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Speaker 4: I think exactly one week ago to the second we
Speaker 4: got the week started by making it quite clear that
Speaker 4: this show Coffee and Company, we are leaning into week zero.
Speaker 4: We're leading into college football season, actually being here, despite
Speaker 4: none of the local teams playing, and despite week zero
Speaker 4: just kind of not really feeling like it is real football.
Speaker 4: But here we are a week later and we're weekend,
Speaker 4: although we're calling it week one. But I think guess
Speaker 4: the best way to describe where we are right now
Speaker 4: is that game week is here for all the local teams.
Speaker 4: I'm fired up. We got a lot we believe it
Speaker 4: or not, we actually have a lot to react to
Speaker 4: from week zero. I mean, we're not going to spend
Speaker 4: three hours discussing how embarrassing it was for Florida State
Speaker 4: to travel all the way to Ireland feeling superior to
Speaker 4: everybody in the ACC and getting mopped by a team
Speaker 4: who you know, maybe that's an exaggeration, but Florida State
Speaker 4: never looked like the better team really at any point
Speaker 4: in that game, and they lost. In man, it really
Speaker 4: felt like college football fans across the world were celebrating
Speaker 4: and pointing and laughing at Florida State for losing just
Speaker 4: because of their arrogance and our do feel they should
Speaker 4: have been in the playoff in the grand scheme of things.
Speaker 4: I think the committee got it right, but it was
Speaker 4: no perfect solution. Like I've made it clear, like nobody
Speaker 4: wanted Florida State in there. But they didn't do anything wrong, right,
Speaker 4: I mean, just it was one of the very unique
Speaker 4: circumstances that kept them out. But the way they felt,
Speaker 4: you know, inferior after that, I mean, people may not
Speaker 4: realize this. The lawsuit that they filed against the ACC
Speaker 4: was like a week after the playoff rankings the final
Speaker 4: ones were unveiled, and of course they were left out.
Speaker 4: So they blamed the ACC for that because they feel
Speaker 4: as if they're being held back, and then you travel
Speaker 4: all the way to Ireland and lose. And I think
Speaker 4: we all were winners when that happened. John, let me
Speaker 4: ask you this, do you think because Florida State cried
Speaker 4: so much about missing the playoff? Like, why is everybody
Speaker 4: taking joy in this?
Speaker 5: Because they feel so entitled that they have the ability
Speaker 5: or they think they should have the ability to get
Speaker 5: out of the grain of rights and be able to
Speaker 5: do whatever they want. And you start off the season,
Speaker 5: you're the You're the Marquee College football game in Week
Speaker 5: zero in Ireland, and I don't want to say you
Speaker 5: laid an egg, but oh, you didn't lay.
Speaker 4: An egg, and you might have. You showed us that
Speaker 4: you're not going to be that good. Now they'll end
Speaker 4: up getting better. They got talent, They're not going to
Speaker 4: be a dud. But what I met more so was
Speaker 4: why did people outside the ACC take such celebration right
Speaker 4: because the ACC as a league, I mean clearly they
Speaker 4: think they're better than the rest of us, and they
Speaker 4: feel as if we are beneath them, and they now
Speaker 4: have low I mean they've I mean they didn't get in,
Speaker 4: they got embarrassed because of the outcome overall, and just
Speaker 4: the way they carry themselves throughout. I mean, but the
Speaker 4: game was close and they lost on a last second
Speaker 4: field goal. But my point is this, like it just
Speaker 4: seems as if the entire college football world was laughing
Speaker 4: at Florida State. It felt like that as soon as
Speaker 4: the story came out from Bet McMurphy earlier in the summer,
Speaker 4: if you remember where he had sources from the Big
Speaker 4: Ten and the SEC making it quite clear that there's
Speaker 4: not really a big appetite to go add a Florida State.
Speaker 4: Like I don't know, I just they seem like a
Speaker 4: team that nobody likes unless you're a fan of them.
Speaker 4: And I never would have really thought that, but I
Speaker 4: think it's kind of played out that way now. There's
Speaker 4: also something to be said about, you know, cheering for
Speaker 4: the underdog and Georgia Tech. I mean, they kept the receipts,
Speaker 4: they knew that nobody gave them much of a chance
Speaker 4: to win that game. I knew they'd be able to compete,
Speaker 4: but I will admit this, it didn't hit me until
Speaker 4: the day of the game that Georgia Tech actually ended
Speaker 4: up having a good year last year and that they
Speaker 4: actually you know, were pretty good, and then with Florida State,
Speaker 4: I just could never understand why anybody thought that dj
Speaker 4: I mean, I felt a little insecure sharing this take
Speaker 4: last week because I know I said it a few
Speaker 4: times John, and that was why are people acting as
Speaker 4: if dj U could just be added in to replace
Speaker 4: Jordan Travis who we saw what Florida State was without him,
Speaker 4: and they're just going to be a Okay, they're gonna
Speaker 4: be a preseason top ten team. Like this guy played
Speaker 4: four years of college football in Power of Five conferences
Speaker 4: and was mid at best. You put him on Florida State,
Speaker 4: you ask him to throw the ball further than five yards,
Speaker 4: and he's not going to be very good. He's not
Speaker 4: going to be very consistent. It'd be one thing if
Speaker 4: this was a guy that there was all kinds of
Speaker 4: hype from the high school level or something. This guy
Speaker 4: has shown us for an entire career that he is
Speaker 4: not that good, and he showed us once again in
Speaker 4: his fifth year at Florida State. So you know, we're
Speaker 4: pointing in laughing at Florida State again. That's not to
Speaker 4: say they're going to be terrible this year, but I mean,
Speaker 4: they got bullied up front, and they don't have a
Speaker 4: good quarterback. They certainly have a stable of running backs,
Speaker 4: but that Georgia Tech defensive front was was in control
Speaker 4: there in that matchup between the running game of Florida
Speaker 4: State and those guys in the trenches for Georgia Tech.
Speaker 4: So anyways, I enjoyed Week zero. I'll admit that it
Speaker 4: was because I did, in fact have a good start.
Speaker 4: And this is this, I mean, I overthink everything in life.
Speaker 4: That's one of my biggest, you know issues. I got
Speaker 4: many issues, but I overthink everything. I'm paranoid. I worry
Speaker 4: about the absolute worst. And because I went four for
Speaker 4: four in bets in Week zero, you'd think i'd be,
Speaker 4: you know, feeling great, like I'm about to have a
Speaker 4: great season of wagering on college football. But to be
Speaker 4: honest with you, it's got me thinking, well, you got
Speaker 4: your wins out of the way, You're not getting any
Speaker 4: more of the rest of the season, because that's just
Speaker 4: how I just assume things are going to go for me.
Speaker 4: But hey, it was only four games, and uh, you know,
Speaker 4: only one was really probably watched by a lot of people.
Speaker 4: Although there was an exciting finish in that Nevada as
Speaker 4: him you game, which we'll get to that one as well,
Speaker 4: but welcome in everybody. It's game week, Coffee and company.
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Speaker 4: ninety Nick Coffee. That is me the company man. Mister
Speaker 4: John Alden is alongside today and he's now a year older.
Speaker 4: Happy late birthday, buddy.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I had a good birthday weekend.
Speaker 4: Why didn't? I mean? Like this is I felt very
Speaker 4: I was mad at you on Saturday.
Speaker 2: You're mad at me.
Speaker 4: On Saturday night. I was laying in bed thinking of you.
Speaker 4: Not really mad, but like I saw that your wife
Speaker 4: told you happy birthday on Facebook. Uh huh, wish she
Speaker 4: gave you the very I mean it was very romantic,
Speaker 4: very sweet. What a great wife you have, John, she
Speaker 4: I'm sure she gave you a great birthday. She did,
Speaker 4: But I'm like, well, why did he tell me it
Speaker 4: was his birthday? And then I'm thinking, like, you know,
Speaker 4: because he's a grown up, he's probably not thinking him.
Speaker 4: I hope everybody knows it's my birthday today. Another example
Speaker 4: where you know you are mature beyond your years, because
Speaker 4: I think a lot of people would have you know,
Speaker 4: been all over the place making it quite clear. Hey,
Speaker 4: it's my day today, and John, you didn't do that
Speaker 4: at all. But me not knowing it was your birthday Saturday,
Speaker 4: I felt like a bad friend. But you know, thanks
Speaker 4: to Facebook, I now know. Oh that's a thing. Facebook helps.
Speaker 4: You know anybody's birthday now absolutely absolutely so happy birthday.
Speaker 4: What are you? Twenty seven? Now?
Speaker 5: Twenty seven official? This feels like the official start of
Speaker 5: the late twenties, right, So do.
Speaker 4: You feel I mean, like if you felt kind of
Speaker 4: the same since we've worked together, like kind of because
Speaker 4: you know, you've been mid twenties, since we haven't worked
Speaker 4: together that long. We've known each other a while, but
Speaker 4: we've we've been on the air together for it'll be
Speaker 4: two years in January, so you know, roughly a year
Speaker 4: and three quarters. And I feel like you've kind of
Speaker 4: been the same. But there is a difference between twenty
Speaker 4: five and twenty seven, like your your thirties aren't that
Speaker 4: far away, my man.
Speaker 5: I know, it is weird to think that now I'm
Speaker 5: only three years away from that, and it's I mean,
Speaker 5: I don't really think about that very often, but maybe
Speaker 5: now that I'm on the edge of it, maybe I
Speaker 5: will think about it a little more often.
Speaker 4: Well, take it, take it in, brother, don't, don't just
Speaker 4: you know, don't just act like it's going to be
Speaker 4: there forever, because it won't. And I can tell you
Speaker 4: late twenties fun time, fun fun time.
Speaker 5: I remember last year I was. I took my first
Speaker 5: ever sick day on my birthday.
Speaker 2: Last year. I was actually sick. You or may not
Speaker 2: remember that.
Speaker 4: I kind of remember that. Now that you say that,
Speaker 4: it's a terrible what.
Speaker 2: Better something, I'll never forget it.
Speaker 4: Weird though, Speaking of being sick, I was worried again,
Speaker 4: just I worry about everything. I'm going to chalk it
Speaker 4: up to allergies because I was outside all day Saturday
Speaker 4: for the most part. I mean it was hot as hell,
Speaker 4: a couple of football games to go to, ended up
Speaker 4: being outside with the kids doing stuff. Later in the day,
Speaker 4: had a kid's birthday party. I mean, I was doing
Speaker 4: you know, dad stuff all weekend, which is you know,
Speaker 4: now my life, You'll be there before too long, John,
Speaker 4: So that's what I'm telling you. Hey, you know, the
Speaker 4: dad stuff's great, but you know, take advantage of the
Speaker 4: time when you can just do whatever the hell you
Speaker 4: want to not have to worry about the human beings
Speaker 4: you helped create that you have to take care of
Speaker 4: and entertain at all times, and they run your world.
Speaker 4: So it had to be allergies because yesterday, you know,
Speaker 4: throughout the day, I kept getting an itchy, scratchy throat.
Speaker 4: My head felt like it weighed six thousand pounds. I
Speaker 4: don't want to get too graphic and gross, but there
Speaker 4: was a lot of drainage going on in the back,
Speaker 4: and it just I kind of felt like I was
Speaker 4: coming down with something. Woke up this morning still kind
Speaker 4: of felt the same, and then I don't know, maybe
Speaker 4: it's because I heard that beautiful voice of one Jeff
Speaker 4: Brom talking about the opponent this week because it's game week,
Speaker 4: and that just that cured me that that healed whatever
Speaker 4: I had coming. Jeff Bram he got rid of it,
Speaker 4: some witch doctor stuff or something like that. He has
Speaker 4: healed me. Because I'm feeling like a million bucks here
Speaker 4: as we as we get, as we get the show started,
Speaker 4: So I don't know. Maybe it was also heat exhaustion,
Speaker 4: because the heat's back. Brother, it's going to be I
Speaker 4: think the hottest week of the year this.
Speaker 2: Week it is.
Speaker 5: We have a couple of days. I think the highest
Speaker 5: ninety eight later in the week, and that is just
Speaker 5: the absolute worst.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you can go to hell with ninety eight.
Speaker 1: It will be hell.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, exactly, that's what Mother Nature. She's bringing us
Speaker 4: hell because that's that that's awful. Nobody wants that, especially
Speaker 4: now that we got football. And I know the early
Speaker 4: part of football is always I mean, it's always hot
Speaker 4: as hell, usually in late August early September. But I
Speaker 4: get the sense, not that I can check the pulse,
Speaker 4: you know, of everybody, but I feel like there's there
Speaker 4: seems to be more than the usual amount of desire
Speaker 4: for fall weather. I don't know, I just I can
Speaker 4: feel it. Maybe it's just me wanting fall weather that badly,
Speaker 4: but yeah, this week's going to be hot as hell.
Speaker 4: But you know it's okay because football season's here and
Speaker 4: that's a nice distraction from you know, the disgusting humidity
Speaker 4: out there. Yeah, I guess being outside for a good
Speaker 4: chunk of Saturday. And then I was outside all night
Speaker 4: Friday under the lights at CT collins Field watching the
Speaker 4: North bull At Eagles get a big victory. Take that
Speaker 4: Holy Cross, Take that Mark Lieberman stick that in your
Speaker 4: pipe and smoke at leaves. No, I'm kidding. It was
Speaker 4: a good game, but North bullet one because that's what
Speaker 4: we do. We win, we're winners. So anyways, let's just
Speaker 4: we're going to talk about what Jef Brom had to
Speaker 4: say to and there really wasn't a whole out there.
Speaker 4: That's what he does really good. He's really good at
Speaker 4: saying nothing while talking for you know, twenty minutes. And
Speaker 4: I don't say that to you know, pick on Jeff,
Speaker 4: because that's what coaches do. And he is certainly somebody
Speaker 4: that's gonna always give you less than maybe most. I mean,
Speaker 4: I think he'll be pretty direct, he'll be honest. He's
Speaker 4: not up there playing games, but he's all about keeping
Speaker 4: it close to the vest.
Speaker 2: As they say.
Speaker 4: He's not even going to release a depth chart. Did
Speaker 4: you know that, John, I didn't. Jeff Brohm does not
Speaker 4: release week one depth charts. He doesn't want anybody to
Speaker 4: know truly how the lineups are, how the you know,
Speaker 4: first second string breaks down. You're too deep until you
Speaker 4: actually see it out there on the field. That's an
Speaker 4: old school that's old school gamesmanship right there, from one
Speaker 4: Jeff Brohm. So you know, again he talked about a
Speaker 4: Mary Huggins Bruce. In fact, he didn't at all. He
Speaker 4: was asked about it, couldn't talk about it, and that's
Speaker 4: to be expected. But he's still here, and you know,
Speaker 4: I doubt he came here just to, you know, enjoy
Speaker 4: this disgusting humidity. He's here to play football, and I
Speaker 4: guess now we still have to just wait and figure
Speaker 4: out what needs to be done in order for that
Speaker 4: to be possible. I am still willing to tell you
Speaker 4: that I don't know how he could be eligible. Doesn't
Speaker 4: mean he won't be the hell do I know. I'm
Speaker 4: not a compliance expert when it comes to NAA eligibility,
Speaker 4: But like, I just don't see how the NCAA would
Speaker 4: give Louisville the green like to let this guy play.
Speaker 4: But again, I've been wrong a lot, and I'll be
Speaker 4: wrong a lot more the rest of the way. So
Speaker 4: maybe I'm wrong about that and there's some loophole that
Speaker 4: I just don't know about. We'll see. But I have
Speaker 4: despite Louisville being a thirty six and a half point
Speaker 4: favorite against Austin p I do have a handful of
Speaker 4: things that I'm hoping to see in the game, and
Speaker 4: I'll tell you about those are a little bit later on.
Speaker 4: And again, I hate even laying it out there like
Speaker 4: I've got something I'm teasing you about. I mean, i'd
Speaker 4: say what you want to see is fairly obvious. But
Speaker 4: there was a couple of things Jeff said today that
Speaker 4: kind of had me thinking, Okay, I'm gonna be looking
Speaker 4: for this and that as we get as we get
Speaker 4: to Saturday, big favorites everybody here locally again, Louisville thirty
Speaker 4: six and a half point favorites Indiana. Is it still
Speaker 4: at twenty one? John?
Speaker 2: It more th and a half that I see.
Speaker 4: That's its Signette factor. That's what it is. They're gonna
Speaker 4: give them the hook twenty one and a half. I
Speaker 4: like it, I don't. I mean, I probably will do
Speaker 4: just a straight bet on this because of you, and
Speaker 4: I love you, and I love the Hoosiers. I want
Speaker 4: Indiana football to give you something John this year. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so I might just take Signetti minus twenty one and
Speaker 4: a half without even doing any research on FIU.
Speaker 5: If I was taking this game, i'd probably bet the
Speaker 5: over because I know FIU is supposed to have a
Speaker 5: fairly suspect defense, But the Hoosiers may have one as well,
Speaker 5: so it could be kind of a mini shootout.
Speaker 4: To say, Signetti suspect defense. I don't like hearing that.
Speaker 2: I hope not. But that's just kind of you know,
Speaker 2: the early rumor mill.
Speaker 4: We'll see, we'll see what win tod they play.
Speaker 2: They are nooner, they're a three thirty right in the
Speaker 2: postgame show.
Speaker 4: How about that we've got We've got Louisville noon. I
Speaker 4: U three thirty Kentucky. I think it's seven forty five.
Speaker 4: And by the way, Kentucky twenty eight and a half
Speaker 4: point favorites against Southern Miss. And you never know what
Speaker 4: you're gonna give with Southern Miss. Every every now and
Speaker 4: then they'll be pretty good for you know, Sun Belt
Speaker 4: or Conference USA, whatever league. I think they're actually still
Speaker 4: in the Conference USA, but you know, and then there's
Speaker 4: also a stretch where they are the worst team in
Speaker 4: the country. And I don't say this stack like you know, Kentucky,
Speaker 4: although it is rich here in Kentucky. Continue to talk
Speaker 4: strength to schedule whenever, you know, they don't beat the
Speaker 4: good teams, and they actually when they play bad teams,
Speaker 4: they play the really really bad teams like Southern Miss
Speaker 4: if you go look again, who knows, maybe maybe everyone
Speaker 4: is going to be wrong about this Southern miss team,
Speaker 4: but they're supposed to be ass this year, so you
Speaker 4: know they are. That's that's why Kentucky's favored by you know,
Speaker 4: more than four touchdowns. And I actually I'm not gonna
Speaker 4: bet it because gross, but I do like Kentucky to
Speaker 4: cover in that one.
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 4: That's how bad so the Miss is and Kentucky will
Speaker 4: keep them from scoring maybe any points that it could
Speaker 4: be a shutout. I mean that. I mean, I mean
Speaker 4: maybe they get a field goal or too late in
Speaker 4: the game or something like that. But with Kentucky and
Speaker 4: their offense, it won't mean a whole lot. Again, and
Speaker 4: if Louisville scores one hundred points, it won't mean a
Speaker 4: whole lot because of the competition. So I'm not making
Speaker 4: it about the rivalry here, but I would think you
Speaker 4: would you want to light up that scoreboard against an
Speaker 4: inferior opponent when you've got some You got a new quarterback,
Speaker 4: you want him to be comfortable and confident the rest
Speaker 4: of the way. You've got a big game next week
Speaker 4: against South Carolina that has a big impact on your season,
Speaker 4: I believe so in all honesty, that's one of the
Speaker 4: bets I like more than any is Kentucky to cover
Speaker 4: big there, just because I think, you know, and I
Speaker 4: guess they've had games where they are trying to win
Speaker 4: big and you know, really put it on an opponent
Speaker 4: and they end up, you know, doing exactly the opposite.
Speaker 4: They trailed EKU at halftime last year, so I guess
Speaker 4: in games like this they've had the let down. But
Speaker 4: I don't. I just have a feeling Kentucky's gonna mop
Speaker 4: Southern Miss, which they should. And then WKU at Alabama
Speaker 4: your alumna, John Or you're you're Alma mater, I should
Speaker 4: say you are an alumn But yeah, I got that
Speaker 4: backwards there thirty one and a half at Bama, Kaylen
Speaker 4: Debor getting his Alabama era era started with a humongous
Speaker 4: spread there against the Hilltoppers. I'm not touching that. That's
Speaker 4: too many points.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And WKU, even though they've had different coaches over the years,
Speaker 5: they've been known to put up some points as well,
Speaker 5: and I'm sure it'll be a lot harder to do
Speaker 5: against an Alabama team, but it could be another high
Speaker 5: scoring affair.
Speaker 2: Potentially.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if I was gonna, if I was gonna do
Speaker 4: anything there, it'd probably be the the the over. But
Speaker 4: that's a stay away from me. I can tell you that,
Speaker 4: all right, what I want to do. On the other side,
Speaker 4: we're gonna get to our first break coming up here
Speaker 4: in just a few minutes.
Speaker 2: But there's not a whole.
Speaker 4: Lot that any of you probably care about when it
Speaker 4: comes to Georgia Tech and Florida State, SMU and Nevada.
Speaker 4: But again, it's two sc in fact, three sc ACC
Speaker 4: teams that played, and Louisville's gonna play two of them. Right,
Speaker 4: they don't have Florida State on the schedule, but they
Speaker 4: have Georgia Tech and they'll play SMU. In fact, those
Speaker 4: are two. I mean, Georgia Tech is your first real game, right,
Speaker 4: You've got Austin p this Saturday. Then you're gonna take
Speaker 4: on Jacksonville State. Then it's Georgia Tech. And let's be
Speaker 4: real that game now is there's value there. I mean,
Speaker 4: they're gonna be Let me look at Georgia Tech's schedule
Speaker 4: because and I had it pulled up earlier, and I
Speaker 4: think I remember it, but I don't want to, you know,
Speaker 4: I don't want to get it wrong here, but there's
Speaker 4: no way they lose between now in that game. I mean,
Speaker 4: they'll play Georgia State, which they should win, and then
Speaker 4: they'll play Syracuse on the road, which again you should win.
Speaker 4: And if they lose on the road at Q's a
Speaker 4: team that did get better in the portal, did make
Speaker 4: a coaching change. But like Georgia Tech, if you can
Speaker 4: go beat Florida State, you should be undefeated when you
Speaker 4: get to Louisville on September twenty first. They also play
Speaker 4: vm I two, by the way, and that that's their
Speaker 4: FCS opponent, So you know there's there's there's a chance
Speaker 4: for Louisville to you know, circle that as a game
Speaker 4: that you know there's value. You mean, I haven't seen
Speaker 4: the updated ap pole. Have you seen it? John? I
Speaker 4: haven't let me pull it up here because you know
Speaker 4: it wouldn't it wouldn't shock me if if I mean,
Speaker 4: in fact, it would shock me if. Yeah, there's no
Speaker 4: update from what I can see here.
Speaker 5: Why they may not because I guess technically Week zero
Speaker 5: is a part of Week one, so they won't update
Speaker 5: the poll until after this upcoming weekend.
Speaker 2: I could be wrong. But I think that's how well.
Speaker 4: No, I think you're right, because if if they were
Speaker 4: updating it, I think we yeah, I mean we would
Speaker 4: be everywhere like it would be.
Speaker 5: And it'd be a very weird polled update after four
Speaker 5: games and truly only one top twenty five opponent.
Speaker 4: But I kind of feel like this is a disadvantage
Speaker 4: of week zero if you are, if you are Georgia Tech,
Speaker 4: because cause even if you come out this Saturday and
Speaker 4: you beat Georgia State by forty, the chance to really
Speaker 4: you know, impress the polsters as they're filling it out,
Speaker 4: would have been this week, right, Yeah, Like you're not
Speaker 4: gonna get as much value next week as you would
Speaker 4: this this current week, from beating Florida State to top
Speaker 4: ten team. Again, who cares the AP poll is? It
Speaker 4: really is irrelevant. But I also, and again this is
Speaker 4: me talking out to both sides here, it's irrelevant because
Speaker 4: it genuinely does not matter at all in regards to anything.
Speaker 4: But from a fans perspective, like it, we're insecure for it, right,
Speaker 4: Like you want to see that number next to your name.
Speaker 4: You want to see, you know, that number next to
Speaker 4: your opponent's name when you beat them, so it feels
Speaker 4: like you beat somebody good. So you know, I actually
Speaker 4: think and this is what I want, This is what
Speaker 4: I was kind of leading up to. I'll get to
Speaker 4: it on the other side, and I promise I'm not
Speaker 4: going to talk big picture ACC and then SMU and
Speaker 4: Georgia Tech for the entire show. But the results from
Speaker 4: Saturday in the ACC, the upset of Florida State with
Speaker 4: Georgia Tech taking him down, and then SMU struggling against
Speaker 4: an Nevada team that was picked to finish dead last
Speaker 4: in the Missouri Valley. You know, that's clearly not looked
Speaker 4: at as a good thing for the ACC. Right. Outsiders
Speaker 4: are looking at this as a sign that the ACC
Speaker 4: is really a poor is a poor league. And I
Speaker 4: can't really say that they're wrong based off the results.
Speaker 4: I can't say that that's crazy. But I actually think
Speaker 4: after the fact, right, you know, seeing how people are
Speaker 4: reacting and then going back and looking more so at
Speaker 4: all three of these teams, specifically in the ACC, the
Speaker 4: level of disrespect was already there and it was right
Speaker 4: in front of our face. Like Georgia Tech should have
Speaker 4: been a team that was getting way more love. SMU
Speaker 4: should have been a team that is not getting as
Speaker 4: much love. They were right outside the top twenty five.
Speaker 4: They were looked at by a lot of people, objective
Speaker 4: folks that cover college football as this, you know, potential
Speaker 4: darling in the ACC because of how well they did
Speaker 4: last year in the American and you know they have
Speaker 4: resources at SMU. But like I felt myself, I felt
Speaker 4: bad about the ACC in a way I never had before.
Speaker 4: But I also have noticed this urge that I can't
Speaker 4: control John to now start defending the ACC. Is this
Speaker 4: is this is this what they call a heel turn,
Speaker 4: a heel turn, because like I've like i've all, I mean,
Speaker 4: I've always been very you know, from I've always said
Speaker 4: this when it comes to the ACC, I can't do
Speaker 4: the pom poms pep rally for the conference. As a
Speaker 4: Louisville fan who grew up watching Louisville be in like
Speaker 4: six different leagues, I've never felt as if, like, you know,
Speaker 4: we have to be homers for our own conference. Now,
Speaker 4: with that said, clearly, whatever conference you're in, it's best
Speaker 4: for your conference to be good and get respected and
Speaker 4: all that kind of stuff. But I just if I
Speaker 4: if I see it for what it is. I don't
Speaker 4: ever find myself wanting to kind of move the goalpost,
Speaker 4: do some mental gymnastics to make the acc look like
Speaker 4: anything other than what it is. But now I find
Speaker 4: myself thinking, hey, Georgia Tech should have been given more
Speaker 4: love in that matchup, especially considering the fact that, like
Speaker 4: Florida State, let's be honest, last year, people laughed them
Speaker 4: off the playoff rankings because of the injury to Jordan Travis.
Speaker 4: And again, that is unusual circumstance, that's not something I mean,
Speaker 4: that was just a very rare, really an outlier type
Speaker 4: situation in the four team playoff era, to where you
Speaker 4: have a team that, yes, they're undefeated, but like everybody knows,
Speaker 4: there's only four spots to give. You can't give them,
Speaker 4: you can't give it to one of them when you
Speaker 4: know that they just be a placeholder. They'd get their
Speaker 4: rear end kicked without Jordan Travis. So anyways, we'll get
Speaker 4: to that. On the other side, there's a lot we
Speaker 4: got to get to, a lot to react to from
Speaker 4: over the weekend, and of course week one is here,
Speaker 4: many more games to take a look at. Deon Sanders
Speaker 4: continues to in my opinion, be ahead of the pack
Speaker 4: when it comes to coach is that it's going to
Speaker 4: be so easy to root for. I mean what he
Speaker 4: and his praise, it's not really just him, it's his
Speaker 4: program too, telling certain people that if you come to
Speaker 4: a press conference, they will not take your question, Like,
Speaker 4: what the hell is this insane? So we're loaded the
Speaker 4: rest of the way. Stick with us. It is Coffee
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Speaker 4: on Sports Talk seven ninety so all underdogs covered in
Speaker 4: the four games for a week zero. I mean that's
Speaker 4: I mean, we told you the dogs were barking. That's
Speaker 4: all I'm gonna say. I mean, I will admit I
Speaker 4: didn't share any thoughts on Hawaii other than just you know,
Speaker 4: knowing that they're knowing that their opponent may not be
Speaker 4: able to get there. But hey, Delaware State they got
Speaker 4: there and they covered thirty nine and a half. So
Speaker 4: FSU ended up being favored at ten and a half
Speaker 4: when it kicked off, and as you know, Georgia Tech
Speaker 4: went out right. Montana State they were favored about thirteen
Speaker 4: and a half. Keep in mind, Montana State is an
Speaker 4: FCS team that wasn't great last year, and they went
Speaker 4: into New Mexico and were favored by nearly two touchdowns.
Speaker 4: I mean, I guess technically it was two touchdowns, but
Speaker 4: thirteen and a half. And I didn't touch that one initially,
Speaker 4: just because I felt like, man, that's like if you
Speaker 4: bet on I didn't even need to look into how
Speaker 4: bad New Mexico State was previously. We did on the
Speaker 4: show last week. When you see somebody, I mean, that'll
Speaker 4: jump out at you more than anything that a team
Speaker 4: in the Mountain West is hosting an FCS team and
Speaker 4: they're two scores under, two score underdogs, Like it's crazy.
Speaker 4: So I ended up by the way I did go
Speaker 4: for I went four for four on bets kind of.
Speaker 4: I mean there were four different wagers, but I did
Speaker 4: multiple different bets on one particular game. So I parlayed
Speaker 4: the two dogs I've been talking about for weeks that
Speaker 4: was SMU and Nevada. I just thought Nevada was given up.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's a lot of points for teams that
Speaker 4: are still trying to, you know, get acclimated with a
Speaker 4: bunch of new transfers and whatnot. So SMU was favored
Speaker 4: by twenty seven and a half and barely won the game,
Speaker 4: shoult a loss. To be honest with you, SMU was
Speaker 4: fortunate to be able to win that game, and I did.
Speaker 4: I'll admit I did not expect Georgia Tick to win outright,
Speaker 4: but I felt like they could keep it close, and
Speaker 4: they did they want they won out right. So when
Speaker 4: Montana State ended up getting down against New Mexico, I
Speaker 4: couldn't believe that there wasn't some type of like big
Speaker 4: shock by the books, right. I thought the live line
Speaker 4: would change to where, yeah, they're up what ten in
Speaker 4: the first half. They're the gf They're the G five
Speaker 4: team from the Mountain West, and you know, my time
Speaker 4: at Montana State is in the FCS that like maybe
Speaker 4: they would realize, okay, we got this way wrong before kickoff,
Speaker 4: let's try to divorce reverse course. So I ended up
Speaker 4: deciding to take New Mexico. But they were still getting
Speaker 4: six and a half. They were plus six and a
Speaker 4: half when they were winning and in control, and they
Speaker 4: were winning that game and in control of it until
Speaker 4: you know, the very end. So I had two straight
Speaker 4: bets on those underdog picks with Georgia Tech and Nevada,
Speaker 4: and then I parlayed it, so that's you know that
Speaker 4: that's basically three that's three bets there individuals, and then
Speaker 4: the one parlay and then I ended up doing the
Speaker 4: live bet with New Mexico and they covered as dogs.
Speaker 4: So good start for me, John, you had the worst
Speaker 4: betting weekend ever, but not for reasons people may expect, right.
Speaker 5: Yes, and I didn't know I was going to be
Speaker 5: sharing this, but on the show that I do in
Speaker 5: the mornings now I'm my new in Touch with the
Speaker 5: Indiana Sports show on YouTube check out, I made picks
Speaker 5: for each of the different games, but I told my
Speaker 5: listeners that I wasn't actually going to wager this weekend,
Speaker 5: and I don't. I learned that that was a bad
Speaker 5: omen early on for me because I ended up predicting
Speaker 5: the under in Georgia Tech FSU, which hit. I predicted
Speaker 5: New Mexico to cover against Montana State, which they did.
Speaker 5: I predicted Nevada to cover against SMU, which they did,
Speaker 5: and then I predicted in Delaware State, well, I'm out
Speaker 5: of breath to cover against Hawaiian because it's as well.
Speaker 4: Because it's you're you're like about to pass out because
Speaker 4: you just you know, you got all these right you
Speaker 4: hammered it, but you didn't bet.
Speaker 5: It's just embarrassing because the week zero games always feel
Speaker 5: like they're bait games, and it is the case for
Speaker 5: the most part, and because you never know what what
Speaker 5: what teams are really going to be like as they
Speaker 5: get their seasons underway.
Speaker 2: Bad teams don't know they're bad yet. This one thing
Speaker 2: I've heard Colin Coward say before. So I just it
Speaker 2: was it was a big loss for me.
Speaker 5: But you know what, We're gonna try to bounce back
Speaker 5: this weekend, actually put some money on the line, and
Speaker 5: maybe we'll come out on top this time.
Speaker 4: Yeah. But I just here's what I hate about this
Speaker 4: for you is that you're gonna feel pressure to win
Speaker 4: this week because your picks that would have won you
Speaker 4: didn't bet on. Like you know what I'm saying, I
Speaker 4: already feel the pressure, like there's there's no way that
Speaker 4: I can come across that type of luck liked had
Speaker 4: had you wagered, it could have you could have been
Speaker 4: like me to where and that, trust me, that's not
Speaker 4: a good place to be. What I mean by that
Speaker 4: is you could have been like me and thought, well,
Speaker 4: you know, maybe I'll win a few bets here and there,
Speaker 4: But that's probably gonna be the best weekend I ever had.
Speaker 4: Yeah of the sea. So but hey, I mean, you know,
Speaker 4: you are somebody that is in a good headspace I
Speaker 4: feel like at all times with your college basketball and
Speaker 4: college football bets, because you don't go extreme and you
Speaker 4: don't overthink it. From what I can tell, like you
Speaker 4: kind of you know, you do just enough, you know,
Speaker 4: analyzing and you know you would because you parlay a lot.
Speaker 4: I do you and I do too, so you know,
Speaker 4: it's it's just how everybody it's got their own preference
Speaker 4: thrown way of wagering. But you know, like if you
Speaker 4: just went one by one each leg of every parlay,
Speaker 4: you'd bet, you know, and you bet those as straight bets.
Speaker 4: You may not you may not have a whole lot
Speaker 4: of money because one, you know, one straight bet if
Speaker 4: you don't put much money down, isn't going to pay
Speaker 4: you much. But like, you know, at least you got
Speaker 4: it right, you know what I mean, Like you picked that,
Speaker 4: you picked that game correctly. So I haven't even really
Speaker 4: gotten into Week one matchups just yet, but trust me,
Speaker 4: we got all week to do that and it's gonna
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Speaker 4: All right, So back to the ACC stuff. You know,
Speaker 4: I think the reaction from week zero in regards to
Speaker 4: the ACC is understandable, but I feel like had the
Speaker 4: league not looked like such a and again, I think
Speaker 4: perception of the ACC is actually not as bad as
Speaker 4: it actually is. But that's just life, right, Like the
Speaker 4: perception of things really does matter, but at times it's
Speaker 4: over it's overblown. So Georgia Tech should have been getting
Speaker 4: way more respect in this game, to where if the
Speaker 4: ACC had had had had a better you know, had
Speaker 4: better street cred. And look, that's their own fault, right.
Speaker 4: Over the years, the ACC has done a bad job
Speaker 4: of winning non conference games against good, good conference, good
Speaker 4: out of conference opponents to show that, like, you know,
Speaker 4: you deserve the benefit of the doubt when you beat
Speaker 4: up on each other. So it's not like the ACC
Speaker 4: is a victim here, like the reputation that it has
Speaker 4: is is deserved, to be honest with you, But Georgia
Speaker 4: Tech last year, like how many people realized they won't
Speaker 4: They finished in fourth place last year, fourth place. Like
Speaker 4: that's not to say that they should have been favored.
Speaker 4: That's not to say that they are the most underrated
Speaker 4: team in the country. They finished fourth in a top
Speaker 4: in a Power five league. Like, again, I know, the
Speaker 4: ACC is not the SEC or the Big Ten when
Speaker 4: it comes to depth, or even the Big the old
Speaker 4: Big twelve from last year, but still, like you'd have
Speaker 4: thought that they were, Like I think there's so many
Speaker 4: people that are casual to maybe lightly above casual college
Speaker 4: football fans that if you'd have told them before game
Speaker 4: day started on Saturday that Georgia Tech was coming off
Speaker 4: a five and seven season, people would have believed you.
Speaker 4: They'd had no reason to question you unless they just know.
Speaker 4: But yet, they were good last year. I mean, there's
Speaker 4: their first bowl victory since twenty sixteen. They beat Central
Speaker 4: Florida and again their personnel. They returned twelve starters, including
Speaker 4: their quarterback Haines King, who, by the way, did not
Speaker 4: play good against Florida State. If I'm being honest with you,
Speaker 4: he did just enough, but you know he was good.
Speaker 4: Here's what he did statistically last year. Haines King has
Speaker 4: only one of four Power Conference qbs to have twenty
Speaker 4: five or more passing touchdowns and ten or more rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 4: You know who else did that, Jaden Daniels, Kayleb Williams,
Speaker 4: and Dylan Gabriel. They brought back probably the best running
Speaker 4: back in the ACC over one thousand yards last year
Speaker 4: for Jamal Haynes, seven rushing types, six yards per carry,
Speaker 4: and they have a freshman All American coming back in
Speaker 4: Eric Singleton at receiver and their defense stunk last year.
Speaker 4: It's stunk, but they do return their two best tacklers,
Speaker 4: and they went out and they hired a defensive coordinator.
Speaker 4: Had to be fair, there was no way to know
Speaker 4: that this guy, you know, would be able to deliver.
Speaker 4: But they were awful defensively, and they were in control defensively.
Speaker 4: I mean they were aful last year defensively, but on
Speaker 4: Saturday in Ireland they were in control. Their defensive front
Speaker 4: looked good. And they went out and they hired by
Speaker 4: the way, Tyler Santucci, who I'm sure you'd never heard of,
Speaker 4: but he was with He was at Duke with Mike Elko,
Speaker 4: so he was the defensive coordinator there. Obviously, Mike Elko
Speaker 4: is a defensive guy. He ran the defense. But this
Speaker 4: is a guy that worked right under Mike Elko. And
Speaker 4: by the way, Duke last year had the top ranked
Speaker 4: scoring defense in the ACC, only allowing nineteen points per game,
Speaker 4: sixteenth nationally. This is a guy who was also a
Speaker 4: co DC at Texas A and twenty twenty two for Elko.
Speaker 4: So again, there's no way to know that this guy
Speaker 4: would have been like able to really flip that defense around.
Speaker 4: But like Georgia Tech, in my opinion, should have been
Speaker 4: a team getting a little more love as a potential darling.
Speaker 4: Like they should be viewed as a team that's better
Speaker 4: than SMU, because again, all they bring back after finishing
Speaker 4: top four in the league a year ago, and you know,
Speaker 4: they did pretty well on the portal. Like I just
Speaker 4: think if you look at the more I looked into
Speaker 4: Georgia Tech, the more I felt confident they could cover
Speaker 4: as dogs. And they did that and they went outright.
Speaker 4: But just because nobody respects the ACC, I don't think
Speaker 4: anybody really cares about all that stuff I just laid out,
Speaker 4: and I don't trust me. What I laid out doesn't
Speaker 4: tell you that you should go ahead and pencil them
Speaker 4: in for the playoff. But that team, given what they
Speaker 4: brought back in what they did in a power league,
Speaker 4: even if you don't think this is the best league,
Speaker 4: they were viewed as this just piece of trash type
Speaker 4: team I feel like, and then SMU, SMU being viewed
Speaker 4: as this team that while they're going to acclimate pretty
Speaker 4: well to the Power five, much better than any the
Speaker 4: other schools will and maybe they will right they're one,
Speaker 4: and oh they ended up beating Nevada. But I think
Speaker 4: this is another example of people just thinking the SCC
Speaker 4: might as well be high school football. Remember the ACC
Speaker 4: might as well be high school football. I think SMU
Speaker 4: was getting this love to be a you know, potential
Speaker 4: team in the mix to go to the championship game
Speaker 4: of the ACC because nobody respects the ACC. I mean,
Speaker 4: they do return a bunch of guys from last year's
Speaker 4: team that won eleven games and also played in the
Speaker 4: American Athletic Conference championship game, but nobody seems to realize
Speaker 4: that they only played three Power five teams last year.
Speaker 4: They went eleven and zero in their non Power five schedule,
Speaker 4: which again was the American when the American had lost
Speaker 4: since anat Central Florida and Houston. So like, they went
Speaker 4: eleven and zero and won their league when the league
Speaker 4: became like even less than it already was. I mean,
Speaker 4: they can't control who's on their schedule, but they did
Speaker 4: play three Power five teams last year. You know what
Speaker 4: they did didn't compete in any of those games. That's
Speaker 4: what they didn't do. They lost to a TCU team
Speaker 4: that was awful last year. Remember that team that got
Speaker 4: blown out by Colorado in the opener, fresh off of
Speaker 4: a championship game appearance. They lost by seventeen to TCU
Speaker 4: lost by seventeen to Oklahoma, who's a good team, but
Speaker 4: they weren't competitive in that game, and they got beat
Speaker 4: by double digits by Boston College, who we know is
Speaker 4: in the ACC, who we know sucked in the ACC
Speaker 4: last year. So, like, I just I don't know, Like
Speaker 4: there's the only way to control to change this is
Speaker 4: for the ACC to improve as a football league. But like, again,
Speaker 4: maybe I'm overthinking it here, but I think SMUs was
Speaker 4: given this undeserved love to be a potential contender in
Speaker 4: this league because nobody respects the league. If you looked
Speaker 4: at what they did he year ago, you'd understand how
Speaker 4: they were able to win eleven games. And then with
Speaker 4: Georgia Tech, you know, just because they did have some
Speaker 4: pretty impressive numbers a year ago and they brought back
Speaker 4: a lot of production. Yeah, but it's the ACC who cares.
Speaker 4: So I mean, look, take advantage of it if you're Louisville, right, Like,
Speaker 4: maybe the league does suck this year and everybody's terrible.
Speaker 4: Well that's the case. Hopefully LOUISLL wins a bunch of games.
Speaker 4: But knowing that the league's not going anywhere anytime soon,
Speaker 4: Florida the grant of rights are are locked in like that,
Speaker 4: I don't think the leagu's gonna fall apart. I don't
Speaker 4: so now that we're all stuck together, like, I just
Speaker 4: hope that the league can can put themselves in better shape,
Speaker 4: because look, Florida State, even if Georgia Tech ends up
Speaker 4: having a really good season, Florida State, you know, if
Speaker 4: they don't rally, they're gonna be laughed at as a
Speaker 4: team that was you know, not deserving of the playoff
Speaker 4: a year ago and way overrated this year. Like there's
Speaker 4: a lot of football that we played. I know that.
Speaker 4: But Clemson this weekend, we all know who they play, right,
Speaker 4: Clemson's taken on Georgia, And if Clemson gets blown off
Speaker 4: the field, it might just be because Georgia's Georgia, right,
Speaker 4: But man, if Clemson a week after Florida State gets
Speaker 4: embarrassed by Georgia Tech, if they get mopped, any national
Speaker 4: noise about the ACC is going to be how awful
Speaker 4: the league is and should we still consider it a
Speaker 4: power conference? Fair or not? That's gonna be what's out there,
Speaker 4: and I don't really know how you can control that, right,
Speaker 4: I mean, it's like you're suffering from something that you
Speaker 4: know you can't change now, but like it happened, right,
Speaker 4: Like the league doesn't get the benefit of dout because
Speaker 4: of what they do in these non conference games. So therefore,
Speaker 4: when Georgia Tech does beat Florida State, nobody's looking at
Speaker 4: this as Wow, just another tough, tough night at the
Speaker 4: office in the ACC, what are you gonna do? Like,
Speaker 4: for example, if Kentucky beat Ole Miss this weekend in
Speaker 4: week zero, like Georgia Tech beat Florida State, the talk
Speaker 4: around that is that, man, that just shows you how
Speaker 4: tough it is in the SEC, when we all know
Speaker 4: that's nonsense. Maybe that's not a great comparison, but you
Speaker 4: know what I mean, Clemson, Clemson could be six times
Speaker 4: better than they were last year or the year before,
Speaker 4: but they could also still lose by twenty one points
Speaker 4: to Georgia because you know, Kirby Smart and Georgia they
Speaker 4: are juggernauts. So I don't really see how I don't
Speaker 4: see a way around it, you know what I mean, Like,
Speaker 4: it's gonna take time for this league to regain or
Speaker 4: maybe just you know, I say regain. I feel like
Speaker 4: the ACC hasn't had a whole lot of football respect
Speaker 4: in many, many years, but it was inevitable again these
Speaker 4: first two weeks, you're two teams that everybody expects to
Speaker 4: be in the championship game, Clemson in Florida State. Florida
Speaker 4: State's already embarrassed themselves, although it was against an opponent
Speaker 4: that I think should have been given more of a
Speaker 4: chance to win that game. And then with Clemson, you know,
Speaker 4: there's already a lot of talk about them. They're a
Speaker 4: storyline in college football alone, just because their coach doesn't
Speaker 4: want to do the portal and since he's made that decision,
Speaker 4: and since he hasn't had a quarterback named Deshaun Watson
Speaker 4: or Trevor Lawrence, Dabo has been kind of mid right.
Speaker 4: So I just I just feel like we've got a
Speaker 4: couple of weeks here where it's just gonna be nothing
Speaker 4: but bad stuff when people talk about the ACC. But again,
Speaker 4: like you can't control it. I mean, you could have
Speaker 4: in the past, but you know that's that's in the past.
Speaker 4: Can't change it now, All right, quick break, We'll come
Speaker 4: back on the other side, keep this thing rolling along.
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Speaker 4: we were wrapping up the first hour here on a
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Speaker 4: for hanging out with us as usual. Not a whole
Speaker 4: lot to a lot of time here to to put
Speaker 4: much into this last segment, but we still have two
Speaker 4: hours left. We're taking you up till six o'clock like
Speaker 4: we always do. And uh, you gotta you gotta love
Speaker 4: whenever nobody's given you a chance, and yet you prove
Speaker 4: everybody wrong. That's exactly what Georgia Tech did over the weekend.
Speaker 4: And uh, they were they were keeping receipts, as the
Speaker 4: kids like to say when it comes to the doubters
Speaker 4: out there, as far as you know them being able
Speaker 4: to pull off the upset, and you know they were.
Speaker 4: I think they were getting love, but it was not legit.
Speaker 4: And what I mean by that is they're they're they're
Speaker 4: they're a perircule team. Like that's kind of how everybody
Speaker 4: was talking about them on college game day. To be fair,
Speaker 4: I was, you know, I wasn't on college game day,
Speaker 4: but that's kind of the way I looked at it, like, hey,
Speaker 4: you know what they're they're not as good. They won't win,
Speaker 4: but they'll keep it, they'll keep it close. And yet
Speaker 4: they they won, and they were in control for the
Speaker 4: majority of that game. And again they kept receipts and
Speaker 4: the Georgia Tech social media team. Uh, I'll give them
Speaker 4: a I'll give them an a plus here for putting
Speaker 4: this together shortly after their big victory. And really at
Speaker 4: this point, you know, not much competition for them, but
Speaker 4: they are the talk of week zero pulling off that
Speaker 4: big upset. In fact, unfortunately, I'd say that's probably not true.
Speaker 4: The talk is more about their opponent. But either way,
Speaker 4: they can't control that. They can just go out there
Speaker 4: and play foot and that's what they did and they won.
Speaker 1: The both sides of the ball.
Speaker 2: Jamal Haynes will get the carry.
Speaker 3: Florida State is just way too big in the trenches,
Speaker 3: the both sides.
Speaker 1: Of the ball.
Speaker 2: Jamal Haynes will get the carry.
Speaker 4: Puts back against the grain and.
Speaker 2: I got Florida State winning this game.
Speaker 1: But the State's got too much speed and too much size.
Speaker 4: That's what will he offer up here, Jamal Haynes, really he.
Speaker 5: Looking forward to watching Florida State run the football in
Speaker 5: the fourth quarter.
Speaker 3: To this fiery Georgia Tech teams who comes up bick
Speaker 3: again as little Miles Brooks.
Speaker 2: Really he looking forward to watching Florida State run the football.
Speaker 5: List here in the fourth quarter, trailing by a touchdown,
Speaker 5: as that was Kyle.
Speaker 2: Efer thing Florida State wins this game.
Speaker 3: As Haynes gets all the extra yardage, give me the
Speaker 3: seminoles by a lot. He's gonna try to run themselfing
Speaker 3: with success.
Speaker 1: I like Florida State.
Speaker 2: And like Florida State for we got all for Chargeatown.
Speaker 1: I got it.
Speaker 4: There were so many Florida State fans there. I didn't
Speaker 4: realize that until after the fact. But if you're a
Speaker 4: Florida State fan, you didn't lose a game last year
Speaker 4: until you know you got creamed by Georgia in the
Speaker 4: in the bowl game, which again that was embarrassing. But
Speaker 4: I mean to go all the way to Ireland in
Speaker 4: a game that you really aren't expecting to lose in
Speaker 4: any way, at least I don't. I mean, I didn't
Speaker 4: hear anybody out there claiming that this was going to
Speaker 4: be a legitimate upset. I mean, they covered as dogs,
Speaker 4: but man, it reminded me that it is It is
Speaker 4: better when you're in that situation like Louisville Football's most
Speaker 4: notable wins ever are whenever or whenever there was nobody
Speaker 4: giving them a chance, and you probably, deep down as
Speaker 4: a fan didn't feel like you you know, you weren't
Speaker 4: overly confident, like, oh, it's not going to be a
Speaker 4: sweat they're gonna win. Would be highly shocked if they
Speaker 4: if they don't, But you know, you have that belief
Speaker 4: because you're a fan and you know that everybody else
Speaker 4: is expecting it to be a loss for you, maybe
Speaker 4: even a bad loss in a way, and you shock
Speaker 4: the world. I mean that there's none better than that.
Speaker 4: So you know, Louisville's been in that position many times.
Speaker 4: Obviously they won't be there for a while. I mean,
Speaker 4: they got two games this to start this season that
Speaker 4: you know they should win by a lot of points.
Speaker 4: Then they've got Georgia Tech and that, look, that's one
Speaker 4: that they should you know, they still like that win
Speaker 4: for Georgia Tech does not mean Louisville should look at
Speaker 4: this as a game that they're gonna be lucky to win.
Speaker 4: They should still expect to win. There's still gonna be favorites.
Speaker 4: I would, but at least now you know, hey, this
Speaker 4: team is somebody that can beach if you're not ready.
Speaker 4: And also you could get a ranked win. You could,
Speaker 4: because I'd be shocked if they're not ranked when you
Speaker 4: play them. All right, quick break, we got two hours
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