Speaker 1: What's up and welcome to It just means more football
and coffee. I'm Rob Williams. He is craignant Michael, and
it is time to dive into what I've called appetizer week.
We know Week eight is coming, we know October nineteenth
is right around the corner with some of the biggest
matchups of the year.
Speaker 2: But wait a minute.
Speaker 1: Week seven served up what we are calling the appetizer
of the year. And this may be a situation, Craig
where the appetizer actually outperforms the meal.
Speaker 2: The blooming onion is better than the steak. That may
what just happened? I was gonna ask you, did we
hit the bloom an onion or worship did we get
a big basket of MACERELLI six thinking our thinking we
could hammer them all and then realize that, old man,
your stomach's feeling because I tell you, I know we've
been talking about it all weekend. That was probably one
of the most exciting weekends of football. And it hurt
a little bit. It was not pretty for all of
our teams, but damn it was a good TV. It
was musty TV.
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ready to hit the week and get going.
Speaker 2: Hey.
Speaker 1: First of all, I heard on an ESPN shows, a
radio show, just some comments along the lines of top
recruits not coming to the SEC as first choice anymore.
We're being a little more. There's more parody across the
country and that is being reflected in the fact that
top players are dispersing across leagues. It was really an
argument for the Big Ten that was being made. My
question for you is, as we look at this past week,
is the SEC still the best league in college football?
Speaker 2: Yes? It is so without a doubt, and not not
to spoil it, but I just got done right in
my weekd SEC betting lines and I didn't talk necessarily
about recruiting, but it's very similar. You look at the
new ap AP Top twenty five that came out. Uh,
you have Texas and Georgia bookend in the top five.
But then you have Oregon, Ohio State, and Penn State
at two, three, four, and five. And while I don't
agree like Oregon and Ohio State, yes they can be
their Penn State. Sorry, Maggie, No, that's not that's that's
not gonna work that that's that's not gonna be it.
But what's gonna happen is these teams are playing too much.
They're playing a lot of really good talent, a lot
of a lot of things. So I think they're gonna
lock it into the top five. But what you're gonna
start to see, you know, we're gonna you know, we're
talking about Week eight. We've got Tennessee in Alabama. That's
number eight versus number eleven. We've got number one versus
number five. And what that's going to do, that's going
to give some body blows to the SEC, which now
we might be talking about three, maybe four teams in
the college football Playoff. Yeah, but more importantly, who's getting
a home game, who's getting who's getting a road game
at the first round? And then let me let me
grab that first point. So what is happening. It's not
an SEC problem. You know, Georgia and Alabama took out
all the oxygen over the last few years of talage
Cope Bar recruiting Texas A and then did that with
Slice Bread and Jimbo Fisher a few years ago when
they locked off the number one spot. But because of nil,
because of kind of what's happening, the talent is starting
to start starting to break up. You know, we looked
at Missouri earlier in the year and they still got
a guy like Luther Burden who's still doing that. They're
doing really well in the NIL game. And Kirby Smart
talked about this two weeks ago. College football is different
the way that the Bulldogs were built in twenty twenty
one and twenty pointy two. They have plenty of depth,
not only on the offense but also on the defense. Well,
now that talent is starting to dissipate, that starting to go.
You saw Dylan Riola say, you know what I'm gonna
I'm not gonna sit buying Carson back. I'm going to
Nebraska where I can start right away. So it's not
that the Big tennis passing, it's not that the Big
twelve is passing it. It's just we're seeing this parody
start to come across college football, and is it impacting SEC? Sure,
but they're still getting the vast majority of that pop
end talent. And I think what we're gonna see come
the College Football Playoff, even if they're on the road,
we're gonna see more teams and the final four.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I definitely think that with coming out of a
high state in Oregon. By the way, good Ducks, you
get a marquee matchup as a game day game.
Speaker 2: Why hang, I hang out real quick? Why are you sliding?
What is happening? Come on Big twelve? And I talked
to Andrew about that, but come on, bro, don't sline
that is brutal?
Speaker 1: Okay, sorry, I think that because you get that matchup
and it was such a huge game and it really
delivered on the hype. There's a little bit of attension
looking at the Big ten right now, whereas you've had
some struggles in the SEC, and so let's just turn
and look at what happened this week. You know, Missouri
takes care of you, mass up there, no story. Vanderbilt
gets a second SEC win again, surprisingly that's not really
a story after what happened last week. So let's turn
our attention to your dogs taking on the other bulldogs
of the SEC in Mississippi State. Now, normally I would
stick this game in the less gloss over it category. Georgia,
you know, playing with their food a little bit reminds
me of the Kansas City Chiefs. Really should be blowing
people out a little bit more than what they're doing.
But you spoke to the depth of it all, and
they're still working, still kinks out, still trying to figure
out who their best playmakers are. You have been on
it all year that without Labanconkey, without brock Buyers, trying
to find the person that's the bailout when they need
them has been a little of a struggle, but they
still get a ten point win. The story, though, is
Kirby pushing the opposing quarterback for Mississippi State. Now it
really looks like he's just got fury in his eyes
and blinders on from my standpoint, and doesn't even recognize
that this is the opposing quarterback that I'm running through
to get to this official However, as the head coach
of a top five nationally ranked program, or the head
coach of any program for that matter, you probably need
to have your head on a swivel just a little
bit more and recognize your surroundings. I think it would
have been a little bit of a line during the broadcast.
Had he pushed another coach, had he pushed another official,
there would have been a flag for that. There could
have even been a fine for that. I'm interested to
see what exactly going to be the narrative.
Speaker 2: Now. I'm gonna stop you right there. And Georgia fans
have been roasting me all day on this beautiful Sunday
because I was quite critical of Georgia. It has been
a bad week for Georgia, this whole pushing thing. As
a coach, I've been coaching for twenty eight years. I've
been coaching at a high level. Yes, I'm not coaching
the SEC. But here's the thing. You do not lay
your hands on anyone, whether it's your player, whether it's
your assistant coach, whether it's the opposing player. You do
not do that. I do not care how intense the
game is. I do not care. I'm in a fit
of rage. I'm gonna yell at Glenn Shieln for letting
up twenty one points in the second half. And you know,
allowing Mississippi State a trash SEC program to come back.
Sorry but it's true, Like it doesn't matter. You can't
lay your hands on there. Greg Stinky needs to do
the right thing. He needs to find and I dare
I say suspend Kirby Smart. This is a horrible week
for Georgia. He came out last week after Auburn and
he rips Georgia's fans, saying they're not intense enough, they're
not loud enough. He needs more. And then Tuesday morning,
kolbe Young gets arrested. It's the second receiver that Georgia
has had arrested for a sultant battery of some of
a player's girlfriend who's pregnant. We have a culture problem here,
and these problems now are starting to gloss over and
really starting to go through. And then you see that
Georgia up thirty four to ten, agains Mississippi State. We're coasting.
I'm like, Eh, why do I have to do a
write up on this? This game is nothing? And then
all of a sudden, that game gets super close, and
I'm sorry, Mississippi State should not be in that game,
and I don't want to hear it. I get it.
A lot of my guys are found for Georgia. Graham
Coffee and those guys. Oh hey, listen, Carsion Beck has
some big plays. You have some big, big throws. Listen, hey,
you know what, They're playing a lot of second games. No,
that's not it, that's not it. You've got a talent
gap is just way too wide. The talent gap is
way too wide for this tandpoint game, just especially at home.
There's a reason thirty plus one hundred percent and Georgia,
Georgia should not be And we will talk about the
game this week at Texas. Go ahead and plown in
the first quarter. Go ahead and play with your food
again against Texas, because you're going to get handed on
your ass. Guaranteed it in Austin. So you know what,
I'm not happy and I will never be called a homer.
But what Georgia has done this season is disappointing. They
had all the pomps, they had the circumstance, they had
the accolades going in, they had the preseason rankings, they
have the preseason awards, and all they've done is just
look complacent. It's stand and it's it's time to step up. Kirby,
and that is why I'm most upset about him pushing
that young man from Mississippi State. He needs to do it.
And what does he do In the press conference? He deflects, Oh,
I guess I did. I'm not really sure. Yeah, bull crap.
You know exactly what you're doing. You know what your
defense is doing, you know what your offense is doing.
Control your body, control your team.
Speaker 1: Hey, speaking of pump and circumstance, we need to turn
our attention to red River and maybe let you take
a breath and cool off a little bit after breaking
down with.
Speaker 2: Hey.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's warranted. I mean, I'm not pushing back on
your take at all. Red River, I think is an
obligatory sixty seconds with us, because, for one, this is
a huge, huge game in terms of the history of
college football, and I think at any given point it
can be a monumental swing piece in the national narrative,
in the national championship race. And now what we know
is the twelve team and soon to be sixteen team
playoff race, on and on it goes. However, this week
it was not a close game. It was not super competitive.
It was not even the fourteen points that Texas was getting.
This was an absolute destructive blowout. And you know when
Texas is getting bumbles at the goal line and still
scoring touchdowns, when you are coughing the ball up and
it turns into six for you, then you know it's
your day. Remember when it was three to nothing in
Oklahoma and Craig, ladies and gentlemen, was barking about wanting
arch Manning. You need to calm down, Craig, You need
to calm down. Leave him on the bench to learn.
And yes, absolutely, and let us.
Speaker 2: Go back to work.
Speaker 1: This is a Heisman Trophy finalist that Texas has at quarterback.
And I'm not talking about arch Manning. Quinn yours is
the clear cut starter. He was the starter at the
beginning of the year for a reason. And you know,
Wally Pip is a thing. But this is not what
That's not what's gonna happen in this situation. If if
Sark was gonna play, but if Sark was gonna play
arch we would have already crossed this bridge and Quinn
would be playing somewhere else this year.
Speaker 2: No, but I mean, damn, what a luxury. You have
two of the top quarterbacks in the country and then
your quarterback room and like, here's the thing, Quinn look rusty,
but but but here's the thing. All day Friday, I
seen an Asia, was down there, a guy Marty and McGee.
You were down there, Marty, I think was talking to Sark.
Made sure you know, let's say, hey, we're QB one
Texas Longhorns did a really good job by the way
of saying, hey, when is QB one? But you know,
like part of that was a little tongue in cheap
for me, but like part of it was like, but
you know, when when's got show, when's gotta play? But
I do have one quick question for you concerning it
or whatever. And I think this is the most important thing.
Does Joe castic leone need to raise fifty two million
dollars because that is what the extension was that he
gave Brent Vunerables at the start of the year. I
don't again go back. We'll send you the link if
you need it. Vennerables gets this huge six year, fifty
two million dollar contract extension. He has not in his
two years. He got blown out in Red Rivers first year,
and then he finished ten and three and finished third
in the Big twelve now they're looking like Nebraska two
point oho. Now I know I was told to calm
down in the chat, so sorry, I'm not gonna calm down.
It's still fired up, probably from Kirby. But Oklahoma is
on the edge here. They're going to see your boys
in from South Carolina this weekend. South Carolina is mean,
they're feisty. Oklahoma does not have that many guaranteed wins left.
I could say, mm hmm, five and something, four and eight.
Speaker 1: Well, well, let's look at it. I had them at
six and six in the preseason predictions. You got South Carolina,
which is a toss up. You got Ole Miss. I'm
gonna say, unless they come off the rails, unless the
lane train is off the track at that point, that's
definitely going to be a loss for the for the Sooners.
Then you have Maine, so we'll chalk that one up.
Missouri I think is a toss up at this point
considering what they look like.
Speaker 2: Bama and l s U. But but, but, but I
guess here's the way to push back on. You got
Whole Miss in South Carolina, there is a toss up.
Both of them have respectable defenses. Well, Oklahoma does not
have an offense to save their life.
Speaker 1: Forget forget the whole defense, Craig. All you have to
have is the front four or are definitely a front seven,
because they can't block anything. So it doesn't matter if
your secondary gets toasted. You're never gonna throw that. You're
never gonna throw the ball downfield because they can't they
block anything. They can't and they you know, they can't
really run block either. So it's, uh, it's an offensive
line problem. But they lost all They lost the entire line,
So that is what it is. Texas is no more
team in the country that make sure it work. Of Oklahoma,
everybody in Norman just uh, just buckle up for a
little bit, and it's a transition to the SEC. I
wouldn't cut venerables yet, but you know, I think he
gets at least one more year, but we'll see what happens.
Speaker 2: They're also biased. They're also biased. You can run vulnerables
because your your own personal elegance, so.
Speaker 1: That that's true. That's true. But I do like him
in Norman. I think he's a good fit and and
part and part of my bias is that I hope
he's successful because then it further proves the lack of
actual coaching done by the head coach up here in
the upset of South Carolina.
Speaker 2: You're you're your three and it ain't working. Brother. Time
to move on, all.
Speaker 1: Right, let's speaking, moving on, Let's talk about the narrow
escapes at the top of the sec this week. Alabama
number one team in the country coming into last week,
they go down to Vandy, they drop down a little bit.
You get South Carolina this week, and by the skin
of your teeth a twenty seven to twenty five. When
from a personal standpoint as a South Carolina guy and
as someone who's covered the team, you know, you're just
kind of looking at it. With the retro freshman out
there making his fifth start at quarterback, he's the reason
that you're only two points down, as well as at
defensive front. You know, he's got to get the ball
on the field and score and whatnot. But there's definitely
some mistakes that were made. They're just normal freshman mistakes
and you just have to live with that. From South
Carolina standpoint. However, from an Alabama standpoint, you have to
kind of look at the schedule and see, you know,
you have the you have the veteran in Papua last
week carve you up. And then you have someone with
a dual threat ability this week and Sellers be able
to be successful. And so for Alabama, obviously we're going
to talk about Tennessee, but looking forward, you have Missouri
with Brady Cook Burden could be a problem for the
secondary bye week then Lsu. I mean, I think Nesmyer's
coming into the Heisman conversation at this point, and so
I wouldn't think Pat you talk about a veteran, talk
about a veteran with some weapons. Tyron Lacey may get
loose on the tide Mercer. Obviously, Oklahoma, we just talked
about their struggles and we know where Auburn's at. So
you still have, if you are Alabama, three games to
get through before you kind of coast through the end
of the season. So we'll see what happens there. The
big matchup coming up this week obviously is Obama and Tennessee.
Tennessee looks similar to Alabama in terms of struggles. They
go up against the Florida Gators, who, for my money,
we're only supposed to win two games this year. They've
already hit the over at three, but I'm not sure
they win another one and they take Tennessee to overtime.
Speaker 2: What's going on in Natsville?
Speaker 1: I mean I took the I was gonna take Tennessee
plus the fourteen and a half like I didn't or
minus fourteen and a half. I did not think at
all that Florida is even anywhere close in this game.
And to be fair, they didn't move the ball. Lagway
has one great clutch throw that scores one of the touchdowns.
Other than that, you got about ten points. It's just
Tennessee not scoring. They're just not scoring. How do you
win a game twenty three to seventeen and you're supposed
to have an explosive offense and you're playing a team
with no defense at.
Speaker 2: Home at night? I think for both of them, do
you have to look at what savans on Saturday in Eugene,
he said, this is about the Alabama so little complacency
almost even arrogant staffens and Georgia game that creates places
Layton disregarded for doing this right. And you know he
was talking about the Alabama there. We saw that they
played with their food against Vanderbilt. Hey we're you know,
we're gonna lock in and we're gonna play well, and
we're gonna play wellast off gone. Nope, that didn't happen either,
And the same thing with Tennessee. Tennessee craft the bed
two weeks ago against Arkansas. They went in there, and
you know, Nico has looked like a first year starter.
He's making too many stakes, he's turning the ball over,
he's throwing the ball away when he's not supposed to
be thrown away. And so with both of these teams,
it comes back to what Staban always preached, the process,
doing things the right way, going through at one step
at a time in order to do it the right way.
And like it's disappointing, but to be honest, Tennessee has
just been like they just look normal against a safety competition.
So what I see happening, what I see happening this weekend.
I could see Milroe and the seventeen year old go
off on the balls, and I could see a thirty
one seventeen game with the Tide smoking the cigars at
the end of the end of that game. Because because
I think Tennessee's broader line, I think Alabama has all
the pieces to put it together. And what you're seeing
with what you're seeing right now, is Kaylen de Boor
working through that? Kiln de Boor had some of these
games at Washington last year when they went to the
National Championship. There were games where he had superior talent,
he had better looking players, but he just wasn't the teams.
So I think he's learning. He's got a good staff,
he's got it. You know, he's a He's a hell
of a coach to be quite an honest. Missouri. I
think we saw who they were against Texas A and M.
That's not a problem. Stop it with meus Meyer, stop
it with Smyer, Stop it with melse Myyer. Outside of
that last drive where he was hitting Jake Taylor quite
a bit, stop it with us Myer, and you know,
like again, stop with mess Myer. You know, I think
a take. I think Alabama up number five. I think
it ends up. I think it ends up.
Speaker 1: You have to look at it like I think that
Tennessee has enough defense to come off the edge and
put's pressure on Milroe, which is obviously the recipe here.
But at the end of the day, we have two
teams that are struggling, but they're still at the top
of this national narrative and college fotball playoff race, et cetera,
et cetera. It's gonna come down to the quarterback for me,
who's going to be able to make the most players,
who has the most playmakers on the outside. And you
already said it. The most talented quarterback in the SEC
is Jalen Milroad. Whether he performs like the best quarterback
we got for a week is another story. But he
is the most talented and so he can beat you
through the air, and he can beat you with his legs.
And Ryan Williams, as we know, is remembered to be
seventeen years old and is also the best receiver in
the SEC and maybe in the country.
Speaker 2: So, although not a lot happening.
Speaker 1: Against the game Cocks on Saturday, so maybe check out
that film and see what happened to Ryan Williams on
Saturday if you're a future tied opponents. Yeah, I'm also
going with Alabama. I think they jay them. The road
just ends up being too much, too much for me.
You want to you want to talk?
Speaker 2: You want to talk? L s U Old Mills really quick. Yeah,
it just was confusing. I feel like almost ran I
guess the end of that game, they have that game
under control. LSU did not win until they caught that pass.
Was nope, you know, the first player all the time.
Speaker 1: Zero seconds leading the game and they won.
Speaker 2: Yep, it's great, so crazy. I think Old Miss is
I think Old Miss is okay. I think they're dealing
with a little bit of expirtation. I think they're dealing
with injuries and they're starting to see kind of like
how those play out. I do see Old miss finding
their way in. I do not think we're going to
be making a real trip to Oxford, though they will
be on the road for the playoff. I do like
what they're doing. To me. Jackson Dark was the player
of that game that Garrett Nusfier. What it can do
with his arm and then what he does with his
leg is wholeheartedly impressive. So I am more impressed with
what Old Miss did. I just think they ran out
of gas. It's a little bit there at the end.
And I think the l s U sixteenth straight in
the night games they've won is what would I end
up crossing them?
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna come my shot Ole missus out of
the playoffs. It's not happening without Trey Harris, they get
a little sluggish juice Well's zero catches, no receptions on
the night supposed to be the second.
Speaker 2: Option was targeted enough, but just never came down with
just did not absolutely.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, so you're going to cane Lee, but if you
don't have Trey Harris, then it slows down significantly. And
really the reason ultimately that I'm going to say they're
out is now here. They sit with two losses and
they still have Georgia looming down the road. So I
think the dogs get them and they're done.
Speaker 2: For all right, Yeah, I think, I think I think
ninety three is probably about right through Old Miss this year.
All right, what do you got.
Speaker 1: So mid term SEC Champ predictions. Who's in the game
Texas obviously, any any thoughts on who they're.
Speaker 2: Playing Texas versus Alabama. Texas will win.
Speaker 1: I like Texas. I like Texas in the game as well.
It's gonna get a little dicey, right because Bama. The
biggest test left on the schedule in my opinion, is LSU,
not Tennessee this week. Georgia plays Texas this week, which
we're about to get to. But after that, you still
have Ole Miss in Tennessee on the schedule. How about this?
What about LSU. Listen to this, No, listen to it.
Listen to the schedule. This week you have Arkansas, then
you have Texas a and then then a bye week.
Then you just gotta get through Alabama. If you get
through Alabama, then you're skating through Florida and Oklahoma to
get out of Theresa. Their next three games Arkansas and
n and Alabama, they're going to go on a three
game skid after they just beat Ole Miss. They're riding high.
They're not living three games. They're not losing the next
three games. They might drop one of them, they're not
losing the next three games.
Speaker 2: So and this we'll get to our preview four week gate.
Speaker 1: You know, uh, smooth transition on our part, just so
you know that was just you know that just as
professional as it gets.
Speaker 2: That's why we can pay the big bucks. Uh Bama, Tennessee,
Georgia and Georgia Texas are going to get a lot
of the actions in this week. But I tell you
I've got l s U Arkansas circle. We saw two
weeks ago the Hogs in Fayetteville took out the Valves.
I was not impressed with that issue. I'm not like
their defense is okay, their offense is eh. If the
Hogs can run the ball, I think they have a
second upset in them. But more importantly, Yeah, to me,
that that that's that's the one. That's the one I'm tickling.
That's gonna be, you know, in the quadbox. I'm making
sure sure that one is out there. Beyond that, there
is not a lot that I'm really looking at. One
thing I think I want to ask rather than looking
at the game packs as sooners. I think I think
can be interesting. I know there's some history there with
Beamer being part of that staff. The one thing I
want to do before I hear from you on that
is I loved what ABC and the SEC has done
with the schedule this year. The new four fifteen that
staggered start has made sure that there is football going
at all times. I have really liked that and I
think that that's really interesting what they've done. So so
hats off to them. Give us give us a few
seconds on the game taxing cider before we talked bam
off Tennessee and U DA Texas.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you're gonna have two young quarterbacks again in
this with Hawkins for Oklahoma and again or Sellers making
his playing at six games for the game Cocks. So
you have two offenses that are kind of spluttering, you
have two defenses that can really perform. So we know
that Vinables is going to dial it up. He has
history being very successfully against South Carolina. I think he's
got the horses on defense to slow South Carolina down.
On the other side of the ball, I think South
Carolina's defensive front is I don't think I'm biased and
saying this anymore. I'm gonna use the word elite. I
think that Kyle Canard is playing himself into a high
level draft pick. Off the edge. You got the star
set of freshman Dylan Stewart on the other side, and
you have some a lot of experience that tackle in
the middle, and so there's a little bit of depth
there that it was noted multiple times on Saturday against
Alabama win Stuart and Canarver both out of the game,
but South Caroline is still able to get some pressure.
And it's not just those two, however, they are definitely
game rerecords. I don't think Alabama can block South Kline's
defensive front, and that's going to cause them problems and
really bog your offense down. Rocket Sanders becomes the difference
in this ball game. I think that Leonora's Sellers will
make a mistake or two. He'll make a flashy player
too as well. But it's Rocket Sanders getting lathered up
over the course of the game, wearing down the defense
fourth quarter that allows South Carolina to actually pull off
the win. So that would be how it lean as
we are right now.
Speaker 2: Twenty four points. South Carolina wins the game, twenty four points.
It's South Caroline's first twenty four They win the game,
don't I don't think. I don't think they will go
home to score one and twenty. Yeah that Alburt Miszoo
forget it. I mean the rest of that, I'm not
even bess an the Hey, hey, can we some of
our listeners make care We just we're moving on to
more important.
Speaker 1: Things really quick. As you're rolling down that Vandy plays
ball State this week. Can we chalk that up as
a win? Can we chalk it up as a win?
Speaker 2: No? Because in pure Vandy fashion, that's the one they drive.
Speaker 1: Okay, So Vanderbilt has four wins halfway through the season.
Speaker 2: Are they bowling? They get sticks?
Speaker 1: Okay, they have ball State, Texas, Auburn, South Carolina, LSU,
and Tennessee.
Speaker 2: Left Auburn, South Carolina, Well and Ball State.
Speaker 1: We're gonna skip Ball State and say they beat Auburn,
that'd be seven.
Speaker 2: I think they can get South Carolina.
Speaker 1: Just for the record, Southunda has beat them seventeen years
in a row, and so you kind of wait on
it to come back around for now and then if
it's gonna happen, here's one of those years anyway, all right,
so we're rolling on. Is just a mess. It's just
a mess. A and M Missippi State. That's not even
worth predicting. So that leads us with two. All right,
it leads us with two Bama and Tennessee, which we've
already talked a little bit. We both think Bama comes out.
So what about Georgia and Texas? What are the keys here?
I picked Texas to win this game in April. I'm
one sticking to my guns at this point. We they're
they're undisputed number one team in the country. I don't know,
do you have a line?
Speaker 2: What do I have? Yes? Give me one second. I
have a line here because let let let so let's
let's let's talk a little bit about this. So Georgia
and Texas, I feel like that Spider Man imposter syndrome,
where at both points an impostor. But they're pop These
these folks are mirror images of each other. I've got
Texas my seen a half. By the way, is it
in Athens? You know? No, it's in Austin, Okay, in Austin.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So it's a pick them, says, to pick them
because that three points for being at hell yeah, neutral side,
neutral size.
Speaker 2: Is to pick them. Okay, I'm sorry, no worse, thanks
for interrupting all the all the viewers around. Now that
they're taken anchor from you, they're mad at you. You know.
Like I said before the season, Georgia had all the
preseason accolades. They were number one in the media. But
Sark has taken that save in the blueprint, the same
one that Kirby has built in Athens. Sark has done
the same thing in Austin. And we saw that last
year they won the Big Twelve. They went, they went
toe to toe with Washington, came up one one pass
short to you know, go to a national championship and
everyone's like, oh, Texas isn't ready for the SEC. Yeah, Well,
as we've talked about on here, Stark has them well
prepared for it. I think this is going to be
a come to Jesus moment for Georgia and the Bulldogs.
And this may get me muted and kicked out of
all those Facebook groups. That'll be real. It will, it will,
it will, and you know, Uncle Tony may kick me
to the Georgia beat writer. I could see this being
a thirty four to seventeen Texas win over Georgia. They're
going again on the road. It's going to be a
hostile environment that that crowd that Kirby wanted it is
going to be loud and proud. Well he's going to
get it's just going to be on the opposing sideline.
And to be honest, Georgia defense has shown to be
forced both with in the run game and also some
of that big play ability with the secondary I think
when you know, picks them up heart and then again
I think the lack of playmakers. Look at what Texas
did on Saturday afternoon against Oklahoma. Georgia is a better
offensive Oklahoma, but Texas has done a really, really nice job.
I've been very improvle with what they've done. And I
think Texas makes the statement to run right right to
Atlanta and possibly the national championship in twenty pointy five.
Speaker 1: I can't push back on it whatsoever. The only thing
that I would say is I don't think it's a
seventeen point ball game. I do think the line is
about right. I'm gonna take that. I'm gonna take it.
I'm gonna take Texas to cover that slightly. But I
could see something like a twenty seven to twenty three
type of situation. I think that Georgia has some fight
in them. I don't think Kirby comes out and just
lets it go completely off the rails. But when we
talk about culture problems, I think that's where we start.
Speaker 2: To see it.
Speaker 1: We could see it show up if things get squarely early.
How much does Georgia hang. We saw what they did
against Bama, But you don't have the history here that
you have in the Georgia Bama matchups.
Speaker 2: At some point, and.
Speaker 1: Here's a couple of those guys that right right, but
starts not coming off the gas either, And it doesn't
matter we're a situation and he's not coming off, and
he shouldn't because we're in we're in a day and
age of style points mattering. So cases drops drops a
game later in the year, you may need this proceeding.
So you can't afford you can't afford to. You gotta just,
you know, just slaughter everybody.
Speaker 2: Yep. I think I think the chickens come to Roostince
thirty one seventeen. So we got to get get ahold
of our friends at the cut, you know, figure out
what what are a little that's going to be because since
I lost that one last week. But yeah, I think,
like I said, I think I think Bama takes it
the same way. I think that's again thirty one seventeen.
I think I think Jalen Millroe has has a nice day.
I think the BAMA defense gets it together. I just
think big comfortable winds for Alabama in Texas, they clear
their heads and they get their eyes locked in the
December second in Atlanta, all.
Speaker 1: Right, gush, you heard it. Collision course for the Tide
and the Longhorns locking it up in Atlanta. At the
end of this year, we'll see if we can get
some more chaos. It's going to be a great day, Craig.
It's a good day to throw some meat on the grill,
you know, just invite some people over go multi screen,
do the things. Speaking of food, it's time for our
last word here on It just means more football and coffee.
Speaker 2: And in.
Speaker 1: The spirit of Red River and the Texas State Fair,
I was at the South Carolina State Fair this week.
Let's talk fair food. What is your favorite bizarre fair food?
And is there a Michigan State Fair that is worth
speaking of?
Speaker 2: So there is a Michigan State Fair. We used to
go to the one that was in Detroit as they
call it. Uh. They used to have a giant butter cow,
sculptures and stuff like that. I remember that. But the
food that was that the Texas State Fair we didn't
have those, you know, the stuff that you're going to
talk to about that was that the southcount State Fair.
We didn't have to have that great stuff. I used
to love that show Carnival Eats. Again. If they want
to sponsor, they can always sponsor. The show currently used
to be on the Food Network. Used to be one
of those shows where you just would watch and I'm
always looking thinking like, damn, I missing out. Last week,
I was missing out a waffle house. Now I'm missing
out of state Fair food. But the weirdest fund last
week we did. We did so like I feel like
I'm starting to pay for not being in the style.
But that's okay. Hopefully my takes keeping the air. We're
just state Fair food. I've ever heard of deep friede butter? Why?
Like what you can and it makes it better? So
what are you doing with it? Have you?
Speaker 1: Apparently like someone whose hat you just eat it? Think
about it this way? Do you do you buy cheese
sticks like the peel the peel cheese sticks, the string.
Speaker 2: Cheese Yeah, I call it crella sticks.
Speaker 1: Yeah about sha go a whole appetizers though, if you
if you get a string cheese stick, you eat one.
But if you deep fry it and dip it in
Mari and ara, then you eat six and you call
that one order. It's the same thing. Anything that you
fry I do Marion air. I'm going like I'm going
maybe eighty twenty. I might want a little different ranch
every now and then. Okay, so sounds kind of state
Fair things that I saw fry cookie dough of course,
doughnut concoctions, elephant ears, funnel cakes of all shapes and sizes.
You can now get funnel cakes, not just on the plate,
but you can get funnel dogs, all different types of stuff,
a bachi truck, karaoky chicken truck, roasted street corn. You
can get corn in a cup for me. You know,
you get your you get your basic, your icy, you
get your your giant corn dog. But my go to.
I was walking around looking for something a little different
and I got a fried taco. I used that word loosely.
It was a tortilla that had been deep fried, but
in the tortilla was Mexican street corn, macaroni and cheese
and buffalo chicken. It was like a buffalo chicken dip
in a fried tortilla, and it was phenomenal, a little
hot sauce.
Speaker 2: I loved it.
Speaker 1: Shout out to the bacon, I mean, I'm sorry. The
doughnut burgers, which is basically two Krispy kremes with a
with a hamburger patty in between. Uh sweet and savory.
But the one thing I really loved that I saw
online that I didn't catch when I was walking around
was the Deanna's steak Sunday truck. They had said that
to me dinner Sundays, so it's like instead of a
dessert Sunday, their slugging is it's not just for dessert now,
do like fries Kso, steak bites and et cetera. So
they're building this quote unquote Sunday out of out of
dinner fruits. If I had seen, if I right, if
I had seen fries kso and steak bites in a bowl,
that would have gotten my attention for sure. All right,
So I think that's all just means more football and coffee.
Craig is flagging me down. It's not time to close
the show.
Speaker 2: I got one. I got one. So this was at
the Texas Big Fair, the Dickles Triple Meat, Big Backs
Big Back Snack. The base consisted of a bulis cherish
ulade street corn recipe including a fusion of brosis sweet corn, lime, butter,
cubans chili powder. Follows. The sweet is a portion of
suckingd smoke chopped brisket that pays the way for a
delayful serving of gormet smoked gouden mac and cheese buttermilk
biscuit crowned with tender ques of hogszilla, pork, belly burnt
and slow smoke to the perfection encoded in a housemade sauce.
Speaker 1: Let's go, Yeah, let's go. I was I'm all in
on so much of that. I think the burn you,
I mean, keep your steak, You keep your shake Nat
Texas Steak, Sunday Steak Sunday non nachos. There was fries
in it, all right. It just needs more football and coffee.
Speaker 2: The SEC is.
Speaker 1: Still the king, despite what everybody out there has to say.
Appetizer week in the book's main course coming up. We'll
see you next week.
Speaker 2: Hookome