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from our defensive coordinator. He's been tremendous for the BYU Cougars.
Love me some J Hill. This was some of his
opening commentaries regarding this this UCF week.
Speaker 4: So let's get into it.
Speaker 3: How are you feeling coming off that game last week
against Cincinnati?
Speaker 4: So good?
Speaker 8: There was so much good in that game that we did,
The precision of some of the run game that we did.
I mean, that was the lowest run total of those
guys that had since twenty twenty two against an offense
that had four ball carriers averaging over six yards of carry.
Speaker 9: To hold them. What we did I thought was very good.
Speaker 8: Some bend but don't break in the pass defense was
a little frustrating.
Speaker 9: We can clean up some stuff.
Speaker 8: Bottom line, if we put it all together, play pass
defense like we did against TCU the week before, rush defense.
Speaker 9: Like we did last week. If we can put it together,
we got a chance to be really good.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: Look, the defense was phenomenal once again. They they forced
Cincinnati to be a one dimensional team. They don't want
to be a one dimensional team. That's how they score
almost forty points a game is by being diverse, being
well rounded, being able to throw out run the ball.
They could not run the ball against BYU. So shout
out to this Cougar football team. I feel like they've
played some really good football over the last three weeks.
Texas Tech was a great football defensive great football defensively.
They dominated the following week versus TGU, limiting Hoover to
one of his worst outputs and efficiency grades since like
twenty twenty three. Same thing with Cincinnati. You got to
go back to twenty twenty two to see that type
of piss poor preductivity from a Cincinnati offense. Kudos to
j Hill and this defensive staff. No if sands a
bunch about it. Their balling and they're representing Brigham. Well,
what caused the defensive line to be so effective the
last two weeks, would you say.
Speaker 8: Jay, I think just the interior JT and Keanu playing
the way they are has been so good. Jack and
Glasger have made a lot of plays in Jale, So anyway,
bottom line, I just think those guys are playing at
a high level of execution in the last four or
five weeks. That's really helped.
Speaker 9: That sure up the inside of that rush defense.
Speaker 1: John Tomoyeu, Kanu Tnavasa.
Speaker 3: Stepping up, hitting home runs Tom and Tom again, and.
Speaker 4: It's the reason why.
Speaker 3: I mean, look, Jay went out and got some transportal guys,
a Nissi Purcell, went out and got Kiano Tonavasa, Justin Kirkland,
h kefusioke At a weaver.
Speaker 4: Like we required a lot of talent.
Speaker 3: Jonathan Talmoy Peyo has been in the program for a
minute and he's been maybe the biggest.
Speaker 4: Surprise out of everybody.
Speaker 3: I think we what we expected from some of these
transfers was what John Toby Peyu is doing currently, So
shout out to j T. We expected MVP time of
performance from Keanu. We thought Justin would be more impactful
we thought Anisi maybe have been more packed. And heast's good.
Like he's still playing with the club over there. He's
hitting people with the club, you know what I mean,
not hit to be with the club, but he's got
the club. He's judo chopping in the throat with that club.
You gotta do what you gotta do, man to win
those reps. But shout out to j T. That's who.
That's who I want to highlight right now. Kano is great, Like,
you can't do this without Kiana. Yeah, Kiano has been
really good the last two weeks especially uh. But you
know the guy that was unexpected was JT. And we
we heard things from kianut To. We chatted with him
at Big twelve media days.
Speaker 4: You were there. I was just like, I was like, hey,
who stood out to you though?
Speaker 1: He's like JT. J T.
Speaker 4: Look JT litle silver bat gorilla especially.
Speaker 1: You know that's a big man looking again.
Speaker 6: We're getting towards the end of the season, so we
can bring these conversations full circle. You lost Luke Tlomati
right like you lost him in the offseason. Correct me
if I'm wrong, And that was a big piece you
expected Luke to have a big year. So she's like, Okay,
well who's gonna step up because you can't lose defensive line.
We all thought it was gonna be thin and JT
is at a phenomenal season.
Speaker 1: Got to retain him in the offseason. Ben, has anything changed.
Speaker 3: With Tonavasa specifically the last couple of weeks?
Speaker 8: And we knew it. I mean, he just he's playing
with great confidence. He's playing with great technique right now.
He is a great player. We all knew that all along.
I mean he's I mean, he's lived up to everything
we thought.
Speaker 3: He was everything everything we thought he was, no doubt
about it. Tenavasa, I think he's played some really good
football though the last three weeks. On the touchdown pass
Cincinnati got in the fourth quarter, was it a miscall?
What happened in that particular situation.
Speaker 9: We just need to stay inside that scene.
Speaker 8: And no, I mean could the backer have carried it
a little deeper? Yes, could Raider have been inside?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 8: I mean, bottom line, we got to play the coverage
better than we did.
Speaker 3: Kind Of Devic Graham on the question, Yeah, I mean Raider,
you know, kind of looked up and kind of threw
his hands up It's typical of a defensive back. You know,
we all throw our hands up whenever we get be like, hey,
whose fault was that?
Speaker 1: You're not there? Hey?
Speaker 4: Like what happened?
Speaker 1: What happened your guy?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 3: Like like that's how you keep like the public relations,
you know all good? You see that, Like I remember
seeing I see corners all the time. You know, like
you know, you're either throwing your hands up at the
raft or hands up at your at your team base,
like what why.
Speaker 4: Did you guys cover him? You know, what's going on?
Speaker 1: What was the call?
Speaker 4: You know, kind of like.
Speaker 1: Going back through the eyes, wonder how many times? How
many times did the krimlin throw his hands up?
Speaker 4: I threw my hands up only one time.
Speaker 3: I only gave up one touchdown entire career, so I
I honestly success. I like that college football. I gave
up one passing touchdown. Some people are like, yeah, right,
you're just like ever, I'm like, bro, I'm telling you man,
that's that's my stat of my career. And I were like, oh, yeah,
because you played twenty yards off the ball, Like, oh,
come on, you can't play twenty yards off you guys
are freaking ridiculous. Ridiculous. I can't win with you guys anyway.
I'm having a conversation with you guys and you're not
even here. But I've heard it all. I've heard it
all from g men. G men talks to cougar board
and all the.
Speaker 1: Can't talk to cougar boards.
Speaker 3: And then they come back with all the stuff, and
then Gurney has ammunition. He's like, well what about this?
He gets all his ammunition from those guys at any rate.
I know what you're saying, but yeah, one touchdown, I
threw up my hands versus Tulsa. I didn't throw it
up with my teammates because I'll throw my hands up
with my teammates.
Speaker 1: I threw it up to the.
Speaker 4: Reps because I had a push off.
Speaker 3: I had a post quarter post with a push off
and at Tulsa in two thousand and seven, and I
got filmed.
Speaker 1: I got tape to prove it.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I threw up my hands at the ref
I was like, what the h that was a push off?
That's offensive PI anyway, But yeah, that's what you do
as a quarterback, as a defensive back, like whenever you
get beat touched down, you you throw your hands up.
Speaker 4: Like what like, who's cover who's supposed to cover the count?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start looking for that.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, oh yeah, totally.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: You see it every every week in college football. They
get be like, oh man, like like corners, like defensive
backs have a tough time taking accountability.
Speaker 1: Let's they just like they're so.
Speaker 3: Ego driven because they're like, we're the best athletes, we're
so good, Like.
Speaker 1: We have a tough time taking accountability.
Speaker 3: Let's be honest, all right, what's the challenge Jay preparing
for multiple quarterbacks?
Speaker 4: They've played five this year.
Speaker 8: Well, I mean, ultimately you gotta assume that they're gonna
run similar scheme.
Speaker 9: It might change a little bit from quarterback to quarterback,
but I think the scheme's pretty much set.
Speaker 8: I think number two for the last four or five
games has been their guy.
Speaker 9: So we assume that's who we're going to see the most.
Speaker 8: They might bring in number ten to run the ball
a little bit something like that, but anyway, bottom line,
I don't think they're going to change much.
Speaker 9: They do what they do.
Speaker 8: They've been very effective in certain games with it, and
so I just see them doing their offense.
Speaker 3: They go that's Jay Hills breakdown at the quarterback room.
They played a lot of quarterbacks still they have, yeah,
I mean injuries, they're not They're not the healthiest a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they have a lot of people on report.
Speaker 3: They're not the healthiest bunch in the in the Big
twelve by any means. So yeah, I mean we get it.
They're gonna be playing a lot of different players and
and it is what it is.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 3: Tevan Jackson number two is who they probably play the most. Right,
six four hundred twelve pound junior. He's thrown for almost
two thousand yards eight touch eight touchdowns, eight iron ts
and uh, you know, good good football player. But they yeah,
they definitely struggled to stay healthy. And uh, they played
a lot of quarterbacks of this season. Tavian Jackson, Cam Fancher,
he's the one that's got the second most reps. He's
a sixty to two hundred pounds senior out of Dayton, Ohio,
and he's played I want to say, I mean he's
he's a tempted seventy two passes now three und thirty
three yards four point six yards per attempt. So we'll
see how it plays out as far as playing time.
But Tavid will probably get most of the reps. You'll
see number two out there getting the start most likely.
Have you seen the reaction to people claiming that it
was a dirty hit that caused the fumble, the Tavan
Beasley hit.
Speaker 8: I don't look at social media. So do I think
that was a dirty hit? Absolutely not. I mean, do
guys get rolled up on and if they're saying that
Tavian held the ankle a little bit.
Speaker 9: Too long, I don't the goals to tackle. Do I
think he was doing that maliciously?
Speaker 8: Absolutely not. That's not what we teach. It's not who
we are, It's not who Tavian is. It's like if
people are saying that they're searching too much. The guy
made an aggressive play and it ended up being one
of the big plays of the game for us.
Speaker 9: So it was it malicious?
Speaker 1: Absolutely no.
Speaker 3: Should have been a scoop and score should have been Yeah,
Ress Blue a dead take that taking that tuddy away
from Isaiah Glasker. He could have been on the real
ig on the reel and you took it away from him,
You vile and perverse reffing crow.
Speaker 1: I'm kidding. I don't feel that way about.
Speaker 3: Him, but those that are saying that Tavian Beasley had
a dirty hit or a dirty tackle. Look like his
momentum was going that way, and so yeah, he naturally
rolled into it. Some people would say that's a Gator roll,
but that was not malicious in any way.
Speaker 4: Jay Hill is spot on.
Speaker 3: Anyone saying otherwise is a cottonhead, and Ninny Muggins, you
are a low level.
Speaker 1: Sorry to say it, I'm just gonna say that's who's
saying it.
Speaker 4: Just low level, low football like you.
Speaker 6: You know, it wasn't a dirty hit like the way
he started men and how he grabbed him and didn't
the momentum because the guy's trying to twist and tames
he rolls with him. It's not No, that's not how
he started the tackle.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's uh, it's it's low football, like you,
it is what it is. I get where they're coming from,
but no, that's not a dirty, dirty tackle.
Speaker 1: Sorry.
Speaker 4: Did the defense come out okay?
Speaker 1: Hawthwise? Jay Hill?
Speaker 8: Yeah, for the most part, I think we're doing pretty
good with health. We get through this game and I
think we get healthier, we get some guys back, and anyway,
bottom line, I think we're in a good spot right now.
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to Jay Hill conversing with the media yesterday.
Speaker 4: Number eight.
Speaker 3: Any guy is going to be used this week that
haven't been used, that need there, that may need their
four games before red shirting.
Speaker 8: No, not really, no, not really, I mean those guys
are what you've seen the last couple of weeks is
what you get. And so we'll get a couple of
guys for the next game back, but not for this week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a couple of guys we're gonna add Justin Kirkland,
Tommy parrass Is, maybe from Asiata. Yeah, those got those
three I'm looking at as individuals that you will get
back into the lineup, into the depth chart come Big
Twelve Championship game, because that does not count against your
red shirt games. They'll post four games of red shirt availability.
What does it mean to you to and this defense
to clinch a Big twelve title birth.
Speaker 9: Well, it means a lot.
Speaker 8: I mean that was the goal when we set out
at the beginning of the season, the goal to win
a Big Big twelve title. And you can't win until
you go to the game. And we have an opportunity
to get that done this week. We understand what's riding
on this and the reality is you want this pressure,
you want these opportunities.
Speaker 9: And you only get these by winning. So we're in
a good spot.
Speaker 3: Just win, baby, Just win. Continue to win, win any
way you can. But if you can win, win with
style points. That is my opinion. Let's win with style points.
What does it mean or sorry, the cold, the cold
and maybe the elevation. All those things could probably factor
into b Way's favor. Is they welcome in UCF, the
UCF Knights there, but you have to fight for ball
eligibility right now. They have something to play for, no doubt,
to play spoiler versus the coups.
Speaker 4: How do you see it, Jay Hill?
Speaker 8: Sure, yeah, it's gonna be cold for him. It's gonna
be cold. They're gonna becoming elevation. That should be advantage us.
So we got to handle it ourselves. I mean, because
it's gonna be cool for our guys, it's gonna be
cool for their guys. And that's that's part of the
season at this stage.
Speaker 1: So it should be advantage by. It should be you
practicing it. They're practicing in yesterday all day every day. Man.
Speaker 6: I mean, look, I have I put together our sheet,
ben right, you know, our our tailgate sheet shout out
to the ultimatetelgate, which will be it on Saturday, thirty
nine degrees. That's what is going to be very nippy,
this advantage bo. You look, now, I know something because
my dad lived in Florida. I got you know, my
Grandpather lives there. Rain is something that they're used to.
But they don't like snow and they don't like cold,
So this should all be b YU and there should
be no disadvantages with BYU. Like you should be able
to hit these boys hard. And look, Gurney said yesterday,
and I guess I'll get your opinion. Gurney said, if
you hit these dudes hard in the colder, you get
up on them early, they're gonna fold them like yep,
good season.
Speaker 1: Okay, that was it.
Speaker 6: Like you have to insert your dominance right away because
if you give UCF a chance, but you're gonna come
in and try to give their best shot in the
first quarter. Look, they need one game to get both eligibility,
one game for you to not be in the title game.
Speaker 1: All of that rides on Saturday.
Speaker 3: A couple last weeks from Jay Hill and then Eddy
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Speaker 8: Now, well, I just I love the way they played
the rush defense last week. The week before we put
all kinds of pressure on Hoover forced team into a
really low completion percentage last week. The rush defense was great,
but we also had twenty five QB hurries, which is
the highest Cincinnati given up all year. And so there's
so many good things that those guys are doing, and
we're still just scratching the surface on what I think
we're going to be and it's late, but I still
see it's getting better and better, which is a huge
thing right now. If we can keep getting better these
next couple weeks, we got a chance to be really,
really good.
Speaker 3: John, it's a big kram on one of our team
members here as being the fan for asking that very
powerful question. And I last did a great response from
Jay Hill your reaction to that comment, Ronald the free
man weaver.
Speaker 6: Twenty five QB hurries, that's all I don't and again
I pay attention to the stats, but that's a lot
of hurries. And Ben, there's a lot more to go
on with this ride. And we'll play this sound a
little bit letter, but to tease it a little bit,
Max Chawick talked about how many rushing yards they got
from just pure running yards, not scheming, you know, but
like just pure giving the ball to the running back
BYU held that defensive held that offensive rushing attack for
Cincinnati to like little to nothing. So you really have
to give a lot of credit to this defensive line
been and I don't want this to be hyperbole, but
the way this defensive line is playing, with how confident
LJ is running the ball right now, that's the recipe
to give yourself a shot to be Texas stack. That
is because the way the defensive line is planned, you
have to stop Cameron Dickey.
Speaker 1: You have to get out bearing more.
Speaker 6: And they had a couple opportunities been where they didn't
and they didn't stop the rush attack. If you're able
to play this way with how the linebackers have played
all season in the safety in the secondary, good opportunity
to be able to give yourself a chance to win
and get to the colleg football playoffs.
Speaker 1: I like how they've been playing.
Speaker 3: Final thing, Jay Hill. This was a question from Ronald
the hard hitting question from from Ronnie. Here, what's the
ideal Thanksgiving play for J Hill?
Speaker 1: Day?
Speaker 9: Ideal Thanksgiving plate?
Speaker 8: Everything, turkey, potatoes, stuffing pie.
Speaker 9: I'm I'm dabbling it all.
Speaker 3: So yeah, dibbling dabbling with asked the hard heading questions.
He's a man of you know, after my liking, I
like to combine it all, mush it all together, and
just and just and just pounding. Give me the Calork
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go to sleep a nice long nap on a holiday weekend.
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question in polling today, this this college football playoff committee.
Speaker 1: You wonder what are they doing? What are they thinking?
Speaker 3: I've put together an enumerated list of the reasons why
BYU sits at eleven and two loss teams are ahead
of BYU. And I'm gonna give them to you here, Kugarnation,
and you gonna add whatever you want at Crittal, Benjamin
want to hear from you. So Number one, we all
know that preseason rankings still cast a very long shadow,
right they just do. Teams that start high get the grace.
Teams that start low have to overperform. And that's what
Bays had to do. The most underrated team in college
football modern era Apeopole history is BYU. They started right
outside the top twenty five, and you know, with one
loss they drop and they can't get back into.
Speaker 1: The big boys club. They were at number seven.
Speaker 4: They lost the Texas Tech.
Speaker 3: It wasn't a competitive game, and now they're sitting on
the outside looking in traditional powers that essentially benefit most
from the early perception and lingers all season. Number two
TV money geography population density matter more than anyone likes
to admit. Bigger markets, denser regions drive higher ratings, more exposure,
more narrative perception protection, and that keeps brands like Shoot
Texas or USC in the mix to.
Speaker 4: Jump into the top ten. It just does. And it
also keeps the teams that lose.
Speaker 3: If Ohio State lost, if Georgia lost and they were
a two lost team, suddenly they're still in the top ten.
Speaker 1: They am moving Oregon.
Speaker 3: If they lose to Washington, they could still be in
the top ten. You know, I think a three lost
team can't stay in the top ten, but you never
know with these teams. Texas is one of those teams
that if they beat Texas A and M, they could
jump B YU and get into the top ten and
now somebody else who knows. Anyway, I do think recruiting
rankings and kind of feed the machine too. In the preseason,
same big brands dominate recruiting their NIL structures, et cetera.
It reinforces a little bit of the expected greatness boose
preseason positioning, strengthens brand equity throughout the season, et cetera.
Number four conference perception isn't equal. The committee clearly values
Big ten and the SEC wins more than the Big
twelve or a SEC results, even when the records say otherwise.
Not all Power four paths are judged the same. They're
just not, And there really aren't enough true P four
versus P four matchups early to create real clarity. September
is filled with tune ups, you know, not necessarily measuring six.
You need more data points there with a true, real
cross conference data set. The committee defaults to brand history assumption.
All these things that we've just enumerated, And now what
we're seeing is November momentum caring more weight than it
ever has. In this new era. The head and heads
don't matter as much. Miami beating Notre Dame doesn't matter
because now Notre Dame's playing better football. So even if
you have a head to head and you had enough
data points, now they're undermining that, circumventing that and say, whoa, well, no,
not Dave's a much better team than they were at
the beginning of the year in Miami. Yeah, they're decent,
they're good. They just wont again. We'll move them up
to NUVIRG twelve. What you do late matters more than
what happened early. Oklahoma, you know, beating Alabama is a
perfect example.
Speaker 1: Maybe you know.
Speaker 4: That they're still in the top ten.
Speaker 3: Right what you're doing in November matters, you wonder too,
like within the recruiting, ranking star players, charismatic coaches, entertainment value.
Does that drive a certain amount of fan buy in?
Media push Lane Kiffen. His situation at Ole Miss is intriguing.
Will they drop if he goes elsewhere even if he's
coaching in that college football playoff?
Speaker 4: Do they drop to like nine or something like that?
Speaker 3: They were going to be facing Mississippi State, I believe
to end the season they could lose.
Speaker 4: You wonder if they'll be ousted.
Speaker 3: If Lane's going elsewhere and they lose the Mississippi State,
they should be out of the top ten. They should
they shouldn't go to the COLLG Football Playoff. They have
to take that into account. Some programs just you know,
just are better than others in brand and brand equity,
and a.
Speaker 4: Lot of that has to do with it.
Speaker 3: So those are my reasons why the COLLG Football Playoff
Committee is doing what they're doing right now and when.
But when you hear them speak like, look, I'm not
even a full time media member.
Speaker 4: I'm not I run arthor pros.
Speaker 3: It's a company that distributes Durbal medical women hop onto
the radio talk about these things.
Speaker 4: When you hear Hunter, you're a check who's.
Speaker 3: Been in in in sports for a long time, and
you hear him speak and justify the rankings, you begin
to question the competency of these human beings.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Like, did you hear what he had to say?
Speaker 1: Hey?
Speaker 4: Last night?
Speaker 3: I want to play for you, Ronald, and I send
it over to you. I want to send you this.
This is who is leading the college football playoff committee.
Speaker 1: These are the reasons.
Speaker 3: Why the teams are are put into certain places. Like
you're hearing this man articulated like, I'm not trying to
question his intelligence.
Speaker 4: I'm not trying to question his.
Speaker 3: Ability to do maybe his day to day job.
Speaker 4: But there's gotta be somebody better.
Speaker 3: There's got to be more people better than what's on
that committee deciding and making the case for these teams.
Listen to under your check, ladies and gentlemen. You tell
me if this sounds like competency. Okay, if this sounds
like someone you would want to lead your organization, you
would want to lead your sales team, would want you to.
Speaker 1: Just pr ad whatever it may be. Listen to this
man change at.
Speaker 10: Sixty seven with Oregon and Ole miss swapping spots. How
much of an impact potentially could it be on Ole
Miss if it's determined they.
Speaker 7: Don't have their head coach in the field six seven?
Speaker 3: But seriously, Rich, we did Okay, okay, he did the
whole seven thing.
Speaker 1: It's not even no, and then he called Ree Davis Rich.
Speaker 3: So anyway, he goes on, I give you another one,
but like, let's let's play the other sound bye. This
was from uh this is the elongated form right with
with Ree Davis and Hunter eurocheck. It's just crazy to me.
This is more of a fifty five second clip. So
this gives you a little preface and more commentary with Huncher.
But just listen to this and tell me if it's
if it screams confidence to you.
Speaker 11: By the chair of the College Football Playoff Selection Committee,
Hunter year Acheck Hunter, not a lot of changes. You
had to go all the way down to number fifteen
last week to find a team that lost sc loss
to Oregon, but there wasn't change at six seven with
Oregon and Old Miss swapping spots.
Speaker 10: How much of an impact potentially could.
Speaker 11: It be on Old Miss if it's determined they don't
have their head coach in the.
Speaker 10: Field six seven?
Speaker 12: But seriously, Rich, we didn't have any discussion about Old
Miss and their coach that that was all about Oregon
and their performance against USC. Their strength to schedule continues
to climb. They've been dominant on the offense and defensive
side of the ball, really good and special teams. And
the committee is waiting, had been waiting for them to
have a signature win to really put them where we
thought they deserved to be.
Speaker 3: Yep, all right, so that's the full clip. Yeah, so
that's full clip there. How could you take him seriously?
You can't, you know what I mean? How do you
take this man seriously? This is this is what's leading
the charge right now. This is what chaylle jerrh I
had to say about BYU's position in the college football playoff.
By the way, it's crazy that b WE was likely
to head into into a conference title week at eleven
to one with the number six strength of record in
the country.
Speaker 4: It went over number thirteen.
Speaker 3: That's Utah and a strength of schedule that's higher than
Ole Miss and Notre Dame and be sitting outside of the.
Speaker 1: College football playoff field.
Speaker 3: More and more people are becoming abreast and educated on
BYU schedule. The SEC wanted strength of record included in
the conversation, included in the College Football Playoff Committee rankings.
But as soon as as soon as it doesn't fit
necessarily their narrative, right, and there's a team that has
a better resume, which is all we're trying to get at.
It's not about, you know, it's not about how you're
trending in late November, what your game control is and
what your margin of victory should be. It's about your
resume and who you've beaten, and what your strength of record,
what your strength of schedule is comparative to you your peers.
And you do see more and more individuals, pundance analysts
that haven't been bought and paid for comment and spread
truth on the matter. The Out of Pocket Podcast with
Robert Griffith. Third is college football bracket. After week thirteen.
He says, this argue with your mama, but this is
where he puts them. First round buys Indiana, Ohio State,
Texas A and M and Texas Tech.
Speaker 4: That's one through four.
Speaker 3: At twelve, he's got James Madison.
Speaker 1: Versus organ at Oregon.
Speaker 3: He puts Virginia number eleven at Georgia number six, number ten,
notre Dame at seven, Ole Miss number nine, Oklahoma at
BYU number eight. He puts BYU at number eight as
a one loss currently one loss Big twelve football team
heading into the Big Twelve championship game. Now, the Committee
in the past has set a president who knows if
they're going to change that that they will not reprimand
they will not cast a gate. They will not punish
you for losing in a conference championship game. That's why
BYU's not in the top ten right now because they
know Bay you will.
Speaker 4: Probably win out.
Speaker 3: And then what will happen if they're in the top
ten and not the first team or second team out
and they lose the Texas Tech. The Committee's already set
the presidents they can't let BYU in the top ten
before that conference championship game. So even if Bway you
completely blows the doors off of UCF. And let's say,
for instance, one of these top ten teams loses, Notre
Dame loses to Stanford. Okay, that could happen, possibly, maybe
not likely. Oregon could lose to Washington, Alabama could lose
to Auburn at Auburn. You know, there's a number of
different things that could occur. I don't know if I
wonder if the way he gets into the top ten,
they may find a way. They may hope that Texas
beats Texas A and M and can make it jump
b YU and keep Ewayo at eleven. Watch out for it,
Watch out for Kugarnation. I hate to be a conspiracy theorist.
I hate to be that guy, But since twenty twenty, I've.
Speaker 1: Become a conspiracy theorist.
Speaker 3: There's to all the conspiracy theories have gone right, They're
all right. It's like, okay, well, maybe they're not conspiracy
theories if they all turn out to be true.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: The college football caball they're pissed. They were angry last year.
Why were they so angry? They weren't happy that Alabama
got bounced, They just weren't.
Speaker 4: They were mad. They were angry.
Speaker 3: They were not gonna let that happen again. No if
sands or much about it. They didn't like the fact
that SMU got in. They didn't like it SMU wasn't
competitive versus Penn State. They didn't like it that Boise
State gotta buy, even though Boise State was more competitive
than SMU was. The week prior, they did not feel
that either one of those teams was a top twelve.
Speaker 1: Team in college football.
Speaker 3: There was even conversation around Arizona State getting a bye.
How did Arizona Stay get a bye? That shouldn't have happened? Right,
Texas beat Clemson and then by the skin of their teas,
Texas barely beat Airs on a state.
Speaker 4: You can make an argument Airs on a station one.
Speaker 3: So at least they got the Big twelve, got validated
and vindicated there to a degree. They didn't win, but
you know they competed. Remember the following Texas Tech or sorry,
Texas lost to Hoase State by fourteen. So this is
what they're looking at. They're looking at these data points
of a year ago, and they're saying, what did we
get it wrong? How can we get these teams that
we think are trending in the right direction in November?
The best teams in college football, the most talent in
college football, the most NFL players in college football, the
most well resourced teams in college football, to be in
the big dance at the end, in the quarterfinals and
semi finals, and finally the National championship. Right the Ohio States,
the Notre Dames, the Georgia's the Alabamas. Now Indiana has
become a bello of the ball with Kurt Signetti.
Speaker 1: They've earned it. They've earned it. They're a good football team.
Speaker 3: Remember Indiana lost to Notre Dame last season by ten
in the first round of.
Speaker 1: The College Football Playoff.
Speaker 3: George ended up losing to Notre Dame twenty three to
ten in the quarterfinals.
Speaker 4: They're taking that into account.
Speaker 3: Remember Oregon Gotta Buy and then lost by twenty to
Ohio State. They take into these things into account, I'm
telling you right now, because they think not much has
necessarily changed in brand and person Hell if resources from
a year or year prior. Texas Tech is a new
kid on the block because they spent twenty eight million.
They're like, oh, well, they got the talent, they can compete.
We'll get them in. We'll give them a shot BYU.
Look at the recruiting rankings. Not good enough. Haven't been
in the power force structure long enough. They are gonna
get blown out, just like they did versus Texas Tech.
They just don't have the horses to compete in a
college football playoff.
Speaker 4: We don't know.
Speaker 3: We don't want another SMU situation. We don't want another
Bois State situation. We don't want to have to deal
with all the the big wigs of college football complaining
to us day in and day out. Tell you that's
what's on the horizon, and so what do you gotta do.
Speaker 4: You gotta be a master your destiny.
Speaker 3: If you're BYU and you gotta win this week and
hopefully went big right a little bit of momentum and
they get into that big TOAL championship game in Arlington,
neutral Stateium. You gotta pack the house. You gotta buy
the tickets. You need three fourths of that stadium being
Cougar blue, at least half of it being Cougar blue,
and rise and shout and create a Rockets environment where
Texas at can't and Jack can't push audio noise into
the stadium. They don't have that jurisdiction at Jerry's world.
Why they don't have that jurisdiction. Know if sands or
Butt's about that, and get a win. Change your offensive
game plan. Don't go in there with your stincter's all tight.
Don't muff punts, don't shank punts, don't turn over the ball,
don't throw the ball anywhere near Nick and Rodoby Kiss
run the damn ball. You got a healthy LJ. That's
how you do it, and Bear hopefully's healthy as well.
That right, Arm, I'm still a little bit concerned about it.
We'll go to break, guys, but chime in, what do
you think? What did I get right? What did I
get wrong in that segment? Ronald?
Speaker 4: Any other thoughts in any of the commentary we wrap
up that segment.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I think you know, as mentioned in the
first segment, you gotta run a damn ball, but you
got to stop the damn run too. Like you get
in the defense way, there is definitely some like I mean,
too many trunk guards players on the ground, right, but
like with the way the defensive line is playing and
it's not even stopping dominating the run bin right the
Cincinnati game, You're not gonna do that against Texas Tech.
If you did, you might be going to the semi finals.
You might beat and you know, an ACC big ten
or SEC team. But I think the point to that
Ben is winning on first down. That's what they always say,
putting them tenorwall. You know, said this in yesterday when
I was at practice making sure that teams have to
play second, third, and long, and then they can make plays,
they can pin their ears back. If you're not doing that,
if you're letting teams be second and short from the jump,
that just is not gonna get a good recipe. So
thankful to cover this BA team. Thankful for number fifty seven.
He's been dominating, he's been playing his best ball the season.
And when do you want to be peaking? Bin right
now as you go into the college football playoff postseason.
You don't want to be peaking in September. So that
and then I guess I'll just do this. I'll just
ask you, what's your ideal Thanksgiving play ben.
Speaker 4: Ideal Thanksgiving plate? I throw it all together.
Speaker 3: Give me mashed potatoes, give me corn, give me stuffing,
give me turkey. Shoot, you can throw ham in there
as well, whatever you like. The only thing I don't
throw into my mixed plate crazy cranberry. I don't mess
around with that. I don't mess around with that. For
whatever reason, it just doesn't seem right. It's the color.
It's it's the consistency. It's the purple. Yeah, I mean
it's got too much red, just too much red in there.
Speaker 13: So he likes blue. He doesn't like red. He likes blue.
I'm just saying I messing with you. I'm just saying, yeah. So, yeah,
that's my that's my ultimate plunking pie. Yeah, pumpkin pie
in the back end. Pumpkin pie in the back end.
Nice little nap you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah yeah, And if you want to give me
egg nog, I'll probably check down that too anyway.
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