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Speaker 3: All right, it is now time for the eleventh ranked team.
Speaker 4: Quick quick recap.
Speaker 3: Here at twenty five boys, you stayed at twenty four,
Memphis at twenty three, Baylor at twenty two, Georgia Tech
at twenty one, Tennis See twenty, Iowa State at nineteen,
Texas eight and four at eighteen, Indiana at seventeen, Old
miss at sixteen, Florida fifteen, Texas Tech fourteen, SMU thirteen,
Arizona State, twelve Alabama, and now mister Flynn, the eleventh
rank team and the OTB top twenty five.
Speaker 2: Here we go at ready, this is pretty intense people,
a little bit different from what the coaches think, a
little bit different than what the Associated Press thinks. We're
choosing the number eleven team. Let's starting to get to
crunch time, starting to get to being a little bit
difficult because we're at playoff teams now, Uh we are.
We're talking about the big dogs, talking about big dog
with the big dog eat. We talking Abut we can't
make any changes up to this point. So we're choosing
a team right now that is in the top ten
on most of those other poles, and we're choosing a
team that I'm just picking up because I want to
keep them out of the top ten. And that is
my main and basic reason for this. So we're going
South Florida. We're going down to my.
Speaker 4: Oh, I thought you meant South Florida like the Bulls.
Speaker 2: No, I wanted to. I thought about it. We're going
way down there. We're going to the Miami Hurricanes at
number eleven and our OTB preseason top twenty five. They
are losing that man, cam Ward.
Speaker 4: He is that man too.
Speaker 2: He is that man. What a mindset he's got, what
uh spin it? He can spin it? And I wanted
to keep them out of the top ten for the
sheer reason that I think that cam Ward was so good,
that he made them so much better. And I get it.
We got they got Carson Barns that we that we
worried around too much. They running Carson back, all right,
And I know he had a good career. He's done
what good things at Georgia. He's got like, I think,
seven thousand career passing yards at Georgia. He had twenty
twenty three thirty nine one hundred and forty one yards
at Georgia, which is second all time at the University
of Georgia. I get it, he's played pretty good. But
that mean cam Ward was a different kind of guy.
I expect him to do. I expect him to be
one of the top guys in the NFL in the
next handful of you.
Speaker 3: You even think about his time at Wazoo, he held
off John Matier.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he's he's special and I think he's
gonna I think he's gonna prove that. And let's all
be honest with ourselves. Nobody likes Carson Beck right, just
from a personal standpoint.
Speaker 4: No, there's something about his face.
Speaker 2: There's something about his face just makes you want to
punch it. And I think that's the basis of trying
to keep vibe and his vibe. Okay, so we got
a lot of hot goss that comes around with him.
I think. I don't know if this was the reason,
but oh, the rumored reason was because he was dating
one of the Cavender twins. Yeah, so he went down
there handing dating hurt basketball players, really good basketball players
done well from themselves on the socials. On the socials, well,
guess what. Allegedly why a cheat it on her. That's
what they say on the internet.
Speaker 5: And they broke up.
Speaker 2: That's what the streets are saying. I don't know if
it's true. Maybe he ever get his Lambeau back. Yeah,
so he got his. So I think he got his
luxury vehicle, and I think the Cavender sisters got some
luxury vehicles stolen when he got down to Miami. A
lot of rumors circulating from the Georgia locker room and
Miami locker room talking a little shade at Carson Beack.
So if you got that guy leading your team, I'm sorry,
it's gonna be tough. And oh yeah, not to mention,
they're losing their top six pass catchers from twenty twenty four.
Xavier a Strep a wide receiver.
Speaker 4: All time leading receiver in Miami history.
Speaker 2: All time back to back one thousand plus yard seasons.
They lose Elijah Aroro tied end. They are losing a
lot and from the pass catch standpoint, and and.
Speaker 3: A guy Martinez running back got drafted last year by
the Seahawks.
Speaker 2: Now they're saving grace is their schedule is pretty darn easy.
Opens up, It opens up tough, but like for for
having to be like, all they got to do is
finish in the top twelve. It's a very you know
they're playing in the ACC. They open up a Notre
Dame of course, so that they're going to open up
on one. They play Florida early in the season, but
I'd have to look at the dates. I think it's
Florida after right after an LSU game, so it could
get them. They could catch them at a good time
right there, right after noie A game they play s
m U. But what's crazy is they are the highest ranked,
second highest ranked ACC team on the top twenty five
on both coaches and AP. They're the fourth in the
power rankings in the ACC. How does that math work out?
Speaker 4: Mostly being an underdog in week one.
Speaker 2: And so a lot of that tells me A lot
of that has has to do with scheduling, right, So Clemson,
of course in the ACC is powering number one of
the power ranks have Georgia techt to SMU three, Miami
at four. But for some reason, everybody's like, oh yeah,
they're gonna be ten.
Speaker 4: For whatever reason, they do get Florida after ALISHU.
Speaker 2: If we go if we could go redo this whole thing,
I'd probably put Miami way back back in this list,
but you know, yeah I would, I would probably do that.
I don't. I don't.
Speaker 4: I'm with you.
Speaker 2: I don't like them now, Like I thought about it
and looked at Miami a little bit more because I
do think cam Ward was just so good. He made
them a lot better than that.
Speaker 6: I certainly don't think that they're top ten like you either, No,
not on our list, but yeah, you're right, And this
is like we kind of talked about it being kind
of difficult starting at like twenty five and going down
because it gets a little easier as you go. But
I I'm kind of with you, like I think if
we were to redo it, i'd put them way yeah,
lower or higher, whatever you want to call it. Because
we were talking about it before the show and I
was like, well, I just don't really know what weapons
they have, and then we talked about Ristrepo and how
like so many they a lot of them.
Speaker 7: So I'm with you.
Speaker 6: Carson back sucks a lot of drama around him.
Speaker 2: Good news, punchable face.
Speaker 6: Good news his Mercedes was recovered, but they still haven't
found the Lamborghini a tough times in Mia.
Speaker 5: Guy, you got a field for a guy like that.
Speaker 2: But you want, like when you're looking at an NFL,
you want guys to have overcome adversity like this is
a breakup, a bad breakup, like a bad sleeps that
are on the street. You can't get rid of this
cheating rumors. I'm sure he didn't do it. Sure it's
her fault.
Speaker 4: To your point, like he doesn't know how you snapchat
know that.
Speaker 8: After after Notre Dame week one, like not a bad schedule,
it's not him Cookman U c F Florida will be tough.
You do get them at home, but then Florida State,
no Clemson, no Clemson, like Louisville's tough, but then Stanford.
Speaker 5: What is SMU this year?
Speaker 3: We'll see Syracuse Syracuse not in the artist formally known
as the Carrier Dome, so that helps they play much
better there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you got NC State at home.
Speaker 4: It's really a d of the year is tricky, but.
Speaker 5: Yeah you go you go to Virginia Tech to to
end the season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but not schedule wise. I think that's probably why
a lot of people are high on them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's just not underestimate top six pass catchers gone. Yeah,
for sure, am Ward was a different guy. I think
he had that that dog mentality and that leadership ability
to make everybody better. Carson Beck certainly does not have
that right and especially maybe like you don't know what's
going with the so maybe within the locker and maybe
everything's great, but it sure doesn't look it. So we're
keeping them out of our top ten here. If I
could move them out of the top twenty five right now,
I do it. I can't. So they're eleven.
Speaker 4: We kept Michigan out of our top twenty five, So
I feel good.
Speaker 5: Maybe you wouldn't, maybe we awhere.
Speaker 2: I would. I'd probably switch with Miami with SMU then
or Georgia Tech.
Speaker 4: No George, but then so did twenty two.
Speaker 2: They should be like eleven.
Speaker 3: Oh you're saying I should have put Georgia Tech higher.
Oh okay, I can get behind that.
Speaker 2: Hell for sure, you know we're on the Georgia Tech
train though.
Speaker 4: Haines King Media quarterback QB one.
Speaker 2: LSU Georgia Tech National Championship, let's go.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's really the Michigan is the only time that's
kind of.
Speaker 2: When you want that star position you played Georgia Tech.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're saying some are saying that. All right, I've
already got my my number ten team.
Speaker 4: And you're doing that now. You know, we got to
double up at some point. We have to double We
got to double up at some point twice, and so
we might as well go ahead and double up right now.
Speaker 5: Okay, this is exciting.
Speaker 2: He's another segment. You don't want to rush this.
Speaker 4: That's fair. And we do have mail bag. We can
push mail bag back to eight thirty people sweat.
Speaker 2: I'm sure everyone's on the edge of the seat.
Speaker 4: I'm think about it a little bit.
Speaker 2: This is radio pro Gotta slow people down a little bit.
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Speaker 1: Your blocked in ULSU Football twenty four to seven. You're
listening to off the Bench lost?
Speaker 2: What have you all? All? Right? Welcome back in.
Speaker 4: OTV one in four to five ESPN Baton Rouge.
Speaker 3: We are going to double up today in the OTB
Top twenty five. So Flynn just gave you the eleventh
ranked team, the Miami Hurricanes.
Speaker 2: Carson deck Space, I'm going to.
Speaker 4: Give you the tenth ranked team out of the Big.
Speaker 3: Ten per Brett Belama in the Illinois Fighting Alna coming
at number.
Speaker 4: Look at what they did a year ago, one of the.
Speaker 3: More under talked about teams in the country beat South
Carolina in their ballgame. Hell Shane Biemer and Belam almost
fault right there in the game. South Carolina was a
team that everybody said should have made the playoff. Illinois
took him down and a lot of those players played right.
Speaker 4: It wasn't a lot of.
Speaker 6: Opt back to my playoff expansion thing.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, very true, very true. And Illinois returns.
Speaker 3: One of the top fifteen roster retention percentages in the country.
Luke Altmeyer back at quarterback, very solid quarterback. You look
at their depth chart, there's not a lot of movement, right,
they return so many guys. I don't know, man, you're
looking at who they return, who they lost. They go
and get four players out of the portal to shore
up any losses that they did have.
Speaker 4: On the defense.
Speaker 3: I don't have to add a lot on offense because
almost everybody is coming back from a really good team
a year ago. Now, they do have a tricky game
week number two at Duke. That's a tricky game. Duke
is good enough to beat you, Like Duke is going
to be one of those teams that is going to
beat somebody they shouldn't, probably twice next year. So that
one not just handwaving that. But let's just go to
who they have in the Big ten, or really who
they don't have. No Michigan, no Oregon, no Penn State.
You do play Ohio State, but you play him at home.
So after Duke, they open up with Western Illinois the Leathernecks.
Speaker 4: Let's go.
Speaker 3: They go on the road to Duke. You get past
that one, You got Western Michigan. The next week you
do go to Indiana. We don't know how Indiana's going
to what encore they're going to have for us. After
their playoff run USC at home at Purdue, Purdue's awful.
Ohio State at home, you get a bye week before
you go out west to Washington.
Speaker 4: You come back home against Rutgers.
Speaker 3: You get another bye week before you come back and
play Maryland at home.
Speaker 4: You go to Camp Randall and then Northwestern at home.
Speaker 3: You could lose to the buck Eyes, have one more
slip up probably and still have a realistic opportunity to
make the college Football Playoff. If you go eleven and
one and only lose to the buck Eyes, what are you?
You're Indiana from last year? So with that schedule, no Michigan,
no Oregon, no Penn State, having a top fifteen returning
production percentage in the country.
Speaker 4: Brought, Yeah, this could easily be a playoff team.
Speaker 3: And Luke Altmeyer is one of the more undervalued quarterbacks
in the country. Hudson Clement is somebody that comes over
from West Virginia at the receiver position. Fifty one catches
seven forty one fourteen and a half yards per catch,
five touchdowns, So you add him to your offense.
Speaker 4: Did it end the Big Twelve with this schedule?
Speaker 3: With how they play last year, with the confidence that
they have beating South Carolina in that bowl game, missing
those three big brands in the Big Ten, your toughest
game being at home. I think they've got the talent.
I think they've got the coach. Brett Bilima knows one
thing that's a Big Ten.
Speaker 4: He played there.
Speaker 3: He Coacha Wisconsin, and he's coached here in Illinois with
a lot of success. Now, when he tried to go
be an SEC coach, didn't go great for him at Arkansas,
but in the Big Ten he's always been successful.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's his fifth year Illinois. On defense, Look, I'm
they're inside linebacker Dylan Rosick Roseick, he's a two time
All Big Ten player. Outside lineberger Gabe Jackis preseason Yeah,
he's a preseason All American. They were returning three of
the top four dbs from last year. They got a
centner who's a two time All Big Ten player. They
got a tight end that's on the Macki Award watch
list as a senior, returning their quarterback. You know, I
can get on on the Alani train this year.
Speaker 3: I like the way I like the way they played too. Yeah,
there's not a lot of guessing like what they're doing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I forgot that they had beaten South Carolina. Now,
I know there's kind of a letdown, like emotionally spiritually
when you want to when you think you should be
in the playoffs and you don't make it. I get
that there's a kind of a let down there. But
it doesn't take the talent away right from South Carolina.
So I'd forgot they'd beat them. So look, yeah, why not.
Why wouldn't they be like that going through that schedule. Yeah,
like they're they're they're avoiding all those big boys. Uh
that You're right. That Duke game, it could be a
little tricky.
Speaker 4: Duke got Indiana.
Speaker 3: If you handle business, if you go into that game
with the right mindset, you're going to be a favorite
in those games.
Speaker 4: You handle those games.
Speaker 3: Again, you lose to Ohio State, and it's not ridiculous,
right if it's a good game, you're eleven to one,
you're in the playoff.
Speaker 2: You're in.
Speaker 4: You're not gonna keep an eleven and one Big ten
team out of the playoff.
Speaker 3: You're not gonna happen. You'd have a hard time keeping
a ten and two Big ten team out of the playoff.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So you'll drop one to Ohio State. Probably in
at Indiana. It's a fifty to fifty game. Probably fair.
Speaker 4: You take it.
Speaker 2: You take the coin the coin the coin toss game.
You're right there to be a top ten team with
the playoff spot and then let the chips fall where
they may at that point, and he rebuttals back look
at South Carolina again to Illinois.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 5: I think this is right where they should be.
Speaker 8: I don't think people realize how good Luke Aldmyre was
a year ago. I mean he only turned the ball
over six times.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 5: I think he's a really, really good player. I love
this pick.
Speaker 8: I mean you mentioned it, like Bilima has done so
much with that program. There's a lot of people that
were like, where's Bilama gonna get his next shot after
the way it ended at Arkansas, And he's kind of
turned that thing around at Illinois.
Speaker 5: I really look what he's done.
Speaker 4: Landroelect pick thumbs up, thumbs down.
Speaker 5: No objections here, Okay, yeah, all right, no objection.
Speaker 2: I think we all like to pick. I don't think
anybody likes I don't Miami at eleven just because we don't.
Speaker 6: Like Miamiami at eleven.
Speaker 2: I don't know, like where do we put him?
Speaker 4: Actually, Like I didn't think I didn't mind Miami at first.
I was like, okay, of course, and back he's got
a lot of success. But like the more that you
kept talking, I was like, they should be like in twenty.
Speaker 7: Three, they should be You know top twenty five, so
I replace them with like, I wouldn't move Memphis up,
but I would like take Memphis out maybe and put
Miami there if I could take like one of we
could redo it.
Speaker 2: You can't, we can't. We got to stick our guns.
I would put Miami where Georgia Tech is, which is
twenty three. I'd move SMU to wear to eleven, and
I put Georgia Tech at What's what's the smut right now?
That show fourteen?
Speaker 5: How unexciting Miami is? I kind of forgot about We
forgot about that I did. That's how lot exciting they are?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like what are these coaches thinking?
Speaker 6: Right? That's what I was about to say that I.
Speaker 2: Forgot drink the schedule.
Speaker 5: When we put the don't graphic, I'll just put like
sorry and.
Speaker 2: Asterix. We forgot about them out of the top ten people.
We kept them out of the top ten.
Speaker 6: I already know who I'm gonna put at nine tomorrow,
all right, so let me make sure this.
Speaker 5: Actually, no, don't tell the people.
Speaker 2: They're nine on coaches and a people.
Speaker 4: But this is the O T.
Speaker 7: B poll.
Speaker 3: Okay, our math is mathing, So we'll give you nine
on Wednesday, eight, on Thursday, seven, on Friday, six, on Monday, five,
on Tuesday, four, on Wednesday, three on Thursday and like
we said, one and two on Friday before kickoff.
Speaker 2: Ya, it's gonna be exciting.
Speaker 4: Look at that maskills.
Speaker 2: This is gonna be ma.
Speaker 4: We got it.
Speaker 2: We're here. Next week's a big week. We got a
lot of bold predictions to make. We've got a lot
of hot takes to give. It's gonna heat up here.
Speaker 6: Wait, are we gonna do the first Pontoon parlay this week?
Speaker 2: Probably next weeting?
Speaker 4: Look, look, everybody gets the preseason.
Speaker 1: We can do it.
Speaker 2: One that does, one that doesn't count, is there?
Speaker 4: Let me accounts you can. You can play some shekels on.
Speaker 2: It, all right. Usually when you when you at something
when it doesn't count, you win.
Speaker 3: So we have So Ioway stayed at Kansas State, which
is in Dublin. As we know, I had host State
at u n l V Fresno State at Kansas Sam
Houston at Western Kentucky, and Stanford at Hawaii as an underdog.
By the way, So right now in Dublin, Kansas State's
a three point favorite. I'd hostate. It's an FCS team,
So we gotta we go to go try to find
a line on that game. Fresno State Kansas. Kansas is
a thirteen point favorite. Western Kentucky a ten point favorite
over Sam Houston when they dropped the state used to
be Sam Houston state.
Speaker 2: They dropped the state.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just Sam Houston.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what in the that's where my brain went to.
Speaker 4: And then Hawaii too, and a half point four favorite
over Stanford.
Speaker 5: It's so funny. It makes sense though, travel where they're located.
Speaker 8: You go look at their discrepancy home versus away in Hawaii.
Speaker 5: It makes sense why they were a favorite. Yeah, Like
they're really.
Speaker 2: Good at home and travel.
Speaker 3: Yeah different probably five hours from the West coast though,
five hours probably from the Bay Area to Hawaii and
a plane not too bad.
Speaker 2: Uh, from east to west is stuff. Going west to
east a lot easier.
Speaker 4: I didn't like either one of them. Does Frank Reich
and Andrew Luck want to lose their first game to Hawaii?
Speaker 5: Coach g very well could.
Speaker 2: Not great.
Speaker 3: They don't want to talk about when you talking about
Timmy Chains Hawaii when he was a player, he's a
coach now, when I talking about Colt Brnan's Hawaii. Yeah,
we're talking about von Bess.
Speaker 2: Who Hawaii is this?
Speaker 3: Uh well, Timmy's a coach, but I'm saying, like the quarterback,
it's not the same. Remember like every year, we knew
who the quarterback was of Hawaii for a long time,
like a long stretch, because.
Speaker 4: They were throwing for a bazillion yards, averaging.
Speaker 2: About seven fifty a game. Back when most teams had fullbacks.
Speaker 4: Every team should the last fullback, Uh Luke Weaver.
Speaker 3: You know the last two teams won a national championship,
but both featured a fullback Michigan Ohio State, bring it back,
that's why.
Speaker 4: And definitely don't know Luke Weaver.
Speaker 2: And they went under center. And you know what when
what you can't do when you're under center?
Speaker 4: Clap, clap the answer.
Speaker 2: People are talking, Yeah, okay, can't do this. Don't look
at slap count and you gotta actually use your your mouth,
say words that mean something and say hot and try
to draw people off sides and use inflections.
Speaker 6: Okay, wait, I actually think Luke Weaver is the backup.
Speaker 5: Alohada, Yeah, that was right there there. It was back
up last year. Six touchdowns.
Speaker 2: Speaking of like just reading people's names out, like I
respect what you do during the game, reading people's names
for the first time and pronouncing them. I just had
I was just reading about Illinois players.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I couldn't pronounce pretty simple names too.
Speaker 4: Did you ever have to pronounce you hear my story
about U C l A.
Speaker 2: Nope? All right?
Speaker 4: So are they wait?
Speaker 2: Los Angeles?
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're the other team in LA.
Speaker 3: They obviously look they have a lot of interesting long
uh you know, last names, a lot of island last names.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: So you know a lot of their players come from.
Speaker 3: And I ran from doing a pregame show in series
six a m which a Laundra came and hung out
with us as me and Bob and we did one
at the ESPN trailer at the o g walk Ons.
I mean it was pretty much like going up to
almost game time, like I was gonna have like three
minutes extra time maybe. So I kind of got a
run from there because they couldn't find me a golf cart,
which is wild.
Speaker 2: Wait didn't I I came on the show that day, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, okay, person Bobby, and they couldn't find me
a golf cart. So I'm running across campus. I'm sweating,
like I stole something and I get into the booth
and I've got three minutes, and like I had seen
them and I worked them a little bit. But like
when you're out of breath and you come and there
is a lot of last names with a lot of
different syllables. Boy, every one of every one of them,
every single one of them. And uh, like that's the
only time that I've ever worried about that because I
had to get the starting lineup. So I gotta, I gotta,
I gotta, you know, and you want Look, that's their name.
You don't want to pronounce it wrong. They're prideful, just
like they should be about their name. Oh boy, that
was added to the sweat.
Speaker 5: How much trouble did our guy T Bob have with
those names? My gosh, yeah he did.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 6: I mean I kind of vouched to get it too,
because I was in the elevator when Jake ran in
the elevator and he was indeed like sweating it out
of breath.
Speaker 2: Yeah, winded, I was, so how did how do you
think you did? Did you stumble?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 2: There was one stumbled a lot.
Speaker 3: There was one that I kind of had to take
a pretty decent pause in between syllables.
Speaker 2: Well, pretty decent, Philly. I doubt many of the UCLA
families were listening to the call.
Speaker 4: Well that's fair.
Speaker 3: Thankfully, our former Playboy play guy for the Chargers, Josh
Lewin is now the play by play for UCLA and
I on the run shot in text. I was like, Josh,
can you meet me in front of Lshu's booth? And
he gave me like a ninety second like, Hey, here's
the one you're probably gonna have some trouble with. Shout
out to Joshua.
Speaker 2: When we went to SEC Media that you printed out
all the names with like the way you pronounce it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, for sure, that's big, big for me. I
looked at it, yeah, cause you know there's something about
just going for it. I get that, but you know
I do some radio shows with some people that would
just go for it, and I'm like, oh, oh, oh,
you do what every day? That is not what the
guy that just goes for And there's not the way
you say that fella's name.
Speaker 6: It took me a really long time to get I
Maliyava right.
Speaker 3: For some Yeah, it took a lot of people to
a tongue about Lola a long time, and that one's
not actually bad.
Speaker 5: No, once you say it, yeah, I'll still say tag
of law. Well you say it wrong, yeah, but I
mean I just I like it better THO way.
Speaker 4: Well, it's not his name, it's disrespectful. If you called
you Tyler, I mean Tyler Sharpy.
Speaker 5: I mean, there's no E.
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter. I'm just saying, and how it's spelled out, Well,
it's disrespectful.
Speaker 5: You don't He don't mind.
Speaker 6: I think he listens every morning and he doesn't appreciate
that Tyler is calling him.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 3: Oh, this is from mister big five five three until
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Speaker 4: Day with an all in Hawaii.
Speaker 2: Bet. I mean it's so true.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, that ten thirty kickoffs so true.
Speaker 2: Eleven PM kickoff.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna put I'm gonna put one of our guys
on blast a little bit here. He's my guy. Though.
I'll never forget I was.
Speaker 3: I was doing postgame for l Shoes six years ago,
something like that, and I come into the Lsue locker room.
Speaker 4: It's when we used to do the CST show like that.
Speaker 3: We'll stand up whatever and my guy Jumbo Ronnie Rance
is locked into like Hawaii San Jose State and that
TV in the locker room. I'm like, man, why is
Jumbo watching this one so intently? He really needed the
Rainbow Warriors cover that day.
Speaker 2: It's usually like your usually eyeball what the line is
on that one? But you're usually it's like, all right,
if the over unders low eighty, I'm taking it. If
it's mid eighties, I'm thinking about it. If it's like ninety,
then we're gonna hit that under here, Yeah for sure.
But it's in the eighties. Usually love it, yep. A
little Hawaii, Yeah, everybody knows. We all know that pain
a little Hawaii Eastern Washington, and you kind of had
you've been watching college football day, emotions have been all
over the place. You might have been walking around with
a cool pop all day. You're tired, but you can't
go to sleep because you're your hopes and dreams or
reliant on the Warriors out in Hawaii hitting that over ninety.
We've all been there, all right.
Speaker 3: Uh, when we come back, we're gonna get to a
little OTB mail bag.
Speaker 4: So go ahead, get those questions in. Remember, like we
actually give this some time.
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which is definitely not the same thing. We run out
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Speaker 1: From the locker room to the airwaves gets off the
bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 3: See I think today's playlist is early two thousands teen
rom com.
Speaker 4: Mhm, I can't hardly wait. She's all that, Like, that's
kind of what I get, which is.
Speaker 2: This is this? She's all that.
Speaker 4: It's one up, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: A great movie.
Speaker 6: You never go wrong with the cranberries.
Speaker 4: Yeah, another another teen movie. Wait, she took her glasses
off and let her hair down.
Speaker 2: I'm a miracle.
Speaker 4: He's incredible.
Speaker 5: She's got paint on her overalls and I just have
to conjoined twins.
Speaker 2: What's the what's the name of the song called Dreams.
Speaker 4: How you're looking it up? All right, let's get you
a little OTB mail bag. I help this special delivery
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Speaker 2: What the is the Internet? You've got mail?
Speaker 4: Great movie? Great movie?
Speaker 2: Mission Impossible randomly that is, I don't.
Speaker 3: Remember the Mission Impossible. It comes out I think on
digital last week.
Speaker 2: This is gonna surprise people. I feel really bad about it,
but I'm kind of excited about this trip of my life.
I've never seen any of the Mission Impossible.
Speaker 4: That's on you.
Speaker 2: I'm excited that. It's kind of like that person you
find out I've never seen Game of Thrones. Yeah, I'm
jealous of that person.
Speaker 4: Yeah, when you do, you're gonna like them.
Speaker 2: I know, I know, I am.
Speaker 3: I don't know why it's weird because I love movies
and Tom Cruise does his own stunts are incredible. Hashtag
go to B mailbag. Matt, have you ever played disc golf?
If not, what are you waiting for?
Speaker 2: I have played disc golf. We played it in when
I was in high school a little bit at Lindsay
Park in Tyler, Texas. And I've also i haven't played
it at Highland Road Park, but I've seen people playing
it and it looks like you're a pretty fun course.
It's not something I do just like randomly or casually.
I don't think about it a lot, but I do
do think it's fun. I used to when we live
in Saint Francis, Fell. I actually bought one of the
goals for like what the what the chains in the basket?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: What do you call them? The whole play?
Speaker 4: I don't know what it is, but what do you think?
Speaker 2: This meat had aiming point for the And I would
set it up because they have like a nice big
backyard and stuff, and like I would set it up
and I would like, do Cardio throw it and I'd
run and catch it, and it's workout lonely?
Speaker 4: But it was lonely. What playing by yourself?
Speaker 2: It was like a workou do you work out by yourself?
Speaker 4: Sometimes?
Speaker 2: Most people do?
Speaker 4: Us make them work out with't that's true?
Speaker 2: Good point get out here. But yeah, I would like
throw it and that would run to the You know
that's my cardio hashtag?
Speaker 4: O Tob mail bag. How many teams would you like
to go into the college football playoffs?
Speaker 5: I'm good with twelvelve it is fine, good with twelve,
maybe even eight.
Speaker 4: Just me, I would be okay, Like, I'm I'm not
going to twenty four or twenty eight.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't fight sixty ridiculous.
Speaker 5: I would if anything, I'd drop it.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't drop it.
Speaker 4: No, sixteen the most. I'm good with twelve, though I
like twelve.
Speaker 2: I'm okay with any number they choose. Actually, like, I'm
not going to fight.
Speaker 4: It twenty eight. So they're trying to get work twenty.
Speaker 2: It's a lot.
Speaker 3: They're trying to get seven automatic qualifiers from the big ten,
the SEC.
Speaker 6: Each like it's so I feel like, I just don't
feel like if you're at twenty, if you're the twenty
eighth team in the playoffs, there's no argument for you
to have like been even close to winning the national five.
Speaker 8: There were first round games last year that weren't that competitive.
You can put twenty eight of them in there barely
five year.
Speaker 2: Every year there's gonna be uncompetitive games, but there's gonna
be some that are very competitive.
Speaker 5: There's just no argument.
Speaker 2: I don't like. I don't like the automatic qualifier.
Speaker 4: That's stupid.
Speaker 2: I'd be okay, with anything.
Speaker 6: You're handing people playoffs, four teams playoffs.
Speaker 2: I'd rather watch that than a random bowl game that
doesn't mean anything that it did at that point. Okay,
well in that structure, yeah, with twelve people in the playoffs,
other bowl games don't matter, pop tart poles.
Speaker 6: Why why even play a regular season?
Speaker 2: Just go straight to the playoff? I mean, how many
would you have?
Speaker 8: Six games in the regular season, because they're gonna say
that's too many games, you guys, we gotta limit what
they do. If six regular season games and then what
six more in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: I'm good. Why's basketball play regular season?
Speaker 5: That's suppose a difference.
Speaker 3: Three hundred something takes a different sport for sure, and
it's not the wear and tear on your body. And
you'd have to get rid of conference championship games, you'd
have to change the schedule.
Speaker 2: I don't like automatic qualifiers.
Speaker 4: No, I think that's done.
Speaker 6: I mean, there's my biggest thing. Sorry, I was just
gonna say that, Like, my biggest thing about it is sure,
maybe you can make an argument for the when we
used to have the four team playoff, Like, maybe you
can make an argument for the fifth team should have
got in.
Speaker 5: Right, Maybe you can make.
Speaker 6: An argument even that South Carolina, Alabama, whatever last year
could have got the thirteenth team could have gone in
and maybe done better than the other teams. You cannot
make an argument for the sixteenth team, the twenty fourth team,
the twenty like it's twenty ninth seas so stupid.
Speaker 2: There's always gonna be an argument, right, no matter what.
Speaker 5: But it's a dumb argument. There were four vertus can get.
Speaker 2: It, all right, all right, all right, do play in games?
Speaker 4: All right, let's stop. I hate playoff discussion. I hate
its dumb.
Speaker 2: It's just fun. I don't care what.
Speaker 4: Fourteen conferences automatically get in. You get a car, You
get a car, You get a car.
Speaker 2: May people play into it and do it on the
conference championship week so it's not just the conference champions
the best thing in the league. I have to play
one more.
Speaker 4: Game, hashag.
Speaker 3: Go to the mail bag, Matt Rank, how you've liked
your new role on OTB from one to eleven?
Speaker 2: Mm? Let's see. I don't want to You don't want
to come out too strong because your room for improvement.
Speaker 4: True.
Speaker 2: I've enjoyed my time a lot, actually a lot of
people have been surprised, but I've made it every day.
Let's go with ten ten, all right, I think, yeah always.
Speaker 4: I don't see your eyes be as puffy anymore. Like
you're getting used to waking.
Speaker 2: Up mentally beat it, yeah, mentally just got over it.
Like there's no reason to like be tired when you
wake up in the morning. You chose to do it. True,
no reason. I feel sorry for yourself.
Speaker 4: It's also true. A smile on your face, a song
in your heart. Hashtag well I like this one a lot.
Hashtag go to be mailbag.
Speaker 3: What is the most underappreciated LSU sports moment of the
last ten years?
Speaker 4: I got mine? My else ten All y'all think about it?
Speaker 3: Uh tdp ty Davis Price running all over the Florida Gators.
They ran counter, they ran counter again, and then they
finished it off with counter.
Speaker 4: And there wasn't a damn thing the Florida Gators could do.
Speaker 3: They had this defensive end. I think you wore number one.
He looked all pretty in his uniform. He was so
tired of mash Burn hitting him and dominating him. By
the end of that game, he quit. He tapped out
on a football field that It's the greatest rushing performance
in LSU football history, all the running backs, all the games.
That is number one, and it was on the same
damn play that they couldn't stop.
Speaker 4: That is football erotica. TDP Versus Florida. Doesn't get talked
about it enough because.
Speaker 3: The team didn't end up being a championship or like
a you know, I got ten win team, I.
Speaker 2: Got two, one of the LSU winning national championship in gymnastics.
I know we like gymnastics a lot, but probably the
least talked about things like from the yearly standpoint.
Speaker 4: From other maybe other sources, like we have coach A
Clark on every Friday. But I know what you're saying.
Speaker 8: Yeah, between the two baseball Natties and a women's basketball Natties.
Speaker 5: So to your point, it kind of does get lost.
Speaker 2: Get lost, but a huge, huge deal.
Speaker 4: I like that.
Speaker 2: My other one would be a person David Randon.
Speaker 4: I like that one.
Speaker 2: Just think what happened after him. Him leaving single handedly
cost us another national championship in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 4: I mean, I think you and I could have gone
out there.
Speaker 2: And we would have won a national championship with Alandra
as a defensive coordinator.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was a shot at Alandra kind of a
little bit.
Speaker 2: It was that shot. No, we're what we've taught you already.
You know what Nickel defense, all right. I don't know.
Speaker 6: Last ten years, in the last ten years, I think
one of the underappreciated moments in LSU Sports's uh basket
men's basketball run in twenty eighteen twenty nineteen made it
to Sweet sixteen, won the SEC championship, headed up by
my goat, Will Wade.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Uh, that was just a great run and it was
like one of the best seasons that LSU men's basketball
had in a very long time. And it was also
the last good season that they had. So I think
it underappreciated. I mean, I don't think Will Wade is,
but I think that season I agree that I don't
think we celebrated it enough because I think we thought
we were gonna have Will Wade for a lot longer
than that.
Speaker 4: For sure, no doubt about it.
Speaker 3: That.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I was gonna go to the specific game like
where they beat Vanderbilt to do it, because if you remember,
like Givante Smart got suspended, that was the way like
when you look back on it, you think of other things,
but not what a person. So I'll go person as well.
Danny yutly to me is incredibly underappreciated. Like LSU, quarterback
play was awful. Etling came in and he didn't light
the world on fire, but he stabilized that situation. He
helped out coach Oh year one, kind of get that
program rolling moving in the right direction. The next year
you springboard that, bring in a Joe Burrow. The rest
is history. Really, since Danny Uttling, you've had good quarterback
play year in and year out. I think he came
in kind of changed the culture a little bit, and
it kind of all started with Danny Etling.
Speaker 5: I think he's a little undappreciated.
Speaker 3: Shout out to Danny. Danny Etling is good at football.
It used to be the old saying, all right, well
take a break. We've got Nick Underhill joining us in
about ten minutes from now to break down all the
latest and greatest with the New Orleans Saints. A lot
still to get to stay locked in here with us
on OTV off the bench. All right, it is tailgating season.
Speaker 2: We are now here.
Speaker 3: It is week zero, so make sure you are prepared.
You are ready to go. All right, you got some
great home games for LSU this year. You got some
great home games for the New Orleans Saints this year.
So if you are tailgating right as important as anything right.
It's not just a tenth, it's not just a generator.
It's not just the TV.
Speaker 4: It is the ice chest full of ice cold do skis.
Speaker 3: Go for dose at your tailgate, enjoy it, kick your
feet up, watch the day games as you get ready
for LSU to play at night.
Speaker 4: Doesn't matter what time of the year it is, it
is always a great time to.
Speaker 2: Go for When I go to a restaurant or go
to an establishment with a bar and they're like, oh,
what do you want? What you want one of these
local beer? You want an ipa whatever? Nope, I want
a do secis Because a dose skis from a cold tap.
There is nothing better than a Mexican lager with a lime.
Are you kidding me? So, if you're ready to pop
a top de lead some beers, open up a can
whatever it is, make sure you make it a dose secies.
Speaker 4: Go for dose.
Speaker 1: From players to legends, Hester and Flynn breakdown LSU football
like only champions can see there on this me the.
Speaker 3: All right, welcome back here OTB one moment that the
chat is bringing out from the last ten years.
Speaker 4: It doesn't get talked about enough.
Speaker 3: It like I agree, like John Trey kirkh I'm playing
quarterback in a bowl game and throwing for three touchdown
passes in the bowl game.
Speaker 4: Now, did LSU lose? Absolutely? We all know the scholarship
players they had less than forty.
Speaker 3: But John Trey went back there, did everything that he
could for the LSU Tigers, and after the game one
of my favorite quotes, you like, if we got eleven,
we're gonna play.
Speaker 4: If we got eleven, we gonna play. And they basically
had eleven.
Speaker 3: Any went out there and through three touchdown passes, including
a touchdown on the last play of the game.
Speaker 4: LSU lost.
Speaker 2: Whatever.
Speaker 4: Still very fun time to go out there and watch
him get to play quarterback.
Speaker 2: Let me answer your question with a questions. I currently
have a pulse. Yep, Yes, I did.
Speaker 3: Let's play football. What Jeff Brum that's a great quote.
All right, So the Saints still have not named the
starting quarterback. You've had one start here once start there.
Who is a leader in the clubhouse? Well, Nick Underhill,
New Orleans, not football joins us to break it all down.
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