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Speaker 2: of Central Kentucky. So we'll go from six thirty to
Speaker 2: seven thirty. Then they'll kick it off down there in
Speaker 2: Death Valley and we'll all see what happens. I've been confident,
Speaker 2: but that doesn't mean like I'm telling you it's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: I'm not super confident, but I have I have a
Speaker 2: good feeling about tomorrow. But I'm well aware, and some
Speaker 2: of you have already said this that it could just
Speaker 2: be desperation from a fan that is having a tough
Speaker 2: time accepting that his team is just not not as
Speaker 2: good as as he wanted them to be and that
Speaker 2: he believes they should be. And maybe you're right. We'll
Speaker 2: find out tomorrow. Whatever happens, we're gonna react to it
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Speaker 2: listening to the show here and there throughout the week,
Speaker 2: even today, like I don't, I don't have a whole
Speaker 2: lot of fresh opinions to share about the matchup specifically.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think Louis's going to be tested as
Speaker 2: far as in an environment in a way they really
Speaker 2: haven't been all year. I mean, the only road game
Speaker 2: where you had a big crowd was Notre Dame. And yes,
Speaker 2: that is a is a big environment, but like, I
Speaker 2: don't feel like that is a well, I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: say it's an easy place to play. Very few teams
Speaker 2: go there and win. But I would say Clemson's is better.
Speaker 2: It's more of a rowdy atmosphere where you can really,
Speaker 2: you know, let the crowd noise get the best of you.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's let's be honest, that's we've had it
Speaker 2: happen there at Clemson before we all remember that, right,
Speaker 2: I mean, there's a reason that Clemson has not lost
Speaker 2: a game at home on a Saturday night in Death
Speaker 2: Valley since twenty thirteen. So maybe I should maybe I
Speaker 2: should rephrase sort of my my stance here, and that
Speaker 2: is that I feel pretty good about it. I think
Speaker 2: the way they came back against Boston College was a
Speaker 2: valuable thing for this team. And I think, you know,
Speaker 2: and really maybe I blame Dabo Sweeny because I've always,
Speaker 2: you know, throughout the week mentioned you know, I think
Speaker 2: Louisville really can build from what happened in Boston. But
Speaker 2: hearing Dabo Sweeney just gassing up this Louisville roster and
Speaker 2: gassing up Jeff Brohm, and I had to remind me
Speaker 2: self throughout, like Nick, you know, this is what coaches do.
Speaker 2: Like maybe Dabo's just really good at it. Well, if
Speaker 2: it was just you know, him doing what he does,
Speaker 2: then it worked on me because I'm thinking, you know what,
Speaker 2: You're right, we do have a quarterback that's an NFL
Speaker 2: type quarterback. We got a running back who's the best
Speaker 2: freshman running back in the country, probably Jeff Bram has
Speaker 2: been able to, you know, light up the scoreboard this
Speaker 2: year on offense, and they've not been perfect by any means,
Speaker 2: but they've done their part, and defensively they got good players.
Speaker 2: It just hasn't really worked yet. So maybe I'm just,
Speaker 2: you know, believing Dabo's truly sharing an opinion rather than
Speaker 2: just doing what coaches do and talking up the opponent
Speaker 2: before they play them. It's probably a little bit of both, right,
Speaker 2: I mean, it's I'm sure he does respect Louisville. But anyways,
Speaker 2: if they do pull off the win, it'll be the
Speaker 2: first time they've ever done it. It'll be the first
Speaker 2: time anybody's done it to Clemson. Beating them at their
Speaker 2: place on a Saturday night has mentioned since twenty thirteen.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it seems unlikely. But can a guy, I
Speaker 2: hope can a guy dream? Here? I am thinking about
Speaker 2: how vulnerable Clemson's been in recent years because they have
Speaker 2: been like they're not what they were when they were
Speaker 2: winning national championships and making the playoff every year. And
Speaker 2: they've been beatable. Hell, Scott Satterfield nearly beat him a
Speaker 2: few years ago, if you guys remember. But one place
Speaker 2: they haven't been vulnerable is on their home field on
Speaker 2: a Saturday night, and that makes a little more sense
Speaker 2: as to why Louisvels ten and a half point underdogs here.
Speaker 2: But we'll see what happens again tomorrow night. As for
Speaker 2: the Kentucky side of things, I mean, I did get
Speaker 2: some pushback once again from Kentucky fans by claiming that
Speaker 2: Tennessee does not see you as a rival. I mean
Speaker 2: they don't like maybe you mean, I'm not saying you
Speaker 2: can't present me a Tennessee fan that says no Kentucky's
Speaker 2: arrival and I want to beat them bad. I'm like,
Speaker 2: I'm I know that there are some people, but they
Speaker 2: have a humong us fan base just like Kentucky does.
Speaker 2: And I think if you took, you know, whatever, whatever
Speaker 2: amount of them that you want to include into a
Speaker 2: survey and ask them who's their biggest rival or who's
Speaker 2: a rival, far more will leave Kentucky out. Then we'll
Speaker 2: mention Kentucky. And by the way, I think I found that,
Speaker 2: see if I can pull it up here. Yeah, So
Speaker 2: it's no rivalry dot com k n o W rivalry
Speaker 2: dot com. It's We've referenced this before. But what it does,
Speaker 2: John is somebody put this together. And this is a
Speaker 2: little bit dated, this is not super recent within the
Speaker 2: last few years. But they asked one hundred fans from
Speaker 2: each fan base in college football, and let's see here.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to figure out exactly how they did it.
Speaker 2: But you get you get, you get a certain amount
Speaker 2: of points to utilize, and you've got to you gotta
Speaker 2: lay out right, like who your biggest rivalry is. So,
Speaker 2: for Louisville, let's see here, sixty four point four percent
Speaker 2: of the Louisville fan base or sixty yes, So basically
Speaker 2: sixty five out of the one hundred said that Kentucky
Speaker 2: is the is is the biggest rival, and then it's
Speaker 2: a mixture of Cincinnati in West Virginia. Moving forward, let's
Speaker 2: go to the Tennessee side of it. This is interesting,
Speaker 2: at least I think it is. Maybe I'm you know,
Speaker 2: I'm looking at it too.
Speaker 3: I'm looking at it from the Indiana perspective to see
Speaker 3: what these people think of. Okay, here the arrivals are.
Speaker 2: So Tennessee, Tennessee. Yeah, I mean, it's it's Florida in Alabama,
Speaker 2: It's it's Alabama Florida. And then Kentucky's not even mentioned
Speaker 2: in the top three. So I mean, I know you
Speaker 2: call them a rival but like I don't, I don't
Speaker 2: think that they are. And when I say it's got
Speaker 2: to go both ways, I don't even mean you have
Speaker 2: to beat them because you have to acknowledge you haven't
Speaker 2: done much of that lately. And yes, I know neither
Speaker 2: is Louisville and the football series with Kentucky. But when
Speaker 2: I a rivalry can't be a one way street, but
Speaker 2: not because of wins and losses. It's because both sides
Speaker 2: have to participate. That's that's quite literally what makes a
Speaker 2: rivalry if if you know you don't like someone or
Speaker 2: a team or whatever it is, and you take greater
Speaker 2: satisfaction in beating them than anybody else, and you take
Speaker 2: greater misery when you lose to them than anybody else,
Speaker 2: but that feeling is not at all met on the
Speaker 2: other side. That's not a rivalry. You're just obsessed. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's just the truth. And I don't you know, I
Speaker 2: don't mean. I think it's really just location. And people
Speaker 2: are making that point of the text line and they're saying,
Speaker 2: you know, I live in Louisville, and I don't consider
Speaker 2: Tennessee much of a rival. I know we have a connection,
Speaker 2: but like you know, again, if you're Louisville, like, you're
Speaker 2: not around a lot of Tennessee fans, So who you're
Speaker 2: around is a huge part of it. Which is why
Speaker 2: I've always said, and I think most would agree that
Speaker 2: this rivalry is it's weird to say, at its best,
Speaker 2: but you know, well, I think it is that its best,
Speaker 2: and it's it's it's most intense here in Louisville because
Speaker 2: there are so many fans of both sides. Anyways, we're
Speaker 2: gonna give out some picks coming up here before too long.
Speaker 2: We will lay out what we're going to do when
Speaker 2: it comes to wagering, and you can do what you
Speaker 2: want with that.
Speaker 3: I need to bounce back. I was very confident in
Speaker 3: nearly everything that I said publicly, whether it be this
Speaker 3: show or my show, and I don't think anything hit
Speaker 3: for me last week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have been I have been better in recent weeks.
Speaker 2: I am trending in the right direction. I kind of
Speaker 2: want to say, like, man, i've been I've been on
Speaker 2: a roll, but I don't want to. I don't want
Speaker 2: to jinx it.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna take the Jews from the Texans under last
Speaker 3: night and take it into there.
Speaker 2: Yeah way, Hey, look you you laid that out for
Speaker 2: me and it worked. So just like when you picked
Speaker 2: a perfect parlay but didn't bet it in Week one,
Speaker 2: that disaster, but that's you still got some momentum and
Speaker 2: you ended up cashing some moving forward, so still you know,
Speaker 2: still a bummer for you. But you know, I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm all about trying to find any anything to grasp
Speaker 2: on to give me more belief, more confidence, and just
Speaker 2: you know, try to really rely on the power of positivity,
Speaker 2: because it's all I mean, it's you know, it's not
Speaker 2: all luck, but a lot of it's luck when it
Speaker 2: comes to who's good and who's bad at betting on sports.
Speaker 2: And i can tell you I've been better lately, but
Speaker 2: I'm not ready to be your bread and butter.
Speaker 3: College basketball is next week.
Speaker 2: Yeah I know, And I've been doing a lot of
Speaker 2: a lot of looking as far as the early lines
Speaker 2: that are out there, just trying to because I find it.
Speaker 2: You know, even if I wasn't betting on on college
Speaker 2: basketball ever, I still would be interested to just browse
Speaker 2: different rosters in college basketball because you know, you see
Speaker 2: a lot of the the movement. When the portal opens
Speaker 2: and you know, like there's certain names of players you remember, like,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, that guy ended up there. But man, if
Speaker 2: you if you follow college basketball, you know like a
Speaker 2: lot of us, and you just decided to start browsing
Speaker 2: rosters again, you probably have better things to do and
Speaker 2: wouldn't care to do it. But I would be shocked
Speaker 2: at I mean, if you didn't end up thinking like, wow,
Speaker 2: forgot about that guy. I didn't know he played here
Speaker 2: now And of course you know that kind of stuff
Speaker 2: doesnt matter when it's when it when it comes to
Speaker 2: you know, making bets.
Speaker 3: You're gonna put some skin on Oglethorpe versus Middle Tennessee
Speaker 3: at twelve pm on Monday.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna stay off that one. Okay, I did some research.
Speaker 2: That's a that's a no play for me. Okay, no play.
Speaker 2: But I did have a basketball question that came in
Speaker 2: on the text line BOBO two six five three zero
Speaker 2: seven nineties the number if you guys would like to
Speaker 2: text in Llenn Federal Credit Union text line uh. And
Speaker 2: the question essentially was you know who who you know?
Speaker 2: I don't think they said X factor, but I just
Speaker 2: remembered I was going to get to this this text,
Speaker 2: and I've totally forgot about it. But basically, like, who's
Speaker 2: the most critical player for Louisville with such a balanced roster?
Speaker 2: And I said this after the postgame show when they
Speaker 2: played Spalding. You know you're not You're not as desperate
Speaker 2: or really even in need of somebody to be an
Speaker 2: All American or the guy if you truly have proven
Speaker 2: depth and balance. And I guess it's not proven yet
Speaker 2: because you haven't played a real game, but you know
Speaker 2: you can see that because of just how the roster's
Speaker 2: made up, it's not gonna be a real unreasonable ask
Speaker 2: for if Chucky Hepburn's having an off night, Korn Johnson
Speaker 2: steps up and delivers, or if Casin Pryor's just he's
Speaker 2: not not having a night, Noah Waterman can come in
Speaker 2: and give you the exact same production. Like, again, you're
Speaker 2: gonna have nights where it just didn't working for a
Speaker 2: lot of guys, and it's probably gonna result in a loss,
Speaker 2: but you're not as in need of somebody to be
Speaker 2: a consistent seventeen points per game kind of guy. If
Speaker 2: you know the guy behind him or playing alongside him
Speaker 2: can do it at any moment as well. But I still,
Speaker 2: you know, I still I still struggle to answer your
Speaker 2: question because I don't, you know, I don't really mean
Speaker 2: it's tough to know. Like we haven't seen this team
Speaker 2: play a real game. We haven't seen them against any
Speaker 2: adversity yet, and I think you need to see repetition
Speaker 2: in those situations to know who you would rely on.
Speaker 2: Who's the guy that man he's bringing something we're not
Speaker 2: getting anywhere else. He's got to be the most consistent.
Speaker 2: I would say Chucky hepburn because what he does. I
Speaker 2: don't think there's another guy on the roster that that
Speaker 2: really would thrive in that role or have the ability
Speaker 2: to really execute that role. Like he needs to run
Speaker 2: your team. He needs to set the tone for you defensively. Obviously, Louisville,
Speaker 2: they're going to take some risks defensively. They're going to
Speaker 2: be strategic on defense. That's going to you know, speed
Speaker 2: up tempo and get them in a faster style of
Speaker 2: play to where they can spread the floor and get
Speaker 2: guys open and knock down threes. So you know, Chucky
Speaker 2: can can kind of initiate that. He's a big ten
Speaker 2: all defense guy. And again, I think he's got to
Speaker 2: run your team. He's a guy that can score, obviously,
Speaker 2: but he's a t point guard where I don't know
Speaker 2: if you have that elsewhere, I think you can put
Speaker 2: you can put Koran Johnson in that role, and I
Speaker 2: don't think he would struggle, you know, but you know
Speaker 2: he's not at his best. I don't think if you know,
Speaker 2: if he's running your team. Now, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe Again,
Speaker 2: We're gonna learn a lot about these guys pretty quickly.
Speaker 2: But I would say Koran Johnson just because I like
Speaker 2: the other guards on this team. Obviously, Terrence Edwards Junior,
Speaker 2: A lot of people think he's the best player on
Speaker 2: this team. Koran Johnson, I mean I trust his ability
Speaker 2: for sure. I mean he actually has played in a
Speaker 2: in a in a you know, good league and produced
Speaker 2: at a high level, or at least you know a
Speaker 2: league that that's not you know, the Sun Belt or
Speaker 2: CUSA or something like that. So I like the guards,
Speaker 2: but with Chucky it's different, and it felt like that
Speaker 2: the day he committed, like he he was a little
Speaker 2: different than a lot of the guys that you had
Speaker 2: already assembled and have added since he committed, and his
Speaker 2: numbers may not be, you know, anything crazy, but if
Speaker 2: he's running your team, he's set in the tone defensively,
Speaker 2: and look, he can't score. And this day and age, man,
Speaker 2: rarely do you have a point where out there that's
Speaker 2: not at least somewhat of a threat to score on you.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's just kind of how the game is played.
Speaker 2: He can knock down shots. You know, he's a good athlete.
Speaker 2: So there's my answer at this point. Again, maybe I
Speaker 2: give you a totally different answer after next week when
Speaker 2: they played two games, but I would go with Chucky
Speaker 2: at this point. You know, I wouldn't say that I'm
Speaker 2: like nervous or anything like that, but I'm thinking about
Speaker 2: like morehead on Monday. That's the first regular season game,
Speaker 2: and it's certainly exciting, and I have no clue what
Speaker 2: to expect as far as a line for this Louisville team.
Speaker 2: And I checked earlier today and there was still not
Speaker 2: an update. There was only a handful of games that
Speaker 2: they had they had lines for as far as Monday's
Speaker 2: opening day for just about everybody. But let's see here. Okay,
Speaker 2: there's more added, but I don't see Louisville on here
Speaker 2: at least not that I can. Let's see, Yeah, not
Speaker 2: one for Louisville. But there have been a a lot
Speaker 2: more added here at DraftKings, and there's some good games. Man,
Speaker 2: Baylor and Gonzaga. It's gonna be late, but they play
Speaker 2: at nine to third or wait a second, is that right?
Speaker 2: Baylor and Gonzaga are tipping off at eleven thirty pm
Speaker 2: on Monday. Hell yeah, I'm staying up late.
Speaker 3: That's the Finley Auto tip off in Spokane.
Speaker 2: Is that? Texas and Ohio State? Are they in that too?
Speaker 2: Do you know? No, that's in Vegas, gotcha, But that's
Speaker 2: that'll be a good game. Texas and Ohio State, you
Speaker 2: know some notable Memphis and Missouri. I mean that's not
Speaker 2: like that's not a matchup of top twenty five teams.
Speaker 2: But that's a good I mean, that's that's a good
Speaker 2: non conference game to start the season. I'm definitely gonna
Speaker 2: look into betting on that one. And then outside of that,
Speaker 2: you have Texas, A and M in Central Florida. You've
Speaker 2: got I mean a lot of games, but a lot
Speaker 2: of them are games that you know, you typically would
Speaker 2: see in an opener like main taken on Duke, which,
Speaker 2: by the way, I just now noticed that connection. That's
Speaker 2: got to be Cooper. That's got to be Cooper Flag, right, And.
Speaker 3: Do you think that game was scheduled prior I don't.
Speaker 2: Know, I don't know. College basketball is the one sport
Speaker 2: of all of them that you do see scheduling come
Speaker 2: together on a much shorter window of time. Yeah, that's true,
Speaker 2: So you know, I mean he Pat Kelsey's schedule wasn't
Speaker 2: finished totally until heck, not even that long ago, to
Speaker 2: be honest with you. And I mean like just you
Speaker 2: know the last few games that you see added there.
Speaker 2: Like put it this way, Pat Kelsey got the job
Speaker 2: after after Cooper Flag committed the Duke and Winthrop's on
Speaker 2: the schedule. There's there's clearly not I mean, that's not
Speaker 2: a coincidence. Winthrop is where he's got his start, and
Speaker 2: I'm sure he's returning them. I mean, he's given him
Speaker 2: a favor. So I don't know. I mean, Cooper, I
Speaker 2: don't I don't know how serious Cooper Flagg took Maine's
Speaker 2: recruitment of him. I'm sure they recruited him pretty early
Speaker 2: on before they realized Yeah, he's a little bit out
Speaker 2: of our league. But maybe maybe Maine plus twenty seven
Speaker 2: and a half is the play. Maybe Cooper Flag will
Speaker 2: take it easy on his home state because he you know,
Speaker 2: I say that jokingly, he's clearly not going to play lot.
Speaker 2: He's not going to you know, take it easy on
Speaker 2: Maine because he's from there. But he is one of
Speaker 2: those guys that does absolutely like want people to know
Speaker 2: he's from Maine, like he's proud to be from Maine.
Speaker 2: He could have joined one of the suit he did
Speaker 2: join one of the big time. He was a mont
Speaker 2: verg guy, So clearly he went and joined one of
Speaker 2: these elite prep schools. But on the nikeuybl circuit, he
Speaker 2: made them create a main team where clearly he's the
Speaker 2: guy and then there's some other kids from the Northeast.
Speaker 2: But like he wanted to, you know, make it quite clear,
Speaker 2: I'm a main guy and I've got the I've got
Speaker 2: the you know, I've got the leverage essentially to tell
Speaker 2: Nike on my own team where I'm gonna go play
Speaker 2: on the Adida circuit. And you know what, I'm sure
Speaker 2: he didn't say that, but if he did, they would
Speaker 2: do it because this guy's that kind of, you know,
Speaker 2: a phenom.
Speaker 3: I mean, I like that. I mean I don't want to.
Speaker 3: I mean this is this might make me sound ignorant,
Speaker 3: but how many big names, celebrities, athletes, however may be,
Speaker 3: are from the state of Maine.
Speaker 2: Dude, I was literally getting ready to say, I don't
Speaker 2: know of anybody that's ever like made it part of
Speaker 2: their brand that they're from Maine. Like it's usually an
Speaker 2: obscure fact about someone that you're surprised to learn. Right, Yes,
Speaker 2: Main looks beautiful. By the way, I've never been. We
Speaker 2: had a trip scheduled once and had to back out.
Speaker 2: So I'm not I'm not throwing any shade on Maine,
Speaker 2: but you're you're kind of up there, just on your.
Speaker 3: Own right, eating lobster? Right, Yeah, have you ever been
Speaker 3: up there? No, you're this northeast was Delaware? This passage.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's pretty far up north, isn't it.
Speaker 3: It's kind of mid Atlantic. It's like not quite New England,
Speaker 3: but it's getting there.
Speaker 2: Okay. I bet that was beautiful. It was, Yeah, that
Speaker 2: you know, there are parts of the country I've never
Speaker 2: I've well, i've never been to the Pacific Northwest, and
Speaker 2: I'd love to go there. I've never been to the
Speaker 2: northeast of I guess I have. I went to Boston
Speaker 2: for a couple of days, but like I didn't actually
Speaker 2: explore the northeast New England area, and I'd love to.
Speaker 2: And I've been to Phoenix, but I you know, Southwestern America,
Speaker 2: like I guess you know, Arizona is considered there, but
Speaker 2: there's obviously a lot I mean, those are parts that
Speaker 2: I'll probably never go to, to be honest with you,
Speaker 2: because I don't know why I would. Maybe I will,
Speaker 2: but yeah, Maine, you look like a beautiful state. I
Speaker 2: just don't know if I'll ever be there because I
Speaker 2: got to really want to be there, And as much
Speaker 2: as I'm giving you compliments, I can't really think what
Speaker 2: you would do to like make it to Whear Okay,
Speaker 2: I got to be there, kind of like Iowa. Remember,
Speaker 2: I was pleasantly surprised when I went to Des Moines,
Speaker 2: Iowa for the NCAA tournament that like it was a
Speaker 2: decent place. But you know, I'll probably never go back
Speaker 2: because I gotta, because I gotta want to be there.
Speaker 3: The thing with any Midwestern state, if you're not going
Speaker 3: to a particular town or you know, like a college destination,
Speaker 3: whatever it may be. There's not much else to do
Speaker 3: with any of those states.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why they show up like crazy for their
Speaker 2: college football games, right like Nebraska. I mean, what else
Speaker 2: are they gonna do?
Speaker 3: Shut Corn? Yeah, part of their their mascot.
Speaker 2: I guess have you ever have you ever been in Nebraska?
Speaker 3: No furthest furthest in that direction, I've been as Saint Louis.
Speaker 2: I have always heard that there's two states that I mean,
Speaker 2: and again, like when you ask people who've gone on
Speaker 2: along road trips, it's one of these two as far
Speaker 2: as the worst states to drive through. It's Nebraska and Kansas.
Speaker 2: And I have not driven through either of them, and
Speaker 2: I don't want to. But yeah, I mean, well.
Speaker 3: They I bet is cool. And again this is coming
Speaker 3: from somebody who also has never done this. I bet
Speaker 3: when you get to the end of Kansas and you're
Speaker 3: heading your bowrier to enter into Colorado and you see
Speaker 3: all of the mountains, that has to be one of
Speaker 3: the coolest things.
Speaker 2: Oh hell yeah.
Speaker 3: But instead the build up probably sucks because you don't
Speaker 3: see anything.
Speaker 2: This is making me want to, you know, go on
Speaker 2: a road trip, Get out on the road, get out
Speaker 2: on the open road, and just you know, go on
Speaker 2: and go on and adventus.
Speaker 3: You're going to do it someday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. I kind of feel like if
Speaker 2: I was gonna do it, I would have already done it.
Speaker 2: I'm one of those guys that like can procrastinate in
Speaker 2: a major way. So I don't know. But maybe there's
Speaker 2: some kind of a spark that tells me, okay, do
Speaker 2: it now, or you'll never do it.
Speaker 3: Midlife crisis, Yeah, they're almost there.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: Oh if if my midlife crisis is me finally, you know,
Speaker 2: deciding to sack up and go on this trip. If
Speaker 2: I got to go by myself, then I'd say that
Speaker 2: was worth it to have a midlife crisis because it'd
Speaker 2: be a lot of fun. All right, let's let's do this.
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Speaker 2: other side. Keep this thing rolling along, get to some
Speaker 2: of the big picks from the from the weekend here,
Speaker 2: and then we're gonna get out of here. But until then,
Speaker 2: hang out right here on Sports Talk seven ninety. As
Speaker 2: of right now, it is still Louisville plus ten and
Speaker 2: a half, which I thought there might be some movement Honestly,
Speaker 2: I thought it might go more towards Clemson being a
Speaker 2: bigger favorite, but that's that's not happened just yet. So
Speaker 2: you know, I'm trying to find an objective and that's
Speaker 2: hard to do here because like, I don't want to
Speaker 2: bet on something that I wouldn't want the result to be,
Speaker 2: which I don't want any result if it's a Louisville loss.
Speaker 2: But yeah, this is this is what I'm not. I'm
Speaker 2: not interested in, uh in getting in on the action.
Speaker 2: I've already got some. You know, I've got an emotional
Speaker 2: investment here because you know, my my emotions will be
Speaker 2: impacted if they if if it goes bad, and you
Speaker 2: know they'll be my I'll feel good if they win.
Speaker 2: And I'm trying to see what the actual uh goodness, gracious,
Speaker 2: I don't know why on sports Line they include and me,
Speaker 2: I guess it's because you can bet on anything. But like,
Speaker 2: I'm scrolling through to find this game, and obviously it's
Speaker 2: a late night game. Therefore I'm scrolling through the entire
Speaker 2: day before I get to Louisville. And you know, they
Speaker 2: got a bunch of FCS games on here, but hey,
Speaker 2: you'd probably be surprised how many people bet on FCS
Speaker 2: football that don't actually watch it, because you know, yeah,
Speaker 2: people can bet on anything, all right. So right now
Speaker 2: plus ten and a half, twenty two percent of the
Speaker 2: wagers as far as a wager that is betting on
Speaker 2: the spread, twenty two percent are picking Louisville to cover
Speaker 2: the ten and a half. Seventy eight are picking Clemson
Speaker 2: to cover and win. As far as the money, thirty
Speaker 2: three percent of the money that's come in on that
Speaker 2: wager is in Louisville for Louisville to win. So not
Speaker 2: a whole lot of optimism there. And only one percent
Speaker 2: has bet on Louisville money line, And yeah, that's God.
Speaker 2: Should be be a way to make a lot of
Speaker 2: money if you took a Louisville money line. And I
Speaker 2: know there are some fans and I get it. It's
Speaker 2: fun like if you bet something small on your team
Speaker 2: to win, and it's just you know, because hey, you
Speaker 2: like to bet, and you know that it would be
Speaker 2: a double win for you, right Like you would benefit
Speaker 2: you financially and you'd also you know, be able to
Speaker 2: enjoy your team winning. I may start doing that just
Speaker 2: because it would be a nice little thrill to add
Speaker 2: to you know, your team doing something that you know
Speaker 2: nobody really expected him to do and you probably didn't
Speaker 2: expect it either, but you know what your fans, so
Speaker 2: you're gonna believe more than others would would believe. Have
Speaker 2: you don't that with Indiana yet? Or do you try
Speaker 2: not to try to try the emotion get in the way.
Speaker 3: I've wagered on Indiana a lot more this year than
Speaker 3: I have, but just because I mean there's real data
Speaker 3: that shows that they cover. Yeah, I mean and out.
Speaker 3: I mean if you look at the final line against
Speaker 3: FIU in Week one, they technically didn't cover that game,
Speaker 3: but I got on it early enough to where I
Speaker 3: guess it did cover. So I mean, technically, for me,
Speaker 3: Indiana is a no I haven't bet on I haven't
Speaker 3: bet on.
Speaker 2: Them every week, but yeah, sometimes like business, you know,
Speaker 2: there's there's a lot of games. And maybe this is
Speaker 2: my growth as a as somebody who bets on college football.
Speaker 2: And I don't mean growth like I'm getting better, but
Speaker 2: like I now realize there's no need to even try
Speaker 2: to get in them like this is this is such
Speaker 2: a no play. Don't force it. And it's because you know,
Speaker 2: I've I found myself many times, especially when I'm doing
Speaker 2: a parlay, Like I remember thinking, don't get greedy, Nick,
Speaker 2: and then you got greedy and added a fourth leg
Speaker 2: or a third leg even, and it's like, well, that's
Speaker 2: why you that's that's the worst. Yeah, And it's happened
Speaker 2: to me more times than I'd like to admit. But
Speaker 2: as far as this weekend slate, the company, man, what's
Speaker 2: your what's your what's your best bet, the one you
Speaker 2: feel the best about it, I.
Speaker 3: Feel I feel pretty good about a lot of them.
Speaker 3: But again I kind of say that with a little hesitancy,
Speaker 3: just because I was very confident last week. But I'll
Speaker 3: go ahead and start with the biggest game of the
Speaker 3: week in most people's eyes, and that's Penn State and
Speaker 3: Ohio State. And I do think it's a pretty popular
Speaker 3: pick to take Penn State money line at home against
Speaker 3: the buck Eyes after they kind of had a lackluster
Speaker 3: performance against Nebraska last week. But also at the same time,
Speaker 3: I think James Franklin in Penn State in general, they're
Speaker 3: due to finally have their big moment against a good
Speaker 3: team like Ohio State. And I just have a good
Speaker 3: feeling that they're going to make the most of it
Speaker 3: this weekend.
Speaker 2: Well said, because Penn State is due to break through
Speaker 2: and win one of these games. Now, last year, I mean,
Speaker 2: it just played It was an ugly game, if you remember,
Speaker 2: but it just played out where they came. They just
Speaker 2: came up short, and that's happened to them a lot
Speaker 2: in these kind of games. But I think Ohio State,
Speaker 2: I mean, if anything, though, they seem vulnerable right Like
Speaker 2: their only loss right now is at Oregon, and Oregon's
Speaker 2: playing really good football right now. But I mean it's
Speaker 2: not just been about the record for Ohio State. They
Speaker 2: at times have just kind of looked not terrible by
Speaker 2: any means, because that'd be a ridiculous thing to say
Speaker 2: that they're a terrible team, but vulnerable. I think that's
Speaker 2: the best way to describe it. I mean, Nebraska had
Speaker 2: them in a good position to knock them off and
Speaker 2: couldn't get it done. And you know, Ryan Day, like
Speaker 2: I mean, this year, again, it's hard to say the
Speaker 2: season's failed at this point for them because you know,
Speaker 2: they're still in control of potentially, you know, winning the
Speaker 2: ultimate goal, which is the national championship. But there's pressure
Speaker 2: on him this year because last year they took a
Speaker 2: big step back right and they went out and brought
Speaker 2: him a big time coordinator. They paid a lot of
Speaker 2: money for I mean their roster. I mean, what was
Speaker 2: it fifteen million or something what was alleged as far
Speaker 2: as what they were able to spend on players, So
Speaker 2: like they've got they got rid of a good quarterback
Speaker 2: to go get one that you know is supposed to
Speaker 2: be a lot better. So I don't know that pressure
Speaker 2: may get to them because I kind of feel like
Speaker 2: with this point, Penn State just kind of knows that
Speaker 2: they're you know, they're not expected to win because they've
Speaker 2: not they haven't broke through yet with this kind of
Speaker 2: a victory. So I don't know if I'll get involved
Speaker 2: on that one, But but I like your theory there
Speaker 2: as far as how Penn State could get it done.
Speaker 2: Let's see, this is not one that I would like
Speaker 2: throw in as like, you know, one that I'm super
Speaker 2: juiced about. But tonight there is a game. In fact,
Speaker 2: there's a few games, but the one that I have
Speaker 2: a play on is South Florida and FAU. I like
Speaker 2: South Florida minus two and a half. This is a chance.
Speaker 2: In fact, These are two teams in really opposite spots here.
Speaker 2: Florida Atlantic is one in five on the year, they're
Speaker 2: really bad. South Florida they've kind of added up and
Speaker 2: down year. They're three and three. They competed pretty good
Speaker 2: against Alabama. They're coming off of a double digit victory
Speaker 2: against UAB And this game is at FAU in Boca Raton.
Speaker 2: But you think people that live in Boca Raton, Florida
Speaker 2: are going to be going to watch on a Friday
Speaker 2: night of one in five football team when they live
Speaker 2: in Paradise.
Speaker 3: No, I mean they don't have the pitbull juice left
Speaker 3: Florida International, and I bet.
Speaker 2: South Florida's got a lot of players, you know, with
Speaker 2: family that is maybe from that area. I mean, these
Speaker 2: two schools aren't that far apart. Yeah, yeah, there, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: Never mind, South Florida is in Tampa. But either way, like,
Speaker 2: I don't think the crowd is gonna be much of
Speaker 2: a factor for FAU, And I think South Florida a
Speaker 2: well coached team that could really send their season in
Speaker 2: a positive direction with with with a win. And I'm
Speaker 2: surprised actually by looking at what I've seen from both
Speaker 2: teams that the numbers not a little bigger. So South
Speaker 2: Florida minus two and a half. That's one that I'm
Speaker 2: big on. Also, on the Kentucky side, I like the
Speaker 2: under here. Now, maybe I'm crazy because obviously Kentucky, I mean,
Speaker 2: Kentucky's offense hasn't done much, but Tennessee's just still believed
Speaker 2: to be at any moment a team that could explode
Speaker 2: offensively because you know, they've got Josh Hypel and that's
Speaker 2: what he does, and they've got a young quarterback who
Speaker 2: can clearly make some play. But you know, this year
Speaker 2: for Tennessee, you know, it's more so been their defense
Speaker 2: that has made them as good as they are. So
Speaker 2: the total is forty five and a half, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: I mean, that's low, but I'm gonna take the under
Speaker 2: because I don't think Kentucky's gonna score much at all.
Speaker 2: Tennessee's got the number three defense in the country, and
Speaker 2: Kentucky's defense still talented. But right now, I mean, I
Speaker 2: still think they're you know, I think if this thing
Speaker 2: goes over, it'll be because Tennessee just explodes on them,
Speaker 2: and I don't think that is likely to happen because again,
Speaker 2: like even when Tennessee's played teams that you know, stink
Speaker 2: like Kentucky, they haven't exactly just you know, lit up
Speaker 2: the scoreboard. I mean, they only put up twenty five
Speaker 2: against Oklahoma, they put up fourteen and lost Arkansas, twenty
Speaker 2: three against Florida, twenty four against Bama. So, like, I
Speaker 2: absolutely could see this thing being like thirty to three
Speaker 2: or thirty four, thirty four to ten, which would be
Speaker 2: sweating it.
Speaker 3: But like I it seems fitting though, Yeah, I like
Speaker 3: I could I.
Speaker 2: Just see this thing playing out where they may still
Speaker 2: win and cover the seventeen and a half, but like
Speaker 2: it won't be because it's twenty one thirty seven. Like,
Speaker 2: just the data is there, and again, teams can can
Speaker 2: go out there and do something you would have never expected.
Speaker 2: It happens all the time. But Tennessee right now is
Speaker 2: a team that is talented offensively, they're good enough offensively,
Speaker 2: but it's the defense that has really put them in
Speaker 2: this position to where they're still you know, they're still
Speaker 2: playing for you know, playing for the ultimate goal. All right,
Speaker 2: what's next for you?
Speaker 3: I've been betting on the Service academies a lot this year,
Speaker 3: as you're aware of. Oh yeah, Last week, I went
Speaker 3: out on a limb and took Navy money line against
Speaker 3: Notre Dame. That ended up being a horrible decision, as
Speaker 3: the fighting Irish really took took care of business against
Speaker 3: the Midshipmen. But I'm going back to Army this week.
Speaker 3: They're taking on air Force one in six air Force.
Speaker 3: I really love either play here between the total the
Speaker 3: over and the total which is forty one and a half,
Speaker 3: or for Army to cover minus twenty one and a half. Army,
Speaker 3: along with Indiana, the only team to yet to trail
Speaker 3: so far this season, and I don't see the Black
Speaker 3: Knights having any issue taking care of business against the Falcons.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know enough about those teams specifically to
Speaker 2: tell you if I think that's good or not. But hey,
Speaker 2: you're trusting with what I mean you're running.
Speaker 3: It's trends for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you knew that you last week took a
Speaker 2: big leap and like you didn't expect it to happen
Speaker 2: necessarily long just.
Speaker 3: Like, yeah, yeah, some value there. If the cash is
Speaker 3: in for you, totally get it.
Speaker 2: So I ended up taking Navy to cover a lot
Speaker 2: and they couldn't get it done. Notre Dame look good,
Speaker 2: but again, you know, hard for me to really just
Speaker 2: and I know upsets happened, but that Northern Illinois loss
Speaker 2: and then Louisville playing as bad as they did and
Speaker 2: still nearly beating them, like just it made me not
Speaker 2: think a whole lot of Notre Dame. But to be fair,
Speaker 2: I mean, their win against A and M looks pretty good.
Speaker 2: They're win against was it usc who the Notre Dame beat?
Speaker 2: Also that that's ranked there's one other team, isn't it was?
Speaker 3: It was ranked twenty four?
Speaker 2: Well, okay, I forgot about that, but yeah, maybe Notre
Speaker 2: Dame has gotten better, but I don't know. I just
Speaker 2: more than the lost in Illinois, I watched Notre Dame
Speaker 2: play and just didn't feel like they were that good.
Speaker 2: And it makes me think, Okay, if I was wrong
Speaker 2: and they really are as good as everybody says they
Speaker 2: are as far as the rankings, then maybe maybe I'm correct,
Speaker 2: and you know, wanting, you know, wanting to believe that
Speaker 2: Louisville is a lot better than their record is all right,
Speaker 2: this one I don't understand the line, And sometimes that
Speaker 2: means you should stay away because maybe they know something
Speaker 2: that you don't know, but I think a team that
Speaker 2: the books have just not been able to figure out
Speaker 2: at this point is Ole Miss. Last week, they took
Speaker 2: on Oklahoma, and I said, look, I know Oklahoma's coming
Speaker 2: off a blowout loss at home to South Carolina, but
Speaker 2: that's too many points. And you know, Oklahoma ended up
Speaker 2: losing the game, but they covered twenty points without much trouble.
Speaker 2: They lost twenty six to fourteen. So you know, Ole
Speaker 2: Miss is good, but they're you know, right now, they
Speaker 2: have failed to cover in three of their last four games,
Speaker 2: and they've lost as favorites outright in those games. Kentucky
Speaker 2: was one of them. Obviously, they lost to LSU straight
Speaker 2: up and they were four and a half point favorites.
Speaker 2: They did cover against South Carolina, but against Oklahoma they didn't.
Speaker 2: So Arkansas not getting not getting I mean, I don't
Speaker 2: want to tell you that I think Arkansas is great,
Speaker 2: but they're sitting at five and three. You know, their
Speaker 2: losses are to two teams right now that appear to
Speaker 2: be in great shape for the for the for the
Speaker 2: SEC Championship, A and M and LSU. I don't think
Speaker 2: they're the best teams in the league, but they're having
Speaker 2: really good, really good starts. I mean, I guess it's
Speaker 2: not really a start. They're having really good seasons at
Speaker 2: this point. You're eight games in now. They did lose
Speaker 2: to Oklahoma State earlier this year, and that looks bad now.
Speaker 2: But Arkansas's played some pretty good football. They blew out
Speaker 2: Mississippi State like everybody's gonna do. Obviously, they did not
Speaker 2: get it done against LS, but they're playing good football.
Speaker 2: They beat Tennessee in that upset. They played A and
Speaker 2: M really close and covered there as dogs. So I like,
Speaker 2: I like Arkansas plus eight against Ole Miss. So and again,
Speaker 2: I just it's it's at Arkansas. They've got a little
Speaker 2: momentum right now. I mean I think, I think, I mean,
Speaker 2: they may win this game. I wouldn't bet money line,
Speaker 2: but like, I would not be at all shocked if
Speaker 2: Arkansas ends up actually winning this game at home because
Speaker 2: Old Miss. I mean, they're good, they deserve to be favored,
Speaker 2: but I don't know by that much. On the road,
Speaker 2: and it happens from time to time. You'll see you'll
Speaker 2: see a line that is rather consistent throughout a whole
Speaker 2: season for a team, but the results are also consistent
Speaker 2: meaning they still never cover. They can't get them right.
Speaker 2: I think Old Miss is becoming that team, but maybe
Speaker 2: I'm maybe I'm wrong. All right, let's get to our
Speaker 2: last break. We'll come back on the other side, finish
Speaker 2: this thing up. It's coffee and company. Feel abou Thorton'
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Speaker 2: Louisville kicking off at seven thirty against Clemson on the road,
Speaker 2: a place where Clemson is not lost at night on
Speaker 2: a Saturday since twenty thirteen. Louisville, of course, as you know,
Speaker 2: has never beaten Clemson. Let's hope that that that's no
Speaker 2: longer something that can be said after Tomorrow night. But
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Speaker 2: before we before we wrap it up and get out
Speaker 2: of here for the weekend. You know, when it comes
Speaker 2: to this game, specifically for Louisville, it would be a
Speaker 2: real bummer. You know, if they if if they mean,
Speaker 2: if they lose, no matter how it looks, it's going
Speaker 2: to be a negative result. And like it's not what
Speaker 2: you want. But I mean eight and four, If they
Speaker 2: go eight and four and they be Kentucky, I mean
Speaker 2: we can probably collectively say still a good year, not great,
Speaker 2: and it was not quite as good as what we expected,
Speaker 2: but you know, you still have some momentum with Jeff Brohm, Right,
Speaker 2: it's not like you know, eight and four was something
Speaker 2: our previous coach could never do. So if they can
Speaker 2: get there and in the street to Kentucky, that'd be great.
Speaker 2: But you know, and maybe they do be Clemson, but
Speaker 2: you know, I just what's going to really suck is
Speaker 2: if you end up having a decent record and you
Speaker 2: just fell short in all the teams you played against,
Speaker 2: all the teams you played that were you know, believed
Speaker 2: to be opportunities for you to show if you're good
Speaker 2: or not. I just would hate the uncertainty and not
Speaker 2: knowing at the end of the year, like where we
Speaker 2: I mean, you'd be what your record says it is.
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Speaker 3: That's right, official beginning of crossover season.
Speaker 1: Ron.
Speaker 2: I don't remember Monday really being the first day. I
Speaker 2: feel like it's.
Speaker 3: Always been a Tuesday, and it's because of the election.
Speaker 2: I'm sure, yeah, that makes total sense. Gosh, I'm not
Speaker 2: looking forward to next week. I mean, I I'm sure
Speaker 2: it's it's like this for everybody, but and maybe you're
Speaker 2: used to it. Maybe maybe there are a lot of
Speaker 2: people probably just don't go looking for it. And I'm
Speaker 2: not looking for it, but it's everywhere you turn.
Speaker 1: Right now.
Speaker 2: It's about the election, which again makes sense, we're about
Speaker 2: to vote for who's going to be president for the
Speaker 2: next four years.
Speaker 3: But man, this this election is just I'm more worried
Speaker 3: different after Tuesday than Tuesday itself.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean, like I don't think we need
Speaker 2: to worry. I mean maybe we should, but like we
Speaker 2: should just expect there to be chaos, yes, but like
Speaker 2: how crazy it gets that is I guess that's the worry.
Speaker 2: All right, heavy, Good weekend everybody, and join us tomorrow
Speaker 2: for our coverage and let's hope Louisville, can you know,
Speaker 2: finally be Clemson m