't buy the cards simply because it was orange.
It reminded me of the stupid Longhorns. But going into
this game, you, as an Aggi's fan, had to be cautious. Yes,
the Aggies were rolling. You had the almost hiccup against
South Carolina. You saw some I guess, some chinks in
the armor for the y Aggies in that game, and
Texas had a blueprint on what to do. And in
the first half of this game, it didn't look like
the long Horns were gonna have any thing for the Aggies.
It looked like, with a ten to three lead headed
into halftime, the Aggies were gonna roll out of there
with their season perfect season intact, with their college football
ranking intact, and things were gonna go the way a
lot of people thought it would. But it's Aggie's Longhorns
and none of that other stuff matters. And arch Manning
showed to be in the second half of this game
the guy that we'd seen flashes of during the regular season,
not a lot of, but we'd seen flashes of. We
thought he could be this guy, and he decided to
break out the Manning whoopass on the Texas A and
m Aggies en route to a twenty seven seventeen final
to offer the Aggies their first loss, to give the
Longhorns their ninth win against three losses. And while it's
still an outside shot to maintain their it's not really eligibility,
but I guess to make their case to still be
in the college football playoffs. We'll get into that a
little bit later as far as what it does for them.
The rankings, most recent rankings, the penultimate rankings, came out
Tuesday night. As we record this on Wednesday on the
Longhorns are not in it, buddy, But it doesn't matter
because that's not the final save that will come out
on Sunday.
Speaker 2: We'll get in some of that later.
Speaker 1: Let's give props where props are due, and that is
Arch Manning as he obliterated the Aggi's defense, as did
the long Horns rushing attack, just obliterated what we had
known all season as one of the best rushing defenses
in the league and in all of college football for
the Aggies. But the Longhorns come back and outscore the
Aggies twenty four to seven, with arch Manning having a big,
big part of that in front of over one hundred
and three thousand at there in Austin at dk R
Memorial Stadium, and again it knocked the Aggies out of
the SEC championship game. It now marks as you saw signs,
I've seen signs and memes everywhere over.
Speaker 2: Five thousand days since the Aggie's of one in Austin.
Speaker 1: All right, well yeah that's crazy looking right as a number,
but they've played twice in that time. Come on, this
is kind of silly. But arch Manning everything to do
with that win. Credit Ryan Wingo, credit arch Manning's arm,
credit March arch Manning's legs, especially his legs as he Yeah,
he showed that he is the guy can be the
guy that everybody thought he was coming into the starting
role against Ohio State as the season started and some
of those really bad losses, Yes it was on his
shoulders partially, but this offensive line got better as the
season progressed. Art Manning got more comfortable as the season progressed,
his reads became better, his accuracy got better. And you
know it's not an easy you hear it all the
time about college quarterbacks making the jump to the NFL,
especially top picks who are expected to start immediately, and
how difficult of a transition that is.
Speaker 2: I never did it.
Speaker 1: I'm just I can tell by looking that it's a
difficult transition college and football. There, do you hear there
are two different speeds, right or college and NFL are
at two different speeds. Well, the same as can be
said of high school to college. And arch Manning was
that top pick going into the next level and he
just happened to have his baptism in game one of
his first start against the best who has still proven
to be the best team in the country, with one
of the well not one of the with the most
difficult defense to play against. And arch Manning scored seven points,
and that Longhorn's offense scored seven points against Ohio State
and he did not look good. So you know what,
Just like those NFL quarterbacks, some of them can come
on later in the season, figure things out, the team
around them improves. It's exactly what's happened with Arch at TU.
The team got a little bit better around him. I
feel like the coaching staff got a little bit better
around him for him, and I feel like this thing
is gelling at the right time. Whether or not that
means they get a spot, it's not my decision. And
I know a lot of Longhorns fans are posturing for that.
Steve Sarkisian is certainly posturing for that. That's his job.
You would expect nothing less. But all of you Longhorns fans,
I'll say the same thing to you that I'm saying
to the Alabama fans, because there's a chance at Alabama
doesn't even get in. And Alabama's probably got a better
resume than the Longhorns do because the long Horns are
all and Steve sarkisan is crying because, well, we're being
punished because we played to Ohio State. Steve, you know,
if we didn't play Ohio State, we played it. No,
that has nothing to do with it. You lost to
a better team. If you'd just taken care of business
at Florida, you'd be in this thing and we wouldn't
be having this conversation. Just like I tell Alabama, Alabama
complains about their their their resume and their their difficult schedule.
You know what, if you to beat Florida State in
week one, we wouldn't be having this conversation you'd be in.
There'd be no discussion. All you had to do was
beat a really crappy opponent and you didn't. Longhorns, all
you had to do is beat a really crappy opponent
and you couldn't.
Speaker 2: Is that fair? Probably not, but that's the way the
system is set up. You know, the.
Speaker 1: Aggie's missed out on the SEC championship game. They're gonna
miss out on a first round by probably in the
call is football playoff because of one loss in the
last game of the year to a borderline college football
playoff team?
Speaker 2: Is that fair?
Speaker 1: Probably not, But that's the way the system is. It's
the way it's set up.
Speaker 2: Do I like it?
Speaker 1: I don't know if I have to like it, but
that's the way it is, and I don't know any
other way to do it. So yes, it's a terrible
loss for the Aggies and Aggies that brings in the
age old question here, and you know, I know this rivalry,
while not new, it is certainly new being restored between
the Longhorns and the Aggies. That brings in the question,
would you rather beat Texas and have those in state
bragging rights and miss out on college on the College
Football Playoffs or lose to Texas and make the playoffs.
That question sounds silly to some people. To others, it's
an obvious answer. Beat Texas before the College Football Playoff
came into existence, before the BCS. I think you just
wanted to beat your rival, and that's fair. Since all
of this has changed, I don't know that that's the
case anymore. I know people who are the biggest of
Ohio State fans. I know people who are the biggest
of Michigan fans. Look what happened to Ohio State last year.
You have an unblemished record. You go into Michigan, I
guess they came to you last year, and you lose
to your biggest rival, Michigan in the last week of
the regular season, But then you go on to win
the national championship. The Aggies are in the same spot
right now. You lose to your biggest rival in the
final week of the season to blow your perfect season,
the perfect season record, But now you're in the playoffs
and your rival's probably not so what would you rather have?
Aggis fans beat Texas miss out on the postseason, or
lose to Texas, make the postseason and have an opportunity
now if the Aggie's the way the bracket is right now,
and we'll get into bracket talk later. They would host
Notre Dame in the first round. You go in and
you lose to Notre Dame in the first round, what's
the better bragging rights that you made it to the
postseason and was one and done, or that you beat Texas.
Speaker 2: And as an Aggie's.
Speaker 1: Fan, I don't know the answer to that because I
haven't felt the first part of that yet. That's where
we are. Big big game Aggie's and Longhorns. Big big
game didn't come out the way I wanted. But you
know what, Longhorns, Longhorns fans, full credit and kudos to
you boys and girls for what you were able to do.
And you know, we'll say the same thing that we
said Ford for one hundred years before and m bolted
for the SEC and little brother Longhorns had to come
and follow us fourteen years later, thirteen years later, we'll
see you next year in our house.
Speaker 2: And by the way, I'm so glad that this.
Speaker 1: Is a home and home series and they don't play
it a neutral site like the Sooners and Horns do.
I think that's one of the greatest things about this
rivalry is that it's home and home.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't have it any other way.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I know many of you were anxious to
hear my thoughts on all of that.
Speaker 2: Well there you go.
Speaker 1: Now let's move on to one of those Texas teams
that made a statement before they head to the college
football playoff, and as it stands right now, would be
one of those top four teams with a first round
by that, of course, is your Texas Tech Red Raiders.
As they roll into West Virginia, a team reeling right now,
they roll into West Virginia and right put up a
forty nine burger. Wasn't quite a fifty burger. They put
up a forty nine burger and the defense gets the shutout,
and that is a statement win of statement wins. As
you now head into the Big twelve title game against BYU,
a team that you have already obliterated in the regular season,
I believe twenty six to seven was the final in
that one, and you gotta be feeling good about yourself.
You know, the blanking of West Virginia doesn't sound quite impressive,
but when you combine it with what they've done this season,
the Red Raiders and the way their offenses performed this seasons.
It's impressive. And the Red Raiders have made their case.
They have submitted their resume, and it is an impressive resume.
Let's talk about the game a little bit. As Baron
Morten throws for three hundred and ten yards three touchdowns,
Linebacker and Heisman contender Jacob Rodriguez scored his second offensive
touchdown in any games.
Speaker 2: As in the.
Speaker 1: Final tune up before the Big twelve title game, the
Red Raiders role. They'd already clinched a spot in the
title game against BYU by virtue of Arizona State losing
to Arizona on Friday night, but they still had motivation.
And I love this. I love that they showed up
really with nothing to play for. I mean, you don't
want to lose, knock yourself out of that position, but
you had already made the game, made the championship game,
but you needed to win to continue that trajectory toward
hosting either hosting a first round playoff game, or as
it stands as of Tuesday, having a bye.
Speaker 2: For the College Football Playoff.
Speaker 1: They were dominant from the start, scored touchdowns on four
of their first five drives. And you know, although Jacob
Rodriguez did not strike that high as and pose like
he did what two weeks ago, uh, it was. It
was an impressive performance by Rodriguez, by the defense and
by the the entire Red Raiders team. Baron Morton, you know,
you'd love to see what his numbers would have been
without the injuries he's had to deal with the last
couple of years. Uh is you know, he gets really
really comfortable, and he gets in these grooves and it
looks like he can do anything with the ball.
Speaker 2: He's he's almost got.
Speaker 1: That gun slinger mentality that you think of with h
Baker Mayfield, with Brett Fob Brett ferv those type of guys,
but without the not that he doesn't make mistakes, but without.
Speaker 2: The glaring, the egregious errors for the most part.
Speaker 1: And I would just love to see what he can
do playing a full schedule, and even in college a
full schedule is sort of relative because you get into
these forty nine to nothing games and you get taken
out of the game, so you're not even really playing,
you know, the full four quarters. But still you'd like
to see what Baron Morton can do with a full slate.
Speaker 2: Of games.
Speaker 1: Once again, there were all of the Red You know,
all of the Red Raiders wins this season have come
by at least twenty points. Texas Tech has scored at
least forty two points in eight games. So yeah, it
was It's more of what you expected to see from
the Red Raiders.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: There was a very touching moment as before the game,
a moment of silence was held for two West Virginia
National Guard members who were shot in Washington.
Speaker 2: D C.
Speaker 1: Specialist Sarah bestrom Age, twenty died after the Wednesday shooting.
Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe, aged twenty four, remains in critical condition,
and they held on at the stadium in many many
other places, a moment of silence for that senseless act
and for those two heroes, one of whom we've already
lost while the other one fights for his life. Injury
news in this game, the National sack leader David Bailey
did not play in the second half. He not a
specific injury. He was banged up a little bit going
into the game, and I think Joey maguire just kind
of wanted to hold him out as a precaution to
make sure he's ready to play against BYU. Nothing wrong
with that like that. Actually, now, this is the first
time that the Red Raiders will advance to a conference
championship game in school history. It's their thirtieth season in
the Big Twelve and they have never won a Big
Twelve title, and it certainly appears like the stars are
aligned for that to happen this season, because, as I mentioned,
this thing is just rolling. It's just a rolling. Now
some not so happy news if you are a fan
of those SMU Mustangs, because a huge, huge, missed opportunity
out on the West Coast over the weekend, and this
was a game that I watched and I still am
not sure how this even happened to be quite honest,
As the col Golden Bears get past SMU, who with
a win, are in the conference the ACC conference championship
game for the second straight year in just their second
year in the conference. But you can't get things done
as you allow twenty one points in the second half,
but you were already down. SMU scored twenty eight points
in the second half, but it did not help when
you were down seventeen to seven at halftime. The defense
could not get it done and allows a fourteen point
fourth quarter against a twenty one point fourth quarter after
the two teams scored a touchdown a piece in the third,
and you squander a chance at clinching a berth in
that ACC title game with a thirty eight to thirty
five loss. Kendrick Raphael ran it in from two yards
out with forty three seconds left to put the game
away and spoil SMU's ACC Championship game host chances. After
SMU had caught its way back into the game down
early and even took the lead with two twenty two
left on a t J. Harden touchdown from a yard out.
Cal responded quickly, though, as they march seventy five yards
and seven plays, capped by Raphael's twelfth rushing touchdown of
the season. SMU had a chance to tie the game
with eight seconds left. Sam Keltner's fifty two yard field
goal selled wide right and at no point as they
were lining up for a fifty two yard field goal,
Excuse me, did I think that thing was going in?
Speaker 2: It just was not to be.
Speaker 1: It was not SMU's night, and it sucks that it's
the game that you needed to put you.
Speaker 2: Back in the title game. But you know, and by
the way, an.
Speaker 1: Opportunity potentially with you still still had three losses.
Speaker 2: A lot.
Speaker 1: It would have been a long shot for the college
Football playoff, but you know, those things can happen. They
usually don't, but you'd like to.
Speaker 2: Think they can still.
Speaker 1: Eight and four season not what you wanted from the Mustangs.
Excuse me, I mean all choked up talking about the
MUSTANGSRT lastly even said after the game they fully expected
to win. And I know that's coach speak and you
say that after every game, even the losses, but I
feel like this one kind of caught the team and
the coaching staff off guard. I don't know who to
blame for that, other than it's a long season. You
have games like this. The Mustangs have certainly had games
like this this season already that they should have won.
But when you bury yourself a whole, you can't always
dig out of it. So yeah, tremendous credit to those
boys out out in Cow, those Golden Bears and what
they were able to do to the Mustangs. Big disappointment
from the Mustang side. Kevin Jennings twenty four thirty six
for two and fifty yards, two touchdowns, one really bad interception.
Chris Johnson Junior one hundred twenty eight yards on ten
carries with a touchdown. The stats looked nice, but when
it came down to crunch time, the defense could not
get a stop when they needed it. So the Mustangs
will turn their attention toward next year and see if
rhtt Lashley gets any looks from some of these potential
college football job openings. I think he's pretty happy where
he is. But as we always say, money talks, that's
what that's all about. Had a couple of Texas schools
pitted against each.
Speaker 2: Other really in a game of well bragging rights, I guess.
Speaker 1: As you had the Houston Cougar's traveling to Waco to
take on the Bears in a Big twelve matchup. Houston
walks out of Victoria's thirty one to twenty four. The
Houston Cougars go to nine and three, six and three
in the Big Twelve. The Bears, just not long after
announcing that Dave Randa will be back in twenty twenty six,
fall to five and seven, three and six in the
Big Twelve. As Connor Wigman Annow accounts for three total
touchdowns with the Cougars wrapping up a nine win regular season.
Dean Connor scored on a one yard run with just
one fifty seven left. Connor Wigman did his thing, passed
for two hundred and one yards, he rushed for another
one hundred and twenty one yards, and the bowl bound
Cougar's got the game winning drive after Baylor had a
race of fifteen point deficit. After a scary injury by
the way to Caden Knighton late in the third quarter,
Thinking the good thoughts for Caden, Baylor had another chance
to tie the game Sawyer Robertson was under heavy pressure
on a fourth down incompletion from the Houston thirteen with
forty three seconds left. This one came down to the
wire in a game the Cougars really should have put
away nothing against the Bears, but the Cougars are supposed
to be on another level than where the Bears are
this season. But just like another games this season, the
Cougars almost found a way to lose when you shouldn't have.
The Bears ended coach Randa's sixth season with their third
loss in a row in fifth and six games. Not
the kind of season he wanted, but they are putting
all of their eggs in Randa's basket for twenty twenty six,
as they had announced a couple of weeks ago that
he is coming back and we'll be here, much to
the dismay by the way of many Baylor Bear's alum
and fans that I have heard from since that announcement.
Speaker 2: But look, here's the deal.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you, boys and girls what I've told a
lot of other teams in the same situation. Looking at you,
Florida State, you can't just fire your coach because he sucks.
I'm not saying Dave Randa sucks, because I don't think
he does. We have a history with Dave Randa. I
might be saying that.
Speaker 2: Never mind.
Speaker 1: Im' not even to say that, uh like Norvell sucks.
But I'm not going to say that. You can't just
fire the guy. You have to have a plan in
place to replace him, and if you don't, you're better
off keeping that guy. And I'm not even saying that
Baylor went out looking around to replace Aranda. I don't
even know that that happened. But if you're going to
fire a guy like Randa who's got skins on the
wall and has had tremendous success with the program. You
better darn sure know what you're doing to replace him,
and it better be a better option. And right now,
I don't think that exists for those Baylor bearers or
a lot of programs out there. Not only do you
have to have the availability of someone better than Dave Randa,
you have to have an interest from that person in
taking the job. Both of those things have to line
up perfectly, and that's not always the case. And that's
an aspect that gets lost in this business from fans.
Just because your guy didn't get the job done doesn't
mean someone out there is willing to do it. So
I think of the good thought for the Baylor fans
as Houston awaits their bowl assignments, another team awaiting their
bowl assignment after coming off a win to finish their
season eight and four, five and four in the Big Twelve,
those TCU horn Frogs getting it done at home.
Speaker 2: Man, I got a horn frog in my throat.
Speaker 1: Getting things done at home against the fighting Cincinnati Kelsey
Bearcats forty five to twenty three. Cincinnati really just never
in this one. They led big at the half, thirty
one to seventeen outscored the Bearcats in the second half
fourteen to six, and there's your total forty five to three.
Josh Hoover looked wonderful again for touchdown passes. Jeremy Payne
ran for one hundred and seventy four yards and two scores.
We had in the Big Twelve another weather delay about
ninety minutes in the first quarter by lightning and rain
in Fort Worth. And yeah, we did have some bad
weather here in North Texas Saturday night, so that is
not surprising at all. The Bearcasts finished the regular season
on a four game losing streak. I think about when
that losing streak started, the bear Casts were ranked seventeenth
and poised for a run to the Big Twelve title
game and maybe even a spot in the College Football Playoff,
but things went south.
Speaker 2: Very quickly for them.
Speaker 1: Hoover answered the first of Braylan Sowsby's three touchdown tosses
with a sixty nine yard scoring pass to Dwyer that
gave the horn Frogs the twenty one to seven lead
late in the first quarter.
Speaker 2: And that's really the closest the Bearcats were in this game.
Speaker 1: And that's been kind of a synopsis their last month.
They played some really bad football to close this season out.
That's got to be a matter of concern for everyone
in Cincinnati. The weather wasn't great, the field wasn't in
great condition just by virtue of the weather. But TCU
had to play on that field too, and they posted
forty five points. So I heard a lot of people
complaining about the field after the game, Bearcats fans. But
both teams were subjected to the same conditions and somehow
TCU found a way to make it work, at least
make it work just well enough to get past the
other team that was on the field.
Speaker 2: And that's really all you gotta do every week.
Speaker 1: The Bearcats finished last season on a five game losing
skid that cost them a Bowl bid. They finished this
season on a four game losing skid that cost them
a bowl bid. They're one and eleven in November and
three seasons under Satterfield. Saderfield, Yeah, they got to figure
out a way to finish seasons for TCU. Three years
remove from winning thirteen games and losing to Georgia in
the National Championship Game, they clinch consecutive eight win seasons
for the first time since twenty fourteen and twenty fifteen
when they went twelve and one and eleven and two.
Speaker 2: Both teams will wait for.
Speaker 1: Their bowl assignments, and by the way, we will have
all of the bowl Once all the bowl assignments are published,
we'll have all of that here on Piskin and burn
INDs for you to wrap up the season nicely for
some of these teams, and then of course we'll recap
all of those bowl games for you for everybody involved
in Texas college football. Another team we've been talking about,
Texas Tech, another team that just continues to roll those
North Texas Mean Green. Amid the news that you're losing
your coach as Eric Morris has taking over the job
at Oklahoma State, mid speculation Drew mesta Maker probably leaving
the program in the transfer portal, you you've got coach
Morris still committed to this program through the playoffs, and
this program is riding absolutely high in the American Conference
and in Denton. As the Lowly Temple Owls came to town,
Drew Mestamaker throws for three hundred and sixty six yards
and three touchdowns, including a seventy seven yarder to Cameron Dorner.
As the Mean Green wrap up a spot in the
American Conference Championship game with a fifty two to twenty
five victory against Temple On Friday, The Me and Green
rolled in their first game since announcing that Morris had
accepted the job at Oklahoma State, Meaning Texas. North Texas
will play either Tulane or Navy for the conference title championship.
We now know that that's going to be Tulane and
then a possible college football playoff Berth. So the winner
of North Texas and Tulane, I think we'll get into
the college football playoff. I also feel that that's going
to be North Texas. Just I'm not going to give
you an expert analysis. I don't know that I have
that in my skull right now. I don't know that
Tulane can keep up with the scoring of North Texas.
We'll leave it at that, and what could be the
last hurrah for Eric Morris and for Drew Mestenmaker, who
may be wearing black and orange and stillwater next year
along with coach Morris.
Speaker 2: But we don't know.
Speaker 1: Just speculation, irresponsible speculation on my part. Tulane will host
the championship game on Friday, after they beat Charlotte on
Saturday night. Tu Lane number twenty four in the college
football Playoff rankings. North Texas was unranked at this point.
You know, not a lot of excitement in this game.
You and T was up what thirty five to seven
at the half. Temple put on a little show in
the second half, scoring eighteen points, but the Mean Green
also did not take their foot off the offensive gas
and they scored seventeen.
Speaker 2: So the Mean Green continuing to do what they do.
Speaker 1: And it'll be fun to watch that American Conference championship
game and hopefully see what North Texas can do against
some of these big boys in the college football playoff.
Now what's going to be interesting is if North Texas
makes somewhat of a deep run, and by a deep run,
I mean winning at least one game, winning their first
round game. Should they make it to the playoffs, you know,
and and now the team breaks up. It's a strange
scenario in college football that we have. The calendar is
responsible for this.
Speaker 2: I hate that.
Speaker 1: It's said, look what you know happened with LSU and
Ole Miss with the lane kiff and said I hate
that more than anything. And college football has got to
fix the calendar. They've got to fit.
Speaker 2: You know, we had.
Speaker 1: We had on on Wednesday, National Early Signing Day, and
the programs aren't even done with the season yet. You've
got staffs that are focused on winning games heading into
the playoff in some cases, and they're also at the
same time worried about recruiting. Now. I know there's separate
staff for recruiting in a lot of cases, but not
in every case these smaller schools, it's a lot of
the coaching staff is responsible for that.
Speaker 2: And from a reporter's.
Speaker 1: Standpoint, I hate that I have to cover early National
Signing Day while we're talking about heading into conference championships.
Speaker 2: I also don't.
Speaker 1: Think that schools should be able to recruit coaches while
the season's going. Just like the NFL. They put a
stop to that in the NFL. Why can't they do
that in college. Let's have some separation here. Lane Kiffin
could have said, yes, I'll take the job LSU, let's
hold off until the end of the season to announce it.
I know that was a sticky situation because I know
he probably did that, and I know that petty petty,
petty old miss, but her old miss as I've heard
forced his hand and that things turned into an absolute mess.
And you know who misses out who gets hurt the
most of the kids, the players, student athletes, because they're
gonna be without their coaching staff for the most part,
heading into the biggest part of their season, the thing
they have been fighting all together for, and now Lane
Kiffin's gone. Charlie Wise Junior will hang around and coach
the playoff, but it's not the same. And when old
Miss gets bounced in their first game, it's the kids
that suffer. Lane Kiffin's gonna be cashing his checks in
Baton Rouge and nobody will feel sorry for him. I'll
feel sorry for those kids because you'll never know what
could have been, how the team stuck together. You will
never know. Let's get into some of the coaching carousel
firings hirings as you had as we're talking about tou Lane,
they're going through a coaching change. John Summerl is out.
He is moving on to Gainesville to coach the Gators.
Some are all nineteen and seven and two seasons.
Speaker 2: He went.
Speaker 1: In four seasons as the head coach forty two and
eleven to in the Sun Belt at Troy and to
the American at Tulane, he's reached the conference sadle game
in all four seasons, and I believe the Gators it's
a good fit. The Gators after losing out on Lane
Kiff and sweepstakes, might beginning just to get a coach,
maybe not the name, but coaching wise, I think they're
doing well. Also in the American, of course, Alex Golish
out twenty three and fifteen and three seasons. He put
South Florida there in Tampa back on the map. That
program is building something special there, but Alex Golish will
not be a part of it, as he was hired
by Auburn back on November thirtieth. As a not Auburn
fan and as an Alex Golish fan, that hurts me
a little bit, but that's what sports is. Goalish led
the Bulls to a nine and three record this season.
They're best records at twenty seventeen. The North Texas fans,
of course, well remember what the Bulls did in the
only North Texas loss of the season there in Denton,
really the second half. But he is out of the American,
of course, Justin will Cox fired at Cal. They're looking
for a new head coach. They just beat SMU North Texas.
Speaker 2: We just talked about that.
Speaker 1: We did not talk about Neil Brown taking Eric Morris's place.
Neil Brown, most recently a head coach at West Virginia,
was serving on the Texas Longhorns staff with Sark this season.
So we will see what Eric Morris can do or
I'm sorry, what Neil Brown can do in Denton. If
he can carry that on, is he gonna find I
have to find a quarterback? Can he talk mess to
Maker into staying. I think everybody wants mess to Maker
to stay. But given an opportunity of play in the
Big twelve, what do you do if your dream.
Speaker 2: Mess to Maker? Exactly so?
Speaker 1: And then of course replacing Lane Kiffin, Pete Golding is
your guy. He was promoted from defensive coordinator.
Speaker 2: He will stay.
Speaker 1: He is not interim, he is there. So yeah, there's
just in and around some of the another that we mentioned,
James Franklin, formerly a Penn State taking over Virginia Tech,
just some of the bigger names that have moved around
this year. As far as the college football playoff bracket
goes boys and girls. The penultimate rankings were released on
Tuesday evening, and I guess surprising. Let's just go over
some of the conferences and they're representatives. So again, this
is not the final rankings that will come out on
Sunday after the championship games, which won't affect a lot
of the players. By players, I mean the teams in
this thing, but there will be some shifting, but some surprises.
If the rankings that were released on Tuesday night were
the final rankings. Here are your teams that would be
in out of the SEC Alabama, Georgia, Oklahoma, Ole, Miss
and Texas.
Speaker 2: And right now the.
Speaker 1: Crimson Tider are the last SEC at large team in
the field, and they of course faced Georgia and the
SEC championship game this weekend. If Alabama loses and finishes
as a three loss runner up, the committee will have
to make another difficult decision here. The Tide would have
defeated Georgia during the regular season but then lost in
the championship game. They're ahead of Notre Dame, So yeah,
what at that point? What does the committee do there?
Still in the mix though, or the long warns they're
not necessarily out of it yet, they need a lot
of things to happen. They moved up to number thirteen
in the most recent rankings on Tuesday, but that does not, necessarily,
as I mentioned, mean that they're completely out of it.
Speaker 2: We'll find out on Sunday.
Speaker 1: In the Big ten, Indiana, Ohio, State, Oregon all in,
of course, and I think that's about it. Out of
the Big ten, those three teams will be all that
you get. In the Big twelve, Texas Tech would be
in BYU, still in the mix, but I think BYU well,
I don't think I know BYU is gonna have to
win the Big twelve title game over Texas Tech to
make it in. And even in that situation, I think
Texas Tech still gets in as well, and you have
two Big twelve teams Texas Tech beats BYU, BYU out,
Texas Tech is still in with a first round. By
by the way, in the ACC right now, the Duke
Blue Devils and the Virginia Cavaliers would be your two
ACC teams in, still in the mix with things to happen.
Miami independent, of course, Notre Dame is in in the
group of five right now. You would get too Lane
in and if they win the American they are in
in that American Championship game over North Texas. But again
I think that's gonna go the way of North Texas.
James Madison still an outside shot to get in. They're
eleven to one. So there's the way everything wraps up
right now. It's in a nice little package for us.
Go check that out at fans fermsports dot com. By
the way, if you're interested in finding out how the
brackets breakdown, we've got all of that for you over there.
Speaker 2: But still a chance for some movement.
Speaker 1: It is the final weekend, thank for, before the college
football playoff here with the college football conference championships.
Speaker 2: We will continue the show.
Speaker 1: Of course, as long as our players and our teams
are involved in some capacity. Well hopefully that's a long
run through January, and then we'll just be coming on
occasionally to talk about breaking news, some coaching moves, some
recruiting news. We'll do a couple of recruiting episodes as
well throughout the season. Keep everybody up to date. Make
sure you reach out to me on all of the
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just go find me, and let's talk about some college football.
What went right this season? In your mind? What went
wrong in the season in your mind? Whoever your team is,
who's getting the biggest shaft you think in college football playoff?
Will it be? Is it the Longhorns? I mean, there's
a lot of possibilities there, but let's talk about it. A.
Let's talk about American college football. A. It's really good.
Speaker 2: Eh.
Speaker 1: I have no idea why a Canadian intend just showed up,
but he did. So that's gonna do it for this
episode this week, boys and girls. We'll be back next
week to recap the conference championship games, to talk about
the final college football playoff rankings, brackets, and a preview
the first round of the college football playoffs.
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