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Speaker 1: What us up?

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Speaker 2: Everybody, Welcome into another edition of pig Skin and Burnt

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Ends right here on the College Gridiron Coast to Coast

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Network in partnership with fans Stream Sports. I'm Tim, IndyCar

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Tim to my friends. Welcome into episode two of this

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little journey around Texas College Football for twenty twenty five.

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Had a fun win last week, enjoyed John Gerber Jeff

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died off from ninety seven to one, the fan up

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in Columbus, spouting off his Ohio State knowledge. He'll be

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back with us on a later episode, as will Johnny.

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But big, big week here for Texas College sports. Texas

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college football, Texas rebounds kind of along with Arch. We'll

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do and we'll have an update on Marcel Red, quarterback

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at Texas A and M who was injured and they're

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big win.

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Speaker 1: You had the SMU.

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Speaker 2: Mustangs playing their old Southwest Conference rival and look, there

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is nothing I enjoy more than an old Southwest Conference

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rivalry renewed. I was part of the Southwest Conference. I

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grew up around the Southwest Conference and I missed the

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Southwest Conference. I'm not gonna lie, but Baylor and SMU

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matching up for I believe just like the seventh time

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since the Southwest Conference folded after the ninety five season

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Texas Tech without a weather delay. Who's gonna stop that offense?

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I mean, I'm sure we'll find somebody, but good Lord.

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And then Houston Connor Wiegman rolling again against crosstown rival Rice.

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We've got all of that for you right here on

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on the college gridiron Coast to Coast network, Let's talk

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some college football, shall we, though. Let's start with the Longhorns,

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of course. After the fiasco in Week one at Ohio State,

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there was a lot of criticism on not just arts manning,

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but the offense in general, the play calling, the offensive scheme,

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and I said at the time, the demise of Arch

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Manning in the Texas Longhorns has been greatly exaggerated. There's

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nothing wrong with the Longhorns right now.

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Speaker 1: Guys. Look, first year quarterback.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I know he's played games, but he is the

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starter for the first time this year, going into the

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raining national champions to their house, and not just any

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reigning national champions house, the Big House. Oh sorry, the

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Big House. They're gonna hate me for saying that. The Horseshoe.

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I just the horseshoe up in Columbus as a first

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time starter, I don't care what your name is. With

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that defense, oh, by the way, led by Matt Patricia,

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who's got some Super Bowl rings in the NFL, who

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knows defense all right. Wasn't a great head coach in

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the NFL, but no one can argue that he is

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not a more than adequate defensive coordinator. And now he

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brings his knowledge to college football. And he masterminded the

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absolute perfect defensive scheme against a first time starter in

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college football. I don't care if it's the SEC, the

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Big Ten, wherever you're playing. It was a masterclass in

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defense that I'm sure every defensive coordinator that plays Texas

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the rest of the way will try to duplicate, but

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that's not always easy, especially with a Matt Patricia defense.

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Texas rebounds thirty eight to seven over San Jose State.

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Arch Manning through four touchdown passes as number seven Texas

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rolls past the Spartans, and look, there's still some things

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to criticize an arch Manning's game, but he's getting there, guys,

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all right, just give.

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Speaker 1: Them a minute.

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Speaker 2: It's been two games, one against a really good opponent,

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one against a not really good opponent, and he's showing

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signs of progress. He's getting some confidence. Who's not gonna

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get confidence against the Spartans, right. He went nineteen of

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thirty for two hundred ninety five yards. He had one

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interception in his second game as a starter. He also

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scrambled for a twenty yard touchdown run in the third

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quarter for the now one in one long Horns.

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Speaker 1: If you remember last.

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Speaker 2: Week at Ohio State, he was just ten of seventeen

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for one hundred and seventy yards. He did have a

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touchdown along with a pick in the fourteen to seven

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loss there at the Horseshoe. Parker Livingstone was the beneficiary

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of most of those passes, most of those yards tight

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end Jack Injuries two touchdown catches. In the first half,

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Manning and Livingstone combined for an eighty three yard touchdown.

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It was the longest pass play for the Longhorns since

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twenty seventeen. Livingstone finished with four catches and one hundred

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and twenty eight yards. Manning also had long completions of

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thirty six, thirty three, and twenty two yards. After the game,

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coach Sarks said that he was happy with Manning's play.

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Was happy with the aggressiveness in his game, which is

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really part of his game right and that's what Ohio

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State took away from him. He threw the ball downfilled,

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He was accurate, He did a great job extending plays,

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Sarkisian said, and he used his arm to create explosive plays,

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used his legs. Sarkisian had nothing but good things to

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say about Manning against San Jose State. Manning, though was

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less impressed with his own performance. He cided the interception

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that he threw in the second quarter. Manning said, he

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played sloppy. He said, you know, you can't turn the

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ball over in the red area. I think he meant

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the red zone. He said he made a few more

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plays than he did against Ohio State, but once again

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he did not think he was very efficient. And I

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will concur with Manning's evaluation of himself more than I

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will Sarks. And you know, there's not gonna be a

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bigger critic for arch Manning than arch Manning. Maybe his

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uncles who claimed he was adopted after that game. Oh,

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I'm just kidding. Those were pretty funny memeso, weren't they?

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In the AI generated videos Tayton Manning say he must

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be adopted. Those were pretty funny. But again, the demise

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of arch Manning was greatly exaggerated. I thought, you know.

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Earlier in the week, the Longhorns boasted about having their

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twenty four game streak of forcing a turnover snapped during

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the Ohio State game. That changed really quickly as they

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started a new one. In the first quarter on Saturday,

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safety Jelani McDonald tipped Walter Egot's pass, and Jalen Gilbo

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made the first interception of his career, the first of

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four turnovers by San Jose State. Of course, he took

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the ball with him, Gilbo did to the postgame news conference.

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He was so excited he get though on the San

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Jose stide completed twenty one to forty two passes for

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one hundred and eighty eight yards with the one interception.

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Speaker 1: San Jose State did not play horribly.

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Speaker 2: They just cannot get past the long Horns defense, and

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that's what's gonna happen.

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Speaker 1: But look, the Longhorns are gonna be the long Horns.

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Speaker 2: They've they can only play who's on the schedule, Ohio

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State to start San Jose State last week, coming up UTEP.

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I think UTEP's gonna be a little bit more of

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a challenge than San Jose State, but I don't know

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how much of a challenge they got Sam Houston the

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following week. You've got at Florida the week after that,

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and to be quite honest with billion apre over there,

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I don't know how how much of a challenge that's

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gonna be after we saw what they did against USF.

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And then of course Texas, Oklahoma at the Cotton Bowl

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for Texas OU Weekend or I'm sorry, you're from Oklahoma,

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oh U Texas Weekend, but we're from Texas, so we

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say Texas OU Weekend of course at the Texas State

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Fair at Fair Park. Moving on, let's talk a little

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Houston Cougars as the Houston Cougars find their way past

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Rice thirty five to nine at Rice against their crosstown rivals,

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Age transferred Connor Wigman through for one hundred and eighty

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eight yards and a touchdown, and he rushed for a

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score to lead Houston passed Rice on Saturday night. He

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had a nine yard rushing touchdown in the third quarter

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that extended Houston's lead fourteen to three. He then connected

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with Stefan Johnson on a seventy four yard touchdown pass

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in the fourth. And I think we're seeing here in

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Houston the Connor Weigman we thought we would see at

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Texas A and m got a little bit of confidence.

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Now he seems to be healthy at least through the

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first two games here, and that's kind of what we

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thought we would see in College station. But I don't

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think he ever got nearly as healthy as he is now,

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and that was unfortunate. Of course, it was Connor Weigman's

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injury last season that brought Marcel Reid to this starting job,

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who then just lit things up and the riding was

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on the wall that Connor wigman Day's days may be numbered.

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Before he transferred, and by the way, he had a

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lot of offers, a lot of opportunities to transfer, much

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like Haines King did earlier before he transferred out of

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A and M. So think good things for Connor Weigman,

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even if you're not a Cougar's fan, if you're a

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Texas college football fan, we think the good things for

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Connor Wigman. Dean Connor's to transfer from Rice also rest

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for one hundred and thirty two yards and two touchdowns

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on thirteen carries. Connors has now won both sides of

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the annual Buy You Bucket Game after Rice won two

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years ago.

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Speaker 1: So changing schools, he's still there.

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Speaker 2: He's still winning too and zero now in that Buy

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You Bucket game between the Cougars and Rice.

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Speaker 1: You know, the Cougars.

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Speaker 2: Really have yet to play anybody, and I'm not sure

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how They're season is going to pan out, how it

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may finish. But coming up, of course, the big win

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over Stephen f. Austin, You're now beaten Rice on the road.

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Friday night game, but it's at home for the Cougars.

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That'll be one to watch against Dion and his new

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team up there without any of his kids playing for him.

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So we'll see how that goes against Colorado and then

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at Oregon State. That'll be a tough one, and then

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they host number twenty one Texas Tech before traveling to

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Oklahoma State. So the schedule for Houston gets considerably tougher.

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But Connor Wigman, you know, and again, you haven't seen

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the Cougar's defense really be tested yet, so we will

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see where they stand here early in the season. Next week,

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I believe we'll get a little bit better indication of that.

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Up in College Station, Marcel Reid sort of gave Aggie's

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fans a little injury scare, as literally every breath was

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taken out of Kyle Field when he went down with

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an apparent injury in the third quarter against Utah State,

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the Aggies versus the Aggies. But he did share some

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good news via Instagram Live when he came back and said,

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I'll be there for Notre Dame.

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Speaker 1: I'll be there for you, Thank you man, Jovie.

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Speaker 2: But so yes, apparently the injury scare was just that

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it was a scare, and if you were watching the

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game on Saturday against Utah State, it looked like he

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was already coming out of the game anyway, just because

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of the score, and O'Neill was already warming up on

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the sideline, and after the injury, he didn't need any

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extra warm up time because he was already warm because

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he knew he was already coming in the game. So

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good news out of College Station, Good news for Marcel Rea,

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as he should be available for the big game at

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Notre Dame. This one's going to be a tough one

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next week for sure, coming off a game where he

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threw four touchdowns to lead A and M forty four

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to twenty two.

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Speaker 1: Over utass State. He left again.

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Speaker 2: He left late in the third quarter and with the injury,

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the apparent injury, but he he'll be back for Notre Dame.

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Speaker 1: That's going to be the important part. I think.

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Speaker 2: He threw for two hundred twenty yards and four touchdown passes.

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He had touchdown passes of forty thirty four and twelve

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and eight before leaving. He left in the third quarter.

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He kind of fell awkwardly after you got hit by

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a defender. He walked off the field, he got checked out,

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He spent time in the medical tent, and then he

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was able to jog to the locker room. That was

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our first indication that everything was probably fine. After the game,

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Mike Elko, the coach, declined to say what he hurt,

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but did indicate that he was a expected to play

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against Notre Name, which was also good news. But you know,

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until you get that later in the week, until you

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get that confirmation on Monday or Tuesday, you kind of

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hold your breath a little bit with it. The aggies

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of Texas A and M, by the way, is really

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funny here in the announcers because you can't really say

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aggies because they're both aggies. So you would hear them

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catching themselves, as I've already done here during the show.

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Once they would have to say, of course Texas A

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and M or Utah State, or when they would slip

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out the aggies, you would hear them catch themselves. They

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go of Texas A and M or of Utah State.

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It was pretty funny, but the Texas A and M

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defense dominated most of the game. Cash's House sacked Bryson

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Barnes on three consecutive plays to single handedly force a

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punt in the second quarter. It's the first time a

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player has had sacks on three straight plays since Jack

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Sinchi did it for Wisconsin against Southern California in the

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twenty twenty fifteen Holiday Bowl. According to research by the

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Texas A and M Communication staff, Cash is how's a beast,

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you guys, and he's gonna be trouble for Notre Dame.

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Barnes had one hundred and sixty nine yards passing with

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two touchdowns for Utah State, but was sacked six times

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and hit six more times. Back up Miles O'Neil threw

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for ninety nine yards, including a seventy two yards touchdown

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pass after Reid went out. Elko could not have been

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happier after the game about the throws that his quarterbacks

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made down filled and if you'll remember, even going back

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to the Haines King era, in Zach Calzada, Calzada still

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not sure how to pronounce his name, even though his

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dad corrected me one time on X I think when

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it was still called Twitter, But now I can't remember

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if he said it was the hard the long a

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or the short a. So we'll go Isza Calseta, because

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I think that's what he said. But even going back

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to those days, and even with Connor, the deep ball

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was not the Aggie's strength, but I feel like with

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Marcel Reid and even now a little bit with with

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Miles O'Neill, we've seen a little bit of that come

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into play. Both of those guys extremely accurate downfield and

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that is good to see for the Aggies. The offense

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needs that case Conceptsion had another big game for A

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and M on Saturday, after scoring a touchdown on a

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punt return and grabbing a TD catch in his debut

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last week after transferring from NC State, He had six

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catches for seventy three yards and two touchdowns. His second

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TV came on an eight yard catch and extended the

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lead to thirty seven to fourteen with about six minutes

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left in the third quarter. Mario Kraver, another transfer in

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his first year at A and M, had one hundred

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and fourteen yards receiving in a touchdown after grabbing two

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touchdown catches last week. So all in all, a good

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performance by the Aggies. The defense dominated again a week opponent.

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We will find out a lot more about the transfers,

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about Marcel Reid and the offense, and about the defense

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as a hole against Notre Dame next week. I cannot

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wait for Notre Dame and Texas A and M next

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Saturday night at Notre Dame Stadium.

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Speaker 1: That'll be a big one to watch. Let's head over

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to Lubbock.

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Speaker 2: Now if we can. The Texas Tech Red Raiders rolled

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once again, sixty two points twenty one in the first,

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twenty seven in the second, and they eased off the

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gas pedal a little bit with just seven in the third,

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seven in the fourth over Kent with a sixty two

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to fourteen win. If I'm not mistaken, and if my

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math tells me correctly, and there's a good chance that

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it doesn't, because I did this math yesterday and I

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may be remembering wrong, but that would be what one

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hundred and twenty nine points in two games for the

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Red Raiders against what was the score? Pine Bluff had seven?

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So one hundred and twenty nine to twenty one. Does

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that seem right?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: So again, you played Kent State in Arkansas, pine Bluff

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both at home. The Red Raiders will wrap up their

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three game home stand to start the season next Saturday

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against Oregon State, which will be more of a test,

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I think than anything we've seen for the Red Raiders,

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both offensively and defensively, but you have to credit Texas

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Tech with what they've done. Again, you can only play

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the opponents that are in front of you, So based

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on the level of competition, I'm still pretty impressed with

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what's going on. But again you'll have a bigger test

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against Oregon State the week after that you're at number twenty,

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and then at Houston the week after that. So the

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Red Raiders, although they've proven quite a bit here, I

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still think they have a lot to prove. They have

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a lot more to show against some strong talent. But

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the game against Kent State could not have gone better.

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It was not a surprise. Baron Morton, again on fire,

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threw for three touchdowns. Skyler Gil Howard had a pick

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six fifty five yards in the blowout, Cameron Dickie two

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rushing touchdowns, Reggie Virgil two receiving scores. The Red Raiders

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led forty eight to nothing at half, which was one

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point better than their forty seven to nothing halftime lead

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last week against Arkansas Pine Bluff, So you expected what

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she saw in the second half. And you know, after

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Morton left last week with an apparent knee and he

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came back this week nothing to worry about no issues

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with the knee. The knee looked good for Kent State.

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Drew de Shields threw for a touchdown and ran for

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a score in the fourth quarter for the Golden Flashes,

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who ended a twenty one game losing streak with a

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twenty one to seventeen win over Merrimack and the opener. Well,

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now they can start their losing streak all over again.

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Kent State had negative total yards early in the second

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quarter until Gavin Garcia ran for thirty eight yards on

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a screen pass in the team's sixth sixth It's easy

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for me to say sixth offensive possession. Two plays later, though,

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is when Gil Howard took that interception the other way

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for thirty eight to nothing. Texas Tech lead. Of course,

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he's part of that highly touted transfer class and this

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Tech defense. After a few years under Joey maguire, you know,

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we haven't seen the defensive prowess that maybe we needed

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to go along with that high powered offense. I mean,

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think about the opener. Was it last year against Abilene

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Christen when he almost lost that game at home because

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your defense couldn't make a stop. I think we're seeing

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a much improved defense. You've got some transfers that have

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come in that are making a huge difference immediately from

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McGuire and the team, and things look really really good

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here for Texas Tech early in the season. Again, you've

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gotten much bigger tests coming up for your defense in

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Oregon State, Utah, Houston, and then Kansas of course coming

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up later down to schedule. But you gotta love what

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Texas Tech is doing out in Lubbock. We'll see how

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they play on the road after their game this week though,

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finishing that home road road the homestand to start the season,

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which it seems like they always do, which is weird.

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Speaker 1: Boys. Our final game on the dock at today.

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Speaker 2: One that had my interest as an old Southwest Conference rivalry.

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I love the old Southwest Conference. I grew up with

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the old Southwest Conference living in Dallas with SMU there

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the Pony Express with Eric Dickerson, Craig James back in

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the early eighties before the death penalty. You had the

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rerecon crew of the Aggies throughout the eighties. Of course,

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he had Texas Baylor right down the road from US

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in Waco. SMU was literally right down the road from

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US in Dallas, and you just had the the awesome

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setting of all Texas teams in the Southwest Conference except

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for Arkansas was the outlier there for a long long

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time until they bolted for the Southwest the Southeast Conference

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in I believe after the ninety one season, and then

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things kind of started going downhill for the Southwest Conference,

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and especially things didn't help that SMU got the death

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penalty there in the eighties, but that was kind of

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the start of the demise of the conference. But man,

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anytime two old Southwest Conference teams get together, you know,

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including Tech and Baylor a lot here still in the

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in the Big Twelve, I love it. I love when

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those two teams, any two teams from the old Southwest

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Conference get together. It gives Mitchills sometimes. Sawyer Robertson had

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a big day for Baylor as they upend number seventeen SMU.

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It took two overtimes. Sawyer Robertson throws for four hundred

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and forty yards four touchdowns. He threw two of those

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four touchdowns in the final five and a half minutes

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of regulation before red shirt freshman kicker Connor Hawkins kicked

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a game ending twenty seven yard field goal in the

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second overtime. The Bears rallied to beat SMU forty eight

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to forty five on Saturday. Robertson was thirty four of

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fifty eight passing with four hundred and forty yards for

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the Bears. They've now won fourteen meetings in a row

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against their former Southwest Conference rival since nineteen eighty six.

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Bryceon Washingon ran for one hundred and fifteen yards and

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two scores, including a two yard TV in the first overtime.

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SMU kicker Colin Rodgers was well short on a fifty

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seven yard field goal attempt at the end of regulation

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that would have won the game, but then in overtime

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in the first the second overtime period, he goes wide

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right on a thirty eight yard try when they had

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the ball first in that second overtime period, but the

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SMU offense failed to get a first down in that

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overtime period, and then of course Rogers missing the kick,

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and that was all.

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Speaker 1: She wrote.

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Speaker 2: Seems like games are coming down to missed kicks, not

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just in college, but.

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Speaker 1: Even in Week one of the NFL.

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Speaker 2: You got a lot of missed kicks, and I always

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excuse that more in college you know, these are kids,

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these are just kids playing.

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Speaker 1: I get it. But still you're there.

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Speaker 2: You got one job, you got one job, especially in

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the NFL. The poor Cleveland Browns. We're not getting into

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the Cleveland Browns right now, but good lord, they're just

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going to Cleveland. Kevin Jennings threw for two hundred and

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ninety six yards and three touchdowns, with two seventy five

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yard scores and then a twenty five yard or to

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Romelo Brinston on the Mustang's first play, and in overtime.

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Brinson had one of the seventy five yarders on the

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first play of the game, and then Jennings hit freshman

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Jalen Cooper in stride for the other long score when

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he got opened behind the secondary late in the second quarter. So,

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you know, we know what SMU did last year in

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the ACC, their first year there. I don't know if

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they're going to have the same success in the ACC

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this season. I believe the ACC is just better this

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year than they were last year. Clemson's better. I know

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they lost to LSU, but the LSU is a national

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title contender. I don't think Clempson is. Miami certainly is better,

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which is weird to say without Cam Hoard, but Miami

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is certainly better than they were overall as a team

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this year. Florida State is definitely better than they were

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last year, the two win season. So you know, we

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hope good things for SMU. I haven't seen the polls

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yet this week. I don't know they've fallen completely out

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of the top twenty five. I'm not sure they should

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be there right now, but you know, we'll see how

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things go for SMU the rest of the way, and

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Speaker 2: We will come back with another pigskin and burn INDs

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for you here in a day or two, or maybe

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for a week three, not sure yet.

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Speaker 1: We'll see how this thing goes.

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Speaker 2: Find me on social media across all social media at Indycartm.

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I would love to hear from you and talk college football.

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Until next time, boys and girls, we'll see you