Speaker 1: Football Fridays do every Friday right before Utah home games.
Speaker 1: The Smith's we're at today is on ninth and ninth.
Speaker 1: You can't miss us. We are right outside of the store.
Speaker 1: As soon as you pull into the parking lot, we're
Speaker 1: there giving away a Modello cooler. Now there are no
Speaker 1: modelas inside, so let's not get weird. But it is
Speaker 1: a very nice cooler. And we got a couple more
Speaker 1: pairs of tickets for the Smith's football tailgate prior to
Speaker 1: Utah Arizona Tomorrow night here in Salt Lake, eight fifteen
Speaker 1: kick time, Aki Weather's seventy two degrees in Clare. It's
Speaker 1: going to be a beautiful night. Our next guest, one
Speaker 1: of our favorites, Top college Football with Buddy Max brown
Speaker 1: Back on the show Max Happy Friday. How you doing.
Speaker 2: Buddy Fridays, Spence, I'd be looking forward to these segments.
Speaker 2: It's becoming a little reoccurring cadence to start the college
Speaker 2: football weekend for sure.
Speaker 1: And always appreciate your time and you stop them by.
Speaker 1: And I believe we spoke to you a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago and I asked you this question. I think
Speaker 1: I asked ten or fifteen college football guests the same,
Speaker 1: Is there any way Utah State can sneak their way
Speaker 1: into the PAC twelve And everyone said no, Well things change, Max,
Speaker 1: and we'll start with the news and the kind of
Speaker 1: the chaos between the PAC twelve and the Mountain West
Speaker 1: Conference and locally happy for Utah State if this is
Speaker 1: what they want to do to join the PAC twelve.
Speaker 1: So give me your thoughts on the latest before we
Speaker 1: get to some actual games coming up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was surprised that Utah State snuck the weare
Speaker 2: in there, and my first reaction was, you know why
Speaker 2: why only two three weeks later and not part of
Speaker 2: that initial initial batch.
Speaker 3: And candidly, I haven't read all the nuances there, but
Speaker 3: I was surprised.
Speaker 2: I thought Memphis's athletic director and his comments I believe
Speaker 2: it was yesterday, were pretty candid and basically he was
Speaker 2: like in so many words as basically it was a
Speaker 2: low ball offer from the PAC twelve, which I don't
Speaker 2: know what that means, but to me, if I was
Speaker 2: the PAC twelve, those are the types of schools that
Speaker 2: I'd be going after. The Memphis, the two Lane, the
Speaker 2: even an app State or US. Up to some degree,
Speaker 2: it just feels like those are, you know, the best
Speaker 2: of the available school wolves about going into maybe the
Speaker 2: armed forces and whatnot.
Speaker 3: But happy for Utah State.
Speaker 2: I think the prospects of the PAC twelve, just getting
Speaker 2: one more team to get to that minimum barrier of
Speaker 2: eight looks a lot more promising.
Speaker 3: And I think when you zoom out.
Speaker 2: And see, you know, I called Oregon State's game Week one,
Speaker 2: and there was you know a lot of people that
Speaker 2: were if you were a betting man back then that
Speaker 2: would say, hey, Oregon State and Washington State would relegate
Speaker 2: down to the Mountain West. So the fact that that
Speaker 2: hasn't happened, I think is a huge win for Oregon
Speaker 2: State and Washington State. And think those programs have a
Speaker 2: lot to be excited about just giving the hand that
Speaker 2: they were dealt the past eighteen months or so.
Speaker 1: So last week mac hw tagos to still Water and
Speaker 1: wins in a place where not many people do. My gun,
Speaker 1: he doesn't lose there, and that's a tough place to play.
Speaker 1: We were all once again doing the guessing game prior
Speaker 1: to kick, who's the quarterback? Who's the quarterback? Who's the quarterback?
Speaker 1: They run out and it's Isaac and he was fine,
Speaker 1: helped held himself together. They of course, relied on the
Speaker 1: ethos of what coach Wit wants them to do, which
Speaker 1: is run the football and played great, great defense, which
Speaker 1: they did. It got a little loose late, but it
Speaker 1: was never really in danger. We'll get to some previews,
Speaker 1: but before we do, what were your main takeaways if
Speaker 1: Utah's went in Stillwater over Okay State.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my main takeaway it was like, here we go
Speaker 2: again in terms of just from a national perspective, because
Speaker 2: obviously I'm not on the beat like you are with Utah,
Speaker 2: but here we go again in terms of Utah's top
Speaker 2: ten team in the country four and oh they went
Speaker 2: on the back of just a stout run defense. Quarterback
Speaker 2: play wasn't as it wasn't wasn't that pretty necessarily, but
Speaker 2: gets the job done. And I know, you know, the
Speaker 2: standard for Utah fans has been cam rise in the
Speaker 2: past couple of years.
Speaker 3: But you know, I.
Speaker 2: Always think back to when I was in college, when
Speaker 2: you're talking thirteen to sixteen, and you know, Utah had
Speaker 2: some struggles there a little bit at times finding quarterback play.
Speaker 3: I remember, you know, the days of you know, Travis Wilson.
Speaker 2: Coming along, but even before that or if he got
Speaker 2: banged up, like it was a grind there ati for
Speaker 2: Utah offensively, and here we go again in terms of
Speaker 2: on the back of your back, your defense, you shut
Speaker 2: down arguably one of the best running backs in college
Speaker 2: football completely in Oklahoma State team that's really good. And
Speaker 2: it just feels like, I mean, we'll see what happens
Speaker 2: tomorrow versus Arizona, because I think this is a potential
Speaker 2: get right game for not get right game, but a
Speaker 2: response game for Arizona. But it just feels like Utah
Speaker 2: is waiting the shadows. No one's really talking about him
Speaker 2: from a national picture. If they can time it up
Speaker 2: with Cam Risey, maybe getting back at the right time, man,
Speaker 2: the youth could go on a run, which been on
Speaker 2: this show many times over the years where that's been
Speaker 2: the sentiment for sure.
Speaker 1: And so let's move over to tomorrow night. And I
Speaker 1: understand your point about Arizona, you know, hoping to get
Speaker 1: right after they got smoked. But you know this, Max,
Speaker 1: Kansas State and Utah they want to do the same
Speaker 1: thing to you. They want to corner you, they want
Speaker 1: to bully you, they want to beat you up. And
Speaker 1: there's a lot to like about Arizona's skilled position players.
Speaker 1: I mean quarterback wide receiver one combo, one of the
Speaker 1: best in the country. No one's disputing that, But I
Speaker 1: didn't see anything against k State that, in my mind,
Speaker 1: gives me confidence they can handle Utah's big dogs the
Speaker 1: physicality and if it is Isaac, And by the way,
Speaker 1: I'm just operating off the assumption that it is until
Speaker 1: it's not, I don't know what else to do at
Speaker 1: this point. You know, the line has been funky, Max.
Speaker 1: It started at eleven five, it moved up to twelve,
Speaker 1: and now it's down to nine. So last week I
Speaker 1: talked about this on the show, because I think it
Speaker 1: was Thursday and night I signed off at six o'clock
Speaker 1: Mountain time, and Utah was I can't remember the exact number,
Speaker 1: but what I remember is the line swung towards Oklahoma
Speaker 1: State four and a half points over two hours, and
Speaker 1: so again on the air the next time. Like that
Speaker 1: means one of two things, Cam's not playing or a
Speaker 1: big wise guy Shark better put a bunch of cash
Speaker 1: down to move the line. And it turned out that
Speaker 1: Cam didn't play. We have a line here that has
Speaker 1: moved three and a points, but it's slowly incrementally over
Speaker 1: the week, So I don't know if it means a
Speaker 1: camera's not playing, but I'm op with the assumption that
Speaker 1: it is. Isaac. Therefore my best guest, Max, and you'll
Speaker 1: be good with this, so I'll kind of see the
Speaker 1: time of you. Utah is gonna play Arizona the way
Speaker 1: k State did and the way Utah played Okay State
Speaker 1: last week, and I don't think physically Arizona's ready for that.
Speaker 1: That's where I'm at with a match up where what's
Speaker 1: the Max Brown take.
Speaker 3: I'm with you on the physicality standpoint.
Speaker 2: I'm with you on the Utah taking a similar game
Speaker 2: plan and an identity to Kansas State. To me, the
Speaker 2: big difference with both those teams is the quarterback play
Speaker 2: for Kansas State and Utah respectively. Avery Johnson is one
Speaker 2: of the more you know, ascending quarterbacks in college football.
Speaker 2: I thought he had a really good game versus Arizona
Speaker 2: in terms of making uh picking up plays with his
Speaker 2: legs and coming up with just enough to keep the
Speaker 2: sticks moving. Isaac Wilson, I haven't seen that from Utah.
Speaker 3: It's not been bad.
Speaker 2: Per se, but it's been very just kind of middle
Speaker 2: of the road, just keep the keep the keep the
Speaker 2: boat a float kind of thing versus I do think
Speaker 2: Kansas they had a little bit more in that game.
Speaker 3: But I'm with you.
Speaker 2: I think you know Arizona and I said this the
Speaker 2: last time we spoke of Hey, they're top end talent.
Speaker 3: They're noteworthy guys.
Speaker 2: They're guys that you're talking about in the open. Those
Speaker 2: guys are really good. Those guys can hang with anyone
Speaker 2: in the conference. When you start tapping into their depth
Speaker 2: in the second half and the front seven defenders that
Speaker 2: they have, that's where it gets you know, That's that's
Speaker 2: where it gets tough. But I just think with all
Speaker 2: the proven production that they had coming back this line,
Speaker 2: at least what I'm looking at is twelve and a half.
Speaker 3: I might be wrong there.
Speaker 2: You know, that's a lot of points, especially for a
Speaker 2: Utah team. I don't think you're going to necessarily score
Speaker 2: going away.
Speaker 3: Type of mentality.
Speaker 2: I think Utah takes care of business. But from a
Speaker 2: line standpoint, I think I like Arizona to cover that one.
Speaker 1: So you'll you'll take Arizona with the points against Utah. Yep, Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, all right? Yeah, we'll see. It'll be it'll
Speaker 1: be interesting, you know, because that line has moved. Trying
Speaker 1: to keep track of it's been a little bit chaotic,
Speaker 1: all right. So there's a chance Max that we well,
Speaker 1: we do have two top twenty five teams in our
Speaker 1: state now I have. It's just kind of the same
Speaker 1: deal like you talk about Utah. Kyle's built more of
Speaker 1: a benefit of the doubt program where you just know
Speaker 1: what you get year and in year out, you just
Speaker 1: know what you get. It's been that way for a
Speaker 1: long long time. And Klane's trying to build what Kyle's
Speaker 1: already built. And I still have questions about BYU that
Speaker 1: I just don't about Utah, and it's it's not knocking
Speaker 1: on them, like you have to give him a ton
Speaker 1: of credit. They go three and zero last year to
Speaker 1: start things off, They get in a conference and it
Speaker 1: just didn't go well. Now they still have not won
Speaker 1: a big twelve road game. So we'll get to Baylor
Speaker 1: in a moment. But Case State rolls in a provo
Speaker 1: last weekend and it was a perfect combination of great
Speaker 1: fortune for BYU and then to credit BYU them taking
Speaker 1: advantage of the hand that they had been dealt, so
Speaker 1: I'm not diminishing the start, but they only had two
Speaker 1: hundred and nine yards of offense and Case State really
Speaker 1: kind of gashed him on the ground for the most part.
Speaker 1: But nonetheless, that's a massive win over a top fifteen
Speaker 1: team in Case State. It's the largest margin of victory
Speaker 1: for a BYU team when playing a top fifteen team.
Speaker 1: So I'm not diminishing any of it. I just still
Speaker 1: have questions. But let's start with BYUK State. What stood
Speaker 1: out most to you about that win?
Speaker 2: Probably the offense, especially given up the offense didn't do
Speaker 2: much two.
Speaker 3: Weeks earlier versus SMU.
Speaker 2: I called the SMU game last week versus TCU, and
Speaker 2: SMU is a good.
Speaker 3: A good squad. They're a fully capable offense, and the
Speaker 3: BYU defense showed up on the road that game.
Speaker 2: And you mentioned maybe no on the road big big
Speaker 2: twelve win yet, but that was the on the road
Speaker 2: acc win that I thought was impressive SMU a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks earlier, and to then to do it two
Speaker 2: weeks later against the top twenty five team in a
Speaker 2: different fashion, that to me is a sign of a
Speaker 2: great football team when you can win win in different ways.
Speaker 2: I'm with you, though, I think there's a lot more
Speaker 2: to be uh, you know, there's a lot more to
Speaker 2: see with this BYU squad. But yeah, I know last
Speaker 2: week when we're talking betting lines and whatnot, that was
Speaker 2: my favorite line of the week I picked BYU to cover.
Speaker 2: I didn't have them win an outright, but they were
Speaker 2: getting what they were double digit dogs or maybe seven
Speaker 2: point dogs night game in Provo. Man, I've seen that
Speaker 2: story before. They took care of business and that the
Speaker 2: blowing away fashion was a surprise to me. But the
Speaker 2: fact that BYU was competitive in that game and a tough,
Speaker 2: tough environment in Provo not a surprise to me at all.
Speaker 3: But don't sleep on that SMU win too. I think
Speaker 3: SMU is going to sneak up on some people in
Speaker 3: the ACC.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm you know, really coming along to believe
Speaker 1: that b YU, I'll say today, is a lot better
Speaker 1: than any of us expected, including myself. Vegas over under
Speaker 1: four and half. I picked them to win six media
Speaker 1: picks them to win, you know, thirteenth in the Big
Speaker 1: twelve media poll and that's clearly, at least as of now,
Speaker 1: a miscalculation. But let's move over to Baylor. You know,
Speaker 1: Dave Randa, who did some coaching in States, clearly as
Speaker 1: a guy that has some serious questions to answer if
Speaker 1: he's going to stay employed before the end of the season.
Speaker 1: And Baylor was here and their offense and look every
Speaker 1: time on offense rolls into Salt Lake, I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: the offense didn't look great. And I'm like, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: they played against Utah's defense. So Utah's defense did to
Speaker 1: Baylor what they're gonna do to a lot of teams.
Speaker 1: But I didn't see a whole lot that I was
Speaker 1: impressed with BYU. One thing I will tell you, Max
Speaker 1: is that defense is for real. Jay Hill's second season,
Speaker 1: Klonie's the head coach. They bring in some transfers, some
Speaker 1: of the players who decided to stay, Tyler Bowdie and
Speaker 1: others clearly put in work. I don't think Baylor's going
Speaker 1: to be able to move the ball on him. I
Speaker 1: could be wrong, but it is a brunch in Waco situation.
Speaker 1: And BYU has lost their last ten day games to
Speaker 1: f BS opponents, and they have not won a big
Speaker 1: twelve road game. Baylor's getting three as of now. Here's
Speaker 1: the way I'll frame the question, what do you need
Speaker 1: to see from BYU tomorrow against Baylor to indicate that
Speaker 1: the questions that you have have been answered and we
Speaker 1: have to say next week when on air this team
Speaker 1: is for real.
Speaker 3: It's a good question.
Speaker 2: Probably more explosion through the passing game or just bigger
Speaker 2: plays in general.
Speaker 3: Like here, here's what I know about BYU. I know
Speaker 3: they're going to be a veteran team.
Speaker 2: Their defense is going to be stout, especially in the
Speaker 2: run game.
Speaker 3: They're not.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't think BYU is going to get out physical
Speaker 3: completely in a game that I don't worry about.
Speaker 2: I worry about it because becomes a close game and
Speaker 2: they're not able to, you know, have the security blanket
Speaker 2: of staying on schedule and having runs that they can
Speaker 2: get to. Can their quarterback, can you win on the
Speaker 2: right arm of your signal caller? And that to me
Speaker 2: would be the big moment. And especially you know when
Speaker 2: you're playing a team like Baylor. You know they put
Speaker 2: up thirty one points last week, but even passing yards
Speaker 2: like they want to be explosive.
Speaker 3: If this game's close.
Speaker 2: At all, I think the half Baylor would have to
Speaker 2: unlock a lot more in the passing game. But I
Speaker 2: just think ultimately for BYU to be in that conversation
Speaker 2: of hey, they can ultimately can tend for a Big
Speaker 2: twelve championship or even be in that conversation, I gotta
Speaker 2: see a full notch more production at the quarterback spot
Speaker 2: because ultimately, you know, to be eligible, that's one thing,
Speaker 2: but to be the championship classification, you got to have
Speaker 2: more production of the quarterback spot. That's what I'd be
Speaker 2: looking for.
Speaker 1: K State host Okay State. So the two teams at
Speaker 1: U y U and Utah beat a week ago, we'll
Speaker 1: meet in Manhattan. Kansas State a five point five point favorite.
Speaker 1: As of now, Oklahoma State is given the second most
Speaker 1: explosive plays in college football. That defense is not good.
Speaker 1: And what I've seen from Imax and obviously I'll see
Speaker 1: to you is everyone stack in the box and Oli
Speaker 1: Gordon has no space and whatever quarterback Mike Kunda uses
Speaker 1: cannot help their running back out. I don't know that
Speaker 1: I'm as high on them, certainly as I was to
Speaker 1: start the season. They are on the road to take
Speaker 1: on k State as a dog. How do you see
Speaker 1: it playing out in Manhattan, Kansas?
Speaker 3: I see it being a physical game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you talk about two teams that, I mean,
Speaker 2: we're right in the top of the Big twelve conversation.
Speaker 3: I guess still are. Both have to respond this.
Speaker 2: Week to get the trajectory of their program back on track.
Speaker 2: I just think again, I go back to Avery Johnson,
Speaker 2: Kansas State's quarterback. I think his ability on third down,
Speaker 2: especially when you're behind the sticks, for his legs to
Speaker 2: be a factor.
Speaker 3: I don't think.
Speaker 2: Oklahoma outside of the defense and that he can take
Speaker 2: advantage of. I don't think Oklahoma State has enough at
Speaker 2: the quarterback position to come up with enough big plays
Speaker 2: to put up points and put up yards. I think
Speaker 2: Kansas State takes care of business. I'm buying the hype
Speaker 2: of Avery Johnson. I don't think he's a top five
Speaker 2: quarterback in the country right now, but I do think
Speaker 2: when you look forward to next year in progressing is
Speaker 2: a much younger much he's a younger quarterback. I think
Speaker 2: they have every reason to be excited, but I'm with you.
Speaker 2: The blueprint on stopping Oli Gordon, Oklahoma State's running back,
Speaker 2: is very clear. Stop the box force Oklahoma State's quarterback,
Speaker 2: whether it's Alan Bowman or someone else to beat you
Speaker 2: on the outside, and even if they do come up
Speaker 2: with the catch, here there to Shaun stribbling out wide
Speaker 2: if that happens. Like I think the mentality for a
Speaker 2: defense is sweet. You can have one of those, but
Speaker 2: at the end of the day, when you get in
Speaker 2: the red zone and you have to go back to
Speaker 2: Ali Gordon, we can stop you. And I think that
Speaker 2: plays right into Kansas State's hands. I think the Wildcats
Speaker 2: get it done.
Speaker 1: So to start the year, you know, we get the
Speaker 1: Big Twelve schedule and then we start to learn a
Speaker 1: little bit more about the teams, and it became pretty
Speaker 1: clear that Utah was a little bit fortunate with the
Speaker 1: way their schedule laid out. Most metrics have Utah with
Speaker 1: one of the easier schedules in the Big Twelve. But
Speaker 1: a lot of people are saying, okay, still Water, that's
Speaker 1: a really big game, right and then you know, of
Speaker 1: course the Rabbitie game is always tough. I look at
Speaker 1: that UCF game, Max, It's the final game of the
Speaker 1: season for the Utes. It's in Orlando. It's on November
Speaker 1: the twenty ninth. Utah's love Orlando. There'll be plenty of
Speaker 1: youth fans there. I can promise you that, and we
Speaker 1: have an interesting game in Orlando this weekends. Colorado, who
Speaker 1: pulled off a miracle to take care of their game
Speaker 1: against Baylor, will be at UCF. UCF to me, I
Speaker 1: mean obviously a coaching staff with incredible pedigree, but that
Speaker 1: run game is difficult. I don't think Colorado matches up
Speaker 1: with them physically, but that's kind of a sneaky game.
Speaker 1: And I also want your thoughts on what you've seen
Speaker 1: so far from UCF and if you think they can
Speaker 1: actually make some noise in the conference.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a fascinating game. I feel like a bunch
Speaker 2: of this call. We've been talking about styles for teams.
Speaker 2: In the style of UCF versus Colorado could not be
Speaker 2: more different. Colorado is very much I've used the line
Speaker 2: they're an air raid team without an air raid playbook.
Speaker 3: I think they want to pass.
Speaker 2: They want to pass every down and they just run
Speaker 2: when they absolutely have to. It feels like UCF, on
Speaker 2: the other hand, totally different story. Their quarterback kJ Jefferson.
Speaker 2: He's huge, He's all of two hundred and fifty pounds plus,
Speaker 2: it looks like and they ask him to run and
Speaker 2: it's not a vast passing attack.
Speaker 3: And you know they're they're they're running a bunch and he.
Speaker 2: Has like throws on the outside a little bit, but
Speaker 2: it's all off of the run game. This UCF defensive
Speaker 2: line too. When I called the tc UMU game last week,
Speaker 2: Sonny Dike's TCUs head coach was given a bunch of
Speaker 2: love to the UCF d line, saying, hey, we're sleeping
Speaker 2: on from a national perspective, we're sleeping on what UCF
Speaker 2: can bring to the table there.
Speaker 3: So I like the Knights.
Speaker 2: I think this is a super interesting matchup. I also
Speaker 2: love Shader Sanders' grittiness. I think he is toughness, his
Speaker 2: ability to stand in the pocket, and I know he's
Speaker 2: an easy guy to kind of hate on and whatnot.
Speaker 2: But the conflicting styles is fascinating to me. And from
Speaker 2: a Utah lens, when you talk about, hey, what they
Speaker 2: have coming down the pipeline, that's an interesting question, like
Speaker 2: would you rather have a UCF team that prides themselves
Speaker 2: on physicality? Well, if you're Utah, great, we pride ourselves
Speaker 2: on physicality, bring it. Or does a team like Colorado
Speaker 2: that's going to spread the ball around and have weapons
Speaker 2: on the outside. And if you catch him waking up
Speaker 2: on the right side of the bed one day and
Speaker 2: they can put up a bunch of points, does that
Speaker 2: give you more fear? I don't really know the answer
Speaker 2: to that. I think you can hang with both. But
Speaker 2: it's a fascinating conversation. I think a matchup UCF versut
Speaker 2: Colorado with Utah playing both of them at some point
Speaker 2: they're in there with the remaining games, it's a fascinating
Speaker 2: identity matchup for Utah.
Speaker 1: All right. As you and I have talked about before,
Speaker 1: I'm always just a little gun shy and hesitant when
Speaker 1: folks talk about usc is this usc is that I'm
Speaker 1: not saying they're bad, but more often than not, they're
Speaker 1: one of the brands that gets the benefit of the doubt.
Speaker 1: In my opinion. Notre Dame does too. And look, they
Speaker 1: were at the Big House and Michigan decided to revert
Speaker 1: back to who Michigan is, and I actually it was
Speaker 1: a little bit deceiving because Michigan had a bunch of
Speaker 1: chunk plays on the ground. Defensively, they're better, they just are,
Speaker 1: and I think they are improved year over year. They're
Speaker 1: a big favorite against Wisconsin at home. So your thoughts
Speaker 1: on the Southern Cal loss and how do you think
Speaker 1: they bounce back against the Badgers.
Speaker 2: My first thought is not even extras and o's are
Speaker 2: on field related.
Speaker 3: I just feel like this USC team.
Speaker 2: Is as and I'm not in the locker room obviously,
Speaker 2: but I listened to all the pressers and obviously stay
Speaker 2: in the loop with the program.
Speaker 3: I feel like it's just as.
Speaker 2: Close knit of a team as Lincoln Rally as certainly
Speaker 2: as Lincoln Rallies had, but even in recent memory, towards
Speaker 2: the end of the Clay Heldon era and in today's
Speaker 2: day and age of college football, where it's a bunch
Speaker 2: of transfer portals, and usually at USC, it's a bunch
Speaker 2: of big names, which naturally can lead to clicks within
Speaker 2: the locker room and things of that nature.
Speaker 3: And I think that's one of the challenges of the USC.
Speaker 2: Job, is building a culture and building a true program
Speaker 2: when you're in a big city and a transfer portal
Speaker 2: and it's a bunch of hype and all that. And
Speaker 2: I give that context because I really get the.
Speaker 3: Sense of this team is close knit. I think they respond.
Speaker 2: I think they walk away from that Michigan game with
Speaker 2: a chip on their shoulder. I thought Lincoln Rally's line
Speaker 2: was spot on of you know, defensively, it felt like
Speaker 2: they won.
Speaker 3: Eighty five percent of the reps.
Speaker 2: But it was just those handful of chunk run plays
Speaker 2: that got away from them. I think, I mean Michigan,
Speaker 2: Michigan earned those, but it did feel a little bit like, hey,
Speaker 2: those got away from Like the USC was right there
Speaker 2: and it just got away from them a little bit.
Speaker 3: So I expect USC to respond. I think this is
Speaker 3: a really good football team. Whether they are.
Speaker 2: Great and can get into the elite category, obviously they
Speaker 2: have work to do. I just felt like a week
Speaker 2: ago for if you're Michigan man, that felt like the perfect.
Speaker 3: Storm for Michigan.
Speaker 2: You did just enough offensively, You came up with the
Speaker 2: big turnovers things of that nature. You expose some inexperienced
Speaker 2: offensive tackles for USC on the road.
Speaker 3: I expect those tackles to settle in a little bit.
Speaker 2: I think that's gonna be the achilles tool for USC
Speaker 2: all season long, is the offensive line. But I think
Speaker 2: what we saw versus Michigan is as bad as it's
Speaker 2: gonna get. And you still had offensive production from the
Speaker 2: passing attack, so I expect usc to respond. It's a
Speaker 2: lot of points to cover, but that's a tall task
Speaker 2: for Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: All right, before I say you loose, the eyes of
Speaker 1: college football will be on Tuscalooci this weekend, where for
Speaker 1: the first since two thousand and seven, Bama is a
Speaker 1: home underdog. You have experience watching Kaalen Debor coach and
Speaker 1: coach at a high level and beat other really good
Speaker 1: coaches like Dan Lanning twice. I know folks down south
Speaker 1: are still very much in the wait and see mode.
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, Bama is an underdog at homes,
Speaker 1: a line that kind of intrigues me a little bit.
Speaker 1: Of course, on the other side is Georgia the number
Speaker 1: two team in the country. How's it go down this weekend?
Speaker 1: And top five matchup down in Tuscaloosa.
Speaker 2: I'll stay on the theme of different styles. I mean,
Speaker 2: I feel like the average college football fan kind of
Speaker 2: groups Alabama and Georgia stylistically in the same bucket.
Speaker 3: Offensively, they're completely different. Alabama wants to be more wide open,
Speaker 3: use the explosiveness of Jalen Millroe, both with his legs
Speaker 3: and the vertical passing game, and Georgia much more conservative.
Speaker 2: Both these quarterbacks are going to be in NFL conversations
Speaker 2: this offseason.
Speaker 3: A lot of people have.
Speaker 2: Carson Beck, Georgia's quarterback, as the top quarterback.
Speaker 3: I'm not there yet.
Speaker 2: I don't think he's asked to do nearly as much
Speaker 2: as some of the other quarterbacks towards the top of
Speaker 2: the draft. But Georgia is very much a you know,
Speaker 2: let's run it, let's play action. And that Kentucky game
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago, Kentucky had the right run game,
Speaker 2: defensive game plan that totally stopped that Georgia offense. And
Speaker 2: I don't think Georgia has the ability to adapt and
Speaker 2: really get into a game. Playing in the thirty and
Speaker 2: forty point category versus Alabama, That's what I think they
Speaker 2: want to be. They want to use that explosiveness, so
Speaker 2: big plays in the Alabama offense starts becoming a thing.
Speaker 3: I like the tides chances. If it becomes a grimy game.
Speaker 2: A punch in the mouth kind of game, that's what
Speaker 2: Georgia wants, then I Likeegi's Georgia's chances. But it wouldn't
Speaker 2: surprise me if we when NFL Draft season rolls around,
Speaker 2: if we circle back to.
Speaker 3: This game and this Saturday as.
Speaker 2: A big talking point, not only for Carson Becks. If
Speaker 2: they get it done and he shows up with some
Speaker 2: big time throws, that'll be a talking point.
Speaker 3: If Milrow he balls out in this game, this could.
Speaker 2: Be a game we point to, Hey, we turned the
Speaker 2: page and rather than Jaylen Milroe just being a good
Speaker 2: college quarterback, he bawls out on Saturday, I think the
Speaker 2: conversation of him potentially being in an NFL prospect could
Speaker 2: come about.
Speaker 1: Max. Thanks, my friend. I appreciate it will be a
Speaker 1: great weekend at college football and we'll get you back
Speaker 1: on again soon. Thanks for the time, buddy, It'll be fun.
Speaker 3: Thanks for having me all right.
Speaker 1: Max Brown he's the league college football analyst over the CW.
Speaker 1: He was with the Pac twelve network for a number
Speaker 1: of years and that's how we got to know Max.
Speaker 1: And he's a really good kid, really good college quarterback
Speaker 1: back in his day, releases a lot of like college
Speaker 1: football content. If you're a TikToker, I'm not. If you are,
Speaker 1: he's on TikTok. He is on Twitter, Instagram at Max
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